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Fudge Filled Toffee Cookies. Recipe from: Carole Benzschawel December 6, 2012)
½ cup butter (softened)
½ cup sugar
½ cup confectioners' sugar
½ cup vegetable (or canola) oil
1 egg
½ teaspoon almond extract
½ teaspoon coconut extract
1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup whole wheat flour
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
¾ cup English Toffee bits (or Almond Brickle bits)
2/3 cup chopped pecans
2/3 cup flaked coconut
Additional sugar (for rolling cookies in)
1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (melted)
¾ cup sweetened condensed milk
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups pecan halves
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars. Beat in the oil, egg and extracts. Combine flours, salt, baking soda and cream of tartar: gradually add to the creamed mixture.
Stir in toffee bits, pecans and coconut. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour or until easy to handle.
Shape dough into 1" balls and roll in sugar. Place approximately 2" apart on ungreased baking sheets. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indentation in the center of each.
In a bowl, combine the melted chocolate, milk and vanilla until smooth. Spoon 1 teaspoon into the center of each cookie. Top with a pecan half. Bake at 350° for 12-14 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool. Enjoy!
Yields: 5 ½ dozen
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Summer at the Paddock Club is all about fresh, local produce.
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The citrus and goat cheese potato gnocchi, garnished with fried salsify chips, is just one of the many creative pasta dishes that are made in-house and from scratch.
This is also the season for preserved fruits, like the rinds of preserved lemon that add a tangy flavor to the crab and lobster ravioli. This dish goes especially well with the home-made bread. Diners can also look forward to dishes with heirloom tomatoes, which will reach their peak later in the summer.
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It looks like we might want to hold off on that order of 802.11n gear. Rumor has it that the task force is way behind the ratification schedule, and have considerably more comments (12,000) than they expected.
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An IEEE member informed me that the Task Group N schedule has slipped considerably: The group received 12,000 comments on the Draft 1.0 proposal that was accepted as a working draft in March, and which failed to achieve in May anywhere near the 75 percent required (it received under 50 percent) to make it a final draft that would head to ratification. What wasn't expected is that instead of perhaps 2,000 comments on the draft, a typical occurrence after drafts are sent around for review by IEEE voting members, 12,000 comments came in.


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For SNP calling, the documentation suggested to pool samples together to call Unified genotyper. My questions are:
I have samples for the same study done with exome-seq using Illumina platforms but some using GAII and some using HiSeq 2000 due to historical reasons. My question is: are they OK to be pooled together to call SNPs with Unified genotyper? How about the new HaplotyperCaller? Any concerns on that?
what about data from the same platform but using different exome-capture kits? My take-on for this is probably just the matter of where to look at the variants.
what about data from different platforms? e.g., some from Illumina, some from Ion torrent etc. Any concerns except for the needs of a common interval files for shared regions etc? Anybody tried before? Or just call SNPs for data from the same platform separately?
Thanks a lot for your help! Happy Thanksgiving!
Ah, small misunderstanding because we often use the phrase "calling SNPS" to refer to the entire workflow, not just the calling step.
Re: base recalibration -- the whole point is to correct for sequencing machine errors. Different technologies produce different types of errors. It can be due to apparatus or chemistry, but basically it means that systematic errors will be different: one tech will make a lot of mistakes in GC-rich contexts, while another will mostly make errors at the end of reads. If you use the same correction model for both datasets, the correction will be wrong half the time. And that would be bad, because in the next step the caller would be assessing variants based on badly flawed information.
One could actually make a case for doing indel realignment jointly, since you want your indels to be positioned the same way for all your data... @pdexheimer, do you have any comments on that? As I said, we don't really deal with mixed datasets, so I'd be curious to hear if you have any additional insights from working with this type of issue.
VQSR should be a little less sensitive but there can still be some platform effects. If you can do everything separately and combining VCFs at the end that's probably best, but some people want to combine data earlier if they don't have a lot of data in a single dataset, for example.
Geraldine Van der Auwera, PhD
Hi Mike,
We don't have much experience mixing different datatypes so you'll need to experiment on your own, or ask the community. Just keep in mind that different technologies (whether vendor platform or platform version) will produce different error modes, so things like base recalibration that are sensitive to tech specificities should be done separately. But calling and downstream steps should be okay to do on mixed types.
On the point of capture targets, keep in mind that if you look at the union of target sets, there will be drastic differences in coverage for targets that are not in the intersection, so any analysis that is coverage-dependent should account for this. It would be safer to restrict analysis to the intersection of the sets.
Let us know how it goes and if there are any particular obstacles you run into. Good luck!
