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Boomerang kids: are babyboomers stuck with babygloomers?
Welcome to the "Hotel Di Carlo" in Sydney's north west where all the food and accommodation is provided free of charge to a very small and select family group. It is such a lovely warm home that Ms Jo Di Carlo's 23-year-old son is reluctant to leave.
Does the former banker think her son James treats her home in Terrey Hills like a hotel? "Absolutely, " Ms Di Carlo said with no hesitation. Does she mind? "It doesn't bother me one bit."
Occasionally for "selfish reasons," Ms Di Carlo, who also has a 10-year-old son living at home, would like James to move out. But mostly, she loved having him at home.
Far from seeing their kids as babygloomers or parasite singles, as these young adults are called in Japan, Ms Di Carlo is typical of many parents who are enjoying the company of their adult children, finds a new study by Deakin University's Elyse Warner.
While some children felt there was a "stigma" attached to living with mum and dad, the boomerang kids returned home for financial reasons.
Nearly a quarter of Australians aged 20-34, more commonly men, still live with their parents. Of those aged 25-29 who live in the parental home, more than half have moved out and returned. A previous study found two-thirds of those who returned home were motivated by money.
While returning home to live is often perceived as "quite a negative life event", Deakin University's interviews with nine adult children found it was usually the opposite.
"The results of our study clearly challenge the notion that returning home is a backward step for young adults," Ms Warner said. "The majority of the young adults felt that returning home was not regressing; it did not necessarily mean they had lost whatever they had gained while living independently. Like their friends and other young people, they were still realising their personal goals and plans for their futures, whether through work or study. For the most part, moving home was only short-term in the scheme of things."
Ms Di Carlo said most of "the kids" in Terry Hills lived at home like her son. "They can't afford to live away from home. Some pay board, but James doesn't."
Most of James' friends were obsessed with cars and motorbikes and showed no sign of leaving home.
"Because there's no girls involved, there's no inkling that they want to move out. Boys have more freedom now, and they don't need to move away from home," said Ms Di Carlo.
"I moved out at 20 to marry. My father was Italian and you didn't leave home until you married, and you didn't have a string of boyfriends. You found a boyfriend, got married and had a family."
We should be far more worried about young people who jump quickly into marriage or parenting before they're ready, who leave home without adequate resources, and who bypass higher education
According to the 2011 Census, around 21 per cent of Australian households comprise adult children over 18 years of age. The biggest growth in stay-at-home, or boomerang kids, occurred in sole parent households, where the number of adult children 18 or over jumped 17 per cent.
In Fairfield , 36.2 per cent of all families have adult children over 18 years of age living at home. Like other areas with large numbers of migrants, it has seen large increases in the number of children either staying or returning home. It is the same story in Bankstown, with 31.9 per cent, Liverpool, with 30 per cent and Campbelltown, with 29.5 per cent.
It is a global trend, occurring in Japan, Europe and Scandinavia. In the USA, 29 per cent of 25- to 34-year olds have either never moved out of their parents' home or have returned home because of the economy, found research by the Pew Foundation. Around 53 per cent of 18- to 24-year Americans lived at home.
Is failure to launch a failure of parenting? Far from it, says a new body of research that suggests adult children living at home generates tolerance and understanding between generations.
American authors Richard Settersten, Ph.D., and Barbara E. Ray, argue a slower path to adulthood is good for everyone, allowing young adults to get a better start in life and on home ownership. They interviewed more than 500 people aged 18 to 34 for their book, Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, to prove that these babygloomers aren't slackers.
They found staying at home was an economic necessity. Their research in the United States showed 43 per cent of young people between 25 and 34 would be in poverty if they weren't living at home; living at home makes the rate only nine per cent.
"We're also not saying that young people shouldn't assume responsibilities for themselves or others; they must. But we should be far more worried about young people who jump quickly into marriage or parenting before they're ready, who leave home without adequate resources, and who bypass higher education - these are all extremely risky ventures today."
On their blog, Settersten and Ray say these new living arrangements are creating uncertainty for parents who don't know what to do "when the guidebooks end at the age of eighteen. There are no norms for 'big' kids who … have yet to achieve the major milestones of adulthood. Relationships are being crafted as they go."
For example, how do adult parents deal with the division of chores or the question of whether boyfriends or girlfriends should be able to stay overnight?
So has Ms Di Carlo had "the talk" with James about girlfriends staying over?
When her son had a party, he asked if a former girlfriend could stay the night. "I said 'that's okay' because I didn't want anyone driving, but I told him not to make a habit of it."
Ms Di Carlo said adult children were also staying at home longer because values had changed.
"I am not as strict as my father was. We had everything material when I was growing up. My first car was bought for me, but I had no freedom. I couldn't do anything, I couldn't go out with a boy."
How to live happily (hopefully, not forever after) with your adult children
Nobody knows how many adult children living at home pay rent or contribute to bills.
Anecdotal evidence suggests even those that do make a financial contribution, by paying rent or contributing to the cost of food, rarely pay enough to cover the real costs, including the cost of wear and tear or utilities.
To avoid resentment, Mark McCrindle, a social analyst with McCrindle Research, says families should try to agree on a budget and a plan. Very few parents and boomerang children have a formal arrangement covering costs and the length of the "tenancy" or live in arrangement, says Mr McCrindle.
He says families should discuss:
Costs: As well as a discussing food costs, parents and adult children should also discuss the cost of utilities, which are often large but not included in discussions.
Contribution to domestic duties: If not organised ahead, these responsibilities often fall on the parents' shoulders, particular women who account for nine out of 10 carers in Asutralia.
Time: It is often hard to forecast how long the arrangement will last, but McCrindle says there should be an exit clause, at least a scheduled time to reassess the arrangement.
McCrindle says very few approach living arrangements like this. Without discussion, kids often fall back into old habits. "Kids have lived at home for two decades (before they moved out and returned) so it is hard not to fall back into old patterns and take advantage of mum and dad."

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Before we get started on I Date, I feel I owe to all of you, dear readers, a short apology.
We are not going to match the timeline of dates indicated in this blog's title.
There. I said it. Phew! 'But Dave!', I hear you cry. 'That's kind of a misleading title then isn't it?' And you would be right, dear reader. However we have come too far to turn back now! So I ask you all to please, stay on this journey with me, despite the infrequent postings, and I prey you will go well rewarded with content and good cheer.
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RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
Holland's build up play has been decent so far, final ball is lacking though IMO.
And well, I never saw that coming.
van Persie calling for anything, theres gonna be a stonewall pen they don't get due to his cry wolf tactics.
Fact is whenever they get it out wide, there is no-one in the box
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce
Langeveldt: I of course blame their parents.. and unchecked immigration!
GingerFurball: He's Austrian, they tend to produce the odd ****ed up individual
Burgey: Be careful dealing with neighbours whose cars don't have wheels but whose houses do.
Uppercut: Maybe I just need better strippers
Bloody hell. Just switched over from the rugby. Did not expect that scoreline.
HT highlights look all Netherlands tho; seem to have had a very solid shout for a pen too.
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Dutch forgetting the old adage 'play to the whistles'. Too busy shouting at the ref to realise they still had the ball.
Absolute robbery from Denmark should they hold out.
Still playing Dirk Krap. Deserved to lose for that alone.
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Come on. How is that not a pen? Most blatant robbery since the second leg of the Chelsea/Barca semi in 2009.
Credit to the Danes and all, but **** me.
Should have had a pen at the end, but otherwise Holland can have no qualms about the result. Pretty rubbish performance by them.
Denmark good value though.
Was rooting for the Danes, but there was two pretty clear penalties not given.
Looks bad for the Dutch from herein tbh. Quite fancy Germany to win tonight and against Denmark. Wouldn't bet against Denmark beating Portugal based on what we just saw either.
In any event, the match against Germany will pretty much be a must win for Holland now, and I don't like their chances.
Still can't decide who to support in this
Heh @ 'injury' after a bit of a robust challenge on the German (who didn't make a meal of it surprisingly) - perfectly timed with the referee coming over to possibly brandish a card.
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ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AP) - Military crews in central Georgia are preparing to move a jet donated by actor John Travolta to its new home in an aviation museum.
Robins Air Force Base officials said workers on Wednesday were removing the tail section of the Gulfstream G-2 executive jet in preparation for its move to the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins.
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Tippi Hedren In Person
Last week, I dragged a group of friends and family to see The Birds at a local movie theater. And as if going to see The Birds on the big screen isn't exciting enough, Tippi Hedren herself made an appearance. (Yes, this is the same event at which I ran into Veronica Cartwright in the bathroom a few years ago. She was not there this time.)
When we arrived an hour early Tippi wasn't even there yet. Reports said that she was sitting in her limo eating dinner. Now, I understand that we all need to eat dinner, however, there was quite a line forming to get her autograph and she was a half hour late. Not to mention, those in line wanted to also get decent seats in the movie theater. And she was supposed to talk to the audience before the movie started. It quickly became apparent that none of this was going to go as scheduled. Prima donna? Maybe a little. However, she's quite old and we don't want her passing out or anything.
Anyway, all was forgiven when Tippi finally showed up and she was lovely and seemed very nice. My friends and I stood off to the side near where she was coming in and thanks to one of my particularly loud friends and her enthusiastic clapping, Tippi just kept walking toward us, despite the fact that she was supposed to make a right turn to get to the autograph signing area. She seemed delighted that everyone was clapping for her and she actually looks quite good for being like 80 (and wearing tight leather pants). She was seemed very pleased to be there and spent plenty of time talking to each fan who came for an autograph. There was one lady there with birds taped all over her dress.
The Birds on the big screen was excellent as usual. Watching movies like that by yourself at home can't compare to sharing the experience with a theater full of people. After the film, Tippi came in and played a trivia game with the audience and answered some questions. Most of the questions were pretty standard fare, but one audience member asked about the rumors that Hitchcock prevented Tippi from working after Marni when she was highly sought-after, thereby ruining her career.
Tippi said that Hitchcock developed an obsession with her that caused her to refuse to make more movies for him. However, she still had a contract with him for two years after Marni which he refused to break, preventing her from working during that time. She joked that he did essentially ruin her career, but then awkwardly tried to take it back when the audience seemed completely disgusted with Hitchcock. No doubt Hitchcock had borderline disturbing relationships with most of his leading ladies. I'll just try not to think about that.
On a side note, we almost got attacked by birds while walking into the movie theater. In the Chicagoland area, seagulls tend to hang out in parking lots. It's just a thing that happens, I don't know why. Anyway, there must have been some food thrown near the door to the theater because just about all the seagulls who live in the parking lot were circling near the theater entrance. At first I figured the theater planned this, but it only happened for a short time and then never again, so I'm not giving them that credit. Nevertheless, it was slightly disturbing and made our experience that much more exciting.


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REDFORD, Mich. - The Ryan Lee Holland Cancer Foundation luncheon is being called "The Gathering of Hope." The event features a luncheon, silent auction and raffle. The event raises money for the foundation in order to help cancer patients and their families.
The mission of the Ryan Lee Holland Cancer Foundation is to financially assist cancer patients in active treatment with medical expenses, doctor's visit copay, prescription copay, travel and parking expenses at hospitals for treatment. The non-profit organization was founded by Ryan's mother Jacqueline Holland in 2011 after her son lost his battle to cancer.
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Our esteemed Around The League colleague, Dan Hanzus, heard it from readers after he ranked 26 NFL running backs ahead of veteran Steven Jackson.
The Atlanta Falcons are more optimistic.
On the heels of signing Jackson to a three-year, $12 million contract in March, Falcons coach Mike Smith on Wednesday talked about the 29-year-old as a potential pass-catching threat out of the backfield.
"He's a big, strong running back that catches the ball extremely well," Smith said, per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "He creates issues for defenses. He's just another weapon that we have in our offensive arsenal. He's a guy who had close to 100 catches in a season, so he's a guy that we can use in the passing game. He's not just a running back, he's a receiving back as well."
The Falcons never had that option with Michael Turner, who caught a measly 59 passes during his five seasons in Atlanta. Jackson has averaged 45 catches per year dating to 2004.
The caution here is Jacquizz Rodgers, the Falcons' versatile runner who figures to see plenty of action on passing downs. Still, offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter repeatedly has talked about using more screen passes to chip away at defenses, and that bodes well for Jackson in this high-octane attack.
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The Consulting Process in Action
University Associates, 1978 - Business consultants - 130 pages
This book is the accumulation of 35 years of work of the authors who have helped shape the training and development field. Teachers, trainers, consultants, and continual learners themselves, the authors share their repertoire of concepts, strategies, and techniques. The authors identify the six phases of almost any consultant-client working relationship: engaging in initial contact and entry; formulating a contract and establishing a helping relationship; identifying problems through diagnostic analysis; setting goals and planning for action; taking action and cycling feedback; and completing the contract. This book emphasizes the role of the consultant (internal or external) in an organizational setting. The reader will learn to recognize the most appropriate, effective, and credible route to solving almost any consulting conundrum. The use every chart, checklist, and reference in this work will improve your job performance. Learn to: recognize the phases in consulting; cope with ethical dilemmas; assess and evaluate your projects; consult in internal settings; facilitate change; and more.
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Maori Bone and Greenstone Pendants carved in traditional designs carry a spiritual meaning as well. Learn what those designs mean, before you buy. :-)
Koru (looks like a curl)
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The Double and Triple Twist depict two new shoots growing together - it represents the joining of cultures, the bonding of friendship for life. The design shows the joining of two people in love or friendship for eternity, so makes a wonderful wedding or friendship gift. The Twist can also relate to the joining of two peoples or cultures.
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The Tiki depicts the first mortal born to the Gods. It is also a strong fertility symbol, with the hands on the loins symbolising fertility. The Tiki is a good luck charm, and believed to give the wearer clarity of thought and great inner knowledge.
The Manaia is a spiritual guardian, a guardian angel, to ward off danger and protect against intruders. It acts as a provider and protector over the sky, earth and sea.
The Manaia has a bird-like head, symbolising flight of the spirit. Its three fingers are believed to represent birth, life and death, symbolising the life cycle of man, or alternatively, the Three Baskets of Knowledge (the knowledge mankind needed from the gods, to be able to live successfully on earth).
The closed circle represents the circle of life, and the belief it has no beginning or end.
Whales and Dolphins
Whales and dolphins, and in fact all sea creatures and birds, were of huge importance to the Maori as a food and utensil source. Sea creatures were particularly revered. The whale is a symbol of great size and intelligence, and carvings of whales appear on some Maori meeting houses or food storehouses.
Whales and dolphins were believed to help some Maori navigate their way across the South Pacific during the Great Migration. Thus Whales and Dolphins are symbols of protection, and today this includes protection for travellers on all modes of transport.
The dolphin is also a symbol of friendship and harmony, and of playfulness, as seen in the way they playfully interact with humans swimming or boating in New Zealand waters.
Toki (Adze)
The Toki (adze) was an important Maori implement. In bone or greenstone, it was traditionally worn by Maori elders, as it represented power, wisdom and authority.
Kowhaiwhai is the beautiful scroll-like patterns seen on Maori meeting house ridge poles (tahu or tahuhu) and on the rafters (heke). They are usually painted red, white and black. These rafter paintings usually depict tribal lineage and thus represent authority by descent.
Kowhaiwhai was also seen on gourd water vessels, paddles, and the underside of canoe prows. Nowadays, its incorporation into Maori carvings or art represents the importance and significance of a loving family.


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Marion and Hillsboro sports teams will begin seeing different competition in state and sub-state competitions.
The Kansas State High School Activities Association released new classifications for high school sports Friday. Marion will be reclassified in 2-1A, from 3A, for football in 2014 and 2015. Hillsboro will be reclassified in 2A for all sports other than football, effective immediately.
Football classifications are done for two years at a time and are based only on a headcount of freshmen, sophomores, and juniors. Classifications for other sports are done a year at a time and count all high school students.
The change for Hillsboro affects even the fall sports already underway. Volleyball and cross-country will be affected, but not girls' tennis.
"Tennis is 3-2-1A so it really doesn't change anything there," athletic director Robert Rempel said. "It will only affect sub-states, regionals, and state events. That will change some of our normal post-season travel and competition."
Notably, it changes the location for state cross-country from Lawrence to Wamego. Emily Sechrist won the regular season race Sept. 14 at Wamego. The location for state volleyball will remain in Emporia.
Regional and sub-state locations hadn't been announced yet Friday.
Some nearby 2A schools include Peabody-Burns, Inman, Herington, Chase County, Canton-Galva, and Remington.
"This is all pretty uncharted territory," Marion football coach and athletic director Grant Thierolf said. "We will play whoever shows up on our schedule is all I know right now. We have meetings in the next two weeks that will give us more direction."
There are 40 teams in 2-1A football, divided into eight districts, so Marion should have one more district game the next two years. However, 2-1A football has one fewer round of playoffs, with no bi-district level.
Because district games were already scheduled, Marion's change in football classification will not change until 2014.
Some nearby schools they will compete with in 2-1A football include Chase County, Herington, Inman, Moundridge, and Remington.
Meanwhile, Goessel football moved up from eight-man division II to eight-man division I, and Centre football moved down from division I to division II.


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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released final regulations that address the recent legislative changes made to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's privacy and data security rules.
Also known as HIPAA, the changes incorporate privacy and data security rules from the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, according to an HHS release.
The majority of the new regulations prohibit the sale of protected health information and the use of it for marketing and fund-raising purposes, the release states.
A new standard will also be applied to how to determine what qualifies as a breach of unsecured PHI by a health plan or a business associate. Under the new rules a breach will be presumed to have occurred unless the health plan or business associate demonstrates that there is a low probability that the PHI has been compromised, according to the statement.
Health plans no longer need to place business associates under contract to maintain the confidentiality of the plan's PHI. HIPAA's privacy and data security rules now directly apply to business associates, as do the law's civil and criminal penalties, the release explains.
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Unlike many, I look forward to Thanksgiving not because of what I get to eat, but what I get to cook. For this reason, I love to host the holiday. In a village like Los Angeles, it's usually easy to find many lost little lambs who've no place to eat (and no ability to manage kitchens themselves). Honestly, it's like flunking Home-Ec is a requirement to moving to the City of Angels; I guess Type-A personalities don't have a lot of patience for braising.
Nothing makes me feel more like a magical wizard than when cooking-challenged people like my boyfriend watch me prep food. Am I roasting zucchini or casting a sleep spell on the whole kingdom? Because his reaction would be interchangeable in either event.
I learned to cook from my Mom; sometimes instruction was direct, but mostly I just hung around the kitchen while she cooked and made a nuisance of myself, learning by observation. I was hypnotized by corn starch and its ability to turn any liquid in to a thick sauce. Separating an egg seemed like a delicate and ancient Chinese dance, and gee whiz…! See what you can do when you whip those egg whites?
There were some causalities, from which I grew wiser. One sneaky bite of unsweetened chocolate taught me that some of life's greatest pleasures can come from something so foul. I learned Tupperware cannot be used like a pot on the burners, and soon after I learned how hard it is to clean cooked and melted plastic off a grill. One of the few scars I have on my body is on the knuckle of my left thumb from the first time I learned how to use a peeler – I don't remember what fruit I cut myself on, but I've always remembered how to hold the instruments securely since then. Oh! And I learned it doesn't take very many bittersweet chocolate chips to destroy an appetite.


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Following the first significant changes in its more than 300-year history, Harvard's highest governing body is entering a new era with a new leader—one who, members say, reflect the stated priorities of a Harvard Corporation of the 21st century.
After a dozen years on the Corporation, Robert 'Bob' D. Reischauer '63 will retire from his post as the Corporation's senior fellow as he hits a term limit that was the cornerstone of sweeping reforms that he helped implement over the past several years. Intellectual property lawyer William F. Lee '72, in his fourth year on the board, will take the helm as senior fellow in July 2014.
Reischauer will step down from a very different Corporation than the one that he entered, and will do so with Robert E. Rubin '60—both of whom were appointed by and close colleagues of former University President Lawrence H. Summers. In the spring of 2010, under then-senior fellow James R. Houghton '58, the governing body launched an internal review of its policies in response to criticism that it was disconnected from the community and excessively secretive. The reforms entailed increasing member size from seven to 13, limiting six-year terms to two in number, and instituting subcommittees on specific areas such as finance, governance, facilities and capital planning.
Building upon the foundation of the review process set up by Houghton, who served on the Corporation for 15 years, Reischauer is largely credited for working with other members of the governing body and University President Drew G. Faust to make it more open and available to students, faculty, and alumni, and to "incorporate their views in our thought process," in the words of University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg '68.
"[Reischauer's] legacy, as the senior fellow who did so much to shape and implement our recent governance reforms, will carry on for decades ahead," Faust, who also sits on the Corporation, said after the announcement of Reischauer's retirement.
That legacy, which Lee seems poised to continue despite representing a much different generation of Harvard alumni, also defines the role of senior fellow as a soundboard for the president, rather than a forceful driver of University policy.
After spending his early years living a stone's throw from Harvard Yard at the end of Divinity Avenue—now the location of the University Herbaria—Reischauer's affiliation with Harvard began at birth. His father, Edwin O. Reischauer, a Harvard professor in Japanese studies and former U.S. ambassador to Japan, carved the Reischauer family's place at Harvard in stone when the University's Institute for Japanese Studies was named in his honor.
Elected in 1996 to the Board of Overseers, the University's other governing board for which he served a six-year term, the younger Reischauer served as director of the Congressional Budget Office and worked with Summers at the CBO. Reischauer began his term on the Corporation in 2002, and his years of service to the University made him a natural choice for senior fellow when Houghton retired.
Houghton recounts the process of the senior fellow's appointment as something that "sort of happens."
"It's the fact you've been there the longest," Houghton says of the "smooth" transition from him to Reischauer.
Though many also see Lee as a natural choice for the job, he differs notably from Reischauer in both his personal and professional background. While Reischauer grew up with strong Harvard ties, Lee says that he and his brothers, who also attended Harvard, could especially appreciate the opportunities it gave them, with parents "who got off the boat in 1948 without a penny to their name."


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Ciabatta with Italian flour
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I'm anxious to try making ciabatta with real Italian flour. Italian flours are rather confusing by I came across this information on the
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Color-changing polymer maps fingerprints
Detecting perspiration pinpoints people's pores
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Sweaty fingers make tidy prints. Beads of perspiration seeping from a person's pores can leave detailed maps of the fingertips, and a new technique can detect the sweat.
Human finger pores ooze salty drops of water about the size of pinpricks, says materials scientist Jong-Man Kim of Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.
He and colleagues created color-changing polymers that snap from blue to red when they touch the tiny droplets. Individual polymer units look like teeny tadpoles, with bulbous heads and skinny tails. When packed tightly together, they form stacked sheets that appear blue. But when water swells the polymers' heads, the crowded sheets twist apart and absorb shorter wavelengths of light, making the sheets look red.
Pressing a finger to a polymer-coated film instantly colored it with red dots, Kim's team reports April 29 in Nature Communications. Kim thinks the polymers


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• Clinch River Corporation (former pulp and paper mill) in Harriman, Tenn.; and
• 700 South 1600 East PCE Plume (ground water plume) in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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• Beck's Lake (former automotive and hazardous waste dump) in South Bend, Ind.;
• Garden City Ground Water Plume (ground water plume) in Garden City, Ind.;
• Keystone Corridor Ground Water Contamination (ground water plume) in Indianapolis, Ind;
• Smurfit-Stone Mill (former pulp and paper mill) in Missoula, Mont.;
• Cristex Drum (former fabric mill) in Oxford, N.C.;
• Hemphill Road TCE (former chemical drum recycling) in Gastonia, N.C.;
• Collins & Aikman Plant (Former) (former automotive rubber manufacturer) in Farmington, N.H.;
• Wilcox Oil Company (former oil refinery) in Bristow, Okla.; and
• Makah Reservation Warmhouse Beach Dump (municipal and hazardous waste dump) in Neah Bay, Wash.
EPA is also proposing to change the name of the B.F. Goodrich site in Rialto, Cal., which EPA added to the NPL on September 23, 2009 (74 FR 48412). A settling work party has requested that EPA propose changing the site's name to Locust Avenue; the proposed change is consistent with the terms of a consent decree lodged with the court and informs the public of the site's geographic location.
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I have been away alot recently (that sounds familiar to all that know me) and one of those trips was a field trip to Peru. In fact I brought my partner with me to be our driver and field assistant. This is a big gamble - would we be able to cope without killing each other; would he understand and enjoy what we were doing; would he drive us off the cliff? These were all considerations that we pondered but eventually decided that it would be great - if we couldn't explain to him the value of our work then we reallly needed to work on our communication skills.
However it wasn't a holiday for him - as well as the driving we made him press plants, collect insects, take DNA samples, transcribe field data and also I made him write my blog . There was a lot so he will be doing it in instalments as he also has a day job . It has been enlightening reading it and seeing what we do through the eyes of another.
Without much further ado, I give you Dave:
For reasons best known to herself, The Doc thought it would be a good idea for me to come with her to Peru for two weeks as her field assistant/driver/Odd Job man. Part of the deal was to see if I could write her blog for a few days. Folly! The idea is that I might provide an outsider's perspective on what Erica does, as prior to this I had little experience with fieldwork beyond high-school geography. So I gave up two precious weeks of holiday and relented.
I've never been to South America. It's not something you pass up. I paid the air fare, but much of the (admittedly inexpensive) rest came free. As an editor in my job, at the very least this would be an opportunity for me to ask some awkward questions! So I'll be filling in for Erica and revealing what she and Dr Sandy Knapp, botanist extraordinaire and leader of this expedition, find in Darkest Peru (© Paddington Bear).
The gang.
It took 20 hours of flying and 14 hours (más o menos) of driving to get our first sample, so let it be known that the Museum goes far for our money. We were joined by two wonderful spirits of the insect and plant world: Evelyn Gamboa of the entomology dept of the University of San Marcos in Lima (the oldest in the Americas) and later by botanist Segundo Leiva Gonzales, Director of the herbarium at Antenoar Orrego University in Trujillo.
First question: what are we doing here? Is it worth it? Is this some sort of jolly? I'd suspected Erica led a charmed life coming on these trips, which she called work. But I had to keep an open mind. So of course we're here to collect plant and insect samples. Specifically it's plants of the Solenacaea family (i.e. nightshades - wild relatives of our cultivated tomatoes, aubergines, potatoes and tobacco) - and the pollinators, pests and associated microfauna thereof. In particular, we'll be collecting diptera - true flies, which you'll all by now know about already if you follow Erica's blog.
Sandy says this is the first study we know of that samples both the plant and associated insect population together, in situ. The success of this trip - or otherwise - could have extensive repercussions for future study. Naturally, this trip will also add to the Museum's (and by extension, the world's) knowledge of these species, and will boost Segundo's university's collection. We'll also be able to tell what's happening to the distribution, prevalence and range of these species over time (many records go back decades).
And the data they find here could have a wide variety of applications. For example, a changing climate might put stress on current cultivars of tomatoes. Crossing these staples with certain varieties of their hardier Peruvian cousins might increase pest resistance, or tolerance to drier conditions for instance - agricultural benefits with with knock-on effects for food security, natural pest control, biodiversity and species distribution.
But, before all that can happen, we had to find them first. That meant a day of driving up the Panamericana north from Lima. We had the right car for it - a 4x4 Toyota the crew likes to call Freddie. It is owned by a man called Martin, who has never learned to drive it. I will be happy to test-drive it on this occasion. I will not be calling it Freddie...
Dave and Freddy.
Away from the sprawl of the capital
Once Freddie had escaped the sprawl and grubby winter permafog of the capital, we hugged the coast up the Panamericana and the fog lifted. The scenery slowly evolved from apocalyptic ashen desert into drifting caramel dunes, lonely pastel mountainscapes and roads that vanish on the horizon. We stopped in a roadside café made of reeds with a toilet located tellingly far from the main building that had no water, no toilet paper - but did have a colourful penguin collage painted optimistically on the outside. Yet here they served us the freshest and tastiest ceviche - perfect fodder when the thermometer is climbing above 30degC.
We spent that evening in Trujillo, where the crumbling colonial mansions and old courtyards of the old town seemed to me to be a vast improvement on what I'd seen of Lima at that point (which to be fair, was not much). Yet I felt I had been in the country for some time - a result of that temporal illusion you get when you're a bit jetlagged and you've crammed so much into a short period. But as Erica and I shared a beer at the end of a dusty day, I realised we hadn't even taken our first sample.
At 6.30 the next day we were off. We headed north again on the Panamericana and after an hour or two, turned right towards the distant mountains, roughly following the river Chicama. After a brief stop for grub in a charming market village called Roma we wound our way up a dry valley interspersed with fertile arable land into the foothills of the Andes. The dunes had given way to scrub - semi desert - where stately cacti pointed skyward and the road deteriorated into a dirt track full of entertaining potholes (n.b. not entertaining for everyone in the car). We stopped occasionally to sample the plants, and Erica showed Evelyn the ropes of how to collect with nets and Erica's primary weapon - the suction sampler. Basically this is a handheld vacuum cleaner with a net and container for catching the insects. Anyone wielding it looks like That Fourth Bloke in Ghostbusters. It looks daft, but it does its job. Vultures hovered hopefully in the blue as we inched inadvisably on.
The variety of landscapes.
Hours of lurching later, Sandy bade us stop at a loop in the road, an unconvincing turnoff to a place called Colbot, having seen a likely candidate. Her instincts were correct - a single specimen of Solanum habrochaites clung defiantly to a cleft in the bend. This is a wild tomato species that is found on the western slopes of the Andes from central Ecuador to central Peru. This species is notable partly because, with a bit of crafty crossbreeding, it yields 20 times more sugar than the cultivated tomato - a matter of keen interest to the Heinz family.
Erica and Evelyn got out and swept their nets gamely - Erica performing a more detailed local sample and, as had been decided, Evelyn with a more free role, performing a general sweep in all the sites we encountered. Sandy cropped herself a small sample when they'd finished swishing. Here Erica discovered a beefly among the other unfortunate captives in her killing jar. As we know, Erica gets soppy about beeflies. But not so soppy as to let them go.
Segundo took a sample of Capparis scabrida - a relative of the caper plant - sprouting in the dry riverbed. Then Erica and Evelyn swept the hell out of this area with their nets and Erica seemed interested to have caught a micropezidae - stalky, stick-legged flies, which she feels are "quite funky".
We stopped for lunch here. A local cowherd came and joined us and he told us that there hadn't been any rain that year, and that it was making life difficult. I can but try and imagine. I was finding it hard to believe we would find much in this environment. But not for the first time I would be proven wrong.
Life finds a way
A single mototaxi - a tuktuk - wobbled past us carting an old lady, probably from the market in Roma. We'd passed it several times and when we'd stopped to look for specimens and it had crawled past us, the tortoise to our hare.
The 'tortoise' to our hare
The vegetation became more abundant, as the road gathered height, along with my spirits. Not that I wasn't fascinated with the desert but, given a choice, I much prefer the mountains and greenery to deserts, and the scenery was becoming more and more preferable.
Several stops and samples later, we made a final stop in a bend where a stream passed under the road a mile on from a charming mountain village called San Benito. This location was teeming with life. Humans included. Children from the nearby village came to say hello, all curious to see what these gringos were doing on their patch. All except one young lad, who was having a bad day and preferred to throw stones at his friends. For this, his big brother took him home upside down.
Where there's water
Meanwhile, we swept for various insects, and I carried on my supplementary job of detailing the GPS location, weather conditions and general description of the sample site. I was also given the seed-collecting detail. Lots was found here.
Sandy found three different kinds of wild tomato and then casually announced she had discovered a new species of Browalia - a Solanacaea species sometimes grown ornamentally like petunias. This was something I found astonishing but to the experienced botanist, it was merely very interesting. And Erica discovered a few snail-killing Scyomyzids -the presence of moist liking flies was presumably testament to the damper conditions.
After an hour or so of sweeping, the mototaxi pottered round the corner, passed us again and disappeared round the corner for the last time.
Colourful buildings of San Benito.
After a welcome supper in a very rustic kitchen in San Benito, where Segundo secured us berths in a municipal hotel, Erica and Evelyn started pinning the specimens, Sandy set up her plant-dryer - an insulated stack of card and wood heated overnight by a small gas flame - and I started logging the samples we had found on Erica's ancient laptop. By the time we had finished it was time for bed.
But first I felt I should at least reacquaint myself with the night skies of the southern hemisphere and say hello to the Southern Cross. I avoid the overused word 'awesome' if I can, but it seems perfectly fitting here. I've never seen the stars quite as clear as that night in San Benito. I thought I had made some sort of mistake - but no, it wasn't low cloud, but the distinct ghostly veil of the Milky Way. '
To be continued....
So that was Dave's first thoughts on fieldwork with us..More blog pieces to follow....


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Whenever Veron Telar, Manila project coordinator in the Philippines, can access the Internet, she tries to send email updates about Walk2gether to Trisha Pitts, the regional director for the Philippines. Veron is walking through Central America with Bob and the Walk team.
Feb. 6, 2010
Dear Ma'am Trisha,
Thank you for the very inspiring message and for sharing my journey with the CFCA. Thank you also for the appreciation, prayers and support of everyone in Kansas and in the projects.
We are now here in Nicaragua and have finished our first 40 kilometers here yesterday. So far, we have walked 1,051 kilometers after crossing the mountainous 575 kilometers of Honduras. It was a great time walking with the Honduran CFCA sponsored families and staff in the projects. I am privileged to meet my co-coordinators and the rest of each project team.
I deeply appreciate your support to the Manila project team as you are constantly communicating with my team.
We received a call from the Philippines last week during the mission awareness trip to Antipolo. It was really a great joy for me to talk with Ma'am Malou (Antipolo project coordinator) and share with them some of my journey and experiences on the Walk. Sir Bob also gave his message to the Philippines team. I believe they are having a wonderful mission awareness trip.
My prayer is that this year's trip brings hope, joy and life-giving experiences to the sponsors, CFCA families and to all my co-workers in the Philippines. I am very proud to represent them in Walk2gether, and also all of our co-workers in Kansas and in projects around the world. It is very inspiring to walk, as every co-worker of each project that we have visited has requested me to continue walking for them. I am very thankful and will always be appreciative for this great opportunity provided by my CFCA family.
This is all for now. I will be in touch again in the next few days. I hope my emails do not take most of your time. I just want to tell my experiences in this beautiful journey. I would like to add that the Walk, to me, is a healing process of the many challenges in my personal and work experiences, and I am very hopeful that this will surely be a great success for me and for every CFCA community, co-worker and sponsors, as well.
Thank you very much. My best regards to everyone.


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DETROIT - A Michigan man whose three sons have been missing since last year has been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison on charges of unlawful imprisonment.
John Skelton's sons -- 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner -- have been missing since Thanksgiving, when their mother said Skelton never returned them to her after a scheduled visit.
The father pleaded no contest to the charges in June, after prosecutors dropped kidnapping charges. He has said he gave them away to an organization because they were being abused by their mother. Hundreds of people have searched woods and waters in Ohio and Michigan. In February, Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks, concerned that people had false hope of the boys' return, said the case had turned into a homicide investigation.
Skelton appeared Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court in Adrian. He told Judge Margaret Noe he loves the boys and has cried daily since their disappearance.
Noe told Skelton his "explanations have been ridiculous."
"Because of you, Andrew, Alexander and Tanner have been silenced. We don't know where they are," Noe said.
Assistant prosecutor Douglas Hartung asked Skelton if he would make one last statement about where the boys were.
"The only question left is, are you man enough to tell the truth? Once and for all," Hartung said.
Skelton never answered the question. Instead, responded, "I would have done things differently if I felt that the system didn't fail me, if I felt the people who were supposed to have done something didn't choose friendship over their duty.That's it."
Noe exceeded the sentencing guidelines, which were 43 to 86 months. Skelton was given credit for 289 days already served.
Tanya Skelton filed for divorce last September. The boys lived with her but were allowed to visit with their father.
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An 8-year-old boy in Slaughter, La. has been accused of killing Marie Smothers, his 90-year-old caregiver while she watched television, according to police. Authorities say a copy of "Grand Theft Auto IV," an M-rated video game, was found at the scene of the crime. According to state laws, since the boy is under the age of 10, he can not be charged with a crime.
The game, released in 2008, lets players kill enemies (and civilians), shoot and kill police, steal cars and other illegal activities. The game is made for gamers over 18. It's not known if the child was playing the game before the shooting, though a statement from investigators claims he was playing the game.
"Although a motive for the shooting is unknown at this time, investigators have learned that the juvenile suspect was playing a video game on the Play Station III "Grand Theft Auto IV", a realistic game that has been associated with encouraging violence and awards points to players for killing people, just minutes before the homicide occurred," said a statement issued by the Sheriff's Office.
Almost on cue, video game critics are quick to bash the video game industry for this act of violence. Why did the boy have access to such a violent video game? Why didn't his caregiver, 90, monitor him better? And yet no one is asking this question – did the PlayStation 3 version of the game have a real-life pistol? Did the coroner rule the Blu Ray disc of the game was indeed the murder weapon? No, of course not. The video game critics seem to overlook this simple fact – the pistol, belonging to the senior, was the murder weapon. It, not the game, was responsible for the woman's murder.
As a parent, I heavily monitor what media my children consume. Yes, I do let them play video games, but I will not play anything M-rated or violent while they are present. I rarely allow them to watch violent movies and try my best to stop them from listening to raunchy music. However, when they are around my wife and I, there is no way they will ever play "Grand Theft Auto," "Saints Row" or "Call of Duty" in my presence until they are 18.
As a journalist, I have to look at this story from all sides. The boy was playing a mature game he had no business playing. The 90-year-old was his caregiver but was murdered with her own weapon. Where do video games play into this mess? Why did the boy have access to a firearm in the first place?
Blaming "Grand Theft Auto IV" for this senior's death is a predictable response from gun lovers, the NRA and lawmakers in the gun lobby's back pocket (and the misinformed 2nd Amendment supporters who are convinced this nation was founded on Christian values_. Call it what it really is – bad parenting and a nonchalant attitude about firearms. The statistics are true – the odds are in your favor that you'll be more likely to be harmed and/or killed with YOUR FIREARM than you harming/killing an intruder.
The pistol, not "GTA IV," is to blame for Marie Smothers' murder.


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In India, the men's clothing retailer Allen Solly launched its latest collection with a billboard that showcased 60 shirts and dispensed them as free samples in exchange for tweets.
The billboard-vender, created by ad agency Ogilvy India, encouraged passersby to send a tweet with the hashtag #RainingSolly and stand by for a chance to win free shirts.
Each tweet activated panels on the billboard that slowly pushed the shirts forward until they were released. The tweets were shown on a screen, so the person who sent the one that made the shirt fall from the billboard got to claim it.


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Nov. 22, 2009
by John Cabral
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming teams were topped by visiting Bentley at the Tripp Athletic Center Pool Saturday. The men fell short 164-131, while the women were upended by a total score of 183-103.
On the women's side, Corsair freshman Morgan Cooper (Sunderland, Mass./Frontier Regional HS) was the top UMass Dartmouth performer of the day, winning three events. The Sunderland, Mass. native picked up two butterfly victories, winning the 50 yard event with a time of 28.09 seconds and taking the 100 yard race with a time of 1:04:47. Cooper also won the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 57.99 seconds. Freshman Maggie Conlon (Methuen, Mass./Methuen HS) registered the only other event victory for the women's team Saturday. Conlon swam the 50 yard freestyle in 26.85 seconds to record the win.
For the men, junior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, Mass./New Bedford HS) and junior Matt Fahey (New Bedford, Mass./New Bedford HS) led the squad with two wins each. Johnson won both the 50 yard freestyle and the 50 yard butterfly with times of 22.42 and 24.23 seconds, respectively. Fahey claimed first in both the one meter dive with 242.50 points and the three meter dive with a score of 271.10.
Johnson teamed up with freshman Matt Dean (Londonderry, N.H./Londonderry HS), junior Andrew Haughey (West Springfield, Mass./West Springfield HS), and freshman Jake Pesante (Wakefield, R.I./South Kingston HS) to win the 400 yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:28.97. Pesante claimed an individual victory in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:57.90.
Junior Steve Szarek (Middletown, Conn./Middletown HS) came away with the only other men's event victory, claiming a win in the 50 yard breaststroke with a time of 29.33 seconds. The Corsair men are now 2-2, and the women are 1-3. Bentley's men are 2-2, and the women are 3-1. The Corsair women will return to action when they travel to Eastern Connecticut State Wednesday evening, December 2nd. The Falcons will host the Northeast 10 Invitational December 5th and 6th.


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Patty Kreamer, CPO® (Certified Professional Organizer) is the President of Kreamer Connect, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that works with residential and corporate clients to become more productive and perform better while at the same time simplifying their work and lives.
Patty is an author, consultant, speaker and professional organizer who is seen regularly in the media. She shares her fun and energetic style with the audiences of publications like The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times, and through television shows like LifeQuest, KDKA's Morning Show, and One on One with Lee Adams.
Patty is the Founding Past President of the National Association of Professional Organizers - Pittsburgh chapter and Past President of and The National Speakers Association - Pittsburgh chapter. Patty was named Women's Business Network's 2007 Woman of the Year as well as one of Pennsylvania's Best 50 Women in Business and one of Pittsburgh's Fastrackers in 2005.