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There are films that have only one chance at success -– guilty pleasure. Often films like these try so hard for cult status they trip over their own forced awkwardness and end up beloved by no one. Paul W.S. Anderson tends to aim for the middle with his nominally capable and generally undistinguished action flicks, but occasionally scores an accidental guilty pleasure, such as Event Horizon or Resident Evil. Anderson earns the guilty pleasure status as far as I'm concerned, because his films are almost always destined to fail in subject matter alone. He's adapted two video games, made a semi-sequel to Blade Runner, and tried to remake one of the best camp satires of all time as a gritty, serious action film, with a bigger budget, and a smaller scale. The only slam-dunk he every missed was Alien Vs. Predator, which is actually one of his better made films, but also one of his worst, since it had so much to live up to. In keeping with his MO of adapting/remaking things that should be left alone, Anderson chose to make a 3D version of The Three Musketeers. Sure. Why Not?
Apparently there has been something like 24 live action filmic adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' original Three Musketeers novel since the advent of film. I'm guessing the most popular of these would be Richard Lester's 1973 The Three Musketeers, which was followed a year later by The Four Musketeers. Since Lester's beloved adaptation there have been five more versions, including the almost entirely forgotten Disney production directed by Stephen Herek, and staring then it-boys Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Chris O'Donnel, and a universally despised wire-fu version directed by Peter Hyams entitled simply The Musketeer. It would seem Anderson had a pretty low bar set for himself and his choice to put camp over content. Truthfully, I never would've believed Anderson had the capability to produce camp with purpose, given his penchant for frowny-faced action movies featuring only levity in dopey one-liners.
Credit where credit is due, however – Anderson does fun things visually with the stale material. These are protein-free visuals, but they're certainly interesting and a few are even a touch creative. Given the impossible boredom that pervaded Resident Evil: Afterlife and Death Race (how do you make that boring, Paul?) anything less than mind numbing is actually quite impressive. At times Three Musketeers is genuinely beautiful in the severity of its Victorian meets Marvel comics images, and even when it's ugly, it's arrogantly ugly, which is kind of praise-worthy in its own way. I have to admit that despite his middling, faceless direction, and their sub-par production values, most of Anderson's films feature rich and memorable production design. Even Soldier captures a suffocating, grotesque nature of an over-industrialized future. Problems here arise when he tries to snag visual cues from Guy Ritchie and Gore Verbinski, but even when blatantly ripping off already unoriginal directors, Anderson manages a touch of charm (there's actually quite a bit of overlap in the casts of this film and Ritchie and Verbinski's period pieces). The action is hit and miss all over the place, occasionally capturing the best of the complex sword fighting choreography, but also reveling in some of the stupidest and most unattractive computer assisted slow motion this side of, well, the last Paul W.S. Anderson film. Like most of Anderson's films his ambition outshines both his budget and his special effects crew's abilities. Sometimes Three Musketeers looks a little like a made for Syfy release, or an Asylum mock-buster thanks to chintzy special effects. Digital sets often appear thin and flat, and digital augmentations are occasionally unforgivably uncanny, especially water effects, which are downright terrible.
I'm not close enough to Dumas' original novel (I think I read it in high school once) to get up in arms about screenwriters Andrew Davies and Alex Litvak's adaptation, but I can recognize weak plotting for its own sake. It's genuinely difficult to keep track of the story threads, and the stakes are so ill defined I couldn't tell you who was winning at any moment. There just isn't a lot of intrigue or entertainment value in the narrative, which merely fills the cracks between set pieces and loses all of its steam about an hour into the film. But the characters are still pretty enjoyable, even if they're untrue the book (as I've been told), or a bit over the top. I'm not sure I've ever preferred character interactions to ham-fisted action in a Paul WS Anderson film, so on this point alone I'm relatively impressed, at least given my basement level expectations. The Musketeers themselves are all well cast, but Ray Stevenson stands out as Porthos with relatively little screen time, just as he did in Kenneth Branagh's Thor. Orlando Bloom (Duke of Buckingham) chews the living hell out of the scenery in his funniest role since his appearance on Extras, and any time Christoph Waltz (Cardinal Richelieu) gets a paycheck is alright in my book (though there is the lingering question as to why the German actor is the only one in the film even attempting a French accent). Lead Logan Lerman (D'Artagnan) is generally the weak link on this chain thanks to his Hayden Christiansen line reading style. Actually, no, Milla Jovovich (Milady de Winter) is the weak link. She's not bad as an actress or even physical presence, per se, but she's a worthless character, and her dumb cat-like thief shtick steals valuable screen time from the title characters, who disappear for probably 30 minutes towards the middle of the film.
Three Musketeers was shot using a series of digital formats (most of them 3D capable), and comes to 2D Blu-ray all brilliant and bright in full 1080p HD. The campy, candied look works quite well for the Blu-ray format thanks to all the impressively vibrant colours and impossibly decorative costumes. Details are incredibly sharp throughout, though mostly in the baroque and shiny production design rather than more traditional skin textures. There is generally so much stuff on screen at any given time I don't imagine a standard definition release could handle the business without blocking and compression noise. There are hints of artefacts here and there, but for the most part the cleanliness of the digital raw format keeps things clear. The colours are downright cartoony throughout, and their vibrant rich quality looks great throughout. Some of the darker internal shots feature elaborate multi-colour blends, which are handsome and smooth without muddying details, but for the most part the hues are harshly separated, and high contrast. The generally pure and consistent blues and reds are the poppiest elements, while greens and golds sit nicely in the background. Occasionally the pure hues, especially blues and browns, bleed out into the blacks, but for the most part contrast levels keep the blacks relatively deep. I did notice some suddenly blurred bits of action along the edges of some of the wider frames, most of which disappear so quickly I assume it was a problem with my glasses, but this might be a 3D to 2D issue (more likely anamorphic lens issues).
This DTS-HD 5.1 soundtrack is more impressive then the film deserves, and at times downright gob smacking. The stereo and surround channels are consistently alive with hum and buzz, and come loudly to life with the ridiculously bombastic action sequences. Simple things like wind and the movement of speaking characters keep the dialogue heavy sequences lively. The sword fights feature a bevy of multi-channel swishing, and directionally enhanced clanging, while any scene involving explosions really stands out with real punch. The LFE is given a delightful boost whenever an airship appears, and the thrust of its, um, wind (?) rumbles overhead like an Imperial Star Destroyer. The airship on airship battle is the clear frontrunner for 'scene to watch to impress your friends with your system' (I was actually made aware my rear right speaker wire was loose thanks to the heavy surround support here). Composer Paul Haslinger steps up from his B-movie roots, and though I struggle to remember a single specific cue from this score, he manages to pull off a genuine swash and buckle. The music is warm and rich, with effective directional elements and bombastic LFE support in the loudest percussive elements.
The extras begin with Access: Three Musketeers, an in-film experience including cast and crew info, production design comparisons, action choreography, a 'Musketeer Fight Meter' that tracks the action (body counts, weapon usage), and other pop-up factoids. The break-away and PiP pop-up featurettes feature interviews with Anderson, producer Jeremy Bolt, actors Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Logan Lerman, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Freddie Fox, Orlando Bloom and Juno Temple, production designer Paul Denham Austerberry, stunt coordinator Nick Powell and fencing instructor Imke Duplitzer, along with oodles of behind-the-scenes footage. The problem is they also feature a lot of footage from the film, which is a waste of time, since we're watching the film with the feature. Assuming this particular in-film experience isn't enough for you, the disc's producers have also included a commentary track with director/producer Anderson, and producers Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer. Love him or hate him (and I'm guessing there's a lot of hate out there), Anderson is usually a pretty effective commentary track speaker. He's a little too technically minded to maintain any consistent interest level for me, but does include some personal anecdotes, and doesn't lose too much steam throughout the discussion. Bolt and Kulzer pop in on occasion with basic production factoids, usually concerning locations, casting and the like.
