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I'm speaking again this year, along with the top experts in the ancestral health community such as Robb Wolf, Stephan Guyenet, Dan Pardi, Chris Masterjohn, Emily Deans (and many more!). I hope to see you at my talk, Parasites are Paleo: The Hidden Costs of Modern Hygiene.
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Mikko Koivu scores in OT, Wild beat Coyotes 4-3 for 7th straight victoryNHL.com @NHLdotcom
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Mikko Koivu scored at 2:43 of overtime to give Minnesota a 4-3 comeback victory over Phoenix on Wednesday night, extending the Wild's winning streak to seven and the Coyotes' skid to seven.
Koivu skated out from the corner and beat goalie Jason LaBarbera between the pads.
Minnesota tied it with 54.3 seconds left in regulation, with Ryan Suter scoring on a wrist shot from the left point with Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom off for an extra attacker.
Torrey Mitchell and Matt Cullen also scored for the Wild, and Backstrom stopped 24 shots.
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2014 Nissan Titan Pro-4X Last Test
Saying Farewell to a Familiar Friend
This is the second time in the last two years we've tested a Nissan Titan Pro-4X. We know the latest model we've tested is not the exact same truck, because the latest example sported a navigation system, a new four-spoke steering wheel design, and a leather interior. But little else has changed. Same engine, same basic shape, and same body and cab configuration. For that matter, precious little has changed in the decade the Titan has been in production. The Endurance 5.6L DOHC V-8 got a modest power bump a few years ago from 305 to 317 hp, with a torque increase from 379 to 385 lb-ft, but the seat-of-the-pants feel and throaty exhaust note are much the same as they've always been.
Having a 10-year-old truck in the showroom was not the original plan. Before the marketplace meltdown in 2008 and 2009, plans were for Nissan and Chrysler to share development on a new fullsize truck, with both companies getting a new truck out of the deal. But upon review of products in the pipeline, Fiat/Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne promptly scrapped the program, leaving Nissan holding the bag and, apparently, no plan B in place for a new truck. So as was the case when it was introduced, the Titan has just a single powertrain option: the 5.6L Endurance V-8 mated to a five-speed automatic. Buyers do get the choice of two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, and the choice of a longer bed was offered starting in 2008, along with larger brakes.
The latest version of the Pro-4X does seem slightly more civilized than past models, likely due to the plusher accommodations with the leather seats and navigation system. But there's no escaping the fact that the current model is sadly dated. Nissan knows it, and it's public knowledge that an all-new model is coming in 2015 and will be packing a much broader array of powertrains and body/cab configurations. Nissan has called the fullsize truck market in the U.S. "too big to ignore." No matter how good the new Titan is, it will likely never reach the sales volume of the Ford F-Series, which dominates the segment by a considerable margin. However, a competitive Titan, with more powertrain and configuration options, could finally be a legitimate rival to the Toyota Tundra, which typically sells 10,000 units a month, compared to the current Titan's 1,000-to-1,500-a-month average.
The Titan has fans for its torquey, rumbling V-8, chunky, angular styling, and relatively low price, compared to comparably equipped competitive models. Of course, we use the term "relatively," because our tester doesn't exactly qualify as cheap, considering its $46,625 as-tested price. For that sum, you get a decent array of goodies, including driver-side memory seats, touchscreen navigation, and leather seats. But the premium aura is only skin-deep. The quantity of hard plastic interior surfaces lets the interior down and betrays the Titan's age.
The current Titan definitely has a distinct personality—one we hope isn't completely sanitized in the new model. However, there's a difference between "personality" and "dated," and the current Titan certainly has plenty of the latter it could shed without sacrificing the former on the new model. Driving today's model makes us anticipate the new one that much more, especially with the optional Cummins turbodiesel V-8. The current Titan has had an unusually long run, and its replacement will be eagerly examined, driven, and critiqued by the media and consumers alike. Let's hope it's as much of a leap forward as it deserves to be.
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The Geo Tracker, later christened the Chevrolet Tracker, was a mini sport utility vehicle (SUV) that was produced by CAMI Automotive in its Ingersoll factory in Ontario, Canada. The car looked like a mini SUV, but it was finally certified as a light truck due to its off-road capabilities.
The Geo Tracker was introduced in 1988 and went into production in 1989. The car was developed by CAMI Automotive, also known as Canadian Automotive Manufacturing Inc.; an independent incorporated joint venture between Suzuki and General Motors of Canada. The manufacturer meant for the car to be built in the Ingersoll plant alongside the domestic-built Suzuki Sidekick. However, delays in the factory's production resulted in the 1989 and 1990 model Geo Trackers being imported from Japan to the U.S. By 1990, the Ingersoll factory began producing the SUV and continued making all subsequent models of the Geo Tracker until production ended in 2004.
The Geo Tracker offered an inexpensive alternative to costly SUVs like the Jeep Wrangler. It was sold under the Chevrolet name for most of the 1990s, which is why many also knew it as the Chevrolet Tracker. The car had a unique identity, and it lived on as the Suzuki Vitara and, in the U.S. as the Suzuki Grand Vitara.
Despite subjection to a fair share of criticism, the Geo Tracker was known for being a particularly rugged, yet light, SUV. The Geo Tracker came equipped with a sturdy four-wheel-drive system coupled with a conventional light-truck transmission and engine, with the front suspension being extremely sturdy. Its strong, light-truck components gave the Geo Tracker a truck-like ride and remarkable durability.
The 2004 Geo Tracker was part of the second generation, and it came as a convertible as well as a hardtop. A 1.6-liter, four-cylinder engine delivered 80 hp and 90 lb-ft of torque to power the car. This offered inadequate performance, to say the least, especially for an offroad vehicle. However, the five-speed manual transmission system made fuel economy noteworthy. The manufacturer also offered a three-speed automatic transmission as an option. The vehicle could easily switch from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive thanks to a well-placed two-speed transfer case mounted on the floor.
Despite its rugged looks, the Geo Tracker was quite comfortable on the inside. The interior included comfortable bucket seats in the front and a basic instrument panel on the front console. The sound system in the 2004 Geo Tracker met average expectations. While the vehicle seems good enough off the road, it delivered a substandard performance on it. The engine was hardly powerful enough to push the car forward on the highway. The tall stance placed the center of gravity quite high in the Geo Tracker, which made the car more susceptible to rolls when turning. Driving this vehicle on smooth roads nerve-wracked drivers. The engine also made a lot of noise, turning it into quite a nuisance on the road. Another disappointing aspect of the 2004 Geo Tracker was its use of a rather delicate rack and pinion steering system that damaged easily and costs a lot to repair.
The Geo Tracker debuted in 1989, powered by a 1.6-liter SOHC four-cylinder engine, courtesy of Suzuki. The engine delivered 80 hp, and the vehicle offers three trim levels: the LSi hardtop, the base two-door hardtop, and the convertible. The LSi Geo Tracker provided the luxury version of the vehicle, with a built-in air-conditioner, intermittent wipers, chrome-rally wheels, a spare tire cover, a rear window wiper, and a three-speed automatic suspension. Other features in the LSi Geo Tracker included tinted glass, rear bucket seats, and red/black colored front and rear seats. These inclusions became available in the convertible models of the Geo Tracker in 1990.
Regardless of the trim level, the first generation Geo Tracker offered four-wheel-drive. However, a two-wheel drive convertible version was launched in 1992. The Geo Tracker lineup remained unchanged for three more years until 1995, when the two-door hardtop model ended production, and a new four-door hardtop wagon was introduced. The Suzuki G16B, 1.6-liter engine, powered this four-door Geo Tracker with a maximum power of 96 hp. The production of the Geo Tracker continued until 1998, when the vehicle became a part of Chevrolet and the second generation began.
The second generation Geo Tracker was rebadged and introduced as the Suzuki Grand Vitara. The car sells under different names in different countries, but the Geo Tracker series officially came to an end in the U.S. and Canada in 2004. Surprisingly, the rebadged second generation Tracker under the Chevrolet brand failed to create an impression since its inception in 1998. By the time the production life of the vehicle ended, the Geo Tracker had outsold the Chevrolet Tracker three to one.
1997 Geo Tracker
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The 1997 Geo Tracker serves as one of the few miniature sport utility vehicles available as both a hardtop and a soft-top.
1996 Geo Tracker
Available in soft-top convertible and hardtop versions, the 1996 Geo Tracker provides a fun, sporty SUV.
1995 Geo Tracker
The 1995 Geo Tracker serves as a compact sport utility vehicle offered at an almost rock-bottom price.


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Tradition: the Hallmark of English BreweriesJuly 1, 2005 - Roger Protz
"Welcome to Brigadoon," Stewart Main, the head brewer at Hook Norton said. As a Scot, he is well versed in the story of the mythical Highland village of Brigadoon that featured in a Gene Kelly movie. The village appears for a single day once every hundred years and bewitches all who come across it.


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On Saturday afternoon, despite rather grumpy about the heat, my knitting and I strolled over to Centennial Park (home of my favorite monument) to meet some friends for a little music and ice cream. Well, the ice cream wasn't planned, but it was delicious. There were shady trees, good music, and the chance to just relax for an hour or two.
Walnuss and I are definitely going back next week.
So far, I'm loving this cardigan. The construction is clever — new to me! — but easy enough to follow. It's like an adventure, having never knit a saddle shoulder from the top-down all in one piece before (or, really, ever). At first, I simply went on blind trust, as I had no idea what my knitting was doing.
What is most surprising, though: just how fast Walnuss is coming along. I've already separated the arms and am working, working … but, seriously, it doesn't seem to be taking all that much longer than a worsted wool. And, of course, the Malabrigo Sock is lovely stuff to work with.
And now, I should get the day started. I've somehow picked up a couple of new assignments — tutoring, assisting — in addition to the usual researching and writing. It's exciting, but, well, tiring. Happy Wednesday!


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so after hangover time ready for hina's party til oh cat & dog shinki come to telll hina went somewhere cause it's reveal that hina got kidnap by 2 shinki collectors loyalist.
so rescue hina give she got hi-jack so rest battle goons while ana give all wake-up hina include a flash drive with all of give in hina is back oh beat up the 2 shinki collector loyalist.
& after all happy birthday hina time & end.
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I liked this show! (Considering how negative I've been toward certain others this season, that's a nice change of pace.) It's nowhere near perfect, but overall Busou Shinki was a fun watch, and my first watch on the weekends.
The good:
* All of the protagonists are cute and likeable, despite being archetypes.
* 8Bit constantly reminded the audience that the shinki are very small robots, through drawing dolljoints, requirements for energy and programming, the eye cameras, etc. There's very good differentiation from human characters even though they act like such.
* Unlike certain movies about giant transforming robots, 8Bit never forgot that the show was about Busou Shinki. The human characters are basically marginalized, with only Master and the collector guy given face time. Even if the shinkis' lives revolved around their masters, at no time did the humans dominate the show.
* I liked the hamster. Really wish it got a bit more of a role than randomly appearing to chew seeds.
The bad:
* Considering how sexualized the shinki are without armor, things can get creepy sometimes, especially since there's no consistency to when crotch joints (creepy in and of themselves) are drawn.
* The programmed devotion to their human masters is also kind of creepy.
* The storyline is really bonkers at times. Ghosts exist! And there are also lots of naked shinki wandering around in the mountains! The empire only conquered the colony in the sewers under the park only a couple of weeks ago, but there are already highly specific prophecies about a savior! WTF?
* Kurara really got a raw deal at times. I really wish she won more than once.
Final score: 8/10. It's a relaxing, non-too-serious show that's sweet and sentimental.
|2012-12-23, 00:43
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Still, it all ends well that ends well! Oh wait, I'm repeating myself!
|2012-12-23, 01:14
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as a big Shinki lover with 163 Shinkis figures, I enjoyed this anime
I don't mind the lack of battle scenes cause I believe majority of the time the Shinkis lives would be like those in the anime
I mean, how often are you gunna fight? once a weekend I suppose but every other moment? its going to be like the main 4, good job Konami and 8bit!
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Ep 12 brought us Araragi wanting to get personal with a 7 inch doll in the evening. I was cracking up so loud to that one.
The show as a whole was quite enjoyable. The antics they were up to, in most any other series, would have grown old and stale real fast, but with 7 inch, semi-sentient robots performing those antics, it was quite the blast. It was also nice that the series didn't take itself too seriously, but infused just enough seriousness to keep it very enjoyable yet not be farce. A great balance done by the staff.
It's, very frankly, the best long-form advertisement I've seen.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to both American continents, the Carribean Sea region, and the Pacific Islands west of the American continents, since due to the time zones differences Christmas day has already ended in the regions of Asia and Oceania, and almost in all of Europe and Africa.
So, this was the end of the two-parter featuring Hina basking in the spotlight. I would say that the drama Arn evoked to make Hina to go back to her senses lacked some punch, but the final showdown between Hina and Victoria was superbly explosive; Arn raised the stakes by lending Hina her battle armor for the former to use.
At the end, the good Shinkis triumphed, Hina got back her memories, and all of them returned home to Master on time to celebrate Hina's birthday.
You, know what?
They should have celebrated all big time by inviting in the rest of the other Shinki's that the gals befriended throughout the course of the series: the Kitsune-type having a ghost for a Master, those two race-car type Shinkis, the survival type Shinki, and the Santa type Shinki.
Oh, well! Somehow witnessing Jindou cradling her damaged Victorina on his hands and crying over her made me felt optimistic that the guy likely learned his lesson or truly felt affection towards his Shinki, after all.
As far as I could tell from the conclusion, it seemed to me like the end of another non-serialized episode and not something big or whole like the finale for the overall storyline or of a major arc.
Busou Shinki. Last Thoughts
It was about mid-2011 when they announced the upcoming release of the Busou Shinki Moon Angel OVA, that got me all hooked up into this universe. Furthermore, it wasn't until I watched the whole OVA episode at the start of this year that made take a liking to the characters: the Arn type and the Strarf type.
The OVA had a different feeling plus a storyline, introducing very dark or gloom elements, nonetheless, ended in a happier ending with an optimistic feel.
Now, about the middle of the year that's when they announced this TV series to air on the autumn season which did.
The storylines and feel were different from those OVA, which was not a bad things because most of the episode seemed like meaning something serious or gloomy, which at the end the problem got solved by our heroines, and the atmosphere subverting back to a happy mood.
This anime release was not bad, since I found most of the episodes entertaining; the Christmas episode was favorite best so far, followed by the Hina two-parter which concluded the series, and underground Shinki kingdom from episode ninth.
To be honest, I did not feel that particular feeling of hollow or vacancy every time that I finish a show that I got myself attached to. I know that there's more lot for Busou Shinki to tell and to cover, and this has not been the last time we see and hear about those four Shinki gals along with their master.
This was the first anime that I finished for the autumn 2012 season, as well the first title I concluded in Christmas day.
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Oh god why am I crying... *Then rewatches episode 8*
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I hosted an information fair for care givers on Nov. 9 at St. Paul Catholic Church in Butler.
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DailyDirt: It's Not So Simple To Get To Mars...
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NCSE's deputy director Glenn Branch answered the question "Should creationism be taught in the public schools?" for the on-line edition of US News & World Report (February 2, 2009) — in the negative, of course.
NCSE is delighted to congratulate two of its members, Joseph Felsenstein and John D. Roberts, who are among the eighteen individuals to be honored by the National Academy of Sciences in 2009 with "awards recognizing extraordinary scientific achievements in the areas of biology, chemistry, geology, astronomy, social sciences, psychology, and application of science for the public good," according to a January 28, 2009, press release.
In a close vote on January 23, 2009, the Texas state board of education approved a revision of the state's science standards lacking the controversial "strengths and weaknesses" language, which in 2003 was selectively applied by members of the board attempting to dilute the treatment of evolution in the biology textbooks then under consideration.
Even as the Discovery Institute's Stephen C. Meyer was trying to convince the Texas state board of education of his scientific bona fides, the antievolution textbook he coauthored was receiving a scathing review in a top scientific journal.
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Verified Voting provides resources that allow you to find what voting equipment is used in each State, how the equipment works and laws and regulations in place across the country to promote transparent and verifiable elections. Click below to visit The Verifier interactive map, and our pages devoted to Voting Equipment, Post-Election Audits and Internet Voting.
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In July 2012, the Verified Voting Foundation, Common Cause and the Rutgers University Law School released Counting Votes 2012: A State by State Look at Election Preparedness that reviews how prepared each state is to ensure that every eligible voter can vote, and that every vote is counted as cast. Does your State require paper ballots or records of every state? Does your State have contingency plans in the event of machine failure? Does your State protect military and overseas voters by ensuring that marked ballots are not cast online? Has your State instituted a post-election audit? Does your State use robust ballot reconciliation and tabulation practices? See how your State ranks.
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Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Wraps
From: National Pork Board
Quick Facts
Servings: 6
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 10 min.
Total: 20 min.
Young chefs will love this tasty recipe, and they can easily help with the assembly of the wraps.
- 1 1/2 lbs peppered bacon, thick-sliced
- 6 10-inch flour tortillas
- 6 Tbs mayonnaise, or salad dressing
- 1 10 oz bag iceberg lettuce, shredded
- 3 large tomatoes, seeded and chopped
- Place bacon slices side by side on griddle. Cook on medium-high heat until crisp and browned on both sides.* Drain on paper towels; keep warm. For each wrap, place flour tortilla on plate; spread 1 tablespoon mayonnaise over top. Place 1 cup lettuce, about 1/2 of a tomato and 3 to 4 slices cooked bacon on top. Roll from one side to the other. Cut in half.
- *Baked Bacon Option: Place bacon slices side by side on a rack in a shallow baking pan with sides. Bake in a 400° F. oven for 15 to 18 minutes or until crispy. Drain well on paper towels.
Recipe courtesy of the National Pork Board
Serving Suggestion: Serve with chips and fresh seasonal fruit.
Substitution Tip: For variety, add 2 peeled, seeded and chopped avocados or 1/2 cup chopped red and/or green bell pepper.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 505
Calories from Fat 265 (52%)
(43%)Total Fat 28g
(45%)Saturated Fat 9g
Polyunsaturated Fat 6g
Monounsaturated Fat 25g
(12%)Cholesterol 35mg
(49%)Sodium 1177mg
(17%)Potassium 606mg
Total Carbohydrate 44g
(16%)Dietary Fiber 4g
Sugars 3g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(26%)Protein 13g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods.
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text: Congress Passes Fiscal Cliff Bill That Extends Farm Policy January 26, 2013 04:44 AM Tweet Lisa Jackson departs the Environmental Protection Agency. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Farm Journal Editors Email Written by Nate Birt and Boyce Thompson Early in the morning Jan. 1, Congress passed fiscal cliff legislation that would avert a tax increase on individuals making less than $400,000 and couples earning less than $450,000. This also extends the current farm bill through September. The legislation doesn't address an increase in payroll taxes. To encourage spending during the recession, Congress temporarily lowered payroll taxes in 2011 from 6.2% to 4.2%. That expired Jan. 1, and payroll taxes have reverted back to 6.2%. A household earning $30,000 will have $50 less to spend per month. Fiscal cliff bill brings tax code changes and extends farm policy Individuals making $250,000 and married couples earning $300,000 or more also face a tax increase. In a nod to President Barack Obama, who had pledged during his campaign to raise taxes on households earning $250,000 or more, the legislation caps tax exemptions for individuals earning $250,000 or more. Tax advisers are anxiously awaiting the specific details of that provision. The Obama Administration, which had proposed reducing the ceiling for those wanting to escape estate taxes from $5 million to $3.5 million, gave in on that issue. The bill leaves the threshold at $5 million. But it raises taxes on those estates from 35% to 40%. Also, in a significant concession, the legislation indexes the estate tax threshold to inflation rates. The legislation would raise tax rates on capital gains and dividends for high-income earners as well. Rates for individuals making $400,000 or more and families earning $450,000 or more would increase from 15% to 20%. That's in addition to the 3.8% increase that is already slated to go into effect from the health bill. The increase in capital gains and dividend income rates is far less than the 39.6% that was first proposed by the Obama administration. In a prelude to a possible fight in the House, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said indexing would raise the threshold to $7.5 million for individuals and $15 million for households by 2020. He called the bill a "sweetheart giveaway to the wealthiest 7,200 estates in the country," according to the Washington Post. The bill also delays automatic sequestration for two months. Without such a provision, automatic cuts to federal agency budgets—in the 8% to 10% range—would have taken effect Jan. 3. In order to pay for the two-month reprieve, the plan devotes $12 billion in new tax revenue and $12 billion in spending cuts, split equally between defense and domestic programs. The bill also does the following: raises income tax rates from the current 35% to 39.6% for individuals making more than $400,000 and couples making more than $450,000. caps itemized deductions for individuals making $250,000 and married couples earning $300,000. extends tax breaks for those paying college tuition. continues unemployment insurance for a year for 2 million people. permanently adjusts the alternative minimum tax to inflation. renews tax credits for those paying child care, tuition and research and development. reimburses doctors who accept Medicare patients. extends current farm policies through September. increases from 15% to 20% tax rates on capital gains and dividend income for individuals making more than $400,000 and families earning $450,000 or more. EPA Faces New Leadership Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Lisa Jackson stepped down from her post early this year, creating questions about what policy changes might be ahead for farmers. "In my recent speeches, when I said that she would likely leave, farmers clapped," says Jim Wiesemeyer, vice president of Informa Economics. "So that shows you the attitude that they had about her, right or wrong." Farmers usually want to hear a more moderate tone from an EPA administrator, so it will be a good omen if President Barack Obama's nominee talks publicly about the costs and benefits of regulation. "Sometimes these regulations are more costly than they're worth," Wiesemeyer says. Administrators are frequently chosen from the environmentally sensitive New England area, but it's unclear at this point whether that will happen again. "Whomever he selects will have to be confirmed, and that will draw out a number of needed questions by both Democratic and Republican farm-state lawmakers," Wiesemeyer says. Obama took an aggressive approach to environmental policy issues for the first two years of his first-term of presidency and later put it on hold in the run-up to the election, Wiesemeyer says. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has tried to explain the Obama administration's policy in less emotional terms, Wiesemeyer says, though he cautions that some farm-state lawmakers have overreacted in the past about what new regulations EPA might or might not impose. Out of all farmers, those in the livestock sector are particularly nervous about the future of environmental policy as it relates to concentrated animal feeding operations and other regulations, he says. SNAP Cuts Might Impact Farm Jobs If the U.S. House and Senate split the difference on proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as many as 3,000 jobs could be lost in agriculture each year. USDA estimates every $1 billion in SNAP spending ($78 billion was spent in 2012) creates or maintains 3,000 farm jobs. That $1 billion figure is roughly the amount that would be cut annually from the program if the House and Senate meets in the middle with their respective farm bills. The House version of cuts $16.5 billion over 10 years; the Senate's cuts $4.5 billion. Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), chair of the House Agriculture Committee, said at the 2012 Farm Journal Forum that SNAP cuts need to be part of a farm bill. He argues that reforms can be made without taking "one calorie off of one deserving person's plate." USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, at the same conference, urged farmers to support SNAP, which provides a counter-cyclical benefit to agriculture during recessions, stabilizing food demand throughout the food chain, creating jobs along the way. Back to news


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Apple won huge today in its patent battle with Samsung over smartphones (Wired).
It's a pretty dark day for the net.
While most of the chatter at this point seems to be about how this is likely to raise the price of your smartphone (it is) or make it less good (true also), there are even more important stakes: This is about free expression in the United States.
Here's the problem: Apple doesn't just make great phones and tablets that are expensive, Apple makes phones and tablets that censor content.
Apple has shown consistent willingness to use its power as the holder of the keys to the hardware and the operating system to lock out content creators it doesn't approve of. Now that Apple is able to use the patent law to snuff out competition, and now that phones are one of the most important ways in which we communicate today, Apple has become a real threat to free speech.
Assuming we have a strong open-source ecosystem, as we did with Android up to this point, if you didn't like Apple's censorship, then you could always just walk away. Depending on what flows from this verdict, that ability to walk away may no longer be a practical alternative.
If Apple becomes essentially the only game in town for decent smartphones, then when you are away from a computer and alone with your phone, you'll get to see and say what Apple says you can see and say. That would be a tragedy.
Memo to the appellate lawyers for Samsung: Consider briefing a First Amendment angle here.


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While shooting the first commercial for the dearly anticipated Scion FR-S, driver Ken Gushi of Formula Drift barely missed making some gruesome on-camera roadkill. Gushi saw a deer leap from the lush Northern California forest with barely enough time to slow down.
At least now we know that the FR-S has good brakes.
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M-government? – Innovations from Punjab
Two recent blogs (Mobile Apps for Health, Jobs and Poverty Data and Transformational Use of ICTs in Africa) talked about how mobile applications facilitate access to services in the financial, trade, agriculture, and social sectors.
Despite proliferation in business applications, most government applications only provide information about public services and agencies. The potential is huge and now there is a level playing field for developed and developing countries. Take the USA where government applications are still quite limited in scope and quantity (see the 10 best). Aware of their unleashed potential, President Obama issued a directive on May, 23rd 2012 to every federal agency "to make two government services the American people depend on, available on mobile phones." Yes, May 2012.
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Major in French
This program has been suspended and no new students are being admitted. For current program information, contact the chair of the department.
Bachelor of Arts Degree
University Studies Requirements....................................41-44 hrs
(See Academic Degrees and Programs .)
University Studies selections must include:
•University Studies Elective
CSC 199 Introduction to Information Technology
Note: Intermediate level modern language courses completed as part of the major or minor also satisfy modern language requirements for the B.A. All majors and minors, including those who score at or above the 301 level on the Placement Exam, will be required to take FRE 301 and 331. FRE 301 and 331 serve as gateway courses to the upper level culture and literature courses. A minimum grade of C is required in FRE 301 and 331. MLA 400 is required for the major; passing scores on the third year proficiency exams are required for entry into MLA 400.
Required Courses................................................................19 hrs
MLA 100T Transitions
FRE 201 Intercultural Communications in French
FRE 202 Practical Applications in French
FRE 203 French for the Working World
FRE 301 Social Issues in French Texts
FRE 323 French Culture and Civilization
FRE 324 Contemporary French Culture and Civilization
FRE 331 Advanced Language Practice
MLA 400 Senior Seminar
Note: Credit for FRE 101 and 102 may not be used for the major but will be counted for graduation.
Limited Electives....................................................................6 hrs
Select from the following literature courses:
FRE 401 Survey of French Literature I
FRE 402 Survey of French Literature II
FRE 419 European Cinema
FRE 421 Topics in French Literature
FRE 441 Topics in French Cultural Studies
FRE 450 Literary Masterpieces in French
FRE 460 Studies in a Genre
FRE 501 Middle Ages Literature
FRE 503 Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature
FRE 505 Nineteenth-Century Literature
FRE 507 Twentieth-Century Literature
FRE 521 Topics in French Literature
Approved Electives in French............................................9-12 hrs
Select from FRE courses beyond FRE 203.
Required Support Courses French Major.............................3-6 hrs
One related course outside of modern languages, selected from the approved list obtained from the department. Note: The department strongly recommends that majors study abroad for at least one summer.
Required Minor..............................................................21-24 hrs
Electives.........................................................................12-18 hrs
Total Curriculum Requirements........................................120 hrs
1 Each student must submit a senior research project.
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NORTON, Mass. - The Wheaton College women's lacrosse team rallied from a six-goal deficit with a 10-1 second-half run before holding on for a wild 17-16 victory over MIT on Tuesday in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action. The Lyons improved to 6-7 overall and 2-3 in league play, while the Engineers fell to 2-7 on the year and 1-3 in the NEWMAC.
Four Wheaton players scored as it edged out to a 4-2 advantage with 17:10 remaining in the opening half, but MIT responded with a 5-0 run, scoring the first three goals over a 2:09 span to forge ahead. A free-position tally by Madeline Williams at 4:53 brought the hosts within 7-5. The Engineers countered by scoring three more times before the end of the half and tallying two of the initial three markers during the second stanza to go ahead, 12-6, with 26:38 left in regulation.
Wheaton put together a frenzied rally, scoring seven straight markers in a 4:22 span to go back on top. Caitlin Grant and Meredith Hurd tallied 29 ticks apart to start the run before Sara Dimick netted a natural hat trick in 1:47 to make the score 12-11 at 20:14. Grant knotted the contest 42 seconds later and Alexa Jurczak completed the run 15 seconds after that at 19:17.
MIT's Erica Little tied the game at 13 with 18:31 to go, but Grant scored at 12:46 and 9:58, and Brittany King made it 16-13 at 9:29 off a Dimick helper. Samantha O'Keefe scored twice in a 47-second span to bring the Engineers within one at 5:04, but Simone Safyer converted King's pass just 16 seconds later for the game-winner. Laura Watson cut MIT's deficit in half (17-16) with a free-position shot at the 3:09 mark, but Hurd ran out the clock in the waning seconds.
Grant finished with a team-high four goals, while Dimick had three markers and two assists. Hurd, Jurczak, King and Williams each scored twice. In goal, Annalisa Carson made eight saves while starting the contest and finishing it in relief, while Marianna Marcellino stopped one shot in more than 17 minutes of action.
O'Keefe tallied six goals, converting five of her seven free-position attempts, to go along with a team-high six groundballs. Flynn posted three goals and an assist while Little had a hat trick. Stephanie Leger netted a pair of goals as Lily He notched two assists. Stephanie Brenman contributed four groundballs, one goal and one assist while Teagan Andres and Alex Wright each recorded two caused turnovers. In net Monique Squiers collected 10 saves.


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Speaking at a Salesian-sponsored symposium on youth as agents of global change, Cardinal Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, observed that one-fifth of the world's population are between 18 and 24 years of age. He called that cohort "an amazing pool of talent we must tap into if we are to relieve poverty in our lifetime." According to the cardinal, who presented his views at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, unemployment and inadequate education are at the heart of the problems confronting the world's young. Young people without work and access to education sometimes turn to the streets, drug gangs and violence. Others choose to make a precarious migration to escape their plight. "Everyday thousands of young people are making the journey to cross the border from Mexico into United States," said Cardinal Rodríguez. "We must make changes in the way our global economy functions," he said. "We must create jobs and support small farms. This means radically rethinking our casino capitalist system."
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Every quarter we do a Flash player penetration study to see how many people are using Flash Player. We post these statistics publicly and update the page regularly. Occasionally, I provide some additional color on these stats.
The default figure you hear most often is right at the top of the page: "Flash content reaches 99% of Internet viewers." Sometimes you'll read 98 percent, sometimes 99…it fluctuates between those two numbers because we check penetration in various countries. (See below.) This main stat is the total percentage of people that can view content targeted for Flash Player 9 and below on web-connected desktops/laptops/netbooks. Yet, the more telling stats for developers are the details on Flash Player version penetration. The numbers for Flash Player 9 and 10 are very close, so you can pretty much count on the majority of users having Flash Player 10 at this point. Yes, the Flash Player engineering team likes to know just how popular the software is, but more importantly Flash Platform developers need to know what versions of Flash Player people are using so they know when they can take advantage of all the latest capabilities and reach the widest possible audience.
The penetration study completed in December 2010 shows:
– 85.3% of people in mature markets are using the current version, Flash Player 10.1
– 87.4% in US/Canada and 86.2% in Europe
– 82.4% in emerging markets^
The September 2010 Flash Player 10.1 penetration numbers broke all the previous rate records with 74% mature market penetration in just 3 months. The December 2010 study validates those statistics: as FP 10.1 penetration in mature markets is now over 85% and over 82% in emerging markets^. That's 10 percent growth in 3 months. At this rate, Flash Player 10.1 is expected to be at over 90% penetration before summer.
Our experience tells us that 80% penetration of Flash Player is a tipping point — at 80%, Flash developers are confident that they can start using new features and the majority of people can access their content with ease. The latest study shows that developers can take full advantage of all the latest features of Flash Player 10.1. Perhaps even more importantly is the rate at which these numbers were achieved.
Developers can look forward to future features, such as Stage Video in the upcoming Flash Player 10.2 release and the future 3D APIs achieving similar (if not better!) adoption rates.
How do we get these statistics?
We rely on Millward Brown to manage the penetration study, which has been in place since Flash Player 3. You can read about the methodology behind the numbers.
What about mobile?
The Millward Brown study is specific to "desktop" penetration of Flash Player. However, we are broadening our efforts to measure the proliferation of Flash Player on other devices as it's beginning to rollout on many new smartphones, tablets and TVs. There have been over 3 million downloads of Flash Player 10.1 from the Android market since its initial release last summer and we expect to provide updated numbers soon.
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When it comes to promoting your business, knowledge is power. The more you know about your market, customers, competition and prospects, the more likely you are to make smart decisions. So why do so many small businesses ignore the power of even the most basic market research?
According to Paul Richards, president of Castle Hill Consulting, a Morris Plains, New Jersey-based market research and consulting firm, many entrepreneurs think research is either too expensive or can't tell them anything new. Richards maintains that varying degrees of market research are available to even the smallest businesses--and those that avail themselves of such information maximize success.
Fundamentally, two types of research exist: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative research answers basic questions--who, what, when, where, how many, how much and how often--using statistical analysis to draw conclusions. Quantitative studies can benchmark awareness levels for your company, brand, product or competition, and give you a glimpse of what your customers, prospects and other audiences think of each. Qualitative research, on the other hand, is designed to answer questions such as "why" and "how." These studies are used to guide product and service development as well as the development of marketing programs.
A number of research mechanisms can give small businesses valuable information. Some of the most effective are:
Interviews: They should be done by phone or in person by a trained person. The results, hypothetically, should not be biased by preconceptions, emotional attachments or business pressures.
Surveys: These are generally conducted by mail. It's important to pay attention to how the survey is worded to ensure that biased language doesn't influence the results.
Focus groups: Focus groups range in size but are most effective with between eight and 12 participants. Led by a moderator, they're used to encourage free and open discussion. Although focus groups can reveal helpful information, they are vulnerable to the dynamics of the group. A participant with a dominant personality or the perception of a moderator's bias can seriously influence results. Therefore, be sure you hire a trained moderator who has experience in, or a thorough understanding of your field. (For more information on focus groups, see "Marketing Smarts" in our June 1999 issue.)
Online focus groups: Some of the larger chat-based Web sites offer low-priced online focus group opportunities. Online chat sessions are less likely to be skewed by a dominant participant due to the relative anonymity of the situation. However, this can also lead to exaggerated responses or enhanced claims by participants. Again, hire a trained moderator who understands the dynamics of the tool and your industry.
Observation: This method involves the study of the habits of your buyers by observing them in action. In addition to placing video cameras in stores, Sapient Corp.'s Experience Modeling Discipline, an experience-based design research consulting firm in Chicago has even given subjects disposable cameras for photographing their usage habits.
Richards has two warnings for entrepreneurs taking the market research plunge. "First, business owners should be extremely cautious about doing research themselves," he says. "Interview subjects are not likely to be totally frank with a `researcher' who is part of the business, much less the owner. Second, keep an open mind. Don't be defensive if your company or even you personally are criticized. Look for the opportunities the information creates."
Next Step
- The Market Research Toolbox: A Concise Guide for Beginners (Sage Publications), by Edward F. McQuarrie.
- Check your local municipal or college library for the American Marketing Association's Green Book, an international directory of marketing research companies and services, that includes an addendum of focus-group facilities.
Contact Sources
Castle Hill Consulting, (973)984-0556, email@example.com.
Sapient Corp., (312) 640-4450, http://www.sapient.com.


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Washington - The Democratic-led Congress appears intent on using its oversight powers to investigate the Bush administration until the day the latter packs up and walks out of the White House.
Oversight hearings and reports have been as common as lobbyists on Capitol Hill since the Democrats swept the 2006 elections. In July alone, hearings covered a range of subjects including allegations of faulty wiring installed by US contractors in Iraq, possibly misleading testimony from Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson, and charges that politics guided hiring of career workers in the Justice Department.
White House officials consider the scrutiny a burden and a waste of legislative time.
"When you have divided party government, you have more vigorous oversight," says James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University.
With Election Day only three months away there's little time left for the lame-duck Congress to push for substantive changes in response to the lame-duck Bush administration's alleged misdeeds.
Take the issue of executive privilege. Democratic congressional leaders investigating the mass firing of US attorneys in 2006 have long demanded that former political aide Karl Rove and other Bush officials testify before Congress. But they've refused to appear, citing executive privilege – the legal doctrine that holds a president is entitled to keep conversations with staff private, in order to promote candor.
On July 30, a federal judge rejected the White House's claim that executive aides have immunity from congressional oversight. But the legal wrangling on this issue is likely to stretch on well past election day. It remains to be seen whether the next Congress will care to pursue this issue once Bush himself is out of office.
On executive privilege "Congress has not been that successful," says Mr. Thurber.
What oversight can achieve
The purpose of congressional oversight is not necessarily legal change, however. This counterpart of Congress's legislative powers is also meant to reveal problems and ensure the exercise of constitutional responsibility on the part of the executive branch.
"To assess the oversight of one year can take several years," says David Rohde, a political scientist at Duke University.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has long championed congressional oversight authority as an often overlooked, vital function.
Done right, it can shape national policy just by producing public information, said Mr. Waxman at a 2006 symposium on the subject.
In 1994, Congress held extensive hearings into the practices of the tobacco industry. These did not lead to any enacted bill – then, or in subsequent years.
But the hearings forced tobacco executives to talk on the record and under oath, and to release thousands of pages of internal tobacco industry documents. State attorneys general used this information to bring the lawsuits against the industry which eventually led to restrictions on tobacco advertising and a monetary settlement worth over $200 billion.
"It would be wrong to ascribe these accomplishments to the congressional hearings ... but without question, those hearings [in 1994] had a galvanizing effect," said Waxman.
Now Waxman is one of the primary oversight irritants to the Bush administration. He's probed everything from reconstruction in Iraq to the firings of US attorneys to alleged politicization at the General Services Administration.
For officials, a waste of time
"One thing that is clear is that there is a heckuva lot more oversight than there was [before 2006]," says David Rohde. "But a degree of it is for show."
That's the main complaint of the Bush administration – as it was for the Clinton administration.
The White House calculates that it has had to respond to more than 300 congressional investigations or inquiries. As of last December, officials estimated they'd produced more than 1 million pages of documents in response to these probes.
Officials grumble that voters are far more concerned about the price of gas than whether Karl Rove will be forced to respond to the latest congressional subpoena.
It's true that polls show congressional approval ratings at record lows. A Gallup survey in early July found that only 14 percent of respondents approved of the job Congress is doing – half of President Bush's own record-low job approval rating of 28 percent.
Tension over oversight is as much institutional as partisan, says Thurber.
Every White House resists inquiries from Congress, particularly when it's controlled by the opposition party. The Clinton administration too complained it had produced more than 2 million pages of documents for congressional inspection from 1996 to 1998. White House staff spent over 55,000 hours responding to requests, said Clinton officials at the time.


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In moving this week to shore up the student-loan market, the federal government aims to avert a credit crunch that some warned could make it harder for students to borrow for college.
On Thursday, Congress sent to President Bush for his signature a bill that is designed to give lenders the confidence and the liquidity they need to continue providing federal loans to students. It would also increase federal loan limits to lessen the fast-growing reliance on private loans.
The news comes just in time to buoy thousands of families weighing college and financial-aid decisions.
"This is an important step and ensures that we will not have any major disruptions in the availability of student loans this fall," says Robert Shireman, executive director of the Project on Student Debt in Berkeley, Calif.
The bill cleared the Senate unanimously Wednesday after a few amendments were made to the House version, which was passed April 17. The House approved the new version May 1. It would give the US Education Department temporary authority to buy student loans from lenders that participate in the federal guaranteed loan program. Lenders sell about 90 percent of student loans to get the cash flow to make more loans. But "the economy's liquidity problems have made it virtually impossible for lenders to sell their loans," says Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education (ACE) in Washington. If necessary, the department could become that missing secondary market.
The secretary of Education might not need to exercise this option, but just the fact that she could should inject confidence into the market, Senate aides say. The bill requires that government officials set prices for the loans that make this provision cost-neutral.
These loans are already federally guaranteed. The government wouldn't be buying subprime loans, for instance, "so this was an easier decision than some of the decisions Congress has been struggling with on mortgages, where we don't want the government validating bad lending decisions," Mr. Shireman says.
Support for the bill
The Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act of 2008 was originally put forward by Rep. George Miller (D) of California, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. President Bush and Secretary Margaret Spellings have both voiced support for the legislation.
Before the Senate vote, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) of Massachusetts noted one reason lawmakers tried to move quickly: Nearly 50 lenders representing 14 percent of the federal student-loan market have dropped out of the federal loan program during the recent credit turmoil. "We can't afford to wait for a full-blown crisis before we act," his statement said.
The bill also clarifies rules for the Education Department's "lender of last resort" program. If the 35 designated guaranty agencies can't get capital from lenders, Secretary Spellings could advance them money to make loans. And to make it more convenient for students, she could temporarily make an entire school eligible for such loans in cases where many students are having trouble finding lenders. That way, students at those schools would not have the burden of proving individual eligibility.
These loans would be subject to the same terms and ethics rules as other loans in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).
Borrowers would still get their bills from the same servicing companies, even if the loans change hands, Senate aides say.
"What Congress is doing is putting more tools in the secretary of Education's toolbox," says Mr. Hartle of ACE. "We hope that they're not needed, but if they are it will be good that [she] has the legal authority."
For students and parents struggling in this tight economy, a number of other measures in the bill provide relief:
•The limits on federal unsubsidized loans – available regardless of income level – would increase by $2,000 per year. Undergraduates, for instance, would now be able to borrow up to $31,000 over the course of their education (up to $57,500 if they are not dependent on parents).
•Parents who take out a low-cost federal PLUS loan to pay college bills would now have up to six months after their child finishes school to start paying it back. Previously, they had to start repayment just 60 days after receiving the loan.
•Parents who are up to 180 days late on mortgage payments would no longer be disqualified from receiving PLUS loans.
Congressional aides say the improved terms should attract more families to these loans, which in turn should generate up to $450 million for the government over the next five years. This bill would channel that money into grants for low-income students majoring in high-demand fields such as math and engineering. According to Senator Kennedy's statement, 100,000 more students would be able to receive these grants. Notably, part-time students could now participate, which would make a difference particularly at community colleges.
'Not the complete solution'
Like other groups that have been watching the loan situation closely, the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators praises the bill. But "it's not the complete solution," says NASFAA President and CEO Phil Day.
Nearly one-quarter of college borrowing has recently occurred in the private sector. Even though more loans would now be available on the federal side, some families will probably still face a gap and seek private loans in an unpredictable market, Mr. Day says. "We're urging parents and students to continue to work closely with their [college's] financial-aid people. They know who is out there giving private loans and how good or bad a job they do," he says.
But for the vast majority of families going through the financial-aid process this spring and summer, Day says, this bill "will help facilitate things immensely."


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People often take their drinking water for granted. So is it any wonder that many Americans aren't aware of the more than 30-year old National Drinking Water Week (May 6-12)?
As little attention as it gets, this country's – and the developed world's – reliable supply of clean drinking water is one of the greatest human health accomplishments in world history. Before drinking water (and for that matter wastewater) treatment was introduced at the turn of the 20th century, waterborne diseases like typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera were the third leading cause of death among Americans. (It's no coincidence that economic and social development around the world took off after drinking water treatment was widely practiced.)
Yet, while Americans can generally feel confident about the quality of drinking water delivered to our taps, not everything is perfect. And it's not just citizens who've come to underappreciate this oh-so-vital resource. Case in point: The whole country got a wake-up call last year when the American Society of Civil Engineers pinned a grade of D-on the aging American water and wastewater infrastructure. With an annual shortfall of a combined $21 billion between the two systems, water main breaks and sewage spills are becoming all too common. Which leads to the first of our tal
Concerned about your local drinking water? Ensure your own abundant supply of high quality drinking water by reading your annual EPA Consumer Confidence Report and learn about your drinking water's source and quality.
es of water woes from around the U.S., check them all out below.
Houston, Texas: Houston we have a problem! The intense, prolonged heat of summer 2011, paired with the terrible Texas drought (and the aforementioned nationwide infrastructure issues) caused city water mains to burst at an unprecedented rate, leading to water rationing in the sweltering city. Older, weakened pipes break more easily in the heat because as dried-out soil recedes, it removes necessary pressure from the outside while pressure on the inside builds from increased water use. The result: ruptured pipes. Fingers crossed for a rainy summer 2012.
Central Valley, California: According to a UC-Davis study, nitrate contamination from synthetic fertilizers and animal manure in drinking water sources is going from bad to worse in California's agricultural hotbed, the Central Valley. This is especially true in the Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley sub-regions, where an estimated 10 percent of the 2.6 million, mostly poor people living there drink nitrate-polluted water, which can have serious health and environmental impacts over time.
Pavillion, Wyoming and Dimock, Pennsylvania: Here's a fracking two-fer that garnered EPA involvement. In Pavillion, although an EPA study linked fracking to groundwater contamination, the EPA claims that fracking didn't necessarily contaminate drinking water wells, a point that was contradicted in a recent study by an independent hydrologist who identified a drinking water source east of town that had been polluted by fracking. In Dimock, preliminary tests indicated that water wells that were allegedly contaminated by the fracking process were safe to drink. Affected residents felt no solace though, because standards don't exist for many of the contaminants.
Moreover, wells were found to have elevated levels of methane, traces of hydrocarbons (diesel fuels, etc.) and heavy metals (carcinogens, neurotoxins), not to mention other reporting inconsistencies. Very reassuring!
Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York: While many people in these two metro New York City counties had an inkling that the groundwater from their EPA-designated sole source aquifer wasn't in great shape, a recent Suffolk County draft water resources report confirmed that water quality was degraded. In Nassau County, overdevelopment (e.g, paved surfaces everywhere) prevents precipitation from recharging the underground aquifer system. As a result, stormwater runoff, which often carries pollutants, is redirected into local bays instead of being filtered on its way down into the aquifer. The bigger and less developed Suffolk County, on the other hand, has serious problems with nitrate pollution from agricultural and synthetic fertilizer runoff as well as human waste that is discharged into groundwater from failing septic systems, of which there are many. Budget cuts have led Nassau County to discontinue funding for vital USGS water monitoring, begging the question, "Why is it up to the county, anyway?" To find out more about these specific Long Island groundwater challenges, check out this recent GRACE-produced video.
Pensacola, Florida: Sorry, Pensacola, but a 2011 analysis gave you the unenviable distinction of having the worst drinking water of any city in the United States. Based on an analysis of five years of water quality data, 45 of 101 chemicals and elements tested for were detected, with 21 present in harmful concentrations. Of those pollutants, the worst of these were radium-226 and -228, trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, alpha particles, benzene and lead, along with traces of cyanide and chloroform. Not good. The combination of these chemicals gives Pensacola's water supply the distinction of being America's most unhealthy. Let's hope Pensacola residents have pushed the Emerald Coast Water Utility to step up.


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Symbian toasts threefold leap in handset shipments
Cracks open the bubbly with Nokia
Smart-phone operating system developer Symbian today lauded figures that indicate a big jump in demand for devices based on its software. But the company signalled a need to drive sales in the wider handset market if it is to continue to deliver strong growth.
Some 7.8m Symbian-based handsets shipped in Q2 FY2005, the three months to 30 June 2005, Symbian said - three times the figure for Q2 FY2004, 2.6m. Shipments were up 16.4 per cent sequentially.
For the first six months of the privately held company's financial year, 14.5m devices were shipped by Symbian licensees - an increase of 190 per cent on H1 FY2004 and more than the total for FY2004 as a whole.
Symbian is owned by Nokia, Ericcson, SonyEricsson, Panasonic, Siemens and Samsung, in order of the size of their shareholdings. Nokia dominates, with 47.9 per cent of the company in its portfolio, and it's largely Nokia's own handset shipments that have fuelled Symbian's success.
As calendar Q2 figures from market watcher Canalys recently showed, Nokia increased its market share from 33.2 per cent in Q2 2004 to 54.9 per cent in Q2 2005 on the back of a 240.3 per cent increase in unit shipments. That helped Symbian extend its leadership of the operating system market, with a 214.8 per cent jump in unit shipments pushing the Symbian OS' share from 41 per cent to 62.8 per cent.
At the end of Symbian's first half, 54 Symbian-based devices were on sale, 18 of them introduced during the six-month period, company CEO Nigel Clifford said in a statement. Sixteen of the 54 are 3G phones, most of them developed for the Japanese market. This time last year 23 Symbian-based devices were available to buy. Today, some 50 more are in development, Clifford said.
"Shipments of Symbian OS phones remain small relative to the overall handset market," he admitted. "Symbian's strategic focus must remain on driving increased shipments through the adoption of Symbian OS for further handset models, and particularly for the development of lower price, mid-range handsets designed to ship in higher volumes."
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We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.
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So... Are you going to remove the dungeon or weaken it.
If you weaken it, I suggest you make the first floor levels 1-4 and then gorgons 5, bandits 6, and so on... Also, you better weaken the boss's stats.
dislekcia wrote:Nobody was supposed to get anywhere in the tower. It's kinda a foil for the new items and classes we're going to be adding over the next few weeks.
Troggle wrote:And I don't think the dungeon should be made any easier. Even if it can't be defeated by more than one or two classes, it's supposed to be ridiculous, and it will give me something to fail at repeatedly and keep challenging myself with.
FDru wrote:But if you ask me, every dungeon should be beatable with every class. It doesn't have to be easy, it just needs to be possible (even if that means through a ridiculously specific prep/shop/god combination).
If it is not the case that every dungeon is eventually beatable by every class, I will consider the game a failure.
FDru wrote:If it is not the case that every dungeon is eventually beatable by every class, I will consider the game a failure.
FDru wrote:I will consider the game a failure.
I mean, can anybody beat Avatar, Kinisssch, or Namtar with a monk or fighter?
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The Me in the Mirror
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- Age 27
This article is in response to Enenim Ubon's "Discover the Real You " Article HERE. I actually wrote this a couple of years ago when I was the shy and timid type, and after writing this and placing it on my wall, every morning I would look through it, recite and it worked for me, who knows it might do same for you too........
Hi you,
Listen, i have had enough of your everyday complains
As from now, you do as i say
Enough with your self-criticism, low esteem and condemnation
I am tired of your 'i am not good enough', i'm shy, everyone is watching' and 'i can't' attitude
It's high time you vanquished these attitudes, let go of them and rule your world
You shouldn't always see you as imperfect….hey, sorry to cut in but i am not perfect
Yes, you are not perfect but no one is either
It's high time you took the bull by the horn and be as confident as you can be
Dare to do those things you felt you couldn't
Dare to walk with your shoulders high and be as confident as you can be
Listen, if you don't change yourself
Nobody will, change begins with you
I am sorry if i sound so harsh but you have got a little and no choice than to do as i say because i am you, the 'me' in the mirror
I am breaking out of the low esteem shell
I am cutting the bars of iron of shyness down
As from now on, i will stand up to my opinions, speak on behalf
of the masses/voiceless and stand up for what is right!
You, i hope you are listening?
You better be


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Perhaps I should be ashamed to admit this, but I'm not. Before last weekend, I had lived in the Dallas area for seven years and had not attended the State Fair of Texas. Friends had suggested that we should go at least once, if for no other reason than the unique experience.
We went Saturday. I'm good now.
Saturday was a perfect fair day, cool and sunny with just an occasional bit of cloud cover to prevent sunburn. We took our son and new daughter-in-law with us and started the experience off with a nutritious lunch of corny dogs. That's a hotdog on a stick, dipped in batter and fried a golden brown. It's really not as tasty as it sounds, even slathered in mustard and ketchup.
I really can't recommend the charburgers, either, unless you have a thing for grease. My wife had little good to say about the barbecue sandwich, either, but having spent about $25 for the repast we felt obligated to choke it down. We could have eaten fried alligator, but opted out. We observed a lot of fried stuff.
I'd like to offer a few other observations about the State Fair of Texas to any of you who have put off going, as we did for seven years. Of course that can't be very many because most of you were there Saturday, and you apparently brought along your neighbors.
· If you think the place is crowded at 2 PM, just wait until dark. Then you can rub shoulders, literally, with about four million of your closest friends.
· Fairs used to be mostly about agriculture. Now they're mostly about cars and trucks. I sorta promised my daughter-in-law I'd buy her a Mustang when I get rich and famous. Good luck on that one.
· Rides have much less appeal than they did 35 years ago, especially after consuming a greasy charburger.
· Paying five dollars to view a 1,000-pound crocodile also has little appeal.
· Why would anyone voluntarily pay someone to guess how much he weighs? He got it right, of course.
· Goats appear to be popular show animals at fairs.
· You can clip, groom and wash a goat all day and it still smells like a goat.
· People will gather around the prize-winning boar hog and make rude comments about his equipment.
· Anyone with a modicum of knowledge about livestock can invent strange names for unidentified breeds of cattle and have folks believe them. Ever heard of a red strangus?
· Some folks have a different definition of art and collectible than I do.
· Some things should not be fried, Snickers bars, for instance.
· Just because someone fries a Snickers bar does not mean you have to eat it.
· God created Tums in the off-chance that at some point in the history of mankind some mentally challenged being would look at a Snickers bar, a bowl of batter and a pot of boiling grease and go, "hmmmm."
· My son will eat anything.
· People will spend money on the oddest things at a fair, such as trying to catapult a rubber chicken into a moving cook pot.
I may need a small loan to pay my bills until next payday.
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Outdoor Idaho "Salmon River Lodges & Legacies" This special travels the Salmon River, stopping each night at a historic lodge to meet the people, who continue in the footsteps of hearty pioneers in the wild heart of Idaho. Each stop reveals a rich history. Rafters, guides, boat operators and residents all reveal how they are drawn to the river repeatedly - or permanently.G
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Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge "Wild Asia: Nepal and India" Beyond the two nations' crowded cities lie precious remnants of wild Asia where tigers, rhino and bear still roam, and which Art captures with his camera lens.G
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Probably the best spot for him to land since it was clear he wasn't going to get a starting gig anywhere at this time. Brady said recently he had a few years left and will call it quits when he feels ready (not to say Tebow is the heir). McD loves the guy and he's a great 'team' player which is what the Pats are well known for, most recently the Welker stuff. It'll be interesting to see where he lands on the depth chart.
** If you think Brady is going to let him take snaps outside of a blow out you are out of your mind. There's no way they pull the garbage packages the Jets did last year. Maybe some goal line stuff for trickery but there's no chance Tebow will be taking the field to run for 2 yards and waste a down.


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Tyler graduated from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, PA, and he also swims for the JCC Sailfish in Pittsburgh. He was a 4 year letter winner and a 2 year captain at Shady Side. In high school he was a 10 time All American as well as and an Academic All American. He won 14 District Individual Championships. Despite winning 11 PIAA state medals, he is still "upset" that he lost the 100 fly by 0.01 seconds in his senior year. A Senior National qualifier, Tyler was the 2005 Northeast spring sectional runner up in the 200 fly. He has been a member of the EISL conference team each of the last 3 years posting personal best of 21.15 (50 free), 49.51 (100 fly), and 1:49.43 (200 fly). He is a Yale record holder in the 200 Freestyle relay. He is excited for his senior year. Tyler chose Yale because of its dedication to undergraduate studies and because of the long standing tradition of Yale swimming. He is the son of Randy and Susan Scheid and has a brother Trevor, who is swimming in his freshman season at Stanford and a younger sister Sarah.


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Jennifer Lawrence as Hunger Games' Katniss - FIRST LOOK
Check out this first shot of Jennifer Lawrence as the Hunger Games' heroine, Katniss Everdeen!
The 20-year-old actress opened up to EW about taking on the role of the District 12 tribute.
"I knew that as soon as I said yes, my life would change," Jennifer said. "And I walked around an entire day thinking 'It's not too late, I could still go back and do indies, I haven't said yes yet, it's not too late.'"
"I love this story," Jennifer added, "and if I had said no, I would regret it every day."
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