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Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), a leading information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it will serve as the evening event sponsor and showcase its expertise at the Microsoft Lync Conference. The Lync Conference will be held Feb. 19 – 21 in San Diego, Calif., and is the first ever conference dedicated to communications professionals looking to learn and network with the entire Lync community.
Microsoft Lync Server combines voice, instant messaging, audio, video, and web conferencing into a richer, more simplified solution for organizations looking to transform their business communications into more collaborative and engaging interactions. As one of only seven Microsoft Worldwide National Systems Integrator (NSI) Partners, Perficient partners with clients to implement Lync technologies that integrate with client's current applications and enhance professional communications.
"Enterprise communications have become increasingly complex as more information is readily available to more people and in multiple formats. At a time when access to expertise and knowledge sharing is critical to business success, our clients are looking for ways to harness innovation and improve workforce productivity through improved communication tools and by removing communication barriers," said Matt McGillen, director of unified communications for Perficient. "Lync is the only application that brings all communications together in a single, simple way for users. With other solutions you find that you need a new username and password, and a different application for everything: phone, IM, audio conferencing, web conferencing are all separate silos. Integrating Lync with current applications enables more seamless and effective collaboration and communication within today's organizations."
Newly-Designated Lync Certifications Attest to Client Support and Satisfaction
Perficient recently was named one of 15 Microsoft partners in the United States to receive the Premier Support Lync Partner (PSLP) certification. The PSLP certification designates Perficient as an official provider of Lync solutions and support for clients. In addition to its PSLP certification, Perficient has two Lync Microsoft Certified Masters on staff – Keenan Crockett, and newly-certified Jason Sloan. The MCM certification is an exclusive designation recognizing technical excellence, and Perficient is one of a handful of partners with multiple Lync MCMs.
"For all the great improvements to communication that Lync brings, it does require expertise to do a Lync deployment right. And it doesn't end there; supporting the environment after Lync has been rolled out is very important to the well-being of our clients," continued McGillen. "To ensure our consultants can provide the best service and experience to our clients, Perficient has invested in the certification process. With two Lync MCM consultants and our recent PSLP certification, we are proud to be one of very few partners that can provide top-notch support for our clients in the whole lifecycle, not just during deployment."
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Perficient experts will be on hand during the Lync Conference in kiosk K-4 to discuss how the company helps clients address communications needs through the implementation of Lync technologies designed to unite voice, IM, audio, video and web-conferencing into a richer, more simplified experience.
For more information on Perficient's expertise in Microsoft technologies across all industries including unified communications, SharePoint, Microsoft BI and Microsoft cloud, and how the company provides digital marketing, portals and collaboration, mobile development and customer relationship management solutions to clients, visit www.perficient.com/Partners/Microsoft. To learn more from Perficient experts first-hand, visit the Perficient Microsoft Technologies blog or follow @Perficient_MSFT.
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IMO quite different.
I dont know why but I think they smell very similar to me.
They both have that initial burnt piece of wood smell
IMO quite different.
Nope. Not at all similar. I love the Turkish Delight that hits you in Royal Oud for the first minite or two. Other than that it is a nice middle of the road Oud for the time it lasts. (not long enough) Sycomore is a dark, smokey, dry masterpiece of a vetiver.
Not even in the same spectrum. There may be a blast of the same chemical that you are smelling, that is common between the two, but similar, no.
Not at all similar - except both great fragrances.
Chalk and cheese.
Totally different.
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And another - no similarities I can discern
The 'warmth' in the beginning is maybe similair not in smell but in presence/concept/feel. If that makes any sense.
They are both awesome!
Never noticed any similarity and quite prefer the Creed.
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Not at all.
No, not similar. Sorry to be of no help.
currently on shelf: green irish tweed super cedar thé noir 29 lemon in zest eldo hermann essenza royal leather royal oud "on the road" oud shamash fat electrician millesime imperial sunday cologne vetiver moloko aventus
oh wow.
not one person agrees?
I thin I should get my nose checked. or maybe its my sinus infection lol
Im going to dogpile on this one. Not only are these two fragrances extremely dissimilar but one is composed way better than the other. Sycomore is a far better fragrance in my opinion!
My current top ten:
1. Oud Wood
2. Spice and Wood
3. Herod
4. Pure Malt
5. Tonka Imperial
6. Dior Homme
7. Epic Man
8. L'air Du Desert Marocain
9. Noir de Noir
10. Terre D'Hermes
Do we need to search for your posts on BB.com, Attila?
OK, I'll just play it straight then............
Sycomore and Royal Oud? Not close.
OP was probably picking up on certain aromachemicals present in both fragrances. I don't find them all that similar but I too get those 'burnt wood' vibes from both fragrances from time to time.


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New Publication Highlights Urgent Need for Strong U.S. Energy-Climate Policy
Pew Center on Global Climate Change Makes Compelling Case for Action
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released The Case for Action: Creating a Clean Energy Future, a straight-forward synthesis of the urgent need to enact a strong U.S. energy and climate policy. The Case for Action adds to the growing chorus of expert research and analysis that underscores the need for effective policy action.
