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Species In-Depth
At the Aquarium
The Aquarium's Emperor Penguin is one of three models in the June Keyes Penguin Habitat that illustrate the wide size range among the world's penguins. The Emperor is the largest of the three penguin models, (Emperor, Magellanic, and Little Blue), and this four foot model has become a very popular photographic opportunity.
Geographic Distribution
Breeding: The Emperor Penguin breeds on pack ice surrounding the Antarctic continent, Antarctica Peninsula, and islands off the peninsula up to 18 km (11.2 mi) offshore. Land colonies have been seen at Dion Island on the Antarctic Peninsula and at Taylor in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Vagrants have been seen at the South Shetland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, South Sandwich Islands, Kerguelen Island, Heard Island, and New Zealand.
Non-breeding: Little is known about the migration patterns of Emperor Penguins, but adults seem to stay close to permanent ice while juveniles migrate as far north as the polar front (zone of transition between polar and subtropical and tropical air masses).
During breeding season, colonies are usually found inhabiting the stable fast ice attached to the ice shelves and coastlines surrounding the Antarctic continent. The most successful colonies are those that are established on stable pack ice in bays between islands that are somewhat sheltered from the fierce and harsh Antarctic winter winds by icebergs and ice cliffs. From January to March, the austral summer, they inhabit Southern Ocean waters.
Physical Characteristics
Emperor Penguins, the largest of the world's penguins, have a large head; short, thick neck; and a wedge-shaped tail. Their upper bill is black but the coloration of the lower bill varies and can be pink, orange, or lilac. Adults have the basic black and white coloration of most penguins, but they also have some distinguishing coloration in the form of a pale yellow upper breast connecting to bright yellow ear patches. The head, neck, chin, and throat are black with some white areas on the sides of the head and neck. The back is a blue-gray-black color, and the belly and undersides of the flippers are mostly white. Between November and February, the dark plumage fades from black to a brownish color. Unique to Emperors, their feet and the base of their bill are feathered, as are the outer side of their flippers. Juveniles lack the yellow plumage of adults; their ear patches, chin, and throat are white; and they have an all-black bill. Chicks have a black and white face and a body covered with silver-gray down.
Standing height: 0.9-1.2 m (3-4 ft)
Length, the measurement from tip of the beak to end of the tail): 1.1-1.3 m (3.7-4.3 ft) Weight: 22 to 45 kg (49-99 lb) The weight of these penguins varies seasonally. They are heaviest at the start of the breeding season after spending several months foraging, and at the end of the breeding season after their pre-molt foraging. Both males and females lose weight during the breeding season when they are caring for eggs and feeding chicks.
Adult Emperor Penguins consume 2-5 kg (4.4-11 lb) of food per day except at the start of the breeding season or when they are building up their body mass in preparation for molting. Then they eat as much as six kilograms (thirteen pounds) per day.
Although the diet of Emperor Penguins varies by location and may include fish, krill, or squid, the most important food source is fish, especially Antarctic silversides. Krill and glacial and hooked squid supplement their fish diet. Foraging, which is usually done in flocks, occurs in ice free ocean waters and in tidal water in cracks in the pack ice. While some prey is captured by surface feeding, the usual method is by long, deep, pursuit diving. Emperors are very efficient divers. Shallow dives take two to four minutes while deeper dives can last as long as 12 minutes. Average dive depths are 18 to 21 m (60 to 70 ft). The tongue has rear-facing barbs to prevent prey from escaping when caught.
Emperor Penguins become sexually mature at three years of age; however, they usually do not start breeding until four to six years old. In late April/early May at the start of the austral winter, the march of the penguins begins when the birds exit the frigid ocean water and climb onto the pack ice. They then waddle and toboggan on their bellies at a speed of one km/hr (1.6 mph) to the breeding site, usually where they were born. There are about 46 known colonies of Emperor Penguins and the distance of the rookeries are 96 to 160 km (60-100 mi) inland.
Unlike many other penguins that usually mate for life, Emperors choose a new mate each year. They are faithful to that mate for the breeding season only. The male uses posturing and vocalization to attract a female. When he is successful, the pair waddles around the colony together. Then, just before mating actually occurs, each bows to the other by pointing its bill close to the ground.
The female lays a single egg in May or early June which she transfers to the male. Emperors do not build a nest and for the next 60 to 64 days, the male balances the egg on top of his feet, keeping it warm under his brood pouch, a fold of feather covered skin that extends from his lower belly. After transferring the egg, the female travels back to the ocean to feed. She will be gone for about two months. To protect themselves from frigid temperatures that drop to as low as -40°C (-40°F), the left-behind males huddle together for warmth.
The female returns from her foraging trip a few days before the egg hatches. She takes over incubation duties, reliving the now very hungry and exhausted male, who has lost nearly half his body weight, to go to sea and forage. The egg usually hatches in August and the female broods the chick until the male returns. She then goes to sea again but for a shorter time, and the male and female alternate foraging trips and chick care duties.
In October at 45 to 50 days of age, the chick leaves its parents to join a group of chicks, (a crèche), that are densely packed together for warmth and protection. Adults forage and feed the chick together until it begins to molt to replace its down with the feathered waterproof plumage of a juvenile. The chick does not eat during the molting process which takes about two months. Feathered juveniles go to sea in December. At this time they are half the weight of an adult.
The Huddle: Emperors are social, non-territorial birds and they depend on each other to survive very cold windy days by forming huddles to stay warm. Huddling cuts the heat loss by as much as 50 percent. The atmosphere inside the huddle is one of group cooperation. In a continuous circling whirlpool-like motion, each penguin takes its turns occupying the warm center spots and cold outside spots in the huddle. Penguins on the edge of the huddle move in out of the wind and cold as those in the center move toward the wind and cold, eventually reaching the edge of the huddle again. This constant movement causes the huddle to shift and in a blizzard, it may move as much as 200 meters (656 feet).
Vocalization: Unlike many other penguins, Emperors are not territorial and they do not have individual nests. Living as they do in densely crowded colonies, they rely on vocalization to find mates and chicks. Their voice system has two different frequencies. One is a shorter wave length that travels long distances and the other is a longer wave that travels shorter distances—both are important to find mates and chicks that may be somewhere among hundreds of penguins. Trumpet-like calls made with the head pointed up in what is described as the 'Emperor Song', are calls of ecstasy or relief. The mated pair is silent from the time they bond until the female returns from her first voyaging trip after laying the egg. In the crèches chicks use whistles or humming sounds together with head nods up and down as they beg for food.
Molting: When chicks begin to exchange their down for feathered plumage, the adults go to sea on a premolt trip to forage and restore the 50 percent of the weight they have lost during the breeding season in preparation for their energy-sapping molt. In January and February some return to their breeding site to molt: others may have to find a different location because of ice conditions. During this time the penguins do not eat and once again, lose weight. Molting is rapid in this species compared with other birds, taking only about 35 days. To help reduce heat lose, new feathers emerge from the skin after they have grown to a third of their total length, and before old feathers are lost. Before becoming fully grown, new feathers then push out the old feathers.
