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Solar hot water program expanding
Energy Co-op of Vermont has reported it is expanding a solar water heating program to cover Addison County.
In fact, the programs popularity is making it hard to keep up with demand, the co-op says.
The program currently serves Chittenden County as well as parts of Washington, Grand Isle, Franklin and Lamoille counties.
The co-op solar hot water program is designed to help Vermonters save money and energy through heating their water with solar power. The program is available to any home or business owner in Vermont. In 2012, the first year of the program, Co-op Solar assisted in installing more than 40 hot water systems.
Last year, the program was available only in Chittenden County, but it expanded into other counties in 2013.
U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders said in a statement: What is particularly exciting about this program is that people can move in this direction without spending any more money on their fuel bills than they currently are, because theyre going to pay off their loan from the credit union by reduced fuel costs.
Support from high-profile officials such as Sanders was instrumental in getting this years program off the ground February, according to the co-op.
Other supporters included Andrew Perchlik of the Department of Public Service and the Clean Energy Development Fund, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy and U.S. Rep. Peter Welch.
Locally, interest in the solar hot water program is high, the co-op said. Washington County was home to eight of the 44 systems installed in 2013, or 18 percent.
Other counties around the state also bought into the program because of the systems low prices, the co-op said. Joining with Sunward Systems, a local manufacturer of solar heating equipment, Co-op Solar was able to provide Vermonters with low-priced, locally made solar systems.
This collaboration between Sunward Systems and the Energy Co-op of Vermont is exactly the kind of story Peter Welch is planning to bring down to Congress, said Welchs deputy state director Jon Copans. The product is being assembled here in Vermont by Vermonters. Were saving people money on their energy bill and reducing fossil fuel use and our greenhouse gas emissions.
Solar hot water customers save additional money due to a 30 percent federal tax credit, as well as $900 to $1,200 state incentive. Combined, the federal tax credit and state incentive reduce the price of solar hot water systems by 50 percent and, according to the co-op, a typical four-person household can save $700 to $1,000 by installing solar hot water.
These new solar hot water systems will pay for themselves through energy savings, said John Quinney, general manager at the co-op. It may be the best investment you can make for your home and planet.
Benjamin Griffin of Energy Co-op of Vermont explained the environmental benefit of installing each solar hot water system as the equivalent of taking one car off the road in terms of carbon dioxide emissions.
Despite all the support, there is some concern that the solar hot water program will not continue in 2014. In the past Energy Co-op of Vermont has received a portion of its funding from the Clean Energy Development Fund. The fund had previously received money from Entergy Vermont Yankee, but due to Vermont Yankees state licensing issues, that money may not be available in the future.
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We just moved from St Louis to rural Tennessee. Oh how I miss my Trader Joe's and my Whole Foods.... sigh.....Oh! Trader Joe's! I so miss Trader Joe's!!! There were several where we lived in Maryland...alas...no TJ's in TN!!! So sad!!
We just moved from St Louis to rural Tennessee. Oh how I miss my Trader Joe's and my Whole Foods.... sigh.....Oh! Trader Joe's! I so miss Trader Joe's!!! There were several where we lived in Maryland...alas...no TJ's in TN!!! So sad!!
No, we don't have a trader joe's...we dont have any good grocery stores nearby
Evin- as far as what kind of squash, I'm not really sure, I dont know the different varieties...so it helps to hear everyone else's favorites and how they cook them.
freeresponse- thanks for the ideas, I will have to try them!
For "summer" squashes like zucchini and yellow squash, I usually rub them with olive oil and sprinkle on some thyme, then bake (I just use our toaster oven) at 350 until soft. If you're introducing cheese, I personally think that zucchini prepared as above, but with a think slice of jarlsberg or other swiss cheese is just divooon
I like to split orange "winter" squashes like butternut, remove seeds, rub the flesh with some butter and then sprinkle with some cinnamon and brown sugar (if you're not introducing sugar yet, skip it) and bake at 375 until soft. Yumm!
For white and yellow "winter" squash, I'll prepare them with olive oil and a mixture of oregano, thyme and sage. Same as above, remove seeds, bake.
Evin- thanks so much!! I'll write that down so that I can start experimenting!
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Age: One year
Age when he started solids: a little cereal at 4 months because he looked like he wanted some, then didn't start in earnest until 6 months.
What he'll eat:
Cheerios (sometimes)
Cheddar cheese*
Macaroni and cheese*
Grapes (cut up; he loves these and spits out the skins when he's done; he won't touch them skinned)
Green beans (sometimes, but only canned)
Graham crackers
Cheese crackers (once because a little girl was sharing)
Chili (no joke)
Ramen noodles (no broth)
What we've tried and failed at:
Sweet potatoes
Butternut squash
Rice cereal
Infant oatmeal
Chicken and rice (the canned stuff)
Biter biscuits
Applesauce (with and without cinnamon)
Freeze-dried strawberries and bananas
How Old : 8 months 3 weeks
When did you start: 5 months 2 weeks
First Food: Rice cereal. He wouldn't nurse in the morning when I had plenty of milk and would want to nurse a lot in the afternoon when I don't have as much. Since he doesn't take a bottle, cup, sippy, finger feeder, SNS, etc. we had to find a way to give him the BM I pump in the morning in the afternoon. So came the rice cereal although I didn't want to give him that. Unfortunately, it is still his main solid food since the BF issues still continue.
What he eats:
Most days nothing but BM, bananas and cereal. But I have tried giving him various fruits and vegetables. Other than bananas he hates all fruit, we tried apples in the forms of homemade puree, jarred baby food, apple sauce and he gags on all. We also tried pears, plums, apricots, peaches and he hated them all. He eats avocados fine although I'm not sure if it's a fruit or a vegetable
He takes vegetables OK. Peas, sweet potatoes, green beans, winter squash, zucchini all cooked with onions, tomatoes, coconut oil and beef. In fact if I put beef in them maybe he would eat fruits too He loves beef. Pureed in his vegetables or just plain cooked beef, he loves them all. I also tried giving him lentil soup which he didn't like much.
He loved feta cheese and yogurt but then got a diarrhea so we are in the process of testing whether he is allergic to dairy or just got a virus.
Wow, reading the responses to this post makes me wonder why I'm so paranoid about solids. We have started them but VERY slowly and everything is plain. I would love to give DS foods that I eat but he hasn't had much yet and I want to make sure there aren't any adverse reactions (not sure why I'm so paranoid about this, DH and I aren't allergic to ANY foods). Anyway, here's a list (albeit short) of what DS has had so far....
How old: 7.5 months
When did you start: 6.5 months
First Food: Avocado
What we've tried so far (homemade):
Sweet Potato
We've been alterating fruit/veggie, but DS LOVES banana. I try to give him a new food and if he doesn't seem to like it too much, I mix in some banana. We want to follow a baby-led approach but he just looks at the food on his tray and play with it. Of course, he puts EVERYTHING in his mouth right now EXCEPT the food! So I give him some off my finger because he's not a fan of the spoon.
Question for you all: How often are you giving your LO solids? I'm just feeding DS solids once a day right now. The rest of the day he gets BM.
Great thread.
how old?? 8 months 3? weeks (7/15/06)
when did you start?? 6.5 months
first food?? avocado
what else have you given??
rice cereal
sweet potato
scrambled eggs
green peas (gerber organic)
chicken, really soft small pieces
Tonight we had brown rice pilaf and poached flounder, she loved the flounder. I'm pretty much at the point where I let her try whatever we're eating for dinner.
I'm sure there's more I'm missing, but the brain can only function for so long before it starts to shut down.
Mama to my little Diva: Miss K (7/15/06)
And her little sister: Lulu Pie (3/21/09)
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My body creates, houses, nurtures and nourishes life. That is awesome.
Kegel Kop says: TIGHTEN UP!
desperate, how about mixing the fruit with bm? or fruit in cereal??
terpingmom....i was (still am somewhat ) the same way....we did one food per week for quite awhile....then i started to relax alittle....
i think lunch was the last meal i added.....and sometimes still skip if he isnt in the mood....i thnk the best way is to offer.....either they want it or they dont....
as far as just playing with the food, sometimes if you give them a taste they realize what it is they are playing with....
