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A comprehensive U.S. Forest Service report released Tuesday examines the ways expanding populations, increased urbanization, and changing land-use patterns could profoundly impact natural resources nationwide during the next 50 years.
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Ecosystems & Biodiversity
Plant and animal species are shifting their geographic ranges and the timing of their life events such as flowering, laying eggs or migrating at faster rates than researchers documented just a few years ago, according to a technical report on biodiversity and ecosystems used as scientific input for the 2013 Third National Climate Assessment.
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Adaptation, Coasts, Ecosystems & Biodiversity, Human Health, Cities & Infrastructure, Oceans, Water Resources
EPA announces the release of the final National Water Program 2012 Strategy: Response to Climate Change , following a public comment period.
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In front of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) national headquarters building in Reston, Va., two genetically identical lilac bushes are rooted in the earth. To casual observers, they are fragrant adornments to the landscaped property. But to ecologist Jake Weltzin and geographer John Jones—USGS scientists who study plant and animal life-cycle events—they are "Li" and "Lac," two small but important pieces of a developing climate change indicator system.
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A new EPA report brings together data from multiple public and peer-reviewed datasets to show observed changes over time in 26 indicators of climate change – including measures of greenhouse gases , high and low temperatures, heavy rainfall, snowfall, pollen season and sea level rise.
PostedJun 14, 2012
Ecosystems & Biodiversity, Human Health
A series of studies by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and academic institutions offers accumulating evidence that climate change is both lengthening and intensifying pollen seasons in many parts of the United States.
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Ecosystems & Biodiversity
A new study published in the journal Nature suggests that most field experiments may underestimate the degree to which the timing of leafing and flowering changes with global warming .
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Ecosystems & Biodiversity, Arctic
Data collected from long distance swims by polar bears suggest that they do not stop to rest during their journey.
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Observations, Ecosystems & Biodiversity, Extreme Events
Featured on USDA , a member of the U.S. Global Change Research Program The Forest Service recently unveiled a product that helps natural resource managers rapidly detect, identify and respond to unexpected changes in the nation's forests by using web-based tools. The satellite-based monitoring and assessment tool aptly called ForWarn , recognizes
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Ecosystems & Biodiversity, Extreme Events
As the climate gets warmer, many forests are feeling the heat. Impacts range from increased forest fire hazards and tree mortality to detrimental beetle outbreaks and alterations to leaf abundance and bloom.


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("Mother Mother" by Tracy Bonham)
So. Hypothetical.
Imagine your parents got divorced when you were 8. Your father got custody of you, and for several summers you would visit your mother (who remarried and lived in another state, all the way across the country). Around the age of 15, flying across country (and back) was simply too expensive, and you couldn't make the annual visit.
You lose touch with your mother, who doesn't write, or call, or attempt to make any contact with you.
Years pass, and you grow older and have children of your own. Your mother doesn't even (as far as you know) know that she now HAS grandchildren. She's never met them, or seen photos of them, or even heard of them.
Then, you get an email notification in your inbox from Facebook that your mother has added you as a friend. With the comment, "I believe you are my long lost son. I hope that you will allow me to reconnect with you via Facebook. Please let me know."
....What do you do? What do you say? How can you reestablish a link that has been absent for so many years (and should you even try)?
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Life is perfect, never better
("Mother Mother" by Tracy Bonham)
Posted by P@ at 8:10 AM
2 comments:
- Amy said...
I would probably try. Under the guiding principle that if it doesn't work out I could defriend her, quit Facebook, and then blow up the internet.
There are, of course, many hypothetical considerations that may sway my opinion on this.
- December 05, 2009 5:54 PM
- allison said...
I think there is no answer to this that can come from anyone other than the person involved.
I know, no help whatsoever. I suck.
- December 05, 2009 8:16 PM

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Robert Whitehead
(****-****). Actor. Studied at the Drama Studio, London. Performed in A little Night Music, Otherwise Engaged and Getting Away With Murder (at the Intimate). (SACD 1977/78)
Returned from London in 1975. Appeared in A little night music and Gypsy. The following year Pieter Toerien gave him his first important role in Simon Gray's Otherwise engaged, followed by Getting away with murder. After playing the twin brothers in Anouilh's Ring round the moon for SATV (for which he was nominated for the Artes Award) he then spent some time in the USA where he worked with Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company in New York City.
