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Amaranths: Ancient and Modern
by David Cavagnaro
Amaranthus tricolor 'Elephant Head'
Amaranths are both historic and contemporary plants. Few similarly small groups of plants are as complex and diverse, both genetically and taxonomically. Even within one species, the ranges of forms and uses are remarkable: Some amaranths are pretty, and some are plain; some are big, and some are small; and some are weedy, and others aren't. Such diversity adds to the home gardener's challenge of predicting performance the first season, and perhaps that partially explains why amaranths are underutilized plants.
Your first encounter with an amaranth (whether you knew it or not) most likely was in a weedy garden. Red root pigweed, (Amaranth retroflexus), is a common garden weed coast to coast and North to South. Although the weediness of other amaranths is rarely that extreme, all share a propensity to what is kindly referred to as self-sowing. On the other hand, Janet Marinelli writes in her book, Stalking the Wild Amaranth, (Henry Holt, 1998), that seabeach amaranth (A. pumilus), once common to Long Island sand dunes, is now one of the rarest plants on the planet.
Intriguing and Versatile Plants
The name Amaranth is from the Greek amarantos (meaning which does not fade) and refers to the everlasting quality of the flowers. The ancients associated the long-lasting flowers with the steadfastness of true friendship or love.
Although I don't expect you to share my enthusiasm for these most remarkable plants automatically, I offer some advice: If you haven't grown them before, find some space in your garden this year for an amaranth. I guarantee they'll earn comments from visitors, and they won't disappoint you.
Because the taming of the genus Amaranthus has taken these ancient plants in three broad directions over the centuries -- as decorative plants, greens, or grains -- I group some of the more popular varieties by those primary uses. Broadly speaking, Amaranthus cruentus and A. hypochondriacus are grown for their seeds; A. caudatus, called love-lies-bleeding, is grown for its drooping, tassel-like flowers; and A. tricolor is grown for its brilliant leaf colors and spinachlike leaves. But neat categories like these quickly become muddled because amaranths are naturally promiscuous plants that defy pigeonholing. Here I'll describe my favorite varieties by category.


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Men's Open RacePRINCETON, N.J. (10/19/13) - The Princeton men's cross country team finished third at the Princeton Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 19 at West Windsor Fields. The result came just an hour after the team's top group finished 10th at PreNats.
Junior Eddie Owens led the charge as he finished in 11th place at 24:09. Freshman William Bertrand ran 24:24 to finish 19th, while sophomore Sam Berger was 29th at 24:36. Sophomores Brett Kelly and Michael Sublette both finished in the top 50 at 24:42 and 24:50. Freshmen William Paulson and Jack Leahy were the sixth and seventh runners for the Tigers.
Villanova won the race with 23 points going 2-3-4-5-9. La Salle was the second-place team with 94 points. The Tigers earned 135 points to finish third out of 30 teams.
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* Member of the U.S. Under-23 National Team
* Recently helped the U-23s win the 2010 Four Nations Tournament in England
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* Member of the U-20 squad that traveled to the Pan American Games in Brazil in the summer of 2007
* Has also traveled to England with the U-20s
* Former member of the U-17 U.S. squad
* Has been involved with the National Team Program since the U-15 level
* First-Team All-Pac-10 selection
* Played and started 22 of 23 matches
* Scored her lone goal of the season in a 4-1 victory over Cal State Northridge
* Saw action both on defense and in the midfield.
* Helped the Bruin defense surrender less than a goal a game (0.84)
* Also helped the defense posted nine shutouts in 23 matches.
* Played in 20 matches, making 19 starts
* Ended the season with eight points on three goals and two assists
* Scored the team's first goal in a 2-1 victory over No. 2 Portland in the NCAA Quarterfinals
* Also had a goal in the team's 5-0 victory over SDSU in the NCAA Second Round
* Assisted on the team's lone goal in a 2-1 loss to Stanford in the NCAA Semifinals
* Started 24 of 25 matches
* Second-team All-Pac-10 selection
* Third-team All-Region selection by Soccer Buzz
* Scored her first career goal in a 3-0 victory over Miami on Sept. 19
* Notched her lone assist of the year in a 6-1 victory over Duke in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament
* Ended the year with three points
* Also had 27 shots
* One of just six players, and two freshmen, to start all 24 matches
* Second-team Soccer Buzz Freshman All-American
* Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 selection
* Also named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team
* Ended the season with two points on two assists
* First assist came in a 6-0 win over Hawai'i on Sept. 23
* Also had an assist in a 3-0 victory over Arizona on Nov. 4
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* Member of the 2006 NSCAA/adidas Girls Youth All-America team
* First-team All-CIF selection at Tesoro High School
* Played club soccer for the Southern California Blues
* Played volleyball as a freshman in high school
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Wallyball is like volleyball, but it's played in a squash or racquetball court, and players can bounce the ball off the walls.
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TEMPE, Ariz. - The Pat Tillman Foundation today announced that Arizona State University head football coach Todd Graham will serve as the official starter for the 9th Annual Pat's Run on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Additionally, Sun Devil senior defensive end Will Sutton, the 2012 Pacific 12 Conference Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year, will serve as the official starter for the Kids Run.
Pat's Run is a 4.2-mile walk/run honoring the legacy of former Sun Devil Pat Tillman and is the signature fundraiser for the Pat Tillman Foundation. The event starts just east of Sun Devil Stadium and winds through the streets of Tempe, before finishing on the 42-yard line of Frank Kush Field, symbolic of the number 42 jersey Tillman wore at ASU. Proceeds from the event benefit the Tillman Military Scholars program.
Pat's Run Kids Run is a .42-mile walk/run for children 12 years of age and younger and also finishes on the 42-yard line inside Sun Devil Stadium.
Graham was hired as ASU's 23rd football coach in December 2011 and he led the Sun Devils to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl in his first season at the helm of the program, finishing 8-5, including a 62-28 win over Navy in the bowl.
Sutton was ASU's 18th consensus All-America player and the first since 2007. He was the fifth Sun Devil to win the conference's defensive player of the year, including Tillman, who earned the honor in 1997.
"Coach Graham has been very active in promoting Pat's football legacy at ASU and also supportive of the foundation's efforts to invest in Tillman Military Scholars nationwide. Will shares Pat's passion for football and dedication to education. I can't think of two more perfect people to help us celebrate the 9th Annual Pat's Run," said Marie Tillman, president and co-founder of the Pat Tillman Foundation.
