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LONDON — It was a simple trick — punching in passcodes to listen to messages left on other people's phones.
For years the illegal technique, known as phone hacking, helped Britain's News of the World tabloid get juicy stories about celebrities, politicians and royalty.
But the fallout eventually shut down the country's best-selling newspaper, split Rupert Murdoch's powerful media empire and brought a storm of outrage down on the country's rambunctious press.
On Tuesday, the scandal brought a criminal conviction for former editor Andy Coulson on a charge of conspiring to hack phones — and an apology from Prime Minister David Cameron, who employed Coulson as his spin doctor after others at his paper faced earlier hacking convictions.
Fellow News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks — a Murdoch protege who was the chief executive of his British newspaper operation — was acquitted of all charges, as were her husband and three other defendants.
The nearly eight-month trial — one of the longest and most expensive in British legal history — was triggered by revelations in 2011 about the scale of the News of the World's illegal eavesdropping. That fact is not contested — several desk editors at the newspaper have pleaded guilty to hacking, as has private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was paid almost 100,000 pounds (now about $168,000) a year by the newspaper for his scoop-gathering prowess.
Prosecutors argued that senior editors including Brooks — editor between 2000 and 2003 — Coulson, who succeeded her, must have known about the practice, a claim both denied.
After deliberating for seven days, a jury at London's Old Bailey unanimously found 46-year-old Coulson guilty of conspiring with Mulcaire and others to eavesdrop on mobile-phone voicemails. The charge carries a maximum two-year jail sentence.
The jury of eight women and three men is still considering two further charges of paying police officers for royal phone directories against Coulson and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman.
Brooks was acquitted of that charge and of counts of conspiring to bribe officials and obstruct a police investigation. The jury also found former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner not guilty of phone hacking.
Brooks' husband Charles, her former secretary Cheryl Carter and News International security chief Mark Hanna were all acquitted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by attempting to hide files, computers and other potential evidence from police.
The hacking scandal exposed a complex web of ties binding Britain's political, media and police elite. Add celebrity hacking victims who ranged from Jude Law and Sienna Miller to Prince William and Kate Middleton and it's clear why one lawyer involved called it the "trial of the century" — and why judge John Saunders told the jury that "British justice is on trial."
Coulson's guilty verdict reawakened accusations that British politicians were too close to Murdoch, whose newspapers were long said to hold the power to swing elections. Cameron employed Coulson after two News of the World employees were convicted of phone hacking in 2007.
The prime minister apologized Tuesday for his decision to give Coulson a second chance.
"It was the wrong decision and I am very clear about that," he said.
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said Coulson's appointment tainted Cameron's government.
"He brought a criminal into the heart of Downing Street," Miliband said. "He put his relationship with Rupert Murdoch ahead of doing the right thing."
The trial was a vindication for Brooks, who was been the subject of a level of media fascination and online abuse that her lawyer called a "witch hunt."
From humble origins in northern England, Brooks rose to become chief executive of Murdoch's influential British newspaper division and a friend and neighbor of the prime minister, part of the horse-riding "Chipping Norton set," a reference to the tony town near her rural home. Friends included Cameron and former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who offered advice as the scandal erupted: "It will pass. Tough up."
In sometimes emotional court testimony, Brooks described her "car crash" personal life, including her struggle to have a baby and her long affair with Coulson when both were married to others.
In the end, the jury was not convinced by the prosecution claim that she had known about phone hacking and other illegal behavior.
Standing in the dock at the back of the courtroom, 46-year-old Brooks mouthed "thank you" after she was cleared of all charges. She and her husband left court without speaking to reporters.
Both prosecution and defense accepted that the News of the World hacked phones on a substantial scale. Intercepting voicemails was a specialty of private investigator Mulcaire, who was briefly jailed in 2007, along with Goodman, for hacking the phones of royal aides.
For several years Murdoch's company maintained the wrongdoing had been confined to Goodman and Mulcaire. That "rogue reporter" claim unraveled in 2011, when the Guardian newspaper revealed that the News of the World had intercepted the voicemails of Milly Dowler, a 13-year-old girl kidnapped and murdered in 2002.
In the furor that followed, Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper and police relaunched criminal investigations into tabloid wrongdoing.
Dozens of journalists and officials have been arrested, including some employees of newspapers not owned by Murdoch. Several former News of the World reporters and editors have pleaded guilty to hacking.
The cost to Murdoch's News Corp. has been enormous. In the wake of the scandal the mogul split the company into two businesses, a publishing company and a media and entertainment group. The company has spent more than $500 million in settlements, legal fees and other related costs.
Murdoch's British newspaper division, News U.K., said in a statement that it had already admitted and apologized for wrongdoing and had "made changes in the way we do business to help ensure wrongdoing like this does not occur again."
The cost to Britain's tabloid press is still being measured. In the wake of the hacking scandal, Cameron set up a judge-led inquiry into media ethics. Justice Brian Leveson recommended creating a strong press watchdog backed by government regulation. Tougher regulation is being resisted by large segments of the press.
The tabloids still specialize in celebrity kiss-and-tells, but their revelations have seemed more muted since the scandal.
Hacking victim Miller, who testified during the trial about how her fling with James Bond star Daniel Craig had made News of the World headlines, said she hoped the media had changed.
"I feel like that kind of callous journalism has hopefully died down and I'm really proud I played a part in that," Miller told the television network ITV.
The aftershocks of the phone-hacking saga rumble on, with several more trials over tabloid wrongdoing still to come.
Steven Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster, said the trial had proven the "huge internal scale of phone hacking at the News of the World."
"We have to take stock of what this verdict tells us about the culture of one of the world's major media organizations," he said. "It tells us it was rotten."


