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The land surface of our Earth is home to humankind as well as most of the world's flora and fauna. Though dwarfed by the sea it still covers a vast area: if all Earth's land was put together without the oceans it would form a planet only slightly smaller than Mars.
Getting to know our home ground
Billions of years of geological movement, atmospheric weathering and sustained biological activity have left the Earth's land surface with the most varied terrain in the solar system. Satellite observations let us know our home ground in greater detail than ever before.
Satellite sensors enable the objective global classification of surface land cover, mapping the distribution of forests, deserts, water bodies, agricultural land and human settlements. They can also be used to precisely measure surface topography.
Minerals and biomass
Light from the Sun shining back from the Earth's surface is not perfectly reflected: its spectrum has been altered by contact with materials on the ground.
By identifying changes in this reflected light, a class of satellite instrument called a spectrometer can obtain information about the surface.
Space-based spectrometers can measure ground temperatures, map individual minerals out of the two thousand or so found on the Earth's surface, and even – in concert with radar results - assess the density and health of vegetation, down to their particular crop breed, water content and stage of development.
That ability becomes scientifically useful because it lets scientists know the extent of surface biomass in such a detailed way that its role as a significant 'sink' of carbon can be more accurately included in future models of climate change.
Identifying surface change
Amassing land cover data enables researchers to see how it changes over time. Analysis of archived data helps accurately chart the rates that deserts are growing and forests are cleared, a coastline erodes or urban settlements grow. On a more rapid timescale, comparing satellite images can swiftly identify the damage done by disasters such as earthquakes, fires or floods.
Combining radar imagery with a technique called interferometry can identify tiny changes in land surface down to a scale of millimetres: this can be used to monitor urban subsidence as well as the slow movement of tectonic plates and the 'breathing' of volcanoes.


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Sally Field praises gay son at Human Rights Campaign Awards
Actress SALLY FIELD shared praise for her "glorious, smart and funny" gay son Sam as she accepted the Ally for Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Saturday (06Oct12).
The Steel Magnolias star's youngest son Sam was on hand to present the trophy to his mum at the HRC's 16th Annual National Dinner in Washington, D.C.
Field in turn thanked Sam, and paid tribute to him for having the courage to 'come out'.
She told the audience, "(His) journey to allow himself to be what nature intended him to be was not an easy one... Nature made Sam. It wasn't a choice. He was always, always Sam. Glorious, smart, funny, sweet Sam. And finally at 20, long after he beat the c**p out of his brothers at tennis and he knew more than anyone about basketball, at 20 he was finally able to stand up proudly and say, 'I am a gay man.'
"You all (at the HRC) have fought for him as surely as if you were one of his parents. You've changed and are changing the lives of little boys and girls who realise somewhere along the way they're just different from their other brothers and sisters - and so the f**k what?"

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Calm for now in Turkey protests as both sides talk
Turkish police used tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to remove demonstrators from a city square in Istanbul, and attempted to dismantle the protesters' makeshift camp. (June 12) AP
ISTANBUL — Police held their positions around Taksim Square on Wednesday, and protesters remained put as both sides awaited word on talks between the government and demonstrators to end Turkey's biggest anti-government protests in decades.
Protests spread across the country after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered police to clear a peaceful sit-in of Turks who object to plans to raze a popular downtown park for a shopping mall.
Protesters used the park episode to voice anger at what they say is the increasingly authoritarian tone of Erdogan's policies in what has become a test of his administration.
Erdogan met Wednesday with an 11-person delegation that includes students, academics and celebrities over his plan to erase most of the public space in Taksim Square to make way for commercial development.
His decision to exclude Taksim Platform – a civil society group of mostly academics that has opposed the controversial project since last year – to meet with celebrities has raised doubts that his office is serious about opening a dialogue to end violence that erupted Tuesday.
"This is just a PR operation," said Cengiz Aktar, a member of the platform and political scientist.
"They are desperate to find someone who will come out publicly and say their plan is a fantastic idea," Aktar said. "So far, that just hasn't happened."
Among the celebrities invited to the talks were a soap opera star, a pop singer and a musician.
Throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, riot police firing water cannons and tear gas clashed with pockets of protesters throwing stones and setting off fireworks.
Erdogan denounced the street protests, accusing them of being driven by extremists and foreign interests. He promised a harsh response.
"We will not only terminate these incidents, we will be on these terrorists' back within a legal framework," Erdogan said Tuesday." No one will get away with what they did."
Thousands of protesters remained in the streets, vowing to defend the park, which is occupied by hundreds of tents as demonstrators keep a 24-hour vigil. Most demonstrators wore face masks to protect themselves from tear gas canisters being lobbed by police lines.
Many protesters were peaceful though some more-hard-core elements taunted police and hurled rocks and shot fireworks over barricades. Police retaliated with water cannons and tear gas.
Ozan Ozturgay, 29, of Istanbul complained that a few extremists were using violence that discredits the movement.
"Our first priority is the park, but the other groups make this like a terrorist situation," he said, his head and face covered with a motorcycle helmet and paper mask and sunglasses.
"The police are throwing tear gas at us," he said. "We are not terrorists, we don't have any weapons or anything else."
Yasemin Ersoy, 23, a Turkish American from Santa Clara, Calif., said a major problem is that Turkish mainstream media mostly highlight violence, leaving many uninformed about protesters' chief complaint: that the government does not tolerate dissenting views and is imposing its religiously conservative agenda on the whole of society.
"There's a huge separation between people who know what's going on and who don't know what's going on," she said moments before taking cover from a volley of gas canisters. "They have no idea. They think that people here are rioting and breaking buildings and being here for the hell of it, and they think the police are protecting us!"
Municipal crews worked Wednesday to paint over anti-government slogans, and heavy machinery has removed wooden and metal barricades protesters erected over the past week.
Ibrahim Kalin, chief adviser to the prime minister, appeared on CNN International to make the government's case that protesters had been infiltrated by violent extremists.
"The message is very clear. (Erdogan's) willing to have this dialogue with the peaceful protesters," Kalin told CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour. "Some of these people have been disrupting the public order. ... When you say these are all peaceful protesters, we have to make this distinction."
President Abdullah Gul said the government could not stand more of the unrest that has disrupted daily life for nearly two weeks, but authorities will listen to protesters' grievances.
"I am hopeful that we will surmount this through democratic maturity," Gul said. "If they have objections, we need to hear them, enter into a dialogue. It is our duty to lend them an ear."


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I don't even know if putting this post under NHR will make it be seen by whomever can help me.... but.... I've seen just about all of the O.G.s from LGP except for Padraic, our magic number man. Is he still here under another pseudonym?
Where oh where have you gone??? Any help would be appreciated.


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Top Star Yoo Baek
Yoo Baek is a former idol group member. He is now a popular singer and actor. He doesn't try to be a good guy to attract people. Yoo Baek is self-centered and he is brutally honest to others even if it hurts them. He makes big trouble for himself and travels to a faraway island to getaway. There, he meets warm people on the island including Oh Kang Soon. She runs a small supermarket and also dives to pick abalone and sea mustard. She is physically a very strong woman.
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Chick Chicky Boom
I don't know about you guys, but I just love scoping out all the chicks in bakeries these days.
At least, I think that's what this is. That, or a couple of apostrophes on a teeter totter.
Here's a perfectly smashing example:
Or maybe just "smashed." Heh. As you can see, the blue highlights give it "character."
Then there's the Cheater's Special:
Even using 80% plastic decor, the Wreckerator still managed to make Chickadee look like she's sitting on a gloomy gift-wrapped raincloud. Aw, Eeyore would be proud.
Say what you will about this next one; I think it's hilarious:
You do have to wonder if those chicken feet are made of solid icing, though. [head tilt] I mean, how do you get that much icing to stand up like that? And more importantly, do you think people who eat real chicken feet would find this gross? (Amy, m'dear? Care to weigh in?)
This last one is yellow and orange and was displayed next to some sketchy looking "bunnies", so you know what that means...
Fortunately, despite the fact that her bio-dome keeps her almost perfectly preserved, Dr. Bokaw's minions are nothing to crow about. Some of them can't read her chicken scratch, others felt so hen-pecked that they flew the coop, and the rest are all..well...[leaning in to whisper in your ear] chickens.
