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You should seek help if your insomnia has become a pattern, or if you often feel fatigued or unrefreshed during the day and it interferes with your daily life. Many people have brief periods of difficulty sleeping (for example, a few days after starting a new job), but if insomnia lasts longer or has become a regular occurrence, you should ask for help.
Start by calling your primary care physician or bringing up the topic of sleep at your next well visit if you have one scheduled. If your doctor is knowledgeable about sleep disorders, he or she will guide you through the next steps, which may involve an assessment and further testing, or a referral to a sleep specialist. Your doctor may also start by giving you some basic information and resources about healthy sleep habits—these behavioral tips may help certain people with insomnia—or discussing potential medical treatment options to consider. Your doctor could refer you to a psychotherapist if your sleep struggles seem connected to anxiety, depression, or a major life adjustment.
If you don't feel satisfied after your conversation with your primary care physician, ask for a referral to a doctor who specializes in sleep medicine or consult other available resources. It's important to find a doctor who has the proper knowledge and training to treat your insomnia.
Many cities also have sleep centers and clinics (sometimes connected to a hospital) that offer assessments, testing, and treatment. An Internet search will help you locate the nearest center.
There are psychological and behavioral techniques that can be helpful for treating insomnia. Relaxation training, stimulus control, sleep restriction, and cognitive behavioral therapy are some examples.
Some of these techniques can be self-taught, while for others it's better to enlist the help of a therapist or sleep specialist.
Relaxation training, or progressive muscle relaxation, teaches the person to systematically tense and relax muscles in different areas of the body. This helps to calm the body and induce sleep. Other relaxation techniques that help many people sleep involve breathing exercises, mindfulness, meditation techniques, and guided imagery. Many people listen to audio recordings to guide them in learning these techniques. They can work to help you fall asleep and also return to sleep in the middle of the night.
Stimulus control helps to build an association between the bedroom and sleep by limiting the type of activities allowed in the bedroom. An example of stimulus control is going to bed only when you are sleepy, and getting out of bed if you've been awake for 20 minutes or more. This helps to break an unhealthy association between the bedroom and wakefulness. Sleep restriction involves a strict schedule of bedtimes and wake times and limits time in bed to only when a person is sleeping.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) includes behavioral changes (such as keeping a regular bedtime and wake up time, getting out of bed after being awake for 20 minutes or so, and eliminating afternoon naps) but it adds a cognitive or "thinking" component. CBT works to challenge unhealthy beliefs and fears around sleep and teach rational, positive thinking. There is a good amount of research supporting the use of CBT for insomnia. For example, in one study, patients with insomnia attended one CBT session via the internet per week for 6 weeks. After the treatment, these people had improved sleep quality.
There are many different types of sleep aids for insomnia, including over-the-counter (non-prescription) and prescription medications.
Determining which medication may be right for you depends on your insomnia symptoms and many different health factors. This is why it's important to consult with a doctor before taking a sleep aid.
Major classes of prescription insomnia medications include benzodiazepine hypnotics, non-benzodiazepine hypnotics, and melatonin receptor agonists.
There are alternative medicines that may help certain people sleep. It's important to know that these products are not required to pass through the same safety tests as medications, so their side effects and effectiveness are not as well understood.


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Last summer, the popular website PhD Comics invited graduate students from around the world to record and submit two-minute descriptions of their theses. Of more than 200 entries submitted, 12 were chosen to be animated.
One of those featured belongs to Z. Jack Tseng, Ph.D., a Frick Postdoctoral Fellow in the Museum's Division of Paleontology.
The video explains his thesis, which explores the evolutionary journey of some "of the most awesome animals on Earth: hyenas."
As Tseng explains, hyenas are "incredible bone-crushing machines," capable of cracking through the leg bones of large animals.
And though hyenas and dogs are both in the order Carnivora, they are not as closely related as you might think. (Hyenas are more closely related to cats.)
Nonetheless, as Tseng learned during his thesis research, hyenas and dogs evolved a parallel set of adaptations that allowed them to ably crush bone, a compelling example of convergent evolution.
Tseng's work here at the Museum builds on the work featured in the video. By examining skulls using computed tomography (CT), building computer models, and reconstructing ancestral skull shapes, Tseng is studying the "biomechanical capability of the predecessors of modern carnivores."
"These analyses," says Tseng, "will help us interpret the lifestyle and ecology of some of the earliest carnivores, and get a good sense of what mammals close to the ancestral condition for living bears, dogs, hyenas, cats were capable of doing with their skull and teeth."
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Tea Party Still Flexing Its Political Muscles
Having knocked off Senate veteran Richard Lugar, the right is now looking to battles in Wisconsin, Utah and Nebraska.
The tea party takes credit for ending the career of Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican who is being sent packing after six terms in Washington.
But Lugar faced another formidable enemy in the May 8 primary who had as much to do with his defeat as the unhappy right -- himself.
Lugar gave tea party bankrollers Club for Growth and FreedomWorks all the ammunition they needed to cut him down when it was divulged that he owns a home in Virginia but has no residence in the state he represents. The groups saturated the airwaves with ads mocking Lugar as a missing-in-action Hoosier. The ads worked.
A win in November by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who defeated Lugar, will give the right wing of the GOP added clout in the Senate. It might even embolden the tea party's leader in the upper chamber, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), to act on his not-so-secret desire to lead a coup early next year to topple Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as Senate GOP leader.
First things first, however. The tea party has its sights trained on more immediate battles before it can seriously consider a power grab. Even Mourdock's general election showdown with Democratic Rep. Joe Donnelly will move to the back burner for now.
The June 8 recall election for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, is the group's more immediate challenge. The rematch of the 2010 race between Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is likely to be as ugly as ugly gets, with the tea party's funders up against a coalition of labor organizations angered by Walker's cuts to the collective bargaining rights of public workers.
Polls suggest that the vast majority of Wisconsin voters have already made up their minds, so the race will come down to the ground game. The side that convinces more voters to turn out will win the race.
In another race to watch, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) dodged one bullet last month, when he finished first at the state Republican convention. He escaped the fate of former Utah Sen. Bob Bennett, who was ousted in 2010 at the state convention by tea party challengers. But Hatch isn't out of the woods yet. Because he fell short of 60% support, he still faces a June 26 runoff against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, a tea party supporter.
Hatch's campaign promises that he won't take anything for granted. He's been flaunting his conservative credentials and is avoiding public displays of bipartisanship that the tea party could turn into attack ads against him. He's also casting himself as a seasoned lawmaker still in touch with his constituents.
In Nebraska, tea partyers will be pleased with the outcome of the upcoming GOP Senate primary, no matter who wins. Both Republican candidates, state Attorney General Jon Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenberg, are aligned with the group. The winner takes on former Sen. Bob Kerrey, who was recruited by Democrats after Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson announced his retirement.
No matter how those races play out, the tea party won't come close to matching its success in the watershed 2010 elections. At least 15 tea party-backed Republicans who won House seats two years ago are likely to lose in November.
Still, the tea party will remain a powerful force, packing a strong right hook that will leave mainstream Republicans with more than just one lump or two.


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CFP: News for the future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving (IFLA 2013)
Open session at IFLA WLIC 2013, August 17-23, 2013, Singapore
Sponsored by the IFLA Newspapers Section
Papers wanted! Please consider submitting a short proposal to present during the Newspapers Section open session at WLIC 2013 (http://conference.ifla.org/
ifla79). Attendees at past open sessions have included librarians, archivists, digital curation specialists, publishers, researchers, historians, genealogists, and technologists. This open session gives you a unique opportunity to reach a world-wide audience of news, library, and technology professionals.
Session theme: The WLIC conference theme "Future Libraries, Infinite Possibilities" and the Newspapers Section open session theme "News for the future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving" highlights the consequences of digital technology in news creation, production, and dissemination as well as on the post-dissemination fate of news such as preservation of digital and hard assets, collection management, storage of physical and digital content, access and use of digital and physical news collections, and similar fates.
Subordinate themes include
- Production of electronic news media
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- Collaborative news production and preservation
- Collecting digital media including e-delivery, web-harvesting, legal deposit
- News metadata capture and enrichment including news industry standards such as NITF, NewsML, hNews, etc as well as traditional library standards such as METS, MODS, ALTO, PREMIS, MIX, etc
- Digitisation of historical news and newspapers
- Presentation of and access to digital news collections including crowdsourcing
- Collaboration of libraries, archives, and museums in the preservation of news
Other topics will be considered, too.
Please note: Papers for the conference should be written and presented in English. Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length and must be submitted to Mona Løkås (email@example.com), Mazelan Anuar (email@example.com), and Sue Kellerman (firstname.lastname@example.com) of the Newspapers Section on or before January 31, 2013. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 4, 2013. The full paper and accompanying presentation slides must be completed and submitted to IFLA before June 2013. The papers must be original submissions and not published elsewhere.
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Once I had seen the new door opening mechanism, I started thinking of other uses. The wagon turntable works fine for simple 90 degree movement, but to turn more, i think the door mechanism will work. I have done some designs for an adapter to fit between the mechanism, and the turntable base. It does need more depth, but nothing excessive.
My door opening mechanism turns longitudinal motion into rotational, the opposite of servos . The slack in my mechanism is not a problem, but but without some mod does not work as well from rotational to longitudinal. Mine can still do same job as what people use servos for though. servos only go though 90 degrees i think. It would need some extra links to move further, but mine will move through complete 360 degrees, so will move a turntable. A sector plate also can use same, but moves less far.
It is not that I am against electrics, but prefer simpler systems which are less prone to failure. It would be possible to add some form of electrical control, especially if it needs some form of auto control. I as thinking about this as there is an article in latest Continental Modeller about that railway in Thailand which goes through a street market. Someone has built a model, and used a heck of a lot of servos, and has plenty of spares just in case. I think one of my control sticks could operate several mechanisms no problem. Even sticking on a mini train running under would allow for auto operation, synchonised with main train running.
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I had a look at the Grammarly automated proofreader and personal grammar coach that claims to be the world's most accurate grammar checker, presumably in the automated category. The bad news is that those who want to post any text and expect it to be turned into perfect English will still have to wait for science fiction to become reality, but the good news is that it could be a very useful tool.
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I haven't got the money.
Thanks! Been trying to look for a grammar checker since a long time ago. If only if it's free. :)
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Should I remove 'ago' here? Or it's fine?
I've linked to this in my own blog. Stand by to repel browsers; my regular readers must be nearing double figures!
10 years?Update 2013.02.25:17.00: By chance I just noticed that the moderator I mentioned earlier on ('Tdol') has in fact written a blog post that deals specifically with Grammarly – which was the starting point for this post. It was written more than 10 years ago, though I imagine the principles are still the same.
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"Shares of Apple were slightly higher in early-afternoon trading today, as the tech giant offers gift cards for certain products, including the iPhone, iPads, Apple Watch Series 1, Macs or Apple TV, rather than discounts for Black Friday.," Natalie Walters repots for TheStreet.
"Recode senior retail editor Lauren Goode said on CNBC's 'Squawk Alley"' on Friday morning… [that] these gift cards can help Apple move products off the shelves," Walters reports. "The gift cards will also help encourage customers to come into the stores as they consider buying a product or products that they were previously hesitant about purchasing due to price, Goode said."
"While Apple is trying to push products off the shelves, it has still not released its bluetooth headphones called Air Pods that were due out at the end of October," Walters reports. "They are to be paired with the iPhone 7, which is the first model missing a headphone jack, Goode noted. The company is 'missing out' because bluetooth headphones have been on the upward trend even before the new iPhones came out and is a 'hot gadget' this season."
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Unfortunately, this is certainly not a new issue with Apple.
As we wrote a year ago:
Sometimes Apple, the world's most profitable and most valuable company, still operates as if they only have five guys from NeXT working around the clock trying to do all the work on a shoestring budget.
Can't manage to have a compatible Remote app or Apple Music-capable Siri for the Apple TV launch… Can't have enough Pencils and Keyboards for the iPad Pro launch. Seriously? Can't have any stock on hand for two months after the so-called the Apple Watch launch date. Can't update their professional Mac for nearly two years and counting?
Why are these amateurish mistakes and lapses happening with startling regularity? You know, besides mismanagement?
Oh, you say, but Apple is making tons of money! Why, yes, they certainly are!
Listen, let's be honest, Steve Ballmer could've generated the same kind of money "running" Apple Inc. given the massive momentum Steve Jobs handed over at his death. Sometimes, in fact, it looks like Steve Ballmer is running Apple. Although, no, it doesn't really, because even Ballmer would have updated the Mac Pro by now, made sure he had enough Apple Watches ready so as not to pretty much totally kill launch momentum, and also had enough Pencils and Keyboards on hand for the iPad Pro launch. Of course, Ballmer would have never had the handle on the big picture that Tim Cook has – our issues with launches under Cook have to do solely with launch supplies and software polish.
