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From tiny grains of sand to the growth of a mountain range
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U-Th dating of striated fault planes
Perach Nuriel et al., School of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. Posted online 27 April 2012; doi: 10.1130/G32970.1.
Direct dating of brittle fault activity is of fundamental importance to tectonic reconstructions and paleoseismic studies. One way to address this issue is by constraining the timing of fault striations, but this requires a better understanding of the striation formation mechanism and associated precipitation processes. Perach Nuriel and colleagues present results from a microstructural, geochemical, and geochronological study of calcite precipitates within striated fault planes from the Dead Sea fault zone in northern Israel. They recognize four types of coexisting precipitates: calcite cement in dilation breccia, calcite in striated groove morphology, calcite gouge associated with hydraulic fracturing and pressure solution, and calcite coating of the fault surface. The geochemistry of the calcite studied indicates that precipitation occurred at different stages of the seismic cycle (co-seismic and inter-seismic). Using Uranium-thorium (U-Th) dating of samples from three adjacent fault planes, Nuriel and colleagues delineate four well-defined deformation ages of between 60 and 220 thousand years old. They conclude that these ages constrain the timing of activity along the Dead Sea fault zone in northern Israel and argue that a similar methodological approach could potentially shed light on the timing of deformation in other brittle fault zones.
Northern Hemisphere forcing of the last deglaciation in southern Patagonia
Daniel S. Murray et al., Dept. of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. Posted online 27 April 2012; doi: 10.1130/G32836.1.
Daniel S. Murray and colleagues investigate the onset of the last deglaciation of valley glaciers in southern Patagonia and what forced ice to retreat. They show that glaciers began to retreat about 19,000 years ago, well before the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Using a global climate model, Murray and colleagues are able to link this glacier retreat from regional warming to the retreat of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets. Ice sheet retreat in response to changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun caused a slowing of ocean circulation from meltwater discharge that resulted in heat being trapped in the Southern Hemisphere. This trapped heat triggered the last deglaciation of southern Patagonia.
Going nano: A new step toward understanding the processes governing freshwater ooid formation
Muriel Pacton et al., Geological Institute, ETH-Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland. Posted online 27 April 2012; doi: 10.1130/G32846.1.
Ooids are well-rounded sand grains composed of a nucleus encompassed by poorly to well-developed concentric micritic laminae. Results presented here by Muriel Pacton and colleagues challenge the standard hypothesis that ooids are indicators of turbulent hydrodynamic conditions by showing microbes as the main agent in ooid cortex formation in a quiescent environment. Pacton and colleagues combine cutting-edge techniques (i.e., NanoSIMS ion mapping, scanning electron microscopy imaging and analysis, and secondary ion mass spectrometry delta-13C and delta-18O isotopic analyses) to identify the microbial metabolism involved in ooid cortex formation. The combined elemental mapping and stable isotope study of freshwater ooids indicate that lamina formation is the result of the mineralization of organic substances produced by photosynthetic microbes. This study illustrates the importance of physico-chemical conditions versus organo-mineralization in determining the distribution, abundance, and cortical mineralogy of oolitic sands throughout the Phanerozoic stratigraphic record of carbonate accumulation. These new data further highlight the advantage of using a nano-scale approach to better discern between the various biotic and abiotic processes linked to carbonate precipitation.
Dynamics of dilative slope failure
Yao You et al., Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78713, USA. Posted online 27 April 2012; doi: 10.1130/G32855.1.
We usually associate slope failure of sediments with avalanches, but the case of Scripps Canyon, California, USA, where the mechanical properties of the sediments rule out the possibility of avalanche, does not fit this conventional wisdom. Aided with experiments, Yao You and colleagues propose a new model for an unconventional type of slope failure that can explain the case of Scripps Canyon. They further show that this type of slope failure is much more common than previously assumed and plays an important role in shaping the landscape on the Earth and other planetary bodies like Mars.
Contemporary uplift of the Sierra Nevada, western United States, from GPS and InSAR measurements
William C. Hammond et al., Nevada Geodetic Laboratory, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, and Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA. Posted online 27 April 2012; doi: 10.1130/G32968.1.
The Sierra Nevada range in California and Nevada, western United States, stands more than 3 km tall and is the cumulative effect of millions of years of mountain building. New research using space geodetic methods shows that the uplift of the Sierra Nevada continues to this day, adding between 1 mm per year in elevation. To achieve this unprecedented accuracy, William C. Hammond and colleagues analyzed over a decade of GPS and space-based radar data to estimate the long-term trends in crustal uplift. While the uplift rates are very slow on human time scales, they can build the modern elevation of the Sierra Nevada in just a few million years, which is relatively quick compared to estimates based on some geological techniques. Thus, these measurements offer new constraints on the age of the modern Sierra Nevada and suggest that the elevation is relatively young. The data were obtained from GPS networks supported by the National Science Foundation, including the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory. Radar data were obtained from the European Space Agency with support from NASA. This research was funded by NASA, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Natural Environment Research Council of the UK.
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This month's music selection varies from twangy country to roots reggae to experimental jazz-hip-hop and dub. Robert Glasper's Double Booked is chalk-full of creativity and musicianship. Glasper, a pianist originally from Houston, Texas has performed with Erykah Badu, The Roots, Maxwell, and Mos Def. On this new album Glasper mixes hip-hop, jazz, and experimental music into a beautiful soundscape.
Conrad Crystal and Suga Roy have put together a fine album with help from some of reggae's icons. The legendary Toots & The Maytals joins the duo on "God Bless You." The singjay Gyptian performs "Jah Jah See Dem" in tribute to Joseph Hill and Culture. The dancehall jam "She Call Mi Phone" features "king of the dancehall" Beenie Man and the amazing vocalist Barrington Levy. Deejays U Roy, Dillinger, and Big Youth join the fray while Reggae superstars Lee "Scratch" Perry, Max Romeo, Eek-A-Mouse, Marcia Griffiths, Dennis Brown, The Congos, and Inner Circle all lend their vocals. Even the amazing danechall duo Chaka Demus & Pliers makes an appearance on "Girl You Rock My World."
The Stephen Marleyalbum Mind Control originally dropped more than a year ago. Now a newer acoustic version of the disc has been released called Mind Control Acoustic. The smooth beautiful track "Chase Dem" features Capleton layering rhymes through the original tune. Brothers Damian Marley and Julian Marley appear on the record as does rude boy Spragga Benz.