Geraldine Van der Auwera, PhD
My take on this: Any time you're learning covariates across the whole cohort, be very careful about pooling across multiple platforms. So for your data, you absolutely should not mix Illumina and Ion Torrent for base recall/indel realignment (completely different error models), and I would be extremely cautious about pooling for variant calling. My intuition is that GAII/HiSeq have close enough to the same models that you'd be okay for calling, but I would at least separate the cleaning steps by platform.
The other major learning step is in VQSR. I go out of my way to avoid mixing enrichment platforms at this step because the variant metrics will be different for the platforms (for instance, in the read position and strand composition in the "splash" regions around the probes)
So to me, the safest approach is to run each platform combination separately - with the possible exception of the GA/HiSeq split - and only merge once I have the filtered VCFs. But I may be overly cautious...
Thanks for the great comments and info from both of you, which are very helpful!
However, although I did not ask (I only asked about the UG or SNP calling step), both of you mentioned that should not mix platforms for base recall/indel realignment due to completely different error models, and I actually did on these steps all individually on each sample/bam file. So just curious about why different platforms would have impact on these steps in addition to the later step such as SNP Calling steps?
Also what about VQSR steps? If I call variants from each platform data separately and then combined the variants before subjected to VQSR, or proceed to VQSR without combining, which would be the best? It seems to me that separately calling variants and run through VQSR before combining the final callsets (after VQSR) would be better.
Thanks again for your great input!
I hadn't considered the possibility of combined realignment, Geraldine, that's a good point. I always lump recal/realign/dedup together in my head, guess I need to keep in mind that they are very separate processes.
With the caveat that I haven't actually tried this (we don't mess around much with alternate platforms), I would say that combining for the realignment step makes a lot of sense if you've sequenced the same sample - or close family members - on different platforms. But my suspicion is that it would be much less important if you're combining a cohort rather than individuals, since individual small indels are generally pretty rare. But I can't see it hurting, and I do like consistency in my data...
Thanks for your comments, @pdexheimer. We like consistency too :) BTW, you've been doing a great job jumping in and helping people on the forum. We might have to promote you to honorary GSA member (and I'm only partly kidding).
Geraldine Van der Auwera, PhD
just run into a similar but slightly different situation discussed in the above thread, So I come back to this thread for more advice.
Recently I run into situation from our experiment design, due to the lasting long period of time for the project, for the first batch of experiment we got, we have already called variants with GATK, which is while ago. Later on, we collected more samples (exome-seq) and then combined the samples from both batches and call variants using GATK again. However, now we have even more new samples coming. it become a question to me how to deal with this situation. Not sure how you deal with new samples from the same project vs the old samples already used to call variants. Since GATK suggested to call all samples altogether to get better performance (right?), so each time when we have new samples, we need pool them altogether and use GATK to call variants.and ignore what has been done before. Is there benefit for both old batch and new batch samples by pooling them altogether to call variants (so ignore what have been called previously by just using old samples).
Due to the need from GATK to call samples together for better performance, it may routinely encounter the practical issue as I encountered, some new samples come later, every time I need to recall variants together with old samples, which would be the better practice?
How you guys deal with this situation?For exmaple, in 1kG project, you may have 300 samples last year, and then another 400 samples comes in this year, you need to pool them altogether and rec-all variants again, or you just need call them as groups if enough group has decent size of samples? if can do that way, what size of samples in each group can be considered as "decent" size or good enough to call variants for each group individually rather than pool all of them together, which could be big burden for the system as well.
Look forward to your advice!
Hi Mike,
The best practice is to re-call all your samples together. For 1kG we periodically re-call everything. If you have very many samples you will need to develop a robust solution for doing this.
Geraldine Van der Auwera, PhD


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A one-time Tennessee state Senate candidate convicted of killing his opposition has been found dead in prison.
Byron Looper, a former Putnam County property assessor, was found in his cell at the Morgan County Correctional Complex Wednesday morning.
Looper, 48, was serving a life sentence there for the 1998 shooting of state Senator Tommy Burks. Burks, a very popular politician from Cumberland County, was shot to death while sitting in his pickup near his farm.
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Red Bank officials credit a decline in traffic camera fines to sending the community a strong message about safe driving, but several economic indicators point to a different conclusion.
Mayor Joe Glasscock said last week that "it tickles me to death we're not getting more revenue" from the city's efforts to electronically enforce speed limit and red light laws. Decreased camera revenue supports the argument that Red Bank has done its "educational job" with photo enforcement, he said.
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But in the four years since the city's three traffic camera sets were installed, Red Bank's daily vehicle counts have declined and sales tax collections have fluctuated, records show. Those trends have commissioners wondering if fewer tickets mean more people avoiding Red Bank.
"If it was such a great deal, why don't Signal Mountain, East Ridge and Collegedale have them?" asked Vice Mayor Monty Millard. "They want people to shop in their businesses and feel comfortable coming into their town."
At four different intersections spread across Dayton Boulevard, the city's most traveled road, state records show a 14 percent overall decrease in average daily traffic since 2004.
The vehicle counts reflect a decrease of several thousand vehicles each day.
One business owner in Red Bank said his cash register has shown the impact of fewer cars.
Red Bank Wine and Spirits Manager Brian MacPhee said the store's location was chosen for the corner of Morrison Springs Road and Dayton Boulevard because it's the city's busiest. But it's also the site of a red light camera.
"We had business grow every year except last year," Mr. MacPhee said. "We had people tell us they wouldn't come back because of the cameras."
Local sales tax dollars have fluctuated. Before 2005, sales tax revenue increased in Red Bank each year, hovering around $1 million. Since cameras began snapping photos, collections haven't hit that mark.
The Red Bank Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 in January to extend Red Bank's contract with American Traffic Solutions, which operates the city's traffic cameras, for 12 years.
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Chattanooga's first speed radar signs were activated Friday at two locations -- northbound on Dallas Road near Mississippi Avenue and southbound on Fernway Road near Hixson Pike. The signs indicate to drivers their travel speeds and flash if drivers are exceeding the speed limit.
"I'm not saying they don't hurt some businesses, but 98 percent of the people I talk to are 100 percent behind the cameras," Commissioner Ruth Jeno said. "It makes them feel safer."
She said she didn't know if she would vote for another extension.
Commissioner Floy Pierce said she would reconsider her "yes" vote if she could go back in time.
"I feel like if it's going to hurt our city and our citizens in a way that would keep revenues out, my strong feeling is that it needs to be revisited," she said.
Commissioner Greg Jones said the cameras probably affect revenue, but he wasn't sure how much.
"We need to focus hard on getting our revenues back up, but I stand by my vote," he said. "If my family is safer at those intersections, I think that's still a positive thing."
If the cameras eventually are abolished, it is unclear what would happen to the four workers the city employs to run the city's photo enforcement program, which also includes a speed van.
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I have definitely made the decision to avoid Red Bank whenever I can because of the street cameras and the little white Chevy van that tries to trap you into traffic fines. I feel uncomfortable traveling in Red Bank because of this blatant government sanctioned shake-down. Their are businesses in located there that I no longer patronize because the city government has made traveling to them such a hassle.
I avoid Red Bank and the sections of Chattanooga with camera's. Of course business will sometimes take you to these areas but I never never go to them unless I have no choice. I like that Mexican restaurant in Red Bank but declined to patronage it because of the camera's. I wound if the Krystal's decline on Dayton Blvd. was due to the decrease in traffic because of the camera's?
When traveling about the city, I am always considering routes that by-pass these entrapment's.
The sad thing about Red Bank is that a mental pattern is now in place, people have avoided the city for so long, they now have no reason to go there. Once a habit is set, it is next to impossible to reverse it. The city will not recover from this fatal mistake for a generation.
East Ridge had talked about Cameras. I had people tell me that if ER put them in they would stop going there.
I am for giving tickets to those who break the law, but the camera's do not take into consideration, the nuances of traffic. Ever approached a light and got hung in that can't stop, can't make it spot? Does not happen very often. But it is always a bad feeling when it happens.
Mayor Dummy of Red Bank, your ego and misguided focus has cost your town revenus that the traffic camera stupidity has not made up for.
It is a shame that your persecution of paeple you deem an enemy, ie potetial business for the TAX BASE for your town, has cost your citizens money, and not profited anyone except your ego.
Your an idiot, deflate your ego and look out for the CITIZENS YOUR SUPOSED TO REPRESENT. Your mentality is what is undermining government and society today. I, and many others avoid your town like the plauge. Wise up, your kind are not long for office in this country, Americans are pissed at your brand of idiocy.
I avoid the traffic signal cameras in Red Bank. Hence, I also avoid the businesses near them. As for the traffic van, if there is an officer in the van why not just have him stop the speeders. Then he can also see if they're impaired? This is poor policing.
Ruth Jeno states: ""I'm not saying they don't hurt some businesses, but 98 percent of the people I talk to are 100 percent behind the cameras," Commissioner Ruth Jeno said. "It makes them feel safer.""
How many people did Ruthy talk to? ten? 20? It's already been proven in other states that people avoid areas where these Red Light Cameras are known to be. Even if they have to drive farther and use more gas to get around them. Chattanooga hasn't felt the impact of it yet, I don't think. But "98"% of the people I talk to now travel south of the border down to F.O. to shop in order to avoid the hassle of trying to figure out if there's a Red Light Camera hovering somewhere. Notice how Fort Oglethorpe businesses are booming? Well, Chattanooga, Red Bank, etc. they're getting your business!!
No wonder Red Bank has the nickname "Red Bankistan"
Never go where red light cameras are. I just planned a trip and checked the online U.S. red light camera map and made sure that I will be able to take other roads around every red light camera that is on my route. There is a big shopping center I wanted to visit on the way, but I will not because they have placed a camera right at the entrance. There's another one I can go to so they'll get my business instead.
You have to be just plain witless to continue to drive through these intersections and risk having to pay so much money if you get in a situation where you can't stop safely. You have to ask yourself: WHY would I do that???? It is cheaper to spend a few minutes taking another road or simply going elsewhere.
Business owners need to stand up for their rights if they are getting hurt. The longer you sit back and watch your income decline and do nothing, the worse it's going to get. You may as well just cut your losses and move now rather than wait until you can't even afford to do that.
Drivers can always go somewhere else. If they keep going through those intersections and keep getting tickets, they can blame themselves for 1. being dumb enough to repeatedly do the same thing, and 2. not going to meetings, making calls, and sending letters and emails telling the board they are not going to stand for it anymore and anyone who voted for the cameras is going to be voted OUT of office at their next election.
Sooner or later, either because of the declining revenues to business or declining sales tax (which hurts everyone) or an accident where a child in a back seat is killed in a rear end collision, or because you vote out the people who forced these cameras on you, those cameras will be gone.
But you have to take action yourself, you can't grouse in the background and leave it up to everyone else. OR you will have nobody but yourself to blame.
I live in Redbankistan. Property values are declining, more businesses are shutting down. Thanks mayor joe nocock. Your lack of vision and imagination for this town is keeping this place a pariah community. We need some people who want this to be more than a bedroom community for the elderly.
I haven't been in Red Bank in over three years, even refusing to let friends buy my lunch there. I will not support that type of government regulation. It is nothing but a fee grab and I still think it is not legal or there would be points given on your license. The powers that be know it's not legal and that's why they handle it as a civil case because no one will go to the expense to fight it.
Why not just install a number of radar speed signs like see on www.driverfeedbacksigns.com and just make sure they know no tickets, 85% of speeders simply do not know they are speeding.
I LIVED IN RED BANK IN 80S AND 90S, IT WAS A NICE LITTLE TOWN. But last Year i was looking to move back to Red Bank After 15 years of being in Cleveland. But as i was searching i talk to a few people in area and saw alot of business leaving.I ask them why has Red bank losing business and they all told me because red bank had put up red light cameras...I said ummmm. So that Stopped my search in red bank. I figure in about 5 more years red bank will be a ghost town....When they start losing more tax revenues from business that mean they have to raise property taxes to make up differences...So now I moved to nice area in Marion County, I bought a Nice little house on 10 acres of land..I have only county taxes less than 1800 a yr on my property.... This same property if i bought in chattanooga my taxes would have been city and county around 3500.00 a yr. I work in Chattanooga but all my money for taxes food gas etc.. goes to marion county businesses.Peace.
Cameras only help enforce the laws that already exist. It would be one thing if they were enforcing imaginary laws, but in reality all they're doing is enforcing the laws that we already have on the book. Cameras only punish those who speed, run red lights, and in doing such endanger everyone on the road.
I read a few articles recently that said that driving is down about 10% due to the economy. It seems like a stretch to say it is because of red-light camera enforcement. I would like to see some data on the number of red light violations and the number of collisions. I believe that in this day and age of distracted and aggressive driving that red-light camera enforcement is a valuable pro-safety tool.
i guess people are realizing that just slowing down is a lot easier than making a fuss and contradicting law enforcement methods...
I'll chime in and say I'm one of those who feel safer with them around. I really doubt it's affecting business and that's just stupid if people are avoiding because of them. Learn to obey the traffic laws and drive safer and there's no problem.
The answer isn't no cameras it's MORE cameras, when drivers think they can avoid the area to avoid citations they are adjusting their behavior which is good, but not in the way needed to save lives. Only when drivers KNOW they will get caught will they finally adjust their reckless habits and slow down and stop for Red Lights - and that will save lives!
seems to me that there might be other reasons for a decrease in tax revenue...maybe the economy?? Maybe people aren't driving past there because they don't have a job anymore. It is so hard to figure out why these things happen and I don't think blaming the cameras is right.
It couldn't be the economy could it. Let's keep enforcing the laws and send a message to visitors that we expect them to follow the laws.
Keep "sending your message" ... soon you will have no visitors.
You have had about 10 people (me included) on this thread tell you that they avoid areas with traffic cameras (Red Bank especially) when choosing where to do business. Many of us know dozens of other people who do the same. And if we know that many, surely there are hundreds of others we don't know who are also avoiding RB due to the cameras. I mean, you do the math. If there are double-digit people out of the relatively tiny subset of Hamilton County's population who read the TFP on-line and the even smaller number who are actually registered to leave comments here (probably less than 1% of the total population of the area) then there are probably at least 1,000 others, maybe a lot more than that. If you are a Red Bank merchant can you really afford to pass up that many customers?
So, unless we are all liars you do have a real problem. (It's not either/or; your decrease in taxes due to decreased business revenue can be - and most likely is - due to BOTH the general economic downturn and the traffic SCAMeras.)
It is very simple for many of us. We will return to do business in Red Bank when, and only when, these abominations come down. Leave them up, continue to lose my business (and that of hundreds, if not thousands, of others).
It's not that we want to speed or run red lights. But some of us will defend our constitutional right to due process of law, which these devices violate, by whatever means we can. You will eventually figure this out. It is only a matter of how many businesses in Red Bank will close before you do.
Having the cameras actually makes me want to go to Red Bank more. I know my kids will be safer in the car with me bc people aren't driving like maniacs.
Astounds me that people would drive out of their way to get around red light cameras. I mean is it REALLY that hard to stop at traffic lights?
The red light cameras are great because they make people become more aware of the road. The roads are becoming a lot safer.
it is so ridiculous to think people really won't patron an area of town because red light cameras are installed at certain intersections. why dont you use your time more wisely and help work on public projects that do good for your community rather than moan and groan about the fact that you can't follow the speed limit and stop at red lights.


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70 Alex Black 1965 Douglas Sportique
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I've eaten and have definitely given my children things to eat at supermarkets before I've paid for them. I've never eaten anything that had to be weighed though, because I guess I felt like I would be stealing the unweighed portion. I never considered it to be a big deal. And by the way, I don't think that anyone would consider me to be obese.
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I'm well aware of the definition and spelling of bigot. Your original post actually sort of sounded like you think that Signal should be able to keep all of these good, out of zone athletes. I'm sure East Ridge is happy to get to keep Colton, and for the record, I don't really know Scooter. From your story, maybe a mom reported Tim McClendon too.
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Tell Scooter to move on the mountain if he wants his kid to go to Signal, rather than listing his salon as a residential address. At least that's one case where the administration made sure a kid was "in zone". Who cares if that mom stood up for her kid and others? And it's "lose", not "loose".
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Is filling out eligibility forms usually the coach's job? I would assume that to be the AD's job.
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so is this a vote as many times as possible deal?
Jeremy, yes it is. However, we will pick the top 3 of each category and determine the top based on our own arguments. It's clear when some stack the votes - for example, Cameron Chambers has 91 votes? While I recognize that he ripped off an amazing season, there weren't that many people voting in any of the other categories and the traffic analytics indicates a lot of the traffic from the same areas. That said, he'll probably be top 3 anyway.
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My vote is for Rich Dillen as Best of 2012. Why? Have you ever seen him ride? If you haven't it's because you can't keep up with him, not to mention he's just as good if not better than Jeremiah, Cameron, Drew and many others on the list. Come on... give the prize to Dicky!
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But wait! What's that? A submarine? It's a miracle! Captain Nemo and his crew save the day!
Now the rescued travelers can go home. But where are they being taken? To an underwater city, where the inhabitants are dedicated to a peaceful civilization. Peaceful -- and secret. Once you're there, you can never leave. Quite a predicament for the survivors.
The 1969 science-fiction movie "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City" illustrated what life could be like living under the ocean if you had the time and resources to create such a metropolis. But why would you bother? (Other than developing a Utopian society, that is.) Did you know that a few people actually do live underwater? The settings are not as expansive as the Underwater City, the purposes are different and the timeframe is shorter, but dwellings do exist in marine habitats.
When you stop to speculate, there could be several motives for residing there, ranging from scientific to functional to aesthetic. Let's take a look at some of the reasons we might consider living undersea, progressing from fanciful to practical.
10: The Undersea Setting Is Unique And Beautiful.
Look out your window, and you might see trees, cars, fields, buildings or birds. This could be pleasant, even attractive, but it probably can't compare to a coral reef, the exquisite collection of sea animals forming a branching, intricate structure. Often rigid and brightly colored, coral reefs offer space for fish to hide from predators, living quarters for species harvested for medicines, and protection of shorelines from rough waves [source: NOAA].
And of course, there are other engaging sea creatures. Some have novel modes of locomotion, such as jellyfish, which float helplessly side to side but propel themselves vertically through rhythmic pulsations that eject water. A squid takes water expulsion to a higher level, pressing water out through a tube to create explosive jets, allowing it to travel in excess of 25 miles (40 kilometers) per hour.
Some fish exemplify grace and beauty. The parrot fish is hued like its namesake: bright greens, blues and yellows. (They also have an interesting trait of shifting sex back and forth during their lifetime.) The slender, regal angelfish has striking tones, such as lemon yellow, flaming orange and electric blue.
With all these amazing creatures for neighbors, who wouldn't want to live underwater?
9: You Could Establish Your Very Own Micronation.
Ever get annoyed by your tax bill, a speeding ticket or an election? Want to do something about it? How about creating your own country? Consider establishing a micronation, a self-styled realm founded to support political beliefs, protest governmental control or just have fun. Although micronations are occasionally located on land, countries usually frown upon an individual usurping territory and declaring it sovereign. For this reason, micronations are often marine-based (such as an island, a sea platform or a scuttled sea craft). But uninhabited islands are scarce, and it's difficult to build offshore from scratch (sinking is a problem). Why not look into setting up a micronation under the ocean, where there are vast tracks of unclaimed real estate?
To assist you in your planning, here are some examples of island micronations:
- The Kingdom of North Dumpling Island is in New York State; it's owned by Dean Kamen, the Segway inventor.
- Lundy, an island off the United Kingdom, was a fiefdom in the early 20th century.
- The Conch Republic, an island in the Florida Keys, was created in 1982 in reaction to government regulations. Their motto is, "We seceded where others failed."
- The Dominion of Melchizedek was founded in the South Pacific in 1990, supposedly as a religious state, but it may have been used as a headquarters for business fraud.
- Sealand is a former WWII gun tower platform off the English coast. It was once considered a site for an Internet data haven.
[sources: The Huffington Post, Harris, Markoff]
8: The Location Is Convenient To An Excellent Food Supply.
You're out to dinner at a nice seafood restaurant. Do you start with a shrimp cocktail? Maybe some clams casino? Will you have mussels for your entre? Ooh, fresh salmon!
Chances are good that some of your meal is coming from a farm. Aquaculture, the growing and gathering of edible water plants and animals, is an expanding commercial enterprise; it accounts for almost half the fish eaten in the world. The stock on many fish farms is fed with plants specifically raised for that purpose. In 2007, China supplied 70 percent of aquaculture yield; other Asian countries accounted for one-fifth. The United States provided a mere 1.5 percent, although it spent $8 billion on aquaculture products [source: Outcalt].
If you lived undersea, you'd be that much closer to some high-quality protein. Aquaculture is not without the following problems, however:
- Waste from fish impacting water near the farms
- Fugitive farm fish propagating in the wild
- Fish farms being built in wildlife areas
- Fish in the wild being used for food on farms
To meet the growing demand for farmed fish in an environmentally responsible way, these issues must be addressed. Many organizations, such as the World Wildlife Fund, are working with stakeholders to develop standards of practice for fish farms [sources: NOAA, World Wildlife Fund].
7: Weather Could Be Controlled.
It's 6:00 a.m. You part the curtains. Oh, great, another rainy day. Maybe tomorrow there will be something different, like fog.
When you're on land, weather happens to you. If you lived undersea, however, you'd be in an enclosed structure. The inhabitants, not nature, would determine the temperature and humidity of the environment. You want it sunny? You got it (artificially, of course). You want a little snow or rain? It's possible. In fact, some scientists have been investigating controlling precipitation for years.
Attempts at weather modification have focused primarily on cloud seeding, attempting to increase rain or snow. The year 1946 brought a breakthrough: Developments by General Electric scientists made large-scale cloud seeding feasible and affordable. Chemicals like silver iodide and liquid propane are added to clouds through ground generators blowing chemicals skyward, rockets carrying chemicals from the ground to clouds and planes releasing chemicals into the clouds.
Cloud seeding is being used in some form in more than 40 countries, though its effectiveness is debatable. Other modes of weather modification have been proposed:
- Microwaves sent from satellites with the intention of diffusing tornadoes
- Pouring oil onto the ocean's surface, reducing the amount of water that can evaporate to feed a hurricane
- Adding chemicals to storms to diminish hail
- Adding chemicals to fog to hasten its dispersal from runways
[sources: Weather Modification Association, Lloyd, ABC News]
6: You'd Live Conveniently Close To A Growing Energy Source: Wind Turbines.
Interest in wind energy is expanding. It doesn't produce harmful byproducts, and its use reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Ocean placement of wind turbines is optimal because of the strong, unbroken flow of air. (There are no trees or buildings on the ocean to slow down the wind!) Nothing's perfect, though; there are some concerns:
- Turbines may impact weather patterns; harnessing wind could increase local temperatures and evaporation. On the other hand, increased reliance on wind power may decrease reliance on fossil fuel consumption that contributes to global climate change [source: Lloyd].
- Some folks who live on the coastline object to the unsightliness of turbines. Typically, they're built where the ocean is 20 to 30 meters (66 to 98 feet) deep, although some have been erected off Scotland's shore in 50 meters (164 feet) of water [source: Thompson].
Joint research at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has resulted in a potential solution for the last problem. Researchers have developed plans for floating platforms to support turbines. Compared to turbines in shallower water, those in very deep water would be less expensive, more productive and less likely to be disrupted by severe weather. Transporting the energy to land would be complicated, but, if you lived undersea, you would have easier access [source: Than].
5: You Could Have Transportation and Housing All In One.
There are some people who live in their recreational vehicles year-round. Whether they're retired and traveling, are tired of paying housing costs or want to minimize material possessions, they sleep, eat, play, relax and trek in the same contraption. They still have to contend with other vehicles, pedestrians, driving laws and the weather. But what if you could have the joys of self-contained living without the hassles of being on land? What if you inhabited a submarine?
What's it like to live on a sub? Not many folks can speak to that experience, but the Navy trained most who can. Nuclear subs can submerge for months at a time, so food is of utmost importance. Canned, frozen and dried foods compose the bulk of the menu, and provisions are stored in designated areas or in any available space.
An inevitable consequence of food preparation is trash. Selected garbage is placed in a weighted steel mesh cylinder and released, dropping to the ocean floor. Some is compacted and stored until it can be recycled or otherwise disposed of on shore.
To work off meals, the crew can run laps inside the sub or use stationary machines, situated wherever they fit.
If you're not sure how well you'd fare living underwater, you might want to consider renting a submarine first: A Dutch company will lease you a small sub in the Caribbean. You wouldn't want to discover, too late, that you're claustrophobic [source: Gizmag].
4: The Environment On Land Is Deteriorating.
In 2007, Americans alone generated 254 million tons of municipal waste [source: American Society of Civil Engineers]. The materials that pile up in landfills don't readily decompose, either, since the air and water required aren't accessible.
We're adding trash to the environment, but trees are being eliminated. Each year, approximately 30,000 square miles (77,700 square kilometers) of forests are destroyed, not by fire, but by human intervention. Trees are obliterated to make way for crop and livestock farms, logging and access roads. At the present rate, rainforests will be erased in 100 years. Many species will disappear as well; forests house the majority of the world's land animals. Loss of trees will also contribute to climate change, permitting quicker evaporation, which will lead to higher temperatures [source: National Geographic].
Going underground generates problems as well. Mines are not only potentially dangerous for workers, but also for those who live around them. Local water supplies are infiltrated with toxic runoff, such as arsenic and metals. Communities near some mining sites report increased numbers of heart, lung and kidney diseases [source: ScienceDaily].
Environmental problems are not limited to the land. Despite government regulations, air pollution is still a problem in some areas, with emissions from cars, factories and refineries [source: GreenstudentU]. Undersea, breathing might be a little easier.
3: Rising Water Levels Might Make Undersea Living Necessary.
So far we've been talking about living undersea as a choice, but what if water levels rise so high that large sections of land are submerged? Only about 30 percent of the Earth is land; can we afford to lose any of it [source: NOAA]?
After the last ice age 21,000 years ago (resulting in a sea level increase of 120 meters, or 394 feet), the oceans did not vary much. Sea level has held steady for the last few thousand years, but as the world neared the start of the 20th century, the level began to rise again. Since the 1990s, there has been an annual 3-millimeter increase. That may not seem like much, but it's cumulative: Sea level could rise by almost half a meter (1.6 feet) by the end of the 21st century [source: National Snow and Ice Data Center].
Most scientists believe the major cause of the rising sea level is global climate change; around the world, the average temperature increased 1 degree Fahrenheit during the last century. Rising temperatures affect water levels: Water expands as it warms, and glaciers melt. Over time, if the sea level rose just 1 meter (3.3 feet), the coastal cities in the United States would be underwater. Bangladesh and the Nile Delta are examples of two other highly populated areas that face a similar fate. A computer model predicted a 7-meter (23-foot) rise in sea level by the next millennium. We can wave good-bye as Florida disappears beneath the waves, or we can greet it from our undersea home [sources: Lovgren, McDermott, Griggs].
2: We Might Have To Go Undersea Simply For Space.
What's the world population now? It's 6,876,502,740. No, 6,876,502,845. Wait, it's 6,876,502,890. In the time it takes to type out that number, the population has increased; it rose almost 800 million between 2000 and 2010 [source: Internet World Stats]. The rate of increase is slowing, but not stopping or reversing [source: U.S. Census Bureau]. There's a finite amount of space on Earth, so maybe it's time to turn to the oceans. Water covers 71 percent of Earth's surface; that's a lot of undeveloped property [source: NOAA].
Sizeable unoccupied regions are disappearing. Some of the most populated countries in 2010, like China and India, also have large land masses; however, the populations are dense. As the world's population continues to grow, finding ways to live undersea may be a viable option for spreading out resources.
1: Living Undersea Is Good Practice For Going Into Space, If You're So Inclined.
In space, no one can hear you scream. It's not that easy to be heard underwater, either. Screaming practice, however, is not the reason that NASA holds astronaut training underwater. With the proper equipment, the weightlessness of space can be mimicked, and astronauts can rehearse the difficult maneuvers they'll be expected to undertake while in space.
Repair crews for the Hubble telescope have prepared using an underwater Hubble model at the Johnson Space Center near Houston. For every hour they anticipate servicing the telescope, participants must practice for 20 hours underwater [source: Goddard].
Both Russian and American crews have used water tanks (in separate locations) before going to the International Space Station. Training is similar in each country: Russians and Americans concentrate on the specific tasks they'll perform, while Russians spend additional time reviewing emergency procedures.
In anticipation of a return to the moon in 2020, astronauts lived in the U.S. Aquarius, an underwater research station in the Florida Keys. Wearing gravity-simulating backpacks, they worked on erecting underwater structures similar to communication relays to be assembled on the moon [source: Malik].
You may consider moving undersea because of the natural beauty or convenient location to food and energy. It may be a professional decision, like the astronauts. Hopefully, the conclusion won't be thrust upon you due to population, pollution or climate crises; if these dilemmas continue unabated, humans may be living underwater with Captain Nemo.
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Orange supervisors have accepted a deed for right of way from Walmart at the eastern edge of the county, where the retailer initially planned to build a SuperCenter.
Walmart's first site was near State Routes 3 and 20 in the Wilderness battlefield area. But after the Board of Supervisors approved a special-use permit to allow construction there in 2009, resistance from historic-preservation groups and individuals led Walmart to change its plans in early 2011.
Walmart said at that time that it would build another store elsewhere in the Route 3 corridor and preserve the original site by buying the land but not developing it. It also agreed to compensate Orange County for legal and administrative expenses related to the project.
The deed offered by Walmart included two sections. The first, a 25-foot-wide section totaling about two-tenths of an acre adjacent to the north side of Route 3 on the county's eastern border, is for a potential lane addition to Route 3.
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"The Woonsocket Main Street Open House" is "first and foremost an effort to fill vacancies," said Ainsley Cantoral, director of resource development for NeighborWorks, a private, non-profit agency in the city.
In one fell swoop, anyone interested in starting a business or running an office on Main Street will be able to tour the entire stock of available spaces that are in rent-ready condition on Saturday morning, Cantoral said.
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"This has been done with a great deal of success in other communities," says Cantoral. "Plus by doing this we can collect contact information from potential tenants so hopefully we'll be able to plug people in and provide them with spaces that meet their needs quickly when they become available."
The event begins at 8 a.m. Saturday in City Hall, 169 Main St., with registration and refreshments, followed by a series of presentations offering advice on launching a business, incentives offered through the city, market data about where the demand is, and a primer on the dos and don'ts of retailing from the proprietor of Timeless Antiques & Collectibles, 30 Main St.
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Johnathan is divorced with two kids and family is very important to him. He knows his time on the water is running out so he is trying to instill as much crabbing knowledge as he can into his son, deckhand Scotty Hillstrand.
When he's not crabbing in the winter, you'll find Johnathan fishing for salmon during the summer on board his 38-foot Fishing Fever.
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VW adds Jetta Sportwagen, pricing to site
by Chris Tutor (RSS feed) on Feb 3rd, 2008 at 11:31AM
For those of you impatiently waiting for the VW Jetta Sportwagen, there's something new over at VW.com to keep you busy a few more days. Along with photos of the car inside and out, there are stats, options and a base price that's closer to the true price than the rough estimate we had before. Entry-level price for the anxiously-awaited wagon is $24,500. The site says you get an 8-speaker stereo with aux-in, ABS and traction control for that number.We assume that's with the 5-speed and 170 hp, 2.5 liter gasoline engine that gets 21 city, 29 highway. Which ain't too bad, actually, but not... Read More