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Internet Adult Film Database
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The Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD) is an online database of information pertaining to, in America, the pornography industry: actors, actresses, directors and pornographic films. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database, in that it is open to the public and is searchable. Films produced by the non-American pornographic industry are found on the database if a U.S. release is available and the film concerned is presented as bearing the information about the U.S. release, not the original one.
The predecessor to IAFD was an email- and FTP-accessible database of adult film actresses called Abserver that had been created by Dan Abend in 1993.[2]
IAFD itself was started by Peter van Aarle, who had collected data on adult movies since 1981, when he began keeping notes on index cards on adult movies he had seen or were reviewed in Adam Film World.[3] In 1993, he began contributing to the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.movies, where he met Dan Abend. The two exchanged databases and began work on a WWW-based database.[4]
Van Aarle later collaborated on this Web database with Ron Wilhelm who went by the pseudonym of "Heretic".[5] The first version of the IAFD was brought on-line in 1995 by the programming efforts of Wilhelm who used the project as a training ground for SGML programming which he was learning in college. After Wilhelm left the Internet to join the military, the site eventually fell victim to link rot.
In the fall of 1998, Van Aarle was at a trade show with Jeff Vanzetti who asked if Van Aarle would be interested in resurrecting the IAFD—this time under its own domain. Vanzetti was looking for a project on which to teach himself on-line database programming using SQL Server, and this seemed like a natural fit, since they were both co-moderators of the newsgroup rec.arts.movies.erotica (RAME), and members of the newsgroup would often lament about the passing of the original Internet Adult Film Database.[3]
The beginning of 1999 brought the first steps towards the relaunch of the IAFD. Initially search boxes only searched females and data was restricted to movies released post-1989.
Van Aarle said on this:
"In those early days of the IAFD I had made one stipulation: I did not want the movie info on movies before 1989 to be available. The idea behind this was basically that if I would ever decide I wanted to do something commercially with my database it would be a good idea to keep the most valuable parts of it off limits. The data on older titles was clearly the most difficult to compile (and very few people I ever talked to had much info on the older stuff, with a few notable exceptions like Jim Holliday), and therefore the more valuable part of the data. The cut-off date of 1989 was a compromise to include at least the titles of Buttman, who was one of the most popular directors of the time."[3]
Van Aarle died on September 18, 2005 at the age of 42 from a heart attack.[6][7] In 2011, he was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame.[8]
On March 1, 2007, the IAFD rolled out information on over 18,000 gay titles and some 39,000 gay performers.[9] Like the IMDb, forms are used for submitting data corrections, though the IAFD's form is considerably simpler than the IMDb's. However, neither IMDb or IAFD corrections are immediate; thus both correction services are fairly equal. According to the site, it contains entries on over 119,453 titles and 111,498 persons (both actors and directors).
According to Vanzetti, IAFD adds about 500 new titles a month and processes thousands of corrections—corrections that anyone can submit for review.[10]
Review and research[edit]
The site has been used as a reference by a variety of outlets that include newspaper articles, books, and research studies.[11] The academic and non-academic writing community has used the site's information to varying degrees.[12][13] In 2011, the site released a report of compiled data for the year.[14] Included in the statistics released were the number of new titles added that year (9,384) and a ranking of who the busiest performers were. The report also included site data, such as it was visited by 20.7 million unique viewers and that visitors to the site viewed nearly a quarter of a billion pages. An editor at AVN magazine stated: "[it] underscores the fact that a lot of people not only like porn but want to research information about movies and performers."[14]
Media outlets[edit]
On October 1, 2007, an article about the Internet Adult Film Database appeared in the online equivalent of Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo.[15] Considered the "[Internet Movie Database] of the adult entertainment world",[16] the site is also routinely quoted or referenced by the majority of the industry trade publications such as Adult Video News (AVN) and XBIZ.
Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars[edit]
On February 14, 2013, a study was released by freelance journalist Jon Millward that sampled the data from 10,000 actors (7,000 women & 3,000 men) from the site to, among other things, compile a profile of the "average porn star" as well as generate some statistics about adult industry actors based on IAFD data.[13] The study was written about several days later on Playboy.com.[17]
The survey was started in 2011 with the researcher's first visit to IAFD.com with the bulk of Millward's research taking place in the 6 months prior to the release of the study. For comparative results, the study also cites Center for Disease Control and U.S. Census statistics as well as information from a Stanford University linguistics professor.[18]
The survey covers roughly a 40-year span of the adult industry and presents statistics on categories such as age, race, state of origin, chosen screen name, biological data (height, weight, hair color, etc.), and the type of acts performed over an actors career.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Iafd.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ "Adult Film Database". Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ^ a b c "remembering peter van aarle". IAFD. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ^ "ASM File Server". Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- ^ "25.2 Heretic's Adult Movie Database". Retrieved 2008-01-05.
- ^ "IAFD Curator Has Died". Adult Video News. 2005-09-20. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ "Van Aarle "Irreplaceable"". Adult Video News. 2005-09-22. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ Peter Warren (2011-02-22). "XRCO Announces 2011 Nominations". AVN. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
- ^ "Internet Adult Film Database Adds Gay". XBIZ. 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-04-25.
- ^ Bob Preston (2007-03-05). "IAFD: Looking Ahead". XFanz. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
- ^ The Penthouse Erotic Video Guide. New York City: Warner Books. 2003. ISBN 9780446539388.
- ^ Purcell, Natalie J. Violence and the pornographic imaginary: the politics of sex, gender, and aggression in pornographic fantasy. New York: Routledge. p. 77. ISBN 9780415523127.
- ^ a b Millward, John. "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers". jonmillward.com. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ a b "IAFD.com Releases Compiled 2011 Data". Adult Video News. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ "Brazilian Online Newspaper Article". Retrieved 2007-10-01.
- ^ "IAFD.com Pays Tribute to Den, Luc Wylder". Adult Video News. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ Butler, Vanessa. "UP IN SMOKE: PORNSTAR ANALYSIS 101". playboy.com. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
- ^ Zwicky, Arnold M. "Name that porn star" (PDF). stanford.edu. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Internet Adult Film Database on Flickr
- "Remembering Peter Van Aarle", IAFD.com, September 21, 2005.
- Millward, Jon (Feb 14, 2013). "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers".


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Liz Allen: One dad's philosophy on fatherhood
When we took our first son to get his library card at age 4, I worried about the long name we gave him to carry on his Italian heritage.
Little Pat, as we called him, had a big task at the branch library in Milwaukee: spelling out the official name on his birth certificate. After he laboriously printed P-A-S-Q-U-A-L-E, the grinning librarian said that he didn't have to spell his last name.
I've been thinking about the power of names because my book club just read "The Namesake," by Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel is described as a saga about an Indian immigrant family's adjustments to life in America, so far from home.
But it's also the story of how the main character, Gogol Ganguli, feels burdened by his first name -- which is the last name of his father's favorite Russian author, Nikolai Gogol.
It takes years for Gogol's father to explain the hidden story behind Gogol's name, and Gogol is an adult before he understands that he didn't need to brood and suffer through an identity crisis because of his unusual name.
In real life, I like to hear the stories behind people's names. When my father-in-law did his genealogy, he learned that men in his family had been named Pasquale or Marco for generations.
I'm glad my son, Marc Joseph, is named for both his grandfathers. I get a kick out of hearing my husband Eric explain that his son Matthew's middle name is Ryan because Nolan Ryan was Eric's favorite pitcher.
I wish I would have had a chance to talk to Tom McDonald about his middle name, Aquinas, but I didn't learn about his sainted name until I read Tom's obituary.
Eric and I both had lumps in our throats when Tom died on June 2 at age 57, due to complications from a heart procedure.
That's because Tom's love for his family -- his wife, Lynne; his son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Sarah; his daughter, Amanda; and his granddaughter, Mackenzie -- played out in front of fans at every sporting event where he was present, especially at Erie SeaWolves games, where Chris is director of operations and where Tom's voice boomed as he hawked merchandise as a volunteer, just to help the team.
Tom's enthusiasm for life bubbled over to everyone he met, including current and former SeaWolves who grieve his loss.
Tom's devotion to his children impressed his nephew, Kevin McDonald, 50. "They did everything together, all the time. I wasn't used to that," Kevin says.
Tom and Kevin were as close as brothers, and when Kevin became a dad, Tom became his role model. "The best tribute to Tom is that if you look at his kids, they are two of the finest people I know," Kevin says.
This column is for the guy with the middle name Aquinas. His philosophy about how to be a great dad lives on.
LIZ ALLEN writes about ordinary people every week. You can reach her at 870-1745, at email@example.com or on Twitter @ETNallen.

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Accountability is paramount
Several years ago, I lost my son while he was in the U.S. Navy. He was just 19 years old and stationed on a ship in the Indian Ocean. It was a terrible, painful time for our family.
That is why I do not understand the complete silence of the families who lost their sons in Benghazi. They seem to have accepted the "babblings" of Clinton at the hearings and the total lack of responsibility of our supreme leader, Obama. He has had five long months personally to address the American people and tell us exactly what happened during those 10 hours of death and destruction. Why hasn't he? And why doesn't anyone care?
It seems this is going the way of Fast & Furious. Soon it won't be discussed at all. No one will be held accountable. Why aren't the families mad as hell and demanding answers? They were given no truthful answers and were just expected to roll over and accept Obama's insincere, trite condolences. Why have they not joined forces and demanded the truth?
I understand completely that nothing will bring back their sons, but perhaps the truth will give them some closure and peace of mind.
Joanne Crouch
Grass Valley
Set the trash talk aside
and get to work
I am often saddened and even upset by The Union Opinion page, yet it gives me an opportunity to see how many fear-based conspiracy theories exist to support truly extreme, absurd, oppositional political positions not based on facts.
As an American, I think there is a legitimate, necessary place for government in our lives that citizens should support so long as it functions to address the needs of the people in ways only it can manage (i.e., national security, public health, education and transportation, infrastructure, regulation of industry and trade, monetary policy, systems of justice and law enforcement, international relations etc.). I feel protected from the overreach of government because the Constitution provides for checks and balances in our system so power is distributed and not consolidated. The system promotes accountability while acknowledging human nature and supporting capitalism).
We have a democracy that promotes and demands responsible public debate and participation so the leaders with the best ideas and solutions to the problems we face prevail.
It is important that our representatives in government be principled and deal with the serious problems we face. However, recent experience shows us that ideologues won't govern and only make things worse with their "brinkmanship" politics.
President Obama was re-elected. The "rubble of crisis" has been cleared. He has a plan, and it should be supported. Time for the trash talk to cease and for us to get to work.
Michele Spencer, Communications Committee
Nevada County Democrats


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John Ritter, the Emmy-award winning star who became a household name playing bumbling wannabe-Casanova Jack Tripper on '70s TV hit Three's Company, died suddenly from an arterial problem, according to published reports. He was 54.
Ritter collapsed Thursday while on the set of his ABC comedy 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. He was taken to Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank, Calif., but surgeons there were unable to save him. He died from a "dissection of the aorta," a previously undetected flaw in the main artery from the heart, according to his publicists.
"All of us at ABC, Touchstone Television and the Walt Disney Company are shocked and heartbroken at the terrible news of John's passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and children at this very difficult time," ABC said in a statement.
"It's just stunning, unbelievable," Susan Wilcox, his assistant of 22 years, told the Associated Press. "Everybody loved John Ritter. Everybody loved working with him. ... Whatever set he was working on, he made it a very fun place."
Ritter has been a familiar face to TV audiences since starring on Three's Company, which has endured over the past two decades in syndication. His role on that show – as a bachelor who shares an apartment with two young single women, considered risque when it first aired – brought Ritter fame as well as Emmy and Golden Globe awards.
He has worked consistently since Three's Company was canceled in 1984, starring in more than 25 TV movies and on series such as Hooperman in the late 1980s and Hearts Afire in the early 1990s. He also appeared on the big screen in movies such as 1996's Oscar-winning Sling Blade and 2002's Tadpole, and performed on Broadway in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, AP noted. He described his movie career as "peaks and valleys" and his TV work as "a big mountain" to PEOPLE in 2002.
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Featured Golf News
Tot Hill Farm to Host 1st Annual Mike Strantz Memorial Tournament
Tot Hill Farm Golf Club in Ashboro, N.C., is hosting the first annual Mike Strantz Memorial golf tournament. The club's annual "Customer Appreciation Tournament" has been renamed in Mike's honor and will be contested November 21 as a three-player, Texas-style Scramble/best-ball hybrid designed to also pay homage to the colorful spirit of the late, great architect who designed not only Tot Hill Farm, but Tobacco Road, Bulls Bay, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Shore Course), to name a few.
"We've received terrific support from all of Mike courses, and with their help, this event's proceeds will go to the Hollings Cancer Center in Charleston, S.C., where Mike was treated and developed many friends," said C.C. Pharr, one of Mike's closest friends and one of the principles in Tot Hill Farm.
"Additionally, I have been organizing hours and hours of video that I took of the development and building of Tot Hill Farm from 1997 through opening day in June 2000," Pharr said. "I have interviews with Mike as we progressed in interviews with all the people who made Tot Hill happen. I was on-site daily taking pictures and video, which I plan to show at our tourney on the 21st."
The 10:00 a.m. shotgun start will be preceded by a breakfast sponsored by Bojangles, a lunch sponsored by Tina's Famous Chili, and a ribs and chicken BBQ for dinner.
Although he only has nine original designs to his credit, Strantz's contributions to golf course architecture are powerfully moving and intellectually significant. On four different occasions, he designed a course in an area already well known for excellent golf. On each, his design skyrocketed to the top spot in each region. His work at Monterey Peninsula Country Club is a wonderful compliment to the adjacent gems at Pebble Beach and Cypress Point. Strantz's Tobacco Road has provided stiff competition to the Pinehurst Resort, and his twin designs in the Myrtle Beach area, True Blue and Caledonia, have taken over the top two spots in the region since opening in the early 1990s.
Strantz's fun personality, burly frame, bushy moustache, and folksy charm earned him the moniker "The Maverick."
"Mike was a pulsar, and everyone not only gravitated to his work but to his warm, caring, and fun personality as well," said Strantz fan Jack Howell. "When he passed away from tongue cancer at 50, it was the entire golf world that felt the loss, as well as his friends. He was at the vanguard of the sea change in golf course design that sought to bring back more strategy into the game instead of penal, center-line architecture, but his work also is visually arresting. There is something in it for everyone, and that's just how he wanted it. That was his great gift to share with all lovers of golf."
His penchant for making players see the fun in "something different, something they'd never seen before" lives on not only at Tot Hill, but many of his courses. Tot Hill was flooded a few years ago, so they rerouted the course to finish with a long par-7. Several players loved the temporary re-routing so much they hoped to have a one-day tournament where the flood-prompted routing is reestablished.
At Bulls Bay, Mike's oil portrait as he sits atop his horse Degas and is flanked by family dogs Greta and Sophie hangs proudly in the clubhouse. Many members have shrines to his memory in their homes.
For more information about the event, visit www.tothillfarm.com/mstrantzmemorial.html.
Since launching his first golf writing website in 2004, http://www.jayflemma.thegolfspace.com, Jay Flemma's comparative analysis of golf designs and knowledge of golf course architecture and golf travel have garnered wide industry respect. In researching his book on America's great public golf courses (and whether they're worth the money), Jay, an associate editor of Cybergolf, has played over 220 nationally ranked public golf courses in 37 different states. Jay has played about 1,649,000 yards of golf - or roughly 938 miles. His pieces on travel and architecture appear in Golf Observer (www.golfobserver.com), Cybergolf and other print magazines. When not researching golf courses for design, value and excitement, Jay is an entertainment, copyright, Internet and trademark lawyer and an Entertainment and Internet Law professor in Manhattan. His clients have been nominated for Grammy and Emmy awards, won a Sundance Film Festival Best Director award, performed on stage and screen, and designed pop art for museums and collectors. Jay lives in Forest Hills, N.Y., and is fiercely loyal to his alma maters, Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and Trinity College in Connecticut.
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GOP's redistricting plan - a joke with so many punchlines
December 14, 2011 - Mike Maneval
The Republican-selected board responsible for drawing new boundaries for U.S. House districts have released their plan - on which the State Senate is expected to vote this week - and the results are shameful, yet also hilarious.
Hilarious because the Democrats, in retaliation, have set up a website soliciting opinions on what the districts resemble, Rorschach ink blot style. Pennsylvanians already are noting the new 7th district looks like a monkey riding a giraffe, and the 17th district like a boat speeding away from a sea monster, or a seahorse riding a platypus. Other suggestions included the lamp from Disney's Aladdin for the 14th district, two lobsters for the 7th, and a losing game of Tetris for the 3rd district.
Shameful because the convoluted boundaries appear to serve no other purpose than strengthening Republican chances and leave House members serving disparate and far-flung communities - for example, Tom Marino's district runs from Perry and Juniata counties to the New York state line and over to the New Jersey state line. It would take about seven hours to drive through Marino's district from one end to the other ... though less than 4 hours if you cut through two other U.S. districts to get from Perry County in the southwest corner of Marino's district to Pike County on the eastern end. Once again, the Democrat representing solidly Democratic Johnstown will have to run against another incumbent Democrat if they both wish to remain in the U.S. House. Ten years ago, Republicans combined the Democratic-leaning districts of Jack Murtha and Frank Mascara to force the two into a primary race, creating a seat that ran from Johnstown to the southernmost suburbs of Pittsburgh. Now, the district will reach even further west, circling - but not including - Pittsburgh to encompass the western suburbs of Pittsburgh. This merger pits incumbent Democrat Jason Altmire against Murtha's successor, Mark Critz. Republicans clearly have decided if they can't defeat Altmire and Critz - and even in 2010's boom year for the GOP, they couldn't - they'll get one to do some of the heavy lifting for them. And this disregard for what the public wants and sense of entitlement to congressional seats is far more shameful than hilarious.
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OIT Computer Labs at Duke
Computer labs at Duke
OIT supports two kinds of labs on campus - physical labs and virtual labs.
Physical Labs
OIT supports 17 physical computer labs on Duke's campus, including a Multimedia Project Studio. Most labs are open 24 hours a day while classes are in session, but some have limited hours. For more details on lab locations, hardware and availability, visit the lab locations and hardware page. You can also learn more about what software is available by visiting the lab software page.
Virtual Labs
Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) is a service that allows Duke users to reserve a computer with specialized software and access it remotely from anywhere that you have Internet access. Virtual machines are available for the current versions of Matlab (Windows XP/7 & Linux) as well as Microsoft Office (Windows XP/7). Course-specific programs are also available for several schools.


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Draft and Trade Talk Message Board
Dynasty League Help
I need to cut at least three of the following guys but would like 6. 12 teams
C: M. Montero
1B: Encarnacion, Ortiz, Howard, Alonso
2B: Scuataro
3B: Young, Olt
SS: Gordan
OF: Ellsbury, Upton, Bautista, Crawford, Cruz, Markakis
SP: Halladay, Lee, Buchholz, Fister, Bundy, Shelby Miller, Griffin, Milone, Carpenter, Vargas, Leake
RP: MO, Valverde, Madson, Bell
Im thinking Markakis, Bell, and Leake as the first three, but who else?
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BrewCrewDue BrewCrewDue Jan 21, 2013 9:47 PM Flag
First, Which Upton? If it's BJ, I'd trade him away. I fear the NL East will reduce his HRs by half. He can be included with another player maybe a pitcher and try obtaining a 2b/SS/3b in return.
Lose Alonso,Scutaro,Young, all the RPs...well I don't know who MO is but lose the other 3.
At 2b target Rutledge if available as he's SS now maybe 2b eligible but with Tulo back he will play 2b.
The thing about Olt is I think he's not going to see time at 3b because of Beltre. He's going to only get ABs at 1b or as DH. If anyone else is high on him trade him to them, I'm not high on Olt anyway he sounds like that .245 and 12-16HRs guy while the high projections are of .288 and 20-28HRs.
SS of future to look at:Nick Franklin
C:TDA,Mike Zunino
Greenraven Greenraven Jan 21, 2013 4:10 PM Flag
I take it this is head to head? Cause in a roto you don't want that many pitcher cause of innings restrictions.
Hmmmm, I'd cut:
I'd trade Ryan Howard if anyone is interested. Same with Markakis.
I'd keep Scutaro and Young for now just because you are weakest at those positions -- as in not having anyone else -- and unless you know there will be a decent 2B and 3B in re-draft (not likely) you kind of have to use them until someone pops up in the FA pool. Id keep Olt but go fishing or trading for a 3B and use Young in the meantime. Don't like Gordon either but again the infield outside of 1B is your weakness. At least Scutaro and Young will give you some multi-position eligibility for this season so they could be semi-decent bench players.
I'd try and trade an aging vet like Ryan Howard and/or Carpenter for some top tier help up the middle.
Yonder Alonso you definitely don't need given Encarcion and Ortiz (IF Ortiz is eligibly at 1B in your league). Alonso was floating around in the FA pool in all my leagues on and off all last season. Unless you can "sell' his "potential" to another owner, I wouldn't keep him.
Finally thought, as a Sox fan I've seen Buchholz go up and down like a yo-yo during his career. Might try trading him especially to some Sox "homer" in your league. You might be able t get a slight upgrade out of him.
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Alonso i have actually gotten a few offers for. I dont see why Vargas, he had a good year on a bad team and is 29. 3B being shallow who to target? Im the only sox fan! But ppl have interest in him. Should i punt saves and go for holds? Looks like most closers are taken, Valverde wont close only possibilty i see is Houston. With MO and Madson back from inj nnot too good.I have a few ppl interested in MO and Madson
You can cut more than 3 frankly... Vargas, Leake, Olt (he's a ways away from being significant). Bell (his cannon is rusted out), Young (was good, now over the hill), Alonso (unless he gets dealt from SD or your league counts Doubles). I would keep Markakis over any of these guys, but he certainly isn't untouchable himself.
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Oh and Valverde.... why bother even listing him? He may not even make the MLB this year.
Young! He's useless and he's old, you could grab him again in the draft if you still need a 3B,Valverde, Madson,Leake,Bell,Markakis... Look to trade Carp and Howard maybe together.
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Vargas can go, don't want to sound harsh, but you are in trouble if you need to keep a lot of these guys. Your team is full of guys past their prime & unproven guys.
Martkakis, unless your league counts 2B- and thats if he's healthy, Valverde, Leake or Taco Bell would all be great choices for cuts. I am also not a fan of younger, unproven players like Olt, Alonso or guys like Miller who aren't even guaranteed a starting spot in the rotation but I understand the dynasty concept- I'm just sayin'
Slappytheclown Slappytheclown Jan 3, 2013 10:46 AM Flag
I don't know how deep your league is, or categories. assuming only saves.
Leake and Bell yes, Markakis isn't great but he's still only 29, I'd hold onto him. Valverde I think you can drop.
If you are desperately looking for 3 more then Gordon doesn't look good, though that leaves you without #$%$ M. Young is really not a starting 3b in most leagues, maybe philly helps his power but it's not like he's young. Scutaro is the same, ok player but don't let playoffs cloud your judgement, he's not a great fantasy asset. You could try to trade some 1B for MI/3B help, people might like Alonso, or howard, or you could try E5 off a career year. You could also deal an OF. good luck.
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J. Wren (Los Alamos National Laboratory), C. Akerlof (University of Michigan), D. Casperson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), R. Kehoe, B. Lee (Fermi National Acceleratory Laboratory), S. Marshall (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), K. McGowan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), T. McKay, E. Rykoff, D. A. Smith (University of Michigan), W. T. Vestrand, P. Wozniak (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
In recent years several new projects have come on line dedicated to the search for asteroids and comets -- LINEAR and LONEOS are two examples. However, it is possible that a system with less sensitivity but a wider field, such as ROTSE-I, can detect objects that were missed. The ROTSE-I telescope consists of an array of 200 mm Canon telephoto lenses, each with a 64 square degree field of view. As a system, the ROTSE-I telescope covers 256 square degrees to a limiting magnitude of approximately 15. Recently, the ROTSE team has begun processing the nightly patrol data from ROTSE-I covering the sky north of -38 degrees declination from April 1999 to March 2000. Using this data set, we have performed a pilot study to search for previously undetected asteroids and comets. We discuss the results of this study here as well as the strategies and software used. This study may provide new insight into the population of certain asteroid classes which are currently poorly understood, particularly Near Earth Objects (NEOs) such as Aten asteroids. We also discuss possible search strategies for the next generation of wide field instruments.
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Got some bad news for Drake fans last night while hanging out at the Capital City League. Ben Simons and Seth VanDeest both told me that junior point guard Frank Wiseler suffered a bizarre injury to his Achilles' tendon and has returned to his native Luxembourg. Both said, however, that he should be ready in time for the beginning of the regular season.
I have a call in to coach Mark Phelps for further details, but here's how it was explained to me:
Wiseler was descending from the bottom step with his right foot at the Knapp Center when his left foot — still on the bottom step — knocked loose a brick, which came down and sliced his Achilles' tendon.
"Frank went back home, but he actually had to have surgery on his Achilles," Simons said. "A brick fell down and cut it, like a big, 20-pound cement brick. He was just walking off a little wall. It was really a freak injury. But he should be ready to play this season."
VanDeest said he did not witness the accident, but that he saw Wiseler later and there was a look of extreme disappointment on his face, as you can imagine.
Wiseler, 21, started 15 games in his first season at Drake last winter, averaging 4.4 points and 2.5 assists.
I'll update this when I learn more, and also will have further thoughts and observations from last night's Capital City action in upcoming blog posts.


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Howdy from South Carolina! I have been in education for 10 years, with my primary focus being in science, technology, and math. I have been a Math Study Skills Teacher for grades five through eight, a self-contained regular education teacher for fifth grade and my current position as a Technology Coach. I enjoy my time out of the classroom working with teachers, but miss the vigor and enthusiasm that students' display when true learning takes place. I get my student itch scratched through facilitating student groups such as Making Aerospace Real for Students (MARS), a curriculum provided by the Civil Air Patrol.
Education has truly been a vehicle for numerous opportunities for me and ultimately for the students. I was one of four SC teachers selected to attend a National Geographic/JASON XII Hawaiian Islands Field Institute in 2000. This opened the door for me to be a Field Trainer for JASON Expeditions and an online facilitator for JASON Academy workshops for five years. During the my tenure as a fifth grade science teacher, my students had the opportunity to follow me on a Teacher At Sea Experience with NOAA's Ocean Explorer's for the year 2002. Students were able to read online essays, follow video footage that was uploaded, and track the ship's travels and teachers were given the opportunity to participate in a ship to shore phone conference. It was during this cruise that I as afforded the most exciting opportunities of my career. This was a 700ft descent in the Johnson-Sea-Link II in order to collect data regarding the spawning locations and behavior of economically valuable reef fish and to understand the reasons for their population decline. In 2003, I piloted their Teacher At Sea program at Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SKIO) in Georgia and brought back information on wave monitoring buoys to the classroom. With the award of the Hewlett-Packard grant in 2004, I was able to create and implement a unit entitled "Stories from the Dirt". Students used the science process through a variety of careers to decide whether or not to proceed building on a certain plot of land based on discoveries in the soil.
Personally, I have two fantastic daughters ,Whitney (13) and Emily (10), that have enjoyed my passion for learning and wondering the "what-if's" in life. We do science experiments as a part of our daily routine are the resident "experts" of our extended family of anything involving the science and technology. It is not uncommon for us to get up early and head to Congaree National Park just because we want to see a plant or animal or stay up late to see a meteor shower.
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Choi Surges in Titleholders
Na Yeon Choi carded a 3-under 69 to take a one-shot lead in the LPGA Tour's season-ending CME Group Titleholders. The $1.5 million, 72-hole tournament started Thursday at TwinEagles Club in Naples, Fla.
The 2012 U.S. Women's Open champion posted four birdies and bogey Saturday to go a shot up on 36-hole leader, Ai Miyazato, and reach 12-under 204.
Miyazato got off to a rugged start with a double-bogey on the par-5 second and then, three holes later, got a bogey on another par-5 to make the turn in 3-over 39. But the 27-year-old from Japan got untracked on the inward half, carding four birdies to get under par on the day.
Two strokes behind Choi is her South Korean friend, So Yeon Ryu, who shot a 68, while another stroke back are France's Karine Icher (70) and American Brittany Lincicome, who also had a 70. China's Shanshan Feng (69) and Sweden's Anna Nordqvist (69) share sixth, four shots behind Choi.
Four players - Brittany Lang (69), Beatriz Ricari (68), first-round leader Suzann Pettersen (72) and Karrie Webb (71) are tied for eighth at 209.
Cristie Kerr, who won last week's Lorena Ochoa Invitational, is tied for 17th at 212 after a 71. No. 2-ranked and 2012 LPGA Player of the Year Stacy Lewis carded her second straight 72 and now stands at 2-under 214. Inbee Park, who Lewis was hoping to unseat with a win this week - worth $500,000 -as the leading money earner this year, also shot 72 to go to 212.
Other scores included a 69 by No. 1-ranked Yani Tseng, who's now T-33 at 217, and a 71 by Michelle Wie that moved her out of last place after opening with rounds of 81 and 77.
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MANSFIELD - If what Mansfield University women's basketball head coach Alison Tagliaferri has seen from her squad in the early going translates into wins, the Lady Mountaineers appear to be prepared to surpass their season total of five victories from the 2013-14 season.
"I think we have a lot more basketball talent this year as far as athleticism, quickness and ability are concerned," said Tagliaferri. "Right now we are trying to get everybody on the same page as far as expectation levels are concerned. Right now some of the players, although they have a lot of talent, have come from high school programs where they haven't been pushed so right now we are sort of in that not everybody is on the same page stage. When we do some things we show spurts of greatness so it is just a matter of putting those things together on a daily basis to make practice move forward without taking any steps backward."
Injuries are a part of any sport, and Tagliaferri and assistant Bridget Paluga are having to deal with some of those in the preseason.
"Right now we have a couple of injuries that are holding us back numbers-wise," said Tagliaferri. "We have a solid group of kids returning this year with three or four starters in the mix. We brought in a point guard from Harrisburg High School in Tianna Jackson who brings to the table what we lacked in a point guard last year."
As for the returning players, Jenna Matter is back for her senior season.
"Jenna Matter is our senior center who led the team in scoring and rebounding last year," said Tagliaferri. "Katie Fitzpatrick is a sophomore who was second on the team scoring and Alyssa DeRichie and Megan McSwain all bring starter experience back from last season. As for those four, I am looking for them to do some big things for us this year."
Tagged with the interim label until she was named as the official head coach of the Mansfield women's program, Tagliaferri indicated that until that was removed from her title, recruiting had some bumps in the road.
"It was a challenge recruiting for the majority of the year with the interim title, for sure, but I am very pleased with what we have coming in this year," Tagliaferri said. "We were also able to pick up some pieces to our puzzle for the following year with a few redshirts and some transfers who will be able to practice this year, but will not be able to play until next year. Overall, I am happy with what we were able to get."
So who are some of these puzzle pieces for the 2013-14 Lady Mounties?
"Maria Kelleher is a local shooting guard from Lewisburg and she should make an immediate impact as far as filling Kayla Espigh's shoes," said Tagliaferri. "She is a great three-point shooter and right now, she is working on her defensive skills. Jackson will definitely be a key factor, Bridget Carney is a sophomore who will be coming back and has put in a lot of work this summer, Devon Tennant is another post player who will probably compete for some playing time, Traci Bethea is another player from New Jersey who will compete for playing time and then we have a couple of walk-ons in Kayla Allen from Jersey Shore and Molly Wood from Mansfield who has been working real hard and has already shown a lot of improvement."
Although the interim tag was with her until she was named head coach on April 18, Tagliaferri felt that although it was there, it really didn't keep her from doing the things she needed to do to guide the MU program.
"I tried to carry myself as though it wasn't there because you have to," she said. "If you don't do that, you aren't going to get through to the kids on your team and to the recruits if you don't walk the walk so to speak. Obviously I am very honored and excited to be here and to have this position permanently and I am very much looking forward to our recruiting class for 2014. Just that having that "interim" title gone is going to be a key factor in getting some great recruits in here. We have some here now that we are excited about and hopefully we will be able to get a few more early signings."
As for the PSAC conference, Tagliaferri knows how tough the road can be at times. She has been there and done that.
"We added two quality programs this year in Pitt-Johnstown and Seton Hill," Tagliaferri said. "Those two schools have a lot of scholarship dollars available. Lock Haven is a program that has been very talented over the past several years and they play in a very tough western division of the conference with a lot of nationally-ranked teams. With the amount of talent that graduated from the conference last year I think the parity between the teams is much closer this year. If you look across the board at the number of people the teams have lost, I think it opens it up quite a bit for many teams to compete."
All teams have goals they set at the beginning of the season, and the Lady Mountaineers are no different in that aspect of their program.
"We won five games last year so obviously there is no way for us to go but up," said Tagliaferri. "Our non-conference games are also tough but we would love to shoot for and win at least 10-12 games this season. I think if we get our minds together and bring it to practice every day that we can absolutely fight for that last playoff spot in the East and that hasn't been done here since 2007. Having been a player here who was a part of it the first time we ever made the playoffs, I just want these girls to have the same experience. They are going to have to realize the amount of work it takes to achieve something like that, but I really don't see why we can't compete for that last spot."


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Foreign affairs ministers from across the EU today published their conclusions on business and human rights. Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes a reference to the UN process to establish binding rules that would force multinational corporations to respect human rights laws [1], but calls on the EU to start actively supporting this UN process.
Last week, several European newspapers published revelations about a proposal to roll out highly controversial corporate tribunals across Europe. [1]
Activists from the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) – the indigenous group that was led by murdered environmental activist Berta Caceres – are calling for the suspension of European aid to Honduras until human rights in the country are respected.
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Plant-based fuels from agriculture. Also known as biofuels
Genuine, just solutions to climate change
Energy efficiency and its benefits
Oil and gas exploration, and mining
Clean alternatives to fossil fuels
Unconventional oil and gas, and the 'fracking' process
EU Structural and Cohesion funds, principally for central and eastern Europe
Unconventional oil, also known as oil sands
European climate campaign for annual emissions cuts
Differing and competing interests in the EU institutions
Making companies accountable for harm they cause anywhere in the world
When EU and international policy-making is overly influenced by business and interest groups
The weakening of vital protections to please big business
What's at stake in negotiations for a transatlantic trade agreement
Company advertising at odds with real environmental impacts
Lobby registration, ethical practice, and access to documents
Getting banks to take responsibility for social and environmental risks
Betting on foodstuffs, and how to regulate it
Food and farming in Europe and its global impacts
Genetically modified crops and organisms
Measuring Europe's land footprint and tackling the drivers of land grabbing
Standing up for our right to nature
Reducing, reusing and recycling resources
Europe's consumption of land, materials, water and carbon
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Update: On July 21, 2008, a San Francisco jury convicted Eric Hunt of multiple charges for his bias-motivated attack on Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. More
New York, NY, February 20, 2007 � The arrest of a Holocaust denier in an assault on Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel delivers "a very clear message that Holocaust denial is unacceptable and must be taken seriously because it can have grave consequences," the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today.
A self-proclaimed Holocaust denier, Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, NJ, was arrested February 17 on charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime. After the February 1 assault in San Francisco, Mr. Hunt allegedly posted an account boasting of the attack on Web sites frequented by Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites.
"The arrest provides an opportunity to deliver a very clear message that Holocaust denial is unacceptable," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "This brazen attack on Elie Wiesel was a reminder that Holocaust denial still has currency among Jew haters and is one of the more virulent strains of anti-Semitism. It also can have very grave consequences -- both on a personal level and on a national and international level -- and must be taken seriously, whether it comes from an individual like Eric Hunt, or a political leader like the Iranian president."
Prior to his arrest, Eric Hunt described the attack in Internet posts to anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial sites, according to ADL's Internet Monitoring Unit, which maintains up-to-date information on dozens of extremist sites. Hunt's description of the assault has since been widely disseminated on the Internet, and currently appears on most major neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic Web sites and forums, where he is being applauded for the attack.
In the post, Hunt bragged about the attack, telling readers that he had been "trailing" Wiesel for weeks, with the goal of confronting the Holocaust survivor and author and getting him to "admit" that his account of his experiences during the Holocaust "is almost entirely fictitious." The post claimed that there was never a plan to exterminate the Jews during World War II, that the gas chambers were not used to kill Jews, and that Jews were the enemy of the Germans.
The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.
Update:Guilty Verdict for Wiesel Attacker Sends a Message to Holocaust Deniers(7/22/08)
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AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists led by University of the Witwatersrand palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger yesterday announced the discovery of several 2-million- year-old partial skeletons of a new species of hominid in the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg, sparking a fresh debate about who our immediate ancestors were.
Writing in this week's edition of the US journal Science, Berger describes two members of the new species, which he has called Australopithecus sediba, and controversially suggests that they may have been a transitional creature between Au. africanus and the early members of our genus Homo.
Sediba means "well- spring" in Sotho.
"We have never seen an early hominid species that looks like this," said Berger .
He has long argued that Au. africanus - to which the famous Mrs Ples and Taung Child fossils belong - is not the evolutionary dead end that many of his peers think. His claim that Au. sediba sprang from Au. africanus and
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that it could be the immediate ancestor to our genus Homo has already sparked debate among the world's top palaeoanthropologists, who have views of their own. Donald Johanson, discoverer of the famous 3,2-million-year-old hominid fossil Lucy, said it was more likely Au. sediba descended from the earliest Homo species in east Africa - which may have been the tool-making Homo habilis - and then migrated back to southern Africa.
Berger's team found a male aged between 11 and 13 and an adult female, lying close together in what was once a deep cave. Remains of at least 25 animal species were also found, including sabre-toothed cats, antelope, a wild dog, a hyena, mongooses, and others not seen before. Two more skeletons have been found since Berger sent his research to Science last year, making this perhaps SA's richest fossil haul yet.
The fossils are unusually well preserved, perhaps because they fell to their death in the cave and were safe from scavengers, said Berger's collaborator, Paul Dirks from James Cook University.
Au. sediba had the small brain and the orangutan-like arms of australopithecines, and the short, powerful hands and smaller teeth of a modern human. It stood about 1,3m high and would have been comfortable climbing trees and walking much like us, he said.


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I hope we actually get some momentum around the hardware. Sideshow was a cool idea, but the hardware never really seemed to catch on. As a dev, I think the hardware manufacturers have to lead the way. No way can we invest in developing anything serious for these types of things until he hardware shows promise.
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Call it "Nerd Cave" or maybe boost the lighting.
While this demo is cool, it's not really what I had expected/hoped for.
The web service calls are taking place on the server and emitting XAML. The XAML is then loaded into the browser Silverlight contol.
Unless I'm mistaken, if you're looking for an example of client-side WS calls, check out this Sliverlight Quickstart page.
Good stuff! Keep on posting.
pbrowntwi wrote: Not sure if it's just me, but the download seems to be a corrupt file (plays for a short while then says it needs a different codec)
It's not just you. It happens to me too!
jsampsonPC wrote:Boyd mentioned that in order to use XNA, and write code on your 360, you would need to know C#. Is that exclusively the XNA favored language? Or will VB guys like myself be able to play in this parkt too?
Who knows... maybe this means that in 6 months you'll be an ex-VB guy.
Three cheers for the Providers in ASP.NET 2.0! It's really foundational to the new types of frameworks you can construct.
Great video, guys! Keep 'em coming!
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I couldn't tell. Good interview.
Windows innards--we love to go deep. So many podcasts and videos... so little time.
"Developers are my life; I love them." OK, how can you not want to find out more about who said thaMar 02, 2006 at 5:01PM
Just for fun, she writes a computer program to help her son practice his math skills. If that's not geeky, what is?
Embrace geekiness, kids. In a few years, most of those "cool" kids will be working for you.


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Interview with Mike Hands:
Q: What was the path that led to your interest and involvement with agricultural practices in these regions of the world?
A: My first contact in the tropics came when I was a surveyor making maps of the region, and then later, mainly in development projects, I spent a lot of time in Africa and also quite a bit of time in Central America. Really, as a child I was completely engaged with nature. I just lived in nature, in a country village in Gloucestershire in England and just inhabited woods and streams and open places – always in engagement with nature. So, when I was particularly in some parts of Africa, walking through miles and miles of burnt Guinea savannah forest it was just devastating seeing the effects. I was already interested in organic production and gardening when it came to a time in my life where a change was due. I was getting kind of restless, sort of like a midlife crisis, but I sensed it before it hit me. So, I went back to school, Cambridge, where I enrolled in a two year masters specifically to get my teeth into this. The more I got into reading about this the more I realized that no one really had any conclusions. There was some good work out there, but in the ecology of slash and burn, information was not just inconclusive but sometimes contradictory. I began to focus on the availability of nutrients being the major factor in slash and burn. It's the reason that the systems fail that was the real question to me.
Q: How many years have you been working specifically to combat slash and burn agriculture?
A: I've had my teeth into this problem for about thirty years. After quite a long time, and the usual blunders, I began to get my teeth into not only the work I had set myself in but also the problem. And I made a couple of breakthrough discoveries. Firstly that the well-known technique for determining total phosphorous in soil is thoroughly flawed. It produces bad data.
Q: Can you elaborate more on the problems you encountered relating to the soil test results that you were producing?
A: It took me a while to disentangle that. I tried all kinds of extraction techniques, most of which are very difficult to interpret even if you succeed, but I then sort of simplified things. I thought well what I'm going to do instead of looking at fractions and extractions and microbial biomass and all the rest, I'm just going to look at the total; ask the simple question first. What's happened to the total phosphorous in this soil? I'd cracked the problem of laboratory methodology, gotten that right so that I was getting very consistent results if I put samples of phosphorous through the digestive system that I was running. The way that I discovered the original system was flawed was that I wasn't getting consistent results back. The moment I was able to crack that problem I then went back to the original soil that had come from my sample plot, I made a massive discovery that a huge amount of phosphorous had actually left the soil profile. I think I know what had happened, but it went against all received wisdom in tropical soils. So there was a heck of a lot to get out of the way and disentangle. You couldn't get straight from a position of ignorance to a position of immediate insight. I wrote it all up as thesis, and then went through the nail biting time of trying to raise funds for a real project.
Q: When developing your experiments and programs how did you determine the best approach, and can you give some examples of other systems that didn't lead to the outcomes you have achieved using Inga?
A: This was going to be an alley cropping experiment because I'd already seen a lot of reference to alley cropping with legume trees claiming to be a sustainable alternative to slash and burn. They were advocating the use of very small leaved legumes, the idea being that the foliage that you grow must be decomposing at the correct time and therefore available to the crop so that the whole bloody thing had to be fine-tuned. I set out an alley cropping experiment with the two species recommended by the so-called experts in Costa Rica at that time which incidentally turned out to be a complete failure. Those being Gliricidia sepium and Erythrina fusca. There were 16 big plots – 400 square meters each. I had also already encountered Inga and was very impressed by what I was seeing and how this thing was functioning very differently to any of the other legume trees. It wasn't being used in our alley cropping trials, but it was used very much, and widely, as shade over coffee up in the highlands of Costa Rica and elsewhere – Honduras, Columbia, and so on for the same purpose. Against advice I was determined to at least trial some Inga, so we added another 14 plots (of the same size) around the main experiment. We started a regime of cropping. Maize was the first in, which is what farmers would do (after the slash and burn) followed by beans six months later, and then we'd just repeat the whole process trying deliberately to exhaust the soil of its available nutrients. The objective being to test further down the line to see whether there was a response – to see whether the crop was short of any one particular nutrient. And because I had already fingered phosphorous as most likely the key, it was a phosphorous experiment. On half the plots we applied one single application of 100 kilos of rock phosphate, and then we just cropped, monitoring everything that grew – weeds, trees, and the crop of course. The two conclusions were extremely rapid and extremely clear. There was no response to anything other than the rock phosphate. It was key, and the alley cropping systems that were recommended were clearly failing fairly early on. They didn't control the weeds anyway, but (in contrast) the Inga was clearly coming out head and shoulders above the other species. We had eight species of Inga in trial, and all of them out-performed the others species in trial, but four or five of them were absolutely outstanding – real tigers.
The other key finding, if I didn't say anything else today, was when we were getting the site prepared — I don't know if you're familiar with slash and burn, but what you do is under-brush the under-story so that you can move around. Then you drop the trees, leaving an even spread of fuel (for fire). You leave that for about six weeks until there is a short dry period. Then you fire it, hoping the whole lot will go up — before I dropped the trees I did a massive soil sampling, 96 points on a grid, down to 60 cm because I wanted to catch everything that was happening. Then I took the rest of the steps towards firing it and removed the remaining branches, leaving a clear flat site. I forgot to mention that I chose deliberately an Ultisol which is one of the most acid and difficult soil environments but typical of where the problem is in Amazonia. I continued to do this massive soil sampling, and it almost killed me to be honest, but what we found was that there was not a molecule difference in the amount of phosphorous (before and after burning). All of the phosphorous – approximately 100 kilos of phosphorous that I'd estimated to be in the canopy – was gone from the system. This was a very serious and surprising loss. Then suddenly in year three there was an apparent rise in the phosphorous, which in theory can't happen but in fact did and couldn't be denied. We figured out that this had to come from the decomposition of the roots of all those trees that has been previously killed, and it took until now for the phosphorous in their roots to become available. But, the key finding that I've never properly published was that in years four and five there was a drop in total phosphorous in the soil, and it's huge and highly significant. In total, in the bare soil plots (not in the Inga plots), by year 5 there was a loss of 200 kilos of phosphorous plus what I'm estimating is another 100 kilos from the original forest that was lost. That's 300 kilos of phosphorous, and a single crop of maize wants about five kilos of phosphorous. So, not only is it the key nutrient, and the experiment showed long term that the only response to nutrients was to phosphorous applied as rock phosphate. It's key and absolutely vital. That's the equivalent of 60 crops of maize that had left the soil profile in that period of time, and no one had ever picked it up before.
No one had ever reported anything like that before. I can remember one paper to this day that reported this apparent loss but said that it wasn't possible, and kind of left the sentence hanging, that it didn't happen. Well it did happen, and not only can it happen but it was key. To round the story off, the Inga plots didn't lose any phosphorous. They held on to it. What I think is happening is that the phosphorous that was lost was lost from the soil microbial biomass as a result of exposure (under bare soil conditions). With the Inga system being extremely productive. These are extremely acid soils, 4.1 pH. They are the soils which slash and burn farmers get. The other (higher quality land) goes to cattle, bananas, and sugar, and all the rest of it. Inga has, somehow, very high tolerance to acid soils, and it is producing as much biomass in the system that I put in place as in a rainforest. And that's actually the key observation because I'm certain that the phosphorous that was lost from the soil over those years actually originated in the soil microbial biomass. You have stopped adding fuel to the (microbial) biomass, and the predation that goes on in the soil all the time hasn't stopped. But the fuel supply has stopped. The soil microbial biomass is actually being eaten, and it's a finite resource and it eventually runs out. When it does the phosphorous that it contains and recycles also runs out. I think that's where it comes from but can't prove it because the standard techniques for determining microbial biomass phosphorous don't work on those soils. There is a huge absorption of phosphorous by these soils in the lab. When you shake a soil like that with a solution it is fantastically hungry to absorb phosphorous chemically and lock it up. If you take a sample of soil and shake it in the normal way soil scientists do, add a shot of soluble phosphorous, shake it another five minutes, spin it down, and analyze how much phosphorous you have in the solution it'll be zero. There will be nothing there because it's all taken up by the clays, but what happens in the live soil is not what happens in the laboratory. That's part of the confusion in the literature with soils of this kind – (thinking) they absorb phosphorous, so therefore they can't leach. Well, that's not what happens. We saw powerful leaching, and then the phosphorous that's released from the soil microbial biomass also leaches. It wasn't even there down to 60 cm. It just disappeared from the soil profile. The conclusion is that the Inga, it's the only thing that worked, and the only nutrient response we saw was to phosphorous in the form of rock phosphate.


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But SEPTA did nothing wrong in its handling of Leonard Sedden's April 11, 2010, death, a federal judge ruled recently, saying the transit authority had no duty to secure aid for Sedden, 68, because it neither created his medical condition nor worsened it.
U.S. District Judge Petrese B. Tucker on July 31 dismissed a federal lawsuit filed against SEPTA in February 2012 by Lisa Reynolds, a New Jersey woman handling Sedden's estate. Reynolds had sought damages in excess of $50,000 for Sedden's death aboard a crosstown "Nite Owl" bus traveling from SEPTA's 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby to the Frankford Transportation Center.


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- My Scotish Marine engineer grandfather Robert Robert's cousin (another Robert Roberts), who were brought up together in the same 'block of apartments, in 1850's. (They were educated together). This cousin Robert Roberts began the Christadelphian Church with a Dr. John Thomas, as dissenters from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. All the family until now, became Christadelphians and followers are found all over the world, but particularly in Britain and America. We as a family have conformed to this 'discipline' and married within its quite strict confines, until my generation. Then most of us have not needed to conform to our parents religion. But we are mostly 'non-conformists' and fragmentation of family ties is happening.....
- Robert Roberts (Marine Engineer) was my great great grandfather!
- My Great great Grandfather (William Harvey) Slave Master and large land owner in westmorland Jamaica had two brothers David and Theodore who broke away from the injustices of the slave practice ,and Married two coloured Girls ,went and bought a property that they renamed (Harvey River) They were considered to be expelled from the rest of the Harvey Family as in those days you just do not marry any one but of your own colour, David and Theodore were very socialistic in their thinking and represented the slaves in Court and were considered to be village lawyers. (PLease read the Book written by Lorna Goodison (from Harvey River) she is also a Decendant of David Harvey
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Are you struggling to make ends meet? Are you drowning in debt? The credit card companies don't care… and they're jacking up the minimum payment you now much make from around 2% of your balance to 4%. Are the credit card companies evil? No, part of the reason is because they're getting pressure by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the new Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005. In that new act, credit card companies will need to post on your credit card statement how long you'll be in debt if you keep making only the minimum payment. Well, news flash folks, if you just make minimum payments then you'll be in debt the rest of your life.
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22 December 2011: The interim Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has published a message to parties on the launch of the GCF. The notification contains two Annexes on the board of the GCF and on criteria for the selection of the host country. Parties are invited through their regional groups and constituencies to submit nominations for the position of member and alternate member of the Board of the GCF. Parties are also requested to submit to the Board by 15 April 2012, expressions of interest for hosting the GCF based on criteria contained in Annex II.
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In the middle of a long, drawn-out winter, many homeowners seek to spruce up their home environments.
Barley Rantilla of Cortland worked for Hugh's Construction in Liberty for 10 years. Today, Rantilla is a self-employed home improvement professional. Rantilla takes on everything from painting, installing doors and windows, cutting and tiling floors, installing drywall, plumbing and framing.
"I chose to do construction and home renovations so I could learn a trade that teaches me to take care of my own house. The more one learns in those trades, the more self-sufficient they become," Rantilla said.
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Todd Hall, owner of House Medic in Warren, said that the most common repairs that homeowners attempt in an effort to save money are gutter cleaning and washing, cleaning decks, caulking bathtubs, basic plumbing and painting.
"In most cases, we'll do the drywall work, but our customers will sometimes do their own priming and painting. Homeowners with mechanical abilities can handle the basic repairs," Hall said.
For example, Hall said that gutter cleaning can be a risky task and that the best way to prevent gutters from corroding is to invest in gutter guards.
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Hall said the best way to find a reliable handyman is to check with the Better Business Bureau or even Angie's List.
According to Hall, some home improvement techniques that homeowners should know how to do include toilet adjustments, basic plumbing, cleaning screens on faucets and caulking around bathtub areas.
"When caulking around a bathtub, homeowners should purchase caulking with a silicone base. Silicone-based products are designed for extended exposure to wet areas," Hall said. "Silicone caulking can prevent water from the tub from seeping into the wall. Homeowners should never use general purpose caulking because it will deteriorate due to dampness. Before applying the silicone caulking, it's always important to remove old, loose and corroded caulking around the tub."
Another simple home improvement technique that is pivotal for homeowners is winterization. According to Hall, this is making sure that the water lines to your outside spigots are turned off during the cold weather months, and also caulking windows to remove drafts. It's also important for homeowners to make sure that all attic access folds are well insulated. This is where homeowners can lose the most heat.
As an all-purpose handyman, Barley Rantilla enjoys taking on projects for customers.
"I work at a lot of houses where the customers have started a home improvement project but cannot finish the task. Most of my customers are talented in carpentry and construction," Rantilla said.
Paul H. Geisler, owner of the Hubbard-based interior / exterior renovation company, Paul's Home Improvement LLC, cautions that homeowners should be aware of other problems that may be uncovered during a home improvement project.
"I recently finished a roof, and while I was working on the job, I discovered that the garage was sagging, and I found broken rafters through the crawl space," Geisler said.
He said the garage had cracked rafting in the overhead, causing a dimple in the roof, which was sagging. He stopped and showed the customer how this rafting issue was causing the bricks to bow in a concave shape and also discovered these bricks can cause the rafters in the walls to blow out.
"The point is," Geisler said, "if homeowners do not get the problem corrected as soon as possible, far worse problems down the road may occur."
Rantilla says he always encourages homeowners to try to accomplish as much as they can on their own when it boils down to home improvement projects.
"I hate to have to charge people, but aside from the labor comes the costs of materials, and sometimes labor doubles the price of materials," Rantilla said. "At times, I have to ration material and labor costs. Customers will cut costs in materials so they could afford the labor. That's why I try to encourage homeowners to do as much as they can on their own, so they could find a happy medium accomplishing their home renovation without wasting time and money."
Ken Hecker, owner of Progressive Electrical Contractors in Niles, has been in the business for 35 years. Hecker says that he has had many customers who have tried to repair electrical issues on their own.
"The electrical industry is not an industry for amateurs. If homeowners do not understand the basic electrical codes and local ordinances, it is time to call an electrician. Everyone wants to save money and be efficient themselves, but homeowners have to balance efficiency with the safety for their family," Hecker said.
Some common electrical repairs Hecker has noticed during the brutal winter months include water leakage into electrical outlets, issues with GFI (ground fault interrupter) receptacles because of the cold weather and electrical fires due to overloading.
"I have found that when most customers try to repair the problem first, they get into a jam and call us," Hecker said.


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BATTLE CREEK, MI – Carson City-Crystal had pulled within striking distance of Hesperia by the time the lineup flipped back to the top in the Division 4 wrestling team state quarterfinals on Friday.
If you're not up on the Panthers by that time, though, the match is all but over thanks to their 1-2 punch at the lowest weight classes.
Corey Agens and Davian Gowens are listed as the top-ranked wrestlers at 103 pounds, but in the team duals they send Agens out first and then Gowens at 112. It's a combination with which few teams can contend.
The duo put together back-to-back pins, good for 12 team points, to seal a 44-21 quarterfinal win over the Eagles Feb. 21 at Battle Creek's Kellogg Arena and send Hesperia back to the state semifinals for the second straight season.
"The first round is always a tough one," Hesperia coach John Dingledine said. "We got the matchups we wanted. We won the coin toss, and that was really an asset. It helped a little bit, but we came through in some big matches.
"When you have a 1-2 punch like (Agens and Gowens), it's great. We weren't sure what kind of matchup we were going to get at 112, but our kids came up big."
Fifth-seeded Hesperia's (27-3) reward for advancing is a date with five-time defending champion and top-seeded Hudson (34-4) in Saturday's 9:30 a.m. semifinals. Hudson, which trounced No. 8 Clinton 72-6 in its quarterfinal, beat Hesperia 32-24 in the state finals last year.
Agens and Gowens will be two of the keys to whether or not the Panthers can end the Tigers' reign, just as they were in helping the Panthers avenge a loss to Carson City-Crystal earlier this season.
"We're going to have to be on our 'A' game like we were today," Agens said. "We have to be pumped up and go out there and wrestle to the best of our ability."
Damon Gowens (135), Trenton Roesly (140) and Chase Siersema (145) gave Hesperia an early 13-0 lead it never relinquished, but Carson City-Crystal did get back to within striking distance at 23-18.
Fortunately for Hesperia, Agens and Davian Gowens were raring to take the mat to restore order.
Agens pinned his opponent in 14 seconds, and Gowens followed up with a pin in 2:46.
"My mindset was to wrestle for six minutes if I had to, but to go for the pin," Agens said. "I knew Davian would go out there and do well because we're so evenly matched."
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Davian Gowens was noticeably absent the first time Hesperia and Carson City-Crystal matched up.
This time around the Panthers are much healthier than they were then, and the Eagles were without stud 140-pound senior Garner Cusack.
Add to that the Panthers won the flip, and the result was almost all Hesperia.
"They weighed their lineup in right, and we lost the toss," Eagles coach Kacy Datema said. "They locked us up. There wasn't a whole lot we could do to bump around them. We were handcuffed in the middle, our studs wrestled their studs, and we only won one out of three. That was important.
"They knew what they were doing. They certainly did their homework. "
Damon Gowens gave Hesperia a lift at the starting weight of 135, earning a major decision over Shane Wiggins. Roesly kept up his strong surge with a pin in 3:09.
Siersema came up with one of the big wins of the dual. The No. 2-ranked 140-pounder beat Darren Decker, the No. 3-ranked wrestler at 145 pounds, by an 8-1 count.
"Chase has come up with plenty of big wins all season," Dingledine said. "It was the matchup we wanted, and he came through for us and kept our momentum going."
Cameron Roesly upset Alex Baker at 119, top-ranked Zack Yates recorded a pin at 125, David Jacobs had a 13-2 major decision at 160, and Mark Workman had a quick pin at 171 for Hesperia's other wins.
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Jack Nicholson is 73 and has made only six movies during the past 13 years (he has a seventh -- James L. Brooks' How Do You Know -- reportedly coming out sometime this year). He doesn't work more often because he doesn't need to. His name is known. He's a huge star, and five of those past six films have been hits. He also has more Oscar nominations -- and Oscar wins -- than nearly any other actor alive (or dead). That's more than Olivier, Brando or De Niro. He has every right to be contented, since he occupies a special place in movies, a place that hardly anyone ever reaches, no matter how popular or acclaimed. He has achieved a perfect balance between movie star and actor. In half of his movies, he's "just Jack," doing his usual casual, witty, cynical drawl, ever so cool and seductive. He can use his eyebrows as the most awesome instruments, expressing dismay at those who are not -- and can never be -- as cool as he.
And in the other half of his films, he's an actor's actor, capable of playing the richest and deepest roles, of sharing the screen with any kind of performer, from Boris Karloff and John Huston to Adam Sandler and Meryl Streep. Even Streep does not have it so good as Jack. Labeled as the "greatest actor alive," she has a lot to live up to with each new film. Jack just shows up, relaxed, his bag of tricks ever on hand. I'm convinced he could excel at Shakespeare, but perhaps he's not interested. Perhaps he'd simply dismiss the Bard in one of his terrific "saucy Jack" line readings.
He has three Oscars, for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Terms of Endearment and As Good as It Gets, plus nine other nominations, for Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, Reds, Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, A Few Good Men, and About Schmidt. That's at least one nomination per decade for five decades in a row. So many of his performances have become iconic, indelible images, part of the zeitgeist. There's the image of him riding on the back of a motorcycle in a football helmet. There's the one-man baseball game. There's "You can't handle the truth!" There's "Heeeeerrrre's Johnny!" And there's the Joker.
It was not always so. Nicholson started in the movie industry, working with Roger Corman, and with more interest in becoming a director or screenwriter. He has six screenwriting credits from these early days, and he had his first taste of directing doing uncredited re-shoots on The Terror (1963). To date, he has officially directed three films, all quite interesting: Drive, He Said (1971), Goin' South (1978) and The Two Jakes (1990). In those days, just about anyone, from Roger Corman all the way down to Jack himself, would have told you that his future was not in acting. You can take a look at any scene of Jack's, including his debut in The Cry Baby Killer (1958), or his little "cameo" in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), or in The Terror, and it's easy to see why. He's kind of stiff, kind of whiny, and just not star material.
Maybe it was the drugs on Easy Rider, but Jack loosened up and learned how to use his natural gifts. From then on out, he was unstoppable. He became a symbol of the unsettled, rebellious 1960s and 1970s, and even in the 1980s he became a symbol of a free-spirited soul who could speak freely and still get everything he wants. And since then, he has merely been an icon; his presence alone was enough to elicit a certain reaction. But even then, he did not give up. He kept acting. And when he's not acting, he's "just Jack."
From this awesome career, I had a tough time trying to choose a best role, so I'm going to count down my favorites and hopefully wind up with something good at the end. I should start with some honorable mentions, like John Huston's Prizzi's Honor (1985), which I adored back in the 1980s, but which I now find doesn't quite hold up. I also want to mention a couple of underrated films, Danny DeVito's Hoffa and Nicholson's own The Two Jakes; I'm very fond of both of them, and enjoy revisiting them when I can. There are many more, but I'll just get started.
At the start of my list, I have the dual Westerns Ride in the Whirlwind (1965) and The Shooting (1967), which were financed by Roger Corman, directed by Monte Hellman, and shot back-to-back in the Utah dessert. Nicholson produced both, acted in both, and wrote Ride in the Whirlwind. (Incidentally, The Shooting was written by Carole Eastman, who went on to write another of Nicholson's best movies, Five Easy Pieces.) The two Westerns have been called "existential" for the way they use their rambling, searching plots to find some "deeper" meaning. I dearly love them both, and count them both among my top favorite films of all time, but I can't call them Nicholson's best role(s) because they were made slightly before he emerged with his fully-formed style.
Next is Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980), which is another masterpiece of cinema, and certainly one of the greatest and spookiest of all horror films. It's definitely one of Nicholson's signature roles, and he's very intense. Violence oozes from his eyes; he genuinely looks as if he's gone around the bend. When he's drinking that ghostly booze with the ghostly bartender, you can just feel the stuff going to his head. But even the film's defenders bemoan the fact that Jack (also named "Jack" in the film) is obviously crazy from the start. During that opening sequence, during the job interview, Jack utters the line "that'll be just fine" with the same creepy venom as "Heerrre's Johnny" (just with less volume).
Next, we have George Miller's The Witches of Eastwick (1987), which I watched once in the theater and then a dozen more times on video. This is "just Jack" at his very best; he's hilariously naughty, irresistibly seductive. Every guy who watched this movie wanted to be him -- big belly, balding pate, long, pink coat and all -- and every girl wanted to sleep with him. No guy who has ever been dumped has failed to be roused by the "Women! A mistake? Or did He do it to us on purpose!?!" speech. Miller gives the movie a ripe, erotic atmosphere, where the blonde (Michelle Pfieffer), the redhead (Susan Sarandon) and the brunette (Cher) all let down their hair. However, the movie fails during its final stretch by forgoing Jack in favor of visual effects. A mistake.
I admit that part of the reason I like Sean Penn's The Pledge (2001) is because it's so desperately misunderstood and underappreciated. But I also believe now, as I believed then, that it may be Nicholson's most layered performance, full of history and wisdom and sadness. It's perhaps a bit like those "existential" Westerns, in that it's set up like a detective story, with a killer on the loose, but the catching of the killer is ultimately less important than the hero Jerry Black (Nicholson) going through his own journey. It's almost like a challenge that viewers did not want to accept.
When I started considering Nicholson, the first film that popped into my head was Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). To me, it's the most ageless of his 1970s films, the most perfectly formed, and the most uncompromised. Part of this is due to its period setting; it plays a little like a Bogart film, with Nicholson fitting right into that mold. But it's a little dirtier, a little scuzzier. After all, Jake Gittes starts off not by catching a killer or a robber, but by taking nasty pictures of a cheating wife. Underneath the crisp suits and neat cars and sunshine and orange groves lies the worst, most sickening kind of corruption. Nicholson was the perfect actor to straddle both worlds (more so than Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye from the previous year). He's at once classically Bogart, but also modern and cynical. It's a masterpiece, and even more surprising for a film this rich and complex and challenging: a big hit!
But there's one more film I like a tiny fraction better: Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975). I like to think that Nicholson is pretty proud of this particular film, as he gave up his seat in the front row (and his sunglasses) to hand Antonioni an honorary Oscar in 1995. It's both a counterculture film and a timeless masterpiece, and yet another "existential" film. Antonioni liked to explore the elusiveness of life and identity by surrounding his characters with vast, empty spaces. (The Passenger has much in common with Antonioni's great Italian masterpiece L'avventura.)
Jack plays David Locke, a reporter who switches identities with a dead man in his hotel, and finds that the dead man was a kind of arms dealer. This setup promises some Bourne-style intrigue and suspense -- as well as romance with the luscious young Maria Schneider -- but it quickly becomes an interior exploration (Maria's character doesn't even get a name). And it has an ending as good as Chinatown's. For this lone film, Jack was forced to give up both "just Jack" and his acting chops and strip himself down to his barest essence. It could be argued that it's his "purest" performance; it's the one in which he reveals the most, and the least. David is a beautiful cipher, a mystery for the ages and a match for Nicholson himself.
In some ways, all of Jack's movies are about life, and Jack is a little like a guru. He gives us little pointers and little hints, making us think about who we are, encouraging us and reminding us to enjoy life in things like The Bucket List. Then there's perhaps his best line of all, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "I tried, didn't I? Goddammit, at least I did that." And then some, dear Jack. And then some.
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