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Government proposes first carbon limits on power plants
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I wonder if Southern Company was the company singing the praises of the new EPA regulations. Southern Company through Mississippi Power's new demonstration lignite coal plant in Kemper County, Mississippi will be voluntarily participating in the proposed EPA CO2 regulations and plays an pro-active roll in helping the EPA gain the numbers needed to implement the new regulations.
WASHINGTON | Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:19pm EDT
(Reuters) – The Obama administration proposed on Tuesday the first rules to cut carbon dioxide emissions from new U.S. power plants, a move hotly contested by Republicans and industry in an election year.
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposal would effectively stop the building of most new coal-fired plants in an industry that is moving rapidly to more natural gas. But the rules will not regulate existing power plants, the source of one third of U.S. emissions, and will not apply to any plants that start construction over the next 12 months.
The watering down of the proposal led some ardent environmentalists to criticize its loopholes, but a power company that has taken steps to cut emissions praised the rules.
While the proposal does not dictate which fuels a plant can burn, it requires any new coal plants to use costly technology to capture and store the emissions underground. Any new coal-fired plants would have to halve carbon dioxide emissions to match those of gas plants.
"We're putting in place a standard that relies on the use of clean, American made technology to tackle a challenge that we can't leave to our kids and grandkids," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told reporters in a teleconference.
Jackson could not say whether the standards, which will go through a public comment period, would be finalized before the November 6 election. If they are not, they could be more easily overturned if Obama lost.
Republicans say a slew of EPA clean air measures will drive up power costs but have had little success in trying to stop them in Congress. Industries have turned to the courts to slow down the EPA's program.
Some Democrats from energy-intensive states also complained. "The overreaching that EPA continues to do is going to create a tremendous burden and hardship on the families and people of America," said Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia.
The EPA's overall clean-air efforts have divided the power industry between companies that have moved toward cleaner energy, such as Exelon and NextEra, and those that generate most of their power from coal, such as Southern Co and American Electric Power.
Ralph Izzo, the chairman and CEO of PSEG, a utility that has invested in cleaner burning energy, said the rules provide a logical framework to confront the emissions. The rules provide the industry with "much needed regulatory certainty," that is needed to help guide future multi-billion dollar investments in the U.S. power grid, he added.
Under the new standards, coal plants could add equipment to capture and bury underground for permanent storage their carbon emissions. The rules give utilities time to get those systems running, by requiring they average the emissions cuts over 30 years. Still, the coal-burning industry says that carbon capture and storage, known as CCS, is not yet commercially available.
Jackson said the EPA believes the technology will be ready soon. "Every model that we've seen shows that technology as it develops will become commercially available certainly within the next 10 years".
The National Mining Association said the rules can only hurt industry. "This proposal is the latest convoy in EPA's regulatory train wreck that is rolling across America, crushing jobs and arresting our economic recovery at every stop
The portion of U.S. electricity fired by coal has slipped from about 50 percent to 45 percent in the last few years as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other drilling techniques have allowed access to vast new U.S. natural gas supplies.
The EPA is the main tool President Barack Obama has left to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which he pledged at an international climate meeting to cut by about 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
But the agency's moves are also met by challenges by industry in the courts and have been under withering criticism from Republicans, who have made environmental regulations a big campaign theme ahead of the November 6 elections.
Environmentalists are part of Obama's base and the administration has tried to walk a tightrope with its "all of the above" energy strategy that includes tougher energy regulations and support for renewable energy, while also supporting drilling for oil and gas.
Greens who were stung by Obama's decision last September to delay a major smog rule, mostly cheered the EPA on Tuesday.
"The bottom line for our country is that cleaner power will cut harmful carbon dioxide pollution, protect our children and help secure a safe prosperous future," said Vickie Patton, the general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund.
But others bemoaned a concession to industry that left existing plants without limits. The EPA's Jackson said the agency has no current plans to issue rules on those plants, which backers of climate action say are essential to tackle climate change.
Obama "should stand by EPA Administrator Jackson and her team as they push corporate polluters to reduce the CO2 spewing from smokestacks today," said Kyle Ash of Greenpeace.
An industry analyst said the proposal gives power companies a break as the rules would not regulate the existing plants subject to other EPA rules on mercury and other emissions. "We think this is very reassuring news to an industry on the cusp of investing billions to meet," those other limits, said Christine Tezak, an energy policy analyst at R.W. Baird & Co.
"Moving forward, it will be important for EPA to address carbon emissions for existing power plants as well," said Kevin Kennedy, the U.S. climate director at the research group World Resources Institute. "Existing plants represent a significant opportunity to improve efficiency and reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions."
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Today I show how to remove and replace the keyboard in a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.
In my case I had some water spilled and some keys stopped working.
Probably you can use this guide some other Dell models.
Turn it off, unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery.
In the battery compartment you'll find two screws securing the center control cover. Remove both screws.
Insert a flat head screwdriver between the control cover and top cover assembly and carefully lift up the cover.
Continue removing the center control cover with your fingers.
Remove the control cover.
Remove two screws securing the keyboard.
Lift up the top side of the keyboard as it shown on the picture below.
Be careful, it is attached to the motherboard with a flat ribbo cable.
Remove the keyboard so you can access the ribbon cable.
Before you remove the keyboard, it's necessary to unlock the connector and release the cable.
WARNING! If you damage the connector, you'll have to replace the whole motherboard. Be careful.
On the picture below the connector is shown in the locked position.
Carefully flip the brown part of the connector up, so it opens up at a 90 degree angle.
On the picture below the connector is shown in the unlocked position.
Now you can pull the cable from the connector and remove the keyboard from the laptop.
Replace the failed/damaged keyboard with a new one.
You can search for a new keyboard by the Dell part number printed on the sticker. In my case the part number is 0P446J.
On the following picture you can see how to access other main components of this Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop.
1. In order to remove the CD/DVD drive, you'll have to remove one screw securing the drive (yellow circle) and pull the drive out.
2. In order to remove the hard drive, you'll have to remove two screws securing the hard drive caddy (green screws) and pull the hard drive assembly out.
3. Both memory modules (RAM modules) and wireless card can be accessed and removed after you remove the base cover.
4. The CPU (processor) is mounted under the heatsink.
In one of the next guides I explain how to replace LCD screen
Also, here's a complete disassembly guide for Dell Inspiron 1545.


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Alec Baldwin -- 'We Love Him Even More' ...Says Gay Hairstylist
Alec Baldwin 'We Love Him Even More' ...Says Gay Hairstylist
Hard to believe ... but some of Alec Baldwin's gay friends in NYC love him even MORE -- not less -- after hurling his anti-gay slur at a paparazzo yesterday.
Nick Berrios, Baldwin's openly gay hairdresser was on "TMZ Live" and told us he and his friends just love all of Alec's drama ... which sounds just a tad bit cliche.
But you gotta see Nick's response ... when we ask if it's ever OK for anyone to use the f-word.
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My personal work includes a lot of landscape shooting, and I usually try to take in a large swath of territory. I often like the grand vistas, the sweeping plains and looming mountains. In urban landscapes I might include wide-angle shots of buildings crowded together, along with bustling streets and milling people. But sometimes it's the things at my feet that intrigue me too. Here's a few images from a trip to Bodie, California, a 100+ year-old ghost town built around a gold and silver mine.
These were originally shot in digital color and converted to black and white.
These images are all from the machinery used to extract the gold and silver from the rock ore.


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text: To offer a venue for the development of community networks and social support in Hershey, the various Hershey entities under the Hershey Impact group came together to sponsor the Hershey Community Garden (HCG), a project supported by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. This garden serves multiple purposes, including offering the opportunity for community residents to garden - whether they simply don't have the space, or are new to gardening and don't know where to start. Construction of the garden was complete in fall 2013, and the garden first opened for the spring 2014 season. See what's been growing this year.


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Available exclusively at Nordstrom, The Rail offers laid-back menswear with a focus on modern fits and on-trend details. Casual clothing ranges from updated basics to street-ready loungewear, while everyday shoes round out the collection. Designed with affordability and versatility in mind, the collections allow the wearer to own the latest trends in a way that fits his style.


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NORWICH, England, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Certain foods such as blueberries, celery and grapes may reduce the risk of diabetes, researchers in Britain say.
Eating high levels of flavonoids -- including anthocyanins and other compounds -- found in berries, tea and chocolate could offer protection from type 2 diabetes.
Study leader Aedin Cassidy of University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School and Tim Spector, director of the Twins UK study from King's College London, said eating certain sub-groups of flavanoids are associated with lower insulin resistance and better blood glucose regulation.
"Our research looked at the benefits of eating certain sub-groups of flavanoids. We focused on flavones, which are found in herbs and vegetables such as parsley, thyme and celery, and anthocyanins, found in berries, red grapes, wine and other red or blue-colored fruits and vegetables," Cassidy said in a statement.
"This is one of the first large-scale human studies to look at how these powerful bioactive compounds might reduce the risk of diabetes. Laboratory studies have shown these types of foods might modulate blood glucose regulation -- affecting the risk of type 2 diabetes."
Researchers studied almost 2,000 healthy women from TwinsUK, who had completed a food questionnaire designed to estimate total dietary flavonoid intake as well as intakes from six flavonoid sub-classes.
Blood samples were analyzed for evidence of both glucose regulation and inflammation. Insulin resistance, a hallmark of type 2 diabetes, was assessed using an equation that considered both fasting insulin and glucose levels.
"We found that those who consumed plenty of anthocyanins and flavones had lower insulin resistance. High insulin resistance is associated with type 2 diabetes, so what we are seeing is that people who eat foods rich in these two compounds -- such as berries, herbs, red grapes, wine -- are less likely to develop the disease.
"We also found that those who ate the most anthocyanins were least likely to suffer chronic inflammation -- which is associated with many of today's most pressing health concerns including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer."
Those who consumed the most flavone compounds had improved levels of a protein -- adiponectin -- which helps regulate a number of metabolic processes including glucose levels, the study found.
"What we don't yet know is exactly how much of these compounds are necessary to potentially reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes," Cassidy added.
The study was published in the Journal of Nutrition.


