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Report by Lou Stoppard on 24 September 2012.
While the daywear was impressive, it was the eveningwear than really shone. Literally. It was sparkle mania over at Armani towers thanks to inky navy pieces littered with beading to create the effect of a starry sky. These were old school Armani showstoppers, harking back to the days where he was the go to man for all of Hollywood's great and good.
Tunic dresses, city shorts and twinkly night-sky evening wear from #giorgioarmani #mfw http://t.co/qXjBZJSl
Apparently the world of Giorgio @armani is inspired by a kaleidoscope for S13. @Stylist_Fash has the most fabulous view of tonight's show...
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John McAfee, the anti-computer virus pioneer who went all Colonel Kurtz/rave gangsta in the jungles of Belize experimenting with extreme drugs, boinking young girls, and allegedly murdering his neighbor, was captured in Guatemala because some noob journo with an iPhone forgot to scrub the geo-data before uploading the photo. Oops. (Or maybe it was a vast conspiracy!)
Anyway, now that he's in jail, McAfee–who is prolific blogger and blames his arrest on officials in Belize who have it in for him (nothing to do with drug experiments and boinking young girls, let alone allegedly murdering his neighbor since according to McAfee that was a set-up, or something)–has proved he really must be innocent. Because he sold the TV and film rights to his story to a production company, and issued this statement:
My most heartfelt thank you goes to Impact Future Media and Cartoon Monkey Studio. Their dedication to the truth is very uncommon in the world we live in today. I am now, and will always be, grateful to their organizations.
So, who would you cast as McAfee? Robert Downey, Jr.? Sean Penn? Christian Bale? (McAfee is kind of like American Psycho's Patrick Bates after too long at Burning Man!). Matthew McConaughey? Gerard Butler? Josh Brolin? Maybe go age-appropriate with John Malkovich or Sam Butler?
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Sometimes you stay out longer, wake up earlier, play your music a little louder and add a bit more hot sauce. The Seasonal Core Chuck Taylor Patch tee has the classic Chuck logo with punched up color. For the days that call for a little more. Made in China. Machine wash cold (30c), wash with like colors, do not bleach, tumble dry low, do not iron on print, do not dry clean.


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About A-Manda Creation
I am a digital scrap kit designer that loves to create party printables. No matter what the occassion or theme I love to make every day a bit of a celebration. From lunch box notes for my kids, to awesome themed birthday parties and baby showers I love coordinating everything and tie the theme into the littlest details. I have been designing printable party items for 3 years and I love doing custom items when you can't find exactly what you are looking for.


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La Belle Époque Barbie® Doll
Music fills the evening air, and a stunning figure appears in the golden glow of city lights. Capturing the opulence, drama, and luxury of the era, La Belle Époque Barbie® Doll is a breathtaking vision. This pretty Parisian wears a lovely lilac gown featuring short puff sleeves with oversized bows and an elegant train. Her elaborate hairdo is accented with a pale plum plume, and black opera gloves and long faux pearls add the appropriate final touches.
Produced for attendees of the Paris Fashion Doll Festival 2012.
For the adult collector.
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Much Anticipated Carbon Pollution Standards Proposed
The big news this week is that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their proposed Clean Power Plan. Environmental groups and climate change activists have been eagerly awaiting these carbon emission standards for coal-fired power plants.
Power plants are the largest source of carbon pollution in the U.S. and generate approximately one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA's proposal, released Monday, will help lower carbon emissions from existing power plants by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.
The proposed rules are the latest under President Obama's Climate Action Plan. The EPA is charged with proposing commonsense approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants.
Last June, President Obama announced a series of executive actions to reduce carbon emissions, prepare the country for the impacts of climate change and lead international efforts to address global warming. Learn more about the President's Climate Action plan on the White House web site.
For good or ill, climate change continues to be a politically charged issue, often dividing along party lines. However, many companies recognize that global warming is already impacting their daily business operations and that the problem is only going to get worse if we do not take steps now to embrace a low-carbon future.
Sustainability advocacy nonprofit Ceres coordinated letters of support for the EPA's proposed carbon pollution rule to the Obama Administration and Senate and House majority and minority leaders from 125 companies including the likes of Unilever, VF Corporation and Mars. The letters were also signed by 49 investors managing $800 billion in assets.
Read more about the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan at http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/clean-power-plan-proposed-rule.
Interview with Mr. Hans Wegner, Chief Sustainability Officer at the National Geographic Society
Carbonfund.org and National Geographic Society (NGS) have been partners in the fight against global climate change since 2009. Our relationship with NGS is managed by Mr. Hans Wegner, Chief Sustainability Officer at the Society whose leadership in the sustainability realm has been an inspiration to everyone at our Foundation.
In 2011, Han's leadership with the NGS "Green Team" led to his team receiving our For People and Planet award in the "Media" category for their efforts to reduce carbon dioxide (C02) emissions.
These efforts included reducing emissions from their operations by 80% with an additional goal of reducing emissions from their magazine paper and printing materials supply chain by 10% by 2015. The team has succeeded at numerous other efforts from obtaining Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) Gold Status for their headquarters building to compost and recycling programs in their cafeteria.
Since the origin of our relationship, with NGS, the Society has been a key supporter of several of our projects including the Purus REDD+ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) Project in Acre, Brazil, and the Native Species Reforestation Project in Panama to offset the Society's respective travel and office emissions.
We had the opportunity to speak with Hans on his impressive 41 years at the National Geographic Society and his broader work in the sustainability realm.
1. Please describe your current role as Chief Sustainability Officer at NGS and what lead you to that position?
I came to the Society in 1973, with a background in commercial printing. I came here to work in one of the photographic labs, compiling film for wall maps for 1.5 years and subsequently became responsible for the production and then the manufacturing of the Magazine. During that time I also handled all paper purchasing for the Society so I became very conversant with the issues related to paper manufacturing and the paper market. I took particular interest in learning all I could about the environmental impacts of all aspects of paper making; from seedling in the ground to recycling of old paper products. I took great pride in working with our paper suppliers to make sure they abide by or exceeded all applicable environmental regulations.
In 2006 I headed up a group of concerned NGS employees who felt we as an organization could do more to reduce the impact our operations had on climate change and to raise our collective awareness of our responsibility to conduct our business sustainably. Our groups focused on measuring the carbon emissions that we as a company were responsible for, including those emitted on our behalf by our suppliers. We knew we had to know our corporate carbon footprint, not only in the aggregate, but by product line or service sector so we could have a roadmap for the remedial actions we wanted to take. On the basis of this information, we made our buildings carbon neutral, achieved LEED-EB Gold status for our complex, and certified our campus as Energy Star rated and implemented many energy saving features.
On the basis of our success, I was designated Chief Sustainability Officer in 2009.
2. How did you get started in sustainability work? Who or what inspired you to go into a career in sustainability?
I have always had an inclination to try to be environmentally responsible and I like to think of myself as acting on what I know to be true. This is what led me to set environmental policy for our paper suppliers when I was handling paper purchasing for the Society, implementing a requirement to use best forest management practices, to exceed the guidelines of the Clean Air and Water Acts. In the mid 1990's I became increasingly convinced of not only the fact of climate change, but the reality that it was human activity that was causing this phenomenon. Additionally human activity was consuming finite natural resources at obviously unsustainable rates. I was of course aware that the Society was publishing or producing related stories in our Magazine and TV productions on these subjects so the problem was not a lack of public awareness of the issues but rather a problem of failing to act on what we know. I felt compelled to make a difference and to act, so I began talking to people and knew there was a critical mass of my colleagues who felt strongly, wanted to help, and were willing to volunteer their time to make a difference. That led to the formation of the GoGreen Committee (Now Green Team) which has been meeting monthly since late 2006 and is leading the sustainability initiative at the Society.
3. What personal accomplishments in the sustainability realm are you most proud of?
I would have to say being instrumental in starting the sustainability initiative at the Society and thereby creating an awareness that we as an organization and as individuals could and needed to do more than we were.
As to specifics: 1) Focusing our efforts on knowing our carbon footprint and focusing our efforts at reducing that that footprint by eliminating waste where we found it and thereby eliminating the cost of that waste. 2) Setting and then achieving the goal of becoming a carbon neutral facility and qualifying our Buildings for LEED-EB Gold certification. 3) Doing the most comprehensive Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) ever done on a Magazine in cooperation with our paper and printing suppliers. This was completed in 2009. 4) Convincing the Society to become a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) driven company in 2012. 5) Committing the Society to the idea of offsetting our scope III carbon (all indirect emissions except for purchased electricity, heat and steam). To date, we have reduced our scope III by over 20% since 2008.
4. What are you currently working on in the sustainability realm?
We are working with our suppliers of printing and digital media storage to document their emissions on our behalf and to look into renewable energy for those emissions. We are working to achieve carbon neutral status for everything we do, and to send zero waste to landfill. My goal is to have sustainability become part of the culture of the Society.
5. What is your personal biggest sustainability challenge?
Changing behavior at our company and getting more companies to start addressing climate change. Behavior changes are hard. Energy has always been cheap in the US, and the challenge is to change that perception and get people to change their behavior and use less. The other challenge is for all of us to personalize climate change and take responsibility for that change. At the end of the day each of us must make a commitment to change if we are to solve this problem. We all have the tendency to wait for someone else to start. Don't wait for someone else. You do it. Each of us can start today by: not leaving lights on, shortening the showers we take, using mass transit, recycling everything we can, etc.
6. What is going to be the biggest challenge for sustainability in the next 20 years?
Complacency on the part of most of us. Dependence on someone else to do the job for us. Ignoring the noise from the fossil fuel industry to say everything is OK when it is clearly not. A Congress that is divided to the point of dysfunction, so no federal leadership is possible. The naysayers that persist in trying to say that this is not a problem, and it is bad for the economy to address this issue. The fear mongers who wish to use this issue to divide us rather than to say here is a challenge we can unite on and fix.
7. For the next generation of environmental professionals, what advice would you give?
You do not have to be an expert. Read and act on what you know. Make the business case that waiting is paramount to throwing money away and that America cannot compete with clean economies around the world. Make the business case that inaction, or little action, is far, far more expensive and costly to jobs and prosperity than the most drastic actions we take today.
8. How did Carbonfund.org help you achieve your sustainability goals?
Carbonfund.org has been able to find projects for us to help us offset our use of natural gas to heat our buildings and use in our cafeteria. It has also helped us find projects that offset our business travel. My question to any offset provider has always been: Can you get me a two 'fer or three 'fer? By which I mean I am looking for projects that not only reduce carbon buildup in the atmosphere by adding sequestration capacity, but does doing so expand the habitat for an endangered species (either flora or fauna) in an area, thereby enhancing the possibility of that species' survival? So I am always interested in finding projects that have multiple benefits with the primary one being carbon emissions reductions. So far, Carbonfund.org has done a really good job finding such projects for us.
9. Why did you choose to work with Carbonfund.org?
In keeping with the idea of sourcing locally, I liked that Carbonfund.org is in fact local to Washington DC metro area. I also like the fact of Carbonfund.org being a not-for-profit, as I believe that addressing climate change should not be a profit driven undertaking. That is not to say that we should not do business with for profit entities, it is just that if not-for-profit is an option; that is my preference so we can put more dollars into emissions reductions.
Jellyfish: the Ocean's Canaries
Some may think jellyfish are simply a pesky problem when we want to take a swim or snorkel, but they are actually a sign of flagging oceanic health. We think of them as the canary in the coal mine. The difference is the canary dies when there is a problem, but jellyfish flourish in the conditions that global warming wreaks on our oceans.
Climate change heats and acidifies the planet's oceans. Overfishing adds to the first two major problems. All three contribute to creating an ideal environment for jellyfish to thrive and multiply. So what's the big deal if there are too many jellyfish?
The issue is that jellyfish take a bad situation and make it worse. They have a unique trait where they're able to eat up the food chain. This is surprising considering these sea creatures don't even have brains. However, they actually can consume animals that are bigger, smarter and faster than they are. They damage the ecosystem further by competing with large mammals, such as whales, by feeding on the same fish and plankton that these other animals need to survive.
Marine expert Lisa-ann Gershwin wrote the new book Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean. She points to an example where jellyfish wiped out an entire food chain simply by eating from the bottom up.
The jellyfish species Mnemiopsis leidyi was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea in the early 1980s. In just a few short years, these jellyfish comprised "95 per cent of the biomass in the Black Sea". This means "ninety-five per cent of every living thing was this one species of jellyfish".
Jellyfish could rule our planet's oceans as they once did in the Precambrian era. A time when biodiversity was low, the jellyfish commanded the oceans, and mammals and reptiles did not exist. This is a scary eventuality, that our feet are firmly planted on the path towards. We need to heed the warnings that these gelatinous invertebrates provide and begin seriously reducing our carbon footprints and offsetting the rest of our carbon emissions.
Paper Culture Leads Eco-Friendly Card and Stationery Business with CarbonFree® Commitment
The American Forest and Paper Association continues to make strides as an industry intent on leading the expansion of paper recycling. The success of their "Better Practices, Better Planet 2020" initiative will be partly dependent upon consumer preferences shifting to products containing fully or partially recycled paper. In order to help close the "recycling loop", "green" consumers must continue to seek out businesses that offer eco-conscious products featuring recycled paper, in order to expand the practice of paper recycling and the manufacturing, marketing and price-competitiveness of products containing recycled paper. CarbonFree® Business Partner Paper Culture was led by its strong environmental focus, one of the foundations upon which the company has built its business, to develop its product line on 100% post consumer recycled paper and to take additional measures to neutralize the carbon emissions from its business operations.
As part of its ongoing environmental commitment, Paper Culture took the important step five years ago to neutralize its annual operational emissions and become a CarbonFree® Partner. "In choosing Carbonfund.org, Paper Culture wanted a partner that had a strong, auditable record of driving additional green house gas reducing projects," explains Christopher Wu, Paper Culture Owner. "When we looked at their marquee list of partners that includes names like Staples, Discovery Channel and Virgin, when combined with the audit trail provided by Environmental Resources Trust to verify the various Carbonfund.org projects, our decision was made."
Over the past five years, Paper Culture's CarbonFree® commitment has neutralized its own operational emissions by steadily supporting Carbonfund.org's reforestation projects around the world, which reduce carbon dioxide emissions through tree planting and forestry management efforts.
Paper Culture is an online stationery company offering modern eco-friendly personalized stationery and cards such as baby announcements, holiday cards, and baby shower invitations. All Paper Culture card and stationery designs are printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper, and Paper Culture plants a tree in a US national forest with every order. These steps, together with the long-term commitment to CarbonFree® operations, underscore Paper Culture's focus on environmental responsibility and demonstrate their sustainability leadership within the paper products industry.
Rising Sea Levels and Sustainable Desalination
Depending on where in the world you live, it might be easy to forget that the environment is more than just the air we breathe or the land under our feet. It's important to keep in mind that the oceans also are being affected radically by climate change. The oceanic problems are too numerous to list. However, this week we are taking a closer look at one issue that people in different parts of the planet face, rising oceans as the polar ice caps melt and more saltwater.
Those of us that live in the United States might not be aware how rich we are in freshwater sources as say countries in the Middle East that are very arid environments. Obviously those countries have other resources that we lack, but water is essential to life. Our planet may be covered in a great deal of water, but much of it is unusable to humans in its natural state because of the high salt content.
Did you know that salt is expelled from seawater when it freezes? Although some brine is trapped, the overall salinity of sea ice is much lower than seawater. So the seas are rising as previously permanently frozen parts of the planet melt. This means that not only is there more water, but it's becoming salty as it melts.
Desalination is any of several processes that remove some amount of salt and other minerals from saline water. Unfortunately, it is quite an energy intensive process. Last week, a new renewable energy desalination project was announced in Masdar, Abu Dhabi, which is in the United Arab Emirates. The project seeks to transform seawater into useable, freshwater on land by building a commercially viable and renewable energy-powered desalination plant by 2020.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region of the Middle East is comprised of the Arabian Peninsula countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman. The GCC formed in 1981 and uses about half the world's desalinated water.
Of course, accessing renewable energy is not the only impediment to sustainable desalination. Another effect of global warming is oceanic acidification that contributes to massive algae blooms. These algae blooms can shut down a desalination plant. There are other unwanted components that might be present in seawater such as radioactive material from warships and nuclear power plants which would need to be removed before the water could be used safely.
Despite other lingering issues, it is still worth asking the question, "Can these enormous desalination plants powered by renewable energy help mitigate some of the issues we face from rising sea levels?" The answer is, "Every bit helps." But don't start thinking it's a magic bullet since none exists. We still all need to do our parts in reducing our carbon emissions and footprints. However, it is good news that desalination can be a sustainable and environmentally responsible industrial solution and worth noting that low cost, low impact renewable energy technologies do exist.
CarbonFree® Partner K.L. Security Expands Its Safe Environments Initiative
The CarbonFree® Business Partnership program is intended to provide a simple, affordable way for businesses of any size to evaluate the carbon emissions associated with their annual operations, take steps to reduce these emissions, and neutralize the remaining emissions by supporting clean air and carbon reduction projects around the world. The program is also structured so that it compliments broader sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility programs, and helps to promote awareness and recognition for these efforts.
A great example of expanding environmental commitment beyond carbon emissions neutralization is CarbonFree® Partner K.L. Security Enterprises' annual tree-planting projects through their Safe Environments Initiative. When not out planting trees, the K.L. Security team helps customers store critical business and personal electronic data, documents, vital records and collections with their custom safes, vaults, fireproof file cabinets and ioSafe rugged hard drives. For residential customers, services may also include preservation and protection of family photo albums, heirlooms and other keepsakes.
"For the last 5 years, I've been a steward of a diverse ecosystem in Indiana - 48 acres of native forest and prairie that deserves to be protected," explains Johnny Klemme, CEO of K.L. Security Enterprises. "With the help of friends and family, we're teaching others about the importance and power of our local environment, and even more importantly, that you can't sit back and wait for other people to take initiative; you have to make that conscious decision today to make a difference."
Check out this video to see Johnny and the K.L. Security team in action.
In the last two years alone, K.L. Security has offset 93 metric tonnes of CO2 through the CarbonFree® Business Partnership, the equivalent of carbon emissions from almost 10,500 gallons of gasoline. In 2013, K.L. Security plans to complete two additional environmental improvement projects with several other local businesses in their community.
"Our commitment to the environment runs deep, and partnering with Carbonfund.org ensures that every bit of our operational CO2 emissions is accounted for," confirms Johnny. "Each and every one of our customers across the United States can take comfort that the carbon emissions from every safe and vault that we ship to them are offset through our support of Carbonfund.org's reforestation, renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. We're doing our part to affect positive change in the world in which we live, work and play and hope our customers value this commitment as much as we do."
What is on the Planet's Climate Wishlist?
The Earth cannot use words to speak for itself, but if it could what would be on its climate wishlist this holiday season?
Environmental activists and climate scientists have done a good job of communicating the risks of climate change. Part of the issue is that it's a delicate balance between scaring people so thoroughly that they don't think there is anything they can do about global warming and encouraging people to make any changes that positively impact the environment, even small ones to start. Perhaps we've also underestimated the importance of personal experience.
The facts on climate change alone are not enough. We've had solid, scientific evidence for many years that global warming is man-made and happening right now. However, many people need to experience the effects for themselves in order for the light bulb to go off in their heads. Hurricane Sandy and other extreme weather events are helping people to connect the dots, but now that process has begun the question then becomes, "What next?"
We have a responsibility to be good stewards of the planet. That is what the climate needs and wants this holiday season. There are two main changes that we can undertake to fulfill the planet's climate wishlist. The first is to lower our carbon footprints. Ask yourself, do I really need to leave my lights on all day at home when I am not there? Can I combine trips in the car to drive less or take public transportation instead? What simple steps can I take to save energy and myself some money as well?
The second change is to offset the rest of your carbon footprint. There are many affordable options to make this holiday season a reality, not just for the planet, but for future generations also. Any positive steps you take are welcome and really do make a difference. Although the planet cannot use words to thank you, reducing what you can and offsetting the rest is a beautiful gift and a wonderful place to start this holiday season.
ZeroCarbon™ Gown Preservations with Carbonfund.org Reaches Fifth Anniversary
Five years ago, the Association of Wedding Gown Specialists approached the Carbonfund.org Foundation to create a unique program to neutralize the emissions from the wedding gown cleaning and preservation services offered by its members. ZeroCarbon™ gown preservations became the first carbon-neutral wedding gown cleaning and preservation program in the wedding services industry, and it ensures that the beauty of each wedding gown is preserved while safeguarding the environment. ZeroCarbon™ wedding gown preservations are endorsed by the Association of Bridal Consultants and Green Bride Guide.
Carbonfund.org helped to calculate the carbon footprint of the gown cleaning and preservation process and created a per-gown treatment emissions level to be neutralized. Each Certified Wedding Gown Specialist™ makes a separate per-gown preservation donation to Carbonfund.org, which helps to support reforestation projects that reduce carbon emissions worldwide. To date, the ZeroCarbon™ wedding gown preservation program has mitigated over one million pounds of carbon emissions, the equivalent of the total emissions absorbed by 11,000 tree seedlings grown for ten years.
The Association of Wedding Gown Specialists created a flyer about the ZeroCarbon™ preservation program printed on recycled paper in soy ink for their members to use, and they've added the ZeroCarbon™ text to the complimentary care labels supplied to wedding gown designers.
"My own experience with the ZeroCarbon™ labels has been very positive," explains Sally Conant, Executive Director. "At my personal company, which is also a member of the Association, brides inspect their gowns before they are packed in acid-free wedding chests. When the gown is packed I explain that the ZeroCarbon™ label means we have offset all of the carbon emissions with a donation to Carbonfund.org to support reforestation projects."
"About a quarter of the brides say they chose my company because we do green gown preservations, and the rest are pleasantly surprised to hear about the program when they come for the gown. One bride recently told me it was very reassuring to know that she could care for her gown without damaging the environment. If it is a relative of the bride who comes to collect the gown, about a third of them say something such as 'She will be so pleased. She cares about our environment.'"
Coal Industry Mega-Player Plans for Climate Change
In a telling and ironic move, coal industry giant BHP-Billiton, is replacing one of its coal export facilities in Queensland, Australia because of its vulnerability to increasingly frequent hurricanes from global warming. BHP-Billiton is an Australian coal company that produces one-fifth of globally traded coal for steel making and is the largest mining company on Earth. The upgrade represents a major investment in planning for climate change. In fact, the company's coal operations are led by Marcus Randolph, who confirmed they are planning, "to rebuild the facility to be more durable to climate change."
Readers of this blog already know that increasingly extreme weather events are the result of climate change in addition to the fact that many businesses are planning now for climate change's effects. Why not a coal company too? The announcement makes it obvious that BHP-Billiton understands that climate change is real and the time is now to begin making changes even if the manufacture of their product contributes to the issue.
Randolph has even warned investors about the implications of remaining dependent on the non-renewable resources of fossil fuels by saying, "In a carbon constrained world where energy coal is the biggest contributor to a carbon problem, how do you think this is going to evolve over a 30- to 40-year time horizon? You'd have to look at that and say on balance, I suspect, the usage of thermal coal is going to decline. And frankly it should."
When a company that mines and exports coal starts planning for climate change it means the writing is on the wall. Businesses and individuals alike should all be working to decrease carbon footprints and offset the remaining carbon emissions. Let's give the planet a holiday present and start doing all we can this season to embrace a cleaner energy future.
Citizen Yogurt Bring Innovative Flavors and CarbonFree® Operations to Raleigh
Environmental conservation is a broad, global goal that will only be achieved by the aggregate of actions taken by small businesses and individuals in communities around the world. Carbonfund.org is engaged in large-scale initiatives, such as the development of our forestry projects in Brazil, but we continue to offer simple and affordable ways for any person, family or start-up business to make a difference in the fight against the negative impact of climate change.
Our personal emissions offsetting programs and CarbonFree® Business Partnerships help everyone to be part of the solution to climate change. New CarbonFree® Partner Citizen Yogurt is a great example of a local business putting its community and environmental mission into action. Citizen Yogurt in Raleigh, North Carolina is a 100% locally owned and operated family business, offering self-serve frozen yogurt with bold and unusual flavors and toppings, and a commitment to social and environmental responsibility.
Citizen Yogurt's community involvement includes sponsoring local swim teams, sports clubs and organizations in their neighborhood. They sponsor charitable donation nights where at least 10% of the night's revenue will go to community organizations. The yogurt shop features sustainable bamboo hardwood floors and their yogurt comes from rBST-free cows.
"Citizen Yogurt has chosen to take a different path to success. We have committed to running our business in the best way possible – including the impact on the environment and community. Carbonfund.org's transparency, not-for-profit status and strong partner list help make that goal easier to achieve," states Charles Park, Owner and President of Citizen Yogurt.
Citizen Yogurt joined the CarbonFree® Business Partnership program this year, neutralizing their annual operational emissions by supporting Carbonfund.org's projects that reduce carbon emissions elsewhere through reforestation efforts, energy efficiency innovation and renewable energy technology development. Their CarbonFree® Business Partnership program underscores their commitment to sustainable operations and helps to create awareness in their local area about mitigating carbon emissions and encouraging customers to think about environmental commitments in their own lives.
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Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman orchestra, his years on top as a bandleader, and his ongoing problems with drug abuse. A fictional romantic subplot is grafted onto the proceeding involving clearly defined good and bad girls Ethel Maguire (Susan Kohner) and Dorissa Dinelli (Susan Oliver). Yvonne Craig has an entertaining scene as an anachronistically garbed good-time girl. Craig would later recall that, at the time of shooting The Gene Krupa Story, she weighed more than Sal Mineo, and that in the scene where he's required to lift her off the floor, she virtually had to lift him. Mineo, a drummer of some accomplishment, convincingly wields the sticks during the musical highlights, though the trickier drum solos were dubbed in by Gene Krupa himself. Real-life recording stars Anita O'Day, Red Nichols, Bobby Troup and Shelley Manne make cameo appearances.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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There's something about our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, that has stood the test of time.
Perhaps it's the fact that the man has always been presented as a perfect, infallible figure; a whitewashed mythological being who was honest to a fault.
History professor Brian Dirck of Anderson University believes it's something far more complex. [Photo: This undated publicity photo released by DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox shows Daniel Day-Lewis, center rear, as Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from the film "Lincoln."]
The professor views Lincoln as a multifaceted three-dimensional figure, a far cry from that two-dimensional "honest Abe" who could never tell a lie.
"I most enjoy teaching my students about Lincoln's flaws," Dirck said. "They have been handed such a cardboard caricature of him as a totally perfect man with no blemishes. I like humanizing him by discussing ... his self-doubts, insecurities, mistakes and bouts with depression."
Dirck has authored several books on Lincoln. His most recent work, "Abraham Lincoln and White America," focuses on Lincoln's complicated views on racial issues.
With the release of the action film, "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," which was generally panned by critics, and Steven Spielberg's topical "Lincoln," it's clear he's as well known in today's social climate as he ever has been.
"Lincoln" is currently showing at Hamilton 16 IMAX in Noblesville and AMC Showplace in Muncie.
The film generally matched Dirck's impressions including Spielberg's approach of focusing on the last four months of Lincoln's life, a time when he was pushing the House of Representatives to approve the 13th Amendment to end slavery.
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis perfectly captured Lincoln's spirit, Dirck said.
"I was astonished. I really didn't expect him to look as much like Lincoln as he did and moreover to get the proper mannerisms and proper tone of voice. I've had a lot of people say they didn't like him to sound that way, kind of a high-pitched tone, but in fact that's actually how he sounded. He didn't have this big booming bassoon voice like people think he had."
Dirck has only a quibble or two with the film, including the depiction of Lincoln's relationship with his oldest son, Robert. "Although the two had a rough relationship," Dirck said, "Lincoln would never even come close to hitting his son."
Dirck believes that everyone can find inspiration in Lincoln's "dogged perseverance" and refusal to quit; that despite the man's hang-ups, he truly was a heroic figure. "I tend to identify with the messiness of his life," Dirck said, "the fact that he tried his best to stick to his principles, but sometimes had to compromise. Can't we all identify with that to some degree?"
And the film — depicting the battle among politicians to end slavery — couldn't be more relevant, he added.
"It's so timely because we just got through an election and politics have been so contentious and difficult lately. It's important to remind us that politics in this country have always been that way but that sometimes we can achieve high ends despite the messiness of the system we have."
Dirck received his Ph.D. in 1998 while attending the University of Kansas. He studied under Phil Paludan, a famous Lincoln expert, and became deeply engrossed in the history of the complex president. After graduating, Dirck immediately received his first job at Anderson University that summer. George Rable, a Civil War historian, was retiring, and Dirck was luckily granted to take his place. He's retained that position for the last 14 years and is still enjoying teaching today.
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PAINTSVILLE — Two Floyd County high school students will be headed to Louisville next month, to compete in the Governor's Cup state academic competition.
Charly Hyden, a senior at South Floyd High School, placed second in English composition during regional competition at Johnson Central High School over the weekend. This will make the second consecutive year Hyden has competed at the state level in composition.
John Holbrook, a sophomore at Prestonsburg High School, will also be heading to Louisville to compete in mathematics, after placing fourth in regional competition.
Three Floyd County students were also named to the regional all-tournament team, including Tyler Price, of Allen Central High School; Kirklin Collins, of Betsy Layne High School; and Tate Greene, of Prestonsburg High School.
"We appreciate all the hard work and dedication our teams and coaches have put into this season and ask that you join us in celebrating our students who excelled," said Supt. Henry Webb.
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Judicial Watch Files Two Lawsuits against Obama Administration for Information on Terrorist Swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
Judicial Watch announced today that on November 18, 2014, it filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the U.S. Departments of Defense and State to obtain records concerning arrangements made between the U.S. government with third parties or another state regarding agreements and monetary payments to secure the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl
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Judicial Watch Lawsuit Forces Release of DOJ Emails Showing IRS's Lois Lerner Met with DOJ Officials Just Before 2010 Elections
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Judicial Watch: Documents Reveal Obama HHS Paid Baptist Children and Family Services $182,129,786 for Four Months Housing of Illegal Alien Children
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Dr. Shaver: When surveys are done, patient satisfaction following hip procedures is extremely high. In a recent publication it was noted that of 1.4 million Medicare patients undergoing hip replacement, 30-day mortality was only 0.4 percent. Indeed, the procedure affords our patients with great benefit performed at low risk. Let's begin with the basics: what kind of joint is the hip and are there any other joints in the body like it?
Dr. Weisstein: The hip joint is essentially a ball and socket joint. In the human body there are other joints that are somewhat similar, like the glenohumeral (shoulder) joint. While they are both ball and socket type joints, the hip joint is distinct in that it bears the weight of the body. Obviously being bipedal human beings, we rely on our hips for weight-bearing whereas the ball and socket shoulder joint doesn't bear much weight at all.
Dr. Shaver: What causes the hip to wear out?
Dr. Gore: Time, age, and wear and tear contribute to the hip wearing out. Weight can certainly be a factor. There are also inherent diseases, rheumatoid arthritis being one of the more common ones, but generally, the cause is wear and tear. Often times you will see people who have dysplastic hips — congenital or developmental deformation or misalignment of the hip joint — that aren't perfectly formed and aren't seated deeply enough.
Dr. Gore: Exactly. They'll come in at younger age, depending on how severe the deformity is.
Dr. Weisstein: I'll add to what Rufus said about causes. Certainly, I completely agree with the wear and tear, but something we're seeing more commonly in the United States and with which we are all too familiar, is obesity as a risk factor for development of arthritis. Everyone has an ideal body weight and in orthopedic surgery and most surgical subspecialties in internal medicine, when we talk about body mass index, and obesity, we know that obesity most likely puts an undue stress on the joint. This can lead to early wear and tear, and early loss of cartilage.
Dr. Shaver: Let's talk about the ball and socket. The ball is the head of the femur and the socket actually sits in the pelvic bones, right? As you've said, it articulates within this cup. Isn't the vast majority of the hip surgery we do in adults due to osteoarthritis?
Dr. Diltz: I would say yes, but during the last 10 to15 years we are recognizing soft tissue problems earlier, even in collegiate athletes, and often in professional athletes. Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankee's third baseman, had two hip surgeries for impingement and injuries to the soft tissue. There are many famous professional athletes who place their hips in super physiologic positions that can cause damage along the edge of the hip. I believe that the vast majority of hip pain, particularly in 60- and 70-year-olds, is not an impingement problem and doesn't need to be treated with arthroscopy. However, in the younger patient population, there are a significant number of people who have problems with the soft tissue above the hip.
Dr. Shaver: I imagine that the average patient you're seeing is probably in their 70s.
Dr. Diltz: Yes. For patients in their 60s and 70s, I don't think that hip arthroscopy is a viable option. Once the hips are worn out, you're usually looking at a hip replacement. I don't want to give people a false sense of hope that they can do a minor procedure once they have arthritis in the hip. The majority of our patients with arthritis need a total hip replacement.
Dr. Shaver: What exactly is wearing out? John, is it the cartilage on the articulating surfaces?
Dr. Shaver: Avascular necrosis means the blood supply is cut off, usually in the head of the femur, at the ball, if you will. Do you see that as part of an arthritic process?
Dr. DeSantis: There's something metabolic or vascular going on. The bone in the head dies and then the cartilage collapses, which results in severe pain and loss of normal function.
Dr. Shaver: Would this present differently than someone with arthritis?
Dr. DeSantis: Usually there's more intense pain and typically a more sudden onset than degenerative or rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Weisstein: Typically the patient populations that are presenting with avascular necrosis have either a history of heavy prednisone usage or steroid usage in the past, either for asthma or other potential rheumatologic problems. We often see it in patients who are alcoholics or recovering alcoholics. We see it here in the desert in our HIV population, and it's thought that the antiretroviral drugs alter the circulation of fats within the body. And the hip, as Dr. DeSantis explained, is very sensitive to changes in circulation. The vasculature or the vessels in the femoral head are very fine and there can be sludging or slowing down of these lipids that are formed as a result of the antiretroviral drugs in the HIV population, so we see a lot of that here.
Dr. Shaver: Let's talk about other causes of hip pain. When a patient experiences hip pain and comes to you, is there something about the presentation that says it's a hip, and is there something that says it probably isn't hip? Isn't most hip pain actually anterior groin?
Dr. Shaver: So, a patient is referred to you as anterior hip or groin pain, and when you talk to them, they give you their history — what do you do next? What is there about the physical exam, from watching them walk to examining them, that is a tip-off?
Dr. DeSantis: The patient will typically lose internal and external range of motion. I have the patient sit on an exam table or a chair and then just rotate their hip and see if they have restriction and if it hurts when this is done. They also tend to lose abduction — lifting their leg to the side. Usually if it's arthritis, you can tell on the X-ray. If it's not as obvious, we will get an MRI, and sometimes if the X-ray looks good, the MRI will show that they have a torn labrum, or sometimes they will have more subtle changes of arthritis where they have worn through the cartilage, but it's not bad enough that the X-ray is showing it yet.
Dr. Shaver: For our readers, the labrum is what exactly?
Dr. DeSantis: It's a ring of cartilage around the outside or around the border of the hip, on the socket side.
Dr. Shaver: When you watch someone walk, is there anything typical about their walk that tips off an arthritic hip?
Dr. DeSantis: Typically they thrust their rear end out to the side or to the back. And they walk with a stiff leg. Dr. Shaver: One thing that's interesting to me is having patients with hip pain do straight leg raises, which generally is painful if you add resistance to their leg raises. But if you passively raise their leg and they have pain, it often suggests to me it may be something else, something sacroiliac or even neuropathic coming from lower back disease.
Dr. Diltz: When they're actively raising their leg, that hip flexor muscle (the iliopsoas) often crosses right over the top of the articular hip, so when you provocatively test that, it will reproduce the groin pain. When they're actively firing that muscle, it's pushing that bursa down on the hip joint. We see that a lot with some of the different injuries in the hip. Often, it was written off as just a hip flexor injury, but it's actually more of an articular problem with the head joint.
Dr. Shaver: Even with all our imaging tools now, I think you mentioned that X-ray is still really critical. Do you sometimes operate without anything more than X-ray?
Dr. Diltz: Yes, definitely. The majority of the time it should be.
Dr. DeSantis: I will get an MRI of someone's back if they're saying their pain is going below their knee. Typically, hip pain stops at the knee. If it goes past the knee, then it's a nerve problem from the answers back, and so we'll order an MRI on the back because someone can have a bad hip and a bad back, as well.
Dr. Shaver: I think everyone here would agree that most surgeons say the best surgery is no surgery. So, what can we do nonsurgically? What can you do for a patient who comes in and is perhaps not the best candidate for surgery?
Dr. Weisstein: I think that lifestyle modification — learning how to do appropriate exercises that are low impact, like swimming, biking, tread mill, and elliptical, tend to be pretty tolerable for patients with hip arthritis. There's obviously a litany of medications, but they fall under some broad categories, either nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs or acetaminophen.
Dr. Gore: Before you get into injections or prescription medications, patients can benefit from simple things: modification of activity, weight loss, stretching and strengthening. It's also popular to do Tai Chi, yoga and things like that. Cane use can also be helpful.
Dr. Shaver: What about indications for surgery? I would think that the chief indication would be pain and decreased quality of life. Does the patient usually know when they need the surgery?
Dr. DeSantis: I think all patients are different. There are some patients that tolerate a great deal of pain and they will say they're not ready for surgery. They come in for information. And you might see them back in six years or two years. And then there are other patients who start to have pain, an X-ray shows some arthritis and they tell me they want to be active and don't want to cut back on walking or biking or things like golfing. They are more prone to get something done. So it's really variable.
Dr. Shaver: Let's say they want to go back to everything they ever did like jogging, running marathons and lifting weights. Do you say, "Those days are over — here's a list of things you can do and here are some things you can't do anymore?"
Dr. Weisstein: One of the questions that we get from patients is why their friend who had a hip replacement is out playing tennis, but they are not. I tell them that no two patients are identical. Their risk factors and past medical histories are different, their weight may be different and their motivation may be different. Their reaction to pain or surgical discomfort may be different. Expecting an outcome identical to that of a friend is probably not a realistic way of going into an orthopedic surgery visit when you're thinking about a hip replacement.
Dr. DeSantis: I tell my patients that anything they do that has impact is going to have the potential for damaging or shortening the lifespan of the new joint. Around here, tennis is big. I would rather have someone play golf than tennis, but there are people who play tennis on their new knees and their new hips. I think those activities are putting them at greater risk for the replacements not lasting as long as they could.
Dr. Weisstein: We haven't mentioned osteotomy [reshaping bone] in young patients with arthritis. Osteotomy is a way of realigning the relationship between the bones that form a joint. In our case, hip osteotomy realigns the relationship between the ball and socket. In younger patients in their 20s, 30s and even 40s, an osteotomy might be a better option than a joint replacement. Because, no matter how good our hip replacement technology is, there is still the unanswered question of why younger patients don't do as well with joint replacements. The highest risk of failure is in males, age 40 to 55, and it's probably because the requirements for males in this age range may exceed the capacity of what modern day hip replacements are actually able to offer. Dr. Shaver: Do you think it's their activity and the amount of weight-bearing?
Dr. Weisstein: Activity level.
Dr. Shaver: Once you've done a hip replacement, is there a yearly follow-up?
Dr. DeSantis: I think everybody has different protocols. I will see patients every so many months the first year, and then if they're having no symptoms, I may see them in a year or two. If it's been several years and they're not having trouble, I might have them come in every two or three years and get an X-ray.
Dr. Shaver: How does the patient know his hip is loosening or it's time for the two-year visit? Dr. Weisstein : Like Dr. DeSantis pointed out, we like to detect problems early. If the replacement has become excessively worn, they will typically have symptoms of pain that may have led them to present in the first place with their arthritis, so they'll have that same type of groin pain. I like my patients to follow up every year for the first two years and then every two years after that unless there is a new problem.
Dr. Shaver: Is there anything you see on the exam that says the hip is loosening or failing?
Dr. DeSantis: If it's badly worn, the hip will sometimes slip out of place. The ball will come out of the socket. Unfortunately, we have a lot of patients who, despite being asked to come in every couple years, are feeling well and they don't come in for eight years. And then in eight years, they're having a problem and their polyethylene is completely worn and/or the hip is coming out of place.
Dr. Shaver: When they come in and the hip is worn out, what do you do? Is it a minor procedure?
Dr. Weisstein: You can have it on either side. It can affect the ball side, meaning the femur, or it can affect the socket side as part of the pelvis and it could be as minor a situation as we just want to observe it with serial X-rays or maybe do a liner exchange — or we pop out the plastic and put in a new piece of plastic. The problem is, sometimes we may not be able to match the parts. Many patients don't remember where they had their surgery and it's sometimes difficult to identify the parts. Sometimes we have to do major bone work because it's not just the plastic that's wearing out. The plastic can incite a lysosomal [enzyme] reaction, actually dissolving bone and cause osteolysis [an inflammatory process that can result in bone loss] and that becomes a very complicated situation, where sometimes we have to review entire components or cut through the bone to get the components out.
Dr. Shaver: How big a procedure is this compared to the original operation? Is it just the same?
Dr. Gore: Most of the time it's bigger. I don't think any surgery on the hip is ever minor, but there are major surgeries and drastic surgeries, such as the osteolysis that Jason was mentioning and you have bone that's been destroyed or reabsorbed.
Dr. Weisstein: It's not uncommon to take the plastic out and the cup actually breaks. No revision is considered easy.
Dr. Shaver: It's estimated that there are 310,000 individuals in the United States with hip fractures. Osteoporosis is one of the problems and often it's just a simple fall. The lifetime risk of hip fracture is 17.5 percent for women and 6 percent for men. The estimated cost in the United States is between 10.3 and 15.2 billion dollars. This is really a major, major deal.
Dr. Diltz: Sometimes people fall and break their hip, and sometimes they break their hip and then fall. Some of it has to do with the bone and stability of the structural support because of bone loss in that area.
Dr. Gore: My advice to patients at risk for falls is no small pets, no small children and no small rugs. Dr. Shaver: I wonder if we communicate well. For instance, are we asking our patients who fall and end up in the hospital how they fell? Are we checking for osteoporosis? And by the way, are we asking patients to look in their homes for things like throw rugs. How can we help prevent our patients from falling in the future?
Dr. Diltz: I think a lot of internists are proactive with their patients. Whether it's just a radius fracture with a partial fracture of the spine, or a hip fracture, it should trigger a series of tests that can look at the bone density. There's a specific bone density study that we can look at, and I think that those three types of fractures should trigger that. The falling is a separate issue, whether it's a syncopal event, or a medical cause. Eisenhower is good with mechanical falls. Patients can be referred to Eisenhower's Balance Institute.
Dr. Shaver: The Balance Institute is a great idea. We just need to make sure we communicate this with the patient's primary care doctor for follow-up.
Dr. Diltz: The way that information is gathered within medicine is changing and there's a lot of incentive to really focus on the electronic records, to increase communication and develop more protocols. Eisenhower has a geriatric program under the direction of Dr. Sheda Heidarian. One of her big focuses has been associated with delirium and dementia and being aware of that. Dr. Weisstein : In closing, I'd like to say that one of the unique things about Eisenhower Desert Orthopedic Center compared to other orthopedic groups here in the Coachella Valley, is that we really offer the full spectrum of treatments for hip disease from pediatric orthopedic specialists to soft tissue specialists like Dr. Diltz, who performs the largest volume of hip arthroscopy in the valley, to joint replacement specialists like myself, Dr. DeSantis and Dr. Gore.


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The dining room first made its appearance in aristocratic houses at the end of the eighteenth century and became increasingly common in the nineteenth century. In well-to-do households, the dining room was furnished with a large table, matching chairs, and complementing sideboards. The sideboard was often decorated with hunt scenes and food—subjects related to its function. Made of native American black walnut and preserving much of its original, rich dark patina, this amusing sideboard incorporates two robust hound dogs as front supports, the head of a hare against the lower backboard, and a cricket nestled in the center of the carved vine on the front apron. The dead game animals illusionistically tied up at the crest sound a somewhat more sinister note.
- Maker: Alexander Roux, American, born France, 1813-1886 (active New York, 1836-1880)
- Medium: Black walnut
- Place Manufactured: New York, New York, United States
- Dates: ca. 1855
- Dimensions: 49 x 49 x 24 in. (124.5 x 124.5 x 61.0 cm) (show scale)
- Markings: Unmarked
- Collections:Decorative Arts
- Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Everyday Life/A Nation Divided, 5th Floor
- Accession Number: 1995.15
- Credit Line: Gift of Benno Bordiga, by exchange
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Alexander Roux (American, born France, 1813-1886 (active New York, 1836-1880)). Sideboard, ca. 1855. Black walnut, 49 x 49 x 24 in. (124.5 x 124.5 x 61.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Benno Bordiga, by exchange, 1995.15. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Sideboard. American black walnut (Juglans nigra). Rectangular form, lower shelf raised on bracketed feet with scalloped, scrolled apron. Incised horizontal panels on sides. Paired, fully carved, seated male hunting dogs at either end support upper serving top with scrolling apron framed and decorated with carved branches with central knot of twigs and leaves with large insect at center; side aprons with similar carving supported by scrolled volutes against backboard. Backboard with fully carved bust of hare facing proper right framed with and flanked by vines and leaves. Quarter round leaf molding to top. Symmetrical, segmental pedimented splash board with elaborate carved vines and grapes with centered hanging dead hare, to proper right, and squirrel, to proper left. Condition: Very good. Flat surfaces faded and scratches, remainder of carved surfaces seemingly in original condition.
- Record Completeness: Best (86%)


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Thereafter Phish delved into the straight-forward versions of "Halley's Comet", "555″ and "Heavy Things"–before finding their stride into what was arguably the most focused 2nd half closing of a first-set that the band has managed to play this summer tour. Phish then kicked off a three-night stand at Northerly Island in Chicago.Live Phish web casted all across the weekend for the sorry souls who continued to linger on their Couch Tour. Its needless to mention that the adrenaline packed audience at the venue was left panting for more.
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