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Angelica McDaniel was named Senior Vice President, Daytime, CBS Entertainment in February 2012. She reports to Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment.
In this position, McDaniel oversees CBS's top-rated daytime lineup, which includes daytime dramas THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, game shows THE PRICE IS THE RIGHT and LET'S MAKE A DEAL, and the entertainment talk show THE TALK.
McDaniel also oversaw the 2013-2014 season rebranding of CBS's Saturday morning programming block to "The CBS Dream Team, It's Epic!" a three-hour FCC educational/informational compliant programming block of six high-definition half-hours with a pro-social message targeted to viewers 13- to 16 years-old and appealing to viewers of all ages.
McDaniel, who joined CBS in August 2010, previously served as Vice President, Current Daytime Programs, CBS, overseeing THE TALK. She continues to oversee the day-to-day creative affairs for THE TALK.
Prior to joining CBS, McDaniel was a creative executive in the Telepictures/Warner Bros. program development department. She also served as the current executive on the fifth season of "The Tyra Banks Show."
From June 2007-March 2009, McDaniel was Creative Director of New Media for Telepictures Productions, spearheading digital initiatives, social media strategies and web integrations for "The Ellen Degeneres Show," "TMZ," "Essence," "The Bonnie Hunt Show," "Extra," "The Tyra Banks Show" and "MomLogic."
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A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.
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lol I hear ya. Has an AMA been done with Lopes on PB yet? If not, requesting a Lopes AMA, that'd be my question for him.
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Still wondering why Brian Lopes is not in these type of events. Would also love to see how he'd fair in Megavalanche.
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Insane! Would love to see how he does in the Megavalanche series.
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Grew up in Red Deer, now living in socal and wishing there was a skills park nearby. Bravo Alberta.
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Power Type | Magic Type | Sense Type | Charm Type | ||||
Bunny | Buffalo | Sheep | Dragon | Fox | Lion | Model | Raccoon |
Entertainer | |||||||
Primadonna | Diva |
The Cat is a Charm type character, that primarily utilizes Sword and Knife weapon types.
Basic defensive and evasive skills are learned during 1st jobs.
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Model | Entertainer | Primadonna Pure |
Diva Hybrid |
While her outfits can often be more concerned with style than practicality, it doesn't mean that that's all there is to her, whether working solo or as part of a group, she knows how to come through in for the big finale!
Reason for coming to Caballa Island
A rising star model who has won a couple of beauty contests. She has been cast to play the leading role in an upcoming blockbuster "Cleopatra". She comes to the island to make money to purchase ravish and expensive costumes for her movie.
Advancing to Entertainer
Level Required:
- Regular Level 50+ TM Level 40+
Items Required:
- 1 Mil Galder Check (bought from Andrew at Megalopolis Bank)
- Pretty Cat Badge (dropped by Kaboom in Caballa Relics Dungeon 4).
- Sign of Popularity
- 1,000,000 Base and 12,000,000 TM exp.
There are three bare-minimum general builds for Cats, and they are AP, HV, and DP. There is no such thing as a superior build, just superior players that know how to use their build. Look at the bottom for links to guides.
- To view all skills see Charm Skills
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Mana Reflector | Shield All | Sturdy Shield | Titanium Wrist | Skunk Pouch | Physical Training | ||||||
Final Blow |
A female character who enjoys wearing revealing outfits. She is full of self-confidence and knows how beautiful she looks.
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Release Date: 2000
Conducted by Robert Cobert
Format: CD
1. | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Suite | 11:40 |
2. | Dead of Night (A Darkness At Blaisedon) Suite | 3:00 |
3. | The Night Stalker Suite | 4:00 |
4. | The Night Strangler Suite | 5:32 |
5. | Dracula Suite | 8:10 |
6. | Trilogy of Terror Suite | 6:10 |
7. | Burnt Offerings Suite | 8:40 |
8. | Dead of Night Suite | 13:33 |
9. | Curse of the Black Widow Suite | 7:10 |
10. | Dark Shadows Suite | 8:44 |
Total Album Time: | 76:39 |
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For the past 35 years, composer Robert Cobert has been working with Dan Curtis on many of his well-known horror films and television shows. Starting back in 1966 with "Dark Shadows", their collaboration has covered over twenty projects, including the "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" miniseries. Now there comes an album that focuses on ten of their horror projects, and it gives you a great idea of what Curtis sees in Cobert's work.
The album begins with a suite of music from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The music is appropriately creepy, with a dark string-based theme, and creepy percussion and tense brass. This is a hearty suite, running almost 12-minutes long. The Night Stalker suite (as well as the sequel, The Night Strangler) are also included here, with its dark piano, jazzy horns, and mild percussion. The music feels a bit dated, but it still has an endearing quality that makes it enjoyable to listen to.
A suite of music from the 1974 production of Dracula has a great theme that when played out with the orchestra reminds me of some of Goldsmith's earlier works. It's a highly enjoyable suite, and it seemed to be a project that allowed Cobert to explore more lyrical and sweeping motifs, as well as utilizing his skills at horror cues. The other cues include music from Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, Dead of Night, and Curse of the Black Widow. I was delighted to hear a suite of music from the 1991 remake of "Dark Shadows", and that nearly nine-minute long suite should be enough of a reason to get this album.
Most of the music on the album is in mono, with the latter tracks going stereo as the recording technology improved. With a solid 76 minutes of score from ten classic horror productions, this is an album that should definitely be looked into. I can't say that all of the cues are ones you'll listen to time and time again, but the "Dark Shadows", Dracula and The Night Stalker/Strangler suites are solid reasons to get this album.
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The C++ Standard Library provides ten alternative forms of containers and three container adaptors. In this chapter we briefly identify these forms, consider their characteristics, and discuss how you might go about selecting which form to use in solving a particular problem. Subsequent chapters then go over each of the different forms in more detail.
Table 6 lists the container types provided by the C++ Standard Library, and describes the most significant characteristic of each. Table 7 does the same for the container adaptors.
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vector | Random access to elements, efficient insertion at back |
vector<bool> | Specialization of vector optimized for bool |
list | Efficient insertion and removal throughout |
deque | Random access, efficient insertion at front or back |
set | Elements maintained in order, efficient tests for inclusion, insertion, and removal |
multiset | Set with repeated copies |
bitset | Bit container. Specialized on size rather than contained type |
map | Access to values via keys, efficient insertion and removal |
multimap | Map permitting duplicate keys |
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The Sheldon Primary: No Welcome Mat for the Tea Party
The RJC's conference kicks off tonight in the airplane hangar housing Sheldon Adelson's fleet of jets. Ted Cruz's invitation must have gotten lost.
The RJC's conference kicks off tonight in the airplane hangar housing Sheldon Adelson's fleet of jets. Ted Cruz's invitation must have gotten lost.
It's Christmas in — well, whatever month you choose! Many politically active nonprofits appear to fulfill their "social welfare" missions by handing out millions in grants to groups with similar political agendas. Step 3 in our five-part series.
Although the Romney campaign refuses to publicly release the list of its donors, a number of these elite fundraisers (those who have raised $1 million or more for the campaign) enjoyed a celebratory gathering on a yacht Tuesday. OpenSecrets Blog was at the marina to witness the comings and goings.
How did an inherently political group get around the IRS requirement that most of its spending had to be for "social welfare" purposes if it was to maintain its tax-exempt status? By giving to a dozen like-minded, politically active tax-exempt organizations.
Yesterday the long-developing ties between two Republican super PACs and Mitt Romney's campaign grew stronger when the campaign announced that veteran GOP strategist Ed Gillespie would come aboard as a senior adviser. Gillespie's a found of and adviser to the American Crossroads super PAC. Just another instance of non-coordination, if recent history is any guide.
Several politically active 501(c)(4) groups that don't disclose their donors have received multimillion-dollar contributions from groups that are familiar players in Republican circles, OpenSecrets Blog has learned.
In special elections in Nevada and New York, the spending by outside groups was overwhelming negative. In New York, 62 percent of the expenditures were in opposition to one of the candidates in the race, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. And in Nevada, 89 percent of the spending was expressly advocating against the Democrat in the race.
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11 Feb 2015:
Learning About Geoengineering
Spurs More Agreement on Climate, Study Says
Geoengineering, an experimental series of technologies aimed at counteracting the effects of climate change, could potentially diminish political polarization over global warming, according to
new research
. Roughly 3,000 participants in a study displayed more open-mindedness toward evidence of climate change and more agreement on the significance of such evidence after learning about geoengineering technologies, according to a study conducted by researchers at Yale and other universities. Participants became more polarized when they were told that curbing climate change would require reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers report. The findings come after a report this week from the
U.S. National Research Council
recommended limited government-sponsored research into the use of sulfate aerosols, a potential geoengineering strategy known as albedo modification.
As Arctic Ocean Ice Vanishes,
Questions About Future Fishing
With the steady retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean opening up vast areas of this long-frozen marine basin, a key resource
A Russian fishing vessel trawls the Arctic Ocean.
issue is now emerging: the future of fisheries, especially in central Arctic waters. What species are migrating into the region as sea ice disappears? And could the heart of the Arctic Ocean sustain a commercial fishery in the coming decades? These issues were central to a discussion at a recent conference on the fisheries of the central Arctic Ocean. With more southerly fish species migrating into warmer and increasingly ice-free regions of the Arctic Ocean, officials from the U.S. and Canada say it's important to negotiate an international agreement on fishing before allowing fisheries to open.
Read the article.
10 Feb 2015:
Flooding in U.S. Midwest Is
Becoming More Frequent, Research Shows
Flooding in the U.S. Midwest has become more frequent over the last half-century, a new study in
Nature Climate Change
Furniture displaced by flooding in Iowa in 2008.
found, confirming what many residents of the region had already suspected. Of the nearly 800 stream sites analyzed, more than one-third had an increase in flood event frequency, while only 9 percent showed a decrease in flooding. Although the study did not attempt to link the increase in flooding with climate change, the findings do fit well with current thinking among scientists about how the hydrologic cycle is being affected by climate change, the researchers say. In general, as the atmosphere becomes warmer, it holds more moisture, and one consequence of higher water vapor concentrations is more frequent, intense precipitation.
09 Feb 2015:
Norway Divests National Fund
From Coal Companies Over Climate Concerns
Norway has divested its sovereign wealth fund — the largest in the world and worth roughly $850 billion — from coal companies, marking the first time a nation has divested for reasons related to climate change. Over the past three years, the country has dropped investments in
more than 100 companies
involved in coal mining, tar sands development, cement production, and mountaintop removal coal mining, officials announced. In a report released last week, the fund's directors said that risks associated with carbon emissions, deforestation, and poor water management outweigh the benefits of continuing to invest in these companies. Critics point out that the fund, which has been built with earnings from Norway's profitable oil industry, still holds
roughly $40 billion
in fossil fuel investments. The country says it will decide on a case- by-case basis whether to divest from those holdings.
06 Feb 2015:
Maine's Iconic Lobsters
Face Threats From Ocean Acidification
Maine's lobster fishery,
worth $1.7 billion
to the state and a vital source of employment, could be
A Maine lobster
threatened by acidifying ocean waters
and rising sea temperatures, according to a new report. The
, issued by a state commission, called increasingly acidic ocean waters — caused by the absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere — an "urgent matter" that needs to be addressed by state and local governments and the fishing infustry. Facing the prospect that increasing acidity could interfere with the ability of lobsters to make their shells, the commission set forth a handful of goals, including a stepped-up research effort on the acidification of the coast's waters and its impact on crustaceans. Maine lawmakers have already introduced legislation for limits on industrial and agricultural runoff, which contribute to coastal water acidification.
05 Feb 2015:
Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells
Can Be Adapted for Rooftops, Research Finds
Extremely efficient solar cells similar to those used in space may soon be ready for installation on residential rooftops, according to a
Nature Communications
. Concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems, which use lenses and curved mirrors to focus sunlight onto small solar cells, produce energy much more efficiently than conventional solar panels — 40-percent efficiency compared to less than 20 percent for standard silicon systems. But they are typically the size of billboards and have to be positioned very accurately to track the sun throughout the day. Now researchers have overcome these obstacles by developing a CPV system that uses miniaturized gallium-arsenide photovoltaic cells, 3D-printed plastic lens arrays, and a moveable focusing mechanism. The new system is small and light enough to fit on a residential rooftop and should be inexpensive to produce, researchers say.
04 Feb 2015:
Plant-Like Sea Slug Can Steal
Genes From its Food, Researchers Report
The emerald green, leaf-shaped sea slug known as
Elysia chlorotica
can live for months at a time by
Sea slug
Elysia chlorotica
photosynthesizing its own food, like a plant does, but until recently scientists did not understand how the slug acquired and maintained this rare ability. A recent report in the journal
The Biological Bulletin
shows that the slug
steals genes and chloroplasts
— the cellular machinery that converts sunlight into food — from algae that the slug eats. Genes lifted from the algae can maintain cholorplasts in the slug for up to nine months, the researchers say — much longer than the chloroplasts would last in the algae themselves. Moreover, the slug can pass on those stolen genes to its offspring. The process is a mechanism of rapid evolution, says one of the study's authors.
03 Feb 2015:
Nine of 10 Cities in China Failed
Air Quality Standards, Government Says
Roughly 90 percent of China's large cities did not meet national air quality standards last year, according to the country's
Smog over the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.
environment ministry. Only eight of the 74 cities monitored by the ministry met standards for pollution metrics such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and fine particle concentrations, according to a report published on the ministry's website. The poor results actually represent an improvement over 2013, when only three of the 74 cities met air quality standards,
Reuters reports
. Last year, after residents grew increasingly alarmed about air quality in metropolitan areas, China promised to "declare war on pollution" by slashing coal use and closing heavily polluting factories. Still, the government does not expect the national average for fine particle pollution to reach official standards until 2030 or later.
02 Feb 2015:
Many California Farms and
Orchards Idled By Drought, NASA Maps Show
In 2014 — the driest year ever recorded in California — farms and orchards in the state's Central Valley took a major hit
Status of CA farms in 2011 (left) and 2014 (right).
and many agricultural plots were left fallow, as shown in these maps based on
NASA satellite data
. The maps depict the status of crop cultivation in California in August 2011 and August 2014. Brown pixels show farms and orchards that have been left fallow, or "idled," since January 1 in each year. Green pixels show plots where at least one crop was grown during the year. The most recent year with average or above average precipitation across the state was 2011, and, as the map shows, relatively little agricultural land was left fallow that year. In 2014, a much higher proportion of farms and orchards were idle.
30 Jan 2015:
Thunderstorms Move Ozone
Toward Surface of Earth, Research Shows
Thunderstorms move a significant amount of ozone from the stratosphere down toward the earth's surface — a process
Thunderstorms transport ozone toward earth.
that could have important impacts on climate,
according to
a recent study in the journal
Geophysical Research Letters
. Ozone shields the planet from the sun's ultraviolet rays when it's in the stratosphere, the second-lowest layer of the atmosphere, but ozone acts as a powerful greenhouse gas and pollutant when it's nearer to the earth's surface, in the troposphere. The study found that massive thunderheads, which can rise 50,000 feet above the ground, disturb the atmosphere and allow ozone to pour into the troposphere. Scientists had not previously known that storms play a key role in transporting ozone. The new findings could impact climate models, researchers say, especially since storms are expected to become more frequent and intense as the earth warms.
29 Jan 2015:
Iceland Rising as Climate Change
Causes Glaciers to Melt, Researchers Say
The crust under Iceland is rebounding as climate change melts the island's great ice caps,
researchers report
in the
GPS stations measure Iceland crust movement
Geophysical Research Letters
. The current rapid rising, or uplift, of the Icelandic crust is a result of accelerated melting of the island's glaciers and coincides with a regional warming trend that began roughly 30 years ago, the scientists said. Some areas in south-central Iceland are moving upward as much as 1.4 inches per year — a surprisingly high speed, the researchers say. Whether the rebound is related to past deglaciation or modern glacial thinning and global warming had been an open question until now, said co-author Richard Bennett, a geoscientist at the University of Arizona. "What we're observing is a climatically induced change in the earth's surface," Bennett said.
28 Jan 2015:
Camera Trap Records Rare
Glimpse of African Golden Cat Hunting
An African golden cat, one of the least known and most elusive wild cats on the planet, has been filmed hunting in
African golden cat
Kibale National Park, Uganda, for the first time, scientists say. In
the video
, which was recorded by a camera trap, an African golden cat darts toward a group of red colobus monkeys feeding on a tree stump. The cat's attack is nearly too fast to be seen in real-time, but viewing the footage in slow-motion highlights the cat's swiftness and accuracy — even though its ambush failed to land a meal. The African golden cat is found only in the forests of central and West Africa, and it is threatened across its range by intensive bushmeat hunting and habitat loss. Researchers say the video provides important details about the African golden cats' hunting behavior that have never before been directly observed.
27 Jan 2015:
Pollinator Loss Could Put
Poor Nations at Risk for Malnutrition
Declining pollinator populations could leave as many as half of the people in developing countries facing nutritional deficiencies,
according to
researchers from the University of Vermont and the Harvard School of Public Health. In the study — the first to link pollinator declines directly to human nutrition — researchers collected detailed data about people's daily diets in parts of Zambia, Mozambique, Uganda, and Bangladesh. They found that in Mozambique, for example, many children and mothers are barely able to meet their needs for micronutrients, especially vitamin A, which is important for preventing blindness and infectious diseases. Fruits and vegetables were an important source of that nutrient for many people in the study, and those crops are highly dependent on pollinators, researchers say — for example, yields of mangoes, which are high in vitamin A, would likely be cut by 65 percent without them. Pollinator losses might also lead to folate deficiency, they say, which is associated with neural tube defects.
26 Jan 2015:
Oil Spills Can Lead to Toxic
Arsenic Water Contamination, Study Says
When petroleum breaks down in underground aquifers, toxic arsenic — up to 23 times the current drinking water
Water sampling at the Minnesota oil-spill test site.
standard — can be released into groundwater,
according to
a study by U.S. Geological Survey and Virginia Tech researchers, who analyzed samples collected over 32 years from a petroleum-spill research site in Minnesota. Arsenic, a toxin and carcinogen linked to numerous forms of cancer, is naturally present in most soils and sediments, but is not typically a health concern because its chemical properties keep it bound within soil and minerals. However, certain chemical reactions associated with petroleum contamination and microbial activity in low-oxygen environments, such as in aquifers, change the chemical state of the arsenic so that it can enter the groundwater, researchers say.
23 Jan 2015:
South Africa Relocates Rhinos
After Record Number Were Poached in 2014
Unable to curb poaching of rhinos within its borders, the South African government has
relocated 100 rhinos
A white rhino in Kruger National Park.
neighboring countries
in an effort to stem the illegal slaughter of the animals, Reuters reports. For security reasons, officials did not reveal to which countries the rhinos had been relocated. An additional 56 rhinos were moved from poaching hotspots within South Africa's Kruger National Park — where two-thirds of the killings happen — to an "intensive protection zone" within Kruger, officials said. Poachers killed a record number of the animals in South Africa last year — 1,215 rhinos, up 20 percent from the 2013 total — and 49 have been killed so far this year. The animals are hunted intensely because their horns, which some Asian cultures incorrectly believe contain medicinal properties, are worth an estimated $65,000 per kilogram on the black market.
22 Jan 2015:
Draining of Greenland Lakes
Signals Massive Melting, Researchers Say
have discovered
craters left behind when two lakes under the Greenland ice sheet rapidly drained recently — an indication
Crater left after a Greenland lake drained.
that a massive amount of meltwater has started overflowing the ice sheet's natural plumbing and is causing "blowouts" that drain lakes away, they say. One of the two lakes once held billions of gallons of water and emptied to form a mile-wide crater in just a few weeks, researchers report in the journal
The Cryosphere
. The other lake, described this week in the journal
, was two miles wide and has filled and emptied twice in the last two years. The researchers suspect that as more meltwater reaches the base of the ice sheet, natural drainage tunnels along the Greenland coast are cutting further inland. The tunnels carry heat and water to areas that were once frozen to the bedrock, potentially causing the ice to melt even faster.
21 Jan 2015:
Filtering Polluted Stormwater
Through Soil Can Protect Salmon, Study Says
Filtering polluted runoff from urban areas through a simple soil mixture dramatically reduced the water's toxic metal and
A pair of coho salmon.
hydrocarbon content and made it safe for coho salmon and the insects they eat, according to
new research
. Scientists collected polluted runoff from a four-lane highway in Seattle, then filtered part of the water through a mixture of sand, compost, and shredded bark. Coho salmon and aquatic insects thrived in the filtered stormwater, but they quickly died in the unfiltered water, researchers reported in the journal
. Chemical analyses showed that filtering the water through the soil mixture reduced toxic metals by 30 to 99 percent, polyaromatic hydrocarbons to levels at or below detection, and organic matter by more than 40 percent. The research supports the use of rain gardens and other natural stormwater filtration systems, the authors say.
20 Jan 2015:
Genetic Diversity Is Key To
Food Stability in Changing Climate, UN Says
As climate change advances, much more should be done to study, preserve, and take advantage of the biological diversity
Wild red rice is hardier than cultivated varieties.
underpinning world food production,
according to
a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Between 16 and 22 percent of current crop species — including 61 percent of peanut and 12 percent of potato species — could become extinct in the next 50 years, the report notes. Wild strains, which are often better at adapting to environmental changes, will
become increasingly important
for feeding the global population, which is expected to grow by 3 billion people by 2050, the report says. Strengthening gene and seed banks, improving breeding practices, increasing genetic diversity on farms and in fields, and preserving
soil microbiomes
will be key to boosting crops' climate resilience, the FAO said.
Interview: How Chinese Tiger Farms
Threaten Wild Tigers Worldwide
The number of tigers living in the wild has dropped to the shockingly low figure of 3,200, down from 100,000 a century ago.
Judith Mills
But nearly as shocking is this statistic: An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 tigers are being legally farmed today in China, their bones steeped in alcohol to make tiger bone wine, their meat sold, and their skins turned into rugs for members of China's wealthy elite. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, wildlife activist Judith Mills makes a passionate case against tiger farming, explaining how these magnificent creatures are bred like cattle for their body parts, how some conservation groups have chosen not to confront the Chinese government about the farms, and how tiger farming poses a direct threat to the world's remaining wild tigers because increased availability of these bones and pelts fuels demand that strengthens the incentive to poach wild tigers.
Read the interview.
16 Jan 2015:
Solar a Better Investment Than
Stocks in Most Large U.S. Cities, Study Says
For homeowners in 46 of the 50 largest cities in the U.S., investing in a residential solar power system would yield better returns than putting money in the
stock market, according to
an analysis
by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at North Carolina State University. For 21 million owners of single-family homes in the U.S., solar energy already costs less than current local utility rates, the report says, as long as the system can be purchased with low-cost financing of 5 percent interest over 25 years. Residents of New York City, Boston, and Albuquerque would likely see the largest benefits from investing in residential solar, the report says. The
findings assume
, however, that government incentives encouraging solar investments — such as tax exemptions and policies allowing homeowners to sell excess solar power to utility companies — will continue, which is highly dependent on federal, state, and local politics.
15 Jan 2015:
Underwater Kelp Forests Mapped
In New Citizen Science Project
Kelp forests
grow along roughly 25 percent of the world's coastlines and provide valuable habitat and nutrients for many types of aquatic life. Now, research by the "
Floating Forests
" project is shedding light on how these underwater kelp forests are affected by climate change. The project is using NASA satellite data to observe changes in kelp forests over a period of more than four decades. The catch: No accurate way to automate the process exists, so the researchers rely on an international team of nearly 3,500 citizen scientists to mark the bright green kelp forests, which contrast with the deep blues of the ocean in the images.
Read more.
14 Jan 2015:
Offshore Wind More Profitable
Than Drilling on U.S. East Coast, Report Says
Offshore wind would produce twice the number of jobs and twice the amount of energy as offshore drilling
Offshore wind turbines in the Irish Sea
near the
U.S. East Coast
according to
a new report from the advocacy group Oceana. The report contends that recent claims by the oil and gas industry about the economic potential of offshore drilling in the region are exaggerated because many of those oil and gas reserves are not economically viable to drill. Plans to build the nation's first offshore wind farm off Cape Cod have repeatedly
failed to move forward
. But Oceana calculates that over the course of 20 years, offshore wind in the Atlantic could produce nearly twice as much energy as all of the economically recoverable oil and gas. Offshore wind installations also would likely create an additional 91,000 jobs — twice as many as offshore drilling would create, Oceana says.
13 Jan 2015:
California Still in Widespread
Drought, Despite Heavy Precipitation
The heavy rains and snow that fell across much of California in the first half of December did little to recharge the state's
California precipitation deficits
dry reservoirs or ease long-term drought conditions,
an analysis
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirms. By the middle of December, 98 percent of the state remained under drought conditions, which is the same portion as before the storms, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Dry conditions over the last three years have left the Sierra Nevada mountain range with a 30- to 50-inch precipitation deficit, NOAA reports, and the agriculture-heavy San Joaquin Valley has fared even worse. To bring the state's four-year precipitation total out of the bottom 20 percent historically — a benchmark used to declare drought conditions — every part of the state would need to exceed its average rainfall between now and September.
12 Jan 2015:
Maasai Group Plans to Sell
Biogas Made From Slaughterhouse Waste
A group of Maasai farmers in southwestern Kenya has developed a profitable way to convert animal waste and
A Keeko Biogas cylinder prototype
blood from a local slaughterhouse into biogas that can power the facility as well as other local businesses,
Reuters reports
. The Keeko Biogas project plans to start bottling the fuel and selling cylinders of it in March, once safety testing has been completed, project leaders say. At roughly $8 per 6-kilogram cylinder, the biogas is about half the price of liquefied petroleum gas, and it can be up to 40 percent more energy efficient than propane or butane, says the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute, which is providing technical support for the project. The facility will be able to produce 100 to 300 cylinders of biogas per week, organizers say. The project will not only offset the costs of waste management for the slaughterhouse, it will also likely help prevent deforestation in the region. "We cut down a lot of trees for charcoal and we hope to reduce that," the chairman of the slaughterhouse told Reuters.
Interview: Giving Local Women
A Voice in Grass-Roots Conservation
The roles of women in traditional societies can be quite different from men's, and their knowledge of the
Kame Westerman
natural world and the way in which conservation projects affect them may also be different. But these variables aren't necessarily taken into account when developing such projects. The results can range from missed opportunities to project failure. Earlier this year, Conservation International began piloting guidelines to help integrate gender considerations into its community projects — an initiative that Kame Westerman, the "gender advisor" for that organization, helped develop. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Westerman discusses these guidelines, as well as the perils of ignoring gender when planning conservation initiatives.
Read more.
09 Jan 2015:
Most Physicians Already Seeing
Health Effects of Climate Change in Patients
In a
of physicians in the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the majority of doctors said their patients
Results of survey on climate change and patient health
were already experiencing medical conditions associated with climate change and that physicians should be educating their patients and policy makers about climate-related health effects. Seventy-seven percent of ATS physicians — a group of doctors specializing in respiratory health and critical care — said air pollution associated with climate change is exacerbating chronic conditions such as asthma in their patients. Nearly 60 percent reported increases in allergies from plants or mold and injuries from severe weather related to climate change. Many of the physicians who responded to the survey said exposure to smoke from wildfires had caused or worsened lung conditions in their patients, and changes in precipitation and weather patterns seemed to be affecting patients as well, the
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08 Jan 2015:
Land Disturbances Darken Snow
And Increase Melt Rate, Researchers Say
Land disturbances, such as agricultural practices and development, may have a big impact on snow purity and
Sampling snowpack in Montana
melt rates,
according to
a large-scale survey of impurities in North American snow by researchers at the University of Washington. The researchers were particularly interested in the Bakken oil fields of northwest North Dakota. Before undertaking the study, they predicted that diesel emissions and air pollution associated with oil exploration would darken the snowpack, decreasing the amount of sunlight it reflects and increasing its melt rate. They found, however, that while these activities do add soot to the snow, the dirt they stir up adds an equal amount of impurities to the snowpack. Disturbances from clearing oil pads, new housing sites, agricultural activities, and extra truck traffic on unpaved roads add a significant amount of dirt to snowfields, they found.
07 Jan 2015:
Federal Judge Halts Hunting
And Trapping of Great Lakes Gray Wolves
A federal judge
has stopped
the hunting and trapping of gray wolves in the Upper Midwest,
Gray wolf
following their removal from the U.S. Endangered Species List in 2012 by the Obama administration. In the ruling, which affects gray wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan — the so-called Great Lakes wolf population — the judge called the delisting of the wolves "arbitrary and capricious" and said it violated the
Endangered Species Act
. The order came roughly three years after federal protections for the wolves were dropped by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Since then, the states have each held hunting seasons, resulting in 923 gray wolves killed in Minnesota, 654 in Wisconsin, and 22 in Michigan for a total of 1,599 killed. Researchers estimate that roughly 3,700 gray wolves live in the Great Lakes region.
06 Jan 2015:
Penguin Watch Projects Asks
Citizen Scientists to Monitor Birds' Habits
Penguin Watch
, a citizen science project launched by researchers from the University of Oxford in the U.K., is enlisting the
Group of Gentoo penguins
public's help in counting penguins in some 175,000 photos from locations across the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers are monitoring five penguin species — Gentoo, Chinstrap, Adelie, Rockhopper, and King penguins — and recording information on the number of adults, chicks, and eggs, as well as their winter behavior, breeding success, and travel habits. The project is especially useful for monitoring penguins' winter behavior, for example, because it's logistically difficult for the researchers to visit these locations in winter,
they say
, and the images are far too numerous for researchers to view on their own. Understanding how the penguins live day-to-day should help shed light on how the penguins will respond to an increasingly volatile climate, the team says.
05 Jan 2015:
U.S. Cities Are Significantly
Brighter than German Cities, Scientists Say
German cities emit several times less light per capita than similarly sized American cities, according to
new research
published in the journal
Remote Sensing
Berlin, Germany, at night
Moreover, the differences in light emission become more dramatic as city size increases: Light per capita increases with city size in the U.S. but decreases in Germany. Factors such as the type of lamps used and architectural elements like the width of the streets and the amount of trees are likely behind the differences, the researchers say. Energy-efficient
LED street lighting
is currently being installed in many cities worldwide, and the researchers expect this to change the nighttime environment in many ways — for example, by reducing the amount of light that shines upward. The study also found that, in major cities in developing countries, the brightest light sources were typically airports or harbors, whereas the brightest areas in large European cities are often stadiums and city centers.
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Cannibalism suspected in India tea plantation worker uprising
Police in northeast India say they believe workers on a tea plantation who bludgeoned their boss and his wife to death last month also ate parts of their bodies.
A crowd of 1000 workers at the privately-owned M.K.B. Tea Estate in the state of Assam surrounded the plantation owner's bungalow last week. A mob then set it on fire in violence blamed on festering labour unrest in the region.
"Our investigations say that at least five plantation workers ate the flesh of the tea planter and his wife after they were brutally killed," Numol Mahatao, deputy police chief of Tinsukia district, told journalists.
"We suspect that about 15 people were actually involved in the crime although there were some 1000 present there at the spot," the police official said. "We have identified all the masterminds and nine are in our custody so far."
Mr Mahatao said the reports of cannibalism were based on a confession from one of the workers present during the attack.
Tea workers are notoriously badly paid and often housed in poor accommodation in remote areas. They have few protections from police and cannot take advantage of laws designed to guarantee them health care and fair working conditions, rights groups say.
The Indian Express newspaper said the violence was sparked by orders from the boss for 10 estate workers to vacate their quarters and by the detention of three employees by police over unspecified disputes.
"We are investigating the reasons that led to the attack. But whatever may be the reason, such acts of barbarism are unacceptable in this modern world," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said.
Assam produces around 55 per cent of India's annual tea production, which stood at 988.32 million kilograms last year, and the state is home to more than 800 tea estates.
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The Cyberabad police on Tuesday retrieved the body of a 35-year-old man from the Musi beneath the Nagole bridge under the L.B. Nagar police station limits. Police said the victim clad in a blue and white shirt and inner wear, drowned after accidentally slipping into the river.
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In a separate incident, a 42-year-old man committed suicide by consuming pesticide at SV Nagar Colony in Keesara on Monday. S. Dhanraj Chari of Venkateswara Nagar Colony in Damaiguda had left home saying that he would return in an hour. His body was found in an open place at SV Nagar.
Chari ended his life as he was unable to repay loans he had taken from financiers, according to the police.
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| AbstractThe East Black Sea (EBS) and the Çoruh River basins (ÇRB) of northeast Turkey have a number of challenging water related issues of socio-economic and ecological importance. This PhD thesis aims to understand hydroclimatological variability across Turkey taking a large-scale perspective by defining precipitation regimes and extremes and then focussing on the climatic and basin drivers of river flow variability in northeast Turkey. At the national-scale, Turkey exhibits six precipitation regime regions of which three characterise northeast region. The northeast and southwest coastal regions of Turkey are characterised by the highest frequency of extreme precipitation events. The mountainous area of the EBS is defined by May-June Peak river flow regime, while ÇRB is characterised by April-May Peak flow regime. Intra-annual variability in the timing of river flow over northeast Turkey is controlled mainly by the regional climatic variability. Spring rainfall peak is linked to snowmelt. Important changes are detected in temperature extremes, also in precipitation and river flow for some cases. Regional precipitation and temperatures for September-May period have an important influence on river flow extremes. Temperature variability across northeast Turkey is closely linked to seasonal indices of East-North Atlantic teleconnection patterns, especially during winter. |
Type of Work: | Ph.D. thesis. |
Supervisor(s): | Hannah, David M. and Eastwood, Warren J. |
School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Life & Environmental Sciences |
Department: | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Additional Information: | The published papers from Appendix I and Appendix II are available at http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/529/ and http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/508/ |
Subjects: | G Geography (General) GB Physical geography |
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If the 3DS was region free, games were more readily available, the online shop didn't restrict you to a points system, there would be less reason for hacking. Hacking has great benefits, some of them give gamers a better experience with their work, so they shouldn't be the only ones being blamed for piracy, the pirates themselves who encourage it themselves.
So Renegade Kid, it's understandable to be a bit paranoid over piracy, but remember there are reasons why it exists.
Now time to wait for gameplay footage from a TV show hosted by overly excited (huge understatement) Japanese presenters.
Well, I wonder why Xenoblade is on that list, maybe it should have been a better idea to release the game in all regions, don't ya think?
Wait, how does the third branch work? If Link defeats Ganon either way then shouldn't the third branch not exist, or is this a "what if" split?
Is it stupid to say I clicked on this story because I read "Gold Nunchuks" and not "Gold Wii Nunchuks"
To be honest, I wouldn't be that upset if he was stepping down. The guy can't make games for the rest of his life, and Nintendo shouldn't rely on him for a final result.
I had a great time there with my sister. Sadly I had to leave and miss most of the second part to catch the last train to Stafford, which I missed...
Although I wish it didn't take over an hour to start, I know they needed time for people to get to their seats, but when you start over an hour after the ticket time, it gets frustrating. If it started earlier I would've missed less.
Eh. I'm glad that it's free but do I want to download the exact same early Nintendo release lineup again?
I don't see why the 3DS needs a second analogue stick, most games Nintendo makes are built with good cameras anyway, and that's the only real reason to have a second analogue stick.
Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos
Zelda II
Little Samson
...you know what, I'd love to see more obscure NES titles available to download unlike the ones that ALWAYS become either downloadable or ported like the Megamans, the Marios and the Zeldas
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga - even though I've already own it and beaten it
Gunstar Future Heroes
Advance Wars
Warioware Twisted (using the 3DS Gyroscope) - I know it's a stretch but someone has to put it there XD
Thinking about it, other than Halo, what first party series does Microsoft have? It's not that I think that Halo is the only one they have, it's the only one I can recall.
Nintendo is a big company, and has been experimenting with 3D for much longer than Tomita has worked on it probably. Heck, Autostereoscopy has been researched for over 20 years, just because one guy says he filed a patent doesn't mean that much unless he used the idea for something that was similar to the 3DS.
You know, this reminds me of another case. A popular Japanese title that was demoed at the Japan Expo leading to the speculation that it would be translated...what game was that? Oh yeah, SOLATOROBO: RED THE HUNTER! And that game got a European release and a planned US release as well! I guess there is still hope!
With all that, it doesn't really explain why us in Europe are getting them and not America. In the 90s we got very few RPGs because of the lack of popularity of them in the US. Today, we have gotten quite a few RPGs, and we are getting three games liscensed by Nintendo in Europe but not America because...
I've tried it out on my 3DS and the pictures are way more nausiating than it should be, and I rarely have any problems with the 3D stuff.
AR Card Battling was the one thing I dreamed for when Augmented Reality came to my mind. Thank you Nintendo!
Believe it or not, that's the video I recorded in the attempt. I don't know about what the majoritory of people were playing, though there were many people playing different versions of Pokemon. I played Bangai-O Spirits and the guy sitting next to me was playing a shoot 'em up. I also remember 8 people were removed from the count for not playing on their DS (and one guy tried to use a hand drawn and cut-out DS). I couldn't record the entire event of course because we all had to play for 10 minutes non-stop.
Finally, some confirmation on Wiiware. I bought Bit.Trip.Beat and it's good, difficult to get the hang of.
I would like to see 1942 or any other arcade game in the 194x series (1943: Battle for Midway, anyone?)
I'm definitely going to get this!!! I love Homestar Runner and Strong Bad so as soon as I saw this, I almost got a heart attack (metaphorically). I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH IT'LL COST!!!!!


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On Jan. 7, 1979, the communist Vietnamese army captured the Cambodian city of Phnom Penh, signaling the downfall of the bloodiest per-capita regime in world history: the Khmer Rouge.
Like Vietnam, Cambodia had been part of the French colonial empire in Indochina since the late 19th century. In 1953, Cambodia gained its independence and was ruled a constitutional monarchy until a coup in 1970. What followed were several years of civil war between a nationalist, pro-Western government and a radical new communist movement, the Khmer Rouge.
During the Vietnam War, the communist North Vietnamese funneled weapons and logistical support to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Vietnam through the Ho Chi Minh trail, which ran partially through Cambodia. In 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon authorized the bombing of the trail in Cambodia. Many historians suggest that this move marginalized the nationalist government and swelled the ranks of the Khmer Rouge.
The Khmer Rouge ultimately triumphed in the civil war and came to power in 1975. Changing the name of the country to Democratic Kampuchea, the regime and its leader, Pol Pot, sought to completely expunge the past and create a more radical form of communism. What followed was one of the most uncompromising experiments in social engineering in history.
In his book "The Red Flag: A History of Communism," historian David Priestland wrote: "Money was abolished, and everybody ... became laborers on collective farms. Urban life was destroyed, the cities emptied, schools closed. The country became one large agricultural labor camp, and the lives of all were devoted to labor and political education.
"The regime sought to destroy old hierarchies of all sorts. Children were expected to call their parents 'comrade father' and 'comrade mother' and the use of the term 'sir' was banned. Only marriages approved by the party were allowed. Pol Pot even declared that 'mothers should not get too entangled with their offspring' and communal dining halls were introduced to stop family bonding."
Sexual relations outside of marriage were outlawed and punishable by death, as was the consumption of alcohol. Anyone with any kind of formal education was suspect, and anyone with a college degree was executed. Anyone who had been involved in any "free-market activities" was also executed. Those who appeared to shirk their duty to cultivate the fields could be murdered as saboteurs. Anyone participating in any kind of religious practice or ritual was put to death.
One terrifying policy that echoed the famous "Twilight Zone" episode "It's a Good Life" saw children put in command of revolutionary cadres. With this power the regime hoped to indoctrinate the next generation in brutality, as they were allowed to oversee torture and executions.
From 1975 to 1979, during the period of the Khmer Rouge's rule, Cambodia became known as "The Killing Fields." In addition to those who were executed as declared political enemies, many Cambodians were worked to death or died from starvation as the collective farms failed to keep up with demand.
It's estimated that somewhere between 1.5 million and 2 million Cambodians were killed during this period. If the higher number is correct, that represented more than 20 percent of the population of Cambodia in 1975.
For all of its xenophobic policies, the Khmer Rouge did not operate in a vacuum, however, and Cambodia soon found itself drawn into the larger communist division known as the Sino-Soviet split. Far from being socialist allies, by the late 1960s communist China and the Soviet Union had become bitter rivals and both sought to lead the wider communist world.
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Using advanced imaging technology, researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York found this previously unrecognized "glymphatic system," which they said functions in the brain under the direction of glial cells, similar to the body's lymphatic system. The researchers suggest their findings could lead to improved treatments for neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke and Parkinson's disease.
Scientists note, however, that research with animals often fails to provide similar results in humans.
"Waste clearance is of central importance to every organ, and there have been long-standing questions about how the brain gets rid of its waste," senior study author Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, co-director of the university's Center for Translational Neuromedicine, said in a school news release. "This work shows that the brain is cleansing itself in a more organized way and on a much larger scale than has been realized previously."
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The newly discovered system moves cerebrospinal fluid, which cleanses brain tissue, throughout the brain more efficiently than previously thought, the researchers said. Under pressure, the system pushes large volumes of the fluid through the brain to remove waste forcefully.
"It's as if the brain has two garbage haulers -- a slow one that we've known about, and a fast one that we've just met," Nedergaard said. "Given the high rate of metabolism in the brain, and its exquisite sensitivity, it's not surprising that its mechanisms to rid itself of waste are more specialized and extensive than previously realized."
Pumped into the brain along channels surrounding arteries, cerebrospinal fluid washes through brain tissue before collecting in channels around veins and draining from the brain, the researchers explained.
They said the system was previously undetected because it operates only in living brains. Development of two-photon microscopy has now enabled scientists to study the brain of a living animal.
"It's a hydraulic system," Nedergaard said. "Once you open it, you break the connections and it cannot be studied. We are lucky enough to have technology now that allows us to study the system intact, to see it in operation."
The researchers specifically examined amyloid beta, the protein that accumulates in the brain of patients with Alzheimer's disease. More than half of the amyloid removed from the brain of a mouse was drained through the glymphatic system, they found.
"Understanding how the brain copes with waste is critical. In every organ, waste clearance is as basic an issue as how nutrients are delivered," Jeffrey Iliff, the study's first author and a research assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, said in the news release. "In the brain, it's an especially interesting subject because in essentially all neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, protein waste accumulates and eventually suffocates and kills the neuronal network of the brain."
