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That figures. After all, Thomas is played by Jeremy Irons, who has never shied away from adding portraits of damaged characters to his own gallery, including the creepy Humbert Humbert in "Lolita"; the obsessively weird physicians in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers"; murder suspect Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune," for which he won an Oscar; and even the deliciously evil Scar in "The Lion King." The latest is the villain in Ed Harris' "Appaloosa," which he did for love, and the playboy in "Pink Panther 2," which he did for money.
Irons, 60, is delighted that audiences would hardly find it a surprise that he's trotting out yet another oddball. "Well, for Thomas, that 'hideous sexual problem' is nothing more than not having much sex," says the actor, in his dressing room at Broadway's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, where the drama opens Tuesday. And for Irons himself?
"Well, fortunately I don't have one," he says, perched on the sill of an open window and thoughtfully puffing on his self-rolled brown cigarettes. "Not more than anybody else, that is. But I have to say I am attracted to 'problem' plays like this one, both in structure and in content. I mean, it's damage that unites us all as human beings, doesn't it?"
In person, the man who was once described as "the thinking woman's pinup" appears more vibrant and less haunted than the characters he is often called upon to play. Certainly no more so than Thomas, a photojournalist, who arrives at Katharine's gallery heartbroken and bereft. His inability to save a young boy in Africa has left him at sea, an emotional paralysis shared by Katharine, who has her own roadblocks to intimacy.
"It's an eccentric, highly unusual play," says Irons of the drama that has brought the classically trained British actor back to Broadway more than two decades after his Tony-winning performance in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing." It's not been an easy journey. "Impressionism" atypically had no previous development, and its original opening was postponed for a couple of weeks after preview audiences found the play confusing, in part because Allen and Irons are called upon to play multiple roles.
"It has been something of a trial finding Thomas," says Irons, adding that he first dismissed the play as a "load of baloney" until he was convinced otherwise by a reread of the layered scenes that move the oddly matched couple toward love. Irons says he was also influenced by the involvement of director Jack O'Brien and Allen, with whom he had just costarred in a Lifetime special about artist Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz. "I'm much more gut than cerebral, and I just felt what the play had to say about grown-up love and loss was something I wanted to hear."
Irons is no stranger to love and loss, freely admitting that he infuses his varied roles with the emotional scar tissue of his past. He locates his first trauma when his parents -- his father, an accountant; his mother, a homemaker -- dropped him off at a boarding school at age 7. He felt totally abandoned after an idyllic childhood spent on the Isle of Wight with two elder siblings. This was followed by two other ruptures: a painful split with a boyhood chum and his parents' divorce.
"I've never been in therapy; I like my rough edges, not knowing things about me," Irons says. "But I recently wondered about an event when I was young that made me intensely angry, angrier than I'd ever been before." Recalls Irons, at 14 he would often bike four miles into the countryside with his classmate, Henry, to shoot pigeons, drink beer and flirt with a family's daughter at a nearby farmhouse. They were both musicians (Irons started his career as a busker) and the school "anarchists." "We would bend any rule," he says. "And one day, I asked Henry, 'Are you coming along?' And he said, 'No,' by which he meant to say, 'I'm a different person, I'm not a part of you, I'm separate.' And I felt so terribly alone."
Irons says he recovered from this feeling of alienation as well as his parents' divorce the following year in the manner that most people do: retreating into a social carapace. He admits he's terrible at parties, can't stand the Hollywood scene and much prefers the relative isolation of his castle in Ireland where he lives with his wife, actress Sinead Cusack. The couple have two sons, Samuel, 31, and Max, 24. "But it's the peeling back of that carapace, really getting to know the heart and soul of a person, that is the most glorious journey that a person can take," he says. "That's probably why I became an actor and perhaps why I am so strong in that particular area."
The patient "peeling back," Irons says, came when he met Cusack after a disastrously short first marriage, at 21, to actress Julie Hallam. "We were just too young," he says. "I'd been living with her for three years and when her mother said, 'Are you going to get married?' I thought it only gentlemanly to say, 'Yes,' rather than, 'No, I just want to go on screwing your daughter.' " Still, the actor says he was crushed by the split and threw himself into dating a lot. "I'm a terrible flirt, I adore women, I really love getting to know them," he says. "But when I met Sinead, I thought to myself, 'Right, this girl has legs. This relationship could work.' "
More than three decades of marriage later, Irons says he takes nothing for granted about "the real thing." He says that when his parents divorced, he watched as his father went on to another spouse and, in his opinion, wasn't necessarily the happier or more satisfied for it. "I really value family, I've fought for it," he says. "Sinead and I have had difficult times, every marriage does because people are impossible. I'm impossible, my wife's impossible, life's impossible. But I do know that it won't be any more possible with anybody else."
Still, as committed as he is to Cusack, Irons says that he always holds something back, "just for self-protection." That is why he was so attracted to playing the injured Thomas in "Impressionism." The actor recalls that on a recent Saturday night, he was shopping near his flat in Greenwich Village when he happened to pass a Catholic church. The 6 o'clock Mass was in progress and he stayed for it. "I'm not a great churchgoer," he says, taking a puff of his cigarette. "But I looked around and I thought to myself, 'All these people are here because on some fundamental level they're admitting to themselves that they are in some way damaged, lacking. . . . They need something.' And that's why I liked sitting there with them."


