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Oscar buzz before a film has premiered is certainly normal, but Oscar buzz before a project has even entered a day of shooting? Very far from the norm. But that's exactly what happened in the case of Lee Daniels director Precious, currently playing in selected theaters. The initial script, based on the novel Push by urban writer Sapphire, was garnering a lot of industry attention before even one scene had been shot. Then, when over a year ago, a final draft script fell into my hands, I realized what the buzz was all about and thought, if someone can pull off a story as extreme as this, I might have faith in the movie making business again.
Consider my faith restored. Precious is the tragic yet all too real story of Claireece Precious Jones, an obese teen from Harlem who, even though she is 16, has been left behind so many times that she is still in the 8th grade and nearly illiterate. Precious lives in poverty, physically abused daily by her mother, and is pregnant with her father's child for the second time. When school finds out she is pregnant, Precious is sent to an alternative school. There she meets Ms. Rain, a teacher who refuses to accept anything less than the best. Precious is immeasurably inspired by Ms. Rain. And although the road in her life is hard–Precious is diagnosed with HIV, fights some literally indescribable battles with her mother, and challenges herself academically–what is most admirable about Precious is that she faces each challenge as best as she can. The film doesn't sugar coat her difficulties; we never feel like there is a big happy ending about to pop out from the shadows and scream "surprise, life's gonna be a breeze"! Precious' shows that life, no matter the circumstances, is truly livable for those who are willing to give it a fighting chance.
Precious is beautifully shot in mostly close-ups, appearing documentary in style. The colors throughout the film remain very drab and gritty, except for the fantasy sequences. These occasional interruptions, the daydreams about light-skinned' boyfriends, movie premieres and music video shoots that Precious relies on when her life gets too tough, are lush, lavish and shot in bold and bright reds, purples and yellows. They lend the film a sense of comedic and visual relief from the bleak world that the characters normally lives in.
What is truly buzz-worthy about Precious though are two star-making performances in particular, one from Mo'Nique who plays Precious' mother Mary, and the other from newcomer Gabourey Sidibe who plays Precious. Both women tackle roles that require them to portray characters so unlike anything they possibly could ever be like in real life with sensitivity and candor. Gabourey transforms Precious from a visually repulsive character to one that our heart aches for. Her recreation of the tragedy of life is powerful and realistic at the same time–she wallows in Precious' pain at times, while at other times is remarkably confident. The best word to describe Gabourey's interpretation of her character is honesty, and the role will be her star-making turn.
Even better than Gabourey's performance is Mo'Nique's. If anyone should get an Oscar out of this, it's the former The Parkers' star. A comedian by trade, it's shocking to see Mo'Nique as a villainous figure. However, what is most shocking is that Mo'Nique gives a human face to the issue of parental abuse and incest. When she explains why she allowed sexual abuse in her home and why she herself abused her daughter, for one moment the face of a monster fades away and all the audience can see are insecurities that are at their core identifiable.
The film also sees decent performances from Mariah Carey, who was cast as Precious' social worker, and organic-food eating male nurse Lenny Kravitz. Paul Patton, Ms. Rain, is full-hearted in her performance, but lacks the ferocity that would have made her character more of an inspirational one.
In popular culture, movies are entirely escapist. We go to theaters to forget our problems, not relive them. So when a film like Precious comes along to expose some of America's deepest, darkest social ails including poverty, welfare, lesbianism and incest, I have to wonder if American audiences are ready to deal with issues they spend all day trying to forget. Executive producers Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, the driving forces behind images of "positive Black America", do an excellent job of allowing these themes to exist for the most part in their rawest forms. Although at times Precious veers a little too far into commercial fluff territory, and the portrayal of dark-skinned characters as villians while the light-skinned characters functions as saviors is borderline offensive, it is a shining gem of an effort by Lee Daniels that reminds us that "everyone's good at something".
Precious opens nationwide on November 20th, and is the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Winner.
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ISU graduates first doctorate in human computer interaction
Melinda Cerney is the first Iowa State student to graduate with a doctorate in human computer interaction. Iowa State is one of three American universities offering a doctorate in human computer interaction, a program that trains students to understand how humans and computers interact in various environments.
Actuarial tools helps predict sexual offenders' recidivism
Several states are using an Iowa State professor's actuarial tool to help predict whether sexual offenders will relapse into more criminal behavior.
Fire safety goes high-tech
A new fire safety program will use Iowa State's virtual reality facilites to put children in a computer-generated fire. The exercise will be realistic and safe.
New dairy farm plans OKed
Final plans for Iowa State's new dairy farm got the greenlight from the Board of Regents May 5. When completed, the new farm is expected to be among the premiere dairy education and research facilities in the nation.
New facility will be dedicated to academic success
Iowa State students will soon have a new facility dedicated to improving academic achievement and increasing student retention and graduation rates. Donors committed $10 million to establish the center.
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The Board of Regents approved tenure, promotions or both for 71 Iowa State faculty on May 5. Twenty-nine faculty were promoted to the rank of professor, 39 were promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure, and three faculty were tenured without promotion.
Associate director of teacher ed program named
Veronica Stalker has been named associate director of Iowa State's teacher education program.
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Collapsible door project teaches future designers the art of collaboration.
Schwartz Award to Wayne Davis
Wayne P. Davis, a former community newspaper publisher and past Iowa State public relations staff member and journalism instructor, will receive the 2005 James W. Schwartz Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Communication.
Gas from switchgrass is researcher's goal
Iowa State scientist Robert Brown, who hopes that machines of the future will be powered by gas made from switchgrass, is The Science Coalition's "Researcher in the News."
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On the road: Romania (feeling beat)
By Andrei Codrescu
Romanian roads were created by Evil Knievel to give the average person the experience of imminent death. Trucks hurl themselves at you head on while deep holes rattle your bones. The jalopy youre in is a Dacia, a tin can built by communists in the 1980s to give the proletariat a semblance of mobility. Dacias still clutter the roads, unable to pass the suicidally fast new cars belonging to the nouveau riches. You pass abandoned industrial towns where the miserable unemployed loll next to their flapping rags drying in the polluted air.
