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Another significant storm is looking likely for New York and New Jersey, forecasters are warning.
The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang says the computer models have come into agreement, forecasting a Nor'easter to begin forming election night and then move up the east coast on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Capital Weather Gang reports:
"But from the North Carolina Outer Banks to the shores of New England, it's becoming more certain that the storm will whip up high seas and gusty winds, leading to a new round of coastal flooding and beach erosion on the heels of Superstorm Sandy - though not as severe.
"All four of the 'big 4' global computer models - the European (EURO), the UKMet, the Canadian and U.S. GFS - indicate a fairly powerful area of low pressure will rapidly develop along the Southeast or Mid-Atlantic coast late Tuesday into Wednesday. This will occur as two disturbances - one from Canada, the other from the southern U.S. - join together or phase."
"Though this storm will not have near the magnitude of the impact Sandy had, the combination of rain, wind and snow will add insult to injury for the recovery process along the East Coast," The Weather Channel's Chris Dolce said.
Accuweather says that depending on the track, some of the areas that were crushed by Sandy may experience 40 to 50 mph winds and may also see some coastal flooding.
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I have 2 more posts I want to do about Maine- this one on aquatic freshwater plants* and then one on memory. It's been tough to crank them out this week as I'm down in Brazil on business. If I get time this week I may do a completely off-topic random- observations-about-this-place-type-post, but in the meantime I'll just share this one snippet of Sao Paulo street life. If any Portuguese-speaking reader can tell me what this guy's saying**, they get a WatcherSTICKER.
*Yes I know, not the most exciting topic for the non-plant-lover. But as I've mentioned before, I have a list of things I feel I need to cover in this project, and watery weeds are on it.
**Is it just me, or does he seem tense? I feel as though he could use a stiff drink, a massage, or perhaps some aromatherapy. Maybe all 3.
The Post
This post is about ponds and plants, but first let's talk about something else: snorkeling.
I love snorkeling. When I go on tropical vacations, it's one of my favorite things to do. You put on a mask, look down and see this whole other world below you. With a good breath of air and a few strong kicks, you're down 10 or 15 feet below the surface, peeking at fish, echinoderms and all sorts of cool creatures hidden among the rocks and coral. I also enjoy scuba, and certainly the world opened up by scuba is even more fantastic than that sampled by the casual snorkeler. But snorkeling has a relaxed, low-risk casualness about it that somehow captures the essence of vacation: Start and stop when you want, do it with friends or alone, minimal gear, hassle and safety checks, and if you've had a beer or two already, well, no big deal.
So a few years back, as we were getting ready for a Maine vacation, I thought, "I like snorkeling, and I've always wondered what's down on the bottom of the lake below the drop-off*. Why don't I bring snorkel and fins along to Maine?"
*The "drop-off" is sort of the generic term we use for "when the water gets over your head." In many parts of the 5 Kezar Ponds there is a distinct true drop-off: the lake depth goes from about 2 feet to >10 feet in a horizontal span of only ~6 feet. But in front of our cabin there no true drop-off, just a gradual, steady deepening till you can't touch.
So our first day at the cabin, I donned snorkel and fins and waded in. I kicked out to about 15 feet of depth and dove down to the bottom. I did so about a dozen more times, moving a few hundred feet along the shore then swam back, walked out of the water, and left the snorkel & fins indoors for the rest of the vacation. There was pretty much nothing to see. Hold that thought.
A few weeks ago I posted about Lily Pads up in Idaho, which led to my learning about Floating Pondweed. Canoeing around the ponds this year I kept an eye out for it and quickly located it in plenty (pic right). But in doing so I finally paid attention to something I'd mostly ignored over close to 4 decades of canoeing, sailing and swimming in the ponds- the stuff that grows in them.
When I was younger I found weeds and pads and such growing in the water sort of icky, and always favored sandier areas, or shorelines of exposed granite, where pond-plants didn't grow. What I didn't realize then is that these areas are the "deserts" of ponds, relatively poor in life (including fish). Aquatic plants are a sign of a healthy lake or pond, and their presence helps to keep the pond cleaner.
Tangent: When I was a teenager, acid rain was a big worry in the Northeast. One of the side effects of acid rain is to make it difficult for freshwater aquatic plants to live, leaving "bare" lakes and shorelines. At the time, being pretty much enviro-clueless, I actually thought, "Hey that doesn't sound so bad…" I'm even more embarrassed to admit that around that same time I first heard the idea of global warming, and thought, "Oh that sounds nice, these New England winters kind of suck…"
How Ponds Are Like Mountains
On land, the types of plants that grow are largely determined by altitude. Here in the Wasatch as you move up from ~5,000 to 11,000 feet, you pass through Sagebrush and Rabbitbrush, to Scrub Oak and Maple, to Aspen and Douglas Fir, to Subalpine Fir and Engelman Spruce, clear up to alpine tundra. What's cool about plants in ponds is that they work sort of the same way, but in reverse, and on a way smaller scale.
Water depth impacts aquatic plants in a few ways, probably the most important of which is that it blocks sunlight from reaching the bottom. When the amount of sunlight reaching the bottom of the pond gets down to around 1% of that at the surface, plants can no longer photosynthesize effectively. The depth at which this occurs varies depends on the lake in question and the clarity of its water, but in most lakes and ponds in Western Maine it's probably somewhere around 12 or 15 feet.
Extra Detail: Parts of Lake Superior near Duluth are clear enough to support photosynthetic algae down at over 80 feet deep. Lake Tahoe supposedly used to claim the same down to over 300(!) feet, though shoreline erosion and other human-induce factors have decreased that depth over the past half-century.
The zone between the water's edge and this 1%-of sunlight-at-the-bottom cutoff is called the Littoral Zone, and that's why you see things like lily pads around the edges of ponds, but not out in the middle, unless the pond is really shallow. Within the Littoral Zone are 3 distinct plant "sub-zones", which are pretty easy to pick out from a canoe.
Tangent: I've been mentioning canoes a lot, because that's how I usually poke around on the ponds. Canoes are quiet and aquadynamic*, cutting through the water gently and easily, which is nice not only because it makes paddling easier, but it creates minimal water disturbance, which is good for looking down at stuff underwater, like weeds and fish and turtles.
*Is that a word? Because if it isn't, it totally should be.
Nested Tangent: One of my pet peeves BTW is people who can't paddle a canoe. You know, they do 2 or 3 strokes on the left, then 2 or 3 on the right, over and over again to keep the thing going in a straight line. What's up with that? Paddling a canoe correctly- via the J-stroke- requires about as much coordination as buttering a piece of toast. You twist the paddle away from the hull of the canoe at the end of each stroke. (Oddly, paddling a canoe is the only thing I do left-handed.)
Kayaks are even better for poking around, as they're even more aquadynamic plus you sit lower to the water. But my favorite way to get around on the ponds is by sailing. My parents keep an old (30+ years) Sears Roebuck sunfish-type clone up at the cabin that only I ever break out. Winds on small ponds are gusty and fickle, and sailing them requires a sort weird sort of patience. You have to be willing to inch along, becalmed or with the slightest of breezes, lazing back with a sort of Zen-like calm. But when a gust kicks up, you have to snap to life, aggressively tacking upwind to get into hard-to-reach spots. Middle Pond is my favorite- long and narrow, with prevailing length-wise winds and an island* in the middle to mix it up. On a good day I can sail clear upwind to the falls, tacking at the end every 15 or 20 feet. I love it.
*Where the Loons nest.
The most amazing, counterintuitive thing about sailing is that you can sail into the wind. Doesn't that seem like it shouldn't work? Like you're cheating somehow? I think the lateen sail is one of my all-time favorite human inventions. Not just because it changed the course of history*, but because it was an innovation of such significance that required no advancements in materials science or other enabling technologies; they just starting cutting sails differently, Makes you wonder what other "lateen"-type ideas are sitting right in front of us, waiting to be discovered…
*It arguably did, enabling the European age of worldwide exploration, expansion and dominance.
The Plants, Already
The first plant sub-zone is the Emergent Plants sub-zone. Here plants are typically rooted on the lake bottom, but grow up and flower above the water's surface. An example right on our beach is Rushes. I explained the differences between Grasses, Sedges and Rushes last month up in Idaho, and as you can see, these rushes are round in cross-section. I think these may be Common Rush, Juncus effusus, which is widespread across North America. They grow just above or just below the shoreline; their bases don't have to be underwater, but the soil/sand they grow in has to be nearly water-logged.
Moving out just a few feet from shore is a much more prominent emergent plant- Pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata (pic below, left). Like rushes, Pickerelweed is a monocot, and is native throughout the Western hemisphere, ranging from Canada to Argentina. It has thick, waxy leaves and succulent stems. But the easiest way to pick it out is by its stem spike of blue flowers. Blue-flowered plants are unusual in North American lakes, ponds and waterways, so when you see a spike of blue flowers, it's likely you're looking at Pickerelweed.
Side Note: The other common blue-flowered freshwater plant you'll see, particularly in the Southeast, is Water Hyacinth, Eichornia crassipes, (pic right, not mine) (a member of the same family, Pontederiaceae) which is not native to North America but has been introduced from South America and is a pesky invasive.
The blue flowers are usually busy with Bumblebees, who collect both the pollen and the nectar, and are visited by other bees as well, including one monolectic species*. P. cordata also grows vegetatively via root-cloning, and so when you see a patch, it's likely one big clone. Although the individual flowers last for only a couple of days, a given stand/clone will flower throughout most of the summer. Pickerelweed is native, but can be a pest both here in North America and in other parts of the world where it's been introduced, clogging waterways and crowding out other plants. But it plays an important positive role in keeping lakes and ponds clean, filtering pollutants out of the water.
*Doufourea novangliae.
Extra Detail: Sunfish seem to love Pickerelweed on 5 Kezar Ponds. Cast your line into a stand of the stuff, and a sunfish is the only thing you're pulling out. Pickerelweed stands also seem to be the favored locale for extensive green algal colonies, probably because the stems help make still waters even stiller, by blocking currents. These colonies always grossed me out as a kid; I swam in constant, low-level dread of sticking a foot in one*. Interestingly, down at a single-celled level, most ponds go through an annual succession of peak-bloom cycles of diatoms, algae and cyanobacteria. Another day, another post.
*Though not as much as I dreaded getting bit by a leech. I never did get bit, though I saw friends and siblings get nailed. Interestingly, Brother Phil noted this year that none of us have spotted a leech for several years. Wonder why that is?
The next sub-zone, starting at ~ 3 or 4 feet deep on our ponds, is the Floating Plant sub-zone, dominated by Waterlilies, and- as I was pleased to notice- Floating Pondweed. The Pondweed leaves are much smaller, which may be part of the reason I never noticed them before.
Both Waterlilies and Pondweeds use the buoyancy of the water- rather than the support of their stems- to position leaves and blooms on the surface and both- as I mentioned in the Idaho-Lily post, evolved this "Lily-Pad-Schtick" independently. Waterlilies are ultra-"primitive" dicots, having branched off from nearly all the other angiosperms way early in the history of flowering plants, while Pondweeds are monocots, more closely related to the nearby Rushes and Pickerelweeds. 5 Kezar ponds BTW supports both genera of common North American Waterlilies: the white/true-petaled Nympheae and the yellow/sepals-as-petals Nuphar blooms..
As you paddle away from the shore and clear the Waterlilies, if you look down right away, before it gets too deep*, you'll see other plants below the water. This is the Submersed Plant Sub-Zone, characterized by plants that grow and flower entirely underwater.
*Polarized sunglasses help. But if you buy your cheapie-eyewear at Maverik, using the shadow of a canoe paddle to cut the sun's glare off the water works fairly well.
There are a number of cool submersed plants growing down in this zone. One of the more interesting is Common Hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum. Hornworts are entirely submerged, free-floating plants, from 3 to 9 feet in "height", rooted in mud on the pond-bottom. "Rooted" is a bit of a misnomer; the plants have no real roots, but modified leaves that anchor them to the bottom. They do well in still waters in mud/soil rich in nutrients, and provide shelter to fish-spawn and snails.
Hornworts have completely submerged lives. Not only are they "rooted" underwater, but unlike plants of the Emergent and Floating sub-zones, they flower and are pollinated underwater. Hornwort pollination is a weird analog of wind-pollination, pollen grains carried slowly through the waters in the incredible, one-in-a-zillion chance that they'll wind up at a female Hornwort flower, which of course, a fair number of them manage to do.
Side Note: Plant People will get why this next part is Way Cool. If you're not a Plant Person*, you may need to go back and read this post and the "Botanical Spotlight" in this post to get it.
*Oh don't be like that. You know what I'm talking about. You're rolling your eyes and thinking "boooring." Let me tell you what: We Plant People see a whole world the rest of you Plant-Blind folk don't see. Plus we make fun of the rest of you when you're not around.
When describing plants in this blog, I usually try to mention what kind of plant it is and give some idea of what it's related to. When describing flowering plants, part of this includes IDing the plant as dicot or monocot. But I can't do this with Hornwort because botanists haven't agreed on what it is. For some time it was though to be a basal offshoot of the angiosperms, similar to Waterlilies. But more recent genetic analyses have suggested that it's a basal offshoot/sister group of either the monocots or eudicots. In other words, when the monocots/eudicots branched off from the "primitive" dicots way back over 100 million years ago, and then broke off into monocots and eudicots, Hornworts may have been part of a third branch that subsequently broke off from either the monocot or eudicot line. Today there are tens of thousands of species of both monocots and eudicots, but just 6 species of Hornworts worldwide. Isn't that freaky? These watery weeds growing out of the muck may be the sole survivors of a 100M+ year-old line of life as ancient as monocots or eudicots.
Tangent: We've come across several of these "lone survivors" of ancient lines before, including Mormon Tea, Gingkoes and Cycads. These living fossils are fascinating not just in and of themselves, but because they highlight the common recent ancestry of the vast majority of living species. Think about angiosperms (flowering plants). It's thought that they evolved once, from a common ancestor*. Today, maybe 150 million years later, they rule the world. And there are similar stories for everything from songbirds (Passerines) to bats to primates. When each of these lines got its start, there were thousands of other living things around whose lines have since dead-ended. A few dozen crucial splits/breaks have defined so much of the history of living things. And if one of those splits/breaks offshoots hadn't worked out, or if another that almost worked out did work out, well it makes you think about how the world might have turned out. (Or how other worlds maybe did turn out.) The 6 species of Hornwort range worldwide- they're not in obvious danger of extinction anytime son. Makes you wonder if there the last of their line, or the bridge to some future, diverse order that will dominate the world.
*Because of the pollination-weirdness described in this post.
The Hornworts and other submersed plants seem to give out at somewhere around 10 or 12 feet of depth around the ponds, marking the end of the Sumbersed sub-zone and the entire Littoral Zone. Beyond this is the Limnetic Zone, marked by a lack of higher plants on the lake bottom. But the Limnetic Zone in turn is in turn divided into 2 horizontal zones. The upper waters, extending down to the ~10- 15 foot depth of the end of the Littoral- are mark the Euphotic Sub-Zone, where photosynthesis is still carried out by free-floating algae and cyanobacteria. Below this level is the Benthic Sub-Zone, where no plants grow.
When I snorkeled down to the bottom, I was diving down to the pond equivalent of alpine tundra; the little light that reached there was too meager to support any plants. That's why the scenery was so uninteresting. On the deep lake bottom, there is life, but it tends to be teeny things- arthropods and such- that work their way through the mud, some feeding on the detritus that falls slowly from the living world above, others on each other. It was also a bit spooky down there- dark, cold and quiet. On the deeper dives I felt out of place and unwelcome, and kept catching myself kicking quickly back up toward the growing light above.


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A Far Off Place
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Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, they are determined to triumph over impossible odds and reach their destination. But along the way, the trio face a primitive desert wilderness.
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Couchbase 101 : install, store and query data
In this post I just want to show how easily is to get started with Couchbase, and also explain how to "query" the data. The basic steps of this tutorial are:- Install Couchbase
- Create Data
- Query Data
I will try to post more articles, if I have time to show how to use Couchbase from your applications (starting with Java).
- Could not be simpler : Couchbase 2.0 available here. (Currently in Developer Preview)
Couchbase 101 : Insert and Query data
I am using Couchbase on Mac OS X, so let me describe the installation in this environment. If you are using other operating system just take a look to the Couchbase documentation.Couchbase installation is very (very!) fast:
- Download the Mac OS X Zip file.
- Double-click the downloaded Zip installation file to extract the contents. This will create a single file, the Couchbase.app application.
- Drag and Drop the Couchbase.app to your chosen installation folder, such as the system Applications folder.
Start and Configure Couchbase Server
- Welcome Screen : Click Setup
- Set the disk and cluster configuration. On my instance I keep the default location for the on disk storage. Just configure the size of the memory usage for your instance, for example 800Mb. So far, we have a single instance, so no need to join a cluster.
- Choose to generate sample data. This will be interesting to learn more about data and views.
- Create the default bucket (use for testing only). A bucket is used by Couchbase to store data. It could be compared to a "database" in RDBMS world.
- Configure update notifications to be alerted when new version of Couchbase is released
- Configure the server with a final step with the administrator username and password
- When this is done you are automatically redirected to the Admin Console.
Couchbase has many interesting features, especially around scalability and elasticity but for not in this article let's focus on the basics :
- Insert some data and query them
Insert Data
Couchbase has many ways to manipulate data from you favorite programming language using the different client libraries : Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, .Net, C. For now let's use the Admin Console to create and query data.Couchbase can store any type of data, but when you need to manipulate some data with a structure the best way is to use JSON Documents. So let's use the console and create documents.
To create new documents in your database, click on the "Data Buckets" tab. If you have installed the sample you see 2 buckets: default and gamesim-sample.
Let's create a new documents in the default bucket:
- Click on Documents button
- Click on Create Document
- Since each document must have an id for example 100.
- Couchbase save the document and add some metadata such as _rev, $flags, expiration
- Add new attributes to the document that describe an employee : Name, Departement and Salary, then save it. You just need to update the JSON object with values
"_id": "100",
"name": "Thomas",
"dept": "Sales",
"salary": 5000
Repeat the operation with some other employees :
200,Jason,Technology,5500 300,Mayla,Technology,7000 400,Nisha,Marketing,9500 500,Randy,Technology,6000 501,Ritu,Accounting,5400
You have now a list of employees in your database. That was easy isn't? Let's now query them.
Query Data
Access document directly from its ID
First of all you can quickly access a document using a simple HTTP request using its id. For example to access the Mayla with the id 300 just enter the following URL:- http://127.0.0.1:8092/default/300
- 8092 is the Couch API REST port used to access data (where 8091 is the port for the Admin console)
- default is the bucket in which the document is stored
- 300 is the id of the document
Search your data with queries
So we have seen how you can access one document. But what if my need is :- "Give me all the employee of the Technology department"
So let's create a new view from the Admin Console:
- Click on the Views tab (be sure you are on the default bucket)
- Click on the "Create Development View"
- Enter the Document and View name:
- Document Name : _design/dev_dept
- View Name : dept
- Cick Save
- Click on your View to edit it
function (doc) { emit(doc.dept, null); }
Save the view
This function takes the document and create a list that contains the "dept" as key and null as value. The value itself is not that important in our case. A simple rule will be : do not put too much data in the value since at the end Couchbase server creates an index with this map. Will see that Couchbase allows developer to easily get the document information when accessing a view.
Click on the "Show Results" button, the result will look like:
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[ {"id":"501","key":"Accounting","value":null}, {"id":"400","key":"Marketing","value":null}, {"id":"100","key":"Sales","value":null}, {"id":"200","key":"Technology","value":null}, {"id":"300","key":"Technology","value":null}, {"id":"500","key":"Technology","value":null} ] }
As we have seen in earlier it is possible to access the document using a single URL, it is the same for views. You can for example access the view we have just created using the following URL:
Now it is possible to use query parameter to filter the results using the key parameter with the value entered using a JSON String :
The result of this query is now :
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[ {"id":"200","key":"Technology","value":null}, {"id":"300","key":"Technology","value":null}, {"id":"500","key":"Technology","value":null} ] }
You have many other parameters you can use when accessing a view to control the size, the time out, .... One of them is quite interesting is include_docs that ask Couchbase to include the full content of the document in the result. So if you call :
The result is :
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[ {"id":"200","key":"Technology","value":null,"doc": {"_id":"200","_rev":"1-1de6e6751608eada0000003200000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Jason","dept":"Technology","salary":5500}}, {"id":"300","key":"Technology","value":null,"doc":{"_id":"300","_rev":"1-f3e44cee742bfae10000003200000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Mayla","dept":"Technology","salary":7000}}, {"id":"500","key":"Technology","value":null,"doc": {"_id":"500","_rev":"1-05780359aac8f3790000003200000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Randy","dept":"Technology","salary":6000}} ] }
Let's now create a little more complicated view to answer the following business requirement: "Give me all the employee with a salary between 5000 and 6000"
function (doc) { emit(doc.salary, null); }
Couchbase is automatically sorting the key when creating/updating the index so, let's use the startkey and endkey parameter when calling the view. So let's call the view with from the following URL:
The result is :
{"total_rows":6,"rows":[ {"id":"100","key":5000,"value":null,"doc":{"_id":"100","_rev":"1-0f33580d780014060000002e00000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Thomas","dept":"Sales","salary":5000}}, {"id":"501","key":5400,"value":null,"doc":{"_id":"501","_rev":"1-b1fe5bc79637720e0000003100000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Ritu","dept":"Accounting","salary":5400}}, {"id":"200","key":5500,"value":null,"doc":{"_id":"200","_rev":"1-1de6e6751608eada0000003200000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Jason","dept":"Technology","salary":5500}}, {"id":"500","key":6000,"value":null,"doc":{"_id":"500","_rev":"1-05780359aac8f3790000003200000000","$flags":0,"$expiration":0,"name":"Randy","dept":"Technology","salary":6000}} ] }
In this short article you have learn how to:- Install Couchbase
- Create data using the Admin Console
- Query data with views


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What's on at MERL this week?
Rural reads book club
Thursday 28th November, 5.30-7pm
Free. (£1.50 for tea & cake)
Drop in and join this informal group discussing books on a rural theme. This month the book we'll be talking about is Trespass by Rose Tremain. As there is no meeting in December, we have already selected Lorna Doone, by R.D.Blackmore as the topic of our first meeting in 2014, on January 30th.
For details visit the Rural Reads page on our website
Toddler time
Friday 29th November, 10-11am£2 per child, drop-in
Suitable for families with children aged 2-4
Come along to the Museum with your little ones and enjoy rhymes, songs and craft activities. This week we'll be using salt dough models using butter stamps and moulds based on items you can see in the Museum.
*New* Huntley & Palmers: a Christmas selection
25 Nov 2013- 5 Jan, 2014
Free, drop-in, normal museum opening times
This seasonal display in the Staircase hall of the Palmers' former family home, shows off some of the visual delights in the University's extensive archive of local biscuit manufacturer, Huntley & Palmers
Collecting the countryside: 20th century rural cultures
Temporary exhibition space
Free, drop in, normal museum opening times
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This report details the results of air pollution measurements made on the London Air Quality Network during 2013. Measurements have been presented with specific reference to the UK Air Quality Strategy (AQS) Objectives and the EU Limit Values. The London Air Quality Network (LAQN) is a unique resource, providing robust air pollution measurements that are essential to underpin air quality management and health studies. The public face of the network, the LondonAir web site (www.londonair.org.uk), is visited by thousands of Londoners seeking hourly updated air pollution information. The LAQN was formed in 1993 to coordinate and improve air pollution monitoring in London. The majority of London's 33 boroughs supply measurements to the network and in addition these data are increasingly being supplemented by measurements from local authorities surrounding London, thereby providing an overall perspective of air pollution in London and the Home Counties. The LAQN is operated and managed by the Environmental Research Group (ERG) at King's College London. QA/QC audits are carried out by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Each borough funds air quality monitoring in its own area. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) funds King's to operate the Marylebone Road site and to maintain several of the LAQN sites as affiliate sites to the UK Automatic Urban and Rural Network (AURN). This Defra support assists the operation of the overall LAQN. Analysis of LAQN measurements has been augmented by measurements from directly-funded Defra sites in London. Measurements from Defra sites were provided by AEA from the National Air Quality Archive and were included within the LAQN database. Transport for London has also funded monitoring to help assess the air pollution impacts of the Congestion Charging Scheme and Low Emission Zone. |
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Day 19 - Eradication: Forensic Analysis Tools - What Happened?
One of the more fun parts (if there can be one when dealing with a compromise) is figuring out what happened and how did it happen. Fellow handler Mari Nichols already addressed the topic of Gathering Evidence That can Be Used in Court. Now it's time to think about tools that can be used to aid in helping solve the mystery of what happened. Forensics is a fun and fascinating field with many tools out there to choose from. Do you prefer Open Source tools such as The Sleuth Kit (TSK) or perhaps a commercial version of a tool such as EnCase?
However, let's don't restrict our thoughts to tools that deal with just computer hard drives. So many devices are out there that lend themselves to being compromised or used in a compromise such as blackberries, printers, routers etc. What tools do you use when doing forensics on these devices if they were used in the compromise or were perhaps compromised themselves?
If you have a good suggestion for a tool that has served you well or lessons learned from one, please pass it along. Also, if you have had to do forensics on a device, other than a typical computer harddrive and found a tool that worked, please pass it along as well! Its a great opportunity to share and your experiences may be able to help someone else in a similar situation!


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If cared for properly, you can keep your linen sheets looking beautiful for years to come. Here are some simple guidelines.
Wash your linen sheets with like colours on low temperatures in lukewarm or cold water. Use the gentle machine cycle and a mild detergent to protect the fibres. Avoid using bleach and fabric softeners, and avoid dry cleaning.
You can tumble dry your sheets so long as you use low heat and a gentle tumble setting. Remove the linen sheets from the dryer when slightly damp and hang or lay flat to dry.
You can store your iron away as there is no real need to iron linen. In fact, the magic of linen lies in its inherent and natural creases, as that is what gives linen its relaxed and lived-in look. However, if your preference is for a pressed look, then iron while the sheets are still slightly damp, on medium-hot setting.
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In fact, it's really just a Tiki drink in disguise. Seriously guys.
A lot of rum, some pineapple, a touch of grenadine… so far all of this works. Maraschino liquor? Sure, that can work too. Give it a grand garnish and you've got yourself an afternoon sipper while you throw rubber darts at Ryan Seacrest on tv.
2 oz. white rum, such as Caña Brava
1-1/2 oz. fresh pineapple juice
1/4 oz. grenadine, homemade preferred
barspoon maraschino liqueur, such as Maraska
pineapple wedge, lime wheel and cherry for garnish (and some edible gold stars if you got those hanging around too!)
In a shaker 2/3 filled with ice, add all ingredients and shake for 20 seconds. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
After one sip your mind goes straight to tropical. The grassy rum holds up next to the sweetness of the other ingredients while a tart pop rounds it out. Fresh pineapple juice is not as cloyingly sweet as out of the can, and here it's just superior where you need that freshness to cut through the liqueurs. You only need just a small amount of maraschino, as a little goes a long way. Light and fruity, it's a great starter drink for your afternoon.
Note: you may notice that this drink is not very pink like the other versions you might find. The reason being that maraschino syrup is not used, which is often dyed red. Maraska is clear in color, so your two coloring agents are the yellow from the pineapple juice and red from grenadine.


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What has MAVC learnt about supporting work in this field?
Framer: Fletcher Tembo, Programme Director, MAVC
How you actualize your theory of change as a project deploys? Can you? Should you? Testing is fundamental, and adjusting your assumptions the most clever thing to do. But not only the "theory" has to adapt, but also program management.
In such a flexible, liquid environment, trust and relationships play an important role, as they let you move quickly and with confidence. It is important to include an adequate inception phase for building an appropriate consortium.
Host: Walter Flores, CEGSS (Centre for Equity in Health Systems Governance), Guatemala
Panellists: Helena Bjuremalm, Sida; Debby Byrne, MAVC; David Sasaki, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation; Lu Ecclestone, Department for International Development; Michael Canares, Web Foundation/Open Data Lab Jakarta
How do we turn the new knowledge that we have into new practices?
How do we select people? According to the challenges? Their experience? Their capacity? Choosing is a matter of who you exclude from your project, which is hard. The usual suspects may be good, because they have proven their value in the past, but also bad, just because they are "usual", meaning that maybe not new people or new approaches will come from them.
Are donors comfortable with experimentation? Sometimes donors find a "window of opportunity" due to some political will to foster a specific issues, and then they take the chance to try something new, with new people. The problem is that these windows of opportunity sometimes remain open for very limited time, and hence programs are designed in a rush, without taking into account all the variables that matter. On the other hand, sometimes there is a sense of urgency to foster a field and when the opportunity comes one feels like it is now or never.
New landscapes come with new approaches and tools: innovative governance work requires innovative monitoring, evaluation and learning.
Having a flexible, multilayer/multistakeholder network can be very handy. Each organization/layer can concentrate on what they do best (draw the general strategy, find the partners, develop the projects, etc.). Rigid and hierarchical structures, who want to have control over the whole program, may not be the best option. E.g. donors should commit the money and get out of the way, after participating in identifying what success looks like. In this new scenario, fostering collaboration instead of competition is the way, especially complementary collaboration.
Grant making architecture should be inclusive by design and more prone to assume risks.
Keys to design proposals: think big, think of the partners, think about the problems to be solved, think about your liaison with other civic organizations and/or individual citizens at large.
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By Felicity Arbuthnot
'We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected round the world.' (President Barack Obama, State of the Union address, 24th January 2012.)
On the 24th January, the day President Obama delivered his last State of the Union speech to Congress before the election, citing the: "selflessness and teamwork of America's Armed Forces (their) focus on the mission at hand", the "selfless" Staff Sgt., Frank Wuterich, leader of the massacre at Haditha, in Iraq, became the seventh soldier to walk free – from the mass murder of twenty four unarmed men, women and children, in three homes and a taxi.
It was another chilling, ruthless, cold blooded, up to five hour rampage, revenge for the death a colleague, in a roadside bomb – which had nothing to do with the rural families that paid the price.
The youngest to die was one year, the oldest was seventy six year old, wheelchair-bound amputee, Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali. He died with nine rounds in the chest and abdomen.
Other children who died were aged 3,4,5,8,10 and 14.
On May 9th 2007, Sergeant Sanick De la Cruz received immunity from prosecution in return for testimony in which he said that he had watched Wuterich shoot five Iraqis attempting to surrender. He further stated that he and Wuterich had further fired in to the dead bodies – and that he had urinated on one of the dead Iraqis.
"Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed (US troops) example", pondered the President in his speech – in a week which worldwide revulsion was expressed at a video of Marines, allegedly with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan.
It was, of course:"behaviour … not in keeping with the values of the US Armed Forces … not consistent with out core values (or) indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps", said a Defence Department spokeswoman.(i).
Ross Caputi – a former Marine who took part in another massacre, Falluja, exactly a year before Haditha, was sickened at what he saw and experienced, and now campaigns tirelessly for Iraq and for reparation for Falluja – disputes the Defence Department's sunny view of "core values.
"These attitudes are common in the Marine Corps. The guys who peed on the poor dead Afghans were not 'bad apples', they were average Marines", Caputi told this publication. For his outspokenness, Caputi has received such volume of chilling and obscene threats from former colleagues and US Service personnel (seen by the writer) that they stand testimony to his words.
As Afghanistan,the litany of Iraq's blood-lettings are silent witness to "core values" of an altogether different kind. In an expression disturbingly mirroring "cleansed", homes are "cleared." Grenades are thrown in and then troops storm in, automatic rifles (and more grenades) blazing.
A description of the assault on one Haditha home, from a Lt. William T. Kallop records:
"The Marines cleared it the way they had been trained to clear it, which is frags (grenades)first … It was clear just by the looks of the room that frags went in and then the house was prepped and sprayed like, with a machine gun, and then they went in. And by the looks of it, they just … they went in, cleared to room, everybody was down." (ii)
"Most of the shots … were fired at such close range that they went through the bodies of the family members and plowed in to walls or floors." (iii)
As Marjorie Cohn's meticulous, eye watering piece (see iii) points out, days after the mass murders at Haditha became public: "US forces killed eleven civilians, after rounding them up in a room in a house in Ishaqi", in Salahuddin Province. All were handcuffed (presumably not the six month old) and executed. They were:
Turkiya Muhammed Ali, 75 years
Faiza Harat Khalaf, 30 years Faiz Harat Khalaf, 28 years
Um Ahmad, 23 years
Sumaya Abdulrazak, 22 years
Aziz Khalil Jarmoot, 22 years
Hawra Harat Khalaf, 5 years
Asma Yousef Maruf, 5 years
Osama Yousef Maruf, 3 years
Aisha Harat Khalaf, 3 years
Husam Harat Khalaf, 6 months
"A report by the US military found no wrongdoing by the US soldiers", writes Professor Cohen.
There are Falluja's football fields of mass graves, Najav's hotel and hospital parks, turned graveyards, the pathetic uncounted ones in gardens, in yards, the lost buried in the family home, across Iraq, by families who would be also shot if they ventured with their beloved, to the cemetery.
In Falluja, reminiscent of other historic "cleansings", categorized war crimes, men between fifteen and fifty five were forbidden to leave or enter their city.
Iraqi families shot in their cars by US service personnel are beyond counting – and indeed have not been: "It is not productive to count Iraqi deaths", as the inimitable General Kimmit reminded the world.
Deaths included the family of Ali Abbas, by rogue US missiles, in the residential Zafaraniya suburb of Baghdad, with its evocative Convent and ancient Catholic church. Ali lost his pregnant mother, father, brother and thirteen other family members. He also lost his arms. He was twelve years old.
Allegations of summary executions have emerged from Tel Afar, whose blood drenched toddler, her parents shot by troops in their car, remains a never to be erased image; Samarra, Quaim, Taal al Jal, Mukaradeeb, Hamdaniya, Ramadi, Tikrit, Mosul – and throughout the country.
In Mahmudiya, in 2008, fourteen year old Abeer Quasim Hamza, was gang raped then killed by five US servicemen – after they had murdered her mother, Fakriyah (34) father Qasim (45) and six year old sister. All were burned in an attempt to cover the crime. There were two convictions.
And never forget Abu Ghraib.
Long forgotten are the wedding and funeral massacres, a particular target for the US military, a litany. One, early in the invasion, was just a month after the first Falluja onslaught.
On 19th May 2004 forty six people celebrating a wedding in Mugrideeb village were mown down by assault helicopters, other attack planes and Marines.
USMC Major General James Mattis at the time simply commented: "How many people go to the middle of the desert to celebrate a wedding …?" He later said that it had taken him thirty seconds to decide to attack.
Eman Khammas of Iraq Occupation Watch braved the dangerous road out to the village as soon as she heard. She found carnage – and remains of the musicians' instruments, decorations, pots, sacks of rice, improvised bread ovens, sacks filled with leftovers for the animals – all who had been shot – and surviving eyewitnesses.
There were blood stained toys, clothes, childrens' hair slides, camera batteries. The family were sheep traders. Khammas recalled:
"The ground was full of bullets holes of different sizes, spots of blood every where, some a meter wide. In some of them the remains of human flesh were drying in the sun. . . . In one of these remains there was a long black lock still attached to the flesh. I could not see any more. I ran away back to the demolished house."
Those mown down, of the Rakaad Naif family, as they celebrated were:
1. Mohammad Rekaad, 28
2. Ahmed Rekaad, 26
3. Talib Rekaad, 27
4. Mizhir Rekaad, 20
5. Daham Rekaad, 17
6. Saad Mohammad Rekaad
7. Marifa Obeid, Rekaad's wife
8. Fatima Madhi, Rekaad's daughter in law
9. Raad Ahmed, grandson, 3
10. Ra'id Ahmed, grandson, 2
11. Wa'ad Ahmed, grandson, 1 month
12. Inad Mohammad, grandson, 6
13. Anood Mohammad, granddaughter, 5
14. Amal Rekaad, daughter, 30
15. Anood Talib, granddaughter, 2
16. Kholood Talib, granddaughter, 6 months
17. Hamid Monif, son in law, 22
18. Somayia Nawaf, wife, 50
19. Siham Rekaad, daughter, 18
20. Hamda Suleiman, wife, 45
21. Rabha Rekaad daughter, 16
22. Zahra Rekaad daughter,15
23. Fatima Rekaad daughter, 4
24. Ali Rekaad son, 12
25. Hamza Rekaad, 6
Five from a family called Garaghool also died, thirteen of the band and three photographic crew. Forty six, mown down for celebrating a wedding..
Kholood, 8 months, Sabha, 22, Iqbal 14, Mouza, 12, Feisal and Adil (children, ages unknown) were hospitalized.
There were no prosecutions.
General Mark Kimmit, questioned on the liquidation of the party goers – the dead womens gold also torn from their necks by the troops, according to consistent survivors accounts – simply replied: "Bad people have parties too." Asked about the near countless other acts of carnage, he responded:
"Change the channel."
As the cost in Iraqi lives at the hands of US troops briefly hits the headlines again, some of the names that are known, in the perhaps 1.7 million lost, should be remembered. They are not "collateral damage" or "regrettable incidents", each one is a unique human being, often a small, fledgling one.
In Haditha the victims were:
House One:
1. Abdul Hameed Hassin Ali, 76.
2. Khamisa Tuma Ali, 66, wife of Abdul.
3. Rashid Abdul Hamid, 30.
4. Walid Abdul Hamid Hassan, 35.
5. Jahid Abdul Hamid Hassan, middle aged.
6. Asma Salman Rasif, 32.
7. Abdullah Walid, 4.
Injured: Iman, 8 and Abdul Rahman, 5.
Escaped: Daughter-in-law, Hiba, with 2 month old Asia.
House Two:
8. Younis Salim Khalfif, 43.
9. Aida Yasin Ahmed, wife of Younis Salim, died shielding her youngest daughter, Aisha.
10. Muhammad Younis Salim, 10, son.
11. Noor Younis Salim, 14, daughter.
12. Sabaa Younis Salim, 10, daughter.
13. Zainabl Younis Salim, 5, daughter.
14. Aisha Younis Salim, 3, daughter.
15. One year old girl staying with the family.
Survived: Safa Younis Salim, 13, who pretended to be dead.
House Three:
16. Ajamal Ahmed, 41.
17. Marwan Ahmed, 28.
18. Qahtan Ahmed, 24.
19. Chasib Ahmed, 27. Brothers.
Taxi: Passengers were students at the Technical Institute in Saqlawiyah:
20 Ahmed Khadir, taxi driver.
21.Ahram Hamid Flayeh.
22.Khalid Ayada al-Zawi
23.Wajdi Ayada al-Zawri
24.Mohammad Battal Mahmoud.
Lance Corporal Roel Ryan Briones, who, seemingly, was not involved, was ordered to photograph the bodies. He picked up a little girl, shot in the head. The contents of her small skull spilled out on to his trousers. "I need immediate help", he said.
What of help for then thirteen year old Safa, pretending to be dead amongst her family's bodies. Of Hiba, lone survivor of her home, and her now six year old daughter?
What of the heroic Taher Thabet al-Hadithi, young journalist and human rights activist, who filmed every minute, bloody detail the following day, and amassed the truth of what had really happened, as the Defence Department were busy trying to cover their tracks? He fled to Syria in fear of his own life expectancy, should the US military learn of his evidence.
It was his witness materials that made its way in to Time magazine, engendering an "inquiry." Evidence that was indisputable..
The reaction of Major General Steve Johnson, Commander of US Forces in the Province was salutary: "It happened all the time … it was just the cost of doing business …"
Routine massacres.
"The renewal of American leadership can be felt across the globe", said President Obama, concluding his address, citing : "… the enduring power of our moral example … tyranny is no match for liberty."
On the wall of the deserted house of one of the Haditha families, silent witness to this "moral example", is written: "Democracy assassinated the family that was here."
– Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist with special knowledge of Iraq. Author, with Nikki van der Gaag, of Baghdad in the Great City series for World Almanac books, she has also been Senior Researcher for two Award winning documentaries on Iraq, John Pilger's Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq and Denis Halliday Returns for RTE (Ireland.) She contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com.
(i.) See the Daily Mail.
(ii.) See Wikipedia.
(iii.) See Marjorie Cohen website.


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Great work, Martin. ¿Is posible make a similar programa for mosaicing SI images??regardsfran
Only problem seems to be still the exporting of the tracks:When I export it in .gpx the track looks great in e.g. Drdepth, but shows incorrect depths, is it possible for you to save a track in drdepth .gpx format (1/10) in the menu?When I resort to .csv export, the track is not correct. It seems that I have a lot of lat and long that are the same even for different depths...Loading in drdepth shows a very short tracklength, with thousands of points that are all the same.
Martin, when creating waypoints, the field "name" is showing blank and is necesary introduce a name otherwise wpt is not create. ¿Is posible HumViewer present a consecutive number in this field??
The basis of sidescan sonar mosaicing is to automatically plot each pixel of sonar data, on a display,with respect to the track of the sidescan sonar tow-fish. The track is very rarely the straight line that itappears to be in a typical waterfall display. This process effectively geo-references each pixel of sonardata so that it is correctly positioned within an appropriate coordinate system. In other words the sonardata are displayed on a screen or printout in their correct geographical location with respect to the trackof the tow-fish or tranducer. Coordinates must be metrics (Mercator or UTM).
With the intrest that Humviewer is generating, Why doesn't it have it's own listing instead of being listed under "Other". This is turning out to be a great program that most of us have been looking for.I am thankfull for the work that has go in to this Forum and Humviewer. Thanks again Carl.
Martin, I use mi Humminbird SI for mapping bottom and your program is very usufull for this task. If every time that I click for creating a wpt field name will be fill, it will save me time in drawing a rock contour. Another solution will be to create user track. Perhas the best solution. I hope you can understand my bad english. Sorry.......
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Some vision impairment is a natural part of the aging process. Presbyopia often begins around age 45 but can be easily corrected with contacts or glasses. Recent research found that 28 percent of adults over 71 are visually impaired, even with the help of corrective lenses or visual aids.
Poor vision can be dangerous for older adults
The study used data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Olivia J. Killeen, MD, a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Michigan Medicine, led the research, and the findings were published in JAMA Ophthalmology.
One of the main findings was that various types of visual impairment are linked to older age, lower income and less education. Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults were likelier to have visual acuity and contrast sensitivity impairments than non-Hispanic White adults.
Many participants in the study needed an updated eyeglass prescription to treat their visual impairment, but some faced financial barriers. For example, many seniors have to pay for glasses because Medicare only provides eyeglass benefits after cataract surgery.
"These findings are important to address, as poor vision is associated with several adverse outcomes for older adults, including depression, dementia, falls, motor vehicle accidents and even death," said Dr. Killeen.
Eye disease can cause vision impairment
The main cause of blindness and vision impairment in seniors is age-related eye disease. Cataracts, glaucoma and macular degeneration are three eye conditions that can develop as you age, and your risk increases after age 65.
Older adults with impaired vision also have a higher risk for the following:
- Injuries
- Social isolation
- Reduced quality of life
- Challenges with following instructions for medication
Comprehensive eye exams can prevent vision impairment
Has it been over a year since your last eye exam? Regular comprehensive eye exams with dilation can help detect vision problems and preserve your eyesight as you age. Eye conditions can develop slowly; therefore, you cannot rely on symptoms or warning signs, so call your ophthalmologist to make an appointment.


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EIA has expanded the Monthly Energy Review (MER) to include annual data as far back as 1949 for those data tables that are found in both the Annual Energy Review (AER) and the MER. In the list of tables below, grayed-out table numbers now go to MER tables that contain data series for 1949 forward. New INTERACTIVE tables and graphs have also been added.
Tables with grayed-out numbers go to the MER (the most recent data). The remaining tables still go to the AER 2011 (data through 2011). In some cases the table numbering of the AER differs from that of the MER.
Explanatory notes for the most recent AER can be found in archived AER 2011 (data year dropdown above). MER notes and sources are linked at the bottom of the interactive tables.


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John Mayer Dumped Katy Perry Over Email
John Mayer once referred to his ex Taylor Swift writing about their relationship and their split in a song as "cheap songwriting" but we're going to call his method of dumping Katy Perry (after a very short and public romance) a cheap move.
Mayer reportedly broke up with the 'Wide Awake' singer via email.
Hey, at least it wasn't a text, right? Still, a guy has to have no cajones to break up with a girl that way.
Mayer, who has dated a string of Hollywood beauties, ranging from Jennifer Aniston to Jessica Simpson, was apparently not impressed by Perry's wild lifestyle and thus ended their fling. A source said he grew "tired of Perry's hard partying and decided to pull the plug," according to Us Weekly (quotes courtesy of Hollywood Life.)
The singer/songwriter/guitarist, who spoke about his splits with Aniston and Simpson in the media, was apparently so sick of the partying that he didn't want to do the deed in person. He dumped her over email and the source continued, "She was furious and really hurt. She was into him, but he wasn't feeling it."
So. Not. Cool.
Mayer and Perry were seen at Hollywood hotspots and canoodling in a pool. They dated about a month, right after her divorce from Russell Brand was finalized, but it didn't last. It seems like it was just a quick summer fling, even though we thought they were destined to be together when it was revealed that they had a date the night before she met (and fell in love with) Brand.
Onward and upward, Katy!
PopCrushers, what do you guys think of John Mayer's method of ending his relationship with Perry? Remember, neither ever confirmed the relationship, but still. Dumping-by-email sucks!
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Dr Charles, The Examining Room of Doctor Charles, is the host for this week's Grand Rounds. Check out his post: Caring for the Patient Who Is a Zombie. You can read this week's edition here.
Welcome to Grand Rounds, a weekly collection of excellent writings submitted by medical bloggers. The theme for this week is minimalism – I'm going to restrain myself and let the authors speak for themselves:……….……………………………………….
Dr Wes has done a review of a film I wish all of us could see: The Vanishing Oath: A Review
…..As background, the film is a three-year project born in 2007 just before the great US health care reform debate began. Over 200 hours of interviews were conducted explore a simple question: why Dr. Flesher had grown to hate medicine.It would have been easy for Dr. Flesher and Ms. Pardo to make his story nothing but a rant, but instead, we find that their story is an honest attempt to understand how someone so enthusiastic at the start of their training could become so quickly discontented with the realities of emergency room care and our bloated health care delivery system…….Addendum: The film will be premiered in Chicago on 25 May 2010. Seating is limited.
KevinMD's post, False patient contact information worsens emergency care, was eye-opening to me. I did not realize this was such a significant and growing issue.
In a study from the Journal of Emergency Medicine, out of of 1,136 patients, "only only 42 percent could be successfully contacted using the numbers provided [and] nearly 28 percent of the patients gave wrong or disconnected numbers."
Birth control bills turned 50. Check out this NY Times article by Gardiner Harris: It Started More Than One Revolution (photo credit)
The birth control pill has been called the most important scientific advance of the 20th century, and no wonder. Fifty years after its approval by the Food and Drug Administration, it is still one of the leading methods of contraception, in the United States and around the world………One last bit of lore about the pill: no one is even sure when to celebrate its birthday. Ten years ago, the agency honored the occasion on June 23, the date that the F.D.A. gave formal approval for Searle to market the product. This year, the agency is celebrating on May 9, which coincides with the period 50 years ago when it announced its intention to approve the pill when a few technical details were ironed out. That this happens to be Mother's Day this year may have played a role in the decision…..
In celebration of the pill's birthday, OB Cookie made Contraceptive Confections. The post includes directions. (photo credit)
Disclaimer: This cake contains no contraceptive properties and does not prevent pregnancy
I want to visit this museum featured in Sterile Eye's recent post: The Medical Museion (photo credit)The illustration above shows a woman having the back of her neck pierced with a large needle. And what was this supposed to cure? The common cold, which was believed to be caused by too much phlegm around the brain. So naturally, the cure would be to drain phlegm, for example through a hole in the neck. The patient usually recovered, as you do from a cold, which the doctor no doubt attributed to this excellent treatment…
May 4, 2010 marked the first installment of Big Think's newest video interview series, Moments of Genius, sponsored by Intel.
This first set of video interviews features Martin Cooper, inventor of the cell phone; David Ho, the AIDS researcher famous for pioneering combination therapy in treating HIV-infected patients; and Arlie Petters, a mathematical physicist at Duke who is out to prove the existence of a fifth dimension.
Dr Anonymous' BTR show guest this week will be medical student and video blogger, Bryan McColgan. The show begins at 9 pm ET.
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After an embarrassingly forced visit to a soup kitchen, Paul Ryan failed to accrue more votes for himself and aspiring war criminal Mitt Romney.
On his way out, Ryan encountered a free black man. Ryan then demanded the Uncle Tom's name, but refused to stop and talk with him.
Bill Murray is also known for "crashing parties" by showing up to wash random homeowners' dishes, but Paul Ryan has found that a demeaning tone, paired with not actually washing any dishes, goes over just as well as he doesn't care that day about anything going on around him.
"I'm Paul Ryan. Glad to meet you."
"Glad to meet you too."
Born and raised here, are you really? Cool. I'm from a town, similar, called Weansley.
Similar to what?
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Thanksgiving is upon us and it's time for family, friends, and lots of eating. One of the biggest nights of the year to go out and celebrate is the holiday is the night before. After all that partying, family get togethers, and eating, you can sit back, plug your headphones in, and relax with these hot mixtapes.
First up, is a release by the Bad Boy Records CEO, Puff Daddy. This product titled "MMM", which stands for Money Makin Mitch, came as a surprise to the streets in early November. No one was expecting Diddy to release free music. The playlist on this drop gives you 13 free music downloads with guest appearances by Gizzle, Styles P, Jadakiss, Sevyn Streeter, Big $ean, French Montana, Travi$ Scott, Lil Kim, Ty Dolla $ign, King Los, and other top performers.
Next, is a product by one of the hottest DJs on the circuit. DJ White Owl gives you volume 248 in the popular collection titled "White Owl Drop That". This release gives you 24 new songs and freestyles by artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Jadakiss, Lil Wayne, French Montana, 50 Cent, Millie, Game, Sheek Louch, Styles P, Belly, Grafh, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Swizz Beatz, iLoveMakonnen, and much more.
Our final review comes from one of the hottest artists in the south, Future. The title of this drop sounds as though it puts the emcee in a battle against himself, "Future Hendrix VS Super Hendrix". This is an 18-track product with features by Diddy, King Los, Young Scooter, Lil Bibby, Wiz Khalifa, Jadakiss, Kid Ink, Rick Ross, Trey Songz, Big $ean, Timbaland, Drake, Tink, and other artists at the top of their game right now.
That's all for this Thanksgiving edition of our blog. We hope everyone has checked out the mobile responsive pages for each music release on their mobile devices. We are still in the process of making the rest of the site mobile responsive, but it won't be long before everything is ready. If your an artist looking to have your music featured on our site, you can find out more info about that here.


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Stuffed Shells with Ricotta, Spinach, and Portobello Mushrooms
I never get sick of Italian food. Sometimes I think I am Italian, my name is Maria, I have dark hair, I could pass, right? :) I love pasta, pizza, gelato, panini, etc. Italian food always hits the spot for me.
I recently made stuffed shells for dinner. I started with the classic ricotta spinach mixture. I also added in portobello mushrooms, onion, garlic, and red peppers. I made a homemade marinara sauce and topped the shells off with cheese.
I loved peeking in on the bubbling shells that were oozing with cheese. The house smelled amazing too. I am glad I added in the extra vegetables, the portobello mushrooms and red peppers worked well with the spinach and cheese.
I think this is a great dish to serve to guests. You can prepare the filling and stuff the shells in advance. Keep the stuffed shells covered in the refrigerator until you are ready for dinner. Bake them 35 minutes before the guests arrive and you will have an amazing dinner with no last minute hassles.
Stuffed Shells with Ricotta, Spinach, and Portobello Mushrooms
1 T olive oil
1 large portobello mushroom, chopped
1/2 onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 red pepper, diced
1 15 oz ricotta cheese - I used low fat
1 egg
3/4 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded (divided)
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, grated (divided)
1/2 cup frozen spinach, thawed, drained, and chopped (use a potato ricer to get rid of the water)
1/2 tsp dried basil
Dash of crushed red pepper
Salt and pepper
About 3 cups of marinara sauce (I made my own, you can use store bought)
About 18 jumbo pasta shells, cooked al dente, read box instructions:)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray a large casserole dish or Pyrex 9 by 13 pan with cooking spray. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Once hot, add the onion, cook until soft. Add in garlic, mushrooms, and red peppers. Remove from heat and cool.
In a large bowl combine the ricotta, 1/4 cup of the mozzarella, 1/4 cup of the Parmesan, stir well. Add in the egg, spinach, dried basil, crushed red pepper,salt and fresh cracked pepper to taste. Mix well until creamy. Add the mushroom, onion, red pepper mixture.
Pour 1/2 cup of marinara sauce in the bottom of your sprayed baking dish. Place the cooked shells in the pan. Make sure they are spaced out evenly. Stuff each shell with cheese/veggie mixture. Use a spoon, it might get messy:)
Pour the remaining sauce over the stuffed shells. Add the leftover mozzarella and Parmesan.
Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for an additional 5 minutes. You want the shells to be bubbling with goodness. Let cool for a few minutes and serve warm.
Labels: Main Dishes, Pasta, Vegetable


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Alaska License Plate Gold Style, the last frontier, Alaska Flag CLL 175, ex 2001
"some scratches here and there, a few dents, alaska dust and bug splats free of charge, paint cracking here and there,scratches on right bottom"
Alaska License Plate, Gold Style, The last frontier with printed Alaska Flag, a nice collectible! used, new plates of this style are not found anymore, only used ones, expired in 2001
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All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide,
With feet that make no sound upon the floors.
We meet them at the door-way, on the stair,
Along the passages they come and go,
Impalpable impressions on the air,
A sense of something moving to and fro.
There are more guests at table than the hosts
Invited; the illuminated hall
Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts,
As silent as the pictures on the wall.
The stranger at my fireside cannot see
The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear;
He but perceives what is; while unto me
All that has been is visible and clear.
We have no title-deeds to house or lands;
Owners and occupants of earlier dates
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands,
And hold in mortmain still their old estates.
The spirit-world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Our little lives are kept in equipoise
By opposite attractions and desires;
The struggle of the instinct that enjoys,
And the more noble instinct that aspires.
These perturbations, this perpetual jar
Of earthly wants and aspirations high,
Come from the influence of an unseen star
An undiscovered planet in our sky.
And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud
Throws o'er the sea a floating bridge of light,
Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd
Into the realm of mystery and night,—
So from the world of spirits there descends
A bridge of light, connecting it with this,
O'er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends,
Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss.
Text: Haunted Houses, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Ghost Visit: Henri Robin & A. Specter, 1863, via hastingsgraham/Flickr
Gay Halloween Party, subjects unknown, via SeattleTim/Flickr
Spirit Hand Job, subjects unknown, Solitaire Miles/Flickr
Gay Men in Costume, subjects unknown, via SeattleTim/Flickr
Spiritual Vision, 1920s, subject unknown, National Media Museum
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4mm AQUA FORMULA palm, BREATHAPRENE material which provides breathability and lightness whilst also giving excellent support and fit. New style soft silicone 3.0 is postioned over the key areas of the backhand for optimum contact with the ball. 9cm elastic wristband for an ideal fit with to the wrist.
The Roll/Neg is a one piece cut palm with internal stitching on the middle fingers and roll on the index and small finger for a very close fit to the fingers and hand. In recent years this cut has become very popular with adult and junior goalkeepers playing at all levels.
AQUA FORMULA is our most popular 4mm latex palm used on most of our professional level glove range and favoured by the majority of our sponsored goalkeepers. In this palm the purity of the latex is of the highest quality and covers all the high-level goalkeepers needs, both in dry and wet conditions. AQUA FORMULA has been tested in the professional field and adapts perfectly to the new technologies/surfaces of balls within the market.
BREATHAPRENE is one of our latest technical performance fabrics that provides a high level of lightness, breathability and elasticity to our lightweight top end gloves and makes up the body of the new Phenomenon Pro and Phenomenon Magnetic range of gloves. As the name of this technology suggests, BREATHAPRENE allows the glove to be breathable whilst also maintaining a comfortable temperature.
SILICONE 3.0 is a soft and flexible silicone insertion system added to the areas on the backhand mainly in contact with the ball without adding unnecessary weight to the glove. This system also incorporates a small grip area on the back of the glove that helps whilst punching the ball.
Colour: Black/Red
Glove sizing can vary from brand to brand and even within the same brand. Glove sizing can vary depending on the cut and specific fit of the glove.
We try to provide a size guide on each individual product page wherever we can, this can usually eb found on one of the product tabs or under the product tabs on the product page under the product images.
If no size guide is provided and sizing is a concern please contact us prior to placing your order, especially if you looking to add personalisation as all personalised goods are Non-Returnable.
If you are unsure of your size, please measure the wearers hand, from the top of tallest finger to the base of palm (where the hand meets the wrist)
Then simply call or email us with that measurement in CM and the product code of the gloves you are interested in buying, and we advise on the best size to order.
call us on 01455 233355 or email us at email@example.com
The majority of goalkeeper gloves that we sell use very high quality latex palms and materials, sourced and manufactured to offer the best possible grip in all conditions. Latex is a very soft, natural product and as such is subject to wear and abrasion over time. Just Keepers Ltd and the selected brands that supply the products cannot be held accountable for wear to the palms.
Prior to use:
After use:
Most latex palms will begin to show signs of wear within their first use. This is normal and can be down to many factors that may include: many variables of play e.g. (the age of goalkeeper, their technique, the playing surface, how the gloves were prepared, were the care instructions followed).
As with all soft latex goalkeeper gloves the better you care for them the more life you will get from them.
Wear to the foams usually happens when the gloves come into contact with the ground, but they can also wear from something as simple as pulling your socks up, even when putting your gloves on as most gloves use a course Velcro closure which can be prone to wearing the latex.
If your latex starts to show signs of wear, don't worry! Glove wear is normal, that's just what latex does, latex is a soft natural product which is made to provide the grip that all goalkeepers need and want!
Please note that all goalkeeper gloves will offer grip and continue to perform until there is virtually no latex left on the palms.
Deterioration will be particularly apparent during early and end of season use when the grounds are at their hardest. Do try to avoid glove contact with the ground if at all possible!
Young and inexperienced goalkeepers may also notice fast deterioration of the foam; this will become less apparent when the individual technique improves.
The majority of gloves we sell are worn by the World's best goalkeepers who play on the best surfaces with the best quality footballs, most of whom use the gloves for a maximum of 6-8 games. If this is a concern please choose an alternative flat palm style.
If any of the above is a concern do not buy the gloves. If this is a concern please choose harder wearing palms (not soft latex), which may offer better durability, however please be aware that the grip will be far inferior.
We would always advise using new gloves just for matches and an older pair for training/warm up.
The colouring on the majority of goalkeeper gloves will fade and wear during play, this can and does happen and this will not affect the performance of the product in any way.
Goalkeeper gloves are made and designed for use on soft natural surfaces like grass, unless specified in the product description (e.g. specialist 3G /astro turf palm).
Please note that when using goalkeeper gloves on an artificial surface such as 3G or astro turf - you will be placing a higher level of stress on them so stitching failure & latex wear will be more apparent than on grass.
As latex is a natural product the colour can change from usage and the washing/cleaning process, some palms may stain yellow/pink/brown from being cleaned and exposed to a heat source or natural sunlight which can change the colour of the latex, if the gloves do become discolored this will not effect the performance of the latex in anyway.
Great care should be taken when putting the gloves on and taking them off, especially lightweight & strapless styles which are now very common and popular, try and remove your hand from the gloves and not the gloves from the hand, try to put as little stress as possible on the seams, fingers and thumbs when taking your hand from your gloves, unfortunately the stitching can start to break down over time and from general wear, especially between the wrist, thumb & palm area. Please note that if gloves are significantly worn when stitching issues occur we would be unable to offer a refund or exchange, this is down to the manufacturers and Just Keepers discretion.
With both of the above glove cuts being very popular and sought after styles we must warn you that the stitched seams and fingers do come under immense stress during the course of training and match-play and Just Keepers Ltd will not offer replacements or refunds for burst seams and damaged foam around the stress areas. Gloves featuring a 'Negative Cut' palm will show wear on the fingertips and thumbs quicker than others, this is due to the way the gloves are stitched. This type of cut provides a much tighter and more natural feel on your fingers, but as a result comes under more stress.
Great care should be taken when putting the gloves on and taking them off, especially roll finger styles, try and remove your hand from the gloves and not the gloves from the hand, try to put as little stress as possible on the seams, fingers and thumbs when taking your hand from your gloves.
The new trend in the goalkeeping world is strapless/lightweight gloves, these are very sought after and popular styles with many of our customers.
Please note that these types of gloves are very slim/tight fitting and is made to fit as close to the skin as possible and can be tight around the wrist and base of the hand area.
Unfortunately this will make the gloves more prone to stitching faults as they are more difficult to get on and too get off, especially after use when the hands are hot and sweaty etc.
Please take extreme caution and as much care as possible when removing these types of gloves from your hands, try and remove your hand from the gloves and not the gloves from the hand.
Try to put as little stress as possible on the seams, and the added stress areas, where the palm is stitched to the gloves, the thumb area, and the finger gussets.If this style of glove is a concern please choose an alternative style/model or contact us before purchase and we can help with any other questions you may have.
Please take great care when removing the plastic film from the palms of goalkeeper gloves.
We appreciate that this can be a tedious process but removing the film as carefully as possible is key so you do not knick or damage any bits of latex.
Please do not remove the film from the palms unless you are keeping the gloves, as once the film is removed from the palms we are unable to offer a refund or an exchange if the gloves do not fit or are unsuitable etc.
HO Soccer Glove Care
It sounds like an obvious thing to say but goalkeeper gloves do not last forever, so you need to look after them. Generally, the more you pay for a pair of gloves the better the latex quality will be but this type of glove will age and wear faster if used for both matches and training and also if used on astroturf and artificial surfaces. Extremely soft and high quality latex palms which are used in top end gloves have an excellent grip but will not be as durable as some lower priced gloves, which will not have quite the same quality grip but should be more durable. The problem isn't a matter of quality but rather related to the softness of the latex which is linked to durability depending on usage, how you look after them and the surfaces that you play and train on.
The life span of your gloves is also about your technique and how you dive and catch the ball, which determines how much stress the gloves will go through during their life. Also, as mentioned, the type of playing surface that you train and play matches on will have a big effect on the life of the gloves. One tip if playing on astroturf or artificial surfaces is once you have made a dive don't get up using the palms of your gloves as this will wear them out quickly! Instead try using the backs of your hands/fingers to get back to you feet.
Due to the above HO Soccer/Just Keepers are unable to offer a refund or an exchange for latex wear.
If any of the above is a concern please contact us prior to purchase.
PLEASE ORDER BEFORE 1pm TO GUARANTEE SAME DAY DESPATCH.
Any orders placed after 1pm may be shipped the next working day. If this is a concern please call us on 01455 233355 or use the contact us form prior to placing your order.
Royal Mail Tracked 24 - £6.00. Delivery time is usually 1 to 3 working days. Please allow up to 10 working days for delivery.
Royal Mail Tracked 48 - £4.00 or FREE when you spend £50 or more. Delivery time usually 2 to 5 working days. Please allow up to 14 working days for delivery.
(not including Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays or National Bank Holidays) UK Only, please order before 1pm to Guarantee this service.
All orders placed after 1pm on a Friday will be guaranteed delivery before 6pm on the following Tuesday - excluding National/Bank holidays.
Please allow up to 10 business days to resolve queries relating to non-delivery and return-to-sender issues.
We offer a Saturday & Sunday Guaranteed service (UK ONLY) - Simply choose the Saturday Guaranteed option before 1pm on a Friday or the Sunday option before 11am on a Saturday to guarantee this service. Excluding National/Bank holidays.
These delivery times may vary to more remote destinations (eg.Scottish Highlands and the Channel Islands). Please allow up to 10 business days to resolve queries relating to non-delivery and return-to-sender issues.
Delivery Instructions
Please note that any delivery instructions that you provide requesting for the delivery to be left in a safe place are at your own risk. You are confirming that you are providing the delivery driver authority to leave the parcel in a safe place of your choice. Just Keepers cannot be held responsible for any items left at your request that are lost or stolen. The information that you provide is passed onto the courier to use at their discretion.
Europe - £7.00
Delivery time is usually within 3 to 7 working days. (Please allow up to 30 working days for delivery).
Rest of World - £9.00 Delivery time is usually within 7 to 10 working days. (Please allow up to 30 working days for delivery).
Note: Orders from outside of the UK will not be liable to UK Sales Tax. However, purchases may be subject to your own country's tax/duty upon receipt.
UPS/DHL/DPD (EXPRESS SUPER & EXPRESS - Overseas)
UPS, DHL, and DPD offer a very reliable & generally FAST delivery service to More than 215 countries and territories worldwide.
Delivery is usually within two to five business days by the end of the day to most countries in the world, however delivery to Australia and various other locations can be considerably longer, if this is a concern and you need a more specific delivery estimate please contact us directly.
Please order before 12 noon to Guarantee same-day despatch.
See prices at the checkout stage as costs may vary dependent on country.
*Please note that we are not responsible for packages sent to a 3rd party address such as a hotel or a PO Box that state delivered but cannot be traced.
Please note that international customers outside of the UK will be required by their Country to pay duties & taxes before they receive their package.
The duty and tax charge is calculated by the total value of the Just Keepers sales receipt/invoice.
These rates can vary by country and is beyond our control.
Please be aware of these potential charges before completing your purchase, as it is not included with your Just Keepers merchandise and shipping charges.
BREXIT INFORMATION - Europe and Rest of the World locations:
Due to the UK leaving the EU all countries outside of the UK will not pay UK VAT/Taxes (20%) on their order.
So as an example: a product costing £50 will cost any customer outside of the UK £41.67 this is the price less the UK VAT of 20%, this price will be shown on the product page.
Please note that international customers outside of the UK may be required by their Country to pay duties & taxes before they receive their package.
The duty and tax charge is calculated by the total value of the Just Keepers sales receipt/invoice.
These rates can vary by country and are out of our control.
Please be aware of these potential charges before completing your purchase, as it is not included with your Just Keepers merchandise and shipping charges.
If you see this message prior to checkout:
The following items in your basket cannot be sent to your delivery destination. Please adjust your basket accordingly to continue to the checkout.
It means there is a brand restriction on where we can send the goods to - You will need to remove the restricted item to proceed or change the delivery destination.
Customer Returns
If for some reason any item(s) is not acceptable, you may return it to us provided the item(s) has not been personalised in any way and it is sent back within 30 days of purchase.
Your returned items must be sent back in their original condition & packaging; please ensure you package your return to prevent any damage to the items or boxes.
If you wish to return goods for an exchange or refund please fill in the customer returns form with your return request which will be dealt with when your return is received.
Please note that we do not offer a free returns service and the goods are your responsibility until we receive them back. Please send the goods back in their original packaging with a courier of your choice, please also note that any original postage costs paid are non refundable on exchanges or refunds .
We recommend that you send your return on a trackable service. We cannot be held responsible for items lost or delayed in transit on the way back to us.
Personalised Goods
Unfortunately, we are unable to refund or exchange any products that have been personalised.
This includes gloves with removable straps, as the brands do not supply us with spare straps and also as each strap is made to fit the size ordered and will not fit with new smaller/larger sizes.
This also includes apparel/garments or gloves personalised with a number one.
Gloves with film covering the palms cannot be exchanged or refunded if the film is removed.
Europe and Rest of the World locations:
Due to the UK leaving the EU all countries outside of the UK will not pay UK VAT/Taxes (20%) on their order.
So as an example: a product costing £50 will cost any customer outside of the UK £41.67 this is the price less the UK VAT of 20%, this price will be shown on the product page.
Please note that international customers outside of the UK may be required by their Country to pay duties & taxes before they receive their package.
The duty and tax charge is calculated by the total value of the Just Keepers sales receipt/invoice.
These rates can vary by country and are out of our control.
Please be aware of these potential charges before completing your purchase, as it is not included with your Just Keepers merchandise and shipping charges.