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For the best possible display, this portrait should be professionally framed.
A frame is not included with this artwork!
Approximate Measurements
Artwork Panel: 32.8cm x 33cm ≈ 13" x 13"
Silk/Brocade Border: 42cm x 42.2cm ≈ 16½" x 16½"Information about how this Asian painting is mounted
This painting features a Chinese woman using the "two-mirror-trick" to make sure her hair is in perfect order. Her cat seems to take just a bit of notice nearby.
The artist Mo Nong signing some of his artwork before I took it to my workshop for proper mounting.
This painting is not titled, but is signed by the artist, and authenticated with his red signature seal.
The artist goes by the name (Mo Nong).
He lives in Beijing, the capital city of China.
This general style of painting that falls between modern art and folk art is done by many artists in China. Once the last modern I worked with retired, it took years to find another that I was really happy with. Finally, in 2012, I walked into the studio of Mo Nong, and found what I was looking for. His variety of composition and painting style make all of these paintings instant classics.
The day I met Mo Nong in his studio in the Panjiayuan artist community of Beijing.
Mo Nong uses paint power and water (similar to gouache) to get vivid colors. This is applied to handmade xuan paper (often called rice paper, though there's no rice in it). When I took these painting to my workshop, they were mounted with a silk brocade border. This border can be used in lieu of matting when you frame this artwork.
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Gary's random little things about China:
When crossing a street, or merely making your way down the road, there is a certain law of physics that comes into play: When two forces meet, one must yield.
Here is the general yielding scheme in China:
Cars yield to big buses and trucks.
Bicycles and cars mingle and narrowly avoid each other. When push comes to shove, the bicyclist knows he will lose the fight. But the car driver knows that the bicycle will scratch his car when he runs it over, and will only yield on that premise.
Cars will not yield to, but are required to avoid pedestrians. When you hit a pedestrian at low speed, it does very little damage, and unlike a bicycle, will almost never scratch your car. Therefore pedestrians are given a smaller margin.
Note: Regardless of green or red stop lights, it is against the law to come to a complete stop when making a right hand turn in China (no matter how many pedestrians are in the way). The rule is "honk and avoid, then continue on your way".
Motor scooters yield to no one, not even when they are being driven on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk. Motor scooters zip around like they have nothing to lose - this may be true, as smaller motor scooters require no license of any kind and are very cheap.
If you are driving on the wrong side of the road, or going the wrong way on a one-way street, you do not have to yield to anyone, no matter what kind of vehicle you are operating.
Cars will yield (not by choice) to pedestrians crossing the street in numbers greater than 10 (it is best in China to invite 9 of your friends for an outing if you plan to cross a lot of streets).
In lieu of yielding, drivers are required to honk at pedestrians. I swear to God, this is the law! It's a safety issue: If you are passing a pedestrian that is walking on the side of the road, you are required by law to honk at them to let them know you are there.
Note: All streets in Chinese cities, sound like a New York traffic jam 24 hours per day with all this "safety honking".
I have not been able to find a traffic law that states you must yield to ambulances. And in practice, very few drivers do.
When two large vehicles come face to face on a narrow roadway, and neither can pass, neither will yield. They will sit there, honking at each other for a while. After several cars are lined up behind them, they will decide that they should have yielded earlier, and start to back up. This is to the great dismay of all the cars behind them who will honk in unison. This could go on for an hour or more. It ends when a police officer arrives, tells both drivers what idiots they are, issues tickets to both of them, and then systematically makes the situation worse by insisting that all the smaller cars turn around (rather than back up) by making 162-point turns in the small roadway. Eventually, two of the cars will hit each other, for which both drivers will be cited and fined on the spot.
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Here's a look at some of the things we all made during the competition:
Thank you Jessica for putting this together!
I'm so curious how you painted the fabric - it looks so bright and unified. Very fun, can't wait to see the dress on!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Stef! I think I'll do a post about the how to, since a lot of people seem curious. It's fiber reactive dye and I add a thickener so it stays put and doesn't bleed.Delete
LOVE this dress! It's so perfect for Avery's bright personality.
(Btw, last night I rewatched the videos of her dancing to Ghostbusters and I cracked up so hard I cried...she is the cutest/most spunky girl ever.)
Seriously though, you are a genius with fabric. Please make a whole line of clothing and home goods with this. I want to buy a pillow!!
Thanks Jane :) She is very spunky and fun.Delete
so fun! Were there any tricks to wash out the dye without contaminating the other colors or bleeding into each other on the border? LOVE the bias tape shoulder details.ReplyDelete
Yes! There is actually a whole process, that I'll have to post about. it's not just painting with Rit dye. I add a thickener and rinse with special detergent that picks up the washed out color. Thanks!Delete
Exquisite work as usual! Absolutely love the painted fabric.
This is gorgeous!! It blends in perfectly with all the stuff you made for the competition!ReplyDelete
love the fabric painting with dye! I agree with you that paint on top of the surface always leaves it a bit stiff. This is such a great way to add color without the stiffness.
I love the bias bound shoulder detail and was wondering how you did the shoulder seam - did you hand stitch the bias together on the back side? Love that little detail:) Would love any hints you have!
Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful dress!
I actually used double sided bias tape, and then after I sewed it to the wrong side, I sewed the bias tape together at the shoulder, stopping an inch from the edge of the shoulder, then I sewed the bias tape down to the right side all the way around. Hope that makes sense! It's a little tricky to explain but easy to do.Delete
Thanks for taking the time to try to explain it! I'll have to give it a try, as I love the look! Super cute:)Delete
Such a beautiful dress! I love your fabric manipulation! I have to add "painting fabric" to my list of things to try. Thanks for being so inspiring.ReplyDelete
That watercolor effect is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
beyond gorgeous! I love how you used to much creativity in every aspect. The dress is so sweet with that shoulder detail. You are amazing!ReplyDelete
How fun is this!!!! Love it! :) MichelleReplyDelete
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Guide a young inventor's struggle to unravel his world's ancient past and unite its people against an unimaginable threat. Our award-winning Conquer the World gameplay pulls you through a new world of heroes, monsters, loyalty, and betrayal. And multiplayer carnage reigns supreme when you take the war online.
With the first two unique nations you can begin to see the contrast: the industrial Vinci with their Leonardo da Vinci inspired machines and steampunk cities; and the desert Alim with their Arabian Nights theme—sandstorms, genies, and tall glass spires. "Cataclysmic" is also a useful word to describe what we want to do visually—we've redesigned our graphics engine from the ground up because we want to make a game that gets our players as excited about our graphics as they have always been about our gameplay.
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The number of Americans taking the narcolepsy and shift work sleep disorder drug modafinil has increased almost 10-fold over the past decade, according to a new study.
What's more, the majority of those prescriptions were written for so-called off-label conditions, such as depression and multiple sclerosis, researchers found.
"I think modafinil is still a good medication in appropriate clinical circumstances, but… with modafinil as with many other medications, there's certainly a lot more off-label prescriptions, and patients and physicians have to be appropriately cautious in those circumstances," study author Dr. David Claman told Reuters Health.
