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How do our food choices affect global warming? That's what this website and project, named after the original title of the book, The Global Warming Diet, Cool Recipes for a Hot Planet, set out to discover.
"D-I-E-T is a four-letter word. No one likes diets. Diet foods are boring, flavorless, and unsatisfying— words that describe the global-warming diet to a tee. It's a machine-cuisine we are eating today, and it takes about 500 gallons (1,890 l) of oil per person each year to produce it. Talk about a greasy spoon—we emit similar amounts of carbon dioxide eating as we do by driving. U. S. government research shows that our chemical fertilizer and herbicide-based food system contributes close to 20 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions."
So how do food choices affect global warming? What's on the menu of the Global Warming Diet?
So what would a cool cuisine look like? In determining the carbon footprint of your next meal, consider these questions:
A cool cuisine would reduce your overall carbon footprint by using fewer animal products, fewer processed foods, less bottled water, and less food and packaging waste and using more fresh, organic, seasonal, and locally grown whole foods such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. The benefits of eating this way are nothing new, but now we realize that our planet, as well as our body, is paying the price for an industrialized food system. It is time for a new perspective on a very old problem.


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I would love to share with you a very personal story. In 1996, I attended a class with Yogi Bhajan just before the New Year. At that class, he asked each of us to practice a New Year's Kriya for 40 days and to keep a journal. I dutifully practiced the meditation and of course, like all meditations, it brought forward the bliss and also the garbage from my psyche. Also, I dutifully wrote in my journal every day. At the end of the forty days, I went to class with Yogi Bhajan and he asked who completed the meditation. I raised my hand. He then asked how many of us kept a journal and again I raised my hand. Then came the clincher. He asked those of us who kept the journal to send it to him unedited. Eek. Send my teacher my unedited journal with all the garbage in it. (Not that he didn't know what was in my head without reading it). So, I sent it off to him with all my dirty laundry exposed.
A few months later a letter arrived in the mail. It was a beautiful note. In it he said, "I want to tell you something very personal: When I was very small and on my way to study with my teacher, my grandfather told me, 'Your master will get rid of your ego and your fantasies. The moment that happens, there will be just you and your truth. Then you will become the living master.' I want you to stand in front of the mirror and carve out the saint you are. Know that it is your actions that speak for you. It is the Kundalini that opens up the Sadh Sangat within you and puts infinite joy on the Guru's face."
He then went on to tell me to do 31 minutes of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. Wow, what a gift and now the work was to begin of surrendering to the Master's words and wisdom and to drop the ego and fantasies.
Many years passed and still I did not fulfill this request of my teacher. I had done almost everything else he had ever asked me to do. I knew that this one piece was and is essential to bring infinite joy and open up the Sadh Sangat, company of spirit, within. So, just before Solstice, I said yes to this divine practice of 31 minutes of Sodarshan Chakra Kriya. What a great gift it continues to be—a meditation that rebuilds personal identity, clears past karma and creates a platform of inner happiness and ecstasy. To embrace the Kundalini which brings vitality, intuition and clears the subconscious mind is the bounty of this meditation. I am on board and it is a great ride. I hope some of you will join me as we move into the Aquarian Age.
Our time is now as teachers, leaders, healers and conscious beings.
With blessings and prayers for your victory.
Pritpal Kaur Khalsa has been a teacher of Kundalini Yoga, Meditation and spiritual awareness for over 35 years. Her passion for assisting others on their road to excellence and fulfillment, and her wealth of experience as a teacher, healer and mentor bring a depth of joy and wisdom to her workshops, classes and coaching practice. Pritpal incorporates her vast knowledge of Yogic and Meditative techniques and a deep understanding of spirituality and a healthy lifestyle into her work with individuals and groups. She is a Personal and Professional Coach, a Sat Nam Rasayan Yogic Healer, Pilates Instructor and a KRI-certified Senior Teacher Trainer of Kundalini Yoga. For further information: www.pritpalkaur.com : [email protected]

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Glad To Be Human Update: Due to an unforeseen publishing delay and my forthcoming annual writing retreat, we must all un-bate our breaths and wait for the e-version of my essay until some time after my return. I trust the passage of time won't compromise the spirit of the piece; still, I thank you for your patience.
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So many words, so many details, so many packages, so much food, so much laughter, so much love. What can be added, the day after Christmas? Here, a brief reflection, occasioned by a favorite ornament.
This glitterworn angel has graced every Christmas I remember. I never heard her her story, but perhaps it goes like this:
My frosty-breathed parents, taking in the holiday lights on a freezing Midwest night. One hand securing his fedora, Dad slides his other arm through Mom's. She wears the big-collared green coat she loved so well. (He pulled me to him by that collar and said,"Betty, we're getting married!")
There, in a thirties' shopwindow, perched this little musician on her shiny star. Dad goes back the next day for it, surprises Mom on Christmas morning with this happy hint of the children they long for.
The angel takes her Christmas place as their babies are born, ornaments four lonely-needled trees in a row while my father is at war. In the stylish fifties, she could have looked cornball, but instead retained her charm. Jetson-era, while I made jazzy silver-sprayed table-trees of styrofoam balls and toothpicks, she was not threatened in the least. Other ornaments came and shattered or aged poorly, but high in the branches or low, hung to the front, or hung to the back, she hung on.
When Dad passed and Mom sold the house, I retrieved this little Ghost of Christmas Plastic from the estate sale box. For some years, she hung year-round as part of a wall grouping I made with an old parasol and some sheet music.
Eventually she went back to her seasonal appearance. And perhaps it was she who inspired me some years ago to begin a personal holiday tradition.
When it comes time to trim the tree, we make a point to give thanks for a special blessing with every ornament we hang. There are always new blessings to give thanks for—creative efforts, new friends, trips and so on–but certain ornaments evoke specific thanks each year. The red cardinal is always for John's Mom. The seashell strung with golden rickrack hangs for coastal friends. And this little angel always seems to sum up the season's best and oldest truths. I hang her here today, in thanks for you.
What's your personal holiday tradition?