The new Pew Center publication coincides with the release of America's Climate Choices, a Congressionally-mandated study by the National Academies that represents its most comprehensive assessment of climate change. America's Climate Choices examines the science supporting human-induced climate change and options for reducing and adapting to climate change impacts.
"The case for action has never been stronger," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "The science is clear: Further delay will only make the impacts of climate change more severe and the costs of action more expensive. With a strong energy and climate policy, the United States will be in position capitalize on its competitive advantage and lead the 21st century clean energy economy."
In compelling, straight-forward language, The Case for Action explains why the United States needs to act now to reduce the risks of climate change, strengthen our energy independence, protect our national security, and create new jobs and economic opportunities.
The United States has the opportunity to drive the global climate effort through renewed leadership at home and abroad. Comprehensive national energy and climate legislation can spur the development of new technologies and new job markets, setting the United States on course to become a global clean energy leader. Globally, it is critical that the United States continue working with the international community to develop a binding but flexible framework that ensures all of the world's major economies take steps to meet the climate challenge.
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The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Statement: National Academies Release Climate Change Assessment
Today the National Academies released its most comprehensive assessment of climate change entitled America's Climate Choices.
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May 19, 2010
I commend the National Academies for producing America's Climate Choices – a landmark study that puts an authoritative stamp on strategies to tackle climate change.
Fulfilling a Congressional mandate, the National Academies have provided U.S. policymakers and the American public with an independent, comprehensive assessment of the science of human-induced climate change and what is required to reduce and adapt to its impacts.
"These reports show that the state of climate change science is strong," said Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences. The study emphasizes that our current understanding of human-induced climate change is supported by many independent lines of evidence that have weathered intense debate and serious exploration of alternative explanations.
The study underscores that, more than ever, we have credible and convincing evidence that human activities are driving our changing climate. "Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems," the report says. Further delay in addressing these risks will only make climate change impacts more severe and the costs of action more expensive.
The urgency is reflected by impacts beginning to happen in our own backyards – more heat waves across the Midwest; wildfires in California and other western states; sea-level rise encroaching on the eastern seaboard. Effective national strategies to limit the causes and adapt to certain unavoidable changes to our climate are urgent. Scientific uncertainty is no longer an excuse to delay action. The case for action is clear and we must find the political will to reduce our nation's greenhouse emissions and adapt to unavoidable changes already in motion.
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The Case for Action: Creating a Clean Energy Future
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The United States needs strong action now to reduce the risks of climate change, strengthen our energy independence, protect our national security, and create new jobs and economic opportunities. The Pew Center on Global Climate Change believes that the case for action has never been stronger. With a strong energy and climate policy the United States can lead the 21st century clean energy economy.
Comprehensive Climate Science Reports Released Today
Today the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released three of its long-awaited "America's Climate Choices" (ACC) reports. A fourth report will be released later this year, as will an overarching synthesis report. The three reports released today focused on advancing the science of climate change, adapting to unavoidable climate change, and limiting the ultimate extent of climate change. The reports and background information on the study are accessible from the ACC web site.
Collectively, the ACC reports are the most comprehensive study the NAS has conducted on climate change. The project was mandated by Congress and requested by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in 2008. Unlike past NAS efforts, the ACC reports emphasize how the nation can move forward on solving the climate change problem.
NAS president Ralph J. Cicerone said, "These reports show that the state of climate change science is strong." The study emphasizes that our current understanding of human-induced climate change is supported by many independent lines of evidence that have weathered intense debate and serious exploration of alternative explanations: "Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems," the report says.
A statement about the ACC by our center's president Eileen Claussen is available here.
We will be sure to let you know when the remaining pieces of the ACC report come out later this year.
Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of the Science & Impacts Program
National Security & Climate Change
As stated by the Department of Defense in its Quadrennial Defense Review Report in February 2010, "climate change, energy security, and economic stability are inextricably linked." The impacts of climate change are expected to act as a "threat multiplier" in many of the world's most unstable regions, exacerbating droughts and other natural disasters as well as leading to food, water, and other resource shortages that may spur mass migrations. The primary driver of climate change—greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuels—is central to many of the U.S. military's activities: the military is the world's top consumer of energy, and many of its activities are dedicated to protecting fossil fuel supplies. Alternative, low-carbon sources of energy will not only reduce the impacts of climate change, but they will also lessen both the human and economic strain of U.S. military operations.
Related Publications & Reports
- Report: Climate Change & International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether
C2ES, May 2012
- Op-ed: Take a page from the military: Risk management could reboot climate change debate
The Hill, February 2011
- Report: Degrees of Risk: Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate Security
E3G, February 2011
- Op-ed: IPCC neglects practical tools for coping with risk
People & Science, December 2010
- Book Chapter: Scientific Uncertainty and the Security Risks of Climate Change
Jay Gulledge, book chapter in Proceedings on Climate & Energy: Imperatives for Future Naval Forces, 2010
- Report: Uncharted Waters: The U.S. Navy and Navigating Climate Change
Center for a New American Security, 2009
- Policy Memo: National Security Implications of Global Climate Change
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, August 2009
- Report: Lost in Translation: Closing the Gap Between Climate Science and National Security Policy
Will Rogers and Jay Gulledge, Center for a New American Security, April 2010
- Center for New American Security Climate Change Wargame
Wargame: Clout and Climate Change, 2008
- Book Chapter: Climate Change Risks in Context of Scientific Uncertainty
Jay Gulledge, book chapter in The Global Politics of Energy, 2008
- Report: Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Global Climate Change
Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 2007
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Workshop Proceedings: Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Beyond
Workshop Proceedings: Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Beyond
May 2010
Executive Summary:
Based on decades of research by the scientific community, there is now wide recognition that emissions of greenhouse gases are changing our climate and that the future impacts from such changes will largely be harmful. In response, policymakers across the U.S. government are beginning to consider what actions should be taken to limit climate change damages. An important tool used in making such policy choices is cost-benefit analysis (CBA), but this technique has been widely criticized as inadequate as the primary approach to valuing the impacts of climate change.
In March 2009, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change convened an expert workshop to examine the state of the art, limitations, and future development needs for analyzing the benefits of avoided climate change. Approximately 80 people from academe, federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations participated. This event was motivated by widespread recognition of two developments: First, policy decisions that result in reduced greenhouse gas emissions are becoming more commonplace across the government. Second, one of the key tools used to analyze such policies, CBA, is challenged by the longterm, global, and uncertain nature of climate change.
Drawing from the environmental economics, impacts and vulnerability, and risk analysis communities, the workshop sought to glean insights on how to better quantify the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The main objectives were to inform the development of a set of practical recommendations that decision makers could employ in the near-term and to outline new approaches to improve decision-making tools over time. Based on the outcome of the workshop, the Pew Center responded to the Office of Management and Budget's request for public comments on how to improve the process and principles governing federal regulatory review. In February 2010, the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon issued a report detailing its recommendations for how this metric should be calculated in agency regulatory decisions.
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Full Workshop Proceedings (pdf)
Workshop Agenda, Videos, and Presentations
Expert Papers:
- The Economics of Climate Change Impacts: A Case Study on the Motivation for Government Decisions to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions
James Lester and Joel B. Smith, Stratus Consulting
- Challenges to Providing Quantitative Estimates of the Environmental and Societal Impacts of Global Climate Change
Michael C. MacCracken, Climate Institute
L. Jeremy Richardson, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Social Vulnerability and Risk
Kristie L. Ebi, ESS, LLC and IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit
- Representation of Climate Impacts in Integrated Assessment Models
Michael D. Mastrandrea, Stanford University
- The Social Cost of CO2 and the Optimal Timing of Emissions Reductions under Uncertainty
Chris Hope, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
- Federal Decision-Making on the Uncertain Impacts of Climate Change: Incremental vs. Non-Incremental Climate Decisions
Steven K. Rose, Electric Power Research Institute
- The Need for a Fresh Approach to Climate Change Economics
Frank Ackerman, Stockholm Environment Institute
Stephen J. DeCanio, University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard B. Howarth, Dartmouth College
Kristen Sheeran, Economics for Equity and the Environment Network
- Uncertainty and the Benefits of Climate Change Policies, Newbold and Daigneault
Stephen C. Newbold, U.S. EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
Adam Daigneault, U.S. EPA, Climate Change Division
- Keynote Address: Addressing Climate Change through a Risk Management Lens
Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University
Press Release: Workshop Proceedings Assess Benefits of Avoided Climate Change
Press Release
May 3, 2010
Contact: Tom Steinfeldt, 703-516-4146
Pew Center on Global Climate Change Releases Report Assessing
the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change
Workshop Proceedings Suggest Risk-Management Approach
Washington, D.C. – There is now wide recognition that emissions of greenhouse gases are changing the global climate in ways that are largely harmful. In response, policymakers across the U.S. government are beginning to consider what actions should be taken to limit climate change damages.
An important tool used in making such policy choices is cost-benefit analysis (CBA). But this technique has been widely criticized as inadequate as the primary approach to valuing the impacts of climate change.
Motivated by recent attempts by government agencies to account for the benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions in rulemaking, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change held an expert workshop to examine the current state of the art, limitations, and future development needs for analyzing the benefits of avoided climate change. Approximately 80 experts from academe, nongovernmental organizations, and the federal government attended.
"The benefits of avoided climate change are substantial, but too often they are underestimated or ignored," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "Incorporating the risks of inaction into our assessments of greenhouse gas reduction benefits will give us a more accurate view of the benefits of acting. These proceedings help identify practical steps forward to provide policy makers with more sound estimates of the benefits of climate action.
