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Located 3.25 miles east of Key Biscayne in Miami Florida – GPS coordinates N25º 42.036', W80º 05.409' – Neptune Memorial Reef™ is the largest man-made reef ever conceived and, when complete, will have transformed over 16 acres of barren ocean floor. The Neptune Memorial Reef™ project is environmentally sound and meets the strict guidelines and permitting of the EPA, DERM, NOAA, Florida Fish and Wildlife and the Army Corps of Engineers. The Memorial Reef™ is also a member of the Green Burial Council.
Our completed first phase is an artistic representation of the Lost City, 40 feet under the sea. These structures have produced a marine habitat to promote coral and marine organism's growth while creating the ultimate 'Green Burial' opportunity. A recent marine study conducted by the Department of Environmental Resource Management concluded that marine life around the Reef has gone from the zero to thousands in two years.
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Boat activity at the site is brisk, with families chartering boats or taking their own to snorkel or simply be at the site. Some family members actually become dive certified, enabling them to visit the site, to see their loved ones and monitor the Reef's growth.
Many of our local families dive the Reef on a regular basis to visit their loved ones. One family, in particular, has been out 5 times in as many months.
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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
- Volcanic ash
- Fine pyroclastic material (under 2.0 mm diameter; under 0.063 mm diameter for fine ash). The term usually refers to the unconsolidated material but is sometimes also used for its consolidated counterpart, tuff. (Neuendorf, K.K.E. and others, 2005)
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We are back from our rather extended holiday. Those Icelandic volcanoes can reall mes with your travel plans. We have a stack of photos to upload but I thought I would just start with this one. Stephanie got on very well with Tara. Not sure how well Tara got on with Stephanie but she was a most patient dog.


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Maryland has confirmed its first cases of seasonal influenza, state health officials announced Friday, several months earlier than last season.
Four children in the Baltimore region have laboratory-confirmed cases. One was hospitalized, but all are doing well, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said. Three were type A (H3N2) influenza, while one had type B influenza.
The first seasonal case of last season was confirmed in December 2011.
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En español | Losing a husband or wife is a devastating experience that many of us will have to face. About 40 percent of women and 13 percent of men who are 65 and older are widowed, according to latest census figures. Until recently, very little sound research existed about how we live on after a loved one has died. But in the past decade, social scientists with unprecedented access to large groups of widows and widowers have uncovered five surprising truths about losing a spouse.
We oscillate. For years, we've been told that grief comes in five stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. If we were to diagram those stages, the emotional trajectory would look something like a large capital W, with two major low points signifying anger or depression, and the top of the last upward leg of the W signifying acceptance. But when psychologist Toni Bisconti of the University of Akron asked recent widows to fill out daily questionnaires for three months, vast fluctuations occurred from one day to the next. A widow might feel anxious and blue one day, only to feel lighthearted and cheerful the next. In other words, we don't grieve in stages at all, but oscillate rapidly. Over time, those swings diminish in both frequency and intensity until we reach a level of emotional adjustment.
Grief is not forever. One of the most important new findings has shown that for most of us, grief is a severe — but self-limiting — condition, not a permanent state. In one study of older men and women who had lost spouses, George A. Bonanno, a clinical psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that the core symptoms of grief — anxiety, depression, shock, intrusive thoughts — had lifted by six months after the loss for 50 percent of the participants. Smaller groups took up to 18 months or three years to resume normal functioning. Loss is forever, but thankfully, acute grief is not.
Loss is harder for men. For years, clinicians have been operating under the assumption that women grieve harder and longer than men. In 2001, psychologists Wolfgang and Margaret Stroebe (a husband-and-wife team) decided to examine all the existing research and came to the surprising conclusion that, after taking into account the higher rate of depression in the overall female population, men actually suffer more from being bereaved. We might be under the impression that widows despair more, but that's because there are many more widows to observe.


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In the fickle world of celebrity real estate, athletes are among the more likely people to buy and sell and rent new homes, as they are subject to the whims of where their contracts take them. And in the slides to follow, you'll also see a few properties affected by the 2011 NBA lockout.
In the basketball world, as we've seen in other celebrity real estate slideshows, a property sometimes trades from one set of famous hands to another pair. This recently happened with a celebrity-pedigreed house that's been on the market for nearly a year. Chris Paul bought the Bel Air house owned by singer Avril Lavigne.
The houses ahead, most provided by Realtor.com and Zillow, are a window into recent comings and goings in the basketball world. It will reveal what Dallas Maverick Lamar Odom has in common with a new guy you might have heard of, Jeremy Lin. We begin with a bit of (pardon us) Lintrigue involving four NBA players and two states.