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With Dec. 25 right around the corner, now is the time to channel your inner Martha Stewart and make a dent in your holiday gift-giving list.
Nothing says love like homemade baked goods, and you'll be sure to get bonus points for presenting your sweet treats in something more creative than a plastic container.
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I know we desparately need to get two of our dog's teeth cleaned. At the vet yesterday, we made an appt. for our little Lhaso (he's 5) and in good health, so I'm not worried about him. But my cav, Sasha has had a couple surgeries - one to permanently tie back part of larynx, and I'm worried about a dental cleaning (i.e. anesthesia)again. Any suggestions on my worries?
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This feature was discontinued in SecurityKISS
Remote Desktop
Remote control of a computer over the Internet usually makes people think of hackers who take over control of a victim's system in order to perform further mischief. But you can also imagine more lawful applications of remote computer control like:
- work from home remotely on the office computer
- access your home PC when you are on travel
There are many so called 'Remote Desktop' software packages which virtually connect your local screen and keyboard with a distant machine:
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC) - platform independent system with 'multiple clients at the same time' support
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS) - a Microsoft system built-in into all Windows OS since XP
- Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) - a Macintosh application aimed at computer administrators
- Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) - a proprietary protocol designed by Citrix Systems
- X Window System (X11) - a cross-platform protocol originally designed for computer time-sharing
How it works?
The controlling computer (client) displays a copy of the controlled computer's (server) screen. Usually the copy is updated when a change on the server screen happens. Client also transmits its own keyboard and mouse events to the server where actions are implemented. The server then behaves as if the actions were performed locally.
Remote Desktop Access
Very often a remote computer you want to control is located behind a router/firewall isolating corporate or home network from the Internet. Normally such a computer can be addressed only by a local network address like 192.168.xxx.xxx which is not routeable over the Internet. Put another way, you cannot access it from outside.
If the local network is small and if you can configure the router you can set up port forwarding in order to pass connections from the router to single computer in the network for example:
- for Remote Desktop Protocol: port TCP 3389 must be forwarded
- for Apple Remote Desktop: TCP and UDP port 3283; for ARD 2.0 and later, TCP and UDP port 5900; for ARD 3.0 encrypted file transfer TCP port 22
- for VNC: TCP port 5900 is default
Port forwarding is not perfect because one port number can be forwarded only to one computer in the network. Moreover typical home and office networks use dynamic IP allocation (DHCP) what quickly makes the router's forward configuration obsolete.
Remote Desktop and dynamic IP
Remote Desktop access is hampered by DHCP not only within the local network. When Internet Provider uses DHCP to assign public IP addresses to their clients, you can be sure that sooner or later the initial IP address you saved will change. Once it happens you are cut off from the remote machine until you find out the new address. This can be done only with direct access to the remote computer what defeats the purpose of Remote Desktop.
Remote Desktop Security
Most of the Remote Desktop protocols were not designed with security in mind. Those that were, contain serious flaws what disqualify them from unprotected use. For example:
- VNC uses RFB protocol which is not a secure protocol. Although passwords are not sent in plain-text they are vulnerable to dictionary attack.
- Apple Remote Desktop prior to version 3.0 did not encrypt desktop graphics nor file transfers. Apple took a reasonable stance and recommends tunneling ARD.
- The newest versions of Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop use encryption but its implementation is full of fatal errors. Some vulnerabilities like these: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 have been reported and fixed by Microsoft. Others are more fundamental as described by Massimiliano Montoro in the document "Remote Desktop Protocol, the Good the Bad and the Ugly".
Octopus Tunneling solves the issues mentioned above:
- Local network routers/firewalls get irrelevant because the controlled computer does not wait for connection but initiates it.
- Port forwarding is not needed because the controlled computer is accessible directly by its local network address and all its ports are available for the controller.
- DHCP is harmless even after reconnections and network break downs. SecurityKISS Tunnel can auto reconnect without supervision and its local IP is associated with client ID. IP address remains the same per SecurityKISS server/port combination forever.
- Connections are secured with the same high encryption standards as regular SecurityKISS Tunnel.
Octopus Tunneling
This section is also available as a separate article
Octopus Tunneling allows forwarding traffic from one tunnel to another.
The tunnels from which data is forwarded may belong to one user (identified by client ID and individual certificate) or to two different users. In order to avoid confusion we are going to call them peers.
Octopus Tunneling is not confined to one-to-one links. You can define as many peers as you want and in this way create a network of trusted devices and users who can see each other as if they are in the same local network. It has the following implications:
Peers can address each other by private IP addresses in the same way as computers in your home network. These addresses like 192.168.x.x or 10.10.x.x are non-routeable on the Internet what gives additional confidence that the transferred data will not be compromised
Firewalls and NATs become invisible between peers
Services that require direct IP access like FTP, web servers, games, remote desktop can be set up on one PC and are accessible by other peers
To some extent it is possible to emulate ethernet LAN (however IPX/SPX protocol is not supported)
Needless to say, all data is encrypted and Octopus Tunneling inherits all benefits of regular SecurityKISS Tunnel.
How it works
This solution goes back to the roots and allows configuring the real VPN (Virtual Private Network) for a group of users.
Normally SecurityKISS Tunnel is used to create encrypted one-to-one links between clients and the server. On the server client's IP address is replaced, data is decrypted and sent to destination.
Although very useful it distorts the VPN original idea which is to allow clients safely connect to each other and feel like at home even if they are geographically dispersed.
Since SecurityKISS users generally do not know each other, we can not permit such direct links by default. Instead we authorize individual users to request and approve forwarding between selected clients so that they have full control over who can be linked with them directly via Octopus Tunneling.
In Figure 2 client 1 and client 3 become peers. Both peers must agree on forwarding. Only then the link is created.
Apart from securing the link between two or more peers, Octopus Tunneling has a critical advantage over alternatives. While many ways exist to set up a safe point-to-point connection between nodes with public IP, Octopus Tunneling makes it possible at all if both peers are behind NAT/Firewall.
In Figure 3 direct communiction between peers is not possible because both peers are behind NAT/Firewall
With Octopus Tunneling firewalls are transparent because both underlying connections are initiated from the peers. There is no need to set up port forwarding or configure firewalls in any other way.
SecurityKISS solution is unique because in contrast to others it allows end users to decide who can join their network. SecurityKISS users become administrators of their own Virtual Private Networks.
The administration is straightforward - you only need to request or accept forwarding to the selected client ID on the selected server in the Client Panel.
SecurityKISS users and customers get access to Client Panel in the account activation email.
Once you can log on to the Panel see Octopus Tunneling Forward Configuration Manual for details.


