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When Andrew Glen of Louis Vuitton Hong Kong took me for dinner when KEE Club first opened, the staff was suitably impressed and fascinated when I showed my identity card and credit cards emblazoned with my name. Even my belt buckle spells KEE.
Soon, Maria and Christian Rhomberg, co-owners of KEE Club, materialised to investigate the phenomenon of a real, living and heaving Kee.
Maria, who is Chinese, felt compelled to explain the meaning of KEE. I am Hokkien but, according to her, KEE is slang for "company", suggesting something that is family run, traditional yet original. The nearest phonetic similarity I can think of in Hokkien means "go", as in kee ta lok (where are you going?).
"The prosaic truth is KEE Club is named in honour of the famous restaurant on the ground floor called Yung Kee," explained Maria. "Many Hong-Kongers grew up with Yung Kee, a veritable institution. KEE Club is not named after a certain Mr Kee.
"Yung Kee was part of their childhood, where their families would gather to enjoy its gourmet specialty – roast goose. Yung Kee is owned by Ronald Kam whose father started it in 1938. In 2000 the top two floors became available and Ron bought them. Now Yung Kee owns the entire building."
"Nights full of mystique and mystery where ordinary life is suspended for a little while," he grins. "This is the basis of KEE."
KEE started when Maria and Kam of Yung Kee were in Shanghai and started discussing their ideal club. "Ron had the topmost two floors in Yung Kee Building and the location couldn't be better. We wanted a place for people tired of discos but still too young for formal restaurants and stuffy establishment clubs."
They roped in David Mok, architect turned multimedia boss, and Darren Shaw, dashingly handsome scion of the Shaw movie family - appropriate considering KEE has a screening room where directors' cuts and special viewings may be dissected at leisure. Hang Lung Group is the only corporate investor.
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So what are the coveted attractions that await at 32 Wellington Street? First, the location is right next to Lan Kwai Fong, the impossibly hip entertainment enclave in the heart of Central. It is also five minutes' walk from the ultra-posh Mandarin Hotel. You can easily stagger home after dining, wining and more wining.
Surprisingly, the entrance is very pedestrian, nothing flashy or fancy. No grand staircase, magnificent lobby or blinking neons so beloved in this part of world. The lift takes visitors straight to the 6th floor where the experience begins.
Waiting to welcome you is Big Boy, so called because he resembles a Hawaiian chief although he was a bodyguard of the Saudi royal family.
The lounge is cosy, jazzy and filled with leather furniture. To the right are four rooms in the manner of elitist, 18th- and 19th-century salons. Those weary of stark minimalism are cheered by KEE's opulent luxury, Parisian chic and downright lavishness.
The Salons are named after four colours: purple, red, blue and golden. The Purple Salon is a library. Red can be turned into a boardroom or party venue. Blue is a private dining room and occasional game room while the holy of holies is the Golden Salon. This is Maria's private sanctuary. It is where you might be invited to meet some special guests, discuss a confidential deal or just hang out with the dame herself.
KEE is not Hong Kong's biggest club. Conspicuously missing are swimming pool, gym, tennis court, sauna, spa, massage, nursery, shopping arcade and business centre. This is not a sports or traditional recreation club. Space is also a premium in land scarce Hong Kong and tuxedo-clad gentlemen may not wish to bump into buffed-up musclemen in singlets.
KEE serves one of the best dim sum lunches in all Hong Kong. Dinnertime sees Chef Gianluigi Bonelli titillating the taste buds with an ever-changing menu. Permanent favourites are Yung Kee's famous roast goose conveniently shipped from downstairs and the club's unforgettable foie gras ravioli. Late guests can drop by after theatre for seductive desserts and rare wines.
Like London's China White and The Groucho, KEE has a screening room. Visiting film curators present foreign movie festivals and the latest from global advertising and creative campaigns.
And everywhere, scattered ever so casually, are valuable works of art from Maria and Christian Rhomberg's private collection.
How does a Malaysian get in?
Normal, transferable membership is RM18,000 and overseas membership is RM4,000, a one-off, lifelong payment with no monthly subscription. Still, RM4,000 is one Louis Vuitton bag. You still have to pay for the meal and there are heaps of excellent restaurants all over Hong Kong clamouring for your custom.
There is an easier alternative, provided you stay in one of the super five-star hotels – Mandarin Oriental, The Peninsula, Grand Hyatt, Intercontinental (formerly The Regent) and Ritz-Carlton.
Then you can ask your concierge to get you in to luxuriate in its salons and Venetian Room or cosy up to Maria.
Dim sum lunch costs about RM100, RM200 gets you a great dinner and RM500 guarantees a sumptuous repast with wine.
As a genuine Kee, I was given tableware as souvenirs, each bearing the legend "KEE Collection".
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"It can sometimes be difficult for young players when they move to a new club, but he has done well and it will be good for his confidence that he has already scored two goals.
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INDONESIA - Rachmat Sudibyo & BPMigas.
Set up in August 2002, BPMigas manages all types of E&P contracts for oil and gas including the PSCs. With offices separate from the ministry's, it reports directly to the president of the republic's office. Its activities are scrutinised by parliament. As in the case of Pertamina's top management, the senior BPMigas executives are appointed by the president of the republic.
Overseeing more than 175 contracts, BPMigas holds the state's shares in PSCs and all other upstream agreements, having replaced Pertamina as partner of related foreign and local companies. But, although BPMigas is not allowed to trade in the oil and gas entitlements of the state and has appointed Pertamina as its agent for this role, it does play a role in the marketing of LNG from new integrated gas E&P/downstream ventures, such as the US$5-5.5 bn Tannguh venture in Papua involving a BP-led consortium, and two Pertamina-led LNG projects.
For example, Rachmat in 2003 played a key role in negotiations with Sempra Energy for LNG supplies from Tangguh to the US West Coast. Eventually this lead to a deal whereby Sempra will purchase 3.7m t/y of Tangguh LNG which will be shipped to a terminal in Baja California. Regasified gas will then be pumped north to California. This, in fact, is the first Asian LNG project dedicated partly to the North American West Coast.
In mid-2004, Rachmat signed preliminary agreements with three Chinese companies - Sinocheers, First China Petroleum and China National Chemical Corp. - for LNG to be supplied from Indonesia to the Chinese mainland. There was no mention of price terms, volumes, a timeframe or sources of LNG. Sinocheers is a Guangdong-based oil unit of Hong-Kong-based GeoMaxima Holdings which plans to import LNG into north-eastern China. First China Petroleum, based in Zhejiang province, intends to import gas to the coast and the north-east. Beijing-based China National Chemical Corp. plans to sell gas in and around the Chinese capital. A press report that they will import up to 4.2m t/y of LNG for 15 years are yet to be confirmed.
Rachmat has wanted BPMigas to be more successful than Pertamina in attracting foreign investment to the petroleum E&P sector. In late February 2003, BPMigas said it was to consider improving the oil and gas revenue split for new PSCs on a case-by-case basis. Speaking on the sidelines of a petroleum conference in Jakarta, Rachmat said individual companies were welcome to suggest ways to improve the terms of PSCs provided that the contractors' share was limited to 40%.
BPMigas was to consider other incentives. Rachmat said BPMigas may be more flexible in the local market obligation, under which contractors have to make available a certain part of their production internally. The news was welcomed by oil companies, albeit cautiously, as they noted that with the exception of some acreage such as frontier blocks and remote PSCs, Indonesian terms still dictate an 85:15 split in favour of BPMigas for oil production and 70:30 for gas.
BPMigas has been staffed by the 500-plus former employees of Pertamina's PSC Management Directorate, which was dissolved when the regulatory authority was established. These employees have been guaranteed the same pay as before, with their transfer to BPMigas completed in July 2002.
The employees were given the option of returning to Pertamina, if they so chose, after July 2003.
Prominent among BPMigas Chairman Rachmat's associates are Kardaya Warnika the deputy chairman in charge of PSCs, who has been co-ordinating closely with a ranking executive at the Ministry's Oil and Gas Directorate, Novian Thaib; and Zanial Achmad, the deputy chairman in charge of planning.
One of BPMigas' first tasks in August 2002 was to oversee the handover to the province of Riau of the Coastal Plains Pekanbaru PSA assets in onshore Central Sumatra from ChevronTexaco. This was the first province to take a direct upstream equity. In partnership with Pertamina, Riau took control of the CPP block which produces oil (see Oil & Gas Market Trends No. 10).
BPMigas and the Jakarta government have been facing pressure from oil/gas producing provinces and regencies (regencies are sub-divisions of a province) demanding a role in the management of PSCs and other contracts in their regions. Although these regions failed to block passage of the new oil and gas law in parliament in late 2001, they have continued to lobby the Jakarta government for more say in the distribution of petroleum revenues to the provinces and regencies.
Aceh, a province commanding the northern part of Sumatra island, has been promised up to 70% of the area's oil and gas revenues under a special autonomy law passed in 2001 by Jakarta.
Aceh is a big producer of natural gas and has Indonesia's second biggest LNG complex in which ExxonMobil is a major partner of Pertamina (see Gas Market Trends Nos. 10 & 11).
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I do not believe that the climate crisis should be a partisan political issue. I just returned from the United Kingdom, where last week the two major parties put forward their climate change platforms. The Tory and Labour parties are in vigorous competition with one another—competing to put forward the best solution to the climate crisis. I look forward to the day when we return to this way of thinking here in the U.S.
The climate crisis is, by its nature, a global problem -- and ultimately the solution must be global as well. The best way -- and the only way -- to get China and India on board is for the U.S. to demonstrate real leadership. As the world's largest economy and greatest superpower, we are uniquely situated to tackle a problem of this magnitude.
After all, we have taken on problems of this scope before. When England and then America and our allies rose to meet the threat of global fascism, together we won two wars simultaneously in Europe and the Pacific.
This is a moral moment of similar magnitude. This is not ultimately about any scientific discussion or political dialogue. It is about who we are as human beings and our capacity to transcend our limitations and rise to meet this challenge.
The solutions to this problem are accessible, but politically -- at least in the near term -- seem quite difficult. In practice, however, they will turn out to be much easier than they appear to us now.
For example, the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer first negotiated in the 1980s was opposed by industry for fear it would hurt the economy because its provisions were too stringent. However, governments and industry rose to meet the challenge and the treaty was strengthened twice in quick succession to quickly ramp down the chemicals that were causing the hole in the ozone layer.
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When I think about the climate crisis today I can imagine a time in the future when our children and grandchildren ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: What were you thinking, didn't you care about our future? Or they will ask: How did you find the moral courage to cross party lines and solve this crisis? We must hear their questions now. We must answer them with our actions, not merely with our promises. We must choose a future for which our children and grandchildren will thank us.


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STOCKHOLM (AP): A 62-year-old man has been convicted of espionage and sentenced to one year and four months in prison for collecting information about exiled Uighurs living in Sweden, court papers showed Tuesday.
Babur Maihesuti is a Swedish citizen, but is also believed to belong to the Chinese Muslim minority group that he was spying on, Hjalmar Forsberg, an official at the Stockholm District Court said.
According to court documents, the man worked for the Chinese government, collecting and passing on to an intelligence official personal data, including information about health, travel, asylum status and politics, about Uighurs in Sweden between January 2008 to June 2009. He also took notes and photographs from meetings and demonstrations, listing participants and their comments, and infiltrated the World Uyghur Congress.
The court convicted him of having conducted aggravated illegal espionage activity.
"He has run the operation in secret. By claiming to sympathize with Uighurs and by concealing that he operated in the purpose of gathering information to China ha has also acted fraudulent," the verdict read. "The risk for damage has been particularly great since the intelligence operation has served a superpower that does not fully respect human rights."
The Chinese government denied the accusations after Monday's verdict.
"This kind of accusation against China is groundless and out of ulterior motives," said Qin Gang, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry.
He said Chinese missions overseas and Chinese diplomatic staff have followed the Vienna Conventions on diplomatic relations.
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Spacious, immaculate 3BR/2-1/2 bath home across from beach. This home has a large living room with hardwood floors, a separate den, and a great room which has the kitchen, dining room and a sun porch. Two of the bedrooms have hardwood floors. The master suite has carpet. The bedrooms are spacious, and one of the bedrooms has 2 double beds. The other two bedrooms each have a queen bed. It comfortably sleeps 8 people on the beds. There is a queen sofa and a loveseat in the den. The living room has a queen sofa and a number of chairs, and the sun porch has a sofa and chairs. The kitchen was renovated March 2013 with new dishwasher, counter tops, cabinets and paint. The picture shown is not updated yet. Everything is very clean and comfortable. The living room and two of the bedroom walls are beautiful solid heart pine wood.
There is a large deck facing the beach with lounge chairs. The paved bike path is right out the back door. Downstairs there is a nice park grill and picnic table, and also chairs and a large swing. There is an enclosed shower with hot and cold water conveniently located by the downstairs bathroom. This is a great feature, especially with children. There is a double fish cleaning sink on the east side of the house. We own the adjoining lot which is vacant so you have plenty of privacy.
We are eight blocks down from the entrance to the island, and this puts you located near all restaurants and shopping. The beautiful St. George Island State Park is only about three miles from us.
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Fine dining, especially fabulous local seafood, is readily available on the island and just over the bridge in historic Apalachicola. Local pubs offer friendly atmosphere, good food, and live entertainment amongst welcoming islanders. Many rental facilities on the island include bicycles, scooters, jet skies, kayaks, guided boat trips and much more. Quaint shopping opportunities allow for browsing both on the island and just off the island. For the nature lovers, a visit to the St. George Island State Park at the eastern end of the island is a must. When you first arrive on the island, you will see the lighthouse that once belonged on Little St. George and has now been beautifully restored. It is open for tours. There is also a children's beach playground and a basketball court that is all open to the public.
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COBHAM, England - Jose Mourinho has criticised Eden Hazard by claiming the Chelsea winger is not yet ready to sacrifice himself fully for the sake of his team.
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I went through so much "controversy" and "opposition" from my family, mainly my parents, for keeping our first son intact. We found out yesterday that he has a little brother on the way, and we couldn't be happier! He will be kept intact as well, and we couldn't be happier for that as well! I'm so thankful to this forum for educating and encouraging us. Two boys saved from unnecessary cosmetic surgery! :D
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My family doesn't even know that my son is intact. They never asked and I never told them. I don't want to deal with the same kind of thing that you dealt with.
Congratulations on another little boy!
It was harder when we lived with my parents and they're super pro-circ... It hasn't even come up with this one so far...
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oo hell yeah i hope jens can pull it off
You kidden me, Faber will give Jens the atomic butt drop, before pulverizing him.
i would love to see jens win but i don't think it will happen.
If Faber is so tight, lets see him go to the UFC and fight BJ Penn.
Faber is good but is he even near Penn's level yet I don't think so. Faber got great grounds skills and is working on his standup. Jens Pulver has great standup and is working on his ground game. It seems like a pretty even fight.
The Prodigy BJ Penn has great standup and crazy submission moves. Add insane flexiable (double jointed) and hes a nightmare for anyone he fights.
Penn and Faber aren't even in the same weight class but I would take Penn in that fight. Other than that, Faber is a great athlete and fighter and will dominate most fighters anywhere near his weight class.
faber-pulver is going to look a lot like penn-pulver, but only quicker.
i think pulver can do this. if faber stands with him hes gonna get knocked out. id say faber has the edge on the ground for sure but pulver aint a bitch. i says jens ko/tko
i dont think Jens is in the same class as Faber…i think faber will out work jens unless he gets lucky …and catches faber i think thats what hes after a lucky strike…after the bj fight i think he decided to leave cause he knew he wasnt going anywhere in the ufc but on the canvas… again!!! jens is a punk
Lucky strike…..Cause knockouts are only lucky right.
You must be blind so I guess you couldn't tell anyhow. Watch any knockout there is no luck in MMA sorry to burst your bubble. If someone wants to punch you in head and they do I fail to see the luck in that. This isn't the schoolyard or the lottery.
They're both great fighters no matter what. But all faber needs to do is just take it to the ground with pulver and its over. Even standup faber has insane fists and mean elbows. So im going to have to go with faber.
Well, this will be a great fight, without a doubt. But, this is the first time I saw Urijah sort of nervous talking about an upcoming fight. Normally he seems real cocky and confident but this time around he seemed a bit more humble and respectful towards Jens. Not a whole lot of crap-talking going around, which isn't a bad thing really. Maybe it is all out of respect or he really worries if he can take this one or not. We'll see. I think Jens wants it more but I think Urijah wants to keep his belt even more. Gonna be interesting!
i dont think that jens will be able to handle the brut strength that Urijah possesses
Faber has loads of toughness and natural ability.
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This dissertation assesses the environmental justice implications of New York State and New York City laws designed to encourage the cleanup and remediation of contaminated and vacant properties, also known as brownfields. To do so, the dissertation asks three questions. First, do brownfield policies promote the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites in areas with predominantly poor and minority residents? Second, when brownfield development does occur in these neighborhoods, does it improve environmental conditions? And third, to what extent do brownfield policies offer residents, business owners, and others living, working, and playing near brownfield sites a voice in the remediation and development process? To answer these questions the dissertation uses a two-step, multi-scalar, and mixed-method approach. In the first step, the dissertation uses methods of randomization to describe the characteristics of populations and properties near sites enrolled in New York State's brownfield program at the scale of the city. In the second step, the dissertation investigates the impact of brownfield development in three case study neighborhoods -the Gowanus and East New York neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Melrose Commons in the Bronx. Through these analyses, the dissertation concludes that the environmental justice implications of New York State's and New York City's brownfield policies are uneven. While state and city policies may encourage development in areas with higher property values and a higher proportion of white and wealthy residents, for the most part, they have little impact in areas with predominantly poor and non-white residents. When brownfield development does occur in these neighborhoods, it tends to exacerbate existing environmental injustices. Although the clean-up and development of contaminated sites may protect human and ecological health within the site's boundaries, it often exacerbates environmental problems in the surrounding areas. City and state brownfield policies further exacerbates environmental injustices by providing few opportunities for nearby resident and business to influence remedial methods or future land uses. There are, however, exceptions to these findings. In neighborhoods with a history of community, comprehensive, and area-wide planning, brownfield policies are much closer to fulfilling the policies' stated ambition.
In coastal ecosystems with decades of eutrophication and other anthropogenic stressors, the impact of climate change on planktonic communities can be difficult to detect. A time-series of monthly surface water temperatures in the Central Basin of Long Island Sound (LIS) from the late 1940s until 2012 indicates a warming rate of 0.03°C per year, with recent summer temperatures increasing most consistently. During this warming trend, the proportion of chlorophyll produced by smaller phytoplankton and flagellates appears to be higher during warmer summer and fall months, enabling an increase in annual chlorophyll despite static nutrient levels. The phenology of phytoplankton and zooplankton abundance also appears to have shifted. Relative to the 1950s, winter and spring chlorophyll blooms are reduced, summer and fall zooplankton size has decreased, the proportion of small zooplankton has increased, and summer zooplankton abundance is reduced. These changes have occurred despite a lack of evidence for increasing gelatinous zooplankton abundance, which has been suggested as a causal mechanism for reduced summer copepod abundance and enhanced summer/fall phytoplankton abundance in other systems that have experienced long-term warming. These changes confirm general predictions for the direct impacts of climate change on aquatic communities, but also highlight the important of indirect impacts due to altered trophic dynamics.
Abstract Developing geochemical proxies for a high resolution hydroclimate record in Mono Lake basin. by Rahul Sahajpal Advisor: N. Gary Hemming Hydrological fluctuations of Mono Lake, a terminal closed-basin lake in the western Great Basin, are related to the regional climate fluctuations. These hydrological changes lead to variations in paleosalinity which may be recorded at a high resolution by the geochemical proxies in the lacustrine Wilson Creek Formation sediments of the Mono Lake basin. Authigenic minerals like calcite and Mg-smectite in the lacustrine sediments record the fluctuations in the lake level through the last glacial period. During the course of this research project, I have developed leachable Li (hosted by the Mg-smectite) and other leachable ions as geochemical proxies for paleosalinity (and thus paleohydrology) in the Wilson Creek sediments. I applied a multi-pronged approach, including measurements of leachable ions. I followed these results and tested my hypothesis for their behavior by construction of empirical evaporation and mixing models using Geochemist Workbench and PHREEQC. I used this strategy to demonstrate that the freshening of Mono Lake during the last glacial period could explain the variations. These investigations in the Mono Lake basin have shown that leachable Li along with leachable ions like Ca, Mg and Sr closely follow the documented lake level based on stratigraphic and geomorphic evidence. The empirical models used to predict the geochemical evolution of Mono Lake with hydrological variations allow the accurate prediction of the behavior of authigenic mineral phases like Mg- smectite and the calcite proxy record for the paleolake level changes.
Pursuant to the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, the presence of chrysotile asbestos in the dust plume raised concern about exposure to Search and Rescue workers, Clean-up and Recovery workers, and Residential exposures that might result during the ground zero clean-up and removal efforts. Asbestos related air monitoring included Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy (ATEM) analysis under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) protocol; Phase Contrast Microscopy (PCM) and ATEM measurements on the same filters; and Phase Contrast Microscopy Equivalent (PCMe) using ATEM. This study focused primarily on the exposure of emergency responders, clean-up workers, and residents to the presence of asbestos, taking asbestos fiber-type and size into consideration. The three exposure scenarios evaluated show that cumulative residential exposures ((0.02 asbestos fibers per milliliter-year (af/mL-yr)) were the greatest, followed by Clean-up and Recovery exposures (0.007 af/mL-yr), then Search and Rescue exposures (0.003 af/mL-yr), which shows that the lower residential dose over a longer period of time would result in a greater cumulative exposure then either the Search and Rescue, or Clean-up and Recovery scenarios. A risk assessment for the three cumulative exposure scenarios was conducted using the US-EPA's 1986 aggregate risk model which presumes equal potency for all asbestos fiber-types, and the 2000 Hodgson & Darnton model which considers the potency of differing asbestos fiber-types, and is more current with the historic epidemiologic literature. A marked difference between the US-EPA aggregate model and Hodgson & Darnton model exists with the later showing an approximate 240-fold decrease in risk for the lower Manhattan population when chrysotile fiber-type potency is considered. Using the calculated cumulative exposure data a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) was performed to show whether the social benefit associated with a reduction in the asbestos contaminant levels warranted the total cost of providing specialized equipment to lower Manhattan residents and remedial cost of conducting the US-EPA Residential Dust Clean-up Program. As expected, the CBA shows that the social benefits of averting asbestos-related morbidity and mortality outweigh the costs under the US-EPA's risk assessment protocol. However, using the Hodgson and Darnton risk assessment protocol, the benefits do not outweigh the risks and the US-EPA would have been expected not to provide specialized equipment to lower Manhattan residents or conduct the residential dust cleaning program.
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the dominant reservoir of organic carbon (OC) in terrestrial ecosystems, storing approximately three times the size of the C pool in the atmosphere. In temperate forests, a major fraction of the SOM consists of slowly decaying soil organic C (SOC) pools. While slowly cycling C pools constitute a large reservoir of stable C in soils, the dominant environmental factors controlling this C pool remain unresolved. This research investigates two significant, but poorly characterized slowly decaying C pools: fine root litter (< 2mm) and thermally altered plant biomass (pyrogenic organic matter, PyOM). Specifically, I used compound-specific stable isotope analysis (13C and 15N) as my main methodological approach to examine the (1) decomposition of root litter and PyOM in temperate forest soils, and (2) the factors (soil type, nitrogen addition, and SOM) that affected the stability of these two SOC pools. This was accomplished by integrating the results of: a 180-d incubation study on PyOM decomposition, a study on the molecular composition and physicochemical structure of PyOM, δ13C measurements of PyOM molecular markers (13C-benzene polycarboxylic acids) in soils, measurements of atmospheric PyOM-C deposition, and a 2-yr field study on root litter decay. PyOM-C at 450oC had a centennial mean residence time (MRT) in temperate forest soils, and the mineralization of PyOM-N was affected by reactive mineral surfaces. Future tracing experiment studies will greatly benefit from the use of 13C-BPCA approach to quantify PyOM turnover rates in soils. In northern Michigan, PyOM-C deposition fluxes from the atmosphere to soils were low, but provided background data relevant for future assessments of atmospheric PyOM-C concentration. Lastly, maple roots decomposed faster than those reported by previous studies in temperate ecosystems, suggesting that root litter C is not a stable SOM pool in northern temperate forest soils. To improve long-term predictions of the impact of climate change on SOC fluxes, ecosystem scale C models should consider root detritus as a fast-cycling C pool in northern forest soils, incorporate the effect of soil mineral assemblage on the stability of SOM, and no longer assume that PyOM has a millennial MRT in soils.
Modern video distribution has increased the quantity and variety of programming available to viewers. Multichannel broadcasters using high-bandwidth distribution mechanisms such as satellite and cable television are able to deliver hundreds of channels to each home. Video on demand (VOD) allows users to select and watch video content at will. Digital video recorders (DVRs) have made it possible to watch any program at any time using an electronic program guide and recording shows onto a hard disk. Yet attention remains limited, as audience members are able to watch only a limited number of programs offered by different networks. As a result, the viewing audience today distributes itself over a larger set of programs than in the past. This process is called audience fragmentation. Television audiences are fragmented to different degrees, even if the set of available viewing options is similar. The level of audience fragmentation depends on factors such as the audience's geographic location and its demographic composition. A fragmented audience is more difficult to reach with advertising. Knowing the factors that determine audience fragmentation could be important for advertisers who are trying to send marketing messages to a certain group of consumers, as well as for programmers designing entertainment targeted at different groups. This thesis seeks to explain the relationship between audience characteristics, audience fragmentation, and advertising prices.
New York City's neoliberal restructuring has fundamentally transformed the city's labor market and privatized many important aspects of a once robust municipal welfare system. In this research I examine one radical response to these changes: anti-authoritarian mutual aid groups that blend Do-It-Yourself (DIY) culture with direct action politics. These are projects where activists attempt to build strong communities of resistance by organizing collective forms of social reproduction. I find that these projects are a threat to neoliberal urbanization because they reorganize reproduction beyond the household scale while simultaneously criticizing the social relations of capitalism as the root of household insecurity. At the same time, this research reveals that mutual aid projects coming out of the white North American anarchist social movement culture are filled with conflicts and contradictions. Activists who create "geographies of autonomy" often struggle to reconcile their imperative against hierarchy with needs for a horizontal management of the commons. Additionally, I find that although these projects take social reproduction as an object of struggle, they are prone to undervalue gendered and racialized work in a way that mirrors the same neoliberal social relations which mutual aid groups seek to escape. The conflicts that ensue from these contradictions can and often lead to women and people of color (and others) withdrawing energy or support in order to create stronger forms of mutual aid. These cleavages between activists can be best understood through black feminist and Marxist feminist theories of care in social struggle. Conflicts reveal the need for mutual aid groups to develop a social practice that revalues reproduction work in social movements and celebrates those who have done it in the past and continue to do it today.
We report measurements of melt-related processes for Antarctic and Greenland made using novel remote sensing algorithms and in-situ measurement techniques. First, persistent melting is mapped over Antarctica at high resolution using a novel melt-detection algorithm, based on wavelet-theory and multiscale analysis for the duration of the QuikSCAT satellite record (1999 through 2009). This novel approach is compared with threshold based methods, where melting is detected at 3dB below the winter mean backscatter, indicating an agreement to within 7 percent accuracy in yearly melt index [days-km2] and within 10 percent accuracy based automated weather station (AWS) comparisons due to the omission of short-duration melting events. In further comparison with Special Sensor Microwave/Image (SSMI) melting records, a higher degree of agreement (9 percent relative difference) is obtained by employing the wavelet-based approach than threshold-based (11 percent relative difference) methods. Secondly, we assess the validity of remote sensing based multispectral bathymetry from the analysis of concurrent in-situ multi-spectral and depth measurements collected over a supraglacial lake during early July 2010 in West Greenland (Lake Olivia, 69º36'35"N, 49º29'40"W). In particular, we evaluate lake bottom albedo and the water attenuation coefficient. Analysis of in-situ data (using a remotely controlled boat equipped with a GPS, sonar and a spectrometer) illustrates the exponential trend of the water-leaving reflectance with lake depth. The attenuation factors obtained are compared with those proposed in the literature. Finally, measured ablation rates at the bottom of the two lakes, collected during the summers of 2010 and 2011, are on the order of ~ 6 cm/day, versus a rate of ~ 2.5 - 3 cm/day in the case of bare ice of surrounding areas. These measurements are compared with a thermodynamic model forced with the outputs of a regional climate model. In general, the model is able to satisfactorily reproduce the measured quantities with RMSE of the order of 3 - 4 cm for the ablation and ~ 1.5 ºC in the case of water temperature. Results confirm that the ablation at the bottom of supraglacial lakes can account for close to ten percent of the total lake depth.
Public participation plays an important role in wet weather pollution management. However, the effects of participation programs on local water quality are often difficult to quantify. This project aims to quantify the potential effects of a community based, non-structural, BMP aimed at controlling inputs to combined sewage systems by encouraging residents to reduce their water use during rain events. A household could participate by reducing the amount of water they use for flushing toilets, washing dishes, taking showers, etc. during rain events; thereby reducing stress on the system during the time of highest demand. The Gowanus Canal sewershed in Brooklyn, NYC was used as a case study for this project. The proposed management practice was tested using (1) sewershed modeling to assess technical feasibility, and (2) a quantitative community survey to gauge local interest. Modeling results showed that while projected reductions in flow volume were quite low, reductions in pollutant loads were promising. Modeled pollutant load reductions, specifically those for Fecal Coliform and Nutrients were favorable compared to those typically achieved using green infrastructure approaches. Survey results indicated positive interest in participating in the water conservation program. Results regarding public understanding suggest that educational efforts aimed at increasing sewershed awareness and specific training regarding the effects various types of water use have on water quality would be beneficial to the success of such a program. Overall, results indicate that with further evaluation, the practice of conserving water during storm events may serve as a community-based complement to engineered pollution controls in urban regions.
The object of this dissertation was to conduct a geographical immigrant labor population analysis of the work spaces where Latin American immigrant worker fatal accidents occurred and were investigated by OSHA in NYC's Brooklyn and Manhattan from 1995-2004. The purpose of this analysis was to identify spatial trends and to develop a spatial profile or spatial model of these fatal accident sites. With the identification of spatial factors that are related to Latin American worker fatal accidents, OSHA could implement an improved spatial strategy for identifying hazards, issuing violations, and thus preventing these fatalities before they occur. The US Dept. of Labor/ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported that the total amount of occupational fatal accidents went up from 1,729 to 1,966 in the years 1997 to 2005. In addition, in the U.S., the Hispanic worker fatality rate has increased sharply from 4.50 per 100,000 in 2003 to 4.90 in 2004. This is an 11% increase (Smith, S., et al, 2006). The New York State (NYS) Trial Lawyers Association of OSHA reported that from 1994-2004 in NYS, most of the occupational fatal accidents occurred in New York City (NYC), and in NYC most occupational fatal accidents occurred on construction sites. Sixty seven percent occurred with workers who spoke a foreign language on the job, usually Spanish. Brooklyn was reported as the county that had the most accidents in the state (NYS Trial Lawyers Assoc. of OSHA, 2005). These statistics clearly identify a need to reduce the occupational fatal accident rate, especially for Latin American immigrants in NYC. The research concludes that Latin American occupational fatal accidents do have a unique, and a statistically significant relationship with the following independent variables: union status; job size; median residential household income; and residential population density.


