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The procession of Cheruiyots, Mutais, and Korirs has been so perennial and predictable that global marathoning has been bordering on Kenyan fatigue. "Kenyans, Kenyans, Kenyans," their federation chairman Isaiah Kiplagat acknowledged last year as his countrymen were poised to sweep the Boston podium yet again. "Every time a Kenyan."
The planet's hardtop kings have won 19 of the last 22 Patriots Day jaunts and are favored to prevail again on Monday when defending champion Wesley Korir and former champion Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot take the line in Hopkinton against a quintet of Ethiopian pursuers. The Kenyans have won nine of the last 10 Chicago races, eight of the last nine in London, and the last three in Berlin. The only major they haven't dominated is New York, where the runners from different countries have won the last four titles, including US racer Meb Keflezighi in 2009.
"Our strategy is to have an Olympic-style field," says New York race director Mary Wittenberg. "We try to get the best from all of the different countries. For Kenyans, we'll always have more than three but we have more from other countries than probably any other race."
Yet while the parade of Kenyan crowned heads may have produced so-what-else-is-new? shrugs from spectators and the media elsewhere, there's no evidence of resentment, even from their rivals. "We don't mind when the Kenyans win," insists Ethiopia's Gebre Gebremariam, who'll be chasing them again here.
Road racing is the simplest of sports. Fire the gun, start the clock, and the first one to break the tape wins. Ecclesiastes and Rosie Ruiz notwithstanding, the race is almost always to the swift and the swiftest, much more often than not, are the Kenyans.
"It's part of our tradition and culture here — you do want to recruit the fastest athletes," says Carey Pinkowski, executive race director of the Chicago Marathon, where the ironing-board course is built for world records. "If you want to go fast, you want to recruit Kenyans."
If the Ethiopians are faster — and they're on the verge of overtaking their neighbors — race directors will be happy to recruit them as did Boston, which has five in the field this year, including 2009 champion Deriba Merga, equaling the number of Kenyans. For most of the past quarter-century, the world's most fabled footrace generally has followed the clock when assembling its elite fields. "I feel it's a testament to Boston that you've seen Kenyan dominance," says Wittenberg. "Boston is held in such high esteem in Kenya that you're getting the best of the best."
Were there an American or two in the lead pack — all three Olympians have scratched — the buzz would be electric, as it was in 2006 when Keflezighi, Brian Sell, and Alan Culpepper finished 3-4-5. "When we were here in 2011, Ryan Hall leads the race and everyone was cheering him," recalls Gebremariam. "People want that, even the runners. It is something exciting for the people if some new people come."
What likely contributes to Kenyan fatigue is not that there are so many of them but that so many of them are one-hit wonders who win the laurel wreath, collect the check and move on. "The Kenyans have been dominant but there's not a lot of consistency," observes Keflezighi. "You win, but why not stick with it?"
The massive monetary rewards have made it unnecessary for them to compete for more than a few years and the extraordinary depth of the Kenyan pool (11 of them ran faster than 2 hours and 6 minutes last year) have made it difficult to stay at the top. "It is so competitive," says Pinkowski. "If you look at the times and how deep it's gotten, there's a great deal of attrition. There was a handful 20 years ago. Now, there are 100 who are competitive."
Like golf and tennis, marathoning thrives when there are marquee names chasing multiple titles. Ibrahim Hussein, the first Kenyan victor here in 1988, won three Boston crowns as did Cosmas Ndeti. Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot claimed four as did countrywoman Catherine "The Great" Ndereba. But there hasn't been a repeat men's champion here since 2008.
"People are doing well that are unfamiliar to the public," says Boston Athletic Association executive director Tom Grilk. "Who are these people? So a thrust for us here and the World Marathon Majors group is to personalize some of these terrific athletes wherever they may happen to be from. How do you make them more recognizable as athletes and as human beings rather than just somebody that I never heard of who ran fast in a marathon?"
Given the Kenyans' nature, which is soft-spoken, modest, and deferential to their teammates, whom they commonly refer to as "my colleagues," they're generally uncomfortable in the spotlight. "One gets the sense that there is a group mentality at work," muses Grilk, "and that people are willing to celebrate the accomplishments of others."
As long as a Kenyan wins, their colleagues and countrymen back home are happy. So far this year they've taken six of the 10 IAAF-label marathons, from Paris to Mumbai to Tokyo, where they swept the podium at the newest World Marathon Major. As long as they're doing that, the Cheruiyots and Mutais and Korirs will be welcome anywhere. "People in Chicago want to see fast running," says Pinkowski. "They're intrigued by the Kenyans and Ethiopians. They know they're going to prepare and deliver great racing."
No Chicago race and few anywhere were better than the 2010 duel between Olympic champion Sammy Wanjiru and Ethiopian rival Tsegaye Kebede. "Sammy and Seg came ripping up Michigan Avenue for the last 3 miles," says Pinkowski. "Those guys come and run hard no matter what."
The most memorable showdown in Boston came in 1982, when Alberto Salazar and Dick Beardsley duked it out from the Newton hills to the finish in "The Duel in the Sun" that provokes conversation more than three decades later. But that was before prize money lured the Africans to Heartbreak Hill and changed the sport of the Kelleys forever.
"Some of us do remember an era when the Boston winner was named Bill or Alberto," says Amby Burfoot, who outran four Americans, three Mexicans, a Finn, and a Briton when he won here in 1968. "That was a wonderful, wonderful time. But we don't have a way of turning the clock back to that time."
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From Simple to Swanky: 10 Picnic Baskets for the Summer
When it gets too hot to eat inside, take it outside! Summer picnics are a lovely way to while away a warm weather day. But once you've made your sandwiches and salads, how do you transport them to the park? Here are 10 options, from simple woven baskets to more deluxe dining setups:
• Large Natural Picnic Basket, $72 from Heath Ceramics
• Seagrass Picnic Carrier, $59 from Pottery Barn
• Willow Picnic Basket, £30.00 from Graham and Green
• Orange Metro Picnic Basket, $33 from Cooking.com
• Market Basket, $65 from Brook Farm General Store
• Huntsmen Basket for Four, $159 from Gilt Home
• Wicker Picnic Basket for Four, $349.95 from Williams-Sonoma
• Picnic Time Malibu Insulated Cooler Picnic Tote, $71.95 from Amazon
• Picnic Time Pioneer Picnic Basket, $116.95 from Chefs
• Picnic Trunk, $84.95 from CloseOutfitters
Do you have a favorite picnic basket? Do you prefer the no-fuss versions, or the all-out deluxe editions?
More Picnic Posts:
• Summer Socializing: Start a Picnic Club!
• 10 Sandwiches for a Summer Picnic Lunch
• Bring a Blanket! 10 Dishes for a Picnic Lunch
• 4 Picnic Blankets for Outdoor Lunches
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Is it just us, or are wedding bells ringing? Everywhere we turn, a new happy couple is tying the knot or has passed out save-the-dates (and a BH employee recently got engaged!). If you haven't been to a wedding or special event yet, we're sure you will be attending one soon and you need the right makeup for it!
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LAKELAND, FL (September 20, 2013) — Come to Munn Park on Saturday, October 26, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. for the 29th Annual Munn Park Extravaganza gardening show presented by the Garden Club of Lakeland, Inc. A Small Standard Flower Show will be put on by the Garden Club members from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Enjoy a Free family day of activities while exploring the many flowers and plants for sale, attend garden presentations and browse garden related crafts. Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions and there is soil testing for those wanting the perfect garden soil. City of Lakeland Horticulturist, Bill Koen will present on new plant introduction.