We're coming up on two years now (this December 19th) since the Mac Pro debuted with no updates which, along with the rest of the string of snafus (going back to John Browett, Apple Maps, no iMacs for Christmas 2012, no iPad 2 units for launch, etc.), is what understandably prompts this sort of "joke" and "failure" talk and the feeling that Apple is a bit sloppy in recent years.
We hold Apple to a high standard and we expect the company to execute better than they have of late. (read more) — MacDailyNews, November 27, 2015


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Even though it's technically August, I'm excited to (finally) post the July Sugar High Friday 33 "Tropical Paradise" round up. To start, I would like to thank the creator and doyenne of SHF, Jennifer of The Domestic Goddess. Secondly, I'd like to apologize for the delay. I'm touched by all the well wishes for a speedy recovery from my back problems. I'm doing much better now, but I have to remind myself to still take it slow for a while. And last but not least, I'd like to extend a warm and sunny "thank you!" to all the lovely bloggers who participated with their amazing tropical paradise sweets.
Without further delay, let the round up begin! (BTW, entries are listed in no particular order.)
Melody at Fruit Tart
Illinois, US
Melody reminisces about Caribbean mangos and the wonderful scent of Hawaiian pineapple plantations during harvest with her tropical paradise tart.
Amy at Nook and Pantry
Seattle, Washington, US
Amy creates a refreshing mango lime curd tart with a flaky pate sucree as a sweet farewell to her friend Julia.
Abby at Eat the Right Stuff
London, UK
Growing up in Malawi, Abby would often be found in the strawberry patch. Her strawberry granita reminds her of her former home in the tropics.
Boo_licious at Masak-Masak
Boo_licious scratches her itch to try out a newly acquired cookbook by making pancakes filled with durian cream. Durian is a notoriously "fragrant" tropical fruit.
Cakelaw at Laws of the Kitchen
Melbourne, Australia
Even though it's winter down under, Cakelaw beckons the sun with the sunny colors of a frangipani pie.
babe_kl at Babe in the City – KL
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Babe_kl is fortunate enough to live in a tropical paradise. Her mango and nata de coco konnyaku jelly glistens like gems in the sun.
Meeta at What's For Lunch, Honey?
Weimar, Germany
Meeta has got her 80's groove on with her tropicana cream and summer berries.
Mehgan at A Craving For Perfection
Seattle, Washington, US
Mehgan's got a "rawkin' tan" from a recent Mexican vacation and shares a recipe for cocadas.
Ivonne at Cream Puffs in Venice
Toronto, Canada
After consuming what Ivonne described as "the best mojito ever" during her Miami vacation, she was consumed with the idea creating of a mojito cupcake. These cupcakes are too cute for words!
Pille at Nami-nami
I'd love to have a slice of Pille's Caribbean banana cake with candied ginger nibbles.
Haalo at Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once
Melbourne, Australia
It's the middle of winter in Australia but Haalo channels the tropics with the cutest pineapple upside down cakelets.
Becke at Columbus Foodie
Columbus, Ohio, US
Becke tempts with a satisfying yet light tropical coconut creme caramel with pineapple concasee (sans basil).
Brilynn at Jumbo Empanadas
Brilynn whips up her tropical mango treat. It's even topped with a floral umbrella!
Kate at A Way to Eat
Vermont, US
Kate's coconut cream tart is the logical solution to tropical = Morrocco + coconuts.
Tigerfish at Teczcape - An Escape to Food
California, US
Tigerfish presents a fresh fruit medley in the cutest orange cups.
Mark Manguerra at No Special Effects
Manila, Philippines
Mark's chocolate crepes with mangos and Nutella is a combination made in paradise.
Amy at Tart Reform
Washington D.C., US
Amy's chilled cherry soup is a precursor to the delicious food she will enjoy on her upcoming cruise to a tropical paradise.
Hannah at Printer & Piemaker: Recipes
Albany, California, US
A stunning black rice pudding with fresh pineapple and coconut milk is offered by Hannah from across the bay in Albany.
Virtual Frolic
New York, New York, US
Virtual Frolic's swingle sorbet might be hard to say 3 times fast, but it definitely won't be hard to eat.
Sarina at TriniGourmet
It's mango season in Trinidad and Sarina rediscovers her local tropical fruit with a delicious streusel topped mango cake.
Steph at A Whisk and A Spoon
Sydney, Australia
Steph, armed with a bounty of fruit from her market, coined the phrase "tropicaliness" to describe her magazine cover worthy tropical pavlova.
Helene at Tartelette
Charleston, South Carolina, US
The talented Helene impresses with her creative use of bubble wrap to create her honeycomb mango mousse and pistachio dacquoise.
Andrea at Andrea's Recipes
Northern Virginia, US
Andrea stays cool with her creamy frozen mango dessert.
Jen at The Canadian Baker
Jen's pineapple coconut cookies have tropical written all over them. And they're super easy to make too!
Mandy at Fresh From the Oven
St. Louis, Missouri, US
Mandy's no-bake cheesecake is a stunning creation that incorporates delicious tropical lychee fruits.
Benas at Floating Nib
An exceedingly moist banana loaf topped with chocolate chips (yum!) from Benas.
Sihan at Walking in the Rain
Inspired by a cocktail from a local nightspot, Sihan creates a Malibu (coconut rum) pineapple cupcake.
Lisa at La Mia Cucina
Ohio, US
Queen of Dorkdom Lisa adds some coconut to a bumper crop of zucchini to create the best coconut zucchini loaf in Ohio.
Soula at My Champagne Dreams
Sydney, Australia
Winter in the Southern hemisphere doesn't stop Soula from baking a very summery coconut and lime macadamia cake from Bill Granger.
Zhulaiha at Ovenhaven
A summery combination of peaches and coconut go into Zhulaiha's crumble pie.
Inne at Vanille & Chocolat
London, UK
Inne's strawberry and mango jam was created by pV=nRT scientifically speaking. But Inne believes it might be magic instead.
Sara Payne at Whisks & Needles
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sara shares her secret recipe for mango ginger pound cake
Nicole at Audaciousness
San Jorge, Nicaragua
Nicole takes her refresco (a fresh fruit drink) to go in a plastic baggie - Central American style.
Lynn at Cookie Baker Lynn
Washington, US
Lynn ventures into new (to her) tropical fruit territory with her vibrant mango sorbet.
Anita at Dessert First
San Francisco, California, US
Pastry Girl Anita's passion fruit souffle glace with pineapple fruit soup is melt-in-your-mouth perfection.
Mila at Blog Quesadillas
Mila escapes the summer rain with cocadas, a Mexican candy.
Deborah at Taste and Tell
Utah, US
The crystal clear blue waters of the Florida Keys and a taste of authentic key lime pie inspired Deborah to make a key lime tart.
Nicisme at Cherrapeno
Nicisme's tropical cakes is willing the sun to come out and warm her chili plants.
Sheena S. at The Casual Baker
Paris, France
Some "turbulence" with a certain tropical fruit led Sheena to improvise and make these bleeding heart cupcakes.
Ulrike at Küchenlatein
Northern Germany
Ulrike recalls her very first pineapple and the Balinese women who prepared the fruit with their skilled knives.
And my entry, white chocolate tropical chunk cookies.
Whew! So there you have it. 41 flavors of the tropics to choose from. I already know which recipes I'm going to try out. =) Thanks again to all the participants.


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The Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) at Argonne National Laboratory is one of three divisions comprising the Advanced Photon Source (APS), the highest energy accelerator-based source of x-rays in the western hemisphere.
Argonne invites applicants for the position of Director of ASD to provide technical and scientific leadership for effective operations and future development of APS accelerator systems. ASD is responsible for the reliable and high performance operation of the APS accelerator complex, and ensuring that the APS remains at the forefront of hard x-ray science in both the near and long term.
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Today's just a few misc. makeover projects from both our move and clients. The first is an example of a hall closet that contains some linens and a lot of "medicine closet" items that don't fit into the bathroom. We didn't buy anything for this project, just sorted through what was there, relocated some items to other areas and switched things around into containers that were more functional for each type of item.
We relocated all the cleaning products to the kitchen that were spread between there and the hall closet. This cleared up the whole top shelf for bathroom and linen related items. We used appropriate sized containers to hold hand towels, wash cloths, extra personal care items, medicines, make up and first aid items.
We were able to easily fit all the household cleaning supplies under the sink. We utilized on container to hold products that could be taken room to room for cleaning in other areas of the house. Moving along to my own house, I fell in love with this chandelier in our Dining room immediately! Unfortunately I don't think it had ever been properly cleaned. And by properly I mean dis-assembling it by removing each crystal and soaking them, wiping them with a soft cloth and brush to get off the years of grime. This took me almost 4 hours and there are almost 350 crystals but what a spectacular difference it made!
Finally, this is our master bedroom before and after. It's a small room and we are not able to fit our one large dresser in here but everything else works well and I love the serene blue of these walls which is almost the EXACT shade of blue we had painted in our MD living room before we left. I love this room!
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Chipping In
New research is driving at an environmentally friendly use of scrap automobile tires beneath golf courses.
A University of Wisconsin (UW) engineer says the tires can be ground up into chips and placed beneath greens to absorb fertilizers and pesticides used to keep the greens, well, green.
"Tires are a waste material, and we need to have safe ways to dispose of them," says Jae Park, a UW professor of environmental engineering. Park's work indicates that ground-up tires provide a safe way to help prevent groundwater contamination.
Sand-based root zones, typically used for golf course putting greens and athletic field construction, lack sufficient cation (an ion that carries a positive electrical charge) exchange capacity to restrict nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) migration through the root zone and into subsurface drainage systems.
Park, along with colleagues John Stier and Robert Lisi, studied the absorptive properties of tire rubber for retaining N and P when applied as a distinct subsurface drainage or intermediate layer in golf course putting greens. His results show that a significant reduction in the total concentration of nitrate in leachate was achieved by replacing traditional pea gravel with equally sized granulated tires for the drainage layer media.
"The results indicate that using granulated tires as a drainage layer or fill material beneath sand-based root zones does not compromise the function of the profile or quality of the vegetation while creating an environmentally-beneficial and value-added option for scrap tire reuse," he says.
Just how the rubber manages to mitigate nitrate pollution remains unclear.
"We don't know exactly how the process of absorption works, but it may result from chemical bonding between the surface of the rubber and the contaminant," Park says.
Rubber contains 80 percent carbon that attracts organic compounds. Nitrate is probably removed by ion exchange or simple physical adsorption, he adds.
Fear that the rubber will eventually become saturated with contaminants doesn't seem to be an issue. The rubber chips, which are typically 2 to 10 cm diameter, are believed to have an unlimited capacity to absorb.
"Sorbed chemicals will be biodegraded by microorganisms after a long acclimation period, regenerating sorption capacity naturally," Park says.
There are plenty of tires to go around. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates about 242 million tires are discarded every year — one tire for every person in the United States.
Many states have laws preventing old tires from being dumped in landfills. Instead, used tires are collected by the millions in unsightly piles, which compounds the environmental threat because the tires collect rainwater, creating enormous breeding grounds for mosquitoes.
The primary concern of tire piles, though, is the tires' tendency to catch fire, which has not only proven difficult to extinguish but results in the release of harmful gases into the atmosphere.
Tire pile fires can last for weeks, cost millions of dollars to fight, require the evacuation of neighborhoods and cause significant environmental damage from toxic soot fall-out and the run-off of oil from melting rubber.
Ground-up tires are already used in the soles of sneakers and beneath some football fields, including UW's Camp Randall Stadium.
Park has been working on removal of organic compounds by shredded tires in landfills since 1990 when he found that rubber gasket material can adsorb almost 100 percent of their initial weight when exposed to gasoline, and 40 percent of their initial weight when exposed to mineral spirits.
Park says the idea of applying the concept to golf courses came while he was playing golf with some of his students.
"During the round, we saw a warning sign that pesticides had been recently applied," Park says. "In passing, I mentioned the advantages of using scrap tires for pesticide removal."
One student became interested enough to conduct laboratory and field experiments to prove the concept.
"We have also proposed the use of crumb rubber and shredded tires in drainage systems in golf courses," he says.
Park is currently working on temperature profiles in various rubber layers in an attempt to better understand flora growth periods. Because crumb rubber provides such excellent insulation (shielding the ground from cold and keeping in warm), he postulates that the use of rubber chips may promote better growth during the harsh weather conditions during spring and fall — which could even extend playing periods in the cold weather regions.
Park's idea has raised a few eyebrows in conservation circles.
"Using tires to enhance the sand that exists under greens is not moving toward more ecological and lower risk golf course conditions," says Diana Post, VMD, executive director of the Rachel Carson Council, an environmental group promoting alternative, environmentally benign pest management strategies.
"Assuming that the tire material remains inert and does not itself give off toxic by-products, pesticides are not uniform," Post says.
Pesticides have different structures and degrees of binding to organic matter. They could be expected to have different affinities for the tire material, she says.
The life-span of such a system would also need to be determined, and it would need to be tested under various environmental conditions, such as a high water table or areas with heavy rain and flooding.
An environmental impact report would probably provide answers to these questions and should take place before any implementation occurs. In addition, there should be data supporting the removal of specific pesticides, she says.
Park says he is aware that crumb rubbers cannot remove all pesticides.
"However, crumb rubbers can remove pesticides having solubilities < 10,000 mg/L based on evaluation of molecular structures and polarity," he says. "We did establish empirical relationships between sorption and octanol-water partition coefficient with crumb rubbers. This allows us to predict the removal efficiency of crumb rubbers for untested organic compounds."
Scientists cannot test all manmade chemicals so they commonly use this type of approach.
"Most pesticides fit into this range of < 10,000 mg/L, so we believe pesticides can be removed significantly by crumb rubbers," Park says. "Our paper deals with only nitrate, but I have been working on removal of organic compounds using crumb rubbers for over 15 years."
Previous research has reported that ground or shredded tires can absorb water contaminants such as benzene, O-xylene and chlorinated hydrocarbons. Park reported in 1996 that tire chips can absorb volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and suggested that tire chips could be used in landfill barriers, soil-bentonite slurry walls, and in wastewater treatment to remove VOCs.
Park said pesticides are removed actually more in the vapor phase than in the aqueous phase; therefore, phase is not an issue.
The reaction rate is relatively fast so that when pesticides dissolved in rain, for example, percolate into crumb rubbers, they are easily sorbed into crumb rubbers, allowing a worst case of less than 10 percent of the pesticides to pass through, he said.
"We are not claiming 100 percent removal," Park says. "If we can take out most pesticides and let microorganisms biodegrade them, crumb rubbers will maintain relatively effective sorption capacity."
USGA's 1993 standards for sand-based golf course putting green construction specify a gravel drainage layer beneath the root zone mix for improved water management.
Park has shown that scrap tires can be granulated to the specifications for the drainage material and applied in putting green construction without hindering traditional performance standards while improving water quality.
"Using crumb rubber as a lighter drainage material or fill has advantages over traditional aggregates in construction of recreational areas such as golf course putting greens and athletic fields on soft foundations as well as potentially reduced labor needs for installation," he says.
In full-scale tests performed at UW's Turf Grass Research Center, crumb rubber did not introduce adverse effects on turfgrass establishment, density, quality or color, nor was water movement impeded by profiles containing a crumb rubber intermediate or drainage layer compared to a USGA standard putting green.
Right now, Park is hoping to see his idea implemented first on campus, when the university builds a new golf course in the near future.
"When the proposed green construction method is used for an 18-hole golf course, approximately 72,000 tires are required," he says.
If shredded tires are used as a drainage pipe backfill and embankment material, the number of tires used in golf construction may increase by over 100 percent.
Crumb rubber used as a drainage layer material beneath sand-based root zones may be a value-added reuse of scrap tires.
Douglas Page is a freelance writer who lives in Pine Mountain, Calif.
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Nobody can accuse "The Bachelor" of being against recycling.
Brad Womack, the titular star of the show's 11th season, is back for a second go round on ABC's reality franchise per an announcement made on the September 27 episode of "Dancing With the Stars," reports Us Weekly.
The 37-year-old bar owner from Austin has a notorious place in the show's history. In the 2007 season finale, he declined to pick either of the final two contestants, DeAnna Pappas or Jenni Croft. In so doing, he bacame the only person to not pick a potential mate over the show's run and the decision caused a massive fan backlash, a fact that came up during his re-introduction.
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"Brad, this time, pick somebody!" snapped "DWTS" host Tom Bergeron.
"Bachelor" host Chris Harrison also seemed initially wary of the inviting Womack back.
"At first, I was skeptical," he said in an interview with People. "But the more I thought about it, the more I feel in love with the idea of him coming back, getting another shot."
Harrison also defended Womack from the heated audience response.
"I don't think Brad deserved as much of the anger and resentment from the fans," he said. "He's come out a better man and I think he's ready to do this."
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Mariners, Furbush avoid potential arbitration hearing
SEATTLE -- Left-handed reliever Charlie Furbush has signed a one-year contract with the Mariners, the club announced Tuesday, as the two parties reached an agreement to avoid any potential dispute over whether he was going to be arbitration-eligible.
The deal is for $750,000, according to Yahoo! Sports. Furbush made $504,000 last season and would have been in line for a small hike from the Mariners under normal circumstances as a pre-arbitration-eligible player.
Furbush finished just shy of "Super 2" contract status in Major League Baseball's service-time calculations this offseason, thus just missing the opportunity to enter the arbitration process a year earlier than normal.
Under MLB's labor agreement, after three years of service time, all players are eligible for arbitration and the ability to ask for more than the minimum salary. Additionally, the top 22 percent of players (in terms of service time) with two-plus years of career MLB time (and with at least 86 days of service accumulated during the immediately preceding season) are eligible for arbitration each year as so-called "Super 2s."
Furbush was the first player to miss the cutoff for the 22 percent and thus wasn't slated to be arbitration-eligible. But Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada is considering filing a grievance over a service-time issue that, if he wins, would move him out of Super 2 status and thus open the last spot for Furbush.
The Mariners pre-empted any issue by coming to an agreement with Furbush on a compromise one-year deal that essentially splits the difference of what he likely would have made in arbitration versus his pre-arbitration salary.
Seattle has just two arbitration-eligible players this offseason in outfielder Michael Saunders and first baseman Justin Smoak.
Tejada was the final September callup by the Mets last season, being promoted on Sept. 10, a move that left him one day short of a full three seasons of service time in his MLB career. He is considering a grievance over the timing of that promotion.
Tejada already would be arbitration-eligible this year as a Super 2, but one more day of service time would allow him to become a free agent after the 2016 season instead of waiting until 2017.
Furbush, 27, appeared in team-high 71 games last year, tied for 10th in the American League, while going 2-6 with a 3.74 ERA. He held opponents to a .199 batting average, including .173 against left-handers, and averaged 11.08 strikeouts per nine innings pitched.
In three Major League seasons, Furbush has appeared in 147 games -- including 12 starts -- while going 11-18 with a 4.26 ERA. He's recorded 200 strikeouts in 196 2/3 innings.
Furbush was originally selected by the Tigers in the fourth round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft out of LSU and was acquired by the Mariners in a six-player trade on July 30, 2011.
The MLB Players Association and MLB agreed to the compromise contract. Furbush served as the Mariners' player representative with the players' union last year.


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The Austin American Statesmen humor columnist, John Kelso, discovered that it's not illegal in Texas to vote in a Big Bird costume.
Kelso writes that he decided to vote in a Big Bird costume, even though he would have preferred to dress as Daffy Duck or Tweety Bird, after Mitt Romney said in a debate that he would cut funding to PBS.
The line to get in and vote was long. Edd (the personal security guard) and I stood in it for more than half an hour. The Bird suit was like Lady Gaga — hot and itchy. An old guy standing in line in front of me the whole time was trying to ignore me, and he was doing a pretty good job of it. He probably thought I was an idiot. But a lot of women wanted to take my picture.
"I've got to get a picture of Big Bird going to vote," one woman said. "That's very good."
"I shaved my legs for this?" Edd said.
"Vote right, Big Bird," said a woman who was walking by. Maybe she was a Republican.
You can read more about his adventure here.
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text: The Staggers 30 January 2013 PMQs review: professor Miliband gives Cameron an economics lesson The Labour leader had the stats on his side but will voters accept his distinction between 'good' borrowing and 'bad' borrowing? Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up It's often forgotten that Ed Balls isn't the only economist on the Labour frontbench; Ed Miliband also taught the subject at Harvard while on sabbatical from the Treasury and he gave David Cameron a suitably stern lesson at today's PMQs. In a stat-heavy assault on the coalition's economic record, he reminded Cameron that the economy had grown by just 0.4 per cent since October 2010 (it was expected to grow by more than five per cent), that the UK had grown more slowly than 17 of the G20 countries and that this was now the weakest recovery for more than a hundred years. Confronted by that record, Cameron played a bad hand as well as he could. He was aided by Labour MPs who foolishly cheered when he conceded that the economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in the most recent quarter, an error that the PM quickly pounced on. "Only honourable members opposite could cheer that news," he fumed. From there, he ridiculed what he called Labour's "three-point plan": "more spending, more borrowing more debt". After Miliband noted that the deficit so far this year was £7.2bn (7.3 per cent) higher than last year, Cameron replied, "if he thinks there's a problem with borrowing, why does he want to borrow more?" It is the question that Labour has struggled to answer since the election. The Tories' credit card analogy may be a hackneyed one but it is easier to explain to the electorate than Keynes's paradox of thrift. In response to Cameron, Miliband cried: "he's borrowing for failure!" The Labour leader's hope is that the public will distinguish between the coalition's 'bad' borrowing, driven by higher welfare bills, and his party's 'good' borrowing (a VAT cut, national insurance holiday, higher infrastructure spending and the like). But without explicitly declaring that Labour would borrow for growth (and explaining why), he risks reinforcing the impression that borrowing is always and everywhere a bad thing. Miliband, aware that polls show more voters continue to blame Labour (26 per cent) for the cuts than the coalition (21 per cent), has never conceded that his party would, at least temporarily, borrow more than the coalition. For now, with the public more worried about the disappearance of growth, he can avoid further scrutiny. But at some point before the election, Labour will need to say what its plans would mean for deficit reduction. Anything else will allow the Tories to claim they'd make "the same mistakes" all over again. › Weight of the union: what fiction has to say about obesity Ed Miliband said that David Cameron was "borrowing for failure". Photograph: Getty Images. George Eaton is senior online editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe For daily analysis & more political coverage from Westminster and beyond subscribe for just £1 per month!


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The big dog at the Westminster Kennel Club is one of the smallest breeds, an affenpinscher named Banana Joe who won best in show Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.
Banana Joe, 6, won best toy dog on Monday, advancing to the finals from piers 92 and 94, where preliminary events took place.
Banana Joe was born in the Netherlands, won a major German dog show early on and has been winning ever since. This win concludes his career as a show dog, and he will go into retirement and return to the Netherlands. Affenpinschers are often called "monkey dogs" because of the way they look.
Owner Zoila Truesdale was clearly pleased with the win. "When you come into these shows," said Truesdale, "you never expect it [to win]."
Dog handler Ernesto Lara said, "He doesn't know his size, he doesn't think he's funny, he thinks he's Mr. America."
Michael Dougherty, the Westminster judge who selected Banana Joe, said "it came down to a hairsbreadth."
"This little guy was just a touch more," he said. "Perfect body."
The affenpinscher was the smallest of the seven finalists. It is a small, fuzzy black dog that drew loud cheers and "awwws" from spectators at the nearly packed arena.
Affectionately called a monkey dog because he looks just like one, Banana Joe made up for near misses the last two years at Madison Square Garden. The 5-year-old wagged his tail a mile a minute after earning his 86th best in show title overall.
An Old English sheepdog only 20 months old was picked as the runner-up on the green carpet of the Garden. Swagger the sheepdog drew the most cheers, but judge Michael Dougherty picked Banana Joe.
Best in group winners, selected before best of show, included a German shorthaired pointer in the sporting group; a Belgian barge dog called a schipperke in the working group and a fox terrier in the terrier group.
In all, 2,721 dogs representing 187 breeds and varieties competed.
Handler Ernesto Lara kept hoisting Banana Joe after the victory at the country's premier dog show.
The finalists were moved in shuttle buses and private cars from the piers in Hell's Kitchen to Madison Square Garden for judging.
At the Garden, Kevin Mullins, 47, from Columbus, Ohio, sat next to the cage of The Fifinator, a 4-year-old Doberman pinscher who had been projected by analysts to win the best in show because of her string of wins earlier in the year and her third straight win as best in breed at Westminster.
"It's a lot of pressure," said Mullins.
Also Monday, Jewel, an American foxhound, won best hound. Honor, a bichon frise -- a curly-haired lap dog -- took home the title of best nonsporting dog.
This year, a newly admitted breed, the Russell terrier, had a shot at the prize, having won best in breed.
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Make sure to check out this new video documenting the 2012 MINDS-i Robotics Competition that took place earlier this month. MINDS-i is a venture by our frind Mike Marzetta, and aims to bring robotics to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education.
The theme of the competition was inspired by real life events to help grab student's attention and imagination. In this case, "Meltdown at the Reactor" has competitors completing several tasks based on a repair/rescue mission in a 'damaged nuclear facility'.
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Beaujolais Crus Wines & Castles - Afternoon
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Brouilly, Morgon, Chiroubles, Fleurie, Moulin-a-Vent, Juliénas, etc. Welcome to the Northern Beaujolais Region where the elite Gamay wines called "crus" are produced! Along this half day wine tour from Lyon, as you drive through charming towns with beautiful castles, let us introduce you to some of the most renowned Beaujolais wines at a small family winery & in the magnificent cellar of a Chateau Estate:
Beaujolais Wine Road & Terroir
At 2:00 pm, your 8-seater minibus leaves Place Bellecour in Lyon to the Northern Beaujolais called CRUS wine region.
Start the journey travelling on the beautiful Beaujolais "Route des Vins" and with your guide learn about the "terroir" (french philosphy for wine) and the different characteristics of the Beaujolais "crus" wines appellations.
Pass the Mont Brouilly, a strikingly beautiful dormant volcano covered by secular vineyards and cross the famous wine towns of Régnié, Morgon & Fleurie.
Then, Stop at La Madone Chapel and enjoy a breathtaking panaroma of the Beaujolais wine region: on clear days, you may have the chance to see the Alps and the Mount Blanc!
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Visit of a Beaujolais family winery & Château winery Estate
At 3:30 pm, push the door of a small family winery, meet a passionate wine-maker and learn the different steps of the unique wine making process of Beaujolais called "semi-carbonic" maceration.
Then, go to the nicely decorated caveau (wine-tasting room) to enjoy several crus Beaujolais wines in a fun and friendly atmosphere!
Travel again on the Beaujolais wine road to reach a Chateau Wine Estate and enter a magnificent cellar full of oak barrels.
Wine-taste several crus wines coming from different "terroirs" of the Beaujolais in this amazing cellar setting. Take your time to savor these beautiful Crus wines as your guide describe them and tell you about their aromas, balance and complexity ...
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Bellecour Square
Our Lyon Small Groups Tours to Beaujolais, Cotes du Rhone, Macon and Perouges are 8 guests maximum to be able to operate the best possible wine tours and sightseeing excursions. With a friendly, knowledgeable English speaking driver guide, you visit and taste wines at family wineries and renowned castles cellars of Lyon's surrounding vineyards. Our Lyon wine tours and sightseeing excursions are whether half day or full day, with a departure from Lyon Office de Tourisme building, France.


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If you've been to BCAM anytime in the last year, you've probably seen the Robert Therrien exhibition on view on the top floor. It's been on view since last July, but I hope that doesn't mean you've taken it for granted—it comes down after this weekend.
Where one show closes, another opens. Across campus in the Pavilion for Japanese Art, Ohie Toshio and the Perfection of the Japanese Book goes on view starting Saturday. After studying bookbinding in France, Ohie introduced the art form to Japan in 1974. The exhibition looks at how Ohie took this European tradition and incorporated into a Japanese sensibility. Over the course of the exhibition's run, Ohie will actually be present in the galleries to talk with visitors about the art of book design. Check out the upcoming dates for your chance to meet and talk with the artist.
August means free outdoor films—all kid-friendly animated features. Tonight we kick off our Friday Films with Bolt, featuring the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, and more. The film is paired with the 2012 short Tangled Ever After. Check out our listings for the rest of August while you're at it.
Continuing on the family front, August sees a new theme for our free Andell Family Sundays: Dragon Days. Explore depictions of dragons in our collection (such as in our Chinese or Korean galleries, or in the European galleries too!), then make your own during family art-making activities.
Finally, as usual we have free concerts all weekend long. The vibraphone-led Nick Mancini Collective takes the stage for tonight's Jazz at LACMA, while Latin Sounds enters its final month of free summer concerts with Afro-Cuban percussionist Melena. Sundays Live sees soprano Karen Benjamin join pianist Alan Chapman for an evening of cabaret and more.
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"So which-a one-a you ordered the knuckle sandwich?"
"In the red corner. . .hailing from a little town in Sicily. . . weighing in at a robust 275 pounds. . .the Prince of Pasta. . . the King of Cannolies. . the real Italian Stallion. . . Maaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrriiiiiiooooooo!!!!!! And in the blue corner. . .hailing from a GameBoy near you. . . weighing in at a svelte 12 pounds. . .the Pokemon of Pain. . . the Beast of Burden. . .the Whole Kitten Kaboodle. . . Piiiiiiikkkkkaaaaaaaccchhhhhuuuuuuuuuu!!!!
That's right, fight fans. It's what you've been waiting for. It's the Great Battle of the Video Game Mascots.
Just when you thought the design masters at Nintendo couldn't possibly squeeze
yet another game out of their tired bag of lovable little characters, along
comes Super Smash Brothers. But unlike other recent mascot games (like
Mario Party, ugh), this one takes its cute,
cuddly critters and throws 'em into a ring to battle it out. Finally – a chance
to kick Kirby's fluffy, gumball ass.
I really wish there was some bizarre plot to make fun of, but sadly, there is not. Inexplicably, the Nintendo mascot gang is hell-bent on beating each other up. Perhaps there was some jealousy over which one is the cutest, or maybe mob kingpin Mario is recruiting new hired goons to help him take over the city. Who knows?
The cast is pretty complete: Donkey Kong, Mario, Pikachu, Kirby, Link, Fox,
and Yoshi are here, as well as the often overlooked Samus (star of the Metroid
games). There are also a few extra
characters for those of you willing to go the distance.
Smash Brothers is essentially a fighting game. You choose a character and duke it out, the winner being the last one standing. However, Nintendo rarely follows the mold.
For starters, you don't actually 'kill' your opponents. The goal is to knock enemies off the stage. Each time you hit an opponent it increases their Damage Meter. The Meter number goes up as the character takes damage, and the higher the meter, the easier it is to smack 'em off the level. There's no blood or fatalities. What did you expect?
Unlike most newer fighting games, Smash Brothers isn't in 3D. The action is strictly up/down/left/right, which suits the gameplay rather nicely. Trying to knock your opponent off the screen while trying to keep yourself from getting knocked off results in some very engaging, back and forth battles.
To aid you in your quest to be le grande fromage, Nintendo has included
a bevy of pain inducing items. During a match, items will appear at random and
can be used by any player. These include ray guns, swords, bombs, fire flowers
(remember the first Super Mario Bros.?), and the ever trusty baseball bat. Send
Jigglypuff flying over the right field fence. Batter up!
There are a few ways to play. There's a boring 1 player mode, where you battle your way up to three different bosses. You can also hone your skills in Training mode, or practice the 'Bonus' levels you encounter in between matches. These include jumping on moving platforms and smashing a set number of targets.
No Nintendo game
is complete without a multi-player option, and it is here where Smash Brothers
racks up some points. You can fight up to four other characters at once, which
makes for a hectic Battle Royale. Like most fighting games, this one is just
a natural for multi-player and works very well.
