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Masai Mara 2011 #2
Here's the second trip report from this autumn's two photo safaris to Masai Mara in Kenya. This safari was from 6–12 September 2011.
Day 1 – 07.09.2011 Group # 2 with 9 photographers (7 from Norway and 2 from UK) arrived Masai Mara around 11:00. After meeting the guides and drivers, we headed to our camp. On the way, we photographed some lions.
After lunch we crossed the Talek river, since our guides had heard about a leopard in the area. This leopard was well camouflaged in the bushes so it was hard to locate. Our guides are extremely good and they found the leopard hidden in the bushes with a fresh Wildebeest kill. It was a difficult situation to photograph and it was important to give the leopard some privacy, even here in the Masai Mara!
After the leopard, we found a herd of impalas and a lion with a freshly killed Wildebeest.
That evening we got ready for the sunset, but it was much too cloudy for any great light.
Day 2 – 08.09.2011 30 minutes before sunrise, we headed out to find a small family group of elephants. We decided to photograph these great animals in back-light from ground level. This was a new experience for most of my guests. It was quite difficult to get the correct exposures, but everybody enjoyed the situation.
After sunrise our 3 vehicles separated. My vehicle photographed some birds like the Tawny eagle, before we found a group of lions with a fresh Wildebeest kill. There were two female lions looking after a group of cubs playing nearby. It's always fun to observe these animals.
We suddenly got a message about wildebeest crossings in the Talek River. We were not far from the river, and in a few minutes we were ready for more action. The Talek river is narrower and shallower than the Masai River, so it is far easier for the wildebeest to wade across the river. There were lots of other safari vehicles, so we had to fight to get the best location, but we did manage to photograph some nice crossings.
That evening we found a group of lions, and the big male was busy mating with a lioness. Dark clouds were approaching and suddenly it started to rain like crazy. All of the other safari vehicles left, but we got some really nice images of the lions in heavy rain. In weather situations like this you often get your best pictures!
We had a very difficult journey back to the camp. All roads and grasslands were flooded, almost like in Botswana. I was very impressed with how our drivers got us safely back to camp. Thanks!
Day 3 – 09.09.2011 A new morning with new opportunities! We drove to the nearest lion herd for the sunrise photo shoot. This morning the lions were busy feeding on three freshly killed wildebeests. Both the adults and cubs had a great breakfast, and the vultures and jackals were not far away.
After the morning session we headed west to the Masai River, to look for opportunities for Wildebeest crossings, but it didn't look very promising. Instead two of the vehicles found a Black rhino, Two hours later all 3 vehicles had a great sight of another Black rhino. Two of these rare animals on the same day was great.
We spent the evening close to camp, which proved later to be a good decision. We started photographing a Southern Ground Hornbill feeding on beetles. In a few minutes we got information about a Cheetah hunting in the area, but the conditions was not great for photography.
Then, suddenly we got news about a Serval just a few hundred meters away. Here was a great opportunity to observe and photograph this rare cat, and a few seconds later we were ready. The Serval was very well camouflaged in the grass. The first time the cat ran it was to difficult to get any good pictures, but the Serval stopped 50 meters away so it was much easier to see. The next time the Serval ran we were ready and got some really nice images of this cat. Wow, this was exciting, and almost too close for my 600 mm lens. We had one more opportunity with the Serval before it hid in the thick bushes. This was my first Serval ever, and a great experience.
It is hard to top that experience, but we drove to a field for the sunset. Again, it was too cloudy, so we decided to go back to camp. About 500 meters from camp we suddenly spotted a leopard crossing in front of our vehicle. This cute female leopard was very friendly to photographers, and we got some really nice images. She crossed only 6 meters away, and some of us panned the Leopard with great results.
Day 4 – 10.09.2011 Again we started with the closest lion group, but this morning they were not feeding. The cubs were playing around, but at sunrise they walked away into the bush. It's not every morning the lions cooperate for photographers. Instead we photographed some impalas and wildebeests in great light.
Later that morning, we received information about a new Leopard with fresh kill. Unfortunately, this Leopard was well hidden in the bushes so we decided to leave. That was a very good decision because on our way back we saw the rare Caracal sprinting in the brush. This Caracal was shy and fast, but we managed to get quite close. Suddenly the Caracal ran again and in a fraction of a second it ran through a small clearing and we got a few shots. These were my first images of this rare cat. We had now seen all five diurnal cats in Masai Mara in only 16 hours, which is great!
We barely started our afternoon game drive before we got information about more caracals. To be honest, I didn't expect to see or photograph more caracals since they are so shy, but it was well worth to try. This must have been our Caracal day, because the caracas were visible and actually not too difficult to photograph. Two Caracal cubs were playing around in the bushes just 15 meters away from us. Most of the time they were hidden, but other times we could get a clear view of them. Very interesting! After an hour other safari vehicles arrived, and the caracals became more cautious.
Day 5 – 11.09.2011 The next morning we tried another area for the sunrise shots, a pond with hippos and birds. There were some African Jacanas, herons, Grey Crowned Cranes and Long-toed Lapwings together with the hippos. It was exciting to photograph the hippos and birds together in the beautiful light.
Later that morning, we photographed hyenas, cheetahs and various birds, before we drove back to our camp.
That evening, we were really hoping for a nice sunset. As we approached the selected spot for our sunset images we saw a herd of cattle and three masai shepherds. In a light rain and evening light we took this opportunity to capture some cultural images, also important on safaris.
It looked promising for our sunset, and we found some topis and gazelles in back-light. Again, the Topi turned out to be the easiest animal to photograph. Finally group #2 got a great sunset, and everyone was happy!
Our guide John at sunset
Day 6 – 12.09.2011 On this last morning we separated the vehicles for the sunrise shoot. My vehicle drove to the same pool as the day before, and had almost the same situations with the hippos and birds.
After sunrise we drove to a Masai village where we had booked a visit. This may sound like a tourist trap, but the Masai people here lived permanently in the huts so it was good enough. We enjoyed and photographed Masai warriors dancing, singing and jumping. We also had some minutes inside the huts to see how they live. Very interesting.
After the Masai village, we headed back to the airstrip to fly back to Nairobi. It was time to end this safari.
Photographers at the Masai Mara safari 6-12 September 2011
Thanks to all who participated and contributed to an enjoyable and unforgettable safari!
NB: Let us know if you want to go with us on a similar photo safari to Masai Mara in 2012!
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SSV Oliver Hazard Perry Earns Certificate of Inspection — Summer Sails Set
Congratulations to the officers, crew and the shore staff of the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry. The 200′ long tall ship recently completed the necessary drills and inspections required by the US Coast Guard in order for the ship to qualify as a … Continue reading
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El Faro Investigation — Questions About the Deadly Course
Why did Captain Michael Davidson set a course that brought his ship, El Faro, into the path of Hurricane Joaquin last October with tragic results? That question, for which we many never have a fully satisfactory answer, has been at the core … Continue reading
El Faro Tragedy — Investigation Continues on Shore and at Sea
There are still almost as many questions as answers as to why the US flag ro/ro El Faro sank in Hurricane Joaquin last October with the loss of the 33 aboard. Today, the United States Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation … Continue reading
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Remembering the SS Marine Electric — a Tragedy that Made Us All Safer
Thirty-three years ago today, on February 12, 1983, the collier SS Marine Electric loaded with 24,800 tons of steam coal, capsized and sank in a storm 30 miles off the coast of Virginia. Thirty-one of the 34 crew members died. While nothing … Continue reading
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"The Finest Hours," Greatest Small Boat Rescue in History — Movie Review
Originally posted on gCaptain. Reposted with permission. "The Finest Hours" is far from a perfect movie. Nevertheless, it recounts a remarkable story of heroism at sea that is well worth retelling. For anyone who has spent any time around ships, … Continue reading
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"The Finest Hours" — New Movie About Heroic Coast Guard Rescue
The US Coast Guard rarely gets enough credit for the remarkable work that they do in routinely rescuing mariners in often extremely dangerous conditions. A new movie, "The Finest Hours", is coming out this winter, which tells the story of … Continue reading
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US Coast Guard: El Faro Believed to Have Sunk
In a statement this morning, the US Coast Guard says that they believe that El Faro, which disappeared last Thursday while blacked out in the path of Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin, has sunk. Coast Guard Capt. Mark Fedor said that they are now focusing on … Continue reading
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Updated: Life Ring from Ro/Ro El Faro Located, Ship Still Missing, Search Continues
Update: From USCG Update 4 — Life jackets, life rings, containers and an oil sheen have been located by Coast Guard aircrews. The objects have not been confirmed to be from the El Faro at this time. Yesterday, the US Coast Guard … Continue reading
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Ro/Ro Cargo Ship El Faro Still Missing with 33 Crew in Hurricane Joaquin
The US Coast Guard has resumed the search for the U.S. flagged ro/ro cargo ship, El Faro, with a crew of 33, still missing after losing power and communications in the path of Hurricane Joaquin. The 735-foot ship was bound … Continue reading
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US Coast Guard Busts Narco-sub with $181 Million in Cocaine Aboard
The submarine war at sea continues. Last month, the USCG Cutter Stratton intercepted a semi-submersible vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean around 200 miles south of Mexico, loaded with 16,000 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $181 million. Four men were … Continue reading
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US and Canadian Coast Guard Team Up to Rescue Laker SS Arthur M. Anderson
The US and Canadian Coast Guards have been working jointly to free the iconic Great Lakes bulk carrier, SS Arthur M. Anderson, stuck in the ice in Lake Erie near Conneaut Harbor. The laker had been bound for Sturgeon Bay, WI when it … Continue reading
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A Modern Viking Funeral With a Little Help From the Coast Guard
Andrew Haines, a World War II veteran who emigrated from Norway as a child, wanted a Viking funeral. He realized that building a pyre on a full sized Viking ship would be impractical, so Haines decided to build a small … Continue reading
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Yacht Cheeki Rafiki Feared Lost, Four UK Sailors Missing, Controversy as Coast Guard Calls Off Search
UPDATE: The US Coast Guard has resumed the search for the missing crew from the Cheeki Rafiki. Over 200,000 signed petitions asking that the search be resumed. British Prime Minister David Cameron thanked the Coast Guard on Twitter after it made … Continue reading
USCG Barque Eagle Bound for Baltimore Overhaul?
Interesting news about the US Coast Guard training ship, the barque Eagle. As reported by The Day, The Coast Guard barque Eagle may go to Baltimore for extensive repairs so future officers can keep training on the ship for years … Continue reading
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Bounty Hearings Streaming Live
Today is third day of hearings by the US Coast Guard on the sinking of the HMS Bounty on October 29, 2012, with loss of crew member Claudene Christian and Captain Robin Walbridge. The hearings will continue in Portsmouth VA through … Continue reading
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Shell Oil Drilling Rig Kulluk Aground on Sitkalidak Island – US Coast Guard Video
So far, the Shell Oil drilling rig Kulluk is reported to have remained intact with no observed leaks of diesel fuel, lube or hydraulic oil, after grounding on Alaska's Sitkalidak Island on Monday night. The video below was taken yesterday by … Continue reading
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The Hurricane Sandy Pollution Response Unified Command Tackles the John B. Caddell
I have great admiration for those whose successfully navigate the rocks and shoals of the bureaucracy in order to get anything done around New York harbor. A Coast Guard press release brought this to mind. The US Coast Guard is … Continue reading
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Search for Captain Robin Walbridge, Washed off the Sinking HMS Bounty, Ends – Investigation into Sinking Begins
Sadly, the US Coast Guard has suspended the search for Captain Robin Walbridge, who was washed off the HMS Bounty as she sank in high seas on Monday off the coast of North Carolina. Claudene Christian, 42, was also lost overboard. … Continue reading
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HMS Bounty Foundering off North Carolina, 17 Member Crew Abandoning Ship
Update: from the Bounty Facebook page 7:10 AM – At 0430 today the Captain ordered all hands to abandon ship. There are 17 Crew on board and at this moment all crew are accounted for and are in Life rafts. The … Continue reading
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Happy 222nd Birthday US Coast Guard!
Two hundred and twenty years ago today on August 4th, 1790, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton established the Revenue Cutter Service, predecessor to the United States Coast Guard. (In 1915, the service merged with the United States Life-Saving Service and adopted its current name.) So … Continue reading


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Postgame Quotes - December 17, 2012
Pistons vs Clippers
Detroit: Lawrence Frank | Tayshaun PrinceLos Angeles: Vinny Del Negro | Willie Green | Matt Barnes
Pistons Coach Lawrence Frank
(On turnovers) "Yeah, hey look, first play of the third quarter; and that's the thing, obviously we've talked about the ability to turn it over, and you've got to take care of it. They force turns that lead to dunks, it's hard to defend, and many times that turn is the first pass of their fast-break. So we had too many of those. But also look, we did enough defensive things, good enough, obviously to have a chance to win the game, but when you're going against a team that steals, strips and is very, very aggressive, everything has to be sharper. You know, the pace of your cuts, how hard you screen, your passing angles, your ability to pass the ball on time and on-target, your ability to convert when they put two on the ball, proper spacing and recognition. Think, we called two timeouts just to save balls, we had two turnovers on dead-ball situations, a side out and a baseline out. We just got to, again, be a little bit sharper and actually a little bit better, because margin of error, you know, when you're going against other good teams, the things we need to control we just got to focus on, we just have to continue to work at and get better."
(On the fourth quarter and Rodney Stuckey) "Well, look, we know the fourth quarter is played completely different than the other three. This is a playoff team now, and they get it. It's played harder, tougher, more intense and smarter. We had enough to win tonight, and obviously Rodney [Stuckey] is a very good player, but they're without [Chauncey] Billups and Grant Hill, I haven't heard them complain about it once, and they've won 10 in a row. That's when we have to be more precise with how we do things, especially when you're going up against pressure. Your screenings have to be great, your set-ups have to be good, the timing has to be precise, the pacing with which you play have to be right. You have to know it's going to be harder. It's the fourth quarter, then as you get into the last six minutes, then it gets to another level. You know these are things that we're going through, and we have to be able to just be more precise and have to continue to do a better job.
Pistons Forward Tayshaun Prince
(On having a difficult time manufacturing an offense) "In spurts we played well offensively. We'd take a couple quick shots here and there, and they would get out and do their thing. I thought we did some good things on the offensive end a majority of the game and got most of the shots we wanted."
(On giving up numerous turnovers in the second-half) "We played a good first half. In the beginning of the third, once we turned it over a couple times and let them get out, it was to their advantage. You have to continue to take care of that basketball and when they shoot high-percentage shots we know of what type of team they can be and what they will do. We played good in spurts, and that's been our trend."
Clippers Head Coach Vinny Del Negro
(On game) "We could never get our rhythm. We did a pretty good job defensively up high and they got some offensive rebounds at the end but we were able to convert when we needed to. Every time we made a run we just could not get away from them. We did not shoot it very well, especially from the three. We just could not convert some things to get away from them but we battled.
(On going undefeated on the road): "It is part of the process for us but I think the guys handled it, obviously, much better but tonight was a game early in the season we might have lost. We are learning how to win together when things are not going perfect and we have to find a way and tonight things definitely were not perfect but we found a way."
(On team effort): "Guys gutted it out. We got a lot of good performances from a lot of guys. Everyone stepped up at a certain time. Jamal (Crawford) made some shots, Chris (Paul), Blake(Griffin), Lamar(Odom), defensively Matt (Barnes); so just a total team effort and that is what it takes."
Clippers Guard Willie Green
(On team)" We had to gut this one out. It was the last game on the road. We have been on the road for seven days, four games and our legs might have been a little tired but it says a lot about us to be able to come in and get this win against a team that is very competitive."
"Tonight was a good test. It was a tough win but we are graduating a little bit as a team but as unit we can come in here and get a win especially in the last game of being on the road."
Clippers Forward Matt Barnes
(On game) "We just have to keep getting better. We know if we control the defensive end then we are a hard team to stop on the offensive end. Tonight was not pretty but this team finds ways to win games and that is what we did tonight."
(On team chemistry):"It is hard to do but we are still making progress on both ends of the court. By half the team being new it just took us a while to get to trust each other but I think we are coming along as far as that goes."


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WHITEHORSE—Five Yukon artists will share $27,900 through the Touring Artist Fund to present their work at national and international venues.
"Support to Yukon artists through the Touring Artist Fund is proving to be very successful," Tourism and Culture Minister Elaine Taylor said. "Whether it's across Canada and the United States, or to Europe and China, touring opportunities such as these are opening up exciting avenues to new audiences and new prospects for talented Yukon artists. The Yukon government believes in working together with artists in this way to help strengthen their professional portfolios and develop a bigger profile for Yukon, both nationally and globally."
Blues ensemble Ryan McNally, George McConkey, Bruce Bergman and Rob Bergman received $10,000 to perform at the Nanjing International Jazz and World Music Festival in China. McNally and his group are the fourth Yukon group to travel to Nanjing, China for the festival, which is held each October.
"We are extremely honoured to receive this support from the Yukon government," McNally said. "Attendance at the festival has been aided by a strong relationship developed by Yukon musicians and festival organizers. Previous performers paved the way and helped to build a reputation for Yukon as a musical hub in Canada for diverse musical professionalism and world class talent."
Applications for the Touring Artist Fund are accepted four times per year. The next intake deadline is September 15. Applications and guidelines are available at Tourism and Culture's Arts Funding and Awards website.
To speak with the fund administrator, call 867-667-8789 or toll-free 1-800-661-0408 ext. 8789 or email.
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Backgrounder: June 15, 2011 intake
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Project |
Amount Received |
Barbara Chamberlin |
To tour in Germany, Switzerland & Ireland with Terry Robb and Annie Avery. |
$10,000 |
Ryan McNally |
To play in the Nanjing International Jazz and World Music Festival, China with a blues ensemble featuring Rob Bergman, Bruce Bergman, George McConkey and Ryan McNally. |
$10,000 |
Erin Corbett |
To present a short film in the curated collection Canadian Cameras at Work in China. |
$3,400 |
Sharon Shorty |
To perform at a storytelling festival in Hawaii as Gramma Susie and herself. |
$2,500 |
Dieter Weise & Elizabeth Kolb |
To present birch bark weaving and textile arts and both will host workshops at GNAF (Great Northern Arts Festival) in Inuvik, July 15-24, 2011. |
$2,000 |
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Through a hands-on choreography of fashion, technology and performance, Di Mainstone creates playful adornments that roam the body, hiding and revealing tales that are close to her heart. Di has collaborated with a range of artistic institutions, including the Banff New Media Institute, XS Lab, Montreal and most recently V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam. Her wearable installations have been displayed internationally at conferences, exhibitions and festivals.
For the Eyebeam residency, Di will prototype a set of wearable structures that question both our sense of interconnectivity as well as our understanding personal space within the city environment.


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DOHA: Serena Williams was in tears on Friday after snatching an historic victory at the Qatar Open which ensured that she would become the oldest woman to hold the WTA Tour's world number one ranking.
The 31-year-old American's 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Petra Kvitova in the quarter-finals put her back on top of the world after an interval of two and a half years during which she sometimes thought she might never play again.
Williams had been 1-4 down in the final set of an outstanding match against the Czech, and her relieved smile, heavenward gesture and tears in her moment of triumph gave lie to her earlier statement that the number one position no longer mattered.
"I am so sensitive nowadays -- I am always crying, but I never thought I would be here again you know," said Williams in a reference to the pulmonary embolism from which she suffered in 2011, threatening her life as well as her career.
"I have been through so much and I never thought I would be here," she repeated.
The victory, which was due to her very special competitive spirit and instinct for finding a way when no clear direction is evident, earns her the top spot at an age six months older than her fellow American Chris Evert did at 30 years and 11 months.
That was more than 27 years ago, underlining Williams' status as one of the all-time greats, and possibly the finest woman player there has ever been.
"When I was down I heard people cheering for me and I don't get that all the time," said Williams, who will start her 124th career week at number one on Monday.
That's a total only bettered by Steffi Graf (377), Martina Navratilova (332), Evert (260), Martina Hingis (209) and Monica Seles (178).
But for a while on Friday an in-form Kvitova made her look vulnerable.
The Czech had come back from deficits in the second and third sets the previous day against Nadia Petrova, and now arrived brimming with confidence and wrong-footing, flat-hit ground strokes.
Williams, who has been suffering from a cold as well as a twisted ankle and a bad back, looked sluggish and uncertain.
Her outstanding serve was not itself, and a double fault in the sixth game cost her a break of serve which eventually led to the loss of the first set.
It was the first that Kvitova had ever won against Williams, but even after levelling at one set all the American still slipped into deep trouble.
She found it hard to read her opponent's inside-out drives, could not rediscover her serving rhythm and delivered another double fault on game point which led to a three-game deficit.
"Every time I looked she was hitting winners," Williams said afterwards. "But I thought, if I can just stay in here...."
Williams kept swinging the drives from side to side and changing the pace, but even after breaking back for 3-4 the danger was not over.
She had to serve to save the match at 4-5, before a spectacular drive volley, a successful Hawkeye replay challenge, and a brilliantly sharp backhand drive angle got her the decisive break.
She closed out the match to love, finishing with an ace.
"I am glad she is number one," said Kvitova with good grace. "She deserves it."
Williams now has a semi-final with Maria Sharapova, who has won the Qatar Open title twice and remains unbeaten in Doha after winning 6-2, 6-4 win against Sam Stosur, the former US Open champion from Australia.
It was Sharapova's 12th win in Doha, and afterwards she explained why she, outgoing world number one Victoria Azarenka and Williams had appeared so downbeat about the three-way struggle for the world number one ranking.
"It's pretty special," said the Russian. "But the ranking is always one of those things which depends on the other players' success and the tournaments that they play."
Azarenka moved closer to a second successful title defence in a row when she overwhelmed Sara Errani, the French Open finalist, 6-2, 6-2.
Last month she retained the Australian Open title.
The Belarusian's surprisingly emphatic win over the Italian means she has dropped a mere nine games in three matches.
Azarenka's semi-final will be a sequel to last year's contentious meeting with Agnieszka Radwanska.
The world number four from Poland came from 0-3 and 3-5 down in the second set to win 6-2, 7-5 against Caroline Wozniacki, the former world number one from Denmark.


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The data suggest there is significant exchange between Europa's icy shell and the ocean beneath. This information could bolster arguments that Europa's global subsurface ocean represents a potential habitat for life elsewhere in our solar system. The findings are published in the scientific journal Nature.
One of the most significant discoveries was the inference of a global salt water ocean below the surface of Europa. This ocean is deep enough to cover the whole surface of Europa and contains more liquid water than all of Earth's oceans combined. However, being far from the sun, the ocean surface is completely frozen. Most scientists think this ice crust is tens of miles thick.
The university of Texas at Austin is involved and has a lot of material
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab is involved as well
Nature - Active formation of 'chaos terrain' over shallow subsurface water on Europa
"One opinion in the scientific community has been if the ice shell is thick, that's bad for biology. That might mean the surface isn't communicating with the underlying ocean," said Britney Schmidt, lead author of the paper and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin. "Now, we see evidence that it's a thick ice shell that can mix vigorously and new evidence for giant shallow lakes. That could make Europa and its ocean more habitable."
Schmidt and her team focused on Galileo images of two roughly circular, bumpy features on Europa's surface called chaos terrains. Based on similar processes seen on Earth -- on ice shelves and under glaciers overlaying volcanoes -- they developed a four-step model to explain how the features form. The model resolves several conflicting observations. Some seemed to suggest the ice shell is thick. Others suggest it is thin.
This recent analysis shows the chaos features on Europa's surface may be formed by mechanisms that involve significant exchange between the icy shell and the underlying lake. This provides a mechanism or model for transferring nutrients and energy between the surface and the vast global ocean already inferred to exist below the thick ice shell. This is thought to increase the potential for life there.
The study authors have good reason to believe their model is correct, based on observations of Europa from Galileo and of Earth. Still, because the inferred lakes are several miles below the surface, the only true confirmation of their presence would come from a future spacecraft mission designed to probe the ice shell. Such a mission was rated as the second highest priority flagship mission by the National Research Council's recent Planetary Science Decadal Survey and is being studied by NASA.
"This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves," said Don Blankenship, a co-author and senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics, where he leads airborne radar studies of the planet's ice sheets.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to directly measure Jupiter's atmosphere with a probe and conduct long-term observations of the Jovian system. The probe was the first to fly by an asteroid and discover the moon of an asteroid. NASA extended the mission three times to take advantage of Galileo's unique science capabilities, and it was put on a collision course into Jupiter's atmosphere in September 2003 to eliminate any chance of impacting Europa.
Europa, the innermost icy satellite of Jupiter, has a tortured young surface and sustains a liquid water ocean1 below an ice shell of highly debated thickness. Quasi-circular areas of ice disruption called chaos terrains are unique to Europa, and both their formation and the ice-shell thickness depend on Europa's thermal state. No model so far has been able to explain why features such as Conamara Chaos stand above surrounding terrain and contain matrix domes. Melt-through of a thin (few-kilometre) shell is thermodynamically improbable and cannot raise the ice. The buoyancy of material rising as either plumes of warm, pure ice called diapirs or convective cells in a thick (over 10 kilometres) shell is insufficient to produce the observed chaos heights, and no single plume can create matrix domes. Here we report an analysis of archival data from Europa, guided by processes observed within Earth's subglacial volcanoes and ice shelves. The data suggest that chaos terrains form above liquid water lenses perched within the ice shell as shallow as 3 kilometres. Our results suggest that ice–water interactions and freeze-out give rise to the diverse morphologies and topography of chaos terrains. The sunken topography of Thera Macula indicates that Europa is actively resurfacing over a lens comparable in volume to the Great Lakes in North America.
Nature - Planetary science: Europa awakening
Brines percolating in the icy crust of Jupiter's moon Europa may be responsible for the satellite's enigmatic chaotic terrains. A new model predicts that one such terrain is currently forming over shallow subsurface water.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators say the Air Force general fired in October as commander of the U.S. land-based nuclear missile force engaged in "inappropriate behavior" while in Russia, including heavy drinking and rudeness to his hosts.
In response to findings by the Air Force inspector general, Maj. Gen. Michael Carey received what the Air Force calls a "letter of counseling" That's a form of discipline for misbehavior that's not criminal in nature.
The investigation report was released Thursday and said Carey was guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer. It said he misbehaved while leading a U.S. delegation to a nuclear security training exercise in Russia in mid-July.
The report said Carey was frequently rude to his Russian hosts and others, and that he associated with foreign national women whom he acknowledged were "suspect."


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Tendency increasing further: GM plants on 174 million hectares worldwide in 2013 The cultivation of genetically modified plants worldwide also increased in 2013. In comparison to 2012, field area increased by five million hectares to 174 million. In the case of soybean, 79 percent of world production is achieved with GM soy and this figure is 32 percent in the case of maize.
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The use of genetically modified plants in the EU is confined to the cultivation of Bt maize MON810 in Spain and Portugal. There, the crop areas have increased for the past years.
Widespread Bt maize cultivation pays off in Spain
For years Spain has been the only EU country in which genetically modified crops are commercially grown on any sizeable scale. Spanish farmers first began cultivating insect-resistant Bt maize in 1998. Since then, Bt maize has become firmly established in almost all regions with high corn borer infestation levels.
Soy, maize, cotton and rapeseed: The big four Soy, maize, cotton, and rapeseed account for almost all commercial GMO production. GM plants are grown mainly in North and South America, but increasingly also in India, China and South Africa.
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Cultivation in the USA in 2013: The trend for genetically modified plants remains steady In the USA the farmers are still committed to green gene technology. For soy and sugarbeet, in 2013 genetically modified varieties represented over 90% of the total; for maize and cotton it was exactly 90%. Overall, the acreage under GM crop plants increased by 1 million to 70 million hectares.
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Honda Accord, Civic, CR-V and Odyssey each topped their segment in registrations to individual retail car buyers in 2013
TORRANCE, CA--Feb. 20, 2014: The Honda Accord was the best-selling car with individual American car buyers in 2013 and was joined by three other Honda models – the Civic, CR-V, and Odyssey – as retail sales leaders in their respective segments in 2013, according to new-vehicle registration data compiled by Polk, which was recently acquired by IHS. The Accord, built in Marysville, Ohio1, also had the No. 1 produced car in America in 2013.
Cumulatively, the Accord, Civic, CR-V and Odyssey posted retail sales of more than 1.11 million units in 2013, each earning the business of more than 300,000 individual American car buyers. Excluding full-size pickups, only one other model across the entire industry posted retail sales of more than 300,000 units in 2013.
"Our focus on retail sales to individual buyers has a direct correlation to the high resale value of Honda products, which is a key factor in the value proposition for our customers," said John Mendel, executive vice president of automobile sales for American Honda Motor Co., Inc. "We want to thank car buyers for making four Honda vehicles America's top choices, purchased one car at a time."
Additional highlights from the Polk /IHS Automotive data included:
Honda's 2013 retail sales rose 8.4 percent from year-ago totals to 1,332,576 Honda cars and light trucks Individual sales to retail car buyers made up 98.1 percent of all American Honda sales in 2013, compared to an average of 81.7 percent for all other non-luxury vehicles Accord retail sales in 2013 rose12.2 percent to 360,089 In addition to being retail sales leaders, both the Civic and CR-V ranked as the overall best-selling models in their respective segments for the third consecutive year, and both saw retail sales and registrations jump 8.2 percent in 2013 The Odyssey also captured an impressive 32.2 percent of the U.S. retail registrations for minivans in 2013, selling nearly 25,000 more vehicles than the nearest competitor in the segment
Honda has been named the Most Trusted Brand by Kelley Blue Book for two consecutive years (2012 and 2013) and the Best Value Brand by Automotive Lease Guide for six years in a row (2008 through 2013), in part due to the consistently high resale value of its products.


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Bravos' cooking up a chef's surprise: Two new judges have been added to the mix for Season 9 of "Top Chef," which will have a southwestern flair.
Host Padma Lakshmi and judges Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons will be joined by two new faces at judges' table: restaurateur Emeril Lagasse and critically acclaimed chef Hugh Acheson, according to Bravo's web site. Lagasse has previously appeared as a guest judge on "Top Chef" and Acheson has served up some drama on "Top Chef Masters."
Looks like celeb chefs Eric Ripert and Anthony Bourdain have packed their knives and gone…
Also spicing things up: This season's locale will actually find the chefs competing in three cities – Austin, Dallas and San Antonio. [Rumor has it Pee-Wee Herman will make a guest appearance in one episode from the Alamo.]
And as everyone knows, everything is bigger and badder in Texas, so here's hoping for one sizzling season.
Season 9 of "Top Chef," which promises "many surprising twists and turns and never-before-seen challenges and events," returns this fall on Bravo.


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Pittsburgh mayor's race puts focus on black hopefuls
March 31, 2013 8:00 AMAfter he launched his bid for mayor in a Brookline rally in January, Michael Lamb's next stop was a low-key walking tour of Homewood businesses. His scheduling pointed to the potentially pivotal role of black voters in choosing the Democratic nominee for mayor.
At that point, the mayoral competition was shaping up as a three-way race among white candidates. Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's surprise exit from the race quickly expanded the field and created the possibility that Pittsburgh Democrats for the first time could cast their ballots for an African-American candidate with at least a plausible chance of winning the nomination.
With Mr. Ravenstahl's exit, former state Auditor General Jack Wagner and two black candidates -- state Rep. Jake Wheatley, D-Hill District, and A.J. Richardson, a community activist -- made late entries in the race.
Mr. Richardson, a political newcomer, insists he's in the race to win. And it's within the realm of possibility that his underfunded campaign could catch fire. But Mr. Wheatley is the more established figure. For more than a decade, he has represented a legislative district that includes a substantial portion of the city.
"If Jake was coming out of nowhere as an unknown, that would be one thing," said Darren Barringer, an experienced political strategist who's part of a campaign that's still in the process of staffing up. "Because of the qualifications, [it] puts him on the same level as some of the other candidates running ... he's got some substance."
The black contenders face significant logistical challenges in organizing and fundraising compared to Mr. Lamb and city Councilman Bill Peduto, both of whom had been gearing up for the campaign long before the mayor left it. That's true of Mr. Wagner as well, but he brings a long, statewide political track record and a campaign war chest collected along the way. And they face of history of Pittsburgh mayoral politics that has not been kind to African-American candidates.
The most prominent African-American figure to seek the nomination was the late Byrd Brown. The Yale University-educated lawyer and son of a well-known judge had forged reputations as a civil rights leader and successful litigator before he entered the crowded 1989 primary in which Mayor Sophie Masloff was running as an un-elected incumbent. Mr. Brown was a charismatic figure and a strong presence in campaign debates, but he was rebuffed by the city's voters.
He finished fourth in a five-person field behind Ms. Masloff, then-state Rep. Tom Murphy (who would go on to succeed her) and Frank Lucchino, the best-funded candidate in the race, who would go on to be a judge on Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. The civil rights leader did finish in front of one of the era's established political figures, then-city Controller Tom Flaherty, now a county judge as well.
1989 race offers parallel
1989's was the last mayoral primary with as many contenders as this one. Much has changed in politics and Pittsburgh since then -- a time when the suggestion that an African-American could win the White House would have taxed the most liberal imaginations. But the 1989 race offers several lessons that remain applicable to this one.
Beyond race, the size of the field created opportunities and problems for Mr. Brown. The five-way arithmetic lowered the number of votes needed to win. Ms. Masloff prevailed with a plurality of less than a third of the votes cast. But the size of the field also diluted the amount of attention available to any one candidate, compounding Mr. Brown's ability to break through to the voters.