Ragamuffins and dogs of every variety of dirt roll in muddy ditches along the national Highway de la Muerte. Now and then you pass a more prosperous cluster of buildings surrounded by high walls and satellite dish antennas. Soon youre in the wild mountains where the husks of ruined castles loom menacingly from Carpathian peaks as Jonathan Harkers postilion, disguised as a smoke-spewing Turkish truck, nearly jackknives on the turn.
Yes, Romania is ready to enter the E.U. in 2007 and, simultaneously, to win the Dracula-I-Love-Danger-Award. If you are not traveling by postilion on the Carpathian roads, something I wouldnt advise, you can spend some pleasant hours in a windowless Bucharest basement with two chain-smoking intellectuals on either side of you, discussing the existential hopelessness of the Balkan dilemma. Which is, in brief, pure hopelessness aided by smoke.
The mystery that is Romania has not lessened since the overthrow of the communists in 1989. Au contraire, it has grown. Nobody gets paid anything, yet the expensive restaurants are full. Young people chat on cellphones dressed in brand-name duds sprinkled with pricey perfumes. The secret-police-turned-mafia that was somewhat careful a few years ago to cultivate slight acts of social mitzvah feels secure enough now to display its wealth and its power without a pang of conscience or even a bow to the starving masses. True, the masses arent exactly starving since they have arrayed themselves around their diverse mafia bosses and are paid for their efforts in salamis and bad television programming.
A park ranger told me that Romania was such a rich country that people have been stealing from it for 100 years and there is still stuff left to steal. Capitalism is seen, above all, as a guarantee of the merchandise, as in the following exchange: a Gypsy woman whispered to my friend, I have two perfumes for sale! When my friend ignored her, she said indignantly, I stole them! That was a guarantee of quality.
The other ubiquitous reality, if you dont drive long enough to enter another one, is the universal disregard for the laws. Whenever I put on my safety belt, the driver laughed: Youre an American! Damn right. And I mean to stay one.
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Interview by Dorothee Bürkle und Manuela Braun
Paul van Son is the CEO of the Desertec Industrial Initiative that was founded in November 2009. He talked about the progress made and challenges facing the Desertec project with over 200 researchers and equipment manufacturers at the 13th Solar Symposium of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on 29 June 2010 in Cologne. In a conversation with DLR Communications, Paul van Son describes the targets and cooperation attained thus far by the industrial consortium with the DLR research centre.
In a couple of sentences, how would you describe Desertec and the idea behind it?
van Son: The idea is to generate electricity from solar and wind energy in the desert and to channel it over power grids to the local population and, in part, to Europe.
From the view of European power provision, why do we need Desertec??
van Son: Europe does not possess many energy options. Fossil fuel energy sources are gradually disappearing or becoming very expensive, and carry their own disadvantages from an environmental standpoint. Europe has the options of photovoltaic, wind energy and hydro-electric generation for renewable energy sources. All of these options are limited and we shall require more extensive supplies of renewable energy in the long-term. Thus a portion of this may originate from the Sahara or the Middle East.
What function does the Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) play in this process?
van Son: We are laying the groundwork for the entire development necessary for North African and Middle Eastern investors to be able to build plants. We are negotiating the initial approvals that would facilitate electricity from the generating plants to be offered to the local network operators. We are currently at the fore in the drive for the construction of high-voltage direct current transmission lines, so that electricity in one country may be transmitted to another. Otherwise we are initiating stimulating provisions whereby, for example, North African countries enact feed-in tariff legislation, as we have in Germany or whereby the German feed-in compensation applies to MENA (Middle East and North African) countries. Furthermore, we are advising on the most appropriate technology for various locations, with a view to decreasing the cost of electricity generation – that still remains very high.
The Initiative was founded in November 2009. Have there been any findings to date?
van Son: Quite a few. We have acquainted ourselves particularly well with Morocco. We are cognisant of the Moroccan government's plans and of the possibilities there. We have learnt which locations in Morocco stand consideration in the construction of solar power plants and the state of the current grid. We are also aware of the possibilities of exporting electricity from Morocco to Spain. In all of these areas, our knowledge has been significantly enhanced since November 2009, as with other North African countries.
What are the largest challenges facing the Initiative?
van Son: One challenge is the differential between cost and markets during the initial years. Wind and solar energy is being promoted in Germany and this must also happen in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, since there is no proper electricity market for renewables yet. The electrical grids and infrastructure at many possible sites are still insufficiently developed. There are a good many challenges ahead.
The consortium consists of totally diverse enterprises working in concert with DLR as a research establishment. What are the contributions of each?
van Son: A research centre furnishes studies and knowledge; partners from the world of industry may provide financing, products and contacts. We represent different interests, but we also have complementary potential, where each learns from the other and this enhances the whole. To date, all participants show keen interest and there are hardly any problems in regard to co-operation.
DLR has already been very active in the preparatory stages. The concept for Desertec is DLR's concept. In future the DLR may also undertake many commissions and enquiries– system studies, measurements, technological development, studies on heat accumulators as well as educational programmes to train the specialist personnel in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. DLR is in a position to contribute to success over the entire spectrum.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Fundraising amid a swirl of overseas and border challenges, President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday that foreign crises are creating anxieties in an American public already worried that a recovering economy is not improving their lives.
Speaking to about 250 donors at a house on the banks of Lake Washington, Obama cautioned against letting those anxieties lead to cynicism and a lack of interest in democracy.
"People who really need government to work for them on their behalf, they withdraw, they opt out, and that makes government even more dysfunctional," he said.
Obama landed Tuesday in Seattle at the start of a three-day West Coast trip, embarking on the one mission that has regularly proved a winner for him — raising money for his fellow Democrats. He will also visit San Francisco and Los Angeles, less than four months ahead of midterm elections that could change Washington's balance of power.
The trip comes as Obama is dealing with a series of high-profile tests of his presidency, from Eastern Europe to the Middle East to the Southern U.S. border. The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine last week, the eruption of war in Gaza between Israelis and Palestinians, and the humanitarian crisis caused by the influx of Central American minors seeking to cross the border has put a strain on the White House.
