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Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has officially launched the first fully electric passenger bus in the region in partnership with the Department of Transport in Abu Dhabi (DoT), Abu Dhabi-based bus manufacturer Hafilat Industry LLC , and leading technology company Siemens.
The vehicle will serve a six-stop route between Marina Mall, Abu Dhabi Central Bus Station and Masdar City, Abu Dhabi's flagship sustainable urban community.
The Eco-Bus will be seamlessly integrated into the DoT's existing fleet, while the service will be free until the end of March 2019.
The Eco-Bus has been designed to withstand the heat and humidity of the UAE climate, key performance challenges for electric vehicles. Jointly developed by Masdar, Hafilat Industry LLC of Abu Dhabi and Siemens Middle East, it seats 30 passengers and has a range of 150 kilometres per battery charge. Solar panels are also used to power the Eco-Bus's auxiliary systems.
"The launch of the Eco-Bus is a milestone for the UAE in a number of ways," said Yousef Baselaib, Executive Director for Sustainable Real Estate at Masdar. "Masdar City has been an incubator of sustainable mobility technologies, including the iconic Personal Rapid Transport system and the NAVYA AUTONOM shuttle vehicle. Now we are exporting solutions beyond the city limits with our partners for the benefit of the wider community."
"Helping the UAE deliver on its sustainability targets, including more environmentally friendly mobility solutions, is a key part of our mandate at Masdar and high on the agenda at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2019, which will showcase opportunities for further convergence of knowledge and technologies in the pursuit of cleaner and more energy-efficient transport," Baselaib said.
Abu Dhabi's DoT was heavily involved in the pilot phase of the Eco-Bus, which carried out extensive tests of the vehicle's technical performance as well as the user experience. Siemens provided the vehicle's propulsion technology, while Hafilat designed and built the Eco-Bus.
"The collaboration between the Department of Transport and Masdar has been very fruitful and resulted in the operating of the electric bus," said Eng. Ahmed Ateeq Al Mazrouei, Adviser to the Chairman of the DoT and Head of the Buses and Water Ferries Team. "This initiative is a result of the efforts and support dedicated by DoT and its strategic partners to promote the use of sustainable and intelligent transport modes, which enhances the quality of life in the Emirate. This smart initiative is just one of a series of future initiatives that are aimed at enhancing the intelligent transportation system in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and making it part of the daily lives of public transport users."
The Eco-Bus has a lightweight aluminium body and a unique water-cooling system to optimise battery life and efficiency, even when the outdoor temperature is at its highest. The vehicle also has a highly energy-efficient on-board air-conditioning system.
Iyad Al Ansari, the CEO of Hafilat Industry LLC, said: "We have provided specific solutions to adapt this bus to the UAE environment and to meet the Department of Transport's specifications."
The Eco-Bus is driven by a Siemens traction system, which includes a gearless PEM motor. Highly efficient, quiet and virtually maintenance-free, the traction system has been designed to last the lifetime of the Eco-Bus.
"This technology has been proven around the world and we're pleased to be bringing it to the UAE for local innovation in efficient, sustainable transportation," said Uwe Troeger, Senior Executive Vice President, Digital Factory and Process Industries and Drives, Siemens Middle East. "This project is a great combination of the right technology and the right partners, and supports the development of environmentally friendly transport infrastructure in the UAE."
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This post is republished with love in memory of my father, John Buttimer. 1 February 1923 – 8 February 2013
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|This is an absolutely iconic design and it's an oddity because this design was only distributed in the UK. We'll post about the design for the rest of the world in a few days.
I first saw this version at the tender age of 8, in 1974, when my dad brought it home. A lifelong classical music stalwart, Autobahn was his one concession to popular music and it had a profound effect on me. I listened to the 22 minute title track over and over again on his headphones, loving the synthesized sound of the cars whooshing from one ear to the other, right through the middle of my head. The bridge that crosses the two white lines always seemed to symbolise my headphones listening in to the roar of traffic martialled into a modern-day symphony. The two pieces of brown sticky tape affixed to the lower corners makes my copy unique. I recently asked why they were there and was reminded that my Dad had to repair the sleeve after numerous borrowings in my teenage years. It's the nearest thing to a family heirloom I've got.
Autobahn is fascinating because of its translation of the concept of travel into musical form. This transmission from one medium to another wasn't a new one, but the extent to which it reduced the distance between musical composition and referent was and remains striking. Its central motif isn't a melody, but the sound of cars approaching and moving away from the listener. The design perfectly encapsulates this by appropriating the motorway symbol and placing it so that it fills the cover from top to bottom. There is no end to the journey in graphic terms, it's implied that the road continues outside the frame of the cover. Similarly the music ends with one more passing car rather than the sound, say, of an engine being turned off (Autobahn's railway counterpart, Trans-Europe Express, ends with the sound of train brakes squealing).
Typographically, the design is fascinating as well. The letters R, W, R, A, U, A and H in the title are escaping from their settings, literally tracing new roads, setting off for destinations unknown. At the same time they're dancing – the W, U and H waving and punching the air and the Rs and As stretching their toes out. The letter forms presage the tremendous influence the group would have on dance music and on the musical world as a whole. Similarly, the icon-focused design was the approach the group would take in its latterday releases, except that from Man Machine onwards they made the four members of the group integral to each design. The graphic below is from the group's yet to be released career retrospective:
Autobahn is an utterly brilliant synergy between music, concept and visual design. One last thing: there's no designer credit on the Autobahn sleeve which seems fittingly utilitarian.
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To support your hip joints, you need to strengthen the muscles that support them. This can help prevent or relieve hip pain and guard against injury.
Appropriate exercises target muscles of the thighs and the glutes. Here are three to add to your fitness regimen.
Note: Before conditioning, always warm up with five to 10 minutes of easy exercise, like walking or riding a stationary bike.
Hip abduction exercises primarily work the outer thighs. Lie on your left side, top leg straight but not locked, bottom leg bent. Slowly raise the straight leg to make a 45-degree angle with the floor. Hold for five seconds, then slowly lower. Do three sets of eight to 12 reps, then switch sides and repeat.
Hip adduction exercises primarily work the inner thighs. Lie on your left side with both legs straight. Cross your top leg over the lower leg, placing the foot flat on the floor. Raise the lower leg six to eight inches off the floor, hold for five seconds, and then slowly lower. Do three sets of eight to 12 reps, then switch sides and repeat.
Prone hip extensions primarily work the glutes. Lie flat on your stomach on a firm surface and place a pillow under your hips. Bend your right leg so that your calf makes a 90-degree angle with your thigh (the sole of your foot is parallel with the ceiling). Keeping your head, neck and upper body relaxed, raise the bent leg straight up (your thigh lifts off the floor) without jerking your hips. Slowly lower your thigh to a count of five. Do three sets of eight to 12 reps, then switch sides and repeat.
