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Yoga offers many rewards for winter sports fans. From better balance and core strength to injury prevention and a more focused mind, this series of yoga poses will refine your balance and strengthen the key muscle groups (quadriceps, glutes, ankles, abdominals, and back) that you use in winter sports. If you're new to snow sports, practicing this sequence regularly for several weeks before you strap on your skis, board, or skates will help you build the strength you'll need.
If you're going skiing today, move through this sequence first to wake up the key muscle groups you'll be using. The sequence is designed to be practiced in the order below. Practice often and respect how your body feels each time.
Alternate Arm and Leg Raises
Directions: Kneel on all fours, with your shoulders directly over your wrists and your hips over your knees. Inhale and simultaneously lift your left arm to shoulder level. Reach and lift your right leg parallel to the floor, reaching back through your toes. As you reach though your limbs, lengthen your spine. Keep your pelvis level and your belly firm. Stay in the pose for five seconds and then return to all fours.
Practice the pose five times and then repeat with the right arm and left leg. It's easy to hold your breath in this pose so be aware of each inhalation and each exhalation.
Downward-Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
Directions: Kneel on all fours with your hips over your knees and your hands slightly forward of your shoulders. Spread your palms, index fingers slightly turned out. Turn your toes under.
Exhale and lift your knees away from the floor.
Keep the knees slightly bent and the heels lifted away from the floor. Lift the buttock bones toward the ceiling.
With an exhalation, push your top thighs back into your hamstrings and stretch your heels down toward the floor. Stay for 15 seconds breathing evenly.
Warrior I Pose (Virabhadrasana I)
Directions: From Downward-Facing Dog Pose, lunge your left foot forward and place it between your hands.
Lower your right heel to the ground if possible then turn the right foot in 45 to 60 degrees. If not possible, stay in a high lunge with the heel off the ground.
Keep your left knee bent, bring your torso upright, raise your arms overhead. Press down firmly with the back foot while squaring the front of your pelvis as much as possible to the wall in front of you. Keep your shoulder blades drawn down and your low belly in and up, reach through your arms. Hold for five to 10 seconds, return to Downward-Facing Dog.
Repeat on the other side. When you're finished, return to Downward-Facing Dog for three breaths. Next, walk your feet between your hands and stand upright.
Powerful Pose (Utkatasana)
Directions: From a standing position, step your feet together. Raise your arms in front of you to shoulder height, parallel to the floor, palms face each other or if you are able, raise your arms overhead. Keep the heels down, bend your knees and lower your torso as if you are to sit in a chair. Draw your navel back in the direction of the spine as you tuck the tailbone under slightly. Keep the inner thighs pressed together and press the tops of the thigh bones down toward the heels. Draw your shoulder blades down your back. Take your tailbone down toward the floor and in toward your pubis to keep the lower back long. Lift your torso as you press into your heels.
Hold for 10 to 15 seconds, straighten your legs, and come out. Repeat five times.
Warrior III (Virabhadrasana III)
Directions: From an upright position, step your right foot back into a lunge position. With the chest on the left thigh, stretch your arms forward, parallel to the floor and parallel to each other, palms face each other. Simultaneously, (a) bring the hips and body weight forward onto the left leg, (b) straighten the left leg, (c) step the right leg in and raise it to the level of the right hip. As best as you can keep the right hip down. Stay in this position for 5 to 10 seconds.
Release back to the lunge. Bring your hands to the floor on either side of the left foot, and then step your right foot forward. Repeat on the other side.
Boat Pose (Paripurna Navasana)
Directions: Sit on the floor with your legs straight in front of you. Press your hands on the floor behind your hips, fingers pointing toward the toes. Lift through the top of the sternum and lean back slightly.
Bend your knees, then lift your feet off the floor, so that the calves are parallel to the floor. Lengthen your tailbone into the floor and lift your pubis toward your navel. If possible, slowly straighten your knees, raise the tips of your toes slightly above the level of your eyes. If this isn't possible remain with your knees bent. Stretch your arms alongside the legs, parallel to each other and the floor. If this isn't possible, keep the hands on the floor beside your hips or hold on to the backs of your thighs.
Stay in the pose for 5 to 10 seconds. Release the legs and sit upright. Repeat three times.
Finishing Up
Finish the sequence with these postures. Reclined Leg Stretch lengthens hamstrings and stretches hips, thighs, groins, and calves. The twist relieves soreness in the lower back and can help relieve upper-back stiffness.
Reclined Leg Stretch (Supta Padangusthasana)
Directions: Lie on your back with your legs together. Extend both legs strongly through your heels.
Keep your left leg tunneling into the ground as you bend your right leg and draw it into your chest. Place a strap around the arch of the right foot and hold the strap loosely in both hands.
Extend your right leg straight up. Walk your hands up the strap until the elbows are fully extended. Keep your neck relaxed and make sure you are not throwing your head back.
