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NBC's remake of the UK police drama, Prime Suspect, was one of the most anticipated new series of the new fall season. Unfortunately, it hasn't lived up to expectations. It'll surely be cancelled and now, it's just a question of when. Has NBC even tried to save it?
Prime Suspect revolves around tough-as-nails Detective Jane Timoney (Maria Bello) as she works in the male-dominated homicide department of the NYPD. The show also stars Aidan Quinn, Brian O'Byrne, Tim Griffin, Kirk Acevedo, Joe Nieves, Damon Gupton, and Peter Gerety.
The series debuted on September 22nd to a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.05 million total viewers. Most new series at least get solid ratings for their debut but Prime Suspect was a disappointment right out of the gate and was in a distant third place in its timeslot. What's more, many viewers didn't stick around for the whole premiere episode, an indication that they wouldn't be returning for the second episode.
And they didn't. Prime Suspect dropped 17% in the demo in week two to a 1.5 rating and 5.7 million viewers. As the weeks have progressed, things have only gotten worse and worse.
To their credit, NBC execs didn't give up on the series. They've been airing reruns on Saturday nights. When Playboy Club was cancelled, they filled the timeslot with repeats of Prime Suspect. Interestinly, that added exposure didn't help and could potentially have hurt the show because the ratings for Thursday night originals kept falling.
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Two weeks ago, NBC decided to give the series even more exposure by replacing all of their weekday 10pm shows with Prime Suspect repeats. The result? Thursday's original episode fell to an all time low; with a 1.1 rating and 4.03 million viewers.
For whatever reason, it's clear that the vast majority of the viewing public has rejected this show. NBC has given them plenty of chances to see the show and they don't want it.
At this point, the only reason that NBC hasn't pulled Prime Suspect off the air is that they don't have anything better to take its place, times are tough, and they've already paid for the episodes.
NBC ordered 13 episodes for season one and there's simply no reason for them to order any more. With numbers like these, Prime Suspect is all but officially cancelled. It's just a question of when NBC decides to call the time of death.
But, what do you think? Is the show better than what the ratings indicate? Why aren't more people watching? Do you think Prime Suspect still has a chance at being renewed or should it just be cancelled now?
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Hundreds take to Charlottesville streets a year after far-right rally
Hundreds of students and left-wing activists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, as a rally to mark the anniversary of last year's white nationalist gathering turned largely into an anti-police protest.
With chants like, "Cops and Klan go hand in hand," the protesters' criticisms of both police and the University of Virginia underscored the resentment that still exists a year after torch-bearing neo-Nazis marched through campus, shouting anti-Semitic messages and beating counterprotesters.
Several students said they were angry that the police response was far larger this year compared with last year, when people carrying tiki torches the white nationalist rally went mostly unchecked.
At one point on Saturday, dozens of officers in riot gear formed a line near where the rally was taking place, prompting many protesters to rush over yelling, "Why are you in riot gear? We don't see no riot here."
The standoff ended without any clashes as organizers urged the crowd to move away and begin marching off campus. Police, who appeared to be avoiding a confrontation, rode bicycles ahead of the march to stop traffic.
The newly installed president of the University of Virginia, James Ryan, apologised for the school's inaction last year while speaking at an event to memorialize the anniversary.
Saturday's march capped a day of hope, grief, anger and remembrance in Charlottesville, one year after the "Unite the Right" rally brought racially charged street violence to the scenic college town.
The organizer of last year's rally, local blogger Jason Kessler, has planned a sequel for Sunday in Washington after being denied a permit in Charlottesville.
With hundreds of police maintaining a tight security perimeter around a 15-block downtown area, Charlottesville's normally bustling business district was relatively quiet on Saturday. The buzz of a police helicopter overhead was a constant throughout the day.
The massive police response was not welcomed by everyone, including some residents and business owners who complained that the restrictions were an overreaction.
The result, however, was a day largely devoid of conflict. Authorities arrested three men for minor offences, including a 64-year-old disabled man who appeared to deliberately challenge the prohibition on certain items in the secured area.
The man, John Miska, who was wearing a handgun in a shoulder holster, visited a drugstore and purchased razor blades, which qualified as contraband under the city's emergency declaration. The gun, however, was not banned, based on state law.
When he refused an officer's request to take the razors to his car, he was arrested for disorderly conduct.
"This is the loss of our constitutional rights here in Charlottesville," he shouted, as officers led him away in plastic hand ties.
A group of anti-fascist protesters, sometimes known as "Antifa," marched in the afternoon, carrying signs with messages like "Good Night White Pride." They stopped to pay their respects at the corner where a local woman, Heather Heyer, was killed when an Ohio man drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters following last year's rally.
While some businesses closed for the weekend, many merchants remained open in a show of solidarity.
"It's my town, and I'm not afraid," said Karen Walker, whose floral shop Hedge was open on Saturday even though she did not expect much business. Outside her front door, a bucket of freshly cut flowers was available for passersby to take for free.
Many local residents also made a point of coming downtown to mark the anniversary. Kathe Falzer, 67, changed a flight to California so she could spend Saturday in town.
"I felt the need to be here and support the businesses," Falzer said as she ate lunch at a diner on Main Street.
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Satellite Sees End of Typhoon Sepat [image-78]
Typhoon Sepat had transitioned into a cold core low pressure area by Oct. 2 when it was passing to the east of Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture of Japan.
On Oct. 2 at 1832 UTC/2:32 p.m. EDT, Japan's MTSAT-2 satellite captured an infrared image of Extra-tropical Cyclone Sepat, that still had maximum sustained winds near 35 knots at the time. It was centered near 27.3 north and 143.3 east and had a minimum central pressure of 996 millibars.