(19*-) Actor and director. *** He starred in Trevor Griffiths's Comedians together with Michael Howard, Danny Keogh, Richard Cox, Ian Hamilton, Bill Brewer and Anthony James which was staged at The Market Theatre in December 1976. It was directed by Leonard Schach and designed by Anthony Farmer. Robert has done considerable work for the Market Theatre including An Arabian Night, Ain't we got fun and Madame Butterfly. He also appeared in Toerien Management's House Guest. For SATV he has appeared in Poor Bitos, A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Jack Worthing in The importance of being earnest - (another nomination for the Artes) and as Simon in Noel Coward's Hayfever with Moira Lister. He spent some time in South West Africa filming Morenga, a major German TV series. Together with Vanessa Cooke he starred in Janice Honeyman's production of Romeo and Juliet at the Market Theatre in 1982. He starred in Edna O'Brien's Virginia together with Sandra Duncan and Yvonne Banning under direction by Bobby Heaney at Upstairs at the Market in February 1983. He adapted and directed Sweeney Todd starring Richard Haines and Grethe Fox at Upstairs at the Market in August 1983. Was nominated Best Director for his production of Joe Orton's Loot for the Little Abbey Theatre. He also directed Janice Honeyman's Forbidden Fruits at the Market. He directed Robert Kirby's The Wrong Time of Year starring Richard Haines and Anneline Kriel in 1984. He directed Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane starring Christine le Brocq, Anthony James, Kevin Smith and Danny Keogh at Upstairs at the Market in October 1986. He starred in Michael Frayn's Benefactors which was directed by Rex Garner for Pieter Toerien in 1985. He directed Tom Stoppard's Rough Crossings at the Alhambra Theatre in 1987. He starred in Jerome Kilty's Dear Love at the André Huguenet Theatre in 1988. He starred in Janice Honeyman's production of Charles Dickens's Hard Times at the Windybrow Theatre in 1989. He directed David Henry Hwang's Madame Butterfly at the Alhambra Theatre in October 1989. He starred in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild at the Market in October 1990. He directed John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1992. He starred in Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden at Upstairs at the Market in 1992. He starred in Stephen Mallatrat's adaptation of The Woman in Black at the Alhambra Theatre in December 1992. He starred in Jean Genet's The Maids in 1993. *Also did a number of movies and TV dramas. *Became nationally recognised as Barker Haines in the highly rated series Isidingo.
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Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon are renowned furniture and lighting designers and have reduced the scale in which they design to create Flare. Flare is a fine bone china collection that involves generous and curvaceous forms paired with exaggerated ratios delivered via handles and spouts. The shapes offer a sculptural modernity whilst referencing classic form, and make a virtue of light and shadow. For a radical departure from their usual palette the Festival Jug, part of 1882 Ltd.'s Icon Collection, is a hand painted prestige piece that is wild in colour and takes an arduous five and a half hours to decorate.
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Once upon a time in northern India, there lived a violent and fearsome outcaste called Angulimala (necklace of fingers). He terrorized towns and villages in order to try to gain control of the state, murdering people and adding their fingers to his gruesome necklace.The Buddha set out to meet Angulimala, and with the power of love and compassion he persuaded him to renounce violence and take responsibility for his past actions. Thus Angulimala was transformed.The Buddha & The Terrorist brings a message for our time about the importance of looking for the root causes of violence, and of finding peaceful means to end terror.REVIEWThe Buddha and the Terrorist is an inspiring retelling of an ancient legend. It has a lucid clarity and directness that speaks pointedly and movingly to our times. It should touch every heart that meets it.-Pico Iyer, author of The Global Soul
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Robey is now retired from breeding.
Robey is my 7 year old male German Shepherd. He is a rich black and red with a beautiful, full, show coat. He is a grandson of World Sieger winner Lasso von Neuen Berg. Son of Shutzhund titled German import, Ike vom Amur. Robey is 26 inches at the shoulder and weighs a lean 80 pounds. He is a very laid back and intelligent dog. His favorite game is for you to throw his ball and him retrieve — which you will tire of long before he ever will. He is a very loving boy, and is loyal and protective of his family. Once you earn his trust and friendship, it is there for good. Gentle with small children and baby animals. Yet when strength and protection is needed, he is always there. I really can't say enough about this boy. He is just one great dog! He just received his BH title and we are working on our Schutzhund I. Robey's OFA evaluation showed his hips to be "Good" and his elbows to be "Normal".
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Liesl is now retired from breeding.
Liesl is my 6 year old black and tan girl. She is a high energy dog with super intelligence and a lot of play drive. The personality of this girl gets me laughing all the time! She knows no stranger and always has a happy face to show anyone. Liesl is a very athletic girl that is 26 inches at the shoulder and weighs in at a lean 75 pounds. Liesl's OFA evaluation showed her hips to be "good" and her elbows to be "normal".