Next up are four fluffy featurettes that cover material already covered in the in-film extras, Paul W.S. Anderson's Musketeers (2:30, HD), Orlando Bloom Takes on The Duke (2:00, HD), 17th Century Air Travel (2:20, HD) and Uncovering France in Germany (2:10, HD). This is followed by 12 deleted/extended scenes (14:20, HD), and trailers for other Summit releases.
Try though I might, I can't bring myself to hate Paul W.S. Anderson's unneeded, dumb as a box of bricks adaptation of the oft-adapted Three Musketeers. I can't produce many solid reasons to convince anyone else to see it, least of all fans of Alexandre Dumas' original novel, but this is a relatively charming and amusingly decorative film. Hell, this might even mark a turning point for Anderson as a filmmaker. Perhaps he's figured out how to have fun with the stupid stuff he makes. Maybe the next Resident Evil movie will be good. Probably not, though. This 2D release of the 3D shot film looks sharp and colourful, and the DTS-HD MA soundtrack is reference level good. The extras are a bit repetitive, but cover all the bases, and fill a lot of time.
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I saw this one today and enjoyed it quite a bit but I am usually easily satisfied with adventure and action type movies set in different time periods and interesting locales. (ex. saw John Carter yesterday and liked that.)
I agree with you on some of the faults of this movie but I still had fun watching it. I liked Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan much better than when Chris O'Donnell had the role 19 years ago.
I agree with you on some of the faults of this movie but I still had fun watching it. I liked Logan Lerman as D'Artagnan much better than when Chris O'Donnell had the role 19 years ago.
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Release Date: 13th March 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director and Producers Commentary, Access: Three Musketeers, Deleted Scenes, Four Featurettes, Trailers
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Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, Milla Jovovich, Christoph Waltz, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans, Mads Mikkelsen
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Length: 110 minutes
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"What if I was in the middle of a medical emergency, having to deliver a vaccine to the united nations to prevent a zombie apocalypse outbreak and this pesky cyclists are riding two abreast for recreational purposes?
First point : the only medical emergency they are likely to have been involved in during the past 5 years is trying to get to the bottle shop before it closes
Second point : Since when has the purpose of individuals on the roads every been an issue in determining right of passage? Was there a precedent for Sunday drivers and tourists to face a diminished right to be on the road in the presence of tradies on their way to work before the whole issue of cyclists became newsworthy?
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It's a simple fact that most Australians turn into sociopaths as soon as they get into a car. That probably goes for most cyclists as soon as they get behind a wheel also - Everyone going faster than them is a maniac and everyone going slower is an idiot, and apparently no one else knows the rules of the road.
It's cultural.
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ERMAGERD!1!!1!!! They are riding FIVE abreast! I know this because I can see 5 hemlets clearly!!!1!!
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There may well be but ol hiviz hero don't like the fact that it's only moving at 50 with morning traffic while his minimum ratrun speed is 70...
Maybe a Plod speed enforcement session at that time would be interesting...
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biker jk wrote:GOLD Coast cyclists have been labelled a "law unto themselves" and "inconsiderate" after a group were caught on dashcam blocking motorists while riding along a prestigious Gold Coast street.
Carpenter Matt Dennis said his frustration with the cyclists reached boiling point after he was stuck behind a group of six on Hedges Avenue at Broadbeach about 5.30am yesterday.
The dashcam footage shows a group of cyclists riding three-abreast in the vehicle lane rather than the dedicated cycling lane.
It resulted in a fiery clash with Mr Dennis beeping the cyclists, yelling at them to 'get in the cycle lane' and calling them a 'bunch of f**ktards'.
Full article and video in link below.
It's behind a paywall so you can Google 'Bunch of f**ktards': Cyclists, motorist in fiery clash on Gold Coast to access the article/video.
in this age of road rage, punishment passes and bad driving. it'd be refreshing if the reporting put some focus on the danger of a motorist "reaching boiling point", an obvious safety concern. Should the driver be entitled to continue to drive? It's not like someone stole his car or bashed his kids.
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Mulger bill wrote:Maybe a Plod speed enforcement session at that time would be interesting...
In my opinion, the authorities do care about the number of deaths on the road and would like to reduce it. Over the years, the number of road deaths has dropped, due to a whole bunch of factors including better designed roads, better car safety - passive and active, and education campaigns/blitzes on drink-driving and so on.
In situations like this bit of road I can see that the next logical step is to put in speed bumps. They've already turned this bit of road from a tight two lanes to a single lane. They've reduced the speed limit to 30. They could have Mr Plod there with his radar gun. Or more cheaply, they could install speed bumps at either end which will slow cars down 24/7.
I can see that speed bumps will become more and more popular.
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Gold Coast cyclists claim mystery runner attacks riders on Hedges Ave
A GOLD Coast cyclist has captured a runner lunging at him on a morning ride in what he describes as a violent attack, where he was 'charged at' and 'punched'.
Today a frustrated cyclist took to the 'Gold Coast Cycling Combined' Facebook page to warn others about the man.
Nick Hortovanyi posted about 8.30am, "Today I had this guy charge me and punch me quite hard when I was cycling along Hedges Av this morning. Its (sic) not the first time".
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Good news,.... would be interesting to see if the incident prompts authorities to somehow enforce the bicycle only patronage of the path (you can see the no pedestrian symbol behind the bicycle symbol in the picture) .... but somehow I am not holding my breath ....
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I am looking for any information on my great grandmother Annie Marks b.1865 Carmarthenshire, Wales. I believe she died before 1911 as William was a widower in the 1911 census, but I can't be certain. I am not sure if Annie was a pet name or her actual name.
Annie married William Robert EMERY b.1862 in Cardiff (or maybe wasn't married at all as I think Wm was still married to a previous wife) They had 4 children, Reginald, Douglas, Gertrude (died before 1911) and Cecil. All born in Bristol. I don't know if Annie was the mother of four four.
I have tried to obtain birth and death records but my money keeps being refunded as no information can be found.
I remember hearing my grandfather Reg saying his father had been married a few times and there were about 13 kids. Wm married Lucy Lawrence in 1912
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Reg Emery b.1899 in Bristol came to Australia when he was about 22 yrs old possibly with a brother. I think he was a boilermaker in England. Possibly in the british merchant navy. Reg said he 'jumped ship' so have no idea when he came to Australia, the only shipping record I can find is in 1922 R Emery age 22 came from New Zealand on the Paloona 2.
He often said he was the oldest of 13 children and that his father married a few times. On the 1911 Census two of his brothers were Douglas b.1902 and Cecil b.1906, there was another child deceased.
His father; William Robert Emery b.1862 Cardiff, Glamorgan,Wales occ. Electrical Engineer Glam Cardif,
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He died aged 76 in Jan. 1976 Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
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Now is the time to sell if you have a cow-calf or stocker operation, according to Curt Lacy, livestock Extension economist for the University of Georgia.
"It's hard to turn down money that you can make by going ahead and marketing your cattle," Lacy says. "It's hard to make any high prices come out for futures right now."
For those who choose to keep their cattle until fall, there are marketing options that could help producers make it through summer successfully.
Temporary summer grazing is one choice available for cow-calf producers.
"You need something with good gain," Lacy says. "Cattle don't gain well on bermuda or bahia grass. It needs to be a type of millet or sorghum."
Irrigation also helps increase production and quality, he adds.
Summer stockering is another popular marketing alternative.
Lacy warns that in Georgia this does not work as well as in other parts of the country because of the severely negative buy-sell margin of cattle placed on grass in late spring and sold in late summer or early fall.