The satellite data showed the center of the extratropical cyclone over open waters, but the western quadrant of the storm was bringing showers and thunderstorms to Hokkaido is it continued to move northeast and weaken.
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Sept. 30, 2013 - Infrared NASA Imagery Shows Some Strength in Tropical Depression Sepat [image-51]
Tropical Depression Sepat formed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on the storm, revealing some strong thunderstorms.
Tropical Depression Sepat, the twenty-first tropical depression in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, formed on Sept. 30. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Sepat on Sept. 30 at 03:23 UTC/Sept. 29 at 11:23 p.m. EDT. As Aqua passed overhead, that Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard Aqua looked at the storm in infrared light. The AIRS data showed some cold cloud tops of thunderstorms near the center of circulation that were as cold as -63F/-52C indicating some strength in the system.
Satellite imagery also showed that the low-level center remained tightly wrapped, despite weak convective (rising air that forms the thunderstorms that make up a tropical cyclone) organization. Sepat, however is battling moderate wind shear and is expected to track over a pool of cooler waters north of the islands of Iwo To, Japan, which is expected to hinder its development.
On Sept. 30 at 1500 UTC/11 a.m. EDT Tropical Depression Sepat had maximum sustained winds near 30 knots/34.5 mph/55.5 kph. It was centered near 28.3 north and 143.3 east, about 485 nautical miles south-southeast of Yokosuka, Japan. It was moving to the northwest, but is expected to turn to the northeast. For additional information, visit the Joint Typhoon Warning Center website at: http://www.usno.navy.mil/JTWC/
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center or JTWC expects Sepat to briefly strengthen into a tropical storm on Oct. 1 before weakening again to a depression and becoming extra-tropical as it parallels Japan's east coast on a northeastern track. The JTWC expects Sepat's western edge to graze eastern coastal Japan as it moves into the northern reaches of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Shopowner Takes Knife To Gunfight, Fights Off Robber
City of Arcata
On Wednesday July 24, 2013 at approximately 6:15 p.m., officers from the Arcata Police Department responded to the La Chiquita Taqueria in the 700 block of 10th Street for the report of an attempted robbery.
Upon the officers arrival they spoke to the owner who reported an unknown man had just attempted to rob him at gun point. The owner had been in the back when he heard someone tap on the front counter requesting service. When he came to the counter the suspect grabbed him by the hair and pushed a small pistol to his neck and demanded money.
The owner was able to retrieve a large kitchen knife from behind the counter and fend off the suspect. The owner then chased the suspect from the business and down the street.
The suspect was described as a white male adult, 5'5″ tall, dark hair wearing a red hoodie with white writing and a white hat.
Anyone who may have witnessed the robbery or has information on the identity of the suspect is encouraged to call the Arcata Police Department at (707) 822-2428.
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La Chiquita owner Esteban Matias said the robbery took place at his I Street shop, located in the former Pacific Rim Noodle House location next to Wildwood Music, and not the mobile taqueria.


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It's that time of year again when the days get shorter, the nights get colder, and the world is suddenly festooned with garland and twinkle lights (and you get the rare opportunity to use the word "festooned"). While you're blowing your paycheck at the mall and debating whether you should eat that third square of fudge, don't forget about some of our most vulnerable friends: the many cats and dogs who do not have a home this holiday season.
Even if you can't bring a new pet into your home, there are plenty of ways you can help homeless animals this winter. Here are a few suggestions.
1. Organize a toy or food drive.
Animal shelters can always use more food, and toys are helpful as well — cats and dogs can get bored while waiting for their forever family to arrive. If you're hosting a gathering, simply ask everyone to bring a small donation — or ask if you can set up a bin at your school or office holiday party.
2. Check out your local shelter's wish list.
Many shelters are run solely on donations, and they're almost always in need of supplies. Check your local shelter's website or give them a call to see what's on their wish list. (P.S., Shelter staff and volunteers love cookies.)
3. Donate old blankets and newspapers.
Before you throw out unwanted items like old towels, sheets, and newspapers, check with your local shelter to see if they can use them. Especially in the winter, cats and dogs need all the insulation they can get, and warm bedding is often in short supply.
4. Network.
Visibility can mean the difference between life and death for animals on death row at overcrowded shelters. Sharing photos of homeless cats and dogs on Facebook and Twitter can literally be a lifesaver — you never know when the right person might be looking.
5. Sponsor a pet.
Many shelters, particularly those caring for special-needs or hard-to-adopt pets, offer sponsorship opportunities. Basically your monthly donation helps cover food, supplies, and medical care for that cat or dog, and in exchange you receive photos and updates. It's kind of like long-distance adoption.
6. Become a foster.
Fostering is tough work, but few things are more rewarding or beneficial to undersocialized cats and dogs than spending time in a real home getting comfortable with a family. A little TLC and daily interaction might be all that shy kitty needs to come out of her shell, or it might make the difference between life and death for a litter of feral kittens. Check with your local shelter to see what opportunities are available.
7. Volunteer.
If you lack the funds to sponsor or the time to foster, you can always volunteer. The hours homeless animals spend at shelters can be long and lonely. They are immensely grateful for anyone willing to spend a little time petting them, giving them some exercise, or engaging them in play. Particularly over the holiday season, volunteers are in high demand, so check with some rescues in your area to see how you can help. Even an hour a week makes a difference.
8. Make a donation in someone's name.
Looking for the perfect gift for the animal lovers on your list? Consider making a donation in their name to their favorite shelter. It is a win-win situation for everyone involved.
9. Bang on your car.
As temperatures fall, feral cats seek shelter where they can find it — and this is frequently under the hoods of parked cars. Before starting your engine each morning, bang on the hood to scare any lurking cats out of hiding. This is a quick and easy way to potentially save a life.