- Robert Glasper – Double Booked [Blue Note 2009]
- Conrad Crystal & Suga Roy – Suga Roy, Conrad Crystal and the Great Reggae Icons [Fire Ball 2009]
- Stephen Marley – Mind Control Acoustic [Tuff Gong 2009]
- Danny Barnes – Pizza Box [ATO Records 2009]
- Corb Lund – Losin' Lately Gambler [New West 2009]
- Beres Hammond – Something Old, Something New [Penthouse Records 2009]
- Morgan Heritage – The Journey Thus Far [VP Records 2009]
- Drake – So Far Gone [Young Money/Cash Money 2009]
- B.B. Seaton – Ready For The World [Soul Beat/Roots International 2009]
- Various Artist – Joyful Noise [I Grade Records 2009]
- Geoff Maldaur & the Texas Shieks – Texas Sheiks [Tradition & Moderne 2009]
- James Hand – Shadow on the Ground [Rounder 2009]
- Jack Johnson – En Concert [Brushfire Records 2009]
- Serani – No Games [Phase One 2009]
- The Soothsayers Meet Red Earth Collective – One More Reason [Red Earth Music 2009]
- Del Tha Funkyhomosapien & Tame One – Parallel Uni-Verses [Gold Dust 2009]
- Mike Zito – Pearl River [Eclecto Groove Records 2009]
- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Speed Of Life [Sugar Hill 2009]
- Various Artists – Riddim Driven: Clearance [VP 2009]
- Lorenzo – Movin' Ahead [Irie Ites 2009]

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Spain's governing Socialists won approval for the 15 billion euro ($18.4 billion) austerity package by a single vote on Thursday.
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- (a) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES- The Secretary may use funds made available under section 7152(b) for each fiscal year to —
- (1) conduct research related to effective approaches for the education of Indian children and adults;
- (2) evaluate federally assisted education programs from which Indian children and adults may benefit;
- (3) collect and analyze data on the educational status and needs of Indians; and
- (4) carry out other activities that are consistent with the purpose of this part.
- (b) ELIGIBILITY- The Secretary may carry out any of the activities described in subsection (a) directly or through grants to, or contracts or cooperative agreements with, Indian tribes, Indian organizations, State educational agencies, local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, including Indian institutions of higher education, and other public and private agencies and institutions.
- (c) COORDINATION- Research activities supported under this section —
- (1) shall be carried out in consultation with the Office of Educational Research and Improvement to ensure that such activities are coordinated with and enhance the research and development activities supported by the Office; and
- (2) may include collaborative research activities that are jointly funded and carried out by the Office of Indian Education Programs and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
- (a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED- In addition to the grants authorized by section 7122(c), the Secretary may make grants to eligible consortia for the provision of high quality in-service training. The Secretary may make such a grant to —
- (1) a consortium of a tribal college and an institution of higher education that awards a degree in education; or
- (2) a consortium of —
- (A) a tribal college;
- (B) an institution of higher education that awards a degree in education; and
- (C) one or more elementary schools or secondary schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, local educational agencies serving Indian children, or tribal educational agencies.
- (b) USE OF FUNDS-
- (1) IN-SERVICE TRAINING- A consortium that receives a grant under subsection (a) shall use the grant funds only to provide high quality in-service training to teachers, including teachers who are not Indians, in schools of local educational agencies with substantial numbers of Indian children enrolled in their schools, in order to better meet the needs of those children.
- (2) COMPONENTS- The training described in paragraph (1) shall include such activities as preparing teachers to use the best available scientifically based research practices and learning strategies, and to make the most effective use of curricula and materials, to respond to the unique needs of Indian children in their classrooms.
- (c) PREFERENCE FOR INDIAN APPLICANTS- In applying section 7143 to this section, the Secretary shall give a preference to any consortium that includes one or more of the entities described in section 7143.
- (a) FELLOWSHIPS-
- (1) AUTHORITY- The Secretary is authorized to award fellowships to Indian students to enable such students to study in graduate and professional programs at institutions of higher education.
- (2) REQUIREMENTS– The fellowships described in paragraph (1) shall be awarded to Indian students to enable such students to pursue a course of study—
- (A) of not more than 4 academic years; and
- (B) that leads—
- (i) toward a postbaccalaureate degree in medicine, clinical psychology, psychology, law, education, or a related field; or
- (ii) to an undergraduate or graduate degree in engineering, business administration, natural resources, or a related field.
- (b) STIPENDS– The Secretary shall pay to Indian students awarded fellowships under subsection (a) such stipends (including allowances for subsistence of such students and dependents of such students) as the Secretary determines to be consistent with prevailing practices under comparable federally supported programs.
- (c) PAYMENTS TO INSTITUTIONS IN LIEU OF TUITION- The Secretary shall pay to the institution of higher education at which such a fellowship recipient is pursuing a course of study, in lieu of tuition charged to such recipient, such amounts as the Secretary may determine to be necessary to cover the cost of education provided to such recipient.
- (d) SPECIAL RULES–
- (1) IN GENERAL– If a fellowship awarded under subsection (a) is vacated prior to the end of the period for which the fellowship is awarded, the Secretary may award an additional fellowship for the unexpired portion of the period of the first fellowship.
- (2) WRITTEN NOTICE– Not later than 45 days before the commencement of an academic term, the Secretary shall provide to each individual who is awarded a fellowship under subsection (a) for such academic term written notice of--
- (A) the amount of the funding for the fellowship; and
- (B) any stipends or other payments that will be made under this section to, or for the benefit of, the individual for the academic term.
- (3) PRIORITY- Not more than 10 percent of the fellowships awarded under subsection (a) shall be awarded, on a priority basis, to persons receiving training in guidance counseling with a specialty in the area of alcohol and substance abuse counseling and education.
- (e) SERVICE OBLIGATION-
- (1) IN GENERAL– The Secretary shall require, by regulation, that an individual who receives financial assistance under this section--
- (A) perform work--
- (i) related to the training for which the individual receives the assistance under this section; and
- (ii) that benefits Indian people; or
- (B) repay all or a prorated portion of such assistance.
- (2) REPORTING- The Secretary shall establish, by regulation, a reporting procedure under which a recipient of assistance under this section shall, not later than 12 months after the date of completion of the training, and periodically thereafter, provide information concerning the compliance of such recipient with the work requirement described in paragraph (1).
- (f) ADMINISTRATION OF FELLOWSHIPS– The Secretary may administer the fellowships authorized under this section through a grant to, or contract or cooperative agreement with, an Indian organization with demonstrated qualifications to administer all facets of the program assisted under this section.
- (a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED- The Secretary is authorized to —
- (1) establish two centers for gifted and talented Indian students at tribally controlled community colleges in accordance with this section; and
- (2) support demonstration projects described in subsection (c).
- (b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES- The Secretary shall make grants, or enter into contracts, for the activities described in subsection (a), to or with —
- (1) two tribally controlled community colleges that —
- (A) are eligible for funding under the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act of 1978; and
- (B) are fully accredited; or
- (2) the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, if the Secretary does not receive applications that the Secretary determines to be approvable from two colleges that meet the requirements of paragraph (1).
- (c) USE OF FUNDS-
- (1) IN GENERAL- Funds made available through the grants made, or contracts entered into, by the Secretary under subsection (b) shall be used for —
- (A) the establishment of centers described in subsection (a); and
- (B) carrying out demonstration projects designed to —
- (i) address the special needs of Indian students in elementary schools and secondary schools who are gifted and talented; and
- (ii) provide such support services to the families of the students described in clause (i) as are needed to enable such students to benefit from the projects.
- (2) SUBCONTRACTS- Each recipient of a grant or contract under subsection (b) to carry out a demonstration project under subsection (a) may enter into a contract with any other entity, including the Children's Television Workshop, to carry out the demonstration project.
