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By Mick Krever, CNN
Talks between world powers and Iran over that country's nuclear program are "a historic opportunity for all of us to end a rather prolonged chapter," Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday in Vienna.
A Sunday deadline is looming for negotiators to reach agreement on a comprehensive solution on Iran's nuclear program; Iran, in return, is seeking broad sanctions relief and access to international markets. It now seems likely that Sunday's deadline will not be met and may have to be extended.
"I think we have made enough serious discussion for us to think about the feasibility of continuing these discussions," Zarif said. "I think Secretary Kerry made that recommendation. I have made the recommendation."
"The point is whether it is possible to make a deal, we're not talking about a bad deal or a good deal, but a doable deal. A lasting deal."
The objective, he said, "is to ensure that Iran's nuclear program will always remain peaceful. I think that is scientifically possible. It doesn't require arbitrary red lines, arbitrary numbers. You just need to find scientific ways of making sure that Iran's nuclear program addresses a practical need. And that is what we have put on the table."
Amanpour asked Foreign Minister Zarif whether he could tell "our audience that you will agree to intrusive inspections for a long period of time?"
In other words, she asked, "What are you planning to deliver?"
The program, he said, would be "geared towards a very specific objective" – peaceful energy production – "and then if you convert this uranium that you produce into oxide and into fuel, rather than keep it in a form that can be re-enriched to weapons grade."
In addition, he said, Iran will accept "the most serious international inspection regime that is available legally."
"We will put in place an international mechanism in order to make sure that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons."
Bridging the gap
To listen to the foreign minister, Iran's solution sounds "awfully easy," as Amanpour put it. But of course these negotiations have been ongoing for many months, since an interim agreement was agreed to by all parties last November.
"Of course we have a lot of gaps to fill in order to reach a comprehensive deal," Zarif said. "We have made some progress. People have started to listen."
"An approach to problem-solving is the approach that you require to solve problems. That has started rather late in the process, but it's better late than never."
Some analysts say, however, that a speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week may have set just the kind of red lines that Zarif says should have no part in negotiations.
Khamenei reiterated that he had faith in Zarif and his negotiating team, but also said that Iran must boost its enrichment capacity, according to Reuters.
"I think if you listen to what the leader said," Zarif said, "it makes it clear that our program has a peaceful logic."
"Our entire nuclear program – be it where we convert yellow cake into gas and we convert gas into enriched uranium – all of this are designed specifically in order to address the requirements of a power plant. That should give you the assurance that this is not for bomb-making."
'Obsession with sanctions – what has it achieved?'
Even if a comprehensive deal is struck with Iran, it will take U.S. congressional approval to dismantle the extensive sanctions that have been levied against Tehran over the years.
"Have the American negotiators," Amanpour asked, "honestly walked you through the complexity of dismantling this draconian and complex sanctions regime that's been imposed?"
"We more or less know the complexities of the U.S. system," Zarif said.
"But what is necessary for me, and I think this is very important particularly for our American audience to understand, is that the sanctions have not achieved anything. This infatuation with sanctions, obsession with sanctions – what has it achieved?"
"A lot of resentment of the Iranian people, who cannot buy medicine with their own money."
"But at the same time, instead of two hundred centrifuges that we're spinning in the beginning of these crippling sanctions, we now have twenty thousand. So this is the net, if you do an accounting, this is the net outcome of sanctions."
Zarif nonetheless agreed that while the "Iranian people have learned to live with sanctions," they have been "crippling" and "very damaging to the Iranian people."
"Sanctions have cost us money but they haven't brought us down to our knees, and they will never do that."
Instability next-door
Crippling sanctions are far from Iran's only international affairs problem. In neighboring Iraq, Sunni extremists have taken over large swaths of the country and precipitated a political crisis.
The "extremism and sectarianism," he said, is a threat to entire region, including Iran. "We don't like instability in our neighborhood."
Iran has gone so far as to deploy Revolutionary Guard units to Iraq, senior security officials in Baghdad tell CNN.
"Iran, first of all, wants Iraq territorial integrity and I have spoken to almost every regional foreign minister and all of them want to ensure that Iraq remains secure with its own boundaries," Zarif said.
As the largest Shiite power, according to diplomats, Iran has in the past gone to significant lengths to support the Shiite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki; Ali Khedery, former long-serving U.S. Special Assistant in Baghdad, detailed the relationship to Amanpour recently.
But al-Maliki now faces an enormous political crisis at home, and Zarif seemed to indicate that Iranian support would not be bottomless.
"We're not in the business of supporting any individual. We support the Iraqi people. We support the choices of the Iraqi people, whoever Iraq can choose as its prime minister will have the full backing of Iran."
The same, he said, goes for the Iraqi prime minister and parliamentary speaker.
He urged a "unified approach" from the international community, "not shortsighted policies."
"It is a problem of extremism. It is a problem of demagogues using inherent resentment that have arisen out of decades of injustice in our region."
"But these are demagogues using these resentments in order to advance a very dangerous political agenda. And this dangerous political agenda may fit in the designs of some external powers – I don't know. I do not want to espouse conspiracy theories."
A 30 minute walk, but little else
As the chief Iranian negotiator, Foreign Minister Zarif has had little time to think of anything besides the intricately technical negotiations that have been at a fever pitch, especially in recent days.
"You have been cooped up in this hotel for the better part of the last two weeks," Amanpour said. "This is also the city of Mozart and Beethoven. Do you ever get to think of anything other than negotiating?"
"Unfortunately not," he said. "Over the last two, three weeks my colleagues and I have been so engaged in these negotiations that we only get a chance to go and take a walk every evening for half an hour so that we regain our sanity."
