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Spencer writes:
I would like to propose the book:
Netter's Infectious Diseases, 1e as a listener pick of the week.
The book, filled with great explanations, is beautifully illustrated by the late Frank Netter MD, a pioneer in medical illustration. As a student, one of my classmates at Mount Sinai actually had Dr. Netter as a cadaver. Dr. Netter taught us so much in life as well as after! The sections on parasitic diseases are particularly well done.
Spencer MD PhD
Richard writes:
Hi Vincent and other hosts!
I have no silly questions for you this week, but a book that I found interesting.
Germs, genes and civilisation: how epidemics shaped who we are today.
By David P Clark
Thanks again for the series of podcasts, that I enjoy learning from each week.
Andrew writes:
Good [insert appropriate distinction regarding time of day you receive this] gentlemen of TWiV,
I've been an off-and-on listener to TWiV for what must have been before 2009 in the middle of my undergraduate years. This podcast serves as an example of the power of the medium to deliver focused higher-level discussion on topics too complex to survive on traditional broadcast media but still casual enough for the non-scientist. So thank you for your excellent service to us, the listener!
The question/concern/comment I'm writing about is this: Graduate School is Scary. I graduated from a local state school with a BS in Biology in 2010, and have been out of school for just under two years. I've maintained some (probably about 5-10 hours a week) of activity in the population genetics lab I worked in prior to my graduation. Some family issues kept me tied to the area and reluctant to apply to graduate school but recently those issues have resolved themselves and now I find myself looking to take the next step. This is very frightening, and I find it difficult to proceed. How do I find what Masters or (preferably) PhD program is right for me? Am I doomed? What do I do if the program best for me doesn't think I'm best for it? It seems too late in the year to apply to anything? Most programs have closed applications by now and those that haven't have disclaimers stating that funding is usually assigned already. Should I bide my time and wait? In the mean time, I'm currently applying to the IRTA Postbaccalaureate Training Program which seems like a great program to get into in order to help bridge that gap between undergrad and PhD (and may even deserve a mention on the show: https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/postbac_irta ). Any advice on how to proceed when caught in this quagmire would be greatly appreciated and would likely help any listener also caught in the same post-undergraduate-pre-graduate morass.
Thank you, whether you read this or not, your podcast has been a huge influence on me. Please, never stop.
P.S. I forgot to actually include the field of study I'm interested in, because I meant to move it around, then forgot to reinclude it. My longstanding interest in genetics managed to fuse and include virology, and so ideally I'm most interested in virology (hence looking for TWiV's perspective) with a focus on evolution and genetics.
Jim writes:
Hi Vince,
Last November you had Science360 Radio as a TWIV pick. There are now over a hundred program links there. That provides a concentration of material you can point folks towards to more easily find what they want. I hear many podcasts from these places that are good, but some sites always stand out, like TWIP/V/M. Others periodically have great shows or a segment of a digest, and some have a huge number of past programs. So if you have an interested listener, I don't know where you send them, especially if their time is limited, such as a teacher who wants to use certain subjects.
I'm trying a blog describing selected items culled from 60 or more podcasts each week thinking it might be a way to make better podcasts easier to locate. No feedback or comment has occurred after 16 entries over four months, a short period considering the probability anyone is even looking. I now suspect blog material is read more frequently on smart phones and my efforts are too wordy for small screens, so will begin producing shorthand-type entries. It does a far better job of offering material than an alphabetized list of podcasts on my hard drive. This doesn't address all your TWI(*) efforts, especially as their numbers increase, and only a few of them are included in this blog.
Anyway, if you contact anyone to suggest an article about use of podcasts in schools, the attached list of 92 rss feeds with podcast names might be of use. In addition, this link about listening faster might be of use, too, in light of Kathy Spindler's comment about finding time to hear your episodes. The blog, Media Mining, is included should anyone have an interest in that approach. Suggested improvements are welcomed, of course, to include ditching it for some other approach.
Oh, I enjoyed your descriptions of daily activities; all time well spent!
Smithfield, VA
Stephanie writes:
Dear Twivers,
I was a bit shocked when a listener wrote in last week and requested that you guys to avoid the subject of evolution in order to avoid offending anti-evolutionary Christians. I understand that, in order to reach the largest audience possible, it is important to be politically correct. But, is it even possible to discuss papers in the field of virology without understanding viral evolution? Why do viruses become resistant to drugs? Why does a virus tend to be less pathogenic in long term hosts? How did viruses develop so many ways to subvert host immune defenses? This is a sensitive subject to be sure, but this subject is something that just about every teacher of biology must face at one point. I look forward to hearing how you guys respond to this issue. You TWIVERs are role models for the scientists and educators that do not practice communicating science to a large, diverse audience on a weekly basis.
Horatio writes:
A brief comment on rabies: the genotype 1 rabies virus usually sustains itself in an endemic cycle in different carnivores according to geography and species composition. Bats may carry genotype 1 but are not needed as reservoirs; however they are reservoirs of the specific bat genotypes, which may cause disease in various animals and humans. Fortunately, the basic reproduction number of rabies virus is low, primarily due to the particular mode of transmission, restricted tissue tropism and long incubation time. Let's hope that the path to a putative, aerogenically transmitted virus is long and with many obstacles.
Erica writes:
Hi Team TWiV!
I just wanted to write in and let you know that you did indeed discuss miR-122 and HCV in a previous podcast as Rich suspected--it was episode 97 with my PI, Peter Sarnow. Not only is Peter a fantastic mentor, but he is a pioneer in the field of virology, and his episode on your show is one of my favorites. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning more about miR-122 and HCV.
Thanks so much for a great podcast!
Rohit writes:
I was pleasantly surprised to hear our (miR-122 & HCV) paper discussed on Twiv #180. We are really glad to know that the TWIV crew liked our study. Thanks for discussing our paper.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow with Dr Benjamin tenOever in the Department of Microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine where I am trying to further develop the novel technology of use of host miRNAs to engineer a live-attenuated influenza vaccine. This technology was demonstrated earlier by Jasmine Perez in the tenOever lab [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19483680].
I did my PhD with Dr Stan Lemon while he was at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, TX. Some of the initial experiments of the PNAS manuscript were actually carried out in the Lemon lab when we were located on the 5th floor of the Galveston National Laboratory, where you are headed sometime soon to do a TWIV episode.
I thought that I would answer some of the questions that came up during the discussion of the paper. In addition to its positive role in HCV replication, miR-122 also regulates cholesterol metabolism in liver. Knockdown of miR-122 significantly reduces serum cholesterol levels in mice as well as non-human primates. Thus, miR-122 is also an attractive drug target for cardiovascular diseases. However, certain liver cancers are associated with lower miR-122 levels suggesting that long-term knockdown of miR-122 might have some side-effects.
Location of miRNA targets in 5'UTR by itself is not enough to change a miRNA from a "repressor" to an "activator" of gene expression as there are examples where miRNA targets located in 5'-UTR of mRNAs down-regulate gene expression. Thus, miR-122 effect on HCV 5'-UTR seems to be unique so far. However, there must be other such examples out there that are yet to discovered.
Allan was right in pointing out that RISC, as the name RNA-Induced Silencing Complex suggests, is a complex of multiple types of proteins. Argonautes are the central and canonical components of RISC. There are 4 argonaute proteins in the human genome, argonaute 1-4. Ago-2 is the best studied one and is the only argonaute with a slicer/endonuclease activity that is used to cleave the target mRNA when there is perfect complementarity between miRNA/siRNA and its target.
Stephen writes:
I'm a new subscriber to TWIV, and just began with #180. Richard Condit's comments on polydnaviruses and wasps was fascinating, and I will follow up on that.
A few comments:
1. Broken link: "Viral and wasp genes involved in symbiotic replication (J Virol)" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22238295
2. braconid wasps are parasitoids, not parasites. Parasitoids kill the host.
3. The layers of complexity involving parasitoid wasps are sometimes even deeper. Here's a photo I took by accident while shooting some grasshoppers (Nisquallia olympica http://onh.eugraph.com/insects/orthop/nolympica) I casually study in the Olympic mountains. I've appended a comment from bugguide.net, to which I contributed a crop of this photo.
Brachymeria tegularis…
These are hyperparasitoids of common grasshoppers (through sarcophid and tachinid flies). More commonly found in western states. Great find.
See reference here.
… Ross Hill, 12 September, 2011 - 4:32pm
So the flies parasitize (or parasitoidize) grasshoppers, then Chalcidid wasps lay an egg on the grasshopper. The larva of the wasp then finds the larva of the fly and parasitoidizes it.
I have to wonder how much of a role viral genes play in all of this.


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The Canisius College women's soccer team has added six for 2014, head coach Jim Wendling announced.
The Griffs' recruiting class hails from three different states (New York, Maryland and Illinois) and features athletes at every position.
The class of 2018 features forward Samantha Gagliano (Palmyra, N.Y./Palmyra-Macedon), forward Taylor Kugler (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa), defender/forward Becca Lederman (Berlin, Md./Stephen Decatur), defender Julia Mullican (Frederick Md./Oakdale), goaltender Kaylee Price (Antioch, Ill./Antioch), and forward Tia Saunders (Orchard Park, N.Y./Orchard Park).
Player Profiles: Gagliano, Kugler, Lederman, Mullican, Price, Saunders
SAMANTHA GAGLIANO • Palmyra, NY • 5-foot-5 • Forward
Samantha Gagliano joins the Griffs from Palmyra-Macedon High School near Rochester, NY. Gagliano has the ability to play either as a forward or outside midfielder. Wendling feels that her speed, quickness, technical ball skills and great goal soring ability should be an immediate impact to the Griffs.
She was the Conference Player of the Year in 2013 with her 34 goals. Gagliano also set a new school record at Palmyra-Macedan Red Raiders High School with 87 career goals. In addition, she totaled 23 career assists. She was also Second Team All State in 2013, Fourth Team All State in 2012, All Greater Rochester Team in both 2012 & 2013 as well as Second Team All-League in 2009 and First Team All-League from 2010-2013.
Samantha also is Vice President of Student council and a member of the National Honor Society, and comes from a very athletic family as her mother and father both played college athletics and sister Sydney plays on the high school varsity soccer team.
"Sam's great speed and goal scoring ability can make an immediate impact with the Griffs Soccer Squad," Wendling said. "With us graduating three seniors whom scored a total of 14 goals (56-percent of the team total of last fall), Sam can be that great attacking player we need in 2014 to get us back into the top of the MAAC conference's team scoring column."
• 5-foot-5 Forward
• Played for the Doug Miller Soccer Club
• 2013 Second Team All State
• 2012 Fourth Team All State
• 2013 Conference Player of the Year
• 34 Goals in her senior season
• 87 Career Goals
• 34 Career Assists
• Dad – Scott played golf at Monroe College
• Mom- Wendi played soccer at Nazareth.
• Has one sister, Sydney
TAYLOR KUGLER • Massapequa Park, NY • 5-foot-3 • Forward.
Taylor comes to Canisius from Long Island area of New York, who Wendling feels is another top attacking player that will boost the goal scoring capabilities for the Griffs next fall.
She play high school soccer at Massapequa High School where she helped lead the Chiefs to two New York State High School Soccer Championships during her freshmen and senior years as well as going undefeated during her senior season.
Kugler played mostly outside midfielder/winger and scored the winning goal in the State Championship game during that freshmen year and scoring a goal during her Senior State Semi-Final Championship game.
A four-year letter winner at Massapequa High School, Taylor earned Nassau County All-Class honors while scoring nine goals with three assists during her senior Year as a right midfielder. Taylor completed her high school career with 22 career goals and 10 career assists.
She also plays club soccer for the East Meadow ECNL team, which plays in the top tier of girls club soccer. She has won two Eastern NY Club State Championships and a Region I Championship. Taylor has been a member of the ENYYSA State Team for 5 years, played in numerous regional tournaments such as Coral Springs Boca Invitational and the Costa Rica Region I Team. Taylor also participated in the U15 National Pool Training in Oregon Training Camp.
Her Club is currently nationally ranked No. 26 in the nation. Taylor also comes from a long line of great athletes in her family as four of her cousins have played at the Division-I college soccer level with three playing professional soccer. Taylor is active in Project Science Club, Walk for a Cure, Senior Nation and Foreign Language Club. She enjoys cross fit, movies and hanging out with friends."Taylor brings a wealth of top level high school and club soccer that should transfer very well into the college DI soccer competition," Wendling said. "Taylor knows what it takes to be a champion! She has also trained and played against some of the best club players with her ECNL team. Her Tactical awareness, technical skills and goal scoring ability will truly be a great help next fall for the Griffs!"
• 5-foot-3 Forward
• Played club soccer for East Meadow ECNL team
• Club Team Nationally Ranked No. 26
• ENYYSA State ODP Team
• Region I Team.
• Participant in the U15 National Training Pool.
• Won 2 ENY State Club Championships
• All-Nassau County
• Two-time New York High School State Soccer Championships (2010 and 2013)
• 22 Career Goals
• 10 Career Assists
• Four cousins played college soccer: Christina DeMartino (UCLA); Gina, Victoria & Jacklyn DeMartino (Boston College).
• Three cousins played Professional Women's Soccer. Christina, Gina (Philadelphia Independence), Victoria (WNY Flash)
• Parents are Robert and Dina
• Has twin brothers, Jake and Jagger
REBECCA LEDERMAN • Berlin, MD • 5-foot-7 • Defender/Forward
|Rebecca comes to Canisius from the Assateague Island National Seashore region of Maryland. Becca was a four-year letter winner both from her soccer and track teams at Stephen Decatur High School where she won numerous awards in each.
She has been both her high school soccer teams Defensive Offensive Player of the Year 2011 and Offensive Player of the Year in 2013, and also served as a two-time Team Captain.
Lederman was named First Team All Bayside in both 2012 and 2013 and Second Team All-Bayside in 2011. She has received weekly honors in the Bayside Daily Times three times in 2013 and Salisbury Daily Times four times.
Rebecca scored 25 goals as a senior along with 8 assists with a career total of 35 goals and 20 assists. She was the second-leading goal scorer in her Bayside Conference.
She also participated in ODP for two years while being named captain of her ODP Teams. As a track athlete, Becca has qualified for the State Championships at 100-meters, and placed fourth in the Region in the 400-meters. Her time of 12.83 in the 100-meter dash is second all time at Stephen Decatur H.S.
Rebecca is also a member of the National Honor Society, National Technical Honor Student, Principals List, 4-year member of the Biomedical Program and Academically in the top 5-percent of her high school class.
Rebecca has also been active in volunteer work with Special Olympics, Peer Mentoring, Tutoring, Fire Department and working as an intern with the Psychiatric Nursing Unit at her local hospital.
Rebecca also enjoys drawing, writing poetry and hanging out with friends. Rebecca will be in the Honors Program at Canisius majoring in Psychology
"Rebecca is a very speedy defender or forward who can make an immediate impact to our team as a freshmen," Wendling said. "I originally recruited Becca as a defender, but she had a great fall high school soccer season as a forward with her 25 goals. I can't wait to see her step on the field for the Griffs!"
• 5-foot-7 Defender/Forward
• Team Offensive MVP in 2013
• Team Defensive MVP in 2011
• 25 Goals and 8 Assists in 2013
• Second-leading goal scorer in her conference
• First Team All-Bayside in 2012 & 2013
• Second Team All-Bayside in 2011
• Three-time Bayside Daily Times Player of the Week
• Four-time Salisbury Daily times Player of the Week
• Two-time Team Captain
• State Qualifier in 100-meter dash
• Regional Qualifier 400-meter run
• Second-fastest time in school history for 100 meters
• Major: Psychology/Honors Program
• Parents: Russ and Christy
• Has one sister, Carly
JULIA MULLICAN • Frederick, Md. • 5-foot-9 • Central Defender/Defensive Midfielder
Julia comes to the Griffs from New Market, Maryland, just west of Baltimore. She is a two-time State Champion like incoming freshmen teammate Taylor Kugler. Julia has been a starting defender and four-year letterwinner at Oakdale High School whom also has been a part of 42 shutouts in her high school career.
Mullican had the game winning assist this past fall in the State Championship game. During her senior year as a central defender, Julia had 4 goals along with that one assist. Julia also had an assist in the Maryland Senior All-Star Game.
She plays on the highly ranked Baltimore Bays Chelsea Club and will be studying in the Honors Program with freshmen teammate Rebecca Lederman and majoring in Biology.
Mullican is a member of the National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society and National Art Honor Society. She is a nominee for Regional Academic All-American Award.
"Julia is an outstanding Central Defender whom also can play a great role as a Central Defensive Midfielder," Wendling said. "She can also score goals off corner kicks plays with her great ability to head the ball. Having played with an outstanding high-level club team and two-time state champion, Julia knows what it takes to be a winner."
Julia's Player Profile:
• 5-foot-9 central defender/defensive midfielder
• Baltimore Bays Chelsea Club Team.
• Club team Ranked No. 6 in Maryland
• Four-year letterwinner at Oakdale High School
• Conference Champions in 2013
• Maryland State Champions in 2010 and 2013
• Had Game Winning Assist in 2013 State Championship Win
• Recorded an assist in Maryland Senior All-Star Game
• Second Team Maryland All-State in 2013.
• First Team All-Conference in 2013 MVAL
• First Team All-Area in 2013
• 4A Regional Finalist in 2011
• All-MVAL Conference in 2011 & 2012
• Frederick All-Area 2011 & 2012
• All-Gazette in 2012
• Team Captain 2013
• Club Champions of high level tournaments such as Mid Atlantic Cup, Jefferson Cup, Freestate Spring Break Cup, Baltimore March Mania
• Major: Biology/Honors Program
• Parents: Sean and Laurie
• Has a younger sister, Kelly
KAYLEE PRICE • Antioch, Illinois • 5-foot-5 • Goalkeeper
Kaylee plays for the Eclipse ECNL Club team out of Chicago, Ill, which is currently the No. 19 ranked club team in the nation.
Wendling feels that although Price is not the biggest net minder, she is lightening quick, strong hands, great diving ability, very strong punts and goal-kicks as well as fearless coming off her goal line to stuff out breakaways.
Price was a high school All-Conference, All-Region and Lakes All-Tournament member.
Price only played one year of high school soccer at Antioch as she then played year round for the Eclipse ECNL team, which squares off with some of the best teams in the nation.
"I am very excited to have a keeper of Kaylee's experience, training, and high level club experience join our soccer team," Wendling said. "Kaylee is dynamite in Goal. She has great hands, strong punts and can dive to save about any shot."
• 5-foot-5 Goalkeeper
• Eclipse ECNL Team
• Club Team Ranked No. 19 nationally
• All-Conference in 2011
• Parents: Amy and Rich
• Has one brother, Hunter
• Major: Psychology
TIARA SAUNDERS • Orchard Park, NY • 5-foot-8 • Forward/Defender
Tia is a local product from the Buffalo, NY area, who played club soccer for Alliance FC and the Buffalo Soccer Academy (BSA) coached by local soccer retired Professional Soccer Player Rudy Pikuzinksi. BSA was the No. 3 ranked club in Western New York.
Her combination of athleticism, quickness, speed and size is that attracted Coach Wendling's recruitment of Tia. He also feels as though she has excellent technical ball skills and a high soccer IQ.
She can play multiple positions on the soccer pitch. She plays forward at the club soccer level, center back at the high school level and coach Wendling believes she could be an outstanding center midfielder.
Saunders was one of the best soccer players in the Buffalo area this past year until she tore her ACL in September. While at Orchard Park High School, Tia's Quaker team won the Section IV Class A Championship and the ECIC Division Championship.
She also captained her Alliance FC Club team to a 2011 National Cup XI Northeast Regional Championships and advance to the National Cup Finals.
Tia's community service involvement includes Assist with Friends Dinners, Tree & Shrub Conservation Program and Religious Education Assistant. She has three siblings Ricky (23), Brittany (22) and Stephanie (14) and her cousin (Dillow Malke) plays soccer at Long Island University.
"Tiara is everything a coach is looking for in a soccer player with her speed, quickness, athleticism and ball skills," Wendling said. "I certainly see Tiara stepping right into our team right down the spine of our team either as a forward, center midfield or center defender."
• 5-foot-8 Forward/Midfielder/Defender
• Plays for No. 3 ranked WNY Club: BSA
• Starting forward in club soccer
• Starting center back in high school
• Four-year letter winner for Orchard Park
• Major: Criminal Justice
• Parents: Rick and Melanie
• Has a brother, Ricky and two Sisters, Brittany and Stephanie


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SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
Dave,too bad you don''t like the Tartan 37, its a fine boat. We decided on a Tartan 33 with a 4''8" draft scheel keel for FL/Bahamas waters. The Pearson you like is also a good boat. Can''t comment about the Horizon or its build quality.
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
Since I started all this hullabaloo I thought I''d respond to several of the suggestions so far. I have looked into the Tartan 37 but found it more of a racer/cruiser tnan a cruiser/racer. It just doesn''t have the below deck "feel" i''m looking for. Thus the personal side of our choices. I saw an interesting boat on yachtworld today and wonder if anyone has any knowledge about this boat. It''s a Horizon 39. Great looking boat, classic lines, airy cabin with 12 opening brass ports. Incredible equipment and set up for cruising. Please let me know if any of you can enlighten me. Otherwise the Peasrson 365 still holds top-o-the-list position. It''s an exciting time...loking for the next boat. thank you all,
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
Some interesting boats have been mentioned so far, certainly enough to confuse the hell out of a prudent shopper. So I''ll add three more to the list. But first a disclaimer -- I own a Pearson, and as Duane said (but these are my words and not his) I can put you to sleep faster talking about Pearson''s than anything else. Frankly, for the money I think Pearson''s are hard to beat.
Three more to consider: Pearson 34, 36 and 37. By these, I mean the mid-late ''70''s to early ''80''s models of these boats, which should be in your price range.