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In reference to the discussion in this forum thread, the proposition has been put forth, initially by nagoola, to provide a stable branch or snapshot of the Arch Linux distribution.
Arch-Stable(ArchRock) is aimed at servers, not at desktop/workstation machines. We will provide a repository that is as stable as possible and should never brake an update.
We will provide a repository, which is only updated for security-updates during a release-cycle(6-12 Months). Feature updates will not be made during a release-cycle. Each release will be based on the official Arch-Repositories. We will only be providing the packages from [core] + some extra packages, which are often used by servers, like apache, php, mysql, etc.
In the context of the Arch-Stable Branch, 'stable' will mean: Packages should never crash during runtime, be bug-free and should never be broken by updates.
- Project Leader - Delegate tasks and project direction.
- Packagers - Choosing and handling packages to add to the snapshot repository.
- Testers - Testing the stability of packages, logistics, and assistance.
- Repository - Will require a server.
- Programmers - Code necessary tools.
IRC - irc.freenode.net #archlinux-stable
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Currently, the project has recruited these members:
- Nihathrael - Project Management / Programming / Documentation / Homepage / Package maintenance
- rxKaffee - Programming / Provides testing server / Package maintenance / Homepage
- sixty-four-bit - Packager
- Misfit138 - Wrote this page-I am above average with English. Below average at GNU/Linux.
- Basn - Packager
- AndyRTR - technical adviser, moderation / coordination if wanted/needed, maybe some packaging for core stuff
- nagoola - Project Idea
- my64
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(Please add/remove your name as appropriate and state briefly what you are qualified to offer to the project.)
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We are currently setting up a test server for developers to use, which will not be publicly announced. If you would like to join development, please join #archlinux-stable at irc.freenode.net.
We are still looking for server-space that we can use to release the core-stable repository to the public. Please contact nihathrael if you would like to offer hosting. Please refer to the mailing list for newest information.
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The kids table will be in the corner. You guys will also play Junior Monopoly.
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Time is drawing near. Pretty soon it will be "CRY HAVOC -- and LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR".
Those of you who don't make are missing an excellent time. Last year there were so many CC players it was nice to meet them face-to-face. Am planning to be shining my boots on some butts that weekend.
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Published: December 14, 2010
TIANJIN, China — Judging by the din at its factory here one recent day, the Spanish company Gamesa might seem to be a thriving player in the Chinese wind energy industry it helped create.
But Gamesa has learned the hard way, as other foreign manufacturers have, that competing for China's lucrative business means playing by strict house rules that are often stacked in Beijing's favor.
Nearly all the components that Gamesa assembles into million-dollar turbines here, for example, are made by local suppliers — companies Gamesa trained to meet onerous local content requirements. And these same suppliers undermine Gamesa by selling parts to its Chinese competitors — wind turbine makers that barely existed in 2005, when Gamesa controlled more than a third of the Chinese market.
But in the five years since, the upstarts have grabbed more than 85 percent of the wind turbine market, aided by low-interest loans and cheap land from the government, as well as preferential contracts from the state-owned power companies that are the main buyers of the equipment. Gamesa's market share now is only 3 percent.
With their government-bestowed blessings, Chinese companies have flourished and now control almost half of the $45 billion global market for wind turbines. The biggest of those players are now taking aim at foreign markets, particularly the United States, where General Electric has long been the leader.
The story of Gamesa in China follows an industrial arc traced in other businesses, like desktop computers and solar panels. Chinese companies acquire the latest Western technology by various means and then take advantage of government policies to become the world's dominant, low-cost suppliers. It is a pattern that many economists say could be repeated in other fields, like high-speed trains and nuclear reactors, unless China changes the way it plays the technology development game — or is forced to by its global trading partners.
Companies like Gamesa have been so eager to enter the Chinese market that they not only bow to Beijing's dictates but have declined to complain to their own governments, even when they see China violating international trade agreements.
Even now, Gamesa is not crying foul — for reasons that are also part of the China story. Although the company's market share in China has atrophied, the country's wind turbine market has grown so big, so fast that Gamesa now sells more than twice as many turbines in China as it did when it was the market leader five years ago.
So as Gamesa executives see it, they made the right bet by coming to China. And they insist that they have no regrets about having trained more than 500 Chinese machinery companies as a cost of playing by Beijing's rules — even if those rules have sometimes flouted international trade law. It is simply the table stakes of playing in the biggest game going.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- They stood next to each other in the on-deck circle at 7:28 p.m., on a Tuesday evening that neither of them will ever forget.
Derek Jeter and Mike Trout. This was their night. This was their moment. This would be an evening when baseball's past, present and future were about to collide -- and plop directly into their laps.
But at 7:28 p.m., Central Daylight Time, neither of them could possibly have known the spectacle that was about to unfold at Target Field. So they stood there, watching Adam Wainwright throw his final warmup pitches, and began plotting out their own script for the first inning of the 85th All-Star Game.
"He told me he was going to get a hit," Trout told ESPN.com, more than three hours later. "Well, he didn't exactly tell me he was going to get a hit. He just said that if it was there, first pitch, he was going to be swinging."
Instead, shockingly, it would take Derek Jeter two pitches, not one, to slice a leadoff double into the right-field corner -- off an Adam Wainwright fastball that either was or wasn't grooved, pipe-shot or hand-delivered down the middle of the plate, depending on which conspiracy theory you buy into most.
But whatever. As Jeter pulled into second base and soaked in the cheers, Trout could only gaze and shake his head over his idol's never-ending ability to keep turning his life into a major motion picture.
And as this unreal scene unfolded before him, just one thought could possibly have popped into Trout's head. Yep. That one:
"I had to drive him in," he said.
Which Trout then did -- c'mon, of course he did -- by splattering an RBI triple off the right-field fence. To kick off a three-run first inning. And to jump-start the American League toward a 5-3 victory that would forever be remembered as the Jeter & Trout Show. Or was that the Trout & Jeter Show?
It was Jeter who would go 2-for-2, in three memorable innings, making him the oldest player ever to get two hits or more in any All-Star Game ever played.
It was Trout who would win an All-Star MVP award, by tripling in the first, doubling in the fifth and joining two luminaries named Ted Williams and Ken Griffey Jr. as the only men ever to get two extra-base hits in an All-Star Game before their 23rd birthday.
But by doing what they did, on the same stage, on the same night, they also sent us a message.
These are the gifts sports gives us -- when past meets present meets future, almost all in the same instant.
We get Jeter's can-you-believe-this All-Star farewell, mildly tainted as it may have been by Wainwright's groove-gate scandal, to remind us of why we spent this night celebrating one of the greatest shortstops who ever lived.
And we get to behold the burgeoning greatness of The Next Big Thing, with a Trout-ian performance that just whet our appetite for whatever it is this guy has planned for us for about the next 20 years.
And it happens exactly where nights like this are supposed to happen. In an All-Star Game that exists, when you get right down to it, not to decide home field in the last week of October, but to stage these sorts of shows. And to preview where this sport is going at the same time it's giving you goosebumps as you savor where it has been.
There was no holding back those goosebumps Tuesday night, by the way, whatever you thought of Wainwright's role in helping Jeter fill up the box score. Not when you had a man walking toward home plate to lead off the bottom of the first inning -- and found himself unable to step into the box and get this game moving, no matter how hard he tried.
That just wasn't possible -- seeing as how the starting pitcher (Wainwright) was standing behind the mound, without his glove, applauding. And the catcher (Jonathan Lucroy) was refusing to get down in his crouch. And every defender standing behind them was too busy taking in the moment to actually play baseball.
"Adam had his glove on the mound," Jeter said. "I tried to tell him to pick it up, let's go. But he took a moment and let the fans give me an ovation, which I will always remember."
By the end of this night, Wainwright would somehow become a villain in some people's eyes, for not pretending this duel was happening on Oct. 15, not July 15. But he understood exactly what was happening as Jeter strode toward home plate -- and he was going to do his part to let it resonate for as long as possible.
"I just wanted him to enjoy it," Wainwright said. "I thought that was his moment, and I wanted to stay as far away from it as possible. I thought all the attention should be on him, and ... I didn't even want to get near that mound. I put my glove up and backed as far back as I could, almost to second base. I was saying, 'Dude, I'm not going anywhere until this ovation starts to die down.'"
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is just what he should have done. Now exactly what happened after that, between these two men, is something we may never fully know. But even if Wainwright was in fact making sure Jeter got a pitch he could put a Jeter-esque swing on in that first inning, one competitor who was not offended was Jeter himself.
"If he grooved it, thank you," Jeter said. "You still have to hit it. I appreciate it if that's what he did. Thank you."
It was only the third extra-base hit of Jeter's otherwise-illustrious All-Star career -- and his first since a 2001 home run off Jon Lieber. And you may have noticed that in this, his final season, he hasn't been what you'd call an extra-base-hit machine. He'd doubled precisely once, in fact, in his previous 102 plate appearances coming into this game.
But he wasn't giving back this one. And he seemed just as happy with his third-inning bloop single into the Bermuda Triangle in short right field, off the Reds' Alfredo Simon, who told earwitnesses later he was definitely trying to get the guy out.
It was Jeter's 13th hit in 27 All-Star at-bats through the years. And that, if you're calculating along at home, works out to a .481 batting average over 14 All-Star games -- the second-highest average in the history of this event, trailing only Charlie Gehringer (10-for-20, .500) among players who got at least 15 All-Star at-bats.
Asked, given all that, if he was sure he didn't have a few seasons left in him, Jeter laughed.
"I told you guys before," he said. "I'm not retiring at the end of the year because I don't think I can play. It's just, the time is right."
In a couple of months, he'll go trotting off the field forever. But on this night, we got a sneak preview, via his opening farewell in the top of the fourth inning.
One second, he was out there, taking warmup flips from first baseman Miguel Cabrera. The next, he heard the crowd buzzing and turned to find Alexei Ramirez trotting out to short to ease him out of the All-Star amphitheater for the final time.
And what made that scene extra moving, Jeter said, was that he had no idea it was coming.
"It was a wonderful moment that I am always going to remember," Jeter said. "I appreciate John doing that for me. But it was a special moment, and it was unscripted. And like I said, I was unaware of it."
Every player on both teams froze in place and applauded. Sinatra sang "New York, New York" on the PA. The thunder rocked down from the seats for well more than a minute. Giancarlo Stanton, the next hitter, refused to go anywhere near the batter's box.
And as Jeter jogged off, waving his cap, the emotion swept through one player on that field in particular:
A 22-year-old Jeter fan named Mike Trout.
It was a moment that gave him "chills," Trout said. And "goosebumps." And a torrent of thoughts and feelings he was still trying to digest hours later.
"Just the emotions, everything going through your head," he said. "Seeing him running off, just thinking about, 'You're not going to see him play anymore.'"
This was the guy Mike Trout grew up watching, telling himself that "if I ever get the chance to get to the big leagues, that's how I want to play." And then there he was, on this field, as That Guy was trotting, almost literally, into the sunset. On a night when Trout was on the road to becoming the second-youngest All-Star MVP of all time (barely trailing the then-22-year-old Junior Griffey, 1992 edition). Who writes these scripts?
But two decades from now, Trout said, it won't be his first-inning RBI triple that he will remember about this night. And it won't be the double he chopped past Aramis Ramirez's glove in the fifth, to drive in what turned out to be the winning run.
And it may not even be his prize for winning the All-Star MVP award -- that new Corvette he'll be tooling in around the streets of Millville, New Jersey, when the offseason rolls around.
Nope, the memory, Trout said, "is just being part of something special, Jeter's last All-Star Game. It means a lot to me, watching him growing up and now being a part of it."
Jeter tried his best to lobby against the way-too-convenient plot line that this was the night when he passed the Face of Baseball torch to the Next Jeter, saying: "Let Mike be Mike. I don't think people have to necessarily appoint someone to a particular position."
But The Captain will have to lobby harder than that. And especially on this night. When a baseball game in Minnesota summed up, in three entertaining hours, not just what Derek Jeter has meant to this sport for all these years, but where Mike Trout is about to propel it.