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Today is Fitz's 11 month birthday! In the past few weeks he has added another trick to his ever-growing arsenal: play dead. Have I mentioned this before? Stop me if I have, I'm turning into one of those parents that can't stop beaming about their baby. Anyway, it's pretty adorable, and sometimes I have a hard time convincing him to be un-dead; he's happy to just lay on his side totally still, staring at me out of the side of his eyes.
He isn't really playing dead in this picture, but I haven't been able to capture him doing it on camera because I'm too busy laughing. Here he's just making himself comfortable on the couch he isn't allowed to be on, using my blanket as a pillow. DON'T MIND ME.
I've expressed my undying, unparalleled love of Keane before, but now that it's December and the days are getting shorter and colder (well, not really, as it's a balmy 60 degrees here today, and the humidity is through the roof so my hair is the size of an afro) I'm reminded of just how much I love their first album. I associate it with this time of year because it's all I listened to in the winter of 2004. It came out in May of that year (Michelle, it was release on your birthday!!) but I didn't seriously get into it until the end of fall, and I put it on endless repeat on my ipod mini (a high school graduation gift from my brother and sister-in-law). My dad even got a copy of the CD for his birthday, and we designated his copy to be our Car copy and mine to be the House copy, so we always had one to listen to no matter where we were. A little secret: I have virtually no idea what they are saying in the chorus. At all. But that doesn't make me love it any less. And while this video is fan-made, it feels like it was shot today; it's exactly the weather here.
I'm on a totally Michael Bublé kick right now. I took my mom to see him for Mother's Day 6 years ago (was it really that long ago? wow.) I've been listening to him pretty much non-stop at work, and this past Sunday there was a charming profile on him on 60 Minutes. I love his voice, I don't care how cheesy that sounds. This song is so upbeat and happy, and I love that it's his actual wife in the video with him. I love that he calls her "kid." Though really, I hate her, because she's younger than I am, smoking hot and married to Michael Bublé. That's about the sweetest nickname ever. If you judge me for liking this song, so be it.
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Thanks to all who joined us for our 13th anniversary celebrations on 18th May 2017 at Tariff and Dale, Manchester. It was a fantastic evening celebrating 13 years of success at CWC with our friends, clients and partners! We look forward to another prosperous year, and to another fabulous knees up in 2018!
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The reason I named this piece Canyon Wood was because at first when you first look at it it looks like the Grand Canyon or some other one but when you look more closely it looks like a piece of wood. What is actually in the picture is call petrified wood and I took this picture at 'The Little White House.'
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The Cincinnati Enquirer in March published a three-part series on Pete Rose, immediately after Major League Baseball's new commissioner Rob Manfred announced he would reexamine the lifetime ban on Rose for betting on baseball. Kiplinger Fellow James Pilcher wrote two of those stories, including an exclusive interview with the man who investigated Rose for betting in the 1980s. He outlines for the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism how he got the story, as well as how his training at Ohio State helped push this story to new heights.
By James Pilcher – The Cincinnati Enquirer
Say what you will about Pete Rose, but the man and his ongoing battles with baseball's top officials are ALWAYS news in Cincinnati.
After all, the so-called Hit King — who actually does have the most hits of any major league player in history — was born and grew up on the west side of the city. He played most of his storied career for the Cincinnati Reds, winning two World Series with the "Big Red Machine."
Later he came back to town to break Ty Cobb's all-time hit record here at home, only to receive a lifetime ban later for betting on baseball.
So when Major League Baseball's new commissioner Rob Manfred said he would reconsider Rose's ban and even possibly meet with Rose to discuss it, we knew we had to own the story.


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Freshers' Guide 2019
Immerse yourself in the Freshers' experience with our Freshers' Guide for 2019, for all the information you need to know about studying at the University of Glasgow. This is GUST's entry for Post Production at NaSTA 2020.
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The Real Housewives of GUST
Episode 1: The Blind Side – A flat warming ends in all-out war as Rebecca is called out for faking her relationship and Martin is forced to address an issue he didn't see coming. This is GUST's entry for the 2019 NaSTA award for Best Title Sequence and Best Comedy.
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Breaking the Cycle
Eating disorders affect a large proportion of the UK's population, but are so rarely spoken about and considered to be "taboo." This documentary explores what it means to live with an eating disorder in today's society, featuring interviews with people who have been through them sharing their experiences.
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Freshers' Week Monday- 2017
GUST's coverage for Freshers' Week 2017 starts here!
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Surround Sound Live: Deni Smith
In the second episode of Surround Sound Live, Matilda is joined by singer songwriter Deni Smith. Where to find Deni Smith: Website: www.denismithmusic.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeniSmithMusic/?fref=ts Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/deni_smith Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deni_smith/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/deni_smith Bring Back The Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYoH7uvNHLI
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GUST Does Jeremy Kyle
According to ITV, "Jeremy loves his job as host of The Jeremy Kyle Show." Well, he may have to give it up pretty soon as Chris Boland gives him a run for his money in 'My girlfriend is cheating on me in my own bed'.
