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July 11, 2001
Congress may soon decide to increase the
standards for fuel economy imposed on manufacturers of vehicles
sold in the United States.1 This would be a
1975, Congress reacted to the 1973 oil embargo imposed by the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by
establishing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Program as
part of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The goal of the
program was to reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil and
consumption of gasoline. Advocates also hoped it would improve air
quality. But the evidence shows that it has failed to meet its
goals; worse, it has had unintended consequences that increase the
risk of injury to Americans. Instead of perpetuating such a
program, Congress should consider repealing the CAFE standards and
finding new market-based solutions to reduce high gasoline
consumption and rising prices.
There is significant pressure on Members
of Congress, however, not only to continue this failed program, but
also to raise fuel efficiency standards even higher. The current
CAFE standards require auto manufacturers selling in the United
States to meet certain fuel economy levels for their fleets of new
cars and light trucks (pickups, minivans, and sport utility
vehicles, or SUVs). The standard for passenger cars is currently
27.5 miles per gallon; for light trucks, it is 20.7 mpg.2
Manufacturers face stiff fines for failing
to meet these standards based on the total number of vehicles in
each class sold, but compliance is taken out of their hands. The
government measures compliance by calculating a sales-weighted mean
of the fuel economies for the fleets of new cars and light trucks a
manufacturer sells each year, and it measures domestically produced
and imported vehicles separately.
Clearly, the CAFE program has failed to
accomplish its purposes. Oil imports have not decreased. In fact,
they have increased from about 35 percent of supply in the
mid-1970s to 52 percent today. Likewise, consumption has not
decreased. As fuel efficiency improves, consumers have generally
increased their driving, offsetting nearly all the gains in fuel
efficiency.3 Not only has the
CAFE program failed to meet its goals; it has had tragic even if
unintended consequences. As vehicles were being made lighter to
achieve more miles per gallon and meet the standards, the number of
fatalities from crashes rose.4
Politicians should stop distorting the
marketplace with unwise policies and convoluted regulations and
allow the market to respond to consumer demand for passenger
vehicles. In addition to free-market considerations, there are
other compelling reasons to reject the CAFE standards. For
evidence is overwhelming that CAFE standards result in more highway
deaths. A 1999 USA TODAY analysis of crash data and estimates from
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that, in the years
since CAFE standards were mandated under the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act of 1975, about 46,000 people have died in crashes
that they would have survived if they had been traveling in bigger,
heavier cars.5 This translates
into 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained by the
While CAFE standards do not mandate that
manufacturers make small cars, they have had a significant effect
on the designs manufacturers adopt--generally, the weights of
passenger vehicles have been falling. Producing smaller,
lightweight vehicles that can perform satisfactorily using
low-power, fuel-efficient engines is the most affordable way for
automakers to meet the CAFE standards.
than 25 years ago, research established that drivers of larger,
heavier cars have lower risks in crashes than do drivers of
smaller, lighter cars.7 A 2000 study by
Leonard Evans, now the president of the Science Serving Society in
Michigan, found that adding a passenger to one of two identical
cars involved in a two-car frontal crash reduces the driver
fatality risk by 7.5 percent.8 If the cars differ
in mass by more than a passenger's weight, adding a passenger to
the lighter car will reduce total risk.9
Evans findings reinforce a 1989 study by economists Robert Crandall
of the Brookings Institution and John Graham of the Harvard School
of Public Health, who found that the weight of the average American
automobile has been reduced 23 percent since 1974, much of this
reduction a result of CAFE regulations.10 Crandall and
Graham stated that "the negative relationship between weight and
occupant fatality risk is one of the most secure findings in the
safety literature."11
Harvard University's John Graham
reiterated the safety risks of weight reduction in correspondence
with then-U.S. Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) in June 2000. Graham
was responding to a May 2000 letter distributed to Members of the
House from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
(ACEEE) and the Center for Auto Safety.12 Graham sought to
correct its misleading statements, such as its discussion of weight
reduction as a compliance strategy without reference to the safety
risks associated with the use of lighter steel. For example, an SUV
may be more likely to roll over if it is constructed with lighter
materials, and drivers of vehicles that crash into guardrails are
generally safer when their vehicle contains more mass rather than
less. Further, according to Graham, government studies have found
that making small cars heavier has seven times the safety benefit
than making light trucks lighter.
evidence clearly shows that smaller cars have significant
disadvantages in crashes. They have less space to absorb crash
forces. The less the car absorbs, the more the people inside the
vehicle must absorb. Consequently, the weight and size reductions
resulting from the CAFE standards are linked with the 46,000 deaths
through 1998 mentioned above, as well as thousands of injuries. It
is time that policymakers stop defending the failed CAFE program
and start valuing human lives by repealing the standards.
Advocates of higher CAFE standards argue
that increasing miles per gallon will reduce gas consumption. What
they fail to mention is the well-known "rebound effect"--greater
energy efficiency leads to greater energy consumption. A recent
article in The Wall Street Journal noted that in the 19th century,
British economist Stanley Jevons found that coal consumption
initially decreased by one-third after James Watt's new, efficient
steam engine began replacing older, more energy-hungry engines.13 But in the ensuing
years (1830 to 1863), consumption increased tenfold--the engines
were cheaper to run and thus were used more often than the older,
less efficient models. In short, greater efficiency produced more
energy use, not less.
same principle applies to CAFE standards. A more fuel-efficient
vehicle costs less to drive per mile, so vehicle mileage increases.
As the author of The Wall Street Journal article notes, "[s]ince
1970, the United States has made cars almost 50% more efficient; in
that period of time, the average number of miles a person drives
has doubled."14 This increase
certainly offsets a portion of the gains made in fuel efficiency
from government mandated standards.
Proponents of higher CAFE standards
contend that increasing fuel economy requirements for new cars and
trucks will improve the environment by causing less pollution. This
is incorrect.
Federal regulations impose emissions
standards for cars and light trucks, respectively. These standards
are identical for every car or light truck in those two classes
regardless of their fuel economy. These limits are stated in grams
per mile of acceptable pollution, not in grams per gallon of fuel
burned. Accordingly, a Lincoln Town Car with a V-8 engine may not
by law emit more emissions in a mile, or 10 miles, or 1,000 miles,
than a Chevrolet Metro with a three-cylinder engine.
noted by the National Research Council (NRC) in a 1992 report on
automobile fuel economy, "Fuel economy improvements will not
directly affect vehicle emissions."15 In fact, the NRC
found that higher fuel economy standards could actually have a
negative effect on the environment:
Improvements in
vehicle fuel economy will have indirect environmental impacts. For
example, replacing the cast iron and steel components of vehicles
with lighter weight materials (e.g., aluminum, plastics, or
composites) may reduce fuel consumption but would generate a
different set of environmental impacts, as well as result in
different kinds of indirect energy consumption.16
Improvements in
vehicle fuel economy will have indirect environmental impacts. For
example, replacing the cast iron and steel components of vehicles
with lighter weight materials (e.g., aluminum, plastics, or
composites) may reduce fuel consumption but would generate a
different set of environmental impacts, as well as result in
different kinds of indirect energy consumption.16
will increasing CAFE standards halt the alleged problem of "global
warming." Cars and light trucks subject to fuel economy standards
make up only 1.5 percent of all global man-made greenhouse gas
emissions. According to data published in 1991 by the Office of
Technology Assessment,
A 40 percent
increase in fuel economy standards would reduce greenhouse
emissions by only about 0.5 percent, even under the most optimistic
A 40 percent
increase in fuel economy standards would reduce greenhouse
emissions by only about 0.5 percent, even under the most optimistic
NRC additionally noted that "greenhouse gas emissions from the
production of substitute materials, such as aluminum, could
substantially offset decreases of those emissions achieved through
improved fuel economy."18
CAFE program has failed to achieve its goals. Since its inception,
both oil imports and vehicle miles driven have increased while the
standards have led to reduced consumer choice and lives lost that
could have survived car crashes in heavier vehicles.
CAFE standards should not be increased. They should be repealed and
replaced with free market strategies. Consumers respond to market
signals. As past experience shows, competition can lead to a market
that makes gas guzzlers less attractive than safer and more
fuel-efficient vehicles. That is the right way to foster energy
Charli E. Coon, J.D., is Senior Policy
Analyst for Energy and the Environment in the Thomas A. Roe
Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage
1. The Subcommittee on
Energy and Air Quality of the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce is scheduled to hold a mark-up session on the Energy
Advancement and Conservation Act of 2001 (no bill number yet
assigned) on July 11, according to the CQ Daily Monitor , July 9, 2001.
2. The original standards
were 18 mpg for cars and 15.8 mpg for light trucks up to 6,000
3. Jerry Taylor and Peter
VanDoren, "The Illusion of Energy Efficiency," CATO Today's Commentary , April 24,
4. James R. Healey, "Death
by the Gallon: Push for Better Mileage Raises Death Tolls," USA TODAY , Special Reprint Edition,
reprinted from MONEY , July 2,
1999; based on previously unpublished fatality statistics from the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety.
5. Ibid .
6. For example, "Since
1974, domestic new car fuel economy has increased 114 percent from
13.2 mpg to 28.3 mpg, and light truck fuel economy has increased 56
percent from 13.1 mpg to 20.5 mpg." See H. Sterling Burnett and
Eric Peters, "Will Minivans Become an Endangered Species," National
Center for Policy Analysis Brief
Analysis No. 232, June 4, 1997.
7. See Leonard Evans,
D.Phil., "Causal Influence of Car Mass and Size on Driver Fatality
Risk," American Journal of Public
Health , Vol. 91, No. 7 (2001). The author cites three studies
from 1971-1974, including a study presented at an international
conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration.
8. Ibid .
9. Ibid .
10. Robert W. Crandall and
John D. Graham, "The Effect of Fuel Economy Standards on Automobile
Safety," Journal of Law and
Economics , Vol. XXXII (April 1989).
11. Ibid ., p. 110.
12. John Graham, letter to
Senator John Ashcroft, Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation, U.S. Senate, June 13, 2000.
13. Kimberley A. Strassel,
"Conservation Wastes Energy," The Wall
Street Journal , May 17, 2001.
14. Ibid .
15. National Research
Council, Automotive Fuel Economy: How
Far Should We Go? (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press,
1992), p. 7.
16. Ibid ., p. 84.
17. Office of Technology
Assessment, U.S. Congress, Changing by Degrees: Steps to Reduce
Greenhouse Gases (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1991).
18. National Research
Council, Automotive Fuel Economy, p. 84.
Congress may soon decide to increase the standards for fuel economyimposed on manufacturers of vehicles sold in the United States.This would be a mistake.
Charli E. Coon
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Map of the inhabited part of the state of Maine, exhibiting the progress of its settlement since the year 1778, the representative districts since the year 1820, and the population and valuation of taxable property in each district at the year 1820, by Moses Greenleaf and printed by Shirley & Hyde of Portland, Maine, 1829. Engraver William Chapin.


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USA orders 16 new episodes of L&O: Criminal Intent
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Of course, that's assuming everything stays the same. According to USA, the actors are still unsigned for the new "season." Deals are being done with Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Noth, Eric Bogosian, Julianne Nicholson and Kathryn Erbe right now, so keep your fingers crossed.
Interestingly, last season because of the Writer's Strike, CI episodes were used on NBC, helping the network through the work stoppage. That repurposing (don't you love it when the TV business invents new words?) could happen again in the second season if certain NBC dramas don't perform up to expectations. You see, no matter what some people think of the Law and Order franchise, it's tried and true and a sure-thing for NBC and USA.
And contrary to popular belief, they are not all the same. CI is much more quirky and idiosyncratic that L&O proper. SVU has a lot more character introspection. The finale of L&O the other night showed that it's the only one that veers into politics (and should more often).
The summer schedule of CI begins June 8 at 9 o'clock, providing a lead in for the new USA's original drama, In Plain Sight, starring Mary McCormack as a U.S. marshal working for the federal witness protection program.


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Ever since I installed Linux I've had a nagging problem with my 56k serial modem. I could connect to my ISP but my throughput was horrible and I could not log into sites like Yahoo and PayPal. Also, at times the modem would stop completely; not disconnect, just stop transmitting and receiving. I figured out the problem last night. First, a quick rundown on hardware:
Old HP PII 350 box with dual hard drives and fluxbox as a WM. 56k dialup connection with a local ISP. I thought the factory serial port was slowing things down so I installed a PCI Serial port card with 16950 UART support. This didn't seem to help at all so I did a little digging and came up with a solution.
First, configure the serial port for higher speed communication:
At a terminal prompt type:
setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16950 port 0xfcc0 irq 2 baud_base 921600 spd_vhi skip_test
Replace the port, baud_base, irq, and uart values for your port.
You will have to place these settings in an initialization script if you want them to stick for every boot.
Next, find the options file for ppp. Mine was at:
Open it in a text editor and uncomment (remove the #) the settings for mru and mtu. Mine were both inactive as a default.
I used:
mru 542
mtu 152
I connected with KPPP and bingo, I could log into every site and consistently download at a stable rate. I'm planning on playing with the mru and mtu values to gain top performance. I'm a happy camper now!
these are also useful tips for anyone that ever wants to use a serial terminal on a box for installs and the like.
The default speed of a serial connection to a sun box... 9600 baud, *yuck*
dial-up is just so slow that you wonder if it is worth the effort
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This large Umbrian industrial town has retained an old quarter dotted with some fine mansions, the church of San Francisco with its 15C bell tower, as well as the palaeo-Christian church of San Salvatore, all huddled around Piazza della Repubblica or along Via Roma in Terni's bustling town centre.
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Cascata delle Marmore (Marble waterfall)
S 79 I - 05100 Terni
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Locanda del Vecchio Maglio
Viale Brin 148 I - 05100 Terni
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Double standard, anyone?
February 14, 2011 - 11:58 am
So I get this email from the Kansas Democratic Party — keep your enemies closer don'tcha know.
REP CONNIE O'BRIEN (R-Tonganoxie)
My son who's a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn't qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn't think that was fair. We didn't ask the girl what nationality she was, we didn't think that was proper. But we could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country.
(30 seconds later…)
REP SEAN GATEWOOD (D-Topeka)
Can you expand on how you could tell that they were illegal?
REP CONNIE O'BRIEN (R-Tonganoxie)
Well she wasn't black, she wasn't Asian, and she had the olive complexion.
Now not to defend O'Brien's comments, which were reprehensible, but remember when our esteemed Vice President Joe Biden said you couldn't go to a 7/11 or Dunkin' Donuts unless you had an Indian accent?
How about the "Clean and Articulate" comment from Harry Reid? O'Brien may just get hounded out of office. Reid and Biden got elected!


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We've already seen most of the footage in this latest clip shared by Pixar, but I can't get enough of the family at the center of Brave. What about you?
Who else would like to see a 'walk-around' Fergus in the parks?
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MONTEREY, CA, JULY 24 - Ducati Marlboro's Nicky Hayden was hoping for better in his return to the track where he's had his greatest MotoGP success.With Hayden and teammate Casey Stoner improving race by race, the winner in 2005 and '06 was hoping to put in a good show in front of the home crowd at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, site of Sunday's Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. And, though teammate Stoner qualified second fastest, Hayden could do no better than seventh best.His lap of 1:21.920 mins. was just under a second off the blistering pace set by Fiat Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo in taking the pole. Only Stoner could challenge the Majorcan and he came up short by .191 secs. Third fastest Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) earned his first ever front row MotoGP starting position with a time that was half a second down on Stoner and .639 secs. off Lorenzo's time."Not fast enough," Hayden said. "I mean, we made this morning really no steps because we went backwards on some stuff. But this afternoon the team did a good job and we were quite a bit faster, but so was everybody else. Only three-tenths off front row, but three-tenth here's a lot and the gap to the front here at Laguna, my home race, is too much, so not happy about it, but we're not going home yet, so come in here tomorrow and try to do something."Hayden change the transmission and a few other things, but nothing seemed to help. His biggest problem was the ultra-fast turn one, more of a rising kink in the front straight than a proper corner. The corner is taken leaned over in sixth gear, but not flat stick."I'm losing a lot of time in turn one," he said. "I cannot feel the front through there and a lot of moving. When I lean it over I get spinning in the rear while I'm still wide open and it starts upsetting the bike, but that's a big problem for me."Hayden was amused that a number of riders tried to tag on behind him. "Yeah, I guess they still think I'm a Laguna expert," while acknowledging that the "home track's knowledge, that was gone. I'd wait on that other red Ducati if you really wanted to get a quick tow."More than once Nicky showed his brother, Roger Lee, the way around. And Nicky watched as Roger Lee almost crashed in the chicane on one of Nicky's out laps."He got in a little hot. Had his foot down, but he just got it stopped," Hayden said. "He may even have went into the dirt. But it was a little close."
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I noticed Glinn Brenok looked at us and I tried to shut up. His eyes returned to his console, but there was a smile on his lips, too. Okay, so I've become the ship's idiot, right? As clever as Zamarran's daughter when she had been four years old.
Oh, how much I wanted to ask about his family. However, I was pretty sure it would be inappropriate.
I concentrated on my task instead. I wouldn't say anything stupid if I would stop talking, that was sure.
Karama approached us with a padd in his hand.
"Zamarran, could you run it through our database?" he asked, handing the padd to the engineer. "There is something familiar in it, but I can't put my finger on it."
"Of course." Zamarran put the padd on his console and downloaded the data.
Karama looked at me and smiled. I smiled back.
"Do you want me to check something specifically?" Zamarran asked him.
"Er, no. I'd rather have the computer confirm my suspicions and maybe answer my questions."
"It's going to take some time."
"That's all right. No rush. Are you going to let her have a meal break?" he asked, nodding at me.
"You hungry?" Zamarran asked me.
"A bit." Among all those new experiences around me I completely forgot about food.
"We don't wait till the end of our duty?" I asked.
"Our duty is quite long, Kapoor," Karama explained. "We are short-handed, so we need to fill double posts and work long hours."
"Oh. Until the evening?"
"That's right. Each day shift and each night shift is divided to alpha and beta shifts."
"Then I'd better grab something. Sir?" I looked at Zamarran.
"Go," he nodded. "Take your colleague," he added a second later.
"Yes, sir. Thank you, sir." I went to Ullmann. "Let's go and eat something."
"Good idea, I'm starving," she replied.
There was some rule, or a tradition, I wasn't sure, but I knew it had to be done.
"Sir." I stood next to the throne and looked at Glinn Brenok. He raised his head to look at me. "Lieutenant Kapoor and Lieutenant Ullmann report end of their alpha day shift." I hoped I did it right.
"Noted," he said and we both headed for the lift.
We had to wait for it, so I heard Karama reporting end of his duty to Brenok. He used exactly the same sentence as last evening. Hmm, maybe it was just this particular phrase that had to be used and I unnecessarily made it so precise and complicated.
Karama joined us and all three of us entered the lift when it finally arrived.
"Did I make a fool of myself?" I asked. "By my reporting of leaving the bridge? Was to too...innovative?"
"It was...unusual, but don't worry about it. You at least tried to follow the protocol."
"Is it a serious offence to leave the bridge without being officially dismissed?"
"Yes, it is quite serious. Even if it's obvious you leave, the officer in charge must be notified."
"I see."
"How is your day so far?" he asked Ullmann.
"It is fine," she replied quietly.
"So what have you been doing?" He moved closer to her to take a look at a padd she kept in her hands.
"Stay away from me?!" Her reaction was violent. I stared at her astonished.
And so did he. He was looking at her, not sure what to do and then asked calmly. "What is your problem?"
"You, you are my problem! Don't you dare to touch me!"
His face expressed total surprise, but then it suddenly changed. At first I thought he was angry, or irritated by her attitude and I thought he felt offended by her rude behaviour, but a moment later he smiled. He squinted his eyes and put his hands on his hips.
"But I would so looooove to touch you," he said in a deep voice.
She gasped and I thought she'd hit him, but the door opened and he left to the corridor. He winked to me on his way out—I liked when he did that.
We entered the mess hall and it was full.
"You two sit here." He pointed to a table, at which two seats were free.
"How about you?" I asked him.
"I'll find something, don't worry." He smiled at me and left, looking around.
"Uffff, I was afraid he was going to join us," Ullmann whispered to my ear to make sure other Cardassians at the table didn't hear her.
"Why afraid? He's nice."
"No, he's not. He scares me; he doesn't take 'no' for an answer and I fear he won't stop on threats."
"Threats? What threats?" Was there something I didn't know about?
"Didn't you hear what he said in the lift?"
"Oh, come on! He was joking."
"I don't think so. It's not the first time he said something like this."
"Don't you remember? You were there too! He talked about my hair."
"Oh, I think I remember. But he only said he liked it."
"Yes, but it's
he said it."
"Oh, you must be deaf, really." She became irritated.
We ate our food in silence. I could see she was upset, but I thought she exaggerated. We were barely in the middle of our meals, when Karama appeared again.
"You finished?" I asked him, not seeing any dish in his hands, therefore assuming he didn't come to join us at the table.
"Yes. I have lots of work today. I just wanted to say 'see you on the bridge.'" He smiled at me. Then he leaned very close over Ullmann and said quietly in a growling, lewd voice, "I look forward to see you again later." Then he made a move like he smelled her hair and left, followed by laughter of a few crewmen, who witnessed the scene.
Ullmann curled on her chair and became visibly smaller. She had tears in her eyes.
"Ullmann, he is not serious," I told her. "Don't let it bother you."
"It's easy for you to say. He doesn't say those things to
"To be honest—you started. Even when he was just neutrally nice you assumed he wanted to rape you then and there. He just started to play your game."
"Why do you defend him?" she shouted.
"Because he is not what you think he is. He is really nice."
"He's a rapist!" she said way too loudly.
A few heads turned toward us.
"This is Cardassia, not Romulus. People are not guilty until arrested, and so far I didn't see him raping anyone, you included." I was getting annoyed.
"Oh, so you'd rather wait for him to do it?"
"Don't twist my words," I said and pushed my plate away. I lost appetite. "I go back to the bridge before Zamarran sends troops for me."
"Fine," she muttered.
She didn't speak to me for the remainder of the day.
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BLM pulls Burning Man's permit; future in question. {April Fools' edition}
BLM revokes permit: Endangered Species = Burning Man.
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Due to past years' impact on rare condor eggs, as well as the Keystone Pipeline being routed through nearby desert, as well as the natural gas industry's discovery of vast, frack-able gas below the surface of Black Rock City, Burning Man has been canceled. The official reason given, however, is none of the above—it's that the BLM is tired of working with "one of the most ecologically-destructive festivals in America.
I called Roger Hickenlooper, environmental activist and younger brother of the once-considered-to-be-environmentally-progressive Colorado Governor, and he spoke frankly. "The US government has tried to encourage Burning Man to become more environmentally-responsible, but they've instituted little other than PR-friend, cosmetic changes. It's a hippie/party/drug festival without a real conscience. The hypocrisy is off the charts."
