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Mapping Troposphere Ozone Levels Over Time
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AbstractOzone in the stratosphere protects the earth by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. However, when ozone occurs in the troposphere, i.e., the air that we breathe, it is harmful to health. In this project you can use data from EPA monitoring stations to analyze the weather/climate conditions that can lead to harmful ozone levels.
ObjectiveThe goal of this project is to investigate ozone levels over time using archived data for the United States from the AIRNow website.
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Ozone (chemical formula: O3) occurs naturally in the upper atmosphere (stratosphere). It absorbs potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun that would otherwise reach the earth's surface. Ozone in the stratosphere thus serves a protective function for life on earth.
In the lower atmosphere (troposphere) ozone is produced by chemical reactions from nitrogen oxides (NOx, chemical compounds with various ratios of nitrogen and oxygen) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A compound is said to be "volatile" if it evaporates readily at normal outside temperatures. Both heat and sunlight are also required for the chemical reactions that produce ozone. Nitrogen oxides are produced in exhaust from factories, power plants, cars, and trucks. Chemical solvents and gasoline vapors are major sources for volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere (AIRNow, 2007a).
Ozone is a highly reactive form of oxygen. The oxygen that we use for respiration (chemical formula: O2) is less reactive. Ozone can more readily form compounds with an unpaired electron in the outermost shell. These compounds, called free radicals, can cause chain reactions that cause indiscriminate damage to molecules in cells. Virtually any large molecule in the cell—proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and DNA—can be damaged by free radicals. Enzymes (catalase, superoxide dismutases, and glutathione peroxidases) and anti-oxidant molecules from the diet (e.g., vitamins C and E) act as free radical scavengers, and protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.
Since ozone formation in the troposphere requires heat and sunlight, ozone levels are more likely to rise when the temperature is high. However, other conditions, such as an increase in the pollutants from which ozone is formed, can also lead to ozone elevation. In this project, you can use map data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other government agencies (AIRNow, 2007c) to track ozone levels in your area under different seasonal conditions to find out when ozone levels are most likely to be elevated.
Terms and ConceptsTo do this project, you should do research that enables you to understand the following terms and concepts:
- Ozone
- Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
- Troposphere
- Stratosphere
- Electron
- Electron shells
- Free radical
- Parts per billion (ppb)
- Air Quality Index (AQI)
- Why is ozone in the stratosphere protective?
- Why is ozone in the troposphere harmful?
- How does ozone form in the troposphere?
- What conditions make ozone more likely to form?
BibliographyThe AIRNow website has a page with flash animations that discuss how ozone is formed, how ozone acts as a protectant high in the atmosphere but as a pollutant at ground level, and the sources and dangers of particle pollutants. http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.main
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). AirNow: Multi-media Links. Retrieved December 3, 2010, from www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=movies.index
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). AirNow. Retrieved December 3,2010, from www.airnow.gov/
- Allen, J., 2002. The Ozone We Breathe, NASA Earth Observatory Reference. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. (n.d.). Ozone and Your Health,. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
- Allen, J., 2003. Watching Our Ozone Weather, NASA Earth Observatory Reference. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
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Materials and EquipmentTo do this experiment you will need the following materials and equipment:
- Computer with Internet connection
- Color printer
Experimental Procedure
Obtaining Air Quality Data
- Do your background research so that you are knowledgeable about the terms, concepts, and questions. Steps 2-6 show you how to access archived air quality data. You can use this data to do one of the ideas listed in the Variations section, or to answer your own research question based on your background reading.
- You will be using the AIRNow, www.airnow.gov, website to gather your data, so it is wise to explore the website a bit and see what types of information the site offers.
- Now you are ready to examine ozone levels for a U.S. state or local region. To do this, go to AIRNow's Air Quality Map Archive, http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.mapsarchivecalendar. There you will see an interface similar to the one shown in Figure 1.
Screenshot of Air Quality Maps Archive page on airnow.gov. The page includes a calendar with a thumbnail air quality map for the United States for December 1, 2010.
Figure 1. Air Quality Maps Calendar link.
- At the top of page there are three drop-down lists. Click on the Map Type list and choose Ozone Peak. Click on either your state of interest or your region of interest (if available) from the drop-down list. Then choose the month and year that you would like to investigate. Finally, click on the See Maps button in the drop down lists. In Figure 2, we are choosing to examine ozone data from San Francisco, CA during September 2010. You will see an overview of monthly thumbnails.
Screenshot of Air Quality Maps Archive page on airnow.gov. The page includes a calendar map thumbnails for the San Francisco Bay area for each day in September 2010.
Figure 2. An example of monthly thumbnails of ozone concentrations for San Francisco, CA.
- With the monthly thumbnails, you can scan several weeks' worth of data, and select dates of interest to see maps at higher resolution. Click on any of the thumbnail maps to see the data at full size.
- The image in Figure 3. shows an example of an 8-Hour Average Peak Concentration map. The data is from the San Francisco Bay Area, for September 2, 2010. The map shows the highest concentration of ozone for each monitoring area during the course of the day. The legend for the colors used on the map is shown at the bottom. The peak for each area can occur at a different time of day, so the data is not necessarily from any single time point during the day. To understand how this is calculated, you can read the explanation on this page: airnow.supportportal.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=23002. You can also view an animated loop of the air quality index (AQI) for time points throughout the day by clicking on the leftmost tab.
Air quality map for San Francisco Bay Area showing daily peak ozone concentrations for September 2, 2010. The map shows that the highest concentrations of ozone were found in Antioch and Livermore, while moderate levels of ozone were found extending beyond Vacaville and San Jose.
Figure 3. An example of 8-Hour Average Peak Concentration Map.