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Surround Sound Live: Jack Elfick
Surround Sound live is back! In this episode, new GUST Music producer Matilda is joined by Jack Elfick, the guitarist and singer of rock'n'roll band, 'The Bikini Bottoms". Where to find 'The Bikini Bottoms': Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bikinibottomsband Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/thebikinibottoms Instagram: @bikinibottomsband
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Glasgow University Refreshers Week 2017
Has the reality of second semester hit you hard? Did being away from uni over the holidays get you down? Are you longing for those simple, carefree days of Freshers' week? Glasgow University's four student bodies hosted ten days of events in an attempt to get students out of the post-holiday blues and back into […]
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Dummy's Guide to Making a Porno
A group of university students find out the HARD way that CUMMING together and making a porno can lead to a CLIMAX that no one wants to see…
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Science Sesh!
Come join GUST on a crazy journey through science, corn flour and fantastic foamy fountains! In this parody of a 90s kid's TV show, Professors Matilda and Rosanna discover a world of science fun with experiments and a trip to the science centre.
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Surround Sound Live: Episode 13 – Natascha Adams
The final episode of Surround Sound Live 2016, with singer and songwriter Natascha Adams.
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What is quinoa?
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Is quinoa a grain?
When it comes to healthy recipes, quinoa can be treated as a gluten-free grain. While quinoa is technically a seed, it is most often treated like it is a part of the grain family due to the way that it's used and prepared!
How to cook quinoa
To cook quinoa so that it's perfectly fluffy, use a 1:2 ratio. For example, 1 cup of quinoa should be cooked with 2 cups of water! Bring the water to a boil, add the quinoa and salt (to taste), let cook for about 3-5 minutes. Lower the heat, cover, and continue to simmer for another 7-10 minutes.
The trip to perfectly cooked quinoa is to make sure that the quinoa has absorbed all of the water! One way to do this is to let the quinoa sit, covered, for an extra 3-5 minutes after removing from heat. Check the quinoa and use a fork or spatula to "fluff". Serve and enjoy or refrigerate for easy meals throughout the week!
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A small, deep pot like this one is a great option for cooking quinoa!
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- Chili Mango Zesty Quinoa Salad
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I thought this was apropos:Most of my games have been won or lost because of one side getting a piece or two up. But these three games have really been the first time i've seen very small advantages end up being huge in the end game.
At a lecture that he gave in 1990 at the first session of the Yusupov-Dvoretsky school for gifted young chess players, master Alexei Kosikov wisely remarked that "any exchange in a chess game is a kind of business deal. You offer your product, you're offered something else, and each side tries to extract some kind of benefit from that." This is worth repeating often in order to carry out the exchange in the most favorable way for you.


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Brew Club Minutes Saturday, 2 Feb, 2008
The meeting took place at Jim's.
Present: Pat and Chris, Steve, Andrea, Baby Hedrick, Joel, jack, Jerry, Tim, and Jim.
1. Ferd opened and closed the meeting after a long sonorous session. Waiting for Secretary's notes for the usual filler.
2. Collected some dues...
UPDATE 3/7/2008: Notes from the Feb meeting tracked down. Here they is....
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read, laughed at, and seconded. Jack posed the question "What happens if we don't accept the minutes?". Silence. el Presidente proceeded to languish on the couch with the lame exceuse that he was ill. He called for beer to quench his illness. He had no visible boils and so was ignored.
2. Dues were paid by some (see above), extorted from the ashamed, and unabashedly robbed from the small and the silly.
3. Jim suggested we contact a local high school art class and set up a design contest for our logo. He was elected to do it but lost interest in hi own proposition. Joel proposed to talk to some guy named Brad about a logo.
4. The meeting degenerated into the usual babel. El Presidente did not move for a long time. Next meeting to be at Jerry's garage on 3/1/2008.
5. Penticton was briefly discussed and tabled until next meeting.
6. Big Brew Day discussed. Recipe will be Barley Wine.
7. Grain trip discussed for March. No movement on this issue other than a rather odious large one originating in the bowels.
8. Jerry elected Sergeant at Arms. nobody knows why. Uniform to be that of a bell hop from the Davenport circa 1920. (noby knows why)
9. Meeting adjourned at 2:00 PM. El Presidente buried in yard with a bottle of porter at his feet and a bucket of whiskey at his head.
- the Scribe (paraphrasing by L.B.)


