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¶ With increased long-distance shipping of fresh food has come the long-distance shipping of dangerous insect pests and plant pathogens. Now climate change has allowed some of these to proliferate rapidly in regions where they either previously were not present or were unable to maintain more than the barest population levels. [CleanTechnica]
¶ As the ice sheets of the world melt, an enormous amount of pressure will be lifted off of the continental crusts that play host to them, as well as the surrounding oceanic basins. Something similar is broadly true, but to a much lesser degree, of the world's remaining large glaciers. With changes in pressure, there will be seismic activity. [CleanTechnica]
¶ A great number of technologies related to renewable energy and passive building design have been in use historically in many parts of the world. Some are not well…
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If "risk" is defined as the product of probability of an accident happening with its severity, we ought to start this title by considering first major commercial nuclear accidents of level 7 on the INES scale, as a priority in analysis, so we must consider 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe where "Emissions from Chernobyl reactor exceeded a hundredfold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki"(10).
The latest New York Academy report on Chernobyl catastrophe has published horrendous facts of more than a million causalities; the new book concludes: Chernobyl death toll: 985,000, mostly from cancer (11). A paper by Kristina Voigt and Hagen Scherb also showed that after 1986, in the aftermath of Chernobyl, around 800,000 fewer children were born in Europe than one might have expected. The overall number of "missing" children after Chernobyl could have reached about one million (12); not to mention that the researchers have not covered all countries in their count!
According to UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation), adding to the latter casualties, between 12,000 and 83,000 children who lived in the vicinity of Chernobyl were born with congenital deformations, and also estimate that around 30,000 to 207,000 genetically damaged children were born worldwide (13). Amongst the interesting findings was that only 10% of the overall expected damage was actually seen in the first generation; the worse is yet to come with the offspring. A similar research on butterflies around Fukushima has yielded a similar result which will be discussed later.
As for the level 6 on the INES scale, it is classified as a serious nuclear accident that includes the accident at the Kyshtym facility in Russia in 1957, unfortunately not much research was published! on level 5, accidents with wider consequences include United Kingdom Windscale facility in the year 1957, Chalk River – Canada in 1952 and the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, after which the USA only licensed few new reactors; At present, only three nuclear reactors are being constructed in the United States: Watts Bar 2 reactor (1180 MW) which started decades ago, and was put on hold till 2007, expected by the IAEA to commercially operate in 2015. Another two reactors; vogtle 3 and Summer 2 of 1200 MW each, are expected to operate in 2017(14).
The Fukushima-Daitii nuclear accident in Japan on March 2011 is also classified as level 5. However, nuclear accidents of level 4 with local consequences include a long list, so are levels 4,3,2 and 1; a non-ending list of accidents(15).
In one year only (2008), according to an IRSN report, 205 accidents were recorded in nuclear facilities (safety and environmental), a noticeable 56% increase compared to the accidents recorded in 2005 which accounted for 131 accidents only. A typical example of those accidents is the leakage of 20 m3 of radioactive water from Socatri facility at Tricastin – France. Some of the radioactive water followed rain water drainage into the eco-system while the rest radioactive water seeped underground polluting the soil and under-ground water aquifers (16).
Since March 2011 funds of hundreds of billions of dollars are being allocated by TEPCO, the Tokyo Electricity Company, as to cover for the direct damages of the Fukushima disaster; however, the scale of damage on biodiversity and genetic disorders is not clearly understood.
The early mutations of butterflies around Fukushima are alarming as the mutations disorders have been increasing with the offspring. Mutations caused by Fukushima disaster radiation had affected 12% of adult pale grass blue butterflies in the surrounding area two months after the March 2011 disaster. When that batch mated, it produced an offspring with an 18% mutation rate. In the following generation, mutations were found in 34% of the butterflies born. In September 2011, a new study disclosed that the adult butterflies displayed 28% mutation rate and their offspring had a whopping 58% mutation rate (17).
In a similar study on mice after 25 years of the Chernobyl catastrophe, it yielded the following outcome: "The rate of mutation amongst the field mice is one hundred thousand times higher than normal" (18).
Another environmental damage connected with the nuclear industry is thermal pollution which is basically the form of water pollution that refers to degradation of water quality by any process that changes ambient water temperature. The main cause of thermal pollution is attributed to one particular industry, or to be more precise to nuclear power plants that use water as a coolant. After this water has been used as a coolant it is returned to the natural environment at a higher temperature. This change in water temperature decreases the amount of oxygen in the water which can lead to negative ecological effects.
Less oxygen in the water can harm fish population, as it can increase the metabolic rate of fish population and other aquatic animals so that they would more likely eat a lot more food in a shorter period of time than if their environment was not changed. This change can lead to imbalance in the food chain, thus resulting in significant long-term damage to many aquatic ecosystems.
Warmer water temperatures are known to lead to reproduction problems for many aquatic animals, and can further cause huge bacteria and plant growth. Warmer waters can even lead to algae bloom resulting in a consequent loss of more oxygen in the water. However, this damage is likely to be ethically benign compared to the mutations that result from radioactivity.