Even on the road, the troubles abroad were not far from the president. While aboard Air Force One in route to Seattle he placed a call to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to discuss evidence that Russia continues to send weapons and fighters into Ukraine. The Malaysian airline flight originated in Amsterdam, and many of the deaths were Dutch citizens.
Also, as he pulled up to his first fundraising event in Seattle, Obama was met by about two dozen demonstrators protesting Israel's actions in Gaza and chanting "free, free Palestine" and "killing children is a crime."
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Obama first spoke to about 250 donors who paid up to $20,000 at the home of commercial real estate developer Bruce Blume and his wife, Anne. The proceeds went to the Democratic National Committee.
Later Obama attended an event for the Senate majority PAC, a super committee that can raise unlimited amounts of money. The event was hosted by former Costco Wholesale Corp. CEO Jim Sinegal and his wife, Jan, and philanthropists Tom and Sonya Campion. PAC officials did not respond to requests for information about the event and it was closed to the press.
The fundraising highlight of the trip will be a Democratic National Committee event Wednesday at the Beverly Hills home of Shonda Rhimes, the producer of the ABC series "Scandal," a drama set in modern-day Washington. Kerry Washington, who plays the lead role in the show, is among the hosts.
In the capital, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell faulted Obama for not being in town while Congress debates vital legislation.
"I'm not going to give him advice about how to allocate his time, but he's certainly not spending the kind of time with the people he needs to pass legislation and convince people who have a vote, who were sent here to legislate, of the virtues of whatever position he has," McConnell said.
White House officials say Obama is more than able to carry out all his duties and attend to crises while on the road.
"In terms of fundraising, it's a responsibility that presidents in both parties for generations have been responsible for," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday. "And the president, like his predecessors, is interested in supporting members of his party who are on the ballot in 2014 and that's part of what he'll be doing over the course of this week."


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Whipple House Museum
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This site was the home of Dr. George Hoyt Whipple, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Inside visitors will find information about him, his family and the area. Of particular interest is the Glidden Toy Museum, which features over 1000 items.
The Whipple House was built in 1837 by Obadiah Smith and was occupied by five generations of the same family for 133 years. In 1970, George Hoyt Whipple, of the fourth generation of the family, gave his boyhood home to the Town of Ashland to be preserved and used as an historical museum.


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Man dies after fall from door
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Authorities said a 26-year-old man died after falling out of a doorway.
Authorities said a 26-year-old man died after falling out of a doorway.
Early Sunday, Pottawattamie County sheriff's deputies were called to help Neola Volunteer Fire and Rescue personnel with a man who had fallen from an exterior door in the 30000 block of Second Street in Neola.
Witnesses said that Matthew R. McDonald, 26, of Neola, fell from the main level of the home about 10 feet to the ground. The deck on the exterior side of the door had been removed, according to authorities.
McDonald suffered severe head trauma as a result. He was taken to Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, where he later died.
The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office is investigating.


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(Reuters) - Two left-leaning Democrats appeared poised to advance from a crowded non-partisan primary in the race for Seattle mayor on Wednesday, setting up a likely November showdown between an activist-minded incumbent and a challenger promising a more inclusive governing style.
Incumbent Mayor Mike McGinn, a bearded former Sierra Club executive, had roughly 27 percent of the vote, based on the ballots received so far in the August 6 mail-in primary. Ed Murray, the leader of state Senate Democrats who helped shepherd the passage of gay marriage legislation, had 30 percent.
The top two finishers in the primary will advance to a general election in November, and both Murray and McGinn were comfortably ahead of third-place candidate Peter Steinbrueck.
To be counted, ballots needed to be post-marked by election day, so final numbers could still change. As of Wednesday afternoon, 93,406 votes had been tallied.
McGinn, who faced speculation in the local press that he might not advance from the primary, greeted the preliminary result as a victory, saying: "They always seem to count me out until the votes are counted."
McGinn was elected four years ago on a progressive and environmentalist platform. He opposed replacing a rickety Seattle viaduct with a car-friendly tunnel, has moved to raise the cost of downtown street parking and makes a point of riding his bike to work.
Murray, a longtime state legislator who would be Seattle's first openly gay mayor, has portrayed himself as more willing than McGinn to work with the business community and other non-progressives. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Murray is clearly reaching out to people who are perhaps a bit more conservative and made a point in his campaign to say he'll reach across the aisle," said Knute Berger, a Seattle-based columnist and political observer. "McGinn is much more in the progressive activist mode."
Coming in third place, out of nine candidates on the ballot, was former Seattle City Councilman Steinbrueck, a strong supporter of neighborhoods, with approximately 16 percent of the vote.
Finishing a close fourth was City Councilman Bruce Harrell, who made reforming the police department and empowering minorities his campaign issues. Harrell said he had not yet decided which candidate to endorse.
"One of the challenges with Murray is that I'm still not completely clear on his platform," Harrell said. "But I don't think McGinn should be our next mayor."
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Purchased these tires after many reviews recommended them for year round use. Very disappointed in the performance on wet snow or ice, falling way short of dedicated snow/ice tires. Will be adding a set of winters again for next year.
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After 5000 kms I've had to replace a tire because of a side wall nail. The rubber is too soft because of the new snow flake rating and as a result the tire is very susceptible to issues - in short this design isn't as durable as pre snow flake rated
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although I generally dont do a lot of hard cornering on pavement in my stock height 4wd silverado 1500, I am very heavy on the throttle whenever possible otherwise. Ive got a lot of aftermarket upgrades to my suspension and drive train with weight reduction. These Toyo AT2 tires are proving to be pretty tough I must say with the amount of hot rodding on dry pavement I put em through. Im happy I guess. I think they do well in the rain. I havent felt them hydroplane once yet in the front at 75mph. In the rear Id say theyre average. however, I drive pretty melo on wet roads for the most part. I would buy these again, unless I find something that has a more aggressive look with out sacrificing performance which is what Im lookn for right now.
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I bought this tire instead of the BFG after reading endless reviews. They seem to be great tires, except for one thing: They are terrible when its raining. I cannot go from a stoplight without severely spinning. I thought it was just me for some reason until I talked to a friend who has the same tires on his Ram. He also thought it was just him because the tires had decent rain reviews. He also cannot drive without spinning out in the rain. I'm really disappointed and dont feel safe driving in the rain. Strangely they are fine in the snow though.