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Justin Bieber and his Beliebers got a real scare when it was revealed there was a bizarre and complex plot to castrate and murder the 'Beauty and a Beat' singer. As scary as the story was to begin with, more details have emerged about the motive and plot of the failed kidnapping, castration and killing attempt -- and it only gets scarier and weirder. It gets gruesome: Read the rest at your own discretion.
To refresh: Convicted murderer Dana Martin, currently serving two life sentences in New Mexico for the horrific rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl in Vermont back in 2000, asked a fellow inmate Mark Staake to carry out the bizarre and horrific plot upon Staake's release. Staake asked his nephew, Tanner Ruane, to help him castrate and murder Biebs and his bodyguard at the singer's recent Madison Square Garden stop on his Believe tour. The plot was thwarted when Martin alerted cops himself; Ruane and Staake were arrested on separate warrants.
Court papers (via OregonLive) reveal that the would-be mastermind of the plot, Martin, essentially felt like a nobody because he was in prison and also like spurned lover because Biebs wouldn't respond to his letters. "This perceived slight made Mr. Martin upset and that, coupled with Mr. Martin's perception of being a 'nobody' in prison, led him to begin plotting the kidnap and murder of Victim 3," an affidavit read.
Victim 3 was none other than "J.B."
Another creepy new detail? Ruane and Staake were each promised $2,500 per testicle retrieved from the now-thwarted killing. What the heck?!
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Naruto: Shippuden is an anime series adapted from Part II of the Naruto manga series by Masashi Kishimoto. The series is directed by Hayato Date and produced by Studio Pierrot and TV Tokyo. Naruto: Shippuden is a continuation of the Naruto manga, and continues the same storyline after the passing of two and a half years in the Naruto universe. It began broadcasting on TV Tokyo on February 15, 2007.