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Climate Change AnalystHow is climate change affecting Earth? What will the changes mean for society? If these are questions that peak your curiosity, then you might be interested in a job as a climate change analyst. Climate change analysts evaluate climate data and research to determine how shifts in the climate will affect natural resources, animals, and civilizations. They use this information to make suggestions about what individuals and governments can do to ensure a higher-quality life for everyone in the face of a changing environment. Read more
Environmental ScientistHave you ever noticed that for people with asthma it can sometimes be especially hard to breathe in the middle of a busy city? One reason for this is the exhaust from vehicles. Cars, buses, and motorcycles add pollution to our air, which affects our health. But can pollution impact more than our health? Cutting down trees, or deforestation, can contribute to erosion, which carries off valuable topsoil. But can erosion alter more than the condition of the soil? How does an oil spill harm fish and aquatic plants? How does a population of animals interact with its environment? These are questions that environmental scientists study and try to find answers to. They conduct research or perform investigations to identify and eliminate the sources of pollution or hazards that damage either the environment or human and animal health. Environmental scientists are the stewards of our environment and are committed to keeping it safe for future generations. Read more
- Are there seasonal variations in ozone concentrations? For example, you could compare ozone levels in winter months vs. summer months.
- Sometimes the local climate can vary markedly within a small geographic area. For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area (see the map, above) there are dozens of local microclimates. You have the Pacific Ocean, the San Francisco Bay, and coastal mountain ranges all in close proximity. The air tends to be cooler near the ocean and the bay, and rises rapidly in summer months as you move inland. What effect(s) do you see in your area that may be attributable to local variations in elevation and/or bodies of water?
- Do research on the sources of pollutants that form tropospheric ozone: nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds. Are ozone precursors produced in higher amounts on weekdays vs. weekends? Compare weekend data with weekday data to see if you can find consistent differences in ozone levels.
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And What if the Tigers DON'T Make the Playoffs?
Seriously. There is no guarantee. There is NEVER a guarantee (right, Red Sox?).
Whether you're listening to the Worldwide Leader of Dopes or MLBN or that fat guy at the end of the bar who just won't shut up, you've probably heard some variation of the following phrase regarding the AL Central:
Yeah, but the Tigers are the better team and they're going to win the division.
Oh really? Then what are they been waiting for? Hockey season?!? It's coming!!!
Sure the Tigers have been playing better baseball the second half, but the truth is, the White Sox have been playing championship-caliber baseball. And what is championship-caliber baseball? It's winning in walk-off fashion even though you allowed the Mariners to come back from 5-run deficit in the top of the 9th. It's getting gutsy performances out of nobodies like DeWayne Wise. It's having your MVP catcher thrown out of the game only to have his backup, Tyler Flowers, be the hero. TWICE.
Verlander, Cabrera, Prince. Indeed, these are mighty names with infinite possibility.
But possibility is no match for performance. And as long as long as the White Sox keep getting more than the Tigers, then all those analysts and "experts" would do well to right their wordy ships and recognize the truth from potential.
Also, there is a White Sox fan holding a gun to my head as I write this.
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I had a dream last night that we killed Heroic Ragnaros.
In a swimming pool.
Well, more on the deck of the swimming pool. There were only five people alive: myself, our moonkin, our two tanks and another healer (but I can't for the life of me remember who it was). The tanks kited Rag around the deck of the pool. And myself and the moonkin were on a white mat on the deck. And I screamed at ANYONE who got close to our mat, much like Joe Pa might when it is clear the Ref cashed the other team's check before the game. DON'T YOU STEP ON THAT MAT AND BLOW US UP! I SWEAR TO CHRIST I WILL KICK YOUR ASS ALL THE WAY TO CANADA IF YOU DO! The tanks ran round and round. The moonkin dps'd. And I…screamed. A lot.
When he died, everyone jumped into the pool in celebration with our moonkin doing a cannonball to put all other cannonballs in history to shame. And then I woke up and remembered that no, he wasn't dead. Yes, we are some 300 odd pulls into the fight and still haven't killed him. I wanted to curl back up and find sleep again, in that dream where it was all over.
Let's analyze the dream, shall we?
Now, I'm generally not into "reading" my dreams. But this particular dream says a lot to me so I thought it was important to listen. Let's start with the swimming pool. Honestly, I was a little surprised by the venue. I would have thought that a concert stage would have been my "pressure point" in dreams, but I guess I was wrong. When I was growing up, I was a competitive swimmer. When I was in law school, I coached swimming. I have always felt competition and challenge at the pool. Always. I guess when push comes to shove, I was more afraid of failure as a musician than I felt competitive. Music came very naturally to me, so it was rarely stressful. Challenging, yes. But not often stressful.
Swimming, on the other hand, was always about pushing harder, faster, better. It was always about winning or losing. It was always about celebrating wins or coping with disappointment. It was always about pushing yourself harder and finding your limits. As an athlete there were times that I just couldn't take the pressure. As a coach there were times where you watched others find that point and break down.
So I guess, perhaps, the swimming pool was an appropriate venue. This fight is slowly sucking my soul – and deep down inside I feel like that athlete that's coming close to that breaking point where they realize they just need to let it all go in that dark, lonely corner of the locker room. I just hope that I remember that I'm not only the athlete, but I'm also the coach that tells you to keep your chin up and reminds you that Babe Ruth struck out all those times – regardless of how many home runs he hit.
Five people. I think this one is also very easy to analyze. Despite the fact we've had some of our best efforts on the fight over the past two weeks, we are struggling with attendance. I told the raid last night as I apologized profusely for having to start late as we waited for people to get logged in that this is the worst attendance has been for us since we were working Vaelstraz. And that's the God's honest truth. I don't know if it's just a dumb stroke of luck, if people are tired of the fight or if people just aren't as committed to the "hard" fights as they originally thought they were. But it's so disheartening. More so than all of the stupid deaths on the fight.
