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I hear a few people worried about the demise of Kodak. Will it really be the end of film when they are gone?I thought that companies like Ilford would keep things alive. I even noticed Rollei makes film and chemicals, which I never knew.
I shoot DSLR for stock photography.The unused film I have left right now:40 sheets 4x5 Fuji Astia (this stuff is gone now...)30 sheets 4x5 Kodak E100G (uh, this stuff is gone now too!)20 sheets 4x5 Fuji Provia10 sheets 8x10 Kodak E100G60 sheets 8x10 Fuji ProviaYou guys are worried about Portra, but Kodak is still making neg film. They stopped making positive film (E100G), while Fuji stopped making negative film. Portra is currently available at B&H in 4x5 and 8x10. Stock up if you can afford it.
Like 80% of my personal work are being done with RZ67 Pro IID and film. I use Fuji Acros 100 for long exposure photography, Kodak Tri-X for portrait stuff rated at ASA 800 and 1600, Kodak Portra 160 and 400 as well for portraits again! My scanner is Epson V700 and printer is Epson R3000! The reasons I am shooting film while I have a DM22 back are;1. I love 5:4 ratio!2. Love the look of film!3. The depth of filed is more shallower than a 36x48mm sensor!4. Due to max 30s exposure time of my back, shoot film for long exposures during day time!5. Due to max ISO 400, shoot film when I need to go over ISO 400!6. Love to use all the area of the huge RZ viewfinder!7. I love it when I develop the film and my hands smell all those chemicals when I'm done!8. When I am doing the agitation, I feel like I am making those photos come to life, feeling like I am creating something not capturing!9. I love the fact that I don't need to bother with the LCD, just focus on the subject! There is no way to have a glance at histogram or whatever! The fact that I have to understand how I am measuring the light with my handheld light meter!Long live film
i occasionally still shooting film, gonna finish a roll of tmax400 today and then i will load the magical adox csm 20 for the first time, i think with this one i will rethink composition 10x before shooting
I started photography in the digital age so really have next to no experience with film. What exactly is it that gives film a different look? After seeing a number of images online I can usually pick which is film, but I can't pinpoint why.Also, does anyone know of comparison images online directly comparing digital with film? It would be nice to see how they compare side-by-side and what kind of resolution to expect from a 6x6 image. Not that I will need all that much for 14"x14" prints.
yes ofcoursethe technical comparison is ONLY one part of the storyone could find that an IQ180 looks sharper than velviabut what I see is, that even the jpg scan from these imagesshow that typical film lookthat 3D look that I miss in CCD or CMOS imagesthis is due to the 3D film layer perhapsthis is what is missing in CCD's who are mirror flatso the images look flat toobut then ...Compare a real contactprint from a 8x10 black white printto the same size of an IQ180personally, I prefer the film printbut, as it is art, it is up to you wether to like it or notother thing what bothers me, is the amount of money I've spend on digitalover the last 15 years, upgrading all the timewhile my 4x5 or medium format film gear, did not changeand guaranteed me of CONSTANT QUALITYI cannot do a retrospective from my digital prints over the last 15 yearsbecause they vary in quality ...imacon 96, P20, P45, P65 ...and then STILL NOT REACH THAT SAME IMAGE THAN WITH FILMSo I STOPPED COMPARING FILM and DIGITALIt makes NO SENSE !Two different mediaas Oil paint and Aquarelthey're in the same ligue
Actually scanning is probably the most annoying part and may be the weakest link. Most probably I would get an Epson V750 to do the scanning.
This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently. I'm trying to find the optimum dpi to scan at for convenience and quality. I'm using an Epson V500 and VueScan. I can get 2400 dpi scans that look good, but from the majority of my scans only a few make it into portfolios or to customers, -I don't need to scan everything at 2400dpi. This begs the question of what the best solution is for workflow, and should I scan things just to proof and then get the ones that are good scanned with a drum professionally.


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On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, I was admitted to the emergency room at New Horizons Hospital.
What a busy place!
The ambulances come and go 24/7.
In spite of how busy they were, I received excellent care.
The doctors are outstanding and I especially appreciated Dr. Betty Mitchell and our own Dr. Christy Johnson.
My guardian angels were Nancy, Tink, Donna, Amy, Shari, Celia and others.
I got to bring Kasey home with me, and that is a blessing.
I am William Ford Threlkeld, the proud father of John Brent Threlkeld. My son is seeking to serve as our next circuit judge in the 15th judicial circuit that includes Carroll, Grant and Owen counties.
I opened my law practice in 1949 and I retired in 2010. I practiced law in front of many judges you may have known - Ward Yager, Jim Ford, Charles Satterwhite and our current judge Stephen Bates - as well as countless other state and federal judges.
I, Travis Fitzgerald, am excited to be a candidate for fourth district magistrate and I hope I can earn your vote May 20.
I would like to thank Tammy Bishop, Charlie Ellis and Carrol Ellis for their service to help the people of Owen County who are going to doctor appointments or the hospital.
Their Christian love and kindness and prayers are awesome.
They go above and beyond to help others.
I feel so blessed and I'm very thankful to all who are involved in this service. They are always on time and Tammy always calls the night before to remind you!
May we keep them in our prayers and thoughts and may God bless you.
Michel R. Gordon
I am pleased to write this letter of recommendation for Laurel Stivers for Owen County Clerk. I highly recommend Laurel as a candidate to serve as our county clerk.
I just want to start out saying that our family follows all political aspects within Owen County. We have yet, but one, candidate that has cared enough to show up and share his views and outlooks for our county.
This man is Gary Alcorn. I see how he enjoys meeting new individuals and sharing why he should be sheriff of Owen County.
There are numerous signs of different candidates that have been through my residence and I feel that unless I meet and hear their values and outlook for our county, I may just be voting for one candidate, and that is Gary Alcorn.
A federal district court judge has ruled that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Kentucky's Attorney General Jack Conway says he has not yet decided whether to defend Kentucky's constitution by filing an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals of the federal district court judge's ruling.
Preserving the history of Owen County presents challenges especially when elderly people of Owen County pass away and their stories and remembrances are not shared with others.
The Owen County Public Library and the Owen County Historical Society are involved in a joint effort to preserve the history of Owen County communities, the early schools and businesses, and the events that contribute to the traditions that provide a rich legacy for the future.
Currently, we are searching for information and/or pictures of the Canby community.
Greetings from Lexington.
My husband is the truck driver who had the accident on Cedar Creek Road last week in Kay's Branch. One of his co-workers who drives the route frequently, picked up a copy of the News-Herald for us today and told us of the article about his accident.
February, consecrated as Black History Month in the United States by
President Ford's Administration in 1976, is a month we should take the time
to remember the bad, recognize the good, and honor the heroic. There are so
many untold stories of resilient individuals who overcame the atrocities of
enslavement, segregation and the denial of basic human rights, by propelling
themselves and others into successes that would have been unimaginable just a
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On Parnell Square, north of the Liffey, the Garden of Remembrance stands as a tribute to all of those Irish whose lives were lost in the pursuit of freedom from foreign rule. During her May 2011 visit to Dublin, amid some controversy, Queen Elizabeth of Britain, accompanied by Irish President Mary McAleese, laid a wreath in the garden, marking the beginning of a new era in Anglo-Irish relations.
The garden was designed by Dáithí P. Hanly. In addition to the sunken cruciform water-feature, its focal point is Oisín Kelly's sculpture, 'The Children of Lir', a symbol of rebirth and resurrection. The mythological story of the Children of Lir tells of their transformation into swans by the magic of an evil step-mother who dooms them to swim the waters of Ireland for nine hundred years. In the context of the Garden of Remembrance, the statue symbolizes the rebirth of Ireland after the trauma of over seven hundred years of foreign rule.
Dublin poet Liam MacUistin's "We Saw a Vision", an aisling style poem, written in Irish, English and French is emblazoned on the stone wall at the same end of the garden as the sculpture.
We Saw A Vision
In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,
We lit the light of hope,
And it was not extinguished,
In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision,
We planted the tree of valour,
And it blossomed
In the winter of bondage we saw a vision,
We melted the snow of lethargy,
And the river of resurrection flowed from it.
We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river,
The vision became a reality,
Winter became summer,
Bondage became freedom,
And this we left to you as your inheritance.
O generation of freedom remember us,
The generation of the vision.
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Temple Sinai Garage sale Aug. 2
Temple Sinai, 270 Clocks Blvd., Massapequa (south of Merrick Road) will be having its 100-family garage sale, Sun., Aug. 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. From 2 to 4 p.m. there is a $6 per bag sale. Great buys include housewares, clothing, toys, children's items, books, sporting goods and costume jewelry from closeouts.
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There seems to have been an explosion lately in "audiophile" music players for Mac OS X lately. Though iTunes wiped out the need for competition when it was introduced, it has become a huge, multimedia and store program, leaving many people wanting something simpler. For a while, that was Play and one or two others, but then Amarra came on the scene. Offering higher-quality playback, it has become famous among audiophiles, alongside its biggest competitor, Pure Vinyl (and now Pure Music). As those two have fought it out in the commercial arena, the developer of Play came up with a free program, AyreWave, in conjunction with Ayre, which combined the simplicity of Play with high-quality 64-bit playback. This now leads the pack of the free players (after the association was dropped and the program re-named Decibel) if you want a simpler program and potentially better sound than you get using iTunes.
So for the curious, here is a list of the players currently available that I know of, along with some basic information about them.
April 2014 Note: Players that are not being actively upgraded have been removed.
Amarra by Sonic Studio
Commercial, demo available for download.
Comes in three flavours: Amarra Hifi, Amarra, and Amarra Symphony with varying features and prices. The player integrates with iTunes, or can be used stand-alone importing tracks into a playlist with one click from the Finder or iTunes. For people with a lot of RAM in their computer, it can be used in cache mode where the files are loaded into memory before playback. Includes iZotope for re-sampling individual files, a parametric EQ (in the regular version) and Symphony includes room-correction features.
Audirvana Plus
Commercial, demo available for download.
Aimed at the high-fidelity crowd, contains a plethora of features ranging from iZotope-based up-sampling (with comprehensive options) to device integer and exclusive access modes. It can also suspend Spotlight and Time Machine for dedicated music servers and either directly play DSD files for supported players over USB or on-the-fly convert them to high-res PCM. It can either play back music using its own playlist or using an iTunes Integrated Mode. Version 2.0 comes with a full interface that can import iTunes playlists.
Integrating with iTunes, this software sits in your menu bar and feeds music via Integer Mode to your DAC. Great if you want a simple and cheap solution while still using iTunes. Now supports up-sampling and DSD playback.
Decibel by Steven F Booth
Commercial, doesn't appear to be updated.
The developer of Play produced a basic, high-quality music player known as AyreWave in conjunction with Ayre. This has now dropped any association with them and has been renamed Decibel. The software itself, while basic, allows one-click importing from files selected in the Finder or iTunes, "hog mode".
Ecoute by PixiApps
With iTunes integration, including song rating and metadata support, this is the player for people who want a slick, theme-able one-window interface and want to share your listening habits on Twitter, Facebook or LastFM. It also supports the Apple remote control.
Fidelia by Audiophile Engineering
With a main window that looks like a piece of high-end hi-fi gear, but far more classy than that of audirvana, it has the ability to play music directly from iTunes playlists without needing to have iTunes running. Also included are a selection of on-the-fly resampling methods, including iZotope and remote control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch available in the App Store. It now also has an optional licence for headphone listening tools.
JRiver Media Player (Mac)
Well-known for its fully-featured Windows software, which includes video playback.
A multi-platform player based on Songbird (which shut its doors in 2013) that supports a wide range of audio formats.
Pure Music by Channel D
Commercial, demo available for download.
Based upon Pure Vinyl and using its own playback engine, like Amarra, integrates with iTunes, running in a window alongside and can re-sample music on the fly. Unlike Amarra, it requires iTunes to be running to select tracks, but offers a considerable slew of other options.
Commercial, 30 day trial period.
Designed to entirely replace iTunes, including iDevice sync support. It has, among other features Last.fm integration, watch folders, device sync transcoding rules, a duplicate finder and Airplay support.
Vox by Alessio Nonni
Free (donations requested).
While it has maintained its simple player interface, the features have grown this player into something interesting to audiophiles with automatic sample rate switching, device hog mode, neat playback features such as auto-crossfade between songs, LastFM support, autoload from folder and a bunch of other features worth checking out.
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Viroqua native Katie Wendorf is currently a sophomore attending Harvard University, studying chemistry, and plans on attending medical school after receiving her undergraduate degree. She attributes her success in school to being an active member of her local high school's FFA chapter.
"Through my FFA involvement I was able to apply my passion for the industry and apply skills and knowledge I gained in agricultural education. I was very active on the Viroqua FFA dairy cattle evaluation team where I learned a lot about analysis and decision making, while developing leadership experience – great skills to have and use even in non-agriculture settings," Wendorf says.
Katie's agricultural education and high school FFA program was, and will continue to be, a key part of her success. Unlike Katie, many students fail to graduate high school or obtain the skillsets needed to enter the workforce today. In fact, there are troubling signs that the U.S. is failing to meet its obligation to prepare millions of young adults for the job force.
The U.S. has the highest college dropout rate in the industrialized world, according to Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century. Furthermore, only four in 10 Americans have obtained an associate's or bachelor's degree by their mid-twenties.
These facts are even more disconcerting when you look at the number of students who don't even make it to college. Every year, one million students leave high school before earning a high school degree. "Many drop out because they struggle academically but large numbers say they dropped out because they felt their classes were not interesting, and that high school was unrelentingly boring," states the report.
As a result of both of these issues the U.S. faces the sober reality that if current trends persist, the percentage of young adults with a post-secondary degree may actually drop, reversing a long history in which children have generally been better educated than their parents. "This would be a stunning setback for a nation that led the entire world in educating its young for over a century," states the report. Not to mention the demand for qualified workers could surpass the number available.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education, who released the report this past year, says that the national strategy for education and youth development has been too narrowly focused on an academic, classroom-based approach.
Meeting the challenge
Wisconsin, unlike other states is better prepared to meet this challenge. The agriculture industry along with several others took proactive steps in the 90's to develop the Wisconsin Youth Apprenticeship Program. This program has since matured into the nation's largest apprenticeship opportunity for high school students. Under the two-year program, high school juniors and seniors complete up to 900 hours of work-based leaning and related courses. Many also earn college credits.
Apprenticeships are now offered in fields ranging from healthcare and manufacturing to IT, hospitality and agriculture. Apprenticeships are available in nearly half of Wisconsin's school districts, and the program serves about 2,000 students at any given time. Over 75 percent of youth apprenticeship graduates enroll in a technical college or university, and over 60 percent complete their degrees, far higher than the national average. What's more, over 85 percent of graduates are employed after leaving high school, and a stunning 98 percent of participating employers say they would recommend it to others. Wisconsin is recognized in the Pathways to Prosperity: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing Young Americans for the 21st Century report as an example of a state taking action to establish key elements of a system to provide work-linked learning opportunities for young people.
Beyond the Apprenticeship Program, Wisconsin has several agricultural education and workforce groups looking to keep the state's $59 billion industry strong and growing.
"The Pathways to Prosperity report confirms the need and importance for the work that the Wisconsin Agriculture Education Foundation is doing in conjunction with the Wisconsin Agriculture Education and Workforce Development Council. These organizations are working to help assure a quality workforce for Wisconsin agriculture," says Paul Larson, president of the Wisconsin Agricultural Education Foundation and agriculture educator at Freedom High School. "At our Council meetings, we often discuss the needs of the industry and how to best focus in on those needs on the classroom level of Wisconsin schools. The partnership with Wisconsin Association of Agriculture Educators has helped get that information and needed trainings to teachers and others out in the schools each day."
"I believe we will always need experience-based programs in schools to provide students entry level skills for work and to better prepare them for a post-secondary program, technical college or four-year university. Currently in agriculture we are short at least 10 percent of qualified employees and that number is expected to balloon to 20 percent as more baby boomers retire," comments Larson.
Wisconsin's agriculture educators and FFA advisors focus on helping students understand underlying theory – not only how things work, but why – through hands-on learning. This philosophy isn't simply about learning it's also about how to enable young people to make a successful transition to working life. What is most noticeable about the best European vocational systems is the investment, social as well as financial, that society makes in supporting this transition. Employers and educators together see their role as not only developing the next generation of workers, but also as helping young people make the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Employers notice when job applicants have an FFA background. "When we are hiring for a position, any candidate that has FFA on their resume stands out against the pool of applicants," says Steven Van Lannen, executive vice president with American Foods Group, LLC. "When I make a phone call to an applicant who is a former FFA student, I know that individual will demonstrate a certain level of leadership skills above a typical job applicant. These leadership skills are just as important as a person's technical skill set." Van Lannen also knows firsthand the benefits of being involved in the FFA as he himself is a past Wisconsin state FFA officer.
The Wisconsin FFA Foundation works to make those connections between past, present and future FFA members with supporting agricultural businesses and industry organizations. "We are encouraged by the increased membership gains we saw in 2011 and appreciate the financial support we continually receive from donors of all levels to continue providing these youth with opportunities to grow in and give back to the agriculture, food and natural resources industry," says Nicole Nelson, executive director of the Wisconsin FFA Foundation. "We've shared our thoughts and concerns as schools have considered cutting programs and tightening their budgets and are appreciative of the support that we've received from alumni, school districts, legislators, and so many others."
Application of skills and knowledge learned is the key to connecting our current workforce to where future need for skilled labor exists; a realistic path from secondary education to employability is needed.
"Today's FFA student members will be key contributors to some of the largest issues our world will face," says Nelson. "Through their future careers in the agriculture, food and natural resources industry, they will work on matters such as feeding a growing population, preserving our natural resources, ensuring consumers that food sources are safe and healthy, and so much more, that is why hands-on experiences, such as SAEs, are a great education tool to learn valuable skills for a growing and changing agriculture industry."


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If you're thinking about buying a combine, Claas wants you to give a Lexion a try. Literally. Last week, at its a factory headquarters in Omaha, NE, Claas of America hosted close to 100 would-be customers and their dealers to drive a few of their newest Lexion models and get a first-hand feel for German-American engineering.
Claas, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, is a company known for its combines and forage harvesters. Each year, the company chisels out about a week to show prospective buyers the vehicle features that it says warrant the $600,000-plus price tag on the largest models. They call the event, Adventures in the Field."
"The purpose of today is to give farmers a feel for the Lexion combine," says Christopher Girodat, product specialist for Claas of America. "Once they get behind the wheel and experience the features, we think they'll want to invest."
Girodat says that one thing that sets its combines apart from other players in this highly competitive market is its hybrid threshing system, called APS, or Accelerated Pre-separation System, which separates nearly 30% of the grain before it hits the concave. Claas officials say the APS threshing system, with its industry-leading throughput, helped the company set the world record for harvesting corn in 2011, when its Lexion 760 processed 51,153 bushels in 10 hours.
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"With the APS system, you have three-drum threshing upfront and dual rotors in the back, which provides a lot of separation area," Girodat explains. "And it allows you to fine-tune your adjustments, too. If you need more threshing or less threshing, you can change the rotor speed without having to slow down the separator speed. Couple that with our jet stream cleaning and you get a lot of capacity with our machines--almost to the point that our throughput compares more closely to competitive machines that are one class size larger than ours."
Upraded features, new technology
Those attending the event had a few hours of classroom time to learn about the features of the combine before being escorted to the track to drive one. Among them: the 3rd-generation Terra Trac suspended track system. Cebis (CLAAS Electronic on-Board Information System) machine monitoring and control system. And a newly branded line of precision farming technology called Easy, which stands for Efficient Ag Systems.
During a combine walk-around, new Easy specialist Brandon Olstad pointed out the progression of advancements that are leading to autonomous combines. He says the first was automated steering, which took over steering. The second was Cruise Pilot, a ground speed control system. And a third, which Claas just launched for the small grains grower, is Cemos Automatic, which continuously makes adjustments to machine setting to match the changing crop conditions "It makes adjustments every 15 seconds, compared to the every few hours a combine driver might think of making them," Olstad says. "It's just another step toward autonomy."
With that, we stepped out to the field to give these bad boys a ride. I set my sights on Claas's newest combine, the Lexion 780. I bummed a ride with Claas intern Julian Kollmeyer from Germany, who is finishing up a graduate degree in engineering. I sat in the buddy seat while I filmed him with my iPhone.
"I'm going to show you the Lexion 780, the biggest combine from Claas," Kollmeyer says. "It has a 16L Mercedes-Benz engine with almost 600 hp. And, it is really quiet in the back compared to other engines."
He revs up the engine, unfolds the grain tank in back, engages the header and separation system, and together we start down the gravel path. He explains that the Lexion 780 is Claas's second combine they've labeled "Class 10" designed to power today's biggest corn heads. (Because there are no other combines on the market with the type of size and throughput that the largest Lexion combines offer, there isn't technically a classification for anything larger than a class 9.)
Kollmeyer points out that the combine is equipped with Claas's Terra Trac mobile track system, now in its third-generation with full and independent suspension. The tracks are fully suspended to cushion the ride and keep the combine stable when going over ditches and around obstacles.
What I'm going to show you now is how Auto Contour works," Kollmeyer says in reference to an automated header height control system that keeps the corn heard close to the ground by automatically adjusting to ground contours.
"When we are going over the hills, you can see how it follows the contour of the ground while keeping up the ground speed. It accurately follows the ground without the head getting stuck in the ground."
With that, Kollmeyer powers down the combine and greets a customer waiting for his turn behind the wheel.
Other models offered up for the test drive were the new 670 series straw walker combines, launched this year at the Canada Farm Progress Show, and a 100th anniversary model signed by Helmut Class to commemorate the 450,000th unit produced.
We finished off the night with a Claas-labeled lager, steak dinner, and a brownie and ice cream topped with "Claas" green and white M&Ms. Nothing like a little subliminal advertising.
I asked one farmer whether the ride-and-drive had any influence on his next purchase decision.
"I think it does," he says while standing in line for dinner. "You get a chance to see how the machine works and what goes into it. I'd seriously consider buying one."


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Nuclear stress tests – Commission Interim Report
What are nuclear stress tests?
The "stress tests" are a set of comparative criteria drawn up in the light of the nuclear accident in Fukushima. These EU wide tests will be in addition to existing the framework already applied at national level. Their aim is to assess whether the safety margins used in the licensing of nuclear power plants were sufficient to cover also extreme unexpected events.
The aim is to learn from what happened in Japan and help p revent that a similar accident can happen in Europe. One of the most important lessons to be drawn is that the extreme situations such as two natural disasters can hit at the same time and knock out the electrical power supply system completely. In Japan, the power plant withstood the earthquake but the tsunami interrupted the power supply which is necessary to cool down fuel elements. If they are not cooled down, there is a risk of a core meltdown with leakage of radioactivity and radiation getting into the soil and the water.
What is being assessed in the stress tests?
It is assessed whether the nuclear power plant can withstand the effects of the following events:
1. Natural disasters: earthquakes, flooding, extreme cold, extreme heat, snow, ice, storms, tornados, heavy rain and other extreme natural conditions.
2. Man-made failures and actions. These accidents can be: air plane crashes and explosions close to nuclear power plants, whether caused by a gas container or an oil tanker approaching the plant, fire or damaging effects from terrorist attacks.
What is the state of play of the stress tests?
Comprehensive risk and safety assessments ("stress tests"), based on commonly agreed criteria, started in all EU Member States that operate nuclear power plants before 1 June.
By mid August, nuclear plant operators carried out part of their self-assessment and sent national regulators their first interim report. By 15 September, the national regulatory authorities checked these first self-assessments and compiled national progress reports. All 14 Member States that operate nuclear power plants (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom) plus Lithuania, which is currently decommissioning its nuclear power producing units, submitted these progress reports to the Commission by 15 September. Similar reports were received from Switzerland and Ukraine, which accepted to take part in the exercise as neighbouring countries.
When will the EU present the results of the stress tests?
The national regulator will have to submit their final report by 31 st December. This will be followed by peer reviews which will be completed in April 2012. Safety experts from all EU Member States, including those who do not operate nuclear power plants, and Commission experts in nuclear safety will participate in peer review teams. National regulators under review should give the peer review team access not only to all necessary information but also to nuclear power plants.
The Commission will present its final report on the stress tests to the European Council of 28-29 June 2012.
What are Commission's initial impressions based on the national reports?
Subject to confirmation by the final national reports, the interim report recognises that in general nuclear operators follow and implement the agreed methodology. However, the format, content and level of detail of the reports vary substantially and the Commission's preliminary analysis indicates that the national regulators have different approaches to safety and use varying criteria to define safety improvements. For example, seismic risks are dealt with very differently and they seem to be evaluated independently of the actual seismicity of the regions concerned.
How can the results be compared if the reports are different from each other?
The Commission wants to enhance the coherence and comparability of the final national reports. To this end, it has agreed, together with the national regulators, a detailed common structure, which final national reports will have to follow.
The central element of this structure is the evaluation of safety margins for earthquakes, flooding, extreme weather conditions, loss of electrical power (including back-up and off-site supply) and loss of cooling capacity. It also contains a detailed chapter on severe accident management (measures to cope with major accidents, such as serious damage to the fuel or even the core meltdown and loss of containment capacity, resulting in important radioactive releases).
How about man-made risks, such as terrorist attacks?
There is no nuclear safety without security. Nuclear security aims at preventing intentional acts that might damage a nuclear facility or result in the theft or dispersion of nuclear materials. In the EU, only few of the national safety regulators have specific responsibility for the security of nuclear power plants. Moreover, security competencies in the Member States are spread among different bodies.
Security issues are an important part of the overall assessment process. Member States, assisted by the Commission, are directly in charge of assessing nuclear security. To that end, the Council set up the Ad-hoc Group on Nuclear Security (AHGNS). Its report is annexed to the Commission interim report.
The final results of the Group's work will be published in its final report by June 2012.
Switzerland and Ukraine are participating in the stress tests? What about other EU neighbours?
The Commission has involved in a common assessment process those EU neighbours that operate or own nuclear power plants or have clear plans for the development of nuclear power. Two of these countries – Switzerland and Ukraine – participate fully in the EU stress test process and have provided their progress reports. The Russian Federation stated that they had already performed safety re-assessments for their own nuclear power plants but they are interested to participate in the EU peer reviews.
The Commission aims to further enhance its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. It advocates improvements in the global legal framework for nuclear safety, especially the Nuclear Safety Convention, with the aim of increasing its effectiveness, governance and enforceability.
Are the results of the reports public?
Yes. All reports, including national reports and peer reviews, are or will be available at www.ensreg.eu .
Are there already conclusions available?
At this stage of the assessment process, any conclusions on overall stress tests results for a particular Member State or on plant-specific results would be premature. Therefore, the interim report contains only preliminary suggestions, which will be further elaborated in the light of the final outcome of the stress tests. The Commission will outline EU legislative initiatives in its final report to the European Council in June 2012.
Does the Commission propose any concrete follow-up actions?
In parallel, on the basis of initial findings, the European Commission is reviewing the EU nuclear safety legislation and envisaging ways for improvement.
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It was a bit steep! (O_O) Here are myself, Alex, and our awesome leader (and great pacer), Doug, on the summit, where we hung out for over a half hour. It looks cold, but it was really a nice day up there. What can I say? I have major COLD ISSUES! Because of our later start, we actually had the summit to ourselves!!
These photos were both taken by Deborah. More photos at http://alexfeldman.org/pictures/hiking/2007/debandsue/ T'was a great day with some great folks!
Unfortunately, the weather gods were not on our side for the intended Rainier trip on W-Th-F. In fact, the weather forecast was SO dismal that our group of nine decided to not even start up the mountain, so sure we were of not reaching the summit. Everyone made the best of a disappointing situation, some opting to try for Mt. Adams, others returning home, etc.
As for myself, I chose to get in some badly needed training for my next hundred miler, Tahoe Rim, which consisted of nice runs on the PCT, Cascade Crest 100 (one of my faves!) course, and Mts. Si, Little Si, and Teneriffe, where I was able to get in almost 9000 feet of elevation in ~27 miles. Okay, so it wasn't exactly like Mt. Rainier's 9000 feet of elevation gain but was more enjoyable in the sense that I was carrying a 3-4 lb. pack instead of a ~50 lb. one (yikes). While the weather was not great, I actually got rained on for only ~5 miles.
Yesterday I started heading south once again... under sunny, blue skies. Mt. Rainier was standing out in all her glory. It felt very wrong to be driving away from one of the mountains I came up here to climb, but it's my philosophy that things happen for a reason and usually work out for the best. I'll be back another day to try it again.
This morning I got in a great loop on Dog Mountain in Southern WA--what a cool peak!--then drove to Hood River and consumed the most humungous "Alaskan fish" burrito I've ever eaten in my life. Oink! (What in the heck is "Alaskan fish" anyway??) Until next time..........


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PAWNO wrote:I'm pretty sure i'll have enough to hold out any Late rallies from xb or fine for that bye week spot. But i really hope that fine catches xb for spot 3 cause if xb gets chris paul back during the playoffs there's no knowing what kind of damage this team could inflict on the heavyweight of the comp. My pick is xb for dark horse!
Beat his a$$$!!
You too Migya.
And Aussie.
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Jessica Alba Expecting Baby #2!
Jessica Alba and her husband, Cash Warren, are expecting another baby!
The 29-year-old actress announced the happy news on her Facebook account today.
"It's been a while since I've been on FB & I thought I'd drop by to let you all in on some exciting news. Honor is going to be a Big Sister! Cash and I are thrilled and wanted to share the news directly with you so you didn't hear about it somewhere else. I appreciated all of the love and support you all gave me during my first pregnancy and will definitely appreciate it again this time around. Have a great day!" Jess wrote.
Congratulations to the happy family!!
Pictured inside are Jess and Honor going out to lunch on Tuesday (February 15). Jess is wearing a leopard Joe's t-shirt!


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Loving God, we thank You for our gifts and talents
and for calling us to share in Your ministry of healing.
With a desire to serve You more fully we pray:
for minds that seek wisdom and truth,
for hearts filled with gentleness and love,
for eyes that view others with compassion and understanding.
May we listen with sensitivity and acceptance.
May we speak words of reassurance and comfort.
May all whom we touch experience Your healing presence.
O God, Help us continue to serve You and Your
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I'm trying to get together a topic where you can post an Anti-virus that you think is the best, and tell why you think it is. Please include what kind it is (ad-ware, spy-ware, anti-virus, whether it's free or not, etc), why you think it's good, any personal experience, and so on.


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ESPN Editor Bryant Knox recaps the 2013 NBA draft for the Portland Trail Blazers. Despite rumors swirling before the event, Portland's night was relatively uneventful. However, uneventful isn't a bad thing when you improve. With the No. 10 pick, Neil Olshey and Paul Allen chose PG C.J. McCollum out of Lehigh.
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Anyone else enjoy this?
If you did not see it, you got another week.
Thoroughly liked it and there was a quote in almost every reply from Eno (and big up for including
15 seconds of "My Sex"/Ultravox).
He keeps it all together by good storage, good labeling, loads of space, taking notes and drawing in small notebooks
(although almost never referring to them - Van Gogh's letters-> Eno's notebooks?).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Once again, MIT flexed its muscles in Zesiger Pool, improving to 6-0 on the season after netting decisive victories against conference foes Springfield and Coast Guard. The Engineers, who are ranked 11th in the latest national poll, defeated Springfield, 197.5-100.5, and Coast Guard, 179-117.
The Cardinal and Gray pulled away with a commanding performance near the end of the meet. First, Jeff Zhou split 52.45 to pace a 1-2-3-4 finish for the Engineers in the 100 fly, with Deke Hu, Brett Boval, and Toomas Sepp touching the wall next. Following the stunning win, Matt Chapa led a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200 IM. Chapa finished in 1:59.34 with freshmen Jim Griffin and Tim Stumbaugh grabbing second and third, respectively. Capping the meet with a strong win in the 400 free relay, Luke Cummings ignited the win with a lead-off split of 47.00, while Laurent Charpentier followed Peter Wellings and Andrew Pierson with an anchor split of 46.40.
Stumbaugh was sensational for MIT after delivering a tremendous effort on Saturday. The rookie out-dueled teammate Ryan TerBush to win the 100 back in 53.27 before coming back to nab a significant victory in the 200 back (1:56.27).
Despite Stumbaugh's solid performance, he wasn't the only MIT swimmer to collect two individual wins as Luke Cummings and Michael Dobson each accomplished the feat. Dobson swept the distance races, going 4:48.31 in the 500 and 10:03.27 in the 1000. Cummings handled the free sprints, pacing a 1-2 finish for MIT in both the 50 and 100. He split 21.38 to hold off Zhou in the 50, and finished just ahead of Laurent Charpentier in the 100 with a winning split of 47.04.
Charpentier picked up a win of his own earlier in the day after swimming 1:44.81 in the 200 free. He also sparked a blistering back end to the Engineers' winning 200 medley relay with a fly split of 22.9. Cummings anchored in 20.9, with Zhou and Rastslav Racz combining to finish in 1:36.46.
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"Young Catholic America: Emerging Adults In, Out of, and Gone from the Church" is a fascinating but troubling book, for it paints a picture of young adults who are more inclined to abandon their Catholic Faith than to practice it.
The book is based on conclusions of the National Study of Youth and Religion that began in 2001. A first wave of data was collected from more than 3,000 teens 13-17 years old. A second wave gathered from most of the same people was gathered in 2005. A third wave was collected in 2007-08 with as many of the study respondents as possible, who by then were 18-23 years old, an age group the study calls "emerging adults."
Today's parents and grandparents may bristle at the book's main conclusion that today's young adults are very much like the two previous generations, many of whom stopped practicing the Faith themselves because of religious, social and cultural changes that exploded in the 1960s.
The authors explain it was in that decade that today's grandparents were emerging adults who became so assimilated into American culture that they began to agree with public opinions and the beliefs of their non-Catholic peers, rather than looking to the Faith for guidance on moral and ethical issues.
Before the mid-20th century, most Catholic adults in this country were immigrants or the children of immigrants, with many living in urban areas heavily populated with other Catholics. A religious minority, Catholics were likely to attend Catholic schools, marry other Catholics and live day-to-day in a heavily Catholic environment. Thus, passing on the Faith happened rather organically.
Changes in society that followed World War II (1939-45) led to greater educational and socioeconomic opportunity and residential mobility for Catholics. As they moved up the social and economic ladder, Catholics went to college, worked in middle-class occupations, lived among non-Catholics and increasingly sent their children to public schools. Catholics became "highly inculturated" and embraced all that America had to offer, including "material prosperity, educational broadening, ecumenical tolerance, moral diversity, and liberal individualism."
Also, during the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) introduced many changes into the Church, which demanded "strong, clear transmission and interpretation by the bishops to clergy, religious and lay faithful." The Church in the United States did "a less than ideal job of instructing the faithful," the authors write, resulting in "significant uncertainty and misunderstanding" affecting Church life and culture.
The ability to understand and transmit the Faith was complicated by a marked loss of vocations after Vatican II, meaning fewer priests, sisters and brothers in the classrooms. The falling numbers of religious to staff schools, coupled with meager financial giving by Catholics, resulted in massive school closings, even as the Catholic population was expanding.
The National Youth Study did in-depth interviews with 41 of the 18- to 23-year-olds they had followed since their teen years and found that only 12 of them were still practicing their Faith.
The active Catholics tended to come from homes where the Faith was important to the parents. "Committed and practicing Catholic emerging adults are people who were well formed in Catholic faith and practice as children, whose faith became personally meaningful and practiced as teenagers, and whose parents (reinforced by other supportive Catholic adults) were the primary agents cultivating that life-long formation."
On the other hand, the study found that those who had abandoned the Faith generally had parents who had detached from Catholicism themselves, although this was not always the case. The authors believe these findings are nationally representative.
Thus, the majority of today's emerging adults seem to be simply following a pattern started by their grandparents in the 1960s and passed onto their parents. The result is quite alarming, for the authors found that most of today's Catholic emerging adults are little different from their non-Catholic peers:
• They "do not use their Catholic faith as a key resource for arriving at any countercultural religious, social or ethical commitments."
• Despite distinctive and strong Catholic Church teachings against abortion, birth control, capital punishment, suicide and divorce, their views on these issues "are nearly indistinguishable" from their non-Catholic counterparts.
• They see unmarried sex, heavy drinking and illegal drugs as simply "coming of age" activities in this culture, ignoring specific and strong Church condemnation of these acts. The one area where Catholic emerging adults differ from their non-Catholic peers is also bad news: Young Catholic adults attend church services even less frequently.
However, there is plenty of good news in the book and many lessons to be learned: Teaching and nourishing the Faith must begin in early childhood, not at confirmation time, and parents must consistently model the importance of the Faith in their own lives. This works best in families where both parents are Catholic, according to the study, which also found that a faith-filled father has the most influence on whether an emerging adult stays Catholic, for most youth take for granted that mothers are religious.
Other positive influences listed by the authors include Catholic schools, active and robust youth groups, compelling catechetical training and formative faith-deepening retreats. (However, the study also found that parishes provide little such programming for single young adults.) The outcomes for emerging adults who remain active in their faith are encouraging, for the study said that practicing Catholic young adults have better outcomes in crucial areas of physical and mental health and an overall feeling of well-being.
"Young Catholic America" can be dense reading at times, with plenty of charts and sociological analyses, but it is easily accessible to the non-expert reader who will gain plenty of insights from several in-depth interviews presented. The book also is full of practical ideas that may help reverse the decades-long trend of young people leaving the Faith.
Ann Carey writes from Indiana.
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I have worked in the golf business for almost a decade now. The passion started when I worked at Fiddlers Green in Eugene, OR. After 3 years of working with the Whalen family at Fidds I decided I wanted to stay in the golf business and went to the San Diego Golf Academy (Arizona campus). After graduating from the golf academy I went to work for Hot Stix Golf and that's when the Ho'ing began. I was a builder and club fitter for them and my knowledge of golf clubs/shafts grew extremely fast. Following two great years at Hot Stix I moved back home to Oregon and helped manage Golfsmith by the Portland airport. I got a call a year later from a manufacturer in Carlsbad and took the job! I feel like I have had my feet in every part of the golf business except for greens keeping. I understand what customer service is and how to gain exposure to a business or a product . This now brings me to understand why I am a Fujikura guy for life. I met Jeremy at Fuji through a friend of mine. We exchanged a few emails and I got lucky enough to take a visit of the facility and get fit in the FIT-ON studio. When I got too the studio on Thursday December 1st I was met by Jeremy at the front door. The blood sugar that day was running a little low because of my excitement so I wanted to make sure I had no excuses what so ever, so I swung by the vending machine and got a handful of M&M's. Now that my blood sugar was back up to wear it was supposed to be the tour began. I got introduced to almost everyone. The team at Fuji was really understands what customer service is about, everyone I was introduced to greeted me with a smile and thanked me for being there. The introduction almost made me feel as though I was back in Eugene at Fiddlers Green, that's how nice these guys were. I got into the FIT-ON studio after walking by a ton of cubicles, prototype shafts, offices, and a few Speeder Motore VC6.2 Tour Spec. I was introduced to John who was my fitter for the next two hours. We started by me warming up hitting a few of my drivers until my excitement came through again and I said I think I am warm. John says but you have only taken 5 swings. I confessed that my boss at work let me leave an hour early to get warmed up at the local Rancho Carlsbad GC. John and I started by taking measurements of my current R11 driver with a Motore 6.1 Speeder stiff flex. We checked the swing weight, CPM, and length of club. The first few swings you will notice from the pictures my swing speed was 102-104. John thought for my size that I should be swinging the club a little faster than that speed. We took the 10 gram weight out and exchanged it for a 5 gram. The swingweight went down too D1, which helped my swing speed increase to 110-112. By this time I was salivating at the mouth thinking that we hadn't even started fitting me for the shaft and we weren't even done fitting me for the head yet. We still had to fit me for the correct FCT setting and the all new ASP setting. The fitter new my miss was left by watching a few of my numbers so we cranked the ASP too open. We changed the FCT to 10 degrees of loft, in between Standard and lower. John and I discussed what shaft weight would be best for me and we decided on 60, 65,70. The two shafts we decided based on my numbers so far would be the 6.1 or VC 6.2 Tour Spec. I really liked the 6.1 because of the launch and how active the tip felt. What we found with the 6.1 was that it started offline -1.5 degrees and went further left. The spin was higher as you can see from the charts anywhere from 2700-3400. I really liked the feel of this shaft but I was going into it with an open mind and told John I trusted him to fit me into whatever he knew would be the best for me. Now it was time to try the new VC6.2 Tour Spec. We snapped the new shaft into the R11 and began the trial. The first thing that popped out to me with my first couple of shots was that I was starting my shot on the positive +1.0 and it would leak back to the target. With the 6.1 because of the torque it would start left of target and continue to go left. With 6.2 it would start right and finish at the target. With lower torque the spin rate went down to 2100-2500. I told John I think we have found the right shaft. I went from hitting to the ball 280 yards to 295. We moved onto the fairway and rescue and settled on a 7.0 to help get the ball in the air. I didn't feel the need to hit another 100 balls when we had all the results in front of us for the driver. We tried a few different rescue shafts and the one we decided on was the 904 rescue shaft. Like John said old school is hard to beat sometimes. After the fitting I offered to help them out with anything they might need from my end. It's a give and take world and I didn't want to be the guy just taking everything. I exchanged emails with John in hopes that we can play some golf together in the near future. I was now setup with a Tour Spec VC6.2 built straight in to my driver, 7.0 into my R11 4 wood, and a 904 for my rescue. What blew my mind is how we started the club fitting with the club head and then moved onto the shaft. John was extremely patient with me and all of my questions I asked. Working with the team at Fuji made me understand what customer service was all about and will make me even better at my job now. If any of you are in the area sometime you guys need to go get fit at the FIT-ON Studio. Enjoy the pictures below.
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text: If you were to pick a theme word for 2011's SALON TODAY 200, it would be VALIDATION. This year's competition measured all areas of salon business in calendar years 2008 and 2009—two of the toughest years for all businesses. For a salon to not only survive, but thrive during these years, strong leadership, solid systems, motivated employees and loyal customers were mandatory.


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H. Wiley Hitchcock's memorial service was last Saturday in St. Peter's Church. Wiley was a remarkable man. He was a WASP aristocrat, a true scholar, an expert leader of instititions and a warm friend to several generations of musicologists, critics and musicians.
Wiley won his reputation -- "earned his union card," as he put it -- in sometmes stodgy musicological circles as an expert in the properly old music of Caccini and, especially, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, as the author of the catalogue of Charpentier's works (they go now by "H" numbers), the editor of a myriad scores and the author of the basic biography.
But I knew him, as most people did, as an Americanist. He ran the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College, which spawned a generation or two of Americanist musicologists and helped make the scholarly study of all kinds of American music academically repsectable. Ives was another specialty, and another composer now with "H" numbers in his catalogue.
Wiley was the author of "Music in the United States," a standard text laudable for its openness to all kinds of music, cultivated and vernacular (to use his terms).
He carried that openness into his editing of the New Grove Dicitionary of American Music, which swelled to four volumes largely through his insistence on the inclusion of all manner of pop and avant-garde weirdness. I was the area editor for those two fields, and I deeply appreciated his friendship and support.
Not everyone can make as many marks on their fields and their times as Wiley did. I know that everyone in St. Peter's Church was grateful to him.
For an ongoing conversation and news reports about arts journalism, go to the blog of the National Arts Journalism Program, here.


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Spotify playlists for a host of Grand Theft Auto titles have been compiled and released by Rockstar Games.
With the playlists you can easily browse and find your favourite tracks from GTA radio stations, including songs from GTA 4, Episodes from Liberty City, San Andreas, Vice City, GTA 3, Liberty City Stories, Vice City Stories and Chinatown Wars.
Rockstar says that it hopes to includes the original songs from the games where possible.
You'll find all the Spotify links - and those for iTunes - over on Rockstargames.com.
Is there a particular song that always takes you back to playing GTA? Share your nostalgia in the comments below.


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2004-10-28 / People/Social
Island Lodge No. 623 gets a visit from "God Squad" member
Island Lodge No. 623 was honored to have as its guest speaker Monsignor Thomas Hartman of the well-known television series The God Squad. Monsignor Hartman gave an interesting talk on many toipics.
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Don't stick a fork in Tim Tebow ... 'cause he ain't done in the NFL just yet ... at least according to NY Giants quarterback David Carr.
Carr -- the #1 overall pick in the 2002 NFL Draft -- was at LAX last night when we asked him if Tebow's release from the Jets signaled the end for the former Heisman Trophy winner.
Despite the media funeral for Tim's career, Carr still thinks there's hope.
As for Mark Sanchez's future in New York ... well, check out the video.


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For me, Poha (or pohe or powa) is a childhood favorite. Although a breakfast dish in the Indian state of Maharashtra, we used to have poha as an evening snack after school. Whether you make this poha recipe for breakfast, as a main dish or as a snack, its quick, filling, and tasty.
Batata poha is made with potatoes. Kanda poha is made with onions. This recipe is sort of two-in-one. You can add the potatoes if you like, if not, just stick with the onions. You can also toss in some frozen peas, edamame or mixed frozen vegetables.
serves 2-3
2 cups thick (mota) poha
2 tablespoons oil
1/2 teaspoon black mustard seeds
3 tablespoons peanuts
1/2 cup minced onion (about 1 medium onion)
6 curry leaves
1 green chili, minced
1/2 cup boiled, peeled, cubed potato or frozen green peas. Both are optional.
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon lime juice
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro for garnish
1. Place the poha in a colander and wash it under cold water. Set aside to drain. Do this just before cooking – the poha shouldn't sit for more than 10 minutes (or it will get mushy).
2.Heat the oil in a wok and add black mustard seeds. When they pop, add the peanuts and cook on medium heat till the peanuts turn lightly golden.
3.Then add the onion, curry leaf and green chili. Sauté on medium heat till the onion is translucent.
4. Then add the cubed potatoes or green peas, if using. Stir well.
5. Sprinkle turmeric and salt. Stir and cook for a few seconds.
6. Add the drained poha and lime juice. Cook on low heat for about 3 minutes.
7. Garnish with chopped cilantro.


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Call It What You Will, We're All Sweating
The big picture is warming up
By Steve Carr
Where are all the talk show hosts, conservative pundits, and global warming naysayers who were crowing incessantly this past winter when it was snowing like no tomorrow? Back in February, as we shoveled out from underneath one snowstorm after another, we heard all about how climate change was a left-wing lie. Ron Smith, the WBAL talk show host, poked fun at the ongoing weather crisis every day for months — ignoring the fact that when all was said and done, the winter of 2010 was one of the warmest on record.
Now that Snowpocalypse is but a fleeting memory, we need AC — if the power doesn't go out — to consider the latest weather hit parade from the Department of Commerce's National Climatic Data Center:
• The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June 2010 was the warmest on record at 61.1 degrees F, which is 1.22 degrees above the 20th century average of 59.9. June 2010 was the fourth consecutive warmest month on record (March, April and May 2010 were also the warmest on record). This was the 304th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The last month with below-average temperature was February 1985. The June worldwide averaged land surface temperature was 1.93 degrees F above the 20th century average of 55.9 — the warmest on record.
• It was the warmest April–June (three-month period) on record for the global land and ocean temperature and the land-only temperature. The three-month period was the second warmest for the world's oceans, behind 1998.
• It was the warmest June and April–June on record for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole and all land areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
• It was the warmest January–June on record for the global land and ocean temperature. The worldwide land on average had its second warmest January–June, behind 2007. The worldwide averaged ocean temperature was the second warmest January–June, behind 1998.
Those are a lot of numbers, but the trends and the truth are undeniable, folks. It's getting warmer every month and every year. This summer is certainly no exception.
Europe is going insane. The heat bubbling up from Africa is baking brains as Europe experiences the same 90-degree, day-upon-day sauna show that settled in over the Chesapeake.-
Over there, things are starting to unravel. It's driving people insane. It's driving them to drink and, in hopes of cooling off, into the water.
Vadim Seryogin, a department head at Russia's Emergencies Ministry, told reporters on July 14 that 49 people, including two children, had drowned the past day. More than 1,200 total have drowned, 223 between July 5 and July 12.
The major highway from Poland to Germany melted, along with numerous airport runways. People across Europe have been stranded in sweltering trains broken down in the extreme heat. Grains and other food crops are withering away after weeks without rain. Fires have burned thousands of acres. The elderly and the sick are huddling in churches converted into cooling shelters. There have been riots in Finland after stores ran out of fans. A state of emergency has been declared in many parts of Europe.
Meanwhile, back here in the Land of Pleasant Living, 10 people have dropped dead from the heat this summer, and a wide range of other problems have arisen, including the MARC trains having trouble staying on the rails, Code Red days with dangerously high ozone readings, plummeting oxygen levels in the Bay and the Dead Zone dramatically expanding. Tempers are rising with the temperature. The grass and trees are fading fast. Water levels are getting dangerously low. BGE keeps warning that the power grid is maxed-out.
-Now, after the hottest June ever, I'm tempted to play the conservative's game and poke fun at George Will, Rush Limbaugh and Bay Weekly's climate change critics who took exception this past winter when I said we were facing a climate crisis.
But I'm going to take the high road.
The rising temperature of the planet earth manifests itself in many ways, but a rise in temperature of one degree is below most of our levels of awareness. Perhaps that's why we continue to pretend it doesn't exist.
Rising temperature makes its presence known through strange and extreme weather, like August in June, multiple blizzards, more hurricanes, droughts when there should be rain, rains when it should be dry, tornados in Wisconsin and ice caps melting at an alarming rate.
We notice signs like that. So let's pull our heads out of the proverbial sand before it's too late.
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The classes are listed below. Their formal titles, details and registration instructions are online at http://groups.csuprojects.org/online-fall2013
Our Oceans
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History of Rock and Roll
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Elementary Astronomy
Introduction to Sociology
Logic and Critical Thinking
American Politics
World Food and Fiber Systems
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Music Appreciation
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Stocks, bonds rise sharply as Fed keeps stimulus
September 18, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Investors plowed money into stocks and bonds after the Federal Reserve's surprise decision to keep its economic stimulus program in place.
The news sent the Standard & Poor's 500 index and the Dow Jones industrial average to record highs.
Bond yields fell sharply after the central bank said it would continue its huge bond-buying program.
Gold prices also rose and the dollar fell as investors anticipated that the continuation of the program might lead to inflation.
The S&P 500 was up 16 points, or 1 percent, to 1,721 in afternoon trading. The Dow rose 114 points, or 0.7 percent, to 15,641.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.76 percent from 2.87 percent.


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So, discuss your treatments here ... and problems as well.
Corn starch is not just for cooking anymore ...
Corn starch is not just for cooking anymore ...
I would likely just wait and see ... tea will often fill voids as well.Senchamatcha wrote:Some how my Shib's Yuzumashi got a crack! (this shib http://www.o-cha.com/Kyoto-Shiboridash-Teapot-Set.html)
I have no idea how it happened. It wasn't there last night, but it is there this morning.
It appears to be a non-leaking crack, but went all the way through.
Suggestions? Should I boil some cornstarch water and apply the jelly paste to the cracked area to shore it up or should I just wait and see if it leaks and cornstarch it then?


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Their star quarterback remains on the field, but federal employee unions will continue to play defense in Congress.
Labor leaders cheered the re-election of President Barack Obama, yet with no significant congressional changes — particularly in the House — they will fight the same battles.
"President Obama's re-election is a victory not only for the country but for federal employees in particular, who would have suffered in countless ways under a Romney administration," J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said during a telephone news conference the day after the election.
"But make no mistake — even though our preferred candidate has won re-election, we are under no illusion that the next four years will be a walk in the park."
Far from it.
The House remains under the control of conservative Republicans, who have made sport of legislative proposals targeting the federal workforce. Whether Obama's victory moderates that remains to be seen.
Top items on federal employees' agenda include avoiding a fall off the fiscal cliff and making up lost ground.
A freeze on basic federal pay rates, enacted in late 2010, was supposed to last two years, through 2012. It has since been extended through March. Employees know they aren't going to recoup the money they've lost, but they're trying hard to get a proposed 0.5 percent increase — set possibly for April — made retroactive to January 2013.
"That's one of our goals," Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in an interview. "We want it implemented retroactive to January, when it should have been under the original ... president's proposal."
There is precedent for a retroactive raise: Congress approved a 4.1 percent increase on Jan. 22, 2004, retroactive to the first pay period that month.
Kelley, Cox and other leaders of worker organizations also might have to field a strong defense to protect employee retirement benefits, an area previously in the sights of the White House and Congress.
Congressional Republicans wanted a greater increase in employee retirement contributions than did the Obama administration, but they agreed in principle. Eventually, Congress approved — and the president accepted — an increase in contributions made by employees hired after Jan. 1. An exception was made for hires who had five years of prior federal service.
That lost ground won't be made up.
Cox repeatedly returned to the retirement contribution issue during his call. The AFGE wants Obama to confirm that "there is no need to increase federal retirement contributions," he said. "That system is fully funded. There is no need for that. That would actually result in a pay cut for federal employees."
With the pay freeze and the retirement contributions changes, federal employees have already sacrificed to boost the nation's coffers, said Joseph A. Beaudoin, president of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE).
"As we come to the edge of the fiscal cliff and the start of the lame-duck session of Congress, the stakes are higher than ever for federal workers and retirees," he warned.
The cliff — $500 billion in automatic tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect in January unless Congress acts — would hurt everyone, especially federal employees.
"Both President Obama and members of Congress talked about shared sacrifice while on the campaign trail, and that's what we at NARFE are asking for now," Beaudoin added. "Federal employees have contributed more than $75 billion [over 10 years] toward getting our country's fiscal standing back on track. We hope the president will defend federal workers and retirees from the waves of unfair attacks that incorrectly painted civil servants as the cause of our nation's fiscal problems."
Although cautious about the future, union leaders were in a celebratory mood over Obama's win. They know that whatever disagreements they have had with the Obama White House, their situation would be more difficult had Mitt Romney won.
William R. Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, said, "This was a momentous victory for the President," who "has taken innovative approaches to improving workforce morale, efficiency, and productivity. All the while, he went above the call of duty to keep employees and their representatives involved in the decision-making process."
Union leaders will make sure the voices of federal employees are heard during the decision-making process, but they won't be the deciders.
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April 22, 2013 - Bridgestone Americas and Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO) today released the findings of the companies' Earth Day 2013 Consumer Recycling and Sustainability Survey, revealing U.S. consumer attitudes toward recycling and sustainable behaviors in 20 cities. The findings and infographic were released as part of a four-week schedule of announcements from Bridgestone Americas in celebration of Earth Month.
The survey found that the majority of consumers are holding companies and corporations accountable for the environmental sustainability of their products and processes. Individuals are cognizant of "being green" as they shop, as 92 percent indicated a manufacturer's operational sustainability or a product's sustainable attributes have some impact on their purchasing decisions. According to surveyed consumers, the top three ways companies can show they are environmentally responsible are:
Creating a product design that minimizes energy and water usage
Minimizing generated waste
Minimizing carbon emissions tied to waste "At Bridgestone, we are always looking for opportunities to reduce our environmental footprint in any number of ways, from reducing the waste we generate through our manufacturing processes, to ensuring that for every tire we sell at one of our more than 2,200 company-owned retail stores, one is sent to another valuable use," said John Sheerin, environmental director, BSRO. "This survey shows that more and more, consumers expect these types of behaviors from companies, and that we as corporate citizens share responsibility for the life cycle of our products from manufacturing to disposal." According to the survey results, Seattle, Wash., and Minneapolis, Minn., were home to the most recyclers, with 97 percent recycling either curbside or at a recycling center. Riverside, Calif., residents were the most serious recyclers with 63 percent committed to recycling everything they can, even if they have to take it to a recycling center themselves. On the whole, recycling is on the rise, as 52 percent of consumers recycle more now than they did two years ago. Overall findings about U.S. consumer recycling habits indicate that 86 percent of those surveyed recycle, with more than one-third of respondents identifying themselves as serious recyclers (36 percent), recycling everything they possibly can even if it means going to a recycling center. Half say they recycle as long as curbside service is provided. Three quarters of respondents have a curbside service provided by their city or county. In addition to recycling habits, the survey measured consumers' opinions about ease of recycling a number of items, including motor oil, consumer electronics, tires, mattresses and household/office waste. Sixty percent of consumers surveyed found it difficult to recycle mattresses, which were seen as the most challenging item. Large appliances followed, with 51 percent scoring refrigerators, washers, dryers, stoves and microwaves as "difficult" or "very difficult" to recycle. Thirty-seven percent regarded tires as difficult to recycle. To find out more about Bridgestone's sustainability initiatives, including its Spent Tire Program, visit: www.oneteamoneplanet.com To view the other announcements from Bridgestone in honor of Earth Day, visit: www.bridgestoneamericasmedia.com


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by Aline Kilmer
I went back to a place I knew
When I was very, very small;
The same old yellow roses grew
Against the same old wall.
Each thing I knew was in its place;
The well, the white stones by the road,
The box-hedge with its cobweb lace,
And a small spotted toad.
And yet the place seemed changed and still;
The house itself had shrunk, I know.
And then my eyes began to fill—
For I had always loved it so.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (May 8, 2009) Despite giving No. fifth-ranked Tennessee all they wanted and more the No. 61-ranked ETSU men's tennis team couldn't overcome a late Volunteer rally falling to its in-state rival 4-0, Friday afternoon during first-round play of the NCAA Tournament at the Goodfriend Varsity Tennis Courts in Knoxville.
After falling just short in doubles ETSU could not maintain its one-set lead at No. 6 and No. 3 singles, as the home-courted Vols stormed back taking the final remaining sets for the win.
As played opened ETSU started with a bang as junior Daniel Isaza (Medellin, Columbia) and freshman Robin Akser (Ornskoldsvik, Sweden) gave the Bucs an early lead as they breezed past Matt Brewer and Bryan Swartz 8-2, at No. 3 doubles.
ETSU, needing only one more win to secure the point, battled point-for-point at the No. 1 position. Senior teammates Enrique Olivares (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) and Alex Ahlgren (Tyerso, Sweden) jumped out to a quick 3-1, lead over the Vols John-Patrick Smith and Davey Sandgren. Just when it looked like the Bucs would maintain control the No. 3-ranked Tennessee duo rallied back for three straight games and a 4-3 lead midway through the match. After a brief ETSU comeback in game seven, the Vols wouldn't look back taking control of the contest for a late 8-5 win.
With the doubles contest then split a 1-1, all eyes turned to Court 2 as sophomores Grega Teraz (Mojstrana, Slovenia) and Charles Bottoni (Bois Guillaume, France) grinned out a close match against No. 42-ranked Boris Conkic and Matteo Fago. With Tennessee up 6-5, the Vols would go on to break ETSU's serve, serving out the match for the doubles point and an 8-5 win.
As singles play opened ETSU wouldn't go quietly as Ahlgren and Teraz took both their first-sets against Brewer and Fago with identical 6-4, opening frame wins. After Brewer jumped out to a quick second set win the Volunteer junior closed out Ahlgren in the third set 6-3, while Teraz contiuned to battle against Fago.
After Sandgren won his match over Isaza in straight sets at No. 4 singles 6-2, 6-2, the Bucs last hope came down to one its most storied players in school history, No. 18-ranked Enrique Olivares.
In a singles match that featured two of the top players in the nation, defending NCAA Singles Runner-up and No. 5-ranked J.P. Smith of Tennessee battled back in forth with Olivares after the first four games, before Smith took control winning the first set 6-2. With the momentum and the home court on his side, Smith closed out the reigning two-time Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year in the final set 6-1.
With the win Tennessee advances to take on No. 23-ranked Duke during second-round play of the tournament Saturday.
Below are final results of today's match. A link, featuring both coaches' quotes from the tournament, are available through the NCAA Tournament central webpage attached above.
Tennis Match Results
East Tennessee State vs Tennessee
May 08, 2009 at Knoxville, Tenn. (Varsity Courts)
(NCAA Round 1)
#5 Tennessee 4, #61 East Tennessee State 0
Singles competition
1. #5 John-Patrick Smith (UT) def. #18 Enrique Olivares (ETSU) 6-2, 6-1
2. #37 Boris Conkic (UT) vs. Sander Gille (ETSU) 7-6 (7-4), 3-2, unfinished
3. Matteo Fago (UT) vs. Grega Teraz (ETSU) 4-6, 6-3, 5-1, unfinished
4. Davey Sandgren (UT) def. Daniel Isaza (ETSU) 6-2, 6-2
5. Christian Hansen (UT) vs. Robin Akser (ETSU) 7-6 (7-0), 2-2, unfinished
6. Matt Brewer (UT) def. Alex Ahlgren (ETSU) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
Doubles competition
1. #3 Davey Sandgren/John-Patrick Smith (UT) def. #62 Alex Ahlgren/Enrique Olivares (ETSU) 8-5
2. #42 Boris Conkic/Matteo Fago (UT) def. Grega Teraz/Charles Bottoni (ETSU) 8-5
3. Robin Akser/Daniel Isaza (ETSU) def. Matt Brewer/Bryan Swartz (UT) 8-2
Match Notes:
East Tennessee State 13-8; National ranking #61
Tennessee 22-6; National ranking #5
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (4,1,6)
For more information on the ETSU men's tennis team please visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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Lorelei Lee is "just a simple girl from Little Rock, Arkansas" who manages to charm the world (or at least a significant portion of the wealthy male population in New York, London, Paris, Vienna, and "Buda Pest") in her search for diamonds, money, male companionship -- and, oh, incidentally, opportunities to improve her brains. With her girlfriend Dorothy Shaw, who is even dumber and more loud of mouth, Lorelei gets into and out of more scrapes and close...


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