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Last year, when 59 percent of Florida high schoolers who took the state's new Algebra I end-of-course exam passed the test, state officials were pleased.
Last year, when 59 percent of Florida high schoolers who took the state's new Algebra I end-of-course exam passed the test, state officials were pleased.
Although the pass rate was better than expected, the other 41 percent of the students who took the test — more than 66,000 kids across Florida — failed and would have to retake the test in order to graduate.
"It was really disheartening," said Boaz Dvir, of the University of Florida's Lastinger Center for Learning.
So the Lastinger Center teamed up with Gainesville-based tutoring company Study Edge to see how they could help.
They came up with a mobile application called Algebra Nation, which Dvir said has been used by 900 schools in all 67 Florida counties since the app launched in January. About half of all algebra instructors in the state have signed up for Algebra Nation.
The state Legislature recently forked over $2 million to expand the project.
Don Pemberton, director of the Lastinger Center, approached Study Edge last summer, said Study Edge co-founder Ethan Fieldman. The company already had Web-based and mobile applications for their tutoring services, which include videos filmed by tutors in front of a green screen. The Lastinger Center wanted to use the same platform to reach students.
"We thought it was a great thing for the state, and we agreed," Fieldman said.
The Lastinger Center reached out to its statewide network of teachers, pulling in algebra instructors from Miami to the Panhandle to help develop content for the app.
About 30 teachers got in front of a camera to make algebra videos. Fieldman said several full-time tutors from Study Edge, who are adept at being filmed teaching, also made videos.
The app contains study guides and features an algebra wall, where users can ask and answer questions. Tutors monitor the wall and correct wrong answers, but Fieldman said the vast majority of activity on the wall is from students answering their peers' questions.
Within six months, the Algebra Nation app was up and running. It's accessible through Facebook or at algebranation.com, and it works on computers, iPhones and Android phones.
"It was almost like a minor miracle," Dvir said.
The Lastinger Center and Study Edge formally launched the app at an event in Jacksonville with students from St. Petersburg's Dixie Hollins High School. Since then, Algebra Nation videos have been viewed more than 116,000 times.
Alicia Stephenson's Algebra I students at P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School were among the first in the state to use the app.
Stephenson said she heard about the app from a Lastinger Center employee last summer, when the project was just getting started.
She got involved and recorded a few videos, "then I just fell in love," Stephenson said.
The Facebook platform really made a difference.
She noticed that even her students who never spoke up in class were posting on the algebra wall, asking and answering questions.
"It gave those students who were afraid to talk in class a voice," she said.
Another effective feature, she said, is that students are able to see different teachers' explanations of the same concepts. Users have a choice between a faster- or slower-paced explanation by a tutor or algebra teacher, which appeals to students' different learning styles, Stephenson said.
Dvir, of the Lastinger Center, said that peer teaching, which happens on the algebra wall, is also one of the more effective ways to learn.
Stephenson agrees. "It gives them so many other opportunities that they don't have when they just have one teacher in a classroom," she said.
Stephenson's students also love the karma points — points awarded to students who provide a correct answer to another student on the algebra wall. The student who racks up the most karma points in any month can win an iPad.
Stephenson said she'll continue to use Algebra Nation this school year to help her students learn and to keep track of what concepts they have trouble with, so she can tailor her teaching to their needs.
Study Edge and the Lastinger Center try to stay responsive to teachers' and students' needs, too. A few months after the app launch, as the 2013 Algebra I end-of-course exam approached, teachers started requesting study guides from Algebra Nation, since they weren't always able to print out full packets for an entire class at school. Study Edge responded by printing out entire 150-page booklets of the 12 study guides contained in the app and selling them to teachers for $2, including tax and shipping, Fieldman said. In the two weeks before the end-of-course exam, teachers ordered 3,000 of the booklets. Some teachers even used their own money.
This year, 64 percent of students passed the Algebra I end-of-course exam.
Dvir said the creators of Algebra Nation don't want to take credit yet because the focus this year was on getting the content out, not tracking effectiveness.
Part of the $2 million awarded by the Legislature will go into studying how much Algebra Nation helps students. "We're at the University of Florida, so we have to study things in a scholarly fashion," Dvir said.
The money will also be used to buy more equipment and create better animations for higher-quality videos, expanding the app to include more features, refining the content, doing outreach with more schools and adapting the material to meet the Common Core State Standards, a more rigorous expectation for learning that Florida has signed onto.
Hopefully, Fieldman said, all that will translate into more and more students passing the Algebra I exam, a graduation requirement, so they can go on to be successful after high school.
"It's a pretty complex solution, but it's also a complex problem," he said.
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Michele was out of town, so time for some boy, dog, cat fun!
Beach Walk in the morning and a Bachelor Pizza and Belgian Pale Ale (Or B.P.A.B.P.A.) Night!
Crazy Day at Fort Funston!
Surf all the way up to the trail down to the beach, hardly room for a small dog to run, and only then between larger waves. We all agreed it was the highest we had ever seen the surf.
So a tramp through the woods and field were necessary.
Cats beware!
Still a beautiful day.
Decided to make some pizza and drink this lovely Belgian Pale Ale from Ommegang. A hybrid of Belgian Ale Yeast and American style hopping.
Toppings were corn, mushrooms, bacon herbs, and feta cheese with some last of the season small tomatoes.
Monty would like some pizza, too, please!
Turned out pretty well, but I was reminded that simple crusts made of just flour, water, and yeast, turn out much better with an overnight sponge or starter. More character. As a friend put it, "otherwise they just end up tasting like they've been baked on a pretzel."
When I mentioned some of the dishes I usually make when Michele is away, one of the chefs at work asked, "Are you making Jambalaya because your wife doesn't like it?" Hm, no, Michele loves Jambalaya.
I tried to think of something that all the bachelor dinners I've made for myself have had in common, and all I could think of was pork. Sausage, Bacon, Loin, Chops, you name it, a bachelor dinner must contain pork.


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Often called the "Nature Island," Dominica, a 29-mile by 16-mile independent nation, in the Windward Islands, is less frequented than others, like Barbados and St. Lucia, that also form part of that group of islands, but nonetheless, Dominica is a veritable eco-paradise in the eastern edge of the Caribbean for nature lovers, Tropical forests cover about two-thirds of Dominica's mountainous territory, wonderful beaches and reefs, waterfalls, numerous rivers and a number of national parks that are home to 160 species of birds and 1,200 kinds of plants.
In other words, this island, where English is the official language (and which is often wrongly confused with the Dominican Republic due to the similarity of its name) extends an open invitation to travelers to enjoy such eco-tourism opportunities as hiking, river tubing, snorkeling, diving and more.
The main cruise ports in Dominica include the one in the heart of Roseau, the capital of the island, where most of Dominica's 72,000 inhabitants live. Two other ports are the Cabrits port situated near the northwestern town of Portsmouth, and Woodbridge Bay, near Roseau. Points of interest in Roseau include the Old Market Square, the original slave market, in the old section of town. Nearby, the Dominica Museum faces the bay front in Roseau and features exhibits relating to the island's history, geology and culture. Also worth a visit is the Roseau Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Fair Heaven in Gothic-Romanesque style on Virgin Lane. Construction of the cathedral with volcanic stones started in 1841 and it was completed in 1916. Trafalgar Falls, about five miles east of Roseau, is a must-see in a lush green setting the larger of the falls, to the left, is called "Father," the smaller one is dubbed "Mother." Garden lovers may wish to check out the Botanical Garden, with 40 acres on the site of an old sugar plantation on Bath Road on Morne Bruce.
