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Climate change is already happening – and it hits poor people most. The effect of more frequent hurricanes, floods and droughts on developing countries is devastating, as this year's cyclone Nagris proved again in southern Myanmar, leaving over 130,000 people dead or missing.
To protect the world's poor against today's more frequent extreme weather events, some US$ 2 billion is required according to the Internacional relief agency Oxfam. However, commitments so far only total US$173.
The need for innovative means to mitigate climate change impacts and help poor countries adapt is high on the agenda of the World Conservation Congress, held by IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature from 5-14 October in Barcelona.
Key Issues:
- In 2007, there were 950 natural catastrophes in 2007 compared with 850 in 2006, according to Munich Re, one of the world's largest insurance companies. This is the highest number recorded since the company started compiling annual disaster reports in 1974.
- The burden of the disasters fall on the poor who are least to blame for climate change. Benin, and Bangladesh, for example, are at particularly high risk from rising sea-levels and storm surges, yet their per capita contribution to greenhouse gas output is one eightieth that of the United States, according to the British Institute of Development Studies.
- "What worries us the most is the impact on the poorest countries which have the least capacity to respond to the challenge," said Yvo de Boer, secretary of the Convention on Climate Change.
- A healthy environment can help people survive. Healthy mangrove forests and coral reefs, for example, can serve as barriers and prevent coastal erosion; a solid forest cover prevents flooding in times of heavy rainfall.
- "There are positive examples of local level adaptation to the impacts of climate change, such as replanting mangrove forests that can serve as buffers against more frequent storms. But to implement these solutions on a larger scale, substantial financial support is required," says Ninni Ikkala, Climate Change Officer at IUCN.
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6 August – International Press Release – Primates Red List update
12 August – International Press Release – Cetacean Red List update
Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN's Director General.
Ninni Ikkala, IUCN Climate Change Programme
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I-90 OPEN, Luverne to Magnolia in Southwest Minnesota
State Transportation authorities in Minnesota were forced to close portion of I-90 Sunday afternoon between Magnolia and Luverne, Minnesota due to flooding.
Torrential rains pushed the dam at Blue Mound out of its spillway early Sunday morning causing a larger closure from Luverne to the South Dakota border.
By 8:30am, flood waters had started to recede, allowing transportation officials to reopen the stretch of I-90 between Luverne, Minnesota and the South Dakota border.
But the water has not receded enough to keep the whole stretch open. Rock River near Luverne is under a flood warning and with more heavy rain in the forecast for Monday, state officials closed the stretch of I-90 again. It was reopened Sunday night.
The only road open to get across Rock River east-west is County Road 1.
Heavy rain is forecast for Monday for the area again, so the National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the region.

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The Baltimore Ravens ran a fake field goal despite leading 41-17 in the third quarter of last Sunday's win over the Oakland Raiders. That decision sparked a debate: Were the Ravens running up the score?
Thanks to a great segment from NFL Network's "Sound FX" (shown above), we know Ravens coach John Harbaugh saw the criticism coming.
"Thinking about the fake," Harbaugh said over his headset to his special teams coach, Jerry Rosburg. "Pretty ballsy. You want to run it 41-17 or you want to save it? I'm not opposed to running it."
After holder/punt Sam Koch scored a touchdown on the play, Ravens offensive coordinator Cam Cameron gives credit to Harbaugh for saying all week it was there.
"You can't line up in a total overload and say we're not going to do something like that," Harbaugh explained to an official. "You're on the 5-yard line. You're on the 5-yard line. They're going to say it's rubbing it in. ... If you're going to give it to us, you gotta line up safe."
"That's why you guys get the big bucks," the official responded.
We agree with Harbaugh. This isn't college football. These are professionals. If the Raiders had a problem with the play, they could have stopped it.
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The main card is set for December's UFC on FOX 5 event, which features a championship headliner between lightweight titleholder Benson Henderson (17-2 MMA, 5-0 UFC) and challenger Nate Diaz (16-7 MMA, 11-5 UFC).
The event takes place Dec. 8 at Seattle's KeyArena, and tickets go on sale Oct. 5.
UFC on FOX 5 is the final FOX-televised event of 2012, and the main card features four fights in all.
Also slated for the main card, which follows prelims on FUEL TV, are light heavyweights Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (21-6 MMA, 5-4 UFC) vs. Alexander Gustafsson (14-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC), welterweights B.J. Penn (16-8-2 MMA, 12-7-2 UFC) vs. Rory MacDonald (13-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC), and welterweights Mike Swick (15-4 MMA, 10-3 UFC) vs. Matt Brown (15-11 MMA, 8-5 UFC).
"The fans in Seattle are amazing, and I love holding events there," UFC President Dana White stated. "Well, on Dec. 8 we are bringing them an absolutely stacked card.
"Not only do we have the UFC lightweight title fight between Benson Henderson and Nate Diaz, but also 'Shogun' vs. Gustafsson, B.J. Penn vs. Rory MacDonald, and Mike Swick vs. Matt Brown. This is an incredible card for the fans in Seattle."
Tickets, which range from $50 to $300, go on sale to the general public on Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT local time). However, UFC Fight Club members can purchase tickets on Oct. 3 at 1 p.m. ET, and UFC.com e-newsletter subscribers can buy tickets on Oct. 4 at 1 p.m. ET.
The full UFC on FOX 4 card includes:
MAIN CARD (FOX, 8 p.m. ET)
- Champ Benson Henderson vs. Nate Diaz (for lightweight title)
- Alexander Gustafsson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Rory MacDonald vs. B.J. Penn
- Matt Brown vs. Mike Swick
PRELIMINARY CARD (FUEL TV, 5 p.m. ET)
- Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub
- Dennis Siver vs. Ediie Yagin
- Mike Chiesa vs. Rafaello Oliveira
- John Albert vs. Scott Jorgensen
- Ramsey Nijem vs. Joe Proctor
- Daron Cruickshank vs. Henry Martinez
- Tim Means vs. Abel Trujillo
For more on UFC on FOX 5, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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French director Luc Besson is known for offbeat gangster films that combine humor and a soft touch with bloody R-rated violence. "La Femme Nikita" and "The Professional" are among his credits. His new release, "The Family," has famous American stars to play major roles in this formula.
Robert De Niro made a career playing Mafia wise guys in real dramas ("Goodfellas") and silly comedies ("Analyze This"). He brings both personas to bear as the patriarch of a Brooklyn crime syndicate. He rats out his friends to get into a witness protection program that moves him and his family to France.
Michelle Pfeiffer plays his feisty wife and Tommy Lee Jones is his FBI handler. But young Dianna Agron steals the show as his streetwise teenage daughter. The screenplay focuses on the fish-out-of-water premise with transplanted New Yorkers trying to adapt to French customs.
Most of the movie is played for laughs generated in several funny scenes. But the fun is seriously tempered by realistic scenes of murder and mayhem that pop up repeatedly. This film is only for fans of this mixed message of comedy and carnage.
— John Depko
'Insidious' silly but fun
Three years ago, I reviewed "Insidious," and while it was not wholly original, it gave me genuine goose bumps. With "Insidious: Chapter 2," there were no goose bumps, but it did make me jump quite a few times in my seat. Mission accomplished.