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Following her 2011 nomination for Winter's Bone, this was Lawrence's second time as an Academy Award nominee. And as we saw at last night's ceremony, she's still rough around the edges, just like we like her! After nearly face-planting in her billowing—but totally beautiful—gown, she made her way to the stage, joked that the standing ovation she received was pity for her fall, then gave a sweet speech before rushing backstage to meet the barrage of questions in the post-Oscar press room. There she spoke with Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, and got ambushed by a well-intentioned Jack Nicholson. It's awesome. Check it out below:
If you've been reading coverage of Lawrence, you probably know she is a major star who hasn't quite adjusted to meeting celebrities yet. While some cynically suspect antics like this are her edgy way to draw attention, I think these geeky outbursts are sincere, which may be because I've had my own embarrassing celebrity encounters. Though I tend to roll my eyes at the "Celebrities are Just Like Us" splash pages, in the way of geek outs over meeting your idols, Jennifer Lawrence really is just like us.


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Author Notes: If my dinner rolls where the song of the South these would be the Marlboro Man. They are lean, leathery and deeply flavored with three of my favorite ingredients, barley malt syrup, honey and cumin. They are the perfect au jus mop for prime rib or a great foil for suckling pig. When I was a kid we were never inside. Winter, Fall, Summer or Spring we were always out playing with our friends. Come dinner time my mom would call us in to eat, or more like scarf down, dinner and then grab two or three rolls and shove them in our pockets to go. We were boys and we knew we would be hungry again in half an hour. Well if I were little again this would be the perfect pocket roll. It isn't to crusty or too soft but it still has a great interior crumb and it is loaded with flavor, no butter or jam required. - thirschfeld —thirschfeld
Food52 Review: Two words: simply sublime. Whether you are a novice baker or a master, this recipe will impress you. The dough becomes as smooth as the lobe of your ear, just perfect. The cumin adds an interesting depth of flavor and spice. The corn meal on the bottom and the flour dusting on top finish these rolls beautifully. With the okay from Chef Tom, I substituted spelt flour for whole wheat with great results. I was able to send my grown son off back to his home with a pocketful! Not only an heirloom recipe, but now a family memory. Thanks thirschfeld for your distinctively great roll recipe! —Sagegreen
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May 23, 2008—As part of the US Botanic Garden's "One Planet—Ours! Sustainability for the 22nd Century" summer exhibition, IUCN's Species Program and USA Multilateral Office unveiled an exhibit at a media briefing and preview tour. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ exhibit showcases display panels explaining the IUCN Red List and the nutritional and medicinal uses of plants. The exhibit also features live specimens of threatened or endangered plants in the Botanic Garden collection which are tagged with the IUCN Red List.
Speaking at the media briefing, Carol Kramer-LeBlanc, Director for the USDA Council on Sustainable Development, commented on how the exhibition is in the perfect location—next to the US Capitol Building—to influence policy makers and visitors to the nation's capital. Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water of the EPA quoted Roosevelt by stating "there is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty," which was a fitting theme for the exhibition.
The "One Planet-Ours!" exhibition involves government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and individuals who are leading efforts toward sustainable lifestyles. Other participants include the UNEP, US Department of Energy, US EPA, National Wildlife Federation, and more. The exhibition also includes "Cool Globes," an exhibit of more than 40 sculptures of whole-earth solutions to the problems of living unsustainably. The "One Planet—Ours!" exhibition will remain open until October 13, 2008. The US Botanic Gardens are free to the public every day from 10am until 5pm.


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Hashtags on social media are a way for people with similar interests to share those interests by engaging in a conversation with each other. The Colorado Rapids hashtag is #Rapids. As a simple Twitter search of the hashtag shows, the conversation around #Rapids is a good mix between kayakers and soccer fans but it is not a place where Rapids fans can go to find a conversation that is solely centered on Colorado Rapids soccer. So we want to change that. And we want your help. We have a list of possible new hashtags and we'd like to hear your opinions. The hashtag with the most votes will be adopted as the club's official hashtag.
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(New York) –– For many of us, North America is our home. We live in this extraordinary continent each and every day, but have we ever truly experienced first-hand the wide scope of incredible dangers challenging our diverse and tenacious continent? If you think you know North America, you can think again. In this unforgettable television event, Discovery Channel turns the lens toward its homeland and captures a land where life collides with hostile, untamed wilderness in the most diverse, deadly environment on Earth. From the network behind PLANET EARTH, LIFE, FROZEN PLANET and AFRICA, the breathtaking, seven-part series NORTH AMERICA begins its journey Sunday, May 19 at 9PM ET/PT and runs through Sunday, June 16.
Traveling the continent for more than three years from the sub-zero Canadian tundra to the tropical rainforests of Panama, Discovery's first, independently-produced natural history landmark series, NORTH AMERICA, reveals that "survival of the fittest" is truly the law here amid threatening terrain and ferocious weather. "Discovery Channel sets the pace when it comes to natural history programming", said Eileen O'Neill, Group President of Discovery and TLC Networks, "For this series it made sense to explore the continent many of us call 'home'. I'm excited to include NORTH AMERICA in the ranks of Discovery's epic natural history programming."
You will never look at your backyard the same way again as we discover a hidden world where life — ranging from the familiar to the exotic — battles deep freezes, deadly fires and explosive super storms. Discovery's determined production crew journeyed the span of North America including the frigid Yukon Territory, the lush forests of Belize, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains, the barren deserts of the American Southwest and more. They spent 2,830 days on location on 250 separate expeditions, and utilized eleven different types of cameras to shoot more than 850 hours of footage. State of the art equipment including ultra-high-speed cameras, night viewing devices, and a one-of-a-kind submarine camera allowed the crew to capture behaviors never seen before on television. Time-lapses shot in HDR transformed the continent's most severe weather events into truly mind-blowing imagery.
NORTH AMERICA's first five episodes will reveal the intimate stories of animals struggling to survive in unforgiving weather and rugged terrain. Never-before-seen sequences range from the elusive desert jaguar in Mexico to daring grizzly bears diving in more than 20 feet of water to grab salmon in Alaska. The series "Making Of" episode chronicles NORTH AMERICA's production team and the challenges they faced including battling the destructive Hurricane Irene and other natural disasters all while attempting to capture the most majestic animals in the continent. The final episode reveals what online voters chose as the number one, natural North American destination via Discovery's "My North America" Facebook page.
For a deeper look behind-the-scenes, Discovery will offer a robust digital and mobile experience around NORTH AMERICA through its second screen, co-viewing mobile application TV Plus. Viewers will have access to bonus videos, photos, interactive quizzes and more rich content synched to their real-time television viewing experience. Discovery will also launch a mobile/web natural history application featuring photos, videos and facts from NORTH AMERICA and Discovery's extensive library of natural history content. Discovery will partner with an American zoo to debut a live camera feed featuring animals from NORTH AMERICA in addition to hours of video and interactive content on the official NORTH AMERICA website. Additionally, fans are invited to follow Discovery Channel on Facebook and @Discovery on Twitter using the #NorthAmerica hashtag to join the conversation.
Discovery Education, which uses digital content to transform learning in over half of U.S. schools, will be offering special screenings, lesson plans and interactive resources for students to further explore the magnificent wonders and history of North America. In addition, a companion book will be released March 12th with 288 pages of stunning photographs from the series.
Get ready to experience an entire world in one continent. On Sunday, May 19 at 9PM ET/PT, rediscover North America as you have never seen it before. Welcome to the "home of the brave" – the land where hungry predators and quick-thinking prey battle daily in the land of unpredictable extremes.
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I have torn meniscus in each knee and it gives me pain when I exert myself. I have been through physical therapy three times and several doctors. They just keep referring me to physical therapy. It doesn't seem to help. How can I get 30-60 minutes of cardio every day with greatly limited use of my knees?
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Hi Jonvon,
As someone who has undergone two knee surgeries myself, I can definitely understand your pain and frustration, and I commend you on your desire to try to do 30-60 minutes of cardio every day. Here are some recommendations:
1. Break it up. Research shows that you don't have to do 30 minutes of cardio all at the same time. Try breaking your cardio up into 10-minute bouts to minimize knee pain.
2. Take the weight off. Focus on nonweight-bearing exercise such as swimming and cycling (outside or in the gym). If you have pain in your knee during cycling, try decreasing the resistance and pedaling faster to get your heart rate up. If you can tolerate a little resistance, this could help strengthen the muscles around your knee and decrease pain long term. In addition, I'm sure you've heard it before, but if you are carrying any extra weight, losing weight could help as each pound of excess weight puts considerably more stress on your knees.
3. Think outside the box. According to the latest government guidelines, the recommended daily exercise doesn't just mean hitting the gym. Gardening, dancing, and even cleaning count as moderate-intensity activity per the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
4. Build muscle. Don't forget about muscle-strengthening activities that involve all major muscle groups at least twice a week. If you really want to get fit, you could do muscle strengthening exercises more often by dividing your workout up into individual body parts and working several each day. Just make sure to rest one day per week to allow your body to recover and prevent further injury.
You may want to hire a personal trainer to help you design an optimal fitness regimen and ensure proper form as many injuries or pain stem from improper technique. Make sure that your trainer is certified by a reputable agency such as the National Academy of Sports Medicine, the American College of Sports Medicine or the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Finally, you may consider taking glucosamine and chondroitin for knee pain. A large, federally funded research study found that these supplements may help decrease pain in people with moderate to severe arthritis.
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Into: Doing things I shouldn't be doing
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Hobbies: World domination
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Vices: lollipops and merry-go-rounds
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Was it something we said?
Maybe it's our traffic, smog or state taxes. It definitely can't be our hospitality or golf courses.
Whatever it is, Tiger Woods is saying goodbye to golf in Southern California. He long ago moved to Florida, citing taxes as one of the reasons, and last week decided to move his Northwestern Mutual Challenge there as well following next month's final event at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks.
Woods hasn't played in the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in six years, and it's doubtful he'll put that back on his schedule. If former executive director Jerry West, who has known Woods since he was a teenager, couldn't convince him to play at Riviera, no one can.
Last year, it seemed possible when Woods asked West to play in his pro-am at Sherwood. West obliged and immediately there was hope.
Alas, Woods didn't play at Riviera.
We don't understand what drove Woods from California.
