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Norwood, MA (04/10/2012) - To meet the needs of today's radio and RF communication equipment designers, Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today introduced the ADL5324 half-Watt RF driver amplifier. When compared to other RF driver amplifiers, the ADL5324 offers superior power efficiency and temperature tolerance. The ADL5324 operates over a wide temperature range (-40° C to +105° C), and can be biased to operate on less power. In addition, the ADL5324 features dynamically adjustable bias which allows RF designers to set the driver's power consumption to the performance needs of the system, without the need for a bias resistor. The ADL5324 RF driver amplifier is well-suited for wired and wireless applications including cellular infrastructure, industrial, science, and medical (ISM) band power amplifiers, and defense and instrumentation equipment.
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Updating TV Theme Songs For The Big Screen – Which Catchy Tunes Do It Right?
Aural Fixation By Allison Loring on March 15, 2012 | Be the First To CommentBringing a beloved (or at least nostalgia inducing) television show to the big screen is no easy undertaking (especially for shows that have been off the air for a few good years.) The task of adapting existing material (whether it be from a book series, a comic book or a well-known public figure) can be daunting as you hope to live up to expectations while also trying cultivate new fans. When it comes to turning a television show into a film, having a few well placed cameos from the original cast, rooting the film in a story true to that show's world and (seeing as many of these shows were comedies) not letting the film version take itself too seriously seem to be the keys to these adaptation's success. With Phil Lord and Chris Miller's updated 21 Jump Street taking to the silver screen this weekend, I realized that the one thing all these shows have in common (regardless of when they aired, who starred in them or what they were about) is also the one element that many television shows on air today have done away with – a catchy theme song.
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Trials have been successful and the broccoli is now ready to be farmed, though it will likely be a number of years before the florets are widely sold. However, scientists at Cornell University haven't just turned their attention to broccoli, they are looking to enhance the appeal and usefulness of a whole range of fruit and vegetables, whilst ensuring that their nutritional qualities are maintained if not enhanced. Other recent items they have produced include habanero peppers that lack their extreme heat, snap peas minus their strings and apples that don't brown once they are cut.


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Flossmoor woman builds extravagant gingerbread village in her home
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Janet Gustafson shows the gingerbread village that she creates annually at her home in Flossmoor Friday, December 7, 2012. | Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
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Anyone who sees Janet Gustafson's amazing gingerbread village may be left speechless.
Seven-year-old Emily Wendt was reduced to speaking in abbreviations on a recent afternoon.
"OMG" was her first response when Emily, a friend of a neighbor's granddaughter, got her first glimpse of the village.
"I can not take a picture of this. It's too big," Emily said.
Set up in a room off the kitchen of her Flossmoor home, Gustafson's village is indeed a marvel to behold.
"It's a family tradition for Flossmoor, and all of Chicago. Children don't understand the work involved," said Nancy Beele, a neighbor who visits each year.
And it's all made from gingerbread that Gustafson bakes herself. The hundreds of tiny figurines have been collected over the years. There are even tiny trains, N gauge and nano, that run in and through the village's buildings. Tiny Christmas trees, some made from inverted ice cream cones, light up.
And the whole thing is illuminated by a couple thousand sparkling multi-colored lights. Built at the perfect height for young child, it's as though the North Pole has found a home in Flossmoor.
"I started in June and I finished on Halloween," said Gustafson, who's been building the village for 40 years.
She finds items at craft stores or she recycles things to create figures or other items in the village.
A tiny Santa in one building started as an angel Christmas tree-topper. "I cut off the wings," she whispered in a conspiratorial tone.
A spinning gizmo that holds tiny cakes in a bakery? That began as a double Ferris wheel, though it's now sitting on one side.
"I just look at things and figure out how I can use them. Or, if I can't find them, I make them. Like the little gingerbread house, that's something I would make," she said.
All the snow is made from white Royal frosting.
"Fifty pounds of it. It's real. All the greenery? The trees? That's all frosting," she said.
You could eat the village, but chances are some of it may be a little stale after a while. Gingerbread gets brittle with time and she uses basswood to reinforce the buildings.
Why spend so much time and effort to build the village every year?
"I love it. I really like creating games and I've found a lot of kids have lost creativity. I don't know why. But I like them seeing you can make things from something else. This isn't cheap to do, but this is baking," she said, offering a gingerbread cookie to a visitor.
"I don't work. I have a lot of energy. My degree is in political science. What am I going to do?" Gustafson said.
Every year, the village has a theme. This year's is "Games and Trains." Gustafson , 68, cleverly has tiny clues dispersed throughout the village that, when deciphered, has visitors playing a game designed by grandson Jeff Gustafson, 12.
Her husband, Kurt, who died three years ago, was an engineer who enjoyed bringing his coworkers over to see the village.
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"Most of the adults love the games. The little ones like the lights (and) like the trains. The men like the mechanicals and always ask how I make them."
It takes Gustafson about a week to take apart the village. The gingerbread used for houses is new every year. Two weeks of steady baking usually makes enough, she said.
The figurines, tiny trains and other items are all stashed away until the next Christmas season.
She's more than happy to open her home to people to see the village, and plans to do so Jan. 6. Call the Flossmoor Village Hall at (708) 798-2300 to schedule a visit.


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(Attica, OH) With temperatures forecast in the 30's falling into the 20's by night, coupled with rain, freezing rain and snow showers, Attica Raceway Park officials have postponed the 2011 season opener until Friday, April 1st with a rain date of Saturday, April 2nd."We had the track ready to go as of Wednesday morning, but with more rain, mixed with sleet and snow in the forecast over the next two days and temperatures only in the upper 30's by Friday and Saturday, we have decided to wait another week," said Attica Promoter John Bores."Ohio's Finest Racing" speed plant will open the gates on Friday, April 1st at 5 p.m. for Columbus Equipment/Northern Ohio Truck Center Night featuring the O'Reilly Auto Part 410 Sprints; Fremont Fence 305 Sprints and Fultz Fabrications and Speed Shop UMP Late Models. Racing will get under way at 7:45 p.m. If the opening night is moved to Saturday, April 2nd, gates will open at 4 p.m. with racing underway at 7 p.m.For more information go to www.atticaracewaypark.com


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Two Color Bodice One Shoulder Dress
Style # 210740
With a playful contrast of color, sexy ruching at sides and chic one shoulder cut, this bebe dress is sure to land you a fresh and modern evening look. Try it with a pair of nude pumps and statement earrings.
- 68% rayon 27% polyester, 5% spandex
- Center back to hem: 32" (81 cm)
- Jersey lining
- Invisible zipper
- Dry clean
- Imported
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Two Color Bodice One Shoulder Dress
Defective dress
I agree with the other reviewers, I tried this dress on in the store, it looked so cute on the hanger, and I thought wow, only $49. Well once I tried it on I can see why it is on sale. The dress is definitely defective, the top is so off, one side is twisted around and if you pull it over your bra shows completely. There is no way you can make it work. Such a shame, it would have been a very cute dress if it had of been sewn correctly. Bebe needs to do better quality control.
March 31, 2013
I don't know what the other reviewers are talking about, but this dress is absolutely stunning! The color is gorgeous, the fit is great, and it is everything that I could ever want in a dress.
March 30, 2013
The FIt is Off
Fail. I should have waited for a review before buying this dress. The fit is so off, there's no amount of tailoring that would fix it. The zipper is on the left side. When I put it on, I wondered quickly how the right side would fit as it looked too loose. Then as I zipped it up, I could hardly breathe and yet the right bust side was still loose. Weird fit. To make it barely comfortable, you would need to hike the dress way up that it would look super awkward. . I'm returning this dress. Too bad, the material is so nice and soft.
March 7, 2013
Beautiful looking dress,awful fitting, it is ill-formed! Bebe will need to go back to the drawing board for this one.
I had a similar experience as the previous reviewer. The dress fits wired around the shoulder.Such a shame as it is beautiful but needs to be remade, the measurements are off. It obviously has factory faults. I just return this dress.
March 3, 2013
Odd fit
When I bought this online I was so excited to receive it but when I did It was a disappointment. The fit on top was just odd. I don't know how to explain it but the left armhole was to big and the strap was to tight and close to my neck. It was just not right. So sad I had to send it back
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(06-01-2011 12:59 PM)ceocards Wrote: Yes, I verified with them yesterday that they are still trying to figure this out. It's perplexing, as there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why it's only affecting a small number of users.
(06-02-2011 04:18 AM)thelegendjerryrice Wrote: CEO: Do you know of any LIMITS on amount of cards that can be in a trade ? I have an on going trade with someone. For example they have 122 wants. I have only 43. But when i go to add more. It goes to the trade page. The page to select cards loads. Then closes and goes right back to the trade page.


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Makes 12 muffins
- 1 egg (or substitute) or 2 egg whites
- 1/3 cup (115 g) molasses
- 1 cup (240 ml) buttermilk (or 1 cup milk mixed with 1 teaspoon vinegar)
- 3/4 cup (120 g) ground flaxseed meal
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (175 g) chopped dates
- 1 1/2 cups (210 g) flour, preferably half whole wheat and half white
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Optional: 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 teaspoon grated orange rind; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1. Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C), and prepare 12 muffin cups with papers or cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, mix together the egg, molasses, buttermilk, flax, and salt, and add the dates to the batter.
3. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour and baking soda (and cinnamon).
4. Gently stir the flour mixture (and orange rind and vanilla) into the egg mixture.
5. Fill the muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Per serving: 165 calories, 30 g carbohydrate, 4 g protein, 3 g fat
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main ingredients: Molases, Date
dietary considerations: Vegetarian, Low Cal, Healthy
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - National Galleries of Scotland
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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0131 624 6200
Home to Scotland's outstanding national collection of modern and contemporary art, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art includes two gallery buildings, Modern One and Modern Two.
Works from the Gallery's collection, plus special loans, are presented in Modern One. The early part of the collection features French and Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century, cubist paintings and superb holdings of expressionist and modern British art. Special highlights include paintings by Matisse and Picasso.
The Gallery also has an outstanding collection of international post-war work and the most important and extensive collection of modern Scottish art. The post-war collection features art by Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud, with more recent works by artists including Antony Gormley, Gilbert & George, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
Modern Two is home to a changing programme of exhibitions and displays drawn for the permanent collection. On permanent display is a fascinating recreation of Eduard Paolozzi's studio, as well as his 7.3m tall sculpture, Vulcan, that dominates the café. Modern Two is also home to the Gallery's substantial library and archive, open to the public by appointment, and changing displays in the Gabrielle Keiller library.
Also in Modern Two is The Stairwell Project, a large-scale, permanent work by 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright. Comprising several thousand individually hand-painted forms, the piece sits as Wright's most complex and ambitious work to date in Britain.
Set in extensive parkland, visitors can discover sculpture works by important artists like Ian Hamilton Finlay, Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Long and Nathan Coley. The lawn to the front of Modern One was re-landscaped in 2002 to a design by Charles Jencks.
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When the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1960, it inherited a small number of 20th century works from the National Gallery of Scotland, but the majority of the collection has been acquired over the last forty years.
The collection now comprises more than 5,000 items, ranging in date from the late 19th century to the present and encompasses work in a wide variety of media, from paintings, bronzes and works on paper, to kinetic sculpture and video installations.
Highlights of the collection include early 20th century French paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Derain and Matisse; Cubist work by Braque, Léger and Picasso; early 20th century Russian art, including oils by Larionov and Goncharova; and a superb collection of Expressionist art, with works by Barlach, Kirchner, Kokoschka and Nolde. The post-war collection includes work by Morandi, Bacon, Hockney, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Moore and Freud.
20th century Scottish art is especially well represented, with works by Mackintosh, the Scottish Colourists, Gillies, Maxwell, Eardley, Philipson, Davie, Bellany, Currie and Howson, while recent acquisitions include works by younger Scots such as Christine Borland and Douglas Gordon.
The Gallery's outstanding collection of Dada and Surrealist art and extensive holding of work by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi is shown in the adjacent Dean Gallery (renamed Modern Two in 2011).
Since space permits only a portion of the collection to be displayed at any one time, works are shown on a rotating basis. Exhibitions are also held throughout the year. The Gallery's collection of works on paper is held in the Print Room, which is open by appointment.
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Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland
- 28 June 2014 — 25 January 2015 *on now
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art will mount a ground-breaking, two-part exhibition at Modern One and the Scottish National Gallery, offering a rich, diverse and coherent view of the way that contemporary art has developed in Scotland over the past 25 years. More than 30 artists will be represented across the two sites, and works made at key moments in the last quarter-century will be shown in parallel with new work by both established and promising younger artists.
At the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the exhibition will include spectacular installations by Ross Sinclair (Real Life Rocky Mountain, 1996), Graham Fagen (Peek-A-Jobby, 1998) and Turner Prize-winner Simon Starling (Burn-Time, 2000). A diverse range of work by artists such as Victoria Morton, Alison Watt, Julie Roberts, Lucy McKenzie, Kate Davis, Charles Avery and Jonathan Owen will demonstrate the continuing vitality of painting and drawing in Scotland and there will be new installations in sculpture, painting, collage and printmaking by Claire Barclay, Ciara Philips and Alex Dordoy. Douglas Gordon's celebrated 24 Hour Psycho 1993 will be among the video installations on show, as will Smith/Stewart's Breathing Space (1997), Roddy Buchanan's Gobstopper (1999) and Soda Stream (1997) and Torsten Lauschmann's Growing Zeros (Digital Clock) (2010).
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The Two Roberts: Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun
- 22 November 2014 — 14 May 2015 *on now
This major exhibition will explore the work the Scottish artists Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun or 'The Two Roberts', as they were known. Friends of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, they took the London art-world by storm in the 1940s, with sell-out exhibitions of their paintings, but by the 1960s their position as two of the country's most celebrated artists had been eclipsed, and this will be the first major retrospective devoted to their work.
Robert MacBryde was born in Maybole in Ayrshire in 1913, Colquhoun in Kilmarnock in 1914. From poor, working-class backgrounds, they met at Glasgow School of Art in 1933, and soon became lovers. In 1941 they moved to London where they became part of the celebrated Soho set that included artists such as Bacon, Keith Vaughan and John Craxton, and the poets Dylan Thomas and George Barker. Colquhoun specialised in figure painting, MacBryde in still-life. Hard drinking, volatile and uncompromising, their lives were as passionate and compelling as their art.
The Lefevre Gallery on Bond Street held a string of successful shows of their work; the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate acquired paintings. By the mid-1950s they were among the most famous artists working in Britain. But as abstraction became the dominant force in European art in the late 1950s, and as their drinking increased, so their popularity suffered. Colquhoun died penniless in 1962, aged just 47; MacBryde was knocked over by a car and died in 1966. Few artists have catapulted to celebrity or descended into obscurity so swiftly: their remarkable careers lasted scarcely twenty years.
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Brevard County's Sarah Van Sickle Wins Orlando Science Center Competition For Fractal Antenna That Receives TV Signals Anywhere
ORLANDO, Fla. (April 29, 2013)—Sarah Van Sickle, a senior from Brevard County's Satellite High School, took home the top prize in the Dr. Nelson Ying Science Competition, an annual event hosted by the Orlando Science Center. Van Sickle won a trophy, a $5,000 cash scholarship plus $1,000 awards for her science teacher and her school. In addition, Seminole County's Nirva Vassa and Polk County's Divya Ravinder were given $1,000 fellowships.
Since 1999, philanthropist, scientist and entrepreneur Dr. Nelson Ying has worked with Orlando Science Center to encourage the outstanding scientific accomplishments of our community's teens. Projects submitted are required to have the ultimate goal of benefiting humanity. Van Sickle's winning research was the continuation of a multi-year effort that created an antenna the average person could build to receive free TV signals. Last year, she won second prize in this competition for an earlier phase of this research.
Her efforts improved on the design of the antenna, which is based on fractal geometry and receives both UHF and VHF frequencies for less money than the cost of a commercial device. Since broadcast television is an important communications tool, this research could enable everyone to have access to multiple over-the-air transmissions at a fraction of the cost. This research would be especially valuable for those living in remote areas, Third World countries or people in post-disaster areas where cable or satellite transmissions are inaccessible.


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Madame Beatrice Alexander Behrman is known for her exquisite collector dolls, which are based on everything from literary classics (Alice in Wonderland, Gone with the Wind) to special occasions (graduation, First Communion). Here, she puts her unique spin on Halloween, with a collection that includes witches, trick-or-treaters, batty ballerinas, and more.


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*The Giants are only 2.5 games back.
*Only one player went on the DL today. The honor went to Eli Whiteside.
*Only one player got hurt today. That would be Pablo Sandoval.
*No, seriously. The Giants are only 2.5 games back.
*Lincecum pitched a seriously awesome game last night.
*Belt is all rested for, um, tomorrow! Or the next day. Or whatever.
*Really! I mean it! The Giants are only 2.5 games back.
*Beltran might be doing better.
*Wilson might- might, might- be doing better.
*You don't believe me? The Giants are actually only 2.5 games back.
*While our starter for tomorrow may be 7-11 on the year, theirs is 1-7.
*6-0 looks prettier than 6-2 or something. If they're going to lose, shutouts do look rather nice.
*Cold hard proof about aforementioned fact!
There is always a bright side, my friends. With scoops of chocolate fudge ice cream in waffle cones. And wins. Lots of wins. Okay. I am officially going insane here. Lots of wins is not exactly on the horizon. But that is what we pay Sabes the big bucks for and there is definitely, uh, talent here, so wins are potentially, kinda-sorta, possibly possible!
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I've never been to a basketball game. I went to my little brother's rec league game once but the gym was dirty and I couldn't bring myself to go back (nice supportive sister, I know). But my grandfather here in Los Angeles has Clippers season tickets and invited my brother to go with him to a game. I decided to tag along. It was way, way fun. We were ten rows back, close enough that we could hear them shouting and their shoes squeaking.
My brother was showing Clippers pride. My clothing was non-partisan. The pictures with me in them are all a little odd because I am the only person in my family who knows how to use our camera. Fail.
I ended up rooting for the Bucks because they're from Milwaukee and I have Brewer sympathies and because they looked sort of dismal and I felt badly for them.
So. Things I Learned At My First Basketball Game
*It smells like room freshener. Or maybe it's just some gross perfume that is trendy in LA right now that everyone was wearing.
*There are evil guys in suits who sit on the sidelines. They are plotting against you. Beware.
*They can turn the lights out. That. Is. So. Freaky.
*The cheerleaders- excuse me, dancers- change outfits a tremendous amount. Is the person who planned their routines schizophrenic or something?
*The Staples Center seemed much more enthusiastic about the Lakers than the Clippers. Understandably so.
*But they do adore Blake Griffin. That is understandable too.
*And they seem to adore knocking over Carlos Delfino. He must have gotten knocked to the ground five or six times. He is my new favorite player. Poor guy.
Seeing all those fans, so into their team made me miss my team all the more. Baseball season is coming, but not soon enough!
Final score: Clippers, 105, Bucks, 98. And no, I do not bring Milwaukee teams bad luck when I go root for them. Just to clear that up.
Diamond Girl
p.s. It's sunny here. And there are lots of pools. Sorry, people in monster storms.


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May 4, 2009Learn about the national tour of the Tony-winning revival of Stephen Schwartz's Pippin. Schwartz, director Diane Paulus, circus creator Gypsy Snider and more talk about why this musical spectacle is unlike anything you've ever seen before.
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I made this tonight, and it was wonderful. Cauliflower is usually such a boring veggie, but this recipe made it very flavorful. I added a little crushed red pepper flakes to give it some heat!
Balsamic & Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower
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Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
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I made this the other night to go with the EatingWell's Gnocchi with Zuccini Ribbons recipe. My husband was raving about it and he never does that. And he doesn't even usually LIKE cauliflower! I wish I'd made double!
I thought this was good but not fantastic. It didn't need the balsamic but depending on what you're in the mood for it may be a nice. For the size of my cauliflower head I think I added too much marjoram and the cauliflower browned much more than in the photo that accompanies the recipes.
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Right here in North America could lie the answer to our energy needs. But at what cost? Mining the tar sands of Alberta threatens to strip the world's largest intact forest of its ability to hold carbon and to wipe out the breeding grounds for millions of birds.
On a breezy July morning, Joe Marcel steers his 18-foot aluminum motorboat through the back channels of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, 800 miles north of the U.S. border, in Alberta. Marcel, an elder in the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, cuts a confident figure: He's a beefy 56-year-old sport-fishing guide with a salt-and-pepper mustache and a wild ponytail. Homemade tattoos cover his sausage arms--reminders, he says, of an impulsive youth. Marcel has spent his entire life in and around the delta. He knows its waterways--Canoe Portage, Fletcher Channel, Jackfish Creek--the way others know suburban streets.
The boat glides between banks lined with cattails and bulrushes that bow as we pass. The only houses along some stretches were built by beavers. A dozen kingfishers keep pace with us, and we spot pelicans and pileated woodpeckers. Marcel points to a distant flash of movement: a bald eagle. This avian display, he says, is nothing. "Some days in the springtime, when the birds are migrating north--oh, man! For days on end there are flocks in the thousands." The delta, part of North America's 1.5-billion-acre boreal forest, serves as the convergence point for all four major North American flyways. Some 215 species--including the endangered whooping crane and neotropical migrants like the olive-sided flycatcher and the American wigeon--use its freshwater wetlands for breeding, nesting, or stopping over.
Ahead of us, Marcel's brother George slows down the hand-built wooden skiff that carries the rest of our group. Standing in Goose Island Channel, almost black in the backlighting, is a startled cow moose. She's been feeding on willow roots but darts into the woods at our approach.
Marcel loves this remote waterscape. The nearest town, Fort Chipewyan, is disconnected by land from the rest of Canada except in the winter, when the thick ice is graded and opened to vehicular traffic. "This place--it's everything to me," Marcel says. "This is home." But he also knows its isolation is deceptive: Not far upriver, oil companies are digging up immense tracts of boreal forest for the world's largest energy project.
Below much of Alberta's northlands lies a vast supply of bitumen, a gooey hydrocarbon product that can be industrially "upgraded" into synthetic crude oil. The bitumen comes mixed with sand or clay, and depending on its depth can be extracted by open-pit mining or by injecting steam underground and pumping up the softened product.
To many industry and political officials, these "oil sands" are the answers to the United States' prayers: a North American source of oil that offers independence from the Middle East and other unstable nations like Venezuela. But its extraction comes at a terrible cost: the destruction of Canada's boreal forest, which provides breeding grounds for up to three billion birds. The world's largest intact forest also offers habitat to black bears, lynx, and great herds of caribou. And it soaks up carbon with twice the efficiency of tropical rainforests--a hedge against global warming. Downstream residents and environmentalists, who prefer the term "tar sands," say the threat to the boreal far outweighs the benefit of this new energy source.
