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Opera Web Standards CurriculumTuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Following on from my earlier blog post about universities not teaching relevant web design skills, Opera and Yahoo apparently feel the same, and have come together to launch the Web Standards Curriculum.
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Well done to those concerned for taking the time to develop what is a great starting point for not only students (who can supplement their "formal" education, and teach themselves the right skills), but also teachers and businesses as well – able to use the resource to improve their current methods etc. Let's hope the universities and schools catch up quickly.


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Cardinal Roger Etchegaray's visit to Moscow, to share with the entire Christian Community of Russia the joy of the double celebration of Your Holiness' birthday and name day, gives me the pleasant opportunity of sending you my fervent and cordial good wishes.
I would like to join this joyful celebration in spirit, and I
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The contemporary world needs to hear voices that indicate the path of peace, of respect for all, of the condemnation of all forms of violence, of the superior dignity of every person and of the innate rights to which he or she is entitled.
With these sentiments, I offer you my best wishes for your good health; after the example and with the intercession of St Alexis, may you continue to fulfil fruitfully the mission that God has entrusted to you.
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To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Your Holiness,
I warmly thank you for your cordial good wishes and remembrance in prayer that you sent to me on the occasion of my birthday and name day, which Cardinal Roger Etchegaray brought to me.
In our time, when secularism is rapidly spreading, Christianity faces grave challenges that require a common witness. I am convinced that for our Churches, which share the same view of many current problems in the contemporary world, a priority task today must be the defence and affirmation in society of the Christian values by which humanity has lived for more than a millennium. I hope that this will also contribute to finding a speedy solution to the problems between the two Churches.
I reciprocate in prayer for you, Your Holiness, my best wishes for your good health, as I invoke an abundance of divine help upon you in the fulfilment of your lofty office as Primate of the Roman Catholic Church.
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We have made this dish several times over the years for many different guests and it is always a hit. The dish can be made in advance and the pork can be served either hot or at room temperature. I would recommend an additional pork tenderloin, the suggested amount is not enough for 6-8 people. Enjoy!
Great dish, pork is good hot or room temp, with salad or on its own. When I can't find napa cabbage, I use butter lettuce and it works great. Vinaigrette is good with or without curry powdr.
I have made this many times to rave reviews from guests I use this dressing that was suggested in the comments years back and think it works better; This was fabulous - taste & presentation were great! However, the vinaigrette didn't quite do it for me ... Next time I'll try my fav dressing for spinach salad which I think will make this perfect! (1/2c white wine vinegar, 2/3 c salad oil, 2-3 T Major Grey's chutney, 1 t curry, 1 t dry mustard, 1 t salt, 1 t hot pepper sauce - combine/shake and let stand a room temp for 2 hrs).
Much more than a salad. I served with Jasmine rice. Used 3T bottled jerk seasoning and 1/4C of brown sugar as the glaze (taste it!) This is my new favorite recipe.
My whole family loves this salad! Fresh, spicy, delicious and full of healthy stuff.
This is a great, in a hurry meal that tastes amazing and can be used in so many ways from serving with a salad as scripted or with something like risotto or in a pasta dish...I have made it multiple times and never been disappointed. The flavours are even more delicious than anticipated. Great combination of seasonings. I have plans to create a cream sauce with the pan glaze drippings - havent done it yet coz is so good as is - but will get around to it eventually.
Incredible recipe! Everyone requests this recipe once they've tried it! Followed recipe exactly with the exception of golden raisins. Substituted cranberries instead.
Our family has enjoyed this recipe for years. WE made it last night and I was forced to use 1/2 Tbsp Dijon and 1/2 Tbsp honey mustard. The result was the best version of this dish that we have had so far. From now on, we will use both mustards..it added a sweetness to the dressing..Delicious. It deserves a blue ribbon!
Blue Ribbon quality for sure! It was a hit at my home. And the bonus, it was so easy to make. I have never made the salad that they suggested, instead I go with the salad that I normally make. I cut down the sugar a little as it is just a sauce and I use extra Sriracha instead of Tabasco because I like thinks spicy. It is probably my new favorite pork recipe. The salad dressing is so tasty. Yum!!


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The plan, backed by the Family Pride Corporation and Southeastern Housing Foundation, was the winning bid in a recent request for proposal. It would create 100 units of senior housing and is expected to create 18 new jobs.
"There is a lot of Knoxville history wrapped up in this school, and it looks like we're going to be able to preserve it," said Mayor Burchett. "The $13.7 million dollar investment that Family Pride and Southeastern are planning to make is great for this community."
In addition to preserving the school, which is already on Knox Heritage's "Fragile 15" list, the plan would also save the World War I doughboy statue that stands guard in front of the school.
"Historic Knoxville High fits beautifully into our mission of preserving historic buildings, and providing senior living services of the highest quality at reasonable costs," said Family Pride Corporation General Manager Rick Dover. "We are grateful and excited about the opportunity at Knoxville High."
