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Jon Hamm And Amy Poehler Threw An Emmy Losers Party
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There were countless parties last night in Hollywood, but none more up my alley than Jon Hamm and Amy Poehler's Emmy Awards "Losers" party at Soho House in West Hollywood.
According to E!, those who were nominated but never handed an award got into the party for free. The winners, on the other hand, had to donate $1000 to World Wide Orphans in order to gain admittance. Since everyone was either drunk, dizzy from wearing Spanx all night or hopped up on winning a gong, both sides collectively gave $30,000 to the cause.
"I wanted a place where everyone can celebrate, because win or lose it's about moving forward and having fun while doing it," Poehler said of the private event.
Those who donated got personally engraved Johnny Walker Blue bottles, which is kind of the same as winning an Emmy, yes?
Poehler danced with Allison William and Amber Tamblyn to a Pointer Sisters beat, while Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Jimmy Kimmel, Bill Hader and Zooey Deschanel chatted in a booth.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are the only Emmys hosts anyone remembers, and they hosted the Golden Globes.
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1. Capone, Lisa and Cady Goldfield. The Conservationworks Book.
Appalachian Mountain Club Books; Boston, 1992.
Read this book and learn about practical conservation tips to
"reduce waste, save energy, and protect the environment all around
your home and in the outdoors."
2. Hollender, Jeffrey. How to Make the World a Better Place: 116
Ways You Can Make A Difference. W.W. Norton and Co., Inc: Boston and
London, 1995.
This book alerts you to problems requiring attention, explains the
issues and what has to be done about them, tells you what you can do to
help, and lists the addresses and phone numbers of organizations that
you can contact. It covers several issues, including environmental ones.
3. 50 Simple Things YOU Can Do to Save the Earth. Earthworks
Press: United States, 1989.
As the title implies, this book offers instructions on easy ways for
people to live "greener" and protect the planet. Contact
information for relevant and helpful organizations and resources are
also listed.
4. Scott, Michael. The Young Oxford Book of Ecology. Oxford
University Press: New York, 1995.
This book is full of information about species, habitats and the
interconnectedness of the natural world. It is full of color
photographs, drawings and diagrams that help illustrate the information
presented in the text.
5. Thomas, Warren D. and Daniel Kaufman. Dolphin Conferences,
Elephant Midwives, and other Astonishing Facts about Animals.
Tarcher, Inc.: Los Angeles, 1990.
This book contains fascinating tidbits of information about the
members of the animal kingdom: how they live, how they eat, how they
interact with other species and members of their own, how they raise
their young and how they adapt to their surroundings.
6. Heintzman, Donald. Wildlife Protectors Handbook. Capra
Press: Santa Barbara, 1992.
Yet another book of simple things that you can do to protect
wildlife! This book is a little more in-depth than others like it.
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A tribe of quirky creatives/
Thank you, thank you, thank you and {{{hugs}}} to everyone for the comments + positive feedback + emails in response to the "quirky journal page" aka Seeing + noticing things others don't. It was the most commented post to date and has made a huge difference in my outlook for Daisy Yellow.
I've been contemplating the future of Daisy Yellow over the past few months, gauging interest based on comments, and comments were few. Doubting. Wondering.
Comments bring the readers and the bloggers together, to interact.
As an analytical I thought it meant something was very wrong. There had to be a reason. Maybe Daisy Yellow just isn't groovy enough? Maybe... because... It really gets silly after awhile, doesn't it? Doubting ourselves?
Thank you for letting me see and hear that you are reading and you are creating.
I'm quirky. Eccentric. Different. I see things other people don't see. I combine things in my mind and make them into art. I notice colors and shapes and angles of sunlight. I take more photographs of things than people. I'm happy there are other quirky characters reading what I write and maybe it makes sense too!
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Is Russell Wilson really "ours?"
Russell Wilson will take snaps next Sunday evening in Super Bowl XLVIII for the Seattle Seahawks, and no doubt many in Wisconsin will be rooting for the second-year quarterback to best Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos.
After all, Wilson led the University of Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl in 2011. He's a Badger. He's ours.
Or is he?
Wilson was born in Ohio before moving to Virginia, where he went to high school. He then went to North Carolina to play football at North Carolina State University. He redshirted his freshman year, and then played three full seasons for the Wolfpack. He spent four years on that campus in Raleigh.
When he wasn't invited to the NFL Combine following his 2010 season, and his coaches at N.C. State weren't thrilled with his dalliances with Major League Baseball, he was released from his scholarship.
This is where Wisconsin comes in. On June 27, 2011 he committed to the Badgers. He quarterbacked Bucky in the Rose Bowl less than seven months later on Jan. 2, 2012. Two weeks after that game, he was down in Florida training for the combine.
Then, he was drafted into the NFL.
So … how does this make Wilson "ours?"
Adopting a player is what sports are all about. Few major college athletes are from the cities or states where they play. Even fewer pro athletes ever are.
What's interesting is that where you're from matters far less than the uniform you wear.
I was first introduced to this phenomenon in my youth growing up in Chicago, where Chi-town born and bred Isiah Thomas became a pariah, a man literally hated by the town he was raised in, because he dared to beat up Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.
Jordan, who was born in Brooklyn mind you, was raised in North Carolina and attended college in North Carolina. He now owns a pro basketball team in that state. Needless to say, Jordan is North Carolina's favorite son. But, Chicago definitely calls him its own.
As I got older, I saw the same thing happen with Donovan McNabb, born and raised on the South Side but vilified as he quarterbacked the Philadelphia Eagles to wins over the beloved Chicago Bears.
I see it now with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. All that state pride and fist-pumping at his love of the Brewers and Bucks went out the window as soon as he started beating down the Green Bay Packers.
I get that, to an extent. You want your team to win. But how do you come to loathe an athlete whose family and friends likely still live in that city, and they probably come home more often than any of your adopted heroes?
It's a weird thing, this "ownership" of our athletes.
Wilson spent just a fraction of his 25 years on this earth in Wisconsin, and he was only there – really – to play football and raise his draft stock. Once that was accomplished, he was gone.
Now, he is an alumnus. He was part of a really good Badgers team. He's a smart dude, too. He'll always represent the school and the state. After all – one of his corporate sponsors, American Family Insurance – is based in Madison.
But he's also a N.C. State alumnus, and that university actually has far more claim to him than Wisconsin.
I'm not saying you can't root for Wilson, or shouldn't. He's a Badger. So is his teammate, Seahawks linebacker O'Brien Schofield. Schofield, an Illinois native, spent 2005-09 in Madison.
Do we love Wilson more than another Seahawks teammate, Chris Maragos, a Racine native and another Badgers player? Maragos started his college career at Western Michigan (2005-06) before transferring back home (2007-09).