After a heart-pounding prologue, "Chapter 2" picks up exactly where the last movie left off. Renai and Josh Lambert (Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson) have escaped their haunted house to stay with Josh's mom (Barbara Hershey). A kind psychic named Elise (Lin Shaye) had just been killed at the end of the first movie, sadly before she knew there would be a sequel.
Josh is acting strangely — did he kill Elise? Is that same evil spirit from the first movie still around, hoping for screen credit? And what's creepier — ghosts or an alarmingly skinny Rose Byrne? Too bad they couldn't have terrorized the woman into eating a sandwich.
Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell re-teamed for this sequel, using every trick in the haunted house handbook. But like those sinister shadows at the back of the closet, don't look too closely at the plot.
With "Insidious: Chapter 2" we get exactly what we're looking for — squirm-in-your-seat frights that make us cover our eyes, giggle nervously and wish for our mommies.
— Susanne Perez
JOHN DEPKO is a retired senior investigator for the Orange County public defender's office. He lives in Costa Mesa and works as a licensed private investigator. SUSANNE PEREZ lives in Costa Mesa and is an executive assistant for a company in Irvine.


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Russia's "No Methadone" Method Fails to Curb HIV
January 17, 2014
Bloomberg News: Russia's Cold Turkey Fails to Stem HIV Among Drug Users
"Yekaterinburg, the Siberian city where drug users used to be handcuffed to their beds to help them quit, exemplifies Russia's efforts to stamp out the habit in a nation that has the most HIV-infected addicts. ... While its neighbors China and Ukraine are seeing the benefits of methadone and other ways of preventing HIV transmission such as clean needles, Russia is instead fighting drugs and the virus with a patchwork of home-grown strategies that emphasize willpower, personal discipline and healthy lifestyles ..." (Bennett, 1/16).
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A Michigan attorney claims in a lawsuit that former Indianapolis prosecutor Carl Brizzi and former Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita used unwarranted charges against her in a cemetery theft scheme to enhance their political reputations.
Sherry Katz-Crank, of East Lansing, Mich., was indicted in 2008 on theft charges related to a scheme to raid $24 million in trust funds set aside for prepaid funerals and burials. A jury acquitted her in 2010.
The lawsuit filed last month in federal court in Michigan contends the charges were linked to legal work Katz-Crank did for cemetery owner Robert Nelms of Greenwood, who was sentenced in January 2010 to serve eight years in community corrections after pleading guilty to theft and securities fraud. The charges alleged Katz-Crank had aided Nelms in the scheme by providing him with legal advice, the lawsuit said.
The suit accuses Brizzi, Rokita and several investigators and assistant prosecutors with their former offices of malicious prosecution and violating Katz-Crank's constitutional rights.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority credited Katz-Crank with reporting the scheme to authorities, whose investigations eventually led to the arrests of Nelms and others, the lawsuit claims. But when Katz-Crank discovered the scheme and reported it to the Indiana secretary of state's office, an investigator there contacted her clients and advised them to stop using her services because she was involved in illegal activity, the document says.
The court issued summonses last week for several defendants, including Rokita, who is now a U.S. representative. The secretary of state's website still includes a statement from 2008 in which Rokita touts his office's work in the investigation that led to the indictments. Brizzi was Marion County prosecutor at the time.
Brizzi didn't respond to a phone call from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday. Rokita's congressional spokesman, Josh Bratton, said the office had not yet seen the complaint.
The lawsuit contends that prosecuting attorneys never turned over evidence to the jury that might have cleared Katz-Crank and that the prosecutors had reason to believe some witnesses' testimony was false.
"It is clear that Plaintiff's indictment was used as marketing material to support the political campaigns of Defendants for higher office without regard for the serious and permanent damage which it would impose upon the Plaintiff and her family," the lawsuit asserts.
The complaint claims that the "political hubris" by Rokita and Brizzi directly caused Katz-Crank to lose her reputation and law firm and cost her more than $2 million in financial losses. It also says the ordeal caused her to suffer depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and physical ailments that resulted in surgery and hospitalization.


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The AFC playoff picture is reasonably simple. The NFC is a lot more muddled.
Three teams are in: The Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers. Seven teams, including three in the NFC East, realistically remain alive for the other three spots.
Let's break down what we know:
The Falcons all but clinched the No. 1 seed
Atlanta finally came up with a dominant performance against a quality opponent. The 34-0 drubbing of the New York Giants should give the Falcons a ton of confidence and all but eliminates any chance of them playing on the road in the NFC playoffs.
The Falcons would have to 0-2 against the Detroit Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers down the stretch just to give Green Bay or San Francisco a shot at the No. 1 seed. That's not happening. Atlanta should lock up the top spot this week.
The 49ers all but won the NFC West
Sorry, Seahawks fans. Seattle can keep hopes alive for an NFC West title next week by defeating the 49ers in Seattle, but it probably won't matter in the long run. San Francisco needs only one more win -- in Seattle or against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 17 -- to win the division.
The 49ers have tripped up a few times this year, but there's no way they lose to Ryan Lindley in San Francisco.
So does the Seahawks-49ers game matter?
Absolutely. The Seahawks would clinch a playoff berth with a win. They'd also move closer to winning the No. 5 seed, where they would open the playoffs at the NFC East champion. Door No. 2 (the No. 6 seed) would be a potential trip to San Francisco or Green Bay.
It's also worth noting the Seahawks face the St. Louis Rams in Week 17. That's not exactly a cupcake opponent.
San Francisco, meanwhile, still is fighting for a potential playoff bye. A loss in Seattle would open the door for Green Bay to get the No. 2 seed.
About that NFC East ...
So I couldn't wait to break down all the playoff implications and scenarios regarding the three-way tie atop the division between the Washington Redskins, Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants. I recommend reading the long version I wrote Sunday night if you're interested, but here's the short version:
1. The Redskins and Cowboys both would win the division by winning out. The Giants win a wild-card spot at worst by winning out.
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2. If the Redskins and Cowboys both win in Week 16, their Week 17 rematch will decide the NFC East champion. No matter what the Giants do next week.
3. The Giants won't win any tiebreaker for the division. So their only chance to win the division would be to win it outright.
4. The Redskins have the easiest path, with the Philadelphia Eagles and a home game against the Cowboys remaining. Dallas has the toughest path, facing the New Orleans Saints before heading to Washington. The Giants' game in Baltimore next week doesn't look so tough anymore.
5. There are a lot of other wacky scenarios here. The Cowboys, for instance, would win any tie atop the division at 9-7 if they win in Washington in Week 17. But the four points above really should settle most questions.
The Vikings and Bears are fighting uphill battles
Kudos to Minnesota for winning two consecutive games to get to 8-6. The Vikings all but knocked the Rams out of contention. The Vikings' playoff odds remain thin, however, because they have to go to Houston and then host the Packers to end the season.
It's possible the Packers won't have anything to play for in Week 17. Even then, the Vikings are far from guaranteed to make the playoffs if they win out. The Giants have fewer conference losses.
