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Deakin Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander paid tribute today to the late Emeritus Professor Fred Jevons AO, the founding Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University, who passed away recently in Melbourne Victoria aged 83.
Professor Jevons took up the position of Vice-Chancellor of the fledgling Deakin University in 1976 and led the university for 10 years.
A prominent biochemist, he developed a reputation for his innovative approach to education and he is widely regarded as the "father" of Deakin's distance education program.
"Professor Jevons' legacy is a large one but, perhaps more than anything, he will be remembered for his introduction of the concept of distance education – a concept for which Deakin has been regarded a leader for many years," Professor den Hollander said.
In his final address to Deakin Council in 1985 Professor Jevons said : " The task as I see it, is eternal vigilance to maintain the integrity of the knowledge that the university creates and transmits, coupled with an eternal question to find better ways to transmit it."
"More than a quarter of a century later we are still living by this broad philosophy as evidenced by our new strategic plan which outlines a program for "cloud" delivery in the digital age and even greater flexibility in the way we create and transmit knowledge," Professor den Hollander said.
Professor Jevons was respected throughout the University and wider community and will be remembered for his passion for learning, his gentle and generous nature and genuine support of others.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by 15underpar Outstanding customer service
This was not our first stay at the Pentagon City Sheraton and it will NOT be our last. The staff was really attentive to our needs. A special shout out goes to Sevena! She was a joy to interact with. She made us feel really welcome. You can tell she loves her job. Job well done Sevena (I hope I spelled your name correctly).
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Kimmer Outstanding!
This was a very special family vacation for my family. CY (manager) learned of this and went out of his way to make sure that our entire stay was special. Not only was my SPG Gold status recognized, but we treated to a suite with a spectacular view of Arlington, the Potamac, and Washington DC. We were also thoroughly spoiled by Emerlita in the Club Level Lounge. The staff were equally helpful and courteous. The pool was great, the view from the pool deck even greater, and the food was very good. With shuttle service to both the airport and the DC Metro, out trip was truly memorable.
Thank you to everyone for an outstanding stay!!
11 août 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Delta10 Excellent Choice
Every aspect of my stay was great. I'm happy we chose this location.
15 juillet 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by rockydogz Great Staff, Terrific Management and Convenient Location!!!
This was my first time at this hotel and as a Starwood Platinum, I stay at a lot of Sheraton properties. This is truly a 10!!! The front desk staff is very helpful, the restaurant and bar service are superb. This is a hotel that actually truly cares for their guests and it is quite apparent that the management team takes great care of the customer"s (guest's) satisfaction. The shuttle service is every 30 minutes to the airport or to the Metro. The rooms are first rate. This will be the hotel I recommend for any pleasure or business trips to the Washington DC area. I will have this as one of my favorites!!!
16 juin 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Blackwater Booked room for party on-site
Very comfortable bedding. Spacious room.
25 février 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Chef This hotel is so close to downtown D.C.
I stayed with my 3 small children and my wife for 4 nights. The accomodations were outstanding! We dined in the Potomic restaurant for 7 meals during our visit as it was convinient with small children. Not only was the food delicious and fresh, the staff went ouit of there way to make my children feel special. Thank you!!
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This hotel is a little gem located very close to D.C. Everyone there is top notch.
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Psychology - THINK YOUR WAY TO HEALTH
by Vanit Nalwa
If you are a pessimist in early adulthood, you are more likely to have poor health in middle and late adulthood
That it is never too late to change change in your behavior could alter your
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Blood tests reveal that when we laugh, endorphins are produced which act as a painkiller, and our immunity increases
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He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy; and so she died; had she being light like you of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, she might ha' been a grandma ere she died; and so may you, for a light heart lives long.
Love's labour's lost
William Shakespeare.
Ancient wisdom never lies. Four thousand years ago in India, it had been stated
in the Mahabharata (the longest epic in the world):
"There are two classes
of diseasesbodily and mental. Each arises from the other, and neither can
exist without the other. Thus mental disorders arise from physical ones, and likewise
physical disorders arise from mental ones."
In more recent times, Sir
William Osler, often considered the father of modern medicine, was said to have
observed that in order to predict the out come of pulmonary tuberculosis, it was
as important to know what was going on inside a man's head as what was going on
in his chest.
The placebo effect has been long known to medical sciencethis is
a cure effected by sugar pills, which the patient believes to be medicine.
Faith healing is yet another demonstration of how mere belief can influence
the body to heal. Now there is scientific proof available to back all
this and the new discipline of psychoneuroimmunology shows how this happens.
Psychoneuroimmunology turns the searchlight on to the common belief that
our personalities and emotions influence our health. How does what you
think and feel (psyche) influence the brain and nervous system (neuro),
which in turn tempers the body's disease fighting system (immuno)? In
other words, to what extent can depression,
anxiety, psychological distress, social support, or an optimistic outlook
change our ability to resist disease? Can we alter immunity and hence
susceptibility to disease through psychological intervention?
The way we think and feel, our way of dealing with events, our defense mechanisms,
our ability to remain happy and healthy must impinge on the question: "Who am
I?" It must seek to address the nature of our uniquely individual personality
our distinctive pattern of thought, emotions and behavior which characterize our
Consider an ordinary event to see how your interpretation of
an event has a bearing on 'your child has failed the final exam'. Depending on
how you explain this event to yourself, will determine whether it will be a major
source of trauma for you and for your child. Whether you judge it as your inability
to devote enough time to your child, or his reluctance to work, or put it down
to the fact that you moved house around the time of the exams, will decide the
stress factor posed by this event. It is not the event itself that is stressful;
rather it is your perception of it that makes it so.
Suppose you react strongly to the failure, giving full vent to your anger
at the sight of the report card; notice your physical reactions. Your
explosive outburst will immediately bring about bodily changes (in the
heart rate, blood pressure, breath count, tense muscles) in both you and
your child. Even long after the event you may notice such psychological
reactions as anxiety, anger and aggression, apathy and depression, and
an inability to think clearly. In fact, in time you might not even connect
the residual bad feeling, which may persist with the event that originally
caused it. Months later you may wonder at the cause for your child's persistent
apathy or aggression. Our bodies obviously react deeply to the way we
think and feel about different happenings that touch our lives.
Topping the list of the countless events, which may jolt our mental balance,
are natural and man-made disasters, life events like the death
of a spouse, divorce, marital separation, marital reconciliation and even
marriage itself. Other events that strongly affect our psyche
include the death of a close family member, personal injury or illness,
losing a job, and retiring can trigger off bad feelingsbe it getting
stuck in traffic, a forthcoming examination, an argument with your boss,
a telephone disconnection for nonpayment of an incorrect bill.
Strong emotional reactions to 'negative' life-changing events or even cutting off all responses
by blocking or suppressing emotions can sap motivation, corrode interest
in life, weigh one down with negative thoughts and cause disturbance and
disharmony at the body levels, often resulting in sleep disruption, loss of appetite, and fatigue. At a deeper level it can begin
to play havoc with your immune system and make you prey to serious illness.
The more life-changes you experience, the harder you need to work to stay
Psychologists have found that people could be trained to improve their resistance
to disease by recognizing the mind-body link in disease and learning to deal more
effectively with emotionally challenging events.
Immunologists, neurobiologists, endocrinologists, and psychologists
at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Maryland, Bethesda, a premier medical
research facility in the USA, are actively involved in unraveling the mysterious
connection between the mind and disease. According to Dr G.Chrousos, an endocrinologist
at NIH: "It has not been shown scientifically but mental states can influence
the body's resistance to disease."
