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Archaeology is defined as "the quest to discover the crumbling remains of past civilizations, then get hammered and blasphemy-hump on top of them like impaired teenage chimpanzees." But you don't necessarily have to earn a fancy degree and apply for expedition funding in order to get your apocalyptic-bone on. Because, as we've shown you once before, you could turn any corner in your home town and stumble on stuff like ...
(Before you go wandering around wastelands, why not read up on guns in the Cracked De-Textbook?)
LA-88 was built in 1956 and manned by more than 100 soldiers who had the endearing motto "If it flies, it dies." The base was just one link in the "Ring of Steel" -- 16 Nike missile sites that protected L.A. from Russkie bombers in the good ol' days of the Cold War (some say they were higher quality than the Reebok missile bases, while others say they lacked a certain flair).
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Conversely, some FILA bit SKECHERed out by the whole place.
If you're not familiar with Cold War death machines, the Nike Hercules missile packed a freaking nuclear warhead -- which seems like overkill for just "bringing down airplanes" to us, but we digress. Fortunately for those of us who value the relative uncookedness of our skin, the Nike program was dissolved in the '70s, and the site abandoned. LA-88 comprises two main tracts: One side contains a parking lot, a network of water treatment facilities, a creepy utility booth, and a small kennel for patrol dogs --
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The nation's nuclear arsenal was in good paws.
-- while the other is a burnt-out, tagged-up complex of gutted warehouses, office buildings, twisted metal, and ... oh yeah, actual missile silos. You know, where they kept the nukes. The nukes right next to Hollywood.
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Cleverly hidden under a flashy gold carpet.
The LAPD SWAT team drills there on occasion, so in addition to the freaky Cold War hauntedness, LA-88 also contains burned-out buses and bullet-riddled practice dummies, for just a little bit more of that Fallout-style wasteland ambience.
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Great practice for all those perps who stand in stationary vehicles.
4 Pollepel Island, aka Bannerman's Island
If you're ever traveling through New York from Poughkeepsie to Beacon, you might spot a mysterious island in the Hudson River that hosts what looks like a big-ass castle. If you get really high in the back of your colorful van and your talking dog insists you head over to check it out, you'll find that -- holy shit, it is a castle. And an ... arsenal?
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Yes. Yes, an arsenal. They're rather explicit about that.
Frank Bannerman was a 19th-century Scottish immigrant who had a serious kilt-lifter for both masonry and weaponry. At the end of the Civil and the Spanish American Wars, Bannerman bought up the government's excess stock of everything from weapons to ammunition to blankets and resold them. His stockpile eventually grew so large that the city of New York had to boot his ass out of Manhattan. There are only so many weapons you can comfortably own within city limits, and that amount is "slightly less than an islandful." Luckily, the munitions trade had made him a very wealthy man, and he was able to buy himself that island and stock it full of weapons, as well as a castle to hold them, and presumably some sort of ghost-dog to guard the objectively crazy weapon horde.
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A castle! What could possible break through a castle?
Bannerman, knowing that there's no point in subtlety after you've already established a private island for your arsenal, went full supervillain and even had some of the ordnance incorporated into the architecture. However, he died before his castles were fully complete, and years later a fire gutted much of the buildings' interiors. And so, the ravaged site was left to the elements.
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And several of what we're sure were the best paintball games in history.
It's only a matter of time before the rest of the structures collapse, so try to catch a glimpse of the red and gray turrets while you still can. CAUTIONARY NOTE: Local American Indian tribes believed the island to be haunted long before the crazy arms dealer built a doomed castle there, so if you hear some sort of spectral howling, do not get out your rifles. Bullets only feed the Munition Mastiffs.


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(Note: this article is part of a series. You might want to read the previous installment, Moving Your Body [6], first.)
The road to wellbeing can seem daunting when you first begin to travel it because there are many components: physical [7] health, emotional [8] health, stress relief [9], a healthy environment [10], and solid relationships [11]. Want to develop your capacity for wellbeing, but feeling overwhelmed about where to start? That's why we're spending this summer looking at each of these components one at a time.
In this article, we'll take a look at diet and nutrition [12]. It's important to understand that what you put into your body is going to have a big effect on the way that you feel.
You probably already know that one-third of American adults are obese, and this is partly due to our "fast-food culture." It can be hard to make healthy choices when we are constantly faced with unhealthy convenience--super-sized fries, sugary sodas, and enormous buckets of buttery popcorn.
But the food you consume (and how you consume it) affects more than just your weight. An unhealthy diet is directly related to diabetes [13], heart conditions [14], stroke, and certain types of cancer [15]. But it doesn't stop there: unhealthy food choices can cause tooth decay, affect memory, and aggravate conditions like depression or anxiety [16]. Because of its effects on both physical and mental health, diet is an important component of overall wellbeing.
The first step in every personal transformation is simply looking at where you are now.
So, for the next few days, pay attention: what are you eating? How do you feel afterward? Are you tired, sluggish, or overly full? Do you eat in a rush, grabbing the quickest snack you can find? How full is your plate? Don't judge yourself; just be aware of what you are putting into your body and how you are feeling. If you see that you are eating until you are stuffed, take note of that. If you find yourself eating because you are bored or emotional, rather than hungry, notice that as well. If it helps, you may decide to write down a few notes after each meal, indicating what you ate and how you felt afterward.
Mindfulness [17] is the practice of being present and aware of whatever is going on right now. When we eat mindfully, we reduce our stress, make better choices, and help our bodies digest. Studies have shown that our bodies are better able to absorb nutrients from food if we pay attention while we eat. This is because the mind perceives distraction as stress, and when the body senses stress, it doesn't consider digestion and metabolism a high priority.
You don't need to radically transform your life to incorporate mindfulness into your meals. Start out gently: Practice by eating one meal or snack slowly, without distractions. Turn off the television and put your cell phone in a drawer. Take the time to chew and swallow your food carefully. The Enlightened Diet authors Deborah Kesten and Larry Scherwitz describe mindful eating as being present, moment-by-moment, for each sensation that happens during eating, such as chewing, tasting, and swallowing. "When you take time to experience your food through all your senses; taste (flavor), smell (aroma), sight (presentation) sound (of surroundings), and touch (movement of utensils and the feel of the food)," they suggest, "you are likely to be truly nourished."
It might feel uncomfortable to slow down at first, but after a while you will find yourself naturally eating more slowly and becoming more aware of when you are full and how you are affected by different foods.
Now that you have some practice in mindful eating, you will begin to appreciate the impact that healthier food choices have on your overall wellbeing, and those healthier choices have a better chance of sticking.
Harvard's School of Public Health recently developed the Healthy Eating Plate [18], a graphic that illustrates healthy food choices and portion sizes. We recommend following this guide when deciding how to fill your plate. Here are the key points to remember:
There's also good evidence to support the fact that a Mediterranean diet [19] has a positive impact on physical and emotional wellbeing. This diet incorporates fish, healthy oils, nuts, and lots of fruits and veggies.
It's easy to fall back into old habits and patterns if there's no one encouraging you to keep going. Implementing serious transformation in your life is much easier if you have some support, whether it's from your family, friends, or an online community. Here are some tips:
Remember: take small steps. Appreciate the simple rewards that occur when you pay attention to what you eat. Be friendly to yourself and understand that even slip-ups are a chance for you to practice mindfulness. Good luck!
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/iStock_000007389913Large.jpg
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/create-healthy-lifestyle/diet-nutrition/consider-food-medicine/eat-all-food-categories
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/mediterranean-diet
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/enhance-your-wellbeing/health/diet-nutrition/what-diet-nutrition
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term45
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../summer-wellbeing-part-i-begin-moving-your-body
[7] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/physical-activity-fitness
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/thoughts-emotions
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/stress-mastery
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/environment
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/relationships
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/diet-nutrition
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../conditions/diabetes
[14] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../conditions/heart-disease
[15] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../conditions/cancer
[16] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../conditions/anxiety
[17] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../explore-healing-practices/food-medicine/why-being-mindful-matters
[18] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/../../../../../../../../../healthy-eating-plate
[19] http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-01/news/31965782_1_mediterranean-diet-mediterranean-pyramid-olive-oil
[20] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term37
[21] http://www.everydayhealth.com/forums/diet-nutrition
[22] http://twitter.com/#%21/UMNCSH
[23] https://www.facebook.com/CenterforSpiritualityandHealing
[24] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/healthy-foods-have-hand-quick-easy-meals
[25] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/dirty-dozen
[26] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/clean-15
[27] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/how-eat-mindfully
[28] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/healthy-recipes-greens