Emperor penguins have adapted over hundreds of years to be able to survive in the harsh environment in which they live. They have a thick layer of wooly down next to the skin that is covered by four layers of scale-like feathers, all coated with a waterproof substance. In addition to feathers on top of the skin, they have an insulating layer of blubber under the skin. They are able to build up extensive fat reserves and have a fat layer insulating their inner core that enables them to survive periods of extreme cold and long periods between feeding during the breeding season.
Their circulatory system of veins and arteries in their feet and flippers minimizes loss of energy used to stay warm. These penguins can actually recycle their body heat. Their blood vessels are woven together and wrap around each other so that blood flowing from the heart to the feet and flippers, and other areas close to the skin, passes next to blood flowing back to the heart, and heat is transferred from arterial blood to returning blood to minimize heat loss.
On the ice, their strong claws enable them to grip the surface of the ice as they walk. By pushing with their feet, they are either able to move forward by sliding while upright or on their belly in a tobogganing movement. Small bills and flippers conserve heat. Their nasal chambers are able to recover much of the heat normally lost during exhalation.
About 20 years in the wild.
Currently listed as Least Concern (Safe for Now) on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, a change in status to vulnerable is now under consideration. In November 2011 a petition was submitted to the United States government requesting that Emperor Penguins be listed as threatened or endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Emperor Penguins are the most ice-dependent of all penguins, and ice is crucial to their survival. Scientists are concerned that these penguins may not be able to adapt fast enough to the impacts of global warming on their icy Antarctic habitat. These include the rapid melting of the ice they depend on for breeding grounds and a decline in krill availability, both a food source for the penguins and also for the schooling fish that are a major part of the Emperor Penguin diet.
At sea, adult Emperors are preyed on by leopard seals and killer whales. However, because of their size, remote isolation location, and lack of introduced predators, adult Emperor Penguins are not susceptible to predation while on the ice and inland. Predation of chicks by South Polar Skuas and Southern Giant Petrels is high.
Special Notes
In late 2011 and early 2012, a team of British and U.S. scientists used high resolution pan-sharpening satellite imagery to do a census of Emperor Penguins. On the ice, the Emperor Penguins with their black and white plumage stood out against the snow and colonies were clearly visible on satellite imagery. Their study found four previously undiscovered colonies, increasing the number of known colonies from 42 to 46. The study also almost doubled the size of the Emperor population from the previously estimated 270,000-350,000 to 595,000 birds. This 2012 satellite study also revealed 235,000 breeding pairs in contrast to the 135,000-175,000 estimated in 1999. The researchers believe that the methods used in their study are a cost-effective way to provide accurate information for international conservation efforts.."
The Emperor Penguin was first described in 1844; however, it was not until 1902 during the Scott-Schaleton voyage of the Discovery that a breeding colony was discovered at Ross Island's Cape Crozier. In spring 1903 when Discovery was trapped in ice, a biologist aboard the ship was able to study the breeding colony in detail. He thought he would see eggs, but instead, he observed well grown chicks. He correctly concluded that eggs had to be laid in the middle of the Antarctic's winter for chicks to be at this stage of development in the spring. In late June 2011 an expedition returned to Cape Crozier in the austral winter and observed eggs, confirming the 1903 hypothesis that Emperor Penguins lay their eggs in winter, the only penguin species to do so. Ross Island is the site of the United States McMurdo Station and a census of Cape Crozier's Emperor Penguin colony is done annually. Today there are an estimated 600+ breeding pairs. The colony, the most southern of the 40 known Emperor colonies, is still recovering from a large iceberg that blocked ocean access for the colony in 2001, devastating it.


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Flip Saunders is moving down from the front office to coach the Minnesota Timberwolves.
After the team's coaching search was complicated by Kevin Love's uncertain future in Minnesota, the Timberwolves decided the best course of action was to have Saunders, who was hired last season as president of basketball operations, step in for a second stint as coach until the situation stabilized, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. The people requested anonymity because the team has not officially announced the move.
Saunders previously coached the Timberwolves from 1995-2005. He won 411 games in 10 seasons in Minnesota and guided the Wolves to the only eight playoff appearances in franchise history, including the Western Conference finals in 2004. He has a career record of 638-526 in 16 seasons as an NBA head coach, a career that also includes stops in Detroit and Washington.
Saunders is joining a short list in the NBA of coaches that also have final-say executive authority, one that includes newly hired Stan Van Gundy in Detroit, Doc Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers and, to a certain extent, Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. Saunders will continue to work with GM Milt Newton in the front office while handling coaching duties.
When Rick Adelman retired at the end of the regular season, he did so in part to try to help the Timberwolves move forward with a plan to show Love, a three-time All-Star who can opt out of his contract next summer, that there was a long-term plan in place for success.
But Love's tenuous situation only complicated the search process, with trade rumors serving as a caution sign for several high-profile candidates.
Saunders was in the market for a coach with extensive head coaching experience, either in the NBA or at a major college program, one that could command the respect of a young locker room and also handle the media scrutiny that comes with the questions surrounding Love. Names like Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan and Fred Hoiberg came and went without any traction.
The Wolves hosted Memphis coach Dave Joerger for an interview two weekends ago, but Grizzlies owner Robert Pera sweetened his contract to keep him around.
Unable to find what they felt was the right fit for a delicate job, Saunders and owner Glen Taylor met earlier this week to reassess the situation. Taylor said when he brought Saunders back as team president that he would not put him back on the bench. He fired Saunders as coach once before, in 2005 when Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, unhappy with their contracts, submarined the follow-up to the team's stirring run to the Western Conference finals.
Saunders was also hopeful that he could find someone other than himself to take over a team that hasn't been to the playoffs in 10 years. But with Love's status preventing them from pursuing the coaches they felt would fit best, the two decided that Saunders should take over for at least this season, after which the team's roster construction figures to be much clearer.
The Timberwolves have not given up on convincing Love to play out this season in Minnesota and re-sign next summer to a contract that can pay him an extra year and about $26.5 million more than any other team. It was not immediately clear what the appointment of Saunders would do for Love's desires to stay or go.
Love has yet to make the playoffs in his six seasons in the league and is believed to be growing impatient with the Wolves, who finished 40-42 and in 10th place in the West this year. Love created a stir when he spent last weekend in Boston, where the Celtics are rumored to be making a run at trading for the 25-year-old power forward before the June 26 draft.
Just how long Saunders will coach remains to be seen.
There is the possibility that Saunders will add assistants to his staff who could be groomed to eventually take over. He was expected to reach out to Sam Mitchell, a former Timberwolves player and Raptors head coach, and David Blatt, who has spearheaded Russia's return to Olympic relevance and coaches in Israel, to gauge their interest in joining his staff.

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HOUSTON - Tonight at 10, we showed you the beef industry's response to the pink slime scandal that's been all over the news and internet the last several months. We did our best to fit in answers to all of the questions you sent us through Facebook, but inevitably, something gets left out. I am leaving all that information that got left on the cutting room floor here.
Andrew Chavez asked "I've been wondering Is this the same Pink slime Used for McDonalds Chicken Nuggets?"