Claman and colleagues from the University of California, San Francisco, used a nationally-representative sample of outpatient appointments to track modafinil prescriptions and related diagnoses between 2002 and 2009. During that time, the number of patients receiving the drug, marketed as Provigil and costing up to a few hundred dollars per month, increased from about 58,000 to 556,000.
Prescriptions rose the fastest - 15 times over - among patients who did not have one of the conditions for which modafinil is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). That type of prescribing is known as off-label.
Overall, 89 percent of all people who received modafinil during the study period were prescribed the drug off-label. Psychiatrists and neurologists were especially likely to prescribe the medication, according to findings published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Modafinil can cause side effects including headache, dizziness, drowsiness and stomach problems. It has also been tied to serious allergic reactions, such as in the liver.
Claman said that with any medicine, doctors have to weigh the drug's benefits with its potential harms.
"The nice thing about on-label use is at least it's a little better defined, what is the therapeutic benefit and what are the risks of side effects," he said.
With a less-studied, off-label condition, that's harder to figure out.
"Hopefully there's still a potential therapeutic benefit, but you're always trying to balance those things out, and that's the biggest issue with off-label medications."
The marketer of Provigil, Cephalon, agreed to a settlement in 2008 over charges claiming it promoted modafinil for off-label purposes.
Although doctors may prescribe medicines off-label, companies cannot market them outside of FDA-approved indications. Since the lawsuit, Cephalon has been acquired by the drug company Teva.
A representative from Teva said Provigil and a similar drug, armodafinil (marketed as Nuvigil) are indicated for adults with excessive sleepiness linked to shift work disorder, sleep apnea or narcolepsy.
"We do not recommend use of modafinil or armodafinil outside of the approved, FDA indications for these medicines," the representative told Reuters Health in an email.


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Event Info
ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash Saturday, at 8:00 pm Hilton Washington International Ballroom Satire, political humor, belly laughs and barrels of fun are guaranteed in the funniest Scholarship Bash ever. Join Mark Russell, star of PBS's Mark Russell Comedy Specials, nightclub entertainer and the man who claims to have 535 writers helping him with his material (100 Senators and 435 Representatives), who will tickle you with his jokes and songs. Plus the ever-popular Capitol Steps will continue the evening with their side-splitting skits and music while they skewer the goings on "inside the Beltway". Have a great time and support future librarians. Tickets are only $35.00 and available through ALA registration on-site until sold out. Bring your friends and family. It's fun for all. The ALA/ProQuest Scholarship Bash has raised $350,000 for Spectrum Scholarships since its inception in 2000.
General Information for Volunteers
If you have purchased a ticket to the Bash, please arrive at the start. Let the usher know you are a Spectrum Scholar. You should be seated at the front in a VIP area for scholars. In between the performers, ProQuest representatives will take the stage and make announcements. They will introduce Maria Carpenter, Spectrum Scholar Interest Group Chair, who will make a few remarks. Sonia Alcantara and two other scholars will be holding a cake with lit candles. After Maria's remarks, she'll ask everyone to sing Happy Birthday, blow out the candles, and shout really loud. We may have paper streamers for you to toss up - but tie one side around your wrist so you can easily drag them off stage with you as you leave. Please no mess for the headliner, and also no catching them on fire :-) Thanks all!
Scholars who have not purchased a ticket can queue up at the entrance to the Bash (around 8:15pm) and will be escorted on-stage at the right time by a Bash Volunteer or other paid scholar. Please depart after your time on stage!
Scholars Taking the Stage
VIP Seating (ticket holders)
- Sonia Alcantara - organizer of VIP area
- Michelle Baildon
- Tarshel Beards - bringing cake/candles
- Maria Carpenter - hosting/speaking
- Angela Barnes
- Amy Gonzalez Ferguson
- Malino Khun
- Ida Martinez
- Tamika McCollough
- Brenda Mitchell-Powell
- Rita Pino Vargas
- Alma Ramos-McDermott
- Madel Tisi
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- Lori Rosales Curry
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) – Tiger Woods believes it's harder than ever to win on the PGA Tour because of the increasing depth of talent of the players.
And most of them are at his tournament this week.
The World Challenge gets underway Thursday, held at Sherwood Country Club for the last time, and the field is so strong that the entire 18-man field is in the top 30 in the world ranking. That's what makes it difficult to win trophies.
And what's why Woods laughs at using the phrase ''pretty good'' to describe a year in which he won five times on the PGA Tour.
''I think it's deeper now than it ever has been,'' Woods said. ''There is more young talent. There are more guys winning golf tournaments for the first time. If you look at the major championships, how long did we go from basically Phil winning and Phil winning?''
He was referring to the 13 majors played between Phil Mickelson winning the 2010 Masters and the British Open this year. Eleven of those champions had never won a major, the exceptions being Ernie Els and Rory McIlroy.
Of those 11 first-time major champions, only Darren Clarke has fallen lower than No. 40 in the world.
''It's more difficult to win events now,'' Woods said.
He pointed to advancements in equipment, particularly from wood drivers and wound golf balls. Woods says the younger players who hit the ball high ''are shocked to see the ball get moved by the wind.''
''For a lot of us who grew up playing balata balls, you wanted to get that thing down. You didn't want it up in that wind because it got pushed around like you wouldn't believe,'' he said. ''It's a totally different game. Guys have evolved, and I think they've become much more aggressive now than they ever used to be because of equipment.''
Separating the best players is getting more difficult.
Graeme McDowell set a target to get back into the top five in the world at the start of the season. He wanted a certain amount of world ranking points that he figured would do the trick, and he about reached that level. Little did he know that so many other players also raised the level of their game.
''It's fun to be part of it,'' McDowell said.
Woods dominated the PGA Tour with five wins against five tough fields, which also gave him another Vardon Trophy and money title. Henrik Stenson became the first player to win the FedEx Cup on the PGA Tour and the Race to Dubai on the European Tour.
Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson had multiple wins around the world that included historic majors – Scott was the first Australian in a green jacket at Augusta National, Mickelson won a British Open that not even he thought he could ever win.
Jordan Spieth finished No. 7 in the FedEx Cup even though he didn't have status on the PGA Tour at the start of the year. Hideki Matsuyama became the first rookie to win the Japan Golf Tour money title, and he didn't even turn pro until April.
And this list of characters doesn't include McIlroy, who began the year at No. 1 and is just now starting to emerge from a slump.
''You've got to play really well to win,'' McIlroy said. ''I think that's why you see so many first-time winners, because the field is so deep, and it is tough to win out here. But I think golf is in great shape.''
Comparing eras is never easy, though Woods detected a big difference from a generation ago.
At the end of the 1990s and early in the 2000s, golf was strong at the top – Woods, David Duval, Mickelson, Els, Vijay Singh. But there was a reasonable gap between the biggest stars and the next level. From 1999 through 2002, there was a massive gap between Woods and the other stars.
Woods said a player now has to be consistent to be among the best.
The World Challenge is the end of the year for the majority of the field – a few players are headed to Thailand next week – and it should set the table for a fascinating season in 2014. Stenson and Scott will try to sustain their excellence, along with a newcomer such as Spieth.