The main objectives of the workshop were to inform the development of a set of practical recommendations that decision makers could employ in the near term and to outline new approaches to improve decision-making tools over time. Based on the outcome of the workshop, the Pew Center submitted recommendations on the appropriate use of cost-benefit analysis to the Office of Management and Budget during its 100-day review of its own role in regulatory review. These recommendations are available on the Pew Center's web site: http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/Pew-Recommendations-OMB.pdf.
Many participants agreed that estimates of the social cost of carbon (i.e. benefits estimates used in CBA) are systematically biased low and require significant improvement. However, with such improvements, and with appropriate discounting, CBA can be an appropriate tool for incorporating the societal benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions into individual policies, such as CAFE standards, that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions incrementally.
A major focus of the workshop was the inadequacy of traditional analytical tools, such as CBA, for guiding policy decisions about non-incremental changes in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. Many participants recommended a risk-management approach that views climate stabilization as insurance against uncertain but intolerable outcomes.
The workshop report contains an extended summary of 17 presentations and the full text of nine background papers by experts in climate science and economics. Please visit http://www.c2es.org/events/2009/benefitsworkshop to access the full contents of the workshop proceedings, including video of expert presentations and free downloads of the workshop summaries and background papers.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center, visit http://www.c2es.org.
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The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation Across the Federal Government
Today we released a report on climate change adaptation and the role of the federal government.
As we continue to await Senate action on a comprehensive bill that limits carbon pollution and grows the clean energy economy, the words of NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco resonate:
"Climate change is happening now and it's happening in our own backyards and it affects the kinds of things people care about."
Ambitious greenhouse gas reduction programs are essential to prevent the worst impacts, but some impacts are unavoidable, such as more intense Midwestern heat waves, Western wildfires, and coastal threats from rising sea levels. If you haven't already, check out this great map from the U.S. Global Change Research Program's report on climate change impacts across the United States or look at EPA's recent report on climate change indicators.
Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. 2009. http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/usimpacts-brochures.
If we hope to minimize the costs of these impacts we're going to have to better understand our vulnerabilities to climate change and begin to take steps to adapt.
Monitoring Planet Earth's Vital Signs
While the Senate's effort to take up comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation remains on hold awaiting a resolution of when and if an immigration bill will be considered, EPA just issued a new report that sends a loud and clear reminder about why Congressional action is urgent. The report, Climate Change Indicators in the United States, presents detailed information documenting 24 different ways in which climate change is altering our nation and the world.
This is not your standard climate report with pages and pages of scenarios and model runs projecting out over time what future climate impacts are possible. Instead, this report looks back and documents biological and physical changes that have already occurred. It focuses on actual measurements of real conditions – from increases in greenhouse gas concentrations measured in the atmosphere to changes in sea surface temperatures to shifts in the length of growing seasons.
What is Black Carbon?
What Is Black Carbon?
April 2010
Black Carbon (BC) has recently emerged as a major contributor to global climate change, possibly second only to CO2 as the main driver of change.[1] BC particles[2] strongly absorb sunlight and give soot its black color. BC is produced both naturally and by human activities as a result of the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, and biomass. Primary sources include emissions from diesel engines, cook stoves, wood burning and forest fires. Reducing CO2 emissions is essential to avert the worst impacts of future climate change, but CO2 has such a long atmospheric lifetime that it will take several decades for CO2 concentrations to begin to stabilize after emissions reductions begin. In contrast, BC remains in the atmosphere for only a few weeks, so cutting its emissions would immediately reduce the rate of warming, particularly in the rapidly changing Arctic. Moreover, reduced exposure to BC provides public health co-benefits, especially in developing countries. Technologies that can reduce global BC emissions are available today.
Black Carbon and Climate Change
BC warms the climate in two ways. When suspended in air, BC absorbs sunlight and generates heat in the atmosphere, which warms the air and can affect regional cloud formation and precipitation patterns. When deposited on snow and ice, it absorbs sunlight, again generating heat, which warms both the air above and the snow and ice below, thus accelerating melting. Because BC remains in the atmosphere for only one to four weeks, its climate effects are strongly regional. Its short lifetime also means that its climate effects would dissipate quickly if black carbon emissions were reduced, thus benefiting most directly the countries or communities that invest in policies to reduce BC emissions.
A recent study suggests that BC may be responsible for more than 30 percent of recent warming in the Arctic,[3] contributing to the acceleration of Arctic sea ice melting. Loss of Arctic sea ice would lead to more rapid warming and possibly irreversible climate change. BC is also driving increased melting of Himalayan glaciers, which are a major source of freshwater for millions of people in the region. BC may also be driving some of the observed reduction of the snowpack in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Different types of soot contain different amounts of BC—generally the blacker the soot, the more of a warming agent it is. Fossil fuel and biofuel soot are blacker than soot from biomass burning[4] (e.g., forest fires and wood fuel), which is generally more of a brownish color. Thus, controlling emissions of soot from fuel sources is an effective way of reducing atmospheric temperatures in the short term. Based on current information, the United States is responsible for about 6 percent of global BC emissions; while it has a history of making reductions to improve air quality, further improvements can be made. The majority of BC emissions come from the developing world: China and India together account for some 25–35 percent of emissions.