- (3) DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS- Demonstration projects assisted under subsection (b) may include —
- (A) the identification of the special needs of gifted and talented Indian students, particularly at the elementary school level, giving attention to —
- (i) identifying the emotional and psychosocial needs of such students; and
- (ii) providing such support services to the families of such students as are needed to enable such students to benefit from the projects;
- (B) the conduct of educational, psychosocial, and developmental activities that the Secretary determines hold a reasonable promise of resulting in substantial progress toward meeting the educational needs of such gifted and talented children, including —
- (i) demonstrating and exploring the use of Indian languages and exposure to Indian cultural traditions; and
- (ii) carrying out mentoring and apprenticeship programs;
- (C) the provision of technical assistance and the coordination of activities at schools that receive grants under subsection (d) with respect to the activities assisted under such grants, the evaluation of programs assisted under such grants, or the dissemination of such evaluations;
- (D) the use of public television in meeting the special educational needs of such gifted and talented children;
- (E) leadership programs designed to replicate programs for such children throughout the United States, including disseminating information derived from the demonstration projects conducted under subsection (a); and
- (F) appropriate research, evaluation, and related activities pertaining to the needs of such children and to the provision of such support services to the families of such children as are needed to enable such children to benefit from the projects.
- (4) APPLICATION- Each eligible entity desiring a grant or contract under subsection (b) shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information, as the Secretary may reasonably require.
- (d) ADDITIONAL GRANTS-
- (1) IN GENERAL- The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall award 5 grants to schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (hereafter referred to individually in this section as a Bureau school') for program research and development and the development and dissemination of curriculum and teacher training material, regarding —
- (A) gifted and talented students;
- (B) college preparatory studies (including programs for Indian students with an interest in pursuing teaching careers);
- (C) students with special culturally related academic needs, including students with social, lingual, and cultural needs; or
- (D) mathematics and science education.
- (2) APPLICATIONS- Each Bureau school desiring a grant under this subsection shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information, as the Secretary may reasonably require.
- (3) SPECIAL RULE- Each application described in paragraph (2) shall be developed, and each grant under this subsection shall be administered, jointly by the supervisor of the Bureau school and the local educational agency serving such school.
- (4) REQUIREMENTS- In awarding grants under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall achieve a mixture of the programs described in paragraph (1) that ensures that Indian students at all grade levels and in all geographic areas of the United States are able to participate in a program assisted under this subsection.
- (5) GRANT PERIOD- Subject to the availability of appropriations, a grant awarded under paragraph (1) shall be awarded for a 3-year period and may be renewed by the Secretary for additional 3-year periods if the Secretary determines that the performance of the grant recipient has been satisfactory.
- (A) COOPERATIVE EFFORTS- The dissemination of any materials developed from activities assisted under paragraph (1) shall be carried out in cooperation with entities that receive funds pursuant to subsection (b).
- (B) REPORT- The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the Secretary of the Interior and to Congress a report concerning any results from activities described in this subsection.
- (A) DIVISION- The costs of evaluating any activities assisted under paragraph (1) shall be divided between the Bureau schools conducting such activities and the recipients of grants or contracts under subsection (b) who conduct demonstration projects under subsection (a).
- (B) GRANTS AND CONTRACTS- If no funds are provided under subsection (b) for —
- (i) the evaluation of activities assisted under paragraph (1);
- (ii) technical assistance and coordination with respect to such activities; or
- (iii) the dissemination of the evaluations referred to in clause (i),
- the Secretary shall make such grants, or enter into such contracts, as are necessary to provide for the evaluations, technical assistance, and coordination of such activities, and the dissemination of the evaluations.
- (e) INFORMATION NETWORK- The Secretary shall encourage each recipient of a grant or contract under this section to work cooperatively as part of a national network to ensure that the information developed by the grant or contract recipient is readily available to the entire educational community.
- (a) IN GENERAL- The Secretary may make grants to Indian tribes, and tribal organizations approved by Indian tribes, to plan and develop a centralized tribal administrative entity to —
- (1) coordinate all education programs operated by the tribe or within the territorial jurisdiction of the tribe;
- (2) develop education codes for schools within the territorial jurisdiction of the tribe;
- (3) provide support services and technical assistance to schools serving children of the tribe; and
- (4) perform child-find screening services for the preschool-aged children of the tribe to —
- (A) ensure placement in appropriate educational facilities; and
- (B) coordinate the provision of any needed special services for conditions such as disabilities and English language skill deficiencies.
- (b) PERIOD OF GRANT- Each grant awarded under this section may be awarded for a period of not more than 3 years. Such grant may be renewed upon the termination of the initial period of the grant if the grant recipient demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that renewing the grant for an additional 3-year period is necessary to carry out the objectives of the grant described in subsection (c)(2)(A).
- (c) APPLICATION FOR GRANT-
- (1) IN GENERAL- Each Indian tribe and tribal organization desiring a grant under this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, containing such information, and consistent with such criteria, as the Secretary may prescribe in regulations.
- (2) CONTENTS- Each application described in paragraph (1) shall contain —
- (A) a statement describing the activities to be conducted, and the objectives to be achieved, under the grant; and
- (B) a description of the method to be used for evaluating the effectiveness of the activities for which assistance is sought and for determining whether such objectives are achieved.
- (3) APPROVAL- The Secretary may approve an application submitted by a tribe or tribal organization pursuant to this section only if the Secretary is satisfied that such application, including any documentation submitted with the application —
- (A) demonstrates that the applicant has consulted with other education entities, if any, within the territorial jurisdiction of the applicant who will be affected by the activities to be conducted under the grant;
- (B) provides for consultation with such other education entities in the operation and evaluation of the activities conducted under the grant; and
- (C) demonstrates that there will be adequate resources provided under this section or from other sources to complete the activities for which assistance is sought, except that the availability of such other resources shall not be a basis for disapproval of such application.
- (d) RESTRICTION- A tribe may not receive funds under this section if such tribe receives funds under section 1144 of the Education Amendments of 1978.
- (a) IN GENERAL- The Secretary shall make grants to State educational agencies, local educational agencies, and Indian tribes, institutions, and organizations —
- (1) to support planning, pilot, and demonstration projects that are designed to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of programs for improving employment and educational opportunities for adult Indians;
- (2) to assist in the establishment and operation of programs that are designed to stimulate —
- (A) the provision of basic literacy opportunities for all nonliterate Indian adults; and
- (B) the provision of opportunities to all Indian adults to qualify for a secondary school diploma, or its recognized equivalent, in the shortest period of time feasible;
- (3) to support a major research and development program to develop more innovative and effective techniques for achieving literacy and secondary school equivalency for Indians;
- (4) to provide for basic surveys and evaluations to define accurately the extent of the problems of illiteracy and lack of secondary school completion among Indians; and
- (5) to encourage the dissemination of information and materials relating to, and the evaluation of, the effectiveness of education programs that may offer educational opportunities to Indian adults.
- (b) EDUCATIONAL SERVICES- The Secretary may make grants to Indian tribes, institutions, and organizations to develop and establish educational services and programs specifically designed to improve educational opportunities for Indian adults.