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The Steelers have found their replacement for Sean Kugler, who ditched the offensive line coach job to take the top job at UTEP.
The team announced that Jack Bicknell Jr. will replace Kugler. Bicknell coached the Chiefs offensive line last season and spent the previous three seasons as the assistant offensive line coach with the Giants. He was also the head coach of Louisiana Tech from 1999 to 2006 and ranks third in wins in school history.
Coach Mike Tomlin said that he was impressed by the way the Chiefs ran the ball last season despite having nothing but misery at the quarterback position. The Steelers have talked a lot about their disappointment with the running game since the end of the season.
"The proof is in the pudding," said Tomlin, via the website. "When I had an opportunity to look, not only at what he says from a presentation standpoint but also at what the tape looks like, it was attractive. Obviously they were in a tough situation this past year in Kansas City from a team standpoint. Their record reflects that. They had some instability at the quarterback position, but they ran the ball and they ran the ball consistently."
Bicknell, who is the son of former Boston College and Barcelona Dragons coach Jack Bicknell, inherits a line that was constantly in flux thanks to injuries in 2012. With recent high picks like Maurkice Pouncey, Marcus Gilbert, David DeCastro and Mike Adams in the fold, the team hopes to find a unit that can grow and stay healthy together.


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For years, we've followed all kinds of sources for vintage art, and it's still very much in style to feature selections your the web. For years, the Publishers' Warehouse has shared literally thousands of these images, along with samples from the Dover book colleciton of public domain images. One of the favorite sources for 'vintage' art are labels, cards and posters from the 18th century. Here's we're going to look at my favorites from the world of cigar labels. . . .
You can click on any of these to go to an interactive slide show, or click the first, and then just click the image to move forward. Note that some of these are fairly large, and may require a moment to display, and may require scrolling. Enjoy!
As I said above, there are literally thousands of images in the Publishers' Warehouse . . . many are very large, or high resolution for idea starters, or as reference material for your own creations. Of course, subscribers know exactly where the Publishers' Warehouse is. If you don't know, our easy confidential registration gets you the address. If you have a site with your favorite collection, please pass it along for everyone to enjoy.
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The Consolidator
Michael Locatis
CIO, Colorado
Michael Locatis is preparing for the challenge of a lifetime -- consolidating Colorado's IT operations.
After a year of preparation and outreach to stakeholders, he thinks he's got it all covered. Locatis has plenty of experience on his side, having led the city and county of Denver through a consolidation as its CIO. The three-year effort to unite 20 disparate IT departments into a single citywide Technology Services Division won a Public Technology Institute technology solution award. "I think we were able to improve delivery of constituent services and re-engineer business processes," he said.
The fresh perspective of a private-sector approach helped him make those changes, he believes. "Of course, now that I've been in the public sector for four and a half years, I'll probably be considered a public-sector guy," said Locatis.
In fact, the 49-year-old's experience with consolidation reaches back to his days in the commercial sector. A longtime executive of Time Warner Cable, he said the company was growing so fast through mergers and acquisitions that it was a portfolio of 32 cable companies under one umbrella. As senior director of enterprise technology strategy, Locatis led the standardization of customer service delivery systems.
Of course, he realizes that consolidating state IT services may present a bigger challenge than Time Warner or Denver. "[Colorado] had a history of problems with failed and underperforming projects," he said. "It was recognized that basic things were broken and that other states were recognizing tremendous benefits from consolidation."
As in other states that have consolidated, each agency in the executive branch was making its own siloed technology decisions. "There was no enterprise architecture or procurement leverage," he said. An independent study found that the state has 40 data centers, when it probably should have two or three. "There's been no sense of shared services," Locatis said.
He believes the gradual four-phase shift to a centralized IT organization will alleviate many of these problems. Among his first moves were hiring an enterprise architecture team leader and the development of new governance structures. "We can do a much better job of vendor selection, rolling out large IT projects and prioritizing them," he said.
Having led Denver's consolidation, Locatis learned that political and employee-relationship issues must be addressed head-on. Hired in January 2007, Locatis agreed with Gov. Bill Ritter to spend time studying the state's challenges and building bipartisan support for consolidation before approaching the Legislature for approval in 2008. "We studied what other states have done and hired independent groups to do assessments," he said.
His team created a 250-page change-management plan to go along with the legislation for creating the consolidated IT organization, which was working its way through the Legislature in spring 2008. "It maps out the operational consequences and possible pitfalls," Locatis said. His management team held town hall-style meetings to get input from the state's 1,100 IT employees and put hundreds of pages of consolidation-related documents on its Web site. "We're trying to be as transparent as possible," he said, "and I think it will pay off."
Although he may be an agent of change, Locatis gives much of the credit to the governor for the state's willingness to innovate. "In a state that has not seen such change in decades, you need the executive support of someone like Gov. Ritter," he said. "If I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to move on this so quickly, or perhaps at all."


