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What is Fenugreek?
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is an herbal supplement that is claimed to be useful for a broad range of various conditions, without any substantial scientific evidence, from baldness, constipation, and heartburn to diabetes, cholesterol and erectile dysfunction. The focus here, is the widely held belief among lactation advisors, nursing mothers and other birth professionals that fenugreek helps to stimulate milk production and supply.
The fact is, there is not enough evidence to suggest that fenugreek is effective for any use. Of the few studies that have been done, they have been small and inconclusive. So, does the fact that there is no data or research mean that fenugreek has no benefit? No, not inherently. Similarly, just because it is an herb and "natural"does not mean that it is safe.
Milk Supply and Galactagogues
First, let's explore the idea of increasing milk supply. Initially establishing supply is a specific and balanced dance of hormones and receptors that begins the moment the placenta is delivered. Milk supply is determined by the removal of milk from the breasts and the interplay of prolactin (which produces the milk) and oxytocin (which releases the milk). Frequent nursing is directly associated with greater infant weight gain. (DeCarvalho)1
As Americans, we often look to something outside of us to find a solution, often that's in the form of a pill, whether prescribed or purchased at a health food store. Often, the answers lie within us or in behaviors such is the case with breastfeeding. It is far more effective for a mother struggling with supply to work with a lactation professional and look at all aspects of her nursing relationship. For example: How often is the baby being fed? Is the mother expressing her milk and how? How much milk is being removed from her breast at each feeding (determined by weighing baby before and after a feed)? Most important is a mother's confidence. With desire, confidence and early breastfeeding support, a healthy, rewarding nursing relationship with a sufficiently plentiful supply is more likely.
Millions of women across nations and generations, living under impoverished conditions, famine, holocaust and natural disasters, are able to produce and supply their infants with their own human milk regardless of the mother's nutritional status. Advice that guides nursing mothers to drink more to be able to produce more milk is erroneous: "Encouraging women to drink excessively has no effect upon lactation, either in terms of yield or composition of milk." (Dearlove)2 Healthy eating and balanced nutrition are good advice throughout the life cycle, however, this directive during lactation benefits the mother and her long term health but does not impact milk supply.
Is there really such a thing, then, as a galactagogue, an external substance believed to increase milk supply? The American Heritage Medical Dictionary defines galactagogue as "an agent that promotes the secretion and flow of milk." Many elements that are believed to help milk supply are based in cultural lore and not supported through research. In a literature review of galactagogues, Anderson and Valdes3 concluded that
"If mothers are provided education and practice techniques that support lactation physiology, galactagogues appear to have little or no added benefit." It has long been purported that fenugreek is a galactagogue, but it has never been proven to help milk supply and may have worrisome side effects."
Side Effects
Some reported side effects of fenugreek include diarrhea, gas, indigestion, heartburn and unusual smelling skin and urine (like maple syrup). More serious, but more rare, side effects can indicate internal bleeding such as black, tarry or bright red stools, or vomiting blood or can indicate a bleed in the brain (hemorrhagic stroke) such as vision or speech changes, severe headache or weakness or numbness in the arms or legs. As with any herbs, always be aware of allergic reactions.
It's important to note that fenugreek is a legume and those who have peanut allergies may experience a cross-reaction. Dr. Frederick Leickly, an allergist, writes in his blog about a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) which concluded that a sensitization to fenugreek was believed to have been caused by a peanut allergy in patients. He also noted in his practice a reverse effect, "that the fenugreek may have worked in the opposite direction – fenugreek exposure causing sensitization to the other legumes," meaning it is possible that the use of fenugreek may create an allergy to peanuts or other legumes.
In Mosby's Handbook of Herbs and Natural Supplements, by Linda Skidmore-Roth, it states that Fenugreek "may cause reduced absorption of all medications used concurrently." This could cause harm in a mother taking medication for thyroid function, blood pressure or birth control pills.
Traditionally, fenugreek has been used to stimulate labor, so it could potentially cause preterm labor or miscarriage if taken during pregnancy. Fenugreek is classified as category 4 for pregnancy which is defined as "no increase in frequency of malformation or other harmful effects on the fetus from limited use in women. Evidence of increased fetal damage in animal studies exists, although the relevance to humans in unknown." It is classified as a category 2A for breastfeeding which is defined as "compatible with breastfeeding."
As with all herbs, fenugreek has not been tested or verified by the FDA for safety, effectiveness or purity; there have been cases when herbal supplements have been contaminated with toxic metals or other drugs. There is no official standard or oversight of manufacturing.
It is not fully known whether fenugreek can harm a nursing infant and it is not proven to have any positive effect on milk supply or nursing. Focusing on breastfeeding support and education as well as working with nursing moms to empower them and build confidence are effective ways to help a mother establish and maintain a nursing relationship.
© Copyright 2011 Leah DeCesare
1. De Carvalho, M et al: Effect of frequent breastfeeding on early milk production and infant weight gain. Ped 72(3) Sep 1983.
2. Dearlove, J C & Dearlove, B M: Prolactin fluid balance and lactation. Br J Obstet Gyn 88:652-54, 1981.
3. Anderson and Valdes, 2007, A Critical review of Pharmaceutical Galactagogues. Breastfeeding Medicine, 2(4), 229-242.


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This month has been quite the month for change in my family. The changes that we are experiencing did not end with the birth of our baby girl two weeks ago. My employment is changing too. Along with the employment change comes another change – moving back to Utah.
My wife and I feel that it is considerably better for our family to live in Utah closer to extended family. The schools are better, we have family, and more room to grow. The added benefit is that my car windows are less likely to be shot out while living in Utah (as has happened to me pulling into my driveway here in Las Vegas).
Since we are moving, and my employer is in Las Vegas, it stands to reason that my job would be changing too. My employer has been gracious enough to allow me to telecommute part time from Utah (woohoo). I also am working on filling in the work gaps with some other projects / contracts. This is a step in the direction of becoming a consultant and running my own business. All of that actually makes me nervously excited.
Here's to changes and here's to Happy Holidays. Both of these changes are huge gifts for my family. My children are extremely excited to be able to live closer to cousins and grandparents (not to mention aunts and uncles).

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Modern socialism emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in France and England at a time when classical liberalism was beginning to have an impact with reforms such as the First Electoral Reform Act of 1832 and the success of the Anti-Corn Law League. The success of socialist ideas in the revolutions of 1848 meant that classical liberals increasingly had to turn their attention to combatting calls for government intervention in the economy from the "Left" as Frederic Bastiat did in the last few years of his life. As classical liberalism began to decline in the late 19th century it fell to a handful of radical individualists like Thomas Mackay and Herbert Spencer to oppose the gradualist, Fabian school of socialism in Britain, and to strict laissez-faire advocates like Eugen Richter in the German parliament. It was only after the rise of the Bolsheviks to power in Russia after the First World War that the most coherent and devastating critique of socialism appeared in the work of Ludwig von Mises and later in that of Friedrich Hayek.
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Authors: Campbell, M. M.
Date: June 26, 1860
This letter, written by M. M. Campbell from Monrovia, Kansas Territory, requested information about the progress of colportage in the Osawatomie area, asking if they had divided the area into districts and appointed colporteurs to distribute religious materials to Kansas settlers. To encourage this, Campbell mentioned the great success of other colporteurs, such as Brother Blood from Manhattan, Kansas. He also encouraged the residents of Osawatomie to remain faithful to their duty as Christians, and to work for the furtherance of the kingdom. Campbell requested more detailed information about the local Bible Society.