Control technologies that reduce BC include retrofitting diesel vehicles with filters to capture BC, fuel switching (e.g., from diesel to natural gas in buses), and replacement of inefficient cook stoves with cleaner alternatives. Adopting these alternatives would have positive co-benefits for public health, especially in the developing world. For example, retrofitting or replacing diesel buses and trucks would greatly improve urban air quality in densely populated cities. Replacement of dirty cook stoves with cleaner alternatives, such as solar cookers or newer models that burn fuel more completely, would improve indoor air quality, which is a major health concern in both urban and rural areas of the developing world.
Reducing BC emissions[5] represents a win-win scenario: it would have an immediate cooling effect on the Earth's climate, potentially delaying temperature increases in the short run and helping reduce the risk of irreversible tipping points in the climate system, and it would reduce air pollution, resulting in fewer premature deaths and fewer missed work and school days.
1. Ramanathan, V. and G. Carmichael. 2008. Nature Geoscience, 1:221-227.
2. BC is a carbonaceous aerosol. An aerosol is a suspension of fine solid particles or liquid droplets within a gas. Examples include smoke, air pollution, smog, oceanic haze, and tear gas. Carbonaceous refers to a substance rich in carbon.
3. The Arctic warmed by 1.48 ± 0.28 °C during 1976–2007; BC is estimated to have caused 0.5–1.4 °C of that change (Shindell, D. et. al. 2009. Nature Geoscience, 2:294-300).
4. Soot from biomass burning generally tends to have a cooling effect on the climate.
5. The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 reported out of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21, 2009, has a significant section on BC emissions, directing the EPA Administrator to investigate BC sources, impacts, and mitigation technologies.


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Giants-49ers Preview
When San Francisco and New York met in January with a Super Bowl berth on the line, the 49ers committed crucial turnovers and their offense couldn't do much against the Giants' stingy defense.
A similar performance seems unlikely in Sunday's NFC championship game rematch, considering Alex Smith and the 49ers are coming off one of the most impressive offensive showings in NFL history and the Giants are struggling defensively.
San Francisco (4-1) has been eagerly awaiting this game after New York won 20-17 in overtime at Candlestick Park on Jan. 22, costing the 49ers a trip to the Super Bowl. The loss was especially disheartening given that Kyle Williams muffed two punt returns -- one in the fourth quarter leading to a touchdown and another in OT setting up the Giants' winning field goal -- and Michael Crabtree's catch for three yards was the lone reception by a San Francisco receiver.
"Of course after what happened last year I definitely want to get back at these guys," Williams said. "We look at it as if they have something that we should have had. We're going to make sure we don't leave anything on the field again."
San Francisco hasn't had that problem lately, outscoring its last two opponents 79-3.
The 49ers are tied for third in the NFL in scoring with an average of 29.8 points, and they became the first team in league history with 300 yards passing and 300 yards rushing in the same game while gaining a franchise-record 621 yards in last Sunday's 45-3 win over Buffalo.
"The talent level has been upgraded," coach Jim Harbaugh said.
Smith, who sprained his middle finger against the Bills but said it wasn't an issue, has the league's best passer rating at 108.7. The receiving corps, with a boost from offseason additions Randy Moss and former Giant Mario Manningham, is averaging 11.8 catches.
"We had a whole offseason to work together," Williams said. "I think we're more polished than anything. We have more weapons. We added a few guys and they have helped us tremendously this year."
The Giants (3-2) have been just as impressive offensively, ranking second in both total yards with an average of 429.2 and scoring with 30.4 points per game. They've amassed 1,877 yards in the last four weeks -- their most over a four-game stretch in franchise history -- and in last Sunday's 41-27 win over Cleveland, Ahmad Bradshaw and Victor Cruz became the first teammates to rush for 200 yards and catch three TD passes in a game since 1960.
"The Giants are an outstanding team," Harbaugh said. "They've got an explosive offense. They're very balanced."
One thing they don't have right now is a reliable defense.
In last season's playoffs, New York held Green Bay (the NFL's No. 1 scoring offense), New England (No. 3), Atlanta (No. 7) and San Francisco to an average of 14.0 points. It is yielding an average of 22.2 points this year and has allowed 24 plays of at least 20 yards, sixth-worst in the NFL entering Week 6.
"We've definitely got to continue to get better as a unit," middle linebacker Chase Blackburn said. "There is no doubt we have to be better this week. We have a challenge."
New York's offense, although firing on all cylinders over the last few weeks, also seems like it will have its hands full against a San Francisco team that is allowing a league-low 13.6 points per game.
The 49ers thoroughly frustrated Eli Manning in last season's championship game, sacking him six times and hitting him on six other pass attempts, and the Giants haven't forgotten.
"That game was certainly something that we thought about all (offseason) even though we won the Super Bowl and we beat them in that game," guard Chris Snee said. "We still walked away saying that we didn't play well, we didn't do our job up front. That can motivate you though the offseason."
That has seemed to work, as Manning has been sacked just five times, giving him time to pick apart defenses.
Manning enters Week 6 second in the NFL with 1,579 yards and has 10 touchdowns. His favorite target, Cruz, has 37 receptions -- the fourth-most in the NFL -- and had 10 catches for 142 yards in last season's championship game.
The Giants finally got their ground game going last Sunday, as Bradshaw rushed for a career-best 200 yards after totaling 133 in his first three contests. New York is 9-0 when Bradshaw runs for at least 100 yards, but the Niners have allowed just one 100-yard rusher -- Seattle's Marshawn Lynch last December -- in their last 43 games.
Bradshaw's former teammate, running back Brandon Jacobs (knee), is questionable to make his 49ers debut against the team he spent his first seven seasons with in the NFL.
Top Niners running back Frank Gore has totaled 434 rushing yards, and his 5.5 yards per attempt ranks among the best in the league.
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Heat waves have been the most prominent hazard causing human fatalities over the past decades. The 2003 summer European heat wave alone has caused up to 70 000 excess deaths over four months in Central and Western Europe. Increased mortality is the most drastic impact of heat waves. However, exposure to hot weather can impact human health and well-being in various ways, ranging from "bad mood", feeling discomfort and getting sick.
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The NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (Greater Manchester PSTRC) places patient and public involvement (PPI) and public engagement (PE) at the very heart of its activities.
The Centre has assigned over eight percent of the budget to PPI and PE including co-funding of Philip Hammond, PPI Coordinator at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT) to co-ordinate the activity of PPI and PE focused on primary care patient safety.
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- A Research User Group (RUG)
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- Involvement in the activities of the Research Themes.
The initial priority was the formation of the RUG to enable co-ordinated activity to take place. It allows members of the public to develop their level of involvement; with oversight from Simon Denegri (Chair, INVOLVE), who is a member of the Centre's Executive Management Board. The PSTRC aims to produce clear and accessible information regarding what the centre is about and for, and definition of the potential activities and ways that people can get involved. This will cover all levels of involvement from reviewers to committee members. The centre also works closely with the Public Programmes team at Nowgen to develop and host interactive public engagement events.
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Prof Stephen Campbell has overall responsibility for delivery of the PPI and PE elements of the Greater Manchester PSTRC.
The centre's funded PPI Coordinator, based at Salford Royal, is key to the delivery of this activity working under the direction of the centre's Research Theme Leads and the Engagement in Research Manager at Salford Royal, Jess Zadik. Philip is located within the Research and Development Team at Salford Royal and works closely with the Engagement and Citizen Scientist project teams to provide appropriate oversight and to ensure maximisation of achieving common aims for patient safety in primary care.
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Many conservatives were disgusted after the WWE debuted a Tea Party character in Jack Swagger to fight against World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio for the top title April 7.
Cage Side Seats describes him as an American with twisted values on what his country should look like, complete with a xenophobic and slightly racist manager named Zeb Colter. The WWE website simply says hes hell-bent on fixing everything about them that is broken.
Swagger, heaving his muscles and struggling to pronounce every word through the sweat, introduced Colter as a great American last week.
Colter, complete with a handlebar mustache, continued:
Fellow Americans! I got a question for ya! What is wrong with America? Zeb Colter knows whats wrong! Jack Swagger knows whats wrong! But I think most Americans have forgotten what is wrong with America. Years ago, me and this mans daddy laid in a jungle in Vietnam with bullets whizzin by our heads. You know why? Because we were real patriots, we were real Americans.
And now I look around and I see a country I dont even recognize. I see people with faces not like mine. I see people that I dont even know what theyre saying. They cant even talk to me. And I look around and I think, where did all these people come from? But most importantly I think, how do we get rid of em? We the people!
Americans, real Americans, know the truth! Zeb Colter knows the truth! Jack Swagger knows the truth! Because this is the land of the free and the home of the brave, not the land of the free and whoever wants to cross our borders! Its our country and its our land, to protect and defend![Emphasis added]
The entire scenario leaves many wondering why the WWE would choose to create such a character. The WWE is typically thought of as having a greater viewership on the right than the left, though thats not backed up by any statistics, and the family that started the network has a longstanding connection to the Republican Party.
Linda McMahon, who developed the WWE with her husband, has run numerous times for office as a Republican in her home state of Connecticut. She most recently ran to replace retiring Senator Joe Lieberman in 2012, but lost to Chris Murphy.
Responding to the criticism, the WWE released a statement:WWE is creating drama centered on a topical subject that has varying points of view to develop a rivalry between two characters. This storyline in no way represents WWEs political point of view. One should not confuse WWEs storytelling with what WWE stands for, similar to other entertainment companies such as Warner Bros., Universal Studios or Viacom.
So what do you think? Is the sketch all in good fun, or is it an offensive jab at Tea Partiers and conservatives?
Repukes and teabaggers eating their own...Priceless
#82331 Feb 23, 2013
What what? What show, you idiots on every thread in the US. Post it. There is no such show. I proved it to you with three engine searches. Are you a dense dweeb? Post it if it is there. Searche fox and O'Reilly site and came up empty. So where is it?
