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Front-Line City in Virginia Tackles Rise in Sea -- The New York Times, Nov. 25
Last house on sinking Chesapeake Bay island collapses -- The Washington Post, Oct. 26
Flood Plan proposed to protect Washington Mall -- The Washington Post, Nov. 15
Maybe climate change has fallen off the radar screen at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, but these recent headlines from The Washington Post and The New York Times suggest that the issue hasn't gone away. No, these stories aren't straight out of some scary futuristic sci-fi movie (anybody remember the truly dreadful 1995 movie Waterworld starring Kevin Costner?). Nor are they based on some forecast for a distant future year spit out by a supercomputer. They simply report on real events, happening today, right here in our region. They provide a clear and present warning of the economic costs and human suffering that will increasingly be in the news if we fall to address climate change.
Lessons from Extreme Weather: A Minnesota Farmer Gets the Point
Throughout this year I have posted a number of blogs on the record-breaking extreme weather events of recent years, particularly 2010. Events ranged from unprecedented blizzards on the U.S. East Coast to the cataclysmic Russian heat wave and flooding in Pakistan. The key message I've tried to communicate is that, rather than debating whether these particular events are being caused by climate change – an interesting academic question that is unanswerable on a practical level – we should learn from these events about our individual and societal vulnerabilities and the real costs of climate change.
In an op-ed in The New York Times, Jack Hedin, a Minnesota farmer, offers an excellent example of the type of practical learning I'm talking about:
"The past four years of heavy rains and flash flooding here in southern Minnesota have left me worried about the future of agriculture in America's grain belt. For some time computer models of climate change have been predicting just these kinds of weather patterns, but seeing them unfold on our farm has been harrowing nonetheless."
Mr. Hedin's family has farmed the soils of southern Minnesota since the late 19th century. Today he runs a small farm in Rushville, where an onslaught of extreme weather events over several years forced him to retreat to higher ground. This is an example of forced adaptation where abandonment was the best choice. But even in the new location, his farm lost $100,000 worth of crops to excessive soil moisture this summer.
Notice that Hedin doesn't waste time worrying about whether particular weather events were caused by human-induced climate change:
"The weather in our area has become demonstrably more hostile to agriculture, and all signs are that this trend will continue. Minnesota's state climatologist, Jim Zandlo, has concluded that no fewer than three "thousand-year rains" have occurred in the past seven years in our part of the state. And a University of Minnesota meteorologist, Mark Seeley, has found that summer storms in the region over the past two decades have been more intense and more geographically focused than at any time on record."
Climate scientists know the climate is changing, that many mid-latitude locations are becoming wetter as a result (see figure below), and that we can expect that trend to continue. What does it matter whether a particular storm on a particular day in a particular year was caused by human intervention with the climate system? After all, it isn't one particular event that has Mr. Hedin worried about the future of farming in America's grain belt; it's the preponderance of evidence that the climate is already shifting and the common sense realization that farming is getting harder because of that shift.
Please read Jack Hedin's op-ed in The New York Times. He has the right idea about learning from extreme weather events.
Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of the Science and Impacts Program
New Pew Center Report Summarizes Federal Agency Adaptation Activities
We've been talking and hearing a lot about the notion of "mainstreaming" consideration of climate change into decision-making processes and figuring out ways to adapt to an already changing climate. A lot has been happening on the adaptation front at the Federal level – and we've been trying to keep you posted on all of the new initiatives. It was getting a bit challenging to keep up with everything and so over the last couple of months we've been compiling a lot of what we know into one place. The resulting report—Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies are Doing—is now available on our website.
As the report illustrates, Federal agency activities are numerous and diverse. Some agencies, such as the Department of Defense, are mainstreaming climate change adaptation by updating existing strategies or policies to include climate change impacts and adaptation options. Other agencies are more focused on enabling other entities—state and local governments, businesses, and communities—in furthering their adaptation planning and projects, as NOAA is doing with Climate Services. Figure 1 below includes some additional examples from the report. Of course, not all federal projects addressing climate change impacts or adaptations are included in this report. We've tried to at least include instances where a Federal department or agency has implemented specific institutional mechanisms, developed an agency-wide adaptation plan or set of policies, or is providing adaptation resources or tools.
Happy reading – and if you are familiar with any Federal programs or initiatives that should be included in the report, please send them my way. We plan to expand on the information included in this new report with the hope that it will serve as a resource for collaboration and information sharing amongthe growing adaptation community.
Heather Holsinger is a Senior Policy Fellow and Program Manager for Adaptation
Federal agencies announce plans to prepare for climate change
We've been tracking federal government efforts towards reducing our vulnerability and increasing our resiliency in the face of the potential impacts and risks from climate change. I continue to be impressed by the steps that many federal agencies are taking in this regard—a lot of work is going on to mainstream climate change adaptation.
Yesterday the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force released its report to the President. During the past year this task force—which includes about 20 different Federal agencies—worked on developing recommendations and guiding principles on a strategic approach to climate change adaptation. The Task Force's recommendations include: making sure that adaptation is a standard part of Agency planning (mainstreaming!), ensuring information about the impacts of climate change is accessible, and aligning federal efforts that cut across agency jurisdictions and missions.
A number of agencies have already gotten started on this. Two agencies within the Department of the Interior (DOI) released climate change strategies last month—the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service. These efforts build on DOI's overarching strategic response to climate change.
The Fish and Wildlife Service manages more than 150 million acres of wildlife refuges across the United States and has additional responsibilities related to the protection of fish populations, endangered species, and migratory birds. (Interesting side note: according to the Service, about 41 million people visit national wildlife refuges each year and their spending generates almost $1.7 billion in sales for regional economies.) The Service defines adaptation as "minimizing the impact of climate change on fish and wildlife through the application of cutting-edge science in managing species and habitats" and has made adaptation the centerpiece of its Strategic Plan.
Charged with preserving the natural and cultural heritage of our nation, adapting to climate change presents the National Park Service with many challenges. What should it do about the melting glaciers at Glacier National Park? Or the threats of flooding to historic Jamestown, VA (part of the Colonial National Historical Park)? The National Park Service's Climate Change Response Strategy details long- and short-term actions in three major areas: mitigation, adaptation, and public communication. Measures to tackle the adaptation piece include planning, promoting ecosystem resilience, preserving the nation's heritage, and protecting facilities and infrastructure.
Earlier this month, the EPA released its 2011-2015 Strategic Plan containing five strategic goals for advancing its environmental and human health missions, the first of which is "Taking Action on Climate Change and Improving Air Quality." As part of its Strategy, the EPA recognizes that it "must adapt and plan for future changes in climate" and "incorporate the anticipated, unprecedented changes in climate into its programs and rules."
And just last week at the first White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) GreenGov Symposium there were three separate panels devoted to climate change adaptation. We heard presentations from the Army Corps of Engineers, CDC, CEQ, DOT, the Forest Service, HUD, OSTP, USDA, as well as a number of stakeholders including the state of Maryland, the Nature Conservancy, and the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA). All of which are very much engaged on the adaptation issue.
Finding it hard to keep track of all of these agencies and what they are up to? Don't worry – we'll be posting our newest adaptation report, Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies are Doing, to this site very soon.
