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ERS-2 has new role 'nowcasting' Europe's weather
After nine years in orbit, veteran ESA satellite ERS-2 has taken on a new role, supporting real-time 'nowcasting' of swiftly moving weather systems in the seas around Europe.
Most major European weather events have their birth in the North Atlantic or seas to the north of our continent. Limited observations across these regions mean that weather forecasters are often blindsided by sudden storms and associated phenomena that may wreck havoc upon reaching land.
However an instrument aboard ERS-2 called a radar scatterometer can 'see' wind fields over the ocean surface in all weathers. It is now giving Europe's meteorologists an enhanced ability to generate real-time nowcasts of the current climate state as well as more reliable short-range weather forecasts.
An increase in the number of European and Canadian-area acquisitions carried out by ERS-2, coupled with speedier processing and delivery, means that meteorologists now receive wind field products on their desks within an average 30 minutes of the scatterometer acquiring raw data.
"You want observations of current weather on your desk immediately, otherwise you are already getting behind the actual facts," says Ad Stoffelen of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute KNMI, which has made its ERS-2 wind field products publicly available since the start of April. "For weather forecasting the World Meteorological Organisation defines nowcasting as within one hour, with short term forecasting falling between one hour and a day.
"For the first time ERS-2 results are available for nowcasting, which represents a whole new application for the satellite."
The old saying that every cloud has a silver lining may be faulty in meteorology terms, but it turns out to be true in the case of ERS-2. Back in June 2003 the satellite lost its onboard data storage capability, effectively ending its global coverage. Now the spacecraft returns data when in line of sight of an appropriately equipped ground station.
Because the majority of such stations are found around Europe and Canada, ensuring good observation of the North Atlantic, ERS-2 coverage of these regions has been able to continue.
"ERS-2's orbit period is about 100 minutes," Stoffelen explains. "In the past it would store 100 minutes worth of data on its tape then perform a single data dump for ten minutes down to its assigned ground stations, mostly in the northern hemisphere around the North Pole.
"So the first data on the tape would already be pretty old, then it would have to be sent to ESA's ESRIN centre in Frascati, Italy, for processing before it gets distributed to users.
"Now we only get data on the Atlantic and European seas for ten minutes at a time, but to make up for it the new mission scenario has optimised the number of real-time ground stations acquisitions, increasing them radically from 14 up to 50 a day, thereby providing very good coverage in our region.
"And because 10-minute segments of data take much less time to be processed than 100-minute segments, they become available for use sooner than before."
KNMI combines ERS-2 scatterometer data acquired from multiple ground stations. The instrument bounces 'triplets' of radar signals in three directions simultaneously – fore, aft, and sideways – and different ground stations may acquire different directions. These acquisitions are combined to increase the number of backscatter triplet measurements while throwing away overlapping material.
The data are then run through KNMI's wind processor algorithm to obtain the final wind field product. KNMI ran this system in-house for the past couple of months before making it publicly available in April.
The ERS-2 results are particularly useful when it comes to identifying such fast-paced turbulent features as winter polar lows – sometimes dubbed 'Arctic hurricanes' these are often associated with gales and blizzards and powered by intrusions of Arctic air masses – along with so-called baroclinic storm developments in the Gulf Stream region, plus cyclones and anti-cyclones. All of these events can develop in under 24 hours, greatly impacting the accuracy of weather forecasts.
The fall and rise of ERS-2 scatterometry
ERS-2's payload includes a radar scatterometer that works by firing a trio of high-frequency radar beams down to the ocean, then analysing the pattern of backscatter reflected up again.
Wind-driven ripples on the ocean surface modify the radar backscatter. As the energy in these ripples increases with wind velocity, so backscatter increases as well. Scatterometer data enable the measurements of wind speed and direction across the water surface.
What makes ERS-2's scatterometer especially valuable is that its C-band radar frequency is almost unaffected by heavy rain, so it can return useful wind data even from the heart of the fiercest storms – and is the sole scatterometer of this type currently in orbit.
On 21 April 2004 ERS-2 celebrated its ninth anniversary in orbit, its scatterometer working better than anyone could have hoped for just a few short years earlier.
Following its launch from Kourou in 1995, the spacecraft payload functioned well but problems began to occur with its gyros used for positioning in space.
After six years of service ESA engineers evolved an innovative 'gyro-less' mode of operating the spacecraft, but the new mode's pointing accuracy was initially insufficient to maintain an operational scatterometer service, since the instrument requires simultaneous pointing accuracy across three axes.
In the summer of 2003 a development took place that led to ERS-2 wind field products publicly available once more: a new software algorithm developed by the Belgian Royal Military Academy succeeded in compensating for the pointing degradation, regaining access to scatterometer measurements.
The return to service came in time for ERS-2 to provide a unique view of the pressure system at the centre of Hurricane Isabel as it descended upon the United States in September 2003.
Meanwhile researchers at KNMI began working with wind experts at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) to improve the accuracy of the mathematical model that turns raw scatterometer data into geophysical facts. The success of this endeavour gave greater accuracy than before, and in March 2004 ECMWF resumed routine assimilation ERS-2 scatterometer data into its medium range forecasts.
With key engineering issues resolved, the last six months has shown ERS-2 to be an extremely stable platform and payload, with the satellite's overall performance as good as it ever has been, and ESA has received several new research proposals for ERS-2.
To maintain continuity of scatterometer coverage into the future, a new more advanced instrument called ASCAT is part of the payload for the ESA-designed and EUMETSAT-operated MetOp mission, due for launch in 2005. When ASCAT comes into service, ground station acquisitions are planned that support use of its wind data for nowcasting and short-range forecasting.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT women's soccer team received good news on Monday afternoon in the form of an at-large bid to the upcoming NCAA Championship tournament. The Engineers will travel to Haverford, Pennsylvania to face host Haverford College on Saturday, Nov. 10 at 1:30 p.m.
MIT, who made NCAA appearances in 2009 and 2011, received a bye to the semifinals of the NEWMAC championship against Springfield but did not advance to the finals. Haverford won its first Centennial Conference championship title over the weekend and received an automatic bid to the tournament. This is the first time the two teams have met.
The Engineers, who are coached by Martin Desmarais and led by senior captains Andrea Park (Irvine, Calif.), Emily Kuo (Chicago, Ill.) and goalie Meghan Wright (Devon, Pa.), shared the regular season title with Springfield after both teams wrapped the season up with a record of 8-1 in conference play. MIT is one of three teams, along with Springfield and Wheaton, that will represent the NEWMAC at NCAAs.

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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- A former senior executive of Qualcomm Inc. was indicted in California Monday on federal insider trading charges, prosecutors said.
Jing Wang, 51, of Del Mar, Calif., former president of the wireless telecommunications device maker's global business operations, allegedly used inside information to profit from trading in shares of Qualcomm and Atheros Communications Inc. in 2010, the U.S. Justice Department said in a release. He allegedly used a secret brokerage account and an offshore shell company in the British Virgin Islands to hide his activities.
Wang also conspired with his brother, co-defendant Bing Wang, 53, and his former stock broker to obstruct a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of the case and launder his illegal profits through a second offshore shell company and secret brokerage account, prosecutors allege.
"Insider trading is an insidious crime. It undermines ordinary investors' faith in our financial markets, and the Justice Department has zero tolerance for it," acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman said.