There will be over 50 vendors selling a variety of patio and garden items for all your fall plant needs including: flowering plants for house and garden, outdoor plants for your landscaping, and garden art and accessories to spice up your lawn or patio. Food and drinks will be available for purchase. For more information call the Garden Club of Lakeland at 863-370-4065.


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Watch this CBS Boston video aboutour AngelEye Camera System, whichallows family and friends to interact with NICU babies 24 hours a day.
The Messina Family Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at South Shore Hospital provides expert, family-centered care for premature, critically ill newborns with complex care needs.
Our NICU is the first and only community hospital in the state of Massachusetts to receive designation as a Level III NICU. We also offer the AngelEye Camera System – an internet-based, secure video and audio solution on each bassinette that allows families and friends to interact with hospitalized newborns 24 hours a day from their computer, laptop, tablet, or smart phone.
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Both our Level III and Level II units are staffed with doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists with specific training in the care of ill, premature, and recovery newborns. Our NICU doctors are dually affiliated with both South Shore Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.
We consider parents core members of our care team and are dedicated to partnering with you in your baby's care. Below are some examples of how we do this:
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This past weekend, Bubblicious bubble gum and NBA All-Star LeBron James crowned three victors at the Ultimate Bubble-Blowing League Blowout Tournament. The competition, which was divided into three age groups: 8-10, 11-14, 15+, challenged folks to blow the biggest bubble possible. The winners were Marissa Chamison, 10, with a 5 3/4-inch bubble; Justine Muldonian, 14, with a 5-inch bubble; and Nathan Drosotoulos, 17, with a 4 3/4-inch bubble.
All this bubble blowing talk made me wonder how much you actually know about bubble gum. Are you ready to test your knowledge? Via Newscom


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Fields and scope notes
Each record in the database summarises the information that can be gleaned about a radiocarbon date from the published. A wide range of information was gathered, including details of the sample itself, its site context, and the numeric results of the analysis.
To be allocated a record in the database, a publication had to include either a laboratory code and / or an uncalibrated date and uncertainty. Instances where dates are only published in calibrated form, without a laboratory code were not included.
Each of the database fields is listed below with notes to summarise the types of information it incorporates.
The laboratory code issued for a radiocarbon analysis. Laboratory codes are unique values in the form [Laboratory ID] - [analysis number]. In some instances where laboratory numbers are not listed, or where more than one determination has been assigned the same laboratory code, the project staff have added a unique identifier within square brackets (eg, GrN-1234[a]). Where there is uncertainty about a laboratory code as used by a specific publication, this is documented in the Notes fields.
The radiocarbon age returned by the laboratory. Where there is uncertainty about the age noted in a specific publication, this is documented in the Notes field.
The level of uncertainty accompanying the radiocarbon date. Where there is dispute about the level of uncertainty used in a specific publication, this is documented in the Notes field. It should be noted that Ashmore et al (2000, 46) recommend that the uncertainties associated with determinations issued prior to the mid-1980s should be regarded as a minimum figure. This should be borne in mind when using the 'raw' data presented here.
Start1 and End1
1 sigma calibrated dates obtained by running the determination through Oxcal v4 using the IntCal 04 curve.
Start2 and End2
2 sigma calibrated dates obtained by running the determination through Oxcal v4 using the IntCal 04 curve.
The level of 13C in a sample, useful for assessing the degree of fractionation which might affect the radiocarbon date.
The name of the site from which the sample was derived. It should be noted that different authors frequently record the same site by different names. For ease of searching site names have been standardised in this database, but it should be noted that the national grid reference (NGR) field is often a more accurate indicator of a site's location.
The Ordnance Survey national grid reference which indicates a site's location. All published site grid references have been verified by comparing the entry with Ordnance Survey maps.
East1 and Nrth1
Ordnance Survey numeric grid references. These are provided to allow the incorporation of this dataset within a Geographical Information System.
Description: descrip
A very basic description of the site from which the sample was derived. These are rarely more than minimal notes to give an indication of the broader context from which the sample was derived and the reason it was obtained.
The material from which the radiocarbon date was derived. The sampled material is listed according to a hierarchy of information. First, the sample types generally recognised by laboratories in their sample submission literature; second, by species; and third, by the part of plant / animal where applicable (eg Bone (human, femur) or Charcoal (alder, twigs)).
Categories of sample material currently include: bone, charcoal, cremated bone, organic sediment, peat, plant material, seed, shell, wood. Other categories are used where the information in the published source cannot be convincingly allocated to the above (eg, hair, skin).
Context: context1 to context5
A description of the specific context / core depth from which the sample is derived. Different publications record contexts in different ways, as a result there are five versions of this field in the database. The information in these fields could be used, in conjunction with the original publication, to assess the 'value' of a determination as listed in the importance fields.
Importance: imp1 to imp3
An assessment of the interpretative value of a radiocarbon determination. This might include information on the pollen spectra recorded at the sample point, the archaeological phase it relates to, or finds which are present in that context. Different publications record "importance" in different ways, as a result there are three versions of this field in the database. The information they contain should not, however, be considered to be either accurate or definitive without subsequent reading of the original publication.
Caution: caut1 to caut2
Authors frequently have reservations about the results of radiocarbon dates. This field summarises those reservations and includes comments on original sample size, explanations of potential anomalies in the results obtained, and observations about the implications of the dates. Different publications record different kinds of cautionary notes, as a result there are two versions of this field in the database.
Notes: notes1 to notes10
Additional information including, the location of any museum specimens sampled, any anomalies noted in the published information, or alternative versions of the lab codes, dates, or uncertainties which have been published. Since different publications provide different types of information, there are ten versions of this field.
References: ref1 to ref19
The published sources which note the determination. The nineteen versions of this field contain full biblographic references.
Ashmore, P., Cook, G. T. and Harkness, D. D. (2000) 'A radiocarbon database for Scottish archaeological samples'. Radiocarbon 42:1, 41-8.


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Operational Safety and Experience Feedback
The main objective of the Operational Safety Section is to assist Member States in enhancing the operational safety of nuclear power plants. This is achieved through the use and development of the IAEA Safety Standards and the promotion of continuous self assessment of nuclear power plants through operational safety review
team (OSART) and peer review of operational safety performance experience (PROSPER) and assistance activities based on IAEA Safety Standards.
The information disseminated to Member States includes good practices of nuclear installations plus model insights from the industry.
- Enhancing the operational safety performance of nuclear power plants
- Strengthening the sharing and use of international operating experience
- Improving Leadership, Management and Culture for Safety
- Supporting long term operation safety of nuclear power plants
Safety Standards for Operational Safety
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Enhancing operational safety performance
To ensure that Member States possess the capabilities to manage and enhance the level of nuclear safety of their nuclear power plants through the development and application of the Agency Safety Standards and Operational Safety Review Team (OSART).
Related Service: OSART
Related information:
- OSART Brochure: English French Russian Spanish
- OSART Guidelines 2015: This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union within the framework of the European Commission (EC) Project A.2 on Enhancing the operational safety review services for nuclear power plants.
- OSART Working Notes Outlines (WNOs)
- OSART Good Practices
- OSART Mission results (OSMIR)
- OSART Highlights 2003 - 2006
- OSART Highlights 2007 - 2009
- OSART HIghlights 2010 - 2012
- OSART Mission list
- Most recent OSART missions and requested missions in each country
Strengthening the sharing and use of international operating experience
To confirm and enhance, wherever necessary, the effective use of national and international operating experience feedback; to achieve a high level of self-assessment capabilities in operational safety for all Member States.