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|1988 September
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|1989 July
|The NSC and Ministry of Education (MOE) formed a committee to conduct a feasibility study.
|1991 January
|The Executive Yuan approved the 5-year plan of development for the NCHC
|1992 February
|The NCHC headquarters was established in the Hsinchu Science Park
|The NCHC headquarters opened its doors to the public and began providing HPC services
|The NCHC assumed responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the TANet2 R&D network
|The NCHC's south business unit was established
The NCHC accepted the Executive Yuan's "Challenge 2008" mandate to develop and maintain the TaiWan Advanced Research and Education Network (TWAREN)
|The NCHC's corporate status was changed to a non-profit (i.e. incorporated) organization
|2005 January
|The NCHC's southern business unit was completed and began serving as TWAREN's Network Operation Center (NOC)
|2005 February
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|2005 May
|The NCHC's central business unit Grid Operation/Knowledge Management Center was established.
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|2007 April
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|2007 June
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|2007 November
|The NCHC's open source-based software, Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL), won first place in "Public Sector Applications" category at the Libre Software Meeting in France
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|Dr. Jan-Li Wang received the Golden Eagle Award for the Handicapped from Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior (MOI)
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|2010 February
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With Tune In, Mark Lewisohn launches what promises to be a 3,000-or-so-page trilogy about the Beatles. If that sounds like overkill, bear in mind that Robert Caro is closing in on his fifth volume about LBJ, who let's not kid ourselves couldn't even sing.
Obsessive Beatles fans will recognize Lewisohn's name. In his on-again, off-again role as the band's in-house historian, he's published some indispensable books about them, including the geek's paradise that is Recording Sessions, in which he detailed every backing vocal and bass note the Beatles ever recorded inside the hallowed white rooms of Abbey Road. Full disclosure: I met Lewisohn many years ago, and thought he was a surprisingly devout scholar and also very nice. He wrote while sitting on an ergonomic kneeling chair, so my chief memory is of him genuflecting before the Beatles.
My respect for Lewisohn aside, I didn't relish the idea of cracking open Tune In: It's 932 pages long and ends in 1962, for God's sake. But by the time the boys from Liverpool hit Hamburg in 1960, I was tearing through the book with a hunger. And they really were just boys, by the way, despite being sex-crazed and hopped-up on speed so they could rock all night for drunk Germans. Here's George Harrison remembering a singular moment from his youth: ''My first shag was in Hamburg, with Paul and John and Pete Best all watching. We were in bunkbeds. They couldn't really see anything because I was under the covers but after I'd finished they all applauded and cheered. At least they kept quiet whilst I was doing it.''
In Tune is spectacularly well sourced and researched, and it draws on decades' worth of the author's interviews. Though he was once on the Beatles' payroll, Lewisohn serves only the truth here. (It's been decades since you could entirely trust the Beatles' own memories, partly because of their age, partly because of their agendas.) He nails all the riveting and/or heartbreaking subplots from the band's earliest years: John Lennon and Paul McCartney losing their mums while still in school; Stu Sutcliffe, the beloved, if terrible, bassist finding the love of his life in Germany only to die of a brain hemorrhage at 21; manager Brian Epstein failing to get the band he adored a record contract even as labels signed a group of singing trumpeters, a 10-year-old schoolboy, and a singing Canadian wrestler. The saga is clearer and richer here than it's ever been. Lewisohn writes in novelistic detail and with the obvious conviction that none of the previous Beatles biographies have ever been good enough even if, until this very moment, they had to be. A


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The highlight of our Saturdays are spent curled up in front of the TV watching James Martin's Saturday Kitchen Live (we're sure we're not the only ones, ladies?) so when we heard that we were in for another dose of James Martin, we couldn't resist finding out more.
What's on the menu for this series?In these cold and wet winter months, warm comforting food is high on the menu for most people and James is here to help. Comfort food recipes aren't fancy and they certainly aren't pretty but with Mr Martin at the helm, we can guarantee they're going to be rather delicious.
Week oneHere's some of the delicious comfort foods James is making this week...
- Monday: Chicken and mushroom pie and slow-cooked spare ribs
- Tuesday: Beef and red wine pie, chicken fricassee and homemade marshmallows
- Wednesday: Toad in the hole with onion gravy and blackberry and apple millefeuille
- Thursday: Chicken escalope and ice box cake
- Friday: Squid with dipping sauce and tapas of chicken wings and wedges
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Week twoWe're in for a treat this week with plenty more mouth-watering recipes...
- Monday: Fish, chips and mushy peas and Thai chilli beef
- Tuesday: Jacket potato skins and chocolate and clementine pudding
- Wednesday: Ham hock and tartiflette
- Thursday: Thai crab risotto, steak and chips and a homemade Bernaise sauce
- Friday: Roast shoulder of pork, bacon sandwich and beef noodle soup
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Week threeIt's James' last week of home comforts. What's on the menu?
- Monday: Prawn cocktail, roast lamb with homemade mint jelly and vanilla-cured salmon
- Tuesday: Slow-cooked chicken chasseur and pork loin stuffed with chestnuts and sage
- Wednesday: Macaroni cheese, tomato soup and white chocolate and whisky croissant pudding
- Thursday: Squash and lime soup and a vitamin-packed poached haddock with egg
- Friday: Beef Wellington, custard souffle and passion fruit delice
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A new poll shows Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio still enjoying a huge lead over Republican challenger Joseph Lhota. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report.
Bill de Blasio's surge is turning into a tidal wave.
"I am gratified to have the support that have now, but that doesn't make it any less tough," de Blasio said.
"I have no doubt about this that this race will get closer and closer over the next two weeks," Lhota said.
With a lot of ground to cover, Lhota said he is undeterred. In fact, in Flushing on Thursday, he didn't hold back.
"Bill de Blasio is essentially a political hack who has no plans for the future, doesn't know what you need to do to negotiate, doesn't know what you need to do when it comes to developing plans and have alternative approaches," Lhota said.
"I've offered exceedingly clear and specific plans for this city," de Blasio said.
De Blasio was out with his first ad of the general election on Thursday, taking snippets of his victory speech from primary night. It doesn't mention Lhota once.
According to the latest poll, one-third of New Yorkers don't know enough about Lhota to form an opinion about him. In Flushing on Thursday, Lhota said that with a month left to go, it's not too late to be introducing himself.
"My opponent keeps saying things about me that are absolutely incorrect," Lhota said. "I need to correct that."
Meanwhile, in his official capacity as public advocate, de Blasio's office filed court papers against a new super PAC looking to boost Lhota's candidacy.
The super PAC has sued the state Board of Elections to invalidate the $150,000 contribution limit for independent groups.
De Blasio argues that removing the limit would allow wealthy individuals to have more of a say in city elections than New Yorkers.
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"Food insecurity in Africa is a systemic problem and it is not acceptable that a single flood or drought should cause a crisis," states the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) 's Framework for African Food Security. The framework provides guidelines for governments for building people's resilience so that they can better cope with crises and unexpected events which may compromise their food security.
Sheryl Hendriks, an Associate Professor of Food Security from the University of Pretoria, is a Lead Technical Advisor for CAADP. She was recently at FAO headquarters for a workshop on "Measuring the Impact of Food Security Related Programming." In this interview with Denise Melvin, EC-FAO Programme Communications Officer, she offers an interesting perspective on communicating with policy makers.
DM: What are some important food security policy messages coming out of your work with CAADP?
First of all, governments in Africa should implement public policies and programmes that increase people's resilience to food insecurity. These should primarily focus on building sustainable livelihoods. Resilience can also be increased through social protection, well managed food stocks, reducing the price of food for consumers, and helping people increase the diversity of their diets.
It is very important to work in a participatory way, involving a wide variety of stakeholders from the global to the community level, to come up with the right mix of policies. Working together is empowering and also releases much energy.
DM: How does capacity development contribute to the CAADP process?
While our technical capacity is quite good, there is often a huge gap in communicating our technical knowledge to policy makers - many of whom are not scientists or technical experts. We need to learn how to translate our findings into clear recommendations for action.
Facilitation skills also need to be developed. The framework's success depends on being able to involve many stakeholders to generate knowledge, better understand problems and jointly come up with concrete solutions.
DM: What are some knowledge gaps?
While we know a lot about agricultural production, we need to understand more about how households' changing conditions and how they hope with crises. This is best done though participatory approaches and indeed we have developed a livelihoods based tool for helping communities and governments.
More specifically, policy makers need to understand the global food system. Nowadays, even communities in remote areas are affected by global trends. For example, during the 2008 food price crisis, even remote communities in Africa were affected by the spike in rice prices, because many African countries are net importers of rice. African governments need to understand how local commodity prices and availability are closely connected to world markets and prepare for shocks such as stock shortages, fuel price increases, trade bans and natural disasters.
DM: Could you give some advice on improving communications with policy makers?
SH: Policy makers want to have clear messages with clear and positive recommendations for action. This is much more important than merely keeping track of numbers or messages that merely describe the exiting situation, without saying what can be done.
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Zambians have voted out president seen as closely aligned with China, which has sent thousands of workers and managers here and to other Sub-Saharan countries
Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects a Zambian guard of honour on arrival at Lusaka International Airport in Zambia / Reuters
On the eve of Zambia's presidential elections last week, one of the most common tropes about the vote was to describe it as a referendum on China. For a long time now, Zambia has been at the leading edge of China's drive to expand its relations with the continent. Chinese have migrated to Zambia by the thousands, setting themselves up in mining, farming, commerce and small industry.
Although China is a latecomer to Zambia's decades-old copper industry, it has quickly established itself as an ambitious rival to "traditional" mining partners like Australia and South Africa. As almost everywhere in Africa these days, Chinese contractors are building highways, dams, and other large infrastructure projects. Zambia even boasts two Chinese-built special economic zones, and has recently allowed banking in the Chinese renminbi instead of the kwacha, dollar, or euro to facilitate trade with China.
But these are not the only developments that have set Zambia apart, or at least placed it ahead of the pack in terms of observable trends in its relations with China. Zambia was one of the first African countries where the role of China and of Chinese people in the country became an explicit and potent political issue. During the campaigning for elections in 2006 and 2008, the now-newly elected leader, Michael Sata, made a sport of baiting China, calling its businesspeople in the country "profiteers," not investors, and denouncing Chinese for "bringing in their own people to push wheelbarrows instead of hiring local people."
"Zambia has become a province of China," Sata thundered in one campaign rally back then. "The Chinese are the most unpopular people in the country because no one trusts them. The Chinaman is coming just to invade and exploit Africa."
Anti-Chinese sentiment was further fueled by violence against workers at Chinese-owned copper mines. In 2006, at one mine, Chinese managers opened fire on workers protesting over back pay and working conditions, injuring several employees. A year earlier, 50 Zambians had been killed at the same mine by an accidental blast at the company's explosives plant. In 2010, at another mine, two Chinese managers were charged with attempted murder after opening fire on a group of employees protesting poor working conditions. Earlier this year, before the election season got underway, the case against the Chinese was quietly dropped, feeding resentment in some circles about China's fast-growing political influence.
The widely employed line about the elections being a referendum on China can only be fully appreciated by spending time, as I did, in Zambia in the weeks prior to the election. China's presence is felt almost everywhere in the country nowadays, from the big Bank of China billboard ads that welcome visitors in Chinese and are among the first sights that any passenger arriving at the Lusaka airport sees, to the city's markets, streets, and shopping malls, where Chinese who were all but invisible just a few years ago now abound. The most politically significant aspect of this presence, though, is the high-profile projects that China rushed to complete in time for the election. These include the newly delivered and fully equipped 159-bed Lusaka General Hospital, and a striking 40,000 seat stadium in Ndola.
During my recent visit, the merits of the hospital were touted in exhausting detail every evening one week on national television, and the stadium has received similarly lavish attention. During a wide-ranging conversation with China's highly articulate ambassador, Zhou Yuxiao, a veteran of several African postings, he spoke proudly of these contributions to Zambia's developments, calling the hospital a "grant".
"Among all nations, I think China is doing the best at getting resources from countries and putting back into those countries," Zhou told me. "Can you find any other country that is doing better?" Several minutes later, when I asked the ambassador what the Americans had contributed to Zambia, he marked a long pause and then fairly sneered, "You employ local people and put them as observers at each and every polling station. What else? I haven't seen any roads being built by them, any schools, any hospitals that really touch people, that can last, that can serve society for long. Maybe training election people is your biggest contribution."
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Five masterpieces including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse worth an estimated $124m have been stolen from a museum in Paris, in what could be one of the world's biggest art thefts.
The robbery at the Musee d'Art Moderne in the French capital was discovered by employees on Thursday morning when they noticed a smashed window pane.
Video surveillance cameras showed one person entering the museum through a window, but it is unclear whether more thieves were involved.
The stolen works included Picasso's Dove with Green Peas, Matisse's Pastoral, George Braque's Olive Tree near l'Estaque, Amedeo Modigliani's Woman with a Fan and Ferdinand Leger's Still Life with Candlestick.
"This is a serious crime to the heritage of humanity," Christophe Girard, culture deputy for the mayor of Paris told a news conference.
"These are key paintings by major artists," he said, adding the theft was committed by "one or more individuals who were obviously organised".Police have launched an investigation into the theft, a spokesman for the Paris prosecutor's office said.High profile thefts
The Musee d'Art Moderne, located in the well-off 16th arrondissement, a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower, is home to more than 8,000 works of art from the 20th century.
February 2008: Four paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Van Gogh and Monet, valued at over $162m, stolen from Zurich museum. August 2007: Two Bruegels, a Sisley and a Monet, stolen from Jules Cheret Museum in Nice, France. Recovered the following year. February 2006: Works by Salvador Dali, Picasso, Matisse and Monet taken from museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. August 2004: Edvard Munch's The Scream and Madonna, valued at $100m, stolen from Oslo museum. Recovered, damaged, in 2006. December 2007: Two Van Gogh paintings stolen from museum in Amsterdam.Source: AFP news agency
The museum, which had initially estimated the worth of the paintings at $600m, revised the figure later in the day.
The robbery has come amid a growing number of thefts in recent months.
In January, about 30 paintings, including some by Picasso and Henri Rousseau, were stolen from a private villa in the Cote d'Azur, with a total estimated value of around $1.2m.
On 31 January, a pastel by Edgar Degas disappeared from the Cantini museum in Marseille, also in the south of France.
The 1877 painting worth nearly $1m had been lent for an exhibition by the Musee d'Orsay in Paris.
It had been unscrewed from the wall and there was no evidence of a break-in, police said, indicating the thief or thieves knew how to get round the museum's security system.
Stolen masterpieces are rarely recovered, but three men are being tried in France for the 2007 theft of three Picassos worth more than $62m from the Paris home of his grand-daughter.
The paintings were found after a five-month investigation.
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What story is this library telling?
One of my students calls one of the large, urban local libraries doing research for group projects. He encounters this intriguing story:
Librarian: Hello? ________ Public Library, may I help you?
LIS753 Student: Hello, I'm working on a project for my library school class and I have a question.
Librarian: Of course.
LIS753 Student: Does the library have plans to start an IM reference service?
Librarian: Oh God, No!
Wow, not even a "We have heard of libraries doing that but we haven't looked into yet.." or anything! Shame on you, large, urban Illinois-located Public Library system!


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I was shooting an event at the Salish Lodge and ran over to catch the falls just before sunset.
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News about Birdwatching, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Fostering Pheasants to Keep a Tradition Alive
Families, wildlife groups and others are raising day-old chicks that they will release into the wild as part of a Utah program to promote hunting.
November 6, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Hunting and Trapping , Birds , Utah , Fish and Wildlife Service
Meet the Butter Butt, One Tough Bird
The yellow-rumped warbler (Setophaga coronata) overwinters farther north than any other North American wood warbler, and is very hardy.
October 31, 2014, Friday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: New York City , Birds
362 Birds, and Unruffled
One rescue led to many, many others and a teeming two-wing backyard sanctuary.
September 18, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Birds , Raffin, Michele , Books and Literature , Breeding of Animals , Rescues , Endangered and Extinct Species
Monk Parrots Nestle Nicely in Queens and Beyond
Some 50 years after the parrots showed up, how they wound up in the United States is still a matter of debate.
September 17, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Birds , Queens (NYC) , Pets
Climate Change Will Disrupt Half of North America's Bird Species, Study Says
The National Audubon Society foresees danger for more than half of the 650 species of birds in North America.
September 9, 2014, Tuesday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Birds , North America , Global Warming , Audubon Society, National , Endangered and Extinct Species
Nevermore? Ravens Sighted in New York
The birds, immortalized by Edgar Allan Poe in his poem "The Raven," have been observed in recent months in Chelsea and Greenwich Village.
August 25, 2014, Monday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Birds , New York City
What the Sparrows Told Me
The avian life of New Orleans taught me and my students a lesson in resilience.
August 16, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: New Orleans (La) , Animal Migration , Birds , Hurricane Katrina (2005)
Suit Says Owl Killings at Kennedy Airport Were Excessive
The lawsuit said federal agencies that oversee bird culling programs at airports should have found other ways to remove the owls.
August 2, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON BIRDWATCHING AND: Fish and Wildlife Service , New York City , Birds , Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service , Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare , Airlines and Airplanes , Kennedy International Airport (NYC) , Owls , Friends of Animals
Groups Press New York State to Ban Poisons That Kill Wildlife
Wildlife and conservation groups are citing new evidence gathered from post-mortem examinations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
July 28, 2014, Monday
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Jane Alexander's Bird-Watching Tips
The actress, who has traveled widely to see and hear birds, talks about some top birding spots and offers guidance on finding tours.
July 27, 2014, Sunday
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LITE plans to revolutionize safety measures for the energy industry using smart sensing and monitoring technologies.LITE plans to revolutionize safety measures for the energy industry using smart sensing and monitoring technologies. By Kam Ng
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012
Here at Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise we have been busy with defining how our mission, which is to catalyze economic development through innovation and technology, will support our community and the industries that make us the "Hub City."
The oil and gas industry is alive and thriving here, and one of our main focuses at LITE in the near-term is to provide services to an industry that is such an important part of our community and livelihood. We have made it our priority to ensure that the oil and gas industry can do its business better and safer.
Working with our partners in university research and the private sector, as well as the immersive technologies and expertise that are available in our facility, we have plans to revolutionize safety measures for the oil and gas industry using smart sensing and monitoring technologies.
In 1999 I published an article in the International Journal of Rotating Machinery titled, "Integrated Diagnostics and Prognostics of Rotating Machinery." The focus of this article was to bring to light the development of sensing and monitoring technologies and how they had the ability to detect a problem before it could cause significant damage to machinery.
The article describes a condition-based monitoring system, which could be used to monitor the overall health of air vehicles, power generation systems, automobiles, helicopter gearboxes and other rotating machinery systems such as motors, fans, pumps and compressors. The concept involves using sensors to measure vibration, acoustics, flow or other measurable physical properties and combining predictive models to detect and classify abnormal conditions such as faults and precursors. The outputs to the operators are warning and recommended corrective actions.
It is likely that you are using some kinds of monitoring systems daily for safety measures, too. Have you ever been in your vehicle when the check engine' or low tire pressure' light comes on? Deep inside the engine of your car these sensors are constantly monitoring the health of your vehicle and are programmed to let you know before a problem arises.
In most industries, oil and gas included, any downtime associated with machinery breakage can reduce operational effectiveness and eventually profit. But even worse, having problems can jeopardize operational safety and endanger the organization's greatest asset - its workforce. Using sensors and condition-based monitoring technologies, we can catch major problems and solve them before they occur.
Immersive technologies and visualization is where LITE can enhance the capabilities and take the condition-based monitoring to the next level. There are always safety and monitoring systems in place on the platforms and other oil and gas equipment, but by using LITE's capabilities in data visualization and simulation we can create a real-time warning system that will provide safety indicators for an entire operation.
Smart sensors, such as micro-electromechanical systems sensors, remote sensors and biosensors combined with advanced signal processing algorithms can be used to develop a robust fault detector to detect an abnormal operation. Even the slightest change in a normal operation will trigger and then classified what type of fault occurred. Because the data is available in real-time and online, one can compare it to the predictive models that show what a normal running system should look like, and if they are outside the threshold of normal operational conditions, the operator is notified instantly.
With our visualization and simulation capabilities coupled with our expertise in handling large and complex data sets, we give our oil and gas platform operators the opportunity to use these technologies to catch problems before they arise and prevent large-scale disasters like the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010.
The American Petroleum Institute is developing recommended practices on safety indicators for the oil and gas industry. These condition-based monitoring technologies combined with safety performance indicators can be used to minimize catastrophic effects such as personal injuries and fatalities, as well as economic, property and environmental damage.
Blending sensing and monitoring technologies with safety indicators is the next smart move that offers safety and maintenance-cost improvements to ensure the future of the oil and gas industry.
Dr. Kam Ng (pronounced ing) is CEO of LITE. He most recently was deputy director of research for the Office of Naval Research and holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics from the University of Rhode Island and an MBA from Marymount University. For more information on LITE, visit www lite3d.com; send questions regarding LITE and our Smart Sensing program to email@example.com.


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Olympic Information
- 2008 Beijing - 7th (Team Event)
Recent Performances
- 18th (Technical Team) - 2011 FINA World Championships (Shanghai, China)
- 17th (Team) - 2011 FINA World Championships (Shanghai, China)
- 9th (Team) - 2011 German Open (Bonn, Germany)
- 6th (Team) - 2011 French Open (Paris, France)
- 4th (Team) - 2010 Swiss Open (Arbon, Switzerland)
- 12th (Duet) - 2010 Swiss Open (Arbon, Switzerland)
Career Highlights
- Placing 7th at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
- Making the combination routine final at the 2007 World Championships
- Winning gold at the 2006 Oceania Championships
Interesting Facts
- Samantha Reid got into synchronised swimming as an eight-year-old, following her sister into the sport. She first represented Queensland in 2000 and has been on the national team since 2005.
- Reid competed in the team event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games where Australia finished seventh.
- A member of the 2003 Oceania Synchronised Swimming Team, Reid was also part of the new point Australian team for the Montreal World Junior Synchro Championships in 2002.
- Reid competed at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China - where she and the Australian team qualified the spot for the London Olympics.
- She danced for eight years and also competed in hockey and volleyball at high school.
Years on national team
Anna Nepotcheva (2005 - current)
Marina Kholod (2006 - current)
Primary Training Base
Gold Coast, Australia
Secondary Training Base
Chandler, Australia
Gold Coast Mermaids (QLD, Australia)
Kimberley Park State School (QLD, Australia)
Rivermount College (QLD, Australia)
Bachelor of Creative Industries (2011 - )
Synchro Swimming Team
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Letter to the Editor: Funding street maintenance
CORPUS CHRISTI - I would like to voice my opinion on how to raise money for street maintenance in a fair manner for all.
Some people in my area have one car, some have two, and some may have three. Also, there are people who live in apartments and have a car or two.
I think it would be a more fair way to charge a family or individual for each car they may own. Perhaps $5 per car per month, or some other amount.


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Book your room at Varsity Clubs Of America - South Bend
Standard RoomMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Suite, 1 BedroomMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Suite, 2 BedroomsMax Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 5 children, 5 infants)
Mishawaka hotel with an indoor pool
Situated in Mishawaka, this hotel is close to University Park Mall, Notre Dame Stadium, and Heritage Square Shopping. Local attractions also include Warren Golf Course and Poawatomi Zoo.
Hotel Features
In addition to a bar/lounge, Varsity Clubs Of America - South Bend provides wireless Internet access (surcharge), dry cleaning/laundry services, and laundry facilities.
Room Amenities
In addition to flat-screen televisions with satellite channels, guestrooms include kitchenettes. Bathrooms come with shower/tub combinations and designer toiletries.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
At your hotel
At your hotel
High-speed wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. This 3-star property offers access to a business center and a meeting room. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and an area shuttle. This Mishawaka hotel also offers an indoor pool, barbecue grills, and gift shops/newsstands. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 86
- 24-hour front desk
- Elevator/lift
- Indoor pool
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Number of floors - 3
- Bar/lounge
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Fireplace in lobby
- Wireless Internet access - surcharge
- One meeting room
- Business center
- Laundry facilities
- Free self parking
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Television in lobby
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Wireless Internet access - surcharge
Park your car
Free self parking
In your room
- DVD player
- Coffee/tea maker
- Phone
- Separate sitting area
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Kitchenette
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Sofa bed
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Satellite TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Sofa bed size
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Basketball on site
The fine print for Varsity Clubs Of America - South Bend
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
This property does not allow pets, but service animals are welcome. For more information, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
When you leave
Check-out time is 10 AM
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Special policies:
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Resort fee: USD 5 per accommodation, per night
- Fitness center access
- Business center/computer access
- Internet access (may be limited)
- Self parking
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 15.00 (one way)
- Deposit: USD 100 per stay
- Cleaning/housekeeping/linens fee: USD 25 per day


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Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Bundles
Recipe courtesy of Rachael Ray
- 30 Minute Meals
These bundles can be easily prepared on an outdoor grill or in a hot oven.
- Total Time:
- 18 min
- Prep:
- 8 min
- Cook:
- 10 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings
- Level:
- Easy
- Total Time:
- 18 min
- Prep:
- 8 min
- Cook:
- 10 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings
- Level:
- Easy
Preheat oven, if using, to 400 degrees F.
Lightly coat asparagus spears in extra-virgin olive oil. Season the asparagus with black pepper. Take a quick count of the spear tips. Divide the total number by four. Gather that number of spears and use a slice of bacon to wrap the bundle and secure the spears together. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
To grill, place bundles on hot grill and cover. Cook 10 to 12 minutes until bacon is crisp and asparagus bundles are tender.
For oven preparation, place bundles on slotted broiler pan. Bake 12 minutes.
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray
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During the winter you can find our produce at Morning Glory Natural Foods and Local in Brunswick, and at the new Portland Food Coop.
Come visit us during the summer at the South Portland Farmers Market (Sundays 10-2) and at our pop-up farm stand at Scratch Baking Co. (Tuesday afternoons).
Farm shares are SOLD OUT for our short season (Nov-Dec) fall/winter shares!
Sign-up is quick and easy - The full details about the program with pickup days and times, and online sign-up can be found at leftfieldfarm.csasignup.com.
What is a Farm Share Program?
A Farm Share Program, also known as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a relationship between our farm and you as our customer. Rather than simply purchasing food, our customers become members of the farm and receive a portion of the farm's harvest.
Farm shares are a win for the consumer and the farm:
- You get the freshest possible food, with outstanding flavor and nutrient content, and food that will store longer.
- Payments in advance of the growing season reduce the burden of up-front costs for the farmer when purchasing seeds and supplies for the season.
- We get the opportunity to get to know the people who eat the food we grow; likewise, you get to know your farmers.
- Finding customers early in the season helps alleviate some of the marketing tasks that can take time away from crucial fieldwork in the middle of summer.
Thinking about 2015 already? Details about our summer farm share program:
Our shares are designed around an individual person. This means slightly smaller amounts of each item than what is often seen with CSAs. We don't want to overload our members with produce - we want to provide them with what they'll use. With this in mind we also focus on the crops that are familiar and accessible to most everyone.
This also means our shares are affordable. $17 a week for a basic share ($16.50 by signing up early). We also offer a larger share option.
Lastly we offer convenience - easy signup and management of your membership through an online signup process; and pickups and delivery options that make getting your produce easy.
Where are the pickups?
In 2014 we offered a pickup location in Bowdoinham at the Long Branch General Store; in Brunswick on Maine Street; in South Portland at Scratch Baking Co.
For Portland, we offer a "milkman" home delivery service, where your share arrives fresh and cool on your doorstep by 7am on delivery day. Available if you live in the peninsula neighborhoods.
Workplace delivery is also available for 4 or more shares. Delivered in the afternoon and ready for you to take home at the end of your workday. Contact us if you are interested in this option.
Farm Share Veggies:
All shares focus on the the staples - the vegetables you want in the kitchen all the time. We want our farm share program to give you the fresh ingredients you want to use often - and that shouldn't require complicated recipes to cook. We think that the occasional need for an unusual vegetable is best served by a trip to the farmers market. Lettuce, spinach, onions are often in the shares, and summer favorites of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers (scroll up for the full list of what we grow).
$340 for 20 weeks (that's $17/week) starting in early June. Or choose the large share for $550 ($27.50/week). You can see exactly what was in last season's shares here.
Flowers, Eggs, and Cheese:
In order to make delivery logistics a little easier sunflowers and mixed bouquets will be available only at our farm stand/farmers market stall this year. Thanks for understanding!
We partner with Winter Hill Farm to offer a cheese option to our shareholders; a broad selection of great cheeses over the course of the season.
We plan to offer pastured eggs in the future but they are not available as a CSA option yet.
Want more details or ready to sign up?
Sign-ups will open up in the new year for the 2015 season.
What comes out of Left Field:
Organic vegetables & fruit: arugula, basil, beets, beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, collard greens, cucumbers, kale, garlic, leeks, lettuce, onions, summer squash, potatoes, sweet peppers, specialty peppers, heirloom tomatoes, red tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, radishes, spinach, strawberries, sweet potatoes, winter squash
Organic herbs & flowers
Pasture raised eggs & chickens: will be offered in coming seasons
You can find our produce seasonally at these great restaurants and stores -
Brunswick: Local, Morning Glory, Tao-Yuan, Wild Oats
Portland: Portland Food Coop
South Portland: Enio's, Scratch Baking Co.
Need some recipe ideas?
These sites offer great recipes and cooking inspiration, much better than anything I could ever put together. (Also they're searchable by ingredient):
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Tsagaan salaa rock painting
Ministry of Enlightenment
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The Tsagaan salaa and related Baga Oigor rock paintings consist of about 10,000 figures on the anti-sunrise side of mountain rocks covering an area of 15 square km. The Tsagaan salaa and Baga Oigor rock paintings date back to the Neolithic period (6000-3000 B.C) and the Brouze age (3000-1000 B.C). The principal subject matter represented in the Tsagaan salaa and Baga Oigor rock paintings are livestock and game animals, singly and in herds often of more than 100. Hunting scenes are also featured prominently. These rock paintings are rich not only in their numbers, but also in meanings, expressiveness, subject and compositions. They are important monuments of the art of the transition from ancient huntersgatherers' society to livestock breeding and beginning of the classic nomadic economy in Mongolia.