"You buy them high and sell them low," Lacy says. "Steers that weigh 700 pounds in September will bring about 85 percent of the purchase price of 500-pound steers in May."
Lacy says this differs greatly from last year's prices when cattle could be bought at a lower price and sold for $150 to $200 a head more.
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Addressing Climate Change Through Education
Tamara Shapiro Ledley, Juliette Rooney-Varga, and Frank Niepold
The scientific community has made the urgent need to mitigate climate change clear and, with the ratification of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community has formally accepted ambitious mitigation goals. However, a wide gap remains between the aspirational emissions reduction goals of the Paris Agreement and the real-world pledges and actions of nations that are party to it. Closing that emissions gap can only be achieved if a similarly wide gap between scientific and societal understanding of climate change is also closed.
Several fundamental aspects of climate change make clear both the need for education and the opportunity it offers. First, addressing climate change will require action at all levels of society, including individuals, organizations, businesses, local, state, and national governments, and international bodies. It cannot be addressed by a few individuals with privileged access to information, but rather requires transfer of knowledge, both intellectually and affectively, to decision-makers and their constituents at all levels. Second, education is needed because, in the case of climate change, learning from experience is learning too late. The delay between decisions that cause climate change and their full societal impact can range from decades to millennia. As a result, learning from education, rather than experience, is necessary to avoid those impacts.
Climate change and sustainability represent complex, dynamic systems that demand a systems thinking approach. Systems thinking takes a holistic, long-term perspective that focuses on relationships between interacting parts, and how those relationships generate behavior over time. System dynamics includes formal mapping and modeling of systems, to improve understanding of the behavior of complex systems as well as how they respond to human or other interventions. Systems approaches are increasingly seen as critical to climate change education, as the human and natural systems involved in climate change epitomize a complex, dynamic problem that crosses disciplines and societal sectors.
A systems thinking approach can also be used to examine the potential for education to serve as a vehicle for societal change. In particular, education can enable society to benefit from climate change science by transferring scientific knowledge across societal sectors. Education plays a central role in several processes that can accelerate social change and climate change mitigation. Effective climate change education increases the number of informed and engaged citizens, building social will or pressure to shape policy, and building a workforce for a low-carbon economy. Indeed, several climate change education efforts to date have delivered gains in climate and energy knowledge, affect, and/or motivation. However, society still faces challenges in coordinating initiatives across audiences, managing and leveraging resources, and making effective investments at a scale that is commensurate with the climate change challenge. Education is needed to promote informed decision-making at all levels of society.
Economics of Low Carbon Agriculture
Dominic Moran and Jorie Knook
Climate change is already having a significant impact on agriculture through greater weather variability and the increasing frequency of extreme events. International policy is rightly focused on adapting and transforming agricultural and food production systems to reduce vulnerability. But agriculture also has a role in terms of climate change mitigation. The agricultural sector accounts for approximately a third of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, including related emissions from land-use change and deforestation. Farmers and land managers have a significant role to play because emissions reduction measures can be taken to increase soil carbon sequestration, manage fertilizer application, and improve ruminant nutrition and waste. There is also potential to improve overall productivity in some systems, thereby reducing emissions per unit of product. The global significance of such actions should not be underestimated. Existing research shows that some of these measures are low cost relative to the costs of reducing emissions in other sectors such as energy or heavy industry. Some measures are apparently cost-negative or win–win, in that they have the potential to reduce emissions and save production costs. However, the mitigation potential is also hindered by the biophysical complexity of agricultural systems and institutional and behavioral barriers limiting the adoption of these measures in developed and developing countries. This includes formal agreement on how agricultural mitigation should be treated in national obligations, commitments or targets, and the nature of policy incentives that can be deployed in different farming systems and along food chains beyond the farm gate. These challenges also overlap growing concern about global food security, which highlights additional stressors, including demographic change, natural resource scarcity, and economic convergence in consumption preferences, particularly for livestock products. The focus on reducing emissions through modified food consumption and reduced waste is a recent agenda that is proving more controversial than dealing with emissions related to production.
Ecosystem Management of the Boreal Forest
Timo Kuuluvainen
Boreal countries are rich in forest resources, and for their area, they produce a disproportionally large share of the lumber, pulp, and paper bound for the global market. These countries have long-standing strong traditions in forestry education and institutions, as well as in timber-oriented forest management. However, global change, together with evolving societal values and demands, are challenging traditional forest management approaches. In particular, plantation-type management, where wood is harvested with short cutting cycles relative to the natural time span of stand development, has been criticized. Such management practices create landscapes composed of mosaics of young, even-aged, and structurally homogeneous stands, with scarcity of old trees and deadwood. In contrast, natural forest landscapes are characterized by the presence of old large trees, uneven-aged stand structures, abundant deadwood, and high overall structural diversity. The differences between managed and unmanaged forests result from the fundamental differences in the disturbance regimes of managed versus unmanaged forests. Declines in managed forest biodiversity and structural complexity, combined with rapidly changing climatic conditions, pose a risk to forest health, and hence, to the long-term maintenance of biodiversity and provisioning of important ecosystem goods and services. The application of ecosystem management in boreal forestry calls for a transition from plantation-type forestry toward more diversified management inspired by natural forest structure and dynamics.
Ecosystem Services
Leon C. Braat
The concept of ecosystem services considers the usefulness of nature for human society. The economic importance of nature was described and analyzed in the 18th century, but the term ecosystem services was introduced only in 1981. Since then it has spurred an increasing number of academic publications, international research projects, and policy studies. Now a subject of intense debate in the global scientific community, from the natural to social science domains, it is also used, developed, and customized in policy arenas and considered, if in a still somewhat skeptical and apprehensive way, in the "practice" domain—by nature management agencies, farmers, foresters, and corporate business. This process of bridging evident gaps between ecology and economics, and between nature conservation and economic development, has also been felt in the political arena, including in the United Nations and the European Union (which have placed it at the center of their nature conservation and sustainable use strategies).
The concept involves the utilitarian framing of those functions of nature that are used by humans and considered beneficial to society as economic and social services. In this light, for example, the disappearance of biodiversity directly affects ecosystem functions that underpin critical services for human well-being. More generally, the concept can be defined in this manner: Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems, in interaction with contributions from human society, to human well-being.
The concept underpins four major discussions: (1) Academic: the ecological versus the economic dimensions of the goods and services that flow from ecosystems to the human economy; the challenge of integrating concepts and models across this paradigmatic divide; (2) Social: the risks versus benefits of bringing the utilitarian argument into political debates about nature conservation (Are ecosystem services good or bad for biodiversity and vice versa?); (3) Policy and planning: how to value the benefits from natural capital and ecosystem services (Will this improve decision-making on topics ranging from poverty alleviation via subsidies to farmers to planning of grey with green infrastructure to combining economic growth with nature conservation?); and (4) Practice: Can revenue come from smart management and sustainable use of ecosystems? Are there markets to be discovered and can businesses be created? How do taxes figure in an ecosystem-based economy? The outcomes of these discussions will both help to shape policy and planning of economies at global, national, and regional scales and contribute to the long-term survival and well-being of humanity.
Ecosystem Services and Human Health
Elisabet Lindgren and Thomas Elmqvist
Ecosystem services refer to benefits for human societies and well-being obtained from ecosystems. Research on health effects of ecosystem services have until recently mostly focused on beneficial effects on physical and mental health from spending time in nature or having access to urban green space. However, nearly all of the different ecosystem services may have impacts on health, either directly or indirectly. Ecosystem services can be divided into provisioning services that provide food and water; regulating services that provide, for example, clean air, moderate extreme events, and regulate the local climate; supporting services that help maintain biodiversity and infectious disease control; and cultural services.
With a rapidly growing global population, the demand for food and water will increase. Knowledge about ecosystems will provide opportunities for sustainable agriculture production in both terrestrial and marine environments. Diarrheal diseases and associated childhood deaths are strongly linked to poor water quality, sanitation, and hygiene. Even though improvements are being made, nearly 750 million people still lack access to reliable water sources. Ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, and lakes capture, filter, and store water used for drinking, irrigation, and other human purposes. Wetlands also store and treat solid waste and wastewater, and such ecosystem services could become of increasing use for sustainable development.
Ecosystems contribute to local climate regulation and are of importance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove and coral reefs, act as natural barriers against storm surges and flooding. Flooding is associated with increased risk of deaths, epidemic outbreaks, and negative health impacts from destroyed infrastructure. Vegetation reduces the risk of flooding, also in cities, by increasing permeability and reducing surface runoff following precipitation events.
The urban heat island effect will increase city-center temperatures during heatwaves. The elderly, people with chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and outdoor workers in cities where temperatures soar during heatwaves are in particular vulnerable to heat. Vegetation and especially trees help in different ways to reduce temperatures by shading and evapotranspiration. Air pollution increases the mortality and morbidity risks during heatwaves. Vegetation has been shown also to contribute to improved air quality by, depending on plant species, filtering out gases and airborne particulates. Greenery also has a noise-reducing effect, thereby decreasing noise-related illnesses and annoyances. Biological control uses the knowledge of ecosystems and biodiversity to help control human and animal diseases.
Natural surroundings and urban parks and gardens have direct beneficial effects on people's physical and mental health and well-being. Increased physical activities have well-known health benefits. Spending time in natural environments has also been linked to aesthetic benefits, life enrichments, social cohesion, and spiritual experience. Even living close to or with a view of nature has been shown to reduce stress and increase a sense of well-being.
Environmental Economics and the Anthropocene
V. Kerry Smith
Geologists' reframing of the global changes arising from human impacts can be used to consider how the insights from environmental economics inform policy under this new perspective. They ask a rhetorical question. How would a future generation looking back at the records in the sediments and ice cores from today's activities judge mankind's impact? They conclude that the globe has entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene. Now mankind is the driving force altering the Earth's natural systems. This conclusion, linking a physical record to a temporal one, represents an assessment of the extent of current human impact on global systems in a way that provides a warning that all policy design and evaluation must acknowledge that the impacts of human activity are taking place on a planetary scale. As a result, it is argued that national and international environmental policies need to be reconsidered. Environmental economics considers the interaction between people and natural systems. So it comes squarely into conflict with conventional practices in both economics and ecology. Each discipline marginalizes the role of the other in the outcomes it describes. Market and natural systems are not separate. This conclusion is important to the evaluation of how (a) economic analysis avoided recognition of natural systems, (b) the separation of these systems affects past assessments of natural resource adequacy, and (c) policy needs to be redesigned in ways that help direct technological innovation that is responsive to the importance of nonmarket environmental services to the global economy and to sustaining the Earth's living systems.
Environmental Impacts of Tropical Soybean and Palm Oil Crops
Kimberly M. Carlson and Rachael D. Garrett
Oil crops play a critical role in global food and energy systems. Since these crops have high oil content, they provide cooking oils for human consumption, biofuels for energy, feed for animals, and ingredients in beauty products and industrial processes. In 2014, oil crops occupied about 20% of crop harvested area worldwide. While small-scale oil crop production for subsistence or local consumption continues in certain regions, global demand for these versatile crops has led to substantial expansion of oil crop agriculture destined for export or urban markets. This expansion and subsequent cultivation has diverse effects on the environment, including loss of forests, savannas, and grasslands, greenhouse gas emissions, regional climate change, biodiversity decline, fire, and altered water quality and hydrology. Oil palm in Southeast Asia and soybean in South America have been identified as major proximate causes of tropical deforestation and environmental degradation. Stringent conservation policies and yield increases are thought to be critical to reducing rates of soybean and oil palm expansion into natural ecosystems. However, the higher profits that often accompany greater yields may encourage further expansion, while policies that restrict oil crop expansion in one region may generate secondary "spillover" effects on other crops and regions. Due to these complex feedbacks, ensuring a sustainable supply of oil crop products to meet global demand remains a major challenge for agricultural companies, farmers, governments, and civil society.
Global Climate Change and the Reallocation of Water
Rhett B. Larson
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Please check back later for the full article.
Increased water variability is one of the most pressing challenges presented by global climate change. A warmer atmosphere will hold more water and result in more frequent and more intense El Niño events. Domestic and international water rights regimes must adapt to the more extreme drought and flood cycles resulting from these phenomena.
Laws that allocate rights to water, both at the domestic level between water users and at the international level between nations sharing transboundary water sources, are frequently rigid governance systems ill-suited to adapt to a changing climate. Often, water laws allocate a fixed quantity of water for a certain type of use. At the domestic level, such rights may be considered legally protected private property rights or guaranteed human rights. At the international level, such water allocation regimes may also be dictated by human rights, as well as concerns for national sovereignty. These legal considerations may ossify water governance and inhibit water managers' abilities to alter water allocations in response to changing water supplies. To respond to water variability arising from climate change, such laws must be reformed or reinterpreted to enhance their adaptive capacity. Such adaptation should consider both intra-generational equity and intergenerational equity.
One potential approach to reinterpreting such water rights regimes is a stronger emphasis on the public trust doctrine. In many nations, water is a public trust resource, owned by the state and held in trust for the benefit of all citizens. Rights to water under this doctrine are merely usufructuary—a right to make a limited use of a specified quantity of water subject to governmental approval. The recognition and enforcement of the fiduciary obligation of water governance institutions to equitably manage the resource, and characterization of water rights as usufructuary, could introduce needed adaptive capacity into domestic water allocation laws. The public trust doctrine has been influential even at the international level, and that influence could be enhanced by recognizing a comparable fiduciary obligation for inter-jurisdictional institutions governing international transboundary waters.
Legal reforms to facilitate water markets may also introduce greater adaptive capacity into otherwise rigid water allocation regimes. Water markets are frequently inefficient for several reasons, including lack of clarity in water rights, externalities inherent in a resource that ignores political boundaries, high transaction costs arising from differing economic and cultural valuations of water, and limited competition when water utilities are frequently natural monopolies. Legal reforms that clarify property rights in water; specify the minimum quantity, quality, and affordability of water to meet basic human needs and environmental flows; and mandate participatory and transparent water pricing and contracting could allow greater flexibility in water allocations through more efficient and equitable water markets.
History of Ecological Design
Lydia Kallipoliti
The term ecological design was coined in a 1996 book by Sim van der Ryn and Stewart Cowan, in which the authors argued for a seamless integration of human activities with natural processes to minimize destructive environmental impact. Following their cautionary statements, William McDonough and Michael Braungart published in 2002 their manifesto book From Cradle to Cradle, which proposed a circular political economy to replace the linear logic of "cradle to grave." These books have been foundational in architecture and design discussions on sustainability and establishing the technical dimension, as well as the logic, of efficiency, optimization, and evolutionary competition in environmental debates. From Cradle to Cradle evolved into a production model implemented by a number of companies, organizations, and governments around the world, and it also has become a registered trademark and a product certification.
Popularized recently, these developments imply a very short history for the growing field of ecological design. However, their accounts hark as far back as Ernst Haeckel's definition of the field of ecology in 1866 as an integral link between living organisms and their surroundings (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, 1866); and Henry David Thoreau's famous 1854 manual for self-reliance and living in proximity with natural surroundings, in the cabin that he built at Walden Pond, Massachusetts (Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854).