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KILLINGTON A New York man who allegedly punched out a pool table light and then walked out of a bar with the eight-ball in his pocket will face a pair of misdemeanor offenses next month, according to Vermont State Police.
Troopers were called to Jax Bar on Killington Road just before 1 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a disorderly patron who left the bar on foot.
Using a description of the individual, police stopped Marc E. Dileone, 28, of Centereach, N.Y., while he was walking down the road.
Dileone was arrested and taken to the state police barracks in Rutland where he was charged with unlawful mischief and petty larceny. He was released on a citation to appear in Rutland criminal court next month.MORE IN This Just InMONTPELIER Vermont hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for 2017 will be available Dec. Full StoryWHITE RIVER JUNCTION A Vermont National Guard member has denied a charge of sexually... Full StoryRutland City is getting $20,000 to tweak its zoning laws. Full Story
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It's true that Liberia is a post-conflict country full of UN staff, who, when not struggling to help Liberia maintain its stability and get on its feet, are probably struggling to find enough things in Liberia to spend their money on. But Liberia also differs from other countries in West Africa in that the U.S. dollar is used in parallel to the Liberian dollar. Is it possible that dollarization could also contribute to higher prices?
The fact that price differences are concentrated in services, or non-tradeables, makes me suspect that the high prices are in part due to dollarization, and here is why: in a non-dollarized economy, like Ghana, which uses the cedi, if the Ghanaian government pursues a loose monetary policy, the currency will depreciate relative to the U.S. dollar. This doesn't affect the dollar price of imported goods—these are bought in dollars, so their price in Ghana cedis will just be inflated so that the equivalent price in dollars is unchanged. Other prices in the economy, however, are sticky. Employees have contracts with set wages, and people are used to paying a given price for hiring someone to sew a dress. As a result, the price of these non-tradeables stays constant in cedis, but becomes cheaper in dollar terms.
(Note about monetary policy transmission in West Africa: In West Africa, business and consumer loans are much scarcer. So loosening monetary policy doesn't lead to cheaper credit very quickly. It does, however, mean that cedi funds are more readily available to banks than U.S. dollar funds, which puts pressure on the exchange rate. So monetary policy transmission through exchange rates is more important in countries like Ghana, and happens more quickly, relative to transmission through interest rate mechanisms, compared to countries where large portions of the population have access to credit.)
What this means is that Ghana, if has a trend of depreciating currency, can have low overall prices in dollar terms because, in dollar terms, prices for non-tradeables have fallen. Liberia, since it is dollarized, won't see this effect. If Liberia prints more Liberian dollars, the exchange rate may change, with the value of the Liberian dollar declining, but prices in dollars will stay the same.
This does, of course, attribute a level difference to an effect that applies to differences in rates of change, and my observations regarding prices of goods and services are anecdotal (Liberia doesn't have good CPI data.) If you have comments on the plausibility of the theory, please comment!


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Special Olympics in town
The Special Olympics New Mexico Equestrian Team is riding into Clovis for statewide competition Sept. 16.
Competitions continue for two days at the Curry County Events Center.
Opening ceremonies are at 7 p.m. and include lighting of the torch, the Olympic oath and performances by Special Olympics coaches, riders and the Cattle Capitol CowBelles.
Team support
Eastern New Mexico University alumni and friends are gathering to support the ENMU Greyhound football team when they go on the road to play University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday.
A pre-game social is scheduled for 3 p.m. at the LA Quinta Inns & Suites San Antonio Convention Center, and the group will depart at 5 p.m. to attend the game together.
Kick-off is at 6 p.m. in the stadium located on the IWC campus.
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On this day in 1877, Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is fatally bayoneted by a U.S. soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson, Neb.
A year earlier, Crazy Horse was among the Sioux leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory.
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AMD on Monday announced that Thomas Seifert informed the company of his decision to resign as senior vice president and chief financial officer to pursue other opportunities. Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and corporate controller, will serve as interim chief financial officer while a search commences for Mr. Seifert's replacement.
"We thank Thomas for his many contributions to AMD and for serving as interim CEO in 2011. Thomas' personal commitment to the highest standards of accountability and financial integrity has helped define how AMD does business today. Devinder is an experienced financial executive whose financial expertise and semiconductor experience developed during his 28 year tenure at AMD is an asset to the company," said Rory Read, AMD president and CEO.
Divinder Kumar has served as the company's corporate controller since 2001. Mr. Seifert's departure is claimed not to be based on any disagreement over the company's accounting principles or practices, or financial statement disclosures.
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11 Dec 2015:
NASA Detects Carbon Monoxide
Plume as Indonesian Forest Fires Burn
This fall tens of thousands of fires in Indonesia released clouds of particulate matter and toxic gases over
the region
— a
Carbon monoxide plumes detected over Indonesia
process that repeats itself year after year as property owners clear their land of debris for farming. This year, however, saw significantly more fires than usual, and many of those fires escaped their handlers and burned uncontrollably for weeks or months. The fires produced a massive plume of carbon monoxide (CO) — a toxic gas that affects both human health and the climate — that could be detected by
NASA satellites
. "The 2015 Indonesian fires produced some of the highest concentrations of carbon monoxide that we have ever seen with MOPITT," the satellite technology that detected the gas, said Helen Worden, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Typically, CO concentrations in that region are roughly 100 parts per billion. Some parts of Borneo, however, saw CO levels of nearly 1,300 parts per billion in September and October.
07 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21 — How 'Landscape
Carbon' Can Be Part of a Solution on Climate
A group led by the World Resources Institute has unveiled plans in Paris for a grand restoration of Africa's landscapes that includes
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian finance minister
replanting forests and reviving soils. The group, which includes the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development are seeking $2 billion a year to restore 100 million hectares of Africa by 2030 — an area three times the size of Germany. The plans were announced to some 3,000 delegates attending a Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on Sunday. "We need landscape restoration for development and for climate," said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister. Some African countries said they are already at work. Ethiopian ministers told the forum they had restored a million hectares of farm soils in the drought-hit Tigray region and elsewhere in the past 20 years, through terracing, irrigation and other activities.
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01 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: To Save Forests,
A Combination of Carrots and Sticks
Forests must be saved and restored if the world community hopes to slow global warming. That's a given at the Paris climate
Indigenous leaders at a forestry session in Paris.
conference. But how? It's a tough issue for many environment ministers, who know that back home their agriculture, mining, and even forestry ministers have other plans for forest lands. In nations such as Peru and Indonesia, the gap between aspirations for slowing deforestation and the reality on the ground is huge. How to close that gap is a major topic of discussion in Paris, with countries, business groups, and conservationists proposing a combination of carrots and sticks to spur reform. And advocates say that returning many forests to indigenous groups is a key part of any solution.
Read more.
Interview: Why Brazil's Pledges On
Carbon Emissions Are Not Enough
In recent years, Brazil has been widely praised for reducing deforestation in the Amazon by 75 percent from 2005 to 2014.
Maria Fernanda Gebara
But analysts are now taking a closer look at Brazil's pledges to cut deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, with some saying there is less there than meets the eye. One of the more outspoken critics of the country's CO2-reduction policies is Brazilian political scientist Maria Fernanda Gebara. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Gebara, a research associate in the Department for International Development at the London School of Economics, says Brazil's policies will do little more than stabilize emissions for the next 15 years, will fail to clamp down on illegal logging, and will continue the nation's dismal record of developing solar and wind power.
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20 Nov 2015:
Global Forest Cover Estimates
Vary Widely Based on Definition, Study Says
Measurements of global forest cover can vary widely — by as much as 6 percent of the planet's land area, a swath equal in size
Forest cover calculations
to China, according to
from the University of Maryland. The reason behind the discrepancy actually lies in how different researchers and organizations define forest cover, the researchers note. Geographers have long called for the definition to be standardized, but until now, no one had quantified the scope of the variance. The largest ambiguities in forest calculations are driven by uncertainties near savannas, shrublands, mountain ridge forests, and other areas with intermediate tree cover. "It's not technology's fault" that forest maps are inconsistent, said lead author Joseph Sexton. But until the definitions are standardized, he said, it will be difficult to properly assess land cover or conservation measures related to climate change and biodiversity.
10 Nov 2015:
New Online Tool Maps Lands
Managed and Protected by Indigenous People
Indigenous people have historically demarcated their ancestral lands in a variety of ways, from rudimentary agreements and maps to,
A new online tool maps native lands.
more recently, drone surveys. But until now, there has been no systematic way of recording the actual boundaries and legal status of each swath of land managed by native peoples, who, as research shows, often do a better job of protecting their lands than local or national governments.
, a new tool launched today by a broad partnership including the World Resources Institute (WRI), is the first online, interactive platform for mapping lands managed by native communities. It was created to fill a critical gap in indigenous and community rights and make clear that these lands are not vacant, idle, or available to outsiders for exploitative development such as mining, palm oil plantations, or timber concessions. But Abdon Nababan, secretary general of the Indonesia's Indigenous Peoples' Alliance, cautioned that "these maps do us no good unless they become public knowledge and indigenous rights are recognized by all who have ambitions to grab our lands."
23 Oct 2015:
Powerful Foreign Companies
Behind Much of Laos' Illegal Deforestation
Industrial-scale illegal logging is routine in Laos, a southeast Asian nation which has seen its dense forest cover decline from
Illegal logging in Laos by a large Vietnamese company
29 to 8.2 percent over the past decade, and the practice is gaining momentum under the guise of special infrastructure projects, according to
information obtained
by the London-based advocacy group Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). In 2013, Laos exported 1.8 million cubic yards of timber to Vietnam and China — more than 10 times the country's official harvest, EIA found. Trade data also show that in 2014 China received $1 billion in illegal timber from Laos — a 22-fold increase from 2008. The high figures imply that the bulk of this timber is composed of valuable rosewood species, which are supposedly protected under Lao law. Virtually all logging operations are linked to infrastructure projects, especially hydropower dams, roads, mining, and agricultural plantations, EIA says.
09 Oct 2015:
'Land Grabbing' Is Accelerating
As Pressure on Agriculture Resources Grows
An area about the size of Japan — roughly 140,000 square miles — has been purchased or
A land-grabbing operation in Uganda
leased by foreign entities for agricultural use during the last 15 years, according to a
by the Worldwatch Institute. An additional 58,000 square miles are under negotiation, the report found. "Land grabbing," a term for the purchase or lease of agricultural land by foreign interests, has emerged as a threat to food security in several nations. Globally, over half of this land is in Africa, especially in water-rich countries like the Congo. The largest area acquired in a single country is in Papua New Guinea, with nearly 15,500 square miles (over 8 percent of the nation's total land cover) sold or leased to foreign entities. Foreign purchase of land in developing countries has surged since 2005 in response to rising food prices and growing biofuel demand in the U.S. and the European Union, as well as droughts in the U.S., Argentina, and Australia. "Essentially no additional suitable [agricultural] land remains in a belt around much of the middle of the planet," writes Gary Gardner, a contributing author to the report.
30 Sep 2015:
New Agreement Yields Hope for
Saving World's Second-Largest Rainforest
In advance of the Paris climate talks, European and African countries
an initiative to stem the rising tide of forest destruction in Central Africa, one of the world's last large expanses of rainforest. Norway is the first country to pledge funds to the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) — up to $47 million dollars per year through 2020 — to support the program. The agreement calls for the six participating Central African countries — Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo — to devise national investment plans that will tackle complex factors leading to deforestation, and it prioritizes long-term solutions over short-term, one-time actions. Central Africa is home to the world's second-largest tropical forest, but the region is increasingly under threat, mostly from small-scale slash-and-burn agriculture. Its preservation is key to global efforts to slow climate change, scientists say.
17 Sep 2015:
Chaotic Illegal Timber Trade
Threatens Crucial Forests in Southeast Asia
A murky, illegal timber trade enabled by systemic corruption exists between China and Myanmar and is worth hundreds of millions of
Illegal log trucks in Kachin wait to cross into China.
dollars annually, making it one of the world's largest illegal timber schemes, according to a new analysis by the
Environmental Investigation Agency
(EIA). At stake are some of the most ecologically important remaining forests in Southeast Asia, EIA says. The report documents how Chinese businesses pay in gold bars for the rights to log entire mountains and smuggle timber out of Myanmar's conflict-torn state of Kachin. The stolen timber, primarily high-value species of rosewood and teak, is increasingly being sourced from deeper within Myanmar to feed factories in south and east China. The trade appeared to have peaked in 2005, when 1.3 million cubic yards of logs crossed the border. A brief hiatus then occurred when Chinese authorities intervened, but the scale is once again nearing peak levels, the EIA says.
10 Sep 2015:
Developing Nations Take Lead In
Cutting Forestry and Agriculture Emissions
Countries with the most potential to slash emissions from agriculture and forestry are skimping on climate commitments, while some developing countries are making the boldest and most detailed pledges for cutting land-use-related emissions. That is the conclusion of a
new analysis
of climate pledges from China, Canada, Ethiopia, and Morocco by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Major opportunities to cut forestry and farming emissions exist for Canada and, especially, China, the report says. For example, UCS recently found that China could cut CO2 emissions by 1.2 gigatons per year by 2020, but its climate pledge fails to indicate how the country would do that. Canada's climate pledge is also vague and unambitious, the report says. In contrast, Ethiopia and Morocco have released detailed and ambitious pledges, especially regarding agricultural emissions. An earlier UCS analysis also found that Mexico's land-use-related climate pledges exceed those from the European Union and the United States.
04 Sep 2015:
Maya Permanently Altered Land
To Respond to Climate Change, Study Says
Mayan activity more than 2,000 years ago contributed to the decline of Central America's tropical lowlands and continues to influence the land and environment today, say researchers at the
University of Texas at Austin
. Evidence shows that during the "Mayacene" — a period from 3,000 to 1,000 years ago when humans began greatly affecting the environment — the Maya's advanced urban and rural infrastructure altered tropical forest ecosystems. Clay and soil sequences indicate erosion and land-use changes, and sediments near wetlands reveal chemical signatures of agriculture, says the study, which was published in the journal
Quaternary Science Reviews
. The researchers say features such as constructed wetlands, vast field systems, and terraces show that the Maya managed land and water to adapt to climate change and rising sea levels. "Though it has no doubt accelerated in the last century, humans' impact on the environment has been going on a lot longer," said lead researcher Tim Beach.
03 Sep 2015:
Tropical Tree Cover Loss
Accelerated in 2014, Satellite Analysis Finds
More than 45 million acres of trees were cut down last year — an area twice the size of Portugal — according to an
Tropical tree cover loss
by the University of Maryland and Google. Tropical nations lost more than half of that total — nearly 25 million acres of tree cover, an area roughly the size of South Korea. Brazil and Indonesia, the two countries most often associated with deforestation, had been making gains toward stemming the problem, but 2014 saw an uptick in tree cover loss in both countries. The situation is especially concerning in Cambodia, where deforestation is accelerating faster than anywhere else in the world due to the development of rubber plantations. Last year Cambodia lost three times more tree cover than in 2001, the analysis found.
25 Aug 2015:
Endangered Chimp Population
Much Larger Than Estimated, Study Shows
A population of endangered eastern chimpanzees in Uganda is actually significantly larger than scientists had thought,
new research
Eastern chimpanzee
from the University of Southern California shows. Using DNA from fecal samples, the scientists estimated the size of the chimp population living in two reserves in western Uganda to be 250 to 320 chimps, divided among at least nine communities, whereas previous estimates had pegged the total at roughly 70. Because the forest they live in is not protected, however, the chimpanzees have been heavily impacted by forest fragmentation, and the fruit trees they rely on are rapidly being cut down, the researchers say. The eastern chimp population that lives in this region is important because it represents the growing status quo for this species, the researchers note — they no longer inhabit unbroken swaths of forest, but instead carve out an existence in shrinking forest patches.
24 Aug 2015:
Research Links Amazon
Fires and North American Hurricanes
After studying decades of data on hurricanes, sea surface temperatures, and Amazon fire frequency, researchers have concluded
North Atlantic surface temperatures
that years in which warm North Atlantic waters create powerful hurricanes are followed by
periods of drought and fire in the Amazon
rainforest. University of California, Irvine scientists say their research has shown that frequent and powerful North Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes tend to pull a large belt of tropical rainfall to the north, drawing moisture away from the Amazon. The resulting dry spells lead to an increase in severity and duration of fires, which tend to be set in the Amazon by humans clearing land for agriculture. The research is expected to enable meteorologists to better understand seasonal outlooks for drought and fire risk in the Amazon, which could help reduce the extensive rainforest fires that emit large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.
31 Jul 2015:
Severe Droughts Affect Forests
And CO2 Storage for Years, Study Shows
Severe drought can affect a forest's growth for up to four years, a period during which it is less effective at removing carbon
A stressed forest in the southwestern United States
from the atmosphere, a
new study
reports in the journal
. Standard climate models have assumed that forests and other vegetation bounce back quickly from extreme drought, but that assumption is far off the mark, the researchers say. Looking at data from more than 1,300 forest sites dating back to 1948, they found that living trees took an average of two to four years to recover and resume normal growth rates after droughts ended. Frequent droughts in places like the western U.S. could significantly impact the ability of forests to sequester carbon, the study found. Researchers aren't sure how drought causes these long-lasting changes, but they say there are likely three causes: Loss of carbohydrate and foliage reserves may impair growth; pests and diseases may accumulate in drought-stressed trees; and lasting damage to vascular tissues impairs water transport.
Interview: The High Environmental
Cost of Illicit Marijuana Cultivation
As some U.S. states move to legalize marijuana, one issue has been largely ignored in the policy debates: the serious
Mary Power
environmental effects of the marijuana industry. A new paper co-authored by ecologist Mary Power details many of those impacts by focusing on marijuana cultivation in California, where most of the marijuana consumed in the U.S. is grown. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Power describes how California growers siphon off scarce water resources, poison wildlife, and erode fragile soils. What's needed, she contends, is legalization of marijuana at the federal level, which would likely drive down marijuana prices. "As long as there is a market that will pay enough to compensate for the brutally hard work they do to grow this stuff in forested mountains," she says, "then it will keep growing."
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01 Jul 2015:
Church of England Divests from
Oil Firm Exploring Virunga National Park
The Church of England has
divested its holdings
in the British oil and gas company Soco International, citing ethical concerns over Soco's attempts to
Mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park
drill for oil in Congo's Virunga National Park. The national park, Africa's oldest, is home to the largest surviving populations of
endangered mountain gorillas and hippos
. The Church of England's investment fund is valued at roughly $10.5 billion, and $2.5 million of that had been invested in Soco International. The move marks only the third time in recent years that the church has divested from a company on ethical grounds. In 2012 it sold its holdings in News Corporation to protest the phone-hacking scandal, and in 2010 it divested from a mining corporation over human rights violations associated with its operations in India.
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The Golden Age of Animal Tracking
Scientists are following the lives of animals in more detail than ever before, thanks to a new generation of tracking and tagging devices. From beluga whales that collect data on the Arctic Ocean to ducks that help track the spread of avian flu, data gathered by and about animals is being used to identify conservation hotspots, reduce human-animal conflicts, and monitor the health of the planet. In an
gallery, we look at some intriguing projects that have used state-of-the-art animal tracking and monitoring technology.
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16 Jun 2015:
Human Data Can Improve
Ecosystem Service Models, Study Says
Protected forests in Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand have prevented the release of more than 1 billion tons
Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.
of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, an ecosystem service worth at least $5 billion, Georgia State University
economists found
. Their conclusion about the monetary benefit of those forest protections is based on a new method they derived for valuing services such as carbon capture, conservation, and improvements in air and water quality. Instead of relying on modeling alone, the new method uses interviews and on-the-ground data to see how conservation programs affect human behavior and impact ecosystems. By combining the two types of information — environmental models and social science data — public officials can gain more realistic insights into how a particular policy might affect the environment and the people who interact with it, the researchers write in the
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04 Jun 2015:
Seven Tiny Frog Species
Are Discovered in Brazilian Forest
Seven new species of a highly miniaturized, brightly colored frog genus known as
have been
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discovered in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest,
researchers report
today. The frog species are restricted to cloud forests in no more than a few adjacent mountaintops, making them highly vulnerable to extinction, the researchers say. The cloud forests they inhabit are particularly sensitive to climatic conditions, and small shifts can cause major changes in the distribution of the forests. The frogs' adaptation to these specific environments prevents them from migrating across valleys as the cloud forest shifts. The long-term preservation of these species might involve not only the protection of their habitats but also more direct management efforts, such as rearing in captivity, the researchers say.
frogs are among the planet's smallest terrestrial vertebrates, with adult sizes often not exceeding 1 cm in length.
26 May 2015:
Officials Uncover "Mass Graves"
Of Illegal Timber in Malaysia Forest Reserve
Malaysian authorities have uncovered
timber "mass graves"
where illegal loggers attempted to conceal valuable timber
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A "mass grave" containing illegally logged timber.
following a government crackdown on unlawful logging that started in February. The sites, located in the Belum-Temengor forest reserve, were revealed after the recent excavation of patches of land roughly the size of football fields, beneath which an estimated two stories of felled trees were stacked. "We believe that about 400 tons of logs worth more than RM1 million ($250,000 USD) were buried at the three locations and the culprits are waiting for the right time to dig them out and sell them," says Anuar Mohd Noh, assistant commissioner for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which conducted a joint operation with the country's forestry department to track down illicit logging activities.
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22 May 2015:
Many Trees in Southeast U.S.
Closely Related to Tree Species in Asia
DNA studies show that more than half the trees and shrubs in southern Appalachia
can trace their ancestry to eastern Asia.
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Based on molecular studies of more than 250 species of trees and shrubs from Georgia to Virginia, researchers at Duke University found close ties between East Asian species, such as dogwoods, and species in the southeastern U.S. Forests throughout the northern hemisphere were joined together by the supercontinent Laurasia as recently as 180 million years ago. Then, as the great northern land mass broke into continents, eras of glaciation wiped out various tree species. Forest remnants hung on in China, Japan, small parts of Europe, and Appalachia, which explains the similarity in tree species. The research was published in the
American Journal of Botany.
Interview: A Grassroots Effort to
Save Africa's Most Endangered Ape
The Cross River gorilla population, with fewer than 300 individuals, has been pushed to the brink of extinction in equatorial
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Africa. At the center of the fight to save this beleaguered ape population is Nigerian scientist Inaoyom Imong, who comes from the region and knows its forests — and its people — intimately. In a
Yale e360
interview, Imong describes the various pressures that have reduced populations of this gorilla subspecies and explains how a few thousand people living in rural Nigeria and Cameroon hold the key to saving this magnificent ape.
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15 May 2015:
Indonesia Extends Major Logging
Moratorium, Which Critics Decry as Weak
Indonesia has extended a major
logging moratorium
aimed at preserving the archipelago's vast swathes
Deforestation for a palm oil plantation in Indonesia.
of tropical rainforest, but environmentalists say the logging ban does not go nearly far enough. The country, home to some of the world's most biodiverse rain forests and endangered species such as tigers and elephants, first enacted the moratorium in 2011, banning new logging permits for primary and virgin forests and peatlands. The moratorium was first extended until 2015, and now has been extended again, to 2017. Environmental groups have criticized the moratorium, however, saying that it still allows deforestation for ventures deemed in the national interest, such as infrastructure projects and agricultural plantations. Indonesia is the largest economy in Southeast Asia and third-largest carbon emitter in the world. Huge swathes of its forests have been chopped down by palm oil, mining, and timber companies.
15 Apr 2015:
Entries Invited for e360
Contest For Best Environmental Videos
The second annual Yale Environment 360 Video Contest is now accepting entries. The contest honors the best environmental videos. Entries must be videos that focus on an environmental issue or theme, have not been widely viewed online, and are a maximum of 15 minutes in length. Videos that are funded by an organization or company and are primarily about that organization or company are not eligible. The first-place winner will receive $2,000, two runners-up will each receive $500, and all winning entries will be posted on
Yale Environment 360
. The contest judges will be
Yale Environment 360
editor Roger Cohn,
New Yorker
writer and
contributor Elizabeth Kolbert, and documentary filmmaker Thomas Lennon. The deadline for entries is June 15, 2015.
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30 Mar 2015:
Warming Winters Not Main
Cause of Pine Beetle Outbreaks, Study Says
Milder winters can't be blamed for the full extent of recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the western United States, according
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to a
new study
by Dartmouth and U.S. Forest Service researchers. Winters have been warming across the western U.S. states for decades, as overall the coldest winter night has warmed by 4 degrees C since 1960. But that warming trend could only be the primary driver of increasing pine beetle outbreaks in regions where winter temperatures have historically killed most of the beetles, such as in the Middle Rockies, eastern Oregon, and northern Colorado, the study says. Warming is unlikely to have played a major role in other regions since winters were rarely cold enough to kill the beetles, according to the study published in the journal
Landscape Ecology
. Other factors — including changes in the pine beetles' seasonal development patterns and forestry practices that have influenced pine density and age — were likely more important, the authors say.
24 Mar 2015:
Extreme Forest Fragmentation
Documented in Comprehensive New Study
Fragmentation of the world's forests has become
so severe
that 70 percent of remaining woodlands are now within 1 kilometer of a road or other form of development, according to a
new study
. Using the world's first high-resolution satellite map of tree cover, as well as an analysis of seven long-term fragmentation studies, researchers showed that the ongoing destruction of global forests is decreasing biodiversity by as much as 75 percent in some areas and adversely affecting the ability of forests to store carbon and produce clean water. The study, published in the journal
Science Advances
, found that 20 percent of the world's forests are just 100 meters from a human-created "edge." Even many parks and protected areas have undergone fragmentation, the study said. The few remaining large, virgin tracts of forest are found in parts of the
Amazon, Siberia, Congo
, and Papua New Guinea.
Back from the Brink: Success Stories
Of the U.S. Endangered Species Act
A small minnow known as the
Oregon chub
recently became the 29th species to recover after being listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the first fish to ever join those ranks. The
Endangered Species Act
, signed into law in 1973, is widely considered one of the most important pieces of U.S. environmental legislation ever enacted. This
photo gallery highlights the
21 species
native to the United States, including the bald eagle (above), that have made recoveries strong enough to be removed from the endangered list.
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Interview: What Lies Behind the
Surge of Deforestation in Amazon
Ecologist Philip Fearnside has lived and worked in the Brazilian Amazon for 30 years and is one of the foremost authorities on
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deforestation in the world's largest tropical forest. A professor at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Fearnside is now watching with alarm as, after a decade of declining deforestation rates, the pace of cutting in the Amazon is on the rise again. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Fearnside explains the factors behind the resurgence in deforestation and warns that the Amazon will sustain even graver losses if Brazil's newly re-elected President Dilma Rousseff — who is backed by large landowners and agribusiness interests — doesn't change course.
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Brian Cranmer (PHOTO: Wesley Athletics)Wesley offensive lineman Brian Cranmer topped a day of honors for the Wolverines' program by being named a Division III 1st Team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association.
The senior from Cologne, NJ was part of a line that blocked Wesley to 34 points and 365 yards per game on their way to a 10-2 record and an appearance in the South Region Championship game.
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My son, who just turned 14 this past week was diagnosed with a Scheuermann's Kyphosis and mild scoliosis. What was me telling him to stand up straight got my mom's attention (she is an RN) and then the pediatrician. I feel bad that I waited several months to remember to set an orthopedic appointment and now here we are. We were pretty bowled over to get this diagnosis as I didn't think there was really anything wrong. He has mild asperger's syndrome as well and so I thought the slouching was more personality driven and maybe he'd get an elastic back brace and some PT. So we were pretty much in shock. Anyway, he has a 76 degree curve apparently and they told us the news and sent us off to bracing without a whole lot of discussion other than according to the doctor "you can't force the brace". Um, ok.
So we went to the brace guy and he measured my son for the Milwaukee brace. Obviously he is upset at the thought of this and in the past few days I have done a lot of reading. The brace guy isn't familiar with the Kyphologic brace or any other alternatives which led me to make some other calls. We have an appointment with Shriners (Dr. Hammerberg) in Chicago in a week and a half and maybe he can give us some guidance.
But my long-winded post (sorry) I have a couple of questions if you all don't mind.
1. Has anyone successfully used the Kyphologic brace instead of the Milwaukee brace?
2. I have read that bracing isn't really effective over 70 degrees. Is surgery inevitable?
3. Has anyone done surgery in lieu of bracing with a larger curve? I hate to put him through this bracing regimen if it is inevitable that he will need surgery.
4. Is it crazy to think that doing surgery sooner than later (while he is in 8th grade now) so he could be good to go for high school?
The compounding factors are his social skills and awareness to begin with. He has trouble socially on a good day and deals with pretty moderate anxiety issues anyway. It's been a tough year for him as it is and I think this might push him over the edge.
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In the last decade, the United States has found itself fully immersed in nation building, despite its alleged distaste for such endeavors. U.S. military forces in particular have been at the center of these efforts, building schools in Iraq, staffing Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) throughout Afghanistan and training soldiers in Mozambique. U.S. Army platoon leaders hand out micro grants to small business owners and help stand up city councils. Civil servants who once trained for peacetime development work now find themselves mediating tribal disputes in remote mountain provinces. Regardless of the efficacy of such efforts, public statements by both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggest that nation building and related activities are preferred solutions in the war against terrorism. Yet despite the enormous complexity and ambition of such efforts, there remains a gap in the training and education for nation building.
Can entrepreneurism be taught? A new Babson College study on what influences startup business owners says it can.
When considering the optimal number of founders for any new entrepreneurial adventure, the calculus extends well beyond simple formulas seemingly supported by observations of startup cohorts within specific industries. Famous technology twosomes that come to mind include David Packard and William Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple, Paul Allen and Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google. In these examples, it is widely observed that these buddy teams complemented each other well in the early formative years of their companies.
Entrepreneurship is flourishing on campuses around the country. In classrooms and through co-curricular programs and competitions, students on diverse campuses, at universities large and small, representing disciplines across the spectrum, have the opportunity to understand the role of entrepreneurship in the economy, explore innovation, test their own ideas, and learn what they need to know to be entrepreneurs.
Last week, we hosted Ice House Facilitator Training here at the Foundation. We had people come from across the country and the international community to be trained in how to facilitate an entrepreneurial mindset to members of their community. I had the chance to sit down with one of the facilitators, Rob Elwood, and learn about his reason for coming to this training, and how he sees it benefiting his community in Annapolis, Md.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology
My lab is interested in two interlocking areas of stem cell biology: the molecular pathways that regulate the normal stem-cell state in the mammary gland, and the role of these pathways in the regulation of breast cancer stem cells.
Regulators of mammary stem cells
We have developed sensitive and specific mammary stem cell assays. Using these assays, we aim to identify novel markers and regulators of mammary stem cells.
In this effort, we identified two key transcription factors of mammary stem cells, Slug and Sox9. Both factors are necessary for maintaining endogenous mammary stem cells. Furthermore, ectopic expression of these factors efficiently converts differentiated mammary epithelial cells into long-term gland-regenerating stem cells. We are now investigating the mechanism of action by which these factors induce stem cells and regulate the epithelial cell hierarchy in the mammary gland.
Function of stem-cell pathways in breast cancer
Emerging evidence suggests that normal stem-cell pathways often get activated aberrantly in cancers and contribute to aggressive cancer behaviors. Identification of key normal stem cell regulators provides us a framework to understand how breast cancer stem cells are regulated. We are particularly interested in understanding the role of stem-cell factors in regulating metastatic colonization, a rate-limiting step of the metastatic cascade that involves cancer stem cells. In addition, we are interested in how cancer stem cells are regulated by the tumor microenvironment.
1- Guo W, Pylayeva Y, Pepe A, Yoshioka T, Muller WJ, Inghirami G, Giancotti FG. (2006) Beta 4 integrin amplifies ErbB2 signaling to promote mammary tumorigenesis. Cell 126: 489-502.
2- Mani SA*, Guo W*, Liao MJ*, Eaton EN, Ayyanan A, Zhou A, Brooks M, Reinhard F, Zhang CC, Shipitsin M, Campell LL, Polyak K, Brisken C, Yang J, Weinberg RA. (2008) The epithelial-mesenchymal transition generates cells with properties of stem cells. Cell 133: 704-715. (*: equal contribution.)
3- Huangfu D, Maehr R, Guo W, Eijkelenboom A, Snitow M, Chen AE, Melton DA. (2008) Induction of pluripotent stem cells by defined factors is greatly improved by small-molecule compounds. Nature Biotechnology 26: 795-797.
4- Scheel C, Eaton EN, Li SH, Chaffer CL, Reinhardt F, Kah KJ, Bell G, Guo W, Rubin J, Richardson AL, Weinberg RA. (2011) Paracrine and autocrine signals induce and maintain mesenchymal and stem cell states in the breast. Cell 145: 926-940.
5- Guo W, Keckesova Z, DonaherJ, Shibue T, Tischler V, Reinhardt F, Itzkovitz S, Noske A, Zürrer-Härdi U, Bell G, Tam WL, Mani SA, van Oudenaarden A, Weinberg RA. (2012) Slug and Sox9 cooperatively determine the mammary stem cell state. Cell 148: 1015-1028.
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Watching Eric Stults pitched yesterday I was remembering that his mom passed away during Spring Training. Eric: Your mom was watching you from above! Thanks for the win and a complete game at that! The team and specially the bullpen needed that!
Happy Mother's day everyone! Fully enjoy your time with your mom. Sadly I don't remember mine as she passed away when I was three but I had a wonderful grandmother that raised me. People say that I inherited my love for sports from my grandma. She did not follow baseball but was a boxing fan of all sports and soccer.
I am heading to Dodger Stadium soon. Players and coaches will hand out roses at the turnstiles between 11:30 and 12. I get to the stadium earlier than that so no fair but I'll see what I can do to get out and come back in🙂.
After the game you can walk around the warning track with your family and meet some Dodger legends along the way. How cool is that!?
During the game, several players will be using the pink bats as in years past and they'll all be wearing pink ribbons on their uniforms for breast cancer awareness.
Plus all sorts of pregame ceremonies honoring Moms, Moms taking the field with their kids and the Dodgers so I better get ready to head to the stadium!
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The Red Sox also had an opportunity for Moms and their kids to walk the bases this morning; we have an 8pm game tonight so it would be a late for the little ones to be at the game. And hey – nothing wrong with your grandmother loving boxing! My mom was a HUGE hockey fan! Have a great day!
Hope you have a great day and that you get some roses! Sounds like it'll be fun at Dodger Stadium today. Enjoy.
Hope your game did not intra extra innings like ours that went into the 13th inning.
I got the roses but not a win😦 We were down to only the rookie Brent Leach in the BP when Mota lost it. I did walk around the warning track in rememberance of the friends I have lost becaue of cancer.


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1. You need an owner with deep pockets, who really loves the club. Ian Lenagan is a Wigan boy, who is very smart and very wealthy, and he loves Wigan.
Warrington is the only other club apart from Wigan that has that kind of owner at the moment. Harlequins and Les Catalans have devoted owners, but the owners do not have deep enough pockets -- in Harlequins case not deep enough to cover the revenue losses from a poor fan base.
However Leeds is very well managed and profitable, so it offers an alternative model of ownership and management.
2. You need a top class coach who can not only prepare a team, but also recruit the best talent in the world. Wise recruitment is a skill. Again, Warrington seems to be the only other club that has that kind of coach.
3. The cheque book can only take you so far. You need a good juniors structure as well, to keep the playing talent coming through. You also need good juniors to be able to step up when there are injuries to the senior players. This is where Wigan is ahead of Warrington. But Leeds and Hull FC also have good junior set ups. So does Harlequins, and increasingly Les Catalans -- though the devoted owner of the latter does not seem to take full advantage of the juniors, preferring to buy Aussie imports.
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An academic study claims school choice increases property values.
School Vouchers and Home Prices: Premiums in School Districts Lacking Public Schools concludes that homes in towns that have high school choice sell for 5.9 percent more than comparable homes in similar towns that have an assigned high school.
The study looked at single-home transactions during a three-year period, from April 1, 2009, through March 2012, and excluded sales of condominiums, townhouses and mobile homes. The study also looked at property transactions with a minimum purchase price of $25,000 and a maximum of $2.5 million.
The study included 2,933 transactions, with 8.6 percent of them in towns with school choice.
Study co-author David M. Harrison, a professor of finance at Texas Tech University who taught for nine years at the University of Vermont, said Vermonts economy and demographics made it an ideal location to study the correlation between school choice and property values.
We thought Vermont would be a unique laboratory for this study, said Harrison, who wrote the study with Susanne E. Cannon from DePaul University and Bartley R. Danielsen from North Carolina State University.
Harrison noted that as a mostly white state, Vermont does not have the racial segregation in housing found in other states. Vermont also lacks the dramatic income disparity found elsewhere in the United States, Harrison said.
This makes it more of a clean test of whether school vouchers affect property values, he said.
Vermonts voucher system itself is unusual, Harrison said. While Vermont has had a voucher system since 1869 for students in towns that do not operate a school, the practice is much newer in most other states. Also, towns across the state offer school choice, while in most other states it is confined to urban areas.
The city of Milwaukee has a voucher system, but vouchers are not available for every child in Wisconsin, Harrison said.
According to the Agency of Education, in 2012, approximately 2,500 of Vermonts 86,000 students 2.9 percent received school vouchers, either to go to the public school of their choice or to defray tuition at a secular independent school.
The study looked at property values as they relate to the number of schools within driving distance of the home in question and found that having more choices results in higher property sale prices. The study also concludes that the availability of vouchers in a town where the nearest school has low standardized test scores compared with other schools nearby can result in a difference in property values of more than $24,000, when compared with a comparable property in a similar town.
It wasnt a big surprise to us to see a difference in property values. A rule of finance is that options have value, Harrison said. What was surprising was the magnitude of the difference.
Mill Moore, executive director of the Vermont Independent Schools Association, said the study confirms what he always thought about the link between school choice and property values.
I always suspected what these findings are showing us, Moore said. It demonstrates that school choice has a beneficial impact on the towns that have it.
Harrison said his next study will look at what motivates a parent to choose one school over another.
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I'm just asking because he was SUPER fussy last night and yesterday was my first day of one-breast-per-feeding. He nursed constantly from 8 p.m. to 9:45. I'm wondering if he is still getting too much foremilk, even though he's only eating off one breast at a time.
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Schmoopy1000 wrote:michaeljohn wrote:boy out of 15 votes, 2 for SHR, way to back your guys hahahahaha, props to those who did give it up for SHR
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"Meg, I have borne a long time with thy husband; I have reasoned and argued with him in these points of religion, and still given to him my poor fatherly counsel, but I perceive none of all this able to call him home; and therefore, Meg, I will no longer dispute with him, but will clean give him over and get me to God and pray for him."
~ Sir Thomas More, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England, author and martyr; to his daughter Meg, regarding her husband, William Roper. To these prayers Roper attributed his return to the Faith; thereafter he was an ardent Catholic.


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Major and Peifer say $50 Million form PHEAA will provide higher student grants
Students across Pennsylvania will benefit from a $50 million contribution from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) to the state's General Fund to supplement the Pennsylvania State Grant Program, announced state Reps. Sandra Major (R-Susquehanna/Wayne/Wyoming) and Mike Peifer (R-Monroe/Pike/Wayne), members of the board of directors of the agency.
"As a member of the board of PHEAA for the past nine years, my goal has always been to make sure the greatest number of eligible students obtain the largest dollar amount in terms of grant money," said Major.
"The Pennsylvania State Grant Program is essential to helping thousands of families across the state afford the continually rising costs of higher education. That is why I am so pleased that the agency is in a position to offer this influx of funding for the program."
The $50 million supplement is expected to increase the maximum State Grant Program award by about $700, from $3,541 to $4,309. In addition, PHEAA is extending the State Grant Program application deadline for non-renewal community college students from May 1 to Aug. 1, which is expected to provide an additional 15,000 students with grant awards.
"I'm pleased that PHEAA realizes the tough economic times we are encountering and was willing and able to free up some of its available revenue to expand grants available to students," Peifer. "The additional funding as well as the extension of the deadline for applications will enable thousands of more students to have extra money for school costs. This comes just in time as many recent high school graduates are getting ready for their college experience."
Major and Peifer noted that the $50 million is funded entirely from PHEAA's business earnings, at no cost to taxpayers. The funding is a direct result from prudent fiscal management, new business development and restructuring of the agency over the past several years.
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Below is original Time "Man Of The Year" story from Jan. 3, 1964.
The jetliner left Atlanta and raced through the night toward Los Angeles. From his window seat, the black man gazed down at the shadowed outlines of the Appalachians, then leaned back against a white pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane spuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below."
It was, and the reminder of Vulcan's city set King to talking quietly of the events of 1963. "In 1963," he said, there arose a great Negro disappointment and disillusionment and discontent. It was the year of Birmingham, when the civil rights issue was impressed on the nation in a way that nothing else before had been able to do. It was the most decisive year in the Negro's fight for equality. Never before had there been such a coalition of conscience on this issue."
Symbol of Revolution. In 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience insatiably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for quality, of massive demonstrations, of wins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells.
And there was Birmingham with its bombs and snarling dogs; its shots in the night and death in the streets and in the churches; its lashing fire hoses at washed human beings along slippery avenues without washing away the dignity; its men and women pinned to the ground by officers of the law ... this was the Negro revolution. Birmingham was its main battleground, and Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Negroes in Birmingham, became millions, black and white, in South and North, the symbol of that revolution -- and the Man of the Year.
King is in many ways the unlikely leader of an unlikely organization -- the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a loose alliance of 100 or so church-oriented groups. King has neither the quiet brilliance nor the sharp administrative capabilities of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins. He has none of the sophistication of the National Urban League's Whitney Young Jr., lacks Young's experience in dealing with high echelons of the U.S. business community. He has neither the inventiveness of CORE's James Farmer nor the raw militancy of SNICK's John Lewis nor the bristling wit of Author James Baldwin. He did not make his mark in the entertainment field, where talented Negroes have long been prominent, or in the sciences and professions where Negroes have, almost unnoticed, been coming into their own. He earns no more money than some plumbers ($10,000 a year), and possesses little in the way of material things.
He presents an unimposing figure: he is 5 ft. 7 in., weighs a heavy-chested 173 lbs., dresses with funereal conservatism (five of six suits are black, as are most of his neckties). He has very little sense of humor. He never heard of Y.A. Tittle or George Shearing, but he can discourse by the hour about Thoreau, Hegel, Kant and Gandhi.
King preaches endlessly about nonviolence, but his protest movements often lead to violence. He himself has been stabbed in the chest, and physically attacked three more times; his home has been bombed three times, and he has been pitched into jail 14 times. His mail brings him a daily dosage of opinion in which he is by turn vilified and glorified. One letter says: "This isn't a threat but a promise -- your head will be blown off as sure as Christ made green apples." But another ecstatically calls him a "Moses, sent to lead his people to the Promised Land of first-class citizenship."
Cadence. Some cynics call King "De Lawd." He does have an upper-air way about him, and, for a man who has earned fame with speeches, his metaphors can be downright embarrassing. For Negroes, he says, "the word 'wait' has been a tranquilizing Thalidomide," giving "birth to an ill-formed infant of frustration." Only by "following the cause of tender-heartedness" can man "matriculate into the university of eternal life." Segregation is "the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality," and it "cannot be cured by the Vaseline of gradualism."
Yet when he mounts the platform or pulpit, the actual words seem unimportant. And King, by some quality of that limpid voice or by some secret of cadence, exercises control as can few others over his audiences, black or white. He has proved this ability on countless occasions, ranging from the Negroes' huge summer March on Washington to a little meeting one recent Friday night in Gadsden, Ala. There, the exchange went like this:
King: I hear they are beating you!
Response: Yes, yes.
King: I hear they are cursing you.
Response: Yes, yes.
King: I hear they are going into your homes and doing nasty things and beating you!
Response: Yes, yes.
King: Some of you have knives, and I ask you to put them up. Some of you may have arms, and I ask you to put them up. Get the weapon of nonviolence, the breastplate of righteousness, the armor of truth, and just keep marching.
Few can explain the extraordinary King mystique. Yet he has an indescribable capacity for empathy that is the touchstone of leadership. By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks to save the nation and its soul, not just the Negro."
Angry Memories. Whatever his greatness, it was thrust upon him. He was born on Jan. 15 nearly 35 years ago, at a time when the myth of the subhuman Negro flourished, and when as cultivated an observer as H.L. Mencken could write that "the educated Negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a Negro. His brain is not fitted for the higher forms of mental effort; his ideals, no matter how laboriously he is trained and sheltered, remain those of a clown."
Mencken had never met the King family of Atlanta. King's maternal grandfather, the Rev. A.D. Williams, was one of Georgia's first N.A.A.C.P. leaders, helped organize a boycott against an Atlanta newspaper that had disparaged Negro voters. His preacher father was in the forefront of civil rights battles aimed at securing equal salaries for Negro teachers and the abolition of Jim Crow elevators in the Atlanta courthouse.
As a boy, Martin Luther King Jr. suffered those cumulative experiences in discrimination that demoralize and outrage human dignity. He still recalls the curtains that were used on the dining cars of trains to separate white from black. "I was very young when I had my first experience in sitting behind the curtain," he says. "I felt just as if a curtain had come down across my whole life. The insult of it I will never forget." On another occasion, he and his schoolteacher were riding a bus from Macon to Atlanta when the driver ordered them to give up their seats to white passengers. "When we didn't move right away, the driver started cursing us out and calling us black sons of bitches. I decided not to move at all, but my teacher pointed out that we must obey the law. So we got up and stood in the aisle the whole 90 miles to Atlanta. It was a night I'll never forget. I don't think I have ever been so deeply angry in my life."
Ideals & Technique. Raised in the warmth of a tightly knit family, King developed from his earliest years a raw-nerved sensitivity that bordered on self-destruction. Twice, before he was 13, he tried to commit suicide. Once his brother, "A.D.," accidentally knocked his grandmother unconscious when he slid down a banister. Martin thought she was dead, and in despair ran to a second-floor window and jumped out -- only to land unhurt. He did the same thing, with the same result, on the day his grandmother died.
A bright student, he skipped through high school and at 15 entered Atlanta's Negro Morehouse College. His father wanted him to study for the ministry. King himself thought he wanted medicine or the law. "I had doubts that religion was intellectually respectable. I revolted against the emotionalism of Negro religion, the shouting and the stamping. I didn't understand it and it embarrassed me." At Morehouse, King searched for "some intellectual basis for a social philosophy." He read and reread Thoreau's essay, "Civil Disobedience," concluded that the ministry was the only framework in which he could properly position his growing ideas on social protest.
At Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa., King built the underpinnings of his philosophy. Hegel and Kant impressed him, but a lecture on Gandhi transported him, sent him foraging insatiably into Gandhi's books. "From my background," he says, "I gained my regulating Christian ideals. From Gandhi I learned my operational technique."
Montgomery. The first big test of King's philosophy -- or of his operating technique -- came in 1955, after he had married a talented young soprano named Coretta Scott and accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.


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Arts Center releases September classes
New classes, workshops and camps begin in September at the Randolph County Community Arts Center. Information and descriptions about late spring and summer classes and events are available online at www.randolpharts.org.
– Art Around the World
Students will "travel" to a different continent each week in this six-week art workshop. Instructor Sarah Ferguson will teach students about the different cultures and traditions of each area, through the artwork. Students will create both 2-D and 3-D art, and will get to use many different mediums and techniques. Pack your bags – we are headed to Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Europe and Australia! This six-week course begins Monday, Sept. 9. This workshop is offered in two sessions: one from 2-3 p.m. for homeschooled students in grades K-5 and the other from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. for students in grades K-5. The cost of the course is $60.
– Searamics
Introduce your children to creative, functional pottery though press molding and sculpting ocean life tableware! Join Jennifer Wagoner in exploring the world of pottery and sea life. Creating octopus cups, fish plates and more, pottery knowledge and exposure will expand through guided practice. This six-week course begins Tuesday, Sept. 10. The class will meet from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Open to children ages 8 to 12, the course costs $90.
– After School Art Club
Diana Vera will offer a cornucopia of expressive arts: mixed media and movement; creative writing and song; drama and visual arts – all spiced with a global flavor! The After School Art Club will meet each Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., beginning Tuesday, Sept. 24. Buses from North and Third Ward Elementary Schools will drop students at the Arts Center. Students not riding the bus should arrive for class by 4:15 p.m. A member of the Arts Center staff will greet students at the bus.
Each afternoon will begin with a short snack followed by an art activity. The Art Club will provide children with a supportive and fun environment to develop their creativity and stretch their imagination while learning art concepts and techniques in a variety of media. Enrollment is limited to 10 students for the fall session. The Art Club will follow the Randolph County School calendar and will not meet on afternoons when the school is closed or during holiday breaks. Beginning Tuesday, Sept. 10, After School Art Club is open to children in grades K-5. The cost of the course is $300.
– Recorder Magic Class
Learn to read music as well as improvise with the inexpensive and easy-to-play recorder. Instructor Kay McClane encourages parents to learn with their children like the famous Suzuki method. Each student must bring their own recorder to class. This six-week course will meet beginning Wednesday, Sept. 11 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. For ages 7 and up, class is $40 monthly for a one-hour weekly session.
– Alive in Nature for pre-K
Using objects we find in nature, Katy McClane will help children will create little creatures. Parents and children are encouraged to bring objects they have found in the woods. The class will meet on Saturdays from 10 to 11 a.m., beginning Saturday, Sept. 14. The class is open for children 4 to 6 years old. The cost of the class is $50.
– Happy Birthday, Artist! Series
Join artist Kadra Casseday in celebrating the birthday of a famous artist! Each Happy Birthday, Artist! workshop will focus on an artist born in that month. Each class will include a brief history of the artist and continue with a multimedia project created in that particular theme. The September session will meet on Saturday, Sept. 22, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The workshop is open to children in grades K-5. The cost of the class is $20. Preregistration is required. Maximum enrollment is eight, so register early.
– Photos to Watercolor
Transfer your summer photos (old or new) into works of art as artist/instructor, Sarah Ferguson, guides the class through the process of building a painting. Students will need to bring their own photos to class. The instructor will have extras to choose from as well. The students will work independently on recreating their memories, but will go through the process together as a class. This class will cover basic techniques and many tips as well. Students will finish several artworks during this workshop. All levels are welcome. No experience is required. This six-week class will meet on Mondays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. beginning Monday, Sept. 9. The cost of the class is $90.
– Handbuilding for the Kitchen
Join artist and potter Jennifer Boyle in this class designed for beginning artists as well as experienced potters. During this course, students will gain proficiency with handbuilding techniques in creating functional pottery for the kitchen. Projects include creating trays, pitchers, teapots and more. The six-week class will meet on Mondays from 6 to 8 p.m., beginning Monday, Sept. 9. The class is open to students ages 14 and up. The cost is $90.
– Thanksgiving Tableware
Handbuild seasonal tableware under the instruction of artist and potter Jennifer Wagoner. Further your pottery exposure through guided projects and ease your way into the world of ceramics. Projects include napkin rings, gravy boats, pie plates and more. This six-week class will meet from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays beginning Sept. 10. The class is open to adults. The cost of the course is $90.
– Pottery: Hand and Wheel
This class is designed for beginning artist as well as experienced potters. Beginning students can learn the fundamentals of handbuilding and throwing on the potter's wheel, including centering, raising the wall, thinning, shaping and trimming. Experienced students will refine their throwing/building skills and learn new finishing techniques to bring their pottery to a higher level. This course is offered in three different six-week sessions: 1-4 p.m. for teens and adults ages 16 and up, 4-5:30 p.m. for teens ages 12-18 and 6-8 p.m. for teens and adults. This six-week class begins Wednesday, Sept. 11. The cost of the course is $100.
– Alive in Nature
Students will go out into the woods to gain inspiration from the natural world. With guidance from Katy McClane, art hunters will find three objects in nature shaped in the geometric shapes sphere, square and cylinder. These objects will be used as models from which principles of drawing and painting will be explored. This six-week class will meet on Wednesdays from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. beginning Wednesday, Sept. 11. Alive in Nature is offered to youth in grades 9-12. The cost of the course is $50.
– Life Drawing
Intermediate to advanced artists can participate in this open studio, which provides a wonderful opportunity to draw from a clothed model. Supplies are not included. Tuition fee covers the model. Life Drawing is a self-directed course meeting on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning Thursday, Sept. 12. The cost of the class is $45.
– Beginner Wheel
Join artist and potter Kevin Boyle for a beginner to intermediate level class on the pottery wheel. Improve upon centering and throwing while creating fun pieces in the process. Walk away with the knowledge to throw, center and create cylindrical shapes, small bowls, mugs and more. No pottery experience is required. This six-week class will meet on Thursdays from 6 to 7:30, beginning Sept. 12. The class is offered to students ages 14 and up. The cost of the class is $90.
– Intro to Screen Printing
Instructor Kevin Woodcock will guide students through the process of learning basic screen printing. Students will begin with an introduction followed with creating a stencil and perfecting the print to a finished product. Students will gain knowledge of working in the screen print medium and print editions. This six-week class will meet on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m., beginning Thursday, Sept. 12. This intro course is offered to adults. The cost is $100.
– Open Pottery Studio
Enjoy the company of other potters while you throw or handbuild at your own pace. Sign up as a stand-alone series or enroll in addition to a directed pottery class to help reinforce skills. There is no instructor, just a studio manager. Participants are encouraged to share ideas, techniques and good stories while working independently on projects. 1 Park Studio's space accommodates nine potters on wells. One bag of clay included in tuition; additional bags are sold at $30, which includes glaze and firings. Basic pottery skills are a must. Open Pottery Studio is open on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., beginning Friday, Sept. 13. Studio time is available to adults. The cost is $90 for six weeks.
– Watercolor workshop "Capturing the Light"
Lynn Ferris, NWS, will hold a watercolor workshop, "Capturing the Light," at the Arts Center on Sept. 7-8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lynn is the 2013 Gala Exhibit Juror. She is a member of the National Watercolor Society and the Florida Watercolor Society. Originally from New Jersey, she attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and has worked as both a commercial and architectural illustrator. This workshop is open to adults. The cost is $135 for members of the Arts Center and $175 for nonmembers. Reserve a space for $50.
– Simple Printmaking
Students will join artist and teacher Maggi Rhudy to learn different techniques of simple printmaking that can be used to make greeting cards and framed art. Printmaking processes explored will include rubbings, Styrofoam printing, cardboard printing, monoprinting and linoleum cut printing. Students will take home several prints from each technique. The workshop is Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour break for lunch. Open to older teens and adults, the cost is $50.
The arts center is constantly adding new classes, camps and workshops. Visit our website, www.randolpharts.org, contact the office, 304-637-2355 or "like" us on Facebook for up-to-date events.


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