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Isotopes in Livestock Teeth
Domesticated livestock, including cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens were introduced to southwestern North America in the late 17th century by Spanish missionaries. Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that Native American reactions to these introduced animals were mixed. In some cases, Native peoples initially rejected livestock. Large livestock, particularly cattle, have the potential to radically alter landscapes, and it appears that Native peoples quickly understood that risk. In the arid Southwest, introduced water-intensive livestock represented a threat to drinking water. Native peoples often complained about the animals muddying and fouling the water in riparian zones.
However, historical documents indicate that livestock flourished at most missions by the mid-18th century. Recent archaeological research suggests that cattle ranching became the dominant economic activity of missionized Native American groups by the turn of the nineteenth century, but much of the details of ranching practices in the region are not yet known. In particular, it is not known how herds were managed on the landscape, or whether missions were involved in trading or selling livestock with other missions, presidios, secular ranches, or mining communities.
These issues are important to understanding the experiences of Native Americans under missionization, the role of missions in regional economies, and the impact of early ranching on southwestern landscapes. Traditional historical narratives portray missions as backwater frontier isolates that were disconnected from the rest of the colonial system. However, recent research in other regions of North America indicate that Native American labor at Spanish colonial missions was critical to the success and support of broader colonial programs.
Traditional zooarchaeological analyses yield critical data including species, skeletal element representation, age/sex profiles, and butchering practices, but cannot address much more specific questions regarding husbandry practices, such as foddering or grazing regimes, landscape use, or the movement of livestock through trade networks. Isotopic analyses of zooarchaeological bone and teeth can provide information on the diet and movement of animals in the past, particularly when used in concert with traditional zooarchaeological data, observation of modern ranching practices, and documentary descriptions of historic landscapes and ranching practices. However, until this research project, isotopic techniques were untested on mission-period livestock remains in the Sonoran Desert environment.
The data, while inconclusive in some respects, support the hypothesis that livestock ranching in the mission period focused on less labor-intensive strategies such as free-ranging, rather than labor-intensive foddering practices. Coupled with ethnohistoric data, it appears that missions employed water management technologies to bring water to free-ranging cattle. While free-ranging livestock may have required less time and labor input on the part of missionized Native Americans than foddered livestock, maintenance of water storage and diversion systems would have been a significant labor sink. However, the presence of water diversion features in the region prior to the arrival of Europeans, and perhaps as early as 1500 BCE, may suggest that indigenous knowledge shaped water management strategies in the colonial period.
This research project, funded by the University of Arizona Vice President for Research's Faculty Small Grants Program, raises several important future avenues of inquiry that will help elucidate livestock ranching practices in the historic period. Funding will be sought to pursue these avenues, with particular emphasis on subjecting the archaeological samples to isotopic analyses.
Shown above, top: Photomicrograph of a c. 1800 cattle (Bos taurus) tooth from Mission San Agustín de Tucson. The light colored region is where a sample was removed for isotopic analysis. Bottom: Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Deanna Grimstead removing samples from livestock teeth for isotopic study.
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Outlet malls lure shoppers with the promise of designer goods at fire sale prices—but many don't deliver bona fide bargains, so beware.
Here are three ways outlet malls tempt you to spend:
- That looong drive. Consumer research shows that with most outlet malls an hour away from urban centers, the investment of time (and having dragged five girlfriends) may spur you to shop more. "I didn't come all this way for nothing!"
- Value confusion. Although outlet malls sport brand names galore, many stores don't offer genuine designer items. Some (Brooks Brothers, Ann Taylor, Coach) have separate product lines just for the outlets.
- The maze. If you can't find the bathroom or the food court at the outlet mall, you're not alone. Many malls are designed to keep customers moving—not sitting.
Outlet malls do offer discounts. Just make sure you can identify high quality at a low price when you see it. Or save time, stress (and gas) and shop online or close to home.
You can read more of MP Dunleavey's analysis here on MSN Money or review this recent CBS broadcast.
Many thanks to Ellen Ruppel Shell, author of "Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture," for her input.

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Samsung has done it again. They've unveiled a new Android powered superphone that has the potential to change the future landscape of mobile phones. Most thought Samsung had outdone themselves earlier this year when they announced the Samsung Galaxy S II, but the new Samsung Galaxy Note pushed the boundaries even further. The new flagship phone from Samsung features a 5.3-inch 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED display, a 1.4 GHz Exynos processor, 8 and 2 megapixel rear and front facing cameras, support for HSPA+ and LTE networks and 2500 mAh battery while only measuring 9.65mm in thickness.
Like most other recent Android phones from Samsung, the Galaxy Note runs Android 2.3. But some come with a modified version of TouchWiz called S Pen, which is optimized for use with the included stylus. Samsung has gone all out by including a suite of apps designed specifically to work with the stylus. S Memo allows users to take notes and record audio at the same time, while S Planner is a hybrid calendar and to-do list with some advanced functionality. Just like HTC did with HTC Scribe, Samsung plans to release the S Pen SDK so that other app developers can create applications of their own that take advantage of the Samsung Galaxy Note's stylus.
Samsung has no details on when the Samsung Galaxy Note will hit the market or which European and US carriers plan on carrying it. We can't imagine that this phone will be cheap, so we suggest you start saving your money and selling all those extra gadgets you have lying around the house.
We know most of you are still drooling over Samsung's unveiling of the US Galaxy S II family a few days ago, but how many of you would be willing to hold off a few more months if your carrier announced they plan to carry the Samsung Galaxy Note and its 5.3-inch Super AMOLED HD display by the holidays?Show Press Release
GALAXY Note combines the market's largest HD Super AMOLED display, supreme portability and advanced S Pen interface, creating a new type of smartphone
BERLIN, Germany – September 1, 2011 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, announced today the launch of the GALAXY Note.
The GALAXY Note is a new category of product, developed through Samsung's deep consumer understanding and insight. It combines core on-the-go benefits of various mobile devices while maintaining smartphone portability, to create a whole new user experience.
The GALAXY Note has a 5.3″ display which is the largest screen size with smartphone portability. It features the world's first and the largest 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display, an expansive high-resolution screen that provides an immersive viewing experience. Taking full advantage of the large display, users will be able to do more tasks to create and consume more, with minimum scrolling and screen transitions, while on the go. An advanced pen-input technology, called the S Pen, is combined with the GALAXY Note's full touch screen to introduce a new type of user-experience. Through this, consumers are able to freely capture and create ideas while on the go.
"The GALAXY Note is a device borne of our insight and innovation. We examined the fundamental elements of mobile culture, entertainment and communication in order to bring together the best experiences in a single, elegant device," said JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung's Mobile Communications Business. "The huge, 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED screen is the largest, highest quality display available in any phone; the touch screen and S Pen combine to produce a uniquely accurate level of control and finesse, along with rich expressions across the GALAXY Note experience, enabling the introduction of new smartphone experiences."