Flying into Fort Chipewyan this morning on a chartered Jetstream, we inspected the tar sands from above. At first we saw undisturbed forest: a pillow of aspens and poplars, broken up by snaking wetlands. Suddenly the trees gave way to a manmade, industrialized desert, streaked with black and dotted with pools of viscous bitumen. Stacked slabs of bright-yellow sulfur rose like parodies of the terraces at Machu Picchu. Lakes of toxic waste shimmered with surface oil. Even where the forest remained, it was fractured by clear-cut ribbons joined at circular nodes, like outlines of giant Tinker toys.
I'm traveling with a group of environmental leaders on a fact-finding trip organized by the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The visit comes as tar-sands development has started going gangbusters. Today Canadian oil accounts for 19 percent of U.S. oil imports. Roughly half comes from the tar sands, which cover an area the size of Wisconsin. By 2035 Alberta's bitumen could provide up to 37 percent of our foreign oil needs, according to the consulting firm IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates. The Obama administration, which has been quietly talking with environmental leaders, has not taken a firm position on the issue. In his most explicit remarks, President Obama told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation last February that he believed technology would eventually lessen the tar sands' "big carbon footprint." Many environmentalists view that hope with skepticism.
Our group is touring the tar sands and meeting with industry officials and other local residents. From the oil company representatives, we hear about responsible extraction and replenishment. Those on the other side tell us about depleted and contaminated water, rare cancer, and the loss of bird and mammal habitat. They wonder aloud what will remain of their province if oil companies continue extracting northern Alberta's resources at the projected expansion rate.
"From where we're sitting right here, it's 60 miles due south to the closest oil sands," Marcel says. "In 30 years it'll be right in my back area. And there's not a thing I can do about it."
A delegation from Suncor Energy meets us at the airport in Fort McMurray, the boomtown nearest Alberta's bitumen mines. In 1967 Suncor became the first company to set up shop in the tar sands. In 2009 it merged with Petro-Canada to become the nation's largest energy firm.
Suncor prides itself on maintaining a dialogue with critics, billing itself as a "sustainable energy company" and noting that it has reduced its water use and the amount of greenhouse gases produced per barrel of oil. But none of the visiting environmentalists expects to come away a believer. There's a reason opponents call tar-sands fuel the world's dirtiest oil: Extracting bitumen and purifying it into synthetic crude uses so much natural gas that it creates roughly three times the greenhouse-gas emissions as conventional North American oil production, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Department of Energy.
"This is the highest-impact oil on a per-barrel basis," says Alberta biologist Simon Dyer, who is accompanying the U.S. visitors today. Dyer heads the Oil Sands Program at the Pembina Institute, a respected Canadian sustainable-energy think tank. "In a time when we need to be reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, this is actually sending us in the wrong direction." What's more, Dyer adds, tar-sands operations suck up more water than the Athabasca River can spare during times of low water flow. "During late winter there are periods when the river is being damaged if the flow drops low enough," he says. "Yet there is no time when companies are forced to halt water withdrawals." What water remains is contaminated. Last December University of Alberta ecologist David Schindler published a landmark study linking the Athabasca's high levels of cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and similar pollutants directly to the tar-sands operations.
Mark Shaw, a recently retired Suncor vice president, acknowledges that extraction takes its toll. "We are running an oil-sands facility that has an open-pit mine. We have an environmental impact," he says. "Our view is that it's an acceptable impact for the social and economic benefit." The biggest benefit is the potential for energy independence, say the industry's U.S. boosters, who also insist that critics exaggerate tar sands' carbon intensity.
Mostly, Shaw wants to talk about Suncor's effort to turn a tailings pond back into woodlands. Tailings, sludgy by-products of the mining process, have become one of the industry's biggest vulnerabilities. The waste--which can contain metals, cancer-causing PAHs, and fish-killing naphthenic acids--is discharged into manmade holding structures and former mine pits. The resulting "ponds" attract migrating birds: Some 1,600 ducks died in 2008 after landing on a tailings pond built by the oil company Syncrude. And the waste leaks into the environment--almost three million gallons a day, according to the Pembina Institute's crunching of industry data.
We pile onto a bus, headed for what was once the most notorious tailings pond. The driver navigates the top of Tar Island Dyke, which separates the waste from the Athabasca River, 325 feet below. Decades of data have proven this dike an imperfect barrier. A 2007 University of Waterloo report said a thousand gallons of tailings water were seeping through the structure every minute.
When we reach the pond, it looks more like a massive sandbox than an aquatic body. Caterpillar tractors shape the sand into knolls and valleys. Suncor has moved the liquid waste to a safer pit and replaced it with sand, which in turn will be covered with topsoil and planted with 40 species of native trees and shrubs, including balsam poplar, trembling aspen, jack pine, willow, Saskatoon shrub, and red-osier dogwood. "We're converting it back to a forest," says Sean Wells, Suncor's manager of research engineering.
"My goal at Suncor is to be able to walk across every single tailings pond before I retire," says Wells, who is 45. In addition to cleaning up the existing ponds, he says, Suncor is developing technologies to avoid creating liquid tailings in the first place.
This hopeful story has some caveats, though. First, the waste has not disappeared. It has been moved elsewhere, and apparently Suncor has no definitive plans for its treatment. Wells says the industry is actively developing technologies to deal with "the tailings challenge."
Second, the reclaimed site will not look like the ecosystem Suncor found more than 40 years ago. The original system was mostly wetlands, which provide specialized habitat and help maintain water quality but are hard to re-create. The new ecosystem will be dominated by upland forest species that provide valuable timber. The reason is partly political, says Suncor's Shaw: Alberta has a pro-business government, and "the current regime wants to create as much productive forest as possible."
Finally, scientists question whether it would be possible to reconstruct a true functioning boreal forest--even if the oil companies wanted to. One problem: No one has yet mastered the art of reproducing these complicated ecosystems. Another: wildlife mortality and growth defects. Leah Bendell, an ecologist and geochemist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, has introduced mallard ducklings, fathead minnows, and immature boreal toads and wood frogs into reclaimed wetlands at Alberta tar-sands sites. The fish and amphibians had unusually high death rates, and many tadpoles suffered deformities. The ducks faced restricted growth that decreased their chances of survival.
For all of Suncor's enthusiasm, NRDC attorney Susan Casey-Lefkowitz still finds herself a skeptic. "A lot of what the oil companies are looking at is totally destroying an ecosystem and thinking that they can start to rebuild it, in a manmade fashion, 40 or 50 years down the line," she says. "We just don't know enough about the complexity of these ecosystems to be able to rebuild them in a laboratory."
Alberta's indigenous communities are particularly concerned about the science experiment happening in their backyard. Their health, they say, is at stake. In 2006 a physician named John O'Connor discovered outsized cancer levels among the 1,200 mostly aboriginal residents of downstream Fort Chipewyan, including multiple cases of bile-duct cancer. Alberta's government downplayed the concerns, so Fort Chipewyan's health board hired ecologist Kevin Timoney to study water and sediment quality.
Timoney discovered dangerous and likely rising levels of arsenic, which is linked to bile-duct and other cancers, along with mercury and PAHs. (All three contaminants are present in tailings ponds.) The delta's geology worsened the threat. "Fort Chipewyan lies within a depositional basin in which metals and other contaminants tend to accumulate in fine-textured sediments," the ecologist wrote. They also become concentrated in fish, a key part of the local diet. During his research, Timoney talked with aboriginal elders who reported watery-tasting fish, moose with discolored livers, and fish with various deformities, like curved spines, bulging eyes, and malformed fins.
Still, applications for tar-sands expansion are pouring into the offices of Alberta's First Nations, which lack the staff to challenge them effectively. "We're inundated," says Doreen Somers, who directs the industrial relations council for the Fort McMurray #468 First Nation. "It's a wonderful system that works for them. We get tied up in that conveyor-belt paper process," leaving no time to focus on big-picture policy making.
After a day in the tar sands--where the trees are called "overburden" and bulldozed en masse--it's a relief to arrive at the Peace-Athabasca Delta. Joe Marcel and his siblings live in Fort Chipewyan but escape whenever possible into the delta's roadless reaches, traveling by boat or snowmobile. Today our base camp is Moose Crossing, a waterside tract directly across from First Nations reserve land. Marcel's sister owns the property, which has a modest solar-powered trailer and a garden bursting with beets, lettuce, and green arrow peas.
At the camp we eat moose-and-bison stew, along with a sconelike bread called bannock made from flour, oil, baking powder, and raisins. We watch song sparrows and rose-breasted grosbeaks flit amid the aspen branches. As dusk approaches, we huddle around a fire pit, peering through binoculars as beavers and buffleheads glide down Fletcher Channel. A quick storm chases us inside. When it passes, we return to find a rainbow hovering, miragelike, across the water.
Mostly we explore the boreal forest. Our hosts dock their boats at a soggy bank, then arrange some castoff planks to help us cross onto dry land. Covered in full-body mosquito netting, we hike along a trail lined with yarrow and bluebells, crunching caribou moss underfoot and grazing on Saskatoon berries. The brothers point out evidence of recent moose activity: tracks in the moss, piles of droppings, and pin cherry shrubs, which provide nutrition. Equally evident is the importance of these woods to the Athabasca Chipewyan: On a hilltop overlooking Jackfish Creek, we come to a cemetery where knee-high picket fences surround hand-lettered graves. Generations of Marcels are buried here.
This forest, say scientists, is among the world's most important, yet it is being squandered. First we logged it for toilet paper and catalogs (see "Paper Chase," January-February 2009), and now we are strip-mining it for the world's dirtiest oil. This deforestation robs the ecosystem of its extraordinary ability to hold carbon--at a time when global leaders are struggling to figure out how to keep excess carbon out of the atmosphere. What's more, tar-sands development decimates birds. In 2008 the Boreal Songbird Initiative, along with the NRDC and the Pembina Institute, looked at the ways bitumen extraction reduces bird populations, including habitat loss, water withdrawals, and pollution. At minimum, the study concluded, six million birds will be lost over 30 to 50 years. Worst case, that number could reach 166 million. Their estimate includes both living birds and an additional generation that, according to the study, "will have lost their chance to exist."
"The more you lower the population, the more you have lost its resiliency to rebound," says biologist Jeff Wells, the Boreal Songbird Initiative's senior scientist. He has "grave concern" about several species of neotropical migrants that depend heavily on the boreal. The short-billed dowitcher, for example, has only three breeding areas, one of which overlaps the tar sands. Already its numbers are down at least half from a century ago. "There are historical records of single flocks of tens of thousands," Wells says. "Now if you see 50 of them at a time, that would be big news." Likewise, he says, the olive-sided flycatcher is drawn to clearcut areas like those found around bitumen facilities. There the birds are vulnerable to both predation and less or different food. "They're ecological traps," he explains.
As the shallowest reserves are depleted, oil companies will shift from strip-mining toward injecting steam underground and pumping melted bitumen to the surface. This method doesn't scar the landscape as dramatically as mining does. But it requires a spider web of roads and natural-gas lines that will cut through the boreal wilderness, threatening to harm even more birds.
Mammals, too, face mortal danger. In a 2001 study, researchers fitted 36 woodland caribou with GPS collars. They discovered that many of the animals refused to pass within 3,300 feet of oil and gas wells or 800 feet of roads and "seismic lines" cut for geophysical exploration. The tangle of infrastructure reduced the caribou's range by up to half and made them more susceptible to wolf predation. University of Alberta scientists calculated in 2002 that at the current rate of industrial expansion, woodland caribou could disappear from northern Alberta within 37 years. In 2008 the Canadian government announced that most of Alberta's caribou herds are no longer capable of sustaining themselves over the long term without ongoing intensive management, such as predator control or transplanting animals from other populations.
Environmental leaders insist that, with immediate political action, the destruction of the boreal forest and its wildlife can be prevented. The Lower Athabasca Region, an area the size of Maine that encompasses virtually all the current bitumen-production area, maintains 94 percent of its biodiversity, according to the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. This, says Pembina's Simon Dyer, means the region could still be saved--by slowing tar-sands expansion and setting aside protected wilderness. For its part, the United States needs to implement a tough National Low-Carbon Fuel Standard. Such a nationwide policy, like California's recently adopted Low-Carbon Fuel Standard, would encourage the production of alternative transportation fuels with lower greenhouse-gas emissions, like cellulosic ethanol, corn-based ethanol, and biodiesel, and create a disincentive for energy suppliers to use tar-sands oil. So far all attempts to introduce a national standard--including legislation proposed in 2007 by then-Illinois senator Barack Obama and Iowa senator Tom Harkin--have been ultimately shot down. Right now there is no proposal on the table, but the EPA does have the authority to implement a national fuel standard. The United States also needs to dramatically reduce its demand for fossil fuels. By 2020 Americans could save 4.4 million barrels daily--21 percent of our current total and more than the tar sands' forecasted production--by improving vehicle fuel efficiency, enhancing public transit, developing advanced biofuels, doing smarter city planning, and retrofitting houses and office buildings with improvements like cleaner heating systems, according to the NRDC. "There is an alternative future for Alberta's boreal forest," says Dyer.
For Joe Marcel, fighting for that alternative future is a matter of physical and cultural survival. "I've traveled this whole delta all my life," he says. "I know for sure this is where I'm going to see the last of my breath. This is where I'll die." Then he chuckles. "And hopefully," he adds, "we'll still have a little bit of green left."


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I was involved recently as both writer and director of three consecutive nights of musical concerts dubbed Ugnayan featuring Filipino musicians of the traditional lutes and zithers held in Centro Escolar University. The cultural project involved masters of the instruments coming from various indigenous communities such as Maguindanaon, T'boli, Panay Bukidnon, Cordillera and Matigsalog as well as contemporary musicians like Popong Landero and Diwa de Leon who popularize the instruments through fusion of the traditional music with the modern and electronic. Took a few group shots during a quick photo-op minutes before the open house for the first concert. Textured my shots with night lights.
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