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Raven Industries to Acquire Vista Research, Inc.06:10 EST Tuesday, January 03, 2012SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Jan. 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Raven Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:RAVN) today announced that its Aerostar division has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Vista Research, Inc., a leading provider of surveillance systems that enhance the effectiveness of radars using sophisticated algorithms. Vista's smart sensing radar systems (SSRS) are employed in a host of advanced detection and tracking applications, including wide-area surveillance for the border patrol and the military. This acquisition will immediately allow Raven Aerostar to enhance its tethered aerostat security solutions. Longer-term, the company is positioned to meet growing global demand for low-cost detection and tracking systems used by government and law enforcement agencies. Under the terms of the agreement, Raven will acquire Vista Research for an initial cash purchase price of approximately $12 million, with up to $38.5 million in additional benchmark and earn-out payments over the next seven years. The transaction is expected to close in January and is subject to customary closing conditions. "Raven is excited to acquire a highly regarded developer of smart radar and sensing processors, including an extremely talented team," said Lon Stroschein, Aerostar division vice president and general manager. "Together we will bring new innovations for detecting and tracking small objects over the land, on the water and in the air. Our solutions can replace or enhance traditional, high-cost radar systems used today. Our unique proposition is improved security in all types of weather at a lower total cost of ownership." "Vista Research has pioneered innovative detection and tracking processing systems for more than 25 years, and we have developed smart radar surveillance processors that can help identify threats to critical assets," said Joe Maresca, CEO and co-founder of Vista Research, Inc. "Today, we join forces with Raven Industries, which shares a common vision for peace and stability through innovation and high quality products, and together we look forward to extending our presence in the global radar surveillance market. We are excited about the opportunity to leverage Raven's world-class organization to deliver new feature-rich detection and tracking solutions to customers."Acquisition Fits the Raven Model for Growth and Value Creation "After collaborating with Vista Research for the past 18 months, we are confident this transaction meets all of our acquisition criteria for growth and creating shareholder value," said Daniel A. Rykhus, Raven's president and chief executive officer. "First and foremost, we are acquiring a highly-engineered niche product with a unique market position. Vista's radar processing technology enables our Aerostar Division to offer more competitive end-to-end aerostat systems, as well as gain access to a much broader customer base. We also see opportunities to integrate Vista's technology with our Marine navigation products for enhanced port security. Importantly, Raven has a proven approach for commercializing acquired technologies and leveraging our strengths in manufacturing, market development, sales and customer service. "Vista's current office locations and engineering resources will continue to support their existing government contracts, including several recent orders for radar systems. Raven will provide a full suite of engineering services to support new product introductions and quality manufacturing through our Electronic Systems Division. With high-level security clearances and extensive contacts, Vista creates a new path for Raven to pursue next-generation surveillance and security solutions." Rykhus concluded, "The ability to sustain our growth requires a constant search for new markets. This is one of those unique opportunities in which a breakthrough technology can be another catalyst driving future growth at Raven. We expect that this acquisition will be additive to our earnings in the course of the coming year. More importantly, we believe this acquisition meets our goal of allocating capital to generate attractive returns on investment with increasing cash flows."About Raven Industries, Inc. Since 1956, Raven Industries has designed and manufactured high-quality, high-value technical products. Raven is publicly traded on NASDAQ (RAVN) and has earned an international reputation for innovation, product quality, high performance and unmatched service. With strengths in engineering, manufacturing, and technological innovation, Raven serves the precision agriculture, high performance specialty films, aerospace, and electronic manufacturing services markets. Aerostar International, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raven Industries, Inc. The Raven Industries, Inc. logo is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=9627About Vista Research, Inc. Based in Arlington, VA, privately-held Vista Research, Inc., has a national reputation for quality work in the development of systems incorporating remote sensing and signal processing techniques. Vista's Smart Sensing Radar Systems (SSRS) provide a reliable, cost-effective solution for earlier detection of defined targets and their movement over land and water.Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements regarding the expectations, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "anticipates," "believes," "expects," "intends," "may," "plans," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The company intends that all forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Although management believes that the expectations reflected in forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, there is no assurance these assumptions are correct or that these expectations will be achieved. Assumptions involve important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect results in the future. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, satisfaction of closing conditions, integration of the businesses, commercialization of the product line, changes in competition, raw material availability, technology or relationships with the company's largest customers—any of which could adversely affect any of the company's product lines—as well as other risks described in the company's 10-K under Item 1A. This list is not exhaustive, and the company does not have an obligation to revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date these statements are made.CONTACT: AT THE COMPANY: Tom Iacarella Vice President & CFO (605) 336-2750 AT FINANCIAL RELATIONS BOARD: Scott Eckstein Analyst/Media Inquiries (212) 827-3766


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Very cool, these would be lifesavers to have around.
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Great article, Yuka!
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Wow, this would be a total life-saver!
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text: Terroir: Do We Have Evidence? Erika Szymanski May 12, 2013 Columns, Erika Szymanski, Features, Latest News 16 Comments At this point, its reasonably common knowledge that terroir isn't all about soil. Studies since the 1970's have told us that wine from grapes grown on different soil types in different locations don't necessary taste different. Nouveau chic wine critics – Steve Heimoff, Eric Asimov, W. Blake Gray, among others – have announced that they don't really buy the terroir thing, that they can't taste the differences they're supposed to taste between one side of a hill and the other. [Mr. Asimov has questioned the use of "terroir" to describe a scientifically measurable difference in minerals from the earth, but acknowledges the existence and importance of terroir, describing it as "the interaction of the vineyard, the climate and the people who made the wine." -Ed.] But a lot of us (accusatory finger pointing straight at myself) still feel as though we can indeed taste a difference in wine from vineyards full of galets (big, white, French cobblestones) versus an alluvial plain. To make things more complicated, terroir often carries the weight of much politicking, perhaps because place carries so much value in wine marketing (if place doesn't influence flavor, then why are we paying more for the ritzy neighborhoods?) or perhaps because wine lovers will happily create vitriol wherever differences of opinion allow. The foremost question to answer is whether we can taste terroir – or, perhaps even more importantly, whether we can convince anyone and ourselves that we can taste terroir. But the other obvious question is whether we can attribute to terroir a measurable chemical difference between wines grown in different places. Which is more important – that a chemical difference exists or that we perceive a difference – is a philosophical question and one on which I've yet to decide my own position. But life rarely waits for philosophical questions, and a lot of business rests on terroir being real. Recent debates have left plenty of wine lovers questioning whether it really is. At this point, evidence – any evidence – conclusively proving one stance or the other is exactly what we all need. And, thank goodness, there are scientists working on that. I'd love to be able to say that the data from recent studies on terroir are easy to understand. I'd love to be able to say that, once the answers contained therein trickle down to The People, the winners will hold their data high and the losers will grumble until they finally come around. Unfortunately, its never that simple. Defining terroir is the first problem. The most important thing to say about terroir is that terroir isn't just soil. Peynaud very elegantly defined terroir as "Mother Nature," which gives a useful general idea but isn't very helpful for a scientific research study. A working definition developed by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in 2005 talks about terroir as a concept that involves the interaction between human culture and knowledge and the natural environment, which means that terroir includes how we've decided over centuries what cultivars to plant where and other ways humans have adapted to nature. This definition is interesting, but still much too big to be useful for a research study. So, some studies try to deal with all of the different factors related to differences in place simply by comparing grapes grown in different regions. Others pick out specific elements related to place – type of soil, amount of sunlight or water, even local yeasts and bacteria – in an effort to not just say that grapes grown in different places are different, but to ascertain why they're different. Terroir isn't just about soil by nearly everyone's measure (those who think it is just about soil are plain misguided), but geology is still one of the more frequent elements of terroir that scientists choose to single out for dissection. Even still, geology isn't just about rocks. What about how the shapes of landforms – topography – affect how wind blows and mesoclimates: which vineyards are a little warmer and which are a little cooler? Or how well the soil holds on to water? A major but frequently overlooked element of vineyard geology is how the assorted soil types make minerals available in different ways, since grapevines rely on the soil to provide about 19 inorganic nutrients. Clay, for instance, holds on to minerals and transfers them to roots exceptionally well, while soils based on granite are notoriously bad. There are plenty of problems with trying to draw conclusions about wine flavor from these sorts of various vineyard qualities. One of the more celebrated elements of terroir – the way the soil looks at the surface – is important partially in terms of heat radiation, because whether the soil is dark- or light-colored, reflective or shiny (like those famous galets of Chateauneuf-du-Pape) influences how warm the soil gets, which influences ripening. But allowing native vegetation to grow, planting cover crops, or applying mulch – techniques that are all the rage these days – mitigate that influence. So, ironically enough, biodynamic farmers who employ these tendencies might be reducing the influence of their local terroir rather than increasing it as they generally advertise. And those great maps that show how (particularly French) vineyards correspond to different bits of bedrock rarely account for topography, which is huge both in terms of what layer of soil vines are interacting with and which direction a slope is facing. In other words, the maps aren't nearly as useful a tool for explaining flavors as they initially seem to be. These are thought-experiment arguments backed by solid scientific theory. When we look at studies measuring chemical compounds or quantifying flavors, we have different problems. Mostly, nothing is as clear-cut as we'd like it to be. A 2012 study trying to distinguish wines from three different subregions of Rioja using nuclear magnetic resonance was able to distinguish grapes from those three regions, barely, but couldn't do the same with the finished wine. A 2004 study in Bordeaux found that, while the majority of variation in grape ripeness (measured by sugar content) could be attributed to grape cultivar, what soil type the vines were grown in was a pretty close second. But soil type had nearly no effect on grape pH and acid content. Huh. Benzyl mercaptan, possibly responsible for the "gunflint" wine aroma The concentration of some key minerals – nitrogen, potassium, magnesium – depended on soil type but the amount of those minerals in the soil didn't correspond to the amount of those minerals the vines took up, nor to how much of those minerals showed up in the ripened grapes. This is crucial: minerals from the soil don't translate to minerals in the wine, and certainly not to mineral aromas and flavors. Nutrients taken up by vine roots aren't evenly distributed throughout the plant, so concentrations measured in a leaf petiole (the tiny stem that holds onto an individual leaf where a lot of measurements are taken) will be different than concentrations measured in the woody part of the vine or in the grapes. Moreover, yeasts absorb some of these nutrients, which means that those nutrients are taken out of the wine when the yeast is fined or filtered out in the form of lees, so the concentration of minerals in a finished wine bears is even less related to the minerals in the soil than the concentration in the grapes was. Finally, we're pretty sure that we can't taste the tiny smidgens of minerals that do end up in the wine. Most of the minerals found in wine are always present in quantities below their detection threshold, that is, in smaller quantities than anyone can taste. The few exceptions – iron, magnesium, chloride, and sulfate – taste pretty icky – bitter or "off" – rather than like what we usually call minerality. There are the studies showing that we can in fact show statistically significant differences between wines from different areas but these, too, have problems. For example, a 2012 study took a detailed look at the flavors in Cabernet Sauvignon from ten distinct geographical areas in Australia and detected statistically significant differences identifying each wine. But they weren't able to control for different winemaking practices, so how can we tell how those differences came about? Now, if we take that broad INRA definition of terroir to include winemaking styles attached to a region, I suppose we can still prove something about terroir here, but I don't think that's what most of us mean when we ask these sorts of questions. Now, it's very possible that there are things going on here that we don't yet understand – that we can't measure or explain – that help explain how terroir manufacturers flavor. Maybe we're not choosing the right wines, or we're not looking at the right variables, or maybe we're not yet even capable of detecting whatever it is causing the differences we (sometimes) taste. There might be a very good argument for the idea that terroir comes from centuries of vintners' accumulated knowledge about where to plant what vines, a big problem when many studies of terroir are being conducted in regions like Australia or Ontario where winemaking doesn't have a very long history. None of these studies proves anything about terroir. They can only point us in the direction of what isn't happening. I was recently sent a few very pleasant bottles of Assyrtiko from Santorini. The Wines from Santorini marketing website suggested that the wines should have "a pleasing mineral character derived from the volcanic soil it is grown in." And both of the wines did, indeed, taste strongly minerally and a bit salty. I enjoyed that, and I enjoyed thinking about those sea breeze-swept vines growing in their crusty volcanic soil. But whether the flavors I enjoyed had anything to do with those breezes and that soil, or where those flavors came from? I'm pretty sure they didn't. Eric Asimov I'm not sure why Erika Szymanski cites me as somebody who doesn't believe that good wine expresses terroir. Of course I believe it. Erika Szymanski Eric, forgive me if I appeared to misrepresent your views. Some of what you've written for the NY Times and Diner's Column (including the linked above) suggest that you have doubts about terroir-related claims. Eric Asimov Forgive me, Erika, I cannot find the link. https://plus.google.com/105574253621417952286/about/p/pub gabe why does it have to be so black and white? can we say that terroir affects the way a wine tastes, and so does winemaking? personally, i believe marketing actually effects the way we experience a wine as well http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com Fabio (Vinos Ambiz) my 2c worth is this: I think it's rather unfruitful to restrict the definition of terroir to the analytic, scientific identification of some chemical or molecule. Any useful meaningful definition of terrior ought to be much wider, and include not only geology and climate, like this article focuses on, but a host of other factors too; like the grape variety, the grapegrowing technique(s), the winemaking technique(s), and social and cultural factors too. I think the social, cultural, and abstract components of terroir are in fact even more important than the scientifically analyzable components. Otherwise, how do we explain that so much more is known about the terroir of say Burgundy or Chianti, than is known about the terroir of say Armenia, Greece, or Georgia, where wine has been made for much much longer than in Burgundy/Chianti/etc? Because people have been talking about it and creating a literature about it for hundreds of years; whereas the new world and many parts of the olde worlde lack this literature and accumulated abstract cultural knowledge, though they obviously don't lack a geology or a climate! http://www.megmaker.com Meg Houston Maker Perhaps soil is to terroir as oil paint is to genre; the finished expression depends upon many factors, from pigment to painter, technique to tradition, bias to Zeitgeist. It does seem evident that our drive to define terroir arises from an urge to make sense of complexity. Multivariate analysis is always a worthy, if challenging, project. Larry Brooks This is a thoughtful essay that you have posted. I would suggest that you take a look at the work of Andrea Bauer and her team of scientists working for the last 10 years or so in Germany. They have conclusively proven that soil is the key factor in aromatic expression (flavor), and that soil type trumps both region and winemaking. I have read in this literature extensively since the mid 90s when the first good science was published on terroir. It appears that in red wine seasonality and winemaking tend to overcome or mask terroir. The scientific evidence for it in white wines is solid at this point Dan Barwick This topic will never cease to intrigue those of us who are fascinated by the subtle differences in wines character from through out different places in the world. If there were not some influence from site,'terroir', would not everything taste far more similar? In 2008 many Northern California wines, took on nuances of smokiness which was associated with the wild fires that ravaged Mendocino and Lake counties during the summer of that year; this charcter was not caused by smoke settling on the clusters, but by the leaves absorbing the oils, and chemicals from the atmosphere and somehow imprinting this anomoly into the finished wine. The amount of smokiness varied significantly from vineyard to vineyard, and from one varietal to another, with the evidence that vineyards going through veraison during that period showed greater levels of smokiness in the wine that they produced than those that were not. The net result of this is that vines can absorb their environment, which, depending on your point of view, can only prove that there is some serious credibility in that 'terroir', or a wines environment can be expressed in a finished wine. http://ithacork.com Tom Mansell Smoke taint and eucalyptus taint are examples of aroma compounds migrating into the wax bloom from the environment, but they are the only proven examples of this phenomenon that I know of. If a winery has a bunch of lavender and tries to say lavender shows up in the wine… I'd be skeptical. http://vinosambiz.blogspot.com Fabio (Vinos Ambiz) I would also be skeptical! My Airén vineyard is surrounded by acres of wild thyme (which even invades the vineyard itself) and never has anyone perceived even a hint of thyme in the wine! Pingback: Terroirist: A Daily Wine Blog » Daily Wine News: Exploring Terroir() http://www.winestats.info Tony It's pretty obvious, I'd have thought, that location affects how vines grow, how fruit develops and hence how wines taste. In that sense I'm a "terroirist". Like many others, my concept of location includes not simply soil type but numerous other variables both "natural" (e.g. topography, climate) and "cultural" (e.g. fertilizer, irrigation and pruning practises). Unfortunately, there has been a tendency in some circles to be reductive, and to attribute wine differences to a single variable such as geology. Once they become common currency, such errors can be surprisingly difficult to eliminate. For example, a knowledge of cognac crus still resides on the WSET diploma syllabus. Even many ardent terroirists find it difficult to envisage how location is able to shine through the fermented juice of Ugni Blanc after it has been distilled twice. French geologist Henri Coquand probably proposed the Cognac crus as a hoax (Huggett, 2005) and would no doubt be amazed to find them still in use. http://www.vinterra.net Kevin Pogue Terroir is the SUM of all of the factors that make a vineyard site unique (e.g. climate, soil, geomorphology, geography). Doubting terroir is the same as doubting vintage variation, and who would claim that vintage variation does not exist? Vintage variation results from variations in climate such as average growing season temperatures, growing degree-days, precipitation, number of cloudy days, etc, etc. The characteristics of soils, particularly their hydrologic and thermal properties, influence the degree of vintage variation at a particular site. Soils that warm quickly or are better drained may make better wine in a cool or wet year. Climate varies from site to site as well as from year to year. So obviously if there is recognizable vintage variation in wine, there must be recognizable site variation in wine (terroir) that is controlled by both climate and soil. Pingback: LET'S TALK DIRT… THE DEBATE ABOUT TERROIR RAGES ON. | Stan The Wine Man() Pingback: Good Reads Wednesday « Artisan Family of Wines() https://selrahcsruby.wordpress.com/ Charles Rivet I've been reading a lot lately about terroir and your articles is certainly a good summary. Personally, I tend to believe that terroir (or "somewherness" as I've also heard it called) is a combination of geographical location, soil, weather, and human interaction. And yes, I do believe that those combination do cause wine to be (sometimes ever so slightly) different. However, I also believe that different combinations can still cause two wines that are separated by great distance to be very close in taste (some Ontario wines can be close to what is done in Burgundy, for example). The best example I can think of is tasting, quite a few years ago, a Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot blend from Ontario (Prince Edward County) once and finding a hint of maple in the finish. I thought it was very interesting and I brought it up with the winery…and it turns out that a maple grove had been cleared to make way for the vines – something I had _not_ known in advance. Fluke? Maybe. But it did convince me that, perhaps, there is something to terroir.