Since World War II, contrary to the position of ecological design as a call to fit harmoniously within the natural world, there has been a growing interest in a form of synthetic naturalism, (Closed Worlds; The Rise and Fall of Dirty Physiology, 2015), where the laws of nature and metabolism are displaced from the domain of wilderness to the domain of cities, buildings, and objects. With the rising awareness of what John McHale called disturbances in the planetary reservoir (The Future of the Future, 1969), the field of ecological design has signified not only the integration of the designed object or space in the natural world, but also the reproduction of the natural world in design principles and tools through technological mediation. This idea of architecture and design producing nature paralleled what Buckminster Fuller, John McHale, and Ian McHarg, among others, referred to as world planning; that is, to understand ecological design as the design of the planet itself as much as the design of an object, building, or territory. Unlike van der Ryn and Cowan's argumentation, which focused on a deep appreciation for nature's equilibrium, ecological design might commence with the synthetic replication of natural systems.
These conflicting positions reflect only a small fraction of the ubiquitous terms used to describe the field of ecological design, including green, sustain, alternative, resilient, self-sufficient, organic, and biotechnical. In the context of this study, this paper will argue that ecological design starts with the reconceptualization of the world as a complex system of flows rather than a discrete compilation of objects, which visual artist and theorist György Kepes has described as one of the fundamental reorientations of the 20th century (Art and Ecological Consciousness, 1972).
How Environmental Degradation Impoverishes the Poor
Edward B. Barbier
Globally, around 1.5 billion people in developing countries, or approximately 35% of the rural population, can be found on less-favored agricultural land (LFAL), which is susceptible to low productivity and degradation because the agricultural potential is constrained biophysically by terrain, poor soil quality, or limited rainfall. Around 323 million people in such areas also live in locations that are highly remote, and thus have limited access to infrastructure and markets. The households in such locations often face a vicious cycle of declining livelihoods, increased ecological degradation and loss of resource commons, and declining ecosystem services on which they depend. In short, these poor households are prone to a poverty-environment trap. Policies to eradicate poverty, therefore, need to be targeted to improve the economic livelihood, productivity, and income of the households located on remote LFAL. The specific elements of such a strategy include involving the poor in paying for ecosystem service schemes and other measures that enhance the environments on which the poor depend; targeting investments directly to improving the livelihoods of the rural poor, thus reducing their dependence on exploiting environmental resources; and tackling the lack of access by the rural poor in less-favored areas to well-functioning and affordable markets for credit, insurance, and land, as well as the high transportation and transaction costs that prohibit the poorest households in remote areas to engage in off-farm employment and limit smallholder participation in national and global markets.
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The deputy superintendent for the Baltimore County school system will step down next month, officials confirmed Thursday.
Kevin Hobbs, who was brought on by Superintendent Dallas Dance last year, will return to his family in North Carolina, said schools spokesman Mychael Dickerson.
Dance informed the county school board of Hobbs' planned departure, saying that he "vigorously recruited [Hobbs]," who was a top administrator in the Wake County, N.C., public schools, to help him during his transition.
He said that the time, the move was a sacrifice for Hobbs, who had worked with Dance in Houston, because he had just moved to North Carolina to be closer to his mother and his family.
He said that Hobbs committed to a year's service to "help build a strong academic and instructional team."
"I think we can all agree he has been successful in that endeavor," Dance said. "Now it is time for Kevin to return to his family and those obligations. ... We are a better school system because he came here."
Dickerson said Dance "will not rush to fill the position," and will "conduct a national search, including any interested internal candidates, to find the best person for the job."


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CGA, Bremen's Jordan prep for state race
TERRE HAUTE — Culver Academies head cross country coach Michael Chastain knew his girls would be facing an uphill climb at semistate.
By his calculations, the Lady Eagles would need to run at or below their personal bests in order to advance to state, a goal complicated by the fact that they had just recorded PRs a week before on their home course at regional.
While it may have seemed farfetched, the Academies' girls got the job done nevertheless last Saturday, with a meet record-setting championship run by Waverly Neer and new PRs by Kacie Hermanson, Eden Brackenbury and Kayla-Colleen Miracle for fifth place and a ticket out to the LaVern Gibson Champion-ship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute Saturday.
"Everybody in our top five either ran very close to their PRs or ran a PR," said Chastain of last Saturday's New Prairie Semistate. "Waverly had a good performance, it wasn't quite her PR; Kaye Sitterly was in the range of her PR as well, and the next three had set PRs at the regional meet and set more PRs at semistate.
"They stepped it up and not only did they not get sixth but fifth. It was a very good team performance. You just don't see that very often where at one level they get PRs and the next week they get another nice PR."
Bremen's Hope Jordan will make the individual trip out to state in her final season with the Lady Lions after clocking a personal best 18:47.5 for fifth place at the New Haven Semistate last weekend.
"The biggest thing in the semistate race was not to go out too hard because obviously you're with the best of the best there," she said of her strategy. "I guess just competing with those girls, not worrying about time too much and just trying to stay with them worked out in the end."


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VANCEBORO � In the offseason, Rachel Riggs worked hard on playing shortstop.
VANCEBORO � In the offseason, Rachel Riggs worked hard on playing shortstop.
The senior, who typically plays outfield for West Craven�s softball team, knew she had a chance to play the middle infield position in college.
She competed at shortstop for three showcase travel teams.
Riggs earned a scholarship to play softball at Division II Barton College in Wilson. She recently signed her national letter-of-intent in front of her West Craven softball coaches, friends and parents, Eddie and Wendy Riggs.
�I�m really excited,� Riggs said. �I�ve played softball for a really long time, pretty much since I could walk. My dad went to Barton College, so it is nice to able to go to his alma mater.�
While Riggs is more familiar with the outfield position, she had a goal of playing shortstop at the next level.
She will likely play both at Barton.
�(Shortstop) is the position I�ve been trying to play,� Riggs said. �I worked hard to get better at it. I�m glad Coach Neff is giving me the chance to play it.�
Riggs said her biggest improvement came at the plate. She�s become more aggressive with the softball bat.
�I don�t like to watch strikes go by,� she said. �I swing hard at whatever comes at me and I go for a base hit every time.�
The Barton Bulldogs play in the Conference Carolinas. Last season, they finished ninth in the 12-team conference.
Not only did Riggs enjoy meeting players on the softball team, she also liked the small-school atmosphere.
�It�s a small college and I like the student to teacher ratio,� she said. �The one-on-one learning works really well for me. I liked the small campus and everybody was really warm and welcoming.�
Riggs was a guest player for the Carolina Chaos showcase team, which played Barton in a scrimmage game in October.
She liked what she saw from the opposing dugout.
�(Barton) has real good pitchers,� Riggs said. �I like how their coach is really strategic and charts pitches. She seems to work well with the players.�
As a junior, Riggs hit .258 with a home run, six doubles and six RBIs.
She�s only looking to get better during her senior year, which begins in March.
�I still feel like I have expectations to meet,� Riggs said. �I feel like I should keep getting better, so I can still be able to play at the college level. I want to be able to impress the (Barton) coaches so they will be more welcoming.�
Riggs is hoping to continue her diligent work ethic so that she will be a key contributor for the Barton Bulldogs.
�I really want to keep getting better at playing shortstop, and fielding, because I still make little errors here and there,� she said. �There is always stuff I can brush up on.�
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Seib & Wessel: Full Norm Ornstein Interview
Norm Ornstein from the American Enterprise Institute tells WSJ's Jerry Seib why the Senate has changed and looks ahead to which party might win control after the 2014 midterms.