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This worries me. I don't think it's a coincidence that it's only a month or two after Obama told the world in the Czech Republic that he wants to disarm the United States of all nuclear weapons, and recently put a known very left-wing peacenik and Russian apologist (Rose Gottemoeller, see previous post) in charge of arms treaties.
It's not a near-term threat, but if this country gives up all its nuclear arms, this world is headed for a disaster of Armageddon-like proportions. Give it 10 or 20 years. China won't give up theirs, for instance, and their ambitions go far beyond China.
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GENEVA (AP) -- The 65-nation Conference on Disarmament broke a dozen years of deadlock Friday and opened the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty.
Diplomats welcomed the adoption of a ''program of work'' as a breakthrough for the conference, which has been stalemated since it wrote the nuclear test ban treaty in 1996.
The program refers to nuclear disarmament in general, but it indicates a top candidate for a new treaty is one to ban production of so-called ''fissile materials'' -- highly enriched uranium and plutonium -- needed to create atomic weapons.
Ambassador Idriss Jazairy of Algeria, who as chairman of the conference pushed for adoption of the program, said the breakthrough came in part because of support by the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China.
''Terrific result,'' British Ambassador John Duncan wrote in a tweet on the Twitter micro-blogging site. He credited Jazairy with ''getting international work on nuclear disarmament restarted in Geneva.''
Even North Korea, which only this week tested its second nuclear bomb, endorsed the program of work.
An Myong Hun, a diplomat with the North Korean delegation, told the conference, ''The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has decided to support the draft decision in order for the conference to be able to start its substantive work.''
This decision was taken even though the U.N. Security Council continues to criticize North Korea, An said, adding that moves to acquire a nuclear arsenal were solely for self-defense.
He said it remains the country's policy to achieve total nuclear disarmament, but nuclear weapons states have to lead the way.
Iran, which has been accused of trying to develop nuclear weapons, said it had sent the accord to Tehran, but had yet to receive instructions.
Garold Larson, the head of the U.S. delegation, joined in the praise for Jazairy and other mediators and said delegates were looking forward to the work, ''which will surely be challenging.''
The United States has long backed proposals for a fissile materials treaty, but was credited with helping break the logjam by shifting its position to support a verifiable accord.
President Barack Obama said in Prague, Czech Republic, last month, ''The United States will seek a new treaty that verifiably ends the production of fissile materials intended for use in state nuclear weapons.''
On Friday, Obama welcomed an agreement by the conference to open the way to negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty.
He said the decision signals a commitment to work together on what he calls a fundamental challenge. He also said he's committed to working with other governments to help complete the treaty quickly, saying such a treaty is an essential element of his vision for a world free of nuclear weapons.
Previously the Bush administration had rejected verification, arguing that inspections and monitoring were insufficient.
Russia and China also joined in the endorsement of the program and expressed hope for substantive work to get under way.
The program also takes into account a concern of many non-nuclear nations that the negotiations should consider existing stockpiles of fissile materials.
The accord balances different interests of countries that have been deeply divided over the future path of arms negotiations since the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was approved nearly 13 years ago. The conference in earlier years negotiated a treaty on chemical weapons.
Many non-nuclear countries have long wanted the conference to negotiate nuclear disarmament, but the United States led objections by arguing that it was unsuitable for a negotiations among many countries. It noted it already has been negotiating effectively with the Russians to reduce their stockpiles and that such talks between two powers was the best way to go.
By coincidence, the U.S. and Russia are scheduled to continue talks in Geneva next week on extending the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, which expires at the end of the year.
The Conference on Disarmament also set up a working group on the ''prevention of an arms race in outer space,'' a favorite proposal of Russia and China, which have cited fears that the United States was trying to ''weaponize'' space.
Another working group will tackle a concern of non-nuclear countries, that they be given assurances by other countries of protection against the use or threat of attack with nuclear weapons.


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The New Ed-Tech Leader Models by Digital Example
Turning vision into action
For the Burlington public schools in Massachusetts, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Larkin is the face of an ambitious effort to roll out educational technology at all levels. He has pushed the 3,000-student district into the second year of a 1-to-1 iPad initiative at its high school, he is giving high school students a pivotal role in serving as technology troubleshooters, and he runs a monthly "tech night" for parents to teach them the skills their children are learning in school. Beyond that, Larkin designed a special "playtime" after professional-development sessions to let teachers experiment with new technologies, alongside experts who offer guidance.
But Larkin, who oversees curriculum and technology, isn't just prodding others in his district to go high-tech. He is modeling the commitment by blogging and tweeting regularly about ed-tech problems and solutions, and relying on his own virtual network of peers and experts he can reach out to for advice at any time, primarily via Twitter.
Larkin embodies the belief among a growing number of school administrators that getting educators to embrace digital teaching and learning, and to use technology more effectively, requires leading by example. That approach, he believes, is the path to better leadership.
A 2012 report from Project RED, or Revolutionizing Education, a national ed-tech research and advocacy organization, further emphasizes the vital role of leadership in making educational technology efforts more effective. It found that high-quality leadership was "essential" to better use of technology, and that schools whose leaders had properly implemented 1-to-1 programs, for example, saw significant improvements in everything from test scores to dropout rates, over both schools without such programs and those without properly implemented programs.
But many school and district leaders are still unprepared for the shift in thinking and leadership attributes that such technology initiatives require, says Scott McLeod, the director of innovation for the Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency, which partners with 45 Iowa school districts. He is on leave from his position as the founding director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education, or CASTLE, based at Iowa State University in Ames.
"I'm astounded that it's 2012, and we're still having conversations about really basic stuff, like you shouldn't block Google. It's disheartening," he says, speaking in an interview late last year. However, he adds: "I think we see most school leaders these days less resistant to ed tech than they were. Some are finally recognizing that the tech landscape is here to stay."
There are examples of educational leaders who have fully endorsed the integration of technology into the school day and are modeling how to make that happen. And there are characteristics and techniques that successful leaders in the ed-tech field share—everything from risk-taking to regularly using pilot projects to test initiatives before expanding them.
As the march toward using online assessments for the Common Core State Standards in 2014-15 continues, those leadership traits and strategies will become even more important, says Rowland Baker, the executive director of the Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership, or TICAL, a statewide effort to promote ed-tech leadership.
"We're moving into a whole new area, and we're going to have to make a quantum leap," Baker says.
It was once enough for school and district leaders to surround themselves with people who understood technology, but the leaders themselves didn't necessarily need deep technology know-how. That is changing, some say.
It's now critical for principals and superintendents to demonstrate appropriate technology use and innovation for others in their schools and districts, says Spike Cook, the principal of the 300-student R.M. Bacon Elementary School in Millville, N.J.
"Modeling is crucial. If you want your kids and teachers to be users of 21st-century tools, … you have to show that you can do it too," he says. "It shows that I'm still a teacher—I can still instruct and still learn."
Cook has been at Bacon Elementary—where 80 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch—for only about a year, but during that time he has made it a point to spur teacher and student interest in using technology for learning. At faculty meetings, he often presents potentially useful tech tools he's discovered.
Over the summer, for instance, Cook learned how to use iMovie, a software program that people can use to take videos and turn them into well-organized films. He used his iPad to make a movie trailer for the district promoting the kickoff of the new academic year and posted it on YouTube. The local newspaper wrote about it.
During his first faculty meeting at Bacon, Cook told the teachers he had created the trailer on his iPad in just a few hours. Afterward, his school's 5th grade teachers borrowed the iPad and made their own welcome-back iMovie. Another teacher used the device to have students make movie trailers about books they'd read.