Heather Holsinger is a Senior Fellow for Domestic Policy
Workshop Highlights Federal Efforts to Mainstream Adaptation to Climate Change
Last week we held a workshop at the Newseum in Washington, DC, entitled Federal Government Leadership: Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change. The workshop was intended to build on our recent report highlighting the important role of the federal government in climate change adaptation and the recent National Academies' report—Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change—which emphasized that the federal government should not only serve as a "role model," but also play a significant role as a "catalyst and coordinator" in identifying vulnerabilities to climate change impacts and the adaptation options that could increase our resilience to these changes.
Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation Across the Federal Government
Today we released a report on climate change adaptation and the role of the federal government.
As we continue to await Senate action on a comprehensive bill that limits carbon pollution and grows the clean energy economy, the words of NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco resonate:
"Climate change is happening now and it's happening in our own backyards and it affects the kinds of things people care about."
Ambitious greenhouse gas reduction programs are essential to prevent the worst impacts, but some impacts are unavoidable, such as more intense Midwestern heat waves, Western wildfires, and coastal threats from rising sea levels. If you haven't already, check out this great map from the U.S. Global Change Research Program's report on climate change impacts across the United States or look at EPA's recent report on climate change indicators.
Source: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States. 2009. http://www.globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/usimpacts-brochures.
If we hope to minimize the costs of these impacts we're going to have to better understand our vulnerabilities to climate change and begin to take steps to adapt.
Alaska Demonstrates a Bipartisan Approach to Climate Change is Possible
ANCHORAGE - "Hello. I'm a Republican, and I believe in climate change." These words opened a presentation at the Alaska Forum on the Environment and indicate that, here in Alaska, issues surrounding climate change have often transcended the partisanship that sometimes dominates the issue 3,000 miles away in Washington.
This bipartisanship has evolved because probably no place in America is the evidence of climate change more clearly on display than in Alaska. Climate change's leading edge is in the Arctic, and temperatures in Alaska have risen 4 degrees or even more depending on location. With warming and its impacts visible to all and being increasingly analyzed on a local level, discussions of climate change, especially as it relates to adaptation, take on a tone all too unfamiliar inside the Beltway.
Assuring America Can Ably Adapt
This morning, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing titled "Building US Resilience to Global Warming Impacts." The hearing took place just as the Government Accountability Office released a new report finding that US reaction to climate change is happening on an ad hoc basis and is not coordinated among Federal, state, and local agencies.
Given the absence of a coordinated Federal adaptation strategy, we've been looking at what the options might be to fill that void. As the Pew Center's Steve Seidel stated in his testimony to the Committee, an improved Federal mechanism would begin with each agency developing an adaptation strategic plan to build greater resilience to climate change into its programs and mission. He pointed to a recent announcement by the Dept. of Interior as an example. A National Climate Service that can develop and communicate credible and actionable climate scenarios and projections for use in adaptation planning by Federal, state and local governments and the private sector is also needed.
Executive office leadership is critical. After reviewing other climate-related interagency programs in existence, it's clear that a national adaptation program needs to be established and chaired or co-chaired by CEQ or the Office of Science and Technology Policy. To ensure that adaptation is truly "mainstreamed" by the federal government, CEQ should also update NEPA regulations to require the consideration of adaption needs in all major federal actions.
Michael Tubman is a Congressional Affairs Fellow
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Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
Adapting to Climate Change: A Business Approach
Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
April 2008
Frances G. Sussman and J. Randall Freed
ICF International
This report outlines a sensible business approach to analyzing and adapting to the physical risks of climate change. It focuses on a critical first step in assessing these climate impacts: understanding the potential risks to business and the importance of taking action to mitigate those risks. Not all businesses need to take action now; this paper develops a qualitative screening process to assess whether a business is likely to be vulnerable to the physical risks associated with climate change, and whether a more detailed risk assessment is warranted.
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In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) affirmed that warming of the climate system is unequivocal, with effects such as increasing land and ocean temperatures, rising global average sea level, and reduced snow and ice already being observed. These changes—which are linked directly to human activities producing greenhouse gases—are already causing changes in ecosystems, water supply and availability, and patterns of extreme events, with (in many but not all cases) consequent damages to human health, buildings, livelihoods, and infrastructure. The question is no longer, "Is there human-caused climate change?" but "What can be done to react and adapt to it?" Adaptation does not preclude steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but recognizes that we are unavoidably committed to some amount of climate change, and that changes are already occurring.
The business community has for some time been aware of the risks and opportunities associated with greenhouse gas mitigation and current and future climate change policies. Many businesses have taken steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily. Many are taking into account some of the impacts of climate change—potential state and federal regulations, shareholder perceptions, and changes in consumer and supplier markets, for example—on the cost of doing business now and in the future. Fewer businesses, however, are incorporating the risks and opportunities associated with the physical effects of climate change in their business planning. As trends in climate become clearer and the uncertainty surrounding future changes is reduced, more businesses will want to consider whether to adapt to projected changes by taking action now. This, in turn, involves reacting to and managing risks as well as taking advantage of opportunities.
Climate change represents a new and somewhat daunting topic for many businesses. The challenge is compounded by the diverse and uncertain projections of changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, extreme events, and other effects. This paper outlines a sensible business approach to analyzing and adapting to the physical risks of climate change. It focuses on a critical first step in assessing these climate impacts: understanding the potential risks to business and the importance of taking action to mitigate those risks. Not all businesses need to take action now; this paper develops a qualitative screening process to assess whether a business is likely to be vulnerable to the physical risks associated with climate change, and whether a more detailed risk assessment is warranted.
Section I of this paper offers context on the broader risks and opportunities presented by climate change. Sections II and III summarize the case for business action to adapt to the physical effects of climate change, and the pathways by which climate can affect business. Section IV describes a screening process that businesses can use to assess whether they are likely to be vulnerable to the physical risks associated with climate change. If the screening indicates that climate change may pose a significant risk, a business can decide whether to undertake a more detailed financial risk assessment, and then, if indicated, take action. Section V presents case studies of three companies that have begun to look at climate risks. These case studies highlight the very different circumstances that motivated each company, and how the companies may be moving towards different conclusions about the appropriate response to the changing climate. Section VI concludes with a summary of key points.
About the Authors
Frances Sussman is a senior economist with ICF International and has been analyzing issues associated with the economics of climate change for nearly two decades. For several years following the adoption of the UNFCCC in 1992, Dr. Sussman led ICF's climate change economics group, which conducted pioneering research on design options and practical considerations for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading and credit programs, and developed the seminal GHG mitigation cost curves for the United States. Recently, her research has focused on the appropriate use and interpretation of economics and economic models in policy analysis. As part of this, she has been investigating approaches to setting priorities for adaptation and evaluating the business opportunities and risks associated with the physical effects of climate change. She is also the one of the lead authors of a Synthesis and Assessment Report of the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems. In addition to her affiliation with ICF, she is an adjunct instructor at Southern Connecticut State University. Prior to joining ICF, she worked as an economist in the Office of Toxic Substances at the Environmental Protection Agency and at the Congressional Budget Office. She received her doctorate in Economics from the University of Maryland.
