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February 21, 2012
Two New Workforce1 Centers Opened Last Week in Long Island City and Staten Island, Two More Will Open in 2012
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Small Business Services Commissioner Robert W. Walsh today announced a partnership between public libraries and the City's Workforce1 Career Centers and the opening of the two newest Workforce1 Centers, in Long Island City and on Staten Island. Workforce1 Career Centers have also opened in the Queens Library in Flushing, the Brooklyn Public Library Sunset Park branch, and one will open in the New York Public Library in the Bronx in 2012, marking a partnership with all three public library systems. The three public library Centers have placed New Yorkers in more than 500 jobs since launching this fall. In addition to housing Workforce1 Expansion Centers, the Brooklyn Public Library locations have also worked with Workforce1 to train librarians on how to better assist jobseekers. Delivered by the Workforce Professionals Training Institute, the training provided librarians with skills to help serve branch customers seeking employment. These skills included job readiness services, job search strategies, and the latest labor market trends in New York City. The Mayor was also joined by Brooklyn Public Library Board Chairman and Counselor to the Mayor Anthony W. Crowell, Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Council Member Stephen Levin.
"Libraries have always served as gateways to opportunity, so they make great locations for our career counseling and job placement services," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Last year, Workforce 1 Centers connected New Yorkers to 35,000 jobs, and this year, we'll do even more to make sure that people who are looking for jobs can get help they need to learn new skills and find real opportunities."
"New York City's economy is continuing to bounce back from the recession, but there are still too many New Yorkers who are struggling to find job opportunities," Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel said. "By co-locating new Workforce 1 Express Centers at public libraries, the Bloomberg Administration is doing everything we can to make it easier for New Yorkers to find jobs as the economy continues to expand."
"More and more people are turning to public libraries to use their resources to find jobs and start businesses," said Rob Walsh, Commissioner of the Department of Small Business Services. "The partnership between Workforce1 and New York City's public libraries will allow us to help even more New Yorkers looking for jobs in 2012."
"The Workforce1 Expansion Centers at Central Library and Sunset Park Library have given us a wonderful opportunity to expand upon the services we offer to Brooklynites who are job searching," said Brooklyn Public Library President and CEO Linda E. Johnson. "In the past, the Library has been an important resource for one-on-one job readiness help, resume writing and interviewing skills workshops, and print and electronic career resources. Now, in addition to these services, patrons can meet with Workforce1 representatives to receive valuable job placement assistance. For the first time ever, we offer the full spectrum of employment resources, from literacy classes to recruitment services, all under one roof. This is a groundbreaking collaboration between the Library and the City and we are confident it will result in thousands of Brooklynites getting back to work and starting fulfilling careers."
"Libraries more than ever are proving their importance to New Yorkers by moving beyond traditional notions of service," said Chairman Crowell. "By co-locating Workforce1 Centers in our libraries, we are empowering New Yorkers who are seeking jobs by providing them with comprehensive employment readiness services – from resume-writing workshops to counseling to skill-building services – and the chance to be connected with real opportunities in the workforce – all in one location. This is one of many new ways in which our public libraries will serve as vital community spaces relevant to the demands of the day. We are excited that we have been able to scale this model in all three public library systems."
"The New York Public Library is already an enthusiastic community partner with the Workforce 1 Career Center system, and is excited to expand our role," said NYPL President Anthony Marx. "The new Bronx center will join our already-existing and successful job search programs to highlight the Library's dedication to helping New Yorkers find the jobs they need. It is a key part of our overall mission to strengthen communities and give opportunities to those who need them most."
"Queens Library is pleased to expand our resources for job seekers through this partnership with the New York City Department of Small Business Services," said Thomas Galante, President and CEO of Queens Library. "Our collaboration with Workforce 1, which began in Jamaica in 2001, has helped connect over 25,000 Queens residents each year with the tools and information they need to enter the workforce and enrich their lives. This new program will more than double the number of people we can reach with these critical resources."
"Like everywhere else in the country, Brooklyn is feeling the effects of this economic downturn," said Borough President Markowitz. "To put it simply, jobs remain 'job one.' And that's why the full range of services—from employment postings to workshops to job fairs—available to job seekers at Workforce1 are so critical. Kudos to Mayor Bloomberg, Small Business Services Commissioner Walsh, and Brooklyn Public Library and its president and CEO Linda Johnson and board chair Anthony Crowell for helping to turn a job interview into a job offer—and for being such a vital part of the engine that keeps our Brooklyn economy running."
"I applaud Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Walsh, as well as the leadership of all three public library systems, for creating new partnerships that will help put more New Yorkers back to work," said Council Member Steve Levin. "Combining the great resources of our public library systems with the expertise of Workforce1 Centers will ensure that all residents have all of the tools they need to re-enter the workforce."
"A Workforce1 Center in the Brooklyn Public Library central branch will provide the extra resources needed to help our community residents with job placements and necessary back to work support," said Council Member Leticia James. "I'd like to thank Mayor Bloomberg, Small Business Services Commissioner Rob Walsh, Brooklyn Public Library President CEO Linda E. Johnson and Brooklyn Public Library Board chairman Anthony W. Crowell for bringing a Workforce1 Career Center to the Brooklyn Central Library."
"We thank Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Walsh for their continued commitment to help New Yorkers find career opportunities in today's job market," said Dale Grant, President of Grant Associates. "Their insight on how to best develop the City's workforce programs has allowed our company to provide training, educational opportunities and job placement services to thousands of people, including low-income individuals and dislocated workers."
Workforce1 Centers were launched the start of the Bloomberg Administration. And with the opening of three Workforce 1 Centers in libraries, the Administration has now launched a total of 15 centers in all five boroughs. Ten of them have opened since last July. Of these 10, two are sector based – one in Long Island City and the other in Jamaica, Queens – and they're focused on connecting job seekers to careers in the health care, transportation, and industrial sectors. Up until 2004, Workforce1 Centers were placing about 500 New Yorkers in jobs a year – before they were completely revamped to offer training in the skills that companies are looking for and better connect the supply of labor to the demand for labor. In December 2010, Mayor Bloomberg announced that the City would open 10 new Workforce One Express Centers across the City over the next 12 months. Cities across the country have expressed interest in New York City's approach, and the federal government funded the replication of the City's approach in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and parts of Ohio.
Workforce1 Career Centers offer one-on-one appointments with jobseekers to review their resume, screen for jobs, and match candidates with available jobs. These Centers also have a resource area where New Yorkers can search and apply for jobs, and conference areas for skill building workshops. New Centers opened last week in Long Island City and Staten Island, and two more Centers are set to open in 2012, which will make a total of 17 Workforce1 Centers offering free services to New Yorkers looking for jobs.
Several resources are available to New Yorkers looking for jobs. Visit www.nyc.gov for a list of Workforce1 Career Center locations throughout the City, and to sign up for the Workforce1 Career Bulletin, a weekly email featuring the latest job openings available through the centers. New Yorkers can also find valuable resources online through the Workforce1 Career Blog, and by following Workforce1 on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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zulejkic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
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Real Estate owner who owns mobile home parks and changes trailer parks to quality manufactured home communities, has done this 25 times by changing signage, infracsturcture, reputation, practacality, treating people who dont have like they do.
The Latin community, who are in need of low income housing, a mobile home in a mobile home park which is gated and safe in a area where it is not safe. Targeting a Latin Spanish Flare, Think tapas, think color, our colors are red pepper red, tan with expresso faux finish, orange and blue. Promoting Hidden, community and Safe.
This will be the entrance sign and I will use the same sign on everything from sales signs to paper to shirts. So need a logo that will go with the name of the mobile home park, La Hacienda Escondido, in english The Hidden Ranch.
The sign will have the name, logo, address 4225 S. Cravens, and the words A Quality Manufactured Home Community,
Colors are tan with expresso, chile pepper red, orange, yellow, blue the sign will be mounted on Austin Stone ( a tan, white, rusty color stone) and will be made out of Cedar and get Sandblasted and painted with the above colors. Think of your favorite tapas restaurant, think spain, mexico, community, safe. Also we are next to a large horse barn and lake but in a bad drug infested area, wanting to draw good people. The sign size will be 4 foot by 4 foot. Please help
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by Rachel Armstrong
SOCORRO, N.M., November 19, 2003 — The most recent issue of New Mexico Geology focuses on the study of "Pecos diamonds" along the Pecos River valley in southeastern New Mexico.
The study, which the article "Pecos diamonds—quartz and dolomite crystals from the Seven Rivers Formation outcrops of southeastern New Mexico" details, analyzes the composition, distribution, and history of Pecos diamonds in southeastern New Mexico.
"Pecos diamonds," the article states, "also known as Pecos valley diamonds are colorful . . . quartz crystals that occur in scattered outcrops of the Permian Seven Rivers Formation . . . along the Pecos River valley in southeastern New Mexico." The article continues to explain that they are "unique for their large size, variable color, and crystal morphologies."
Another article in the geology journal, "Arsenic concentration and mass flow rate in natural waters of the Valles caldera and Jemez Mountains region, New Mexico," details a study of arsenic concentrations and mass flow rates along the Jemez River and the Rio Grande in north-central New Mexico.
The periodical also includes a description of new New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) publications, which include the Geologic Map of New Mexico, 1:500,000 and Albuquerque: A Guide to its Geology and Culture.
New Mexico Geology is published quarterly by NMBGMR, a service division of New Mexico Tech. A subscription to the award-winning journal costs $12 per year, or $22 for two years. Individual issues may be purchased for $3.50 each.
For more information about New Mexico Geology, or any other NMBGMR publication, write to the Bureau Publications Office, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, call 505-835-5410, or visit the Bureau's website at http://geoinfo.nmt.edu.


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If memory serves, that's what a huge banner on the outside of Shea Stadium said throughout the 1986 season, during which Davey Johnson's Mets won the World Series. Today, 27 years later, Johnson's Washington Nationals played baseball the way it should be played during a 2-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Opening Day.
The team's two phenoms, Bryce Harper and Steven Strasburg, provided the heroics. Harper contributed the home runs that supplied the "2," while Strasburg contributed 7 innings of 3-hit ball that went a long way toward supplying the "0."
Throughout the off-season, Nats fans were buzzing about the possibility that the 20-year old Harper will make a run at the League's Most Valuable Player award. I wasn't buying it. Last season, Harper's first the big leagues, there was too much lunging at pitches; too much over-aggression early in the count that created too many 0-2 counts; and too many ill-advised throws from the outfield that ceded too many bases to the opposition. Surely, not all of this could be cured in one season.
But the news from training camp caused me to think that perhaps it could be. Harper batted a cool .478 this spring.
Today, Harper belted home runs in his first two plate appearances. The first came off of a slow curve, the pitch that seemed to trouble Harper the most at times last year. The second came off of what looked like a hard slider on a 3-2 pitch. Both were off of Miami pitcher Ricky Nolasko, who was pitching brilliantly and who has baffled the Nats in the past. Indeed, Harper's two homers were the only hits Nolasko yielded through 4 innings. Overall, he yielded only three in 6.
Harper also helped make the play of the game for the Nats. In the top of the seventh inning, with one out and Miami runners on first and third, Harper caught a fly ball in medium left field and threw a bullet to home plate. The runner on third had wisely decided not to challenge Harper, but the runner on first moved towards second, perhaps trying to get in a run-down during which the runner on third would score.
Nats catcher Wilson Ramos obliged with a throw toward second base. Sure enough, when the runner on third tried to score, he was cut down by a mile at the plate.
Baseball the way it should be played.
As for Strasburg, he was in complete control for six innings. Even in the seventh, one of the two Miami hits might better have been scored an error on Ian Desmond.
Strasburg was a model of effiency, walking no one and striking out only three. The result? Seven innings completed with only 80 pitches.
You might say that Strasburg pitched to contact, as the current jargon would have it. But I would say he pitched to weak contact, often using a 96 mile per hour fastball to set up a soft out on a change-up or a curve ball.
Rafael Soriano, Washington's new closer, also deserves mention. He closed out the Marlins 1-2-3 in the top of the ninth, striking out two batters, including the dangerous Giancarlo Stanton.
Soriano was commanding and even a bit imperious-looking on the hill. Every pitch, it seemed, was at the knees and on a corner. Most of the strikes were called, the Marlin hitters figuring it was better to take their chances with the umpire than to hit a ground ball out to second base.
One game certainly doesn't make a season. Harper likely will have his ups and downs, as nearly all players do. And teams that looked as good as the Nats do on paper have played .500 ball over the course of the long season.
But baseball is a sport in which the naive can dream of the championship before the season starts and hardened cynics like me can dream of it after one game — as long as the Nats keep playing baseball the way it should be played.


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North Sea, shallow, northeastern arm of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the British Isles and the mainland of northwestern Europe and covering an area of 220,000 square miles (570,000 square km). The sea is bordered by the island of Great Britain to the southwest and west, the Orkney and Shetland islands to the northwest, Norway to the northeast, Denmark to the east, Germany and the Netherlands to the southeast, and Belgium and France to the south. It is connected to the Atlantic by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel and opens directly onto the ocean between the Orkney and Shetland islands and between the Shetland Islands and Norway. The Skagerrak, an eastward extension of the North Sea between Norway and Denmark, connects the North and Baltic seas via the Kattegat and the Danish straits.
The North Sea has long been important as one of Europe's most productive fisheries. It also serves as a prominent shipping zone among European countries and between Europe and the Middle East. A third aspect of economic importance has been the extensive reserves of petroleum and natural gas discovered beneath the seafloor.
The North Sea has had a strong influence on European history. Because of its long coastline and the rivers emptying into it, it has been readily accessible to many areas, providing highways of commerce and of conquest. It was the scene of early development of maritime trade. Its waters have protected the British Isles from invasion from the Continent for more than a thousand years, yet the North Sea also has served as a springboard for the growth of the overseas empires of the countries bordering it. Without the interchange of people, goods, and ideas made possible by the existence of the North Sea, the cultural development of northwestern Europe after the Middle Ages might have been greatly retarded.
Physical features
The extent of the North Sea and the level of its water surface have varied considerably over geologic time. At the end of the Pliocene Epoch (about 2.6 million years ago), the North Sea basin south of Dogger Bank was part of the European mainland, and the Rhine River—joined on its left bank by the Thames—emptied into the sea about 250 miles (400 km) north of present-day London. During the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), ice sheets advanced and retreated several times and deposited a thick layer of clay on the seafloor. At the time of the greatest advance, the ice covered all of the North Sea from a line joining the Thames estuary with the Dutch coast. The final retreat of the glaciers took place about 8,000 years ago; some centuries later, as its level continued to rise, the expanding sea broke across the land bridge that, until then, had linked Britain with France, and the waters of the North Sea joined with those of the English Channel. The present coastlines of the North Sea were probably not established until some 3,000 years ago.
Few parts of the North Sea are more than 300 feet (90 metres) in depth. The floor dips to the north and is generally irregular. In the south, depths measure less than 120 feet (35 metres); many shallow, shifting banks, presumably of glacial origin, have been reworked by tidal currents. These present serious navigational hazards. Off northern England the vast moraine (glacial deposit of earth and stones) known as Dogger Bank is covered to depths of only about 50 to 100 feet (15 to 30 metres). This is the location of one of the finest fishing areas in the sea. In contrast, the waters deepen in the Norwegian Trench, an unusual depression that runs parallel to the coast of southern Norway from north of Bergen around to Oslo. It is between 15 and 20 miles (20 to 30 km) wide and is some 1,000 feet (300 metres) deep in the vicinity of Bergen, reaching a maximum depth of about 2,300 feet (700 metres) in the Skagerrak. There also are some deep trenches in the western part of the North Sea, including Devils Hole off Edinburgh, where depths exceed 1,500 feet (450 metres), and Silver Pit, nearly 320 feet (95 metres) deep, off the bay of The Wash in England. These trenches may have been formed at the time of the last glaciation, when parts of the North Sea were free of ice, and rivers coming off the mainland could have eroded deep channels in the basin floor.
There is a marked difference between the rugged upland coasts of the north and the regular lowland coasts of the south. The glaciated mountain coastline of Norway north of Stavanger is broken by fjords, headlands, and an offshore fringe of thousands of rocks and islands. Below Stavanger the coast is less precipitous, and there are fewer islands. Scotland's east coast also is composed of uplands—although it is less broken—and the resistant rocks continue south into England. In the vicinity of Flamborough Head in northeastern England, the cliffs are lower, and their less-resistant clays are subject to extensive erosion. In the Fens area of East Anglia, the coast is low and marshy, as it is in the delta region of the Netherlands. Most of the southern and southeastern coast is straight and sandy. The low, offshore Frisian Islands stretch from Waddenzee in the Netherlands to southwestern Denmark.
The North Sea waters are affected by the warm North Atlantic Current, which moves northward along the western side of the British Isles and enters the Norwegian Sea. Atlantic waters with salinities exceeding 35 parts per thousand enter the North Sea through the English Channel and between the Shetland Islands and Norway. Colder, less-saline waters come from the Baltic Sea through the Skagerrak, creating a counterclockwise circulation in the basin. Salinities generally range between 34 and 35 parts per thousand, with higher readings occurring off the coast of Great Britain and lower readings off Norway. Large quantities of fresh water also enter through the Rhine, Thames, and other rivers.
Average January temperatures of North Sea surface waters range from 35 °F (2 °C) to the east of Denmark to 46 °F (8 °C) between the Shetland Islands and Norway. In July, coastal water temperatures from the Strait of Dover to Denmark exceed 59 °F (15 °C), while in the Orkney-Shetland region they reach only 54 °F (12 °C).
Average air temperatures vary in January from 32 to 40 °F (0 to 4 °C) and in July from 55 to 64 °F (13 to 18 °C). Winters are stormy and gales are frequent. Tidal ranges average between 13 and 20 feet (4 and 6 metres) along the coasts of Britain and in the southern estuaries, while the range to the north and east is less than 10 feet (3 metres). Because of the low-lying nature of much of the southern coast, abnormal tides can be disastrous. In 1953 a storm surge of nearly 11 feet (3.4 metres) above the mean high-water level inundated large areas of the delta region of the Netherlands. In England, surges up the Thames estuary have also affected surrounding lowlands and, prior to the construction of the Thames Barrier, once posed a threat to London itself.Lewis M. Alexander
Economic aspects
The constant mixing of waters in the shallow sea basin provides a rich supply of nutrient salts upon which the lower forms of marine organisms—the basis of the sea's food chain—depend. The resulting abundance of plant and animal plankton supports a varied and rich supply of commercially valuable fish. Cod, haddock, herring, and saithe are the main species taken, with lesser quantities of plaice (a type of marine flatfish), sole, and Norway pout. Sand eel, mackerel, and sprat are caught for the production of fish meal.
The major fishing countries are Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. A unique fisheries arrangement, the Common Fisheries Policy, was adopted by members of the European Community in 1983. Catch quotas are established each year for the various North Sea species beyond territorial sea limits. Allocations of the total catch are then assigned to each member state, thus creating a single "pond" in which all vessels may operate. A review of the Common Fisheries Policy in 1992 resulted in the establishment of a more stringent monitoring program, including observers aboard fishing vessels. Further reforms of the policy were adopted in 2002 (implemented 2003) to ensure the ecological and economic sustainability of the fishing industry.
Oil and gas
Discoveries of petroleum and natural gas beneath the seafloor began in 1959, when a seaward extension of a major natural gas field in the northeastern part of the Netherlands was identified. Within two decades, natural gas production sites were located along a 100-mile (160-km) band stretching from the Netherlands to eastern England. Farther north, Norway's first offshore oil field went into production in 1971, and the United Kingdom began recovering offshore oil from the North Sea four years later. In the central portions of the North Sea, offshore oil wells now stretch from north of the Shetlands for more than 400 miles (640 km) to the south, and the region accounts for a significant portion of the world's total offshore oil production. Oil is brought ashore in pipelines to terminals in the Shetland and Orkney islands, the northeastern coast of the Scottish mainland, and northern England.
The North Sea has become western Europe's most important oil and gas production area, yielding high-quality crude oil with a low-sulfur content. The two largest producers are Norway and the United Kingdom, and until 1990 the annual yields of the two countries were comparable. By the early 21st century, however, Norway had clearly become the leader of oil and gas production in the North Sea region. Other minor producers include Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany. New fields are being explored and developed farther north in the Norwegian and Barents seas. Discoveries west of the Shetland Islands have increased the United Kingdom's proven oil reserves. Natural gas is becoming an increasingly important source of energy for western Europe, and several major pipelines have been constructed to transport the gas. Among the most significant of these is the Langeled pipeline between the United Kingdom and Norway, completed in 2006.
Trade and transportation
The North Sea is one of the busiest shipping areas in the world, not only because of vessels moving to and from its ports but also because of transit traffic with the Baltic. Merchant vessels must share space with fishing vessels and offshore oil and gas platforms. The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are among the top-ranked countries in the world in the volume of their seaborne trade. The Europoort complex at Rotterdam (Netherlands) is one of the world's leading ports in cargo tonnage handled, and Antwerp (Belgium) and Hamburg are also among the largest. Other major North Sea ports include London, Dunkirk (France), and Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven (Germany).
Reclamation and flood-control projects
The principal area for land-reclamation and flood-control projects has been the Netherlands, where reclaiming areas behind the line of coastal dunes along the North Sea has been in progress for centuries. During the 1930s the Dutch constructed a dike 19 miles (31 km) long across the entrance of the Zuiderzee, thus creating a shallow freshwater lake called the IJsselmeer; they then proceeded to reclaim some three-fifths of the former sea for use as farmland. Following the disastrous floods of 1953, the Dutch inaugurated the massive Delta Project, which closed off the mouths of the Rhine, Maas (Meuse), and eastern Schelde (Scheldt) rivers with dams. Floodgates were constructed in the eastern Schelde portion of the barrier system and officially put into operation in 1986. These gates allow seawater and tidal flow to enter the protected areas but can be closed during severe storms. Two movable storm-surge barriers were added in 1997. On a smaller scale, the Thames Barrier structure (completed 1982) just downstream from London also can be closed if flooding from the North Sea threatens the city.
The impact of human activity
The resources of the North Sea increasingly have been exploited as the level of the western European economy has risen. The volume of shipping to the sea's bordering countries has grown steadily, thereby generating problems not only of navigation but also of pollution from operational discharges as well as from accidents. Land-based pollution, including the dumping of sewage and industrial wastes, is also a serious problem, particularly in the southern part of the North Sea. Over the years, the coastal countries of the North Sea have concluded international agreements designed to attack such issues as the dumping of hazardous wastes at sea, the discharge from land of certain toxic materials, and the incineration of wastes at sea. Nonetheless, enforcement powers are limited, and pollution remains a critical issue in certain parts of the sea.
The 1992 Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention) revised and incorporated earlier international agreements concerning marine pollution in the North Sea. The core of the convention was officially put into force in 1998. Various annexes and appendices to the agreement were implemented in subsequent years, and environmental monitoring has indicated a decline in certain pollutant levels in some areas of the North Sea. In 1995, environmental activists received considerable publicity after they boarded and occupied an oil-storage buoy in the North Sea to prevent it from being moved and scuttled in the North Atlantic and thus spreading pollution; the buoy was ultimately dismantled in 1998.
Study and exploration
The countries bordering the North Sea have had a long history of marine research, including physical, chemical, and geologic oceanography as well as fisheries biology. In 1872 the British launched the four-year Challenger Expedition, which inaugurated a new era in descriptive oceanography. Denmark was the site of the formation of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in 1902, and this body has a long-established role of advising governments on fisheries resources and marine pollution issues in the North and Baltic seas. It has compiled the longest record of marine ecological conditions to be found anywhere in the world.
Over the years, in addition to the work of ICES, a number of marine laboratories and research centres have been developed in the North Sea area, focusing particularly on fisheries and pollution issues. A large number of research and monitoring vessels have continued to increase knowledge of the North Sea and its coastal environment. A more recent field of study, coastal management, has been developed with a focus on shoreline stabilization and protection.Lewis M. Alexander The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn More in these related Britannica articles:
United Kingdom: Energy…discovery of oil in the North Sea and the apportionment of its area to surrounding countries led to the rapid development of oil exploitation. Since the start of production in 1975, the quantities brought ashore have grown each year, and the United Kingdom has become virtually self-sufficient in oil and…
Germany: The coastsThe coast of the North Sea continues the type familiar in the northern Netherlands; an offshore bar, crowned with sand dunes, has been shattered and left as the chain of the East Frisian Islands off the coast of Lower Saxony and the North Frisian Islands off the Schleswig-Holstein portion…
Scotland: Resources and powerBritain's North Sea petroleum and natural gas resources began to be developed in the 1970s. The oil fields lie mostly in Scottish waters, but the British government holds their ownership and receives the revenue yield. Large companies have located and extracted the resource, mostly with the…
Netherlands: Resources and power…the Dutch sector of the North Sea. Under the Geneva Convention of 1958, the Netherlands was allocated a 22,000-square-mile (57,000-square-km) block of the continental shelf of the North Sea, an area larger than the country itself. Technological advances led to an increase in offshore production in the last decades of…
Europe: Geologic historyThe North Sea is a submarine sedimentary basin on the shallow-water continental margin of the Atlantic Ocean. Iceland is a unique occurrence in Europe: it is a volcanic island situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge within the still-opening Atlantic Ocean.…
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It's tempting to view Alan Turing as Britain's analogue to America's J. Robert Oppenheimer. Two certified scientific war heroes of the '40s, pilloried by their governments in the '50s for supposed offenses totally unrelated to their wartime service, in spectacular outbursts of ingratitude.
The differences outweigh the similarities, however. Oppenheimer's purported offense was strictly political: his refusal to support development of the H-bomb won him the enmity of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, who humiliated him with ginned-up accusations of disloyalty, knowing how explosive the charges would be in the Red Scare atmosphere of the time.
But Oppenheimer kept the support of a large cadre of fellow physicists--Isidor I. Rabi, for one, ridiculed the loyalty committee members to their faces by reminding them of Oppie's role in bringing the Manhattan Project to its successful conclusion: "We have an A-bomb…and what more do you want, mermaids?" And his public rehabilitation came during his lifetime, when John F. Kennedy awarded him the government's Enrico Fermi Prize ($50,000 and a medal for public service).
Fortune did not so bestow its apologies on Alan Turing, who was granted a royal pardon on Christmas Eve for his 1952 conviction for "gross indecency"--read homosexuality. The pardon comes 59 years after Turing's suicide.
The spate of obituary-like profiles of the outstanding mathematician and computing pioneer that have appeared over the last week have outlined his numerous achievements.
These start with his definition of computable numbers and his devising of the "Turing machine" in 1936--foundations of modern computer science--and his leadership of the cryptanalysis effort that broke the Nazis' Enigma code in 1939-42, which saved thousands of Allied lives and preserved tons of desperately needed oceangoing cargo. The "Turing Test," which is popularly taken to mark when a machine can "out-think" a human but is far more complex than that, and far more interesting, is often viewed as a foundation of the science of artificial intelligence.
Andrew Hodges' 1983 book "Alan Turing: The Enigma," is the indispensable guide to Turing's life and work and one of the finest biographies of a scientific genius ever written. On a more personal basis one can turn to the appreciation of Turing written this year by the computer scientist and social critic Jaron Lanier, which appears here. "I couldn't owe him more," Lanier writes.
Lanier's essay appeared last summer, when it first became known that the British government was thinking of issuing a posthumous pardon to Turing for his prosecution and conviction in 1952 for "gross indecency" under a law dating from 1885.
Turing's crime of homosexuality was punished at a moment when the hypocrisy of the British ruling class was reaching its apogee. He was given the opportunity of choosing between prison and "organotherapy," or chemical castration through the application of female hormones to reduce his sexual urges. Devoted to his work and the life of the mind, he chose the latter, for prison would have interfered with his work and led to the loss of his job at Manchester University and access to its computer.
"He had the choice between his body and feelings on the one hand, and his intellectual life on the other," Hodges observes. "It was a remarkable decision problem. He chose 'thinking' and sacrificed 'feeling.'"
Two years later, and a full year after the chemical therapy had ended, he committed suicide. One of his closest friends wrote that "because his main interests were in things and ideas rather than in people, he was often alone. But he craved for affection and companionship." Hodges adds: "He was more alone than anyone could ever see."
The pardon is the product of years of campaigning by the LGBT community, along with prominent scientists such as Stephen Hawking. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in September urged "this recognition of Alan's status as one of Britain's most famous victims of homophobia (as) another step towards equality, and long overdue."


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Archive for the 'polyandry' Tag
Polygamist Sect Wins … Abused Children Lose
Court Says Sect Kids Must Be Returned
The high court affirmed a decision by an appellate court last week, saying Child Protective Services failed to show an immediate danger to the more than 400 children swept up from the Yearning For Zion Ranch nearly two months ago. Full Story
Let me start by saying I'm all in favor of Polygamy, and all its flavors. Who could resist its offerings… polygyny (one man having multiple wives), polyandry (one woman having multiple husbands), or group marriage (some combination of polygyny and polyandry). Come on, why stick with old tired vanilla ice cream, when you can go for the trifecta in Neapolitan ! More yummin's for the tummin's …. Oh wait, damn … Brain Freeze !! …. No, it's worse …. Brain Washed !!!
The problem here doesn't have anything to do with polygamy. Its about abuse. Physical, mental, and sexual abuse of children who are at the mercy of misguided parents. Parents who have been brain washed, and have fallen to the words of a spiritual leadership comprised of all things evil … i.e. Warren Jeffs. This man, this so called "prophet", is currently fulfilling a ten year sentence in prison. Ten years should be more than long enough for him to either kill himself, or someone doing us, him, and his 500 wives and children the favor. His teachings state that a man must have a least three wives to reach the highest realm of heaven. I'm all in favor of trading the wives for knives, and send him on a one way trip to an eternity in the lowest realm of hell.
But enough of him … let's get this right. We need to find a way to help and resurrect these children and families without destroying their lives. What's the answer ? It's not throwing a blanket over all the children and sweeping them away from their parents, is it ? Certainly their are some abusive adults that need to be investigated, tried, and punished appropriately. But I suspect the vast majority simply need help finding their way back to a life that has some resemblance of truth and normalcy. To an environment that's physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy … and then given the choice to lead that life as they may.
So what is the answer … Government intervention ? Lawmakers and Lawyers ? Protective Services and Social Workers ? Spiritual Guidance ? Take the children and run ?
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's top leader called for better ties with Gulf Arab nations during a rare visit Monday by the Kuwaiti emir, intensifying a push by Tehran to mend relations with the U.S.-allied countries on the other side of the Persian Gulf.
Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah's two-day trip, which began Sunday, follows visits by Iran's foreign minister to his oil-rich nation and other Gulf Arab states in recent months. Moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed to improve relations with Arab countries after he came to power in August.
Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia and its smaller Gulf neighbors long have been wary of Tehran's influence in the region, and like their Western allies are concerned that the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions could lead to the development of atomic weapons. Iran says its nuclear program has only peaceful aims.
Relations between Shiite powerhouse Iran and the Gulf states have been further strained by the civil war in Syria. Saudi Arabia and other Sunni-ruled Gulf states have thrown their support behind the rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad's government, which is supported by Tehran.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all state matters, sounded a conciliatory note on the second day of the Kuwaiti leader's visit.
Iranian state TV quoted him as saying that regional security "depends on good relations among all countries of the region," and that differences between them will only benefit their common enemies. He expressed hope for "a new chapter" of economic relations between Iran and Kuwait.
Trade between the two stands at about $220 million, according to state television.
It was Sheik Sabah's first trip to Iran since he became emir of Kuwait, which has a sizable Shiite minority, in 2006.
Kuwait's first deputy premier and foreign minister, Sheik Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah, described earlier talks between the emir and Rouhani as "constructive" and said it was important for countries in the region to have normal relations with Iran, according to the official Kuwait News Agency.
The emir is the second Gulf leader to visit Iran since Rouhani's election last summer.
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the ruler of Oman — which has long sought to balance relations with both Iran and the West — visited in August. Rouhani reciprocated the gesture earlier this year.
Iranian officials have invited other Arab leaders to visit as well. Saudi Arabia last month extended an offer for Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit the kingdom, though no trip has been confirmed.
Associated Press writer Adam Schreck in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.


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Santa Fe Christian kicker Jake Bailey, who also has become the Eagles' starting cornerback, returns an interception in the team's section finals win over Francis Parker.
SOLANA BEACH When the starting cornerback went down with an injury in the regular-season finale, Santa Fe Christian High defensive coordinator Dan Egan sent the backup in against Francis Parker.
In the game to clinch the Coastal League football championship, sophomore Jake Bailey, who was mainly the team's place-kicker to that point, moved into the secondary.
"Here you have a sophomore and a kicker and he's playing cornerback," Egan said. "At a small school like ours, that's how it goes, but we were deeply concerned."
Egan's concern has turned to surprise in the four ensuing games because the kicker-turned-cornerback has been rock solid during the postseason when every game is played with added stress as Bailey learns to compete under the strain of win or go home.
As the Eagles, who captured a Southern California championship last week, head into today's Division IV State Championship Bowl against Modesto Central Catholic at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Bailey is still at cornerback.
Bailey's journey at Santa Fe Christian has hardly been an easy trek.
He began kicking when a teammate was injured last season on the junior varsity. Through the first nine games this season, he was strictly the place-kicker. He practiced at cornerback, but his game was kicking the football, not trying to bat it down.
Then came Cole Needham's injury and the sudden promotion of the 5-foot-11, 165-pound Bailey.
He's responded with 33 tackles, two interceptions and a fumble recovery for the season.
In the 31-15 win in the San Diego Section championship game against Parker on Nov. 30, Bailey played like a veteran with six tackles, a fumble recovery and an interception.
Against Arcadia Rio Hondo in last week's regional playoff game, Bailey kept making plays. He deflected a pass that was intercepted by a teammate. For good measure, he kicked his fifth field goal of the season.
"I never thought the time would come where I'd have to actually play corner," Bailey said. "I've learned how to deal with the added responsibilities. It's been kind of fun to play a lot more.
"For me, kicking is relaxing. Cornerback is stressful because you have plays to make all the time.
"It means I've had to watch more film and pay more attention to the other team's offense in those film sessions."
In the state finals, Bailey will be matched up against Central Catholic junior kicker Kenny Smart.
While Bailey has 43 conversion kicks in addition to his five field goals, Smart has four field goals but a remarkable 96 PATs for a team that averages 49 points a game.
"We have a great kicker," Central Catholic coach Roger Canepa said. "We have two of the best kickers in the state in this game with our guy and theirs."
Unlike Bailey, who is now serving double duty, Smart is a kicker only.
"I know now that next year I'll be more involved in games," Bailey said. "I'd love to go back to just kicking. It's become my passion, (but) I would miss defense.
"I love those pressure situations, which is almost every kicking play because there is so much to take into account. That's why I enjoy making those plays because they mean points on the board.
"A kicker has to love being the man. And when you miss a kick, you have to know how to forget it. Same with cornerback. If you give up a long play, you have to have a short memory."
That mentality is what endears him to the coaching staff.
"He's never had that deer-in-the-headlights look," Egan said.
Added special teams coach Jim Rooney: "In nine years of coaching, he's the best kicker I've had. He'll be one of the best in the country before he leaves here."
But he now has a lot of cornerback to throw into the mix as well."
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Who doesn't want to be happy? The last few decades have seen a great rise in the pursuit of happiness. Not the Aristotelian pursuit of a virtuous, well rounded emotional life, nor the Jeffersonian pursuit of happiness through liberty as an 'inalienable right', nor even the Utilitarian pursuit of happiness as the 'greatest good for the greatest number'. Rather, there has been a surge of interest in measuring and planning for the happiness of nations. The OECD now tracks wellbeing measures across countries, Bhutan has pioneered in interest in Gross National Happiness (GNH) over GDP as a measure of societal progress, and the UK is interested in finding 'happy places' by measuring wellbeing and happiness by geographic location. Happiness is clearly now an important measure of social progress.
And yet happiness is still largely individualised as an emotion. Despite studies by world happiness experts like Ruut Veenhoven showing that happiness is clearly linked to social structural conditions in that it varies substantially across rich, poor and unequal nations, the treatments for happiness are still largely individualised. Medication and therapy – including mass therapy, or a societal/national foci on promoting mindfulness, positive psychology and CBT – are put forward as the means for resolving unhappiness, even when changes in economic and work conditions, family, gender, ethnic, and age structures, and urban and social connection may be the primary culprits in causing unhappiness. Can the proliferation of lists on how to be happy in 5, 7, 13, or 25 'science-backed' easy (and obviously non-contradictory …) steps really compensate for broader social change?
And what about other emotions? How much of our unhappiness is about rising anxiety, depression, stress and anger? How much of our happiness depends on peace, contentment and love? And how much does our happiness – in all its related emotional forms – depend on what we are doing, rather than how we might sum up our lives on a 0 to 10 scale of satisfaction? In previous research, my colleague Kimberly Fisher and I found (unexpectedly) that Americans would enjoy their time less if they lived like Australians, because they would spend more time doing unpleasant things like housework, and less time doing fun things like having people over for dinner. We also found that the GFC seemed to have the effect of helping Americans re-evaluate the quality of their time, and enjoy the grind of work less and the pleasantness of social and family time more. Clearly, reflecting on and adjusting the social circumstances and lives that make us happy is an important element of our actual happiness. Mary Holmes calls this emotional reflexivity, or "an embodied, cognitive and relational process in which social actors have feelings about and try to understand and alter their lives in relation to their social and natural environment and to others."
I say – as I always do with regards to all matters sociological – that structure and agency go hand in hand in the consideration of our happiness. We can change the world – and we can change ourselves – one emotion at a time, with reflection and awareness. I say that we need to be reflexive about what makes us happy (how society affects us), what makes others happy (how we affect society), if there are contradictions and inequalities in happiness, and when it is appropriate to be, show, or change our happiness, unhappiness, or other emotions – rather than assuming we should always try and be simply happy as a default for living. If we can do these things, I think we can start to really understand what it means to be happy in today's society, and to understand and build truly happy societies.
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"Dancing with the Stars" judge Bruno Tonioli just unloaded on Kate Gosselin, calling her ballroom skills "dreadful," "a catastrophe" and "crap" ... but added it's all "in a good way."
It all went down on "Lopez Tonight" where the judge also compared Kate to one of the most feared disasters of all time.
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Stimulus II: Congress ponders aid for cash-strapped states
WASHINGTON — Washington soon could come to the aid of California, New York and other cash-strapped states that face the need to raise taxes or cut spending again next year to balance their books.
The House of Representatives took the first step late Wednesday, passing a $75 billion jobs bill that would help states pay for infrastructure projects and prevent more public employees from being laid off.
Some are calling it "stimulus II," and a sequel would be good news for the 35 states that face budget gaps totaling $31.5 billion by the middle of next year. California is projecting the largest shortfall, at $6.3 billion, followed by Illinois and New York, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research center in Washington.
Earlier this year, the White House disappointed California officials when it said it had no interest in backing the state's emergency loans as a short-term measure.
Now, however, the White House is signaling that it wants to send more money to the states. Without offering any specifics, President Barack Obama mentioned the idea last week in an economic speech, and state officials are eager to hear what the White House has in mind.
On Capitol Hill, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California is urging Congress to finalize a bill quickly, before state legislatures begin their work in 2010.
"It is very important. ... It would prevent the firing of schoolteachers, police officers, firefighters and health care workers who are meeting the needs of the American people," Pelosi said.
Many Republicans scoff at the notion of another stimulus, calling the members of the majority party spendthrifts.
The vote was close, 217-212, with many Democrats joining Republicans to oppose the additional spending.
In a speech Wednesday on the House floor, Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio called the jobs package "more wasteful Washington spending" that will be paid for by future generations.
"Who are we kidding?" he asked. "We're not kidding anybody. I just think it's time to put the brakes on all of it."
Under the latest House package, called the Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010, all the states could compete for a chunk of $48 billion for infrastructure projects and $27 billion to keep more public-sector employees on the payroll.
Pelosi said state and local governments would begin their budgeting in January and February, "and it's important for them to have some idea of if and when we would be doing something."
It appears as though she'll have to wait, however, at least until early next year. No action is planned this year in the Senate, which remains intensely focused on its health care overhaul, leaving no time for other issues.
The White House is promising to work out details of a new aid package with Congress. In his speech last week, Obama said that the first stimulus "has saved the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers and public school workers, firefighters and police officers."
The president said a new package should include emergency assistance to senior citizens, extended unemployment benefits "and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs."
"This will help folks weathering these storms, while boosting consumer spending and promoting job growth," Obama said.
While budget woes will dominate the agenda for state legislatures next year, the situation is expected to worsen. State coffers aren't likely to begin rebounding until the third quarter of 2010 or later, said Arturo Perez, a fiscal analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver.
"States tend not to bottom out as far as their finances are concerned until at least 12 to 24 months after the end of a national recession," Perez said.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities report on state budget shortfalls
Congress cuts subsidy to states for jailing illegal immigrants
Despite recession, 26 states grew health coverage this year
Commentary: The truth about stimulus jobs
Schwarzenegger blames judges for California's budget woes
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WASHINGTON - Lindsey Graham and John McCain finally came face-to-face with their prey this week.
The two angry Republican senators have been plotting for weeks to stop Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, from rising any further in the Washington firmament. On Nov. 27, their task got more complicated.
Graham, of South Carolina, and McCain, of Arizona - joined occasionally by Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, if only to make it not seem like two men beating up on a woman - are all aboil about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. Well, not exactly: They are upset about what Rice said about the attack on several Sunday-morning talk shows five days later.
Why are they upset at Rice and not, say, officials in charge of security at the mission? Or, if they want to go big, why not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Probably because they wanted to go after a lesser official whom President Barack Obama would like to be secretary of state. Or because they don't want to talk about how Republicans have consistently denied funds to protect diplomatic posts in dangerous places. Or because they don't want to discuss how supportive they were last decade when then National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell gave testimony that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Powell and Rice then, like Susan Rice now, were relying on information provided by the intelligence community. There is, however, a major difference: Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were testifying before official government bodies to justify going to war. Susan Rice was filling airtime between ads for erectile-dysfunction drugs.
Of course, all of this is just more evidence of Washington being full of itself. Only in Washington do people take seriously something said to a tiny audience of insiders half- watching their televisions on a Sunday morning. So seriously that a few senators want to embark on a special investigation beyond those already under way (hearings by congressional committees and a State Department inquiry, headed by former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and ordered by Clinton).
It doesn't make sense unless you're just looking for conflict or are up for re-election. As it happens, McCain, the grumpy old man of the Senate, is often spoiling for a fight, and the ally of the man who defeated him four years ago is a satisfying target. And Graham, who must face voters in the red state of South Carolina in two years, already features his dispute with Rice in campaign ads.
The renewed outrage this week was a bit of a surprise, as McCain and Graham had softened their stances in recent days. Few Republican colleagues were flocking to their side, and any hope of Democratic support faded after the president's passionate defense of Rice at his post-election press conference.
Offering an olive branch, McCain said over the Thanksgiving holiday that he would like to hear from Rice. Rice said she would like to be heard. A meeting was scheduled. What might have been the end of this fake melodrama over what Rice said (although not the end of real concern over what to do about preventing future Benghazis) was not to be.
Rice did admit that she was wrong about what happened in Benghazi - but that got lost when the story got a new twist. Acting Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Morell, who accompanied Rice, said it wasn't the director of national intelligence or the CIA that provided edited intelligence to Rice. It was the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After the meeting, the CIA changed its story and said that it did, in fact, change some details.
The confusion doesn't end there. Shawn Turner, a spokesman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, told foreign-policy blogger Josh Rogin that earlier news reports claiming James Clapper, the agency's director, made the edits were "frustratingly wrong." Turner said the talking points "were debated and edited by a collective of experts" from the intelligence community.
If you believe Rice was relying on intelligence given to her, whether it was collected jointly or separately - or even if it helped paint a picture of what happened that the White House liked - doesn't really matter. On Benghazi, Rice will always be the messenger, not an actor. It will be left to Pickering to sort out who did what to her talking points.
One senator, independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut - usually one of three amigos with McCain and Graham - came out of his meeting with Rice breaking with his friends. Rice was telling "the whole truth," he said.
That may not matter, either, given how invested Graham and McCain are in making this tragedy all about Rice. Morell's addition of the FBI to the mix gives them a fresh detail to keep this story going. Then Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and the president himself all but assured a few more news cycles of coverage: Collins, a moderate, said she couldn't support Rice without more information, while the president reiterated his support of his ambassador.
Then again, this story is getting pretty convoluted. It's hard enough to know what really happened in Benghazi in September. It's harder still to implicate Rice in some kind of cover-up. This week's events will undoubtedly provide more fodder for another round of Sunday-morning talk shows. But the story McCain and Graham are trying to sell is getting harder and harder to swallow.
Margaret Carlson is a Bloomberg View columnist.
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I've found some beautiful wood tables handmade by Etsy sellers. Not only are they all one of a kind (with other models to choose from), but they're decently priced too. I like the idea of supporting an independent artist as well (rather than buying something mass-produced and shipped from, say, China). Bonus: these woods are all sourced responsibly, so no trees were unnecessarily harmed here. Take a look and share what you think below!
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This delightful almond cake can be served with just about any kind of compote or fruit, depending on the season. It can be made early in the day, then served simply sliced and garnished with the compote (also made ahead) and crème fraîche.–Thomas Keller
Almond Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6 to 8
- For the compote
- 1 pound strawberries, rinsed and hulled
- 1 pound rhubarb, trimmed
- 1 lemon
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- For the almond cake
- Butter and flour, for the pan(s)
- 7 ounces almond paste
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 4 ounces unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and chilled
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons amaretto, plus additional for brushing
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, sifted
- Kosher salt
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted
- Confectioners' sugar
- 3/4 cup crème fraîche, whipped to soft peaks
- Make the compote
- 1. Select about 4 ounces of the smallest strawberries and cut lengthwise into quarters. These will be added raw to the cooked compote; set aside.
- 2. Cut the remaining larger berries in halves or quarters so that the pieces are about the same size. (You should have about 2 1/2 cups.) Place them in a medium saucepan.
- 3. With a paring knife, pull away and discard the strings that run the length of the rhubarb stalks. Cut the stalks into 3/4-inch pieces (you should have about 3 cups) and add to the saucepan.
- 4. Use a fine grater or a Microplane to zest the lemon. Add 1 teaspoon of the zest to the pan. Squeeze 1 tablespoon of juice from the lemon and add to the pan. Add the sugar and stir to coat the fruit.
- 5. Place the pan over medium-high heat and cook, stirring often to dissolve the sugar. By the time the sugar has dissolved, the fruit will have released a lot of juice. Boil for about 4 minutes to reduce the liquid somewhat, then reduce the heat and simmer for another 2 minutes, or until the rhubarb is soft. Don't worry if some of the rhubarb falls apart.
- 6. Remove from the heat and stir in the reserved strawberries. Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate in a covered container until cold. (This makes about 4 cups of compote, but the extra will keep for a couple of weeks and is delicious for breakfast, especially with crème fraîche.)
- Make the cake
- 7. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Butter and flour four 4-by-1 3/4-inch-high miniature springform pans or butter and flour the bottom and sides of an 8-inch round cake pan. If using the 8-inch pan, line its bottom with a circle of parchment paper; this isn't necessary with the small pans.
- 8. Place the almond paste and sugar in the bowl of a heavy-duty mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in another large bowl if using a handheld mixer. Begin to cream the mixture on low speed to break up the almond paste, then increase the speed to medium for about 2 minutes, or until the paste is broken into fine particles.
- 9. Add the butter and mix for 4 to 5 minutes, or until the mixture is light in color and airy; stop the machine and scrape down the sides as necessary. It is important to mix long enough or the cake will have a dense texture.
- 10. Mix in the honey, then add the eggs one at a time, beating until each one is fully incorporated before adding the next. Add the amaretto, flour, and a pinch of salt and mix just to combine.
- 11. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan(s) and smooth the top. Bake the small cakes for about 15 minutes, the large one for about 25 minutes, or until the cake is golden and springs back when pressed. Transfer to a rack to cool.
- 12. Unmold the small cakes or invert the large cake onto the rack, remove the parchment paper, and invert the cake again so that the top is once again facing upward. Brush the top of the cake(s) with amaretto and sprinkle with the toasted almonds. Dust with confectioners' sugar. (The large and small cakes can be stored, well wrapped, at room temperature for up to 2 days.) To serve, cut the small cakes in half or the large cake into wedges. Serve with a dollop of whipped crème fraîche and the strawberry-rhubarb compote.
Almond Cake with Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote Recipe © 2004 Thomas Keller. Photo © 2004 Deborah Jones. All rights reserved. All recipes and photos used with permission of the publisher.
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The Jets held a conference call Sunday evening to talk about their decision to trade cornerback Darrelle Revis and it started with General Manager John Idzik saying that the team wanted to hold onto Revis and that Revis wanted to remain with the Jets.
But Idzik said "it's not as simple as player wanting club and club wanting player" and that Revis and the Jets had a "substantial difference" when it came to their assessment of how big a contract Revis should receive. That would suggest that the team was unwilling to enter into a deal similar to the six-year, $96 million one Revis signed with the Buccaneers, although it's unclear how far any contract negotiations between Revis and the Jets might have gone before the decision was made to trade him.
"If we had the luxury of time, if we had the luxury of Darrelle not having been injured, not having gone through rehab, I think things would have been a lot clearer," Idzik said, via Mike Vorkunov of the Newark Star-Ledger. "We ultimately came to the conclusion that this was the best thing to do for the Jets at this time."
It's a tough spot for Idzik, who inherited a terrible situation under the cap and in terms of dealing with Revis thanks to the corner's expiring contract and recovering knee. Whether it was a good deal will be decided in large part by how Idzik uses the picks acquired from Tampa, but it was a deal the Jets had to make if they weren't going to re-sign Revis.
Owner Woody Johnson and coach Rex Ryan also were on the call, with all saying that they agreed that this was the best course of action for the Jets at the moment. Ryan also pledged to continue playing great defense even without the guy he once again called the best cornerback in the NFL. They'd better or the next big conference call might have to do with the Jets starting a search for a new head coach.


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Things haven't changed too much in the world of "Horrible Bosses 2," at least according to the first teaser for the follow-up to the raunchy 2011 comedy.
Jennifer Aniston is still a kinky man-eater, Kevin Spacey is still a menacing sociopath (though blessedly behind bars), and schmoes Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis are once again scheming on a major crime.
This time, instead of trying to off their unbearable superiors, the trio are staging a kidnapping, which prompts Jamie Foxx's pseudo-gangster Dean "[12-letter expletive]" Jones to marvel, "Y'all are the craziest criminals I've ever met."
Of course, they're not really bad guys, just average Joes in a tricky situation. The trailer doesn't spell it out, but the plot involves Nick (Bateman), Dale (Day) and Kurt (Sudeikis) trying to start their own business, only to clash with a slick investor played by Christoph Waltz. To regain the upper hand, the would-be entrepreneurs decide to ransom their rival's adult son (Chris Pine) — but you know what they say about the best-laid plans.
The original "Bosses" was a box-office hit for Warner Bros., grossing $209 million on a modest $37-million budget, and the sequel will no doubt look to replicate that success, hence the familiar feel.
That said, there are some notable changes under the hood. Director Sean Anders ("Sex Drive," "That's My Boy") is taking the baton from Seth Gordon, and while the first film opened during the summer, "Bosses 2" is set to bow Nov. 26.
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By Grady Hendrix
Pseudopod is a horror podcast. In a step away from the usual creepy, crawly stuff, they recently offered a darkly funny story based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Let's just say that it includes teenage angst, Yog-Sothoth, video games, and TV Guide.
Here's a snippet:
Dark god upstairs - dorky dudes coming in through the house all the time - Billy's head felt like it was going to split open underneath all the pressure. Downstairs, there was the stress of avoiding the hair-tousling wanksters as they tried to suck up to him while his mom finished getting ready. Upstairs, hiding out in his room, there was a nightmare from beyond the stars, a living terror from the remote gulfs of frozen space, who refused to wash his own dishes.
I can only hope to write like this someday. Of course, I've tried.
When I was a teenager - back in Bedrock High with Fred Flintstone - Lovecraft's stories kept me awake at night listening for rats in the walls. This story had me laughing out loud at work, laughing hugely as the story unfolded through my MP3 player. Coworkers stared.
Oh, and before I forget, Betty Rubble was even hotter as a teenager.
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The Used Release 'Vulnerable' and Announce North American Headlining Tour Dates
The Used have dropped their fifth studio album 'Vulnerable' today and the band have also announced dates for a headlining tour with support from Dead Sara and Stars In Stereo.
Frontman Bert McCracken says that much of the inspiration for 'Vulnerable' came from recuperating for four months after breaking his hand falling from a stage at an Orange County, Calif show. "Me feeling that vulnerability kind of sparked this creative fire inside of me," says McCracken.
McCracken continues, "This record's really about becoming more than just who you are, and allowing yourself that vulnerability to be a more powerful person. It's a lot more positive than a lot of records we've written in the past. I think everyone could use some positivity nowadays."
He goes on to say, "I think 'Vulnerable' is really new for us. There's a lot of hip-hop influence, beats and drum and bass kind of stuff, but it's also still a Used record, by all means. Just like any other Used record, it's a horse of many colors: There are a lot of soft and heavy sounds, there are a lot of brutal, sharp, bright sounds, and the tempos are anywhere from ultra-slow to super fast and heavy. There are a lot of different conceptual feelings on the record."
"This record is for all those people who weren't the coolest people around," explains the Used vocalist. "We never were. This record's for kids like us, who just love music, because it saves their lives every day. At the end of the day, I'm the only one who has to live and die with myself. I want to make it a good one for me. I only have one life to live."
The Used will also be playing the main stage at this year's Warped Tour. The band's headlining tour kicks off on May 12 in Buffalo N.Y., and wraps up in Vancouver on June. 9 check out the full list of dates below.
The Used North American Headlining Tour Dates:
5/12 — Buffalo, N.Y. — Town Hall
5/13 — Albany, N.Y. — Northern Lights
5/15 — Philadelphia, Pa. — TLA
5/16 — Huntington, N.Y. — Paramount
5/18 — Providence, R.I. — Lupo's
5/19 — Boston, Mass. — House of Blues
5/21 — New York City, N.Y. — Irving Plaza
5/22 — Allentown, Pa. — Crocodile Rock
5/23 — Charlotte, N.C. — Fillmore
5/30 — Silver Spring, Md. — Fillmore
5/31 — Cincinnati, Ohio — Bogart's
6/01 — Milwaukee, Wis. — The Rave
6/03 — Winnipeg, Manitoba — Garrick
6/05 — Edmonton, Alberta — Starlite
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Our company uses a mix of advertising with the most successful being online search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising on Google.
With regards to advertising to the existing home retrofit market, what have you found to be most successful?
i.e. an insulation company that works only in existing homes and looking for more leads and quotes for their sales team.
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what is pay per click?
Pay-per-click is a form of online search engine marketing. Specifically, when you go to Google and search for almost anything, the pay-per-click advertising is what you usually find as the top three results and the right side column of ads.
You only pay for those ads when someone clicks on them and if done correctly, these can yield high quality leads at fairly reasonable prices.
Chris, How do you know that these two advertising methods are the most successful for you? Have you done a stratification survey with your clients to see how they came to you originally? If not, do not rely on some other party's Web site statistics as true success for your firm (i.e., clicks does not equal revenues to you).
Most of the business our firm receives is either from partner referrals (mostly energy companies) and word-of-mouth. We are continuing our CRM approach by keeping in fairly constant contact with past customers via email newsletters (so that the word-of-mouth traffic increases). We have also done some SEO work with our Web site and do get some customers through this, but not lots. Most other common forms of advertising (phone book, generic mail flyers, etc.) really do not give the results the advertising sales people promise. Find "progressive" neighborhoods (just because there are neighborhoods of huge energy hogs doesn't mean they really want to invest their disposable income in changing the status quo) and offer to hold free seminars. Write articles for popular local publications (note that you may also need to advertise in it to get accepted).
I am an appraiser and developer of green courses. Has anyone tried including an infrared camera photograph in the MLS photo gallery? It seems to me the picture tells a thousand words and would be a real eye opener to the public. The picture backed up with the average energy bill for the past year. This is great information for an appraiser in comparing properties as well.
Who places photos in the MLS? Real estate agents. What is the real estate mantra? "No house is a bad house, it just needs the right customer" regardless of how terrible the condition or how large an energy hog. No real estate agent wants a potential customer to suspect that the house in question is "bad" - especially in comparison to others. This is one of the reasons the RE industry is so adamant against Zillow.com (valuation independent from agents) and why they would prefer not to work with any type of outside/independent inspectors (general building inspectors are grudgingly accepted only because mortgage institutions generally require them). But advanced methods for energy efficiency (and inspections/IR images to that end) are not generally accepted by the RE industry East of the Mississippi. Some progressive RE agents West of the Miss. have figured out that they can show product differentiation to some discriminating clients in a buyer's market but since the real estate industry apparently is improving we will see if even that continues. Hence no IR images on the MLS.
Now if you want to start an addendum/similar tool to Zillow that would show the general public IR images/additional condition/energy usage/neighborhood police reports/etc. of houses independent of the MLS...
Our company offers a product, so it might work better for us than for you, but having a profile at Houzz.com wouldn't hurt.
We found MANY clients through Houzz.com just by participating in the discussions and contacting other homeowners and professionals.
Try advertising on Houzz.
Thanks so much for the link to Houzz - I was completely ignorant of it until now. Huge repository of remodeling info/photos/contractors. But I wonder how visible it is to the general public, and it doesn't look like many home performance/energy efficiency contractors have signed up (another visibility issue)?
My company has been selling window shutters nationally online for over 16 years. I find the web is more cluttered than ever with poorly operated businesses taking up real estate. Homeowners don't know where to look and what information is reliable. They are also becoming extremely visual, which makes Houzz so popular.
I suggest using your resources to build the most informative, easy to navigate, visually appealing website possible. Put a strong emphasis on SEO, then post to places like Houzz, Pinterest, etc. You will get found.
We do put a strong emphasis on the energy efficiency of solid wood window shutters vs. other window coverings. Most homeowners are receptive to the education.
Brian Wright - Horizon Interior Shutters, ShutterLand Exterior Shutters
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In our experience, many of our clients also opt for a marketing mix. The PPC campaigns often give good results in the short term, and as it generates profits, meanwhile you can invest in SEO. According to the business model and other characteristics (location, size of company, services) you need to think long-term strategies. In our agency Nexo Creativo, we are green marketing specialists, we can give you more information free of charge. Best regards.
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In my inaugural address as mayor, I pledged to lead a public initiative to renovate one of our city�s true treasures, Elm Park.
Elm Park is perhaps our most utilized and beloved city park. The park is one of the oldest in the United States and Worcester has enjoyed its Frederick Law Olmstead design for over a century. Today, all aspects of our community use the park, including residents and children from the surrounding neighborhoods, local workers, and visitors, both city residents and nonresidents alike.
However, the park has not seen any major renovations or restorations since the 1980s, and the strains of years of constant use are becoming all too apparent. Elm Park needs and deserves our attention to ensure it continues to serve our city as a source of pride.
To date, we have made great strides in the process to renovate and rehabilitate Elm Park. I have convened the Mayor�s Task Force on Elm Park, which brings together neighborhood residents, elected officials, local businesses, and members of the city administration into conversations addressing the current conditions and future opportunities in the park. The goal of the task force is to develop partnerships between the community, the government, and the private sector, to reinvigorate and expand the opportunities for the public at Elm Park.
Currently, the task force, during its general meetings and in various subcommittees, is actively considering infrastructure investments and expanded programming opportunities for the park as well as developing a comprehensive fundraising plan to leverage public/private partnerships to complete these recommendations.
In the coming months, the task force will outline a strategy to utilize these partnerships to raise additional funding to restore the park.
I have charged this task force with making recommendations not only on future improvements to Elm Park, but also on the sustainability of these improvements. To this end, the task force is considering the development of a nonprofit volunteer-driven organization which will exist to provide continued maintenance and programming opportunities for Elm Park.
The task force envisions this organization to resemble the Friends of the Public Gardens in Boston, which is a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving and advocating for the Boston Public Garden through fundraising and work of an active core group of volunteers and members. It is my hope that with public/private partnerships supporting such an organization we will be able to provide additional permanent support for the park, helping to maintain Elm Park at a new level of excellence.
Further, the city is about to begin the first phase of infrastructure renovations in Elm Park.
In June, the City Council and I authorized the use of $1 million in conjunction with a $500,000 commonwealth of Massachusetts PARC Grant secured in 2011 through collaboration with the Patrick-Murray administration for initial infrastructure improvements.
This funding will allow the Parks Division to address underlying infrastructure needs in the most used areas of the park. The work in this phase of construction has been bid and is in the process of award. The work will include new walkways, complete renovation of the park walkway lighting, rehabilitation of the playground area, including new picnic tables and benches, as well as upgrades to the electrical and storm water infrastructure. The total cost of this phase will be approximately $1.25 million and will be completed in the summer of 2013.
I am committed to ensuring Elm Park continues to serve the diversity of its visitors and our city. It is my plan to host public hearings of the Mayor�s Task Force on Elm Park once its draft recommendations are completed. These public hearings will allow for public input from the neighborhood, community, and regular visitors to the park. I look forward to these public discussions about the future of Elm Park. The park�s varied and constant usage demands that all the voices utilizing the park are heard and involved in its rebirth.
I am confident the continued collaboration between the task force, city administration, and community will guarantee Elm Park will serve our city well into the 21st century.
Joseph M. Petty is the mayor of Worcester.


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The 802.11ac standard with Intel's implementation gets you to 867Mbps on 802.11ac networks and 300Mbps on 802.11n networks. If you combine these two numbers you get the 1.167Gbps marketing number, but in reality you use either 802.11ac or 802.11n, not both at the same time.
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 is the name of the card and it is a PCIe half mini card form factor that weighs just 4 grams. It has a 2x2 antenna setup and supports both crowded 2.4 GHz and 5GHz bands, delivering 300Mbit for 802.11n and 867 Mbits for 802.11ac networks. Let's not forget that 802.11ac uses 80MHz channels, while 802.11n uses 20MHz or 40MHz and that AC 7260 card comes with Bluetooth 4.0 support.
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The Christian Science Monitor has a very interesting analysis of U.S. Army tactics in the most violent sectors of Afghanistan, with accounts of two recent battles:
This has been the most violent year here since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. The US Army is moving in smaller numbers to lure the Taliban out of hiding for fights they cannot win. The result: More than 1,200 enemy deaths this year, including high-level commanders.
Much is made about the high-tech gear that US soldiers carry: body armor, rapid-firing machine guns, night vision goggles. But the chief advantage of the US military – especially in a low-intensity conflict, pitted against a crudely trained force like the Taliban – is training and air power.
Taliban fighters, meanwhile, appear to gain courage from numbers, the ability to swarm a smaller enemy unit. A sense of safety in numbers, however, is often the Taliban's undoing if a US platoon can fix an enemy's position long enough for aircraft or other infantry units to arrive.
"The whole purpose of an infantry is to close in on the enemy and finish them off," says Capt. Eric Gardiner, commander of Chosen Company in Qalat. "Here in Afghanistan, we've had over 75 percent of our contacts within hand grenade range."
In the battles described in the article, the range is often closer than that–as little as two feet. Thankfully, the Taliban don't seem to be very good shots.
American sources say that Afghan National Army forces are enthusiastic and eventually will take over the defense of their country, but that is described as "a long way off." Part of the problem seems to be that the ANA troops aren't very good shots either:
[T]he ANA still have a disconcerting habit of shooting themselves with their own weapons. "The problem is muzzle discipline," says 2nd Lieut. [name removed by request], a commander of an ANA unit based in Qalat.
Until the ANA is ready to take over full security responsibilities, NATO troops may replace, at least in part, the American forces due to be rotated out of Afghanistan.
So it appears that low-level conflict will continue in Afghanistan for some time to come.
Via Power Line News.


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