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educa wrote:I am also building a machine like that, but what linear rail are you using on the X axis?
I use THK RSR20 rails with ball bearing carriage, but I see you mount your rail sideways.
Is that ok for the torque on those carriages? If I would be able to mount my rail sideways, then this would simplify things a lot actually.
Also what belt and what pulleys do you use?
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I have purchased some cute, hairy little satoimo, and have suddenly remembered that I only know of one recipe for them. I was a lovely mash with mushroom sauce, from the Enlightened Kitchen... that book still lives down south with my parents (must get them to send it...) but I guess I could remember the recipe, but other than that... what other recipes can you good people recommend? If they are bento-friendly, all the better, but one can't have everything. Thanks in advance for any taro ideas! x
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Ha ha, silly me, I should have remembered that post! Thank you. I wil defintely be trying the miso and tofu recipe. I like the idea of curries, too. It's interesting to hear about the sweet recipes; I think I need to broaden my horizons when it comes to the divisions between sweet and savoury foods. Perhaps it's because I am British, or probably more that I just had a sheltered life (!) but I tend to get it stuck in my mind that something is a savoury ingredient and never really try it in another context. This is from someone who finds sweet potato as a dessert a weird concept (perfectly normal to many people) and azuki beans in sweets even odder! That's probably due to growing up on Red Dragon Pie...
Right! That's it! I'm gonna try a satoimo sweet dish, too! Wish me luck!
Sweet potatoes make a great desert (I am referring to the bright orange ones, not the Japanese ones). Sweet potato pie and the way I cook sweet potatoes for thanksgiving are great sweet dishes (even though most consider it just another side dish).
Well, this is rather late, but I'm trying to make taro rolls so this caught my eye. Have you tried looking for Hawaiian recipes? I actually had no idea until recently that people outside of Hawaii even ate taro. :) Poi is the most obvious example, but it's mainly a palate cleanser and doesn't really have a taste. At all.
I had the best chicken sandwich on a taro roll years ago on Oahu... it was a nice shade of purple too. Always a plus.
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Facebook facepalm: US judge tosses out 'sponsored stories' deal
Suggests $20m settlement offer for faces-in-ads feature was 'plucked from thin air'
Facebook's attempt to end litigation brought against it in the US over the launch of its unpopular "sponsored stories" feature has backfired with a judge throwing out the company's settlement offer late last week.
The social network had been expected to pay out around $20m and make amendments to sponsored stories, which arrived in Facebook in December 2011. The feature slurped up users' photos and used their faces in Facebook's in-site ads for brands after they had merely clicked the "thumbs-up" button and "Liked" the company.
Five complainants in the case filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against Mark Zuckerberg's company, disputing Facebook's use of their photos in its advertisements.
In June, Facebook indicated it would hand over more control to its users with sponsored stories.
The move came after the lawsuit claimed that the network had violated California law by failing to give users the option to opt out of having their faces appear alongside ads on the site, nor from allowing them to gain some earnings from the promotion.
But late on Friday, California district judge Richard Seeborg dismissed Facebook's settlement offer. He said:
In this instance there are sufficient questions regarding the proposed settlement that it would not be appropriate simply to grant the motion and postpone resolution of those issues to final approval.
Justice Seeborg asked the plaintiffs' lawyers and Facebook - which considers the $20m settlement offer to be "fair, reasonable and adequate" - to show that the multi-million dollar figure hadn't simply been "plucked from thin air".
Facebook's proposal to end the litigation would have meant that the plaintiffs received $10m, plus up to $300,000 in costs, while a further $10m would have been ponied up to privacy advocates.
Importantly, however, the draft settlement also made it clear that Facebook would not be inhibited from running ads featuring users' faces in its sponsored stories feature.
Consumer Watchdog, which has a copy of the order here (PDF), unsurprisingly welcomed the judge's dismissal of Facebook's offer.
"Under the proposed settlement Facebook is poised to continue to misappropriate its users' personal information without their consent," said the consumer pressure group's staff attorney Laura Antonini.
More face-ache in Germany, too
Last week, Hamburg's data protection commissioner, Dr Johannes Caspar, confirmed (in German) that his office had reopened its probe of Facebook's facial recognition technology, complaining that the network was building a massive biometric database of its users.
The investigation had been suspended to allow time for the Irish data protection authority to conclude its talks with Facebook, which had included an audit of the company's data policy.
In December last year, Facebook had told the Irish DP commish that it would "examine the broader implications" of its photo-tagging feature during a July 2012 review.
Caspar has repeatedly argued that the tech, which detects the identity of people – based on existing pictures of those users on the site – in order to "tag" them in photos on Facebook, violates European data protection law because the default setting automatically opts users into being creepily identified and subsequently "tagged".
Facebook has previously countered that it rejected any such claim that it was failing to meet its obligation on data-handling in the EU.
As of last month, Facebook halted the facial recognition feature being used in Europe as talks with DP authorities continued.
"It is to be welcomed that Facebook clearly recognises that the process of collecting biometric data is at least not in accordance with data protection law in Europe. But Facebook can't just stay halfway there," Caspar said. ®


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I'm just a big fan...why does my creepy meter keep going off?
With the advent of all this lightning speed technology that fits in the palm of our hand, it's almost cliche for people to talk about how much smaller the globe has gotten when it comes to communication. Physical boundaries when it comes to commerce, communication, business, love...they simply no longer exist. Is your daughter going to spend a semester studying in New Zealand? Sure, you'll miss her, but it's nothing that frequent Skype chats and daily uploads of photos to Facebook won't ease.
The independent film, "Another Earth" twists the small world notion by adding a second Earth. Soon after its discovery, its similarities to our Earth are noted, but then it's determined that the second Earth is a mirror image of our Earth. Everyone on this planet has an identical person living the identical life on the other planet. But the plot twists even further when it's theorized that the mirror essentially cracked and the synchronicity between the two planets ended at the moment the second Earth was discovered.
After stumbling upon a blog the other day while reading some random writing about one of my favorite bands, Pink Floyd, I think I might have a twin right here, on the very planet I reside.