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Newspapers routinely published passenger lists of passengers coming to and leaving from America.
Here are just a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists published in newspapers that can be found in GenealogyBank.
Newspapers routinely published not just lists of immigrants coming to America but also regularly published passenger lists of American's going overseas; American's returning home to the US and American's traveling within the United States by ship.
Notice in this example from the Irish-American newspaper, The Shamrock (17 Aug 1816) – published in New York City – that these passengers left from the port of Sligo, Ireland on board the brig Juno and landed in New London, CT. There they boarded the "sloop MacDonough" which in turn set sail for New York City – where they arrived on 16 August 1816.
This pre-1820 passenger list tells us that these immigrants landed twice on their trip to America, that they took two ships to finally reach their destination – an alert that their names will appear on two different passenger lists. Once on the passenger list for the brig Juno that landed in New London, CT and again on the passenger list for the sloop MacDonough that landed in New York City.
Notice also that this passenger list gives the hometown or county of origin of each passenger. Critical information that is almost never given in the Federal post-1820 passenger lists.
Tip: Passenger lists were not collected by the government until 1820 – these early lists can be difficult if not impossible to find. Newspapers are a terrific source for Colonial passenger lists.
Click on these links to see a few examples of the thousands of passenger lists, published in newspapers that can be found in
Passenger Lists of Columbus, GA
3 April 1894. Steamer Queen City.
Columbus (GA) Daily Inquirer. 3 April 1894.
Passenger Lists New Orleans, LA
20 February 1869.
Steamship Crescent City. From New York City.
Times Picayune. 20 February 1869.
23 October 1872. Steamship Saxonia.
Left New Orleans for Hamburg (Germany) by way of Havana (Cuba), Santander (Spain) and Havre (France).
Times Picayune. 23 October 1872. p. 1
29 April 1873. Steamship John G. Meiggs.
Left New Orleans for Aspinwall (Panama); Port Limon (Costa Rica); and Havanna (Cuba). Times Picayune. 29 April 1873. p. 8
25 August 1875. Steamship City of Merida.
Arrived in New Orleans from Vera Cruz, Tuxpan, and Tampico – all ports in Mexico. Times Picayune. 25 August 1875. p. 1
12 June 1848. Steamship Washington. From Southampton (England), by way of Halifax (Nova Scotia).
New York Herald. 16 Jan 1848. p. 2
Passenger Lists Philadelphia, PA
5 Nov 1881. Steamship City of Savannah. Departed for Savannah (Georgia).
Philadelphia Inquirer. 7 Nov 1881. p. 2
13 July 1883. Steamship Niagara. Marine Disaster. Burned off the coast of Florida.
Philadelphia Inquirer. 14 July 1883. p. 1
23 June 1891. Steamship Polynesia. Enroute from Hamburg, Germany.
Philadelphia Inquirer. 23 June 1891. p. 4
10 September 1901. Steamship Alleghany. Enroute from the South.
Philadelphia Inquirer. 10 September 1901. p. 16
Passenger Lists San Francisco, CA
6 September 1871. San Francisco Bulletin. 6 September 1871. p. 3
Click here to download and search the complete 1819/1820 Passenger List for all US ports.
This free resource is a good example of the genealogical content in the historical newspapers, books and documents that can be found in GenealogyBank.


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Axel Botte
Job growth propels US yields higher
10.02.2015 - Axel Botte
Weekly markets analysis from experts of Natixis AM's Fixed Income investment division.
Key Points of the week :
- Sharp rebound in US rates post NFP release
- Some profit-taking since ECB QE announcement
- Slight long bias in Bunds, neutral US rates
- Keep long stance in peripheral spreads
Read more in Fixed Income Strategy - Weekly – 09.02.2015
Axel Botte is Strategist at Ostrum Asset Management.
He began his career in 2000 at AXA Investment Managers as strategist producing both geographical and regional equity allocation recommendations.
In 2007, he was named Head of the Fixed Income research within the Investment Strategy department managing 2 fixed income strategists.
He joined Ostrum Asset Management in October 2010 as Strategist. He provides top-down analysis of fixed income markets in close relationship with fund management teams. The research covers interest rates, developed market government bonds, sovereign debt allocation, global inflation-linked, credit and structured credit.
Axel Botte is a graduate of the University of Cergy-Pontoise. He holds a Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) in Analysis of Financial and Industrial Strategies.


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Protect our rivers from toxic mining pollution
The disaster on the Animas River reminds us that, for far too long, the mining industry has polluted our rivers. Forty percent of the West's headwaters are now contaminated with pollution from mines.
President Obama has the authority to put a moratorium on all new mines near our waters on public lands.
The hard rock mining industry should not be allowed to build new mines in and around our cherished waterways until it cleans up from past mining operations. Please add your name.


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Fans take action amid Leeds turmoil
The proposed sale of Leeds to Italian Massimo Cellino claimed its first casualties as manager Brian McDermott left the club and sponsors threatened to pull out in protest at the decision.
Cagliari owner Cellino is on the brink of purchasing a 75 per cent stake in the Championship club and, even though the deal has yet to be confirmed, passed by the Football League and has a rival, the 57-year-old has overseen the removal of McDermott.
McDermott learned of the decision on Friday evening having that afternoon given a press conference during which he admitted Saturday's game with Huddersfield could be his last and that he was determined to "enjoy the occasion".
Two of the club's main sponsors, Enterprise Insurance and Flamingo Land, are understood to be withdrawing their backing in protest.
McDermott's position had seemingly been undermined during the week by the presence of former Middlesbrough defender Gianluca Festa, both at Elland Road and the club's Thorp Arch training complex.
The 44-year-old, a long-standing friend of Cellino and a former Cagiari player, is the preferred choice to replace McDermott and is likely to be in the dugout in some capacity against Huddersfield. Cellino had wanted him to occupy such a position during the 1-1 draw with Ipswich on Tuesday but McDermott refused.
The 52-year-old joined Leeds in April last year - a month after being sacked by new owners at Reading. He admitted that funds at Leeds were tight but said he had taken the job on a "lot of goodwill".
Speaking briefly to BBC Leeds on Friday night he said: "I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart every Leeds fan for their support. You've been amazing."
It is understood that on Friday afternoon McDermott and captain Ross McCormack were told in a meeting that a number of Italian players could be joining the club.
McCormack's own future has been the subject of intense speculation and Leeds turned down bids for him from Cardiff and West Ham, which prompted the Scotland striker to release a statement in which he said he was looking forward to staying with Leeds and "working with Brian McDermott".
He reacted angrily to the news of McDermott's departure and called Sky Sports News to say: "The club have decided to sack him unfortunately. He called me up earlier and he told me he'd gone. It's hard times at the club. I'm absolutely gutted because I had a really close relationship with the manager.
"I was looking forward to continuing to work with Leeds United under Brian McDermott but things have changed. I think a big part of that was Brian McDermott and at the moment it's still very raw."
Off-the-field business has long been the primary news source at Leeds but the events of Friday appear to be treading new ground.
Cellino's group became the leading candidates to buy the club after a consortium called Sport Capital, comprising of club managing director David Haigh and businessman Andrew Flowers - the owner of Enterprise Insurance - collapsed after a two-month period of exclusivity to buy the club from its owners, Gulf Finance House.
GFH, a Bahrain-based investment bank, bought Leeds from Ken Bates in December 2012 and appear to favour Cellino's bid, despite interest from a Yorkshire-based consortium called Together Leeds which is headed up by former Manchester United director Mike Farnan.
They have been unable to get to the negotiating table with GFH, though, and on Friday said in a statement: "Our bid remains fully funded, and our strategy involves credible Yorkshire and football people, with Leeds and the community at their heart, rebuilding this great club.
"We think that our consortium is the best future custodian of the club and represents the best way forward.
"In recent days, before and since the collapse of the Sport Capital bid, we have re-engaged with GFH, and offered significant investment into the club.
"We are hopeful of those discussions being allowed to progress to a successful conclusion. We thank everyone for the huge support shown to us, particularly this week."
Cellino's takeover still has to be ratified by the Football League and it remains to be seen if he will pass their Fit and Proper Person's Test owing to a previous conviction for fraud.


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The downfall of David Moyes at Manchester United – in pictures
Sir Alex Ferguson was always going to be a tough act to follow. However, no-one could have predicted how much David Moyes would struggle in the season following the legendary manager's retirement. As the fall-out from the sacking continues, we take a look at The Chosen One's fall from grace


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Open Source Helps eBay Process $2000 Per Second The huge Internet auction house uses a small Sri Lankan firm's open source enterprise service bus--a little known but crucial piece of software.
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Is Amazon Hiding A Tipping Point In Its New Tablet? If and when Amazon releases an iPad-killer of a tablet, it won't be its industrial design or user interface that might tip the industry on its ear. If such a tablet is released, it's reliance on Amazon's Whispernet and the business model behind it could be a tipping point.
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Google Search On Tablets Gets A Do Over Google has refreshed the design of its web-based search tool for tablets such as the iPad, Xoom, and Tab 10.1.
Clinical Informatics Poised To Become Medical Subspecialty Physician informaticists will finally be recognized as board certified if the American Board of Medical Specialties approves.
DARPA Seeks Wireless Power For Soldiers In Field A method to transmit power over short distances would reduce the need for batteries and cut the load that soldiers carry.
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I just bought this and used it on some black cardstock. I guess I thought it would have the same vibrancy of the "frost" inkpad, but it's very very faint, and doesn't show up well on dark cardstock. I haven't tried on lighter cardstock, but it's very transparent.
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UK-based global relief and advocacy agency Christian Aid is urging international development secretary Andrew Mitchell to use his position on the board of the World Bank to press for an end to investment in carbon-intensive energy projects.
World Bank funding for coal-fired power stations, which produce massive carbon emissions that contribute to climate change, has soared 40-fold over the past five years to hit a record $4.4bn (£2.8bn) in 2010.
It is at present reviewing its energy policies and, says Christian Aid, must be persuaded to clean up its act.
Reform is urgent in the face of the bank emerging as the front runner at the UN climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico last month to administer the Green Climate Fund, worth potentially a $100bn (£65bn) to provide climate finance to the poorest countries by 2020.
Christian Aid senior climate policy adviser Dr Alison Doig said: "Mr Mitchell must use his position to urge a fundamental rethink of World Bank energy policies. Unless it changes, it is completely unsuited to act as a conduit for climate change funds."
She continued: "At present, the bank's billions prop up dirty energy production across the developing world, fuelling climate change while locking poor countries into outdated, destructive ways of producing energy."
As secretary of state, Mr Mitchell has a seat on the board of the bank's financial institutions, with a significant vote on how they are run and the money spent. (The UK holds 3.75 per cent of the vote, equal to France. Larger voting shares are held by the US, Japan, China and Germany).
Pre-election, Mr Mitchell was a keen advocate of low-carbon growth, saying in November 2009: "There is much we can do to help promote low-carbon growth, and to help spread new technologies. But we should 'first do no harm'. Unfortunately, under Labour, British taxpayers money is being used to subsidise dirty fossil-fuel power stations."
Dr Doig said: "Mr Mitchell must live up to his earlier backing for low-carbon development. The World Bank is mandated to provide financial and technical assistance to developing countries to help them improve the lives and livelihoods of the world's poorest. Instead, it does those living in poverty a double disservice."
She added: "Not only are deprived communities in the world's poorest countries most vulnerable to the floods, storms, droughts and other disasters caused by climate change, they are unlikely to receive energy from World Bank-supported projects, which tend to favour industry and rich households."
The Christian Aid spokesperson said the present review was the perfect opportunity to press for the bank to put its billions into carbon-safe, clean ways of generating energy, such as solar and small-scale hydroelectric, and biomass projects which can deliver clean energy directly to poor people.
The World Bank should be in the vanguard of supporting sustainable and renewable energy sources which would help avert climate chaos, she said, while meeting the energy needs of poorer communities to help lift them out of poverty.
"More than 1.5 billion people in developing countries – around a quarter of the world's population – have no access to electricity,' she said. 'This means nights without lights, limited access to radio and communications, no modern power for their work and no way to safely store food or medicines," declared Dr Doig.