- (c) INFORMATION AND EVALUATION- The Secretary may make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public agencies and institutions and Indian tribes, institutions, and organizations, for —
- (1) the dissemination of information concerning educational programs, services, and resources available to Indian adults, including evaluations of the programs, services, and resources; and
- (2) the evaluation of federally assisted programs in which Indian adults may participate to determine the effectiveness of the programs in achieving the purposes of the programs with respect to Indian adults.
- (d) APPLICATIONS-
- (1) IN GENERAL- Each entity desiring a grant or contract under this section shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, containing such information, and consistent with such criteria, as the Secretary may prescribe in regulations.
- (2) CONTENTS- Each application described in paragraph (1) shall contain —
- (A) a statement describing the activities to be conducted and the objectives to be achieved under the grant or contract; and
- (B) a description of the method to be used for evaluating the effectiveness of the activities for which assistance is sought and determining whether the objectives of the grant or contract are achieved.
- (3) APPROVAL- The Secretary shall not approve an application described in paragraph (1) unless the Secretary determines that such application, including any documentation submitted with the application, indicates that —
- (A) there has been adequate participation, by the individuals to be served and the appropriate tribal communities, in the planning and development of the activities to be assisted; and
- (B) the individuals and tribal communities referred to in subparagraph (A) will participate in the operation and evaluation of the activities to be assisted.
- (4) PRIORITY- In approving applications under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall give priority to applications from Indian educational agencies, organizations, and institutions.
- (e) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS- Not more than 5 percent of the funds made available to an entity through a grant or contract made or entered into under this section for a fiscal year may be used to pay for administrative costs.
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Video Reviews
4G Routers - 4G LTE Routers
4G Routers
4Gon stock and sell a range of feature rich 4G routers from a variety of different manufacturers including Peplink, Cradlepoint, Sierra Wireless and Conel.
What is a 4G
A 4G Router is a wireless router that enables connection by connecting to the 4G/LTE network, 4G Routers can enable you to capitalise on wireless speeds of up to 100Mbps. 4G Routers enables customers to take advantage of the next generation of mobile communication standards.


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Support for the Arab Human Development Reports
The Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) series has become a milestone in the broader debate over the development reform agenda in the Arab region, with AHDR recommendations increasingly reflected in development programming at the national and regional levels. The pioneering first AHDR, issued in 2002, identified three critical development deficits - in the acquisition of knowledge, in political freedoms and in women's rights.
To further encourage the development of AHDR-informed programming at the national-level, the Arab Human Development Report Trust Fund was established in 2003 with contributions from Denmark and the United Kingdom.
At Present, national AHDR projects are carried out in Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Somalia, Syria and Morocco. Development programming in the 17 UNDP Country Offices [http://www.undp.org/arabstates/ (COs) in the Arab region have been aligning to address these deficits in line with the national development agendas and UNDP's mandate of poverty alleviation [http://www.undp.org/poverty/] and the [Millennium Development Goals http://www.undp.org/mdg/ ] (MDGs).
At the Regional level, the Regional Bureau for Arab States http://www.undp.org/arabstates/ (RBAS) launched a number of regional programmes aimed to establish sustainable initiatives, benchmarks and institutions to address the three deficits.
In the area of knowledge, the regional programmes promote information and communication technology for development (http://www.ictdar.org ICTD), enhance educational quality assurance at the primary, secondary and higher education levels, and support longer-term capacity building in the region through the establishment of regional mechanisms.
The governance programme advances four pillars of good governance practice: (1) Rule of Law; (2) Transparency and Accountability; (3) Participation; and (4) Human Rights.
In the area of women's empowerment the HIV/AIDS Programme launched a Regional Women Religious Leaders Forum that culminated in the Tripoli Declaration and the Center for Arab Women's Training and Research (CAWTAR), originally supported as a joint project of UNDP, AGFUND [http://www.agfund.org], and later the World Bank, CAWTAR has produced Arab Women Development Reports since 2001.


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Homemade Worcestershire Sauce
Who makes homemade Worcestershire Sauce?
Oh yeah, me.
First I had to admit to Google that I had misspelled Worcestershire. (It's not pronounced with 5 syllables, now, is it?!)
Then, the first recipe I stumbled upon was Emeril's, which began, "Saute onion in olive oil…." Nope, not gonna do that.
So then I added "easy" to the end of my Google query. Behold, this lovely, very simple recipe.
I made it in 5 minutes, and had all of the ingredients on hand already. Smells like Worcestershire Sauce in my apartment now.


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Your weekly travel inspiration
Got holidays booked in but no plans? How about these adventures to fill your time … or at least to keep dreaming about?
Fun for foodies
Australia's longest-running regional food festival, Orange FOOD Week, has provenance and sustainability at its core for 2019.
The 10-day festival runs from April 5-14 and will include more than 70 events showcasing more than 40 cellar doors and farm gates during the region's autumn harvest and vintage.
Orange FOOD Week is continuing its regional "war on waste", setting a global standard for festival sustainability, as the first ISO-2-121-certified food and wine event in Australia.
It has implemented a sustainable management system, which includes composting, water refill stations, and bans on plastic and polystyrene at the signature night markets.
Signature events of the 2019 FOOD Week program include the Autumn Grazing Dinner in Blayney, FORAGE, FOOD Train, FOOD Week Night Markets and FOOD HQ.
- Visit www.orangefoodweek.com.au.
Take a hike
Book a 2019 Northern Territory walk with Australian Walking Holidays before February 17 and receive a $500 Wild Earth gear voucher and a 5 per cent discount off the trip price.
In the Top End, pay $1992 for a six-day trek along the Jatbula Trail, which joins Katherine Gorge and Edith Falls in Nitmiluk National Park.
It's a largely undiscovered trail through a stunning landscape of rugged sandstone cliffs, dramatic waterfalls, shady waterholes and lush rainforest.
Further south in the Red Centre, choose from 10 different walks on the iconic 223-kilometre Larapinta Trail, which winds its way through the gorges, waterholes and ridgelines of the West MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs.
- Phone 1300 767 381 or visit www.australianwalkingholidays.com.
"Tank you" for staying
Stay just a little bit longer at Sydney's Tank Stream Hotel and save up to 25 per cent off the best available rate.
Book in advance and stay for two nights in this contemporary, centrally-located hotel and save 20 per cent off the best rate of the day. Stay three nights and save 25 per cent.
Guests also enjoy a range of complimentary extras: high-speed wi-fi, latest-release movies, non-alcoholic welcome bar, and espresso-style in-room coffee and premium tea by Aurora.
The deal is valid till September 30 and there are no block-out dates.
- Phone (02) 8222 1200 or visit www.tankstreamhotel.com.
The ultimate escape
From the playful lemur to the elusive Bengal tiger, the giant panda and the endangered mountain gorilla, an incredible diversity of wildlife contributes to the rich tapestry of life on Earth.
Realising that the survival of many of these species is under increasing threat and that time is of the essence, A&K has designed a safari by private jet to make it possible to visit these animals in their dramatically-varied natural habitats on one remarkable journey.
At $139,950 per person twin-share, A&K's 25-day 'Wildlife Safari: Around the World by Private Jet' in March 2020 is one of the most expensive package deals on the market, but it will provide a band of 50 privileged guests the chance to encounter iconic — and often critically endangered — animals in the wild.