Woods grew up learning the game from his late father, Earl, and practiced at their Cyrpess home. They collaborated to form the first Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim, the largest of its kind. This tournament is one of the main vehicles used to generate funds for Woods' learning centers.
And if all that wasn't confusing enough, Woods' tournament has been a success. Fans have supported it and the world's top golfers have played in it.
It ain't broke, so there was nothing to fix.
The only problem was in trying to secure a title sponsor, and that's not the fault of Angelenos. Last year, Woods paid for much of the fees required to run the tournament. This year, Northwestern Mutual is signed to a one-year deal, meaning next year's tournament has no title sponsor yet.
"Last year was tough with the weather conditions, and we were amazed how resilient and supportive fans were," said Greg McLaughlin, president and CEO of the Tiger Woods Foundation. "I think this year is our last 'showdown at Sherwood' so to speak.
"We'll guarantee we'll have another competitive field."
But no one can guarantee Woods will ever play professional golf in the Los Angeles area again. He often plays in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, so you might have to drive to San Diego to watch Woods live.
The 18-player field that kicks off Dec. 5-8 could be the final time Woods plays professional golf in the Los Angeles area.
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This is the story of a screen printer who, after years of hands-on experience on the production floor, gets promoted to a shop-management position. Discover the struggles he faces during the transition and how he overcomes them.
I received an e-mail this month from a reader with the kind of problem that we all hope to have at least once or twice in our careers. The reader, who I'll refer to as John, was just offered the management job he had been working toward for the last 12 years. The package came with a nice salary and a fat bonus clause that could finally give him and his family the financial security they sorely needed. It didn't take him very long to accept the offer.
John started his screen-printing journey in his late 20s after serving for a few years in the Navy, and he discovered that the organizational skills he had gained in the service translated well to the print-shop environment. Couple that with a strong work ethic and the desire to learn and master all aspects of the business, and you can see why he eventually ended up running the operation. A stint in the screen room turned into a job on the press, which in turn led to a supervisor position. When the shop manager retired a few years later, it was a foregone conclusion that John would take over—and he did.
Like all new managers, John had been chafing for a while to make some changes and put some of his own ideas into practice. Some worked, and some didn't, and he was forced to learn a few more lessons the difficult way, but he eventually made a success of it. I called him after I got his e-mail, and he told me that he thought the most important thing he learned was that he could actually do this job pretty well and that he really liked the challenge of a new problem to solve every day. The business recently expanded, and the owners bought out a competitor in the next state. The company offered John the opportunity to relocate and sort out the mess that the previous management had left behind. This was the problem that he discussed in his e-mail to me.
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I am resubmitting this email, as it didn't seem to show up after it was originally sent last night.
Last night I was planning to do a quick bounce of the database, and get our 24x7 shop right back online. Problem was I wasn't able to complete a 'shutdown immediate'. I went through each of the existing sessions in v$session and made sure that all of the user sessions were killed or inactive, but the shutdown immediate still wouldn't process. With damagement standing there looking worried, I went ahead with a shutdown abort just so we could get back to online processing. This is a relatively new phenomenom for me, as shutdown immediate or killing user sessions has almost always worked for me in the past. I will add that while I was off last week, my standin had to do two shutdown aborts of the database. So something might just be amiss.
Anyhow My question is what should I look for when an instance won't shutdown via a shutdown immediate? Or maybe my problem is that I should just wholeheartedly embrace shutdown abort, and let the recovery process clean things up. My problem with that is I used to work with a senior dba that would slap my wrist with a ruler if I did a shutdown abort.
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Partners going personal
Partners' Lab for Molecular Medicine, led by chief laboratory director Heidi L. Rehm, has developed more than 150 genetic tests.
CAMBRIDGE — With personalized medicine becoming a key focus for medical research and diagnosing conditions, Partners HealthCare System, the region's largest hospital and physicians network, is positioning itself to become a national leader in the emerging field.
Starting next month, Boston-based Partners will launch a "whole genome'' sequencing and interpretation service for patients at its nine hospitals across Eastern Massachusetts, including Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's. The service, which will cost about $9,000, is intended to help doctors and patients make critical decisions about treatments — for example, which breast cancer drug could work best based on a patient's genetic makeup.
Once it is up and running, the genetic screening and interpretation service — using a suite of proprietary Partners software — could be extended to hospitals elsewhere. Partners hopes the bulk of the cost in most cases will be picked up by private and government insurers that would otherwise pay more for trial-and-error treatments that may ultimately prove less effective.
But even before the introduction of the new service, Partners has capitalized on its technology to stake a claim in the burgeoning world of genetics-based medicine. Earlier this fall, it disclosed an alliance with Illumina Inc., a San Diego genetic analysis company, to install the Partners-designed software, called GeneInsight, in an Illumina gene sequencing hardware system called MiSeq. The system is being marketed to clinical research laboratories around the United States and abroad.
For now, the hardware-software product is only being used by a handful of pilot customers for targeted genetic tests, not the full genome screening. Partners' own Lab for Molecular Medicine, led by chief laboratory director Heidi L. Rehm, has developed more than 150 such genetic tests. Data from those DNA-based procedures, along with patients' blood and tissue samples being stored in Partners' biorepositories, will help turn the program into whole-genome sequencing, a process currently performed by fewer than 10 labs nationally.