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I'd say since all humans and animals work the very same way with some minor variations, the brain seems pretty much deterministic.
Yes and no.
The brownian motion involved in chemical signaling is random, which affects neuronal behavior. However, this system of unreliable parts gives rise to an overall reliable machine. So, brains aren't strictly deterministic in terms of their basic functioning, but they are deterministic enough for us to actually understand what it's doing.
Incidentally, computers function in a similar way at the physical level. A transistor doesn't know what 0 or 1 are. It's simply a switch that flips to a different position when it has a high enough voltage. High voltage is 1, low voltage is 0. Since voltages are variable thanks to noisy power supplies and other factors, the threshold between 0 and 1 has to be carefully set, otherwise the CPU won't work. Once again: a reliable machine generated from unreliable parts (and energy inputs.)
That's not to draw too direct a comparison, as human brains are essentially sophisticated analog signal processors and computers are digital number crunchers, but it's interesting that they both emerge from similar principles.
All input is processed the very same way in every normally functioning human brain.
Not exactly. The devil is in the details. Ten people, all with "normal" brains, will not respond the same way to having their fingertips poked with a needle at the same pressure. Some will react sooner than others. If you introduce external noise (such as vibrating the person's hand), that may improve or reduce their ability to sense the needle. (I believe some research says it actually improves threshold detection.)
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Last week at Hoopstuff I detailed possible trade scenarios for former rookie of the year, Tyreke Evans, who still has star potential, but does not fit on the Sacramento Kings. Here is the article if you missed it http://www.thehoopstuff.com/sacramento-kings-it-is-time-to-trade-tyreke-evans/. But after further examination and after the recent suspension of DeMarcus Cousins, for conduct detrimental to the team, it is clear that there is much more work to be done in order to fix the mess that is the Sacramento Kings. Cousins and Evans were supposed to be the cornerstones of the team, but with Cousins' immaturity and character concerns and Evans' bad fit in their system, they are a lost franchise. Also with their refusal to give time to their last two lottery picks, Jimmer Fredette and Thomas Robinson and the ridiculous decision to bench the team's best point guard and distributor, Isaiah Thomas, something is clearly wrong. The fact that coach Keith Smart keep playing John Salmons, Fran...
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Having ADD is like driving in the rain with bad windshield wipers. The windshield gets smudged and blurred as you're speeding along, but you don't slow down. You keep driving, trying your best to see. Why don't you slow down or, better yet, pull over? That is not the way with ADD. You keep going. Faster is better. It is in your blood (and in your brain).
Having ADD is also like listening to a ball game on a radio station that's coming in with a lot of static. The harder you strain to hear what's going on, the more frustrated you get. Once in a while a static-free interval blesses the airwaves, and you can hear the ball game clear as a bell. A cat may meow in the background, but you know it is just a cat, not more static, and the clear signal from the radio allows you to focus on the game. How good this feels! But then, like an unresolved feud, the static returns, and you become more than frustrated. You get mad. You want to break the radio, or kick the cat, or scream at whatever human makes the terrible mistake of inquiring right then as to how you might be feeling.
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We work to create close relations between the library and the community. Our job is to promote knowledge of the library's functions, resources, services, needs and to improve the library's facilties. We are also the fundraising arm of the library.
What is done with the monies raised by the Friends of the Library?
- We established and continue to maintain the Michigan Book Collection which features books about Michigan and/or written by Michigan authors
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The other day, I was called by a reporter from the New York Daily News to comment on why Bristol Palin appeared to have gained weight despite burning tons of calories during her stint on ABC's popular show, Dancing With The Stars.
As a registered dietitian and past spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association who is not new to media interviews, I was, at first, taken aback and certainly didn't want to say anything to perpetuate the idea that it's ok to judge or criticize a teenage girl (famous or not) about her body weight. I expressed my frustration to the reporter and said something like "I really wish Palin's body weight didn't warrant a public discussion or newspaper article--but that's the media!"
Of course I could have refused to answer the reporter's questions about Palin's supposed weight gain. But as a credentialed nutrition professional who is particularly sensitive to negative or harmful media messages about body weight that can impact girls and women alike, I decided to not comment specifically on Palin's body weight and instead took this as an opportunity to pat Palin on the back for the all the obvious hard work and effort she put forth during her time on the show.
Famous or not, it's hard enough for a young girl to learn how to deal with being in the spotlight whether she's there due to circumstance (her mother ran for vice president AND she got pregnant and became a teen mom), or because she chose to be there (it's likely Palin decided to participate on the show because she wanted to). No matter why Palin's on the show, and why we even know her name, in my opinion a teen girl's body weight should not make for water cooler conversation. Free speech aside, there's no upside or benefit to the morale of girls and women everywhere to be judged by others based on how much they weigh.
Palin is by no means the first, nor will she be the last celebrity to be judged publicly about her body weight--beautiful women like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Tyra Banks (and not so long ago, the magnificent Kate Winslet) have been judged or critiqued about their weight. And what did Love Hewitt and Banks do after unflattering photos and a barrage of cruel weight-related comments surfaced? They lost weight, and got back to a weight that was supposedly "ideal" to the public. Even Oprah has been judged for getting too thin, being too fat, gaining weight, and reaching 200 pounds again last year.
Will the madness every stop--will girls and women be able to just be, without having to worry about everyone telling them how thin or how fat they are, or how much weight they've lost or gained? I know I'll do my best to look for the good and withhold judgement about others, especially females--and teach my young sons, aged 12 and 8, to do the same with their friends and other females in their lives-- because there's little that's more hurtful (and less forgettable) to a young girl than being called fat or otherwise being judged based on her body weight. Perhaps I feel this way because I know too well what it's like to be called "thunder thighs" and to grow up being not so pleasantly plump. It's not a good feeling, and I would never want to do that to someone else.
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"The Descendants" may have led the way with the Denver Film Critics Society's nominations, but it was "The Tree of Life" that won the big prize. Still, Alexander Payne's film won a field-leading three awards, for Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay and Best Ensemble. Check out the full list of winners below.
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Once a week, Alex Poltorak roams the alleyways of Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood hunting for white buckets stashed here and there crammed with banana peels, avocado shells, bits of onions and other colorful vegetable scraps from his customers' kitchens.
In turn, Poltorak deposits at his stops a fresh six-gallon bucket with beige flakes. He gets the chaff from a local coffee roaster. "It helps with the compost smell," he explained.
Formed in November, the Andersonville Community Compost program has attracted some 70 residents who pay $5 per week for Poltorak to pick up their scraps. He hauls the kitchen refuse in his beat-up delivery van to an urban farm in Englewood, a practice that is legal at the state level but illegal under a city ordinance that proponents of urban agriculture are pressing to change.
Since Chicago streamlined zoning laws in 2011 to support urban agriculture, the number of urban farms has grown to 11 from two that year. And as the number of city-backed community gardens has grown to 44, so, too, has the demand for compost and businesses that haul food waste.
But city regulations governing composting haven't kept up with the interest in urban farming or gardening in the city. Some Chicago gardeners simply don't have the space to do their own composting.
"This is ideal for us," said neighborhood resident Lee Herman, 62, of the Andersonville program, run by the Andersonville Development Corp., a local nonprofit. "We are in the city and have a pretty small yard, so there is really not space for a compost pile."
Some suburbs have launched composting programs with mixed results. Last year, Highland Park put on hold its curbside program after a commercial composting facility stopped accepting food scraps. The facility was cited twice by the Lake County Health Department with permit violations relating to odors and operational issues, said Michael Kuhn, the department's solid waste unit coordinator.
In August, state lawmakers amended the Illinois Environmental Protection Act to allow urban farms to accept donations of composting additives such as wood chips or food scraps, a practice that many Chicago farmers were already quietly implementing.
The new rules waive a permit for farmers who dedicate up to 2 percent of their land to composting as long as the fertilizer is not sold, fees are not charged for accepting waste and the compost operation registers with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.
Though it is legal to haul food scraps to commercial composting facilities, Chicago law only allows farms and community gardens to compost materials generated on site and kept in a container. Permits are needed for containers larger than 5 cubic yards, about the size of a garden shed. Gardeners can also compost landscape waste, but the city requires a permit if the compost pile exceeds 10 cubic yards.
Urban farmers say those limits are too stringent. Iron Street Urban Farm in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood said it needs three to five tons of food scraps a week to grow the fruits and vegetables it sells at farmers markets and drugstores throughout the city.
To meet city requirements to process that much vegetable waste, Iron Street essentially had to fill out permits as if it were opening a landfill, said Lauralyn Clawson, youth program coordinator at Growing Power Chicago, the nonprofit that runs Iron Street.
The permit process included providing documents signed off by engineers and environmental experts, an effort that many upstart gardeners and composters wouldn't have been able to afford. Growing Power spent more than $20,000 to get its permit, which it paid for with a grant, Clawson said.
Among the groups pushing the city to bring its regulations in line with the state are the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, a nonprofit that advocates for responsible food and agricultural policy, and the Illinois Environmental Council, an advocacy group representing 50 environmental groups.
Jennifer Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council, said a new ordinance is expected to be submitted to Chicago's City Council "within the next couple of months." Walling said the city looked into amending its compost law when zoning laws were updated in 2011 but waited until state law was first amended.
"We are trying to be as cautious as possible with the laws to avoid problems that can impact the entire industry and get to a point where nothing is allowed," Walling said. "We want as many compost sites as possible, but we want them appropriately overseen to prevent any bad actors."
There are reasons for concern. The state has shut down various composting facilities since it banned yard waste from landfills in 1990. At least one was sued by the state's attorney general for allegedly processing and accepting waste with a permit that had expired.
Peter Strazzabosco, Chicago deputy development commissioner, said the city has had initial discussions about the basic issues of composting.
"I would add that the city would continue to support the expansion of urban ag and entertain ideas that could further promote its viability in Chicago," he said.
A lot of city soil is contaminated, especially in industrial areas where many urban farms have located, so farmers take precautions. To protect its vegetables from Chicago soil, the Iron Street Urban Farm places rows of fertilizer atop a bed of wood chips 2 feet deep that sits on top of concrete.


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COLUMBIA - A busy House panel approved several measures on Tuesday, including updating South Carolina's sex education law, and ensuring cursive writing and the memorization of multiplication tables are taught in schools.
The sex education bill was amended to ensure certified teachers will be instructing students about sexual education and health with information that is medically accurate. It was debated by members of the House Education and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, before several members antsy for its passing, pushed for a vote.
The bill was introduced during the 2013 legislative session by Rep. B.R. Skelton, R-Six Mile, and Rep. Jenny Horne, R-Summerville. It would require reproductive health education to stress the importance of abstinence and contraceptive information must be given in the context of "future family planning."
The law would also ensure school districts comply by requiring they hand over an annual report. Districts face a withholding of 1 percent of their money until they turn over their reports. They will also have to publish on their website information about the materials being used in the classroom.
Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg, a co-sponsor of the bill, said it's time for members of the legislature to realize it is the 21st century, and that the bill simply aims to teach about sexually transmitted diseases, not just pregnancy prevention.
"None of us is for forcing or allowing teenagers to engage in sexual intercourse," Cobb-Hunter said. "But a lot of them are already engaging in it without the benefit of sound medical information."
The passing of the bill by the panel surprised a few lawmakers, especially after it was highly debated while it was on the subcommittee level. In February, a tie vote left the bill in limbo, after receiving strong opposition. During Tuesday's vote, it passed 10-6.
Meanwhile, the Back to Basics in Education Act of 2013 passed with little opposition. It requires adding cursive writing and the memorization of multiplication tables to the list of required subjects of instruction in South Carolina's public schools.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Dwight Loftis, R-Greenville. Cursive writing will not be tested, however, regardless of the law, which would allow districts to pick the materials to be used.
