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Not the languages themselves of course, just the tag, which has 3,672 posts attached and must be the most meta of meta tags. The excerpt reads:
A programming language is an artificial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer.
I don't see much point in a tag stating that the question is about a programming language on a site dedicated to... programming.
There are 48 additional tags with programming in the name, some of which may be useful, other's not so much.
Additional ones that should probably be burninated are:
game-programming - 149 posts, This tag is used for questions involving game programming. Before using this tag, consider whether your question would be a better fit for gamedev.stackexchange.com. game-development was burninated, twice.
programming-techniques - 73 posts, no wiki. That'd be everything then.
programming-paradigms - 69 posts, no wiki. A paradigm is a typical pattern, i.e. a canonical example, so hopefully everything.
pair-programming - 66 posts, Pair Programming is an agile software development technique in which two programmers work together at one work station. I can't imagine there are any code problems specifically related to working in pairs.
programming-pearls - 32 posts, Programming pearls are unique problems or solutions that might puzzle a programmer, they have grown from real problems that have irritated real programmers, just as natural pearls grow from grains of sand that irritate oysters. The excerpt says it all...
programming-contest - 31 posts, Almost always Not Constructive - try: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/. Ditto
programming-fundamentals - 28 posts, no wiki. Seems to be used as a synonym for "I think this might be an easy question"?
- programming-competitions - 48 posts, no wiki. Either it's a good question or not, the only purpose this might solve is to stop people yelling that the OP is cheating, but if the OP is actually cheating and uses the tag I don't see what difference it makes.
- programming-tools - 4 posts, no wiki. Please can someone help :-(, also if a few people want to take a close/delete run at the last 16 project-management-tools questions that'd be nice!
There are a load more but I'm not the person to tell whether they might be useful or not.
network-programming, functional-programming, metaprogramming, dynamic-programming, kernel-programming, gpu-programming, template-meta-programming, generic-programming, prototype-programming, linear-programming, reactive-programming, concurrent-programming, genetic-programming, procedural-programming, constraint-programming, logic-programming, defensive-programming, literate-programming, imperative-programming, idl-programming-language, tacit-programming, declarative-programming, event-based-programming, polyglot-programming, hardware-programming, structured-programming, generative-programming, distributed-programming, integer-programming, rmo-programming, intentional-programming, interrogative-programming, multi-stage-programming
Though I'm not sure I don't really see the need for these:
extreme-programming - 84 posts, Extreme programming is a Software Development Methodology from the '90s, nowadays considered a subclass of Agile Programming. It involves typical features such as pair programming, YAGNI, and very iterative programming. ????
database-programming. I know that other tags completely cover this one so I don't see why it's needed.
The following could be merged:


text: This thread was inspired by DPSUP who got me excited to watch THICKER THAN WATER... and although I'm not a (big) fan of Jack Johnson, ANYTHING is better than the music that accompanies MOST self-produced surf movies... be that speed metal (often used when the waves are tiny what??) , or reggae (which I like--its just that its never good reggae on surf vids), or the wonderful music of "dude check out my friends band!!"... Usually I just click the sound off and turn up whatever british invasion / Thin Lizzy /Coltrane record I happen to have going on at the time. So basically if you want to make a killer video and you're under 30...don't use music off of your IPOD...steal some of your stoner uncle's music. The rest of the surfing world will thank you

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TriMetals Mining Files 2019 Q1 Financial Statements, MD&A and Escalones and Arbitration Updates
TriMetals Mining Inc. files First Quarter 2019 Financial Statements, MD&A and Updates on Escalones and Arbitration
May 14, 2019, Vancouver, British Columbia—TriMetals Mining Inc. (TSX: TMI, OTCQX: TMIAF), (the "Company"), reports the release of its condensed interim consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and the related management's discussion and analysis of financial position and results of operations ("MD&A"). In this press release, all amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars, unless otherwise indicated.
During the three months ended March 31, 2019, the Company reported net earnings of $0.10 million ($0.00 per share) compared with net earnings of $1.02 million ($0.01 per share) for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The primary drivers in the results for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 were the non-cash changes in the fair values of the arbitration award assets, Class B shares and other arbitration award liabilities.
The Company reduced its level of operations from the previous year and continued to manage its costs structure which resulted in a decrease in cash outflows from operations from $0.34 million to $0.10 million during the three months ended March 31, 2019.
Exploration spending during the three months ended March 31, 2019 decreased to $0.12 million from $0.41 million incurred in the first three months in 2018. The 2019 costs included $0.05 million incurred at Gold Springs and $0.07 million incurred at the Escalones property in Chile which included $0.05 million in mining rights payments.
During the three months ended March 31, 2019 the Company completed a private placement for gross proceeds of $345,414 (Cdn $460,000) through the issuance of 9,200,000 common shares at a price of Cdn $0.05 per share.
The Company is currently working with Wealth Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:WML) to finalize the definitive agreement with respect to the, previously reported, Escalones transaction. Both parties intend to sign the definitive agreement by no later than May 31, 2019.
The Company is currently having discussions with Bolivia for the payment of the previously reported Award that was issued by the arbitration tribunal during November 2018. Concurrently, the Company's legal counsel is completing the U.S Court requirements for the domestication of the Award in the U.S.A.
About TriMetals Mining Inc.
TriMetals Mining Inc. is a growth focused mineral exploration company creating value through the exploration and development of the near-surface, oxide, heap-leachable Gold Springs gold project in mining friendly Utah and Nevada USA, and the Escalones copper-gold skarn/porphyry deposit in Chile. The Company combines a track record of discovery and advancement of large projects, mining and exploration supportive jurisdictions, low political risk areas, key operational and process expertise, and a focus on community relations and sustainable development. Management has extensive experience in the global exploration and mining industry.
The Company's common shares and Class B shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols "TMI" and "TMI.B" and the common shares and Class B(1) shares also trade on the OTCQX market under the symbol "TMIAF" and "TMIBF". Additional information related to TriMetals Mining Inc. is available at www.TriMetalsmining.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
TriMetals Mining Inc. Contact:
Matias Herrero
Forward-looking Statements
Forward-looking statements look into the future and provide an opinion as to the effect of certain events and trends on the business. Forward-looking statements may include words such as "expect", "plan", "seek", "continue", "typical", "will", "intention", "creating", "and similar expressions. These forward- looking statements are based on current expectations and entail various risks and uncertainties. Actual results may materially differ from expectations, if known and unknown risks or uncertainties affect our business, or if our estimates or assumptions prove inaccurate. Factors that could cause results or events to differ materially from current expectations expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, include, but are not limited to, risks of the mineral exploration industry which may affect the advancement of the Gold Springs project, including possible variations in mineral resources or grade, recovery rates, metal prices, availability of sufficient financing to fund further required work in a timely manner and on acceptable terms, availability of equipment and qualified personnel, failure of equipment or processes to operate as anticipated, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; and other risks more fully described in the Company's Annual Information Form filed and publicly available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The assumptions made in developing the forward-looking statements include: the accuracy of current resource estimates and the interpretation of drill, metallurgical testing and other exploration results; the continuing support for mining by local governments in Nevada, Utah and Chile, the availability of equipment and qualified personnel to advance the Gold Springs project; and the execution of the Company's existing plans and further exploration and development programs for the Gold Springs Project, which may change due to changes in the views of the Company or if new information arises which makes it prudent to change such plans or programs.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or any other reason.
(1) the Class B shares have no interest in the properties or assets of the Company. The Class B shares are only entitled collectively to 85% of the net cash, if any, (after deducting all costs, taxes and expenses and the third-party funder's portion thereof) received by TMI from award or settlement in relation to the Company's subsidiary South American Silver Limited's arbitration proceeding against Bolivia for the expropriation of the Malku Khota project in 2012.


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Review: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) are brothers with a swarm of troubles to their name. To break out of their cycle of debt, Andy proposes robbing the jewelry store run by their parents. At first, Hank is uneasy about this endeavor, but the immediate benefit of a quick heist is too much to ignore, and they set off with a local bar stooge to complete the job. When the simple plan goes awry in a very tragic way, Hank and Andy are caged by their misdeed like animals, with their father (Albert Finney) hungry for revenge on the perpetrators who destroyed his life.
"Devil" is not merely a moody film on the temperament of familial impropriety; instead, the feature is downright biblical in the way it demonstrates wrath, the sheer disgust between the characters spilling over the edges of the frame. It's difficult to say if this is Lumet's finest picture, but it's safe to note "Devil" ranks up there fairly high, holding phenomenal command over a multifaceted psychological story involving human beings continually surpassing their lowest point.
Told in a fractured manner that leaps back and forth in time to isolate every character's experience (sold with an economical, but highly effective editing cue), screenwriter Kelly Masterson uses simplicity as his starting point, taking the singular event of the botched robbery to survey the reactions of those involved, and how the situation quickly snowballs past the point of no return. Lumet doesn't attack the plot with kid gloves as he ventures to get inside Andy and Hank's skin, exploring their enormous frustration and hazardous self-medication with alcohol, drugs, and elaborate fabrications.
There's not a single dramatic beat missing from this superlative feature film. Lumet covers all of his tracks exceptionally, shoving these tattered lives up tight to the audience for inspection, fearless in dramatizing their suicidal appetites and desperation for monetary salvation. At first, opening the film with the robbery feels like such a mistake, taking the suspense of the story right out of play at the starting line. Yet, "Devil" has bigger fish to fry with Andy's failing marriage (his frequently nude wife played by Marisa Tomei), his deteriorating work situation, and his bitter attitude toward his birth order. Hank has his ocean of troubles as well, depicted in his nail-biting scenes where the character purges his anxiety in progressively troublesome ways.
It's needless to even isolate the vitality of the performances. Both Hoffman (as a sleazy manipulator) and Hawke (the unkempt baby of the family) are faultless here, playing to their strengths under Lumet's scrupulous watch. It's comforting to observe that "Devil" is an actor's picture, stepping over rusty plot machinations to focus on intricate reactions and ornate processions of guilt. Nearly every scene reveals a jewel of interpretation that pushes "Devil" into spellbinding new areas of crisis. Finney is equally as superior, but his finest flashes of rage are conserved for the final frames.
"Devil" is electric with fury and fuming displays of bad judgment, and it takes the viewer on an unforgettable ride; every new turn drags the characters hopelessly deeper into an unfathomable situation milked to perfection by Lumet and his finely-tuned ear for tragedy. "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is a blistering piece of moral-smashing cinema that's more effective at serving up toe-curling depictions of malevolence than any horror film Hollywood could possibly deliver.
Filmfodder Grade: A


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Jung Type Descriptions
enfp | enfj | entp | entj | estj | esfj | estp | esfp | infp | infj | intp | intj | istj | isfj | istp | isfp
|hidden, private, has trouble describing feelings, not very affectionate, loner tendencies, lower energy, can be insensitive to the misfortunes of others, disorganized, messy, fears drawing attention to self, anti-tattoos, anti counter culture, not comfortable in unfamiliar situations, avoidant, rather unemotional, does not like attention, more interested in intellectual pursuits than relationships or family, hermetic, not complimentary, dislikes leadership, more submissive then domineering
*the descriptions listed here are made up of personality items. people who scored high on this type scored higher on the above items compared to the average. (more info)
favored careers:
|aerospace engineer, technician, computer scientist, software engineer, software developer, scientist, bar owner, automotive technician, electrician, engineer, mathematician, industrial engineer, nuclear engineer, biotechnology, mechanic, systems analyst, computer animator, data analyst, video game designer
disfavored careers:
|artist, fashion designer, theater director, poet, dancer, actor, singer, english teacher or professor, art teacher, healer, stage manager, florist, art therapist, school teacher, music journalist
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*Jung types are based on the Myers-Briggs typology


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Accessible dancefitSee all events
Key Information:
- Date and time
- Tue 10 October 2023
10:45 - 11:30
- Location
- Studio 1 – Centre For Sport, Frenchay Campus, Further info
- Contact
- Centre for Sport email@example.com
- Cost
- Free for MOVE members
- Attendance
- Booking required
A fun and inclusive class for individuals with additional needs who love to dance and move to music.
This class is perfect for those who prefer a quieter environment and do not enjoy the flashing lights often used in traditional dance classes.
The music used in this class is carefully selected to be at a lower volume, making it easier for individuals with sensory sensitivities to participate comfortably.
How to book
As a UWE Bristol student you get access to our MOVE programme for free!
You will receive an email with your PIN number that you can use to book onto sessions through the UWE Sport app or online.
If you are not sure what your PIN number is you can reset it through UWE Bristol Sport online.
If you are a UWE gym or Active Card member you are automatically enrolled on to the MOVE programme. If you need a reminder of your PIN number, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
MOVE is also open to UWE Bristol staff, their families and members of the public.
Find out more about the MOVE programme
- Cost: Free for MOVE members
- Attendance: Booking required
Studio 1 – Centre For Sport
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BarreX is a ballet-based fitness class that uses ballet to help improve strength, flexibility, posture, and overall fitness.
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Accessible dancefit
Studio 1 – Centre For Sport, Frenchay Campus
A fun and inclusive class for individuals with additional needs who love to dance and move to music.
Tue 03 October 2023, 11:00
Intro to gym
Centre For Sport Gym, Frenchay Campus
Would you like to go to the gym but not sure how to use the equipment? Join one of our fitness instructors who will help you grow your confidence.
Tue 03 October 2023, 12:00
Studio 1 – Centre For Sport, Frenchay Campus
Dancefit is a dance-based exercise class that utilises the physical benefits of dancing to provide a high energy cardio workout.
Tue 03 October 2023, 12:00
Online Pilates class led by a qualified instructor, suitable for all abilities, including beginners.
Tue 03 October 2023, 18:00
Centre For Sport climbing wall, Frenchay Campus
Join us for a beginner climbing session led by a qualified instructor.
Tue 03 October 2023, 18:30
Hillside Gardens, Filton Road
These sessions do not have a coach present but the court will be set up, just book on, turn up and play!
Tue 03 October 2023, 18:30
The Hideout Bristol (Unit 2), White st
Work your whole body to African vibes in this fun dance class.
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Dance fusion
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A fast paced dance fitness class with a fusion of Latin, Street and Commercial dance styles.
Tue 03 October 2023, 20:30
DNB Boxing
Jump Studio, 5 Neptune Court
This is a workout for the ravers or anyone that loves high energy music to work out to. Drum'n'Bass Boxing will keep you moving and get you sweating.
Wed 04 October 2023, 08:40
FIND15 yoga
Join Georgia for this 15 minute yoga session, start your day feeling refreshed and calm.
Wed 04 October 2023, 09:00
Centre for Sport - Sports Hall, Frenchay Campus
These sessions do not have a coach present but the court will be set up so all you need to do is book on, turn up and play! Equipment provided.


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In June and July 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) evaluated potential exposures and health effects of workers involved in Deepwater Horizon response activities due to the BP oil spill.
The evaluation included on-shore wildlife cleaning and rehabilitation workers in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. NIOSH investigators assessed site factors and surveyed workers to collect information on demographics, job duties, occupational exposure to oil or other agents, and health symptoms experienced. Birds were the most common type of wildlife being cleaned and rehabilitated at the centers. For nearly all health outcomes, more injuries and symptoms were reported among wildlife cleaning workers than among a comparison group.
Among the most commonly reported health conditions, scrapes and cuts were reported by two-thirds of workers and itchy or red skin or rash were reported by nearly one-half. Occupational factors unique to wildlife cleaning and rehabilitation likely contributed to the health conditions reported. These factors included: skin contact with oil on the wildlife and in cleaning water; skin exposure to detergents and cleaners; persistent wet skin; and frequent handling and awkward lifting and moving of wildlife and cages.
An occupational health concern common among all Deepwater Horizon response workers was heat stress from work in a hot and humid environment.
NIOSH recommended continuing heat stress management plans and use of protective equipment to minimize skin and mucus membrane contact with oil and oil-contaminated water, measures to reduce ergonomic hazards, housekeeping to prevent slippery surfaces, and encouraging workers to report and seek care for health concerns and injuries.
See National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) evaluation here: interim_report_5


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http://www.nocrony.com/no_conservative.htm (Supreme Court)
http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm (McCain Amendment)
The Senate amendment to the new Defense Appropriations Act would explicitly prohibit the U.S. government from subjecting those in its custody to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment. It's pretty straightforward stuff. Yet despite a rousing 90-9 vote for its passage, there are still dark forces at work trying to subvert the intent of this measure, the language of which must survive the conference committee with the House of Representatives.
Actually, for all practical purposes we already have a torture czar . . . it's the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney. Yes, it is Cheney himself who is PERSONALLY pressuring the conference committee to rescind the McCain amendment in this way (just as he was pressuring CIA analysts in the cooking of the justification for war with Iraq). It has been Cheney himself who has taken a lead role from the beginning, talking in 2002 about the need to revive the "dark arts." Since they could no longer keep the abuses at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and elsewhere classified, they have prosecuted a couple of selected patsies for these crimes, while their agency handlers right up through the chain of command have continued in their unconscionable ways.
This is not to let the president himself off the hook. In the first place there is Bush's own overreaching lust for absolute dictatorial power. Indeed, his longtime attorney and ally, Alberto Gonzales, put his name on the infamous Jan 25, 2002 memo, referring to the Geneva convention as "quaint." But what many people do not realize is that the heart of that reprehensible legal pretzel job was drafted by David Addington, the staff attorney closely associated with Dick Cheney. And would anybody like to guess Mr. Addington's current title in the White House? That's right. He's been tapped to replace the indicted "Scooter" Libby as Cheney's Chief of Staff.
There isn't a "talking head" out there not drinking their own "talking points Kool-Aid" who believes the Fitzgerald investigation is remotely close to being finished. If anything, the allegations in the Libby indictment, which identify Cheney as the one who specifically advised Libby that Valerie (Plame) Wilson worked under the covert wing of the CIA, suggest that the Vice President is at least one of the big game that the Special Counsel is still pursuing. The tight-lipped Fifth Amendment-type reactions given by Cheney in the aftermath of the indictment to explain his own role in the leak scandal do nothing to dispel the intrigue. Instead the administration is circling the torture-advocate wagons even tighter with the promotion of Addington, while the shadow of Traitorgate continues to darken over their heads.
Especially now, with the chickens of treason coming home to roost in the nest of the chicken hawks themselves, this is the last time in history for the authors of torture as official American policy to be allowed to push for largesse for even wider atrocities. We must all immediately contact our senators and members of the House of Representatives who might have influence on the conference committee to demand that the overwhelmingly approved language of the McCain amendment remain intact in the final Defense Appropriations Bill.
ACTION FORM: http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm (McCain Amendment)
We must also recognize that this is profoundly related to the selection of a replacement for Harriet Miers as Supreme Court nominee. Remember -- one of the talking points of the neocons (before they turned on her for not being sufficiently and demonstrably loyal to their causes) was that she would support the president's policies in the deceptively dubbed "war on terror." But the universal common denominator of all Bush appointees is their submissive endorsement of the unlimited expansion of the president's power to do whatever he likes in defiance of Congress and even the people themselves.
In his own confirmation hearing Roberts refused to say (among other things) whether the Congress would have the power to stop a war if the president ignored their authority. That case might come before him, he argued, as if he knew something we didn't. And it most certainly will if Bush is not stopped from making any more such appointments. Roberts and his ilk will not legislate from the bench (as if that were the boogie man to be feared). No, instead they will UN-legislate from the bench, perhaps even to remove the McCain language from American law by court order on the grounds that it would interfere with the power of the president to play God. Remember also that in his first day on the bench of the high court Roberts left the sheep's clothing in his chambers to ask aggressively why they should not overturn the TWICE-expressed will of the people in the Oregon "Right to Die" case.
For all of these reasons we must demand that the next nominee to the Supreme Court be a true moderate and a true nonpartisan. One of the truly beautiful things about Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is that the American people can look at his work and agree that it will be based entirely on the facts and the law. Even opposing attorneys of those he has indicted must concede that he is unwavering in his fairness and his integrity, favoring neither side by any inherent bias. We can demand no less from the next justice to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
ACTION FORM: http://www.nocrony.com/no_conservative.htm (Supreme Court)
If we all speak out, we can remove the Vice President from his position as the torture czar. It's not as if he doesn't have enough other black hats to wear; he's already serving in the capacity of treason czar as it is. Sheriff Fitzgerald is working on that last one. The rest is up to we the people.


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Northern Mohican Musician, performer, songwriter and painter Bill Miller offers two presentations Nov. 7 at Montcalm Community College.
At noon in rooms D303-305 in MCC's Beatrice E. Doser Building, Miller offers reflections and a musical presentation to students, faculty, staff and community members. Lunch is provided for students with a current MCC ID and is $2 for all others.
At 7 p.m., Miller performs his music in MCC's Barn Theater. Admission is free.
Miller's motivating and spiritual music was shaped by an astonishing life. Born of German-Mohican blood, Miller grew up in and around Northern Wisconsin on a reservation. His struggle against cultural and family tragedies became the backbone of his faith-enriched work.
Shortly after leaving the reservation, Miller's turning point came when he attended a Pete Seeger concert. He then studied art at the Layton School of Art and Design in Milwaukee, Wis., and pursued a career as a singer and songwriter. From the beginning, he faced cultural racism, but Miller continues to escalate as a singer and songwriter.
It was through life experiences that Miller used his talents to overcome battles that fell in his path and continue living in a positive, inspirational way. In a story on his Web site, Miller said, "I see things as rivers, creeks and rainstorms as the liquid layer of my life."
Miller has recorded several albums that have brought great success to his life, including "Loon Mountain and Moon," "Red Road," "Reservation Road, and Raven In The Snow," "The Art of Survival," and one that brought great attention to him at the American Music Awards, "Ghost Dance," which earned him nine Nammys. Miller most recently released the albums "Chronicles of Hope" and "Spirit Wind North."
Ken DeLong, MCC's Native American Club advisor, has seen Miller's performances and he described them as, "excellent, and powerful. It's hard to put a label on his music because his lyrics are inspired by personal experiences."
"Miller is excellent on the guitar, and he sucks you in," DeLong said.
November is Native American recognition month and DeLong said he hopes Miller's performance will "bring folks to campus, and broaden their horizon. It's a chance for the community to hear and see things they wouldn't normally experience."
Miller is "not pretentious, he's a good guy and he can really connect with his audience," DeLong said.
Contact DeLong by e-mail at email@example.com or call him at (989) 328-1258 for more information.


text: SOS Children's Village Seoul SOS Children's Village Seoul was built in 1980 and is located on the western edge of the capital. Seoul is the country's largest city; it has over 10 million inhabitants. Like many other big cities, Seoul has to face a lot of social problems. High unemployment rates and poverty have negative impacts on families, increasing the number of social orphans. Abandoned and orphaned children find a new home at SOS Children's Village Seoul. The SOS Children's Village consists of 15 family houses, a community house, an administrative building, the Village Director's house, the aunts' (family helpers') house and a communal bath, which is typical of Korea. All the children from SOS Children's Village Seoul attend schools in the neighbourhood. In 1988, an SOS Youth Village for 30 boys has opened in Seoul. Teenagers usually move to the SOS Youth Facility while they are still doing their vocational training or continuing their schooling. For them, this move represents a first step towards independence. The SOS Social Centre, which is located on the site of the SOS Children's Village, was opened in 1982 and offers programmes of further education, lectures and other activities. It includes a day-care centre for children of working mothers. The children receive a meal every day. The SOS Social Centre has contributed a lot towards the acceptance of the SOS Children's Village by the local population.


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Church and Family History Research Assistance for Whitley County, IndianaCHURCHES:
Thank you for being patient while we seek information for this site. If you have such information, please write to us.
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STOP Perpetual Dog Chaining in Kyle, Texas, Zip Code 78640
Why Perpetual Dog Chaining (Tethering) is Harmful to Dogs & Illegal in Texas
Here are some facts:
Texas Law States: BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION A1.AAChapter 821, Health and Safety Code. Sec.A821.076.Sec.A821.077. UNLAWFUL Restraint of a Dog. (3) A dog restrained for a reasonable period, not to exceed 3 hours in a 24-hour period, and no longer than is necessary for the owner to complete a temporary task that requires the dog to be restrained. (a) An owner may not leave a dog outside and unattended by use of a restraint that unreasonably limits the dog's movement: between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.; within 500 feet of the premises of a school; or in the case of extreme weather conditions, including conditions in which: the actual or effective outdoor temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit; a heat advisory has been issued by a local or state authority or jurisdiction; or a hurricane, tropical storm, or tornado warning has been issued for the jurisdiction by the National-Weather-Service.
The American Veterinary Medical Association warns that chaining a dog can contribute to aggressive behavior.
The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture prohibits chaining as the primary means of confinement under the Animal Welfare Act. They state, "Our experience in enforcing the Animal Welfare Act has led us to conclude that continuous confinement of dogs by a tether is inhumane. A tether significantly restricts a dog's movement. A tether can also become tangled around or hooked on the dog's shelter structure or other objects, further restricting the dog's movement and potentially causing injury." In these cases dogs sometimes hang themselves on their chains when they try to jump from a porch or wrap themselves around a tree...even jumping a fence!
The Center for Disease Control states that chained dogs are 2.8 times more likely to bite than unchained dogs.
Nearly 100 "state and local" jurisdictions "ban or severely" restrict dog chaining.
The city of Austin passed a No Dog Chaining Ordinance in 2007 and Arlington was the most recent to pass this law in Texas.
Dogs are pack animals that are genetically determined (by humans) to live in a group and who want and need socialization and companionship. Dogs kept on chains for hours, days, months, or even years suffer immense psychological damage. An otherwise friendly & docile dog, when kept continuously chained, becomes neurotic, unhappy, anxious, and often aggressive. Their necks often become raw & covered in sores due to constant yanking in an attempt to free themselves. Collars often become embedded in their necks if left unattended for years. In their struggle dogs will knock over what food and water has been given to them resulting in being left with nothing while unattended. In our Texas heat we already know this to be a death sentence.
As a reminder in 2011 when this ordinance did not pass a dog died of heat stroke on the end of a chain just a few days later.
Dogs on chains are commonly referred to as "coyote bait" and are subject to many dangers. They are easy targets for harassing humans, and stinging and biting insects. Unspayed female dogs are the worst targets from wondering male dogs. This only perpetuates over population and unwanted offspring. They "can not" escape and always resort to the fight-or-fight mode. "Flight" is not an option while chained so aggression is the only option. They are also subject to theft for profit or theft to become a bait dog.
Dogs on chains do not make good guard dogs. Chains create aggression not protectiveness! A protective dog is used to being around people and can sense when his family is being threatened. A dog learns to be protective by spending lots of time with people and by learning to know and love their human family. Leaving a dog on a chain and ignoring them is how to raise an aggressive dog. Aggressive dogs can't distinguish between a threat and a family friend, because they are not used to people. Aggressive dogs will attack anyone, especially an unknowing child. Statistics show that one of the best deterrents to intruders is an inside dog.
It is a death sentence for the soul of a pack animal to be isolated alone and tied down to live out their life in fear, frustration, depression & ill health. It is also a fact that most chained dogs are not spayed or neutered, do not have their proper shots and suffer numerous skin and internal parasites & diseases.
Chained dogs are a hazard to the community and add great risk for generating more aggressive dogs with the potential to bite.
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text: Email Story Print Story National Jewish Health Receives Grant to Launch Spirometry Training Program FEBRUARY 10, 2009 DENVER — Grant targets underserved areas across country National Jewish Health was awarded an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to produce a series of Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities to train healthcare providers in underserved areas across the country on how to conduct spirometry testing. Spirometry is a pulmonary function test measuring the volume and flow of air that can be exhaled, and is an important tool for assessing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The spirometry training program, "Making the Right Diagnosis: The Need for Spirometry," is designed to inform Primary Care Physicians and Allied Health professionals how to recognize, diagnose, and deal with the heterogeneity of COPD, from its clinical course, diagnosis and outcomes. To accomplish this, National Jewish Health will utilize a Saturday symposia series and an interactive web portal to deliver the content for this initiative. National Jewish Health is partnering with the COPD Foundation and the National Medical Association to develop and market the symposia series. "COPD is an emerging epidemic with a significant societal burden," said David Tinkelman, MD, Vice President of Health Initiatives at National Jewish. "Currently, the healthcare system is very ill-equipped to deal with the emerging COPD epidemic. Urban areas that treat underserved populations will be selected to attend the Saturday symposia based on their incidence of COPD. " "Over 12 million Americans have been diagnosed with COPD, but despite its impact COPD continues to be under-diagnosed and misdiagnosed," said Byron Thomashow, MD, Chair of the COPD Foundation Board of Directors. "Checking lung health is just as important and easy as checking blood pressure, and this spirometry training program empowers individuals with COPD and educates healthcare providers to make a difference." Events are currently scheduled in Atlanta, Berkeley (2/21), Washington D.C. (2/28), and Chicago (3/7). The symposia will be a blend of didactic learning, hands-on utilization of spirometry equipment, coaching with that equipment and proper interpretation of spirograms. Lectures and coaching will be done by National Jewish Health experts. For 11 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has ranked National Jewish Health the No. 1 respiratory hospital in the nation. Attendees can earn 4.0 CME credits or 3.9 CE nursing contact hours. National Jewish Health is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Once participants are comfortable using spirometers and interpreting spirograms in their practice, they will be given the opportunity to refine and continue to advance their skills in an online training program. "This program has the potential to equip primary care physicians to provide state of the art diagnosis and management of their patients with COPD," said LeRoy M. Graham, MD, FCCP, Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine. Currently the 4th cause of death in the U.S., COPD is the only chronic disease steadily increasing since 1970, and death rates from COPD in the 1960's have tripled. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute estimates that of 24 million Americans who have COPD, only half of them are diagnosed. "Spirometry is extremely important for the diagnosis of COPD, and should be considered in any patient with dyspnea, chronic cough, and putum production, or a history of exposure to risk factors for the disease," said Dr. Tinkelman. "It is absolutely essential that COPD be confirmed by spirometry, which will help to distinguish between COPD and asthma." Media Resources We have many faculty members, from bench scientists to clinicians, who can speak on almost any aspect of respiratory, immune, cardiac and gastrointestinal disease as well as lung cancer and basic immunology. Accomplishments & Awards Annual Report Financials Media Contacts Our team is available to arrange interviews, discuss events and story ideas. Adam Dormuth 303.398.1002 office 970.222.5034 mobile firstname.lastname@example.com Jessica Berry 303.398.1082 office 303.807.9491 mobile email@example.com


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Rumor: iPhone made up 66% of sales at AT&T corporate stores, Android 9%
The Mac Observer cited a source inside AT&T on Friday as indicating that the company's stores sold 981,000 iPhones between Dec. 1 and Dec. 27. By comparison, 126,000 Android devices were reportedly sold during the same period.
Basic feature phones apparently performed better than Android at the stores, as 128,000 units were sold during December. Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices continued to languish, with just 74,000 sold this month. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 fared even worse.
According to the report, the numbers only include AT&T's corporate retail stores, not authorized resellers, online sales, telephone sales or other retail outlets.
Of course, the iPhone's performance at AT&T corporate stores doesn't on its own reflect the device's overall market share. Given that AT&T was the original partner for the iPhone, Apple's handset has long been the best-selling phone on the network.
Recent third-quarter figures from comScore reveal that Android has reached a 46.9 percent share of the smartphone market, compared to Apple's 28.7 percent.
Credit: The Mac Observer.
The publication was unable to confirm with Apple's PR department the numbers provided by its source, as the company declined to comment. AT&T did, however, reveal earlier this month that it expected to have its best quarter ever for smartphone sales because of "strong" performance of the iPhone 4S. The wireless operator sold six million smartphones in the first two months of the fourth quarter and is expected to handily beat its previous quarterly sales record of 6.1 million smartphones.
The iPhone accounted for 56 percent of AT&T's smartphone activations in the third quarter of calendar 2011, even as some customers held out for the iPhone 4S.
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CHICAGO—Jubilant Chicago Public Schools officials announced Friday that, for five straight days now, there has not been a single act of student violence in any of the city's 675 public schools. "Our classrooms and hallways are safer now than they've ever been," said CPS chief executive Jean-Claude Brizard, happily noting that there have been no reported instances of beatings, stabbings, sexual assaults, or shootings in any of the city's public schools this week. "We've had no incidents of weapons being brought onto school property, nor has anyone had to break up a fistfight between students. We've all had to work together for this, but it's paid off. Let's keep it up!" At press time, a gunfight on Chicago's South Side had reportedly claimed the lives of three 16-year-old boys.
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More than 200 people gathered in the Commission Meeting Room Tuesday, June 21, to hear presentations on federal environmental and historic preservation regulations for the siting of communications facilities, including towers used for mobile telephone, broadband, broadcast, public safety, and other licensed services.
FCC speakers included staff members from the Wireless, Consumer and Governmental Affairs, Media, and Public Safety and Homeland Security bureaus. In addition, the Federal Preservation Officers from FEMA, USDA Rural Utilities Service, and Department of Commerce NTIA provided information on their review procedures when their agencies fund broadband and public safety projects. The federal employees were joined by review officers from three State Historic Preservation Offices, or SHPOs, who discussed how they participate in the historic preservation reviews. The audience included representatives of communications and tower companies, their trade associations, environmental consultants, licesees, and communications attorneys, as well as the historians and archeologists who study the effects of proposed towers prior to construction.
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Beneath The Ice
by Samana on FatCat RecordsReleased 07/09/2018
To mark their signing to FatCat Records, Samana have shared the video to their debut track, Beneath The Ice.
Talking about the track, the duo of multi-instrumentalist and producer Franklin Mockett and award winning photographer Rebecca Rose Harris said:
This song is an ode to the moulting cycle of the poet, to the expansion of solitude, to the twilight that one lives inside, between the silence of stillness and movement.
Samana inhabit a musical space somewhere between Nick Cave, Mazzy Star, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Nick Drake, Bill Callahan and Sigur Ros, yet they possess a unique spirit born out of their nomadic existence which saw them embark on a year long trip around Europe living and writing on the road.
On their return to the U.K. they took up residence in a farmhouse in the Brecon Beacons where they built 'The Road Records", an analogue studio and darkroom where the duo create all their work and where the musical ideas born on their trip were realised and came into fruition.
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Renee Cammarere has served the IEEE as the Co-chair for the Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society, at which time she hosted several technical luncheons in the Rome, NY area. Before that, she was a member of the EMC Society, has served as secretary, and as the Treasurer for the Mohawk Valley Section of the IEEE since 2008. She is presently serving as Chair for the MV Section IEEE as a Senior member.
She received her B.S. in Computer Science at SUNY IT in June of 2005, and is presently employed with the Connecticut Operations for Technology Service Corporation working out of her home in upstate New York with her husband, Mark. She has contributed to technical efforts involving the modification and updating of radar modeling software, radar coverage analysis, and development of logistical sites planning tools.
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Prevent and Treat Termites with These Control Methods
Termites cause significant damage to wooden structures, including homes. Learn to recognize the signs of a termite infestation in your home and understand how to use available termite control methods in Macon, GA, to prevent further damage to your home.
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Prevent and Treat Termites with These Control Methods
Here are some of the common signs of termites that you can look for in your home.
Mud tubes on the exterior of your home. These will lead from the ground up the exterior wall. You should also check the exterior of your neighbor's home for mud tubes if you live in a townhome or similar community where homes are sharing exterior walls.
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If you have a wood-burning fireplace, you should ensure that your wood is stored near your home but not touching your home. Termites love moist, dark environments and live in or near wood. Decaying wood piles are a perfect place to find them.
Consider non-commercial termite control options from a local home improvement store. These will not be as thorough and extensive as a professional exterminator, but might get a minor infestation under control if used carefully. These methods include termite bait and stakes that you place in various locations around your home. If, after using these methods, you still see evidence of an active termite infestation, you need to contact a local exterminator. Prevent and Treat Termites with These Control Methods
The benefit of hiring an exterminator to come out to your home and provide a thorough termite inspection and treatment program is that they are trained to catch the signs that you missed. They will be able to differentiate between an active infestation and one that has already been cleared up. Find out what options are available to you by contacting a local exterminator for termite control methods in Macon, GA.


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Red-carpet fashion laureate, comic icon, and outspoken superstar Joan Rivers is uniquely qualified to talk about plastic surgery—because she's one of the few celebrities unafraid to admit to the world what she's "had done" to keep looking so great. Now, in this no-holds-barred book, she gives women straight-talking advice on better living through looking better.
Joan Rivers' abiding life philosophy is simple: in the appearance-centric society of the twenty-first century, beauty is key—especially where men are concerned. Men like pretty women. And so, getting something lifted, tightened, adjusted, or removed is as fundamental as wearing makeup or using hair conditioner; it's become something we do to make ourselves look better. Now, for any woman considering her options, Joan Rivers takes the mystery out of cosmetic surgery with a practical overview, aided and informed by the country's top plastic surgeons, of almost every single cosmetic procedure legally performed in America today. She takes readers step-by-step through these entire processes, from fi nding the right doctor to the bruising truth about recovery and the facts about cosmetic surgery's very real risks.
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Because it was a swirl, I am only aware of clapboard & bricks & vines & trees & wheels. Which way is south & how far is east?
Portland is a place of lines & the bones of a working class, industrial past that ends a little more everyday.
The stores are full of other people's stories- plaid & nylon & mothballs. Industry is a creaking rocking chair, economy of antique scales. Coffee comes with it all. Beer to follow.
- small thoughts on a late plane back to SFO. More coherent writing to follow.
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Texas has a lot of beautiful tails. From the canyons to the desert to the grass lands and forrest. I am working my way up to the proper condition to ride in these trails and not die haha.ReplyDelete
I have never been to Texas. One day I would like to. Oregon, at least Portland, was great.ReplyDelete
You've captured in a few good words a lot of what I love about this place.ReplyDelete
I am glad it doesn't make me sound like a silly tourist : )ReplyDelete
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We evaluated two options in selection of route to reach this confluence. The first option has start point for foot path at the Qaladjiq village and basically passes along Shirvanchay river valley. The second route has start point at the newly built Duyma recreation center and passes via the adjacent Vandam river valley. It was clear from the available local maps with 1:100000 scale that the first route length is about 6km up-slope direction footway, while the second route length is about 16km and consists from 12km up-slope section to the peak as well as 4km down-slope to the confluence. After brief discussion we decided to select the lengthy route by reason of more pictorial and beautiful path to the peak of mountain. Another reason for the selection of second route was a presence of the board guard military patrol within first route area as we investigated from local farmers.
We start to a journey about 4 p.m. on 27 August from the Duyma recreation center at the Vandam village. We took with us one smart local guy as a guide. He is a shepherd on the seasonal pastures. At present time his shepherd's team maintains the flocks of sheep on the summer pasture on the peak of mountain where we should to cross within our selected route. Following the instructions of our guide we were moving in the frame of river bed on the dry strips. The distance about 7km we passed quite lightly.
Then next 3km were noticeably difficult since we left the river bed to go uphill. We all were tired and moved hardly. Our guide suggested borrowing horses from nearest shepherds to finish remaining piece of our climb. Fortunately we reached these horses soon. The shepherds saddled five horses for us and we were ready to continue our journey on horseback. It was the really funny to see how some of us clambering up to the horse first time in the life. The last part of our climb of the peak was very unusual due to equilibration on the horsecloth saddles. In some places in the narrow path with the precipice we were forced get off and pass these dangerous parts on foot leading the horse by rope. All around was fogged in. It was really adrenalin generation part of way.
The time was so late about 9 p.m. and night was falling when we reached peak of mountain on the elevation of 2260m with alpine plants/grass, a huge number of sheep, terrible patrol dogs and a small self-made jute shelter as night quarters of shepherds. These shepherds met us very cordially and prepared for dinner nice kebab and boiled mutton lamb. The night inside of sleeping-bag on the earth floor seemed very long.
Early morning on 28 August after short breakfast we continue our journey to down-slope direction to reach the aimed confluence. The distance to the confluence along straight line was 2km. Elevation drop was 800m. But really we went down on serpentine path. It was the best wonderful piece of our trip, particularly on the top of mountain. The amazing panoramas compensated our unusual recent efforts. Our downhill was not easy as we expected before due our tiredness on the yesterday's uphill. The last two kilometers we moved through luxuriant forest. The confluence has been reached short time after 11 a.m. We carried out required GPS records/photos and then followed to Qaladjiq where our driver waited our return.


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Police in Mexicali, a border town between Mexico and California, have reportedly confiscated a powerful compressed air cannon used by Mexican cartels to launch packages of weed over the border. The truck-mounted device is made of PVC piping attached to an air compressor and driven by an automobile engine. It could launch up to 13 kilograms of drugs over the fence at a time. And apparently was quite productive. The police were only tipped off to the device's existence after recently seizeing a large quantity of bagged drugs that looked like they'd been shot out of a cannon. [Guardian - Image: AP Photo/Mexicali Public Safety Department


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Pregame Hoopla
Baseball is often thought of as an intellectual's game. Historians and literary figures get misty-eyed when talking about the hypnotic power of America's pastime. Statheads devour copies of The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in their spare time. So AU Night at Nationals Park is a natural draw for the cerebral and passionate individuals who comprise the American University community. Students, alumni, faculty, and staff turned out in force on Friday, August 22 to watch the hometown Washington Nationals take on the San Francisco Giants.
This is the third season of the successful partnership between AU and the Washington Nationals. The AU WONK campaign is represented in signage on scoreboards throughout the stadium during home games. WONK trivia challenges appear during the season and tap into the expertise of AU faculty. Launched in 2010, the WONK campaign celebrates those same smart, focused, and engaged Eagles in attendance on Friday.
Plenty of AU students were at the game, and close to 400 tickets were set aside at a special discount rate for freshmen. Tickets were offered at three recent Welcome Week functions, and at one event, 180 tickets were sold in just an hour.
On Friday, students started off with a Nats-themed barbeque on campus, filled with popcorn and hot dogs. At the park beforehand, there was the highly anticipated special alumni picnic—sold out for the third year in a row. The first 25,000 fans at the stadium got free AU-Nats t-shirts. Accompanied by Nationals manager Matt Williams, AU President Neil Kerwin took part in the lineup card exchange with the umpire and the visiting Giants.
Sports journalist David Aldridge, an AU alumnus and Washington native, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. "My only goal was for it to be better than 50 Cent. I think I did that," he joked, in reference to the rapper's awful sideways pitch at a Mets game.
Aldridge (SOC /BA '87) felt gratitude towards his alma mater. "I'm so thrilled AU asked me to do this. It was a lot of fun," he said.
Treble in Paradise
Singing the national anthem at a sporting event is extremely difficult. We've witnessed Grammy-winning artists completely bungle the song. But all-female, all-AU student a cappella group Treble in Paradise was up for the challenge. "We're like sisters in the group, and so it gets really comfortable. And we usually can just laugh through any of the nerves," said Hayley Travers, a senior musical theatre major. "I think a lot of the time what trips the person up is the lyrics. And for us, since we're all singing together, the chance that we're all going to mess up is narrowed."
They certainly didn't mess up, as their beautiful rendition brought about rapturous applause from AU and non-AU spectators alike.
Hannah Johnson, a junior psychology major and the singing group's president, had her entire family come down for the game. "Without AU, we would never have had this chance," she said.
Play Ball
Throughout the game, AU's presence was everywhere. Just before the third inning, a WONK trivia challenge featured Anita McBride, executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs. Amidst the baseball, we could learn that President Abraham Lincoln was partial to the poetry of Walt Whitman.
On Twitter, students were encouraged to use #AUNatsNight throughout the evening to share their experiences and show their AU spirit. Clawed Z. Eagle energized the crowd, with first-year students flocking to get their pictures taken with the beloved AU mascot. And as anyone who's ever been to a Nats game can attest, the Presidents' Race is the moment of truth. Clawed was holding the finish line while George Washington was victorious.
Jennifer Vinciguerra, who just earned her master's degree in organization development, marveled at seeing the AU signs in sparkling colors on the scoreboards. "It's awesome. When we came in and it said AU everywhere, on all of the screens, it was very cool," she says. "And it's nice to come back and see other alums. It's good to realize, 'Oh, there's a community here."
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Much to the chagrin of the hometown crowd, Giants rookie Joe Panik had a monster game, going 4-for-5 and hitting his first major league home run. But it was an all-around banner night for other freshmen. First-year students said Night at Nationals Park instilled a sense of AU pride, while integrating them into their new city.
"Sports are a big part of any city. So now, after finally moving to D.C., this adds more attachment to being here," said Benjamin Zook, a freshman CLEG major in the School of Public Affairs.
And it's fun to watch a little baseball. Zook is from nearby Loudoun County, Virginia and he was already a Nats fan. There's a time-honored tradition of baseball facilitating father-son relationships, and you can set your DVR to Field of Dreams and The Natural for fictional inspirations of this. Zook and his father also bonded over the game. "Every time I come to a baseball game without him, he always watches on TV," he said.
Rebecca Malone is a freshman in the School of International Service and she's part of the three-year Global Scholars Program. "After Welcome Week, we thought this was kind of a good way to settle into the city," she says.
Katie Low happens to be a huge San Francisco Giants fan, but she relished live baseball in Washington. "Baseball is something I watch at home with my family. It's really cool that I'm watching it here with all of these AU kids. So it's like a second family over here," she said. "Tonight is awesome. And it really makes me feel like this is kind of my home now." Low hails from San Joaquin County, California and she's also a freshman in the CLEG program.
Freshman Samantha White, a political science major, is originally from the Cleveland metropolitan area. She's an Indians fan, but she's also adopted the Nats. "I definitely love baseball. And I'm really excited that being at American University we can get these discounted tickets," she said. "I'll probably be here all the time."
The Giants won 10-3, putting a halt to the Nationals remarkable 10-game winning streak. But AU kept its own streak alive. For the third straight year, AU celebrated its intelligent, jovial, tight-knit community through baseball. New, current, and former students had a good time. And the school may be recruiting a few future stars. While Clawed was heading towards the field before the game, a young boy in a Nationals jersey recognized the mascot. "That's American University!" he blurted out.


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The tour has been pulled together by Cunning Stunt Promotions of Brigend and features the "cream of youth" the very same demographic involved in the heaviest warfare during any amed conflict.
To coincide with the tour, Rhondda based Poisoned Whiskey Records have produced the 'The Consequences Of Our Actions' CD, which makes public the label's opposition to the impending war on Iraq. The 11 Welsh bands with one each from Coventry and Belfast who feature on the CD share a common view on the futility of war, as do the local branch of the trades union UNISON, who have sponsored the project.
The CD will be available from the first date of the tour onwards as well as from the label's website here.
The bands contributing to the CD are Flailing Wail, fresh from the first DiS night at the Cardiff Barfly last month, The Dirtbox Funsters and Karma Violet from the Rhondda, and The Wishinghour, Panel and Flipside from Cardiff. From Merthyr Tydfil and brandishing punk that's so cool it hurts are Midasuno with Ten Minute Preview, Newport's The Viva Knevils and NUKE from Bridgend. Alien Matter travel down from Rhyl in North Wales and also coming South are Set Against from Coventry and The Dangerfields from across the water in Belfast.
Marcus Lawry, who runs Poisoned Whiskey Records, gave the reasoning behind the project.
"Everybody involved at the label feels strongly opposed to the threat of war on Iraq, so we decided to voice our opposition through the release of a CD and subsequent tour. It is also an opportunity for us to showcase some of the excellent bands currently tearing up the South Wales scene as well as releasing something with a message behind it. I think UNISON saw this project as a positive move by a young label, and we are very grateful of the enthusiasm and support that they are showing us."
February Anti-War Tour Dates
Sunday 16th - RM's Rock Club, Merthyr Tydfil
Midasuno, Flailing Wail, NUKE
8pm. £3
Tuesday 18th - OTT's Newport
Midasuno, NUKE, Flailing Wail
8pm - 1am. Free Entry
Thursday 20th - Toll House, Bridgend
Midasuno, Flailing Wail, NUKE and Morning After (+ Special Guests)
7.30pm. £3
Friday 21st - Rhondda Hotel, Porth. RCT
Midasuno, NUKE, Flailing Wail
7.30pm. £3
Sunday 23rd - MS1, Mount Stuart, Cardiff Bay
Mclusky, Nameless, Panel, NUKE, The Wishinghour, Flailing Wail
ALL AGES SHOW. 8pm - 2am. £5
For further information Contact Poised Whiskey Records or Cunning Stunt Promotions.


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Glomalin: Hiding Place for a Third of the World's Stored Soil Carbon
Glomalin, extracted from
undisturbed Nebraska soil and
then freeze-dried.
A sticky protein seems to be the unsung hero of soil carbon storage.
Until its discovery in 1996 by ARS soil scientist Sara F. Wright, this soil "super glue" was mistaken for an unidentifiable constituent of soil organic matter. Rather, it permeates organic matter, binding it to silt, sand, and clay particles. Not only does glomalin contain 30 to 40 percent carbon, but it also forms clumps of soil granules called aggregates. These add structure to soil and keep other stored soil carbon from escaping.
As a glycoprotein, glomalin stores carbon in both its protein and carbohydrate (glucose or sugar) subunits. Wright, who is with the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, thinks the glomalin molecule is a clump of small glycoproteins with iron and other ions attached. She found that glomalin contains from 1 to 9 percent tightly bound iron.
A microscopic view of an
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus
growing on a corn root. The
round bodies are spores, and
the threadlike filaments are
hyphae. The substance coating
them is glomalin, revealed by
a green dye tagged to an
antibody against glomalin.
Glomalin is causing a complete reexamination of what makes up soil organic matter. It is increasingly being included in studies of carbon storage and soil quality. In fact, the U.S. Department of Energy, as part of its interest in carbon storage as an offset to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, partially funded a recent study by lab technician Kristine A. Nichols, a colleague of Wright's. Nichols reported on the study as part of her doctoral dissertation in soil science at the University of Maryland.
That study showed that glomalin accounts for 27 percent of the carbon in soil and is a major component of soil organic matter. Nichols, Wright, and E. Kudjo Dzantor, a soil scientist at the University of Maryland-College Park, found that glomalin weighs 2 to 24 times more than humic acid, a product of decaying plants that up to now was thought to be the main contributor to soil carbon. But humic acid contributes only about 8 percent of the carbon. Another team recently used carbon dating to estimate that glomalin lasts 7 to 42 years, depending on conditions.
For the study, the scientists compared different chemical extraction techniques using eight different soils from Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, and Nebraska. They found that current assays greatly underestimate the amount of glomalin present in soils. By comparing weights of extracted organic matter fractions (glomalin, humic acid, fulvic acid, and particulate organic matter), Nichols found four times more glomalin than humic acid. She also found that the extraction method she and Wright use underestimates glomalin in certain soils where it is more tightly bound than usual.
In her Beltsville laboratory,
soil scientist Sara Wright
examines a soil aggregate
coated with glomalin, a soil
protein she identified in 1996.
In a companion study, Nichols, Wright, and Dzantor teamed up with ARS chemist Walter F. Schmidt to examine organic matter extracted from the same soils under a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imager. They found that glomalin's structure differs from that of humic acid—or any other organic matter component—and has unique structural units.
In a current study in Costa Rica, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, Wright is using glomalin levels and root growth to measure the amount of carbon stored in soils beneath tropical forests. She is finding lower levels of glomalin than expected and a much shorter lifespan. "We think it's because of the higher temperatures and moisture in tropical soils," she explains. These factors break down glomalin.
Forests, croplands, and grasslands around the world are thought to be valuable for offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from industry and vehicles. In fact, some private markets have already started offering carbon credits for sale by owners of such land. Industry could buy the credits as offsets for their emissions. The expectation is that these credits would be traded just as pollution credits are currently traded worldwide.
Soil scientist Sara Wright
(foreground) and technician
Kristine Nichols use nuclear
magnetic resonance to examine
the molecular structure of
extracted soil organic matter
How Does Glomalin Work?
It is glomalin that gives soil its tilth—a subtle texture that enables experienced farmers and gardeners to judge great soil by feeling the smooth granules as they flow through their fingers.
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, found living on plant roots around the world, appear to be the only producers of glomalin. Wright named glomalin after Glomales, the taxonomic order that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi belong to. The fungi use carbon from the plant to grow and make glomalin. In return, the fungi's hairlike filaments, called hyphae, extend the reach of plant roots. Hyphae function as pipes to funnel more water and nutrients—particularly phosphorus—to the plants.
"We've seen glomalin on the outside of the hyphae, and we believe this is how the hyphae seal themselves so they can carry water and nutrients. It may also be what gives them the rigidity they need to span the air spaces between soil particles," says Wright.
Technician Kristine Nichols
checks the progress of corn
plants growing in containers
specially designed for
glomalin production.
As a plant grows, the fungi move down the root and form new hyphae to colonize the growing roots. When hyphae higher up on the roots stop transporting nutrients, their protective glomalin sloughs off into the soil. There it attaches to particles of minerals (sand, silt, and clay) and organic matter, forming clumps. This type of soil structure is stable enough to resist wind and water erosion, but porous enough to let air, water, and roots move through it. It also harbors more beneficial microbes, holds more water, and helps the soil surface resist crusting.
Scientists think hyphae have a lifespan of days to weeks. The much longer lifespan of glomalin suggests that the current technique of weighing hyphae samples to estimate fungal carbon storage grossly underestimates the amount of soil carbon stored. In fact, Wright and colleagues found that glomalin contributes much more nitrogen and carbon to the soil than do hyphae or other soil microbes.
Rising CO2 Boosts Glomalin, Too
In an earlier study, Wright and scientists from the University of California at Riverside and Stanford University showed that higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere stimulate the fungi to produce more glomalin.
They did a 3-year study on semiarid shrub land and a 6-year study on grasslands in San Diego County, California, using outdoor chambers with controlled CO2 levels. When CO2 reached 670 parts per million (ppm)—the level predicted by mid to late century—hyphae grew three times as long and produced five times as much glomalin as fungi on plants growing with today's ambient level of 370 ppm.
Longer hyphae help plants reach more water and nutrients, which could help plants face drought in a warmer climate. The increase in glomalin production helps soil build defenses against degradation and erosion and boosts its productivity.
Wright says all these benefits can also come from good tillage and soil management techniques, instead of from higher atmospheric CO2.
"You're in the driver's seat when you use techniques proven to do the same thing as the higher CO2 that might be causing global warming. You can still raise glomalin levels, improve soil structure, and increase carbon storage without the risks of the unknowns in global climate change," she says.
Putting Glomalin to Work
Wright found that glomalin is very manageable. She is studying glomalin levels under different farming and ranching practices. Levels were maintained or raised by no-till, cover crops, reduced phosphorus inputs, and the sparing use of crops that don't have arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on their roots. Those include members of the Brassicaceae family, like cabbage and cauliflower, and the mustard family, like canola and crambe.
"When you grow those crops, it's like a fallow period, because glomalin production stops," says Wright. "You need to rotate them with crops that have glomalin-producing fungi."
In a 4-year study at the Henry A. Wallace Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center, Wright found that glomalin levels rose each year after no-till was started. No-till refers to a modern conservation practice that uses equipment to plant seeds with no prior plowing. This practice was developed to protect soil from erosion by keeping fields covered with crop residue.
Glomalin went from 1.3 milligrams per gram of soil (mg/g) after the first year to 1.7 mg/g after the third. A nearby field that was plowed and planted each year had only 0.7 mg/g. In comparison, the soil under a 15-year-old buffer strip of grass had 2.7 mg/g.
Wright found glomalin levels up to 15 mg/g elsewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region. But she found the highest levels—more than 100 mg/g—in Hawaiian soils, with Japanese soils a close second. "We don't know why we found the highest levels in Hawaii's tropical soils. We usually find lower levels in other tropical areas, because it breaks down faster at higher temperature and moisture levels," Wright says. "We can only guess that the Hawaiian soils lack some organism that is breaking down glomalin in other tropical soils—or that high soil levels of iron are protecting glomalin."
It's Persistent and It's Everywhere!
The toughness of the molecule was one of the things that struck Wright most in her discovery of glomalin. She says it's the reason glomalin eluded scientific detection for so long.
"It requires an unusual effort to dislodge glomalin for study: a bath in citrate combined with heating at 250 °F for at least an hour," Wright says. "No other soil glue found to date required anything as drastic as this."
"We've learned that the sodium hydroxide used to separate out humic acid in soil misses most of the glomalin. So, most of it was thrown away with the insoluble humus and minerals in soil," she says. "The little bit of glomalin left in the humic acid was thought to be nothing more than unknown foreign substances that contaminated the experiments."
Once Wright found a way to capture glomalin, her next big surprise was how much of it there was in some soils and how widespread it was. She tested samples of soils from around the world and found glomalin in all.
"Anything present in these amounts has to be considered in any studies of plant-soil interactions," Wright says. "There may be implications beyond the carbon storage and soil quality issues—such as whether the large amounts of iron in glomalin mean that it could be protecting plants from pathogens."
Her recent work with Nichols has shown that glomalin levels are even higher in some soils than previously estimated.
"Glomalin is unique among soil components for its strength and stability," Wright says. Other soil components that contain carbon and nitrogen, as glomalin does, don't last very long. Microbes quickly break them down into byproducts. And proteins from plants are degraded very quickly in soil.
"We need to learn a lot more about this molecule, though, if we are to manage glomalin wisely. Our next step is to identify the chemical makeup of each of its parts, including the protein core, the sugar carbohydrates, and the attached iron and other possible ions." Nichols is starting to work on just that.
"Once we know what sugars and proteins are there," says Nichols, we will use NMR and other techniques to create a three-dimensional image of the molecule. We can then find the most likely sites to look for iron or other attached ions.
"Researchers have studied organic matter for a long time and know its benefits to soil. But we're just starting to learn which components of organic matter are responsible for these benefits. That's the exciting part of glomalin research. We've found a major component that we think definitely has a strong role in the benefits attributed to organic matter—things like soil stability, nutrient accessibility, and nutrient cycling."
As carbon gets assigned a dollar value in a carbon commodity market, it may give literal meaning to the expression that good soil is black gold. And glomalin could be viewed as its golden seal.—By Don Comis, Agricultural Research Service Information Staff.
This research is part of Soil Resource Management, an ARS National Program (#202) described on the World Wide Web at http://www.nps.ars.usda.gov.
Sara F. Wright and Kristine A. Nichols are with the USDA-ARS Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Bldg. 001, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705; phone (301) 504-8156 [Wright], (301) 504-6977 [Nichols], fax (301) 504-8370.
"Glomalin: Hiding Place for a Third of the World's Stored Soil Carbon" was published in the September 2002 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.


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It's time for another troubleshooting roundup. From alarms that don't go off when expected to updates that crash your Mac, here's a collection of reports that recently wound up on my virtual desk.
Calendar alarms. Last week, I set up a calendar appointment on my Mac. I use BusyCal ( ), but the same thing would have happened in iCal. I entered the appointment as a reminder for my wife (we share the same calendar). I set the alarm to go off later in the day, at a time when my wife wanted to be reminded of the task. The alarm went off exactly as scheduled on my Macs and linked iOS devices. It did not go off on my wife's iPhone (the critical device in this scenario) or her iMac.
I was surprised because I was fairly certain that I had done this alarm setting on prior occasions, and the alarm had gone off on my wife's iPhone. I checked on the web. Others confirmed my memory; a set alarm would go off on all devices sharing a calendar. In fact, most comments were to complain about this behavior. Unlike my situation, people wanted to be able to set an alarm for themselves without having it bother those who shared their calendar. They couldn't. Now the situation appeared to be the reverse!
I contacted the good people at BusyMac, to see if they could shed more light on this matter. They could. They informed me that Apple had apparently silently made a change to iCloud a few weeks earlier, probably in response to all the user complaints. Alarms now only get enabled on devices owned by the user who created the event. The event itself appears on all shared calendars, but not the alarm. As far as I can figure out, this is not a configurable option. You were stuck with this being one way before and stuck the other way now.
Typing reversals. I have had a long-standing problem where there is often a slight delay when I begin to type after a pause. The result is that the first two letters get reversed. For example, if I type "The," it appears as "hTe." This will happen almost every time, continuing for days, and then inexplicably stop — only to return again a few days or weeks later. Several forum postings suggested that TextExpander ( ) might be the root cause. I asked the people at Smile about this, and they acknowledged that TextExpander was a "possible cause" in some "edge" cases. The good news is that they believe they've squashed this bug in the just released version 4. I've been testing a beta version of the upgrade over the past weeks (and I'm now running the release version) and can confirm that the symptom has vanished (hopefully never to return).
Apple update woes. Installing an update is a bit like having surgery. The intention is always to make things better and most times you are pleased with the result. But there's a small risk that something will go wrong, leaving you worse off than you were before. Such is the case with two recent Apple updates.
If you installed Thunderbolt Software 1.2, Apple informs you (in its characteristic understated manner): "You may notice your Mac becomes unresponsive on startup." Oops. After discovering the problem, Apple promptly withdrew the update, citing the cause as a compatibility problem with a previous "Thunderbolt update applied by some customers." If you find yourself in this boat, the solution is to reinstall OS X, ideally and most simply via Lion Recovery. Meanwhile, Apple has released Thunderbolt Software 1.2.1. The new update presumably does not contain the startup failure bug.
After installing Trackpad Update 1.0 for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Apple warns that the Trackpad may become (here's that word again) "unresponsive." In this case, this can happen if your Mac goes to sleep in the middle of the update installation. Such untimely naps are never recommended for any update, and you would think Apple's Installer would prevent this from occurring. Apparently not. If this does happen to you, the solution is simply to reinstall the update. Since your Trackpad is temporarily out of commission, you'll want to attach a mouse or other external input device to carry out the re-install. If none is available, the cited Apple article gives a 12-step procedure for how you can accomplish the desired goal entirely from the keyboard.


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The idea of jumping on a trampoline just makes me smile. With good reason. It's tons of fun. Jumping on a trampoline can be exhilarating and enjoyable, even for kids and adults who don't consider themselves athletic. Bouncing and rebounding on a trampoline also have multiple health benefits. These activities provide tremendous aerobic exercise and muscle toning without joint stress; improve circulation, coordination and balance; reduce toxins and stress; enhance bone mass in children; and much more. Trampoline skills contribute to children's physical, cognitive and social development, researchers say. Trampolines also get kids outdoors, another tremendous contributor to health and wellbeing.
Above all, jumping is joyful, natural and fun for people of all ages.
Trampolines and their use have changed a lot since my childhood. All but gone are the exposed springs and open-sided trampolines. There's even a greater variety of trampoline color, shape and size than there once was.
Big Game Hunters, a long-time expert in the trampoline field, offers trampolines from many different brands, including Sky High, JumpKing and TP; trampoline accessories (like enclosures, pads to cover the springs, and ladders to help people up and down); and assistance in choosing the right trampoline for your needs. Big Game Hunters also offers giant garden games, super whimsical playhouses, croquet sets, sleds, and lots of other items to enhance outdoor play and fun for families and others.
Photos and images: Big Game Hunters.
This post is sponsored by Big Game Hunters. The content is my own.


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Journal EntriesThis recurring website feature highlights articles from The GASB Report, the GASB's monthly newsletter. The current article appeared in the August 2012 issue.
Project to Provide Implementation Guidance on New Pension Statements Added to Current Technical Agenda
In August, after considering input from other members of the Board, GASB Chairman Robert Attmore added a project to the current technical agenda that is expected to result in the publication of guidance to assist in the implementation of the recently issued pension Statements.
More specifically, the project would result in the publication of implementation guides to assist pension plans, employers, and governmental nonemployer contributing entities as they prepare to implement Statement No. 67, Financial Reporting for Pension Plans, or Statement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions.
The new pension Statements were approved in June 2012 and published in early August. Statement 67 is effective for plans for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2013. Statement 68 is effective for employers and governmental nonemployer contributing entities for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014.
The project work plan anticipates the issuance of two Implementation Guides—the first focused on plan implementation issues, including the calculation of the net pension liability, and the second focused on additional issues related to employer-specific requirements in Statement 68.
Staff development of material for both the plan and employer guides will begin in September and continue into the following spring. During that time, the project advisory committee will review proposals for the plan guide and provide feedback. The plan guide is scheduled for issuance in June 2013.
Development of additional material for the employer guide is scheduled to conclude in December 2013. The project advisory committee will review proposals for the employer guide and provide feedback before the guide is scheduled to be cleared by the Board. The employer guide is expected to be issued in January 2014.


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