Related Service: OSART, PROSPER, IRS
Related information:
- PROSPER Guidelines
- Web Based Incident Reporting System (WB IRS)
- IRS leaflet
- IRS Guidelines
- IAEA Safety Standards Series Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.11 A System for the Feedback of Experience from Events in Nuclear Installations
- NPP Operating Experiences 1996 - 1999
- NPP Operating Experiences 1999 - 2002
- NPP Operating Experiences 2002 - 2005
- NPP Operating Experiences 2005 - 2008
- NPP Operating Experiences 2009 - 2011
Improving Leadership, Management and Culture for Safety
To provide advice and assistance to Member States in enhancing the safety culture of a nuclear facility. To provide the host nuclear facility with advice in areas where safety culture should be improved to meet IAEA Safety Standards, and to identify strength in safety culture.
Related Service: Independent Safety Culture Assessment (ISCA)
Related information:
- Safety culture: what it is, contributors, services and support
- ISCA leaflet
- Safety culture continuous improvement process
- Safety culture leaflet
- Meetings and workshops on safety culture
Supporting long term operation safety of nuclear power plants
To strengthen safety in nuclear power plants in respect of management of ageing and other time depending degradation processes, in particular through safety services and expert missions in the scope of Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (SALTO) peer review missions. To improve the guidance on ageing management and long term operation (LTO) preparation. To collate and publish the proven practices on ageing management and time limited ageing analysis and using them as a tool for systematic approach to ageing management.
Related Service: Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (SALTO)
Related information:
- IAEA Safety Standards Series Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.12 Ageing management for Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA Safety Report Series No 57 Safe Long Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA Services Series No 26 SALTO Guidelines – Guidelines for peer review of long term operation and ageing management of Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA EBP – Final Report of Extrabudgetary Programme on Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation of Water Moderated Reactors (SALTO)
- SALTO Mission list
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WEST BROOKFIELD � West Brookfield's executive secretary and her husband, a former West Brookfield police officer, have filed a lawsuit against the Police Department, Chief C. Thomas O'Donnell and Sgt. Charles Laperle, accusing the sergeant of creating a hostile work environment and alleging the chief did nothing about it.
Executive Secretary Johanna C. Swain confirmed that she and S. Patrick Swain, her husband, a police officer in Holland, filed the civil complaint in Worcester Superior Court. Ms. Swain referred questions to Brian Burke of Littleton, the couple's lawyer.
"Sgt. Laperle designed to create a hostile work environment to force him (Officer Swain) out of the police department causing interference with a contractual relationship and intentional infliction of emotional duress and the breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealings," the civil complaint states.
Efforts to seek relief from Chief O'Donnell were futile, according to the Swains. Chief O'Donnell declined to comment.
The complaint also alleges that Johanna Swain is "also a victim of Sgt. Laperle's calculated pattern of tortious behavior designed to create a hostile work environment causing public humiliation, defamation, libel, slander, intentional infliction of emotional duress and interference with a contractual relationship."
Mr. Burke said the lawsuit was filed about a month ago and deals with a variety of issues pertaining to the West Brookfield Police Department, the chief and Sgt. Laperle.
Selectman Barry J. Nadon Jr. acknowledged the lawsuit's existence but would not comment. He referred questions to Christopher L. Brown, town counsel.
Ms. Swain also declined to comment further.
Mr. Nadon did say that Mr. Brown, of Petrini and Associates of Framingham, is handling the case for the town but added that a determination is being made by the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association, the town's insurer, whether MIIA will defend the town.
The complaint by the couple alleges that Mr. Laperle established a pattern of going after both of them, including a claim that a senior town official overheard the sergeant saying he would get rid of Officer Swain, and they allege that Sgt. Laperle was keeping a diary on individuals who were "trying to take him down."
They further charge that Sgt. Laperle took over the assigning of police extra work details, which officers rely on for income, and established an unfair system, assigning 41 percent to himself in 2010, and that by "hoarding details" he increased his annual income to an alleged figure of more than $110,000.
They allege that Sgt. Laperle disclosed that last year he personally installed an upgraded security camera system in Town Hall, where the police station is located, and further disclosed that he regularly reviews the videos.
Late last year, Ms. Swain complained to selectmen in a meeting that an "offensive personal note" pertaining to her and Mr. Swain, then a police officer in West Brookfield, had been placed in Officer Swain's mailbox in the police station. The contents of the note have not been divulged and there has been no explanation of why this type of communication would occur, but when the incident was first reported, Ms. Swain said, "I am distressed about this incident." She insisted that it should be determined how and why someone did this. This court complaint accuses Sgt. Laperle of allowing an unidentified person to put the "offensive" note in the mailbox.
There have been at least two outside investigations into the operation of the West Brookfield Police Department, but resulting reports have not been released for public consumption and there is no indication whether the Swain complaints were addressed.
When asked to comment on the allegations in the court complaint, Sgt. Laperle responded by stating in a return email that for this story to be thorough the contents of the two investigative reports should be considered. He offered no further comment.
A request last week to selectmen by the Telegram & Gazette for copies of the two investigative reports has not been answered.
In January, Officer Swain submitted his resignation from the West Brookfield force. He had been a member of the department since 2000, when he joined the force in a part-time capacity. About 12 months later he was called to active duty in the military. When he completed that tour Officer Swain was promoted to full-time status on the West Brookfield Police Department.
At the time of his resignation he told a reporter that he was not satisfied with issues in the West Brookfield Police Department that had not been resolved to his liking. He did not explain the issues.
Mr. Swain, soon after his resignation in West Brookfield, became a full-time police officer in Holland, but he retains the post of veterans agent for West Brookfield.
Attempts for comment for this story from Selectman Sarah Allen and Selectman Diane Vayda were unsuccessful.


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Stocks fell on Monday as banks agreed to pay billions in a settlement with U.S. regulators and investors speculated that U.S. earnings for the end of 2012 would be only modestly better than in the previous quarter.
Financials declined after a group of home mortgage servicers, including major U.S. banks, agreed to pay a total of $8.5 billion to end a government-ordered, case-by-case review of foreclosures.
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The KBW bank index , a gauge of U.S. bank stocks, was down 0.7 percent.
Earnings are expected to be only slightly better than the third-quarter's lackluster results, and analysts' current estimates are down sharply from what they were in October.
"There is little doubt that concerns about the fiscal cliff created spending hesitancy in both consumers and businesses in the fourth quarter, and it is likely that will adversely impact earnings season," said Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at Charles Schwab.
Aluminum company Alcoa Inc will unofficially launch the reporting season by announcing its results after Tuesday's market close.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down 77.33 points, or 0.58 percent, at 13,357.88. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 8.69 points, or 0.59 percent, at 1,457.78. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 12.39 points, or 0.40 percent, at 3,089.26.
The day's decline came a session after the S&P 500 finished at a five-year high and investors booked profits on stocks' best weekly gain in more than a year, boosted by a budget deal and economic data. The S&P 500 rose 4.6 percent last week.
Ten mortgage servicers - including Bank of America , Citigroup , JPMorgan , and Wells Fargo - agreed on Monday to pay $8.5 billion to end a case-by-case review of foreclosures required by U.S. regulators.
Bank of America also announced roughly $11.6 billion of settlements with mortgage finance company Fannie Mae and a $1.8 billion sale of collection rights on home loans.
The bank also entered into agreements with Nationstar Mortgage Holdings and Walter Investment Management to sell about $306 billion of residential mortgage servicing rights.