Or, what about Denver Broncos running back Montee Ball?
Ball is a Kansas native and went to high school in Missouri, and is one of the best running backs to ever come through Madison, which is no small feat.
If anything, fans across this state should rally around him more so than Wilson. Shouldn't they?
Or is it because Wilson is a quarterback, and the additional adoration just comes with it?
Maybe that's it. Maybe that's why I see more Wilson Seahawks jerseys than Schofield, Maragos or Ball when I'm out in about in Milwaukee, Southeastern Wisconsin or around Green Bay.
But of the four, the state has less invested in Wilson, less of a connection. But yet, so many say that he's "ours." He doesn't feel like it, though.
High_Life_Man | Jan. 29, 2014 at 5:29 p.m. (report)
Watch the Super Bowl video on this page. Wilson is proud to be a Badger. https://www.facebook.com/wisconsinbadgers
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gpack86 | Jan. 29, 2014 at 12:40 p.m. (report)
As many Badger fans recall, NCSU fans adopted Wisconsin as their second team to cheer on. Wilson is revered by NCSU fans and he has earned the right to be labeled both a Badger as well as a Wolfpack alumni. Although I am a Panthers fan, I will be cheering for Wilson, Sweezey, Hauschka and Nate Irving because they all are Wolfpack family.
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buck | Jan. 24, 2014 at 5:52 p.m. (report)
If you're a Badger football fan, you're going to feel a connection with Wilson, regardless of how long he was here. If you're not, then you won't. As for Kaepernick, he was born here but moved away before he played at any level. So not too much of a chance for anyone to form a connection. Pretty simple stuff to figure out.
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TosaJim | Jan. 24, 2014 at 1:36 p.m. (report)
Unless you were born or raised most of your life in Wisconsin...you are not "ours"...we are only borrowing you. :)
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Event programs offer insights, timelines, interviews
When audience members open their programs, they're likely to find more than a cast list and technical credits.
Increasingly, performing arts presenters and producers offer historical timelines, biographies, background information and directors' notes to educate and inform their audiences.
"I like them because they enhance the theatergoing experience and give cultural context," says Ted Pappas, the producing artistic director at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, where archival photographs, glossaries and timelines about the playwright's career or the period of the play's setting have long been a part of each program. "It can be anything that helps the audience experience and gives context without spoon-feeding their response."
The program for the Pittsburgh Public Theater's recent production of "The Little Foxes" included a look at playwright Lillian Hellman's long career of writing for both the stage and film, which included film adaptations of two of her plays.
Several years ago, the Pittsburgh Symphony decided to expand its program notes.
"One of the key parts was to make sure the audience had a deep connection to the music whether intellectually, emotionally or both," says Larry Tamburri, symphony president. "We decided to move away from expositions or recaps (of specific works) to try to make (the performance) more reachable for the audience."
Those attending the Jan. 22 and 23 concerts will still find traditional program notes on the interplay between the tubas and French horns in Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 as well as a feature story updating the symphony's ongoing Beethoven project.
The goal is to supply multiple entry points for people with different experience levels to learn about music and other aspects of the symphony.
They also will find an essay on composer Gustav Mahler even though his Symphony No. 4 will not be performed until Jan. 29 and 31.
That's because each program in the Pittsburgh Symphony Grand Classics series contains information for two concerts.
The thinking is that those attending the earlier performance will learn something about an upcoming event the concertgoer also might enjoy. Those who attend the second concert will learn something that may inspire them to try an unfamiliar composer or work in the future.
"Everyone enters at different points in the educational experience. But everyone can experience something new," says Suzanne Perrino, the symphony's vice president of education and strategic implementation.
Essays, timelines and glossaries can help get the audience up to speed when the subject or period of a play is a little remote, says Andrew S. Paul, Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre's producing artistic director.
To get the audience up to speed for last May's production of Tom Stoppard's "Rock 'n' Roll," which was set during Czechoslovakia's three-decade tumble toward democracy, the program included three essays, an interview with Stoppard and a quick summary of essential information.
For those who wanted to know more, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre sold a 60-page package of background information in the lobby. The $5 fee barely covered the printing costs.
"We try, with our limited resource,s to provide tools for the audience," Paul says. "Our audience is a very educated audience and values the educational aspect of theater. It's an audience I have carefully cultivated, and I want to keep them. People are interested in more than just seeing a play."
Not everyone is a fan of expanded program notes.
"The meaning is in the movement. The movement is in the meaning," says Paul Organisak, the executive director of Pittsburgh Dance Council as well as the vice president of programming for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
Organisak used to introduce each Pittsburgh Dance Council presentation with a traditional director's notes essay, which explained why the performance had been chosen for the season.
"I finally said, why are we agonizing over this," Organisak says. "They always sound the same, and we want people to come in and experience the show for themselves."
Organisak isn't against educating his audiences.
He prefers to do it with post-show conversations, which allow attendees and artists to explore the creative process and the experience they have just shared.
"We want people to have the experience, and then we'll talk," Organisak says.
Quantum Theatre artistic director Karla Boos used to share Organisak's don't-tell policy. She made it a point not to include director's notes in her programs.
"I used to say I feared telling people about the experience. I thought (the notes) were the theater-maker's attempt to do the work for the audience," Boos says.
Over time, she has softened her stance and now includes a brief introduction in each program.
"Now, I desire to say things that don't mess with the experience and possibly enhance it," she says. In her director's notes for Quantum's November 2009 production of "Candide," Boos explained her personal attraction to the musical as well as the process and reasoning for choosing a defunct auto dealership to house the production.
"The marketing people and (Quantum's managing director) Renee (Conrad) say it's nice to give the audience a way in," Boos says.
As arts lovers become more familiar with the Internet, arts organizations are making more program information available on their Web sites.
Pittsburgh Symphony has links to its program notes and a short musical passage, which can be accessed by clicking on individual events on the Web site calendar at www.pittsburghsymphony.org .
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's Paul is such a big believer in the value of program notes that last summer he began making the entire program available on the company's Web site, www.picttheatre.org .
Interested theatergoers could read the information online before going to the theater or at their leisure after seeing the production.
Melissa Hill Grande, the company's marketing director and artistic associate, first introduced the idea as a cost-cutting measure. The company could print fewer programs if they could encourage people to leave their programs at the theater for re-use by others.
The result provided educational benefits as well.
"For younger audience member, that's how they get information, so they don't mind leaving the (print) program behind," Paul says. "Even our core audience has been using it. If the play is in the public domain, we can actually link them to the script, so they can focus on what's there beforehand."


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JERUSALEM (Mar. 26)
It would be easy to take a cynical view of last week's Prime Minister's Conference on Jewish Solidarity With Israel.