"The artistic freedom of a paper notebook is coupled with the benefits of Samsung's smartphone technology and services, allowing users to create, edit and share with more style than ever before," Shin added.
State-of-the-art Display
The GALAXY Note features Samsung's own 5.3″ HD Super AMOLED display providing vivid clarity that is superior to conventional HD displays. This ensures the best viewing experience for video, photo, document and web on the go with deep blacks and bright colors. The superior screen also offers a 180 degree viewing angle, allowing contents to be shared comfortably.
At 5.3″ the best-in-class display is the largest ever included in a primary mobile device; measuring just 9.65mm thick, the GALAXY Note fits comfortably in a pocket to offer true portability.
Full Screen Utilization
The high resolution display ensures that PowerPoint presentations, web-pages, news apps and e-books can be viewed comfortably with minimal scrolling or zooming. Minimizing the need to switch between applications, the GALAXY Note's HD super AMOLED screen is large enough to allow meaningful split-screen operation in the most frequently used native apps.
Samsung has also included S Planner, a smart professional planning tool that makes full use of the device's large screen. The management planner integrates the phone's To-Do list and schedule; control and navigation is intuitive, helping users to comprehensively organize their lives.
Free Capture & Creation
The GALAXY Note's advanced pen input functionality is combined with the full touch screen to create a new input experience. The incorporated digital S Pen can be used for accurate sketching and artwork, and instantly capturing ideas freely before they float away.
The GALAXY Note features S Memo, a multimedia application designed to record all forms of user-created content. Pictures, voice recordings, typed text, handwritten notes or drawings can all be captured via a single application and converted to a 'memo', to be edited, annotated and shared as desired.
A one-step screen-capture function also allows users to instantly capture any screen; captured images can also be freely and accurately annotated using the S Pen before being filed or shared.
The S Pen functionality has been deeply integrated into the GALAXY Note's native applications to provide a richer interactive experience. Users will benefit from increased accuracy and control when editing or personalizing captured videos or photographs; and users will be able to draw and send handwritten images and notes via text message, email, and Samsung's ChatON communication service.
Broadening the opportunity to create new user experiences, Samsung plans to release the S Pen SDK allowing app developers to create fundamentally new applications and services incorporating the pen functionality.
Superior Usability, Powerful Performance
The 1.4GHz dual-core processor ensures the device is incredibly fast and a smooth user interface ensures seamless usability. Lightning fast network speeds are enabled through the HSPA+ and LTE-enabled device's super-fast connection, ensuring a quick and seamless browsing experience. This means that users can stream videos in real-time or engage with their friends through online gaming platforms.
Samsung is enhancing enterprise capabilities of the GALAXY Note through its partnership with Juniper Networks. Juniper's Junos Pulse SSL VPN provides secure remote access to corporate network resources. The SSL VPN enables large enterprise and service providers to meet high-volume secure access and authorization requirements, protecting corporate data with centralizes control and supporting employees' personal device efficiently.


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It was right there in front of them. Again. This time with the freaky hand of fate that hangs around places like Three Rivers Stadium, it turned a deflected pass by Erik Kramer on third-and-long into a diving completion by Curtis Conway and a first down with time ebbing.
Finally, it appeared, a break. "Immaculate Deflection." Read all about it.
Except that's not what makes the Bears the Bears, a team that, for now anyway, is just good enough to suffer two heartbreaking losses in two weeks to playoff-caliber teams.
"We could easily be 2-0 if not for a couple of mistakes," said Kramer. "But we're not."
No, they're not.
On a steamy Sunday afternoon, the Bears lost 17-12 to Pittsburgh in the Steelers' home opener because they allowed Jerome Bet-tis to break loose for a 42-yard run in the second quarter that led to a touchdown. They lost because rookie tight end Alonzo Mayes lost a fumble in the third quarter and had another pass bounce off one hand with 1 minute 22 seconds remaining.
They lost because they found themselves in too many third-down situations from which they could not escape, and because on their very last one, the one that killed them with just under a minute to play, Kramer threw an interception to Carnell Lake with Conway sprawled on the turf.
"You just have to keep rolling with the punches, but it's tough in this league, it's really tough," said Bears cornerback Tom Carter. "We can't have faith if we keep playing the way we are in these tough fourth quarters."
For the second straight week, the Bears lost a game they could have and, in their minds anyway, should have won.
"That's what separates the elite teams like Green Bay and San Francisco," said safety Marty Carter. "When they're in position to win, they do."
Decent teams do it too. But the Bears are not good enough, coach Dave Wannstedt said, to overcome these mistakes. But, he added more hopefully than defiantly, "We're closing the gap."
The Bears could have won Sunday because wide receiver Bobby Engram used speed no one credits him with having to beat Dewayne Washington downfield in the second quarter, cradle Kramer's pass and then skip over Washington for a 54-yard touchdown to give the Bears the early lead.
They could have won because rookie Curtis Enis ran for 94 yards on 22 carries against the best run defense in the league last season in continuing to make a strong argument to replace Edgar Bennett in the starting lineup.
They could have won because demoted defensive end Mark Thomas had two big sacks, because the Bears more or less contained Steelers do-it-all quarterback Kordell Stewart, and because Tom Carter played like the veteran they pay him to be with an interception that set up a 19-yard field goal by Jeff Jaeger in the second quarter.
They could have won because punter Todd Sauerbrun finally seems to understand the power he has to influence a game in putting the Steelers in several seemingly desperate situations.
"I just think this is a team that has confidence in itself and once we do get a win under our belt, who's to say where we can go?" asked veteran offensive lineman James Williams. "Once the younger players get a taste of a win and realize how good it feels, who's to say?"
Until now, the younger players have mostly taken turns breaking their hearts. Mayes' fumble midway through the third with the Bears trailing 10-9 gave the Steelers the ball on the Bears 27. Four plays later, a 13-yard pass from Stewart found Andre Coleman, who rolled into the end zone for the Steelers' final score.
"I never had possession of it," said Mayes of his fumble. "If I did have possession, I wouldn't have fumbled the ball. I could have taken that hit from (Levon) Kirkland. I'm not a person who fumbles the ball once I have possession of it."
On the Bears' final series, that was not the problem. Under heavy pressure on a first down from the Pittsburgh 16, Kramer found Mayes at about the 7-yard line, but the rookie couldn't make a one-handed catch.
"If I could have seen it a tenth of a second earlier, I could have gotten my right hand up and had a chance," said the agreeable rookie. "I tried to bat it back to myself, but I couldn't. It was a bad angle on the pass and a bad angle on the route."