Woods said that he still looks at the way players hit the ball to determine who has game, though the direction is different. When he first joined the tour in 1996, it was players who could work the ball both ways. Now he looks at the players who can maneuver the trajectory.
''You don't see shot-makers like you used to. The ball doesn't curve like it used to,'' Woods said. ''It just doesn't move as much. But you look at the guys who are pretty good players at the top. They cannot really shape the golf ball necessarily, but they can move their trajectory up and down. I think that's where the shape has changed. They don't shape it as much from right to left, but more in altitude.''
After this year, the tournament is going through a change in latitude.
This is the 14th year the World Challenge is held at Sherwood, a Jack Nicklaus design with emerald fairways set against the brown foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. The Tiger Woods Foundation announced last month that it is moving to Isleworth outside Orlando.


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- Columbia University, BA (Geology), 1970
- Teachers College, Columbia, MAT, Science Ed, 1971
- Teachers College, Columbia, EdD, Science Ed, 1974
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Professional Experience
Dr. Passow is completing his 42nd year in the classroom, currently at Dwight Morrow High School in his hometown of Englewood, NJ. He is the founder and organizer of the Earth2Class Workshops for Teachers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Dr. Passow is active in many professional Earth Science societies, serving renewed terms as President of the National Earth Science Teachers Association-Eastern Section and President-Elect of the National Earth Science Teachers Association. In his spare time, he is an avid kayaker.
Teaching Experience
- Science Teacher, Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood, NJ: 2007-2012
- Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University: 2005-2012


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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A nasty virus first detected in Africa that is spread to people by the bite of infected mosquitoes is being locally transmitted in the Americas for the first time on the tiny French Caribbean dependency of St. Martin, health officials said Tuesday.
Epidemiologists have so far confirmed about a dozen cases of locally acquired chikungunya virus in St. Martin, which shares a 34-square-mile (87-square-kilometer) island in the northeast Caribbean with the Dutch territory of St. Maarten. There are dozens more suspected cases.
The illness found mainly in Africa and Asia is usually not life threatening. But there is no vaccine for it, and it can cause a debilitating sickness with fever, rash, fatigue and vomiting and intense muscle and joint pain that can last for weeks in serious cases. It's commonly spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits dengue fever, a similar but more serious illness with a deadly hemorrhagic form.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent out a health advisory to doctors in the United States to consider chikungunya infection in patients with acute onset of fever and joint pain, "especially those who have recently traveled to the Caribbean."
The French Caribbean territory of St. Martin shares a tiny island with Dutch St. Maarten. Health officials on both sides of the island are responding to the outbreak by reducing mosquito breeding sites, enhancing epidemiological surveillance and enlisting the help of the public to clear out stagnant water. The tourist-dependent island is already battling an outbreak of dengue fever.
"The obligation is to control the progression of chikungunya, not least to prevent it spreading to other islands," said St. Martin Vice President Guillaume Arnell. "It started here so we have to contain it here."
Beryl Irons, the Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization representative for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, said she thinks the regional response is good so far. The first two cases were confirmed earlier this month.
"There is already heightened surveillance within the region because they have dengue," Irons said by telephone.
In the British Virgin Islands, Health Minister Ronnie W. Skelton told lawmakers that confirmed cases were very likely to rise on St. Martin as laboratory tests are completed. He said the Dutch side of the island has no reported cases.
"There is currently no evidence of cases in other parts of the Caribbean," Skelton said in a statement to the British islands' House of Assembly.
Chikungunya has showed up in in parts of Italy and France over the past decade. It's not clear how the virus got to St. Martin. But the CDC says there is a risk of importing the mosquito-borne illness into new areas through infected travellers.
The CDC says chikungunya means "that which bends up" in the Kimako language of Mozambique, a reference to the physique of an infected patient. It was first isolated in 1953 in the blood of a patient in Tanzania.
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April 2, 2014
The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2015 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill provides annual funding for the offices of Members of the House of Representatives, the support agencies of Congress (including security), services for visitors, and Capitol operations and maintenance.
The total included for the House and joint operations, excluding Senate-only items, is $3.3 billion. This is the same as the fiscal year 2014 level, and it is $122.5 million below the President's request. In all, funding for the House of Representatives has been reduced by 14% since Republicans gained its control in January 2011.
The legislation also includes a provision to freeze the pay of Members of Congress, preventing any pay increases in fiscal year 2015. A freeze on the salaries of Representatives has been in place since 2010.
"The House will continue to lead by example and hold the line on spending. Even with the many strides we've made in the last few years in reducing discretionary budgets, we must remain vigilant and keep a close eye on each and every tax dollar," House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said. "Yet, we also have a responsibility to maintain important government operations, such as those that occur in our Nation's Capitol. This bill will help ensure the efficiency, safety, and openness of our institution for those who serve here and for those who travel from across the country to visit every day."
Congressman Tom Cole, Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman, stated, "As a symbol of freedom and democracy for every American and hundreds of millions of others around the globe, the Capitol complex of the United States represents our nation's deepest values and performs many of its most important governmental functions. As such, its majestic buildings and institutions must be pristine in their appearance, functional in their operation, and open to all to visit in safety and security. This bill achieves these objectives in both an effective and efficient manner, and has done so in a genuinely bipartisan, inclusive and deliberative fashion."
Bill Summary:
House Operations – The bill contains $1.2 billion to fund the operations of the House – the same as fiscal year 2014. This account provides funding for Members' Representational Allowances (MRAs), leadership, Member, and committee office expenses, as well as operating costs for Officers of the House.
The legislation also includes a funding prohibition preventing Representatives and Senators from receiving a pay increase in fiscal year 2015. By holding the line on funding and by making the most out of existing levels, the bill will set an example of fiscal responsibility and help Congress do its part to lower the nation's deficit.
Capitol Police – The bill funds the Capitol Police at $347 million, an increase of $9.5 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. This funding will allow officers and civilian workers to provide critical safety and security functions for all Members, staff, and visitors of the Capitol Complex. The funding will also help maintain and improve public access to the Capitol and its office buildings.
Architect of the Capitol (AoC) – The legislation provides $488.6 million for the AoC, which is $40.5 million below the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. The AoC requires less funding for fiscal year 2015, as one-time construction costs included in previous years' budgets are no longer necessary.
With the funding provided, the AoC will prioritize essential projects that promote the safety and health of those who visit and work in the Capitol Complex, and will continue to complete long-deferred maintenance projects. The bill also includes $21 million in funding for the third and final phase of the Capitol Dome restoration project.
Library of Congress (LoC) – The legislation provides $595 million for the Library of Congress, an increase of $15.9 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. This funding will allow the Library to continue its important functions in support of Congress, as well as its many services for the public. The bill will also provide for the development of online classroom services for students studying Congress and civic participation, and will help reduce claims backlog and processing time for copyright registrations.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) – The bill contains $519.6 million in funding for the GAO, an increase of $14.2 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. This funding will bolster GAO's critical oversight work – providing Congress with accurate, nonpartisan reporting of federal programs and tracking of how taxpayer dollars are spent.