Lengthen the back of the leg between the heel and sits bone. Try not to be overly enthusiastic about pulling your leg toward your chest. Instead emphasize the grounding of your left leg as you draw your arms back into the sockets and lift your collarbones.
Stay for 30 seconds to one minute breathing evenly. Slowly release. Repeat on the left side.
Revolved Abdomen Pose (Jathara Parivartanasana)
Directions: Lie on your back with your legs bent, your feet on the floor, and your arms out to the sides in a T-shape. Flex your feet and draw your legs into your chest. On an exhalation, release your knees to the left toward the floor. Try to keep both shoulders on the ground as you extend and press your arms into the ground. Keep your neck and throat soft. Hold for 30 seconds to one minute. Inhale, bring your knees up to the center. Repeat on the opposite side.
Modifications: If this feels too intense, place a block, folded blanket or bolster under your knees and allow them to rest on that support.
Accomplished yoga teacher, Lynn Burgess, combines her unique alignment based style with over 20 years of teaching experience to help athletes achieve their goals. Visit www.yogafromtheheart.com to learn more.


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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors wrapped up three days of public hearings on the county's proposed fiscal year 2013 budget Thursday afternoon.
More than 40 speakers, an unusually low number for the final hearing, testified before the board during the four-hour hearing, advocating for funding in human services, fair employee compensation, and parks and libraries.
One common theme among many speakers, regardless of their cause, was support of the advertised real estate tax rate of $1.08 per $100 of assessed value – an increase from the current $1.07 rate. Supporters said the revenues from that tax increase could go towards any number of programs in danger of cuts.
But not everyone supported the budget.
John Carlson, of Mount Vernon, said that $6.7 billion was simply too much, and that a 6.1% increase from FY2012 was "excessive."
"Affordable housing in the county is an unaffordable expense," he said, asking for a property tax reduction to $1.05 per $100 of assessed value.
Human Services
Many of the speakers over the course of the three days wanted to see more funding for human services, including programs that helped the homeless and the intellectually disabled.
said that he has not made any cuts to the Community Services Board, who help fund human services programs, but they are facing shortfalls in their own budget and need more funding.
Alec Christoff, vice president of the Advisory Board to the Gartlan Mental Health Center, said the Community Services Board had faced $15 million in cuts in the last four years. Without increased county support, programs will have to be eliminated, and reinstating programs can take years, he said.
"It is unconscionable to expect severely mentally disabled people to wait for services," said Anne Andrews of the South County Task Force for Human Services.
Lisa Escoto spoke to the board on Wednesday with her daughter, who has intellectual disabilities. She said that the lack of increased funding for Fairfax County's early intervention services at Infant & Toddler Connection (ITC) is a big mistake. Without ITC, her daughter would not be doing as well as she is today, Escoto said.
Delmar Sands also testified on Wednesday to urge the board to reinstate funding to the county's adult dental program. According to other speakers, the current budget cuts $50,000 from the program, which helps to provide dental care to low-income citizens. With the current cuts, roughly 500 people wouldn't get the services they need.
Sands recounted an emotional personal story, telling the board that when he was homeless and suffering from alcoholism, the county's human services programs helped him get back on his feet. The dental program helped Sands' repair badly damaged teeth.
Speaking on behalf of the Fairfax Area Disability Services Board, Kelly Greenwood told the board Thursday that home-based care (HBC) services could not take any more cuts. Greenwood, who is disabled and must use a wheelchair, said she has used HBC for six years, and has seen the effects of less funding.
Care providers are to perform "four loads of laundry a month" and perform "light housekeeping." Greenwood said that was not enough.
"Is my option to live in squalor?" she said. "Without HBC I would not have basic necessities that make my life bearable."
Parks & Libraries
During the three hearings, county employees and residents advocated strongly for funding restorations to libraries and parks.
William Bouie, chairman of the Park Authority, said he and his staff were "starting to fray at the edges" due to cuts. "To put it mildly, we are now cutting into the bone," he said. He said manpower is definitely a problem, and asked for funding for limited-time staffing, as well as repairs to aging infrastructure, courts and joint programs with schools. "We look forward to new ribbon cutting ceremonies throughout the year," he said, asking the board to keep in mind, "A penny for parks."
Craig Stevens, of the Fairfax County Park Foundation, lamented the funds that have been lost in the system. "We'd hate to see this award-winning park system fall into disrepair," he said.
Susan Thorniley, chair of the Fairfax County Public Library Board of Trustees, urged the board to not cut a proposed $300,000 from public libraries. With just that money alone, libraries could be open nine more hours a week, she said.
Jeff Armstrong, chair of the Fairfax Library Foundation Board of Trustees, agreed.
He said libraries were a multi-million dollar investment in the county's future that couldn't be capitalized on without the proper funding. If the system is to remain a model for both the commonwealth and the nation, it needs more money, Armstrong said.
The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to formally adopt the budget on May 1. More information about the budget calendar and process is available at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dmb.