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From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, the Penn State Shenango auditorium will be filled with the aroma of Italy when the campus' holds its second annual THON Spaghetti Dinner fundraiser. The event is sponsored by Penn State Shenango Benefitting THON and various local restaurants, including Muscarella's in Sharpsville; Olive Garden in Niles, Ohio; Hickory Grill in Hermitage; and Fererra's in Sharon. All proceeds will support kids with cancer.
Dinner will include spaghetti and meatballs, salad, bread and butter, and cake. Tickets may be purchased in advance for $8 or at the door for $10. Children and senior citizen tickets are $5 anytime. For advanced ticket sales, stop in the Penn State Students Affairs Office in Sharon Hall Room 103, located on Penn Avenue in downtown Sharon.
In addition to dinner, a basket raffle will be available. Each purchased dinner ticket will include one free basket raffle ticket. Other basket raffle tickets may be purchased for $5 for a sheet of 25.
"We are very thankful for those who helped us reach our phenomenal goal last year, and we are looking forward to everyone's support at this year's event," said Khyana Johnson from Sharon. "Our committee members have been very dedicated and have exceeded our fundraising expectations in support of kids fighting cancer. We are truly grateful for the opportunity to put on this event; the feeling we gain from making a difference in these children's lives is priceless. We hope to spread awareness in our community so we can all come together to support these kids."
THON is the largest student run philanthropy in the world, where students passionately raise money to create awareness opportunities, fund research and assist families struggling with the fight against cancer. Since 1977, when THON was first established, Penn State students have raised more than $84 million dollars for the Four Diamonds Fund. This effort engages more than 15,000 students across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Penn State Shenango students are especially motivated to make a difference. In 2012-13, Penn State Shenango raised approximately $8,600 and is committed to making this year's fundraiser more successful with the support of the community.
If you are unable to make the event but would like to make a contribution to pediatric cancer, you may donate online at www.thon.org. For more information, contact the Penn State Shenango Student Affairs office at 724-983-2836.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Office of General Counsel
April 2005
I am pleased to issue the Regional Attorneys' Manual, developed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Office of General Counsel. As indicated in the Introduction, this Manual supercedes the Regional Attorneys' Deskbook, which is hereby revoked.
Eric S. Dreiband, April 29, 2005
This Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) Regional Attorneys' Manual supercedes the Regional Attorneys' Deskbook issued in 1990 and revised in 1992. The Manual is in four parts. Part 1, Administrative and Support Information, contains information on the structure and functions of the EEOC's Office of General Counsel (OGC), OGC policies and procedures, and Commission policies. Part 2, Initiating Litigation, discusses prelitigation procedures, delegation of litigation authority, and obtaining approval for cases requiring General Counsel or Commission authorization. Part 3, Conducting Litigation, covers various trial practice matters, settlement standards and procedures, appeal procedures, and the professional responsibilities of OGC attorneys. Finally, Part 4, Resources and Technical Assistance, contains information on obtaining internal and external expert services, obtaining nonexpert litigation support services, and monitoring contracts. Since the Manual is available electronically on the Commission's Web site, it contains references and hyperlinks to resources available on the Commission's Web site as well as elsewhere on the Internet.
The Regional Attorneys' Manual has been developed and distributed by the EEOC's Office of General Counsel exclusively to provide internal guidance and practical support to Regional Attorneys in connection with their management of EEOC legal units. The Manual shall not be construed as creating any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the EEOC or its employees. The Manual shall not be construed to create any right to judicial review involving the compliance or noncompliance of the EEOC or its employees with any matter dealt with in the Manual.


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Career Advice >> Browse Articles >> Job Profiles
How to Keep Your Online Resume Secure
November 12, 2010
While you may hear about online fraud, it tends to be focused on companies that derive their business from online purchases.
As Monster is primarily a free service, and the contact information found in a resume can just as easily be located elsewhere (e.g. telephone listings), you can be assured that posting your resume on Monster is a safe way to conduct a job search and manage your career.
However, you do need to be mindful about the type of information you include on your resume. For example, you should never include the following personal information:
• Social Security number
• Driver's license number
• Bank account information
• Credit card information
• Passwords
• Date of birth
Note: You should also never share the personal information listed above with a prospective employer until you are confident that the employer and employment opportunity is legitimate.
Posting Your Resume on Monster
Do you want employers to find your resume on Monster? Are you currently employed and need to be more careful about who can see your posted resume? Not all job searches are alike, so Monster allows flexibility in how you post your resume. Your resume options are described below:
• Public Resume: Choosing the public (searchable) resume option allows employers to find your resume when they search the Monster resume database. Because employers may search for candidates before they post a job on Monster, choosing the public option will give you the widest possible access to job opportunities. Public resumes are viewable by employers — not other Monster members.
• Confidential Resumes: Do you prefer to keep your job search more private? You can save your resume as public, but hide your contact info, current company and references. Employers will be able to contact you via a confidential Monster email address. You can then view the job listing and decide whether or not to respond. Please note that if you apply online with your posted resume, the information you've marked as confidential will be included so the employer can contact you.Important: If you choose to hide your contact information, current company and references, you must also remove this information from your uploaded Word resume or Copy & Paste text resume.
• Private Resumes: Choosing the private (non-searchable) resume option will prevent employers from finding your resume on Monster during resume searches. However, you can still search for jobs and apply online using your private resume.
More Resources:
- Monster Company Search
- Better Business Bureau
- Anti-Phishing Working Group
- FraudWatch International
- Consumer Sentinel
- Federal Trade Commission
- How Not to Get Hooked by a Phishing Scam
- Avoiding Identity Theft
- Detecting Deceptive Job Ads
- Looks Too Good to Be True
- OnGuard Online: Guard Against Internet Fraud
This article was originally published on Monster.com.