I was into Pink Floyd a little bit as a kid. I remember watching "The Wall" with a buddy of mine, but mostly because we wanted to know why everyone seemed to share the belief that you had to be stoned in order to truly "get" the film. Truth be told, it's not stellar cinema; it just happens to be accompanied by the best soundtrack in the history of sound.
It wasn't until driving home from a golf outing in Red Lake Falls as a teenager – yes, I recall the exact moment – that I heard the song "Learning to Fly," which was from the "Momentary Lapse of Reason" album, the first Pink Floyd album from the post-Roger Waters era. He and guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour couldn't stand each other, Waters quit and sued, without success, to have Pink Floyd dissolved, and Gilmour and the rest of the band moved one without Waters.
I was sold. I bought the CD and marveled at Gilmour's voice and his talents as a guitarist. Was he a lyricist in Waters' class? No. But he didn't have to be.
Soon after, Floyd embarked on their "Delicate Sound of Thunder" tour and released a concert film capturing their performance at Nassau Coliseum in New York. Over the next several months, my dad and I wore out that tape in our VCR.
We dug the music, of course, but it was one of the three backup singers on that tour that particularly caught our eye. She had a unique, powerful voice that emanated from her diminutive stature...stature enveloped in a little black dress. She had these subtle, understated little dance moves and seemed to have a tremendous, even flirty rapport with Gilmour. She had an endearing, tiny gap between her front teeth and...OK, now I'm getting a little creepy. She was sexy, OK? And talented; she nailed her portion of "The Great Gig in the Sky."
We checked the liner notes. The three backup singers were listed as Rachel Fury, Durga McBroom and Margaret Taylor. Stuck in ancient, pre-Google times, my dad and I decided that our favorite singer, who was on the right if you were looking on from the crowd, was Margaret. She just looked like a Margaret Taylor. She just oozed a dignity, elegance and grace that seemed befitting of a Margaret Taylor. OK, my creepy meter is beeping again...sorry about that.
She was Margaret, to us, for the next 25 years or so, until we stumbled across a blogger who's a fellow Pink Floyd devotee and #1 fan of a certain backup singer from the Delicate Sound of Thunder tour.
Who happens to be named Rachel Fury. All this time, she was Rachel Fury and, now that I think about it, she did exude a certain fiery charisma, a molten hot sensuality that epitomized a fury of some sort. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Oops, sorry. Moving on...
I swear, this blogger is my twin. He fancies himself a writer, digs Pink Floyd, and is obsessed with Rachel Fury, which was her stage name, by the way. She was born Rachel Brennock, and her boyfriend, a Pink Floyd producer, turned her onto the band way back when. She showed her singing chops and landed a spot on the tour.
Now, in her early 50s, she lives a quiet life in London, long ago retired from singing and currently an animal rights activist.
I wonder if she's a cat person, like me. I wonder if loves feeding birds, too, and if she loves peanut butter as much as I do, and Keebler Club Crackers. I wonder how much a plane ticket to England would set me back.


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One of the most common ways to use XML is as a data-transfer format within business-to-business (B2B) applications because such applications need to exchange collections of records shaped in many possible ways. For example, an application might need data in a tabular as well as a hierarchical format. XML is a great data-transfer format, but nothing more. XML simply provides a universal infrastructure to describe data in a way that applications can easily understand and process. Because data always comes from databases, any integration feature that glues together XML and data access technologies is most welcome.
ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is Microsoft's preferred technology to talk to data providers from within ASPs and high-level development tools such as Visual Basic (VB) and Windows Script Host (WSH) script applications. ADO uses the Recordset object to collect the records to work on. ADO recordsets are just the right fuel for XML in a B2B scenario.
Starting with version 2.1, ADO provides the ability to automatically persist recordsets in XML. The Recordset object exposes a method called Save that can serialize to disk the in-memory representation of the recordset. The following VB code shows how to save a recordset to disk using XML as the persistence format (note that the .xml extension on the filename is a matter of choice):
Dim oRS as New ADODB.Recordset ' Now populates the recordset oRS.Save "file.xml", adPersistXML
Microsoft uses a particular XML schema to store a recordset. At first glance, the XML document structure might seem overwhelming and unnecessarily complex. However, it contains all the information it needs to implement several additional features. In other words, when you export an ADO recordset to a disk file format, the recordset doesn't lose any of its potential functionality. Also when you save a recordset to disk as XML, the recordset remains an ADO Recordset object.
By calling the Save method, you simply move the in-memory ADO Recordset object to a different storage medium. The object maintains the same functionality, and you can work on disk recordsets the same way in which you work with those in memory. This deliberate duality has some cool side effects, one of which is that you can reload a recordset from an XML disk file. The necessary code looks like this:
oRS.Open "file.xml",,,, adCmdFile
This feature smooths the way for applications that need to work the same way, regardless of their network connection's status. You connect to a database—from a Web application or a from client/server application—grab your recordsets, and start working on them. Suppose that while you're working, you lose your network connection and the application can't submit changes to the remote database. Thanks to XML recordset persistence, you can save the recordset status to the local disk in XML format. The next time the application starts, it checks a specific temporary folder. If the application finds a certain XML file, the application uses the XML file's content to reload the working recordset and properly initialize the application.
XML persistence is only one of the features that ADO makes available. In my next column, I'll review in more detail the XML schema used and some tricky aspects of the XML and ADO integration.


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TULSA, Okla. — The University of Tulsa, which manages the world-renowned Gilcrease Museum, has acquired the C.M. Russell Research Collection, which contains more than 13,000 objects that cover a full range of the artist's life and work. Russell's biographer, Homer Britzman, gathered the items with the assistance of Nancy Russell, the artist's widow, following the artist's death in 1926.
The collection was purchased in September from the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The amount of the purchase is not being disclosed. Major donors supporting the acquisition were: The James A. Chapman and Leta M. Chapman Charitable Trust (represented by Sharon Bell and Greg Gray), Mr. and Mrs. Walter Helmerich III, Randi and Fred Wightman, and The Stuart Family Foundation.