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In the month since the launch of Penn State's Take Care of Your Health initiative, roughly 7,900 employees have either completed or scheduled the biometric screening, and about 6,300 have completed the wellness profile.
"We are very happy to see the participation rates continuing to climb," said Susan Basso, vice president for Human Resources. "I want to emphasize that while a major motivating factor in our health plan changes is cost-savings, equally important to us is the health and well-being of our employees. Good health care is more than paying for illness and treating symptoms. Good health care includes the prevention and management of modifiable risk factors. The wellness profile and biometric screenings create awareness for the employee of potential medical risks, and when you know about your risks you are empowered to address them to keep yourself healthy. Many risk factors, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol, have no symptoms and can't be detected without a screening, but knowing about them and getting them under control helps to avoid major health problems down the road."
Employees who are engaged in their health care, including wellness, cost less to cover, mainly because reducing the prevalence of chronic disease and uncovering hidden risk saves money in the long run.
"We know costs are going to increase during the first year of this new program because of the testing and physical exam costs, but the savings will start to become evident down the road." A Highmark study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion demonstrated its wellness programs reduce the rate of health care costs. In addition, a rigorous study independently conducted by Ron Goetzel of Emory University demonstrated a return on investment $1.65 per every $1 invested by Highmark. All expenses of program delivery were deducted from the savings in this conservative, matched control group experimental design.
"We understand that this is a marathon, not a sprint," Basso said.
The wellness profile and biometric screening information is, and will remain, private. WebMD Health Services, which developed and is administering the wellness profile through Highmark Blue Shield, is bound by Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy and security laws. Penn State will not -- and by federal health privacy law, cannot -- have access to individual employee health records. "We will never ask for an employee's health records and will not charge an employee additional fees based on their individual health status," Basso said.
For more information about the Take Care of Your Health initiative, visit http://ohr.psu.edu/benefits/benefits-enrollment/ and read the FAQ at http://ohr.psu.edu/assets/benefits/documents/TakeCareOfHealthFAQs.pdf online. Additional information can be found at http://news.psu.edu/tag/health-care-initiative on the Penn State News website.


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Federer replaced Djokovic at the top of the standings after winning Wimbledon in July but will cede the number one position to the Serb on Monday.
And with the Swiss star unable to improve on last year's perfect performance in winning the 2011 season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London, not even an unblemished victory in this year's edition at the O2 Arena will see him regain top spot before 2012 is out.
"We know who the real number one is," said Federer. It is going to be Novak. I do not think there should be any debate around about that.
"You do not get to number one by chance. The rankings are something that shows how you have played over a 365-day period. It might all change again in two months at the Australian Open but right now it is clear."
Federer all but conceded the number one ranking this year when opting out of defending his Paris Masters title last week on the grounds he could not do himself justice by playing successive tournaments in Basle, Paris and London.
"I obviously gave it everything I had," said Federer. "I've played so much tennis the last one and a half, two years and I'm happy I got back to world number one.
"It's obviously a time where you need to win at least a slam, if not more slams, or at least five to 10 titles, so we're not talking about just a quick jump to number one and then you lose it again.
"This is a full-on process. That obviously takes a lot of sacrifice. For the time being I'm willing to do all of that. So I'm putting my schedule into place for next year and there are no extraordinary changes."
Although Djokovic has, unsurprisingly, failed to hit the same heights as in 2011, when he won three out of the four Grand Slam singles titles, this year has seen him retain his Australia Open crown and reach the finals of both the French and US Opens, losing the latter to Britain's Andy Murray.
Fatigue caught up with Djokovic in London last year and he suffered a shock loss to Sam Querrey of the United States in Paris.
And the 25-year-old Djokovic, who begins his London campaign against France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga said it was tough to be in peak shape at this stage of a long season.
"It is expected not to be always in your top form at this time of year," he said. "The effects of the long season can influence you physically and mentally but this is an important tournament and I definitely want to do well.
"I am sure I will find the strength to perform my best and we will see if that best is good enough."
Meanwhile, Federer backed Murray's calls for more drug testing in tennis, particularly blood tests.
"I feel I am being less tested than I was six or seven years ago so I do not know the exact reasons why we are being tested less," said Federer.
"At this moment, I agree with Andy, we do not do a lot of blood-testing during the year.
"It is vital that the sport stays clean, it has got to. We have had a good history in terms of that and we want to ensure it stays that way."


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GRI Application Levels: Why Strive for an A?
BrownFlynn is pleased to announce the release of its newest whitepaper entitled: "GRI Application Levels: Why Strive for an A?"
BrownFlynn partnered with CSRHUB to assess the relationship between a company's Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Application Level and score on sustainability ratings and rankings. CSRHUB aggregates and normalizes Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ratings information from more than 140 sources on nearly 5,000 companies across the globe.
The study demonstrates why companies with a higher Application Level are better able to manage their sustainability impacts, and provides evidence of a correlation between a company's GRI Application Level and its reputation for sustainability performance. The study also clarifies the confusion around differences between Application Levels.
In short, the study finds that companies reporting at level A or B receive higher sustainability ratings than other GRI reporters—especially on governance ratings.In addition to providing the data to show that companies reporting at an Application Level B or higher score better on other sustainability rankings (shown above), this study gives bite-sized summaries of the key differences between the Application Levels, synthesized into manageable chunks.
Because GRI does not have a minimum quality requirement for profile disclosures from a company, it can be construed that GRI places less importance on report quality and only values transparency. This is not the case. GRI subtly influences report quality through the specificity of the required disclosures and more overtly manages report quality by requiring disclosures about the report itself. These are called 'Profile Disclosures', and they provide information about a company's overall structure, internal controls and info about the report itself.
The Profile Disclosures that ask questions about the report itself serve as a quality standard assessment. Further, to increase transparency, GRI requires companies to declare an Application Level. To increase quality, GRI requires companies to disclose its processes for determining materiality and for engaging with stakeholders.
Overall, companies with an Application Level A or B are able to demonstrate more comprehensive sustainability management strategies, as well as receive higher sustainability ratings than other GRI reporters. So, should you strive for an A? That will always depend upon where your company is in its sustainability journey. But what we will say is that the internal discussions prompted during pursuit of an Application Level A or B will likely improve governance, attention to key impacts, sustainability policies, procedures, training strategy, goals, internal controls and ultimately sustainability performance.
To read the entire whitepaper please click here. Feel free to contact Cora Lee Mooney with questions/comments or for more information.


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A UK-based think tank rated Americans fifth in the world in a composite index of charitable activity, including giving money, volunteering, and helping a stranger. Only Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand ranked higher.
Charity-wise, Americans do better than the British, French, Chinese, and the rest of the world.


