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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The executive director of the Maine Farmland Trust says the future of farming in the state looks good, but there are still major challenges in the way.
John Piotti said Sunday at the Forum on the Future event at the University of Maine at Augusta that Maine's abundant land, growing conditions and location in the Northeast make the state well-positioned for growth in agriculture.
The Kennebec Journal (http://bit.ly/123Ar3E ) reports that he says in the past 15 years, Maine has gained about 1,200 farms, and the acreage in production has increased 4 percent. Most of the growth has been among small farms that sell to a few restaurants or stores or directly to consumers at farmer's markets.
He says the challenges include land prices, the workforce and infrastructure to support farms.
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A cold snap is set to grip Northern Ireland over the next 24 hours, as temperatures take a plunge and forecasters predict icy conditions.
According to The Met Office, who have a yellow warning in place for the entire country, temperatures are set to fall sharply tomorrow with driving conditions becoming difficult in the early morning.
"Outbreaks of rain, with some sleet or snow on highest ground, will clear in the early hours of Thursday morning. Temperatures will then fall sharply leading to icy stretches on untreated roads. Sleet and snow showers will return later on Thursday morning. Please be aware of the potential for difficult travel conditions."
They say snow is likely in the north west.
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Campbellsville University will host Jeffery Scott Jennings, Colmon Elridge III and Trey Grayson at the first Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy event of the fall semester Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 5 p.m. in the Badgett Academic Support Center banquet hall on campus.
The event is free and open to the public and featured speakers will discuss the 2012 presidential election.
Taylor County High School will host its annual marching invitational on Saturday, Sept. 22, with eight area bands set to take the stage.
Opening ceremonies are at 2 p.m. Preliminary awards will be given out at 4:15 p.m. and finals competition will get under way at 6:30 p.m.
TCHS will perform in exhibition at 8:30 p.m. Campbellsville University's Tiger Marching Band will play at 8:45 p.m. and awards will be given at 9 p.m.
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Campbellsville University will serve as Taylor County's Operation Christmas Child drop-off location this year. An Operation Christmas Child kickoff and informational meeting for Adair and Taylor counties will be Saturday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. EST at Columbia Baptist Church.
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Campbellsville University's new Log Cabin Art Shop is now open.
The art shop, located in a small log cabin at 503 N. Columbia Ave., features artwork created by CU faculty, staff, students and alumni. The shop is sponsored by the Campbellsville University Patrons of the Visual Arts, of which Campbellsville artist Carolyn Ogden is president.
Taylor Regional Hospital will host an open house for its new Taylor Regional Surgical Center on Sunday, Sept. 9, from 2 to 4 p.m. at 1700 Old Lebanon Road in Campbellsville.
The three-story 48,000-square-foot facility features five operating rooms, a cystoscopy suite and two endoscopy procedure rooms.
There are 21 private pre-op/post-op patient rooms where family will be able to wait for their loved one in privacy and comfort.
September is National Preparedness Month, a time for Americans to prepare for disasters of all types, including very personal ones that require blood transfusions. By giving blood through the American Red Cross, eligible donors can ensure blood is ready and available when any disaster strikes.
Currently, eligible donors of all blood types are needed for the Red Cross to readily meet hospital and patient needs.
"Cornbread Mafia" author James Higdon will come to Taylor County Public Library on Friday, Aug. 10, at 5 p.m. for a question and answer session and book signing.
The book details a homegrown syndicate's code of silence and the biggest marijuana bust in American history.
Steve Flinchum of Elk Horn will participate in the first Art in the Gardens at Liberty Hall on Sept. 1 and 2 in downtown Frankfort.
More than 50 of the region's artists and artisans will take part in the festival, which will be staged in gardens of Liberty Hall Historic Site. Admission is $3 daily.
Flinchum grew up on a sixth-generation farm in Taylor County, and after trying out career choices as diverse as a blackjack dealer and oil rigger, he returned to the farm in Elk Horn to establish a wood turning studio.
Campbellsville University's "Dialogue on Public Issues" television show on WLCU-FM 88.7 will air a recent call-in interview with U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Friday, July 27, at 6 p.m.
John Chowning interviewed Paul from Washington, D.C., in the Campbellsville University studios at the Office of Broadcast Services recently.
Jeannie Clark, broadcast/digital media producer, and Matt Payton, graduate assistant who serves as student radio station manager, helped with the production.
A book honoring those from Taylor County who served during the Korean Conflict will be unveiled on Wednesday, July 4, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the lobby of Carter Hall on the Campbellsville University campus.
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A Pop up Happy Hour with Momentum, VGSA, GLAM, Rainbow Umbrella, and others are getting together at Burlington's only speakeasy: Lincolns.
Location is in the lane off Church Street between Red Square and Bankok Bistro. Secretive entrance is located right before Bankok Bistro. So much fun with all four groups gathering. Cash only.
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An old couple celebrates their 50th wedding anniversary in their home.
"Just think," the old man says, "we were sitting here at this same breakfast table, naked as jaybirds, 50 years ago."
"Well," the old lady snickers, "what do you say -- should we get naked?"
The two immediately strip to the buff and sit back down at the table. "You know, honey," the little old lady says slyly, "My breasts burn for you now as they did 50 years ago."
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Jeff Talarigo has a remarkable talent: From some of the most horrific experiences a human being might face, he somehow crafts beautiful, haunting works of fiction. He captured the forced confinement of leprosy patients in mid-20th century Japan in his luminous debut novel, "The Pearl Diver." Now four years later, Talarigo offers The Ginseng Hunter, a story of quiet humanity discovered in the midst of overwhelming inhumanity.
The ginseng hunter is a middle-aged Chinese man who lives completely alone on his family farm, located along the Tumen River, which marks the border between rural China and devastated North Korea. He sustains himself by planting a garden every year and searching the surrounding mountains for elusive ginseng roots. Between his fields and the forest, he lives a life of near-silence, broken only once a month when he takes his foraged ginseng to the nearby village to sell. There he visits the local brothel, where he spends an evening with a series of different "Miss Wongs" – his only regular human contact of any kind.
In "the last century's final spring," the ginseng hunter's decades-old routine is broken by the arrival of the latest Miss Wong, with whom he is surprised to learn that he shares the Korean language. Their initial silence slowly melts as month by month they share their stories of escape from the brutal regime across the river. She has fled recently while he is two generations removed, his grandfather having made the initial escape.
Over the year that Talarigo tells the story of the hunter and his escapee lover – and of his lost family and her lost daughter – he reveals the harrowing details of their lives in measured doses. From the smallest flowers to the majestic mountain landscape, Talarigo unobtrusively pays homage to the expansive beauty that still exists all around, as if gently buffering the pain of the landscape's inhabitants.
North Korea in the 21st century remains a land of deprivation and terror, its people attempting to survive amid dwindling resources and government oppression. Starvation propels its dying citizens to grab a few ears of corn across the river, then risk death to return home with the precious kernels to share with those left behind. Those who dare to sell wares in the village marketplace must outsmart the unscrupulous border guards eager to steal their few hard-won yuan.
Without a choice, others rely on the kindness of strangers, sometimes only to be betrayed by their Chinese neighbors and sold back to the government for bounty fees. But with the riverside farms serving as beacons, refugees continue to dodge bullets in hopes of filling their stomachs.
In his solitude, the ginseng hunter has shut out the furtive shadows around him, the muffled sounds of suffering. But as love softens his heart, his eyes and ears open as well.
When a tiny cluster of rags he finds in his field turns out to be a starving child, he has no choice but to feed, clothe, and eventually love her. When he proves unable to protect the helpless little one, he wants nothing more than to completely close himself off again. But having now experienced love, he can no longer give up his soul. Although others have chosen betrayal in order to survive, he chooses to take grave risks in order to save even the so-called enemy – and hold onto his own humanity.
With both his novels, Talarigo is well on his way toward establishing himself as a quiet witness to humanity. (His next book will take us to the occupied territories of war-torn Palestine.)
While Talarigo is an expert at luring us out of our comfort zones to bear witness with him, he also gives us quiet heroes who do not give in, who do not give up. What we ultimately choose to do with both the devastation and the hope that we witness is up to us.
• Terry Hong is media arts consultant at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program.


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Federal budget will benefit economy here
With a relentlessly listless economy, stubborn unemployment and the approach of what threatens to be a long, cold winter, the region finally received some welcome news last week: congressional passage of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which not only supports new submarine construction but also rejects plans to consider a new round of base closings.
"This bipartisan bill makes a robust investment in the production and development of one of the most critical elements of our nation's defense - our undersea capabilities and the industrial base that sustain them," said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District. Rep. Courtney is vice chairman of the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and cochairman of the Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus.
Specifically, the bill authorizes two-a-year production of Virginia class submarines as well as ongoing development of the Ohio replacement program, which will greatly benefit Electric Boat in Groton and its thousands of shipyard workers.
An even greater boost comes from lifting the cloud of a Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process, which could have threatened the future of the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, as it had in 2005. At the very least, if BRAC had been allowed to proceed the region and state would have been forced again to devote considerable time and money to block the recommendations - additional distractions when slumping casino revenues have been crimping the economy.
The bill approved Thursday authorizes a total of $5.4 billion for two Virginia-class subs in 2014 and advance procurement funding for two ships planned in 2015. It also authorizes more than $1 billion to continue development of the Ohio class ballistic missile submarine replacement, as well as $59 million for the continued development of the Virginia payload module, which would integrate strike payload capacity for Tomahawk Land Attack and follow on missiles in Block V submarines.
The federal budget also authorizes separate procurements that could benefit other defense contractors in Connecticut, including $1.1 billion for 65 Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters, $831 million for 19 MH-60R helicopters, $411 million for 18 MH-60s helicopters, $334 million for a combat rescue helicopter, $503 million continued development of the CH-53K, a heavy lift helicopter being developed and tested by Sikorsky for the Marine Corps, and $94 million for development of the VXX presidential helicopter. Sikorsky, based in Stratford, is expected to compete for this contract.
This newspaper is pleased that in addition to authorizing weapons programs, the budget supports initiatives that will benefit men and women in uniform. It authorizes a 1 percent across-the-board military pay raise, as proposed in the 2014 budget request, which may seem small but in this climate at least gives a token reward to those who have sacrificed so much for their country.
We also are heartened that the budget rejects proposals that would have increased certain TRICARE fees.
Much to the credit of Congress, the budget contains more than 30 provisions designed to reverse what has been a disturbing problem: sexual assault in the military. The newly funded initiatives will strip commanders of their authority to dismiss courts martial or reduce sentences, and also establish minimum sentencing guidelines for sexual assault.
These measures are long overdue.
This newspaper also is pleased that the strong bipartisan vote of 350-69 could at last signal that Congress finally is taking its job seriously.
With midterm elections coming up next year, lawmakers may barely have enough time to salvage reputations so badly tarnished by years of partisan bickering and inaction.
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I had previously written to Ben Bradshaw MP regarding CNHC, got a largely unsatisfactory reply and have to-ed and fro-ed again since then.
One of my main issues was that the quack health lobby group, Prince Charles' Foundation for Integrated Health, had received £900,000 of Dept of Health funding (my and your taxes) to set up CNHC and yet, they were being opaque as to their operations. Seemingly by mistake, a CNHC staff member put the minutes of the Nov 08 meeting on the web, which contained discussions about 'misinformation on a blog' and infiltrating websites to promote CNHC. I should point out that the CNHC have stated the minutes were not OK-ed by the board and contained inaccuracies. At the time of writing, those minutes are still available on the CNHC website here(.doc file).
The website (shown above) continued to state until May 21st 09 that
In order to meet our commitment to transparency, CNHC will make the minutes of board meetings appear here.Rubbish. The Nov 08 minutes (and previous) never 'officially' appeared, nor did the Feb 09. From a letter I've seen from the Dept of Health, it appears that at the Feb 09 meeting, a decision was made not to put the minutes on the website, but instead
a synopsis of items for discussion and decision would be put on the website.Seemingly, no need to update the website though.
It's also interesting to note how many therapists are registered. Or it would be, if you could find out. Ever since a public spat (pdf) with the General Regulatory Council of Complimetary Therapies (splitters....), even the potential number of sign-ups was always going to be difficult to establish. The CNHC also seem unable to provide an answer because they allow industry bodies to upload blocks of therapists - despite an FoI request response from the Dept of Health, which stated
the [Professional Associations]cannot register their members with the CNHC. Rather, individual practitioners have to apply to the CNHC if they wish to be admitted to theMore muddle and confusion. One of the CNHC key objectives is to register 10,000 therapists by end of 2009, although I'm lead to believe the number is currently around 2,000.
So it seems the commitment to transparency has been discreetly removed - the new webpage on the CNHC website has dropped its 'commitment to transparency' tag (along with the word 'minutes') and replaced it with heavily edited meeting notes which contain such salacious gems as
Various amendments and changes were agreed.How useful.
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FM Bob Carr addresses the Indonesia Australia dialogue which was held in Sydney on 3-4 March.
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Mowbray hoping for home tie
Tony Mowbray fancies Middlesbrough's chances of beating a Barclays Premier League team to an FA Cup quarter-final place as Boro edged in to the last 16 at the expense of plucky Aldershot with a 2-1 victory at the Riverside.
With two minutes remaining at the Riverside Stadium, Shots striker Danny Hylton scored his eighth FA Cup goal in four games following Lukas Jutkiewicz's late opener. Hylton still leads the scoring charts but Jutkiewicz ensured he will not add to his tally by sparing Boro a tiring trip to Hampshire with a winner five minutes into stoppage time.
Mowbray said: "Managers only ever want a home tie and in an ideal world it wouldn't be someone from our league. I'd like to play a Premier League side or one of the lower-league teams who've done well. The FA Cup starts getting exciting in the fifth round as you're one game away from the quarter-finals.
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No one would be complaining about Walmart coming to Burbank if it paid its employees better wages and provided health care coverage at a more reasonable cost.
Walmart under Sam Walton was probably a better corporate citizen than today's company — he was proud to sell products made in America, for instance.
The only way to stop the spread of Walmart is not to shop there — a tall order. But we all must decide if we want to help the people in our own communities, or just help Walton's heirs acquire even more unearned wealth.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) "Towards Pro-Poor REDD+" project in Ghana recently released a 30-minute documentary, profiling how Ghana's efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are addressing climate change and the needs of the poor.
Through interviews with key forestry officials, experts and stakeholders, the documentary entitled "Promoting a Pro-Poor Approach to REDD+ in Ghana", explains why the REDD+ mechanism is needed in Ghana; why forest dependent communities, especially women, must be involved in all stages of REDD+ readiness and implementation; and how IUCN is continuing to support these efforts.
"The extreme weather conditions bring in its wake a lot of destruction through drought or flooding. The only way to check this situation is through reforestation programmes," states Nana Essandoh, Chairman of the Sureso/Pebaseman/Achichire community resource management area, and member of the Wassa Amenfi West District REDD Multi-stakeholder platform.
The Wassa Amenfi West District of the Western Region of Ghana is the pilot site for IUCN's Pro-Poor REDD+ project in the country.
"As we sit here now, the weather is not good for us. It is changing… we can see that all these illegal activities are affecting the weather. So it's about time we start with REDD+, by planting trees, by preserving and protecting the forests," states Dorothy Ewusi, another member of the Wassa Amenfi West REDD Multi-stakeholder platform.
The documentary also emphasizes the need to understand linkages between poverty and forest use. "About 33 per cent of incomes for forest communities-- cash and non-cash-- actually come from the forest. And this is approximately US$250 per person per year, which is very significant. This shows the huge contribution that forests are making to the livelihoods of communities and thus the importance of understanding this linkage between poverty and forest use," says Saadia Bobtoya, IUCN's REDD Project Officer in Ghana.
The documentary recently aired on Ghana's state television station (GTV) in May 2013, and the full version is available on IUCN's YouTube channel.
More on IUCN's "Toward Pro-Poor REDD+" Project in Ghana
With funding from Denmark's Development Cooperation (Danida), IUCN has been working with its local partners in Ghana to facilitate and improve the participation and involvement of forest dependent communities in national REDD+ implementation, while enhancing synergies between REDD+, forest governance and poverty reduction.
The first phase of the pro-poor REDD+ project in Ghana between 2009 and 2012, has significantly contributed to the development of the REDD+ process at both national and local levels, and has ensured that the needs of the poor are integrated into Ghana's national REDD+ strategy. Very useful lessons have been generated from the implementation of project activities at both national and pilot levels, which have helped to shape ideas and tools for enhancing good forest governance and sustainable livelihoods.
IUCN's Pro-Poor REDD+ project is active in five countries, namely Cameroon, Ghana, Guatemala, Papua Province of Indonesia and Uganda. The implementation of the project is based on three components: developing synergies between REDD+ mechanisms and good forest governance; linking local and national level stakeholders and processes for REDD+; and enhancing knowledge and communication for building and implementing REDD+. Through multi-stakeholder dialogues, a major global-level output from the project has been the identification of seven key principles for how the REDD+ mechanism can address the needs of the poor.


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We have passed the middle of May.
If it was February in GriggsDakota we would have several feet of snow drifted into mountains.
Because it is May, most of our precipitation has fallen as rain.
But this week we have snow falling.
We were in need of moisture and we have had over five inches in the last couple of weeks.
I keep buckets of water on the deck to water the plants I started in the porch, but as you can see, it is crusted with ice.
It is Summertime on the porch.
The snapdragons are blooming.
A few tomatoes and squash are also valiantly trying to produce. I will nip the buds off before they are transplanted, but for now, they give me hope.
Some of the perennials may be damaged.
The damage will depend on how low the temperatures go before this moves out.
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All trace back to Rhodri ap Merfyn (c. 820-878), later known as Rhodri the Great (Welsh: Rhodri Mawr), who succeeded his father, Merfyn Frych, as King of Gwynedd in 844. He is referred to "King of the Britons" by the Annals of Ulster and later as the "King of Wales."
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Colorful Metaphors
Hello, and welcome to your virtual color therapy session! As you know, it's national color therapy month, so the results we get here today will be invaluable to researchers everywhere who need a good laugh.
Remember, this IS for posterity, so please, be honest.
How do these colors make you feel?
[scribbling on clipboard] Mmmhmmm, I see. And these?
I'm sorry, it's hard to transcribe those sounds exactly. Could you be more specific? And with less profanity? Thank you.
On a scale of one to ten, how much less violent do you feel towards me now?
Why, or why not?
And would you say that this next example makes you more or less likely to donate a vital organ to a total stranger?
Are you thinking of the food you hate most? Good. Now ... are you going to eat all of those chips? Because I forgot my wallet at home, and ... you know what, we can talk about this later.
And finally, lets try a little behavioral role play. I'm your executioner, and I have two types of rope to make a noose. Which of these options makes you feel happier?
Well, that's everything, so thank you for providing some truly startling results, test subject!
As a reward for successfully completing your therapy session, you get a cake with a beautiful, cheery rainbow. Enjoy.
Just kidding. The cake is, of course, a lie.
(And they said a color-blind baker could never do this job. HA.)
Thanks to Jaemi S., Sam L., Samantha, Katie M., Amanda B., Nicole, John L., & Katherine M. Now, go get some rest. After all, if you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.


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A flood-swollen river in central Illinois has topped a levee and inundated parts of London Mills, prompting authorities to evacuate about half of the small town of about 500 people.
Police chief Scott Keithley says the waters overwhelmed the levee on the Spoon River overnight sending torrents of water into yards and sewers already running out of control because of the heavy rains. He says some homes are half under water.
Keithley says authorities and volunteers have given up filling sandbags in the town, a small community of farm workers.
The water has pushed debris into the town and sent abandoned cars floating.
Flash floods and rivers that have quickly risen to record or near-record levels have inundated communities around the state.
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The Apalachee High School football team took one on the chin Friday night in the 2013 season opener at R. Harold Harrison Stadium.
The Wildcats (0-1) fell 42-14 and will now go back to work for next Friday's game at Greater Atlanta Christian.
See Wednesday's print edition of the Barrow Journal for complete high school football coverage.
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It gives the framework for managing the project whatever the true work involved. It's important to choose the ideal framework for effective project administration. There are two fundamental methodologies utilized in product development. There are a couple of project management methodologies, but for our purposes we'll consider the basis of great project administration. Additionally, it involves evaluation and reporting of true job performance. Project management techniques have undergone a tiny shakeup over the past couple of years. It's not a great practice to adopt 1 process and apply it to all projects, unless all your projects have the very same type. From that point, an ideal plan of action is determined and implemented to attain the organization's goals and objectives. The Agile Project management course is extremely beneficial for those who want to come up with an advanced degree of knowledge inside this area. The following is a short outline, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. In addition to the project charter, you'll need to come up with a preliminary scope statement. It is likewise a catch-22 situation in regards to implementing it. After you understand scope, after that you can estimate the opportunity to deliver. There are a number of different definitions depending upon what expert you're reading. Clear definition of roles, in regards to a scrum group, is extremely critical. Agile is additionally a good approach for managing customer or customer projects, particularly as soon as the intricacy of the customer's needs are excessively hard to accurately or fully map prior to project planning. Undertaking integration knowledge area assists the team to look after activities in many diverse areas of the project and make sure the total undertaking progresses well. Project team members know how to work with each other to create thorough work breakdown structures which they are accountable for and committed to. Read More Here The undertaking charter initiates the undertaking and includes the essential approvals and sanctions. Additionally, there aren't any rules which may help in deciding whether a specific methodology is more effective in comparison with the other. Some will state there are 3 phases in an undertaking, others there are seven. The length of the project is set by its complexity.


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Australia get back to winning ways
Australia 27 Wales 19:Wales lost their first Test against Australia, despite a spirited second-half fight-back in Brisbane. Alex Cuthbert crossed for a try and Leigh Halfpenny kicked 14 points as the Six Nations champions threatened to pull off an historic win.
Australia took an early grip on the game when Berrick Barnes opened the scoring in the ninth minute after Wales prop Adam Jones was penalised for not rolling away at the tackle and the Wallaby fly-half kicked the resulting penalty.
Halfpenny and Scott Williams showed glimpses in midfield, but Australia dominated the first half with David Pocock edging the contest at the breakdown. The Wallaby skipper stole possession close to the Welsh line after Rhys Priestland fumbled a high kick by Barnes under pressure from Digby Ioane.
Australia looked to have created a certain try when Rob Horne darted to the left, but Cuthbert prevented the scoring pass with a crucial tackle. However, just moments later the Wallabies crossed following a series of drives from their forwards that ended with Higginbotham crashing over for his first Test try. Barnes converted and Australia led 10-0 after 16 minutes.
Halfpenny finally got Wales off the mark on 23 minutes, but the Six Nations champions were struggling to find any momentum against an Australia team playing with their tails up. Scrum-half Genia pulled the strings for Australia and went close to extending their lead but Cuthbert again saved a score.
Wales suffered a blow on 29 minutes when George North was forced off with a leg injury, forcing a re-shuffle with Halfpenny switched to the left wing and James Hook introduced at fullback. Barnes had the chance to extend Australia's 10-3 lead before half-time, but hit the post with his effort.
However, Genia needed less than a minute of the second half to grab the Wallabies' second try. Australia burst forward from the kick-off and the Queensland scrumhalf darted between two Welsh front-rows and past Hook to touch down under the posts and hand Barnes a simple conversion.
Wales attempted to shake-off the early blow with a second penalty for Halfpenny. Barnes responded with a 50th-minute drop goal, but Halfpenny again nudged Wales closer with a third penalty after a heavy head-to-head collision between Williams and Wallaby hooker Tatafu Polota Nau that saw both players leave the field.
Ashley Beck replaced Williams for his first cap and was immediately involved in creating Wales' first try. Hook and Priestland shipped the ball to Beck who flicked possession to Cuthbert and the wing finished in style for his fourth Test try. Halfpenny converted and added an excellent penalty from out wide to cut the deficit to 20-19 on 63 minutes.
Wales were eying a remarkable turnaround, but Australia showed their clinical edge when they needed it most. Genia was again the creator, picking his pass to McCabe who crashed over on 67 minutes. Barnes converted and Australia were once again eight points ahead.
Twice Cuthbert threatened to break clear for a second try that Wales desperately needed, but was denied as Australia recovered to hold out for victory.