And indeed, several Israeli journalists writing about the three-day event did take a negative slant, calling it a failure and a farce that produced little in the way of concrete answers to the myriad problems facing Israel.
But according to many of the primary participants, the conference accomplished exactly what it set out to do.
Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, is credited with first proposing the conference to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
"When Rabbi Hier came up with the idea, he thought it was important to create a media event, to show that we were taking some initiative," said Efraim Zuroff, Israeli representative of the center.
"Instead of responding all the time to 'Arafat did this, and he met with this one and he met with that one — Algiers, Stockholm, Geneva' — the time has come to show that we're not lying down and doing nothing. That there is a Jewish people, and the Jewish people support Israel, and we're here to talk about it, and the people who came here are here to express that support.
"It doesn't mean that everybody necessarily agrees with the present policies," he said.
Some leaders of Diaspora Jewry who disagree with government policy stayed away from the conference, afraid it would not be worth their time.
They feared there would be no discussion of policy, no debate over issues and no addressing the problems facing the government of Israel, the people of Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora.
"Many of us had hesitations about coming here, including our own leadership," said Ernest Michel, executive director of the UJA-Federation of New York.
"But it was our feeling that if the prime minister of Israel, prior to going to see the president of the United States, goes and asks the American Jewish community to come here, we owe it to him to be here, no matter what our points of view are."
There was no formal debate over ending the intifada, or negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization, or defining who is a Jew.
But that was just fine, as far as most participants were concerned. It did not prevent delegates from expressing divergent viewpoints and challenging the speakers on different matters.
Charlotte Jacobson, representing both Hadassah and the Jewish National Fund, asked Vice Premier Peres after his speech whether the unity government "would be prepared to make a list of demands that the PLO would have to follow in order for Israel to include them in a delegation."
Similarly, Dr. Lionel Kopelowitz, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jewry, asked Peres "what criteria the PLO would have to fulfill, and what change of policy would have to take place, which would permit Israel to talk to the PLO, because ultimately talks are held with your enemies and not with your friends."
Peres responded, "If the PLO is sincerely interested in negotiating, why do they stop the people they claim they represent, the people they claim support them, from coming to negotiate?"
Such exchanges between speaker and delegate were not unusual, despite the format of the conference being designed to minimize dissent.
"I was actually pleasantly surprised by the relative openness of the conference, during the steering committee meetings and in some of the workshops," said Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and a noted critic of Shamir's policies.
"There was sharp and open debate, and it was very well handled," he said.
As for those disappointed that the careful orchestration of the conference's agenda prevented a detailed discussion of government policy, they just came to the wrong place, said one conference participant.
"Anyone who expected an unfolding here of a master plan and a master design, just doesn't know how the process works," said Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation and religious leader of the Park East Synagogue in New York.
Israeli leaders are "not going to spell out a plan in front of a steering committee of 200. It's just not done," he said.
So what was the point of this conference? Perhaps to give liberals and conservatives, hawks and doves, a place to come together and to share ideas.
"You know, it's not so terrible for Marvin Hier and Israel Singer and Burt Levinson and others to sit down and shmooze and talk issues through," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center.
Singer is secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress and Burton Levinson is national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
Certainly, it was also a media event, designed to show Jew and gentile alike that although it has been a tough year, Jews are still standing together.
"I think it means that those who have been betting on a wedge being driven between the Jewish people and the State of Israel are going to be severely disappointed," said Deputy Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
In the final analysis, the conference demonstrated that Jews can stand in solidarity and yet not be monolithic, that Jews can support Israel and still have differing points of view. That disagreement is not disaffection, and dissent is not disloyalty.
"I came here," said Schindler, "not to endorse any particular policy, not to write any blank check, but to demonstrate my 'at-oneness' with this land, and its people, and my fellow Jews.
"One of the reasons I came here was precisely because I am a critic, to demonstrate that my criticism involves certain policies, but that my love for Israel transcends policy, and party, and personality, and embraces an entire people. And that was the purpose of this conference."


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How to Import Export: Step by Step
If you've been thinking about a career in import export, you've probably looking for courses on how to import export, you've probably seen numerous online courses, numerous colleges and universities where you can invest your time and money.
This article will give you a simple step by step instruction on how to import export the products you are interested in.
Let's start from the beginning:
- Write down your goals, make this step as detailed as you can, including the amount of money you want to earn, the hours you want to work, travel, house, living conditions.
- Honestly list your strengths and weaknesses, with respect to your weaknesses, remember if you can't do it, you can always pay someone.
- Think about the Product you want to import or export.
- Decide on your business structure, ie. Sole trader, partnership, corporation, often it is advisable to speak to an accountant or business attorney.
- Start your business plan including: executive summary, plan, financial data and supporting documents. Start with an outline and show it to some business people you trust to give honest feedback.
- Name your business, nothing to outrageous, remember it's best if your name gives a clear understanding of what you do.
- Organize your office
- Work out your product storage and distribution or whether you will be drop shipping products.
- Order your business cards
- Start your Market research
- Make contact with : Banker, accountant, attorney, freight forwarder, and customs brokers.
- Decide whether you'll be importing, exporting or bot
- Research information about the country you are interested in importing or exporting to.
- Research Shipping options
- Find out about potential grants
- Make final product choices.
- Find suppliers
- Ensure you go over all contracts with your attorney
- Research customs procedures
- Research customs brokers
- Work our your product's 'Classification'
- Collect all regulation paperwork
- Work out your marketing strategy
- Website
- Research your competitors
- Work out your financing strategy
- How will your customers pay you
- Choose a financial recording system
- Finalize your paperwork for permits, fees etc
- Finalize your marketing and business plans
- Prepare for your first buying trip
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One of just 41 making its way to the U.S., this Israel-designed, 1960s Sabra was powered by a 1.7-litre Ford four-cylinder engine.
Pedestrian-unfriendly overrider front bumpers just one of the oddities of this rare Israeli roadster
Spending a great deal of my time involved in the world of serious concours and preservation judging, it is sometimes fun to attend shows that are the complete opposite.
During a recent trip to Hershey, Penn., I attended a spectacular event called "The Elegance" in the manicured garden of the Hershey Hotel.
The day before the concours the inaugural Concorso Bizarro took place.
This is a tongue-in-cheek car show that, according to event chairman 'Dyno' Dan Stabilito, brings together some of the greatest mechanical misfits, automotive abhorrences
and just plain tacky cars.
I was pleasantly surprised for the second time in my life to see a Sabra.
"A what?" you might ask.
When you think of sports car of the early 1960s, Israel does not exactly come to mind as a manufacturer.