"Our acquisition will allow Gilcrease to open new avenues of research into the life and works of one of the American West's defining artists," said TU President Steadman Upham. "Having these materials together under one roof will provide unparalleled opportunities for researchers to study the materials in the Russell Research Collection within the context of the masterworks at Gilcrease."
Much of the Russell Research Collection relates directly to Russell's art held by the Gilcrease Museum. The new acquisition consists of original sketches and drawings, illustrated letters and envelopes by Russell, volumes of letters to and from Russell, photographs and negatives of Russell and various celebrities, photographs of Russell's artwork, documentation of artwork, poems by Russell, albums of newspaper clippings and printed ephemera related to Russell, family photo albums, and a variety of personal effects, including paints, brushes, palettes, hand-molded sculptures, Western dress and Indian artifacts.
"The new acquisition, coupled with its existing collection of fine art, gives the Gilcrease Museum the finest collection of Russell material in the world," said Duane King, director of Gilcrease Museum and TU vice president for museum affairs. Gilcrease has long been recognized as one of the nation's top museums based on the strength of its collections. Under the management agreement with TU, the museum has been able to advance its mission of fostering discovery and understanding of America's heritage.
"This acquisition reaffirms our commitment to fully developing Gilcrease's potential as a research center for scholarship and academic programs that have a truly international reach," King said.
He also noted that the TU management agreement also has resulted in strategic new additions to the museum's curatorial and conservation staff, as well as a new master's degree program in museum science and management that will begin at TU this spring.
The acquisition of the Russell Research Collection is expected to attract candidates for the museum's scholar-in-residence program, which seeks to bring researchers to Tulsa to study the collection and share their insights via exhibitions, scholarly writing, or public lectures. TU students and faculty also will have opportunities to engage in original research related to the collection.
Researchers will be able to use the Russell Research Collection to gain insights into Russell's artistic process through the hundreds of sketches and drawings that he used to create his finished works. The body of photographs, acquired or taken by Russell, served as inspirations for his work. As one of the most celebrated Western artists, Russell was the only major painter and sculptor who actually worked on the open range. He also is recognized as one
of America's most sensitive visual interpreters of Northern Plains Indian life, and his influence continues to be seen in the work of Western artists today.
Sam Gappmayer, CEO and president of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, said the items involved in the sale didn't match the museum's mission or collecting policy. The sale to Gilcrease would allow the collection to go to an institution that would preserve it and present it as an active resource to the public, he said.
"The Gilcrease Museum is an ideal home for (the collection)," Gappmayer said. "The museum is well-known for its comprehensive collection of art and artifacts of the American West as well as its significant collection of archival materials, with more than 100,000 items. Now instead of languishing in the FAC storage, the collection will be available to the public, Russell enthusiasts, TU students, faculty, scholars and publishers."
The material provides an excellent archive on the "business of art" in Russell's time, particularly his relationship with clients for his fine art as well as his illustrations for magazines and books. The collection documents the efforts of Russell's wife to maintain her husband's status in American art.
The collection allows for an inside view of the artist's personal life through extensive collections of family photographs and documents, while his letters document his extensive friendships with a wide range of people, from local cowboys to Hollywood stars such as Will Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks.
Additionally, the Russell Research Collection is expected to be the pilot project for the museum's new electronic cataloguing initiative and digitization effort, which will make Gilcrease art and artifacts publicly accessible online.
Acquisition of the Russell Research Collection will further enhance the upcoming major exhibition, "The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture," which opens Feb. 6, 2010, at Gilcrease. Organized in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum, the exhibition will provide visitors with a rare opportunity to view some of Russell's most important artworks.
This will be the first exhibit to show his finest paintings and sculptures and will include more than 30 rarely seen artworks from the Gilcrease permanent collection. A symposium on Charles M. Russell will be held at the Gilcrease Museum Feb. 20, 2010, bringing together the foremost authorities from across the country to speak on the life and times of the artist. The Russell exhibit closes May 2, 2010.


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WOAH! $350 is way too much IMO! My vet charges $75 - $150 depending on weight. That included blood work and etc...
I would check around, or if you really want to go to that vet maybe you could find someplace cheaper and ask your vet if he will match that price.
how much should i be paying
Talk about diets, exercise, and disease.
Jeff wrote:And I will have to agree to disagree with you on the issue of bloodwork, MustangGT. It might not be necessary for most dogs, but I would not dream of letting my 7-year old go through surgery without all work done before. It's going to cost me extra $$$, but I dont see it as money wasted.
Totally. We've picked up a few potential disasters on routine pre-surg bloodwork (example: liver shuts). That goes for the IV fluids, too. You would be surprised how often blood pressure drops while under anesthesia. Most clinics don't monitor BP on surgery patients, so they have no idea really. The IV fluids help prevent a drop.
Basicly, the differences in price depend on the quality of the supplies, as well as location. Are they using gas anesthesia (sevoflurane preferably, isoflurane is good, too) or are they getting a shot in the rear of Rompun? Do they use stainless steel sutures? Lots of cheap spay/neuter places do. The material is cheap. But, your pet is screwed if they ever need an MRI. They won't be able to have one. Monitoring, is your pet on a pulse oximeter, EKG, or BP monitor during surgery?
VinR1 wrote:$350 is outrageous
my vet charges $95
You live in Texas. The cost of living around the world isn't determined by the cost of living in Texas.
A spay in my city for $95 would get you unsafe anesthesia (higher chances of organ failure and the dog is probably not intubated), stainless steel internal sutures so that your dog will NEVER be able to have an MRI, no monitoring, and no pain control.
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In the Midwest, when people think of using woody biomass for energy, the first thought that usually comes to mind is burning wood in a fireplace or wood stove. But the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 combined with the fact that one-third of Missouri is forested has tremendously increased interest in using this natural resource on a much larger scale. This guide defines woody biomass and describes how it can be used for energy, its various sources, and how it is harvested from the forest. This guide also highlights voluntary environmental safeguards to ensure woody biomass is sustainably harvested and provides insight gained from surveys seeking to understand landowner interest in harvesting it.
By strict definition, woody biomass consists of the roots, wood, bark and leaves of living and dead woody shrubs and trees. When harvesting woody biomass for producing energy, however, it is practical to consider only the aboveground portion (Figure 1).