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- Move an oven rack into the middle of the oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Spray 24 muffin cups with cooking spray.
- Line a work surface with waxed paper.
- Spoon 1 teaspoon melted butter into the bottom of each sprayed muffin cup.
- Spoon 1 tablespoon brown sugar in each muffin cup.
- Press a maraschino cherry into the center of the brown sugar in each muffin cup.
- Spoon a heaping tablespoon of crushed pineapple over the cherry and compact it with the back of a spoon into an even layer.
- Mix pineapple cake mix, eggs, pineapple juice, and vegetable oil in a large bowl with electric mixer on low speed until moistened, about 30 seconds. Turn mixer speed to medium and mix for 2 minutes.
- Pour pineapple cake batter into the muffin cups, filling them to the top; do not overfill.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a cupcake comes out clean, about 20 minutes.
- Allow cupcakes to cool at least 5 minutes before inverting muffin cups onto the waxed paper to release. Serve with pineapple and cherry sides up. Sprinkle cupcakes lightly with confectioners' sugar.
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Loved these! Of course baking from scratch is always nice, but this is a great way to make a yummy finger food snack without the extra work. To me adding the pineapple juice to the Duncan Hines cake mix gave it a real extra flavor boost (thanks for the tip!) I don't understand people who rate recipes down for using a mix aid, IF YOU DON'T LIKE MIX THEN DON'T MAKE THE RECIPE.
I've been making this basic recipe for years with a couple differences: I used a yellow cake mix with the juice from the pineapple in place of the water (add water to the juice if necessary). I've used pineapple tidbits and rings cut up to fit instead of the crushed pineapple. Crushed pineapple can sometimes make the cake under it too mushy sometimes. Instead of putting the batter directly into the muffin pan, I used paper liners which is so much easier for lunches and serving at picnics. It's a surprise when they take the paper off to eat it! It's basically sweet enough for me to eat like this but occasionaly I've dusted powdered sugar on top of the cupcakes after slightly cooled. Oh, and if you're a coconut lover, add a little to the brown sugar before laying in the pineapple and cherries. This is a great recipe anyway you make it!
love these lil guys! its def more effort to do so many individual cakes but as far as presentation they're well worth it, make a cute idea for partys!!
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Amount Per Serving (24 total)
- Calories
- 236 cal
- 12%
- Fat
- 9 g
- 14%
- Carbs
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Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Does my body need fats?
Yes, it does. Dietary fats are essential to give your body energy and to support cell growth. They also help protect your organs and help keep your body warm. Fats help your body absorb some nutrients and produce important hormones, too.
Your body definitely needs fat – but not as much fat as most people eat.
Yes, it does. Dietary fats are essential to give your body energy and to support cell growth. They also help protect your organs and help keep your body warm. Fats help your body absorb some nutrients and produce important hormones, too.
Your body definitely needs fat – but not as much fat as most people eat.
How many different fats are there?
|There are four major dietary fats in the foods we eat: saturated fats, trans fats, monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. The four types have different chemical structures and physical properties. The bad fats, saturated and trans fats, tend to be more solid at room temperature (like a stick of butter), while monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats tend to be more liquid (like liquid vegetable oil).
Fats can also have different effects on the cholesterol levels in your body. The bad fats, saturated fats and trans fats raise bad cholesterol (LDL) levels in your blood. Monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats can lower bad cholesterol levels and are beneficial when consumed in moderation.
Do all fats have the same number of calories?
There are nine calories in every gram of fat, regardless of what type of fat it is. That's a lot of calories compared to carbohydrates and proteins, which contain four calories per gram.
Because fats are so energy-dense, consuming high levels of fat – regardless of the type – can lead to taking in too many calories. That can lead to weight gain or being overweight. Consuming high levels of saturated or trans fats can also lead to heart disease and stroke. Health experts generally recommend replacing saturated fats and trans fats with monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats – while still limiting the total amount of fat you consume.
Are all foods labeled "trans fat-free" healthy foods?
|Not necessarily. Foods labeled "0 trans fat" or cooked with "trans fat-free" oils may contain a lot of saturated fats, which raise your bad cholesterol levels. "Trans fat-free" foods may also be unhealthy in terms of their general nutrient content. For example, baked goods tend to be high in added sugars and low in nutrients.
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Does eating more healthfully mean giving up my favorite foods?
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Hollywood Didn't Get Undue Access for Bin Laden Film, Auditors Say
- By Charles S. Clark
- June 17, 2013
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Allegations that the White House sought special access to the Defense Department for screenwriters planning a film on the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Ladin were found unsubstantiated in a Pentagon inspector general's report released on Friday.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in August 2011 had asked for a probe of whether Hollywood producers and writers had been given "top-level access to the most classified mission in history." The subsequent investigation was broadened to address a complaint that Leon Panetta, when he was CIA director, had violated procedure by speaking the name of the Navy SEAL commander of the bin Ladin raid during a June 2011 awards ceremony at CIA headquarters.