The Bears still had time, with 1:18 remaining, but on second-and-10 Enis was stopped for no gain. On third down Kramer was intercepted on a play in which he said he never saw Lake.
"We keep waiting for the last minute to make something happen," said Conway. "Last week it was the defense's chance to win, and this week it was the offense's and we still have two losses."
"I hope and I think our players believe that if we go out there and we do things right that we'll win this week in Tampa," said Wannstedt, "and we'll look back and say, `Hey, it doesn't take much to get this thing flipped.' But we need to get it flipped and get a win."
With 15 defeats in their last 19 regular-season games, the image of an overturned car or a turtle flipped on its shell is as appropriate a way as any to describe the Bears.
"If you look at the teams that do well in the NFL," said defensive end Shawn Lee, "it's about momentum, getting it rolling, getting it started. That's what we need. We have to establish a starting point, a building point in order to get to the playoffs and eventually the Super Bowl. You can't focus on hanging in there with teams. We have to focus on beating teams' brains out."
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Opinion: Pesticide ban is unscientific approach to saving the bees
This winter was another terrible season for U.S. honeybees. Beekeepers reported losing 31 percent of their colonies, a rate on par with the average since 2006, when large numbers of hives began collapsing.
The fate of cultivated honeybees is thought to indicate the health of wild bees, which are also vital pollinators. The farmed bees alone add an estimated $15 billion annually to the value of crops, by ensuring the production of fruit and fertile seeds.
Last month, alarmed over similar trends in Europe, the European Commission took action, banning for two years the use, on flowering crops, of three pesticides suspected of playing a role in bee deaths. Environmentalists are pressuring U.S. authorities to follow suit.
Such a move would be premature. The evidence against the pesticides -- called neonicotinoids -- isn't damning enough to warrant a ban. Although it's true that in laboratory studies and experiments within enclosures, some bees exposed to the pesticides got lost, brought home less food and behaved in other ways that could contribute to colony failure, such trials don't replicate real-world conditions. For one thing, researchers can only guess how to approximate a realistic pesticide dose, and these particular studies erred on the high side.
In trials in which bees have been placed in farm fields treated with neonicotinoids, the colonies have done fine.
The European Commission justifies its temporary ban under the precautionary principle -- the idea that, when human or environmental health is at stake, there's no need to wait for scientific certainty to take protective action. It's not clear, however, that the ban will have this effect.
European farmers won't switch from neonicotinoid fertilizers to nothing. They will return to older formulations, which haven't been subjected to the same bee studies and may be at least as hazardous. What's more, the ban will deprive Europeans of the benefits neonics provide for human health and the environment generally. Because they can be applied to seeds, they avoid the risk of contaminating surrounding areas, as spray fertilizers do.
Rather than ban the chemicals, U.S. authorities should take other steps to protect bees.
The biggest problem bees face is the Varroa mite. First detected in the United States in 1987, this parasite has since spread and developed resistance to miticides; lethal bee viruses have also evolved to take advantage of Varroa's disease-spreading potential.
Strange as it sounds, there's also the problem of bee nutrition. Hives could better withstand the stresses of mites, disease and pesticides if they weren't also facing dwindling food sources.
High corn and soybean prices, driven by demand for biofuel feedstocks, have accelerated the conversion of open land to cropland, which offers bees (even cultivated ones) nothing to eat outside of the two or three weeks when a crop blossoms. A study published last year documented the loss of 530,000 hectares (1.3 million acres) of grasslands in five corn-belt states from 2006 to 2011.
According to the study, government subsidies of crop insurance encourage farmers to cultivate marginal lands. If left fallow, those areas could feed bees. Here's one more reason for Congress to limit farmers' insurance subsidies to protection against catastrophic losses.
There are other steps that should be taken instead of banning neonicotinoids: The government can maintain or increase support for the Conservation Reserve Program, which helps farmers remove environmentally sensitive land from production. States can support bee habitat by letting flowering weeds grow alongside and between highways and, yes, by planting native flowers in parks and public spaces. And awareness can be raised about the home use (and overuse) of herbicides, which kill dandelions, clover and other bee food.
Pollinators fill our plates -- by one estimate, they make possible every third bite we eat. We should return the favor.


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Have you ever asked yourselves questions like these: "How did our earth come into existence? How did the moon and sun come into being? Where were you before you were born? How did oceans, trees, animals appear on earth? Who was the first human being? Your mom gave birth to you. Yet the first human being could not have had parents. So, how did he come into existence?"
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Pronunciation can affect how we communicate. Many people, who have had a go at learning a foreign language, have experienced that sinking feeling when they try a well-constructed sentence in another language only to be met with a blank face.
Why is this?
Languages are built on sounds. If I speak English and live in an English-speaking country I expect a speaker to say sounds in a particular way. In French or Spanish I would expect to hear different sounds. When we can't recognise the sound we try and adjust how we are listening, a bit like tuning a radio, but if we can't guess the sound, the chances are we won't understand what is being said.
The Blocks of Pronunciation
Pronunciation has two main aspects to it, physically producing it and the sound that is produced from it, the hearing of the sound. As we get older the ability to do both of these, i.e. physically work out how to make the sound and recognise it, can diminish. This doesn't mean we can't continue to learn new languages but we need some extra tricks to help us.
Let's look at some ideas on what we can do when we learn a new language.
How am I saying it?
Try saying the letters. Notice how your mouth is working. If you don't know how a sound is physically made you may find it harder to say it.
What sounds are the same?
English has many more sounds than other languages but it also has a lot of sounds in common with other languages. Good dictionaries in a new language will usually offer an English sound or word to compare with. Use it to check what sounds are similar.
Which sounds are hard to say?
Go through the alphabet of the new language and mark out the ones you find hard to say. Give them some attention. Try and physically make the sound and see how your mouth works. Say the alphabet. Look at how children use the alphabet song in English to help them remember the alphabet, doing the same in a new language will also help memorise the letters and sounds.
Read out loud.
Find some reading form your course book or any other book. There are two advantages here. One you get to say the letters and words. Secondly you get to practise sounds that you expect to hear and you become accustomed to the sounds of the language.
How good do I need to be?
There is much discussion on this. For many of us the ability to get by in other languages is good enough. If we can say what we want, simply, slowly and the person we are speaking to, can understand us, then our pronunciation is probably good enough. After that it is a matter of choice. Some people become very good at other languages and get to very good levels of pronunciation. Not many of us are such gifted linguists but there's no reason why we can't make the words so that people can understand us.


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Sewing Journal
Added Feb 11, 2013
Perth, Australia
I had my first sewing lesson with Jody Lange (sewoutsidethelines.com.au) on Saturday, she is teaching me about colour and print (I tend towards the conservative). Anyway, the first project is a cover for a sewing journal. I learned about vliesofix and embellishment and patience being a virtue ;) It was a lovely way to pass 3 hours on a very hot afternoon.