Regardless, night after night I stress. We have a night where we have multiple ~33% pulls in phase 4 and start to find the points that we need to work on in the fight: Deluging, Meteor management, WHY THE FUCK DID RAG SPAWN ROOTS ON HIMSELF, etc. Finally, wiping to something new. Finally, a much needed breakthrough in progress. If only we didn't have to get through nine and a half minutes of the fight to get there. Only to log in the next night and see that we are short to raid this particular fight. People on vacation. People with internet problems. People with exams. People whose grandmother died for the fourth time in just as many weeks. Healers on the roster that I can't bring because we can only take four (and already have two DPSing). Healers that are playing DPS alts so we can work the fight. I'm at a loss.
We've opened blanket recruitment for the first time since…The Burning Crusade.
Our attendance the past two weeks is causing me insurmountable amounts of stress. I've told my guild this. I've bolstered our roster. I'm looking at applicants, and I've told everyone that if they can't be bothered to be online to raid not to be surprised if they log in one night to find that they have lost their raid spot. This isn't how we run our guild. Only now it is. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that.
Hell, I had to have a conversation with a guy last night that just got a really great job with DC Comics as an artist that I thought it was fabulous that he got such an amazing job and that there was nothing wrong with exploring and enjoying that. But that since he got the job has been less than reliable as a raider and that if he couldn't balance the new job and raiding that perhaps it was time to let go of raiding and focus on his career – which is far more important. I told him that it was unfair to hold a raid position that he couldn't commit to. And frankly, that conversation fucking sucked. Because I am ecstatic for him, but the truth remains that if he can't balance both he must let one go and that should be his commitment to raiding. At least on our raid schedule. And it's my job to tell him that.
Anyhow, it seems pretty clear what only five people in my dream represent.
The White Mat. At first glance, I think this easily represents a breadth of frost. But I think it's deeper than that. I think it truly represents my fear of more mistakes preventing us from getting into phase 4, and finally finishing out the fight. We're progressing about inline with everyone else on the fight, from what I can tell. We've had the same stupid mistakes that are repeated, not always by the same person, but by the raid in general.
Watch out for that lava wave. Stack up. No, really, stack the fuck up. Run. RUN FOREST RUN. Please God, I know we don't talk a lot, but if you might watch over us as we navigate these engulfing flames, I'd be forever grateful. OH GOD WHY DID YOU RUN THE METEOR THAT WAY. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the worlds been turning. (Hey fuck you, it's my dream and I LIKE Billy Joel).
So, you see, same shit…different guild. The problem with the fight, I think, is that it's too damn long. And there are too many things that can go wrong. Right now, we are having inexplicable complications with our second sons transitions. It baffles me because up until the last two nights, sons have never really been a problem for us. Maybe it's just because we are seeing more sons phases? Maybe it's because Billy Joel hates me for using his song in the paragraph above? I don't know.
Our "progress" now lies in phase four. Which means we must get through approximately nine minutes of the fight before we can start the next learning curve. And unfortunately, a lot of shit can happen in those nine minutes. No matter how amazing you are. And it's draining on everyone to stay keyed up for nine plus minutes a pull so that you can start working on the next phase – just to do it all over again when you wipe as you are learning.
As such, I think the white mat is symbolic of my fear of the plethora of mistakes that are in those first nine minutes or so of the fight that will prevent us from working the next part of the encounter which is needed for finally getting the kill.
The Screaming. This one is the hardest for me to figure out. On the one hand, I absolutely believe that it's my inner frustration letting go. It's what I don't do in raids, but really want to – only I know that nothing productive would come of it. But that seems too…easy. Is it more than that? I mean, is it telling me that I'm two steps from being locked into a padded room? Am I cracking?
I don't think so.
I think a little bit it's representative of me feeling helpless. I'm trying so hard. To keep things together. To make sure we can raid every night. To make sure we see progress. To keep the guild healthy. To keep the raid team competitive. I don't know what more I can do, and it's terrifying. What happens when you are truly giving it all you've got and it's not enough?
I suppose I scream. Apparently like Joe Pa.
All of my stress at attendance, my frustration with the fight, and my feeling of helplessness all balled up into one big "I need to get this the fuck out", at least in my subconscious. I try really hard to keep my cool. I try really hard not to be "that raid leader". I try really hard to be an innovative motivator. I try really hard to keep things fun. And I suppose somewhere deep down inside I feel like I'm failing no matter my efforts. And I think that is what the screaming is all about.
So, how would you read that dream? What would you do if that was what was churning in your subconscious? Would you have just stopped at "Why the fuck wouldn't you just push Rag into the GIANT POOL OF WATER and collect his loot, idiot"?


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introns and exons
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March 29, 2009 at 2:42 pm #11134
I am currently taking a biology module for my general education requirements. I have been trying to keep up with the text and lectures but am still stuck at my assignment. I hope this forum would be of some help to me. 😀
1. In the context of a new mammalian model organism recently sequenced and annotated, gene YFG has 3 introns and 4 exons. Databases show that there are 3 different lengths of cDNA sequences associated with Gene YFG. One of these cDNA sequences has three out of four exons plus additional nucleotide sequence at the 3' end of the cDNA. This part codes for an extra 123 amino acids. Annotated gene UB2, appears immediately downstream of YFG. UB2 has a single exon coding for 123 amino acids matching the cDNA. There is no cDNA in your database encoding for a UB2 gene with these 123 amino acids at the N-terminus.
A. Is UB2 justified as being a separate gene? Explain why or why not.
B. Draw a picture of YFG's most likely intron/exon organization.
I would think that UB2 is not a separate gene of YFG because it appeared 'immediately', hence suggesting that the coding of the 123 amino acids had something to do with the formation of gene UB2.
However, I am not too sure about my answer because I do not understand where 'downstream' is. Does this mean it's at the 3′ or 5′ end?
I have tried going through my textbook and lecture notes again but to no avail. And I have also tried asking on my module forum but with no replies. I am not asking for an answer to copy but maybe some questions and directions for me to think about and helps me in my formation of an answer.
I have also attached a picture of how I would draw YFG's intron/exon organization. I think it is correct, but the question's wording is a little confusing and I am quite doubtful. I am assuming that the question wants us to draw an organization that has not yet been spliced, so I included the introns and also the G-cap and poly A tail.