Follow these tips to make the exercises even more effective:
More information
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A little more than a year ago Safari introduced experimental support for CSS based animations, to compliment transformations and transitions. I have no gripe with transitions and transformations, but I think animations belong in the DOM and not in CSS. My main argument is that animations will most of the time be triggered by DOM-events, and during at least the next five years most CSS-based animations will be duplicated using classic DOM-methods anyway. The purported separation of animation (for designers) who are supposedly scared away from scripting is not a valid argument, since they are going to use libraries anyway. (And, frankly, the CSS animation syntax in itself looks quite scary to most people!)
Originally, this started out mostly as a gut feeling, and the arguments that I've made on the W3C mailing list are varied and admittedly a bit confused. I was thinking out loud more than I was presenting a coherent argument. Hopefully this blog post will come across as more reasonable!
I also believe that this discussion needs to be known outside of the CSS working group and the participants on the www-style mailing list. Specifically, it needs the input of developers of JavaScript libraries and normal web developers. These are the people who will be affected the most by any decision. (I am providing an abundance of links to the discussion on the mailing list for context.)
CSS animation – the good parts
A few aspects of the CSS animation proposal are brilliant and not of dispute:
- Declarative syntax. Designers specify what effect they want, not how the browser should achieve it.
- Hardware acceleration. Animations get smoother, faster and less CPU-draining. The GPU is optimized for this and can perform the calculations using only a fraction of the power and time a CPU would take to do the same number crunching.
When I am asking the CSS working group to reconsider CSS animations I am not in any way trying to take away these two strong points. I am firmly pro having GPU-accelerated, declarative animations in the browser. I just think the DOM is a better fit for them.
What will be animated?
CSS has no events, it has states. Basically it knows the focused and unfocused state on links and widgets and if a pointer is hovering, clicking ("active") or not hovering over an element. While exeperimenting with the CSS animation syntax, the working is producing examples using these states. Ironically mobile devices are one of the main reasons why CSS animations were originally thought up, and they rarely have a pointer, and CSS is not really equipped to handle touch events.
It can safely be assumed that 99 % of all real world use cases for animation will be the result of user or server interaction on some part of the document that is not being animated. The user clicks a button and a div will slide into view. The user presses a key on his keyboard and text will wiggle and bounce. Data is sent back from an AJAX request, and the received data will appear through an attention grabbing sliding effect.
Currently the only way to achieve these real world use cases is by adding or removing class attribute values. Thus we have scripts that will trigger animation in the DOM and the actual design of the animated effects in CSS. Conceptually this is nice. Separation of logic is a good thing™. However, in real world practice this will not be so neat.
Events confusion
Even though there are no events in CSS, there is discussion about having animations running upon entering a state, while being in a state and when leaving a state. These are not events in a technical sense, but outside of the W3C working group, most developers will be really confused about the difference. Such precise knowledge is not found in abundance! If a specific application need to differentiate between these, it is by far easier for developers to use the more familiar DOM events.
Having some animations run because they are affected directly, e.g. on hover, some animations run because they are triggered by
a scripted change of className, and in both cases also have animations that may run
during and
leaving states looks like a recipe for unmaintainable and confusing development. It is way much better to trigger all
events from one place only, and that place can only be the DOM.
How to implement animations in a library
OK, you are building a little library to animate stuff. What do you do? I suppose the following:
- First you capability detect support for declarative animation. That in itself would be easier if it was in the DOM, but it is at least doable now. But not in a neat fashion. Score one against having animations in CSS.
- If CSS-animation is indeed supported, you will wrap your animate function around className switches. Doable, but not neat.
If CSS-animation is unsupported, you fall back to old school timed manipulation of the style attribute.
- However, using the animation parameters from the CSS-file is a huge impracticality. You must find a way to read all CSS-files, parse them and interpret the cascade, the specificitivity of all animation rules and convert that information into timed logic. This is impractical, slow and CPU-draining and fragile.
- The CSS Object Model (CSSOM) will not alleviate this problem. Browsers that need to parse the animation rules are the ones that neither implement animations, nor the corresponding CSSOM.
Alternatively, the author is required to re-specify the animation once again, now using a syntax for the fallback. We thus get code duplication, with all the error proneness and maintenance problems that follows from that approach. But it is the only approach currently available with reasonable results.
It can safely be said, that CSS-animations are not backwards compatible in any reasonable way. And we are going to need backwards compatible solutions for almost another decade or so.
What about progressive enhancement?
Using progressive enhancement we can deliver CSS-based animation to browser that support it, and non-animated but still usable content to the rest. Problem solved, is it not?
I like progressive enhancement. I teach it and I practice it. However, there will be a great number of real world customers that will insist upon having animations in both the brand new cutting edge browsers and the legacy ones. As least as long as more than 10 % of their visitors use them. We can preach all we want. This scenario will face the real world developer way too often.
Animations will be used to convey information as well as for eye candy. Not having a scripted fall back will not be an option for such use cases either. In real world web development, progressive enhancement can not be called upon to be a panacea, how appealing that thought ever may be.
What else will be hard to do using a CSS approach?
In real world use cases developers are also going to want to manipulate animation and keyframe properties, as well as programmatically create animations from scratch. Using the CSSOM this can probably be done in browser that support animation but once again the fallback for legacy browsers will be very hard to achieve.
What is my counter proposal
I have barely begun thinking about this issue, so any propsal I have at the moment should not be regarded as a final suggestion. In order to keep the separation of concern between designers and developers – for those situations where one has the luxury to keep them separate – animations must be easy to define with a CSS-like syntax. JSON fits that requirement quite well. The method to start an animation could be called runAnimation. It might return a value that I can store in a variable in order to manipulate or cancel the running animation. Another way to manipulate it would be by altering the animation properties. For convenience, there should also be a method to stop all running animations on an element.
Here is an example, recreating the effect from Surfin' Safari's announcement:
// Keep the JSON objects in a separate file for designers to fiddle with
var bounce = {
"from" : {
"left" : "0px"
"to" : {
"left" : "200px"
var myAnimation = {
"animation-name" : "bounce",
"animation-duration" : "4s",
"animation-iteration-count" : "10",
"animation-direction": "alternate"
// Keep these lines in another file for the JavaScript guy/girl to fiddle with
document.getElementById("foo1").onclick = function() {
document.getElementById("foo2").onclick = function() {
// Example 2
// Keep the JSON objects in a separate file for designers to fiddle with
var pulse = {
"0%" : {
"background-color" : "red",
"opacity" : "1.0",
"transform": "scale(1.0) rotate(0deg)"
"33%" : {
"background-color": "blue",
"opacity" : "0.75",
"transform" : "scale(1.1) rotate(-5deg)"
"67%" : {
"background-color": "green",
"opacity": "0.5",
"transform": "scale(1.1) rotate(5deg)"
"100%" : {
"background-color": red,
"opacity": "1.0",
"transform" : "scale(1.0) rotate(0deg)"
var pulsedbox {
"animation-name": "pulse",
"animation-duration": "4s",
"animation-direction" : "alternate",
"animation-timing-function" : "ease-in-out"
// And here comes the DOM-parts, this time using JQuery for easy iteration
$(".pulsedbox").each(function() {
As stated above, my counter proposal is not a finished product in any way. It merely is intended to serve as an illustration to an alternative approach. The technical merits or defeciencies of that proposal is in itself not really something that should guide the general discussion about how to implement declarative animation. The principles on which I draw the conclusion that the DOM is a better fit is the true talking point here.