Though researchers have known for
over a decade that the brain can shape the immune response, it is only recently
that they have come close to explaining the 'how' more fully.
It was
once considered that the body's network of immune defenses was a system unto itself.
Research over the past few years has shown that this is not so. The immune system
is connected, both physically and chemically, with the nervous and endocrine systems.
Neurons, or nerve cells of the spleen and the lymph nodes.
The communication
between the brain and the immune system is two-way. The brain apparently registers
the stress and then activates the release of certain chemicals that carry the
information to the immune system, which in turn signals back to the brain to cause
the body to react.
At the Third International Congress of the International
Society for Neuroimmunomodulation, held in November 1996, Dr Esther Sternberg,
a rheumatologist, observed: "We are making important advances in understanding
the infrastructure of how these systems communicate and how breaking the communications
can result in disease."
Your body's immune
system consists of specialized cells that protect it from disease. The function
of the immune system is the identification and destruction of foreign cells such
as microorganisms. Your immune system is able to ward off an attack by bacteria,
viruses, fungi and parasites. Disease occurs when this defense breaks down.
Research shows that the immune system is affected by stress and other psychological
conditions. Whether you are happy or sad determines your susceptibility to infectious
diseases, allergies, cancers, and autoimmune disorders such as lupus and rheumatoid
arthritis, in which the immune cells themselves attack the normal tissue of the
When a person has been stressed for some time, there will be changes
in his behavior, his central nervous system, and in the balance of hormones in
the body. All three are interrelated and influence body cells that provide protection
from disease-the immune system. It is as if the fortifications have been damaged. The result is that the person runs the risk of disease.
Evidence from disparate sources suggests that
stress affects the ability of the immune system to defend the body. Invasion of
the body by a disease-causing agent is not sufficient cause for. Disease occurs
when the person's defenses are compromised or unable to recognize the foreign
material. For example, one study published in 1991 in The New England Journal
of Medicine validated the common belief that we are more likely to catch a
cold when under stress.
Simply being in the presence of someone who
has a bad cold is not enough reason to get one, the probability that you will
catch it when exams are round the corner is much higher!
Disruptive daily
events and chronic family stressors have now been clearly associated with greater
susceptibility to upper respiratory infections.
Susceptibility to influenza, for instance, is higher in families that are rigid and chaotic than in balanced families.The reverse is true as well. Psychologists
have found that people could be trained to improve their resistance to disease by recognizing the mind-body link in disease and learning how to deal more effectively
with emotionally challenging events. In such cases, what is important is the extent to which you can bring change in yourself by recognizing and altering the patterns
of behavior that characterize you. For example, a person with a Type A personality will typically have a short-fuse reaction to situations he perceives as stressful. Such a person is impatient, always pressed for time, extremely competitive, achievement-oriented, extremely competitive and loses his cool easily. Such people are more likely to
fall victims to heart ailments.
A Type B personality to more likely to stay disease free for he is relaxed and is not easily aroused to anger. However,
one could easily confuse a Type B with a Type C personality who presents a calm front simply by suppressing emotional reactions, especially anger. This creates blocks within. Withheld emotions, which find no outlet fester within the person. Typically Type C people, who have a strong need to conform, display a tendency to give up easily rather than fight. They often don't say what needs to be said; they act and feel helpless and hopeless and work with the mechanisms of repression and denial. This can adversely affect immunity. Many cancer patients belong to
this personality type. Indeed some of the most interesting insights into the mind-body-disease nexus come from the study of people suffering from heart disease and cancer.
More people die of heart attacks than from all other causes of death combined, including cancer, AIDS, infectious
diseases, accidents and homicides.
In 1990, Dr. Dean Ornish at the University of California, San Francisco,
and colleagues, published an article in the prestigious medical journal
Lancet, titled: 'Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?'
The response to which was a clear-cut: 'Yes'. Over a period of one year,
most heart patients put on Ornish's special program; reported that their
chest pain had virtually disappeared; in 82 per cent of the cases clogged arteries
had cleared without any surgery.
a story reported by a patient in Dr Dean Ornish's book Program for
Reversing Heart Disease. Bob Finnel, 53, had been diagnosed as having
two totally blocked coronary arteries and a third that was 79 per cent
blocked. In addition, he had suffered a silent heart attack.
Several cardiologists suggested a bypass surgery. Advised a concentrate
on fresh fruits and vegetables, Bob was able to bring down his cholesterol
level from 232 to 128 in a few months. He lost weight, felt fit and energetic,
and underwent important mental and emotional transformation.
"After a year, my angiogram showed the blockages in my coronary arteries
were beginning to reverse. And the PET scan showed that the blood flow
to my heart was much better. And not only to my heartmy sex life
has improved a lot."
This was the
first time that scientifically accepted proof has been offered to show
that heart disease can be halted or even reversed simply by changing one's
eating habits, taking exercise and changing the way one thinks.
In the film Manhattan, the character played by Woody Allen, a perfect
Type C personality, confesses that he never shows his anger, just "grows
a tumor", reflecting the popular idea that cancer patients are emotionally
inhibited. The development and progression of cancer has been associated
with a Type C personality.
If a particular set of psychological factors can promote the onset of
cancer, it is reasonable to assume that changing these will have a beneficial
effect, both in retarding the progression of the disease and its cure.
The use of psychotherapy,
hypnosis, meditation,
imagery as aids in altering the personality, which in turn bolsters the
immune function, is how well-documented.
It is a little known fact that cancer cells develop in most, if not all,
individuals some time during their life. In a healthy individual, the
immune system normally destroys these cells before they can do harm. Psychological
techniques can be used to destroy cancer cells after the disease has developed.
As far back as 1989, Dr Spiegal and colleagues reported in Lancet how
women with advanced breast cancer who had experienced group psychotherapy
for a year, in addition to the regular treatment, showed much better chances
of survival than those who did not. This is clear evidence that the immune
system can be influenced by changing the way an individual thinks.
So the question to consider is: What can I do to remain healthy or heal
Whose life is it anyway? Begin by taking responsibility for your state
of health or disease. Actively involve yourself in maintaining your health.
If you are ill, involve yourself in the process of getting well. Do not
leave it all to doctors. The importance of this is now reflected in the
fact that all the major heart and cancer institutes worldwide teach patients
how to effect changes in their life style.
In India, the Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre in New Delhi
runs a stress management clinic. Dr Peeyush Jain, consultant cardiologist,
Department of Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiology, at the institute,
says that though the emphasis right now is on rehabilitation, in the future
they hope to be able to teach high-risk people how to preempt the need
for surgery.


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I hear a rumour there has been a sw update for 512 to make it easy to use with only one feed as a single tuner unit. Anyone have details?
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 10:58 AM
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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:04 AM
What provider ?
Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:09 AM
Not sure I understand " provider " ?
Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:22 AM
OK panic over. It seems it was in April '11, this sw rev. The 512 I just got around to unpacking ,was probably before that. Once I plugged it in it appeared to get new sw and the behavior changed.If you use just one input , the 1/2 option disappears and it powers up on the active input and doesn't bother you any more. Makes it better if you have to replace a 510 and don't want to run wires or frig around upstairs
Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:25 AM
there are many of them: DirecTV, DTV LatAm, dish, GlobeCast, etc
by the number perhaps you mean model DVR512 by e* ?
by the number perhaps you mean model DVR512 by e* ?
Posted 27 July 2012 - 01:36 PM
Quite right. The thing is a DVR 512 from Dish. I bought it in june 2011 as a replacement for my faltering 510 but the 510 is still going strong so I didn't install the new one. A bit daunted by the necessary changes to the installation.
Now it seems I could just go ahead and replace the 510 and use the 512 as a one tuner receiver until I get the energy to change my setup.
Now it seems I could just go ahead and replace the 510 and use the 512 as a one tuner receiver until I get the energy to change my setup.


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Dennis Christiansen of Sunbury brought the Coastal Courier with him on a recent hunting and fishing trip to Argentina.
Tom Cardiff, executive for the Coastal Empire Council, Boy Scouts of America, addressed the Hinesville Rotary Club at its weekly meeting on March 11. The Coastal Empire Council is comprised of 11 counties, including Liberty, where 8,500 boys are involved in scouting. Cardiff said he believes scouting is becoming more important than ever because of changes in the family unit -- more single parent homes and grandparents raising grandchildren. "We need it (scouting) more today than we did 50 years ago," Cardiff said. For more information on the Boy Scouts, call (912) 927-7272 or visit www.bsasavannah.org.
LUDOWICI -- KIDZ-ETC. had the 2008 Miss Tri-County Beauty Pageant this March 8 at the Long County High School.
Hinesville Mayor Jim Thomas and members of the Hinesville Lions Club gathered on March 6 for the signing of a White Cane Day Proclamation to benefit the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation, which has been devoted to helping save the sight of Georgians for more than 50 years.
Snelson-Golden Middle School had its third annual Miss SGMS pageant on Feb. 29.
The United Way of Liberty County will again its plastic bottles-to-coats project thanks to a grant from an engineering firm.
The Red Hat Liberty Bells Chapter of the National Red Hat Society, now in its fifth year, re-elected Judy Mobley as queen mother for 2008.
Heritage Bank Vice President Danny Creasy is eyeing higher office, but not in Washington or even at his Main Street office. Posing as Pres. Abraham Lincoln on Saturday during the "Hamocracy in Action" Kiss-A-Pig kickoff, the Hinesville businessman will set his sights on the annual fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association.
Liberty County's Goldenheirs got a lesson in the YMCA during their February meeting.
A Back to School Rally and Community Cookout was recently held at Holmestown Community Park.
The Jubilee choir, the senior group of First Baptist Church, presented the July program for Goldenheirs. Directed by Elaine Walker, the choir sang patriotic and traditional numbers. The Goldenheirs meet at noon on the first Tuesday of each month at First Baptist Church in Hinesville. All seniors are invited.
Elizabeth Walker Quarterman wrote in her book, "The Home at the Bluff," about one of the outstanding guests at their family home on the bluff in McIntosh County when she was a child, before she married and moved to Liberty County.
The Wiregrass Festival Committee is accepting applications for vendors for its arts-and-crafts show and for food.
A group of Long County citizens on Tuesday held a meeting at Calvary Baptist Church in Ludowici to begin the process of planning a communitywide day of prayer.
The adrenaline-fueled crime caper "2 Guns," is now in theaters and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. Did the movie shoot to kill? Let's find out.
The Hinesville Military Affairs Committee is sponsoring a family day with entertainment on Saturday, Nov. 16, following the Veterans Day Parade. Proceeds will go to the Veterans Memorial Walk at Bryant Commons.
Dubois Square in downtown Pembroke was a popular place to be Saturday evening as the city hosted its annual National Night Out.
Scores of soldiers assigned to Fort Stewart' Wounded Warriors Battalion are being treated to a free fishing event at Stewart's Pond No. 1, also called Pineview Lake. According to retired Command Sgt. Maj. Adna Chaffee of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 789, local veterans' organizations will sponsor a catch-and-release fishing outing from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Aug. 23.
Hinesville Downtown Partners, a loose coalition of downtown businesses and city and county leaders, met Friday morning to discuss plans for upcoming public events.
July 23 to Aug. 22: A shift in workplace management could be helpful for talented leos and leonas who have been waiting to have their accomplishments rewarded by receptive leadership.
The thought of eating macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, tuna salad and chicken pot pies was comforting long before they were called comfort foods. Comfort foods don't have to be fancy. They're simple, delicious and usually inexpensive to make.
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I am not one to argue with you guys about how Shinn did your city and region but at the same their is an argument that can be made in George Shinns favor. He pushed real hard to get the NBA in the Carolinas and got the region involved in supporting an expansion team. In all reality without him you may not be talking about Larry Brown or NBA basketball in Charlotte. I am not saying that he is some Demi God but give him credit where credit is due and hate him after that. He is both founding father of NBA in Charlotte and a big greedy a hole who stole it all away.
Myself, I still support the Hornets. I don't do so because of George Shinn but because of a part of the country they represent that deserves a championionship even without hurricane Katrina having happened. Screw Shinn, Louisianans and especially NO, deserve a champion.


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The Docomomo US Board of Directors are very interested in seeing more regional and local chapters develop in the United States, and encourages members to consider the benefits of forming a local and/or regional chapter. Chapters form as a result of local energy and enthusiasm and are not formed by the national working party, but developed at the local level. Chapters are bound by a few rules and regulations to ensure there is a general level of consistency between the chapters, but for the most part, Docomomo US is defined by the work of its chapters.
Members of the existing local chapters formed because they had a common interest in modern architecture and interiors, landscape and urban design. They were motivated by the desire to recognize and protect significant modern works within their regions, to study the modern movement and discuss its legacy and continued relevance, or simply to learn about their region's modern heritage. Those who have created a local chapter have found the following advantages:
- Affiliation with a national and an international organization that shares a love for modernism helps members rally around common goals and objectives.
- The organization has international recognition. Associating with an already-established name can bring credibility to a local group.
- Linking to other regional and local Docomomo chapters provides access to a network of like-minded individuals who can provide advice, support and encouragement.
- Docomomo US chapters are required to develop a mission statement and to create a local register of Modern works. This can give focus and structure to an informal group, and help it grow.
- Belonging to the Docomomo US network allows your group to share information and provides contacts throughout the country with professionals and advocates interested in many aspects of protecting and promoting modern design.
- Chapters have access to the national website, social networks, and e-newsletter, useful for publicizing activities, issues, and news to a broader audience.
If you are interested in forming a Docomomo US chapter in your area, please refer to our Chapter Guidelines [20] and New Chapter Checklist [21].
For more information on chapters in formation and to begin a Docomomo US chapter in your area contact: info(AT)docomomo-us(DOT)org.


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In the past ten years, the percentage of English Language Learners (ELLs) has doubled in the state of Wisconsin. Districts of every size and geography throughout the state have witnessed first-hand the unique challenges of this increasing and unique population. While urban and larger school districts in WI may have larger populations of ELLs in their individual schools, nearly half (46%) of all ELL students in the state are spread across 302 small and rural districts. As the population of ELLs continues to grow in our state, professional development opportunities and academic coursework about the unique challenges of this population take on an importance for almost every educator, no matter the size or placement of their school.
Until now, most professional development opportunities or academic courses on this critical subject have been targeted exclusively toward teachers in elementary grades or have grouped all grade levels together, K-12. That's why Edgewood College's CTELL Program is so unique.
Connecting Teachers to English Language Learners (CTELL) is designed to group educators in cohorts that teach similar grades and content areas, demonstrating how you can better serve this student population within the context of a particular subject area and grade level.
Funded through a 1.5 million dollar grant from the Federal Office of English Language Acquisition, public school teachers accepted into the CTELL program are eligible for six graduate credits supported by full-tuition scholarships. Locally, more than 270 educators from 54 districts have benefited from this unique program. 2013 marks the expansion of the CTELL program to any educator in the state of Wisconsin through regional partnerships with CESAs 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 11.
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Amy Alkon's just-published book: "I SEE RUDE PEOPLE: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society" (McGraw-Hill, $16.95).
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I went to meet my girlfriend's 90-year-old father. They have a conflicted relationship. He doesn't "agree" with his daughter's homosexuality, generally looks down on women, and believes they should be helpful, nice, pretty, and married to men. When we got to his upscale senior living facility a few hours away, I jokingly asked my girlfriend whether I should change out of my jean shorts and into dress pants. She said yes, and I said, "I don't have those; are you serious?" She then pulled out a "nice outfit" she'd brought for me. I felt angry that she'd sneaked this up on me. I felt even angrier meeting her father, who barely acknowledged my existence and didn't notice this "nice outfit" I ended up putting on. Should I remind my girlfriend that she no longer chases her father's approval? Tell her I certainly will not?
— Steaming
Here's an ornery guy who's probably spent much of the past 90 years convinced that women belong in the kitchen wearing ruffled aprons, baking pies, and practicing saying, "Yes, dear." Yeah, he'll be changing — the direction his finger's pointing when he looks at his daughter, gestures toward his closet, and says, "Could you go back in, change into a dress, and come out with a husband?"
Your girlfriend can tell herself she'll no longer be chasing her father's approval yet be running as fast as she can after it on the inside. It's deep-seated stuff, wanting your parents to approve of you, to appreciate who you are and love you for it, and it's tough stuff knowing they don't and probably never will. So as much as she might wish things were different and vow they're going to be, it shouldn't come as a surprise that her father still wears the pants in the family (even if he also wears the diapers).
It's probably tempting to go all one-woman gay pride march and picket the old goat's bed: "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!" (Or, later in the day, "We're here! We're queer! We need a beer!") And if how your girlfriend handled the change of clothes — going sneaky to get her way " is a pattern, you two have a problem. But maybe she was just desperate to keep her time with him from being conflict-filled and awful and couldn't bear to do battle with you right before facing her father's disapproving looks because the man of her dreams is a woman.
Her father is grazing 100 and will be dead soon; doing what you can to relieve your girlfriend's stress when she sees him isn't exactly the equivalent of bringing a plate of cookies out to the Westboro Baptist Church marchers. Consider telling her that you know how hard visiting him is for her and, in the future, she should just tell you what she needs from you to make things easier. Hearing this will probably make her melt into a pool of love for you and inspire her to extend herself when it means a lot to you. Sure, it's unhealthy to always be in the habit of muzzling your beliefs, but there are times to stand up for them and there's sometimes a time to just crawl into the back seat and put on those "nice pants" your girlfriend brought for you.
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I'm a 36-year-old guy who's dated some great women but ended most of my relationships around the six-month mark. I wasn't concerned about this until I was talking about how cool my girlfriend of two months is and my married buddy looked at his watch and said, "Yeah, bummer. Only got four more months of her." I had a long relationship in my 20s, so I don't think I fear intimacy or commitment. Do I need therapy? Or is this one of those things where, if you're happy, you ignore the criticism?
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You look deep into a woman's eyes and whisper those magical words: "I want to spend the rest of my month with you." Well, long-term relationships aren't for everyone. Along with the benefits come the tradeoffs, like having to give up the suspense and buzz of the new for the comfortable old slipper of stability. It's okay to be unwilling to make that tradeoff, provided you aren't just covering for a bunch of unexplored fears. The problem comes in letting women believe that you have the potential to be Mr. Right when you're most likely Mr. Lite. Unfortunately, some will see your pattern of succumbing to Restless Boyfriend Syndrome as a challenge to domesticate you. To keep things from going ugly, you might gently remind them that you're looking to be there for them in good times and good times — and that someday their prince will run.
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This hotel is located in Tokyo (Asakusa), close to Nakamise Arcade, Sensoji Temple, and Tokyo Sky Tree. Also nearby are Asakusa Shrine and Edo-Tokyo Museum.
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APA Hotel Asakusa-Kuramae features a restaurant, tour/ticket assistance, and self parking (subject to charges).
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Guestrooms have complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, climate control, and slippers; rooms also include phones and clock radios.
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As Quick Hud has been developed in the past, I've release a few versions that weren't really customized and were poorly scripted.
I've been working a while on this to make it as good as possible, and I've gotten to the point where I don't really care where it goes anymore. I'm releasing it here in case any of you want to use this addon for anything.
I've improved the overall hud, added many things, etc.
[release][list]Chatbox[/list](The chatbox in this addon is an edit of Darkland's old chatbox (by Darkspider). I've edited around 80% of the overall code, and I've changed a lot.)
The Chatbox does NOT support Chat.AddText() so, you need to create your own version of chat.AddText or use ChatPrint().
The Chatbox includes flashing tags, etc.
I was going to stick with the outlined name thing like perp, but I decided to go back to tags.[/release]
[release][list]Web Browser[/list]When you click the "Home" Button, you're sent to my website, http://JovaCentral.com
It pops up on initial spawn, so if you want to remove it and you don't know how, open qhud.lua, go to line 30 and remove "ply:ConCommand( "jcweb" )"
[release][list]Mini Administration Mod[/list]I KNOW THE PLACEMENTS AREN'T EVEN, I WAS GOING TO FIX IT BUT I FORGOT, I DON'T REALLY CARE EITHER. IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO BITCH BELOW, THEN FIX IT YOURSELF.
You need to select the User ID (The Numbers) to the right of a player's name to be able to ban that player. Select the player's name to be able to kick them. You can't ban with the players Name and you can't kick with the player's User ID.
Nothing is in the Advanced Administration tab, I was planning on putting an unban list there, but I didn't get around to it.[/release]
[release][list]Custom Scoreboard (Now Opens with Tab)[/list]It has been resized (width wise).
[release][list]Un Parented Buttons (Top Right)[/list][/release][/release]
PS: The colors look better in game.
Possibly more updates to come, tell me if there are any errors.
By the way, if you hold your mouse button down on one of the un parented buttons, it opens a bunch of windows. I never got around to fixing that so only click once and it may only open 1 or 2 windows. You can also open the mouse cursor with middle mouse, but that's kinda glitchy too.
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Big Picture is SIX years old today!
Watch your inbox for a special promo code to use for 50% all self-paced classes through November 20th.
Ok, I'll just tell you, it's 6thbirthday — use it to take a class you've been wanting to take.
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Watch your inbox for a special promo code to use for 50% all self-paced classes through November 20th.
Ok, I'll just tell you, it's 6thbirthday — use it to take a class you've been wanting to take.
Happy Birthday BPC and congratulations to you Stacy for starting and continuing such an awesome and inspiring company!
Congrats on the milestone! I love BPC, and thanks so much for the coupon code!
Happy Birthday BPC!! I can't believe it's been 6 years since I took that "Did You Know" 5 Things class from Cathy and the Power of Ten class with Beth Proudfoot! They are some of my favs to this day! Thanks you for keeping this going and always coming up with just the thing I need to try and have fun with!!! BPC is the best!!!
Thanks Stacy. I love taking BPC classes. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
Happy, happy birthday BPC dear. Happy things will come to you all year. If I had one wish then it would be… a happy, happy birthday to you from me! (singing loudly).
Happy Happy Birthday! BPC is the very best
Thanks so much for starting this wonderful company, it has changed the way I scrapbook. Thanks for the discounted classes Stacey!Just in time to stock up for Christmas gifts. The promo code isn't working for me at the moment though. I'll keep trying.
Promo code is working now! Thanks again!
I will definitely be celebrating Big Picture Classes' birthday by purchasing a few presents- for me! Thank you and Congrats on SIX years!
Happy Birthday BPC and thanks for the promo code!
I'm so thankful for BPS and for all the inspiration I have gotten from the classes offered! May it continue strongly for many more years!
BPC ranks high on my list of good things that I've discovered! Happy Birthday.
This is so exciting! Happy birthday!!! I love BPC, and hope to take many, many, many more classes! I just used the fabulous coupon to pick up 4 I haven't taken yet – yay!! Thank you!!!
Happy Birthday to BPC….and mannnnny more!!
Had to go look, and I've been with you since my first class LOM in Feb 2008!!
I value the learning,
I cherish the community,
I appreciate the teachers,
I adore you Stacy!
and I adore YOU Tracy — thanks for reading my blog!
HAPPY Birthday BPC! What an amazing place it is! I just ordered a few classes to add to my "to do" list! I love that they will be there for me when I can devote the time and attention to them! God bless you Stacy for bringing BPC to life!
Time flies when you are having fun!!!!!!
Happy Birthday BPC–We love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo Hoo, Happy Birthday BPC! I haven't counted recently, but I'm pretty sure I have gone over the 100 mark with classes, so I guess you can safely say I LOVE BPC!!! Thanks Stacy, its been a super fun 6 years, and thanks for the coupon too!
Happy Birthday to BPC. Just added a few more classes to my to do list! Thanks for the promo code.
Happy Birthday! Congrats to you and your team. And Stacy just think others told you no ! Ha on them. I've been with you since the beginning. Even back when there was a scrapbook store on every corner there wasn't one even near me. So your site has always been my go to place. I never would have been able all the to learn all the great things I have if it wasn't for the BPC site.
You and the staff and teachers are the best!
Happy Birthday BPC!! Stacy you and your team are GREAT!! Thanks for all the great things you give us!
Happy birthday, BPC! My very first class was Scrap Your Scraps and I've been in love with the site since then.
My scrapbooking has changed so dramatically since I found the site and I am so very thankful for everything I've learned.
Stacy- you've created a great community over there and I am very grateful. And, of course, thanks so much for the discount- already signed up for three self-paced classes!
Congratulations Stacy and everyone at BPC,
I signed up for three classes on Monday, two of them self-paced – Had I known this in advance, I might have waited.
You have come a far way with BPC. I enjoy taking every class that you offer and I am so happy that you'll be the first expert in 2012 starting with 12.
I have also noticed that you start exploring new grounds, like offering a kit with a class – which is not for me, as the shipping to Europe will eat up all the benefit.
As for the "in-class" experience, your classrooms are very fun and engaging – unfortunately, the gallery experience is not. I find the use very time consuming and complicated and really hope that this is on your roadmap to improve.
For the coming years, I would love to see more of the element of surprise, like the goodies by snail mail in your "Have more fun" class and I am so happy that this appears to be back for "12″.
I'd also be interested if you consider a few more "private", initimate, premium priced classes with you, Cathy Zielske, Karen Grunberg and other "experts" on a specific topic.
Thank you Stacy for being a continuous source of inspiration – I can't wait to take more classes with you and the creative teachers who are a part of BPC.
I LOVE this kind of feedback. Thank YOU!! I agree that we need to improve the gallery programming and YES, it is on our list for upgrades. Thanks for being a part of our community!!
Congrats to BPC on such a great milestone. Thanks so much for the coupon code. I have been eyeing a class that I couldn't justify spending the money on right now, but with this offer I finally can.
Happy birthday! I know that I am definitely better a scrapbooker and photographer because of BPC classes.
Guess what? You just won yourself a NEW American Crafts paper trimmer. Thanks for reading my blog and leaving me a comment!
Thank you Stacy! I responded in your post on 11-22. Do you need me to send you any information? Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Congrats! I love me a good coupon! I took advantage of the offer and signed up for 4 of the classes. I finished one last night and a second one this afternoon. I found them very informative. Thanks!
What a great way to celebrate BPC. I have taken many, many classes. I have about 6 self-paced ones I'd like to take and this 50% code means that I can sign up for them all! Thanks for all you do.
Love BPC! Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday BPC. Congratulation to you and all who help make this such a wonderful and inspiring place to come. Thank you for the awesome coupon.
Congratulations! This is awesome.
I went straight over and picked up two I've been looking at for a while. Taking them with me to ds's music lesson to read while he is in class!Thanks for the savings!
Happy B-Day BPC!!! You've been a great source of inspiration for me (and many thousands of others). The quality of the instruction is excellent and I love the energy from everyone in this community.
Happy Birthday! Been with you since the beginning.
Happy Birthday BPC and thank you Stacy for having the inspiration and insight to start up this amazing company. I have enjoyed each and every class I have taken and still am in awe with each class I take at the amazing instructors, the exceptional content of the classes and that I am sharing these classes with scrappers from all over the globe.
Happy Birthday (a few days late). I LOVE BPC. You have the best online classes anywhere online! I love so many things about them!
Happy Birthday BPC!!
Hey Stacy, I just wanted to take you back a bit – to around October last year when you posted about your lovely yellow bike. http://stacyjulian.com/blog/?p=5934
I saw that at the time and thought pretty neat. A couple of months later, hubby was trying to persuade me to leave my bike (that I bought while we lived in Belgium and was not good for the area back home in New Zealand). I knew I didn't want a mountain bike – I liked my "sit-up" bike. But the family do a lot of biking along the river trails and so I saw the sense in having something that could handle the local terrain. I vaguely remembered your post, did a bit of research – and hubby agreed it was a good choice. And I've been waiting, and waiting…. and waiting…and waiting. Finally, in the last weeks I've been throwing out the hints that it would be REALLY good for us all to be biking over the christmas holidays.
Guess what we ordered today??? YES!!!! I'll have my very own yellow bike in just a few days time. SOO excited. And all because I remembered your bike Thank you for posting about it – and when you're out biking in your area…. know I'm riding with you in spirit all the way down here in NZ!!!!
I'm all signed up for the 12 Class & I have started on the divider things in the bin but I have one question – are the divider binder clips going to be for the months or for something else?
I am just asking because I got the cutest binder clips with the months of the year on them from Office Depot.
here are several goods in order to web sites which i hook up to since all of us believe they will be worth visiting.
Hope your surgery went well yesterday…when you get a chance let us know how you're doing!
BTW, I can't wait for 12 to start! : ) : )
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My mom has always called her grandbabies "angels", and they call her "Nana" so obviously this one was perfect. Well made. A big hit for Christmas! Looks precious on the tree.
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What if Asheville were hotter year-round than Atlanta is now? That could be what's in store by the end of the century if global carbon-dioxide emissions continue to rise at their current rate, according to Tom Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center. A computer model developed by the data center predicts that Asheville's average temperature would rise 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of 2099 -- making it slightly higher than Atlanta's present-day average.
"If our temperature was like Atlanta, we would be building houses differently, we would be growing different trees here, there would be different trees in the forest, there would be different crops," Peterson points out. "So it makes for a significant change."
And if 2099 seems comfortingly remote, consider this: Asheville's average temperature has already started climbing. "In general, temperatures have been rising," says Karsten Shein, acting director of the data center's climate-modeling branch. "Our average temperature between 1903 and 2007 has increased a little over half a degree. The average maximum temperature for each year has gone up by almost 2 degrees Fahrenheit."
Perhaps you haven't noticed. Although climate change is a hot topic in Asheville, it's still more of an abstract concept than a life-altering phenomenon at this point (for a reality check, see sidebar, "Burn, Baby, Burn.") But go to one of the planet's northernmost regions, Alaska, and global warming is hard to miss.
Glaciers in the Kenai Peninsula are receding faster than ever. Millions of acres of forests have been ravaged by pests that thrive in warmer temperatures. Farther north, the permafrost is thawing both more deeply and at higher latitudes than before, and coastal villages are finding themselves exposed to violent storms as their protective barrier -- sea ice -- vanishes.
But we live in an age of global awareness, and changes in the distant Arctic haven't gone unnoticed here in Western North Carolina. The Asheville-based National Climatic Data Center, the world's largest repository of weather information, supplies the stats that the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses to produce its climate-change assessments. In that sense, our area is influencing the understanding of an issue that literally affects the whole world as we know it.
Strange weather
Climate scientists emphasize that no single weather event -- be it a heat wave in Europe, Hurricane Katrina or a severe drought in Western North Carolina -- can be directly pegged to climate change. That said, the IPCC has cautioned that violent downpours, droughts and other sorts of extreme weather will become more likely as the climate shifts. But scientists base their findings on averages and long-term trends, not on ever-shifting extremes. As Shein puts it, "There's a big difference between weather and climate."
"It's tough for people to comprehend this single global number as being something significant," he says, referring to the rise in the average global temperature. "In fact, it's made up of data from 20,000 stations around the world taking daily weather observations. They take all this together, then they boil it down into this one number."
It took decades for scientists to reach consensus on the concept of human-induced climate change, notes Doug Causey, vice provost for research and graduate studies at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. But after reviewing the long-term data and sounding it out with experts from every corner of the globe, the evidence became impossible to ignore.
The IPCC issued its first climate-change assessment back in 1990 -- but for many folks, it still hasn't sunk in. "You can go back far enough in Earth's history and find carbon-dioxide levels that were higher than they are now," says Causey. "The strongest point is ... the speed at which it's increasing." As an analogy, he says, picture a car backing up slowly toward a garage. If that same car were to rocket backward at full speed, it would travel the same distance, but with a terrible impact.
Satellite images of the Arctic ice cap confirm that the summer sea-ice cover has been shrinking dramatically over the last half-century. On her first research trip to the North Pole in the summer of 1991, Brenda Ekwurzel, a climate specialist with the Washington, D.C.-based Union of Concerned Scientists, says she was shocked to see the ice separated by vast amounts of open water. The amount of frozen cover reached an all-time low in the summer of 2007 -- 23 percent below the previous record low, set in 2005 -- according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It's still too early to tell whether 2008 will bring an even lower number, but so far, things aren't looking good. Last month, ice loss averaged 30,000 square miles per day, the center reports -- the highest figure scientists have ever observed in August. Since the 1950s, the center estimates, summer sea ice may have declined by as much as 50 percent. As a result, the fabled Northwest Passage is now open for the first time in human memory.
This trend spells trouble for polar bears, ringed seals and other marine life for which summer sea ice represents critical habitat. But the diminishing Arctic ice cap also has significant implications for weather patterns worldwide. Worse yet, the process creates a kind of feedback loop: As reflective polar ice disappears and dark ocean is exposed, more solar rays are absorbed, fueling further melting. "We're losing our air conditioner in the north," says Ekwurzel.
Asheville resident Drew Jones, who heads up the Southeast office of the Vermont-based Sustainability Institute, puts it this way: "The polar ice cap is melting. That is our canary in the coal mine."
From Asheville to Copenhagen
When Xpress caught up with Jones, he was preparing for a trip to Greenland to "watch the glaciers melt. There's a group of European businesspeople who are very concerned about climate change," he explained, though he wasn't at liberty to identify the businesses. "The European heat wave several years ago was their Katrina." (The 2003 heat wave, which logged some of Europe's hottest summer temperatures ever, caused 35,000 deaths, according to the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington-based environmental think tank.) After touring some glaciers with the group, Jones planned to lead them in an exercise using a computer game designed to help people truly grasp the implications of climate change.
Jones, who studied environmental engineering and systems dynamics at Dartmouth and MIT, also teaches systems dynamics at UNCA. Among other things, his work at the Sustainability Institute involves serving as a consultant to companies that want to green their practices. But what's attracted the most attention lately is the Climate Bathtub Simulator he and a partner created. A video produced by Morgan Stanley's Office of the Environment last winter features Jones employing the simulator to deliver a tutorial on climate change.
The game uses a bathtub as a metaphor for the atmosphere. The player decides how much "water" (carbon dioxide) flows in. If the level gets too high (the threshold is an atmospheric concentration of 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide), the bathtub overflows -- and in the real world, severe consequences kick in. If current emissions are allowed to continue unabated, the bathtub will overflow in the year 2035.
"If we're going to make decisions about long-term trends," says Jones, "we have to get to the point where my grandmother could understand what we're trying to say." A few major corporations, including Nike and Citibank, have given the Sustainability Institute funding to help disseminate the simulator, notes Jones.
Ultimately, he hopes the bathtub simulator can be used to prep delegates to the 15th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, who will travel to Copenhagen in December 2009 to hash out an international agreement on curbing greenhouse-gas emissions. Such a treaty would replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
Although the bathtub's overflow point is meant to dramatize what it would take to stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, says Jones, balancing the climate would require more drastic measures. "Stabilizing the climate means an end to burning fossil fuels by 2050," he says. That would reduce the global concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million. Today, we're hovering somewhere around 387 parts per million. And if business as usual continues unabated, we're on track to triple the global concentration by 2100, according to the IPCC.
Shrinking glaciers
Greenland isn't the only place one can travel to watch glaciers melt. All over the world, ancient land-based ice masses are on the move, says Ekwurzel. And as fresh water spills into the sea, it contributes directly to sea-level rise. Between 1961 and 2003, sea level rose by an average of 1.8 millimeters per year, according to the IPCC's 2007 assessment. And between 1993 and 2003, sea level was rising by about 3.1 millimeters per year.
Looking ahead, the enormous Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets would seem to be, hands down, the biggest players in future sea-level rise. If they melted entirely, each one has the potential to raise sea levels by 16 to 23 feet. A global temperature rise of 3.6 degrees to 9 degrees Fahrenheit might irreversibly destabilize the Greenland sheet, according to NASA, but it would take centuries to melt entirely. Still, such a temperature rise lies within the range of several climate projections for the 21st century.
In Alaska, you don't need to look far to find a shrinking glacier. Portage Glacier, near Anchorage, has receded nine miles in the past century. And a visitors' center built to showcase the natural wonder no longer does: Over the past 14 years, the ice mass has retreated around a corner in the distance. Compared with all the receding glaciers in Patagonia, the western United States and the Asian highlands, Alaskan glaciers are expected to be hit the hardest -- and thus to contribute the most to sea-level rise. "You are right at the epicenter," Ekwurzel told her small audience in Seward, Alaska.
A boat tour that goes up to the face of the Aialik Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park lets visitors see ice split away from the 400-foot-high, mile-wide mass right before their eyes. Up close, that glacier seems volatile. The blue tower of ice pops and cracks, and occasionally a hefty mass will calve with a low roar and plummet into the frigid water, stirring up waves and gulls.
The 10,000-year-old Exit Glacier, near Seward, is one of more than 35 that flow from the massive Harding Icefield in Kenai Fjords. It's been in steady retreat for more than a century; a series of markers show how far the edge once extended. In the past decade alone, it's retreated some 1,000 feet; it's also getting noticeably thinner, park rangers report.
In August of 2005, newspapers reported that a delegation from Washington -- including Sens. John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton -- visited Exit Glacier as part of a global-warming-themed tour. "The question is, how much damage will be done before we start taking concrete action," McCain stated upon his return. "Go up to places like we just came from: It's a little scary."
McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, however, has stated publicly that she doesn't think global warming is human-induced. In an interview in Newsmax several weeks ago, she said: "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made."
At this stage of the game, says Ekwurzel, the biggest contributor to sea-level rise has actually been not melting ice but warmer oceans. Since 1950, the oceans have absorbed 20 times as much heat-trapping gases as the atmosphere has, according to a calculation by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Not included in the IPCC's projections is evidence that further warming could reduce the oceans' ability to absorb that much CO2 -- leading to an even greater atmospheric CO2 concentration, says Ekwurzel. For now, "The oceans are saving us from ourselves," she says. "If you were to take all that heat and release it to the atmosphere instantly, you would boil off our atmosphere." As the water has gotten warmer, it's also plumped up -- a process known as thermal expansion.
"If you increase temperature, sea level will rise," says Asheville scientist Leonard Bernstein, a lead author of a section of the 2007 IPCC report, whose authors shared in that year's Nobel Peace Prize. "Ocean water is going to expand, and when it expands it's only got one way to go -- and it's up."
Playing the odds
While a rise in sea level is a guaranteed result of climate change, things like hurricanes and wildfires fall into the category of probable effects. One risk, for example, is that up to 30 percent of plant and animal species could face extinction if the global average temperature increases more than 3 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit relative to 1980 - 1999 temperatures, according to the IPCC. Many projections suggest that the low end of this range could be reached by midcentury.
"It's a matter of playing the odds," says Bernstein. "The more climate change you have, the worse the odds get."
Another such problem is pest infestations, which scientists say are likely to become more common as temperatures rise. In Alaska, some 3 million acres of spruce have been destroyed over the last several decades by a native pest, the spruce-bark beetle, which thrived during a series of warmer-than-average summers. "Everything that could be killed was," said Ed Berg, an ecologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, during a tour of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, where patches of ghostlike dead spruce still stand. Historically, noted Berg, a cycle of several warmer years followed by cooler ones has kept these kinds of outbreaks at bay. But during this massive infestation, the typically warm summers were even hotter, and the normally cooler winters were weaker. "The cycle is still there," said Berg, "but everything is amped up."
Spruce-bark-beetle outbreaks have happened before, but this is an extreme example. Still, Bernstein voices some skepticism that this kind of pest infestation can be attributed directly to global warming. "Climate change could be a factor, but there are a lot of other factors when you talk about pest infestations," he cautions.
Other changes in the wildlife refuge suggest that it's drying out. Coring samples tell scientists that for nearly 14,000 years, the peat wetlands have been dominated by sphagnum moss. Walking through these fens is much like traversing a giant trampoline: If you jump up and down, 22 feet of spongy moss bounces beneath your feet. But in the last several decades -- for the first time in thousands of years -- some shrubs have started taking root in the fens, and trees are crowding in around the perimeter. That may not seem like such a problem to the casual observer, but in the big picture, says Berg, it's a drastic change that signifies a serious decline in the ecosystem's water supply.
A choice
Bernstein, who previously worked on environmental issues for Mobil, sees himself as a centrist in the spectrum of opinion concerning climate change. And overall, he takes a much more optimistic view than, say, the movie An Inconvenient Truth.
"We are going to see climate-change impacts," says Bernstein. "There's just no way that the world can turn around its economic system quickly enough at this point to avoid some significant change. But I don't belong to the catastrophe school. I think the Jim Hansens and Al Gores of the world" -- Hansen is a NASA scientist who's been very outspoken about catastrophic climate change -- "It may be necessary for them to be out there screaming disaster to get action, but I think the reality is that the impact's going to be a lot smaller than you would be led to believe.
"Because the assumption that goes into those [worst-case-scenario] impacts is that the world sits around and does nothing, at least until 2100. And that's no longer a valid assumption. You've got a small portion of the world that is very serious about this; you've got a larger portion of the world that is thinking seriously about it. So things are going to happen. And a scenario that says we sit around until 2100 just doesn't make sense."
Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, began issuing serious warnings about climate change -- including testifying before Congress -- in the late 1980s. Since then, the nation's carbon-dioxide emissions have ballooned by nearly 20 percent, and global emissions have climbed 34 percent. Meanwhile, the Bush administration declined to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and China -- now experiencing a tremendous growth spurt fueled in part by coal -- has surpassed the United States as the world's No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases.
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Global warming or no, it's hard to wrap your brain around something as amorphous as carbon dioxide. To make it more tangible, here are the top three point sources of carbon-dioxide emissions in Western North Carolina and figures on how many tons of heat-trapping gases they're spewing into the air every year.
The following list is based on 2004 Environmental Protection Agency data compiled in the agency's Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database. Greenhouse-gas equivalencies were calculated using an EPA emissions calculator that can be found at www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy-resources/calculator.html.
Who: Duke Power Co.
What: Cliffside 780 megawatt coal-fired power plant (soon to be expanded)
Where: On the border of Cleveland and Rutherford counties
Annual CO2 emissions: 3,642,271.4 tons.
According to the EPA's calculator, a facility would have to burn an estimated 17,254 rail cars' worth of coal to emit this much CO2. It's the same amount that would be emitted by 605,167 passenger vehicles driving 11,856 miles per year. In order to offset the emissions from a single year, you'd have to plant 84,723,407 tree seedlings and grow them for 10 years.
Who: Progress Energy Carolinas
What: Skyland's 837 megawatt coal-fired power plant
Where: Buncombe County
Annual CO2 emissions: 2,394,971.8 tons.
To emit this much CO2, a facility would have to burn an estimated 11,346 rail cars' worth of coal. It's the equivalent of 397,927 passenger vehicles each driving 11,856 miles per year. To offset one year's emissions, you'd have to plant 55,709,770 tree seedlings and grow them for 10 years.
Who: Blue Ridge Paper Products
What: Canton's coal-fueled paper mill
Where: Haywood County
Annual CO2 emissions: 139,940.5 tons.
A facility would have to burn an estimated 663 rail cars' worth of coal to emit this much CO2. It's roughly equivalent to 23,251 passenger vehicles each driving 11,856 miles per year. In order to offset one year's emissions, you'd have to plant 3,255,176 tree seedlings and grow them for 10 years.
Hansen recently traveled to Kent, England, to testify on behalf of activists who had defaced a power plant to protest global warming. "You should try to do things through the democratic process, but we really are getting to an emergency situation," Hansen was quoted as saying. "We can't continue to build more coal-fired power plants that do not capture CO2 if we hope to solve the problem."
As Ekwurzel puts it, "Really, it's a choice of how hot the planet's going to be, and how much sea-level rise we'll have. ... The largest uncertainties going forward are our activities."
Alaska is almost two-and-a-half times the size of Texas, and all of it -- snow-capped peaks, jagged coastline, humpbacks in the ocean and moose grazing along a bike trail -- seems to exist on a grander scale. Face to face with the Aialik Glacier, watching portions of that astounding tower of ice calve with a roar and spill into the sea, one tends to feel small and insignificant. It seems far easier to imagine perishing in the harsh Alaskan environment than to envision having any sort of effect on it. Yet collectively, that seems to be exactly what we're doing.
Acting locally
Meanwhile, back in Western North Carolina, a severe drought has been in effect for more than a year now, and the French Broad River has dipped to its lowest level in more than a century. Is the drought a direct result of climate change?
It's tough to say, responds Shein of the National Climatic Data Center. The current drought ranks among the most significant on record for the region, and it comes at a time of generally rising temperatures, but it's not the worst one ever. "We had an even worse one back in 2002," notes Shein, referencing the center's data. (That data, by the way, has been in increasing demand as people have become more aware of the reality of climate change. Shein says the center has had a much higher volume of requests for weather and climate figures.)
And as the climate shifts, the region's future rainfall becomes harder to project, says Peterson, who was also a lead author of the IPCC report. "We're very uncertain about how precipitation will change in WNC," he notes. "About half the models are showing an increase, and about half the models are showing a decrease. What we can say is this: If the temperature increases and the precipitation stays the same, then there will be an increase in the amount of evaporation -- so there could be water stress."
But whatever the future brings, Asheville has already made a commitment to taking action. In 2005, then Mayor Charles Worley joined mayors nationwide in agreeing to reduce the carbon footprint stemming from municipal operations by 2 percent per year, and Warren Wilson College has agreed to help the city reach that target. The Southern Energy and Environment Expo, held last month at the WNC Agricultural Center, showcased renewable-energy technologies and green-building materials that are starting to catch on in the region. A-B Tech's business-incubator program is helping green entrepreneurs develop clean technologies and bring them to market, and companies such as the Fletcher-based Appalachian Energy, which sells solar power systems, are already well-established. A host of local nonprofit organizations, such as the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and the WNC Alliance, are also working on climate-change issues.
When it comes to reducing carbon-dioxide emissions, energy efficiency gives "far away the biggest bang for the buck," says Bernstein, whose work with the IPCC focused on climate-change mitigation. A number of efforts -- including the city of Asheville's decision to hire a sustainability coordinator and the INSULATE! program launched by Warren Wilson's Environmental Leadership Center -- have begun working toward that end. Meanwhile, Asheville members of Rising Tide, an international activist network, have sought to shed light on the urgency of climate change via less conventional means, such as locking themselves to construction equipment at the site of Duke Energy's Cliffside power plant in Rutherford County.
Yet there's still much work to be done, both on the local level and beyond. "We've squandered eight years going backward," sputters SEE Expo founder Ned Doyle. "Eight years have gone by, and we're worse off than we were in 2000. We are at a significant point.
"We know we have solutions," he continues. "We just have to employ them, and we need to do it now. I'm sick of waiting."
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San Antonio • When Paul Millsap was benched for the entire fourth quarter of a game in late December, he was asked whether the coaching decision upset him.
"What you think?" he responded. "I'll let you answer that."
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But after being benched for the final 14:47 of the Utah Jazz's 100-93 loss at Houston on Wednesday, Millsap found himself faced with the same question at Thursday morning's practice.
"It's tough for me not to play at all, period," he said. "I want to be on the court at all times."
Starting point guard Mo Williams, who also did not play in the fourth quarter, said he was "absolutely" fine with the move.
Millsap, in the final season of a four-year contract with the Jazz, was left on the bench as Derrick Favors closed the game. Favors' numbers — five points, three rebounds and three blocks in 22 minutes — paled when compared with Millsap's 16 points, four rebounds and two steals in 25 minutes. However, the burgeoning backup was part of a resurgent unit that cut a 26-point deficit to five against the Rockets. Favors was part of a group that included Al Jefferson, Gordon Hayward, Alec Burks and Marvin Williams that coach Tyrone Corbin praised for a defense that, while it made mistakes, "it wasn't as many times as the group before."
Millsap described himself as "positive by nature" but was clearly troubled by the reduced role. He is third on the team in minutes per game at 30.2, and has spent more time on the floor this season than every player with the exception of Jefferson.
But the second-round pick turned franchise cornerstone seemed Thursday resigned to a change.
"Obviously," he said, "it's going to be that way. So I got to live with it."
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Given his stated willingness to adjust his lineups however necessary in search of a winning combination, it came as little surprise when Corbin said Thursday that he may consider the one that closed the loss in Houston.
Just not yet.
A lineup that included Favors, Hayward and Burks would no doubt please Jazz fans clamoring for bigger roles for young players, but Corbin said he would not pull the trigger on something so dramatic for Friday's game against the Spurs.
"Not right now," he said. "Not for tomorrow, but we considered it. That's going to be where we are. We've got to play the group that you feel right now is going to give you a chance right now. They played their butt off to get us back in the game."
That lineup would mean starting games without a traditional point guard, a move that would no doubt send an unpleasant message to a locker room that includes three of them: Mo Williams,Jamaal Tinsley and Earl Watson.
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Beta Cell Function Tests Over Time In Patients With T2dm Randomized To Metformin Or Rosiglitazone
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether markers of b-cell function can predict changes in B-cell function over time in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) randomized to treatment with metformin or rosiglitazone.
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Drug: Rosiglitazone Drug: Metformin |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Pharmacodynamics Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Diagnostic |
Official Title: | Analyzing Beta Cell Function Tests Over Time In Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Randomized To Metformin Or Rosiglitazone |
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- This study will examine whether biomarkers of B-cell function measured early in the study (1, 3, and/or 6 months) will predict long-term changes in B-cell function (as represented by HOMA-B).
Enrollment: | 29 |
Study Start Date: | January 2006 |
Study Completion Date: | October 2007 |
The study terminated on 17-Jul-07 due to concerns about long-term cardiovascular safety of Avandia and slow patient enrollment. There were no specific safety issues raised within the trial.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 45 Years to 70 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female with type diabetes mellitus (diagnosed via ADA criteria), newly diagnosed or treatment-naive (other than diet and exercise) and HbA1c range of 7 to 9%.
- 45-70 years of age.
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- Evidence or history of clinically significant hematological, renal, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, hepatic, psychiatric, neurologic, or allergic disease (excluding untreated, asymptomatic, seasonal allergies).
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Other Study ID Numbers: | A9001289 |
Study First Received: | January 25, 2006 |
Last Updated: | October 9, 2008 |
Health Authority: | Israel: Ministry of Health |
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Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Glucose Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases Endocrine System Diseases |
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About 40 students at Hampden-Sydney College shouted racial slurs, threw bottles and set off fireworks outside the Minority Student Union within an hour of President Barack Obama's re-election.
President Chris Howard reported the early Wednesday unrest in an email to parents Thursday. He is the tiny college's first African-American president.
Howard said the incident also included threats of physical violence.
Members of the Minority Student Union notified campus leaders and police of the gathering outside their house. An investigation is under way.
The racially tinged incident is the second reported protest sparked by Obama's re-election. A protest at the University of Mississippi in Jackson late Tuesday involved about 400 people who shouted racial slurs.
On Wednesday night, hundreds of Ole Miss students, faculty and staff held a vigil in response to the protest on election night. Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones says the school and police are investigating the incident after making two arrests.


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An adaptation of a commandment of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain" (two).
Note: Figuratively, to do more than what is needed.
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