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Kids countJune 28,2013
Once again Vermont finished high in the ranking of childrens well-being released earlier this week by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
The foundations Kids Count survey of the states measures childrens well-being in 16 categories relating to economic well-being, health, education and family and community. These include categories such as the number of children living in poverty, the number living where no parent has a full-time job, school achievement, babies birth weight, teen births and others.
In figures for 2012, Vermont ranked second highest overall, behind only New Hampshire. That meant Vermont had moved up a notch from the previous year, supplanting Massachusetts in the number two spot. The other top 10 states were Minnesota, New Jersey, North Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Connecticut and Maryland.
Geographically, the survey reveals a broad pattern. The states of the Northeast and the upper Midwest generally finished highest; the Deep South and the Southwest finished the lowest.
New Mexico dropped to the lowest ranking this year, taking the place of Mississippi at the bottom. Also in the bottom 10 were California, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, Arizona and Nevada.
The largest states, with teeming metropolitan populations, did not rank high. In addition to California and Texas, these included New York at 29, Florida at 38 and Illinois at 23.
One of the important contributors to child well-being has been parents employment. In states battered by the recession, where unemployment has spiked, child welfare has suffered. This accounts, in part, for the low ranking of Arizona, Nevada and California.
Some of the highest ranking states were small and ethnically homogeneous, without the pressures of immigration or economic dislocation caused by urban unemployment. Vermont and New Hampshire fall into that category. Other high-ranking states owed their prosperity to their proximity to centers of wealth. These would include Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Connecticut.
Another category of high-ranking states includes those Midwestern states with a liberal tradition of attention to social welfare. Minnesota and Iowa are prime examples.
By contrast the states of the Deep South have always had an aversion to social welfare programs. Some of them are resisting the health care advances promised by Obamacare even though their childrens health indicators are low. For example, 13 percent of Texas children lack health insurance, compared to 2 percent in Vermont.
Education receives scant support from some Southern states, partly because of the legacy of racism. In some places where whites have fled to private schools, the public schools are predominantly black, and state government does not feel motivated to provide adequate funding.
It may be more than a coincidence that some of the states who place low in the ranking for child welfare also have the most regressive tax systems, meaning poor and middle-income taxpayers pay more and wealthy taxpayers pay less. These would include Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Arizona and Alabama, according to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Vermont is among the least regressive states though the wealthy still pay a smaller percentage of their total income in taxes than middle- and low-income taxpayers.
Providing resources to support the health and welfare of children is a choice. It requires raising the money to do so. Other factors, such as global recession and the tides of immigration, also affect the welfare of both children, but communities willing to take their own destinies into their hands and defend their own interests, rather than adopting a stance of passivity, stand a better chance of withstanding the buffeting of economic change.
One of the reasons for Gov. Peter Shumlins troubles with the Legislature this year was his slate of proposals to dismantle some of the structures that have supported childrens welfare, including the states welfare program and the income support provided to the working poor. That Vermont finishes high in the Kids Count ranking is not a reason to scale back the states support. Its a reason to affirm the states determination that kids count in Vermont.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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A Trip To Remember: Okinawa 2012
Konnichiwa minasan!!! 😀
Thank you all so much for your words of encouragement when I was sad, sick and stressed. I read every single one of them and with each one read, I slowly recovered! Knowing that I'm not the only one who has been through that tough period when photos get deleted, hard disks corrupted or computers crash, made me feel stronger, that I could survive it too, just like all of you!
I feel very sorry for those who also lost precious photos. I didn't reply to any email or comments because I wanted to wait till I was really, finally ready to face it – the fact that the photos are gone forever. By the time you read this post, I should have replied you!
Three lessons I learnt from this episode:
1: Always check that you have transferred photos from your camera to your computer before deleting/reformatting the SD card
2: Cry over spilled milk – don't ever forget – but forgive yourself
3: Take pictures with your camera AND phone
I'm glad I had the mind to take some pictures with my phone, with the intention to Instagram them for Life of a Bun. So at least I have some pictures of places I had completely deleted from my Panasaonic Lumix.
We were deciding between Hokkaido and Okinawa but chose the latter since it's less common. We joined a tour group that was so large (about 200 people!) they chartered a flight. Normally it would take longer and cost much more to fly from Singapore to Okinawa since there're no direct flights. You'd have to stop over at Taipei, I think.
Some people find group tours too stifling and prefer free and easy holidays, but I quite like group tours. Don't have to worry about transport, food, accommodation, getting lost. Just sit back, relax, when it's time to eat, eat. HAPPY! 😀 I don't mind, however, going free and easy if I'm returning to a place I've been to or there are local friends to bring me around.
If you're interested to travel to Okinawa, you can use this itinerary!


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Charting on mobile platforms
Mobile technologies generate a lot of interest, and it's easy to see why. The power of modern cell phones rivals that of desktops from just a few years back. The one I have in my pocket is dual core! In fact, the "phone" aspect of phones is now almost secondary. Web browsing and applications are where it's at, and with tools like jQuery Mobile you can easily put a mobile-friendly face on your application.
In this article, I use a combination of PHP and XML on the back end and jQuery, jQuery Mobile, and jqPlot on the front end to build a highly interactive polling application. In the completed example application, the administrator of the site can create new poll questions with associated answers. On the front end, users can navigate through a list of polls, vote on which answer they like best, and see a graph of the results. You will be amazed at the power of mobile devices today and easily you can write applications for them with off-the-shelf tools.
You'll first write the back end, then work forward to build the front end of the application.
Creating the polls
To build out the back end, start with defining the data model for the MySQL database. Listing 1 shows the code to create the two tables that drive the application.
Listing 1. db.sql
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS polls; CREATE TABLE polls( id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, question TEXT NOT NULL, primary key ( id ) ); DROP TABLE IF EXISTS answers; CREATE TABLE answers( id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, poll INT NOT NULL, answer TEXT NOT NULL, count INT, primary key ( id ) );
The first table,
polls, holds the different polls, each one containing a question. The second table,
answers, holds the answers to each poll question, using the poll field to manage the relation and a count value with the current number of votes for that answer.
This is not really a production-worthy polling application schema. A production-worthy model should include a vote table used to track votes to users so that people vote only once. Because the accuracy of polling isn't the primary concern of this article, I leave it to you to make those modifications if you really want to build a polling application.
To build the database, first use mysqladmin to create it and then use the mysql command to run the db.sql script as shown here:
% mysqladmin --user=root --password=foo create polls % mysql --user=root --password=foo polls < db.sql
With the database created, it's time to build the PHP page so you can add new polls to the database. Listing 2 shows the code for the create.php page.
Listing 2. create.php
<?php function add_answer( $db, $qid, $answer ) { $sql = 'INSERT INTO answers VALUES ( 0, ?, ?, 0 )'; $sth = $db->prepare($sql); $sth->execute( array( $qid, $answer ) ); } $dd = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=polls', 'root', ''); if ( isset( $_POST['question'] ) ) { $sql = 'INSERT INTO polls VALUES ( 0, ? )'; $sth = $dd->prepare($sql); $sth->execute( array( $_POST['question'] ) ); $qid = $dd->lastInsertId(); if ( isset( $_POST['a1'] ) && strlen( $_POST['a1'] ) > 0 ) add_answer( $dd, $qid, $_POST['a1'] ); if ( isset( $_POST['a2'] ) && strlen( $_POST['a2'] ) > 0 ) add_answer( $dd, $qid, $_POST['a2'] ); if ( isset( $_POST['a3'] ) && strlen( $_POST['a3'] ) > 0 ) add_answer( $dd, $qid, $_POST['a3'] ); if ( isset( $_POST['a4'] ) && strlen( $_POST['a4'] ) > 0 ) add_answer( $dd, $qid, $_POST['a4'] ); if ( isset( $_POST['a5'] ) && strlen( $_POST['a5'] ) > 0 ) add_answer( $dd, $qid, $_POST['a5'] ); } ?>   <form method="post">

Question	<input type="text" name="question" />

Answer 1	<input type="text" name="a1" />

Answer 2	<input type="text" name="a2" />

Answer 3	<input type="text" name="a3" />

Answer 4	<input type="text" name="a4" />

Answer 5	<input type="text" name="a5" />

 <input type="submit" value="Add Question" /> </form>
At the top of the script is the PHP code that adds the question and its answers into
the database if the form was posted. The first thing the PHP code does is connect to
the database. It then checks to see if a question was posted. If so, it first inserts
a new record into the polls table and gets back its unique ID. After that, it adds
each answer using the
add_answer function defined at the very top of the script. This
add_answer function simply adds a new record into the answer table with the answer and
the unique ID of its related poll.
At the bottom of the PHP file is the HTML code for the form. The form tag submits the values in the form back to the script when a user selects the submit button.
Figure 1 shows what this looks like in the browser.
Figure 1. Adding a poll question
Figure 1 shows a very simple web form that has six input fields. The first is the question, followed by five answer inputs. At the bottom is an Add Question button to add the question to the database.
When you click Add Question, the program adds the record to the database and returns the form again to you with the values blanked out so that you can add another question. To actually see the available polls, you need a new script. The polls.php script, in Listing 3, returns an XML block that lists the currently available polls.
Listing 3. polls.php
<?php header( 'Content-Type:text/xml' ); $dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=polls', 'root', ''); $sql = 'SELECT * FROM polls'; $q = $dbh->prepare( $sql ); $q->execute( array() ); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $r = $doc->createElement( "polls" ); $doc->appendChild( $r ); foreach ( $q->fetchAll() as $row) { $e = $doc->createElement( "poll" ); $e->setAttribute( 'id', $row['id'] ); $e->setAttribute( 'question', $row['question'] ); $r->appendChild( $e ); } print $doc->saveXML(); ?>
The script first connects to the database and runs a simple SELECT query against the polls table. The script then creates a new XML DOM document, adds a "polls" tag at the root, then adds individual "poll" tags to it for each poll. Each poll tag has the unique ID of the poll and the text of the question.
To test the page, simply navigate to it in the browser and select View
Source to see what is returned. Another option is to use
curl to get the XML return as noted here:
$ curl "http://localhost/poll/polls.php" <?xml version="1.0"?> <polls><poll id="1" question="Is jQuery great?"/></polls> $
The front end accesses this script using an Ajax request.
The next three scripts deal with the answers part of the polls. To make it easier on
yourself, first create a helper function called
build_answers that, when given a database handle and a poll ID,
outputs the XML for all the answers to that poll (see Listing 4).
Listing 4. build_answers.php
<?php function build_answers( $dbh, $poll ) { $sql = 'SELECT * FROM answers WHERE poll=?'; $q = $dbh->prepare( $sql ); $q->execute( array( $poll) ); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $r = $doc->createElement( "answers" ); $doc->appendChild( $r ); foreach ( $q->fetchAll() as $row) { $e = $doc->createElement( "answer" ); $e->setAttribute( 'id', $row['id'] ); $e->setAttribute( 'answer', $row['answer'] ); $e->setAttribute( 'count', $row['count'] ); $r->appendChild( $e ); } print $doc->saveXML(); } ?>
build_answers function first uses the database connection to SQL query to get the answers for the specified poll. After that, it uses XML DOM code to create a new XML output with an "answers" tag at the root and "answer" tags for each of the answers for that poll. Each answer has its unique ID, the answer text and the count of votes for that answer.
To hook that up to a page, you need an answers.php script as in Listing 5.
Listing 5. answers.php
<?php require_once( 'build_answers.php' ); header( 'Content-Type:text/xml' ); $dbh = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=polls', 'root', ''); build_answers( $dbh, $_REQUEST['id'] ); ?>
This simple script connects to the database and sends the ID from the quest into the
build_answers function.
Shown below is an example from a request to this script:
$ curl "http://localhost/poll/answers.php?id=1" <?xml version="1.0"?> <answers> <answer id="1" answer="Yep, awesome!" count="7"/> <answer id="2" answer="It's pretty good." count="2"/> <answer id="3" answer="It's ok." count="1"/> <answer id="4" answer="Nah, it's not so hot." count="1"/> </answers> $
The final step on building out the service is to create an Ajax page to allow for voting. Listing 6 shows this script.
Listing 6. vote.php
<?php require_once( 'build_answers.php' ); header('Content-Type: text/xml'); $poll = 0; $dd = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=polls', 'root', ''); if ( isset( $_REQUEST['id'] ) ) { $sth = $dd->prepare("SELECT count, poll FROM answers WHERE id=?"); $sth->execute( array( $_REQUEST['id'] ) ); $count = 0; foreach ( $sth->fetchAll() as $row) { $count = $row['count']; $poll = $row['poll']; } $count++; $sql = 'UPDATE answers SET count=? WHERE id=?'; $sth = $dd->prepare($sql); $sth->execute( array( $count, $_REQUEST['id'] ) ); } build_answers( $dd, $poll ); ?>
The difference between this script and the answers.php page is that you first
find the count of the specified answer, then increment it and update the answer record
in the database. In addition, when the script finds the answer it stores the unique ID of the related poll in the
$poll variable. That poll ID is then sent to
build_answers to output the current set of answers.
The importance of exporting the current state of the answers is that it allows voting and getting the current results of the poll all in one step. Because the alternative is first doing the vote, then doing the answers request to get the current vote count, doing it all in one step by having the vote script return a list of the current answer counts is definitely optimal.
With the back-end scripts completed, it's time to get into scripting the front end.
Building the front end
Mobile interfaces are very different from traditional web pages. The number of options is reduced, and the available options and buttons are made larger so that it's easy to navigate with your thumb. Now you could spend a lot of time building all that stuff for yourself, but why do that when there is jQuery Mobile? jQuery Mobile is a user interface toolkit built on top of the extremely popular jQuery JavaScript library.
The interface is built in three "pages" within the one web page. The first page has the list of questions. When the user selects a question, the page slides to the left to show the second page, which displays a list of answers for the selected question. When the user then selects an answer, that page slides to the left and the third page appears. The third page displays a chart that shows the results for the selected poll. To build the chart, use the very cool jqPlot library, which is also built on jQuery.
Listing 7 shows the code for all of this.
Listing 7. index.html
This is a lot of code but if you think about it as three different pages all in one page, it's a little easier to follow. It starts with the home page, which is defined at the beginning of the body tag. The
ul list tag in the home page is populated by the Ajax request, which is run when the document is ready. That Ajax request calls the polls.php script that returns some XML, which is then parsed and turned into
li tags, which are added to the
ul tag.
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Figure 3. The answers page
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Figure 4. The first results
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Figure 5. After more votes have been added
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But they label them as symphonic black/industrial metal. In my view only first album is something like that, but this one 'Damage Theory' is something like industrial power metal, or electronic metal. I don't know how to correct label it but it's definitelly not symphonic black.


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The cost of living has risen, but the reimbursements for caregivers who take in foster children have been frozen for more than two decades.
Kaui Keola is an Aiea mother who is caring for two foster children.
That is in addition to three others she adopted, as well as her three biological children.
The $529 a month she receives for each of the two little ones barely covers their needs.
"The pre-school cost is $450 and that comes out of the $529, so the balance is what you are using for diapers, wipes car seats. You cut corners. We don't go to movies we don't go out," said Keola.
And there is little left for outside sports for her 9-year-old adopted son.
"I like to play football and baseball," said Keolanui.
Lawmakers are being asked to consider increasing the aid, because the state stipend hasn't been raised in twenty-two years.
The low reimbursement makes it hard to find new families willing to take needy children in.
The Abercrombie administration supports the intent, but realizes the potential impact to the state budget.
Hawaii has an estimated 1,200 youngsters in foster care.
Another idea gaining momentum is raising the age that a child can continue in the foster program, from 18 to 21.
"Eighteen, for any child is kind of young to find a job and find a place to live. So if we could increase that to twenty one, there would be more support for them until they get settled in adult life, and help them have a brighter future," said Keola.
"Upping the age will cost some money but will not cost as much, because there is federal reimbursement and there is a much smaller number of people we are talking about," said family advocate Judy Wilhoite.
"The key component is the youth themselves have to petition to be in this program," said Human Services Director Patricia McManaman.
She said they also have to be working toward their high school diploma or be enrolled in a trade school or college.
Wilahoite said 13 other states have raised the age-out ceiling to 21.


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Napalm Death -- Toronto, Ontario -- May 15th, 2009
Napalm Death
Support: Kataklysm, Toxic Holocaust, Coliseum, Trap Them
Date: Friday May 15th, 2009
Venue: the Opera House in Toronto, Ontario
Source: setlist.fm (they all seem pretty correct to me)
This was the first time I ever got to see Napalm Death. I was stoked. I got their really early because I was interested in hearing Trap Them. They were really good but I have no idea what they played. I felt really bad for them too because halfway through the set the singer said that there were more people in the crowd to see them at this show than the rest of the tour combined. Unless this was the first or second show of the tour? There were, like, forty people there.
Some guy stepped on my foot so I was in a lot of pain during Colisium's set. They seemed out of place to me for this tour. Their singer really loved what he was doing though, and kept saying how all he wants to do is play music and who cares if people say it will go nowhere. I can respect that. They were okay, and there was a decent crowd of close to a hundred people; most of which really enjoyed them.
Toxic Holocaust are a band that I really don't like on record but every time I see them live I'm really impressed. I think I saw them a year earlier opening for At The Gates and they had gotten a lot tighter since that show. They were really good and my foot felt better.
Toxic Holocaust
1. Endless Armageddon
2. Gravelord
3. 666
4. Feedback, Blood & Distortion
5. Reaper's Grave
6. Death Brings Death
7. The Lord of the Wasteland
8. Nuke the Cross
The Opera House wasn't packed for Kataklysm but I'd say it was close to ¾. So about three hundred people, maybe three hundred and fifty. And the crowd was at their most ravenous for them. But the sound guy was fucking up bad and the volume was WAY too low. Like so low that when a guy jumped on the rail by the soundboard and yelled at him to "turn it fucking up" you could hear his voice throughout the whole venue. Not good for a metal show. They were still really good. It was my second time seeing them; I think I saw them open for Dimmu Borgir a few years earlier.
1. Crippled & Broken
2. In Shadows & Dust
3. Prevail
4. The Resurrected
5. Let Them Burn
6. As I Slither
7. Taking the World by Storm
8. Like Angels Weeping (The Dark)
I was pretty pissed that after Kataklysm the place really emptied. There were probably a hundred and fifty to two hundred people for Napalm Death. I couldn't believe it; it's Napalm "Fucking" Death. Time Waits For No Slave wasn't their best album but with Napalm Death it's not just what they're doing but what they've done. They walked on with zero fan-fare and it was just us "old guys" who stuck around. But fuck all those losers that left, Napalm still slayed. Work to Rule wasn't the best song to open with but it was off the hook from there on in. I only had six or seven of their albums at that point (Scum, a couple of the 1990's albums and their latest four at the time) so some of the material was lost to me. But after hearing It's a M.A.N.S. World! I went right out and bought From Enslavement To Obliteration. The highlight was the five song barrage of songs off Scum (as it is at every ND show I've seen). I thought they were awesome but I lost some respect for Toronto's metal crowd for leaving. I like Kataklysm but come on. The next time they played here they ended up at a much smaller club. But they played the Opera House again during that tour with Municipal Waste last year.
Napalm Death
1. Work to Rule
2. Strong-Arm
3. Unchallenged Hate
4. Suffer the Children
5. Silence Is Deafening
6. Life and Limb
7. Diktat
8. When All Is Said and Done
9. It's a M.A.N.S. World!
10. From Enslavement to Obliteration
11. On the Brink of Extinction
12. Scum
13. Life?
14. The Kill
15. Deceiver
16. You Suffer
17. Mass Appeal Madness
18. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
19. Time Waits for No Slave
20. Siege of Power
12/16 -- Dillinger Escape Plan
12/29 -- Municipal Waste(?)
12/30 -- Clutch
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I guess that kind of sucks about the crowd, but you got to see the legendary Napalm Death, so I'd say that's a win in my book. Still waiting on my first chance to see them.
Did you see them the other times they stopped by? How were they compared to this, if you did?
12/16 -- Dillinger Escape Plan
12/29 -- Municipal Waste(?)
12/30 -- Clutch
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Trap Them are AMAZING!! I would have loved to see ND with them. Municipal in November though playing with Napalm was good enough.
kataklysm are garbage
Cool review, man. I saw them a couple nights later in Montreal, was another great show. However, on a more positive note, a lot of young kids were in the audience for Napalm. Was great to see.
08/30: Bane and tour (?)
10/15: Soilwork, Decapitated (?)
Nice review, I was largely oblivious to Napalm Death at this time but caught them in Peterborough in 2011 and again this year with Municipal Waste.
The turnout was solid for their date with MW this year, hopefully that is a trend which continues for such a legendary band.
04/05 - Kataklysm, Aborted
04/08 - Carcass, Gorguts, TBDM
04/23 - Behemoth
04/24 - Nile
I was this close to going to the Peterborough show. I was going to go to all the Toronto area dates but I'm a foreman and I work nights so I couldn't do it. I ended up seeing them in Toronto on the Friday and Ottawa the Sunday (the Monday was Thanksgiving so I could make it).
12/16 -- Dillinger Escape Plan
12/29 -- Municipal Waste(?)
12/30 -- Clutch
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There is a war on Christmas, but it's not the war portrayed by those who seek to profit by arguing that the holiday is being subverted by liberals.
The real war on Christmas can be best described by the fact that a year after a troubled young man killed 20 children and six teachers and administrators in Connecticut, this nation refuses to lift a finger to control guns and seems remarkably untroubled by the fact that an additional 30,000 Americans have died of gun violence since the Sandy Hook massacre.
Mother Jones magazine estimates that 194 of those victims were children.
The real war on Christmas can also be described by the fact that, next week, more than a million unemployed Americans will exhaust the Unemployment Insurance benefits. Some of them will be just fine. Some of them will no longer be able to feed their families.
The real war on Christmas is being waged right now in the United States Senate by politicians -- both Democratic and Republican -- who are trying to cut the knees from under those trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement to Iran's nuclear program. Those negotiations may not succeed -- but they surely won't succeed if Congress passes legislation imposing new sanctions on Iran.
And if the negotiations don't succeed, what is the alternative? The alternative is, sooner or later, for the United States to wage war on Iran. When nations wage war, children die.
So, one might ask, what have issues like gun control, unemployment insurance and international negotiations got to do with Christmas? Just this: Christianity's central religious tenet that at Christmas, almighty God chose to become man. It's called the "incarnation."
When we make Christianity merely a matter of spiritual piety -- as, for example, insisting that people say "merry Christmas" rather than "happy holidays" -- we undercut the theological premise of the incarnation.
God became man in Jesus, Christians believe, and the man Jesus spent his days preaching justice for the poor, comfort for the afflicted, a blessings for the peacemakers.
To be sure, Christmas is more than just a religious holy day. It is a secular holiday, as well.
In fact, the placement of Christmas at roughly the time of the winter solstice is a symbol of that secular influence. The Bible doesn't really say when Jesus was born, but theologians are pretty sure he wasn't born at the end of December. We Christians share the holiday with society. Happy holidays.
But Christmas is, for Christians, a holy day, not just a holiday.
And if they are going to keep the occasion holy, then they will have to care about the people Jesus cared about, the lowly, the oppressed, the victims of poverty, war and injustice.
There is a war being waged against Christmas, but it's not the one the professional agitators are trying to combat.


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Project ID: 2002MN2B
Title: Effects of riparian forest harvest on instream habitat and fish and invertebrate communities
Project Type: Research
Focus Categories: Water Quality, Management and Planning
Keywords: riparian, logging, fish, benthic macroinvertebrates, best management practices
Start Date: 03/01/2002
End Date: 02/28/2005
Federal Funds: $15,700
Non-Federal Matching Funds: $50,903
Congressional Districts: 7 and 8
Principal Investigators:
Raymond Newman
University of Minnesota
Patrick Brezonik
University of Minnesota
Best management practices for timber harvest are often implemented to allow forest harvest while protecting the aquatic resource, however, the effectiveness of these practices is rarely evaluated. The aim of the proposed research is to evaluate site-based effects associated with applying various riparian management practices (varying density of residual standing trees within a standard RMZ and filter strip width) on aquatic habitat, macroinvertebrates and fish. We will use an experimental manipulation (funded by the Minnesota Legislature) to apply four levels of riparian harvest (riparian control, low riparian harvest, moderate riparian harvest and high riparian harvest) to 5 replicate stream sites. At these sites we will evaluate effects of riparian harvest on fish and invertebrate habitat (temperature, sediment composition and embeddedness, depth, width, cover, bank stability, canopy coverage, woody debris, etc.), benthic macroinvertebrates (rapid bioassessment protocol) and stream fish communities (relative abundance, species richness and an Index of Biotic Integrity). Sites will be sampled above, within and below the treatment area the year prior to harvest and the year after harvest to provide an initial assessment of the effects of harvest treatment and to establish a baseline for longer-term assessment. These results will be used to determine the effects of different levels of riparian harvest on instream processes and to inform water quality managers and policy makers of the efficacy of current and alternative forest harvest best management practices to protect aquatic resources.


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A new Gallup survey found that 70 percent of Americans hate their jobs or are completely disengaged. Here's a look at the states with the most disgruntled workers. "Not Engaged" means showing up for work, but essentially sleep-walking through the day. "Actively Disengaged" means you've got one foot out the door (i.e. looking for other jobs on your lunch break).
20. Tennessee -- 51.8 percent of workers not engaged
18.9 percent actively disengaged
2. Boston -- Sporting a young population and a high number of bars and movie theatres, Boston sounds like nice place for a Friday night.
18. Alaska -- 52.6 percent not engaged
18.4 percent actively disengaged
17. Ohio -- 51.9 percent not engaged
19.1 percent actively disengaged
16. (tie) Michigan -- 51.7 percent not engaged
19.6 percent actively disengaged
16. (tie) New York -- 51.7 percent not engaged
14. Pennsylvania -- 51.5 percent not engaged
20 percent actively disengaged
13. District of Columbia -- 55.6 percent not engaged
15.9 percent actively disengaged
12. Oregon -- 54.5 percent not engaged
17 percent actively disengaged
11. Connecticut -- 51.3 percent not engaged
20.2 percent actively disengaged
10. Indiana -- 52.7 percent not engaged
18.8 percent actively disengaged
9. New Jersey -- 51.7 percent not engaged
8. Utah -- 54.8 percent not engaged
4. Seattle -- Movoto says Seattle has inspired the creation of many things, including the "50 Shades of Grey" books. We can only guess that rainy weather has led to a bustling music and bar scene.
6. Rhode Island -- 51.2 percent not engaged
21 percent actively disengaged
5. Illinois -- 52.8 percent not engaged
19.5 percent actively disengaged
4. New Hampshire -- 55.4 percent not engaged
17.1 percent actively disengaged
3. Delaware -- 54.4 percent not engaged
18.2 percent actively disengaged
2. Vermont -- 53.4 percent not engaged
19.7 percent actively disengaged
1. Minnesota -- 55.9 percent not engaged
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Weirton's spring cleanup opens Friday
WEIRTON – The city's annual spring clean-up is set, with activities beginning Friday and continuing through next week.
The metal items collection will take place Friday, with public works crews collecting all metal items placed on the curb throughout the entire city.
The collection will take place from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., and items must have their items on the curb by 7 a.m. in order for them to be collected.
Metal items include stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers, hot water tanks, old railings, bicycle frames and metal shelving.
The remainder of the city's cleanup activities will be held Monday through April 12.
The collection of household goods items will take place on residents' regular garbage collection day. Items must be on the curb by 7 a.m.
City officials explain if a collection truck has to return to an area, a fee will be assessed.
As part of the household goods collection, the city will not collect items such as construction materials, vehicle tires or parts, tree trimmings or brush, propane tanks, air conditioners, paint, lawnmowers, oil or antifreeze and hazardous materials.
In addition, electronic items must be separated. The city will provide a separate truck to collect electronic items.
The city also will be enforcing an ordinance prohibiting scavenging of garbage or other items placed on the curb for collection. Those cited could face fines of between $5 and $500, plus costs for the first offense. Multiple offenses could include imprisonment for up to 30 days in addition to any fine.
For information on the spring clean-up collection, contact the city's Public Works Department at (304) 797-8540.


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Twenty-three years later, ALFA provides case management to individuals and families affected by HIV/AIDS, prevention education and free HIV testing and counseling in Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln, Wilkes and Watauga Counties.ALFA. Advancing Life. Fighting AIDS.


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.CO Internet, the company behind the fast growing .CO domain is proud to announce the recent hire of Ms. Jasmine Begg who joins the global team as Director of Sales and Marketing, EMEA. In this role, Begg will be based in Europe and work with Director of Global Sales & Channel Marketing, Crystal Peterson to position .CO as the domain name of choice for startups, small businesses and new and established brands in the European market.
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Dowd a Coach by Day, Player by Night
Syracuse assistant scores seven goals against Maryland
by Matt Forman | LaxMagazine.com | Champion Challenge Live Blog
|Katrina Dowd scored seven goals
for Team USA in a 23-7 win over Maryland, just a few hours after
coaching Syracuse in a game against Team England.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — On the field, she's known as "Trix." On the sidelines, she says she comes across as intense. But what happens when Katrina Dowd wears both hats — player and coach — or headbands, as the case may be? For one thing, it makes for a really busy, long day. For another, it shows off the layers of Dowd's talent.
For Dowd, an assistant coach at Syracuse and a Team USA World Cup hopeful, a day that started with coaching in the Orange's exhibition match against the English women's national team ended with a seven-goal performance against Maryland in the nightcap of Team USA's double-header against the Terrapins. Dowd's highlight-filled dandy put an exclamation point on the U.S. national team's sweep of Maryland, 18-3 and 23-7, on Saturday night at Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event at the ESPN Wide World of Sports in Florida.
Dowd roamed the sidelines for Syracuse's 11:30 a.m. contest against Team England, and left midway through the second half to help — get this — coach at Team USA's youth clinic, from 1-3 p.m. Shortly thereafter, she warmed up with the women's national team, then played in the second of Team USA's split-squad night matches against Maryland.
"It has been a lot of fun," Dowd said. "I knew coming down here that I would have a hectic schedule, especially today. This whole week I made sure Syracuse was well taken care of, they knew their itinerary, so it could be seamless when I wasn't around. But it was great today. Gary [Gait] is such a great coach, and he's played at the national level for Team Canada. He told me, 'Hey, your focus is Team USA. We're OK at Syracuse. We'll take care of it.' That was pretty nice of him to say. That made it easy for me to go back and forth, and just really worry about Team USA."
Many players on Team USA's 38-member roster — which needs to be trimmed to 24 after this weekend in preparation a summer competition tour in Oshawa, Canada, host of the 2013 (FIL) World Cup — are college coaches.
Take a deep breath, then soak in this list: Sarah Albrecht (UMass assistant), Amy Altig (Penn State assistant), Kelly Berger (UMBC head coach), Sarah Bullard (Boston University volunteer assistant), Jillian Byers (Yale assistant), Kirsten Carr (Delaware assistant), Corey Donohoe (Navy volunteer assistant), Amber Falcone (Vanderbilt assistant), Katie Hertsch (Boston University assistant), Erica LaGrow (Florida assistant), Caitlyn McFadden (Florida assistant), Lindsey Munday (Southern California head coach), Gina Oliver (Duquesne assistant), Brittany Poist (McKendree head coach), Katie Rowan (Albany assistant), Jen Russell (Harvard volunteer assistant), Lauren Schwarzmann (San Diego State assistant), Danielle Spencer (Stanford assistant), Acacia Walker (Boston College associate head coach), Devon Wills (Southern California assistant).
But it's rare to both coach and play in the same weekend event.
"Katrina loves to compete. She loves to play, and now she loves to coach," said U.S. coach Ricky Fried, who estimated he's known Dowd for eight years, since he recruited her as a high-schooler in New York. "She's a little bit of what you would call a lax rat. She always has her stick in her hand. She likes to develop new tricks. The nice thing about Katrina is she's willing to share that ability with kids. I watch her at camps, at clinics, and she just has a great time with them showing what she can do, trying to develop them as players."
Dowd has certainly excited the Orange. During Friday night's exhibition between Team USA and England's national team, Syracuse — after finishing up practice on an adjacent field at the Wide World of Sports complex — cheered on its coach and went wild when Dowd scored 35 seconds into the game. They even made signs to support her.
"Oh, I love (Dowd)," sophomore attacker Alyssa Murray said. "When she was on the field playing, I was joking around saying things like, 'She's my idol!" But really, she's awesome. She's added so much to our team. She's a blast to work with. She definitely adds a little spice into our mix."
A volunteer assistant at Denver University last year, Dowd called Gait last summer about her interest in potentially joining Syracuse's staff. It was wait-and-see mode for a couple months, as Gait hinted there might be an opening on his staff. But in late July, Gait called Dowd and offered an interview. She was quickly hired.
"She's a great addition to our staff," Gait said. "She just lives and breathes lacrosse, and she brings an energy and enthusiasm to our program, with a lot of knowledge. She's a champion, and that's where we're looking to go, and she brings that same philosophy to the program. But she's got a great coaching career ahead of her."
Dowd primarily has worked with the attackers at Syracuse, though she was more hands-on with the defense during halftime of the Orange's 9-9 tie with Team England, pointing out tendencies and ways to approach the English offense.
|Dowd shares a smile on the
sideline with Syracuse head coach Gary Gait during practice Friday.
The former Northwestern star is in her first season as an assistant
coach with the Orange.
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"I'm a big dodger myself, and I want to instill that ability in my players," Dowd said. "All players can be great dodgers, so that's something I really make a focus. But as an attacker, I do play a lot at Syracuse during practice drills and 1-v-1's, and I kind of know them better than they know themselves, because I know what to manipulate, I know what they're trying to take away."
There hasn't been much taking away or slowing down of Dowd thus far this weekend. Through two games, she leads Team USA with nine combined goals. And though Fried said the national team wouldn't be "stat-based," Dowd is making an impression that she deserves a spot on the final. Back in 2009, Dowd was called in the final days before the World Cup to fly to Prague in case one of the Team USA players was unable to play due to injury concerns. She didn't get to play that year, but she made a case to be a fixture on the Team USA roster for the foreseeable future.
Fried sees, and has seen, all the pieces to Dowd's puzzle: the raw talents of an athlete, the development of a lacrosse player and the birth of a coaching career.
"She has great hands, and that gets overlooked because you notice the feet, you notice the quick first step," Fried said. "She's developed a good outside shot, which makes her a multiple threat. Her vision has improved tremendously. But without a doubt, her quickness goes without saying. You watch it, and even we're wowed at times. It's hard not to be. She just to learn when to use that, and when it's appropriate.
"She's always had the physical tools, that's obvious just watching her play. Sometimes she has to make sure that she doesn't rely just on her physical tools, rely on her mental capacity, because it has grown the last couple years. And the ability to communicate to her teammates — that's one of the pieces that people take for granted, at times — but she's starting to get in that position, where we're looking for her to be a vocal leader, not just a lead-by-example-type of person.
"She's going to have to continue to work on not being able to show people what to do, but being able to explain to people what to do. Most people aren't going to be able to do what she can do physically, so teaching them the game as opposed to that skill set, that's the area where she'll have to work. That's why you hear stories about excellent players who don't become good coaches, because they get frustrated with people who can't do what they can do. For her, she has a lot of patience. She is becoming more of a student of the game, and those attributes will take her a lot further along. She's being more comfortable with herself, frankly, and being able to communicate and not just showing it on the field."
"As her game continues to evolve, she's going to be one of those ambassadors that can really excite people about our game."
Fried Talks Team USA's Sweep of Maryland
Team USA coach Ricky Fried, on the takeaways from Saturday's sweep of Maryland: "The biggest thing is, comparing both games today, we had a long lull in the first game. We started off very, very strong and scored our first four shots, but then got a little lackadaisical mentally. That's one of the things we're really trying to focus on, is playing a complete game. That doesn't mean not making a mistake, but it means not allowing the mistake to elongate and be multiple minutes. I thought the second half of the first game we responded really well, 10-1 in the second half and we played under control, did a lot of good things.
"Same thing in the second game. It was a little bit up-and-down in the first half, and I thought Maryland played really well. They were aggressive, and we would go on a run, they would go on a run, we'd go on a run, they'd go on a run. In the second half, we got more under control of ourselves and played together again. Huge credit for our team, because they're playing a very good Maryland Terps team. I know the score doesn't necessarily represent that, but we have excellent players at every position, and they have a lot of young kids that are getting their feet wet. I think this will probably help them down the road, even though it doesn't feel great right at the moment."
On the fitting Northwestern and Maryland flair Saturday, with several players from those schools filling the scoresheet: "Since we have the best players in the country, you would imagine they would come from the best programs in the country, and Maryland and Northwestern for the last decade, or [longer] in Maryland's case, has been one of those dominant programs. Everyone likes to play against their alma mater, or a rival opponent in the ACC, whatever it may be, so you saw some kids come out today and, in our opinion, perform a little bit better than they have at practice, because they're a little bit more comfortable playing within the system that we want to play in, and second, everyone likes to compete at a certain level. It's very nice to beat teams that have been very successful."
There was a piece of Maryland flair missing, however, on Saturday: Karri Ellen Johnson did not play for the Terps' in either game because of an undisclosed, but non-concussion related injury. Johnson missed most of last season with a concussion.
Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse Event
Team USA Women 18, Maryland 3
Maryland: 2 1 - 3
Goals - USA: Smith 4, McFadden 3, Byers 3, Tumolo 2, Munday 2,
Spencer 1, Carey 1, Albrecht 1, Igoe 1; Maryland: Phillips 1, Black
1, Aust 1
Assists - USA: Munday 4, Spencer 2, Smith 1, Carey 1, Albrecht 1
Saves - USA: Wills 4, Altig 3; Maryland: Dipper 14
Team USA Women 23, Maryland 7
Maryland: 6 1 - 7
Goals - USA: Dowd 7, Zimmerman 4, Ancarrow 2, Berger 2, Walker
2, Etrasco 2, Donohoe 1, Cannizzaro 1, LaGrow 1, K. Schwarzmann 1;
Maryland: Black 3, Griffin 2, McPartland 1, Phillips 1
Assists - USA: Rowan 5, Zimmerman 2, Donohoe 2, Cannizzaro
Saves - USA: McBrearty 1; Maryland: Dipper 2
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and Academic Watch school status lists. The board had
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of 69 schools remained undetermined because their data
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We said throughout last year, as we approached
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The final results of recalculations show a total of 305
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A school becomes eligible for placement on the Academic
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1 can (49 ounces) fat-free, low-sodium chicken broth
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2 ounces (about 1 cup) stemmed oyster mushrooms, caps cut into ½-inch strips
½ cup red bell pepper in 1 ½-inch by 1/8-inch strips
1 carrot, coarsely shredded
½ cup frozen baby peas, thawed
1 scallion, minced
2 cloves garlic, minced
Dash of ground white pepper, or to taste
3 ounces ramen noodles
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1 teaspoon dark sesame oil, or to taste
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I talk with journalist Doug Fine about his new book Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution.
An insightful and humorous exploration of the impact one simple plant —outlawed in the States until just weeks ago— might have on our lives and our planet.
No, drapes made of hemp, if smoked, will not make you high. But given the almost 80 year prohibition against growing it in the US, which finally ended just last month, you'd think that must have been the justification.
In Hemp Bound, Fine concludes that instead of being outlawed, we should have been growing hemp aplenty all along. He illuminates not only our colorful history with hemp --Betsy Ross' first Stars & Stripes was sewn out of hemp fabric-- but, more hopefully, our promising future with the plant.
After visiting with researchers already engaged in unlocking hemp's potential and entrepreneurs profiting from the plant's versatility, Fine was a believer. Hemp, he discovered, can be sustainably used in biofuel, car parts and building materials (while being carbon-negative). It makes pesticides and herbicides unnecessary, remediates poisoned land and is drought resistant. Hemp seeds are nutritious and higher in omegas than fish or flax seed oils. And no doubt there are many other benefits and uses that will be discovered now that it can once again be legally grown.
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The quantity of beef available to consumers in the United States has declined a startling amount in recent years, and that trend is going to continue.
Unfortunately, even higher retail beef prices can be expected for consumers, said Chris Hurt, a Purdue University Extension economist.
"The declining supplies are related to continuing liquidation of the cow herd in the past few years due to high feed prices, a weak U.S. dollar that is spurring beef exports, and, of course, drought in the Southwest and Southeast.
"Declining supplies will support prices across the cattle complex at new record highs in 2011 and again in 2012," he said.
The USDA estimate of the inventory of beef cows on July 1 showed a further decline of 1 percent in the past year. Since 2007, when feed prices were still moderate, beef cow numbers have dropped 5 percent.
More alarming is the decline in beef available to U.S. consumers as cow numbers were dropping and foreign consumers have been buying much more of the U.S. production.
In 2006 and 2007, before feed prices surged, U.S. consumers had over 65 pounds of beef available per person. This year, USDA analysts expect that to be down to 57.9 pounds and to drop again to only 55.6 pounds per person in 2012.
"This represents a 15 percent reduction in available supplies during the high-feed price era. The drought in the Southern Plains and Southeast this year is continuing the herd reduction due to extreme shortages and high prices of forages. In addition, recent heat stress is thought to be causing higher death losses that will also contribute to smaller supplies," he said.
Beef trade is back as a contributor to beef prices as well. In 2003, beef exports reached a record, representing 9.6 percent of domestic production. The discovery of a BSE cow late that year caused most buyers to shun U.S. beef with exports dropping to just 2.3 percent of production in 2004.