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Two distant cousins find they have similar plans for improving their career prospects through furthering their educations.
In a down economy, they agree that getting additional education is one of the best ways to assure someone of keeping a job or getting a better job.
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Local Students from surrounding counties visited 16 different establishments Monday not for a regular field trip but to place themselves in the employee's shoes for a day.
Students from Gallatin, Trimble, Owen, and Carroll counties started their school day off like any regular day; but instead of attending class they attended Job Shadowing Day at CCATC (Carroll County Area Technology Center). Shadowing gives students the chance to experience what it would be like if they chose that path for a career.
After 14 years of day and night seizures, Hannah Marsh has been seizure-free for five months.
Hannah, an 18-year-old senior at Carroll County High School, has suffered from seizures since she was 4. Doctors could find no reason for the seizures, which occur mainly at night. She has had as many as 40 in one night.
This changed five months ago when she underwent brain surgery at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. The surgery removed part of Hannah's brain where the seizures originated; that portion of her brain had begun to turn black.
Stepping down as vice president of the Carroll County Arts Commission, Jim Fothergill encouraged all arts commission members to attend the next meeting, set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in the community room at the Carroll County Public Library.
Members will be electing a new president and vice president. Current president Mark Davis also is stepping down from his position.
Fothergill spoke during the March 5 meeting, during which he'd hoped the election could be held. However, only a handful of members attended that meeting.
An invasion of sorts is coming to the Family Worship Center, and young people from sixth-grade up to age 25 are invited to attend.
The Invasion Tour, a division of Go-Ministries, will bring its high-energy traveling show to the church, located on State Hwy. 227, in Carrollton, on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14. The show begins each evening at 7 p.m., with a pre-service prayer at 6:15 p.m.
The Invasion Tour includes a Christian-rock band, skits and a short dramatic play.
Two local artists from different generations – but with similar styles – are showing their works at the Carroll County Public Library this month.
Mike Anderson and Will Crase each have a showing that is modern, employs lots of color and represents things they say are important in their own lives.
Anderson, an employee at North American Stainless, is a 1988 graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts and graphic design.
Many area residents took advantage of a chance Saturday to have experts appraise their treasures during Personal Treasures Day at Butler-Turpin State Historic House.
Similar to the PBS show, "Antiques Roadshow," Historic House site manager Evelyn Welch invited Ron Langdon and Jack Bailey, also historic site managers with Kentucky Department of Parks, and Brad Miller of Cornerstone Society of Madison, Ind., a preservation to be appraisers.
From the battles of Bryan Station and Blue Licks during the Revolutionary War to keeping the Underground Railroad on track prior to the Civil War, Kentucky has lots of heroes to celebrate.
Students at Cartmell Elementary School last week learned about these points in the state's and the country's history through the arts, with the help from artist-in-residence Bob Ford.
Last time Ford was in town, several years ago, he worked with the students several times throughout the year to help them write and produce a play about local history.
It was standing room only during the Friday and Saturday performances of "Grease" this past weekend in the Sam Simpson Auditorium at Carroll County Middle School.
In fact, Saturday's tickets were sold out and hopeful theater-goers were asked to return for an extra showing Sunday afternoon.
And it seems the wait was worth it. Audiences were treated to an impressive production with fabulous sets, excellent costumes and outstanding singing and dancing by the actors, all middle- and high-school students.
The Pink Ladies and T-Birds of Rydell High will be be-bopping onstage in a musical production of "Grease" this weekend at Carroll County Middle School.
Performances are set for 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 6-7, in the Sam Simpson Auditorium at CCMS. Tickts are $5, and are only being sold at the door.
As businesses deal with the realities of a national recession, Carroll County Chamber of Commerce members got some hands-on advice on how to make their way through the economic downtown.
Speaking Tuesday, Jan. 13, to the chamber membership meeting at General Butler State Resort Park, David Oetken of Louisville offered five steps to survive the recession.
As director of Greater Louisville Inc., that city's Chamber of Commerce, Oetken said his job is to assist businesses with funding and running their operations.
The photographic art of lifelong resident Jim Fothergill is next to be on display in the community room at the Carroll County Public Library for February.
The show opens with an artist's reception from 6:30-8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, and also will feature sketches by Carroll County High School student Lauren Wright in the alcove.
To say Jim Mitchell is one in a million was definitely an understatement last week.
Mitchell, a 12-year veteran of the Kentucky State Police, was among more than two million people who crowded into Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, with most there to witness the inauguration festivities as Barack Obama became the nation's 44th president.
The peace and serenity of an idyllic setting in Carroll County, with a beautiful lake, a large forest and a place for a bonfire, lately has been disturbed by the pounding of drums, wailing of electric guitars and "screamo" singing.
It is rehearsal time for the local heavy-metal band, Hiding It All, and band members Travis Rice (bass guitar), Doug Dempsey (lead guitar), Nathan Toeves (drums), Ryan Jackson (lead screamer/singer) and Jordan Edmonson (rhythm guitar) are making the walls of one Mound Hill Road home shake, rattle and roll.
By LORRIE KINKADE
The Trimble Banner
While her Trimble County Lady Raider teammates were fighting for a win on the court Jan. 10, Hannah Ball was parading across a stage in the Galt House's Grand Ballroom as a contestant in the Miss Kentucky County Fair pageant.
Although Ball, the 2008 Miss Trimble County Fair, did not place at the state competition, the experience was one she said she would never forget. And hopes to have again.
A former executive and future middle school teacher has written and published what she hopes to be the first of many books of poetry – and maybe a novel or two.
You might say Jim Ebert's life is full of highs and lows.
Ebert, director of Carroll County's Camp Kysoc, took former county resident Skylar Cannon hiking to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on Nov. 28.
Two weeks later, on Dec. 11, Ebert helped fulfill another disabled hiker's dream – climbing to the highest summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.
To hear Brinley Craig's infectious giggle, anyone unfamiliar with the little boy would find it hard to believe the medical struggles he has endured over the last two months.
In November, Trampus and Amanda Craig's then 10-month-old son was diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidoses, also known as Type 1 MPS or Hurler Syndrome.
On Friday, when the doors of the Carroll County Public Library open after the New Year holiday, it will be just like every other day, but with one major difference: director Jarrett Boyd no longer will be the captain of the ship.
Boyd is retiring as of today, Dec. 31, after more than 26 years at the helm, during which time she steered the facility from a small library with few customers to a state-of-the-art library with computers, a staff of nine and a budget 10 times larger than when she arrived in 1982.
There are hanging racks filled with men's pants, women's dresses, children's clothes and warm winter coats. Household items, including microwaves, bed sheets and knick-knacks, fill one room, while colorful children's toys are available in another.
The only thing physically distinguishing this small Bedford shop from consignment stores in the area is the absence of a cash register.
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Rebeca Grynspan: Opening Remarks at the side event during the 68th UN General Assembly, "Looking to 2015 and beyond: The role for anti-corruption and governance"Sep 25, 2013
Opening Remarks by Rebeca Grynspan
Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
At the side event during the 68th UN General Assembly
"Looking to 2015 and beyond: The role for anti-corruption and governance"
United Nations, New York
I am pleased to join the UNODC Executive Director to open this side event on "Looking towards 2015 and beyond: The role for anti-corruption and governance".
I thank Transparency International and UNODC – both for co-organizing this event and for providing the intellectual leadership and steady advocacy which has brought anti-corruption and governance issues centre stage in development debates. UNDP is pleased to join forces to co-host this timely event.
As Member States gather later today for the President of the UN General Assembly's Special Event on the MDGs, there is new reason for anti-corruption and governance to be foremost on their minds. I will highlight two:
First, people in all countries tell us that honest and responsive government is among their highest priorities for the future agenda.
In UN-led consultations on the post-2015 development agenda people made it clear that they wanted a say in the decisions which affect them. They called for governments capable of delivering decent public services to all people, managing natural resources sustainably and fairly, and facilitating peace and security. People voting in the global My World survey, have, in every region, consistently ranked honest and responsive government as among their top three priorities.
People also expressed how deeply they care not about the quality of basic services they receive – including in education and health. While access has improved significantly and importantly, ensuring quality remains largely unfinished business. To do this, UNDP has learned from experience that what works best are specific anti-corruption measures integrated into basic service delivery systems – coupled with an increase in the engagement of civil society and other non-state actors in monitoring service delivery.
UN-led consultations have opened an unprecedented space for people of all walks of life – in particular those from poor and disadvantaged groups or communities - to have their voices heard and express their priorities. Well over a million people have shared their perspectives on what the agenda should look like – and they don't want engagement to end here.
Member States are indeed beginning to listen and respond – a number have drawn on the outcome of their own national consultations and our global results to help shape their post-2015 positions. The voices of people are also echoed in the Report of the Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Post-2015. To respond, the report stresses the need for a "fundamental shift" in thinking – so that governance is not an add-on but a central part of what development means. The Secretary-General's report to the General Assembly reiterates the view that increasingly people and experts alike view peace and governance as "key outcomes and enablers of development".
A second reason Member States should have anti-corruption and governance in mind when looking to the 2015 MDG target date and beyond – comes from what we have learned from more than a decade of experience implementing the MDGs. Through our work – in HQ and on the ground - supporting well over a hundred governments to achieve the MDGs, UNDP has seen how disparities in progress can be, at least partly, explained by differences in the quality of governance and the inclusiveness of political and economic institutions.
Through the MDG Acceleration Framework, UNDP is helping more than fifty countries identify and unlock governance and institutional bottlenecks to blocking MDG progress. Actions to address steep maternal health challenges for example – include steps to pay health-care workers on time, engage communities in solutions, and empower women to know and claim their rights.
The MDGs have also made it clear that meeting ODA commitments matters. Where there is political will and local ownership, development assistance works to improve the lives of people. We have also learned that preventing the leakages of resources is equally important to achieve the sums needed to fund transformative and sustainable development.
Revenues earned from natural resource windfalls or high growth rates must be invested back into better services and improvements in infrastructure which reach all people. It is after all healthy and educated people which drive their economies and create vibrant livable societies.
According to data from the World Bank, each year US$1 trillion is paid in bribes and it is estimated that corruption can cost a country up to 17 percent of its GDP. Imagine the impact of reversing this! By disproportionately hurting poor and marginalized people, corruption also reinforces growing inequalities and aggravates social tensions. A recent UNDP study found that 76% of women surveyed think corruption has prevented them from accessing public goods and services.
Corruption goes well beyond individual countries. The cost of illicit transfers, unregulated multinational companies, and illegal logging on countries' prospects are very real and very large. Momentum is shifting in the right direction – the post-2015 development agenda can build on this – to help end the use of tax havens with impunity, expand further people's access to understandable and useable information on government budgets, expenditures and public procurement. The uptake in Freedom of Information Acts in many countries and global transparency initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is helping to improve transparency and accountability. UNDP in this respect - is proud to this year take up leadership of the consortium to serve as the secretariat of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). This is a demonstration of our own commitment to transparency and our willingness to engage in with more than 160 organizations to help spearhead transparency across the development community.
Accountability and transparency - must be underpinned by a human rights-based approach which enables people redress. It must also compel all actors to act - state to non-state, international organizations and multinational corporations. While targets should be adapted locally for maximum relevance and ownership - a global mechanism is needed to monitor progress and help hold member states accountable.
I take this opportunity to officially announce the launch of a dedicated inter-agency web platform (www.anti-corruption.org), developed by UNDP together with UNODC, UNESCO and OHCHR and I hope that this web-portal will significantly help to take forward the discourse on the post-2015 agenda. I look forward to our discussion here today and hope they can continue through this and other fora.


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Feminist Majority Women, Money, Power Summit
The 2013 Women, Money, Power Summit brings together a great combination of feminist thinkers, speakers, and activists as well as top political leaders. High on the agenda are new strategies and campaigns to increase women's economic and political clout and to stop the war on women and reproductive rights.
Speakers include Terry O'Neill, President of NOW; Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic Leader; Dolores Huerta, renowned Labor Activist; Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, and more. Honorees include Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro who led the fight in Congress to achieve paid sick days and full pay equity for women, Texas state Senator Leticia Van de Putte who bravely spoke out for women's reproductive rights during the Texas abortion debates, and Barbara R. Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law who championed the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991.


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Sloane Physics Lab circa 1917
The Department of Physics offers studies in a wide range of fields leading to Baccalaureate and Doctoral degrees. The Department has a diverse faculty pool with the majority of professors having their primary appointment in the Physics Department. The specific interests of the Department's faculty members fall into several areas of research which are detailed on the
Department's Research Web-page.
Many faculty members have joint appointments in other departments at Yale. These include:


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Joe Nickell Steps Down as Missoulian's Entertainment Columnist
Joe Nickell has been synonymous with the music and entertainment culture in Missoula for nearly a decade, and as early as tomorrow The Missoulian will no longer have Nickell's keen vocabulary to promote our local arts scene.
According to Joe's personal Facebook:
I will be cleaning out my desk and saying goodbye to my fine coworkers at the Missoulian newspaper. After nine years covering the arts in Missoula, I'll be moving on to a job with Partners Creative. I'm excited about the future, but it's impossible not to feel some nostalgia already about this job, which connected me to this town and to the arts community in personally meaningful ways that probably would have never otherwise been possible.
This news comes as another shocking blow to our local newspaper, where just recently reporter Jamie Kelly vacated his hip-strip office as well.
Nickell's opinionated weekly column Nickell's Bag was without a doubt one of the features most young readers would flip to first. As a result the column allowed many local artists an opportunity to receive honest feedback on their recent performances and presentations. While some may say that his words were a little "too honest," we can't argue that Nickell's impact upon the arts in Missoula will be long lasting even without his presence at the paper.
We wish you the best of luck in your new endeavors, Joe. And if you ever have an itch to continue blogging about the Missoula arts scene, please consider our website your website. We'd be honored to have you, and I'm sure your fans would love to keep up with your latest reviews and adventures!
What was your favorite/memorable Joe Nickell article? Is there anyone who could fill his shoes? Send Joe your fondest well wishes in the comment section below.


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At last year's GDC, the trailer for indie title FEZ garnered much attention — and an IGF award. Well, that was last year, what about this year.
The game's developer Polytron has just launched its website with some FEZ screens and some very terse info about the game. That info is:
Release: 2009
Platform: TBA
In development: Yes
So, let's review — there's a lot to review, we know. The game is in development and will be out this year. But on what platform? Smart money says that'll be announced at GDC.
FEZ [polytron Thanks Antoine!]


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Will Fox News fire Tucker Carlson for calling for genocide?
No, I doubt it will. But this video is a good occasion to revisit the whole Ahmedenijad "wipe Israel off the map" debacle (i.e. that he did not say that, although he may have meant it), reflect on the fact that thus far it is Israel and the United States where talk of a strike on Iran is routine, as well as the sorry state of television discourse in the United States. In France, for instance, Carlson would be almost certainly sued and perhaps could even face prison. In the US this will probably be defended under the First Amendment (which I actually prefer), but many respectable news organizations have fired contributors for much less. Too bad Fox News probably doesn't fit that description.
Update: HM sends me via Twitter a link to an exchange of emails between Carlson and Gleen Greenwald of Salon on this. Carlson says he was actually talking about the dangers of a strike on Iran to the US economy. Watch for yourselves, seems pretty unambiguous.


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- Japanese Grand Prix
Vettel takes vital win as Alonso retiresChris Medland October 7, 2012
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'I will never forget that moment'
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Grosjean admits to 'stupid mistake'
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Sebastian Vettel took a dominant victory in the Japanese Grand Prix to all but wipe out Fernando Alonso's championship lead.
Vettel won comfortably from pole as Alonso retired at turn one, leaving him with just a four point lead over the reigning champion. Felipe Massa showed the pace of the Ferrari to take his first podium since Korea in 2010 to finish second, while Kamui Kobayashi held off Jenson Button on the final lap to take a hugely popular third place in front of his home fans.
Lewis Hamilton recovered to finish in fifth place ahead of Kimi Raikkonen as they both just about kept their championship hopes alive. Nico Hulkenberg was seventh ahead of Pastor Maldonado - incredibly taking his first points since his Spanish Grand Prix victory - Mark Webber and Daniel Ricciardo.
While the final laps were nailbiting for the home fans watching Button pressurise Kobayashi, the most significant action happened at turn one on the opening lap. A chaotic start saw Alonso move across on Raikkonen, clipping the front wing of the Lotus and picking up a puncture that saw him spin off at turn one. In turn two Romain Grosjean was again involved in an opening-lap incident as he punted the rear of Mark Webber, relegating both to the back of the field. The Lotus driver received a ten second stop/go penalty for the incident, while as the field tried to avoid the two colliding Bruno Senna ran in to the back of Nico Rosberg, leaving the Mercedes out of the race.
The safety car was deployed after the opening lap incidents and on the restart Vettel pulled a big gap over Kobayashi, with Button close behind the Sauber. From that point on Vettel was never to be headed, eventually streaking away to win by over twenty seconds and having to be told to slow down by his race engineer as he set the fastest lap to complete the perfect weekend of pole, fastest lap and win.
As Button proved unable to stay within striking distance of Kobayashi ahead of the first pit stops, Massa kept pace and stayed out two laps longer than the cars ahead of him. With Kobayashi and Button rejoining behind Ricciardo, Massa was able to jump the pair of them and pull away in to a comfortable second place.
Sergio Perez had dropped a few places at the start but showed exactly what McLaren can expect next season with a microcosm of his potential in the opening 20 laps. As the race restarted he attempted to pass Raikkonen around the outside in to turn one but was always going to be forced wide, allowing Hamilton through in to sixth. To regain the place, Perez dived down the inside of Hamilton with a brilliantly aggressive move in to the hairpin on lap 6. However, a slow stop dropped him behind the McLaren again and when he attempted a repeat manoeuvre, Hamilton closed the door, with Perez switching to the outside but losing control and spinning in to the gravel and out of the race.
Hamilton struggled in his middle stint but Raikkonen was also unable to match pace at the front and the two became engaged in a battle for fifth. Hamilton pitted one lap later than the Lotus for his second and final stop, rejoining alongside Raikkonen in to turn one. Though Raikkonen had the momentum around the outside, Hamilton dived back up the inside of turn two as the pair went wheel-to-wheel and managed to force his way ahead.
From then on the race was largely settled as drivers tried to look after their tyres before Button's late assault on Kobayashi. Vettel becomes the first back-to-back winner of 2012 and the result sees Alonso on the verge of losing his championship lead heading to Korea next weekend, while Raikkonen is 37 points and Hamilton 42 behind the Ferrari.


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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 21, 2011 (HealthDay News) -- Famous musicians are no more likely to die at age 27 than at any other age, a new study indicates.
The fact that a number of rock stars -- including Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain -- died when they were 27 makes that age appear particularly unlucky.
But this study examined the so-called "27 club" hypothesis, and found that fame and a rock-and-roll lifestyle may increase rock stars' risk of death at any age.
The researchers compared the deaths of 1,046 famous musicians with data from the general U.K. population. The musicians were solo artists and members of bands who had a number one album in the U.K. charts between 1956 and 2007. They ranged from rock 'n' rollers and heavy metal stars to crooners and even actors who voiced Muppets.
During the study period (a total follow-up time of 21,750 musician-years), 71 (7 percent) of the musicians died, according to study author Adrian Barnett, of Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and colleagues.
A mathematical analysis showed no peak in the risk of death at age 27, but musicians in their 20s and 30s were two to three times more likely to die prematurely than people in the general population.
There was a cluster of deaths among musicians aged 20 to 40 during the 1970s and early 1980s, but there were no deaths in this age group in the late 1980s. This could be due to the development of better treatments for heroin overdoses, or the fact that the hard rock that dominated the 1970s gave way to pop in the 1980s, the researchers suggested.
So while the "27 club" is a myth, musicians do have a generally increased risk of dying in their 20s and 30s, the study authors warned.
"This finding should be of international concern, as musicians contribute greatly to populations' quality of life, so there is immense value in keeping them alive (and working) as long as possible," the study authors wrote in the report published online Dec. 20 in the BMJ.
More information
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BrowseRank: The Answer to Google PageRank?
Why Microsoft BrowseRank Will Fail Too
CNET has posted an article on Microsoft's newest attempt to challenge Google for more of the search share market. Microsoft will be launching a new toolbar called BrowseRank. If you don't want to read the whole article, here the gist of it:
Microsoft likes the results BrowseRank, which assigning Web page priority based on how people actually use the site. (Credit: Microsoft Research A Asia)
Essentially, the researchers tested out a system that replaces PageRanks' link graph–a mathematical model of the hyperlinked connections of the Internet–with what they call a user browsing graph that ranks Web pages by people's behavior.
"The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important. We can leverage hundreds of millions of users' implicit voting on page importance"
The key takeaway here is that Microsoft, like Nielsen, wants to change the paradigm of how a page should be considered relevant from web pages link to your site and the importance of those linking pages to how much time a user spends on a page.
Granted PageRank is not perfect, but measuring a site's importance and relevance by the time a user spends on it, is a worse idea. All that will really do is encourage the web community to regress back to 1995. We'll all build sites so complex and convoluted that it will take every single user 10 minutes to find what they want. And by BrowseRank standard, all my sites will be excellent because users spend tons of time wandering around on them.
And, I can see Microsoft's point with measuring TOS (time on site), it must mean that my site has compelling content and information. But, as you'll see below, Plurker beagooddad made some great points:
While I couldn't find any exact numbers on how many users actually use Live Search, it's safe to say it's considerably less than Google (based on current market share of search traffic). And, with lower population data, how valid will these results be? While I'm sure TOS won't be the ONLY factor MS considers, having that piece as the cornerstone of your algorithm seems to completely invalidate BrowseRank for me.
Once again, Microsoft is a "Johnny-come-lately" in the area of web innovation. And, this effort, while valiant, is doomed to fail as all the rest of the MS search endeavors have. And, we know that if Yahoo ever builds a web page relevance toolbar, it'll be nearly as solid as Google's and really offer some competition. But, we'll have to wait and see how the community, and the general populous, takes to the new BrowseRank Toolbar.


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With less than 1 week till Mother's Day, it's crunch time for figuring out those Mother's Day gifts. Both my mom and my mother-in-law love flowers so that is what we usually get them for Mother's Day. Some years we pick out the flowers and other years we give them gift cards so they can pick out their own. This year I decided to decorate pots with Painters Paint Markers and then plant some flowers in the pots as part of their gifts.
I love how they turned out and now we just need to get some flowers in them!
Vanessa loves this kind of thing so she was really happy that I waited for her to be able to help me! We put some rocks in the bottom of the pots for drainage and then added the dirt and flowers.
They look a tad bit dismal right now because we just planted them but they will perk up in time for Mother's Day!
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Teaching Geography: Workshop 4
North Africa/Southwest Asia
Part 1: Israel
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Program Overview: North Africa / Southwest Asia
This program focuses on two locations in the arid region of North Africa/Southwest Asia. First we visit Jerusalem in a search to understand the conflicts that have erupted in this holy city. Then, in Egypt, we investigate this desert nation's limited natural resources. Our classroom segments show students grappling with what life is like in Israel's occupied territories and engaging in some creative mapmaking as they map the Nile River.
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Part 1. Israel: Sacred Space Under Siege
This program explores Jerusalem's history as a religiously significant city for Muslims, Jews, and Christians and the conflict that has erupted over competing claims for city sectors. The case study investigates the spatial distribution of religious groups throughout the city and seeks answers to how Jerusalem can be equitably organized in the future. The classroom segment explores contested space in Israel and what it means to be a refugee living in occupied territory. Students discuss the conflicts in Israel and work in groups to address problems of living in refugee camps.
- Identify the physical and human factors that serve to define a region.
- Explain why places and regions are important to individual human identity
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- Evaluate the impact of multiple spatial divisions on people's daily lives.
Part 2. Egypt: Water in the Desert
This program investigates Egypt's limited natural resources, focusing on that nation's dependence on the Nile River. It includes an examination of the pressures on the Nile watershed in light of an increasing urban population, as well as government response to this issue. The accompanying classroom segment involves a creative approach to mapmaking and a role-playing exercise in which students express different points of view on how the Nile River should be used.
- Understand how changes in the spatial distribution of population may result
in changes in social and economic conditions.
- Understand the role of technology in changing the physical environment
and the environmental consequences of such actions.
- Explain how hands-on and role-playing activities foster deeper student understanding of the physical environment and the consequences of human modification of the environment.


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Distributing Efficiency
TEN YEARS AGO utility distribution systems faced the threat of aging equipment and the need to enable distributed resources—in this case, independent power producers borne out of deregulation—to connect to the larger grid. Today, utility distribution systems still face the threat of aging equipment and the need to enable a new set of distributed resources—now in the form of backup power, renewable-energy and cogeneration installations—to connect to the larger grid. As they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
However, while distribution systems' current challenges may look similar to those faced a decade ago, both utilities and their customers have new tools for addressing potential problems. First, the experiences of the last 10 years have fostered a growing understanding of the need for standardized connection procedures. Second, manufacturers are now leveraging dramatically less expensive and more powerful microprocessors to give all players more power supply options and greater intelligence into, and control of, actual line and equipment conditions.
Improving connections
Interconnecting with the utility grid was one of the biggest hurdles independent power operators once faced. Utility and regulator requirements varied so widely that equipment manufacturers had difficulty determining what performance standards their products had to meet, so system designers could be left scrambling for options.
A broad spectrum of industry participants has sought to address this issue with a series of standards for interconnecting distributed resources up to 10 MW to the utility grid. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Standard 1547, "Standard for Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems," was finalized in June 2003, after several years of discussions among a working group of more than 300 members.
"It was a happy day for me," said Dick DeBlasio, technical manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., and the chairman of the 1547 working group, speaking of the moment final consensus was reached. "The process was very arduous."
But, he said, the working group's efforts were critical to the continuing evolution of the U.S. electricity market. The need for a standard became obvious as electric utilities began selling off generating facilities and then drawing on new wind-farm, cogeneration and photovoltaic operations. As DeBlasio pointed out, the United States is home to some 3,000 electric utilities whose operations are regulated by 50 different state public utility commissions, and all of these entities had varying requirements for independent entities seeking grid connections.
"There were many, many agreements, many of which disagreed with each other," he said.
Work has continued on extending 1547 into a family of related standards. The first of these, IEEE 1547.1, "Standard for Conformance Tests Procedures for Equipment Interconnecting Distributed Resources with Electric Power Systems," was published last June. This document's requirements, along with some additional safety parameters, formed the foundation for Underwriters Laboratories Standard 1741, "Standard for Inverters, Converters and Controllers for Use in Independent Power Systems," against which connecting equipment can be tested.
Future 1547 series additions now in planning include an application guide and guidelines for monitoring and control of distributed resources.
The standard is now working its way through the adoption process. It was referenced in the text of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, along with UL 1741, and has been adopted under California's Rule 21. The PJM Interconnection, a regional transmission organization serving all or part of 13 states also has adopted IEEE 1547. DeBlasio, whose primary interest is in fostering the development of renewable technologies, sees IEEE 1547 as crucial to a cleaner energy future.
"With this standard, we have a tool that we can use in negotiating interconnections with utilities on renewables," DeBlasio said. "There's tremendous opportunity here; the interconnection is something that could be a barrier."
Energy closer to home
Getting past interconnection hurdles is crucial to greater adoption of distributed-generation strategies and potentially huge energy savings. Distributed generation does more than simply add more power to the grid. Bringing energy production closer to the point where it's actually consumed is also, simply, a more efficient way of operating a power system. Up to 94 percent of available energy is lost through the process of generating, transmitting and distributing electricity under the present-day system, according to Volker Hartkopf, a professor and director of the Center for Building Technology at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture.
Hartkopf's research focuses on integrating all aspects of a building's design, including its mechanical and electrical systems, to maximize efficiency and minimize energy consumption. Generating electricity closer to where it is used can be one aspect of such plans, though Hartkopf warns against depending too heavily on a single technology or approach.
"In this country, everybody thinks there's going to be some sort of magic bullet," he said, arguing that current utility pricing structures offer the companies little incentive to explore the many varied technologies that, when combined, could make an impact on how Americans produce and use energy.
Photovoltaics are certainly one of those options, and Greg Brienza, vice president of the Plattsburg, N.Y.-based electrical contracting firm Triangle Electrical Systems Inc., has a firsthand understanding of the difficulties involved in connecting such equipment to the overall grid. His firm has completed numerous photovoltaic installations, and he said not having clearly outlined guidelines has sometimes made it difficult for equipment suppliers to meet utility requirements. Defined specifications, such as those the IEEE 1547 family is attempting to provide, he said, could be a boon to equipment manufacturers and give system installers more product options.
"It sounds like a good starting point," he said. "I think it helps standardize the equipment, and I think it will give us more choices and probably give the inverter companies more of a chance to qualify their equipment."
Smarter options?
Brienza recently began working with a new product whose success may be built on the platform of uniform standards. GridPoint Connect, developed by Washington, D.C.-based GridPoint, offers a packaged battery-based storage system that is paired with all the connections and controls necessary to interconnect photovoltaic panels or other power-producing resources, including wind turbines or generators, with the incoming utility grid.
"It packages a lot of the components of a system into one location," Brienza said, noting that installers don't have to manipulate all the individual batteries, breakers and other parts and pieces such a connection requires. "It integrates all that stuff together and puts an intelligent front end on it, in the form of an OEM P.C."
His first project with the system, completed recently, was an installation for a 2,500-square-foot residence. The homeowners now can export power back to the grid and have 10 kWh of backup power in the form of a gel-type battery pack, which can be used to keep well pumps, refrigerators and other crucial loads up during an outage. A sophisticated monitoring and control system keeps users informed as to the amount of power remaining at existing load levels.
GridPoint also recently began marketing their product to utilities interested in using all the connected ancillary generators as their own distributed resources, according to Karl Lewis, the company's chief operating officer. The plan would enable utilities to buy and install the GridPoint units as customer-premise equipment, meaning utilities could depreciate their purchases. Customer agreements would enable the utility to both cut pre-determined loads and draw on individual power reserves. A large enough network—say 100,000 connected households—could offset the need for a new peak-period generating plant, Lewis said.
"The regulators are saying we need to stop building power plants," Lewis said, adding that current bottlenecks in transmission-line approval and construction underscore the importance of bringing power closer to the people.
"The economic cost of the transmission is starting to exceed the cost of the plant." EC
ROSS is a freelance writer located in Brewster, Mass. He can be reached at email@example.com


text: CaptainSabutai 1 Posted February 28, 2011 In another thread, Lynata said 'Also, doesn't everyone want to play the bad guy sometime ;)' Which immediately made me think of Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface's line: 'Say hello to the bad guy!' And that made me think 'What chaos god would Tony Montana worship: Slaanesh blatantly!' : Montana is a character who is an illustration of the tag line for this game, a man on a personal quest for wealth, power and happiness (in the context of the American dream in the 80s), but loses his humanity in a deluge of drugs, betrayal and violence. This character driven portrayal of greed and cruelty seems like a perfect fit to the types of character I'd want to see portrayed in my Black Crusade game! So lets have a list of film, novel, comic , anime, history, current affairs or other sources for intelligent portrayals of morally ruined protagonists to inform our approach to playing the bad guy... some ideas, please add to/criticise: -Tamerlane/Timur the lame (seems he'd fit right in in the Black Legion) -Macbeth (Thats an interesting approach for a chaos character: Hes not really into it himself, but is driven to it by a family member or loved one) -Hannibal Lecter ( a Khornate characater doesn't have to be a frothing axe-wielding berserker, he could be an intelligent, witty, sophisticated type with an unfortunate penchant for dismembering and consuming) The hardest one is Nurgle worshippers I feel, I'm struggling for an example! And I'd like to be the first to say: 'In the screaming vortex, first you get the mutations, then you get the Daemonic gifts, THEN you get the women!' ;-) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites