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I am a registered nurse, retired, who has worked in public health in Virginia, Arkansas, and Tennessee. I have also worked in a level 1 trauma center in Knoxville and have seen some of the devastation caused by gun violence and its effects upon the victim's families. I chose nursing as a profession when I was 18 years of age because I wanted to help people. I worked in the profession of nursing for 40+ years. When it comes to public health, I believe in preventive measures being instituted.
I became concerned after the incident at Newtown, Conn., where 26 people were gunned down, 20 of whom were small children. I decided to write about this because I believe that this incident was avoidable. While It is true that comprehensive background checks would not have made much difference in this outcome, it is also true that better access to mental health services would possibly have made a big difference.
Gun violence is not just an urban problem--It is our problem. It is a suburban, small town and rural problem. We have been told by representatives of the gun industry that the best way to combat gun violence is a "good guy with a gun". In my opinion, this is a distraction that prevents us from examining a "failing system".
I do no see how my second amendment rights would be violated if we, as a society, decide to have "comprehensive background checks and better access to mental health services"
Carolyn J. Ingram
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Carolyn, I agree with everything in your well-written letter. You are not from around here are you? At any rate, I certainly have to admire you for not preaching to the choir, as it were. Sadly, most replies will be swift, angry and predictable. Thanks for making the effort, though.
Herb Montgomery
Gun violence has very little to do with the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Legal gun owners protect their rights by not using them in a violent way. I know that if I use my legal firearm to shoot someone in the leg because they belong to a rival gang, I will lose my rights.
It is easy to see the criminal records of violent offenders in Hamilton County. Go to the Hamilton County website, click on court records, go to sessions court criminal, click on dispositions. Enter the name of the most recent shooter. Most of the time you will pull up a criminal history that dates back several years. Enter that same name in the criminal dispositions and you will see the actual penalty for the crimes.
If you will spend the time to see for yourself what happens to criminals in Hamilton County, I think you will better understand that background checks mean nothing to criminals. None of the violent shooters have ever had a background check and they never will. They know that street violence can't be prosecuted in Hamilton County because the overall burden of crime dictates that 99 out of 100 crimes will not come to trial. A dozen crimes will be combined over a period of time that it takes to wind through the sessions court, then grand jury and finally to criminal court. Plea bargains will result in 11 charges being dropped in exchange for a six-month suspended sentence. The criminal starts over with a single conviction and no jail time. This is the reason so many violent offenders are right back in business after bonding out.
We have laws to stop gun violence. We don't have the support of the taxpayer to build the jails or hire the judges and prosecutors to put away the violent offenders. The grand jury is antiquated and adds a year to criminal prosecutions. It is sad that criminals know more about how the system works than the average citizen. They know they won't go to jail. If we send a violent offender to Nashville, a violent offender has to be released early to make room.
So don't confuse the rights of legal gun owners with the failure of the criminal justice system. We already know the violent offenders, they have created a background that prevents them from owning guns legally and as long as they have no fear of justice, the violence will continue.
Harry Presley
March 31, 2015
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Rapid Reaction: Devils 2 , Kings 1
June, 9, 2012
By Katie Strang | ESPNNewYork.com
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What it means: Looks like we have a series.
Facing a daunting 3-0 deficit, the New Jersey Devils have now rattled off two straight wins against the Los Angeles Kings to force a Game 6 and keep their comeback hopes alive.
Held off the scoresheet in the first four games of the series, captain Zach Parise finally tallied a goal, and defenseman Bryce Salvador chipped in with one of his own for a 2-1 Devils win at Prudential Center on Saturday night.
Pulling within a game of the Kings, 3-2, the Devils sullied L.A.'s immaculate 10-0 road record and sent the series back to the West Coast for Monday's Game 6.
No team since 1942 has come back to win the Cup after falling behind 3-0, but the Devils are making their best attempt to become the second.
Captain comes through: Parise recorded his first point of the series with a power-play goal that gave the team a 1-0 lead in the first period. Jonathan Quick made a rare puck-handling miscue behind the net and Parise beat him back to the right post to stuff it in at 12:45. It was Parise's first goal since May 23 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Rangers.
Power-play breaks through: Parise's first-period marker was also the Devils' first power-play goal this series. The Devils entered Saturday's match 0-for-15 with the man-advantage through the first four games against the Kings' stingy penalty-killing unit.
Second-chance stunner: After hitting the post in the first period, L.A.'s Justin Williams ripped a shot past Martin Brodeur to tie the score early in the second period.
Stellar saves: Dueling goaltenders Brodeur and Quick made a pair of tremendous stops within the span of 19 seconds early in the second period. With the game tied at 1, Brodeur stacked his pads to stop Jarret Stoll on a breakaway at 4:53. Quick answered at the other end with his best save of the night, kicking out his right pad to deny Travis Zajac's back-handed attempt at 5:12.
Victim Voynov: Salvador was credited with the Devils' go-ahead goal at 9:05 of the second after his shot appeared to deflect first off teammate David Clarkson, then Kings defenseman Slava Voynov. It was a tough break for the rookie blue-liner, who had a puck bounce off him for a Devils goal earlier in the series.
Sky-high: Despite Stoll's best attempt to sell what would've been the equalizer for the Kings at 11:16 of the second, his bat-the-puck-out-of-midair-goal was immediately waved off because of a high stick.
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Five area youth contestants were winners in the local competition of the annual Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship held Feb. 19 at the Wulf Recreation Center.
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Victim's father still angry as M42 crash driver is jailed.
Three people including 21-year-old undergraduate Miss Lisa Dodson died in the March 1997 crash involving 160 vehicles on the fogbound M42 in Worcestershire.
And as David Fairclough was jailed for three months yesterday, Lisa's father blamed speeding lorry drivers for her death.
"Lisa was a totally innocent victim," said Mr Roger Dodson.
"The accident was caused by the excessive speed of lorry drivers. I hope those involved can live with their consciences."
Fairclough (46), of Seaton Close, Wednesfield, was jailed by Worcester Crown Court after admitting dangerous driving.
He was also banned from driving for four years and ordered to pay pounds 700 costs.
The prosecution accepted his not guilty plea to causing death by dangerous driving.
The court heard Fairclough's 22-ton lorry braked from 50mph to 36mph before ploughing into vehicles brought to a standstill by fog and crashes on the opposite carriageway of the motorway at junction 1 near Bromsgrove.
His lorry rammed a 38-ton tanker which landed on Miss Dodson's Peugeot 205.
Miss Dodson, who was on her way back to Loughborough University after visiting her parents' home in Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, for Mothering Sunday, died instantly from asphyxiation.
Fairclough told police he could not remember anything about the accident. He could only recall filling up the lorry at about 6am that day and then waking up in hospital.
He suffered a badly broken leg, a brain injury meant his 25-year career as a lorry driver was over and he still suffers panic attacks, the court heard.
In the disaster, which started at 6.20am on March 11, an inferno of blazing vehicles erupted on the southbound lanes following six multiple collisions on both carriageways. The motorway was closed for 27 hours.
Mr Colman Treacy QC, defending, said Fairclough's speed had been similar to others before he was confronted by a sudden bank of fog.
Mr David Farrer QC, prosecuting, said they were accepting Fairclough's not guilty plea to causing death by dangerous driving because the series of impacts meant it was impossible to establish which had caused Miss Dodson's death.
Sentencing Fairclough, Judge Michael Mott told him "perfect justice" could not be done because no one had been prosecuted for causing Miss Dodson's death.
But he added: "There were fog signs all over the motorway. This accident was eminently foreseeable. You were driving too fast."
As well as Miss Dodson, Redditch postman Mr Malcolm MacDonald, aged 53, and Ms Margaret Vining, aged 64, of Gloucester, were killed and 20 others injured.
Twenty-nine drivers were prosecuted for various offences. Fairclough is the first to be jailed.
Afterwards, Insp John Stockall, of West Midlands Police, who headed the investigation, said: "I hope this sentence sends a message to all professional drivers to drive to the conditions."
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fertilizing beans and peas....help!
I thought that any kind of bean and peas, needed a fertilizer high in nitrogen. However when I asked about bean inncoulant, I was told that a fertilizer containing too much nitrogen, could stunt the growth of beans and peas.
If a high nitrogen fertilizer isn't a good fertilizer for beans and peas, what is?
I don't mind if people put the ratios as seen on the backs of packages of fertilizers, but please specify what each number stands for with the nutrients.
Beans ( P. vulgaris) and peas (pisum sativum) or (Vigna unguiculata) do not have high nutrient requirements. Like most fruiting plants an excess of nitrogen leads to excessive plant growth and inhibits blossoming. Result, huge vines with little fruit. Phosphate is the more critical. With most soils if a fertilizer is needed something with an N-P-K ratio of 1-2-1 is sufficient. These are legumes with the ability to fix nitrogen from the air.


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Amazon tribe establishes first indigenous forest carbon fund
(12/04/2010) A half-century ago, Brazil's Suruí people knew little of the world beyond their cluster of villages – and nothing of the European settlers who dominated their continent. By 2006, that world beyond had engulfed them – a fact their young chief, Almir Narayamoga Suruí, saw all too clearly the first time he logged onto Google Earth.
2,700 sq km of Brazil's most endangered rainforest destroyed in 8 years
(12/03/2010) 270,000 hectares of the Mata Atlântica, Brazil's most threatened ecosystem, was cleared between 2002 and 2008, reports a new assessment by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA). Less than 8 percent of the Atlantic forest—famed for its biodiversity—remains.
Brazil's largest national bank signs zero deforestation pact for Amazon soy
(12/03/2010) Banco do Brasil, Brazil's largest state-owned bank, announced it has joined a zero deforestation pact for soy grown in the Amazon. The bank will now require farmers applying for credit to certify the origin of their soybeans.
'Environmental and social aggression': oil exploration threatens award-winning marine protected area
(12/01/2010) The Seaflower Marine Protected Area (MPA), which recently won top honors at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Japan, is now under threat by planned oil exploration in the region, according to the Providence Foundation which is devoted to protecting the area. Proposed blocs for exploration by the Colombian government lie in the North Cays adjacent to the park, and perhaps even inside MPA boundaries. Spreading over 65,000 square kilometers (6.5 million hectares), Seaflower MPA lies within the Colombian Caribbean department known as the Archipelago of San Andres, Old Providence and Santa Catalina. This richly diverse Archipelago is home to a known 57 coral species, over 400 fish, and some 150 birds, as well as the ethnic and cultural minority: the Raizal people. The prospect of massive infrastructure or, even worse, oil spills in the area could devastate the park and locals' livelihoods.
Brazil's Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record
(12/01/2010) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest rate on record, putting Brazil well on track to meet its targets for reducing rainforest destruction. Analysis of satellite imagery by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows that 6,450 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Amazon in the 12 months ended July 31, 2010, a 14 percent drop from the year earlier period.
Consumer goods industry announces goal of zero deforestation in Cancun
(11/30/2010) While governments continue to stall on action to cut greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, global corporations are promising big changes to tackle their responsibilities. The Board of Consumer Goods Forum (BCGF) has approved a resolution to achieve net zero deforestation by 2020 in products such as palm oil, soy, beef, and paper. Announced yesterday at the UN Climate Summit in Cancun, the BCGF has stated the goal will be met both by individual actions within companies and collective action, including partnerships with NGOs, development banks, and governments. With such giants as Walmart, Unilever, Carrefour, and General Mills, BCGF is made up of four hundred global consumer goods manufacturers and retailers totaling over $2.8 trillion in revenue.
Good stewards of forests at home outsource deforestation abroad
(11/24/2010) As more nations adopt better laws and policies to save and restore forests at home, they may, in fact, be outsourcing deforestation to other parts of the world, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Looking at six developing nations where forests are recovering—instead of receding—the study found only one of them did not outsource deforestation to meet local demand for wood-products and food, a process known as 'leakage'.
Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs
(11/23/2010) To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master's Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature.
Oil, indigenous people, and Ecuador's big idea
(11/23/2010) Ecuador's big idea—potentially Earth-rattling—goes something like this: the international community pays the small South American nation not to drill for nearly a billion barrels of oil in a massive block of Yasuni National Park. While Ecuador receives hundred of millions in an UN-backed fund, what does the international community receive? Arguably the world's most biodiverse rainforest is saved from oil extraction, two indigenous tribes' requests to be left uncontacted are respected, and some 400 million metric tons of CO2 is not emitted from burning the oil. In other words, the international community is being asked to put money where its mouth is on climate change, indigenous rights, and biodiversity loss. David Romo Vallejo, professor at the University of San Francisco Quito and co-director of Tiputini research station in Yasuni, recently told mongabay.com in an interview that this is "the best proposal so far made to ensure the protection of this incredible site."
New population of Critically Endangered monkey discovered
(11/22/2010) Classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List, listed among the Top 25 Most Endangered primates in the world, and rated number 71 on the EDGE's list of world's most endangered and unique mammals, the yellow-tailed woolly monkey needed some good news—and this week it got it. The conservation organization, Neotropical Primate Conservation (NPC), has announced the discovery of an unknown population of the yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda), buttressing hopes that the species will survive in the long-term.
50 NGOS tell big oil to get out of uncontacted natives' territory
(11/21/2010) A letter signed by over 50 NGOs is calling on three big oil companies—Perenco, Repsol-YPF, and ConocoPhillips—to withdraw from Peruvian territory inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes. The letter states that the oil companies' presence in the area threatens the uncontacted tribe with diseases, for which they have little immunity, and puts the lives of oil company workers in jeopardy, since past encounters have ended in violence.
New bat species confirmed in Ecuador, may already be extinct
(11/16/2010) Although the first specimen was collected over 30 years ago, scientists have only now confirmed that a tiny brown bat is indeed a unique species. Named Myotis diminutus for its incredibly small size, the new bat was discovered in the Chocó biodiversity hotspot, amid the moist forests of western Ecuador.
Pictures: 'Mr. Burns' frog discovered in Colombia along with 2 other new species
(11/15/2010) Three previously undocumented species of frog have been discovered in Colombia, reports Conservation International.
Chaco biodiversity expedition suspended
(11/15/2010) A joint expedition by the Natural History Museum (NHM), London and the Natural History Museum, Asuncion to the dwindling dry forest of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay to record biodiversity, and hopefully uncover 'hundreds' of new species, has been suspended by the Paraguayan government. The suspension comes after a local organization voiced concern that the expedition would threaten uncontacted member of the Ayoreo tribe in the forest.
Ecotourism brings home the bacon in the Peruvian Amazon
(11/15/2010) Ecotourism is one of the most profitable uses of tropical forest in the Tambopata area of the Peruvian Amazon, according to a study released on 29 September in the journal PLoS ONE. In 2002 Peru's government passed legislation to allow ecotourism-controlled zones in the Tambopata region of southeastern Peru. Policymakers hoped such zones would preserve spectacular rainforest habitats while bringing in steady money. Critics have wondered, though, whether the strategy can succeed in the face of other profitable―yet destructive―ventures on pristine forested land.
Formal petition filed against Belo Monte dam
(11/11/2010) The struggle against Brazil's Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River continues as today indigenous groups sent a formal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to suspend the dam's construction, stating the dam violates human rights. The dam, which has been contentious in Brazil for decades, would flood 500 square miles of rainforest, lead to the removal of at least 12,000 people in the region, and upturn the lives of 45,000 indigenous people who depend on the Xingu River for survival.
Chaco expedition working to "minimize the risk" of running into uncontacted natives
(11/11/2010) A joint expedition by the Natural History Museum (NHM), London and the Natural History Museum, Asuncion to study the biodiversity of the dwindling dry forests of Chaco in Paraguay have responded to recent concerns that they risk encountering uncontacted natives, which could potentially threaten the natives' lives as well as their own.
Evo Morales for the Nobel Prize?
(11/11/2010) Does Evo Morales merit a Nobel peace prize for his admirable work on climate justice? Former prize winners, as well as the Bolivian Congress, believe he deserves it and both have launched an international campaign on behalf of Bolivia's indigenous president. In April of this year, Morales helped to organize the First World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which drew a whopping 35,000 people to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba. Designed as a kind of counter summit to the official Copenhagen conference of 2009, which proved a debacle in terms of reining in climate change, Cochabamba represented a milestone in social mobilization.
Rainforests thrived in warmer conditions in the past, yet study requires "caution"
(11/11/2010) A new study in Science is likely to reopen the contentious debate about the impact of climate change on tropical rainforests. Scientific modeling of future climate conditions in tropical rainforests, such as the Amazon, has shown that climate change—combined with deforestation and fire—could create a tipping point whereby a significant portion of the Amazon could turnover to savannah, pushing untold species to extinction and undercutting the many ecosystem services provided by tropical rainforests. Yet, a new study headed by Carlos Jaramillo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), has found a tropical forest ecosystem thriving in much warmer conditions than today.
Brazil's development bank announces $588m fund to reduce agricultural emissions
(11/11/2010) Brazil's national development bank launched a 1 billion reais ($588 million) fund that will finance projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, reports Reuters.
Eight new plants discovered in Bolivia
(11/07/2010) Researchers have described eight new species of plant from in and near Madidi National Park in the Bolivian Andes. Described in the journal Novon by botanists with the Missouri Botanical Garden and the National Herbaium in Laz Paz, Bolivia, seven of the eight plants were found as apart of the Proyecto Madidi (Project Madidi), a ten year effort to describe the plant species of three inter-connecting protected areas in Bolivia—Madidi National Park, Pilón Lajas Biosphere Reserve and Communal Lands, and Apolobamba Integrated Management Natural Area.
Deforestation jumps, but Guyana nonetheless qualifies for REDD payment
(11/07/2010) Guyana's deforestation rate over the past 12 months was roughly three times the average annual rate over the prior 20 year period, but was still well below the baseline under the recent $250 million forest conservation partnership with Norway, according to a new report released by Guyana Forestry Commission's REDD+ Monitoring Reporting and Verification System (MRVS).
Mato Grosso moves to strip protection of the Amazon rainforest
(11/07/2010) The Mato Grosso state assembly passed a bill that would substantially reduce protections for the Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal, a biologically-rich wetland, according to a statement signed by 27 organizations. The bill, which was approved 19 votes to one, would replace the ecological zoning system proposed by the state's former governor, Blairo Maggi, after three years of consultations with a wide range of stakeholders. The bill reduces areas set aside for conservation by 73 percent and calls for a 67 percent increase in the area zoned for agriculture intensification.
Deforestation falls, but rainforest damage surges in Brazil in Sept
(11/06/2010) Despite the worst drought on record in the region, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon during September fell by 20 percent relative to September 2009, reports Imazon, a research institute that provides monthly updates on forest clearing.
Epidemic hits Amazonian indigenous group
(10/31/2010) An epidemic, suspected to be malaria, has struck down dozens of people of the Yanomami tribe in the Venezuelan Amazon, reports the Associated Press. Leaders of the three impacted village told health workers that approximately 50 people have died so far, many of them children.
Brazil to impose levy on oil profits to fund climate change adaption, mitigation
(10/26/2010) Brazil will fund climate change mitigation and adaption projects through a levy on domestic oil production, reports Reuters.
Brazil's national development bank found guilty of driving Amazon deforestation
(10/25/2010) BNDES, Brazil's national development bank, contributed to Amazon deforestation by lending billions of dollars to commercial meatpackers, driving expansion of cattle ranching across the world's largest rainforest, ruled an audit by the Federal Audit Court.
Amazon suffers worst drought in decades
(10/24/2010) The worst drought since 1963 has created a regional disaster in the Brazilian Amazon. Severely low water levels have isolated communities dependent on river transport. Given a worsening situation, Brazil announced on Friday an emergency package of $13.5 million for water purification, tents, and food airdrops.
Colombian marine reserve receives top honors at global biodiversity meeting
(10/20/2010) Coralina, a Colombian government agency that established the Seaflower Marine Protected Area (MPA) with local community involvement, is being heralded today by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan. Proving that conservation and sustainable economic opportunities can go hand-in-hand, Coralina was instrumental in creating a marine park that protects nearly 200 endangered species while providing sustainable jobs for local people in the Western Caribbean Colombian department of Archipelago of San Andrés, Old Providence and Santa Catalina. Coralina was one of over 1,000 agencies and organizations that are apart of the Countdown 2010 program, which highlights effective action to save species at the CBD.
Walmart takes on Amazon deforestation
(10/18/2010) The world's largest retailer last week announced new sourcing criteria for commodities closely associated with deforestation: palm oil and beef from the Amazon.
NGO warns oil exploration in Peru may 'decimate' uncontacted tribes
(10/17/2010) Survival International has warned that oil exploration in northern Peru threatens two uncontacted tribes. The organization, devoted to indigenous rights, has sent a letter to the UN's Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples, James Anaya, alleging that Peru is "violating international law" by allowing oil companies to explore a region home to uncontacted people, who are especially vulnerable to disease.
The ultimate bike trip: the Amazon rainforest
(10/17/2010) Like all commercial roads through rainforests, the 5,300 kilometer long Rodovia Transamazonica (in English, the Trans-Amazonia), brought two things: people and environmental destruction. Opening once-remote areas of the Amazon to both legal and illegal development, farmers, loggers, and miners cut swathes into the forest now easily visible from satellite. But the road has also brought little prosperity: many who live there are far from infrastructure and eek out an impoverished existence in a harsh lonely wilderness. This is not a place even the most adventurous travelers go, yet Doug Gunzelmann not only traveled the entirety of the Transamazonica in 2009, he cycled it. A self-described adventurer, Gunzelmann chose to bike the Transamazonica as a way to test his endurance on a road which only a few before have completed. But Gunzelmann wasn't just out for adrenaline-rushes, he was also deeply interested in the environmental issues related to the Transamazonica. What he found was a story without villains, but only humans—and the Amazon itself—trying to survive in a complex, confusing world.
Satellites show fragmented rainforests significantly drier than intact forest
(10/13/2010) A new study in Biological Conservation has shown that edge forests and forest patches are more vulnerable to burning because they are drier than intact forests. Using eight years of satellite imagery over East Amazonia, the researchers found that desiccation (extreme dryness) penetrated anywhere from 1 to 3 kilometers into forests depending on the level of fragmentation.
Brazil to auction off large blocks of Amazon rainforest for logging
(10/12/2010) Brazil will auction large blocks of the Amazon rainforest to private timber companies as part of an effort to reduce demand for illegal logging, reports Reuters. The government will grant 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of logging concessions by the end of the year, according to Antonio Carlos Hummel, head of Brazil's National Forestry Service. Within four to five years, 11 million hectares will be auctioned.
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(10/11/2010) Most companies talk green, but few—almost none in fact—actually walk the walk. Sustainable design company, Ecostasy, not only walks the walk, but actually seeks out among the most challenging places to work: the imperiled Brazilian Amazon. Specializing in hand-crafted products by indigenous groups—such as jewelry, pots, and furniture—Ecostasy seeks to balance smart economics, environmental protection, and community development. Make no mistake, however, Ecostasy is not a non-profit, but a rare and refreshing example of a company truly dedicated to changing the world for the better. "In my mind, a virtuous company does not compromise ethical principles for economic interests. For me, being ethical is comprised of conducting oneself with honesty and responsibility to one's constituencies (customers, employees, suppliers), society and the environment," Katherine Ponte, founder of Ecostasy, told mongabay.com in an interview.
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(10/11/2010) Brazil will launch a new high resolution deforestation monitoring system that will be capable of detecting forest clearing under cloudy conditions.
Citizens of 188 countries challenge leaders on climate change
(10/11/2010) As world leaders continue to fumble a coherent, rapid, and comprehensive response to climate change, citizens from around the world yesterday sent a message to inert politicians by participating in over 7,300 events against climate change, according to 350.org, the head organizer of the day dubbed the 'Global Work Party'. "The fossil fuel industry may have thought that the collapse of the Copenhagen talks and its victory in the U.S. Congress were the final word—that people would give up in discouragement," said, Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, so-called because 350 parts per millions (ppm) is the 'safe' amount of carbon in the atmosphere according to many scientists. Currently the concentration is around 390 ppm.
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(10/09/2010) An economic and social powerhouse, Brazil has burst forth on to the world stage with such tenacious drive and determination that observers may indeed wonder what sort of political impact the South American giant will have upon the wider region in the coming years. Though the country still faces incredible domestic challenges, the outgoing Luiz Inácio 'Lula' da Silva administration has done much to put Brazil's house in order and the president leaves office with record 80% popularity. Unlike its volatile and unstable Andean neighbors, Brazil has consolidated a credible democracy and recently concluded the first round of its presidential vote.
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(10/07/2010) Green party candidate Marina Silva captured 19 percent of the vote in Brazil's presidential election over the weekend, shocking analysts and forcing a run off between Dilma Rousseff, outgoing President Lula's hand-picked successor, and José Serra.
Yasuni on film: could a documentary save the world's most biodiverse ecosystem?
(10/04/2010) How do you save one of the most biologically and culturally diverse places in the world if most people have never heard of it? If you want a big audience—you make a film. This is what wildlife-filmmaker Ryan Killackey is hoping to do with his new movie Yasuni Man. Killackey says the film will show-off the wonders of Yasuni National Park while highlighting the complexity of its biggest threat: the oil industry. "Conceptually, the film resembles a true-life cross between the documentary Crude and the blockbuster Avatar—except it's real and it's happening now," Killackey told mongabay.com.
Unsure of domestic wood origin, some Brazilian furniture makers begin importing U.S. timber
(10/04/2010) Export-oriented Brazilian furniture manufacturers are importing certified timber from the United States rather than using wood of questionable origin produced domestically, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in its bimonthly update.
Brazil's Operation Jaguar: Busting a Poaching Ring
(10/03/2010) Twenty years ago Brazil's most notorious jaguar hunter, Teodoro Antonio Melo Neto, also known as 'Tonho da onça' or 'Jaguar Tony,' swore off poaching after logging 600 kills. The foe turned ally of the jaguar then convinced environmental and research institutes, such as the non-governmental organization Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, of his about face and to employ his tracking skills for conservation. Thus began years of assisting these agencies find the animals so that they could monitor their movements and research their habits. His dramatic change of heart even became the subject of a children's book titled Tonho da onça, which related a conservation message. But on July 20, 2010, 'Jaguar Tony,' now 71 years old, revealed his true spots when federal agents arrested him along with seven others preparing for another in a long series of illegal hunts.
Stunning toxic frog protected as a result of drug trafficking conflict
(09/29/2010) A spectacular poison dart frog on the edge of extinction in the wild has been afforded temporary protection by warring drug gangs in Colombia's Chocó region, reports ProAves. The La Brea Poison Frog (Oophaga occultator), a colorful species only documented by scientists in 1975, has suffered from unsustainable collection for the pet trade, severe deforestation for coca cultivation, and aerial spraying for coca eradication, resulting in a substantial population decline. But the species has clung to life in a deforested landscape along the Saija River in Colombian Pacific coast in part due to conflict between three armed groups which has kept collectors out of the area.
Discovery of new population boosts almost-extinct Colombian bird
(09/28/2010) The Baudo oropendola (Psarocolius cassini) has gone from less than a dozen known individuals to nearly a hundred due to the discovery of two new colonies in northwestern Colombia by local conservation group, Fundación ProAves. However, the new colonies are located in an unprotected area currently being impacted by deforestation. George Fenwick, president of American Bird Conservancy which focuses on bird conservation, said in a press release that his organization "is thrilled to have helped fund the research expedition that led to this stunning discovery of these two new colonies of this rare bird. Now we need to work with ProAves to conserve and protect them."
The effect of forest regeneration strategies on beetles
(09/27/2010) As conservationists attempt to find the best way to re-establish forests in abandoned areas, a new study in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science compares the impacts on bess beetles of different method to regeneration forest. Bess beetles are important dead wood-recyclers in the forest. Looking at three different forests in the Colombian Andes—natural regeneration, monoculture reforestation, and an old-growth forest as a baseline—researchers found that old-growth and natural regeneration had the highest diversity of bess beetles, while old-growth sported the greatest abundance of beetles.
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(09/26/2010) Sustainable development seems to have left the realms of institutional debate in Brazil and has emerged into a reality for businesses to remain competitive in their markets. It is also being used as a tool to stimulate the country's economic growth. A notable example of this is hydroelectricity, as the country has strived for many years to generate electricity in innovative ways, rather than relying on the use of fossil fuels. Companies are also voluntarily signing up and engaging in Brazil's GHG Protocol Program with a view to reduce carbon emissions and businesses large and small are leading on sustainable business practices. While Brazil has received a lot of respect for this forward thinking approach to sustainability, they have also been heavily criticized for hydro projects since the 1980s; in recent months the target has notably been the decision to move forward with the plan to build 3 dams on the Xingu River, which lies in the Amazon Basin.
Peru weighs deporting rainforest defender after 20 years in the Amazon
(09/22/2010) There are very few times in life that you get to see a priest on a motorcycle. Fewer still that same-said priest zips off from a training session on REDD and forestry law back to his school for Indigenous youths located in the heartland of the Amazon, next to a prison and down the road from the rapidly growing city-center of Iquitos, Peru.
An undamaged Amazon produces its own clouds and rain
(09/21/2010) Researchers recently traveled to the remote Brazilian Amazon to investigate how clouds are formed and rain falls in an atmosphere unburdened by human-caused pollution. Studying the atmospheric aerosol particles, which impact cloud formation and particles, above a pristine forests, researchers discovered that when left alone the Amazon acts as its own 'bioreactor': clouds and precipitation are produced by the abundance of plant materials.
How the overlooked peccary engineers the Amazon, an interview with Harald Beck
(09/20/2010) When people think of the Amazon rainforest, they likely think of roaring jaguars, jumping monkeys, marching ants, and squeezing anacondas. The humble peccary would hardly be among the first animals to cross their mind, if they even know such pig-like animals exists! Yet new research on the peccary is proving just how vital these species are to the world's greatest rainforest. As seed dispersers and seed destroyers, engineers of freshwater habitats and forest gaps, peccaries play an immense, long overlooked, role in the rainforest. "Peccaries have the highest density and biomass of any Neotropical mammal species. Obviously these fellows have quite an appetite for almost anything, but primarily they consume fruits and seeds. Their specialized jaws allow them to crush very hard seeds. The cracking sounds can be heard through the thick vegetation long before we could see them. As peccary herds bulldoze through the leaf litter in search for insects, frogs, seeds, and fruits, they destroy (i.e. snap and trample) many seedlings and saplings, sometimes leaving only the bare ground behind," Harald Beck, assistant professor at Towson University in Maryland, told mongabay.com in an interview.
Brazil's cerrado wins protection, but will it be enough to save the wildlife-rich grassland?
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I've spent the past 3 years tanking on my prot warrior. I really enjoy the tanking role and one of the things I liked most about the warrior was they seemed to have an answer for pretty much every scenario. This time around I switched to bear for a change of pace. Granted I'm still learning, and I'm still leveling too, but here's my initial thoughts:
- I've lost so much mobility I could cry. That was really a hard adjustment. Leap, charge, intervene...I could be anywhere & everywhere on the warrior. On my bear that is sorely, sorely missed. Especially when I didn't talent into wild charge, opting for feline swiftness instead.
- Interrupts and caster lockdown. I fear for my raiding future. I previously had pummel, heroic throw, charge, conc blow, and shockwave to interrupts casts, as well as warstomp. If a cast managed to slip past those methods, I still had intimidating shout, and if THAT still wasn't enough, I could spell reflect. It was glorious! But the bear's toolkit seems much more limited. Skull bash, mighty bash, warstomp, and FFF (if glyphed, which mine isn't).
- The rotation, to this point, was so much more fun on the warrior. Now granted I've not yet tried the MoP warrior rotation, but comparing MoP bear to cata warrior, the bear quite frankly is rather dull. In low damage situations I cycle through four abilities in which every other one is lacerate, occasionally tossing in a free mangle proc or periodically keeping savage defense up.
- Aoe tanking. Swipe and thrash... thats all I get? Really? After having thunderclap, revenge, cleave and shockwave? Not to mention a non-cooldown threat ability (devastate) I could tab through while waiting for cooldowns. Surely I'm missing something here, right? I freely admit I'm still a bear novice, have I just completely overlooked an aoe tanking ability somewhere? And what o AoE taunts, does bear not have one of those either? Who do I need to have dirty relations with to score something as sexy as the warrior's mocking banner?
- Mastery. Block & crit block seemed much more interesting than extra armor. Not to say that armor isn't more effective, but still.
- Well, I've got 4 billion hp now.
- Certainly have a clear edge in armor.
- I do like that I'm actually contributing dps now. That much is certainly an advantage to the bear.
- Cooldowns galore. I like having so many. Now I just need more experience to learn how to properly manage all of them. I enjoy learning mechanics like that, its fun.
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Is it because I'm still learning bear rotations, or is there something screwy going on with threat? Thus far I cannot hold threat over warlock & hunter pets to save my life, and holding aoe aggro against fury warriors and mages has been disproportionately challenging.
It was great when the only class I had to roll against for gear were DK tanks and (depending on the item) prot pallies. Now the line of toons waiting to take my gear is longer than the checkout line at wal-mart. :(
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I agree that warriors are more fun than druids when it comes to tanking.
But here are a few additional things worth knowing:
1) Use mangle when AoE tanking, in addition to using trash and swipe. To go through a dungeon faster, use Berserk on trash pulls, and spam mangle, thereby hitting multiple targets with mangle and doing insane DPS as a tank. If you're taking very little damage, and you should be in normal dungeons with the exception of a few bosses hitting pretty hard, you should be dumping your rage into Maul.
2) If pets are pulling aggro off you, this is due to the fact that the pets are taunting off you. Notice that no matter how much TPS you produce (or for that matter damage), pets can simply taunt and retake your aggro. You can either request that the hunter/warlock disable their pet taunt for the duration of the dungeon or simply allow the pet to tank an add, and if it dies, then so be it. I usually allow the latter to happen, as normal dungeon are easy.
3) For additional AoE threat generation, you can use symbiosis on a Paladin/Shaman for consecration/lightning orbs.
4) As for CD management, it helps if you get an add-on to monitor all your CDs. And as you've pointed out, this is one of the things that makes druid tanking more interesting, where it otherwise it would be quite boring. I find that trying to do as much damage as possible in dungeons, once my survivability becomes a non-issue, makes tanking more fun.
Don't forget mighty bash, bear hug and typhoon for interrupts although interrupting was never something I really needed to do in DS. I always thought interrupting was more of a dungeon thing.
You're right, I did forget bear hug. Thanks. Mighty bash I mistakenly referred to as might of ursoc, which has been corrected. And I never specc'ed into typhoon, which is probably why I overlooked that one. I appreciate the pointers and feedback though. :)
Another thought: don't forget stampeding roar. I rarely used it before the patch when I had charge but now that I've opted for the overall speed boost I find myself using it whenever I need to get from one side of the room to another in a hurry. It's also good when a boss drops bad right on top of you and your group so everyone can get out much faster.
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Does it look like the bear just peed everywhere?
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They changed warrior rotation a lot. They decreased the number of stuns and interupts they have. But even with that warriors have way more stuns and interupts than druids do.
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You could always use symbiosis on a warrior to get spell reflect.
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Often hip-hop artists give off one persona to the general public and live another in their personal lives. In the Vinark Motion Pictures directed visual for Drique London's well received "You Don't Know" cut, the NorthRead More »
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Taken from their No Hand Outs project, NYC rap collective Drama Dot Kom liberates the official visual for "You Don't Know". Watch the new video above and leave you thoughts in the comments below!Read More »
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On Saturday, August 23th, The Muddy Water Group and Colt 45 bought out Taylor Gang's own Juicy J for a private concert here in Atlanta. Not only was the event sponsored by Colt 45,Read More »
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Anyone have a link, or know off-hand, the major differences between this and the latest Ubuntu release? I realize there's the APT/RPM difference, but aside from that, what is notable?
KDE 4 [fedoraproject.org], among other things.
Major difference? Well I can't enumerate them, but I can generalize things you'll see in Fedora compared to Ubuntu
I would find an RPM of something I wanted to install, it required me to first find and install another RPM, etc. Sometimes one of the dependant RPM's would not install, because I had a newer/older version for another program. Apt-get has worked flawlessly for me, and the HUGE pool of apps that just work has made it so I almost never have to search for
.DEB files.
Comparing RPM to apt-get is apples to oranges. Either compare RPM to DEB, or yum to apt-get. I never had to bother with dependencies when using yum, just as you've never had to bother with dependencies using apt-get.
Comparing RPM to apt-get is apples to oranges. Either compare RPM to DEB, or yum to apt-get. I never had to bother with dependencies when using yum, just as you've never had to bother with dependencies using apt-get.
Please run SELinux in permissive mode instead of disabling or even uninstalling it. If you ever would like to activate it again, running in permissive mode ensures that the proper security labels are maintained, while disabling or uninstalling SELinux causes the system to perform a time-consuming relabeling of all filesystems if/when SELinux is re-enabled.
Besides, if an application is giving you troubles, why not file a bug report in the Red hat Bugzilla? Post the output of setroubleshoot (the GUI application that explains what went wrong and why) in the report, and the Fedora developers can probably determine how to best change the security policy.
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Black and white version of this photograph of a cafe in Paris at night in winter. Take near the 15eme arrondissement on a rainy night with a Nikon D300.
Congratulations on your feature on 17/01/2012
Keep the great work coming.
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Wonderful Louise, love the cat on the pedestrian crossing!
Thanks Maggie! This pic made wandering around on that cold wet night worthwhile :)
– Louise Fahy
Awesome Louise. Love the cat crossing the road.
Thanks Don!
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very cool
Thanks George!
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The 'aristocat' really adds to it, really nice shot
Haha yes he does! Thanks :)
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