"Over the next three years, we predict that whole genome sequencing will become more mainstream,'' said Trung Q. Do, the Partners executive director of business development who negotiated the collaboration with Illumina. "The price is dropping so quickly that it will soon become more cost-effective to do whole genome sequencing rather than targeted tests.''
Personalized medicine uses an individual's genetic information to better understand diseases, identify appropriate therapies, and determine which patients might be vulnerable to side effects. Its wide-ranging promise has captivated researchers since scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2000. A dozen years later, companies like Illumina are rolling out tools and services to help researchers — and, increasingly, patients — to understand their genetic blueprints.
For clinical use, however, a missing piece has been the ability to analyze, interpret, and store the voluminous data generated by sequencing. That's where the software developed by Partners, and the clinical expertise of its physicians, comes into play.
"As an academic medical center, we can differentiate ourselves around interpreting genetic data,'' Do said.
Much of the work on the project is being done at the low-profile Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, a network of labs and technology development teams tucked away in the University Park development in Cambridge among biotechnology research giants such as Novartis AG and Millennium Pharmaceuticals. In contrast to most Partners research activity, which takes place at its Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, the center is an extension of the Partners brand, underscoring the importance of personalized medicine.
"If you think about personalized medicine broadly, you need information that lets you predict diseases and target different therapies.'' said Anne Klibanski, chief academic officer at Partners. "The goal is to not only help patients but also have an impact on the field nationally.''
Partners officials say they are plowing the revenue they generate from the early sales of the GeneInsight-powered Illumina systems back into research, and don't expect to make significant money from the undertaking anytime soon. But eventually the market for scanning and interpreting genetic data could be substantial, and Partners is considering spinning off a business or forming a joint venture to capitalize on its expertise.
Human health diagnostics, a business increasingly dominated by genetics-based analysis, is "a multibillion-dollar [annual] market for sure,'' said Matt Posard, senior vice president and general manager for translational and consumer genomics at Illumina. "This is absolutely where science is going, where medicine is going. If you look at all the applications for knowing one's own genome, it has all the characteristics of a revolution in molecular diagnostics.''
Posard said 14-year-old Illumina is open to one day expanding its alliance with Partners to create an independent business, but he stressed the partnership is still in an early stage.
"We have a common vision for the future,'' he said. "A physician will have a clinical question that current technology can't address, and we can provide a medically validated answer.''
Partners' Lab for Molecular Medicine, led by chief laboratory director Heidi L. Rehm (right), has developed more than 150 genetic tests.


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These running pants aren't just for running. They are for thinking about running, reading about running and even watching others running.
I've never had such an incredibly versatile pair of pants that also performs so well on the run. It's nice to be able to put in miles without looking like running is the only thing I do. Style counts when you run in the city and so does function and these pants deliver on all counts.
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A year after a contested race drew a record 560 voters, Paynesville Township
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As a long time fisherman in the Tomahawk area I would like to warn the rest of you to wear your flotation devices. I was fishing with my 11 year old son in our 12 foot aluminum boat When our friend and long time guide JULIO ( WALTER ) blew past us at top speed trying to make a few bucks guiding. Our boat started bouncing around like a bottle cap in a tidal wave. My son's eyes reflected the terror he could only feel as his white knuckles grabbed the sides of our boat. I try to teach him that courtesy to other fisherman is important. But I guess it goes to show when the almighty dollar is involved courtesy and safety doesn't matter. SLOW DOWN WALLY!!!!!!
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It's soooooo tempting to start this column with a joke about the first class-action lawsuit on behalf of zombies. But there's nothing really very funny about the fact that a Minnesota funeral home owner is having to sue his own state government for the right to keep prices low.
Verlin Stoll operates a — OK, I surrender — bare-bones funeral parlor in St. Paul where the basic charge is just $250, about one-tenth the city's going rate. No hearse, no chapel, just simple service for working-class folks who can't afford to spend a lot of money to die. His no-frills business has been so successful that he wants to expand, opening a second parlor.
But Minnesota law says that every individual funeral parlor has to have an embalming room on the premises — even if it isn't used. Which most of them aren't. For one thing, more than half of Minnesota's dead are cremated. The reduced demand has led most funeral-parlor chains to do all their embalming at a single site or even outsource it.
No matter. They've all got to have that embalming room. When Stoll complained that the $30,000 cost of the useless room would have to be passed along to his customers, needlessly jacking up their expenses, state officials sensitively replied: Tough luck for them. And the rest of the industry, already incensed at Stoll's price-cutting, cheered.
The other funeral homes didn't offer even a pretense that the embalming-room controversy is anything but an attempt to squash a renegade challenger. The executive director of the Minnesota Funeral Directors Association labeled Stoll — contemptuously — as an "entrepreneurial dynamo." In an industry that thrives on government protection from competition, those are much dirtier words than the kind with four letters.
