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Sidebar podcast: Columbus, City of Bros
The Columbus Dispatch - July 12, 2013 02:28 PM
In this episode of Sidebar,
The Columbus Dispatch's podcast on Columbus-focused events, movies, music, dining and
Dispatch staffers Susannah Elliott, Kevin Joy and Ally Manning discuss Columbus' suitability as a bro haven, the city's secession options, Columbus Documentary Week and adopting dogs in Franklin County.
Sidebar is also available on iTunes and Stitcher.
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Links from this week's topics:
- The 18 Best U.S. Cities for Bros, according to Estately.com
- Weekender story about trapeze fitness classes at 400 W. Rich St. (video can be found at the bottom of this post)
- LivingSocial's Cirque du Soleil ticket deal
- Kevin's review of Wednesday's Bruno Mars concert
- Kevin's 2009 story about how Gallery Hop is more like Shopping Hop
- Gateway Film Center's 2013 Columbus Documentary Week
- Places in Columbus to rent projectors: Columbus Projector and Ohio HD and Cine Rental
- Ally's Internet recommendation of the week: FranklinCountyDogs.com and the Franklin County app (Android and iPhone)
And last but certainly not least, from the Columbus Dispatch archives comes this story about the 1996 proposal for Columbus' own SERPENT BRIDGE...
March 19, 1996, by staff reporter Mary Stephens:
The giant snake proposed for the Broad Street Bridge is probably dead, and Franklin County
Engineer John Circle has blue glass scales all over his boot heel.
An application for $700,000 in federal money to put artwork - either a giant, blue-glass serpentine canopy or a series of bronze globes and cartoonish figures - on the bridge was ranked dead last out of 34 hopefuls by a review committee of the Ohio Department of Transportation.
Only the top nine applications in the category of historical or archaeological projects were awarded money.
Although Circle technically was the applicant for the funding, he helped put the kibosh on the project by telling the transportation department he thought either of the proposed artworks, but particularly the snake, would be difficult to maintain and inappropriate for the 6-year-old bridge.
A department spokesman confirmed that Circle's reservations about the two art proposals, chosen by a jury impaneled by the Greater Columbus Arts Council, influenced the selection committee's decision.
When the selection committee considered the bridge art proposal, "neither (artwork) was felt to be compatible with the historic district" in which the bridge lies, said Howard Wood, spokesman for the department's Bureau of Environmental Services.
Failure to get the federal money doesn't automatically kill the idea of art on the bridge, but it means supporters will have to beat the bushes much harder for private donations.
Fund-raisers faced an uphill battle even if the federal funding had been approved. Initial estimates called for the project to cost $1 million, but the two designs chosen as finalists were both expected to cost more than $3 million.
"I'm glad that the air has been let out of this thing, " Circle said yesterday.
While Circle supported the idea of art on the new bridge from its inception, and his office gathered $140,000 in corporate and private donations several years ago, he wasn't happy with the direction taken after he turned the art selection and fund-raising over to the Arts Council.
Circle said he found plenty to love in the more than 50 artists' ideas that had been submitted for the bridge over the years. But when the art jury's formal competition narrowed the field to the snake, the bronze figures and a large lighted abstract sculpture that looked like a ski jump, he was less comfortable.
"I was suddenly in the minority, but I couldn't back out then, " Circle said. "I couldn't do it on the basis of the art alone, because that's not my area."
Circle said he is obligated to spend at least the $140,000 on art for the bridge but doesn't have immediate plans.
Historic preservation consultant Nancy Recchie, who is coordinating the bridge art project for the Arts Council, was disappointed and frustrated yesterday.
While the council probably will go ahead with plans for the two finalist artists to present more-refined versions of their proposals in May, "there aren't a lot of sources for public art funding, " she said.
Recchie called it "interesting" that ODOT rejected the project based on incompatibility with the bridge's historic district, citing the fact that historic preservationists served on the art jury, and that the Arts Council made every effort to explain to ODOT how the project fit into the bridge's historic theme.
The two finalists - serpent designer Todd Slaughter, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and New York sculptor Tom Otterness, who designed the bronze figures - were each given $25,000 last fall by the Arts Council to refine their ideas.
Circle said he found it "atrocious" that the federal Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act is setting aside 15 percent of highway funding for such enhancement projects in the first place.
"It was way out of proportion, " he said of the percentage.
The federal law was authorized for six years and generated about $13 million each year in Ohio for such things as landscaping, bike and pedestrian paths and historic preservation, Wood said.
In this final round, the transportation department approved $2.43 million for historic projects, $3.85 million for scenic improvements and $3.89 million for bikeways and pedestrian paths.
Winning Franklin County projects include $443,885 for landscaping 1.54 miles of I-670 between I-71 and Leonard Avenue and $710,900 for 4 miles of bike path along Rt. 745 in Dublin.


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Topic: Deprecation of old prototype functions, how can I convert?
A while back (a year ago) I wrote - what I thought - was a cool Rails app with Rails 2.3.5 and lots of partials with remote AJAX calls to push all of the data around so the page never "seemingly" refreshed. Now (a year later with no RoR programming in-between nor any idea what's going on with RoR), I want to implement the same functionality with the Rails 3.1.0 RC4 but, everywhere I look everyone is saying that link_to_remote is deprecated and so are other similar Prototype functions. If I have a link like:
<%= link_to_remote "something", "controller/action", :update => "some_div_id", :locals => { :variables => values } %>
then how can I convert this to work with Rails 3.1? I'm not demanding exact code, an API would be nice but I don't believe there is an official one (the most official one is for that of Rails 3.0.9, correct?), so your best guess would be helpful.
TL;DR: link_to with :remote => true doesn't do what I want in Rails 3.1 RC4. I want the old :update html option where I can specify a div to populate with the requested data. How can I do this nowadays?
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Topic: Models with sessions and params
I have a multi user application. Every user have a unique id number. The users are able to post into a database using the model Post. That works great, except that I can't figure out how to add the user's id number into the database and the :id from the current URL. The user id is stored in session[:user_id]
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
validates_presence_of :content
def before_create
self.parent =
self.user =
self.timestamp = Time.now
I use this form:
<%= error_messages_for 'post' %>
<%= start_form_tag :action => 'newpost', :id => params[:id] %>

Content

<%= text_area 'post', 'content', "cols" => 60 %>

<%= submit_tag "Create" %>
<%= end_form_tag %>
The controller:
def newpost
if request.get?
@post = Post.new
@post = Post.new(@params[:post])
if @post.save
flash['notice'] = 'Post was successfully created.'
redirect_to :action => 'show', :id => params[:id]
How do I set it up so that self.parent will be params[:id] and so that self.user will be session[:user_id]?
Thank you


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The leak heard 'round the nuclear industry
A radioactive leak in New Mexico will make solutions to our waste problem even more elusive.
Until this Feb. 5, when fire erupted from a truck 2,100 feet below ground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico, the country's only permanent nuclear waste repository had a perfect 15-year-long safety record. It's hard to overstate how much this mattered: The deep salt-bed mine, called always by its acronym, only handles debris from nuclear bomb-making. Yet nuclear power proponents have long drawn optimism from WIPP's success. If a repository could succeed for nuclear-defense waste – a category less hot than spent reactor fuel – could we then find a place to inter the accumulating detritus of nuclear reactors? If WIPP could demonstrate safe geologic disposal, might other communities with the appropriate geology also welcome nuclear waste into their backyards?
Nuclear power could then make its comeback as a climate-friendly alternative to coal. That long hoped-for renaissance stalled out as more spent fuel rods crowded into inadequate pools at reactor sites – pools, as we saw at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, that could burst into flames. WIPP offered hope, evidence, a living laboratory: Let 1,000 reactors bloom.
Had WIPP's problems ended with the truck fire, that vision might have had a chance. But nine days later, on Valentine's Day, alarms sounded above an air monitor, warning that radioactive particles were escaping from the mine. Workers quickly closed vents, redirecting air flow through particle-stripping filters. Still, alpha radiation from americium and plutonium, the fingerprint of nuclear-weapons waste, was detected a half-mile away.
No one thinks the truck fire triggered the radiation leak, but nearly four months later, no one knows for sure what actually did. There have been theories. "Theory after theory," New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn complained at a Carlsbad town hall on May 8. One involved naturally occurring radon gas pressuring particles out of the mine; another suggested a fallen ceiling bolt had punctured a drum. "We need to be very careful what information we put out," Flynn said, at the same time chiding WIPP Recovery Manager Jim Blankenhorn, a U.S. Energy Department contractor, for his lack of transparency. "Evolving theories undermine confidence."
Blankenhorn maintained his reserve, and the next week described how workers dressed in protective gear and outfitted with extendable cameras had gathered clues: Images showing a container drum whose contents seem to have burst forth and frozen, like calcified curdled milk. Bags of magnesium oxide, placed atop the drums to shield radiation, have spilled open. Dark stains on the drum suggest some sort of "heat-producing event" occurred in nitrate salts contained in the drum. The damaged drum has been traced back to Los Alamos National Laboratories, one of several facilities that send Cold War-era defense waste to WIPP.
What caused the container to heat up? Investigators have a theory about that, too: Someone at Los Alamos packed the nitrate salts with the wrong kind of kitty litter, like Swheat Scoop instead of Jonny Cat.
No, really.
"In the '90s, when I was at Los Alamos, we actually did use Jonny Cat," says James Conca, an expert on nuclear waste disposal. "It has very nice chemical composition." Kitty litter absorbs any liquid that could usher radioactive material out of its container. But the wrong kind of kitty litter – a plant-based material as opposed to Jonny Cat's mineral clay – might have interacted with oxidizing nitrate salts and heated up, like "a slow-burning charcoal briquette," Conca says.
The Energy Department insists that the radiation release wasn't enough to imperil the public and had only minimal impact on workers. That's hardly reassuring: WIPP wasn't supposed to leak at all. Now that it has, it takes effort to believe that the next one won't be worse.
Nor does the accident at WIPP bode well for waste disposal from commercial nuclear power reactors, a problem so stymied by politics that the Obama administration recently stopped collecting disposal fees from utilities. The last attempt to develop a U.S. repository, at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, united all factions in opposition, not least because Yucca Mountain has a history of volcanism. WIPP, by contrast, has been dug into a 250-million-year-old salt bed laid down by the evaporation of the Permian Sea. "Salt is molecularly tight," Conca says. "It takes water a billion years to move an inch through salt." Yet the facility remains closed indefinitely. Some waste has been redirected to temporary storage in West Texas; more languishes on the surface where it originated.
Don Hancock of the nonprofit Southwest Research and Information Center in Carlsbad thinks the waste awaiting storage should stay where it is. WIPP, he says, "was a flawed site long before the February events. It's surrounded by more than 100 oil and gas wells." Others argue that closing WIPP would be a mistake, especially now.
"Everyone should be grateful that this waste drum vented after it was emplaced into WIPP," Per Peterson, a nuclear engineering professor at University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an email. "The worst thing that could result would be to leave remaining waste in limbo above ground, risking similar events." Peterson recommends clustering all suspect drums into WIPP's compromised sections and sealing them off forever. The salt bed will then isolate the radioactive waste, just as it did ancient bacteria, which have been found in the salt formation perfectly intact, DNA and all, after a quarter of a billion years.
But first, officials have to know what happened. Attempts to reproduce the organic kitty litter-nitrate salt reaction have failed, and new theories continue to emerge. Only one thing's sure: The promise of geologic disposal of nuclear waste has been dealt a huge blow. And the dimming hope of a nuclear waste solution won't brighten until WIPP's problems are fully understood – and maybe not even then.
"A radioactive leak in New Mexico will make solutions to our waste problem even more elusive."
The article tells us that the repository's 15 year perfect safety record is now ruined by a radiation leak that the DOE says is harmless. "It's hard to overstate how much this mattered" pants the author. The article concedes the leak was harmless but "Now that it has, it takes effort to believe that the next one won't be worse." Well, in fact it could be a lot worse and still be harmless. And given the record of one small leak in 15 years, I say we shouldn't lose any sleep over it. What we should lose sleep over is global warming and the folks who fight to prevent science from developing the only clean energy source capable of providing the world's electricity.
Judith Lewis Mernit
HCN Contributing Editor
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During the question answer period the first question is about a Gen IV reactor that burns nuclear waste. Dr. Peterson is unable to give the details, but I can. The question refers to Lesley Dewan and Mark Massie who were Phd students at MIT in 2011. They designed a molten salt reactor called the WAMSR (Waste Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor) and started a company called Trans Atomic Power. Theirs is one of six different companies designing variations of molten salt reactors. The design competition for Gen IV reactors is exciting and promising, especially when you add NuScale's PWR SMR entry, and Per Peterson's favored pebble bed design.
That being said, because it's a salt bed, the natural occurring radiation at the surface is well below average, so it was easy to detect. Was it even remotely close to 'tragic'? Not even--it was the same level we experience in ABQ and Santa Fe on a daily basis as the rockies decompose under us.
Can we start a recycling system like they use in France please?


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Put them to use
To the Journal editor:
While millions of relinquished or confiscated guns are currently being destroyed by federal, state and local governments, why can't they instead be expropriated for use by law enforcement agencies and/or the U.S. military?
At first glance, it would appear that destruction of these firearms will make our streets safer; however, many of these guns will be replaced by new ones sold by gun dealers.
Paul G. Jaehnert
Vadnais Heights, Minn.


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UK willing to control immigration hands-on, not rely on criteria system
UK wishes to put in place an immigration system that would allow the country to decide, who enters it and a point-based one that would grant automatic rights to enter, the spokeswoman of British Prime Minister Theresa May noted on September 5.
Reuters reports that May, who has promised to tighten border controls, stated on September 4 she does not favour a points-based system that screens applicants on the basis of factors such as education and skills.
«A points-based system would give foreign nationals the right to come to Britain if they meet certain criteria,» the spokeswoman explained.
«An immigration system that works for Britain would ensure that the right to decide who comes to the country resides with the government.»
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I would like to pass a ruby array as an argument for a javascript function triggered by onmouseover.
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It has been well over a year since NRG Dunkirk announced it was going to close its plant due to the low cost of natural gas making the coal-burning electric producer non-competitive in the open market. At that time, the PSC ordered NRG and transmission lines owner National Grid to submit information on the best solution to meet electric system reliability needs.
That process, although a lengthy one by necessity, continues to drag on as National Grid requested an extension until Sept. 4 to file the results of its Western Area Transmission System Reliability Report. On Aug. 23, the PSC directed Grid to final its final results by Aug. 30. The plan was to have a technical conference by Oct. 15 to review the results.
"Such an extension will promote the fair, orderly and efficient conduct of this matter," National Grid wrote.
The PSC also had an Aug. 16 deadline to accept public comments on the issue, but it would seem the PSC has adopted a "keep those cards and letters coming in" approach as far as that deadline.
On Friday, two weeks after the Aug. 16 deadline, three more comments were added to the PSC website, adding to the more than 520 comments received after Aug. 16. In all, there are now 6,596 comments posted, although more that a few contain multiple writers.
Many, if not most, of the comments opposing the repowering of the two plants appear to be a form letter, as they contained similar wording beginning with a salutation of Dear Hon. Cohen.
"Don't raise my electric bill to pay for expensive and unnecessary natural gas plants and infrastructure that we don't need. It's time for the PSC to protect bill-payers and for New York State to deliver on its clean energy promises. Spending millions of dollars to convert dirty and uneconomical coal plants to gas power will not solve system reliability problems, because future transmission upgrades would still be necessary," the form letters state. "Furthermore, NYISO has determined that there is enough power in New York State to safely take the Cayuga and Dunkirk coal plants offline without replacement fossil fuel generation. What we need are cost-effective transmission improvements, demand response solutions and a real commitment to a 21st century clean energy economy."
The letters go on to state the writers support the NYSEG and National Grid transmission proposals. Many of those opposed appear to reside in the eastern part of the state and New York City.
Assemblyman Andy Goodell, along with state Sen. Cathy Young have been in the forefront of the fight to repower the Dunkirk plant. Goodell was asked about the PSC deadline.
"I think in order to comply with rules they needed to set a deadline. Are they required to consider those submitted after the deadline? No. In other words it's a soft deadline," he explained. "They'll look at the ones that come on or before the deadline. They may, but don't have to, look at the ones that come in after the deadline.
"My recommendation to local residents would be to keep sending the comments in. I don't think the PSC gives as much weight to a form letter as they do to individual letters. You'll see the ones that support it are all individual letters."
While Goodell said the plant would cost more than the upgrades, National Grid ignores the energy savings a new plant would bring.
"National Grid is doing its best to convince the PSC that you should only look at the construction costs and should completely ignore the fact that the power that's going to be produced is going to be using one of the lowest-cost fuel sources in the nation, natural gas," Goodell explained. "The bottom line is this, PA Consulting, National Grid's own consultants, estimated that the power savings would be in the range of $59 million a year, which is a savings that far exceeds National Grid's estimates of the capital costs of $33 million a year. So if PA Consulting is correct the ratepayer would see a reduction in cost in the range of $26 million per year.
"The second consultant for National Grid, Atlantic Economics, they estimated there would be no energy savings, in which case you would have a $33 million increase in electric bills. NRG estimates that electric savings would be substantially higher than PA Consultants. It's the job of the PSC to figure out who is accurate, most likely correct, and that involves an assessment not only of the cost of the NRG power but the projected cost of the alternative power."
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Good points all. I am not NY style by definition, so I need to get over it, ha!I will try a lower hydration, maybe 58% and keep the oil at 5.5%.Think a 3% salt would add gluten strength?The problem is tearing during stretching. The 20 minute rest period before kneading has helped. You all think 58% hydration and 3% salt will help even further with gluten development/strength?And was thinking adding some ascorbic acid. Any idea on amount of this?Thank you both
So if the "effective hydration" is 72.17, what would be the acceptable level of hydration if the oil remains at 5.5% ?So you simply add the oil and water percentage to get "effective"?If IKABF has a rated absorption value of 62%, and oil is 5.5% the water hydration should be 56.5% max?
How much is a little ascorbic acid?
Interesting Aimless Ryan, you mention bulk fermentation. I have never read on the differences. Can you please explain the pros/cons/differences?thanks
Seems:1. Salt increases gluten structure (slows fermentation)2. Ascorbic acid increases gluten structure3. Bromated flour increases gluten structure (will not do, not available, possibly toxic)4. Emulsifiers increases gluten structure5. Oil decreases gluten structure6. My experience, cold fermentation does nothing for gluten structure.7. Not sure about high hydration


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Heroic rescuers in Japan have risked high levels of radiation to help save a pack of Shetland sheep dogs, otherwise known as shelties. The animals were found wandering the streets in the abandoned town of Minami Soma, where they once lived with their owner, according to The Associated Press.
Though the dogs' guardian hadn't been able to take the dogs when she left the town, she had supplied them with water and dry food to prevent them from starvation. When the rescue workers arrived at the town, it appeared as though the animals were waiting for their owner to return.
In all, the animal rescue workers saved 20 shelties. They had to lure the animals slowly, using treats and corralling them in groups of six or seven. They were then taken to veterinarian clinics to undergo pet health exams.
Sadly, there are still many animals in the northeast region of Japan who remain homeless since the region was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
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When you hear the words "cat scratch disease," you may assume that you're hearing about a type of feline illness. But in reality, cat scratch disease, or CSD, is an illness that affects humans, according to VCA Animal Hospitals. The illness itself is caused by a microorganism known as Bartonella henselae and it is most commonly transmitted through a cat scratch or bite.
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Symptoms of cat scratch fever can vary, but typically involve mild fever, fatigue and enlarged lymph nodes. You may see lesions on the skin or conjunctiva, a membrane coating the eyelid and white of the eye. Fortunately, most cases of CSD resolve without the need for medication, however, VCA reports that there are a few strains of the Bartonella species that may cause more serious, even chronic problems.
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VCA reports that CSD can be passed a number of ways, and cases have occurred in people with no apparent contact with cats. However, the most common way humans are exposed are through contact with infected cats. Fleas carry the Bartonella henselae organism and when fleas feed on cats they will infect that cat as well as leave "flea dirt" on the cat that is also infectious and can be transmitted to humans. If you were recently scratched by a cat and are now experiencing symptoms of CSD, then chances are you may have contracted the illness from the cat scratch. However, a scratch is not absolutely necessary and you may contract the illness by more casual contact with infected "flea dirt" on the cat. That's why it's essential for cat owners to speak to their vet about ways to prevent cat fleas.
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Paleozoic Partner Highlight
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Paleogeographic maps showing two hemispheres of earth approximately 280 million years ago, as well as an enlargement of western North America. Base maps by Ron Blakey (Colorado Plateau Geosystems).
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
(New Mexico)
Rewriting Scientific Understanding
of Permian Footprints
Track your way to the Permian Period, 280 million years ago—a time when Las Cruces, New Mexico was located near the equator. It was a tropical coastal environment next to the inland Hueco Sea. The vegetation was thick with ancient conifer trees. Fern-like plants grew densely from the ground. Large amphibians and reptiles were on the top of the food chain. Smaller amphibians and reptiles fought for survival. Various insects made their homes amongst the swampy landscape. This was tens of millions of years before the dinosaurs and hundreds of millions of years before humans.
At Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, this ancient world has been preserved as tracks, traces, and various sedimentary features in the red mudstones of the Hueco Group. Hundreds of fossil sites in and around the approximately 5,280 acre Monument preserve different parts of this ancient ecosystem. In particular, the Monument includes a major deposit of Permian-aged fossilized footprint megatrackways.
The trackways at the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument rewrote scientific understanding of Permian footprints. They represent an instant in time almost 300 million years ago, and you can look at it and understand how animals were behaving.
—Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology,
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (PTNM) was the 100th national monument established in the United States. It was established in 2009 to conserve, protect, and enhance the unique and nationally important paleontological, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational resources and values of the Robledo Mountains in southern New Mexico. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is part of the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS), which is managed for preservation, public enjoyment, and scientific study.
The Story of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument
In the mid-1980s Jerry MacDonald, an amateur paleontologist, brought national recognition to the Robledo Mountains when he found intact, Permian-aged fossilized trackways in the Las Cruces area. Under the supervision of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, MacDonald excavated thousands of specimens from these trackways from what is now known as the Discovery Site. The majority of the over 2500 slabs removed in the excavation comprises "The Jerry MacDonald Paleozoic Trackways Collection" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Further research conducted by scientists from all over the world confirms that the Robledo trackways represent one of the most important Late Paleozoic fossil records in the world. A 2010 scientific survey, headed by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, located over 150 fossil sites in and around the Monument. All of these sites date to the same time period—280 million years ago during the Permian. These sites consist of tracks and imprints made by reptiles such as Dimetrodon, amphibians, fish, arachnids, and insects, along with marine fossils, plant fossils, and petrified wood, as well as rare eurypterid traces shown below.
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Eurypterids swimming in freshwater pools were likely responsible for these interesting traces, indentified as Palmichnium. A reconstruction of a eurypterid making the traces is illustrated below the slab. Eurypterids are featured on the 2013 National Fossil Day Artwork. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science photograph and diagram, courtesy McKinney Briske (Prehistoric Trackways National Monument).
The trace fossils preserved in Prehistoric Trackways National Monument provide a window into a single instant in time, hundreds of millions of years in the past. Now under the management and protection of the BLM, scientists and the public will be able to study, enjoy, and learn about these fossils for generations to come.
Educational Initiatives
The BLM promotes the excellent educational opportunities of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument. Park rangers lead guided hikes for the public approximately twice a month on Saturdays (weather permitting), regularly give programs for local community groups and partnering agencies, host an annual K-5 paleontology day camp, visit classrooms, and host field trips. BLM has partnered with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and New Mexico State University STEM and Creative Media Institute to create roving school-kits in which students work with paleontologists, through a media component, to solve some of the mysteries of this ancient fossil environment. In 2011, videos were created to document the research of various scientists working together and with BLM staff. Filming was a partnership with faculty and students from the Creative Media Institute at New Mexico State University, Illinois State Geological Survey–Prairie Research Institute, and Royal Holloway, part of the University of London. View the videos here. This project was made possible in part with funds provided through a BLM NLCS grant.
BLM has partnered with the City of Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science to feature the Monument's fossils in their Permian Trackways Exhibit, including display of a 30-foot-long trackway.
To celebrate National Fossil Day 2013, Monument staff, along with the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Las Cruces Museum of Nature and Science, Asombro Institute for Science Education, and Mesilla Valley Bosque State Park, will host hands-on, interactive programs at a local school where students rotate through stations and learn about different fossils from various time periods and locations that record the natural history of southern New Mexico.
More information about Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, including location and upcoming events can be found at the Bureau of Land Management's Prehistoric Trackways National Monument website.
Article and photographs provided by McKinney Briske (PTNM Park Ranger).
2013 Paleozoic Partner feature articles:| January: Fossils of the 2013 National Fossil Day Artwork | February: Paleontological Research Institution, Museum of the Earth | March: Falls of the Ohio State Park | April: Field Museum of Natural History, Mazon Creek Collection | May: Prehistoric Trackways National Monument | June: Cincinnati Museum Center | July: Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve | August: University of Michican Museum of Paleontology, Silica Formation Fossils | September: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Beecher's Trilobite Bed | October: Guadalupe Mountains National Park | November: Utah Geological Survey, Millard County Cambrian Fossils | December: Denver Museum of Nature and Science, High-Altitude Mass Extinction |
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The Scottish people have taken back the land. But the question arises: What will they do with it?to reawake their slumbering Parliament. On the ground, Scots are as restive with an Anglicized landscape as they are with Anglo rule. "Who owns Scotland?" cries Rob McMorran, coordinator of a group of activists known as the Scottish Wild Land Group. "Up until a few years ago, God owned Scotland. It was a feudal system of ownership." It many ways—despite passage of land reform in 2003—it still is. McMorran is echoing the title of a popular book and website, Who Owns Scotland? which reports that a mere 343 private individuals own half the country's 19 million acres. Scotland's two national parks, also created in 2003, are not nationalized: The majority of land within them is owned and managed privately, with continued sheep grazing and commercial forestry.
Carrifran is one of Scotland's largest ecological restoration projects, planted with 450,000 seedlings.Eventually the Trust raised 335,000 pounds to buy the land, and on January 1, 2000, Millennium Day, a hundred volunteers began planting the first trees. At 1,640 acres, Carrifran is one of the largest ecological restoration projects in Scotland, fully planted with 450,000 birch, yew, aspen, juniper, oak, pine, and hazel seedlings—many grown from seed collected locally in patches of surviving native woods. It is estimated to offset nearly 30,000 tons of CO2 over the next century. Patrolled by Wildwood's "dirty hands" volunteers—its boundary inspected over a hundred times in the past decade by hill walkers—the Carrifran project has been hailed as a monument to community-based conservation.
The most unexpected development occurred when nearby residents protested the removal of feral goats.The group had underestimated how bracken—ferns that colonize pastureland—suppresses regeneration, shading and crushing new growth; hand-cutting and spot-spraying of herbicides are dealing with that. Perhaps the most unexpected development occurred when residents of a nearby village protested the removal of feral goats. "They thought them part of their heritage," Philip Ashmole said dryly. But Wildwood stood its ground, removing most goats alive, although three stragglers had to be shot. A deer "stalker" patrols once a week to ensure that no grazers penetrate fenced areas; sales of venison support the project.
Conservationists have set their sights on historic Ettrick Forest, where William Wallace rallied the Scots.hydroelectric plant to power the fully-restored lodge. A herd of Highland cattle have stepped in for the extinct auroch, and an 800-acre enclosure houses an experimental group of boar. The boars' rooting destroys bracken, improving soil quality, so WildCRU undertook a study to establish the size of their territories. Two bemused-looking moose, Hercules and Hulda—immigrants from Sweden—have settled into another enclosure. While a previous owner began small-scale reforestation, Lister has planted 150,000 native trees—Caledonian pine, rowan, birch, oak, willow, and aspen—with an additional 250,000 planned. There are restoration plans for capercaillie, Britain's largest game bird, and red squirrel.


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David M. Livingston, MD
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Area of ResearchMolecular Pathogenesis of Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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BiographyDavid Livingston is Deputy Director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center; Chief of the Charles A. Dana Division of Human Cancer Genetics, and the Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee for Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, leading the senior faculty group that oversees all aspects of the Institute's research program. He reassumed that post in 2005 and has been in it since that time. Dr. Livingston has been a Harvard faculty member continuously since 1973.
Dr. Livingston received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College in 1961, an M.D., magna cum laude, from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1965, and served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (now Brigham and Women's Hospital). In 1967, he became a Research Associate at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in molecular biology and biochemistry; he continued his work as a Research Fellow in Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1969. Dr. Livingston returned to NCI in 1971 as a Senior Staff Fellow where he began his career in cancer research. He was recruited to Dana-Farber (then the Childrens Cancer Research Foundation) in 1973.
Dr. Livingston is an internationally recognized expert on genes that regulate cell growth in the body - genes that, when they go awry, can lead to cancer. These genes are called oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Through his research, Dr. Livingston has uncovered detailed biochemical steps required to initiate and maintain the transformation of these cells into tumor cells. His focus is on the regulatory controls of signal transduction - the smooth and coordinated flow of special chemical signals from the surrounding environment to the cell, where it is transduced into specific commands that tell cells whether or not to grow - and their role in cancer development. In recent years, his work has centered on those key molecular steps that trigger the development of breast and ovarian cancer.
Dr. Livingston is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, itself, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He sits on multiple editorial boards, the science advisory boards of other research institutions, and is a member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Academy of Microbiology. He is also a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Damon Runyan Cancer Research Foundation. Dr. Livingston has authored more than195 scientific publications.
Recent Awards
- AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award, 2005
- Boveri Award for Molecular Cancer Genetics, German Cancer Society, 2005
- Lila Gruber Honor Award for Cancer Research, American Academy of Dermatology, 2001
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001
- Baxter Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences, AAMC, 1997
ResearchMolecular Pathogenesis of Breast and Ovarian Cancer
Our laboratory is dedicated to the study of processes that, when defective, allow human cells to develop malignant characteristics. These processes are, in part, controlled by tumor suppressor loci. We continue to concentrate our efforts on a subset of these loci, all of which exert their functions in the nucleus. Some participate in the control of cell proliferation, others in the control of genome integrity, and still others in mechanisms that underlie the ability of cells to thrive in low-oxygen environments and under other stresses. Based on some unexpected results, we have extended our work over the past two years to explore the events that give stem cells of certain tissues the ability to self-renew.
A fraction of our effort is dedicated to understanding the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer development. In particular, we are studying the in vivo biochemical and biological functions of four genes - BRCA1, BRCA2, BACH1, and BARD1 - which encode large nuclear proteins that interact specifically with one another. At least three and likely all four of these proteins are products of tumor suppressing loci. Together, they function as parts of large nuclear complexes that participate in the response of cells to DNA damage, and perhaps in other basic functions as well. When BRCA1, BARD1, or BRCA2 is rendered defective by germline mutation in females, tumor development develops at higher than normal frequencies in the breast and the ovary. A major segment of our ongoing work is aimed at trying to understand how, in biochemical terms, BRCA1 and BRCA2 perform their tumor suppressing effects and why, in the case of BRCA1, these effects are detected in the cells of women but not men.
Select Publications
- Chan HM, Masako N, Lowe SW, Livingston DM. P400 participates in the p53/p21 senescence pathway. Genes Dev 2005;19:196-201.
- Kanellopoulou C, Muljo SA, Kung AL, Ganesan S, Drapkin R, Jenuwein T, Livingston DM, Rajewsky K. Dicer-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells are defective in differentiation and centromeric silencing. Genes Dev 2005;19:489-501.
- Cantor S, Drapkin R, Zhang F, Lin Y, Han J, Pamidi S, Livingston DM. The BRCA1-associated protein BACH1 is a DNA helicase targeted by clinically relevant inactivating mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004;101:2357-62.
- Taubert S, Frank SR, Parisi T, Fuchs M, Chan HM, Livingston DM, Amati B. E2F-dependent histone acetylation and recruitment of the Tip60 acetyltransferase complex to chromatin in late G1. Mol Cell Biol 2004;24:4546-56.
- Kung AL, Zabuldoff SD, France DS, Freedman SSJ, Tanner EA, Viera A, Cornell-Kennon S, Lee J, Wang B, Wang J, Memmert K, Naegeli HU, Petersen F, Eck MJ, Bair KW, Wood AW, Livingston DM. Small molecule blockade of transcriptional coactivation of the hypoxia-inducible factor pathway. Cancer Cell 2004;6:33-43.
- Wu X, Avni D, Chiba T, Yan F, Zhao Q, Lin Y, Heng H, Livingston DM. SV40 T antigen interacts with Nbs1 to disrupt DNA replication control. Genes Dev 2004;18:1305-16.
- Elshamy WM, Livingston DM. Identification of BRCA1-IRIS, a BRCA1 locus product. Nat Cell Biol 2004;6:954-67.
- Avni D, Yang H, Martelli F, Hofmann F, ElShamy W, Livingston, D. Active localization of the retinoblastoma protein in chromatin and its response to S phase DNA damage. Mol Cell 2003;12:735-46.
- Grossman SR, Deato ME, Brignone C, Chan HM, Kung A, Tagami H, Nakatani Y, Livingston DMA. Polyubiquitination of p53 by a ubiquitin ligase activity of p300. Science 2003;300:342-4.
- Muljo SA, Ansel KM, Kanellopoulou C, Livingston DM, Rao A, Rajewsky K. Aberrant T cell differentiation in the absence of Dicer. J Exp Med 2005;202:216-69.
- Joukov, Valdimir, MD, PhD
- De Nicolo, Arcangela, MD, PhD
- Sheng, Qing, PhD
- Liu, Ben, PhD
- Pathania, Shailja, PhD
- McKinney, Kristine, PhD
- Yang, Yi-Li, MD, PhD
- Dimitrov, Stoil, MD, PhD
- Yang, YieYie, PhD


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The seeding and schedules for Class 2A and 3A boys soccer have been released by the IHSA.
Kaneland was awarded the No. 1 seed in the Burlington Central Regional and will play the winner of the Sycamore (No. 5 seed) - Aurora Illinois Math and Science Academy (No. 4) on October 17 at 5 p.m. at Burlington Central.
The Spartans' play-in game will be on October 12th at Aurora Illinois Math and Science Academy.
Burlington Central and Hampshire are the No. 2 and 3 seeds in the regional. The regional championship game will be held at 11 a.m. on October 20.
In 3A, DeKalb is the No. 3 seed in its own regional. They will face Algonquin (Jacobs) at home on Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. while No. 1 Huntley and No. 4 Crystal Lake South play at 4:30 p.m.
The winners will meet in the regional championship on Saturday, October 20 at 11 a.m.
It's a tough regional for the Barbs, who are undefeated in the Northern Illinois Big 12 East and have only one loss on the season.


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