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Leica Camera Japan unveiled the Kumamon no Leica C, a Leica C digital camera model in collaboration with the Kumamoto-prefecture-proud mascot character Kumamon.
Leica Camera Japan unveiled the Kumamon no Leica C, a Leica C digital camera model in collaboration with the Kumamoto-prefecture-proud mascot character Kumamon.
Here is Everything you need to know about the new VAIOR smartphone, also known as the VAIO VA-10J:
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Olympus announced the release of new compact digital camera "OLYMPUS STYLUS SH-2" which is scheduled to go on sale for about ¥37,000 on April 10.
ASUS Japan announced the release of new Android 7-inch tablet "ASUS MeMO Pad 7 ME171C".
The black (ME171C-BK16) and gold (ME171C-GD16) models will be out on March 13, and the red model (ME171C-RD16) will be out sometime in late March.
The ASUS MeMO Pad 7 ME171C tablet weighs 280g, and it features their original user interface called ZenUI and Japanese input system, ATOK.
The following article, by Adam Klaptocz of Drone Adventures, is republished here with permission from our colleagues at Robohub.org.
Today, Acer Japan launched sales of the new HDMI 2.0 compliant 27-inch 4K display "S277HK wmidpp" model.
The S277HK wmidpp display has a non-glare IPS screen (3840x2160). The built-in HDMI 2.0 input terminal is capable of making an output 4K image display in a 60Hz refresh rate. It has some external connection terminals including Dual Link-compliant DVI-DL, DisplayPort, and MiniDisplayPort.
In Japan, there is a KitKat-specialized store called "KitKat Chocolatory" that sells high-end KitKats.
A new I LOVE FRUITS series just became available at only 2 KitKat Chocolatory stores in Tokyo:
On April 23 Takara Tomy is going to start selling a dinosaur toy robot called Hello!DINO, a new edition to their OMNIBOT entertainment robot series.


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Hello goddesses. I've only posted on this website once before so I'm still kind of confused as to how it works..
I just turned 18 in January and I have a 10 month old daughter. I'm still EBF and I love it, as does she. I made the mistake when I first had her of feeding her more on my right breast because my left breast would leak a LOT during each feeding and I didn't understand the importance of nursing equally on both sides.
I love my new mama body, I've never felt more beautiful..except for one thing.
My right breast is a full D cup and my left side is hardly a B. My Birdie still prefers the right side because I make probably 6-7 oz (or more) a day on that side. I'm not even making 1 oz a day on my left side..
I'm not worried about what other people think..but I'm embarrassed of the way that I look and I get tears in my eyes every time I see myself topless. I would really like to get better milk production back on the left.. is it too late?
I try to nurse and nurse and nurse on that side, but my girl doesn't necessarily like that breast so she pretty much refuses it.
Is pump rental a good option? Is it possible to get production back? Has anybody else dealt with this??
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BSC Presents Free Seminar to Help Small Businesses Seeking Government Contracts
A free small business seminar, "How to Respond to a Request for Proposal (RFP)" will be presented by the Bluefield State College Center for Economic Enhancement and the BSC Center for International Understanding, October 30-31 (8 a.m.-4 p.m.) at the Tierney Conference Room, Dickason Hall on the BSC campus. The program, which is limited to the first 50 participants, provides a detailed examination of the RFP process and teaches participants how to build a good proposal. it is invaluable for any manufacturing or service company seeking to increase its business through government contracting. It also provides valuable assistance to organizations that apply for grants. To register, contact the BSC Center for Economic Enhancement at (304) 327-4071. The Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce is one of seven organizations whose support permits this program to be offered free of charge.


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Webinar: 2014 Investment Portfolio Kickoff (CD)
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Lots of wild cards are in play as the new year gets started: New Fed Chairman, new Fed Governors, and the question about "tapering" of monetary policy just to name a few. As investment portfolios of community banks remain much larger than in the past, the consequences of an underperforming asset class are magnified. We will assess the lay of the land for community bank-suitable investments and will discuss several suggestions for securities that may be poised to perform well in the coming year.
Jim Reber is President and CEO of ICBA Securities. He has over 25 years of financial services experience, and is a frequent speaker and lecturer at bank investment seminars and workshops. Jim also writes a monthly investment column for Independent Banker magazine. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Jim holds a BS degree in Accounting from Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee.
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quote Highbury HighsSorry, i misread.What do you mean?
I just said you will be able to see your own arrows when playing.
If your offline friend wants to play with the arrows on, just punch him. Sounds silly but it's true. Arrows are only there really to help you out when learning to play with the new manual control system.
quote Highbury HighsHow is that possible when you are playing with your friend not online?
I'm sure you'll just be able to see your arrows, too. Seeing where your opponent is about to play the ball would just be ridiculous.
quote Chelskimannot sure about the demo but the new video came out 2 hours ago.quote Highbury HighsHow soon?
Demo release coming soon btw; demo announcement coming even sooner.
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Highest Performance and Density
Scale up to 83 terabits per second (Tbps) with the Cisco Nexus 7700 18-Slot Switch. It offers high availability, exceptional performance, high density 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE), and front-to-back air flow. That makes it ideal for high performance data center core and Unified Fabric deployments.
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Remember the time the Brady Bunch threw a huge kegger and then had to rush to get Jan's stomach pumped? Or that time Fred Flintstone beat his bird record player to death because it kept skipping? Of course you don't, because those are terrible, terrible ideas that we just made up.
But you'd be surprised by how close some great TV shows came to destroying themselves with equally awful storylines. Maybe it's the pressure to try to stay fresh and interesting, or maybe it's the fact that Hollywood is 70 percent cocaine. Whatever the cause, only last-minute interventions from sanity and sobriety saved us from the following disasters.
5 Breaking Bad -- The First Season Almost Ended Like a Saw Movie
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Walter White's moral descent from milquetoast high school chemistry teacher to full-fledged villain slowly played out over Breaking Bad's five-year run, or roughly two days of calling in sick and watching Netflix in your underwear. And while Bryan Cranston's living room now resembles an IKEA ball pit filled with Emmys, it's hard to imagine the show succeeding if it had followed the original storyline, where Walter goes from sad sack cancer patient to deranged psycho killer over the course of, like, a long weekend.