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I would return the condor eggs if BLM restores the permit…
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Logan Liston commits to Rutgers
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After giving Rutgers a "soft" verbal commitment last week, Logan Liston, a tight end from Katy, TX, gave a firm commitment to Rutgers today.
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Liston wanted to visit Rutgers – which he did today – before giving a solid verbal commitment.
The 6-foot-5, 240-pounder becomes the 17th commit of the class of 2014 and the second tight end.


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some weeks ago, a number of our colleagues became unaccountably busy, disappearing into their offices, holding long, late night telecons, haranguing stressed postdocs
what they had in common was their membership of the LIGO science collaboration
well, social networks report that at the LIGO-VIRGO meeting all was revealed
the LIGO Internal Affairs division had done a blind injection of an artificial realistic gravitational radiation event to see if the data analysis pipeline actually performs as advertised
apparently it did, the blip was picked up, I presume we will hear soon how well they recovered the injection parameters, but in the meantime some postdocs can go get some sleep
false alarm
Amber at Living LIGO has the gritty details – and gave me the h/t that this could be spoken of in public without the LIGO ninjas coming after me,
PS: Dear Very Senior LIGO people:
no one breached confidence on the LIGO event and analysis.
At all.
For reference, consider the Holmes story "Silver Blaze".
Sometimes absence of evidence is itself evidence…


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Why It's Okay to Live Your Life Like a TV Character
I've never considered myself a couch potato or a TV addict, but in my adult life, I find myself often taking the role of television aficionado – offering up suggestions to friends looking for the latest "it" show. My rolodex (figurative, not literal, because no one has those anymore…) of friends can thank me for giving them Community, Parks and Rec, Breaking Bad, The League, Party Down, Homeland, and Downton Abbey, to name a few.
Sidenote: if you are not watching all of the shows named above, quit reading this and go watch them all.
With my long list of television loves, it might be hard to pick a favorite, but I'd have to say my "comfort food" of television has always been 30 Rock. My college roommate, Katy and I used to watch episodes over and over before bed, neglecting our term papers and some weekends just staying in and watching Liz Lemon do her thing instead of hitting up the hot frat parties (in the end, I think this made us better people and not shut-ins).
I've always adored Tina Fey and to be honest, I'd love to have an ounce of the success that she's had. Plus my bestie, the aforementioned Katy, is the blonde, perky Amy Poehler to my Tina Fey, so it works out well. In watching 30 Rock, aside from being entertained and watching some of the most layered and expert comedy in the history of television, I noticed similarities between Ms. Lemon and myself. Furthermore, as more friends started watching the show (at my urging and insistence), the comments came in about me being such a Liz Lemon. And I was cool with it.
Liz Lemon and I, we're cut from the same cloth: We have an undying attraction to food. We like flannel pajamas. We have an impressive amount of sweaters. We have wavy hair that on good days is attractive and on bad days looks like we got electrocuted. We are often unnecessarily expressive. We have successful mentors, who don't quite get us, but know us better than ourselves at the same time. We thrive on crazy. We are perpetually single. We have a major thing for Jon Hamm. We are always trying to have it all.
However, I am not completely delusional and know that we are also different: I am not a successful television comedienne, nor a successful television comedienne on TV based on said successful television comedienne. I am not near 40. I have never run on a treadmill drinking white wine while singing Alanis Morissette on the phone (yet). I have never accidentally roofied someone (nor intentionally roofied someone for that matter…).
I don't remember where I saw it, but there was once "An Open Letter to Girls Who Think They're Liz Lemon," or something like that online. It basically called out girls for obsessing over how similar they were to Liz Lemon. The fact that I can't find it now makes me think that this dude was mauled by a group of Lemonheads (a name for the community of girls who act like Liz Lemon, which I just came up with…). While his goal was probably to get back at an awesome lady he once dated, his comments did spark some thought in me, so he wasn't a complete waste. Is it wrong to live life in a similar way to a television character?
Unequivocally, my answer is no.
Whether the similarities in our lives to the gals on TV are coincidence, intentional, or somewhere in between in our subconscious, we are emulating traits and characteristics that we respect and admire. The ladies before us were called "Murphy Browns" if they were career-driven and independent, or "Elaines" if they were neurotic singletons. And I know we all hate it, but no one with two X chromosomes can admit to never wondering if they were a Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda.
I realize with this endorsement will come the judgment of, "What if young girls watch Jersey Shore and want to be like those ladies?" My comeback is that if girls truly respect and admire Snooki, JWOWW, Deena, and Sammi (yes, I know all of their names), their problems are bigger than resembling their favorite TV characters. And they'll probably be famous in five years and have book deals and develop cookbooks about the best recipes for body shots (which I would totally buy as a gag gift for people, but secretly read through first).
Liz Lemon never leaves a friend hanging and neither do I, so I'll close with this. You can be whoever you want to be and if that is vaguely reminiscent of someone on your TV screen, so be it. Better yet, you be it! Just make sure you look in the mirror before going out instead of the TV. You might end up looking like this…
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(CNN) -- The maker of the highly addictive painkiller, OxyContin, is testing the drug's effects on children. Purdue Pharma says it's not trying to get the medication approved to treat pain in kids, though.
The powerful painkiller has brought relief to millions but it's also made headlines for its abuse. Rush Limbaugh and Courtney Love are among the notable names whose addiction became public.
The latest controversy surrounds a study under way to test the affects of OxyContin on children.
"My concern is the reason they're interested in this research is that they want to get approval to market the drug for use in children," said Dr. Andrew Kolodny with Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.
Doctors have been prescribing opioids like OxyContin to children for years, doing it "off label." In other words, prescribing it even though it's only approved for adults.
The FDA asked OxyContin's maker Purdue Pharma to conduct a study, offering the company an incentive to extend its patent for six months on OxyContin which would translate into huge profits.
The study's criteria on its 154 patients include:
- The child must be between six and 16 years old
- Must be suffering from moderate to severe pain
- Must already be receiving treatment with opioids
Dr. Gabrielle Gold-Von Simson is one of the lead trial investigators. "It's not fair to the child to withhold a treatment that can help them recover and feel better and be productive," said Dr. Gold Von-Simson.
Jeannie Karlitz's son has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. His chronic condition is managed without OxyContin but Karlitz says the study would help parents and doctors make more informed decisions.
"Worrying about the teen getting addicted to OxyContin, because of the clinical trials with children, it's so silly because one thing has nothing to do with each other," says Karlitz.
One recovering OxyContin addict disagrees. He worries the study could lead to more addiction. He got hooked at 18 after a doctor prescribed the painkiller following a baseball injury.
"It's a fine line between is this gonna help or is this gonna create more chaos in the future," said the recovering addict.
First introduced in the late 1990s, OxyContin was promoted as nearly addiction proof. Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to label misbranding and paid $635 million in penalites and reformulated OxyContin.
As fro the study, Purdue says it's not trying to market the drug to children but says the study will look at the "...safety and efficacy in pediatric patients to clinicians who may consider using the product in children with moderate to severe chronic pain."


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for SATB (with divisions) and viola obbligato Beach is taken from the song cycle 'Songs for Seven Storeys', which Bob Chilcott wrote to celebrate the opening of the New Evelina Children's Hospital. Combining a nostalgic melody with a haunting viola obbligato, this introspective song beautifully captures the memory of the seaside.
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Washington — A 73-year-old American woman is on her way to Jamaica to help develop programs to keep Jamaican youth from being bullied.
Dorothy Burrill, of Marion, Massachusetts, will work with the Jamaican Ministry of Education to develop an anti-bullying program with schools and other community stakeholders that work with at-risk youth in the Kingston area, the Peace Corps reported.
"I've been in love with [the Peace Corps] since I heard of it," said Burrill, who has three grown children. "I have six grandchildren. I can't imagine children being able to flourish in an environment [with bullying].
"I love Jamaica and I love the people and I hope that we can make a difference. I hope that we can make it a countrywide program."
Burrill will work with a local community center that provides counseling service to children, adolescents and their families to help establish an anti-bullying curriculum for troubled youth in the provinces surrounding Kingston. The new program will focus on strategies to keep youth safe and find creative ways to engage them in bullying prevention.
She will also help train educators and staff on the new curriculum to help build local capacity and eventually expand to other schools and community groups.
Burrill, who began her six-month service April 30, is the first nonreturned Peace Corps volunteer to serve in the expanded Peace Corps Response program, which offers short-term, specialized volunteer assignments. Historically, the program has been available only to returned Peace Corps volunteers, but a January expansion allows Americans with at least 10 years of work experience and the required language skills to apply for volunteer assignments.
A 37-year-old single mother when she started at Cape Cod Community College, Burrill went on to receive a bachelor's degree in business administration at Boston University in 1981 and a master's in public administration from Harvard University in 1982. She later taught college-level economics, business and social science courses.
Burrill also helped open a women's center and a transitional center for women and men, and procured $1.5 million in grants for education programs in her community.
More than 3,720 Peace Corps volunteers have served in Jamaica since the program was established in 1962, and 58 volunteers now serve in the country. They work in education, community and youth development, environment and agriculture and are trained and work in Jamaican Patois.


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A massive cluster of high-performance computers may have the ability to artificially generate new forms of artificial life, experts believe. Numerous combinations of chemicals are put together in a virtual environment, and their interactions are documented. Silicon Valley scientists propose turning software originally used to search for extraterrestrial life into a comprehensive tool to look for for such possible forms of life, in thousands of computers around the world.
The first initiative that took to people's personal computers was the SETI@Home project, which sifted through massive amounts of data in order to assess the possibility of extraterrestrial life existing among the stars. The project was started by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, program, The New York Times reports. The new initiative is entitled EvoGrid, and its purpose is to search for patterns of self-assembly within computer simulations modeling the evolution of life on the planet.
This tendency is one that is very important to the development of life. When the Earth's primordial soup was filled with large amounts of amino-acids, it was self-assembly that allowed for them to form proteins, and RNA, later on. "The main challenge, is not the generation of some kind of novel molecular interaction. Rather, it's the analysis and trying to see what's going on," Silicon Valley computer scientist Bruce Damer, who first proposed the EvoGrid in his dissertation, says.
The expert adds that the keys to the Grid's success are two open source software projects. One of them, funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), allows experts to take advantage of free computing cycles, available on computers connected to the Internet. For example, 500,000 computers were recently connected through this project, and a total computing power of 2.45 petaflops was obtained. The program is entitled Boinc.
Gromacs is the second initiative. It was developed by experts in the Netherlands, and it is able to detect molecular interactions in computer simulations. It will be instrumental in EvoGrid's plans of creating a simulation of the primordial ocean, which will be populated with virtual, self-assembling molecules. The project will benefit from the huge computational power of Internet-computers, which far exceeds that of any single supercomputer. "We can't build cars and airplanes or even toys these days without computer modeling and simulation, So why not biochemistry?" Damer concludes.


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Hudson River Almanac September 1 - September 6, 2009
The Hudson and Half Moon odyssey of 1609 began 400 years ago this week. Our natural history entries are a mix of native (beaver, black bears, and bobcats), alien (carp and mitten crabs), and threatened species (shad, bats, and box turtle). Much has changed over the last 400 years.
9/2 - Hyde Park, HRM 82: In late afternoon, my head down in my laptop, a noise caused me to look up, and there he was. About thirty feet away, standing to tear down our bird feeder, was a black bear. He pulled down the suet feeder and then lay there enjoying both, mellow as a marshmallow and without a care. He occasionally sniffed the air and at one point meandered to within fifteen feet of us. He stayed in the yard for twenty minutes, and then wandered off to the back woods. The bear had a huge head and paws, beautiful glossy-clean fur, and we estimated that he was three to four times the size of our family dog, approximately 250-300 lb. This was his third visit here in seven weeks.
- Dave Lindemann, Mary Lou Lindemann
9/1 - Newcomb, HRM 302: We have a site that used to be a beaver pond, abandoned for most of the last nine years. Occasionally a young beaver or two would take up temporary residence in the winter and then move on. Last year a couple of new, tiny dams were built and then abandoned. Lately, however, we have had Adirondack Parks Visitors Interpretive Center visitors commenting on the beaver activity. The beavers have built a three-foot-high dam just below the bridge over Little Sucker Brook that feeds into the outlet of Rich Lake, effectively creating Little Sucker Pond. They also repaired the old dam that blew out last winter. The old pond, which was essentially a meadow as of mid-July, is now partially flooded again.
- Ellen Rathbone
9/1 - Albany, HRM 154: With the American shad population in the Hudson River at historic lows, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation [DEC] announced a proposal to close recreational and commercial fishing for American shad in the Hudson and prohibit commercial landings in marine waters. For more information, read the press release including dates of upcoming public hearings.
9/1 - Poughkeepsie, HRM 75.5: I captured a live, newly-moulted mitten crab just above tidewater in the Fall Kill. In the sand right behind the crab was its old shell.
- Bob Schmidt
9/1 - Beacon, HRM 61: It was another carp-less day at Long Dock. I managed to catch and release three channel catfish, each about 16 inches long. Carp were just not biting; I saw only three surface-rolling all day. I was startled by a hummingbird that was staring at me from a few feet away while I was waiting for a bite. At first I thought it was a large cicada.
- Bill Greene
9/1 - Stony Point, HRM 40: We counted a dozen nighthawks, fairly close to the river, from our backyard at dusk.
- Doris Metraux, John Deans
9/2 - Newcomb, HRM 302: We had a hummingbird "trapped" on my porch today. She was quite beaten up; the silly things fly to the top of a window and repeatedly bash themselves against the top of the window, never trying to seek another exit. I took her outside to the gardens for release and for few moments I wasn't sure she was going to make it - her eyes were closing and she was rather listless. Then, suddenly, zzziiippp, and away she flew to the bee balm for some nourishment.
- Ellen Rathbone
9/2 - Rams Horn, Greene County, HRM 112: Paddling from the Hudson into the Rams Horn Sanctuary brought me to a small boat dock where I heard a loud, squawky voice, and saw a black-crowned night heron.
- Fran Martino
9/2 - Sandy Hook, NJ: September 2009 is the Quadricentennial (400 years) of Henry Hudson's voyage upriver aboard the Half Moon in exploration of an inland passage to the west. Hudson was an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company. The Half Moon was a square-rigged sailing vessel with fore, main, and mizzen masts. Its main mast was 78 feet high. The Half Moon weighed 80 tons, had a length-on-deck of 85 feet, with an 18-foot beam and a 9-foot draft. It carried four cannons and eighteen sailors. Robert Juet, Henry Hudson's first mate, kept a journal of the voyage. According to Juet, the Half Moon arrived in the Lower Bay of New York Harbor, near Sandy Hook, on September 2, 1609.
- Tom Lake
9/2 - Jamaica Bay, New York Bight: We had a great day seining at Canarsie Pier where the water was 23 parts-per-thousand salinity [ocean water, at this latitude, is 32-33 ppt]. Our first seine haul near a rocky outcrop produced two tropical marine strays, a spotfin butterflyfish and a feather blenny. Over the course of seven hauls, our catch included: spotfin butterflyfish young-of-the-year [YOY]; feather blenny; northern puffer (YOY); jacks (Carangidae sp.; YOY); striped bass (YOY); Atlantic needlefish (foot-long with snapping jaws!); bay anchovies; menhaden (YOY); oyster toadfish (YOY); striped sea robins (YOY); tautog (3-4 inches long); winter flounder (YOY); bluefish (YOY); northern pipefish (some were males with egg-filled brood pouches); bright green cunners (YOY); northern kingfish (YOY); striped killifish and mummichogs (YOY); Atlantic silversides; hermit crabs, and shore and sand shrimp.
- Chris Bowser, Erik Decker, Chris Mitchell, Liz Wood, Roy Arezzo, Tizoc Gomez
9/3 - Newcomb, HRM 302: It was a "webby wonderland" outside this morning. We had a very short walk to the water tower where the spiders had been busy. There were solid webs on the grass, on the forest floor, and in the trees, including weaver webs. All were soaked with dew.
- Ellen Rathbone, Toby Rathbone
9/3 - Tivoli Bays, HRM 100: You have to be an angler to really appreciate the finesse with which a bald eagle captures and holds onto a fish. It perches patiently on a cottonwood limb watching for movement in the low tide. The challenge comes when it returns to its cottonwood perch to hold the fish with its talons while it tears through scales and bones with its beak. If only I could be so accurate with my filet knife.
- Fran Martino
9/3 - Rhinebeck, HRM 90: This afternoon I heard the tapping of a downy woodpecker. When I looked outside it was tapping just beyond the opening of a wren box. After it flew off, I checked the box. It had been attempting to enlarge the opening, although it had not made much progress. Was it remodeling the box for its own use, or as a winter roost?
- Phyllis Marsteller
9/3 - New Paltz, HRM 78: We have been seeing giant swallowtails in August, even two at one time, both this summer and last year in our yard. We live a mile from Steve Stanne's house [see 8/21/09] with large open fields and the Wallkill River between us. Prior to last summer, we had not seen them previously in the 23 years we have lived here with many of the same flowers available for them.
- Allan Bowdery
9/3 - Garrison, HRM 51: While doing some long overdue weeding of our flower garden, I discovered a tiny box turtle hiding beneath the dense canopy of vegetation. Annual growth rings on the shell revealed it to be just one year old, a seldom seen age class of the Hudson Valley's most terrestrial turtle.
- Ed McGowan
9/3 - Sandy Hook, NJ: Henry Hudson and his crew aboard the Half Moon may have met the native Munsee (Algonquian Indians) for the first time 400 years ago today.
- Tom Lake
9/4 - Minerva, HRM 284: The dogs and I were walking the dirt road this evening down near the swamp behind our house. The birds and the amphibians were quiet. But the bugs were out and and, despite this fact and the twilight aspect of the day, there were absolutely no bats feasting on the bugs. There were no bats in our attic this year and we spotted no bats at their prime feeding spot at the swamp this summer. It is very sad. I did see some bear scat. The beavers have been active all summer, and the water level in the swamp was up. Water shield and white water lily plants were covering the water surface, leaving very few open spots. Blue asters and tall white asters were in full bloom along the road. Although it was a peaceful evening, we miss the bats.
- Mike Corey
9/4 - Germantown, HRM 108: A neighbor called to alert me to a bobcat that he spotted in his yard. It stuck around long enough for a positive identification. Last year a neighbor stopped by to say she'd just seen two young bobcats dashing along the forsythia that lines my yard.
- Mimi Brauch
9/4 - Rondout Creek, HRM 91: I was on the Rondout this evening heading toward the Hudson when I spotted an adult bald eagle rising from the edge of the creek to a bare-branched tree 75 feet east of the Kingston suspension bridge. The eagle perched there for ten minutes as I watched from my boat. The eagle gazed into the Rondout looking totally unfazed by my presence.
- Bill Murray
9/4 - Croton River, HRM 34: The adult common loon and the dark-plumage red-throated loon, first reported a month ago, are still hanging out in the lower Croton River near Croton Bay on most days. Today there were also 6 osprey and 2 adult bald eagles. All of them had menhaden in their talons at one time or the other.
- Christopher Letts
9/4 - Verrazzano Narrows, New York Harbor: The full moon rise came in early evening. It was so impressive as it rose over The Narrows that we wondered what the native people of Staten Island, the Munsee, would have made of it in 1609. To them the full moon of September was the Harvest Moon, a time to process the crops for winter. But since this full moon occurred so close to August, it might also have been considered a Green Corn Moon, when Algonquian people gave thanks for the ripening bounty of their summer crops.
- Tom Lake, Phyllis Lake, Dave Taft
9/4 - Sandy Hook, NJ: Hudson's crew explored (presumably Sandy Hook) on September 3. The next day, the "people of the Countrey came aboard of us, seeming very glad of our comming."
- Tom Lake
9/5 - Stuyvesant, HRM 127: The great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) is the "blue counterpart" of the cardinal flower. And there it was, at the mouth of Mill Creek, its bright blue standing tall in front of the scarlet red of the last remaining cardinal flowers.
- Fran Martino
9/5 - Ulster Park, HRM 87: We had not seen a hummer for a few days but this morning three were back at the feeders. Last night we had bats for the first time in a bat-less summer.
- Bill Drakert
9/5 - Mohawk River to Kowawese, HRM 157-59: We went on a sampling blitz for our project relating water chemistry in various parts of the Hudson, Mohawk, and Long Island estuaries to otolith chemistry [environmental "fingerprinting" using inner ear bones of fish]. We collected water at a number of sites from Rome to Orange County. In tidewater, we ended up following a spring high tide all the way up to the dam at Troy.
- Kowawese, HRM 59: Water 78 degrees F; conductivity 195 microSiemens/cm (about 0.9 ppt salinity).
- Esopus Meadows, HRM 85: Water 76 degrees F; conductivity 190 microSiemens/cm.
- Catskill Creek, HRM 113: Just above head of tide; water 70 degrees F; conductivity 170 microS/cm.
- Catskill Landing, HRM 113: Water 74 degrees F; conductivity 200 microS/cm.
- Federal Dam at Troy, HRM 154: Water 72 degrees F; 160 microS/cm.
The high point of the day was our attempt to collect YOY blueback herring at the boat launch at Lock 6 on the Mohawk. We'd been unsuccessful a couple of weeks ago, but this time we netted 38 blueback herring in six net hauls. The size range was remarkable: 35-91 mm total length. At this time of year, I would expect the latter, not the former. We'll find out whether the runts were from a very late spawn, or simply didn't eat their Wheaties.
At Lock 6 we also caught and released spotfin shiners, logperch, inland silversides, banded killifish, a couple of creek chubs, sunfish, yellow perch, smallmouth bass, and three nice shorthead redhorse. Most of these were juveniles except maybe one of the redhorse and a few silversides. I saw the largest inland silverside I've ever encountered, perhaps 6 inches long.
- Karin Limburg, Sara Turner
[Over the last several years, we have found several Indian artifacts, probably Mohican, in the vicinity of the Lock 6 boat launch on the Mohawk River. Among them have been scrapers, knives, hammerstones, and palm-sized sandstone netsinkers. We were not the first people to seine there. Tom Lake.]
9/5 - Sandy Hook, NJ: According to Robert Juet, Hudson's crew went on land (Sandy Hook?) on September 5, and saw "many men, women and children, and again some of them came on board with gifts of food."
- Tom Lake
9/6 - Pleasant Valley, HRM 75: While walking in my back yard this morning, several sparrows and finches flew over my head, hastily leaving the bird feeder, followed by a sharp-shinned hawk in fast pursuit! The birds narrowly escaped, and the hawk flew into the woods empty-taloned. This was my first sighting of a sharp-shinned, a most magnificent bird!
- Kathy Kraft
9/6 - Verrazano Narrows: According to Robert Juet, ship's mate John Coleman and four men set out in a long boat for day of exploring in which they passed through the Narrows between the Upper and Lower bays New York of New York Harbor. However, they were attacked by two canoes full of natives (Lenape? Munsee?). In the aftermath, John Coleman was killed, it rained, and the four men in the long boat could not find their way back to the Half Moon until morning.
- Tom Lake


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The Rt Hon Donald Dewar MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, announced today that he is to consider a site at Holyrood opposite the Royal Palace as a possible location for the Scottish Parliament building.
Mr Dewar said:
"The four-acre Holyrood site, next to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, was on our original 'long list'. It was not short-listed because we could not then be sure that it would be available on the required timescale. We have kept in touch with Scottish and Newcastle, who have now said that they can vacate the site by early 1999 which would allow the Parliament building to be constructed by 2001.
"The site clearly has great potential. It would allow a purpose-build Parliament building to be constructed on a City-centre site of considerable historic significance close to Holyrood Palace and the Royal Park. We expect the cost of a building at Holyrood would bear comparison with the other sites under consideration. But, as with the other sites, there are a number of issues which need to be addressed including design feasibility, cost and transport and environmental impact before we reach our decision. I have therefore commissioned studies of the Holyrood site to report by next week: that is on the same timescale as the studies currently underway on the other three sites. The expertise which the consultants have developed in looking at the other sites together with the work which S&N have already done on this site makes this accelerated timescale possible.
"I am not saying that Holyrood is the front runner, nor that it will be the final choice, but it clearly deserves to be considered alongside the others.
"Looking at the Holyrood site will not affect the overall timescale for deciding on the location of the Scottish Parliament. We will consider the study reports on the four sites before Christmas. We expect to announce a decision by the time the Scotland Bill receives its second reading in January."
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Dior codes were present in the voluminous, sleeveless ball gowns that were nipped in at the waist to create an hourglass silhouette, and in the lean cuts of the updated Bar jackets and cigarette pants he showed tuxedo style. His inviting palette mixed clashing colors with brilliant blossom appliqués that dusted the exterior and lining of many of the looks, and he relied on luxurious fabrics such as gazar and moiré silk, tulle, and organza to add richness to the collection. Opaque stockings and towering metallic stiletto court shoes were paired with crystal-dipped lips - two styling choices that reminded us of the power of Dior theater. Later looks, while simple at first glance, achieved an unusual outline by layering pieces "totem-pole" style. Shrunken swing vests were paired with sleeveless peplum toppers and layered satin pencil skirts, lending the silhouette a curious geometry. However, the couture message carried through in these looks because of deft tailoring, which removed any excess weight from the layers allowing them to appear breezy and delicate. From ball gowns and lean suit separates to layered looks, the collection dazzled with subtle touches that only a close-up view could reveal. Simons closed the show with five wedding dresses, their skirts blown out to exaggerated proportions and, again, dusted with sweet petals.
Simons' presence at Dior has attracted a younger clientele (a phenomenon known in the industry as the "Raf Simons effect"), but couture presentations are purchased almost exclusively by an elite list of around 200 of the world's wealthiest women. This scaled-back couture collection from Dior has earmarks of a ready-to-wear collection - wearability, simplicity, classic appeal - but it is his detailed execution that keeps it firmly in the realm of couture. This provides the brand with an opportunity to appeal to young consumers, who will view this collection as a promising direction for the more affordable, forthcoming ready-to-wear line, and it will help Dior's existing couture clientele stay in step with the brand's more youthful direction. A rare success indeed.
To view full video coverage of the show, click here.
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MISSOURI CITY,TEXAS/PRICE - Don Procarione Richens, age 78, passed away on June 10, 2014, while visiting family in Utah.
He was born Feb. 14, 1936 in Los Angeles, Calif. to Reed Duke and Aurora Procarione Richens.
Don was a former resident of Carbon County who attended local schools in the area and graduated from Carbon High School. He married the love of his life Marion High in Pasadena, Texas and they spent the majority of their years residing in Texas.
Don honorably served his country in the U.S. Air Force for 37 years, retiring as Chief Master Sergeant. He shared a great love for his country and family. Don will be dearly missed by his family and many longtime friends.
Survived by his wife, Marion Richens, Missouri City, Texas; children, Mark Richens, Price, Wendy (Jeff) Jones, Karen Steinbrecher, both of Missouri City, Texas; six grandchildren and one great-grandson; siblings, Alfred (Clyta) Richens, Raymond (Patsy) Richens, both of Price, Donna (Kenneth) Bell, Lehi, Janice Miller, American Fork, James (Dixie) Richens, Taylorsville; many loving nieces and nephews.
Preceded in death by parents, and sons, Bruce and Gregory.
Funeral service, Friday, June 13, 2014, 7 p.m., Mitchell Funeral Home (233 East Main Street) in Price. Family will receive friends at Mitchell's Friday one hour prior to services. Funeral services in Texas will be held on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, 10 a.m., at the Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home. A viewing will be held at the mortuary Monday from 5-9 p.m. and Tuesday one hour prior to services. Interment will be at the Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston, Texas with full military honors. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are always welcome daily and may share memories of Don at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net


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Monday, November 21, 2011
Padded Bra Is Common: What About Padded Panty?
Dear Santa:
Please bring us a BEAUTIFULL BUTT for Christmas!
Ha ha. But don't laugh. There is a way to get a round, curvy butt just in time for the holidays. Just slip into this:
The Buty Panty by Fashion Forms, is sold in fine department stores, like Macys, Bloomingdales, Dillards, and others. It's available in nude or black, in sizes S, M, L, XL for $28.
Well, think about it.......Many of us DO wear padded bras. So---what's wrong with a padded panty? Both are designed to enhance our natural curves. And after seeing Jennifer Lopez bouncing around the American Music Awards stage last night with her big, voluptous booty in view, well, it's something to ponder.
A curvy butt is quite an asset, and the Buty Panty has this beauty philosophy:
...."Because sometimes....You just need a buty."
Right on!
The folks at Fashion Forms describe their Buty Panty as a natural looking padded panty pre-shaped with contour form to resemble a curvaceous bottom. And not surprisingly, the undie is designed in Brazil. Gee, no kidding.
Brazilian women are known for their great behinds. And let's be honest, is it wrong to desire a curvier silhouette?
No. But we're wondering just how padded the buty panty is?! Some bras are overly padded and some of us just say no to too much faux cleavage. And maybe the same goes for a super bumped-up panty.
So, if you don't have the Kardashian 'kurves' from behind to begin with, is it okay to cheat a little? Trust us, there are celebrities who slip into padded panties for major red carpet events. Not every body is perfectly proportioned.
Check out the Buty Panty.
3 comments:
There is just some thing wrong about a padded panty.I coulds not put one on.Too tacky!
- November 26, 2011 at 7:58 PM
- FASHION FORMS said...
Thank you for mentioning us. We are coming out with all different styles and colors (seamless, leopard, ect) so keep an eye out for us and our BUTY ;)
P.S. Our Buty Panty was just on the back cover of OK! Magazine (we didn't plan that on purpose) Check out our blog for our other media appearances.
- February 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM
- Cathy Anderson said...
Purchased the One-Size in Black. My husband loves it, and as an added bonus, I love barely there panties wearing it!
- January 7, 2013 at 8:23 AM
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F-18 PET Bone Scans Versus Tc-99m Bone Scans for the Diagnosis of Bone Metastases
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The purpose of this study is to compare 18F-Fluoride PET bone scans to traditional 99mTc-MDP bone scan to determine if one is better for diagnosing bone metastases.
Bone Metastases
Device: F-18 PET bone scan
Device: Tc-99m bone scan
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|18F-Fluoride PET Bone Scans Versus Traditional 99mTc-MDP Gamma Camera Bone Scans for the Diagnosis of Bone Metastases: a Blinded, Prospective Trial
- Accurate identification of bone metastases [ Time Frame: Upon study completion (2-3 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Individual subjects will be reviewed 6-12 months after their bone scans, utilizing all clinical and imaging data available, to determine diagnostic accuracy of each bone scan.
- Change in clinical management [ Time Frame: Upon study completion (2-3 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]We will be sending out clinical questionnaires to the referring physicians, asking if the bone scan results helped and/or changed their clinical management. Cumulative data for each type of bone scan will be compared.
- Determine if F-18 PET bone scans lead to fewer follow-up imaging studies. [ Time Frame: Upon study completion (2-3 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The Tc-99m bone scans often give equivocal results that require other imaging studies, such as CT or MRI, for further evaluation. F-18 PET bone scans may give more definitive interpretations, and thus may lead to fewer follow-up studies being recommended/obtained.
- Quantify any adverse events from either type of scan. [ Time Frame: Upon study completion (2-3 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Any adverse events related to either type of scan will be recorded. Adverse events would be rare.
- Perform subgroup analyses according to cancer cell type. [ Time Frame: Upon study completion (2-3 years) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Both types of bone scans may be more or less accurate depending on the cancer cell type. We will attempt to address that question by performing subgroup analyses.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
F-18 PET bone scan group
Patients with a diagnosis of cancer and clinical concern for bone metastases. They will undergo an F-18 PET bone scan for diagnostic imaging.
Device: F-18 PET bone scan
Following the intravenous administration of approximately 10 mCi F-18, subjects will undergo an F-18 PET bone scan.
Other Name: PET Allegro scanner
Tc-99m MDP bone scan group
Patients with a diagnosis of cancer and clinical concern for bone metastases. They will undergo a Tc-99m MDP bone scan for diagnostic imaging.
Device: Tc-99m bone scan
Following the intravenous administration of approximately 30mCi Tc-99m MDP, subjects will undergo a traditional bone scan on a gamma camera.
Other Name: Philips/ADAC Genesys gamma camera
Detailed Description:
Compare the diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 18F-Fluoride PET bone scans versus traditional 99mTc-MDP bone scans for detecting bone metastases.
Determine if there is a significant change in clinical management between the two types of scans.
Measure and compare the number of equivocal or uncertain findings that would have caused additional testing, particularly additional imaging studies, to be performed for confirmation when using 18F-Fluoride PET bone scans versus 99mTc-MDP bone scans.
To quantify any adverse events resulting from either scan.
To perform subgroup analyses according to cancer cell type.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Patients who have cancer and have been referred for evaluation for bone metastases.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient has cancer
- Has been referred for evaluation of bone metastases
- Patient or patient's legal representative can understand and consent to enrollment in the study
- Must be 18 years or older
- Can remain still during the scan (approximately one hour)
- Patient has Medicare
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient does not have Medicare
- Under the age of 18
- Cannot lie still for the necessary time
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01254929
|United States, Washington
|Seattle Nuclear Medicine
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
|Principal Investigator:
|David Djang, MD
|Seattle Nuclear Medicine
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|Responsible Party:
|David Djang, Nuclear medicine physician, Seattle Nuclear Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01254929 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 3, 2010
|Last Updated:
|November 18, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Seattle Nuclear Medicine:
Bone metastases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bone Marrow Diseases
Bone Neoplasms
Neoplasm Metastasis
Bone Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
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'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' by Jane Austen (Sorta Kinda)
I watched all the episodes of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and I realized – they're the modern-day, redneck version of the Bennets in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice!
Before I get trampled on, via waltzing by die-hard Austen fans, I only allude to Honey Boo Boo and her family's behavior. (If you call that behaved at all.) A side-by-side with the Keira Knightley 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, Honey Boo Boo's family is almost the same from the headstrong mom (Mama), quiet and passive dad (Sugar Bear), down to an unruly set of daughters (Chikadee, Chubbs, Pumpkin, and Honey Boo Boo with Baby Kaitlyn completing the roster; to date, she's the most behaved of them all.) But here's the main difference: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that Mama in possession of young girls is not out to marry them off to affluent men-folk in McIntyre, Georgia.
What's refreshing about the reality show Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is, it's a family that is not afraid to be themselves, neighbors and uppity-crust audiences be damned. Just like in Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet is unapologetic for the things she would do to have her daughters' welfare taken care of. Of course, the best way was to have her five daughters proposed to by men with means. These days, you don't have to do that because one) women have choices and can be 27 years old like the Lizzy Bennet's friend Charlotte, and not be called "without prospects" (how rude), and two) Mama does that now to her children who are minors? Totally illegal.
Mama has similar intentions albeit they're more attuned to each of her daughter's needs: Chikadee got pregnant at 17 but it doesn't mean Mama's going to let her push that baby out of her biscuit by herself. Yes, Chubbs wants to lose weight and Mama doesn't have to but joins her anyway for support. Fine, Mama makes a mean and controversial Go Go Juice for Honey Boo Boo to keep her energy up for pageants; yet if the little girl doesn't win, no biggie. Nobody's getting yelled at or made to feel guilty for losing. And okay, Mama does not want to get married to Sugar Bear even after more than a decade and a daughter together; heck he practically raised her first three girls and cut the umbilical cord of their grandbaby upon delivery – at least Mama has chosen a patient, understanding, and loving man not just for her but for all of them girls.
How about them sisters, huh? They horseplay, wrestle, jump in the mud or water, whatever's in sight (not the one with flesh-eating bacteria, Mama's not gonna hear of it), race through mud tied to an ATV (that daredevil Pumpkin), and generally like physical activities that test their sturdiness and lack of humiliation. Their food choices include cheese balls for breakfast, sketti (spaghetti with butter and ketchup mix) for lunch, and the occasional convenience store at the nearby gas station for snacks. Their manners are questionable: they eat with their mouths full and not on the dining table, they fart as many times as they can (familiar and not-so company included), and they yell to talk to each other. Honey Boo Boo's family is loud, spirited, opinionated, loving, and real – this is a bunch of females who aren't interested in being perfect; they're all about big personalities who don't make excuses for it and have little care for what others have to say. Isn't that the Bennet Sisters to a tee? I think Jane Austen would approve. Like the female characters in Pride and Prejudice, Honey Boo Boo and company are proud ladies who are beautimous and rebelchious, vajiggle jaggle and all so you betta redneckognize.
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text: My name is Misty and on Thursday, June 21, I administered Hartz flea and tick drops on our family cat, Trixie, which lead to its death. I use to rescue cats and had done this many times before with no adverse reactions. The package said 15 lbs. or less and that he was. I had never heard of any such of poisons or reactions so I was in shock when I went outside to check on my beloved family member and it was seizing/convulsing in our garage. When I called the emergency animal clinic I was told the products were in the process of being pulled off the market because they were toxic to animals. My kitty also began to foam at the mouth, growl, hiss, urinate on himself and bit his paws throughout these tremors until he died. Our family is now in shock and very sadden with this loss. So are all of our neighbors because Trixie was so friendly. I hope you will pass this along in hopes this won't happen to another family pet.


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Martin is one of those names like Arthur and Vincent and George that is in the process of throwing off its balding middle-aged image to start sounding possible again, used in full without the dated Marty nickname.
Notable Martins are too numerous to mention as the name has been so well used throughout time and in so many countries. Martin became part of the basic European stock of names largely due to the popularity of the fourth century St. Martin of Tours. Also influential were the German founder of Protestantism Martin Luther and civil rights leader Martin Luther King (originally born Michael and renamed in honor of Martin Luther), eighth President Martin Van Buren, and influential philosophers Heidegger and Buber.
More current Martins include actors Sheen and Short, writer Amis, and director Scorsese.
Martin is enjoying popularity in several countries--it's Number 4 in Chile, number 20 in Spain and Number 57 in Austria.
Yes, a Martin revival appears to be right around the corner--if only we can think of a new nickame.
Lists containing Martin:
- Classic Baby Names for Boys
- Vintage Baby Names
- Boy Names ALWAYS in the Top 1000
- Old Man Names
- Old-Fashioned Baby Names
- Papal Names