Randall Freed leads ICF International's Climate and Energy Policy group, with staff in the US, Canada, UK, Brazil, Russia, and India. The group develops GHG inventories/ carbon footprints, programs and strategies for mitigating GHG emissions, risk assessments of climate change impacts, and risk management plans to promote sustainability and adapt to climate change. Mr. Freed's expertise includes analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation related to water resources, ecosystems, land use, and infrastructure; GHG emissions and sinks associated with waste management and non-energy uses of fossil fuels; and policies and programs to mitigate emissions. He has over 30 years' experience and is an internationally recognized expert in exposure and risk assessment, environmental program development and policy analysis, and water quality issues. Mr. Freed has an MS in Water Resource Management and a BS in Zoology, both from the University of Maryland.
Related Reading:
Adaptation Planning: What U.S. States and Localities are Doing
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SAN JOSE , Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that it has begun shipping its production-qualified Stratix(R) II GX FPGAs. The high-density Stratix II GX family provides up to 20 low-power transceivers operating between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps with an unprecedented 127 Gbps of aggregate serial link connectivity. Customers are now using Stratix II GX FPGAs to design and manufacture multi-gigabit-interconnected systems that meet or exceed their performance and signal integrity specifications. Additionally, with the release of the EP2SGX30 and EP2SGX60 devices, Altera has completed the rollout of all Stratix II GX family members.
"The 90-nm Stratix II GX devices provide customers with industry-leading technology advantages, including the lowest-power transceiver of its type. Additionally, Stratix II GX FPGAs demonstrate such excellent signal integrity performance that the devices pass stringent SONET OC48 and STM16 optical jitter tests with margin, while the core of the FPGA and I/O toggle at a highrate," said David Greenfield , Altera's senior director of product marketing for high-end FPGAs. "We are now shipping production-qualified transceiver-based FPGAs with a full set of characterization data that addresses the most popular protocols and link speeds in the market."
As a result of having the industry's lowest power consumption, best signal integrity and errata-free transceiver operation up to its highest documented speed, Stratix II GX devices have been integrated into a wide variety of applications. Many of these customer systems are now transitioning to production, including high-speed backplane and cabling interfaces, chip-to-chip interconnects, and protocol-bridging applications, including, but not limited to, such protocols as PCI Express, CEI-6G, serial digital interface (SDI), Gigabit Ethernet, Serial RapidIO(TM) (SRIO), XAUI, SerialLiteII, Fibre Channel and SONET/SDH. See how at www.altera.com/stratix2gxquotes .
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"35minutesmen" brings together a sampling of work from a Tokyo based collective of photographers in the format of a gallery exhibition and accompanying book with essay. The collective existed for just one year, yet they created a tremendous volume of work that was displayed in a series of monthly exhibitions held in their gallery – a now defunct Fuji film 35 minute processing lab.
Photographs by: 大同朋子 Tomoko Daido, 福村順平 Junpey Fukumura, ペイ PAI, 酒航太 Sake Kota, 長広恵美子 Emiko Nagahiro, 真田敬介 Keisuke Sanada, 塩田正幸 Masayuki Shioda
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Essay by Taro Nettleton
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Teheran bounces back in Braves' win
Braves No. 1 prospect holds Wings to one run in seven frames
By Danny Wild / MLB.com | May 22, 2012 1:54 PM ET
Teheran held Rochester to one run on four hits over seven strong innings following the worst start of his season as Triple-A Gwinnett beat Red Wings, 3-1, on Tuesday afternoon.
The right-hander, currently ranked as the No. 3 prospect in baseball by MLB.com, struck out three and walked two, his lone mistake of note coming in the second when Chris Parmelee hit a leadoff homer, cutting the Braves' lead to 2-1. Matt Carson followed with a single but Teheran picked him off first en route to retiring the next eight batters in order.
The 21-year-old worked around two-out walks in the fourth and fifth innings and one-out singles in the sixth and seventh as he earned his fourth win.
Teheran has held opponents to one earned run or fewer in four of his last five starts and now owns a 2.98 ERA in nine games.
The one bump in the road was last week, when the Colombian right-hander was charged with four runs on five walks and four hits over 2 2/3 innings in a loss at Buffalo. It was his shortest outing of the season since being pulled after recording five outs in his season debut April 7 at Durham.
In between those starts, Teheran has been lights-out -- he threw consecutive scoreless outings April 12 and 17, held Buffalo to an unearned run over six frames on May 7 and struck out a season-high seven batters for a second time on May 12 against Toledo.
The Braves prospect finished the 2011 season 15-3 with a 2.55 ERA in 25 games (24 starts) at Triple-A while making five appearances in the Majors.
Teheran was in line for the win after the first inning thanks to Christian Marrero's two-run single. Gwinnett added another run in the fourth when Luis Durango singled home Jose Yepez.
Rochester starter Daryl Thompson fell to 1-5 after allowing all three runs on eight hits and two walks over 3 1/3 frames.
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March 2003: New Mexico motorcycle license plates for disabled veterans authorized.
February 2003: Lobbying efforts help to stop legislation that would have required that motorcyclists be mandatory organ donors if they were declared brain dead after a motorcycle crash in which they were not wearing a helmet.
February 2003: City of Albuquerque, NM traffic code is updated for the first time in nearly 30 years. Changes included: handlebar height limits were repealed; minimum seat height requirements were repealed; allowable tail light height lowered to 15 inches; mandatory safety stickers repealed; motorcycles may not be prohibited from public roadways.
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Meet the Principals המנהלים
Rabbi David Saltzman
Principal, Elementary School
"One of the joys of my job is seeing children grow in Torah and learning and watching them progress during their tenure at the Elementary School. I witness this on a day to day basis and throughout the years as they advance from grade to grade. Having the opportunity to nurture our young kindergarten students as they develop into mature 5th graders is one of my true pleasures at Maimonides."
Rabbi David Saltzman has served as principal of the Elementary School since 2007. He joined Maimonides with 12 years of elementary school teaching experience, most recently serving as a teacher and director of programming at Yeshiva Har Torah in Queens, NY.
A native of Chicago, Rabbi Saltzman attended Kerem B'Yavneh in Israel and earned his undergraduate degree in economics, a master's degree in education and Smicha, all from Yeshiva University. He is working toward his doctorate in educational supervision and administration.
Rabbi Saltzman and his wife Jodi have four children and reside in Sharon.
Reena Slovin
Associate Principal, Elementary School
"My position at my Maimonides affords me the unique opportunity to influence the continued growth, learning and development of both students and teachers. My goal is to promote excellence in teachers so that they are able to stimulate students to become involved and excited about learning, and to teach students to believe that achievement is the result of continued effort and commitment.
Reena Slovin joined Maimonides in 2009 and brought with her decades of elementary education experience. She came to Maimonides after working as client services coordinator for Gateways: Access to Jewish Education, during which time she was a consultant to Maimonides faculty in both general and Judaic studies programs. In addition, Mrs. Slovin spent 20 years at New Jewish Academy in Worcester as a teacher and administrator.
Mrs. Slovin is a graduate of Ramaz School in Manhattan and Cornell University. She earned her master's degree in special education from Boston University and is certified in elementary special education in Massachusetts. She also completed Harvard University's Department of Reading and Language Advanced Graduate Study Program.
Mrs. Slovin, who has three grown children, resides in Worcester with her husband Saul. When she's not in school, Mrs. Slovin enjoys Israeli dancing (which she also teaches to Maimo students), hiking and biking.