Answer: No, but there is a similar processing technique used to make chicken nuggets. We were told by federal regulators that this picture (right) circulating that everyone claims is the "pink slime" used in lean beef trimmings is more likely "mechanically separated chicken." Nice.
Desiree' Dedeaux-Brown asked "How do you know if the ground beef you're buying has this stuff in it?"
Answer: HEB, Fiesta, Whole Foods and Costco all say their ground beef has never contained the trimmings. Since the recent reports, Kroger, Randall's and Target have pulled the beef with trimmings from their shelves. A WalMart spokesperson sent me a statement saying that WalMart and Sam's do carry it, but they will begin carrying beef without it as quickly as possible. Here is WalMart's statement that was emailed to me:
"As a result of customer and member feedback, Walmart and Sam's Club will begin offering fresh ground beef that does not contain lean finely textured beef (LFTB). We are working aggressively with our suppliers to have new offerings in our stores and clubs as quickly as possible. As these products become available, associates in our meat department and at our customer service desks will share updates with customers who inquire.While the USDA and experts agree that beef containing LFTB is safe and nutritious, we are committed to listening to our customers and providing the quality products they want at prices they can afford."
If you purchase meat with the "USDA Organic" logo on it, it will not contain the lean beef trimmings because the ammonia hydroxide that they treat the meat with is not certified organic.
Melissa Crabtree asked: "How do you know if your school district buys food for school breakfasts and lunches that contain this stuff?"
Answer: You have to ask your school district.. and they will even have to do some homework to figure it out. HISD checked with the 3 vendors it purchases beef from to find out if any of them got their beef from the company that produces the product in question. Not all districts we contacted did their research to give us what I would consider a satisfactory answer. Here are the responses from the school districts we contacted:
Houston ISD
All HISD ground beef suppliers have confirmed this week that they do not use lean finely textured beef.
Houston Independent School District officials contacted the suppliers soon after concerns were raised about lean finely textured beef, also known as pink slime. As of Wednesday afternoon, each vendor had supplied HISD with written documentation confirming they have not sent the district any of the controversial products. In addition, HISD officials have inspected about $800,000 worth of frozen ground beef stored at the district's food services facility and confirmed it does not contain lean finely textured beef.
In the future, HISD will decline to purchase any products that contain lean finely textured beef.
Fort Bend ISD
Fort Bend ISD would not want any of our beef products to contain this filler. However, if USDA had the filler added to the ground beef in their procurement practices and this product was distributed to school districts nationwide; then there is the possibility we have it in some of our entrees. We will do our best to ensure products purchased do not contain this filler and product specifications will be evaluated and modified as appropriate.
The Fort Bend ISD Child Nutrition Department will use all possible checks and balances to ensure this filler is not contained in any products purchased by the Department. Our goal is for parents to be confident the best quality food products are purchased and prepared for all meals served in the school cafeterias.
Gail McIntire-Stotler
Child Nutrition Director
Fort Bend Independent School District
Aldine Independent School District
Aldine ISD's Child Nutrition Services purchases ground beef products from 3 vendors. 1. Advance Pierre Group – does not sell Lean Finely Textured Beef processed with Ammonia Hydroxide2. JTM Food Group – does not sell Lean Finely Textured Beef processed with Ammonia Hydroxide3. Sysco Houston – does sell Lean Finely Textured Beef processed with Ammonia Hydroxide and Aldine is currently purchasing a very small amount (5% of total beef purchased).Even though the use of ammonia hydroxide to manufacture Lean Finely Textured Beef is approved by USDA and has been proven to be wholesome and safe, Aldine Child Nutrition Services is immediately changing beef purchased from Sysco Houston to a product without ammonia hydroxide.
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
The district contracts with vendors other than USDA, but we haven't received information about their inclusion of the finely textured beef. However, next year, due to our bid specifications, no vendors will be used that uses the lean, finely textured beef.
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD participates in the National School Lunch Program and receives about $2.2 million in donated food commodities from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) One of these commodities is bulk ground beef. Although the USDA stands behind the safety of the ground beef that they provide for lunch programs, the use of finely textured beef in shipments of bulk beef will be discontinued next year. Given the choice, CFISD will be opting out of the shipments of finely textured beef. In CFISD, students have options other than ground beef; they can choose a hot entree, a hot sandwich item, a hummus lunch box, a yogurt and string cheese lunch box or a variety of entree salads.
Katy ISD
The district didn't send me a written statement, but the district representative Steven Stanford told me that Katy's private beef vendors didn't give them beef with the trimmings in the past, and moving forward, the district will opt to buy ground beef without the lean finely textured beef trimmings.
Conroe ISD
Conroe ISD is a member of the Gulf Coast Co-Op which includes districts from Galveston, Montgomery, Walker, Grimes, Brazoria and Harris Counties. Manufacturers apply to the USDA to be approved to process products for school districts. For almost two decades, Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) has been an acceptable component of the ground beef purchased by USDA for distribution through the National School Lunch Program as well as for commercial purposes.
Upon contacting our beef manufacturers, they sent us a statement that USDA commodity meat is purchased by the USDA under their approved specifications.
The CISD Child Nutrition Director has received unofficial information that next year, districts will have the option to receive commodity beef where LFTB has not been added. If given the option, CISD will not be using any beef that has undergone this added component.
Questions regarding USDA Foods beef should be directed to the USDA Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) office.
We emailed and called Alief ISD, but they never responded to our questions.
Joel Salazar asked: "Why would I want this (the pink slim) added to my hamburger meat. Is there a nutritional value?"
Answer: According to the American Meat Institute, the nutritional value of lean beef trimmings is about the same as regular ground beef. They claim there is no connective tissue, tendons or anything other than muscled meat treated with ammonia hydroxide (a puff of gas) to kill pathogens.
Russell Shawn Harris asked: "If you took a patty made up of 100% pink slime, what would the patty reduce down to? Would there be nothing left and only liquid fat in the pan or just a smaller patty?"
Answer: Good question, Russell. It's hard to say because the product is never sold or eaten as 100% lean beef trimmings (aka: pink slime). The USDA says when it is mixed with regular ground beef, there is never more than 15% of the beef trimmings. The AMI spokesperson said that the beef trimmings are softer than regular ground beef because it was a bunch of small pieces of meat that were packed together and then ground up.
Stacey Morton Sims asked "How does "lean" and "trimmings" fit in the same description?"
Answer: According to AMI, the meat is removed from pieces of fat by a patented technique where workers heat the trimmings (not enough to cook it) just enough that the fat melts away from the little pieces of beef that would otherwise be too difficult to cut off individually with a knife. When that beef is separated from the fat, AMI and the USDA say it is very lean. There is almost no fat on it at all.
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Korn's Jonathan Davis: 'We're Not a Metal Band'
Korn have never exactly been the kind of band that tries to please critics — or, for that matter, anyone else but themselves — so when their tenth studio album, 'The Path of Totality,' was greeted with wildly mixed reactions last December, it was pretty much par for the course, albeit with one crucial difference: the new record, which finds the band experimenting with dubstep and electronic textures to a greater degree, was seen by some as a betrayal of their metal roots. As you might expect, the members of Korn see things differently.
"There's a lot of similarities there, there really is," said vocalist Jonathan Davis, talking to Radio Metal about the band's efforts to blend dubstep and metal. "Dubstep music is really heavy. Some of those sounds were just so heavy that we thought it would work, so we wanted to experiment."
Of course, he admits, "It was tough. We had no clue about what we were doing. That was something that hadn't been done before. It was a big huge learning curve … Of course it was a hard record to make, but it was the funnest record I've ever made."
As for the fans and critics who thought the band missed the mark with the album, Davis said, "There's a lot of closed-minded metal purists that would hate something because it's not true to metal or whatever, but Korn has never been a metal band, dude. We're not a metal band." He continued, "We've always been looked as as what they called the nu-metal thing. But we've always been the black sheep and we never fitted into that kind of thing so … We're always ever evolving, and we always piss fans off and we're gaining other fans and it is how it is."
According to Davis, fans can continue to expect collaborations and genre-mashing from Korn in the future. "I want to mix everything together. I love all types of music and that's why we constantly evolve, and we constantly keep doing different things. That's why we like to do what we do.
"As long as it makes us happy. We don't get bored," concluded Davis. "So, I mean that's art and we're artists."


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For years, I've been extolling the virtues of self-publishing ebooks, and raging against the supposed tyranny of the Big 6.
But my secret shame is that my agent has been consistently submitting my novels to them, which I only self-publish after they get rejected for being poorly written crap. Then, to mask my pain, I self-publish that garbage and criticize those editors who rightfully discarded it, because I'm petty and spiteful.
The truth is, I haven't made millions of dollars self-publishing.
Since 2009, on more than forty self-pubbed titles, I've only earned a combined total of $1782.
That's just $33 a month. Not even enough to buy a nice dinner.
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CA Upgrades System Management Products CA upgrades four system management products, giving each greater authority over the virtual domain as well as physical assets.
RightScale Refreshes Cloud Management Platform It has expanded its line of server templates suitable for configuring a workload to be sent to Amazon's EC2 public cloud.
Blue Coat Identifies Halloween Trick Blue Coat has identified a new malware trick just in time for Halloween. Unsuspecting victims are redirected to one of two malware sites after searching for Halloween related sites. These distribution sites are typically used for hosting of warez, pirated digital content, but have been switched to malware distribution in the past 12 hours.
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The Crapware Plague: Fed Up And Fighting Back! Would you buy a PC from a vendor that treats you like an idiot, wastes your time and makes your life miserable? Chances are, you already do.
WhiteHouse.gov Drupal Detractors Get Buggy The news that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched this week running open source Drupal software raised eyebrows and hackles among knee-jerk anti-Obama types and a small cadre of ignorant bloggers.
The Internet At 40: A Promise Deciphered The Internet turned 40 yesterday, and it got me thinking about its relationship to the time and place in which it was invented. The happenstance of its first message belies why it wasn't just an innovation or improvement, but a truly disruptive technology.
Nokia Dis-N-Gages Nokia has decided to shut down its N-Gage gaming service in September 2010. This is a rare public admission of defeat for Nokia, which launched the N-Gage gaming platform to much fanfare several years ago. Ever since Nokia transitioned the service to an online gaming portal, it has failed to find users.
Windows 7 First 'Self-Healing' OS Microsoft baked a number of support technologies directly into its new operating system so it can self-diagnose and repair problems.
IBM Targets Smart Cities, Government Services A new government framework is aimed at tax and revenue management, safety, social services, transportation, and urban infrastructures.
Backup & Recovery: Practice Makes Perfect! When it comes to recovering data from a backup source, practice makes perfect. And failing to practice can leave your small business in a terrible mess at the worst possible time.
VoiceCon 2009: Tackling A Shifting Business Communications Landscape The enterprise communications event, in San Francisco November 2-5, will feature deep dive sessions and keynotes from Avaya, IBM, and Siemens.
Alcatel Lucent Sales, Profits Slide A 2Q profit of $19.7 million, however, may help the networking company break even for the year.
Users Reporting BlackBerry Storm2 Wi-Fi Goof Covered by the tidal wave of Motorola Droid news this week was the launch of the BlackBerry Storm2 on Verizon's network. In all respects, the device is a major update to the original that is seriously worth considering. Although, there appears to be an issue with the Storm2's Wi-Fi radio.
MicroStrategy BI License Revenues Up 39% The business intelligence application vendor's performance is in striking contrast to the broader software industry.
QBE Outsources Tech Ops To IBM Big Blue will assume responsibility for help desk, network, and disaster recovery functions.
Q&A: CIO Ross Philo On 'Post Office' In Your Home In a tough business environment, the U.S. Postal Service is delivering new capabilities for home PCs and smartphones and new services for high-volume mailers, says its top IT executive.
Amazon Serves Up MySQL Amazon's newest cloud offering: MySQL 5.1 in the cloud, also known as Amazon RDS. And there's worry that it'll turn out to be a bad thing for MySQL in the long run, although that might not hold true for other open source repurposed in the same way.
Qualcomm Unit Joins Symbian Foundation The move boosts the Symbian platform, which includes a mobile operating system, user interfaces, middleware, and various mobile applications.
iTunes 9.0.2 Breaks Palm Pre Sync Again The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and Palm continues. Apple offered up iTunes 9.0.2 yesterday. The main reason for the update was to bring new compatibility with Apple TV 3.0 software. Apple was sure to take the time to nix the Palm Pre's ability to sync with iTunes, too.
Records and the Threat of Cloud Computing I recently hosted a panel for ARMA that proved to be one of the most thought-provoking sessions I have been involved in for a long time. What became abundantly clear early on was that records managers and compliance officers really need to get their head around cloud computing, and fast.
IBM And HP Seeking $700M Microsoft Outsourcing Deal IBM and Hewlett-Packard are among the finalists for a $700 million outsourcing contract from Microsoft to manage huge portions of its global IT infrastructure, according to a media report from India.
Sprint Nextel Subscribers Dwindling To counter losses, the carrier is betting on Android handsets and a plan to roll out WiMax through Clearwire.
Does The World Need A Twitter Device? Twitter has become a very popular service and to make the most of it, Peek has released a new device called the TwitterPeek that does just one thing - Twitter. Really?
Benioff Discloses All In 'Behind the Cloud' Except... Five copies of "Behind the Cloud" have arrived at my desk, two intended for fellow IW staffers and three for me, an embarrassment of riches. It's Marc Benioff's book on how Salesforce.com was created and built into a successful company. I am reading it avidly… but some disclosures will apparently have to wait for the sequel.
A Public Broadband Option? Having looked over Google's explanation of its Google Voice call blocking practices to the Federal Communications Commission, it's clear to me that U.S. telecommunications regulations need to be thrown out and re-written from the ground up.
Asus Unveils USB 3.0 Motherboard USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, supports throughput up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0.
Social Media Influence Elections, Not Laws We've seen how social media like Twitter and Facebook can be used as part of a winning election strategy, but the same tools don't seem to influence elected officials or public policy.
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Sprint: No More Tethering Here's an interesting move. Today, a Sprint spokesperson said that moving forward it will not allow its smartphone customers to tether their devices to their laptops. You want mobile Internet on your laptop? Buy a Sprint dongle and data plan.
TV Web Site Opts For Cloud Servers To handle extreme spikes in Web traffic, a popular television show's servers were ditched in favor of Rackspace cloud hosting.
The State Of The Mobile Web Opera has released a report on the state of the mobile web and it shows, as expected, growth in the number of people viewing the web on their mobile phones, the number of pages each person views and the amount of data they each consume.
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An Android App For The Military Raytheon's mobile application for Android-based smartphones employs GPS, camera, and other real-time capabilities for use in the field.
Amazon Introduces PayPhrase Payment Shortcut Online merchants can use Amazon's passphrase payment scheme to ease the friction of online commerce.
Does Driving Electric Need To Mimic Combustion? I've read that most of the plug-in electric vehicles under development have been designed to mimic the "feel" of driving a combustion engine car. I'm not sure that's even possible, and I don't know why they'd try.
Windows 7 Hardware Discounts Offered PC users can now get bargains on Microsoft mice, keyboards, Webcams, and other peripherals—even if they didn't host a launch party.
Is The Desktop PC Doomed? The rise of Web-based apps, virtualization, and a crop of powerful mobile devices have the traditional PC desktop on the run.
Catbird Monitoring VMs In Amazon EC2 A version of Catbird's vSecurity Cloud Edition is available as an app in Amazon's EC2-approved catalog of application services.
'Complexity' Delays Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Deadline for completion passes as the companies work out the fine print.
Motorola Posts 3Q Profit The handset maker is looking to its Google Android-based smartphones, like the Verizon Droid, to regain market share.
Sprint Continues To Bleed Customers Sprint reported its third quarter earnings today, and the news wasn't so good. Though Sprint lost customers at a slower pace than the previous two quarters, it still saw overall subscriber numbers drop. So much for that whole "Palm Pre to the Rescue" notion, eh?
Down To Business: How Do You Define Prosperity? In its measure of the "wealth and well being" of 104 countries, a U.K. think tank provides ample food for thought as we consider the attributes that truly matter in this connected global economy.
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There's been a recent renaissance in small living spaces.
New York City and San Francisco are moving forward with plans to build experimental "micro apartments," and a small tiny-house community has popped up on the outskirts of Washington D.C.
The idea of a "tiny home" is nothing new —Jay Shafer, founder of the Tumblewood Tiny House Company, has been the face of the movement and a major advocate of the concept for more than a decade.
But their recent rise in popularity "could be seen as a denunciation of conspicuous consumption and a rejection of the idea that more is, well, more," writes The Washington Post's Emily Wax.
The homes, often with 200 square feet of living space or less, are brilliant examples of design. For such a small square footage, they can be surprisingly livable.
Shafer took sustainable culture blog *faircompanies inside his own tiny house. Click through to see what life is like in his 89-square-foot residence.


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Google's high-tech specs bounced back into the headlines on Friday when the company released a video shot by someone wearing the special glasses while using a trampoline.
The 15-second video was posted on Google+ this week, alongside a bunch of photos also taken with the specs.
Shot in 720p, viewers get to see a point-of-view shot of someone (presumably not Sergey Brin, though who knows?) wearing the glasses while bouncing up and down on a trampoline, throwing in a few backflips for good measure. And yes, the specs stay on.
The video (you can check it out below) displays none of the glasses' expected augmented reality features – so no on-screen information about local weather conditions, no location shown on Google Maps and no ads featuring trampoline stores in the area.
Up to now Google has given little indication as to when the smartphone-on-your-face spectacles might be launched – engineers no doubt still has much work to do on their development and design. There is also a dearth information regarding possible price, though we wouldn't be surprised to see them costing around the same as a high-end smartphone.
After much speculation about the possibility of Google working on the creation of futuristic specs, the company finally came clean last month, announcing it was indeed developing AR glasses. Calling its endeavor Project Glass, Google said in a blog post that its plan is to "help you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment."
The Mountain View company has some competition though – soon after it announced Project Glass, sunglasses maker Oakley piped up and said it too has been working on producing a pair of AR glasses. Oakley said it's been developing its specs for the last 15 years. Let's hope Google doesn't take that long with its own design.


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Shawn Porter versus Kell Brook: Who wins August 16?
Shawn Porter versus Kell Brook: Who wins August 16?
By John J. Raspanti, Doghouse Boxing (Aug 15, 2014)
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Both Shawn Porter and Kell Brook, who meet August 16 at The StubHub Center in Carson, CA. are brimming with confidence. The two fighters are undefeated in a combined 56 bouts.
Porter (24-0-1, 15 KOs) will be making the second defense of his IBF welterweight title.
He won the belt last year by outpointing Devon Alexander over 12 rounds. His victory was something of a surprise.
Most predicted that the clever Alexander would get the better of him, but it was Porter who outworked his opponent throughout the bout.
He next faced former two-time champion Paulie Malignaggi. Porter attacked from the opening bell, surprising Malignaggi with his quickness and power.
Though he never stopped trying, Malignaggi had no comeback and crumbled to the canvas in round four.
Brook (34-0, 22 KOs) has stopped his last four opponents, but his competition pales next to Porter. Brook was supposed to get a shot at Alexander's title before Porter did, but injuries to both men forced cancellations on three different occasions.
The twenty-six-year old Porter has steadily shown improvement in his game.
After a draw with Julio Diaz two years ago, he fought Diaz in a rematch ten months later. Porter dominated at times and came away with a unanimous decision victory. He then surprised Alexander and annihilated Malagnaggi.
Could the native of Akron, Ohio, be entering his prime?
"Honestly, I would say yes," Porter said during a conference call. "I don't really know what age you're considered in your prime or anything like that, I don't follow statistics. Nothing about me is statistical."
Brook, 28, is aware that most U.S. boxing fans have never seen him fight. Will his skill surprise them?
"I don't think they'll be surprised," Brook said. "They're going to see what Kell Brook can really do, and, in fact, everyone around the world is going to see why they do call me "The Special One." And you're going to see me at my best."
Porter believes that his fighting pedigree will be too much for Brook to handle.
"Yes, I feel that all the experience that I had in the amateurs has been great for me and has made me what I am as a pro," said Porter. "The experience that I've had now as a pro has got me to the point that I'm at right now where I just feel very comfortable."
Brook is coming to America for one reason--to win.
"I'm a big welterweight and strong and determined," Brook said. "I think that he (Porter) can maybe see it in my eyes that I'm not coming to lay down, I'm coming to lay it on the line."
Style-wise you couldn't ask for two more diverse fighters.
Porter is short, but powerfully built. He uses a crouch which makes him a hard target. He prefers staying on the outside and using his quickness. Then suddenly he'll attack an opponent, throwing punches in bunches to the head and body.
