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Now that 2012 is over, it's always interesting to look back and see what our favorite Hollywood couples have been doing in the romance department and make some predictions of what will happen in the year to come.
With the talk of a fiscal cliff behind us, let's take a look at the budgets from some of our favorite videos from the year. Sometimes creativity doesn't come cheap! Which music videos were the biggest productions?
We were in the midst of dinner when Michael mentioned that among the very few material possessions he'd been able to grab before a wall of flames drove him and Martha out of their house was the documentary footage he'd shot 35 years ago of Fleetwood Mac's 1977 Japanese tour.
In general, Middle East leaders are increasingly utilizing Twitter to engage people, according to a study called Twiplomacy conducted by the global public relations consultancy Burson-Marsteller in August of this year.
Well, since the world never ended and we're all still here, it's about time we started thinking about how to bring in the New Year. Some of you have had an elaborately planned night out on the books for months now, some of you are pulling the last minute scramble to rally your friends and find something relatively cost-effective (and far, far away from Times Square), and some of you are planning on completely winging it that night. Regardless of how far along our plans are, we will all end up doing the same things -- drinking, dancing, and listening to music as the world celebrates its only universal holiday.
This year was rife with some great and relatively diverse popular music, and it's time we give some artistic cred not just to the capital-A Artistes who care not for the embrace of the masses but to the hit makers who have probably shaped the future of wedding receptions for decades to come.
In the 1930s, chic French director Jean-Luc Godard declared, "All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl." Half a century later, a quick Internet search will turn up thousands of images that fetishize girls with guns.
The behavior of a woman who appears on the public stage can be counted on to provoke a contentious referendum on the state of women in general. Is this good for women?
This problem isn't just about Rihanna, and you don't have to like her or follow her music to care about supporting women's choices. The problem is that we refuse to treat women as adults capable of making their own decisions and mistakes.
I explore the history of celebrity couples and point out which ones are my least favorite. I even pick a worst. Feel free to fight me, but as usual, I think you'll find that my logic is irrefutable -- or else too spastic and asthmatic to be argued. Warning: I am very mad at Ryan Reynolds.
Youth Olympian and 19-year-old Australian hurdler Michelle Jenneke won the hearts of the Internet this summer after a video of her sexy warmups went viral. Now that she's arrived in Los Angeles, the athlete behind the meme also proved bust a move to the Internet's other favorite dances.
This is a far cry from the S&M posturing of Madonna in her heyday. Everybody knew The Big M was just looking for new ways to shock. Rihanna has also shocked. But there is a disturbing feeling she's not posing or kidding.
I quit smoking in February of this year, but after I watched the 2012 American Music Awards, I wanted to go buy a pack of cigarettes, rip the filters off, and smoke it like my Father is making me smoke the whole pack as punishment.
It's here. A moment in pop music where the artist set up to look the best, sound the best and actually be the best, lives up to the hyperbole and wins the prize.
The 2012 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was Wednesday night and it included performances by Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and Rihanna. Also, Channing Tatum is People Magazine's 2012 Sexiest Man Alive and Lady Gaga topless!
While the racism, sexism, and homophobia evident in these social spaces and at GOP political rallies are nothing new, the justification, the denial, and the overall societal complacency about racism (and sexism) because our president is black, speaks to a broader issue confronting America.


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EUGENE, Ore. -- We all know that texting or answering a phone call while driving is illegal, but what about using your phone's maps or GPS services?
On Thursday, judges in California found that it was OK for drivers in their state to use their phone as a GPS while on the road.
California may have similar hands-free laws as Oregon, but using a mobile device while driving is still illegal in our state.
Police officials say it doesn't matter if you're stopped at a red light or driving down the freeway, you can be fined $160 if you are caught using your cell phone - be it for a call or checking a map. Officials say the same rules apply for people driving while programming their GPS unit.
That didn't seem to surprise some people our news team spoke with Friday. Most say drivers should never have a phone in their hands while behind he wheel.
Whether people are talking on their phone or finding out where to go, the Eugene Police Department is looking out for drivers using cell phones. Officers orchestrated a patrol for hands-free offenses Wednesday at the Valley River Center, citing 45 people for operating a motor vehicle while using a mobile communication device.

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W+K New York has a new campaign for ESPN, promoting the network's coverage of college football and stoking fans' excitement for the first year of the college football playoffs. The campaign, entitled "Who's In?" will run from the start of the season until a National Champion is crowned in January. "Different Ways... [GalleyCat]


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Ookbee, a mobile e-book marketplace, has announced that it will launch Ookbee Live, a Flipboard-like app, either in December or January. The Thai startup made mentio of it at the Global Brain Alliance Forum in Tokyo on 7 December.
Flipboard is a popular mobile app that lets users curate their social media feeds and turns them into a readable, magazine-like format.
During its presentation, Ookbee also revealed some numbers about its publishing platform:
- 88% market share in e-books in Thailand, making it the country's top e-book store.