Brian Cohen
Asociate Principal, Middle School
"I love getting to interact with these young men and women daily, and challenging them to grow both intellectually and in character. They have some years to go in their childhoods, yet they should be continually growing in their maturity, both individually and collectively as a grade level or middle school entity. I try to foster an atmosphere where faculty and students alike feel they can be creative, expressive, and joyous at times, while extremely focused and diligently engaged in certain aspects of their learning and work at other times."
Maimonides School welcomed Brian Cohen in July 2011. Mr. Cohen was assistant headmaster at TechBoston Academy, a public school in Dorchester, where he supervised and evaluated both teaching and non-teaching staff and was also responsible for student support, technology, and the safety and security of the school. A graduate of Indiana University, Mr. Cohen spent six years teaching Language Arts and Social Studies at the James Lick Middle School in San Francisco, and then two years as an instructional facilitator, working to improve instruction in a designated low-performing San Francisco high school.
In 2009, Mr. Cohen and his family relocated to Massachusetts, where he completed a master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in its School Leadership Program and received his initial Administrator License. Mr. Cohen lives in Newton with his wife and two children. When he's not in school, Mr. Cohen loves to play basketball and tennis, strum the guitar and spend quality time with his son and daughter.
Scott Mattoon
General Studies Principal, Middle & Upper School
"When we aim high -- realistically and authentically -- students will as well, even when it is higher than they think they can go. We succeed when we are able to get students to surpass even their instinctive sense of their burgeoning selves."
Scott Mattoon comes to Maimonides having served as Upper School Co-Head of the Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, California. Early in his career, Mr. Mattoon was the language department chair and co-chair of the English writing curriculum committee at the Webb Schools in Claremont, CA and an English and French teacher and chair of the Chinese program committee at the Collegiate School in New York. He served for ten years on the faculty at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT, first as an English and French teacher, then as head of the French division, and finally as chairman of the language department, supervising 30 faculty members in 10 language offerings. Mr. Mattoon received his undergraduate degree in modern language and literature from Trinity College in Hartford and holds a master's in French literature from UCLA. He resides in Lexington with his wife Dawn and their two children.
Rabbi Dov Huff '00
Judaic Studies Principal, Middle & Upper School
"I discovered from my earliest teaching that to successfully encourage student growth, one must create a culture of learning within the classroom. There must be an ongoing classroom dialogue in which the skills and concepts we teach become an intrinsic part of each student's daily language and experience. Every subject has a specific skill set that needs to be sharpened and reinforced throughout the year. When teaching is done well, students emerge from the learning environment with the motivation and skills to be successful, independent learners."
An alumnus of the class of 2000, Rabbi Dov Huff returned to Maimonides in 2008 as a Middle School Judaic Studies teacher and 8th grade dean. In 2010, he joined the administrative staff in his current position.
Rabbi Huff holds a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from Yeshiva University and a master of arts in teaching from American Jewish University in Los Angeles. He received Smicha in Israel from Rav Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg, and taught at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills. Rabbi Huff and his wife Elisha reside in Sharon with their four children.


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Last year right around this time we were shooting a Christmas themed story featuring Nashville baker Mary Carter and her chocolate chip peppermint cookies for Relish Magazine. Needless to say, they were planning ahead…a full year ahead. Now, this Christmas the story just published in the inaugural launch of their new Relish Magazine iPad app. BTW, the app is a fun way to look at the magazine—very nice layout.
This was a fun shoot. Food stylist Teresa Blackburn and I always have fun working together. Add art director Tom Davis and editor Jill Melton and it's a party! …so nice to have a successful and enjoyable collaborative effort. Thanks, too, to Liz and Rory for all their assistance.
– Kyle
ps. I get a lot of questions about my surfaces. That blue surface in the background…it's an old door I picked up back in 1995 on a little adventure. Some people have skeletons in their closet…I have doors.


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Marisa Siegel wrote the other day about scheduling her pregnancy around a destination wedding and a tattoo. Before I had kids, I may have thought something along the lines of This lady isn't ready to be a mother. Now that I have kids – it makes so much sense.
Maybe there are some women who still have all the time in the world after they have kids. Maybe there are families who have the budget to pay for help so they don't have to be with their kids all the live long day. I'm not that woman and I don't have that family. As much as I love being a mom, I'm becoming increasingly aware of certain pangs of jealousy appearing at the oddest times.
We were sitting at dinner the other day when I overheard the couple next to us say, What should we do now? Wanna go to a movie? I immediately became wrapped in a fiery blanket of envy. I barely remember what it's like to go to the movies on a whim. Heck – I barely remember what it's like to do anything on a whim that doesn't involve being "family friendly" or something I am able to rush through in time for my toddler to not completely wear my mother out.
Manicures, pedicures, movies, leisurely days drinking in the afternoon and strolling along the streets of New York – these are all things that are but a distant memory to me. Yes, I still squeeze these things in. But they are so few and far between now that I am noticing something about myself. I am becoming seriously high maintenance.
My years in the service industry prevent me from acting on the frustration that plays out in my head when one of these insignificant events doesn't go perfectly. But now, each of these undertakings is an intricate juggling act – one that mostly plays out in my mind. How do I get the most out of every, single benign event that I get to experience that doesn't involve motherhood? I have yet to master this.
I got a pedicure a couple weeks ago. The trivial ritual that I used to take part in at least twice a month has now become one of the only little things I do to pamper myself outside of the home. You can imagine the kind of pressure that puts on the occurrence. I used to just be content if the pedicurist got the polish right and I managed to make it home without totally fucking it up. Now, the actual pedicure better be the best damn pedicure around. Okay, maybe not the best. But good. Really good.
The whole thing has become a ridiculous mental balancing act. Is the massage chair strong enough? Is the water hot enough? Will this color match all the outfits I want to wear for the next month? And the pedicure itself? I can't tell you how many times I have submerged my feet in scalding hot water and not said anything.
I've caught myself several times glancing down to make sure the water is not boiling, and that my skin is still in tact. You may wonder why I wouldn't just complain about the water being too hot. Well, let me share a little tip with you. The secret to getting a good pedicure/manicure/massage is this: at no time can you come across as a delicate flower. It ruins everything. They won't give you a good massage, they won't scrub the shit out of your callouses, they won't use the cuticle cutters – they will be too afraid to hurt you. You have to put on your game face or risk getting the lamest spa service, ever.
Do you see what is happening here? Doesn't it all sound exhausting? You're right – it is. All of these mental Olympics for a stupid, fucking pedicure. Damn it. It sucks.
Pedicures are one thing, but don't even get me started on the movies. I've seen exactly six in the theatre since I had my son two-and-a-half years ago. You can imagine the kind of pressure that kind of rarity puts on a director.
Christmas day. My best friend convinces me to slip out of the house for a few hours to go to a movie. My husband agrees to watch the kids. I am on cloud nine. We decide on Silver Linings Playbook because everyone and their mother is salivating over it. It doesn't take me long to realize that we chose wrong.
Why did he just throw that book through the window?
Is that Sally Struthers? It is, right?
What the hell is wrong with that girl? Why is she totally manipulating him?
Am I supposed to believe that Robert DeNiro's lifelong OCD was cured by seeing his son dance?
What the fuck did she just whisper in his ear?
This is the dumbest fucking movie ever. We should just leave.
