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125+ Best Free Fonts. 8 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts. We're always trying to find new high-quality freebies.
Whether it's PSD's, patterns, or icons, we love finding free stuff and sharing it with you. We do the searching so you don't have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what's important. So for this post, we've rounded up 8 new high quality fonts for you to use in your designs. Dense Regular Poetsen geogram typeface Track free font Look Up Kelson Sans About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 384 shares 9 Free Icon Sets to Diversify your Library Every designer needs to be ready to go wherever their projects take them. Read More 945 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We've been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you.
Typography and 7 websites to find good fonts. TweetTweet "Content is king", but can it be read?
Finding and choosing the right fonts can be a hassle, not just when creating a visual identity, but also when designing for the web or print. This collection of websites offers a wast source of fonts and materials to make the design process spent more efficient. To many times I had to spend hours in search for the right font. Does it work with the symbol of that logo? Hyperfortype HypeForType is a growing hotbed of top typographic talent. Fontfabric Fontfabric is an independent type foundry , which was launched at the close of 2008 by designer Svetoslav Simov who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Myfonts MyFonts is a division of Bitstream Inc., located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA. Fontshop Founded by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody in 1989, FontShop is the original independent retailer of digital type with 100,000 fonts from dozens of expert-selected foundries, incur house brand: FontFont. Fontsquirrel Free fonts have met their match. 25 Websites for Typography Inspiration. 40 Examples of Beautiful Typography in Web Design. Typography is certainly a very important aspect of web design.
So choosing the proper typography for your site is for sure a huge step of the design process. You can have a simple and delicate typo, a huge and strong one, you can also go colorful and crazy or light and smooth. From simple headers to whole 'typed' layouts, we have selected some good examples of typography to show here. So enjoy the selection and remember to take good care of the typography in your next project. Amazee Labs Fixel Carsonified Tokyo Digital Private Grave Made by Water Rob Edwards LogicSource InfinVision Sikbox Dark Sky Magazine efingo Claire Coullon Javascript für Designer Stella McCartney MumMade TVLcorps Themes Kingdom Simon Foster Design Airside Not Pretty Neue served Eight Hour Day Prince Street Films Made by TJ Mooze Crafty Woodinville Whiskey Co They Creative Republic2 Ryan Scherf damn good OrangeYouGlad Yii Haunted Cathouse iconSweets2 Shelly Cooper So1o Doodle Pad Source:
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This may be due to intestinal upset from a change in food, intestinal parasites such as worms, coccidia, or giardia, or he could have a bacterial infection such as campylobacter or listeria especially if he got into old people food or a dead animal.
This could also be due to a swallowed non food item, ingestion of something toxic including plants, mushrooms, chemicals etc.
So seeing the vet to find out what is going on should be a priority if he is not better by tomorrow.
An over the counter med you might try would be Pepcid or Tagamet or Zantac.
Be sure to tell the vet when you see them if you use any of these.
You can read about dose amounts (and cautions) scrolling down on the pages here
If that helps then you can see if some bland food and plain pedialyte added to the water bowl will help.
I would suggest trying boiled chicken meat or hamburger with the fat drained off, mixed with really well cooked rice in a ratio of 1/3 meat to 2/3 rice to see if that works. It's not a balanced diet but OK to use for a few meals while working on controlling digestive upset.
But if he is vomiting and having diarrhea a lot, or if you are seeing blood in either vomit or stool, then if you can see your vet with him today you should try to do so.
Dogs that are sick like this can end up dehydrated pretty quickly.
You can check for dehydration by pulling the skin gently up over his shoulders in a 'tent' and release it. If it goes right back down that is good but if some stays stuck up that's a dehydration indicator.
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TWOdW, Impact 2011, and Dave Nielsen
Scott Laningham Tags: cloud_computing twodw impact2011 unconferencing websphere smart_planet 23,684 Views
This Week on developerWorks! dW newsletters editor John Swanson joins me to talk about our planned coverage of Impact 2011 , #3 of the big five IBM conferences each year and the one centered around WebSphere . Impact starts Sunday in Las Vegas and runs through...
IT analyst Gary Barnett on developer opportunities
Scott Laningham Tags: skill-building software_education social_tools software_development twodw 20,371 Views
Gary Barnett is a partner and CTO with IT analyst firm, The Bathwick Group, and specializes in software development and middleware. In Part 1, Gary talks about trends, the evolution of collaboration technology, and increasing demand for and importance of soft...
TWOdW: HTML5, JAX-RS, BigInsights, Eclipse, Lady Gaga
Scott Laningham Tags: eclipse ladygaga biginsights big_data iod2011 html5 twodw jax-rs 16,874 Views
This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I launch the dW YouTube Channel viewer campaign, run down the week's content highlights, including the official launch of knowledge paths on dW, and talk a little more about the upcoming Information On Demand 2011...
TWOdW: analyze assets, mitigate risks, Apache Mahout, mobile txt messaging
Scott Laningham Tags: twodw html5 mobile apache_mahout websphere rational 16,501 Views
John and I are back after breaking for the rush of IOD 2011. Today we highlight new developerWorks content on project risk mitigation, the Virtual I/O server command line interface, Apache Mahout, balancing openness and privacy, mobile text messaging in web...
This Week on developerWorks: WebSphere, XPath, Secure Shell, JavaScript, Samba, Rational
Scott Laningham Tags: secure_shell rational_team_concert john_swanson twodw javascript xpath websphere samba 16,100 Views
John Swanson and I run down the homepage highlights for Sep 26 - Oct 5 and talk about the upcoming Information on Demand 2011 Conference , which is happening the end of October in Las Vegas. MP3 Download (9:08) Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast...
This Week on developerWorks: Samba, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Python, Virtualized disks, Agile
Scott Laningham Tags: samba cloud_computing python websphere_extreme_scale agile_development twodw 15,904 Views
John Swanson and I run down the homepage highlights for the week of October 19-26. We touch on the new IBM Smart Cloud resource , new dW content on Samba, WebSphere eXtreme Scale, Python, Virtualized disks, Agile, and SPSS Model Scoring, and next week's...
TWOdW for 14 Sep, 2011: DB2 pureXML, Ruboto, Boost C++, and more
John Swanson and I run down developerWorks content highlights for the week. MP3 Download (8:22) Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast RSS | dW iTunes channel <div class="posttagsblock&a...
TWOdW Billion View Campaign update with comedian Tim Washer
Scott Laningham Tags: tim_washer twodw humor billion_viewer_campaign 1 Comment 15,535 Views
Freelance humorist and former IBMer, Tim Washer , joins developerWorks podcast host Scott Laningham for some light-hearted fun reporting on the progress of This Week on developerWorks' Billion Viewer Campaign. MP3 Download (9:27) | Transcript...
TWOdW Aug 31, 2011: Author, speaker, developer Andy Glover
Scott Laningham Tags: java twodw andy_glover ruby 15,416 Views
This week on developerWorks, John Swanson is back with his Hurricane Irene survival story and notes on this week's feature article, Generate dynamic mobile web interfaces with the Dojo Toolkit . Then author, speaker, entrepreneur Andy Glover joins to talk...
TWOdW: Ruby, AIX, collaboration, BPM, Blogger API
Scott Laningham Tags: twodw collaboration business-process-manageme... aix blogger_api ruby 15,390 Views
John Swanson and I run down the site highlights for Oct 5-12. MP3 Download (10:38) Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast RSS | dW iTunes channel
TWOdW: IBM technologies in the great wide world
Kane Scarlett Tags: python developerworks application_development cloud ibm_puresystems sage mobile speech_processing xml linux twodw standards scientific_computing 15,347 Views
This week, our show is "out standing" in its field; join me (in Wisconsin) and John Swanson (as usual, in Boston) as we discuss the move toward open source standards in speech processing , learning to use Sage and Python on Linux to crunch numbers in...