- 2.55M users currently, and its apps have been downloaded 3.27M times
- A gain of 3,930 users every day for the past 30 days.
- 6M books delivered
- Top 5 grossing app on Thai App Store every day for 400 days.
Ookbee has partnered with Thailand's largest telco AIS and the country's leading bookstore B2S. It also received an investment of USD2M from Shin Corporation at a USD8M valuation, and was reportedly growing at 5,000 users a day.


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What is the conventional wisdom regarding floorless shelters (i.e., no bathtub floor) and down sleeping bags? I'm thinking about shelters along the lines of the SMD Wild Oasis, MLD Solomid, and the like. Is lying directly on your groundsheet (on your inflatable pad) a good idea? My concern would be with water running into the shelter and compromising your insulation. When would a bivy be needed to protect your bag?
I move around too much at night to stay on my pad. I guess if I strapped the bag to the pad it might stay together.So I say if your shelter keeps rain off your groundsheet, and you keep the bag on the groundsheet, no need for a bivy.
I use polycro groundsheet, sleeping pad and a tarp with my down bag with no troubles. I'd do the same inside any other floorless shelter. Maybe consider a hammock (my new 3 season shelter) if u toss and turn a lot. I've never slept better.
"My concern would be with water running into the shelter and compromising your insulation"If you have water running into your shelter you picked a bad site to set up. To me if you have a fully enclosed shelter you should not need a bivy... Isn't that the point of haveing one? Using a bivy in a tarp is for the spray that you get from not being fully enclosed.
I don't always bring a bivy, even tho I make them. Like they said, site selection is a big part of tarp camping.Where a bivy is necessary with a floorless shelter.Ledges, cliff bases etc where you have no choice in site selection as to prevent water running under the tarp.High Desert, alpine, tundra etc. where high winds can suck the heat from your sleeping bag or quilt.Tundra, Swamps etc where bugs can overwhelm a headnet.Where it is nice.Desert, Dunes on river trips, to keep blowing sand out of your sleep system.Dirty campsites to help protect an expensive down bag.Using a quilt, to keep the edges out of the dirt and prevent drafts.Storing extra clothes, safe but handy if the night turns cold.
To counter some opinions it must be said that on occasion in the Southeast forests we get deluge rainstorms which soak the ground and produce both "ground sheeting" and "lake effect"---you're sitting in a pool of water. I liken it to what happened to Jared Hendren in this BPL link---(though he wasn't in the Southeast)---http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=67460He said--- "Next it started to rain, really hard, like inches per hour hard. Water started coming under the tarp everywhere, pretty soon all of the ground under the tarp was saturated, and puddles started forming."Old hands will say "better site selection" but sometimes if the rain is heavy enough no site will stay dry as a deluge produces a half inch of sheeting water moving downhill. Often this water will come over a ground cloth and form pools under a bivy or a sleeping bag and gear. Examples of ground water below---I call this "lake effect".This is "sheeting" where I was camped on a never-used site on a slight hill in dead leaves (Big Frog wilderness).So, some tarps have bathtub floor inserts (with bug netting) and perhaps a good bivy will keep water off your bag if the bivy is sitting in a pool of water---but maybe not.
There are a ton of campsites in the High Sierra that are shallow lakes when a thunderstorm passes through. Sometimes it seems that most campsites are this way... or that the best ones with the best views. Being so enamored with the beauty of a particular camp, sometimes you don't realize the drainage (or lack thereof) until after you have made camp.Anyway, a bivy with a waterproof floor and sealed seams gives you some options and some protections in the above.And, of course, there is always the possibility of your tarp blowing down and flapping in the rain...bill
A bivy sack is really necessary when sleeping in snow caves, trenches or quinzhees.It keeps your bag dry. I'd recommend an eVent top for winter and most other bivy bag uses.
In addition to what Tipi said, there are areas where I'm required to stay at a designated camp site (N. Cascades, Wonderland, etc) and have limited site selection options. Williswall media (member here as well) has a great video showing a campsite on the Wonderland which had an inch of standing water. Back when I was still backpacking with a traditional tent, I once woke to find myself in a lake. Poor site selection was certainly to blame but I was very grateful that my tent had a waterproof bathtub floor. This issue is what prompted me to purchase a Zpacks bathtub floor instead of just a polycryo groundsheet for my upcoming Wonderland Trail hike. The only bivy that I've had any meaningful experience with is the USGI goretex bivy. I've slept through rainstorms without getting wet. I'm sure that some materials breathe better than others but I'm of the belief that venting is just as important as the material. I will still use it for alpine camping but will eventually upgrade to a MLD Event Soul bivy to save myself 1.6 lbs of unnecessary weight.Edit what Bill and Eric said! Need to type faster.
Edited by IDBLOOM on 06/14/2013 11:15:02 MDT.