Bank of America shares were down 0.6 percent at $12.04 while Nationstar Mortgage Holdings jumped 11.3 percent to $36.97.
JPMorgan shares were down 0.4 percent at $45.16 and Citigroup shares were down 0.8 percent to $42.07. Wells Fargo shares fell 1.1 percent to $34.55.
Walt Disney Co started an internal cost cutting review several weeks ago that may include layoffs at its studio and other units, three people with knowledge of the effort told Reuters. Disney shares fell 2.4 percent to $50.95.
Video-streaming service Netflix Inc shares gained 5.8 percent to $101.55 after it said it will carry previous seasons of some popular shows produced by Time Warner's Warner Bros Television.
Amazon.com shares hit their highest price ever at $269.22 after Morgan Stanley raised its rating on the stock. Shares were up 3.3 percent at $267.77.
Major U.S. technology companies could miss estimates for fourth-quarter earnings as budget worries likely led some corporate clients to tighten their belts last month.
(Reporting By Angela Moon; Editing by Kenneth Barry)


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GERRITSEN BEACH — Diane Sullivan spent the eighth day after Hurricane Sandy dragging debris and digging up sand outside her clapboard home.
The married mother looked haggard from a week of no power and heat, but she continued toiling, except to greet and kiss her neighbors who wandered by as they sorted through their own ravaged homes. The brief catch-ups invariably included a question about how a mother or a brother or some relative was recovering.
"Down here, you will find everybody is related to everybody," Sullivan, 36, said on Tuesday. "It's just like the Rockaways."
In this tight-knit waterfront community, generations of families live side by side, and residents not only know their neighbor's name — or nickname — but who their cousins are. The close ties have been a salve in the storm's wake, as neighbors share power generators, laughs and clothes.
It's also meant Sandy's fury has affected entire clans. And Sullivan's family tree is one map to that devastation.
When the water surged the night of Oct. 29, it barreled down blocks. Sullivan's home on Seba Avenue filled with 7 feet of water. The basement in her mother's house next door was ruined.
The rushing water also wrecked the homes of Sullivan's two sisters, who live just a few blocks away. Sandy even flooded Sullivan's brother's place in Toms River, N.J.
In all, the storm damaged five of the family's houses and three of their cars, including Sullivan's Mustang GT.
The city places Gerritsen Beach in Zone B in its hurricane evacuation map, meaning the neighborhood is subject to potential flooding if a Category 2 hurricane hits. But Gerritsen Beach was not part of the mandatory evacuation Mayor Bloomberg announced before the storm.
The Zone B classification was the reason why Sullivan, like many residents, didn't have federal flood insurance. It's also why she didn't take more precautions before Sandy hit. She said officials didn't tell them to evacuate.
"We kept asking. They said, 'No, you're Zone B. You don't have to leave,'" Sullivan said. "If we were told to leave, people would have pulled out [belongings] from their basements."
During the storm, as the water level rose, Sullivan said her family "kept going up higher in her home." Neighbors who tried to flee in a car had to swim back and take refuge in her home, she said.
Another neighbor, who lived only a few homes away and was known in the community as Bumps, drowned in his basement.
By the time the water receded, Sullivan had lost two refrigerators, a washer and dryer, couches and her son's motorcycle. Her cousin, who lived in her basement, had to throw out cherished pictures and their grandmother's prized sewing machine.
Sullivan's homeowners insurance doesn't cover the damage to her basement. She has applied for federal assistance, but so far hasn't gotten a response.
"I made the claim a day after [the storm]. FEMA hasn't come," she said. "It's been a long wait."
As Sullivan sorted through debris Tuesday, George Broadhead, the president of the Gerritsen Beach Property Owners Association, stopped by to say hello.
The 80-year-old had dated Sullivan's aunt when he was a teenager. He pointed to a church a block away, where residents could pick through piles of donated clothing, and volunteer cooks flipped free burgers and hotdogs.
"Everybody down here is going to survive," he said. "The beach has shown its resilience."


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Hands down, the cyphers are always most rewindable portion of the BET Hip-Hop Awards and last night's spit sessions didn't disappoint. While King Kendrick's verse is still the talk of the Net, Slaughterhouse, A$AP Mob and the Real House Husbands of Hollywood also killed it. Whose was the hardest? Click through for the best cypher reactions.


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Buckwheat adds texture to these scones, which are not too sweet - and are substantial enough for dunking in coffee and hot chocolate. If they don't have to be vegan, use bittersweet chocolate chips.
MAKE AHEAD: The scones can be stored in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Chocolate Chip-Mocha Scones With Cacao Nibs
Makes 12 to 16 scones
3 cups whole-wheat pastry flour, plus more for the work surface
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 cup chilled (solidified) coconut oil
3/4 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup agave syrup
1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. coffee extract (may substitute 1 tsp. espresso powder mixed into 1 tsp. just-boiled water)
1 cup vegan chocolate chips (see headnote)
1/2 cup cacao nibs
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone liner.
Whisk together the whole-wheat pastry flour, buckwheat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl.
Grate or finely chop the chilled coconut oil, then use your fingers to gently, quickly work it into the flour mixture.
Whisk together the coconut milk, agave syrup, vinegar, vanilla and coffee extracts in a liquid measuring cup. Pour into the flour mixture and stir until barely incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips and cacao nibs until evenly incorporated; the dough will be quite firm.
Lightly flour a work surface. Transfer the dough to the work surface; knead it just enough to shape it into a disk that's about an inch thick and about 10 inches wide. Cut it into 12 to 16 equal wedges. Arrange them on the baking sheet, spaced at least 1 inch apart. Bake for 15 minutes (on the middle rack); the tops and bottoms should be golden brown.
Adapted from "Sweet & Easy Vegan: Treats Made With Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners," by Robin Asbell (Chronicle, 2012).


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The last three days have been a perfect storm of client projects, thus no blog posts since last week. This imbalance in my life triggered the notion that we place a lot of emphasis on having balance in our lives. Balanced diets, balanced checkbooks, balanced opinions. We even use scales and a blind woman to represent justice.
I'd pose that balance doesn't truly exist and that our pursuit of so-called balance only leaves us wildly out of whack. For instance, my fear of not having written a blog post since last week (mustn't blow the schedule even more) had me writing a draft of this post (see below) while my hairdresser cut my hair.
I strongly suspect that I'm not the only one who questions what living a balanced life requires and the cost it exacts. Failing to recognize this fact falls in the same category (IMO) as saying that women can have it all with no caveat added to address the good and the bad (that's another discussion).
Balance is also equated to neutrality (see: scales of justice), which I find equally ridiculous, if admirable in aim. For instance, Fox News makes a point of saying "fair and balanced." Please, hold the laughs for a moment. The bigger question isn't whether they're honest or not when they say this but rather why network executives assume viewers want "fair and balanced" in their news?
Am I too cynical when I say that I believe no one individual or entity is capable of true balance or neutrality all of the time? Last I checked, humans, including reporters, aren't exempt from all the quirks of humanity, including personal opinions. Would we like/respect the press more if we knew what personal biases might be in play?
Coming back to balance in our lives…some weeks, I will physically (and mentally) not be able to keep my posting schedule of five per week, but that won't stop me from trying to meet my goal. Maybe this idea is the true definition of balance.
As Marc Andreessen points out, "There's always more demands than there's time to meet them, so it's constantly a matter of trying to balance them." (link) The other thing I'd add—try spending more time weighing the value of the demand versus the time it requires. Few scales will ever truly balance. Perhaps they aren't supposed to.