Material Notes
Calico, cotton remnants, vliesofix, elastic, imagination :)
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Feb 11, 2013, 11.23 PMby ndimi
Oh, that's pretty! And I love the idea of a journal – I'd never thought of keeping a journal for sewing. Is that to keep track of your sewing experiences, and what you learn, or more like an idea/lookbook?
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Feb 12, 2013, 12.20 AMby jennyrecorder
Yes and yes! It's a place where I jot ideas, keep fabric samples and tie them in with projects. I also keep my Craftsy class materials in it. Perhaps the most useful thing is that it holds my multiple croquis, onto which I draw clothes I like to see if they suit my body shape- not pretty, but avoids making stuff that highlights Ms Blobby's bits!!!
Feb 11, 2013, 12.47 PMby schnui
What a lovely thing to do. Looks like your journal will be filled up in no time. Did you take the 730?? I had to ask Mum if she had sold her 730 on Ebay but it wasn't her. She wants to be buried with it, so it will never be on Ebay. I started a millinery course last week at TAFE. It is going to be great and I know I will thoroughly enjoy it. Enjoy the rest of your sewing classes.
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Feb 11, 2013, 02.02 PMby jennyrecorder
Thanks Marjorie, the 730 hasn't arrived yet and at nearly 19kg (so I've been told), the Pfaff will be the one that goes travelling :) I'm looking forward to opening the case and meeting the old girl when she gets here!
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David Price's opponent this weekend, American heavyweight Tony Thompson, has claimed drug use in sport has become so widespread that the only way to deal with the problem is to legalise doping.
Thompson, 41, who lost to Wladimir Klitschko in his last fight last July, insists he does not even like to take painkillers.
But he suspects performance-enhancing drugs are proving so damaging in professional sport that only by allowing everyone to pump currently banned substances into their body could it approach fairness.
"I know this is going to be kind of controversial for people, I think they should just allow doping, period. Because to me it's like the gun law," Thompson told BBC Radio Five Live.
"Only the good guys are listening, so it leaves the good guys without the guns.
"So you just allow everybody... it's an issue of choice; I would never want to be doing anything to alter my body down the road anyway. We all have our suspicions."
Thompson suggested sport has become mainstream entertainment and that the appetite for a show means there is a case that can be made for making it ever more spectacular.
"Sports is what it is - it's entertainment," he said.
"It's like having too many special effects in a movie. You go to the movies to be entertained; you watch sports and you ask to be entertained and we want our athletes to be the biggest, the baddest they can be - regardless of how level the playing field is - and in the end we want our athletes to be heroes and to be great and to be bigger than life.
"All of the money that we're using to catch cheats and supplement your body in sports should be used for other things. This is sports. This is not insider training. This is not eliminating hunger in the world. It's just sports.
"And I think we put too much emphasis on what it is that athletes are doing. A lot of the time you've got to leave it up to athletes. It's a person's choice, such as abortion and other things we don't agree with."
He added that he would not consider taking the doping route himself.
"My son plays football and basketball and the last thing I want to do is inject him with anything that's going to alter his natural body rhythm. Same with myself - I don't even like to take Aspirin," he said.
But Thompson would leave it to others to reach their own decision
"That's their choice," he said.
"Some of the things we use to dope actually helps the body. If the athlete was allowed safe levels of most of this stuff it would not only enhance their careers it would enhance their life after sports."
British Boxing chief Robert Smith was "sickened" by Thompson's comments.
Board of Control secretary Smith insisted Thompson "doesn't seem to understand British culture" and said: "It's mindblowing that a fighter who has challenged twice for the world title can come out with something like this.
"I felt sickened, to be honest, when I heard the comments."


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Health Department Wildfire Smoke Guidelines on UM Athletic Events [AUDIO]
There are few events with more economic and social impact than University of Montana Homecoming. Therefore, City-County Health Department and University of Montana officials tread very lightly on the subject of cancellation due to wildfire smoke.
Head UM athletic trainer Dennis Murphy says he has looked closely at the University's policy on cancelling the event. He says recent studies have brought to light the scientific fact that wildfire smoke is not as hazardous to healthy individuals as was previously thought. However, those with respiratory problems, small children and the elderly should follow the advice of their health care providers.
Murphy says if air quality reaches the HAZARDOUS level, the health department could only RECOMMEND that the game be cancelled. The 'Hazardous' level means visibility is limited to 1.25 miles. On Saturday before the Liberty game, visibility was at about 3 miles.
So, the bottom line is, it would take very extreme smoke conditions to cancel the game, and officials would only do so if the public's safety was at risk.
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Used 2010 Ford Focus Review
Edmunds expert review
The 2010 Ford Focus is a good value among small sedans and coupes, but it lacks the level of refinement and performance found in other top models.
What's new for 2010
Vehicle overview
Ford is definitely shaking things up with its frantic pace of fresh model introductions, and its new world order looks to continue with the upcoming release of a new Focus and Fiesta next year. But where does that leave the current Focus? It stands to reason that anticipation of a sharper redesigned model may relegate the 2010 Focus to lame-duck status.
Though it was heavily updated two years ago, the incumbent 2010 Ford Focus can still be considered a single-termer that started service a rather unbelievable 10 years ago. On the positive side, the Focus still has a liberal amount of feature content, a low cost to maintain and an economically sound price tag. Add in the nifty Sync feature and environmentally friendly fuel economy, and the current Focus holds up as a viable candidate for a small car.
But this car has also built up some undesirable baggage during its term. Notably, there's a general lack of excitement and curbside charisma when the Focus is taken out for a spin, which is a shame because it originally had these qualities. While economy cars aren't typically expected to have high quotients of personality, other automakers have really upped their small cars' game in recent years. Additionally, the Focus is still haunted by the use of some low-quality interior plastics, subpar construction and a four-speed automatic transmission (many other cars have five-speeds or continuously variable transmissions (CVTs).)
Overall, we think that the current Focus is a respectable choice for a compact sedan or coupe, but shoppers should certainly examine the competition before casting a vote. The Mazda 3 is our favored choice, as it combines a high-end interior with a fun-to-drive nature. The Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra and Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit are other perennial all-stars, while Kia's new Forte is worth a look as well. And if you are still interested in a Focus, it might be worth waiting a bit to catch the new and improved model for next year.
Trim levels & features
The 2010 Ford Focus is available as a sedan or coupe. The four-door body style is offered in four trim levels. The base S sedan comes standard with 15-inch steel wheels, air-conditioning, a tilt steering wheel, a four-speaker audio system with a single-CD/MP3 player and an auxiliary audio jack. Satellite radio is the only available option. Upgrading to the SE will get you all of the above plus 15-inch alloy wheels and full power accessories. There's also more to choose from in terms of options, such as a rear spoiler, foglamps, the Sync electronics interface (includes Bluetooth and iPod integration), an upgraded stereo with a six-CD changer, cruise control, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, customizable interior lighting, a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls and a sunroof.