Obama on the wrong track. Regime change is the only thing that will work on NO NUKES FOR THE AYATOLLAH
The sooner the better
We are surrounded by Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIL, US military bases, hostile Arab states... Don't hold your breath for a revolution.
More sanctions forces them to give up all. Just talking give the historical opportunity for them to make the bomb.,
If they have the bomb, they will be able to stop the oil stealer stealing their oil.
More sanctions will generate 20000 more centrifuges.
Obama and west should accept what they can't change-Iran needs nukes like any other countries be for peaceful or military-or Israel should destroy it nukes to reduce regional ambitions
Israel has not threatened to wipe Iran off the map. They could have done so already. But Iran wants to do that to Israel. Any country that sponsors suicide bombings should not have their hands on a nuclear bomb.
EXACTLY!!!!!! If our government is allowed to do this for Iran, all involved should be brought up on charges of treason. Iran has made its intentions clear for a long, long time. How anybody could think that allowing Iran to indulge in that kind of power is amazing to me. Iran is a society that needs to oust its current leadership and begin anew. If they can't do that, well, it's not our problem. Allowing them to even sit at the table where the word "nuclear" is mentioned is absolutely freaking crazy.
Very realistic . People should know that a WIN WIN situation is the ONLY way to reach an agreement and no body can force iran to give up as iran is a WEALTHY nation.
Zarif is a lier..This regime can not be trusted and regime change is the only way to solve this.
Also a Reply to Yari.
Regime change will not solve anything. It needs to be accompanied by renouncing Islam.
Islam requires Muslims to wage a constant war on the Enemy, i.e. everybody who is not a Muslim, especially the Jews. And it rewards fallen holy warriors, aka shahibs with eternal life in heaven, seeing Allah, enjoying the services of 72 eternal virgins, and the ability to arrange a place in heaven for 70 relatives to come. Is it any wonder that good Muslims want to kill everybody, most of all themselves, in a holy war for Islam?
Islam has backed its followers into a corner without an exit: die for Islam, or die for leaving Islam if you don't want to die for Islam.
Think about this when you next meet a Muslim.
I ❤ ☫Iran☫
Are we going to keep giving Iran extensions until they develop the bomb? Their goal is to wipe Israel off the map. Their president said so and we sit idly by hoping it won't happen.
Excellent post and right on target.
As a former World Power, why is the US still involved with this group? Are they holding the spot for when we have a President again?
I think the main agreed is that we need boots on the ground in Iran and we need them now!
You are discussing about something what you can't understand. For the first time after the revolution there are some people in Iran who believe in logic and they speak the same language as the rest of the world. Otherwise wouldn't take that long. If you look at the face of US in the past 50 years what your government did you are the first nation who used atomic bombs against others, used power to destroy other nations like in Vietnam and that region, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sumalia... etc. What you don't know about Iran or maybe you should know or try to read about it. Who did the regime change in Iran? Why your government is now against it? all problems in that region is about resources and selling the weapons by creating a problem. Iranians are very proud nation, we have long known history, the basic of science and what the west is build on it the Iranian scientist made it. It means Iran is a treat to new world order what means US domination. Ask your self what did Qaddafi in Libya? Saddam Hussein was a good accomplice to US, why suddenly he had to go and got killed? Iran is no Iraq or Libia is definitely not Pakistan or Afghanistan. In the past 35 years almost 5 million people fled the country and over the 60% of them who live in the west earn more then the local people very bright in high education. Try to check how many people are working for NASA. It means this great nation will be rising again, they will change the government in Iran when is the time and we solve our problems in our own country. The west feels treat because they understand if they don't make problems for Iranians we will reach in just 10 years the highest technological science and will be the East. We have the resources and the brains and the world can't handle that. Check US history and try to find out who inspired Abraham Lincoln on his way "the life of Cyrus the great". In the known history you can be proud on one nation and that's Iran. Democracy what you know in the west we made it 2500 years ago. If you really want to change this world and you are concern about your safety then think how you can bring peace to this world. Look at Afghanistan, Iraq and Libia. Are you safe now? all the problems are solved? If you are a humanist and you care about the world do something in your own country first. Leave us alone .....
You are welcome to come to Iran as a tourist. As a soldier, you will not go back alive.
What a hypocrite Obama is. Never true to his word.
Obama is NOT a negotiator and in fact his judgement STANKS! Do not put any faith in what this dumb SOB would do!
Have you noticed that Iran is always willing to extend US imposed deadlines? This plays right into their NUKES plan.
Obama snoozing the whole time. Another failed Obama promise.
I thought the U.S. didn't negotiate with terrorists? I am never surprised anymore, but it truly amazes me that the American people, of either side of the isle, are allowing our government to allow terrorists with a genuine hatred for our country, deserved or not, to have even the slightest of discussions about nuclear anything. Amazing.
Try to solve your own domestic issues and marshal laws what you are going to get soon. Let your head free and try not to think about Iranian issues. You all need that and read something on internet about who is a terrorist your country is the biggest one.
Translation... we just can't handle this right now!
A 'Historical mistake'..
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DEAR ABBY: My granddaughter and her boyfriend live in another state, and I love hearing from her. However, when I call her, she always puts me on speaker phone, which I find rude.
I have never met her boyfriend and don't feel he should be in on everything I may talk to my granddaughter about. I think she's forming a bad habit. Am I wrong for feeling this way? — PRIVATE GRANDMA IN FLORIDA
DEAR PRIVATE: I don't think so. Not every word that comes out of your mouth should be community property. The next time it happens, all you have to do is say, "Honey, take me off the speaker, please."
DEAR ABBY: My wife, "Carlene," is a neonatal ICU nurse who is required to work a certain number of holidays. For the past 12 years, her family has feigned attempting to accommodate her schedule and then planned holiday events at the same exact time and place as the year before. They have ignored repeated explanations and don't seem to care if we come or not.
For example, last Thanksgiving they once again made a big deal about everyone sending their schedules via email. We responded that Carlene would have to work until 3 p.m. Shortly after, we received a call from the host, who said: "We know you can't make it, but the celebration will be at 12 sharp! Maybe we'll see you some other time."
Abby, my wife feels like she is unimportant to everyone. She plans to stop attending all family events and celebrate only with me and our daughter. While that would be easier, I know it probably isn't the best solution. Should I support her decision, or is there some answer I haven't thought of yet? — LET DOWN IN TEXAS
DEAR LET DOWN: Your wife should make no decisions about future celebrations while she's angry. If she follows through on her impulse to boycott all family events, she will be cutting her nose off to spite her face.
On those occasions when it's not possible to attend extended family gatherings, celebrating with immediate family seems like a sensible solution. Or consider hosting the celebration yourselves so you can set the party time.
Your wife may have self-esteem issues that need to be addressed if she's taking this personally. As a nurse caring for the most fragile of infants, she's doing important work that should be respected. Please tell her to remind herself of that fact any time she feels "unimportant" because her efforts make the difference between life and death.
DEAR ABBY: I got pregnant by a man I'll call "Ryan," who was just a fling. When I told him, he told me to have an abortion. He even had a friend of his call, offer to pay for it and drive me.
Instead, I decided to "abort" Ryan from my life. I never told him when our baby was born. Part of me feels bad because I think every child should know his/her father and family members. Another man has been willing to step up and be a daddy for my child.
Should I even bother to let Ryan know? Should I give him a chance to rise to the occasion or keep things the way they are? — LIVING MY LIFE IN INDIANA
DEAR LIVING YOUR LIFE: This is really a question you should ask a lawyer, just in case Ryan has already risen as much as he intends to. Whether or not someone has stepped up to be your baby's daddy, Ryan has a financial obligation to that child.
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President, National Academy of Engineering
C. D. Mote, Jr. is President of the National Academy of Engineering and Regents Professor, on leave, from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Mote is a native Californian who earned his BS, MS, and PhD degrees at the University of California, Berkeley in mechanical engineering between 1959 and 1963. After a postdoctoral year in England and three years as an assistant professor at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in mechanical engineering for the next 31 years. He and his students investigated the dynamics, stability, and control of high-speed rotating and translating continua (e.g., disks, webs, tapes, and cables) as well as biomechanical problems emanating from snow skiing. He coined the area called "dynamics of axially moving materials" encompassing these systems. Fifty-eight PhD students earned their degrees under his mentorship.
At Berkeley, he held an endowed chair in mechanical systems and served as chair of the mechanical engineering department from 1987 to 1991 when the National Research Council (NRC) ranked its graduate program effectiveness highest nationally. Because of his success at raising funds for mechanical engineering, in 1991 he was appointed vice chancellor at Berkeley expressly to create and lead a $1 billion capital campaign for the campus that ultimately reached $1.4 billion.
In 1998, Dr. Mote was recruited to the presidency of the University of Maryland, College Park, a position he held until 2010 when he was appointed Regents Professor. His goal for the university was to elevate its self-expectation of achievement and its national and global position through proactive initiatives. During his tenure the number of Academy members among the faculty tripled, three Nobel laureates were recognized, and an accredited school of public health and a new department of bioengineering were created. He also founded a 130-acre research park next to the campus, faculty research funds increased by 150%, and partnerships with surrounding federal agencies and with international organizations expanded greatly. The number of students studying abroad tripled, and he created an annual open house day that has attracted over 100,000 visitors on that day, founded a charitable foundation for the campus whose board of trustees launched a $1 billion capital campaign that reached its goal, and took every student to lunch that wanted to go. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked the campus #36 in 2010 and its Engineering School #13 globally.
The NAE elected him to membership in 1988, and to the positions of Councillor (2002-2008), Treasurer (2009-2013), and President for six years beginning July 1, 2013. He has served on the NRC Governing Board Executive Committee since 2009. He chaired the NRC Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effects on US National Security (2009-2010), cochaired the National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (2007-2013), and cochaired the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Workforce Needs for the US Department of Defense and the US Industrial Base (2011-2012). He was vice chair of the NRC Committee on the Department of Defense Basic Research (2004) and served on the NRC committee authoring the Rising Above the Gathering Storm reports of 2005 and 2010. He was also a founding member of the FBI's National Security Higher Education Advisory Board (2005-2010).
Dr. Mote's recognitions include the NAE Founders Award, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Medal, and the Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the University of California, Berkeley, he was honored with the Distinguished Teaching Award, Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, Berkeley Citation, and Excellence in Achievement Award. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Mechanics, the Acoustical Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He holds three honorary doctorates and two honorary professorships.


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During a casual conversation with coworkers, someone let slip that they had a deep-fryer at home. I felt my mind snatching this slip of information from mid-air and filing it away for future intentions. Seasons later, I realized I was going to be going through yet another Chicago rainy fall and winter and that this former Texan needed something stronger than hot tea and wooley socks to get out the door and to work. I needed doughnuts to go nuts for.
Because doughnuts are becoming a popular item to buy in both intimate corner bakeries and restaurants offering fine dining experiences, or perhaps through kismet, I ran across a doughnut cookbook in the library that turned out to be excellent for its base recipe and new ideas. ' Glazed Filled Sugared & Dipped' by Collucci.
Joann and I flipped through the book, throwing out a rabble of doughnut ideas…whatever popped into our heads. We quickly decided to use the same cake doughnut recipe to learn and experiment with two different flavor variations, Roasted Coconut Sugar doughnuts for her, Rosemary-Blueberry for me.
*At this point, I added my variation to my half of the dough. ½ tsp of chopped rosemary and chopped blueberries
A basic glaze was very simple and quick. 1 cup of confectioners/powdered sugar mixed with two tablespoons of milk or water until the lumps are gone.
I made a topping station so I could quickly dunk the tops of the doughnuts in bowls of garnish after first dunking them half-way into the glaze. My rosemary was ¼ cup chopped fresh rosemary and 2/3 cup sugar.
Joann's roasted coconut topping was a mix of ½ cup unsweetened coconut flakes, roasted golden brown in the oven, 2/3 cup sugar, and a pinch of salt. This made a cup and was enough to use on all of her doughnuts.
A plain doughnut from this recipe had a stronger lemon taste than I had expected, but it actually worked well and brightened the flavors we added. It worked especially well with the blueberry and rosemary.
Relaxing with my niece was a nice way to finish the day. And having a little hill of fried doughnuts to eat the next chilly-blue morning was worth all our effort.


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5 Things Your Embassy or Consulate Can't Do For You.
A permanent diplomatic mission is known as Embassy and the head of the operation is known as ambassador. Depending on the place and the mission, the embassy has different functions. There are a lot of things embassies or consulates in Paris or any other French city can do for you and many more things they cannot do for you. This blog post was inspired by the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office's guide on the support for British Nationals abroad.
In a former campaign (still by the UK' Foreign & Commonwealth Office) a study was mentioned revealing that the number of people who have knowledge of what embassies and consulates do has decreased to the lowest in three years among young people (aged 16-24), from 62% in 2011 to 55% in 2014. We found that this information interesting, we did a quick research and came up with the following 5 things embassies and consulates can't do for any expatriate living in Paris (or elsewhere). We hope these will be helpful. Let's discuss them:
1. Give you legal advice or translate your documents.
The embassy can offer you protection. They cannot give you legal advice. They are not your legal counselors and you have to hire someone to do that job for you. Translation of documents also is not the work of your embassy. It's your job and you have to do it on your own. The embassy cannot be responsible for any misinterpretation.
2. The embassy cannot investigate crimes and get you out of prison.
The embassy definitely does not have the authority to investigate the crimes that you have committed or the crimes that are committed upon you. You are on your own on that too. And they also cannot get you out of prison because you have been sentenced for the crime you committed there and they don't have the power to get you out of prison for that. It is simply impossible. The maximum they can do is keeping you alive and give you protection wherever you are.
3. They cannot help you in getting better treatment in hospital, or the prison than is given to the local French people.
Now, how will you feel if a person from some other country comes to your country and gets better benefits than you in hospitals or prisons? The same way, the embassy cannot help you get that. You will be treated equally and you definitely cannot jump the queue wherever it is, whether in hospitals, prisons, court or terminals. You will be treated like every other person around you.
4. Pay your bills or give you money.
If you think the embassy will pay your bills and help you by giving money, you are seriously mistaken. If that's the case then everyone in their own country will just go abroad, settle and happily wait for the embassy to take care of them. The embassy cannot help you in financial matters. They can make sure that your stay is not affected by anyone provided you have the right documents, but they cannot take care of your stay itself.
5. The embassy has no chance whatsoever in helping you enter France without a valid passport or necessary visas.
You have to have all the required documents with you without any errors. The embassy will make sure that you have a valid passport and visa, but it cannot give you one. And they cannot help you extend your stay if your visa gets expired. The necessary visas should be taken from time to time by yourself and you have to make sure you renew it whenever it has to be done. All that the embassy can do is to keep you safe in the foreign soil. Everything else, you are on your own. Get more on the French Visa in our French eBook.
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Diggin' Dirt
by Ellen R. Braaf
Dirt's gotten a bad rap. How many times have you been warned "Don't get dirty" or been scolded for tracking dirt into the house? No one wants to be called "as dull as dirt" or to be treated "like dirt." Even the word "dirt" has lowly origins. It comes from the Old English word "drit," meaning manure or excrement (poop).
But if you've ever felt oozy mud squishing between your toes or planted seeds in soil and watched them bloom into beautiful flowers, you know that dirt is amazing stuff!
Most of the things you see around you can be traced back to dirt—from the pizza you ate for lunch to the microchips in your computer. Dirt holds the roots of plants and supplies them with nutrients so the plants can grow. (And without green plants, we'd have no food to eat and no oxygen to breathe.) Dirt is the home for countless living organisms. Just a handful contains more living things than all the men, women, and children on the face of the earth. And dirt is nature's great recycler. When plants and animals die, organisms in the dirt feed on them, releasing their chemicals and energy into the soil for use by future generations.
So dirt is really one of the most important things there is! We need dirt as much as we need water and air and sunshine.
Endangered Dirt
But there isn't as much dirt around as it might seem. The layer of soil covering the earth is only a few feet deep. It's like the thin skin on an apple—except this skin doesn't cover the whole apple. Remember that 75 percent of the earth's surface is water. And mountains and deserts and ice-covered polar regions take up their share of the remaining land. Scientists estimate that only about 10 percent of the earth is covered with soil that is useful for farming. People, however, use lots of that valuable land not for farms but for their homes, highways, schools, and shopping malls. Far from being "as common as dirt," soil is precious. Some types are even so rare as to be listed as endangered.
A Rocky Start
There hasn't always been dirt on earth. Like plants and animals, dirt had to evolve.
Scientists believe that life on earth first appeared in the oceans about two billion years ago, but living things didn't begin to make their way to dry land for another billion and a half years or more. During all that time, most dry land was very rocky. There may have been windblown sand dunes in desert regions and some gravelly rock particles in mountain valleys, but no fine dirt and rich soil as we know it today. Why not?
Because fertile soil—soil in which plants can grow—is made up of two kinds of components: finely crumbled rocks, which are rich in minerals, and organic material, from rotting plants and animals, which is rich in energy and nutrition. These components had to work together over millions and millions of years to make today's dirt.
Life Depends on Dirt and Dirt Depends on Life
How is dirt made? When rock is exposed to the forces of nature, it breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces in a process called "weathering." During the heat of the day, a rock expands. At night, when the temperature cools, the rock contracts. This cycle stresses the rock and eventually cracks it apart. Or water can get into rock crevices and freeze. As the ice expands, the rock fractures. Wind and rushing water can wear down rocks, too. The growth of plants, which send their roots into the soil, helps complete this weathering process. Over time, the roots break up the rocks into fine particles of dirt.
When, millions of years ago, primitive plants and animals moved out of the oceans to the land nearby, soil that could support an abundance of life began to form. The first land plants were small and simple. They could survive on the minerals in rocks along with air, sunlight, and rain. When they died and rotted, they left behind organic material, called humus, that would help feed other plants. Over time, as plants began to spread further inland, they became larger and more complex. Their roots broke up more rocks to help create more soil. Slowly, the world was covered with plants and soil.
Animals also began to inhabit the land, living off the plants. When they died, their bodies added to the organic components of the soil, making it richer and able to support a greater variety of life. Eventually, the land became as full of life as the oceans.
It's a Zoo Down There
People talk about being "dead as dirt," but actually soil is teeming with life. With a little patience, you might see some of the bigger and furrier guys, such as ground squirrels and moles. But there are also less furry things down there. Most insects spend at least part of their lives in the soil. And there are worms. Lots and lots of worms. Under a meadow the size of a football field, there might be more than a million worms wiggling around. Sounds yucky, maybe, but you should be glad those worms are there. As they dig their little burrows, they break up the dirt so that it can hold more water and air and grow more plants. And worm poop fertilizes the soil. Worms swallow dirt and digest the bits of leaves and plants in it. Their waste, called castings, is filled with nutrients that plants need. Worms aren't the only wee beasts feasting underground. When something dies—a leaf, a tree, or an animal—nature's recyclers in the dirt get to work. It's like a science-fiction thriller where everything is eating everything else.
All kinds and shapes of bacteria feed on dead organisms. In turn, microscopic creatures called protozoa feed on the bacteria. The most common tiny animals in the soil are nematodes, or roundworms (although they are not really worms). Some roundworms dine on bacteria, some prey on protozoa, and some eat other roundworms. Fungi, such as mushrooms, grow and feed on rotting things. Some fungi also eat nematodes. And then there are armies of worms, millipedes, and ants munching away. They all work together to break down and recycle the chemicals and energy stored in dead plants and animals.
Civilized Dirt
With dirt being so important, you might think people would take good care of it. But every year we lose untold tons of valuable soil to erosion and waste. Too often, people treat dirt, well, "like dirt."
People need to understand how dirt works in order to preserve it. When farmers clear the land for crops, they interrupt dirt's delicate recycling process. Unless they leave organic material on the land to decompose and enrich the soil, the soil can become worn out. That's one reason farmers have to use artificial fertilizers.
Ancient Egypt was called "the gift of the Nile." Every summer, as the monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean blew into the highlands of central Africa, a steady torrent of rain fell. Then rich, brown water flowed down the mountains into the Nile to Egypt, 1,500 miles away. The Nile was muddy with mineral-rich silt and nutritious humus. It flooded Egypt every year, leaving behind a thin skin of new soil only about of an inch thick. But this little bit of good dirt meant the difference between life and death and allowed a thriving civilization to grow in Egypt. In modern times, however, dams have been built on the Nile to prevent flooding, and now artificial fertilizers are needed for the crops to grow. While we might take dirt for granted, some ancient people did understand the power of destroying the soil. When the Romans conquered Carthage, their chief rival, in 146 B.C., they razed the city and sold the people into slavery. They also poured salt over the earth. Then they knew the city was dead, because the land could never again be used to grow crops.
Playing in the Dirt
It takes an amazingly long time for the weathering of rocks and the activities of animals and plants to produce dirt—as much as 1,000 years to form just one inch of fertile soil. So, give dirt some respect. Remember, the whole history of humanity is wrapped up in the history of dirt. But sometimes the best thing to know about dirt is just that it's so much fun to play in.
- abundance:
- An amount that is large or more than enough.
- decompose:
- To break down of plant animal matter.
- endangered:
- Threatened.
- nutrient:
- A substance that living things need in order to survive and grow.
- organic:
- Relating to living things.
- primitive:
- Of or in an early stage of development.
- raze:
- To level to the ground; demolish.
- torrent:
- A violent flow or downpour.
- What are the invertebrates mentioned in this article?
Answer: The invertebrates are earthworms, protozoa, bacteria, nematodes or roundworms, millipedes, and ants.
- What clue does the article give to support the fact that there are many more invertebrates than vertebrates on Earth?
Answer: The article says that in a meadow the size of a football field, there might be more than a million worms wriggling around.
- Why would it be good to introduce earthworms into a garden?
Answer: The earthworms dig tunnels through the soil, helping air and water get down to the plant roots.
- What are the invertebrates mentioned in this article?
Answer: The invertebrates are earthworms, protozoa, bacteria, nematodes or roundworms, millipedes, and ants.
- What clue does the article give to support the fact that there are many more invertebrates than vertebrates on Earth?
Answer: The article says that in a meadow the size of a football field, there might be more than a million worms wriggling around.
- Why would it be good to introduce earthworms into a garden?
Answer: The earthworms dig tunnels through the soil, helping air and water get down to the plant roots.


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The University of Melbourne is an internationally recognised, research-intensive university with a strong tradition of excellence in teaching, research and community engagement spanning more than 160 years.
Its outstanding performance in international rankings puts the University of Melbourne at the forefront of higher education globally. It is ranked number 1 in Australia by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 28th worldwide. Melbourne's position as Australia's top University has also been reaffirmed in the 2013 Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, in which it has moved up three places from last year, to equal 54th in the world and third in the Asia-Pacific.
The University is uniquely located on the fringe of the city of Melbourne's central business district. It serves as a hub for the Parkville research precinct – one of the world's leading centres of medical and biotechnological research – and is a vital part of surrounding neighbourhoods such as cosmopolitan Carlton.
About 50,000 of the best and brightest students from around the globe come to study at the University of Melbourne.


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Five missing after two U.S. Marine planes collide mid-air
TOKYO, Japan - The U.S. Marine Corps and the Japanese Defence Forces launched a massive search and rescue operation off the coast of Japan after two U.S. Marine planes collided mid-air on Thursday morning.
According to U.S. officials, a Marine refuelling plane and a fighter jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Japan's southwestern coast after colliding mid-air early on Thursday morning.
In a statement, the U.S. Marine Corps said that an F/A-18 fighter jet and a KC-130 refuelling aircraft were involved in a crash that took place at 2 am, during regular refuelling training.
Marines officials said that the two planes collided after taking off from their base in western Japan's Iwakuni.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force released a statement on Facebook and said that the incident took place 200 miles (320 km) off the coast.
It said the U.S. planes had been "conducting regularly scheduled training when the mishap occurred," with reports later adding that the planes crashed during a mid-air refuelling exercise.
Further, Japanese officials too released a statement saying the crash occurred about 60 miles (100 kms) from the coast.
Authorities said that the planes were together carrying seven crew members, with two travelling aboard the F/A-18 and five others in the KC-130.
Subsequently, a massive search and rescue mission was launched in the sea south of the Muroto Cape on Shikoku Island in southwestern Japan - which was the area of the crash.
The Maritime Self-Defense Force said that it had dispatched aircraft and vessels to join in the search operation.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya said that Japanese aircraft and three vessels were taking part in the rescue operation.
The rescue operation has also received support from the U.S. 7th Fleet, that has deployed navy aircraft.
Later, the Maritime Self-Defense Force confirmed that two crew members have been found, while five still remain missing.
The two rescued crew members were rushed to a hospital on the base in Iwakuni.
Japanese rescuers told the local media that one of the crew members rescued from the fighter jet was in a stable condition.
Marines officials later said that the second crew member "has been declared deceased."
So far, authorities have not commented on the cause of the crash, claiming that an investigation is ongoing.
Following the incident on Thursday, the U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter and offered thoughts and prayers to the crew members.
Trump also thanked Japan for their "immediate response and rescue efforts."
He wrote, "My thoughts and prayers are with the @USMC crew members who were involved in a mid-air collision off the coast of Japan. Thank you to @USForcesJapan for their immediate response and rescue efforts. Whatever you need, we are here for you. @IIIMEF"
The most recent incident in what has been a series of accidents involving the U.S. military forces deployed in and around Japan over the last few years occurred last month.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan crashed into the sea southwest of Japan's Okinawa Island.
Both the pilots aboard the Hornet were rescued safely.
Before that, in mid-October, a MH-60 Seahawk crashed off the Philippine Sea shortly after takeoff.
Over a dozen sailors suffered injuries in the incident.


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Red Mountain AVA Master Site Plan
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The Red Mountain AVA Master Site Plan (RM MSP) was prepared with substantial public involvement and consensus and provides a framework for future decision making and a plan of action to guide future development for the Red Mountain area. The Plan provides a vision, guiding principles, maps and descriptive text, and recommendations and strategies to achieve desired goals.
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Customized Solution for Ventilation System, Mine Shaft
Cold conditions bring their own particular set of problems to the efficient operation of equipment and processes whether landbased, offshore or marine. In order to optimize the temperature and humidity on the inside, it's vital to achieve and maintain a constant, dependable supply of air from the outside – whatever the weather.
Water droplets discharged out of the ventilation fans freezing in winter
A Mine Engineering company in US approached Munters to resolve a water carryover issue on the discharge side of the mine shaft ventilation fans. The main issue was water droplets entrained in the mine shaft ventilation air were being discharged out of the fans. In the winter time this liquid would freeze on all surfaces in a large radius around the exhaust fan creating a dangerous situation as the liquid froze. It would also coat equipment in the area creating potential maintenance and operating concerns. Additionally, this liquid could contain contaminants that could mix with the ground water.
Developing and installing a customized system
In a joint development with Kurt Boyko and David Taylor of Munters Corporation, a separator system was engineered and manufactured to capture the entrained liquid. The equipment consisted of:
• Munters DH Series mist eliminators
• Housing with transition to attach to the discharge side of the fan
• An inlet wash system to wash off any insoluble pmticulates that may coat the chevrons
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Install HP Envy 6000 printer software
- To begin with, unpack the HP Envy 6000 printer along with the accessories and clear all the packing material off the HP Envy 6000 printersurface.
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I love me some "Robocop" remake updates. You know this about me. I've said it countless times. Need proof? Gaze upon my rock hard nipples while I tell you that Jennifer Ehle, who was in "Contagion", has signed on to join the cast. She'll play someone named 'Liz Kline'. I don't remember who that is from the original. But you're not thinking about that anyway are you. You're thinking you want to see me cut glass with these puppies. Well keep waiting.
Oh how the mighty have fallen. 13 years ago M. Night Shyamalan was our love child and today we get news that he's working with Syfy on a new pilot titled "Proof". "Proof" will focus on a young man who offers money to anyone who can prove there's life after death when his parents die tragically. I can only hope Tiffany will pop up in the cast somewhere.
Little known fact, I am not the German kid in that popular internet video where the kid freaks the F out while playing "World of Warcraft". I know it's an honest mistake, I get it all the time. I've never actually played the game but apparently people go nuts for it but the obvious big screen version has been riddled with problems. Well today's there's some good news for the project in the form of Charles Leavitt being tapped to write the script. I think that's good news. I mean he wrote "Blood Diamond". You basement dwelling virgins should be pumped he'd touch your silly game.
At this point I'm at a loss as to who looks at Brendan Fraser and says "Yeah, get that guy in my movie" but yet again he's been cast. This time in "Split Decision", a new film about two children being hunted by a couple murderers after they accidentally witness the killing. Fraser will play the father who tries to save them. Alright I can't even lie, I find the guy charming as crap. Did you see "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"? I can't not watch that whenever it's on TV.
I had no idea there was a "World Of Warcraft" movie in the works or that Sam Raimi was suppose to be directing it. But it turns out he isn't going to. The movie is still happening though, just with another director. Good story huh?
I don't have proof or anything but if I was to take a guess I would say that at some point Eric Roberts has been spanked by a lady. Don't ask me why, it's just a hunch. So I suggest that ladies on the set of "Self Storage" keep a close eye on their drinks because the tan one has just joined the cast. The film tells the tale of a group of friends trapped inside a storage facility when all hell breaks lose.
If you like cartoons and you like horror then your going to go ape shit over "The Living Corpse", which the folks over at Anchor Bay have just acquired the rights to. The flick is a cartoon tale (that's why I mentioned them before) about a superhero who also happens to be undead. Like superman, but he eats people. Although Superman may be doing now also. I haven't read a comic in close to 20 years so I don't know what's going on there.
Remember Justina Machado from "Six Feet Under"? The spicy latina that Rico cheated on and we all fealt sorry for? Well feel sorry for her again because she's landed a role along side Halle Berry in a new serial killer flick "The Hive". In the film Berry plays a 911 operator who must help a teenager being stalked by a killer. I say feel sorry for her because Halle Berry kind of makes crap movies now. So this is probably going to be a crap movie. She may have a perfectly lovely time though. I'm sorry I lead you to believe she was going to be miserable. She's hot.


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Used Lab Equipment Finds A Second Home Overseas
Science is an expensive endeavor. Labs in the U.S. can easily spend millions of dollars each year on equipment, chemicals and supplies alone. But for scientists in the developing world, these costs are often prohibitive. That's where a clever idea has made all the difference.
In a Harvard Medical School corridor on a rainy Saturday afternoon, a handful of graduate students are emptying boxes of scientific equipment into the hallway to take inventory: microcentrifuge tubes, radiation counters, micropipetters, Erlenmeyer flasks.
The boxes, which are stacked up to the ceiling, are full of equipment the Harvard labs no longer need. In many academic and industrial labs around the country, it gets thrown out or used for scrap. But here, it has a different fate.
Amanda Nottke, who has just defended her Ph.D., puts down a handful of pipettes and explains.
"We help consolidate surplus into shipments to go to labs in developing countries," she says. "Our upcoming shipment is going to be going to University of Nairobi in Kenya."
Labs all over the developing world can really use this stuff. Science overseas often stalls because of a lack of basic equipment, and many times, teaching labs just don't have enough materials to go around.
There are talented people everywhere in the world, but they don't have equal access to the resources to do great science.
That's where a nonprofit called Seeding Labs comes in. They shuttle surplus lab supplies from the U.S. to the people who need them in the developing world, with the help of student groups like this one.
Seeding Labs was founded by Nina Dudnik, who has a Ph.D. from Harvard in molecular biology. "There are talented people everywhere in the world, but they don't have equal access to the resources to do great science," she says.
Dudnik ran into this problem firsthand after she graduated from college. She went to a lab in the Ivory Coast in western Africa, where she worked on breeding better varieties of rice. The lab was short on supplies, and her labmate had to spend a lot of time working around the problem.
"A large part of her job was washing and drying disposable plastic test tubes. The goal was to reuse them for three months at a time," she says. "This is such a commonplace item [in the U.S.] that if you drop one on the floor, you throw it away. We would never have ever thrown them away in the Ivory Coast."
Dudnik spent a year living and working in Africa, and every day she experienced the passion and generosity of those around her.
"I loved it there," she says. "I had phenomenal friends and neighbors. I was adopted by a village."
So when it was time for her to leave to start her graduate work, she knew she couldn't just walk away. She had to do something.
"I was coming back to the United States, but at such a remove from the problems on the ground. It gave me something incredibly painful and powerful to think about," she says.
Training Minds, Hearts And Hands
Back at Harvard, she soon found a group of students who felt very much the same. And then one of them spotted science equipment piling up outside the department's repair shop. Labs were simply not coming back to reclaim their old stuff.
"[We] really put two and two together, and knew that this equipment could have another home someplace else," Dudnik says.
This idea became the heart of Seeding Labs, which Dudnik created in 2008 after she finished her Ph.D. Today, she's CEO of the group, and she works with two others.