Government Printing Office (GPO) – The legislation includes $122 million for GPO, an increase of $3.2 million above the fiscal year 2014 enacted level. The legislation maintains the previous year's level for printing and binding services, and implements limitations on delivery of documents to individual Member offices in order to reduce excess costs. Additional funds are provided for technology infrastructure and facilities upgrades to enable more efficient and cost-effective services.
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NASA Probe Will Track Melting Polar Ice in Unprecedented Detail | Nature
NASA is set to launch its most advanced global ice-monitoring satellite, which has been in the works for nearly a decade. Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the UW, is - Read More
UW Polar Scientists Advised NASA on Upcoming ICESat-2 Satellite
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Volcano Under Ice Sheet Suggests Thickening of West Antarctic Ice is Short-term
A region of West Antarctica is behaving differently from most of the continent's ice, and a study led by UW-ESS postdoctoral researcher Nicholas Holschuh has discovered a new clue ... - Read More
Detecting Life's Influence on Planetary Atmospheres | Space.com
Biosignatures that vary in time and atmospheric gases that shouldn't exist without life to replenish them could be two possible ways to detect life on exoplanets. A research paper ... - Read More
Is There a Worm Apocalypse? | KUOW
KUOW interviews David Montgomery, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, about his new book, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing our Soil to Life," which is a finalist for ... - Read More
How an Earthquake Alert App Could Eventually Give the West Coast Vital Warning
West Coast residents go about life knowing seismic threats are lurking, but there's a lot that people can do before an earthquake hits if they have even a few seconds of warning. ... - Read More
How Hauling Icebergs Could Help Sustain the World's Thirstiest Regions | NBC News
An engineering firm in the Middle East is moving forward with an audacious scheme that has been discussed since at least the 1970s: tow icebergs thousands of miles from Antarctica ... - Read More
Increase in Rockfalls on Mount Rainier | KIRO 7
There is an increasing danger of rockfalls high up on Mount Rainier. T.J. Fudge, research assistant professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More
Mt. Rainier Glaciers
A KIRO7 piece on Mt. Rainier glaciers and rock fall that includes an interview with UW ESS glaciologist T.J. - Read More
Preparing for the 'big One' | KING 5
The "big one" could be bigger than previously thought. That's what scientists and emergency managers are considering as the state continues to prepare itself for the next big ... - Read More
Washington is Moving Westward, Thanks to Tiny Tremors | Seattlepi.com
According to a new report from The Seattle Times, a wave of earthquake tremors over the last few months have moved parts of Washington state and Vancouver Island westward. Ken ... - Read More
Are You Ready for the Big One? | KUOW
Bill Steele is coordinator of the seismology lab at the University of Washington's Earth and space sciences department. He told KUOW's Katherine Banwell how to prepare for a major ... - Read More
Tremors Shove Washington Westward, Offer Clues into Next Big Earthquake | The Seattle Times
Thousands of tiny tremors over the past few months have moved parts of Washington and Vancouver Island westward. It's a near annual event that backs expectations by some ... - Read More
Opinion | To Feed the World Sustainably, Repair the Soil | Scientific American
"New technologies and genetically modified crops are usually invoked as the key to feeding the world's growing population. But a widely overlooked opportunity lies in reversing ... - Read More
Could a Tsunami Reach Columbia City? And Other Disaster Night! Questions | KUOW
A catastrophe-focused crowd turned out last night for KUOW's Disaster Night! -- a quiz show about natural disasters (and disaster movies), at the Royal Room in Columbia City. Bill ... - Read More
Seattle Times Story About Ice Fall Across Climbing Route on Mt Rainier
Ice fall across climbing route on Mt Rainier. Camp Muir seismograms from Emeritus Prof Steve Malone show timing of the ice fall . Research Prof Howard Conway states these events ... - Read More
UW Welcomes New Provost and ESS Professor, Mark Richards
Dr. Mark Richards has been named University of Washington's new provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and Professor of Earth and Space - Read More
Ancient 'ghost Dunes' Found on Mars May Hold Clues to Past Alien Life | Inquisitr
Formed some 2 billion years ago, the 'ghost dunes' on Mars could contain traces of past microbial life hidden away in ancient dune sandstones. Planetary geomorphologist Mackenzie ... - Read More
Early Earth's Oxygen Levels Rose, Fell Several Times | Deccan Herald
Earth's oxygen levels rose and fell more than once hundreds of millions of years before the planet-wide success of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, a study ... - Read More
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On the Side: 10 Ways to Make a Potato Salad
There was a time when potato salad meant only one thing: boiled potatoes tossed with overly-generous amounts of mayonnaise. There is a time and place for that particular comfort food, but oh what a wonderful world of potato salads is out there! Just take a look at this gallery of our favorite recipes.
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2. Potato Salad with Yogurt, Arugula, and Dill
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Intel's 32nm desktop CPU speeds and feeds revealed
Dual-core 32nm Core i5 and Core i3 in early 2010
Intel's first Core i5 - the chip bringing the giant's Nehalem technology into the mainstream desktop processor market - is due early in September. Further out, the company has roadmapped additional members of the family, the 32nm 'Clarkdale' chip.
It's also added the low-end Clarkdale Core i3 to its proposed line-up, assorted Asian moles say.
A big batch of i5s will be born in Q1 2010. September's Core i5-750 will be joined at that time by the i5-750s, aka 'Lynnfield'. It's said to be a low-power version of the i5-750 that runs at 2.4GHz rather than 2.66GHz and with an 82W power envelope - 13W less than the regular 750's TDP. But it too can overclock dynamically to 3.2GHz, drawing more power when it does.
While the 750 will cost $196, the greater power efficiency of the 750s is expected to set buyers back $259. Both chips support 1066MHz and 1333MHz DDR 3 memory.
Joining the 750s will be as-yet-unnumbered 3.2GHz, 3.33GHz and 3.46GHz i5s which contain only two cores, though HyperThreading technology - absent from the first i5 - will present eight cores to the host OS. All three will contain 4MB of L3 cache.
They will auto-overclock to 3.46GHz, 3.60GHz and 3.73GHz, respectively. They share the same TDP: 73W. Like the 750, they have virtualisation support (VT-x) but this time that will extend to direct I/O access (VT-d).
Thousand-chip tray prices yield price-per-processor numbers of $176, $196 and $284, respectively.
Q1 2010 will also see the arrival of two - again, not yet numbered - Core i3 CPUs. They too will contain two cores HyperThreaded up to four and 4MB of L3. Like the i5s the i3s will support DDR 3 running at up to 1333MHz. They have a 73W TDP.
Clock speeds are set to peak at 2.93GHz and 3.06GHz, but here there's no opportunity for the processor to auto-overclock itself. There's no VT-d support either, and the i3s lack Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT).
Prices are currently pegged at $123 and $143.
Expect a cheaper option in Q1 2010 too: an $87, 2.8GHz Nehalem-derived Pentium with 3MB of L3, two cores but no HyperThreading, no auto-overclocking and no VT-d. ®


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The 2012 Arnold Sports Festival
The estimate for this year's attendance at the Arnold Sports Festival (ASF) was 175,000. Well, it seems that there is no end in sight for the popularity of this weekend event. Even the most conservative estimate I've heard was that over 200,000 people had shown up to enjoy the festivities.