The SEL trim (sedan only) will get you all of the SE features and options (minus the spoiler and sunroof) plus 16-inch alloy wheels, heated side mirrors, a sportier suspension, chrome exterior and interior accents, leather upholstery and heated front seats. The SES trim level represents the athlete of the model line by adding 17-inch alloy wheels, a more aggressive front fascia for the sedan, dark chrome exterior trim, a rear spoiler and a performance-enhanced suspension. Options for the SEL and SES are few and include the sunroof and a premium nine-speaker sound system.
Performance & mpg
2010 Ford Focus models are powered by a 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder engine that produces 140 horsepower and 136 pound-feet of torque. A cleaner version of that engine that earns PZEV tailpipe-emissions certification is also available for California-emissions states. That engine makes 132 hp and 133 lb-ft of torque.
The standard transmission on all Focus trim levels is a five-speed manual. A four-speed automatic is available as an option. The automatic on SES coupes is geared slightly shorter for better acceleration. In testing, an automatic Focus coupe went from zero to 60 mph in a lackluster 9.7 seconds. Fuel economy for the Ford Focus is rated at 24 mpg city/35 mpg highway and 28 mpg combined for the manual transmission. Opting for the automatic drops the highway estimate to 33 mpg.
Six airbags are standard on all Focus models, including front-seat side-impact airbags and side curtain airbags for both front- and rear-seat occupants. For 2010, antilock brakes and stability control are now standard on all trim levels. Also new for the 2010 Focus is Ford's programmable MyKey system, which allows parents to specify limits for vehicle speed and stereo volume for their teenage drivers.
In government crash tests, the 2010 Ford Focus sedan earned four stars (out of a possible five) for its protection of front occupants in head-on collisions. In the side-impact test, the sedan received five stars for protection of front occupants and four stars for protection of those in the rear. Curiously, the Focus coupe earned a five-star rating for frontal impacts but just a three-star rating for front and rear side-impact protection. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gives the Focus coupe a top rating of "Good" for frontal-offset and side crash protection. The Focus sedan also earns a "Good" rating for frontal protection, but receives a downgraded "Acceptable" for side impact protection.
Behind the wheel of the 2010 Ford Focus, you'll likely be pleased with the relatively quiet and smooth ride quality. Engine performance is also respectable for a small car, but the four-cylinder can sound noisy and the four-speed automatic is increasingly outdated by competing models' five-speed units. To its credit, the Focus has commendable steering response and feedback along with a decent amount of grip when driven hard. But those hankering for a bit more fun are going to be happier with a Honda Civic or Mazda 3.
At night, the cabin of the 2010 Focus has a high-tech feel about it, thanks to a soothing cool blue glow from the gauges and optional customizable ambient lighting. But these lighting effects do little to mask some interior missteps, including cheap-looking plastic interior bits and a button-heavy center stack that some people find a bit confusing.
Despite having a non-telescoping steering wheel and fairly flat front seats, comfort is adequate -- even for extended road trips. Luggage capacity is also suitable for road trips at nearly 14 cubic feet, with 60/40-split-folding rear seats at the ready for even more storage. One other nice attribute is Sync, a voice activation system that allows hands-free operation of mobile phones, iPods and other MP3 players. The 2010 Focus further increases Sync's appeal by adding the ability to acquire driving directions, traffic conditions and other information by pairing it with Bluetooth-enabled phones.
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Jason Heyward already has filmed a TV commercial this spring with none other than Hank Aaron.
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Jason Heyward already has filmed a TV commercial this spring with none other than Hank Aaron.
On this day, the J-Hey Kid is changing into his white Atlanta Braves uniform for yet another photo shoot.
Heyward is in demand — again — and better get used to it. With the retirement of Chipper Jones, the big guy in right field is poised to take over as the face of the franchise.
"It's sort of a new team," Heyward said Thursday, before heading out to take care of his latest obligation. "It's a new team that's going to have some fun this season."
A year ago, he came into spring training facing major questions after a hugely disappointing second season. But Heyward insisted all along that he merely needed to stay healthy to live up to the potential he showed as a rookie star.
Boy, was he right.
Heyward played in 158 games, helping the Braves claim an NL wild card by hitting .269 with 27 homers, 82 RBIs and 21 stolen bases.
A more important number is 23. That's Heyward's age, signaling a player who is only beginning to tap into his potential. The bandwagon is starting to get crowded, much like it was in 2010 when he hit a three-run homer the first time he stepped to the plate in the big leagues.
None of that matters to Heyward.
"I don't worry about any of the outside stuff," he said.
It was quite a comedown from Heyward's rookie season, when he was hailed by Aaron as just the sort of player who would lure more African-Americans back to baseball.
The expectations will be even higher this season, especially after the Braves made two huge moves during the offseason. They signed center fielder B.J. Upton to a $75 million contract and made a blockbuster deal with Arizona to land his younger brother, Justin Upton, who takes over in left field.
Just like that, Heyward is part of perhaps the most exciting young outfield in baseball.
"It's great to not lose a step," he said. "This year, a new team, and two more great guys. That's promising."


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February 2012, Niger: A vendor in a market in Niger's capital Niamey. Food insecurity is affecting over 40 per cent of the population. Credit: OCHA/David Ohana
Go beyond the emergencies and deal with the country's structural problems, says Humanitarian Coordinator Fodé Ndiaye
More than 40 per cent of people in Niger face food insecurity and over 50 per cent of children under age 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition. Conflict in northern Mali has led to tens of thousands of refugees fleeing to Niger, compounding the food and nutrition crisis.
Since July, heavy rains and flooding across the country have affected more than half a million people, many of whom still live in schools and mosques. Humanitarian organizations warn that the flooding of the Niger River could worsen a cholera outbreak that has claimed more than 80 lives this year. So far, nearly 4,000 cholera cases have been reported in areas close to the river.
Fodé Ndiaye became the Humanitarian Coordinator in Niger in February 2012. He talks about how the people of Niger and the humanitarian agencies working there are coping with multiple crises in one of the poorest countries in the world.
Q. Heavy rains have led to flooding in many parts of Niger since July. How severe is the situation?
The situation is very severe. According to recent Government figures, there have been nearly 70 casualties, and more than 525,000 people, or 80,000 families, have been affected by the floods. There has been damage to schools, health centres, water wells, market places, roads and bridges. The humanitarian community fears that cases of cholera and malaria could increase due to the lack of hygiene and sanitation.
Q. Before the floods, millions of people, about one in three Nigeriens, needed food assistance. Have the floods compounded the food crisis?
The flooding has worsened the humanitarian situation in Niger. This year, we are facing a major food crisis affecting 6.4 million people, mostly due to a significant cereal deficit, high cereal prices and high poverty levels. It is really a difficult time for Niger because there have been droughts, the threat of a cholera epidemic, the threat of locusts, security issues due to a large refugee population and now the floods. The Government, UN agencies and humanitarian partners were already providing food assistance to those affected by the food crisis and floods. But we need to increase the assistance to reach everyone in need.
We not only need to provide food assistance, we also need shelters, tarpaulins, jerry cans, a clean water supply and so on. So far, we have received support from various UN agencies and donors who are reaching about 20,000 families with aid, but we need to reach more people.
Q. Tillabéry, West of Niamey, is the hardest hit of all regions. It has a large refugee population, it has been dealing with thousands of cholera cases and continues to face food insecurity. What is the humanitarian community doing to help the people in this region?
The humanitarian community is responding to the situation in Tillabéry as well as in other regions. In the last five months, allocations totalling US$21 million from theCentral Emergency Response Fund have helped the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) respond to the food and nutrition crisis, the cholera epidemic and the refugee situation. Funding from UNHCR continues to support 57,000 refugees in camps, and WFP has scaled up its food distribution. Other humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross, OXFAM, World Vision, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-SWISS, Plan International and local NGOs, are also helping to provide food and sanitation assistance.
Q. Is there enough in-country capacity to address these challenges or is more international assistance needed?
Niger is ranked 186th out of the 187 countries listed on the Human Development Index. We need to go beyond emergencies and deal with structural problems the country faces in order to help communities handle future shocks and become more resilient. Humanitarian organizations need to work with the Government and help strengthen the capacity of the local disaster-management agency.
Reporting by OCHA Niger
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Speaking of fabrics, when I was planning the fall capsule for my daughter, I first narrowed down the pieces I wanted to make, and then focused on the fabrics. I definitely wanted some corduroy; it is such a cosy fall material! I was glad I could use a flower-print one I've had for a few years (see the shorts in this post), and I found the polka dot one online. It was an added bonus that both cord fabrics coordinated. Also, both are pinwales and lightweight.
As you can see, the shapes of the trench are very basic, yet, lady-like. I was glad to find the lace-up shoes to "toughen up" an otherwise very girly wardrobe.
Construction-wise, the trench has inseam pockets, cuffed sleeves, and is lined in lightweight cotton fabric, all practical details.
We found the cap in TJ Maxx and I knew it would perfectly compliment the trench, so, we had to have it.
I had to wait three weeks for the flower-shaped buttons, but it was worth it, they add just the right touch of whimsy.
I find that shorts are a great alternative to skirts, even for winter, worn with tights.
The pattern for this pair of shorts is from Burda WOF, and was reviewed here: http://theprincessseam.blogspot.com/2010/05/girly-summer.html as a summer garment. For fall, I made it in flower-print corduroy, in a size bigger.
As I have said before, I love the playfulness and girliness of this pattern. I highly recommend it to anyone sewing for a girl.


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When I have created a movie, I go to the library, select it, and then choose Save video.
This works, but sometimes it creates two different copies of the same movie.
The two copies have the same date stamp (the date I made them) but strangely, they sometimes have different file sizes - and yet both seem to play okay. The file sizes can sometimes be nearly a factor of two different.
Why is this, what am I doing wrong, and if I delete one should I keep the long one (more information) or the short one (don't waste disk space)?


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If you are a graphic and web designer, the default fonts that came with Ubuntu will surely be not enough for your needs. However, if you know where to look, you can find plenty of additional fonts that can help get the job done. If you don't believe me, let me share to you a hundred or so good-looking free fonts, and then I'll show you how to easily install them on Ubuntu:
* Dustismo Fonts
This is my favorite. Why? Just see the screenshots below (Click on image to view full size):
Penguin Attack
These are just a few of the many Dustimo Fonts. You can install those you saw above and plenty more with:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-dustin
* George Williams Fonts
George William Fonts are also excellent looking:
CupolaUnicode Bold
Get all George Williams Fonts with:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-georgewilliams
* Larabie Fonts
Larabie is loaded with stylish fonts. Here are a few of them:
Install Larabie Fonts with:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-larabie-deco ttf-larabie-straight ttf-larabie-uncommon
*Gentium Fonts
Gentium Fonts are visually attractive and readable. Here's an example:
Get Gentium Fonts with:
$sudo apt-get install ttf-gentium
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The name says it all:
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Paranormal Activity 2: Unrated (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes on the 'thrill' of watching hours of grainy closed circuit video...
I'm a bad horror fan, in that I don't tend to keep up with the popular trends in the genre. In 2007 and 2008 a $15,000 fright feature called Paranormal Activity opened to huge fanfare at various film festivals. Paramount acquired the rights for a song, and opened the film wide in 2009. Paranormal Activity then went on to make nearly $200 million world wide, making it one of the most profitable movies of all time, nearly reaching Blair Witch Project numbers. As I've grown tired of the 'found footage' horror subgenre I never bothered to see Paranormal Activity, despite respecting its healthy box office tow. Now I've been asked to review the sequel, aptly titled Paranormal Activity 2, and what do you know, but Paranormal Activity is available on the Netflix Instantview. So to avoid making an ass out of myself I'm spending the extra time, which means this will kind of be a review of both films.
Paranormal Activity is well enough made, and often captures the hyperrealism required from a found footage horror flick (even if I wasn't particularly impressed with any of the actors). The concept also makes more sense in this context than in films like Cloverfield (maybe Micah should put the camera down, but it makes sense that he wouldn't), where the audience is left to constantly wonder why these people are still filming. Unfortunately one fourth of the four person cast is unforgivably obnoxious (I'll let you decide which one I'm referring to), the high concept really is getting old (having just reviewed The Last Exorcism probably didn't help), and I spent most of the film sitting in utter boredom. I understand that was sort of the point, and that my jaded nature makes me a less than ideal candidate, so I'm willing to let my less than constructive criticism go, since I continue to be impressed with the film's connection with audiences, and the brilliant viral marketing campaign.
Paranormal Activity 2 is a slicker movie, with 200 times the budget (which still comes out to an extremely modest $3 million), but it's really just more of the same. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially for those that liked the first film, but it's also kind of a waste of talent and time. Perhaps I'm just upset that I wasted my time watching the first film even after I was warned that the two films were pretty much the same thing. On the positive side just about everything here is an improvement over the original. The characters are almost instantly more likeable, and in turn believable as normal, real people (the dog in this one acts circles around the cast of the first movie). The idea of security cameras makes more sense than a constantly filming home video camera, and opens up the scope of the film, not to mention the fact that it gives the editor something more interesting to do with the footage. Besides just being better made, Paranormal Activity 2 is a more disconcerting film, with better scare set ups, and better use of slow burn tactics (though it does overstay its welcome, especially on the included director's cut). In other words – this one kind of frightened me, at least a little bit, and a fearful response is more or less the only thing an audience is meant to get out of these films.