"Today's charges show that you cannot trade on inside information, pocket the profit, and expect to get away with it."
Jing Wang was arrested by the FBI Monday and an arrest warrant was issued for his brother, believed to be a citizen and resident of China.
Both men face up to five years in prison if convicted on the conspiracy counts. Jing Wang could receive up to 20 years in prison for each of the other counts.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 16, 2008) - A seven run ninth for Stetson was too much for the Bucs as they dropped the second game of a three-game series with the Hatters on a overcast Friday afternoon at Cardinal Park, 18-12.
ETSU (18-37, 9-23) was out hit by the Hatters 21-15 and surrendered nine walks in the loss. Stetson reliever Robbie Elsemiller came into the game in the fifth and limited the Bucs to two runs on four hits earning the win.
Stetson took an early lead in the first inning on a two run Justin Bass single through the left side and a RBI single to left by Brian Pruitt to make the score 3-0 Hatters.
The Hatters scored three more runs in the top of the second on a Bass RBI single through the left side and an Aaron Crittenden single up the middle scoring two to give Stetson a 6-0 lead.
The Bucs got on the board in the bottom of the second as Ben Allen (
In the bottom of the third, Belcher singled up the middle driving in Paul Hoilman (
The Hatters retook the lead in the top of the fourth as they scored one run on a Buccaneer error to take a 7-6 lead.
Petro gave the Bucs their first lead of the game as he blasted a two-run home run over the right field fence to give ETSU a 8-7 lead.
The Bucs scored three more in the bottom of the fifth as senior Anthony Russell (Waldorf, Md.) drove a ball over the fence in right center for a three-run home run to give the Bucs a 11-7.
ETSU added another run in the bottom of the sixth as Allen singled to right scoring Petro to increase the Bucs lead to 12-7.
The Hatters cut into the ETSU lead in the top of the eighth as Pruitt hit a grand slam to right center making the score 12-11.
Stetson loaded the bases in the top of the ninth as Crittenden walked to bring in the tying run. In the next at bat, Robert Crews walked in the go ahead run to give Stetson a 13-12 lead. The Hatters scored five more runs on four hits in the inning to make the final 18-12.
Petro and Belcher each had three hits as Petro was 3-for-5 with a home run and two RBI, while Belcher was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Russell hit his 19th home run of the season as he was 2-for-5 with three RBI.
The Bucs are back in action tomorrow as they will take on Stetson in the final game of the season. It will also be senior day as the Bucs will send off seven seniors.
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What a beautiful weekend we had! On Sunday morning, my backyard looked like an Olympic arena for rabbits. No kidding! There were so many jumping, hopping, running ... their antics were fun to watch. OK ... the way they were nibbling on my tulip leaves, small bridal wreath bushes and young red bud trees wasn't so precious, but nevertheless, it was plain to see they were caught up in the fresh and invigorating moments of spring.
Have you seen or noticed any signs of spring? The Bureau County Republican welcomes your springtime photos to share with other readers. Send your photos along with information about what/who is in the picture to BCR Copy Editor Terry Himes at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also bring your photo by our office at 800 Ace Road in Princeton, where we can scan the photo while you wait. Questions? Call Himes at 815-875-4461, ext. 228.
Today, Tuesday, is Election Day. I know an election is not a cheap, little endeavor, but I had no idea how very expensive an election is to the county. Check out our Page 1 story in today's newspaper.
I hope you're planning on heading to the polls today to cast your ballot. I also hope you've done your homework, studied the candidates' platforms and are able to make an informed decision. In this place in time, our votes are integral to our area's success. Please vote wisely.
Tonight, make sure you stay apprised of election results by visiting our website at www.bcrnews.com. We'll be monitoring all the races and updating them as returns come in.
A big thank you to all of the brides and their friends and families who came out to enjoy our bridal expo, "Happily Ever After," which we co-sponsored with The Cider Mill at A Hundred Acres Orchard and Market in Princeton. BCR Sales Development Manager Pam Marsh said it was a wonderful day, and the perfect setting for those in attendance to start planning their bridal events.
"The staff at the BCR did a great job, and Annette and Spencer (Davis) at The Cider Mill are wonderful to work with," Marsh said. "Everybody there seemed to have a fabulous time."
Have you picked up your spring copy of Illinois Valley Living? The magazines are being distributed throughout the Illinois Valley, including our office. You can also order a subscription to the magazine through our office by calling Brandie Johnson at 815-875-4461, ext. 239. That way you'll never miss a copy of our popular magazine, since we'll mail them right to your home every time we have a new edition. I hope you enjoy this new spring magazine ... we're already working on our summer edition.
It's difficult to believe Mother's Day, graduation, Father's Day and summer weddings are just around the corner. Just a reminder: The BCR can handle all your printing needs. Whether it's a special gift for Mom, Dad, your graduate or the blushing bride, or you need announcements, invitations or other items. Give BCR Commercial Manager Mona Cruse a call at 815-875-4461, ext. 226.
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County every inch the champions
Champions Ross County ended the season in style with a 5-3 win at Queen of the South.
Daniel Carmichael put the hosts ahead after 10 minutes when he found the back of the net with a 25-yard strike.
Stuart Kettlewell headed Michael Gardyne's cross into the bottom corner just a minute later to level the scores.
Allan Johnston's men were back in front four minutes later after Sam Parkin rose to head home Carmichael's corner.
Six minutes before half-time, Gardyne tucked away an equaliser from the edge of the area.
Gavin Reilly regained the lead for the Doonhamers with a neat finish after 53 minutes before Colin McMenamin brought the Staggies back level for the third time in the game, four minutes later.
Gardyne then smashed home Gary Miller's cross 13 minutes from full time to put County ahead before Kurtis Byrne came off the bench to secure the victory in stoppage time.
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Maybe Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. But Dr. Mallory C. Hatfield entrusts hers to Barnstable Village. And she's a cardiologist.
Maybe Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. But Dr. Mallory C. Hatfield entrusts hers to Barnstable Village. And she's a cardiologist.
Hatfield will give a talk at 11 a.m. Thursday [April 11] on "Cardiology and Women" at St. Mary's Episcopal Church on Route 6A during the monthly meeting of the Barnstable branch of the Cape Cod Hospital Auxiliary. All are welcome.
"Educating the community about heart disease is one of my passions," Hatfield said. So when the Auxiliary asked her to speak about her specialty, she was happy to accept.
"Heart disease," she said, "kills more women than their next eight causes of death combined. That's a scary and staggering statistic."
Hatfield said that she grew up in "the armpit of New York" – the Lower East Side – where she went to Catholic school. Her academic career took her to the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse. She did her advanced training at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and then, through Brown University, at Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., according to information supplied by Cape Cod Healthcare.
"I feel so fortunate to be a cardiologist," she said. "I'm very idealistic. I really wanted to save lives, and now I'm actually doing it."
What would she like people to know about heart disease? She answered that knowledge empowers. She said that women and men need to know their family history and to stop smoking.
"Don't lose sleep about things you can't control," she said about factors like family history. She said that exercise and weight can be managed. Many women, she said, present with heart disease risk factors during pregnancy. Inflammation and autoimmune conditions may also contribute to heart disease. She said that "even a lot of physicians" don't know much about heart disease.
Hatfield, when she speaks of Barnstable Village, often speaks of love.
"I love Barnstable Village," she said of the residence that she and her husband selected a place to raise a family. She said that her husband went to Boston University and had learned to love the Cape while he went to school there.
They were happy to find a house in the village where they are now raising a daughter.
They had lived in West Hyannis Port but as their family grew they needed a bigger house. Their choice in Barnstable Village has allowed them, she said, to experience "Old Cape Cod."
Mallory Hatfield, M.D., who saves lives, has a special story of her own life in Barnstable Village.
"I'm constantly walking up and down 6A with my daughter," she said.
She tempts the child with a reward for their good exercise. "I'll buy you penny candy" when they get from their home to the village, said Hatfield, as she added, "What's not to like about that?"


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (December 8, 2011) – The ETSU baseball program signed outfielder Jeremy Taylor (Fayetteville, Ga.) to a national letter of intent to join the program for 2012-13, head coach Tony Skole announced on Thursday.
Taylor, a 6-foot-1 180-pound outfielder, will join the Buccaneer program from Fayette County High School, where he currently plays for head coach Lee McDermott. Taylor will enroll in school in the fall of 2012.
"Our coaching staff is extremely excited about Jeremy Taylor," said Skole. "Jeremy was a huge sign for our program. It was a priority in this class to sign an outfielder who can really defend and also be able to hit near the top of our order, and Jeremy definitely meets those requirements. Jeremy is a dynamic athlete who can really put pressure on the defense. He gets down the line as good as anybody that we saw all summer."
As a junior last year, Taylor hit .400 with three homeruns and 21 RBIs, while being named a Underclass High Honorable Mention All-American by Perfect Game. He was also named Underclass Honorable Mention by Perfect Game in 2010.
A two-sport star, Taylor also excels on the basketball court, where he led the Tigers to the 2011 Region Championship.
"Jeremy is a fantastic young man who comes from a great family," added Skole. "He is an excellent overall athlete, as he is currently starting for one of the top high school basketball programs in the state of Georgia. Jeremy is one of those players that can win you a game in many different ways. He is going to bring a lot of excitement to our program and will make a huge impact."
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The studio set up is fairly rudimentary, showing a two-panel backdrop crudely painted with wood panelling, ornamented column and an open window, showing some vaguely tropical plants outisde. The centrepiece is an extraordinary home-made contraption, looking like something between a tree trunk and a bird's nest, the latter acting as a receptacle for a fern of some kind. To complete the furnishings, two rectangular fur rugs - one looks like sheepskin, while the other may be possum fur - have been placed on an unpatterned floor.
James Connolly and Richard Hermann (also spelled Herrmann) both worked as photographers in Wellington in the 1880s. Connolly was in partnership with Pierce Mott Casneau on Lambton Quay from c.1882 until 1885. He then collaborated with Richard Hermann, the studio being referred to as either Connolly & Co. or Connolly & Herrmann, until that partnership was dissolved in 1889. Wise's New Zealand Directory for 1890/1891 lists the firm of Connolly, Beauchamp and Price with a studio on Lambton Quay, but this was probably also fairly short-lived, since it was reported to have been taken over by William Henry Scott Kinsey in 1892. Richard Hermann and his wife Louisa arrived in New Zealand (from Birmingham, England) in 1880. After 1889, they established their own studio in Cuba Street. Richard died in 1892; his widow Louisa M. Hermann took over and continued to run the business until at least 1902.
The reverse of the card mount is a fairly typical mid-1880s design, with diagonal "signature," coat of arms, the use of several fonts and ornate scrollwork. An inscription in ink pen on the reverse, apparently contemporary with the photograph itself, identifies the subject as, "Patience Amanda Pinhey" and states that the portrait was "taken in N.Z. aged 22 yrs 1889."
I eventually managed to track down Patience Amanda Pinhey through the indexed census records at Ancestry. She was born in late 1867 in the village of Loddiswell, South Hams, Devon, England, the eighth of ten children of farmer William Henry Pinhey (or Pinhay) and his wife Susan. In 1881, the census shows Patience working as a domestic servant in the household of farmer Richard Pinhey and his wife Betsey, presumably relations of some sort, in the nearby village of South Brent. Her parents had moved to Middle Bradleigh Farm, where her father was working as an agricultural labourer.
Some time between April 1881 and 1891, the family appear to have emigrated, as I can find no evidence of them on the UK Census. From information provided by Graeme Ardern, who is distantly related to the family, it appears that Patience's eldest brother Nelson Albert Pinhey (1858-1926) was married at Ippleton in Devonshire and emigrated shortly after, arriving in Wellington on board the early steamship SS Aorangi on 15 September 1884, after a journey of six and a half weeks. After a few weeks "they settled on a farm called Fernridge, at Wangaehu, Masterton."
I presume that the remainder of the family also went to New Zealand at about this time, from the existence of this portrait, taken in Wellington. It seems quite possible that Patience was married not long after the date of the portrait, and her surname would have changed, but what happened to the rest of the Pinheys? It was a big family, so there must be some sign of them somewhere.
William Henry (or John) PINHEY b. c.1825 Diptford DEV m: Susan (surname unknown) b. c.1830 Stockingham DEV
- Nelson Albert PINHEY b. 1857 Diptford DEV
- Dora Anne/Anna PINHEY b. 1859 Diptford DEV
- Alice PINHEY b. 1860 Loddisham DEV
- Valentine PINHEY b. 1862 Loddisham DEV
- John Southwood PINHEY b. 1863 Loddisham DEV
- Stanley & William Oscar PINHEY (twins) b. 1865 Loddisham DEV
- Patience Amanda PINHEY b. 1867 Loddisham DEV
- Reginald PINHEY b. 1869 Loddisham DEV
- Susan Southwood PINHEY b. 1871 Loddisham DEV
- Matilda PINHEY b. 1873 Loddisham DEV
It is possible that the parents later returned to England, as I found some potential death index entries on FreeBMD, as follows:
Deaths Dec 1900 - Pinhey William Henry, aged 74, Kingsbridge R.D., Vol 5b Fol 127
Deaths Mar 1908 - PINHEY Susan, aged 77, Totnes R.D., Vol 5b Fol 131
If any readers out there are able to find this family after 1881, I would be most grateful to hear from you (Email).
Auckland City Libraries Photographers Database
Knight, Hardwicke (1971) Photography in New Zealand, A Social and Technical History, John McIndoe, Dunedin
Knight, Hardwicke (1981) New Zealand Photographers, A Selection, Allied Press Ltd., Auckland.
Roger Vaughan's Date an old UK Photograph
Transcribed Indexes to the GRO Birth, Marriage & Death Records from FreeBMD
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Just days after the One Fund distributed nearly $61 million to victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, the Massachusetts Bar Association called on Attorney General Martha Coakley to intervene, raising "serious concerns" on Wednesday about the way the charitable donations were divided.
Bar association leaders say a system designed to swiftly distribute compensation through a formula based on the length of hospital stays shortchanged some Marathon victims.
Those victims include a 43-year-old family-practice doctor who has reduced his hours and is seeing fewer patients at his Alabama practice because of blast-related hearing loss, and a 39-year-old international development consultant from Jamaica Plain who said her brain injury — possibly permanent — has left her unable to do simple arithmetic.
The One Fund classified each as outpatients, meaning they received $8,000. Had they stayed overnight in a hospital, they would have been eligible for $125,000 or more if they stayed multiple nights.
The system devised by One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth R. Feinberg awarded nearly $1.2 million to amputees who lost one limb and $2.2 million to double amputees, those with permanent brain damage, and families of the dead. Twenty-six of 259 who filed claims by the June 15 deadline were rejected.
Massachusetts Bar leaders — who praised the outpouring for the One Fund and stressed that they were not criticizing Feinberg personally, only his methods — do not want Coakley to recall the distributed money.
Instead, they want to ensure that the aggrieved have a chance to appeal or apply for additional funds from donations still coming in. The fund has received roughly $2 million in the past week.
"There's a tremendous amount of money being disbursed, and some of it seems to be disbursed not in the most wise manner or fashion," said Martin W. Healy, chief legal counsel for the bar association, which called on Coakley to examine the One Fund "through her well-established statutory and legal power to regulate public charities."
Feinberg, who also administered the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the BP oil spill fund, and the Penn State University sex-abuse settlement fund, disagreed with the criticism but seemed unsurprised.
"No good deed goes unpunished," he said. "Solomon himself wouldn't get consensus on this."
He called the Massachusetts Bar Association a "very credible" organization. He adopted the group's recommendation earlier in the process to allow victims to submit personal statements as well as medical records, providing a way for victims to elaborate on the impact of injuries.
But the association says he ignored those personal statements when disbursing money, and his days-in-a-hospital methodology deliberately avoided criteria such as age, likelihood of long-term pain or complications, and the extent to which an injury affects a victim's livelihood.
Feinberg acknowledged that might have left a small number upset. "But I must say the goal here, to distribute $60 million in roughly 60 days at no cost to the claimants, with 100 percent of the $60 million going to the victims, requires rough justice," he said. "We cannot start evaluating individual claims and individual circumstances without slowing down the process, at great cost to evaluate medical records."
Paul E. White and others on the Mass. Bar executive board say that is exactly what the One Fund should have done. He called the focus on length of hospital stay "an arbitrary and approximate measure of how severe a person's injury is."
"The lines were drawn so inexactly that all detail was taken out of the process," said White, a partner in the Boston firm Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen who organized a 70-lawyer Mass. Bar pro bono effort to assist Marathon victims with One Fund applications and other issues. "In an effort to do rough justice, in some instances what was done was injustice."
Still, Feinberg and his staff ended their own volunteer involvement when they cut the checks — mailed or direct-deposited Sunday through Tuesday — for the first $60 million.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino and others who oversee the publicly established charity have yet to determine how the additional money coming in will be distributed.
A spokesman for Coakley acknowledged the bar association's request Wednesday but declined to comment specifically on whether she would advocate for an appeal process for those whose applications were already reviewed by Feinberg.
"Moving forward, we are actively working with The One Fund, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, and the city of Boston to provide short- and long-term support to survivors and victims' families," said Christopher Loh, the spokesman.
A spokeswoman for the mayor expressed approval of Feinberg's work.
"It would be impossible to ever make everyone feel whole, and it's a terrible task to have to try, but we appreciate how well Ken and his team worked in getting through this most difficult process," Dot Joyce said, adding that the One Fund, in ways yet to be determined, "will continue to be a resource and support for those most impacted on that day."
Two victims have come forward by name — Joanna Leigh of Jamaica Plain and Scott Weisberg of Birmingham, Ala., — while some others and their lawyers are frustrated with the One Fund but reluctant to speak publicly, said Healy, the bar association counsel.
Weisberg, a physician and runner, flew home to Alabama and thought initially that his impaired hearing would improve. But after seeing specialists and undergoing multiple procedures, he learned that the substantial loss in his left ear is permanent and that age-related hearing loss in his right ear will likely be accelerated, lawyer Melina Goldfarb said.
Weisberg anticipates tens of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket lifetime expenses for hearing aids, doctor visits, and other costs and has temporarily closed his medical practice. "The amount of compensation is not adequate for the type of injury he received," said Goldfarb, a Birmingham lawyer.
Joanna Leigh , a spectator, said her first-aid training led her to run toward the first blast, putting her unwittingly close to the second. She sustained a concussion from that blast but no external wounds, and said she helped in the aftermath to tend to bleeding victims.
In the weeks since, she said, she has suffered myriad neurological and psychological issues.
Her application included a letter from a neurosurgeon who has advised the NFL on concussions and wrote that her "very significant" mental deficits may take months or years to improve.
"I would be surprised if her post-injury course is not an extremely long one, and more probably than not may not be ever greeted with complete resolution," Dr. Robert C. Cantu wrote.
That was not enough to qualify her for the permanent brain injury category, though Leigh said some of the amputees she has met at support groups will be able to return to work sooner than she will.
"The loss of somebody's limbs is probably the most horrible thing I could ever imagine," she said, in an emotional interview at the office of her lawyer, Jeffrey S. Stern, also a Sugarman, Rogers partner. "I just don't know why the loss of my head and the loss of my senses . . . is worth less than somebody else's loss."Eric Moskowitz can be reached at email@example.com.
Correction: Because of incorrect information provided to the Globe, an earlier version of this article referenced a Boston Marathon runner who had been forced to close his Alabama family-medical practice as a result of his blast-related hearing loss. Instead, the doctor has reduced his hours and is seeing fewer patients, but his practice remains open.


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Joey and Rory Feek of country duo Joey + Rory have led anything but ordinary lives over the past four months. With Joey's recent cervical cancer diagnosis, you'd think they'd be at the bottom of a dark barrel. Instead, they are finding extreme joy in their sweet baby girl, Indiana.
Indiana was born in February and was diagnosed with Down syndrome shortly after. She joined Rory's daughters, Hopie and Heidi, from a previous marriage, and according to her parents, the baby's presence in their lives has overshadowed any fear and sadness. Then, six weeks ago, Joey went in for a routine appointment with her gynecologist and a biopsy revealed an aggressive form of cervical cancer.
Rory writes on their blog, "People have asked how Joey keeps smiling through all of this. Well, I think a better question is how can she/we not be filled with joy through all of this? The truth is … 'cancer' is such a little word compared to the word 'love.'"
"I'm reminded of that every day a hundred times," he continues. "It's in Joey's eyes and in mine when we hold our little one. She's 4 months old now and a bundle of nothing but joy. It's no wonder that … our days aren't spent in tears, they're spent in awe of this amazing chance to love and be loved by this little person."
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Rory furthers, "…our nights aren't spent in fear, they're spent listening for a laugh, or a coo, or a cry from the cradle, just so we can see her again and hold her in our arms ... Our lives aren't spent in worry, they're spent in wonder at the incredible blessing that we've been given to be right here. Right now with her, our older girls and family, our friends and with you."
Thankfully, Joey is cancer-free after undergoing a hysterectomy on June 20. The mass on her cervix had grown to four inches, and specialists recommend she take that step. The singer will not need to undergo radiation or chemo, and she's currently recovering at home. She'll have lots of time to cuddle and enjoy their sweet girl -- a true bundle of joy.
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Wisconsin took center stage today with the announcement that Rep. Paul Ryan will be the GOP's candidate for vice president. But by Tuesday, the Badger State could be defined as much by a too-close-to-call Senate primary as by its newly elevated native son.
Tuesday is primary day in the state, and the race to win the Republican nomination for its open Senate seat has been described by operatives on the ground and inside the Beltway as "a coin flip." Polling shows a near-tie between former Gov. Tommy Thompson and tea-party-backed businessman Eric Hovde, with Ryan's predecessor in the House, Mark Neumann, running several points behind.
In the midst of that turbulent environment, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his new running mate will visit Waukesha, where they will be joined by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
Whether Ryan's move to the national ticket will have an immediate effect on local voters is unclear. Ad time is locked up, and all the candidates have dug in on their messages. But the same qualities that make Ryan so polarizing nationally - that he galvanizes conservatives for him and Democrats against him - could have local effects down the line as Wisconsin Republican hopefuls rushed today to grab his coattails.
"Absolutely," Thompson said in a press call, when asked whether the Ryan announcement helps with his campaign. "There's no question about it. I think most people know that Paul and I are close friends and that we teamed up on many issues, especially on Medicare.
"The worst thing that could happen [would be to have a] Senate still controlled by [Majority Leader] Harry Reid with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan" in the White House trying to enact entitlement reform into law, Thomspson continued, noting he had made suggestions to Ryan's controversial budget plan that would transition Medicare into a voucher-like system by 2020.
Thompson, who has been slipping in the polls, made the most aggressive effort to tie himself to Ryan, though Neumann also released a statement.
The flipside, however, is that by November, Democrats will have spent months trying to define Ryan as an "extreme" conservative whose entitlement reforms and cuts to the budget are outside mainstream thinking. And those sound bites of candidates tying themselves to Ryan might end up hurting more than helping. In many ways, the Republican candidates in Wisconsin touting Ryan are taking the same risk Romney is.
Thirty-six percent of registered Wisconsin voters have a favorable opinion of Ryan, while 29 percent hold an unfavorable view and 30 percent say they don't know enough about him, according to a July poll from the Marquette University Law School. The unfamiliar 30 percent are likely to be pivotal.
And both parties believe they're in the better position to win.
"This further highlights the clear choice before Wisconsin voters in November between a Republican candidate who wants to save Medicare, focus on job growth and rein in out-of-control Washington spending versus ... Tammy Baldwin, who voted to cut Medicare to pay for more government while maxing out the government credit card to the tune of trillions of dollars," National Republican Senatorial Committee Communications Director Brian Walsh said.
A Republican strategist working with the Hovde campaign suggested the Ryan pick ensures maximum enthusiasm for the party in the general election while focusing on fiscal responsibility, which was also focus of Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, who was unseated by tea-party-backed Ron Johnson in 2010 after three terms.
Democrats, on the other hand, believe their jobs are easier now that Ryan will be out front and talking about his plan. Republicans who had once shied away from his budget in the face of backlash at the polls and from social groups such as Catholic nuns will now have to talk about the blueprint again, at a minimum, or embrace it.
"Now you don't have to spend time or capital explaining the Ryan plan because everyone's going to know what it is," said one Democratic operative working in the state, adding, "If you're going to be moved by Paul Ryan being on the ticket, you already are ... you're a high-information Republican voter."
In a telephone interview today, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Ryan's partner on the Budget Committee and former head of the House Democrats' campaign arm, said Ryan's selection for the national ticket will only help Democrats downballot across the country.
"I think it sharpens the contrast in a way that helps the president [and] in a way that helps Democrats [because] while this will excite the base of the Republican Party, it leaves independent voters in the cold," the Maryland lawmaker said. "The Republican budget is an uncompromising blueprint for tax breaks for folks at the very top at the expense of everybody else."
Ryan is just the latest on an elite list of Wisconsin Republicans to rise to the top of the GOP crop, from Preibus to polarizing-but-idolized-by-the-right Gov. Scott Walker.
The prominence of the Wisconsin Republican has raised the stakes statewide to build momentum for the party, whether it's by delivering a state that hasn't gone red for president since 1984, helping the GOP take back the Senate or even protecting Ryan's House seat, which could be vulnerable as he focuses on his national run.
Though Ryan won re-election last cycle by a 2-to-1 margin in his Southwestern district, he faces a self-made and organized Democratic opponent in former Kenosha County Supervisor Rob Zerban, who has worked relentlessly to convince the establishment that his is a real race.
Abby Livingston contributed to this report.


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How Not to Look like an Asshole when Visiting Dublin
The people of Ireland are some of the best, most fun, friendly wonderful people in the world. They will welcome you with open arms, even if you make some of the mistakes below. For real, they need the money around here, but do you want them to serve you with a smile while they think to themselves "What an asshole!" No. No you don't.
1. Just wear the feckin' green on St. Patrick's Day. Really, join in the fun and leave your political/religious message (that you obviously have no clue about Irish History) for another day.
2. Don't order a Black and Tan or an Irish Car Bomb. You might just get yourself tossed out on yer arse.
3. Your Irish accent isn't as good as you think it is. Save it for your community production of Finian's Rainbow.
4. Subjects to avoid in the Pub: The Troubles.
5. Also at the Pub, if sports are on, cheer for the team everyone else is cheering for or shut up. I have a friend who spent two hours listening to a rugby match in the car because she made the mistake of cheering for England.
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Brock, Smith Reach 1,000 Career Pointsby Brent Harris • January 13, 2010 Share:
The two plays may not have been spectacular, but free throws by Wes Smith and Aaron Brock gave the two Wabash players their 1,000th career points Wednesday night. Smith finished with 23 points while Brock scored 11 in the Little Giants' 73-49 victory at Earlham.
The victory was the fourth in a row for Wabash --- the third straight North Coast Athletic Conference win. It was the first road win of the season for the Little Giants after starting 0-5 in non-neutral road contests.
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Smith (left) entered the game with 991 career points and quickly passed the 1,000-point mark, scoring 19 first half points to boost Wabash to a 36-28 halftime lead. Smith scored three early baskets, then went to the free throw line with 9:32 left in the first half, sinking both shots to reach 1,000 points.
Brock went scoreless in the first half before reeling off three baskets in the first seven minutes of the final period. A foul by the Quakers with 12:17 showing on the game clock led to two free throws for the senior forward. He canned both, scoring his 1,000th career point on the first attempt.
"Scoring 1,000 points is pretty special," Smith said. "It's pretty special to do it the same night that Brock scored 1,000 career points too. All in all it was a great evening."
"It was nice to get the 1,000 career points out of the way," Brock (below right) added. "It was fun to do it the same night that Wes got to 1,000, but we both wanted to make certain we got the win. We've got to stay in the top of the conference race and we want to keep this winning streak going. That was really more important, although the 1,000 points is nice."
The Little Giants took a 5-0 lead to start the contest, but went cold midway through the first period. Earlham used key three-point baskets in the opening period to take two one-point leads before Wabash closed out the half with a 7-0 run for an eight-point advantage at the break.
Wabash exploded offensively in the second half, outscoring the Quakers 25-12 over the first ten minutes of the second half. The Little Giants held Earlham to 21 total points in the final period and 8-of-31 shooting from the field for 25.8 percent. Wabash shot 28-of-51 (54.9 percent) from the field for the game, while Earlham was 15-of-53 (28.3 percent).