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A Tweedy Congress near meltdown in the Senate to talk about all were happy the Jordan or more steam congressional scholar political scientists from the American Enterprise Institute thanks for being with us always a pleasure ... so it's a city near meltdown in the Senate big fight over ... a confirmation of presidential appointees averted the last minute with a bipartisan deal that avoided changing ... the Senate rules which would then earthquake ... so the question going forward is simple how long does this bipartisanship this comedy in the Senate last ... we may see it on some issues for awhile of but not for all that long ... the big problem is ... when Congress goes away in a couple of weeks for August ... then comes back in September ... here's what they have on the agenda ... we have ... every appropriations bill ... although portions of government defense and domestic ... that we think of this government other than the big ... social insurance slashing firemen programs ... they're all for fiscal year that begins October one ... and we know that there is an enormous Gulf ... between the bills that the horses eat surpassing worth considering ... and with the Senate is doing ... and it's not a nice Libor tubal go because the house was suspend last across the board ... the house is taken to deal with a workout ... when we got the sequester's ... in two thousand and eleven ... and doubled or tripled on ... they decided to pass bills that ... would balance the budget in ten years ... but also ... to shuffle money from the discretionary domestic account ... to the defense account ... so we're talking about ... by any standard draconian cuts ... and the Senate is trying to stay within the sequester numbers and move some money around ... but don't normally you'd say alright to split the difference you will find some way to work around it ... the House Republicans are evident that this is their bond ... was yellow top of that another argument about whether to raise the government's debt ceiling ... that in some fairly sensitive judicial nominations D C Circuit Court of Appeals nominations those are the kinds of things that have brought the partisan divides into sharp relief in the past ... they probably will again in ... a note on about it and we already know with ... what appears to be the debt limit being reach sometime around the first of November ... of that the House Republicans again ... have created a list of demands hostages that they're going to hold ... as if the debt limit of the United States was something that if they agree to expand it ... um is a gift to the president ... but it includes ... the Ryan program on Medicare in a number of other things ... and that the president is not to give the most things and that their leaders ... who say we played this game before we want to do it again ... are fairly much powerless ... the deal that they work in the Senate ... is on executive nominations ... not judicial nominations ... and there's little doll that were to see more filibusters ... of with these three D C Court of Appeals nominees ... the question is whether ... a half dozen Republicans ... who work together to avert this last catastrophe ... decide ... to try and cut some kind of a deal to avoid another meltdown in the merged maybe as the swing bloc that can make things happen in the sense ... that we're already seeing some serious disgruntlement on their part with Mitch McConnell is leadership there was a rancorous meeting were McConnell undercut the ... agreement that it made ... even though he had been kept a wearable was going on ... said he could do better which was ... basically not the case ... ah ... but ... you know you can imagine ... John McCain and some others going to Harry Reid and saying ... will tell you what you got three nominees for the DC Court of Appeals ... we'll hope for clean Assurant two of them ... you gotta give us won ... you know that's not the way it should be done but ... you know the sacrificial lamb process ... is someone we may see its biggest ever for it if ... I'm blessed that back from this in and talk about the Senate where it is right you you and I were part of the small group conversation with the Democratic majority leader Harry Reid this week ... asked him a question of who's cute now which is ... how is it that the Senate which used to be ... above the passions of the moment and place for bipartisanship emerge more easily than the house ... was a change so much and watched ... in awe I wrote a ... reflected after that meeting that we have with your ear even wrote a piece this week ... that basically said the Senate's unlike any other comparable parliamentary body ... they all have rules they all have restrictions ... but the main lessons ... everything in the Senate is done by unanimous consent ... it's the individuals that manner and what it means is ... the norms matter more than the rules ... you got to find ways in some instances to get all one hundred goal ... or your disrupted ... but you also have to have a general understanding ... that there are limits ... in the last six or seven years ... the norms of the breach ... and ... that's what led to ... Bill Frist when he was the majority leader of the Republican majority leader ... and Democrats were of blocking a bunch of appeals court nominees ... to fret not a nuclear option a much more severe was saying this at this same play we saw this and that we saw this week ... we had a gang of fourteen seven senators on each side what mattered was the seven Democrats coming together and saying ... tell you wanna ... give us a couple a sacrificial lambs ... and a light cameras and a restore normalcy ... but then we saw a sharp increase in and normalcy ... once Brock Obama became president even before that when the Democrats took back the majority in ... two thousand and six two thousand and seven ... with filibusters be used on everything the routine matters ... as weapons of mass destruction ... the problem is not the rule including the filibuster is the same role for the last ... thirty years and for most the time it worked until the norms were breached ... the question now is can you restore the old ones of the Senate ... the move the other day D ... led by McCain bipartisan effort ... negotiation ... is a step towards normalcy ... the ball ... remains in Mitch McConnell score ... and then ... a question of whether McConnell ... ratchets up again ... a number of Republican senators say enough is enough but that is this the question of politics and political alignments and that that the sorting out of the country into more red and blue states for is the question personalities and leaders ... it's both ... that's more than that to ... it's that ... we have a permanent campaign that has overwhelmed everything ... majorities can change in every election clean this next one coming up ... and ... it's working with people on the other side of the aisle ... has now become akin to sleeping with the enemy instead of ... the way you do business to solve problems ... you put that together with the fact that we have the sharp polarization ... and it's not symmetric its asymmetric the Republicans of move much more sharply to the right ... and they're now dominated by their primaries its own fear of being primaries ... and then ... the lack of chemistry between Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid ... and now ... McConnell fearing being primary himself ... and you've got a witches brew that it does not lead to generally positive results well and so it were talkin about a ... the prospect of more political polarization to be closer to twenty fourteen which is not that far off anyway ... suggest this fall is the last hope to do anything you in the Senate until you get to the twenty fourteen free zapped I fear that that's the case and and of course much that would get through the Senate even if you could overcome this ... goes nowhere in the house ... unless you have overwhelming majorities ... but there are few people to keep an eye on ... Bob Corker of Tennessee has become ... one of the real problem solvers here ... it engaged in a host of Erie is ... to try and move the country ahead ... McCain is move back to the role of iconic class ... and if those two can bring along ... some of their friends and allies who have a little bit more independence ... Lindsey Graham who was up but who basically still wants to do the right thing ... Lisa Murkowski of Alaska Susan Collins and mean ... and you've got ... a dozen others who potentially could be a part of that ... if they decide enough is enough ... we may see something different ... but the house has a different matter ... and its the hols this could lead to these confrontations over ... appropriations which would probably mean a shutdown of the government or parts of that ... Iran October one ... and another crazy confrontation over the debt limit ... and I'm not sure that there's much of anything or any group of members there ... without leadership from speak urbane or that would probably cost him his speaker sure ... that'll take us away from the collision course so final question you mentioned a couple times those twenty fourteen elections yes um don't ... loom larger and larger as we get closer obviously at this point ... who use its gonna be running the Senate after those ... at that turned the decision made by the very popular former governor Democratic governor of Montana Brian Schweitzer not to run for that open seat ... it really increase the odds the Republicans could take a majority they need to win six seats net ... twenty three Democrats up only ten Republicans ... the odds are close to even their not quite there for the Republicans because they may ... as they did last time and time before self destruct in a number of nomination ... contests ... but they've got a shot at ... now I think that the problem the other problem that we have pure with the Senate headache that we have pure insanity is ... only ten Republican seats are up almost all of them incumbents running ... he had ... Saxby Chambliss has ... decided to retire ... but in the other cases ... the fear of being primer With ... pushes them to the right ... is that two top Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn ... is Lamar Alexander of Tennessee ... now it's Mike Enzi in Colorado ... and at least a couple of those Alexander in NZ are ones you would hope would be ... among ... the group ... trying to find solutions to problems ... that's not likely to be in deliveries after those primaries ... well this political season of a full stop in Washington are reading about I think the fact that with this hope we can get together again as the proceeds ... to ditch effort of course


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Matt Damon, Colin Firth Named To TIME 100
TIME has released its 2011 list of the 100 Most Influential People – and we're happy to see some familiar Hollywood activists making the cut.