Every two weeks, Cook schedules "Tech Friday" before school, in which teachers can highlight a particular app, software program, or technological device, or simply ask questions of others about various ed-tech tools or approaches. Sometimes, students give presentations about new technologies to the teachers during those sessions.
Cook also blogs regularly about his school's tech use and school issues, and though he's never mandated that his teachers blog, he's made sure they've seen its power. "Teachers have started their own blogs highlighting activities in the classroom," he says. "I never told them to do it, but I said, 'Wouldn't it be nice if a parent could find out what their child is doing?'"
A hallmark of successful ed-tech leadership is introducing rapid-fire pilot projects, working out the kinks, and scaling up quickly if the pilots are effective, says Pamela Moran, the superintendent of the 13,200-student Albemarle County schools in Charlottesville, Va.
Last school year, through Twitter, Moran learned about CoderDojo, a global initiative to bring students and teachers together informally to learn about computer programming. The mathematical thinking students use in the CoderDojo program often spurs academic improvements in math classes, Moran says.
Albemarle County scheduled a four-day CoderDojo event over the summer, just before the start of 2012-13 school year, and set aside 50 slots for students. Within two minutes of advertising the opportunity via social networking, 50 students were signed up. Within four minutes, the list had grown to 200 students, which spiked to 900 in two days.
"We could have told all those parents 'no,' but we ended up expanding the number of teachers to accommodate 200 kids," Moran says. The event included elementary students working with high school students and teachers.
Because it was so successful, the district has now put CoderDojos in place at schools across the district.
"We don't talk about five-year strategic plans anymore, and sometimes we have to adapt our priorities in the middle of the year," Moran says. "Instead of spending two years beating an idea to death to figure out if we can do it or not, we just do it. You make some mistakes, but it allows you to scale up quickly."
Moran has also given staff members at each school the flexibility to set up a CoderDojo in a way that works well there. That approach of "high standards, but not standardization" is a characteristic of successful ed-tech projects, according to several leaders in the field.
The ability to adapt, even when pilot projects don't work as first envisioned, is crucial, says Skip Johnson, the principal of the 210-student El Crystal Elementary School in San Bruno, Calif. "Seventy-five percent of what you learn is from making mistakes," he says.
For example, when his school started an iPod audiobook project several years ago, teachers loaded one book at a time, and when a student had finished listening to it, he or she came back for another. But students were flying through books and got frustrated when they couldn't move immediately to another one. So teachers instead made "playlists" of books that increased in complexity with each successive book.
"At first, we were treating the iPod like a regular library book, when in fact it was designed to do something else," Johnson says.
Johnson makes it a high priority to give his teachers flexibility with technology to experiment and use the tools in ways that work best for their teaching styles and their students. When some of his administrators and teachers were given iPads, Johnson deliberately did not tell them which apps they needed. He gave them each a budget of $500 and told them to experiment and then share information about apps that worked well.
"That's opposed to me buying 40 of them and the teachers saying they're garbage," he says.
Of course, not all pilot projects work, and it's vital to cut losses quickly. Johnson saw some software he thought would work well as an electronic bulletin board for data collected by teachers and piloted it in one class. Teachers didn't like it, though, and the venture was scrapped after about a month.
So far, school officials feel El Crystal's culture of innovation is having a significant impact on student learning. The school's API score— California's state testing measurement—increased 65 points from last school year, to 870 this school year, the highest it's ever been. Johnson attributes the boost directly to better use of learning technologies.
But Daniel Lyttle, an assistant principal at the nearby 815-student Parkside Intermediate School, which has also seen success related to technology initiatives, acknowledges that what's happening in those schools is not the norm. Many school and district leaders feel uncomfortable with educational technology because it's so different from their own educational experiences.
"This is all very scary stuff that the kids know, but we don't know," Lyttle says.
Indeed, some educators are reluctant to try out new and sometimes unproven technology techniques for fear of doing harm to a student's experience or of violating some policy about how to use technology, says Barbara Nemko, the superintendent of schools for California's Napa County Office of Education, which oversees five area school districts.
"We're timid," she says, noting that educators in her state are fearful of a precedent set by a San Francisco superior court ruling, which requires equity for students in core subjects. Some educators have taken that to mean that students must have access to the same technology, making them reluctant, for example, to adopt "bring your own device," or BYOD, programs in schools, Nemko says.
"Human beings are risk-averse, but we can't let our timidity stand in the way of providing the best possible education," she says.
To complicate matters, Nemko says, she often sees educators buying new technologies without a clear goal for their use. Technology should be a tool to reach an educational goal, not the goal itself, she says.
One of the preschools in her area wanted to use a literacy software program with English-language learners, but it was only deliverable through the iPad. So the district started a small summer pilot program with 16 students using iPads and collected data to show it worked. The lead kindergarten teacher, despite thinking the project was a "dumb idea," observed the pilot and, "by the end of day two, she became our biggest cheerleader," Nemko says. The teacher demanded that every kindergartner in her school get an iPad.
Now they each have a device. The kindergartners use the iPads to improve language and handwriting, and teachers note that the pupils, particularly ELL students, are more verbal and collaborative, Nemko says. But she emphasizes that the project wasn't about the iPad—it was about delivering programs that improved students' educational experiences.
Some education leaders may be wary of putting ambitious ed-tech initiatives in place because their test scores are stable and high, says Cook. "What would force someone to change if their results are saying what they're doing is excellent?" he asks. "But are they preparing the students for jobs that don't exist yet?"
Though all school leaders need to think about standardized testing and test scores, many are using alternative methods to determine whether their technology initiatives are having the impact they seek.
In Virginia's Albemarle County, Moran says she goes beyond standardized testing to evaluate success, looking at evaluating "authentic assessments" conducted by teachers. That means, for example, using analytical reading assessments or determining whether students can write in powerful ways.
Focusing on traditional state testing, "we may end up with kids who pass tests, but those are not children who love learning," Moran says.
Larkin of Massachusetts' Burlington schools says his district examines test results, "but our goal in doing this [technology initiative] is not to improve" state test scores. The district is seeking to use technology to improve in other ways, such as boosting student engagement.
Technology initiatives "are improving test scores, but I'm fortunate to be in a culture that encourages and accepts risk-taking," Larkin says. "We're encouraged to take risks that are in the best interest of students and to know we're not going to be punished for it."
That support from the highest levels of the district sets the tone, says Devin Vodicka, the new superintendent of California's 22,000-student Vista Unified School District, north of San Diego. Vodicka, who started the job in July, says he took the position in part because the school board told him it wanted a tech-oriented superintendent.
The board recently adopted a formal district vision statement that embraces innovation and risk-taking, with the understanding "that it doesn't always lead to instant success," Vodicka says. That gives him the support and courage to venture into new areas, he says.
Even so, those ventures are calculated risks. All the ed-tech leaders interviewed for this article say they research, experiment, and test the initiatives they seek to put in place before fully enacting them. And they all tap into extensive social-networking communities they have formed for themselves—a significant change for principals and superintendents, who in the past sometimes felt isolated, having to project unwavering confidence and with few peers to reach out to on a daily basis.
Most of those leaders are regular Twitter users and have a significant presence on other sites, such as Facebook and Google+.
Cook says he has learned more from his personal learning network than he ever learned getting his doctorate or during his first and second years as a principal.
Lynmarie Hilt, the principal of the 480-student Brecknock Elementary School in Denver, Pa., says her network through Twitter has made her unafraid to admit she doesn't have all the answers, since she now knows she can get advice on nearly any topic at any time of day.
"I can associate with people who are well versed in certain areas," she says. "I say to my teachers all the time, 'I'm not sure, but I know who to ask.' I know people who can help me and who have already done this."