Stoll, recognizing that common sense and consumer interest were no match for corporate political clout, has gone to court to get the embalming-room requirement overturned. He's getting help from the Institute for Justice, a Washington-based public interest law firm that defends not just free speech but free markets as well.
Sadly, it has no shortage of cases. "Using business and professional licenses as a barrier to competition is definitely on the increase, and has been for a long time," says Dick Carpenter, the institute's director of strategic research. In the 1950s, only about one of every 20 American workers needed a government permit to do his job; now, the number is nearly one in three, and growing all the time.
And we're not talking about rocket scientists and brain surgeons. Hair-braiders, upholsterers, home-entertainment-installers — you name it, there are states that require a license for it. Stuff you've been doing literally all your life, probably after about 15 minutes of instruction from your mom, turns out to be so technical and potentially dangerous that it requires a government permit. You think that's hyperbole? Five states require licenses to give shampoos.
These licenses are not just a matter of filling out your name and address on a government form and handing over $50, either. Extensive — and expensive — training is inevitably required. Yelling out, "I have $200, do I hear $250," in the opinion of 10 state governments, is so dangerous and complex that it requires an auctioneer's license. Average training requirement: 100 hours. Louisiana, until recently, forced florists to pass two different exams before they could sell flowers, though in a burst of ruthlessly Reaganesque deregulation, the state now just requires one.
Louisiana's concern that peonies and daffodils might fall into the wrong hands without strict government oversight caused Richardson to laugh out loud last year when he encountered it while co-authoring an Institute for Justice study of licensing. Other stuff caused him to scratch his head.
"The disparity in requirements from one profession to another was just amazing," he recalls. For instance, licenses for emergency medical technicians, who literally hold life and death in their hands, require an average training of just over a month. Cosmetologists, who in a worst-case theory might really botch your bangs, must train for more than a year. And let's not get started on interior decorators, who in four states (including Florida — our politicians may be half-wits, but our foyers are exquisite) must have licenses that require six years of training.
The contrast in the training and testing expected of EMTs compared to that of beauticians and interior designers makes it clear that licensing has nothing to do with health or safety and everything to do with restricting competition. And, as all those people who can't afford to die up in Minnesota are discovering, the barriers are quite effective.
A 2004 state government report calculated that the Minnesota consumers were paying between $3 billion and $3.6 billion a year more for services because of diminished marketplace competition brought on by occupational licensing. "Licensing is one of those rare public policies that actually does what it's intended to," observes Carpenter. "It keeps people out of the profession."
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Thailand after the floods: When communities own their change
In 2011, Thailand suffered the worst floods in half a century. The flood crisis impacted more than 13 million people. About 97,000 houses were damaged and entire villages and cities were under water for months.
House in Ayutthaya affected by the 2011 floods
Three years later, Thailand has been able to deal with the worst of the impacts but some of the poorest households are still struggling to recover. We visited 10 affected communities in Ayutthaya and Nakhon Sawan as part of the supervision of the Community-based Livelihood Support for Urban Poor Project (SUP). We could still see the water marks on their walls, damaged ceilings, and wobbly structures. The unrepaired houses stuck out but just as striking was the strong sense of community in the area. We were reminded that villagers came together to overcome the worst natural disaster most of them ever witnessed in their lives.
The flooding led to better disaster risk management in the neighborhoods that are most at risk. Local governments have taken the lead. But the disaster has also, just as importantly, mobilized ordinary citizens in some of the most deprived communities. Here are some of their stories:


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Filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's "Indoctrinate U" premiered in Washington this past Friday at the Kennedy Center via American Film Renaissance. In advance of the premiere Deroy Murdock profiled Maloney in "Move over, Michael Moore." Also of note regarding the film are the Washington-based Express's interview with Maloney and Bill Steigerwald's interview with Thor Halvorssen.
While filming "Indoctrinate U," Maloney attempted to interview Columbia students on campus. He was stopped by police and told that in order to film, he would need to submit the footage to Columbia for final content approval and also pay up to $1,000/hour for a Columbia handler to follow him around while he filmed. Although the outtakes — including the encounter with the police — did not make it into "Indoctrinate U," Maloney has posted them on the film's website here. The outtakes are not only relevant to events at Columbia this past week, they are, shall we say, highly educational.
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Taylor Swift Cancels Show in Thailand Following Military Coup
Country fans know that you don't get between Taylor Swift and her legion of Swifties. But, when there's political unrest, sometimes drastic measures have to be taken.
The singer canceled a sold-out show in Bangkok, Thailand, following a coup d'etat which took place last week, resulting in a military takeover.
Today, BEC-Tero, the concert promoter, announced that "due to recent events in Thailand," Swift's concert was canceled. However, the decision did not come easily, and the '22' hitmaker expressed her disappointment in not being able to see her fans in Thailand during her Red Tour.
Swift sent a sweet message to Thai Swifties, tweeting, "I'm sending my love to the fans in Thailand. I'm so sad about the concert being canceled."
The superstar has other performances throughout Asia during her current Red Tour, spanning June 4-12.
Swift is truly a worldwide sensation; she sold out the Shanghai's Mercedes-Benz Arena (which seats approximately 12,000) in one minute, breaking the record for fastest sell-out, and proving that she's certainly loved in Asia.
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Biodiversity: Consensus Reports
The division produces 60-70 reports per year. These reports are unique, authoritative expert evaluations. Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review. The experts who volunteer their time participating on study committees are vetted to make sure that the committee has the range of expertise needed to address the task, that they have a balance of perspectives, and to identify and eliminate members with conflicts of interest. All reports undergo a rigorous, independent peer review to assure that the statement of task has been addressed, that conclusions are adequately supported, and that all important issues raised by the reviewers are addressed. Thus, while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy.
Assessment of Sea-Turtle Status and Trends: Integrating Demography and Abundance (2010)
All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but the exact population sizes of these species are unknown due to a lack of key information regarding birth and survival rates. The U.S. Endangered Species Act prohibits the hunting of sea turtles and reduces incidental losses from activities such as shrimp trawling and development on beaches used for nesting. However, current monitoring does not provid... More >>Report in Brief
A Scientific Assessment of Alternatives for Reducing Water Management Effects on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in California's Bay Delta (2010)
The California Bay-Delta region receives fresh water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries, and some of that water is diverted for agriculture and southern California metropolitan areas. However, the region's growing population and engineered water-control systems have substantially altered the delta ecosystem and have changed the composition of fish species; while some native species have declined, some introduce... More >>
Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin (2008)
The Klamath River basin, which spans parts of southern Oregon and northern California, has been the focus of a prominent conflict over competing uses for water. Management actions to protect threatened and endangered fish species in the basin have left less water available for irrigation in dry years and heightened tensions among farmers and other stakeholders including commercial fishermen, Native Americans, conservationists, hunters, anglers... More >>Report in Brief
Status of Pollinators in North America (2007)
Pollinators--insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction--are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in Nort... More >>Report in Brief
Review of the Draft Research and Restoration Plan for Artic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (Western Alaska) Salmon (2006)
Declines in the abundance of salmon in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim (AYK) region of western Alaska in the late 1990s and early 2000s created hardships for the people and communities who depend on this resource. Based on recommendations from a 2004 National Academies report, the AYK Sustainable Salmon Initiative (SSI) developed a research and restoration plan to help understand the reasons for this decline and to help suppor... More >>


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Dancing with the Stars: Karina Smirnoff on Her Statue Look
On last night's episode of Dancing with the Stars, Karina Smirnoff went for a '40s glam look for her foxtrot to "Fever" with partner Apolo Anton Ohno. Her draped "statue" gown transformed into a sparkly top and sheer black high-waisted pants when Ohno removed the white fabric at the beginning of the dance. "I wanted the designs to be memorable and stand out next to the beautiful statues and props we had," Sminoff told InStyle.com. "When we walked into the creative fashion department and saw the hand-beaded net material, I knew I wanted to use it." That's why her look involved costume jewelry, long silk gloves, and a head piece. "It was an experience to create," she said. Tell us: Did you like Karina's design?
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Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence cloud service that provides non-technical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing and sharing data. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view for business users with their most important metrics in one place, updated in real time, and available on all of their devices.
Learn how to connect and import your data, author reports, publish reports, create dashboards, and share with business users so that they utilize the business intelligence gathered in dashboards through web as well as mobile devices.
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Old Commitment, New Energy
by Aaron Dworkin, Aaron Flagg, & Allison Vulgamore
Three views of the journey toward onstage diversity.
Editor's Note:
No orchestra in America would declare itself opposed to achieving true diversity onstage. Yet the goal of diversity, long sought, remains elusive, particularly with regard to African-American and Latino musicians. The reasons--including slow turnover in the orchestra field's "destination" positions, a dearth of affordable instrumental education in our communities and schools, and a maze of other obstacles to nurturing talent--are complex and intertwined.
Recent years have brought a surge of progress. The Sphinx Competition, founded in 1998, now recognizes gifted young black and Latino string players early, so their aspirations to orchestral careers can be encouraged. Its attendant orchestra, the Sphinx Symphony, brings together professional players of color each February for the competition's finals. The Sphinx Organization is now in partnership with the League to provide scholarship assistance to competition laureates through the League's Music Assistance Fund. These outstanding young musicians are also presented annually as soloists in young people's concerts by some 20 American orchestras, where they serve as realistic role models for aspiring performers in the audience. Meanwhile, orchestras and conservatories are creating programs that support the career goals of young players, and/or train elementary-level youngsters. At The Juilliard School, a Music Advancement Program offers private lessons to African-American, Latino, and Native American students in the New York City public schools. Orchestras in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Detroit, among others, have developed a constellation of training and apprenticeship initiatives. The boom in youth orchestras, which as a whole enjoy a higher level of diversity than adult orchestras, holds further promise for the future.