10. Spay and neuter.
This may seem obvious, but the best way to help homeless animals is not to contribute to the problem. Spay and neuter your pets, and encourage your friends and family to do the same.
About Angela: This not-crazy-at-all cat lady loves to lint-roll her favorite dress and go out dancing. She also frequents the gym, the vegan coffee joint, and the warm patch of sunlight on the living room floor. She enjoys a good cat rescue story about kindness and decency overcoming the odds, and she's an enthusiastic recipient of headbutts and purrs from her two cats, Bubba Lee Kinsey and Phoenix.
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Maybe even something not quite so seriously heroic...
In 1940, during the first year of the Second World War, T H White published The Ill-Made Knight, his third book retelling the Arthurian myth and focusing on the character generally seen as the most noble, handsome and dashingly splendid of all the knights at King Arthur's fabled Round Table.
White's take on the heroic French knight was a radically revisionist one: accepting – as is told in many versions of the Arthur myth – that it was Lancelot's illicit love for the King's wife, Guenever that eventually initiated the destruction of Arthur's chivalric dream, the author sets out with the determination of a modern novelist, rather than a myth-maker, to explore the human complexities of the triangular relationship between the Knight, the King and the Queen.
The Ill-Made Knight was subsequently incorporated into T H White's one-volume compilation of his Arthurian romances, The Once and Future King and represents the basis for the fourth episode of my current Radio 4 dramatisation.
The BBC has recently posted a teaser introduction to the zealous young Lancelot (Alex Waldmann) from a scene where the would-be knight meets Merlyn (David Warner) and the old magician's enchantress bride, Nimue (Bettrys Jones). You can listen to it here.
You can hear the episode in full tomorrow, Sunday 30 November, on BBC Radio 4 at 3:00 pm and, again, on Saturday 6 December at 9:00 pm.
Earlier episodes are available on the BBC iPlayer but if you haven't caught up with the beginning of the saga, the clock is now ticking with just 17 days left to hear Episode 1: 'The Coming of Merlyn' before it magically disappears into the ether... Details of all the available episodes will be found here.
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Tomorrow at 6:00 pm, BBC Radio 4 Extra are re-broadcasting another episode of Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre featuring my dramatisation of Ray's story, 'The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl', telling of a murder and the compulsive events that follow and which have such devastating consequences on the murderer...
I first read the story fifty years ago in the collection, The Golden Apples of the Sun, but it had originally been published in the November 1948 edition of Detective Book Magazine under the title 'Touch and Go'.
Introduced by the late Ray Bradbury, 'The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl' has a compelling central performance from Nigel Anthony as William Acton, the obsessed murderer. You will find a link to the transmission here and the Radio 4 Extra website also has details of all the earlier episodes, including two more of my dramatisations, Night Call Collect and The Jar.


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Cooler Master Storm Scout II Advanced Case Review: Falling Behind the Curveby Dustin Sklavos on March 19, 2013 12:01 PM EST
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Introducing the Cooler Master Storm Scout II Advanced
Cooler Master has been fairly gung ho on the PR side about their Storm Scout II Advanced. While we missed the opportunity to review its predecessor, the Storm Scout II, we aim to rectify that omission by putting this new semi-portable ATX chassis through its paces. Cooler Master has a long history of strong enthusiast offerings (with their HAF line being particularly well loved), but does the Storm Scout II Advanced inherit that legacy of greatness or are they falling behind the curve?
Unlike the HAF series, the Storm Scout II Advanced benefits from a cleaner design with rounded angles and smooth lines. There are a trio of handles on the top of the case to make moving it between LAN parties (or really, just moving it in general) easier on the end user, and Cooler Master includes a fairly traditional positive pressure cooling system, with two red LED fans (LEDs can be toggled off) in the front of the chassis and a single exhaust fan in the rear. As has become de rigeur, it features support for a 240mm radiator in the top, but its primary function is to be a sleek, semi-portable gaming case.
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|160mm with bottom fan / 220mm without
|287mm with drive cage / 399mm without
9.1" x 20.2" x 20.5"
230mm x 513mm x 517.5mm
|18.87 lbs. / 8.56 kg
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USB 3.0 via internal header
LED toggle
Removable drive cage panel
Side window
Toolless drive installation
The Storm Scout II Advanced isn't particularly light, but it's well built, using a combination of SECC steel and plastic. This is a case that really is designed to be moved, though components are going to add close to another ten pounds to its weight. Where I think things take a little bit of a turn is in the cooling system design; simply put, we've seen this before. A lot. And the lack of any 140mm support of any kind is crippling to the case's cooling potential at a time when many manufacturers are making the shift to larger fans.
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MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkOn page 4 in the ATX Test Configuration table in the GTX 580 description you have: "(full fat testing only)" which is actually a little bit amusing but it should probably say: full fan testing based on context.
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkwell... I guess since you used that terminology again I guess it was intentional.
JarredWalton - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkIt's a reference to types of milk or cream: you have the "light" options with reduced fat (easier on your body in theory), and then there's the "full fat" milk and cream where you get all the flavor along with all the fat. I suppose it's probably used outside of dairy stuff as well, but you get the point. :-)
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkYeah after I kept reading I realized it was meant to by synonymous with "heavy duty" or the like. The terminology just caught me off guard.
pcfxer - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe power of a hyphen ;)>. Full-Fat Testing!
Grok42 - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkI really liked your comment about the bog standard ATX case layout design as "...been done". Couldn't have said it better. Why through yet another ATX case at us, give us something different.
bogda - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkWhy is gallery at anandtech simplified to stupidity?