TWOdW - Sep 8, 2011: xdotool, CometD, CLPPlus, Apache CXF
Scott Laningham Tags: clpplus twodw cometd apache_cxf xdotool 15,013 Views
In the interest of streamlining and making the consumption of our new new media more customizable, we're trying some format changes. This Week on developerWorks will be dedicated entirely to quick summaries of new content highlights for the week and new site...
TWOdW: Pulse 2012, ImageMagick, VIOS, Java cloud security, code centric development
Scott Laningham Tags: twodw tivoli pulse2012 cloud_computing security john_swanson 14,848 Views
John and I are back with our weekly rundown of new content highlights and focuses on developerWorks. We also do a little preview of Pulse 2012 which will be happening in early March in Las Vegas, with the theme, "Rethink IT. Reinvent Business With Cloud...
TWOdW: Security, OAuth token support, Backbone.js, tripwire, Rational AppScan, Redis
Scott Laningham Tags: security twodw backbone.js redis tripwire oauth appscan websphere 14,560 Views
In this last 2011 episode of This Week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I look at new dW content around the topic of security. MP3 Download (10:33) | Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast RSS | dW iTunes channel
TWOdW: RichFaces, AIX storage, jQuery mobile API, open source Python, WebSphere Extreme Scale
Scott Laningham Tags: websphere_extreme_scale twodw mobile richfaces jquery python aix 14,495 Views
This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I talk new developerWorks content and Lotusphere 2012 , going on this Sunday through Thursday in Orlando, Florida. Look for coverage here next week from Todd Watson, Gary Barnett, and others. MP3 Download (9:52)...
TWOdW: Push for iOS, XQuery, Spark, CoffeeScript, top Rational content
Scott Laningham Tags: twodw spark cics xquery push_notifications rational coffeescript 13,982 Views
John Swanson updates us on the hole in his backyard and then we do a quick rundown on new feature and highlights on the site for the week of Feb 15-23. MP3 Download (10:55) | Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast RSS | dW iTunes channel
TWOdW: Tech Trends Survey, Google chart tools, jQuery mobile themes
Scott Laningham Tags: xml twodw google data_mining rational_harmony java jquery tech_trends_survey 13,409 Views
This week on developerWorks, John Swanson and I preview new site content -- the IBM Tech Trends survey, new articles on monitoring and diagnosing Java apps, using Google Chart Tools with IBM Mashup Center, creating custom jQuery mobile themes, Rational...
TWOdW: Mobile development, Google+ and PHP, enterprise architecture, real-time data profiling
Scott Laningham Tags: enterprise_architecture twodw mobile_development php google+ 13,358 Views
This week, dW mobile development editor, Tom Young, joins to talk about the popular new developerWorks site focused on l earn/try/discuss around mobile , and how the site is helping developers meet the accelerating BYOD needs of businesses. John Swanson checks...
New podcast series: Andrew Glover and Matthew McCullough talk Git
Scott Laningham Tags: twodw open_source java distributed_computing git andrew_glover versioning matthew_mccullough 1 Comment 13,322 Views
Andrew Glover -- developer, author, speaker, entrepreneur -- and the developerWorks Java zone introduce a new technical podcast series. Follow the technically curious Glover each week as he provides a new way to input knowledge from the sources you trust most....
TWOdW: Securing IT operations and software development
Kane Scarlett Tags: twodw java ibm_secure_engineering_fr... restful agile developerworks security cissp ruby 13,100 Views
This week, I'm still coming to you from Wisconsin, but this time we're webcasting from the top of an RV (for a better view). My guest is Calvin Powers, the editor of the new "pragmatic" developerWorks security site . The site is divided into two...
TWOdW: AIX, Scalable Vector Graphics in HTML5, mod_pagespeed, cloud multi-tenancy
Scott Laningham Tags: aix cloud_computing scalable_vector_graphics twodw mod_pagespeed html5 12,682 Views
New content highlights on developerWorks for the week of Feb 1-8. And don't forget to register for Pulse 2012, HERE . MP3 Download (8:24) | Transcript Audio-only feeds : dW podcast RSS | dW iTunes channel
TWOdW: ApacheDS and MediaWiki, IBM SmartCloud, CoffeeScript, device-aware mobile
Scott Laningham Tags: cloud-computing twodw mobile coffeescript 12,505 Views
This week on developerWorks, some site navigation updates and new content on LDAP authentication with MediaWiki , transforming your supply chain , building multiple VPNs and VLANs , designing an integration landscape , the CoffeeScript language , testing Adobe...
TWOdW: open source/linux with Chris Walden, jQuery Mobile, MicroXML, CEA widgets
Scott Laningham Tags: cea_widgets chris_walden websphere_application_ser... john_swanson jquery_mobile microxml twodw 12,146 Views
dW open source and linux editor Chris Walden joins me to talk about the open source lifestyle. John Swanson fills us in on the newsletter focus for the week, and I share a brief travelogue from Madrid where I attended the Smarter Commerce Global Summit last...
TWOdW: "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep..."*
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Before I leave the lovely state of Wisconsin, I thought I'd give you a short tour of the forest, then talk about the agile transformation at developerWorks and commerce at developerWorks sites and resources. Also, don't miss the upcoming Smarter Commerce...
TWOdW: An "inside" look at Agile DevOps, easier embedded Linux, and more HTML5-based game building
Scott Laningham Tags: agile_development twodw linux predictive_analytics yocto_project html5 11,652 Views
I'm back in Austin, podcasting from the home studio; I was just wondering if I should move this show to the yard when the weather permits because it's been "wonderfully nice" webcasting from outside in glorious Nature for the last few weeks. New...


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Walnut Creek's Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers.
Q I appreciated the column on the Silk tassel bush, with the reminder of the advantages of plants with low water needs in this time of drought. I have a spot in my garden suitable for something a little shorter which would thrive in a relatively shady spot. Could you give a suggestion?
A Another California native shrub that might work well is the fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. It is evergreen if given a little water over the dry summer months, but it can get by without irrigation at all if you don't mind it losing most of its leaves by the end of the summer. It typically reaches a height of 6 to 8 feet. Although this plant can take full sun in gardens close to the coast, it does best in shadier positions in our hotter inland gardens, thriving in dappled light under a tree or in a spot with sun in the morning and shade during the hottest part of the day.
Ribes speciosum has spines at intervals along its stem and among twigs farther up, so a little caution is in order when pruning it. The deep green leaves have a very slender stalk and a blade an inch or so long, which is roundish and shiny with scalloped edges.
The name "fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry" refers to this shrub's delightful bright-red dangling flowers. They bring to mind the pendulous flowers of a true fuchsia, though the plants are not actually related. The glossy petals of R. speciosum form a short tube, and the red stamens and pistil extend downward well beyond the petal tips. From the base to the ends of the pistils, the flowers are 1½ to 2 inches long. Although small, they are produced in abundance, and their satiny sheen and vivid red color make them particularly showy. Our plant at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, typically begins flowering in February and ends in April or early May.
The fuchsia-flowering Gooseberry is said to prefer good drainage, but ours has done well in clay soil without much in the way of amendment, so it clearly is not finicky. With its attractive leaves and jewel-like flowers, it makes a welcome addition to a shady corner of the garden.