The small village of Soufriere, south of Roseau, with its palm-fringed coast, fishing boats, waterside church with murals of island life, sulfur springs and hot pools was founded by early French settlers. Yet another point of interest is Massacre Village, four miles north of Roseau, has historic interest as the site of a massacre of Carib Indians by the English in the 17th century.A visit to one of Dominica's national parks is rewarding. Parks include Morne Trois Pitons (named after a mountain with three peaks) with excellent hiking trails, and Cabrits National Park with the 18th century Fort Shirley and surrounding underwater park, the Cabrits Marine Reserve. Popular excursions offered by cruise ships include whale watching tours during which sperm whales, humpbacks and other whales and dolphins are likely to be spotted (peak whale-watching times are from November to June). Land programs generally include tours to Trafalgar Falls and the Sulfur Springs, and excursions to the Carib Indian Territory (the Caribs were a fierce indigenous tribe), The latter tour usually makes at stop at one of the most-visited spots on the island: Emerald Lagoon and Falls, a lovely grotto and waterfall surrounded by tropical greenery midway between Canefield and Castle Bruce.
Other pastimes include canopy tours, river boat tours, hiking, diving and just relaxing at a beach with the best beaches for swimming being on the island's sheltered west coast. Purple Turtle Beach, near Portsmouth, is among the most popular beaches.
Dominica's cuisine is a blend of French and Creole. Local flavors not to be missed include traditional soups like callaloo (with callaloo leaves or spinach and okra), and main dishes like Caribbean souse (pickled pork). A good place in Roseau for lunch or dinner is Pearl's Cuisine, 50 King George V Street. Try the crawfish in garlic butter or stewed chicken and the fresh-squeezed tamarind juice.
Cruise lines that visit Dominica include Azamara, Carnival, Celebrity, Cunard, Holland America, Norwegian, Princess, Regent Seven Seas, Royal Caribbean, Silversea and Windstar.
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copyright, Alex Prager.
Alex is white-hot in the fine art world right now. She's a self-taught photographer whose influences include William Eggleston, Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch. He work usually involves 1960s-styled women, lots of wigs and fantastic use of color. This 2009 shot entitled Rachel and Friends is both gripping and eerie. It was created with five lights.
Camera: Contax 645 with 55mm lens and Kodak 400vc Portra film, set on a tripod 6 feet back. Shot at 1/60, f4, ISO 400.
Lighting: The key lights on rachel and friends in the front row are Arri 6000 watt fresnel HMIs with barn doors set on a medium roller 8 feet to camera right and right. The left sits high and the right is at about head-level. Another 6k fresnel with barn doors is 10 feet to camera left, just in front of the second row. A third 6k fresnel with barn doors is sitting high, in the rear right of frame, aimed downwards. This forms the hair lights on the women in the back of the image. A smaller, 1.2k Arri fresnel HMI is set just off the ground to camera right. This creates the nice glow on the woman's face in the third row.
Comments: Rachel produced this image on her own dime so tried to save money wherever possible. Since there was a lot of talent, she didn't want to buy wigs for everyone. Instead, she cast people who already had the 60s look working for them (one of the more unusual women believed it was still 1969). Only one person in the shot is wearing a wig. Any guesses as to who it is?


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Washington Post D.C. poll: 2014 mayoral election, schools, gentrification and marijuana
Q: Do you think this process of redevelopment is mainly good or mainly bad for Rich residents?
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Question 50 of 55
In this poll:
Click "detailed view" to see interactive results by political and demographic groups (i.e. Older D.C. residents, results by ward, age, and race/ethnicity)
- Part 1: Ratings for Washington DC public schools
- Part 2: Washington DC favors legalizing marijuana
- Part 3: D.C. sees progress, division with gentrification
- Part 4: Vincent Gray approval rebounds, boosting D.C. mayor above Democratic primary challengers
- Part 5: Most in D.C. oppose financial help for soccer stadium
- Part 6: DC public middle and elementary schools
This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Jan. 9-12, 2014, among a random sample of 1,003 adult residents of the District of Columbia. Interviews were conducted on conventional (500) and cellular phones (503), including 234 interviews with cell phone-only respondents. The poll included interviews with 669 voters registered with the Democratic Party or who plan to register as Democrats before the April 1 primary election, and 394 likely Democratic primary voters. The margin of sampling error for overall results is four percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt SRBI, Inc of New York, NY. Sample size and margin of error for subgroups Sample size Error margin All D.C. adults 1,003 4 Registered voters or plan to register (RV) 849 4.5 Registered Democrats (Dem RV) 669 5 Likely primary voters (LV) 394 6.5


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The legislation introduced would amend the Schedule of Bulk and Area Regulations in the following ways:
1) DELETING "Lot area:" in the second line of the chart; and
2) INSERTING "of lot", following "(square feet)" in the third line of the chart; and
3) INSERTING the following sentence in footnote 3 at the end thereof: "The Planning Board may, at its discretion authorize a zero side yard set back for one side yard where a structure has two side yards."; and
4) DELETING "1,500" and REPLACING it with "500" in the R-4 Multiple Dwellings, Lot area: Per dwelling unit (square feet) column.The amendment to Chapter 325 of the city code was undertaken with some urgency after the Planning Board had, on the previous Wednesday, determined that three projects before them, representing a potential of eighteen new apartments in the city, had to apply to the Zoning Board of Appeals for an area variance, based on the alleged 1,500 square foot requirement.
None of those three projects came before the ZBA this past Wednesday. Instead, a different project, also requiring an area variance but for a different reason, came before the board on a night when Russ Gibson was sitting in for ZBA chair Lisa Kenneally and John Tingley was pinch hitting for ZBA counsel Dan Tuczinski. The proposal, presented by Stephen Dunn, is to build a new structure on Rope Alley behind 235 and 237 Robinson Street that would contain garage spaces for five cars on the ground floor and an 800 square foot apartment on the second floor. The proposed project requires an area variance not because the apartment would be smaller than 1,500 square feet. The regulation, as it is understood, applies only to apartments in multiple unit dwellings not to single family dwelling or a single apartment in an accessory building. Setbacks are the reason the project was denied a building permit and sent to the ZBA.
Dunn owns three properties on Robinson Street: 233, 235, and 237. There are two-family houses on 233 and 237; 235 is vacant.
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Dunn plans to renovate both 233 and 237 Robinson Street as two family houses, which is what they are now, and he is committed to providing one enclosed garage space for each unit. He is also committed to not building anything at the front of 235 Robinson Street, wanting instead to maintain it as an open landscaped space. His goal is to decrease the density on Robinson Street, which in his expressed opinion is "horrible"--an opinion not shared by those interested in preserving neighborhood character.
In 2011, Historic Hudson initiated an effort to make Robinson Street a historic district. The application for designation presented to the Historic Preservation Commission began with this statement:
Robinson Street is a unique survivor of a nineteenth-century working class neighborhood in the City of Hudson. The street, located in the city's Second Ward between North Third and North Second Streets, represents the type of urban domestic architecture once common in the City of Hudson, much of which was demolished during urban renewal in the 1970's. Fortunately, the vernacular structures that characterize the architecture of Robinson Street were spared. This quiet street, and related buildings that make up the Robinson Street Historic District on North Third and North Second Streets, is the only intact nineteenth-century neighborhood left in the Second Ward. The Robinson Street neighborhood is a distinctive and valuable part of the city's architectural, economic, and cultural history.As a footnote to Historic Hudson's statement, it's interesting to note that in the assessment of neighborhoods in the 1965 Comprehensive Development Plan, Robinson Street, along with Sacred Heart Church and its rectory on Second Street on the west end of Robinson Street, was the only part of the North Bay Neighborhood that escaped being judged substandard.