I like the Bears' chances of slipping into the No. 6 seed better. Their schedule (at Arizona, at Detroit) is manageable. But Chicago will still need help with losses from teams like the Vikings and Giants. It's possible, but not the situation the Bears wanted after starting the season 7-1.
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RIO DE JANEIRO >> Spain's players had different explanations for the team's early World Cup exit.
Captain Iker Casillas said there was lack of commitment, midfielder Xabi Alonso thought there wasn't enough hunger. Fernando Torres says Spain was "just not good enough."
Chile's 2-0 victory on Wednesday meant the 2010 World Cup champions are the first title holder to exit after just two games following the opening 5-1 loss to the Netherlands.
Spain's squad of 23 players featured 16 who were part of its World Cup success in South Africa. Casillas, Alonso and Xavi Hernandez had been the engine behind the team's triumphs on the world stage, but were left exposed in Brazil.
Alonso says changes should come as the era "of joy and success we've experienced is over."


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Is it possible for the existing Table with datas loaded to get converted into Oracle partition.Any possibility through ALTER TABLE TABLENAME PARTITION PARTITION NAME TABLESPACE....COMMANDS which Oracle supports!
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In this exhibit, Broad scientists describe today's powerful genomic technologies and how they are being used to transform genomic science and medicine.
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Sequencing DNA. Decoding or sequencing DNA, whether it's from a human or a tiny microbe, is a crucial step in many genomic studies. Chad Nusbaum explains how a DNA sequencing machine, one of the Broad's workhorses, can read the order of As, Ts, Cs, and Gs in a sample of genetic material. He also reveals how new sequencing technologies could revolutionize the way future genomic studies are done.
Combating drug-resistant malaria. Malaria is a huge public health problem around the globe, made worse by the emergence of drug-resistant forms of the parasite that causes the disease. Dyann Wirth and Pardis Sabeti discuss how genome sequencing enables researchers to identify mutations conferring drug resistance, and how this knowledge can help public health officials in at-risk regions make informed treatment decisions and help slow the spread of resistant disease.
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DNA Analyzer. A workhorse of genomic research, this machine reads the ordered string of chemical letters that make up an organism's genetic blueprint, or genome. It can handle nearly 100 DNA samples at once, each one yielding a continuous thread of As, Gs, Cs, and Ts. With more than 100 of these machines, over 60 billion letters worth of DNA was read last year at the Broad Institute. That's like reading the human genome twenty times over!


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Brooklyn College - 5, Farmingdale State - 4
Brooklyn, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's tennis team fell for the first time this season to Brooklyn College in a non-conference match on Thursday in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Rams (4-1) held a 2-1 advantage after doubles play, but a close match at 3rd singles would give Brooklyn the 5-4 victory.
Freshman Alexandra Bentz (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) and junior Laura Earlie (Moriches, N.Y./William Floyd) both remain undefeated this season. Bentz is currently 5-0 at 2nd singles, while Earlie is 5-0 at 5th singles. They are also both undefeated in doubles matches this season.
Farmingdale State will now host NYU-Poly on Wednesday, September 28th at 4:00 p.m.
Brooklyn College 5, Farmingdale State 4
Sep 22, 2011 at Brooklyn, NY (Roosevelt Courts)
|Singles competition
|1. Orkis, Yuliya (BC) def. Sickles, Jessica (FSCW) 6-1, 6-1
|2. Bentz, Alex (FSCW) def. Rivkin, Liana (BC) 6-3, 6-3
|3. Sanz, Maria (BC) def. Rossano, Kristina (FSCW) 7-5, 3-6, 1-0 (11-9)
|4. Shen, Janice (BC) def. Dyakiv, Liliya (FSCW) 6-0, 6-4
|5. Earlie, Laura (FSCW) def. Chabbott, Norma (BC) 6-3, 6-1
|6. Gelosi, Gianna (BC) def. Lebrun, Alex (FSCW) 6-4, 6-4
|Doubles competition
|1. Orkis, Yuliya/Rivkin, Liana (BC) def. Sickles, Jessica/Rossano, Kristina (FSCW) 9-7
|2. Dyakiv, Liliya/Earlie, Laura (FSCW) def. Shen, Janice/Razaz, Maryam (BC) 8-1
|3. Tomasulo, Rachel/Vecchio, Amanda (FSCW) def. Gelosi, Gianna/Cameron, Hadiya (BC) 8-6
|Match Notes
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text: Steven Toth wrote: > Jonathan Coles wrote: >> Perhaps I have some other misconfiguration in my system. With the >> wget command I must use the --no-proxy option. Otherwise, I get >> "Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name." Very >> strange that port 8080 is assumed when the standard port is 80. >> >> I couldn't find an equivalent no-proxy option for hg. >> >> Thanks. > > Please don't top-post, it's aainst to policy of the mailing list. > > See below. > >> >> Owen Townend wrote: >>> 2008/9/17 Jonathan Coles <jcoles0727 at rogers.com>: >>> >>>> Your instructions at http://linuxtv.org/repo/ for obtaining v4l-dvb >>>> say >>>> to execute: >>>> >>>> hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb >>>> >>>> But this returns >>>> >>>> abort: error: Name or service not known >>>> >>>> Perhaps there is a mistake in the instructions. >>>> >>> copy and pasting that line here works fine: >>> >>> % hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb >>> destination directory: v4l-dvb >>> requesting all changes >>> adding changesets >>> ...etc >>> >>> >>>> It seems this checkout step is not really required, as you can >>>> download >>>> the tarball from a link on the page at the URL. >>>> >>> One advantage of using mercurial over the tarball is the ability to >>> run `hg pull` and `hg update` rather than re download the entire set. >>> >>> >>>> I also find it confusing that you mention dvb-apps, but don't talk >>>> about >>>> compiling it. Is it needed? Optional? An alternative? >>>> >>> dvb-apps AFAIK are optional. I have not yet needed them in normal >>> operation of a tuner card. >>> >>> >>>> Are there additional steps not presented here? I was unable to get my >>>> Hauppage HVR-950 to work on Ubuntu 8.04. Does this package support >>>> that >>>> device? >>>> >>> Do you have the firmware for the device as well as the driver? >>> >>> On the mythtv-users list there was a success story using one of these >>> tuners. It details how they got it working before going into issues >>> using two of them: >>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/349205?search_string=HVR-950;#349205 >>> >>> He was using the mcentral repository, and Edgy but the steps are >>> otherwise the same. >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> cheers, >>> Owen. > > Read this, it will probably help :) > > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html > > - Steve I already have the man page for hg and hgrc. But, admittedly, I had only looked the one for hg. Assuming the problem was proxy related, as with wget, I added a [http_proxy] section, with "no=linuxtv.org". That worked! Unfortunately, "no=*" does not work, so every Mercurial host I ever want to access will have to be added to the file. I don't understand why I would use a proxy for downloads. If this is on one's own machine, what security is gained? Overall, the Mercurial issues are just an unnecessary complication, and my real problem with v4l-dvb for the HVR-950 is probably something to do with loading firmware or kernel modules. Linux has come a long way in the five years or so that I have been using it. But, some things, like using an off-the-shelf USB device, can still prove impossibly complex for those of us who are not hard-core computer geeks. Thanks for your help.


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Fitness Express Manhattan, a women-only circuit facility in New York City, has added functional training to its circuit these days. Members warm up on cardio equipment and then hit an eight-station circuit. In between each of the resistance training machines, women perform functional training exercises, such as swinging hula hoops around their hips, hopping through an agility ladder and balancing on stability balls.
"It's like an obstacle course in a way because every single station is different and works different muscles," says Sylvia Clement, a certified personal trainer and the owner of the 1,675-square-foot, 215-member club that opened in October 2004. "It makes it more fun, so they don't get bored."
With the increasing popularity of functional fitness in facilities today, it's no surprise that some express circuit club owners are adding this type of exercise into their circuits. However, because express circuit facilities often follow a strict recipe in terms of equipment and programming, traditional health clubs have an even greater opportunity to leverage this functional training trend, says Cedric Bryant, chief science officer for the American Council on Exercise.
Many multipurpose club owners have incorporated functional training into their offerings, but some are incorporating it into their circuit workouts, too. In fact, some clubs even offer circuits built completely around this type of strength training.
For the last eight years, Fitness Quest 10, a health and human performance company in San Diego, has offered a 60-minute class called TD Functional Fitness that includes a dynamic 10-minute warm-up, 45 to 50 minutes of circuit training and a few minutes of stretching. Each class has about 10 to 16 participants who split off into small groups and then go through the six-station circuit, which blends traditional resistive and functional training exercises. Participants — who range from executives to moms to even an NFL linebacker — pay between $15 and $20 per class or $150 for a month of unlimited classes, says owner Todd Durkin.
"The class has been a mainstay for many of my clients for two to three times a week for years," he says. "People really like it because it's a physically challenging and intense class."
The challenge and intensity of functional training can help stave off boredom, which can make it a great tool for boosting retention, says Jay Dawes, director of education for the National Strength and Conditioning Association in Colorado Springs, CO. Exercisers, for the most part, don't want to do the same exercise regimen day in and day out. By adding variety to their circuits, club owners can keep members interested.
"You still have to meet the client's goals, but if you can disguise work with play, they will work harder and have a lot more fun doing it," he says. "It's a great retention tool for the club owner because it makes exercise more fun."
Functional Questions
Despite the retention benefits and the growing popularity of adding functional training to circuits, some researchers question the effectiveness and safety of functional training exercises. Many exercises on weight machines could be considered functional training exercises because they strengthen the muscles used for daily activities, says Wayne Wescott, fitness research director for the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA. Also, more can go wrong during a functional training exercise than when working out on a weight machine, he says, noting that recent research studies have shown that functional training exercises aren't nearly as effective as standard strength training exercises for the abdominals and back (see sidebar on page 74 for more information about these studies). For these reasons, he advises that trainers concentrate on showing members how to properly perform functional training exercises and that functional training should complement rather than replace traditional strength conditioning.
Dawes agrees, although he isn't as cautionary about functional training because he says he hasn't seen any research indicating it is not safe.
"A blend of resistance and functional training gives exercisers the best of both worlds," he says.
Functional training challenges members on a different dimension than standard resistance training by training the body to perform different movements rather than isolating different muscle groups, says Kevin Steele, a principal for Communication Consultants in Malibu, CA.
"You can lay down on a bench press and bench Olympic weights or do curls all day long, but there's not a lot of direct carryover into daily life," he says.
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Despite any reservations about functional training, adding it to a club's group fitness schedule and personal training repertoire can create new fee-based revenue opportunities. Some club owners charge their members an additional $15 per month for a group fitness class in which a trainer leads about a dozen members through a functional circuit.
"It can be a profitable enterprise, but you have to be committed to it," Steele says. "You have to be serious about functional training and have the space and instructors that are well trained and highly motivated."
This approach has worked well for the Spectrum Club in Pacific Palisades, CA. When Gretchen Ritter, fitness manager and head of personal training continuing education, arrived at the club three years ago, she inherited about 15 personal trainers who generated $50,000 a month in personal training. Through a focus on functional training, her club tripled the number of trainers and its personal training revenue, she says.
However, the increased revenue came after some initial costs. Not only did the fitness floor undergo a major facelift when Ritter joined the club, but the club owner also invested about $5,000 in functional training accessories, such as foam rollers, medicine balls, resistance bands, agility ladders, airex pads and gliders. In addition, the club purchased about $15,000 in cable-pulling equipment.
Each day, the club offers at least two or three functional training classes, such as Core Strength, Functional Training, Core Circuit, Cardio Interval Training or Boot Camp. In the free classes, instructors use their clients' body weight to teach balance and enhance the experience with medicine balls and bands.
The club's primary demographic is Baby Boomers, and functional training is relatively new to them, she says. The club's members aren't looking to win a beauty contest or a bodybuilding competition — they want to live life free of pain, she says.
"We touched a lot of members who didn't think they needed a trainer," she says. "Members are savvy and know they need it to feel better and to be able to do things they are still doing at age 70. It's not a hard sell."
Setting Aside Space
Club operators can increase their revenue and retention rates through functional training, but if they expand a traditional compact circuit to include functional training, they may run into space constraints. Steele urges club owners to design their circuits in a way that doesn't affect traffic flow during peak times or distract other health club members.
Ritter agrees, saying it's important for trainers to have enough space for functional training exercises.
"Most of the time for functional training, you're in a relatively unbalanced environment," she says. "You have to be careful that you're not in a crowded place where you can stumble or lose balance."
If clubs opt to just have a straight functional training circuit, however, they will need less space than a traditional strength training circuit, Dawes says. Sometimes, unused spaces such as racquetball courts can be converted into space for a functional training circuit class.
"With functional training exercises, you can get a lot of bang for your buck in a small amount of space," he says.
Sometimes, a renovation project can give a health club the opportunity to devote more space to functional training. When the 65,000-square-foot Memorial Athletic Club and Aquatic Center in Houston went through a makeover, the club added a separate studio for functional training. This room is open to all members at no additional charge, but it is most popular with the trainers and their clients, says Jeff Biehl, fitness director. During peak hours, up to seven personal trainers can work with their clients in the room at one time.
The club has 25 trainers on staff and brings in about $35,000 per month for personal training. To get more members interested in personal training and functional exercises, Biehl designs a functional training workout every month for the members. The workout, called the MAC Circuit Express, is available in the club and online. By focusing on functional training in the club's circuit, trainers have helped their clients to move better, shed pounds and lose inches, he says.
Although the jury may still be out on functional fitness's effectiveness, more club owners are adding functional training to their strength training mix. As more club members find success in reaching their goals with circuits that include functional training, thereby increasing revenue and retention rates in clubs, functional fitness may turn out to be a trend with staying power.
Four Tips for Safely Integrating Functional Training into Your Club
- Assign supervision
Some clubs are making functional training accessories, such as medicine balls and stability balls, available to all of their health club members, but Wayne Wescott, fitness research director for the South Shore YMCA in Quincy, MA, urges club owners to make sure that their employees are carefully monitoring members as they use this equipment.