Woody biomass is measured in tons, and a typical acre of Missouri forest contains just over 70 tons. But not all of this biomass is harvested at any one time. Good forest managers remove only about 25 percent, or 18 tons, at one time for traditional forest products, such as lumber and flooring. Half of the biomass is left standing as an intact forest to provide habitat for wildlife and to grow more wood for future harvests. The remaining 25 percent lies in the tops of the harvested trees and in small-diameter trees of poor form or health left in the forest because they have no commercial value. Before the increased interest in woody biomass, the only use for this last 25 percent has been firewood, if it was harvested at all.
Figure 1A typical acre of Missouri forest contains about 73 green tons of aboveground woody biomass.
MU energy plant reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent using woody biomass
The University of Missouri has made great strides toward reaching carbon neutrality since signing the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment in 2009. Named a "sustainability rock star" by the Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges, MU has decreased emissions by 35 percent from its 2008 baseline and is projecting an additional 10 percent decrease by 2017.
Key to the dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions has been the installation of a 100 percent biomass boiler at the university's combined heat and power (CHP) plant. In total, this energy facility supplies all of the university's electrical power, and heats and cools more than 13 million square feet in 340 buildings across campus. With a thermal efficiency of over 70 percent, the CHP plant has won several awards, most notably one from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for producing reliable energy and preserving the environment.
The boiler began operating in the fall of 2012 and became fully operational in the following year. Currently, the source of the biomass is wood chips produced from sawmills in the region and from sustainably harvested woodlands. Whereas the university previously spent over $5 million annually buying coal from southern Illinois, those dollars now stay in Missouri purchasing woody biomass and supporting local communities.
In addition to meeting campus energy needs, MU's Energy Management Department, which manages the CHP plant, has developed partnerships with university researchers in agriculture, agricultural engineering, engineering and forestry to develop new ways to grow, harvest, transport and process biomass feedstocks from a variety of sources. The department is also working closely with MU Extension in sharing these new technologies with farmers, woodland owners and interested citizens.
Today, combustion is the most common way woody biomass is used to produce energy. In fireplaces and wood stoves, the energy produced is thermal energy. In utility companies, the energy produced is also thermal, but that thermal energy is used to produce steam that then drives a generator to produce electricity. Burning wood to produce steam to turn a generator uses less than one-third of the energy released in the combustion process; the rest goes up the smoke stack. Some energy facilities, such as that of the University of Missouri's Columbia campus, are what are called combined heat and power (CHP) plants. After the steam turns a generator to produce electricity, the waste steam is then distributed via pipes to heat and cool campus buildings. Recently, MU installed a biomass boiler that supplies 25 percent of the total electrical and thermal energy required by the campus. (See MU energy plant sidebar.) The Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla and Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville also have used wood chips in their energy facilities to supply thermal energy to their campus buildings.
Other thermochemical processes include gasification, in which biomass is turned directly into what is called syngas, short for synthesis gas; and pyrolysis, in which biomass is converted into bio-oil, which is similar to home heating oil. Fermentation is the biological process of using microorganisms and enzymes to convert biomass into liquid transportation fuels, such as ethanol. This conversion is a relatively easy process if the source of biomass is corn; not so easy if the biomass is wood. Although promising, these more advanced wood-to-energy processes have yet to reach commercial scale.
Woody biomass can come from many sources, some of which are more readily and consistently available than others. Woody biomass in a standing forest is just one of several sources available to an energy facility. The more common sources and their relative availability are described below. The actual supply breakdown to a specific facility will depend on local conditions, such as the distance between the biomass source and the mill, and the cost to produce one biomass source versus another biomass source.
Mill waste Sawmill residues (Figure 2) can be used to create electrical and thermal energy. However, in Missouri, about 93 percent of this material goes into other value-added products, such as charcoal, landscape mulch and wood pellets for home heating stoves. In the free market system, price will determine where this material goes.
Figure 2Bark and other sawmill residues have ready use as landscape mulch and as an energy source.
Debris from natural disastersWoody biomass can also be generated from trees damaged or destroyed by natural disasters. The most common natural disasters in Missouri are ice and wind storms (Figure 3). Such disasters can generate large amounts of woody biomass, but this supply is unpredictable. So although energy facilities will use this material when available, they do not base business decisions on this source.
Figure 3A natural disaster may create a one-time source of woody biomass. The January 2006 ice storm in southwest Missouri generated enough woody biomass in Springfield alone to reach from Springfield to Denver, Co., stacked 3 feet high by 3 feet wide.
Short-rotation plantationsFast-growing species such as cottonwood or willow can be grown in what are called short-rotation plantations (Figure 4). Woody biomass can be harvested every three to five years, after which the stumps generate new shoots. This cycle can be repeated several times before the site needs to be replanted. But these plantations will not be grown on land more suitable for higher-value agronomic crops like corn or soybeans. Short-rotation wood energy crops will be limited to marginal fields and pastures. In addition, experts estimate it will take 10 to 15 years to develop supply chains capable of delivering this form of woody biomass to an energy facility on a reliable basis.
Figure 4Experimental 1-year-old cottonwood trees growing at the MU Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New Franklin, Mo.
Logging residues and small-diameter treesBranches, tops, stumps and other woody debris from commercial harvesting operations are often left at the harvest site (Figure 5). In addition, trees of small-diameter, poor form or ill health are left in the woods because no markets currently exist for them. Those trees, like weeds in a garden, compete with more desirable plants for sunlight, water and nutrients. This overcrowding results in trees of lower vigor that are more susceptible to attack from insects and disease. The excess wood also places the entire forest at risk of catastrophic fire.
Of all the sources, logging residues and small-diameter trees are the most readily available forms of woody biomass.
Figure 5Tree trunks too crooked to make lumber (left) and small-diameter trees that compete with better trees for water and nutrients (right) could be chipped and used to make energy.
Traditionally, trees to be harvested are felled by a person with a chain saw and cut by the sawyer into logs. The logs are then skidded, or transported, to the edge of the forest (Figure 6) where they are loaded onto a log truck for delivery to the sawmill.