Brook, two inches taller at 5'9," assumes a more upright stance. His quick hands pack power. He's an accurate puncher who can take out an opponent with one blow. He also has a pretty decent jab.
Porter is the more flexible fighter while Brook has an edge in power. As the match moves into the later stages, his pressure will likely be too much for Brook to handle, leading to a late stoppage.
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New Seafood Online Retail Store and A Food Gal Giveaway
Family-owned Anderson Seafoods, Inc. of Orange, Calif., which has supplied premium seafood to retailers such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, has launched an online retail store for consumers.
Imagine both fresh and frozen fish sent to your door via overnight delivery.
Now, you're probably thinking that shipping fish in doesn't sound very PC, but Anderson Seafoods has teamed up with UPS to offer carbon neutral shipping to help mitigate that. You can purchase carbon neutral offsets that UPS will match at a very affordable 20 cents per package delivered.
In this day and age of heightened concerns about where our seafood comes from, though, I only wish the Anderson Web site had more detailed information on where some of the types of seafood come from. For instance, it sells "fresh Atlantic salmon," but doesn't mention that it's farm-raised. It also sells Chilean Seabass, even though this species remains on the "avoid list" on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Guide because it is still considered overfished.
Recently, I did have a chance to sample some of the seafood products, including fresh Loch Duart salmon ($22.01 for 12 ounces), billed as a sustainable farm-raised salmon from Scotland; fresh ahi ($28.50 for 12 ounces); and frozen mahi mahi ($24.11 for 12 ounces). The fish comes vacuum-sealed in insulated containers.
The quality is definitely high. For instance, the beautiful piece of salmon was fresh and rich tasting, and arrived sans any pesky pin bones at all, which was quite impressive. I also tried one of Anderson's frozen entrees — salmon potstickers ($12.38 for 14 ounces), which were very plump with a substantial filling of salmon, water chestnuts and panko bread crumbs.
Contest: If you'd like to try some of the seafood, I'm happy to be able to give away a $125 gift card to Anderson Seafoods. Entries, limited to those in the continental United States, will be accepted through midnight May 28. The winner will be announced May 30.
How to win?
In a play on the word, "seafood," just tell me about a food, which when you see it, you just can't resist — and why. Best answer wins.
Here's my own answer to that question:
"When I see a just-baked cookie of any sort that has melty dark chocolate in it, I just can't help but lunge for it. First off, I love cookies of any kind. But one with gooey chocolate is just my downfall. After all, my late-Dad filmed my first steps as a toddler. Not surprisingly, I was ambling around on wobbly legs while holding a giant chocolate chip cookie in my hand — for balance, no doubt."
Winner of Last Week's Contest: In the previous Food Gal contest, I asked you tell me about a memorable time when you truly pigged out. The best answer receives a "Be Inspired with Pork Kit," which is being provided to the Food Gal by the folks at the National Pork Board. It includes an 11-inch square grill pan; a 16-jar revolving spice rack; a pig-shaped wood cutting board; a digital thermometer; a copy of the cookbook, "How to Cook Like a Top Chef" (Chronicle Books), autographed by Richard Blais; and a gift card to a local retailer to purchase some tasty pork to cook up.
A huge congrats to:
Nanette, who wrote, "I think the greatest pig out I ever had was when I went to a pig party (wearing stretchy pants). It involved the host buying a WHOLE pig, lugging it on public transportation cut up and in trash bags, and then cooking the whole thing. 17 different pork dishes and I partook in all of them. Almost 200 pounds of pig. It was an epic pork experience in my life. I took a pig nap afterward."
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Hollywood's newest Olsen makes Sundance debut
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - The younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen is breaking into showbiz with two buzzed-about films at the Sundance Film Festival.
Elizabeth Olsen, 21, stars in "Silent House," directed by the filmmakers who made the 2004 indy hit "Open Water." When it debuted at Sundance, it was sold to Lionsgate for more than $2 million.
Based on a film from Uruguay called "La Casa Muda," "Silent House" is one continuous take as Olsen's character begins to suspect her summer house may be haunted. Olsen compares shooting the film to theater, which she started doing as a child.
"When I was auditioning, I was like, 'Just so you know I'm used to the medium of theater, so like I can stand on my feet for this long,"' she laughs.
Olsen's other film at Sundance is "Martha Macy May Marlene," where she plays a young women trying to readjust to life after escaping from a cult.
"It's hard for independent films when they want to get money," said Olsen. "And to have a lead be an unknown - it's kind of a risk for people to take. And so the fact that they took that risk was like made my year, my life, I don't know! It was really exciting."
The actress may be enthusiastic about her career but turns serious when it comes to the idea of being a tabloid target like her big sisters, now 24, who are chased constantly by paparazzi. The Olsen twins have been in the spotlight since they were hired as infants to share a role in the TV comedy "Full House."
"When I would go shopping with my sisters when I was younger, it would be dangerous. People would almost get us into car accidents. I just think it's crazy in general but I want to be an actor - and I have since I was a little girl - and if that happens, then you figure out how to deal with it where it doesn't completely infringe upon your life," said Olsen. "I haven't experienced that personally yet. Hopefully I don't have to but I think it's a really weird part of this business."
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Nice work I was going to do that myself!! Now all you need is a piece of cloth to go over his legs and your done.
Nicely done Julius. I'm a big believer that some of the very best customs are also the simplest. He turned out great, and fits in perfectly with the rest of the group. Well done!
Awesome, lets hope Mattel has a similar idea, the wheelchair could be reused for Oracle as well
Holy crap! That ever look killer! Great "recipe".
"does that ever look killer", is what I meant to write. Yeesh.
Nice work, and great idea. After I read your review of Starman I got a Por X wheelchair, my extra head (painted the hair and bear ginger) and I used Harvey Dent with some light blue felt for the blanket on his legs.
Looks great!
cool work for he looks exactly the way the chief should look like in plastic . and the chair could if when mattel gets around to do the chief can then be used for Oracle . nice to see the doom patrol together
It would have been nice to get Elasti-Girl instead of Rocket Red.
(Sorry Rocket Red fans.)


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The Grable Foundation was named the fourth recipient of Penn State New Kensington's Corporate/Foundation Partner of the Year award Sept. 28 at the Chancellor's Gala.
Kevin Snider, chancellor of the campus, presented the award to the foundation for its support of the University and the campus during the past three decades. The inscription on the plaque denotes Grable's "leadership, support and assistance in the advancement, growth, and development of Penn State New Kensington and the surrounding communities."
Kristin Burns, associate director for the Grable Foundation accepted the award on behalf of the foundation. The Grable Foundation's mission is to enrich the academic, artistic and social experiences for at-risk youth living in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Based in Pittsburgh, the Grable Foundation supports community and youth organizations in southwestern Pennsylvania. The foundation reflects the philanthropic philosophy of Erret and Minnie Grable who were strong believers in the importance of education in helping children build productive, self-sustaining and meaningful lives.
The foundation was founded in 1976 by Minnie Grable after the death of her husband, Errett, a Pittsburgh businessman and a founder and lifetime director of Rubbermaid Inc., which grew into an international housewares manufacturing company. Erret Grable was active on many community charitable boards until his death in 1959.