The attempt to make Robinson Street a historic district was notoriously unsuccessful, which is good thing for Dunn. His project will require approval by the ZBA and the Planning Board but not a certificate of appropriateness from the Historic Preservation Commission.
The ZBA will hold a public hearing on the proposal on Wednesday, May 21, at 6 p.m.


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Firefighters have worked through the night battling a major fire at a recycling plant which sent thick black smoke across the town.
The blaze started shortly before 6pm yesterday evening, in the middle of the last night of the firefighters strike over pay and pensions.
A 1,000 tonne pile of household rubbish caught fire at Averies Recycling near Greenbridge.
As the smoke which could be seen from as far away as Devizes blew across into Walcot, standby crews from Royal Wootton Bassett, Cricklade and Marlborough attended the scene.
When the FBU strike action ended at 7pm as originally intended, they were joined by crews from Stratton as it quickly became apparent the fire was not going to be quickly contained.
No one was hurt in the incident but paramedics were in attendance for the safety of the firefighters as the heat of the day made the blaze harder to tackle.
The police were also at the scene to cordon the site off and to keep people away as the smoke was at ground level.
Fire crews spent the night dousing the fire in water but are expecting to be there until the middle of the week.
The pile of waste included wood, plastic and rubber. A skip lorry and pieces of machinery were also caught up in the blaze.
Acting Inspector Barry Reed, from Wiltshire Police, said: "We have a large fire which the fire brigade are dealing with from a number of different angles, but due to the nature of the event, it is being considered a major incident and we are expecting to be here for several days.
"At this stage, we haven't even started looking at the cause, we are just dealing with the incident. We're not ruling anything out or in."
Averies Recycling, owned by Lee Averies, deals with large amounts of general waste and is located next to a number of other yards, including one which houses a large quantity of tyres.
As a result, police were preparing to empty the yard of the tyres in case the fire spread to prevent a major environmental incident.
A warning was also issued to the residents of Walcot to take extra care due to the high level of smoke.
A spokesman for Wiltshire Fire and Rescue warned: "Large amounts of black smoke are rising from the site and local people have been advised to keep doors and windows closed if they are concerned about the plume, especially if they have a pre-existing respiratory condition."


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According to the National Retail Federation, more than 72,000,000 Americans are expected to shop online Monday during so-called "Cyber Monday."
But did you know you could do a good deed by getting those gifts online?
The crowds are cruising to the malls, but the National Retail Federation says 15 percent more people are expected to shop online for holiday gifts this year than in 2006.
Now, a pair of Web sites are offering online shoppers - and anyone searching the Internet - a way to help a good cause without leaving home or spending any money.
"The way Goodshop works is a percentage of the purchase price from any merchants listed goes to your favorite cause," said Goodshop.com and Goodsearch.com co-founder JJ Ramberg.
Goodshop.com allows you to shop online and click on one of 47,000 registered nonprofit organizations and schools - including dozens in western Wisconsin - you'd like your purchase to benefit.
"Everybody out there cares about a cause," Ramberg said. "For some, it may be saving the environment. For some, it may be finding homes for homeless veterans. But we don't have the extra money or time."
You can shop from hundreds of Web sites and see what percentage of your money will be donated to a good cause.
One of those causes is the Trinity Equestrian Center in Eau Claire.
"Our mission is to serve underprivileged, at-risk, even special needs riders," said Trinity Equestrian Center Owner Toni Mattson. "Our goal is to connect people and horses and God."
A big mission relying on a lot of help from donors.
"Most of the organizations we work with don't have a lot of funds to work with," Mattson said.
That's why JJ Ramberg and her brother Ken, created Goodshop.com and Goodsearch.com.
"Goodsearch.com is a search engine powered by Yahoo," Ramberg said. "You use it as you would any other search engine. The only difference is we donate 50 percent of our revenue. So every time you do a search, about a penny goes to your favorite cause."
Pennies that can add up to help organizations like this, with every click of your mouse.
"We wanted to take something we do everyday and turn it into doing good and provide people with an easy way to support their causes," Ramberg said.
"It's an awesome opportunity for nonprofits to very easily accumulate some donation funds," Mattson said.
All of the donations are tallied and given to the organizations on an annual basis.
To find out which western Wisconsin organizations are participating on Goodsearch.com and Goodshop.com, click on "Featured Links" on this Web site.


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Wireless application: Toyota plant monitors detention ponds wirelessly
Detention ponds are typically used to control the release of storm water runoff, especially if the runoff may contain contaminants from parking lots or building rooftops. Using a wireless monitoring system eliminates the need for someone to drive out to each pond to manually monitor the water levels.
With the passage of the 1972 Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for regulating storm water runoff. The goal of this act was to restore the waters of the United States to a quality level that "provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and provides for recreation in and on the water."
The Water Quality Act of 1987 expanded water regulations to include industrial storm water runoff and required that states be responsible for issuing National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits to large manufacturing facilities. These manufacturing facilities must then regulate all runoff that enters directly into any waters of the United States or to a municipal storm sewer system.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, a large automotive manufacturer located in Georgetown, Ky., has four such detention ponds located up to a mile away from each other. These detention ponds are also separated by several large buildings.
The pond water must be tested after the first rainstorm of the month, and then the ponds' drain gates are opened to allow the ponds to drain into local streams or creeks. At the end of the month the drain gates are closed until the next rainstorm occurs and the water is again tested prior to release. If it rains before the water has been tested for the month, Toyota's employees must closely watch the pond levels until the water can be tested and released.
No line-of-sight needed
Because of the distance involved, and the location of several buildings between radios, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky collaborated with a vendor to decide to use radios that transmit data via multiple hops, back to a central location with a PC-based controller. Using the radios eliminated the need for line-of-sight between the ponds and the control location.
The wireless networks are made up of one master radio and many repeater or slave radios. The networks are self-forming and self-healing networks constructed around hierarchical communication architecture.
As the wireless network is first formed, the master radio "searches" for any repeaters or slaves within range. Repeaters and slaves that are outside the master radio's range search for other repeaters to "connect" to, automatically forming the most efficient wireless network possible while still maintaining a strong enough radio signal to reliably transmit the data.
In addition to automatically forming complex radio networks, the networks can self-heal. If a radio loses synchronization to the wireless network, it may reconnect to the network using a different repeater radio.
For this detention pond monitoring application, submersible pressure sensors and a wireless radio with analog inputs were installed at each pond. Both devices were powered by a solar panel and backup battery pack. The pressure sensors were configured to sample the pond levels at five-minute intervals.
The pond level data was transmitted back to the master radio, which was installed on the roof of a building and powered from the available 10 Vdc to 30 Vdc. All radios use a high-gain omni-directional antenna to ensure a reliable long-range communication network was formed in all directions.
The master radio was connected to a host system that logged the pond level data and notified Toyota employees when the pond levels were rising.
Self-forming, self-healing radios
Four detention ponds have been successfully monitored using the radios.
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky and the employees responsible for gathering pond level information eliminated the manual process for several detention ponds and ensure environmental compliance. Because the networks are self-forming and self-healing, long-range, reliable networks are easy to install and maintain.