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#82333 Feb 23, 2013
First link and article from 2010, second one county listed out of 5 countes in the whole state of Pa. Please, get with it dweeb lemming. Yor are a liar. Spin your faux box propaganda, you repukes just can't stand that even when the economy was bad we are coming back and the President has done pretty good considering your Grand Party of No and teabagging candidates do nothing and this disputes everything you spew:
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Ok dweeb, remember this IS 2013. No gloom and doom in those numbers, improving everyday.
#82334 Feb 23, 2013
You have been reported for you sick and vile comments with the name I use. They will trace your ip. Plan on it. Spin your location and spit your nasty insults. The truth I posted must really get your underoos in a wad. You sick pervert.
#82335 Feb 23, 2013
Aww the dweeb, and the baaaaing sheep/goat socks must be spinning their ip's and pumping up their icons. There isn't 8 people on her at 3:55 am. Very amusing though. Can't stand the facts.
Thanks for the laughs. lmao @ you idiots.
#82336 Feb 23, 2013
You lack facts and now you lack your own opinion. Too funny. YOU and Rick Perry are/were liars. This all came out in that sham of repuke campaign.
Rick Perry's 4 Economic Vulnerabilities
August 16, 2011
He's a big beneficiary of big-government. Perry's No. 1 talking point as a presidential candidate is job creation in Texas. He claims correctly that Texas has created more than one-third of all jobs in the country since the economic recovery began in mid-2009. What he doesn't mention is that virtually all of that job creation was in government, not in private industry.
Here are the numbers, which come from the federal government's Bureau of Labor Statistics: Between the beginning of 2008 and the end of 2010 (the latest data available), Texas created about 75,000 jobs. That makes it one of the few states with any job creation at all over that time. But federal, state and local government hiring accounted for 115,000 new jobs in Texas, while private industry shed about 40,000 jobs. The private sector has definitely held up much better in Texas than it has elsewhere. Since 2008, private-sector employment has shrunk by 6.6 percent nationally, but only by 0.5 percent in Texas. Still, Perry can't credibly claim that private industry has been responsible for job growth in Texas, since it has actually shed jobs.
Perry and his state have also benefited significantly from the kind of federal spending he's now trashing as a presidential candidate hoping to appeal to conservative Republicans. Federal spending in Texas amounts to more than $200 billion per year, according to the New York Times, on account of several big Army bases, a heavy NASA presence, and other federal installations. That's about 5.2 percent of all federal spending. Texas also accepted $6.4 billion in federal funds from the unpopular 2009 stimulus program championed by President Obama, according to the Washington Post. There's nothing wrong with Texas or any state getting its share of funding from Washington. The problem for Perry is that the facts don't support the small-government credentials he's now trying to establish.
Looks like ole slick rick was sucking on the gov't teet as you people put it and taking credit for it. There are plenty of those types of articles and videos. Most of from fellow repukes candidates. hahaha too funny.
All the repukes slandered the stimulus package but where there with their hands out for bail out and individual sure ran to the bank to cash those checks. It worked too. That is why you are eat up.
#82337 Feb 23, 2013
How much did they pay you? Did you bring some props, like some sheep and goats. Do your imitation baaaaaaaaaaaa. lmao @ you as always. The lemming from Ill. hahaha
#82338 Feb 23, 2013
Single black mother gets $80 K in welfare benefits, see story on O'Reilly tonight
Still waiting dweebs, where is the link to the story not some topix thread? Prove it.
#82339 Feb 23, 2013
Uncle Tab
It's really fun to sit bak and watch Glascow Sybil get owned (and called out for using name after name after name) here on a daily basis.
It's also fun to watch the baaaaaasss pedofile make a fool of herself everyday in the same way.
If you two weren't such worthless humans, someone might pay attention to you and take you out once in a while. That would give us a break from your ignorance and lies.
But hey.... I won't take ingnorant BS from my lady.... No man will.... So you just remain lonely and sad on a blog on the Internet...... You tools are free entertainment.
Fear Fear Fear!!
I thought it was very funny when I first saw people type "frightwing party"
But do we really need to question it when THIS is what they constantly go on and on and on about..... And it never happens!!
Chicken Little! ALL of you!
.......Again, You are exactly right Uncle Tab.
....... This is why you people have lost so many elections, IMPORTANT elections in the last few cycles.. You all are so negative. And no one can stand being around you idiots. And when someone is so negative all the time people do as much as they can to be opposite of those people.
Thank you again for killing yourself off on a daily basis!
It makes you just want to sit back and watch them eat their own. The Tea Party and GOP are so busy sling mud at each other and vowing to not elect tea party candidates due to the lack of progress in Washington. It is just too entertaining. Meanwhile, Dems are winning the elections. Can't wait until 2014. The teabaggers weakened an already weak party that is out of touch with America and the times.
Agree with Constitution Party too. And I love it here. Great posts. I know you see through their many avatar/registered names on the same date. Lies and deception is all they know.