A world map is tacked up to one of the cubicle walls, freckled with pushpins. "These are all of the countries that we've sent lab equipment to. So 16 countries so far, about 23 different institutions," she says.Seeding Labs ships a 20-foot container full of equipment to the developing world — mostly in Africa — four times a year. One is headed to Kenya this month. They're equipping entire departments of research labs, and they're benefiting thousands of students overseas by stocking teaching labs, too.
Someone who has seen how students can benefit is Ibok Oduro, a science professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
"In the university, we are training their hearts, their mind and their hand. And so these three key areas must be touched," Oduro says. "We can train their minds, we are training their hearts. But we must also train their hands. And I think the equipment can do that."
Oduro spent the summer in Boston as part of a new program set up by Seeding Labs. More than just sending equipment out to the developing world, Dudnik has started bringing scientists over to the U.S.
Oduro and eight other Seeding Labs fellows spent their summer at state-of-the-art facilities across Boston, like the one at the Novartis pharmaceutical labs in Cambridge.Dudnik believes that even though the equipment is absolutely essential, collaboration and sharing ideas is what science is really about. "How you ask the question is so much more important than how fancy the tool is that you have to answer it," she says.
Ellis Owusu-Dabo, who runs a tuberculosis lab in Ghana at the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research, says that when he gets back to Ghana next week, his goal is to "continue, continue, continue and not wane until we see what we want to see, which is good science with good outcomes that we can all be proud of."
That is exactly what Seeding Labs is aiming to do — whether it's helping science tackle problems like disease and hunger, or helping researchers in the developing world become part of the global scientific community.
Ari Daniel Shapiro is an independent radio and multimedia producer.
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Aybar excited to play for Dominican Republic
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Erick Aybar spends entire offseasons in his native Dominican Republic, has frequently played in their winter ball leagues and had always wanted to represent his native country in the World Baseball Classic.
So this offseason, when the Dominican team's general manager Moises Alou called him about taking part in the 2013 event, the Angels shortstop hardly even thought twice about it.
"Representing your country, and to be placed on the roster to represent your country, is an incredible honor," Aybar said in Spanish. "… It's a great honor to play with all the stars in the World Baseball Classic, and I think it's very important for a player to do that."
Aybar is the only Angels player taking part in the Classic, which means he'll probably be the only regular getting some playing time in the first week of Cactus League games, which start Feb. 23. In the first week of March, he'll head to San Juan, Puerto Rico, site of Hiram Bithorn Stadium, which is also hosting Venezuela, Spain and Puerto Rico as part of Pool C.
The championship game is March 19 at AT&T Park in San Francisco.
The Dominican team, as expected, is stacked, with the likes of Adrian Beltre, Melky Cabrera, Robinson Cano, Nelson Cruz, Edwin Encarnacion, Alexi Ogando, Fernando Rodney and Edinson Volquez all listed on the provisional roster. Jose Reyes is the starting shortstop, so Aybar will serve primarily as a back-up.
"There are a lot of great players in the Dominican," Aybar said. "I think with the team that we have, we have a good chance to get to the finals."


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Gripping: 'Moneyball' not just for sports fans
In the 2002 season, the nation's lowest-paid Major League Baseball team put together a 20-game winning streak, setting a new American League record. The team began that same season with 11 losses in row. What happened between is the stuff of Moneyball, a smart, intense and moving new film that isn't so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics.
I walked in knowing what the movie was about, but unprepared for its intelligence and depth. It centers on the character of the Oakland Athletics' general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), who after a bad start as a major league player, moved over to management and was driven by his hatred of losing. In his previous season, he'd taken the A's to the World Series, only to have them lose and their best three players hired away by richer teams offering bigger salaries.
Faced with rebuilding the team at bargain basement prices, Beane became persuaded by the theories of Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a nerdy recent Yale graduate who crunched numbers to arrive at a strict cost-benefit analysis of baseball players. Full review.Read more on: movie review


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DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A defense attorney says the Georgia woman accused of hindering the investigation into her husband's shooting death was married to the love of her life and was crushed when he was killed.
Attorney Tom Clegg made the remarks during opening statements Monday in Andrea Sneiderman's trial in Decatur, Ga.
Sneiderman's husband, Rusty Sneiderman, was fatally shot in November 2010 outside a suburban Atlanta preschool. Andrea Sneiderman's former boss Hemy Neuman was convicted in the killing, but he was found to be mentally ill.
Prosecutors initially said Sneiderman arranged her husband's killing, but murder charges against her were dropped. She now faces charges of making false statements, hindering an investigation and perjury.
Sneiderman has pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly denied any romantic relationship with Neuman.
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Place a colander in a 2-quart glass measure or medium bowl. Line colander with 4 layers of cheesecloth, allowing cheesecloth to extend over outside edges. Spoon yogurt into colander. Cover loosely with plastic wrap; refrigerate 12 hours. Spoon yogurt cheese into a bowl; discard liquid. Cover and refrigerate.
Combine 1/2 cup sugar, water, and espresso granules in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cook 1 minute over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and stir in Kahlúa. Cool completely.
Combine yogurt cheese, 1/2 cup sugar, milk, vanilla, and mascarpone cheese; beat at medium speed of a mixer until smooth. Set aside.
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Cut angel food cake into 12 slices using a serrated knife. Dip cake slices into espresso mixture; place 4 slices crosswise in a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Gently spread one-third of cheese mixture over cake layer, and sprinkle with one-third of cocoa mixture. Repeat procedure with the remaining cake slices, cheese mixture, and cocoa mixture. Chill torte at least 2 hours.