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In his 14 November press conference, President Obama took a serious question about climate change. Amid his response,
So what I'm going to be doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a conversation, a wide-ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can we do to make short-term progress in reducing carbons, and then working through an education process that I think is necessary, a discussion, the conversation across the country about, you know, what realistically can we do long term to make sure that this is not something we're passing on to future generations that's going to be very expensive and very painful to deal with.When we consider "an education process," a critical skill of a quality educator is the ability to see and exploit "teachable moments". When it comes to climate change, we have had all too many climate disruption teachable moments in 2012 just in the United States. Putting aside record-low Arctic Ice extent and mass, climate-influenced disasters in many nations and regions, the United States has seen dramatic weather events and conditions that reflect human-driven climate change's increasing impact. These include
- A period of heat waves that, in unprecented manner, broke 1000s of high-temperature records throughout the lower 48;
- An extensive -- and severe -- drought that still reigns supreme in much of the nation;
- The damaged agricultural system -- whether shriveled corn, skyrocketed hay supplies for cattle, or ...;
- The Derecho that shut down the Federal government and left much of the East Coast without power for days;
- Hurricane (Frankenstorm) Sandy with its damage to much of the eastern United States and especially devastating impacts on New Jersey and the New York City area.
These climate disruption teachable moments are having an impact on Americans' understanding of and concern about climate change. Sadly, these teachable moments have been ignored (or even worse, essentially repudiated) by the Obama Administration. There have been no serious discussions of how climate change impacts are driving up food costs nor discussion of how the heat wave is portending future weather patterns nor outlining how various storms fit directly within scientific predications as to climate change impacts. Instead, climate silence has dominated rather than skillful seizure of teachable moments to help move the national conversation forward
"to make sure that this is not something we're passing on to future generations that's going to be very expensive and very painful to deal with."While the President's comments Wednesday provided grounds for (guarded) hope that the President and the Administration will move down a path toward seizing such teachable moments, comments the next day by White House press spokesman Jay Carney to a press gaggle demonstrate that this process should begin with senior White House staff up to and including the President.
As happened with the President, Jay Carney was launched a softball question related to Hurricane Sandy that offered opportunity to move the nation down the "education process". Carney response (full question and answers after the fold) might be generously described as a swing and a miss ....
Several items drive this. When asked about whether the President would discuss climate change in his speech in hurricane-devastated New York, Carney stated:
The President made clear yesterday that we can't attribute any one single weather event to climate change.Yes, the President did make that comment but, as scientists focused on extreme weather event attribution put it in a Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society peer-reviewed article, "scientific thinking has moved on".
The appropriate discussion, especially for non-scientists like the President and Jay Carney and this author, is not "did climate change cause this specific storm" but 'Did change helped contribute to the conditions in which the weather event occurred and did climate change worsen the storm/impacts". With Hurricane Sandy, as to that second question, the answer is an unequivocal yes. We can start with the simple fact that sea-level rise from human-caused global warming heightened the storm surge levels.
Rather than iterating "we can't attribute", White House spokesman Carney could have helped moved the education process forward commenting that:
"As the President said yesterday, we cannot specifically attribute a single weather event's cause to climate change however we know that we are having an impact on the climate system.And, then, since the question focused on the speech of the day, Carney could have added: "In any event, today's speech will focus on the immediate challenges that those hit by Sandy face and to engage with those helping those damaged by Sandy rather than to engage in the climate change education process that the President committed to yesterday."
Some scientists are using an excellent analogy: we are putting the climate system on steroids. And, just as we can't say that any specific Barry Bonds' home run came due to steroid use, it is impossible to look at his home run record without an asterisk as to his steroid use, we can't look at Hurricane Sandy without understanding that climate change contributed to it."
Another failure to seize the teachable moment (and, more appropriately, to use that moment to make a mistaken point) came with this exchange:
Q I'm just speaking of the aftermath yesterday -- [President Obama] seemed to almost go out of his way to dismiss the idea of a carbon tax, kind of rule it out. Why did he -- why was he so --First, why the unilateral disarmament to declare "we would never propose a carbon tax". Carny could have said that "Of course, we're hearing all this carbon tax discussion but the White House is not working on it and we have no intention of proposing one." The first part of the response removes, unnecessarily, this legitimate policy option as something in the White House's quiver. This seems absurd even if the President doesn't intend to use it.
MR. CARNEY: We would never propose a carbon tax, and have no intention of proposing one. The point the President was making is that our focus right now is the same as the American people's focus, which is on the need to extend economic growth, expand job creation. And task number one is dealing with these deadlines that pose real challenges to our economy, as he talked about yesterday.
Second, and far more importantly, Carney's response seems to imply that he (that the Administration) buys hook, line, and sinker the utter falsehood that it is 'environment vs economy' rather than 'environment and economy'. Sadly, the President's words in his press conference suggest that Carney was truly doing his job: speaking his boss' mind. The NY Times, among others, truly hit hard on the President's potential reversalon the huge economic benefits that can accrue from a serious attention to and investment in climate change mitigation. Focusing on Climate + Energy Smart practices and policies, somewhat in line with what the President promised in the press conference to focus on, will have economic benefits. (Sadly, the analysis even by proponents of action has systematically understated the value of action.) And, as seen throughout our climate disruption disasters of 2012, leaving environmental issues on the policy-making cutting-room floor has huge negative economic impacts.
President Obama's three key science-related appointments at the start of the Administration were quite telling. Steve Chu (Secretary of Energy), Jane Lubchenco (Director, NOAA), and John Holdren (Presidential Science Advisor) have a very strong career overlap: each of them were serious and accomplished scientists in their fields who determined that the need for better understanding of science issues (most notably related to climate change) demanded that they evolve themselves from 'simply' scientists to science communicators capable of communicating effectively with non-scientists (whether policy makers, business community, the general public, otherwise ...). And, all three are quite effective communicators and educators with deep and substantive knowledge of climate change risks and opportunities. Considering this, the President's "educational process" might best begin by having these three foster a deeper understanding in the White House staff along with, then, unmuzzling them for serious engagement with the American public as to how science can inform policy-makers on climate change risks.
NOTE: There are many places to look for effective climate communication, including among politicians. President re-elect Obama could do worse than looking to Presidential Candidate Obama in 2007:
"Most of all, we cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now.That, for the record, was Senator Obama back in 2007.
In a state like New Hampshire, the ski industry is facing shorter seasons and losing jobs. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 famine could force more than 250 million from their homes — famine that will increase the chances of war and strife in many of the world's weakest states. The polar ice caps are now melting faster than science had ever predicted. And if we do nothing, sea levels will rise high enough to swallow large portions of every coastal city and town.
This is not the future I want for my daughters. It's not the future any of us want for our children. And if we act now and we act boldly, it doesn't have to be.
But if we wait; if we let campaign promises and State of the Union pledges go unanswered for yet another year; if we let the same broken politics that's held us back for decades win one more time, we will lose another chance to save our planet. And we might not get many more.
I reject that future. I would not be running for President if I didn't believe that this time could be different." "The first step in doing this is to phase out a carbon-based economy that's causing our changing climate. As President, I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming — an 80% reduction by 2050. To ensure this isn't just talk, I will also commit to interim targets toward this goal in 2020, 2030, and 2040. These reductions will start immediately, and we'll continue to follow the recommendations of top scientists to ensure that our targets are strong enough to meet the challenge we face."
There is also President Obama as an example of excellent climate change communicator (2009) :
Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural havoc across the landscape, or we can create jobs working to prevent its worst effects. We can hand over the jobs of the 21st century to our competitors, or we can confront what countries in Europe and Asia have already recognized as both a challenge and an opportunity: The nation that leads the world in creating new energy sources will be the nation that leads the 21st-century global economy.NOTE: And ... if the President truly wants to start an educational process and get the ball moving, perhaps he should have senior staff attend Do The Math events and speak to those who will be outside the White House tomorrow, 18 November, to bring attention to reasons why Keystone XL costs are far higher than its benefits for the nation and humanity.
America can be that nation. America must be that nation.


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While PG&E is opposing peakers here, it has plans under way to build at least two farther south, near communities it is also battling.
The San Joaquin Valley Power Authority has filed a formal complaint against PG&E with the California Public Utilities Commission regarding how the utility is conducting itself as the community moves forward with a plan for public power.
The SJVPA is a group of 11 cities and two counties, representing about 300,000 citizens, that has filed a plan with the CPUC to purchase its power through a CCA plan. Assembly Bill 117, written by Sen. Carole Migden when she was in the State Assembly and made law in 2004, allows communities to act as their own wholesale power customers and purchase electricity for residents.
San Francisco, Marin, Berkeley, Oakland, and Emeryville are working on CCA plans, but the SJVPA is the furthest along. With CCA, power is still transmitted by utility companies, but residents pay their electricity bills to the city. The SJVPA plans to build its own 500 MW power plant which PG&E also opposes, claiming studies show it isn't necessary and has issued a request for proposals from interested companies for 400 MW of renewable energy. It estimates citizens would save about 5 percent with CCA.
But representatives of PG&E have been attending city council meetings in the area and even holding their own informational workshops at which they refute elements of the CCA plan.
In a lengthy memo sent to a Hanford City Council member and very similar in tone and content to one distributed to San Francisco nonprofit organizations a couple of months ago, PG&E offers misleading claims such as "Over 30 percent of PG&E's supply comes from a diverse portfolio of renewable energy ... about 20 percent comes from PG&E's large hydro system, and approximately 12 percent comes from smaller renewable generation sources."
But according to state law, a large hydro system does not qualify as a renewable energy source a rule the utility doesn't apply to itself but is quick to point out a paragraph later when it attacks the CCA plan for renewable energy.
The SJVPA complaint details several examples of PG&E spokespeople cautioning against the plan in local media and at public meetings. CEO Peter Darbee even penned an editorial for the Fresno Bee in which he wrote, "The fundamental problem with the program is that the numbers don't add up," a statement he attempted to clarify with unsourced data showing that rates will go up even if the CCA plan says they won't. Darbee went on to say that PG&E is just looking out for the best interests of the people.
The Fresno City Council recently voted 4<\d>3 not to join the SJVPA, a close vote that "was based in large part on PG&E raising questions," said David Orth, the general manager of the Kings River Conservation District, which is overseeing the implementation of the CCA plan. "That is their intent, frankly to clutter the discussion and decision-making field with a lot of uncertainties and threats of complexity."
Fresno would have been the largest consumer of power in the coalition, using 45 percent of its electricity.
Orth said obfuscation has been the utility's tool, coupled with reassurances that power "is too difficult for you to understand, so accept the status quo."
He said PG&E hasn't been entirely factual with its advice and cited a specific example in which PG&E claimed that if a community opted out of CCA after joining, it could be liable for as much as $11 million. "It was a fabricated number, and it was a fabricated scenario, but it lead certain council members to believe there was a risk we weren't explaining," Orth said.
Lawyers representing the SJVPA say the utility is using ratepayer funds for its anti-CCA marketing, and that's a violation of the CPUC's rules.


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Written by Deepak Choudhary There are always risks involved when relying on a third party to send and receive sensitive data over secure network channels. While we recognize the roles of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and third party certificate authority (CA), we also believe that Certificate SSL Pinning can play a key role in […]
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If you are working in law enforcement, having a network of informants is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing, because they can provide you with information, tips, and clues that you would otherwise miss. A curse, because they may not be the most trustworthy individuals or may see only part of the picture. […]
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How are you feeling right now about your network security? Are you worried about stealth attacks across multiple vectors? Trying to keep to a long-term security strategy that is constantly changing due to evolving attacks and hopeful new products? Struggling to stitch together a cohesive view from all of the previously promising new products? Constantly […]
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In October of 2000, we were introduced to the film "Pay It Forward." The central idea of the heartwarming movie is that one good deed should beget three others, and the world will be a better place for it. That same idea is constantly at play in the cybersecurity world, but instead of good deeds, […]
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translation and definition "deliberate", English-Tagalog Dictionary online
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(doing or feeling something) in a deliberate or controlled way.
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Medicine is evolving from a global, one-size-fits-all approach to a more individualized approach that tailors treatment specifically for each patient.
This "personalized" approach is based on a variety of factors, most of which are dependent on a patient's genetic profile as well as genetic components of a disease itself. Accordingly, technology in the area of personalized medicine is largely dependent on exploitation of portions of the human genome.
For the past several decades, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been granting patents on isolated DNA molecules – often referred to as gene patents. The owner of a gene patent could prevent others from making, using or selling anything that required the use of the particular gene patented. Until recently, Myriad Genetics Inc. owned gene patents for the BRCA1 and 2 genes, a specific mutation in either gene being associated with an increased incidence of breast and ovarian cancer.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Myriad's gene patents were not eligible for patent protection. In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, the court found that isolated genomic DNA is a product of nature by characterizing the chemical structure of DNA by its nucleotide sequence.
This factual finding led to the conclusion that the claimed isolated DNA is exactly the same as it exists in nature. However, the court ruled that Myriad's patent claims directed to complementary DNA (cDNA) are patentable since these molecules are synthetically produced and, therefore, not products of nature. Additionally, Myriad retained some of its patent protection for methods of using the BRCA1 and 2 gene sequence for genetic testing.
However, the breadth and strength of these patent claims were affected by an earlier Supreme Court decision in 2012, Mayo v. Prometheus. Moreover, cDNA is not required in most genetic testing and, therefore, has little value in personalized medicine.
Supporters of the Myriad decision claim that eliminating gene patents will promote research by providing free access to the human genome for all without the fear of lawsuit. Interestingly, Myriad presented evidence that about 10,000 research reports relating to the BRCA genes have been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals since the Myriad patents issued. Simply stated, that's a lot of research. However, without strong patent rights, the ability to commercialize technology in personalized medicine will be limited to those that can do so without investors or partners, which does not generally include universities, nonprofits and startups.
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Suppliers demand Rs. 60,000 per month to lend a crane
There are 20 cranes with the city traffic police currently
HYDERABAD: The Transport Department is acquiring six heavy duty cranes to help ease out traffic gridlocks, occurring due to accidents or vehicular breakdowns at vital thoroughfares in twin cities. The decision to acquire cranes also comes in the wake of all too frequent traffic jams, due to a host of reasons, along the Hyderabad-Vijayawada national highway.
A Government Order was issued last month instructing the department to obtain six cranes with an investment of Rs. 20 lakh per crane. Joint Transport Commissioner C.L.N. Gandhi informed that discussions are underway with the Traffic police to set up modalities for maintenance, salaries to operators and running costs of the cranes.
Officials are also exploring the possibilities of hiring the vehicles. However, the suppliers are demanding a whopping Rs. 60,000 per month to lend a crane. "Once the modalities are finalised, three cranes would be deployed at Nalgonda and one each at Krishna, Cyberabad and Hyderabad districts," Mr. Gandhi said.
Presently, there are 20 cranes with the city traffic police including 13 cranes of ten-tonne capacity, six cranes of five-tonne capacity and one heavy-duty crane. "On an average, ten cases related to vehicular breakdowns and accidents are reported everyday from regions like Banjara Hills, Masab Tank and Mehdipatnam," said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic) G. Sampath Kumar Reddy.
The density of traffic jams increases whenever a truck or bus breaks down near the flyovers at Begumpet and Khairatabad. By the time the heavy-duty crane reaches the spot, the traffic almost comes to a stand still, Mr. Reddy said.


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The talk will cover theoretical and methodological issues related to researching and teaching for the occasion of publishing Jewish Intellectual Women in Central Europe 1860-2000: Twelve Biographical Essays (Mellen Press 2012). This collection of scholarly essays deals with female Jewish intellectuals throughout Europe from 1860 until 2000. Topics range from women in music, to pioneers of Zionism, to a woman who was instrumental in the Russian Revolution. These women forever changed European culture and politics, yet, despite their important contributions to many intellectual and artistic fields, most of them are unknown to English-speaking audiences. Most traveled around Europe and fled Europe during the time of the Nazi persecution. Their odysseys highlight the experiences of the marginal and those in exile. The collection offers a valuable contribution to 19th and 20th century women's history, European intellectual history, Jewish studies, and Diaspora studies.
Andrea Petö is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Presently she is working on gendered memory of WWII and political extremisms.
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One of the Founders, and a Coordinator of the #BringBackOurGirls movement in Nigeria, Hadiza Bala Usman, spoke at the United Nations Headquarters in New York about the movement and the Chibok girls. She was guest speaker at the closing ceremony of the UN DPI Conference on 29 August 2019. Here is the video of her … Continue reading
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'Who Speaks for the North? Politics and Influence in Northern Nigeria' by Chatham House
The Royal Institute of International Affairs, aka Chatham House, recently released a report on northern Nigeria titled: "Who Speaks for the North? Politics and Influence in Northern Nigeria". The report is an outcome of a research project by research fellow Dr. Leena Koni Hoffman, under the think tank's Africa programme. It was launched both in … Continue reading
Thugs Disrupt Peaceful #BringBackOurGirls Protest
It has been over a month since the abduction of over 200 school girls from a secondary school in Chibok Borno state in Northern Nigeria. Since that time, protests have erupted in several cities across Nigeria, and around the world under the banner of #BringBackOurGirls. Influential politicians, global figures and celebrities have lent their support … Continue reading
The Burka Avenger "fights" the Taliban in Pakistan
Culled from Aljazeera: "She is called the Burka Avenger and is like no other superhero before her. By day she is a Pakistani school teacher, but by night the secret martial arts expert dresses in a veil while fighting bad guys (who want to shut down schools). The animated children's series is about to … Continue reading
A Glimpse into the World of Almajirai in Northern Nigeria
I first met Hannah Hoechner in May this year, at the Oxford University Pan African Conference. I was outside the conference hall, getting some fresh air and chatting with several people when this friendly long haired brunette came to us and said hello in Hausa. Fascinated, we proceeded to ask her how come she could … Continue reading
Northern Nigeria: The Disconnect Between Our Leaders and the Rest of Us
It is becoming a tired cliché to note that Nigeria is a country with vast potentials which have remained unrealized due to socio-political and economic challenges of which dearth of transformational leadership is at the heart of all. Again, it is common knowledge that this leadership deficit is more severe in northern Nigeria relative to … Continue reading
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations
I've read all lthe reviews about this game.
Somehow I'm unable to find my answers so I'll just ask them in a number order:
1 - Compared to the last games are the cities about the same size?
2 - How is the single player? I'm not much into playing online games w/ ppl, prefer to have fun instead of being harassed. :v
3 - It is quite shallow and pedantic, what am I?
50/50 Chances are this post will be moderated. :v
1. The main setting this time is Constantinople, which feels slightly smaller than Rome. It might be about the same size as, say, Florence. Just my personal perception though, I haven't actually measured the cities.
2. I only play the single player too, and I enjoyed it. The main storyline feels a bit unfocused, and they spring the Big Bad at you too late to make an impact, but otherwise the main quest is all right. The additions to the gameplay have good and bad points; hookblade and bomb crafting are all right, Den Defense and Desmond's Journey are not.
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story-wise there's not any reveals/shockers that compare with the last 2 games. aside from Altair's sequences, it's very routine, many characters you know are absent. interesting new characters are short-lived. music took a nosedive(that might not be important to most), they got rid of the signature "chase" music we all love. grenades have the potential to take every last ounce of what little challenge the series ever had but that's your choice to use them or not. instead of puzzles that imply very interesting vague details about events across the history of the world you hunt books that don't ever give any insight to the story themselves, only WHO hid them there is important and no great reason as to WHY they did, seems like just a thin thread to tie them to the story. interaction with the Animus team is replaced by eavesdropping on 2 or 3 phonecalls that also don't tell you much just reactions to past events, and a few short conversations with someone the other games mentioned and led me to believe he'd have alot of interesting things to say, but he doesn't. only thing remarkable about him is a couple jokes & how he acts unecessarily mischeivous, if that does anything for you
I sound like a hater, but I"ve actually played through start to finish 3 times already. :D i'm definately not bitter as if I was cheated, just mildly surprised. IMO it's thanks to part 2 just setting the bar too high, and Brotherhood came close in quality. for the end of Ezio's arc, it was just a little underwhelming, and keep in mind most fans probably have higher standards than I do, i take what I can get from installments to an awesome series as a whole.


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Kelly Bensimon showed off her incredible abs — and just about everything else — when she decided to do cartwheels in the sand in Miami Friday.
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The Real Housewives of New York City star is a regular on the beaches in Miami and the Hamptons; that is when she's not stirring up trouble on her reality series.
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Earlier in the year, Kelly was arrested for hitting her boyfriend and sued for allegedly "stealing" a jewelry design.
The assault case was dismissed August 10. The jewelry lawsuit was dropped May 4. Now Kelly can just concentrate on her beach gymnastics!


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The O'Fallon Township High School band, color guard and choir wrapped up the school year by getting on buses and traveling 17 hours to New York City.
The Marching Panthers participated in the Little Neck-Douglaston Memorial Day Parade, and the band and choir performed at the world-renowned Carnegie Hall.
When rehearsals and performances weren't on the agenda, the group put their instruments down and did some sightseeing, including checking out Times Square, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Top of the Rock, the American Museum of Natural History, Liberty Island, Ellis Island, Battery Park, the 9/11 Memorial, taking Manhattan's Television and Movie Tour and seeing the Broadway musical Newsies.
"These kids have worked so hard in the OTHS music program. They absolutely deserve the opportunity to perform on one of the best stages in the world and the treat of taking in the sights and education New York City has to offer," said band director Melissa Gustafson-Hinds.
The band traveled to New York with 300 students, staff and fans, in six chartered buses May 24, and departed from New York May 28.
The next Marching Panthers' event is the O'Town 5th of July Block Party, to be held at O'Fallon Community Park Saturday, July 5. The block party, which runs from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., will raise funds for the band's next big trip, which will take them to Pasadena, Calif., where the band has been invited to participate in the Rose Bowl's Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day 2015. Only 18 bands from around the world were invited to participate.
A benefit chicken and beverage dance for former Collinsville High School teacher Theresa Rasp will be held Saturday at the Collinsville VFW. The cost is $20 in advance or $25 at the door. All proceeds will benefit Theresa Rasp, who has Stage 4 Colo-rectal cancer. For more information, e-mail email@example.com.
The Cory Wilson Scholarship Association is hosting its 5th Annual Golf Scramble on Saturday at The Orchard's Golf Club in Belleville. The association was founded in honor of the late Cory Wilson, the 27-year-old Collinsville native was killed at his place of employment, ABB, in St. Louis, on Jan. 7, 2010.
To carry on Cory's passion for education and football, the association offers scholarships to area youths as well as contribute to youth organizations. It also hosts a free football camp for children ages 5-12 that is held at the Cory Wilson Memorial Field in Collinsville. For more information, visit http://www.tcwsa.org.
Collinsville resident Rob Dorman, the father of a gifted student, has been appointed to serve on the Illinois State Board of Education's Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children. The council advises the state superintendent of education on all rules and policies to be adopted by the State Board of Education relating to the education of gifted and talented children. Dorman is inviting teachers and parents of gifted children to a meeting at noon Monday at Culver's Restaurant, located at 100 United Dr. in Collinsville. For more information, contact Dorman at email@example.com or 618-344-3375.
Jewleah Heck, an eighth-grader at High Mount School in Swansea, was selected as the first-place winner in the statewide competition for the Illinois Children's Mental Health poster contest. She received $250 and her artwork will be on the cover of the 2014-2015 mental health awareness calendar to be distributed throughout the state.
The Parish Life Committee of St. Henry Catholic Church in Belleville has selected Patrick Ahrens, an eighth-grade graduate of Our Lady Queen of Peace School in Belleville, to receive the Ella Prickett Memorial Scholarship for attendance at Althoff Catholic High School for the 2014-2015 school year.
The Ella Prickett Memorial Scholarship is a renewable scholarship in the amount of $1,500 and was established in memory of Ella Prickett, a St. Henry Parishioner who died at age 8 from a rare form of pediatric cancer. The scholarship selection was based on academic standards as well as involvement in extra-curricular activities, community service and written essay about the importance to the applicant of attending Althoff Catholic High School.
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School in Waterloo held its annual awards' night on May 20. Students were recognized for their scholastic achievements, such as outstanding student in each academic subject and top Accelerated Reader students, as well as athletic achievements.
In addition, each junior high teacher recognized one junior student with a Fabulous Falcon Award. These awards are given based on the following qualities: character, attitude, service and academics.
This year's Fabulous Falcon awards were given to Joe Busch, son of Tony and Tara Busch; Brennan LaCroix, son of Brad and Emily LaCroix; Sydney Wiegand, daughter of Michael and Suzanne Wiegand; Aaron Grohmann, son of Ryan and Dawn Grohmann; Sierra Mertz, daughter of Martin and Angela Mertz; Nicole Kreher, daughter of Ruben and Dawn Kreher; Katelyn Wilson, daughter of Jeff and Amy Wilson; and Ashlyn Wightman, daughter of Steve and Donita Wightman.
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The shooting was reported about 4:45 p.m. on Harrison Avenue, near Sampson Street.
Several suspects were followed to a house, where they were taken into custody.
It was not yet known if the shooting was gang-related, Delimitros said.
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A homicide team was investigating Wednesday after a 40-year-old man's body was found in a park near the Belmont Park roller coaster in Mission Beach.
Someone reported to San Diego police about 6 a.m. that a man was lying face down, unresponsive, in Mission Bay Park at Mission Boulevard and West Mission Bay Drive.
The body was in a grassy area near the parking lot, homicide Lt. Jorge Duran said.
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A 17-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed during a fight not far from the Oceanside Pier was identified as Jorge Basave, the Medical Examiner's Office said.
The Oceanside teen died in a hospital a little less than an hour after he was stabbed in the chest just before 8:45 p.m. last Thursday.
Police said a 911 call alerted them to the stabbing in a parking lot on Mission Avenue near North Myers Street.
Officers found the teen suffering from at least one stab wound.
Police Lt. Aaron Doyle said Friday that witnesses reported hearing gang challenges exchanged between the groups before the fight. Each group was made up of between three and six people, he said.
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Tony Woodcock and Ma'a Nonu will miss the Blues' first Super Rugby game against the Crusaders.
Blues coach Pat Lam said Woodcock has been ruled out until the fifth round. The All Blacks prop has requested a rest given his problems with injuries over the past year, and Lam has agreed despite the Blues' lack of depth at prop.
Woodcock will miss matches against the Crusaders, Chiefs, Bulls and Stormers. He will play his first game against the Hurricanes in Round 5.
Meanwhile, Nonu is also set to be rested for the Blues' first game of the season.
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Sunice Rosedale Insulated Ski Jacket (Women's)
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The asymmetrical lines and unconventional seams on the Sunice Rosedale Insulated Ski Jacket give off a modern and chic vibe. Accessorized with removable silver fox fur and satin tape zippers, the Rosedale is truly unique. And with 120g of core insulation, a 10K waterproof rating, and loads of features, the Rosedale won't just keep you looking good, it will keep you dry, warm, and comfortable as well.
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Biodiesel from Wastewater - No funding.
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 06:35 PM
Ongoing project, to grow & harvest the biomass for biodiesel from household wastewater, a miniaturized system worth almost 3-gallons per day per person. At the end of the process the water is almost pure so treated and recycled, the cakes from pressing the biomass for oils is valuable as a soil amendment, turning desert dust into rich humus for those inclined.
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Sun glint near Cape Town
The silver-gray appearance of water in the lower right corner of this image is caused by sun glint.
Sun glint occurs when the sunlight is reflected from the ocean's surface back to the satellite. Normally, water looks dark blue or black. However, under certain conditions (sun-target-sensor geometries), water can act as a specular reflector, much like a mirror.
The surface of the water is influenced by wind, which is why sun glint is often associated with coastlines, where air from the land surface interacts with air over water. The "roughness" of the sea surface and the orientation of waves can also create bands in the sun glint portion of an image.
Because sun glint obscures targets on the Earth's surface and renders them invisible, it is often removed from satellite images. This can be accomplished by examining the overlapping portions of a series of images. If one can isolate and remove all other image artifacts or anomalies, differences between the images will be the result of sun glint. Because the portions of the image that are influenced by sun glint are much brighter than neighboring, unaffected portions, the "extra" brightness of the former can be estimated and adjusted to more closely match the latter.


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My southern Italian family has many blue-eyed, blonde haired members. In researching I found that my father's maternal uncle was blue-eyed. So were 3 of my father's five sisters. If I remember high school biology, blue eyes is a recessive gene. That means all of my father's grandparents had the blue-eyed gene. How likely is it that in one little town in southern Italy. at least 4 families ( and more if you keep going back) had the blue-eyed gene. Who has the scientific and/or historical knowledge to explain this to me correctly?
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Even a winter blessed by above-average Valley rain and Sierra snow won't be enough to eliminate the ongoing effects of the three-year drought in California, Oakdale Irrigation District directors were told Tuesday morning.
There are 5,352 miles of railroad in California and 10,285 grade crossings. Last year there were 72 trespasser fatalities and 41 highway-rail crossing fatalities, all of which could have been avoided if trespassers and drivers were obeying the laws. California ranks #1 in the nation in both Trespassing and Grade Crossing Deaths. Last year in California there were a total of 146 highway grade-crossing incidents.
A coroner's investigation into the next of kin for a deceased homeless man led detectives to discover that $18,000 had been taken from the dead man's bank account the day after his death.
Amid plenty of pomp and circumstance, Oak Valley Care Center welcomed a new resident on Friday.
Oakdale's largest employer's decision to contract to a foreign company has affected the jobs of the third largest employer, who as a result, will be cutting over half of its workforce this fall.
The University of California, Merced, marks a major milestone this week with the start of the 2014-15 academic year - its 10th since opening its doors in 2005 as the first new UC campus in 40 years.
Dirt trails, rustic cabins, ropes courses and 20 acres of possibility were home to 254 campers this summer as guests of Camp Jack Hazard, celebrating its 90th anniversary year.
An Oakdale woman claims her family has been "traumatized and falsely labeled" after a hostage incident requiring a police response involving her husband last month. She believes the whole ordeal could have been prevented had hospital mental health officials handled his admissions properly on two separate occasions over a four-day period, including the day of the incident.
Emergency personnel responded to a fatal injury accident midafternoon Tuesday, Aug. 26 along Highway 108 near Lover's Leap. Initial reports from the scene indicated at least one confirmed fatality in the crash that occurred about 2:30 p.m., with the Stanislaus County Coroner called to the scene, and two others listed as 'critical' when transported out. At least one victim was flown out via air ambulance and authorities reported victims had serious burns due to the crash and a vehicle fire, which also started an adjacent field fire.
Members of the Oakdale Chamber of Commerce became involved in the upcoming local election and voted to endorse and support Measure Y – the local sales tax imitative that will continue the half-cent sales tax.
The Oakdale Chamber of Commerce became involved in the upcoming local election and voted to endorse and support Measure Y – the local sales tax imitative that will continue the half-cent sales tax.
A variety of artists will be hitting the stage at J-H Ranch in Oakdale for the sixth annual Sierra View Music Festival as local resident and business owner, Jim Brunk, brings big name bands and sounds to town on Saturday, Aug. 23. Gates open at 1 p.m. and the music will start at 1:30 p.m.
A proposal sponsored by George Runner to protect California's disabled veterans cleared the Assembly this week with unanimous, bipartisan support, and now awaits action by Governor Jerry Brown.
In March, SMART Exemplary Educators were invited to attend the 2014 SMART Summit to be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from July 20-26. There was a written, as well as video portion to the application. The 2 minute video was on the applicant's "SMART Breakthrough Moment" and was posted on social media sites for public voting. In mid Spring the two educators were among the 76 notified from 17 countries that they were selected for the all expense paid, week long trip. Among those 76 were Amanda Hensley, sixth grade teacher of Sierra View Elementary and Danessa Menge, Seventh ...
The 2014 year is proving to be one 'winning' year for Danessa Menge. The Oakdale Junior High English teacher was featured in The Leader pages on Aug. 13 as one of 70-plus selectees for a recent SMART summit, a once described 'dream' experience for an educator.
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Saturday, April 4 marked the 2015 Kids Spring Fest as over 1,000 kids and adults gathered at Kerr Park for a fun day under the sun. The ninth annual event, presented by City of Oakdale and the Kiwanis Club, held four separate egg hunts for kids in varying age groups, up to age 12, along with lunch, games and prize drawings among other activities for both kids and adults.
One in four adults, or approximately 61.5 million Americans, have an experience with mental illness in a given year. With a current estimated population of over 21,000 within the Oakdale City limits that's over 5,000 Oakdale community members who will be affected by mental illness in some way.
With two members of the Oakdale City Council stating they wanted someone with the same "business sense" as former Councilman Don Petersen, the Oakdale City Council voted 3-1 to appoint local commercial real estate developer Richard Murdoch to the dais for the remaining two years left when Petersen resigned in February.
An eBay ad and the sharp eye of a tenacious victim led Oakdale Police to recover a $10,000 piece of construction equipment that was taken from a work truck last year.
Covered Calistoga wagons and settlements complete with chow carts will descend on Oakdale this November as various Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone characters arrive in the city for the debut of Pioneer Days and the Pioneer Rodeo, The Leader has learned.
Monday night marked my fourth Oakdale Testicle Festival, taking me a long way from my first time as a newbie with only a few weeks on for The Leader, and an editorial staff of women (sans sports guy) when I was "chosen" to cover the annual event.
As many look ahead to lazy mornings and summer schedules Oakdale High School's Dana McLain has other thoughts on her mind.
The City of Oakdale, in cooperation with the Kiwanis Club of Oakdale, is hosting the ninth annual Kids Spring Fest on Saturday, April 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Even as water began filling its canals this week, the Oakdale Irrigation District board discussed ways Tuesday morning to ensure there is enough to last until September.
Wearing a cowboy hat to reinforce his point, Oakdale City Manager Bryan Whitemyer pioneered the Monday, March 16 Oakdale City Council meeting, telling everyone that at no time the city was ever considering changing its 'Cowboy Capital' motto (see related story on this page).
City of Oakdale residents have long felt recognition and pride with the city's motto of "Cowboy Capital of the World" but when the Oakdale Travel and Visitors Bureau introduced a marketing slogan of "Pioneer Perfect," many residents expressed outrage, calling for the city and OTVB not to meddle with something already in place.
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How Far Would You Travel To Eat at Your Favorite Restaurant?
We all have our favorite out of town restaurants. Most of us pick out where we are going to eat before we even pack our bags. But would you take a trip just to eat at a certain place?
Watch David Letterman's Final, Star-Studded Top Ten List
There were no scheduled guests on the final episode of The Late Show With David Letterman (minus The Foo Fighters, who closed out the night with a performance of "Everlong"), but that didn't mean that a few of Letterman's old friends didn't stop by to say goodbye one last time. Some of the funniest people alive all came together to present one final Top Ten list, Things I've Always Wanted to Say To Dave.
Watch David Letterman's Final 'Late Show' Entrance Ahead of Tonight's Farewell
You don't have to wait until later tonight to begin saying goodbye to David Letterman (though if you're like us, you've already started that process) — you can do it right now. The venerable, longtime Late Show host is ending his 33-year run with tonight's episode, which promises to be a fantastic, hilarious and appropriately heartwarming sendoff. But before we get to that, you can watch Letterman's final Late Show entrance right now.
5 Weirdly Flavored Brews You May Love or Hate — Chili Beer, Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout & More
As the old nursery rhyme goes, you have nothing to fear from oddly flavored beer. Well, you might have a little to fear, depending on how adventurous you and your taste buds happen to be.
Randy Houser Gives a Veteran Free Groceries for a Year
Randy Houser – the big voice behind the outlaw love story "We Went" — has been going around the country surprising U.S. military veterans with gifts of appreciation lately. On May 14, he did it again, helping to keep one family fed for a whole year!
Old Lady Dancing to Beatboxer Is Age-Defyingly Magical
This woman is hip at an age when most people are, well, broken hip.
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Funerals today 11/20/2013
CLYDE — Norma Rose Butcher, 89, 2 p.m. at the Clyde Cemetery, directed by Bailey-Howard Funeral home.
ROWENA — Toni Schroeder, 86, 10 a.m. at Seventh Street Baptist Church of Ballinger. Burial to follow in the Rowena Protestant Cemetery, directed by Lange Funeral home.
GORMAN — Beth Shirley, 80, 10 a.m. at Highland Baptist Church near Desdemona. Burial to follow in Howard Cemetery. Post condolences at www.nowlinandersfh.com.
BROWNWOOD — Lavonda "Robbie" Spears, 69, 2 p.m. at Heartland Funeral Home. Cremation to follow. Sign the guest book at www.heartlandfuneralhome.net.
SAN ANGELO — Erwin "Bud" Henniger, 91, 2 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church. Burial to follow in Old Runnels Cemetery. Arrangements by Winters Funeral Home.
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