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Poyet has already agreed to loan out David Vaughan, with Nottingham Forest in pole position to finalise a deal for the Wales international midfielder.
Now Wickham is the next name on the list, and the 20-year-old forward is set to finalise a move once his destination is decided.
Sky Sports understand that up to half-a-dozen Championship clubs have made contact with Sunderland, who are now assessing the options.
Sunderland and Poyet want Wickham to play on a regular basis, and that is believed to be the main consideration when it comes to deciding which club he will join.
The England Under-21 striker, who spent time with Sheffield Wednesday last season, has started one league game for Sunderland this season.
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Shooting on the road, whether it's on vacation or on assignment, introduces a variety of considerations for photographers of all levels. How do you store the shots, back them up, edit and enhance images in the field, and then merge those images with your master library at home? In this course, Ben Long addresses these topics and more from the perspective of several field-shooting scenarios, including city vacationing and backcountry hiking.
The course takes a look at the hardware and software issues behind field shooting: assessing storage and backup needs, evaluating GPS geotagging options, surveying power and charging issues, and more. After discussing each of the components, Ben shows how they fit together in different field setups, ranging from an extravagant laptop-based system to a no-computer setup that backs up photos to a compact digital wallet device. The course also spotlights some workflow strategies to consider when you get home, from transferring photos to merging them with a larger photo library.
There are a lot of reasons to travel: the opportunity to see things you haven't seen before, to explore different cultures, to meet different kinds of people. And of course, it might give a reason to by new lens, or maybe you already have a lot of lenses. Either way you're going to need to think about what lenses are appropriate for the type of trip that you're going on. Now if you're going on the type of excursion where you've got someone else to carry your stuff and you're going to be living in someplace where there is plenty of storage, then maybe you go ahead and take all of your lenses with you. Most of us though, if we have a selection of lenses, need to take a subset of those lenses where you're trying to travel little more lightly and only carry what we're going to need.
That means that we have to really make some decisions ahead of time about what is going to the best lens choice to take. Obviously if you're not taking a SLR, this is not an issue that you'll face. So where do I start what I'm looking a whole bunch of lenses like this and trying to pick out just two or three that are going to be appropriate for my next excursion? I start by trying to predict what it is I might be shooting. Now in some cases this is very simple. If you're going on a trip for a very particular reason--I'm going to Africa to go on safari, well, then safari, you're going to get a nice long lens, preferably one with stabilization, because when you're zoomed in real tight that stabilizer can make a big difference.
Or maybe you're thinking I am going to go wander the streets of Paris and street shoot like Cartier-Bresson. Well, then maybe you want to take a 50 millimeter just like he did, or maybe you want to hedge your bets a little bit and give yourself an easier time and take a nice a walk around zoom lens that can go a little bit wide to a little bit telephoto. Either way the first step is to determine what it is you might be shooting and pick lenses that are appropriate. Now obviously there are times when you don't know what you might be shooting. Or you're thinking, well, I am thinking I am going to shoot this, but there is a possibly that that will happen and I want to be ready. With that in mind, let's consider the different characteristics of lenses and the things that you'll be weighing here. First of all, there is focal length.
Obviously, longer lenses give you more telephoto power. If you don't normally shoot fine details, if you normally don't shoot things that are far away, then maybe you don't need to worry about that. If you're thinking, well, there's little chance there might be something, it still may not be worth carrying an extra long lens if it's not something that you normally use. At that point, consider your camera. What's the pixel count on your camera's sensor? Does it afford you a lot of cropping capability? If it does then maybe you can get away with the moderate telephoto length of your walkaround lens and just know that you'll have to crop a bunch.
It'll limit your final print size, but if you're not planning on blowing thing up a real big, maybe that doesn't matter. In addition to focal length there is lens speed. Are you going to be shooting a lot in low light? Are you going to be shooting a lot at night? Are you going to be wanting as much depth-of-field control as possible? In that case you, may want to go with a really fast lens. Now the problem with a really fast lens is it's going to be physically much larger. This is a 50 millimeter lens, but it has a maximum aperture of 1.2. All of the glass that's required to get that really wide maximum aperture results in a lens that's very, very large.
It's actually larger than this 85 millimeter lens, which is a physically longer lens in terms of focal length. So these are the trade-offs I'm playing with here. Well, I want a fast lens, but my bag is already heavy, because I decided to go with a long telephoto. So what you may want to do is mix it up. Take maybe one really fast lens, something really in the middle of the focal length range. That's a nice thing about a fast 50 is it's a pretty versatile lens, and then I don't need such fast lenses on my other focal lengths. For example, I have on here 24 to 105. That's an F4 lens.
Not super fast, but it's a good average maximum aperture that's going to be good for the bulk of my shots. If I do get into a low-light situation, I knock on the 50 millimeter one too and have some good low-light capability. Another option here that I use a lot, this is a nice wide zoom. This is a 16 to 35. That's a 28 lens. So it's still pretty fast. It's a good complement in my 24 to 105. So with these two lenses, I've got a focal length range of 16 to 205 millimeter with about a third of that at a really fast maximum aperture.
So these are ways that I can balance different ends of the focal length range with faster or slower maximum apertures and come out with something that may work well in one situation or another. So these are just the sorts of thought processes you need to go through. If you're having to winnow down a big selection something smaller. What are you possibly going to shoot? What focal lengths do you usually use? Do you need a fast lens? If so, can you augment some focal lengths with other lenses that are a little bit faster.
You can probably find that you can mix and match these things, keep the weight down, and get it down to just two or three lenses.
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Topic: Austrian Bundesliga picks 6-7/11
Innsbruck vs Mattersburg
Innsbruck are at the bottom of the form table and I believe Mattersburg could manage to win this one.
Mattersburg win.
Kapfenberg vs LASK Linz
LASK Linz have been very weak recently but the hosts have failed to convince me in their recent games.
Over 2.5 goals.
Ried vs Austria Vienna
Austria Vienna are at the top of the form table, but Ried have not been too weak recently either. Should be entertaining.
Over 2.5 goals.
Rapid Vienna vs Sturm
Sturm have very strong away form and I believe they could manage to beat Rapid Vienna in this one.
Sturm win.
W. Neustadt vs Salzburg
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Alex Rodriguez announced in a statement Thursday that he is ready to play for the New York Yankees and put his feud with the team over the diagnosis of his quadriceps injury behind him.
"I think the Yankees and I crossed signals," A-Rod said in a statement. "I don't want any more mix-ups. I'm excited and ready to play and help this team win a championship. I feel great and I'm ready and want to be in the lineup Friday night.
"Enough doctors, let's play."
Rodriguez, according to a report by CBS Sports.com's Jon Heyman, was being evaluated. He's in Tampa, where is rehabbing from the quad injury at the team's facility.
General Manager Brian Cashman had a statement of his own. "It is the Yankees' desire to have Alex return to the lineup as soon as possible."
All righty then.
A-Rod's decision to seek a second opinion on the injury, which the Yankees' doctors in New York determined Sunday was a Grade 1 strain, set off the front office. Dr. Michael Gross, who conducted the second exam, told WFAN's Mike Francesa on Wednesday that A-Rod was healthy. The Yankees angrily countered by suggesting that the second opinion violated the collective bargaining agreement and a report surfaced that Gross had been reprimanded for "failing to proper patient treatment" in a steroids-related case.
The Yankees and A-Rod can't even agree on whether and when he might have sought a second opinion, which makes General Manager Brian Cashman's suggestion that A-Rod "shut the [expletive] up" last month look like pillow talk.
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see so much hate in the world,
Religion has gone astray...
Every tear drop that falls is for another person that has passed away...
knowledge is power but it can also bring pain.
The world is so misguided you can even see the blood in the rain...
You can hear God crying aloud in the thunder and feel the quake of his anger.
Letting the devil take control only increases the danger...
But stand tall my sister and brother.
It's up to us to make a change not our president.
Its up to us to find the cure not depend our government.
Education is the key to unlocking many doors.
But they don't want that so they keep us down by starting many wars.
"United as one, divided we fall"
Then why is our law enforcers mistreating our people of color and pinning kids against the wall.
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McLaughlin leads Hilltoppers past East
The R-S Central Lady Hilltoppers soccer team looked impressive Tuesday as they defeated their cross-town rivals East Rutherford 7-0 at home.
The Hilltoppers took command as Emily McLauglin began what would be a constant assault on the East goal.
A sharp pass from McLaughlin to Taylor Williamson led to the Hilltoppers first goal with just 1:45 off the clock.
McLaughlin followed that with a goal of her own at the 33-minute mark to make it 2-0. It took just four minutes to score her second goal of the game on a long strike that sailed over the outstretched arms of the Cavaliers goalie.
Emily Wilson got into the scoring action with a free kick that hit the post but ricocheted off of the East goalie and rolled in.
A second goal by Wilson pushed the lead to 5-0 and the first half scoring was capped by McLaughlin's third goal of the game giving Central a 6-0 halftime lead.
"We got after them pretty hard tonight," Coach Rumfelt said after the game, "Everybody got to play a lot tonight."
The Cavaliers first shot on goal didn't come until the the 35-minute mark of the second half. "Leah King and Emily Wilson really controlled the middle tonight and that don't show up as much," stated Rumfelt.
The second half was more competitive as Justine Greene took over at goalie for the Cavaliers. Her aggressive play turned away a handful of shots by the Hilltoppers until Freshman Karsyn Kearns sailed one in just under the cross beam to finish the scoring at 7-0.
"She'll stay in the goal. She catches everything that comes at her," East head coach Neil VanDyke said of Greene's performance,
"To go from six (points in the first half) to one in the second, I was impressed," VanDyke said after the match.
East will be in action next on Friday at 5 p.m. as the travel to Cherryville.
The Hilltoppers will visit Chase Thursday for a 5:30 p.m. start time.


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It's Emmy night! Which means that television's best and brightest get to shine like stars. Unfortunately, some of those stars showed up looking like they didn't know they'd be on television. Except for Zosia Mamet, of course, who gamely decided to add a censor box over her nipples for the network television audiences.
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By and large, our favorite television stars do look divine tonight, but for some reason, Lily Rabe showed up looking like she's wearing two sheets taped together. Amanda Peet is modeling three different styles of Victorian lingerie at the same time. Oh, and Malin Akerman showed up in a wedding dress torn to shreds by my cat.
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Rampage rookie named AHL all-star
: January 17, 2013
Rampage rookie center Drew Shore was selected to play for the West against the East stars in the Dunkin Donuts AHL All-Star Classic on Jan. 28 in Providence, R.I. Shore, 21, is tied for the team lead with 29 points in 39 games.
Meanwhile, the NHL parent Florida Panthers returned five players, including Shore, to the Rampage from their training camp in Coral Springs, Fla. Also reassigned were forwards Quinton Howden and Jon Rheault, along with defenseman Colby Robak and goaltender Jacob Markstrom.
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DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's cross country team held steady at No. 9 in this week's Northeast Region Poll that was released Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
UNH, which has now been ranked ninth for three consecutive polls, was victorious at the 21-team Albany Invitational held at the University at Albany on Oct. 16. Seniors Sydney Fitzpatrick (Billerica, Mass.) and Erica Jesseman (Scarborough, Maine), freshman Elise Beattie (Woodstock, Ill.) and senior Allison Letourneau (Kingston, Nova Scotia) placed second, fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 177-runner field in times of 17 minutes, 38.00 seconds, 17:51.90, 17:53.30 and 17:56.30.
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Hi Guys,
The question I have about this is more geared toward the math... as I have not been able to nail down the correct formula for rotating the turret of my tank.
First, I DO have rotation working across an authoritative server/client configuration so that is not the problem I am having. The problem I am having, is the point at which the calculates the rotation from.
The player can move using the standard WASD and it is top down. The player uses the mouse to "Aim" the turret of the tank(no rotation speed, it simply snaps to place) and it should point toward the mouse location based on the mouse position on the screen, and I think that is where I am running in to problems.
I guess lets just post the code instead of me rambling.
As you can see there are a lot of commented out lines, as I have been trying everything. And what is happening is the "point" at which it calculates the rotation is down and to the left(screen wise) from the center(where the player is).
I assume it is because the server "screen" sees something different. Any help on this is appreciated.
Thank you
EDIT: I don't know that it makes a difference, but the server is running in Batchmode. It might because as i recall before we started running it like that, it worked ok.
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It looks like the problem is that the mouse position is in screen coordinates, while you game is running in "world" coordinates. You have to convert the mouse position into world coordinates before you do anything with them.
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In the past week, I've been asked by three different women, on three different occasions, if I was a model. One went so far as to call me "totally modelistic." While I'd like to let this attention go to my head, one thing prevents me from being able to do so. That's because they were all completely hammered when they paid me the compliment. Oh well, I'll take what I can get.
Here are two pictures from last Thursday night. The first features some of indie film's finest: Matt Dentler, Brian Brooks, and Eugene Hernandez…
This is Louis Schefano. Too bad you weren't at Galapagos to experience the world's greatest living songwriter. www.myspace.com/lou-is
On Saturday, I was a good boy and blocked out the world in order to write-write-write. The new-and-improved PING-PONG SUMMER is almost finished. But I said I wouldn't talk about that stuff anymore, so I'll leave it at that.
Yesterday brought another magical New York City wedding. This time, it was my good buddy James Dawson and his amazing wife Ruby. During the reception, something funny happened. My friends Dan Busch and Ed Cusati magically morphed into the coolest band ever. I don't know their name and they haven't written any actual music, but based on these pictures alone, I think it's safe to call them this century's answer to Hall & Oates. Actually, the pics are reminiscent of the artwork to Sammy's "Tales of Great Neck Glory," which is an unsung classic from the '90s. Rediscover that one while you're at it.
I'll leave you with today's quote of the day, from the esteemed Matthew Ross:
"There's no loathing like self loathing."


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The 10-million-year sapphire hard disk
- By Sebastian Anthony on July 13, 2012 at 8:25 am
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A multidisciplinary team of scientists, anthropologists, archeologists, artists, archivists, and linguists have put pen to paper and come up with the ultimate long-term storage solution: two 20cm (8in) sapphire disks, molecularly fused together, with a thin layer of inscribed platinum in between. The disk is expected to have a lifetime of 10 million years.
As you have probably assumed, this 10-million-year hard disk (well, it is very hard, and it is a disk) has nothing to do with computers — rather, this is all about passing important messages to future archeologists. Complex storage devices such as flash drives are no good: There's just no way of guaranteeing that a future human (or alien?) race will be able to decode the data. With the sapphire disk, up to 40,000 miniaturized pages of text or images can be inscribed in the platinum — and all you need to read the data is a microscope, which hopefully future civilizations will still have access to.
The basic need for such insanely durable storage solutions stems from our use of nuclear power. Nuclear reactors produce radioactive waste that needs to be safely stored for up to 1 million years. A variety of solutions have been proposed — including my personal favorite: disposing waste near subduction zones, so the waste is carried into the core of the Earth — but none have yet been implemented. Once we finally choose a disposal method (mile-deep boreholes are likely to win), we need some way of warning future societies where we've buried the waste.
That's where the sapphire disk comes in: In theory, once you've chosen a site to dump the radioactive waste, you would leave a lot of markers buried around the dump site, warning future archeologists and builders that they should stop digging. Until now, the plan has been to engrave warning signs in rocks or lumps of concrete — but this is a problem if the future civilization speaks a different language. With a sapphire disk, you could encode the warning message into every form of written human communication, including words, pictograms, and diagrams. This is why linguists and artists are involved in the project.
The sapphire disk could also be used for other, non-nuclear purposes, of course. Most notably, as a modern-day Rosetta Stone — if we want to preserve and pass on the wealth of knowledge that humans have so far accumulated, we have to ensure that the future inhabitants of Earth actually understand our language. The Rosetta Stone helped us translate ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and thus unlocked the bulk of Egyptian history for our perusal — and the sapphire disk would serve the exact same purpose, but for English, Chinese, Spanish, and so on.
Read more at Science, or about M-Disc, the DVD made out of stone that lasts 1,000 years
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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4ZJAUY7SCW2GO2E2B6XLLUWTEM Woofie
Hmmm… good science, here, and vitally needed technology.
Here's a few thoughts:
How much of humanities 'documents' have already been digitized and the original info (paper, etc.) was destroyed ? How much information, now, only exists on digital media ?
Next, perhaps, think: EMP, solar flares and other data destructive fields or particles. Hmmm…
How many folks out there have, at least once, lost vital data because of 'not backing up your computer' ?
See where I'm going with this ?
Most of today's storage media couldn't even come close to lasting 100 years much less 1,000 years. What if there is a near-future cataclysm ? Be damn nice to have the data available to re-learn and re-educate a decimated world.
Lot's of Sci-Fi has dealt with this problem and the possible ramifications of humanity being in a 'reboot' mode after devastation by natural or man-made disaster. Quite a few stories deal with the concept of – 'no longer having the knowledge to do anything complex' due to the information loss. Most of these stories are not 'pretty' and can show how the loss of 'some' technologies may not be re-achievable due to the technology domino effect. (…having to master multiple steps to reach a goal– good example: a computer. What if 100% of the tech to burn a silicon chip was lost ?)
I'll close with a silly but pertinent example of loss. Did you know that all of the original specs for the 6502 processor were lost ? Seems everyone thought that someone else was 'archiving'. Of course no one cares about the 6502 as it is obsolete. And, in a wonderful example of modern archeology they have been able to reconstruct the circuitry by, literally deconstructing some chips.
I'll close with that thought.
"Everyone thought someone else was archiving…"
Another idea would be to keep the data in several places, outside the Earth. Bury it on the moon, for example.
Since I am in that business, I can comment. The electronic representation of complex microcircuits depends not only on archiving of the design but also the complete design environment, including the CAE software. The company I worked for used Daisy CAE in the 1980s. When Daisy went out of business, we were completely unable to open or read the design databases that we had carefully archived. It is heroically optimistic to even claim that a Word, WordPerfect or Wordstar document, much less an HDML one would be intelligible in a hundred years time.
John Pombrio
Uh, we already have this technology for while. It's called a ROCK. Chisel it into the surface and its good to go!
http://profiles.google.com/khimera2000 Jonathan Freeman
There's a problem with rock, look at the pyramids. If any of these stones get exposed to the elements during the life span of the, you can bet that there will be erosion.
Size constraint. There's a reason why there's LOTS of different stone carvings, and that's because you can only go so mall. When you get small enough for all the information, then it becomes to delicate to last, you go larger, then it becomes to big to store safely. It would be difficult to protect fine print for the time frame these scientist are thinking of. Having 50 suitcase sized saphire disk has a much better chance of actually making it to the end of life then 4 or 5 buildings.
There talking about using this as a medium to help people understand our languages not just one. To do all that in stone would require a massive facility, resources that can be used to better fortify the actual Nuke waist.
Stone is a good option when your thinking Ancient Egypt time frame, but where not talking about that, where talking about a time frame that is much longer.
how about tempered glass?
The technology is neat, the justification isn't. According to the IAEA, the total radioactivity per ton of reactor waste decays in about 600 years to that of natural uranium ore if the fuel is recycled. If no recycling is done, then the decay time is about 150000 years but well short of the million year mark. The data are in the chart "Radioactive waste decay time" in http://www.iaea.org/…Dec…/29_IAEA_Monti_FR_SMRDec2011.pdf
http://profiles.google.com/khimera2000 Jonathan Freeman
Egypt was only 5,0000 years ago, and the first stone pyramids fro them where dated in 2700BC give or take…
ya the million mark is a little extreme, I do think the technology is justified, we do need some way to send a message on how dangerous this stuff is. 150,000 looks like the number of years they have to shoot for, we haven't made anything that last that long.
Miles Fagerlie
I agree with Paul that the technology is great and may have some applications for archival storage, but so-called spent fuel will be sought after by future generations who have more advanced technology. Unless cheap transmutation is developed, what we call waste material will have significant value as other sources of the radioactive materials are used up.
The concept behind making a message that will last millions of years is interesting. I'm not a geologist so why Sapphire? I know it's very hard, but is it that much cheaper to grow an 8″ sapphire than an 8″ diamond? Platinum seems like an interesting choice as well. Does it survive better when completely protected from all the elements than cheaper materials do?
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this project. In a million years, the only intellectual remnant of our current civilization is a warning written a thousand different ways about nuclear waste that will no longer be radioactive in hopes that a few people that dig a hole a mile deep don't die from getting too close to it. I think the money spent on what sounds to be very expensive disks would be better spent feeding starving children. Or, you could just tell me where these disks are buried. I won't dig them up, I promise ;)
It's interesting how clever some people get to justify an expectation of money on an ongoing basis. And the suckers really fell for this. This is like one of those "bridge to nowhere" deals.
amazing how "vital" we think our modern technologies are. At no time in the
history of mankind have we depended on advice or "wisdom" discovered
in some "time capsule" scenario from long dead ancestors. We find old manuscripts and carvings, of
course, but they're always considered quaint, never vital.
do we think that in the future, contrary to every conceivable representation of
the future, man will be living in some stone age or middle ages equivalent, and
somehow come upon this "message in a bottle" (see "The Gods Must Be Crazy")
and…know what to do with it? They might
put it on an alter and start worshipping it.
They'd basically have to have the
same technology as we do now just to read it, in which case it would be
absolutely redundant! Or maybe one
in their midst would have some foresight, much like we do regarding the
pyramids – the riddle of which we're still trying to solve DESPITE A DEGREE OF
Nick Jihad
You may underestimate the degree to which ancient manuscripts written by classical Greek and Roman scholars, faithfully re-copied over many centuries by Catholic monks, helped to usher in the Enlightenment. Recommend you read a fascinating book "The Swerve" by Stephen Greenblatt.
The author states " if we want to preserve and pass on the wealth of knowledge
that humans have so far accumulated…" Does anyone besides me find this
to be strangely oxymoronic? At any point in the future, the accumulated
knowledge up to any previous date, would be redundant! (Assuming that progress
is continuous, but that's the way it's always been so why assume it would be
different in the future?) What we should
be doing is looking for some "time capsule" strategically placed by
our DESCENDENTS, intended for us to find and that will allow us to leapfrog into
some wonderful future thereby sparing us so much time and effort! Time and
effort that are obviously better used to do….what?
So you're saying there is absolutely no point in knowing what happened in the past. You are a complete and utter moron. Why learn about dinosaurs put those bones back into the dirt, it only taught us about evolution. How did they build the pyramids? No clue, wish they wrote this shit down for our generation to find.
So you're saying there is absolutely no point in knowing what happened in the past. You are a complete and utter moron. Why learn about dinosaurs put those bones back into the dirt, it only taught us about evolution. How did they build the pyramids? No clue, wish they wrote this shit down for our generation to find.
Tom Horsley
Yea, and how many of those markers left by the ancient Egyptians warning people to stop digging were obeyed? Those are treated more like "dig here!" signs by archaeologists.
Most people take an educated guess and assume the Egyptians weren't capable of producing a highly toxic or massively destructive force, and then burying it in the earth.
It only worked for thousands of years… But those years don't count right?
http://disqus.com/sdmitch16/ sdmitch16
I think the only tomb that wasn't raided was King Tut's and that only because they couldn't find it
Well we put warning signs all over our shit, and most people from our own society obey them. Not much of a stretch of common sense to think those signs are meant for civilians instead of them predicting their own downfall thousands of years later thinking signs would keep people out. Let alone fathom what an archaeologist is.
this is quite well written, but was it written by a moron. I assume the author has done some sort of journalism course and maybe some creative writing classes, hence the 'well written'. they clearly have no idea what they're talking about or comparing it to. being stuck for ideas and having seen this mentioned somewhere (in an article on another website or magazine), creatively constructed this catastrophe of intellectual mind goop. WHAT IS THIS and why am I crying!
To be fair, Western Civilization, the Americas, the Indian subcontinent and China have suffered cultural collapses. The interregnum between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the European Renaissance haunts the West. Medieval European culture was convinced that the ancients knew much more than they did and it wasn't until the sixteenth century that they were clearly wrong. China had repeated civilizational collapses, notably the end of the Han in the second century. Population based on census collapsed 71% in the century that followed. Having a imperishable "library" to recover from such catastrophes is a cheap and potentially invaluable gift to our (or somebody else's) descendants. In a science fictional context, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle talk about such things in "Mote in God's Eye".
There's one thing to remember about technology. It advances regardless what happens in human affairs. Plot the technological achievements of mankind on a curve, and they will trend upward in spite of wars, natural catastrophes, and economic turmoil. Technological evolution is just an extension of the natural evolution of the universe.
What exactly do we need to tell a future society that they wouldn't be intelligent enough to come upon on their own? Maybe this is why the "aliens" aren't landing to give us "The Answer". It's obvious to them that we're "getting there" well enough on our own. The development of any society should be continuous. Like the aging process itself. Do you want to suddenly go from 15 years old to 55? There needs to be continuity. Time is linear. That linearity must be maintained, I believe, so there's a huge argument to NOT deliberately leave messages to the future.
Is every future society doomed if it lacks our particular degree of technical sophistication and knowledge? Who are we to alter the course of some future civilization? Who are we to judge whether a future civilization is developing "quickly enough"?
Besides techniques that concern farming, food preservation and storage, germ theory, what else would a society really need to know? (Likewise what knowledge do we really need from "aliens" that so many people are waiting for?)
Most modern technologies are so closely tied to warfare, would future civilizations be better off without them if it meant a more peaceful existence?
Our inventions are adaptations to our environment and geography and weather, which in turn are constrained by resources and our intelligence, and will probably all be meaningless to some future mutation of modern man.
It seems that Man is intelligent enough such that you don't need to THINK FOR HIM. No future iteration of mankind will be looking for a "message from the past" any more than we are right now looking for a "message from the past".
We are not going to "save" some future civilization that would be otherwise lost. This is a ridiculous and misguided idea of people who have way too much time on their hands. Whoever is paying these people to sit around and think this stuff up should fire them all and pay me to walk their dogs.
http://profile.yahoo.com/I2UI4AHM53NXWHNY76IEL2BKUI Liam
An appeal to probability is a logical fallacy.
The unique constellation of events that led to the emergence of technological society are unlikely to be repeated. And yes, even today, we spend a lot of time looking for "messages from the past". It's an academic subject called: "History".
Providing comprehensive details of our technological society, warnings an' all, could provide (in the context of a globally disruptive event) a means for our species to return to a technological society, that might otherwise not be possible.
Consider these time capsules, at worst, an insurance policy for our species; at best, consider them a rich source of curiosities for future archaeologists and historians to study.
What a rube you are! History is not "looking for messages from the past!" There is no "insurance policy" for our species. Why do we think that years of bad decisions, whether through policy or not, can be magically "undone" – by ANY means? It's foolish to think that "planting secrets" is the secret to our survival.
Barry Ferguson
Shut up.
"Probably". Brilliant. So why did we need the Rosetta Stone to understand heiroglyphs? oops that's your entire argument instantly demolished.
What a rube you are! The "rosetta stone"? What nonsense! We leaped into the modern age because someone "read" stone-age grafetti?
What a rube you are! You see, I need a modern rosetta stone to understand your comment. It is called a dictionary today.
After looking this word up, I understand that I just wasted a chunk of time. Thank you.
Hubert spring
If the underlying purpose of encoding this information in sapphire was to preserve the information for a ten million, or a million, years so as to warn then existing civilizations of the presence of radioactive materials buried deep below, shouldn't we assume that ten million years, or a million years, from now civilizations would have geiger counters or more advanced radiation detectors that would adequately warn them of the presence of radioactive substances? If they don't have this technological ability, there's a good chance they won't understand radioactivity either, and its dangers. This technology may be useful for other purposes but it hardly seems useful for the purpose intended originally.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XMS2RNVZI2WJXS5TI7PQTXWZUE Magic Rat
Hmmmmmmmmmm,verrrrrrry interesting but………………..
Edward O'Shea
Yeah, but what's gonna read it? I can't even get my 3.5″ Risk game from 1994 to play on Windows 7, and they are both DOS based!
Erica Kensho
Barring some cataclysm, in a thousand years humans should have the technology to replace or regenerate any damaged body part, so radiation won't be a concern. If you get exposed, you go into the repair chamber for a "shower", like in that movie Elysium. Heck, in a thousand years we should have found a way off this rock.
How long until looters dig them up, pull apart the platinum and sapphire and sell them?
Paul Bahre
In a million years ? Will the earth even exist?


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Tony LeBarge, director of technology, KOST USA, Inc., says that today's steel mills need HFCs with a number of key characteristics, including the following:
OPTIMAL WATER CONTENT. The water content provides the primary fire resistance. A minimum of 35 percent water is typically required to maintain optimum fire resistance. Too much water can adversely affect pump performance and cause premature failure. For this reason, less than 41 percent water is recommended.
SHEAR STABILITY. As machine and maintenance practices improve, there are greater demands on fluid. The higher pressures, temperatures and flow rates, along with reduced down times, expose the fluid to more shearing stress. This can result in permanent viscosity loss, which can make equipment more susceptible to premature failure. The correct choice of customized or optimized polymer thickeners will become increasingly important.
CORROSION CONTROL. Because they contain a high proportion of water, HFCs have a greater tendency to corrode ferrous parts. A fluid properly formulated with corrosion inhibitors will reduce or prevent this. However, the area of most concern is where the fluid does not come in contact with the parts needing corrosion protection. Due to elevated operating temperature and the volatility of water in the fluid, water vapor tends to condense into the cooler-head space of components such as reservoirs and storage tanks. This is why many fluids contain vapor-phase corrosion inhibitors. The challenge is to maintain the proper levels throughout the fluid life. These inhibitors are designed to evaporate and protect the metal surfaces from corrosion due to water vapors. The challenge is to select a corrosion inhibitor that volatizes slowly enough to maintain protection over an extended service application.
Sidebar 2 from Fire-Resistant Fluids Cover Story from July 2013 TLT


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Maccabiah Games as an athlete, and 20 years later as a rabbi
Twenty years ago, before he was a rabbi, Daniel Greyber went to Israel for the first time to compete at the Maccabiah Games. He was captain of the U.S. swim team and medaled at the 1993 Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish sports competition held every four years. The experience changed his life. This summer he went back, in a different role. Greyber served as chaplain for the U.S. delegation of 1,150 athletes, held last month in Israel.
Greyber, who is rabbi of Beth El Synagogue in Durham, described being chaplain as "spectacular, really, really wonderful and special, and an extraordinary experience." He has many highlights, including a ceremony for about 100 athletes who grew up Jewish but did not have a bar or bat mitzvah.
"It was extremely moving. For me, one of the highlights of my rabbinate, being a rabbi," said Greyber, describing the scene that included song and the sunset over the mountains of Jerusalem.
The U.S. delegation arrived in Israel a week before the Maccabiah Games started, and they visited places like the Western Wall, a holy place that is the remaining outer wall of the Second Temple from 2,000 years ago.
"It's a place a lot of kids have seen in pictures," Greyber said, and were then able to see in person. In 1993, he put on tefillin – boxes containing scrolls, with straps – to pray. In 2013, he saw a group of young men putting on tefillin for the very first time there, too.
"Even though I've been to the Western Wall many times over the past 20 years, going back with the Maccabiah team confirmed there's a whole set of awakenings taking place in a sweet and extraordinary way," Greyber said.
Another memorable moment was seeing Aly Raisman, the U.S. gymnast who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and dedicated her floor routine to the Munich 11, the Israeli athletes and coaches killed at the 1972 Olympics. Raisman was invited to the Maccabiah Games to light the torch at the opening ceremony.
"It was amazing to see her light the torch, her first time in Israel," Greyber said. Raisman joined the U.S. team on tours, and he met her at the Dead Sea. "That was a neat thing," he said.
Greyber also saw swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale, who won two gold medals in the 2008 Bejing Olympics and was selected as flag-bearer for the U.S. at the Maccabiah Games.
At the end of the week U.S. athletes spent touring Israel together, there was a banquet before the teams headed to their hotels. The flag-bearer was announced, and Weber-Gale grabbed the flag and ran around the room with everyone cheering.
Weber-Gale said the past week had been the most meaningful week in his life, Greyber said.
Being U.S. chaplain at the games was very humbling, Greyber said.
"There were certain moments in the trip I felt it was where I was supposed to be and what I was supposed to be doing," he said. "This was something I was definitely well-suited to do and called to do," he said.


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Aug 12, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Members of the University of New Mexico swimming and diving team had their share of experiences this summer that are sure to come in handy as the second season under Coach Kunio Kono inches closer. From participation in the USA Diving National Preliminary Zone D Championships to swimming at the US Open, the team is sure to use the exposure to world class athletes to their advantage as Kono released the schedule today.
A quick look back at the summer session paves the way for the 2013-14 season.
Senior diver Megan Harper placed first off the 1-meter with a score of 254.25 and fifth off the 3-meter with a final tally of 233.50. Her performance was enough to propel her on to the USA Diving AT&T Senior National Championships that start tomorrow and run through the 18th in Iowa City, Iowa.
The same goes for swimmers Jorgi Hobson and Ashley Blanchette who swam their signature events, the 100 butterfly and 100 breast; these distances being long course as opposed to the usual 100-yards swam at the collegiate level. The competition was world class but the swimmers will no doubt use the experience this upcoming season. Hobson finished 72nd with a time of 1:04.44, while Blanchette was 58th clocking a time of 1:14.47.
One of the newer Lobos, volunteer assistant coach Naoya Tomita, made the biggest splash after the 2010 World Champion in the 200 breaststroke placed third in the same event with a time of 2:11.83. His experience on the world stage will surely come in handy as August gives way to September when the team goes into high gear.
The Lobos' season unofficially kicks off the 14th of September when they have a Cherry vs. Silver intra-squad meet where fans will have a small preview of the hard work the team has been putting in this off-season. The real fun begins however on October 15 when Air Force comes to town.
UNM took down the Falcons last year 167-143, the victory was not only the fourth straight victory over Air Force, but it was the first win of the Kunio Kono era.
The team will head to Flagstaff three weeks later, on the 26th of the month to battle Northern Arizona and have a quick turnaround as they host the Bears of Northern Colorado on Halloween.
A second long break sneaks in as the Lobo swimmers will again train for three weeks before they host a quad meet with Grand Canyon and Mountain West affiliates Wyoming and Nevada Nov. 22-23; during this time the divers will partake in their annual trip to Tucson for the Wildcat Diving Invitational, which has seen them be successful many times in the past.
After the quad meet and the diving invite the Lobos have the standard wintertime break which will be broken on the 4th of January as the team will travel to sunny Miami to face the Panthers of Florida International University for the first time in school history.
The trend of away meets will continue for UNM throughout the first month of 2014 as they battle BYU, Colorado State and participate in the Air Force Diving Invitational before returning home and hosting intrastate rival NMSU on Feb. 1st for Senior Day.
Following the Rio Grande Rivalry Meet the team will do their usual two week taper before heading to the Mountain West Championships taking place in San Antonio, Texas the 19 through the 22 of February.
With the schedule full of tough opponents and the experience of this past summer, the Lobos and Coach Kono are looking forward to a winning season.


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CWW's new Director, Dr. David Addiss, introduces us to this month's issue of the Quarterly Dose and the exciting future of STH control. In it, we explore the changing world of STH control; CWW announces its partnership with GlaxoSmithKline; we introduce new leadership and learn about opportunities for the STH Advisory Committee; we discuss ways to engage the education sector in STH control; and we learn about CWW's work with Bolivia to pilot a deworming program.
Click the Read More link below to read the complete Letter from the Director.
The last few months have been ones of dynamic change and increasing global momentum to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH). Most notable, perhaps, was a meeting in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2012, which was marked by the release of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases.
At the meeting, several major organizations, including pharmaceutical companies, bilateral aid agencies, private foundations, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, pledged to "chart a new course toward health and sustainability among the world's poorest communities to a stronger, healthier future." More specifically for STH, they committed themselves to "expand and extend drug access programs to ensure the necessary supply of drugs and other interventions to help control STH by 2020."
As part of the London Declaration, both Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline pledged to extend until 2020 their donations of mebendazole and albendazole, respectively, for STH control. Together, they have committed to donating up to 600 million treatments each year through 2020—almost 5 billion treatments! The potential impact on the health of children worldwide is hard to imagine. Children Without Worms (CWW) looks forward to working with our many partners to be good stewards of the donations and to ensure that they benefit those most in need.
In this edition of the Quarterly Dose we are pleased to announce the strengthening of our partnership with GlaxoSmithKline, which has joined Johnson & Johnson and the Task Force for Global Health to support CWW. The partnership between Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline marks the first time that two pharmaceutical companies have collaborated to provide, free of charge, the same class of drugs for the same condition (STH) on such a massive scale. CWW is privileged to be part of this bold new venture in global health.
In his book Lila, the American writer and philosopher Robert Pirsig reflects on the nature of change and its relation to quality, which he describes as either dynamic or static. One experiences dynamic quality during periods of great change; without dynamic quality, individuals and organizations cannot grow. In contrast, static quality provides structure; without static quality, individuals and organizations cannot last. Both are required for life, but Pirsig considers dynamic quality to be superior.
I imagine that Pirsig would find himself very much at home with the dynamic growth that is now unfolding for global STH control. I invite you, the reader, to peruse this issue of the Quarterly Dose and taste this dynamic quality for yourself.
David Addiss MD, MPH
Children Without Worms


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During her time overseas, Jeanne traveled extensively, covering the third Indochina War between Vietnam and Cambodia as well as the Seoul and Sydney Olympic games. She began several relief projects for children and refugees and has personally delivered more than five tons of medical supplies to orphanages throughout the world. She serves as a visiting professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University, in L'viv, Ukraine.
Jeanne serves on the board of directors for First Night Alexandria, the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and the Alexandria Sportsman's Club. She is a member of the National Press Club, American Legion Post 24 and Rotary International, and is the media representative for the City of Alexandria's Local Emergency Planning Commission. She loves travel, technology and trivia and dreams of one day writing headlines for the New York Post.
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So I was doing a photoshoot for my footwear brand the other day and the photographer who's a good friend of mine had just came back from LA. Before he left to the States he asked me is there anything in the States he could bring back for me. So having just seen the new Old Spice deodorant commercials i had to try it out! lol... So i asked my friend to bring me back a stick..When my friend returned he had it for me during the shoot and begged me to take a pic holding the deodorant imitating the guy in the commercial.... hahahaSo here is the pic and if you haven't seen the actual commercial check it out below.. It's HILARIOUS!!!
THE DREAM - WEARING ANDROID HOMME IN HIS NEW MUSIC VIDEO "Love King"
Video was Directed and edited by Javier Laval and the Lookbook shot by photographer Sarah McColgan. We celebrate the release of five new styles and the launch of accessories for Android Homme's Spring 2010 season, the video is part of the new campaign. Please see below, visit Vimeo link, and let us know what you think. I will be sending product shots follow-ups this week."Shapes and symbols have been a method of communicating and comprehending theunknown since the beginning of time. Android Homme brings you a brand video that utilizes some basic symbols and shapes to outline the process of reprogramming. This piece, directed by Javier Laval, is intended to stimulate and trigger memories from our ancient past to our near and distant future."Realize. Redefine. Reboot. Reprogram. Android Homme.ANDROID HOMME SPRING 2010 from Javier Laval on Vimeo.
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Rhonda Schember included this in her column published Jan. 16, 2013.
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided 12 jumbo shrimp, peeled and deveined 2 medium shallots, roughly chopped 11/2 tablespoons fresh minced garlic 1/4 cup white wine Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon 1/3 cup tomatoes, seeded and diced 2 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped Kosher salt and freshly ground white pepper 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
1. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add the shrimp, shallots and garlic. Saute 3 to 4 minutes. The shrimp will begin to plump a bit. 2. Add the wine, lemon zest, lemon juice, and 4 more tablespoons butter. Reduce the heat and gently saute the shrimp until the sauce thickens and shrimp turns pink. 3. Combine tomatoes and parsley and add salt and pepper to taste. Add barbecue sauce and toss well. Transfer the shrimp to a serving platter and serve with a small bowl of sauce on the side.
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Per serving: 208 calories, 18 grams fat, 0.4 gram fiber, 5.2 grams protein, 4.8 grams carbohydrate, 164 milligrams sodium, 79 milligrams cholesterol Values are approximate.


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Vinyl flooring comes out on top
Consumer Reports tests flooring
Consumer Reports put several types of flooring through a battery of tests, and the best vinyl beat all other flooring, including wood and laminate.
They tested for wear and tear, staining, scratching and fading.
The flooring that performed best was Armstrong Alterna Mesa Canyon Stone Sun. It mimics and color and texture of real stone and sells for about $5.50 a square foot.
There are some safety concerns with vinyl. Especially when newly installed, it can emit volatile organic compounds, VOCs, substances linked to health problems and pollution.
Vinyl flooring that has the industry's "FloorScore certification" indicates it emits relatively low levels of VOCs. The recommended Armstrong has that certification.
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Last night while the attention of the city of Chicago was centered on the Hawks and Bulls playoff contests, the White Sox got a huge boost from the most unlikely of places during their 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees.
Late in the game Tuesday night, Ozzie Guillen made a pretty typical Ozzie move, pinch-running for Carlos Quentin with speedy utility-man BrentLillibridge. Lillibridge then remained in the game in right field as a defensivesubstitution.
In the ninth inning with a one-run lead, Lillibridge made back-to-back spectacular plays, robbing Alex Rodgriguez and Robinson Cano of what would have been game-winning doubles with runners on first and second.
Ozzie Guillen, to say the least, was impressed, as evidenced by his post-game interview.


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Anibal Sanchez
Roche: Random Thoughts With Red Sox A Win Away From World Series
Some random Red Sox thoughts after Boston's 4-3 Game 5 win in the ALCS in Detroit Thursday night.
McAdam On Gresh & Zo: No Sense Of Panic For Red Sox After Game 4 ALCS Loss
Red Sox insider, Sean McAdam joins Gresh & Zo to break down the Red Sox Game 4 loss in the ALCS and discusses potential changes to the lineup proceeding in the series.
Roche: Turning The Page To Game 5
Dan Roche passes along a few leftover thoughts from Game 4, and looks ahead to Thursday night's ALCS Game 5.
Shaughnessy With Gresh & Zo: Game 3 Expectations
Boston Globe columnist, Dan Shaughnessy joined Gresh & Zo to recap the first two games of the ALCS and look at tonight's Game 3 pitching matchup.
The Walkoff: Tigers Hold Red Sox To Just One Hit In 1-0 ALCS Game 1 Victory
The Red Sox didn't get a hit until the ninth inning, and the Tigers won 1-0 in Game 1 of the ALCS.
Anibal Sanchez Makes History With Four Strikeouts In First Inning Of ALCS
Anibal Sanchez made history in the first inning of Game 1 of the 2013 ALCS.
Red Sox Live Blog: Tigers Take Game 1 After Boston's Rally Falls Short In Ninth
The ALCS is here in Boston! Follow along for updates all night from Game 1!
Lester-Sanchez Set To Face Off In ALCS Game 1
A look at the Game 1 pitching matchup in the ALCS.
Red Sox ALCS Rotation: Buchholz To Start Game 2, Lackey Gets Game 3
The Boston Red Sox switched up their rotation just a little bit for the ALCS against the Detroit Tigers.
Marlins' Fire Sale, Trade For Jacob Turner Will Help Team In Long Term
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There are currently lots of different gun parts kits available. soon they will be gone or priced out of reach. now is the time to start getting some kits for the future. the ones that interest me at the moment are:
MG15, there is a 80% receiver available and the conversion is in the works. ther ar to types of kits air cooled and water cooled available, I was told only 200 aircooled kits were imported, this will be a rare gun to have and a worthwhile project
Maxim, semi conversion should be available soon, lots of cheap ammo available
Vickers, semi conversion in the works, another rare gun
MG13, no conversion in the works as far as I know but worth looking into.
Breda, semi approved or will be shortly
Bren, an approved conversion exists but not much build info available.
What are you interested in? lets get a list going and do some research to get them built


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Course No. ACD344.1 Credits: 3.0
This class will take a cultural perspective to the architectural and design traditions of the United States. The primary emphasis will be on the domestic environment and its furnishing, though church and civic buildings will play their less part in the story. European antecedents and elite architecture will be included, of course, but we will pay particular attention to the vernacular traditions of various ethnic groups (or cultural regions) and the way in which these traditions adapted and accommodated the above influences, in both architecture and its furnishings. (Based on this historical knowledge, students will have the option of designing housing or other products for recent immigrant groups in the United States.) This course will follow these traditions into the modern world with attention to the development of suburbs as a social phenomenon, and of Craftsman, Prairie, Art Deco and Populous styles (the look and life of America in the '50's and '60's from tailfins and TV dinners to Barbie dolls and fallout shelters, to my own tract house childhood.) Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.
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When Howard Schnellenberger talks about the impact of Florida Atlantic's new on-campus football stadium that opens Saturday, he often ends talking about Louisville.
Schnellenberger spent 10 years as coach of the Cardinals (1985-1994) and despite leaving four years before Papa John's Stadium was built there, he is credited with laying the groundwork that made the stadium possible.
"I have no way to be a judge or prognosticator as to what will happen in Boca Raton, but I do know the things that are going to happen are going to be damn good," Schnellenberger said.
That's because Schnellenberger saw what happened in his home town once Papa John's Stadium was completed.
"It's been a great success story. It had a monumental impact on the city and the university," Schnellenberger said. Schnellenberger said Louisville was more of a commuter school than FAU was when he arrived. "It was in a downtrodden part of Louisville," he said.


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Green Mountain College Becomes Cow Power Campus
Poultney, Vermont (October 26, 2006)- In a state where it's often theorized there are more cows than people, Green Mountain College believes it may now be the nation's first cow-powered campus. The sustainably-focused liberal arts college of 750 students has just announced its enrollment in Central Vermont Public Service's Cow PowerTM program, through which the utility delivers energy created from burning methane from cow manure on Vermont dairy farms.
This initiative helps the college do its part to address global warming by reducing its carbon emissions by 3500 metric tons, or the equivalent of removing 758 passenger cars from use for a year.
The College has committed to designate 50% of its main campus as Cow Power and 100% on all its other accounts, which include the president's house, the college farm, the college inn and alumni house, and an off-campus residence hall in Killington, VT. Total Cow Power enrollment will be approximately 1.2 million kilowatt-hours annually.
"This is a great step for us toward a sustainably-powered campus," said Provost Bill Throop during a tour of the Blue Spruce farm in Bridport, VT Thursday. "We are very happy to be supporting not just renewable energy, but also the regional economy and the family farms that are so important to the Vermont way of life. It is a good fit with our mission, and departments across campus are supporting the project from their own budgets because they feel it's a priority."
College officials were drawn to the idea that, unlike standard renewable energy certificates (also known as "green tags"), which simply ensure that renewable power is produced somewhere, Cow Power has the added benefit of being a regional program where students and employees can actually see the farms where the power is being generated and learn about the process. "We want our students learning how to support sustainable communities right here in Vermont and this helps us lead by example," Throop says.
Other air and water quality issues are also significant. Farm methane that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere is 20 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Additionally, the methane digestion process removes harmful pathogens from the manure making it much safer in the event of an accidental spill into a body of water.
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Rochell Moore and Amy Hilgemann knew they weren't volunteering for light duty when they campaigned for no-pay, high-risk jobs on the school board. When they won on the basis of promises of reform, they joined a board that included Harold Brewster, a member since '97 who had been known to take shots at the district's status quo. In a May 23 memo to Superintendent Cleveland Hammonds Jr., Brewster referred to Hammonds' "ineptness" in dealing with the board in the matter of air-conditioning city schools.
That memo was too critical of Hammonds for Bill Haas, who in June refused to vote for Brewster for board president, saying he was too harsh on the super. Brewster failed to win the presidency on two ballots that night, and some surmise he was pissed that Moore, Hilgemann and Haas didn't back him. Hilgemann was nominated on the second ballot but failed to win. At the July 10 meeting, to the befuddlement of many, Hammonds spoke glowingly of Brewster and, in another turnabout, former opponent Bill Purdy nominated Brewster, who won by acclamation.
Since that vote, Brewster has not shown much love, or respect, for Hilgemann and Moore, the board's dynamic duo of reformers. "He's not recognizing us at meetings, he's not returning our phone calls, he's not allowing us to put items on the agenda and he's having us investigated," Moore says. My, how Harold has changed.
The charge of being "investigated" refers to an apparent request by Brewster for the board's attorney, Ken Brostron, to look into any possible violations of policy or law Hilgemann or Moore may have committed when they were meeting with school-district employees about the budget. "I have no comment on that," says Brewster. "I have no comment on it." Brostron also declined to comment on any request by Brewster for an investigation. But Hilgemann and Moore are talking.
"Brewster was trying to imply that we had unlawful meetings, that we were using our authority as board members to intimidate people to give us information or wasting people's time in meetings," says Moore. "That's not what occurred at all. We worked in concert with people. We asked questions. We worked with the superintendent; he set up some of the meetings."
Hilgemann is annoyed at Brewster's tactics and describes his recent behavior as "not very stable."
"It's so petty," Hilgemann says. "We used to talk to Harold all the time when we were working on the budget, so he knew exactly what we were doing. He told Brostron that there were all these rumors we were holding secret meetings with staff. No. 1, you don't have an investigation based on rumors, and No. 2, he knew that wasn't true."
Whatever Brewster's motivation, Hilgemann believes what he's doing is a violation of state statute. "He cannot prohibit us from doing our job, and that's what he's trying to do," she says.
The most blatant bludgeonwielded by new president Brewster and his backers from the old guard was their refusal to allow Hilgemann and Moore to present their budget recommendations. The two had prepared a PowerPoint presentation and a 47-page report, "2001 Budget Recommendations." Brewster, ex-president Marlene Davis, Purdy and Paulette McKinney all voted to limit discussion to five minutes per board member, thereby preventing the presentation. "People in town don't realize what a kangaroo court the Board of Ed is," says one veteran school-board observer. "It's embarrassing. They could have allowed Amy and Rochelle to give their presentation and then steamrolled over them, but they wouldn't even let them do that."
Speculation is that Brewster was promised funding for an auditorium at his alma mater, the new Vashon High School, and given two other budget items he wanted, including an expansion of individual auditing. Brewster denies selling out to the district administration in exchange for anything.
"I didn't make any commitments to anybody -- nobody," he says. "I told them right then and there at the meeting, 'This doesn't commit me to anybody. If you want to take your votes back, take them back now, because I'm not for sale. I'm my own person.'"
Maybe so, but Brewster the outsider became Brewster the insider pretty quickly.
A July 18 memo by Hammonds to board members, advising them to direct all requests to staff and employees through Hammonds, makes perfect sense to Brewster. "No board member can just go around talking to staff and get information. That's very disruptive; that's why you have the policy," he says. "They call that micromanaging when you're trying to manage staff. You just don't do that."
Moore sees Brewster's directives as a clampdown that blocks legitimate efforts at reform. "He's being ill advised. He's not working with us; he's doing things to hinder us," she says. "He's trying to lock us out and obstruct us from serving as board members. It's a power play."
Moore was recently critical of Hammonds' acceptance of a trip to Cancun that was paid for by Maritz Inc., the motivational company that had donated free trips to principals of schools where attendance had increased. The trouble is, overall attendance was down slightly in the provisionally accredited district. But because there are far bigger fish to fry in the St. Louis Public Schools, Short Cuts thinks the trip was no big gig. The superintendent of the largest school district in the state deserves a little R&R, particularly if some suburban corporation is paying the freight.
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