For their efforts to help fund clean water projects throughout the developing world, Matt Damon and Gary White – co-founders of Water.org – were honored in a piece written by Ted Danson. "Their message is one of hope; their solutions for providing access to clean water are simple and cost effective," praises the actor. "And their work gives us an opportunity to change lives forever."
We've given a lot of credit to Damon in the past for his efforts to help raise awareness on the water crisis – so it's great to see him being recognized here. "Matt and I, along with our staff, partners, donors, and long-time supporters believe we can achieve universal access to safe water in our lifetime," said White. "We know there will never be enough charity to fully realize our vision so it requires us to continually look to new ideas and ways to reach more people more quickly – something we have been doing since our founding."
Best Actor winner Colin Firth was also singled out for his work both on and off the camera. "The two sides of Colin, 50, inform each other," writes Helen Mirren. "He can be the glamorous celebrity, but look closely at photos of him on the red carpet: there is a kindness in his eyes, an introspection and consideration. He actively pursues a deeper understanding of the world around him, and his humanitarianism gives a depth and wisdom to his performances."
Besides his work with Oxfam, Firth has also lobbied for the Make Trade Fair campaign, Amnesty International, and Survival International, and has won various awards for his efforts, such as the European Voice Campaigner of the Year award, The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural Philanthropist of the Year award, as well as the BAFTA Britannia Humanitarian Award.
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No - she had birthday party champagne in A Happy Life.
and she had white wine ...
She even dreamed wine - for the picnic with Vincent,
a rosé maybe, or a white zinfandel, perhaps a white merlot ...
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The links to stories here on Blogger have been - or will be - disabled. The site won't disappear, and you might be directed here or to individual stories through other links, but all new work - and edited work - will only appear on the new site from now on.
Thank you all for your encouragement here at Blogger for so many years - since 2008! You all have truly made my world warmer and brighter. I'm hopeful you'll visit the new chamber. I want to do more there, to give more. I'll look forward to hearing from you.
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Joe Calhoun Says He'll Have Surgery
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Joe Calhoun Says He'll Have Surgery
Chief Meteorologist Will Be Off Air For Several Weeks
LANCASTER, Pa. —
Friday morning at the end of WGAL's "News 8 Today" broadcast, Chief Meteorologist Joe Calhoun told viewers that he will be off work for several weeks effective Friday.
During Joe's annual physical, his doctor ordered a chest x-ray and they found a "spot" on his lung. After more tests and medication doctors began to refer to the spot as a tumor. They don't know if it is cancer, but it needs to come out. Joe is scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday.
In a note that Joe sent to the entire WGAL staff, he said "I'm very confident that I'll be fine, but please keep me in your thoughts and prayers."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli on Tue 30th Sep 2003 05:20 UTC
In the dawn of the renovation of freedesktop.org's web site, David Zeuthen announced the release of HAL 0.1. HAL is an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer, as defined by Havoc Pennington's paper. It encompasses a shared library for use in applications, a daemon, a hotplug tool, command line tools and a set of stock device info files. Carlos Perelló Marín also announced the design of a similar concept, but it is expected the two projects to merge. More people are encouraged to join this innovative project. Elsewhere, Gnome's Seth Nickell is giving us a first taste of his effort to replace the Init system.


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Championship Season Begins
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This weekend, the Bulldogs will host the rest of the Ancient Eight at Cuyler Athletic Complex and Dwyer Track for the Ivy League Heptagonal Track and Field Championships. Heps will be the final meet for many Bulldogs, as only those that qualify for ECACs or NCAA Nationals can advance. This meet is also the most competitively charged all season, as the Ivy League rivalry is played out on the field and track.
Yale's sprinters this year look to be led by junior Emily Shulan, who has the team's fastest times in the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash after posting season bests last weekend at the Springtime Invitational. So far this season, Shulan has run the 12th-fastest time in the league in the 100-meter dash. She will receive support from sophomore Adele Jackson-Gibson, freshman Kelsey Lin and junior Alexa Monti.
All-American senior Kate Grace has once again dominated the middle distances in the Ivy League; her season-best of 2:05.48 in the 800-meter run is the fastest in the Ancient Eight by almost two seconds. She also has the fastest 1,500-meter run time, converted from her school record 4:39.52 mile run during the indoor season. Grace has also run Yale's fastest 400-meter dash this season. Her time of 56.49 is the 10th-fastest in the league.
Yale has a young, flexible group from which to draw in distances ranging from the 400-meter dash to the 1,500-meter run, including sophomore Annelies Gamble, sophomore Nihal Kayali and junior Gabriella Kelly. Each has a top-20 time in the league. Gamble is 11th in the 800-meter run and Kayali is fourth in the 1,500-meter run. Kelly is 14th in the 400-meter dash and 16th in the 800-meter run. Freshman Sarah Barry is 15th in the league in the 1,500-meter run during her first collegiate outdoor season. Sophomore Allison Rue has also run a top-25 time in the 400-meter dash.
The two distance events that will be contested are the 3,000-meter run and the 10,000-meter run. The Bulldogs have not competed in the latter yet this season, but have had success in the former. Sophomore Elizabeth Marvin, an ECAC qualifier in the event last season, holds the eighth-fastest Ivy League time in the event, a personal record 9:36.60 at the Penn Relays. Freshman Melissa Chapman is right on her heels this season as the 10th-fastest Ivy athlete in 9:36.68. Kayali is 14th in the event. In the 3,000-meter steeplechase, junior Anne Lovelace currently has the 12th-fastest time. Lovelace, an NCAA qualifier in the event, ran a season-best of 10:58.67.
In the hurdles, freshman Amanda Snajder has consistently been the team's top finisher at 100 meters. Her season-best of 15.16 is good for 17th in the league. Sophomore Jenna Poggi and sophomore Dakota McCoy are 14th and 15th, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles.
Yale's relay teams have improved throughout the season. The 4x800-meter relay team, which recently ran the fastest time the school has seen in 25 years, is ranked fourth. The 4x100-meter relay team is coming off a season-best of 48.23 last weekend is ranked 6th in the Ivy League.
Sophomore Emily Anderberg (hammer throw and discus throw), sophomore Adele Jackson-Gibson (long jump), senior Rachel Kuschner (discus throw), McCoy (javelin throw), freshman Kristen Proe (triple jump), sophomore Antonia Renker (discus throw and hammer throw), senior Stephanie Scaramella (shot put, hammer throw and discus throw), senior Emily Standish (high jump), freshman Emily Urciuoli (pole vault) and sophomore Natalie Wedell (discus throw) have all placed in the top-20 in the League in their events this season. Renker and Scaramella have been Yale's top throwers all season and should challenge for points this weekend with strong performances.
Events will begin at 10:50 a.m. on Saturday morning and continue until 5:45 p.m., while Sunday will stretch from 10:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The official championship website is available here.
Report by Natalie Villa '13, Yale Sports Publicity


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SPENCER � A local man told police that when he dunked his 2-month-old son in Stiles Reservoir on Sunday, he and his friends were simply mimicking YouTube videos he'd watched about teaching babies to hold their breath underwater.
Nicholas St. Francis, 23, of 12 Wilson Ave. and friends allegedly videotaped the incident. Police said the video showed the baby being submerged while adults laughed and cheered. A police report indicates the participants were drinking.
Spencer police were alerted when a friend of the baby's mother called 911 to report that she'd seen the video and it appeared Mr. St. Francis was "trying to drown the baby."
The child's mother, Kendra Ballou, left her job and went home after receiving the video. Ms. Ballou told police she phoned an on-call number for her doctor's office and was told the child would be fine, but she later took the baby to a Worcester hospital, a police report said. Mr. St. Francis followed on his motorcycle as police were trying to find them.
Once they were at the hospital and police had found the couple, an officer viewed the video and described it in a report.