During Minnie Grable's lifetime, the major focus of her personal philanthropy was scholarships to help young people enroll in vocational training. She continued her gifts to the foundation until her death at 100 in December 1990, at which time assets from her estate began to be distributed to the foundation.
As longtime residents of Pittsburgh, the Grables supported community and youth organizations in southwestern Pennsylvania and were deeply concerned with the welfare of the Pittsburgh region and all its citizens. In particular, the Grables were strong believers in the importance of education in helping children build productive, self-sustaining and meaningful lives.
The Grable Foundation has a significant history with Penn State New Kensington. More than 2,000 disadvantaged youth were able to attend the Kids in College program during the past two decades. These camps focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs, and the arts and theatre (STEAM) which integrated science components. Penn State New Kensington is part of a University-wide effort to raise private donations to strengthen support for students, faculty and programs. All gifts enhance Penn State's historic mission of teaching, research and service to society.
Snider established the corporate/foundation partner award in 2009. Alcoa was the first recipient, followed by Leed's and the Hyman Family Foundation.


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text: cc_julian 0 Report post Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) heyi came across the 0ad alpha 7 announcement today, was encouraged by the fat "Instructions for Mac OS" button, but as you all know it only leads only to an compilation instructions site instead of precompiled downloads.i've therefore spent some time creating:• a distributable binary version of 0ad alpha 7 for Mac OS X• an xcode project and assorted support infrastructure for 0ad that makes creating distributable binary mac versions easy1.) here is a very small patch for 0ad that fixes some compile errors (pyrogenesis.h is needed for the psLogDir declaration) and fixes up the runtime paths so that 0ad reads the data files from inside its application bundle (because we have a proper double clickable moveable app now) and also uses better paths for storing preferences. you could also change the ifdefs from __APPLE__ to something we define in _ad_Prefix.pch if you don't want these path changes to apply to mac versions built from the command linehttp://dl.dropbox.co..._mac_patch.diffhttp://dl.dropbox.com/u/7221986/atlas_mac_patch.diff2.) here is an zipped folder containing an xcode project for building 0ad and misc support files including pre-built libraries etc etc. this should be added to the build/ folderhttp://dl.dropbox.co...d_mac_xcode.zip3.) here is a pre-built deployable version of 0AD beta 7 - i've personally tested it on an NVIDIA equipped MacPro with 10.6.6 and an ATI equipped iMac with 10.7.10ad-r10288-alpha-mac.dmg___for building deployable binaries yourself you just need to open the build/xcode/0ad.xcodeproj in Xcode 3.2 (4.x may also work, but is untested), select the "Release" configuration and hit "Build" from the "Build" menu. this will create the "0 A.D." application. now just right click it, select "show package contents" and add the *complete* "data" folder into the application bundle, because without data the binary won't run ;-) now zip the result or make a DMG with Disk Utility.EDIT: boost_1_47_0 must also be downloaded and decompressed into the xcode folder __the generated binary runs on Mac OS X 10.6 or later and only on 64-bit Macs. i don't consider the requirements problematic, 10.5 is unsupported by apple themselves by now, and apple only shipped very few 32-bit intel macs, most of which additionally only have sucky integrated GPUs like the GMA 950 and are barely able to run a game anyway. it would be easy to create a version that runs on 32 bit and 10.5 too, would just require a few hours creating updated version of the library dependencies, and a few changes to the xcode projectbye, julian Edited September 26, 2011 by cc_julian Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2010 - 032
|Information: Flood Damage Assessments for Winnebago County
|Date: 08/04/10
|Time: 3:00 PM
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NARRATIVE:Some areas of Winnebago County received moderate to severe flooding over the past several days. Due to some of the extensive damage that has occurred in the Village of Pecatonica, representatives from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) have been in the area to conduct an overview of this damage. Winnebago County Sheriff Richard Meyers has initiated an effort to conduct an assessment of areas outside of Pecatonica that were subject to flood damage. Winnebago County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency (ESDA), the Village of Machesney Park, and Sheriff's personnel are working to complete these assessments in the areas which are known to be most severely affected by the flooding—mainly in the Edgemere Terrace, Machesney Park (Shore Dr./Marquette Blvd./Liberty Blvd. neighborhoods), and New Milford area. Residents will be contacted as these assessments are completed, and this information will be forwarded to IEMA representatives. Although most of the areas that were severely affected by the flooding are known, other isolated areas may have also been affected. We urge residents who have had damage from the recent flooding and have not been contacted regarding an assessment, to report information to the Winnebago County ESDA at 815-319-6215 so that an assessment can be conducted to be included in the information we will provide to IEMA. IEMA will review the information that is submitted and make a determination of additional resources or recovery processes that may be appropriate or available to victims of the flooding.


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Procter & Gamble Supports Clarkson University's Engineering Laboratory of the Future
The Procter and Gamble (P&G) Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation has selected Clarkson University to receive a Higher Education Grant of $10,000 in support of the University's nationally ranked Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.
The P&G grant will be used to support the school's efforts to upgrade laboratories in order to provide a "Laboratory of the Future" experience for students.
"Procter & Gamble has been a long-time supporter of Clarkson's mission to educate talented and motivated men and women to become successful professionals," said Clarkson University President Tony Collins. "Given the structure of our curriculum, with its strong emphasis on laboratory experience and hands-on learning, engineering students will benefit from the improved Common Engineering Laboratory, resulting in future engineers who are well-prepared to shape our increasingly technological world. We appreciate P&G's continued generosity."
The grant, combined with matching funds from Clarkson, has funded the purchase of a state-of-the-art wind tunnel, permanently housed in the Common Engineering Laboratory. The wind tunnel will primarily be used to support the fluid mechanics course series. This new equipment will generate increased student interest across various academic disciplines and enhance their engagement with the analysis of fluid flows and their familiarity with experimental methodology.
Founded in 1952 by the Procter & Gamble Company, The P&G Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation provides philanthropic support for a variety of university-based activities, with particular emphasis on those that reinforce P&G's "Live, Learn and Thrive" corporate theme.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.


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text: SOCORRO, N.M., April 9, 2002 -- "PARTISANS' PERSPECTIVE . . ." New Mexico Tech professors Scott Zeman (left) and Mark Samuels (right) are co-authors of a forthcoming article in the international journal Film & History. The article, titled "The Truth of a Madman: Collective Memory and Representation of the Holocaust in The Partisans of Vilna and the Documentary Genre," examines the role that documentary films play in shaping collective memories of the Holocaust, specifically analyzing the award-winning 1986 film The Partisans of Vilna. Zeman and Samuels's article grew out of an interdisciplinary course the two Tech faculty members taught a few semesters past at the university, which focused on memory and historical reconstruction. Zeman is an assistant professor of history at New Mexico Tech; while Samuels is an associate professor of psychology at the school.


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Ulster legislators have put the brakes on Mike Hein and Marc Molinaro's public-defender pact, at least for now.