They'll see little-known species like Japan's snow monkey and the tiny Philippine tarsiers, swim with massive whale sharks and go behind-the-scenes to feed orphaned orangutans.
And they'll learn from experts who have spent their lives studying these remarkable animals on an extraordinary journey that ends with a safari in East Africa, where the A&K story began, to search for the Big Five in Kenya's Masai Mara.
Meals throughout the journey are more than just a chance to dine at the end of the day. They are a feast for the senses, with local entertainment and stunning natural backdrops.
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Rugged frontier
The MIR Corporation invites intrepid travellers to explore the remote corners of Russia, including Yakutia, a rugged northern frontier known for mammoths and diamonds, and the wild Kamchatka Peninsula, perched on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Guests will meet the indigenous peoples of these far-flung locales, and admire two natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites while comparing and contrasting a kingdom of permafrost in Yakutsk with the steaming Valley of the Geysers in Kamchatka.
The tour is scheduled for August and starts at $7695 per person twin-share.
- Visit www.mircorp.com.
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The Rees Hotel Queenstown is offering two new cycling packages.
"Cycle The Rees" is an airport transfer initiative and a great way to start a holiday at The Rees, with an exciting and scenic outdoor activity.
Guests are collected from Queenstown airport and explore some of New Zealand's spectacular scenery on a guided ride along the picturesque Frankton track to The Rees Hotel on one of their new hard-tail Merida mountain bikes or Avanti electric bikes.
When they arrive at the hotel, their bags will already be in-room and they will be offered a glass of bubbles or beer.
In the hotel's "Bike the Wineries" package, guests hire a bike and are then transferred to Gibbston Valley to cycle between vineyards and back to the hotel.
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By the end of December 2017, there was 35.43 million square meters of solar thermal products installed, a 4.9% decrease from 2017. Vacuum tube products installed totaled 31.22 million square meters, and flat-plate collectors and systems installed totaled 6.04 million square meters.
Vacuum tube solar collectors represent 83.8% of the total market and flat plate collectors about 16.2%.
Over the last 5 years the solar thermal application market has grown rapidly, from 23% to 71%, while the product retail market (the typical product is a compact solar water heater) has experienced the inverse.
In rural areas without natural gas and centralized heating systems, the convenience and cost of solar water heaters are the main market drivers because using solar water heaters can save the conventional fuel fee.
In the urban market, the main driver is local regulation or national regulation. To help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Chinese government published a series of regulations to increase the proportion of renewable energy for all energy consumption, which includes the promotion of solar thermal applications.
Most solar manufactures are located in eastern China. Fifty percent of the manufacturers are centralized in 3 provinces: Zhejiang, Shandong and Jiangsu. In 2014, the annual amount of exports was near USD 300 million. The most general mode of product sales is three-tiered: the manufacturer, distributor, and the retailer. For some compact products, such as solar water heaters, the installation is the responsibility of the seller, and for the large construction projects, the manufacturers have specific departments in charge of the installation work.
There were 3,500,000 people engaged in the solar thermal industry at the end of 2011, most of them worked in the field of solar water heating, which represented about a 90% share of the whole industry.
A typical compact solar water heater (generally with 2 m2 collectors and a 150l tank) is about 3,000 to 5,000 RMB Yuan, including the installation charge. For a solar hot water system, the cost is about 1,500 to 2,500 RMB Yuan per square meter collector. For a solar space heating system, the cost is about 3,000 to 5,000 RMB Yuan per square meter collector.
Solar district heating is becoming a new area of development for solar thermal systems in China. Over 10,000 square meters collector area of systems has been built. Besides district heating system, solar + heat pump heating system for single house is a new trend in China.
The passive house is the most common solar energy building, especially in the rural areas of northern China. This type of house appeals to many people because of the large southern windows and the possibility for an attached sunspace. Due to the promotion of "nearly/net zero energy building" (NZEB), daylighting, solar heating and cooling are becoming new focus areas.
The new building areas in China will continue to increase in the coming years. The existing building area is over 40 billion m2, where more than 2 billion m2 of buildings need energy-saving renovation. There is an enormous building market in China.
The main market drivers are the policies for reducing building energy consumption.
The Chinese government plans to reach the target of 15% renewable energy consumption of total energy consumption by the end of 2020. Solar energy applications are one of the important ways to realize this energy saving goal.
There is no separate information on solar buildings.
According to the construction experiences, a well insulated passive house with attached sunspace costs about 40,000 RMB Yuan more than the common residential building in rural areas of northern China.
China has a series of science and technology programs, such as a national five-year plan, National High-Tech R&D Program (863 Program), National Key Technologies R&D Program, etc. Most of these include solar energy research, and some include solar thermal technology research.
China is working hard on the research of solar cooling systems. CABR built an office building of nearly zero energy building in 2014 and the solar heating and cooling system contributes about 50% of the heating and cooling energy.
China has a medium-term and long-term plan for renewable energy application. The target of the solar water heater installed capacity is 300 million m2 and total substitution to conventional energy from all solar thermal technology application is 60 million tce (ton coal equivalent) by the end of 2020.
At the national level, the Ministry of Science of Technology is responsible for all national S&T programme, and the local S&T commission is responsible for a sub-program at the local level.
In 2006, China issued the Law of Renewable Energy of the People's Republic of China. The government will strongly support the application and the development of solar water heating systems:
In 2017, Chinese government pushed clean heating in northern China, encouraging the use of clean energy, including solar thermal, instead of coal for space heating. The central government will give the first 12 demonstration cities an annual clean heating subsidy of 300 to 500 million yuan for 3 years.


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The most common traditional materials for workhorse illustrators are good old ink line and watercolor.
When it comes to materials, it's all about finding your style. Very similar to a writer finding their voice. Experiment, then experiment some more. Try everything until you find something that makes you happy and allows you to sink into the creative groove.
NinjaWomanYour work is wonderful. I love how you use everyday things like news paper in your art work.
I don't know, most work I see that is done with sharpies has a peculiar cheapness to the lines that I find very disagreeable. It really lacks the refined elegance of a pen or brush work. I've seen some good sharpie work done with expressive and scratchy lines but that takes a very confident hand and an artist who is a very good mark maker. They are good for development and presentation work, since the idea is just to present a visual idea and the finish is less important. Sharpie work is immediately obvious and I wouldn't be brave enough to turn in art for publication done with them.
Wonky.... cute avatar! And doesn't Maggie Stiefvater do amazing things with the sharpie on her guitar?
I like your avatar, too, Wonky! And I can see that style being perfect for a lot of types of books, illustrated MGs totally springing to mind. (I have those on the brain right now I think, I SO want to do an illustrated MG)
Thanks, the pic is actually from the character sheet of the MC of my MG book. If the book gets picked up I'm hoping to illustrate it, too.
*feeling smug for totally calling that one* that's awesome!! I love illustrated MG's.
It's not what you use,... it's how you use it.ETA: Cyn: I own a Etch a Sketch... and those are just amazing. I'd love to see it done in fast motion on video. It almost doesn't seem possible, but I'm sure it is. I know these aren't fakes.