It's easy to understand how the ASF has grown year after year. Once you attend the event, you just have to go the following year while encouraging others to make the trek to Columbus, Ohio.
The ASF, with more than 18,000 athletes competing in more than 45 sports and events, is the largest multi-sport event in the USA. It all began when Arnold Schwarzenegger was invited by Jim Lorimer to compete in Columbus in the 1970 Mr. World Contest. Arnold of course won, and their friendship began. Arnold vowed that once he retired from competition he would promote bodybuilding in Ohio with Jim Lorimer.
Arnold kept his word, and together their passion for fitness has spanned four decades. In 1989, the Arnold Classic and the Miss International brought professional bodybuilding to Columbus, Ohio. The event's growth and popularity spawned the birth of the Arnold Fitness EXPO (AFE) in 1993.
The AFE is the largest health and fitness expo in the USA, and is a must see. At $10.00 in advance, and $15.00 at the door, it's the best value in sports entertainment. This year featured 700 booths of the latest in sports equipment, apparel and nutrition. The AFE attracts the top companies in the industry who put together elaborate displays.
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The Expo stage hosts the Arnold Strongman Classic, the prejudging for the Ms. International, the Fitness International and the Figure International Competitions. Other highlights include Arnold Armwrestling, the Arnold Amateur Strongman and the Arnold Amateur Bodybuilding finals.
A fitting tribute to an MMA Legend, Randy Couture
Me with world champion bodybuilder and owner of Labrada Nutrition, Lee Labrada
With more than 3,000 men and women competing in 23 martial arts disciplines, the Arnold Martial Arts Festival is the largest in the Midwest.
The US Olympic Team Trials and the 2012 National Championships for weightlifting were nothing short of impressive. More than 200 athletes competed in 15 bodyweight categories.
Top 5:
1st Yaxeni Oriquen Garcia #2
2nd Debi Laszewski #14
3rd Alina Popa #13
4th Cathy LeFrancois #1
5th Kim Buck #3
Cathy LeFrancois, Yaxeni Oriquen Garcia, Kim Buck
Top 5:
1st Adela Garcia #5
2nd Camala Rodriquez #8
3rd Oksana Grishina #10
4th Bethany Cisternino #3
5th Tanji Johnson #2
Top 5:
1st Nicole Wilkins #9
2nd Erin Stern #1
3rd Candice Keene #10
4th Ava Cowan #7
5th Heather Dees #12
Ava Cowan, Erin Stern, Nicole Wilkins, Candice Keene
Top 5:
1st Mike Jenkins
2nd Derek Poundstone
3rd Zydrunas Savickas
4th Brian Shaw
5th Michael Burke
Mike Jenkins, 2012 Champion
As you can tell, The 2012 ASF was again an incredibly successful event. In order for me to report on all the highlights, this article would have to be 10 times as long. If you get the chance, go ahead and make your travel arrangements for next year's ASF. I know I'll be there.
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Cincinnati Reds RP Chad Rogers was outrighted to Triple-A Louisville and removed from the 40-man roster.
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The Cincinnati Reds optioned P Carlos Contreras, P Daniel Corcino, P David Holmberg, OF Ryan LaMarre, OF Donald Lutz and P Chad Rogers to Triple-A Louisville. The Reds also sent OF Juan Duran, P Ismael Guillon and OF Yorman Rodriguez to Double-A Pensacola of the Southern League. Reassigned to minor league camp were P Tim Crabbe, P Michael Lorenzen, IF Rey Navarro, C Rossmel Perez, C Max Ramirez and P Robert Stephenson.
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The Cincinnati Reds made 12 roster changes on Tuesday, March 12, leaving 44 players in camp. P's Tony Cingrani and Daniel Corcino were optioned to Triple-A Louisville, P's Kyle Lotzkar and Josh Ravin were optioned to Double-A Pensacola, P Carlos Contreras and OF Yorman Rodriguez were optioned to Class A Bakersfield and P Ismael Guillon was optioned to Class A Dayton. P's Nick Christiani and Chad Rogers, C Nevin Ashley, INF Kris Negron and OF Ryan LaMarre were reassigned to minor league camp.
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The Cincinnati Reds announced their non-roster invites to spring training Monday, Jan. 14. They include Ps Nick Christiani, Wilkin De La Rosa, Justin Freeman, Drew Hayes and Chad Rogers, Cs Nevin Ashley, Tucker Barnhart and Corky Miller, INFs Emmanuel Burriss, Cesar Izturis and Kris Negron and OFs Billy Hamilton, Ryan LaMarre, Denis Phipps and Derrick Robinson.
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The Brookside Middle School Student Council has made a year-long commitment to All Faiths Food Bank.
Mary Andrews, English teacher and co-sponsor of the student council, said students normally vote on two or three charities to support each school year.
"This year, I had read an article in the Herald-Tribune about the shortage of food at All Faiths Food Bank," Andrews said. "I discussed it with our student council members and our administrators and we decided to focus our fundraising efforts on giving specifically to All Faiths."
Andrews said that the majority of Brookside students -- 60 percent -- received free or reduced lunch.
"Our kids are excited," she added. "They feel like they can make a difference.
"Our message is that you don't have to be rich to make a difference, you can volunteer your time and put the word out."
According to Jessica Reck, 12, students raised money by selling "Boo Grams" -- little cards with candy inside.
Jessica said the students have other fundraising activities planned: "We are having a movie night and we are bringing in canned goods too," she said.
Andrews and her Student Council co-sponsor, Shawn Miller, invited Jill Collins, director of nutrition for All Faiths, to visit the classroom to speak to the students.
Collins graciously accepted a check for $400 and invited the students to tour the All Faiths Food Bank facility and volunteer at the warehouse.
Collins told the students her job is to educate children and their parents about how to make healthy, nutritious meals without spending a lot of money.
She said she could relate to poverty -- just seven years ago she was eligible for food stamps.
"Maybe some of you are, too," Collins said, "but there is no shame.
"There are a lot of families in Sarasota right now that are struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own."
Jessica said that one of Collins' stories about her clients -- a mother and seven little boys in a motel room that she delivers food to -- touched her heart.
"I think that if we work together, we can fix this problem of people not having food," Jessica said.
Collins explained that each dollar raised by the students will provide six meals.
"That is the buying power of All Faiths," she said. "We made each dollar go a long way."
She asked the students how many meals their donation would provide and Jessica quickly computed: "That would be 2,400 meals!"
Clay T. Smith said he knows that "All Faiths Food Bank helps a lot of starving people.
"In my family, we always try to help," he said. "Like one time, my mom gave a homeless person a sub sandwich -- he said thank you."
Clay, 11, said that with the combined efforts of children in Student Council, "We can help a whole lot more.
"My mom works three jobs just to take care of us and she goes to school, too," Clay said, so he understands that "sometimes people just need a little help."
Clay, Jessica and Jasmine Sanchez discussed the Student Council's fundraising goals for the rest of the school year.
Clay said he would like to raise $30,000 but Jessica and Jasmine thought his goal was lofty.