Ulster legislators have put the brakes on Mike Hein and Marc Molinaro's public-defender pact, at least for now.
The Legislature's Law Enforcement Committee on Tuesday defeated a 3-3 proposal where Ulster and Dutchess counties would represent defendants in the other county when their own public defender's office has a conflict of interest.
"Petty political maneuvers by the Legislative Chair (Terry Bernardo) have once again put in danger the best interest of the taxpayer and those most needy in our community," Ulster County Executive Hein said.
Republicans Bernardo and Carl Belfiglio, and Democrat Rich Parete said Hein's office failed to document where the projected $175,000 in savings would come from and why it was necessary to pay $72,000 for another public defender.
"It's almost like they (Hein's office) resent having questions asked," Parete said. "It's extremely frustrating."
County officials said during a December press event that using a salaried public defender rather than hourly private attorneys will save money. They also said at the time that the new Ulster public defender would handle the conflict-of-interest cases from Dutchess.
The Legislature could still vote on the proposal Jan. 22 if it's approved by the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday.
Michael Novinson
The Cornwall Town Board will have to adopt a local law in order to be able to insert fliers in its tax bills, no matter how noncontroversial the subject matter of those fliers might be.
Steven Gaba, the town's consulting attorney, said that while it might seem "an odd thing to be concerned about," there is, in fact, a provision in the state's tax law that such inserts require a local law.
"There apparently was some concern the fliers could be used for politicking," Gaba said of the law's origin.
Even with a local law in place, there are strict limits on the permitted contents of fliers.
They can, for instance, mention a public office by name, but not the officeholder.
For example, Gaba said, a flier reminding owners to get their dogs licensed can tell recipients to contact the town clerk's office, but not to contact Town Clerk Renata McGee.
"And that (local law) warrants a public hearing, no?" asked Supervisor Kevin Quigley.
"I'm afraid so," Gaba said.
Michael Randall
Mount Saint Mary College's Aquinas Theatre is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
The theater has had quite a star-studded history, with the likes of Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Helen Hayes and Bob Keeshan (aka Captain Kangaroo) being among those who have graced its stage.
But it's also put the spotlight on plenty of local talent, and is continuing to do so in this anniversary year.
The Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra performed there this past Saturday.
Students from the Bishop Dunn Memorial School on the Mount campus will perform "Guys and Dolls" there on Memorial Day weekend.
And in June, the Newburgh Illuminated citywide festival will kick off with a choral and orchestral concert on the stage at Aquinas Theatre.
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A winner was selected from 104 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
It goes without saying that we are avid equestrians, doesn't it?
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We really like our states official logo:
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
June 2014
Researchers Find Common Ground for Water and Land Process Modeling
Hydrologic modeling is improved by defining basic computational units of land surface models to follow subbasin boundaries
The Columbia River Basin spreads out over several U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, an area about the size of France. Researchers showed that modeling the area based on the subgrid approach enabled them to better model the hydrological processes. Play the animation to see the difference between dividing the area into computational units based on a rectangular grid system, as is traditionally done for land surface models, and using the subbasin units, which are more aligned with the natural watershed boundaries. Select a preferred media player to view the animation: Windows Media, MP4. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons License.
Results: Water models talk topography, land surface models talk grids. Choosing a common language was important, according to researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, because land surface models must also represent hydrology in Earth system modeling. To simulate water runoff and river flow, the team showed that dividing the area into units based on subbasins defined by topography-the computational unit used by water models-makes land surface models more robust across different spatial resolutions versus the uniform grid-based units.
"By comparing the two methods in a widely used land model coupled with a river transport model, the subbasin approach more realistically simulated the water systems through the land," said principal investigator and PNNL atmospheric scientist Dr. Ruby Leung. "This research reveals how important it is to restructure land models to represent spatial heterogeneity for more robust runoff and streamflow simulations in Earth system models."
Why It Matters: Water, land, air. Scientists develop numerical models to simulate how these systems operate and use them to predict how the systems respond to natural and human-caused changes. Testing "what ifs" is complicated by modeling results that change with the size of the computational grids, which is limited by the available computational horsepower. Researchers are striving for the most system complexity possible. Faithfully simulating water system processes requires allegiance to topography, those divisions of landscape such as mountains, valleys, and land cover. These are the natural boundaries that influence the water system's response to climate change.
By adopting computational units based on the natural boundaries scientists tag as subbasins the researchers solved an important challenge and enabled hydrologic processes to be more robustly simulated across a range of model resolutions. Their findings also facilitate understanding of the many processes that control freshwater supply. This research shows the way to more robust water system simulations at regional and global resolutions.
Methods: Topography has a dominant control on processes that determine freshwater supply. Traditionally, hydrologic models are designed to represent the variety of hydrologic processes within computational units defined by topographic boundary of watersheds or subbasins. However, land surface models generally define their computational units using simple rectangular grids to facilitate exchanges with atmospheric models that share the same grids.
To understand the scalability of both, the PNNL researchers implemented the subbasin approach in the Community Land Model (CLM) coupled with the Model for Scale Adaptive River Transport (MOSART) for comparison with the model's current grid-based approach.
They performed simulations in the large river basins with diverse climate and hydrology using model resolutions ranging from 1/8 to 1 degree. For each approach, they evaluated the differences between the coarser resolution hydrologic simulations and the simulations at the highest resolution of 1/8 degree. They found the coarser resolution simulations using the subbasin approach approached the high-resolution simulations faster and more consistently as resolution increases than simulations using the grid-based approach.
Their in-depth analysis showed that the scalability advantages of the subbasin approach are related to a combination of improved atmospheric forcing and consistency of runoff generation and the routing processes across spatial resolutions.
What's Next? The subbasin approach will be tested in CLM-MOSART globally in the next-generation Earth system models. Besides improving hydrologic simulations, this approach provides new opportunities to represent additional topographic controls on terrestrial processes such as mountain-radiation interactions that may improve simulations of vegetation processes in land surface models.
Sponsors: The U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research supported this research as part of the Earth System Modeling Program, Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program, and Integrated Assessment Research Program. Development of input data and the CLM and MOSART simulations received support from the PNNL's Platform for Regional Integrated Modeling and Analysis (PRIMA) initiative, a Laboratory Directed Research and Development program.
Research Team: Teklu Tesfa, L. Ruby Leung, Hongyi Li, Maoyi Huang, Natalie Voisin, Mark Wigmosta, Yinghai Ke, Yu Sun, and Ying Liu, PNNL
Research Area: Climate and Earth Systems Science
References: Tesfa TK, LR Leung, M Huang, H Li, N Voisin, and MS Wigmosta. 2014. "Scalability of Grid- and Subbasin-Based Land Surface Modeling Frameworks for Hydrologic Simulations." Journal of Geophysical Research 119(6): 3166-3184. DOI:10.1002/2013JD020493
Tesfa TK, HY Li, LR Leung, M Huang, Y Ke, Y Sun, and Y Liu. 2014. "A Subbasin-Based Framework to Represent Land Surface Processes in Earth System Models." Geoscientific Model Development 7: 947-963, DOI:10.5194/gmd-7-947-2014