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Italian resistance fighters persevere
On this day in 1944, British intelligence receives word that, despite setbacks, Italian guerillas fighting the German occupiers of their country are continuing to widen their activity.
Since the Italian surrender in the summer of 1943, German troops had occupied wider swaths of the peninsula to prevent the Allies from using Italy as a base of operations against German strongholds elsewhere, such as the Balkans. Allied occupation of Italy would also put into their hands Italian airbases, further threatening German air power.
As the Allies battled the Germans, pushing them farther and farther north, Italian partisans (antifascist guerilla fighters) aided them. The Italian Resistance had been fighting underground against the fascist government of Mussolini long before its surrender. Now it fought against German fascism—and the Italian monarchy. Italian liberation for the partisans meant a democratic republic—not a return to a country ruled, often ineptly, by a king.
The partisans had proved extremely effective in aiding the Allies; by the summer of 1944, resistance fighters had immobilized eight of the 26 German divisions in northern Italy. German reaction to resistance activity was brutal; in one incident, German soldiers killed 382 Italian men, women, and children as revenge for a partisan attack that killed 35 German soldiers. German "sweeps" of partisan activity did much damage, but failed to stop the guerillas. On September 6, the Japanese ambassador to Italy reported back to Tokyo that partisan activity, especially around Turin and the Franco-Italian border, had widened, despite German purges. This information was intercepted by British intelligence and decoded, reassuring the British forces fighting within Italy that they were not alone in fighting the Germans.
By war's end, Italian guerillas controlled Venice, Milan, and Genoa, but at considerable cost. All told, the resistance lost some 50,000 fighters—but won its republic.


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With over 400 islands, Denmark is the place to experience an island holiday camp. Nature, relaxation, tranquillity and an amazing community spirit await you on an island camping holiday. Camps often operate under certain themes, for example folk music, dance or crafts but many are just pure, unadulterated relaxation.
All hands on deck
Campers all take part in tasks such as cooking, washing dishes and cleaning, in rotation. Camps are set up with large, communal tents, designated either as sleeping tents, activity tents or as kitchen tents with kitchen utensils, bottled gas, tables and benches. The camps also provide washing areas and toilet facilities. You bring your own sleeping bags and mats, but have to leave everything electrical at home as there's no electricity.
Where to find them
Island camps are open to all and can be found on several Danish islands, including Lyø, Drejø, Skarø and Samsø. They are a basic and inexpensive holiday and a really unique experience.
Further information
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According to several studies, our nation's roads are in pretty bad shape and will likely get a lot worse – a trend that shouldn't surprise any carriers out there, since truckers are experiencing the fallout of poor roadways live and in living color every day.
Indeed, the annual analysis of the country's roadways conducted by The Road Information Program (TRIP) group discerned that more than one-quarter (27%) of the nation's major urban roads – Interstates, freeways and other arterial routes – suffer from "substandard" pavement conditions that provide an unacceptably rough ride to motorists, costing the average urban driver $377 annually, or a total of $80 billion per year nationwide.
On top of that, an additional 27% of the nation's major urban roads and highways have pavements that are in mediocre condition, 15% are in fair condition and 31% are in good condition, according to TRIP. Overall, including major rural roads, 14% of the nation's major roads are in poor condition, 19% are in mediocre condition, 17% are in fair condition and 50% are in good condition.
[The Federal Highway Administration, however, believes that better "preventive maintenance" efforts can alleviate some of those conditions and produced the video below three years ago to illustrate that perspective.]
Yet the amount of money required to fix those problems while expanding our highway network to alleviate traffic congestion is staggering – some $1 trillion over the next two decades, according to Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, with $600 billion dedicated just to rebuilding costs with a further $400 billion needed to add capacity.
And yes, despite several stories claiming that driving is trending downwards among younger Americans, TRIP and others still project vehicle travel to increase in the coming years – especially where freight hauling commercial vehicles are concerned.
Overall vehicle travel increased by 37% from 1990 to 2011, TRIP said. While travel by large commercial trucks grew at an even faster rate – some 49% from 1990 to 2011. Vehicle travel is also expected to increase, TRIP added, by approximately 25% by 2030, with the level of heavy truck travel nationally anticipated to increase by approximately 64% over that 17 year period.
In the meantime, TRIP believes pavement conditions are likely to worsen as the current amount of funding by all levels of government is deemed inadequate. Through 2032, the group said in its report, the U.S. faces a $156 billion shortfall in the amount needed to maintain roadways in their current condition, a $374 billion shortfall to make modest improvements in pavement conditions and a $670 billion shortfall to make significant improvements to roadway conditions.
TRIP also pointed to a 2010 U.S. Department of Transportation report that determined the country would need to increase annual funding for road and highway improvements by 21% to keep them in their current condition, by 51% to make a modest improvement in overall conditions and by 91 percent to make significant improvement to their condition.
"With state and local governments struggling to fund needed road repairs and with federal surface transportation funding set to be slashed next year, road conditions are projected to get even worse," noted Will Wilkins, TRIP's executive director, in the group's report entitled Bumpy Roads Ahead: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother.
But where could such money come from? Higher fuel taxes? More highway tolls? And with the motoring public – much less the trucking community – happily and willingly fork over extra cash from their pockets via either of those methods?
The Reason Foundation's Poole thinks that electronic tolling can generate the required funds with the least amount of fiscal intrusion into the driving lives of motorists and truckers.
In a report released by the group last month, Poole argued that in 37 of the 50 states in the U.S., revenues from modest toll rates would be sufficient to cover 90% or more of the costs associated with reconstructing and widening the Interstates. The baseline toll rates would be 3.5 cents per mile for cars and 14 cents a mile for trucks, with tolls indexed to inflation and adjusted annually.
Some states, though, like California, New York and Alaska, would require higher toll rates, as they would require more monies to deal with higher freight volumes. That's why Poole thinks the costs of reconstructing urban Interstates would vary widely, ranging from a low of $315 million in Vermont to a high of $59 billion in California.
"The current transportation funding system is failing and won't be able to rebuild or upgrade the Interstate system," Poole stressed "This study shows that alternative financing, via all-electronic tolling, is a feasible way."
However, Bud Wright, executive director of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), stresses that federal funding remains critical and cannot be ignored in terms of funding future transportation needs.
"States depend on investment from the Highway Trust Fund to help preserve and maintain the roads and bridges that carry our families and our economy," he explained. "We cannot continue to ignore the very real crisis facing our national transportation system without a long-term, sustainable funding source for the Highway Trust Fund [as] federal dollars are a key source of transportation funding in many states."
Yet funding only becomes a bigger issue as the main vehicle generating highway monies – the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act and known as "MAP-21" – expires on Sept. 30 next year.
Thus in the fall of 2014, nationwide federal funding for highways is expected to be cut back by almost 100% percent from the current $40 billion investment level unless additional revenues are provided to the federal Highway Trust Fund, due to a cash shortfall as projected by the Congressional Budget Office, Wright said.
No doubt more contentious debate is ahead on the subject of how to generate transportation funds for the future.