- Offer private and group sessions
Before accepting your members in a high-intensity interval class, require that they sign up for a few private personal-training sessions to learn the basics of resistance and functional training.
- Hire postural specialists for trainers
By having a deep knowledge about the alignment of the spine, these trainers can help to safely and effectively integrate functional training into your club.
- Use the principle of progression
Trainers should work with their clients to manage different variables, such as momentum, inertia, speed and movement during functional training exercises.
Research on Functional Training
A January 2008 study by researchers at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, questioned the role of stability ball exercises in strength and conditioning exercises because they found that the balls may not provide a sufficient stimulus for increasing muscle strength or hypertrophy. In a separate study, researchers from the university did not observe any discernable benefit of performing a resistance exercise in an unstable condition.
Australian researchers found that individuals performing upright, resisted and dynamic exercises could achieve high trunk-muscle activation. For that reason, exercisers may not need to add instability devices to augment core-stability training, researchers say.
Canadian researchers tested the effectiveness of Swiss ball training and found that this type of equipment may permit a strength-training adaptation of the limbs if instability is moderate, allowing the production of overload forces.
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Smartphones have made the office mobile, and has workers checking emails before and after hours and even during weekends. The convenience of being able to communicate outside the office has blurred the definition of work hours as many employees feel obligated to answer late-night emails.
According to CareerBuilder, 17% of 5,200 workers felt like the workday never ends because technology provides access to the office while 30% of more than 2,300 workers contact the office on vacation. About 37% of hiring managers expect employees to check in especially when working on a big project or major issue impacting the company.
It's a part of life to have email and phones at all times, says Brent Rasmussen, CareerBuilder's president of North America. "The way we're connected now, it's inevitable that it's going to be harder to break away from work."
Experts recommend taking realistic steps to balance your time based on your working style, job responsibilities and personal and professional priorities. "You should be able to take control of your schedule by how much you're willing to give based on setting boundaries and sticking to them," suggests Scott Dobroski, community expert at Glassdoor.
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A group of state hospital associations from around the country last month asked the Obama administration to take a closer look at a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will land Massachusetts hospitals an extra $275 million or more in yearly Medicare reimbursements. The letter prompted Senator John Kerry and others in the Massachusetts congressional delegation to respond Tuesday, calling claims that the elected officials have manipulated the Medicare budget "completely false."
Liz Kowalczyk of the Globe reported last summer that an amendment to the Affordable Care Act, introduced by Kerry, would require Medicare to reimburse employee wages at all hospitals in Massachusetts at the same rate it pays for those at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, where wages reflect the high cost of living on the island. The extra money for Massachusetts would mean less for other states.
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If left uncorrected, hospitals in 49 states will experience reduced funding of more than $3.5 billion over the next ten years as a direct result of this manipulation of Medicare's hospital wage index. Hospitals nationwide are already struggling with reduced government payments and the potential for cuts through the federal deficit reduction discussions and health care reform. Scarce Medicare funding should reward value and efficiency in health care, not be diverted based on artful manipulation of obscure payment formulas.
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On November 16, 2017, Aly Byerly, a beloved employee at a local restaurant in Yeagertown, and her partner Adrian Snook, received the horrible news that one of their four young children - 2 year old daughter Talynn (Tally) Snook - had been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Upon further investigation into Tally's condition, it was discovered that she had a genetic abnormality called the Philadelphia chromosome, which is extremely rare in children, and would mean a more aggressive form of chemotherapy and a longer hospital stay for young Tally.
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Michigan Wins 71-70 Over Nebraska On Walton Layup
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Derrick Walton Jr. scored the go-ahead layup with 21.8 seconds left and Nebraska missed two inside shots during a scramble before the buzzer, giving Michigan a 71-70 victory on Thursday night.
The Wolverines (11-4, 3-0 Big Ten) prevailed in a game that included 11 lead changes and 10 ties. The Cornhuskers (8-7, 0-3) lost for the first time in eight games at the new Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Glen Robinson III scored 19 points to lead five Michigan players in double figures. Jordan Morgan had 15 points, Nik Stauskas added 12 and Walton and Caris LeVert had 10 apiece.
Terran Petteway scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half for the Huskers. Ray Gallegos and Deverell Biggs added 14 points and Walter Pitchford had 12.
The Wolverines, who beat Northwestern by 23 points on Sunday, couldn't put away the Huskers until the last possession.
Nebraska led 70-69 with 33 seconds left after Petteway made the front end of a one-and-one. He missed the second free throw.
On the go-ahead basket, Walton brought the ball up the court and passed to Zak Irvin. Irvin gave Walton the ball right back on the give-and-go, and Walton went baseline on Leslee Smith to make it 71-70.
Nebraska set up a final play with 9 seconds left, but Petteway missed a layup. Smith got the rebound, but his shot missed, too. Michigan celebrated at center court after the final buzzer.
The Huskers came into the game 7-0 at Pinnacle Bank Arena, and there was a big-game atmosphere for the conference home opener as the crowd of 15,012 filed in. The Huskers were playing at home for the first time since Dec. 21, and they had lost three straight, including last Saturday's 31-point loss at No. 3 Ohio State.
The Wolverines won their fifth game in a row without preseason All-American Mitch McGary, who is out indefinitely after having back surgery.
Nebraska had played Ohio State on even terms the first 10 minutes before collapsing. There was no collapse this time.
There were six lead changes in the first half before Walton put the Wolverines up 33-30 at halftime with a buzzer-beating shot from just beyond the half-court line. Walton's long shot came after the Huskers had tied it on Biggs' drive to the hoop. Michigan inbounded with 3 seconds left and Walker dribbled up to the big red `N' at center court before launching his 50-foot swish.
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This was the third year for the annual festival, and founder Rosa Valado could not have been more excited to see her project come to life once again.
"Right now, I'm so happy, it's like walking on air," Valado said. "I have so many people here and so many talented filmmakers, so many activists who I truly respect that I've known, some of them for years."
Valado first dreamed up the idea for a film festival for her home of Greenpoint back in 2011 to simply bring some excitement and awareness to the community.
"I am happy to just be a part of it," she said.
The festival this year brought in work from dozens of filmmakers with the theme of micro-budget, a genre aimed toward technology and the impact on modern film, as well as environmental themes.
Councilman Stephen Levin provided Valado and the film festival with some discretionary funding to help make it possible for yet another year.
"This is film and it's really a way to bring some of the avant garde cinema, something you would normally associate with Manhattan, here to Greenpoint," Levin said.
Levin joined Valado in the opening reception ceremonies at 67 West St., a space donated by neighboring furniture store From The Source.
"I always think it's really cool and great programming every year," he said.
Nearly 100 moviegoers packed the house for the debut screening of "The Paddler With the Glass Eye," a film shot with the new Google Glass by North Brooklyn Boat Club member Jens Rasmussen.
Fellow NBBC steering committee members Serena Handley and Grant Heppes were there to support Rasmussen in his film festival debut.
"It's really cool to be able to see our fellow community members be able to make films that involve our local community," Heppes said.