Before installing the wireless solution, monitoring detention pond levels required that someone drive out to each pond several times a day during storms. Using sensors and a wireless solution eliminated the need for someone to manually collect the pond level data. This automated solution also gathers more information from each pond, allowing employees to more accurately track their runoff pond levels and prevent the accidental release of untested water.
Susan Schnelbach is technical content architect, Banner Engineering, Wireless Product Division.
For more information about Banner Engineering, please visit http://www.bannerengineering.com.
Wireless technology
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky uses Banner Engineering SureCross Wireless technology, including Banner Engineering SureCross MultiHop radios. Banner consulted with Toyota on the project.


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|Fantastic Four: 2 and Live Free Or Die Hard Coming To Blu-ray
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The BD release of the fun and fantastically entertaining sequel to the Blockbuster hit, FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER includes hours of bonus content including deleted scenes, a full length "Making Of" documentary, multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes and commentaries with two exclusive high definition BD-Java bonus features: "Who Dares Defy Galactus?," Fox's first multi-player strategy game and a "Saving The World One Question At A Time" trivia game. "I'm thrilled that both of my Fantastic Four films are available on Blu-ray," noted Director Tim Story. "You can really see spectacular detail in the CGI visual effects we used to create the Silver Surfer character. Plus, fans of the Fantastic Four will have the added bonus of continuing the battle between Galactus and the Silver Surfer through the really cool interactive games that are only available on the Blu-ray release."
"Who Dares Defy Galactus?" challenges players to an intergalactic battle through a galaxy comprised of 30 planets, 10 of which are colonized and have varying levels of life force. Players compete against each other as either Galactus, who must find the live planets and consumer their energy, or The Silver Surfer, who must find the live planets and defend them against Galactus. If Galactus is victorious, additional solar systems are unlocked and the battle for live planets rages on. If The Silver Surfer defeats Galactus, the power cosmic never dies and will be waiting to consume more planets when players begin the game again.
Fans of "The World's Greatest Comic Magazine" will be put to the test to compete for Fantastic Four knowledge supremacy in the "Saving The World One Question At A Time" interactive, pop-up trivia game. Contestants must correctly answer a series of trivia questions related to the Fantastic Four film and Marvel comic book franchise in order to defend Earth from Galactus&Mac226; ravenous appetite. A chain of illuminated planets are aligned on the bottom of the television screen. If players fail to answer trivia questions correctly to deter Galactus, one-by-one the planets will fall dark until the World as we know it is destroyed.
LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (DIE HARD 4.0 Internationally)
The fourth installment of the established world-renowned Die Hard franchise, explodes onto BD day-and-date with the DIE HARD TRILOGY and features an arsenal of bonus content including a "Die Hard" music video by Guyz Nite, a "Making Of" documentary, actor and director commentaries and the exclusive high definition BD-Java multi-level strategy game "Black Hat Intercept!".
"Black Hat Intercept!" begins with a warning from The Warlock&Mac226; (cult-classic writer, producer and director Kevin Smith) that a computer virus has been placed inside an unwitting Internet companies&Mac226; mainframe by the infamous cyber-terrorist, Thomas Gabriel. As the team leader from inside the surveillance van, players must guide an agent into the building, outwit the building's security systems and personnel without being detected and then wipe the hard drive clean before the virus destroys the U.S.
Additionally, the BD debut of the DIE HARD TRILOGY comes locked and loaded with numerous bonus features including deleted scenes, featurettes, actor and director commentaries, visual effect breakdowns, alternate endings, side-by-side comparisons and much, much more.
All of the BD titles announced today will be authored in BD-J with AVC (MPEG 4) compression and presented on 50 GB dual-layer discs with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound. In addition to the highest quality audiovisual elements, each BD release will also feature D-Box compatible motion sensor cues to give D-Box chair equipped viewers a more life-like and intense viewing experience. Complete title configurations and market release dates will be announced by individual territories.
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You won't see this play in the No Fun League (defenses cannot score on a PAT in the NFL) but college football still permits the glory that is sprinting the length of the field with a measly two points as reward, an opportunity of which South Carolina's Stephon Gilmore made the most.
It came after a long touchdown pass from Nebraska's Taylor Martinez to Kenny Bell (itself a rare enough event) and left the score an early 6-2 Cornhusker advantage. [ESPN]


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Of course, the general rule is that either party's financial status – and whether or not they have insurance – are inadmissible.
There is some potential unfairness whichever way this goes. If the plaintiff can't testify that she hasn't returned to the doctor because she can't afford it, it might sway a jury to find in her favor. If she can't explain why she didn't go back to the doctor, it raises an inference that she was no longer in much pain.
A Fifth District case, Vanoosting v. Sellars, addresses these concerns, holding that the trial court erred in excluding testimony about Plaintiff's health insurance. I think this is the right decision.
(Howard Zimmerle is a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney in Rock Island, Illinois. He can be reached at 309-794-1660 or hzimmerle [at] mjwlaw.com)


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Why Hipmunk Is The World's Best Travel Site
George Orwell said journalism is "printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." Bully for you, Eric Arthur Blair, but you never had to book a flight from JFK to SFO for a family of four on a budget. Because I have run that gauntlet several times, I don't feel bad writing a few paragraphs of unpaid PR for Hipmunk, a two-year-old travel-booking site. This post meets the Orwellian bar for journalism insofar as it's not what Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, ual.com and aa.com want printed: Hipmunk is the best travel site on the Web. Period.
Why? It's smarter than all the others about presenting flight and hotel data. It doesn't waste your time. It sacrifices ad revenue for a better user experience. It personalizes better than the others. It's not trying to be anything other than a decision-making engine. "Our main philosophy," says Hipmunk cofounder Steve Huffman, "is that we want you to spend as little time on our site as possible with the least amount of pain." Completing the booking happens elsewhere, including on Orbitz and the airline and hotel sites. Hipmunk makes a few bucks for generating each lead. "Like a lot of people, when I get home from work, I don't want to think. We started from that notion," says Huffman. "You only have so many decision-making units in your head per day."
This is the big point. There was a time when it was really novel and boss for an e-commerce site to expose tons of data simply because it could. That was a sign of technical superiority and implied intelligence. But that novelty has worn off. The winners from here on out will the ones who make the Web functional and simple. Find me the answer, sort it for me, find me my community, entertain me. "You have to embrace the fact that people work that way," says Huffman.
The embrace of that philosophy has earned Hipmunk a loyal and growing customer base. Little of its traffic (less than 5%, says Huffman) comes from search ads or organic results on Google. Compare that to Expedia, which got 11% of its traffic from Google sites as of October 2011, down from 15% a year earlier. With Google offering more of its own flight and hotel booking links atop search results, following its purchase last year of ITA Software, outfits such as Kayak and Expedia are finding that their unpaid listings are being pushed further down the page. Any online agent that depends on search engine marketing and not a repeat business is asking for trouble.
If you know Hipmunk and have used it to book your flights and hotels, that's awesome for you. You probably don't need to waste your time reading this post. But you're in the minority. Despite some positive press, Hipmunk remains little-known outside the travel-nerd crowd. According to comScore, Expedia had 20 million U.S. visitors in May 2012. Hipmunk had 274,000. Hipmunk says it gets millions of search queries per month but it's still miniscule compared to the bigger sites.