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ok i really like the song "Wake me up Inside" by Evanessance (sp?) and i wanted to use the beginning part as whats played before you fight a big boss, maybe the final one or something. i know in console apps ur not supposed to use sounds because of high overhead or something, but to be honest im the only person who will probably play the game (maybe a few friends) and i dont do much on my comp where i need a lot of resources.
so anyway, would it be some sort of copyright infridgment (sp for sure) if i used the sound? im not going to be selling the game or anything. also, if someone could tell me a sight to get good game music, i would really appreciate it. and do sounds have to be .wav, or will .mp3 work too? finally, are there other ways to control sound besides just play? (ie stop, pause, fast forward, etc)
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The New York Post reports that law enforcement is going to "find the source" of the heroin that allegedly killed Philip Seymour Hoffman. Let's ignore the fact "celebrity overdoses" appear to motivate NYPD, and instead look at how NYPD will try to avenge Hoffman's death...
Heroin use and deaths related to heroin have been on the rise in the greater-New York area over the past few years. The Daily Beast reports that local prosecutors have dubbed the Long Island Expressway the "heroin highway." Heroin is cheap, but "bad" batches of street heroin mixed with fentanyl have been popping up and leading to deaths. Hoffman was allegedly found with packets branded "Ace of Spades."
It's not exactly easy for law enforcement to stop the problem. Just last week, the Drug Enforcement Administration made a major bust in the Bronx. The DEA said the bust netted $8 million dollars worth of product.
But how does that really help? In the Bronx case, police seized 33 pounds of heroin and arrested two people — likely low-level drug runners. They caught one of the guys climbing out of a window... which doesn't suggest that they put their hands on Nino Brown.
In the Hoffman case, police will start with a "nitro dump." When police make an arrest, they log the "brand name" of the drug in their system; the nitro dump involves doing a search of those records in an attempt to find the most likely places that particular brand is sold.
Maybe these tactics will lead NYPD to a source they can claim supplied Hoffman with drugs, but they're unlikely to get at anybody who is a "source" of any consequence. We're talking about multimillion dollar operations whose true bosses never put their hands on any product. Check out how much FBI work it took to get "Dread Pirate Roberts," Ross William Ulbricht, who was allegedly part of Silk Road's internet-based drug ring. You don't catch these guys by staking out their apartment buildings.
That's all a nitro dump is likely to lead to: an apartment police can watch until somebody slips up. Maybe the apartment is a stash house that will reveal many pounds of heroin. But stopping heroin trafficking in New York is not something that NYPD can do, even with a new celebrity victim as a rally point.


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Well, Williams traded for Lillibridge just a few years ago, too. But do the White Sox see greater upside from Milledge—perhaps even to the extent where he could be a long-term possibility on the team if/when Juan Pierre or Carlos Quentin leave? Absolutely. Milledge has flashed five tools in the desert this spring.


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Hmmm a traditional Thai soup recipe? Hell to the no! This is anything but. I came up with the idea for this recipe after an experiment in making Thai chicken curry. The chilli I used for the curry was a little lacking in the heat department and as a result I ended up with a curry that had almost no heat.
It still made for a fantastic tasting dish, just not what was originally intended. The lack of heat meant that all the other herbs and spices were able to come through in full force. Which led me to thinking about what else I could use similar flavours in because they are so great together.
This is the first of those ideas to make it to the "perfected recipe" stage and it's a butternut squash and sweet potato soup of sorts but that doesn't really make for a snappy title so given the inspiration and appearance I'm calling it Thai Yellow Soup.
1 x onion, diced
1 x carrot, diced
2 x sticks of celery, diced
2 x cloves of garlic, finely diced
quarter of a chilli, diced
Thumb sized piece of ginger, finely diced or grated
Pinch of ground coriander
Pinch of ground cumin
1 x butternut squash, diced
2 x sweet potatoes, diced
Veg or chicken stock
1 x star anise
1 x handful of fresh coriander
1 x handful of fresh basil
1 x handful of fresh mint
Place a large saucepan over a medium high heat, once it has warmed add a little oil, just enough so that you can slow fry the onion until it is soft, then add the carrot and continue to gently fry until they start to soften.
Next you want to add the celery, garlic, chilli, ginger, ground coriander and ground cumin. stir it all together and continue to fry for about a minute this should be long enough to warm and release the fragrance of the garlic, ginger, coriander and cumin.
Add the butternut squash and the sweet potato to the pot and stir together. Add enough stock to cover all the contents. Drop in the star anise, fresh basil, coriander and mint, then stir and bring it to the boil. Simmer gently for 30 – 40 minutes, stirring occasionally. When the sweet potato and butternut squash start to break up as you stir remove the soup from the heat and blend until you have a smooth purée.
Return this to a low heat. Then taste and season. If you are happy with the consistency of the soup you can proceed to the eating phase, if not, you could thin it by stirring in boiling water or by adding milk or cream.
I like to serve this soup drizzled with a little truffle oil for added decadence and a crusty bread roll is a great accompaniment to any soup.


