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The Germany international has warned his team-mates to keep their feet on the ground, but feels that they have shown their intentions with the win over SchalkePhilipp Lahm believes it's too early to say that Bayern Munich will cruise to the German title this season following their perfect start to the 2012-13 campaign.
The Bavarians have won their opening four league games, and hold a five-point lead over titleholders Borussia Dortmund.
Nevertheless, Lahm has urged his team-mates not to get carried away.
"It's way too early to say that Bayern will just cruise to the Bundesliga title. We held a five-point lead last season as well, and still threw it all away. We can't let that happen again this year," Lahm was quoted as saying by TZ.
Lahm then reflected on Saturday's 2-0 win over Schalke, and stressed that Bayern gave their title rivals a clear signal with the victory.
"We definitely gave off a signal, though, in the game versus Schalke. We showed our rivals what we're capable of.
"It was an encounter between last year's runners-up and the number three. It was a big game between two teams that had both won their Champions League game in midweek."
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Don't let that tree outside your kitchen window fool you. Though it may not look like it's doing much more than adding a little shade to your yard, it is, in fact, working to curb global warming. Through the process of photosynthesis, green plants use the energy from the sun to draw down carbon dioxide and combine it with water to create the carbohydrates plants need to grow and animals need to live. While a single tree does not have much effect on the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, en masse plants draw down millions of tons of this potent greenhouse gas and effectively help keep the Earth cool.
Given their positive effect on the climate, one would think that we'd
want to keep the world's plants, especially those in our backyards,
intact. But each year humans destroy untold amounts of plants and fertile soil
through the process of urbanization. Every time a subdivision is built, a strip
mall is erected, or a road is laid, the local vegetation is uprooted and the
soil is turned. Though new grass and trees may sprout afterwards, this newly
grown canopy of vegetation is usually much less dense.
|Urbanization tends to the reduce vegetation density. These two images show city lights and Normalized
Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the eastern United States. Bright areas of the lights image are more urbanized. Dark green regions of the
vegetation image represent dense vegetation, while brown indicates sparse vegetation. Between the two images, urban areas correspond to regions with sparse vegetation.
(Lights image data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. NDVI data courtesy Compton Tucker and Bob Mahoney of
Tracking the precise impact of urbanization on vegetation, however, is no simple task. Urbanization moves relatively fast and its outlines are often hard to discern. It's also difficult to gauge what the urbanized areas were like before the cities were erected. Recently, a group of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center led by biologist and remote sensing specialist Marc Imhoff found a way to overcome these obstacles. Using satellite images of city lights at night, they constructed a map of the urbanized areas of the United States. They then retrieved vegetation density readings of present day American cities as well as simulated readings of the landscapes that pre-dated these cities. By combining the vegetation data with the urbanization maps, Imhoff was able to calculate the effects of urbanization on many types of ecosystems across the country.
Our Changing Landscape
"When considering global climate change, carbon is really at the heart of the issue," says Imhoff. As the human population has grown and industrialized over the past 250 years, factories and farms have sent out a constant, ever-growing stream of methane, carbon dioxide, and other carbon-based greenhouse gases. These gases trap solar radiation and heat the atmosphere in much the same way that a windshield traps heat in a car on a sunny day. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Earth's average surface temperature has increased between 0.4°C (0.7°F) to 0.8°C (1.4°F) over the last hundred years largely due to these gases. Over the next hundred or so years, it is feared that temperatures could rise another 1.4°C (2.5°F) to 5.8°C (10°F), causing sea levels to rise, rainfall patterns to change, and ecosystems to shift (IPCC 2001).
One of the purely natural phenomena that actually reduces the amount of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is vegetation growth. Through the process of
photosynthesis, plants draw down more carbon dioxide than anything else. And
carbon dioxide is the most abundant greenhouse gas generated by humans.
"When the Northern Hemisphere greens in the spring or summer, the change
in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually a measurable event," says
Imhoff. Were plant density to increase dramatically over the next century,
global warming could be curbed dramatically. On the other hand, the wholesale
destruction of plants through clear cutting and burning could raise atmospheric
carbon dioxide levels above expectations.
|Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have been rising steadily since industrialization began in the late 1700s. Data from Mauna Loa, on the island of Hawaii, show that the rate continues to increase. The sawtooth pattern in the monthly data is due to the large amount of vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere that consumes carbon dioxide each spring and releases it each fall. (Graph by Robert Simmon, based on data from the NOAA Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Laboratory)
So keeping track of the amount of vegetation around the Earth is crucial to estimating carbon dioxide levels and ultimately global climate change. Imhoff explains that urbanization has a significant impact on vegetation and the surrounding ecosystem. Though rural communities also alter vegetation appreciably, buildings are spread out and the local vegetation is largely left intact for long periods of time or replaced with fields of fertile crops. When people construct cities or even subdivisions, however, forests are clear cut, shrubs are removed, and much of the ground is paved. The only vegetation left standing afterwards is typically the standard urban fare of grass, loosely scattered trees, and hedgerows. The soil, which tends to be some of the most productive in a given region, is often severely degraded. Consequently, once an area has been urbanized, it is very difficult to bring the land back to its natural state.