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You may not understand Hipmunk the first time you use it but the next time you use someone else's site you realize the torture they are putting you through. Here are Hipmunk's search results for flights on July 1 from NYC to LAX. What gets the most prominent display is how a flight sits in your day. Price is to the left. Layovers are shown as gaps between flight legs. Filters are available through drop-downs along the top.
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Extreme Tailgators started in 2008, when Reed and a friend were operating a busing service to and from tailgate parties. A client asked Reed to organize a graduation party. The business took off from there.
Mention the word "tailgating" and some familiar images may come to mind: the parking lot outside Gillette Stadium or the open bed of a beer-filled pick-up truck, for example. Certainly not a lobster bake following a wedding in November.
That's exactly what Justin Reed and his company, Extreme Tailgators, managed to pull off. The 37-year-old Hanover resident described how his 5-year-old company brings its unique brand of full-service tailgating to a wide range of events.
"We're able to shift to a more formal atmosphere if we need to," Reed said. "But people know that we're a fun company, so they generally expect a more outdoorsy, fun type of event."
Extreme Tailgators started in 2008, when Reed and a friend were operating a busing service to and from tailgate parties. A client asked Reed to organize a graduation party. The business took off from there.
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What separates Extreme Tailgators from other catering companies is the range of services it provides. Reed said the secret to his company's success has been its commitment to handling every aspect of an event, from start to finish.
Reed's crew usually arrives an hour before an event, and can provide enough seating for up to 400 people. With the exception of alcohol service – which Reed says is available but not a priority – Extreme Tailgators' goal is to provide for every aspect of a tailgate, including set-up, food, non-alcoholic drinks, music, games and clean-up.
With summer around the corner, Extreme Tailgators is about to hit its busiest season. Marcy Reed, who manages booking for the company, sthat every year the graduation party season seems to go further and further into the summer.
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Thanks to Cynical Girl for sharing the new Dove ad (er, Dove "film"), "Evolution," which I've watched about half a dozen times now. (The part that kills me is when they retouch the photo to make her eyes bigger; I pretty much expected everything else, but it never occurred to me that they do that. Duh.) That led me to the website, which led me to this one. Which, um, totally didn't make me tear up or anything.
Say what you will about Dove using this shit to sell beauty products–I still love that they're doing this. (And hell yes, it's made me more likely to buy their shampoo, soap and deodorant, if not their cellulite cream.) And I love the concept of the self-esteem fund, even if right now it seems to be supporting only dorky Girl Scout seminars, which I suppose might work on eight-year-olds. I mean, there's the rub–by the time a girl's in middle school, she's internalized so much of this bullshit that you can tell her she's beautiful and unique and whatnot 'til you're blue in the face, and it's not going to make a difference. My mom actually told me I was pretty a lot more often than she told me to step away from the refrigerator (which was friggin' often), and if I had a nickel for every time one of my friends told me I was cute and/or not fat, all the way through my mid-twenties, I'd own a villa in Italy by now. It didn't fucking matter. What mattered was how much I looked like an ideal in my mind, which was not much. It actively pissed me off when people tried to tell me I wasn't ugly and fat, because as far as I was concerned, they were patronizing liars.
The more I get into yoga, the sadder I am that I wasn't exposed to it as a kid. (Instead, I took ballet lessons, which are about the worst possible thing for developing a positive body image.) What bums me out so much is that I never learned to appreciate my body from the inside out. Playing sports would have been great for that, I'm sure, but since I had zero natural talent for any sport, I got discouraged right away. I quit ballet a million times for the same reason, but kept going back because I loved some parts of it–which I now realize were the yoga-esque parts. (Virtually all of the warm-ups we did in every class were yoga poses, as it turns out, and most low-level ballet classes are founded on an Iyengar-style obsession with precision and alignment, which my keener ass adores.)
Unfortunately, I hated the other parts of it–the parts where they barked at us to suck in our stomachs and incessantly told us what we were doing wrong, rarely tempering it with praise or sincere encouragement. Most especially, I hated the part where they made it clear that ballet was only for certain body types–types which, by the time I was ten, it was obvious I did not have. And so, between the ages of 10 and 22ish, I avoided all physical activity that wasn't forced upon me, and bitterly resented all that was, because to my mind, exercise equaled me looking foolish in front of other people, period. There was no upside to it whatsoever.
I can't imagine how different it might have been if I'd been introduced early on to a form of exercise that's totally non-competitive and self-directed–and that I have some natural facility for, to boot. A form of exercise that comes hand in hand with an ancient philosophy about respecting the divinity in every human being, starting where you are, being in the moment, and seeking insight more than tight abs. A form of exercise in which pain is evidence of a mistake, not progress or commitment, and lying perfectly still on your back is arguably the most important part of it.
I mean, it wouldn't have been a cure-all. It wouldn't have made me less aware of how different my body was from the popular girls'. It probably wouldn't have made gym class easier to bear, most days. But it might have given me more strength and coordination–and most crucially, it might have made me see my body as something interesting and enjoyable, instead of this shameful albatross I got saddled with as a trade-off for an interesting and enjoyable brain. (It also might have helped my ADD, anxiety, and depression before they were even diagnosed.)
And, you know, since yoga is so much about being in the moment, it's awesome that I'm spending time worrying about all this now. I just can't help wondering, though. I spent so long keeping my mind and body entirely separate–seeing one as all good, the other as all bad. (The irony is, of course, that my mind was hardly all good; see above re: ADD, anxiety and depression. And, uh, convincing myself my body was all bad.) There are so damn many things I might have been better equipped for as an adult if someone had only told me there was such a thing as non-competitive, non-painful, non-humiliating physical activity.
When I watch those Dove "films" it just takes me right back to the time when I firmly believed my body was only as good as perfect strangers' judgment of it–i.e., most of my fucking life. It didn't matter that my mom and my friends thought I was fine, precisely because they loved me. I wasn't interested in being seen as a whole package. I was interested in being admired and wanted because of how I looked; nothing was more important. And I was so acutely fucking aware of all the things standing in the way of that happening.
I look at the girls in the "True Colors" ad and think, with an adult's perspective, that they are all beyond adorable–just as I can look at (some) pictures of myself around the same age and think that. But I still notice that that one's got wonky teeth, that one's got baby fat, that one's not white–and I know how well those things would have played in my elementary school, let alone my middle school. (I've never really understood freckle-hatred, because I always coveted freckles, but I concede that it's real.) I know those little things really are enough to jumpstart lifelong self-hatred, no matter what grown-ups tell you.
So, yeah, I'm glad that Dove's putting that reality out there front and center, even if they are using it to hawk thigh-firming cream. I'm glad they're spending money to combat this bullshit. I'm glad my yoga studio offers classes for young women, and that kid-yoga's an expanding enterprise. I'm glad I eventually did develop a different relationship with my body, and am still working on it, even if I wish it had happened twenty years earlier; better late than never. But the ad still makes me tear up, much as I want to sneer at the cheesy fucking kids singing Cyndi Lauper, because I know all those things are just drops in the ocean.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I wouldn't wish childhood on my worst enemy. Bleh.


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Daniel Boone National Forest logging proposal withdrawn
Officials have canceled a proposal for commercial logging in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County that had caused concern about the potential impact on a pristine spring and trees hundreds of years old.
An official with the U.S. Forest Service confirmed the decision to the Herald-Leader and Kentucky Heartwood, a forest education and advocacy group which was against the plan.
Opponents of the logging plan had proposed horse and hiking trails as an alternative in one area.