The 'plots' of both films do intertwine a bit, with this film actually taking place just before the first one for the most part. Fans that care are given a bit of back-story behind the events that unfold in that film, though it's never really clear how events line up, and it's pretty clear that this stuff was all thought up after the fact (which is a sort of unfair criticism, considering the fact that I doubt anyone knew there would be a sequel). More important than the relatively more developed storyline is the more impressive dialogue, which goes a long way in selling this family as more likable and believable than the couple in Paranormal Activity 1. And these people are relatably funny instead of needlessly cruel to each other. Molly Ephraim is especially funny as the teenage daughter Ali, a role that could've been brimming with obnoxious angst and screaming. I'll also give the sequel the edge for including a dog, which everyone knows is a sure fire, super exploitative way to make the audience root against the 'villain'. Well played.
Paranormal Activity 2 is made to look rough, but shaky camera work can't disguise crisp, lifelike digital HD video. Sure there are oodles of grain in the darker shots, especially those blue and green night vision shots, but that's what happens when you make a movie to look like it was filmed without a cinematographer to create a less 'theatrical' experience. There are consistent digital artefacts throughout the transfer, including some smudgy edges, inconsistent focus, and different degrees of grain, but these are all part of the chosen style. Colours are natural in daylight sequences, though not particularly vibrant, and detail levels are incredibly sharp assuming the lighting is effective. The black levels are especially rich, and contrast levels are impressive and clean. This 1080p transfer is a nice experience, but readers still depending on standard definition DVDs aren't really missing anything in this particular instance.
Like the first film, Paranormal Activity 2 utilizes a lot of dynamic range to put the audience on edge. The majority of this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track plays out in relative silence, or at the most utilizes only the most basic sound from the cameras' microphones, including dialogue and the basic effects (props falling, crickets chirping, footsteps). The stereo and surround channels come into play with the scary scenes, which are usually signified by a general rumble emitting itself from nowhere in particular. Most of the scare tactics involve shattering the rumbling almost-silence with really loud bangs. These bangs (usually a slamming door or some kind of outside knocking) are punched up by a strong LFE presence.
The only extra feature, other than the presence of both cuts of the film, a trailer, and a DVD and digital copy, is a collection of 'Found Footage' (3:50, HD), which is code for deleted scenes. Well, more like one deleted scene followed by some random shots of the house.
With a third film on the way this Halloween, Paranormal Activity is quickly becoming Paramount's answer to Lionsgate's Saw series (which was, ironically enough, Lionsgate's delayed answer to Paramount's Friday the 13th series), meaning we'll probably see one every Halloween until the series stops making fistfuls of money. I think the best option for a third film would be a mockumentary structured feature, rather than another found footage jumble. See Lake Mungo for inspiration. Fans of the series should be happy with this Blu-ray release, but the rough and raw style makes a high definition presentation somewhat unnecessary, so buying the DVD version instead doesn't really hurt. The lack of extra features makes me think there might be another release on the horizon.
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Review by Gabriel Powers
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This was absolutely ruined in the cinema for me by a bunch of kids who looked about 12 and some dick who had obviously gone to watch it because his girlfriend wanted to see it and complained all the way through until getting out halfway through with his sheepish girlfriend following him.
I saw the original in the house and it was terrific. Genuinely full of suspense. I ruined the second one by watching it with people who wanted to see a different film.
My advice would be to watch this by yourself or with your significant other with the lights off and the sound up. It needs time to work on you. Probably a good idea if you see the first one too.
I saw the original in the house and it was terrific. Genuinely full of suspense. I ruined the second one by watching it with people who wanted to see a different film.
My advice would be to watch this by yourself or with your significant other with the lights off and the sound up. It needs time to work on you. Probably a good idea if you see the first one too.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 8th February 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Spanish and Portuguese
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Found Footage, Trailer, DVD and Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Tod Williams
Cast: David Bierend, Brian Boland, Molly Ephraim, Katie Featherston, Seth Ginsberg, Sprague Grayden, Micah Sloat
Genre: Horror
Length: 91 minutes
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Picking a best time to visit South Africa is not a task easily accomplished. After all, this is a country famous for its sunshine and relatively warm winters.
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If action and adventure is your thing, a number of activities are at their best after the summer's peak, such as diving, hiking and surfing. You may also want to time your trip to include a major sporting or entertainment event - these generally take place out of season too. And don't discount winter holidays either - the South African winter compares favourably with the European summer, and the tropical province of KwaZulu-Natal with its fine coastline will still offer a good beach holiday.
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In the most classical Cowboys and Indians-kind of ways, the American frontier has been used as the canvas for literature and film since each has had breadth to embrace the era and its infinitely contested lands. But the dust-mottled landscape of violence, thieves, and legends that remain ever so familiar in other media has been implemented surprisingly little in the gaming medium. So when Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar's spur-saddled, 2010 magnum opus hit, it immediately impressed both the gaming press and consumers alike, garnering unanimous high praise and quickly becoming as viable in sales as Rockstar's flagship Grand Theft Auto series. RDR took the industry by storm with a well written, expertly paced, and massively open world. With such a high bar set by the first installment, how can a sequel possibly meet fans' expectations, let alone exceed them? Like the first game so cleverly ingested much of what has been utilized before, much can be gleaned from investigating the genre's storied past in celluloid, on page, and in real life.
RDR was a great game but like a lot of rockstar games far too easy
It's too bad the gameplay can't be more like Elder Scrolls. Not entirely because there are flaws in that series, too. It's just the whole Rockstar formula for doing missions and fighting bad guys is too arcadey if you ask me. I'd prefer to fight a gang of thugs that consists of 5 bandits that act intelligent than 30 guys bandits that are dumber than my horse.
Hunting needs to be more realistic, also. Shooting a flying bird with a rifle is hardly realisic. Or chasing a deer down with a horse instead of stalking it. Would love to see upland gamebirds, like quail and pheasants, introduced as well.
RDR is one of my favorite games this generation and absolutely cannot wait to here about a new one. There was a rumor a week ago about a possible new one called Red Dead Rebellion i think.


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Forget about staggered schedules or focusing on one thing at a time. Top-rated network CBS is planning to premiere nearly all of its new and returning programming during one week in September.
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The next day, Monday, will see the one-hour season premiere of the final season of "How I Met Your Mother," the return of "2 Broke Girls," and the first episodes of Chuck Lorre's new sitcom "Mom," starring Anna Faris and Allison Janney, and the suspense thriller, "Hostages," starring Toni Collette and Dylan McDermott.
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Wednesday's swarm of economic news was enough to give plenty of pause to the notion that the U.S. economy is in for a growth surge for the rest of the year.
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A group of immigrant workers has gone on strike and compiled over 130,000 signatures in an effort to get retail giant Wal-Mart to drop its contract with a Louisiana-based seafood company amid allegations of forced labor and brutal work conditions.
The workers, all immigrants from Mexico in the U.S. on H-2B work visas, recently created a petition with the National Guestworker Alliance (NGA) asking Wal-Mart to hold CJ's Seafood of Louisiana accountable for violating supplier standards.
Spearheaded by worker Ana Rosa Díaz, the employees claim that supervisors at CJ's Seafood forced them to work up to 24 hours at a time with no overtime pay, locked them in the facility and threatened to beat them with a shovel to stop them from taking breaks.
"We were forced to work 15- to 24-hour shifts and we were threatened with violence when we tried to take breaks," Rosa Díaz said in a press release from Change.org. "Our boss threatened us and our families and we went on strike to demand safety and basic rights. But our boss refused, so now we're taking our demands to Wal-Mart."
A video released by Change.org shows the workers giving their demands to the company's finance executive Mike Leblanc before he shouts at them to turn the camera off.
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These types of threats are common to all types of guestworkers...but there are few people who will stand up and say things about them.
"CJ's Seafood has engaged in extremely coercive employment related actions, including forcing guestworkers to work up to 24-hour shifts with no overtime pay, locking guestworkers in the plant to force them to continue to work, threatening the guestworkers with beatings to make them work faster, and threatening violence against the guestworkers' families in Mexico after workers contacted law enforcement for assistance," wrote Jennifer J. Rosenbaum of the National Guestworker Alliance in a complaint to the Labor Department.
The workers, who live on a labor camp adjacent to the facility, also claim they had to report to the owners when they wanted to leave.
"As soon as we received reports of potential violation of our ethical sourcing policy we launched an investigation," said Megan Murphy, international corporate affairs manager for Wal-Mart, according to the International Business Times. "We take reports like this very seriously and we will take appropriate actions based on the findings from our investigation."
Calls for comment to both CJ's Seafood and Wal-Mart were not returned by the time of publication.
"Wal-Mart closed its investigation a few days later, but failed to contact any of the workers involved in the accusations," said Jacob Horwitz of the NGA.
The recent allegations by immigrants are not the first to hit Wal-Mart over the last decade. Besides facing claims from labor unions, Christian organizations and environmental groups over everything from gender discrimination to bribery charges, Wal-Mart ended up dishing out $11 million in 2005 to end a federal probe into its use of undocumented immigrants as janitors.
The Justice Department investigation led to an October 2003 raid spanning 60 stores in 21 states and the arrest of 245 alleged undocumented immigrants. The company, however, settled the matter out of court and was able to avoid criminal charges.
"We are satisfied that this is being settled as a civil matter," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams said at the time. "Despite a long, thorough and high-profile investigation, the government has not charged anyone at Wal-Mart with wrongdoing."
Many of the undocumented immigrants filed a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart for violating federal racketeering laws by conspiring with cleaning contractors to cheat immigrant janitors out of wages.
"These types of threats are common to all types of guestworkers," Rosa Díaz said. "But there are few people who will stand up and say things about them."
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Some big changes are in store for the Relay For Life of Lewiston/Niagara event in 2013.
Organizers gathered Wednesday at Water Street Landing to inform volunteers that next year's fundraiser for the American Cancer Society will take place in August at the newly refurbished Reservoir State Park. In a nod to the annual event's early days, Relay For Life will be an all-night affair, beginning at 3 p.m. on Aug. 3, and continuing until 6 a.m. on Aug. 4.
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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 19 Mar 2010
According to our latest visitor research conducted in January 2010, 57% of people that visited the Museum used a social networking site in the previous six months.
Over January 2010 we surveyed 174 visitors to the Australian Museum and asked them about the kinds of online activities undertaken in the previous six months and the results are quite interesting:
These results are similar to another study we conducted in 2007 asking Australians what they were doing online (using the same categories as above). In that study we found that museum / gallery visitors participated at higher levels across all activities. Apart from using social networking sites, statistical tests revealed that these differences were highly significant across all categories. More about that study can be found here.
Taken together these findings suggested that, not only do those who visit museums participate in more online activities, they also engage in activities that are participatory and two-way, such as posting and reading customer reviews and using social networking sites.
I'll be doing more sampling over April/May so will keep you posted.
The results are in: Australian Museum visitors are active users of social media sites (but not ours).
Russ, I have designed the survey as you have suggested and just had one more question. Should we ask people have they used these tools in the past six months, three months or in the last month?? I'm unsure and am leaning towards in the last month as it's more immediate.
Also I've decided to conduct this as a separate survey as it will take too long if I add these questions to the other ones. It is a self-complete form wih demographic information and we'll note where about in the Museum they took the survey. Look forward to the results!
Thnx Russ. What I think I will do is use the questions you propose in the next round of surveys (April/May) as another data-gathering exercise since I'm just trying this out at the moment.
One way to restructure this information slightly would be to ask questions that not only let us know what they have seen ,but how they use it, why they use it and if they have seen the Museum's accounts in these spaces. For example:
1. youtube
watched a movie?
added their own movie?
what sort of movies interest you?
seen the Australian Museum youtube channel?
2. flickr
seen images?
what sort of images interest you?
added an images to your own account?
joined any groups?
seen the Australian Museum account/groups?
3. blogs
read a blog?
subscribe to one or more blogs?
what sort of blogs interest you?
have your own blog?
how regularly do you blog?
seen the Australian Museum blogs?
4. wikis/wikipedia
read a wiki page?
added/edited or deleted a wiki page?
5. twitter
have read tweets?
what sort of tweets interest you?
have an account?
if so, what do your normally tweet about?
seen the Australian Museum twitter account?
6. facebook
have an account?
what do you use facebook for?
seen any of Australian Museum's facebook pages/groups?
7. other social media
do you use any other social media sites?
what do you use them for?
Just a quick suggestion... :)
i love the idea that musuem visitors are becoming more switched on. were the results very different across age groups?
also i'm a bit confused about '... participated at higher levels ... ' -- higher levels than what? -- and '... statistical tests revealed that these differences ...' -- which differences?
please explain :>)
Interesting stuff.
What is the difference between:
- 64% looked at/added to an online encyclopaedia such as Wikipedia
- 34% used a wiki
If 64% used Wikipedia, then how can only 34% have used a Wiki? Confused!
Also, did you find out how many had seen content on our social sites - like facebook, twitter and youtube? Probably VERY low figures!