You can go next by clicking anywhere on picture but you cannot go back by clicking on left side of image as it is usual. If you want to go back you have to click on "film strip" at the bottom. It is not intuitive and requires more time, especially if "film strip" moved to next page.
REALfreaky - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe best performer for the price (Antec GX700) is ugly as sin. One of the better looking cases (this CM Storm Scout) is a poor performer and overpriced.
Why is it so hard to find both? The exterior looks of this CM Storm Scout and the internal configuration and price of the GX700 would impress to no end.
TGressus - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe case could be a a good performer. It has 5 fan mounts that the reviewer chose to leave unpopulated, instead relying on the manufacturer's bare minimum. It is up to the consumer to design and tune their own system, and it is true the less experienced in the community would benefit from more detailed guidance in this area.
alsmith - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - linkBoth as in poor performer and ugly? I bet there'd be a few suggestions ......


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Shellfish's Mysterious Pathways to Adulthood
A grad student peers into the lives of larvae, before they grow up to be scallops
With a cool ocean breeze under a cloudless sky, children weave small sailboats through the channel. Larger boats scurry out of Waquoit Bay to fish in Nantucket Sound or spend a day at Martha's Vineyard. Those not on the water are hitting tennis balls or relaxing by the beach.
It's a typical summer day at the Menauhant Yacht Club in East Falmouth, Mass. A picture-postcard scene you could find at any yacht club on Cape Cod in July—except for a tangled hose attached to a pump and a littering of filters and bottles spread out on a floating dock. A young woman in pigtails leans over the dock to pull two large orange bags from the water. For the most part, people are too busy to inquire to why she's there, but occasionally some do.
Meet the 'Bug Girl'
For the past three years, I've spent my summers sampling Waquoit Bay for larvae of clams, scallops, and oysters. I sample wherever and whenever I can. I've sampled from docks, boats, and kayaks; at boat yards, yacht clubs, and research stations. I've sampled weekly, daily, and even for 48 hours straight. All this sampling has earned me the nickname "Bug Girl" with some of the harbormasters in the bay.
Larvae and other plankton are like the bugs of the sea. Suspended in the water, floating in unseen hordes, larvae are transported by wind and tidal currents until they settle and grow into adults. But this critical stage in the lifecycle remains largely a mystery. Larvae are small, and their paths are hard to follow. The larvae of bivalved shellfish are nearly impossible to identify, even for an expert. But I hope to overcome these obstacles with my doctoral research in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.
Understanding bivalves' larval stage could reveal ways to help reverse the population declines of tasty shellfish. In the town of Mashpee on the eastern side of the bay, shellfish constable Richard York has a vested interest in my study. He grows millions of adult shellfish to place into the bay each year for a commercial and recreational fishery, but he can't tell if they produce larvae.
To find larvae, which are no bigger than a fine grain of sand, I have to filter hundreds of liters of water and count them under a microscope. When people find me working, they often ask me about the water quality. Some want to know if there's fish around, or why there was a blue crab die-off this spring. I don't always know the answers to their questions; I've only lived on Cape Cod for three years. Many of the people I meet have come here their whole lives and know more about the bay than I ever will.
The search for scallops
On this particular day at the club, a man and his son pull their boat alongside the dock as I'm rinsing the orange bags into a bucket. The red-white-and-blue theme of their clothing reminds me that a popular holiday is approaching, which is also reflected by an increase in boat traffic. The man asks me if he can borrow the hose to wash his boat. "May I ask what you are doing?" he says.
"I'm looking for shellfish larvae," I tell him; it's my default response to this common question. I wait to gauge a person's interest before adding more details. This time their interest seems to have been sparked, as the son, who looks to be around 10 or 12, climbs out of the boat to look in my bucket.
"Do you see any?" he asks.
I tell him they are small, and you need a microscope to see them. Under a microscope, larvae appear as transparent semi-circles with tissue containing digestive organs and swimming appendages. Just like the adults, the larvae have a shell made of aragonite, a calcium-containing mineral. When viewed using a polarization filter, the crystals in the larval shell cause it to reflect bright color patterns. The patterns produced are different for each species, and with the help of a computer and image-recognition software, can be used to distinguish individual species.
I tell the boy and his father that I am particularly interested in scallops, and I am using the orange mesh bags to collect the older larvae. I explain eutrophication: how the increased number of septic systems in the surrounding neighborhoods has loaded the bay with nitrogen from waste and fertilizer, stimulating rampant growth of large algae that blocks sunlight from reaching the eelgrass on the bottom. That has diminished the eelgrass, an essential habitat where bay scallop larvae settle to grow to adulthood. I'm hoping the mesh bags hung from the dock will attract scallop larvae to settle on them much the way the eelgrass would have.
"You don't see scallops around here anymore," the son agrees. Even five to 10 years ago, they were pretty hard to find.
Sampling with the tides
I am waiting to meet with my Ph.D. advisor, Scott Gallager, a scientist at WHOI, and Chris Weidman, director of research at the nearby Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Decades of research at the reserve have put Waquoit Bay on the map as a case study for the effects of eutrophication on estuaries. The loss of the scallop fishery is only a small piece of the story, but an important one for shellfish lovers.
An adult bay scallop will release millions of egg and sperm cells into the water each summer. Twenty-four hours after fertilization, a larva's shell forms, and it begins its journey. A larva will spend up to two weeks drifting in the water column, subjected to various environmental hazards. Only a very small percentage can manage to find food, avoid being eaten (or sucked up in a plankton pump), and find a suitable place to settle and metamorphose.
Water is flushed out of Waquoit Bay every three days with the tides. If a bay scallop is spawned in the bay, it cannot swim faster than the tidal currents and will not likely stay there. It may end up offshore, swept into a neighboring estuary, or die before finding an eelgrass bed.