Such efforts are devoted to the supply pipeline of orchestral talent, so their results may not be apparent in the ranks of professional orchestras for some time yet. But League statistics also tell an encouraging story: While the actual numbers are still quite small, since 1995 there has been a 50 percent increase in the number of black players in North America's 25 largest orchestras, as well as a small increase in the number of Latino musicians. Similar increases are evident in statistics for the American orchestra field as a whole.
Old Commitment, New Energy
Three views of the journey toward onstage diversity
by Aaron Dworkin, Aaron Flagg, & Allison Vulgamore
At the Feet of the New Out-of-the-box thinking is the first step.
With more than one-third of all Americans belonging to a minority group, it is increasingly difficult to be successful without incorporating diversity in your overall organization. More...
- Aaron Dworkin
Founder and Executive Director, The Sphinx Organization
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Those who welcome and nurture minority talent will reap the benefits.
I do not see racism or discrimination in the audition process as the key problem. The problem is that very few musicians of color are auditioning for orchestra positions at all. More...
- Aaron Flagg
Director of Educational Outreach, The Juilliard School; Freelance trumpet player
From Ideal to Reality
Understanding our similarities as well as our differences.
Start by recognizing that it's necessary to feed the talent identification system. There is a role for affirmative action, and there is a role for developing talent. More...
- Allison Vulgamore
President and Managing Director, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Graduate, Diversity Leadership Academy of The American Institute for Managing Diversity


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When I met him in April at Consero's Higher Education Technology Forum, an invitation-only event in San Diego I was allowed to audit, he stood out from the crowd by being the person who always seemed ready to say, "I completely disagree."
His opinion might or might not be completely contrary, but it was often off on a significantly different tangent. He espouses a philosophy of leading change by living it.
Davis also has a reputation as a turn-around artist, having rehabilitated a failing IT department at Bowdoin, a liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine, where client satisfaction scores from faculty and staff rose from 10% to 95% within two years of his arrival. When he and a couple of other CIOs led a discussion on turnarounds at the Consero event, Davis cited his experience as CIO of Stanford Law School in the late 1990s as the place he made his bones. "I fired everybody," he said. "They were hiring people they liked, rather than people who were competent." (Technically, the people were laid off, not fired, he told me later, but "when I was done it was just me and a temp.")
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The way he took a different tack on every issue was what caught my attention the most. While others sorted through the complexities of bring-your-own-device policies and supporting a variety of mobile operating systems, for example, he suggested it was far simpler to just provide iPads. He dismissed talk about the disruptive potential of massive open online courses as overblown, telling me later that MOOCs are "just an add-on to things we have been doing in the past."
The pattern was pronounced enough that, over dinner, one of the other CIOs turned to me and said something to the effect of, "So, have you noticed that in every discussion, we have a pretty good meeting of the minds -- except for this one person who disagrees with all the rest of us?" Of course, she was talking about Davis. The tone was more amused than hostile, but I gathered his comments might be the subject of a certain amount of eye-rolling.
Even so, he was popular enough and in the thick of so many discussions that it wasn't until the last day of the event that I got a few minutes alone with him. When I asked him about his reputation within the group, he insisted he wasn't just trying to be contrary. "The people I argue with, I respect. But if you don't challenge ideas, they're not tested," he said.
Still, Davis does relish his reputation as a change agent. "My president said hiring me was the biggest risk he ever took -- he thought I was going to blow the whole place up," he said.
Getting him to talk about himself was not hard, and over the next few minutes I was treated to such a rapid-fire recital of his accomplishments at Bowdoin, at Stanford, and in a previous gig as an assistant dean in charge of IT at the University of Oregon School of Law that months later the burning questions I had for his references were, "Is he for real?" and "Is this someone with a raging ego?"
"It's a fair question -- there are a lot of people you see out there who have good PR," said Dan Roberts, president of the IT professional development consulting firm Ouellette & Associates, who cited the turnaround Davis executed in Bowdoin in his book Unleashing the Power of IT. There are CIOs who are talented at getting themselves on magazine covers but little else, but Davis is not one of them, said Roberts. His consulting firm helped train Bowdoin staff on delivering better service, but Davis already had the right vision. "I think he had the whole package."
However, on first impressions, people aren't always sure what to make of him, Roberts conceded. "He's a personality -- everyone around him will tell you that."
"People think he's arrogant," said Rebecca Sandlin, who worked with Davis at Bowdoin and has since moved on to a CIO position at Roanoke College. She thought he was arrogant, too, when she first met him. At least, she thought he might be. She wondered, too, if he was purposely contrarian, willing to say the opposite of what others thought just to get a reaction. Because she was willing to give him a chance to prove otherwise, she came to see him as someone "who really believes change is essential in our industry," she said. "It really bothers him when people think, 'This is the status quo, the status quo works, and why would we change?'"
In other words, she recognized there was a method to his madness. Further, it turned out that he was not so arrogant that he didn't listen to what others had to say. "People who are arrogant do not respond well to criticism. They tend to be incredibly thin-skinned. As employees and coworkers, it's very difficult to give them constructive criticism," Sandlin said. "Mitch enjoys it when people go after him and tear apart all of his ideas."