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Movie Review: "Planes: Fire & Rescue"
Movies like "Planes: Fire & Rescue" are the bane of a movie critic's existence, but not for the reasons you might suspect. It has a rock-solid moral center, preaching the virtues of bravery and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, and those are important things for young children to learn in the event that their real-life role models aren't teaching them those things already. It also has some inspired voice work by a well-chosen cast, and some impressive visuals. However, in order to make said point about the virtues of bravery and self-sacrifice, the story line and dialogue are stripped of nearly all nuance, and in the end we are left with a Message Movie, and a straight-to-video Message Movie at that. (That might sound harsh, but last year's "Planes" was originally meant to go straight to video.) Even Disney knows that these movies are second class to films like "Frozen" and "Wreck-It-Ralph." It's a place filler until they unveil their next tentpole release. Easily consumable and earnest, but knowingly lacking, and absolutely not worth paying extra cash to see in 3D.
Newly crowned race champion Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is enjoying his moment in the sun as the It Boy of aerial racing, but his mechanic Dottie (Teri Hatcher) advises him that he has a part that is both faulty and irreplaceable, and if he continues to push the limits, he will crash. Of course, he does exactly that, and sets off a chain of events that exposes the airport he calls home as being unsafe. They need another rescue vehicle and, realizing that his racing days are all but over, Dusty volunteers to be the rescue vehicle. Fire truck Mayday (Hal Holbrook) sends Dusty up to train with Blade Ranger (Ed Harris), and Dusty quickly, and repeatedly, learns that this job is much harder than it looks.
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STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Norway's center-left Labor Party rode a wave of sympathy in local elections following the 2011 massacre of 69 people, mostly teenagers, at its youth division's annual summer camp. At the same time, the anti-immigration Progress Party, to which the Islam-hating attacker had once belonged, saw its support crumble by a third, despite unequivocally condemning the attack.
As Norwegians head to the polls Monday for the first parliamentary election since the July 22, 2011, tragedy, the tables appear to have turned.
The Progress Party looks likely to come into power for the first time, as part of a center-right coalition that polls suggest could oust Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's Labor-led government.
It's a development that disturbs many of the 33 shooting survivors who are bidding for national office.
"It scares me that the Progress Party could be in power," said 29-year-old Vegard Groeslie Wennesland, a survivor running on a Labor Party ticket. "Some of their prominent figures still use very strongly anti-immigrant rhetoric. And that sort of rhetoric will create a more hostile environment."
The massacre on Utoya island, and a bombing that killed eight people in Oslo's government district hours earlier, deeply shocked Norway. At his trial, the confessed attacker, Anders Behring Breivik, said he wanted to punish the Labor Party for its liberal immigration policies and to start a "conservative" revolution.
Breivik, 34, was a member of the Progress Party in his youth before he lost faith in it and in democracy, and adopted the radical anti-Muslim views that underpinned his solo terror attacks.
Norway unanimously agreed that the best way to confront his attacks and his extremism was to not let them change anything in Norwegian society, including its politics.
Stoltenberg, the prime minister, was admired for his calm sensitivity in the aftermath and support for his Labor Party saw a short-lived boost.
But last year, a damning report that mauled the police for a litany of institutional failures before and during the attacks dented the prestige of Stoltenberg's government.
"The Labor party has always been the party of governability. But there has been a torpedo thrown into that image. The ineptitude of the police has been pinned on the Labor Party," said Frank Aarebrot, professor of comparative politics at the University of Bergen.
The loss of credibility has colored the perception of subsequent coalition policies, Aarebrot said, suggesting a recent controversial hospital restructuring program was unfairly widely deemed a costly failure.
Meanwhile, the Progress Party, under the leadership of Siv Jensen, has clawed its way back in the polls and is poised to enter government as a junior partner in a coalition led by Conservative leader Erna Solberg, potentially Norway's next prime minister. Progress has softened its image in recent years, dumping some of its more firebrand spokesmen and pitching itself as a mainstream rightwing party.
All parties have refrained from explicit mentions of Breivik's attacks to avoid being seen as using the tragedy for political gain. But it has emerged in coded language during discussions about national security and investment decisions.
Morten Hoeglund, foreign affairs spokesman for a Progress Party that favors tax cuts and increased infrastructure spending, confronted the issue after revealing that his party would seek to invest the country's oil cash in "roads, rail and police helicopters."
"If you look at the tragedy on July 22, the lack of police helicopters was one of the factors for not getting police as quickly to Utoya as we would like," he said. "But we are also talking about hospitals and other kinds of investment."
Polls have hardly moved since the beginning of August, with Labor and the Conservatives both forecast to attract just shy of 30 percent of the vote. A daily survey by pollster Infact for Norway's VG newspaper showed support for Progress stable at around 14 percent. None of the other parties likely to form a post-election coalition is polling at above 7 percent.
Fredric Holen Bjoerdal, a 23-year-old Utoya survivor who is placed high on the Labor Party's election list and is likely to become Norway's youngest lawmaker, said he was running for office not because of the horror he lived through, but despite of it.
"Many of my friends gave up politics afterward," said Bjoerdal, who led a group of panicked teenagers from one hiding place to another as they fled Breivik's killing spree. "But for me, I became even more interested. I have this feeling that I have to continue the struggle for those who are not around to do it now."


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"Community" goes beyond graduation, beyond the mystery, beyond the truth, beyond Season 4's darkest timeline in Season 5.
The latest trailer for the NBC goes for broke getting everyone excited about the one-hour season premiere at 7 p.m. Jan. 2. Creator Dan Harmon is back at the helm, and things are going to get really dark, and no doubt weird and hilarious.
"This is the biggest crisis to hit Greendale since we held the crisis protest in the wrong Korea," Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) says.
In the epic trailer, Troy (Donald Glover) is violated by the "ass-crack bandit" who drops a quarter down his pants that touches his "butt's mouth." A killer robot seems to be on the loose and Jeff (Joel McHale) is now an instructor.
Britta (Gillian Jacobs) takes control of a game of The Floor Is Lava. We see attacking chair-walkers, rioting Greendale students led by Annie (Alison Brie) and Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), who seems to be facing off against guest star Jonathan Banks from "Breaking Bad."
Walton Goggins of FX's "Justified" guest stars as an investigator who gets Senor Chang (Ken Jeong) to admit to what he's done in the study room, which does not make a pretty picture in my head.
We see glimpses of Abed (Danny Pudi) assuming the persona of crime-fighting cyborg Kickpuncher and John Oliver reprising his role as Professor Ian Duncan and Rob Corddry as Alan Connor.
How excited are you for Jan. 2?
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The best bits of culture and flat-out fun in the days ahead.
Jan. 31:
Six-string storm: University Auditorium becomes home to some of the most talented instrumental guitarists in the world on Friday when two internationally known trios make a stop on their latest tour. The Grammy-nominated California Guitar Trio has performed together since 1991, blending rock, pop, classical, blues and jazz. The Montreal Guitar Trio, founded more than 14 years ago, takes a more world-fusion tack, mixing genres from around the world. The show will feature sets by both groups with a final set featuring all six members. Tickets are $25-$35, $10 for UF students. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 31-Feb. 1:
Silver and orange: The current exhibit of paintings by New York artist Elena Sisto, "Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow," is on exhibit at UF's University Gallery through Friday. The paintings, which examine "the psychological underpinnings of young women without revealing their thoughts," draw on the influence of Giacometti, Mondrian, Klimt and others.
