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|By: Arshad Ali | Read Comments (10) | Related Tips: More > Functions - System
In this tip I am going to discuss ROW_NUMBER and RANK ranking functions, how they work and how they differ from each other. In Part 2 of this series, I will talk about DENSE_RANK and NTILE.
The ROW_NUMBER function simply assigns sequential numbering to the records of a result-set or to the records within groups of a result-set. You can create these groupings (partition the records) using the PARTITION BY clause. The syntax for ROW_NUMBER function is:
ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( [PARTITION BY partition_value_expression , ... [ n ]] ORDER BY order_value_expression , ... [ n ])
Script #1 has two queries (All the examples in this tip were run against the AdventureWorks database), the first query does not use the PARTITION BY clause and hence all the records are considered to be in a single partition and then records are sorted by BirthDate column and finally the sequential numbering is assigned.
The second query, as you can see, creates a partition (group of rows) on the basis of ManagerID column and then assigns sequential numbering to each row within each partition (group of rows) separately.
Script #1 - ROW_NUMBER Function
--This script assign sequential number to each row
Sometimes you might want to have sequential numbering of records without sorting the result-set (might be for performance reasons) in other words you want to have numbering on the records as they are stored in the database. You can use the second script provided in the Script #2 table below. Have a look at the execution plans generated for these two queries from Script #2. Note the first query uses the SORT physical operator (which itself is 65% of the query) which is an expensive operator, because of its nature of being a blocking and memory consuming operator. If you use a column or set of columns in the ORDER BY on which there is a clustered index, the Query Optimizer will not include the SORT operator, but rather it will use the clustered index which has already sorted the data. For example, if you replace "ORDER BY BirthDate" to "ORDER By EmployeeID" (which has a clustered index) the optimizer will not use the SORT operator.
Script #2 - ROW_NUMBER without SORT
The inclusion of the ROW_NUMBER function (and other ranking functions) simplifies many query for which we had to write several lines of code. For example you can delete duplicate records from a table with just one query. Refer to "Different strategies for removing duplicate records in SQL Server" for more details.
The RANK function instead of assigning a sequential number to each row as in the case of the ROW_NUMBER function, it assigns rank to each record starting with 1. If it encounters two or more records to have the same ORDER BY <columns> values, it is said to be a tie and all these records get the same rank. For example, in the first image below, you can see the first and second records have the same "Accountant" value in the Title column and hence they both got the same rank.
The second query in Script #3, shows you an example where the result-set has been partitioned on the basis of the Gender column and then ranking is assigned in each group separately. The syntax for the RANK function is very much similar to the syntax of the ROW_NUMBER function as discussed above:
RANK() OVER ( [PARTITION BY partition_value_expression , ... [ n ]] ORDER BY order_value_expression , ... [ n ])
Script #3 - RANK Function
--This script assign rank to each row of result-set which is
If you notice the ranking is not consecutive with the use of the RANK function; that is because the RANK function ranks records of the result-set sequentially starting from 1. When it finds a tie it assigns the same rank to the all the records in the tie, but still keeps incrementing the record counter so the next record will get a new rank which would be (previous rank + no of records in the current tie + 1) . For example in the first image of Script #3 you can see that the first and second record has "Accountant" title so they both have the same rank i.e. 1, but the next record has a rank of 3 ( 0 + 2 + 1 ).
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|Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 3:37:56 AM - SP
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Really it is very useful and very explanatory about the Ranking functions.
|Friday, January 09, 2015 - 6:22:08 AM - Kaushik Mitra
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Wonderful explanation !!! Keep it up Arshad!!!
|Monday, October 27, 2014 - 6:26:08 AM - Rana
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thanks, its working nice
|Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 12:09:43 AM - Mike
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Hi can u help me to group student scores into quintile. I think there is a feature in SQL Server 2012, but still we are have not upgrade to it as we are using 2008R2. I tried Ntile(5) but it not generating the desired result. I need below Quintile Column
Student Score Quintile.
Student1 20 1
Student2 20 1
Student3 30 2
Student4 30 2
Student5 40 2
Student6 40 2
Student7 50 3
Student8 50 3
Student9 60 3
Student10 70 4
Student11 70 4
Student12 80 4
Student13 80 4
Student14 90 5
|Sunday, September 22, 2013 - 9:58:16 AM - Oleg
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Hi Arshad. Thanks for nice article.
Question: I need to create sequential numbers with standard partition, I mean, I have 36 records and I want to mark first 16 as 1, second 16 as 2 and what left as 3. Is there any way to do this with any RANK functions?
Thank you in advance
|Monday, August 26, 2013 - 4:09:58 AM - sasanka
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nice article....thanks
|Tuesday, July 09, 2013 - 4:50:14 PM - Miguel
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Thank you for your great job .
|Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 1:49:45 AM - Arshad
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Hi Dharanitharan,
Thanks for your comments.
PARTITION BY clause is used to create multiple groups inside a returned resultset based on the columns specified with it and then ranking functions are applied. All columns are required in cases where you want to identify the duplicate records in the returned resultset.
For example, you can create groups of all the duplicate records by considering all the columns of the table and then applying ranking function on each of this group, keeping only one record and deleting all other records from that particular group.
For more details, refer to this tip http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1918
Hope it helps.
|Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 11:15:10 PM - Dharanitharan
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Great article Bro! It helped me to understand the basics of Partition by and row number.
In some coding snippets i have seen that more than one column is used in partition by clause. In that case how the partition by will work??
Pls clarify.
Thanks in advance!
|Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 12:11:14 PM - nosnetrom
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|GREAT tip! I needed this functionality a couple weeks ago--wish I'd known it then! Thanks!


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Google's Binary Search Helps Identify Malware
"A little-known capability in Google's search engine has helped security vendor Websense uncover thousands of malicious Web sites, as well as several legitimate sites that have been hacked, the company said today."
Read the full PC Magazine Article
What's really interesting is this portion:
"Hubbard and his team plans to share its Google code with a select group of security researchers, but it will not make the software public, for fear that the tool could be misused by the bad guys."
This is yet another example of the reluctance to share information regarding malware. There's enough information in the article to replicate this information, but there is not enough to make it a viable tool..unless you want to spend a lot of money.
Something like this?
Point to start:
Now one just need to filter the results...

subset: commoncrawl


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Hay Fever
Editorial Staff • West End • 18 Jun 1999
Anyone expecting a conventional lighter-than-light Coward comedy will be in for a shock with this new production of Hay Fever. Director Declan Donnellan has mined the material to expose a much darker, more sinister tale. The result? A rather uneasy mish-mash of Noel Coward meets Tennessee Williams, where upper-class eccentricities verge on full-scale dysfunctionality.
The Bliss family are an artistic bunch - a famous novelist father (Peter Blythe), acclaimed actress mother (Geraldine McEwan), and two horribly spoilt though precocious grown children (Stephen Mangan and Monica Dolan) - who, despite their verbal agility, don t communicate very well. Each has invited a weekend guest, and potential lover, to the ramshackle family home without warning the others. As luggage piles up, the family hackles rise and a hideous routine is set in motion, with the hapless guests used as pawns in the game of rudeness and recrimination.