"But I think we could definitely raise $10,000 and that would help a lot of people," Jasmine said.
Todd VonBender is the parent volunteer for the organization. His son, Jesse, is in sixth grade at Brookside.
"This is our first year in Student Council," said VonBender.
He said his goal for Jesse is to participate in activities that help the community.
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Sixty children and parents from Temple Emanu-El Religious School celebrated the Thanksgiving spirit as they spent an afternoon sorting food at All Faiths Food Bank on Nov. 18.
The visit marked the second time the school organized a Thanksgiving season community service trip to the food bank. Temple Emanu-El and All Faiths Food Bank leaders want to make it an annual event.
Participating students ranged in age from 5 to 13.
"It was important for me to come today because there are a lot of hungry people out there, and it feels good to help them out," seventh-grader Max Kunkel said in a prepared statement.
Classmate Seth Morton concurred.
"I feel like I'm doing a good thing. Every single item we sort helps," he said. "It all counts."
All Faiths Food Bank Director of Development Aundria Castleberry and Director of Volunteers Fran Talley provided a tour of the facility for the students and their families. They made a brief stop inside the deep freezer, which is kept at 10 degrees below zero.
Participants noted the stacks of frozen turkeys, 8,000 of which will be distributed by the food bank to needy families this holiday season.
Religious school parent Uzi Baram brought son Jacob, 10, and daughter Miriam, 8. He said his family's goal is for the children to appreciate the food they have and also realize they need to help others who are not as fortunate.
"It's great that Temple Emanu-El gives us the opportunity to help at All Faiths Food Bank," he Baram said.
Following the announcement that Temple Emanu-El Religious School volunteers had sorted 4,000 pounds of food and unloaded and organized an additional 5,000 pounds, parent Steven Leavitt expressed amazement.
"It really gives a sense of the magnitude of the need," he said. "And makes all of us, including our children, reflect on our good fortune."
For more information about community service projects at Temple Emanu-El, call 379-1997. For more information about All Faiths Food Bank, call 379-6333.
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The Columbia University Club of Sarasota will host new Columbia Engineering Dean Donald Goldfarb as a guest speaker.
The meeting will be Dec. 5 at the Longboat Key Club & Resort, Islandside, 220 Sands Point Road, Longboat Key.
Goldfarb, a professor of industrial engineering and operations research, has developed an algorithm to optimize MRI and CT scan images so patients are subject to only one-fifth the previous radiation levels to produce an appropriate image.
He will talk to local alumni about the launching of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, a team project between Columbia University and New York City.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced July 30 that the Columbia partnership, the latest step in the Applied Sciences NYC Initiative, is expected to generate nearly $4 billion in overall economic impact and create more than 4,500 jobs over the next three decades.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door; registration is at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon is planned for noon to 1:30 p.m.
Interested attendees may R.S.V.P. to local Columbia Alumni club President Lee-En Chung, who is a Columbia Engineering alumna, at email@example.com or 320-1151.
Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight addressed the club at its Nov. 6 meeting.
The host committee included Susan Goldstein, club vice president; Gerry Ronkin, board member; Barbara Russell, alumna of Columbia's Social Work; and Rick Freyman, Columbia Business School alum.
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Inspirational filmmakers connect with nature
Today WWF announced the two winners of its short film competition-Life. Nature. You. Make the Connection. which was launched in the context of WWF's 50th anniversary celebrations.
The competition, aimed at emerging talent, asked filmmakers to produce original films, up to a maximum of 2 minutes, on the theme "Life. Nature. You make the Connection". WWF was looking for films that would inspire people to value and protect their natural environment.
The winner of the jury's prize is "The Runner" by Neil Losin and Nathan Dappen, a film that focuses on breaking down the distinction between the man-made world and the natural one. The other winner, chosen by popular vote is "Life. Nature. You." by Myles Thompson. This film encourages people to connect with nature, starting with places or things which are close by-in this case, a small patch of grass in a back yard.
"Inspirational filmmakers have helped us to celebrate WWF's anniversary in style producing innovative and moving short films that put people in touch with the environment," said Sudanshu Sarronwala, Executive Director of Communications and Marketing at WWF International.
The two winners will be commissioned to create short films for WWF in 2012 for a minimum budget of 10,000 USD. In addition, the winners will receive their awards and present their films at the prestigious CMS Vatavaran Film Festival in Delhi, India.


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By Gene Blevins
YUCAIPA, California (Reuters) - Seven people were killed and dozens more injured when a tour bus returning to Mexico from a Southern California ski resort crashed on a mountain road and rolled over, ejecting several passengers, authorities said on Monday.
The bus driver, who survived the Sunday evening crash, reported to authorities that he was having brake problems at the time of the accident, said a California Transportation Department spokeswoman, Terri Kasinga.
Other motorists reported seeing smoke coming from the rear of the bus and told investigators the motor coach appeared to be gaining uncontrolled momentum as it descended the curvy two-lane road moments before the crash, California Highway Patrol Sergeant Andrew Thompson said.
Federal transportation safety records show the California-based company identified by police as the bus operator was cited for dozens of maintenance violations over the past two years, including bald tires and brake problems as recently as July.
There was no immediate indication that alcohol, drugs or road conditions were factors in the crash, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. on Highway 38 near the town of Yucaipa, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, police said.
The chartered bus was carrying a group of people from a ski outing in California's Big Bear Lake resort area to their home in Tijuana, Mexico, when it struck a car from behind on the way down the mountain and careened out of control, said California Highway Patrol Sergeant Billy Rangel.
The motor coach then rolled over and slammed into a pickup truck, throwing several passengers from the bus, he said.
The pickup was crushed in the wreck. The mangled bus came to rest right-side-up with its front tires hanging over a culvert along the shoulder of the road.
Authorities pulled the last of the bodies from the wreckage about 19 hours after the crash, Thompson said.
Police initially reported eight people were killed and about three dozen others were injured. But the Highway Patrol later revised the death toll downward to seven, saying confusion at the scene led to one victim being mistakenly double counted.
The dead were all bus passengers, and all the passengers were believed to be Mexican nationals, police said.
A precise tally of those hurt and their conditions remained uncertain on Monday afternoon, as the injured were sent to several area hospitals and the passenger manifest did not match all the names of victims at the scene, police said.
Police said it appeared that 39 people, including the driver, were on the bus at the time of the crash, and that none of the survivors escaped without at least some cuts and bruises.
The driver of the pickup truck, who was alone in his vehicle, was hospitalized with major injuries. But neither the driver nor either of the two passengers in the car rear-ended by the bus was badly hurt, Thompson said.
The bus was operated by Scapadas Magicas, a tour company based in National City, California, just south of San Diego, Highway Patrol spokesman Mario Lopez said. The firm also operates in Tijuana.
The company's safety record ranks in the bottom 25 percent of all private U.S. bus operators based on ratings by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, according to records posted on the agency's website.
Twenty-six safety inspections of the Scapadas fleet - consisting of two motor coaches and a passenger van - found a total of 59 vehicle maintenance violations during the past two years, the agency said.