There is a chance a larva may sink to the bottom on an outgoing tide to avoid moving with the strongest currents, and larvae from areas offshore may be able to make their way into the bay on incoming tides. To investigate these hypotheses, I need to take samples over the entire tidal cycle and at different depths.
Scott and Chris are here to help get the tidal samples. We are installing an automatic system of valves with filters hooked up to a pump to sample water continuously over each incoming and outgoing tide. I have a sister system on the Mashpee side of the bay.
The system is programmed to open or close one of four valves with each tide. This allows me to sample over a lunar tidal cycle (about 28 days) and compare the flux of larvae that enter and leave the bay but I don't have to be present to sample each tide.
Working with bugs and pugs
After we discuss plans for the installation, Scott and Chris leave, and I get set up to take my weekly sample. A man wearing a yacht club polo shirt walks up to me, followed close behind by his dog—a little pug sporting a matching nautical-themed collar. He sees that I am doing research and asks me a few questions while I sample; a retired scientist himself, he is curious about Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the state-of-the-art research pursued there. He is surprised and pleased that I am taking the opportunity to sample in my own backyard.
One doesn't have to go to exotic places to apply new technology to scientific questions. In Waquoit Bay, we can now look at the species composition of shellfish from each plankton sample I collect. This can determine when species are present, how they grow and survive, and how their vertical swimming behavior influences their transport with tidal currents.
Such fundamental missing information is essential for efforts to sustain a natural population through eelgrass restoration. From an economic perspective, these samples allow managers to see the results of their labors to sustain recreational fisheries. As we fill in the blanks between the larval and the adult stages of shellfish, my new friends at the yacht club can enjoy more clambakes with quahogs from the bay.
As I talk with this man, his dog eyes my hose pumping water and starts to pant.
"Looks like he's thirsty."
The man takes him to a nearby hose to get a drink. I soon finish my sample and walk over to hose off my filters. The dog still drinks up, and I wonder how many of my colleagues must share equipment with kids and canines. I wait my turn.
Christine Mingione' s research has been supported by a National Estuarine Research Reserve Graduate Research Fellowship through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a grant from the WHOI Coastal Ocean Institute. She also has been supported by the J. Seward Johnson Fund and the Richard Vanstone Fund. This article was written during a science writing course for graduate students at WHOI, supported by funds from The Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor of Oceanography.


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A successful transition towards a greener economy will create new opportunities for workers, but also new risks. The challenge for labour market and skill policies is to maximise the benefits for workers and help assure a fair sharing of adjustment costs, while also supporting broader green growth policies (e.g. by minimising skill bottlenecks).
The four main policy priorities are:
There is also a need for inclusive green-specific labour market and skill policies, including top-up training for mid-career workers who need to adapt to greener ways of working, and ensuring that both men and women are equally well-prepared for the shift to a greener economy.
How do climate change and employment influence each other?
Sectoral changes in employment with ambitious climate change mitigation policies, OECD countries
In % deviation from the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario in 2030
Economic modelling suggests that ambitious climate-change mitigation policies could be good for jobs as well as the environment. A study using the OECD's ENV-Linkages model shows that a well-designed emissions trading system could sharply reduce GHG emissions while allowing GDP to keep growing (although at a slightly lower rate). The key is mobility, with workers able to move easily from sectors where employment would drop, notably fossil-fuel industries, to sectors such as renewable energy industries where job opportunities rise rapidly. Countries exporting fossil-based energies would be most affected.
OECD modelling indicates small net impacts on total employment, but other studies show bigger gains if the right policies are in place. These studies also show that green growth could be a powerful weapon to help developing economies in their fight against underemployment.
The OECD model demonstrates that the impact of GHG mitigation policy on GDP growth is small when the labour market adjusts smoothly to employment opportunities and losses, but that the costs rise significantly when workers in declining sectors become unemployable elsewhere due to an incapacity to change and lack of flexibility in labour markets. One way to combine environmental policy with measures to help workers take advantage of new opportunities would be use revenues from carbon taxes to reduce taxes on labour income. This can generate a "double-dividend" by delivering both lower GHG emissions and higher employment.
Work on SMEs, entrepreneurship and innovation has shown that there will be a need for new types of skills to match new types of jobs, as industry is transformed into a low-carbon economy. "Green and silver jobs" are expected to grow and there will be a marked shift towards business services jobs in advanced economies. Even in the most negative scenario, more than 80% of jobs by 2020 are expected to require medium and high levels of skills while low-skills jobs will continue to decline. These high-level green skills will be necessary to adjust to the green transformation of the economy. Green skills include specific skills to modify products, services or operations due to climate change adjustments, requirements or regulations.
An OECD questionnaire sent to labour and employment ministries reveals that about 60% of the responding countries have implemented at least one green growth labour market measure, with training being the most common. By contrast, job subsidies in private sector or direct job creation in the public sector are only rarely used as green employment measures which indicates green labour market measures still at an early stage of implementation. In addition, green components have been progressively integrated into general labour market programmes in a number of the countries reporting no green-specific programmes, indicating that great caution is required when comparing green-specific initiatives in the field of labour market and skill development policies in different countries.
Green-specific national labour market programmes implemented by OECD countries, 2010
Note: The OECD questionnaire on green jobs and policies covers 27 OECD countries. The columns sum to more than 100% because many countries operating green-specific measures reported making use of multiple types of measures.
Source: OECD questionnaire on green jobs and policies.
From the demand side, an OECD survey of small and medium-sized enterprises indicates that firms are often not sufficiently aware of the need for green skills for the future, and their investment in green training or green knowledge-intensive activities is often limited, as is their awareness of the impact of regulations on their industry. It also shows the important role than local partnerships can have on fostering rich skills and training ecosystems.