In response to the King's initial queries, the report concluded, "Our review did not identify consultations between DoD personnel and representatives of the Executive Office of the President." The White House, it continued, did communicate with Deputy Defense Secretary for Intelligence Michael Vickers on the film project, and a special operations planner was designated to meet with the filmmakers, but no such meeting occurred.
"Within the DoD, we did not identify instances whereby any special operations tactics, techniques, and procedures-related information was provided to filmmakers," the report added.
A draft version of the report, leaked earlier this month to the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight, contained discussion of Panetta's actions, but those sections were not included in the final version. The IG's office, which reported on the leak to King, said the matter had been referred to the CIA's inspector general.
"The decision to interview individuals for a particular investigation is based on a wide range of factors, including the accessibility and availability of the information from an array of sources," said Defense IG spokeswoman Bridget Serchak in a statement. "In this instance, the final report was responsive to the congressional queries without an interview with Secretary Panetta. As with any IG work product, the working draft was edited and revised during a rigorous internal review process."
She added that related investigations continue and that "certain information was excluded from the final report so as to avoid compromising concurrent inquiries."
POGO had suggested that the IG might be delaying the report to shield Panetta from criticism. That was denied in a letter to King by Principal Deputy Inspector General Lynne Halbrooks. "No third parties, to include anyone from the Office of the Secretary of Defense or the Executive Office of the President, attempted to influence the content of the report or its release date," she said.
POGO resident journalist Adam Zagorin, in a Friday blogpost, said, "It remains unclear why the Defense Department IG spent time investigating Panetta's disclosure of classified Pentagon information only to refer the matter to its counterpart at the CIA."
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Machine safety: Incorporating functional safety, part 2
When considering "functional safety," look at what differs compared to other safety initiatives, consider U.S. versus international standards, examine conformance responsibilities, and think about what changes are needed, if any, as a manufacturer. Part 2 of 4 looks at U.S. vs. international safety.
When considering "functional safety," look at what differs compared to other safety initiatives, consider U.S. versus international standards, examine conformance responsibilities, and think about what changes are needed, if any, as a manufacturer.
1. What is so different about "functional safety"? (Part 1)
2. Are U.S. domestic standards adopting functional safety requirements from the international standards?
3. Do the international standards place primary conformance responsibility on manufacturers like with OSHA?
4. Do we have to change our machine safety program as a manufacturer in order to meet the compliance requirements?
Let's take a look at these four questions addressing the second question in Part 2.
Definition from IEC 61508-1 - Functional safety is "part of the overall safety relating to the equipment under control and the equipment under control's control system which depends on the correct functioning of the Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic safety-related systems, other technology safety-related systems and external risk reduction facilities".
Are U.S. domestic standards adopting functional safety requirements from the international standards?
Who has an answer or supporting comment about this question? I can say from my perspective that several domestic standards bodies are beginning to roll some of the new requirements into their standard during scheduled update cycles. International standards, like ISO 13849-1: 2006 Safety of machinery —Safety-related parts of control systems, are clear to state that their intended audience is designers.
So my advice is that you should take careful notice of your particular standards for your business and types of machines to see if and how your particular standard might be impacted. For example, as an OEM or systems integrator you will most likely see these changes because of your machine control design activities within your business. On the other hand if you are an end user with no control system design engagement just how these changes impact your end user requirements is still unclear in my perspective.
You may not design circuits for your machines and you may not have designers within your business. Even though you may not be engaged in the design of machine control systems don't you still need to be aware that the requirements will focus more strongly on the functions that are necessary to reduce each individual risk, and what performance is required for each function, rather than simply relying on particular components?
Have you found difficulty understanding any of these issues? Add your comments or thoughts to the discussion by submitting your ideas, experiences, and challenges in the comments section below.
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Asia Pacific outpaces Americas in fractional HP sales into medical industry
While America leads fractional horsepower (FHP) motors sold in medical applications, the Asia Pacific region, especially China, is closing the gap because of their growing and aging population.
The Americas is the largest market for fractional horsepower (FHP) motors sold into medical applications, representing nearly 38% of all FHP motor sales into the medical sector in 2011. While healthcare expenditure in the US is the highest in the world, most of the growth is from services rather than actual equipment. On the other hand, countries in the Asia Pacific region are investing more in medical devices in part due to their aging population. China, for example, is ramping up their healthcare expenditure quickly, and they are investing heavily in upgrading hospitals and clinics to better serve their growing population.
China is expected to build as many as 8,000 new hospitals by 2015 and a total of 20,000 by 2020. The new hospitals and clinics to be constructed in China will require a large number test and measurement devices and pumps, which will sharply increase demand for FHP motors in the region. Thousands of hospitals are already under construction and FHP motor sales into medical applications in the Asia Pacific region are already outpacing sales in the Americas.