Violations ranged from oil and gas leaks and improper battery installation to worn brakes, power steering problems, tires with low tread, improper wiring and faulty headlamps. The company was also cited in August 2012 for having a passenger-van driver with a suspended license on the payroll.
Representatives for Scapadas Magicas could not immediately be reached for comment.
(Additional reporting by Marty Graham, Tim Gaynor and Steve Gorman; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Andrew Hay and Lisa Shumaker)


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Oceanic and AERIS have both donated dive gear to the South Floria Museum for use in The Parker Manatee Aquarium. The staff are now utilizing Oceanic and AERIS boots, fins, suits and masks while handling and caring for the Manatees.
The aquarium, "designed to house three adult manatees, holds nearly 60,000 gallons of water, including a medication pool. The pool offers both deep and shallow water, allowing the manatees to maintain natural feeding behaviors. An exhibit area within the facility helps to educate the public about manatee anatomy and offers above and below water viewing. Manatee Care specialist provide presentations about manatee habitat, nutrition and physiology. Working closely with US Fish and Wildlife and critical care hospitals for manatees, the Parker Manatee Aquarium is a second stage rehabilitation facility. A second stage facility provides a temporary home for manatees that will be released back into the wild after having received treatment from an acute care hospital. The Aquarium has housed nineteen manatees as part of its rehab program. Parker Manatee Aquarium is the permanent home to Manatee County's most famous resident and official mascot, 'Snooty', the manatee."
The South Florida Museum also has a webcam with a live-feed into their tank available 8-5 daily on their website: http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/TheAquarium/SnootyCam.aspx
Aarin-Conrad Allen, biologist and dive operations manager at the South Florida Museum sent us some photographs depicting the manatees they have throughout the museum as part of manatee rescue/rehabilitation coinciding with the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Management.
Read below to learn about the current research that is being done by the aquarium.
South Florida Museum is one of several different organizations of zoos and aquariums who participate in rescue and rehabilitation of endangered West Indian Manatees. The animals we obtain in captivity were rescued from the wild to recover from injury or illness (usually boat-strike injuries), and will be returned to the wild to contribute to the wild population. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service oversees all of the manatee rehab entities, as well as the release of each animal.
Nocturnal Behavior Study:
We are interested in discovering more of how the manatees behavior differs during night as opposed to during the day. Manatees lack a Pineal gland, a special mechanism in many mammals that controls circadian rhythm. (read more in attached document) (Principal Researcher: Aarin-Conrad Allen, Nova Southeastern University)
Manatee Chemosensory Research:
Within the last 30 years, we have learned the most of what we know about manatee chemosensory (sight, smell, touch, hearing, etc.). These studies were conducted using younger captive manatees. South Florida Museum is home to Snooty, the world's oldest manatee (63 years old). We want to know how these senses might change as the manatees age, so we are using Snooty to voluntarily participate in research projects to determine differences. (Principal Researcher: Aarin-Conrad Allen, Nova Southeastern University)
Manatee Vocalization Research:
Manatees emit high pitched squeaks and chirps to communicate. Very high pitched, and short in duration, our tank contains a hydrophone (underwater microphone) to pick up vocalizations by our manatees. These vocalizations are then recorded and cataloged to give sum insight as to what these vocalizations play in the manatee's realm. (Principal Researcher: Dr. Charles Grossman, Xavier University)


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Steve Birley
Thursday, June 12, 2014
This year's championships, held in ideal weather conditions, took place near Alnwick in Northumbria.
However, despite the elements being kind the nature of the terrain provided a technical and physical challenge – steep forested slopes, with rocks, fallen trees and thick bilberry cover. This worked in favour of the Budleigh athlete's technical reliability, selecting routes and navigating to the control points, while slowing down those who might be faster runners.
Pearce is a member of Devon Orienteering Club, as is her husband John who makes maps for the sport (he is also the chairman of the Budleigh Music Festival).
She has won the British Championship before, but this time she went into the contest 'only looking for a top 10 finish'.
She was one of the earlier finishers; and her time of 71 minutes looked to be a sound one, but it looked better and better as her opponents made mistakes and came back in slower times!
In second place was Joan Noble from Inverness Orienteering Club, and third was last year's champion, Liz Godfree from Derbyshire.
The event attracted about 1,500 entries from all over the UK, competing for titles in age groups ranging from 10 to 90. For more details of the sport and local events, go to the website of British Orienteering, www.britishorienteering.org.uk or www.devonorienteering.co.uk
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McLaren plans 'aggressive' development to fight for wins
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier still believes his team will win a race this year despite its recent struggles.
McLaren has failed to score a point at the last two races after starting the year with two cars on the podium at the Australian Grand Prix. Mercedes has looked utterly dominant throughout the first four races, but Boullier is not giving up hope of a victory once McLaren starts to ramp up development.
"We still believe we will win a race," he told the McLaren-Mercedes phone-in. "If you look at in detail it looks like we are slipping back since the beginning of the season. It's true that Australia was a bit optimistic, but it also prepared us to be ready to pick up point or even podiums from the others.
"Definitely I made it clear that the lack of downforce is not helping us when you have very hot conditions or very cold, like we had in China, but there is a technical reason for that. What is going on here in Woking is very positive, but I think we will be able to keep pushing and bring a very aggressive and strong development over the course of the season. I think if we put ourselves in a position, maybe not in the first part of the season but later, we may be able to fight for a win, I hope so."
McLaren will bring a big upgrade at the Spanish Grand Prix in three weeks, and Boullier said the team is confident it will accelerate its development over the coming races.
"Spain will see an interesting upgrade on the car, but everything is planned already from now until Silverstone. Every race will see a different upgrade and different package, so we can forecast any upgrade until Silverstone. We have picked up a very good rate of development in the windtunnel up to then. So it's just up to us to manufacture the parts and get it on track."


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Orlando Ridout, an architectural historian of the buildings and cultural landscapes in the Chesapeake, died on April 6 in Annapolis, Maryland. His career could be summed up by something Henry Glassie once said, "books may not tell us, but buildings always will."[1] He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1977 with a B.A. in Architectural History. That year, Orlando returned to Maryland and began his career as an architectural historian by conducting the survey of Queen Anne's County's buildings. This formed the basis for the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, which is the state's inventory of historic buildings. When Maryland architectural historians use those forms for a National Register of Historic Places eligibility determination, they do not need any revisions. We have always been able to depend on his thorough and careful building descriptions and assessments of what he saw forty years ago.
Orlando was someone who looked long and hard at buildings because he understood that while the archival record was helpful, the building would always tell him more. He used the evidence he found on-site to talk about how the buildings of the Chesapeake had been constructed and used. He was most interested in the buildings of the "middling" colonial farmer, such as the eighteenth century Queen Anne's County (MD) tenant farmer who promised a portion of his tobacco crop the following November in return for assistance from the landowner. As Orlando observed in his most recent publication, The Chesapeake House, (Cary Carson and Carl Lounsbury, 2013), this was not someone who would leave any directly written records of himself or the farm's buildings for posterity. Given the nature of the buildings, it was left to the willing architectural historian to travel to the smaller farms to find forgotten outbuildings that would help tell the unheard story of the majority of the local eighteenth century population.