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Green Tags Ontario, launched in March, is the first retail green power program in the Canadian province's newly opened competitive electricity market and an initiative of the Grey Bruce Renewable Energy Co-operative (GBREC). Best says the program's business plan is to merge the efficiencies and the resources of the private sector with "the accountability and social marketing opportunities of a community based energy initiative."
Blocks of wind
The concept of green tags, also known as green certificates, renewable energy credits and tradable renewable certificates, is catching on in Europe, the US, Australia and Japan. Each tag, sold outside the electricity market, represents the environmental attributes of a measured quantity of green power. The power producer, having stripped the environmental value from its generation, is free to sell the electricity on the wholesale market in competition with regional supply. Ontario's energy mix, traded on a deregulated hourly market that opened May 1, is roughly 37% nuclear, 29% coal, and 26% hydro, with the remainder generated by natural gas.
Green Tags Ontario is offering the environmental attributes from 1 MWh blocks of wind energy for C$75. Essentially, each tag gives an average Ontario family the opportunity to replace 10% of its annual electricity consumption from existing generation with new wind power. "Air quality problems have hit home in Ontario. People hear it every day," says David Thompson, co-owner of Port Albert Wind Farms Inc. The company privately financed and installed its first plant, a Vestas 660 kW wind turbine, as a merchant facility in southern Ontario late last year.
It was only weeks before Port Albert Wind Farms was to put its turbine up on the shores of Lake Huron that Best and Thompson realised the benefits of working together. Thompson says he is confident Green Tags Ontario will be a good vehicle to capture the full value of his production, and Best was able to show potential tag purchasers exactly where the environmental benefits were being generated. "It's important for people to be able to see it, and wind power is quite visible," says Thompson. "Anyone buying green tags can make a direct connection. They can look outside their front door, in some cases, and make the direct connection between wind turbines spinning around and the lights going on."
Making it pay
Thompson's company has a contract for differences with the energy co-op, in which membership is gained by buying a green tag. GBREC pays a contract price for every MWh it buys from the producer, but shoulders the volatile price of the province's electricity market. If the spot price is lower than the contract price, GBREC pays the difference. If the market price rises above the contract price, however, the co-op turns a profit because it receives the difference. If that happens, says Best, GBREC will offer to either rebate the money to members or reinvest in additional green supply.
While Best refines his marketing campaign, which is primarily through community and environmental organisation newsletters, he admits that explaining green tags to consumers is a bit of a challenge. In its first month, the program has sold about 100 tags. While a broad understanding of green tags may be as volatile as the hourly spot market price for electricity, another new Canadian wind producer is banking on the belief that it just won't matter.
"The only people who can benefit from buying green tags are people who breathe," says Glen Estill. His company, Sky Generation Inc, is privately financing the installation of a Vestas 1.8 MW turbine in Ontario this fall and expects to sell the environmental attributes of its output through Green Tags Ontario. He, too, is confident consumers will think with their lungs. "I have a belief in the green tags concept because I have a belief the citizens of Ontario want cleaner air. It's pretty simple."


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What you need to know
Standard form is a shorthand of expressing very large or very small numbers. It is sometimes called "scientific notation" because often it is used across all kinds of sciences.
There are strict rules that determine when a number is in standard form. We say a number is in standard when it is written like
Where n must be a whole number, and 1\leq A<10, or in other words, A must be greater than or equal to 1 but strictly less than 10. For example,
is a number in standard form. But what does it actually mean? Well, it's just a normal number written in an unusual way, so the question really is: what number is it?
Note: decimal notation is the technical term for numbers written in the usual, familiar way.
Example: Write 4.2\times10^5 in decimal notation.
Firstly, recall that 10^5=10\times10\times10\times10\times10. Then, we get
To multiply a number by 10 once, we move the decimal point one space to the right. Here, we're multiplying by 10 five times, so we must the decimal point 5 spaces to the right (if it helps, think of 4.2 like 4.20000). Doing this, we get
Therefore, we have concluded that 4.2\times10^{5}=420,000.
Example: Write 2.8\times10^{-4} in decimal notation.
This is different because the power is negative, but it's actually no harder. Firstly, recall that
Now, we know 10^4=10\times10\times10\times10. Having this on the bottom of the fraction means that rather than multiplying by 10 four times, we must divide by 10 four times. Dividing by 10 means moving the decimal point to the left, so moving it 4 spaces left, we get
Therefore, we have concluded that 2.8\times10^{-4}=0.00028.
So, if the power is a positive number, it's a big number, and if the power is negative, it's a small number. Now we're going to have a look at how to go from decimal notation to standard form.
Example: Write 56,700,000 in standard form.
It says above that the in standard form, your number should be between 1 and 10. So, what we need to do to write this in standard form is: move the decimal point left until this very big number becomes a number between 1 and 10, and then the number of spaces you had to move the decimal point will become the power of 10.