Charleston County School District teaches math according to the 2010 standards, which require multiplication fluency, said Cathy DeMers, K-12 Math Specialist for the district, in March.
In the third grade, students must be able to multiply single digits, such as 9 times 9. By the fifth grade, students must fluidly multiply using the standard algorithm for multi-digit multiplication; in other words, they must be able to solve 782 times 94, for example.
Rep. Joe Daning, R-Goose Creek, a co-sponsor of the bill, has told The Post and Courier he believes in cursive writing and in learning the basics; he voted in favor of the bill once again on Tuesday. Though there was concern about how much time would be allocated for teachers to teach cursive writing, the bill passed with two dissenting votes.
Both bills now head to the House floor.
"I think the bill will get a discussion in the House," said Daning of the Back to Basics Act. "I don't think it'll be much, but it will go."
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Tephrosia chimanimaniana
Detail of a herbarium specimen of Tephrosia chimanimaniana collected from Zimbabwe by H. Wild in 1954.
Species information
Tephrosia chimanimaniana Brummitt
Near Threatened (NT) according to IUCN Red List criteria.
Montane grassland, on quartzite.
None known.
None known (although other members of the genus Tephrosia are known to be poisonous to fish).
About this species
Tephrosia chimanimaniana is a perennial shrub belonging to the pea and bean family (Leguminosae). It is most closely related to T. grandibracteata, a somewhat larger shrub restricted to the broad Nyanga area in eastern to central Zimbabwe.
The generic name is derived from the Greek word tephros, meaning 'ash-coloured', referring to the greyish tint of the leaves resulting from their dense trichomes (hairs). The specific epithet chimanimaniana refers to the region in which it is found – the Chimanimani Mountains.
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Geography and distribution
Restricted to the Chimanimani Mountains in the Chimanimani District of eastern Zimbabwe.
It occurs from the foot of the first mountain range to the quartzite crags, up to at least 2,135 m above sea level. The Chimanimani Mountains contain many plant species that do not occur elsewhere (endemic species).
Overview: Tephrosia chimanimaniana is a perennial shrub 0.3-2 m high. The young branches are densely covered with brown or greyish hairs.
Leaves: The leaves have 5-12 pairs of leaflets. The leaflets are somewhat leathery and up to 30 × 10 mm. The stipules (appendages at the base of leaf stalks) are narrowly triangular and 4-5 × 1-1.5 mm.
Flowers: The attractive, deep pink to purple flowers are borne in subspherical terminal heads exceeded by the leaves. The bracts are large and usually conspicuous, and are up to 14 × 9 mm. The whitish, hairy pedicels (stalks of individual flowers) are 5-7 mm long. The calyx is 7-10 mm long, with a dense covering of brown to whitish hairs. The petals are 13-15 mm long. The stamen tube is about 9 mm long. The ovary and style are covered in short, fine hairs.
Fruits: The details of the pods are unknown.
Threats and conservation
There are no known conservation measures specifically for Tephrosia chimanimaniana, but it is known to occur within the Chimanimani National Park. Because its distributional range is restricted to an area of only about 180 km², it has been rated as Near Threatened (NT) according to IUCN Red List criteria. Samples of seed should be collected and stored as an ex situ conservation measure.
Fire is one of the principal factors governing the distribution of the plant communities of the Chimanimani Mountains, but it is not known whether it represents a specific threat to Tephrosia chimanimaniana.
Illegal gold mining occurs within the Chimanimani National Park boundaries, and can lead to habitat degradation.
Further research and fieldwork is recommended to better understand the conservation status of, and threats to, T. chimanimaniana.
Conservation assessments carried out by Kew
Tephrosia chimanimaniana is being monitored as part of the 'Sampled Red List Index' project, which aims to produce conservation assessments for a representative sample of the world's plant species. This information will then be used to monitor trends in extinction risk and help focus conservation efforts where they are needed most.
This species at Kew
Pressed and dried specimens of Tephrosia chimanimaniana are held in Kew's Herbarium, where they are available to researchers from around the world, by appointment. The details, including an image, of one of these specimens can be seen on-line in the Herbarium Catalogue.
References and credits
Brummitt, R.K., Harder, D.K., Lewis, G.P., Lock, J.M., Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2007). Flora Zambesiaca, Volume 3: Leguminosae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Contu, S. (2009). Tephrosia chimanimaniana. Assessment using IUCN Categories and Criteria 3.1 (IUCN 2001). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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