That social-networking piece can work in another way as well. Joe Mazza, the lead learner, or principal, at Knapp Elementary School in Lansdale, Pa., has created his own personal learning network, or PLN, but has also used social networking to forge connections with parents and the wider community. He tweets school news and has his Twitter feed linked to his school's Facebook page. He estimates that 83 percent of his school's families are on Facebook.
"I want to provide the pulse of the school every day to parents," he says. "You have to invest and build relationships because if you don't, nobody is going to care about following you on Twitter and Facebook."
Mazza believes that many educators fear social networking because "we didn't get out ahead of it." Because educators didn't model proper social-networking use for students, he says, "there were no guidelines, and damage was done."
But educators no longer have the luxury of hanging back on technology, he says. "I don't think it's OK anymore to say, 'I'm just not tech-savvy,' " he says. "If we're not, we're hurting kids."
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Posted on 18th January 2011 by Media Relations
It is with a heavy heart that I write this blog. It is my sad duty if you may, to report that on Tuesday 11th January Taronga Zoo lost its oldest Chimpanzee Bessie.Bessie was a wild Chimpanzee who arrived at Taronga in 1954. Animal records in those days were a shambolic affair and so her age is only an estimate, but an educated one, which put her at 60 years.Bessie who for many years had a skinny frame was as tough as an Ox and many of us believed she had many more years in her. However approximately two weeks ago she appeared sick. Keepers naturally were alert to this and she was monitored carefully thereafter. By the 11th of January it was obvious that she had succumbed to the numerous debilitating effects of old age. As we are all aware there is no medical cure for old age.In the days before her demise she spent her time asleep and in the company of her lifelong friend Lulu. Other individuals would come periodically and sit with her often spending their time swatting the flies away from her. Another wonderful example of Chimpanzee understanding and compassion for others.I have often spoken in my blogs about the privilege that Great Ape keepers enjoy by working with these animals. They are as individual in personality as you and I are and so keepers and Chimpanzees can easily build rapport and friendships with each other. In an obvious sign of that respect for Bessie as an individual it was heart warming to see the throng of past and present Chimp keepers that gathered at the night house to pay their last respects to such a grand old lady. Such an act clearly demonstrates how much these animals mean to us.Longevity of Chimps in the wild is something that is currently being re-evaluated as the long term studies in Gombe are surprising us with the known ages of individuals residing there. It is a well known fact that animals live longer in zoos due to the quality of care that they receive. 60 is indeed an admirable age and while this age does indeed effect the physical attributes of said individuals, old females such as Bessie and Fifi before her are the lynch pins of a successful community. Their maturity and life experience is often called upon by other members in order to alleviate altercations and facilitate reconciliation. It is the mutual respect shown by antagonists to these senior females that can prevent conflict. This scenario is often seen halting potential problems caused by squabbling infants. In other words individuals like Bessie have important roles in a healthy community.Allan, Senior Primate Keeper


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"The honour would be entirely mine if you would attend my little party."
It's the roaring twenties – an era of bootleg liquor, red hot jazz and hedonistic pleasures. Jay Gatsby has invited you to one of his infamous parties and that's not an invite you want to turn down.
Step into a heart-racing immersive adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal jazz-age novel which puts you in the heart of the action. Slip on your dancing shoes and watch the story unfold around you in this unique theatrical performance.
The cocktails are flowing, the music is playing, the party is in full swing and there's the chance of more than a little scandal. Immerse yourself in one of the greatest stories of the 20th Century.
Please note: Anyone under the age of 18 MUST be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18. ID will be required.
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I spin out further than I have thought possible.
Why did government officials allow those plants to carry on even though several were in violation of safety standards? What does a nuclear meltdown look like? What happens to the people, the birds and beasts? The prevailing winds are eastward, out to sea--and over to California. How far does nuclear fallout carry? When do I call my son, my brother in a panic? Evacuate California? Where to, exactly? What will happen to the poor souls in Japan who managed to survive flooding, drowning? It is possible that what humans have wrought--the peril we have put ourselves in--seems infinitely worse than anything nature could do to us.
We await further developments about the perilous state of the nuclear reactors. Our minds, our hearts, our souls, cannot help but spin out. How far is safe, in this day and age? Is there any such thing as safe anymore? Why must we learn to escape ourselves? How will we do such a thing?
I don't think "women have cornered the market on worry", as one commenter has put it quite well. I think this worry is part of feeling compassionate. This is a time to pause, to offer prayer, wishes, thoughts--and to discover in ourselves, and honor, a new dimension of heartsickness.


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The Missing Open Standard: How can we unlock the drone's social potential?
Chris Anderson has famously compared the nascent drone market to the early days of PCs, comparing it with the Homebrew Computer Club, the Bay Area hobbyist meetup where the Apple I was first unveiled. It may seem an odd comparison—the drone is thought of as military technology and (more recently) luxury plaything, while the Homebrew Computer Club is remembered for its utopian beliefs about putting technology into the hands of the people. But while Apple's forays into personal computers were groundbreaking, the "PC" abbreviation historically referred to its greatest threat, the IBM PC standard, a revolutionary form of computer architecture that was easily licensed and copied, and which shaped the personal computer market for over a decade. Drones do not yet have a "PC standard," but if they did, it might be the tipping point that could catapult drones into the mainstream and unlock their social utility.
We have yet to see what this social utility will be. Militarized drone technology has a well-established place among the many tools of the surveillance state. Looking at the history of the computer's shift from an awkward, heavy, military and commercial engineering project to something we carry in our pockets, one wonders how drones might make a similar transition. Some of the first ideas for non-military drones, such as catching poachers, have some way to go in development before they will actually be useful. So far, one of the best uses for drone technology is in the field of cartography. Drones like senseFly's eBee can map a large area very quickly, and rectify imagery to GPS maps. But drones like these cost thousands of dollars and run proprietary software in order to work so seamlessly. What if drone technology were to be transformed in a similar manner to computers, so that standard architecture and operating systems allowed cheaper, more universal hardware and software?
In the late 1970s, desk-sized computers were typically terminals linked to mainframes where the real processing was done. But with the miniaturization of transistor functions into integrated circuits, desktop computers became possible.These early personal computers were sold as kits, and required a hefty investment as well as technical know-how to assemble and operate. When the Apple II was introduced in 1977, it was one of the first "out of the box" personal computers; BYTE magazine called it the first "appliance computer". But the Apple II was still expensive, and with an operating system and architecture limited to this machine only, all compatible software had to be designed specifically for this system. In 1980, less than 10% of 14 million small businesses in the US had personal computers, and of large corporations, less than 3% used personal computers on a regular basis.1 Investing in a limited hobby system was not a priority for most companies.
Successful Apps Fill Gaps
Jon Nash and Michael Petruzzo, Slight 1.0 (2014), screenshot of iOS app.
A smartphone app feels special when, upon first being opened, one has no clue what one is supposed to be doing with it. If life is a series of bricks or whatever, then a successful app can be a kind of mortar, filling gaps that you never knew were there (thats where the title of this essay came from). I don't mean *invented* gaps, or *fake* gaps, the type that boring Menlo Park chads cook up after one too many rails, apps with such a specific purpose that they end up sitting in the back of your phone somewhere, sad and utterly useless. I'm talking about apps that come out of the gate with no purpose, or a purpose so open-ended that the original creators could never have dreamed how it would end up being used. This is DUH but twitter: you write text! and look at all this malarkey we have to deal with now! Sad Twitter, Weird Twitter, Talking Tower Bridge Twitter, Commuter Express 437 Updates Twitter, Will Smith's Kid's Twitter, JEFF BAIJ TWITTER!
