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With Mount St. Joe junior Emilee Ehret closing in on her left, Sacred Heart's Lara Haab (#33) aims for the Magic's goal, but rock steady senior defender Laura Pacheco (right foreground with ball in front of stick) is there to block the shot before it reaches MSJ sophomore goalie Christina Black (right rear). (Photo by Tom Utescher)
Their first goal didn't go into the books until just four minutes remained in the opening half of last Thursday's field hockey match, but the Mount St. Joseph Academy Magic eventually expanded a 1-0 halftime edge into a 3-0 victory over visiting Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. The Magic remained undefeated, with a 6-0 mark that includes five Catholic Academies victories and a non-league win at Pennsbury High School.
The goals were evenly distributed between three Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduates, senior twins Brooke and Allie Sabia (who have both committed to play at the University of Massachusetts) and junior Anne Burgoyne. Burgoyne helped set up the first half goal by Brooke Sabia, and her own goal was assisted by a junior classmate, Wyndmoor's Emilee Ehret. Lafayette Hill native Christina Black, a sophomore, made three saves for the shutout. In fact, Black and the Magic have not given up a goal thus far in the 2011 campaign, an encouraging sign given that most of the Magic's graduation losses from the 2010 team were on the defensive end, including Kat Matchett, now a freshman starting in goal at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.
A scheduled meeting between the Mount and perennial AACA rival Villa Maria Academy was rained out the week of Labor Day; instead their first clash will occur at Villa this Friday in Malvern. Just before that encounter with the Mount, Villa is slated to face a test from Wissahickon High School, but as of the end of last week, the Hurricanes owned a 6-0 record that included a 4-2 win over Girls Inter-Ac League co-leader Notre Dame.
Rain clouds took a break for the Mount-Sacred Heart contest last Thursday, and at one point the crowd looked up to see a bright yellowish disk reportedly known as "The Sun." Downpours returned the following day, washing out an eagerly anticipated match on Christopher Dock's pristine artificial turf field.
On Thursday, the Magic were hosting a game in their own stadium for the first time this season. The ground was still soggy and the grass fairly long, making for a significantly "slower" playing surface than the old MSJ practice (and game) field.
"We haven't been on this field at all so it really wasn't a home team advantage," pointed out co-coach Christina Peruto Post. "I feel the girls play much better on a faster field, and we weren't able to use our speed on this slow grass."
The Magic's passing game did not tick along with its usual precision at first, and there were several near misses at the visitors' goal where the timing seemed just a tad off for the hosts. Sacred Heart has the smallest enrollment of the AACA schools, but hockey is always one of its strongest sports and the Lions aren't to be taken lightly. The Bryn Mawr bunch posed a few threats up in the Mount circle before the Magic began to recover their customary form and got on the board (courtesy of Brooke Sabia) with 3:40 remaining in the first stanza.
At halftime, related Peruto Post, "Mostly we talked about the fact that we were clogging up the center of the field trying to take the ball through there. We were making it harder on ourselves, and we needed to play smarter and use our outletting better. Mentally, they already know not to force the ball up the middle, but sometimes the adrenalin during a game gets the better of them."
A dozen minutes into the second half, Burgoyne reinforced the Magic's lead off of a feed from Ehret. The Lions called time-out and then went on the attack for a spell, but the only goal in the remaining minutes belonged to the Mount, which had Allie Sabia score with 9:42 on the clock.
With the Magic earning 10 penalty corners to the visitors' four, Lions goalie Taylor Brady faced considerable pressure, and finished with 10 saves.
The Mount had replaced a longstanding starter in goal with a sophomore – a proposition potentially fraught with risk, so Peruto Post was thrilled that her team has shut out all of its first six rivals.
"We've been pushing Christina [Black] to talk and we want her to really direct that 'D'," the Mount mentor said. "She's very coachable and she's stepped up and done the things we've asked her to do. The fact that she's only a sophomore is exciting."
The Mount's most experienced defender, senior Laura Pacheco, has been joined deep in the circle by sophomore Millie Stefanowicz, the only freshman who spent the entire 2010 season on the varsity squad.
"Today Laura and Millie did a great job in the back clearing it out," noted Peruto Post. "Emilee Ehret's been really steady holding the center in front of them. Today we switched and dropped Brooke back there as the center person, and she did great, too."
Senior Katie Gozdon was often observed transporting the ball up into the midfield, and Peruto Post revealed, "Our regular left outside, Cara Beale, was sick, but Dana Scott filled in well."
Both Beale and Scott are sophomores, and there is a freshman forward, Chrissy Pascali, who has arrived ready for varsity prime time. Her sister, Mary Kate, is a former Mount defender who graduated in June.
"There were some things that were a given coming into the season, like the Sabias and Anne Burgoyne being so good at getting to the ball off the [opposing goalie's] pads," related Peruto Post. "What I'm really glad to see is how well younger girls have adapted to taking on key roles at the varsity level."


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A few autumn-like days over the past few weeks has me dreading cooler weather and reminiscing about summer days from my early childhood to more recent years. Like my cats, I am an admitted heat-seeker. I would much rather be hot than cold, as I've always found it easier to beat the heat than to get warm once I'm chilled to the bone.
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Dirty Dozen Largess Derby September Crown 2013
I ran the Dirty Dozen Largess Derby at September. You can learn more about Dirty Dozen at https://www.facebook.com/groups/520009888022124/
I had 9 people enter, but some people entered multiple sets of things. Alessandre da Montefeltro made silk painted fans and An Tir colored favors. Nidda Ridarelli entered needle cases. Antonia Crevelli entered earrings. Steinn and Gemma made Strawberry Bacon jam. Freyadis of Avacal made sewing kits in little wooden boxes. Tomaris di Cavallino made 15th c. style enameled glass candle holders, Morgan Donner made jewelry sets and had period images with them as documentation. Jadwiga Radomyski made hand painted medieval games. Christal Moore made 12 of each: Flower seeds packet with four different flowers, Travel tissue holder, beaded scissor fob, needle/scissor fob, Lavender sachets, a bottle with 2 tablespoons of lavender and a lavender shortbread recipe. The total was 16 sets of largess.
The Crown was very appreciative of the generosity of the populace of An Tir. Thank you to all the artisans who participated. Especially to Jadwiga, who has entered two in a row with her beautiful games, both May Crown and September Crown. And the prize winner of September Crown was Morgan Donner, who was also a second time entrant. She made the most beautiful hand smocked and embroidered aprons for May Crown and the beautiful jewelry sets in this round.


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"A worldwide album distribution deal" doesn't sound at all like something that would apply to the musical artistry of members of a Benedictine cloister set in the rolling farmland of northwest Missouri. But indeed it does. Just over a week ago, on Nov. 20, "Advent at Ephesus," a 16-track CD of vocal performances by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, went international.
"The sisters maintain silence through much of their days, speaking only to ask work-related questions or to give instructions. An ancient Cistercian sign language is used for other communication. Silence 'cultivates an atmosphere of prayer.' Their silence is broken in chapel during the praying and singing of hymns, psalms and the Office," writes reporter Marty Denzer of The Catholic Key, newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo.
The Benedictine priory is located in the diocese. Denzer describes the nuns as a youthful group consecrated to Mary whose charism is "praying for priests." They pray and sing "hymns and chants in their chapel eight times each day."
Their CD of Advent music – released by DeMontfort Music and distributed internationally through Decca – captures what is described by many as "angelic music." A press release from the Maximus Group promoting the album says it "represents a rare approach — one that focuses on music celebrating the introspective anticipation of the Nativity that is the foundation of the Advent season." Song titles include "Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth," "Regnantem Sempiterna," "Alma Redemptoris Mater," "O Come Divine Messiah" and "Like the Dawning."
The first Sunday of Advent is Dec. 2, which is also when the Eternal Word Television Network will begin airing a program on the daily life, spirituality and "musical gifts" of the Benedictine nuns. It recounts the three days they spent recording the CD this fall at their priory in a mobile studio set up by award-winning producer Glenn Rosenstein.


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Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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- Date Created/Published: ca. 1890-ca. 1900.
- Medium: 591 photomechanical prints : photochrom, color ; 16.5 x 22.5 cm. (6 1/2 x 9 in.)
- Summary: Color prints from photographs showing late 19th century tourist sites in Eastern and Central Europe (formerly known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Structures and sites depicted include bridges; churches; hotels; government buildings; lakes; mountains; museums; monuments; public gardens; and resorts. Street views, cityscapes, landscapes, and waterfronts are also represented. Countries depicted include Austria, Bosnia & Hercegovina; Croatia; the Czech Republic; Hungary; Italy; Poland; Romania; Slovakia; and Slovenia.
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These lead screw and anti-backlash nut block sets have been designed specifically for the CNC hobbyist in mind, to provide a low cost solution for providing linear motion when coupled with a stepper motor.
This particular item comprises of 3 sets of a 495 mm stainless steel lead screw with a matching anti-backlash delrin nut. The diameter is 8 mm with a standard M8 1.25 mm pitch.
This pitch is ideal for small hobby CNC machines, where large speeds are not required, as the fine pitch provides good precision whilst requiring minimal force from a stepper motor, and thus is suitable for direct drive with small stepper motors. Due to the high resolution (0.00625 mm per full step on a standard 1.8 degree motor) vibration is negligible and a simple drive can be used without micro-stepping, thus further reducing cost.
The lead screw is supplied polished and fitted with our anti-backlash delrin nut and has a standard 1.25 mm pitch. There is no machining on the ends but 8 mm bore bearings (such as 608) can easily be fitted to either end with standard 8 mm nuts.
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What's the Hurry? What's the Worry?
By Marc Chandler Jan 03, 2013 10:00 am
The fiscal cliff was never about economics, but politics, and incentives for politicians to fiscally consolidate, are just not in place.
While elated that the full 3.5% US fiscal drag was avoided, many observers are understandably dissatisfied with the fiscal compromise that was struck.
Marianne Faithfull's song "What's the Hurry" may ironically offer some insight. She asked, "What's the panic, where's the static?" That seems to be the key. The fiscal cliff in the US was never about economics, but always about politics. The politicians had tied their own hands, and lo and behold, figured out a way to untie them.
Politicians, regardless of nationality or political persuasion, like the people they represent, are loath to make difficult decisions unless they are forced. The pressures that usually emanate from large deficits and debt are inflation and higher interest rates. These are not present in the US. Contrary to the predictions of many economists, US interest rates remain low, as does inflation.
What is most remarkable then is not that the politicians found some way to untie their hands, but that there is any interest in reducing the deficit in the first place. Recall that prior to the fiscal cliff wrangling there was about 0.75% fiscal consolidation built into the 2013 budget. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fiscal drag of the full monty of the cliff would have been 3.5% of GDP. The compromise tax increases appear to worth about a 1% drag, mostly from the end of the payrolls saving tax holiday (thereby restoring funding for Social Security).
It is true that the US Treasury market has sold off sharply in the aftermath of the budget compromise. The 8-9 bp rise in the US 10-year yield looks to be among the largest moves in three months. Yet this is more restrained than in Germany and the UK, for example, where 10-year yields have risen 12-14 bp. This suggests the sell-off in US Treasuries is not a reflection of investors expressing their dismay at the fiscal compromise that lacks spending restraint. Rather the Treasury sell-off is a sigh of relief that a recession in the world's largest economy has been averted.
Investors as a whole perceive the news as favorable and have bolstered their risk appetites by bidding equities sharply higher, selling off core bonds, and selling the dollar and yen.
The bottom line is that politicians, like all people, respond to incentives and at the moment, the incentives that have in the past prodded fiscal consolidation are not in place. Many pundits try to draw comparisons between the US and Japan. The incentives for fiscal consolidation in the form of higher interest rates and/or higher inflation do not exist there either. Hence Abenomics is the pursuit of aggressive monetary AND fiscal policy.
This suggests that the coming negotiations about spending cuts and the debt ceiling may be fierce and loud, but also will also not produce a dramatic agreement that puts the US on a sustainable fiscal path.
See more from Marc Chandler at his blog Marc to Market.
Twitter: @marcmakingsense
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We are so excited the big day is finally here, we love a big parade and no one does it better than the British. So good luck to William and Kate, we hope they have a long and happy life together.
It has been a busy Easter at l'uccello, we moved a lot of our production to another room upstairs, we had to make room for all the new stock that has arrived lately. While we were at it we painted the old storeroom and are in the process of turning it into a lovely new office and staff room, (a small room but 30 windows to mask and paint!) So I am glad that is over, we just have to finish sorting things into new boxes with labels, it is my resolution this year to get organised, lets just say I am still a work in progress.
I have also been making pom poms, many many pom poms for the Kleins Perfumery Mother's Day window, which I installed today, but not enough pom poms! So I will have to make a whole lot more, they are fun to make, I have been using the Clover pom pom makers that we stock, they are so much faster than the old cardboard method.
Well I will get on with the photos, there is so much new stock, this is only part of it. The most exciting news is the winter collection of Sophie Digard exquisite hand made scarves and necklaces have started to arrive, the rest of the collection is due in a couple of weeks. I do apologise for the photos, I forgot to charge the camera so I had to use the phone, the colours are far more lovely than the photos suggest.
A quick note about Mother's Day, l'uccello now offers gift certificates and as always we also offer complementary gift wrapping, so if you have a crafty mum we have lots of great gift options.
New felt delivery, we now have over 60 colours in lovely pure wool felt.
We have expanded our range of felt to include these bundles, they are 2 metres long.
And we also now have a few colours available by the metre for larger projects, it is a metre wide.
Gorgeous new vintage threads, French pearl cotton, mercerised cotton, buttonhole twist silk and some gorgeous old crochet hooks in fab colours.
Beautiful new collection of hand quilted bed throws made from vintage cotton and silk saris.
Some great new fabrics from kokka, this one features antique perfume labels.
Last but not least, we have finally produced our new version of the seed packet linen sachet, our first batch has been shipped off to Kleins Perfumery in time for Mother's Day.
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NASA videos show January's northern lights from high above. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Colorful videos prove that the astronauts on the International Space Station had the best seats in the house during last month's flare-up of auroral activity.
NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth is offering a whole new batch of time-lapse videos from the Jan. 25-30 period, when an active region on the sun was blasting out a healthy dose of electrically charged particles and lighting up Earth's upper atmosphere.
Time-lapse video from the International Space Station on Jan. 29. These sequences of frames were taken at the rate of one frame per second, which is closer than usual to the station's true speed.
These latest videos are notable because they're assembled from still pictures that were taken at a rate of one frame per second, rather than the usual frame every three seconds. As a result, the pace of the videos is more leisurely and a somewhat closer match to the true speed of the space station.
The video above documents a minute of flight heading east from the Pacific over the Canadian West Coast, heading toward southern Alberta near Calgary. I love watching the ripples and flashes of the green aurora over Canada — seasoned with a dash of red from the atomic oxygen that exists at higher altitudes. Why is there red as well as green in the aurora? We've addressed that question before, but this Aurora FAQ from the University of Alaska provides a quick explanation.
Here are a couple more videos, tracking the space station's flight over the U.S. East Coast as well as central North America. But you don't have to stop here. Visit NASA's Gateway, which offers still photos from the space station in addition to the videos, and check out the YouTube channel for NASA Crew Earth Observations. My favorite places for space imagery also include the Fragile Oasis Facebook page, NASA astronaut Ron Garan's Google+ page and Jason Major's Lights in the Dark blog.
This video was taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 29 during a pass from just southwest of Mexico to the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Newfoundland. As the space station travels northeast over the Gulf of Mexico, you can see New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville and Atlanta. Continuing up the East Coast, the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City stand out brightly. The northern lights shine in the background as the pass finishes near Newfoundland.
This video was taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 26 during a pass from North Dakota to central Quebec. The northern lights can be seen near the space station, with small patches of the green auroral light dancing around.
If auroras, atmospheric phenomena and solar activity are your thing, you can't do much better than SpaceWeather.com, which is keeping track of lovely aurora pictures like this one from Chad Blakley at Abisko National Park in Sweden. Be sure to check out Blakley's Lights Over Lapland website while you're at it.
Chad Blakley / Lights Over Lapland
Photographer Chad Blakley captured this view of the northern lights over Sweden's Abisko National Park on Feb. 6. "The lights started around 6:00 p.m. and continued into the very early hours of the morning," Blakley told SpaceWeather.com. Check out Blakley's gallery on SpaceWeather.com for still more stunning views.
AuroraMAX / CSA
The rippling northern lights share the skies with a nearly full moon over Yellowknife in Canada's Northern Territories early today, as seen by the Canadian Space Agency's AuroraMAX wide-angle camera. To keep on top of northern Canada's aurora extravaganza, check the AuroraMAX website and Twitpic account.
Update for 3:25 p.m. ET Feb. 8: I originally wrote that the pace of the latest videos from the space station was nearly a true match to the station's orbital speed, but after double-checking with the folks at Johnson Space Center, I'd say it's more accurate to call them a "truer" match than usual. The videos were assembled from still photographs that were captured by a digital camera at the rate of one frame per second, rather than the usual frame every three seconds. That makes for a slower-paced video, but not a real-time speed, because the Web video plays at a rate that's more than one frame per second.
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Bottle Shock
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Rated: PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual content and a scene of drug use.
Release Date: 2008-08-08
Starring: Jody Savin, Randall Miller, Ross Schwartz
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It's always a tricky situation to have a film's protagonist be some-thing rather than some-one. Such is the case with Bottle Shock, wherein California wine, in particular the one from Napa Valley, plays the underdog that goes for glory against all odds. It may sound absurd, but at times this film does indeed have this 'Rocky' sensibility to it, where respect is earned and hearts are won.
Based on a true story, the film tells us of a moment in time (1976) when a small American winery competed against the exalted French wines, putting californian vineyards on the map for decades to come. Unfortunately, director Randall Miller muddles the picture with a few other story-lines that to be quite honest detract from the film.
Bill Pullman plays Jim Barrett, the founder of the Montelena vineyard that will eventually compete, but whose perfectionist ways don't bode well for his son Bo Barrett (Chris Pine), who seems to disappoint his old man on a daily basis. This father-son dynamic continues throughout the film while a contrived love triangle develops between Bo, his best friend Gustavo (Freddy Rodriguez), and a gorgeous intern named Sam (Rachel Taylor).
Then there's the Steven Spurrier story – the British connoisseur played by an affable Alan Rickman, that travels to northern california in search of bottles for an upcoming wine tasting event he's put together in europe to promote the diversity of offerings in his failing Paris shop.
But none of these plot lines are fully developed and so they aren't as compelling as the competition itself. A sad notion when you consider that said competition is only as long as a round in one of the famous Rocky bouts.
Still, those who are not wine enthusiasts or connoisseurs will find some of the scenes rather silly. I'm referring to the faces the actors make when they taste the wine, when they caress the grapevines, and gaze upon the acres of land while the wind dances around the vineyards.
There's no question this small film has passion, but its also careful enough not to overdo or over glamorize the events that took place in the mid 70s. What's hurts its chances nevertheless, are the many subplots that are touched upon so subtly but so forcefully thrown together.
While it won't leave a bad taste in your mouth, you might be more inclined to stick the cork back in the bottle, and call it a night.


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As much as I hate to admit it, summer is waning here in the lovely District of Columbia. As I cling to my flip-flops and sundresses and make frowny faces at boots and jackets, the kiddies — and, let's be honest, us parents — are all wrapped up in the excitement of the back-to-school season. If they didn't go last week, which I think is silly because of the long weekend, then tomorrow is probably the big day. It's going to be all jitters and butterflies for a lot of households come morning.
Last week was Tween Girl's first day of eighth grade. I'm proud to report that, even though it's her last year of middle school, I made it through without melting into a sentimental heap of sobs. Even when it's not a monumental year, I usually do the ugly cry for at least 10 minutes after I drop her off. But perhaps I was so distracted by other parents' shenanigans that I couldn't go through my emotional routine.
I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm begging other folks to think their actions through when they set the tone for their kids' brand spanking new school year. Here's just a taste of no-no's that I've seen myself, read about in the news, or heard about through the grapevine. Yikes.
1. Forgetting (or consciously deciding not) to wear a bra and smothering small children who are about as tall as your breasts are low.
2. Peddling your wares to other parents. The school grounds aren't the marketplace for hustling Avon, adult toys, real estate. Give it some time — better yet, give your kids a break.
3. Wearing a plastic shower cap. That's it. Wearing a plastic shower cap. It's enough.
4. Rolling down the window and punting your kids' forgotten lunch to them from the driver's seat.
5. Catching the Holy Ghost while the gospel choir sings at the Back to School assembly.
6. Shaking the principal's hand — and holding on to it.
7. Declaring your intention to run for PTA president and pinning one of your campaign buttons to the back of your competitor's kid's shirt.
8. Showing off pictures from your summer vacation.
9. Telling a teacher about the litany of medical woes little Bradford suffers from, down to the mystery rash he's going to need ointment for.
10. Firing off a series of long, angry horn blasts aimed at the line of cars tangling up what would've been the swiftest little kid drop-off ever.
11. Following that up with a middle finger.
12. Cursing another mom out for rocking a couture purse made of real crocodile skin. Come up for air, PETA vigilante.
13. Smothering your little one (or, good heavens, your not-so-little-one) with kisses on the steps of their school and then scooting them off to be the hot topic of discussion among their peers.
14. Sporting your "F&$^% your censorship" T-shirt to take your fifth grader to Catholic school.
15. Ranting and raving about the upcoming school year's fees to anybody who will listen — including teachers, administrators, and other parents. There is a forum for that, and first day of school? That ain't it.
16. And of course, cry in front of everybody uncontrollably as you wave your baby into the start of another new year.
What are some of the more embarrassing stunts you've seen parents pull to mortify their kids? Or — moment of self-reflection — have you done something to shame your poor children that needs to be added to this list?


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20 Mar 19 - New research by the UN has found that a temperature rise of up to 3.5deg in the Arctic is now inevitable.
Arctic warming must be urgently tackled, warns UN
14 Mar 19 - Sharp and potentially devastating temperature rises of 3deg to 5deg in the Arctic are now inevitable even if the world succeeds in cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris agreement, new research has found.
Massive iceberg set to break with Antarctic
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Ice voyage will explore ocean hidden for 100,000 years
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Why sea-ice cover is so low (its not just climate change)
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Greenland ice melt is in overdrive
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Hunt begins for 'detergent' to clean up the sky
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How Antarctic melt could slow temperature rise
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Crucial Antarctic current is changing
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Shaw heads south to check out ice-melt threat
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Vehicle made from recycled plastic to explore the ice
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Frozen Arctic moves seawards in hectic melt
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What's causing Antarctica's ocean to warm up?
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This chapter discusses general principles that are useful for optimizing queries to run more efficiently. It covers the following optimization strategies:
The primary optimization technique for reducing lookup times is to create good indexes. This is true not just for retrievals (SELECT statements); indexing reduces row lookup time for UPDATE and DELETE statements as well. You should know general principles for creating useful indexes and for avoiding unnecessary ones.
The EXPLAIN statement provides information about how the MySQL optimizer processes queries. This is of value when you're trying to determine how to make a query run better (for example, if you suspect indexes are not being used as you think they should be).
The way a query is written might prevent indexes from being used even if they are available. Rewriting the query often will allow the optimizer to use an index and process a query faster. Other times you can use query modifiers to give the scheduler a hint about how to execute a query.
In some cases, query processing for a task can be improved by using a different database design. This includes techniques such as choosing a storage engine with properties that best match application requirements and using summary tables.
Questions on the material in this chapter make up approximately 15% of the exam.
Why be concerned about optimization? The most obvious reason is to make your queries run faster. Another is that optimizing your queries helps everybody who uses the server, not just you. When the server runs more smoothly and does more with less work, it performs better as a whole:
A query that takes less time to run doesn't hold locks as long. Other clients that are waiting to update a table have to wait less time for a fast query than a slow one. This reduces the chance of a query backlog building up.
A query might be slow because it does not use indexes and therefore MySQL must scan a table in its entirety. For a large table, that involves a lot of processing and disk activity. This extra overhead affects not only your own query, it takes machine resources that could be devoted to processing other queries. Adding effective indexes allows MySQL to read only the relevant parts of the table, which is quicker and less disk intensive.
The optimization strategies covered here are guidelines known to result in generally improved query performance. However, you must test them in specific circumstances and measure the results, particularly if you can choose from more than one technique in a given situation.
The techniques discussed in this chapter can be used by any client application to improve how the queries it issues are executed by the server. Another approach to performance improvement is to reconfigure the server itself to change its overall operation. Server tuning is addressed in Chapter 16, "Advanced Server Features."{mospagebreak title=13.1 Index Optimization and Index Usage}
When you create a table, consider whether it should have indexes, because they have important benefits:
Indexes contain sorted values. This allows MySQL to find rows containing particular values faster. The effect can be particularly dramatic for joins, which have the potential to require many combinations of rows to be examined.
Indexes result in less disk I/O. The server can use an index to go directly to the relevant table records, which reduces the number of records it needs to read. Furthermore, if a query displays information only from indexed columns, MySQL might be able to process it by reading only the indexes and without accessing data rows at all.
MySQL supports four types of indexes:
A nonunique index is one in which any key value may occur multiple times. This type of index is defined with the keyword INDEX or KEY.
A UNIQUE index is unique-valued; that is, every key value is required to be different than all others. (The exception is that NULL values may occur multiple times.)
A PRIMARY KEY also is a unique-valued index. It is similar to a UNIQUE index, but has additional restrictions:
A table may have multiple UNIQUE indexes, but at most one PRIMARY KEY.
A UNIQUE index can contain NULL values, whereas a PRIMARY KEY cannot.
A FULLTEXT index is specially designed for text searching.
To define indexes when you're initially creating a table, use CREATE TABLE. To add indexes to an already existing table, use ALTER TABLE or CREATE INDEX. To drop indexes, use ALTER TABLE or DROP INDEX.
ALTER TABLE can add or drop several indexes in the same statement, which is faster than processing each one separately. CREATE INDEX and DROP INDEX allow only one index to be added or dropped at a time.
Index creation using the INDEX, UNIQUE, and PRIMARY KEY keywords is discussed in the "Core Study Guide." FULLTEXT indexes are not covered there because they are a more specialized kind of index. Instead, FULLTEXT indexing is discussed in section 13.1.4, "FULLTEXT Indexes."{mospagebreak title=13.1.2 Obtaining Table Index Information}
To find out what indexes a table has, use SHOW CREATE TABLE to display the CREATE TABLE statement that corresponds to the table structure, including its indexes.
For more detailed information about the indexes, use SHOW INDEX. For example, SHOW INDEX produces the following output for the Country table of the world database:
mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM CountryG ********************* 1. row ********************** Table: Country Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 1 Column_name: Code Collation: A Cardinality: NULL Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment:
The output indicates that the table has a single index, a primary key on the Code column. The output for the City table is similar except that it indicates the ID column is the primary key:
mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM CityG ********************* 1. row ********************** Table: City Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 1 Column_name: ID Collation: A Cardinality: NULL Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment:
For the CountryLanguage table, the output has two rows because the primary key includes two columns, Country and Language:
mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM CountryLanguageG ********************* 1. row *************************** Table: CountryLanguage Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 1 Column_name: Country Collation: A Cardinality: NULL Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment: ******************** 2. row *************************** Table: CountryLanguage Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 2 Column_name: Language Collation: A Cardinality: NULL Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment:
The Seq_in_index values show the order of the columns within the index. They indicate that the primary key columns are Country first and Language second. This information corresponds to the following PRIMARY KEY declaration:
PRIMARY KEY (Country, Language){mospagebreak title=13.1.3 Using Indexes}
An index helps MySQL perform retrievals more quickly than if no index is used. But indexes can be used with varying degrees of success, so you should keep several index-related considerations in mind when designing tables:
Declare an indexed column NOT NULL if possible. Although NULL values can be indexed, NULL is a special value that requires additional decisions when performing comparisons on key values. An index without NULL can be processed more simply and thus faster.
Avoid overindexing; don't index a column just because you can. If you never refer to a column in comparisons (such as in WHERE, ORDER BY, or GROUP BY clauses), there's no need to index it. Another reason to avoid unnecessary indexing is that every index you create slows down table updates. If you insert or delete a row, an entry must be added to or removed from each of the table's indexes. If you update a row, any change to indexed columns require the appropriate indexes to be updated as well.
One strategy the MySQL optimizer uses is that if it appears an index will return a large percentage of the records in the table, it will be just as fast to scan the table as to incur the overhead required to process the index. As a consequence, an index on a column that has very few distinct values is unlikely to do much good. Suppose that a column is declared as ENUM('Y','N') and the values are roughly evenly distributed such that a search for either value returns about half of the records. In this case, an index on the column is unlikely to result in faster queries.
Choose unique and nonunique indexes appropriately. The choice might be influenced by the type of a column. If the column is declared as an ENUM, there is a fixed number of distinct column values that can be stored in it. This number is equal to the number of enumeration elements, plus one for the '' (empty string) element that is used when you attempt to store an illegal value. Should you choose to index an ENUM column, you likely should create a nonunique index. A PRIMARY KEY allows only as many rows as the number of distinct enumeration values. A UNIQUE index enforces a similar restriction, except that unless the column is declared NOT NULL, the index allows NULL values.
Index a column prefix rather than the entire column. MySQL caches index blocks in memory to avoid whenever possible reading them from disk repeatedly. Shortening the length of indexed values can improve performance by reducing the amount of disk I/O needed to read the index and by increasing the number of key values that fit into the key cache. This technique is discussed further in section 184.108.40.206, "Indexing Column Prefixes."
Avoid creating multiple indexes that overlap (have the same initial columns). This is wasteful because MySQL can use a multiple-column index even when a query uses just the initial columns for lookups. For more information, see section 126.96.36.199, "Leftmost Index Prefixes."
Short index values can be processed more quickly than long ones. Therefore, when you index a column, it's worth asking whether it's sufficient to index partial column values rather than complete values. This technique, known as indexing a column prefix, can be applied to string column types.
Suppose that you're considering creating a table using this definition:
CREATE TABLE t ( name CHAR(255), INDEX (name) );
If you index all 255 bytes of the values in the name column, index processing will be relatively slow:
It's necessary to read more information from disk.
Longer values take longer to compare.
The index cache is not as effective because fewer index values fit into it at a time.
It's often possible to overcome these problems by indexing only a prefix of the column values. For example, if you expect column values to be distinct most of the time in the first 15 bytes, index only that many bytes of each value, not all 255 bytes.
To specify a prefix length for a column, follow the column name in the index definition by a number in parentheses. The following table definition is the same as the previous one, except that the index uses just the first 15 bytes of each column value:
CREATE TABLE t ( name CHAR(255), INDEX (name(15)) );
Indexing a column prefix can speed up query processing, but works best when the prefix values tend to have about the same amount of uniqueness as the original values. Don't use such a short prefix that you produce a very high frequency of duplicate values in the index. It might require some testing to find the optimal balance between long index values that provide good uniqueness versus shorter values that compare more quickly but have more duplicates. To determine the number of records in the table, the number of distinct values in the column, and the number of duplicates, use this query:
SELECT COUNT(*) AS 'Total Rows', COUNT(DISTINCT name) AS 'Distinct Values', COUNT(*) - COUNT(DISTINCT name) AS 'Duplicate
Values' FROM t;
That gives you an estimate of the amount of uniqueness in the name values. Then run a similar query on the prefix values:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT LEFT(name,n)) AS 'Distinct Prefix
Values', COUNT(*) - COUNT(DISTINCT LEFT(name,n)) AS
'Duplicate Prefix Values' FROM t;
That tells you how the uniqueness characteristics change when you use an n-byte prefix of the name values. Run the query with different values of n to determine an acceptable prefix length.
Note that when an index on a full column is a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE index, you might have to change the index to be nonunique if you decide to index prefix values instead. If you index partial column values and require the index to be unique, that means the prefix values must be unique, too.{mospagebreak title=22.214.171.124 Leftmost Index Prefixes}
In a table that has a composite (multiple column) index, MySQL can use leftmost index prefixes of that index. A leftmost prefix of a composite index consists of one or more of the initial columns of the index. MySQL's capability to use leftmost index prefixes enables you to avoid creating unnecessary indexes.
The CountryLanguage table in the world database provides an example of how a leftmost prefix applies. The table has a two-part primary key:
mysql> SHOW INDEX FROM CountryLanguageG ******************* 1. row *************************** Table: CountryLanguage Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 1 Column_name: CountryCode Collation: A Cardinality: 246 Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment: ******************* 2. row *************************** Table: CountryLanguage Non_unique: 0 Key_name: PRIMARY Seq_in_index: 2 Column_name: Language Collation: A Cardinality: 984 Sub_part: NULL Packed: NULL Null: Index_type: BTREE Comment:
The index on the CountryCode and Language columns allows records to be looked up quickly based on a given country name and language. However, MySQL also can use the index given just a country code. Suppose that you want to determine which languages are spoken in France:
SELECT * FROM CountryLanguage WHERE CountryCode =
MySQL can see that CountryCode is a leftmost prefix of the primary key and use it as though it were a separate index. This means there's no need to define a second index on the CountryCode column alone.
On the other hand, if you want to perform indexed searches using just the Language column of the CountryLanguage table, you do need to create a separate index because Language is not a leftmost prefix of the existing index.
Note that a leftmost prefix of an index and an index on a column prefix are two different things. A leftmost prefix of an index consists of leading columns in a multiple-column index. An index on a column prefix indexes the leading bytes of values in the column.{mospagebreak title=13.1.4 FULLTEXT Indexes}
FULLTEXT indexes are designed to make text searching fast and easy. They have the following characteristics:
FULLTEXT indexes currently are supported only for MyISAM tables.
Each column must be either CHAR or VARCHAR without the BINARY option, or one of the TEXT types. You cannot use a binary string column type such as CHAR BINARY, VARCHAR BINARY, or BLOB.
FULLTEXT indexes are not case sensitive. This is a consequence of the fact that the index can include only nonbinary string columns.
The syntax for defining a full-text index is much like that for other indexes: An index-type keyword (FULLTEXT), an optional index name, and a parenthesized list of one or more column names to be indexed. A FULLTEXT index may be created with CREATE TABLE, added to a table with ALTER TABLE or CREATE INDEX, and dropped from a table with ALTER TABLE or DROP INDEX. The following are all legal statements for FULLTEXT index manipulation:
CREATE TABLE t (name CHAR(40),
FULLTEXT (name)); ALTER TABLE t ADD FULLTEXT name_idx (name); ALTER TABLE t DROP INDEX name_idx; CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX name_idx ON t (name); DROP INDEX name_idx ON t;
Column prefixes are not applicable for FULLTEXT indexes, which always index entire columns. If you specify a prefix length for a column in a FULLTEXT index, MySQL ignores it.
FULLTEXT index indexes can be constructed on multiple columns, allowing searches to be conducted simultaneously on all the indexed columns. However, leftmost index prefixes are not applicable for FULLTEXT indexes. You must construct one index for every column or combination of columns you want to search. Suppose that you want to search for text sometimes only in column c1 and sometimes in both columns c1 and c2. You must construct two FULLTEXT indexes: one on column c1 and another on columns c1 and c2.
To perform a FULLTEXT search, use MATCH and AGAINST(). For example, to search the table t for records that contain 'Wendell' in the name column, use this query:
SELECT * FROM t WHERE MATCH(name)
The MATCH operator names the column or columns you want to search. As mentioned earlier, there must be a FULLTEXT index on exactly those columns. If you want to search different sets of columns, you'll need one FULLTEXT index for each set. If a table people has name and address columns and you want to search them either separately or together, three FULLTEXT indexes are needed:
CREATE TABLE people ( name CHAR(40), address CHAR(40), FULLTEXT (name), # index for searching
name only FULLTEXT (address), # index for searching
address only FULLTEXT (name,address) # index for searching
name and address );
The indexes allow queries such as the following to be formulated:
SELECT * FROM people WHERE MATCH(name)
AGAINST('string'); SELECT * FROM people WHERE MATCH(address)
AGAINST('string'); SELECT * FROM people WHERE MATCH(name,address)
The preceding discussion summary of FULLTEXT indexing and searching is very brief. More information may be found in the MySQL Reference Manual.
Please check back next week for the continuation of this article.


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Then I was nervous because I knew I couldn't create a post half as fabulous as hers (have you seen it?!) but then I remembered that I had all of these pictures from my bridal shower and honeymoon and I figured I could pull it off. Speaking of pictures: some were from Disney World, some were from my "Alice in Wonderland" themed bridal shower and the shoe pictures were of an artistic window display I saw in New York City.
So Saturday morning I woke up and decided to start visiting the blogs of those people that signed up. They were listed in alphabetical order and by the time I got to the "C"s, I knew I was in trouble. I thought about stopping but then I thought about all the people that put so much work into their party posts (and believe me, they did!) that I knew I had to visit them all. They had giveaways, stories, pictures, videos, music, history of the story itself and of course pictures of Tim Burton's upcoming Alice movie. EVERYTHING! It was amazing to see all the different takes on a "Mad Tea Party".
I was trying to figure out why I was having so much giddy fun visiting everyone's party and this was my conclusion: I felt like a kid again playing make believe. It was so fun to comment on someone's blog and say, "Oh my that tea was delicious!" and "I'll have another biscuit, thank you!" It brought me back to all that time I played tea party when I was younger and it was a delightful (yet exhausting) day!
I say exhausting because all together I visited over 200 blogs. Of those 200+, I left comments on every one that had a party post so in the end I left 163 comments all together (yes, I counted, lol). And I didn't want to just copy and paste the same thing so I wrote something original on each one (other than the invite to come to my party of course). I wanted them to all know their creativity was appreciated and enjoyed. The only think I grew to despise by the end of the day was word verification, LOL. And thank you to everyone who commented at my party! I appreciate your sweet comments so so so much! I have to say, it was totally worth it and I'm already thinking of what I'll post for the 3rd Annual Mad Tea Party! lol
Anyhoo, I loved the party so much that I was kind of thinking of hosting my own...BUT I would need some people to party with me! Is there any interest out there for a blog party around here? Any theme ideas? I was thinking of maybe "Christmas in July" or ??? Talk to me people!
In other news, I finally bit the bullet (Chris' discount through his job helped me take the plunge) and bought this magazine:
This is "Marie", a Marie Antoinette inspired mixed media magazine by the same company that does Somerset Studio. I love these magazines! They are expensive but so inspiring! While at the bookstore I also got a biography on Elizabeth Taylor to add to my collection. I think I need to add some more males to my shelves, poor Sidney Poitier is surrounded by chicks at the moment! lol
I do have one thing to show you today (I was able to get some creating in between all the blog partying, yay me!). Another layout of Toot this time. I was going for a "shabby chic" sort of look. I'm still trying to find my own style and hopefully I'm getting close. lol
The paper is from the May kit at LPS, the vintage looking embellishments were from a RAK I won a few months ago and the crochet flowers are from Paper Blooms.
I can't stand just gluing or taping buttons on my projects so I sewed the buttons onto the ribbon, lol.
So who caught The Bachelorette??? Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks Jillian has gone off her nut! Let's dish!
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[Illinois] CNST 2012: Physicochemical Property and (ROS)-generating Capacity Relationship
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CNST Workshop 2012
May 2–3, 2012
Showcasing University of Illinois research in bionanotechnology/nanomedicine, nanoelectronics/nanophotonics, and nanomaterials/nanomanufacturing, leading to cross-campus and industry collaborations
National Center for Supercomputing Applications Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshop Premise
The broad objective of the University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) workshop is to showcase University of Illinois research in bionanotechnology/ nanomedicine, nanoelectronics/nanophotonics, nanomaterials/nanomanufacturing, and computational nanotechnology/nanomechanics.
The general framework of the nanotechnology workshop is similar to those held on campus since 2003; which were all well attended by industry and academia. Some of those interactions have since then led to industry and cross-campus collaborations. The CNST-led forums and workshops have contributed tremendously toward the formation of multidisciplinary teams leading to the establishment of multimillion dollar new nanotechnology centers on-campus. The workshop will provide a forum for industry interactions and collaborations. The workshop brings together campus community (faculty, graduate and undergraduates, administration) from UIUC and other academic institutions, and industry engaged in cutting-edge research. A workshop panel will discuss the roadmap to future direction of research and development in nanotechnology and regional partnerships.
Established in 2001–02, the University of Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) is the premier center for nanotechnology research, education and training, and entrepreneurial and outreach activities.
CNST draws its strength from working as a collaboratory involving the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, Coordinated Science Laboratory,Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, Institute for Genomic Biology, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Center for Nanoscale Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Manufacturing Systems, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the Schools of Chemical Sciences and of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and other multidisciplinary centers.
It brings together nanoscale research from across the campus, drawing faculty from engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, neuroscience, agriculture, medicine, and other areas. The center envisions seamless integration of research from materials to devices to systems and applications. CNST is uniquely located to harness the entrepreneurial and technical spirit in downstate Illinois, with ongoing linkages with the University Research Park, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, and the State legislature. Industrial and international linkages have also been initiated through multidisciplinary centers. In addition, CNST has embarked on developing a curriculum for nanotechnology education, which will transcend a number of campus departments and units. Exceptional students with interest in nanotechnology projects have been awarded fellowships, as the center prepares the next generation workforce. CNST-led efforts have led to leveraging of existing nanotechnology research labs into also hands-on training sites for molecular and cellular biology, mechanobiology, micro and nanofabrication, and enabling technologies, and tissue engineering.
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The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Coordinated Science Laboratory
Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
Institute for Genomic Biology
NSF STC Center on Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS, co-location)
NSF Nano-CEMMS
Network for Computational Nanotechnology/NanoHub at Illinois
Nanotechnology Community of Scholars at ACES
Hong Yang, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Illinois
The overarching theme of my research is the study of the fundamentals of solution phase processing of nanocrystals and their applications in energy and biotechnology. Our current research activities are concentrated in the following areas: (1) Solution phase processing of metal and metal alloy nanostructured materials. We develop new synthetic approaches for controlling the size, shape, crystal phase and composition of nanocrystals by applying colloidal chemistry principles. To understand the biological and chemical reaction activity, our group also explores new methods for surface modification of nanoparticles.(2) Facet-specific nanocrystal elelectrocatalysts. Our main research interest in this area is on the structure and property relationship of faceted metal and metal alloy nanocrystals for catalyzing oxygen reduction, especially in acidic condition. (3) Effects of surface physicochemical property of nanoparticles on their interaction with biological entities. We are interested in understanding on how surface chemistry affects protein binding, oxygen species generation capability and other events. Our group also investigates, through collaboration with our partners, how nanostructures affect cell growth and differentiation.