"Nicholas was shown holding the infant and dipping him twice into the lake. The third time the entire child was submerged. The screaming child was lifted out of the water to cheers and laughter from the adults," Officer Valerie Morin wrote.
According to court documents, the 2-month-old's parents were upset that police were investigating, and Ms. Ballou was angry that her friend had alerted police.
"Kendra stated she watched videos of baby dunking on YouTube. All the videos claim the baby could not drown. All you had to do was blow into the baby's face and the baby will start to breathe again," the report said.
Mr. St. Francis told police he'd been drinking but the baby was not harmed "so he did not understand what the problem was," according to court documents.
The state Department of Children and Families was notified and, police said, Ms. Ballou then "changed and was concerned for the child."
She told police she now believed Mr. St. Francis used poor judgment "and she will do whatever it takes to keep her child." She then took the child and left to stay out of town.
Monday before Judge Jennifer L. Ginsburg in Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield, bail was set at $500 for Mr. St. Francis on charges of reckless endangerment of a child and assault and battery. He was ordered to comply with DCF recommendations and is due back in court Sept. 9.
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Hello. I joined recently and was looking forward to asking some questions. I'd no sooner registered when I went to let out my 'kit' of just four dewlaps. Ten minutes later they'd gone. This has happened a number of time since I took them on about 18 months ago, as a change to rollers, which were doing my head in.
It goes something like this: I had no problem getting the dewlaps in the air as youngsters, whereas I'd been warned that it can be difficult. I also had no problem in getting them to dive, once they'd been flying a while. Given that their usual habit is to circle the lofts at a good height...when I say circle, they won't necessarily be right overhead, but they can clearly see the lofts from where they are, so they're always in sight. However, on one particular day I watched six of them drift, then they were out of sight. Only one of the six ever returned.
The next time one dewlap wouldn't come in one day, so I left it on the loft top for the night. It was still there the next morning, but still wouldn't come in. An hour later it was gone. I had a phone call a couple of days later from the club I joined to say this particular bird was 15 miles away, having been drawn into a guy's racing pigeon loft. I had to go and pick it up. Why did it leave its loft and fly 15 miles away?
The next incident was in January of this year. Five dewlaps went out for their usual fly. It was a clear sky. I watched them climb higher than usual, then they were out of sight. Three came back; two didn't. Next day the club rang to say one of them was 50 miles away sitting in someone's outhouse.
This week was the final straw. I let out my four remaining dewlaps. The sky was overcast, but they climbed into the mist and they were gone. None has returned.
I've now lost every bird I've bred. All of them were between a few months and just over a year old. What the hell possesses them to suddenly do what they do, having been flying without incident for months on end? Is this why people give up with dewlaps - I'd always thought it was because keepers couldn't train them properly.
So, I'm at the crossroads now. I just have my two pairs of breeders and one squab left. Could it be time to try again with another diving breed, or do I just have a family of dewlaps which are prone to getting lost?
Incidentally, of the two pairs I have, two birds are UK bred, but the other two are original imports to the UK from Germany, rung 2002.
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Darryl Linington from ITF Gaming writes: Right, so Batman, Superman and the Flash feature in the latest fighting title from NetherRealm Studios, Injustice: Gods Among us.
Yip, characters that are not only familiar to fans of the DC universe, but also characters that have been slightly overused in the past "yawn".
Rorschach(spelling? lol) would be amazing...even though it is DC, I just cannot see that happening for some reason
With the increase in these types of articles for Injustice I wonder if others felt the roster was very lackluster and underwhelming.
I personally did, especially on the villain side. Ares, Killer Frost, Raven, Catwoman? These are seriously d-list characters and I think the inclusion of more popular or more arch type characters to the heroes would have been a better idea.
im certain it wouldnt happen but id like to see Supergirl. Also seperate to the 4 dlc characters planned, id like to see maybe guest MK characters Scorpion and or Subzero


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Mojito's in Lake Worth denied its bid for nightclub status
Lake Worth bar Mojito's The Retreat has lost its bid to be considered a night club and be allowed to stay open until 5 a.m., according to Palm Beach Post reporter Willie Howard.
The bar, at 129 N. Federal Highway, had hoped to gain nightclub status so it could stay open later than its current 2 a.m. mandate. A few other locations in Lake Worth have "nightclub" status, including Sneakers on South Dixie Highway.
Have you ever been to Mojito's? What do you think of the place? Should it be allowed to stay open later?


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The lack of quality assets prevented the Celtics from making a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves in order to obtain All-Star forward Kevin Love, who is headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers to join forces with LeBron James.
He made the rounds in Boston on the weekend of May 31-June 1 and speculation soon spread in rapid fashion.
Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star forward Kevin Love was posing for pictures around the city and spent a Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park watching the Red Sox defeat the Tampa Bay Rays.
There was even a photo of Love shaking hands with Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo at the game.
Could it be that the Celtics, just one year into a rebuilding project, were going to land a very big piece of their puzzle?
Was Love, who becomes a free agent in the summer of 2015, going to follow the path taken by Kevin Garnett seven years earlier and be traded from the Timberwolves to the Celtics?
Hope was everywhere as the Celtics, fresh off a 25-57 season and with many needs, seemed to be in the running to add the 25-year-old Love to the mix.
As it turns out, though, that was all just a dream, no more than wild speculation.
Love was never coming to Boston, not for anything more than a spring visit to the city.
Unlike 2007 when the Celtics had a legitimate asset to trade in rising star Al Jefferson to get Garnett, there was no magnificent chip to offer the Timberwolves this time around.
So Love, who has averaged 19.2 points and 12.2 rebounds in 364 games, will be leaving Minnesota later this month to join LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers after a deal was finally completed this week.
The Timberwolves will be getting back the No. 1 pick from the past two drafts in Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett plus a first-round selection for Love, who made it clear he was not going to re-sign with Minnesota.
An amazing summer for basketball fans in Cleveland is getting only better now that Love will be joining forces with James, who is returning home after four years in Miami.
The Celtics? They are looking squarely at a second straight trip to the NBA Draft Lottery next May instead of moving back into the playoff picture with a Rondo-Love pairing.
The quick fix that Love would have offered has disappeared and the Celtics are back to square one.
Instead of making a big splash this offseason, the Celtics have drafted first-rounders Marcus Smart and James Young, signed Evan Turner, re-signed Avery Bradley and acquired Marcus Thornton and Tyler Zeller in a trade.
That is hardly going to be enough to get the Celtics back in contention, far from it with James, Love and Kyrie Irving about to rise to the top in the Eastern Conference.
The Celtics are faced with going through more growing pains while hoping their load of future draft picks can pay off and a free agent can be lured next summer when cap space will be available.
They will also ponder whether to trade Rondo, who is entering the final year of his contract.
The Celtics will no doubt shop Rondo around – again – to see what can be acquired, but he is probably going to be on board at least until the trade deadline in late February to see how things play out.
Getting Love in a Celtics uniform was a long shot, even as he made the rounds in Boston during that spring weekend.
It was a nice dream, but without the right pieces to dangle in a trade, the Celtics had little chance of making it happen.
And now they are being forced to be patient as the rebuilding process heads for Year 2.
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Redbourn Golf Club opened in 1971. The Courses have a first class layout and offer some stunning views of the Hertfordshire countryside. The Ver parkland course has a par of 70 and measures 6270 yards from the yellow tees. The Course is open and well positioned amongst spinneys, streams and bunkers make for an interesting round.
The Kinsbourne 9-hole Par 3 course is surprisingly long at 1361 yards. Although every hole provides a good challenge, there is still plenty of space for the 'wayward ball' making the Kinsbourne ideal for the novice golfer. The club is also home to a driving range, a well stocked golf shop and a friendly clubhouse for you to relax.