Dedicated green education and training programmes will have an important role to play in helping workers to participate fully in the emerging green economy. Evidence from a number of countries suggests that skill shortages have already developed in certain sectors or occupations where green growth policies have created a need for new skills, or new combinations of familiar skills.
Women's under-representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields in tertiary education directly limits women's opportunities to participate in a growing green labour market. In the majority of OECD countries, fewer than 30% of tertiary qualifications in the fields of engineering, manufacturing and construction and about 40% of tertiary qualifications in science degrees were awarded to women. Gender differences in these subject choices are even more distinct in vocational training programmes. If green content is introduced only in science and engineering oriented vocational programmes, a large proportion of women will not benefit from the training and miss the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills for new green jobs.
Current OECD work
The OECD Employment Outlook 2012 will include a chapter looking at the policy challenges posed by green growth and jobs, developed in conjunction with the European Commission. The chapter will draw on the report The Jobs Potential of a Shift towards a Low-Carbon Economy.
The OECD has also worked with the ILO to support a G20 initiative to foster the greening of labour markets in countries at all levels of economic development.
The OECD-CEDEFOP Forum on Green Skills brings together researchers, government advisers, employment and policy analysts and social partners actively involved in skills development and training needs for a low carbon economy to review and discuss new research, strategic and policy approaches to foster a greener, more sustainable future. It identifies tools, strategies and local initiatives from theory to practice.
Building capacity at a local level will be essential to effectively support job creation in the transition to a green economy. The Climate Change, Employment and Local Development project aims to help national and local authorities put in place good quality greener jobs by developing lower-carbon activities. The project report suggests that there are some barriers that need to be identified and overcome in order to ensure an effective transition to greener growth.
The project Measuring the potential of green growth aims to define measurable indicators at regional/local level that can inform the transition to low-carbon economic and industrial activities. Chiefly the project looks into ways to foster job creation and inclusive economic development in new areas of growth and sustainable development.
A follow-up project on improving the effectiveness of green local development initiatives focuses on identifying approaches to support leveraging of public sector green projects to foster local development activities such as firm competitiveness and job creation in the area where the projects are based. These approaches will look at ways in which the public sector can improve the impact of large green projects (e.g. energy or transport) on the socio-economic development of a local labour market.
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Turkey Flan with Leeks and Cheese
This can be made with a combination of leftover turkey or chicken and pieces of cheese
You could also add some chopped pieces of ham if there is some left over. Having said that, I think this tastes so good that it is worth cooking some chicken specially to make it! Serve the flan warm with a tossed crisp green salad.
This recipe is taken from Delia Smith's Christmas. Serves 6-8
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First make up the pastry by rubbing the flour into the butter till crumbly, then add the cheese, mustard and seasoning together with just enough cold water to make a dough that leaves the bowl clean.
Place the dough in a polythene bag and leave to rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so. Meanwhile melt the teaspoon of butter in a frying pan, swirl it round the pan and then, keeping the heat low, add the leeks and let them gently cook for about 6 minutes and exude some of their juice. After that place the leeks in a sieve, strain off any juices into a bowl and set aside.
Next roll out the pastry and use it to line the prepared quiche tin. Prick the base of the pastry with a fork, then pre-bake on the centre shelf of the oven for 15 minutes. While that's happening put the 1½ oz (40 g) butter, milk and flour in a saucepan and bring up to the boil, whisking all the time, until you have a smooth thick sauce. Season with salt, pepper and a little nutmeg, then leave the sauce to simmer gently for 5 minutes.
Remove the pastry case from the oven and arrange the leeks over the base, followed by the slices of turkey, chicken or ham.Now pour the reserved leek juice into the sauce, add three-quarters of the grated cheese and the beaten egg and mix well. Pour the sauce evenly over the contents of the flan and sprinkle the remaining cheese on top together with a dusting of cayenne. Bake the flan at the same temperature as above on the baking sheet for 25-30 minutes or until nicely browned on top.
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LOS ANGELES -- Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel gave away an $18,000 Jet Ski as a grand prize to the person who delivered the shortest acceptance speech during the ceremony.
During his opening monologue the late night host had actress Helen Mirren showcase the expensive water craft in the back of the stage.
"Why waste precious time thanking your mom when you could be taking your mom for the ride of her life on a Jet Ski?" Kimmel said.
He added that if there is a tie at the end of the night, the water vehicle would go to Christopher Plummer, alluding to Plummer replacing embattled actor Kevin Spacey in "All the Money in the World" mid-production.
The first award of best supporting actor was given to Sam Rockwell, who quickly joked that he wanted to win the Jet Ski and tried to make his speech short.
The winners for best original song, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, joked that they wanted to win the vehicle, but they were from Brooklyn and went on with their speech.
In the end, after all the winners were announced and the cast and crew of "The Shape of Water" celebrated their big win on stage - Kimmel announced the winner.
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Wall Street was set for a rebound Tuesday thanks to more good news about the housing market in the U.S. and an ease in concerns about China's credit problems.
U.S. stock futures rose by more than 0.5%.
The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index was up 12.1% in April compared to a year ago for the 20 top real estate markets across the nation. It was the biggest annual jump in prices in seven years and the 2.5% jump from March was the biggest one-month rise in the 12-year history of the index.
A report on durable goods came in better than expected. The Census Bureau said new orders for big-ticket items rose 3.6% in May. Economists had forecast a 3% rise, according to Briefing.com.
Still to come, the government's report on new-home sales for May is due at 10 a.m. ET. The Conference Board also releases its monthly reading of consumer confidence at 10 a.m.
The markets are coming off a sell-off Monday, driven by continued uncertainty about China and when the Federal Reserve will ease its stimulus. The double whammy of uncertainty has caused volatility to spike.