I hope this doesn't sound like I'm asking you guys to help me do my homework, but I am really confused and would appreciate any help given. 😀 Thanks!!
March 31, 2009 at 11:13 am #89942yrfaithParticipant
Hi Kai85
It would appear that we are taking the same module. I came online to look for solutions and stumbled on your post.
How does appearing immediately downstream justify it not being a separate stream? in any case, downstream is 5′ to 3′ i'm quite sure.
may I add that this module has turned me off bio forever. I cannot imagine what possessed the professors to offer it as a General Elective even to people without a background in A levels biology. bloody stupid if you ask me or my 5 other friends struggling with the same module.
March 31, 2009 at 1:45 pm #89943
Hello yrfaith,
I am still quite confused about the whole question. Do you think it is a separate gene? I've been trying to read my textbooks but am very frustrated because I really don't know how to answer the question.
It's lucky that you have friends taking the module with you! I am alone and have no friends with bio background 🙁 I am trying very hard but it's not working….
Perhaps we can discuss the question here? The forum doesn't seem to be too helpful with the annoying troll around.
March 31, 2009 at 4:48 pm #89949
A- Downstrean means in the 3′ direction of the gene (yrfaith is correct)
Read about alternative splicing of mRNA. In short in eukaryotic genes, during mRNA synthesis not all exons are going to the final mRNA, but a selection of them. This allow more than one product to be coded by a single gene. And this explain the different sizes of cDNA that are observed. And this should give you the answer to the question.
B- Your map should be of the DNA, no capping or tailing involved. Just introns and exons. You should also consider the answer to A, because it is important. Name your exons (YFG1 to YFG4) and locate UB2 on the map too.
March 31, 2009 at 4:59 pm #89951
i re-read my post and realised that i seem to be referring to some troll in this forum! 😳 i was actually referring to the one in our module forum!
thank you for the hints canalon, i will definitely work on it tonight. i just hope i would be able to understand 😡
March 31, 2009 at 7:32 pm #89956
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April 1, 2009 at 1:28 pm #89967
hi canalon,
i do not understand why gene UB2 has to be included in my diagram because it appears only after alternative splicing of gene YFG. if i were to include it in the diagram, does it mean that the 1 exon that was not included in the splicing is gene UB2?
i also do not understand the last sentence of the question: "There is no cDNA in your database encoding for a UB2 gene with these 123 amino acids at the N-terminus." is this trying to say that UB2 gene actually does not exist? that it is just the 1 exon that was not included in alternative splicing process?
thank you in advance! 🙂
April 1, 2009 at 4:07 pm #89976
If I answer to the first question, I answer the whole exercise, which would be pointless.
But, alternative splicing in this case is the key. Read carefully:quote :Databases show that there are 3 different lengths of cDNA sequences associated with Gene YFG. One of these cDNA sequences has three out of four exons plus additional nucleotide sequence at the 3' end of the cDNA. This part codes for an extra 123 amino acids. Annotated gene UB2, appears immediately downstream of YFG. UB2 has a single exon coding for 123 amino acids matching the cDNA. There is no cDNA in your database encoding for a UB2 gene with these 123 amino acids at the N-terminus.
What part of the protein is the N-terminus, beginning or end?
So what do you think is UB2. Remebre, annotation are just comments, they can be wrong.
April 1, 2009 at 5:41 pm #89979
hi canalon,
thanks for your hints. i think i know my answer now. ub2 is not a separate gene but the exon that wasn't included in the splicing process. it was annotated as a gene, but may not necessarily a gene. although there is no cDNA in the database encoding for the gene, the 123 amino acids are still coded from the exon. 😀 😀
April 2, 2009 at 3:17 am #89982
You got it. That is why it should be included in the map 🙂
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In an essay posted a few months ago, I spoke about the origin of the verb allow and noted its insecure ties with Latin laudare "to praise." "Allow" and "praise," as it turned out, form a union not only in English. At that that time, I promised to return to the idea underlying the concept of praise and the etymology of the verb praise. Every man, it is said, has his price, and so does every praise.
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Gerhard Gerhard Dück (Dueck), a Russian Mennonite minister, was born 9 September 1863 in Schönau, a Mennonite village in South Russia. He was the oldest son of Gerhard Gerhard Dück (1835-1873), a tailor, and Anna (Kliewer) Dück (1840-1882). He attended the Zentralschule in Orloff for four years, and then taught the village school in Fürstenwerder. The date and place of his baptism are not known. He married Justina Penner (b. 19 February 1866), and became the teacher in Schardau, where their only child, Elizabeth, was born (2 September 1891). In 1894 they moved to Zagradovka. He taught a village school in Nikolaifeld until 1898. Then the family moved to Ufa and took up farming. On 30 June 1902 he was ordained to the ministry by Johann Schartner of Alexanderwohl. In 1910 he resigned from this office, sold his farm, and in 1911 moved to Slavgorod, in the Slavgorod settlement in Siberia. His wife died there in the same year. In the following year he married Helena Toews (b. 26 December 1883), a deaconess in Bethania. This marriage was blessed with three sons and two daughters. In 1923 Dück and his wife moved to the home of their daughter Elizabeth in Goloshevo, Ufa, and in 1924 they went on to Blumstein in South Russia. Though his daughter Elizabeth and his brother and sister succeeded in immigrating to Canada, he was unable to do so on account of eye trouble. For a number of years they lived in a Russian village in Samara. On 27 February 1949, nearly deaf and blind, he died.
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If America's Funniest Home Videos taught us anything, it's that traditional bike wheels will put amateur cyclists on a direct collision course with whatever's directly in front of them. The Sperovelo Rider seems like a much better option for kids, since its large spherical wheels let it move in any direction, and more easily avoid a crash.