"Williswall media (member here as well) has a great video showing a campsite on the Wonderland which had an inch of standing water. Back when I was still backpacking with a traditional tent, I once woke to find myself in a lake. Poor site selection was certainly to blame but I was very grateful that my tent had a waterproof bathtub floor."I've been in a tent with a bath tub floor and poor site selection and have the water come in anyway. Plus I dont think that most Ul bivys are made to protect the user from getting wet while sleeping in an inch of water?Some times when bad weather hits and your hiking your in for a long night(or three) no way around it. I would not carry a bivy with a fully enclosed shelter just to plan for this. Unless thats your thing, goin backpacking when the weather is just complete garbage.
On bivies protecting you from ground water. Go use your bivy for a few dozen nights then hold it up to light. After my PCT hike I had dozens of small holes, easy to seal but these would defeat the very reason of using a bivy to combat ground water.
Also if that is all your worried about why not just get or make an individual bathtub floor... it would be much lighter than a full bivy. Or just carry a piece of poly cro as a ground mat, punch some holes in it with a hole puncher and if the weather gets that bad, use guy line and bring it up around your sleeping bag to keep the river that you set up your tent in out.There are plenty of solutions to that problem that dont involve lugging around an event bivy with your Ul tent.
"Also if that is all your worried about why not just get or make an individual bathtub floor... it would be much lighter than a full bivy.""re are plenty of solutions to that problem that dont involve lugging around an event bivy with your Ul tent."I can't tell if you are asking me or the OP. If this is directed at me, I use a bivy as a standalone shelter in the conditions mentioned earlier. If I'm using a tarp, I just use a ground sheet until I receive my bath tub floor later today or early next week. Fortunately I've only found myself in a lake once (described above) and I wasn't in a bivy then. I've slept through torrential rain storms in my USGI bivy without getting wet with the exception of minor condensation). Didn't use a ground cloth in the military and the USGI issued Thermarest didn't fit inside it all that well so the system from ground up was 1.Pad (1.5lbs)2. Bivy (2.5 lbs)3. Sometimes a poncho hooch mission dependent. (1.5 lbs plus bungee cords weight?)While bomber, this system is way too heavy for BPL purposes.
"I can't tell if you are asking me or the OP"Sorry its not really directed specifically at anyone. Its more for anyone that feels a full bivy is necessary in a fully enclosed shelter.
"not really directed specifically at anyone"Gotcha! The one issue I'm tring to dial in for my Hexamid Twin Tarp (sans net) is mosquito control. Not sure if I'm going to try a Borah bug bivy or not. Will probably order a S2S Nano Mosquito Net Duo (~4oz) and see if I can make it work before I commit to a bivy. I figure between the Hexamid Twin, Twin floor, and S2S Mosquito Net, I'll have a great modular system where I can cowboy camp in comfort but still have a tarp to dive under when the weather turns crappy. Just a theory at the moment though.EDIT fwiw I exchanged emails with Borah and aked them if the bug bivy had a bathtub floor. He indicated that it technically does not but that when you sleep in it, the silnylon floor is pulled up in a way where it acts like one.
Edited by IDBLOOM on 06/14/2013 15:08:11 MDT.
"Will probably order a S2S Nano Mosquito Net Duo (~4oz) and see if I can make it work before I commit to a bivy."Richard Rankin is using one with his new HMG mid and he seems to like it quite a bit. If you PM'd him I'm sure he'd be happy to give you more real world info.
so off topic-- but now you guys got me buying one of those s2s bug nets for my tarp!2.9 ounces is pretty light!
IMHO, when you are using a minimalist tarp with poncho-like dimensions, stormy weather expected and bug protection with a tarp, and day hiking CYA. Winter snow shelter camping is a common use too. Sometimes you don't get to pick a site. Some areas have restricted sites, or the site available has compressed soil that allows water to run through it or collect in puddles, right where you are pitched. Sometimes you run out of time and have to make do.I agree that a bivy shouldn't be needed with a full shelter. I do like to use a footprint under to help with water issues and protect the tent floor. Tyvek or polycryo film are fine.
When you guys say "full shelter," are you referring to an enclosed tent with bathtub floor or a floorless shelter such as a MLD Solomid?I would never attempt to use a bivy inside a floored shelter. However, I'm more interested to know whether those who use a Solomid type shelter feel the need for a bivy in addition to a groundsheet to protect their down bag.
Edited by dgposton on 06/16/2013 17:55:49 MDT.
8' x 5' tarp or similar size then a bivy. 8' x 10' tarp or similar no bivy. Hexamid solo or Trailstar no bivy.
+1 on what Nick said. Maybe in an 8x10 with two and nasty weather. If the tarp/tent edge can be piched close to the ground and it is wind stable, you're in pretty good shape without a bivy. No way in a full tent unless I wanted the warmth.I use a Gatewood Cape, which can be pitched high or low and the low pitch is fine for full protection. I use a fairly large ground sheet and roll the edges under in the high side to duct water under if it looks like the site is going to be troublesome with water drainage.