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J.W.G. (Jock) Macdonald
Canadian (born in Scotland), 1897–1960
Birds, 1946
watercolour on paper
25.3 x 35.5 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Jock Macdonald's influence spanned the country, including the West Coast where he was a pivotal figure in the early development of abstract art in Vancouver. He initially painted landscapes in the style of the Group of Seven. Macdonald developed an understanding of perceived reality as being underpinned by deep spititual truths, a belief that owed much to the influence of Emily Carr, Frederick Varley, and Lawren Harris. Completed after he left Vancouver for Calgary, this WAG watercolour, which features a stunning bird creature, shows increasing awareness of the fantastical aspects of Surrealism. Moving to Toronto in 1947 to teach, Macdonald developed a purely abstract, non-representational style. He later became a founding member and elder statesman of Painters Eleven, a group that was instrumental in introducing modern art in Toronto.
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A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Crap. I could have had a V8.
Personally, I prefer filé powder.
I hope this doesn't become a pattern that requires signing a document to buy okra.
What's that sound?
Why it's the Okra Blossom Special, or maybe the Darwin Express.
I hope this bozo never breeds.
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code S52.372D
Galeazzi's fx left radius, subs for clos fx w routn heal
Diagnosis Code S52.372D
Short Description: Galeazzi's fx left radius, subs for clos fx w routn heal
Long Description: Galeazzi's fracture of left radius, subsequent encounter for closed fracture with routine healing
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code S52.372D
Valid for Submission
The code S52.372D is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
Version 2019 Billable Code POA Exempt
Information for Medical Professionals
- V54.12 - Aftrcre traum fx low arm (Approximate Flag)
Present on Admission (POA)
The code S52.372D is exempt from POA reporting.
Information for Patients
Arm Injuries and Disorders
Of the 206 bones in your body, three of them are in your arm: the humerus, radius, and ulna. Your arms are also made up of muscles, joints, tendons, and other connective tissue. Injuries to any of these parts of the arm can occur during sports, a fall, or an accident.
Types of arm injuries include
- Tendinitis and bursitis
- Sprains
- Dislocations
- Broken bones
- Nerve problems
- Osteoarthritis
You may also have problems or injure specific parts of your arm, such as your hand, wrist, elbow, or shoulder.
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- Radial head fracture - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Radial nerve dysfunction (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Dislocations are joint injuries that force the ends of your bones out of position. The cause is often a fall or a blow, sometimes from playing a contact sport. You can dislocate your ankles, knees, shoulders, hips, elbows and jaw. You can also dislocate your finger and toe joints. Dislocated joints often are swollen, very painful and visibly out of place. You may not be able to move it.
A dislocated joint is an emergency. If you have one, seek medical attention. Treatment depends on which joint you dislocate and the severity of the injury. It might include manipulations to reposition your bones, medicine, a splint or sling, and rehabilitation. When properly repositioned, a joint will usually function and move normally again in a few weeks. Once you dislocate a shoulder or kneecap, you are more likely to dislocate it again. Wearing protective gear during sports may help prevent dislocations.
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- Dislocation (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Also called: Broken bone
A fracture is a break, usually in a bone. If the broken bone punctures the skin, it is called an open or compound fracture. Fractures commonly happen because of car accidents, falls, or sports injuries. Other causes are low bone density and osteoporosis, which cause weakening of the bones. Overuse can cause stress fractures, which are very small cracks in the bone.
Symptoms of a fracture are
- Intense pain
- Deformity - the limb looks out of place
- Swelling, bruising, or tenderness around the injury
- Numbness and tingling
- Problems moving a limb
You need to get medical care right away for any fracture. An x-ray can tell if your bone is broken. You may need to wear a cast or splint. Sometimes you need surgery to put in plates, pins or screws to keep the bone in place.
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General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Present on Admission
The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, assistant professor of chemistry at Hope College, has received a Faculty Start-Up Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc.
The foundation presents the awards to support the scholarly activity of new faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions, generally to faculty who will be beginning their first tenure-track appointments. The foundation typically awards only a dozen or fewer each year, and Johnson is the only recipient at a Michigan college or university from among the eight scholars who received the awards this year.
It is second time in four years that a member of the Hope faculty has received one of the awards. Dr. Jason Gillmore, also an assistant professor of chemistry, also received one when he joined the faculty in 2004.
The award provides an unrestricted research grant of $30,000 that will provide support for Johnson's research program during the next five years. He will work collaboratively with Hope students on the development of non-traditional organic reactivity catalyzed by transition metals. This new chemistry promises novel methods for the conversion of readily available starting materials, including petroleum byproducts and biomass, into intermediates suitable for the production of complex organic molecules such as pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.
Johnson joined the Hope faculty this fall after most recently serving as an NIH (National Institutes of Health) Postdoctoral Fellow at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He previously completed his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
He mentored undergraduate students while engaged in research at both Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also participated in undergraduate research himself as a student at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., from which he earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2000.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc. was established in 1946 and is a memorial to Camille and Henry Dreyfus, two brothers who made major contributions in the research of materials used in the manufacture of photographic films. The foundation's purpose is to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world. Chartered as a not-for-profit corporation by the State of New York with offices in New York City, the foundation makes awards to academic and other eligible institutions through several awards programs.
Through the years Hope has been recognized nationally in a variety of ways for its emphasis on collaborative faculty-student research as a teaching model. Such research takes place during both the school year and the summer. During the recent summer of 2007, 183 students participated in research in the division of the natural and applied sciences, including 150 Hope students, 21 students from other colleges and universities, and 12 students from local high schools.