Ulrich Fischer: Walking the Edit: Innovative System to "Walk a Movie" / Interview on VernissageTV
VernissageTV interviews artist Ulrich Fischer on the occasion of the presentation of Walking the Edit as part of Image-Mouvement at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. More on the project below from VernissageTV:
Conceived by Ulrich Fischer, the system allows the user to create an individual video using already existing images that are connected to a certain place via geotagging. Depending on which route one takes and how fast the user walks, an individual movie is created.
Technically, "Walking the Edit" is based on GPS, geotagging, iPhone app and iPhone. By walking through the streets, the iPhone reveals and collects the audiovisual memory of the place. While walking you hear the movie that you are just editing. Once the movie is finished, you can watch it online on the website and share it with other people.
The Most Boring Places in the World (2009) - Angie Waller
"The Most Boring Places in the World" is a Google Earth tour that pinpoints the location of bloggers, live journal-ers, and chat room commentators. These authors all claim that the city they live in or vacationed in is more boring than any other place they can imagine, at least during the time of their post. Most locations do not repeat (with the exception of North Carolina, Ohio, Zurich and Singapore). What these destinations share in common is their ability to inspire existential crises, home-from-college woes, and the suffering specific to beautiful scenery, suburban sprawl and shopping malls.
The Satellite Collection (2010) - Jenny Odell
You, the World and I (2010) - Jon Rafman
When Orpheus' beloved Eurydice dies, he cajoles his way into the underworld with his musical charms and his lyre. Wanting her but not her shade, he cannot forbear looking back to physically see her and so loses her forever. In this modern day Orphean tale, an anonymous narrator also desperately searches for a lost love. Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love. In the film, they are as captivating and enthralling as charming as any lyre in retrieving the other: at first they might seem an open retort to critics of new technology who bemoan the lack of the tangible presence of the other in our interactions on the Internet.
Our narrator remembers that once, with her back turned while facing the Adriatic Sea, a Google Street View car drove by and took a picture of his beloved, who detested being photographed, without her realizing it. Our narrator cherishes this photograph and the entire relationship becomes encapsulated in the screen capture replacing all other experiences and memories. Soon it is not enough. Our narrator cannot imagine that, in a world where everything is recorded, that someone could completely disappear. In daily systematic searches for photographs of the nameless other, Google Street View and Google Earth allow him to move seamlessly through vast detailed three-dimensional space. This extraordinary geographical and social exploration is favored by Google satellite images, user-created 3D renderings of Stonehenge and Machu Picchu and Street View panoramas of favorite vacation spots. As an undifferentiated series of cultural, historical and contemporary symbols float together or follow one another in rapid succession, in a world where Dutch anthropologists discover pre-Socratic fragments on Turkish islands ...
Interview with Zach Blas
Zach Blas is an artist and writer working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and politics. His work includes video, sculpture, installation, and design, among other things. He is also a PhD Student in the Program in Literature at Duke University, and writes extensively on the question of art, activism, and sexuality. Zach and I discussed the question of a queer technology and just what queer theory might contribute to the fields of art and technology.
FM Radio Map (2006) - Simon Elvins
Site-specific map plotting the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within London. Power lines are drawn in pencil on the back of the map which conduct the electricity from the radio to the front of poster. Placing a metal pushpin onto each station then allows us to listen to the sound broadcast live from that location.


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Mick has over 20 years experience working for National & International companies, and has had his work published around the world in publications as diverse as Rolling Stone, Forbes, Cosmopolitan (U.S.), and "Dazed and Confused".
His portrait of Shane Mc Gowan was chosen as a cover for "Image", the magazine of the A.O.P. (U.K. Association of Photographers).
In 2006 he was awarded Fellowship of the Irish Professional Photographers Association. He has also been awarded Fellowship of the UK Master Photographers Association (MPA).
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We sign our names to various documents all the time. Some signatures seal a legal contract. Others pledge us to an action. Now a study finds that when and where someone sign a document can influence the likelihood of them being honest or cheating.
Scientists had people sign more than 13,000 auto insurance forms—one group signed at the top of the form, the other at the bottom. And those who signed at the top admitted to nearly 2,500 more miles of usage than those who signed at the bottom. Which translated into a $48 difference in annual premiums.
According to the researchers, because the top-signers put their names on the document before they were even tempted to fabricate information, they are less likely to act dishonestly. The study is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Many people routinely deceive themselves to rationalize dishonest behavior. The $345-billion gap between what people should be paying in U.S. taxes and what they claim isn't just due to chronic liars. It also depends on normally honest people stretching the truth. Perhaps having taxpayers sign their forms before filling them out would cut down on that stretching.


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Festival Essentials
BYOT. Bring Your Own Tapestry. We are in prime festival & fair time, when building a functional (stylish) camp, adaptable in various conditions & terrains, is the key to festival fun. Peruse this carefully curated collection, including pillows & parasols, perfect for festival design fare. Outdoor essentials you can repurpose for picnics, beach goings & so much more. Discover details on our blog!


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Woman killed in Sunday crash ID'd
A Carson City woman killed early Sunday morning in a collision on U.S. Highway 50 has been identified as 26-year-old Sierra Grace Woodward.
Woodward was a passenger in a Nissan Altima that entered the westbound lanes going the wrong way. The driver, Jason W. Cloutier, 34, of Carson City, was flown to Renown Regional Medical Center with critical injuries. Alcohol use is thought to have played a role in the crash.
The Nissan ran into a white Ford Taurus that caught fire, killing the other driver, whose identity has yet to be released.
The crash was reported about 3:28 a.m. just west of Dump Hill in Carson City. All lanes of Highway 50 were closed for about five hours.
Woodward was an Oakland native and mother who attended Carson High School and Western Nevada College, according to her Facebook page.
Trooper Chris Kelly of the Nevada Highway Patrol's Major Accident Investigation Team is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to contact him at 775-689-4661 or email@example.com regarding case NHP-130602135.


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, ed. Mrs. Russell Barrington. The Works in Nine Volumes. The Life in One Volume. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2164,
This 10 volume collection consists of 9 volumes of Bagehot's collected writings and a volume of biography.
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Written By: NM State Athletic Dept.
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A day after winning the Western Athletic Conference Championship, the New Mexico State women's golf team was selected by the NCAA to participate in the West Region of the NCAA Division I regional round being played Thursday, May 8, through Saturday, May 10.
The Aggies earned an automatic bid into the regional after Sunday's come-from-behind win at the WAC tournament. NM State heads to Ce Elum, Wash., to play at the Tumble Creek at Suncadia Resort. There will be three 18-hole rounds played at the West Regional, which is being hosted by the University of Washington.
"Playing the Tumble Creek Golf Course in the West Regional will obviously be a tough challenge," Aggie assistant coach Danny Bowen said, "but at the same time it will provide a great learning experience for our team. We will get to see how our play stacks up against some of the best teams in the nation on a championship golf course."
NM State earned the No. 22 seed in the 24-team field at the regional. Also in the West Regional is the Aggies' in-state rival, New Mexico, which is seeded right ahead of NM State at No. 21. There are also six golfers who qualified for the regional round as individuals.
The No. 1 seed in the West is the top team in the country and defending national champion, Southern California. Arizona State and Oklahoma round out the top-3 teams in the region.