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LOS ANGELES — Michael Douglas is already looking forward to his next film role.The 66-year-old actor, who has been battling throat cancer since August, told the weekly Hollywood Reporter that he'll play the title part in Steven Soderbergh's ''Liberace,'' which is set to begin shooting in May or June. Douglas said he will learn in January if his cancer has been eliminated. Doctors have told him there is an 80-percent cure rate. He said his cancer diagnosis has brought him closer to his 93-year-old father, Kirk Douglas. The two had a strained relationship for many years, but ''he really made an effort'' after the diagnosis, Douglas said. ''He was back here almost 10 days. He came over every day. He was great.'' Douglas said that when he was growing up, his father was angry and often absent. ''In those key years, when Kirk was doing five movies a year, if we saw him it was only out of his guilt,'' Douglas said. He also acknowledges that he may have repeated that pattern with his own son, Cameron Douglas, 31, who was recently jailed on drug-related charges. ''I'm sure it's not easy, either, being a third generation,'' Douglas said. ''Kirk was all-consumed, was overworked. Probably like myself at a certain time in my life.'' Douglas also reflects on his recent difficulties with ex-wife Diandra Douglas, whose bid to claim half of his earnings from ''Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps'' was dismissed in a New York court earlier this month. Kid Rock bashes brokers for ticket profiteering DETROIT — Kid Rock said ticket brokers are crashing his birthday bash and driving up concert prices. The country rocker with hip-hop roots said on his website that he would love to confront scalpers who swoop in and buy blocks of his low-priced tickets, then resell them for profit. He said it leaves him feeling ''like someone is beating up a close friend or family member while'' he's chained to a chair. More than 45,000 tickets for his 40th birthday bash Jan. 15 at Ford Field sold out in 19 minutes.
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Vina Del Mar and Valparaiso Day Trip from Santiago
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Spend a day exploring the coastal towns of Central Chile on a leisurely day trip from Santiago. Travel through wine country, before arriving in the 'Garden City' of Vina del Mar. Continue on to the bohemian town of Valparaiso and visit Pablo Neruda Museum before heading back to Santiago after a day of relaxed sightseeing.
Depart for the central coast traveling through the valleys of Curacavi and Casablanca. The latter is known for its recent success as a wine producing area.
Continue to the coast and visit the beach area of Renaca and the town of Vina del Mar, known as the Garden City for its pretty parks and flower lined streets. Visit the Gaming Casino and the coastal road.
In the afternoon continue to the picturesque port of Valparaiso built in the 16th-century on a total of 43 hills which are reached by narrow windy streets, staircases and a series of lifts (funiculars). This area has been declared by UNESCO as patrimony of humanity due to its eclectic architecture and urban development.
You may wish to visit the Pablo Neruda Museum which contains some of the poets collections, specifically related to the sea. The Museum is situated on one of the hills overlooking the bay offering fantastic sea views.
At the end of the day you have the choice to return to Santiago with the group, or stay in Valparaiso for a little longer making your own way back to the city at your leisure.
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Vina Del Mar and Valparaiso Day Trip from Santiago
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Reviewed by: Mary N, April 2015
Fran Pardo is the very best tour guide. She had outstanding knowledge of these cities and provided a first rate experience for us including lunch at a place with a great view. Fran should get a raise - she is really an outstanding guide.
Reviewed by: Joanna F, March 2015
We had a great day trip with our guide Claudio. We learned a lot and got to see a lot for the short amount of time spent in Valparaiso and Vina Del Mar. Claudio was very knowledgeable of the area and kept giving us bits of history which I enjoyed as I love history. I was happy we were able to visit Pablo Neruda's house in Valparaiso, we got there just before the crowd starting coming. We also had a chance to ride a finicular which is definitely a must. The weather was gloomy so we did not enjoy much time on the beach of Vina del Mar but the lunch recommendation there was great. We loved our lunch at Chez Gerald. If you are pressed for time, I'd recommend this tour to get to know Valparaiso and Vina Del Mar. Another perk is the stop at a vineyard on the ride from Santiago to Valaparaiso. Wine was good and our guide took great pictures.