Fornino Pizza, The Garden Food Market, Pauli Gee's Pizza and Lure Fishbar donated food for the event. Fiona's Bar and Restaurant and Ryan Maguires donated the alcohol and dessert.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol was also there to show his support for the festival.
"We know that Greenpoint and Williamsburg is already the film capital of the northeast," Lentol noted. "We have more film production here, to the chagrin of many residents, but the fact of the matter is that film is a staple in Greenpoint."


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A week after the April 21, 2011, outage AWS posted a detailed post mortem explanation of what happened. It'll be interesting to see how everyone digests the very detailed account. Since AWS did not provide an executive summary I'll try my hand at one:
The outage was triggered by an operator error during a router upgrade which funneled very high-volume network traffic into a low-bandwidth control network used by EBS (Elastic Block Store). The resulting flooding of the control network caused a large number of EBS servers to be effectively isolated from one another, which broke the volume replication, and caused these servers to start re-replicating the data to fresh servers. This large-scale re-replication storm in turn had two effects: it failed in many cases causing the volumes to go offline for manual intervention, and it flooded the EBS control plane with re-replication events that affected its operation across the entire us-east region.
The steps taken by AWS to regain control started by stopping the re-replication attempts to quiesce the system and prevent new volumes from being drawn into the outage. AWS then isolated the affected availability zone from the EBS control plane to restore normal operation in other zones. Finally, AWS started to recover volumes by adding storage capacity to allow the re-replication to succeed where possible, by restoring data from snapshots on S3, and finally by manually restoring data. Ultimately 0.07% of the volumes could not be restored to a consistent state.
The Relational Database Service RDS was also affected by the outage. 45% of single-availability-zone databases in the affected availability zone went down because each database server stripes data across multiple EBS volumes with the result that one stuck volume halts the entire database. A number of multi-AZ RDS databases whose master server was in the affected zone failed to fail-over because of a bug in the fail-over process.
The post mortem lists a number of system improvements that AWS is working on. These primarily target improving the resiliency of EBS when replication fails as well as improving the tools created and used during the outage to recover from the situation. Customer communication improvements, especially regarding the frequency of updates, are also listed and AWS is crediting affected users a significant fraction of this month's charges, this way beyond anything covered in its SLAs.
It is interesting to see how a network configuration error caused such a chain reaction within the EBS system. The outage trigger really is pretty incidental, a similar set of events could have probably been triggered by something else as well. The measures taken by AWS to contain and repair the outage highlight the deep technical expertise and full mastery of the entire software and hardware stack at AWS. Clearly deep code changes were made and sophisticated recovery tools were written 24x7 under the pressure of the outage, without which the situation most likely would have spun completely out of control.
The impact of the outage, the public reaction, and the measures necessary to control it show the scale at which AWS operates. It is pretty clear that this type of outage is part of growing the service to unprecedented scale. I find it amazing that this type of outage, where the sophisticated systems necessary to provide cloud computing at scale fail massively hasn't happened years ago. This is a testament to AWS's sophistication.
The outage summary exposes interesting technical details about the architecture of the services that AWS has kept confidential until now, however, more than providing information to competitors I believe that it provides education to cloud customers. All cloud providers who are planning world-wide cloud roll-outs absolutely must understand the power of and the need for availability zones in a region and isolation between regions (or equivalent constructs to "differentiate" from AWS). Without that redundancy and isolation, it has now become crystal clear: "how can we sell that to customers?"
An aspect of EBS durability which is not often mentioned is the role of snapshots during recovery. The EBS product description states "the durability of your volume depends both on the size of your volume and the percentage of the data that has changed since your last snapshot." Here's what this means. Suppose there are two copies of the volume (i.e. mirroring) and one fails, then a fresh mirror can fetch data contained in snapshots from S3 (which is itself replicated) but must retrieve other data from the single remaining copy, which may itself fail or become unreachable. Sadly the performance impact of taking a snapshot is such that most of our customers with high volume database cannot snapshot the master DB volume. Please fix that AWS!
An item missing from the remedies list in my opinion is EBS performance improvement. Better performance would have helped in the outage. Specifically I'd like AWS to reduce the impact of snapshots on volume performance so customers can actually snapshot high-volume servers and improve the performance of volumes so customers don't have to stripe across multiple volumes which reduces availability (as it did with RDS).
I also am not satisfied with the communication improvements AWS proposes. I was fine with the frequency of status updates because it was clear that the EBS team was on top of it and didn't have much new to report. I would like to see improved responsiveness so we don't have to open a ticket before something shows up on the status page. But foremost I would like better content in the status updates. I'd like to be constructive, so I'll make it concrete. Here is some of what I would have liked to see (I naturally have to make some assumptions about what was concluded when within AWS):
- explicit mention that the initial network event was contained, status updates kept talking about "increased latencies", which made it unclear whether there was a general ongoing network issue
- clear statement that the outage revolved around EBS and noting the impact on launching servers from EBS images, but also stating that there was no impact on servers not using EBS
- clear statement that certain API calls were disabled instead of vaguely referring to "increased error rates affecting EBS CreateVolume API calls"
- timely reporting, e.g., the post mortem states "by 5:30 AM PDT, error rates and latencies again increased for EBS API calls across the Region" while the status updates only mentioned this at 7am
- the fact that the outage was due to failed EBS volumes as opposed to just connectivity or latency issues accessing the volumes was only reported at 8:54am, yet this is crucial piece of information
- the status updates never made it clear that EBS volumes continued to fail after the initial event, nor did they mention when this infection was halted
- the isolation of the other availability zones from the "affected one" was reported several hours after it was put in place
- it would have been useful to see some relative numbers, such as % of volumes deemed operational, % being recovered automatically soon, % slated for later manual recovery; best would have been emails to users with specific volume IDs
I'm sure that some of the items above weren't quite as obvious at the time and in the heat of the moment it's always difficult to determine what to say. But there is no question that the status updates were filled with vague terms, such as "increased latencies", "moderate increase in error rates", "affected availability zone", "a network event", etc. Perhaps foremost it's not until 8 hours after the onset of the outage that AWS made it clear that volumes in the affected zone weren't going to return to normal for hours to come. Up to that point it seemed that everything could return to normal any minute. This lack of clarity made it much harder for users to take the right decisions promptly.
On the public reaction front, while I understand it, I'm still baffled by reporters stating that the loss of 0.07% of volumes as not recoverable is a fundamental problem. This is equivalent to complaining about users losing data because their RAID array failed (happens all the time from operator error to 6ft drop due to earthquake). Users that lost data and were not aware of the risk they were taking need to seriously reflect on what they're doing (and get help as appropriate).
This episode provides a key lesson to all cloud companies regarding architecting to withstand failure, and communicating with customers when failures do occur. While RightScale got through the outage relatively unscathed, we are working to improve on both those fronts ourselves. And we intend to continue to work with customers to enable AWS as well as other providers with independent, best-practice solutions that are resilient and highly available.


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By Jonathan Calt Harris
October 9, 2003
A Neo-Nazi on Campus
By Gamaliel Isaac
October 16, 2003
In 2007, MSA UP scheduled its yearly "Islam Awareness Week" for October 21-27, so it would coincide directly with the Terrorism Awareness Project's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week (IFAW) activities. MSA UP falsely depicted IFAW, whose purpose was to educate American college students about the nature of the fanatical religious movement aiming to create a global Muslim empire, as an exercise in anti-Muslim bigotry. As for MSA UP's Islam Awareness Week, it included such presentations as:
In November 2007, MSA UP promoted an "Islamophobia Seminar" on the U Penn campus, featuring a speech by Parvez Ahmed, national director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
During Islam Awareness Week 2008, which was co-sponsored by MSA UP, Harvard chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser sought to "wash away misconceptions some share about Islam."
In March 2008, eleven members of MSA UP participated in an "interfaith" trip to New Orleans -- funded by a $17,000 grant from the Fox Leadership program -- with eleven members of the University Of Pennsylvania's Hillel organization. A rabbi, a Muslim chaplain, and a Religious Studies graduate student also went on the trip, and the controversial "community organization" ACORN played a role in the event as well. According to MSA UP's social-development chairman Naveed Rashid, "The trip was a collaboration between Hillel and the Muslim Students Association with the dual purpose of serving the community and strengthening the relationship between the two faiths." By contrast, the Militant Islam Monitor described the trip as an exercise in moral relativism, where participants examined "troubling passages from the Koran and the Old Testament" as well as the mass media's depictions of religion.
MSA UP strongly opposes the Patriot Act anti-terrorism legislation. At one MSA-sponsored rally on the University of Pennsylvania campus, the co-chair of Muslims for Justice lamented that "the Patriot Act is sending us in a backwards spiral, where the destination is chaos."
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Bender given all-clear
Accrington Stanley defender Tom Bender has been given the all-clear on a brain scan after suffering severe concussion in Tuesday night's abandoned Johnstone's Paint Trophy match against Tranmere.
Accrington Stanley defender Tom Bender has been given the all-clear on a brain scan after suffering severe concussion in Tuesday night's abandoned Johnstone's Paint Trophy match against Tranmere.
The on-loan Colchester man remained in Blackburn Hospital overnight after taking a full blow in the face from Ian Dunbavin as the goalkeeper came out to clear a ball into the box. The 18-year-old was knocked out and needed half an hour of treatment on the pitch, including oxygen and a drip, before the ambulance took him to hospital for a scan on his head.
"Tom is now fully conscious," Stanley chief executive Rob Heys said after visiting the player in hospital. "He has been for a scan which has come back as normal. He is severely concussed and is being kept in overnight for medical staff to keep an eye on him, but he's stable and that's great news."
Accrington manager John Coleman said: "Their striker was trying to get the ball. He was eager and it led to Tom's momentum going on to a full-blooded punch from Bavs. It was like double the force and the fact Tom didn't move when he hit the floor is a concern. The lads immediately knew something was wrong and waved the physio over straight away.
"The physio admitted it was scary. They didn't want to move Tom and we just had to wait for the ambulance to arrive, which obviously took some time. His dad was here watching and he has gone to hospital with Tom so he is close at hand. He is now in the safest hands and we've just got to hope and pray everything is okay."
Both managers agreed referee Rob Lewis was right to call off the contest, with Tranmere leading 2-1 at the time of the incident.
Coleman added: "I am glad the game is off as I think a few of the players, including the goalkeeper, wouldn't have been in the right frame of mind to go on."
Tranmere boss Les Parry said: "It's a game of football and when someone's health is involved that's got to take precedence."
Stanley had taken the lead in the ninth minute when Kevin McIntyre's cross was turned into his own goal by Zoumana Bakayogo but Tranmere hit back to lead with goals from Ash Taylor (20) and Mustafa Tirkyaka (35), before play was halted.
Bender joined Accrington last month on a season-long loan deal and made his debut as a substitute against Barnet, on September 3. His first career start came in a 3-2 defeat of Carlisle in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy the following day. He has also represented Wales at Under-17, Under-19 and Under-21 level.


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FuelIn theaters: November 14th, 2008 Copyright © 2008 Fields of Fuel, LLC
Record high oil prices, global warming, and an insatiable demand for energy: these issues will be the catalyst for heated debates and positive change for many years to come. 2008 Sundance award-winning film FUEL exposes shocking connections between the auto industry, the oil industry and the government, while exploring alternative energies such as solar, wind, electricity and non-food-based biofuels. Josh Tickell and his Veggie Van take us on the road as we discover the pros and cons of biofuels, how America's addiction to oil is destroying the U.S. economy and how green energy can save us, but only if we act now.
- Genre:Documentary
- Director:Josh Tickell
- Cast:Barbara Boxer, Sir Richard Branson, Sheryl Crow, Larry David, Laurie David, Larry Hagman, Woody Harrelson


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Gospel, God's Love, 97
1. We do not see the wind;
We only hear it sigh.
It makes the grasses bend
Whenever it goes by.
2. We do not see God's love,
But in our hearts we know
He watches over us
Wherever we may go.
3. We do not have to see
To know the wind is here;
We do not have to see
To know God's love is near.
Words: Elizabeth Cushing Taylor
Music: Grace Wilbur Conant
Music © 1930 by the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education; from Primary Music and Worship. Used by permission of the Westminister Press, Philadelphia, PA. MAKING COPIES OF THIS MATERIAL IS PROHIBITED.
Hebrews 11:1-3
2 Corinthians 5:7


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December 13, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 14
Extending credits for air bags
Belt use law: success is tied to type of enforcement permitted
Researchers challenge NTSB claims about lap belt danger
Rear seat belts: Twice NHTSA has considered and rejected a requirement for lap-shoulder belts at rear outboard seating positions
Rolls-Royce seeks air bag ruling to meet restraint production requirements for 1987 model year during the 1988 model year
Texas tops the nation in use of seat belts
Automatic belts are key to Cressida's lower injury rate
Revamped BMCS to concentrate on better enforcement
National standards to be set for bus and truck drivers
Sobriety standard: drivers of heavy trucks and buses may face a rule to bring them into compliance with the same BAC limits of flight and train crews
Car size influences salvage rates, HLDI reports
Two states repeal belt use statutes; court upholds law
Drinking age: US Supreme Court to hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of a statute requiring states to adopt 21 as the minimum purchase age
Institute urges NHTSA to reconsider convertible exemption
Researchers find high rate of injury connected with ATVs
November 8, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 13
Air bags in '88 models: the pace picks up
Air bag orders for Ford
Institute petitions BMCS to require tachographs
Autobahns vs. U.S. interstates
GM's steering wheel air bag system is making a comeback at inland
Ford and GM: contrasting styles
Adrian Lund is named director of a newly created human and environmental factors group within the Institute's research department
Automakers step up development of air bag systems
HLDI lists '86 models with best and worst collision results
Motorcycles and mopeds: same fatality rate
Institute awarded certificate of merit from the International Committee on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety
Legislators urged to tighten their drunk driving laws
October 4, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 12
'Active seat belt and air bag is the ultimate'
Automatic restraint ruling 'can be expected to stand'
Toughest belt use law proves to be the most effective
Haddon scholarship
Large American cars fare best in HLDI report
Institute petition on truck brakes wins wide support
Landmark legislation praised for reducing traffic death rate
Nationwide endorses Institute petition for daytime lights
Trauma study: a review of data
Revoking licenses: Oregon's practice of revoking licenses of repeat offenders apparently limits the number of subsequent collision and violations
September 9, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 11
Special issue: commemoration of national traffic and motor vehicle safety act and the highway safety act
'No magic solution' says President Johnson on highway safety
Highway death rate cut more than half since safety acts
A commemoration
Saving lives at 55
Haddon Matrix: eliminating the mumbo jumbo
The FHWA programs
How Congress provided a national safety program with vehicle standards
The evolution of highway safety grant programs
Risk compensation?
Safety standards benefit motorists
August 23, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 10
Canada proposes new vehicles be equipped with daytime running lights
285 road deaths averted in four states with seat belt use laws
Hazardous materials regulations: 'inadequate and needlessly confusing'
NHTSA releases crash test results for ten 1986 cars
Despite crash evidence, council backs greater use of twin rigs
BMCS to begin safety review of nation's interstate motor carriers
DOT says Danforth bill, backed by industry and labor, is not needed
Support for helmet laws
Ford to add combination belts in rear seats
Study shows rollover fatalities closely tied to vehicles' stability
NHTSA approves use of Hybrid III dummy
Survey reveals Michigan belt use is 44 percent
New law covers children in pickups
July 26, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 9
Rural states consider dangers of rigid roadside mailboxes
Based on flawed data, drinking age study draws false conclusion
Most of Institute's petition granted in truck brake notice
Air bags: 'I'm here to tell you they really do the job'
Bumper performance for 1986 models
NHTSA will test new national driver register
Higher standards may be set for vehicles owned by the states
Elmira film: how to make belt laws work
Virgina legislature toughens up two of its transportation laws in the year's session
Passive alcohol sensors do not infringe on constitutional rights
Dole asked to campaign for helmet use laws across the country
Steps urged to reduce danger of toxic spills
Seat belt use laws: 4 more states enact laws
June 28, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 8
Ford petition would allow air bags on a large number of cars
European models have worst theft record
Seat belt use rates climb in Texas, but decline in New Jersey
Easing phase-in could save more lives
GM improves rear seat belts
Two states likely to lose 10 percent of federal highway funds
Study of fleet vans shows convex mirror helps reduce crashes
NHTSA urged to require daytime running lights
Bill would require better protection in side impact crashes
June 7, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 7
'Children in crashes' comes to grips with proper use of restraints
NCBA backs air bags
Nine of 23 new cars go undamaged in 5 mph bumper crash tests
Preliminary study shows drop in injury claim frequency in NY and NJ
Study analyzes spinal cord injuries
New tire ratings
Outlining trucks with reflective tape reduces crashes, DOT reports
NHTSA turns down seat belt petition
Helmet laws supported
Suspension does reduce crash involvement of convicted drunk drivers
Wide variation seen in handling of drinking drivers
NHTSA releases crash test results of four 1986 cars
May 17, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 6
Elmira, NY: belt use reaches 80 percent with publicity, enforcement
Institute researchers say 'risk compensation' theory doesn't hold up
British trucks with stronger rear guards do make a difference new study reports
NHTSA should consider the impact its fuel economy standard will have on automobile safety, says the Institute
Each year car crashes account for half of Virginia's brain injuries
Transport Canada to stay with 5 mph rule
Consumers Union seeks return to 5 mph bumper for all new cars
NHTSA agrees to relay requests for abstracts to states electronically
West Virginia's legislature rejected a seat belt use law for adults, but has improved its child restraint use law
The best location for brake lights? Where eyes focus
Most high school pupils report drinking alcoholic beverages by age 15
National safety board urges uniform written and driving tests for truck drivers
Over 80 percent favor five mph bumper
Court rules NHTSA did not act unlawfully in transmission case
$500 tax proposed for 1990 model cars without automatic restraints
April 26, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 5
Drinking age laws: Minnesota and West Virginia will raise the minimum age of purchase to 21
Belt use up but less than half of Californians obey seat belt use law
Air bag deploys in crash and Aetna auditor counts his blessings
Myths and misconceptions about 55 mph speed limit
Majority of Americans still support national 55 mph speed limit
NHTSA's traffic safety budget
$127 million sought for highway grants
Air bags installed in government fleet cars have worked well in a growing number of crashes, NHTSA reports
Economic policies may 'tempt truck drivers to drive too fast, too long'
Truck crashes for first 8 months of '85 are 6% higher than all of '84
Most adult americans favor national licensing for truck drivers
10 states face loss of federal highway funds over drinking age laws
Belt laws enacted
Young drivers found to be underrepresented in drunk driver arrests
NHTSA recalls top 5.6 million in 1985
April 12, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 4
Seat belt use claims: some too good to be true
NY analysis indicates 9% drop in crash deaths
New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) tests: one measure of safety
The NCAP tests -- three types of injury measured
History of NCAP (New Car Assessment Program)
NHTSA to retain its oblique crash test
Truck brakes notice of rulemaking proposing elimination of BMCS provision allowing truckers to disconnect their front brakes
March 22, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 3
Dole agrees to exclude California in count of seat belt use laws
Let automakers' own tests be used to rate bumpers, says Institute
Survey indicates more teenage drivers obey explicit curfew laws
Insurance fleets to order 2,500 autos equipped with air bags
Reinstated helmet law trims fatalities and injuries in Louisiana
Crash protection
A checklist of selected drinking and driving countermeasures adopted by the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
Seat belt petition
Study evaluates effects of raising drinking age
Transportation industry warned: alcohol, drug abuse must be stopped
New England drivers favor mandatory seat belt use laws
February 22, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 2
Large trucks should have front brakes
GM to introduce air bags
Volvo backs daytime lights
Despite its own findings, FHWA seeks to promote use of longer vehicles
Roadside inspections reveal increase in truck and driver violations
Success of British belt requirement leads to permanent law
Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager fare best
Drinking age raised
Wide disparity exists between civilian and military brain injuries
Seat belt use rates decrease in Michigan
Enforcement is needed to reverse declining seat belt use in NY
Advantages of stronger bumpers show up in GM collision claims
Chrysler seeks to block GSA from purchasing 2,000 cars with air bags
Saab's new sensor
February 1, 1986 |Volume 21, Number 1
Porsche, Institute seek credit for cars with passenger side air bags
Seat belt use varies greatly in Texas, Institute survey shows
Seat belt campaign
Will long list of traffic violations end at Washington Monument?
Ohio passes belt law
Transportation department urged to clear way for daytime running lights
Two insurers offer new discounts for cars with automatic restraints
Voluntary registration of tires fails to win over the independents
GSA to buy 2,000 cars equipped with air bags or automatic belts this year
Institute advises NHTSA driver register plan could still be improved
Media plays key role in campaign against alcohol-impaired drivers
Truck legislation is introduced
GAO to analyze studies on minimum drinking age laws
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