Gail D., Mandy P., Anne B., Erika N., & Lysa, egg-cellent work.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)—Hertz Global Holdings Inc. fell Friday on news it will have to restate financial records going back to 2011, while Diamond Foods Inc. slumped, at one point tripping the Nasdaq's circuit breaker, after reporting a wider quarterly loss.
Hertz Global HTZ, +0.68% shares skidded 9.3%. The car-rental company said Friday it would have to restate its financial records from 2011 through 2013 because of accounting errors, which were caught by its audit committee. "Management, in consultation with the Audit Committee, has determined that at least one material weakness existed in Hertz's internal control over financial reporting and that disclosure controls and procedures were ineffective at Dec. 31, 2013," the company said in a filing.
Diamond Foods US:DMND tumbled 12%. The nut and snacks company late Thursday said its third-quarter loss widened to $105.6 million, or $3.63 a share, from a loss of $15.6 million, or 71 cents a share, a year ago.
Peabody Energy Corp. BTU, -0.65% shares dropped 1.5%, among the weakest performers in the S&P 500. The stock was downgraded to neutral from buy at Goldman Sachs, according to 24/7 Wall St.
Tyson Foods Inc. TSN, -0.57% shares slid 2.1%. Analysts at BB&T Capital Markets cut the stock's rating to hold from buy on Friday. "We find the company between a rock and a hard place, at present. We expect TSN to win the HSH bid, but we don't any longer know if that is such a good thing for shareholders over the short term," said Brett Hundley at BB&T. Tyson last week entered into a bidding war to buy Hillshire Brands Co. US:HSH.
E-Trade Financial Corp. ETFC, -0.47% shares gained 4.2%. Analysts at Nomura reiterated their buy rating on the stock due to expectations of earnings growth over the next three years.
Joy Global Inc. US:JOY shares rose 3.9%, extending gains for a second day. The mining equipment company on Thursday reported a weaker second-quarter profit but beat analysts' forecast. Joy Global earned an adjusted 76 cents a share, ahead of 71 cents a share projected by analysts in a Thomson Reuters survey.
Tickers to watch:
VOD: Vodafone Group PLC VOD, -0.20% is attracting attention after the mobile telecommunications company said it allows governments in many countries to tap its phones. The revelation hasn't affected its stock price with U.S.-listed shares up 1.4%.
UPS: United Parcel Service Inc. UPS, -1.32% shares edged down 0.2%. The company said Friday David Abney, the chief operating officer, has been named the new chief executive, effective Sept. 1. He will replace Scott Davis, who is retiring from the top post.
ADSK: Autodesk Inc. ADSK, -0.65% shares gained 2.1%. The stock's price target was raised to $65 from $60 at Canaccord Genuity. "Among companies with scale, we believe Autodesk has more 'paths to long-term growth' than any firm we know," said analyst Richard Davis in a report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kurt is a 32-year-old IT systems administrator from Des Moines, Iowa. He has a colleague who had been prescribed "ridiculous amounts" of Vicodin for a chronic back problem.
His colleague offered him some of the pills. Soon Kurt was taking them three to four times a week to get high and relax.
"I had been prescribed Vicodin before so I knew the effects," he said. "I would come home, take a couple and pour myself a drink, to help me unwind."
He is not alone. One in 10 Americans admit taking a prescription drug they have not been prescribed, and a quarter of those people have used them just to get high, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. (link.reuters.com/ban42v)
While about six in ten Americans who used another person's prescriptions did so for pain relief, a fifth took them to sleep or to manage stress and anxiety, the poll showed.
Kurt said his colleague would give him between thirty and forty pills at a time. Usually he would take the Vicodin while alone, but he occasionally shared the pills with friends during an evening out.
After eighteen months he finally kicked the habit. "I just felt like I was using too frequently," he said.
Prescription drug misuse has reached epidemic levels and it is now the second most abused category of drugs in the United States, after marijuana, according to a survey conducted for the U.S. government.
Pharmacies in the United States dispensed more than 4 billion prescriptions in 2012, according to IMS Health, a healthcare research firm.
The poll indicated it is not difficult to get hold of such drugs even without a prescription. About two thirds of those who used other people's prescribed drugs were given them by a family member, friend or acquaintance, the poll showed. Only about 14 percent were either taken without permission or purchased.
For some, using other people's prescription drugs is a way to save on healthcare costs.
For the last two years Megan, 28, has had no health insurance after losing a job working in a hotel in Eugene, Oregon.
When she began having muscle pain around her hip last year, she sought help from her mother, not her doctor.
Her mother had recently been involved in a car accident and had been prescribed Flexeril and Vicodin for neck pain, some of which lay unused. Megan took one of each.
"Had I had insurance, I would just have gone to the doctor, but I didn't and if you go into the emergency room they just look at you like you are a drug addict looking for your next fix," she said.
Dr. Wilson Compton, a division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says dosage levels of prescription drugs are particular to an individual's specific needs and warns against taking a medicine that has not been prescribed.
"Simply because it's a medicine that comes from a pharmacy does not mean it is without risk," he said. "There's a reason they require a prescription."
These results were taken from the ongoing Reuters/Ipsos online poll and include the responses of 6,438 adult Americans between July 24th and August 12th. The credibility interval, a measure of precision, for these results is plus or minus about 1.4 percentage points.
The prescription drug use questions in this story are part a polling project that began in January 2012, surveying about 11,000 people a month since. More information on these questions and hundreds of others asked since the poll started can be found at polling.reuters.com/
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Dec. 19th update: City Council unanimously approved the new disabled parking policy; the new program will be developed in early 2014 and take effect July 1, 2014.
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(December 18, 2013) – Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick will introduce a resolution to City Council on December 19 designed to significantly change Portland's current parking regulations for people with disabilities within the metered district.
The current policy allows free on-street parking for anyone displaying a disabled parking placard. This encourages the use of on-street parking as all-day commuter parking, instead of its intended use as short term parking for shoppers and others taking short trips downtown. It also costs the City an estimated $2.4 million a year in foregone parking revenue at a time when there is a large street maintenance backlog and unmet needs for sidewalks and safety features throughout the City. Finally, there is reason to believe that the lure of free parking has created some abuse of the disabled parking policy – e.g., commuters "borrowing" the placards of relatives.
The proposal would end free, unlimited parking for holders of disabled placards, and instead offer several payment options. Those options would give placard holders a 'grace period' at short-term spaces, allowing them to park for up to 3 hours at any space. In addition, the new program would establish at least 30 designated parking spaces for wheelchair users and 50 designated spaces for other holders of disabled placards in order to increase accessibility to high-demand destinations. Finally, commuters with disabilities who do not have workplace garages and cannot use TriMet could buy a permit to park on the street, at the same price as local garage permits.
The new disabled parking program would not affect free parking for people with wheelchair placards, which is mandated by state law.
"I believe that this action will free up parking spaces that have been occupied by all-day users, which means that shoppers will have an easier time finding open spaces," Commissioner Novick said. "This benefits businesses and all downtown visitors. Meanwhile, we're giving people with disabilities what they really need – some extra time, designated spaces, and, for those who work downtown and really need an on-street space, a chance to buy one. I don't think most people with disabilities think they're entitled to free parking, any more than free gas or free cars; they just want some reasonable accommodations."
A September survey of the metered district by the Portland Bureau of Transportation found that 1,033 vehicles parked on city streets displayed disabled placards, or about one in nine of all available spaces. That number reflects a steady increase over the years from 586 placards in 2007.
The proposed new program was formed in consultation with the City ofPortland's Disabled Parking Task Force, which includes representatives from the business community, as well as the Portland Commission on Disabilities and other stakeholders.
The new rules cover currently metered areas – the Central City,LloydDistrict, Central Eastside, and the area aroundOregonHealth & ScienceUniversity. Enforcement of the program would begin on July 1, 2014.
Among the specifics:
The proposed changes also direct the Portland Bureau of Transportation to monitor and evaluate the program in concert with the Commissioner's office, Disabled Parking Task Force and the Portland Commission on Disability.


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Update: This story was originally published on March 17, 2012. But, in honor of another summer officially being on its way, we've added 10 more women who inspire us to slip into our swimwear and own it in a major way. Click ahead for 25 forever-rad beach babes.
Whether you've been hitting the elliptical or indulging at that pudding place down the block, or both, all winter long, the thought of stripping down to a bikini in public for the first time in months can be somewhat jarring.
Just in case you need a little push, we're here to boost your swimsuit confidence and galvanize your prep with some inspiration in the form of 15 babes who redefine the word "bikini bod." While the body types here run the gamut, one thing is constant: Each woman is confident and sexy — exactly the things we want to be when we hit the sand. These 15 ladies look so darn comfortable, happy, and gorgeous in their bikinis, they're amping us up for our own swimsuit debut.


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BERLIN (Reuters) - A European backlash against austerity could force Germany to adjust its savings-first approach to the debt crisis, although political tumult and economic decline will still test the ability of euro zone leaders to hold their currency bloc together.
The strong performance of Socialist Francois Hollande in the first round of the French presidential election and the Dutch government's collapse in a row over budget cuts this week highlight the risks of a rebellion against Berlin's hardline emphasis on cutting deficits.
Should Hollande beat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in a runoff on May 6 and Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives lose an important regional election a week later, pressure on the German leader to explore more growth-friendly policies will rise.
However, the options for achieving growth in recession-mired southern European economies such as Greece are extremely limited, people close to the German leader concede.
By pushing up French and Dutch bond yields this week, financial markets have made clear they will punish countries that stray from the consolidation course, leaving Europe little choice but to grind it out and hope the bloc's increasingly brittle policy consensus holds.
"No one in Europe has the money for big stimulus programmes, no one can afford higher deficits," Peter Altmaier, parliamentary whip for Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), told reporters on Tuesday.
"And therefore growth must be achieved via other means like structural reforms. This is recognised across Europe."
That does not mean Berlin can avoid making some concessions to political forces across Europe who want a shift in strategy.
Merkel's main political rivals at home, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), are threatening to deny her the two-thirds majority in parliament she needs to pass the EU's "fiscal compact", a charter that would set tough budget rules in stone.
Like Hollande, the SPD wants a growth component added to the pact, and the party is in a strong position to scupper Merkel's plan to ram it through the Bundestag lower house next month.
Victory in an election in the big German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13 could embolden the SPD to take a more confrontational approach with Merkel.
Among the party's demands are a financial markets tax to fund investment in the euro zone's reeling periphery, more flexible use of EU structural funds, so-called "project bonds" and more lending power for the European Investment Bank.
Ulrike Guerot, who runs the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations, believes that if Hollande defeats Sarkozy next month and bands together with the SPD, they could force Merkel to adjust her austerity-first approach.
"If Hollande can get the choreography right, if he can get a large group of countries behind him and not turn this into an open confrontation with Merkel, I could imagine a huge dynamic for pro-growth policies," she said.
Signs that economic gloom elsewhere in Europe is hitting Germany could also affect Berlin's approach to the crisis.
With Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visiting a trade fair in Hanover this week, the focus has been on the German economy's increasing reliance on China.
But exports to China make up only 7 percent of Germany's annual total, compared with 40 percent to the euro zone, leaving it highly dependent on the health of its neighbours - particularly France and the Netherlands.
"You could see economic weakness in other parts of the euro zone begin to drag on Germany," Peter Bofinger, a member of the German government's "wisemen" council of economic advisers, told Reuters. "It's foolish to pretend that Germany is immune to what happens elsewhere in Europe."
Trade data have already pointed to a slowdown in German exports to its euro zone partners. A survey of purchasing managers on Monday showed the German manufacturing sector shrinking at its fastest pace in nearly three years, partly because of weak sales to southern Europe.
Merkel, who faces a federal election next year, is unlikely to give up her trump card - the robust German economy - without a fight.
Still, the lack of workable options for boosting growth in Europe means the currency bloc is in for a rocky ride.
Perhaps the biggest political hurdle is an election in Greece on the same day France holds its runoff.
Opinion polls suggest the parties behind the current technocrat-led government in Athens - the conservative New Democracy and socialist PASOK - could win enough seats to form a government. However, coalition talks are likely to be long and difficult regardless of the result.
Fringe parties that have benefited from growing anger with the government's austerity-for-aid policies could also deliver a surprise, calling into question Greek support for the cuts mandated under its bailouts.
In Ireland, a referendum on the budget discipline pact scheduled for May 31 could inject more political uncertainty into crisis resolution efforts. And a strong showing by eurosceptic Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders in a snap Dutch election would be a major risk for the bloc.
Notwithstanding recent agreements to boost the financial firepower of Europe's rescue funds and the International Monetary Fund, political turmoil could eat away at investors' confidence, increasing risks to big euro zone economies such as Spain and Italy, and rekindling fears of a breakup.
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Autumn Terrors
When you see your typical bakery display filling up with disembodied plastic fingers and red corn syrup drenched eyeballs you know Halloween is nearly upon us. Of course, those cakes are trying to be gross, gory, and/or creepy.
[sing-song voice] Bo-ring!
Personally, I prefer the cakes that were going for cutesy, but didn't quite make it. You know, like this:
So anyway, you can keep your rat-gnawed arms and zombie brain cakes; to me, no baked good will ever be as terrifying as this thing:
Denise, Surlana, Matt L., & Kourtny, I will never look at fried eggs the same way again. Thanks.
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It is only a modern invention to make Conon a 'court astronomer'; no such rank existed in Ptolemaic Egypt...Conon is remembered particularly for Callimachus's poem Berenice's Lock about the constellation Coma Berenices. It may be as a result of this poem that Conon is well known to Virgil and Propertius.
The story of the constellation Coma Berenices is that Queen Berenice II, the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes, swore a vow that she would dedicate a lock of her hair to the temple if her husband returned victorious from the Third Syrian War. The war was fought by Ptolemy Euergetes to avenge the murder of his sister in Syria. When he returned victorious in 245 BC, Berenice cut off the lock of her hair and placed it in the temple. The following day the lock of hair had vanished and Conon declared that he could see it in the stars between Virgo, Leo and Bootes. From that time on the constellation has been known as Coma Berenices.
Conon was a lifelong friend of Archimedes and the two exchanged mathematical ideas. Heath writes [4]:-
It was probably at Alexandria that [Archimedes] made the acquaintance of Conon of Samos (for whom he had the highest regard both as a mathematician and a friend).Pappus states that the curve now known as the spiral of Archimedes was discovered by Conon although it was much used by Archimedes. Heath writes in [4] that Conon was :-
... cited as the propounder of a theorem about the spiral in a plane which Archimedes proved: this would, however, seem to be a mistake, as Archimedes says at the beginning of his treatise that he sent certain theorems, without proofs, to Conon, who would certainly have proved them had he lived.Conon's work on conic sections became a basis for the fourth book of Conics of Apollonius of Perga despite the fact that Apollonius makes less than admiring remarks about Conon in the preface. Apollonius says that Conon sent a piece of work to Thrasydaeus which discussed the points of intersection of conics (including circles) but that Conon's results were incorrect and were seen to be so by Nicoteles of Cyrene. The work to which Apollonius refers is Conon's Pros Thrasydaion which is now lost so we cannot judge the accuracy of the comments.
Also lost is Conon's major work on astronomy, the seven books of De astrologia, which included solar eclipse observations. Ptolemy attributes seventeen "signs of the seasons" to Conon which he may have given in this work. As to Conon's skills as an observer, Seneca, writing in the first century AD, says [5]:-
... that Conon was a careful observer and that he "recorded solar eclipses observed by the Egyptians".But Neugebauer [5] adds that this is:-
... a story difficult to take seriously in view of what we know of Egyptian astronomy.For discussion on Conon's work with Babylonian observations, see the article [3].
Another assessment of Conon came in poetic fashion from Catullus, the Roman poet (84 BC - 54 BC), who wrote that Conon (see for example [1]):-
... discerned all the lights of the vast universe, and disclosed the risings and settings of the stars, how the fiery brightness of the sun is darkened, and how the stars retreat at fixed times.
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The American Apparel store, in Camden, North London, sits directly opposite the tube. It's an inconspicuous affair, a small, discreet shop front nestling between a Footlocker and a Rymans; but it serves as a youth club for the irredeemably cool of the area. They gather there to browse the 'collection' - the Crayola-bright jersey fabric stretch leggings and mini dresses, the latex-coated leggings, the too-baggy or too-tight tees - and to hang out. The PA system plays the Cure on a loop. The young and beautiful shop assistants jiggle and lip synch along to songs they can't possibly remember from the first time around - and they sell vast quantities of stock to a loyal and rapidly expanding clientele.
American Apparel is the fashion sensation of 2008. It's the largest clothing manufacturer within the United States; it specialises in very basic, very brightly coloured, ethically-produced jersey cotton pieces. Leggings, T-shirts, mini dresses, vintage-look hoodies... It was launched in the US in 1998 by fashion entrepreneur and self-styled 'hustler' Dov Charney, a man whose joint obsession with decent business ethics and sex, have made him as controversial as he is successful - on which, more shortly. It arrived here four years ago, when the first store opened on London's Carnaby Street. Since then, it has grown. Its unobtrusive little shops have sprouted up with minimal pomp and fuss, Starbucks-style, in Bristol, Glasgow, Brighton and Liverpool. There are now seven shops in London, and branches in Manchester and Nottingham will open before the end of this year. 'We are looking at every city in the UK with a decent-sized population', says Brent Chase, spokesperson for the brand in Britain.
American Apparel's UK operation is flourishing. Turnover has increased from £7m in 2007 to £14m this year. Its aesthetic is flourishing in the UK, too. In 2007, it became the basis for the signature look of the extremely fashionable brigade: St Martins art students and Hoxton-dwelling creatives. But it wasn't until this year that it really got its claws into the cultural moment at large. You'll have seen it, even if you didn't know what you were looking at. Those gaggles of pretty boys in the lilac low-cut oversized T-shirts, bright red, super skinny jeans and white, no-name plimsolls? American Apparel customers. The cool girls with the dove-grey leotards, the patch-pocket mustard yellow flirty mini-skirts and the gold braided head bands flattening down their too-long fringes? American Apparel customers. 'I liken American Apparel to mobile phones,' says Frank Strachen, pop stylist and fashion editor of Attitude magazine. 'How did we all cope before? Simple jersey pieces in more colours than you can imagine, with eccentric bits of neon and lamé. In the last year I don't think I've done one fitting without a piece of American Apparel on the rail. You see American Apparel all over the pop landscape, from Take That to the Saturdays.'
'It's ubiquitous now,' agrees Melanie Rickey, fashion features editor of Grazia magazine. 'It's infiltrated the shopping habits of a certain demographic.' Rickey notes that Grazia's weekly Style Hunter spot - in which well-dressed members of the public are found on the street, photographed and interviewed about their outfits - is dominated by American Apparel pieces; anyone who takes an interest in such things, who visits the internet's many 'street-style blogs' - like facehunter.blogspot.com and thesartorialist.blogspot.com - would agree that AA's shiny, latex-coated leggings have, at £28, become the most-wanted item of the season.
Catherine Hayward, fashion director of men's magazine Esquire, is a big fan of American Apparel. 'I live in the T-shirts; I layer them up, short sleeve over long-sleeve scoop,' she says. 'My first experience was in the Carnaby Street store - I just happened to walk past after it had opened, popped in for a look because it was all so bright and the staff were so good-looking, and I thought: "Ooh, what's that?'" She promptly got hooked. Hayward believes that American Apparel's ascendance in 2008 'very much chimes with the credit-crunch times, because it's cheap, and gleeful. No one wants to be seen to spend huge amounts of money, but no one wants to give up on shopping completely. At American Apparel, you can go and buy one T-shirt of every colour - lots of little multi-coloured treats to cheer yourself up.'
The celebrity scene appears to agree. It embraced American Apparel in 2008 - see Cheryl Cole in a white cotton stretch mini-dress (£26) on a shoot for The Observer this October; Sienna Miller was papped leaving a New York branch with a loaded carrier bag in September, as was Amy Winehouse in August, and Hugh Grant in May. Lindsay Lohan rarely wears anything but American Apparel. When she was photographed, comatose in the front of a car while wearing an AA grey marl zip-through hoodie, concerns were raised regarding her health - and sales of the hoodie went through the roof. The presenters on T4, Channel 4's youth-oriented segment, dress semi-exclusively in American Apparel; you rarely see Steve Jones, or Rick Edwards, or Miquita Oliver in anything else. All of this, despite the fact that American Apparel has a policy of never giving freebies or discounts to celebrities.
If you haven't heard of it - that's half the point. You're probably too old. American Apparel is unashamedly concerned with dressing the urban-dwelling sixth former/early-twentysomething. To a degree, its laid-back, sporty, pretend-vintage, flirty sexiness defines that generation. American Apparel clothing is insouciant, and it is cheap. An entire outfit - say, a cotton/spandex jersey too-short tube dress in lime green (£18) a unisex fleece zip hoodie (£28); and a pair of shiny stirrup tights (£10) - will barely scrape the 60 quid mark. It is sexy (tight, short, low-cut), it is clubby, it is casual; it is the antithesis of respectable office wear.
It is flagrantly exclusive in marketing its wares to the superyoung and supercool. Its advertising campaign is a series of bald, starkly lit, un-retouched pictures of pretty boys and girls, contorted into positions that suggest yoga and outlandish sex. It's been criticised for these. The very latest of these - an internet ad which shows a model unzipping a yellow body suit to expose what can only be described as 'a lot of nipple', is a case in point. The whole thing is designed to reference porn shots.
American Apparel's reach is significant; it has begun reconfiguring the framework of popular culture. It is AA's short-sleeve, deep V-neck T range, for example, that sparked off this year's man-cleavage revival. The man-cleavage (or he-vage) was previously the preserve of a certain type of middle-aged unfortunate, but suddenly gained currency among a much younger, cooler demographic, thanks, entirely, to the escalating popularity of this £14 shirt. Johnny Borrell of Razorlight adopted the look, thousands of other young men followed.
Elsewhere American Apparel ignited the debate over whether or not leggings could be worn in lieu of trousers. Formerly, leggings had been a kind of superannuated hosiery option, to be worn under a skirt, or dress, or shorts; but devotees of the AA brand saw no reason not to wear them alone, with a top. The toss was argued on the comments boards of fashion and lifestyle blogs - most fiercely at jezebel.com - but the American Apparel approach persisted, now a legging is considered a reasonable bottom-half option.
Also: American Apparel is responsible for merging traditional straight and gay male aesthetics. A significant proportion of its collection is labelled unisex; accordingly, a significant amount of men have wound up embracing a look associated with a more flamboyant market. The bright colours, the skinny slacks, the tight T-shirts, the crop T-shirts... It's a sartorial exuberance classically indulged by gay men, but as it gained currency among everyone, those distinctions became less relevant. You could argue that it's a useful conflation of cultures, a step toward dismantling stereotypes on sexual orientation.
American Apparel has also become synonymous with the New York 'hipster' movement. Hipsters are the latest development in youth culture. They are young, good-looking graduates who work in a non-specific creative field, and dedicate themselves to the business of being as directional and cutting edge as they can be.
Their spiritual home is Williamsburg, a recently revived area of Brooklyn, rammed with organic coffee shops, tiny boutiques, galleries and independent bars. They dress exclusively in vintage, hats, designer one-offs produced by their hipster friends - and American Apparel. They're bloggers and clubbers and denizens of art parties, a kind of new-new bohemian. Hipsters are something of a joke in New York (as YouTube's Hipster Olympics video testifies); they're pretentious and over-attached to irony and they inspire vitriol in everybody. 'These hipster zombies... are the idols of the style pages, the darlings of viral marketers and the marks of predatory real-estate agents,' writes Christian Lorentzen in an article published in the New York edition of Time Out magazine, 'Why The Hipster Must Die', which references the hipsters' association with American Apparel. The hipster brand, and the American Apparel brand, are indistinguishable.
One man is responsible for everything American Apparel is, and represents; for its successes, and for its cultural impact. Dov Charney is its founder, creative director and chief executive. He is 39 years old, bearded, sufficiently slim-hipped to fit into his own designs, supremely successful, and as controversial as he is fashionable. 'I think I was born a hustler,' he told the New York Times, in 2004. 'I like the hustle.'
Dov Charney is famous for two things, as already specified. He is uniquely concerned with the ethics of his company. America Apparel's strap-line attests to the fact that the product is 'sweatshop free' and made in downtown LA, Charney pays his employees twice the minimum wage and offers them significant benefits, including full family medical insurance; he refuses to outsource the manufacturing of American Apparel. He does all this because, he says, it makes good business sense. With the same rationale, he's campaigning to change US policy on immigration (he runs a campaign to 'Legalise LA' by decriminalising immigrants; his workforce is largely composed of immigrant workers who are allowed to make free phone calls home during work hours). And he is obsessed with sex.
The signature porn-y adverts are Charney's vision and Charney's work (he takes the photos); Charney recruits his ad models and his staff from the rafts of beautiful people he encounters on the streets and in the bars, clubs and restaurants of LA. He invites a selection of his favourite employees to room with him in his LA mansion; they live there, rent free, and in return they serve as personal assistants. They're exclusively male. 'I used to have girls around, but it's easier with boys,' Charney told Portfolio magazine during a recent interview.
Charney routinely presents his female recruits with vibrators as gifts; in 2004, during an interview for Jane magazine, the journalist Claudine Ko noted that Charney began masturbating in front of her. 'I was a younger man,' says Charney, on that subject. 'The lines were blurred between paramour and reporter.' He is said to take meetings at his headquarters dressed only in an American Apparel thong, and to regularly refer to his female employees as 'sluts' and 'whores'. He has used lap dancers as fit models in the past.
Charney's approach polarises his workforce, who either adore him and write spirited defences of him (the now defunct Radar ran an interview with AA model and Charney-devotee Claire Salinda, entitled 'In the Name of Dov'); or sue him for sexual harassment. Charney's defended four lawsuits in the past three years; two of which he's won, one of which was dropped, one of which has been settled. He's currently facing another, brought by former employee Mary Nelson. Charney will only say on the subject: 'American Apparel is a sexually charged workplace where employees of both genders deal with sexual conduct, speech and images as part of their jobs.'
Dov Charney grew up in Montreal, where he developed a fascination with American culture, which he focused into designing the definitively 'American' T-shirt and underwear. By his late teens, he'd begun peddling his tees on the streets of Montreal; by 1991, he'd developed the prototype for the first American Apparel T-shirt. By 1998, while still in his twenties, he'd moved to California and launched American Apparel. He began with three stores - in New York, Montreal and Los Angeles. American Apparel now has some 231 retail outlets worldwide; as well as the US and the UK, you can visit AA stores in China, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico and France.
In 2007, American Apparel merged with Endeavour Acquisition and went public; Charney became the president and CEO of American Apparel Inc. He retains absolute creative direction and despite having no formal training designs each AA piece. 'I am an intuitive designer,' he says. 'I put it on and see if it's tight or not. I love the touch of fabric... I try on all my underwear designs before they go into production.' (That, he says, should explain why he wanders round his HQ in a jersey thong.)
Charney's approach is working. Worldwide, American Apparel turns over close to $500 million, which might not make it Gap, but is still not to be sneezed at. Charney's unorthodox approach to business lends the well-made but unremarkable clothing a youth-snaring edge; the odd lawsuit can only compound that, while the ethical subtext of his operation means that Charney is less likely to suffer a Russell Brand-like fall from grace.
'Oh, the future is definitely very bright for American Apparel,' says Catherine Hayward. The fashion sensation of 2008 may well end up being the fashion sensation of 2009, too. Gold spandex stretch leotards for all.


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As public schools reduce extra services for gifted children following state funding cuts, a few startup private schools and support networks have emerged locally with a broader definition of "gifted."
Helios New School, launched in a home with a handful of students five years ago, now leases a colorful corner of Palo Alto's Oshman Family Jewish Community Center with a K-5 enrollment of 35 children.
Synapse School in Menlo Park offers a similar program for children K-8.
Both schools say they use a "qualitative assessment" of giftedness in children that goes beyond the traditional IQ definition.
Another group, the one-year-old Gifted Support Center, offers assessments, support and community for gifted children and their parents, many of whom resort to home schooling after finding their children are bored or do not fit well in regular classrooms, according to support center director Ann Smith.
The broader definition of giftedness -- encompassing characteristics such as reasoning, energy level, attention span, moral sensitivity and "excitability" -- has gained ground with some local parents at the same time that public schools generally have pulled back on special offerings for gifted children.
Strapped for funds, the California Legislature in 2008 loosened restrictions on the state's Gifted and Talented Education program, allowing school districts to keep the funds but redirect them to other educational needs.
As a result, the Palo Alto school district suspended the program it once had of identifying gifted children -- beginning in spring of third grade -- through standardized test scores and checklists of multiple intelligences and indicators of giftedness.
Once identified, children in Palo Alto's GATE program were supposed to be offered "differentiated instruction" and extended curriculum within their regular classes.
"The district remains committed to serving the individual needs of high achieving and gifted students regardless of GATE identification," according to the district's website.
Superintendent Kevin Skelly noted, "In a place like Palo Alto we have an extraordinary number of gifted kids."
Palo Alto public school families seeking greater academic challenge are directed to a long list of enrichment opportunities, from Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth to a variety of math and robotics competitions and spelling bees.
But private educators who embrace the qualitative definition of giftedness say gifted kids frequently have social, emotional and other needs that go unmet in the mainstream classroom.
"We're not talking about high ability across the board," said Anne Beneventi, a founder and current co-director of Helios New School.
"They often have asynchronous development and sometimes they can have a learning disability. What our kids have in common is they need more depth and complexity and need it connected to something (like a project or theme) instead of it being just based on skills."
Helios organizes children loosely by age but forms ability groupings in subjects like math, where some students are working far above grade level.
The father of one Helios first-grader said his son was fascinated with physics and science and could read 200-page books in preschool but had the social skills of any preschooler.
"It's not like we were trying to make our kid out to be super-smart or anything like that, but he certainly was different and showed a lot of signs that, in hindsight, were pretty clear," said the Palo Alto resident, who asked not to be identified.
"Here you had a 3-year-old who wanted to talk about the Period Table of the Elements, and he'd go to talk to other kids about it and they'd say, 'What's wrong with you?'
"He didn't have the social skills to navigate that. He was aware that his interests were different and that led to him feeling isolated and not fitting in. And that makes it very challenging as you go through your early development."
Beneventi introduced the family to another, who had a child with a similar interest in science.
"On the first play date it was eye-opening for (the other mother) because she'd never seen her son engage like that," the Helios parent said.
"You had 4-and-a-half-year-old kids who were playing just like 4-and-a-half-year-old kids but happened to be making jokes about chemistry. Neither had ever had a peer to engage with on that level."
Though the other child does not attend Helios, the two boys still play together regularly, the father said.
Palo Alto resident Ivonne Mena King, mother of another Helios first-grader, said she and her husband chose the school for kindergarten for their child after touring private and public schools.
"One of the many things that sets Helios apart is that children are encouraged to be scientists in all aspects," King said.
"They are not taught to merely sit still and absorb information. For a variety of subjects, the class last year conducted hands-on group or individual experiments.
"Another aspect of Helios that my son loves is exploration. A few times a week, the children are encouraged to explore a subject of their own choosing," King said.
Ann Smith of the Gifted Support Center got introduced to the field when one of her three children began having temper tantrums after kindergarten in a traditional school.
"We had some educational testing done, and it was recommended that we home-school her or put her in a school for gifted children," Smith said.
"At that time I said, 'What's a gifted child?' I would have thought Einstein. That's how the path began for our family."
The family tried home-schooling for awhile, and the child now attends Odyssey School, an independent middle school for gifted students in San Mateo.
The 45-year-old, pre-K-8 Nueva School in Hillsborough is the most widely recognized school for gifted children on the Peninsula, but Smith said the school has a limited number of spots and some families are looking for an option closer to home.
"Giftedness, the way it makes the most sense to me, is a way of experiencing and perceiving the world that includes heightened sensitivity, intensities, advanced cognitive abilities -- a way of perceiving things a bit upside of the way normal people experience it," she said.
"Our society tends not to like the word. It's viewed as elitist. The prevailing notion is 'If these children are so smart, they'll be just fine on their own.'
"That's a shame because all children need help to reach their potential."


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Spin Master, Inc. of Los Angeles, California, and Spin Master Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, ("Spin Master") have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $1,300,000. The penalty agreement (pdf) has been accepted provisionally by the Commission (5-0).
The settlement resolves staff allegations that Spin Master knowingly failed to report the defect and hazard associated with Aqua Dots to CPSC immediately, as required by federal law. The settlement also resolves CPSC staff allegations that Spin Master knowingly imported and sold Aqua Dots, which were toxic and a banned hazardous substance, in violation of federal law.
Aqua Dots was a children's craft kit and toy that consisted of tiny beads of different colors that stuck together when sprayed with water, allowing children to create various shapes and designs.
CPSC staff alleges that by the middle of October 2007, Spin Master had received reports that children, and a dog, had become ill and received emergency medical treatment after ingesting Aqua Dots. On October 18, 2007, Spin Master learned that Aqua Dots contained 1,4-butylene glycol (TMG), which, upon ingestion, metabolizes to the controlled substance gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB). The following day, Spin Master learned that TMG is harmful if swallowed, and upon ingestion, targets the kidneys and central nervous system.
CPSC staff also alleges that in the ensuing days and weeks, Spin Master continued to receive reports of children falling ill after ingesting Aqua Dots. Spin Master also learned that children who ingested a similar product containing TMG, which was manufactured by the same overseas factory, also had become ill. Spin Master did not timely report any of the incidents to CPSC.
In early November 2007, CPSC received two reports of children who had ingested the product, become ill, fallen into comas, and required hospitalization. On November 5, 2007, CPSC staff notified Spin Master of an ingestion illness incident that it had received. Two days later, Spin Master and CPSC announced a voluntary recall of about 4.2 million units of Aqua Dots.
The recall announcement noted that children who swallow the beads can become comatose, develop respiratory depression, or have seizures.
While Spin Master had enlisted an outside testing company to evaluate the toxicity of the product, the testing was inadequate.
Aqua Dots craft kits were sold nationwide from April 2007 to November 2007, for between $17 and $30.
Federal law requires manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to report to CPSC immediately (within 24 hours) after obtaining information reasonably supporting the conclusion that a product contains a defect which could create a substantial product hazard, creates an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death, or fails to comply with any consumer product safety rule or any other rule, regulation, standard, or ban enforced by CPSC.
Staff alleges that the chemical composition of Aqua Dots rendered the product a banned hazardous substance. Federal law prohibits the importation and sale of banned hazardous substances.
In agreeing to the settlement, Spin Master denies CPSC staff allegations that it knowingly violated the law.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical or mechanical hazard. CPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years.
Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the Commission.
To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.
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White House Signals Pause in Mideast Talks
President to Discuss Next Moves When Secretary of State Returns
The Obama administration threatened to pull back from Middle East peace talks and its envoy said it was "reality check time" as the process reached its closest point yet to collapse.
The U.S. on Friday began a painful re-evaluation of its centerpiece foreign policy initiative after 15 months in pursuit of a deal. Its failure, American officials said, would risk fueling violent Palestinian actions against Israeli occupation and renewed calls in Europe for an economic boycott on Israel....


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- Original design intricately laser-engraved in your choice of 1/8" Oak or Colored acrylic
- Oak Ornaments are 4-3/4" tall
- Please expect naturally occurring variations in wood grain and coloring.
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The 2016 Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet
Sometimes, one image size doesn't fit all. The 2016 Social Media Image Sizes Cheat Sheet from Hub Spot will help you optimize your images for all of your social media sites.
When you're designing cover photos, graphics, and other social media assets, sometimes knowing the bare bones image dimensions isn't enough.
What if you wanted to place text or an arrow on your Facebook cover photo without it getting covered by the profile photo? And what about the shared link thumbnails on Facebook or in-stream photos on Twitter ... how big should those be?
These change so often, a current infographic guide like this is always helpful.


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Hickenlooper hints at veto of Death Penalty repeal
The Denver Post
Gov. John Hickenlooper has let his fellow Democrats know he has issues with a bill that allows lawmakers to repeal Colorado's death penalty, mentioning a "veto" as the sponsors say they have the votes to get it passed.
Hickenlooper on Tuesday spoke with House Democrats at their regular caucus luncheon in a building across the street from the Capitol, one hour before a committee was scheduled to hear the death-penalty bill.
Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, said it was the first time he has heard the governor use the term "veto."
"He did not say, 'I will definitely, undoubtedly with no question veto this,' " Pabon said. "But he did say that is something he is bouncing around. He used the 'v' word."
Another Democrat,
who asked not to be identified, said Hickenlooper told the caucus, "There are some things we're going to have to disagree on ... and those things we disagree on I'll have to veto." Rep. Lois Court of Denver, the House Democratic caucus chairwoman, said she was busy with the luncheon and missed some but not all of the governor's points.
"He kind of said he thinks we need more public conversation," she said. "He wants to have more opportunities to ask the public for their input."
The House Judiciary Committee heard the death penalty bill one hour after the luncheon on Tuesday, but took no official action.
Some lawmakers said Hickenlooper's concerns could doom the measure.
"It's no secret the governor has conflicting feelings about the death penalty," Hickenlooper's spokesman, Eric Brown, said via e-mail Wednesday. "Those feelings are still unresolved."
When Hickenlooper ran for office in 2010, he answered a Denver Post question about whether the death penalty should be repealed by saying, "No, but it should be restricted."
Late last year,
House Bill 1264 was laid over Tuesday night after nine hours of impassioned testimony by proponents and opponents. The measure would repeal capital punishment in Colorado for offenses committed after July 1.
A date for when a final committee vote will occur on the measure has not been set.
Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, the bill's co-sponsor, said she's eager to move forward.
"I have the votes in the House to pass the bill and it's not just partisan, it's bipartisan," Levy said Wednesday. The measure is also co-sponsored by Republican Rep. Kevin Priola of Henderson.
On Wednesday, another committee heard a separate death penalty measure by Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora. Her bill would have voters decide in 2014 whether to repeal the death penalty. It was laid over after a brief committee hearing.
Fields opposes Levy's bill. Two of the three men currently on Colorado's death row — Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray — were convicted of killing Fields' son in 2005.
Neither Fields nor Levy's measures would impact those already on death row, or someone charged with a crime before their proposals became law.
The last person the state of Colorado put to death was Gary Davis in 1997.


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Medicine & Healthcare in Jamaica by Alexi Child
I am from the United States, I graduated with a BS in Movement Science, and was also on the Pre-Health track for eventually attending Physician Assistant graduate school. I had completed numerous hours shadowing and observing physicians and nurses in a wide variety of settings. I was beyond ecstatic to be volunteering in Jamaica for three whole weeks.
Volunteering in Jamaica
I thoroughly enjoyed my time working in the rural medical clinic I was stationed at for the three week duration. While volunteering there, I was able to observe nurses, midwives, doctors and even a nutritionist work with the local people. The clinic's activity was largely dependent on when the travelling doctors were visiting their specific. Monday and Tuesdays were days when at least one doctor was always there; Wednesdays were when the midwives generally worked; and Thursdays and Fridays were usually only the permanently staffed nurses or an out-of-town specialist would possibly be scheduled to work, as well.
Learning this weekly agenda took some getting used to, since I was unfamiliar with such a system, despite my numerous hours of shadowing and observation in the US. I also noticed that certain days would be centred around specific cases. For example, Mondays and Tuesdays were "chronic days" (i.e. hypertension and diabetes), and also Tuesdays along with Wednesdays were "baby days" (for pregnant women and infants). After about a week of working at the medical clinic, I was able to have more direct patient contact experiences due to becoming more familiar with the system and the medical staff being confident in my abilities.
Instead of only observing throughout the day, I was able to escort patients from one appointment to the next, take heights and weights and calculate BMIs, and even started to help out with some of the front office work checking-in the patients. By the second week, I was able to take patient's blood pressure, test their blood-glucose levels, and help with the filing and retrieval of patient case files in the secretary/admissions office. I thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the patients and learning more about their lives and the Jamaican culture in general.
Observing the various doctor-patient interactions also provided me with an educational avenue; I could ask the doctor about a particular situation once the patient had left, and learn more about that case and how the doctor made his/her evaluations of the case. The doctors were very informative and did their best to answer my many questions. The nurses were also extremely helpful with expanding my knowledge base, as they would talk me through their processes of wound care and bandaging as they were working with the patients. Using a non-automated blood pressure machine was something I had not practiced in several years, and the head nurse took it upon herself to make me as proficient as possible at taking blood pressures.
Even the midwife, who was incredibly busy with the many patients she had to see in a day, offered for me to go on house-call visits to pregnant women as well as newly born babies. I will never forget traversing over boulders and climbing down steep, rocky hills to get to some of the houses with these families. I couldn't believe that women who were 8 and 9 months pregnant had been climbing this trail right up until they gave birth. The midwife let me take the new-borns' heart rates and blood pressures, too, which is performed slightly differently on an infant. I greatly appreciated all of the time and effort each staff member dedicated to make my time with the clinic enjoyable and impactful.
My host family
As for living situation, I had the best host family. They made me feel at home and did everything they could to be as accommodating as possible. I was also living with one other volunteer for most of the time. We quickly became friends and explored much of Jamaica together, usually with a group of around six to twelve people. As much as I enjoyed adventuring around Jamaica with my new friends, I also really did look forward to spending time with my host family at night during dinner or briefly in the morning over breakfast.
They taught me so many Jamaican customs and introduced me to their extended family, and many nights we would all gather around the TV in their living room and watch the sports channels until someone fell asleep. I also loved that they had a dog I could play with and would greet me every time I came home from work. My host mom even wrote me later saying she could tell the dog was missing me shortly after I left Jamaica for the States!
Fond memories
I think one of the memories I will hold onto for many years to come is when the Projects Abroad medical volunteers all worked together at an off-site location. We were working with a local health group to help run a temporary health clinic. At the start of the day, various groups presented on public health issues and general safety reminders. By the afternoon, we had divided ourselves into various stations—check-in and patient history, blood pressure and heart rate, blood-glucose testing, and height and weight recordings for children.
I was in charge of the check-in and patient history, and by the end of the day we had seen over 80 people. This was during my third week in Jamaica, so luckily my ear was fairly trained to the Jamaican accents and discerning some of the Patois (however, I did have a Projects Abroad staff member help me with some of the patients I couldn't understand clearly). I remember talking with the people and learning of their ailments and pains, some of which could be treated by the doctor, but many were not easy fixes. There was a little boy who was very small for his age who loved coming over to our desk and playing with our feet under the table. During breaks I played with the boy and other children, and talked to the boy's mother a fair amount.
Not only did I get to learn so much about their lives, but in this moment I was also able to relax and have fun during that gorgeous Jamaican day with some of the locals, and interact as peers rather than medical volunteers. It was harder than I expected to leave the medical clinic I had worked at, as well was my host family and international friends I made during my time there. I knew I was going to miss not only the breath taking Jamaican sunsets and utopian beaches, but also the people I had worked so closely with and learned to care so much for over those short three weeks. I feel like my experience was definitely worthwhile, and I hope I was able to give back and have a positive impact on the community that gave me so much.
Alexi Child
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Welcome Bed & Breakfast
"Welcome Bed and Breakfast", a typical Tuscan farmhouse built in 1800, has been
recently renovated in respect of the antique building, and is situated near the
Congress Building, at only 10 minutes on foot from the historical centre of Pisa
and it's cultural sites (Leaning Tower 15 min. on foot).
Easily reachable from the Railway Station (1 km), from the International Airport
(2 kms) and from Cisanello and S. Chiara hospital (1 km), the "Welcome Bed and
Breakfast" offers its guests big and bright rooms with bathrooms furnished in
good taste, and private car park and garden.
In "Welcome Bed And Breakfast" you can find Italian warmth and family
atmosphere to help you get the most from your stay.
- Daily cleaning
-Languages: Italian, English, French
- Wi-Fi Internet
- Bicycles renting
- Satellite TV
- Bus stop in front of the Bed and Breakfast
- Car park
- Garden (animals not accepted)
- Baby-sitter on request
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B&B Facilities & Policies
- Breakfast Not Included
- Free WiFi
- Internet Access
- Laundry Facilities
- No Curfew
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 7 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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You must advise about arrival time.
Payment: Cash only, on arrival.
Check-out: before 10 am.
Check-in : 14:00-00:00
Check-out: 5:00 am-10:00 am
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DirectionsShow MapHide Map
By car:
From the Genoa-Leghorn A12 motorway, exit Pisa Centro, then follow S.G.C. FI-PI-LI in direction of Firenze, exit 'Pisa Nord-Est', then follow signs for 'Centro-Palazzo dei congressi'.
From the S.C.G. Firenze-Pisa (FI-PI-LI), exit 'Pisa Nord-Est', then follow signs for 'Centro-Palazzo dei congressi'.
By plane:
The 'Galileo Galilei' international airport, the main airport of Tuscany, is only 2 kms away from the Bed and Breakfast, and offers daily flights to the mains European airports with international connections.
From the airport, take the bus (Red 'Lam' - fast line) and arrive in a few minutes at the Central railway station; from take the bus (Blue 'Lam' - fast line) and arrive within 5 minutes in front of the Welcome Bed and Breakfast!!
By train:
The Central railway station of Pisa is only 1 km away from the Bed and Breakfast.
There are many direct connections with the Turin-Genoa-Rome and Leghorn-Florence lines.
Other direct connections are available with the Central railway station of Milan.
You can also arrive in Bologna with a change in Florence.
Departures to and from Florence every hour during all the day.
From the Central railway station of Pisa, take the bus (Blue 'Lam' - fast line) and arrive within 5 minutes in front of the Bed and Breakfast (Get off at 'Matteucci 1')
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Mar 10, 2014
Philadelphia – The UMBC men's tennis team extended its winning streak to seven straight with a 5-1 victory at Drexel at the Legacy Tennis Center on Sunday evening. The two teams only competed in singles matches during the contest.
The Retrievers improved to 9-3, while the Dragons slipped to 6-5 on the campaign.
The three sophomores at the top of the Retriever lineup all came through with straight-set victories. At No. 1, Justin Carter (Randallstown, Md.) dropped only three games in a convincing 6-2, 6-1 victory over junior Badr Ouabdelmoumen, while No. 3 Alex Drean (Bayonne, France) dispatched of Skyler Davis, 6-2, 6-0, at the No. 3 position.
Melker Svard (Gothenburg, Sweden) fought off more resistance, but defeated Xabier Saavedra, 6-3, 7-5 at the No. 2 position.
Freshman Biyik Akinshemoyin (Laurel, Md./Resevoir) also prevailed in straight sets, defeating Daniel Hansen, 6-4, 6-2 at the No. 6 slot and junior No. 5 Daniel Gray (Bowie, Md./The Bullis School) picked up the Retrievers' fifth point, outlasting Dan Koehler, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.
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May 10, 2011 7:06 pm ET - by Chris Brown
Four days before the death of Osama bid Laden, the Associated Press reported that 247 people on the terror watch list legally purchased guns in 2010.
More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in the U.S. last year legally, FBI figures show.
The 247 people who were allowed to buy weapons did so after going through required background checks as required by federal law.
It is not illegal for people listed on the government's terror watch list to buy weapons. For years, that has bothered Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who is trying again to change the law to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
In addition to Sen. Lautenberg, both the Bush and Obama administrations
sought to give the attorney general authority to block gun sales to suspected
terrorists. Yet despite bipartisan support as well as polling showing that 82 percent of the NRA's own members support closing the "terror loophole," the National Rifle
Association has opposed efforts keep people on terror watch lists from
purchasing guns.
The NRA's April 19 fact sheet describing its reasoning for this position suggests terrorists are already largely prohibited from purchasing firearms under the current law and that the proposals for change have originated from "gun control extremists". In fact, the AP's reporting shows that between February 2004 and December 2010 ninety percent of attempted purchases by people on the terror watch list were allowed to proceed.
Huffington Post contributor Cliff Schecter recently wrote about the very real threat possessed by suspected terrorists with largely unfettered access to guns:
If you don't think we should get on this forthwith, just remember, there are those who will want to take revenge for bin Laden's killing. And there are those who will continue to plan attacks on the United States because it is such a tempting target. They may not have the capabilities to pull off a large scale attack like the one on 9/11. But by allowing them to purchase Jared Loughner's Glock with an assault clip, or (God help us) explosives, we are asking for trouble.
Hopefully most of remember what happened in Mumbai, India. It only took guns, some explosives, a few cell phones, and a hijacked fishing vessel to terrorize an entire city and commit mass murder at train stations, luxury hotels and in the streets. Could it happen here?
In the wake of the AP's report and bin Laden's death, officials are issuing new security warnings and al Qaeda has pledged that they will "continue to hunt the Americans and their operatives inside and outside their country." In light of these developments, Sen. Lautenberg has renewed his efforts to address this glaring loophole. We'll have to wait to see how many other members of Congress will prioritize keeping weapons away from possible terrorists over standing in lockstep with NRA extremism.
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Patriot Ledger film critic Al Alexander predicts the winners of this year's Oscars.
Here are my picks in each of the categories for the 86th annual Academy Awards, which will be broadcast on ABC beginning at 8:30 Sunday night:
The nominees: Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine"; Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"; Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"; Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"; June Squibb, "Nebraska"
Who shouldn't be here: Roberts
Who should: Oprah Winfrey, "The Butler"
Who should win: Nyong'o – Rookie of the year
Who will win: Nyong'o – As beautiful as she is talented
The nominees: Barkhad Abdi, "Captain Phillips"; Bradley Cooper, "American Hustle"; Michael Fassbender, "12 Years a Slave"; Jonah Hill, "The Wolf of Wall Street"; Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Who shouldn't be here: Hill
Who should: Sam Rockwell, "The Way Way Back"
Who should win: Leto – The finest performance of 2013 in any category
Who will win: Leto – A no-brainer!
The nominees: Amy Adams, "American Hustle,"; Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"; Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"; Judi Dench, "Philomena"; Meryl Streep, "August: Osage County"
Who shouldn't be here: Streep
Who should: Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks"
Who should win: Adams – A haunting, affecting performance
Who will win: Blanchett – Too over the top!
The nominees: Christian Bale, "American Hustle"; Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"; Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"; Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"; Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Who shouldn't be here: Dicaprio
Who should: Robert Redford, "All Is Lost"
Who should win: McConaughey – Just amazing work from a former Hollywood punching bag
Who will win: McConaughey – All right, all right, all right!
The nominees: Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"; Steve McQueen, "12 Years a Slave"; Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"; David O. Russell, "American Hustle"; Martin Scorsese, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Who shouldn't be here: Scorsese
Who should: Paul Greengrass, "Captain Phillips"
Who should win: Cuaron – Awe-inspiring
Who will win: Cuaron – Out of this world!
The nominees: "American Hustle," "Captain Phillips," "Dallas Buyers Club," "Gravity," "Her," "Nebraska," "Philomena," "12 Years a Slave," "The Wolf of Wall Street"
What shouldn't be here: "The Wolf of Wall Street"
What should: "Inside Llewyn Davis" or "Rush"
What should win: "12 Years a Slave" – Tough to watch, but brilliant
What will win: "12 Years a Slave" – An important film that's as gripping as it is a sad commentary on the horrible treatment of African-Americans by callous whites
The nominees: "The Croods," "Despicable Me 2," "Ernest & Celestine," "Frozen," "The Wind Rises"
What shouldn't be here: "The Croods"
What should: Nothing else worthy
What should win: "Frozen" – Pure delight!
What will win: "Frozen" – The hottest picture out there
The nominees: "The Act of Killing," "Cutie and the Boxer," "Dirty Wars," "The Square," "20 Feet From Stardom"
What shouldn't be here: "Dirty Wars"
What should: "Stories We Tell" or "Blackfish"
What should win: "The Act of Killing" – Disturbing account of genocide in Indonesia
What will win: "20 Feet From Stardom" – Feel-good froth
The nominees: "American Hustle," Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell; "Blue Jasmine," Woody Allen; "Dallas Buyers Club," Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack; "Her," Spike Jonze; "Nebraska," Bob Nelson
What shouldn't be here: "Blue Jasmine"
What should: "All Is Lost," J.C. Chandor
What should win: "Her" – Wildly inventive, but too radical for Academy's fogeys
What will win: "American Hustle" – Not a perfect script, but awfully funny
The nominees: "Before Midnight," Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy; "Captain Phillips," Billy Ray; "Philomena," Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope; "12 Years a Slave," John Ridley; "The Wolf of Wall Street," Terence Winter
What shouldn't be here: "The Wolf of Wall Street"
What should: "Inside Lllewyn Davis," Joel and Ethan Coen
What should win: "12 Years a Slave" – Surpasses "Roots" as the definitive document on antebellum slavery
What will win: "12 Years a Slave" – A masterpiece


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Stem cell research to cure nervous system disease
The Neural Stem Cell Institute (NSCI) is dedicated to developing regenerative stem cell therapies for various diseases of the central nervous system (CNS): the brain, spinal cord and retina, regardless of the cause of injury. Led by MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Dr. Sally Temple who helped discover and define nervous system stem cells, NSCI is the first independent, non-profit stem cell research institute in the USA.
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- NSCI scientists were the first to discover that the CNS contains neural stem cells (NSC)
- NSCI scientists discovered a method to activate the NSCs that are present but normally dormant in adult CNS. Once activated, these endogenous NSCs mediate repair and regeneration of damaged CNS tissues, including spinal cord, optic nerve, retina and brain due to injury, trauma, stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases of the CNS.
- NSCI scientists discovered a new NSC present in adult retina that self-renews to produce large numbers of progeny enabling replacement therapies, disease modeling and drug discovery using a patient's own cells
- NSCI scientists discovered the interaction between blood vessels and NSCs, interactions that control CNS growth, repair and regeneration.
- Establishment of Neuracell, a not-for-profit NSC bank that provides unique stem cells and stem cell tools to scientists, laboratories and companies


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Back to my post today, its a steamed buns (paus) again. Well I like steamed paus and we can have it either for breakfast, lunch, dinner or even supper. Founded a new recipe for the paus pastry and I was attracted by the pictures inside. So no doubt, here's mine..:)
I've changed the fillings inside into stewed pork instead of roasted pork. Just feel like tasting something different this time. But somehow after steaming, there were some brown spots on the paus...wonder was it that I didn't seal the paus properly. Anyway I still got to learn and improve on how to shape the paus properly. Don't they looked like garlic?...LOL
Here's the recipe, (adapted from 快乐厨房别刊)
(A) 4g instant yeast, 160g water
(B) 280g pau flour or low gluten flour, 120g cornflour, 80g sugar, 40g shortening
(C) 10g double action baking powder
(D) Stewed pork (canned)~ drained, 1 tsp char siu sauce, 1 tbsp cornflour, 1/2 tbsp sugar
(E) 10 shallots (finely diced)
~ Mix (A) together then add in (B) and lightly knead into a dough. Covered with cling foil and leave rest for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
~ Meanwhile remove the fats from the stewed pork and finely diced. Then add in char siu sauce, conrflour and sugar and mix well.
~ Panfry shallots until fragnant and add in stewed pork. Panfry alittle while and let cool.
~ Mix in (C) and knead gently into a fine dough (careful don't over knead) then covered and rest for another 15 minutes.
~ Divide dough into 30g each and wrapped in fillings.
~ Place on prepared parchment paper and steam at high heat for 10-12 minutes.
The pastry was soft and fluffy, that I love it so much. Definitely a keeper. Trust me, try it out then you'll know. You may use red bean, lotus or even peanut fillings too. I'm sure they taste really good!!