Over the next century, urbanization is predicted to move at a breakneck pace. In fact, it's estimated that worldwide the migration towards the cities has been moving at three times the rate of population growth. Only a third of the planet's population lived in urban areas 10 years ago. Now it's up to 50 percent and researchers believe that in 10 more years it will be up to two thirds. When you consider that the human population will grow from six billion to nearly 10 billion over the next 50 years, an enormous amount of land is likely to be urbanized in a relatively short time.
Most of the current flight towards urban areas is occurring in third world countries such as India and China. In developed countries such as the United States, the flight towards the cities occurred during the first half of the last century. But the increase in population and the unerring belief in a two-story, aluminum-sided American dream has led to further expansion. Between 1982 and 1992, 19,000 square miles of otherwise rural cropland and wilderness were urbanized in the United States (World Resources Institute 1996). This is the equivalent of covering half of Ohio with one big subdivision. All of this takes its toll on vegetation. "We are simply converting more and more of the most fertile land areas to a non-productive state by covering them with parking lots and buildings that spread out over a larger and larger area," says Imhoff.
|Although the majority of the U. S. population lived in cities by 1950, the country continues to urbanize [yellow line (left axis)]. Worldwide, the percentage of people living in cities is expected to increase 15 to 20 percent from 2000 to 2030 (blue line (left axis)]. At the same time, global population levels are steadily climbing [black line (right axis)]. As a result, cities are continually growing and consuming green space. (Graph by Robert Simmon, based on data from the UN Population Information Network)
Viewing Vegetation in a New Light
Several years ago, Imhoff and a group of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center set out to examine just how all this urbanization affects vegetation and, consequently, carbon dioxide levels. Their first obstacle lay in simply measuring urbanization's extent. Cities and suburbs sprout up fast and their boundaries are uneven, often spreading over the land in a seemingly organic fashion like mold on fruit. Getting an accurate up-to-date map of just one urban area can be exceedingly difficult even with the help of planes or conventional remote sensing satellites such as Landsat.
Imhoff says he came across a solution when he discovered satellite images displaying the illumination that cities and towns generate at night. The images were taken by Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's Operational Linescan System (OLS). The satellite network was originally designed to aid in aircraft navigation by detecting the lunar illumination off of nighttime clouds. What the Air Force realized is that on evenings when there was a new moon, the satellite was sensitive enough to record the illumination from city lights. Over a period of several new moons, the data the satellite retrieved could be pieced together to produce a global image of city lights.
Employing computer algorithms and additional data, Imhoff figured out a way
to create maps of population density across an entire country or continent from
the images. "We
essentially scaled back on the brightness levels of the imaging data,"
says Imhoff. The first full map of urban areas he constructed was of the
United States. Using statistics taken from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Goddard
team was able to place all land area in the United States into three classes �
urban, peri-urban, and non-urban—and assign population densities to those
Urban regions, Imhoff explains, constitute any area that has 1, 000 people or more per square mile. These are regions where the ecosystem has been significantly transformed into a human-devised habitat filled with office buildings, housing developments, and strip malls. Peri-urban areas, on the other hand, have only been lightly populated. They usually consist of farmland, light suburban development, or small towns and are classified as having an average of 100 people per square mile. Finally, non-urban regions, such as central Montana and western Maine, harbor only ten people or less per square mile.
Now that Imhoff and his team had the outlines of the urban and peri-urban areas, the next step was to calculate how urbanization has transformed the local vegetation. In short, he would have to compare the present day vegetation in urban areas to the vegetation that existed before the cities were built.
Measuring vegetation density for the present day cities was fairly
straightforward. For years scientists have gathered global readings of
vegetation using satellites. Remote sensing satellite instruments such as the
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) aboard NOAA's polar
satellites have been observing the Earth's surface on a regular basis
since the 1970s. The instrument records light of different bands (colors)
reflected and emitted from the Earth, including red, green, and near infrared.
To extract the information about the amount and extent of vegetation from the
satellite imagery, scientists typically use what is known as the normalized
difference vegetation index (NDVI). NDVI is produced by calculating the
difference in reflectance between the visible and near-infrared light in a
satellite image. It is a relative measure of the vegetation density and an
indicator of how much photosynthesis is taking place on a given plot of ground.
To obtain current readings of urban vegetation density, Imhoff simply acquired
the most recent NDVI readings of the United States from NOAA. He then laid the
vegetation density data on top of his city lights map and retrieved the values
of vegetation density for regions designated as urban and peri-urban.
|The map at left shows the urban areas of Sacramento, California derived from city lights data and superimposed on census tracts. Each census tract has a similar total population, so smaller tracts correspond to denser populations. Light blue represents urban areas, dark blue peri-urban areas, and light grey rural areas. (Image courtesy Marc Imhoff, NASA GSFC)
Obtaining vegetation density readings for these areas from before the cities were constructed presented a more complex problem. After all, many major cities in the United States were founded well before people ever took flight or even knew what photosynthesis meant. "We looked at what the NDVI is inside urban areas and compared it to what the NDVI is immediately outside urbanized areas in the same land cover class," says Imhoff. The team consulted a map created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) displaying natural ecosystems such as savanna, mixed forest, and shrub land across the United States. Since these maps were general in nature and ignored the presence of urban areas, the scientists could pinpoint the natural ecosystems that predated present day cities and suburbs. They then retrieved satellite-derived vegetation density readings in untouched areas around the city with the same ecosystem. In Miami, for instance, the USGS maps indicated that most urban areas lay on savanna. The team located relatively untouched savanna nearby and obtained NDVI values. They swapped these readings for the vegetation density values in their present day urban area maps to get a picture of what vegetation was like before the city was built.
|Imhoff and his colleagues used USGS land cover classification data to determine the type of vegetation that existed before a city was built. The change in productivity (which is proportional to the amount of carbon consumed by vegetation) due to urbanization differs depending on the original type of land cover. (Image by Robert Simmon, based on data from the USGS.)
Urban Sprawl's Impact on Vegetation
With these "before" and "after" data in hand, Imhoff
could then establish to what degree urbanization altered the natural vegetation
in the United States. "Three primary patterns kept coming up again and
again," says Imhoff. He explains the most common pattern is best
represented in and around Chicago, which was built on a mixed forest type of
ecosystem. "Here urbanization elongates the growing season through urban
heating, but you have lower overall annual productivity," says Imhoff. As
can be seen on any nightly newscast, temperatures are usually a degree or two
higher within urban areas. Consequently, urbanization causes vegetation to
sprout earlier in the spring and turn brown later in the fall. During the summer
months, however, urbanization lowers the total amount of plant growth
substantially. Imhoff points out that overall, urbanization has resulted in a
loss of a minimum of five full days of peak season plant growth a year in
Chicago. In other words, when a mixed forest ecosystem is completely urbanized,
plant growth is reduced by at least the equivalent of five full days a year.
But this was not the only pattern Imhoff and his team uncovered. In cities such as Miami, the native foliage is savanna, which unlike the mixed forest of Chicago is active and therefore green pretty much all year around. Here, the addition of urban heating was of no value and urbanized areas lowered the amount of plant growth all year long, resulting in the loss of 22 full days of peak season plant growth a year. And in cities such as Denver, you see the opposite effect. Denver is built on open shrub land that is sparsely vegetated. People have planted lawns and trees throughout the city and its surrounding suburbs, adding a substantial amount of greenery. For most of the year, the plant growth in the urbanized area is greater than it is in the rural dusty, tumbleweed-laden plains surrounding the city. So urbanization actually adds 11 days of productivity to Denver.
"These days many of the open spaces right outside the urban areas are farmland," says Imhoff. "In many cases, they are right in the path of development." So in addition to measuring the difference in vegetation between non-urban and urban areas, Imhoff also recorded the difference between urban and peri-urban areas, where most farmland can be found. The results were in some ways more disturbing. On average, when cities encroach on farmland, the area undergoes a loss of 10 days of peak season plant growth. So in areas such as Chicago, the loss in primary productivity is greater when urban areas replace farmland than when urban areas replace a mixed forest ecosystem.
|The change in plant growth due to urbanization differs based on the ecosystem surrounding a city. In Chicago the growing season is extended, but the maximimum vegetation density is lower than the original forest would be. In balmy Miami vegetation is less vigorous throughout the year. Denver, on the other hand, has slightly increased vegetation density. The graphs above show a year of NDVI values for urban vegetation as compared to the vegetation that was present before urbanization. To derive these charts, NDVI values were multiplied by the number of days in each month for each month of the year. Note the differing vertical scale. [Graphs adapted from Imhoff, Tucker, Lawrence, and Stutzer. Photographs copyright Philip Greenspun (Chicago), City of Miami (Miami), and Eric Anderson (Denver)]
"The impacts on production are variable, but they're generally negative. And the impacts may be disproportional to the area converted," says Imhoff. "So while only three percent of the of the land area in the United States is urbanized, that three percent used to be the most productive soils we had." Simply put, most of the cities in the United States are located on or near some of the most fertile soils where plant productivity is the highest. As urban areas expand onto peri-urban and non-urban areas, more of this productive soil will give way to development.
In the future, the loss of vegetation due to urban growth will likely accelerate and may affect carbon dioxide levels globally. Right now Imhoff and his colleagues are working on a way to calculate exactly how the reduced plant growth, caused by urbanization, affects carbon dioxide. "Our next step with carbon modeling is that we want to look at the impact of urbanization on photosynthesis in terms of grams of carbon fixed as plant organic matter per square meter of land over a period of months and years," says Imhoff. With such data, those who construct climate models to forecast global warming and climate change could obtain more precise measurements on how much less carbon dioxide the land can absorb as our population and our cities expand.
|Chicago, Miami, and Denver are three of America's largest metropolitan areas. These three scenes from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus aboard the Landsat 7 satellite give some sense of the scale of the cities—each images is 32.4 by 16.2 km (20.1 by 10.1 miles). (Images by Robert Simmon, based on data from the Landsat 7 science team, the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, and the Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland)


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My employer is migrating to a HDHP. I figured it was coming eventually, but this is worse than I thought.
Premiums are the same as my old PPO. But family coverage has a $4200 deductible!! No co-pays. No individual deductible. And they are adding a $600 penalty for covering a spouse who has their own employer benefits. Ick.
DH's plan is no better. It's the same basic setup (no copays, higher premium, lower deductible), but doesn't meet the criteria for a HDHP, so only an FSA. I'm tired of playing the "how much will we spend" FSA game.
Healthcare is so broken in this country. Now my health insurance is MORE complicated and MORE expensive. I'm pretty savvy on these sorts of administrative things - able to dig through the fine print and research costs and model comparisons. I feel awful for those who struggle to understand how it works.
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How can I control my preschool escape artist?
My 4-year-old runs out the door the minute no one's looking (such as first thing in the morning, before I wake up). I've tried putting a chain lock on the door, but he's figured out how to open it. I've tried setting my alarm even earlier, but he adapts his internal clock to wake up before the alarm. This morning a maintenance guy popped his head in the door and said, 'Is this your son? I found him swimming in the pond.' Help!
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we had to padlock our gates and even key lock all the screen doors as our son would go walkabout, one time our gates were flapping in the breeze, the dog was sitting in the drive way looking up the road, our son had decided to go for a walk at 2.5yrs up the road to see the puppies. heartattack. so now, everything is lockedposted 07/07/2012 by Paxi
My son used to run outside in his diaper no matter what the season. He was infatuated with his dad's riding mower. A health nurse told us to try this trick. She told us to stick a big red stop sign on the door and we had a conversation about the stop sign and in this case it meant he needed to talk to his mom before he left the house. It worked quite well.posted 10/15/2011 by 83momma
I just bought an alarm with a high pitched noise to put on the front door. My 2 year old quickly shut the door both times. I basically just needed to know and this sound works perfectly. I'm so glad I didn't buy a lock, I was also very worried about the potential for a fireposted 10/15/2010 by ceenspots
I got my 90 decibel alarm from the Dollar Tree!posted 08/27/2010 by Mrs. Sulzle
If my 4 year-old ran out of the house without me she would be getting her bottom spanked! I live in a 2nd floor apartment, with a deadbolt that she can lock and unlock herself and I have recently been looking into putting an extra lock at the top of the door. I'm a preschool teacher and the lock I want to choose is often used for us (also happens to be on my utility closet)is a flip-lock. I have a hard enough time opening them myself bc you have to lift up before flipping them, a maneuver you can easily hide from your child's view. My neighbors downstairs also have one on their door. I couldn't use anything that would be a fire-hazard...that worries me too much with only one exit to the house!posted 01/03/2010 by LeslieAnn86
Too many locks can be a fire hazard! Odds are low there may be a fire, but what if there was one and your son was smart enough to get out of the house or apartment and save himself and you! It sounds like he has no fear and needs more boundries. Do you apply consequences for his actions? He is plenty smart enough to escape and to understand why it is wrong to leave your home. Do you set limits when you are out together in a store as to how far away he can be from you? Don't kind yourself as to how much kids understand. I make it a point from the time my kids (20mo & 3y) to talk to them about all kinds of things since they were infants. I would talk about changing their diaper, why I was doing any task, what was on TV and so much more. Sure they may not have understood a word but I continue to do it. It amazes me how much they must have been listening because both of them understand so much more than many kids their age. Now if they could just listen when I say, fighting". keep talking!posted 07/31/2009 by kegbpg
Please,I am begging for some help.My 5 year old keeps getting out of the house. I don't know what to do anymore. He has been doing this for years. I am asleep. It is 5 am and all I hear is a door slam. There have been times that he has walked out while I was doing housework and didn't hear him get out. He even figured out the garage door. I have had the cops called by concerned neighbors. I am scared,extremely tired. I have resorted to putting a lock on the outside of his door. I can't take it anymore. He is such a drain on my energy and sanity.posted 06/18/2009 by a BabyCenter Member
This seems to be more common than I thought. I have a chain lock on my front door but it's up very high. This also keeps the kids from opening the door to strangers (or neighbors when you are still in your PJs:) There are also flip type locks that you can put on the very top of the door. My friend has one of these. You can't even see it, as I learned when I tried to leave her house one day. I also put a baby gate on my 2 year olds bedroom door. My husband was worried about the fire hazard as well but I'd feel safer knowing where he could be found rather than him roaming around the house during a fire. Especially since they won't be able to get out the door with the lock on it anyway. The gate also helps when putting him to bed, since he can't get out, and buys a few minutes of sleep, if he decides to play in his room instead of waking up my four year old to let him out.posted 02/16/2009 by matrushka1
The comments and stories I've read so far make me very thankful for a couple of things with our house that I find annoying. 1) The front door's knob is VERY difficult to turn, even for me. If it was easier, we'd just lock the screen door too. 2) Our yard is fenced in with solid planks made of plastic with a gate to match. The latch for the gate is about shoulder level for me (I'm 5'4"). Even though our son can get out into the back yard, he can't leave the yard without help.posted 01/17/2009 by CMakMomma
We had same problem with 3 1/2 year old until last week. Found a lock at www.thedoorguardian.com It mounts with three screws to the door frame and is spring loaded when closed against the door.I found mine at an Ace Hardware for $20. Could not find it at Lowe's or Home Depot. Ace Hardware was the only place I could find it in store.I mounted mine near the top of the door. The same company also offers a similar lock for patio doors.posted 06/19/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
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This is our first cycle ttcing since I had my right tube removed. I had an ep in Sept that was treated with the MTX shot. Did another 4 rounds of clomid at 50mg and when that didnt work I start seeing an RE.
My first RE appt was great and he told us that the right tube needed to come out. He understood why my OB opted for the shot instead of surgery but he said the tube needed to come out asap.
We did blood work which showed pcos w/ insulin resistance and began metformin 500mg twice a day.
Surgery was done May 10th to remove my right tube which was dialated and filled with fluid, a cyst from my right ovary and a bunch of scar tissue that was attached tomy tubes, ovaries, uterus and bowels.
I got AF May 24th so this is our first cycle ttcing and we got the go ahead to try naturally this cycle and if no bfp then we will start medical cycle at the end of June when AF is expected to arrive.
Ill be 37 on Saturday and expecting ovulation the following weekend.
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Should I have a baby for my sister?
I have two gorgeous sons and don't plan to have any more. My sister and her husband can't have children and the other day she asked me if I would consider having a baby for her by artificial insemination. My first reaction was, 'Yes, I'd love to!'. However, now I'm wondering if I would be doing the right thing. I don't want to do anything to upset our families. I haven't mentioned it to my husband yet.
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people who ask other women to carry their babies- i just think they are rude. if they knew how much went into carrying a baby they wouldn't even consider it.posted 10/05/2006 by a BabyCenter Member
i would say no how would you be able to go around him and not call him your own when he grows up he will get confused bacuse he will have find out sooner or laterposted 04/22/2008 by garcilazo963
I WOULD DEF. LOOK INTO IT!! WOULDNT YOU WANT HER TO IF YOU WERE IN HER SHOES !! BUT I WOULD THINK YOU DEF HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY PREPARED TO DO SO AND WHAT GREATER GIFT COULD YOU EVER GIVE TO YOU SISTER THAN TO CARRY HER CHILD FOR HER !!! I DONT KNOW IF THIS HELPED BUT I THINK IF YOUR ARE THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB - WHAT A WONDERFUL WONDERFUL THING YOU WOULD BE DOING FOR HER !!!posted 10/25/2007 by *BaByKeLLeY*
I think if you want to do this for your sister then do it. You know the capabilities and the way it feels during pregnancy. THe question is are you up to it the third round. If you dont mid pregnancy then why not do it for someone you love. I dont think it has anything to do with that you had two boys they just want a baby that they can call there own. What about adoption there are tons of new born babies that that need a home have they looked in to this. But if it about knowing a family member that she wont have any problems with in the long run I would also request for people or simblings who have had a chilld for their love one and see what they went through. But if u and your sister are close I dont see why not u are going to be the carrying the baby so you have to ask yourself.This is a child not clothes.posted 09/27/2007 by a BabyCenter Member
WHY NOT ? BUT, THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE FUTURE.posted 08/30/2007 by CAPRICORNIA
I considered doing the same thing for my husband's cousin who isn't able to have children. I was going to wait until I had my children and then, if she still didn't have a child, ask her if she wanted me to be a surrogate. Well, after having my son, I wasn't sure and I talked it over with my husband. He said it would be a nice thing to do, but he wasn't sure about it. My concerns were the same as those mentioned. I would have to see this baby at reunions and other family functions. It would be nice to be able to see the baby, but it might be harder. Eventually, she and her husband divorced and I told her that I had thought about it. She said it was a nice thought, but she wouldn't ask me to do it unless I really wanted to. I have thought about donating my eggs after I have my second child. We have no plans to have another one after that and I would like to help someone who can't have a child. At least, this way, I wouldn't have to carry the baby or see it later on.posted 10/04/2006 by AdrienneC1
My sister and I have discussed this same issue-me carring for her. I think it would be easier to do it for a family member for I'll be able to see the child grow up, unlike a stranger who may drop off the map after the baby is in their arms. I love being pregnant and feel bad that my sis may not be able to feel that, but at least I can do is give her a child. And unlike other surrogates, she wouldn't need to pay me nor would she have to worry about me not taking care of myself and the baby while pregnant. No one can give you an answer if you should do it or not-but I personally would.posted 10/03/2006 by sweetestjewels
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George Mitchell
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"Thank you very much Mr. Prime Minister. I too look forward to our discussions. We appreciate your courtesy in seeing us here and we hope to bring this phase of our discussions to an early conclusion and to move forward in our common search for comprehensive peace in the region."
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My friend Ricardo spotted this turtle at Luckiamute State Natural Area, north of Corvallis. The Oregon Parks and Rec Dept. is trying to determine whether this is a painted turtle or a red-eared slider. Please comment if you can help!
Widely distributed in a mossy area under evergreens
Growing on a decaying log
Very pale chanterelles found in the hollow of a tree with very little light.
Blue-staining slippery jack -- I'm pretty sure that's what this was. The blue staining was quick and very impressive.
Lobster mushrooms at Cape Mountain
Mysterious bug that landed on my knee at Tamolitch Pool on the McKenzie River Trail.
Purple lupines blooming on the ashy slopes of Mt. Hood in September -- gorgeous!
one western pond turtle basking on a log in the Western Pond at Luckiamute State Natural Area
on land/swimming along shore of Clear Lake
Found on Lower Dan's Trail in McDonald Forest
sitting on a fern by the side of the Old Growth Trail in McDonald Forest
Second trip to Peavy Arboretum and both times I've seen a banana slug!
Spotted in a parking lot in Corvallis
At Peavy Arboretum near the forestry building
I'm not sure this is a rough-skinned newt; maybe too red?
spotted on the 36 Loop Trail at Peavy Arboretum
Growing along the sides of the Section 36 Loop Trail at Peavy Arboretum
growing at Finley Refuge in Corvallis
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The Other War Criminals Awaiting Trial at the ICC
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When Liberian dictator Charles Taylor was convicted by the International Criminal Court this week of committing, aiding, and abetting crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone's civil war, it was widely regarded as an overdue act of justice. But it was also an opportunity to reflect on the many other alleged war criminals still awaiting their day in court. From Saif Qaddafi to Joseph Kony, here's the complete list of the many defendants who are still wanted by the ICC.
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Rome, Italy, Mar 5, 2013 / 12:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archbishop-emeritus of Seville in Spain, Cardinal Carlos Amigo Vallejo, said the Vatileaks scandal, in which confidential papal documents were leaked to the press, will have no relevance in the upcoming conclave for the election of a new Pontiff.
Before entering the first General Congregation of Cardinals on Monday at the Vatican, Cardinal Amigo said that within the Church, "as is normal among all human beings," there are "different opinions" about various subjects, but he denied that there are "confrontations" between different factions of cardinals, as the secular press is suggesting.
"The Church is united, and that is what matters," he underscored.
The 78 year-old cardinal, who will participate in the conclave, said there were "no state secrets unveiled" by the Vatileaks scandal and that the Church has more important issues to face.
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HAFB's survival odds difficult to forecast
Process is secretive, competition tough, variables abound
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Morning News
The competition is fierce.
And with so many bases fighting to survive the next round of closures, it's hard to determine the odds.
Hill Air Force Base is not only competing with eight other major military depots. It must also contend with threats of privatization and even unrelated business ventures, said Vickie McCall, president of the Utah Defense Alliance.
"We'll compete with the best of the best," McCall said.
Nobody really knows how each base will be compared. The entire Base Realignment and Closure process is extremely secretive.
Commanders of every military installation recently sent the Defense Department answers to thousands of questions pertaining to personnel, infrastructure and equipment. That data is currently being reviewed by the Defense Department and will not be released until the BRAC list of bases proposed for closure comes out on or before May 16.
"We don't know how the commission is going to compare," said Kari Tilton, a Hill spokeswoman. "There is going to be some apples to apples, there is going to be some apples to oranges. It's complicated."
Military togetherness
Three major maintenance depots remain in the entire Air Force.
BRAC shut down two bases with air logistics centers during the 1995 round of base closures. Hill escaped that year, but Kelly and McClellan Air Force bases in San Antonio and Sacramento, Calif., didn't make the cut.
Hill Air Force Base remains, as do Robins and Tinker Air Force bases in Georgia and Oklahoma. But these maintenance-based installations, also known as "air logistics centers," are not competing against each other for survival. In fact, they are the future of the U.S. military, McCall said.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's call for "jointness"?
"We've already got that in all of our (air logistics centers)," McCall said.
Rumsfeld has called for a transformation of the military that calls for teamwork among every branch of the military in the post-Cold War era.
Key to this transformation is creating jointness a strategy that will improve efficiency levels across the Department of Defense. In this new, transformed, military, airmen will train with soldiers, Marines with seamen all branches of the military will train and deploy together. Depots from every branch of the military will work together to maintain expensive defense equipment.
"Jointness is an important part of the BRAC process," Philip Grone, deputy undersecretary of defense for installations and environment, recently told the House Armed Services Committee.
The air logistics centers at Hill, Robins and Tinker Air Force bases are the perfect place to execute Rumsfeld's transformation, said Ron Carbon, executive director of 21st Century Partnership, a group lobbying to save Robins Air Force Base.
Work at some Army and even Navy maintenance depots could be transferred to one of the remaining Air Force air logistics centers, he said.
"We have some very large bases, we have the ability to receive new missions, and we don't have any operational restrictions," Carbon said. "We can easily serve the roles that the (Department of Defense) is wanting to do."
Private-sector competition
Even if Utah's bases are not shut down, they could lose some of their workload to private contractors.
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|Objects of Riddickule: "Riddick" and "The Ultimate Life"
|Movies - Reviews
|Written by Mike Schulz
|Monday, 09 September 2013 07:13
RIDDICK and THE ULTIMATE LIFE
A few weeks ago, before heading off to see Kick-Ass 2, a friend asked if I thought 2013 was, as he felt, the year of the completely unnecessary, unrequested sequel. As I had, by that point, already sat through The Smurfs 2, RED 2, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Last Exorcism: Part II, and Scary Movie V – to say nothing of The Hangover: Part III, Fast & Furious 6, and Grown Ups 2, all of which someone must have requested – I told him yes.
Had he asked the same question this past Friday, before my double-feature of Riddick and The Ultimate Life, I would have told him hell yes.
Back in 2004, it made perfect sense for there to be a sequel to 2000's Pitch Black, the impressively pungent and creepy Alien rip-off that featured a band of intergalactic explorers – including Vin Diesel with glow-in-the-dark eyeballs – battling a race of barely visible monsters with gnashing teeth and no patience for humans. What makes far less sense is for there to now be a follow-up to the follow-up, considering that 2004's The Chronicles of Riddick turned its burgeoning franchise into howling, space-opera camp, complete with a tortured (and torturous) mythology and gifted performers such as Thandie Newton and Judi Dench (!!!) uttering unspeakable dialogue in outfits suggesting a 23rd Century Dynasty.
Yet here we are with Riddick, and in his latest sci-fi thriller, writer/director David Twohy – who also helmed the first two installments – is at least wise enough to get the series back to its basics ... although "basic" is a term that could be applied to pretty much everything regarding the movie. Employing a moderately effective three-act structure, Twohy's outing finds Diesel's unkillable, titular bad-ass (1) struggling to survive on an unfamiliar planet populated by vicious alien beasts; (2) evading capture by soldiers and bounty hunters whose fees will be doubled if Riddick is returned dead; and (3) teaming up with his pursuers to escape the hostile landscape before they're gobbled up by shrieking serpents with thrashing tails and torso-sized fangs. It's a simple tale, and after the ludicrousness of the 2004 Riddick, I was certainly grateful for that. I would've been even more grateful if the 2013 Riddick displayed an iota of personality – or rather, personality not borrowed from other, more memorable movies.
It is, of course, silly to ask for personality from Vin Diesel, who's forged for himself rather shocking career longevity based on little more than his intimidating physique and his comically deep voice. (Does the man sing? If so, can someone get to work on his inevitable Barry White bio-pic?) But even though he looks naggingly uncomfortable during Riddick's first third, forced as he is to green-screen act opposite tacky-looking (if cleverly designed) digitized creatures in tackier-looking digitized settings, Diesel is by no means a serious blight on the film. He's actually even kind of fun during his threatening showdowns with Matt Nable, Jordi Mollà, and Katee Sackhoff, and there are certain instances – as when he promises to execute a captor with his own knife in a swift five seconds – when the man's macho bluster, delivered in that fathoms-deep rumble, amusingly upstages everything around him.
That's faint praise, however, given that the "everything" in question seems culled, if not outright stolen, from James Cameron's Aliens and any number of slimeballs-in-space epics – plus, during its opening half hour, a healthy sampling of Cast Away. (Unfortunately, the demise of Diesel's faithful alien dingo proves less moving than the loss of Tom Hanks' volleyball.) Twohy can stage a suspense scene admirably enough, and he has a gift for bursts of shockingly outré violence, such as the funny/gruesome moment that finds a head – or rather, half a head – landing in a strategically placed box. But in the end, there's too little that's satisfying about Riddick to merit its existence, at least beyond its studio's procurement of a few easy dollars before the real (and hopefully better) fall movies start landing.
Still, better this Pitch Black sequel than The Ultimate Life, a follow-up to the 2007 inspirational saga The Ultimate Gift, and a work of such aggressively cloying (if well-intentioned) sentimentality and corniness that it took all my willpower not to audibly groan, repeatedly, during my screening. This was not, I must stress, the general reaction among those with whom I saw the film, who cackled at the gentle humor and sniffled at the family-first moralizing and applauded the finale; had my two-hour cineplex experience ended with a group potluck and a spirited rendition of "God Bless America," I wouldn't have been the least bit surprised.
Yet while, at times, I truly do hate being so cynical about faith-based entertainments of The Ultimate Life's ilk, I can't pretend that I ever got on-board with this depressingly predictable and contrived extended flashback, one that shows how Gift's billionaire Red Stevens (James Garner, appearing in a 10-second cameo here) learned about Deeper Values after striking it rich – and ignoring his family – as a Texas oilman. Directed by Michael Landon Jr., which might tell you everything you need to know about what's in store here, this desperately sincere, determinedly phony drama would probably have been close-to-insufferable enough for me merely for its stiff performances and bum writing and laughable pileups of coincidences. (As a young ranch hand, Red forms a friendship/rivalry with a guy named Gus ... who just happens to be the initial boyfriend of Red's future wife … and who, despite being in a different platoon, just happens to wind up with Red in the same Italian foxhole during World War II.) But while I should probably give this earnest endeavor a break, especially considering its obviously limited budget – every room, even in Red's supposedly luxurious domicile, looks bizarrely lacking in set dressing – even the most minor of details seem almost startlingly ill-considered. Watching The Ultimate Life, I was bothered that the teenage Red (Austin James) was a brunette who turned into a blond adult (Drew Waters) resembling Brad Pitt, neither of whom looked anything like James Garner. But when, during a diner scene set in 1941, a man walked to the counter, ordered a hamburger, and was told that his bill was $3.50, I'll admit it: I laughed out loud. Do you know what you could've actually purchased with that amount in 1941? Roughly 23 hamburgers. Or 14 tickets to more believable movies than this one.
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The markets turned positive during the midday with the Dow rising 16 points to 15,417 as home prices rose. Nasdaq gained 19 points to 3784.
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A class action lawsuit against GenVec (Nasdaq: GNVC) was dismissed.
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) reported sharply higher third quarter earnings that surpassed analyst expectations.
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Two law firms filed suit against BioScrip (Nasdaq: BIOS) for possible securities law violations.
Arbor Realty Trust (NYSE: ABR) priced its public offering of 6 million common shares at the discounted price of $7.08 per share.
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In the broad market, advancing issues outpaced decliners by a margin of more than 5 to 3 on the NYSE and by more than 2 to 1 on Nasdaq. The broader S&P 500 added 3 points to 1705.


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