But these odd cars were built by Autocars Co. Ltd. of Haifa, founded in the '50s by Yitzhak Shubinsky, Israel's first car manufacturer.
Sabra has a bit of a double meaning: it means "born in Israel" and is also the name of a particular type of cactus which originates from Mexico and grows very well in Israel's climate.
That plant is used in a stylized form in the Sabra emblem.
Shubinsky purchased the rights to use an Ashley body fitted to a Ballamy chassis and formed a partnership with the U.K.-based Reliant Motor Car Company to combine a body, chassis and engine package using the 1703-cc Ford engine.
The plant in Israel could not be completed on time so the first 100 cars, despite their VIN plate reading "Autocars Company Ltd. Haifa Israel," were built in England by Reliant.
Only 41 of the made-in-Israel Sabras made their way to the U.S., as the majority of the 332 cars built in Israel, were sold in Belgium.
Today, worldwide, more than 100 Sabra cars are still traceable.
The one thing that stands out in my mind whenever I see one of these sports car is the somewhat pedestrian unfriendly front bumper overriders.
The car would probably look a lot cleaner if they had been left off.
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Here's how you can shut down malfunctioning apps on your iPad, iPhone or iPod.
1. Double push the Home button.
2. The app switcher will appear at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap and hold the icon of the app you want to close.
4. Tap the red minus in the upper left corner of the icon. The app will be closed and you can relaunch it if you want.
For more, see the original article at the link below.
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Being in a really cool band isn't enough to overpower your crush's seven evil exes; you have to be strong, too.
But the statistic cannot overpower the emotional response to flying.
Blake Gopnik takes a stroll and wonders whether the technology will overpower the art.
But even if financial reform passes, the markets will still find ways to overpower government.
There are moments the grim metal can overpower the sleazy pop charm of early material.
When this alarm—always startling, but doubly so in a crowded prison—was given, we were to rush upon the guards and overpower them.
You overpower me, madame, with the kindness of your language.
Ten hostlers in the Royal stables were taken redhanded in the attempt to overpower the small guard at the western gates.
On all sides was a solitude so vast as almost to overpower the senses.
He saw the German army advancing again or at least enough of it to know that it could overpower the defense.


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The Rocktagon New Song Battle – Thousand Foot Krutch vs Filter
Another battle rages on in The Rocktagon! Listen to these songs and vote for the song you like best. It's Thousand Foot Krutch vs Filter Listen to both songs and then vote often for the song you like best. The deadline to vote is 5pm Central Thursday. Remember, your votes determine the winner. The winning band, who stays in the Rocktagon, will be announced Thursday night at 6pm and then we'll find out who the next challenger will be. The Rocktagon battle is brought to you by Unspoken Art Studio and Custom Tattooing.
Thousand Foot Krutch – "Born This Way"
Thousand Foot Krutch hails from Toronto and will be releasing a new album entitled "Oxygen Inhale" set for an August release. Pre-Order the new album now on PledgeMusic – http://www.pledgemusic.com/TFK
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Time Lapse Video Showing Meteor With Persistent Train and More Unique Footage
With this stunning time-lapse video by photographer Randy Halverson, set to a dramatic score by Bear McCreary. Amazing!
This is four minutes of some of the most breathtaking sky you've ever seen. Shot in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Utah and Colorado during the months of June, September and October 2011, the video is made up of multiple long-exposure photographs painstakingly combined into seamless footage, capturing the stars, sky and landscape together in a way that conventional video cameras cannot.
What you are seeing here is an ordered array of literally thousands of 15-30 second exposures shot with professional Canon dSLRs, and given life via the music of composer Bear McCreary.
Randy describes the video on his post on Vimeo:
In the opening "Dakotalapse" title shot, you see bands of red and green moving across the sky. After asking several astronomers, they are possible noctilucent clouds, airglow or faint aurora. I never got a definite answer to what it is. You can also see the red and green bands in other shots.
(Note: these appear to this non-expert to be high-level noctilucent clouds, moving in ripple motion that I have seen before on other low-light time-lapse footage. Noctilucent, or "night-shining", clouds are created by fine ice particles high in the extremely cold, dry layer of atmosphere called the mesosphere — nearly at the edge of space, 50 to 80 km up. Then again, they could be aurora or airglow… it's too quick to tell for certain.)
At :53 and 2:17 seconds into the video you see a meteor with a persistent train. Which is ionizing gases, which lasted over a half hour in the camera's frame. Phil Plait wrote an article about the phenomena here.
There is a second meteor with a much shorter persistent train at 2:51 in the video. This one wasn't backlit by the moon like the first, and moves out of the frame quickly. Watch for two deer at 1:27.
Most of the video was shot near the White River in central South Dakota during September and October 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado during June 2011. The aurora were shot in central South Dakota in September 2011 and near Madison, Wisconsin on October 25, 2011.
I asked Randy why the auroras appear yellow in color in many of the scenes.
"I'm not sure why they were yellow either," he replied. "They were really far off on the horizon and I was just seeing the top of them. The exposures on those were 30 seconds at ISO 3200, maybe the long exposure did make them that way. I really don't know."
Randy also offered this bit of insight:
"One night while we were shooting timelapse, my son and I saw a fireball meteor. I thought it looked like it was maybe 50 miles away. It ended up being right over Fargo, ND, over 300 miles away. So the aurora then were probably at least that far north, if not further."
Wherever the northern lights were that night, the footage Randy got is nothing short of amazing. Thanks so much to him and to his team for putting this all together and sharing with us!
Visit Randy's website at www.dakotalapse.com for more amazing time-lapse videos. (There's also an extended 23-minute version of the above video available here.)
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Stunning Night Sky Time Lapse Meteor Video
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My buddy Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM had a post recently that I thought was a great idea. He's had a surge of subscribers in the last six months so he's doing a recap of older posts that his new readers might not have seen. Well, I'm stealing the idea (thanks, Matt ). Hat-tip to Matt for the idea.
I also have a fair amount of new readers in the last couple of months so I thought I'd list some posts from earlier in the year and last year that were popular among my subscribers at that time. Enjoy and let me know what you think of them!
- A Great (and tasty) Marketing Example
- 9 Steps To Moving Your Blog and Selecting Plugins
- Message in a Wine Bottle: Interview with Rosenblum Cellars
- Can You Actually Market a State? Iowa is.
- Review: Google's Website Optimizer a Slick New Tool Worth Trying
- Business Blogging: Important First Steps to Consider
Actually, this is a good exercise for every blog! Here are 4 blogs I've recently subscribed to and am enjoying reading. Let's see if they'd be up to sharing some of their most popular posts.
Anyone else interested in sharing their popular content? Oh yeah, don't forget to check out Matt McGee's – I think you'll like what you see.


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The Senate confirmed something last night that most people in Washington already knew:
President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill won't pass Congress, at least not in its current form.
But the bill is certainly not dead politically. Obama pledged to bring it back up piece by piece in the weeks ahead -- presumably rolling right into the election year of 2012.
Among the items to be pushed by the president: tax cuts for employers, infrastructure projects and tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for the jobs bill and draw down the federal debt.
"With each vote, members of Congress can either explain to their constituents why they're against common-sense, bipartisan proposals to create jobs, or they can listen to the overwhelming majority of American people who are crying out for action," Obama said.
The president's vow came after Senate Republicans united to block consideration of Obama's American Jobs Act. Two Senate Democrats, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Jon Tester of Montana, also opposed the bill.
As Obama attacks the Republicans over jobs, the Republicans plan to attack the Obama bill as another stimulus plan that won't work, financed by tax hikes that will kill jobs.
"Democrats' sole proposal is to keep doing what hasn't worked, along with a massive tax hike that we know won't create jobs," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "Why on earth would you support an approach that we already know won't work?"
The Republican-run House also objects to the size and scope of Obama's jobs bill. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., said his colleagues will focus on their own jobs bill, which concentrates on removing unnecessary regulations over business people.
"I hope that the president will put the brakes on his campaign-style speeches and work with Congress on areas where there is bipartisan support to spur economic growth and get people back to work," Cantor said.
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Today, the Senate began debate on the Department of Defense Appropriations bill. The measure provides service members a pay raise, increases funding for military health care and provides needed equipment funds for the National Guard and Reserve Forces. In addition, the measure funds the recently passed Wounded Warriors bill Senate Democrats fought for to help returning soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
"This is a good bill, one that is critical for our nation's defense," said Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Chairman of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "It meets the Senate's priorities: ensuring readiness, protecting and caring for our forces, and acquiring the critical equipment that our servicemen and servicewomen need and deserve."
Some Highlights of the Senate FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Measure:
- Senate Democrats Provide Military Personnel a Pay Raise Above the President's Request. The Senate Department of Defense Appropriations bill provides a 3.5 percent raise in basic pay for all service members and civilian personnel. The appropriation was half a percentage point more than requested by the administration, which according to the press, "strongly opposes the higher raise." [CQ Committee Coverage, 9/12/07]
- Senate Democrats Increase Funding for Military Health Care Programs. The Senate measure adds $948.9 million to the President's budget request for military health care, bringing the total to $23.5 billion for the military's health system. Of the $23.5 billion, $486 million was added to reverse planned cuts to military hospitals. Finally, the bill also provides $240 million for research on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer. [CQ Committee Coverage, 9/12/07]
- Senate Democrats Provide Needed Funds for America's Wounded Warriors. The measure provides $73 million to fund programs authorized in the Senate passed 'Dignified Treatment of Wounded Warrior Act.' The Wounded Warriors bill addresses the urgent medical needs of wounded service members, especially those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injuries. [CQ Committee Coverage, 9/12/07; Senate Report 110-155 To accompany H.R. 3222, 9/14/07]
- Senate Democrats Increase Funds for National Guard Equipment. The Senate bill provides $1 billion to fill significant shortages in National Guard and Reserve equipment. Interestingly, the White House did not request this funding in their budget request. [CQ Committee Coverage, 9/12/07]
- Senate Defense Appropriations Measure Provides Needed Environmental Restoration Funding. The Senate FY 2008 Defense Appropriations measure provides $444.9 million for Army environmental restoration; $300.6 million for Navy environmental restoration; $458.4 million for Air Force environmental restoration; $12.8 million for defense-wide environmental restoration; and $295.3 million for environmental restoration in formerly used Defense sites. [CQ Committee Coverage, 9/12/07; Senate Report 110-155 To accompany H.R. 3222, 9/14/07]


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It is well established that melatonin exerts antitumoral effects in many cancer types, mostly decreasing cell proliferation at low concentrations. On the other hand, induction of apoptosis by melatonin has been described in the last few years in some particular cancer types. The cytotoxic effect occurs after its administration at high concentrations, and the molecular pathways involved have been only partially determined. Moreover, a synergistic effect has been found in several cancer types when it is administered in combination with chemotherapeutic agents. In the present review, we will summarize published work on the pro-apoptotic effect of melatonin in cancer cells and the reported mechanisms involved in such action. We will also construct a hypothesis on how different cell signaling pathways may relate each other on account for such effect.
The natural indoleamine, melatonin, is known to regulate light/darkness responses in living organisms from all kingdoms. However, the therapeutic potential of melatonin goes beyond the treatment of jet lag or sleep disorders; this indole showing neuroprotective and antitumoral properties in many experimental conditions [
The antitumoral effects of melatonin are observed at many different levels. The alteration of melatonin circadian rhythm in professionals doing night shifts increases the incidence of some kinds of tumors [
Melatonin antitumoral effects in experimental models of cancer have been mostly studied using concentrations of the indole that are similar to those found in plasma, within the nanomolar range. Plasma concentrations are usually referred to as "physiological". However, higher concentrations of this indole have also shown interesting effects in multiple diseases and conditions, including cancer. Said concentrations range from micromolar to millimolar, and authors frequently refer to them as "pharmacological" concentrations, since they are higher than plasma concentrations. However, in our opinion, the terms "physiological" and "pharmacological" should be revised. The term "pharmacological" has somewhat acquired negative connotations. Reviewers often argue that these concentrations are not physiological and that their use for human therapies is unrealistic. Melatonin concentration in the extracellular space remains unknown, and therefore, micro- or milli-molar concentrations of melatonin in the cell culture media may well be physiological. Additionally, saliva, bile and cerebrospinal fluid show higher melatonin concentrations than plasma, indicating a compartmentalization of the hormone that could result in its accumulation at micro- or milli-molar concentrations in cells and tissues [
Some cancer cells, such as androgen-independent prostate cancer cells or glioma cells, are insensitive to nanomolar concentrations of melatonin. However, their growth is inhibited by millimolar concentrations of the indole [
Melatonin's cytotoxic effect in particular tumoral cells is counter-intuitive, since high concentrations of melatonin also protect normal cells against oxidative damage, preventing the modifications of DNA, lipids and proteins exposed to oxidants [
While the oncostatic effects of melatonin at nanomolar concentrations have been extensively studied and the pathways involved are relatively well characterized, the mechanisms of action of high melatonin concentrations and their cytotoxic effects remain poorly understood. This review focuses on the antitumoral effects of melatonin at high concentrations, with special attention to its cytotoxic effects on particular types of tumoral cells.
The antitumoral effects of melatonin can be classified as cytostatic or cytotoxic. While both low and high concentrations of melatonin are able to stop the proliferation of tumoral cells, the cytotoxicity is observed exclusively at high concentrations of the indole. The kind of effect and its potency, however, depends strongly on the type of cell and tumor.
We have mentioned above that breast cancer cells are sensitive to plasma concentrations of melatonin and respond by stopping their proliferation [
Cytotoxicity is not observed in any of the examples shown above nor, to the best of our knowledge, in any type of non-tumoral cell. For example, melatonin (100 μM) inhibits neural stem cell proliferation and promotes their differentiation [
A very restricted group of cancer cells show a cell death response after their treatment with high concentrations of melatonin, such cytotoxicity showing features corresponding to apoptosis (
The extrinsic pathway is triggered by the binding of specific ligands from the TNF family (TNF, Fas ligand -Fas L-, TRAIL) to their receptors (death receptors: TNRF, Fas, Trail-R1, Trail-R2, DR3, DR6), which exist as trimers on the cell surface. The intracellular domain of death receptors (death domain), once activated by ligand binding, interacts with similar domains in particular adaptor molecules, bringing several of these molecules together and exposing their death effector domain (DED). The DED domain of adaptor molecules binds to the DED domain in caspase 8 monomers, resulting in dimmer formation and activation of this initiator caspase. The complex formed by the death receptor, the adaptor protein and the procaspase 8 is called the death-inducing signaling complex (DISC). Activated caspase 8 then cleaves executioner caspases (3, 6 and 7), which will act on their substrates, giving place to the morphological and biochemical features of apoptosis, or activates other proteins that allow crosstalk with the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis.
The intrinsic pathway of apoptosis relies on the disruption and permeabilization of the mitochondrial outer membrane (MOMP), which is followed by cytochrome c release and activation of the apoptosome. Activation by different stimuli of the pro-apoptotic members of the Bcl-2 family, such as Bax and Bak, are able to trigger MOMP. Such activation is controlled by other Bcl-2 family proteins (also pro-apoptotic), such as the activator BH3-only protein, Bim, or the de-repressor BH3-only protein, Bad. Anti-apoptotic proteins of the same family (Bcl-2, Bcl-XL and more) bind activator proteins in the absence of apoptotic stimuli, tightly regulating their activity and avoiding MOMP. Once MOMP occurs, cytochrome c is released into the cytosol and binds apoptotic protease activating factor 1 (APAF-1), which changes its conformation and exposes its oligomerization domain. Seven APAF-1 molecules bind to each other and form the apoptosome. This structure recruits procaspase-9 molecules and activates them, leading to the cleavage and subsequent activation of executioner caspases (-3, -6 and -7). As we mentioned above, the extrinsic pathway of apoptosis may engage the intrinsic one by caspase-8-mediated activation of proteins, such as the activator BH3-only protein Bid, which in turn activates Bax and Bak [
Hematological tumors are the best studied and the ones that present the most uniform results concerning the apoptotic effect by melatonin. Trubiani
We reported induction of apoptosis by 1 mM melatonin in acute myeloid leukemia (HL60), chronic myeloid leukemia (K562), Burkitt lymphoma (CA-46, RAMOS and RAJI) and acute lymphoid leukemia (RHE) cells [
These data strongly support that both the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis are activated by millimolar concentrations of melatonin in hematological cancer cells. Interestingly, melatonin sensitizes human glioma cells to TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL)-induced cell death, cells that otherwise respond to melatonin by stopping their growth [
A cytotoxic effect by millimolar concentrations of melatonin was also found in Ewing's sarcoma cells, although not in other types of sarcoma [
Other cancer types seem to die in the presence of high concentrations of melatonin, but the results are more controversial. One of the first reports on melatonin-induced cell death was by Winczyk
Results on prostate cancer cells are also controversial. Joo and Yoo [
A decrease in cell number together with an increase in caspase 3 activity were found by Gonzalez
Other tumoral cells show no response whatsoever to either low or high melatonin concentrations. For example, Sanchez-Sanchez
In summary, melatonin-induced apoptosis only occurs at high concentrations of the indole and only in specific cancer types. Both the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways of apoptosis can be activated by melatonin, but little is still know about the exact contribution of each pathway to effects of the indole.
One of the greater difficulties found in mechanistic studies at cellular and molecular levels are the constant intersection and crosstalk between signaling pathways, since most proteins are involved in several of them. It took years to explain the intracellular signaling pathways involved in the cytostatic effects of low concentrations of melatonin, which works mainly via its membrane receptors [
As melatonin has antioxidant properties at high concentrations, several reports on melatonin apoptotic effects studied the oxidative status of cells upon treatment with the indole. Opposite to what was expected, researchers found that there is an early increase in oxidative stress in those cancer cells, where melatonin induces apoptosis, besides the late increase of intracellular oxidants associated to apoptosis itself. Osseni
ROS form part of several signaling pathways activated by intra- or extra-cellular stimuli. At low levels, they can induce an increase in cell proliferation; while at high levels, they can induce apoptosis [
ROS can also activate the ASK/JNK signaling pathway and drive cells to apoptosis. It has been previously proved that the Trx1/ASK1 complex works as a redox sensor. When Trx1 is reduced, it prevents ASK1 activation and the apoptotic cascade [
The data mentioned above suggest that the increase in ROS production is related to the pro-apoptotic effect of high concentrations of melatonin in cancer cells. We analyzed several parameters related to the intracellular redox state in a recent study [
While melatonin increases GSH levels in many cell types, both normal and tumoral, it produces the opposite effect in cells that undergo apoptosis. The decrease in intracellular GSH levels could be due to its oxidation by ROS, but also to its escape out of the cell [
Current evidence indicates that alterations of the intracellular redox state play a key role in the effects of high concentrations of melatonin in cancer cells, reducing conditions being associated with a decrease in cell proliferation and oxidative conditions with apoptosis. The last data may be in conflict with the fact that high concentrations of melatonin show clear antioxidant properties. Furthermore, unlike other antioxidants, such as vitamins C or E, melatonin oxidation results in metabolites that still possess antioxidant properties [
This work was supported by grants SAF2007-64726 and SAF2010-21729 (MCINN) and FC-11-COF11-32 (FICYT) to CR. S-S, A acknowledges a fellowship from FICYT. PM, N was supported by FICYT (COF11-32). We thank Marina Gómez-Lobo for her excellent technical assistance. The authors also appreciate the helpful technical assistance of Fernando Jañez and Carlos Villa from the Electron Microscopy Service of the University of Oviedo.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Melatonin effects on the hippocampal HT22 cell line. (
Melatonin effects on Ewing's sarcoma cell lines. (
General view of the extrinsic and the intrinsic pathways of apoptosis.
Roles of ROS in apoptosis. * Affected by melatonin.


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While Washington wrote from inside the experience of the freed slaves, DuBois observes them loftily from above.
He presents a manic mix of politics and religion, loftily billed as "the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment."
It may just be the case that high-end Vancouver real estate is loftily suspended, awaiting such a nasty correction.
They loftily asked those who watched The Real Housewives of New York City what was with the leg toss.
"I am discussing the Waddy," returned Mrs. Hauksbee, loftily.
"There is a total absence of nicotine in tripe," said Mr. Punch, loftily.
"Americans don't believe in working their women," he declared, loftily.
"I think I have an interest in this business," replied Fitz, loftily.
In those early times there was no artillery to endanger their loftily secure repose.
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Terra Circa
Terra Circa is the sequel to Mondo Enduro. This is
another fantastic tale and a story that all motorcyclists and
non-motorcyclists alike will enjoy.
As if the British Mondo Enduro concept wasn't crazy enough,
it had to be done again! A new group of riders takes over
and once again takes the long way 'round, from London to New
York City, via Europe, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Siberia!
A wacky and wild tale, this one is just about as good as
Mondo Enduro, but the filming and direction is a bit better.
Some of the on-bike camera work is simply amazing! The
Terra Circa crew are like throwbacks from the past --
adventurers that today are only alive in the pages of history.
Very few of us indeed could do this; living off the land, fixing
mechanical breakdowns in the middle of nowhere and still be smiling. It's
refreshing to see that, in a small way, there are still
adventurers out there that bring back memories of the great
treks of the past.
It's a shame that Aim Image Productions wasn't able to get
better distribution on both of these videos. They are both
world-class stories and would make a prime-time feature hit on
any TV station in the world. Both Mondo Enduro and Terra
Circa are highly recommended, and either (or both) would make a
great Holiday present for your favorite motorcyclist!
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Victorian Sarah Blanck, 27 today, secured a dream birthday present yesterday when she secured enough points in her final race to qualify for the Athens Olympic sailing team.
Blanck's boat tipped over twice in the lumpy Port Phillip Bay seas created by gusts of up to 30 knots before organisers called off racing for the day.
But Blanck, the 2002 world champion in the female Europe class, was well ahead in the Sail Melbourne International Regatta that finished yesterday.
In a tight race for selection for the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Blanck missed out, with fellow Victorian Melanie Dennison winning through.
"Four years ago, I lost the trials on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating tomorrow," said Blanck, who started competing in 1995.
"Today, I tipped over twice. There were very big waves out there, but it was still good fun."
The Melbourne graphic designer is the only Victorian to qualify for Athens, joining Sydney gold medallists in the 470 class, Jenny Armstrong and Belinda Stowell; current world champions in the 470 dinghies, Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page - they won the title last week - and Sydney Laser bronze medallist Michael Blackburn.
Other qualifiers for the team were Chris Nicholson - a three-time world champion - and Gary Boyd in the 49er class, Jessica Crisp and Lars Kleppich in the women's and men's Mistrals and Anthony Nossiter in the para-Olympic 2.4 metre boats.
Yesterday was the final day to qualify for the Athens sailing team, which will be ratified next month by Yachting Australia.
The Sail Melbourne Regatta is the biggest grade 1-ranked sailing event in Australia and the largest regatta in the southern hemisphere, attracting 250 sailors from 30 countries.
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SEMINOLE — Seminole pulled a last-second victory out of a hostile environment and wet playing field Tuesday, defeating Osceola 3-2 to advance to Friday's region finals. The Warhawks trailed by two goals with 12 minutes left to play and scored the go-ahead goal as the game announcer started the 10-second countdown.
"It's all about belief," Seminole coach Gary Kolb said. "We just kept believing in our ability to do it together."
Sarah Reinhold found Tegan Payne at the net and Payne re-directed it into the net with five seconds left.
"I couldn't hear the crowd, I couldn't hear my teammates, all I could hear was the announcer counting the seconds, "seven, six,"' Payne said.
Despite controlling the action most of the first half, Seminole could not get any shots to fall. With six minutes left, Osceola's Samantha Pifer chipped the ball to Cassidy Reich, who lifted it over the keeper for the first score. In the last two minutes, Warriors keeper Kristina Kulavic, who had seven saves in the first half, stopped a big Seminole push.
"It was extremely frustrating, we had five or six opportunities and we had them on their heels all night," Kolb said.
Osceola scored again 10 minutes into the second half as Reich set up Pifer with a shot that she banged off the far post and in for a 2-0 lead.
With 12 minutes left, Gabrielle John played what looked like a cross from the right but it richocheted off the keeper and in for Seminole's first goal. Just a minute later, Olivia Red sent a cross into the box that found Brandy Maulucci, who banged it into the net to tie it at 2-2.
"We watched Miracle before the game last week and we scored two goals in the last 6:25," Kolb said. "We watched it tonight before the game and we scored three goals in the last 12 minutes, that might become a tradition for us."


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Environmental Decision Memo for Food Contact Notification No. 000933
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Date: October 28, 2009
From: Acting Supervisor, Environmental Review Team (ERT)
Office of Food Additive Safety (HFS-246)
Subject: FCN No. 933 - Fluorochemical copolymer as an oil and grease resistant treatment for paper and paperboard.
Notifier: Daikin America, Inc.
905 State Docks Road
Decatur, AL 35601
To: Division of Food Contact Notifications (HFS-275)
Attention: Kelly Randolph, D.V.M., M.P.H.
The food contact substance (FCS) is 2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, polymer with 2-hydroxyethyl 2-methyl-2-propenoate, α-(1-oxo-2-propen-1-yl)-ω-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), and 3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-tridecafluorooctyl 2-propenoate, sodium salt. The FCS is employed at the size press or is added prior to sheet formation in the production of paper and paperboard.
The notifier submitted a claim of categorical exclusion under 21 CFR 25.32(i) for the proposed use of the FCS at the size press in production of paper products. We have reviewed the claim of categorical exclusion and have concluded that categorical exclusion is warranted. The claim of categorical exclusion cites the section—21 CFR 25.32(i)—under which categorical exclusion is warranted, states compliance with the categorical exclusion criteria, and states that no extraordinary circumstances exist that require the submission of an environmental assessment for the proposed use of the FCS at the size press.
Also, the notifier submitted an environmental assessment for the proposed use of the FCS added in production operations prior to formation of paper sheet. We have reviewed the environmental assessment, and we have prepared the attached Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for FCN 933. After this notification becomes effective, copies of this FONSI and the notifier's environmental assessment, dated August 31, 2009, may be made available to the public. We shall post digital transcriptions of the FONSI and the environmental assessment on the agency's public website.
Please let us know if there is any change in the identity or use of the food-contact substance.
William H Lamont
Finding of No Significant Impact
Finding of No Significant Impact
A food contact notification (FCN No. 933), submitted by Daikin America, Inc., to provide for the safe use of 2-propenoic acid, 2-methyl-, polymer with 2-hydroxyethyl 2-methyl-2-propenoate, α-(1-oxo-2-propen-1-yl)-ω-hydroxypoly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl), and 3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,8-trideca-fluorooctyl 2-propenoate, sodium salt, as an oil and grease resistant treatment for paper and paperboard.
The Environmental Review Team has determined that allowing this notification to become effective will not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and, therefore, will not require the preparation of an environmental impact statement. This finding is based on information, submitted by the notifier, in an environmental assessment, dated August 31, 2009, and other information known to the agency.
Prepared by __________________________________________Date: October 28, 2009
William H Lamont, Acting Supervisor
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I need this code below to be a subplot in a figure. I have been unsuccessful in attempting to combine this with another plot. How can I do this? Thanks in advance.
[ax,h1,h2] = plotyy(x,dd,x,ds);
hold on;
set(ax(1),'ylim',[-120 120])
hold on;
set(ax(2),'ylim',[-1.2 1.2])
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Have you tried to use the SUBPLOT command? If you have, what does it not do, specifically, that you need it to do?
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> I need this code below to be a subplot in a figure. ......
It doesn't appear that you used subplot. Try this demo:
%----- Initializing steps -----
clc; % Clear command window.
clear; % Delete all variables.
close all; % Close all figure windows except those created by imtool.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
fontSize = 20;
% Change the current folder to the folder of this m-file.
% Plot #1
data1 = 240 * rand(10, 1) - 120;
subplot(2, 1, 1);
plot(data1, 'b-', 'LineWidth', 2);
title('data1', 'FontSize', fontSize);
ylim([-120 120]);
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Position', get(0,'Screensize'));
% Plot #2
data2 = rand(20, 1);
subplot(2, 2, 3);
plot(data2, 'r-', 'LineWidth', 2);
title('data2', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Plot #3
data3 = rand(20, 1);
subplot(2, 2, 4);
plot(data3, 'g-', 'LineWidth', 2);
title('data3', 'FontSize', fontSize);
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I did try subplot, but it must have been incorrect since it changed my stem graph back to a line graph.
There's another post with an example to try. I'll try to combine the example with my code.
Thanks for your reply. I did try subplot, but probably incorrectly since it changed my stem graph to a line graph.
I'll try and combine your example with my code. Thanks.
Thanks much! Your example was exactly what I needed.
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Anchorage, Alaska (AFP) May 22, 2012
An "unprecedented" surge in debris from last year's Japanese tsunami is washing up on Alaska's coastline, environmentalists about to embark on a major cleanup operation said Tuesday.
Floating material including buoys and Styrofoam has washed up on Montague Island, some 120 miles (190 kilometers) southeast of Anchorage, in volumes that clearly suggest a wave of debris from the March 11, 2011 killer tidal wave.
"The debris found on initial surveys of the island showed an absolutely unprecedented amount of buoys, Styrofoam and other high floating debris," said Patrick Chandler of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.
He said debris from Asia has been washing up on Alaska shores for years, so "it is incredibly difficult to say with complete confidence that a given piece of debris is from the tsunami."
"However, we have never seen the amount we see now. In the past we would find a few dozen large black buoys, used in Japanese aquaculture, on an outside beach cleanup. Now we see hundreds," he told AFP, before the start of a planned 12-day cleanup operation, set to start Thursday.
"There is no other possible source for this increase besides the tsunami, so our conclusion is that is where it must be from."
Millions of tonnes of debris are expected to wash up in the coming months and years from the Japanese quake. Researchers in Hawaii have developed computer models to forecast where and when it could come ashore.
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Ethiopia and the Global Village are in, while the French Canadian and U.S.A. are out.
The official pavilion lineup is set for Brandon's 10th annual Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival, which runs Jan. 31 to Feb. 2.
The festival will feature a total of 13 pavilions, including Brazilian, Colombian, Salvadoran, English, First Nations, German, Irish, Mauritius, Métis, Scottish and Ukrainian.
Organizers are in full swing, as the festival is less than a month away.
"It is completely volunteer organized and driven, so there needs to be a lot of work behind-the-scenes that gets done," said Esther Bryan, past chair of the winter festival.
Typically there are roughly 1,000 volunteers involved to help make the event a success.
The Global Village will be a collective effort from the Egyptian, Kenyan, Icelandic and Latin cultures.
French Canadian and U.S.A. were involved in the 2012 festival but will not be included this year.
"Sometimes it's a whole slew of reasons behind it," Bryan said.
The French Canadian pavilion's chairperson stepped down and no one stepped up to take on that role this year.
The U.S.A. pavilion, which was organized by the Brandon Folk, Music and Art Society, applied to be included in this year's festival, however they weren't granted a spot. City representatives could not be reached yesterday to provide the details of why their application was denied.
The U.S.A. pavilion was a popular venue, bringing out 5,000 visitors last year for their first festival. However, there were some concerns raised last year regarding where the funds were going.
"The money that they raised went to help offset their summer folk festival," Bryan said. "Traditionally, that's not how it's done."
The way the festival is set up is that every group has its own independent pavilion, Bryan said.
"As an independent pavilion, you are afforded … the opportunity to give to whoever you want to give to, we don't dictate that at all," she said. "I think where some of the conflict concern came up … was they were self-perpetuating their own, so that if they had set it up as an independent, they could've in essence given back to (Brandon Folk, Music and Art Society)."
The U.S.A. pavilion was created as a way to celebrate folk music which has its roots in the U.S. The committee selected the Mississippi River region, where Appalachian styles of bluegrass music, barbecue and gumbo play a central role.
Bryan said pavilions will sometimes take a year or two off to build up their capacity.
"Some of them come and go," she said. "We often use the German one as a prime example. When they started, they started in a nice little venue, really small … They just kept growing and building on their successes, into the pavilion that they are today. They took a couple years off as well in order to build their own capacity back up, to build their volunteer capacity back up."
There are several plans in the works to mark the Winter Festival's 10-year milestone.
"We're doing a 10th anniversary look-back," Bryan said. "Some of the things that we're doing in our opening ceremonies will be some of that look-back over the 10 years."
The festival guide will also include some history of the festival, as well as features on those people who have played a role in the event over the years.
Opening ceremonies will take place at city hall at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31.
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