From Dr. Yang's faculty profile page
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I opened up the Imperial Knights set last night. Awesome figures. I wish they'd make the female one now.
I like the Vos and Faie pack. I'm not so big on the Dark Empire pack. How close is the Faie Figure to the Kashyyyk Trooper we got in 30AC, and then repacked in the GH line for Legacy? The helmet is removable, right?
I opened up the other Mandalorian set yesterday, the one with the purple Dengar. Nice Mandalorian, but the purple Dengar is just ridiculous. I always enjoy the comics though.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'Frank' Sundance Premiere!
Maggie Gyllenhaal keeps it sexy sheer while attending the premiere of her latest film Frank held at Eccles Center Theatre during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on Friday (January 17) in Park City, Ut.
The 36-year-old actress was joined by her co-stars Carla Azar, Scoot McNairy, Hayley Derryberry, Francois Civil, and Lenny Abrahamson.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Maggie Gyllenhaal
Frank is a "comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Michael Fassbender)."
15+ pictures inside of Maggie Gyllenhaal attending the Frank premiere…


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Abby Hall will discuss "Funding & Incentives" and Stacy Swartwood will discuss "Brownfields Redevelopment" in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored Webcast from 1 to 3 p.m. Eastern time on June 23.
To register for this free Webcast, visit Brownfields Webcast.
The Webcast will include summaries of local incentives that communities have used to encourage the use of green infrastructure approaches. An overview of how many communities have funded green infrastructure will be discussed.
The talk also will cover design considerations and appropriate best management practices for stormwater management on brownfields.
Unlike many conventional developments, impervious footprints on brownfields cannot always be minimized through site designs that incorporate more porous surfaces to allow infiltration. Direct infiltration on a brownfield site may introduce additional pollutant loads to groundwater and nearby surface waters. Similar problems are encountered when highly compacted soils are present, as infiltration simply cannot be achieved. However, green infrastructure practices exist that can retain, treat, and then release stormwater without it ever coming into contact with contaminated or compacted soils.


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by Shawn Hart
Vinylux…the very name evokes time cutting grooves back to the big-fin '50s, those DeSoto years when your ride was wide and your music meant everything.
Vinylux…oh man…tuck-and-roll interiors, pushbutton shifting and AM radio around the clock.
If lucky, you owned a portable record player — a turntable, amp and speaker in a box — that could easily transport you as far as you could transport it.
The spindle's pins contract, the 45 falls, a slight slipping sound as it catches traction on the rotating rubber, then the zist..zist..zist
…"Be my, be my, be my little baby…." Warm molasses pleas from the Ronettes pour into your room, and your buddies sing along with punk falsetto voices and dreams of fragrant girls to squeeze at Friday night dances. And then, too soon perhaps…"People try to put us d-down…"
For many, drafted or driven underground in the '60s, record collections were left-behind libraries, the expressions of our formative tastes and the soundtracks of our lives. For a generation in camouflage and on the move, music had to be portable; vinyl was just too heavy.
Everything was TOO HEAVY!
So what happened to all those LPs abandoned to moldy basements and sagging garage shelves? How many of these records and memories were jettisoned in the exodus from adolescence?
"Billions," estimates Jeff Davis, Chestnut Hill resident and founder of Vinylux. And Vinylux, the creative little company that could, is what's happened to a million of them, and counting, since its inception nearly a decade ago.
"Records inspire an immense nostalgia," says Davis, who looks like a '50s rocker (Buddy Holly and Elvis Costello come to mind) even without his F-hole electric slung over his shoulders as he moves among the machines he's built to repurpose vinyl into an expanding catalog of products. His creations manufactured out of old records — bowls, coasters, clocks — and the contraptions he's designed to produce them repose quietly around a large loft space at 6139 Germantown Ave.
He's restless, an entrepreneurial artist with a passion for problem solving. By his own admission, he's not much of a businessman, but no Rube Goldberg either. The solutions and the machines are almost stupid simple, the kind of stuff you'd make with a top-tier Erector Set. Hell, you think, I could build these in my basement if I lived near a landfill and had an advanced degree in industrial design. Which, of course, Davis does, from the Rhode Island Institute of Design, where Vinylux was born in 2002 as an offshoot of a graduate thesis project.
Here, in his sunlit, funky factory in Germantown, he's surrounded by an obvious fondness for the graphic art of the old record industry, whose bones he's collected since his school days, and the retro products and very cool packaging that make Vinylux rock. Old posters and plastic milk crates full of records lend to this loft the air of a college dormitory without the dirty laundry. What you see is a vanishing analog world, the interface of product with music that expresses the imagination and character of the collector…an aesthetic beyond your battery powered, cigarette-pack-sized, plastic repository of downloads.
"I always thought you could learn a lot about someone by looking at their record collection," Davis says. "I don't believe the same is true when looking at digital playlists, even if the owners are willing to share and assuming that you were even inclined to ask." People, he contends (and the success of Vinylux proves it) want to engage physically with their music.
Amanda Hart, a 23-year-old former DJ at KUPS radio in Tacoma, Washington, when asked about vinyl offers this: "My friends want a real physical connection with the music. With an iPod or mp3 player, you're not pulling album covers and sifting through titles or pages of lyrics and artwork. With records, it's more about people sitting on the floor, passing records back and forth and pointing out things to one another that you can't see or feel with a digital music player."
Brian Reisman, owner of Hideaway Music in Chestnut Hill, was equally sanguine: "Not only are Indie bands pressing new records, but labels are re-issuing classic rock and collectible LPs. It's great for business, but it's also nice to see that people are unplugging and experiencing the music the way everyone used to, sitting around with friends, reading the liner notes, enjoying the cover art. It was a social thing."
Precisely. And Jeff Davis clearly knows this; it's the basis of his business. He explains the success of Vinylux from a designer's perspective. "Objects have meaning beyond their original intention," he says, "so records, which were designed to deliver music, became iconic because of how they make us feel and make us behave."
What Vinylux does is transform the lost elements of creative community that, back then (when records ruled) coalesced to produce and market music — great graphics, tuned-in liner notes and artists who inspired their retinues to engage and express themselves — into tangible alternatives. And, seeing these again, whether as bowls, a sketch book, clocks or coasters, we recognize the symbols and respond by assimilating, with our imaginations, that shared experience.
Pick up a package of laminated Vinylux coasters made from old record labels, and you might recall cracking open a new pack of baseball cards. You don't know what you're going to get, but it's all good, even without the gum. Prestige, Blue Note, Motown, Capitol, Mercury, Dot or Decca, these labels are a trip through history, a hall of fame tour of pre-computer graphic design. You shuffle the magic and the music they represent in your hands like cards.