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Where did Jonathan Morgan come from? How did he get into porn? He's good looking, can get it up and keep it up, but most of all, he can act! Shouldn't he be following the great tradition of Buddy Love, Tony Montana and Billy Dee and walk around with the same grin on his face to symbolize every emotion from happiness to crotch itch?
Jonathan plays the lead, a successful playwright who's successful only because an actress in one of his plays flaunted her body on stage to the delight of audiences. But now he needs work, and is hired by a studio head to write XXX-rated screenplays. As the chief honcho, J.B. gives another award-caliber non-sex performance. Personally, I'd like to see bigger parts written for him. Speaking of big parts, Randy West show his comedic talents as a burned-out writer who once turned out 7000 scripts over a period of a few months. Jonathan remarks that he must have gotten several hundreds of dollars for that.
Jonathan writes a script based on the doings at the seedy hotel he's been put up in. The desk clerk (Mickey Ray) is screwing the incredibly pretty Tracy Winn, Randy is being devoured by sex-machine Jenna Wells, and even Jonathan finally gets in on the action with his literary agent, played by the cute Alyssa Jarreau. Award-winner Scotty Fox keeps his camera moving in these and other very well done action scenes, and the only fault I could find with this video is that at 72 minutes, it's congratulations to all involved.


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This morning Twitter user @denisbaranov asked for summary of Barack Obama's speech, specifically one without subjectivity (since most of the amateur punditry concerned the "You lie" outburst from a now infamous Senator from South Carolina, Joe Wilson).
We went straight to the L.A. Times transcription of the speech and then searched Twitter for the reactions of L.A. users. The frequency of retweets made us realize that the @BarackObama account was live tweeting during the speech (obviously, we're not following him). So, Denis Baranov, it would seem that the closest thing you'll get to a summary are the tweets of @barackobama himself. (Well maybe not "himself" per se, but some nimble fingered staffer from the DNC nonetheless.)
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Three-hundred and sixty-nine Farm Bureau delegates from across the country came together in Seattle in January to determine the policies guiding the grassroots organization in 2010. Among their priorities are national climate change legislation and the federal deficit.
New developments may help bring high-speed broadband connections to rural Ohioans.
In the mid 1980s when he was still chairman of Nationwide Insurance, Frank Sollars started working on an estate plan to pass on the farm to his five children. He wanted to make sure his family was taken care of and the process made as simple as possible.
In his weekly blog, Ohio Farm Bureau Senior Director of Commodity Relations David White discusses pork industry giants Smithfield and Tyson recently announcing plans to develop animal welfare improvements that include moving away from the practice of using gestation crates.
Ohio Farm Bureau has created a new contest as part of this years membership campaign.
Congressman Steve Stivers who currently represents Ohios 15th district comprising Madison, Union and parts of Franklin counties, is seeking re-election.
Ohio Farm Bureau recently named Pat Petzel vice president of communications.
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF), Ohios largest general farm organization, has named Patricia Petzel vice president of communications.
As chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, Jim Petro has a one-word goal completion. He would like to see students attending Ohios 37 universities and community colleges complete their credentials and degrees, whether they are a one-year certificate, two-year degree or four-year degree.
Former OFBF President Bob Peterson finds himself in a new leadership role.
An appeals court has vacated an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that allowed pesticides to be applied to U.S. waters without a Clean Water Act permit.
The Pearl Market, set in downtown Columbus, is currently seeking farmers/growers and merchandise vendors for its 2009 Pearl Market Season.
Brian Peach has been named vice president of organization for Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.
Brian Peach has been named vice president, organization for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF).
Ryan and Nikki McClure of Grover Hill were recently appointed by AFBF President Bob Stallman to serve on the organizations Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee.
In eastern Ohio, the big land rush is on, driven by natural gas and oil exploration. The payout for property owners who lease out their land can be huge or pitiful, depending on the terms of the lease.
Last week five recent Ohio Farm Bureau interns were recognized for their achievements at the Kentucky Derby themed Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Recognition Banquet. They also were all prominently featured as part of the committee who planned and executed the elaborate event..
The American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting will be held in Seattle Jan. 10 to 13.
Gov. John Kasich recently signed legislation sponsored by Rep. Lynn Wachtmann that outlines state regulations on water withdrawals, which was the final implementing measure to the Great Lakes Compact.
Ohios acceptance of more than $8 billion in federal stimulus money is not only wise, its appropriate, said Chris Redfern, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. But Kevin DeWine, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, disagreed, saying that it does not solve the states future budget shortfalls.
Cassandra Palsgrove of Fairfield County was Ohios state Discussion Meet winner and competed at the AFBF annual meeting.
A Kubota M-series tractor was delivered Tuesday to Matt and Rachel Heimerl of Johnstown, who were named winners of Ohio Farm Bureau Federations (OFBF) 2011 Outstanding Young Farmer Award this past winter.
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Commercial α-cellulose was compression-molded to produce 1A dog-bone specimens under various operating conditions without any additive. The resulting agromaterials exhibited a smooth, plastic-like surface, and constituted a suitable target as replacement for plastic materials. Tensile and three-points bending tests were conducted according to ISO standards related to the evaluation of plastic materials. The specimens had strengths comparable to classical petroleum-based thermoplastics. They also exhibited high moduli, which is characteristic of brittle materials. A higher temperature and higher pressure rate produced specimens with higher mechanical properties while low moisture content produced weaker specimens. Generally, the strong specimen had higher specific gravity and lower moisture content. However, some parameters did not follow the general trend e.g., thinner specimen showed much higher Young's Modulus, although their specific gravity and moisture content remained similar to control, revealing a marked skin-effect which was confirmed by SEM observations.
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Date: Sept. 21, 2006 (8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.), Location: Carpenters Hall, 700 Olive Street, St. Paul MN
Designed for union officers, board members, staff, stewards and activists. Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service in partnership with the Resource Center of the Americas and other community organizations. Pre-registration required; deadline is Fri. Sept. 15, 2006. $20 registration fee. FFI Deborah Rosenstein, firstname.lastname@example.com or call 612-626-2034.