These are all things that came out of my mouth during this movie. Flash-forward three months and it's being nominated for every Oscar that exists. I was unable to be entertained by a movie that was nominated for just about every award a film could be nominated for. What has happened to me?
I blame motherhood. I seriously do. I don't know if it's the lack of sleep, the lack of time doing grownup things, or the backseat that my own social life has taken to being a mommy. All of a sudden every event is one that needs to be treasured. Everyone tells me it gets better when your kid goes to pre-school. I'm sure it does, only I'm about to give birth to a second. Ha!
You're probably all thinking, this woman is terrible! Being a mother is the best thing in the world! You're right. I just wish I could experience shitty pedicures and be bored at movies a little more often, that's all.
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On the Politics Show, Sunday 1 March 2009, Jon Sopel interviewed the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne MP.
The George Osborne interview
Interview transcript...
JON SOPEL: I'm joined now by the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne. Thanks very much for being with us Mr Osborne. Harriet Harman said this morning, Sir Fred will not be getting his - he will not be better off by six hundred and fifty thousand pounds a year. Do you welcome that?
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I don't think Fred Goodwin should be receiving a, actually, close to seven hundred thousand pound a year pension, for basically being the Chief Executive who ran RBS in to the ground, with the help of others, but nevertheless, left the bank in a position, where we the taxpayer, are having to spend billions of pounds baling it out. So I don't think he should take that pension, I think he should voluntarily give it up, but frankly, Harriet Harman, expressing this synthetic anger now in March, is, is hopeless because they had a chance, the government, back in October to stop it.
JON SOPEL: We'll come on to that in a moment, but she said it might be enforceable, this is his contract, Sir Fred's contract and the deal that gives him the pension, 'it might be enforceable in a court of law this contract, but it's not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that's where the government steps in.' What do you understand by that?
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I'm not sure I know what Harriet Harman is talking about at all. I mean she is herself a lawyer, and the fact is the government signed off on Fred Goodwin's pension deal. They had the chance to stop it, but that was back in October. Now, of course they should look at all the legal avenues that exist to try and make sure that not all of this seven hundred thousand pounds is paid to Fred Goodwin, but this is a bit like trying to bolt the stable door, after the horse has itself bolted. I mean this is, you know, they had the opportunity, Paul Myners, the Government Minister, had the opportunity. He was told of the pension arrangements, we are told, and they didn't stop it. So frankly, the government has been totally incompetent on this issue, and to say now they're going to do something about the pension, begs the question, why didn't they do something about Fred Goodwin's pension, when they had the chance.
JON SOPEL: But if they introduce legislation, because that's what seems to be the implication, if they were to introduce legislation to retrospectively take this pension pot off him, would you support that.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I will support any legal measure to try and get this pension back, although as I say, they should have done all this before signing off on the pension- they should have - you know, we'd be in a much better place if, back in October, they had stopped this pension being awarded. I mean they were responsible, the government are trying to distract attention from their central role in the awarding of Fred Goodwin's pension and the arrangements around the departure of Fred Goodwin and other Board members in October. Paul Myners, who is Gordon Brown's friend, who himself sat on the Nat West Board signed off on the arrangements for RBS in the autumn. It's no good now, trying to distract everyone's attention with this synthetic anger. They had their chance to stop it and they incompetently failed to do that.
JON SOPEL: Well if you're saying that they were incompetent, should Lord Myners go?
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I think Lord Myners is in a very difficult position. I think he should be given a chance now to explain exactly who knew what when. Why his account of events differs from Fred Goodwin's account. But if he can't give a satisfactory explanation of why he signed off on a six hundred and fifty odd thousand pound pension, for Fred Goodwin, then I can't see how he can remain a government minister.
JON SOPEL: So, as things stand, his career is hanging by a thread in your judgment.
GEORGE: I think his career is hanging by a thread because he needs to give an explanation of why he apparently signed off on Fred Goodwin's pension and why his account of events differs so markedly from Fred Goodwin's.
JON SOPEL: You colleague on the Treasury Select Committee, Michael Fallon, Conservative MP, has already made that judgment, he said he should go now.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I think, as I say, I'm a - I think it's fair to give Lord Myners a chance to give us an explanation, we've not really heard from him except in that letter that he sent to Fred Goodwin. He could go before the Treasury Select Committee for example, which I know is investigating these issues. Give us an explanation, cos at the moment, his explanation does not tally with Sir Fred Goodwin's and we are in this position where it appears as if, Gordon Brown's City Minister, signed off on Fred Goodwin's pension, which means that all the things said by Harriet Harman or Gordon Brown, are frankly synthetic.
JON SOPEL: Should the same apply to Ministers? Where a Minister fails, I don't know, you could go back over some of the policies of the last Tory administration, Rail privatisation. Should the Minister who was responsible for that, which was seen as a bit of a failure, have their pension pot slashed? If this is the kind of road we're going down now.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well, I think when it comes to rewards for failure, in politics and Gordon Brown, that's a phrase Gordon Brown uses, you know the ultimate sanction is the General Election. You just get kicked out of office. I would love there to be an election, sooner than there's likely to be, so that people can pass their verdict on whether Gordon Brown should be rewarded for failure. But I don't think, you know in general
JON SOPEL: Fred Goodwin has been, he's out, he's lost his job
the very specific issue with Fred Goodwin was it appears as if his pension pot was maxed out literally in the days before he was asked to leave RBS. So it was a, you know, the old Board of RBS with apparently the connivance of the government, took, did some discretionary things to give Fred Goodwin a bigger pension pot than he should have had.
JON SOPEL: What about using the law then to say that actually, if you have been in charge of an administration, I'm not talking about - maybe retrospectively changing the law on someone's pension pot, but making a sort of sense of corporate responsibility and also that it becomes a criminal act is the bank or the enterprise that you work for fails and leads to unemployment like this.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I think we should overhaul the system of financial regulation, by all means. And I also think, I mean you mentioned criminal sanctions, I think this country is woefully inadequate at pursuing the criminal sanctions that already exist with financial crime and financial fraud. At the moment we've got the Financial Services Authority, that is supposed to take the lead on prosecuting financial fraud, but in Britain, unlike in America, you never see someone in handcuffs who's been guilty of a financial fraud. There are almost no prosecutions and I would now take away from the Financial Services Authority, that responsibility for prosecuting financial fraud. I don't think they've done it well. I think we need now, a single strong body, associated with for example the Serious Fraud Office, that is going to prosecute financial crime, because it's one thing to fine someone for a breach of a regulation, it's another thing to say, we're also going to use the criminal law and you might go to jail and that has not happened in recent years in Britain and I think it should.
JON SOPEL: Explain to me this Mr Osborne, why is it that the only solution to the banks is part nationalization but the only solution for royal mail is part privatization, which you support.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well on the - I mean there are two separate issues. On the banks, because they were on the verge of collapse, there had to be an injection of public money and of course there are all sorts of conditions I would like attached to that public money, so that they actually
on the Post Office
GEORGE OSBORNE: On the Post Office or on the Royal Mail, I was about to say, on the Royal Mail, there, this is an organization that has been in the public sector, been in effect nationalised, for you know, for ever, and what is needed is private investment and what I want the government to know, what I want Peter Mandelson to know and Gordon Brown to know is that they will have the support of the Conservative Party, if they pursue the proposals, set out in the Hooper Review, that of course, we will scrutinize the decisions they take. But the overall direction is correct and they must not bow to their rebels and their Union paymasters. Peter Mandelson is doing the right thing, he should ignore the voices off in Cabinet. He will have the Conservative support to do the right thing.
JON SOPEL: Why not then, if partial privatisation is the right thing, go the whole hog. Would you not privatise Royal Mail?
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I think, you know, the Hooper Review, took a good long look at this, came up with a very sensible proposal, that you get, you leave
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I think we should go with the proposals that are on the table. I mean, you know I, we have commissioned a review, a lot of work has been done. There is an option there now to lever in private money.
JON SOPEL: You could be a government in waiting, you might have to take these decisions. Could you envisage going further than that?
GEORGE OSBORNE: I think, well I think it would be much better, since I do expect to be in government
I hope
given that
hoping the British people will vote for us, that we deal with this now, deal with the Royal Mail issue now. The next Conservative government is going to have an awful lot on its plate and I'd much rather the Royal Mail issue was dealt with now, which is why, as I say, if Peter Mandelson gets on and does the right thing, he will have our support. I mean I thought it was very striking, you know Harriet Harman, today was very luke-warm in her support. She was not, she couldn't be pressed to say, I actually back these proposals. So there's a lot of division in the Cabinet, and - but, it's important to know that the Conservative Party will do the right thing, we won't just be the opposition party for the sake of it, but we will support the part privatisation of Royal Mail.
JON SOPEL: You talked about all that there would be to do when you came in to government and we've heard the Head of the Audit Commission this week, taking about people are living in cloud cuckoo land if they think that they can avoid massive spending cuts and big tax increases, where are your big tax increases going to be.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well I have been warning for now, more than a year, that there was a serious problem with the spending plans and the public expenditure proposals put forward by the government and that in the future there would have to be spending restraint. In recent months, we've come of Labour's spending plans explicitly. We have said that they are going to have to be tighter. So I think the Conservative Party is engaging with people on this issue and telling people some hard truths about, about the fact that we are carrying a massive budget deficit and that whilst Gordon Brown thinks this is a problem that can be kicked in to some, you know, impossible future, we are actually engaging with it now.
JON SOPEL: And one of your very specific proposals is on Inheritance Tax, raising it to a million pounds, two million for a couple. Is that an important priority, will that be, can you guarantee in the next Manifesto, when you've got to make these spending cuts and difficult decisions as you talked about.
GEORGE OSBORNE: We stick to the commitments we made on Inheritance Tax.
JON SOPEL: It will be in the Manifesto.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Because it is funded by the way, by tougher taxation of non-domiciles.
JON SOPEL: Who have left the country.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well, they haven't all left the country frankly. You know, there is still plenty of scope for a proper taxation of non-doms, which by the way, I think would ultimately be a better deal for them and to help people who have saved for their retirement.
JON SOPEL: I just want to be clear, will this be in the Manifesto?
GEORGE OSBORNE: What the proposal on inheritance? Absolutely, of course. But let me make this point - whether it is helping people who have saved something during their life and want to leave something for their children, whether it is taking basic rate taxpayers out of savings, whether it is increasing the tax allowance for pensioners, all of these things, speak to a single theme, which is moving from a society based on debt, to a society based on saving. Moving from a society of irresponsible government borrowing and irresponsible borrowing practices more widely, to a society that is that is rooted in responsibility, that saves for its future, that lives within its means - that is the big Conservative argument and that is the big Conservative theme.
JON SOPEL: I just want to ask you a word about your leader, because it's obviously been a hugely traumatic week for him. So much of Westminster politics is characterized by yah-boo politics, won't it all seem a bit meaningless to come back to that sort of atmosphere after what you've been through.
GEORGE OSBORNE: Well, you know, obviously everyone was deeply shocked by Ivan's death and I've spoken to David Cameron a couple of times since and you know, he and his family are coping with it and they've a very strong family. I think he has been, I know from the conversations I had, very, very moved both by the very large numbers of letters and emails and so on he's received from members of the public, but also actually the way Parliament and the political parties handled the issue last Wednesday; so I think you know, the British political system showed its ability to express massive sympathy with the Cameron family and I think also, the fact that there's been this huge outpouring from the public, including many people, who themselves have disabled children, or who have lived with the bereavement, that comes with the death of a child. You know, those, all those things have helped this family in a very, very difficult time and I think that they will come through it because they are strong people and you know, of course, I wish them, as a great friend, very well but I know the British public wish them well in this extremely difficult time.
JON SOPEL: George Osborne, thank you very much for being with us. Thank you.
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Lucifer slipped into his armor and brandished his sword and shield. He then ran out to meet Christ. He stepped out in front of his Opponent; beautiful, proud Lucifer stepped out in front of the Son of God.
Satan spoke, and his voice seemed to fill the air, to fill the room, to fill all of Hell. His voice was like an organ, gentle, but not quiet; loud, yet not harsh. He said, "Jesus Christ, Son of God, I have come here to--"
"Silence!" Christ boomed. "I know why you are here Satan, and I shall not fall into temptation. You have tried to tempt me once before, and you failed; and I tell you, again you shall fail."
Satan's face flushed. "You shall not have victory over me--"
"Silence! Victory is all ready the one true God's. You shall fall; you know you cannot win. Prophecy will not fail, and the will of God shall prosper always."
Satan charged and swung his sword, but, suddenly, his sword became too heavy and he dropped it. "Curse you, Lamb of God!"
"Silence!" said Jesus. And with that, He grabbed a hold of Lucifer and dragged him away. "Prince of Pride, you shall always remember this; you shall forever be ashamed of this day."
Christ Shames the Evil One
Jesus dragged Satan through Hell, as his shades and demons watched, not knowing what to do. Finally, He stopped and stripped Satan of his armor. He then took the very keys to Hell from Lucifer.
"Evil One, you shall forever yield to My name," said He. "If you attack one of My own and he cries out to Me, you will leave him alone. If one of My own casts you away in My name, you will remember this day, and you will obey. From now on, you shall forever yield to My name. As I have spoken, you will obey."
Satan made no reply.
Christ turned and continued toward the Earth.
The Return to Earth
Christ finally arose from the pit of Hell. He walked back out onto the Earth. There, His spirit joined His body, and He had risen from the dead.
Christ did what he had to on Earth, and then, when His duties were fulfilled, He ascended to Heaven, to sit on the right side of His Father forever.


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text: Much of my research focuses on the theory of physical processes in the interstellar medium, the diffuse gas between the stars. How do stars form out of this tenuous gas, and what effect do the stars have back on the interstellar medium? Jerry Ostriker and I developed the three-phase model of the interstellar medium, which has been widely used to organize and interpret observations of the diffuse interstellar medium. With my colleagues and students, I have worked on the theory of the evaporation of clouds by both hot gas and ionizing radiation, the evolution of supernova remnants and stellar wind bubbles, the structure and emission spectrum of interstellar shocks, the evolution of interstellar dust grains, the structure of molecular clouds, and on the theory of active galactic nuclei, particularly the study of reverberation mapping and of Compton-heated coronae and winds above accretion disks. I am currently concentrating on the theory of star formation, including the formation of the first stars. My students and I use both analytic and numerical techniques to address these problems. Richard Klein and I have established the Berkeley Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group to develop the technique of adaptive mesh refinement for numerical simulations of astrophysical fluid dynamics, particularly star formation.