Keep up the good posts. Have fun repukes AND teabaggers. It will be a wonderful day and you will probably stay right on here all day slandering your fellow Americans and digging up stale post. They live in the past you know. Tea party is proof of that. hahaha They forget it is 2013.
#82340 Feb 23, 2013
HAHAHA, spin your ip's and get a bunch of icons little coward. I don't care. You are hilarious.
Go back to your nightmares. Loser
#82341 Feb 23, 2013
Reagan's heart of darkness
June 9, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/28ytj
PRESIDENT Bush proclaimed: "Ronald Reagan believed that God takes the side of justice and that America has a special calling to oppose tyranny and defend freedom." In the first three days of news reports on the death of the former president, not a single major American newspaper, television station, or politician has dared to exhume this counterpoint to the Reagan's legacy: "Immoral, evil, and totally un-Christian."
Reagan, White As Snow
Last week, as weve heard, the Republican presidential candidates praised the name and heritage of Ronald Reagan 40 times during the televised Show and Tell at the Reagan Presidential Library. That none of them mentioned Reagans legacy of white supremacy and support for apartheid is a little like invoking Jefferson Davis and not mentioning treason or slavery. Actually, a lot like it.
Ronald Reagan was a white supremacist to his very core, and left enough traces over his lengthy political career so that its evident for anyone who cares to lookwhich apparently few do.
Domestically, he opposed every legislative remedy for African Americans, betraying a meanness of spirit and an open racism. As Sidney Blumenthal wrote in The Guardian in 2003:/ http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/08/r...
#82342 Feb 23, 2013
No tears for Reagan
June 8, 2004 / http://tinyurl.com/558r6l
Excuse me if I dont shed any tears over the passing of former President Ronald Reagan. While the news of the 40th presidents death brought on a flood of sentimentality over the nations media this past weekend, I could not help but recall what the Reagan presidency really meant for Black Americans. Similar to what occurred upon the death of Richard Nixon, amnesia has set upon journalists as they recall Reagans era; choosing to indulge in idol worship rather than serious reflection on the former presidents policies.
Ronald Reagan: The Great White Redeemer
http://tinyurl.com/6jljhm / June 10 2004
Only 12 years elapsed between the glorious military victory over the Confederate Slave States in 1865 and the definitive defeat of Reconstruction in 1877. In many important respects, the Reconstruction period was even briefer than that. By 1870, when the last of the southern states ratified the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Tennessee had already rejected biracial democracy and installed an all-white Redeemer government.Redemption then swept through Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.
#82343 Feb 23, 2013
Trent Lott, Ronald Reagan and Republican Racism
Dec. 14, 2002 / http://tinyurl.com/d9w75
Southern Strategy: The race question has haunted Reagan and the GOP for decades
The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.
#82345 Feb 23, 2013
Who will be translating to the state of KY?
#82346 Feb 23, 2013
I don't have a "dirty" trailor nor a "dirty" house but you can bet your "dirty" mind, you do.
Hey, you can hire a illegal immigrant to clean it up for you, isn't this what liberals do by supporting their invasion? They are good for two things: fraudulent votes and servants to the liberals.
I reiterate, I doubt it.
Your post reek of ignorance to what is happening, all the facts I need to see are your coherent rants ignoramous verbage.
lol over and over and over.
#82347 Feb 23, 2013
Honey, this is one, who has cherokee on both sides, with irish and welsh, thrown in! I'm no hater! Also, i believe, i have as much use of the race card, as any American does! I've learnt, to not let anothers... ignorance...bring me down! LMAO...in Ky!
#82348 Feb 23, 2013
#82349 Feb 23, 2013
The NRA is promoting putting armed guards in our schools. I ask, who's going to pay for this?. As I understand this is going to cost Billions upon Billions of Dollars!. I don't think us taxpayers should foot the bill and I certainly don't think that our children's education budgets should pay for it. I think that the NRA should pay for it!. After all they want it, if they want it they should pay for it and not expect someone else to pay for it. The NRA is a conservative entity and most of its members are conservative. Conservative people all-time complain that the government spends money and that if you want something you should pay for it yourself. After all, this is what they believe in. I think conservatives are pigheaded hypocrites!!!. They want to be exempt from their rule. They're selfish, greedy, callous and stupid!!!.
#82350 Feb 23, 2013
That u posted a response proves otherwise, but like you, I also love Kentucky.
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#82352 Feb 23, 2013
Your post reeks of a dirty trailer. Which is spelled with an er.
Btw thanks for referring to my post as coherent, you are clearly incoherent this morning.
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"Sitting out last semester really got to me," Carnell said of his second chance. "I was used to playing for years, and I had the chance to sit out and think about it, so it's made me more excited. I'm really looking forward to getting the ball back in my hands and helping out."
Carnell averaged 23 points and 14 rebounds per game as a senior at Ingomar, helping lead the Falcons to a state title in 2010. Now he looks forward to the chance of playing in front of his family and friends again.
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