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Anything you can do, I can do better. Ethel Merman probably did not have carpentry, drywalling, tiling and plumbing in mind when she sang that song decades ago. But fast-forward and there are plenty of women in construction who are happy today to be considered equals in a male-dominated workplace.
For Jessica Madott, an installer at StairWorld in Ottawa, carpentry is about working smart when the going gets tough.
"I think it's about reaching a balance with the other gender. There's no question that I can't lift like a guy. It's important to know your limitations in this industry and understand that asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of intelligence.
"As long as we can all work around our respective physical limitations to get the job done properly, efficiently and safely, then it doesn't matter what it took to get there."
Caroline Lambrechts, a site service technician at StairWorld, agrees with Madott that being successful means "working smarter rather than harder."
"The biggest barrier is the mental barrier," she says. "It can sometimes be intimidating to be surrounded by men and people are always surprised when I arrive at a job, but by the time I leave they've all come around. Everyone's usually welcoming and I've had only two instances in two years when I've had trouble."
When Ann Logan started out with Kott Lumber 15 years ago, she was the only female salesperson. Now there is one other.
"At the time, I was the only female sales rep in Ottawa and I had no idea what a two-by-four was. When I first went to one of my construction sites, one man said to me, 'do you know you're a woman? You're not supposed to be doing this.' " But that's all changed now. "It's taken a while, but people don't blink an eye now."
For Madott, the route to professional bliss was a winding one. She tried university but kept changing courses. Nothing was challenging or interesting enough. Eventually, she took up an offer to work alongside her aunt, a retired schoolteacher who had become a contractor in retirement. She never went back.
"I worked with her for several months, doing everything but electrical work. Carpentry felt best for me," she says. So she signed on to the two-year Heritage program offered through Algonquin College in Perth. Twenty-five per cent of her class was women.
"Women have been in the trades for a long time," she says, "but are only now becoming more visible, recognized . . . and, thankfully, accepted. I liken this to the transitions women made in the past into jobs like doctors, lawyers and engineers; women in the trades will eventually be commonplace at some point, just not presently."
Lorna Moroz, who has her own construction and renovation company based in Chelsea, disagrees. "I do know a few other women in the business," she says, "but not many. I don't think the signs are very encouraging. There are token women included in advertisements for courses for the trades, but it's not widespread. This industry isn't looking for women. After all, it is dirty, hard, wet work.
"When I was young, it was always assumed that I'd go to college, but never assumed that I would be doing what I do now. As a five-year-old, I spent my time drawing houses, but it just didn't translate that I might be an architect. I'm not sure that's changed much. However, I encounter so many women who, when learning what I can do, openly envy me my ability to fix things myself. They see it as empowering and I believe they're right."
Moroz came to construction in her early 30s after a degree in theatre design and production from York University and an early career in computer game development that imploded in the tech crash of 2000.
"It's tangible work and good, healing work with your hands," she says. But she also works between 10 and 12 hours daily at this time of year — six days a week. She, like Madott, has no children and acknowledges it might be impossible if she were trying to cater to the needs of children, too.
"I'm usually up and gone before my husband and sometimes get home later than him," she says. "Sometimes he complains he's not getting enough of me."
Madott's job as a carpenter pervades every aspect of her life. She struggles with basic problems such as finding equipment in her size, but then finds that size can be an advantage when she has to squeeze into a small space. "I always dread when my work boots wear out because finding a size six is not easy. Gloves, hard hats, etc. are all geared to larger builds."
Over the years, she's encountered stereotyping but has never had a bad experience at any job or with any person other than one female supervisor.
"I've had my sexual orientation questioned several times, which I thought was strange (I wasn't offended) and when I was dating I found it very interesting to see the varied reactions from men when I told them what I did for a living. Most were interested, curious and more-or-less supportive, but a handful felt that it wasn't 'women's work'. Those dates didn't end well."
She's been with her spouse for years and "he loves that I'm as handy as I am," she says. "We've done lots of renovations together."
Moroz, who could build you a house if you asked, finds that she still gets the surprised, "good for you" response when she tells people what she does. She recalls an early experience that made a lasting impression. When she returned to Ottawa and first got in to the business, she spent over two years working with a man called David Gladwin in Ottawa, learning the ropes. She worked on bathrooms, kitchens and basements and honed her skills.
"One day he took me along to Home Depot on a materials run," she recalls, "and when we got there he introduced me to the people in the store as 'the new guy'. They thought this was cute and novel, but David was surprised. It had never occurred to him that I was female."
Both Madott and Moroz find that being a woman in a man's world has some big advantages. A lot of it comes down to trust. "A positive assumption that people make about women actually gives us an advantage in some situations," Madott says. "There are many examples of women I've done work for who were comfortable just leaving me alone in the house to work on my own."
Moroz finds that she gets passed from one female client to the next by word of mouth. "I think they find it easier to communicate with me and they know I respect their home in a way that most men don't. It's those little extras that make them feel that I love what I do and that builds some really rewarding relationships," she says.
Logan has found that her gender brings respect in her workplace. "For years I used to visit a site supervisor and he would be yelling at all the men, but he's never raised his voice at me, so in that way being female has definitely helped."
For all these women, job satisfaction is extremely high on their list of reasons to go to work. Discrimination, dirt and the gritty side of construction don't feature. "I love it," says Logan. "I guess I'm one of the few people who loves to get up in the morning and go out to work."


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Roanoke College establishes Center for Teaching the Rule of Law
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Salem-based Roanoke College has established The Center for Teaching the Rule of Law, an organization aimed at educating the public about the importance of the rule of law in providing justice, equality, fairness and stability in the world.
"The most significant challenge in the world today is educating our youth about the importance of the rule of law in their lives and the need to promote, preserve and protect it," G. Michael Pace, Jr., the center's founder and CEO, said in a statement. He is managing partner at Gentry Locke Rakes Moore LLP. "Unfortunately, there is less emphasis on teaching history, social studies and civics than ever before. The center exists to provide the resources to effectively address this critical gap in knowledge."
Michael Maxey, president of Roanoke College, said "the work of the center is critically important and we are excited about working together."
Maxey added that the center will serve as a forum for discussion, scholarly research and collaborative initiatives with other organizations.
The center's flagship program is the Virginia Law Foundation/Virginia Bar Association Rule of Law Project, in which lawyers and judges teach elementary, middle and high school students about the rule of law.
Timothy Isaacs is the center's vice president and director of education.
The college provides office space, technical support, grant writing and grant administration, access to student interns and collaborative opportunities with professors and academic departments.

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text: Olympic authorities were quick to deny that the green pool posed a risk to divers' health, but that actually depends on why the water changed colour. Reuters/Antonio Bronic 11 août 2016 Going for … green? Why Rio's swimming pools are changing colour Alice Williamson, University of Sydney The possible culprits are: a sudden algae bloom; a change in pool alkalinity; or a chemical reaction in the water. How do these cause a change in the colour of the water?