McEwan plays with aplomb the role of mum Judith around whom the rest of the characters revolve, like bit parts in one of the prima donna s old stage melodramas, "Love s Whirlwind". Her trademark screeches, flirtatious eyelid flutters and coquettish drops of the shoulder may occasionally go catapulting over the top, but she succeeds in painting an entertaining picture of a woman only too willing to forget that both her youth and her fame has passed their peak.
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It s the guests who, as more traditional Coward cut-outs, score highest in the comic stakes. Each finds themselves invited by one Bliss then seduced and humiliated by another after being subjected to a baffling parlour game involving adverbs. It s all too much for Cathryn Bradshaw s simple flapper, Scott Handy s fresh-faced boxer and Sylvestra Le Touzel s sleek aristo. Malcolm Sinclair is particularly amusing as the tweed-clad diplomat who struggles to keep his lip stiff and his reserve intact in the face of such bizarre behaviour.
But even he can t weather Donnellan s denouement untrammeled. As the guests escape beneath the Blisses oblivious noses, things turn positively surreal, finishing off with a full-cast rendition of "Tea for Two".
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Tone-Deaf President
President Barack Obama's critics are having fun with his lawyerly equivocation during an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, when he said that as president he bears responsibility "for everything. . . to some degree."
But the bigger gaffe came in the first part of that response, when the president said his "biggest disappointment" has been the failure to change "the tone" in Washington.
"If you ask me what's my biggest disappointment, it's that we haven't changed the tone in Washington as much as I would have liked," he told CBS.
No doubt partisan sniping isn't helping the nation solve its most pressing problems.
But his "biggest disappointment" is that people who live and work inside the Beltway aren't being nicer to each other?
Is he serious?
more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view/20220925tone-deaf_president/
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O's missing word: 'terror'
by Michael Goodwin
That was a perfectly fine speech Barack Obama gave at the United Nations yesterday. Perfectly fine, except that he has been president for the last four years.
Perfectly fine, except that terrorists murdered our ambassador in Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11. And perfectly fine, except that the head of al Qaeda released a videotape urging that murder and others during what he called a time of "American weakness."
Mr. President: The video didn't do it. Terrorists did. Say it, for God's sake!
Facts, bloody facts, take all the shine off Obama's speech. His teleprompted rhetoric no longer inspires because reality keeps interrupting the swoon. Even if you try, you can't drift off into a dreamy vision of utopia while the corpses pile up and the hate burns red hot.
Unless you're one of the bad guys , "Death to America" doesn't make you want to get up and dance.
Give the president some credit. He tried, to a certain degree.
He brought his best scolding, patronizing tone for the day, as though the Turtle Bay club dominated by thugs, theocrats and cowards would be moved by his earnest pleas and frowns. It was an appeal better directed at third-graders than the Third World.
His boldest declaration, that "the United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," was met with silence. Then again, he has said similar things before, and nobody believes him, so there's no sense either cheering or hissing.
It's just words. See, they've already evaporated.
Much of those words were aimed at Ohio and Florida. A president who has put campaigning above governing for nearly two years should never be accused of neglecting his real goal for even a moment this close to the election.
more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/missing_word_terror_35XP85zUEAur31p3oWhbgL
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Obama Versus Obama: Part II
by Thomas Sowell
Nowhere is the contrast between Barack Obama, as defined by his rhetoric ("Obama 1″) and Barack Obama as defined by his actions ("Obama 2″) greater than in his foreign policy — and especially his policy toward Israel.
What if we put aside Barack Obama's rhetoric, and instead look exclusively at his documented record over a period of decades, up to and including the present?
The first thing that is most striking about that record is the long string of his mentors and allies who were marked by hatred of the United States, and a vision of the world in which the white, Western nations have become prosperous by oppressing and exploiting the non-white, non-Western nations.
The person most people have heard of who matched that description has been Jeremiah Wright, whose church Barack Obama attended for 20 years, and was still attending when he began his campaign for the presidency. But Jeremiah Wright was just one in a series of mentors and allies with a similar vision and a similar visceral hostility to the West.
Barack Obama was virtually marinated in that vision from childhood. His mother clashed with her Indonesian husband when he began to move away from his earlier anti-Western radicalism and to work with Western businesses investing in Indonesia.
As a counterweight to whatever ideological influence her Indonesian husband might have on her son, she extolled the virtues of his absent Kenyan father, who remained a doctrinaire, anti-Western socialist to the end.
After Barack Obama was sent back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents at age ten, his grandfather introduced him to a black man named Frank Marshall Davis, who had a long career of anti-American, anti-white propaganda that included a stint as a member of the Communist Party. Davis was Obama's mentor on race throughout his adolescent years, until Obama left for college.
more: http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/09/26/obama_versus_obama_part_ii
A bogus defense of Obama's intelligence briefing record
By Marc A. Thiessen
The Post's Fact Checker, Glenn Kessler, takes issue with my report that since taking office President Obama has skipped his daily intelligence meeting more than half the time. So let's fact check the Fact Checker.
The facts
After hearing from sources in the intelligence community that President Obama was not attending his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis, I asked researchers at the Government Accountability Institute, a nonpartisan research group headed by Peter Schweizer (who is also my business partner in a speechwriting firm, Oval Office Writers) to examine at Obama's official schedule. We found during his first 1,225 days in office, Obama had attended his daily meeting to discuss the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.
After Islamist radicals stormed our embassy in Cairo and terrorists killed our ambassador to Libya on Sept. 11, I further reported that Obama also skipped his daily intelligence meeting every day in the week leading up to the attacks. The day after the attack, he scheduled but then canceled his daily intelligence meeting, while finding time to go to Las Vegas for a campaign rally.
These facts are not in dispute. Indeed, before publishing both of my columns, I specifically asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor if there were instances where the president had, in fact, held his daily meeting on the PDB that did not appear on the official public calendar. He offered no examples, and not once did he challenge the numbers I presented. Neither has any White House official challenged them in the weeks since this controversy erupted. So, as a factual matter, Kessler offers no evidence that the information I presented on Obama's PDB meeting attendance is wrong.
What Kessler and the Obama White House do argue is a matter not of fact but of opinion — that it does not matter if Obama attends a daily intelligence meeting because he reads his PDB every day. Kessler compares Obama to former presidents going back to Reagan and Nixon and finds that "many did not have an oral briefing" — and that this means Obama has simply "chosen to receive his information in a different manner than his predecessor." There are several problems with this.
First, Kessler ignores one giant difference between then and now: Sept. 11, 2001.
more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-bogus-defense-of-obamas-intelligence-briefing-record/2012/09/25/f5ae10de-071d-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html
Perhaps someone should start "fact-checking" these bogue "fact-checker." Can no liberal, at any time, simply tell the truth?
Dumb Jews
by Andrew Klaven
There used to be a saying that "Jews earn like WASPS and vote like Puerto Ricans," the idea being that no matter how successful Jews become they still retain a sense of themselves as minority underdogs and vote accordingly.
Today, however, I think that saying needs to be changed to "Jews think like Einstein and vote like fracking idiots." Because while Jews are widely viewed as an intelligent race of people who hold learning in high regard, a recent poll still shows a majority of them planning to vote for Barack Obama's re-election — and that's just plain stupid.
Here are three reasons.
The notion that big government helps the poor is a false one. Some government programs may help some poor people in the moment, but the long-term effect of such programs is well proven to be disastrous. Look at Detroit, New Orleans, and Chicago — all Democrat strongholds since forever. Why do you think blacks are moving out of the northern cities and back to the south?
Under Obama, the poverty rate has swollen, real unemployment (including those people who have despaired of finding work) has skyrocketed, and government dependency has increased a stunning 23 percent. All these numbers are worse for black people. Conversely, the supposedly greedy and racist policies of Ronald Reagan brought poverty down every year for the last five years of his presidency and improved the economic lives of blacks more than any other group.
Dumb people vote for what looks good. Smart people vote for policies that work. Assuming Jews truly care about helping minorities and underdogs, Jews who vote for Obama are dumb Jews.
more: http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/2012/09/24/dumb-jews/?singlepage=true
Obama's Orwellian economy
We're moving backward, not 'forward'
How is it possible that Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney on who can better handle the economy when it has been in decline all year?
Economists on both sides say this is one of the weakest recoveries since the Great Depression. New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman, one of President Obama's early supporters, said, "This is still a terrible economy."
The overall economy barely grew by 1.7 percent in the second quarter, down from 2.0 percent in the first three months of 2012. Business economists have lowered their forecasts to 1.5 percent or lower for the year. The Federal Reserve Board says it will keep its interest rates near zero for the foreseeable future because they expect the economy to remain in a weakened condition for several years to come.
Most Americans do not follow the economic data that diagnose the economy's ups and downs. They know what their economic circumstances are. Yet political pollsters and reporters doing voter canvassing tell of interviews with people who say they have been out of work for months still say they are voting for Mr. Obama.
Most get their economic news from the nightly network shows, but the people who produce these programs bend over backward to report as little as possible about the levels of economic deprivation that characterize Mr. Obama's presidency.
Did you see the story on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams last week about how unemployment rose in more than half the states in August? Of course not, because he didn't report it.
Nevertheless, in the fourth insufferable year of Mr. Obama's term in office, the unemployment rate climbed in 26 states, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Five were battleground states that probably will decide this election and where Mr. Obama, improbably, is leading Mr. Romney.
Unemployment was unchanged in the battlegrounds of Ohio, Virginia and in Florida, where the jobless rate nears 9 percent.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports that the number of working Americans shrank last month as payrolls fell in 21 states, the result of tens of millions of discouraged workers who have stopped looking for a job and are no longer counted.
Yet there was Mr. Obama still telling CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that the economy was moving in the right direction. "We're moving forward," he repeatedly says on the campaign trail. But by virtually every major economic measurement, we have been falling backward over the past four years, not moving forward.
more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/25/obamas-orwellian-economy-were-moving-backward-not-/
Addicts in America
Addicts are intense because they are among the few people in this world who know exactly what they want. They can be charming, but their routines are mechanical. They retain only enough of their humanity to charm us into giving them more of what they want. It is their only reason for interacting with us. The addict is pure ego and the drug is the only focus of their ego. The addict needs so badly that he or she becomes an incarnation of need. Their humanity is slowly or rapidly burned away leaving behind nothing but the animal need, their outer characteristics consumed by their ego and then their ego consumed by the id.
more: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2012/09/addicts-in-america.html
CNN says Obama looks foolish
Spiking the ball early
Damn the polls — Ohio Republicans plan to fight Obama all the way.
DAYTON, Ohio — Nearly 4,000 people turned out Tuesday to cheer Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at an airport rally here, their numbers and enthusiasm contradicting polls that show President Obama leading by a wide margin in the Buckeye State. This contradiction inspired me to conduct my own poll, although my methodology might not have been entirely scientific: I walked up to the crowd behind the barricade and shouted, "Does anybody here believe the polls?" The crowd shouted back in unison: "No!"
Perhaps my survey wasn't based on a random sample, but I'm pretty certain of the conclusion: Republicans here are profoundly skeptical of polls indicating Obama on the verge of walking away with Ohio's 18 Electoral College votes. Nor is this skepticism limited to Ohio. A website devoted to examining sources of bias in polls, UnskewedPolls.com, has become increasingly popular among Republicans. The site's proprietor Dean Chambers echoes many in pointing out how "the weighting and/or sampling of Democrats, Republicans and independents in each survey" can produce numbers wildly at variance with the likely results on Election Day. Many of the polls that show large advantages for Obama also show a "skew" in party identification toward Democrats — over-representing them compared to their numbers in previous elections — which can be "enough to make the results unreliable," as Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com says.
more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/26/spiking-the-ball-early
'Dirty Jobs' Star Rolls Up Sleeves for Romney Campaign
Mitt Romney is getting a little help from a reality show star whose gig aligns perfectly with the candidate's prime directive.
It's all about the jobs, or the lack thereof in the Age of Obama.
Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" fame will campaign with the GOP presidential hopeful starting tomorrow in the crucial state of Ohio.
The Discovery Channel personality and Ford Motor Co. pitchman will offer his support Wednesday to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a public event in Bedford Heights.
Romney's campaign announced the Rowe endorsement late Monday when confirming Romney's Cleveland-area itinerary for the final day of a two-day bus tour through battleground Ohio.
Will the liberal establishment in Follywood punish Mike Rowe for daring to step out of the liberal line? One suspects they will because they have that "pack" mentality that is so disturbing.
An open letter to Barack Obama: Don't put your campaign logo on our flag
Dear Mr. President:
On September 14, at Andrews Air Force Base, you paid tribute to four Americans who lost their lives in the service of our country. These individuals were killed by terrorists who carried out an orchestrated attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Along with their families, friends and co-workers, you met the caskets containing the remains of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith.
In closing your tribute to these men, you said that "the flag they served under now carries them home." Indeed it did. American flags draped the caskets of each of these patriots and were solemnly presented to their families "on behalf of a grateful nation." As you know, the manner in which the American flag is placed on a casket, and how it is folded, are rich in meaning. The protocol symbolically unites the deceased with America's first patriots, who won our independence.
This month, in the course of a few days, Americans saw contrasting images of our flag in the news media. As described above, they watched you at Andrews AFB, a familiar ceremony in which the flag is proudly and prominently displayed to convey American resolve, but also a sense of national mourning. On the other hand, American citizens saw video footage showing angry Muslims desecrating the Stars and Stripes to demonstrate the depth of their hatred for America. Their understanding of how important our flag is to us is precisely the reason they burn it.
Last week, as fundamentalist Muslim mobs burned American flags, it was revealed that you, Mr. President, took our nation's banner, modified it with your political logo, and offered it for sale on your website. The modified American flag was designed for your personal and political profit.
Mr. President, this is repugnant.
more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/24/an-open-letter-to-barack-obama-dont-put-your-campaign-logo-on-our-flag/#ixzz27Zzty7lz
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.
Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality. What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.
The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans.
Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to."
James Carville
Media Malpractice:
The Biggest Problem With Media Bias
By Carol Platt Liebau
No serious person can deny the existence of liberal bias among the MSM. I have criticized the media's "tag team" approach to covering the President before, noting that the press works almost in tandem with the Obama campaign to advance its arguments and downplay its candidate's mistakes and shortcomings.
Indeed, media bias is nothing new. It has been demonstrated in studies ranging over at least the last thirty years that the press leans decisively to the left. Just last year, Professor Tim Groseclose — no conservative — argued convincingly that media bias typically aids Democrats by 8-10 points in a typical election.
This year, however, it is worse than ever before, as two female commentators I greatly admire, Mona Charen and Jennifer Rubin, both pointed out today.
The problem, as I see it, is that there is no corrective mechanism for the systemic bias we witness in the elite media.
First, there is no direct profit incentive for the reporters or editors themselves, it seems; although the legacy media is bleeding profusely, no journalistic superstar in the elite media is experiencing a diminution of his/her salary directly as a result of declining market share — as they would in most regular businesses. (Indeed, television news has not really ever been expected to be a profit center for the network.) So far, it seems, the legacy media has been impervious to the kind of market pressures that would force leaders in other businesses to rethink the way they're conducting their business.
Second, the elite press is so overwhelminglly dominated by liberals that there's essentially a pack mentality. People like former NY Times ombudsman Arthur Brisbane can try to soft-pedal the facts, but basically, legacy media is the victim of massive group-think.
more: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2012/09/25/the_biggest_problem_with_media_bias
Worth reading:
A Message for the Republican Pundit Class from Outside the Beltway
link: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/a_message_for_the_republican_pundit_class_from_outside_the_beltway.html
Obama Adviser: 'If He Met With One Leader, He Would Have to Meet With 10.'
link: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-adviser-if-he-met-one-leader-he-would-have-meet-10_653033.html
U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates
Sources say intelligence agencies knew within a day that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the attacks in Benghazi, Libya—they even knew where one of the attackers lived. Eli Lake reports.
link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/u-s-officials-knew-libya-attacks-were-work-of-al-qaeda-affiliates.html
Evidently no one told Obama. Or may it came up in one of those daily intelligence briefings –known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), that Obama skipped to attend fundraisors and/or visits with the harpies on The View or partying with Beyonce and Jay-Z.
Little Appetite in U.S. for More Gov't Regulation of Business
Independents' views are similar to the national average
link: http://www.gallup.com/poll/157646/little-appetite-gov-regulation-business.aspx
What's Going On In The World?
Greeks on strike as politicians agree further cuts
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands of Greeks marched through central Athens Wednesday in the first general strike since the country's coalition government was formed in June, as the prime minister and finance minister hammered out a package of €11.5 billion ($14.87 billion) in spending cuts.
Everyone from shopkeepers and pharmacists to teachers, customs workers and car mechanics joined the demonstration of about 50,000 people in a strike seen as a test of public tolerance for more hardship after two years of harsh spending cuts and tax hikes. Thousands of police deployed across the city center, hoping to prevent the violence that often breaks out during Greek protests.
"People, fight, they're drinking your blood," protesters chanted as they banged drums.
link: http://news.yahoo.com/greeks-strike-politicians-agree-further-cuts-092619171–finance.html
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"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." ~ G.K. Chesterton


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Mike "Quicksand" Pyle's last UFC fight saw him do something that very few people gave him a chance to do in his UFC 120 outing against then-undefeated John "The Hitman" Hathaway.
He didn't just get a Unanimous Decision win over the young prospect, he earned a score of 30-27 on all three judges' scorecards against his favored, more hyped foe.
Now he gets his step up iin competition come UFC 128 in Newark, New Jersey when he faces Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu ace Ricardo "Big Dog" Almeida.
Fanhouse MMA reports that the fight is targeted, although unconfirmed for the March 19th card at the time of this publishing.
Headlining this card is the long awaited UFC Light Heavyweight title bout between former champion "Suga" Rashad Evans and current UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.
A veteran fighter whose career spans three weight divisions, including recent outings in the Middleweight division and the Welterweight division, Almeida rebounded from a tough loss to UFC Hall of Famer Matt Hughes at UFC 117 at the Oracle in Oakland, California.
His rebound came via Unanimous Decision, and the victory came at the expense of fast-rising UFC Welterweight star TJ Grant.
The Big Dog will find himself in a war against Pyle, who has seventeen submission wins and one TKO win to his credit.
Meanwhile, Almeida's career sees five wins by submission, with eight decision wins, and no wins by either KO or TKO.
In a bout against a submission ace who can deliver a few hard shots -- even if only to set up his victim for a grappling war -- to shoot for a knockout or technical knockout in this fight would not be a bad idea for the Renzo Gracie grappling sensation and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu coach of UFC Lightweight Champion Frankie "The Answer" Edgar.
All in all, the unannounced-yet-promising Spring event is shaping up to be one of the UFC's most anticipated events of this upcoming Spring.
While the Shogun-Evans bout has its own potential to be "Fight of the Night", this battle of ground-gamers may prove itself to be a worthy candidate for the bonus as well.


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Perhaps the most studied and diagnosed mental health issue in children, attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) is believed to affect up to 5% of children worldwide, most with symptoms emerging by the time they enter school.
Marked by impulsive, restless behavior and inattentiveness, ADHD is not limited to children, however. Some estimates of adults living with ADHD are as high as 4.7%, with males diagnosed up to four times more frequently than females. Associated conditions may include oppositional defiance, conduct issues, borderline personality issues, vigilance, mood issues such as bipolar and depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsion, and substance use. It is believed that diet, social and physical environment, and genetics may contribute to or exacerbate ADHD symptoms.
The Internet is flush with information about ADHD, not all of it accurate or particularly helpful to those living with the neurobehavioral issue or seeking information about this sometimes controversial diagnosis. As with our top 10 list of grief and loss websites, we selected the 10 best ADHD resources on the web for 2012—GoodTherapy.org excluded—to help people better find their way. Among the criteria we used to select our top 10 ADHD websites are quality and depth of content, presentation, and functionality.
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As a special needs private school teacher I very much appreciate this list of resources.
I always find so much of the information that I discover within your website so relevant and helpful.
Keep the good news coming, as parents and I are always looking for new and exciting ways to reach our students who may need just a little more help than others.
I know that I am not the only one out here who appreciates all of the hard work that you do compiling this information and giving us the most up to date research possible as we try our best to reach every student a little bit at a time.
Thanks again!
as much as the availability of these resources must be appreciated, we should also try to see whether all those that should take a look at these resources are doing so.it is very important that the availability of such resources benefits the maximum number of people and that those looking for such resources and information are looking in the right places.
I have never heard of many of these webistes and online tools, but as the grandmother of two grand sons who have been diagnosed I will certainly be checking them out for myself and to share with their parents and teachers.
We are always looking for ways that will help them to embrace their learning style and not just telling them about how bad they are. Hopefully we will find some ways here that will encourage over tear them down.
Thanks for publishing this list of good websites both for professionals and for individuals/families struggling with the many challenges of ADHD. I would like to suggest that you also publish recommendations for great books on this same subject, perhaps one section for professionals in particular. One of my own personal favorites is "Scattered" by Gabor Mate, MD – a brilliant, nuanced perspective on the biological and psychological complexities of this very real difference in brain functioning, and what can be done to actually help those who are struggling with it.
almost anything that we read online should be taken with a grain of salt.because after all who knows the sources!
but with a list like this one,we can be assured of the legitimacy.many people refuse to use the resources available online because their legitimacy may come under question.good to have a list ready that is assured to be legitimate and of high quality.thanks for this.
How would I bring up to my son's pediatrician that I would like for him to take a look at some of this without feeling like I am stepping on his toes?
I want to make sure that he is getting the best and most up to date treatment.
This would be an even better list if legitimate feedback posted in the comments weren't censored out by the powers that be, simply because they might point out some warts.
My blog is the journal of our adventures with ADHD in our home. I share the resources we find and try. The victories and defeats. Some humor along the way. There is no perfect solution so we're always looking for ways to improve along this bumpy road. Come check us out!
Great, thanks for sharing this article. Really Cool.
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NC State Baseball Is Raising Money To Fight Childhood Cancer
On April 7th, the NC State baseball team will be raising money for the Jimmy V and Vs.Cancer Foundations to fight childhood cancer. Fans can participate in two ways:
Head Shaving Event - Following the game vs. Virginia Tech, the NC State baseball team and fans will be shaving their heads on the field. Sign up to get your head shaved or make a donation in the name of an NC State baseball player. To participate or make a donation click here.
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Hey Joe and Bambi,
I believe that the answer is kinda like you are saying Bambi.
But in order to get a clearer picture, we all should just step back in time several years for the answer
......Back in the old days
before fuel injection was used everywhere, I am picturing a 4 cylinder Japanese bike that had 4 separate carbs.
From the throttle came 2 cables....1 pull on, and 1 to pull off. No springs here at all.
These cables went down into the inards in-between the line of 4 carbs and mounted up to 1 linkage.
Then this 1 linkage bar attached to each carb by way of an individual rod complete with adjusters on both ends
so you could at least get all carbs adjusted separately for idle speed and to make sure the slide opened fully.
There were adjusted on each end of this rod to allow those 2 actions to happen. And the return springs existed on each rod.
(the pic that kellymac posted displays this rod/adjuster concept)
You simply set the slack for the cables first.
The main rod that goes crossways moved all of the individual rods the same distance. Any adjustment for individual carbs was accomplished separately. The bikes tuner simply just went down the line adjusting the rod/adjusters for each carb separately.
And you could set the spring resistance individually too.
And the pros would then put a tach meter on each sparkplug line and then fine-tune set the idle for each cylinder.
I don't have any 4 cylinder carbed bikes to show you, and my 86 guzzi Le Mans is all wrapped, packed, and covered
for the winter, so I cannot help with pics at all.
I am sure something like this could be built & tie the 2 carbs together and get what you are after.
Hope this helps
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Victory! Puerto Rican Residents Win First Battle Against Monkey Farm
After nearly six months of pressure from PCRM and other organizations, a judge last week ordered a temporary halt to construction of a primate-breeding facility in the Puerto Rican town of Guayama that has raised serious health and environmental concerns among local residents.
The decision by Judge Juan Frau Escudero of Guayama's Superior Court is the latest development in a lawsuit filed against Bioculture, Ltd., by Puerto Rico residents who say the company has not submitted a full environmental impact statement or held public hearings. Judge Escudero's ruling, which cites irregularities in the permitting process, follows a report from the Puerto Rico Senate that found strong evidence that Bioculture supplied misleading and contradictory information to obtain permits for the project.
Bioculture, a Mauritius-based company that ships macaque monkeys around the world for use in product testing, wants to breed and sell monkeys for experimentation at the Guayama facility. But the company applied for an animal husbandry permit—meant for farmers intending to breed cows and other animals raised for food.
"Today's ruling is a victory for the people of Guayama and for everyone concerned about safeguarding the environment and protecting primates from inhumane experiments," says PCRM primatologist Debra Durham, Ph.D. "It sends a message to Bioculture that Puerto Rico will not tolerate manipulation of its legal system."
The Puerto Rican Senate's report found that Bioculture "has had an extremely defiant and disrespectful attitude to the law, at least in parts of the process of obtaining the permits."
"We conclude that the action and non-actions of the company with respect to the protection and integrity of the cultural, historic and archeological resources of the land has been absolutely inadmissible and reprehensible," the Senate report said.
The proposed facility could pose serious risks to public health and the environment. Monkeys are likely to escape from Bioculture's Guayama facility. Such escapes could result in the establishment of another invasive species in Puerto Rico, adding to the serious problems already caused by patas monkeys and rhesus monkeys who also invaded the island by escaping from research facilities.
Strong concerns about the Bioculture project have been expressed by both local opponents of the facility and an international coalition of nonprofit health and animal protection organizations, including the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal have criticized the usefulness of primate experiments, noting that they consistently fail to predict the safety and effectiveness of drugs in humans.
By voicing your concerns, thousands of citizens like you contributed to this first victory. The judge's ruling is a significant victory, but it may not be the last word in this fight.


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Situated in the city center, this hotel is close to Cathedral of Salvador, Fonte Nova Stadium, and Forte Santo Antonio de Barra. Area attractions also include Porto da Barra Beach and Jesus da Barra.
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In addition to a restaurant, the pet-friendly Hotel Villa Bahia features an outdoor pool, a lounge, and complimentary wireless Internet.
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This large furniture showroom on Buckhead's Miami Circle features upholstery, painted furniture, and reproductions, plus antiques from England, France, Spain, and Sweden.
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Our experienced team provides five-star service, personalized care, and an extraordinary commitment to your health and well-being.
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2754 North Decatur Road, Decatur, GA 30033
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When you visit our general and cosmetic dental practice, conveniently located across from the Dekalb Medical Center, your dental health is our top priority.
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Dr. Charles Dodge believes prevention is the best kind of dental care.
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When it comes to overall well-being, a healthy digestive system is critical at any age.
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
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AUBURN -- Firefighters were able to save one man from his burning Auburn home Saturday night, but another female resident lost her life in the blaze, officials said.
Gwinnett County firefighters responded to the home on the 1900 block of Flowery Branch Road near Pilgrim Lane just before 8 p.m. Saturday after a call from a passerby, spokesman Lt. Eric Eberly said. Bystanders at the scene told responding units that there were people inside the structure that was "fully engulfed in flames."
Crews entered the home.
"Despite the hazardous conditions, they found one male that was inside and pulled him from the fire," Eberly said.
That victim was rushed to Gwinnett Medical Center-Lawrenceville with mild to moderate injuries. Firefighters then went back into the home to find another victim, this one a female in her 60s.
They pulled her out of a front bedroom window, Eberly said, but "she had already succumbed to her injuries."
Information regarding the identities of the victims was not immediately available Saturday night.
Officials said the cause of the fire remained undetermined and under investigation.
"Despite the tragic outcome for one of the victims," Eberly said, "(firefighters) really did a good job of getting in there and saving one of them from this horrendous fire."
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TELLING medical staff to wash their hands to prevent transmission of infection has been conventional wisdom for 150 years. But recent New Zealand research suggests washing is only half the solution. Hands have to be thoroughly dried after washing or the residual water could actually increase the risk of contamination. The study has serious implications for food preparation as well as medical care.
Researchers at the Auckland School of Medicine got volunteers from the school to put their hands in a medium that contained bacteria. The subjects then washed their hands and either touched skin or food while their hands were still wet or after they had been dried. The researchers, Tom Miller, Daniel Patrick and Glenne Findon, report that the more time spent drying hands, the less likely the spread of bacteria (
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Let's begin with an exercise in arts and crafts, shall we? Take a map of Rio de Janeiro and place it on your table. Now fold the map such that the northern edges of the paper kiss its southern counterparts. Pinch the folded map till there's a distinct crease and tear along the depression.
Now take the southern half and pin it up on a softboard in your living room — ideally between your oil paintings and below a lamp-shade. Once you've finished adoring it, get down to the sheet with the contours of the north. Crumple it into a ball and find the furthest dustbin. Shut the lid of the bin and go back to adoring the map on your yellow-lit softboard.
All done? Good. The government of Brazil, especially the ministry of tourism, will be mighty proud of you. Just like you, they too have disposed of the unwanted north from their Cidade Marvilhos (Marvelous City) guidebooks a long, long time ago.
Divide it any which way you like, by geography, demographics or a simple scissor, the city of Rio de Janeiro is in fact two distinct metropolises. The Rio of the fables is south Rio — pearly white Brazil in all its glory. White Cariocas, the white sands of Copacabana, white foaming beer sipped by white tourists under white shack awnings, white music and, of course, white cocaine. The blinding white sun too hinders one from craning their necks northward. North Rio is black as the crack peddled on its streets. I'm on my way to Gamboa, the northern tip of this city. It is the oldest borough of a once forgotten Rio, a Rubik's Cube of a structure with a labyrinth of brownish cement houses intertwined between a maze of slate-grey gullies.
One of its inhabitants is Alem Alvarez, a Palestinian immigrant who doubles up as my host during my stay here. "Whatever you do, please try and avoid Livramento," she says in chaste but accented English, crossing out a street bordering Gamboa on a map hanging from her fridge. "It was one of the most notorious of all favelas. I advise all my guests to avoid it." Three wrong turns later, I'm bang in the liver of Livramento.
None of my extra polite nods are matched by those on Livramento's streets, until it is. "Africano?" asks a man, wearing a Nigeria football uniform. It appears to be a trick question, considering the Super Eagles fan is sitting under a Brazil flag — every doorstep in Livramento is draped with one.
Weighing my options, I manage to stammer out: "Nao, Indian." "Indiooooo!" he exclaims, eyes lighting up and arms ushering me through the door.On one side lies two plastic chairs pointing at a television building up to the Germany-Ghana match. On the …continued »


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Alghero (l'Alguer in Catalan and S'Alighèra in Sardinian), is a town of about 42,000 inhabitants (down from 54,300 inhabitants since early 20th century) in Italy. It lies in the province of Sassari in north-western Sardinia.
The area of today's Alghero was settled since pre-historical times. The so-called Ozieri culture was present here in the 4th millennium BCE while the nuraghe civilization was present from around 1500 BC for, and traces of Phoenician buildings have been found not far from the city.
Alghero was founded around 1102 by the Genoese Doria family, as a fortified port. The Doria ruled it for centuries, apart from a brief period under the rule of Pisa (1283-1284). In 1353 it was captured by the Aragonese under Bernardo de Cabrera, and could later grow thanks to the arrival of Catalan colonists: in the early 16th century Alghero received the status of King's City (ciutat de l'Alguer) and developed economically.
The Catalano-Aragonese were followed by Habsburg Spain, whose dominion, ended in 1702, brought some decadence to the city. In 1720 Alghero and Sardinia were handed over to Piedmont. Around 1750 a wide channel was excavated to improve the defensive stand of the peninsula. In 1821 famine led to a revolt of the population, which was bloodily suppressed. At the end of the same century Alghero was de-militarized and, during the Fascist era, part of the surrounding marshes was reclaimed and the suburbs of Fertilia and S.M. La Palma were founded, although the presence of malaria in the countryside could be overcome only in the 1950s. During World War II (1943) Alghero was bombed, its historical center suffering heavy damage.
After the end of the war Alghero became a popular tourist resort.
Some 100 Nuraghe remains can be seen in the neighbouring areas of Sant'Imbenia (including also a Phoenician necropolis and Roman remains near the airport of Alghero), Palmavera and Anghelu Ruju.


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Yay, another Captain America. At least he's been kept down to only 4 Marvel Legends version: Series 1, Ultimate, Classic variant, and the Face-Off version. This newest Face-Off Cap is the best I've seen so far. He has the same body as the Ultimate Cap but with a much better original head-sculpt, more vibrant colors, and his original suit.
This Cap stands in at about 6.2 inches of stupendifurous gloriousness, if such an exalted adjective can be imagined. The entire blue/red suit is highly detailed with wrinkles, seams, cuts, and shading. This Cap's suit is very bright and colorful, with a glossy finish, while the Ultimate Cap has darker colors with a matte finish. The glove-cuffs are not too bulky and are long enough to cover the old brown gloves' base (which are still sculpted onto the forearm, only painted over with white. How lazy can these toy companies get?). The boot-cuffs are also just the right size, but his feet are bordering on being too long. Just one more millimeter and they'd be clown-feet! The face and eyes tend to make or break a figure so it's a good thing Cap's are nicely painted. The scales on the suit cover his entire upper-body (the Ultimate Cap' had less scales). I know paint-jobs differ from figure to figure, so you can't judge an entire by one figure, but the Cap I got had atrocious body-painting, atrocious I say! The star on his chest is patchy and the area on the arms where the white meets the blue is very sloppy. The white paint doesn't even meet the ridge where the blue scales begin! The stripes on his stomach are arranged properly (starting with a white stripe down the middle) but are painted just as sloppily. The white parts are even dirty. The paint on the elbows is crusty and cracking and doesn't cover the blue elbow-pegs at all. By the way, why would they use BLUE pegs on an area that is supposed to be WHITE? Toy companies don't see a problem with this? I just know they do this because it probably saves them an extra nickel per figure. The belt is the same design as Ultimate Cap's, but for some reason, much worse. It gives the impression of lacking detail, almost as if the mold was somehow distorted. The little silver buttons on the pouches are non-existent and are replaced by a messy dab of silver paint. Maybe I could have gotten used to the bad paint, but when I tried to turn his right glove, it tore off thanks to dried paint in the swivel-joint.
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By: Mary Landers on April 3, 2015 - 8:42am - Add new comment
Two dead dolphins have shown up recently at Savannah area marinas. One was found at the Wilmington Island Yacht Club in March 26 and the other at the new (and at the time temporarily closed) Coffee Bluff Marina the same day.
By: Mary Landers on April 29, 2015 - 10:23am - Add new comment
Discussion about the proposed Palmetto Pipeline, a Kinder Morgan project that would run through 210 miles of Georgia carrying gasoline, diesel and ethanol, has brought out diverse interests. The usual environmental groups have their activists involved, but so does Colonial Oil, which opposes the pipeline, too. That's a strategic alliance Savannah doesn't see too often. Landowners in a dozen counties have also been vocally opposed to the pipeline at meetings so far.
By: Mary Landers on August 15, 2008 - 5:38pm - Add new comment
Georgia Public Broadcasting is running a story today about the Olin Corporation in Augusta and how it legally discharges more than 700 pounds of mercury into the air and the Savannah River each year. The controversy isn't new (the Augusta Chronicle has covered it extensively), but after this summer's to-do about a fifth-grader accidentally spilling a pound of mercury at Pooler Elementary is does seem especially interesting for those of us down river. Environmental groups such as Oceana and the Savannah Riverkeeper advocate for the company to switch its chlorine production to a process that doesn't use mercury. Proposed legislation would eliminate the mercury process, too. I know the adage that "the dose makes the poison." But if we all spent about $150,000 to clean up a pound of mercury at a school, what does that mean for pumping 700 times that much into the air and water?
By: Mary Landers on October 17, 2008 - 4:46pm - Add new comment
A reader e-mailed to say it frustrates him to see the city flushing water out hydrants at they same time officials urge water conservation. Why don't they capture the water for reuse? asks Allen Byrd, whose office at Bay and E. Lathrop gives him a view of the flushing hydrant at what seems like weekly intervals.
I asked city of Savannah environmental planner Laura Walker about the issue. Coincidentally, she had just witnessed a flushing hydrant this week while giving a stormwater tour to visiting stormwater professionals. It opened her eyes to how much water is wasted in the exercise. As somebody big into water conservation she didn't like seeing all that H20 rushing into the Springfield Canal. She had two initial thoughts on doing things better. First, she said, maybe there's a way to flush some water onto land it could soak into, rather than just into streets where it picks up pollutants and then enters stormwater drains. Then she remembered that Park and Tree uses pumper trucks. She seemed to have an aha! moment thinking about how it may be possible to coordinate the pumper trucks with hydrant flushing.
By: Mary Landers on February 17, 2009 - 1:31pm - Add new comment
Last Thursday a team from Georgia's Department of Natural Resources helped untangle an endangered right whale calf from heavy fishing gear off the coast of St. Catherines. The whale was just a 2-year-old but still big and dangerous at 30 feet long. Here are some pictures of the successful effort, courtesy Ga. DNR. The pole in the photo has a knife mounted on the end. That's what they used to slice through one rope that went through the calf's mouth and another tangled around its head. They had to get very close to the animal in 2-3 foot seas to make this work. But they did it. This was the fifth entangled right whale DNR has seen and worked to rescue this calving season. So far, three have been freed.
By: Mary Landers on February 17, 2009 - 6:58pm - Add new comment
The federal government issued a report today about the status of wetlands on the East Coast. We lost about 59,000 acres of coastal wetlands a year from 1998-2004, the report concludes. That's an area about twice the size of the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge every year, or 14 refuge-sized chunks over the time studied.The report blames the population density of the coast, which not only hastens the loss of wetlands with roads and buildings, but also makes them harder to restore because the land is too valuable for other uses.
By: Mary Landers on March 24, 2009 - 11:07am - Add new comment
Ruby-throated hummingbirds, which travel more than 1,200 miles from wintering grounds in Central America to Georgia, are on their way back to the state, reports the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
That means it's a good time to plant flowers that provide them with nectar, and DNR's Nongame Conservation Section has free native wildflower seeds available to get you started.
The packets were purchased through a grant from The Environmental Resources Network, or TERN, the friends group of the Nongame Conservation Section. To receive a seeds packet, send a first-class, self-addressed, stamped envelope (No. 10 letter-sized) to: Nectar-feeder Native Wildflower Seed Packet, DNR/WRD Nongame Conservation Section, 116 Rum Creek Drive, Forsyth, Ga. 31029. One packet per customer, please.
By: Mary Landers on April 1, 2009 - 12:45pm - Add new comment
The Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper recently won $10,000 in a contest sponsored by beer maker MillerCoors. Supporters voted online for their project of choice, and the local riverkeeper got 2,000 votes. Director Chandra Brown says she'll use the money to test for mercury in 150 fish -- including redfish, catfish, largemouth bass, and redbreast -- in rivers in and around the coast this summer. She's looking for volunteers to help catch the fish. Check here for more details or call Brown at 866-942-6222.
By: Mary Landers on April 10, 2009 - 4:16pm - Add new comment
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources reports that bald eagle nest numbers are up from last year. 2009 totals are 124 occupied territories, 98 productive nests and 162 young produced. This compares to 112 occupied territories, 85 productive nests and 134 young fledged last year.
Spokesman Rick Lavender writes in an e-mail: "No definitive explanation for the increase, except that for years we have been seeing general increases as eagles expand in number and into new habitat across the state. Jim Ozier (a DNR eagle expert), said 13 new nests were documented for the first time this year. But sometimes it's not that the nests don't exist, it's that the surveys don't pick them up."
By: Mary Landers on May 7, 2009 - 3:53pm - Add new comment
Check out the new Mosquito Meter on the Green Living page. Created by Chatham County Mosquito Control, the meter features a cartoon skeeter that fills up with blood as the nuisance level rises in Chatham County. Its twin sister shows the health threat from mosquitoes, which varies as West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis travel through the area. Now that's a graphic graphic. It'll be updated every Thursday so you can pack your DEET accordingly for the weekend.


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Matthew D'Arcy
Mechanical Engineering, Cass of 2014
"It was the greatest feeling and the weirdest feeling all at once!"
That's how Matt D'Arcy described the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity he had in July to experience zero gravity aboard a NASA aircraft.
In March 2011, Matt and his classmates from Drexel's space systems lab received a grant from the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium to conduct research on the Weightless Wonder – NASA's 727 aircraft that flies a series of rollercoaster-like dips and climbs, to produce periods of zero gravity.
"I got the call that we got the grant while I was in Drexel's learning center," said Matt. "I was so excited I almost jumped on the table."
In Drexel's space systems lab, Matt and his classmates had been working on a device that would help control the direction of a satellite and hold it steady in space.
"The device was essentially a tape measure inversely rolled up and mounted in the middle of the satellite," Matt explained. "Because it is inversely coiled, when released, the tape measure shoots outward. A mass secured at the end of the tape measure offsets the center of gravity, such that, wherever the tape measure is sticking out, that side of the satellite will face the Earth."
This was important because the purpose of their satellite was to take pictures of the earth, and this device made sure that the camera in the satellite was always facing down, toward earth.
"We got the grant to test our device on the Weightless Wonder and characterize how it would work in zero gravity," said Matt.
Matt's team got accepted into the NASA program and had only a couple of months to prepare for the trip to the NASA facility in Texas.
"At the time, I was working at my co-op so I would work a normal day in New Jersey, then drive to Philadelphia and work with the team in the labs sometimes from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.," he said. "Then I would drive home, sleep and go back to work. That was what I did 2 or 3 days a week."
The time came, and Matt and his team flew to Texas on July 6 and arrived at the NASA facility at Ellington Field. They spent their first few days going through orientation, typing up last-minute documents, and giving presentations to NASA engineers. They also did some sightseeing and toured Johnson Space Center.
When it came time to board the Weightless Wonder Matt found it hard to contain his excitement.
"I got up at the crack of dawn because I was so excited I couldn't sleep," he said. "Everyone was psyching us out, telling us that we'd probably get sick in zero gravity but luckily that didn't happen to any of us."
A mentor from NASA worked with Matt and his teammates in the week leading up to the flight, and joined them aboard the Weightless Wonder.
"Imagine an airplane with all of the seats taken out," said Matt as he described the aircraft. "And all the walls, the floor and the ceiling are padded to protect from things floating around."
So what exactly does zero gravity feel like?
"It is the most peaceful feeling ever," said Matt. "Your heart doesn't have to pump as hard and your muscles don't have to work to support you. They tell you what it's going to feel like but there's really no way to be ready for it. There is that moment where no matter what you're thinking, your body starts to panic because it's like you're falling through the air."
Matt and his team tested their device several times on the aircraft and had time to spare to have some fun.
"I had someone spin me in the air," he said. "And people were doing flips and dives and one-armed pushups."
Upon landing, the students were debriefed and given a month and a half to go through all of their data and compile their findings.
"We tested our device with four different masses attached to the end of the tape measure – each one partially filled with tiny metal bee-bees," Matt explained. "The reason we preferred to avoid using solid masses is because if you deploy the tape measure in space and it oscillates from the shock, there is no air resistance to stabilize it. The bee-bees inside create resistance on the mass and help it to stop oscillating. The whole process could take a long time but eventually gravity aligns the mass to point to Earth."
Matt's team found that a mass filled 50% with bee-bees had the best result.
"NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program looks for experiments that have never been tried before in zero gravity," he said. "While similar technology exists for other commercial and military applications, the same concept can be adapted to space systems on a smaller scale."
Matt and his research team also presented their results to several schools in the area in order to spark interest in space exploration.
Matt knew from an early age that he wanted to be an engineer, and get involved with aeronautics.
"I've found that what makes me tick the most is anything related to space," said Matt. "I figured that out in high school when I had a teacher who showed us videos about space and offered a planetary exploration class."
In addition, Matt's grandfather, Theodore Markiewicz '55, '60, is an engineering graduate from Drexel. According to Matt, his grandfather would tell him stories and get him excited about science and engineering. When Matt showed his grandfather the pictures and videos from the Weightless Wonder, all he could say was 'wow,' which Matt took as a good sign.
"This was the most excited I've ever been to do anything, and I guess it's because this experience was aligned with everything that my high school teacher and my grandpa have been talking to me about my entire life," said Matt. "My grandpa was really proud to see me get involved with this so it was kind of personal."
Matt is currently trying to secure his second co-op, and is focusing on his GPA. He is in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and has played a role in reinstating Drexel's Amateur Radio Club after his professor Dr. Jin Kang discovered its abandoned offices on the fourth floor of the Main Building.
"There are lots of things to get involved in at Drexel," he said. "When I went off to college I really decided that I would go outside of my comfort zone and try as many things as I could. You only get this opportunity once."
Matt is entered in a "Race to Space" competition sponsored by Metro Newspapers which would give him the opportunity to be considered for civilian spaceflight. The winner is determined by whoever gathers the most votes via Facebook or other social media channels. To vote for Matt and help send him to space, click here.


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opinionBy Ahmednasir Abdullahi
The impact of the confirmation of the charges by the International Criminal Court against Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto is not rightly being appreciated in some quarters, and deliberately exaggerated in others.
The two presidential candidates are also analysed and appraised on the same criteria as if they are of a similar political standing.
I have some advice for Uhuru Kenyatta on how to navigate the tortuous route his career seems to have taken in the light of the court's judgment.
Uhuru must be commended for resigning as minister for Finance. He should, however, have gone further and resigned as Deputy Prime Minister.
He rightly appreciated the gravity of the matter but seems to have held back instead of going the full length.
Uhuru should realise that in charting his political course in the coming months, there are three important players he must always have in mind. Some are true believers and others opportunists.
First is Uhuru and his immediate family. This must remain the most paramount component of his political calculus.
It is what is in his best political interest and that of his family that should ultimately guide his next step.
The second group is his close advisers and confidants. This category has invested a lot in the Brand Uhuru and will naturally want to see a sound return on their investment.
Their natural but selfish calculation is that Uhuru must run for the presidency.
They have endlessly romanticised and visualised their tenure at various positions in the Uhuru administration.
Uhuru should be wary of this group and realise that his close friends, in advising him, are ultimately pushing their personal agenda and interests.
The third group is Kenyans who are not from Uhuru's ethnic group. This is a very important voting bloc.
In a run-off for the presidential elections, ethnicity as a consideration will greatly diminish.
Apart from the tribesmen of the two candidates in the run-off, the rest of Kenyans will be objective, critical and dispassionate.
It is these Kenyans that will determine the next president. Uhuru should never underestimate the importance and feelings of these Kenyans.
With these diverse groups in mind, my advice to Uhuru is as follows: First, Uhuru should resign as Deputy Prime Minister.
There is really nothing in this office for him. Uhuru is not politically greedy in the African sense.
This office is useless in the bigger scheme of things. Resigning from this office will endear him to more Kenyans and enhance his standing throughout the country.
Second, Uhuru should sit out of the 2012 or 2013 presidential election. This is a painful thing to do, but he must do it.
This he must do for himself, his family and for Kenya.
It is not in doubt that Uhuru, in my view, had an excellent chance to become the next president of Kenya as long as he didn't face the charges by the ICC.
But the decision by the court to confirm the charges was a game changer.
This forced sit out is even more painful when a section of Kenyans believe that the accusations Uhuru faces were as a result of a conspiracy to shut him out of the presidency.
That notwithstanding, he should be a pragmatist and move on. There will be another chance.
Third, Uhuru should minimise or completely end his obsessive political cohabitation with William Ruto.
Uhuru seems to have internalised a political fallacy that Ruto is more of an asset than a liability. For the greater majority of Kenyans, the converse is true.
Uhuru also fails to appreciate the negative feelings Ruto's past and current political philosophy triggers to a cross-section of Kenyans.
Most importantly Uhuru must always remember Ruto's real worth in the 2002 elections when he managed the ill-fated Uhuru campaign for the presidency. Of course, his acts and omissions in the 2007 elections are also critical.
The writer is the publisher, Nairobi Law Monthly