Graphically, Smash Brothers is par for the course. The action is smooth
with a good framerate, and the characters and levels look decent. There's nothing
flashy – no super cool textures or fancy lighting effects – but that's not what
you're looking for.
The sound actually made me smile. Nintendo flexes it's nostalgia muscles by
including authentic sounding retro theme songs for each stage. You'll hear the
original Legend of Zelda tune when fighting on the Hyrule Castle stage.
You'll hear the Super Mario Bros. Theme song when fighting at their locale.
It's a gas.
I think the best thing about Smash Brothers is the subject matter.
Whacking Yoshi over the head with a baseball bat is incredibly satisfying. Tossing
Pikachu over your shoulder and onto a bomb is intrinsically pleasing. I'm sick
to death of cute, furry mascots, and it's very rewarding to finally be beating
them up. It's nice to see Nintendo be so 'tongue-in-cheek.'
But everything isn't peachy keen in the land of Mascot Rasslin'. There are a few problems certainly worth mentioning.
The most glaring issue is the simplicity. There are only a handful of moves for each character, all of which use the same button/direction combinations. This leads to a lack of depth, which in turn leads to eventual boredom. I really wish they would have included some more character-specific moves. It would have upped the complexity tenfold and added some serious gameplay.
I also have a problem with the camera. The camera will attempt to keep all fighters on the screen at all times. But when there are more than two guys fighting, this gets annoying. One fighter will get knocked out into the heavens and the camera will pull WAAAAY back to accommodate. Suddenly, the other fighters are little specks, barely distinguishable from one another. Things only go back to normal when the characters are in close proximity to each other again. Irritating indeed.
Considering the state of fighting games for the N64, Super Smash Brothers is actually high in its class. While the single player mode gets tiresome, it's a fun multi-player game and is worth a look. Besides – who can resist the urge to wipe that smug grin off Kirby's fat face. . . you lookin' at me, puffball?


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CanSat training course for teachers
A CanSat training course for European teachers will be held at Andøya Rocket Range in Norway, 5-8 November 2012. The course will prepare high school teachers to involve their students aged 16-19 in future CanSat competitions.
The course was open to applications from teachers working in a high school in one of ESA's Member States*. As of 2 October, all 24 places have now been filled. All costs will be covered by ESA, but participants are responsible for booking their own travel and then claiming reimbursement from the Agency.
Teachers will experience first-hand how to work with a CanSat kit, developed by the University of Aalborg in Denmark. They will program the CanSat, launch it and process the data, thereby learning about the challenges that student teams face when participating in a CanSat competition.
The trainees will also benefit from the expertise of Andøya Rocket Range in handling CanSat flight operations. With the assistance of experts from the Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education (NAROM), they will learn about the key aspects of how to build and fly successfully a CanSat.
Teachers will also learn from other's experiences of using CanSats in schools and will discuss how to implement national CanSat activities. Following the training course, participants will be encouraged to support the establishment of regional and national CanSat competitions in their home countries.
The programme will cover:
- Introduction to the CanSat kit: data processing and communication, and basic sensors for the CanSat;
- Preparation of the CanSat kit;
- Setup, soldering and testing of the CanSat kit;
- CanSat requirements;
- Programming of CanSats;
- Basic aerodynamics: determine the descent rate, short introduction to simulating the trajectory;
- A CanSat drop from a balloon and a rocket launch demonstration with two CanSats (weather permitting);
- Data processing of CanSats.
CanSats are simulated satellites, about the size of a soft drink can, which are assembled from ready-made kits or components and launched to an altitude of about one kilometre on board a small rocket. The next European CanSat competition will take place in 2013.
How to apply
Teachers wishing to apply for a place should download and complete the application form from the CanSats in Europe website.
* The 19 ESA Member States are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.


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Yeah, just looked and it evaporated.We will actually reach the 70s today.
Today I took the good wife out for a ride. We took a ride up to the high ridge (2000'). It is about 26 miles. At about 1500' everything turned white, but not for snow. The fog has been freezing for the last 4 days up there. I live in an area called Horse Heaven Hills in South Benton County.I pulled the photo off the net. This will give you some idea of what I see every day in the SummerThis is looking at Horse Heaven from the back of my place.This is looking over into Oregon from my place.Aerial photo of Horse Heaven This winery is about 5 miles away, in all there are 58 winerys within 1.5 hrs drive of me.
Yesterday was gorgeous, T shirt on all day long, and today will be even nicer.You may find this of interest.http://www.sidelongfilms.com/aridlands/film.html
As a young kid I fished in the Columbia River before it was dammed up. I had a uncle that lived with us off and on when he was working on the McNary Dam and John Day Dam. Also a uncle that worked at Hanford nuclear site. This area was my backyard until I was 15.
It is just after 0530 and it is 27º out. It's is nice knowing, it only has 2º more and it will be the hottest part of the day.
Same weather here guys, but on the other side of the map. Here in SC it is 22deg @07:00.Been this way for a few days this week but colder in the last two with the temp. hovering at about 35deg at peak. Starts warming back up today to about 55deg. and by Tuesday we should reach 75deg. Crazy!Walks, those are beautiful pics. You and Solar have nice places to live. We are close to some beautiful scenery too, being about 7 miles from SC mountains. It's almost time to start seeing those beautiful out of season blooms. The only problem with that is crop loss as we live down the road from a bunch of peach orchards. Last year the peach growers around here lost too much of their crop due to early spring temps.
Wow!! Is winter over with Today was 75º in the sun 56º in the shade. Weekend looks like more of the same. Got the back deck all cleand off and backyard flower bed all cleaned out. Had The Dude (cat) outside with me for about 3 hrs. She was making sure I was doing things right, well in between all her naps. The neighbors dog came over and it was time for her to hit the door. They have a 15 month old Rottweiler now and everything is a toy for him. So she think the door is the right thing to do.
Well winter returned with a vengeance, started snowing about 10:00 am, within 10 mins we had 2" on the ground, knew it would only get worse, called Toy, said come home, she hit snow at 1200' in the foothills and had to drive 30 miles in the snow.She spun out only once but regained her composure and like the trooper she is, persevered home, where we have a solid half foot and more expected.
Look like you will hit again on the 22nd. We are calling for rain off and on. More off then on. lol The dry farmers can use the rain.
Yeah, saw that too, but it is Feb, and March has some as well.I love the cold dry air associated with it, but I hate having to do an Easter egg hunt every time I need something, the necessary tool is always buried deep.


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