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The Integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN) is a proprietary mobile communications technology from Motorola. It is a TDMA based digital wireless standard that operates in the 800 MHz, 900MHz, and 1.5 GHz bands. It combines the capabilities of a digital cellular telephone and a two-way radio known as push-to-talk (PTT).
Motorola's iDEN technology phones support many other features including Bluetooth, location-based services, MOTOTalk and support for expandable memory (Micro SD). Sprint Nextel is the largest U.S. retailer of iDEN services.
Newer iDEN phones use a SIM card that is compatible with GSM phones for overseas roaming but iDEN is a very different standard from GSM. iDEN phones are not compatible with GSM networks and GSM phones are not compatible with iDEN networks.
iDEN was invented by Motorola who is presently the primary manufacturer of iDEN devices.
Nextel has started to develop a 2.5G technology called WiDEN in order to provide high data rates for packet data. WiDEN is a planned expansion on the iDEN system, where instead of using a normal 25 kHz channel for packet data, it will encompass 4 carriers (100 kHz) into one channel. This would allow download speeds of 96 kbit/s, which is comparable to the average CDMA2000 1x speeds from American competitors Sprint and Verizon Wireless.


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A local research institution and safety officials across Franklin County are looking to develop a new mass warning and notification system that meets the needs of the 21st century.
A local research institution and safety officials across Franklin County are looking to develop a new mass warning and notification system that meets the needs of the 21st century.
Battelle and Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security hope to find ways to better communicate with the public about dangerous conditions related to the weather, chemical spills, accidents along major roadways and other incidents.
"There's no consistency in terms of what vendors they're using," said Kimberly Stamble, project manager for Battelle, which is conducting the needs assessment for the effort. "They're only capable of reaching a limited amount of people in the community. There's nothing countywide."
Residents are being asked to contribute input through public meetings and a survey at fcemhs.com.
Officials from the various cities, villages and townships will participate in focus groups designed to demonstrate their particular needs, Stramble said.
She said she sees web apps and other technology playing an important part in the project. Warnings about types of calamities, such as tornadoes, would be transmitted automatically. However, suburbs could customize their alert systems per type of distress, such as a water-main break, and at certain times of the day and particular areas of the county, she said.
"I think there are certainly increased capabilities that could be utilized to reach a broader audience or greater number of people in the community," she said.
Stramble said the needs assessment should be complete by July and the implementation should be complete by the end of the year.
Michael Pannell, director of Franklin County Emergency Management and Homeland Security, called the new system a top priority.
"I would say we're anxious to get it done," he said. "I think an area of our size, with the population we have in Ohio, needs a 21st-century mass-notification capability.
"I think our job is to make sure it works and to coordinate with the 42 jurisdictions in Franklin County."
Jeff Young, fire chief for the city of Upper Arlington, said the city in November 2012 implemented UA Alerts, a mass communication system that sends notices to 15,000 households -- which could include multiple family members who receive the alerts via land lines and cellphones.
It's then up to residents to go into the UA Alerts system to create and update their account to use other means of contact, such as emails and texts, and to select non-emergency updates, including those from city services, construction, utilities, and recreation and parks.
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Parents may want to consider adding a poncho, rain boots or an umbrella to their children's Halloween costumes as the weather forecast calls for a wet Thursday evening.
Parents may want to consider adding a poncho, rain boots or an umbrella to their children's Halloween costumes as the weather forecast calls for a wet Thursday evening.
"We do have a chance of showers moving into the area," Jody Aaron, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham, said Tuesday. "At this point, it looks like we're going to see showers and thunderstorms working into the area between 6 and 8 p.m. (Thursday)."
The system that is bringing in the rainy weather is slow-moving, Aaron said, so once the rain picks up, people should expect it to last until at least midnight, but maybe into 2 or 3 a.m. Friday. As of Tuesday morning, the worst of the weather is expected north of Tuscaloosa, but the system could bring severe thunderstorms to the area, he said.
He also said that the exact time of the rain's beginning is subject to change but, based on the computer models, the showers are likely to come earlier rather than later, if it does change.
There are a few options around town for trick-or-treating inside local businesses and churches. Some of the locations for these Thursday events include:
Taylorville United Methodist Church, 640 Bear Creek Road, starting at 6 p.m.
Indian Lake Baptist Church, 3815 Watermelon Road, at 6 p.m.
Morning Pointe Assisted Living Facility, 1801 Rice Mine Road N., from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. All service desks at the main library and branches will have goodies for the kids. Also, the main library will offer green screen photos for the kids in their costumes from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 5-7 p.m.
Stillman College, 3601 Stillman Blvd. Beginning at 4:30 p.m., Student Government Association leaders will take youth groups around to campus offices and buildings to collect candy from faculty and staff members, many of whom will be dressed in costumes.
Also, Northport Fire Rescue will give candy to trick-or-treaters at all its fire stations from 5-8 p.m.
Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue will hand out candy from 6-8 p.m.
Locations for Northport Fire Rescue are listed on cityofnorthport.com and locations for Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue can be found on tuscaloosa.com.
No matter what families plan to do for Halloween, the Red Cross has some safety tips for Thursday night that are based on the biggest hazards of the night — falls, costume mishaps and car accidents.
"What we've found on Halloween is that there are a lot of children on the street walking, so we see a lot of bumps scrapes and bruises," said Chris Osborne, regional communications officer for the Red Cross, "but more serious is the chance that kids could be struck by an automobile."
To help reduce the risk of injury, the Red Cross suggests that parents plan their trick-or-treat routes beforehand.
Other tips for parents from the Red Cross include making sure children's costumes or bags have reflective material.
Trick-or-treaters should also carry flashlights and stay on the sidewalks.
If sidewalks are not available, Osborne said parents and children should walk facing traffic, allowing cars to see them more easily.
They also released a list of precautions that people handing out candy can take, such as using flashlights or glow sticks inside pumpkins rather than candles, keeping porch lights on and restraining household pets.
"Those things can also help contribute to a good night of trick-or-treating on Halloween," he said.
Osborne also recommended parents download the Red Cross First Aid app, which offers expert advice for any kind of emergency on Halloween or any day of the year. The app is available at www.redcross.org.
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- Is it possible to disallow usage of inactive computers?
- Is it possible to use card readers for customer accounts?
- Does this software stop the customer from being able to change any settings on the computer?
- I have members who have a domain login, will these members have to log in twice?
- How many charging rates can CafeSuite handle?
- How many workstations can be controlled by CafeSuite?
- Is it possible to control game consoles like XBOX or PlayStation?
- Can CafeSuite control customers who are using their own laptops in my cafe?
- Is it possible to control customers with laptops using my wireless network?
- Can the workstation lock screen be altered (skinned) to reflect my branding? Where I can customize background image in the lock screen?
- How many customer accounts can CafeSuite handle?
- I have many employees, can they have separate profiles in CafeSuite?
- Is it possible to block certain content or access to some websites with CafeSuite?
- Is it possible to view workstation screen from the server?
- Is it possible to see what programs are running on the workstation?
- What about WOL / Wake-On-Lan / WakeOnLAN / Wake on LAN?
- Is it possible to block the USB in my PC's which has been abused by some users downloading copyrighted materials.
- Can you make it in CafeStation when a customer log into show his photo from databse (if it is exists)?
- I can't find smart card function. Do you sell smartcard module seperately?
- Do Cafesuite support multi-store? If not, will you develop this function? What's CafeBoss in configuration?
- Hello! can you use happy hour? for example: free navigation from 9:00 to 10:00.
- How to make CafeSuite charge time from customer accounts when they print a document (for example 2 min per page)?
- How can I make CafeSuite send my daily reports to a private email account?
- Can the server and client be installed on the one machine (e.g. workstation)?
- Can CafeSuite used on thin clients? With terminal sessions? With Citrix server?
- I just wanted to know if CafeSuite supports printing tickets and if it does how do one print tickets?
- Is there any possibility to keep customers from shutting down or restarting computers?
- Can be CafeSuite add points to the system immediatly? Such as when the customer finishes to use PC the system can reduce the price by points at once?
- While client has been locked for quite some time is it possible to automatically shutdown PC to save on electricity?
- Is it possible to import a database of clients (MS-Access format)?
- Is it possible to generate a product report sold per day (daily totals by product)?
- Can CafeSuite stop printing if account has no credit?
- Does CafeSuite have ability to install software by executing exe file from server and installing to clients?
- Can I block downloads?
- How to set up my wireless hotspot to work together with CafeSuite?
- How can i lock Start menu on client computers?
- Is it possible to monitor and control bandwidth in CafeSuite?
- How to configure built-in print control in CafeSuite?
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How to set up my wireless hotspot to work together with CafeSuite?
The new CafeSuite RADIUS module makes it possible to authorize
laptop users through CafeSuite. The requirement is to have a wifi router
with RADIUS-authenticated captive portal feature, for example Open-Mesh or routers flashed with DD-WRT firmware. It's a bit
tricky to set up, but perhaps we will have pre-configured routers in
offer soon.
You will need:
- the latest CafeSuite (available on Downloads page)
- router wifi with DD-WRT firmware or similar that has a hotspot/captive portal feature (e.g. OpenMesh, CoovaAP)
- optionally https server where logon page will be hosted (or alternatively you could use our server)
- upgrade CafeSuite to the latest version
- during installation leave Install CafeSuite Radius Service for wifi hotspot checkbox enabled
- execute CafeStation and enter main program settings (menu Program/Options)
- activate option Enable RADIUS server on Advanced/Radius page, leave default port numbers, enter any password as Secret and remember it
- activate option Enable built-in web server on Advanced/Web services page, type some username and password for security
- enter your router's hotspot settings (Services/Hotspot/Chillispot for DD-WRT or Dashboard/Edit network/SSID #1 for OpenMesh)
Settings for Chillispot:
[*] Chillispot: Enable
[*] Separate Wifi from the LAN Bridge: Enable
[*] Primary Radius Server IP/DNS: IP number of PC with CafeSuite Radius Module
[*] Backup Radius Server IP/DNS:
[*] Shared Key: earlier typed password at Secret field on Advanced/Radius page
[*] DNS IP: IP number of a DNS server in LAN Remote Network: 192.168.182.0/24 (IP number and network mask of wifi network)
[*] Redirect URL:https://cafegate.com/hotspot/timecode.php (if users should log in with timecode only) or https://cafegate.com/hotspot/ (if username/password logon is required)
[*] DHCP Interface: eth1
[*] Radius NAS ID: anything, e.g. CAFE1
[*] UAM Secret: test
[*] UAM Any DNS: 0
[*] UAM Allowed: websites that can be accessed without logging in separated by comma
[*] MACauth: disabled
More information about settings: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Chillispot
Settings for Open-Mesh routers:
[*] Captive Portal Options: Other RADIUS Provider
[*] RADIUS Server: IP number of PC with CafeSuite Radius Module
[*] RADIUS Secret: earlier typed password at Secret field on Advanced/Radius page
[*] RADIUS NASID: anything, e.g. CAFE1
[*] UAM Server:https://cafegate.com/hotspot/timecode.php (if users should log in with timecode only) or https://cafegate.com/hotspot/ (if username/password logon is required)
[*] UAM Secret: test
[*] Allowed Domains: websites that can be accessed without logging in separated by comma
[*] ChilliSpot Compatible: enabled
Logon script can also be hosted on your own www server - the php and cgi code is available in CafeSuite\Radius folder. Then instead of https://cafegate.com/hotspot/ you need to enter URL to your own logon page and set identical UAM secret as in page script.
After connecting laptop with your public WIFI network and opening browser, user should get redirected to logon page. After correct logon, in CafeStation a new session will be started on a new workstation assigned to wifi group. After user logs off, the workstation will automatically be removed.
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Whether you are contemplating buying a wind-electric system or trying to analyze the system you own, understanding wind speed is crucial. Wind is the fuel for the system, and measuring it will help you verify present performance and predict future performance.
Differentiating between instantaneous and average wind speed is very important. These are two very different measures—as different as your average speed while driving between Philadelphia and Boston, and the (instantaneous) speed the cop caught you driving at on the New Jersey Turnpike. If you were going 78 mph when the radar hit your car, no amount of explaining to the cop that your averagewas 57 mph will let you escape that ticket.
With wind energy, instantaneous wind speed is the less important measure, and average wind speed steps into the primary position. For residential systems, the average wind speed at the tower top is the primary measure used to quantify the wind resource. Let's look at these two measures and the real-world ranges you will find.
Recorded instantaneous wind speeds range from 0 mph (of course) to about 231 mph—the latter has been experienced at Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. Higher wind speeds likely have occurred elsewhere, but have not been measured. At typical home sites, winds might run up to the 70 mph to 100 mph range a few times a year. More normal instantaneous wind speeds top out in the 40 mph to 50 mph range. But for wind energy production, the important range of instantaneous speeds is between 10 mph and 25 mph. Why?
Below about 10 mph, there isn't a huge amount of energy available in the wind. Wind power is cubic—so assuming 1 mph produces 1 unit of power, a 10 mph resource will yield 1,000 units (10 × 10 × 10). At 5 mph—50% of that speed—you'll wind up with 125 units (5 × 5 × 5)—12.5% of the power in 10 mph winds. At the other end of the scale, 25 cubed— which is 15,625—represents a lot of potential energy, and a lot of force on your turbine and tower. Between 25 and 30 mph, most turbines worth buying start shedding wind in one way or another, to protect the machine. A machine built to generate reliably in higher wind speeds would have to be awfully beefy, and it would probably not perform well at the lower wind speeds experienced most of the time at most sites.
It is useful to know the typical high wind speeds at your site, since this will impact the strength and durability required of your turbine and tower. If your site rarely has 50 mph winds, you might be able to use a less-expensive, medium-duty turbine. A heavy-duty turbine is needed for sites that regularly experience 80 mph winds.
Instantaneous wind speeds are interesting to monitor, but beyond determining the stoutness of your turbine and tower, that data isn't very useful. The goal is not peak power (watts), or power at any particular wind speed, but energy (watt-hours). And to predict that, we need to use average wind speed.
Average wind speed is calculated by measuring instantaneous wind speeds over time on a site, and averaging them (see Mike Klemen's nerdy article, "Wind Speed Data & Its Application to Wind-Generated Power," in HP62). Most sites suitable for home-scale wind systems lie within the 6 to 12 mph average range. For an on-grid household, a 6 mph site will not typically be cost-effective, but, if you're off-grid, it might be better than running your generator a lot in the winter. In most cases, a 12 mph site will make economic sense.
Utility-scale wind farmers are looking for even higher average wind speeds, in the 12 to 18 mph range. The highest recorded annual average wind speed is also on Mt. Washington, about 35 mph. But this is an extreme site, and most wind farms don't exceed the low 20 mph average. Those predicting or reporting higher averages are either looking at shorter-term averages (like monthly, not annual, averages), or they are blowing smoke.
We use the average wind speed to predict wind generator production by looking at manufacturers' energy curves (see example), looking at certification data, or using formulae (see "Estimating Wind Energy" in HP102 for one example). Average wind speed is to wind generator production what peak sun-hours are to solar-electric production.
To help avoid unrealistic expectations, I suggest that you:
• Clearly understand the difference between instantaneous and average wind speeds, and realize that the latter is most important.
• Understand that instantaneous wind speeds have lesser value, since the wind varies and the power available varies cubically with wind speed. Knowing a specific instantaneous wind speed only gives us one point of data, which is just as useless as one point in the power (kW) curve.
• Understand the realistic range of average wind speeds on residential sites, and try to ascertain the average wind speed at turbine height on your own site. This number is the most useful in predicting energy (kWh) output.
Ian Woofenden (ian.woofenden at homepower.com) lives off-grid with an average wind speed of 7 mph. While not remarkable, it saves lots of generator run time, fuel, and racket. His wind turbines see 60 to 70 mph a few times a year, and have experienced 100 mph at least once in 25 years of providing wind energy for his home.
source: https://www.homepower.com/articles/wind-power/design-installation/understanding-wind-speed


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Gatorade's G Series FIT Products Designed For Athletes' Needs
To help athletes get the most out of their performance, scientists from Chicago-based Gatorade, a PepsiCo subsidiary, launched G Series Performance, a line of new food and beverage products supported by the latest science and developed in collaboration with the world's greatest athletes to provide fuel, fluid and nutrients before, during and after activity.
Each G Series FIT product has been designed with the fitness athlete's specific demands in mind, including: functional package design, custom product portions and the incorporation of natural ingredients like fruits and nuts. All of this is aimed at meeting the fitness athlete's fueling and hydration demands - pre (01), during (02) and post (03) exercise.
G Series Fit 01 Prime is a pre-workout fuel in the form of small energy bites in 4-oz. pouches, providing nutrients and carbohydrates to help get the most out of a workout without feeling too full. At 100 calories, it includes 25g of carbohydrates, electrolytes (110mg sodium and 35mg potassium) and 10 percent-plus DV of B vitamins -- niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5) and pyridoxine (B6). It is available in Orange, Fruit Punch, and Berry flavors.
G Series Fit 02 Perform, a lightly flavored electrolyte drink, maintains hydration more efficiently than water and helps replace the fluid and electrolytes lost in sweat. At the same time, it invigorates the senses to keep fitness athletes pushing through their workout without weighing them down.
Gatorade Thirst Quencher helps athletes replace fluids, replenish electrolytes and refuel working muscles during activity. It contains 14g of carbohydrates plus electrolytes (110mg sodium and 30mg of potassium).
Gatorade Perform 02 G2 is a low-calorie thirst quencher that delivers functional hydration for active people during exercise, but with less than half the calories (and carbohydrates to fuel working muscles) of Gatorade Thirst Quencher. It contains 5g of carbohydrates and electrolytes (110mg sodium and 30mg potassium.
G Series Fit 03 Recover is a light, refreshing, fruit-based smoothie designed to help restore the body after a workout through a blend of 16g of protein, 14g of carbohydrates, electrolytes (250mg sodium and 95mg potassium) and vitamins and minerals -- with only 130 calories. Flavors include Strawberry-Kiwi, Lemon-Lime-Orange and Mixed Berry.
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Continuing with my exploration of the Blanch families of Westminster, in this post I discuss Thomas Blanch, a joiner who lived there in the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
On 8 October 1726, in the thirteenth and final year of the reign of George I, Thomas Blanch, a joiner in the parish of St James, Westminster, composed his last will and testament. Despite his place of residence, he asks to be buried in the churchyard of St Mary-le-Bow, suggesting some kind of link with the City of London.
As to his property, Thomas bequeaths 'my silver watch, six pewter plates and two pewter dishes' to his brother-in-law John Lorran, and to 'my sister his wife a gold ring value one guinea'. To his sister Esther Blanch, Thomas leaves the sum of five pounds and another gold ring worth one guinea. Also receiving a gold ring of the same value are his brothers William and John Blanch, as well as 'my good friend John Carne Gent', who Thomas asks to act as his executor. The residue and remainder of his possessions Thomas leaves to his mother Esther Blanch, 'praying my said Mother to be kind to my Sister Esther before mentioned'.
John Carne may be the gentleman of Little Ealing whose will was proven on 7 December 1731. Perhaps, like William Barlow of Compton Street, Soho, whose daughter Jane married my great-great-great-great-grandfather James Blanch, he had property there as well as in Westminster? The precise connection between John Carne and Thomas Blanch, and the reason for appointing him as his executor, is unclear.
Thomas' brother-in-law John Lorran may be the person of that name who was born to Alexander and Ann Lorran on 25 July 1700 and christened on 5 August at St James, Westminster. On 25 May 1721 John Loran (sic), a bachelor of that parish 'aged about 22 years', appeared and alleged that he 'intended to marry with Elizabeth Bland of the parish of St Martin in the Fields'. I believe that 'Bland' is probably an error and that John Loran's intended was in fact Elizabeth Blanch, sister of Thomas.
John and Elizabeth Loran had six children, all born and baptised in the parish of St James, Westminster. They were: Ann (1722), Elizabeth (1726), another Elizabeth (1730), presumably because the first one died, Mary (1732), John (1733) and Amelia (1735).
Thomas' brother William might be the person of that name who married Eleanor Tute at St James, Westminster, in 1725. I've yet to find any definite records for his other brother John.
If we look for the birth of a Thomas Blanch, whose mother was named Esther and who had siblings named Esther, Elizabeth, John and William, we won't find any matching records in London or Middlesex for this period. In fact, the closest match in the international Genealogical Index is the family of John (or 'Johis' – for Johannis?) and Hester Blanch of Gloucestershire. They had the following children: John (1691), Hester (1692), Elizabeth (1692), Richard (1694), Elizabeth (1696), John (1699), Thomas (1702) and Stephen (1706). The first six of these were born at Eastington and Alkerton, near Stroud, the last two at Newland, across the Severn near Coleford. The only sibling missing from this list is William, though someone of that name was born to Daniel and Hester Blanch in Gloucester in 1690: perhaps Daniel Blanch died and his widow Hester married his brother John?
If Thomas Blanch, joiner of Westminster, is the same person who was born in Gloucestershire in 1702, then he would only have been about twenty-four years old when he died. This would explain why there is no mention of a wife or children in his will.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Actors Jonah Hill, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kristen Bell are among a batch of celebrities donning Russian-language "Love Conquers Hate" T-shirts to show support for gays in Russia alarmed by a new law banning pro-gay "propaganda."
It's part of an initiative launched Monday by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay-rights group.
Participating celebrities will share photos of themselves wearing the T-shirts on their social media platforms, encouraging followers to do likewise. The HRC says all net proceeds from shirt sales will go to a fund supporting gay-rights efforts in Russia.
"We stand with Russia's LGBT community and their allies," said HRC President Chad Griffin. "We are committed to doing as much as we possibly can to support their efforts to repeal this heinous law."
According to the HRC, other celebrities joining the T-shirt campaign include Fergie, Kelly Osbourne, Ricky Martin, Kevin Bacon, Doutzen Kroes, Anthony Bourdain, Tim Gunn, Perez Hilton, Todd Glass, Jonathan Del Arco, Amanda Leigh Dunn, Ana Matronic, Olympic swimmer Craig Gibbons, NBA basketball player Jason Collins, country singer Maggie Rose and soccer players Jozy Altidore, Lori Lindsey and Megan Rapinoe.
The law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors" was enacted in June.
Gay-rights activists have asked the International Olympic Committee to call for the law's repeal ahead of the Winter Olympics, to be held in Russia in February.
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Dan Brumbaugh attaching a terracotta tile among the reefs. (Click to see a larger image.) K. Holmes/CBC/AMNH
Bursts of bubbles stream from his SCUBA regulator while Dan Brumbaugh carefully installs unglazed terracotta tiles among living coral. Using simple tools familiar to anyone handy with home repairs, he kicks against the current and surge while maneuvering an underwater drill, epoxy, PVC pipe, and vinyl and stainless steel hardware.
Brumbaugh, Senior Conservation Scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History, teams with the CBCs Kate Holmes and other colleagues to investigate the health of the coral reef of Palmyra Atoll. Reef health is gauged, in part, from the tiny clues that attach themselves to the tiles: the number and kind of baby corals and other species of marine organisms able to colonize new surfaces, the variation of colonization at different locations within the reef, and the survival of corals from year to year. Preliminary coral recruitment results, presented this summer at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, show that baby corals are ready and waiting to latch onto the new substrate but that their survivorship is low.
Newly installed settlement tiles on Palmyra's reef. (Click to see a larger image.) D. Brumbaugh & K. Holmes/CBC/AMNH
Reef assemblage with moray eel. (Click to see a larger image.) K. Holmes/CBC/AMNH
"Understanding the ecology of coral recruitment is really important, since the ability of a reef to bounce back after disturbance is tied in part to these recruitment processes. Being able to conduct these studies in a place like Palmyra gives us a window into how coral maintenance and recovery can work on more pristine reefs," says Brumbaugh. "Despite its apparent health, and perhaps even because of the extra dynamism of Palmyras reef communityespecially the large numbers of predatory and grazing fishesthe reef on Palmyra actually appears to be a tough place for a coral to get started."
Palmyra Atoll lies in the remote Northern Line Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Although the islands were heavily modified during World War II, the atoll has never been permanently settled. As a result, the surrounding coral reefs and the reef-fish community that is dominated by sharks, large snappers, and jacks are more intact than most coral reefs found throughout the world. For their coral recruitment experiment, Brumbaugh and colleagues secured a total of 180 tiles at three locations and three depths in 2006. During repeat surveys over the next two years, they carefully brought each tile back to the lab, where the crusty growths were examined and photographed before the tiles were returned to their original reef locations. The last survey is set for 2010.
Isolated in the Pacific Ocean: Palmyra Atoll as seen by an modified IKONOS satellite image. (Click to see a larger image.) P. Ersts/CBC/AMNH
So far, the team has found little variation in the overall number of baby corals that took up residence on the tiles from year to year, although different locations in the reef system had variable numbers of settlers (the more remote eastern side of the atoll has higher numbers, while the fore reefs have more recruits than the back reefs). The survivorship of these recruits, though, was low between 2007 and 2008 compared to other reef systems studied: only 4.1% survived. Palmyra recruits also seemed to prefer the top of tiles when compared to other similar studies throughout the world (only 21% of the total corals were found on the lower sides of the tile, in comparison to about 85% reported in the Caribbean). As Brumbaugh sums it up, "There are some things going on at Palmyra that we dont yet understand, but were working to tease apart the dynamics here since we think theyll have broad relevance to coral reefs elsewhere."
Seen through a microscope, a coral polyp growing on one of the tiles. Polyps normally measure about 1 mm in diameter. (Click to see a larger image.) D. Brumbaugh/CBC/AMNH
Kate Holmes with underwater camera. (Click to see a larger image.) K. Frey/CBC/AMNH
One potential explanation for Palmyras unusual pattern of coral colonization and survivorship is that new corals face heavy grazing from herbivorous fish. To test this idea, Brumbaugh and colleagues placed cages around some tiles to exclude large grazing fish. The team found that coral recruitment was temporarily higher when protected from larger fish, a result supported by observations of Palmyras marine assemblage, where the dominant species is an encrusting coralline algae species that is very tolerant to heavy grazing. On more pristine reefs, therefore, removal of larger fishes may have a short-term positive effect on coral recruitment, as both grazers and possibly planktivores may have a role in controlling coral settlement and survival.
Brumbaugh and Holmes, though, realize that long-term removal of large fish could have different results elsewhere, and results from their research on Caribbean reef systems lend some support to this prediction. Teaming with Alastair Harborne and Peter Mumby from the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the University of Exeter and other members of the Bahamas Biocomplexity Project, Brumbaugh and Holmes compared reef communities inside marine reserves to those in the surrounding, fished waters. The results, recently published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, were clear: in the reserve, where fishing is prohibited, the mean number of fish species per site was 15% greateran increase driven in part by higher diversity and biomass of large groupers, fish prized by the fishing industry. Another observationan increase in the size of parrotfishes in the marine reserve assemblagemeans that seaweed cover decreased and the number of coral recruits increased. Fish grazing is essential for keeping seaweeds at bay so that baby corals can gain a foothold on the reefs. "There is a surprising complexity of ecological interactions on coral reefs, and our Bahamas research is showing that by protecting fish, reserves can allow for more successful coral recovery," says Holmes.
Holmes and Brumbaugh are continuing their research in both The Bahamas and Palmyra Atoll to provide lessons for global coral conservation and recovery. Learning more is especially important since coral recruitment appears to be influenced by several different factors, including the make-up of current coral communities, the history of storms and other disturbances, and the abundance of predators, herbivores, and seaweeds.
Learn more about the International Year of the Reef online, and read further about the CBCs research among coral reefs in the AMNH Science Bulletin "Our Oceans, Ourselves." Other researchers from the Palmyra study include Douglas McCauley and Hillary Young of Stanford University and Robert Steneck and Suzanne Arnold of the University of Maine. Funding for this research is from the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Jaffe Family Foundation. Additional researchers in the Bahamian Project include Carrie Kappel and Fiorenza Micheli of Stanford University, Craig Dahlgren of the Perry Institute for Marine Science, James Sanchirico of the University of California at Davis, and Kenneth Broad of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in Miami.


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The Kop stirred one more time to sing Brendan Rodgers's name but the final tribute of an emotional, absorbing and controversial Anfield afternoon was motivated by sympathy not acclaim for the Liverpool manager. He is without a win after five league games in charge and, after Manchester United's first victory here in five years, luckless too.
Sir Alex Ferguson received the points and his team the benefit of every contentious decision as Robin van Persie's late penalty, United's first successful effort from the spot in four this season, applied gloss to their mediocre display.
Ferguson was also labelled a "grass" by Jonjo Shelvey for an unseen role in the midfielder's decisive first-half dismissal, the one major call from the referee Mark Halsey over which Liverpool could have no complaint. Not that it prevented Rodgers from trying.
"If Jonjo gets sent off then Jonny Evans has to be sent off as well," the Liverpool manager said. Both players had gone two-footed into a 50-50 challenge shortly before the interval but it has to be considered "careless, reckless or using excessive force" for a referee to show red and only Shelvey was adjudged guilty on that score.
"It was a tackle that both players had to go for but the Liverpool player can't be sent off and the Manchester United player stay on. It was very, very harsh and that's how it was throughout the game. There were a number of poor decisions that cost us."
Rodgers's frustration was understandable. Liverpool were the dominant force with 11 men, took a deserved lead with10 and, on the penalty award that ultimately gave United victory and perhaps an Evans challenge on Luis Suárez inside the United area, his grievance had legitimacy. He also had to contend with the loss of Fabio Borini, Daniel Agger and Martin Kelly to injury, the Italian forward and Danish defender potentially seriously.
"The best team lost," he added, and that brooked no argument. Even Ferguson conceded; "A win's a win, so we've got to be pleased with the result, but not the performance."
The tribute to the victims of Hillsborough and their families had been impeccably observed by everyone inside Anfield before the kick-off, Suárez shook hands with Patrice Evra and the focus of the pre-match concern passed without incident. Which made it all the more ridiculous that the controversy should erupt from a Liverpool player with his team in the ascendancy.
Rodgers's team dominated the first half thanks in the main to the prodigious pressing and work-rate of Steven Gerrard and Joe Allen in central midfield, Suárez up front and an intelligent display on the right by the 17-year-old, Raheem Sterling. By contrast, United were slow to the ball and sloppy in possession, with Ryan Giggs and Michael Carrick anonymous and Nani a liability out on the left.
Anders Lindegaard, selected ahead of David de Gea in a visiting defence missing Nemanja Vidic, made the game's first save from Suárez's angled shot across goal and only instinctive reactions from Rafael and Carrick prevented Borini and Gerrard converting on the follow-up. The pattern hardly changed until United, with Paul Scholes added to midfield, eventually ground down Liverpool's 10 men. Gerrard escaped his marker to turn Shelvey's short corner into the side-netting via a rare touch from Van Persie and, despite creating few clear-cut openings, the home side were in control.
Then Shelvey helped United where they needed it most by weakening Liverpool's midfield with a dangerous challenge on Evans. He left the field with a heated exchange and an accusatory finger at Ferguson.
"I don't think he went for the ball," the United manager said. "The boy's gone in really dangerously and I don't think there's any other decision the referee could have given. He was trying to blame me, I suppose. Once he looks at it he can apologise if he likes. I think he should do that."
An apology of sorts did arrive from Shelvey's Twitter account. He wrote: "I apologise to the fans for getting sent off but no way was I pulling out of that tackle in a game of that importance. I'm sorry." The midfielder added: "I have also apologised to Sir Alex, just where I come from people don't grass people up to get someone sent off."
Liverpool pressed on with 10 men and it was no less than they deserved when the excellent Gerrard put them ahead a minute after the restart. United failed to clear a left wing cross from substitute Suso and the Liverpool captain capitalised to chest and volley into the bottom corner. Gerrard, who lost a cousin at Hillsborough, pointed to the sky in celebration but the lead lasted only five minutes before Antonio Valencia and Shinji Kagawa combined for Rafael to curl an exquisite left-foot shot in off the far post.
Halsey ignored Liverpool penalty appeals after challenges by Evans and Scholes on Suárez and Sterling respectively but awarded United a soft one when Glen Johnson was adjudged to have caught Valencia. Liverpool's converted left-back did not play the ball as Valencia dithered in the area but contact was minimal.
Despite José Reina's best efforts and following a lengthy delay as Agger was carried off with a suspected medial knee ligament injury, Van Persie succeeded where he, Javier Hernández and Nani had all failed this season and ended United's misery from the penalty spot. Rodgers' misfortune, by contrast, continues.


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WNBA Star Wanted: Smashed Windows, Fired Shots Inside Ex-Girlfriend's Car
Former WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw, 35, is accused of violently striking her ex-girlfriend's car with a baseball bat and firing a gun inside.
Atlanta police issued an arrest warrant for Holdsclaw on Tuesday after she allegedly followed WNBA player and former flame Jennifer Lacy, 29, from her workout to her friend's house.
Once Lacy arrived and pulled over, Holdsclaw allegedly got out of her car with a baseball bat and approached Lacy's Range Rover. She then proceeded to smash the driver's side window and the rear passenger window, before hoisting a pistol inside the car and firing, according to the police report.
Holdsclaw then fled the scene. Police recovered the 9 mm shell casing from inside Lacy's vehicle. Lacy was unharmed, police said.
Holdsclaw is a six-time WNBA All-Star, NCAA champion and gold medal Olympian.
She published her autobiography, "Breaking Through: Beating the Odds Shot After Shot," in March 2012. In the book, she discusses her battle with clinical depression and how it has affected her basketball career.
"Everything is a lesson learned. We all make decisions good and bad. As long as we grow from them that's all that matters. #lessonlearned," Holdsclaw posted on Twitter on Nov. 13.


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This week on ABC's Castle, Detective Ryan returned to being the (made) man he once was, while a bit of sleep-talking had Kate wondering who "Jordan" is/was to Rick.
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Honestly, I don't have much to say about this episode, but there's never any predicting if others will want to weigh in. THE CASE added some color to Ryan's background, though it asked us to take several leaps — including that not once over the years, during any number of endless stakeouts with BFF Javy, did Ryan bust out an anecdote from that time he went deep undercover with the Irish mob for 14 months.
The expediency with which "Fenton" was accepted back into Bobby S.'s fold was a stretch, too, and didn't even call for the cursory "prove yourself by whacking someone for us" test. Yet, overnight, he managed to bring down a whole crime organization. The case, though, had its moments, including a nice display of chemistry between Ryan and old flame Siobhan (though one suspects Mad Men alum Cara Buono ignites with everybody). In fact, I'd argue that those fleeting scenes — much more than, say, the hoodlums' pool night — hinted at this "other" person Kevin used to be, at the different life he lived. The Kate/Jenny interaction was nice, especially as the latter shared her theory on why Kevin was "manning up." Also, the arrest scene, as Ryan called out for his "crew," though cheesy, illustrated the respect and affection he has for Javy, Beckett and ("Seriously? I didn't bring my vest") Rick.
Lastly, the coda for Ryan and Jenny, while predictable, had to put a smile on longtime fans' faces.
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As for THE CASKETT, the sleep-talking B-story was a long walk to find out the store was closed. So, the Jordan car company was the subject of a school paper that Rick hired someone to write for him, ultimately shaming him privately and motivating him to become a great writer. But why was this on his mind now, to the degree he's murmuring about it in his sleep? And while the tale did, I suppose, represent an instance of Rick "revealing himself" to Kate (contrary to Meredith's warning), it was kinda thin. I'm sure that some viewers would rather he be dealing with remnant anxiety over Alexis' abduction, his torturing info out of that guy, or finally meeting his father.
Regardless, you got this: "What happens if you don't like what you see?" "What happens if you don't let me look?" And then: "It does change how I see you. It makes me like you just a little bit more."
Again, yes — Castle opened up. But the subject matter seemed wholly random, unless I missed a scene/line while crunching stats for my upcoming fantasy baseball draft.
Lastly, of THE QUIPS:
"I know nothing. Nothing is a good friend of mine. This is not nothing."
"Interrogating me in my sleep? Would you stoop that low?" "Who says I haven't already?"
"I thought you liked it when I play doctor." (Javy to Lanie, failing to get any fist-bumps from the fellas.)
What did you think of "Wild Rover"? And here, courtesy of YouTube/TelevisionPromos, is the teaser for next week's Episode 100:


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Press group: Mali newspaper editor charged with crime after publishing coup leader salary
DAKAR, Senegal – A media rights group says that a Malian newspaper editor, who was arrested two weeks ago after publishing a letter criticizing the salary of the nation's coup leader, has been charged with "inciting disobedience" and "publishing falsehoods."
Reporters Without Borders said that Boukary Daou, the editor-in-chief of The Republican newspaper, was charged Monday. He was transferred to the central prison in Bamako. Daou was arrested on March 6 after his newspaper published a letter signed by an army captain criticizing Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo's more than $8,000-a-month salary, a lofty sum in the poor country.
The captain said soldiers under his command will abandon the battlefield if Sanogo's salary is not reduced.
Sanogo led a coup a year ago, overturning two decades of democracy and plunging Mali into crisis.


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Hello my dears. I am just sitting here in the condo chilling out after a VERY active day on the beach!
I woke up bright and early and walked out to the balcony to this lovely site:
I threw on my tennys and headed out for a nice run. We are staying in a gated community with a great running trial, so I couldn't wait to hit it up. The whole path is shaded with trees too, so it didn't get too hot. I ran from out condo to the end of the community and back. When I got back I hit up map my run and found out it was an even 4 miles.
When I got back to the condo I fixed up some breakfast. Here is the problem though, guys. It is REALLY hard to eat the foods that I like when I am with my family. Most of the food they like is not the healthiest, I had to get my own loaf of wheat bread for sandwiches, if that gives you any ideas. I want to just enjoy my vacation and not have to worry about it too much. I am trying to make the healthiest choices that I can, though. What would you guys do?
Anyway here is what I managed to rustle up for a healthy breakfast:
All-Bran Flakes, Skim Milk, 1/2 Banana, and Blueberries.
After breakfast we hit the beach for some wave riding, tanning, and swimming
We came back up around 1 to break for lunch. The best thing I could get was a turkey sandwich on wheat bread and an apple. It was sad, so I didn't take a picture.
Then back to the beach! It was sooo much fun. We stayed in the ocean and tried to ride the waves with the boogy boards. At one point I got dragged completely under and when I came back up my boob was TOTALLY out of my bathing suit. I'm not sure if anyone saw or not. OH WELL!
After that we came back up and spent wayyy too long getting ready. My sister and I got pretty and went down to Charleston for a while.
But not before watching the sunset:
Now its time for bed so it can start all over again tomorrow. Today was only day 1 peeps!
Prepare for WAY more pics! Sorry if I'm absent from commenting a lot this week. I have been living it up on the beach all day and haven't had too much time on the computer. I DO miss you guys though!
Lots of Love, <3 Ems


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On the night of May 23, 2012, which turned out to be the last of her life, Crystal Wilson baby-sat her infant granddaughter, Kelly. It was how she would have preferred to spend every night. Crystal had joined Facebook the previous year, and the picture of her daughter cradling the newborn in the hospital bed substituted for a picture of herself. Crystal's entire wall was a catalog of visits from her nieces, nephews, cousins' kids, and, more recently, the days she baby-sat Kelly. She was a mother hen, people said of Crystal. She'd wanted a house full of children, but she'd only had one.
The picture the family chose for her obituary shows Crystal and her husband holding the infant. Crystal leans in from the side, with dark, curly hair, an unsmiling round face, and black eyebrows knit together. She was 38 and bore an unhealthy heft, more than 200 pounds. Crystal had been to the doctor, who told her she was overweight and diabetic. She was waiting to get medicine, but few in her family knew it, and no one thought she was near death.
Crystal's 17-year-old daughter, Megan, split her time between her parents' house in Cave City, Arkansas, and that of her boyfriend, Corey, in nearby Evening Shade. Megan made sure that each set of grandparents could spend time with the baby. The night before Crystal's death, Megan and Corey were moving with his parents to a five-acre patch near Crystal. Megan and Corey were running late, so they didn't pick the baby up until 11 P.M. Crystal seemed fine. "You couldn't tell she was sick," Megan says. "She never felt sick." They went back home, and Megan got a text from her mom around midnight. "She said she loved me, give Kelly kisses, and give Corey hugs and tell him to take care of her girls and she'd see me in the morning. I was supposed to drop Kelly off at ten o'clock and finish moving."
Instead, at around 9:30 the next morning, when Megan was getting ready to leave, Corey's grandfather called and said Crystal was dead. Megan didn't believe him. If one of her parents passed, it had to be her dad. "I thought it was my dad that died because he was always the unhealthy one." Megan left Kelly with her mother-in-law and raced with Corey and his dad in the truck, hazards on, laying on the horn, and pulled into the dirt driveway outside her parents' tan-and-brown single-wide trailer. "Daddy was sitting there in the recliner crying," Megan says. "It was Momma gone, not him." Crystal had died in her bed early in the morning.
Just after 10 A.M., nearly every relative Crystal had was in the rutted driveway in front of the trailer. Crystal was the last of six children and considered the baby of the family. She was the third sibling to die. Her brother Terry, the "Big Man," who hosted all the holiday dinners and coached the family softball team, had died three months earlier at age 47, and her sister Laura, whom everybody called Pete, died at age 45 in 2004. The police—dozens, it seemed, from the county and from the town—had arrived and blocked off the bedroom where she lay and were interviewing people to figure out what had killed her.
The coroner arrived and pronounced Crystal dead at 11:40. Her body was rolled out on a gurney and shipped to the state lab in Little Rock. One of the officers, Gerald Traw, later told me an autopsy is routine when someone dies without a doctor present. "We like to know why somebody died," he says.
Everything about Crystal's life was ordinary, except for her death. She is one of a demographic—white women who don't graduate from high school—whose life expectancy has declined dramatically over the past 18 years. These women can now expect to die five years earlier than the generation before them. It is an unheard-of drop for a wealthy country in the age of modern medicine. Throughout history, technological and scientific innovation have put death off longer and longer, but the benefits of those advances have not been shared equally, especially across the race and class divides that characterize 21st--century America. Lack of access to education, medical care, good wages, and healthy food isn't just leaving the worst-off Americans behind. It's killing them.
The journal Health Affairs reported the five-year drop last August. The article's lead author, Jay Olshansky, who studies human longevity at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with a team of researchers looked at death rates for different groups from 1990 to 2008. White men without high-school diplomas had lost three years of life expectancy, but it was the decline for women like Crystal that made the study news. Previous studies had shown that the least-educated whites began dying younger in the 2000s, but only by about a year. Olshansky and his colleagues did something the other studies hadn't: They isolated high-school dropouts and measured their outcomes instead of lumping them in with high-school graduates who did not go to college.
The last time researchers found a change of this magnitude, Russian men had lost seven years after the fall of the Soviet Union, when they began drinking more and taking on other risky behaviors. Although women generally outlive men in the U.S., such a large decline in the average age of death, from almost 79 to a little more than 73, suggests that an increasing number of women are dying in their twenties, thirties, and forties. "We actually don't know the exact reasons why it's happened," Olshansky says. "I wish we did."
Most Americans, including high-school dropouts of other races, are gaining life expectancy, just at different speeds. Absent a war, genocide, pandemic, or massive governmental collapse, drops in life expectancy are rare. "If you look at the history of longevity in the United States, there have been no dramatic negative or positive shocks," Olshansky says. "With the exception of the 1918 influenza pandemic, everything has been relatively steady, slow changes. This is a five-year drop in an 18-year time period. That's dramatic."
Researchers had known education was linked to longer life since the 1960s, but it was difficult to tell whether it was a proxy for other important factors—like coming from a wealthy family or earning a high income as an adult. In 1999, a Columbia economics graduate student named Adriana Lleras-Muney decided to figure out if education was the principal cause. She found that each additional year of schooling added about a year of life. Subsequent studies suggested the link was less direct. Education is strongly associated with a longer life, but that doesn't mean that every year of education is an elixir. "It is the biggest association, but it is also the thing that we measure about people the best," Lleras--Muney says. "It is one of those things that we can collect data on. There could be other things that matter a lot more, but they're just very difficult to measure."
As is often the case when researchers encounter something fuzzy, they start suggesting causes that sound decidedly unscientific. Their best guess is that staying in school teaches people to delay gratification. The more educated among us are better at forgoing pleasurable and possibly risky behavior because we've learned to look ahead to the future. That connection isn't new, however, and it wouldn't explain why the least-educated whites like Crystal are dying so much younger today than the same group was two decades ago.
Cave City gives itself the low-stakes title of "Home of the World's Sweetest Watermelons." Beneath the ground, the Crystal River carves out the caverns that lend the town its name. Above it, 1,900 people live in single-wides in neighborhoods dotted with fenced lawns or along spindly red-dirt trails off the main highway. In this part of Arkansas, the Ozark Plateau flattens to meet the Mississippi embayment, and the hills give way to rice paddies. About 17,000 people live in Sharp County, a long string of small towns with Cave City at the bottom and the Missouri border at the top. Most of the residents are white—96 percent—with a median household income of $29,590. Nearly a quarter live in poverty, and Crystal was among them; for most of her married life, she relied on income from her husband's disability checks.
For work, people drive to the college town of Batesville, about 20 minutes south, which has a chicken-processing plant that periodically threatens to close and an industrial bakery with 12-hour shifts that make it hard for a mother to raise children. Less than 13 percent of county residents have a bachelor's degree. Society is divided into opposites: Godly folk go to church and sinners chase the devil, students go to college and dropouts seek hard labor, and men call the shots and women cook for them.
Crystal's parents, Junior and Martha Justice, had moved to the area when her three oldest siblings were still toddlers. "My aunt told my dad that he could make better money up here, but it wasn't so," says Linda Holley, one of Crystal's sisters. Junior farmed, which fed his family and brought in a little money. He found a piece of land on a country road called Antioch and bought a prefabricated home from the Jim Walters company. It was on this land they had their next three children. Crystal, born July 6, 1973, was the sixth and youngest.
Their life was old-school country. They raised chickens and goats and grew their own vegetables. The house was small, with only three bedrooms. Crystal's closest sibling, Terry, was 7 years older. Linda was a full 15 years older than Crystal, which made her more like a second mom than a sister. When Crystal was two, Linda's twin sister, Pete, began having children and, fleeing a string of abusive relationships, turned over custody to her parents. Having four slightly younger nieces and nephews in the house gave Crystal playmates her own age.
It was Linda, the doting older sister and aunt, who would take all the kids to Dogpatch, a creaky little Ozarks amusement park based on the comic strip, with actors playing Daisy Mae and Li'l Abner. Linda keeps Polaroids of Crystal from that time. They show her with long, curly blond hair and often half-clothed, happy, covered in clay and mud. "Grandpa used to call her his little Shirley Temple," says Crystal's niece, Lori.
When Crystal was starting out in elementary school, the family moved to a trailer to be closer to town. Her dad worked occasionally for lumber companies, and the proximity made jobs easier to find. Crystal was well behaved in school, and teachers would ask Lori, only two years behind, "Why aren't you like her, she was so quiet and shy?" Crystal loved basketball and, especially, softball, which she played in summer clubs even as an adult. As she got older, her hair darkened and she became stocky and muscular. She played ball like a bulldozer and was aggressive on the field and mouthy off. The whole family would play and bicker and joke. Crystal would smack people across the butt with the bat if they weren't moving fast enough.
"It wasn't until we got in high school that I realized she was struggling so bad in school," Lori says. "I was in the seventh grade, and she was in the ninth, and I wasn't really smart myself. But I could help her do some of her work." In 1988, Junior died from lung cancer at age 55. Both he and Martha were smokers. The next year Crystal met Carl Wilson, whom everybody called Possum. He was related to a cousin through marriage and, at 28, was 12 years her senior. They kept their relationship secret for a few months. "He came up to see her at the school," Lori says. "So I pretty much put two and two together. I was the one that told my grandmother." Lori thought that would put an end to it; instead, Martha let them marry. According to Linda, Martha had one admonition for Possum: "Momma said, 'As long as you take care of her and don't hit her, you have my permission.' He done what he could do for her. They was mates."
Possum moved in with the family in the trailer. He and Crystal had one room, Martha another, and the four nephews and nieces shared two bunk beds in the third. Crystal dropped out in the tenth grade because she had married. That was the way things were. None of Crystal's siblings finished high school. Instead, they became adults when they were teenagers. Crystal would spend the rest of her years as a housewife to a husband who soon became ill and as a mother to a daughter who would grow up as fast as she did.
Researchers have long known that high-school dropouts like Crystal are unlikely to live as long as people who have gone to college. But why would they be slipping behind the generation before them? James Jackson, a public-health researcher at the University of Michigan, believes it's because life became more difficult for the least-educated in the 1990s and 2000s. Broad-scale shifts in society increasingly isolate those who don't finish high school from good jobs, marriageable partners, and healthier communities. "Hope is lowered. If you drop out of school, say, in the last 20 years or so, you just had less hope for ever making it and being anything," Jackson says. "The opportunities available to you are very different than what they were 20 or 30 years ago. What kind of job are you going to get if you drop out at 16? No job."
In May, Jennifer Karas Montez of the Harvard University Center for Population and Development Studies co-authored the first paper investigating why white women without high-school diplomas might be dying. Most research has looked at which diseases are the cause of death, but Montez and her co-author wanted to tease out quality of life: economic indicators like employment and income, whether women were married and how educated their spouses were, and health behaviors like smoking and alcohol abuse. It is well known that smoking shortens life; in fact, smoking led to the early deaths of both of Crystal's parents and her sister and brother. Crystal, though, never smoke or drank. But the researchers discovered something else that was driving women like her to early graves: Whether the women had a job mattered, and it mattered more than income or other signs of financial stability, like homeownership. In fact, smoking and employment were the only two factors of any significance.
At first, Montez and her co-author suspected that women who are already unhealthy are less able to work and so are already more likely to die. When they investigated that hypothesis, however, it didn't hold up. Jobs themselves contributed something to health. But what? It could be, the authors suggested, that work connects women to friends and other social networks they otherwise wouldn't have. Even more squishy sounding, Montez wrote that jobs might give women a "sense of purpose."
Better-educated women are the most likely to work and to achieve parity with men: Seventy--two percent are in the workforce, compared with 81 percent of their male counter-parts. Women without high-school diplomas are the least likely to work. Only about a third are in the workforce, compared to about half of their male counterparts. If they do find work, women are more likely than men to have minimum-wage jobs. They account for most workers in the largest low-paying occupations—child-care providers, housecleaners, food servers. Even if they do have minimum-wage jobs, this group of women is more likely to leave the labor force to take care of young children because child care is prohibitively expensive.
Montez's joblessness study, however, raised more questions. Would any job do? What does giving women a "sense of purpose" mean? And why would joblessness hit white women harder than other groups? Overall, men lost more jobs during the Great Recession. Why are women losing years at a faster rate?
Cave City life revolves around its rivers, thick with runoff from the mountains and barreling toward the Mississippi. Crystal loved the area, but she also didn't know anything else. She hunted squirrels and rabbits in the fall, but spring was filled with what she loved most. School ends, and softball season begins. It is a brief, lovely time, before humidity and mosquitoes, when the world smells of wildflowers and dirt and storms. Every year, one of Crystal's brothers made sure she had a fishing license for the spring-swollen White River and the less touristy Black River, where they had better hauls. People come from around the state to float lazily, drunkenly down the rivers in canoes and rafts. Songbirds come too—buntings, mockingbirds, whippoorwills, woodpeckers—settling in for the season near the quieter streams, ponds, and water-filled rice paddies. Deer fill the kudzu-covered woods. Copperhead snakes awakened from hibernation nest in muddy puddles.
Crystal wanted to start a family as soon as she was married but couldn't. Her first three pregnancies, in the early '90s, ended in miscarriages. The first two occurred so late she gave the babies names, Justin and Crystal; the last was a set of twins. None of her relatives knew if she ever went to a doctor to find out why she miscarried. "I just thought maybe it was one of those things, you know, some people can have them and carry them and some can't," Lori says. Megan said her mother had had "female cancer," a catchall phrase for cervical cancer and the infections and dysplasia leading up to it.
When Lori's son was born, Crystal teased her about stealing him. She was always volunteering to baby-sit the kids in the family. When Crystal finally got pregnant with Megan, no one was sure she would make it, least of all Crystal and Possum. "They ended up just praying for me," Megan says. She was born July 20, 1994, and became the center of Crystal's world.
By the time Megan was born, Crystal and Possum were living in their own trailer but were struggling financially. Possum had worked the first four years of their marriage at the chicken-processing plant before quitting for good because of health problems. An accident on an oil rig when he was a teenager had left him with a plate in his skull. Chicken-processing plants are tough places to work, and besides, he qualified for disability. Crystal spent her life taking him to specialists—he was covered by Medicaid—but the problems piled up. He had a congenital heart condition and a bad back. A young-old man.
When Megan was 12, Crystal worked for a brief spell as a housekeeper at a nursing home in Cave City, where Linda and Lori worked. Mostly, though, she stayed home to take care of Possum and Megan. Baby-sitting brought in small amounts of cash, but she and Possum relied on disability, which was about $1,000 a month. Outside of a brief trip to Texas after Megan was born to show her off to Possum's family, and a trip to a small town near St. Louis to visit a niece after one of the trailers they lived in burned down, Crystal passed her entire life in Cave City.
Crystal spent what money she had on Megan. She gave her any new toy she wanted and, later, name-brand clothes, a four-wheeler, a laptop, and a phone. When Megan started playing softball, Crystal spent money on shoes, gloves, and club fees. "Crystal was a super mom," says Steve Green, the school superintendent and Megan's softball coach. "They didn't have a lot of revenue, but they put everything they had into Megan." Crystal and Possum made it to every practice and every game, even if it meant driving for an hour, deep into the mountains. They brought snacks and sports drinks for Megan's teammates. Crystal would watch her nieces, nephews, and cousins' kids play, and she still played for her family team in Batesville. Crystal went with Linda to a missionary Baptist church near the family road in Antioch, but she and Possum weren't every-Sunday Christians—it was the softball field her spring weekends revolved around. But when Terry was diagnosed with cancer in 2009, the family stopped playing, and Crystal lost her favorite activity.
When her relatives look back, they think Crystal was probably lonely. Her mother had died three years after Megan was born. Although she and Possum had a Ford Contour, Crystal seldom drove, relying on relatives to come by to take her to the grocery store. It was a chance to visit. When Linda's daughter took her truck-driver husband to pick up his 18-wheeler for his next haul, Crystal would always want to go with them. She would call her family members throughout the day, gossiping. She didn't stir up trouble, but she reveled in drama. Crystal would often go to Linda's for homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast, and she'd ask Linda to buy her liter bottles of Dr Pepper whenever she ran out. She was addicted to Dr Pepper. Sometimes, relatives paid for Possum's medicine; Linda's daughter remembers paying as much as $64 in one visit. Crystal's nieces and nephews had gotten older and started their own families, and now she relied on them as much as she had her older siblings.
Another mystery emerged from the lifespan study: Black women without a high-school diploma are now outliving their white counterparts.
As a group, blacks are more likely to die young, because the factors that determine well-being—income, education, access to health care—tend to be worse for blacks. Yet blacks on the whole are closing the life--expectancy gap with whites. In a country where racism still plays a significant role in all that contributes to a healthier, longer life, what could be affecting whites more than blacks?
One theory is that low-income white women smoke and drink and abuse prescription drugs like OxyContin and street drugs like meth more than black women. Despite Crystal's weight and diabetes, those problems are more common among black women and usually kill more slowly. Meth and alcohol kill quickly. It could be that white women, as a group, are better at killing themselves.
Still, why would white women be more likely to engage in risky behaviors? Another theory is that the kind of place people live in, who is around them, and what those neighbors are doing play a central role. Health is also a matter of place and time.
In March, two researchers from the University of Wisconsin reported that women in nearly half of 3,140 counties in the United States saw their death rates rise during the same time period that Olshansky studied. The researchers colored the counties with an increase in female mortality a bright red, and the red splashed over Appalachia, down through Kentucky and Tennessee, north of the Cotton Belt, and across the Ozarks—the parts of the South where poor white people live. Location seemed to matter more than other indicators, like drug use, which has been waning. The Wisconsin researchers recommended more studies examining "cultural, political, or religious factors."
Something less tangible, it seems, is shaping the lives of white women in the South, beyond what science can measure. Surely these forces weigh on black women, too, but perhaps they are more likely to have stronger networks of other women. Perhaps after centuries of slavery and Jim Crow, black women are more likely to feel like they're on an upward trajectory. Perhaps they have more control relative to the men in their communities. In low-income white communities of the South, it is still women who are responsible for the home and for raising children, but increasingly they are also raising their husbands. A husband is a burden and an occasional heartache rather than a helpmate, but one women are told they cannot do without. More and more, data show that poor women are working the hardest and earning the most in their families but can't take the credit for being the breadwinners. Women do the emotional work for their families, while men reap the most benefits from marriage. The rural South is a place that often wants to remain unchanged from the 1950s and 1960s, and its women are now dying as if they lived in that era, too.
Crystal's world was getting smaller and smaller and more sedentary. Everyone was worried about Possum, but Crystal's own health was bad. She'd had a cystic ovary removed when Megan was 13, and about a year before her death she had a hysterectomy. The surgery was necessary after Crystal had started hemorrhaging, which was brought on by another miscarriage—something her family didn't know about until the autopsy. It's unclear when she learned she was a diabetic. Megan thinks her mom might have heard it for the first time when she was pregnant with her, but Crystal never had regular medical care because she didn't qualify for Medicaid as Possum did.
Megan started spending more time away from her mom in the tenth grade, when Corey and his family moved to town. Crystal consented to their high-school romance, though she warned Corey that if he ever hit her daughter, she'd put him in the ground herself. Within a year of going out with Corey, Megan was pregnant. She swears she didn't know it until she was seven and a half months along, when Corey's mother made her take a pregnancy test. They had a short time to prepare for Kelly's birth in February 2012, but Crystal was happy about the new baby. It was a way for her to have another child. But after Kelly's birth, Crystal and Megan argued; Megan was worried her mother would spoil Kelly. Because Corey's father worked, his family had a bit more money, and they bought more baby clothes than Crystal could, which only made her feel worse.
In the final months of her life, Crystal complained of chest aches, but when she went to the emergency room, the doctors assured her it wasn't a heart attack. She said that she felt like she had the flu or allergies. In hindsight, it was after Terry's death—he died a week after Kelly was born—when Crystal really began to suffer. He had been the linchpin of the family, and now they were breaking apart. After he died, Crystal would call Linda's daughter and say, "I wish God would have took me instead of Terry." Crystal posted regularly about Terry on her Facebook page. Crystal had stopped coming to Linda's for breakfast, too, because Possum was growing sicker and had started falling when he tried to walk on his own. He was diagnosed with cancer about a week before Crystal's death. "I couldn't help but wonder if maybe some of it might have been attributed to her system just being drug down from having to take care of Carl and Megan," says Steve Green, the school superintendent. "Just everyday stress."
The night before she died, Crystal made herself a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich for dinner. After Megan took Kelly home, she went to bed and fell asleep, but Possum said she woke up at 1 A.M., said she was thirsty, and went to the kitchen. She was a fitful sleeper, and she returned to bed. When Crystal wasn't up before him the next morning, it struck Possum as odd, but he let her sleep. Crystal usually called her relatives around 6 or 7 A.M. to see what their plans were for the day. They wondered if something was wrong when their phones didn't beep. Finally, Possum sent in his brother, who'd been staying with them, to wake Crystal up; they were always going after each other, and he thought the teasing would spur her out of bed.
Crystal's funeral was small, mostly attended by family, and held at the funeral home in Cave City. They buried her in a tiny graveyard next to a little white chapel on Antioch Road, near the land where Crystal was born. Megan went to stay with Corey's family, and they offered to buy Possum a prefabricated barn so he could come live near them, but there was no need. He spent most of the next four weeks in and out of the hospital, until he died of massive heart failure on June 22. Possum was buried right beside Crystal. Both graves are marked with temporary notices. Linda has promised Megan she will help buy tombstones.
The medical examiner's investigation into Crystal's death was closed because it was determined she died of natural causes. The police report lists no official cause. With untreated, unmanaged diabetes, her blood would have been thick and sticky—the damage would have been building for years—and it could have caused cardiac arrest or a stroke. Linda has her own explanation: "Her heart exploded." And, in a way, it had.
After her mom's death, Megan was 17, hitched, and living on the same land where Crystal had given birth to her. Was it going to be the same life over again?
At school, a number of administrators and teachers stepped in to make sure Megan felt supported; one of them was the technology coordinator for the Cave City schools, Julie Johnson. With big gray eyes and a neat gray bob, she seems younger than 46. When I visited the school this spring, Julie showed me a picture of Megan with Kelly, Corey, and his family that Megan copied and gave to her. They became close last winter when Julie walked into one of Megan's classrooms and the teacher asked, "Have you congratulated Megan?" Julie turned to her and said, "What have you done, sister?" Megan told her that she'd given birth only a week before but that she'd wanted to come back to school. Julie said, "Dang, you're tough!"
Julie has seen a lot of teen mothers. Arkansas ranks No. 1 in the country in teenage births. About a month before Megan gave birth to Kelly, another young woman from the school had gotten married and had a baby, then died mysteriously. Nobody knew what had caused it, and the girl, Bethany, was in the back of Julie's mind when she saw Megan. "I've been in education for 25 years. I kind of got a good eye and sensed where she was coming from. And I was troubled because, as I kept thinking, OK, if a teacher here at school has a baby, they have a big shower for her, and if somebody at church has a baby, they have a shower for her, but if you have a child as a child, we don't do anything."
She prayed on what to do, and prayed some more. It led her to start the Bethany Project, a donation program that would give Megan and other young mothers baby clothes, school supplies, and community support. Megan was only in the spring of her junior year when she had Kelly. Megan told Julie she'd promised her mother she'd stay in school—Megan told me Crystal wanted her to have a good job so she could take care of Kelly and spoil her rotten—and Julie thinks Megan's mother-in-law helped her uphold her promise. "Corey's mother, I think she would have fought the devil to make sure those two finished school." They did. Megan and Corey finished school on May 3 of this year, were married eight days later on May 11, and then graduated on May 18, just a few days shy of the anniversary of Crystal's death. Megan found a job at Wendy's and plans to enroll in the community college in Batesville. Finishing college would give her the best chance to escape her mother's fate.
Julie knows a lot of young women who will never break the cycle. She has her own thoughts about what might be dragging down their life expectancy. "Desperation," she says. "You look at the poverty level in this county—I love this place. It's where I'm from. I don't want you to think I'm being negative about it." But she gestures toward the highway and notes how little is there: a few convenience stores, a grocery, and a nursing home. You have to drive north to the county seat in Ash Flat for a Walmart, or you can negotiate traffic in Batesville, where you might get a job at the chicken plant or a fast-food restaurant. "If you are a woman, and you are a poorly educated woman, opportunities for you are next to nothing. You get married and you have kids. You can't necessarily provide as well as you'd like to for those kids. Oftentimes, the way things are, you're better off if you're not working. You get more help. You get better care for your kids if you're not working. It's a horrible cycle.
"You don't even hear about women's lib, because that's come and gone. But you hear about glass ceilings, and I think girls, most especially girls, have to be taught that just because they're girls doesn't mean they can't do something. That they are just as smart, that they are just as valuable as males. And we have to teach boys that girls can be that way, too. They all need the love, nurturing, and support from somebody from their family or who's not their family. Somebody who's willing to step up. There has to be something to inspire kids to want more, to want better. And they have to realize that they're going to have to work hard to get it. I don't know how you do that.
"It's just horrible, you know? I don't know if 'horrible' is the right word." Julie puts her face into her hands. "The desperation of the times. I don't know anything about anything, but that's what kills them."


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We drink a lot of coffee around here (more than we should probably admit to) and it's all from our friends over at Dogwood Coffee. We regularly print their labels and last summer they asked us to create a poster to commemorate the release of their cold brew, named after the legendary ice resurfacing machine, the Zamboni (for those of you who don't live in hockey central like we do, here's a little video that explains exactly what a Zamboni does). Dogwood was able to obtain the original patent for the machine and asked that we use it as the focal point of the design. We were only too happy to oblige, as the line work in the schematic sketches was ideal for letterpress printing (line work prints much cleaner than flat areas of color). The final design was letterpress printed using two inks on Crane Lettra Ecru 110# cover stock. All projects produced in our shop are custom. If you are interested in obtaining a quote for printing or design services, please use the request an estimate feature on our website.


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Move: 44
Special: Flight
Proposed Canon
A non-humanoid flying unit - specifically a bird, with a vague resemblance to a snow owl.
First Appearance
Apparently a fairly weak unit, with limited combat capability.
Known users
Real World References
The name originates from a famous Internet meme of the same name which means "Oh, really?". Orlies' exclaimations primarily feature similar phrases. On Page 114, Panel 2Erf-b1-p114, the Orlies hold a conversation in Leetspeak:
"Seriously." (SRSLY)
"Oh, really?" (ORLY)
"Hahaha... what?" (LOLWUT)
Known exclamations are:
- ORLY?Erf-b1-p009 -- Oh, really?
- YARLY!Erf-b1-p010 -- Yes, really.
- LOLErf-b1-p010 -- I'm laughing out loud.
- OMGWTFBBQ!Erf-b1-p012 -- Oh my God! What the fuck? Barbecue!
- PWNED!Erf-b1-p012 -- Owned! (I win!) (Or, in context, I lost!)
- O HAIErf-b1-p094 -- Oh, hi.
- SRSLYErf-b1-p114 -- Seriously.
- LOLWUT?Erf-b1-p114 -- Hahaha... what?
- G2G DED!Erf-b1-p114 -- Got to go, because I'm dead.
There is also a real bird with a similar name, the Oriole. However, has no other resemblance except the name.


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Double Your Photos, Double Your "Fun"
Photo-cakes already enter the arena of good taste with a severe handicap, since they tend to look a bit funereal (I've had a "Funeral Wrecks" post on hold for months now, because so many of them ARE photo cakes - kid you not.), so it certainly doesn't help when the wreckerator goes and does something like this:
That's the SAME photo, used twice. I guess whoever ordered this gave the bakery two to choose from, so they chose...both. Aside from (hopefully) being blindfolded while arranging the photos, the wreckerator also misspelled Bubie and Birthday (if you consider failing to cross the 't' a misspelling, that is.) S/he also couldn't even outline the photos right, but I guess we can chalk that up to the blindfold.
Nice wreckporting, Z.