They plan to continue pushing that idea with the U.S. Forest Service now that the logging plan has been withdrawn.
Jim Scheff, a forest ecologist with Kentucky Heartwood, said he was thrilled to learn late last week that the Forest Service had withdrawn the logging proposal.
The proposal at issue was called the Crooked Creek Vegetation Management project, in the Climax and Little Egypt areas.
The Forest Service proposed a mix of commercial logging and tree-thinning that it said would improve the health of the forest, diversify habitat and provide trees for future use.
The Forest Service also proposed using herbicides to kill non-native, invasive plants.
Parts of the public forest in the area have been heavily logged in the past. There was some agreement about the need for improvement measures.
However, Kentucky Heartwood and others argued the proposed logging was too extensive.
The proposal called for cutting nearly all the trees in some spots, Scheff said.
Scheff said he has documented trees more than 250 years old in the Little Egypt area. One, a shortleaf pine more than 300 years old, is the second-oldest known tree of its species in the Eastern United States, he said.
There also was particular concern that the logging and herbicide use could damage Climax Spring, one of the state's largest continuously flowing underground springs.
A local company bottles the high-quality water, and hundreds use the spring to get their drinking water.
"We certainly don't want anybody to do anything that would damage the natural resource," Rockcastle County Judge-Executive Buzz Carloftis said.
The Forest Service is required to take public comment on proposals such as the Crooked Creek project.
The agency received some comments in favor of the logging, but also got a significant amount if negative feedback, said Jason Nedlo, the U.S. Forest Service district ranger in the area that includes Rockcastle County.
The agency looked hard at those concerns and decided it was best to cancel the project and engage the public in further discussion, he said.
"We take those concerns seriously," Nedlo said. "The process worked."
Nedlo said the Forest Service still wants to do non-commercial tree-thinning in the project area to improve habitat and the health of the forest — something Scheff said he also supports.
It would require a new environmental assessment to do that, Nedlo said.
Nedlo said he is willing to explore the idea — put forth by Scheff and others — to build several miles of hiking and horse trails in the Little Egypt area, a place of deep-green forest, sandstone ridges, rock cliffs, waterfalls and caves, some of which provide habitat for endangered bats.
Kentucky Heartwood has identified some of the potential route for the trails. Local officials have been involved because of the potential to link the trails to nearby Livingston.
The small town was the first to apply for certification under a new state program to designate Trail Towns, an effort to bring in more tourism spending from hikers, horse riders and others.
Scheff said he would like to see trails with signs along the way to explain the history of the area and its natural features.
"I think there's a great thing the Forest Service can be very proud of here," Scheff said.


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Aubrey Plaza of NBC's Parks and Recreation: Wilmington Native Is Building a Buzz in Hollywood
Wilmington native Aubrey Plaza builds major Hollywood buzz.
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Whether she's stealing scenes in movies like "Funny People" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," doing an off-color and dead-on impersonation of Sarah Silverman, delighting video game enthusiasts in a World of Warcraft commercial, or entertaining millions as April Ludgate on NBC's hit series, "Parks and Recreation," Aubrey Plaza is building a reputation as one of the hottest young comedic talents in Hollywood.
An ever-growing legion of fans has fallen in love with the 27-year-old actress' dry wit and deadpan delivery—Rolling Stone featured her in its 2011 Hot Issue. Not bad for a hometown girl who learned her craft performing in Wilmington Drama League productions, along with plays and skits at Ursuline Academy, from which she graduated in 2002.
Her mother, Bernadette Plaza, a Wilmington attorney with Goldfein and Joseph, named her first daughter after the song "Aubrey," by 1970s pop group Bread.
"It was mysterious and haunting—what was so special about this girl, one could only imagine and never really know," says Bernadette Plaza. "It is very fitting for Aubrey. It's hard to put into words what makes her so special, but I always knew she would be."
Bernadette Plaza recalls Aubrey being "extremely shy" around strangers as a child—hardly the harbinger of an acting career—but her father, David, senior vice president of wealth management at The Plaza Thompson Group, affiliated with Merrill Lynch, says that even as a youngster, she was "actively doing little skits at home and creating home movies."
"For as long as I can remember I wanted to be an actor and comedienne," Aubrey Plaza says. "I don't know why."
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I so did not want to go into the family business. What I wanted was a glamorous career in New York City and the opportunity for a normal life—buying shoes on sale, dating guys from Craigslist...and then my father got kidnapped.AUTHOR PROFILE:
Good-bye, fun. Hello, (unwanted) responsibility. Not only am I expected to step into the CEO slot, but I have to "prove my worth" for the job by competing against the Devil's protege—who's hot in more ways than one. The contest involves finding three (why is it always three?) objects of power. In Hell.
One of them is this adorable puppy, who happens to be a hellhound. The others are turning out to be not much fun. All this so I can take (unwanted) charge of Death, Inc.
My name is Calliope Reaper-Jones, and I'm...death's daughter.
Death's Daughter is an action-packed adventure that demonstrates Amber Benson's colorful imagination and wit. Not only is she a talented actress and a wonderful writer, she also produces and directs her own work! She co-created, co-wrote, and directed the animated supernatural web-series Ghosts of Albion with Christopher Golden, followed by a series of novels including Witchery and Accursed, and the novella Astray. Benson and Golden also co-authored the novella The Seven Whistlers. As an actress, she has appeared in dozens of roles in feature films, TV movies, and television series, including the fan favorite role of Tara Maclay on three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Benson wrote, produced, and directed the feature films Chance and Lovers, Liars, and Lunatics.


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The Ramallah bureau of the popular Qatari satellite television network Al-Jazeera reopened Friday ,March 23, two days after armed Palestinian security forces shut it down, the bureau chief said.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "on Friday evening ordered the reopening of our office after he received a delegation from our team," Walid Omari told AFP.
Arafat's Palestinian Authority had closed Al-Jazeera's office allegedly because it broadcast previews for a documentary on Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon that included a shot of an Arafat opponent dangling a shoe over a portrait of him, a sign of disrespect.
The Palestinians' action sought "to change the tone of a television program by resorting to force, something all free media reject," Al-Jazeera said in a statement Wednesday. The statement added: "Al-Jazeera will never under any circumstance stop covering the Palestinian cause."
Al-Jazeera, founded in 1996 shortly after Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani took power, has become immensely popular in the Arab world for its frank coverage of social and political issues. — (AFP, Ramallah)
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Five of the biggest marine science stories in 2010
Yes, I caved to the impulse and joined the inevitable cavalcade of "lists" that come at the end of every year. Why? Because these lists actually serve an important purpose: they cement the events of the past 12 months in our psyche and provide context about where these events fit into the grand passage of time. They also give us something to read when we want to procrastinate shoveling snow off the driveway or vacuuming pine needles from behind the couch. So here they are: five of the biggest marine science news stories from 2010.