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The family of the 15-year-old boy accused of shooting a fellow student yesterday at Perry Hall High School in Baltimore County would not give many details about the shooting but did tell The Associated Press the boy had been bullied.
One student was listed in critical condition yesterday at Maryland's Shock Trauma Center after being shot in the back on the first day of classes.
Many speculated Monday the alleged shooter had been bullied and cited a Facebook page that possibly belonged to the suspect that said "First day of school. Last day of life."
It hasn't been confirmed the Facebook page belonged to the suspect.
However, the suspect's father, who confirmed to the AP his son was the gunman, also indicated the boy had been bullied.
The AP didn't identify the suspect or the boy's father since the alleged gunman is a juvenile and hasn't been officially charged.
A woman in the father's home who says she is related to the suspect's father said the family is "horrified."
"We did not see this coming and our thoughts and prayers are with the victim and the victim's family," the woman told the AP.
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A minor traffic accident in downtown Butler did not cause any traffic tie ups.
The truck driver was driving west on Wayne Street after the light at the intersection of Wayne and Main Street turned green at around 8 a.m. At the same time, a person driving an SUV south on Main Street ran a red light and hit the truck, causing the truck to hit a pole on West Wayne Street.
No injuries were reported and the pole was not knocked down. The truck, which sustained damage to the front and rear end of the passenger side, had to be towed from the scene.
City police and city firefighters responded to the accident. The scene was cleared at 8:45 a.m.


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You'll see we're pretty laidback and easygoing around here, which helps when you want to leave your tensions at the door. When it's time to really work the kinks out, try our eco-friendly in-room spa services. We bring massages and body treatments straight to your hotel room.
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Designed to address the special needs of the mother-to-be, we combine tried and tested safe pregnancy massage techniques with a Chinese geranium-infused oil that promotes feminine energy and has a harmonizing effect on women. Helps to relieve tension in your lower and upper back and alleviate swelling in the hands and feet. Mother-to-Be Harmony Massages are not recommended during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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Schedule your In-Room Spa Service online, or call 1-866-867-3529. For online reservation requests, please allow at least 12 hours for our response.
Services are offered from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day in the comfort of your guest room. Before- and after-hours appointments may also be available, subject to a $25 surcharge.
After a Kimpton In-Room Spa Service, you can continue your beauty regimen back at your home sweet home with the earth-friendly Kerstin Florian products we use. Purchase spa products from our KimptonStyle catalog.
Terms and Conditions: We'd hate to see you have to cancel your moment of bliss, but if you have to, please provide at least four hours notice to cancel or change a confirmed appointment. Appointments starting before noon must be changed or cancelled by 9 p.m. the evening prior. If you do not offer four hours notice, full charges will be posted to your room account at the hotel, something we'd feel pretty bad about doing. All services are provided by Relax and Rejuvenate.


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NCEAS' collaboration with the Henry Luce Foundation offers additional opportunities to graduate students. The Luce Environmental Science to Solutions Fellowship Program allows selected Ph.D. scholars to carry out multi-disciplinary research on environmental issues under the guidance of experienced scientist mentors at NCEAS and UCSB. Student-driven working groups hosted at NCEAS are a component of the program.
Current Research Projects
The following groups will convene at NCEAS in 2011:
What makes reintroductions work? Developing a comprehensive framework to evaluate and guide reintroduction efforts
Summary: Species reintroductions are an increasingly common conservation tool being used worldwide to stem or even reverse biodiversity loss. However, reintroduction attempts commonly face an array of challenges. In addition to ecological obstacles, cultural and economic barriers to reintroductions often exist. As a result of these diverse challenges, overall results from reintroductions have varied. Adding to the problem, different definitions for reintroduction success exist within and among stakeholder groups impacted by reintroductions, making it difficult to actually evaluate reintroduction success and designate best practices for planning, executing, or monitoring reintroductions. A comprehensive framework that could be used to evaluate and guide reintroduction efforts would therefore be of use to a variety of groups including scientists, resource managers, and policy makers. Our goal is to develop this framework. Working with various stakeholders and experts, we aim to create an interdisciplinary definition of reintroduction success and identify ecological, cultural, and economic factors that most contribute to reaching that point. We will first use the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone as a case study, followed by a synthesis of results from other reintroductions in order to identify trends in reintroduction outcomes.
Contacts: Stephen Gosnell, Stephanie Diaz, Keely Roth
Marine Phenology Working Group
Summary: Phenology is a multidisciplinary, integrative science focused on quantifying the timing of biological systems on a seasonal time scale. Phenological studies provide insight into many diverse areas of science, management, and education, including ecosystem dynamics, natural hazards, agricultural productivity, conservation, ecotourism, recreation, and human health (Miller‐Rushing & Weltzin 2009). Several recent literature reviews and meta‐analyses of long-term phenological records have consistently revealed that the phenology of plants and animals is among the most sensitive indicators of environmental variation and the biological response to climate change (e.g., Parmesan 2006; IPCC 2007). Although our detection of this "fingerprint of climate change" on natural systems is achieving higher resolution every year, the vast majority of these studies are focused on terrestrial systems. Marine data – particularly seasonal fisheries data – are among the oldest and longest-running biological data sets in the U.S. and abroad, however strikingly few syntheses have been conducted on the phenology of marine systems compared to the number conducted on terrestrial systems. As a result, our understanding of marine systems, their responses to environmental variation, and the seasonal productivity of marine resources are limited. This working group is focused on adapting a tried‐and‐true terrestrial phenology approach to marine data in order to better understand the impacts of climate change on marine resources.
Contact(s): Brian Haggerty, Emily Rivest
Malaria and Climate Change
Summary: How will changes in temperature and precipitation affect malaria transmission? This question has been at the forefront of climate change research for the last decade, yet predictions are still remarkably variable and uncertain. This working group aims to assess the current state of climate-driven malaria research and to combine statistical and biological modeling approaches in novel ways. Our goal is to synthesize data from laboratory and field studies with a malaria transmission model, and to use this model to predict when changes in rainfall or temperature will promote infection.
Contact(s): Erin Mordecai
Can eco-labeling drive conservation and sustainable harvesting of marine fisheries?
Summary: Overfishing has been a pressing environmental issue for decades, with various proposed solutions ranging from quotas and moratoriums to marine protected areas and no-take zones. Recently, eco-labeling sustainably harvested seafood has opened up conservation and resource management to market forces via consumer demand and price-premiums. The leading eco-label certification, Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), has certified over 80 fisheries with 125 others in review. However, whether MSC certification has had a measurable impact on stock yield or health, or whether the currently certified stocks were already sustainable prior to certification, is not clearly determined. What is clear is that demand for certified fish already outpaces supply, and that that demand is increasing. Whether there is enough sustainable fish in the sea to meet the increasing demand will likely depend on whether MSC certification has a positive effect on stock health, whether pending certified and prospective certified stocks are able to become and remain sustainable, and whether MSC certification and the associated benefits will outweigh the costs of certification for fisheries.
Contact(s): Sarah Teck
Other group members: Sarah Valencia, Ashley Larsen, Seeta Sistla, Nick Williams, Jorge Cornejo, Christine Henzler
The science, media reporting, and politics of California air quality: Content, context, and voting patterns of Proposition 23
Summary: California Proposition 23 was a ballot measure to overturn the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This measure, which explicitly tied the enforcement of environmental regulations to the state unemployment rate, was defeated by a large margin in the November 2, 2010 election. We use Proposition 23 as a proxy to explore the broader issue of the communication of scientific research to public media outlets and how such communication may correlate with media audience decision making.
We develop a database of both media reports and scientific articles about the potential air quality and economic impacts related to Proposition 23. Using this database we analyze the content of both media reports and scientific articles about the potential air quality and economic impacts related to Proposition 23, providing context to the convergence of socioeconomics, media, science, and politics that the vote on this proposition represents.
The results of our content analysis will be used towards two ends. First, the development of a discrete choice model of voting on Proposition 23, in which we consider relevant demographic and environmental variables per county as well as the results of our media content analysis. Second, an analysis of content disparities between media reporting and scientific literature on air pollution to asses media bias. Combined, this analysis explicitly links media content, scientific reporting, and voting patterns of an important conservation issue, thus contributes to the emergent body of research on the flow of conservation information from scientists through media to the public.
Contact(s): Micah L Brachman, Idse Heemskerk, Lindsay Vogt
Past Projects
Reefs, food, people - Coral reef fisheries and food security
Summary: Coral reefs are a food source for millions of people worldwide. These ecosystems are under increasing stress from multiple anthropogenic threats including pollution, climate change, and overfishing. While many studies have examined the impact of these threats on coral reef ecosystems and the fisheries they support, we know relatively little about the subsequent food security implications for people who rely on coral reef systems.
The purpose of our research is to better understand (1) the conditions under which coral reef fisheries influence a countrys food security, (2) the mechanisms involved in this influence, and (3) how well prepared countries are to adapt to changes in coral reef ecosystems. To do so we are targeting thirty-nine tropical and sub-tropical island nations and have collected data on a range of variables: fish catch, protein consumption, malnutrition, fish trade, disasters, demographics, and management strategies.
Contact(s): Lisa Max, James Watson
Investigating the impact of integrating social variables into water quality research: A review and meta-analysis
Summary: An increasing number of environmental scientists consider the integration of social and ecological data sets to be an urgent priority. Because water quality is influenced by social and biophysical factors, studies of water quality provide an excellent opportunity to assess how this type of integration can improve our understanding of coupled social and natural systems. We will review studies that investigate both social (e.g., demographic and economic) variables and biophysical variables and assess the potential for using meta-analysis to determine the degree to which including both social and biophysical variables accounts for more variation in measures of water quality than either type of variable alone, our working group proposes to review the water quality literature where social and ecological variables are measured simultaneously. We will summarize the biophysical and social variables examined in these studies, analyze how data are defined, gathered, and reported from different disciplinary perspectives, and describe any geographic, temporal or variable-specific trends that we observe. This analysis will be used to assess the feasibility of conducting a meta-analysis.
Contact(s): Alisa Hove
Identifying successful management strategies for rebuilding collapsed fisheries
Summary: Costello et al (2008) recently demonstrated that how a fishery is managed can significantly influence its probability of collapse. However, the impact of management regime on the recovery prospects of fisheries that have already collapsed or been severely depleted is unknown. Successful recovery requires first that fisheries managers have the capacity to enact an effective rebuilding plan, and secondly, that the rebuilding plan incorporates the tools that have proven most successful at rebuilding ecologically similar stocks in the past. We propose (1) to evaluate rates of recovery under common rebuilding tactics and their covariance with key ecological parameters and (2) to quantify the effects of management regime on the likelihood that an effective rebuilding plan is developed.
Contact(s): Reginald Archer, Elizabeth Hogalund, Margaret Lynch, Lisa Needles, Steve Sadro