Now I am especially interested in hearing the opinions from the DOM-scripting community!


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As Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), I have consistently worked to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and treatment they deserve for their years of faithful service. These benefits are critical for veterans, retirees, and their dependents, as well as those who are considering a career in the military. It is Congress' responsibility to provide access to quality benefits, assistance programs, and medical treatment upon separation from the Armed Forces.
Since news of deeply troubling Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) issues at the VA hospital in Phoenix, AZ broke in 2014, I have carefully followed the developments and ongoing national discussion about how care for our veterans must significantly improve and have engaged both constituents and organizations that work closely with veterans to hear their concerns. A number of issues remain at the VA, including at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System (VAPSHCS). I am in constant contact with leadership at VAPSHCS to ensure that the voices of veterans from the District I represent are heard. The questions, concerns, and feedback I receive from patients, volunteers, and others helps to make sure that continued improvements are made, and that the VAPSHCS is a valuable resource for our veterans in our community.
It's essential to hear the experiences and opinions directly from those who have served. While doing my job in Washington, D.C., I participate in events such as National Veterans Roundtables, which are widely attended by representatives from the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), National Military Family Association, as well as many others. Venues such as this provide a collaborative environment for policy makers to hear directly from national level veterans leaders about how we can best serve our veterans across the country. Additionally, I hold annual Veterans Advisory Council roundtables in locations around the Ninth District. The advice and knowledge of the roundtable participants keeps me updated about concerns regarding current government programs, federal legislative proposals, and issues that affect the veterans community in and around my district.
At the end of July 2014, the House and Senate reached an agreement on legislation to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs and address many of the problems that have been exposed. The Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014, which became public law in August 2014, provided $10 billion to pay for providing medical care to veterans through non-VA facilities and $5 billion to hire more doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. In addition, the bill allowed veterans to seek medical care from alternative health-care providers if the VA cannot provide a service within 30 days of seeking an appointment, or if the veteran lives more than 40 miles away from a VA clinic. The Veterans' Access to Care Act also gives the VA Secretary greater ability to fire or demote senior officials for poor job performance or misconduct. I voted in support of this bill because this is an important effort to provide veterans with the benefits and treatment they deserve.
While I believe in the intent and role that the VA Choice Program plays in the care of our veterans, I do not believe that the VA system should be fully privatized. It is absolutely clear that significant improvements need to continue to be made, including the further development and strengthening of the Choice Program. Care providers within hospitals such as VAPSHCS have unique insight into the health problems facing veterans, and we must encourage the continued hiring of the best physicians, nurses, and other specialists to assure the best care for those who have served.
I have supported increases in funding for the VA and will continue to do so. Robust support for the VA reflects not only Congress' priority to care for our current veterans, but also the need to care for a new generation of veterans who have returned from Afghanistan and Iraq. I will continue to advocate for the critical services provided by the VA, while also ensuring that management is held accountable. It is essential that Congress to provide long term budget certainty for VA medical services, support, facilities, and research – ensuring that the wellbeing of veterans remains the top priority.
There is also an alarming trend of unemployment and homelessness among veterans. On average, unemployment rates among veterans are 5 to 10 percent higher than among civilians and include young veterans returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am committed to decreasing the veteran unemployment rate and working to provide critical services such as housing, access to medical care, and career and employment training for those who have dedicated their lives to serving our country.
For this reason, I have been a strong advocate for legislation such as Senator Patty Murray's Homeless Veterans Services Protection Act, federal legislation that would ensure access to critical services for homeless former service members. Many who have served in combat zones are impacted by post-traumatic stress – sometimes leading to them being discharged from the military without receiving the critical mental health and rehabilitative care that they so badly need. Additionally, I was extremely pleased to see that VA Subsidized Housing (VASH) project-based vouchers were awarded in Federal Way in November 2015. This program ensures that veterans in need are provided not only with a place to live, but with access to essential services as well.
I am a strong supporter of apprenticeship programs for veterans to learn new trades from skilled craftsmen. The Post 9/11 GI Bill, which I strongly supported, was the single largest improvement in helping veterans access higher education opportunities. The bill and subsequent improvements to the Post 9-11 GI Bill have undoubtedly assisted veterans. I have supported tax credits for businesses who hire veterans. I also co-sponsored the Hiring Heroes Act of 2011, designed to help veterans transition successfully from the military to the civilian working world by taking advantage of the incredible training and experience they have already accrued during their service.
I have also supported the elimination of Concurrent Receipt and the SBP-DIC offset. Concurrent Receipt, or the "disabled veterans tax," requires that veterans' retirement pay be reduced by the amount they get in disability pay. The SBP-DIC offset, also known as the "widow's tax", requires that benefits received under the Survivor Benefits Plan (SBP) be offset by the amount of Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC) received.
We should be doing everything possible to ensure that the brave men and women who serve our country come home to good, family-wage, quality job opportunities and receive the care and support they deserve.
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In October 2015, my friend Mark and I went to Stow Massachusetts on a sunny Saturday to watch the Collings Foundation World War 2 re-enactment and walk the grounds and hanger to view all the neat things on site. There are pictures of the WW2 re-enactment on my flickr page, I wanted to post some of the other pictures of the fantastic car collection in the hanger on this site. There is a large aircraft hanger with multiple levels that houses some airplanes, tanks, heavy vehicles, and race cars.
|View into the hanger from the front.
|SdKfz 8 12 Ton Prime Mover, Germany
Here are some of the really neat cars that were stored on the upper levels of the hanger.
|Riley & Scott Mk III / Ford, 1996. Riley & Scpott's legacy goes back to the Ford GT MkIV Coyote, so when it came time to produce a new prototype for international sports car racing they were up to the challenge. R&S MkIII's went on to forge a legacy of winning that is only equaled by the legendary Prosche 962. The Dyson team commissioned R&S to produce 001 in 1994 with a Ford powerplant. The chassis proceeded to win over ten races for the Dyson team including the 1997 Rolex 24 hours of Daytona and runner up in the 12 hours of Sebring and the Prototype championship. The car remained a front runner until 2001 when it retired after leading Daytona. It is believed that 001 led more laps at Daytona than any other car in history. Drivers have included: James Weaver, Andy Wallace, Elliot Forbes-Robinson, Rob Dyson, Hurley Haywood, and Derrick Bell.
|Lola / Ford XB Indy Car 1995. The 1995 Lola Ford was produced for the Championship winning Newman-Haas team for the 1995 season with Michael Andretti. Some of racing's greatest names have been associated with this car, Paul Newman and Carl Haas as owners and Michael Andretti as the driver. Michael holds more Indycar wins than any other driver in history. At the Toronto Grand Prix he notched up yet another victory in this particular car. Micahel finished 3rd in the Championship in the last season that included the Indy 500 in which he was leading when he dropped out due to a mechanical failure.