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My nominee for the Engineering Hall of Fame would be Thomas Alva Edison. He was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. Edison was one of the most important engineers of the late 19th century. His most famous development was the first commercially practical incandescent lamp. He developed it in 1879. His greatest contribution to the world, though, was the first central-electric-light-power station. When Edison was 7 years of age his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan where he could only go to school for three months. After that, his mother tutored him. At age 12 Thomas became a trainboy selling candy and magazines at the Grand Trunk Railroad. An agent at the station taught him telegraph code and at age 15 Edison became the manager of a telegraph office. Two of his first inventions were the receiver and transmitter for the automatic telegraph. When Edison was only 21 years of age he produced his first major invention, a stock ticker machine used for printing stock-exchange quotations in many different broker's offices. He used the 40,000 dollars that he received for improvements to the tickers to build a laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. There he directed groups of workers experimenting on various projects. In the year 1878, Edison began to work on an electric lamp and found a material that could be electrically heated to light up a vacuum. In 1878 Edison finally founded The Edison Electric Light Company which after some time became part of The General Electric Company in 1892. While Edison was testing incandescent bulbs, he noticed a flow of electricity from metal to metal and then to wire. This great discovery was known as the Thermionic Emission or the Edison effect. This was and still is the basis of electronics. The invention that Edison was most proud of was not the light bulb, however, but the Phonograph and the movie projector. Edison also introduced celluloid film which was a flexible type of film. Celluloid film helped to start the motion picture industry. Edison died October 18, 1931, but by that time he had already patented over 1,000 inventions.
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In the second quarter, our businesses, for the most part, continue to perform very well. However, a portion of our business that is directly impacted by power crisis and gas prices was adversely impacted by weak demand and soft prices. That said, I remain very confident that TransCanada is well positioned to grow earnings, cash flow and dividends as we complete our current capital program, secure attractive new opportunities and benefit from the cyclical recovery in natural gas and power prices.We remain on target to complete $13 billion in capital projects between now and 2015, including the restart of 2 nuclear reactors at Bruce Power; our Gulf Coast project that will deliver U.S. and Canadian oil to Texas refiners; the Keystone XL project, which will bring U.S. Bakken and Canadian oil sands crude to market; the Tamazunchale extension; our Ontario solar project; and many further expansions to our Alberta System. Turning to the financial highlights for the quarter, comparable earnings were $300 million, or $0.43 a share. Excluding an after-tax charge of $22 million related to the Sundance A arbitration decision announced this week, comparable earnings were $322 million, or $0.46 per share. Comparable EBITDA was $1 billion, and funds generated from operations were $729 million. Today, the Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.44 per common share for the quarter ending September 30, 2012. Don Marchand, our CFO, will offer more details on our financial results in just a couple moments. But before he does, I will walk you through some of the very important advancements in our 3 core businesses over the past quarter. On the Gulf Coast project, we've now achieved a very important milestone as we advanced our Gulf Coast project that will deliver U.S. and Canadian oil to Texas refiners. I'm pleased to confirm that we did receive a final of the 3 necessary permits needed from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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As an anthropologist of education, Andrea Dyrness
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and the cultural knowledge of diverse communities as a resource for teaching and
learning. In her courses, students engage "the local" and "the global" through fieldwork in local schools and community organizations and readings and films that offer transnational perspectives on critical educational issues. Her research has explored the citizenship practices of transnational Latino communities in the United States, Central America, and most recently, Spain.
Andrea received her B.A. in Anthropology & Educational Studies from Brown University and her Masters and Ph.D. in Social & Cultural Studies in Education from the University of California at Berkeley. She has held fellowships and appointments in El Salvador, Spain, and Denmark.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The principal of Poughkeepsie High School and another administrator are on leave as the district investigates whether some students were given improper accommodations during Regents exams.
The Poughkeepsie Journal reports the investigation started after staffers noticed dramatic differences in some students' Regents scores in January compared to last June. Students who� failed an exam in June retook it in January.
Investigators are looking into reports of students being given extended time for taking the three-hour test and other special accommodations.
Principal Edgar Glascott said state education law gives him the authority to provide accommodations to students with "developing disabilities," such as test anxiety. Nevertheless, he and an assistant principal volunteered on Thursday to take administrative leave while an investigation takes place.


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Kathryn Hunnicutt's mind was spinning as fast as a ball from one of her wicked serves.
The difference was the ball eventually came to a rest.
The pressure Hunnicutt felt never did.
If the Desert Vista senior wasn't practicing, then her mind kept telling her she should. If she wasn't playing to her expectations, even if she just beat a quality opponent, then she'd beat herself up mentally.
So Hunnicutt stopped. Call it "burnout" from tennis or just needing a break. Whatever it was, it had to happen.
"The stress and pressure got to be too much," said Hunnicutt, who was ranked in the USTA Southwest circuit. "I started when I was 8 and it eventually became all I did. I just played tennis all the time after school and on the weekends, but I thought about it even more. Did I do enough today?"
Even though she stopped playing, Hunnicutt didn't stray too far from the game. She hung out with her Thunder teammates before matches last season. Talked to Desert Vista coach Angel Singer, but she never wavered on her decision.
"She was there enjoying herself around tennis for the first time in a long time," Singer said. "She wasn't playing but Kat was cheering on her friends."
It - the fun, not the competition - was enough to bring Hunnicutt back this season. She made an impression by finishing third last weekend at the Kiwanis losing only to Phoenix Xavier freshman Maggie Cohen, the eventual champion.
"I had coaches coming up to me and saying, 'It looks like Kat Hunnicutt is back,'" Singer said. "It was a tough match (said of the loss to Cohen) and the second set was one of the most incredible matches. Every shot was tough, back and forth and well-placed.
"It was a great confidence booster for her and she is working her way back."
Hunnicutt has been playing as the Thunder's No. 2 behind Justine Quaggan, but after last weekend's performance that might be changing.
"There was some rust and we had to do some mixing and matching to get her competition," Singer said. "She is getting better every day and we have had to place her with the number one and two boys in practice."
While Singer has enjoyed seeing Hunnicutt back on the court, what has thrilled her more has been the attitude and willingness to help.
"It's night and day," she said of Hunnicutt's approach. "She is still hard on herself and the competitive fire is still there, but the expectations have left and she is freely playing tennis. She is calm, she is laughing and it is fun watching her."
Hunnicutt has also been a good mentor for the younger players, according to Singer.
"Before she would have been more concerned with her game to help out," the coach said. "It's been a total 180."
Whether it is singles, doubles or taking a moment with a younger player, all of it has been a refreshing change to the grind it was in years past.
"It is my senior year and I couldn't go without playing again," said Hunnicutt, who has been accepted to Arizona's Honors College, where she plans to study pre-law. "I wanted to get back out here and play again. I was surprised how easy it came back.
"I still have that competitive streak, and now I know I can play at that same level without worrying about rankings or what happens if I don't play at the level I want to. When I am done playing it doesn't stick with me for hours."
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For some weird reason, Yahoo! image searches no longer work properly on a Vista computer using Internet Explorer 9. (It's my daughter's system, and she uses a Yahoo! home page, and prefers IE 9).
There is a page of images, but when you click on one of them (right or left click) it brings up a different image, from the same search. A Google image search works as it is supposed to, however. I tried clearing all of the image files out of the IE cache. That didn't help.


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Police investigate necklace thefts in Manassas
Prince William County police say over a four-day period three people were approached by a thief who yanked their necklaces until they broke.
"It's still scary," said Leonor Herrera, who was attacked this past Thursday around 6:00 p.m.
Herrera says she was about to enter her apartment's back door when the thief pulled her necklace until it snapped.
She says the necklace hurt the back of the neck as the suspect pulled it, and she also suffered a cut finger in the process. But the mental pain has hurt far more.