So far this month, the CBOE Market Volatility Index (VIX) has risen 25%. And CNNMoney's Fear & Greed Index is deep in extreme fear.
The markets have been taking their cue this week from China, where stocks have tumbled on concerns about tighter credit conditions.
Related: China: Don't worry! It's not 2008
But comments attributed to a People's Bank of China official helped ease some jitters. The official reportedly said the bank will keep interest rates in check, and that seasonal forces that have driven them higher recently will fade.
Following his comments, the Shanghai Composite, which was down as much as 5.6%, recovered to close just 0.2% lower.
Related: Stock sell-off is 'taper tantrum'
Still, the ups and downs have analysts worried.
"Volatility is very pronounced," Carter Worth, chief market technician at Oppenheimer, told CNNMoney in an interview. Earlier he sent around an amusing note that simply said "We have no new thoughts. Sell."
"If this kind of volatility is taking place, there is a change in the wind. That doesn't mean we are going to see a bear market or a crash, but upside is limited and downside is unknown, but very real," he told CNNMoney.
Related: Bonds in the bargain bin
On the corporate front, shares of Walgreen (WAG) sank nearly 5% after the drugstore chain missed earnings and revenue forecasts.
Barnes & Noble (BKS) shares plunged after the bookseller said it will stop making the NOOK in-house and will partner with a third party to manufacture the eReading device. Sales in the NOOK segment fell 34% in the quarter to $108 million.
Carnival (CCL) said earnings fell 55% to 9 cents per share in the second quarter. The beleaguered cruise ship operator warned in May that earnings would suffer this year due to price cuts following the Carnival Triumph mishap. But Carnival's stock rose in pre-market trading since earnings were better than expected.
Gunmaker Smith & Wesson (SWHC) will release fourth-quarter results after the market closes.
European markets were making significant gains in morning trading after taking a big fall Monday. Germany's DAX index took the lead, rising by just over 1.5%.
Asian markets ended with mixed results after a volatile day. Like the Shanghai index, Hong Kong's Hang Seng also dropped during the day, but closed with a 0.2% gain. The Nikkei in Japan ended with a 0.7% loss.


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The discussions will explore, critically, the construction of iconographies of violence—war, genocide, and other forms of mass killing—through the circulation of visual images across media.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University will present a two-part symposium on Thursday, April 25, 6 p.m.-9 p.m., and Friday, April 26, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., entitled "The Desire to See: The Construction and Circulation of Images of Atrocity."
The symposium will take place at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, located at 43 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan streets). It is free and open to the public.
Organized by Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, a professor of film studies at University of Valencia, Spain, and University of Paris III, France, and holder of the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization for spring 2013, thesel discussions will explore, critically, the construction of iconographies of violence—war, genocide, and other forms of mass killing—through the circulation of visual images across media. The focus is on how the moving image and photography have created a repertoire of images of atrocity by drawing on and reworking previous cinematic and photographic material. How have these iconographies of violence changed over time? What are their geographical and historical specificities? What happens when they migrate from a particular period or part of the world to another, and when they migrate across media? How have they been socialized, interpreted, and re-interpreted? What do they omit or elide?
The discussions will also ask, How have the iconographies of mass violence intersected with regimes of power? Can such images connect the spectator with the event depicted, even if only tenuously? How is the violence of the event encrypted in the image? What are the limits of representation? A specific concern will be the demand for images of atrocity—a desire to know that takes the form of a desire to see—and the strategies of substitution to which filmmakers have recourse to satisfy this demand when footage of the violent event is not available. In what ways can such images be called documents? What kinds of knowledge can they provide?
The panels will mix presentations with screenings of relevant material. In addition to the Spanish Civil War (the first war to generate a transnational proliferation of moving and still images and the consequent "desire to see") and the Shoah (whose paradigmatic status is evident),the case studies discussed will include Cambodia, Rwanda, Guatemala, Argentina, and the U.S.
Speakers include: Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (NYU, University of Valencia, University of Paris III), Ben Kiernan (Yale University), Stuart Liebman (Queens College CUNY), Allan Thompson (Carleton University), Daniel Hernández-Salazar (photographer, Guatemala), Marita Sturken (NYU).
Program is as follows:
Thursday, April 25:
6:30 p.m. Introduction: Vicente Sánchez Biosca (Film Studies, NYU, University of Valencia, University of Paris III)
6:50 p.m. Keynote Lecture: "Images of Genocide: A Global History from Earliest Times to the Present" Ben Kiernan (Genocide Studies Program, Yale University)
Followed by reception.
Friday, April 26:
10:30 a.m. Panel 1 - Moderator: Jo Labanyi (King Juan Carlos Center, NYU)
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, "Beautiful Atrocities: Spain and the Last Photogenic War"
Stuart Liebman (Media Studies, Queens College CUNY), "Images of Genocide: Jews under the Sign of the Cross"
12:30 p.m. Lunch break
2:00 p.m. Panel 2 - Moderator: Fred Ritchin (Photography and Imaging, NYU)
Screening of selection of documentary film material relating to the Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge, introduced by Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, with commentary by Ben Kiernan
Allan Thompson (Journalism, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada), "The Genocide Video: The Story behind Unique News Footage from the Rwanda Genocide"
4:00 p.m. Coffee break
4:15 p.m. Panel 3 - Moderator: Marcial Godoy-Anativia (Hemispheric Institute, NYU)
Daniel Hernández-Salazar (Photographer, Guatemala), "Photography, Memory, and the Representation of Atrocity: An Angel Story"
Marita Sturken (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU), "Reimagining Torture: Memory, the Disappeared, and the Popular Imaginary in the U.S. and Argentina"
6:15 p.m. Concluding remarks - Vicente Sánchez-Biosca, Stuart Liebman, Marita Sturken.