There are a total of three regions in the regional round, West, East and Central. Duke is the top seed in the East while UCLA is the No. 1 seed in the Central. There are a total of 72 teams, 24 in each region, competing for 24 spots into the NCAA Championship. The top eight teams from each region, along with the top two individuals that are not on a qualifying team, will advance to the NCAA Championship which will be played May 20-23 at the Tulsa Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
"We are excited that our season isn't finished yet," Bowen said. "These ladies deserved to win the WAC title with their hard work and great attitudes that they have put forth all year. As for (head coach) Jackie (Booth) and I, we are just excited to be bringing the program back to form."
1. University of Southern California
2. Arizona State University
3. University of Oklahoma (Big 12 Conference)
4. University of Washington
5. Clemson University
6. Wake Forest University
7. Northwestern University
8. Michigan State University (Big Ten Conference)
9. Iowa State University
10. Georgia Regents University Augusta
11. University of Oregon
12. Texas A&M University, College Station
13. University of California, Davis (Big West Conference)
14. University of Denver (The Summit League)
15. San Diego State University
16. University of Wisconsin, Madison
17. Gonzaga University
18. University of Notre Dame
19. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
20. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Southern Conference)
21. University of New Mexico (Mountain West Conference)
22. New Mexico State University (Western Athletic Conference)
23. Portland State University (Big Sky Conference)
24. University of Detroit Mercy (Horizon League)
1. Alison Knowles (University of Louisiana, Monroe)
2. Regan De Guzman (San Jose State University)
3. Clariss Guce (California State University Northridge)
4. Fabiola Arriaga (University of Texas, San Antonio)
5. Madchen Ly (California State University, Fresno)
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Check out our brand new sleep earbuds to help block snoring and other unwanted noise...
We sent a Hibermate to the folks at Shopify.com and they kindly shot this "Vine" video:
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My name is Morgan from Rochester, NY.
Back in February, I saw your Hibermate product and decided to purchase it for my boyfriend who had tried every sleeping mask on the market. He is a very light sleeper and struggles with insomnia as well.
After purchasing the Hibermate, he has slept through EVERY SINGLE night. I love it! He brings it on planes, camping trips, and car rides.
The mask is incredibly comfortable and the ear muffs are soft and easy to sleep on when on your side. 5 stars for this product and can't wait for the new model to come out early next year to try!
On a further note, Hibermate has been one of the best companies I have ever had business with. Last week, our dog somehow chewed into his mask and destroyed the elastic.
I emailed Chris and his team, and they promptly responded and sent me a new replacement mask all the way to New York! I am incredibly happy with every aspect of this product, and love giving good companies run by good people my business.
If you were on the fence about purchasing, I promise you that your buying experience will be nothing but pleasant and the Hibermate is a quality product that has helped ease a troubled sleeper more than anything ever has. More reviews here.
Q. What about side sleeping?
One perceived objection is, 'Hey…those ear cups don't look comfortable to sleep on if you're a side sleeper'.
Luckily, we thought about this from the very beginning.
First of all, we have made the ear cushions really soft and squishy so they gently mould to your body.
Then we designed the ear cups with rails, to slide along the straps, so if you're a side sleeper and you experience any discomfort at all, you can move the cup you're sleeping on out of the way (to the back) and let the pillow take care of reducing noise on that side. Slide it back into place if you roll back over… Simple.
Q. How does the Hibermate compare with ear plugs?
The Hibermate does not block as much noise as a good set of ear plugs. No bones about it, ear plugs are awesome for blocking sound. They're probably the single most effective sound blocking device ever invented for the human ear.
The Hibermate does take the 'edge' of incoming noise very well and creates a feeling of serenity. They also allow you to hear your regular alarm and smoke alarms, which is great for safety.
The biggest problem with ear plugs is prolonged use, and hygiene. People who use ear plugs for extended periods of time often experience soreness or worse, inner ear infections.
The reason for this is due to the fact you often need to use your fingers to squeeze and roll ear plugs down to a size where they insert easily before they expand and create the all-important sound-blocking seal.
It's the process of squeezing and rolling the plugs, when germs and bacteria can be introduced onto the ear plugs prior to insertion that typically causes quite painful infections for many ear plug wearers.
Ear Plugs can also cause the build-up of ear wax which can plug the ear canal as they tend to prevent the natural flow of wax outwards.
Q. How does the Hibermate compare to white noise machines?
White noise machines are great for masking noise, and we would recommend using the hibermate in combination with one.
Q. What about noise cancelling headphones?
We're looking into noise cancelling technology with an eye to potentially introducing it into our cups at some point in the future. Watch this space.
Q. What's the sound blocking ability, the NRR (Noise Reduction Rating) of the cups?
We sent the new cups to the National Acoustic Laboratory – an Australian semi-Government Authority - for a preliminary sound reduction test. NAL work right next door to Cochlear Limited (the original inventors and manufacturers of Cochlear Implants).
NAL's test takes a high sensitivity microphone and places it at one end of a tube. Just outside the other end of the tube, they place a speaker.
They play and record sound to take a 'normal' reading.
For our test, they placed the Hibermate sleep mask ear muff over the end of the tube and played the exact same sounds again through the speaker.
The NAL's Hibermate's sound reduction test has rated it an Australian SLC Class 1 Sound Reduction Device which means it's safe to use in environments up to 90dB. Please note, it does not block 90dB, it's officially safe to use in noisy situations up to 90dB.
Ultimately we will have the Hibermate NRR rated for the US market, but at this stage, we estimate the Hibermate has a NRR of somewhere between 15 & 18dB.
You can learn more about the SLC Rating here: http://www.hearforever.org/tools-to-learn/sound-source-understanding-ratings
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Bar Inside A Tree In Africa
A bar inside the trunk of a Baobab tree has tourists flocking from far and wide just to drink a cold brew in the amazing tavern. It was fashioned inside a massive 72 foot (22 meters) high tree in a garden in Limpopo, South Africa, for thirsty locals.
The amazing Big Baobab Pub, complete with a phone and dartboard, hollowed into a tree.
Grown in the grounds of Sunland Farm, the tree trunk is so wide it takes 40 adults with outstretched arms to encircle its 155 foot (48 meters) circumference. The trunk is hollow, but its walls are still up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) thick.
The tree has its own cellar, with natural ventilation to keep the beer cold.
Carbon-dating has determined the ancient tree to be about 6,000 years old. "This tree is likely to be older than the Giza Pyramids of Egypt." said Heather van Heerden, owner of Sunland Farm.
"It is phenomenal to have such a magnificent tree in your back garden. It is possibly the biggest living thing on earth." she adds.
More than 7,000 visitors come from all over the world to see the grandiose Baobab every year and have a drink in its pub, which has 13 foot (4 meter) high ceilings and comfortably seats up to 15 people.
"One year we had a party and squashed 54 people inside, but I wouldn't recommend that." said Mrs. van Heerden.
She and her husband Doug came up with the brainchild to set a bar up inside when they found a natural hollow in the Baobabb shortly after they bought the farm in the late 1980's.
"When Baobabs are more than 1,000 years old, they hollow naturally." said Mrs. van Heerden.
The pub has surprisingly plenty of space for customers to sit.
While clearing out the hollow centre of the tree trunk, the van Heerdens found historical evidence of Bushmen — indigenous people of the Kalahari desert — who may have once lived in the tree, and artifacts belonging to the Voortrekkers, the Dutch pioneers who travelled through South Africa in the mid-1800's.
"We found the remains of a Bushmen bed made from rocks, possibly in the 1700's." says van Heerden. "We could also gather that a Voortrekker once lived here who repaired ox wagons for the Great Trek because we found tools and wagon pieces."
The Bushmen of the Kalahari have long had a unique relationship with the peculiar looking tree, which stands leafless for the better part of the year, with its branches resembling a mass of roots pointing upwards to the sky.


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Shelby GT500-Based Shelby 1000 S/C Has 1200 HP
Shelby American says that 40 to 50 customers purchased its 2012 Shelby 1000 S/C muscle car, which made 1100 horsepower. If you'd like to embarrass those people, we'd recommend opening your checkbook and buying this, the 2013 Shelby 1000 S/C. Why? Simple -- it makes 1200 horsepower.
You might recall that the last Shelby 1000 made 950 horsepower in street-legal form, but Shelby says that every one of its buyers opted instead for the Shelby 1000 S/C, which gave up its street-legal status in exchange for a power output of 1100 horsepower at the flywheel. This time around, Shelby says that it's making a single model, the 1000 S/C, which promises street-legal status and more than 1000 horsepower.
The biggest upgrade over the last-generation car, as you might expect, comes under the hood. Shelby's haste to release the 1000 on the 50th anniversary of the original Shelby Cobra meant that it had to use the "old" Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 engine, a 5.4-liter supercharged V-8. This time around, the boys from Las Vegas borrowed the 5.8-liter supercharged motor from the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500 and went from there.
When we say "went from there," we mean "upgraded almost everything:" the 2013 1000 S/C has a new 4.0-liter supercharger, new engine innards (including rods, pistons, and rings), a new fuel system with new injector, and a new cooling system. The result is 1200 horsepower at the flywheel; figuring that the upgraded six-speed manual transmission saps has a driveline loss of about 15 percent, we'd predict that the 1000 S/C makes between 1020 and 1050 horsepower at the wheels. Shelby didn't release any acceleration or top-speed figures, but we'd predict that they're somewhere between "oh wow" and "holy crap."
"Oh wow" is also a good way to describe the price for this monster machine: the Shelby 1000 starts at $154,995, and that's on top of the price of a 2013 Shelby GT500 ($54,995 including destination). That means an all-inclusive base price of $209,990, although that 210 grand will get you a car that can fluster a Bugatti Veyron costing five times as much. Shelby also says that the car will be fully street legal and smog legal in every state but California, which means that those individuals who are both insane and wealthy could use this as a daily driver.
The 2013 Shelby 1000 S/C will debut at the New York International Auto Show next week next to another new concept vehicle. Shelby carefully used the word "vehicle" in its press release, and says "like the Shelby Focus ST, it will not be Ford Mustang-based," perhaps indicating that we're about to see a Shelby-tuned Ford F-150. We can dream, right?
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You can be amused by my tweets on Twitter (@bloomingcyclist) or by my witty captions on Tumblr (Uphill Shift).
I also host a podcast about pro cycling over at the Pelotonitis Podcast. Most of my pro cycling musing have moved over there, while this blog is used for my personal journey in cycling.


text: https://cdn.earthdata.nasa.gov/conduit/upload/5182/KeywordsCommunityGuide_Baseline_v1_SIGNED_FINAL.pdf9.1.52020-09-22 18:04:33 TOGA In order to better understand the tropical ocean/atmosphere system and its effect on the climate at higher latitudes, the Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Program was initiated in 1985 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with contributions from nations including the USA, UK, USSR, Japan, Australia, India and Chile. TOGA was a major component of the WMO's World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and was effective in bringing together the international scientific research community to work on problems of global significance. Scientific oversight was provided by the TOGA Scientific Steering Group who reports to the Joint Scientific Committee of WCRP. International coordination was organized through the International TOGA Project Office in Geneva and the 18-member Intergovernmental TOGA Board. The U.S. contribution to TOGA involved the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NOAA involvement includes the Climate Analysis Center (CAC), NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), and the National Oceanographic Service (NOS). NSF support was funded through its Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Divisions and through NCAR. NASA's effort was funded to NASA centers and academic principal investigators while the Office of Naval Research (ONR) supports a number of university scientists. TOGA is a 10-year international program that began January 1, 1985 and continued through 1994. The major elements of the TOGA Praogram Plan are modeling, empirical studies, process studies and long-term observations. Three types of models are being used: (1) oceanographic models, in which the wind stress and heat flux at the air-sea interface are prescribed and the time-dependent response of the upper layers of the tropical ocean is simulated; (2) atmospheric models, in which the global circulation is simulated given various prescriptions of the tropical SST field; and (3) coupled atmosphere-ocean models, which are integrated forward in time from a prescribed set of initial conditions. Empirical studies are focusing on interannual and intraseasonal variability along with statistical analyses of lead-lag relationships that may have relevance to seasonal climate prediction. Long-term observations include interfacial measurements, and atmospheric and oceanographic observations. Science Objective: -To gain a description of the tropical oceans and the global atmosphere as a time-dependent system, in order to determine the extent to which this system is predictable on time scales of months to years, and to understand the mechanisms and processes underlying that predictability. -To study the feasibility of modeling the coupled ocean-atmosphere system for the purpose of predicting its variations on time scales of months to years. -To provide the scientific background for designing an observing and data transmission system for operational prediction if this capability is demonstrated by coupled ocean-atmosphere models. Data Used and Produced: Long-term monitoring is among the more focused of the program elements of TOGA. It is a prerequisite for numerical simulation and long-term prediction of the coupled climate system, and it supports process and empirical studies. Interfacial measurements such as wind stress, sea surface temperature (SST) and surface energy fluxes are most central to the ocean-atmosphere coupling and are attaining the highest priority. The major sources of surface wind data over the tropical oceans are moored buoys, ships of opportunity and island stations. The moored buoys transmit wind, air temperature, SST and subsurface temperature via the ARGOS/TIROS-N system. Wind observations from ships and island stations are transmitted via the Global Telecommunication System (GTS). The CAC has been producing monthly mean SST analyses with about 2 degree spatial resolution, based upon a blend of in situ (ship and buoy) data and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite data, while also monitoring net energy flux monthly mean fields generated by one of the operational numerical weather prediction models at the National Meteorological Center (NMC). Observations of the global atmosphere in suapport of TOGA relied heavily on the World Weather Watch/Global Telecommunications System (WWW/GTS). The observing network consists of two polar-orbiting satellites and the full array of geostationary satellites, ships of opportunity, buoys, and surface and upper-air stations. The Global Precipitation Center at CAC has been supportive in producing preliminary estimates of tropical convective precipitation from 1986-1988 based on satellite imagery from the U.S., Japan and the European Space Agency (ESA) geostationary satellites. Ships of opportunity and approximately 50 drifting buoys are being used to measure sea level pressure, air temperature and SST over data-sparse regions of the equatorial and extratropical South Pacific. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and ERL have contributed some upper-air systems and Doppler profilers to the surface and upper-air network. The ocean observing system consisted of tidal gauges, satellite data, moored (ATLAS) and drifting (Langrangian) buoys and and ships of opportunity. The island tide gauge network along with altimetric range data obtained from military satellites provided sea level data. Expendable Bathythermograph System (XBT) lines from ships provided soundings to analyze the thermal structure and the heat content. Ships also carried out conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) surveys in the upper 1000m of the ocean. Moored buoys, instrumented with current meters and thermistor chains also provided subsurface thermal structure and current data. Circulation was measured utilizing equatorial moorings and from a field of over 130 mixed-layer Langrangian drifters. The following sites on the World Wide Web can provide further information as well as data access: TOGA COARE Data Information System "http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/coare/" TOGA-TAO Realtime Data Access: "http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/" References: National Research Council, 'TOGA, A Review of Progress and Future Opportunities', National Academy Press 1990. World Meteorological Organization, 'WMO/IOC Inter-governmental TOGA Board Report of the Third Session, Geneva, 9-12 January 1990', WMO/TD No. 357. World Meteorological Organization, 'JSC/CCCO TOGA Scientific Steering Group Report of the Eighth Session, Hamburg, 18-22 September 1989', WMO/TD No. 338.


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Trayvon Martin could have been one of my younger brothers. I think about their caramel and mocha skin tones, wardrobes full of hoodies, and frequent trips to the corner stores. One of them was once stopped by the police, frisked, and told he fit the description of someone dangerous. My brother is not a criminal.
I hurt every time I log on to Twitter or Facebook and see hundreds of familiar and unfamiliar faces dressed in hoodies in support of Trayvon Martin.
This killing in Sanford, Fla., was tragic. A 17-year-old African American, on his way home from the store armed with nothing more than a bag of Skittles candy and iced tea, shot by a neighborhood watch captain named George Zimmerman, who followed Trayvon even after police told him not to.
This young man wasn't given a fighting chance in life, but after his death, he has millions of people fighting for him. Along with his parents, lawyers, and civil rights leaders, the social media community is gathering and asking piercing questions.
I've read questions like these:
Why would a grown man carrying a firearm feel threatened by a 140-pound teenager?
Why did George Zimmerman shoot Trayvon when he was only carrying candy and a drink?
Is Trayvon's killing a form of modern-day lynching?
Why did Trayvon's family have to file a "missing person" report to find out he was in a morgue?
Why is Trayvon's killer free? Where's the justice?
Social media has provided a digital meetinghouse for millions to join globally. It has given concerned citizens a space to voice their opinions about the injustices in their countries and to lobby others to support a cause that wouldn't have received such attention without the masses behind it.
I recently read a tweet that stated, "If people feel like 'Twitter Activism' doesn't matter, ask Egypt, Tunisia, and Iran."
Like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movement, Trayvon's story has sparked several rallies and protests around the nation. Videos titled #MillionHoodies have gone viral on Twitter, prompting a Million Hoodie March in New York City on Wednesday.
As a journalist, it's second nature for me to be immersed in news, but for my 10-year-old brother, YouTube and Facebook are his news sources. And that, also, worries me.
Social media may be easily accessible and connecting, but we must be careful about its trustworthiness. Facts can be misconstrued, wrong, or just plain missing.
I learned an essential lesson about this after speaking to several Ugandans – via social media and at a local restaurant – about the recent Kony 2012 campaign. They said that the subject of the video, the violent warlord Joseph Kony, was a man of the past and no longer attacking northern Uganda (though he is at large and operating elsewhere in Africa).
As time passes, we learn more about Trayvon's case. For instance, he was shot in a neighborhood that had experienced several break-ins in the last year. He was walking in the rain in a community where his killer assumed he didn't belong. On the other hand, there's this business about Mr. Zimmerman's possible racial epithet caught on the 911 recording of the incident.
Even absent more facts, though, it's fair to ask, was Trayvon typecast?
Americans need to think about the implications of this case, in their own experience and as it applies to the law.
And my brothers need to think about it, too. As they tweet away in their hoodies and share their thoughts on their Facebook walls, I encourage them to use their tweets and posts wisely. I want my siblings to be proud of who they are on and off the web. They should feel safe walking down a street in Boston or Sanford, free from fear or misjudgment.
As I wait to see what happens in the Trayvon Martin case, I can only hope that the Martin family and social media activists get the justice they are fighting for. And that my brothers might be just a bit more safe the next time they're on their way to the store.
Nakia Hill is a journalism graduate student at Emerson College in Boston and an intern on the commentary desk at The Christian Science Monitor.


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Yo jeff whats shakin man
Whats up dude
Ay man remember that girl you know when I was walking to school
She used to diss me everyday (yeah)
Man the record came out she called me 2 days ago
Man my phone is off the hook with people asking me for tapes and free records
I aint with it
Word man
Bust this
This rap is for the people in the past who were against me
Who snapped at every opportunity to diss me
Put me down like I was nothing treated me like a jerk
Now I'm seeing the pay off of all my hard work
But now that its my records on the reel
Somehow all of a sudden it's a whole new deal
For those in the past who dissed me don't deny it
What? Your sorry? Don't even try it
Word man
People are a trip
Putting everybody down what's up with that
Word man I gotta let em know I gotta
Bust this
I used to know this girl by the name of teresa
I did all I could to make her release her
Emotions to me but she just wouldn't do it
She built up a wall and I couldn't break through it
I used to walk to school everyday of the week
Watching teresa walk on the other side of the street
One day I finally got my heart up to speak
She dissed me and dismissed me with a smack on my cheek
So I bought 6 bottles of new fancy cologne
But all I got from teresa was
(leave me alone)
Bought new clothes to wear every place
But all Teresa would say was
(get out of my face)
So I gave up this quest for Teresa
But then on the day my record was released
A strange thing happened when it came on the radio
Teresa broke her neck just to say (hello)
I looked at her I said you must be foolish
Why did you ignore me on the way to school if you were interested she said
(oh I apologise)
I looked deep into her dark brown eyes
I said you ignored me for months on end
Now all of a sudden you wanna be my friend
You didn't talk before so don't talk now what be quiet
What you really like me? Don't even try it
Man she had a lot of nerve man (word)
But man she ain't have half as much nerve as that record producer
The one that dissed us man
What up
When I first started rapping I had one idea
And it was set in my mind very vivid and clear
I knew that I wanted to be a rap artist
I'll give my all and work my hardest
But when I took my song to a record producer
He told me that I better go drink some rap juice or
Something because my song was really absurd
He said that it was the worst trash that he'd ever heard
Yo my ego was shattered he busted my groove
I could hear him cracking up as I left the room
I thought my song was good but he busted my bubble
The title was girls ain't nuthin but trouble
Hopefully I found domeone who had faith
He lifted my ego back up into place
His name was dana goodman (chill) he thought the song was on track
So two weeks later it was out on wax
It busted up the charts like a hydrogen bomb
Up up up it climbed climbed climbed
People eat their words that said I couldn't achieve
Now they have no choice bit to believe in me
Then no sooner than my record came out
That same old producer started calling my house
One night he called me about half past 12
I've got some cash if you wanna sell
I said you big stupid half wit idiot
I told you before that my record was a hit
I just laughed like some kind of kid
Now don't you regret what you did
I wish you'd get off my tip now that's my request
See he who laughs last always laughs best
Okay I'll be reasonable you wanna buy it
Okay I'll sell it psyche don't even try it
You know what I'll tell you sumthin
I got this so hard man
I'm a tell you sumthin
Yo prince you remember when we first started out
How we used to go to all the parties just to rock the house
Word man I remember those good days well
Well chill out man cause I got a story to tell
About five years ago I began my quest to be the best DJ in the whole US
There was a lot of DJ's striving in my spot
They were putting me down every chance I got
Never cut me a break on any given night
They used to all look at me and say
(Jeff's alright)
but when your magnificent cuts were released
all of that left has ceased (word)
when you and I used to do our shows
All the crowd would say is Ho
Yeah time after time we were tearin it up
While you rock the mic and I rocked the cut
But now that I'm making a name for myself
All those DJ's are like
Yo Jeff whats up
All that stuff is dead nope I ain't with it
The'yll push me on the street and say
(yo Jeff how bout a ticket man)
to your very next show
but I say no
and I tell them where they can go
I cant believe that they have the nerve
To hop on my tip now
Yeah man word
Just the other day homeboy approached me on the street and said
"yo jeff how bout a record for free"
man the way you dissed me you better go buy it
but man we're friends for real don't even try it
man straight up you know how it is
maybe they'll know not to diss next time
we let em know
cause I aint with it
aight jeff chill
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