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Laci Green grabs a thin sheet of latex, stretches it over the end of an empty toilet paper tube, and starts cutting away with a pair of scissors. "I'm makin' a hymennn," she sings before holding up the finished product to the camera, where, on the other side, more than 700,000 subscribers now await her every upload. "Ta-da!"
Since 2008, the 24-year-old YouTube sex educator has been making informational videos about everything from slut shaming and body image to genital hygiene and finding the G-spot. This particular scene comes from a clip called "You Can't POP Your Cherry (HYMEN 101)" which explains, with the kind of bubbly, web-savvy humor that makes her a popular vlogger, that the hymen isn't a membrane that needs to bleed or be broken during intercourse—it's actually just small, usually elastic folds of mucous tissue that only partially cover the vaginal opening and can, but don't always, tear if stretched. A year and a half after it premiered, with well more than one million views, Green's video debunking one of the most enduring misconceptions about virginity is also one of the most popular segment she's ever recorded.
For a lot of women (and men), Green's message is hardly news, for any number of reasons. Several comments on the video, which still arrive almost daily, point that out. But other comments tell a different story: that myths about virginity, sex, and basic biology still pervade even among sexually active adults, and when those myths get reinforced by vacuums of reliable information and sexist messages ingrained in popular culture, they can have serious consequences for women's health.
"Every night I have people come up to me about this video in particular," Green, who takes her sex-positive presentations to college campuses across the country, tells me. "'I'm so glad I saw this.' 'Sex was so much better than I thought it was.' 'It didn't hurt.' It's sad to me that people expect this to be a painful experience."
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When Therese Shechter lost her virginity at age 23, it wasn't the firework-spouting, momentous occasion she had come to expect. On the contrary, it was kind of unremarkable given the hype. Now a filmmaker, Shechter spent much of the past six years working on her new documentary How to Lose Your Virginity, which revisits her experience—including the basement apartment where it happened, now, funnily enough, a flower shop called Bloom—and explores the "myths and misogyny" behind one of society's most institutionalized rites of passage.
Through interviews with historians, abstinence advocates, sex educators, and self-described virgins and non-virgins alike, Shechter learned she's not the only one who had certain ideas about what sex is supposed to be like. There are a number of pervasive and loaded myths about virginity: That having sex for the first time will be an irreversible transformation that changes your body and mind; that there's a "right" way to lose your virginity, and how you lose it will affect the rest of your life; that it's going to be the most pleasurable, magical feeling; that it's going to be the most painful experience of their lives. These myths persist in part because of a lack of information about what happens to the human body, specifically the hymen, during sex—information that's often not taught in schools, that's not always found online, and that's not always available from medical providers.
"I've spoken to lots of women who are just terrified of having sex because they think it's going to be this horrible pain and [they'll] bleed gallons of blood," says Shechter, whose documentary makes its broadcast premiere on February 8 on the Fusion Network and is airing in cities across the U.S. and internationally in coming months.
Abstinence-only education in U.S. schools isn't to blame for creating these myths, but Shechter and Green say the programs, which have received more than $1.5 billion dollars and counting in federal funding since 1996 despite mounting research about their ineffectiveness, do create environments where this kind of misinformation thrives. (Even some schools with more comprehensive programs, Green notes, are guilty of getting the facts wrong, too.) Abstinence-only education promotes marriage as the proper venue for sexual activity and the only prevention method for STDs and pregnancy—it doesn't offer information about how, once someone becomes sexually active, to make sure sex isn't painful or how to avoid the kind of bleeding Green talks about. (Fewer than half of all women bleed during the first time they have sex; they can bleed a little or a lot, or not at all, and it can be painful or painless. There's a range of experiences that vary from individual to individual and depend on factors like use of lubrication and levels of arousal.)
Reliable information is out there, but it doesn't always find its way to young women (or men) who could benefit from it. Kiki Zeldes, a senior editor of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the landmark book about women's health and sexuality published by a Boston-based non-profit, says the Internet can often lead astray young women looking for answers. While sites like Scarleteen, an independent sex-education website founded in 1998, are devoted to providing accurate, non-judgmental information to young people, Zeldes says she's concerned by the number of Google search results and general information sites that describe the hymen as a tissue that completely covers the vaginal opening, one that tears and bleeds. "There are a tremendous number of women who don't understand how their bodies work and what happens when they are sexually active," says Zeldes, who adds that "hymen" is the most-searched term on the book's website. "There's lots of information out there, but it's more about reaching young women in formats that they will hear."
Even the medical community contributes to that void. Most medical schools offer little education about the hymen, according to Virgin: The Untouched History author and historian Hanne Blank, and for relevant reasons: it's medically uninteresting and very rarely poses health problems—it's just tissue left over from sometime between the fifth and seventh months of fetal development, roughly. "Your average gynecologist doesn't know a whole lot [about the hymen]," Blank says. "From the medical perspective, we could fairly charitably say there's a wide range of knowledge, and there's a wide range of belief. Doctors are the same as everyone else. Unless an individual physician has taken efforts to educate themselves, chances are what they think they know about the hymen is more reflective of what's around them."
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