5. National Ocean Policy. Starting off sexy, right? Policy, yeeeahh baby! No really, it IS a big news story that in July of this year the Whitehouse announced that the US finally has a comprehensive Ocean Policy. That's because such a document - and the institutions it enhrines - recognises the critical role that the oceans play in the lives of every American, even those that live far removed from the coasts. As the biggest per capita consumers (and polluters) on the planet, the absence of a national policy to protect the oceans had long been lamented by marine scientists and consrvationists alike. Now we have a National Oceans Council and a set of guiding principles for governing the use (and abuse) of coastal oceanic resources. Its about time! Read the Executive order here, and the Final Recomendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force here
4. What a load of garbage. 2010 marked the year that the concept of the "great ocean garbage patches" entered the public consciousness. If you've been living under a rock and have no idea what that is, well, it's the idea that millions of tons of plastic pollution have found their way down urban drains, to creeks, rivers and estuaries and thence to the centers of the great circular oceanic currents called gyres. There becalmed, these floating fields of plastic debris form giant rafts of death, entering food webs and silently choking millions of animals. The truth is slightly less dramatic; while the grabage patches are almost mind bogglingly large, the density of plastic particles within the patches is actually pretty dilute. In fact, you have to sift a lot of water to recover appreciable quantities of the stuff; it's just that, even then, they have vastly higher concentrations than parts of the ocean more well-mixed by large scale currents. 2010 was the year that scientists recognised that there is not only one patch (in the north Pacific) but probably a patch of sorts in the center of every gyre and that therefore this is a global problem. Its also the year that the concept hit pop culture, partly from the well-publicised efforts of the Plastiki cruise, but mostly in the form of a new album from progressive UK hip hop outfit Gorillaz called "Plastic Beach", a theme album conceived when the lead singer was sitting on a beach and realising how much of the sand was actully composed of tiny bits of plastic. The garbage patch story also added the most excellent word "nurdle" to the lexicon, reason enough for it to appear on this list. Read more about the adventures of a bona fide garbage patch researcher by following Miriam Goldstein at DeepSeaNews
3. To hack, or not to hack? It's pathetic, but perhaps not surprising, that the worlds leaders have not been able to agree on a binding plan of action to reduce carbon pollution and its two biggest impacts on the planet: global warming (both the atmosphere and the oceans) and ocean acidification. First at the COP15 Copenhagen conference in late 2009 and, more recently, at the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico in December, politics consistently trumped the urgent need to reconstruct our industries and economies to prevent exacerbation of the problem (we're already committed to a certain level of globe-changing temperature and pH shift). While these "front end" solutions are desperately needed, a number of climate/ocean researchers around the world have been studying "back end" solution, the most familiar of which is carbon sequestration - the idea of catching CO2 from fossil fuel burning and burying it or otherwise preventing it from entering the atmosphere/ocean. Perhaps the most controversial suggestion is to fertilise the oceans with nutrients that usually limit the growth of plankton (Iron is the best-studied), thereby causing huge plankton blooms that suck CO2 out of the air/water and, ultimately, export it to the bottom of the abyssal oceans. The controversy of these sorts of planet-level solutions, collectively called "geo-hacking", arise because they are designed to affect the whole earth ocean/climate system and take place in international waters, so arguments arise about who gets to decide on these sorts of things. No sooner had I interviewed an expert on ocean fertilisation on this very blog than a UN moratorium was issued preventing any future research on this kind of solution until the risks and impacts are better understood. C'mon UN - you can't have it both ways: either make an internationally-binding decision about reducing carbon pollution, or allow people to move forward with alternative solutions, preferably both. As it stand currently, we're a boxer with both arms tied behind his back, and that's never good.
2. BP/Macondo/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Bet you thought that would be number 1 right? By volume, the largest oil spill in US history, affecting huge areas of the Gulf of Mexico in the peak of seafood season and threatening hundreds of miles of fragile coastal wetlands, surely it should be. Nope. Why not? Well, largely because - disastrous though it was/is - it is both temporally and geographically restricted in its impact. In other words, its effects will be found primarily in one place and for a limited (albeit relatively prolonged) time. I argue that it is NOT these events that we (the world) need to be concerned about, but the long-term, chronic, death-by-a-thousand-cuts kind of problems. The biggest of those are global warming and ocean acidification (see number 3). It's like the difference between a big financial windfall and the power of investment returns. The local factory worker who wins a hundred million on the latest Powerball gets the news story, while tons of investors accumulate vast wealth in relative silence due to the inexorable influence of compounding interest and capital gains over time. The BP spill was an absolute disaster that got a LOT of press and will keep many marine scientists and environmentalists busy for a long time (great coverage of both is at DeepSeaNews), but it's a one-off event and not even on the radar in terms of the global health of the oceans.
1. Census of Marine Life. The biggest marine science news of 2010 has to be the completion of the first Census of Marine Life; a phenomenal decade-long effort by thousands of marine biologists around the world to answer one simple question: What lived, lives and will live in the worlds oceans? The brainchild of Rutgers marine scientist Fred Grassle, the scope was truly gargantuan: over 500 research expeditions covering every ocean, over 2,500 scientists and the discovery of over 6,000 species new to science and published in over 2600 peer-reviewed papers. It revealed the chronic undersampling of the deep-pelagic realm and the incredible diversity of seamounts and the tropical, arctic and antarctic depths. It also brought us some of the most stunning and engaging images of marine diversity ever captured. The final estimate? Based on extrapolations of survey data, easily 1 million or more eukaryote species and perhaps as many as 10 million bacteria and archaea. But CoML is so much more than numbers, it's a peek into a treasure trove of new life, a testament to the phenomenal diversity of the oceans, and an enduring snapshot of the precious biological legacy we are lucky to be part of. It's often said that you don't know what you've got til it's gone. Well, thanks to CoML we have a better idea of what a priceless gift of diversity we've got at our fingertips. Now what are we going to do about it?
I'd love to read your feedback in the comments. Did I miss anything?


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October 19, 2006
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N.J. Public Advocate and Rate Counsel Urge FCC To Deny Pending AT&T BellSouth Merger, Call Proposed Merger Harmful to Consumers
Newark, N.J.—The Department of the Public Advocate today announced that it is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject the pending merger between AT&T and BellSouth Corp. because it could allow the companies to exercise market power and would be harmful to consumers. In the event that the FCC decides to approve the merger, the Public Advocate has requested that conditions be imposed to protect consumers.
Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen and Rate Counsel Seema M. Singh said they are against the proposed merger because the companies have not demonstrated clear benefits for ratepayers and the merger will hinder competition. In ex parte comments filed on Oct. 3, 2006, with the FCC, Rate Counsel highlighted its concerns with the merger. As a result of the merger being unconditionally approved by the Justice Department on Oct. 11, 2006, the FCC is now the only regulatory agency that can impose conditions to protect consumers. The FCC had been scheduled to discuss the matter on Oct. 13, 2006, but it deferred discussion following requests for additional public notice and comments. The FCC has asked that additional public comments be submitted to them no later than Oct. 24, 2006.
"The proposed merger between AT&T and BellSouth has no benefits to ratepayers, only harm," said Chen. "If the FCC agrees to the merger, its approval should be contingent upon enforceable conditions that alleviate risks for consumers and mid-sized and enterprise businesses with strong incentives for compliance and clear standards for enforcement."
Singh said Rate Counsel, following an analysis by its expert consultants of whether the proposed transaction is in the public interest, is requesting that the FCC carefully review the strategic and planning documents that the two companies have designated as highly confidential because, among other things, they are not available to the general public, yet contain important information about the companies' market power and sales strategies.
"Our analysis found this merger has no benefits for ratepayers," said Singh. "The FCC should impose conditions to ensure consumers gain from merger synergies and this could open the door to new discussions, including issues that would be beneficial to New Jersey consumers."
Singh noted the following as among the key recommendations for the merger:
• The FCC should not approve the proposed merger unless and until AT&T demonstrates its compliance with the conditions on the AT&T/SBC merger, especially AT&T's provision of stand-alone digital subscriber line ("DSL") service.
• The FCC should determine a procedural mechanism that allows them to consider the evidence of the respective companies' marketing and sales plans, which are described in highly confidential documents submitted in this proceeding and bear directly on the flaws in the existing separations of corporate processes. A key examination of these processes should be to determine whether the respective companies' customers are cross-subsidizing BellSouth's unregulated lines of business.
• The companies should commit to the deployment of broadband throughout their operating territory as part of basic service with no increase in Plain Old Telephone service (POTs) prices. This would move forward an important national and New Jersey goal of providing broadband communications for all consumers
• Net neutrality conditions are essential to protect consumers and competitors from undue control of access to the Internet, allowing them to have the provider of their choice.
• The FCC should require the petitioners for the merger to offer video, DSL, and other non-telecommunications services through structurally separate entities complying with affiliate transaction rules.
• The FCC should impose a condition that the companies must offer an à la carte option for any video offering in addition to various packages for consumers.
• The FCC should condition its approval of the merger on the companies' assignment and allocation of a fair share of the public switched telephone network away from regulated services to unregulated services, which would lower local rates.
The Division of Rate Counsel is a division within the Department of the Public Advocate and represents the interests of consumers of electric, natural gas, water/sewer and telecommunications and cable TV service. Additional information on this and other utility matters can be found at the Division's website at http://www.rpa.state.nj.us. The Department of the Public Advocate website is http://www.state.nj.us/publicadvocate.


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Ex Wal-Mart CEO's deferred pay: $140 million
Departed Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke's deferred pay should provide enough money to shop beyond discount retailers for many years.
Duke, who retired Jan. 31, had $140.1 million in deferred compensation at year's end, Wal-Mart said Wednesday in its annual proxy filing. That's more than $27 million over what Duke had accumulated in retirement accounts in 2013, when governance experts noted that was more than 6,000 times greater than what the average Wal-Mart employee had stashed in 401K retirement accounts.
Duke's fiscal 2014 compensation dropped more than 70% to $5.6 million from $20.7 million in the prior fiscal year, mostly due to the absence of a stock award.
Duke gained another $17 million from vested shares and nearly $2.9 million exercising previously awarded stock options.
Duke, 64, had been CEO since February 2009 and previously oversaw Wal-Mart International and Wal-Mart U.S. Before joining the company, Duke was with the Federated and May department store chains.
Wal-Mart has noted that Duke had been with the company since 1995 and that his deferred pay and compensation was tied both to a competitive marketplace and his length of service.
Barbara Gertz, who works as an overnight stocker at an Aurora, Colo., Wal-Mart, and has been lobbying for higher wages as part of the OUR Walmart labor organization, says Duke's exit package "is a slap in the face" to hourly paid workers.
"Many of us are forced to rely on taxpayer-supported programs just to cover our basic needs, and even then, we're still just scraping by,'' says Gertz, 46.
Duke's successor, C. Douglas McMillon, saw his compensation soar to $25.6 million from $9.5 million. The bulk of McMillon's gain came from a $23 million stock grant. Wal-Mart said the grant is tied to McMillon's promotion and payouts tied to three years of corporate performance metrics.
Wal-Mart shares gained about 7% during the last fiscal year, lagging the Standard & Poors 500 Index, which gained 32%. Under Duke's five-year watch, shares rose nearly 60%.
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[June 14, 2014]
LINCOLN - By now many folks
around the downtown area of Lincoln already know that
"By the Bean" on the west side of the square is open.
The business opened several days ago and since that time has seen a
number of folks stopping in. Already, it is not uncommon to see
someone walking along the street carrying a By the Bean cup and
smell as they walk by the excellent, freshly brewed coffee.
On Friday morning, even before 7:30 a.m. folks were dropping in to
get a cup to go, and a few added a sweet treat to their check as
Inside the city's newest coffee bar the décor is a unique mixture of
warehouse loft, modern eclectic and vintage. While one might not
imagine that would work, it does.
The walls are contemporary colors of orange and olive green. The
floors are dark hardwood and the furniture is also dark wood.
One of the most striking features in the room is a massive wall
hanging of antique wooden doors in typical old door colors, but
arranged on the wall in a geometric design.
Looking up, the duct and vent work of the building is exposed loft
style, but painted a flat color to blend in with the dark ceiling.
The façade of the customer service counter is done with old doors as
well. The counter is also low, so customers have the ability to see
their beverage being made.
Behind the bar the baristas have all the best in modern coffee
concocting equipment.
There is also a choice of seating. Wood tables and chairs at the
front, booths, and a coffee bar further back, and tall bar tables
with chairs in the very back. There is also outdoor seating for
those who want to enjoy the fresh air.
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Surprisingly, the beans at By the Bean do not come from 'Beans &
Such' next door. The beans come from Columbia Street Roasters, a
micro-roaster out of Champaign. Manager David Williams said the bar
does offer a flavor of the day that comes from next door, but that
is all.
The sweets available include decadent looking cupcakes and a variety
of cookies and brownies, all made by Susan Shaw. Shaw's business was
formerly known as Central Illinois Catering out of Elkhart. Last
fall she relocated her business to Riverton and took on the name
Sweet Betty Jane's Baked Goods and Catering.
The blackboard on the wall gives you a list of available options
that include coffee and espresso, latte's hot or cold, frappes, and
for those who don't want coffee there is a selection of teas and
And how is the coffee? While LDN only had time for one latte', the
coffee flavor was dark, rich and satisfying. So if you love coffee,
or even if you don't, you might enjoy stopping in today to welcome
the new business, have a coffee, tea or crème, and just enjoy the
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The video game Call of Duty is incredibly realistic. The situations test survival skills, but in the end, it's just a game.
Now, there is a new, first-of-its-kind gun range in Central Florida that brings Call of Duty -- and other real-life scenarios -- to life.
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It's a place where people can take their gun and shoot at people -- and they shoot back. There are, however, important rules of engagement that the owner says makes his gun range perfectly safe.
The place is called Combat City.
Before you step foot inside the range, customers meet with owner Dave Kaplan.
"First thing, when you get here, everybody's checked. No guns, knives, ammunition on them," said Kaplan.
He then modifies the customer's weapon, replacing the barrel so a live round will not fire but will still function as a regular weapon, shooting a soft rubber bullet instead.
"A revolver would work the same, semi auto, the action actually cycles. There's full recoil with the weapon. The assault weapon fully cycles," Kaplan said.
Participants then suit up, protecting their head, neck and private parts.
But make no mistake, anyone who gets shot, feels the pain, which was described as more severe than being shot with a paintball.
"There is supposed to be a degree of pain so that you do learn from it," said Kaplan, "Someone's trying to hurt you. You learn how to be as tactical as a civilian can be."
And that's why a growing number of women come to Combat City.
Tiffany Chapin is a single mom who believes the real-life scenarios she creates at Combat City are the best way for women to learn how to defend themselves.
"Most of the time, they feel a little bit uneasy, nervous. I think it helps to have a female instructor," said Kaplan.
But how long does it take a woman to get comfortable in this environment?
Chapin says it depends on the woman.
"Most women walk out of here very empowered, and that's the key," Chapin said.
Employees at Combat City say their facility tests a person's nerve and helps them to know if they have it in them to shoot another person if their life depended on it.
Firing at a paper target only teaches people to shoot straight in perfect conditions, they said.
The cost is less than $150 dollars, which includes the gun modification.
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