There is some uncertainty about how long the robust growth of FHP motor sales into medical applications in China will last. Medical devices in the Asia Pacific region are typically replaced at a much lower rate than those sold in the US, which has traditionally kept FHP motor sales into the medical sector in the Asia Pacific region lower than sales in the US. However, more and more companies manufacturing medical devices for the US market are moving to China, and China's investment in healthcare will certainly continue through the end of the decade. While no one really can say with certainty that the medical industry will be the next big area of growth for FHP motor manufacturers in the Asia Pacific region in the long run, the medical industry is poised to be a strong outperforming sector through 2016.
FHP motor sales into the medical sector are also thriving in countries like Singapore and the Philippines where there is double-digit growth in medical tourism and increasing domestic consumption of medical services. While much of the growth in the Asia Pacific region is coming from China, it would be foolish not to consider the positive growth in the rest of the region. At the same time that America is hoping to pull resources away from the medical sector, FHP motor suppliers in the Asia Pacific region stand to benefit from increasing medical expenditure in the region. In the long run, the growth of sales into medical applications in Asia Pacific will depend upon the regions acceptance of new medical technologies. The good news is that there are already signs that would suggest that Asia Pacific countries are beginning to do so.
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Climate Legacy Initiative Names Advisory Panel to Examine Climate Change and Legal Rights of Future Generations
February 22, 2008
CONTACT: Diane Derby
SOUTH ROYALTON, VT — Vermont Law School's Climate Legacy Initiative (CLI), which is working to safeguard the legal rights of future generations from harms resulting from climate change, is proud to announce the appointment of its Distinguished Advisors Panel. The panel will review the CLI's findings and recommendations, which will be detailed in a green paper slated for national release in October 2008.
The advisory panel includes:
- Harriet Barlow, director, HKH Foundation and the Blue Mountain Center;
- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice Emeritus Princeton University and visiting professor of Global and International Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara;
- Gary Hart, co-chair, Presidential Climate Action Committee (PCAP) National Advisory Committee; Wirth Chair Professor, University of Colorado at Denver; US Senator (CO – ret.); former candidate for President of the United States;
- Roger Kennedy, former director of the National Park Service; director emeritus, National Museum of American History;
- Bill McKibben, environmentalist author; scholar-in-residence, Middlebury College;
- Bryan Norton, professor of philosophy, Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and a charter member of the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board;
- David W. Orr, chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College;
- James Gustave Speth, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University;
- Jörg Chet Tremmel, founder and director of the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations, Germany;
- Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law, Georgetown University Law Center.
"I am extremely pleased with the high quality of experts who have agreed to work with and advise us," said Professor Burns H. Weston, CLI's project director and senior researcher. "It is testimony, I believe, to the importance and necessity of what we are doing."
The CLI researches and promotes legal doctrines, principles and rules appropriate for recognition by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies and private institutions, to safeguard the rights of present and future generations as they relate to climate change.
Cooperating with the CLI is the Consultants Working Group, whose members include:
- Peter Barnes, senior fellow of the Tomales Bay Institute; author of Capitalism 3.0 and Who Owns the Sky?
- John Davidson, professor of political science, University of Oregon.
- Joseph H. Guth, legal director, Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN).
- Dr. Maureen McCue, UI Global Health Studies Program and Center for Human Rights; chair, Iowa chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
- Nancy Myers, lead author and editor of SEHN's how-to book on the precautionary principle, Precautionary Tools for Reshaping Environmental Policy.
- Hari M. Osofsky, assistant professor of law, University of Oregon School of Law (through June 2008); associate professor of law, Washington & Lee University School of Law (commencing July 2008).
- Matthew Pawa, attorney at law, specializing in environmental litigation.
- Carolyn Raffensperger, executive director, SEHN.
- Andrew L. Strauss, professor of law, Widener University School of Law.
- David A. Wirth, professor of law; Director of International Programs, Boston College Law School.
- Mary Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor, University of Oregon School of Law.
"The CLI is at a very productive point, with a critical mass of dynamic people who have signed on to our advisory panel and consulting group," said Professor Tracy Bach, CLI's associate director and senior researcher.
The CLI is a collaborative project of Vermont Law School and The University of Iowa. The CLI takes as given that climate change exists and affirms that lawyers have a vital role to play in both public and private discourse and action relative to it. For more information, please visit the Climate Legacy Initiative homepage.


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Today, July 11, is National Collector Car Appreciation Day across the U.S. That means...
The 2012 year in motorsports will be remembered for Brad Keselowski giving Roger Penske his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship, the return of Formula One to the United States and for the birth of the DeltaWing -- a car that could revolutionize racing.
The year also included plenty of milestones in other series. Today, Autoweek begins a three-day rewind of the 2012 racing year. The series kicks off with a look at some of the highs and lows of the first six months of the year.
On Thursday we'll look at the second half of the racing year, and on Friday we'll close things out with our ranking of the 10 biggest stories that helped shape the year in motorsports.
Enjoy the look back:
Jan. 15: Stephane Peterhansel won his 10th Dakar Rally; Robby Gordon finished fifth in the 15-day event.
Jan. 17: Tom Cotter, a former public relations agency head and automotive writer, was named CEO of the New Jersey Grand Prix. Organizers were working to get the race on the 2013 Formula One schedule.
Jan. 17: Bruno Senna, nephew of F1 legend Ayrton Senna, signed to drive for the Williams F1 team in 2012. Senna replaced Adrian Sutil in the ride and effectively beat out F1 veteran Rubens Barrichello for the job.
Jan. 18: Peugeot dropped its LMP1 program and announced that it would not race at Le Mans in 2012.
Jan. 22: Sebastian Loeb, the most successful driver in World Rally Championship history, kicked off his quest for an unprecedented ninth consecutive WRC championship with a season-opening win at Monte Carlo.
Jan. 24: Ford launched its 2013 NASCAR Ford Fusion in Charlotte, N.C. It marked the first reveal for 2013 Sprint Cup Series cars, and marked a return to having cars that more closely resemble showroom models.
Jan. 28: Michael Shank Racing, led by A.J. Allmendinger, won the 50th Rolex 24 at Daytona Grand-Am race. It was the start of an interesting year for Allmendinger.
Feb. 10: Michael Andretti's Andretti Sports Marketing announced that it had struck a deal to promote the IndyCar Series race at Milwaukee. That got the race back on the schedule for 2012.
Feb. 13: Irwindale (Calif.) Speedway closed. The track was a mecca for some of the best short-track and USAC racers in the country. It opened in 1999.
Feb. 17: Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus were put on the hot seat after NASCAR began an investigation on illegal parts found on Johnson's car at Daytona.
Feb. 20: Lotus entered the American Le Mans Series with Alex Job Racing to kick off an eventful year for Lotus in racing.
Feb. 20: Dodge announced that it was sticking with the Charger for its 2013 NASCAR model. The Charger was officially revealed on March 11. Both the announcement and the reveal would prove to be a bit premature.
Feb. 25: Danica Patrick won the pole for the Nationwide 300 at Daytona, only to crash midway through the race. She also crashed in qualifying for the Daytona 500 and in the Daytona 500.
Feb. 26: Toyota rolled out a striped 2013 NASCAR Camry at Daytona.
Feb. 27: Matt Kenseth won an entertaining Daytona 500 that was run on a Monday night for the first time after rain forced postponement of Sunday's scheduled race. Juan Pablo Montoya gave NASCAR fans something else to talk about when he tried to take out a jet dryer during a caution lap.
March 1: Rubens Barrichello, 19-year veteran of Formula One, announced that he had signed with KV Racing Technology in the Izod IndyCar Series to team with good friend Tony Kanaan.
March 1: Roger Penske shocked many in the NASCAR world when he announced Penske Racing will be moving from Dodge to Ford in 2013. Dodge vowed to continue in NASCAR.
March 2: The much-anticipated revolutionary DeltaWing race car hit the track for its first major test in a video released by Nissan.
March 3: United States Grand Prix founder Tavo Hellmund sued his partners at Circuit of the Americas over Hellmund's allegations that his partners stole the project out from under him.
March 13: Nissan was confirmed as the engine powering the DeltaWing.
March 18: Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello won the Sebring 12 Hours for Audi.
March 18: Jenson Button won the Formula One season opener at Melbourne.
March 18: Brad Keselowski kicked off his big year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with his first win of the season at Bristol.
March 20: NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus had fines and points penalties overturned by an appellate officer. The team was alleged to have used illegal parts at Daytona in February.
April 1: Mads Ostberg was declared winner of the Rally Portugal World Rally Championship event after Mikko Hirvonen's car, which posted the best time in the event, failed inspection.
April 17: Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone issued a statement that he believed the F1 race scheduled for 2013 in New Jersey should be pushed back to 2014.
April 22: Formula One pulled off its race at politically unstable Bahrain with plenty of lunacy outside the venue, but without a major hitch inside the racing facility. Force India team did skip the Friday practice due to safety concerns, and Formula One websites were hacked. The race was won by Sebastian Vettel. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone told teams in the weeks leading up to the race that traveling to Bahrain was up to them.
April 24: Lotus let two IndyCar teams -- Bryan Herta Motorsport and Dreyer & Reinbold Racing -- out of engine deals after weeks of poor performance and lower numbers of engines made available to the teams than were expected.
April 27: X Games star Travis Pastrana made his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at Richmond.
April 28: IndyCar team owner John Barnes was fined $25,000 for making comments critical of IndyCar in a tweet.
May 5: Danica Patrick was at it again, this time intentionally wrecking Sam Hornish Jr. on the cool-down lap following the Nationwide Series race at Talladega.
May 13: NASCAR officials told the crews of Sprint Cup Series drivers Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman to play nice after the crews got into a shoving match in the pits at Darlington. Busch, who was later fined and put on probation, did a post-race burnout through Newman's pit box to ignite the skirmish.
May 13: Williams F1 team involved in a wild garage fire shortly after the finish of the Spanish Grand Prix. The fire injured 31 people and damaged several articles in the Williams garage.
May 16: Michael Andretti's Andretti Sports Marketing was given the OK to promote and operate the IndyCar Grand Prix of Baltimore. Andretti was earlier given the go-ahead to promote the IndyCar race in Milwaukee. The Baltimore race was scheduled for Sept. 2.
May 20: There was no bumping at Indianapolis 500 for first time since 2004 as just 33 cars attempt to qualify. The speedway did, however, set a record for penalties and fines in this year's qualifying.
May 22: Jeffrey Earnhardt, grandson of Dale Earnhardt and nephew of Dale Earnhardt Jr., won his Mixed Martial Arts debut in a fight at Charlotte.
May 23: ALMS driver/owner Scott Tucker became the subject of an investigation that was reported on autoweek.com into a payday loan business that he used to bankroll his team.
May 23: Toyota took the camouflage off its 2013 NASCAR Camry in a reveal at Talladega.
May 24: Dario Franchitti won his third Indianapolis 500 after Takuma Sato crashed on the last lap. The race featured 35 lead changes among 10 drivers. Scott Dixon finished second and Tony Kanaan third.
June 2: The American Le Mans Series announced that it will race at Circuit of the Americas in 2013.
June 3: Scott Dixon won a wild Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix on Belle Isle. The race featured a delay of two hours as track workers scrambled to repair the track. The delay came as a result of track sealant coming up in several parts of the 14-turn, 2.07-mile street circuit on Detroit's Belle Isle.
June 10: Justin Wilson shocked many IndyCar followers with his first career oval win at Texas. Two days later, it was announced that his car failed inspection for an illegal sidepod piece. Wilson's team was fined. He was allowed to keep the win.
June 10: Lewis Hamilton won in Montreal to become the seventh different Formula One race winner in as many races to start the season.
June 12: Sebastian Vettel took to the road in New Jersey to check out the proposed F1 course layout. He gave the course high marks.
June 13: IndyCar canceled its scheduled August race in China. China officials decided it didn't want IndyCar race same weekend as a major beer festival in the country.
June 15: With the eyes of the racing world checking in, the Nissan DeltaWing qualified 29th for the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
June 16: Marcos Ambrose qualified on the pole at newly repaved Michigan International Speedway with a speed of 203.241 mph. It marked the first time a pole speed in the NASCAR Cup Series exceeded 200 mph since 1987.
June 17: Audi swept to a podium finish at Le Mans. DeltaWing crashed out in the seventh hour of the race.
June 17: Dale Earnhardt Jr. snapped a 143-race, four-year drought with a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win at Michigan. Michigan was also the site of Earnhardt's last victory.
June 23: Word spread throughout the racing world that F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone could face charges of bribery in past sale of F1 shares. The charges dogged Ecclestone all year.
June 26: In the first major silly season move in NASCAR, Matt Kenseth announced that he was leaving Roush Fenway Racing at the end of the Sprint Cup Season.
June 29: Austin Dillon, NASCAR prodigy and grandson of team owner Richard Childress, won his first Nationwide Series race at Kentucky. The car failed postrace inspection, but NASCAR allowed the victory to stand.
June 30: Brad Keselowski became the first three-time winner in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season with a win at Kentucky on June 30.
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Arequipa is Peru's second largest city (with about 900,000 inhabitants) and is located in the dusty foothills of the Andes on the Pan-American Highway. Its beauty lies in its breath taking architecture, displaying some spectacular examples of Spanish colonial work.
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This budget stay gives you a large, basic room, a hot shower, and some English channels on cable. The location is outstanding - right next to the Santa Catalina Monastery, and a super short stroll to the main square. All the staff were very sweet, but communication seems a bit touch and go if you don't know Spanish. ... more
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Somerset —
Rivalries may form boundary lines between schools on the field of play, but in times of crisis, competitors know when to cross those lines.
That's what the area saw on Friday night when Somerset High School's in-county rivals Southwestern High School and Pulaski County High School took special measures to honor the Somerset Briar Jumpers' fallen comrades.
Pulaski's players wore a purple patch with the jersey numbers of SHS's Will Hinton and Jacobi Gilmore on back of their helmets. Southwestern's team had on purple wristbands.
Johnny Hines, coach of the PCHS Maroons, said that it was one of his players, senior wide receiver Aaron Hall, who came up with the idea for his team. Hall is no stranger to adversity, being born with one hand that doesn't have fully-grown fingers.
He was also friends with the injured Somerset players, who are currently at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington in serious condition. Hinton, 17, and Gilmore, 16, were in a life-threatening accident Thursday, when the car Hinton was driving collided with a tractor trailer while pulling onto East Ky. 80 from Barnett Street after football practice.
"Several kids on our team were friends with several of the Somerset players," said Hines. "We're praying for (Hinton and Gilmore) and hope they're okay."
Hines noted that some of his players had also written the jersey numbers of the SHS players on their wristbands.
"I think it shows a lot of character," said Hines of his players' actions. "We go out on the football field and we want to win — we want to beat each other's brains out on the field — but when something like this happens, everyone (cares). You never want to see something terrible like that happen to any school's players."
PCHS beat Madison Southern in a tight 37-36 contest Friday night, and Hines acknowledged the extra inspiration might have helped his players.
"It's just a way of realizing how fortunate you are," he said. "Sometimes we can take things for granted."
Southwestern coach Andy Stephens did not immediately return a phone call Saturday to comment on his own team's statement.
Robbie Lucas, Somerset's own football coach, wasn't sure how many of his players knew of the tribute by their rivals, but he heard about it at about 11 p.m. Friday night after his own team's emotional win over longtime nemesis Danville, 24-7.
"I was very grateful," said Lucas. "I know there tends to be a lot of bad blood in sports, but it just proves there are quality people on both sides."
Lucas said that Hines had texted him on a couple of occasions and told him to "keep (his) head up."
As far as how Hinton and Gilmore are doing, Lucas said that the staff at the hospital was "going to try to get (Gilmore) up and walking," and that Hinton's surgery has been put off until Monday.
While the win over Danville "returned some normalcy" to his team's collective life, Lucas knows how much this incident puts everything in perspective.
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The 2013 fiscal year Baldwin County budget was officially adopted Tuesday evening. The Baldwin County Commissioners agreed on a prepared, balanced budget of nearly $18.5 million.
After the public budget hearing Nov. 20, the staff continued to review line items though no changes were requested, according to County Finance Director Linda Zarkowsky.
The current year 8.78 millage rate remains unchanged.
"Based on current trends, the tax assessor expects that further decreases in property values will be seen in the 2013 digest," Zarkowsy said. "In that case, there will be a shortfall in the budget."
Commissioner Bubba Williams, District 5, recommended a back up plan to prevent a future tax increase.
"I would recommend a Plan B other than raising the millage rate, and that would be a contingency plan to cut budgets," Williams. "I would suggest our department heads have these contingency budget cuts prepared. That way if we don't have the money, they will be ready to go."
Zarkowsky said the biggest budget expenditure is personal services, which is the focus of most county budget cuts. For example, Public Works employees dropped from 60 to a current workforce of 19 over the years.
Commissioner Sammy Hall, District 3, said the county should watch spending and prepare adequately before a slow digest repressing drastic tax changes.
Central State Hospital Local Redevelopment Authority (CSHLRA) Executive Director Mike Couch briefed the commissioners on progress since the authority's inception last February. Couch requested the county's input on the effort.
"We can't accomplish this project without partnerships at the local, state and federal levels," Couch said.
The CSHLRA continues to work with Georgia College's new president Dr. Steve Dorman. Couch said education drives Baldwin County.
"We are talking about $400 million of investment in this zip code," the CSHLRA director said.
Job creation is the main goal at CSH. Others include leveraging local education assets, pursuing federal funding and creating a master plan for the development of the 1,900-acre campus.
Hall asked what companies the Central State authority looks for outside the medical field.
"If it brings good positive job creation to Milledgeville, we need to be all about that," Couch said. "Technology on that campus can bring a new subset of jobs to Milledgeville."
In the Nov. 20 board of commissioners meeting, County Engineer Brian Wood brought the board a list of the worst county roads. He discussed a Department of Transportation program for road system improvement.
The Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG) program allows the county to decide on the roads that will be resurfaced based on available funds. Under the old LARP system, DOT rated and approved the list for resurfacing county roads.
County matching funds of 30 percent are required on $368,000 worth of DOT grants bringing the total to $468,000.
Tuesday county officials revisited the list and the best way to get the worst roads resurface treatment. Three roads with ratings in the 20s are about to be lost, according to Wood.
"Old Country Club Road is so bad we can't tell if it's a surface treatment or an asphalt," Wood said.
The commissioners debated the need for dead end roads compared to others on the list. Wood suggested adopting the list as is because the cost is unaffected by how many people live on a particular road.
"If they rate in the 20s, we need to do something now," Wood said.
The county approved the list for the LMIG. Of the 45 roads listed, the funds cover surface treatment costs for roughly 15.
In other news:
• The commission approved a new lease agreement with BancorpSouth Bank for a Caterpillar Motor Grader costing $193,000 under state contract. Final lease payment on the old grader is $122,000. The county receives a higher trade in value with the overage going towards the new lease agreement.
• Traci White and Dennette Jackson were re-appointed to the Oconee Community Service Board.
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