As for the effects of radioactivity on humans, scientists from the universities of Moscow and Leicester examined blood samples from 79 families, the parents of who had been living within a 300 km radius of nuclear reactors. The scientists were surprised by children born between February and September 1994 as cases of mutations had doubled (19). Peter karamoskos, a nuclear radiologist, quotes the following: "There is a linear dose-response relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and the development of solid cancers in humans. It is unlikely that there is a threshold below which cancers are not induced"(20). Radiation can cause the breakdown in chromosomes, causing Down's syndrome in babies as well as mental and physical disorders. Children exposed to radiation have a higher risk to develop leukemia (21).
Higher incidence of leukemia in UK children has been reported in the environment of the Sellafield (Windscale) fuel reprocessing facility in England (22-23), not far from the Dounreay reprocessing plant in Scotland (24-25), and also in similar children who lived within a few kilometers from the Aldermaston or Burghfield military weapons facilities in England (26). In a comprehensive survey done by Forman et al(27) and Cook-Mozaffari et al (28-29) reported excess mortality rate due to leukemia and Hodgkin's disease particularly in young persons living in the vicinity of fourteen nuclear facilities, eight of them electricity generating nuclear plants.
In the United Kingdom, studies of populations living near nuclear power plants have yielded mixed results. Ewings et al (30) found increased incidence of leukemia and lymphoma in young persons near the Hinckley Point power station. Clap et al (31) reported an excess incidence of leukemia in men in five towns near the Pilgrim nuclear power station in Massachusetts.
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FS#8 - Improve Radiosity "Cross-Talk" Rejection in Corners
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Friday, 08 May 2009, 21:10 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Monday, 06 March 2017, 15:44 GMT
Near concave edges, radiosity samples may be re-used at a longer distance away from the edge than towards the edge; there is code in place to ensure this, but it only works properly where two surfaces meet roughly rectangularly, while failing near the junction of three surfaces or non-rectangular edges, potentially causing "cross-talk".
It should be investigated how the algorithm can be improved or replaced to better cope with non-trivial geometry.
Christoph, I boldly assume this has been improved with all your radiosity changes?
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PHILADELPHIA, April 29 (UPI) -- People living near gas hydraulic fracturing sites are more concerned than had been thought about possible health effects of the drilling, U.S. researchers say.
Dr. Poune Saberi of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology and colleagues collected responses from 72 adults visiting a primary care physician's office in the hydrofracking-heavy area of Bradford County, Pa.
The study participants volunteered to complete an investigator-facilitated survey. Twenty-two percent of the participants said the hydrofracking might be the cause of such health concerns as sinus problems, sleeping difficulties and gastrointestinal problems.
"Almost a quarter of participants consider natural gas operations to be a contributor to their health issues, indicating that there is clearly a concern among residents that should be addressed," Saberi said in a statement.
Within the 22 percent of responders, 13 percent viewed drilling to be the cause of their current health complaints and 9 percent were concerned future health problems can be caused by natural gas operations, said Saberi, the principal investigator.
The previous health complaints by participants were thought to be anecdotal in nature as they were individual cases reported publicly only by popular media, the study said.
"What is significant about this study is that the prevalence of impressions about medical symptoms attributed to natural gas operations had not been previously solicited in Pennsylvania," Saberi said. "This survey indicates that there is a larger group of people with health concerns than originally assumed."
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I had another post planned for today. But then something came up.
Sitting in a restaurant, I happened to mention to David how "hippy-dippy" our parenting was. You know, all that co-sleeping and extended breastfeeding and hugging and empathy and carrying our kids around in pouches on our backs and soothing them through temper tantrums. All those nights we didn't go out together, because we didn't want to leave our kids with a sitter/stranger/potential pedophile. All those neighbors and friendly critics who gave us the occasional look or comment like we baby our kids or hover too much. Like we were too involved.
In the middle of my talking I looked over at David. He had no idea what I was talking about.
That's when he said it: We are pretty tough on our kids. We yell at them. We are impatient with them. Then he started giving me examples. Real life examples. He was being kind of course, using "we". I mean, David might be many things, he might have extraordinarily bad taste in orange sweaters, but the man isn't a yeller. He gets short with them when they dilly dally getting ready for school sometimes, and he's had a tussle or two with Lucy over settling into bed at night. But I'm the yeller. What he could have said, and maybe should have said, was that I'm the impatient one, the intimidator, the one who can light a fire under their little bums with my blasts of furnace-like anger. He was also pretty sure the neighbors knew we were yellers as well.
To be fair, I'm loud by nature. When I'm happy, I scream. If you walk into a bar and I see you, I will leap from my chair, run across the room, clumsily bumping people out of my way like a drooling hyper-active Labrador, shout your name, give you a huge hug, and shriek about how gorgeous you look, so that even the table in the back of the room will hear it.