Edited by dwambaugh on 06/16/2013 18:16:30 MDT.
Nick,Would you use a bivy with the Hexamid solo tarp? Wasn't sure if you were referring to the tarp or net version of the shelter. The nice thing about the Hexamid, I suppose, is the cuben fiber bathtub floor, which alleviates problems with groundwater.
My Hexamid doesn't have the net. I use the cuben poncho/ground sheet rarely as a groundsheet, don't want to develop pin holes if possible. Normally a waterproof foam pad serves as my sleeping pad and groundsheet. If I expect problems with drainage I will use the poncho/groundsheet. With temps down to around freezing I am usually using a cuben quilt.Edit: I have never used the Hexamid with a bivy. Also I don't set it up unless rain is in the forecast.
Edited by ngatel on 06/16/2013 18:46:47 MDT.
My shelters are the MLD duo grace tarp, the cricket tarp and soon I will have a patrol shelter. I always use a superlight bivy. It helps keep me warmer and helps protect from drafts. It keeps my bag very clean so I don't have to wash it much. It helps with bugs, mosquitoes, flies etc. and I don't have to bring a ground sheet. If I were in a fully enclosed Mid I would probably use it anyway just because of the familiarity and comfort of the bivy unless I was camping with a woman. But having said all of that my main reason I love the bivy is that I am a huge fan of cowboy camping and it is really worth it to me to have the option to not put up my shelter every night and have great star gazing and nature scenery while I am falling asleep. This way my quilt is protected from dew in the morning and from nighttime winds.
This is the beauty (or downfall) of gear. What works for one person may not be the solution for another. The solution is to get out a lot and figure out what works for each of us.
"The solution is to get out a lot and figure out what works for each of us."The beauty of BPL forums is we get to build knowledge from the experience of others that do get a chance to get out a lot. I am a perfect example of someone that doesn't get out a lot (maybe 10 nights a year), and for that I am very thankful for the knowledge/experience of many on this site like Nick so I have a much better shot at getting the right gear for me the first time.
Reading this I was reminded of the Thomas Edison quote, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."Start testing in the back yard, then the mountainside :)
Bivy seems to add about 5 degrees more warmth for me. Keeps thugs in place. Light bivy like a ZPacks bivy at 4 oz is very useful.
I would have said a bit more than 5 degrees are added by the bivy, but it probably depends on how windy it is and how well sheltered you are. I do know that when cowboy camping on top of the bivy, if it turns cold and windy, climbing into the bivy and zipping up makes a big difference.I have found that for me the sleeping bag and bivy combo I use is lighter than the heavier bag that I would probably take without the bivy, so the bivy actually saves rather than adds weight for me with my particular gear. At least that is the case for warmish weather where a cold night (15-35 F) is possible/likely. That description seems to match most of the trips I have done.
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Gun sales take sharp rise in Bluffton
December 28, 2012 — By by JESSICA WILLIAMS
All day, every day for about the past two weeks, 21st Century Firearms at 827 N. Main St. has seen a constant flow of customers through its front doors.
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Ofc. Odel Fite, One of Two Mississippi officers killed
Officer Down: Odel Fite - [Wiggins, Mississippi]
Biographical Info
Age: 48
Additional Info: Officer Odel Fite had been with the Wiggins Police Department for twenty-four years. He leaves behind a wife, three children, and four grandchildren.
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Officer Fite was shot and killed after responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Date of Incident: November 27, 2005
Miss.-- A Forrest County man was charged with two counts of capital murder today in connection with the Sunday night slaying of two Wiggins police officers.
Ronald Husband, 46, of the Maxie community, was charged in the deaths of Officers Odell Fite, 48, and Brandon Breland, 23. They were gunned down Sunday night while responding to a domestic disturbance call on First Street in Wiggins.
"I am 99 percent sure he is the suspect who did the shooting last night," Wiggins Police Chief Buddy Bell said of Husband.
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How to Build a Media Creation PC
How to Build a Media Creation PC: Managing Cables Install power supply from the left side of the chassis, threading the power cables through the cable organizer. Allow the cables to rest in an area out of motherboard inputs way (I place them outside the case) so you can work efficiently.
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Environmental Responsibility: Protecting Native Lands
When Dilfuza Egamberdiyeva realized the devastating toll that many years of toxic pesticide use had taken on her native country, Uzbekistan, she had to do something. Under Soviet rule, Uzbekistan kept cotton production high through the use of harmful and toxic chemicals that now contaminate about 90 percent of Uzbekistan's land and water—and cause chronic renal and lung disease in Uzbek children living in these regions. Additionally, cotton's thirst for water left high salt levels in the soil from over-irrigation.
A mother herself, Dilfuza knew there had to be a better way to produce healthier fruits and vegetables using biological, not chemical, fertilizers and fungicides. Microbes were the key. During the last 10 years, she successfully patented a microbial product. The bio-fertilizer contains beneficial bacteria able to stimulate plant growth, control tomato and cucumber diseases, and enhance the nitrogen and phosphorous levels often lacking in salty soils. The product is used on agricultural lands growing cotton, wheat, and vegetables through-out the country.
Dilfuza says her high-profile work led to international recognition including the UNESCO-L'Oréal fellowship. The recognition not only helped her establish research networks, she was also asked to work with the country's international relations department, representing her country at global conferences. "I'm happy the world knows about the science going on in Uzbekistan," she says
L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards often offer scientists a platform to raise important issues—such as the increasing need to find substitutes for toxic agricultural chemicals. One Award laureate, Alejandra Bravo, a molecular microbiologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Cuernavaca, has harnessed the natural pesticide produced by an insect-killing bacteria called Bacillus thuringiensis, to protect Mexico's vast corn crops—without harming the environment. By inserting certain genes from the bacteria, nicknamed Bt, into corn DNA, the plant can produce its own personal pesticide, which is non-toxic to other organisms and degrades completely in the environment.
The only problem is that insects can evolve resistance to Bt. But Alejandra uses her collection of 8000 different Bt bacteria from soils across her country to keep crops one step ahead of insects. Once she figured out how Bt kills insects, Alejandra used that information to develop modified Bt toxins that would render insects defenseless.
More recently, Alejandra has found that the Bt toxins can safely and effectively control mosquitoes that transmit devastating human diseases such as malaria and dengue fever—diseases that have usually been controlled by toxic chemicals. Alejandra's enthusiasm is, itself, infectious. "Science keeps you alive—because you are always thinking and learning, identifying the next question to ask," she says.
Scientists, like Dilfuza and Alejandra, are a unique breed: women using science to protect their native lands.
Crossing Cultures, Building Bridges
Sarrah Ben M'Barek is using her cross-cultural research experience to build bridges between countries. Born in Tunisia, Sarrah would travel often to visit her mother's family located near one of the oldest tree cultivation centers in the Netherlands. As a child, traversing between tree nurseries in Boskoop, The Netherlands, and wheat fields in Beja, Tunisia, plant biology ran through Sarrah's veins, as did a growing desire to protect one of the world's most important crops, wheat, from disease.
Sarrah is something of a detective. "What excites me is using science to uncover the interaction between the host and the pathogen," she says. A current UNESCO-L'Oréal fellow, Sarrah dedicated her Ph.D., conducted at Plant Research International & Wageningen Research Center in The Netherlands, to investigating the genome of a killer fungus, Mycosphaerella graminicola, a disease so devastating that $600 million is spent each year in Europe alone to apply fungicides to prevent the annual 15–50 percent yield losses.
Sarrah wants to find the genes that make this fungus so harmful—clues that will lead to more sustainable ways to keep the fungus at bay. As she looks for signs of the fungus' weaknesses in its DNA, she hopes to follow in Dilfuza and Alejandra's footsteps—decreasing the use of fungicides by finding other ways to control disease.
Sarrah wants to take advantage of her unique position, straddling two countries and fluent in four languages, to encourage student exchanges between Tunisia and the Netherlands. "I want to keep this connection alive between one of the world's most important wheat producing regions and one of the world's most important agricultural universities," says Sarrah.
These passionate scientists are able to use their research to build bridges between countries, or even continents. Following her successful postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Laura Echarte has built a long-term series of experiments that provide opportunities for young researchers in her native Argentina. Now a crop physiologist at the National Research Council of Argentina in Balcarce, Laura is collaborating with Canadian coworkers to determine which farming system uses resources most efficiently.
For example, Laura, a UNESCO-L'Oréal fellow, has found that planting maize together with soybeans is a good combination. Soybeans, traditionally intensively cropped in Argentina, take nitrogen from the air and "fix" it in the soil, but they also use up many other important nutrients, systematically reducing soil fertility. However, maize produces tall stalks that, when they decompose, return to soil those nutrients stripped out by soybeans. Grown together, the crops maintain a healthy balance of soil nutrients. "I want to help farmers decrease the gap between potential and actual yield," Laura says. She is taking the research one step further by finding ways to improve soil conservation and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "The magnitude of the problems we face is great, and I hope women, who are often drawn to environmental science, understand the opportunities that exist," Laura says.
And there are opportunities everywhere. Some scientists are urgently trying to retrieve valuable biological specimens from the last untouched places on Earth—before it's too late.
Documenting the Wild
Understanding how limited water and nutrients leads to unusually high plant diversity in a small belt of fynbos, or shrubland, in the Western Cape of South Africa is what drives Karin Jacobs' research. Even though water is scarce, over 9,000 plant species live here—two-thirds of which grow nowhere else in the world. Karin, trained as a fungal taxonomist, has found that the microbes in the soil are as unique and diverse as the plants above. "Anything that disturbs the plant diversity disturbs the microbes," she says. Yet it is the microbes that control the nutrients that the plants need.
Karin was drawn to the arid, low nutrient soils, in part, because she wanted to understand how such low fertility soils support such a diverse plant community. She's come to realize that it may be because the ice ages that devastated species diversity in northern hemispheres never occurred here. Unfortunately, only a few stretches of the fragile fynbos ecology remain intact; many are the focus of conservation efforts. Karin is investigating how important the microbes are to recovering the ecological processes that occur in these regions.
Karin is using new molecular tools to explore this underground world. Most soil microbes can't yet be grown in a laboratory, so they remain a mystery. Using molecular fingerprinting techniques, Karin is able to determine which of these tiny organisms are simply present and which are key to cycling nutrients. "So far we've only seen and described a fraction of the microbes on Earth," she says. As she wades through the mountain of data that come from microbial DNA profiles, Karin says the UNESCO-L'Oréal fellowship gave her the confidence that, in the male-dominated world of science in South Africa, she was pursuing important questions. "In the end, hard work and good ideas are rewarded—no matter one's gender."
Lina Saavedra Diaz is working on a plan to quell the chaos that threatens another male-dominated world—that of small-scale fishers in her native country, Colombia. She says overfishing will continue to deplete Colombia's fisheries resources until the country comes up with a fisheries management plan. Without better regulation, she says, fishermen's livelihoods are in jeopardy. "It's a mess. It's open disorder because anyone can fish whatever they want, however they want, without supervision," she says.
Lina has interviewed 300 fishermen and fisheries experts in nine fishing communities on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Colombia. Her goal? Giving the fishermen a voice and at the same time providing her government the fishing records and economic data it needs to take the first steps towards creating a fisheries management plan.
Lina agrees that winning the UNESCO-L'Oréal fellowship builds confidence—confidence she needed when she felt overwhelmed by the duty entrusted to her by these fishermen. "When I started, this was just a research project. Now I feel like it is a life project," she says. "The fellowship gave me the strength and hope to believe in my dream to help bring order to the seas in my country," she says.
What is Environmental Responsibility?
Environmental Responsibility loosely defines scientific strategies to improve the responsible use or protection of our environment. Environmental researchers monitor the planet—in both its clean and polluted states—to find ways to reduce growing human impact on ecosystems. Over land and in the sea, the world's resources are increasingly scarce or threatened. Therefore, finding new ways to make efficient use of resources—soil nutrients, water, or fish—is considered the key to living in a sustainable way.


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Cheeba Chews look like Tootsie Rolls and promise relaxation, energy and pain relief, wrapped in a rainbow of packaging. But they are off-limits to soldiers.
Cheeba Chews and their other branded names are the latest trend in tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana.
Manufactured in Boulder, Colo., Cheeba Chews brands include Trics and Green Hornets, according to the company's website. ...


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351 million new smartphones shipped to stores across China in 2013, according to data from market intelligence firm IDC. That means China accounts for just over one-third of all smartphone shipments around the world at the end of 2013. Smartphones now account for over 80 percent of China's total phone sales.
While shipments don't equate to sales (who knows how many are lying unsold on shelves or in warehouses), the number gives us a good sense of the momentum behind smartphones in the nation. It's harder to tell how many active smartphone users there are in China – mainly due to China's much-altered Android phones not registering with the mothership at Google – but search giant Baidu reckons there are 270 million active Android users in China in Q3 2013.
IDC is milking its numbers by revealing 2013 data in dribs and drabs. The rest of IDC's numbers revealed today are rehashed from earlier reports. Here's a summary:
1 billion smartphone shipments globally in 2013.
That figure is up from 752 million worldwide in 2012.
As smartphone uptake reaches the saturation point in China, growth is slowing.
IDC's Simon Baker adds today:
The next half billion new smartphone customers will increasingly come mainly from poorer emerging markets, notably India and in Africa. Emerging markets in Asia-Pacific outside of China, together with the Middle East and Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Latin America, account for four fifths of the global feature phone market. This is a very big market opportunity.
IDC's announcement today is here (MS Word file).
(Editing by Paul Bischoff)


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Roy Oswalt is a Ranger, but he won't be ready to pitch for the club for a while.
Oswalt will need at least four weeks and four minor league starts to get ready, writes Gerry Fraley.
With that in mind, tell us how many wins you think the former Astros great can provide for the Rangers.


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Grid-ins cover the same topics and ask the same kind of questions as multiple-choice questions. They just don't have any answer choices. You have to work out the answer yourself and then "grid" it into a special answer-box thingy.
The Grid
As you can see, grid-in instructions are a little intense. Here's a summary:
- The computer that grades the test can't read anything but the ovals, so you don't have to write anything in the spaces at the top. However, filling in the spaces at the top might help you to avoid making careless mistakes. So just write it out.
- The grid cannot accommodate any number longer than four digits, any decimal or fraction that includes more than three numbers, or any negative signs. Here's another way of looking at that: If the answer you come up with has more than four digits, is a fraction or decimal with more than three digits, or is a negative number, then your answer's wrong.
- You must express a number as either a fraction or a decimal. It doesn't matter which you choose.
- You must transform all mixed numbers to fraction
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1 /2must be written as 9/2or 4.5. If you were to try to write 4 1 /2, the grading machine would read it as 41/ 2, and you'd lose a point.
- Sometimes the answer you come to will actually be
a range of answers, such as "any number between 4 and 5."
When that happens, you could write in any number that fits the criteria—4.6,
9/2. But no mixed numbers.
Do Not Work Backward
Since there aren't any answer choices for grid-ins, you can't work backward. To answer these questions, you have to know the concepts and how to solve them directly. Luckily, that's exactly what the rest of this section covers.


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Tough defensive assignment tonight
The Rockets rely heavily on point guard Aaron Brooks pushing the pace and producing at a high level in terms of points, assists, steals and pretty much everything else.
Rick Carlisle was asked this morning after shootaround if he plans to try anything different against the Rockets' darting playmaker.
"We'd try anything. Got any ideas?" he said. "He's a priority. One of the reasons he is so important is he generates the tempo and gets them playing fast.
"It's important we get everybody back and build walls so he can't be taking runs at us and getting open shots. He can get it going from the 3-point line, too. He just presents a lot of problems."
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Funeral Services for Mrs. Eaves were Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at noon at Hermitage Funeral Home. Entombment followed in Hermitage Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Eaves, age 71, of Mt. Juliet, passed away Feb. 28, 2014. She was born Nov. 14, 1939 in Fox, Okla. To Bernard and Flornia Beatrice(Beaird) Roberts. She was preceded in death by her son, Raymond Eaves; sister, Dorothy Roberts; brothers, David Roberts and Glen Roberts.
She is survived by her husband, Tommy Dale Eaves; daughters, Tammie Lynn (Eaves) Rowlett (Brad), Beverly Alison (Eaves) Stinson (Phil), both of Mt. Juliet; grandchildren, Shelley Nicole (Rowlett) Misch (Dean), of Lebanon, Bradley Dale Rowlett, Whitley Alison Rowlett, Presley Nicole Stinson, Isabella Grace Stinson, Elizabeth Faith Stinson, all of Mt. Juliet; great-grandchild, Jaden Lynn Misch, of Lebanon; sister, Edna (Roberts) Bootman; brothers, Bernard Roberts, George Roberts and Tommy Roberts.
Those who served as active pallbearers were Brad Rowlett, Bradley Rowlett, Phil Stinson, Dean Misch, Jeff Rowlett and Lanny LeRoy. Visitation with the family was Monday, March 3, 2014 from 4-8 p.m. and Tuesday one hour prior to the service.


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Archive for Thursday, September 14, 2006
College notes
Hailey Stueber, Eudora, pledged to Pi Beta Phi recently during fall formal recruitment at Kansas University.
Stueber is a freshman in pre-nursing. She is the daughter of Stephen and Tammie Stueber, Eudora.
More than 750 women took part in recruitment, and all 13 of KU's Panhellenic Association sororities added new members. Membership bids were extended to women who completed the recruitment process.
Sororities that are part of KU's Panhellenic Association include Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau and Sigma Kappa.
Three sororities with student chapters at KU are members of National Pan-Hellenic Council. They hold invitational activities throughout the fall semester, and their new members' names are announced in the spring. These sororities are Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sigma Lambda Gamma and Zeta Phi Beta.¢
Kristy Taylor, Eudora, was one of more than 540 students who received degrees from Kansas State University during the summer session.
Taylor earned a bachelor of science in agriculture.
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Microsoft Advertising UK Autos Industry Insights: August 2014
If you're interested in marketing for automotive brands this blog is for you. I have been working with our Microsoft Advertising UK insights team to provide a mix of original data gleaned from our 14.5 million Bing users database and #freshcuts of 3rd party data.
New car market up 10% in first half of 2014*
According to SMMT News "1,287,265 new cars registered in first six months of the year – a 10.6% rise and the best half-year total since 2005." (4th July 2014). The Department for Transport** shows exactly this, with the Mar 2014 index breaking back into the pre-recession levels. The spikes correspond to the car registration months.
Who is searching for a new car these days?***
New car searches are predominantly made by males, aged 50+. Smartphone searches see a higher proportion of the younger age groups. Dependant on the age of your audience, there are differences in the best device to advertise to them on.
#FreshCuts: Automotive Market Share*
This month, #freshcuts looks at which manufacturers are holding market share in 2014, June YTD. Ford, Vauxhall and Volkswagen appear in the top 3
As always keep up to date with all Microsoft Advertising insights, follow us on twitter @MSAdvertisingUK and explore our latest #freshcuts.
Ian Webber, Microsoft Autos Sales Specialist
* SMMT July 2014 – Microsoft has re-formatted the original data
** Department for Transport https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vehicles-statistics - Microsoft has re-formatted the original data
*** Microsoft Internal Data, June 2014


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text: Fox Apologizes to Jews for 'Jesus Killer' Poll Poll asked who viewers blame for death of Christ By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff Posted Dec 30, 2011 12:45 AM CST | Updated Dec 30, 2011 2:46 AM CST STORY COMMENTS (99) (Newser) – A Fox staffer in Latin America thought a good way to promote a Christmas special would be with an online poll asking people whether they thought the Jewish people were responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. Other options included Pontius Pilate or the high priests. Fox pulled the poll and apologized after receiving complaints, AP reports. The Simon Weisenthal Center in Buenos Aires called the poll a reference to Vatican propaganda that "resulted in the persecution and murder of Jews for two millennia." Christian pilgrims carry wooden crosses along the Via Dolorosa duringa Good Friday procession in Jerusalem. (Getty Images) ADVERTISEMENT(Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) « Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow Associated Press (Source Grid ») Media • World Latin America • Fox • anti-Semitism • Jesus Christ • Simon Wiesenthal Center CLICK BELOW TO VOTE 20% 42% 3% 16% 6% 12% RETURN TO THE STORY To report an error on this story, notify our editors.


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Remember how earlier this week I mentioned it was like 70 degrees? Yeah, not today. Not only was it cold but windy. Totally weather with November tendencies. So I jazzed up my H&M winter scarf and transformed it into a turban. Look, I believe in getting my money's worth. I don't think I own anything I haven't tried to transform. I guess you could call my style "MacGyver-esque". And what would a turquoise turban be without red lips and large hoop earrings? Yeah. I wouldn't be interested either.
Oh yeah. I collaborated with Brittany of Miss B Fab to create the Mattieologie x Miss B Fab Accessories Collection. Take a peek, tell your friends and buy some stuff.
I've been getting questions on my makeup lately and I haven't forgotten about posting a video. I've honestly been swamped. I know. Excuses, excuses.


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Students from Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, and Webster counties were invited to participate. Math teams from Browning Springs Middle School, Clay Elementary School, Dawson Springs Jr./Sr. High School, Dixon Elementary School, James Madison Middle Schools, Muhlenberg North Middle School, Muhlenberg South Middle School, South Hopkins Middle School, and West Hopkins School participated in the contest. MCC math faculty members Ms. Sharie Davis and Dr. Roger Warren co-coordinated the math contest.
The Dixon Elementary School eighth grade math team coached by Mr. Ronny Stubblefield took first place. South Hopkins Middle School, coached by Ms. Kylee Beshear, finished second.
Browning Springs Middle School – Autumn Shepherd, Dylan Doyle, Justin Loukota, Liam Thomas, Matthew Golden
Clay Elementary School – Ella Rich, Jessica Winders, Jordain McVay, Brooke McVay, Maddy Mitchell
Dawson Springs Jr./Sr. High School – Hunter McGee, Keilei Queen, Catherine Alexander, Alysta Butts, Lauren Davenport
Dixon Elementary School – Skylar Lussier, Jamie Winstead, Kori Main, Kelsey Payne, Hannah Brumfiel
James Madison Middle School – Olivia Gilliam, Kourtney Ashby, William Hackney, Riven Hackney, Cassidy Seymore
Muhlenberg North Middle School – Madison Boothe, Alyssa Coursey, Olivia Perkins, Will Nofsinger, Haleigh Harris
Muhlenberg South Middle School – Malachi Bruton, Sydney Bruce, Keely Dennis, Robert Dunning, Ethan Strader
South Hopkins Middle School – McKenzie Rodgers, Addison Lander, Annabelle Riggs, Skyler Brasher, Lillian Faulk, Hunter Graham
West Hopkins School – Bailey Fletcher, Emily Knapp, Tyler Thomas, Lauren McKnight, Kurt Stallins
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The Franklin County Sheriff's Office has arrested a second man in connection with a string of convenience store burglaries.
Deputies charged 36-year-old Dwayne Lee Chadwell of Frankfort with burglary 3rd degree and receiving stolen property over $500.00: both are class D felonies.
The charges are part of an ongoing investigation of a burglary at Jericho's Stop and Go back in July. Deputies arrested 37-year-old Mike Raisor Wednesday on charges of burglary 3rd degree and receiving stolen property over $500.
A juvenile was also charged in a separate burglary at the same location.
Investigators say the men are connected to three burglaries at two different Franklin County convenience stores.


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There are five stadiums made of LEGOs on display: Wrigley Field, Miller Park, PNC Park, Marlins Park and Yankee Stadium. Wrigley is one of the largest, made up of 57,960 LEGO bricks. It took artist Sean Kenney 640 hours to build it!
"Sean built them in his studio in New York, and he would send us pictures periodically," Jewell says. "And what happens is he ships them here. Wrigley Field [was so big that it] was broken down into four or five big sections, maybe more. Then he came to the museum to reassemble it."
Text: Dante A. Ciampaglia
Photo: Photo courtesy Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory