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Not Invisible, Not Minority, Not Unpublished
Well, National Poetry Month is winding down, and I have been enjoying my time in this space, writing out my thoughts on teaching, reading, and writing Pinay Literature (and related topics). I'm always grateful to be called back here. This inclusion is meaningful to me and to members of my community.
I have previously written about the feeling of invisibility reinforced among Filipino Americans due to the absence of Filipino American authored books in mainstream, mega-bookstores. So even though these mega-bookstores appear to be a dying breed, at what other brick and mortar establishments are people accessing books, if they're not hip to the discussions our writing communities always have about the importance of the independent bookstore.
I always want to scream and yell at Filipino Americans who claim never to know of any Filipino American writers: Go to Arkipelago Books in SoMa! Go to Eastwind Books in Berkeley! But suburbs (and outlying suburbs) being geographically distant, and the suburbs being where lots of Fil Am's in the Bay Area live, casually coming to Berkeley and SF doesn't always happen. Hence, that disconnect from the local businesses who specialize in Asian American and Filipino American literature. Hence, that feeling of invisibility. Hence, the perpetuation of an ugly myth that Filipino Americans don't write books. Hence, the ugly correlatives, that Filipino Americans don't buy books and Filipino American don't read books.
My parents live in Fremont, a suburb about 40 miles away from San Francisco, and about 25 miles away from Oakland, where I live. Both the Borders and Barnes and Noble stores in Fremont have closed. I asked my mother recently where one buys books in Fremont, and after a moment of thinking, she said, "I really don't know. Target, maybe. Wow, what does that say about us here in Fremont?"
So that's one place of privilege I inhabit; we've had similar mega-bookstore closures in our area, which never leaves me or my husband who's also a poet (and one of this year's Andres Montoya Poetry Prize finalists—let a Pinay brag a bit) Oscar Bermeo wanting for books, books, and more books. Good ones. Used ones. Rare ones.
Just last week, after watching Cabin in the Woods at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, we decided to pop into the excellent Walden Pond Books, just up the street from the theater, also on Grand Avenue. This bookstore is so musty, it activates my asthma (the two beautiful Samoyeds who laze about the bookstore's entrance don't help much either). But getting lost in in Walden Pond Books is always awesome nevertheless. That night, I found a copy of a book I've only ever read about in bios for Janice Mirikitani and Jessica Hagedorn. I found a copy of Time to Greez!: Incantations from the Third World (Glide Publications/Third World Communications, 1975).
Of course, there are used copies available online, at Amazon etc. But I want to believe it means more, to happen upon it when aimlessly perusing the used poetry shelves in your local indie bookstore.
Time to Greez!: Incantations from the Third World is one of the early literary anthologies of works by diverse groups of writers of color. Not having had time to actually bury myself in the book, here are some preliminary thoughts.
The naming alone gives me much to think about. "Incantations" reforges the connections with our communities' storytelling and oral traditions. "Incantations" also indicates the sacred and the ritual, not separate from poetry. "Third World," indicates not just our countries of origin, their neocolonial status and socioeconomic conditions. This term very importantly speaks to the conditions in which many people of color live in this country. "Third World," then, is a political identity (just like Pinay, or Raza, or Xicana), one which also indicates the transgression of borders, the mobilization of multicultural communities based upon colonial legacies, and one which rejects the common misperception of folks of color in the USA as the "minority." Together, people of color in the USA are not minorities.
As for "greez," Urban Dictionary can't help me with this one.
The editors of this anthology are as follows: "Janice Mirikitani, Luis Syquia, Jr. (Asian), Buriel Clay II (Black), Janet Campbell Hale (American Indian), Alejandro Murguia, Roberto Vargas (La Raza), Jim Dong and Rupert Garcia (graphics)." There's that name again. Syquia. I also just recently wrote about Serafin Malay Syquia, revisiting and reprinting his essay, "Politics and Poetry." Editor and poet Luis Syquia is his brother, and the one who granted me permission to reprint. Serafin's work is also posthumously included in Time to Greez!
Perusing the table of contents, I am a little surprised to find that the different communities included within are broken into different sections. Each section is introduced by its respective editors, handling what is distinct about their work, given the particulars of their historical experiences. I get that despite difference, still, the transgression of borders is what is most important.
Some familiar names from the inclusive and varied table of contents include Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Lawson Fusao Inada, Ntozake Shange, Ishmael Reed, Raul Salinas, Omar Salinas, Al Robles. And not so familiar names (to you)—Emily Cachapero, Sam Tagatac, Bayani Mariano, Orvy Jundis.
Anyway, with the end of the semester fast approaching, I will finally have some time to sit and read this book, any many others.
I'll leave you with this excerpt of Maya Angelou's introduction, which serves as the book's back cover "blurb":
"Now in this book, TIME TO GREEZ!, we hear the truth-Blacks, Browns, Reds, Yellows telling their story. The poetry sings and the total effect is harmony. There is hurt, humor and hope in these pages. The hurt of concentration camp, cockroaches, and drugs; of broken treaties and promises; of old men living dried old lives in the blazing sun of California farmlands. There is enchantment of the beauty in Blackness and the searing awareness that Beauty is not enough. There is the wry chuckle of cooking chitlins in a newly integrated white suburbia, the simple appreciation of Pablo Neruda's human-ness, and the American Indian selection that comes like a faintly heard chant late at night. These colors have come together in a rainbow. This, too, is America—where she has come from—and a close and honest look will inform the reader where she is going, and, probably saddest of all, why."
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B.C. students whose hearts are set on attending summer school this year can rest easy, at least as far as the government is concerned.
Speaking on CKNW's Bill Good Show, Education Minister Peter Fassbender says the government is doing what it can to ensure summer classes go ahead as planned.
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Back in the day, everybody hitched. You could even hitch a ride to Rockaway beach. You'd hitch to the beach, sometimes to school. A lot of times, instead of waiting for a bus, you'd put out your thumb. When you had a hard time getting a ride, you'd swear that as soon as you got your own car you'd pick up every hitchhiker. And then you got your car, and became a snob, rarely picking up anyone.
There's a commercial – not sure if it's running any more – but it's about random acts of kindness and how they lead to more acts of kindness. A stranger stops someone from stepping into an intersection as a car zips past. In the next scene that person helps someone else and so on. It's very heartwarming. But, of course, my twisted mind makes me think of random acts of selfishness.
Like fake elevator gallantry. You wait on an elevator for the doors to close. And then you're waiting and waiting and waiting. Finally the doors start to close and then you see someone running to jump in. If you have eye contact with them you feel compelled to help. You want to commit a random act of kindness. But... there's a devil in you. You don't throw your hand out to stop the doors. Instead all you do is act. You act like you're reaching for the button that will reopen the doors but you stop short of touching it. You grimace, too late, sorry. The doors close on them. You made the person miss the elevator. But you didn't want that person to think you were a total rat so you made the heroic gesture of lunging for the door- open button. But it was a total fake. You haven't done that? Well, people have done it to you.
And then there's hide and go sneak. You know, hiding stuff for your own damn benefit. There's one copy of a book in the library or bookstore and you don't have your library card or any cash on you so you hide the book in another section. Lots of people do it with clothing. There's that nice shirt that fits just right but for one reason or another you can't buy it then. So you move it to another rack or hide it behind a stack of pants. You might do the same thing in a food store. Oh, there's only one left? Hide it. Until you can come back. It's not like you're stealing. You're gonna buy it. It's just that, well, you deserve it.
Sometimes, people do this at home. The sleeve of Oreos or Fig Newtons or Halloween candy suddenly disappears. You or somebody in the house – has hidden the goods. Sometimes snacks are hidden in hallway closets or hidden deep in the fridge behind gods- know- what in the tin foil.
Of course, some random acts of selfishness are worse than others, like taking up two parking spots. Some creeps park smack in the middle of the white line. Because you are not the sub- human they are, you don't get out and coin the car. Though part of you is dying to.
In the same neighborhood of selfishness is placing an almost empty shopping cart on line while a cohort does the actual shopping. This is so wrong. People, reasonably, get behind someone because the cart is nearly empty. They don't get behind the cart to watch it fill up by some stealth shopper. They don't get behind it to be scammed. If you are a shopping cart scammer, stop. Bad karma awaits you.
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(CNSNews.com) - A proposed White House Task Force on Working Families is "payback" to Big Labor, according to Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a pro-family conservative group.
"That task force ought to be named the 'White House Task Force on Unions,'" Bauer told CNSNews.com. "Clearly, the new president owes a lot to the labor movement in the country and to the big unions that provided him a lot of his money -- and I think this task force will basically be dealing with issues that are near and dear to organized labor."
Vice President-elect Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will be charged with heading the task force after the new Obama administration is sworn in on Jan. 20.
"We'll look at everything from college affordability to after-school programs," Biden told host George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" program Sunday.
In a statement released later on Sunday, Biden added: "Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working and middle-class families. President-elect Obama and I know the economic health of working families has eroded, and we intend to turn that around."
The president-elect's proposed economic stimulus package already ranges from $675 billion to as much as $850 billion, depending on what provisions are included.
Labor unions, who weighed-in Sunday, were already talking about the need for wage increases.
"Hardworking men and women are struggling to make ends meet because of stagnant wages and declining family incomes," said Anna Burger, head of Change to Win, a labor union think-tank.
"Personal consumption is the largest component of the U.S. economy and workers' wages are the largest single source of consumer spending. "Without action to stimulate wage increases, consumption will continue to falter, and the economy will slip deeper into recession.
But Bauer, who founded the Campaign for Working Families back in the '90s, said that all families need help in a "down" economy.
"When a liberal talks about helping working families, usually that means income redistribution," Bauer said. "That is, they are going to take money from one group of individuals or families and give it to a favorite bloc, also made up of families. That's bad for the country. That doesn't stimulate economic growth. That just makes things worse. I hope that the new administration spends its time trying to figure out how to get the economy growing – and the best way to do that is to lower taxes for everybody."
The task force will include the four Cabinet members – the secretaries of labor, health and human services, education and commerce -- as well as the heads of the National Economic Council and the Office of Management and Budget.
Change to Win, by the way, represents the Teamsters, Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, the United Farm Workers of America, the United Food and Commercial Workers International and UNITE HERE -- an amalgamated union of industrial, textile, hotel and restaurant employees.


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A community mural on a Minneapolis market honors three men who were killed there last year.
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Every week during the school year Aimee Willoz and Steve Ferris show up at a Hennepin county library and help kids with homework. Mostly math. Aimee works at a Hopkins library and Steve at a north Minneapolis branch. Steve remembers one kid showing up with forty math worksheets due the next day. The teacher handed Read more →


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Chronic cocaine users have a hard time just saying no, and scientists working with addicted rats may have found out why. Even after the animals no longer regularly get the drug, their brains are still buzzing with a protein that seems to maintain the craving. If the results hold up in humans, the protein might provide a novel therapeutic target to fight drug relapse.
In cocaine addicts, the prefrontal cortex, a region important for behavioral control, responds rapidly to thoughts of coke. Other stimuli, like thoughts of food or sex, become less important. Researchers thought this shift in priorities likely involves changes in neurons that use dopamine, the neurotransmitter of so-called reward pathways. To investigate, neuroscientist Peter Kalivas at the Medical University of South Carolina and colleagues tracked the activity of a key protein known as AGS3. When dopamine binds to receptors on the surface of a neuron, AGS3 helps relay the signal to the rest of the cell.The team injected rats with cocaine for a week--enough to get them addicted--and then cut off their supply of the drug. For up to 8 weeks afterward, levels of AGS3 were 30% to 100% higher in the addicted rats' brains than in those of nonaddicted rats. The protein was concentrated in two regions thought to be involved in addiction: the prefrontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens. To determine whether the elevated amounts of AGS3 ups the odds of relapse, the researchers injected nonaddicted rats with AGS3. When teased with a touch of cocaine, these rats suddenly began acting like addicts, frantically pressing a bar that dispenses the drug.On the other hand, blocking AGS3 seemed to cure addicted rats of their cravings. When proffered the cocaine tease, these rats didn't go nuts for more, just as if they had never sniffed cocaine. Taken together, the results suggest that high levels of AGS3 in cocaine addicts maintain craving for the drug during withdrawal, the team reports in the 22 April issue of Neuron. Kalivas adds that his laboratory is looking at whether AGS3 also plays a role in addictions to other drugs, such as alcohol.By showing that AGS3 stays abnormally high for months in the part of the brain needed for voluntary control over behavior, the study may explain why it's so hard to kick the habit, says behavioral neuroscientist Ann Kelley of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. Drugs that clear out the protein may prove to be very helpful, she says, but they're likely to be many years off.Related site
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Our facility fundraising effort is already more successful than we could have imagined a few years ago. Our school is the recipient of a $4.25 million grant, accompanied with another $4.25 million low-interest loan. We are nearing our goal to build the first-ever, sustainably-built, energy-efficient Waldorf charter school in this country. The $8.5 million awarded to YRCS by the State of California achieves 75% of our capital campaign goal of $11.5 million. By raising additional funds, our facility can become a greater expression of Waldorf ideals and meet the expectations of the school and Waldorf community.
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Electric Vehicle Chargers Now Available to Parkers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
Users of the new devices simply pay the regular parking rate for the time they are parked in the ramp; at this time, there is no additional fee for use of the electric chargers, which are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
"We installed the chargers to encourage use of electric vehicles and to accommodate those travelers who own them," said Dennis Probst, executive vice-president of the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), which owns and operates MSP and six general aviation airports. "Operating MSP International Airport in a sustainable fashion includes ensuring airport users have access to services and infrastructure that support eco-conscious decisions. The addition of vehicle charging stations represents another advancement toward that end."
At Terminal 1-Lindbergh there are five chargers on Level 8 of the Blue Parking Ramp and five on Level 8 of the Red Parking Ramp. All four chargers at Terminal 2-Humphrey are located on Level 7 of the Orange Parking Ramp. Drivers can follow signs along the airport roadways and in the parking ramps themselves to locate the devices.
The Metropolitan Airports Commission installed the equipment as part of its Stewards of Tomorrow's Airport Resources (STAR) program, which focuses on operating MSP in a manner that is environmentally, financially and socially sustainable. The MAC's vehicle fleet includes 80 alternative fuel cars and trucks. Among them are four electric and two hybrid vehicles. The MAC plans to add a compressed natural gas vehicle to its fleet this year. In addition, planning is underway to convert a portion of airlines' ground service equipment from diesel to electric in the near future.
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Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis, According to a Women's Media Center Report Issued Today
April 3, 2013
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NEW YORK — After one year of mapping how sexualized violence is being used as a weapon in Syria's war, the Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege project today released statistics that show that rape is a devastating component of the conflict.
Regime soldiers are allegedly sexually violating women and men from the opposition, destroying families and, in some cases, claiming lives, the report says.
WMC's Women Under Siege project team — together with Columbia University epidemiologists, the Syrian-American Medical Society, and Syrian activists and journalists — have used a crowd-sourced map for the last year to document and collect data to figure out where and how women and men are being violated in Syria's war. Read the full report here.
"The research on alleged sexualized attacks in Syria is profoundly important in bringing to light the tragedies taking place in this war-torn country," said Julie Burton, president of the Women's Media Center. "This reporting is groundbreaking."
The team broke down the 162 stories from March 2011 through March 2013 into 226 separate pieces of data that encompasses potentially thousands of women and men. Here are highlights of the findings:
• Eighty percent of the reports include female victims, aged 7 to 46.
• Of those women, 85 percent reported rape; 10 percent were reportedly detained for the purposes of sexualized violence for a period of longer than 24 hours.
• Gang rape allegedly occurred in 40 percent of the reports about women.
• Forty-three of the reports — about 20 percent — involve attacks against men and boys, all of whom are between the ages of 11 and 56; 16 percent were said to have been violated by multiple attackers.
• Government perpetrators appear to have committed the majority of the attacks: government or government and shabiha (plainclothes militia) forces together have allegedly carried out 77 percent of the attacks in our reports.
"We always say we won't allow such atrocities to happen again, but a rape crisis has been devastating Syria for two years," said Lauren Wolfe, director of WMC's Women Under Siege. "We are sitting by and watching while sexualized violence traumatizes multiple generations of Syrians."
WMC's Women Under Siege project is run by Wolfe, an award-winning journalist who has written for publications from The Guardian to CNN.com. She was previously the senior editor of the Committee to Protect Journalists, where she focused on journalists and sexualized violence.
The Women's Media Center works to make women and girls visible and powerful in the media through strategic programs that transform the media landscape, which include media training, media monitoring and activism, media reports, media programs, and special initiatives. The Women's Media Center also produces original media content on our CBS radio show, "Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan," and publishes Women's Media Center Features providing progressive women's perspectives on headline stories and timely events. The organization was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem.
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July 2010 marks the 30th Anniversary of The Pitch. To celebrate that milestone, LaBudde Special Collections at the UMKC Miller Nichols Library presents digital versions of early issues of The Pitch, including a complete run of the first 22 issues.
The Pitch was first published in July 1980 as the Penny Pitch, a music sheet handed out by Penny Lane, the erstwhile Westport record store at 4128 Broadway. The first 13 issues were printed under the early banner before undergoing a series of name changes - including KC Pitch and Pitch Weekly - beginning in January 1982.
Since then The Pitch has expanded into an alternative weekly newspaper serving the greater metropolitan area and covering music, film, arts, entertainment, news and investigative reporting.


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BERKELEY -- One in a new generation ofcomputer climate models that include the effects of Earth's carboncycle indicates there are limits to the planet's ability to absorbincreased emissions of carbon dioxide.
If current production ofcarbon from fossil fuels continues unabated, by the end of the centurythe land and oceans will be less able to take up carbon than they aretoday, the model indicates.
"If we maintain our current course of fossil fuel emissions oraccelerate our emissions, the land and oceans will not be able to slowthe rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere the way they're doingnow," said Inez Y. Fung at the University of California, Berkeley, whois director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center, co-director ofthe new Berkeley Institute of the Environment, and professor of earthand planetary science and of environmental science, policy andmanagement. "It's all about rates. If the rate of fossil fuel emissionsis too high, the carbon storage capacity of the land and oceansdecreases and climate warming accelerates."
Fung is lead author of a paper describing the climate model results that appears this week in the Early Online Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS). Fung was a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel onglobal climate change that issued a major report for President Bush in2001 claiming, for the first time, that global warming exists and thathumans are contributing to it.
Currently, the land and oceansabsorb about half of the carbon dioxide produced by human activity,most of it resulting from the burning of fossil fuels, Fung said. Somescientists have suggested that the land and oceans will continue toabsorb more and more CO2 as fossil fuel emissions increase, makingplants flourish and the oceans bloom.
Fung's computer model,however, indicates that the "breathing biosphere" can absorb carbononly so fast. Beyond a certain point, the planet will not be able tokeep up with carbon dioxide emissions.
"The reason is verysimple," Fung said. "Plants are happy growing at a certain rate, andthough they can accelerate to a certain extent with more CO2, the rateis limited by metabolic reactions in the plant, by water and nutrientavailability, et cetera."
In addition, increasing temperatures and drought frequencies lowerplant uptake of CO2 as plants breathe in less to conserve water. Asecond study she and colleagues published last week in PNAS reportevidence for this temperature and drought effect. Since 1982, agreening of the Northern Hemisphere has occurred each spring and summer(except for 1992 and 1993, after Mt. Pinatubo erupted) as the climatehas steadily warmed. As a result, there is a small but steady declinein atmospheric CO2 each growing season due to increasing photosynthesisat temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere. When Fung and a teamof her former and current post-doctoral fellows took a detailed look atthis phenomenon, however, they discovered that since 1994, enhanceduptake of CO2 as photosynthesis revved up in the warm wet springs wasoffset by decreasing CO2 uptake during summers, which becameincreasingly hot and dry - an unsuspected browning in the past 10years.
"This negative effect of hot, dry summers completelywiped out the benefits of warm, wet springs," Fung said. "A warmingclimate does not necessarily lead to higher CO2 growing-season uptake,even in temperate areas such as North America."
In the climatemodeling study published this week in PNAS, she and colleagues foundthat similar water stress could slow the uptake of CO2 by terrestrialvegetation, and at some point, the rate of fossil fuel CO2 emissionswill outstrip the ability of the vegetation to keep up, leading to arise in atmospheric CO2, increased greenhouse temperatures andincreased frequency of droughts. An amplifying loop leads to everhigher temperatures, more droughts and higher CO2 levels.
Theoceans exhibit a similar trend, Fung said, though less pronounced.There, mixing by turbulence in the ocean is essential for moving CO2down into the deep ocean, away from the top 100 meters of the ocean,where carbon absorption from the atmosphere takes place. With increasedtemperatures, the ocean stratifies more, mixing becomes harder, and CO2accumulates in the surface ocean instead of in the deep ocean. Thisaccumulation creates a back pressure, lowering CO2 absorption.
Inall, business as usual would lead to a 1.4 degree Celsius, or 2.5degrees Fahrenheit, rise in global temperatures by the year 2050. Thisestimate is at the low range of projected increases for the 21stcentury, Fung said, though overall, the model is in line with otherspredicting large ecosystem changes, especially in the tropics.
Withvoluntary controls that flatten fossil fuel CO2 emission rates by theend of the century, the land and oceans could keep up with CO2 levelsand continue to absorb at their current rate, the model indicates.
"Thisis not a prediction, but a guideline or indication of what couldhappen," Fung said. "Climate prediction is a work in progress, but thismodel tells us that, given the increases in greenhouse gases, the Earthwill warm up; and given warming, hot places are likely to be drier, andthe land and oceans are going to take in carbon at a slower rate; andtherefore, we will see an amplification or acceleration of globalwarming."
"The Earth is entering a climate space we've never seenbefore, so we can't predict exactly what will happen," she added. "Wedon't know where the threshold is. A two degree increase in globaltemperatures may not sound like much, but if we're on the threshold, itcould make a big difference."
Fung and colleagues have worked forseveral decades to produce a model of the Earth's carbon cycle thatincludes not only details of how vegetation takes up and releasescarbon, but also details of decomposition by microbes in the soil, thecarbon chemistry of oceans and lakes, the influence of rain and clouds,and many other sources and sinks for carbon. The model takes intoaccount thousands of details, ranging from carbon uptake by leaves,stems and roots to the different ways that forest litter decomposes,day-night shifts in plant respiration, the salinity of oceans and seas,and effects of temperature, rainfall, cloud cover and wind speed on allthese interactions.
"This is a very rough schematic of the life cycle of the ecosystem," she said.
Fiveyears ago, she set out with colleagues Scott C. Doney of Woods HoleOceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Keith Lindsay of theNational Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., andJasmin John of UC Berkeley to integrate the carbon cycle model into oneof the standard climate models in use today - NCAR's Community ClimateSystem Model (CCSM). All of today's climate models are able toincorporate the climate effects of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,but only with concentrations of CO2 specified by the modelers. Fung'smodel does not specify atmospheric CO2 levels, but rather predicts thelevels, given fossil fuel emissions. The researchers used observationsof the past two centuries to make sure that their model is"reasonable," and then used the model to project what will happen inthe next 100 years, with the help of supercomputers at NCAR and theNational Energy Research Scientific Computer Center at LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
The climate model coupledwith the carbon cycle has been her goal for decades, as she tried toconvince climate modelers that "whether plants are happy or not happyhas an influence on climate projections. To include interactivebiogeochemistry in climate models, which up to now embrace primarilyphysics and dynamics, is new."
She admits, however, that muchwork remains to be done to improve modeling. Methane and sulfate cyclesmust be included, plus effects like changes in plant distribution withrising temperatures, the possible increase in fires, disease or insectpests, and even the effects of dust in the oceans.
"We havecreated a blueprint, in terms of a climate modeling framework, thatwill allow us to go beyond the physical climate models to moresophisticated models," she said. "Then, hopefully, we can understandwhat is going on now and what could happen. This understanding couldguide our choices for the future."
The studies were supported bythe National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration, LBNL and the Ocean and Climate Change Institute of theWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Her colleagues on the paperlooking at spring and summer CO2 uptake in northern climes were A.Angert, S. Biraud, C. Bonfils, C. C. Henning and W. Buermann of theBerkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center; and J. Pinzon and C. J. Tucker ofNASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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We all know what the Milky Way galaxy looks like from Earth it's that brilliant band of stars that crosses the night sky. But as our solar system is itself part of the Milky Way, it's like describing the boundaries of a forest from deep within the woods.
But what would the Milky Way look like if one could travel outside the galaxy and peer back? American astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope think they have the answer.
Like most of the billions of galaxies in the universe, the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral. But it's what is at the centre of the spiral that has astronomers excited a massive bar of stars about 27,000 light years long (one light year is 9.5 trillion kilometres).
"This is the best evidence ever for this long central bar in our galaxy," said Ed Churchwell from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Churchwell, with co-author Robert Benjamin, is about to publish a paper about the discovery in the University of Chicago's Astrophysical Journal.
Viewing the interior of the galaxy from Earth is difficult because there are large clouds of interstellar dust that block the view. The Spitzer, however, is an infra-red telescope. While dust can easily block light at visible frequencies of light, other frequencies can pass through.
"We're observing at wavelengths where the galaxy is more transparent," said Professor Benjamin. "We're bringing tens of millions of new objects into the equation."
The study shows the bar is crammed with old, red stars and is at a 45-degree angle relative to the imaginary line which joins the sun and the galactic centre.
The galaxy has about 400 billion stars, including our sun, and is about 100,000 light years wide.
Astronomers have long debated whether the central feature of the galaxy is a bar or an ellipse, or both. "To date, this is the best evidence for a long bar in our galaxy," said Professor Benjamin. "It's hard to argue with this data."
There is also believed to be a vast black hole at the galaxy's centre.
The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in August 2003. It consists of a telescope and three instruments, including the Infra-red Array Camera.
The survey of the galaxy's centre was known as GLIMPSE, for Galactic Legacy Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire.
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Kenny is planning to be canny in transfer market
NEWLY appointed Dundalk manager Stephen Kenny this week pledged to be diligent in putting together his squad for 2013 and would not rush into recruiting players for the sake of a good headline.
Speaking to the Argus on Tuesday afternoon the former Shamrock Rovers and Derry City boss couldn't confirm any signings and said it could be the eve of the new league season before he puts the finishing touches to the panel.
'It's a few days into the job and I'm assessing exactly the budget and what players are earning, what the market is, who is there and what players we can get for Dundalk,' he said, having been unveiled as Darius Kierans' successor last Thursday.
'I don't want to rush in for the sake of a PR operation to make a signing. I want to have a look at how we are going to play. A lot of decisions have to be made and it will take time to assess what the market is.
'We need to look at player availability and get value for money and all of those things come into the equation. I have ideas of who I want and so forth, but I can't say that we'll get the players we want because of where Dundalk are at the moment, having finished bottom last season.
'But I am looking everywhere to see what players are available and I will make sure that by the start of the season we have a squad that represents the club well and is competitive and technically good.
'I'm not looking for marquee signings. I'm looking for players with talent - they mightn't be high-profile players but players who I believe have potential to be good in the future.
'It's a new start and a new beginning and any player coming in knows that he can start with a clean slate, and they know if I'm coming in as manager that I'm not interested in mediocrity and everything we do will be done with a purpose.
'Everything is not going to go in my favour. There will be setbacks because it is a journey, but I will take my time and gradually build a team rather than bringing in an entire squad in the space of a week.'
Kenny, who it is understood will be operating with a budget of between €5,000 and €6,000 per week - less than Sean McCaffrey had at his disposal 12 months ago - said he would be speaking to all members of last season's panel from this weekend onwards, with a view to offering some of them terms next week.
But he would not be drawn on whether Dundalk would be interested in signing either Tiarnan Mulvenna or fellow striker Johnny Breen, natives of the town who as of Tuesday morning had not been offered new contracts by Drogheda United.


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With the release yesterday of the professional tennis bodies' integrity review, focus returns to the Association of Tennis Professionals' long-running investigation into Nikolay Davydenko's retirement from a match at the Poland Open last August.
The inquiry was launched almost immediately after Betfair voided all bets on the match following the discovery of suspicious betting patterns. But still there has been no verdict, the main impasse relating to the ATP's demand for access to telephone records belonging to Davydenko's wife and brother.
Davydenko's lawyer, Dr Frank Immenga, disputes that the organisation has any right to such records. He has threatened legal action over the failure to expedite a verdict, a delay that has caused Davydenko to "suffer financially". But sources close to the investigation talk of "frustration" at the claims and insist the inquiry has been protracted as a result of the player's legal team's actions: "The lawyer has been appealing since January the right of the ATP to have access to the telephone records but he has also appealed against the right of the independent hearing officer's jurisdiction over the appeal."
Immenga was unavailable for comment last night but an ATP spokesman said: "He is well within his rights to appeal but it will greatly increase the amount of time this process takes."
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The first potentially embarrassing email exchange of an explosive racing-versus-bookmakers case was heard in evidence at the high court yesterday. The bookmakers face a charge of collusion in
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Having been the harbinger of ill news with his comments over the "nice decade", the Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King, can put his worries aside for a few hours today. It is national cricket day and King will attend a function as the patron of the sport's foundation, Chance to Shine. Government money has been made available to match all contributions to the charity.
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Visa has launched a "Go World" ad campaign to coincide with its sponsorship of the Beijing Olympics. But it insists the touchy-feely contents, which include a voice-over from the Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman - "We don't always agree but for a few shining weeks we set it all aside" - were not motivated by the global torch-relay protests against Chinese oppression. "The campaign was in motion a long time," said a spokesman. The ads will not be shown in the UK.
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Manchester United's travelling party to Moscow yesterday included a delegation of professional party-planners. There will be 300 guests at a party at the team's hotel, win or lose, on Thursday morning - it starts at 3am and will go on until 7am. United are not counting chickens - a similar bash was held after their defeat by Arsenal in the 2005 FA Cup final.
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Sometimes parts break during testing under extreme conditions. These failures help us to understand the limits of a design. Other times, parts fail unexpectedly in service. These are the failures we would all like to avoid. At best, they lead to unhappy customers. At worst, they can lead to people being hurt or even killed. [highlight color="orange"] The good news is that a solid understanding of potential failure modes can help us prevent service failures. [/highlight]
The simplest failure mode to understand is overload. This is what happens when the load on a part exceeds the material's strength. Exceeding the yield strength will cause the part to permanently deform. Exceeding the ultimate strength will cause it to break. In either case, the failure occurs immediately.
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Palmer gives an example of the failure of the cam lever of a mechanical brake that was permanently bent the first time the brake was applied. The stroke of the lever was reduced because of the bend and it prevented the brake from fully actuating. Luckily, before anything was shipped to the customer, all the brakes were tested, avoiding a dangerous situation. The reason for the failure?
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"Provide files and a save location through a sample" has a problem
the Microsoft Sample about add my App to fileOpenPicker & fileSavePicker has a problem, when I use OpenPicker to pick a file from the sample, there frequently show a dialog says the sample app has a problem , will you report the problem to Microsoft? I read the detail message in the report:"The Thread tried to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access".
I follow the sample to add my another metrol app to fileopenpicker and filesavepicker, but has the same problem.
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I am not seeing any obvious errors when running that sample. Can you please give exact repro steps?
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Hi Rob,
the error may be happened after serval times: from another App, I open the fileOpenPicker to Pick a file, then choose the Sample in the Picker. and immediately choose another App in the Picker. then Open a file. The steps just like this.mardi 8 mai 2012 02:20
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I want to write a skydrive client App use Live SDK, and want to add the App to FileSavePicker. My Question is : How can I return a Storage File on the SkyDrive to the SavePicker? I didn't find the interface in the SDK, thanks a lot.mardi 8 mai 2012 02:25
Dear Rob:
The Rate of incidence is not 100, but it almost ceitainly within 10 minitues operates:
1.Open file Picker to get a file,
2.choose the sample App,
3. switch to other App in the Picker or Local file system,(or just then choose sample App)
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5. go to step 1.
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MS Dhoni's non-chalant smile and no response to questions about the IPL fixing scandal at a BCCI press conference has not been well received by Indian cricket fans. So, is BCCI putting pressure on the Indian cricket skipper who also captains the 'under-the-scanner' Chennai Super Kings? Cricketnext editor Jamie Alter joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue.
Q. I don't find anything wrong in his not answering the questions. When BCCI biggies and country's venerated cricketers are not giving their opinion, why should a man who has to lead a team for a prestigious trophy in few days time embroil himself in this controversy? Asked by: sakuntala
A. Because Dhoni is the captain of the Indian cricket team, a man who matters far more than any BCCI mandarin or office-bearer - the very men who are in places of authority due to the success of men like Dhoni. It was a shame that a man of Dhoni's stature, the man who draws the fans to the game, could not form an opinion or speak his mind.
Q. The overall impression one gets if we closely observe the Indian cricket body is that the organisation is clearly controlled by people of all parties that matters directly or indirectly and the Innocent fans are duped. your take on this. Asked by: jim
A. It is an exclusive gentleman's club, where you gain access by money and influence. How many of them care about the health of Indian cricket?
Q. Dear Jamie, Do you think that Dhoni should have answered the questions from the reporters to say his opinion on the on going controversy since the cricket fans loves cricket and wanted to know the truth? Asked by: Raaj
A. That is precisely what he should have done. A man of his stature sitting there like a puppet, trying hard not to break into an awkward smile, wearing the Indian logo on his shirt.. it was shameful.
Q. At least Dhoni himself can tell the media that "we are very sad with the current crisis but right now I can't answer the fixing questions" , I really doubt whether it is only the BCCI gag or Dhoni himself doesn't want face the fixing question. Asked by: Raju Pericherla
A. That would have helped, yes. Dhoni is a capable of speaking his mind and answering difficult questions. The fans were owed at least a few words. Sitting mum sent out the wrong impression.
Q. It is pity that BCCI's Srinivasan is able to shut the mouth of many by the strength of money? Asked by: Prathap
A. Indeed.
Q. Silence of Dhoni indeed speaks volumes of BCCI. Asked by: SE
A. Yes.
Q. What do you think Dhoni refused the fixing question, was it because he was told from BCCI or his personnel reason as his wife was seeing sitting along with Vidhu. Asked by: Rohit
A. He would have been told not to speak on it. This is a man fully capable of answering tough questions, which he has shown many times. He knows how to pick his words. The BCCI should have allowed him to do exactly that.
Q. When around 5-6 players in the Indian cricket team are from CSK irrespective of current form, isn't it clear where Dhoni's allegiance is? Isn't it too much to expect him to speak? Asked by: Narayan
A. If he sees it as a corporate responsibility to the owners of an IPL franchise, as an employee, then that would be very sad.
Q. Will IPL survive this controversy or will it have a very adverse affect on the IPL? Asked by: Diwan
A. The answer will come from the fans - whether they show up at the grounds and whether they watch it on TV.
Q. Do you think I Srinivasn will be in his post he will allow the CSK to be scraped if charges are proven against it..its not for the interest of the IPL he should step down. Asked by: Nagar
A. If Srinivasan goes down, CSK too could take a big hit. We could see a similar situation as what happened to Deccan Chargers.
Q. Dhoni as Indian Captian should have answered all the question..it is this time that country wants to hear what he thinks..even if it would have been formal Asked by: Rakka
A. Agreed.
Q. Does dhoni not have a right to keep quite, why do people inffer that BCCI has gagged him, if they wanted to gag him they would not have had the press meet at the first stage? Asked by: gopal
A. So you believe he sat there and chose to not speak his mind?
Q. Should Srinivasn resign for now as chief of BCCI for fair probe? Asked by: Jagjivan
A. Yes.
Q. Does dhoni silence s making people more curious about his involvement? I feel when the CEO is involved then 100 percent some of the players r involved too in CSK. A guy cannot run of his own? Asked by: Samuel
A. Is Dhoni involved? I sure hope not.
Q. Why all the ex-cricketers are talking like patriots of BCCI..no one is standing out and telling the reality what should be done..why they became so fragile..no one is telling the fact that Srini should step aside. Asked by: Dillu
A. I would assume because of they are on the payrolls of the BCCI.
Q. Not only Dhoni but all he ex-cricketers are puppet to BCCI..no one is speaking frankly..all of them are just being formal and refraining from speaking what everyone knows is truth. Asked by: Dilbar
A. Yup.
Q. What is the media wanting to know from Dhoni? which they are not aware of and then have breaking news out of it? Asked by: damani
A. I think the media wants to know what the most important man in Indian cricket feels about a crisis that's eroding Indian cricket's credibility.
Q. Dhoni should have answered the fixing question..shying away from anything is not a solution. Asked by: Nawab
A. Totally.
Q. Do you suppose this spot fixing scandal may affect India's quest for winning the Champion trophy. Asked by: Mansoor
A. I don't think so, no.
Q. Hi J, If the BCCI have a pre decided agenda, The media meet could have been cancelled rather than staging this "fixed" drama in which the main actor was dumb folded. More over why the media team did not pack up and leave the arena? Asked by: Vinod
A. Rare is the day when the Indian media packs up in protest. The media arrived expecting Dhoni to speak on the matter, if even a few words.
Q. Why would a top sportsman like Dhoni want to be associated as Vice President of India Cements, the owner of the CSK team. Isn't there a conflict of interest here as a person representing the country is being forced to play a role in a company owned by board president. Asked by: Santy
A. That we can only surmise. A lot happens behind closed doors, and considering that a majority of the BCCI consists of politicians, who knows what has trickled into the running of CSK.
Q. As the BCCI is run by politicians..the same attitude of politicians have came into the players..they will only answer the question which is comfortable to them. Asked by: Guru
A. Looks to be so, right Guru?
Q. Should ICC put pressure on BCCI to amend ways and better introduce the DRS system which BCCI opposes so much. Asked by: ss
A. DRS is a totally different issue.
Q. He is supposed to play as a professional player and give results for the Team The matter under discussion is seized by competent authorities. Asked by: A.S.PURANIK
A. As captain of the Indian team, Dhoni should have spoken at least a few words of assurance. Or at least tried to form an opinion.
Q. Dhoni being quite does it has to do something with their contract? Asked by: Karthik
A. I don't think its that.
Q. I don't think India is going to win Champions trophy..and with the Dhoni and BCCI act yesterday infront of media..after champions trophy loss they are going to come heavily on him..till when Mr Dhoni going to run away..if he have to be in Indian Tam he will one day have to answer these question..not answering yesterday had blown away his image as a leader. Asked by: Daman
A. Yes, it has to an extent.
Q. You know what my philosophy is: people who get sudden money or people who already have money; you cant expect these people to fight for truth: because they both are insecured of losing the money. Dhoni, Tendulkar they all have new money and others are already rich. So how can you expect these people to fight for truth? they just want to be on safer side and opportunist all the time. thence this question is only irrelevant. Asked by: pc aka @jpchat
A. Didn't the Notorious B.I.G. sum that up? More money, more problems.
Q. We saw how CSK Franchise were destroying the evidence of Gurunath being team owner by deleting his name from website and twitter handles. This is sufficient enough to doubt intent or Srinivasan. CSK is his team and if it is doing such things, Srinivasan will never allow anything to happen to CSK which is his money making machine. Asked by: Deepak
A. Its a farce, Deepak. The walls are closing in on N Srinivasan.
Q. There is only one thing which is happening now 1. I as a CSK fan do not care about guru or Srini sent to jail but the investigations are on. The media trail is hurting kids and fans like me. Now Dhoni keeping silent is questioned. Mr J what will you be your response when you in Dhoni's shoes? Asked by: karthick
A. A few words of support, maybe? An explanation of what he has been told? Something at least.
Q. Dhoni has shown the real face of Indian Cricket, in which the Cricketer and thus the fans are puppets being played around by the real masters. Asked by: Sandeep R Tandon
A. Looks that way, Sandeep.
Q. Can the govt not step in and ask Srini to exit? Asked by: Baljit
A. Not in this situation.
Q. Despite Dhoni and wife Sakshi being close to Srinivasan and his son-in-law and CSK under the scanner, there has been no news of any CSK match fixed or any player from this franchise so involved. Your comments? Asked by: Mansoor
A. The police have not revealed anything to this regard. Hopefully no mor players are named.
Q. Why is Dhoni are CSK being blamed?why RR team they where involved in fixing not CSK. Asked by: kaushik
A. You mean for fixing?
Q. How does what Dhoni is feeling going to affect the out come of the investigation and the trail which is going on. Asked by: karthick
A. It's not about the investigation or fixing or Vindoo or Gurunath. Its about letting the country know what he feels in the middle of a crisis.
Q. One wrong word as per media eventhough it may have been right as per dhoni would have have brought the breaking news, what do you think? Asked by: gopal
A. Dhoni chooses his words carefully, he's a smart man.
Q. Fair investigation with Mr Srinivasan holding the position is joke of the year. Don't you think so? More its about his son-in-law's involvement. Mr Srini yes you may be the clever person but we are not dumb. Asked by: Prabin
A. Its a farce, Prabin.
Q. Yes I believe that, as if he would have spoken anything with out affirmativeness the media would have one more breaking news don't you agree? Asked by: gopal
A. You believe he was gagged, right?
Q. Dhoni could have simply said "As captain of the Indian cricket team, it will be my endeavor to ensure that the game is played fairly on the field. Just like you the fans, I wish the weakened credibility of the game is revived at the earliest." Your comments? Asked by: Kelly
A. That would have helped.
Q. Total drama. Everyone, including owners, cricketers(big names as well), politicians, umpires playing this cheating game. Asked by: Manoj
A. Who knows.
Q. Do you think Dhoni is also involved in match fixing? Asked by: sandeep
A. No.
Q. Is it not the Money Power that has saved Srini? Asked by: Shyam Vadalker
A. Has he been saved?