When woody biomass is harvested, the entire tree is brought to the forest edge where the trees of commercial value and size are placed in one pile and processed, and nonsalable trees are placed in another pile to be chipped and placed in semitrailers for transport to the energy facility (Figure 7). The simultaneous removal of woody biomass and solid hardwood products is known as a one-pass or integrated harvest.
Most logging businesses favor one-pass harvesting because, other than adding a chipper, they have to make few, if any, modifications to the way they currently harvest trees. Moreover, landowners and foresters prefer this method because it is lighter on the land and thus reduces the potential for soil compaction and erosion.
Highly mechanized pieces of harvesting equipment are now being used in Missouri's forests (Figure 8). They are safer and more efficient for removing large amounts of wood when harvesting biomass along with more valuable timber. Cost-effectiveness of using this equipment remains a challenge, though, because of high capital and operating costs as well as the higher transportation costs of moving bigger machinery from forest to forest; the limited amount of material per operation for biomass markets specifically; and the relatively low value of biomass. These costs make the size of the forest tract being harvested and the amount of biomass available per acre important factors in determining the economic feasibility of harvesting woody biomass.
Figure 6In a conventional harvest, only the salable logs are removed from the woods.
Figure 7An integrated, one-pass harvest sorts and processes low-value woody biomass at the landing.
Figure 8Highly mechanized harvesters, such as the one pictured here, are becoming an increasingly familiar site in Missouri's forests.
In addition to being a sustainable, renewable source for energy and biofuels, properly managed forests are healthier and grow more wood than unattended forests. Like plants in a weeded garden, the trees remaining after a properly executed harvest grow faster and bigger, removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and placing it into long-lived carbon pools. Vigorous, healthy trees are also better able to resist attack from insects and disease. With less wood in the forest, the risk of a catastrophic wildfire is reduced. Improving the vigor and health of the remaining trees also means more food for wildlife in the form of both hard mast (acorns and nuts) and soft mast (berries). Finally, removing the small-diameter trees allows for more light to reach the forest floor to help regenerate the forest.
Forest landowners and rural communities can benefit, too — economically. A properly executed harvest in which woody biomass is removed not only generates modest revenue, but it actually saves the landowner money. MU researchers have shown an average of 15 green tons of woody biomass can be sustainably harvested from a typical acre of Missouri forest (Figure 9). Revenue generated from the sale of this material can range from $1 to $3 per ton, or $15 to $45 per acre. Currently, biomass can only be sold in conjunction with commercial sawtimber, and if this material is not removed, the landowner must pay $100 to $150 per acre to have the unwanted trees killed on the stump to give future crop trees room to grow. The results of harvesting biomass along with salable trees are more money in the landowner's pocket, healthy and vigorous trees better suited to resist attack from insects and disease, and a forest with a higher value for future generations.
Many of Missouri's rural communities need additional markets for their timber to help offset downturns in commercial sawtimber prices. Using logging residues and small-diameter trees, building processing facilities, and marketing the resulting products can bolster local economies (Figure 10). In addition, dollars that once left the region to buy energy outside Missouri have the potential to stay in the region by purchasing locally produced bioenergy.
Figure 9A healthy, vigorous forest in mid-Missouri after a commercial timber harvest and woody biomass removal.
Figure 10As demand for woody biomass grows, so will the demand for processing facilities such as this one in Scott City, Mo., providing jobs for local communities.
Harvesting woody biomass removes more woody material from a forest than a common timber harvest does. Removal of this additional woody biomass could result in soil compaction and adverse effects on future forest productivity, water quality, wildlife habitat and other environmental influences tied to forest sustainability. To ensure future forest sustainability, the Missouri Department of Conservation, in conjunction with natural resource professionals and stakeholder groups from across the state, developed a manual of best management practices (BMPs) to guide forest owners and loggers on harvesting biomass using sustainable management and harvesting techniques. (See Highlights sidebar.)
To protect future forests
To protect wildlife
To protect water quality
In 2011, MU Department of Forestry researchers conducted surveys to better understand Missouri landowners' motivations for owning woodlands and to gauge their potential interest in harvesting woody materials from their woodlands for energy production (Table 1). The survey results suggest that although Missouri's woodland owners are interested in harvesting woody biomass for renewable energy, current market prices may not provide sufficient incentive. While higher woody biomass prices may increase a landowner's willingness to harvest woody biomass, sawtimber prices were the predominant drivers for harvesting. The surveys also indicated that public incentives do not increase landowners' willingness to harvest.
Table 1Summary of results of the "Woodland Management and Bioenergy" study conducted among private woodland owners in Missouri.
NoteThis results summary is from the University of Missouri master's thesis of Marissa "Jo" Daniel, "Social Availability of Woody Biomass for Renewable Energy: Missouri Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners' Perspective," University of Missouri, 2012.
If you are interested in learning more about wood energy, visit eXtension's Wood Energy website, http://www.extension.org/wood_energy. To find out if harvesting woody biomass from your forest is a possibility, contact your local professional forester.
Order publications online at http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/shop/ or call toll-free 800-292-0969.


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Ohio deer-hunting season coming to a close
Ohio deer-hunting season coming to a close
The deer-hunting opportunities in Ohio will soon be coming to a close for this season.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says hunters can shoot deer in the state with a muzzleloader during a four-day season beginning Saturday. Bow season remains open until Feb. 2.
Ohio hunters checked 21,555 deer during the four-day muzzleloader season a year ago.
Muzzleloaders are traditional hunting weapons that emphasize accuracy and the value of the first shot.
Ohio deer bag limits are determined by county. The statewide bag limit is nine deer, but a hunter cannot exceed an individual county bag limit.
Hunters have harvested more than 167,000 deer so far in the 2013 hunting seasons, including the weeklong gun season in December.


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I just saw the call for proposals for AHS13 and see that leadership's interest in becoming the scientific event for ancestral health (leaving more consumer-oriented topics for PaleoFX) is now pretty explicit. The CFP says that AHS is looking for submissions that:
engage in either original research, a review of literature, or clinical and field experience.
This clearly ties in with other news from AHS, e.g., Paul Jaminet's revealing that an AHS journal is on the way and AHS' call for volunteers which suggests that the proposal process will be more in line with your average professional conference.
Seems like a good move to me.


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