Orlando was a founding member of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF), when the organization started as "The Friends of Friendless Farm Buildings," in the late 1970s. Orlando had grown up on a farm outside of Annapolis, Maryland, and had watched as the farms disappeared when they were converted to suburban housing developments in the 1960s. His seminal 1982 paper, "Re-editing the Past: A Comparison of Surviving Physical and Documentary Evidence," helped us understand that the people who had populated the Chesapeake region had not been just the wealthy but also the ordinary farmers whose outbuildings in all their variety stood as testimony to the hard work and survival skills necessary to succeed in the eighteenth century in the Chesapeake. Orlando was working on revisions to the "1798 Lecture" as he called "Re-editing the Past" when he died, but including it in a forthcoming publication has been proposed.
One of his publications, Building the Octagon (1989), was the result of his structural investigations regarding William Thornton's design for John Tayloe III's townhouse in 1799. The book was part of the Octagon House Museum's exhibition about the house in 1989, and he received the VAF's Abbott Lowell Cummings Award in 1990 for his analysis. Orlando also presented his work about the Octagon House in 1990 at the Society of Architectural Historians' annual meeting.
Orlando taught at George Washington University. The catalog described his field methods course as an "exploration of research methods based on building fabric and physical landscape rather than published archival sources," and students should plan to "work in the field." His students remember hot days in tobacco barns or cold ones in a house's attic and recall Orlando's rigorous engagement of the building's fabric while processing the information to make a cogent argument for the design and significance. In the late 1990s when Orlando purchased part of Ridout Row in Annapolis and invited friends to look at the building as it was investigated and restored.
He mentored many of us in our careers in the Chesapeake. A quick question could turn into an hour-long discussion of the building's history and help spark that same rigorous engagement in the questioner. What will last for those of us who worked with him is his kindness and willingness to share what he knew. Fulfilling his legacy will be that rigorous engagement of any building that we encounter.
Anne E. Bruder, Senior Architectural Historian, Maryland State Highway Administration
[1] Henry Glassie, "Eighteenth-Century cultural Process in Delaware Valley Folk Building," Dell Upton and John Vlach, eds., Common Places: Readings in American Vernacular Architecture, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1986, pp. 394-425


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The 2011 IPRC Public Lecture in Climate Science to be held on October 17University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Gisela E. Speidel, (808) 956-9252
Outreach Specialist, International Pacific Research Center
Kevin P. Hamilton
IPRC Director, International Pacific Research Center
Outreach Specialist, International Pacific Research Center
Kevin P. Hamilton
IPRC Director, International Pacific Research Center
Posted: Oct 12, 2011
Climate Change and Development: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable is the title of this year's IPRC Public Lecture in Climate Science given by Rosina Bierbaum, Dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment.
The free lecture will be held on Monday, October 17, at 7:00 p.m. in the Art Auditorium at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Dean Bierbaum, the author of the World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change, has a distinguished governmental and academic career with a focus on environmental science and related policy. She has written extensively about climate change and the mitigation of impacts of climate change on societies.
In 2009 President Obama named Dr. Bierbaum to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which consists of 20 of the nation's leading scientists and engineers who advise the President and Vice President in areas where understanding of science, technology and innovation is key to forming responsible and effective policy.
She serves on numerous boards dealing with scientific and environmental policy issues, such as the Federation of American Scientists, a think tank dedicated to providing evidence-based analysis and practical policy recommendations on national and international security issues and to creating a more secure and better world; the Energy Foundation, dedicated to solving the world's energy problems through energy efficiency and renewable energy; and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Dr. Bierbaum is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science as well as of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her awards include the Waldo E. Smith medal of the American Geophysical Union for "extraordinary service to geophysics."
The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), the climate research center at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, invites a renowned climate scientist to the university to give a public lecture every year.
The Art Building Auditorium is located on the main mall near Varney Circle. On-campus parking is available for $5 after 4 p.m., and in the parking structure for $4.
For more information contact Gisela Speidel, IPRC Outreach Specialist: 808-956-9252; email: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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from freshmeat: "Seperate forms for children and institutions to be added, fixes for some acqusition bugs, and optimised catalogue searches." see www.koha.org for more.
Wrote up this short perl script which uses Zeta to grab a single ISBN's MARC record from LC. The goal is to make it easier for cuecat hackers and the like to get better data when they scan in their books' UPCs. See also today's NYTimes piece-free reg. req'd-for more on the sudden explosion of barcode mayhem.
from eprints-announce: "The public beta version of the eprints.org archive software is now available for download from eprints.org." Standard beta-quality disclaimers apply, but this is Good News...
more freshmeat: "Reserves/requests were fixed so that only items in the requested group trigger the reserves flag. Bad behavior in subject search was fixed. Dewey decimal search was implemented. The receipt summary screen in acquisitions was improved. More spelling mistakes were fixed." Check it out at koha.org.
Sebastian writes: "Index Data has just made its first release of a Z39.50 Server module for Perl. It provides a pretty simple API which hides most of the complexities of Z39.50 and network programming in general, so all you have to do is provide a bit of code to interface to your resource. You can draw on all the usual Perl tools to talk to back-end databases, create response records in XML, MARC, etc." Built using YAZ by the people who brought us YAZ to begin with... definitely worth a close look.
from perl4lib: "I have uploaded MARC-1.12 at download.sourceforge.net.
I also updated the docs referenced at the marcpm.sourceforge.net page. Have at it. Bug reports are especially welcome. [updates include] Fixed newline issues with input and output of marcmaker records (Ed's suggestions and my spelunking); added an option for less strict error checking (David Valentine's suggestion, Ed's architecture); added tests and removed test numbering."
from freshmeat: "Significant API changes, involving provision of a unified settings system for passing parameters, and several small tweaks. Applications will need simple modifications and recompilation. Also features improved weighting, a forking network server, and a few bugfixes. Note that the Java, Perl and Python bindings do not function in this version - do not upgrade to this version if you require these." For more see open.muscat.com.
from freshmeat: "This is a small example application using the DigitalConvergence Cat: Optical Reader. The application allows you to scan the ISBN barcode of a book and retrieve its information from the Library of Congress. Optionally, this data can be stored in a local database table." Download the perl code here. Hmm, doing z39.50 by hand it seems...
From Stuart comes: "Greenstone is a GPL Digital Library Software package for building multimedia, multilingual collections. It is very practical, and has been used by the FAO and other humanitarian organisations to distribute information to developing countries because it can be used to build CDROMs or websites and is free (speech) software. It is also the research environment of the New Zealand Digital Library Project, so development is ongoing.
You can find Greenstone, its source code, numerous example collections, manuals and more at http://www.nzdl.org." We've posted on this here before but now it's on the projects list too...
KOHA: free LMS/OPAC
Rachel writes: "Now running at the Horowhenua Libraries Trust in New Zealand, is Koha, an open source, free library system written by Katipo Communications. It is a true library system, not just an OPAC, that runs as a public website, a library intranet and issues and returns via a telnet interface." That download link still isn't working tho... [the correct link to download is here (thanks Jeremy).]