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A Peek into Nimrod Freed's Choreography
Video: Nimrod Freed's Peep Dance
This article was initially published as "Close Encounters Series: Nimrod Freed" on The Winger in 2008, prior to a performance of his Peep Dance at Central Park SummerStage in New York.
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Nimrod Freed. Photo by Eyal Landesman.
Close Encounters Series: Nimrod Freed
My initial encounter with Nimrod Freed was in autumn 2007 via e-mail. I first contacted him because he was on the faculty of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, my host institution here in Israel during my Fulbright grant. We met, though, at a different college with a focus on teacher training: Seminar HaKibbutzim in northern Tel Aviv.
Not only does Nimrod teach at both of these institutions, but he also is the artistic director at Tel Aviv's Beit Tami, a spectacularly located community center that is equipped with a few studios and a small performance space popular with independent choreographers. There he runs the Tami Dance Company, which currently brings together one actor with several dancers in dance theater works.
As I learned about all of Nimrod's roles during that first meeting at Seminar HaKibbutzim, I realized – in the very best way – that I had got more than I bargained for! Speaking with him gave me a much clearer sense of the institutional map of Israeli contemporary dance.
Nimrod Freed's Peep Dance. Photo by Anatoly Michaelo.
I also learned about Nimrod's own career, from his beginnings in folk dance to his intensive study of concert dance, which was sparked by his involvement in an opera production of Samson and Delilah at age 16. His interest in dance theater developed after seeing Pina Bausch's Café Müller , and subsequently, he studied acting and directing at Tel Aviv University. A class there with guest teacher Kei Takei proved to be a major turning point; indeed, soon afterwards, he joined her company Moving Earth in New York.
Nimrod stayed in the U.S. for just over a decade, and during this time, he also formed his own dance theater company. It was an invitation to perform in the Israel Festival which paved the way back to his native country. Through his teaching of improvisation and pedagogy, his choreography, and his leadership at Beit Tami, he has contributed enormously to the vibrant Israeli contemporary dance scene – but even as he maintains a home base in Tel Aviv, he continues to work internationally. Nimrod's company has toured to Europe and Japan, where he met Min Tanaka and picked up a butoh influence.
Spectators at Nimrod Freed's Peep Dance. Photo by Itamar Freed.
In July 2008, Nimrod returned to New York with the Tami Dance Company for a performance of Peep Dance at Central Park SummerStage. Like Israeli crowds, the American audiences clustered around colorful structures and put their eyes up to peepholes to sneak a peek at the dancers inside.
Nimrod Freed's Subtext. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
Nimrod's latest work, Subtext, was shown as part of Curtain Up 2009 at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv and the Rebecca Crown Auditorium in Jerusalem.


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CALELLA DE MAR, Spain, July 30 (UPI) -- You'd think a brightly colored scoop of ice cream that changed colors when licked, like some sort of psychedelic dessert, would be the product of everyone's favorite hippies, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. But the world of dairy and sugar has a new Willy Wonka, and his name is Manuel Linares.
Linares, who plies his trade in Spain, studied as an engineer and scientist before opening up an ice cream shop in Calella de Mar, an eastern province of Barcelona. Inspired by an ice cream he's seen that changed colors, Linares set to work in a lab -- with the help of a couple of friends -- figuring out a way to create an ice cream that reacted to temperature and chemicals in human saliva, so that it would change colors when licked.
"I am a huge fan of the British ice cream genius Charlie Francis, the creator of a fluorescent ice and founder of the company Lick Me Delicious and I wanted to create an ice cream that changed color to try and do something new as well," Linares explained to Diai de Girona.
And by golly, he's done it.
Although it sounds a bit sketchy -- ice cream made in a lab, that is -- Linares promises that he's not putting anything dangerous or strange in there.
"It was important to me to make sure I only used natural ingredients, so it took a bit longer," Linares said. "And as to the trick, I am not giving out too much detail because the patents are still going through."
Though he hasn't revealed what it is, the effect is achieved by pouring what he called a "Love Elixir" over a scoop of the ice cream.
The ice cream first appears a bluish purple in hue, and then fades into a brighter pink as it is licked or heated. Linares says the flavor is like tutti-frutti, with strawberries, cocoa, almonds, banana, pistachio, vanilla and caramel.
Since he's unveiled the new ice cream -- which he's dubbed "Xamaleon," for "chameleon" -- his ice cream parlor has been packed.


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Please email firstname.lastname@example.com to fill out an application and arrange an appointment to meet the pet. Rover is a very sweet bouncy Retriever mix with an estimated DOB of 06/28/2018. He weighed 55 lbs at intake. Rover came to us as a stray. He is super excited at the promise of starting a new life. Are you ready to make that promise happen? He will not judge you if use expired coupons at the grocery store and ask for the manager anyway. He is cool like that. We believe he is house trained. He enjoys the company of other dogs and human kiddos. Rover's adoption fee is $190 which includes a medical exam, sterilization surgery, age-appropriate vaccinations, dewormer, heartworm testing, and a microchip.
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Obamas light up the National Christmas Tree
- The Obamas pushed a big red button to fire up the National Christmas Tree
- Neil Patrick Harris hosts the show
- Annual Washington ceremony has been a favorite for 90 years
The Obama family, looking as brightly toned as a string of Christmas bulbs, pushed the button Thursday night for the annual lighting of the White House National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse in Washington.
As President Obama counted down from five, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, pushed the big button to light up the soaring blue spruce tree behind them, covered in cascading white lights and topped with a yellow star. It was the 90th annual lighting of the tree.
It was a chilly night in Washington, so nearly everyone in the crowd estimated at 17,000 by the National Park Service was in coats; Mrs. O had on a bright turquoise blue overcoat with a sparkly texture over white pants and scarf, while her daughters were in knit caps and coats in orange, pink and poppy. The president was in his usual black coat and black suit with a burgundy scarf.
Neil Patrick Harris, hosting the annual ritual on the Ellipse adjacent to the White House, welcomed the Obamas on stage shortly before 6 pm. After lighting the tree and shouting "Merry Christmas," the family left the stage to sit in the audience where actor Rico Rodriguez, from Modern Family, sat with them.
The White House pool report said Mrs. Obama and Rodriguez read from 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.
The president also made a few remarks, with special attention to the families in the Northeast still struggling with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
"Now, we know that some of our neighbors to the north saw a more ruthless and destructive Sandy," Obama said. "And this holiday season is especially difficult for families who lost everything in the storm. But it's also a time for us to be grateful for the heroism and perseverance of ordinary men and women in the storm's path who've showed us that Americans will always be stronger than the challenges that we face. And as I did before Thanksgiving, I can't help but tell a story of their enduring holiday spirit."
The show featured performances by Jason Mraz, Ledisi, James Taylor, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Colbie Caillat and American Idol season 11 winner Phillip Phillips.


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Today is Monday, April 1, the 91st day of 2013 with 274 to follow.
This is known as April Fools' Day when practical jokes are common.