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Alexandria, Va.-based American Subcontractors Association (ASA) has expressed support for a bill to prohibit bid shopping on construction contracts with the federal government. Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., introduced H.R. 1859, the Construction Quality Assurance Act of 2001, on May 16, 2001.
The bill would penalize contractors working on a federal contract for bid shopping.
The bill defines bid shopping as "the practice of a contractor asking, requiring, or otherwise pressuring a subcontractor to lower bids for subcontracts, or accepting lower bids from subcontractors, after submitting a bid without passing the savings from the lower bids back to the federal government."
According to ASA, the federal government allows bid shopping of subcontracts, a practice industry associations deem unacceptable.
In related news, the ASA and its New York chapters — the Subcontractors Trade Association and Niagara Frontier Subcontractors Association — filed an amicii curiae, or "friends of the court," brief on May 18, 2001, with the Appellate Division of the state of New York to establish a subcontractor's right to damages for delays caused by a project owner. The brief was submitted in response to a New York trial court's decision to refuse a subcontractor the opportunity to collect "pass through claims" for delay damages caused by a project owner.
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#WhatsHotTastingSession in Mumbai
I am very khush! Have discovered amazing home baking talent. Here are some of the results of my latest #whatshottastingsession.
Anyone who bakes professionally out of home can take part. For the past 20 years, I have been regularly conducting these sessions (in Mumbai and Chennai) in order to discover and encourage home talent and to include the talented ones in The Times Food Guide.
I was flooded with Instagrams, tweets and mail requests. I invited 21 dessert makers (and 6 gourmet tasters) to the centrally located, evergreen Gaylord with Noel and Robert being ever helpful.
Passion powers these talented women, some have switched careers, others moonlight. From strategic global account manager, engineer, fashion stylist, product manager to CA, doctor, recruitment firm director and architect. Many are professionally trained too. From popcorn cupcakes to gluten free treats…they do it all. Please excuse my sketchy writing…to get full details you'll have to wait for the Times Food Guide 2015
Sugarfree , gluten free and healthy desserts from Charvi Bubna's "cheat clean" (Try her brown rice flour and honey brownies. 9820934080)
Eggless expert Shailee anklesaria's "Sugar fairy" makes cakes et al, super oatmeal cookies (9820246367)
Egg and gelatin-free "Choco kisses" from Kairvi mehta and jayshri Mehta (9820029065)
Tara kapur's "bombay bizarre baker" (9820006440) caters to all those with food allergies. Go for gluten free almond cake,
"Charlene and the chocolate factory" (9833258908)
Charlene Vaz specializes in truffles and chocolates with an indian twist.
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Varsha kalani's "okashi" 9833505747
Call "the dessert table" (9867385908) Delafruz tangri and Jalpa timbadia for super customized desserts with matching crockery and cutlery. Must try Chocolate cake with marshmallow frosting.
Shillpa Bhambri is the only exception, she's been featured since my first book (1997), her latest fusion cupcake was a hot seller (Cakeline 9619559433
Hand painted cakes and more by Jahan bloch 's "chic confections" (9930704646).
Dimple sanghvi's "the mad batter" . candy castle cupcakes , glitterati cookie tower (961911760)
Egg and gelatin free desserts in jars by Innovative Nishita Kamdar 's "JAR designs" ( try paan velvet 9819365658)
Internationally trained Shikha Murarka's "MishMash" s (9819766027) sugar and fondant work ( popcorn cupcakes, a handbag cake) were delicious.
Mango yoghurt cheesecake, red velvet cookies were Shanaz Barodawalla's signature "sweet flavours" ( 9890453087)"Knead with love" s Richa Lulla's (9833480814)
biscuit base brownie with cheesecake was a hit. Good old fashioned american cakes, spiked eggnog were some of the signatures of Roshni Vatnani s"the vanilla bean bakery " (9833325822)Go for Ruchika Vyas and Kirti Vyas "house of cookies" (9167366770) especially brown butter cookie filled with caramel . Etee poddar's "all my sins" (9820651129) unique signature was The black forest in a chocolate cup.Anurita malik ghoshal (from LCB Paris) baked a yum chocolate chip loaf and the LCB lemon tart. 9820267003)
Umehani rangwala's "lovecrumbs" caters to all your cake needs (8108429266)Try Witty meha Agarwal's "the big apple baking co"'s orange cream. 9833015376″My butter half" by yeshi chaudhary 's red velvet was yum. 9769299795
Thanks foodies extraordinaire for tasting, eating, tweeting… Urvika kanoi ( professional chef who helped coordinate this tasting session.) Vasudha kejriwal ( marketing manager) Dinesh bahrani ( Head chef at Boveda)
Kritika dayal ( at a leading magazine firm)
Ronak Rajani ( social media marketer)
Rishab verma- (LCB trained pastry chef )
A million thanks for all your Eating-out advice in Dubai (on instagram and twitter.) Will be conducting more #whatshottastingsessions as soon as I return. If interested please contact, twitter, instagram @rashmiudaysingh email@example.com
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text: Tunisia is the northernmost country in Africa. It has been home to many different cultures, including the Carthaginian Empire, the Roman Empire, the Arabic Caliphates, the Ottoman Empire, and of course the ubiquitous European Scramble for Africa that occurred during colonization. Today Tunisia is an export-oriented country, in the process of liberalizing its economy while politically it is a dictatorship in all but name. Tunisia is located along the Mediterranean coast, a draw for its growing tourism industry.


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Yemen: 17 dead in fighting between al Qaeda members
At least 17 people Thursday were killed in clashes between members of al-Qaeda following the death of a local leader of Al Qaeda by his half-brother in the province of Bayda, southeast of Sanaa, reported tribal sources. According to tribal leaders, clashes erupted after Tarek al-Dahab was shot dead in late Wednesday night by his half-brother, Hizam in the city of Al-Manasah.
His brother and their nephew Ahmad Majed are among the 17 people killed, according to the sources. They died in a bombing attack on their house by supporters of Tarek, said a source.
According to another tribal source, Hizam al-Dahab has acted, in the killing of his half-brother, "at the instigation of the Yemeni authorities.".
Tarek al-Dahab was the brother in law of the Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was assassinated in September by a U.S. raid.
His men had taken control of Radah, some 130 km from Sana'a on January 16. However, later they withdrew under pressure from the tribes of the city and in exchange they gained the release of five of their prisoners.
According to an official in the region, the followers of Tarek al-Dahab are members of the "Partisans of Sharia", which operates under the name of Al-Qaeda in southern and eastern Yemen.
In May, the "Supporters of Sharia" took control pf Zinjibar, the capital of the southern province of Abyan, then extended their control to other communities across the province and the neighboring Shabwa.
Eight soldiers were wounded at dawn Thursday in clashes with Islamist insurgents in the northern suburbs of Zinjibar, AFP reported.


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Game Thread: Warriors @ Phoenix Suns 2012-10-31
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Blackfoot wrote:It speaks volume our best player can struggle and we can kick their ass still.
i thought the same before phoenix cut our lead to six. we need curry to come alive.
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I'm having an issue with my Ideapad Z370 where the fan will not stop running no matter what the temperature is when the laptop is plugged in using the AC adapter. If I run the laptop off of the battery, the fan starts and stops based on the CPU temperature.
The issue is exactly the same as the one posted here for the T61:
The above post is about 3 years old, with no resolution, so I was hoping that someone has at least figured out a workaround by now.
I've tried to use fancontrol, but lm_sensors is unable to detect my fans using sensors-detect. I've also tried taking a look at the BIOS, but there are no options for power management (if anyone knows how to pull this up, that would be awesome).
Any ideas?
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I am also investigating on Lenovo G470 ...
Can you paste that output to comparre :
sudo dmidecode
Product Name: 20078
Product Name: Base Board Product Name
Handle 0x0010, DMI type 27, 15 bytes
Cooling Device
Type: Fan
Status: OK
OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
Nominal Speed: 2000 rpm
Description: Cooling Device Description.
Have you tried to check the ACPI dsdt ?
Also this thread could be a start :
Thanks for the info! dmidecode didn't provide any information about my computer's fan, but here are the results in case I missed something:
I took a look at the ACPI dsdt, but I'm not sure what to look for. What should I be seeing?
Well I expected you to get more infos than on mine ( g470) ie :
sudo dmidecode | grep -i fan
Type: Fan
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For sashing, cut (24) 2'' x 9 ½'' strips and (24) 2'' x 17'' strips total, as shown in chart below:
5. Place the top and middle rows right sides together, pin on either side of the seam, and sew. Next, place the bottom and middle rows right sides together, pin on either side of the seam and sew. Press seams. Repeat with the remaining 11 sets of 6 charms.
10. Put the top and center row right sides together. Match seams, and pin on either side of each seam. Sew rows together and press well.
11. Repeat with the center and bottom rows–match seams, and pin on either side of the seams. Sew rows together and press well. Admire your finished quilt top, which measures 48 1/2" x 50".
Finished Quilt: 48 1/2" x 50" –the perfect size for a preschool aged child to curl up with! This one is already on its way to Arkansas to a friend who could use a bit of extra love right now.
I hope you have as much fun making an I-Spy quilt as I did–if you make one, I'd love to see a picture of it in the Moda Bake Shop Flickr group.
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Alabama is home to some of the greatest biological diversity in the United States, and many of its natural wonders can be found in the state's numerous state parks . From the mountain forests of Cheaha State Park , to the subterranean...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been an integral part of Huntsville and Madison County. Founded in 1958, NASA first became a presence in the state in 1960, when it established the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)...
The American Civil War left an undeniable legacy in Alabama, where ideologies ranged from fiery secessionism to ardent Unionism. The first capital of the Confederacy was located in Montgomery. Union supporters in Winston County threatened...
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New to EOA? For an introduction to EOA's content, please read historian Wayne Flynt's essay on Alabama.
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Written by Monique Jansen for Buljan & Partners Consulting
A personal story about my "Nespresso-itis"
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It usually helps understanding the effects of Customer Centricity just by analysing one's own experiences as a customer. I recently asked myself the following question: Having been a Nespresso customer for more than 3 years and having spent more on coffee then on my mobile phone bills:
- Is it because of George Clooney?
- Is it because the coffee is just better than the alternatives?
- Is it because of their easy to access sales channels?
- Is it because of the brand image?
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Authorities said on Tuesday they have not confirmed whether a dead deer -- the second such find in the canyons of East Glendale recently -- was killed by a mountain lion or coyote.
A Glendale resident found the remains of the small deer Tuesday morning in the 3300 block of Dunsmere Road, near Chevy Chase Canyon Park and not far from Fern Lane where, according to police, the first deer was found dead on Dec. 7.
"At this point, we have no confirmed sightings of coyotes or mountain lions killing deer," said Ricky Whitman, spokeswoman for the Pasadena HumaneSociety, which provides animal control services for Glendale. "We don't know if [the deer] was killed by a coyote or mountain lion, or if it was already dead and wildlife opportunistically took advantage of that."
Glendale police advised residents last week that they had found mountain lion footsteps in the same area where the first dead deer was found on Fern Lane.
That same week, a resident reported spotting a mountain lion walking south in Glenoaks Canyon.
While mountain lions and coyotes do live in the Glendale hills, Whitman said determining how a deer was killed depends on several factors, including the condition of the corpse.
Authorities advised residents to keep their pets and children indoors and to trim shrubbery to discourage visits from wildlife.
Mountain lion sightings may be reported to the Glendale Police Department at (818) 548-4911.
-- Veronica Rocha, Times Community News
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text: Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2008, at 2:22 pm, Lux, James P wrote: > >> But how is that any different than having a PC on your desk? >> >> I see the deskside supercomputer as a revisiting of the "workstation" >> class computer. Used to be that PCs and Apples were what sat on most >> peoples desks, but some had Apollo or Sun or Perq workstations, >> because they had applications that needed the computational horsepower >> (or, more likely, the high res hardware graphics support.. A CGA was >> pretty painful for doing PC board layout). >> >> Same sort of thing for having the old Tektronix 4014 graphics >> terminal, rather than hiking down to the computer center to pick up >> your flatbed plotter output. Hello, Jim and Tim. I agree with you, Jim - I used to do a lot of image analysis, and I had a 'Torch' VME 68030 workstation on my desk, followed by a Sun SPARC10... > We don't generally allow people here to buy their own PCs and Apples > either. They get a standard build from us, all centrally managed by > LanDESK. They also get a known type of hardware; they can't just buy > what the hell they like. I have more than 800 Windows desktops to > support. If they were all different and purchased ad-hoc by individual > users, I would be in even worse hell than I am already. Poacher turned gamekeeper, Tim? If you want a 'standard' locked-down desktop go to PC hell. If you don't, then support it yourself - What's the problem? > Most people don't build Beowulf clusters out of ad-hoc piles of machines > from God-knows-where. Most of us buy consistent hardware, because it's > impossible to support anything else. No, some of us are still part of the rebel alliance - building Beowulf clusters out of anything we can beg, borrow or steal to do the science that we are interested in. Were those DEC Alpha's you had 'consistent' hardware, or did you just buy a new generation of IBM blade servers to replace them after you decided to buy 'consistent' hardware? I've got all sorts of kit ranging from Athlon XP 2400+ to Opteron 2212's in our Beowulf cluster and they are all doing a worthwhile job. I doubt that my situation is unique. As the saying goes "It's not having what you want that matters, but wanting what you have..." ;-) > The Tektronix graphics terminal is slightly different, because it was > just that, a terminal, and consequently doesn't present such a headache. You know what really makes my blood boil is being criticised for using 'non-standard' PC's, Mac's... whatever because "it can't be supported", when I have never wanted or needed support! I'm all in favour of people who DO want a 'managed' desktop having a standard-issue PC running the evil empire's wares, but ONLY if that's what the end user wants. Yes, I've done PC support and I do have experience of the issues involved. So, back to the point, I'm very much in favour of the 'democratisation' of HPC as manifested by DIY Beowulf clusters and affordable desk-side horse-power. HPC on BIG-IRON is not under the control of scientists who want to use it. That's why they use 'discretionary' budgets to buy the sort of kit Orion tried to sell, Apple do sell and Cray are pushing onto the 'personal' HPC market. Indeed, Moshe Bar was so convinced that this was the way to go that he ended the openMosix project [tears]. Hmm... back to earth now - needed to get that off my chest :-) Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt


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Fedora 12 -- A 'Must Upgrade' and 'Strongly Consider' Distro
Morphing Into Maturity, No Mono, Great Documentation
Let's face it -- when it comes to choosing one Linux distribution over another, it often boils down to personal preference. You'll find arguments for one being more user friendly or another being drop-dead simple to install, but in the final analysis the real reason is probably one or more of the following:
- Previous experience
- Upgrading from older version
- Familiarity with company
- Hardware support
- User following
- Available applications
Unless you've had problems with a particular distribution, it's a fairly safe bet you'll upgrade to the latest and greatest version when it comes out. The more cautious might wait a short time to see if anyone else has problems with your particular hardware but eventually take the plunge. Newbie Linux users typically fall into one of two camps. Either they have grown tired of the issues with their Windows machine and want to try Linux to see if it will be any better, or they have purchased a new machine, typically a netbook, with Linux pre-installed.
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Fedora the Project
The Fedora project made its first release (Fedora Core 1) in 2003 as a completely open source alternative to the commercial Red Hat Linux distribution. From the initial release announcement:
Fedora Core 1 provides a complete Linux platform built exclusively from open source software. Available at no cost, the release serves the needs of community developers, testers, and other technology enthusiasts who wish to participate in and accelerate the technology development process.
In the beginning the Fedora project was targeted at the developer / enthusiast with an interest in the Red Hat platform. Over time this has morphed more into anyone with a desire to run a truly open source version of Red Hat Linux. If message boards and news groups are any indication, the distribution has a huge following. So where does Fedora fit in the landscape of Linux distributions? DistroWatch.com groups it in with openSUSE, Debian GNU/Linux and Mandriva Linux as "good middle-road distributions." They lump Ubuntu, Linux Mint and PCLinuxOS into a group "considered the easiest for new users who want to get productive in Linux as soon as possible."
What's New in Fedora 12?
New and improved features for Fedora 12 fall into one of three categories: applications, installation and administration, and core OS improvements. The release notes have separate sections detailing changes for each audience such as desktop users, system administrators and developers.
On the application front there have been a number of changes and additions to the standard set. The Palimpsest Disk Utility is a new tool with a slick user interface to help you with everything disk related. It provides graphical charts showing disk performance and health for SMART devices including the current operating temperature. Palimpsest also lets you mount foreign disk formats such as Windows NTFS volumes.
Gnote has replaced Tomboy in Fedora 12 as the default note taking application. It removes the dependency on the Mono runtime stack. Empathy is the new default instant messaging client, replacing Pidgin and Theora 1.1 for video encoding / decoding. The NetworkManager tool has been enhanced to provide support for mobile broadband and Bluetooth PAN support for connecting to the Internet using your mobile phone.
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"It's the same exact thing, only it comes in a bag" my father used to tell me about generic versions of popular breakfast cereals. Was he a rotten liar? This blind taste test proves him right. Or possibly wrong.
Some of them feature different shapes. Others carry distinctly different textures. Light coming through a plastic bag changes a cereal's properties in ways cardboard boxed cereals never encounter. Anyone with a mouth worth half a damn should be able to pick the generic from the name brand easily. I can see flakes throwing someone for a loop (no pun intended), but otherwise this should be simple.
Of course I speak from absolutely no experience. You'll note that no one in BuzzFeed's video is Michael Fahey of Snacktaku. I guess they figured my inclusion in the study would be frootless.
For the record, my father was a rotten liar, but not about cereal — he was just ignorant about cereal.


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Kansas State to unveil Bill Snyder statue
Kansas State is preparing to unveil a new statue of head football coach Bill Snyder at the school's newly renovated stadium.
Artist Spencer Schubert created the 8-foot-tall bronze sculpture. The sculpture was installed Wednesday on a granite pedestal and will be dedicated Friday.
It's designed to highlight Synder's sideline demeanor, along with his leadership and decisiveness.
Schubert also has created busts of Buck O'Neil, Dred Scott and Rush Limbaugh for the Missouri Statehouse.
A whirlwind $75 million upgrade to the Bill Snyder Family Stadium wrapped up last week. Construction had to be squeezed into eight months to be ready for the Wildcats' opener Friday night against North Dakota State.


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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Paul George had his coming-out party in the 2013 playoffs, out-playing Carmelo Anthony in the Eastern Conference semifinals and then going toe-to-toe with LeBron James for seven games in the conference finals.
The Indiana Pacers already knew George's value. His ability to defend the league's best players one-on-one was maybe the most important part of their No. 1 ranked defense. So it's no surprise that they're working on a long-term extension that will keep him in Indiana for the next several years. George told Michael Pointer of the Indianapolis Star on Wednesday that he'll have his extension by the start of the season:
Indiana Pacers All-Star forward Paul George said today the team's fans don't need to worry about him going anywhere.
Indianapolis is his professional home and he plans to be here for a long time.
"(A long-term contract) is going to get done," George told The Indianapolis Star. "There will be a deal signed and sealed on the table before the season. We're (George and Pacers management) on the same page."
George, who grew up in Southern California and still lives there during the offseason, was asked in July about the possibility that Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant would personally recruit him to play for the Lakers.
"Of course it would be tough (to say no to Kobe)," George told ESPN Radio. "You're talking about playing (at) home."
The comments generated a mild firestorm but may have been much adieu about nothing.
"No," George said when asked if there was any chance he would leave the Pacers. "Honestly, I love it here. I want to be here. It's a great place. There are no distractions. I can stay focused. It's all about basketball here. I can stay focused and do my job."
This should be a no-brainer for the Pacers. They struck gold in drafting George 10th in the 2010 Draft and he really took a big step toward stardom last season in making his first All-Star Game. But there is a element of future value in any contract extension, because George isn't yet the player he can be.
Offensively, George took a step forward last season, carrying a bigger load with Danny Granger out for most of the season. But George still needs more polish on offense.
George is a good 3-point shooter, but was below average from other spots on the floor. He's capable of ridiculous dunks like this, but still is a far cry from finishing consistently like James (who shot an amazing 76.0 percent in the restricted area last season) or even teammate Lance Stephenson (67.9 percent).
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Turnovers are another issue with George. Indiana ranked 29th in turnover ratio last season and George had 71 more turnovers than anyone else on the squad. Of 82 guards and wings that had a usage rate of 20 percent or higher, George had the 11th highest turnover rate, with only point guards and Manu Ginobili ahead of him on the list.
Still, when you combine his offense with his defense, only James and Kevin Durant stand above George on the small forward food chain. George is just 23 years old and there's no reason why he can't get more polished offensively as he continues to lock down the wing for Indiana.
It will be interesting to see if he gets a standard four-year (beyond this season) extension or gets the fifth year as Indiana's "Designated Player." Either way, the Pacers have will have a star on their roster for years to come.


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Sewage leaking onto stoves. Live wires. Mold. Missing smoke detectors in apartments and common areas, broken elevators that serve elderly and disabled residents, lack of heat in some residences, unmet state deadlines to correct violations.
These are just some of the dozens of health and safety violations dogging the Quincy Housing Authority following an inspection by the state Department of Housing and Community Development.
"We've got such significant problems and we've got to make some major changes," said Quincy Housing Authority director James Lydon.
It's so bad, in fact, that one public housing unit inspected this week by state housing officials was deemed so unsafe that its residents were relocated.
And let's not forget that the Quincy Housing Authority's finance director, Bryant Carter, was fired Monday after police seized his work computer. Carter was then arrested Wednesday, accused of storing as many as 200 pornographic images of children on his work computer.
As grotesque as all of these accusations are, what's worse is that Quincy's housing authority has been problem-plagued for decades. That means that some of Quincy's most vulnerable people – the elderly and disabled – have been forced to live in conditions that would never be tolerated in our prisons or animal shelters.
While managing public housing has its challenges – and the bigger the community, the bigger the challenges – Brockton serves as an example of how do it well. Though not perfect, overall it's a model for how a housing authority should and can respect its residents and serve them well.
We're pleased the state has stepped in to supervise the Quincy Housing Authority and to advocate on behalf of its residents. We commend the Department of Housing and Community Development for it.
But at this point, it's essential that the federal government, which subsidizes Quincy's public housing through grants and vouchers, conduct its own forensic financial audit. Considering the millions of taxpayer dollars that have flowed into it over the years and the complete and utter lack of even the most basic property maintenance, it's long overdue.
In the meantime, Mayor Tom Koch was quoted as saying, "These things didn't happen overnight. These things have been festering quite a while." If he's known about these deplorable conditions, then why hasn't he used whatever authority he has to fix it? His own health department has been recording violations for years.
And what of the board of commissioners, four of whom are appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council, the fifth by the governor? They have said nothing, they have done nothing.
The current housing director, James Lydon, must reconsider remaining in the position. Lydon has been on the job for a year and as we've reported, he has no previous experience running a housing authority. We have serious questions about his qualifications and experience. We question his ability to address the years-long issues his agency faces.
None involved can feign ignorance of the serious nature of the problems facing the Quincy Housing Authority. There's a long paper trail and multiple complaints from residents. It is the most basic rule of leadership to see for one's self, but everyone from the mayor to the commissioners to various directors chose to turn a blind eye instead. For shame.
However the city, state and federal governments proceed, we hope they do so with the welfare of the residents uppermost in their minds. After all, our most vulnerable deserve conditions better than the ones provided to prisoners and animals.
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+ What is cord blood used for?
+ How long does cord blood remain viable?
After a baby is born and the umbilical cord is cut, some blood remains in the blood vessels of the placenta and the portion of the umbilical cord that remains attached to it. After birth, the baby no longer needs this extra blood. This blood is called placental blood or umbilical cord blood: "cord blood" for short.
Cord blood contains all the normal elements of blood - red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. But it is also rich in hematopoietic (blood-forming) stem cells, similar to those found in bone marrow. This is why cord blood can be used for transplantation as an alternative to bone marrow.
Cord blood is being used increasingly on an experimental basis as a source of stem cells, as an alternative to bone marrow. Most cord blood transplants have been performed in patients with blood and immune system diseases. Cord Blood transplants have also been performed for patients with genetic or metabolic diseases. More than 80 different diseases have been treated to date with unrelated cord blood transplants. [Click here to see a list of diseases treated with cord blood from the NYBC's National Cord Blood Program (PDF)]
Scientists are investigating the possibility that stem cells in cord blood may be able to replace cells of other tissues such as nerve or heart cells. Whether cord blood can be used to treat other kinds of diseases will be learned from this research.
The stem cells in one NCBP cord blood unit, like the one pictured above, can engraft and grow to replace a recipient's diseased bone marrow with new, healthy bone marrow cells. New approaches to treating adults may use two or more units at the same time.


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Conspiracy Theorists Confident: Altered Image a NASA Cover-Up
Alien conspiracy theorists are confident they've caught NASA in the act of covering up the fact that we are not alone in the universe.
A video posted on YouTube yesterday showed how an image of Saturn's moons Dione and Titan, taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter, had been digitally altered before being added to the space agency's Picture of the Day website.
In the video, "DominatorPS3" turned up the brightness levels on the photo to show that a "huge" object can be seen behind the smaller moon, Dione. Clearly visible are brush strokes that show how the rainbow aura of the object has been blacked out.
"More solid proof of NASA/ government cover-ups," DominatorPS3 said. "And this is recent. You can do this yourself!!"
Of course, being the Internet, it didn't take long for the truth to get out there, so to speak.
The person responsible for the manipulation, Emily Lakdawalla, told a forum of excitable theorists that she made the changes because of the way Cassini takes photos.
"Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green and blue filters," she said. "In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan."
"So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan," Lakdwalla explained, "and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels."
She explained the process further at Planetary.org but it still wasn't enough for the alien hunters, particularly DominatorPS3.
"Thanks for the feedback and explanation," he said in a comment on Lakdwalla's YouTube post. "However I still remain skeptical, because someone still could have ordered her to 'cut it or something out.'"
"But thanks for putting that info up so others can read it; I am not trying to convince people what I believe," he wrote.


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Dean Foods (NYSE:DF) beat the Street on Thursday by swinging to a stronger-than-expected third-quarter profit and hiking its full-year earnings guidance.
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Shares of the food and beverage company rallied about 5% on the results, 2012 outlook and rosy forecasts for the current quarter.
Dallas-based Dean Foods said it earned $36.4 million, or 20 cents a share, last quarter, compared with a loss of $1.54 billion, or $8.39 a share, a year earlier. The prior year included a $1.9 billion goodwill impairment charge.
Excluding one-time items, it earned 33 cents a share, topping analysts' estimates of 26 cents.
Dean Foods, which makes Horizon Organic Milk, said total sales declined 7.8% to $3.14 billion, trailing the Street's view of $3.23 billion.
"Today we announced our fifth consecutive quarter of growth, with all of our operating segments continuing to perform well," Chairman Gregg Engles said in a statement.
Looking ahead, Dean Foods said it now expects to generate full-year EPS of $1.27 to $1.32, which is well ahead of expectations for EPS of $1.19.
Management sees non-GAAP EPS of 27 cents to 32 cents for the fourth quarter. Even the low end of that range would top estimates from analysts for 26 cents.
Encouraged by the results and guidance, shares of Dean Foods climbed 4.48% to $16.80 ahead of the opening bell, putting them on pace to build on their 2012 surge of 44%.


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Logitech Reimagines Home Control with Two New Advanced Harmony Universal Remotes
Logitech Harmony Hub Adds Closed-Cabinet, Game Console and Lighting Control to Your Universal Remote and Smartphone
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:00 am PDT
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"We've elevated the universal remote to the next level, taking a personalized approach to home entertainment"
NEWARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) announced the expansion of its award-winning universal remote control lineup with the Logitech Harmony® Ultimate and the Logitech Harmony® Smart Control. Both products feature Logitech's Harmony Hub and Harmony Smartphone App to enable closed-cabinet control and one-touch entertainment access to game consoles from your universal remote or smartphone. The Harmony Hub takes personalizing your activities a step farther into home control with the ability to program your Philips Hue lights to the desired brightness and color with a tap of the Logitech Harmony Ultimate.
"We've elevated the universal remote to the next level, taking a personalized approach to home entertainment," said Joerg Tewes vice president of Logitech's digital home business group at Logitech. "Furthermore, our Harmony product line is no longer just about entertainment access – we've designed the Logitech Harmony Ultimate so you can also control your home's lighting. Now you can tune the TV, start a movie and adjust your lights to set the mood, with the touch of your finger."
The Logitech Harmony Ultimate and Logitech Harmony Smart Control are compatible with more than 225,000 home-entertainment devices and more than 5,000 brands. Both include the Harmony Hub, which uses Bluetooth® wireless technology to power on game consoles such as the Sony PS3®, Nintendo Wii® and Wii U. The Harmony Hub also controls infrared devices inside closed entertainment cabinets and without the need to point at them. Each also comes with the Harmony Smartphone App, which anyone in the house can download to turn his or her smartphone into a personal universal remote.
Able to control up to 15 devices, the Logitech Harmony Ultimate is a fully featured remote with a 2.4-inch color touch-screen that enables no-look control over television programs, movies and music by using simple swipes and taps. It also introduces the ability to program Philips Hue lighting systems with entertainment activities allowing you to adjust the room's lighting as easily as changing the volume of your television. Other exclusive features include vibration feedback so you know it received your touch-screen commands, tilt sensors and buttons programmable for both short and long presses, doubling the available functions.
The Logitech Harmony Smart Control and Harmony Smartphone App turn your iOS or Android phone into a universal remote, giving you personalized control of up to eight devices from anywhere in the house using the smartphone you already own. Plus, it includes a simple remote control for when your smartphone isn't handy.
Pricing and Availability
These new products join the Logitech Harmony Touch to complete the Logitech Harmony remote lineup. The Logitech Harmony Ultimate is expected to be available in the U.S. in April and Europe in May 2013, for a suggested retail price of $349.99 in the U.S. The Logitech Harmony Smart Control is expected to be available in the U.S. and Europe in May 2013, for a suggested retail price of $129.99 in the U.S. The Logitech Harmony Smartphone App will be available for download from the Apple App Store and Google Play. For more information, please visit www.logitech.com or our blog.
About Logitech
Logitech is a world leader in products that connect people to the digital experiences they care about. Spanning multiple computing, communication and entertainment platforms, Logitech's combined hardware and software enable or enhance digital navigation, music and video entertainment, gaming, social networking, audio and video communication over the Internet, video security and home-entertainment control. Founded in 1981, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI).
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Here are the top six affidavit why 'Frozen' can already be advised a Disney archetypal that will be remembered in the decades to come:
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Importance of Family. In this more animated apple wherein abounding things grab our attention, this cine reminds us that whatever activity has in abundance for us, we can consistently calculation on our families. By this, we beggarly ancestors in every faculty of the word, not just getting affiliated by blood. This is apparently one of the affidavit why it has appealed to so many.
… and lastly, what acceptable is a Disney cine after a Happily Ever After? This is allotment of the Disney abracadabra at work. Everyone loves a blessed ending-who wouldn't? I acquainted admixture of abatement and anguish at the same. Abatement that the cine has concluded able-bodied for the characters who adapted it, and anguish that it has concluded so soon.
It'll be harder to top this one with a sequel, if there are plans. Truly, this cine does not just deserve to be put at par with added well-loved Disney classics, it aswell stands in a chic of its own.


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Monitoring Water and Energy Cycles at Climate Scale in the Third Pole Environment (CLIMATE-TPE)
1University of Twente, the Netherlands; 2Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China; 3Northwest Institute for Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, China; 4Universitat de Valencia, Spain; 5University of Córdoba, Spain; 6University of Munich (LMU), Germany; 7National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, China; 8China Three Gorges University, China
The objective of this CLIMATE-TPE project is: To improve the understanding of the interactions between the Asian monsoon, the plateau surface (including its permafrost and lakes) and the Tibetan plateau atmosphere in terms of water and energy budgets in order to assess and understand the causes of changes in cryosphere and hydrosphere in relation to changes of plateau atmosphere in the Asian monsoon system and to predict the possible changes in water resources in the Third Pole Environment. A core innovation of the project is to verify or falsify recent hypotheses (e.g. links between plateau heating and monsoon circulation, snow cover and monsoon strength, soil moisture and timing of monsoon) and projections of the changes of glaciers and permafrost in relation to surface and tropospheric heatings on the Tibetan plateau as precursors of monsoon pattern changes and glaciers retreat, and their impacts on water resources in South East Asia.
We use earth observation, in-situ measurements and modelling to advance process understanding relevant to monsoon scale predictions, and improve and develop coupled regional scale hydroclimatic models to explain different physical links and scenarios that cannot be observed directly. Three work-packages (WP) are defined in the project to address three specific objectives. Objective 1) advancement of the understanding of microwave scattering and emission under complex terrains with permafrost and freeze – thawing conditions. The focus is to reduce current uncertainties in microwave satellite observations over complex terrain and improve retrieval accuracies of soil moisture and freeze-thaw states by deploying in-situ observations, laboratory experiment and numerical modelling. Objective 2) Advancement of physical understanding and quantification of changes of water and energy budgets in the TPE. The focus here is to integrate current understandings in the mechanism of changes in water and energy budget in TPE using satellite data products and numerical modelling. Objective 3) Advancement of quantifying changes in surface characteristics and monsoon interactions. All variables related to water and energy budgets in TPE will be subject to systematic analysis to endure their consistence in terms of climate data records. The variables will include albedo, vegetation coverage, soil thermal and hydraulic properties, LST, soil moisture, lake levels and land use changes among others.
In this contribution we focus on WP1: Observation and modelling of microwave scattering and emission under complex terrains and including permafrost and freeze and thawing.
We have deployed the ESA L-band (1.41 GHz) Radiometer (ELBARA-III, Schwank et al. 2010) since the beginning of 2016 at the central micrometeorological station (latitude: 33.919750, longitude: 102.153183, WGS'84) of the Maqu network of the Tibetan Plateau. ELBARA-III is provided by ESA for experimental observation for the calibration and validation of SMOS data and products.
1) We have conducted ELBARA measurements, covering one complete freeze-thawing cycles, for advancing understanding of the mass and energy exchanges involved in the freeze/thaw process.
2) The collected ELBARA observations are analysed with the recently developed effective temperature model by Lv et al. (2014) to better understand the microwave emission signals, including the validation of ESA's SMOS and NASA's SMAP radiometer brightness temperatures (TB).
3) The collected ELBARA and other in-situ data are used to investigate the effectiveness in two recently developed methods to merge existing satellite data of different frequencies (e.g. for low resolution data SCAT/ASCAT, SSM/I, AMSRE-E/2, SMOS, and high resolution data ASAR/S-1) (Dente et al. 2014; Lv et al. 2014), so that a consistent soil moisture data product can be generated by using the same consistent framework, contributing to the ESA Climate Change Initiative.
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Monitoring Water and Energy Cycles at Climate Scale in the Third Pole Environment (CLIMATE-TPE) (ID. 32070)
1Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101; 2CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 4Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede 7500 AA, Netherlands; 5School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China; 6Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China; 7National Meteorological Center, Beijing 100081
The Third Pole Environment (TPE) centered on the Tibetan plateau and the Himalayas feeds Asia s largest rivers which provide water to 1.5 billion people across ten countries. Due to its high elevation, TPE plays a significant role in global atmospheric circulation and is highly sensitive to climate change. Intensive exchanges of water and energy fluxes take place between the Asian monsoon, the plateau land surface (lakes, glaciers, snow and permafrost) and the plateau atmosphere at various temporal and spatial scales, but a fundamental understanding of the details of the coupling is lacking especially at the climate scale.
Surface Soil Moisture Retrieval From Optical/Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing
1Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany; 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Surface soil moisture (SSM) plays a significant role in various domains of science such as agriculture, hydrology, meteorology and ecology. However, the spatial resolution of microwave SSM products is too coarse for regional and local applications. Most of the current optical/thermal infrared SSM retrieval models cannot estimate the quantitative volumetric soil water content directly without establishing empirical relationships between SSM measurements and satellite derived proxies of SSM. Therefore, this study mainly estimates SSM directly from Chinese geostationary meteorological satellite FY-2E data with a high spatial resolution of 5 km based on an improved elliptical SSM retrieval model developed from the synergistic use of the diurnal cycles of Land Surface Temperature (LST) and Net Surface Shortwave Radiation (NSSR). The original model is developed with bare soil. The coefficients of the original model are not distinguished from different Fractional Vegetation Cover (FVC). To optimize the model for SSM estimation at regional scale, the present study improved the original model by accounting for the influence of FVC, which is based on a dimidiate pixel model and MODIS NDVI product. Ultimately, a preliminary validation was conducted using the ground measurements in the south of Maqu City, in the source area of the Yellow River. A correlation coefficient (R) of 0.620, a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.146 m3/m3 and a bias of 0.038 m3/m3 are found between in-situ measurement and FY-2E-derived SSM from original model. While it reveals a better relationship between FY-2E-derived SSM from improved model and ground measurement with a R of 0.845, a RMSE of 0.064 m3/m3 and a bias of 0.017 m3/m3. In order to provide more accurate SSM, high accuracy FVC, LST and NSSR are still needed. In addition to the point scale validation, cross comparison with other existing SSM products will be conducted in the future studies.
Monitoring sensible heat flux over urban areas in a high-altitude city using Large Aperture Scintillometer and Eddy Covariance
1Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; 2Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Urbanization leads to modifications of surface energy balance which governs the momentum, heat and mass transfer between urban canopy layer and the atmosphere, thus impacts dynamic processes in the urban ABL and ultimately influence the local, regional and even global climate. It is essential to obtain accurate urban ABL observations to enhance our understanding of land-atmosphere interaction process over the urban area and help to improve the prediction ability of numerical model. However, up to now, there are rarely observations in high-altitude cities. This poster introduced the urban flux observation conducted in a high-altitude city, Lhasa, using eddy-covariance technique and large aperture Scintillometer. As the first results, the diurnal patterns of the surface energy balance and energy partitioning in the winter of 2016 were discussed.
Evaporation and energy budget observation over a high-altitude small lake on the Tibetan Plateau
1Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101; 2CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 4Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede 7500 AA, Netherlands; 5School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Lakes are an important part of the landscape on the Tibetan Plateau. The area that contains most of the plateau lakes has been expanding in recent years, but the impact of lakes on lake-atmosphere energy and water interactions is poorly understood and precise measurements of evaporation and understanding of the physical controls on turbulent heat flux over lakes at different time scales is rarely studied due to lack of observational data. To meet the above demands, an eddy covariance observational system was built above the water surface of the small Nam Co Lake (with an altitude of 4715 m and an area of approximately 1.4 km2, mean depth of 7 m) in April 2012 and the results are given by using data over ice free periods in 2012 and 2013 as follows: Firstly, the roughness length for momentum is 3.35×10-4 m over the small lake and the atmosphere is dominated by unstable and neutral conditions. The proper Charnock coefficient (α=0.031) and the roughness Reynolds number (R_r=0.56) for z_0m simulation are obtained for Bulk aerodynamic transfer model (B model) simulation. The simulated heat flux is validated independently with observations in 2013. The B model, with parameters optimized for the specific wave pattern in the small lake, could provide reliable and consistent results with EC measurements, and B model simulations are suitable for data interpolation due to inadequate footprint or malfunction of the EC instrument. Secondly, wind speed shows significance at half-hourly time scales, whereas water vapor and temperature gradients have higher correlations over daily and monthly time scales in lake-air turbulent heat exchange. Lastly, the total evaporation in this small lake (approximately 812 mm) is approximately 200 mm larger than that from adjacent Nam Co (approximately 627 mm) during their ice-free seasons. Moreover, the energy stored during April to June is mainly released during September to November, suggesting an energy balance closure value of 0.97 over the entire ice-free season. These results provide a foundation for application of remote sensing data over the high-altitude small lakes.


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Much of our spare time this week was spent staining the hemlock that we had added to the log house and the barn. We found a new use for the 6000, it makes a pretty good scaffold. I would lift B.J. up to where she needed to stain and then I would climb up into the bucket with her. The stain made the house and barn look tons better and I know it will help preserve it. I don't really know how I talked B.J. into helping out but she was a big help.
Madison learned how to ride her bicycle without her training wheels this week. She also had her first big bike wreck with a little help from me – I was chasing her and she got spooked. She ended up with a scratched and bruised belly. I felt terrible that I was the cause of her first bike wreck.
The kids head back to school on August 8th so we had to go to Garett & Madison's open house to find out who their teachers would be for the upcoming school year. Garett got the teacher that he wanted, Gwen Bryant, a family friend. Madison on the other hand did not get my aunt, Susan Parsons, as her first grade teacher. She has said that she will not be going to first grade this year and she will just stay home and go to second grade next year. So I will have to take the day off work to make sure that she does go to school.
Monday all of the kids had to go to the dentist, so we spent the day in Somerset. Kaylee and Madison did not have any cavities. Garett had a couple of beginners. Madison also got fitted for a mouth guard that will break her from sucking her thumb. We had breakfast at Hardee's and then headed to Lowe's to get things needed for the home improvement projects. As we left, Kaylee & Madison found a slug in the parking lot and would not have it any other way than to take it somewhere that it wouldn't get hurt. It makes me proud that I have raised good stewards of the environment.
I finally finished putting in the water spickets to the barn, corall, and pasture. I also got the electric wire and conduit to the log house barn. It pleased my mother immensely to get the ditches covered back over. We noticed that we had little water pressure at the log house, it was due to a main line water leak. On the positive side it did fill up our little pond across the road.
Precious, Kaylee's mare is still taking the antibiotics and now I am applying a gel daily to her leg. It's getting better but it will be a little time before she is back to normal. I have spent a small fortune in vet wrap and gauze. The chickens, calves, rabbits, & other horses are doing well.
We are down to decision time of what we are going to do with the chicken houses. A decision has to be made this week. The children are now voicing their objections to "all those chickens".
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass.-Senior Gary Ezzo broke a school record in the 10,000 meter run as the Coast Guard men's track and field team currently sits in second place after day two of the 2014 Division III New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Ezzo placed second in the event overall with a time of 30:58.59, besting the previous record of 31:42.37 that he set earlier this season.
Fellow senior Thomas Bondurant placed third in the hammer throw with a lifetime best mark of 173 feet, 3 inches. Senior Clay Kosack and freshman Kaci Rex took home fourth and eighth in the decathlon with scores of 5,768 and 5,291, respectively.
On the day Kosack ran 18.09 in the 110 hurdles, 4:49.33 in the 1,500 meter, vaulted 11 feet, 7.75 inches, and threw 110 feet, 6 inches in the discus, and 155 feet, 11 inches in the javelin. Rex posted marks of 16.26, 5:11.40, 12 feet, 7.5 inches, 100 feet, one inch, and 111 feet, 3 inches in the same events.
The Coast Guard men's team currently resides in second place with 20 points, tied with Bates College. MIT has the overall team lead with 50 points.
On the women's side senior Abby Bishop is in third place after day one of the heptathlon with a current point total of 2,654. She ran the hurdles in 16.02 seconds, the 200 meter in 26.13 seconds, recorded a mark of 4 feet, 11.5 inches in the high jump, and threw for 32 feet, 6.5 inches in the shot put.
Freshman Caitlin Piker and Carolyn Smith each placed ninth in the javelin and 10,000 meter run, respectively. Piker threw for 114 feet, 11 inches in the javelin and Smith finished the 10,000 meter in a time of 40:06.85.
Coast Guard will be back in action tomorrow when they compete in day three of the 2014 Division III New England Outdoor Track and Field Championships.


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The Pixar studio is the gold standard for generation jumping animated films."Toy Story,""Finding Nemo" and"Wall-E" were ground breaking blockbusters. The win streak clearly continues with their rousing fairy tale adventure"Brave."
This time they add a dose of Disney philosophy to the Pixar formula. The spirited heroine is Merida, a spunky and self reliant girl with flaming red hair. She is a princess of course, as Disney requires in such stories.
Her father rules a kingdom in the beautiful Scottish Highlands. The plot thickens when she comes of age and her mother insists she choose a husband from a sorry group of suitors.
She defies her mother and flees into the forest. There she encounters strange forces, a grizzled old witch and magic creatures in the classic Disney tradition. Merida buys a spell from the witch to change her mother's mind. The many wild and unexpected consequences of the spell drive the rollicking action that follows.
Visually stunning animation compliments all the events on the screen. Resolution of the archetypal parent/child dispute is accomplished with lots of wit, charm and very good humor. Robust and heartfelt, it's sure to get Oscar attention.
Seeking a 'Vampire Hunter' at the 'End of the World'
I decided to brave"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"because it's got a killer title and concept, but the execution is unintentionally hilarious.
Who knew that a) vampires walked among us posing as white Southerners? and b) that Honest Abe (putty-faced Benjamin Walker) was better at splitting heads than splitting rails?
But first this lanky grasshopper had to learn the Ways of the Vampire Kill from mysterious Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper), an expert in blood-sucking evildoers.
Cooper and Rufus Sewell, as leader of the Vampires Illinois chapter, bring some much-needed energy whenever they are on screen. Otherwise, this movie plods on right up to the ridiculous finale that had me cracking up in disbelief.
If this movie is remotely successful, could "Calvin Coolidge: Succubus Slayer" with Nicolas Cage be far behind?
Speaking of global calamity, "Seeking a Friend at the End of the World" is a dark comedy about what people might do if they knew the Earth would be destroyed in 21 days. What do you do with your time? Do you keep going to work to sell insurance ("the Armageddon package is extra")? Do you party like it's 1999?
Or in the case of Dodge (Steve Carell), do you try to reconnect with your high school sweetheart, rescue a forlorn dog and a neighbor named Penny (Keira Knightley), and do a road trip?
There are some nice reflective moments from Carell and company, marked with some great old songs and nary an explosion or vampire in sight.
"Seeking" starts out as satire but loses its edge to please its audience, even if the "happily ever after" is only for a few hours.
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator.
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End Of Basketball Season: A Time For Reflection
As our local high school basketball seasons have all come to an end, I have done a lot of reflecting, as I always do. I find it very remarkable what our kids along this stretch of Eastern Montana highway have been able to accomplish.
They say that our communities are shrinking away and the numbers have forced many schools, families and communities to make tough decisions based on what is best for them individually. I know that this can cause some hard feelings and friction between communities but if we all try to look at these tough decisions from a proactive view and see it as dedication, fight and determination to keep the opportunities alive for all our kids regardless of numbers, it doesn't have to be so tough. Sometimes that takes a lot of maturity as there are many deep rivalries within these communities.
We live in an ever changing world today with technology and social media being more of a social norm than the face to face interaction that many of us have grown up with. Although it is so convenient to be able to find, talk, or text to pretty much anyone at the touch of a button, there are many downfalls in this as well. The ability to post, tweet, snapchat or text at the drop of a hat seems to often times remove a barrier that face to face interaction has. I feel it is the responsibility of parents, teachers, coaches and community members to show them what is and isn't appropriate use of social media. As adults we have all probably fallen into the "trap" a time or two ourselves, but hopefully we have been able to climb out and rise above it all.
Returning from the State tournament, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of following and support our teams are given season after season in these Hi-Line communities. I grew up in Western Montana and always felt like we had great support, but it is nothing like what our kids in Eastern Montana are blessed with.
That being said, sometimes I think our actions and emotions can get the best of us. It is very easy to get caught up in the action during those big games and we all can forget that it really is just a game and these athletes are still just kids, putting forth their best efforts to fight for the Win at the end of the night. It is also only human nature to jump to the defense of our own teams and individuals if we feel they are being treated unfairly, but it is also important to acknowledge the idea that there are two sides to every situation.
I've read before that there are four roles at every athletic event that you go to, and it has always made sense to me: "player, coach, spectator or official, your job is to choose one role and stick with it." Although easier said than done, maybe if we can keep reminding ourselves of these things we can all begin to focus on all the positives around us.
I am one of the most competitive people around and I hate to lose, but I do know that losing is part of life and what you choose to do with those lessons can take you farther down the road if you handle them correctly. I feel blessed to be able to have the role of the coach, and it isn't something I take for granted. I love everything about the game of basketball, and it is my passion. I try to coach and treat every one of my players the way I treat my own kids, and I do love each of them as if they are my own.
So in closing I just want to say Congrats to all the teams and communities: Glasgow, Hinsdale, Saco, Whitewater and Malta on amazing seasons and reaching that ultimate goal of State. It takes a lot of hard work to get there and even more to bring home hardware. I hope everyone realizes just how special it is for every athlete, parent, coach, fan and community!
Amber Erickson is head coach of the Saco-Whitewater girls basketball team.