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"That's not even enough time for me to grow evil facial hair."
Fans of the show have known for a while that Walt's partner in crime, Jesse Pinkman, was originally slated to die at the end of the first season. While this would have surprised viewers and drastically lowered the show's final "bitch" count, it's the aftermath of Jesse's death that would have been a twist equal parts shocking and unbelievably idiotic.
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So kind of like Season 2's twist ending.
According to series creator Vince Gilligan, Jesse was to be knocked off by a rival drug dealer. An enraged Walter in turn kidnaps this dealer and locks him in his basement, and then presumably tells his wife and son that it's infested with raccoons or something. Makes sense so far, but what happens next would have blown the show's crazy load for good.
First, Walter rigs up a shotgun on a tripwire so the dealer could kill himself whenever he wanted. Walt then turns into the Jigsaw Killer by lopping off a toe, a finger, or some other body part every day before cauterizing each wound with a blowtorch. Which, holy shit, even by the standards of the monster Walter became in the later seasons, or by the standards of any human being with even a remote shred of sanity left in them, is pretty cruel.
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"And then I'm going to cover you in ants. And the ants are going to use tiny little chainsaws.
And the chainsaws are going to be dipped in ricin ..."
It gets worse. The dealer holds out for weeks, and eventually Walter Jr. ventures into the basement, probably wondering why his dad was always covered in blood after doing the laundry. When the dealer learns that he's Walter's son, he grabs Jr. and finally fires the shotgun, killing them both. End of Season 1!
Fortunately, no one else at AMC was thrilled with the idea, because kidnapping babies and blowing up South American psychopaths wouldn't seem quite so extreme after the show had already gone full-on torture porn. Not to mention that the whole premise of slowly turning an everyday guy into a villain would have been shot to hell if Walter had become a madman at the first opportunity. That's like learning Anakin Skywalker went to the dark side because he was asked to stay late and do some filing. Although we do have to admit that Walt Jr. getting his head blown off by a tortured killer is a way better use of the character than having him just mope around for five years.
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"Goddamnit, will you stop asking if we can have breakfast for dinner!"
4 Futurama -- A Sad Episode Gets Way Sadder
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Cartoons that elicit genuine emotion from viewers are few and far between. Sure, we all shed a single tear at the moving opening montage of Up and that episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? where Shaggy declares his love for Scooby, but the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark" is perhaps the only cartoon you can admit to full on bawling at as an adult and not having people judge you.
20th Century Fox Television
A story so sad, the Internet won't Rule 34 it.
You all know the story, and if you don't, well, spoiler alert for a 12-year-old Futurama episode you really should have watched by now: Fry discovers the fossilized body of his dog, Seymour, and is going to have him cloned, but he changes his mind at the last minute when he discovers that Seymour lived for over a decade after Fry had left him. Fry assumes Seymour went on to have a happy life with a new owner, which would be a touching ending, until a flashback shows us that Seymour waited for Fry to come back every day until he died, proving Fry horribly wrong. You then discover that the room you're in is unusually dusty.
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... so damn dusty.
It's an episode that made many people ask, "How is it I can cry at a comedic science fiction cartoon, but I can't express my feelings to my friends and family?" Well, get your Zoloft out, because the episode was originally going be about Fry finding the body of his mom.
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"Now this we can pornify!"
Yeah. Mentally walk yourself through the episode with that switch made. Imagine Fry finding his mother's petrified body at a museum and having to protest to get her back. Imagine Bender getting jealous of Fry's attachment to his mom and eventually trying to destroy her body in lava. Imagine Fry calling off the cloning process at the last second, assuming that his mom got over the mysterious disappearance of her son and went on to have a long, happy life. Then imagine a final scene where we watch a woman grow old and die while constantly clinging to the faint hope that her beloved child will come back to her.
Unsurprisingly, this premise got the ax after the writers realized that Fry dragging his mom's fossilized corpse around New New York would be "too upsetting" to viewers. It's like if Psycho got turned into a gut-wrenching family tragedy. We're going to go out on a limb and guess that Fry destroying his own mother's second chance at life might have played as less touching and more psychopathic than the writers had originally envisioned, although we would have been curious to know how many moms got tearful phone calls as soon as the episode finished airing.
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"I just wanted to call to say I promise to never throw your corpse in a pit of lava, no matter how many dumb chain emails you send me."


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|Wildcats win with ease, look to big game with Autauga
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|Tuesday, 24 September 2013 10:21
Alex Dettmar, in his first year kicking for the Wildcats, has had plenty of practice booting his extra points with the Wildcats visiting the end zone frequently.
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By ART PARKER
It was a normal margin of victory of the year for the Edgewood Wildcats. The team that has now won 36 games in a row toppled Glenwood on the road last week 47-14. Of course Edgewood coach Bobby Carr sat his starters in the second half so younger players could gain experience. The score at halftime was 47-7.
Wildcats quarterback Taylor Hawthorne was 14-of-19 passing for 224 yards and four touchdowns. For touchdowns Hawthorne connected with Heath Young twice, and once each to Keith Johnson and Josh Crawford. In the rushing department Crawford ran for 118 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
Edgewood may have won in a rout, but Glenwood is probably the best team the Wildcats have faced all year. Carr's explanation of the victory may support that assessment when he said, "It is by far the best we have played on both sides of the ball all year long. No doubt in my mind. We executed extremely well," Carr stated after the game.
Edgewood lost 16 seniors to graduation and had only two starters returning on offense and a trio on defense. In the early part of the year Carr was concerned about his team and their performances, but he did say that he fully expected the Wildcats to be much better by the time the middle of the season rolled around. Based upon their performance against Glenwood the top Wildcat was correct.
"You learn more in terms of experience in a game than you do in practice. And that is what I was hoping for and felt it would come. This was our fifth game and I am now seeing what I hoped for. We have also been hampered with injuries and we have dodged a bullet in that regard," Carr said. "Now, next week. Everybody will be in uniform. We will be at full strength."