More than 35,000 participants, volunteers and spectators from every state in the nation will gather to Run, Walk and Honor Pat's legacy at the event. Pat's Run begins at 7:05 a.m., with the Kids Run starting at 9:45 a.m. Registration for Pat's Run is $42. The Kids Run is entry fee is $5 through April 12 and $10 during race week, April 17-20. Space is limited and registration is open at www.patsrun.com.
All participants receive an official Pat's Run t-shirt and access to the race expo. The event also includes a Kids Corner for children 12 and younger. The Kids Zone will include games and activities, appearances by local sports mascots and members of the Sun Devil football team.


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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - With a huge sixth inning comeback vs. No. 8 Michigan (51-13), the Huskies (45-16) advance to Sunday night's game vs. No. 1 Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. PT on ESPN2. It will be an elimination game for the Huskies who will have to win to advance to another elimination game on Monday vs. the Sooners. Michigan was eliminated with the loss.
Michigan got the best of the Huskies in the first meeting of the year in March but Washington fought back to have a great offensive game and earned a complete game from junior Bryana Walker (La Quinta, Calif.) in the circle.
Walker allowed just one run on four hits and struck out seven to pick up her 20th win of the year. It is the first 20-win season of her career.
All four Washington runs came in the top of the sixth. Junior Victoria Hayward (Mountain View, Calif.) singled up the middle to leadoff. A sac bunt by Hooch Fagaly (Chino, Calif.) moved her over to second. After an intentional walk to Kaitlin Inglesby (Portland, Ore.) with one out, sophomore Kimberlee Souza (Waialua, Hawai'i) stepped to the plate as the clean-up hitter for the first time on the year.
Souza singled off the pitcher, Sara Dreisenga, to left field and reached third on the throw and an error. Hayward and pinch runner Marki Creger-Zier (Steilacoom, Wash.) scored for the 2-1 lead.
Sophomore Kylee Lahners (Laguna Hills, Calif.) had a huge at bat, doubling down the left field line as pinch runner Dani Braun (Chehalis, Wash.) scored. It was the first hit for Lahners since the regional championship game.
Senior catcher Shawna Wright (Lancaster, Calif.) continued the inning with a single up the middle and with runners on the corners, a groundout to first base by junior Whitney Jones (Upland, Calif.) allowed Lahners to score the fourth Husky run.
Michigan took a 1-0 lead in the fifth on a single down the first base line by Jaclyn Crummey driving in Sierra Lawrence from third with two outs.
Sierra Romero led off with single in the sixth for Michigan but Romero tagged up and headed for second on a foul fly out to Souza and was thrown out.
Fagaly, Lahners and Wright each picked up their first hits in the WCWS. Wright threw out Ashley Lane trying to steal second; it was the third runner she threw out in the 2013 postseason.
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/ Why he's interesting / Glover has worked at a variety of Harrah's properties (most recently as the assistant general manager and vice president of operations at Caesar's St. Louis Casino and Hotel). He was hired to manage the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, which is expected to bring an estimated 5 million people to downtown Cleveland when it opens later this year.
/ Internships pay off / While attending Duke University, Glover entered Harrah's management program and interned at the Harrah's casino in New Orleans for a summer before he was eventually hired there as a president's associate. He worked on strategic projects and rotated through all the departments. "I learned the business at a fast clip."
/ Stormy weather / Glover was living in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina, but he successfully evacuated. "It's a great city. My wife is from there, so it's kind of like a second home for us. Her family is still there, and we're there quite often." In the wake of the hurricane, Glover was put in charge of reopening the Grand Casino Biloxi in Mississippi.
/ An urban pioneer / Glover's experience in New Orleans has set him up well for the task of opening Cleveland's casino. "New Orleans is one of the best representations of an urban casino done well."
/ Making connections / Glover says the Horseshoe Casino should augment the nightlife scene that already exists in downtown Cleveland. "Connectivity is a big part of what we're focusing on. In terms of amenities, we don't have a lot in this facility, so we want to connect with the surrounding infrastructure to create a complete experience so that people will want to come back."
/ Family matters / "For me, anytime I get off [of work] is just time I can spend with the kids." His three kids are big fans of the Children's Museum of Cleveland and the Great Lakes Science Center.
/ Southern living / "My wife and I are both from the South, and we feel like Cleveland provides a little Southern hospitality. People are very embracing here."
/ His favorite game of chance / Craps. "I like the multiple bets and the interaction between the dealers and the other players."
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First-team Academic All-District ® honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
The Academic All-District ® teams include student-athletes that are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the second year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non Division I) and has doubled the number of athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
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Nominees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.30 (on a 4.0 scale) in both undergrad and graduate work. Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergrad and in graduate school. For example, a student-athlete with GPAs of 3.0 in undergraduate work and 3.9 in graduate school would not be eligible, even if the average of the two combined was above 3.30.
Nominees also must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at the current institution (true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletic transfers are not eligible) and must have completed at least one calendar year at the institution. Nominees must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
Dolbin and the No. 24 ranked Wildcats finished the regular season and the HAAC Playoffs with an overall record of 12-6-1 and will wait until Selection Monday, Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. to see if they have earned an at-large bid into the NAIA Women's Soccer National Tournament Opening Round on Nov. 17.
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Groups Protest EPA Choices for Evaluating Pesticide
The Environmental Protection Agency's candidates for reviewing a staff analysis of the carcinogenicity of a common sterilizing agent drew a sharp protest from 15 health and labor advocacy groups last week. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Service Employees International Union, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest among others asked EPA to remove three scientists who co-authored an industry-funded study on ethylene oxide (ETO) risks. The letter suggested they be replaced with independent health and occupational experts to balance the other industry consultants tentatively named to the committee. In 2004, Christopher Kirman and Michael Gargas from The Sapphire Group and Mary Jane Teta from Exponent conducted an industry-funded study recommending values for cancer risk about equal to those that were generated from the EPA's draft three years earlier, which those same authors helped write. The EPA is reviewing the carcinogenicity of ETO for its Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database, which numerous government agencies in the U.S. and around the world use to determine health risks.
Meanwhile, the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is conducting its own risk assessment of ETO in order to meet an August deadline for re-registering the chemical. Comments submitted last fall by producers and users of ETO slammed the OPP's draft risk assessment. The industry groups complained that the OPP's preliminary standard, 180 times stricter than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's standard of 1 ppm for exposed workers, is impossible to achieve.
Time Runs Andrew Weil Advertorial
This week's Time Magazine includes a column by Dr. Andrew Weil touting the benefits of fish oil supplements. The column was sparked by a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that fish oil supplements did not reduce the risk of serious abnormal heart rhythms. The article failed to disclose that Dr. Weil sells his own brand of fish oil supplements on his website.
NIH Researcher on Pfizer Payroll Gave Firm Tissue Samples
A top-ranked National Institutes of Health researcher who failed to comply with the agency's conflict-of-interest disclosure policy provided pharmaceutical giant Pfizer government-owned tissue samples. In a report released last week, House Energy and Commerce Department investigators concluded Trey Sunderland, chief of the geriatric psychiatry branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, failed to tell agency officials about his arrangement with Pfizer Inc. after sending the company thousands of NIH fluid samples he had worked on for Alzheimer's research. Sunderland received over $500,000 in consulting fees from Pfizer. The House investigators were tipped off by a former NIMH scientist who had worked with Sunderland and was unable to locate spinal fluid samples she had collected in the 1990s. Sunderland pleaded the fifth amendment when called by the committee last week. He had previously blamed his failure to disclose the conflict of interest on his office staff. The case has caused NIH to clarify its rules for managing tissue samples. "All transfers of human samples will require an appropriate agreement signed off by a senior official," said NIH spokesman John Burklow.
Texas Crony Sought White House Help to Weaken Rule
Four years after Texas oilman Ernest Angelo made a special appeal to hunting buddy Karl Rove, the EPA last week approved a weakened rule that aims to decrease groundwater contamination from oil drilling and construction sites, the Los Angeles Times reports. Angelo, a former mayor of Midland, told the White House's top domestic adviser that a more comprehensive groundwater rule from an early EPA draft would cause "our strongest supporters to openly express doubt as to the merit of electing Republicans when we wind up with this type of stupidity." Rove promised Angelo that the administration would consider the "economic, energy and small business impacts" of the rule. In 2005, the EPA draft was changed by the White House's Office of Management and Budget (and now finalized) to allow sediment from energy production sites to flow freely into streams and underground water. "We can't say that Karl Rove walked over to OMB and demanded these changes," said Sharon Buccino, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's land program. "But it is clear that there was direction coming from the top of the White House."
Industry Asks OSHA to Limit Access to Documents
Industry groups have asked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to deny a former high-ranking employee access to its data on OSHA inspectors' exposures to toxic beryllium, according to Inside OSHA. Adam Finkel, who resigned from the agency in January, wanted the documents for an academic research project. Industry officials claimed turning over the documents would disclose confidential commercial or trade secret information, threaten national security and initiate new lawsuits. Finkel, now a professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, has filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against OSHA.
FDA Opposing Conflict-of-Interest Waiver Ban
Top FDA officials continue to speak out against an amendment to the agency's appropriations bill that would ban physicians with direct ties to drug and device manufacturers from sitting on FDA advisory panels. That amendment, sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), passed the House last month and is now before the Senate. Center for Devices and Radiological Health director Daniel Schultz told a Medical Device Manufacturers Association meeting in Washington last week that the bill "could present major, major problems for the agency" by denying it needed expertise, according to the online publication FDA Webview. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which backs the bill, says there are numerous experts without financial ties to regulated firms that could serve the agency equally well.
Odds and Ends
The House of Representatives Science Committee rejected an amendment to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration appropriations bill that would prohibit NOAA supervisors from punishing employees who disseminate scientific research. . . The British Medical Journal is reporting that the International Obesity Task Force, which is closely affiliated with the World Health Organization and became part of the non-profit International Association for the Study of Obesity in 2002, draws two-thirds of its funding from Hoffman-La Roche, which makes the antiobesity drug orlistat (Xenical), and Abbott Laboratories, which makes sibutramine hydrocholoride (Reductil). . . The revolving door is swinging at the Food and Drug Administration as deputy commissioner Steve Niedelman departments the regulatory affairs office for a job at Quintiles, the clinical trials consultancy. . . The Energy Department's National Coal Council defends its lack of environmentalists by claiming none wanted to be associated with the coal industry officials who dominate the advisory panel. The Natural Resources Defense Council told Inside EPA it would likely accept an offer to join.


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The Saudi Popular Campaign for the Relief of the Lebanese People has distributed relief aid to displaced persons in the city of Tripoli, notably in the Jebel Mohsen and Bab Al-Tabbanah areas. The aid includes relief rations and emergency assistance.
Last week, the campaign raised $1 million in medicines and medical supplies for Palestinian families living in the Nahr Al-Barid and Beddawi refugee camps in Lebanon. The group is working with the Palestinian Embassy in Beirut to discuss distributing the aid.


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Note: Due to operator error (mine), this blog never made it into the blogosphere. Last I heard, Pioneer Park's neighbors are still struggling with the crime problem.
The city is launching another initiative against the expanding bum problem around Pioneer Park. (Our mayor and police chief assured the media that it's not the homeless who are the problem, it's the criminals who prey upon them, mostly by selling them drugs.)
Unfortunately, the press conference Monday seemed more about mollifying frustrated downtown businesses than announcing real solutions for the area sometimes called the Rio Grande district. Mayor Ralph Becker said the city will take a collaborative approach with local businesses and care providers in the area.
Apparently, putting that dog run in Pioneer Park didn't fix the issue.
But no one at the conference seemed to be able to explain why the numbers of homeless (and the amount of crime) spiked in the area beginning last spring. And no one seemed to be able to offer any real solutions.
Here is the muddle offered Monday:
– Ten unemployed people have been hired for a newly created Clean Team (in action below) to pick up trash.
– The shrub covered median on 500 West (above) will be re-landscaped to make it less suitable for drug dealing and use as a bathroom.
The cops will spend more time undercover busting people for buying and selling drugs. "We'll send the message this is not the place to commit crime," explained Burbank.
– The Downtown Alliance will train volunteer "ambassadors" in colorful coats to guide visitors to the city's restaurants and cultural centers. (The DTA spokesman acknowledged that the volunteers will work in the central downtown area and, thus, probably have no impact on Pioneer Park's problems.)
The only surprise was that Ralph didn't suggest bike trails as the ultimate solution to homelessness and drug abuse.
Sheryl Gillilan, executive director of Art Access, a gallery on 500 West that works with disabled, homeless and other disenfranchised members of society, said she witnesses drug deals and fights in her parking lot on a regular basis.
"I hope you are right," she told Burbank at the press conference. She later explained she couldn't imagine a quick solution since the drug deals are so prevalent and go down so quickly. "I'm not afraid of homeless people," Gillilan emphasized. "But the [crime] problem is growing. I don't know what the police will be able to do about it. How can anybody catch all this."
The chief sees the ultimate solution to be emphasizing drug treatment along with arrests to reduce recidivism and getting more businesses thriving in the neighborhood. "Positive use of any space causes criminal activity to go down," he said. Tell that to the businesses already struggling in the area. He also pointed out that having shelters and service centers for the homeless in the neighborhood made problem even more difficult.
As for the mayor's promise of a cooperative approach with businesses, Barbara Polich of Antczak Polich law firm on 400 West, said she was never informed of the new initiative and heard about the press conference by accident. "There is no interaction with local businesses," she complained.
All in all, deli owner and Third South/Third West warlord Tony Caputo may have offered the most satisfying solution a week ago, when he half-jokingly suggested: "Turn on the sprinklers in the park at 10 [p.m.], 2 and 4 [a.m.]."
If nothing else, the city's initiative is well timed—snow will soon undercut crime in the park.


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Written by: Kera February 03 2010
I live a boat ride away from Iran. Most of my produce comes from there, and I know lots of people from there as well.
I never thought I would say that.
So I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled across these beautiful illustrations from vintage Iranian children's books over on an incredibly interesting and visual blog, A Journey Around My Skull.
Be sure to check out Parts 1, 2 & 3. If you are into illustration, you are in for a treat.


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Collaborative Photo Blogger Project IDs "New Ideas In Photography"
A couple of weeks ago photography writers Jörg Colberg and Colin Pantall put their photography blogger contact lists to work in order to generate some commentary on this question (I'm paraphrasing): Which photographers have demonstrated an openness to use new ideas in photography, have taken chances with their photography and have shown an unwillingness to play it safe. They asked bloggers to name up to five photographers on their respective blogs, and then explain why they chose them. Both Colberg and Pantall then published those lists on their own blogs here and here, respectively.
The result of this co-authored project, called "Towards the 21st Century," includes responses from 15 photography bloggers and commentary on the work of approximately 50 photographers. A few of the bloggers overlapped on a handful of their picks, but not many. And while some of the picks are more recently known artists (Christian Patterson, Jessica Eaton), many are well known (Jim Goldberg, Broomberg & Chanarin, Collier Schorr, Abelardo Morell). So the project provides a review both of new ideas, and of ideas that were new and continue to influence the medium. So where is photography heading in the 21st century? Evidently it's moving in a lot of different directions, just as it always has.


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Study Abroad at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad and enhance your major, broaden your horizons, and acquire valuable cross-cultural skills and experiences with other motivated, curious and energetic students from selective U.S. colleges and universities. Learn and experience Europe through forward-thinking academic study abroad programs and courses, integrated study tours across Europe, unique accommodation options and an extensive cultural immersion program.
DIS – Danish Institute for Study Abroad is a government-recognized, high-quality study abroad program established in 1959. All DIS courses and academic programs are intellectually stimulating and challenging – and are all taught in English. But at DIS, study abroad is not solely about academics, it is about providing a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to experience new situations and build and develop leadership skills for a globalized world. That is why DIS is dedicated to providing the complete study abroad experience.
Academically Challenging Study Abroad Courses Taught in English
- Build your own study abroad curriculum from over 150 courses taught across a great spectrum of majors, but each from a European, Scandinavian or Danish viewpoint
- Study in a high-impact learning environment: Interactive classrooms that combine expert faculty, guest lectures and field studies to create an intense learning experience that will both challenge and inspire
- Focus on the major questions and burning issues of our time
- Benefit from straight-forward credit transfer from DIS to your home university.
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- Develop skills that meet the challenges of a globalized world and an international job market, so you are equipped for employers' expectations of cross-cultural understanding
- Learn through cultural immersion and build strong interactive skills as your thoughts and ideas cross international borders
- Increase your decision making skills through an expanded awareness of diverse viewpoints, differing working methods and local idiosyncrasies.
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- Do it all - why choose to study or travel when you can have the best of both worlds?
- Be inspired by credit-bearing, faculty-led, course-integrated study tours that take you to amazing, academically inspirational destinations across Europe, Russia, and perhaps even to Greenland
- Discover even more of Europe through field trips, adventure tours and day trips, all organized through DIS.
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- Live the local culture through voluntary involvement in a range of social, sporting, religious and cultural programs
- Sign up to join organizations and clubs at the 'Immerse Yourself Fair', where local groups, clubs and societies offer you the chance to join and take part in their activities
- Maximize your study abroad experience by meeting and socializing with Danes your own age and interacting with the local culture.
Living Like a Local – Unique Housing Options
- Choose to live with a host family and get the opportunity to really integrate into Danish daily life and build what are often lifelong friendships!
- Live with a Danish roommate, who can be your local tour guide, Danish tutor and friend
- Have a unique experience by staying at a Folkehøjskole – a great cultural tradition that many young Danes enjoy
- Live like a local student in a residence hall (kollegium) and become more independent and self-reliant
To learn more about the DIS program, visit the Office of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity.


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Your first step to financial aid is to complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online and to include Clemson University's school code (003425) so that our office receives your information. To be considered for need-based scholarships, we must receive your FAFSA before March 1. New students do not need acceptance from admissions before applying for financial aid.
You should complete a FAFSA every year as soon after Jan. 1 as possible to ensure the maximum award. Please review "Mistakes to Avoid When Applying for Student Aid" provided by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA).
Cost of Attendance
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The cost of attendance is determined each year by the University and includes not only tuition and fees, but also your room and board, books and supplies, traveling expenses, and cost of living — in other words, the cost of being a student. This number is only for planning purposes and for determining your financial need, which will differ from your actual Clemson bill and will vary with each student. It is important to note, however, that the total amount of financial aid a student receives cannot exceed the cost of attendance.
The Expected Family Contribution (EFC) is determined by the Department of Education using your FAFSA information. This is based on both your income and assets as well as your parents', unless you are considered independent.
For financial aid purposes, you must meet one of the following requirements:
Additional details and information on these requirements can be found on the FAFSA. If you do not meet one of the above requirements, then your parents' financial information will be considered when determining your EFC, regardless of living arrangements, family disagreements or your parents' unwillingness to contribute to your education costs.
If your EFC is more than the cost of attendance then you don't qualify for need-based aid. However, there are other financial aid programs available regardless of your financial need such as the unsubsidized Federal Stafford Loan, the Federal Parent PLUS loan and private loans.
After all of the required information is received, your financial aid will be packaged and available to view in the iROAR portal. Most incoming freshmen will receive this package in mid-April, but we continue to process aid during the summer and fall, so you can apply at any time. Please keep in mind, however, that it can take up to 12 weeks for your aid to be available, and you will still be responsible for satisfying your bill by the deadline regardless of any pending aid.


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Back to Work
Emma Gilbey Keller was a journalist living a well-connected life as the wife of Bill Keller (now the executive editor of the New York Times) when she decided to devote herself full-time to raising their kids. Seven years later, ready to reenter the workforce but not sure how, she began interviewing women who had executed a successful return. The result is her new book, The Comeback, which chronicles the job-hunting experiences of seven over-40 women — and the happy outcomes. Keller, now 47, answers five questions from MORE.
MORE: Is any one element crucial to a successful comeback?
Keller: Confidence is the key to this whole thing. I say it very strongly; it's like my new religion. And really, in some ways, it's not that hard to feel confident. Even if you just had a nice evening at your book club, you feel better about yourself than if you'd eaten four bagels alone in front of the TV.
Of the women in my book, I'd say the one with the most confidence is Elaine Stone, an attorney. She stopped working when her third child was born, and she and her husband planned from the outset that she would stay home for only five years. Then, right when she started looking, she got a call from a former colleague offering her short-term work, and that eventually led to a full-time position at a major law firm in Washington, D.C. Once back, she made partner within five years.
MORE: Did you talk to any women who weren't particularly confident about getting back in?
Keller: Lauren Jacobson had helped establish a successful law practice, but when she moved fromJohannesburg to London with her family, she really wasn't sure she'd ever find another job. So she didn't specifically look for one. Instead she networked to meet people and ended up connecting with someone who was in a position to offer her a job on a legal project. At that point she'd been out of the loop for about six years. After a while, she resigned and stayed home again, this time for a year. Then, also through a friend, she got a job as director of a London charity, and that's where she works now. So she came back twice, but never by sending her resume around. In fact, many of the women in the book found jobs through people they knew. I always tell women who are trying to come back to look closely at the relationships they already have. Chances are you know someone who can help you.
MORE: Is there any strategy women should avoid?
Keller: I would never cold-call anybody — ever, ever, ever. I would always have somebody set it up. Also, don't go to professional events alone if it makes you nervous. I can't say it often enough: Use your friends! It's so important. They'll be happy to help you out. We all feel so much more isolated than we should. And the isolation leads to a lack of confidence.
MORE: Did you find that leaving a job can increase a woman's sense of isolation?
Keller: Yes, and then she starts feeling out of the mainstream, which really affects her confidence. But it can happen to people in many ways, not just through job loss. My husband and I lost a baby between Molly and Alice, now ages 11 and 6. I was six months pregnant when it happened, and, as you can imagine, the whole thing was extremely traumatic. I felt as if every other six-months-pregnant person was going ahead and having her baby, and I was the one who wasn't. I felt really alone.
MORE: How did you overcome that?
Keller: I volunteered at my children's school; I joined the board of directors of my apartment building; I took a course in floral design. All these things made me feel useful and involved and brought me into contact with other people. I believe that the way to overcome isolation is to join things; it helps you foster relationships in your community.
For instance, Ellen Warner, a woman in the book who stopped working for more than 10 years while her children were small, started volunteering at a soup kitchen and in her church. She'd been a photographer, but even though her new work had nothing to do with that, just the act of volunteering gave her the confidence she needed to get back out in the world and start taking pictures again. You know, when you go back to work after being at home, there's a process of synthesizing all your former selves. In my case, I'm a wife, I'm a mother, I'm a writer. I'm all those three things. It's a wonderful feeling.
Buy The Comeback by Emma Gilbey Keller›
Originally published in MORE magazine, September 2008.


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ZF-2290: add method to get/set the timezone by a locale (Zend/Locale/Data/supplementalData.xml)
I think it is usefull get the timezone by the locale region or by the default region of a given language e.g: de_DE => DE => Europe/Berlin de_AT => AT => Europe/Vienna en => GB => Europe/London (using the default region or throw an Exception)
the information is stored in the file Zend/Locale/Data/supplementalData.xml
There are a few things to mention:
- The timezones are not standardized. Which means that they do not correspond with php's timezone database.
- The avaiable localized data for timezones is not complete. Several timezones are not filled within the multiple languages.
- Timezones differ between windows and unix or php. For example the windows timezone "africa_central" is unknown in php.
- Localized/Normalized timezones will probably not work with Zend_Date
- Giving the timezone for a locale could be problematic... for example the locale "en"... it would support about 20 different timezones... which to return ??
- Also what to return if there are different supported timezones... for example within "zh_CN" or "ru_RU"
ok it need a matching table to parse timezones to the right format.
for only a given locale it can throw an exception, but on a given country code it can return a list of available timezones for this country. Than the timezone can relatively well Concerts.
The possible and available information have been implemented within the new I18N core. See SVN-7357.


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Leasing commercial real estate can be a cost-effective solution for both entrepreneurs and Montgomeryville business owners looking to expand a business with a low cost alternative. Purchasing commercial properties comes with its own risks, being committed to one Montgomeryville location, full responsibility for repairs, maintenance, total costs, and high interest loans. While most Montgomeryville lease contracts for general types of property may be readable to the layperson, unless you're familiar with real estate terms and legalities, it is recommended to consult an experienced Montgomeryville lawyer before signing any binding contracts.
Your long term Montgomeryville business plan and real estate commitment should be aligned as most real estate leases and investments are long in duration. Business leaders need to anticipate future growth and requirements of the Montgomeryville business to be positioned for the best and worst possible scenarios. Define the spaces you need and make sure the area can be designed to incorporate all your requirements. Will the layout satisfy Montgomeryville employee expectations and will any possible employee relocation, or commute, to a new venue be achieved to everyone's satisfaction. Consider proximity to Montgomeryville facilities and amenities such as shopping, health care, childcare, etc.
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Click here to listen to an interview with Suzanne Braun Levine.
I have always hoped that one day I would see someone reading one of my books on the subway. In the fantasy I go over and ask them how they like the book. They say, "I love it!" and I say, "I wrote it!"
That hasn't happened yet, but it would be the peak experience in the progression of my book from the privacy of my own manuscript out into the world. Now, I am very proud of what I have written; I do want people to read it – and, needless to say, love it. But I know that won't happen unless I put myself "out there."
Since I write about my own life and raise issues that are on my mind, talking about my book means talking about me. And since I count on the women I interview to be honest and forthright about their experience, I can expect no less from myself. So I will have to make myself more vulnerable than, say, a historian in the same situation. Nevertheless, for the next several months I will need to do everything I can to call attention to my book by "tooting my own horn."
Horn-tooting doesn't come easy to most of us. Witness organizations like the Women's Campaign Forum which seeks out accomplished veterans of political campaigns and urges them to step out from behind the (usually male) candidate and run for office themselves. The OpEd Project and the Women's Media Center have programs designed to nudge women with strong ideas out of the nest.
I myself have written pages and pages about how we have to learn to speak up, speak out, and speak our own minds about what matters to us. I confess that I need a little practice in practicing what I preach. If I want to spread the word, I will have to pitch the word.
So here goes…..
I want thousands of women to pick up How We Love Now and see themselves in it; I want them to be inspired and reassured by its message – that women like us should understand that a softening body is not a lifeless body, that sex can be better than ever when a woman has reached the point where she feels free to express herself, that old relationships can be revitalized and new ones can be transformational, that having a man around is nowhere near the only way to feel profound intimacy with another person, that experimentation and daring can lead to self-discovery.
And that at our age, passion – for life, for sex, for engagement with the world – is simmering in surprising places.
Now that wasn't so hard.
Learn about the joys of Second Adulthood at suzaannbraunlevine.com
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Diana Nyad hopes the fourth time's a charm.
CNN reports that as of last night, the open-water swimmer, 62, is well on her way in her fourth—and what she says will be her final—effort to swim 103 miles from Cuba to Key West, Florida, without a shark cage.
Nyad first attempted the feat in 1978 but had to stop because of battering waves, according to the network. She tried twice again in 2011 but was stopped after an asthma attack and then jellyfish stings.
"I'm feeling tremendous inner pressure that this has got to be it, this has got to be the last time," she said on August 17, the day before she began the swim.
We hope she can feel our cheers.
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ORONO, Maine -- The University of Maine women's basketball team (1-14, 0-2 America East) opened up its home conference slate with a 52-37 loss to Hartford (10-6, 1-2 America East) on Wednesday evening at Alfond Arena. The Black Bears' America East Player of the Game, Danielle Walczak (Lee, N.H.), led Maine with 15 points on 6-for-13 shooting and a trio of free throws.
Chantel Charles (London, UK) added seven points and three rebounds while Lauren Bodine (Louisville, Ky.) chipped in six points on a pair of three-point shots.
The Black Bears shot 35.0% from the field and were outrebounded by a 34-24 margin. The Hawks shot 42.0% from the field and were led by their America East Player of the Game Nikkia Smith who netted 15 points and eight rebounds.
Hartford raced out to a six point lead on a jumper from Smith before Ashleigh Roberts (Wilmington, Del.) put an end to the early Hawk run with a jumper of her own. Hartford answered with a 5-0 run on five-straight points from Daphne Elliott to take a nine point lead at 19-10 with 7:40 to play in the opening half.
Maine answered the run with a 5-0 streak of its own to cut the lead back down to four. Charles started the run for the Black Bears as she worked her way inside for a pair before Courtney Anderson (Greene, Maine) found Bodine on the perimeter for a three.
A 6-2 Hartford run to end the half gave the Hawks a 25-17 edge at the intermission.
Walczak led all scorers in the first half with eight points to go along with four rebounds as Maine shot 33.3% in the opening stanza.
Hartford began the second half with an 8-2 run to take a 13 point advantage before Anderson stuck a three from the right wing to cut the lead to 10. The Hawks responded with another 5-0 run, stretching their lead to 15 with 13:22 to play in the half.
Maine cut the lead back to single digits as it broke out on a 6-0 run over a one minute span. Maine's offense worked quickly as Walczak knocked down a jumper before hitting a pair of free throws on the Black Bears' next possession. Charles ended the Black Bear run after pulling down an offensive board and going back up strong for two, cutting the Hartford lead to nine.
The Hawks answered with a 10-0 run to take a 47-28 advantage with 9:52 to play in the half.
Maine cut the lead to 15 on Bodine's second three of the game but came up short in the end as the Hawks took the America East contest by a score of 52-37.
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Cleveland (May 4, 2012)— Thousands of Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) students will display their talents at the 13th annual Rock Your World with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS and Math) Festival, on Saturday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. This much anticipated event, which is the result of a partnership between The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Great Lakes Science Center and CMSD, is a one-of-a-kind, innovative, hands-on arts and science celebration held inside and outside both museums.
Over 2,000 students from more than 40 CMSD K-8 and high schools will showcase their talents in dance, theatre, music, visual arts, hands-on science and much more to the Greater Cleveland community during Rock Your World. Choirs, vocal solos, dancing, jazz performances, African drumming, string and wind ensembles and other performances will take place throughout the day on seven stages between the Rock Hall and the Great Lakes Science Center. Attendees can also catch a sneak peak of this year's All-City musical, Footloose, on the Rock Hall's Main Stage. The festival will also host a visual arts show and a STEAM School Showcase, featuring the original work of K-12 students.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is pleased to also offer Rock Your World CMSD participants free admission to festival events as well as admission to tour the Museum. For non-festival participants, Rock Your World is free but a Museum admission ticket is required to tour the exhibits. The Rock Hall's Community Festivals are sponsored by KeyBank.
About CMSD's All-City Arts Program
The All-City Arts Program builds upon and extends the arts curriculum taught by the District's certified arts teachers. All-City offers students the opportunity to develop further their artistic talents through comprehensive, hands-on, project-based learning, and mentoring from arts professionals. Participation in All-City contributes to students' overall academic success, develops a deep sense of personal achievement, and introduces students to careers in the arts through exhibition and performance experiences.
For more information, visit http://cmsd-rockyourworld.com.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $17 for seniors (65+) and $13 for youth (9-12). When you become a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the world of rock and roll becomes yours to explore. Call 216.515.8425 for information on becoming a member. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK (7625) or visit www.rockhall.com. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.


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German Pavilion, Parque dos Atletas, Rio de Janeiro
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Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
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Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Prof. Dr h.c. mult. Klaus T�pfer, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Germany
Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director General of the Energy and Resources Institute and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, India
Dr Albert Butare, CEO of Africa Energy Services Group, CEO of Fatracs Co Ltd and former Minister of Energy and Water of the Republic of Rwanda
Dr Carlos Augusto Klink, Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Quality, Ministry of
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Prof. Dr Thomas Heller, Executive Director, Climate Policy Initiative, USA
Karin Ireton, Director Group Sustainability Management Standard Bank, South Africa
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Transforming economies towards a low carbon development is a centre piece of green growth. The panel discussion focuses on the role of the Green Climate Fund in catalysing different sources of financing, e.g. private and other innovative sources.


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Full SubmissionA just and fair Green Economy Greenpeace expectations for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development at Rio de Janeiro, 4-6 June 2012 Almost twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro we face a paradox: We know solutions are available and affordable, that investments in clean technologies are rising, that deforestation can be stopped, and food provided for all if governments have the will. We also know development in both North and South remains deeply unsustainable. Despite the Rio Conventions and hundreds of other multilateral agreements on sustainable development, resource extraction keeps growing, climate change is spiralling out of control, water is getting scarce, oceans are facing a state of emergency, deforestation is destroying livelihoods, toxic pollution is increasing, and we are gambling with our global food system by releasing genetically modified crops. Governments have talked a lot about sustainable development over the last decades, but at the same time are still encouraging environmental and social destruction with close to US$ 1 trillion dollars-worth of harmful Subsidies a year, covering everything from fossil fuels to fertilizers and fisheries. Corporate polluters and destructive industries are allowed to profit from over-exploitation of resources while people are left to pay the bill with their health, homes and livelihoods. Governments are bailing out greedy banks, but failing to mobilise finance and rescue packages for the planet and the poor. To be clear: governments have failed since Rio. But they must not take the blame alone: too many corporations have stood in the way of sustainable development. Asia Pulp and Paper has undermined effective forest protection in Indonesia, while Volkswagen has fought against the climate protection rules we need in Europe and the US, to name but two. The finance industry has succeeded in making the taxpayer pay for its bad decisions and is stopping governments from effectively regulating global financial markets. Governments will face a lot of ? justified ? cynicism about sustainable development and the broken promises of 1992 as they prepare to return to Rio de Janeiro in 2012. People will be watching if the ?Green Economy in the context of sustainable development? is merely a new label masking business-as-usual, or will be turned into a rallying cry for finally delivering the transformational change we need. A fair and just Green Economy is achievable. But it requires action. Promoting sustainable practices is essential. But, above all, governments must put a decisive end to unsustainable practises. An economy based on nuclear energy, oil and coal, genetic engineering, toxic chemicals or the overexploitation of our forests and seas will never be sustainable or green. Instead, a fair green economy is one that provides sustainable livelihoods for all while fully respecting ecological limits ? our planetary boundaries. In a truly Green Economy, the economy will be a mechanism to deliver societal goals, and economic growth as an end goal in and of itself will be abandoned.
The transformation is still taking place too slowly, but the good news is, it is already proven. Brazil has shown that it is possible to cut deforestation rates through effective governance and good business practices: Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has declined year on year and 2011 it was at its lowest ever level. But this year, the Brazilian government's monitoring system picked up a 37% increase in deforestation compared to 2010 in Mato Grosso state as a result of a move to change the Forest Code, the main law in Brazil that protects the forests. The changes would allow an amnesty for past forest crimes, creating an incentive for illegal activity now and leading to an increase in deforestation before the law has even been changed. Brazil must decide whether it wants to be known as the nation leading the path to sustainable prosperity and zero deforestation, or as a nation that showed that deforestation could be halted, but failed to do so to cater to short term special interests. The energy sector, a fundamental building block of any green economy, is already changing. In Germany, for example, of all installed power capacity in the last decade, 81% was renewable. The Energy Revolution scenario1 Greenpeace has developed together with business partners shows that globally we can deliver energy to more people, especially the poor in developing countries, cut emissions by more than 80% by 2050 ? and create more jobs doing so, by investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy instead of fossil fuels and nuclear power. By implementing the Energy Revolution, governments can help businesses create 3.2 million more jobs by 2030 in the global power supply sector alone. In South Africa 149,000 direct jobs could be created by 2030, 38,000 more than the current government?s plan. An Agenda for 2012 The outcome document adopted at Rio in 2012 must not be about rewriting the Rio Declaration or Agenda 21. Instead we need honest stock taking on where we are with the existing commitments and who is responsible for our falling short. This must include addressing the excessive increase in corporate power the world has witnessed since Rio 1992. The limits of voluntary, bottom up approaches given the scale of the challenges must be fully acknowledged. At Rio de Janeiro in 2012 governments must change the dangerous course we?re on. Sustainable Development Goals should be launched to form the basis of development within planetary boundaries. The time-horizon for the goals should be no longer than two election periods at most, to ensure immediate implementation and avoid gaps in political commitment. Concretely, governments should commit to the following steps towards a fair and just Green Economy: 1. Fundamentally improve governance, accountability and liability - Strengthen the governance system that delivers an ?environment for development? by upgrading the UN Environment Programme to specialized agency status. Sustainable development needs a global authority on the environment and stronger implementation, compliance and enforcement mechanisms - Commit to corporate accountability and liability. Today governance gaps created by globalisation provide a permissive environment for wrongful acts by companies. At the Johannesburg Earth Summit in 2002, governments acknowledged the need for global rules for global corporations. At Rio 2012, they must agree the development of a global instrument that ensures full liability for any social or environmental damage global corporations cause. Corporations themselves must take full responsibility for their supply chains - Agree on creating strong regulation and control of financial markets and introducing restrictions on speculators and speculative products to stop harmful practices that lead to rising resource and commodity prices and an accelerated depletion of natural resources with dramatic consequences for poor people and small economies. Agree on introducing new fiscal instruments, such as a Financial Transaction Tax, that can slow harmful speculation and deliver much needed finance for development and environmental protection - Agree on a phase-out of environmentally and socially harmful Subsidies within this decade, including Subsidies to fossil fuels, forest destruction, nuclear power, agrochemicals and other toxics, the meat industry and destructive fishing practises through socially just transition plans - Agree to bring the absolute consumption of renewable and non-renewable resources and the impacts of their extraction within planetary boundaries in a fair and equitable manner - Commit to a complete social and environmental review of the global trade system in order to stop the world trade system from undermining environmental and social objectives 2. Providing clean and safe energy for all - Commit to providing access to clean and safe modern energy for all by 2020, with clear and comprehensive implementation measures, adequate funding provisions, and an acknowledgment that decentralised renewable energy is the best way to meet the needs of the poor - Make a 100% renewable future possible by endorsing a long-term goal of powering the world economy with 100% sustainable renewable energy. Governments must specifically commit to pursuing the most ambitious pathway outlined by the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy enabling 80% of the world?s energy needs to be met by renewable energy by 2050. By 2030, the world needs to get 40% of its energy needs from sustainable renewables and improve energy intensity by 50% - Agree on a global feed-in tariff programme, to support renewable energy investments in developing countries - Commit to deliver, individually and jointly, sustainable energy action plans that include mid- and long-term targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency; regulatory frameworks that prioritize energy efficiency and ensure priority grid access and stable growth of investments into renewable energy; creating a level playing field including by phasing out all Subsidies to fossil fuels and nuclear energy with timebound and socially just transition plans and the introduction of pollution and CO2 pricing for fossil-based energy - Ensure the flow of adequate and predictable climate finance beyond 2012 and well above the pledged $100 billion per year by 2020 3. Protecting the world?s remaining forests by addressing the drivers of deforestation - Commit to zero deforestation by 2020. This requires commitment and actions by both governments and businesses around the world. All countries and companies must end policies, Subsidies and corruption that drive deforestation and instead fund the transition to a zero deforestation economy. In order to reduce pressure on forests, all countries and companies need to address demand-side causes of deforestation and implement policies and measures to reduce and ultimately stop the production, trade, import and consumption of goods stemming from deforestation and degradation (including unsustainable timber, palm oil, and other commodities). Policies, measures and investments must support participatory multi-scale conservation and land use plans, meet the needs and rights of forest dependent indigenous peoples and local communities, and support forest uses that protect biodiversity, carbon, and ecosystem values and services 4. Feeding the earth to feed the world - Commit to increasing support to small scale food producers and farming communities, who are essential in feeding the world. This should be done through policy and market instruments that enable the development of thriving ecological farming systems, while reducing the market power of big agribusiness over land, seeds, inputs and processing. Ecological farming has the potential to produce 30% more food per hectare than industrial agriculture but realising this potential requires a substantial shift in investment - Agree to better regulate the use of agrochemicals to prevent harm to people and the environment and to set appropriate fiscal policies to reflect the true environmental and health costs of intensive agriculture. Agree to set ambitious national targets for reducing consumption of chemical fertilisers and pesticides and to promote and incentivise the wider uptake of ecological farming systems - Provide a mandate to the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to develop a workplan for taking forward the recommendations of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) in the context of improving global food security, including advising governments on specific measures and establishing an ongoing mechanism to track and report on progress towards ecological food and farming systems around the world. Countries should also commit to establishing their own structures and mechanisms for following up the implementation of the IAASTD with full stakeholder participation, especially of small scale food producers 5. Filling the Gaps in Oceans Governance and Stopping Overfishing - Address gaps in oceans governance that are hampering progress on marine protection. A new implementing agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is needed for the conservation of marine biodiversity and sustainable management of human activities in areas beyond national jurisdiction. It should be based on the precautionary principle and the ecosystem approach and provide for the establishment and management of marine reserves in areas beyond national jurisdiction - Commit to cutting overcapacity of the world?s fishing fleets and providing priority access to fish resources for low-impact small-scale fisheries. The world fishing fleet is able to catch up to 2.5 times the maximum sustainable yield. Yet the cumulative power of the global fleet is still increasing at a rapid rate. Bringing fishing yields to a sustainable level necessitates decisive measures to eliminate the excess capacity. Reduction efforts should be focussed on large-scale vessels and be flanked by ensuring priority access for small-scale fisheries2 - Promote and invest in sound economic and sustainable fishing practices that maximize benefits to local communities. Stop industrial large-scale fleets using unsustainable fishing techniques using access agreements to exploit the Exclusive Economic Zones of coastal states, while leaving them with very little economic and social benefits - Implement a global network of Marine Reserves, which is essential to conserve and restore the health and productivity of the oceans and to maintain vital ecosystem services and food security for hundreds of millions of people3. At the Johannesburg Earth Summit in 2002, governments agreed to establish networks of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) by 2012. Yet today MPAs cover less than 6% of territorial seas and only 0.5% of areas beyond national jurisdiction. At a time when ocean ecosystems all over the world ? including coral reefs, seamounts and other sensitive habitats ? may be reaching tipping points, establishing networks of large-scale marine reserves becomes an indispensable tool to building resilience in ocean ecosystems. Conserving 20-30% of global oceans through a network of MPAs could create a million jobs and sustain a marine fish catch worth US$70-80 billion/year. Eventually, the global network of marine reserves needs to cover 40% of the oceans 6. Eliminating Hazardous Chemical Use - Supplement and strengthen the existing commitments4 by agreeing to a goal of zero discharge of all hazardous substances within one generation, based on the precautionary principle and a preventative approach to chemicals management with the substitution principle at its core and producer responsibility to drive innovation in Green Chemistry and Toxics Use Elimination. This is crucial to rescue and heal our precious waterways and other fresh water sources - Agree on a related implementation plan to (a) establish a dynamic priority hazardous substance list for immediate action, compiled from all the existing commitments and treaties and the lists of OECD and the EU, (b) establish intermediate targets, (c) establish a publicly available register of data about discharge emissions and losses of hazardous substances - Commit to providing adequate resources and frameworks for implementation, including: (a) identify priority substance restrictions, (b) introduce requirements of mandatory audits and planning (c) provisions of technical help and appropriate financial incentives (d) research and support for innovation in green chemistry Rio+20 must deliver for the people and the planet. The transition to a green economy must be fair and equitable, lift people out of poverty, respect planetary boundaries and commit to a decent jobs agenda. As global climate-damaging emissions need to peak within a few short years, we cannot afford to make insufficient progress for another two decades. The time for action is now. Contacts
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We posted galleries for the Utah Symphony Guild's Valentine's Dinner, the Blues Brothers playing at the Jewish Community Center and, one of my faves this year, the Forever Pink Prom.
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We're sending our photographers to two events this weekend, and if you're there, you might see your face in Salt Lake magazine:
1. Utah's 10th Annual Belly Dance Springfest
It's the largest indoor dance fest in Utah, and Cortney Finlayson will be there shooting photos for our site and magazine. Meet nationally-acclaimed Middle Eastern dancers, watch the awesome performances, get a henna tattoo and some new jewelry and, of course, smile for our camera.
March 5 at the Utah State Fairgrounds. Click here for our blog with more info.
2. The Halti Ability Ski Challenge
National Ability Center is hosting this skiing competition at Park City Mountain Resort, and they're inviting the community to form four-persons team to compete. Each team will also compete with a local skiing legend and an NAC athlete. It's too late to register, but not too late to drip by and support NAC and have your photo taken. Just ask for our photographer, Francie Aufdemorte.
8 p.m. March 5 at Park City Mountain Resort. Click here for more info.
Next week, we'll be at the National Ability Center's Red, White & Snow event. Then toward the end of the month, look for us at the Festival of Colors and Spring Gruv.