So, if we move the decimal point from the end of 56,700,000 nine spaces to the left, it becomes 5.67, which is between 1 and 10. Therefore, this number written in standard form is
Remember, it's a big number, so the power should be positive.
Example: Write 0.0000099 in standard form.
Just like in the last example, we need to move the decimal point until we get a number that falls between 1 and 10, and then count the number of times we moved it. The difference is, the power will be the negative of that number, since it is a very small value we're dealing.
So, if we move the decimal point in 0.0000099 six spaces to the right, it becomes 9.9, which is between 1 and 10. Therefore, this number written in standard form is
Now we've seen what standard form is and how to get to/from it, we're going to take a look at how to multiply/divide. two numbers together without taking them out of standard form. We're going to be applying the laws of indices; rules of indices revision for more information on them.
Example: Find the standard form value of (3\times10^8)\times(7\times10^4).
We could change both these numbers out of standard form and then do the multiplication then put the answer back into standard form, but that's a lot of work with no calculator. Instead, we're just going to change the order around of the things being multiplied. We get
There's no reason why we can't do this. We can multiply 2\times5\times6 and get the same answer as 5\times6\times2 – when multiplying numbers, order doesn't matter. We know that 3\times7=21, and using the multiplication law of indices, we also know that 10^8\times10^4=10^{12}. So, we get that
Great! Well, almost. This answer is not in standard form (21 is not between 1 and 10), and we need it to be. Fortunately, if we recognise that 21=2.1\times10, then we get that
2.1 is between 1 and 10, so we have successfully completed the multiplication in standard form.
Example: Find the standard form value of (8\times10^{-5})\div(2\times10^6).
This is the exact same idea as the last example. We're going to break it up and divide the first numbers, 8 and 2, and the powers of 10 separately. Using the division law of indices this time, we get 10^{-5}\div10^6=10^{-5-6}=10^{-11}, and so we have
4 is between 1 and 10, so this answer is in standard form, and so we are done.
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1) Write 1.15\times10^{-6} in decimal notation.
Because the power is negative, this is going to be a very small number. As the power of ten is -6, we want to divide the number 1.15 by 10 six times, and so we will move the decimal point to the left six spaces. Doing so, we get
2) Write 5,980,000 in standard form.
Because this is a big number, the power of 10 is going to be positive. In standard form, the number must be between 1 and 10, so we will move the decimal point to the left until we have a number between 1 and 10, and we will count the number of spaces we moved. That number will be the power of 10.
So, if we move the decimal point in 5,980,000 to the left six spaces it becomes 5.98. Therefore, we get that
3) Find the standard form value of (2.5\times10^{4})\times(6\times10^{-9}).
We will split up this multiplication, multiplying the initial numbers together and the powers of 10 together separately. Firstly,
Secondly, using the multiplication law of indices,
So, we get
We're almost done, but this isn't in standard form since 15 isn't between 1 and 10. However, recognising that 15=1.5\times10, and again applying the multiplication law of indices, we get
This is in standard form, and so we are done.
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As a quick bread this loaf is easy to pull together. Unlike many other banana breads I've tried that are sweetened enough to be deserts this rich load has less added sugar and relies more on the sweetness in the bananas combining with the nuttiness of the whole wheat flour to form a hearty snack or lunch loaf just begging to be combined with a few slices of aged cheddar.
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In the realm of safety, I don't believe that one can make absolute rules--if anyone reads this blog and disagrees, feel free to say so--but, the other day the geezer geniuses and moi--were debating just this idea in the context of the ban on public smoking. Apparently, even the home of Big Tobacco, Virginia has enacted a public smoking ban. I became a Bad Lawyer in the era when there were still ashtrays on elevators and the righteously offended person was the smoker who got the evil eye from some Old Broad on oxygen. We smoked on public transit, and not just cigarettes, if you know what I mean. So the world has changed and as an ex-smoker, I'm glad. I don't miss public smoking one little bit--and, yesterday morning I vigorously defended the smoking ban; let's face it, you really can't separate smokers from non-smokers in a public place. And really, smoke is carcinogenic--can we justify asbestos ceilings in designated areas of a public places?
If I haven't talked about it here, and I'm pretty sure I have--I'm an amateur road cyclist. It's something I've done on and off for many years. I wear a helmet largely because personal experience--entanglements with enraged drivers tells me that wearing a helmet might keep me off life support. A particularly bad fall in the Spring, sent me sideways into a chain linked fence head first, so I choose to wear one. Likewise, I rode a Vespa for a couple of years without a helmet--go figure? I can't defend the choice, but it is the one that I made. Even today when I ride my more urban, hybrid bicycle around Our Town I wear a baseball cap, not a helmet.
The Aussie videos made me think about the logic and rationale of helmet laws. I'm still pro-helmet--but, I hadn't really thought very deeply about the issue. Mike Rubbo, the Aussie filmmaker makes the point far more magically than I can--at the end of the second video--if you didn't watch it, please do.
Here in Your Hometown I live at a residence located midway between two flashing school zone signs that face away from my house. Directly across the street from my residence is a large parochial school on a wooded campus. The school building is set back at some distance from the curb. Generally, unless my schedule has me in court--I leave the residence at 6:45 am to drink coffee and solve the problems of the world with my Geezer pals. The traffic signals that operate at each intersection framing the city block are "flashing" instead of being fully operational. One morning recently I left later than I usually do. As I pulled on to the apron of the driveway, I looked to my left and saw the rush hour traffic lined up two abreast at the light which was fully operational. Having lived here for twenty-one years I knew I had to "insert" myself into the traffic flow or be an obstacle to this crowd of cars that uses my east-west avenue on its way into the downtown. There were no kids in the neighborhood, yet--no crossing guard at the corner, yet, no parents dropping off children, yet; and, no school buses present, yet. I accelerated out of my drive to the speed limit of 35 mph, and a police cruiser did a gnarly u-turn in front of the oncoming traffic to give me a ticket for violating school zone speed limit. The surly cop assured me as he strutted away from my car that he was "just keeping the kids safe."
One of the most aggravating things in the world for a lawyer is a traffic ticket, either one you receive or a ticket a friend or family member receives. You see, you can be Perry Mason and lose even a properly defended ticket. I have represented--for free (because how can a lawyer justify charging to defend an ordinary traffic ticket?), hundreds of family, friends, and other lawyers over the years. Generally, the local municipal courts will cut some sort of break, reduce the fine, dismiss "points" against your license, reduce charged violations, something to assuage the ticket-ee's outrage. But if you get into a dispute about the actual merits of whether the ticket should have been issued--forget it!
I fought the ticket. The ordinance provides that a person violates the school zone speed limit when driving faster than 20 mph during the time when the school zone lights are flashing and when children are present entering and exiting the building (check your local ordinance, they all say that--most traffic laws are patterned on a uniform laws enacted throughout the United States). At my "trial" which was delayed until a judge could be appointed who was not a personal friend of mine--the police officer testified to the facts, e.g. that I drove faster than 20 mph. I conceded this fact and moved for judgment on the ticket since there was no evidence or testimony that children were present.
After paying the $50 fine and court costs, I'm still pissed.
The court issued a ruling that at the hour I exceeded the 20 mph restriction I should have known that it was a school zone, because I have lived here for twenty-one years, and kids "could have been coming and going" since at the time I left my driveway it was "during the hours when kids come and go." Again, the court expressly noted the need to guarantee the paramount safety of children.
Actually, the only way my driving at 35 mph endangered children was if the police car that did a u-turn in front of the two lanes of oncoming traffic hit one a car full of them, --in the officer's zeal to ticket me.
Are children safer because I was brought to justice? Doubt it. Did my respect and appreciation for the authorities in Our Hometown decrease a little bit? Yes. Have I shared my opinion? Now, I have and I feel a little better--not so pissed.
We tolerate a lot of silliness in the name of safety. Our laws, ordinances and regulations are rife with examples of safety measures that are well-motivated, but ill-conceived, and ill-applied. Too often real solutions to real problems are dealt with on the cheap by enacting and enshrining a rule--as in the example of Sue and the bicycle helmet. We don't see the unintended consequences, we don't quantify the cost or appreciate the negative impact upon the quality of our life or liberty.


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Management is the easy bit … handing out tasks, telling people what to do and how to do it, and managing their performance. Easy peasy … then why do so many managers feel like they're failing much of the time? And why do some find it difficult to know the distinction between Management and Leadership?
I think the answer is relatively straightforward: team members want more than just to show up, do what they're told, and get reprimanded every time they make an honest mistake. People want purpose and meaning in their lives. They want to feel that they belong to a company that shares some or all of the same values that they hold dear. They want to get better at their jobs, move on upwards, and make use of their intelligence and creativity.
I do believe that the great majority of people (I hesitate to say everybody) want to do a good job for their boss, their company, and their own satisfaction.
The 'Killer Question' for a Leader
Managers often ask "How do I motivate my people?" We think they could be asking a different question: "How do I set up the conditions in which my people motivate themselves?" That's the Leadership question. You don't need to do the motivating – they already know what motivates them. Just ask them what their values are, how they would like to work as a team, what they want from you – and then get out of their way.
They will then do a great job for you, solve issues you didn't even know you had, and come up with excellent ideas to make things work better for the department, the company and your customers.
You can set the example by aiming high, setting goals, coaching them to succeed, recognising their achievements, and working with them on your team's purpose. That's what turns a Manager into a Leader.
As Steve Jobs once famously said about his purpose for Apple: "I want to put a ding in the Universe." On an intellectual level, I have no idea what that means. On a gut feel level, I know exactly what he meant. So, what would constitute a ding in your Universe?


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I just interviewed Marlene Trifilo, the cashiering services manager at the Bursar's Office, about the $20 processing fee for students who did not sign up for e-refund on their MySJSU Accounts.
Trifilo said the $20 fee was put into place because of the cost in labor to process and print checks sent to students not signed up for e-refund.
She added that the Bursar, Marlene Anderson, was, "instrumental in doing the study" to see how much paper checks cost the University. After the study was conducted, the decision was made to add the fee.
While Trifilo said that students are given internet access through the University to make it possible for them to sign up for e-refund, she acknowledged that students may have been unaware until actually going to Student Services that the processing fee even existed.
How Could This Be?
According to Trifilo, the fees are listed in the online schedule of classes put out by the University, which is no longer available in print for students to purchase.
Therefore, students without reliable internet access had to first go to the library or Student Services building and read the online schedule of classes to view the charges. This also means that students without internet access in their homes had to enter checking account information on a public terminal to sign up for e-refund.
Trifilo added that there are many advantages to having e-refund in place, including faster returns for students and not needing current addresses to deposit money - only students' account numbers.
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Vernal pools are small, shallow, seasonal pools that only occur under very specific conditions in Mediterranean climate regions. Typically ranging in size from less than 100 to more than 10,000 square feet, and generally less than 15 inches deep, they form where surface depressions are underlain by an impermeable surface that prevents rainwater from percolating into the ground, resulting in seasonal ponds that flood with winter precipitation but dry completely in the summer. They harbor a diverse and unique suite of plants and animals that are adapted to these punctuated, low nutrient hydrologic conditions. Because of this, vernal pools are some of the most ecologically important and distinctive habitats in California. Vernal pools are threatened by agriculture and development, and it is estimated that over 90% of the vernal pools in California have vanished, largely due to human activities. As part of the NCOS restoration, we are helping to reverse that trend with the creation of nine new vernal pools in the southwest portion of the site (Figure 1).
Figure 1. North Campus Open Space showing the vernal pool depressions: aerial photo by Bill Dewey (left) and map with vernal pools in tourqoise (right). Note: In the aerial photo south is up, the reverse of the map.
Many of the species in vernal pools have specific adaptations for surviving in the harsh conditions of this special habitat. Coyote thistle (Eryngium vaseyi), a plant endemic to California vernal pools, has different growth forms that coincide with the different vernal pool phases (see Figure 2 for an example of a vernal pool in different phases). In the winter "wet phase", when the pool is flooded, coyote thistle sends up long, tubular leaves like straws that reach toward the surface for oxygen collection (Figure 3). As the pool dries in the spring, the leaves open and flatten and spikey inflorescences (flower heads) form during the "flower phase", while during the summer "dry phase", the inflorescence sets seed and becomes a mass of painful spines that are resistant to herbivory (Figure 3). As an adaptation to the desiccation of the pool in the summer, the above ground vegetation dies back completely, but the roots remain alive underground to start the cycle again with the next winter's rains. The tiny invertebrates that inhabit vernal pools survive the dry summer phase by forming desiccation resistant cysts or eggs that will hatch with the next winter's flooding. Visit CCBER's webpage about vernal pools for more information and photos.
Figure 2. A restored vernal pool at UCSB's Manzanita Village in the spring "flower phase" (left) and summer "dry phase" (right).
CCBER will restore the NCOS vernal pools by planting giant spike rush in the center, and native meadow barley grass along the edges. An inoculum will be spread and rolled into the soil of the pools, and will consist of seeds, cysts and eggs gathered from remnant and restored vernal pools in the area. Many vernal pools in California are colonized by the endangered fairy shrimp; however, none of this species were found in a close investigation of all the pools in and around the campus in 2011. That study did find that restored pools are able to support 11 unique vernal pool plant species, and the life cycles of many interesting invertebrates such as the clam shrimp. Since these pools support a diverse array of species such as dragonflies, a predatory insect, they do not support populations of mosquitoes. The pools will also support Pacific chorus frogs, which can complete their life cycle from egg to tadpole and into adult frogs during the approximately 100-day wet stage of the seasonal vernal pools.
Figure 3. Coyote thistle (Eryngium vaseyi) in the tubular phase (left), flowering phase (middle), and prickly seed stage (right).