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PCBs in Farmed Salmon
Test results show high levels of contamination
Summary — PCBs in farmed salmon
Seven of ten farmed salmon purchased at grocery stores in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon were contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at levels that raise health concerns, according to independent laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group.
These first-ever tests of farmed salmon from U.S. grocery stores show that farmed salmon are likely the most PCB-contaminated protein source in the U.S. food supply. On average farmed salmon have 16 times the dioxin-like PCBs found in wild salmon, 4 times the levels in beef, and 3.4 times the dioxin-like PCBs found in other seafood. The levels found in these tests track previous studies of farmed salmon contamination by scientists from Canada, Ireland, and the U.K. In total, these studies support the conclusion that American consumers nationwide are exposed to elevated PCB levels by eating farmed salmon.
PCBs are persistent, cancer-causing chemicals that were banned in the United States in 1976 and are among the "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals slated for global phase-out under the United Nations Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, signed by President Bush on May 23, 2001. Because of their persistence, PCBs continue to contaminate the environment and the food supply.
A number of studies show that farmed salmon accumulate PCBs from the fishmeal they are fed. The feed is often designed to have high amounts of fish oil and is made largely from ground-up small fish. PCBs concentrate in oils and fat, and previous tests of salmon feed have consistently found PCB contamination.
If farmed salmon with the average PCB level found in this study were caught in the wild, EPA advice would restrict consumption to no more than one meal a month. But because farmed salmon are bought, not caught, their consumption is not restricted in any way.
This is because the EPA sets health guidance levels for PCBs in wild-caught salmon, and its standards, which were updated in 1999 to reflect the most recent peer-reviewed science, are 500 times more protective than the PCB limits applied by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commercially-sold fish. The FDA has not updated its PCB health limit for commercial seafood since it was originally issued in 1984. In the intervening two decades new scientific research has shown that the PCBs that build up in fish and people are more potent cancer-causing agents than originally believed, and that they present other health risks as well, in particular neurodevelopmental risks to unborn children from maternal consumption of PCB-contaminated fish.
When the FDA's standard was developed, salmon was something of a rarity in the U.S. diet. Today it is standard fare at home and in restaurants, particularly among consumers who are health-conscious, well educated, and relatively affluent. Last year salmon overtook "fish sticks" as the third most popular seafood in the American diet (trailing only tuna and shrimp). The increased consumption was made possible by the explosive growth in salmon farming, an industrial system that produces the fish in vast quantities at a price far lower than wild salmon.
Seven of the farmed salmon we tested came from factory-scale farms in Canada, the U.S., and Iceland. Six of these seven were polluted with PCBs at levels that would be safe to eat no more than once a month, according to EPA health standards. About 23 million Americans eat salmon more than once a month, the majority of it farmed salmon. One salmon imported from Scotland contained PCBs at levels so high that EPA would restrict consumption to no more than six meals a year, if the salmon were caught, not bought.
The farmed salmon industry claims that both farmed and wild salmon can be eaten safely more than once a week. This claim relies on FDA's outdated contamination limit. In EWG's testing program, nine of 10 farmed salmon tested from five countries of origin failed EPA's health-based limits for weekly consumption (6000 parts per trillion), exceeding the standard by an average of 4.5 times. A pilot study published by Canadian scientists last year showed that farmed Canadian salmon contain ten times the PCBs of wild Alaskan and Canadian salmon.
EWG's analysis of seafood industry fish consumption data shows that one quarter of all adult Americans (52 million people) eat salmon, and about 23 million of them eat salmon more often than once a month. Based on these data we estimate that 800,000 people face an excess lifetime cancer risk of more than one in 10,000 from eating farmed salmon, and 10.4 million people face a cancer risk exceeding one in 100,000. The government's preferred level of increased risk from contaminants like PCBs is no more than one in one million, a threshold set to account for a regulatory system that addresses chemicals or chemical classes individually and is unable to set safe levels for the complex mixtures of hundreds of industrial chemicals to which people are exposed.
Six of every ten salmon sold in stores and restaurants are raised in high-density fish pens in the ocean, managed and marketed by the salmon farming industry. These fish are eaten by a quarter of all adults in the U.S. and experts predict that the exponential growth of the farmed salmon industry will continue.
Farm-raised fish are here to stay. If raised correctly, these fish can help meet global demand for high-quality protein and take some of the pressure off of highly depleted populations of wild fish. But major reforms to the industry are needed.
In addition to the well documented ecological problems with salmon farming, there is now compelling evidence of near industry-wide contamination with unacceptably high levels of PCBs.
To remedy this problem, we recommend that:
- Congress pass a funding increase for FDA to support testing of farmed salmon and other protein sources for PCBs.
- The Food and Drug Administration move quickly to conduct a definitive study of PCB contamination in farmed salmon, and make all results public. This testing is critical, because FDA will be unable to update its regulation on PCBs in farmed salmon until the agency conducts its own laboratory studies.
- The FDA issue a PCB health advisory for seafood consumption in line with current PCB health guidance issued by the EPA.
- Policy-makers do more to preserve salmon habitat in Alaska, where, preliminary indications are, fish are naturally low in PCB contamination.
- The salmon farming industry monitor salmon feed for PCB contamination and shift or refine feed sources to produce fish lower in PCBs and other pollutants.
What you can do
To reduce your exposure to PCBs, trim fat from fish before cooking. Also, choose broiling, baking, or grilling over frying, as these cooking methods allow the PCB-laden fat to cook off the fish. When possible, choose wild and canned Alaskan salmon instead of farmed, and eat farmed salmon no more than once a month.


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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg names replacement for the retiring Paul Cosgrave.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, and CIO Carole Wallace Post, right / New York City Mayor's Office
The search committee in charge of finding a replacement for retiring New York City IT Commissioner Paul Cosgrave didn't have to look far.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Carole Wallace Post, who had served as director of agency services in the Mayor's Office of Operations, as the new commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT). She is the agency's first female commissioner.
Post said at a press conference Wednesday, Dec. 30, that under her leadership DoITT would continue working to consolidate IT infrastructure, put city services online, establish enterprise solutions for common citywide functions, and make citizen-to-government interactions easier and more efficient.
"I worked closely with DoITT over the past several years on a wide variety of programs and initiatives," Post said. "My experiences with DoITT have revealed the complexities that the agency deals with -- that they tackle every day -- and the skills that the agency staff have to rise to the challenges."
Bloomberg credited Post for leading the design and implementation of several highly visible public-facing applications and efforts, including the city's Stimulus Tracker, an online database that allows citizens to track the city's expenditure of funds obtained from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; the Citywide Performance Reporting system; the Street Conditions Observation Unit (SCOUT), a team of inspectors who travel every city street once per month and report conditions that need attention to 311; and NYCStat, a Web site that contain the city's essential data, reports and statistics.
Bloomberg said he has told her to conduct a top-to-bottom review of DoITT and report back within 30 days. Post said Wednesday that the DoITT would demand greater accountability and transparency from its vendors and strategic partners.
"She is someone I've gotten to know very well over the past several years and someone whose experience and skills ensure that she will hit the ground running," Bloomberg said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
The DoITT has more than 1,200 employees and a $375 million budget. Bloomberg said the tough budgetary times ahead will only further the agency's importance to the city. "I think this agency is going to have a greater impact, not just in the next four years, but for a few decades at least going forward, than maybe any other agency," he said. "The potential that can come out of this agency really is mind-boggling, if you think about it."
Post began her career in the New York City government in 2001, serving in the Department of Buildings. She moved to the Mayor's Office in 2006. Prior to joining the public sector, Post worked as a city attorney for Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and as special counsel in a private law firm.
She will begin work at the DoITT on Jan. 19. She replaces Paul Cosgrave, who served as commissioner since 2006 and announced his retirement in December.
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To view the U.S. Men's 2011 FIVB World League Media Guide, click here.
To view the World League television schedule on Versus, click here.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (July 4, 2011) – It is not exaggerating to say that the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team finds itself in the more difficult of the two pools of the 2011 FIVB World League Final Round, which will be played July 6-10 in Gdansk and Sopot, Poland.
The United States' Pool F competitors, Brazil, Russia and Cuba, are ranked first, second and fourth in the world, respectively. The United States is ranked fifth. On the other side in Pool E, Italy is ranked sixth in the world, Bulgaria is seventh, Argentina is eighth and host Poland is 10th.
"With the teams that are there, they are all going to be tough matches," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "We're moving on to the second stage, so we're excited. We're looking forward to it."
The U.S. was the last team to arrive in Poland after playing its final two matches against Puerto Rico on July 1-2 in Long Beach. All the other World League pools were finished on July 1.
The United States will play the first match of the Final Round on Wednesday (July 6) at 11 a.m. local time (2 a.m. PT) against Russia at Ergo Arena in Gdansk. On Thursday (July 7), it will face Brazil at 1:30 p.m. local time (4:30 a.m. PT) and on Friday (July 8), it will play Cuba at 11 a.m. (2 a.m. PT).
The top two teams from each pool will advance to the semifinals on Saturday (July 9) in Sopot. The medal matches will be played Sunday (July 10). The World League champion wins $1 million.
Despite the difficult pool and schedule, U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) knows his team can do what it takes to succeed in the Final Round.
"I'm really satisfied with where we stand right now," he said. "To take down Brazil twice (in pool play), we are moving in the right direction."
The U.S. Men finished the Intercontinental Round at 8-4, winning second-night matches against Poland (both in Poland and in the United States) and against Brazil (both in Brazil and the United States). The United States defeated Puerto Rico all four times the teams played. The last time the U.S. Men advanced to the World League Final Round was in 2009, where they finished sixth. They won the Final Round in 2008 and finished third in 1992 and 2007.
Brazil (10-2 in the Intercontinental Round) has won the World League final round the last two years and nine times in the last 11 years. It also won the 2010 World Championship and the 2009 Grand Champions Cup. The United States defeated the South American side twice in pool play, including a 25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 26-24 victory in front of 17,800 fans in Brazil.
Russia (11-1), the Pool B winner, was the 2010 World League runner-up. It almost went undefeated during the 2011 World League Intercontinental Round, but lost its penultimate pool play match to Bulgaria. The last time the U.S. Men went 3-1 against Russia when they were in the same pool during the 2010 World League. The last time the United States faced Russia was in the fifth-place match at the 2010 World Championships, where Russia won, 25-19, 25-21, 25-19.
Cuba (8-4), which finished second in Pool D, was the runner-up at the 2009 Grand Champions Cup and the 2010 World Championship. During the 2011 World League Intercontinental Round, it lost once to Korea and three times to Italy. The last time the U.S. played Cuba was in the final of the 2009 NORCECA Men's Continental Championship, where Cuba won, 25-21, 22-25, 25-21, 25-22.
There are challenges to playing in the most difficult pool of the Final Round, but there are also positives. Perhaps the greatest one for the United States is that it has the chance to play the world's best teams in a tournament for money shortly before it has to play them in a tournament for Olympic qualification.
The winner of the World League Final Round wins $1 million.
The top three finishers at the 2011 FIVB World Cup, which is Nov. 20-Dec. 4 in Japan, qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The United States' Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) finished as the best server of the Intercontinental Round with 25 aces on 193 attempts and an average of 0.56 aces per set.
Lee placed second among all blockers with 43 blocks on 160 attempts and an average of 0.96 blocks per set. Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) finished eighth among all blockers with 33 blocks on 147 attempts and an average of 0.73 blocks per set.
Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) placed third among all diggers with 132 digs on 214 attempts and an average of 2.93 digs per set. He was also third among all liberos with 278 "excellent" passes for an average of 6.18 per set. Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) placed 10th among all diggers with an average of 1.93 digs per set. Stanley was 11th at 1.83 digs per set.
Priddy was third among all receivers with a 66.82 efficiency percent. Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) was sixth with an efficiency percent of 61.81.
Priddy was the United States' leading scorer and seventh overall with 188 points on 158 kills, 19 blocks and 11 aces. Stanley was the team's second-leading scorer and tied for 20th overall with 156 points on 112 kills, 19 blocks and 25 aces.
To visit the FIVB World League web site, click here.
2011 FIVB World League
14-Player Roster for the Final Round in Gdansk, Poland
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
2 Sean Rooney (OH, 6-9, Wheaton, Ill., Pepperdine)
3 Evan Patak (Opp, 6-8, Pleasanton, Calif., UC Santa Barbara)
4 David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
8 Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9 Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-7, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13 Clay Stanley (Opp, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
14 Kevin Hansen (S, 6-5, Newport Beach, Calif., Stanford)
17 Max Holt (MB, 6-9, Cincinnati, Ohio, Penn State)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Assistant Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Therapist/Trainer: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
World League Final Round Schedule (All times PT)
Pool F
July 6 at 2 a.m.: Russia vs. USA
July 6 at 4:30 a.m.: Brazil vs. Cuba
July 7 at 2 a.m.: Cuba vs. Russia
July 7 at 4:30 a.m.: USA vs. Brazil
July 8 at 2 a.m.: USA vs. Cuba
July 8 at 4:30 a.m.: Brazil vs. Russia
Pool E
July 6 at 8:15 a.m.: Argentina vs. Italy
July 6 at 11 a.m.: Poland vs. Bulgaria
July 7 at 8:15 a.m.: Bulgaria vs. Argentina
July 7 at 11 a.m.: Italy vs. Poland
July 8 at 8:15 a.m.: Italy vs. Bulgaria
July 8 at 11 a.m.: Poland vs. Argentina
Pool A Standings
Team record (points)
1. Brazil 10-2 (30)
3. Poland 6-6 (18)
4. Puerto Rico 0-12 (1)
U.S. Schedule and Results
Date: May 27-28
Opponent: Poland
Location: Atlas Arena in Lodz, Poland
May 27: Poland def. USA, 25-20, 25-22, 25-19
May 28: USA def. Poland, 25-22, 25-19, 37-35
Date: June 3-4
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico
June 3: USA def. Puerto Rico, 24-26, 29-27, 25-17, 25-17
June 4: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-23, 26-24, 22-25, 25-12
Date: June 11-12
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Mineirinho in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
June 11: Brazil def. USA, 19-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-21
June 12: USA def. Brazil, 25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 26-24
Date: June 17-18
Opponent: Poland
Location: Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill.
June 17: Poland def. USA, 25-22, 25-19, 25-20
June 18: USA def. Poland, 25-21, 15-25, 25-18, 25-22
Date: June 24-25 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Brazil
Location: Reynolds Center at the University of Tulsa (Okla.)
June 24: Brazil def. USA, 25-21, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19
June 25: USA def. Brazil, 25-20, 25-23, 22-25, 25-23
Date: July 1-2 (7 p.m. both nights)
Opponent: Puerto Rico
Location: Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.
July 1: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-27, 25-22, 25-12, 25-27, 15-8
July 2: USA def. Puerto Rico, 25-13, 25-22, 25-19


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Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are complex objects, containing hundreds of billions of stars, along with lots of gas, dust, and dark matter. Though spiral galaxies are best known for their spiral arms, their basic structure is divided among the disk (which contains the arms), the bulge at the galaxy's center, and a more diffuse halo surrounding everything else. Determining the age of each portion can be challenging, even though it's an essential part of understanding a galaxy's history.
As described in a new Nature study, Jason Kalirai measured the ages of young white dwarfs—the remains of low-mass stars like our Sun—in the Milky Way's halo. His method used the mass of the remnants to reveal the age of the stars that formed them. In this way, he determined the age of the Milky Way's inner halo to be between 10.7 and 12.1 billion years old. By comparison, the Universe itself is about 13.7 billion years old.
The lifetime of a star is determined by its mass: high-mass stars burn through their nuclear fuel relatively quickly and explode in supernovas, but low-mass stars can linger for a very long time. While the Sun is about halfway through its 10-billion-year life span, stars with lower masses can endure for hundreds of billions of years—far longer than the current age of the Universe. As a result, it's harder to measure where a low-mass star is in its life cycle: they have changed very little since their formation in the distant past. That makes it difficult to figure out how old various galactic structures are.
According to our best models, galaxies form hierarchically: smaller collections (like globular clusters and dwarf galaxies) merge together to create larger galaxies, which themselves can collide to create even bigger structures. The oldest stars in the Milky Way formed about 13.5 billion years ago, but those lie in globular clusters—structures that formed before the galaxy as a whole came together. The inner part of the halo of spiral galaxies likely formed before the outer halo, while the disk—containing the most gas and the youngest stars—formed most recently.
While the halo is comprised of old, lower-mass stars, not all the stars in the halo formed at the same time—they belong to distinct populations defined by their time of origin, chemical composition, and location within the galaxy. Reconstructing its age is challenging, but white dwarfs may make it somewhat easier.
In many ways, white dwarfs are simpler than their progenitor stars: they are the carbon and oxygen cores of stars that have shed their outer layers, leaving just a wisp of helium and hydrogen remaining. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, Kalirai identified bright white dwarfs within the globular cluster M4; the high temperature of these remnants indicate they formed from stars that died less than 100 million years ago. Based on the study of all its stars, M4 formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, which also helped constrain the properties of the white dwarfs.
Their progenitor stars weighed in at about 80 percent of the Sun's mass, yielding white dwarfs around 53 percent of the Sun's mass. This portion of the study established a clear relationship between the age of a star and the mass of the white dwarf it leaves once it dies. For the next step, Kalirai identified four white dwarfs of similar age in the inner region of the Milky Way halo, which were slightly less massive. Kalirai determined that the halo stars formed between 10.7 and 12.1 billion years ago.
By focusing on relatively new white dwarfs both in the halo and in M4, Kalirai was able to avoid the complications that occur as white dwarfs cool. The drawback to this method is that only a few white dwarfs in his sample were young enough to be included: only six in M4 and four in the halo. (Also, while it's easy to show a white dwarf belongs to a globular cluster, picking one that definitively belongs to the halo is challenging.)
Further observations should provide sufficient data to see if this simple model relating white dwarf mass to progenitor star age will hold up. Such observations will be a true test of the hierarchical model of galaxy formation, and show exactly how our home galaxy came together over 10 billion years ago.
Nature, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nature11062 (About DOIs).