Chase Haltom added 16 points, connecting on 6-of-11 shots. He added a game-high four assists. Wabash finished with 10 assists as a team to go with 11 steals and five blocked shots. Ben Burkett was the fourth starter to score in double figures, finishing with 10 points.
Earlham (3-11, 1-5) was led by AJ Sutherlin's 13 points.
The Little Giants (8-5, 3-2) returns to Chadwick Court for Saturday for a home rematch against Denison University. The Big Red defeated Wabash 78-71 earlier this season at Denison. Tipoff Saturday is set for 3 p.m.
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Tuttle, Northern Iowa beat Missouri St. 60-58
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Seth Tuttle scored 21 points and hit a go-ahead layup with 2 seconds left to lift Northern Iowa over Missouri State 60-58 on Saturday night.
Tuttle was the only Panther to score in double digits after shooting 75 percent (9 of 12) from the floor, and led with a team-high nine rebounds.
Missouri State (17-9, 7-7 Missouri Valley Conference) trailed all the way through, but climbed back to tie up the score after a 7-0 run capped by two Jarmar Gulley free throws with 38 seconds to go. The Bears had closed in on a seven-point deficit after Austin Ruder sank two free throws and Dorrian Williams hit a 3-pointer.
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US senator will renounce Canadian citizenship
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has released his birth certificate to reflect that he was born in Canada but says he will renounce citizenship from that country.
The outspoken conservative has been mentioned as a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate — even though only natural-born U.S. citizens can hold the office.
Cruz first gave a copy of the document to The Dallas Morning News but then provided it to The Associated Press.
Cruz had long maintained that he was a U.S. citizen at birth because his mother is American.
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Cruz added: "Nothing against Canada, but I'm an American by birth."


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Exponentials and Powers
The exponential function is, as might be expected, closely related to the operation of taking powers. In fact, any of our functions satisfying the exponential property will have a similar relation.
To this end, consider such a function and define a positive number . Then we can calculate , , and so on. Since we see that , and similarly for all other rational numbers.
So we have a function defined on all real numbers, and we have a function defined on all rational numbers, and where both functions are defined they agree. Since the rationals are dense in the reals (the latter being the uniform completion of the former) there can be only one continuous extension of to the whole real line. We'll discard the function and just write for this extension from now on. In particular, the function gives us a special number , and we write .
Like we saw before, we can use the exponential function to give all the other exponentials . We know that for some constant , but which? If we take the natural logarithm of both sides we see that . In particular, setting we find . That is, given any positive real number we can define the exponential as


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Catholics understand revelation as arising from a single source and manifesting itself through both Scripture and tradition. That is, the Bible and the dynamic, Spirit-filled life of the church become a mutually informing expression of God's guidance. As Scripture molds how tradition views the world, tradition, ever evolving to changing conditions, brings different questions and perspectives to Scripture.
In today's Gospel reading, Jesus is tested by the Pharisees about Moses' allowance for divorce. Jesus appears to articulate an absolute rule: no divorce, or at least no divorce and remarriage. Early on the church struggled with such an absolute pronouncement. We see the struggle even within the New Testament itself. Matthew's version of the same story (19:9) adds an exception Jesus appears not to have made originally, for sexual immorality (porneia). Paul refers to Jesus' original teaching (1 Cor 7:10) and apparently feels free to nuance it to fit the conditions of the church. In this case Paul allowed divorce and remarriage between believer and unbeliever if the unbeliever wished it. The value he draws upon is God's will that we live in peace (7:15).
Today, the Catholic Church takes the indissolubility of marriage as a divine law, but then allows annulments for various reasons, including the very vague "lack of due discretion." These ongoing considerations reflect efforts to take the teachings of Jesus seriously in a complex world.
It might be helpful to consider how Jesus responded to the Pharisees. He took them out of their legal mentality and into the divine vision of the very nature of the human condition and the profound relationship God intends husbands and wives to have. He drew them back to Genesis, our first reading, and to Adam, God's lonely gardener. Being alone is not right, so God creates all the animals; but they are no partners for the man. God then takes a rib from Adam and forms Eve.
If we reflect on the symbolism, Adam not only finds "bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh"; he is also missing a rib. Eve has it. To be complete he needs to reconnect with that rib. "That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body." This is the purpose of marriage: the giving of oneself over to this new creation.
So divorce is clearly contrary to what we were made for in terms of marriage. This is the teaching of the Lord. No one knows this truth more deeply than earnest believers who committed their lives to a union that is now fractured by divorce. Their pain, loneliness, sense of failure and often even shame speak loudly and clearly that this brokenness is not the flourishing God intended. Does that make them violators of the divine law? Adulterers in a remarriage? Not necessarily. Like Matthew, Paul and the modern church, one is wise to take both Jesus' words and the dynamic tradition to heart, and use both to wrestle with this complex moral problem. One thing should be obvious: when we do such wrestling, we should always be sensitive to everyone's pain and the priority of conscience. The second reading, from the Letter to the Hebrews, describes Jesus' solidarity with us as a consequence of his own suffering. Our solidarity involves entering into each other's brokenness as well.
Pope Benedict XVI spoke early in his pontificate to pastors about Catholics who divorced and remarried without an annulment. "None of us has a ready-made solution," he said; "each person's suffering is different." He even saw their presence at the Eucharist as "involvement in the mystery of the Cross and resurrection of Christ. Given that it is the sacrament of the passion of Christ, the suffering Christ embraces these persons in a special way.... They can feel embraced by the crucified Lord who falls to the earth and dies and suffers for them and with them"—and with us all.


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Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts is offering a special Princess Pink Pudding Party on May 9 for daisy & Brownie Scouts.
What little Scout isn't a potential Princess? And what's this Pink Pudding all about?
Learn good manners and how to treat others with respect while working on fancy crafts fit for a princess.
NOTE: Brownies can earn the Manners Try-It.
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Spreading the Wealth
With so many members of Congress facing weak (or no) opponents when they run for re-election, they often have a surplus of campaign funds that can be spent elsewhere. In recent years - especially as the balance of power in the House and Senate has remained close - members have been strongly encouraged to share their excess money and deliver some of it to races that are truly competitive. Sometimes the money goes directly to the needy candidates; sometimes it goes to party committees, which spread it to the most strategic races. The money is delivered in two ways: either directly from the member's campaign committee or through contributions from the member's "leadership PAC."
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Tim Hartz, under funding by the California Lettuce Research Board, showed that the pre-sidedress soil nitrate testing, or PSNT, method was consistently accurate in maintaining lettuce yield and quality.
At the same time, it reduced seasonal nitrogen applications by an average of 45 percent.
Average commercial yield was nearly identical between the PSNT and growers standard treatments. Postharvest evaluation at UC, Davis, including storage of 10 to 14 days at 41 degrees, showed "virtually identical visual quality, decay and discoloration rankings between nitrogen treatments in all fields," he said.
Hartz' did his 1999-2000 season trials on 11 fields (10 planted to iceberg and one to romaine) from Castroville to Soledad with soil types from sandy loam to clay and harvest dates from June through September. Fields were irrigated by furrow or sprinkler.
For the trials he set up 36-row-wide strips across cooperating growers' fields. The majority of each field was under the grower's normal fertility program, but on the strips he sidedressed nitrogen in amounts according to nitrate-nitrogen content of the top one foot of soil.
After his earlier research for the board, Hartz noted that lettuce showed no short-term response to nitrogen fertilizer where the residual nitrate content of the soil was greater than 20 parts per million (PPM). Factoring 4 million pounds of soil per acre-foot, he calculated the amount to apply based on the PPM.
In the PSNT strips he applied nitrogen as needed, ranging from 20 pounds per acre for those showing 15 to 20 PPM to 80 pounds for those showing 0 to 5 PPM.
'Quick test' works
He analyzed nitrate in the soil with the "quick test," a field method using colormetric strips and found it to be reasonably accurate and comparable to conventional laboratory analyses.
The cost of soil nitrate monitoring, by either field or laboratory means, would generally be more than offset by reduced fertilizer costs, he said.
Nitrogen management practices varied widely among cooperating growers, the seasonal applications ranging from 158 pounds to 339 pounds per acre in one to four sidedressings.
The average grower application was 247 pounds per acre, and the PSNT method reduced that to 135 pounds, or 45 percent less, much of it in the first sidedressing.
"As expected," Hartz reported, "the spring fields, planted after winter fallow conditions, had somewhat lower soil nitrate at the first sidedressing than did the summer/fall fields, which were planted after incorporation of spring crop residues."
Hartz observed that fertilizer nitrogen not taken up by the crop presents a potential threat to ground- and surface-water quality. "Sampling at harvest showed that the grower-standard plots averaged approximately 60 pounds per acre more nitrate-nitrogen in the top three feet of soil than did the PSNT plots.
"That additional nitrate-nitrogen presents a leaching hazard, particularly in fields entering the rainy, winter-fallow period."
Hartz also evaluated another method, measuring nitrate content of lettuce midribs, in the trials and concluded it is of "very limited value" in determining field-specific sidedress nitrogen requirements.


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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern women placed third and the men were fourth at the UAH Fleet Feet Sports/Earl Jacoby Memorial Cross Country Invitational, Saturday morning at Sharon Johnston Park in New Market, Ala.
In the men's 8K, freshman Chris Roberts was the top finisher, placing ninth among non-Division I runners and 12th among all runners with a time of 27:00.9. On the women's side, sophomore Kelsey Holdbrooks ran the 5K in 20:03.7 to place 19th overall and ninth among non-DI schools.
"Our men and women raced well today and it was a great meet all around," Head Coach Kenneth Cox said. "This was another positive race for our runners and they continue to improve each week."
BSC is back in action in two weeks at the Rhodes Invitational, Sept. 28 in Memphis, Tenn.


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Local and state police will crack down on aggressive driving Wednesday.
Local and state police will crack down on aggressive driving Wednesday.
Police from across the county will be on the lookout for aggressive driving behaviors like speeding, tailgating and running red lights and stop signs, according to the Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Program.
Police from Pocono Mountain Regional, Pocono Township, Stroud Area Regional and state police will target their enforcement efforts on interstates 80 and 380, as well as routes 33, 115, 196, 209 and 611.
The aim is to reduce injuries and fatalities resulting from aggressive driving behaviors.
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as alkalinity/high pH are a major culprit in lifeless beer, extracting tannis and astringency, and other bad things.
And if I recall correctly, AJ only brews light lagers, so that is where his experience lies.
Interesting points. Most importantly, how does the beer taste?
I recently made a 40 SRM oatmeal stout with 2.5 pounds of roasted barley in the mash for a 12 gallon batch. Despite an alkalinity of only 48 (and RA of 25) in my tap water, I added no chalk or other carbonates. My mash pH was 5.5, and I wouldn't want it any higher. One side note is that ColorPhast pH strips were almost unreadable in the dark wort, but looked like they read much lower than the meter. If I had to guess, the strips read around 4.8. With the error, that's still 5.1. The meter was just calibrated. I'm starting to question whether the ColorPhast strips are really worth using.
is there a real diference in tasting a beer with a very low or high diference in Ph? i mean.. if i hit 5.9 or lets say 5.1... im a little confused about that, need to read a lot
You can rinse the pH strip off with water before reading it. It makes reading a dark beer's pH much easier.
Bought a $25 groupon & picked up a pH meter for less than half the retail price.
WHAT!?Doesn't this contaminate the strip & make it start reading toward the water pH?


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Cat Power — Crush of the Day
Cat Power's newest record, 'Sun' hit the shelves this week, and we're crushing hard.
Charlyn Marie Marshall is this Atlanta, GA native's given name, but under the stage name Cat Power she has made quite a name for herself as a singer/songwriter, actress and model. As a child, she was not allowed to buy records, and so she grew up listening to her stepfather's - Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. You can hear the influence of each one of these legends in her bluesy, powerful vocals.
Marshall is renowned for her emotional performances: Slugging from a bottle of JD on stage, resting her head on the piano at the conclusion of a powerful song, or sometimes leaving the stage completely. Like her music, she is raw and volatile, which is what makes her so beloved by her fans. In a recent cover story in Pitchfork, Amanda Petrusich defends her intentionality:
"For an artists who so often gets portrayed as emotionally precarious, Marshall is a tough custodian of her own work."
Her grunge-inspired look has made her a muse for fashion designers and photographers alike, and she was named in Maxim's 100 Hot Women of 2009, ranking at #19.
Marshall is beautiful, talented, and fiercely individual - How could we not love her?


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Boston Marathon looks to emerge from shadow of 2013 bombing
BOSTON: Runners from the world's elite racers to first-timers will step to the Boston Marathon starting line on Monday for the first time the race has been held since last year's deadly bombing attack.
Some 36,000 people, the second-largest field in the race's 118-year history, will set out from Hopkinton, a town west of Boston, for the 26.2-mile race that finishes on Boston's Boylston Street, where two homemade pressure-cooker bombs last year killed three people and injured 264.
For the top men and women runners, including 2013 winners Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa and Kenya's Rita Jeptoo, the focus will be entirely on the competition.
The fans, hundreds of thousands of whom are expected to line the course, will also be rooting for top U.S. entrants including Ryan Hall of California and Desiree Linden of Michigan. Either could be the first American to stand atop the podium in three decades, breaking a long domination of the event by African athletes.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on Sunday told CBS's "Face the Nation" that added security measures, including a higher than usual police presence, would assure a "very safe" atmosphere at the race.
"Somebody said it may be the safest place in America tomorrow," Patrick said.
While more police tactical units and undercover operatives will be stationed along the route, Patrick said there was an effort to provide adequate security while retaining the race's traditional atmosphere so that it does not become "a race through a militarized zone."
Racers and supporters will face new restrictions including a ban on backpacks, which the ethnic Chechen brothers accused in the April 15, 2013, attack were believed to have used to carry the bombs.
While the memory of the attacks has hung heavy over Boston through a week of events leading up to the race, Linden said it wouldn't affect her thinking come race day.
"That's a backward thought process," said Linden, who in 2011 finished in second place, missing victory by two seconds. "I don't need a terrorist event to be motivated. I'm inspired by the city and the people and I'll honor that … Boston is such a big event in itself that you don't need extra motivation, especially not that kind."
The Boston Athletic Association, which organizes the race, allowed an additional 9,000 runners this year, in part to ensure that the roughly 5,000 people who were on the course when the blasts occurred get a chance to cross this finish line.
Many runners train for years to post the fast, age-graded qualifying times needed to earn a spot, while others commit to raising thousands of dollars for charity.
Runners and marathon workers who attended Easter Mass at the cathedral on Sunday were invited to the front to be blessed by Boston cardinal Sean O'Malley.
Memories of last year's attack were stirred after a memorial service on Tuesday, when a shoeless man in a black veil, shouting "Boston Strong" dropped a backpack on the street near the finish line.
Police said the backpack contained a rice cooker. The man was arrested and charged with possession of a hoax device.
Joseph Tecce, an associate professor of psychology at Boston College, said seeing the race go off smoothly could help people overcome their memories of the attack.
"There will be fears, nagging doubts and insecurities, but there will also be an anticipation that it's all going to go away if we just wait until April 21, when people start hitting the street again."
One runner on Monday will be Lukman Faily, the Iraqi ambassador to the United States, who will take part to show solidarity with the people of Boston and the United States. It will not be his first marathon, as he also ran after the 2011 Fukushima tsunami while stationed in Japan.
"We will stand with each other in defying terrorism and making a pure sporting event, a sporting statement that terrorism will never prevail," Faily said. "If the marathon was stopped because of last year's event, then they would have won."
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Is it possible to go from being a "boob man" to being a breastfeeding fan? In honor of Father's Day, the awesome David Alan Basche shows us how it's done. David starred as Debra Messing's ex-husband Kenny on the hit TV show The Starter Wife, and played the recurring character of Mike Harness on Lipstick Jungle. He starred as Todd Beamer in United 93 and stole Tom Cruise's wife in The War of the Worlds. He has a daughter, Liv, with his wife, actress and Best for Babes Champion Alysia Reiner.
1. What did you think about breastfeeding pre-baby? Did that change post-baby, and if so, how?
I hate to admit this, but before we had a baby I was kind of weirded out by breastfeeding. It looked strange and I was always like "look away! Ignore it, ignore the boobs in the room, move along, nothin to see here!…" But you know what? The first moment I saw my wife breastfeed our daughter minutes after birth, I was hit with a thunderbolt of understanding and awe for the miracle of it all, and I still feel that way.
2. Did you take a breastfeeding class with Alysia?
I never went to the actual breastfeeding classes with Alysia. But I remember sneaking a look at that section of all the books she brought home while educating herself about it. And I did participate (as much as I physically could!) in the breastfeeding parts of the general "birthing and holy crap we're having a kid" classes that we took together.
3. What's the coolest thing you've learned along the way about breastfeeding or human milk?
First of all, who knew that an actual baby can survive on it's mother's milk alone. Not this dimwitted male, I have to tell you. I mean that's freakin' amazing! No other kind of milk, no formula needed, no energy bars or burritos or mac n' cheese. Just Momma's Milk. Absolutely astounding. Oh, that and the fact that breast milk changes it's makeup to adapt to a baby's changing nutritional needs as the baby grows. One day more fat, less carbs, then whammo! a month goes by and it's more carbs, less fat, still completely nutritionally PERFECT. Incredible, right?
4. How did you feel about Alysia donating her milk to a friend's baby?
I loved the idea, for a lot of reasons. It seemed to me, first and foremost, very loving and generous. And it felt very personal; a very intimate gift between women, and a very important one, of course. Also, I knew how healthy Alysia was eating, no drugs, no smoking, regular exercise, and our baby was certainly thriving, so I knew that her milk would be REALLY good for this other baby. And lastly, we donate blood and bone marrow without being squeamish about it, so I figured "what's the big deal? Share the boob juice!"
5. Alysia told us that she never would have breastfed as long as she did (over 2 years!) without your support. What support did you give her that helped the most?
I just tried to be there and be supportive and keep things light. Also, she had a bit of trouble at first, I remember our daughter's latch-on needed some "adjusting." If it really hurt Alysia or didn't feel right to her, I'd say "okie dokie, pop her off and let's start again, I'm staying awake here with you, we gotta get that latch, you can do it sweetheart, you're doing great." PS – I gotta admit I was jealous there for a while, I mean when would it be ME playing with those boobs again? Hang in there, partners, you'll be fumbling with a bra and feeling like a teenager in the back seat of a car again soon enough.
One specific thing I did was go out of my way to bring the baby to her Momma to breastfeed, no matter where Momma was, anything just to keep that bond going. Instead of giving a bottle, I brought the baby to Alysia while she was filming a prime time TV show in Brooklyn one day, then to Soho while she met a director at Balthazar the next day (all French pastries are better with milk).
6. What would you say to encourage a friend who doesn't want his wife or partner to breastfeed?
Well you have to respect everyone's feelings, so I wouldn't want to come off sounding preachy about it, but I probably will anyway, so screw it: I believe that if a woman can breastfeed her baby it's the absolute best thing for that kid and will make them smarter, stronger, and healthier. To a spouse or partner I'd say learn about it, read about it, see a couple boobalicious videos (not THOSE kind!) to really get a sense of the awesomeness. Then just support your girl and bask in the divine miracle of it all. And hey, after some major effort if it turns out that for whatever reason they CAN'T breastfeed, then you have to support that too, you have to just be there, no judgement, just acceptance.
Babes, don't you just love this guy? How did your Boob Man become a Breastfeeding Fan?


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Who doesn't dream of greatness - swinging like Babe Ruth or punching like Muhammad Ali? But those guys are sports stars.
If you're like us, your heroes are the legendary all-star investors, the heavy hitters who knocked the cover off the ball time and again with their winning trades.
Following are the Fast Money icons - some of the greatest traders of all time.
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IRVING, TX (KLTV) - Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent has been arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter following a late night accident that has left another Cowboy dead.
According to the Irving Police Department records, Brent was arrested and booked Saturday and charged with intoxication manslaughter.
The following statement was released by the Irving Police Department:
Irving, Texas, December 8 – The Irving Police Department is currently investigating a single vehicle fatality accident involving two Dallas Cowboys football players. Earlier this morning, at about 2:21 a.m., Joshua Price-Brent, a 24 year-old Irving resident, was driving westbound in the 1400 block of the NSR of E. S.H. 114. His vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed when it hit the outside curb causing the vehicle to flip at least one time before coming to rest in the middle of the service road.
When officers arrived, they contacted Price-Brent who was identified as the driver. He was responsive and able to speak with officers. Officers also located Jerry Brown Jr., a 25 year-old male, who was the passenger in the car. Brown was unresponsive and transported to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.
Officers at the scene believed alcohol was a contributing factor in the crash; therefore, Price-Brent was asked to perform field sobriety tests. Based on the results of the tests, along with the officer's observations and conversations with Price-Brent, he was arrested for driving while intoxicated. He was transported to an area hospital for a mandatory blood draw. Once it was learned that the passenger of his vehicle had died as a result of the crash, Price-Brent was booked into the Irving City jail on one count of Intoxication Manslaughter.
The investigation is still ongoing; therefore, limited information is available. A photo of Price-Brent is included below. Investigators are also looking for any witnesses who might have details about the incident and are asking that they contact the Irving Police Department at 972-721-2762.
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