"All the time I'm scared," Herrera said. "When I go outside, I tell my son and my daughter, and they go with me because I'm scared."
Herrera was attacked at the Coverstone Apartments off Coverstone Drive in Manassas.
The day before Herrera's necklace was snatched, police say a 56-year-old man had his necklace ripped off him just a couple blocks away near the corner of Hiram Court and Notre Dame Street.
On Saturday, police say, the same thing happened to a 70-year-old woman. That victim lives about a mile from the other attacks in an apartment complex off Portsmouth Road.
In each case there is a similar description of the suspect. Police believe he is 15 to 20-years-old and around 5'10" or 6' feet tall.
In one case, an old black Toyota two door car with white plastic covering the rear passenger window was spotted, and police say they are on the lookout for it.
A Prince William County police spokesperson says the way the crimes are being committed is very unusual, and they're hoping the public can help them make an arrest before anyone else becomes a victim.


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(SOLD) This Classic 1965 El Camino is a beautiful example and a great driver. It has a mostly stock appearance with a few extra touches for driving enhancement, such as the upgraded disc brakes with brake booster, flow master dual exhaust, and upgraded and restored leather bench seat in the original pattern. This beauty comes with the original AM radio in the dash with a Sony FM & CD player mounted under the dash, CA black plates that are currently registered, A/C that blows cold, full factory instrumentation, and power steering and brakes. In the rear bed there is a functional heavy duty rubber mat that covers the cargo area to prevent paint scratches and chipping. Overall, this is a very nice original example that is ready to drive and enjoy. It is also very collectible and sought after.
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cannot pull out of wheeler hill dr safely bcuz stop signs ignored BOTH ways constantly.
cannot pull out of wheeler hill dr safely bcuz stop signs ignored BOTH ways constantly.
I have requested more enforcement at this intersection. However, we do not have the resources to conduct enforcement as often as might be necessary.
Laura Francis, First Selectman
I was almost hit there this morning coming out of Wheeler Hill by a man in a small truck . I was in a larger truck and had to slam on my brakes . I then proceeded down Maiden Lane behind this white truck , and he put his right turn signal on as if to turn down Brick Lane . But he paused and gave me the middle finger , so I waved and smiled at him . He then proceeded to jerk his wheel to towards me as I was passing him , and he hit my truck doing a small amount of damage . The driver then tried to flee but I caught him and pulled him over . The police were called and a very impartial state trooper pulled up and basically ignored the fact that he blew off the stop sign , and the fact that the driver jerked his truck DIRECTLY into mine ! The trooper then sighted ME for crossing a double line ; which people do on the left when a car is turning right (and there wasn't any oncoming traffic so it was clear) . The trooper and driver developed a bond or knew each other , so much so where the trooper kept telling me NOT to speak ; but let the other driver speak & yell freely . The office threatened to tow my truck because I couldn't produce the currently insurance card because my truck was messy , so I asked if I can have a minute to look for it and he barely let me do so . I THEN produced the insurance card so he didn't tow my truck (lucky me) . He then looked inside my truck and noticed a softball bag containing softball equipment and asked if I threatened the other driver with a bat ; and the other drivers was twice as old as me and half the size of me . That was a complete insult and the trooper was out of line frankly . The trooper also asked if I was drinking , and it was 5:30 am .....like in the morning , and I was on my way to work . Another troubling part was the trooper asked me on 4 different times via his loud speaker for me to come to HIS squad car , and to walk in traffic . Twice I walked across the road over the two lanes , and then he finally pulled behind the two trucks ; and called me to his car again twice . He only finally got OUT of his car to give me the ticket for crossing the double line . I have lived on Wheeler Hill for 16 or 17 years and I have never had #1 such a blatant reckless driver , who again RAMMED into me . And also a trooper who was NOT impartial one bit for whatever reason , and simply listened and sided with the driver that was closer to his age (and I'm 42) . Insulted for the entire ordeal and I will be making a complaint .
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* Is Whole Foods cut out for Whole Cloth? (TBD)
* First lady announcement: Major grocers plan to open 1,500 stores in food deserts across the country. (Obama Foodorama)
* Kaz Okochi does his best Subway impression with Oh Fish! (Washingtonian)
* Maryland chefs want to serve snakehead. We assume that means no head-on preparations. (Baltimore Sun)
* In Utah, alcoholic drinks can be served, but not seen. (NY Times)
* Is yogurt healthy? (Slate)
* Legendary Louisiana restaurateur John Mosca has died. (Times-Picayune)
* Chipotle profits do not meet expectations. Food costs are too high. (Reuters)


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Crontab not working for non-root User
Hello, I can't get cron working for a non-root user.
Here's the result of crontab -l for user 'nihi':
57 12 * * * /bin/date > /home/nihi/logs/testdate
Root's crontab does work. Here's the result of crontab -l for root:
# m h dom mon dow command
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10(despite my forum username).
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks for any help!
Err... I should add that the crontab for nihi doesn't create a 'testdate' file in /home/nihi/logs/. Which is kind of the crux of the problem, but one I forgot to mention in my post.
Well, there seem to be a ton of the 'crontab don't work' type of posts, so I'll give my solution.
I was trying to run offlineimap every five minutes... even if I'd got crontab to work, I'd probably have issues with user environments and so on. What I did instead was write a recursive script using at. The script is /home/nihi/atscripts/recursive-email.sh, and it contains:
cat /home/nihi/atscripts/recursive-email.sh | at now
I don't use Ubuntu, but I'd check other logs eg /var/log/messages. There should be logs of all cron jobs run, regardless of success or failure.
Also, if cron has an issue, it should email the job owner or root.
Try mailx from the cmd line as each user.
Make sure there is an empty line as last line in your crontab file. Furthermore you should find a message in /var/log/syslog if something goes wrong. The missing empty line in the file will not show up as an error in syslog.
The lack of an empty line in the crontab file was the problem. It all works now. Thank you very much jlinkels.
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Tribeca Video Review: All Is Bright
I'll see just about any movie with Paul Rudd in it, and it's no surprise I jumped at the chance to see him and Paul Giamatti in All Is Bright. The comedy was showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, and it was quite the surprise for me — mainly because Rudd wasn't my favorite part. Watch my review and find out what was!


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PEMBERVILLE — Toledo Christian came out with renewed vigor in the third quarter in a Division IV boys basketball sectional final Friday night and the Eagles rode that wave to victory.
On the strength of a 20-point third quarter, Toledo Christian held off Gibsonburg to win the school's 12th straight sectional title.
The Eagles (15-8) trailed by six points at the half but outscored the Golden Bears 30-20 in the second half and went on to down the Golden Bears 42-38 at Eastwood.
In the first sectional final, Ottawa Hills jumped out to a 15-0 lead over Cardinal Stritch and went on to post a 53-36 win.
Toledo Christian junior Kyle Kempton scored nine of his game-high 18 points in the pivotal third quarter.
Senior guard Garshawn Paynther tallied six of his 10 points in the third when the Eagles seized a 32-26 lead.
"I told our kids even if we lose we aren't going out without clawing and scrapping and fighting," TC coach Dave McWhinnie said. "We didn't play our toughest game in the first half. We were soft at times and that is not us. In the second half our kids stepped up and made some huge shots."
Gibsonburg (17-6) tied it at 38 with 1:30 left on Jordan Kreglow's 3 pointer. But Toledo Christian grabbed two defensive rebounds off missed 3 point attempts down the stretch. The Eagles also knocked down five of six free throws over the final 36 seconds to seal it.
"We fell in love with the 3 too much [at the end]," Gibsonburg coach Brent Liskai said. "We were getting stuff going to the basket and then we stopped."
Kreglow and Bryce Ernthausen each scored 11 points for Gibsonburg.
Kempton also had eight rebounds for the Eagles, who scored just 12 points in the first half before the second-half outburst.
"We came out [in the second half] and we knew we were going to win," Kempton said. "We were playing for the 11 teams before us that won a sectional. It was amazing. We knew it would be tough competition because they are a great team. It feels great."
The Eagles committed just four turnovers in the game and Gibsonburg had eight. Each team had 22 rebounds.
Toledo Christian opened the third quarter with a 7-0 run to take a 19-18 lead.
"We executed in the first half and then didn't in the second half," Liskai said. "We came out over the first few minutes and we were sloppy. They played a deliberate game. In tournament basketball if you get sloppy against a good team you will go home."
The Eagles took a 30-26 lead on Paynther's old fashion three-point play late in the third and then went up by six heading into the final quarter on Kempton's two free throws.
McWhinnie used a deliberate offense at times. He said he employed the stall tactic because his guards, Kempton and Paynther, were tired from playing on Wednesday night.
"Their legs were worn out," McWhinnie said. "I was happy with it being a slower game. We wanted to hold it for a couple minutes. That gave us some energy in the second half.
The teams had split two games in the regular season with the Golden Bears winning 63-52 on Jan. 10. TC won 54-52 on Feb. 11.
Toledo Christian advances to play top-seeded Old Fort in the district semifinals at Lakota next Tuesday.
Ottawa Hills (20-1), ranked fifth in the state, defeated Toledo Area Athletic Conference foe Cardinal Stritch (9-14) for the third time.
The Green Bears will face Tiffin Calvert in the district semifinal on Tuesday at Lakota.
Geoff Beans, the 6-foot-7 forward, scored a game-high 17 points. R.J. Coil chipped in with 13.
Beans hit a 3 pointer late in the first quarter to put his team up 15-0. Stritch committed seven turnovers and scored its first points with 1:27 left in the opening quarter.
"Defense is something we work extremely hard at and that head start was important because after that it was pretty even," OH coach John Lindsay said. "This team has been focused coming out of the gate"
Cardinal Stritch junior Austin Adams poured in a game-high 24 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter, for Cardinal Stritch (9-14). Adams also had eight rebounds.
The Cardinals had just three turnovers after the opening quarter.
"I give all the credit in the world to our kids," Stritch coach David Rieker said. "Down 15-0 to Ottawa Hills, you could quit. But they battled. We never could get over the hump."
Adams, who led the TAAC in scoring and rebounding, pulled the Cardinals within eight points late in the third quarter. But Coil responded with five unanswered points himself.
Beans said his team has been coming out hot lately.
"We've been having a good first four minutes. That's always good … when you get an early lead," Beans said. "They are a good team. But we knew we had to come and play our game.
"We are not satisfied. We have a big goal ahead of us."
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I was told it's against code to put a hole in the first floor to vent the hot air from the fireplace in the basement due to something about possible fire getting to the first floor easily with a hole. I was wondering if there's a proper and safe way to get the hot air to the second floor. I was planning to use those metal ducts to make it as best as I can.
I remember as I was growing up we had grates in the floor allowing warm air from the woodstove to get up to the second story. I would guess it is against code (each municipality is different though for things like this there tends to be a lot of consistent by-laws). Best thing is to call the Municipality and/or local Fire Sercices to enquire. Then, once you know what you can't do, you can plan for what you can do.
The thing is, the floor between stories of a home act as a bit of a fire break. If there is a hole in the floor, air can get sucked down to feed the fire and/or the fire will be able to follow the air flow and thus get to the top floor much faster (watch the movie Backdraft to get the gist of this).
Brett Barager, MSW, CHI
Lone-Wolf Contracting
(A Division of Lone-Wolf Enterprises)
Hi Andre, Brett is right that you shouldn't just start making holes in your floors. If you have a forced air heating system, you could install a return air duct in the basement at or near ceiling height to pick up the hot air that is being created. You would need to run your furnace fan to circulate the air throughout your home. If the fireplace is a sealed unit that uses outside air for combustion, you shouldn't have too much trouble. If you are burning interior air, don't put the return duct too close to the fireplace or you may cause a negative pressure and start sucking nasty gases & smoke back into the house.
I have heard that an open fireplace, burning already heated interior air, is actually a net loss as far as heating your home is concerned. It is really more of an atmosphere thing (cuddling with the significant other during a chick flick for instance).
In short, it is probably doable but you should be really careful how you go about it!
Good luck!
Jim Kuzma
Kettleby Handyman Services
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Amazon.com, the Seattle company that pioneered Internet retailing and was the darling of the dot-com boom, was hit today with one of Wall Street's rarest calls as one analyst recommended selling the stock and warned that its price could be halved.
The analyst, Mark Rowen of Prudential Securities, said in a research note that he was cutting his 12-month price target on the stock to $9 from $20, citing anemic growth in the core books, music and video division.
The comments added Mr. Rowen to a short list of analysts who have recommended selling Amazon shares. Of 26 analysts polled by the Wall Street tracking firm First Call/ Thomson Financial, only 3 have sell ratings, while 12 have buys and 11 have holds.
Although Mr. Rowen's downgrade knocked Amazon shares down 6.5 percent at the market's opening, the stock recovered to close up 6 cents, at $14.50. Amazon shares have fallen more than 80 percent from their year high of $76.19.
''The exact value of Amazon.com is impossible to determine at this juncture,'' Mr. Rowen wrote.
''If present value is simply the company's future earnings,'' he added, ''one certainty is that future profits at Amazon are extremely uncertain.''
At best, Mr. Rowen said, Amazon could be worth $62 a share, but in the worst case, investors would reap little, if any, value. He now values the company at $6 to $10 a share. The downgrade on Amazon follows at least six others by analysts this year.Continue reading the main story


text: Fifth for Hopkins on Day One at Brands Hatch Cycle News Staff | April 23, 2011In his first official British Superbike practice sessions, John Hopkins got a taste of the intensity of British Superbike racing by finishing fifth overall following four veterans who had little between them as they fought for supremacy heading into Monday's opening round of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship.Swan Yamaha's Tommy Hill set the fastest time in today's two practice sessions on the 1.198-mile Brands Hatch Indy layout. The lap of 45.499 secs. was narrowly fastest, with the next three riders within .037 sec.Hill's teammate Michael Laverty was second best at a gap of .008 sec., with HM Plant Honda teammates Ryuichi Kiyonari and Shane Byrne third and fourth respectively.Then came Hopkins, the fastest of the rest on his Samsung Crescent Racing Suzuki with a lap of 45.728 secs. The Californian with strong family ties to the British Isles was .229 sec. off Hill's pace and .066 sec. ahead of Dan Linfoot on the Sorrymate.com Honda.Hill's best lap came towards the end of the afternoon session as he nearly matched the four-year -old circuit lap record."That was hard, hot work but I needed to put in as many laps as I could both in Friday's test and then these sessions as before that I had only done a dozen laps on the bike in the previous eight weeks," Hill said.Practice continues on Easter Sunday, with Superpole-type qualifying set for the afternoon to set the grid for Monday's two 30-lap races. Comments


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BORIS Johnson has been accused of "meddling" in the Olympics after calling for the shooting event to be moved.
The Mayor of London claims shifting the 2012 shooting from Woolwich Barracks to Barking would save £10m.
But Greenwich and Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford Raynsford claims there is no evidence for Mr Johnson's claims and says abandoning the Olympic plans would hit regeneration of Greenwich's economy.
He joined Greenwich Councillors on a boat trip today (Oct 8) from Woolwich Pier to City Hall, donning campiagn t-shirts and delivering a letter of protest to the mayor.
Mr Raynsford said: "I think it's crazy for Boris Johnson to be meddling at this late stage."
Deputy Leader of Greenwich Council Cllr Peter Brooks labelled the proposal "complete and utter madness".
Mr Raynsford now plans to lobby Olympics minister Tessa Jowell and the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.


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BWW TV: Leslie Bibb, Christopher Gattelli & More Preview Powerhouse Summer Season!
New York Stage and Film and Vassar College, this summer celebrating the 30th year of their Powerhouse Theater collaboration, will soon present their upcoming Powerhouse Theater Season, running from June 20 to July 27 atVassar College (Poughkeepsie, New York). Members of the casts gave a special press preview yesterday and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with the whole gang about the season!
Richard Greenberg's The Babylon Line (June 25-July 6), directed by Terry Kinney, will be headlined by "How I Met Your Mother" star Josh Radnor, Leslie Bibb, star of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Happy, and Tony Award winnerRandy Graff (City of Angels, Les Miserables), joined by stage and screen actress Maddie Corman (Next Fall, Picnic), Broadway veteran Julie Halston (Hairspray, The Divine Sister), Michael Oberholtzer (MCC's Hand to God) and Tony Award winner Frank Wood (Clybourne Park, August: Osage County, Side Man).
The large-scale dance ensemble for In Your Arms (July 5-13) will feature Broadway favorites Ryan Steele (Newsies, Matilda, West Side Story), Tony Award winner Robert Morse (How to Succeed..., "Mad Men"), Carole Shelley (Billy Elliot) and Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte (Jerome Robbins' Broadway), as well as Stephen Bienskie, Christopher John Beroiz, Ashlee Dupre, Jenn Harris, Martin Harvey, Sean Martin Hingston, Laurie Kanyok, Jess Leprotto, Marielys Molina, Kristen Oei, Adesola Osakalumi, Oneika Phillips, Hayley Podschun, Glenda Sol, Brendon Stimson, Alex Michael Stoll, Samantha Sturm and Christopher Vo. This world premiere presentation of In Your Arms will be directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli, with original music by Stephen Flaherty and vignettes written by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally,Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage & Alfred Uhry.
In addition, a first-ever reading of David Lindsay-Abaire's new play Ripcord, directed by David Hyde Pierce, will featureTR Knight of "Grey's Anatomy" joined by stage and screen veteran Marylouise Burke, recently of HBO's "Hung." The reading of Turn Me Loose by Gretchen Law, directed by John Gould Rubin, will feature Joe Morton of ABC's "Scandal."
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This morning, the New York Daily News published my op-ed on President Barack Obama's decision to close Guantanamo and suspend the Military Commissions:
With his shameful order to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama has perfectly filled the stereotype of the classic clueless ultra-Liberal — the one who can generate great passion for the rights of the guilty defendant and none for the innocent victim.
With a single stroke of the pen, Obama has delayed justice for the victims of 9/11, and in essence granted a reprieve for Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11.
America does not honor our "rule of law and the rights of man" as he put in his inauguration speech by such an action. Instead, this nation abdicated its duty to justice.
It seems the new President is too far removed from the victims of 9/11. Victims like 11-year-old Bernard Curtis Brown, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Everyone onboard was killed, as well as [125] people in the Pentagon. Curtis was on a trip with several of his classmates to California sponsored by National Geographic.
Obama and the Democrats have had a blind spot for 9/11 and have yet to show they have an ounce of understanding what happened that day.
Here is why we were attacked: Muslim extremists hate Americans and want us dead. Our policies in no way influenced the vitriol perpetuated on innocent Americans on September 11, 2001. …
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Mike's brother was 9/11 hero FDNY Captain William F. Burke Jr., of Engine 21. CPT Burke perished on the North Tower's 24th floor after choosing to stay with two workers — one a paraplegic — after the South Tower had collapsed, receiving the order to evacuate, and ordering his fire company to head down the stairs.
BTW, the title for Mike's commentary was chosen by the Daily News, as is the norm. It sure seemed like he was slamming President Obama (not chiding him) to me..
Additional note: We thank Michelle Malkin and Bob Parks for their posts about this.


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Justin Bieber Has Pants Malfunction, Should Stop Dressing Like The After Picture In A Weight Loss Ad
For the past month or so it's been like our brain TVs were stuck on The Miley Cyrus Show and we lost the remote. As a consequence, we almost forgot about Justin Bieber. Sure, he showed up on our radar a few times, mostly for drug-related things, but for the most part he's kind of been that guy we use as a punch line in stories about other people but don't actively report on. Bieber must have caught wind of this, because Monday night during a concert in Singapore he made sure he wore his saggiest of saggy pants for our viewing (dis)pleasure.
In a moment captured in an Instagram video, Bieber did his signature caveman impression, hobbling shirtless around the stage with no shirt on using his hand as a belt, as he's wont to do. But this time the pants situation looked particularly precarious. One wrong dance move and the leather tote bag he calls trousers would have been around his ankles.
At the end of the video he runs off, tighty whiteys in plain view, and I can only assume he's realized he accidentally grabbed Jared the Subway guy's pre-eat-fresh pants by accident and needs to return them immediately. That's the only explanation for why someone would purposely wear pants that require you to constantly hold them up lest they slide down your legs like a cartoon character every five seconds. It's one thing to wear a drop-crotch so far from your actual anatomical crotch that it looks like you just gave birth to a baby in there. It's a whole other thing to just wear pants too big for your little Biebery body.
I feel like we need to get Stacy and Clinton from What Not To Wear on the case, for a lot of reasons, but mostly to tell Justin he needs to start dressing for the body he has. Because right now I keep expecting him to hoist the pants up, hold the waistband away from his body and declare, "I lost 100 pounds on [insert weight loss product here] and now I don't have to wear these pants anymore." So why are you wearing them, Justin? Just why?
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I thank the World Affairs Council for inviting me. And I applaud you for the important role you play in creating awareness of pressing global issues here in the Hudson Valley. As the great mathematician and educator John Kemeny used to say, "The world is our brother, and we are our brother's keeper."
Several weeks ago, after learning that he and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to educate the world about global warming, Al Gore was business as usual. "This is a chance to elevate global consciousness about the challenges that we face now," he told reporters. "It truly is a planetary emergency, and we have to respond quickly."
The urgency of his message was underscored by recent reports from the Arctic. 2007 shattered records for the largest amount of melting sea ice--more than 1.63 million square miles, the size of six Californias. In one six-day period, an area of polar ice the size of Florida--69,000 square miles--completely disappeared. The thaw even opened a Northwest Passage--a sea route from Europe to the Orient via Canada--that Henry Hudson and other early explorers searched for in vain. How warm was it up there? Here's what Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier had to say last March: "For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that: air conditioners in the Arctic."
Of course, you don't need to be at the poles to see the effects of global climate change. No doubt you know about the massive wildfires in California--that have scorched more than 645 square miles in seven counties, forcing the evacuation of 350,000 homes affecting 950,000 people. Fire conditions are dangerous this year as a result of the driest season since records began 130 years ago. The South is undergoing a terrible drought--the worst in a century. Without sustained rains, which are not expected, Atlanta's main reservoir will be dry within months. Elsewhere, climate change is in large measure responsible for the expansion of the world's deserts by 15 million acres a year, and is a major factor in the loss of 1,000 species annually.
Here in the Hudson River Valley, we don't see polar bears stranded on ice floes, nor house-sized chunks of glaciers falling into the water with enormous splashes. But you don't need to look hard to find the deleterious effects it's having on our local environment--all of which are traceable to our dependence on fossil fuels and their heat-trapping emissions. As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, "You can no longer deny the science and bury your head in the sand -- climate change is real."
The most evident local impact is on temperature. Winter temperatures in the Hudson Valley are now about what they were in Washington, D.C., a decade ago. Things could get even worse by the end of the century. The Union of Concerned Scientists--a highly respected team of experts from America's leading research universities--last year released a study entitled Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast. Its data indicates that if we don't begin to take steps to cut down on carbon emissions immediately, your average summer afternoon in Poughkeepsie by 2100 will resemble a sticky July day in South Carolina now--meaning we better start stocking up on the fixings for mint juleps. Overall, the experts predict that temperatures in the Northeast will rise at least 5 to 12 degrees above historic levels in winter and 3 to 14 degrees in the summer. If higher emissions prevail, temperatures could rise as much as 8 to 12 degrees in summer and 6 to 14 degrees in winter.
Along with higher sustained temperatures will come more heat waves. Already, we experience longer periods of high summer temperatures than we did a decade ago. Just you wait: Scientists expect that Northeastern cities will experience 30 or more days of temperatures over 90 degrees by the end of the century under a lower-emissions scenario, 60 or more days with higher emissions. Even worse, the number of days with temperatures hovering at 100 degrees or higher will range between 14 and 28, again depending on the level of emissions.
Okay, so we will be a little more uncomfortable, you say. Unfortunately, the higher temperatures are but a harbinger of the disasters that could occur.
- The increased heat will throw out of balance--I should say has begun to throw out of balance--the Hudson Valley's natural environment--what brings millions of people to the region and generates billions of dollars for our economy in tourism and agricultural dollars. We're already seeing an influx of invasive species that are crowding out our native plants--purple loosestrife, oriental bittersweet and the aptly named mile-a-minute vine. As temperatures continue to rise, trees and plants that depend on cool winters will die out, while cash crops will no longer thrive beneath the sweltering sun. The Catskills' beautiful pine forests will be decimated; our maple trees, whose leaves provide the breathtaking color that brightens our autumns, will likely perish. Stunning landscapes unchanged since the arrival of Henry Hudson will be denuded and barren. And the birds we love to watch through our binoculars will have migrated northward, along with other precious local wildlife.
- Higher temperatures also will impair our health. Hotter weather will cause a rise in ground-level ozone, meaning more unhealthy air days, exacerbating incidences of asthma, lung cancer and premature death. Heat-related deaths--especially among the elderly and very young--will increase. And the sultry weather will be a perfect breeding ground for insects carrying diseases such as malaria, equine encephalitis, West Nile virus and Lyme disease. And let's not forget the loss of recreation opportunities: With less snow, those of us who love to ski will have to find new ways to exercise. In summer, we'll be less likely to want to walk or jog in the withering heat.
- The ongoing melting of glaciers will cause an elevation in sea level, directly impacting the Hudson River estuary--that part of the river influenced by the Atlantic's tides. Over the last 5,000 years, sea level in the Hudson has risen at a rate of about 3/10 of a meter--a little less than a foot--each century. Yet by 2095, and perhaps much earlier, scientists have predicted that as far north as Troy the river could rise as much as 23 inches--and perhaps as high as 4 feet. For waterfront communities, this could spell disaster. Houses and streets adjacent to the river would likely be permanently flooded. Vital infrastructure located on the shoreline, such as wastewater treatment plants, could be inundated, perhaps spewing untreated sewage and storm water directly into the river.
- Some of our most beautiful parks, including Scenic Hudson's own Foundry Dock Park in Putnam County and Esopus Meadows Preserve in Ulster County, would be submerged. Encroaching salt water would drown fresh-water wetlands that we depend on to purify the Hudson. Combined with increased erosion along the river and tributaries, it also will imperil our drinking-water supplies.
- Extreme precipitation--primarily rain--will be more prevalent thanks to changing weather patterns caused by melted polar ice. Scientists predict that devastating nor'easters that previously stayed to our south will approach our region in greater frequency--as many as 10 to 15 percent more storms each year by the end of the century. These storm surges will drop several inches of rain over a longer period of days, exacerbating flooding. Making matters worse, overdevelopment throughout the region increases the amount of impervious surfaces--particularly driveways and parking lots--which prevent more precipitation from being absorbed into the ground. How much damage these will cause to homes and businesses cannot be calculated. Certainly it will be considerably greater than the already considerable $130 million in damage such storms caused in the Northeast in 2005 and 2006.
- This is a dire scenario, indeed. And unfortunately, some of it is unavoidable. We have done so much damage that even if we begin to cut down on our reliance on fossil fuels today, temperatures and sea levels will continue to rise. As Al Gore has said, "We are entering a period of consequences." That's all the more reason why we have to take action NOW.
How do we slow down this catastrophic juggernaut we created and perpetuate? Part of the solution lies in our hands--and in our homes. William Rees, a professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Community and Regional Planning, has done important studies on sustainability. He has written, that, quote, "most of the known global ecological problems facing us today are the end result of myriad individual actions and economic processes." To solve them, he adds, and again I quote, "action must be implemented locally." In other words, each of us must take responsibility for halting global warming. We in the United States really have our work cut out for us: While only five percent of the world's population, we generate nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions each year.
Scenic Hudson has been helping local citizens create a healthy, sustainable environment for nearly 45 years, since our founding in 1963 to halt construction of the world's largest hydroelectric plant on Storm King Mountain, one of the Hudson Valley's natural landmarks. The 17-year successful fight is credited with sparking the modern grassroots environmental movement. Our lawsuit led to the "Scenic Hudson Decision," which gave citizens the right to present evidence in court when their precious environment is threatened. And it ushered in groundbreaking federal legislation such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Most important, it proved that people, working together, can achieve the seemingly impossible.
Since then, we've been empowering residents all along the river to protect their communities' natural beauty--the lifeblood of our overall quality of life. We've shown municipal officials and developers that the environment has its own intrinsic benefits, economic, recreational and spiritual. And we've led the local movement for smart growth, preserving precious farmland that provides healthy local produce while proposing development in downtowns and on brownfields. We've shown the way by transforming industrial wastelands into stunning waterfront parks.
Earlier this year, Scenic Hudson also committed itself to being a local leader in the battle against global warming. Here are some strategies we're beginning to implement:
- Scenic Hudson has been preserving land in the Hudson Valley for more than a decade, with almost 25,000 acres purchased or under easement. Our land holdings, particularly forested properties, represent an investment in sequestering carbon dioxide. For a variety of reasons, including climate change, Scenic Hudson is accelerating our land-acquisition program, adding staff and raising additional capital funds from public and private sources. However, we also are reviewing our criteria for acquisition, looking to identify more "upland" properties that will not be submerged by higher tides or damaged by flood surges associated with climate change. We will be looking to purchase lands that will allow for upland "migration" of tidal swamps and sub-aquatic vegetation as tides rise. We are also beginning to factor into our land-acquisition strategies the northward migration of plant and animal species that are being forced to move to cooler climatic zones.
- In our parks, Scenic Hudson already strives to use recycled and environmentally benign materials, including forest products that are raised and harvested with sustainable practices. This will continue and increase in the face of climate change. We are developing and implementing new strategies to utilize indigenous plants for landscaping and materials grown and produced in close proximity to their end use. We are examining our park stewardship operations to ensure we are minimizing fuel consumption.
- Through our land use planning and advocacy, Scenic Hudson has for the past decade campaigned for development focused in town and city centers, rather than sprawling across the countryside. In addition to protecting open space for farmland and recreational uses, this kind of "smart growth" reduces carbon emissions associated with ever-expanding motorized travel that is driven by sprawl. We are recommitting ourselves to advocacy of pedestrian and transit- oriented development that can take advantage of lower carbon-emitting mass transit.
- Scenic Hudson is beginning to conceptualize an idea to create "climate change waterfront zones" with municipal officials and other partners. Our goal is to work with local leaders to begin to conduct audits of the resources and facilities along their waterfronts that will be vulnerable to rising tides, increased erosion and flooding, and other effects of climate change and to develop plans to protect those assets. Increased setbacks from rivers and streams, and vegetative buffers and wetlands that will absorb storm surges are the kinds of strategies that communities may begin to consider in this context. Scenic Hudson is engaging with a variety of partners and officials to explore what kinds of incentives would help local officials to ensure that water and wastewater facilities, transportation corridors and other key assets are protected from the effects of climate change.
- In the City of Beacon, Scenic Hudson is working in partnership with a private developer, the Foss Group, to create one of the first L.E.E.D. (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold-rated hotel and conference center. Scenic Hudson owns the land and is responsible for developing a public park and boardwalk on a former contaminated industrial site. The Foss Group is responsible for developing the project in a manner that will make this a model of cutting-edge sustainable development. Once built, the hotel and conference center will provide an ideal venue for corporations and institutions to develop strategies to combat and adapt to climate change in their fields.
- Scenic Hudson's public policy initiatives in Albany and Washington reflect the importance of integrating climate change strategies across the spectrum of legislative and regulatory fronts. We particularly applaud and support Governor Eliot Spitzer's ambitious "15 by 15" initiative--mandating a 15-percent reduction in energy use statewide by 2015, and his creation of an Office of Climate Change--New York's first ever--within the Department of Environmental Conservation. And we hail the regional Climate Change Action Plan, a cooperative agreement between Northeastern states and Canadian Provinces to reduce fossil-fuel emissions 75 to 80 percent below 2001 levels.
- I am serving on a recently announced Blue Ribbon Comission to advise the Metropolitan Transportation Authority--one of the country's largest transportation agencies--on how to make systemic changes in its operations to increase sustainability and reduce climate impacts.
- Finally, Scenic Hudson has been taking a hard look at our own carbon footprint. A recent audit revealed that we sequester 100 times as much carbon as we produce. For this we can thank the 7,000 acres of forests we've preserved, whose trees sequester 25,200 tons of carbon each year. Our next step will be to target how we can reduce our dependence on automobiles and other fuel-burning resources.
Through our communications and membership initiatives, Scenic Hudson frequently gives ours members tips on how to conserve energy and not contribute to climate change. But we--and other environmental organizations--must do an even better job of educating Hudson Valley residents that their wasteful actions are contributing to the destruction of the planet. Even more important, we must convince them to change their lifestyles. This will be an enormous hurdle. Studies show that while most believe climate change is real, few are willing to do anything about it. William Ruckelshaus, former commissioner of the Environmental Protection Agency, once noted that "You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it." Paul MacCready, the pioneering aeronautical engineer, said it best: "Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible--or even sinful--that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!"
We must motivate residents to adopt the principles of what we call SIMBY, short for Start in My Backyard. Those who have the means can cut down on their carbon footprint big-time by investing in cutting-edge energy savers such as photovoltaic panels, geothermal heating and hybrid cars. But taken together, even the following simple measures can make a significant contribution.
- For a start, switch from incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescents. Each compact fluorescent uses 66 percent less energy than a standard bulb. Switching to these bulbs in even a modest-size house can reduce carbon emissions by thousands of pounds. Amazingly, if every U.S. household switched to just 1 of these bulbs, it would be the equivalent of removing 1 million cars from the road.
- Walk whenever possible. Every gallon of gasoline consumed contributes 25 pounds of carbon to the air. If you must drive to work, join a carpool. If every U.S. commuter car carried one more person, we'd save eight billion gallons of gas a year. And don't forget to get your tires checked: properly inflated tires increase mileage by 3 percent, also vastly reducing carbon emissions.
- Plant a tree. During its lifetime, a single tree removes 1 ton of carbon dioxide from the air.
- Adjust your thermostat. Lowering your home's temperature 2 degrees in winter and raising it 4 degrees in summer--neither of which will have much impact on your personal comfort--removes another 2,000 pounds of carbon from the air. And when you're not home, remember to lower the temperature even further.
- Buy local and organic. Yes, locally grown food tastes better and is better for you--but it's also better for the environment. The average American meal takes 1,200 miles to reach your table; frozen food consumes 10 times more energy to produce than fresh. Organic food also is a huge boon to the planet because organic soil stores more carbon dioxide. In fact, if all corn and soy in America were grown organically, we'd stop 580 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from fouling our air each year.
- Get out of hot water. Replacing your shower head with a low-flow model will reduce carbon-dioxide outflow by 350 pounds annually. And washing clothes in warm or cold water rather than hot will save 500 pounds.
- Take advantage of nature. Relying on sunshine--and an old-fashioned clothesline--to dry your clothes for half a year saves 700 pounds of carbon from reaching the atmosphere.
- Unplug those appliances. Don't forget that even when they're off, DVDs, televisions and cell phone chargers still use power, consuming five percent of all U.S. energy produced each year. That's 18 million pounds of carbon.
- Our own actions will go a long way toward tackling global warming. But to achieve the kind of change that will truly make a difference also requires a concerted effort by our government--federal and state--to explore ways of phasing out the biggest producers of carbon emissions: coal-burning power plants and low-mileage automobiles. We must elect officials who take this issue seriously, who recognize that reversing the impacts of global climate change is one of the highest priorities for our future, and who are willing to take an international stand. In addition to leading by example, they must pressure and aid developing countries to adopt stringent carbon-cutting strategies; and they must demand an end to deforestation that claims 76 million acres of trees--the equivalent of 145 Dutchess Counties--every year. As citizens, we've got to lobby on behalf of the environment, making sure our leaders do the right thing. Speaking about the dire state of our planet, John Gummer, Great Britain's long-time environmental secretary, once said that "The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world." It is our moral responsibility to make sure they keep on ringing until we get the policies we deserve.
In Climate Change in the Northeast, the authors make the point that reducing carbon emissions locally will not check serious global climate change. However, as the center of finance, technology and innovation, and one of the leading producers of greenhouse-gas emissions, our efforts to reduce our own carbon footprint could be seen as a model for others to emulate. Taking responsibility in our own backyard--individually and through initiatives like the forward-thinking Climate Change Action Plan--could spark a revolution that would, indeed, slow down the effects of global warming. What would it take? A reduction of emissions 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 would require an annual reduction of about three percent--which is certainly doable--yet would have an enormous impact on our planet. The study's scientists make abundantly clear what's at stake: "The choices we make now," they write, "will dramatically affect the climate that our children and grandchildren inherit."
If that's not enough to incite us to action, God help us.
Thank you very much.


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Nov 6, 2012 at 7:43 am
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KNSI) Minnesotans are voting on two proposed revisions to their state constitution after campaigns that generated major donations and provoked heated debates about the role of government in peoples' lives.
One amendment would strengthen the state law against gay marriage by inserting it in the constitution. The other would require people in future elections to show a photo ID to vote.
The marriage amendment has drawn about $16 million in campaign contributions. Supporters say it would keep meddlesome legislators or judges from someday forcing gay marriage on the public. Opponents say such an amendment would put discrimination into the constitution.
The voter ID campaigns have raised less money but sparked equally contentious exchanges about the integrity of the state's voting system.
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