Followed by reception.
Co-sponsored by: NYU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics.
For more information, contact KJCC's Cristina Colmena at 212.998.3650 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Or visit King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) at www.nyu.edu/kjc .


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When fluid dynamics mimic quantum mechanics
In the early days of quantum physics, in an attempt to explain the wavelike behavior of quantum particles, the French physicist Louis de Broglie proposed what he called a "pilot wave" theory. According to de Broglie, moving particles—such as electrons, or the photons in a beam of light—are borne along on waves of some type, like driftwood on a tide.
Physicists' inability to detect de Broglie's posited waves led them, for the most part, to abandon pilot-wave theory. Recently, however, a real pilot-wave system has been discovered, in which a drop of fluid bounces across a vibrating fluid bath, propelled by waves produced by its own collisions.
In 2006, Yves Couder and Emmanuel Fort, physicists at Université Paris Diderot, used this system to reproduce one of the most famous experiments in quantum physics: the so-called "double-slit" experiment, in which particles are fired at a screen through a barrier with two holes in it.
In the latest issue of the journal Physical Review E (PRE), a team of MIT researchers, in collaboration with Couder and his colleagues, report that they have produced the fluidic analogue of another classic quantum experiment, in which electrons are confined to a circular "corral" by a ring of ions. In the new experiments, bouncing drops of fluid mimicked the electrons' statistical behavior with remarkable accuracy.
"This hydrodynamic system is subtle, and extraordinarily rich in terms of mathematical modeling," says John Bush, a professor of applied mathematics at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper. "It's the first pilot-wave system discovered and gives insight into how rational quantum dynamics might work, were such a thing to exist."
Joining Bush on the PRE paper are lead author Daniel Harris, a graduate student in mathematics at MIT; Couder and Fort; and Julien Moukhtar, also of Université Paris Diderot. In a separate pair of papers, appearing this month in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Bush and Jan Molacek, another MIT graduate student in mathematics, explain the fluid mechanics that underlie the system's behavior.
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The double-slit experiment is seminal because it offers the clearest demonstration of wave-particle duality: As the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman once put it, "Any other situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can always be explained by saying, 'You remember the case of the experiment with the two holes? It's the same thing.'"
If a wave traveling on the surface of water strikes a barrier with two slits in it, two waves will emerge on the other side. Where the crests of those waves intersect, they form a larger wave; where a crest intersects with a trough, the fluid is still. A bank of pressure sensors struck by the waves would register an "interference pattern"—a series of alternating light and dark bands indicating where the waves reinforced or canceled each other.
Photons fired through a screen with two holes in it produce a similar interference pattern—even when they're fired one at a time. That's wave-particle duality: the mathematics of wave mechanics explains the statistical behavior of moving particles.
In the experiments reported in PRE, the researchers mounted a shallow tray with a circular depression in it on a vibrating stand. They filled the tray with a silicone oil and began vibrating it at a rate just below that required to produce surface waves.
They then dropped a single droplet of the same oil into the bath. The droplet bounced up and down, producing waves that pushed it along the surface.
The waves generated by the bouncing droplet reflected off the corral walls, confining the droplet within the circle and interfering with each other to create complicated patterns. As the droplet bounced off the waves, its motion appeared to be entirely random, but over time, it proved to favor certain regions of the bath over others. It was found most frequently near the center of the circle, then, with slowly diminishing frequency, in concentric rings whose distance from each other was determined by the wavelength of the pilot wave.
The statistical description of the droplet's location is analogous to that of an electron confined to a circular quantum corral and has a similar, wavelike form.
"It's a great result," says Paul Milewski, a math professor at the University of Bath, in England, who specializes in fluid mechanics. "Given the number of quantum-mechanical analogues of this mechanical system already shown, it's not an enormous surprise that the corral experiment also behaves like quantum mechanics. But they've done an amazingly careful job, because it takes very accurate measurements over a very long time of this droplet bouncing to get this probability distribution."
"If you have a system that is deterministic and is what we call in the business 'chaotic,' or sensitive to initial conditions, sensitive to perturbations, then it can behave probabilistically," Milewski continues. "Experiments like this weren't available to the giants of quantum mechanics. They also didn't know anything about chaos. Suppose these guys—who were puzzled by why the world behaves in this strange probabilistic way—actually had access to experiments like this and had the knowledge of chaos, would they have come up with an equivalent, deterministic theory of quantum mechanics, which is not the current one? That's what I find exciting from the quantum perspective."
Journal information: Physical Review E
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This story is republished courtesy of MIT News (web.mit.edu/newsoffice/), a popular site that covers news about MIT research, innovation and teaching.


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These are getting a bit of a regular feature on here...
Its nice though, to just round up some gorgeousness from the week...
Some lovely things this week;
a gorgeous new print from Anna Emillia (1) , Lisa Stickley cushion (2), and something I literally fell totally in love with this week (all over again) Elena Deshmukh cards (3), my oh my, she has some beautiful new editions to her collection including 'Souvenirs' and 'Sailor and Friends' inspired by her very own little terrier.
Keep a look out for them in the shops.
H&M have a lovely collection of home ware now which I recently stumbled across and I absolutely love this cushion (4) ; could be the bird, could be the 'etchy sketchy' technique or the gorgeous scribbly wording, who knows, probably all three, but its lovely isnt it...
Next up, an all time favourite of mine, liberty prints (5). Their new additions to the ever increasing offering of fabric definitely do not dissapoint. This lovely print is one of many new ones you can see over on their website.
Lastly, this lovely october desktop from Tabitha Emma (6).
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