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The poor "job-creators." They just can't catch a break:
Without much fanfare, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is edging towards what could be its first "perfect" Term before the Supreme Court since at least 1994. With today's decision in Southern Union Company v. United States, the Chamber has declared victory in all seven of its cases that have reached a clear outcome (two are additionally classified as "other" because the Court avoided addressing the issue at stake on procedural grounds, and in one the Chamber filed on behalf of neither party).
This string of seven straight victories brings the Chamber's overall win/loss rate before the Roberts Court up to 68% (60 of 88 cases). As we have reported in prior studies, this is significantly higher than the Chamber's success before the Rehnquist Court of 56% (45 of 80 cases), and dramatically higher than its success rate before the Burger Court, when the Chamber only won 43% (15 of 35) of its cases.
At the time of Roberts and Alitos' confirmations there was quite a bit of talk about corporate minded this court was going to be. Of course that's not likely to be a contentious issues since it's a bipartisan disease. But still, it's fairly amazing to see just how extreme they've been. The Chamber is hardcore, Randian wingnut at this point — the NRA of economic interest groups. And they are doing very, very, very well with this court.
I'm a little bit foggy on what can be done about this. Voodoo dolls? What?


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Recent testing by Northbrook, Ill.-based Underwriters Laboratories (UL) of samples obtained from both the marketplace and several manufacturers indicates that some GFCI units do not meet all current UL requirements and, under rare conditions, may not trip when a fault is present, resulting in a loss of protection from electric shock. There have been no reported incidences of these products causing injury in the field, and under normal circumstances UL expects these products will perform their intended function. While GFCIs provide an effective means for protecting against electric shock, UL recommends that they be tested regularly to verify they are operating properly, using the self-test feature that is built into these devices.
UL has notified all manufacturers identified to date whose product samples did not meet all current UL requirements so that they may take appropriate action. UL has not withdrawn its certification mark from existing products nor does UL believe the products should be removed from homes or other locations entailing normal use.
Name of Product: Wall receptacle-type GFCI, rated 15A or 20A, 125V
Advisory: Under rare conditions, these GFCIs may not trip when a fault is present and may malfunction resulting in a loss of protection from electric shock. There have been no reported incidences of the products causing injury in the field.
Identification: GFCIs look like duplex receptacles but are distinguished by their "Reset" and "Test" buttons.
Uninstalled Product: All manufacturers identified to date have been notified. Retailers, contractors, and electricians should contact the manufacturer for further information.