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mars, Jupiter and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include German military theorist Prince Otto von Bismarck in 1815; Italian pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni in 1866; Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1873; actors Lon Chaney Sr. in 1883, Wallace Beery in 1885 and Toshiro Mifune in 1920; authors William Manchester ("Death of a President") in 1922 and Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern) in 1926; football Hall of Fame coach Bo Schembechler in 1929; actors/singers Jane Powell in 1929 (age 84) and Debbie Reynolds in 1932 (age 81); and actors Ali MacGraw in 1939 (age 74) and Annette O'Toole in 1952 (age 61); Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai in 1940; musician Jimmy Cliff in 1948 (age 65); singer Susan Boyle in 1961 (age 52); political commentator Rachel Maddow in 1973 (age 40); reality television personality Jon Gosselin in 1977 (age 36); and actor Asa Butterfield in 1997 (age 16).
On this date in history:
In 1826, Samuel Morey was granted a patent on the internal combustion engine.
In 1918, toward the end of World War I, the British founded the Royal Air Force and two months later began bombing industrial targets in Germany from bases in France.
In 1924, Adolf Hitler was sent to prison for five years after failing to take over Germany by force, the unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in the German state of Bavaria.
In 1945, U.S. forces swarmed ashore on the Japanese island of Okinawa to begin what would be one of the longest and bloodiest battles of World War II.
In 1946, tsunami created by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake near the Aleutian Islands killed 159 in the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon signed legislation calling for mandatory health warnings on tobacco product packaging and banning cigarette ads on TV and radio, effective Jan. 1, 1971.
In 1976, Apple Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
In 1979, Iran declared itself an Islamic Republic.
In 1982, the United States transferred control of the Panama Canal Zone to the government of Panama.
In 1986, world oil prices dipped to less than $10 a barrel.
In 1992, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced a $24 billion aid package to the former Soviet republics.
In 1996, an outbreak of "mad cow" disease forced Britain to plan the mass slaughter of cows.
In 1999, Canada created a new territory, Nunavut, as a means of providing autonomy for the Inuit people.
In 2001, a U.S. Navy spy plane collided with a Chinese jetfighter off the coast of China. The Chinese plane crashed into the ocean; the damaged U.S. plane landed on the Chinese island of Hainan, where its 24 crewmembers were held for 11 days.
In 2003, U.S. Marines rescued Pfc. Jessica Lynch, 19, who had been held prisoner in Iraq since an ambush on March 23.
In 2005, Samuel Berger, national security adviser to U.S. President Bill Clinton, pleaded guilty to destroying classified documents he admitted removing from the National Archives.
In 2009, Sweden became the fifth European nation to legalize same-sex marriages. Others are the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium and Spain.
Also in 2009, 16 people died in the crash of a helicopter in northeast Scotland. Victims included 14 oil workers.
In 2010, formal guidelines for the amount of greenhouse gas emissions U.S. cars may produce were issued by the U.S. Environment Protection Agency. A combined fuel economy average for new vehicles, for mileage and emissions, would be 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
In 2011, the U.S. Labor Department released March data indicating a slight drop in U.S. unemployment to 8.8 percent with 216,000 new non-farm jobs.
Also in 2011, a Southwest Airlines flight to Sacramento, Calif., with 118 passengers, made an emergency landing when a 5-foot hole ripped open in the roof. No one was seriously hurt. The airline inspected its fleet, blamed metal fatigue and found two other jets with similar problems.
In 2012, Aung San Sun Ky, the Nobel Peace laureate and voice of the political opposition in Myanmar (Burma), won a seat in Parliament two years after being freed from 20 years of house arrest.
Also in 2012, emergency officials say 675 people were rescued from a drifting ice floe in the Sea of Okhotsk in far Eastern Russia.
A thought for the day: mime Marcel Marceau said, "It's good to shut up sometimes."


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George Lopez's new sitcom on FX is called Saint George, but that doesn't mean he's making any apologies.
Earlier this year, Lopez vowed to be more direct and honest after receiving a mean tweet on Twitter.
"… I got a very negative 'go back to Mexico' tweet,'" the 52-year-old comedian said in a recent interview.
"I'm an American citizen. I responded as I would as myself. Since that day, I decided to be a little more honest with social media. … I decided to take a little bit more of an aggressive approach. I was losing followers, about 1,000 a week. I was like, 'Why am I losing like a noticeable amount?' Since Super Bowl Sunday … I'm sure I've gained 55,000 followers."
His new mantra was put to the test recently when he was photographed lying on a casino floor after going on a drinking spree in Ontario, Canada. The photo went viral, and Lopez faced what happened head on — by making a joke.
"Tied one on last night. Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor," he said in a statement issued after the incident.
"I owned it and moved forward and would do what any comedian would do, [which] is to make fun of it and move past it. It really kind of took the air out of it," he says.
"… To give up drinking and have people know holds me accountable. But nobody is gonna hold me more accountable than I hold myself, so a lot of times … somebody will say, 'Did you have a drink last night?' And you answer or you don't answer, but their assumption of my life isn't as important as the reality of my own life … I've had enough alcohol really in my life. I don't intend on [drinking], but it is fun to kind of see people's opinions on how I should live my life."
Lopez marvels at how people use social media as a way to judge others. "I would not consider myself a judge of someone else's life, and social media gives some people a licence to comment on other people's lives. It's fascinating," he says.
On Saint George, Lopez plays a recently divorced successful entrepreneur who's trying to balance a busy life and a demanding family.
"It's more about kind of my life right now," says Lopez, who divorced wife Ann Serrano in 2011. They have one daughter.
Lopez says if ratings hold in the first 10 episodes, the show will get an additional 90-episode order.
"In the 10 episodes, if we hold the number or look like a show that people want to watch, then we'll continue, and if it doesn't, then it won't continue."


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by Alaina Mabaso
Havertown native Julia Blaukopf, whom Chestnut Hill residents might know from her permanent photography exhibition at Gravers Lane Gallery, 8405 Germantown Ave., faced a challenge upon graduation from the University of the Arts in 2006 with a BFA in photography — a challenge every artist knows but one with a humanitarian twist.
"I graduated and panicked," she says now from her small, well-lit apartment in Fishtown, which serves as a live-in workspace. For most artists, figuring out how to launch a viable living in their chosen field is enough. But Blaukopf had even more in mind. "I wanted to do social justice work," she says, but the difficulty of working with non-profits is the low or even non-existent pay.
A taste for travel — "especially uncomfortable travel" — began during a semester in Italy in the spring of Blaukopf's sophomore year of college. She graduated from Haverford (public) High School and the University of the Arts downtown with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She liked fending for herself abroad so much that she took the rest of the summer to backpack through Eastern Europe, relishing the adventure of waking up in a new place each day.
The next year found her in central Kenya with a reforestation project, operated by local farmers with the help of the group "i-to-i Volunteering." Their Ethical Travel initiative connects socially and ecologically conscious globetrotters with volunteer projects.
She spent five weeks in Naro Moru village at the base of Mount Kenya, staying with a local family and working with about 30 farmers planting trees, restoring a forest ravaged during Kenya's time as a British colony as recently as the mid-20th century.