African-American candidates in Pittsburgh haven't fared much better since. In 2009, Carmen Robinson, a former police officer, finished third, with roughly 13 percent of the vote, in a three-person race behind Mr. Ravenstahl and Councilman Patrick Dowd. In the 2005 primary, Louis "Hop" Kendrick trailed far behind Mayor Bob O'Connor, Mr. Peduto and Mr. Lamb. In 2001, Leroy Hodge, a lawyer and activist, was an also-ran behind Mayor Murphy and Mr. O'Connor. Chaston Roston failed in a challenge to Mr. Murphy in the 1997 primary and again in a run as an independent in the 2001 general election.
Duane Darkins, a colorful former member of city council, ran as an independent in the 1993 general election and finished far behind Mr. Murphy, though ahead of that year's Republican nominee, Kathy Matta. Franco "Dok" Harris, whose heritage is partially African-American, finished second behind Mr. Ravenstahl in the 2009 general election, running as an independent. (Mr. Harris is running for a city council seat in May's primary.)
One obvious factor in the historic lack of African-American success at the top of Pittsburgh politics is that the city's percentage of black population, at roughly 27 percent, is smaller than most other Northern cites that have elected black mayors. African-Americans represent more than 40 percent of the population of Philadelphia, for example, and more than half the population of Cleveland.
One of the rationales for the city's switch from a council-at-large system to a by-district council in 1989 was concern for a lack of representation for blacks in city government. Mr. Wheatley and Mr. Richardson are wagering that the city is ready to expand that representation from council chambers to the office at the other side of the City-County Building's fifth floor.
But their rivals in the race would argue that black voters can have a pivotal voice in the race without backing a black candidate.
"We always felt the African-American community would be a critical key in a race against Luke Ravenstahl," said Mr. Peduto, who said that his internal polling showed him leading among black Democrats. "Our strategy hasn't changed with the different field."
The fact that the city's black community is not monolithic was underscored this week as Mr. Wheatley's colleague from a neighboring district, Rep. Ed Gainey, D-Lincoln-Lemington, endorsed his longtime ally, Mr. Peduto.
Mr. Gainey suggested that long-term political trends, nationally and in Pittsburgh, suggested that the black voters were, one way or another, destined to have a relatively stronger voice in local politics.
"The election of Barack Obama has changed a lot of things; the community is more active than they have been in the past," he said. "What's happened at the federal level has given has the idea that we can make a difference; we shall make a difference and we have to.
"We can increase the vote in the minority community considerably, hopefully we can get it up close to where the Obama vote was," he continued. "It's great that you come out for the presidential election, but we have the opportunity to make our voices heard in every election."
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"Human Target" won't be just a boys' club next season. The FOX show has cast Indira Varma ("Rome," "Torchwood") as a new addition to Christopher Chance's (Mark Valley) team. [Deadline]
"$#*! My Dad Says" has recast the lead role of William Shatner's son, to whom much of the dad's $#*! gets said. Jonathan Sadowski ("Friday the 13th," "American Dreams") will star in the CBS sitcom, replacing Ryan Devlin ("Cougar Town"). [Variety]
Andrea Roth (pictured) of "Rescue Me" is joining the cast of the new CBS drama "Blue Bloods," where she'll play a love interest for Tom Selleck's NYPD chief. She replaces Wendy Moniz in the role. [EW]
Nickelodeon has greenlit a combination live-action/animated movie version of their show "Fairly OddParents," starring Drake Bell as the 23-year-old Timmy Turner. Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines still star as Timmy's live-action godparents. [The Wrap]
NBC's midseason comedy "Friends with Benefits" has cast Zach Cregger ("The Whitest Kids U'Know") in one of its lead roles. He replaces "Dollhouse's" Fran Kranz, who played the part in the pilot. [Deadline]
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Ryan Miller has been named the starting goaltender for the U.S. against Slovenia.
The star of the Americans' silver-medal winning team four years ago sat and watched Jonathan Quick play in the first two games of the 2014 Olympics.
Miller was to start Sunday against Slovenia, the final preliminary-round game for both teams.
Quick made 29 saves and stopped five attempts in a 3-2 shootout victory over Russia. He also helped the U.S. open the Sochi Games with a 7-1 win against Slovakia.
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Brooklyn's Spirit Family Reunion is well known for its rollicking and antiquated sound, emphasized by guitar, bass drum, banjo, washboard and tambourine. It's a band you'd want to hang out with on the porch steps. This is the next best thing: Outside at Storm King Art Center. Spirit Family Reunion plays the sculpture park Sunday. While catching the concert, see the 2013 exhibit Thomas Houseago's "As I Went Out One Morning."
What: Spirit Family Reunion
When: 2 p.m. July 14
Where: Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Road, New Windsor
Price: Free with admission; $12, $10 seniors, $8 students, free age 4 and younger
Information: 534-3115; stormking.org
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