Jan. 31-Feb. 3:
Neil Simon at the Acrosstown: Neil Simon's tale of romance and social upheaval in 1960s San Francisco, "The Star-Spangled Girl," runs through Sunday at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre in collaboration with ACtME Actors. The comedy tells the story of radical publishers Andy and Norman; Sophie, the flag-waving young woman upstairs and her Marine fiance. Final performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $12, $10 for children, students, educators, senior and military personnel. Admission is free for children 4 and younger as seating permits. For tickets, call 505-0868.
Jan. 31-Feb. 3:
Gators do Goldoni: The UF School of Theatre and Dance is staging Carlo Goldoni's "A Servant of Two Masters," a picaresque romp through 18th-century Venice complete with mistaken identities and turbulent love affairs. Final performances in the McGuire Pavilion's Constans Theatre begin at 7:30 p.m. today through Saturday, and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are $13-$17 through the University Box Office by calling 392-1653.
Jan. 31-Feb. 10:
Senior scenes: The Gainesville Community Playhouse is staging "Chasing Manet," Tina Howe's stage comedy about Alzheimer's and freedom as seen through the eyes of residents in an assisted-living facility. Directed by Jan Cohen, the play follows two elderly women who plot to escape and make their way to Paris. Tickets are $16. Performances are staged Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
Jan. 31-Feb. 10:
Shiny boots of leather: The Hipp's production of David Ives' Broadway hit, "Venus In Fur," has been extended through Feb. 10. The story recounts an apparently ineffective actress who does everything in her power to win a role in a stage adaptation of the novel being staged by a daunting playwright/director. Performances run Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7 p.m., Thursday and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 5 and 8:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 and 7 p.m. through Feb. 10. Call 375-4477 for tickets.
Feb. 2-3:
Folk music both good and lovely: The female Canadian folk-trio, Good Lovelies, bring their blend of traditional acoustic music, three-part harmonies and whimsy to the stage of the Phillips Center's Squitieri Studio Theatre for two weekend shows. Since forming in 2006, the group has toured the world and won a Juno Award in 2010. Saturday's performance begins at 7:30 p.m. while Sunday's concert starts at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30, $10 for UF students, and available by calling 392-2787.
Feb. 8:
Song and dance: On Feb. 8, The King's Singers and the Sean Curran Company join ranks for a special performance of works by composer Joby Talbot and others. Six members of King's Singers will sing the pieces, while members of Curran's company will provide physical interpretations of the piece. Tickets are $20-$35, $10 for UF students. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 9:
Mozart mash-up: The Ocala Symphony Orchestra and the UF Opera Theatre present a performance of Mozart's "The Impresario" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" on Saturday at University Auditorium. Both operatic standards are reimagined and recast as classics of the silver screen — complete with a new wardrobe inspired by the film "Casablanca" and a wisecracking onstage audience. Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors, $10 for students and are available by calling 392-2787.
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The Hagg takes Hoggetown: Outlaw country legend Merle Haggard performs at the Phillips Center on Feb. 9. Wildly hailed as one country music's few true greats, Haggard is a Grammy Award winner, a Kennedy Center honoree and Country Music Hall of Famer who has charted 40 No. 1 hits on Billboard's country singles chart. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $36-$66, available by calling 392-2787.


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Deputies say man trapped woman
LAFAYETTE — A Lafayette Parish man is accused of trapping his ex-girlfriend in his bathroom by drilling screws into the door frame, authorities said Tuesday.
Brindle A. Donaldson, 34, 600 block of Credeur Road, was booked on one count of false imprisonment, according to a Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office news release.
Deputies also found what appeared to be evidence of methamphetamine production, and a narcotics investigation is ongoing, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The Sheriff's Office reported Donaldson also was booked on active bench warrants for failure to appear in court for possession of drug paraphernalia, no seat belt, driving under suspension and switched license plate.
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Hi everyone!
I've been hanging around this little corner or the internet for a few days now and I like what I've seen so far so decided to join up :)
I'm from Ireland and was baptised as Roman Catholic as a baby. While my parents were never particularly religious, I can honestly say I've never believed in any of it and thankfully they never forced religion on me. I was schooled by the Catholic Church (about 95% of schools in Ireland have a RCC ethos) and often got into trouble for questioning Catholic teachings surrounding sexuality, feminism, marriage etc :)
I'm already out as an atheist. All my friends and family know about my lack of belief and for the most part, they are fine with it. I sometimes get a bit of grief when it comes to things like Lent (Obviously I dont observe it, which many people still raise an eyebrow about), Christmas, etc.
Anyway, on a more personal note. I am a mature student, studying Environmental Science. I live with a ginger cat named Rusty, a greyhound called Casey and 3 chickens; Princess Layer, Hen Solo and Luke Skyclucker!
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Thanks for the welcome Belle Rose :)
Environmental Science is a fascinating field. There's so many aspects involved in it!
I'm a total nature nerd so I'm drawn towards the areas of conservation and ecology. I have a few lecture notes on sustainable development, if you'd like to have a look at them sometime just drop me a line. I'd more than happily send them on.
No problem :) And well done for getting back into it. It's tough but if it's a subject that you enjoy then that's half the battle really.
I'll have a dig through my notes when I get back from work this evening and send on a few bits and pieces. I've just had a thought though.... As I'm in Ireland a lot of the notes refer to EU legislation and international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol (Which the US isn't a signatory to), so they might not be very relevant to your studies but they'll certainly help you get an understanding of the standards and goals used in the European Union.
Right now, the sector is dead in Ireland. Sustainable infrastructure is the domain of energy companies (Semi-state) and government bodies...there's been an embargo on state and semi-state jobs for the last 6/7 years and there's no sign of them opening their doors up for many years yet :(
Currently there's a market for sustainable agriculture advisers. There's a project running right now called "Food Harvest 2020" to increase Ireland's agricultural output by 33% 2020. But I would imagine that once the 2020 deadline has passed, there'll be a glut of advisors and very little work.
Another promising field is eco-tourism/wildlife tourism/adventure tourism. It's something that has only recently started to 'catch on' here in Ireland and it looks like it could be a very solid industry to get involved with. Which is what I am going to focus on. I've decided to apply for a transfer to a different area of study (Field Biology) which I'll be starting in September. I already have a degree in tourism studies so getting the field biology degree will give me considerable scope in the area and I ultimately hope to work for myself.
WOW that sounds interesting, I haven't even heard of "eco-tourism..." that almost sounds like the beginning of a new "catch phrase" just as the "isms"....pretty soon it will be "eco" everything and we'll have to figure out what it all means, lol....
I'm only recently even becoming educated on the subject. My background is in the languages, (Spanish), sociology, (criminology) and the business world, but here in WA there is a large push towards green energy. I've recently attended a pre-apprenticeship program for women, which is hard to come by ANYWHERE, but I was able to get a lot of basic training in the trades -- all trades....
Now I'm looking to take that a step further. I truly believe that there will be demand as infrastructure falls apart, needs repair, rebuilding, and/or demolition and even for newly engineered city and residential plans, the green energy field will become an integral and vital part of how we do business - everywhere. I have no idea where my studies will take me at this point because I am somewhat imagining that I might have the opportunity to be a pioneer in the field, as a woman especially, since women in trade and engineering related fields are few and far between, (even less than the US Marine Corp!!!)
So with that said I do not know how my studies will translate into on the ground action, but step one: get my math homework done before it's time to pick up my son! LOL!!!
Kudos to you my friend, for being part of an amazing movement towards sustainability, welcome again to TA, and it's such a pleasure to meet you! Let's keep in touch about this, on and off the public forum, We can private message also through TA and I can give you my private email if you like as well..........
BTW: Do you know how the construction industry is currently in Ireland?
Sorry for so many questions!!! LOL
Thanks, Dan :)
Welcome to TA, Seraphina. I and four siblings survived Irish-dominated Catholic schools in Ohio and later in Florida, USA. To say teachers were strict understates the case. I now know some of them were hurting.
In college I chose agnosticism, and after 45 years of seldom giving religion a thought chose non-militant atheism. I live in a war veterans retirement home and most of the nearly 1000 residents are lapsed xians. Few of them go to Sunday services. Many know I'm an atheist. Most of them are decent folk, and when circumstances allow I say that if I hadn't spent 12 years in Catholic schools I might still believe there's a god.
Again Seraphina, welcome to TA.
Thanks, Tom!
Mine were very strict too, but then I was a total nerd so always enjoyed school and did pretty well, so they left me alone for the most part. God help you (pardon the pun!) if you didn't toe the line though...they'd make your life hell!
Hi Seraphina. I'm also an ex-Roman Catholic. I hope life is good for you.
Hi Peter!
Always nice to meet others with a similar background :) Life is pretty good, thanks :) Hope you are well and happy!
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Every so often I like to give readers a list of environmental resolutions for the New Year. Here are my suggestions for 2014.
Every so often I like to give readers a list of environmental resolutions for the New Year. Here are my suggestions for 2014.
Put this list on your refrigerator, reminder board in your office or on the bulletin board in your classroom. If you take it to class after the holidays, ask your teacher for extra credit. If you are a teacher, consider awarding extra credit for each item a student completes.
Take a walk around your neighborhood or a park with the intention of carefully examining the bark of trees. Compare the color and texture of different kinds. Do they all have the same kind of lichens? (If you aren't sure what lichens are, find out.) Looking closely at some of the basic features of the natural world is educational — and fun.
Read a natural history book that discusses a particular group of animals or plants. Many excellent wildlife guides, photograph-filled coffee table books and even children's stories will qualify. If you are a teacher who's completing this checklist in a classroom, have the students give short accounts about the ecology of a plant or animal mentioned in the book. For preschoolers at home, read them sections from your favorite natural history books.
You may want to wait for warm weather for this one, but it will be worth the wait: Pretend you are a behavioral ecologist. Find an animal in your yard and observe it continuously for five minutes. Whatever you pick — insect, squirrel, spider, bird — watch it closely. It just might do something interesting and unexpected. If the animal does not move for five minutes, it doesn't count. Pick another one.
Most people are used to enjoying nature through the sense of sight by looking at plants, animals and habitats. Learn to observe a habitat with your other senses. Listen for animal sounds, the rustling of tree leaves or running water. Crush the leaves of trees or shrubs to see if any have a distinctive scent. Compare the feel of different grasses, leaves and bark. If you are absolutely certain that a plant is not poisonous, you might even taste it. Learn to use all of your senses when you are in the woods or at a lake.
n During the colder months you can visit a natural history museum, nature park, zoo or public aquarium. You probably live within an hour or so of one of these, and most of them have an environmental theme of one sort or another. For classrooms, themes such as endangered species, water quality and overall environmental awareness can be studied in advance, making the visit even more enjoyable.
Pick an animal and a plant in your region that you are likely to see on a regular basis (Gray squirrel? Crow? Dogwood tree? Azalea?). Read about each one of them in three places, including at least one source that is not on the Internet, such as an encyclopedia, natural history magazine or nature book. Become familiar with the ecology, geographic range and overall natural history of a species, and you will appreciate it for the rest of your life.
Visit an ecology website to learn about a plant or animal that interests you. Remember that most websites have not been subjected to rigorous scientific and editorial reviews. Misinformation is rampant on the Internet. Websites associated with universities often have the most accurate information.
n Help a nonprofit environmental organization. You can make a monetary contribution or donate your time. You might have the greatest impact (and the most fun) by volunteering with a group of friends or classmates to help a local environmental group.
Give this checklist to a friend or relative and ask them to complete it. The more people pay attention to the natural world, the better off the environment will be.
When you check off this last item, you can feel good about keeping your 2014 resolutions. Happy New Year!
Whit Gibbons, professor emeritus of ecology, University of Georgia, and head of the Environmental Outreach Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, grew up in Tuscaloosa. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and his Ph. D. from Michigan State University. Send environmental questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Let's Turn the Lights on Across Africa
I'm in Tokyo this week for the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings and on Friday I will open the Bank's global conference to look more closely at the serious energy challenge facing Africa.
Consider this stunning fact―only 1 in 3 Africans has access to electricity on the continent.
And that is why too little electricity is one of the biggest challenges I see standing in the way of Africa achieving steadily higher growth rates, better education for its children and teenagers, good quality health services that work, farms and agribusinesses that can grow enough cheap nutritious food for Africans to eat, just to name some of the transformational priorities which can happen when we turn the lights on across Africa.
I confess I am passionate about lighting up homes, schools, businesses, clinics, libraries, and parliaments across the continent. As a child growing up in Senegal, I knew first-hand about power shortages. More power for Africans will allow them to transform their living standards and turn the continent's growth into tangible benefits for all.
Energy security is a key priority for my work as World Bank Vice President for Africa, and my team is moving ahead relentlessly to put power infrastructure in place to plug regional communities into cross-border power pools, more irrigated land to grow food and create jobs, galvanize more trade and commerce within the region, and to unlock all the other development potential that electrical power makes possible.


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(This report was compiled by Imperial County UCCE entomology farm advisor Eric T. Natwick, former UCCE Imperial County plant pathology farm advisor Tom Turin who now works in Fresno County and UC Davis plant pathologist Robert Gilbertson)
Several silverleaf whitefly Biotype B-transmitted viruses occur as Squash leaf curl virus (SLCV), Cucurbit leaf crumple virus (CuLCrV), Cotton leaf crumple virus (CLCrV), and Lettuce chlorosis virus (LCV).
Two new whitefly transmitted viruses have been added to that list in the past six months in Imperial County Calif. — Cucurbit Yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV) and Tomato yellow leaf curl virus (TYLCV).
It is unknown how these two new viruses were introduced. However, it is possible that they were moved into the valley via transplants; either for commercial production or through retail stores for home gardeners or landscapers. Unfortunately, without more stringent regulations on movement of vegetable and ornamental transplants from other states, introduction of new diseases and insects is a constant threat to agricultural production.
Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus
The first of the two new viruses to be found was CYSDV. It can be a devastating disease of melon and squash crops, and caused substantial damage to melons in the Imperial Valley in the fall of 2006. CYSDV was also found in Arizona last fall and even in several melon and squash-growing areas in Mexico.
The symptoms on melons, squash, and cucumbers are expressed first on crown leaves as yellow mottling. The yellow spots soon coalesce into a general yellowing between veins which remain green. Infection with CYSDV early in the plant's life cycle can lead to severe loss of yield through reduced set, and reduced fruit size.
There can also be a quality loss due to reduced sugar in the fruit of melons. In the Imperial Valley, CYSDV is dependent on the silverleaf whitefly for transmission. The virus is not seed-borne, nor mechanically transmitted. The virus is transmitted by whiteflies in a semi-persistent manner.