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The following is a list of volunteer opportunities available in the community:
ACCESS Inc., a teen pregnancy prevention agency, located at 200 W. 13th Ave., is in need of formula (Enfamil with iron), children's clothing from size 0 to 4 and baby furniture, especially baby beds and car seats. For more information or someone to pick up your items, call 870-535-1302 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The American Red Cross needs disaster workers to be on call for the relief of fire victims. All training will be provided, and Red Cross trucks and radios will be provided. Call Donna Booth Johnson at the Southeast Arkansas Chapter of the American Red Cross office at 870-534-7312 between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Arkansas Convalescent Center is asking for volunteers to assist in activities with the residents such as Bingo, crafts, reading stories, playing chess, dominoes, and others. Anyone interested may call Demetrius Thomas at 870-534-8153 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Arkansas Hospice volunteer opportunities are available in direct patient care, office assistance, speaker's bureau, bereavement team and pet therapy. Training is provided. Information is available by calling Pam Warren at 870-850-6195 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Boys and Girls Club of Jefferson County is seeking volunteers for its tutorial program, which extends through the summer. Volunteers are needed to tutor in all subjects for children ages 6 to 13 in grades one through six. Details: Contact James Britt at 870-534-2188, Monday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m.
Heavenly Quarters Outreach Inc. is seeking a volunteer artist who wants to dedicate their time to community service. For more information, contact W. Michelle Lee at 870-489-2071 or 870-267-2369.
To list volunteer opportunities in this column, call Patricia Johnson at 870-543-4227 between 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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Konerko advising Beckham on business side
Veteran first baseman knows that trade rumors can come with territory
CHICAGO -- Before Paul Konerko had reached 500 plate appearances in his illustrious career that, entering Monday, spans 9,421 trips to the plate, he had been traded twice. The first baseman went from the Dodgers to the Reds on July 4, 1998, and then from the Reds to his home with the White Sox on Nov. 11, 1998.
Konerko learned at any early age that baseball is a tough game, a tough business, and "all you can kind of do is be tough back" as he stated pregame on Monday. It's the sort of wisdom Konerko can impart upon Gordon Beckham, his friend and teammate, who is dealing with perpetual trade rumblings for yet another year.
"It's part of the gig. You have to block out a lot of things, and take the field and do your job," Konerko said. "The team you get drafted by, when you get traded from that team, I think there's always a soft spot in your heart for the team you got drafted by because you envision yourself doing all the things you want to do in your career with that team."
Beckham became the White Sox's top pick and the eighth selection overall in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, bursting on to the scene as an American League Rookie of the Year in '09 as voted on by his peers. His numbers since have not reached that lofty status, and with infielders Micah Johnson, Carlos Sanchez and Marcus Semien coming fast behind him in the White Sox system, and Beckham earning $4,175,000 with one year of arbitration remaining, he could be deemed expandable.
A move by the White Sox, though, would indicate other teams seeing value in Beckham as Konerko explained.
"For Gordon, it's a different situation here as far as he came up and did everything right off the bat, and that set the tone of what it should look like here," Konerko said. "But a lot of teams look at him and see he's a winning player, what he does defensively, all these things that aren't the glamorous stats that he put up right away, and people figured that will happen without question.
"Even though that hasn't happened as much as he wanted, that doesn't mean he couldn't be on a playoff team or World Series team doing what he's doing. That's why you see those rumors because there are a lot of teams that look at him and say, 'We don't care what White Sox fans or the White Sox thought he could be. This guy can help us win games.' He has to deal with that. He's a big boy. He'll be all right."


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"One of the best – if not the best – electronically accessible sites in the humanities" -Institute of Historical Research.
HEB has just received a rave review from the prestigious Reviews in History of the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mark Herring of Winthrop University traces the history of Humanities E-Book, its place within the scholarly mission of ACLS, its broad-base coalition of university presses and learned societies, its emphasis on the quality of the collection, its user-friendly interface and search engine, innovative XML titles, very reasonable pricing and its close attention to details such as free MARC records, citation methods and other metadata. The review gives ACLS and HEB the highest praise for their work within the digital humanities:
"…ACLS has gone about its work to put together people and books to create the best possible site. Suffice it to say that numerous other groups and organizations work together to make HEB one of the best – if not the best – electronically accessible sites in the humanities. It surely stands as an equal to JSTOR, MUSE and other contenders to this throne."


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Surveying drought damage throughout Alabama and particularly in the sun-parched Tennessee Valley, disaster is about the only word farmers can apply to the situation.
Yet, if history provides any consolation, it's that farmers have looked disaster squarely in the eye before and prevailed by thinking on their feet and working together for a common solution, says one expert.
At Auburn University, Ron Smith, Extension entomologist and emeritus professor of entomology, has just completed a history of the boll weevil in Alabama. Much like today's prolonged drought, the pest presented farmers with a set of circumstances that appeared exceedingly grim, if not insurmountable.
"Some historians have stated that cotton played a major role in religion, politics, laws, economics and art of the South," Smith writes. "If this is true, then the boll weevil could safely be referred to as second only to the Civil War as the most important influence on Southern society, history and culture."
In fact, there was no rival to the boll weevil in terms of the damage it wrought to the Southern economy, which already was reeling from the effects of four years of civil war.
The first reaction among farmers following the pest's onslaught was disbelief and despair, Smith says.
"In 1917, the first year the weevil was found statewide in Alabama, cotton planting declined by more than a million acres from previous years," he says.
Farmers resorted to all kinds of practices to combat the weevils — everything from pinching off adult weevils from infected squares and drowning them in kerosene to spraying them with carbolic acid and even burning off the cotton fields at the end of the season to reduce their populations by the next growing season.
Burning woodlands adjacent to cotton fields helped some. On the other hand, government-sponsored quarantines proved ineffective.
Farming was far too central to the Southern economy for farmers simply to walk away and find work in towns and cities. Something had to be done.
It's often said that necessity is the mother of invention. That was certainly the case with the boll weevil. Indeed, the presence of the boll weevil played a critical role in the formation of both the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.
The intense desperation among farmers in the wake of the boll weevil's destructive path prompted the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) to hire its first entomologist, Warren E. Hines, in 1910. Hines eventually turned to the growing network of farm demonstration agents for help with efforts to control the pest — a concept that already had proven successful in weevil-infested Texas.
In addition to teaching farmers advanced farming techniques, these demonstration agents also encouraged them to diversify their operations and to adopt scientifically proven methods for controlling boll weevils based on proven scientific methods. Meanwhile, the Alabama Legislature assisted these efforts with legislation supporting an Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and additional legislation providing funding to support the demonstration agents' travels throughout the state.
"Even before the passage of the Smith-Lever Act of 1914, which formally established Cooperative Extension work, Alabama farmers had the support and interaction of trained agriculturists, thanks to the boll weevil," Smith says.
The recommendations associated with boll weevil control led to a variety of new farming methods, many of which are used today, Smith says, including cotton scouting, crop diversification — perhaps most notably the introduction of peanuts in southeast Alabama — aerial spraying and an arsenal of new insecticides.
It took almost three-quarters of a century before farmers, working closely with land-grant university researchers and Extension educators, banished the boll weevil as a serious cotton pest.
While no one can predict what will follow in the aftermath of prolonged drought, Smith says farmers at least should derive some inspiration from their fathers' and grandfathers' success battling the boll weevil.
"Sometimes, good follows disaster — a lesson learned from the success farmers finally had in eradicating the boll weevil," Smith says.
Just as some good eventually followed the boll weevil's onslaught, Smith hopes that good things ultimately will follow this year's prolonged drought.
"Hopefully some good will come out of this," he says. "We may end up with a better crop insurance system and with federally sponsored programs to assist with irrigation."
Smith says another hopeful development is the advent of a new line of transgenic cotton engineered to withstand the effects of drought, which already is under study on test plots in Mississippi.
"We're in the tunnel now, and we can't see the light at the end of it, but farmers felt very much the same way a century ago in the wake of the boll weevil," he says.


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The student chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (SCAAEP) is active at Purdue Veterinary Medicine. In addition to holding monthly meetings on various topics, there also are several wet labs during the year.
The fall wet lab at the Purdue horse farm allows first years to practice venipuncture, second years passing a nasogastric tube, and third years abdominocentisis. Also, Texas A&M hosts a wet lab every January that chapter members attend.
Purdue also will host an AAEP sponsored wet lab. The topic is yet to be determined, but previous topics have been dentistry and farriery. Equine club grooms, vaccinates, and de-worms the horses at the Purdue farm.
Every other week the club holds equine rounds in the large animal hospital and a clinician, resident, or intern goes over the actual cases in the hospital. The equine club is a great organization for students with horse experience, as well as those who have minimal equine exposure and want to gain knowledge and practical experience.
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Something strange is happening … Client apps are becoming sexy again!
Wherever we go these days, there is huge interest in JavaFX – developers are getting increasingly excited about the quantum leap that JavaFX 2 provides. Stuff like:
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- Ability to leverage JavaFX with alternate languages such as Groovy, Clojure, Scala, Fantom, and Visage
- Easy migration from Swing and SWT
- Full integration into the Java runtime and ecosystem
- … and much more
JavaFX 2 is much more than just eye candy – it enables developers to reinvent their client applications and integrate technologies in ways not possible before. Check out this video (recording by JavaOne attendee) – especially the last 2 minutes .
JavaFX 2 is coming in rapid-fire succession: JavaFX 2 was released in October of last year, JavaFX 2.2 is now in Developer Preview for Windows/Mac/Linux, and the JavaFX Scene Builder 1.0 is now also available as a Developer Preview. JavaFX 2 is bundled with JDK 7 and JavaFX will be a standard part of JDK 8 going forward.
For developers, the question is no longer "Is JavaFX real?" but "JavaFX is here to stay – How can we reinvent our client strategy?"
To help you ramp up quickly and catch up with the latest JavaFX 2 developments and information, I've collected a bunch of links:
- Your starting point for JavaFX 2 technology is the JavaFX Main page on OTN. On the overview tab you'll find links to all the latest downloads as well as a series of short videos (5-10 mins each) walking you through the various features and components of JavaFX 2.
- Next, check out the JavaFX Documentation page. Here you'll find tutorials, the full API docs, technical articles, FAQ, and more. Also, a tutorial video on building your first application with JavaFX using NetBeans 7.1.
- The JavaFX Tools page goes deep into the Scene Builder tool, with documentation and a tutorial video.
- Check out the JavaFX 2 samples on the JavaFX Samples page: Ensemble, a interactive gallery of over 100 sample applications with source code, the Henley Sales Dashboard, a enterprise-class client-server application demo, and a sample of how to embed JavaFX components in Swing applications.
- There are two books available on Java FX 2: JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Example, by Carl Dea as well as Pro JavaFX 2 Platform, by Jim Weaver, Weiqi Gao, Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, and Johan Vos.
- The two official JavaFX blogs to bookmark are The JavaFX Blog and FX Experience. Both indispensable for the latest information and insider tips and tricks on JavaFX 2. Two more good blogs are Jim Weaver's Rich-Client Java blog and Stephen Chin's Steve on Java blog.
- For questions and discussions on JavaFX 2 amble over to the JavaFX 2 OTN forum.
- Also check out some of the latest episodes of the Java Spotlight Podcast, such as episode 76 (on the Pro Java FX 2 book) and episode 78 (on the JavaFX Scene Builder).
- The developer community has jumped on the JavaFX 2 train with a number of projects. To name a few: e(fx)clipse, DATAFX , scalafx, GroovyFX, JFXFlow, jfxtras, Visage, and more.
- If you want to see some neat-looking custom controls, check on the YouTube channel of Gerrit Grunwald.
- Finally, you can follow the latest JavaFX-related tweets at @javafx4you
As you can see, there is no shortage of information and help to get started and do something sexy with Java!
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The financial reform bill expected to clear Congress this week is chock-full of provisions that have little to do with the financial crisis but cater to the long-standing agendas of labor unions and other Democratic interest groups.
Principal among them is a measure to make it easier for unions, environmental groups and other activist organizations that hold shares to put their representatives on the boards of directors of every corporation in the United States.
[…]Business groups are also rankled that the legislation would impose costly new burdens on airlines, utilities and other non-financial businesses that were victims rather than villains in the crisis, simply because they use financial derivatives to hedge their businesses against risks such as fluctuations in oil prices, interest rates and currencies.
Such hedging practices played no role in the crisis, though they helped many businesses weather the financial turbulence and recession that followed in the aftermath of the Wall Street storm.
Other provisions of the financial legislation, which goes before the full Senate on Thursday for a vote and likely passage, favor Democratic constituencies directly by requiring banks and federal agencies to hire and do more business with them.
The bill would create more than 20 "offices of minority and women inclusion" at the Treasury, Federal Reserve and other government agencies, to ensure they employ more women and minorities and grant more federal contracts to more women- and minority-owned businesses.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the real 'black holes' in the inancial regulation bill before Congress and they both need to be addressed, Robert Pozen, Chairman of MFS Investment Management, told CNBC Monday."They were too political volatile to handle and are not in the bill," said Pozen who is a former vice chairman of Fidelity Investments.
The non-partisan libertarian Cato Institute think tank.
The House and Senate will soon vote on a finalized financial-regulation bill, one that was mostly hammered out in a closed-door conference between the two chambers. Legislators will have a stark, simple choice: support a bill that gives us more of the same flawed banking regulations, or reject it in the hopes that new congressional leadership next year will address the actual causes of the financial crisis.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Sen. Christopher Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, the bill's primary authors, would fail to end the numerous government distortions of our financial and mortgage markets that led to the crisis. Both have been either architects or supporters of those distortions. One might as well ask the fox to build the henhouse.
Nowhere in the final bill will you see even a pretense of rolling back the endless federal incentives and mandates to extend credit, particularly mortgages, to those who cannot afford to pay their loans back. After all, the popular narrative insists that Wall Street fat cats must be to blame for the credit crisis. Despite the recognition that mortgages were offered to unqualified individuals and families, banks will still be required under the Dodd-Frank bill to meet government-imposed lending quotas
[…]While one can debate the motivations behind Fannie and Freddie's support for the subprime market, one thing should be clear: Had Fannie and Freddie not been there to buy these loans, most of them would never have been made. And had the taxpayer not been standing behind Fannie and Freddie, they would have been unable to fund such large purchases of subprime mortgages. Yet rather than fix the endless bailout that Fannie and Freddie have become, Congress believes it is more important to expand federal regulation and litigation to lenders that had nothing to do with the crisis.
[…]Washington subsidizes debt, taxes equity, and then acts surprised when everyone becomes extremely leveraged.
Until Washington takes a long, deep look at its own role in causing the financial crisis, we will have little hope for avoiding another one. And the Dodd-Frank legislation, sure to be heralded as strong medicine for perfidious financiers, is actually not even a modest step in the right direction.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were not regulated AT ALL by this bill. And that's because the Democrats love the idea of giving loans to people for homes they can't afford. The trick is to overload the system and then redistribute wealth in the form of bailouts from the responsible people to the irresponsible people. It's not a reform bill. It's a job-killing bill that attacks businesses.
Remember that Democrats forced banks to make these loans in order to avoid discriminating against people who could not afford homes. They rebuffed efforts by the Republicans (including Bush and McCain) to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, because they like the idea of giving people with no resident status, no job, and bad credit homes anyway. That, and the low interest rates, is what cause the mess in the first place. And this "reform" bill did nothing to fix that problem.
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mantux5 wrote:Well... It worked for like an hour and a half. Same again, everything is working like always, except for the API. It takes 4 to 6 seconds to respond. And I have no idea what might be the cause of this issue.
Have you closed it down and restarted since the Windows update? If not, try that.


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Fujifilm FinePix Z33WP First Thoughts
Fujifilm's Z series of digital compacts are geared toward the tween user with their flamboyant style and pared-down functions. A 10.0 megapixel sensor offers plenty of resolution and room to crop images, and a Fujinon 3x optical zoom lens operates internally. It allows the user basic controls over shooting settings including white balance, ISO sensitivity (from 64-1600), exposure compensation and autofocus mode (center or multi).
At only 3.6 inches wide and 0.8 inches slim, Fujifilm boasts that the Z33WP is the smallest waterproof camera availalbe. It's not much bigger than my cell phone, and it fits easily in the palm of my hand. There's no question that this is a tiny camera, but is smaller necessarily better? I haven't come to a solid conclusion yet, but it's a question on my mind as I continue shooting with the FinePix Z33WP.
As a former teenage girl, there's a part of me that loves the all-bets-are-off style of this camera. It certainly attracts a lot of attention, causing some pedestrian rubber-necking on a trip around my block. I'm glad to report that nobody was hurt.
Standing out from the crowd
Maybe the best way to describe the look of this camera is "non-traditional." It follows that the controls on the back panel are also laid out in a similarly non-traditional way. Instead of a four-way layout, the small, square buttons are stacked into two columns next the 2.7 inch LCD.
This places the directional buttons somewhat awkwardly, and it slowed me down quite a bit at first since I had to keep hunting for the right button. A couple days' worth of shooting has made it easier to work with this button layout, but it should be noted that using the Z33WP may take some adjustment.
I've found that the super-modern style makes the Z33WP a little bit tricky to hold. The slim, rounded edges slip easily even on dry land. And it won't come as a shock to you when I say that the FinePix Z33WP sinks in water. It's usually recommended that owners of a waterproof camera like this one should buy a floating wrist strap, and this is no exception.
Everybody in the pool
The FinePix Z33WP promises full functionality underwater at depths of up to 3.0 meters (9.8 feet). That equates to a dive into the deep end of a pool or snorkeling along an ocean shore. In our case, it was a dive into my kitchen sink. Shooting in the underwater mode, I was surprised at how clear the images were.
Image quality in general has been fairly good. I've been using the Z33WP in better lighting conditions, so more testing needs to be done in that regard. Under good light, however, the FinePix Z33WP turns in some nice images. The leaves in the photo below show quite a bit of detail even toward the edges.
Flash has been very tricky to use, however. In dim conditions when the flash automatically fired, it overwhelmed the subjects in my photo both in and out of water. To combat this problem, Fujifilm has included a shooting mode that takes two shots back-to-back – one with flash and one with natural lighting. I'll be giving this mode a try and doing some more testing with the flash over the next few days.
Sample Images
My first impression of the FinePix Z33WP is a good one. It has turned out some nice images, and it functioned well underwater as promised. Though long-term use of the unusual control layout may prove tiresome, I haven't had much trouble with the interface so far. Our full review will take a closer look at these factors, so check back for the final verdict on Fujifilm's water-loving Z33WP.


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I brew on a EHERMS. My HLT is a 20gal blichmann with a SS coil. I need to fill it up with 13 gal of water to cover the coil. My water PH is 8.1:(. I cut my mash with RO and add salts. Question is is there any other way I can bring my HLT/sparge water down to a good PH level without cutting it with RO. My water profile is 66ca, 20mg, 27na, 18cl, 36 sulfate, 262 bicarbonate. I have added latic attempting to decrease the PH but soon learned that the buffeting of my hard water prevented my PH from changing
Any suggestions on how long to boil to precipitate some of that bicarbonate out? I do use phosphoric however It never changes my PH in my HLT with my water profile. I assume that there is just to much bicarbonate and it is buffering the acid to much.
Quote from: quattlebaum on April 29, 2013, 03:33:57 PMAny suggestions on how long to boil to precipitate some of that bicarbonate out? I do use phosphoric however It never changes my PH in my HLT with my water profile. I assume that there is just to much bicarbonate and it is buffering the acid to much. Although any period of boiling should drive all CO2 from the water and cause all the precipitation, there are plenty of sources that state that 20 minutes is required to remove the maximum possible. One of these days, I'm going to have to test that for myself.I am assuming that you are using 10% phosphoric. Its so dilute that it would seem like its not doing anything. Get some real phosphoric from Duda Diesel, 75 or 85% strength. That is far cheaper than buying the diluted stuff from the LHBS. However if the dilute stuff is all you have, just add more. Bru'n Water will tell you that you are going to have to add a lot of that strength acid to provide the neutralization.
Sure. It turns out that the minimum alkalinity level achievable through boiling is around 50 ppm as CaCO3. That equates to about 61 ppm bicarb. If the boiling is a little incomplete, then the level may be higher (say 80 ppm bicarb). So 60 to 80 ppm is a typical range. This bicarb reduction also reduces calcium. The formula for decarbonization by boiling is shown on the Water Knowledge page of the Bru'n Water website. So with the revised Ca and HCO3 concentrations, you can enter those values in Bru'n Water and that will allow you to estimate the new acid amounts for that decarbonated water. What you are doing is creating "boiled" water profiles that are similar to those included in Bru'n Water, but this one is based on your tap water quality.


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ARTICLE: Young beekeeper enjoys honey, helps tend hives and isn't afraid of being stung
Through his white beekeeper's veil, 8-year-old Sam Shapiro looks down at the delicate black and yellow worker bee that just landed on his chest. "She won't hurt me," Sam says. "A lot of kids go psycho when a bee gets near them. But if I just stand still, she'll think I'm a statue." Wearing a veil when working with bees is like wearing a helmet when riding your bike… According to Sam, bees make great pets. They are fun to take care of, and they make food for their owners.
Sam has spent his entire life with bees in his family. When he was 2, he would stand at the window and watch his dad (experienced urban beekeeper Milt Shapiro) checking the hives in the side yard of their home in Northwest Washington. When he was 3, he and his dad would sit outside in the summer, admiring the worker bees as they delivered pollen (carried on their back legs "like little puff balls," Sam says) to the hive…
Each summer, Sam and his dad harvest the honey. "When my dad takes a comb out of the hive," the Lafayette Elementary third-grader says, "it's covered with honey. You don't want to put it on the ground because leaves would stick to it, so my job is to hold it."
Next, they squeeze the comb into a clean bucket where it will drip honey through a filter for a few days. "The honey drips so slowly," Sam says, "but you don't want to waste a drop. It's worth something even better than money."
It smells good, too — like standing in a field of freshly cut hay on a bright, breezy summer day.
Finally, Sam and his father open the spout at the bottom of the bucket and pour the honey into glass jars. "I can just feel the honey dripping off my hand," Sam says. "It's sticky, and I lick every bit off my fingers. It tastes like heaven." Later on, he enjoys his heavenly treat by the spoonful, on bread and in gooey sandwiches with peanut butter.


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