The P-365 is a venerable design that people have sailed all over the place. Bill Shaw has said it''s one of his favorite designs. But, yes, it is slow. It needs a breeze to get going. Tons of room below though, and a very seakindly hull.
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
The only problem that I have with that site is that almost all of his data is based on designs that are more than 20 years old and many which are over 50 years old. We have learned an enormous amount about the design of boats for comfort, seaworthiness and speed in the past twenty years and in my mind the actual numbers that come out of his ''fuzzy'' logic is only valid if you are into older designs. Unfortunately, many of the designs that he has chosen had artificially short waterline lengths. Since many of the popular ''non-dimensional'' ratios use waterline length as a factor in determining their output, the results within his tables tend to push the resultant output quite high.
Using an example that I have posted her before or two 38 footers which for all intensive purposes are identical (6 foot draft, 6500 lbs ballast, 15000 lb displacement, 685 sf of sail area) except that one has the typical waterline length of a boat designed in the late 1970''s,28 feet and the other has a more typical modern waterline length of 33 feet.
The 1970''s era boat would have the same SA/D ratio (but would have more drag and a lower hull speed) but more significantly the 1970''s boat would have a L/D of 305 compared to the more modern boat''s L/D of 186. The other misleading number is the so called Comfort Factor in which the 1970''s boat would have a CF of 27.42 compared to the more modern design''s 24.5. The reality is that, all other things being equal, the longer waterline and implied finer bow and shallower canoe body of the more modern design would result in a more comfortable motion (less rolly) and in more performance on all points of sail, seastates and wind ranges.
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
I recently found www.johnsboatstuff.com. He
rates boats by "fuzzy logic". Pretty interesting and he tells what all the ratios mean. Lots of other technicle articles.
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
Sorry for the double post. For some reason the hyphen didn''t translate: there should be a hyphen between image and ination in that address. Wish I wwwwwere as smart as a computer.
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
There is a website which offers motion comfort numbers on a boat for boat comparison basis, along with many other useful numbers including SA/D, D/LWL, LWL/B, capsize index, etc. Unfortunately draft and mast clearance are not noted, and altho many boats are cataloged (including more Herreshoff''s than you ever knew existed) some boats such as the Morgan 34 K/CB are not there.
Anyway, the site is: www.imageination.com/sailcalc.html.
Have fun looking
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
There is a website which offers motion comfort numbers om a boat for boat comparison basis, along with many other useful numbers including SA/D, D/LWL, LWL/B, capsize index, etc. Unfortunately draft and mast clearance are not noted, and altho many boats are cataloged (including more Herreshoff''s than you ever knew existed) some boats such as the Morgan 34 K/CB are not there.
Anyway, the site is: www.imageination.com/sailcalc.html.
Have fun looking
SW Florida Boat Choices/Advice
I also use www.phrfne.org for PHRF
[and...years ago I had a Catalina 30...fine boat for what I wanted and could afford then..but it was dead slow...a PHRF of 180...I swore to myself I would never have another boat that slow :O)]
I think motion comfort is also an important consideration but as Jeff has mentioned many of the algorhythms online are not completely accurate. I did find them useful though but only in a vague general sense when comparing two otherwise similar boats.
One comment I do believe is accurate is one I found on Bill Deitrich''s (sp?) website. Steve Dashow is credited with stating, "Invest in waterline". LWL, in the gross terms can relate to speed and pitch stability...when comparing two otherwise similar boats.
Just my $0.02.
My best to all.
ps Jeff....we might be close to being neighbors...I am looking at properties in the annap area.
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There really isn''t a website that accurately address motion comfort, or stability. There are several surrogate formulas that look at these but they are so inaccurate as to be dangerously misleading. As to speed, the best place to judge relative speed would be to look at any one of a bunch of PHRF websites. My two favorites are PHRF NE <http://www.phrfne.org/baseh.htm>
and PHRF Long Island Sound <http://www.pipeline.com/~wayneb/phrflis.htm>
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DARPA's Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program aims to develop a miniscule "air vehicle system" that's less than 15 centimeters long and weighs less than 20 grams. One experimental design incorporates flapping wings, disguised here as a hummingbird, making it possible for the device to navigate both indoors and outdoors. DARPA expects the NAVs to push the limits of aerodynamics and maneuverability.
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Earl Weaver had an illustraious career as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles. He spent 17-years total as the Orioles skipper, first from 1968-82 and then again from 1985-1986. In total he finished with a record of 1,480-1060 with five 100-win seasons. He only had one losing season in his managerial career. He led the Orioles to six Eastern Division titles, four American League pennants, and a World Series championship.
Remember by many for his fiery temper and frequest outbursts towards umpires, Weaver was ejected from over 90 games in his career including being ejected from both ends of a doubleheader three times.
Weaver was inducted into Major League Baseballs Hall of Fame in 1996.
The Earl of Baltimore will be remembered forever.


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how do all you kids get caught with drawings on paper? or....why would anyone question graffiti on paper, thats not illegal.
how do all you kids get caught with drawings on paper? or....why would anyone question graffiti on paper, thats not illegal.
My suggestion is just sketch letter styles in school, dont write what you tag in public. Just make shit up to write in class, cause yeah they'll see your shit and swoop yo ass!
That's a nice watch bro, bought it from Costco!
yeh it will. itll get u all the supplies you need at zero cost.
I do participate in Acts of Graffiti/vandalism. Not only do i condone such acts, but i encourage them.
Say you can fit like 3 sketch books in your pants/shirt/bag, whatever you put your shit in when you gank...Ok so you got 3 free.
Now if you're not a broke bitch...You can get a shopping carriage and fill it up with all the sketchbooks you want. Proceed to checkout. Indeed checkout. Head home and fill up book after book without worrying about having to steal another one in a few days. And now you have all the fucking sketchbooks you could possible want, minus the bad Karma for being a low end thief.
Dude I have a mini black book from barnes and noble.. and I take it to school and EVERYONE asks me what it says.. and it gets REALLY annoying. And I always have fucking chicks asking me to write their name.
^^^^ same here im glad im done with school and i can fuckin draw in peace, but i still get the ocasional person whos tries to read what im writing but just dont kno anything bout graff so they think its just a bunch of lines haha
"when i was twelve, i went to hell for snuffin jesus"
I steal my black books from Michael's along with over 100's of prismas and decos, they just restock in a month an go back for more!
^^ rofl its true, michaels is the easiest store to rack
"when i was twelve, i went to hell for snuffin jesus"
Chowdah you buy your paint to? lol
shit and another thing is SOME teachers will confiscate your book and turn it over to crackers if they see you drawing during class. and CHOWDA, you might have money to blow on paint but times are rough and i sure as hell dont have money for paint. i'd just rack.but either way racking or purchasing you've got a chance of ending up in a holding cell by the end of the night so what difference does it make?
I just use paper or what i got on that moment, mabye get a blackbook later when my skills get up (:


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One of the most lyrical and experienced printmakers in India, Sutanu creates prints of very Indian images which look Universal. Nature and people are a source of inspiration for him. He hates kitsch. From batik to hand block printing to patchwork. He works with artisans in many parts of the country and creates timeless looking prints in many different techniques.


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I have gone out 3x today to pester the cow! She was fairly wild when I got her & now I can walk up & lay or fiddle with her if she is in the barn. I take the halter on & off for no apparent reason & she gets treats. She comes running when I open the back door. Thinking I will be able to walk up to her & handle her out in the field by spring. Varied Thrushes are back, they seem to go away when the Robins are here, love their calls. Many flickers here too as well as 2-3 of the smaller sapsucker types & pileated. Better get out & fill the feeders again! J
Tell me more about where you are moving? I know the decision wasn't made lightly, you love your little patch of land like I do. The only thing that would move me would be family. I haven't looked up where you are going, is it the Canadian side of the Methow here? Twisp & Omak? Beautiful country that area but too cold winters & dry. I complain about the rain but don't like to irrigate either! Watered the yard just 1x this summer! Better go pester something before I implode! J
We have, it seems one continuous snowstorm since friday afternoon. You just keep shoveling and it just keeps piling up.
Looks like for once we got lucky, somehow we were passed up by the wind, even when everyone around us was getting hammered. Only about 4" more snow. So far no power outage so only having to deal with no running water.Did you know it takes 5 buckets of snow to make one bucket of water :-\


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Senior guard Andre Stringer led LSU (18-12, 9-9) with 22 points in his final game at LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center, while freshman Jarell Martin added 13 points.
However, Georgia limited LSU leading scorer Johnny O'Bryant III to five points -- about 11 points below his average -- while snapping the Tigers' seven-game home winning streak.
LSU will be the seventh seed in the SEC tournament and get a first-round bye, while the Bulldogs will get a double-bye as one of the top four seeds.
Georgia opened up a 12-point lead when Nemanja Djurisic spun out of nifty post-up move for an easy layup that made it 47-35 with about 14 minutes left. The basket capped a 9-0 run comprised of Djurisic's first three baskets of the game and Gains' 3.
LSU responded with seven straight points, highlighted by senior Shavon Coleman's 3, to trim it back to 47-42, but Georgia's Donte Williams snapped the run with a dunk in transition, and LSU never got closer than five points again.
Georgia dominated in some key statistical categories, outshooting LSU 47.9 percent (23 of 48) to 36.4 percent (20 of 55) and outrebounding the Tigers 37-29.
Neither team led by more than four points in a close first half that included 10 lead changes.
Stringer provided nearly half of LSU's offense during the opening 20 minutes, when he had 13 points, most of which came on three 3-pointers.
Georgia shot 52.4 percent (11 of 21) in the first half, with Gaines making four of his first five shots for 12 points.
But the Bulldogs hurt themselves with some early ball-handling blunders. Of their 16 turnovers in the game, they committed 13 in the first half, which lead to 11 LSU points.
That allowed LSU to get up more shots and stay close despite hitting only 10 of 28 from the field.
The Tigers led 28-24 after O'Bryant's jumper, but failed to score again during the last 2:39 of the half. Georgia, meanwhile, put together a 6-0 run, highlighted by Gaines' 3, to put the Bulldogs up 30-28 at halftime.


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'Having seen almost every home game at Memorial Auditorium and all of Buffalo's playoff games — home and away — in the 1970s, I might be inclined to say how much better it was 30 years ago. However I won't burst the bubble of the new fans, especially those who weren't alive when the French Connection opened up the confined Aud ice and defensemen Jim Schoenfeld and Jerry Korab made the rink seem smaller to opponents. It is different today but not less exciting.'
Sabres are stylin', it's notta the hair
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Broad Irony
This is dishonest in at least two different ways. First of all, Broad conveniently forgets to mention that the 2006 Hurricane season was accompanied by a moderate El Nino event. It is well known that El Nino events, such as the 2006 El Nino, tend to be associated with stronger westerly winds aloft in the tropical Atlantic, which is unfavorable for tropical cyclone development. The season nonetheless produced a greater than average number of named storms in the tropical Atlantic (10), 3 more than the typical El Nino year. But El Ninos come and go–more or less randomly–from year to year. The overall trend in named tropical Atlantic storms in recent decades is undeniably positive. We can have honest debates about the long-term data quality, but not if we start out by misrepresenting the data we do have, as Broad chooses to. Additionally, this is a clear misrepresentation of what Gore actually stated in his book. Gore indicated that it is primarily Hurricane intensities which scientists largely agree should be expected to increase in association with warming surface temperatures, and specifically notes that
There is less agreement among scientists about the relationship between the total number of hurricanes each year and global warming.
Next. Roy Spencer, best known for his satellite work arguing against warming of the atmosphere (which turns out to have been an artifact of a combination of algebraic and sign errors), criticizes Gore for pointing out that recent warmth appears to be anomalous in at least the past 1000 years. Spencer does this by both mis-characterizing the recent National Academies Report on the subject which indeed pointed out that there are numerous lines of evidence for precisely this conclusion, and by completely ignoring the recently-released IPCC Fourth Assessment report, which draws the stronger conclusion that the warmth of recent decades is likely anomalous in at least the past 1300 years.
We also find it amusing that Broad takes anything Robert Carter has to say seriously, given that he doesn't even believe that current rises in CO2 are human caused (judging from his Senate performance). Sea level rise statements from the IPCC Summary are horribly mischaracterised. Easterbrook's implication that global temperatures have varied by more the 20 times the medieval temperature anomaly over the Holocene is simply laughable (only if you include the deglaciation might that be true, but since that was before the onset even of settled human communities it seems less than relevant).
This article is very disappointing, not just because it gets things so wrong, but because it misses an opportunity to address a much more substantive issue. It is inevitable that working scientists will find popular presentations of their work lacking in depth and nuance (after all, depth and nuance are what we do!). Whatever you may think about Al Gore's movie, it is indisputable that it has raised awareness of the issues and left a substantial part of the public hungry for more information. That hunger can only be fed by people who are closer to the science than Gore, and it is inevitable that the AIT will be used as a springboard or contrast for further presentations. A better article would have investigated how that is happening and how that is affecting public awareness of the science. Unfortunately, this article does nothing to improve public awareness, and that is deeply ironic.
[Hat tip to David Roberts for pointing out his own article on the Broad piece. David picks up on some additional morsels we left out]
[Update 3/14/07: See also excellent discussions by Tim Lambert and Andrew Dessler]
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crepes RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
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"A strawberry fan makes a lovely garnish for this spring dessert," says Susan McDonald, Germantown, Tennessee. "It's ideal for a special brunch.
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- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- Dash ground nutmeg
- Dash ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Dash ground nutmeg
- 1 cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons grated orange peel
- 1-1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 cups chopped fresh rhubarb
- 3 cups halved fresh strawberries
- Whipped cream
- In a small bowl, beat the eggs, milk and butter. Combine the flour, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon; add to egg mixture. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, combine the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add the orange juice, orange peel and lemon juice; stir in rhubarb and strawberries. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until rhubarb is tender, stirring occasionally. Set aside.
- Heat a lightly greased 8-in. nonstick skillet; pour 2 tablespoons batter into the center of skillet. Lift and tilt pan to evenly coat bottom. Cook until top appears dry; turn and cook 15-20 seconds longer. Remove to a wire rack. Repeat with remaining batter, greasing skillet as needed. Stack cooled crepes with waxed paper or paper towels in between.
- To serve, spoon 1/4 cup filling over each crepe; roll up. Top with whipped cream.
- Yield: 1 dozen.
Originally published as Strawberry Rhubarb Crepes in Taste of Home June/July 2007 , p6
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|Indycar at Michigan in 2007 (Photo credit not listed)
Monday, April 29, 2013
More Ovals?
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- BluefalconApril 29, 2013 at 6:25 PM
While all of the above would be potentially good options, there are points that are missing from your post.ReplyDelete
1. Chicago, Kansas, Michigan, Phoenix, and Richmond are all owned by ISC. Why would ISC want to allow INDYCAR to hold races there?
2. Are there sponsors to fund these races?
3. Rockingham (UK) and Motegi involve traveling as well as other issues-weather being one.
Please understand that I am not dismissing your post out of hand. In my perfect INDYCAR world, if I could afford to buy the series-and I am nowhere near having the financial wherewithal to do so-I would try to have my ideal INDYCAR schedule as close to half ovals/half street/road courses as possible. However, reality is that ISC, SMI and other entities have to agree to hold races, and until they see it as being viable financially, it may not happen.
of course i want a few more ovals.ReplyDelete
- James SedlmayrMay 1, 2013 at 10:01 AM
I would like to see 27 races in the IndyCar Season. 13 ovals and 13 street/road combos, the 27th being the Indy 500. Tie the 500 in for the triple crown with the rest of the ovals, but open up the 500 for anyone who wants to enter a car with a different engine, fuel, chassis or any other type of technology to give the 500 a brand new scope and open it up to a wider group of fans.ReplyDelete
Just a small idea of what I would like to see.


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Ozarks' Biology honor society welcomes new members
Release Date: 3/5/2010
Clarksville, Ark. --- Collegiate honor societies have always been groups which hold up the best and brightest students in their majors and encourage them to excel as part of those groups, and Ozarks has several such honor societies.
But one especially dear to the hearts of its members is Nu Eta, the local chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the National Biological Honor Society.
Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) is a society for students, particularly undergraduates, dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of biological study and extending boundaries of human knowledge through scientific research. Since its founding in 1922, more than 200,000 persons have been accepted into lifetime membership, and more than 520 chapters have been established throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is divided into regional and district groups, each of which holds a convention annually. Awards are given for outstanding individual and chapter accomplishment.
Last week Tri-Beta inducted into its ranks its nine newest members: Tyler Bazyk, Joshua Booth, Tristan Cooper, Sabrina Goddard, Jessica Martin, Megan Minniear, Andrea Muffuletto, Timothy Ramirez, and April Young. These young people have met the requirements for membership in the areas of grade point average, as well as service to discipline, university, and/or community.
"When we were chartered in 2005, there were 17 charter members," said Tri-Beta faculty sponsor Dr. Sean Coleman. "We have an induction ceremony every spring. This spring we had nine inductees and one associate, Denise Wirth. We try and hold to the three main themes of the organization – first, to promote scholarship in the biological sciences; second, to promote the dissemination of biological knowledge; and third, to encourage research. We try and do service projects every semester. It is one of my favorite things to see these young scientists inducted into such a prestigious honor society. We attend the regional convention every spring, and last year we were the organizers of the meeting. I enjoy it."
"I was thrilled to be invited to be part of such a prestigious organization," said sophomore biology major Megan Minniear. "Not only is it an honor in itself, but graduate programs and medical schools tend to look very favorably on these sorts of affiliations, so I'm really glad to be involved. We all need all the help we can get."
The words spoken by the new members in their induction ceremony bond them as Biology majors, as scientists, and as students: "I hereby affirm that I will strive to promote and perpetuate the spirit and idealism of Beta Beta Beta. I will be true to its interest, mindful of its honor, and will help to accomplish its objectives. I will discharge faithfully my obligations to Nu Eta Chapter and to the Society."
And they do.
New members of Tri-Beta (left to right): Dr. Sean Coleman (sponsor), Joshua Booth, Tristan Cooper, Andrea Muffuletto, Sabrina Goddard, April Young, Tyler Bazyk, Denise Worth, Timothy Ramirez, Megan Minniear, and Jessica Martin.


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Beyonce takes up a new sport.
Charlize Theron forgot her complimentary newspaper. The guy really wants to give it to her.
Ethan Hawke is obviously president of the Ann Burrell fan club.
Emmy Rossum headed to the airport. Big airport day yesterday.
Not at the airport, but wearing her star pants while shopping was Emma Roberts.
Maggie Grace, Christina Ricci and Ashlee Simpson at Fashion Week.
Also there was Rashida Jones and
Victoria Beckham. Great look for her btw.
Drew Barrymore showed up for some Fashion Week events too while
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Scientists have found intersex fish in three Pennsylvania river basins, indicating hormone-disrupting chemicals are more widespread in the Chesapeake Bay watershed than once thought.
Image courtesy RTD Photography/Flickr
Intersex conditions occur when pesticides, pharmaceuticals or other chemicals disrupt the hormonal systems of an animal, leading to the presence of both male and female characteristics. The presence of intersex conditions in fish, frogs and other species is linked to land use, as the chemicals that lead to these conditions often enter rivers and streams through agricultural runoff or wastewater.
Previous samplings of fish in the region have found intersex conditions in the Potomac, Shenandoah and Susquehanna rivers, as well as lakes and ponds on the Delmarva Peninsula. On samplings conducted at 16 sites between 2007 and 2010, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found intersex fish in the Susquehanna, Delaware and Ohio river basins.
According to the USGS, freshwater fish called white suckers from sample sites in the Delaware and Susquehanna river basins had a yolk precursor in their blood. Male smallmouth bass from all sample sites had immature eggs in their testes. The prevalence of intersex fish was highest in the Susquehanna river basin, which researchers attribute to the higher rate of farms—and related herbicides, pesticides and hormone-containing manure—in the area. While scientists found no relationship between the number of wastewater treatment plants in an area and the prevalence of immature eggs in fish, the severity of intersex conditions did rise at sites downstream from wastewater discharge points.
"The sources of estrogenic chemicals are most likely complex mixtures from both agricultural sources, such as animal wastes, pesticides and herbicides, and human sources from wastewater treatment plant effluent and other sewer discharges," said fish biologist Vicki Blazer in a media release.
Over the Chesapeake Bay Program's long history, its leaders have learned that collaboration is key to restoration success. In June, the governors of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, the mayor of the District of Columbia, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission came together to sign the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Written with input from individuals, organizations and other partners, this document contains goals and outcomes that will restore and protect the nation's largest and most productive estuary. But what will the Agreement mean for the residents of this massive watershed? Read our list to find out.
10. Improved access to the water. From fishing piers to boat launches, people in the watershed want more access to rivers, streams and the Bay. And while partners have opened 69 new access sites over the last three years, access remains limited, with consequences for tourism economies and environmental conservation. Bay Program partners have set a goal to open 300 new public access sites across the watershed by 2025. Learn more.
9. New opportunities to fish in headwater streams. Our increasing need for land and resources has fragmented our rivers and streams, harming the health of those fish that must migrate through unobstructed waters to reach their spawning grounds each spring. Bay Program partners plan to improve stream health and restore fish passage to the Bay's headwaters, opening up habitat to migratory fish like alewife, American shad and brook trout. More habitat can mean more fish, and more fish can mean more fishing opportunities. Learn more.
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8. Cleaner waters. Nutrient and sediment pollution are behind the Bay's biggest health problems. Nutrients fuel the growth of harmful algae blooms, which create low-oxygen dead zones that suffocate marine life. Suspended sediment blocks sunlight from reaching underwater plants. Bay Program partners plan to work under the Bay's existing "pollution diet" to reduce nutrient and sediment pollution, improve water quality, and support the living resources of the Bay, its rivers and its streams. Learn more.
7. Safer waters. Almost three-quarters of the Bay's tidal waters are considered impaired by chemical contaminants. These substances can harm the health of humans and wildlife, and have been linked to tumor growth in fish, eggshell thinning in birds and intersex conditions in amphibians. Bay Program partners are committed to reducing toxic contaminants in our waters, with a focus on mercury, PCBs and contaminants of emerging and widespread concern. Learn more.
6. Healthy waters that remain that way. Healthy watersheds provide us with clean water, critical habitat and economic benefits. While there are a number of healthy watersheds in the region, development poses a constant threat. Bay Program partners want 100 percent of state-identified healthy waters and watersheds to remain that way. Learn more.
5. A larger community of citizen stewards. The success of our restoration work will depend on local action, and local action will depend on local stewards. Bay Program partners hope to build a larger, broader and more diverse community of citizen stewards who will carry out the conservation and restoration activities that will benefit their local communities and the Bay. Learn more.
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4. Sustainable seafood. Habitat loss, invasive species, poor water quality and harvest pressure threaten the sustainability of the Bay's recreational and commercial fisheries. But Bay Program partners have committed to using sound science and responsible management to increase fish and shellfish habitat and populations, leading to more striped bass, blue crabs and oysters in the Bay and on the market. Learn more.
3. Smarter growth. With the largest land-to-water ratio of any estuary in the world, it is clear that what happens on land has a direct impact on water quality in the Bay. But stormwater runoff continues to push polluted rainwater over streets and sidewalks and into storm drains, rivers and streams. Bay Program partners plan to help local governments control polluted runoff, conserve valuable wetlands, farms and forests, and reduce the rate of land that is lost to paved roads and parking lots. Learn more.
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2. More knowledge and skills to help save our watershed. It is often said that people value what they know and protect what they value. This means that a boost in environmental education now could create a vital foundation for environmental stewards of the future. Bay Program partners will work to enable area students to graduate with the knowledge, skills and meaningful experience needed to protect and restore their local watershed. Learn more.
1. Communities that are resilient to climate change. The impacts of climate change—rising seas, warming waters, extreme weather, ocean acidification—are happening now. To withstand these impacts, we must improve our natural and built infrastructure. Bay Program partners have set a goal to increase the climate resiliency of the watershed's resources, habitats and communities using monitoring, assessment and adaptation. Learn more.
Note: The opinions expressed above are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect U.S. EPA policy endorsement or action.
According to evaluations released this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Chesapeake Bay Program partners are collectively on track to meet the phosphorous and sediment reduction commitments outlined in the Bay's "pollution diet," or Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). Further reductions in nitrogen, however, will be needed if partners are to meet all of their upcoming pollution-reducing goals.
Every two years, federal agencies and the watershed jurisdictions—which include Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia—report on the progress made toward the pollution-reducing "milestones" outlined in their Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs). These WIPs describe how each jurisdiction will reduce the nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment pollution entering rivers and streams, and are included as commitments in the partnership's recently signed Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Jurisdictions have set a goal to have all essential pollution-reducing practices in place by 2025 in an effort to meet water quality standards in the watershed.
Nutrient and sediment pollution are behind some of the Bay's biggest health problems. Excess nitrogen and phosphorous fuel the growth of harmful algae blooms, which result in low-oxygen dead zones that suffocate marine life. Suspended sediment blocks sunlight from reaching underwater plants and suffocates shellfish. But "best management practices" (or BMPs) like upgraded wastewater treatment technologies, improved manure management and enhanced stormwater management can help towns, cities and states lower the amount of pollution flowing into local waters.
The EPA will continue to oversee the watershed jurisdictions' pollution-reducing efforts, and will offer further attention to some pollution sectors—including wastewater in Delaware and New York; agricultural runoff in Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia; and urban and suburban runoff in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia—to ensure partners remain on track to meet their 2017 targets.
Scientists expect the Chesapeake Bay to see an above-average dead zone this summer, due to the excess nitrogen that flowed into the Bay from the Potomac and Susquehanna rivers this spring.
Dead zones, or areas of little to no dissolved oxygen, form when nutrient-fueled algae blooms die and decompose. The latest dead zone forecast predicts an early-summer oxygen-free zone of 0.51 cubic miles, a mid-summer low-oxygen zone of 1.97 cubic miles and a late-summer oxygen-free zone of 0.32 cubic miles. This forecast was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is based on models developed at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) and the University of Michigan.
Dead zone size depends on nutrient pollution and weather patterns. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 44,000 metric tons of nitrogen entered the Bay in the spring of 2014. This is 20 percent higher than last spring's nitrogen loadings, and will influence algae growth and dead zone formation this summer.
Researchers with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will measure oxygen levels in the Bay over the next few months. While a final dead zone measurement is not expected until October, DNR biologists measured a larger-than-average low-oxygen zone on their June monitoring cruise, confirming the dead zone forecast.


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After completing Fett, I wanted to do a character that was a little different from the normal ones you would see trooping, haven't seen any photos of any Bibs anywhere (believe me, I have looked but please feel free to correct me).
Seems that the costume won't be too difficult to replicate, the headpiece will be the most difficult part.
Here is a pic of a bust that I have made. Still a little rough and will need smoothing out in places, plan on casting moulds from it (various pieces) and constructing latex parts.
The lekku are going to be cast separately.
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Photographer Iwan Baan shoots projects for all the big names, from Herzog & de Meuron to Toyo Ito to Zaha Hadid. But he also documents ad-hoc dwellings around the world, in places where communities take development into their own hands—often in close proximity and always in contrast to high-stakes development. As Baan said at last week's TEDCity2.0 conference in New York City, "there really is no kind of normal, and people are able to adapt to any occasion." His photographs find the resiliency in communities such as the unfinished Centro Financiero Confinanzas in Venezuela ("like a 45-story walk-up," he said) and the Makoko community in Nigeria (built entirely on water).
His photos leave me wondering: Maybe we're overthinking affordable housing in America. Maybe we can learn something from these more immediate, small-scale approaches to shelter, rather than large-scale developments and neighborhood gentrification projects. I chatted with Baan after his talk last week.
What's your favorite place that you've shot?
That's hard to say when you've traveled so much and you've seen so many nice places. I'm literally every two or three days in a place somewhere else, so there are many of these great places and I'm always looking for these very specific ways in how people make something, from the high-end architecture to the super specific ways people design something without any plan or architecture.
It seems like you get sent out to photograph these commissioned pieces and end up spending a lot of time focusing on the people that surround them.
That's always my fascination, sort of the cities around it, I'm trying always to get further and further away from the architecture, literally going up in helicopters to give it the sort of sense of place and why a project is specifically for that city, that area, what's sort of the relationship with the context.
How did you get into that?
It was strange circumstances that I met Rem Koolhaas about eight years ago. I was more working in documentary photography. I studied at art school [Ed note: the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague], and I didn't know anything about architecture and happened to meet Rem and that sort of clicked, and I started working a lot with him, and from there one to the other thing happens. It sparked my interest in how architects really work with these spaces, and I've been always interested in public space and what people do in these things but never with this focus on architecture.
You are also very active on Instagram, the everyman's tool. What attracts you to it?
Maybe half a year or so, I've been doing it. For a long time I didn't do it, but since I'm always traveling and there's so much happening around my regular shooting and what I'm doing, I sort of tried to capture little moments and things you encounter when you are always traveling. It's not really the project I'm working on which I show on Instagram, but just sort of the life around me in these places.
Do you make a decision like oh, this is better for Instagram or this is better for a higher quality camera?
[For] Instagram, it's just like the moments, the funny things that you just sort of encounter, and then of course there is the real commissioned work which you do with your real camera, though I would like to use my iPhone for that as well, because I like to work as lightweight as possible, so I work completely handheld. I hate tripods, bigger things, it's really capturing moments and things which can happen in a split second. It's very different from the traditional architecture photography which is just waiting, waiting, waiting for the perfect light. It is very intuitively working.
Do you find that some of the subjects you photograph are off-put by a camera more so than they would be with an iPhone?
I'm really not sure. I always stay a bit in the background, so I try to use as small and as lightweight things as possible and work basically on my own. In these communities for instance you stand close, [spend] time just being there even without camera, so you become part of the background noise in a place like that and you slowly start working and people don't really notice you.
You were recently in Baku, photographing some work of Zaha Hadid's?
Yeah, but also for another project I'm working on there, a longer-term project with Harvard University. [Ed. note: Baku: Oil and Urbanism]
Anything stand out?
Baku is fascinating. They are going through their third oil boom, so suddenly everything has to be a flashy, modern, world-class city, like in the middle of this sort of police state. They hire big-name architects to build flashy buildings: HOK who builds big towers there and everything has to be sort of polished up, which is fascinating from a photographic point of view.
Are there places you haven't been that are on your list?
Always, I haven't seen the whole world yet.
Any place in particular that's on your mind?
No, strangely I still haven't been to Australia or New Zealand, for instance. [They've] been a little bit off my architecture map.
What kind of camera are you working with these days?
I work always with very lightweight, handheld equipment, basically a 35-millimeter digital Canon.
And those are getting better and better, you can make bigger files, higher res files.
It's not so much about how high res—everything now is good enough to use up to almost any size—but especially the sensitivity of these cameras becomes now such an important issue. Those [New York post-Sandy] shots never could have been made two years ago, just because you are shooting with no light and complete darkness from a moving, vibrating helicopter. Suddenly these cameras make such a jump in sensitivity that you can capture in almost complete darkness.
What do you mean by sensitivity?
Before you had like, film roll which went to like 1,600 ISO, sort of the maximum amount of light which they could get, and now these cameras go to 100,000 ISO—suddenly a factor of 50, 100 times more. It can shoot by candlelight still from a handheld camera and not use a tripod.
Here's a basic question, how did you get interested in photography?
[W]hen I was twelve years old, I got for my birthday from my grandmother my first camera.
What were you photographing at twelve?
Just the things around school, the things in school, the things you find on your way. I had to bike to school every day for an hour, so things you would see on the street.
Have you gone back to look at any of those photographs?
I had kind of a very strange accident a year and a half ago, my apartment studio in Amsterdam completely burnt out in a freak accident. My very old archives—which were not digital, I'm shooting now digital already for 12, 14 years almost—so my digital archives [are backed] up in different places, but it was all there, my old teenage work, that is all gone.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Oh, it's kind of liberating at the same time. I was never there, since then I have been completely homeless, I sort of gave up on having a house. It's just my suitcase, that's it. It's interesting to live in this way. You need very little, actually. I just am doing what I was doing already the last seven or eight years but in a much more extreme way.
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Photo of Baku towers used with permission via a Creative Commons license with Flickr user Firuza48.


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My story - In Central China. I teach Oral English and Phonetics to English Majors, to Chemistry Majors and to Maths Majors. They are about 18/19 years old. Large classes 50-60. A private college where they pay double that of university.
So the English Majors are fine - confident and want to speak. The Chemistry students I teach are also fine and I do their class on Thursdays, 14.30 - 16.10 - they speak in class. After this I teach Maths, on Thursdays 16.20-18.00, but they do not want to speak.
I have just started to teach this Maths class and the students are really reluctant to speak. I did another maths class up to now (for 8 weeks), then they finished their 8 weeks, now I have a different maths class, so I have seen them on 2 occasions now, once last week, once this week. Last week I asked them to do simple things - just introduce themselves, talk about their hobbies & family, they seemed fine with this. This week I did a presentation about English lifestyle with pictures and questions and tried to get them to take part too, but nothing, I felt all alone!!!!
I think they enjoy the class. So why is there such a problem? I asked them, one student said they re afraid to speak, shy and don't think they are very good. But I dont have this problem with the other classes. Maybe because I am British they are even more afraid to speak? I have tried many things, I speak to them in the break, I make individuals stand up and speak, encouraging them, but they say "I can't say it....I don't know.....Sorry I can't see the blackboard". I even asked a student just to read words from the screen, she said "I can't".
How can I get them to talk? I am afraid if they dont speak out in English they will end up just speaking Chinese and not listening to me. Help me please! Thank you Lucy.


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Roethlisberger out with potentially life-threatening rib injury
One of Ben Roethlisberger's first questions upon learning about his rare combination of injuries was asking how long it normally takes to recover.
His doctor's answer? No idea because there is nothing normal about them.
Roethlisberger, whose steady playmaking is largely responsible for the Steelers' 6-3 record, has a dislocated rib that could be life-threatening if he were to play, plus an upper-chest injury that is significant in itself.
"From what (the doctor) said, he's trying to talk to experts because there's no case study that's had this exact same thing," said Roethlisberger, who is being treated by Steelers orthopedist Jim Bradley, among others. "From what he told me, it was a 1998 rugby player or something (who had this). We're just trying to talk to people and get an expectation because we don't know."
Roethlisberger was upbeat but a bit weary — he slept uneasily in a chair for only a few hours the previous two nights — while talking to reporters Wednesday about the injuries that will keep him out of one and possibly both Steelers-Ravens showdowns in the next three weeks.
Roethlisberger said he dislocated his top rib — the first rib — that protects the aorta, the largest artery in the body, while being driven to the turf Monday night by Chiefs linebackers Justin Houston and Tamba Hali. He immediately knew something was wrong, saying he heard "a crunch and a crack."
If the rib had punctured the aorta, it could have been dangerous.
"That's more of the scary part," he said.
Earlier this season, Rams receiver Danny Amendola similarly dislocated his clavicle, which popped inward and could have threatened his trachea and aorta.
Roethlisberger dislocated the sternoclavicular joint that connects the sternum to the collarbone, a condition that occurs when the ligaments tear under stress. Coach Mike Tomlin referred Tuesday to this injury as a strain, but he offered no additional information Wednesday about the rib injury.
"To my knowledge the injuries are one in the same," Tomlin said. "I think they are connected. (But) I don't have a skeleton in front of me."
Could the injuries be season-threatening?
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Roethlisberger apparently does not need surgery and simply must wait to heal before he can return.
"It's more the rib that's the concern than the SC joint," he said. "I can move (the right shoulder) around. That's not the issue. But when I move it, the rib will pop out of place again, and that's pretty painful, needless to say. I try to keep it as still as I can."
Dr. David Geier, a South Carolina-based orthopedist who specializes in sports injuries, has never heard of an athlete dislocating the first rib. He said such an injury would occur perhaps once in one million cases.
"The first rib is a very stable bone," said Geier, who has been monitoring the Roethlisberger situation because the injury is so unusual. "I've never seen it pop out of place. I've never seen this in sports. But if the rib is fractured, which is more common, then you just let it heal."
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Regardless of whether the rib is fractured or dislocated, it is an uncommon set of injuries even for an athlete accustomed to pain and discomfort.
"This is one of those freak things," Roethlisberger said.
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