The whitefly adult must feed for at least two hours to acquire this crinivirus and can remain infectious for seven to nine days. Natural infections have been reported in summer and winter squashes, cucumbers, musk melons such as cantaloupe and honeydew melon, and watermelon. In Texas, where CYSDV was first detected in 2000, host-free periods have been successful in managing the disease. Insecticides cannot protect crops from CYSDV because whitefly adults migrate from field to field spreading the virus. Complete crop destruction followed by a cucurbit host-free period is the only proven control method.
It may be several years before CYSDV-resistant cucurbit cultivars are available to growers.
Tomato yellow leaf curl
TYLCV is the most recent whitefly-transmitted virus to appear in Imperial County. TYLCV threatens commercial tomato production, pepper production, and transplant production of peppers and tomatoes.
It was identified in greenhouse tomato samples from Brawley, Calif. TYLCV is transmitted by adult silverleaf whiteflies and can spread rapidly, but TYLCV is not seed-borne, nor is it mechanically transmitted. The presence of silverleaf whitefly host plants, both cultivated (peppers and tomatoes) or wild hosts (sowthistle, cheeseweed, and nightshade weed) during spring and summer may lead to whitefly migration and spread of TYLCV. During late spring, summer, and early fall, growers need to monitor whitefly populations very closely and destroy whitefly weed hosts and crop residues (melons and cotton).
TYLCV has a broad host range from several plant families including Solanaceae (tomato, peppers, various nightshade weeds, and ornamental plants), Malvaceae (cheeseweed), and Fabaceae (beans).
In tomatoes, typical symptoms for TYLCV include yellow (chlorotic) leaf edges, upward leaf cupping, leaf mottling, reduced leaf size, and flower drop. TYLCV can have a severe impact on tomato production. Plants infected at an early stage won't bear fruit and their growth will be severely stunted.
TYLCV identification based only on symptomatology is unreliable, because similar symptoms can be caused by other viruses or various growing conditions. Proper identification is necessary to control TYLCV:
Use only virus and whitefly-free tomato and pepper transplants. Transplants should be treated with bifenthrin (Capture) or dinotefuran (Venom) for whitefly adults and Oberon for eggs and nymphs. Imidacloprid or thiamethoxam should used in transplant houses at least seven days before shipping. Transplants should be produced in areas well away from tomato and pepper production fields.
Use a neonicotinoid insecticide, such as dinotefuran (Venom) imidacloprid (AdmirePro, Alias, Nuprid, Widow) or thiamethoxam (Platinum), as a soil application or through the drip irrigation system when tomatoes or peppers are transplanted.
After the efficacy of the neonicotinoid insecticide application begins to decline, the secondary spread of whiteflies will need to be controlled. Whitefly populations must be monitored throughout the season, and treated when identified. Insecticide classes should be rotated for insecticide resistance management (IRM). Foliar insecticide treatments used in IRM for whitefly control include: Capture, a pyrethroid; foliar neonicotinoid insecticides dinotefuran (Venom), imidacloprid (Provado), and thiamethoxam (Actara), but do not use if a neonicotinoid insecticide was applied as a soil or drip irrigation treatment; insect growth regulators such as pyriproxyfen (Knack) and buprofezin (Courier); insecticidal soap; and crop oils.
Highly UV-reflective mulches (metalized) and low rates of crop oil (0.25 percent to 0.50 percent) can be used as whitefly repellents to reduce whitefly feeding and virus transmission.
Sanitation is very important for preventing the migration of whitefly adults and the spread of TYLCV. Rogue tomato or pepper plants with early symptoms of TYLCV must be treated immediately (during the first three to four weeks of the season) by placing infected-looking plants in plastic bags. Maintain good weed control in the field and surrounding areas, and prevent the spread of any whiteflies to healthy plants. Tomato and pepper fields should be cleaned up immediately after harvest. Crop residues of melons and cotton should be destroyed immediately after harvest to reduce whitefly migration.


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'For what it's worth, the game will be opposite the Gator Bowl on CBS and Capital One Bowl on ABC, and will come just before the Rose Bowl. It will begin 13 hours into 2008, and I'm wondering if some of those hearty and fervent souls who packed and partied on the plaza outside HSBC Arena before playoff games last spring will have slept a wink in the New Year as they settle into their seats in the stadium.'
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's planned private outsourcing of the state-run New Jersey lottery - see my colleague Matt Katz's story here -- would benefit two big gambling companies controlled by out-of-state billionaires.
Christie's pick for the job, the Northstar lottery group, which already runs the struggling Illinois state lottery, includes:
- Gtech Holdings, based in Providence, Rhode Island, and owned by Lottomatica Group S.p.A., which runs the Italian national lottery and is majority-controlled by Italian billionaire Marco Drago's De Agostini S.p.A. investment group, with a 53% stake, worth more than $2 billion;
- Scientific Games Corp., New York, a publicly-traded company whose major owner is Ronald Owen Perelman, the New York-based, Elkins Park-raised (corrected) billionaire owner of MacAndrews & Forbes, Revlon and many other companies. Perelman owns a 38% stake worth around $300 million.
The Gtech-Scientific Games partnership pledged $120 million as a cash reserve, to guarantee state income against a shortfall (which happened to Northstar in Illinois), to win Gov. Christie's support.
Ironically, Gtech cited Pennsylvania's $200 million deposit requirement as a reason for dropping out of bidding to run Pennsylvania's lottery.
Pa. Gov. Gov. Tom Corbett's aides chose the only remaining bidder, U.K.-based Camelot Global Services, to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery after Camelot's owner, the Ontario (Canada) Teachers Pension Program, agreed to commit $150 million and lend another $50 million.
Scientific Games provides ticketing services to the Pa. lottery, among its other clients.


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We are several months into this year's hurricane season, and the experts are still adjusting their predictions for how busy the season will end up being.
We are several months into this year's hurricane season, and the experts are still adjusting their predictions for how busy the season will end up being.
While following the discussion about the conditions that bring on hurricanes can be interesting and informative, the numbers in the predictions are seldom very useful.
For instance, a relatively calm hurricane season could produce one that hits us and is remembered for years as a calamitous event.
On the other hand, a season that produces dozens of named storms could result in no storms coming our way and is remembered as an uneventful year.
Either way it ends up, there are some things you should do now.
We will hope along with everyone else along the Gulf Coast and East Coast that this hurricane season keeps the worst of the weather away from us.
And we will hope that whatever does come our way passes harmlessly by or dissipates by the time it gets here.
We will hope those things, but we cannot assume them. In fact, we have to assume the worst and prepare for it. It is far better to be prepared for something that never happens — as we hope will be the case — than to be unprepared for what could happen.
The hurricane season is here, and we are dangerously close to the vulnerable Gulf Coast. We should be prepared. But if you are not, there is time.
Don't wait until there is a storm in the Gulf of Mexico to start getting your game plan together.
History tells us that by then, it will be expensive, stressful and time-consuming to try to hurriedly piece together a hurricane kit and come up with a makeshift plan of action.
Planning and preparation are the most useful tools we have in our fight against Mother Nature during hurricane season, and those tools require advance action — the kind you can and should take now.
Gather up some vital items you will need in the event of an evacuation. Make sure you have clothes, hygiene and medical supplies for yourself and your family.
Get together a supply of water and food, lots of batteries and flashlights, a radio and other things you might need during an extended power outage.
Make sure you and your family members and any neighbors and loved ones — as well as any employees — know what the plan is for when and where you will evacuate and how you will all stay in touch.
Plan now for what you will do to keep your pets safe. They are depending on you.
With any luck, we will look back months from now at an uneventful storm season and the preparations we made that were never needed. That will be much better than the alternative.
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