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- Signore named Rookie of the Week -
New York, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the Fall weekly report #3 on Monday, September 16, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics for men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, women's tennis and women's volleyball.
Cross Country Update - Full Report
The cross country team competed at the LIU Post Invitational on Saturday. The men finished in 10th place, while the women finished 12th. Sophomore Jordan Kohlman (Wantagh, N.Y.) placed 50th of 111 for the men in 28:44.93 and senior Melissa Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) placed 38th of 115 in 21:07.76.
Kohlman and Bonilla were each named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll.
This week the Rams will travel to the Bard College Invitational on Saturday, September 21st.
Women's Tennis Update (3-1, 1-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The Rams finished the week with a 2-1 record after recording home wins over Baruch (5-4) and Sage (7-2).
Freshman Priscilla Signore (Staten Island, N.Y.) was named Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week. Signore was a perfect 3-0 in the number two singles position. She notched straight-set victories against Sage (6-0, 6-2) and CSI (6-0, 6-3) and earned a 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Baruch.
Sophomore Denise Liguori (Massapequa, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll after posting a 3-0 mark at No. 3 doubles and captured two-of-three singles matches.
This week the women's tennis team will play a non-conference match at Hunter on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
Women's Soccer Update (3-3, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The women's soccer team earned a 1-0 win on Wednesday over Western Connecticut before falling 1-0 to #7 The College of New Jersey on Saturday.
Freshman midfielder Ashley Appel (Bellmore, N.Y.) scored the game-winning goal versus Western Connecticut and was named to the Honor Roll.
Farmingdale State next will travel to Stevens for a non-conference game on Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. before hosting Scranton on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Men's Soccer Update (1-4, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
In Farmingdale State's lone game last week the Rams fell 2-0 to non-conference opponent William Paterson. Senior goalkeeper Angelo Viteritti (Huntington, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll after recording a season-high 11 saves.
This week the men's soccer team will travel to Brooklyn College on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. and then open Skyline play at Purchase on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
Women's Volleyball Update (1-11, 0-0 Skyline) - Full Report
The Rams earned their first win of the season after defeating Centenary 3-1 at the Roadrunner Invitational hosted by Ramapo College.
Junior outside Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) was named to the Honor Roll after compiling 100 assists, 36 kills, 33 digs and 21 service aces over 24 sets.
This week they host Rutgers-Newark on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., Maritime on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. and then travel to Carnegie Mellon for four non-conference matches on Friday and Saturday.
Men's Golf Update
The golf team did not compete last week and next will travel to Long Island National Golf Club for the Dowling College Shootout on Friday, September 20th and Saturday, September 21st.


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Star Sophomore's Breakthrough Season to Continue in Serbia
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale men's cross country team sophomore Kevin Dooney learned early this week that he had been selected to run on Ireland's Under-23 squad at the 20th SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Dec. 8. Dooney—a native of Dublin, Ireland—will run the 8K race at Belgrade's Park of Friendship alongside some of the best young athletes Europe has to offer. He will be serving as a representative of Raheny Shamrock AC, an Irish athletics club devoted to competitive running.
Dooney previously represented Ireland, and placed 24th, in the 10K race at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona the summer before his freshman year at Yale. Now, with his selection to the U-23 Irish squad at the European Championships, he will get another chance to compete on the international stage.
Joining Dooney on the U-23 team—which consists of six athletes and two reserves—are two fellow runners from the United States who compete with Yale in the Division I NCAA Northeast Region: Iona's Jake Byrne and Providence's Shane Quinn.
For Dooney, his selection to the U-23 Irish team is only his latest achievement during his remarkable sophomore cross country season. After struggling with some lingering injury issues during preseason training and through the season's first couple races, Dooney exploded onto the scene, placing first on the team at four consecutive meets, breaking his 8K personal record three separate times, earning both All-Region and second team All-Ivy honors, and qualifying for the Division I NCAA Championships. Dooney was just the sixth Yale runner to qualify for Nationals since 1991, and he made the most of the opportunity by running a 31:18.5—the fastest time by a Yale runner at Nationals since 2003.
All European Championship races will take place on Dec. 8. The U-23 men's race is slated to begin at 12:19 p.m. Serbian time (6:19 p.m. EST). The meet's official website can be accessed here, and a map of the course at Friendship Park is available here. The full Irish roster for the meet, meanwhile, is available here. Results will be available on www.yalebulldogs.com following the conclusion of the race.
Report by Zach Schloss '15, Yale Sports Publicity


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We are a group of individuals interested in learning our African-American family histories; learning how to preserve them; and telling "our" story to our family and community. Over the past several years, many have expressed the desire for a forum where we could share our stories, telling them as only we know how. I have been approached for help in finding how or where to locate certain types of information. Many of our knowledgeable historians and professionals are just too bogged down to have time for the nuts and bolts research. So, we are a group of "worker bees". The AAGGKY meets monthly on the 3rd Saturday in easily accessible locations with programming focused on African American ancestry.
Our official business will take place on our web site, but many of our real stories will be presented here on this blog. We are looking for guest bloggers/writers and researchers to make this blog an active resource for African American genealogy. We also hope this will serve as an inspiration to others - never give up hope, and keep searching! Our heritage must be preserved - but in many cases, we have to find it first. So let's get searching!
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As part of the 2016 Green Box Arts Festival, the celebrated Patrick Dougherty installed his twisting, curling branch sculpture titled "Footprint in Green" in the town of Green Mountain Falls.
Harvesting of the material for Footprint in Green was done in collaboration with Colorado Springs Utilities Creek Week and benefited the environment through fire and flood mitigation.
Over the last thirty years, Dougherty has gained international acclaim for constructing more than 250 environmental creations of monumental scale, which require saplings by the truckloads.
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China rushes relief after Sichuan quake kills 188
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BEIJING – China mobilized thousands of soldiers and rescuers Sunday, a day after a powerful quake struck Sichuan province killing at least 188 people and injuring more than 11,000. Among the deadliest quake the country has seen in the past three years, more than 2,000 aftershocks have rattled the area, The China Earthquake Administration said.
Mountain roads blocked by rocks and landslides hampered rescue efforts to reach every village and household affected by the quake — measured at magnitude-6.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey — that struck Saturday morning in the same region where a 2008 quake took nearly 90,000 lives. The quake's shallow depth, less than 8 miles, likely magnified the impact
Some 18,000 soldiers and armed police were sent to the disaster zone in sourthwestern China, and 10,000 had already reached seriously affected areas, the Chengdu Military Area Command said Sunday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
The Chengdu Military Area Command also said it would send 23 helicopters. As of 4:30 p.m. local time Sunday, the Chinese air force had sent 106 planes for rescue missions, including personnel and material transportation, Xinhua said.
An emergency rescue team with 200 workers organized by the China Earthquake Administration (CEA), joined their provincial counterparts in the quake zone Sunday afternoon, but bad weather delayed plans to reach hard-hit Baoxing County, which has had little contact with the outside world, according to the CEA.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited injured survivors Sunday before returning to Beijing, where Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China does not currently need foreign rescue teams or medical and relief supplies. Qin said the country has guaranteed rescue and medical treatment capability and sufficient rescue materials.
Luo Shiqiang sat near chunks of concrete, bricks and a ripped orange sofa and told the Associated Press how his grandfather was just returning from feeding chickens when their house collapsed and crushed him to death in the earthquake.
"We lost everything in such a short time," the 20-year-old college student said Sunday. He said his cousin also was injured in the collapse, but that other members of his family were spared because they were out working in the fields of hard-hit Longmen village in Lushan County.
Two soldiers assisting in the rescue efforts died after their vehicle slid off a road and rolled down a cliff, state media reported.
The Chinese Red Cross said it had deployed relief teams with supplies of food, water, medicine and rescue equipment to the disaster areas.
However, many residents complained that although emergency teams were quick to carry away bodies and search for survivors, they had so far done little to distribute aid. "No water, no shelter," read a hand-written sign held up by children on a roadside in Longmen, according to the AP.
Chinese journalist delays her wedding following a magnitude-6.6 earthquake to cover the story in her wedding dress. Newslook
On Saturday, state media showed images of collapsed buildings, roads blocked by fallen rocks and hundreds of people seeking medical attention at a makeshift triage center outside the county hospital in Lushan, located at the edge of the Tibetan plateau.
Premier Li flew by helicopter to the quake zone in Lushan on Saturday afternoon, where he met survivors and local government and army leaders.
Authorities' quick response will likely win popular support in China, where many citizens consider government officials corrupt and self-serving. However, the quake may also serve as a test of transparency for the new regime especially if evidence is uncovered that shoddy construction contributed to deaths and injuries.
After the 2008 quake, authorities went to great lengths to bury bad news about the high number of schools that collapsed, killing thousands of children. It also jailed people who gathered information on the issue or tried to expose the corrupt practices that had led to the poorly built schools.
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Organizations and individuals quickly responded with volunteer action, including Li Chengpeng, a Sichuan-based writer and former soccer commentator, whose profile as a social critic rose after the 2008 disaster when he joined rescue efforts and saw the schools firsthand. On his Sina Weibo account, which has millions of followers, Li posted Saturday that he had organized an expert rescue team to send to Ya'an, and welcomed donations of money or manpower.
Other volunteer efforts also spread via Weibo. Inspirational stories emerged, including one about local Ya'an television anchorwoman Chen Ying, who rushed to file reports while dressed in her wedding gown on her wedding day. And Chinese Central Television reported that the giant pandas were safe in the country's biggest panda research center in Ya'an, located about 26 miles from the epicenter.
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual to perennial herb (sometimes short-lived, dying after flowering once)
Stem generally erect
Leaves: lower generally tapered or petioled, often wavy-margined, generally pinnately lobed, ± dentate, lobes and teeth spine-tipped, margin generally spiny-ciliate, glabrous to tomentose; upper generally sessile, ± reduced
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 1many; involucre cylindric to spheric; phyllaries many, graduated in several series, outer spine-tipped; receptacle flat, long-bristly
Flowers generally many; corollas ± bilateral, white to red or purple, tube long, slender, lobes linear; anther bases sharply sagittate, tips oblong; style tip with slightly swollen node, appendage (above node) long, cylindric, branches very short
Fruit ovoid, glabrous; scar slightly angled; pappus bristles many, plumose, ± persistent or falling in ring
Species in genus: ± 200 species: North America, Eurasia
Etymology: (Greek: thistle)
Taxa difficult, incompletely differentiated, hybridize.
Biennial 130 dm, erect or low, mound-like
Stem generally 1, branched above (near base in dwarf plants), ± tomentose
Leaves ± densely gray- or whitish tomentose, especially below; lower 14 dm, petioles spiny-winged, blade oblanceolate, lobed 1/2+ to midvein, lobes widely triangular, dentate or further lobed, main spines 110 mm; upper gradually reduced, sessile, ± clasping or short-decurrent, linear or oblong, often entire, often spinier than lower, uppermost bract-like
Inflorescence: heads 1several in loose to tight cluster (barely raised above rosette in dwarf plants); peduncles 130 cm; involucres 1.55 cm, 1.58 cm diam, ovoid to spheric; phyllaries ± equal to strongly graduated, linear or linear-lanceolate, straight, ascending and appressed to widely radiating, often connected side-to-side by conspicuous cobwebby hairs, spines 310+ mm, inner with tips flat, straight
Flowers: corollas 1840 mm, white to purple or red, tube 818 mm, throat 57 mm, lobes 510 mm
Fruit 56 mm, shiny, ± brown; pappus 1530 mm
Chromosomes: 2n=30
Ecology: Many habitats
Elevation: < 3600 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province (except San Joaquin Valley), Modoc Plateau, White and Inyo Mountains, w Mojave Desert
Distribution outside California: to s Oregon, sw Idaho, w Nevada
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