And the Wildcats will need full strength. Glenwood may have been the toughest team Edgewood has faced thus far but that will change this week as the Wildcats go to Autauga Academy. The Generals are probably the only region opponent that has any chance of beating Edgewood. Autauga comes off an overtime loss to Ft. Dale, which is in a higher classification that Ft. Dale or Edgewood. It has been a most unpleasant experience for the Generals the last two times they have faced Edgewood. The Wildcats have whipped them by a combined score of 99-6.
"Autauga has good lineman and they will be tough. They have a lot of motivation to beat us and they will have a good game plan. It should be a great game for the fans," Carr said.
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Supreme Court Justice concerned about civics education
By ART PARKER, Editor
A few weeks ago Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jim Main (pictured right) spoke to students at the Jones School of Law at Faulkner University. In addition to reviewing the diversity of the Alabama Supreme Court, Main stressed the importance of civics education in our schools and the importance of promoting civics by the soon to be lawyers.
The Millbrook Independent was purchased last week. Chris Thompson (pictured), owner of Brookside Funeral Home in Millbrook, is the new owner of The Indy. The purchase included the newspaper and its website, www.millbrookindependent.com.
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Vermont offering gun range grantsBy Josh OGorman | January 11,2013MONTPELIER- The Fish & Wildlife Department is offering grants to help create more shooting ranges.
Shooting clubs, sportsmen's groups and government agencies involved in the operation of shooting ranges are invited to apply for a grant funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Examples of projects that could be eligible for funding include noise abatement structures, shooting pads and stations, lead mitigation, access roads and parking lots.
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|19 Sept. 2012
GSA Release No. 12-68
|Kea Giles
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Geosphere Adds to Four Themed Issues, Plus More New Science
Geosphere articles posted online 19 September 2012
Boulder, CO, USA – New Geosphere papers in themed issues include a study showing, for the first time, that a major fault runs under central Reno, Nevada, USA ("Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane"). Detailed field mapping adds new information to the study of "Neogene Tectonics and Climate-Tectonic Interactions in the Southern Alaskan Orogen," and isochron cosmic burial data adds to the understanding of "CRevolution 2: Origin and Evolution of the Colorado River System II."
Abstracts for these and other Geosphere papers are available at http://geosphere.gsapubs.org/. Representatives of the media may obtain complimentary copies of Geosphere articles by contacting Kea Giles at the address above.
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Post-2.6 Ma tectonic and topographic evolution of the northeastern Sierra Nevada: The record in the Reno and Verdi basins
Patricia H. Cashman et al., Dept. of Geological Sciences and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES764.1.
The landscape along the east side of the Sierra Nevada near Reno, Nevada, USA, is extremely young and dynamic. This paper by Patricia Cashman and colleagues describes the geologic evolution of the eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada near Reno area over the past 2.6 million years in unprecedented detail, based on new surface and subsurface data. Sedimentary rocks exposed west of Reno record an abrupt change in topography about 2.6 million years ago. Rapid erosion created a canyon that was then filled by granitic boulder conglomerate and sandstone derived in part from the interior of the Sierra Nevada to the west. These rocks are now tilted east; the amount of tilt decreases upward, documenting ongoing faulting and tilting during deposition. Gravity and borehole data from the Reno basin show the north-striking, west-side-down normal fault that bounds the tilted section -- under central Reno. Many small faults throughout the sedimentary section were active at the same time as tilting; together, they accommodate east-west extension. These results are significant because they show that the modern topography evolved more recently than was previously known, and that a major fault underlies the middle of the Reno basin, rather than forming the eastern or western edge as suggested by previous interpretations.
Structure of the actively deforming fold-thrust belt of the St. Elias orogen with implications for glacial exhumation and three-dimensional tectonic processes
Terry L. Pavlis, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00753.1.
Previous studies in the Yakataga fold-thrust belt of the St. Elias orogen in southern Alaska have demonstrated high exhumation rates associated with alpine glaciation; however, these studies were conducted with only a rudimentary treatment of the actual structures responsible for the deformation that produced long-term uplift. Terry Pavlis and colleagues present results of detailed geologic mapping in two corridors across the onshore fold-thrust system: the Duktoth River transect just west of Cape Yakataga and the Icy Bay transect in the Mount St. Elias region.
New incision rates along the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces: Implications for regional controls on Quaternary incision
Andrew L. Darling et al., Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 4, Room 795, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1404, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00724.1.
New cosmogenic burial and published dates of Colorado and Green river terraces are used to infer variable incision rates along the rivers in the past 10 million years. A knickpoint at Lees Ferry separates the lower and upper Colorado River basins. Through studying isochron cosmic burial data, Andrew L. Darling and colleagues find that, near Bullfrog Basin, Utah (upstream of Lees Ferry), the average incision rate of 126 meters per million years above the knickpoint is three times older than a cosmogenic surface age on the same terrace, suggesting that surface dates inferred by exposure dating may be minimum ages. Incision rates below Lees Ferry are faster, at about 170 meters to 230 meters per million years Ma, suggesting upstream knickpoint migration over the past several million years. They conclude that higher incision rates, gradient, and discharge along the upper Colorado River relative to the Green River are consistent with differential rock uplift of the Colorado Rockies relative to the Colorado Plateau.
Estimating two-dimensional static stabilities and geomorphic settings of precariously balanced rocks from unconstrained digital photographs
David E. Haddad et al., School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00788.1.
Earthquakes that rupture Earth's topography can cause significant loss of human life and destruction to anthropogenic structures, such as schools, hospitals, and office buildings. Fortunately, these large earthquakes leave telltale marks about their sizes and distributions over geologic time. For example, large earthquakes can displace stream channels, river terraces, fluvial ridges, and even topple fragile geologic features. The purpose of this paper by David Haddad and colleagues is to demonstrate how laser scanning, also known as LiDAR, can be applied in paleoseismic research to measure the magnitude and extent of past large earthquakes. The paper presents three case studies that include millimeter-scale imaging of sedimentary deposits and faults in paleoseismic trenches, measuring decadal-scale erosion rates of fault scarps, and high-resolution imaging of precariously balanced rocks. All case studies show that laser scanning is an effective analytical tool for documenting past earthquakes and has the potential for being an integral component of the paleoseismic toolbox.
Formation of pluton roofs, floors, and walls by crack opening at Split Mountain, Sierra Nevada, California
John M. Bartley et al., Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0111, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: GES00722.1.
Igneous plutons are the direct geologic record of the plumbing system by which magma ascends through the crust. Better understanding of the processes by which magma is intruded to form plutons should translate into better understanding of related phenomena such as precursors to volcanic eruptions -- thereby improving our ability to predict eruptions -- and formation of ore deposits of metals such as gold, copper, silver, lead, zinc, and molybdenum which are byproducts of intrusion of magma into the Earth's crust. The Split Mountain area of the Sierra Nevada provides extraordinary exposures of several plutons and of their relationships to the wall rocks in which they grew. Field observations by John M. Bartley and colleagues indicate that the plutons grew in place as cracks progressively opened in the wall rocks to admit ascending magma. Crack orientations, and therefore the resulting shapes of the plutons, varied with time from horizontal to steep and were influenced by the structure of the wall rocks. The observations are inconsistent with the more traditional view that plutons like those at Split Mountain were produced by the ascent of large bodies of magma by a combination of diapirism, in which wall rocks accommodate the ascent of a large magma body by flowing downward around it, and stoping, in which wall-rock fragments break off of the roof of the magma body and sink through it.
Uplift prior to continental breakup :Indication for removal of mantle lithosphere?
Raphael Esedo et al., Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312 Science & Research Building 1, Houston, Texas 77204, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00748.1.
Uplift or reduced subsidence prior to continental breakup is a key component of the rift-drift transition. This uplift causes lateral variations in the lithospheric potential energy, which can increase intraplate deviatoric tension, thereby facilitating continental rupture. There is a growing body of evidence that pre-breakup uplift is a global phenomenon characteristic of magmatic and magma-poor rifted margins. Evidence is provided by the subaerial extrusion of lava interpreted from drill logs, stratigraphic records, the presence of breakup unconformities, and the spatial extent of uplift associated with Afar (the Ethiopian-Somali plateau), which may be at the stage of rupture. Raphael Esedo and colleagues show that dynamic uplift resulting from passive upwelling asthenosphere below the rift is limited (~200 m). These results underpin their proposed model for continental breakup, wherein removal of mantle lithosphere by either detachment or formation of gravitational instabilities is a characteristic process. Observations of depth-dependent thinning and geochemical data support this model.
Reconstructing the Upper Permian sedimentary facies distribution of a tight gas field in Central Europe on the basis of a modern analog field study in the Panamint Valley, western U.S.
Anna Alexandra Vackiner et al., Geological Institute, Energy and Mineral Resources Group, RWTH Aachen University, Wullnerstasse 2, 52062 Aachen, Germany. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00726.1.
Anna Vackiner and colleagues investigate the influence of tectonic movements on reservoir rock deposition in a natural gas field in NW Germany. In Germany, the depositional environment of the reservoir rocks can only be reconstructed from core material and geophysical subsurface data. In order to improve the understanding of the reservoir rock distribution and quality, Vackiner and colleagues conducted a field campaign in the Panamint Valley, which exhibits a modern surface analog to the Upper Permian in the German subsurface.
Regional structure and kinematic history of the Cordilleran fold-thrust belt in northwestern Montana, USA
Facundo Fuentes et al., Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00773.1.
This paper by Facundo Fuentes and colleagues focuses on the geometry and the temporal deformation progression of the fold-thrust belt in northwest Montana. This region contains significant structural features that have no apparent counterparts in other parts of the Cordilleran thrust belt. Of particular interest is the Lewis thrust system, an immense thrust system that has tectonically transported a slab of rock greater than seven kilometers in thickness more than 100 km toward the foreland region. In contrast to the other major Precambrian carrying thrust faults in the Cordillera, which formed in the interior part of the thrust belt in Idaho and Utah during the early Cretaceous, the Lewis is a frontal thrust system that sustained motions as late as late Paleocene-early Eocene. An almost complete record of sedimentation in the foreland basin system, local igneous rocks and cross-cutting relationships provide control on the major deformation events in the thrust belt. Excellent existing geologic maps and subsurface data were used to construct a ~150 km balanced cross-section that represents the geometry of the thrust belt along this segment of the Cordillera.
Paleomagnetism of the Crocker Formation, northwest Borneo: Implications for late Cenozoic tectonics
Andrew B. Cullen et al., Shell International Exploration and Production Company, 100 Hoekstade, Rijswijk, Netherlands; and Chesapeake Energy Corporation, 6100 N. Western Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73118, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi: 10.1130/GES00750.1.
Tectonic models for Borneo's Cenozoic evolution differ in several aspects, particularly in the extent to which they include paleomagnetic data suggestive of strong counterclockwise rotation between 30 and 10 million years ago. Key areas are undersampled. Andrew B. Cullen and colleagues present the results of a paleomagnetic study of Eocene to Early Miocene sandstones from northwest Sabah, principally from the Crocker Formation.
Radar scattering in an alpine glacier: Evidence of seasonal development of temperate ice beneath ogives
John McBride et al., Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, P.O. Box 24606, Provo, Utah 84602, USA. Posted online 19 Sept. 2012; doi:10.1130/GES00804.1.
New ice-penetrating radar data provide an unprecedented view of scattering of electromagnetic energy in glacial ice that correlates to the development of glacial ogives (transverse topographic, wave-like surface features that form below icefalls on some alpine glaciers). A team of faculty and Brigham Young University students, working over three field seasons, has collected and analyzed radar data over the Zwillingsgletscher (part of the Gorner glacier system) in the Swiss Alps in order to map the distribution of internal scattering. They propose that periodic variations in scattering are caused by seasonal fluctuations in water infiltration to crevasses during the summer and subsequent freezing of that water during winter. This seasonal infilling and freezing of water alters the distribution of temperature, creating zones of temperate ice (meaning ice and water phases coexist) that follow seasonal ogive development. The presence of such water-rich temperate zones would have rheological implications for the dynamics of glacial flow and englacial water drainage. Future work should include drilling and borehole thermometry in order to penetrate the scattering layer and test these hypotheses for the origin of the scattering and its relation to glacier dynamics.


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Decorah eagles preparing for more eaglets
DECORAH, Iowa -- A pair of eagles, made famous by their internet eagle-cam, have returned to Decorah.
LIVE STREAMING: Decorah Eagle-Cam
The eagles gained international attention last year when over 206 million people watched the hatch and fledge of three eaglets over live streaming video.
The Raptor Resource Project (RRP), a non-profit group that specializes in the preservation of falcons, eagles, ospreys, hawks and owls, has two cameras fixed on their nest, offering a live stream 24 hours a day.
"Because they have servers around the world, it's like watching live TV. Some people call it the best bird cam on planet earth," said Bob Anderson, director of the RRP, in a previous interview.
The eagle's nest is located 80 feet above the ground in a cottonwood tree, stretching almost 6 feet across and weighing an estimated 1,000 pounds.
According the the RRP Facebook page, the eagles have been spending more time in their nest and the RRP wouldn't be surprised if the first egg is laid earlier this year.
Three eggs were laid between February 23rd and March 3rd of last year. Millions watched the activity of Mom and Dad Eagle before all three hatched in early April 2011.
The RRP fitted one of the 2011 eaglets, dubbed D-1, with a satellite transmitter on July 12, 2011. D-1 was tracked to northwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota before returning to Decorah in late December.
The group has had a camera focused on the eagles for five years and has been streaming it for the last few years.
The Decorah eagles hatched and fledged two eaglets in 2008, three in 2009, three in 2010, and three in 2011.
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I'm new to this forum and don't know if i have posted in the right place, apologies if I haven't, can anyone help me to answer my question.
I am 39 weeks pregnant, lactating like it is going out of fashion, have been producing ever since the beginning of pregnancy.
I am very keen to give baby my milk, however the thought of letting him latch on (bad experience with my first) makes me feels physically sick and makes my skin crawl (I feel sad that I feel like this) however my midwife came up with the idea of extracting and feeding from bottle from birth.
However what I want to know is, can I extract my milk before baby is born, so that I can get an adequate supply going ???????? I have opted for a home birth and the midwife said she wont leave till he has fed, and i don't know if I will be in a position to extract straight away.
Any thoughts or the answer would be much appreciated.
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Events » Family & Youth Programs » Teen Arts Academy
Teen Arts Academy
Mandala of Chakrasamvara
Nepal: Kathmandu, dated 1648
Opaque watercolor on cotton
43-1/2 x 33-1/2 in. (110.5 x 85.1 cm)
Norton Simon Art Foundation, from the Estate of Jennifer Jones Simon
Exploring Mandalas
Date: Saturday, May 03, 2014
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Teacher: Tools for Peace
Type: Teen Arts Academy
In Tibetan culture, mandalas symbolize compassion, peace and harmony, and they are used to inspire people to apply kindness and compassion to their daily lives. In conjunction with the exhibition In the Land of Snow, spend a weekend with Tools for Peace facilitator Loren Witcher, creating a Community Sand Mandala while exploring its meaning and practicing mindfulness and meditation techniques that will help you apply kindness and compassion to your life.
Meets in Entrance Gallery | This two-day program is free and all materials are provided. Designed for students ages 13–18.
| Space is limited to 20 participants. Online registration is required. For further information, contact the Education Department at (626) 844-6980.


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My dd is 13 mo. Her sleeping routine is quite manageable - she goes to bed at 7 pm after about 15-20 minutes of bf-ing. I put her in her crib when she's still awake, but very sleepy. We have no real issues there. She rarely wakes up in the night before 5 am; if she does, I can rock her back to sleep within 5-10 minutes without bf-ing. However, this will not work once it's about 5 am. By 5 am, she's either hungry or needs to connect with me; I'm not sure which it is. At 5 am I bring her into our bed and bf her for about 30 minutes. Then I take her back to her crib and she goes back to sleep for another hour. At 6:30 am she wakes up again and I bring her into our bed to nurse her until about 7 am; then it's time to get up and start the day.
My question is this: I am generally ok with all of this, but I would really prefer if she could stay asleep until 6:30. In other words, I'd like to eliminate the 5 am feeding. Do you all think this is possible? Should I give her a sippy cup with water or cows milk at that time? Is giving her milk in a sippy cup in her crib going to create problems for her, teeth-wise?
I am asking too because I'm going to leave her with my mother for 2 nights in July so that dh and I can have a weekend away together. This will be my first time away from her overnight. I think everyone will be happier - my mother especially - if she doesn't wake up needing to bf at 5 am. If she can make it to 6:30 or so, my mother will be more inclined to babysit overnight again!
Thank you all in advance for your advice!


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PopTech Blog
PopTech is just around the corner and it's been exciting to bring together some old and new friends to the old (definitely not new, but still beautiful :-) opera house in Camden, Maine. There's a mood in the world around connecting design, technology, and people -- and there's no better place on earth than October 23 to 25 in one of the prettiest towns in the US with some incredible speakers mixed-in with a fantastic audience spanning the US and the world. I just spoke with WGBH's Innovation Hub Radio Host Kara Miller about why we want design more than ever in the digital era, and why being at PopTech 18 is an especially good idea right now.
Speakers at this 18th year of PopTech include:
- Joi Ito, recently on Innovation Hub with Kara Miller: "Failing to the Top"
- Doreen Lorenzo, Quirky.com president: "Succeeding in Business"
- Regina Dugan, recently in Fortune Magazine: "Google goes DARPA"
- Paola Antonelli, who made us all smile on Colbert: "Colbert Nation"
- Anil Dash, the NY-er who cooks gourmet social media tech: "About..."
- Helen Fisher, expert on romantic love: 2.5M views for her TED Talk
- Hiroshi Ishii, the inventor of tangible bits: "Milan Furniture Fair"
- Erin McKean, lexicographer and founder of Reverb: "10 Questions"
- Stanley McChrystal, strategy thought leader: "Listen, learn, then lead"
and the full list is right over here.
As of September 6 there are just a few seats left [registration link] -- hope to see you there, and if you aren't able to get a pass this year then definitely at PopTech 19! -JM
Know your rebels: Meet David D. Burstein
With PopTech: Rebellion just around the corner, we decided to ask our speakers a few burning questions. Get to know some of the fascinating people you'll see take the stage and sign up to join the Rebellion this Oct 23-25 in Camden, Maine.
Speaker: David D. Burstein, CEO and co-founder of Run for America
What's one thing you want the PopTech audience to know about you that's not in your bio?
Five years ago I began an effort to watch all of the greatest films ever made (numbering several thousand), and I have a little over 1,000 left to go.
What does being a rebel mean to you?
Questioning absolutely everything.
What are you reading?
"Summer Meditations" by Vaclav Havel, "The Circle" by Dave Eggers, and "So Damn Much Money" by Robert Kaiser.
What are you listening to?
It's summer, so the entire Van Morrison discography is on loop.
What are you working on at the moment?
Running Run for America, we're trying to break gridlock in Washington and restore imagination and innovation into government by electing a new generation of hyper-talented leaders to office.
Who are you most looking forward to hearing speak at PopTech?
Sarah Lewis, I think she's brilliant, I heard her talk a few months ago and she blew me away. Ditto on Courtney Martin, am a big fan of hers, we have the same publisher and we've been trying to get together for a while and I think it's finally going to happen at PopTech.
Word association: Maine...
My rebellion soundtrack would be:
"Like a Rolling Stone" (Bob Dylan), "Jump" (Van Halen), "Satisfaction" (Rolling Stones), "You Can Get It If You Really Want" (Jimmy Cliff), "Stage Fright" (The Band), and "Rebel Rebel" (Bowie)…I had to.
If you could pick one historical figure to watch give a PopTech talk, who would it be?
Benjamin Franklin, he was the original American innovator and rebel.
Know your rebels: Meet Courtney Martin
With PopTech: Rebellion just around the corner, we decided to ask our speakers a few burning questions. Get to know some of the fascinating people you'll see take the stage and sign up to join the Rebellion this Oct 23-25 in Camden, Maine.
Speaker: Courtney Martin, author and Solutions Journalism Network co-founder
What's one thing you want the PopTech audience to know about you that's not in your bio?
I'm really that interested in other people's stories; it's not bullshit.
What does being a rebel mean to you?
Staying awake.
What are you reading?
Astra Taylor's new book, "The People's Platform."
What are you listening to?
Krista Tippet's "On Being," obviously. Also "99% Invisible," Slate's "Culture GabFest, "Call Your Girlfriend," a relatively new podcast by my homies Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow, and the new Center for Investigative Reporting podcast, "REVEAL."
What are you working on at the moment?
Raising a human being, writing a book and a column, trying to convince journalists that it's our duty and privilege to write more about solutions, not just problems, finding the next TED Prize winner, living in a co-housing community, learning to say no earlier and with more grace, making applesauce etc.
Who are you most looking forward to hearing speak at PopTech?
I'm psyched for everyone and ridiculously honored that I get to be in conversation with two of my mentors and heroes, Parker Palmer and Krista Tippett.
Word association: Maine...
My friend J. Courtney Sullivan's bestselling novel by that title.
My rebellion soundtrack would be:
"None of Your Business" by Salt-N-Pepa.
If you could pick one historical figure to watch give a PopTech talk, who would it be?
James Baldwin.
Best piece of advice you've ever received:
I don't give advice; I ask questions so you can hear your own wisdom better.
Karaoke? Yes, no, curious. Go-to song?
"Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson.
Introducing the 2014 Class of Bellagio/PopTech Fellows
This post is co-authored by PopTech president Leetha Filderman, and Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS. Together they are co-facilitators of the 2014 Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program.
We are pleased to announce the 2014 class of Bellagio/PopTech Fellows, a diverse group of designers, social innovators, technologists and writers with expertise in technology, global health, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and informal sector economics.
Sean Blagsvedt, Alexice Tô-Camier, Dominic Muren, Robtel Neajai Pailey, Solomon Prakash
This year's program is focused on rethinking livelihoods. Now more than ever, the world's population is contending with a multitude of challenges: demographic shifts, environmental stressors, unrestrained financial capital flow, shifting political landscapes, emerging technologies, and changing economic growth patterns and labor markets – all of which are shaping the notion of what livelihoods look like today and may look like in the future.
For two weeks this August the Bellagio/PopTech Fellows will convene at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. We will collaboratively work to define the notion of livelihood in the 21st century, while simultaneously exploring the challenges, opportunities and complex interdependencies that will impact sustainable livelihood achievement in the coming decades.
Our goal is to initiate a conversation designed to inform and inspire global, national and local efforts to improve livelihoods. Conversations will be complemented and challenged by an incredible group of catalysts, which bring a diverse and unique set of insights to the table.
Areas of exploration will include an examination of the central tenets of livelihoods strategy, the interplay between livelihood productivity at national and individual level, and the opportunities offered by the often-opposing formal and informal sectors. We'll look at the positive and negative impacts of technology on livelihoods, and how both global security (and insecurity) and the geopolitical landscape impact sustainable development goals. It would be impossible to have this kind of discussion without recognition of the environmental challenges facing the planet, so we'll be looking at how climate change and other threats could impact livelihoods development now and into the future.
Members of the 2013 class of Bellagio/PopTech Fellows presenting at PopTech 2013
Following their immersion at the Bellagio Center, the Bellagio/PopTech Fellows will reunite in Camden, Maine at PopTech 2014: Rebellion, where they will present their work and explore opportunities for collaboration with the global PopTech network.
About the Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program:
In 2012, PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation created a joint Fellows program that brings together small, interdisciplinary groups for a two-week immersion program at the Foundation's renowned Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy. Learn more about the inaugural class.
The Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program is designed to be a unique incubator of unconventional collaboration around critical topics relevant to the lives of poor and vulnerable populations, and also serves as a laboratory to study the nature of collaboration itself as a profound tool for creative problem solving and solution development.
President Obama awards Krista Tippett National Humanities Medal
At PopTech: Rebellion this October, Krista Tippett of "On Being" will produce her national radio show live from the PopTech stage. She'll lead a conversation with culture critic Courtney Martin and Quaker author and educator Parker Palmer around "spiritual technologies" – disciplines to ground outer life that matters. It's inspired by the notion that rebels across the ages have changed the world but depleted their souls.
In addition to "On Being" previously winning a Peabody Award and Webby, Krista Tippett was awarded one of ten 2013 National Humanities Medals this week by President Barack Obama. The National Humanities Medals are awarded for outstanding achievements in history, cultural studies, cultural commentary, filmmaking, and historic preservation. The announcement states:
The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens' engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans' access to important resources in the humanities.
Previous winners include writer Joan Didion, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Congrats to Krista Tippett and the "On Being" team! Join us in October to meet her at PopTech: Rebellion.
Image: On Being
Three month countdown! Secure your PopTech lodging
We're exactly three months away from the kick-off to PopTech: Rebellion! If you're joining us this October and haven't yet booked your lodging, we're here to help. Call or email Colleen Lafferty, PopTech senior experience coordinator and Mainer, for assistance in finding a hotel, inn, B&B, or cottage that best suits your needs. She can be reached at 207-230-2425 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you're interested in being in the thick of PopTech bustle, the following downtown hotels have a limited number of rooms still available. We've included the estimated walking distance to the Camden Opera House — the hub of most PopTech activity — along with typical rates. We encourage you to call hotels directly for availability and booking. Many establishments have blocked out the dates online to reserve space for PopTech participants like you! Happy hotel hunting and please don't hesitate to contact us for help.
Camden Riverhouse (800-755-7483)
3 minute walk to Camden Opera house
Blue Harbor House (207-236-3196)
4 minute walk to Camden Opera House
Windward House (877-492-9656)
5 minute walk to Camden Opera House
The Inns at Blackberry Common (800-388-6000)
6 minute walk to Camden Opera House
Camden Harbor Inn (800-236-4266)
7 minute walk to Camden Opera House
Maine Stay Inn (207-236-9636)
8 minute walk to Camden Opera House
A Little Dream (800-217-0109)
14 minute walk to Camden Opera House
Norumbega (877-363-4646)
15 minute walk to Camden Opera House
Image: Doug Kerr via Flickr
How about a proper toast to 18 in Camden?
Hello there, PopTech historians! This marks the last leg of our journey through PopTech over the last 18 years. We hope you enjoyed learning about some of the fun (and eclectic) facts that define our history. Let us know your favorites with #poptech18. How about joining us this Oct 23-25 at PopTech: Rebellion so we can make some new memories together? Hope to see you there. (Missed Parts 1, 2 or 3? Give them a read.)
Fact #14: On Thursday, Oct 20, we had two "firsts" at PopTech 2011 (on the same day, no less). A head of state and a Nobel Laureate each took the stage: President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland and Rajendra Pachauri. (They also participated in a Q&A together. Watch their 20-minute talks here and here.)
Fact #15: Call us PopTech…just PopTech. Following PopTech 2013: Sparks of Brilliance, we bid adieu to the "!".
Fact #16: In 2014, John Maeda joined PopTech as guest host. (Hear why you should come from the man himself.) ICYMI: John has been a long-time PopTech supporter and previous board member. What we've learned in our time working together so far: his enthusiasm is contagious and he asks really good questions.
Fact #17: For many years, our conference program has followed the back-to-back 20-minute talk format. 2014 is the year of the remix. We'll still feature some of those amazing 20-minute talks. But we're also adding on-stage conversations led by some of the best voices on radio, panels with wildly talented artists and musicians, and a few surprises. (Scroll beneath the schedule to learn more about Krista Tippett and Joe Palca.)
Fact 18: In our long and winding conference history, we've explored a wide range of themes. See examples below. One thing we realized – we've rarely had a theme that was simply one word. Enter REBELLION. There's something to be said about keeping it simple. We like this shift. Here's to getting older and trying new things.
PopTech 2000: Being Human in the Digital Age
PopTech 2001: Online, Everywhere, All the Time
PopTech 2004: The New Renaissance
PopTech 2008: Scarcity and Abundance
PopTech 2010: Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures and Improbable Breakthroughs
And lastly, Fact #19: Over the years, we've considered permanently moving the PopTech conference somewhere more metropolitan. In an age where conferences are at every turn, we realize how special Camden is to our identity and convening. Hosting in a locale that's off the beaten path certainly has its advantages. Participants don't duck out for meetings. They aren't coming for half a day then returning to the office. Instead, they're at all sessions, all the parties, all of our random assigned lunches – and that's something we don't want to mess with.
Moments from PopTech past
Summer Fridays! To celebrate the arrival of the weekend (and being 18), we're sharing the next batch of facts from 18 years of PopTech. Store these in your memory bank should a round of trivia break out in Camden at some point during PopTech: Rebellion. Have yourself a merry little weekend. (Here's part 1 and part 2 in case you missed it.)
Fact #7: At PopTech 2006, Pulitzer-prize winning writer Thomas Friedman took the stage to give a frank talk on the reasons that "this isn't your parents' energy crisis" and asked us to redefine what "green" really means.
Fact #8: At PopTech 2007, our board member John Legend performed and talked about his Show Me campaign, a movement to break the cycle of global poverty through access to quality education. Watch it here.
Fact #9: PopTech <3 music. Musical acts we've featured at PopTech have ranged from Blitz the Ambassador to Imogen Heap, Zee Avi, OK Go, amiina, and Capital Cities. Dancing is always permitted and encouraged. Enjoy this Spotify playlist of PopTech artists from over the years.
Fact #10: Also at PopTech 2007, the Hungry March Band from Brooklyn stormed the castle and played alongside participants as they exited the Camden Opera House for the closing party.
Fact #11: Jelly fish above! At PopTech 2008, members of Festo suspended a giant jellyfish-like structure from the Camden Opera House ceiling. Aside from being visually interesting, "Air Jelly" was built on the principles of using technology to mimic naturally occurring designs.
Fact #12: In 2011, when CNN reporter John Sutter described PopTech, he explained:
"…this annual conference in coastal Maine is…a chance to get a look into ideas and technologies that soon will change the world."
Fact #13: True or False: At PopTech, you might see spacesuits sitting on stage.
...True. At PopTech 2011, MIT aeronautics professor Dava Newman talked about her quest to create a better spacesuit. The mobility-enhancing "Bio-Suit" below would protect astronauts from the atmospheres and healthcare workers from germs. Watch Dava talk about the suit in this two-minute PopTech video.
There's more! See you on Monday for part 4. In the meantime, let us know what else we should add with #poptech18.
The life & times of PopTech, continued
In honor of our 18th year, we're taking a trip down PopTech memory lane. Throughout the week, discover facts and special moments about PopTech you may not have known. We want to hear from you, too! Add your memories to the conversation with #poptech18. And now without further ado, we give you part 2. (Missed part 1? Click here.)
Fact #4: Every year, we feature art installations in the Camden Village Green and around Camden.
At PopTech 2013, Bland Hoke created "parkSPARK!" – an installation of vibrant (and useable) hammocks that used locally reclaimed float rope, mesh and lumber from a Maine barn.
Balloons, galore. At PopTech 2012, artist Jason Hackenwerth created "Annunciation" and "Bang Bang Boom" completely from latex balloons. (He also joined us at PopTech Iceland.)
At PopTech 2012, Pilobolus, MIT's Distributed Robotics Laboratory and hundreds of participants and local community members teamed up for a collaborative art performance involving umbrellas fabricated with multi-colored lights, a camera fixed on a crane and a large screen.
Tunisian-born artist eL Seed captivated PopTech 2011 with his live demonstration of "calligraffiti," a mix of Arabic calligraphy and graffiti. Tying to the ethos of PopTech, his piece reads: "Give back to the world at least what you've received." - Albert Einstein.
Fact #5: PopTech 2006 featured a performance from the Sinikithemba Choir, a group of HIV-positive men and women who provide HIV/AIDS support in South Africa. We were so moved that it sparked our involvement in one of our first initiatives, Project Masiluleke, a massive global public health effort that uses the mobile phone as a low-cost, high-impact tool in the fight against HIV/AIDs and TB. Much of our mission work is inspired by PopTech presentations like these.
Fact #6: Collaboration is our middle name. And that of our participants, Fellows and speakers, too. A number of wide-ranging collaborations were born at PopTech over the years – check out a sampling below. Who will you meet at PopTech?
PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Josh Nesbit of Medic Mobile and Raj Panjabi of Last Mile Health teamed up to combine the power of their two organizations. Their idea is to equip Raj's remote community health care workers with the technological tools leveraged in Josh's program. They're the first collaborative project to receive funding from PopTech's Impact Fund. Watch this five-minute PopTech video about their work together.
PBS NOVA producer David Condon met PopTech Science Fellow Adrien Treuille at PopTech 2011. This led to the creation of RNA Lab, part of the digital platform NOVA Labs, which encourages citizen scientists to participate in the scientific process. RNA Lab is an extension of EteRNA, a computer-basedgame co-founded by Adrien in which users design and fold real biomolecules, and as a result, help reveal better ways for drugs to target diseases.
At PopTech 2010, PopTech Science Fellow and TB researcher Sarah Fortune asked the audience if there was a way to crowdsource the analysis of bacteria. PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit called out and connected her to Lukas Biewald, co-founder of CrowdFlower. At PopTech 2011, Sarah and Lukas talked about teaming up to catalogue TB's bacterial cells and its long-term implications on science and discovery. Watch them present their collaboration at PopTech 2011.
Kinetic sculptor Reuben Margolin and choreographer Gideon Obarzanek met at PopTech 2009 and a year and a half later, created "Connected," a riveting performance that blends elements of their work. Watch this two-minute video about the performance.
More PopTech highlights are on their way - check back in on Friday!
We're 18! A year for rebellion (and reflection)
We're three months away from PopTech: Rebellion and knee deep in all things conference related. We've been gathering thinkers and doers in Camden, Maine since '96. But 2014 is particularly monumental – we're celebrating our 18th year. One might say we're feeling…rebellious. (See what we did there?)
We've been busy dusting off archives and collecting arti(facts) to share throughout the week. Think of it as a memory album of sorts. Add your memories to the collection with #poptech18. Enjoy this look at PopTech over the years and consider joining us Oct 23-25 at our 18th celebration – PopTech: Rebellion!
Fact #1: In the early 90s, Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe, former Apple CEO John Sculley and a group of technologists came together in Camden to explore the impact of emerging technologies on people. (FYI: This is how our name came to be.) We originally convened under the auspices of The Camden Conference, a public policy conference that's still in existence. In '96, with the technology conversation gaining steam, we split off to form the Camden Technology Conference that went on to be branded as Pop!Tech.
Fact #2: Until the early 2000s, PopTech was an all-volunteer organization. Our mission arm grew out of requests from participants for opportunities to get involved and create real and lasting impact. Fast forward to a corps of full-time employees that in addition to the annual conference run three Fellows programs, incubate social change projects, and host small year-round events.
Fact #3: We have an extensive library of previous PopTech conference programs. See who took the PopTech stage way back when.
From clockwise: Amy Cuddy, PopTech 2011; Clay Shirky, PopTech 2003; A real greeting at PopTech 2002; Neri Oxman, PopTech 2010.
From clockwise: Conference programs from 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011; Malcolm Gladwell, PopTech 2004; Reggie Watts, PopTech 2006.
Tune in on Wednesday for more #poptech18 fun facts. See you then.


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I'd like to extend my gratitude to Mr. Murrell Foster, Mr. Mike Pierson and Pastor Norm Sulaica for their help in providing the communication Applications students with a terrific interview experience. It means so much that these individuals would take time from their schedules to help these young people prepare for the future by helping them get a feel for what a real job interview is like. These youngsters will be better prepared for "the real deal," and these men helped emphasize to these children that our community wants success for our future leaders. Thank you, gentlemen!
Valerie Newport
Three Rivers Middle School