A pair of omnidirectional casters serve as training wheels, and can be removed when young'ns get the hang of riding the Sperovelo. But they also prevent it from just toppling over on its own, so you may want to leave them attached no matter what. At a buck shy of $100 the Sperovelo isn't terribly expensive, either, especially if its unique design helps prevent it from bouncing off and destroying all the furniture in your home. [MoMA Store]


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In 3d quantum gravity, Planck's constant, the Planck length and the cosmological constant control the lack of (co)-commutativity of quantities like angular momenta, momenta and postion coordinates. I will explain this statement, using the quantum groups which arise in the 3d quantum gravity but avoiding technical details. The non-commutative structures in 3d quantum gravity are quite different from those in the deformed version of special relativity desribed by the kappa-Poincare group, but can be related to the latter by an operation called semi-dualisation. I will explain this operation, and make comments on its possible physical significance. The talk is based on joint work with Shahn Majid.


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The Vancouver Canucks are going with goalie Cory Schneider when they host the Calgary Flames on Wednesday.
Schneider started Vancouver's season opener on Saturday against Anaheim, but was pulled after allowing five goals on 14 shots. Roberto Luongo played the rest of that game and then started the Canucks' 3-2 shootout loss to Edmonton on Sunday.
Luongo, the Canucks' former No. 1 goalie, is on the trading block after being displaced by Schneider in last season's playoffs.
Canucks general manager Mike Gillis told the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday that a potential trade for Luongo is in place, but he declined to provide any other details.
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This Tyne Tees Television documentary profiles the North East comedian and club entertainer Pauline Patricia Brennan (nee Petty), better known under her stage name, Scarlet O'Hara. She reminisces about her impoverished post-war childhood in the working class Rye Hill area of Scotswood, in Newcastle's West End, her husbands, and the start of her career working as a singer and stand-up comic at working men's clubs and pubs in the region. The programme was originally broadcast on 12th March 1981 as part of the series Northern Scene, later featuring as part of the networked About Britain series.
A highly visual essay on the North East of England, set to a specially composed musical score. A range of images, often using time lapse, double exposure and slow motion, combine in a colourful montage to present an overview of the region's history and development.


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Posts Tagged 'exercise in morning'
I've been starting my day with ample hydration and massive amounts of quality nutrition for 15 years, but so much of society is all about a breakfast of sugar and drugs followed by more sugar and drugs. Some recommendations we often hear (like starting your day with sweet fruit) seem reasonable but actually have side effects that could zap your energy, mood and performance for the rest of the day. Here's my list from the most terrible to the absolute best ways to start your day for maximum health and long lasting physical and mental energy.
The WORST Ways to Start Your Day
Avoid or completely modify these common habits:
Waking up, skipping drinking water and immediately drinking black coffee (a recipe for dehydration, headaches and never feeling quite well)
Toast and other dense carbs for breakfast (unless you like fungal overgrowth, blood sugar rollercoasters and feeling stressed)
Grain-based cereal with conventional milk (more excess carbs and inflammatory ingredients that subtract from your potential)
The HALF-DECENT Ways to Start Your Day
Make these more of an exception than the norm:
Organic fruit based smoothie (for most people this may lead to a sugar crash a couple hours or so later)
Organic fruit juices (juice is still high in sugar, just as high as soda and only moderately nutrient dense – probably only healthful for athletes who will immediately burn it all off – green juices are better, though can contain a significant amount of sugar as well)
The Very BEST Ways to Start Your Day
Do most of these every day forever:
Hydrate with plenty of pure (spring) water first thing (start doing this before bed the night before – it's okay if you have to pee at night, it's natural)
Make a Longevity Power water-based elixir (plenty of recipes here and here)
Wait a while (30 minutes or up to several hours if your blood sugar remains stable) before eating food (this is called intermittent fasting and has so many benefits)
After hydrating, but before eating food, take your current stack of supplements and adaptogenic herbs (most of which do best taken on an empty stomach, though there are many supplements out there that are best taken with food – and most food is best taken with adaptogenic herbs – top ways to consume adaptogens in food)
Make a Bulletproof coffee (if your body does well with coffee and dairy)
Make a Bulletproof style caffeine-free dairy-free blended drink
Make a Longevity Power style shake (like this one, this one, and this one)
A breakfast rich in healthful fat, fiber, protein and nutrition (rather than carbs) for long burning energy, satiation and blood sugar balance
Sunshine all over your eyes and body (get your circadian rhythm and vitamin D levels optimized)
Exercise of al kinds to kick start your metabolism, anti-stress hormones, and circulation for a happy body and brain for the rest of the day


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The best toys for each age
18 to 24 months: from baby to child
Your child is full of energy and loves to move. In parallel to this his manual skilfulness becomes more refined and his imagination gradually develops as his language skills grow. He progresses simultaneously in all areas! You can reply to his different needs with:
- A rocking horse.
- Infant jigsaw puzzles with a few big wooden pieces equipped with a button to grab hold of them.
- Very big beads to thread onto a cord.
- Big wax crayons or finger paint.
- A small musical instrument: piano, xylophone, maracas, etc.
- A wooden train set and/or small cars.
- Plastic animals.
- Cardboard books.


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Pantone Introduces CAPSURE; Lets Design Professionals and Contractors Capture Color Inspiration Anywhere
Accurately Capture and Match the Color of any Surface, Including Hard-to-measure Patterns, Textures and Open-weave Textiles
CARLSTADT, N.J., Oct. 18, 2010 – Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announces CAPSURE™, a compact, handheld device that lets design professionals, contractors, paint retailers and do-it-yourselfers confidently measure and match color inspiration instantly – from small, patterned, multi-colored textures and textiles to walls and carpeting.
Created for professionals in fashion, home furnishings, interior, industrial and graphic design, as well as contractors, paint retailers and do-it-yourselfers, CAPSURE allows users to accurately identify color inspiration from any surface, material or fabric and match it to a PANTONE® Color for easy communication. With unsurpassed accuracy, CAPSURE significantly reduces the time it takes to measure or choose a color from a sample or any other form of color inspiration.
"CAPSURE's advanced image capture technology sets a new standard for accuracy and versatility in a portable device," said Giovanni Marra, director of corporate marketing at Pantone. "The real power of CAPSURE is its ability to measure the color of any surface, including small, patterned and multi-colored textures and textiles, which can confound other instruments because of their textural complexity, and quickly match them to more than 8,000 PANTONE Colors."
The device uses powerful tri-directional image capture technology that eliminates the shadows and interference inherent to patterned and textured materials and surfaces. By illuminating the surface being measured from three different directions while simultaneously recording 27 color-accurate images in 1.6 seconds, CAPSURE can extract up to four dominant colors from an intricate pattern so the viewer can clearly identify the desired color.
"I am constantly inspired and, believe it or not, have actually started carrying CAPSURE in my bag to capture color inspiration wherever I am – it's as easy to use as an iPhone™," said Peter Som, American women's wear designer. "Pantone has managed to marry the design process with cutting-edge technology in this one tool – my design team and I are obsessed!"
"In the business of color matching tricky fabrics, patterns and plastics on-site, it's tough to trust my own eyes and harder still to be weighed down with multiple fan decks," said Jeff Miller, owner of Jeff Miller Design. "Pantone's portable CAPSURE device takes me right to the PANTONE Color number with one click, then provides dozens of additional PANTONE Color options and complementary colors which are all stored for easy use and reference in CAPSURE."
CAPSURE's image capture technology lets professionals preview what they are measuring on its 1.75-inch color screen, in real time, to affirm image accuracy. Those images are then stored on the device for later reference. CAPSURE has the ability to record the last 100 colors measured for later reference. Users can also annotate colors with a voice recording as well as a time and date stamp. Additionally, the device provides harmonious shades and identifies related colors that are lighter, darker or similar in tone to the identified color.
CAPSURE comes pre-loaded with all PANTONE Color Libraries allowing users to match more than 8,000 colors with a single device. Users can also toggle across multiple PANTONE Libraries and cross-match any material or surface. CAPSURE includes:
Users can also upload fan decks from popular paint manufacturers, at an additional cost, to match the color of an inspirational item in paint.
For convenient remote use, the device is powered by a rechargeable lithium battery that lasts for thousands of measurements on a single charge.
CAPSURE Palette Application Software
The CAPSURE Palette Application Software provides convenient access to saved color measurements, details and tags, and allows users to view measured color samples with selectable lighting conditions on their computer screen. Users can also create palettes with their favorite shades or custom palettes for a specific project. All palettes can be synchronized with popular design applications including Adobe® Creative Suite®, QuarkXPress® and CorelDRAW®.
CAPSURE Sync
CAPSURE Sync ensures that CAPSURE is always updated with the most current color selections, new color ranges and specialty collections.
Pricing and Availability
CAPSURE is available immediately for U.S. $649 at www.pantone.com. Paint libraries can be purchased for an additional cost at www.xrite.com or through the CAPSURE Sync function. CAPSURE Sync is available for both PC and Mac users and is included, free-of-charge, with each CAPSURE device. The Palette Application Software is available for download, free-of-charge, upon product registration. The Palette Application Software is PC-compatible; Macintosh support is expected in January 2011.
About Pantone
Pantone LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, has been the world's color authority for almost 50 years, providing design professionals with products and services for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. Always a source for color inspiration, Pantone also offers designer-inspired products and services for consumers. More information is available at www.pantone.com.
About X-Rite
X-Rite, Incorporated, is the global leader in color science and technology. The company, which now includes color industry leader Pantone, develops, manufacturers, markets and supports innovative color solutions through measurement systems, software, color standards and services. X-Rite's expertise in inspiring, selecting, measuring, formulating, communicating and matching color helps users get color right the first time and every time, which translates to better quality and reduced costs. X-Rite serves a range of industries, including printing, packaging, photography, graphic design, video, automotive, paints, plastics, textiles, dental and medical. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com.
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Art and Music - A Little Video
I have no idea who sings this or does the artwork, but I love it. Just felt like sharing.
I have no idea who sings this or does the artwork, but I love it. Just felt like sharing.
Little Miss loves to color and ever since she discovered the joy of taping up her colorings on the wall, she is even more excited to do more and more (and more and more . . .)
I thought I'd share the latest:
So, remember the Magpie Patterns/Progressive Pioneer giveaway I won awhile back? I got the goods the other day. And yes, I really felt like a winner. I may or may not have jumped up and down with the overstuffed envelope when Mr. Skooks handed it to me.
And since you're simply DYING to know what I picked out of the vast wealth of adorable patterns available, I'll let you in so you can
drown in jealousy celebrate with me.
No surprise on this first one. As I alluded to when I assumed I wasn't going to win, I went ahead and got this:
Here's a little visual of how a sewing machine works. Something I just take for granted when I sit down and let Connie (my Singer Quantum Confidence 7470 for those of you not yet familiarized with her) do her thang. Just felt like sharing. Because I spend way too much time looking at randomness on the ole inter-web.
Determined to put both some new patterns and my new serger to work, I wrecked myself on sleep this weekend. As in, I was having such a good time sewing that I managed to stay up until almost 6 am on Saturday morning. And would you look at that, it's 4:15 in the morning now on Sunday. Yes, I'm a mom of young children and no longer a college student. I'm gonna be a mess
tomorrow today.
Ah, but it was so much fun!
I had been playing around with my new scissors and cut apart 5 t-shirts a few weekends ago. As you may recall, my effort at making them into something new didn't really pan out at that time. But armed with my new serger (and a free weekend), I put myself to the test. I had purchased a Recycled T-Shirt Halter Dress Pattern from lilblueboo and was thrilled that I finally had a worthy reason to dip into my giant T stash.
Sidebar: In high school, college, and through most of my 20s I was a major
hoarder collector of Ts. All kinds of em. I know a lot of people out there do this so it's kind of lame to say it was my thing. Except it kinda was my thing. My hands down best find was in a Goodwill back in college: a navy blue tee with neon green writing of the W.C. Fields quote, "Never cheat an honest man; never give a sucker an even break, and never wise up a chump." Such a completely random thing. Don't know who would've owned the shirt previous or where the world they would have gotten it in the first place, but I was glad to find it. To be honest, I didn't even realize it was a W.C. Fields thing until I was watching the old movie it's from with my dad a few years ago and recognized the quote. End of Sidebar.
Anyway, I completely took over the entirety of the downstairs. Our dining room table became (as Mr. Skooks dubbed it) my sewing factory. What he actually said was, "You used to just sew. Now you've got a whole sewing factory set up downstairs. It's kind of taking over." He was absolutely correct. Here's a small peek:
One thing that continually bothers me the more I get into sewing is my sheer lack of time. I have 2 kids under the age of 3 who keep me *very* busy. I also work from home. As it stands, my whole dining room table is overflowing with craft supplies and patterns. There is also a beautiful new SERGER sitting amongst the piles just BEGGING me to come play. But where is the time?
Yes, yes, YES. I got myself a serger (the Brother 1034D) with my Christmas money. It arrived at my doorstep on Friday, just hours before I was set to take off for the weekend. One of my sisters lives on the east coast and was taking a trip to visit our parents, so our clan drove down to Chicago for the festivities. It was a fantastic weekend! Lots of laughter, some good game-playing (ever heard of Words of Wiz-Dumb? With the right people, this is a HILARIOUS game), and my sister got to get some kiddo time in with my 2 nieces, Little Miss, and Kee-ku. I am so glad we went and would not trade our time together for anything.
With that being said, the weekends are usually my only opportunities to get my craft on. Oftentimes whatever work I can't get to while Mr. Skooks is at work (and I'm home alone with the kids), gets done late at night after we have had dinner and spent some time together in the evenings as a family. These are the choices that I make. And I'm not lamenting family time. I'm not even lamenting work. In this economy, I truly know daily how blessed I am to even have a job, let alone one that allows me to be with my kids all day. But something has to get pushed to the back-burner, and in my case my sewing exploits get the shaft.
With all this in mind, I have decided to set myself some goals. Because I so very much want to do more and learn more and, for the love, I want to play with my new serger! So I am proposing this to myself: I'd like to enter a few contests. For fun. With the understanding that this is something that I am doing for myself. I think they will motivate me to try new things and will put me under a little bit of pressure to actually get some projects done. At the moment I have 4 or 5 projects going, and between all the blogs I read and books and magazines on sewing I have acquired in the last few months, I have PLENTY of ideas. No lack of inspiration here.
Maybe you'd like to push yourself a bit too? Check into these contests I am (planning on) entering. I am not assuming I will win nor am I even necessarily trying to win. I just want to participate and hook up with others to see what directions they decide to take with their crafts. Keep in mind I have done nothing towards actually making anything to enter yet, so I need a couple "you-can-do-it"s from y'all to get me going. ;)
3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
People are never really sure if they have milk. You think you have milk, you might have.
"I know there's a carton in there, I don't know how much is in it."
"Well, what shall we do?"
'Cause you wanna be sure. There's nothing worse than thinking you have milk and not having it. You know, you got the bowl setup, the cereal, the spoon, the napkin, the TV, the newspaper, everything's ready to go. You lift up the carton and it's too light.
"Oh, no! Too light!"
Perhaps I should write more blog posts about all the giveaways I assume I'll lose. Maybe that's the ticket. Why, you may ask?
Because when I opened my email this evening I had a lovely message waiting for me from Amy at the Progressive Pioneer:
Hello!I may have done the happy dance a little too abruptly (Kee-ku was on my lap and got a might bit startled by the whole thing). Yes, that's $50 in pattern money for me!
Congratulations; you're the winner of the Magpie Patterns gift certificate! I'll forward your email to them and let them tell you how to proceed.
Happy crafting!
I started this post off with the intention of telling you why it is that I did not get any farther on my *t-shirt deconstruction into fabulous and funky child's dress* this weekend. So let me start there.
Although my materials were laid out on the dining room table (my official "staging area") waiting for me to sew the pieces together, I was finding it hard to begin. You see, after I wrote this post about what to do with my $125 sewing fund, I got the go-ahead from Mr. Skooks to purchase a serger. I was BEYOND excited. He had come into the office/playroom/multipurpose room no less than 8 times while I was reading up on reviews for this little Brother machine and asked me about the price. Realizing the difference between what it cost and what I already had, he told me to just go for it. All this after I had tried to explain the difference between a sewing machine and a serger and why it's not an either/or kind of decision. (He asked me several times with a quizzical look: "Does that mean you're getting rid of your sewing machine?" Um . . . NO. I believe I've mentioned more than once how much I am in love with my sewing machine.)
So I was off! With an extra spring in my step, I was off to Jo-Ann with my gift card in hand, ready to take the plunge into serger-hood. The problem started when I got there and skipped into the sewing machine department. Not a Brother in sight. Just a chipper sales gal who was quite taken aback when I asked where the Brother machines were.
Chipper Sales Gal, sounding less than chipper: We don't sell Brother machines here.
Me: Really? That's odd. I actually came here to get it because I see that it's on sale on the website. I should have called first, I guess.
CSG: What website?
Me: Umm . . .the Jo-Ann website? (I felt like an idiot, but as you can see, I was correct.)
CSG: Are you sure?
Me: Yeah. It's the only reason I drove out here actually. Well, that and I need some spray starch.
CSG: We're a Huskvarna/Pfaff/Viking/Singer retailer. I don't know why they would be selling our competition.
Me: Yeah, I have absolutely no idea (glancing around at the other sergers that were out and seeing that the cheapest one was over $1,000). It's ok though, I'll just order it online I guess.
After this, CSG tried to redirect me to the lower-end Singer model that they had on sale for $20 more than the Brother I had been looking at online. While it did look all shiny and new (and would have looked perfectly at home with Connie since it was a Singer after all), I wasn't giving in. You see, I'm a research-a-holic. It's to the point where when I come to Mr. Skooks with an idea for something, he usually needs very little coaxing since he knows how I
obsess over pride myself on being an informed shopper. I had read reviews on the Singer model and, without being rude, listed some of the pros and cons of this one over that one. She could see that I wasn't going to change my mind (though the fact that Jo-Ann offers free classes to get you acquainted with and troubleshoot your machine - should you buy from them - is a very sensible idea), and I went about my not-so-merry way to find the spray starch.
By the time I got home, I had decided 2 things:
Mr. Skooks has extremely generous parents and grandparents. For Christmas this year Grandma and Grandpa gave me a $50 gift card to Jo-Ann. Woot! If that wasn't exciting enough, my wonderful in-laws gave me a check for $75 to be spent on *sewing supplies*. Woot Woot! (Yes, they specified its use right in the lil memo line.) Permission to spend $$ on sewing? Permission granted!
Now comes the plotting. And the scheming. How much can I get for $125? Do I go for quantity (explore the ole notions wall and go wild)? Do I go for fabric (dare I say that even with my limited quilting experience that I'd like to buy my first jelly roll - or 2 - or 3)? Do I get some schmancy snippers, thread snips, and/or a better seam ripper a la Gingher? New books filled with patterns/inspiration? Or do I pony up some of my own dough and put it towards a serger? My goodness I would like a serger. I just demolished 5 t-shirts for a dress-making project for Little Miss and a serger would finish it off *so* deliciously.
What would you do? I have been to Jo-Ann twice since Christmas and have yet to put the money down on the counter for anything. Too indecisive.
For reals. What would you get if someone was forcing you to spend money on creative stuff? (Yes, they are making me spend money on myself. Woe is me. :P )
P.S. I wasn't kidding about the t-shirts. They will never return to their former glory. And they WILL be made into something(s) new this weekend. With or without a serger.
Came across this amazing post. Realizing there should be more hours in the day with which to create.
So many many more.
This charming fable for our times celebrates the joy of giving. A generous quiltmaker, with magic in her fingers, sews the most beautiful quilts in the world, then gives them away. A greedy king, his storehouse stuffed with treasures, yearns for something that will make him happy . . . Will the quiltmaker sew a quilt for the king? Will the king ever learn to share? Can the quiltmaker teach the king to be happy? What will the king do with all his splendid things? Look for clues to the story in the quilts.For anyone looking for a beautifully drawn story that captures the spirit of generosity and selflessness, check this one out. (Upon first glance it may seem a bit wordy for a 2 year old, but in L.M.'s case, the elaborate illustrations keep her fixated long after the text has been read.)
For the last few days I have been away celebrating the close of the year 2009 and the opening of the year 2010 with some of my best friends in the world. They are not the ones I see on a regular basis. In fact, none of them even live in the same state as me (not anymore anyway). We all went to college together and have been gathering to celebrate the dawn of the new year as a group since NYE 2004. I'm borrowing the words of one of them to give you an accurate idea of who they are to me as I'm sure she won't mind: these are the SOUL friends. Honestly, it makes me so happy that we do this every NYE that my countdown to the next year starts immediately when the clock strikes 12 and the goofy ball drops. Oh, but how I wish there was a way to gather all the people who bring real joy into your heart and make them live by you forever. If you know of such a way, please tell me. I'd also like to be able to do this with my family, all of whom live in different places about the U.S. [sniff]
Anyway, NYE. It's been a thing since that first time back when we were on the brink of 2005 that every year we came up with a theme for the new year. This theme usually came out of something idiotic either said, done, or seen sometime during the NYE weekend. A few years ago we decided that we needed to integrate more crafty exploits in our lives and it became our theme. The goal the next year was not nearly as fun (or memorable . . . it's not coming to me at the moment what it was . . .), so we decided that in addition to the agreed upon goal we would continue to add in the creative good times. Last year we did this by customizing an old Clue board with our own twists (customized playing pieces and cards included).
This year we did it by making *BUTTONS*.
Our hostess had procured a Badge a Minit kit from her church which we used to forever memorialize the idiocy that is NYE with the Superfriends. Not the cartoon. We're such a force to be reckoned with, it's what we've dubbed ourselves. Before I share with you one example of the genius that is button-making, I must relay a little story from our weekend together:
It is New Year's Day 2010 . . . the time is maybe 9am? I wake up to the sounds of several people trying to get into the room I'm sleeping in. I am ridiculously tired (Kee-ku was a bit challenging to put to sleep on NYE) and wonder why there is so much fiddling with the door. As far as I know it locks automatically when it shuts, but the rest of the friends have the key. I finally peel my eyes open and jump out of bed as I'm now fearing that all this fumbling with the lock is going to wake Kee-ku who is still sleeping in the room with me. I open the door to Mr. Skooks whose first words are, "I have really bad news." It's New Year's Day 2010. Bad news already? Oy.
Here's the story. At 3am, some idiot decided to break into our car. This was discovered by our hostess who noticed the broken window as she was taking the trash out to the dumpster. The nasty brick that was used to gain entry into our old (but very important to us!) mini-van was still laying on the driver's seat. Glass was everywhere. And although there was $20 cash in the glove box (which was rifled through), and 2 iPods in plain view (don't ask me why), the only thing they took was the GPS which had been stashed under the seat. The GPS that we borrowed from work. Ugh. We haven't had an incident with our van since we acquired it a few years ago, so I wasn't sure what the insurance coverage *exactly* was anymore. I was figuring we had a deductible and some of our modest Christmas bonus was about to be spent on some yahoo's thievery. To make a long story short(er), it turns out we had coverage for just such an incident and our window was fixed and a promise was made by our insurance agent that we would get a new GPS in the mail. More times than not being able to find the comedy in the tragedy, this little guy was made and given to Mr. Skooks as a remembrance of the event:


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