I get a lot of credit around this blog for being patient - all the cooking with kids, and the messes that I allow the kids to make in the kitchen, and the countless quelled temper tantrums and crazy brisket-wearing behavior that I write about here, and I'm pretty good at those moments of hysteria. I like the craziness, the nuttiness - but the truth is, I wish I was better at parenting. And I'm not looking for reader sympathy here. Sometimes I just do a piss poor job at this. It's a fact.
I wish I didn't lose my cool with them. I wish I could let Edie have her temper tantrums, where she lays on the floor and kicks her feet in the air and wails like a two year old because I'm not getting her chocolate milk fast enough. I wish I could just let her be angry, and unseemly, and not make her feel terrible for having the audacity for showing her true, ugly feelings.
I wish it didn't drive me bananas that Lucy is afraid to be alone in any room of the house and so when she has to go to the bathroom, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and sit on the edge of the tub while she poops. I wish I could just remember that I was the same way when I was little. I always thought there were boogey men behind the shower curtain and mice under the sink. I wish I didn't grumble about it and remind her she's six and this isn't what happens with six year olds. I wish I didn't make her feel small for sharing her deepest fears with me.
I wish that when the house is a total and complete wreck I didn't get resentful, muttering bitterly as I pick up discarded sweaters, stranded toys and bits of smushed bacon in the rug. I wish it didn't bother me that I found all of their Barbie clothes stuffed into the heating vent and I wish I didn't go on a tirade so epic that they feel their mother has vanished from the room and replacing her is a ranting, nagging, manic, dust-bunny fighting lunatic.
I wish I didn't show my disappointment, my seething pissed-offness, when Edie kicks over my wine glass for the third time in a single two hour time span. In the moment, I wish I could just see it as an accident. A stupid, unimportant accident. I wish I remembered that what I really wanted her to do was go to sleep so I could relax, maybe spend a few moments with her father, but she couldn't, and that's not really her fault at all.
I wish I didn't get grumpy with Lucy when she plops herself into my lap, with the grace of a camel, and slams the laptop lid shut just as I'm about to write something utterly brilliant and necessary. I wish I could see it for what it is - her message to me that she needs me. That I need to pay attention. I wish I could calmly explain to her in the moment what I needed to do to finish, and when I'd be able to give her my focus. I also wish I didn't get sucked into thinking that email needs to be sent immediately or that arbitrary deadline I assigned to a particular project has to met at the expense of time spent with my girls. I wish I had more balance.
I don't wish that I was perfect or an angel. That isn't the kind of role model they need to get them ready for the world. I always try to talk about my screw-ups with them, let them know why I blew up, but the yelling isn't the worst. It's when I show my unmitigated disappointment about something they've done or didn't do, when I momentarily - just for 30 seconds or so - withdraw my love, respect or admiration for them. When the frustration rises up in me and I can't push it down or away, or pretend it isn't there, and I feel the need to pelt them with it just a little, to send them a little message. And what they learn, I'm afraid, is that their mother can turn on them, will turn on them, will squeeze a bit of lime into their wound. That she can't be trusted to always be on their side. That I can't be trusted to always be on their side.
Just writing it down gives me chills.
What I'd rather do - what I'm going to try to do every day now - is reign myself in, be in the moment, think about my reactions, what I'm saying to them with my body, my words, how often I smile, take a second to think before I talk, and give them the benefit of the doubt first. Because if David and I don't, who the hell is going to?
As I'm writing this, Edie drops her melting ice cream bar into David's shoe. I really want to get this post written, just a few more words to go. I told her it was okay, no problem, just a spill. I got the paper towels and we wiped it up together. The ice cream in David's shoe was kinda funny actually. It took all of an extra minute. Not a single hurt feeling for her or flash of guilt for me. I still finished this post. Baby steps.
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Orioles fans need to wait until next week to find out if Buck Showalter has won the prestigious American League Manager of the Year Award.
But the first step toward that is now out of the way.
Showalter was announced Wednesday night as one of three finalists for the Baseball Writers' Association of America's award after leading the Orioles to a 93-69 record and their first playoff appearance since 1997.
His competition is Oakland's Bob Melvin, who led the small-market A's to an American League West crown, and first year skipper Robin Ventura of the Chicago White Sox, who finished second in the AL Central.
Showalter, 56, has won two previous BBWAA manager awards, in 1994 with the New York Yankees and in 2004 with the Texas Rangers. He's finished in the top 5 in voting three other times (1993, 1995 and 1999). Earlier this offseason, Showalter was named The Sporting News 2012 AL Manager of the Year.
This Manager of the Year award will be announced Tuesday at 6 p.m., the second of four days in which the BBWAA is televising its winners on MLB Network – the first time the organization has done that in its history.
Rookies of the Year will be announced Monday, the Cy Youngs on Wednesday and the Most Valuable Players on Thursday, Nov. 15.
During Wednesday's BBWAA announcement of finalists, no other Oriole was named a top 3 finalist for Rookie of the Year or Cy Young, or a top 5 finalist for MVP.
Here are all the finalists:
AL Rookie: Yoenis Cespedes, Oakland; Yu Darvish, Texas; Mike Trout, Los Angeles.
NL Rookie: Todd Frazier, Cincinnati; Bryce Harper, Washington; Wade Miley, Arizona.
AL Manager: Buck Showalter, Orioles; Bob Melvin, Oakland; Robin Ventura, Chicago.
NL Manager: Dusty Baker, Cincinnati; Bruce Bochy, San Francisco; Davey Johnson, Washington.
AL Cy Young Award: David Price, Tampa Bay; Justin Verlander, Detroit; Jered Weaver, Los Angeles.
NL Cy Young Award: R.A. Dickey, New York; Gio Gonzalez, Washington; Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles.
AL MVP: Adrian Beltre, Texas; Miguel Cabrera, Detroit; Robinson Cano, New York; Josh Hamilton, Texas; Mike Trout, Los Angeles.
NL MVP: Ryan Braun, Milwaukee; Chase Headley, San Diego; Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh; Yadier Molina, St. Louis; Buster Posey, San Francisco.


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Frank was trying to beat an opposing player to a loose ball during a soccer game when he felt a sharp pain at the back of his left leg. He dropped to the ground, but when he tried to get up and walk, he fell down again and had to be helped off the field.
The next day, Frank went to see a doctor. The doctor asked him a few questions, examined his leg, and told him he had a grade 2 strain — a partial tear — of one of the muscles in his hamstring.
Three muscles run down the back of your leg, from your thigh to your knee — the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus — and help you bend your knee and extend your hip. As a group, they are known as the hamstring. A hamstring strain, sometimes called a pulled hamstring, happens when one or more of these muscles gets stretched too far and starts to tear.
Hamstring strains can be relatively mild, with little pain and a short recovery time. Or, in the case of complete muscle tears, they can require surgery to repair and put a person on crutches for weeks.
Chances are that if you strain your hamstring while running, you'll know it immediately. You'll feel a sharp pain and possibly a popping sensation at the back of your leg. You won't be able to keep running and you may fall.
Other symptoms of a hamstring strain include:
In the event of a particularly severe strain or complete tear, you may feel a gap in the torn muscle.
If your hamstring strain is severe enough that it requires medical attention, the doctor will examine your leg and ask you questions about how the injury happened and how much pain you have.
The doc also will probably press on the back of your thigh to check for swelling and tenderness. This helps the doctor figure out what grade of strain you have:
A hamstring strain generally occurs as a result of muscle overload, such as when you are running and your leg is fully extended just before your foot strikes the ground. In a situation like that, the hamstring muscles can get stretched too far, and if they're forced to take on a sudden load — like when your foot strikes the ground and all your weight is on it — they may start to tear.
People who take part in certain activities that involve sprinting or jumping (like track and field, soccer, football, lacrosse, basketball, and dance) are more at risk of getting hamstring strains. These kinds of injuries are also more common in teens who are going through growth spurts. That's because the leg bones may grow faster than a person's muscles, pulling the muscles tight and leaving them more susceptible to getting stretched too far.
Some of the more common things that can contribute to a hamstring strain include:
Keeping your muscles in good shape is the best way to prevent hamstring injuries. Here are some ways to help protect yourself against them (and other sports injuries!):
The good news is that only the most severe muscle tears require surgery. Most hamstring strains will heal on their own in a relatively short time.
To treat a hamstring strain, follow these tips:
If you have a complete tear of one of your hamstring muscles or tendons that can't be treated by other methods, your doctor might order surgery to reattach the tendon to the bone or stitch the muscle back together.
Not overdoing things is key when it comes to this type of injury. So follow your doctor's advice and don't push yourself or feel pressure to get back into sports or other activities too soon. It's easy to reinjure a hamstring.
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A KNIFEWOMAN in a pink onesie arrested on a Burnley street was said to have earlier sent threatening texts to a woman after a dispute, a court heard.
Grace Taylor, a 21-year-old mum-of-one, had a large bread knife tucked up her right sleeve when she was detained in Brunshaw Road, at 7.45am.
She was said to have started sending messages to the woman at about 5.45am, telling her she was going to go round and 'bash' her.
The defendant was then seen in Hurstwood Avenue at 7.30am with the knife, approaching the house the woman was at. She had gone to the front door and then disappeared from view, Burnley Crown Court heard.
Taylor, an amphetamine addict who has a record for unruly behaviour, is banned by a restraining order from her own grandmother's home because of her conduct. She claimed the knife was for self-protection.
The defendant, who also has pink hair, was spared jail by Judge Beverley Lunt who warned her it was the only chance she would give her.
Taylor recently lived at Larch Street, Nelson, but is now of no fixed address and is said to live a 'chaotic' life.
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The scene described by Pliny the Younger occurred on an August afternoon in 79 A.D. Of the more than 20,000 inhabitants in the city of Pompeii, several hundred died that day in their homes and in the streets. The rest fled toward the sea.
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John Griffiths
April 27, 2009
Munster's Paul O'Connell will lead the 2009 British & Irish Lions after being handed the captaincy by head coach Ian McGeechan © Getty Images
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ask John where renowned rugby historian John Griffiths will answer any rugby-related query you have!
So, if there's something you've always wanted to know about the game we love but didn't know who to ask, or you think you can stump our expert - then get involved by sending us a question.
In his latest lesson for us all, John reveals which country has provided the most Lions captains, which teams have provides the most Lions tourists on any given tour and the world record attendance for a Test match.
Q. Which Home Union has provided the most captains for major tours undertaken by the British & Irish Lions? Anon
A. Ireland. Paul O'Connell is the tenth Irish leader of the Lions on a major tour. His predecessors were:
1910 - Tom Smyth to SA Series lost
Eight of the 28 major tours to the Tri-Nations countries (including this year's) since 1888 have been led by Englishmen, seven by Scotsmen and three (including the 1908 Anglo-Welsh party when Scotland and Ireland refused to participate) by Welshmen. England's Martin Johnson is the only player who has led two Lions tour parties while Wales's John Dawes uniquely led a Grand Slam side and a series-winning Lions team in the same year (1971).
Q. There were eight Munster players in the Lions squad originally chosen for this year's tour. Is that a record for a fully representative tour? Anon
A. Leicester also provided eight among the cast of thousands for the 2005 tour to New Zealand:
The injury to Tomas O'Leary is likely to reduce Munster's starting contribution to seven, the same as the number of Newport players in the 1910 squad in South Africa. There were also seven from London Welsh, including replacement Geoff Evans, in Australia and New Zealand with the successful 1971 Lions.
The 1910 Lions to South Africa were the first fully representative squad to leave the Home Unions. Before that, Cambridge University provided eleven of the 1891 party to South Africa - the first side to tour there. That squad had no Welsh or Irish representatives.
What is the record attendance for a Test match? Anon
A. The official record is 109,874 at Stadium Australia in 2000 for the Australia 35-39 New Zealand Tri-Nations clash. The same ground held 107,042 for another Wallabies-All Blacks Tri-Nations game when it was opened in 1999. The complex was built for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
The record attendance for an International Championship match was officially given as 104,000 for the Scotland 12-10 Wales game at Murrayfield on St David's Day 1975. The "unofficial" crowd figure was 111,000, many thousands gaining free admission when a perimeter fence gave way.
There were 95,000 present to set a then record when South Africa played the British & Irish Lions at Ellis Park, Johannesburg in the opening Test of the 1955 series and, according to the French sports newspaper L'Equipe, the same number attended the Romania-France match at the August 23rd Stadium, Bucharest, in 1957. That crowd had assembled for a major soccer match and stayed on to cheer the Romanian rugby side to a near victory over the French, who eventually won 18-15 through a late penalty goal.
The world record for the fewest spectators at a major Test is 30: United States v South Africa 1981 at Owl Creek Polo Field, Glenville, New York. The match venue was kept a secret to avoid unwanted apartheid demonstrators. The teams, allegedly, had to clear the polo field of horse manure before the rugby match could be staged.
When were the first Test matches televised live in Australia and New Zealand? Anon
A. Australia led the way in the southern hemisphere. The first Test broadcast live Down Under was on May 25, 1957 when Colin Meads and Wilson Whineray made their New Zealand Test debuts against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The All Blacks, giving one of the best exhibitions of rugby seen in Sydney for many years, won the Test 25-11 in front of 28,150 spectators. At least twice as many were estimated to have seen the game on one of the three Sydney television channels that transmitted it live.
They did not, however, see the Bledisloe Cup for which the two nations compete. It had been on display in Sydney during the lead-up to the match but was temporarily mislaid during the day of the Test.
It was not until the Bledisloe Cup series of 1972 that a New Zealand home Test went live to armchair viewers. The All Blacks were already 2-0 ahead in the series when the New Zealand Rugby Union agreed a fee of NZ$8,750 with the NZBC network for the final Test in Auckland to be broadcast live on television on September 16.
There were concerns that live television coverage would detract from the gate, but it was reported that officials were pleased with the attendance (43,000) for the Test. Jack Sullivan, chairman of the NZRFU, announced that the crowd was a record for a NZ-Australia Test on New Zealand soil and that the gate was nearly NZ$73,000. Even so, only 1,750 were present in Christchurch the same afternoon for West Coast's unsuccessful Ranfurly Shield challenge against Canterbury.
When was the last time France failed to provide a semi-finalist for the Heineken European Cup? Anon
A. Cardiff Blues' 9-6 quarter-final win against Toulouse eliminated the last of this season's surviving French clubs. Only once before have the French failed to provide a Heineken Cup semi-finalist: that was in 2007 when Biarritz and Stade Français were eliminated in the quarter-finals. Leicester beat Llanelli and Wasps beat Northampton in that year's semis before Wasps went on to lift the Cup, beating Leicester 25-9 in the Final at Twickenham.
Q. Could you perhaps tell me whether a player by the name of R Mattei played scrum-half for Italy in their matches against a French XV and the USSR in 1978 or did G Franceschini play scrum-half in those matches? Jer McLachlan, South Africa
A. The Federazione Italiana Rugby records show that Gianni Franceschini was the scrum-half in these matches. He was with the Treviso club when he played in the 31-9 defeat by France B in L'Aquila on February 4, 1978 but had transferred to San Donà the following season when he won the last of his Italian caps in the 11-9 defeat by the USSR in Rome (November 18, 1978).
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We have two alternate "snow" routes to use during deep snow years. If we can't get into Lyon Ridge and Red Star Ridge aid stations but are still able to access Robinson Flat (like in 2010) we'll use what we call Snow Route A. This drops down into the French Meadows drainage at the Hodgsdon Gate prior to the Lyon Ridge aid station. By dropping down into French Meadows we are able to get to relatively lower elevation terrain and access the snow route aid stations Talbot and Poppy from Mosquito Ridge Rd. This is actually the original/historic WS route. Once we reach the Duncan Canyon aid station we are back on the regular route through Robinson Flat.
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Delaware librarian a whiz at research and more!
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Dana Knott can multi-task with the best of them, finding articles and resources for students' research papers, while simultaneously helping them with computer issues and signing out laptops for their use!
That's according to student Jill Palmer, who nominated her for Staff Employee of the Month, after being very impressed with the service she received at the Delaware Campus recently.
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"Dana was instrumental in assisting me find resources and information for a research paper," said Palmer in her nomination. "I am impressed with her ability to multi-task and continue to remain upbeat and supportive to the many people who rely on her for information!"
"Dana has been extraordinarily helpful to my classes in her introductions to library resources," says faculty member Virginia Duym. "She makes the academic research required by Columbus State less intimidating for students, and more manageable for those students whose main research tool is Google."
Supervisor Tracy Kemp says that Dana has been "the heart and soul of Library Resources at the Delaware Campus since 2010—even before opening day."
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Lincoln Exhibition Lecture Series continues July 10
The Library is pleased to announce the second in its lecture series supporting the national exhibition currently on view, "Lincoln, The Constitution and the Civil War." The lecture is titled, "Slave Health, Disability, and the Process of Emancipation." This lecture will be given by Humanities Instructor Dea H. Boster on Wednesday, July 10, at 1:00 p.m. in the Multimedia Studio of the library on the 1st floor. The lecture is free to attend and all are welcome!
Learn about course assessment and more July 12
How does Columbus State's course and program assessment process work? How does this relate to learning in the classroom? At this month's Academic Onboarding and Renewal session, learn about General Education Outcomes and Program Outcomes, collecting meaningful data, and analyzing effectiveness through Validation and Assessment Reports. Faculty Fellows for Assessment, Adam Moskowitz and Lisa Cerrato will lead the discussion on this and more related to the assessment process. Join us Friday, July 12, at 1:00 p.m. in CT 107. Please register in advance. All are welcome.
Di Pietro to perform concert July 18
Rocco Di Pietro, adjunct faculty in the Humanities, will perform a concert Thursday, July 18, at 6:30 p.m. at the OSU Urban Arts Space, located at Town and High in the former Lazarus building. The concert is part of the "Marotta Hour," an electro-acoustic music series curated by Larry Marotta featuring unexpected sounds from free jazz to electronic and free-form improvisation. Marotta Hour was routinely performed at the Urban Arts Space from 2008-2011,and is now returning for a special performance by Di Pietro. The performance is free and open to all.
DiPietro will perform his own works: "Convolutions with Lear" and "Lilith Aria" and a new work by David Nelson Tomasacci and Anthony Vine. You can read more about this concert at the OSU Urban Arts website.
"Ideas to Go" focuses on business communication
The Ideas to Go series invites employees to share knowledge and ideas so we can work together more effectively. In upcoming sessions, Communication Professors Frankie Hale and Susan Moran tackle common workplace communication challenges. Sessions take place at noon. You are welcome to bring your lunch. Please register in advance.
Session 1- Tuesday, July 16: Rules of Successful Business Communication
Have you ever received a memo or *Important* email message that left you scratching your head and wondering what the sender meant? Or hit the Send button on a message you copied the entire department and then moments later realize you left out critical information? If so, join the ranks of us who have been either the victim or perpetrator of poor business communication practices. This session will focus on the 5 C's of good business communication. Bring your lunch and your stories as we look at how to apply the 5 C's to communication at Columbus State. A checklist with the 5 C's will be given to each participant at the completion of Session 1.
Session 2 – Tuesday, July 30: Case Studies in Successful Business Communication
Can these examples of policy statements really have been issued? Because they are negative, condescending, and unclear. In short, they are unprofessional. On July 30, let's review a number of errant communications and discuss ways they could have been made more diplomatic, positive and clear. Have lunch, a few laughs (at the expense of our sample unprofessional writers), and some lively discussion.
Reception planned for Dr. Jonathan Baker
The Mathematics Department will host a goodbye reception for Chair Jonathan Baker, who is leaving Columbus State after 15 years of service, to take a new position at The Ohio State University.
The Math Department invites you to thank Jonathan for his service and to wish him well in his new job on Tuesday, July 9, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Davidson Hall Room 412.
Barnhart honored as "superhero"
Organizers of the Superhero Soul Music & Comedy Spectacular recently honored eleven "heroes" who champion the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community of Columbus. Benefit organizer, Dale Gregory (right) said, "These folks are so deeply engrained into the framework of the community, LGBT progress and the city of Columbus at large, that they often times go unnoticed by us who benefit from their hard work. They are the reason Columbus is recognized as a national and state leader in equality for the LGBT community." Frank Barnhart was recognized for his work as founder and festival director of Columbus National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival, as founder of Act Out Productions, co-founder of Reality Theatre, and producer/director of numerous LGBT productions.
Caregivers Employee Resource Group to meet July 12
The challenges of caring for others can result in caregivers ignoring their own physical and emotional health. Share your story and network with other employees who also provide care to children, elderly family members or dependent adults. Join the group on Friday, July 12, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Library Multimedia Studio (lower level) for the Caregivers ERG. Contact Lori Thomas, Caregivers ERG liaison, for more information.
Upcoming traffic impacts for Mound St. Connector construction
On each overnight, Monday, July 8, through Thursday, July 11, construction in the area will impact some traffic patterns:
At 8 p.m., I-70 west will be reduced to three lanes from Miller- Kelton to 4th Street.
The entrance ramp from Miller-Kelton to I-70 west will be closed.
At 9 p.m., I-70 west will be reduced to two lanes from Miller-Kelton to 4th Street.
At 10 p.m., I-70 west will be reduced to one lane from Miller-Kelton to 4th Street.
The ramp from I-70 west to I-71 north will be closed.
By 5 a.m., each morning, all lanes of I-70 west and all ramps will be open.
Once the work is complete on Friday morning July 12, there will be two lanes for I-70 west from the 18th St. Bridge to 4th Street.
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If you know a new freshman who will attend Columbus State this fall, and study in one of the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering or math—alert them to the deadline for the Future Scientists of Ohio scholarship! The scholarship is for $1,000 over two years and the benefits are many. The deadline to apply is July 15. You can read more about the scholarship program here.


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1 15oz can of pinto beans, drained and rinsed well
4 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 Tbsp honey
1 avocado, cubed
3 tsp fresh lemon juice
¼ onion, finely chopped
½ small cucumber, diced
10-15 cherry tomatoes, halved
3-4 leaves of fresh basil, chopped
1-2 Tbsp olive oil
In a large bowl whisk together the honey and balsamic vinegar and let the drained beans marinate in it for 10-15 minutes.
Add the chopped onions, cucumber, tomatoes and basil to the marinating beans. Drizzle with olive oil, add salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.
Gently toss the avocado cubes with the lemon juice in another bowl and then add to the rest of the ingredients in the bowl. Toss gently to combine. Serve.
We had this with some garlic bread. It was a very simple and filling meal.
Do head over to Kalyn's Kitchen to check out her amazing collection of healthy and delicious meals when you can.
Some other salads on this blog:
Romaine Lettuce and Radicchio Salad
Potato and Egg Salad
Corn Salad
Simple Pasta Salad
Pinto Bean Salad goes to Raaga, The Singing Chef, who is hosting the Soups and Salads edition of the Monthly Blog Patrol.
This also goes to Madhuram @ Eggless Cooking.com for her ongoing series- Your Recipe Rocks.
This is also my entry for Snackshots # 4: Salad being hosted by Michelle @ Greedy Gourmet.


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Snowden Inc.
First, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden popped up in Hong Kong. Then, Russia. By Monday, the fugitive from justice, a man regularly accused of treason, was in Austin, Texas, hitting the nation's hottest tech festival — via the Web, of course.
"They're setting fire to the future of the Internet," Snowden warned darkly, in jerky video relayed through a series of proxies from an undisclosed location in Russia. With an image of the U.S. Constitution projected behind him, he urged the tech-savvy SXSW attendees to ride to the rescue against rampant surveillance by the NSA and others. "The people who are in this room, now, you guys are all the firefighters, and we need you to help fight this," he said, sounding every bit the geek as he described various encryption applications he believes should get wider use.
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Snowden was painstaking in how he assembled a huge trove of top-secret documents while working as a tech contractor at an NSA facility in Hawaii. And he's been equally deliberate in the way he and the team around him have crafted and cultivated his public image — controlling and carefully managing how he's been perceived by the public in the months since he burst into the spotlight. It's an endeavor that's involved everything from coordinated efforts to beat back Obama administration attacks to the careful parceling out of tantalizing tidbits about his everyday life.
( WATCH: Edward Snowden speaks at SXSW festival)
"It's interesting … usually people who do what he did are instantly and very effectively demonized across the board," said Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who received a massive stash of NSA documents from Snowden and has published a series of attention-grabbing stories. "He's really been able to control his own image."
At the SXSW festival Monday, the 30-year-old computer engineer and his team tried to tap into one of his biggest assets: the support of leaders in America's tech industry who have recoiled at his revelations of widespread government snooping that poses a threat to their global business.
Snowden's first live video Q-and-A was just the latest in a series of outings that has included a text-based Web chat with his followers, as well as interviews or online exchanges with a German TV network and with reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Video was posted online of him accepting an award in Moscow from a group of former U.S. intelligence agency employees who are self-described whistleblowers. And just last week, he made a stir with written testimony to a European Union inquiry in which he accused the U.S. of creating a "bazaar" to spy on Europeans.
There have also been stories about his Moscow apartment and his employment with a Russian Internet firm.
( Also on POLITICO: Edward Snowden: Hill, FISA need watchdog)
And on Tuesday, he emerged to take a swipe at congressional critic Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) after she accused the CIA of interfering in Senate Intelligence Committee oversight. "It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern," Snowden said, in a statement to NBC News that was confirmed by a Snowden associate. "But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them."
In interviews with POLITICO, three top advisers to Snowden said they're pleased with and somewhat surprised by his relative popularity — a popularity that persists despite the fact that U.S. officials regularly accuse him of being a traitor and a spy, and despite the three felonies he's been formally charged with for stealing and disclosing secrets.
Polls show a substantial base of support for Snowden's actions, but how large a base he has appears to vary widely depending on the precise wording of questions. In a January Quinnipiac survey, 57 percent of Americans branded him a "whistleblower," while 34 percent called him a "traitor." A total of 40 percent of those answering said his disclosures had been good for the country, but 46 percent said they were bad.
( Also on POLITICO: Snowden still stirring the political pot)
A Fox News poll taken the same month found 68 percent of Americans were glad to know about the NSA programs Snowden revealed, while a CBS survey found those disapproving of Snowden's conduct outnumbered those approving, 54 to 31 percent.
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Greenwald said Snowden actually gained momentum early on by making the unorthodox decision to identify himself, rather than lurk in the shadows and be introduced to the public through news accounts stemming from the inevitable investigation.
"He was able to define himself in the public eye rather than letting the first enduring impression of who he was be defined by the smear campaign that begins once a person gets fingered," said the Brazil-based American writer, who recently decamped from the Guardian to startup Firstlook Media. Now, "he definitely has been participating more in the debate — which he also started," said Greenwald, who regularly leaps to the ex-NSA contractor's defense on Twitter.
Snowden legal adviser Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union also credits the former NSA contractor's measured public statements with his success in bolstering his substantial base of support.
"Snowden has come forward, not giving the Barbara Walters interview, but he has calmly and eloquently explained what he did and why it was necessary to do that," Wizner said.
Another adviser, Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, said building Snowden's public brand has been challenging — particularly since the Justice Department has charged him under the Espionage Act with disclosing classified information and information about "communications intelligence" operations.
( Also on POLITICO: Full defense policy coverage)
"It is like turning the Titanic when you have a client who's charged with espionage, which automatically paints him as an enemy of the state," said Radack, who sees the trend moving Snowden's way. "It's been positive. … Ed was in the running to be Time's person of the year — and lost to the pope. I feel like the tide has turned drastically since last June."
There's no doubt that Snowden's actions are also passing out of the usual realm of news coverage and into pop culture. CBS's legal drama "The Good Wife" has already done one episode on his NSA revelations and is planning another. And students at the University of Glasgow paid tribute to Snowden last month by electing him as their rector.
'He has a spotlight, and he's using it'
Snowden's relative public support is clearly galling to many veteran national security and law enforcement officials, who view his behavior as reckless and insist he's done profound damage to U.S. interests. They also sense and resent a kind of cult of personality developing around the internationally celebrated tech geek.
"I hear people talk about whistleblower-hero for revealing — I say, for revealing what?" FBI Director James Comey said in a recent roundtable with reporters. Invoking his own history of sharply resisting what he regarded as illegal aspects of Bush administration surveillance programs, Comey painted Snowden's actions as quite different — exposing a call-tracking database known to and approved by members of all three branches of government. "When I look at that program, I see the government operating in the way the founders intended."
Comey also faulted Snowden for the breadth of his disclosures, saying they went beyond matter that raised legitimate privacy concerns. "When you're talking about revealing the ways in which we track terrorists or the identity and location of agents, I struggle to understand how you can apply the whistleblower label to that kind of information. And so it confuses me," the FBI director said.
"There's some element of sympathy out there for him, and some have jumped to lionizing Snowden. I think that's problematic," former Assistant Attorney General for National Security Ken Wainstein said during a Georgetown University conference last month. "If people see that folks can unilaterally decide that they're going to leak information that they disagree with and violate their oath, then I think our national security system doesn't work. … That's why I think it's important that, to the extent we're able down the road to bring Snowden to justice, that we do so."
"He is now regaling the world with interviews and other kinds of public relations things," former judge and Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff said in a January NBC interview. "This is not a person being punished. He has a spotlight and he's using it."