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2007.122: A Class of Parallel Tiled Linear Algebra Algorithms for Multicore Architectures
2007.122: Alfredo Buttari, Julien Langou, Jakub Kurzak and Jack Dongarra (2007) A Class of Parallel Tiled Linear Algebra Algorithms for Multicore Architectures.
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As multicore systems continue to gain ground in the High Performance Computing world, linear algebra algorithms have to be re- formulated or new algorithms have to be developed in order to take ad- vantage of the architectural features on these new processors. Fine grain parallelism becomes a major requirement and introduces the necessity of loose synchronization in the parallel execution of an operation. This paper presents an algorithm for the Cholesky, LU and QR factorization where the operations can be represented as a sequence of small tasks that operate on square blocks of data. These tasks can be dynamically scheduled for execution based on the dependencies among them and on the availability of computational resources. This may result in an out of order execution of the tasks which will completely hide the presence of intrinsically sequential tasks in the factorization. Performance com- parisons are presented with the LAPACK algorithms where parallelism can only be exploited at the level of the BLAS operations and vendor implementations.
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Light, low-fat, no-fat — we see these labels everywhere with promises of slimmer waistlines and trimmer thighs, but is fat really the enemy? Turns out, we might have been wrong about fat all along. But before you go out and load up on ice cream and doughnuts, it's important to watch our video to find out what types of fats you should be eating to lose weight and just how much fat is enough.
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Despite Chinese storm, Puad set to retain Batu Pahat
GE13 WATCH JOHOR "My son is going to university, how can I not support the opposition?" said an excited middle-aged Chinese man, pointing at his teenage son who sat at the other side of the table, wearing the uniform of Chinese High School, a prominent independent secondary school in Batu Pahat.
He was referring to Pakatan Rakyat's manifesto which promises to abolish the National Higher Education Fund (PTPTN).
He was one of the 500-strong Chinese-majority crowd at a food court in Batu Pahat town centre waiting for PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli to give his speech late afternoon yesterday.
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SUDDEN snow flurries and freezing temperatures caused havoc across East Lancashire yesterday.
Around an inch of the white stuff fell over the region in around an hour in the morning, causing problems on roads and forcing schools to shut.
Drivers reported treacherous conditions off the main routes, with blizzard-like snowfall coming down on the A56 Rawtenstall bypass.
In Nelson, a heavy goods vehicle overturned in Reedyford Road, by the motorway roundabout, at around 1.50pm. The driver of the lorry, which was carrying recyclable plastics, escaped with a minor shoulder injury.
A crane was used to move the vehicle and the road was still shut at 4pm.
Traffic backed up on the motorway and police had to direct traffic off the roundabout.
Snow and ice caused a collision involving a Toyota Rav 4, between Main Street in Gisburn and Burnley Road, near Blacko, at around 9.15am.
The vehicle flipped on its side and although emergency services were concerned somebody may have been trapped, the driver suffered minor injuries.
A camper van was recovered from the same stretch and the road had to be closed in both directions for several hours.
And in Ramsbottom, both carriageways of Lumb Carr Lane were shut for around two hours because of reports of severe ice and snow. Once the road had been gritted, it was reopened.
Brierfield Woodfield Nursery and Laneshaw Bridge Primary schools were closed due to the conditions and Colne Newtown Nursery was closed in the afternoon as the snow put pressure on staffing levels. Rossendale's Sharneyford Primary was also forced to close.
Lancashire County Council's website said the authority had been warned of temperatures falling to around -6.5C.
All priority routes in East Lancashire were to be gritted yesterday, with salting continuing on the main stretches until around 3am today. The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for ice, which was in place until midnight.
Pendle and Rossendale Mountain Rescue team was called out six times yesterday across East Lancs to help push, pull and winch ambulances out of the snow, or carry patients on their specialist stretchers or in all terrain 4x4s for those stranded on side roads.
Peter Goble, team leader, said the crew had been called to Haslingden, Padiham, Sabden, Blackburn and Bacup to help North West Ambulance Service.


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Posted on October 22, 2013
European soccer fans have long circled Oct. 22 and Oct. 23—today and Wednesday—on their calendars. Ever since the UEFA Champions League draw in August, anticipation has been building for the glamorous matchups of the third round of the group stage pitting against each other two sets of former champions and worldwide brands. It's finally here.
The highlight of eight games today comes when Lionel Messi returns to lead Barcelona into the San Siro to face Mario Balotelli, AC Milan and a rapturous, raucous red-and-black-clad crowd.
The encore comes Wednesday in the Spanish capital with Arturo Vidal, Andrea Pirlo and Gianluigi Buffon are primed to represent Juventus in a glittering contest against Real Madrid as Cristiano Ronaldo, Isco and Gareth Bale eagerly await in the Santiago Bernabeu.
Make sure you have all the gear you need when the eagerly awaited games finally come. Find everything the players and fans wear at soccer.com.
AC Milan v Barcelona, San Siro, 2:45 p.m. ET today
Barcelona sits in first place in Group H on six points having won both of its games against Ajax and Celtic, while AC Milan is in second after only managing a draw in Amsterdam last time out.
Not only will today's match go a long way to determining who triumphs in the group and who also advances in second, but it presents a revenge opportunity for the Rossoneri. In last year's tournament, Barcelona fell 2-0 in the San Siro in the Round of 16, a seemingly insurmountable deficit in the two-legged tie. It was insurmountable for most teams, but not Barcelona. Displaying the bit of magic and unparalleled tiki-taka skill in the second leg, the Blaugrana rallied for a blitzing 4-0 home win inspired by two first half Messi strikes to defeat a stunned AC Milan and advance to the quarterfinals.
AC Milan manager Massimo Allegri won't be thrilled at the news that the otherworldly Messi has recovered from the thigh injury that's kept him out of action since Sept. 28 and is set to join Neymar, Andres Iniesta and Xavi in attack in Italy.
The seven-time European champion Italians will be buoyed by news that Balotelli, their mercurial, gifted striker is fit to feature after missing the weekend match through injury, though.
These two giants of the game have played each other on 17 occasions with Barca leading the series with seven wins, AC Milan capturing five victories and the two sharing the spoils on five other occasions.
Real Madrid v Juventus, Santiago Bernabeu, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday
Of eight games to be played on Wednesday in Europe's finest, most prestigious soccer tournament the Group B match between Real Madrid and Juventus jumps off the screen.
Los Blancos have run riot in the competition thus far, pummeling Turkish kings Galatasaray in Istanbul 6-1 before turning on the style in Spain against FC Copenhagen to win 4-0. Cristiano Ronaldo looks a man on a mission having netted five goals in those two contests.
The Old Lady, meanwhile, has looked underwhelming. The back-to-back Scudetto winners only managed a shock draw in Denmark and couldn't muster a better result against a reinvigorated Galatasary side in Italy three weeks ago, conceding a late equalizer to substitute Umut Bulut. Juventus will eye a better start against Real Madrid as they have conceded the first goal in both European games thus far.
Los Galaticos will want to continue winning ways and better integrate record signing Gareth Bale into the squad after the Welshman has struggled to settle. They have a sterling home record against Italian teams with 21 victories, two draws and six losses in 29 all-time matches. Four of those victories and two of those losses have come against Juventus, who haven't traveled ot the Santiago Bernabeu since 2008, when club legend Alessandro Del Piero notched a double to grab a famous win for the Bianconeri.
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Plasma car for toddlers
My 2 year old son, Oliver, loves this scooter/car hybrid vehicle. The plasma is really easy for kids to control and it appears to handle really well. I think they enjoy the feelings of mastery, motion, and physical control the Plasma car provides them. All in all, highly recommended as a toy that engages both a toddler's body and mind.
Think my boyfriend would get a kick out of shooting his co-workers with marshmallows... it's a step up from nerf darts because they're edible and easily replaced!
It's an Iphone.. need I say more :)
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Tuesday, 23 July, 2002, 12:41 GMT 13:41 UK
Tanzania defends presidential jet plans
The Tanzanian Government has defended its plans to buy a controversial jet for its president.
His remarks come in the wake of reports that the World Bank has asked Tanzania for an explanation after it failed to consult the financial body about the purchase - as required for all major expenditure under the terms of a structural adjustment programme.
The government decision also coincides with the resumption of Britain's aid to Tanzania, suspended a few months ago over the purchase by the Tanzania authorities of a controversial $44m military air traffic control system.
"The decision to buy the jet has not been taken," Mr Mramba said.
"We are seeking the parliament's approval before we start shopping for the jet."
He also disputed the £14m ($22m) figure quoted as the price for the jet, saying his government has estimated the cost to be "less than £7m and could even be less than that."
According to press reports, the World Bank is "infuriated" by the news of the order.
Bank officials are said to have asked Tanzania why it was buying the jet for the president when he already has one to take him between the main city, Dar es Salaam, and the new capital, Dodoma.
But Mr Mramba did not address the question of whether the World Bank had asked for an explanation and whether the Bank was entitled to do so.
"The fact that we have been forgiven our debts does not mean that our president has to use the donkey as a means of travel.
"Does this also mean we can't buy clothes and therefore walk naked?"
Under pressure
The British Government said it was aware of the plans before it decide to resume its £40m annual aid to Tanzania but assumed it had World Bank approval.
But Mr Mramba insisted that British International Development Secretary, Clare Short was not consulted about the issue.
"Clare Short did not have any reason to enquire about the purchase," Mr Mramba said.
"If so, why didn't she ask about other items like cars which we buy every day."
Ms Short is now under pressure to get guarantees that the aid will be spent, as agreed, on health, education and agriculture projects.
The opposition in Britain has criticised the Tanzanian Government for ordering the aircraft.
The Liberal Democrat deputy international development spokesman, Norman Lamb, said he was "extremely concerned" about the proposed purchase.
In Tanzania itself, the opposition has been equally critical.
Professor Ibrahim Lipumba, the leader of the Civic United Front, has said that the government had repeated the same mistake, that it was still failing to consult the parliament and the people of Tanzania.
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text: AFter playing with the oven for a bit I've noticed there's no more smoke, which is nice, and I've also noticed that say for example I start the oven at 350 degrees on bake. It will shut off after about 3 minutes. Now, if I switch the temp to 375 it will run again, for 3 min. If you set the dial to anything under the previous time it won't work. I switched it up to 400, got the same result.


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Breakthrough Treatment May Offer Hope to Thousands of Paralyzed Patients
A breakthrough spinal injury treatment may offer hope to thousands of paralyzed patients.
It involves using a small implantable device to give electrical stimulation to the spinal cord, which mimics brain signals.
The team that developed this treatment over three decades is reporting it has allowed four men paralyzed in car accidents to move their legs for the first time.
They say the stimulation teaches the spinal cord to control limbs so a patient gains some movement control.
The team's results are published in the medical journal "Brain."


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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
How I found out
Check out this awesome performance by Ernest! I'm pumped to see him play this Friday, I've never seen Washed Out live before! And while I'm at it, there's a pretty sick new Toro Y Moi live video shot through 3-d glasses that you should watch too!
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Going to the art museum
I feel so bad for Chaz, my computer is my life! man I hope his record label or something helps him out. Read the offical report here.
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Zach Braff and Summers
Check out this picture Bryan posted on his blog of me and Samantha. Long hair! And my collabo buddy JON GARZA put up more pictures of our sketchbook we're doing together! We're going to make a mini-comic of all the comics we made in it so far.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Right? Eye
When I finished this comic, I read it and realized that I drew my left eye. I'm pretty sure it's because I draw myself how i see myself in a mirror. It's the same reason why I always draw myself left handed.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Brush talk
I'm really into drawing utensils, I love trying new pens, I love hearing what people use, I love going to art stores and buying stuff. I first heard about Widsor & Newton'sSeries 7 brushes in an interview with Jeff Smith, because it's what he uses. I couldn't justify spending that much on a brush (around $30), so I just kept using my cheap brushes and kept saying I would eventually get a nice one. After I used one for the first time yesterday, it was obvious that it is far superior to any brush I've ever used, BUT I still think I prefer my Pentel Pocket Brush Pen, which kind of bums me out! Samantha bought me the Pocket Brush Pen for Christmas after I told her I wanted one (because it's what Craig Thompson uses), and I thought it would be the perfect travel brush. Turns out it is the perfect anytime brush and it's all I use anymore, and I was hoping getting the Series 7 brush would change that. It's just crazy that a portable brush, that you never have to clean or physically dip into ink, that only costs $12, could be the best brush I've ever used. Long story short: BUY ONE OF THESE!!!
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Here's Alex Pardee's work, so if you've seen Akira, look at his work and try to remember what the end of the movie looked like.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Not for Kids
I've been using a new Copic marker for the past few days. I really like the marker (it's awesome you can refill the ink and it's oval shape so it doesn't roll off the table), but whenever i scan it it looks all grainy. It sucks because I really don't like using prismacolors, They're like $4 each and I have to replace them every couple weeks. Any ideas or suggestions? I don't want to use ink wash because i want it to be very evenly applied and consistent, and I want to do it by hand, not on the computer.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Good Eats
HERE'S A VIDEO of the eat Your Art Out art show I was in in LA. THIS IS THE PAINTING that I did for the roller-derby themed show. It looks like it was super fun! Haha and they show my painting for a second with my name and it says that the medium for the painting was mixed media (?), i just used inks, and it says I'm from North Carolina (?). I guess I used to live in South Carolina, so it's pretty close...? haha it's still cool though.
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I feel like I could have made this one a lot funnier, but my co-workers probably would have gotten pissed, haha.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Check it out, the Beat Bee Sessions started a blogger account! Check out that link list...
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Samantha is Leaving
I'm dropping off Samantha at the airport today so she can have fun with all our cola friends for a week! So check out my forthcoming comic I make about samantha calling me and telling me how much fun she's having while i'm playing video games by myself or something, haha.
Check out my friend Gerald's blog at Emporio Electronico Del Gerald(o). He just started updating it again with his Vlogs (small video's about his life and stuff). Some are funny, some are just interesting, but I just love watching them! It's like watching reality tv or something, and it's always cool to see day-in-the-life of a graphic designer. and his impressions are the BEST.
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