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Signal vs. Noise in Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Ann Marie Lipinski
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Organize the Noise: Tweeting Live from the Boston Manhunt
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Mapping the Twitterverse
Reporting on Radicalization
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New Challenges, New Rewards for Journalists on Social Media
By Borja Echevarría de la Gándara
Curation Is the Key to Bringing Social Media and Journalism Together
By Ludovic Blecher
The (New) Industry Standard: Making Citizen Broadcasters into Citizen Journalists
By Betsy O'Donovan
"A Marathon Without a Finish"
By David Abel
"The Story of a Lifetime"
Interview by David L. Marcus
Social Media and the Boston Bombings
By Hong Qu
Journalism & the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Jonathan Seitz
Niemans Cover the Boston Marathon Bombs
By Jan Gardner
Terror at Home, Abroad
Writing Naked: Donald Hall on Poetry and Metaphor in Journalism
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Interview by Mike Pride
Writing Naked: Donald Hall on Poetry and Metaphor in Journalism (Video)
Interview by Mike Pride
Poetry: The News that Stays News
By Stephen Burt
Staggering Drunks and Fiscal Cliffs: How Bloomberg Businessweek Uses Metaphors in the News
By Peter Coy
Face to Face with the Enemy: Photos from the World's Wars
By Karim Ben Khelifa
Stop the Press: Rupert Murdoch, the Leveson Inquiry, and Press Freedom in the U.K.
By Katie King
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined: Nicco Mele on the End of Big News
By Nicco Mele
Change Starts Small: The Texas Tribune Chooses Efficiency Over Size
By Kate Galbraith
Calm at the Kitchen Table: A Start-up Tracks Murder in Washington, D.C.
By Laura Amico
Playing Big: From the Chicago Tribune to Bloomberg News, Big Organziations Can Do Big Work
By Robert Blau
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From Shoe Leather to Big Data: ProPublica and the Future of Watchdog Journalism
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Ask The Right Questions: MuckRock Makes FOIA Requests Easy
By Michael Morisy
Truth or Consequences: Where is Watchdog Journalism Today?
By Dan Froomkin
No Profession for Lone Wolves: Watchdog Reporters Need to Work Together
By Stuart Watson
Cross-Border Collaboration in Watchdog Journalism
By Stefan Candea
Let the Readers Know: How Journalists and the Public Can Work Together
By Ken Armstrong
In Korea, Watchdog Journalism Worth Watching on Television
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Do the Right Thing: Watchdog Reporters Handle a Bombing in Philadelphia
By William Marimow
Our Communities Crave Watchdog Journalism
By Raquel Rutledge
Starting Arguments: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Political Cartoonist on the Right to be Offensive
By Mark Fiore
Grave New World: Evgeny Morozov's Dire Warnings on the Reach of Google and Facebook
By David L. Marcus
The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico
By Alfredo Corchado
The Year of Living Safely, Away from the Drug Wars of Mexico (Video Interview)
Putting the Pieces Together: An E-Book Memoir of a Bus Accident in Israel
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The Associated Press's Kathleen Carroll: "You can have it all if you define what it is you want"
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Photojournalists on Covering the Bosnian War
By Gary Knight
Rediscovering Latin American Jewry, From Peru to Israel
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Latin American Journalism on the Transnational Express
By Carlos Eduardo Huertas
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Grady Clay on the Future of Journalism and Cities: "No One Can Stay in the Center"
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Murrey Marder, Pathfinder
By Bill Kovach
The Legacy of Pulitzer Prize Winner Anthony Lewis, covering "a Dark and Ominous Time"
By Allister Sparks
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By Stanley Forman
Half a Revolution: The Future of Feminism is About Men
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Murrey Marder, Pathfinder
By Bill Kovach
Murrey Marder, a former Washington Post reporter and founder of the Nieman Watchdog Project,
died on March 11, 2013
, at age 93. Former Nieman Curator Bill Kovach, NF '89, reflects on Marder's legacy:
Murrey Marder
The pop historians have filled pages of praise for Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly, his fellow creator of "See It Now," as the ones who exposed Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy as the malicious liar that he was. But the pop historians were and are wrong—dead wrong. Murrey Marder was the pathfinder.
Murrey drove the first nails into McCarthy's political coffin. And he did it without the flash and pseudo drama of television or the deft prose of scriptwriters but with quiet, meticulous, careful and fair reporting. He did it, in fact, after being alerted to the broad and deep threat of a virulent current of anti-Communist sentiment flowing though the United States during his year (1949-1950) as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Murrey had been covering the trial of Alger Hiss, charged but not convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, a trial that accented the opening of the Cold War before he came to Harvard.
He told me several times about that year and what it meant to him but the story he repeated most often was of a lecture by John Fairbank, an outstanding China scholar, in which the professor interrupted his lecture to read from a local newspaper article about a "Mr. X, a noted Communist sympathizer." "Who knows who Mr. X is," Murrey would recall Fairbank asking. "He could be you or he could be me. In fact, Mr. X is me!"
The Hiss trial and that lecture, Murrey said, sent him back to what he called his "Red Beat" to expunge the blot of that kind of journalism from newspaper pages. Joe McCarthy gave him his first opportunity and he tackled it with a vengeance.
Foremost among reporters Murrey demanded McCarthy state his slanderous charges against public officials he accused of Communist leanings; that he explain what his charges meant and what evidence he had to support them. He even insisted at each new barrage of charges that McCarthy explain what was the outcome of previous charges.
Editors despaired of getting Murrey to get his story in and literally had to order him to stop writing. Pressmen came to know him well also for he would often follow his copy back to the typesetters to make sure they didn't edit things out before the presses ran. Murrey Marder was the consummate journalist and one who took his responsibility to seek out the truth seriously no matter how long it took.
Bill Kovach
, a 1989 Nieman Fellow, was curator of the Nieman Foundation from 1989 to 2000.
Nieman Reports articles by Murrey Marder:
What Happens When Journalists Don't Probe
From Summer 2003
This is Watchdog Journalism
From Summer 1998
Arrogance Wins? American Journalism's Identity Crisis
From Fall 1998
The Press and the Presidency: Silencing the Watchdog
From Spring 2008
More Information:
Murrey Marder: "Utterly Tenacious About the Truth"
by Charles Lewis
Murrey Marder, a "Steady and Wise Watchdog"
by Morton Mintz, NF'64
Obituary for Murrey Marder in The Washington Post
Marder's Bio at Nieman Watchdog
Learn more about the Nieman Watchdog Project
Watch Marder discuss what it was like to
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Route climbs the largest face on the largest single feature at Monolith Blocks. It lies to the right of the prominent 5.4 chimney route #10 page 199 3d Edition "Climbers Guide to Devil's Lake" and to the left and around the corner of route #8 (called "The Open Wide Burger" on MP.com). Climb starts by climbing lower groove at wall base center to gain a horizontal fracture and slopng foot ledges. Angle left here and use small horizontal edges and side pull weaknesses to gain the crux of the climb at the point where the climber passes through the visible small overhanging band. Gain a sizable flake while moving right towards the route's upper crack. I think this is a height dependent type of face climb. It may be 5.11b to a tall lanky climber and 5.11+ to shorter climbers. The name is a reference to a "Joe Satriani" album from the late 1980's. Am I wrong about that?
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Help us Help families in Honduras with Sustainable Harvest International
Posted on | July 28, 2014 | 1 Comment
Can you believe that 2014 is lucky number seven for Passports With Purpose? From schools to libraries to homes to wells, from Cambodia to Haiti to Mali, there's been so much goodness that's come of out our little online fundraiser. Who would have thought that bloggers, who spend their days working in the ephemera that is the internet, could make a difference in such concrete ways?
We're very proud of all that work. But we're not looking back – oh, no, quite the opposite. In fact, today Passports With Purpose is only looking ahead.
We're happy to announce our 2014 partnership with Sustainable Harvest International
Farming in Central America has too often meant practices that lead to environmental degradation and endemic poverty. Since 1997, Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) has been working in the region to help family farmers not only grow their own food but to understand how to do so in a way that protects the ecosystems they live in and prevent tropical deforestation.
The 2014 Passports With Purpose fundraiser will support SHI's efforts in Honduras. And this year, instead of setting a fundraising goal we're offering the following challenge:
For each $5000 we raise, Sustainable Harvest can help a family in Honduras for five years.
That's especially meaningful because the approach that Sustainable Harvest uses is meant to be long-term, to make sure the programs take root in the communities they serve. SHI applies varied strategies that see them partnering with the communities, developing solutions together and then implementing those solutions, always with an eye toward independence and the sustainability that's in their very name. We will be providing money that buys not only tools and supplies but also the necessary time to establish real roots and develop real solutions.
The sky is the limit – the more money we raise, the more lives we can touch.
We'll be sharing more about SHI in the days to come, but please feel free to visit their website, follow them on Twitter, or like them on Facebook to learn more.
Helping $10 at a time
Our approach to raising money has always been primarily grassroots and driven by the online community. Bloggers either purchase or procure a prize from a sponsor and we auction off the prizes online. Every $10 buys a chance to win something fabulous from a resort vacation to a camera to a stylish new suitcase. We give every dime that goes into the prize pot to Sustainable Harvest International.
We are the traveler blogger's fundraiser, and this year that is more true than ever – when the Passports with Purpose board was trying to decide what charitable project to fund, we turned to our 2013 participating bloggers and asked them to share their what type of project, and in what location, they'd be most excited to fund. This project was the overwhelming favorite.
You can make a difference
It seems like there is plenty of bad news to go around of late, perhaps even more than usual. But the next time you see a report about the crushing poverty in Central America that is driving women and children to flee to the United States in record numbers remember that there is something you can do.
Are you a travel blogger? Sign up to participate.
Do you work for a company that makes matching donations? Start making inquiries now and plan to include Passports With Purpose in your end-of-year giving.
Want to sponsor our efforts? Let us know.
And no matter what role you want to play, stay up-to-date with all our news by following us on Twitter and Facebook. Pass along our news to the world using the hashtag #PWP.
We can't wait to roll up our sleeves and get started working to raise money that will improve both lives and the ecosystem in Honduras – we hope that you'll join us along the way. Thanks, as always for your help and support. We couldn't do it without you.
Making Progress in Mali
Posted on | June 9, 2014 | 1 Comment
Last fall, we raised $84,000 for buildOn to construct schools in two villages in rural Mali. We are excited to share that the villages broke ground for their schools in May and should soon be complete. We are also excited to share a little more about each village and the children you are helping to educate.
One school is being built in Menie, a village that didn't previously have any kind of school building. Menie was founded about 800 years ago in the Sikasso region of Mali. Villagers raise grains, peanuts and cotton and earn income from small trade and animal breeding. In the past, children had to walk six kilometers each way to get to school, so the construction of a school in Menie itself will have a huge impact.
Two students who will attend the new school are 11-year-old Lassina Togola and 14-year-old Mamou Togola. Lassina is the first in his family to attend school. His favorite subject is math and he wants to be a policeman when he grows up. Mamou's mother went to school through grade 3, but her father never attended. Her favorite subjects are history and geography and she wants to be a teacher.
The other school is being constructed in the village of Folona, also in the Sikasso region of Mali. Villagers raise crops such as peanuts, corn, millet and rice and earn income from gardening and raising animals. Folona currently has a school that looks like this:
The school we have funded will replace the one above. Currently 125 students attend the school – 58 boys and 67 girls – and three teachers teach classes.
Toma Bagayoko is a 14-year-old who is the first in his family to attend school. Currently in grade 6, his favorite subject is biology and he hopes to be a doctor. Sali Traore is a 15-year-old in Folona who is also in grade 6. Both of her parents are literate, but her father dropped out of school in grade 7. Her favorite subject is math and she hopes to be a math teacher when she is older.
Thanks to all of you, Toma, Sali, Lassina, Mamou and all of their classmates will have the opportunity to further their educations and fulfill their dreams.
We're Growing Our Team – and We Need Volunteers!
Posted on | May 13, 2014 | 1 Comment
Do you have a passion for doing good and a desire to be involved in the biggest, longest-running travel blogger fundraiser on the Internet? Do you want to work with a great team of like-minded individuals? Or have you ever wondered just what goes on behind the scenes here in Passports-with-Purpose Land?
If so, we may have a job for you. We're looking for some new volunteer team members to help us plan and execute our 2014 fundraiser.
So just what are we looking for?
Although the work can be done from any location and will be spread out through the year, volunteers should be available to help during our 2014 fundraiser from December 1, 2014 until December 17, 2014. In addition, we will be asking all volunteers to commit to staying on the team through at least the end of January, 2015.
Here's what we're looking for:
Social Media coordinator: This person will be responsible for coordinating our social media strategy from the time he or she signs on through the end of 2014. In addition to spreading the good word about PwP, we need to engage with our audience and share news about our doings. Since all of our fundraising happens online, this person must be available for the entirety of our fundraiser from December 1, 2014 until December 17, 2014. Requirements: Outgoing personality and great Twitter, Facebook, and Google + skills, with a touch of Pinterest and Instagram ability as well.
Technical consultant/developer: This person will help maintain and update the PwP website including the prize catalogue and all forms on the site. We're looking for someone with strong WordPress administration skills including experience with theme modifications, plug-ins compatibility, installation and management. Competency with SQL, CSS and HTML would also be great.
PR and Sponsorship assistant: This person will assist in communicating with potential and existing sponsors. The ideal candidate will have great communication skills as well as experience working on brand campaigns and contacts within the travel industry.
If any of these jobs sounds like it would be right up your alley, please fill out our Contact Form and let us know – we'll be in touch. And if you're interested in joining us as a blogger or sponsor in 2014, the links below take you to our blogger sign-up form and our sponsorship information page. (Bloggers should remember that even if they have signed up in the past, they need to fill out the form once again for 2014.)
Sign up as a Passports with Purpose blogger.
Learn about joining Passports with Purpose as a sponsor.
Help Us Find Our 2014 Charity!
Posted on | May 5, 2014 | No Comments
Are you involved with a charity that does great work in developing countries?
Have you volunteered with an amazing nonprofit organization that could use our help?
Do you otherwise know of an organization that would be a great fit as the charitable beneficiary for Passports with Purpose in 2014?
The deadline to apply to be this year's charitable beneficiary is May 15, 2014 – less than two weeks away!
Past projects we have supported include building libraries in Zambia, constructing water wells in Haiti and, most recently, building two schools in Mali.
The 2014 fundraiser will take place December 2-19 and will once again be entirely online. We'll be in touch soon regarding blogger involvement, including prize procurement, but right now we need to take care of the important task of selecting the organization and project we will support in 2014!
The charitable organization we select:
- Must have a record of at least three years with previous success;
- Must be able to provide us with regular updates before, during, and after the execution of the project so that we can verify that the funds are used properly.
- Must be based in the United States;
- Must not have a religious affiliation;
- Must be able to accept donations via PayPal.
Additionally, the projects we choose to fund typically:
- Are tangible projects that have a start and finish date and provide high impact to an entire community;
- Directly benefit women and children;
- Are in developing nations because we can make a larger impact with fewer dollars; and
- Support basic human needs such as water, food, shelter, and education.
Interested organizations should submit an application no later than May 15, 2014. Questions? Let us know and we're happy to answer them!
Traveling with a Purpose – New York Travel Festival
Posted on | April 22, 2014 | No Comments
The PwP team is excited to be a part of the New York Travel Festival, an event for tech-savvy, immersive travelers taking place April 26-27, 2014. Our very own Michelle Duffy will be speaking on a panel on Saturday, April 26 at 2pm called "Traveling with a Purpose."
Michelle will be joined by folks from The Cultureist's Culture Collection, MCW, and Learning AFAR.
For more details, visit New York Travel Festival at http://nytravfest.com/.
Visit us at the Women in Travel Summit
Posted on | March 3, 2014 | No Comments
Will you be at the Women in Travel Summit in Chicago later this month? If so, keep an eye out for the Passports with Purpose table to learn more about how you can get involved with the 2014 fundraiser. After raising $84,000 for buildOn to construct two schools in Mali last fall, we are excited to kick things off for this year!
The Women in Travel Summit is the first conference of its kind – bringing together female travel bloggers and brands at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago March 14-16. Three content tracks target the traveler, the writer and the entrepreneur and social events like a mentor breakfast and networking power hour provide plenty of opportunities to connect with fellow bloggers and travel brands. Our very own Katie Aune will be speaking at the conference about volunteering abroad and will be staffing the PwP table throughout the weekend. If you're there, be sure to stop by and say hello!
For more information about the Women in Travel Summit, visit www.witsummit.com.
Calling charities: Applications for Passports with Purpose 2014 are open
Posted on | February 24, 2014 | No Comments
Two schools in Mali.Five wells in Haiti. Two libraries in Zambia. A village in India. A school in Cambodia.
And of course, the most important thing: Hundreds of lives impacted.
The entire Passports With Purpose team is so happy to have worked with our bloggers and sponsors to raise money for all of these projects over the past six years. But we've never been ones to spend a lot of time looking back. In fact, we're eagerly looking forward and asking the following question:
Who will our 2014 charitable beneficiary be?
We've already chosen dates for our 2014 fundraiser, which will take place from December 2 until December 19. It will take place entirely online – learn more about exactly how it works.
Here's what we look for in our charitable projects:
- Tangible projects that have a start and finish date and provide high impact to an entire community.
- Projects that directly benefit women and children .
- Projects in developing nations because we can make a larger impact with fewer dollars.
- Projects that support basic human needs such as water, food, shelter, and education have been a hallmark of our efforts since 2008.
Additionally, we require some things of the charities we work with. They must have a record of at least three years with previous success. They must be able to provide us with regular updates before, during, and after the execution of the project so that we can verify that the funds are used properly. And they must be based in the United States, not have a religious affiliation, and accept donations via PayPal.
If you've got a project that you think would be a good fit, please submit an application. All applications are due by May 15, 2014.
Got questions? Please feel free to let us know.
Choosing a charitable project is a real labor of love for our team – we look forward to seeing how you'd like to change the world.
You funded two schools in Mali!
Posted on | December 10, 2013 | No Comments
We love this day here at Passports With Purpose virtual HQ because are hearts are so full of amazement at the generosity of our donors and sponsors. Thanks to you, we raised more than $84,000, which means buildOn will be able to construct two schools and two adult literacy programs in southern Mali.
Let's just bask in that for a moment shall we?
We will be drawing and notifying our winners on December 16; good luck to everyone who entered. And although the time is over when your ten dollars entered you to win a prize, you can still make a cash donation. One hundred percent of the money you give will go to buildOn toward the construction of a third school. Donations are tax deductible.
A huge round of thanks to everyone who made this fundraiser possible – to all our wonderful travel bloggers, all of our sponsors including the dozens of companies that donated prizes, and our donors. It's because of you that we are able to make a difference in the lives of hundreds of families.
It seems appropriate to end with a quote from Nelson Mandela, who cared so deeply about the lives of children on his native continent: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Photo courtesy of buildOn
We believe that the best way to "show" is to "do."
Posted on | December 6, 2013 | No Comments
PwP sponsor, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide, shares this message. With four days left in the fundraiser, check out these prizes here.
DK Eyewitness Travel Guides publishes illustrated guidebooks for travelers who not only want to see a place, but also to understand its history, art and culture. The desire to learn, to discover more, underpins every guidebook we make. And so when we heard about Passports with Purpose and their campaign with buildOn to build three new schools in Mali, we knew we needed to become a sponsor.
Over the past four years, Passports with Purpose has raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars for those in need – providing livestock to families, clean drinking water in Haiti, and libraries in Zambia, among other projects. We are inspired by the overwhelming support, generosity and drive of the travel blogging community that, year after year, makes the fund-raising efforts of Passports with Purpose a success, and we are proud to join in.
For twenty years, the motto of DK Eyewitness Travel Guides has been to show travelers the world, and we believe that the best way to "show" is to "do." We hope you'll join us this year as we do more together.
To donate to Passports with Purpose, visit here.
Best odds at the pricier end of our catalogue
Posted on | December 5, 2013 | No Comments
So you've seen what our best odds prizes are - the ones that you've got the best chance of winning. Well here's another list. These are things you wouldn't run out to the mall and buy, but for just a bit more than your morning latte you can bid on them with a great chance to win. What are you waiting for?
- One Vail Resorts Epic Season Pass
- Three nights at Kingfisher Bay Resort Fraser Island Australia
- Luxury stay in Niagara Falls
- Two-night stay for two at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess – Arizona
- Seven-night stay in a Global Resort Home in Kissimmee – Florida
- Wimdu accommodation voucher
- Two-night stay at Keswick Hall at Monticello Charlottesville – Virginia
- Two-night getaway for four at any Great Wolf Lodge
- Angkor Trails – 9-Day Small Group Tour
- Three-night stay at the Connemara Language and Cultural Center – Ireland
Click the prizes to get more specific details or go right to the donate page. But either way – know that you win no matter what. Because $10 at a time you're helping us build schools in Mali.


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Must have larger room facing front, otherwise the rooms were small with no view.
See previous comment. Breakfast was very basic (cold eggs), in an unpleasant room.
Lovely area, low rise the Desk Clerk who worked the 3 to 11 shift was excellent, told us great places to eat & even found a Catholic Church for us.
Coffee, Breakfast wasn't great
Very clean and spacious room. Comfortable bed. Great shower! Easy parking
Pretty noisy-street noise- made it hard to sleep.
This our second time staying at this hotel and have to say. Our first stay was better. We didn't get the room wanted this so next time I guess I have to be more specific when booking.
We didn't get the room we wanted.
Location of hotel. View. Very comfy beds. Size of bathroom. Plenty of parking. Friendliness of staff.
Cheese omelets. Very casual dressed front desk staff and lack of grooming.
Friendly, easy to drive to off the 8 freeway . 3 waste baskets in room. Patio
Wish would have requested harbor view.
The staff was very friendly, and the room was nice. It was across the street from the Yacht Harbor, so it was fun to walk down there in the morning and look at all the boats.
I'm not sure if it was just the location of our room or if all the rooms are this way, but we could hear everything outside. We were located right above the pool and we could clearly hear everyone who was out there playing, we also heard all of the traffic at night.
Proximity to harbour and top restaurants nearby
Little bit of road noise
The room was nice and the location was perfect for us
Bathroom was too small and there was some mold on floor and in shower
Staff very helpful/friendly. Walking distance to public transportation and marina.
Breakfast: room always crowded; awful little omelets stuffed with velveta. Pool: smallish, in front on street.
convenience to airport and walking distance to harbor and restaurants
my room faced the street and it was noisy all night
Paper thin walls, you could everything from ever room around you. A room with a view as I ordered was not very much of a view
Few space for the breakfast The breakfast was a bit poor
View, access to restaurants, access to Seaworld, quality of breakfast,
Noise, left expensive child sweatshirt behind and it wasn't turned in!
bed was comfortable, slept well
ice machine out, ran out of breakfast, dining area bathroom...out of order, water fountain near pool...out of order, noisy location, room was small and cramped. Breakfast sitting area too small, had no place to sit.
The hotel was a decent size but had a very nice local, smaller, cozier feel. Breakfast was very complete with your typical muffins, toast and cold cereal and limited fruit but also included hot omelettes, potatoes and pancakes Parking was great too. A lot in back and a lot underground. The pool was perfect, small but not crowded and they had towels for you. The lobby and elevators were nice. Restaurants were just across the street. I would stay here again. Anka, although only communicated with her via email, was very helpful and attentive.
The hotel only had two ice machines and one was out of order. The one that did work was over used and sometimes would only give you a cup of ice or none at all. Wi-Fi was very bad. It was painfully slow and would search for Best Western and still not get on. Because it is on a busy street, the traffic noise was pretty high.
adequate breakfast and nice location and clean rooms and bedding
room was a little small and there was a lot of noise from the street and the airport
Staff seem uninterested (maybe need a job change?)
The bed was comftable and the room just a perfect size. They also picked me up from the airport.
I could only book in after 3.
Very good location and friendly staff.
Wi-Fi didn't work well.
Very nice breakfast, nice pizza restaurant across the street. A bit outside of the city, but close to the harbor and located in a nice neighborhood.
The WiFi was almost non-existent in our room. Had to sit in the closet to get reception.
Close to airport
Didn't get a harbor balcony view, even though I made a reservation 10 months ago. Should have stayed in hotel circle for the difference in $ I spent.:(
Close to harbor. Good seafood restaraunts nearby. Decent breakfast. Staff helpful in directions to local attractions.
All five pillows very lumpy. Parking stalls very narrow.
Plenty of parking, nice pool, and good central location. Our room was cleaned up when we got back from our activities, and nobody woke us up asking to clean it.
Front desk lady was not helpful. Beds were a little hard but pillows and bedding was nice. Shower head was messed up and the water pressure was poor. Parking spaces in garage are very small.
I did not get the room I booked and the staff acted like he didn't care and told this was my room.I will not book there again.
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Everything is better by the brick oven…including fundraising! At Bertucci's, we are dedicated to building relationships within our communities and supporting our local organizations.
We are pleased to offer you a unique and delicious way to raise funds for your school. Bertucci's Dining for Dollars program is a great way to raise money while sharing time with friends and family and enjoying our Brick Oven Specialties cooked in our open kitchens. When you hold your fundraising event at our Bertucci's location, 15% of sales from participants will be donated to your school.
How does it work?
We will work with you to determine an appropriate date to hold your Dining for Dollars program. We will then provide you with a flyer for you to distribute to your contacts, friends, and family. This flyer helps to promote your events and acts as a ticket for your special guests. 15% of all sales (carryout / dine in) associated with the flyer will go towards your fundraising goal. The actual reproduction of the flyers and promotion of the event will be your responsibility. To ensure the smooth success of your event, we will host Dining for Dollars on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday evenings. Sales will be tallied the following day and we will write a check for 15% of participant's sales.
How do you set up a Bertucci's "Dining for Dollars" Fundraising nights?
Please call or stop by to speak with a member of our management team and we will help you plan and schedule your event.
We look forward to providing our signature Brick Oven Specialties for your event and working with you to reach your fundraising goals!
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David Evens
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A person with knowledge of the contract says Davis and the San Francisco 49ers have agreed on a five-year extension through the 2019 season worth more than $37 million.||||||| The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press on Friday because the team had yet to announce the deal. The contract totals $37.295 million, with $17 million guaranteed. The 23-year-old tackle has started 16 games in each of his first three years. He helped the 49ers win consecutive NFC West titles and reach the Super Bowl last season - a 34-31 loss to Baltimore.


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The IRS says people who bought airline tickets on or before July 22 for travel beginning July 23 or after, are entitled to a refund on federal taxes, but how easy it will be to get the money back is up in the air.
The refunds are due because Congress let the taxes expire after a budget showdown last weekend effectively shut down the Federal Aviation Administration.
Until things are resolved, airlines can't collect the taxes on tickets sold after July 23, and the government isn't authorized to collect the taxes on tickets sold before that time if people who bought those tickets travel during the shutdown period.
The IRS is asking airlines to handle the refund process, but they aren't required to, and most are directing customers directly to the IRS, which says it is still working on a procedure for handling refunds.
"Because the IRS has no information about passenger ticket purchases or travel dates, travelers who are unable to obtain a refund from the airline will be required to submit proof of taxes paid and travel dates to the IRS under procedures that are under development," the agency said in a question and answer posting at http://www.irs.gov/.
Several types of federal taxes include a 7.5 percent excise tax on tickets expired, but others are still being collected, including fees for passenger security and local airport construction projects.
JetBlue Airways Corp., based in New York, posted a note on its website telling passengers it would provide refunds upon email request for people traveling within the next seven days. It advised customers to check back later if they are traveling after the seven-day period.
American, Virgin America, United, Continental and Southwest were directing customers to the IRS.
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air posted a note on its website saying it wants to help facilitate the tax refund for customers, and is working on a process to do so. In the meantime, spokeswoman Marianne Lindsey said the airlines are directing people to the IRS.
Most airlines raised fares by the amount of the uncollected taxes, and pocketed the difference, a move that has drawn ire from government officials. The FAA estimated its losses at $30 million a day, most of which is now going to the airlines that have raised fares. Delta Air Lines said it's getting an extra $4 million to $5 million a day.
"They're collecting this money and it's going to their bottom line and I think that is not right," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said at a White House press briefing in Washington. "It's not fair for them to do that, and I made that known to them."
Alaska/Horizon is one of the few airlines that have passed the tax savings onto customers — estimated at $25-$50 per round-trip.
Bookings have been up. Lindsey said the policy of passing the savings on will continue "as long as this goes on."
Virgin America, which competes with Alaska on some routes, is also passing on the tax savings on flights out of Seattle and Mexico.
"Some fares have actually gone down beyond the (tax) discount," said Virgin's Abby Lunardini.


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Two Top 20 offenses will be on display when the Air Force Falcons and Toledo Rockets meet in the 2011 Military Bowl at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. on December 28.
Though both offenses rank in the Top 15 in rushing offense, Rockets junior wide receiver Eric Page, who caught 112 passes for 1.123 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2011, is the rare, game-changing athlete that causes the guys on the field to stop and take notice, writes Patrick Stevens of The Washington Times.
"He has the ability to make you watch the game while you're on the field," Rockets running back Adonis Thomas said. "Sometimes you'll be blocking and you'll hear 'Ohhhh' and hear the crowd reaction, and you turn and look down the field and see No. 12 just breaking free. He's a special player and a great talent."
Air Force boats the nation's sixth-ranked pass defense and will also have the majority of the crowd behind them. Toledo has sold less than 25 percent of their 5,000-ticket allotment, while Air Force were over 10,000 in ticket sales, Frank Schwab of the Colorado Springs Gazette noted in this extensive preview of the Wednesday's game.
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Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
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In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
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Improved Humanized Liver Model for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Therapeutic Transplantation Research
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Public Abstract:
The potential of stem cell biology in regenerative medicine is vast; yet in each organ system, unlocking this potential will require a comprehensive, detailed approach unique to that system or organ. Our lab is dedicated to fully developing all aspects required to bring stem cell therapeutics from the laboratory to clinically useful therapies. We have developed a strategy using embryonic stem (ES) cells differentiated in the laboratory in such a way that that these cells successfully transplant into the liver tissue and function. This process could treat diseases where defective proteins are not made, or made improperly like Hemophilia A and B. Furthermore, if the resident stem cell of the liver can be replaced or augmented, these therapies might be long-term, or even lifelong. However, the biggest roadblock to the clinical testing of these treatments is a proper mouse model, where the liver to be treated responds as a human liver would, when receiving the cell transplants. Only then we can track the human cellular transplant for an adequate duration, and have confidence that the cells are safe and durable. We propose to develop a mouse model, a series of human embryonic stem cells, and strategic genetic changes to achieve the goal of possessing as nearly normal a "humanized" liver as possible. If we are successful in creating a mouse model with the described properties, it is likely that we will learn new information about stem cells in general that could have broader application to stem cell therapeutics in other organs while adding to the understanding of other liver diseases. We believe this model could be produced within the time frame of the award. Our five-year plan would be to specialize in multiple applications where genetically modified stem cells could treat liver based disorders. With development of the model described here, one could follow up with a stem cell based strategy for the treatment of hepatitis C infection. Imagine if viral resistant cells could one day remodel the liver and clear Hepatitis C infection. This could be a one-time treatment for patients with Hepatitis C infection, which is a world wide pandemic. Such lofty goals for liver based stem cell therapeutics begin with a robust humanized liver model.
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Liver Disease is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States. However, a strong case can be made that its impact is greater on the State of California than more prevalent diseases. The death rates are skewed such that the liver disease takes life in its prime. The rank is 7th between the ages of 35 to 45, and 4th between the ages of 45 to 55. Among Native Americans between the ages of 35 to 45 it is the second most common cause of death. Currently liver transplantation is the only viable therapy for life threatening liver diseases, but this modality is very expensive and available to only a fraction of those worldwide that need a transplant. However, the greatest need that may one day be addressed by stem cell therapies is viral hepatitis. Outside the U.S, hepatitis B and C are worldwide pandemics, and these are diseases that affect urban and underprivileged populations disproportionately. Through stem cell technologies, the State of California has the opportunity to develop a cure for these slow killers. Now, there is a benefit California! Since these are chronic viral infections they are very difficult and extremely expensive to treat, even partially. The vast majority of the 350 million with hepatitis B and 170 million people with hepatitis C are in developing regions, and are not likely to benefit from future antiviral therapies and certainly cannot avail themselves to current medical regimens. Eighty percent of these infected individuals will eventually develop life threatening complication of the chronic infection such as cirrhosis, and liver cancer. We are proposing that a stem cell, genetically engineered to be resistant to these viral particles, could become a one-time cure. For this promise to come to fruition, we must master the technologies to safely engraft Human Embryonic Stem Cell derivates into the liver for the diseases that can most directly be treated in this manner.
Review Summary:
This proposal focuses on the development of a stable, humanized liver mouse model. The Principal Investigator (PI) proposes to genetically modify both the human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and the host mouse to generate the model. In the first aim, using hESC, the PI plans to genetically disrupt the function of a gene involved in the innate immune response, to prevent the destruction of xenogeneic cells after transplanted hESC differentiate into hepatocytes. In the second aim, s/he proposes to generate a transgenic mouse line modified so as to allow the creation of a hepatic niche for transplanted hepatocytes of human origin. The PI will engineer a mouse that will have reduced proliferation of endogenous hepatocyte precursor cells because of an altered cell cycle regulator, allowing a competitive advantage to proliferation of transplanted hESC-derived hepatic precursor cells, and repopulation of the human cells in the niche where the endogenous precursors are cell cycle disabled.. The reviewers agreed that the primary goal of this proposal is an important one, as humanized livers in mouse models are a missing tool for predictive toxicology and drug development, but felt that the PI's approach was based on faulty hypotheses. They also questioned the feasibility of the research plan. The reviewers found the PI and the research team qualified to conduct the work described in the proposal. While the reviewers recognized that the ability to humanize the mouse liver using hESCs as a source of hepatocytes would have significant utility for preclinical research, they raised questions about the applicants' approach. Specifically, they criticized the proposal's guiding hypothesis. The hypothesis is that an innate immune response is a critical limiting factor in the repopulation of the mouse liver by human cells. The single paper cited to support this hypothesis has been strongly put into doubt by subsequent reports by other leaders in the field. Thus the immune damage noted in the cited model may be unique to only one mouse strain, or to that strain following the transplantation of human cells. In the absence of independent evidence to the contrary, the proposal's major focus on the technically difficult task of disrupting a gene in hESCs seems misguided. The reviewers also raised significant questions about the project's feasibility. One reviewer wondered how teratoma formation would be monitored and prevented. Other reviewers believed that the overall strategy of the second aim, using over-expression of a cell cycle regulator gene in the mouse liver to give an advantage to proliferation of transplanted hESCs was problematic. They noted several potential issues with this approach. Similar transgenic mice have been created and the data from these animals suggest that the level of expression of the chosen transgene must be carefully regulated, as animals with high transgene copy numbers are not viable. The selection of the genetic locus for transgene expression was also questioned, given that expression at this locus is normally massively downregulated in adult liver, where hESC derivatives will be transplanted to populate the liver stem cell niche. In addition, the reviewers expressed concern that this approach might lead to lethality in the fetal period due to poor liver development. Although the applicants propose investigating inducible expression to get around some of these potential pitfall, an inducible expression strategy would add additional work to a project the reviewers felt was already ambitious for a two-year timeframe. The reviewers found the PI and assembled research team qualified to carry out the proposed research. The PI is an accomplished transplant surgeon and has a good track record with ESC research. Overall, the reviewers did not believe that this proposal addresses significant roadblocks in stem cell research and questioned its feasibility as written.


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Sandhill Crane
Grus canadensis
~80 cm-1.2 m, 3-5 ft
~ 3-6.5 kg, 6.5-14 lbs
~5-6 ft.
Stable to increasing, except for isolated populations (see below),
Grus canadensis canadensis
(Lesser Sandhill)
Grus canadensis tabida
(Greater Sandhill)
Grus canadensis rowani
(Canadian Sandhill)
Grus canadensis pratensis
(Florida Sandhill)
Grus canadensis pulla
(Mississippi Sandhill)
Grus canadensis nesiotes
(Cuban Sandhill)
Grus canadensis pulla
Cites Appendix I & ESA: E
Grus canadensis nesiotes
Cites Appendix I & ESA: E
The different sub-species of Sandhill Crane vary greatly in size and weight. Lesser Sandhills, who breed at more northern latitudes such as the arctic, are the smallest, weighing on average about 6-7 pounds and standing 3-3.5 feet tall. At the other end of the extreme, temperate-nesting Greater Sandhills are the largest sub-species and average 4.5-5 feet tall and 10-14 pounds. Body plumage is characterized by varying shades of gray. In many areas, wild Sandhills preen iron-rich mud into their feathers creating a deep rusty brown hue which lasts during spring and summer. As fall advances, these rusty feathers molt and the birds return to their grayish appearance. In some regions, however, iron-rich mud is absent and the birds appear grey all year. The forehead and crown are covered with reddish skin. Face, chin, upper throat, and nape are white to pale gray. Adults have a white cheek patch. Legs and toes are black. In general, males and females are virtually indistinguishable but within a breeding pair, males tend to be larger than females.
Juvenile plumage changes from cinnamon brown to gray as the bird matures during the first year.
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Sandhill Cranes are the most abundant of the world's cranes. They are widely (though intermittently) distributed throughout North America, extending into Cuba and far northeastern Siberia. The three migratory subspecies (Lesser, Greater and Canadian) are distributed across a broad breeding range in the northern U.S. and Canada as well as eastern Siberia, with wintering grounds in the southern United States and northern Mexico. The three non-migratory subspecies (Mississippi, Cuban, and Florida) have restricted ranges in the southern United States and Cuba.
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Habitat & Ecology:
Sandhill Cranes are primarily birds of open fresh water wetlands, but the different subspecies utilize habitats that range from bogs, sedge meadows, and fens to open grasslands, pine savannas, and cultivated lands. Sandhill Cranes occur at their highest breeding density in habitats that contain open sedge meadows in wetlands that are adjacent to short vegetation in uplands.
Mated pairs of cranes, including Sandhill Cranes, engage in unison calling, which is a complex and extended series of coordinated calls. While calling, cranes stand in an upright posture, usually with their heads thrown back and beaks skyward during the display. In Sandhill Cranes the female initiates the display and utters two, higher-pitched calls for each male call. While calling, the female raises her beak about 45 degrees above the horizontal while the male raises his bill to a vertical position. All cranes engage in dancing, which includes various behaviors such as bowing, jumping, running, stick or grass tossing, as well as wing flapping. Though it is commonly associated with courtship, dancing can occur at any age and season. Dancing is generally believed to be a normal part of motor development for cranes and thwarts aggression, relieves tension, and strengthens the pair bond.
Nests of all Sandhill Cranes are usually low mounds built out of dominant vegetation in the nesting area. Typically nests are located in wetlands, but Sandhill Cranes will sometimes nest in uplands, especially in Cuba. Females usually lay two eggs and incubation (by both sexes) lasts 29-32 days. The male takes the primary role in defending the nest against possible danger. Chicks fledge (first flight) at 67-75 days.
Loud, rattling kar-r-r-o-o-o. With multiple variations.
Contact Call
Contact calls are low pitched and soft calls that allow the birds to keep in contact with each other even if they can't see each other in the deep grass or reeds. (Note: This is a soft call; you may need to turn up your computer speaker system.)
Unison Calls
UnisonCall are produced by a pair of birds. This call, performed with the birds standing close to each other and in a synchronized duet, is a way of reinforcing the pair bond between a female and a male bird. It may also be used by a pair to threaten predators or other cranes.
Guard Call
Guard Calls are single loud vocalizations used to warn other cranes of danger or to threaten other cranes. These calls are sometimes echoed by the other member of the pair. You can hear this "echoing" in this sample audio clip
All cranes are omnivorous. Sandhill Cranes are generalists and feed on a wide variety of plant tubers, grains, small vertebrates (e.g. mice and snakes), and invertebrates such as insects or worms. Sandhills find these foods in uplands and in shallow wetlands. Like most cranes, flightless chicks forage primarily on a diet of insects and other protein filled foods during their early stages of rapid growth. The Sandhill's tendency to feed on plant tubers creates conflicts with farming. Sandhill Cranes are adept at probing in the ground and finding planted agricultural seeds such as corn. When large flocks of cranes feed on planted fields, the damage they cause to an unprotected crop can be severe enough to force the farmer to replant the entire field.
Loss and degradation of riverine and wetland ecosystems are the most important threats to Sandhill Crane populations. For the migratory populations, this is of greatest concern in staging and wintering areas. Spring staging areas along the Platte River in Nebraska are of special concern because of their importance to the migratory subspecies and the development pressures facing this region. Approximately 80% of all Sandhill Cranes utilize a 75-mile stretch of the Platte River in spring migration. Elsewhere, small breeding populations can face disproportionate mortality on fall staging areas due to over-hunting. Residential and commercial development pressures facing lands occupied by birds belonging to non-migratory subspecies in Mississippi, Florida, and Cuba also pose significant threats.
ICF in Action:
Though Sandhill Crane populations in the northern boreal forest and arctic have likely been stable for a decade or more, Sandhill Crane populations in temperate regions of the U.S. and Canada have been expanding rapidly. This wildlife success story is possible because a recovering crane population has found available wetlands to nest in and agricultural lands that are suitable for foraging. The positive relationship between crane and farmer is precarious and currently is threatened by growing amounts of crop damage caused by cranes. To help re-establish a more positive relationship between cranes and the landowners who provide habitat, ICF is helping to develop a new technique to treat corn seeds with a deterrent before the seeds are planted. In response, foraging Sandhills avoid treated seed but remain in the field to feed non-destructively on other foods.
ICF is currently collaborating with partners to make this technique available to farmers throughout the Midwest.
Of equal importance is our ability to monitor crane populations for new problems that may arise. To this end, ICF sponsors the Annual Midwest Crane Count through which thousands of volunteers count cranes each April. Measuring the increase or decrease of crane populations is a critical step in fine-tuning management plans for any species.
To learn more about the Annual Midwest Crane Count, click here
Species accounts derived from:
Johnsgard PA. 1983. Cranes of the world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Meine CD, Archibald GW. 1996. The cranes: status survey and conservation action plan. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN.
Fun Fact
A Miocene crane fossil, thought to be about ten million years old, was found in Nebraska and is structurally identical to the modern Sandhill crane, making it the oldest known bird species still surviving!
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ARCADIA, Calif. (March 25, 2011) – Odds-on favorite Lady Sweetness, whose career start had been delayed by weight problems, labored to a half-length victory over fast-closing Hopeful Union Friday in Santa Anita's $57,200 Half Moon Bay Purse, a first condition allowance/optional claimer for older fillies and mares at seven furlongs.
Under a vigorous ride by Martin Garcia, the daughter of Candy Ride gained her second straight win in her third career start while running the distance in 1:23.17 over a "sloppy" main track.
Hopeful Union, ridden by Alonso Quinonez, rallied determinedly for the place, one-half length ahead of 3-1 second-choice Dani Reese, with Corey Nakatani aboard, in the field of eight.
Trained by Mike Mitchell, whose wife, Denise, co-owns the chestnut filly with Sagely Stable, Lady Sweetness did not begin her career until January of this year after having turned 4-years-old. "She was big as a house when I first got her," explained Mitchell. "She looked like a Clydesdale, she was so fat.
"It took forever to get all that weight off, she was so big and heavy," he added. "You can't push 'em, or you're going to break something."
After losing by a neck in her debut, Lady Sweetness returned to overwhelm a maiden field by 5 ¾ lengths on Feb. 25 while bet down to even money.
In Friday's feature, she tracked early pace-setter Royal Tiger, took the lead in upper stretch and was all out to resist the bid from last by Hopeful Union. "I don't think she would have labored as much on a fast track," said Mitchell.
Lady Sweetness paid $3.60, $2.80 and $2.20 after the winning purse of $33,600 increased her career earnings to $76,800. Hopeful Union returned $5.20 and $3.20. The show price on Dani Reese was $2.60.
Mitchell wasn't sure what might be next for Lady Sweetness. "We might try the grass with her," he said, "and we can either go into an allowance race or look at a stakes somewhere."
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Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is an extreme place - hot and dry with surface pressures over 90 times higher than the Earth's and a super thick atmosphere mainly composed of carbon dioxide.
Because the surface is hidden by sulphuric acid clouds, and the planet is similar to the Earth in size, astronomers speculated for many years that Venus might be a lush world full of life.
It is now thought possible that the Sun's heat boiled away early oceans on the planet triggering a planet-warming runaway greenhouse effect that turned Venus into a hellish place.
Photo: A false-colour view of Venus taken by the Galileo probe. This photo was coloured blue to show details in Venus's clouds. (NASA/JPL)
The second planet from the Sun is a pressure cooker.
In 1962 some thought Venusian life was possible.
Prior to Mariner 2's 1962 flyby of Venus, some scientists such as Dr Carl Sagan thought that conditions on the planet might favour life. However, the probe's instruments showed that the cloudy planet's surface was extremely hot, greatly reducing the chance that anything could survive there.
The Russians try to reveal cloudy Venus's secrets.
The Russian Venus probe Venera 4 arrived at the planet in October 1967. As it entered the thick Venusian atmosphere, unexpectedly high pressures destroyed the craft as it descended. However, the probe managed return data to the Earth.
Can the Russians design a spacecraft capable of surviving Venus's extreme pressures?
The Russians took on the challenge of building a probe strong enough to survive the incredibly high atmospheric pressures on Venus. Ultimately they succeeded with Venera 7 in 1970. The subsequent Venera 9 mission returned photographs of the planet's volcanic surface.
The inner planets' atmospheres developed very differently.
Researchers believe that in the early days of the Solar System, Earth, Venus and Mars had similar atmospheres, but they developed very differently. Mars couldn't hold onto its atmosphere, while a runaway greenhouse effect may have boiled away oceans on Venus. Earth, on the other hand, benefited from its greenhouse effect.
The orbiting probe maps the planet's surface with radar and finds many strange sights.
After arriving at the planet in 1989, the Magellan probe orbited Venus many times and used its radar to map the cloud-covered surface. The data revealed a surface with numerous volcanoes and geological features unlike any seen on the Earth.
Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun: its elongation reaches a maximum of 47.8°.
Venus is a terrestrial planet and is sometimes called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similar size, gravity, and bulk composition (Venus is both the closest planet to Earth and the planet closest in size to Earth). However, it has also been shown to be very different from Earth in other respects. It has the densest atmosphere of the four terrestrial planets, consisting of more than 96% carbon dioxide. The atmospheric pressure at the planet's surface is 92 times that of Earth's. With a mean surface temperature of 735 K (462 °C; 863 °F), Venus is by far the hottest planet in the Solar System. It has no carbon cycle to lock carbon back into rocks and surface features, nor does it seem to have any organic life to absorb it in biomass. Venus is shrouded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light. Venus may have possessed oceans in the past, but these would have vaporized as the temperature rose due to a runaway greenhouse effect. The water has most probably photodissociated, and, because of the lack of a planetary magnetic field, the free hydrogen has been swept into interplanetary space by the solar wind. Venus's surface is a dry desertscape interspersed with slab-like rocks and periodically refreshed by volcanism.
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It is a thrill to see a bald eagle in the wild. Polk County employees going to work at the sheriff's office or emergency operations center in Winter Haven are feeling beyond exhilarated as a result of what they're seeing.
Dozens of bald eagles are roosting on a nearby communications tower.
Members of Florida Audubon have counted as many as 60 at one time.
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They say everything is negotiable and apparently so is your rent!
Apartment hunters don't have to settle for the terms laid out by a would-be landlord.
Because let's be honest, it's fair to say that when it comes to paying rent in NYC, its just too high for most people.
But what many tenants don't know is they can actually negotiate on the rent.
Depending on the market, experts say security deposits, lease length and pets policies can be successfully negotiated.
And in some instances, the amount of the rent itself.
Joe Anuta covers real estate for Crains NY.
Anuta says tenants up for renewal have the best shot with that.
"These landlords are not looking to get people and get this much higher rent because they're not going to be able to." Anuta said. "You're going to have a lot more leverage because again if you leave this landlord is faced with that uncertainty again. So you can sorta demand some of these concessions."
And then there are cases like Alexandra Nunez, who says her apartment needs major work done.
"We're in the process of doing that because the apartment has a couple of like things we need to fix. And I think we're paying too much" Nunez said. "Hopefully he'll lower the rent but we're not sure"
Now before you go off trying to get a lower rent make sure you've been model tenant to your landlord... before you negotiate yourself out on the street.