|Gurney Eagle Turbo Offy 1972. One of America's most famous drivers, Dan Gurney, winner of the 24-Hours of Le Mans and the only American to win a Grand Prix in a car of his own construction took that experience and started Eagle. The Gurney Eagle Indy Car ranks amongst the most successful in Brickyard history. This particular car was sold to the famous Leader Cards Racing Team of A.J. Watson. The car raced at Indianapolis multiple times and in 1980 became the last ever Offenhauser powerd car qualified for the 500-mile race, heralding the end of an era. Powered by a 168 cu. Inch turbocharged Offenhauser engine producing in excess of 800 horsepower.
|Penske PC-9 Indy Car 1980. Built by Penske in Poole, England for Mario Andretti who teamed with Rick Mears and Al Unser when his Formula 1 schedule would permit. This was the second season that Mario Andretti a F-1 world champion, Indy 500 winner, Indycar Champion, NASCAR winner, and winner in every racing category that had wheels teamed with the Penske team, which has won more Indy 500's than any other team. Indy 500: Mario qualified 2nd fot the great race but failed to finish when his Cosworth DFX failed. Michigan 500 – Mario captured the pole and won the other 500 mile race. Copa 125 Rick Mears, a four time Indy 500 winner, captures a win at CART's first ever international race. This chassis is the only Indycar in history to have race wins with both Mario Andretti and Rick Mears, arguably Indy's most legendary drivers.
More of the cars in the museum.
Over all a pretty neat place to visit.


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(Budget Travel) -- You've heard the grim timelines: if warming continues, the Great Barrier Reef will be bleached by 2030; glaciers in the Swiss Alps, on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and in Glacier National Park will disappear in under 40 years; and Arctic ice melt will leave the North Pole bare and polar bears extinct.
The immediacy of these timelines prompts flocks of curious eco-tourists to travel to environmentally fragile areas.
Tourism is both bane and boon: it can add strain to already distressed areas, but it can also provide income, which in turn can help preserve these wonders.
We spotlight 10 areas under threat -- some lesser known than others -- that can still be visited responsibly. In some cases the price tag may be higher than your average vacation, but consider it an investment in Mother Earth.
Like the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Belize Barrier Reef leads a tenuous existence.
A section of the nearly 700-mile-long Mesoamerican Reef that reaches from Mexico to Honduras, the Belize reef suffered a severe bleaching in 1998, with a loss of 50 percent of its coral in many areas, including much of its distinctive staghorn coral.
Since the bleaching, its decline has continued, due to global warming of the world's seas, agricultural pollution, development, and increasing tourism, which has given rise to more coastal development and an invasion of cruise ships.
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At more than 1.3 million square miles, the Congo Basin has the world's second-largest rainforest, after the Amazon's. According to the United Nations, up to two-thirds of the forest and its unique plants and wildlife could be lost by 2040 unless more effective measures are taken to protect it.
Extending across six nations, ten million acres of forest is degraded each year due to mining, illegal logging, farming, ranching, and guerilla warfare. Roads cut by loggers and miners have also enabled poachers and bushmeat hunters to prey on endangered animals like mountain gorillas, forest elephants, bonobos, and okapis.
As the forest shrinks, less carbon dioxide is absorbed, and rain decreases, adding to climate change.
In the last four decades, the Dead Sea has shrunk by a third and sunk 80 feet --13 inches per year! -- stranding formerly seaside resorts and restaurants nearly a mile from shore.
The Jordan River is the lake's sole source, and as surrounding countries increasingly tap its waters, little reaches the Dead Sea, which could disappear within 50 years. Further pressure is put on the sea by the cosmetic companies and potash producers who drain it for minerals.
One proposed solution is the controversial Red-Dead Canal, channeling water 112 miles from the Red Sea, but its environmental impact could be negative (some worry that it would increase seismic activity in the region).
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A host of dangers are putting this fragile wetland at risk: pollution from farms, invasive species, and encroaching development, not to mention the fact that 60 percent of the region's water is being diverted to nearby cities and farms.
As a result, The Everglades is now half the size it was in 1900. Worse, this is the sole habitat of the Florida panther, and there are less than 100 of the creatures left in the wild.
These big cats may be completely lost within the next 40 years as their habitat disappears (they're not alone, either -- at least 20 species in the Everglades are endangered, including turtles, manatees, and wading birds).
If nothing is done to save the world's fourth-largest island, its forests will be gone in 35 years (once 120,000 square miles, they're now down to 20,000), and their unique inhabitants along with them.
Forest ecosystems are being destroyed by logging, burning for subsistence farms, and poaching. The 20 species of lemurs for which Madagascar is renowned are in danger of disappearing.
Though there are game reserves, they're not large (occupying only 5% of the island), nor are they contiguous, thus failing to provide corridors for the animals to travel through. Some of Madagascar's endemic species have never even been recorded, and will likely be lost before they can be studied.
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Few scientists hold out much hope for the Maldives -- the world's lowest nation -- if global warming continues to melt the ice caps and raise sea levels. Its 1,190 small islands and atolls (200 of which are inhabited) scattered across the Indian Ocean rise a mere eight feet above sea level.
In 2008, the President of the Maldives announced the government would start buying land in other countries, including India, for future homes for citizens displaced by rising waters. In 2009, he held a cabinet meeting underwater to stress the islands' vulnerability.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, the world's largest non-profit ocean research group, has predicted that 80 percent of the emperor penguin population of Antarctica will be lost, and the rest in danger of extinction, if global warming continues.
In the Arctic, the polar bear is also endangered by the steady loss of sea ice (which has decreased 3% per decade since the 1970s). As sea ice disappears at the poles, so do entire ecosystems: the phytoplankton that grows under ice sheets feeds zooplankton and small crustaceans like krill, which are on the food chain for fish, seals, whales, polar bears and penguins.
Studies predict that with continued warming, within 20-40 years, no ice will form in Antarctica.
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The world's population of wild tigers has fallen to as few as 3,200, more than half of which live in India. If extreme efforts are not undertaken, the big cat may be extinct within our lifetime -- possibly in as soon as a dozen years. (Compare this number to the 100,000 tigers that lived in India in 1900 and you can see just how drastically things have changed in the past two centuries.)
Their habitats have been reduced 93%, and though there are reserves across Asia, most are small and have no corridors between them for the normally far-roaming felines. It's estimated that a tiger a day is killed for use in Chinese traditional medicine.
This magnificent rain forest in Peru's Madre de Dios region holds some of the last old-growth stands of mahogany in South America. But illegal logging is depleting the rainforest -- and the U.S. is responsible for buying 80% of the mahogany.
A single tree can create as much as $1 million worth of furniture. Loggers build roads, allowing farmers and hunters to enter, further crowding the indigenous people and destroying the delicate ecosystem. In nearby areas, gold mining has released mercury into the air and water.