Her stay was challenging in some ways, since as a lactose-intolerant vegetarian she couldn't partake of the typical local diet. It seems that a lot of Americans drawn to volunteering in Africa do not eat meat, contrary to the common perspective on Americans as citizens of the land of outsize hamburgers, Blaukopf's hosts asked her why everyone in the US is vegetarian.
When she wasn't volunteering with the tree-planting project, chatting with locals or scaling Mt. Kenya, Blaukopf was taking photos with her venerable Holga 120n film camera, whose images require considerable skill in the darkroom. Now, the small plastic camera has a place of honor in her Fishtown studio.
"That's where my work started to form stylistically," she says of her black-and-white Naro Moru images, which feature atmospheric portraits of working Kenyans at surprising angles, asking for an unusual engagement from the viewer. She was 22 at the time.
By her graduation, Blaukopf knew she wanted to use her photography to support and promote other charitable initiatives. She reached out to organizations like Human Rights Watch, and learned that they preferred their photographers to be permanently embedded in the areas they cover.
But an opportunity with Women In Progress, which aids female entrepreneurs around the world in supporting their families through their own business ventures, soon took wing. To work on a special photo documentary on women in Ghana, Blaukopf departed for five months in Ghana in the fall of 2006. The Philadelphia-based organization First Person Arts helped to sponsor her trip.
In addition to writing and photographing for Women In Progress, Blaukopf unwittingly began her first book. E-mails to friends and family back home about her experiences in Ghana were the seed of Rain Parade, a compilation of her written work, photographs and photographic collages.
A flood of residencies, grants and fellowships followed Blaukopf's work in Ghana, and her subsequent travels included Lithuania, Copenhagen, Montreal and Sri Lanka. Her US exhibitions have appeared in Philadelphia, Portland, Oregon; Baltimore and New York City.
"Grants and residencies allow me to be a working traveler," the 29-year-old says.
The photos from Blaukopf's Ghanaian travels, a mix of film and digital photographs, many of which are printed large on media like vellum, bringing a whole new interplay of texture and light to the pieces.
As an artist, Blaukopf is drawn to sensory immersion, drenching her text and images with the sounds, feelings, sights and smells of her travels. This leads to a creative approach in her photography products, which include evocative images and portraits melded to small glass tiles or round, iridescent cadiz shells for one-of-a-kind jewelry.
"I want there to be questions," she says of the narratives in her pictures. She likes creating a "dreamy", ambiguous quality in her portraits, which tell their stories while defying the usual arc of beginning, middle and end. She is especially drawn to documenting craftspeople in their work, like the women in her Ghanaian portraits.
"It's about empowering yourself through business," Blaukopf says of the entrepreneurs she documents through Women In Progress. "Supporting yourself, creating your life, is the thrill."
It's a thrill Blaukopf can relate to as her dream career unfolds.
For more information on Julia Blaukopf's work, visit http://www.juliablaukopf.com/.


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On Friday, our quarterly electricity bill arrived. I ripped it open and pored over the pages. Studied the numbers and the graphs. I discovered that we used 25% less electricity than in the comparable period last year. So our bill was only $210.
Our bill tells us that our average daily consumption was about half that of comparable households. High five! Way to go, us!
The bill also told us that our hard-working solar panels generated 85% of the electricity we consumed. Whoo-hoo!
The icing on the cake of all this wonderfulness is that we get paid 60c kWH for the electricity we generate - for every last kWH. That added up to a very cheerful $300.
Over the last billing cycle, we earned $90 more than we spent on electricity. With Christmas around the corner, that sounds like an extra $90 for Christmas goodies. Oooooh. I wonder what we'll get?
The moral of the story is that if you want extra treats under YOUR Christmas tree, invest in solar energy now!


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You've already learned the names. Now it's time for some numbers. Here's a closer look at the rosters for the 2014 McDonald's All American Game, scheduled for April 2 at the United Center in Chicago.
0: Prior to Illinois recruit Chatrice White (Shelby, Neb.) being named to the 2014 West squad, number of girls from Nebraska who had been named McDonald's All Americans.
1: Number of All Americans who have not committed to a school: A'ja Wilson, the No. 1 prospect in the espnW HoopGurlz Top 100.
2: McDonald's All Americans from St. Mary's (Berkeley, Calif.). Gabby Green and Mikayla Cowling are the lone teammates selected to the game and both will be playing for the West squad.
3: Sets of future teammates who will be playing on opposite teams at the McDonald's All American Game: UConn recruits Sadie Edwards (East) and Gabby Williams (West), Tennessee recruits Alexa Middleton (East) and Jaime Nared (West) and Notre Dame recruits Kathryn Westbeld (East) and Brianna Turner (West).
5. Number of McDonald's All Americans from California, the most of any state. Mariya Moore will be playing on the East squad, while Jordin Canada, Lajahna Drummer, Cowling and Green will represent the West.
6: Sets of future teammates who will be joining forces for the McDonald's All American Game. For the East, it's Duke's Lynee' Belton and Sierra Calhoun, South Carolina's Bianca Cuevas and Jatarie White and Louisville's Myisha Hines-Allen and Moore. The West features UCLA's Recee' Caldwell, Canada and Drummer, Texas' Ariel Atkins and Brooke McCarty, and California's Green and Cowling.
7: All Americans who are headed to schools not currently ranked in the Associated Press top 25: Kelsey Mitchell (Ohio State), McCarty (Texas), Atkins (Texas), Chatrice White (Illinois), Caldwell (UCLA), Canada (UCLA) and Drummer (UCLA).
8-4: All-time series record, with eight wins for the West and four for the East.
14: Number of states that are sending a representative to the McDonald's All American Game. California leads the way with five.
64: Height, in inches, of the shortest All American, the West's McCarty.
77: Height, in inches, of the tallest All American, the East's Wilson.
312: Number of girls who have been named McDonald's All Americans in the 13-year history of the game.
2002: Year of first girls' McDonald's All American Game. The West defeated the East in that inaugural game at New York's Madison Square Garden, and Ann Strother and Shanna Zolman were named co-MVPs.
92-64: Score of the West's 2012 victory.


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Forget "Doc Ock": the incident-plagued Spider-Man Broadway musical is getting itself a script doctor.
Playwright and comic book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has been tapped to rework the book of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," Deadline Hollywood reported on Wednesday.
Though only in previews, "Turn Off the Dark" has already been panned by critics. In a New York Times review, theater critic Ben Brantley said of the show, it was "not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway; it may also rank among the worst."
Aguirre-Sacasa has previously written the webslinger's adventures for Marvel Comics and has some success rewriting musicals. Last year, he reworked a production of the 1960s musical "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" in Dallas.
The news of the book rewrite comes just a week after the announcement that the opening of the $65 million musical would be delayed for the fourth time. Director Julie Taymor said that she and co-writer Glen Berger would work on story changes, while composers and U2 members Bono and the Edge would provide additional music for the show.
The musical spectacle has also come under fire over the last few months for a rash of technical difficulties, including an incident last week in which two actors were left suspended above the audience for minutes. After a series of injuries last year, the state Department of Labor last week issued the show a pair of safety violations.
A call to Aguirre-Sacasa's agent was not immediately returned.


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