"We don't take the music out of anything we make," says Davis. "It's still in there. In fact, you can turn our bowls over onto a turntable, drop the needle and play them, at least the first half inch or so." Cool.
Barnes and Nobel certainly thought so when in 2009 they ordered 40,000 coasters from Vinylux, the company's biggest order to date at that time, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Davis, who admits to running Vinylux "on instinct" after having taken but one business class, relates the story with pride and self-deprecating amazement.
"I said 'yes' to the order without a clue as to how I'd get it done. I didn't know anything about licensing rights, and I had no equipment that could press that many coasters or print and attach labels to both sides. But I managed to secure the art from Michael Lang, the original promoter of the festival, and contracted with United Record Pressing in Nashville to build mini-stampers and use our vinyl scraps to manufacture the 4.5 inch LPs. The labels were wet-pressed into the vinyl (so they'd be waterproof) and delivered here in cartons. I devised a means of mass sorting and packaging them into boxes of four, and we shipped them from here for sale in 750 Barnes & Noble stores. It was probably the pinnacle of my transition from designer to businessman."
His instincts have sustained the success of Vinylux for nearly a decade, and last year alone he managed to recycle 175,000 old LPs into novelty products sold nationwide. The recent resurgence in vinyl has not only created a new generation of record lovers but a steady market for the scrap remains of Davis' manufacturing process. He's the conductor of a closed-loop, clean operation that starts with throwaway material that's nearly free, then profitably extracts product (and not incidentally 'good vibrations') along the way and leaves a recyclable residue that's turned into more source material.
Think about the coasters made from old LPs: Davis is selling donut holes, and then returning the donut for a refund. Not a bad business plan. One suspects that, as a 30-something father of two who invented a green, sustainable source of income and finds creative gratification by repurposing a medium once on the edge of extinction, there may still be a pinnacle or two to come.
For more information, call 215-848-0861 or visit www.vinylux.com.
Shawn Hart, a resident of Mt. Airy, is a former associate editor at the Local.


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Do it Yourself Business School for Lawyers: Bring in the MOOCs!
If I had the time and capital to invest, I'd partner with Coursera or ApprenNet (Law Meets) and Wharton and build a "personalized" MOOC business training curriculum with wrap-around guides for three or four BigLaw practice groups. I'd hire the best and brightest JDs and KM professionals to write tailored content applying the B-school material to the real world of law practice. Then I'd license this product to premier law firms for a fraction of the cost of a business bootcamp. My client firms would, ideally, assign partner instructors to coach their associates through the curriculum–connecting the dots along the way. Just a thought.


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William Scott Nelson, 63, of Pearland, Texas, has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted distribution of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.
The investigation began on Feb. 3, 2009, when a Houston Police officer working with the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, accessed a file-sharing program. The officer saw that a computer had available for sharing 74 files, most of which appeared to be child pornography and some of which matched known child pornography images. The officer determined the computer was using an Internet service subscribed to William Scott Nelson at a residence in Pearland.
Files contained in the shared folder were available for anyone using a similar file sharing program to download at any time Nelson's computer was logged on to the Internet. Officers determined that some of the videos available for sharing depicted prepubescent girls engaging in oral and vaginal sex with adult males.
A search warrant was prepared and executed on Aug. 5, 2009, at which time Nelson voluntarily went to the Pearland Police Department for an interview. During the search, officers recovered a computer, hard drives, a Kodak digital camera, and magazines that contained photos of nude juveniles and approximately 200 35 mm slides of a nude female juvenile. An examination of Nelson's computer revealed that he had approximately 5,000 images and hundreds of videos downloaded to his computer and hard drives. The images included prepubescent females along with bondage, penetration, oral sex, and masturbation.
Nelson admitted to being a nudist and believing that photos of nude children were not wrong. Nelson also discussed how he searched for child pornography on the Internet and how he stored it and collected it over many years.
Nelson faces a minimum sentence of five years' imprisonment up to 20 years and a maximum fine of $250,000 as possible punishment at his sentencing, set for March 15, 2011. Upon completion of any prison term imposed, Nelson also faces a maximum of life on supervised release during which the court can impose a number of special conditions designed to protect children and prohibit the use of the Internet.


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Motorcycle: Check It Before You Wreck It
The urge to ride can hit at any moment. But before you put on your gear, jump on your bike and hit the road, consider taking a few minutes to give your motorcycle a thorough once-over. Experts recommend making a pre-ride check part of your motorcycle ownership routine since it can be vital to ensuring your safety and the longevity of your two-wheeled investment.
The Motorcycle Safety Foundation has developed an acronym, T-CLOCS, to help you remember the basic steps in conducting a pre-ride inspection. Follow these steps to conduct a thorough, efficient examination of your motorcycle before every ride.
T = Tires & Wheels
Make sure front and back tires have the correct cold air pressure. Incorrectly inflated tires wear more quickly, provide less traction and cause an increase in your bike's fuel consumption. Tires with worn tread lead to further loss of traction and have a higher probability of failure. Also check for bulges, cuts and punctures. Ensure spokes are tight and that the rims are properly balanced and spin freely. Finally, make sure the brakes feel firm and have sufficient pad depth, and that brake lines are tight and leak free.
C = Controls
Check the pivot bolt and nut on your clutch and brake levers. Make sure their positioning is correct and they have a full range of motion. Check that all switches operate as intended. Ensure cable ends and shafts are lubed and aren't kinked or frayed or bund when you turn the handlebar. Check all hoses for damage, and make sure the throttle is within the correct tolerance for play and closes freely and quickly when released.
L = Lights & Electrics
Check headlight, tail light and brake lights for proper illumination and that the braking and signaling controls actuate their corresponding lights. Look for condensation in the lenses and, remove any debris. Check that the bike's battery is correctly installed and secured and that fluid is at the correct level. Inspect all wiring, looking for frays, pinching and disconnects.
O = Oil & Fluids
Check for leaking motor oil as well as brake fluid, coolant and gasoline leaks. Check all fluid levels and top off if necessary. Check the color of brake fluid and coolant.
C = Chassis
Check for smooth action of the front and rear suspension, and look for leaking fork oil. Feel for play in the steering head and swing arm bearings. Inspect body paint for peeling or lifting. Inspect the chain or belt for proper tension, wear and lubrication. Check all fasteners for security.
S = Sidestand
Check for proper spring tension and tightness, and make sure the stand retracts completely without binding. Ensure that the cut-off switch operates as intended.
Be sure to perform these checks before every ride, without exception. It's also a good idea to recheck your bike when you return to allow yourself time to correct any problems that may have arisen so you'll be ready to go at a moment's notice the next time you hear the road calling your name.


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Charleston Is the Most Sleepless City in the Country
Here's some news that's bound to keep the fine people of Charleston, West Virginia up at night.
Charleston has been named the most sleepless city in America, according to The Daily Beast, which came up with its rankings based on the percentage of people who suffer from insomnia.
Charleston has a population of slightly more than 950,000 people, 10.2 percent of which were afflicted with insomnia in the last year. About two-and-a-half percent said they experienced severe insomnia during that time, while 3.6 percent were so desperate to catch some Zs they turned to prescription drugs for help.
Mount Vernon, Illinois took second place, with 9.1 percent of the population calling themselves insomniacs during the last year.