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It's too early to know the exact impact of the creation of China's massive, $24 billion Three Gorges Dam, but many, including the Chinese government, have acknowledged that the Yangtze Basin region is in danger of losing its most distinctive marine and animal life.
Deforestation has occurred from clearing land for displaced farmers, and the reservoir has flooded villages, farms, factories, and mines, adding to the Yangtze River's existing pollution from shipping, industry, agriculture and raw sewage.
Landslides have also happened, and seismologists wonder if the water pressure above two fault lines might result in a disastrous earthquake.
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Gasification can be applied to a variety of waste streams, of which municipal solid waste (MSW) and industrial wastes are important examples.
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
MSW is a readily available, low cost material which can serve as a fuel feedstock, and which can offer a relatively high thermal value when processed to suit the particular gasification process being used. Several plants in Japan and Europe already employ gasification technology for treatment of MSW.1
In 2018, 292.4 million tons of MSW were generated in the United States, and 94 million tons (32.2%) of that was recycled or composted. Organic materials compose the largest component of MSW. The chart at the right shows a breakdown of the 292.4 ton total MSW produced in the United States in 2018 by type of material.1
The only portions of the MSW that cannot be gasified are metals and glass. Textiles, rubber including old tires, and all types of plastics can be gasified, provided that adequate gas clean up is utilized.
Recovering energy from MSW in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants reduces the space required for land filling and offsets the use of fossil fuels for electrical production. When compared to combustion for processing of MSW, gasification decreases air/water emissions. Within this context, gasification uses oxygen and water vapor to produce a combustible synthesis gas (syngas) from organic compounds in the MSW, which can be used to generate electricity, produce chemicals, liquid fuels, hydrogen (H2), etc. Syngas produced from MSW by a gasifier is cleaned up more economically and using simpler systems compared to combustion exhaust gases due to the syngas being more condensed. The conversion of energy in gasification is also much more efficient than the thermal conversion offered by combustion. Challenges to MSW gasification commercialization include the processing costs of converting MSW to refuse derived fuel (RDF) and the formation of tars in the high temperature and pressure environment of the gasifier. Tars can make downstream processing of the syngas more difficult and may result in excessive process train down-time.
RDF heat content depends on the amount of moisture and combustible organic material. RDF typically has less variability than does MSW, which can vary greatly when looking at a small sample. This is important for gasification due to the need to optimize gasifier conditions for specific fuel compositions. To reduce residence time in the gasifier, RDF is shredded to a smaller size. This shredding also serves the purpose of uniformly distributing the various materials, giving the RDF a more stable composition, in addition to decreasing the moisture content of the RDF.
Plastics and rubber are materials with the highest heating values in MSW, with food and yard waste being the lowest.
The following figure shows the heating values of various fuels including MSW.
Metal and glass must be removed from the MSW as it is pre-processed into RDF in order to increase the heating value of the feedstock and avoid gasifier operational problems. In communities with recycling programs, costs associated with removing these materials will be minimized, giving waste gasification the greatest opportunity for success. The systems used for RDF production usually use a combination of size reduction, screening, magnetic separation and density separation to remove the non-combustible materials from the MSW such as metal and glass.
The following table shows typical RDF requirements for feed to a gasifier.
The syngas product of waste gasification contains tars, particulates, halogens, heavy metals, and alkaline compounds that need to be removed before the gas is used for power generation. More elaborate syngas cleanup systems may be required as compared with systems using coal or biomass as fuel.
Industrial Waste
An example of an industrial waste stream where gasification can be used to improve process efficiency is black liquor produced in the paper industry. Black liquor is a waste stream produced when lignin is removed for wood chips as part of the paper production process. An IGCC system can be used to convert this waste stream into electrical energy for use within the paper plant. Gasification in this case provides efficient use of the black liquor, but also can be designed to handle other paper process wastes. Gasification will continue to find niches in various industries as more research and development is done in the future.
Gasifiers for Waste
All of the main types of gasifiers can be adapted to be used with various waste types as feedstock, but plasma gasification is getting a lot of interest in connection with treatment of MSW in particular. In plasma gasification, the plasma (ionized gas at high temperature which conducts a strong electrical current) allows extremely high gasification temperatures of 4,000ºC to over 7,000 ºC. These high temperatures completely break down toxic compounds to their elemental constituents, making them easily neutralized, and the gas is mixed with oxygen and steam inside the gasifier. The organic compounds in the fuel are converted to syngas, similar to the other gasification technologies, and any residual materials are captured in a rock-like mass which is highly resistant to leaching. With this technology, all known contaminants can be easily contained, making it ideal for MSW applications where feedstock composition is sometimes unclear. Also, after the initial electricity required at startup for the plasma gasifier, these systems are self-sustained by running off the electricity produced by firing the syngas in a gas turbine.
The challenges for plasma gasification are mainly in convincing the public that it works on MSW. Syngas cleanup processes, and oxygen separation methods could be improved to make the economics look better, similar to the other types of gasification, but public perception is the real deterrent to market penetration. More experience with operating the technology in the United States and on MSW in particular would go a long way toward making plasma gasification a component of a sensible waste management program in the United States.
Many companies have developed waste gasification technology. For more information follow the links below:
|National Overview: Facts and Figures on Materials, Wastes and Recycling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
|Production of Refuse-Derived Fuel
|Gasification: An Alternative Process for Energy Recovery and Disposal of Municipal Solid Wastes
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L'Institut de Chirurgie Guidée par l'Image "IHU" (Institute of Image Guided Surgery) is at the heart of Strasbourg University Hospital, connected with the New University Hospital, near the centre of the city. All its activities have been consolidated in a new 13,000m2 building that incorporates the latest medical imaging technology, which facilitates the development of the patients and promotes exchange between medical teams
We can find KRION® in the exceptional 17 metre long reception counter, for which the 1100 Snow White colour was selected, the colour which combines all features of the solid surface from PORCELANOSA Group. The work was supervised by the S&AA architecture studio (Strasbourg), whose work began in 2015, with "CM Distribution" as the transforming company in charge of manipulating our materialKRION®. Jeremy Rauscher from CM Distribution tells us… "It is like a work of art; many hours and almost surgical detail were required. One of the challenges was to respect the lines of the front, and manage some technical details, such as the weight of the swing door which allows employees to access the client reception counter, which is covered with KRION®. The result is a visual impact with very aesthetic and smooth continuous lines, and a texture that is like natural stone. The counter was pre-assembled in the workshop, and then mounted at IHU".
Architects: Agence S&AA Patrick Schweitzer (Strasbourg).
Construction: KS Construcciones in association with Karl Storz and Siemens Healthcare.
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BEIJING – China is plotting to blow up the moon.
China has embarked on a bold plan to control the world's weather patterns – and it begins with blowing up the moon with nuclear space missiles.
Wiping out the moon, will affect the United States the most, ushering in brutal temperatures that would ruin our agriculture, experts say.
The wild-sounding Chinese scheme was suggested by five scientists last year at the Chinese Government's National Scientific Forum. Hu Jintao dismissed the idea outright, but they presented it again this year and after looking at the overall benefit to the China, Jintao has given the idea the green light.
Chinese astrophysicist, Chan Wang, that the moon's strong gravitational pull gives the Earth an awkward tilt that causes unfavorable weather patterns over China and favors the United States. "The United States has benefited from the gravitational forces of the Moon. We just intend to level the playing field," said Wang.
The Chinese government said that it would consult with the Obama Administration before sending their nuclear warships to take out the moon. "We want the whole world to be aware of what we are doing. We think that in the long run, everyone will benefit from the destruction of the moon," said a high-ranking Chinese government official.
But NASA officials reviewed the data carefully and feel strongly that the destruction of the moon would bring catastrophic changes to the earth and are strongly advising the Obama Administration to do everything in their power to stop it.
"We are reviewing both sides of the argument," said White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod. "The fact is China is offering to forgive our entire debt if we allow them to blow up the moon. It could be a real economic boon for our country."
"Who needs the moon?" added Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary. "It affects the tides and it's good for lighting the nighttime sky, and poets seem to love it, but we don't really need it."
Hu Jinato will be in Washington next week to discuss this issue directly with President Obama. "But we're going to blow it up no matter what. We don't need America's approval," said Wang.
So, enjoy the moon while you can…


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Listening to God's Word
By Alice Camille
Chapter One
Read, Explore, Discuss
Genesis 1: Divine goodness in creation
Exodus 37: Moses sees God's beauty
Isaiah 55: An invitation to God's presence
Psalms 19 and 119: God in creation and in law
Proverbs 9: Wisdom issues her call
John 1: The Word becomes flesh
Philippians 2:1-8: Adopting the mind of Christ
Galatians 5:22-23: Good fruits of the Spirit in us
In the Spirit of Responsive Listening
Enter the conversation with God through prayer, contemplation, and Scripture reading.
Praise the God of creation by taking refreshment in natural surroundings. Exercise stewardship of the environment personally and politically.
Encounter the God of incarnation in relationships of love, generosity, and respect. Seek illumination, healing, and liberation for yourself, and for others both near and far.
Invite the God of the indwelling Spirit to guide you in all your ways.
Chapter Two
Read, Explore, Discuss
Genesis 2 and 3: Creation is subject to sin
Job 38-42: God speaks to Job
Ecclesiastes 1-6: The vanity of the world
Proverbs 8:22-36: Wisdom at the foundations of the world
Psalm 104: In praise for the goodness of creation
John 15-17: Choosing the world or Jesus
1 Corinthians 13: Attributes of the Divine
1 John 4: In the world but not of it
In the Spirit of Responsive Listening
Reflect on the broken elements of your family history. How do you heal, or reinforce, this legacy?
Consider the list of capital (deadly) sins: pride, envy, greed, anger, sloth, lust, and gluttony. Name the one that creates the most distance between you and God.
The world suffers from acts of injustice, violence, and disunity. What do you do for justice, peace, and the spirit of community?
Lost concrete steps you can take to avoid cynicism and despair about the present condition of the world.
Chapter Three
Read, Explore, Discuss
Genesis 12:1-9 and 15:1-5: Covenant with Abraham
Genesis 32:23-33: Jacob and the angel
Exodus 19 and 20: Covenant with Moses
1 Samuel 7: Covenant with David
1 Kings 6:11-13; 8:1-21; 9:1-9: Solomon and the Temple
Ezekiel 10:1-23: God's Glory departs the Temple
Jeremiah 52:1-30: The destruction of Jerusalem
In the Spirit of Responsive Listening
Reflect on promises spoken into your life: those made to you and those you have made. Resolve to be a better promise keeper.
Evaluate how you tell your life story: Is it predominantly good news or bad? Who gets blamed and who exonerated? Is it a story of cynicism or hope?
Over whom do you exercise authority? Pray for the grace to use power wisely.
How portable is your God? Consider where and how you encounter the divine presence. Expand the territory.
Chapter Four
Read, Explore, Discuss
Exodus 12: Passover in Egypt
Deuteronomy 30: The blessing and the curse
Zechariah 3:9-20: The faithful remnant
Isaiah 42:1-9; 49:1-7; 50:4-11; 52:13-53:1: Servant songs
Malachi 3: The Day of the Lord
Ezekiel 37:1-14: Vision of the dry bones
Daniel 12: Secret revelation of the end of days
Matthew 25: 31-46: Justice and fidelity linked
1 Corinthians 1:18-2:16: Christ is the Wisdom of God
In the Spirit of Responsive Listening
Consider the resources you've used to navigate the crises you have faced so far.
Listen attentively for the modern prophets who speak a challenging word daily into the world.
Resolve to read the books of Wisdom teachers, both ancient and contemporary. Visit your local Catholic bookstore for ideas.
Pray for a fuller reception of the spiritual gifts: wisdom, understanding, knowledge, counsel, courage, reverence, and wonder and awe in the presence of the Lord.
Chapter Five
Read, Explore, Discuss
Ecclesiastes 2:1-8: For everything, a season
Wisdom 3:1-9: The just will not perish
2 Maccabees 7: Hope in the God of immorality
Mark 9:33-37; 10:13-16: Children and the Kingdom
Matthew 13, 18, 20-22, 25: Kingdom parables
Luke 12:54-56; 17:20-21; 21:5-36: Signs of the times
John 2:4; 4:21-26; 5:25-29; 7:6, 30; 12:20-36; 16:1-33: knowing the hour
Revelation 7:15-17; 10:5-7; 11:17-18; 12:10-12; 19:5-16: The victory is decided
Revelation 1:8, 17; 3:20, 21:1-8; 22:1-21: God's time and ours
In the Spirit of Responsive Listening
Consider every day and urgent opportunity to marry the will of God in every decision.
Become like a child, open to each new person, event, and possibility.
Live for today. Act for eternity.


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Cook Islands: As a Whole
99 Coastal Destinations Rated: Top Rated
Score: 75
Residents of this "well-kept secret" of Polynesia continue to embrace many aspects of their traditional culture. As development increases upon Rarotonga, the country's main population center, local officials should keep a wary eye on the water quality of nearby Muri Lagoon.
Here is a representative sampling of additional anonymous comments from the panelists. They are not necessarily the views of the National Geographic Society:
"A well-kept secret. Let us keep it that way! Continues to develop, but locals don't seem to change much. The outer islands in the southern group, like Atiu, Mitiaro, Mangaia, Aitutaki, and Palmerston, are picture perfect."
"There are many issues related to poor environmental practices on the islands, including the lagoon's poor water quality. They may have improved somewhat but are still insufficient. The impact of climate change generally is also an issue. A recent cyclone has damaged the tourism infrastructure. All that aside, the tourism industry is well organized."
"Culturally, a fascinating place but some aspects of the infrastructure need attention."
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Title: Shades Of Kink: From Alphas To Masters
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Bartered/Pamela Ann
I was a connoisseur of beautiful things, women included. I had not just one, but three—all exotic, stunning, and would do anything I asked. My life was perfect...until a little minx came along. The second our eyes clashed, the animal in me ignited, and I was challenged with something risky. For the very first time in my life, I knew a woman could be anything, nothing…or everything.
Becoming Sir/Ella Dominguez
Reliable, trustworthy, loyal to a fault - Sawyer is the kind of man other men want to be; a real man's man. But behind the facade of his tough exterior and deadly silence hides a man with dark secrets. Always content to be in the shadows, now is the time of his sexual awakening. This is Sawyer's journey into becoming Dominant, Master, Sir.
Gloria's Secret/Nelle L'Amour
Gloria Long, the beautiful, self-made CEO of Gloria's Secret, the world's largest retailer of sexy lingerie, harbors a dark personal secret that inhibits her own sexual desires. Her powerful defenses melt when she meets Jaime Zander, the devastatingly gorgeous advertising guru, who is determined to control her both in the boardroom and bedroom.
The Agreement/S.E. Lund
Kate McDermott tells herself her interest in BDSM is just research and nothing personal. She hopes that the carefully worded agreement will keep her relationship with the Dominant she will interview strictly professional. Then 'Master D' - Drake Morgan, M.D. - walks into the interview and Kate is mortified for not only is he gorgeous, he's the son of her father's best and oldest friend. Unable to resist his determined seduction, Kate's smitten and things are going to get complicated...
Beg/CD Reiss
Jonathan Drazen is a known womanizer and a gorgeous piece of man I'm not letting into my heart. Ever.
Yeah, he's rich, beautiful, charming as hell, and he has a wit as sharp as a double-edged razor... but he's made it perfectly clear that this is a short- term thing.
We get in, get it on, get out. Done.
Shades of Pearl/Arianne Richmonde
Pearl Chevalier is a beautiful, divorced, forty-year-old documentary producer. Not only has she given up on love but is convinced that great sex is only something you read about. But when she meets social media billionaire, Alexandre Chevalier, French, sexy as hell, and fifteen years her junior, her world is turned upside down. Jump aboard this USA TODAY bestselling roller coaster ride of sex, lies, passion, and intrigue.
Sarasota Sin/Talyn Scott
Linked by tragedy, Avery and Dylan Easton have the world at their feet, money and power at their fingertips, and a private sex club they own at their disposal. Mistresses have come and gone yet when they meet Payton Calloway, they see a woman to love, one who can tame their untamable ways and heal their tortured souls. Can she accept their past and embrace the future they want to share with her? Or will she succumb to her irresistible best friend and aspiring rock star, Noah Wyatt?
Saving Abel/Gina Whitney
Abel Gunner, lead singer of Lethal Abel and Gia must face their demons before they can embrace a future together. In the end, they're faced with two choices: fight for their love or die with their demons.
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Nelle L'Amour is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She lives in Los Angeles with her Prince Charming-ish husband, twin teenage princesses, and a bevy of royal pain-in-the-butt pets. In addition to the Gloria series, her books include the THAT MAN series, Seduced by the Park Avenue Billionaire, and Undying Love.
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CD Reiss is the USA Today and Amazon bestselling author of numerous highly rated series, including Songs of Submission, Songs of Perdition, and Songs of Corruption. Critics have called her books "poetic, "literary," and "hauntingly beautiful." Born in New York City, she currently resides with her family in Los Angeles.
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Arianne Richmonde is a USA Today bestselling author whose books include the Pearl Series, the USA Today bestseller, Stolen Grace, and The Star Trilogy. She lives in France with her handsome French husband and coterie of muddy animals. Her new book, Shards of Glass will be released in February.
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Johnson Electric announced a high performance power switch that is designed specifically for outdoor products. The Burgess-TSswitch incorporates an innovative Tough Seal™ technology to deliver the highest reliability in extreme environmental conditions. The Tough Seal technology within the switch provides protection against water submersion, high pressure water and fine dust ingress. The Burgess-TS switch is constructed of materials that resist damage to most household chemicals and petroleum based products.
The switch is designed for reliable assembly within final products to ensure that a reliable seal is achieved. A unique feature of the switch is a seating anchor in combination with a position indicator to provide visible feedback that the switch has been properly installed. Customization of switch housings for color, rockers and illumination is offered to meet the human interface requirements of a customer's product.
Jim Dick, Johnson Electric's senior vice president of Strategic Marketing, said the Burgess-TS switch is the most reliable power switch for outdoor products. The unique features of this switch prevent failure modes occurring in the manufacturing process and also during field operation.
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9 rules for fighting in front of your kids
It's inevitable that you'll argue with your husband at some point (all right, many points)-and sometimes, the kids will catch on that Mom and Dad are mad at each other. But these fights don't have to scare or scar your little ones. In fact, some fights can be invaluable teaching tools. Read on for nine things to keep in mind when arguments break out, from which topics are and aren't okay for tiny ears to hear to how to ensure your children learn from your disagreements.
1. Fight fair.
This means no name-calling, no screaming and no threats. "Focus on the content of the fight," suggests Tina B. Tessina, PhD, psychotherapist and author of Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting about the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage. "No-holds-barred arguing forces kids to take on responsibility that doesn't belong to them-to keep you two from fighting. It sets a bad example of what marriage is and may affect their ability to keep relationships going." According to Michael Osit, EdD, a clinical psychologist who works with families, it's important that your children don't see out-of-control rage. "They should understand that parents can get mad at each other and still love each other," he says.
2. Avoid adult topics.
Many conversations are fine to have in front of children. Certain subjects, though, should be off-limits. An obvious one: your sex life, says Dr. Tessina. A not-so-apparent one: If you're annoyed that your husband drank too much after a night out with his buddies, speak about that privately. "The kids shouldn't know one of you has a hangover. They don't know how to interpret adult things, so don't expose them to something they're not ready to understand," says Dr. Tessina. And you shouldn't talk badly about other family members, immediate or extended. "Discussions about particular people, like your mother-in-law, might get repeated to that person. Or the kids might start reacting oddly to that person," she warns.
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3. Never argue about decisions concerning the kids.
You may occasionally disagree over rules for your children, but work that out behind closed doors. Otherwise, "the parent who isn't siding with the child could seem like the bad guy. And that can make him or her a less effective parent because their authority is being circumvented," says Dr. Osit. But there's a bigger issue: When children see they can divide and conquer their parents, they may get an inflated idea of their role. "If they start expecting to get what they want all the time, then they don't know their place as a child. They'll think they have authority in other areas of the family," explains Dr. Osit.
4. Solve a problem before it escalates.
Disagreements happen, but there's always a way to avoid fighting, according to Robert Epstein, PhD, research psychologist, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of MyParentingSkills.com. "Any conflict can be resolved peacefully and constructively." For example, if you and your spouse are arguing about who should do the dishes, Dr. Espstein recommends discussing who did the dishes last time or who cooked dinner. Worst case scenario? Flip a coin. "That way, your child is cheering. You're resolving things positively," he says.
5. Make sure they hear you resolve the conflict.
While Dr. Osit recommends avoiding ongoing fights in front of the kids, hashing out disagreements that are quickly solvable can benefit them. "It's good for children to hear that your opinions differ on, say, what TV show to watch or where to go out for dinner," he says. These are opportunities to model how you'd want your kids to fight: with a goal of reaching a compromise, not winning. "They can learn to negotiate by observing you," says Dr. Tessina. "They also learn to problem-solve, listen to things they may not agree with, consider each other's wants and needs and stick with a discussion until a solution is reached," says Dr. Tessina. Through conflict-and conflict resolution-you're teaching them how to manage their own lives with classmates at school, siblings at home and eventually, colleagues at work.
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6. Follow up separately afterwards.
If you and your partner have a big blowout in front of the kids, check in with them later to let them know everything's okay. "First tell them, 'I'm sorry we argued in front of you. We shouldn't have done that,'" recommends Dr. Osit. And it's worse if you and your husband sit down with your children at the same time. "That may be too formal, so let them know separately and casually that the issue's been resolved." This is crucial because your child's angst over conflict at home could lead to conflicts outside of it. "Kids tend to replay family issues through other relationships. They could transfer parental conflicts onto their siblings, peers and teachers," says Dr. Osit. "Or they can act out or become depressed."
7. Never make them take sides.
Not only do you want to avoid arguing about your kids in front of them, but you should never ask them to choose which parent they agree with, even on the smallest matters. "Don't ask them to vote for one parent over the other," says Linda Nielsen, EdD, educational and adolescent psychologist at Wake Forest University and author of Between Fathers and Daughters. "They can sit there and observe, but what does damage, even if the issue itself is trivial, is putting kids in the middle." If they get to settle an argument by siding with a parent, it can give them a false sense of power over the family. Plus, they can feel guilty about picking one parent over the other. "It's worse than arguing over something important in their presence."
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8. Blow off steam together after a fight.
Losing your cool or being impatient or irrational with someone you love is a result of stress. "If we lose control, we're stressed, and we're probably stressed for a few minutes after a fight-and so are our children," says Dr. Epstein. "So find a way to help yourself and your children manage that stress." Dr. Epstein has taught his six-year-old daughter breathing techniques. "She 'blows things.' It's Lamaze-type breathing. If we think she needs more, we'll say, 'Blow our heads off!' She'll blow as hard as she can, we'll throw our heads back and she'll start to laugh," he says. "Bottom line: Some things go wrong and sometimes we don't feel good, but there are ways to make ourselves feel better." Other suggestions: Go for a walk or swim or hit up the dollar store for good, cheap fun. These can help you move past the fight, says Dr. Epstein.
9. Don't try to be perfect.
If you give your children the impression that their family is conflict-free, then they won't be prepared to handle conflict in the outside world. According to Dr. Nielsen, some cultures don't really engage in verbal arguments. But kids from cultures where there is some arguing tend to be less stressed about it in life because they know it's not the end of the world. "Some families hurt their kids' immune systems by over-cleaning. Shielding them from fights does a similar thing," says Dr. Nielsen. "You've got to sling a little dirt sometimes and let them build up immunity to that." So as long as you play by the rules, fighting in front of your children can give them the tools they need to cope with conflict in healthy ways.


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The man with the night-vision eyes is back. After a detour into overblown yet "PG-13" territory in The Chronicles of Riddick, Vin Diesel's science-fiction anti-hero returns to something like his Pitch Black roots in the simply titled—and "R"-rated—Riddick.
When the new film opens, Furyan warrior, ex-convict, and part-time king Richard B. Riddick has been left for dead on a desolate planet populated only by deadly beasts. As he puts it in growly, gravely voice-over, "There are bad days, and there are legendary bad days. This is shaping up to be one of those." The wounded warrior plays survivalist for the film's first half-hour, in which Diesel's pretty much the only human on screen (aside from a couple of explanatory flashbacks, one a Karl Urban cameo). It's a canny decision by writer-director David Twohy, since Riddick goes to ground for most of the next half-hour as he's sought by human predators.
The last hour firms up a hate-triangle (the manly-movie answer to romantic comedies' love triangles) comprising Riddick, a group of purely mercenary bounty hunters (headed up by Jordi Mollà and including WWE vet Dave Bautista), and a more professional team with a murkier motivation that connects this film to Pitch Black (led by Matt Nable and including Katee Sackhoff, Bokeem Woodbine, and Nolan Gerard Funk). It's eleven-against-one, and Riddick likes those odds. Did I mention there's a storm brewing?
As violent, macho fantasies go, this one is surprisingly engaging, a throwback to '80s sci-fi actioners like Predator in its striking visual approach (not original, per se, but striking), its juicy pulp dialogue (Twohy's no slouch, with screenplay credits including The Fugitive and G.I. Jane), and its unabashed hard-"R" gusto (including persistent profanity, gory violence, and flashes of female nudity). Nowhere does this tone work better than with Mollà's florid bad guy. Mollà gives a flat-out great performance: highly expressive and keenly comical, it's probably the most purely entertaining work I've witnessed all year. As the guy you'll love to hate, he alone is worth the price of admission.
Riddick amounts to approximately zero, and there's no question it would benefit from tighter pacing, but it's not half-bad. Its pronounced sense of humor goes a long way, and Twohy recaptures some of the tension of Pitch Black (along with many of its basic story beats) while making the most of a vivid Aliens-style action ensemble.
Unfortunately, it's part of the game to dedicate the film's running time to endlessly re-establishing Riddick's—and therefore Diesel's—masculine bona fides, ending on the borderline offensive suggestion that he can turn on, and maybe even turn, a lesbian. I guess that's what you get when you turn the movie clock back a quarter century.


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Motorola Mobility said Thursday that its shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed acquisition of the company by Google.
About 99 percent of the shares voting at a special meeting on Thursday voted in favor, which represented about 74 percent of Motorola's total outstanding shares of common stock as of Oct. 11, the company said.
Google and Motorola said in August that they had entered into a definitive agreement for Google to acquire Motorola for about $12.5 billion.
Motorola expects the merger to close in early 2012, but cautioned that it could be delayed or prevented by delays in meeting closing conditions or factors outside the company's control.
The company had previously said that it expected the merger to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.
The U.S. Department of Justice asked Google for more information about its planned purchase of Motorola, Google said in September. The so-called "second request" from the DOJ, asking for more details with which to evaluate the deal, could potentially slow down the transaction.
Motorola said in a filing in September that the two companies plan to file for pre-closing antitrust clearances for the merger in a number of jurisdictions including Canada, China, Israel, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey, in addition to the filings in the U.S. and before the European Commission.
Motorola Mobility reported last month a net loss of $32 million on net revenue of $3.26 billion for the third quarter. It had posted a similar loss in the same quarter last year.