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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Alex Filacchione wrote: > 1) As long as it does not interfere with their work, is drug testing really > necessary? Furthermore, should a company make it's decision on whether > to outsource or not (or make a final decision between two firms) based > on whether the consulting firm employs drug testing (screening, invasion > of privacy, etc.)? Let's say that John Doe at Fred's Security > Consulting really knows his stuff well, has a good reputation, etc., and > has also smoke pot. Is this *REALLY* going to make a difference? As > long as he does not smoke on the job. Are you going to ask people if > they drink alcohol on a recreational basis as well? If someone wants to > make this into an example of a "law abiding citizen" vs a "delinquent," > saying that the "delinquent" has no regard for the law and should not be > trusted, I ask you this... Are you going to request the consultant's > driving records as well? Driving above the speed limit shows an EQUAL > contempt, disrespect, whathaveyou for the law as smoking pot. Is this > *REALLY* a smart criteria to base the security of your company on? > Would you really go with an inferior proposal just because the architect > of the better proposal has smoked pot? It's illegal, therefore it has the potential to interfere with their work. Do I want to have the head of my incident response team absent because he/she/it got busted at his supplier's house the same night that I got hit, and there was so much stuff there that the magistrate refused to set bail? Do I want them to be vulnerable to blackmail? Do I know that it's "just pot" that they use, or could they be doing other drugs too? It has nothing to do with philosophy, it's got everything to do with vulerability. In general, due to privacy laws, you can't normally get deep into alcohol, or other potential vulnerabilities. You can however drug test. The willingness for a key employee to disregard current law is for some people an issue. Every company should make its own mind up on how much of a concern this is, if it is. Those of us with classic gov/mil sec backgrounds tend to stick with this in the higher risk category, and that's worth questioning, but I doubt you'd change my mind on it. > > 2) Polygraph? Do you really believe that these things are accurate? I > personally have beaten one as a "proof of concept" with no problem at > all. Yes, it was administered by a qualified professional. Do you want > to base the decision upon which your corporate secrets may rely on > something as flimsy as a polygraph? Does it have to be 100% accurate for it to be useful? Used to weed out bad guys, they're more useful than used to weed in good guys. In general, things like this like background checks, polygraphs, credit checks, and the like won't stop a determined opponent with good resources and/or skills. They can also weed out perfectly good candidates who whould have been 100% trustworthy. Everything you use to evaluate if you should extend trust has a risk/vulnerability/effectiveness/reward value. A lot of the effectiveness versus false positives threshold depends on what you're trying to protect, and how many other vulnerabilities there are that make a certain level of vulnerability the default. It certainly doesn't make sense to make your security folks go through harsh background checks if you get your operations staff from the local community college work study program, and they've access to your backups, a tape duplicator, and administrative passwords. On the whole, I'm glad my employer didn't do driving record checks :) Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts @ clark . net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." PSB#9280


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Dear Wendy: "My Boyfriend Brought His Mom To Our First Date"
I have been dating this 44-year-old guy — who still lives with his parents, I might add — since the middle of August. He is kind-hearted and has a good soul. On our first date he asked me to meet him at a mall I'd never been to, and it wasn't even a halfway point between us. He brought his mother was with him because she needed to go to the mall for some things and she doesn't drive. Anyway, in the four-and-a-half months I've been with this man, I've been doing all the driving down to his place because he claims he has a phobia about going to new places. Once I drive there, we go out and do things around where he lives at places he's familiar with. He gives me gas money once in a while because I'm a single mom and can barely afford all the gas to drive the 20 miles each way to his place. I've told him that maybe he needs to speak to someone about his phobia. Also, once I'm at his parents' place, he wants me to go up to his bedroom. I don't know what to do other than to give him an ultimatum that I will not come down to his place until he decides to come to mine? — Designated Driver
If in four-and-a-half months, you are the only person in the relationship who has made sacrifices and compromises — or has made the clear majority of them, anyway — and you have reached a point where you feel stretched to your limit and can't take anymore, you should absolutely give an ultimatum that your boyfriend come to your place or prove that he is seeking professional help to deal with his phobia. If it were me, and my date showed up with his mother in tow the first time we hung out, there would never have been a second date, but lucky for your boyfriend, you are a more flexible person than I am. The fact that you've been putting up with his nonsense for this long means you're either an incredibly understanding person or don't think you're worth more of an effort. If it's the former, it's OK to ask for more compromise; if it's the latter, it's time for you to do some soul-searching and ask yourself if this is really the best you can do. If you think it is, maybe you could benefit from a little professional help, too.
My boyfriend and I have been together for almost a year and a half. Our relationship has been kind and loving and we have an incredible connection. However, recently we each returned to our respective hometowns for the holidays in different regions of the country, and something troubling happened. I attended a neighborhood party at a male high school friend's parent's house on the night of the big snow storm, and between the cocktails and the snow, opted to spend the night rather than try to make it back across town. One of my best female high school friends was with me as well. The three of us have known each other forever and we all piled in one bed to sleep, and I never gave it a second thought; I mean, we used to do this every other weekend in high school and every break during college when we all used to hang out … It's a strictly platonic dynamic between all of us.
When I spoke to my boyfriend the next day, I relayed the night's events, and he expressed that it made him uncomfortable that I slept in a bed with another male, regardless of the circumstances. I apologized and was completely understanding, and told him I would crash on couches if something like this ever happened again. I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to get off his chest, but he said no, he was satisfied and that it was no longer bothering him.
The following night, he attended a bar crawl with his college buddies, and I received a slew of nasty texts, including one threatening to "sleep in someone else's bed tonight" along with others accusing me of treating him poorly. The volume of texts I received from him was borderline harassment and a lot of them were incomprehensible, leading me to believe he was beyond intoxicated, and eventually resulted in me turning off my phone. The next morning he called at 8 a.m. and sincerely apologized. I explained how he had hurt me and I had seen a side of him I never knew existed, as well as that I had lost trust in him. I told him I needed some space and that I didn't want to talk to him until we both return home at the end of the week, and we could figure out where to go from here in person. Since then, he has been texting apologies periodically, has said that I did nothing to deserve that treatment and that the threat to cheat was an empty threat. Is this a red flag, or a fluke, and how should I move forward from this? — Blind Sided
I wouldn't say this is necessarily a red flag or a fluke, but instead a wonderful opportunity to further the lines of communication and build up trust between you. One of the ways we learn who is most trustworthy in our inner circles is watching how they react when they see the ugliest sides of us. We all have ugly sides and eventually, if you're with someone long enough, those ugly parts are going to rear their nasty heads. So, you've now seen an ugly side to your boyfriend that you didn't know existed and you have to determine whether it's a side you're willing to accept and love him in spite of or if the ugliness is too great for you to accept.
Only you can determine for yourself whether your boyfriend's drunken behavior was enough to call it quits with him. You have to weigh the length of time you've been together, the emotions invested, and whether you have substantial enough reason to believe this rare behavior is not indicative of a larger issue (and if it is, is it an issue you're willing to tackle?). If it were me — and it's not, and I'm only going on the details you've provided — I'd be inclined to give your boyfriend another chance, but to remain on guard. I'd clearly express how out of line I thought he was and that if anything like that ever happened again, it would be over. But I'd keep the larger picture in mind — the year-and-a-half relationship that has otherwise been kind and loving up to now. I'd also remember that it's natural to feel a little territorial over a significant other and that I wouldn't really be pleased if my boyfriend were sharing a bed with another woman. And I'd keep in mind that if he was out drinking with college friends, he probably shared what happened and was egged on by the other guys. He probably bought into the mob mentality and acted out in reaction to that. Those aren't excuses, but they may be explanations beyond a simple "He has issues." Are they good enough explanations for you? Are you willing to overlook one night of bad behavior in light of a great year-and-a-half together? Those are questions only you can answer. But my opinion is this is not a clear MOA situation at all.
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That Thing Don Draper Does When He's Mad (or Not — We Can't Really Tell)
There's a scene in the last episode of the third season of Mad Men, in which Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) more or less tells Don Draper (Jon Hamm) to go to hell. He wants her to join him as he starts up his new company. It's not that she doesn't want to go with him, it's that she doesn't want to be told to go with him. So she tells him to screw off. And he makes a facial expression: The Draperian Purse.
It's an expression he's used countless times since the show started. He uses it with his wife, his kids, his bosses, his own reflection in the mirror, inanimate objects. Draper's pursed-lips expression doesn't mean disappointment or disgust, necessarily. You never really know what it means. Except that whatever he's thinking, uh, isn't so good. Which is why it's so effective on the show — and in real life. When a man purses his lips, he could either be about to explode or give in. Maybe he's going to scream, maybe he's going to whisper. But he's going to do something. Or not! And it forces the other person (and, in this case, the audience) to wonder what that next move will be. Which buys time.
The pursed mouth of Don Draper is a symbol for the psychological dynamics of Mad Men, in which everyone is trying to buy time all the time. The pursed mouth is simply the mark of coolness that has been disturbed in some way. And that might be all you need to show. The next time someone gives you some bad news, don't say anything, just purse your lips and stare at them. You'll be signifying contemplation, patience, restraint, resilience, and strength in the face of bad news. Also, possible indigestion. But mostly, strength.
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The softball team saw its season come to end Friday with two losses at the Horizon League Tournament in Chicago, dropping a tough 1-0 decision to Youngstown State before falling to Valparaiso 10-2.
WSU had a golden opportunity to score in the third inning of the YSU game as Angie Clark tripled to right with one out, but came away empty as Jess Gorman grounded out to short and Hanna Floyd struck out.
It stayed scoreless until the top of the seventh. An error and a fielder's choice put runners on first and second with no outs, but the Raiders looked to have momentum as, on a Kelly Stowe hit up the middle, center fielder Gorman threw a one-hop strike to catcher Kortney Tackett to retire the runner trying to score.
The next two batters, however, were hit by a pitch and walked, respectively, to force in the winning run. Wright State had a threat in the bottom of the frame as Reagan Stofcheck singled through the left side and advanced to second on a Lindsay Barrett bunt, but the next two batters were retired to end the game.
Krystian DeWitt was the tough luck losing pitcher, allowing just three hits and a walk while striking out seven.
In the Valparaiso game, the Crusaders took control by scoring four runs in the third and then added two in the fifth and four more in the fifth.
WSU scored both of its runs in the fifth as Stofcheck doubled and Barrett singled with both eventually scoring on a Clark RBI single to left and Floyd hitting into a fielder's choice.
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Shares are consolidating the recent advance, giving you a good buy opportunity. The median analyst estimate for EC is $50, so I'm erring a bit on the side of caution and keeping my target a bit below that level.
Be aware that this stock reports earnings after the close today, so if that kind of volatility is a concern for you, you may want to hold on to this idea for a few days before acting.
Recommendation: Buy EC under $46.10 for a $49.50 target.
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Denileukin Diftitox (DD) is a targeted therapy. That is, it was designed to attack CTCL cells through a selected surface receptor and deliver a toxin (poison) that kills CTCL cells. DD is fusion toxin - a synthetic molecule that combines a portion of the interleukin-2 protein with the diphtheria toxin protein. It enters CTCL cells by targeting and binding to the interleukin-2 receptor on the cell surface and selectively kills them. DD is used when patients that have failed multiple other treatments or demonstrate rapid progression of their disease. Oncology nurses administer DD by intravenous (in the vein) infusion in an outpatient setting. Treatments are typically given on 5 consecutive days every 3 weeks. Individual infusions take approximately1½ to 2 hours to administer. Measures are taken to prevent allergy to this targeted therapy by administering antihistamines, steroids, and Tylenol prior to treatment. Common side effects to DD may include flu like symptoms, swelling of the lower extremities or face, flushing and warmth of the skin, rash, back pain, chest pain, shortness of breath, or dizziness. In general, CTCL patients tend to tolerate this therapy quite well, as they are spared the usual side effects associated with traditional chemotherapy.
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GREENBELT, Md. — A 24-year-old Maryland man was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison, followed by supervised release for life for sexually exploiting a minor to produce child pornography. The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore, the Calvert County Sheriff's Office, the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Calvert County State's Attorney's Office.
David Wayne Sweet Jr., of St. Leonard, must also register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
According to the plea agreement, on Sept.19, the Calvert County Sheriff's Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant at Sweet's residence based on alleged drug violations. Sweet's cell phone was seized which contained 24 sexually explicit images of a prepubescent girl taken between June and September 2013. Sweet had deleted the pictures, but law enforcement officials were able to recover them. Law enforcement arrested him Sept. 27. Sweet admitted he inappropriately touched the victim while she was sleeping and took the photos.
On April 16, Sweet pleaded guilty to a second degree sex offense in Calvert County Circuit Court. His sentencing in the state case is scheduled for July 11.
This investigation was conducted under HSI's Operation Predator, an international initiative to protect children from sexual predators. Since the launch of Operation Predator in 2003, HSI has arrested more than 10,000 individuals for crimes against children, including producing and distributing online child pornography, traveling overseas for sex with minors, and sex trafficking children. In fiscal year 2013, more than 2,000 individuals were arrested by HSI special agents under this initiative.
HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free Tip Line at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators. Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, via its toll-free 24-hour hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST.
For additional information about wanted suspected child predators, download HSI's Operation Predator smartphone app or visit the online suspect alerts page.
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Typically, Brazil produces a pretty uninspired coffee, filling in as the base coffee notes, the cheaper non-objectionable character actor in blends that you buy in a grocery store. There is also a huge supply of instant coffee that comes from Brazil, that is processed in country and exported as instant powder to blenders around the world; I won't paint a picture of that bean quality, but you get the idea.
In the WSJ today, they talk a little bit about a resurgence of sorts in quality for some Brazilian beans. Typically, Brazil has "lowland" coffees that are not expected to develop the most wonderful flavors. Recently though some small roasters are talking up the nutty-sweet flavors of higher quality Brazilian beans that can deliver Cup of Excellence type quality. The local to Boston owner of Terrior Coffee Roaster, Geogre Howell was quoted int eh article, who has offered a Brazilian coffee for some time in his repertoire.
Personally for me, I has seen Brazilian coffees that tend to have a cereal note to them that I don't like; but am open to new ideas and would love to see higher quality come from any growing regain ready to step up their game. How about you?
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Forgive me, I am not yet clear on what the specific request is right now that you have of the court system (and I agree with you, if is often not a place of justice), are you trying to change custody of your youngest son?
Legally, I believe you would have to file that judicial complaint you were talking about, that everyone said could 'make things worse.' Had previously screwed parents done so, this terrible judge would possibly not be on the bench any longer. The judge will be ticked off. Big deal. Is there much more he can do to you? Your youngest is almost 18, yes? And then he can live with you 100% of the time. I know the waiting stinks, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I would first order ALL transcripts of all hearings you have had with him. You need to prove his inappropriate statements and an unsupported rulings. To make a charge with nothing to back it up, as you know, will be fruitless. I would ask the court what you need to do to order these transcripts. Usually we order them when we appeal a ruling, but since you may not be appealing, you need to request them differently, but the clerk should be able to guide you on that. I would definitely NOT tell the clerk what you need them for - say you are considering appealing or some other strategy. They will also likely charge you for these transcripts.
You can also file a Motion to have the Judge Recuse himself - the joke with that is, you generally have to make that request to the Judge himself. But the point of that is, once he denies you, which he will most likely, you can then appeal that if you want. Be sure to get your proofs of his close friendship with your ex or her familiy
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:20:51AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 05:29:11PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > > All great - I attempted this myself - but it breaks bulkstat. See > > xfstest 183: > > I can't reproduce the failure. And then I don't think we should > prioritize bulkstate over metadata performance. The only major users > of bulkstat on XFS in the mainline kernel is xfsdump, and metadata > performance during normal loads is a lot more important. And the > difference when using LVM/MD will be even larger with this as barriers > are a lot more expensive there. > > What do you think about adding something like the patch below which > always makes bulkstat always use the iget version which doesn't show > this sort of problems. > > --- > > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Subject: xfs: always use iget in bulkstat > > The non-coherent bulkstat versionsthat look directly at the inode > buffers causes various problems with performance optimizations that > make increased use of just logging inodes. This patch makes bulkstat > always use iget, which should be fast enough for normal use with the > radix-tree based inode cache introduced a while ago. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> An important note: I think this patch is necessary to avoid bulkstat returning unlinked inodes when cache thrashing is occurring. The current non-coherent lookup will incorrectly return unlinked inodes if the inode cluster is marked stale, reclaimed and turfed from memory due to an unlink and memory pressure between the ialloc btree lookup and the cluster buffer read. The only way to avoid this is to ensure that the ialloc btree lookup and the formatting of the inode into the user buffer is atomic, which means we have to do a coherent lookup that returns a locked into.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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El Dritch is a movie theater in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas located on Vinewood Boulevard in Market, Los Santos. It is inaccessible to the player and plays no role in the storyline whatsoever. The film Mullholiday and Dulaly is advertised above the front entrance. It is based on the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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Just last week, the Bottom Line, the venerable but faded Greenwich Village cabaret, seemed to be facing certain death as New York University pressed for $185,000 in back rent.
The club's owners hoped for a savior with deep pockets who could pay the 17 months of unpaid rent to its landlord. They knew it was a long shot that one would emerge, but yesterday that is exactly what happened just as the university's legal case against the club seemed to be heading for a trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
A lawyer for the Bottom Line announced in court yesterday that a young Manhattan-based company, Sirius Satellite Radio, had agreed to become an investor in the club, helping it with promotion and making a $185,000 lump-sum payment to the university. Sirius is a subscriber service that broadcasts music, news and entertainment nationally from studios at Rockefeller Center.
The offer allowed the Bottom Line to avoid the legal case and to negotiate over the next four weeks on a new lease with the university for the building at West Fourth and Mercer Streets, where the club has operated since February 1974, showcasing a range of popular music, from Miles Davis to Bruce Springsteen.
''I certainly feel much more relief today than I did at the beginning of June when this thing reared its head,'' said Allan Pepper, a co-owner of the Bottom Line. ''I feel a lot more relaxed.''Continue reading the main story
Speaking for the new investor, Jim Collins, vice president of corporate communication at Sirius, said: ''It seemed appropriate and logical for us to step in and try to save the club. Altruistic? Sure, but we feel it's a venerable institution intertwined into the New York culture and the music community and it deserves to be saved.''
The $185,000 will be held by lawyers for N.Y.U. and the Bottom Line in escrow until all the details of the new lease and other improvements the university wants are worked out. If a new lease is not signed, the money will be returned to Sirius.
''We have four weeks,'' said Mark Alonso, the lawyer for the nightclub. ''It's that simple. We're trusting that N.Y.U. is looking forward to negotiating in good faith.''
The reprieve came late in the day, after a morning of negotiations between Martin Metzer, a lawyer for the university, and Mr. Alonso, with the consistent coaxing of Justice Jose A. Padilla Jr., the presiding judge.
Most of the talks occurred in a courthouse hallway, with Justice Padilla going back and forth from the bench to check on the progress.
The university wanted the money yesterday. ''If they pay $185,000 today, this case is over,'' Mr. Metzer said.
But Mr. Alonso told the judge that the club needed more time to produce a check or wire the money, and that it wanted some details about a new lease.
Mr. Metzer protested. ''The university has been carrying this tenant at a below market rent for some years,'' he said. He told Justice Padilla that the situation has ''significantly adversely affected the university's educational facilities.''
He continued: ''If they're not prepared to pay the money, then we have a trial.'' Mr. Metzer called the promise of a last-minute payment ''a wonderful spiel.''
Mr. Alonso told Justice Padilla: ''Someone's come forward to pay all the back rent. How often does that happen?'' He added that if the university was serious about not wanting to close the club, ''What's four weeks to wait to get all the money?''
Mr. Metzer told Mr. Alonso that the posting of money in an escrow account ''doesn't help the university,'' but ultimately the university agreed to that part of the deal.
The rest of the tentative terms were not released or discussed in open court. The session ended with Judge Padilla's vague announcement: ''O.K., we're done. For your information, the parties have agreed to postpone things under certain conditions.''
Mr. Pepper said, ''I'd like to thank N.Y.U. for taking a step back, helping us to try and resolve this in a way I always hoped it would be.'' Asked if this meant the Bottom Line was coming back, he replied, ''To my mind, it never left.''
Correction: October 2, 2003, Thursday An article last Thursday about a last-minute agreement to postpone a courtroom dispute over rent between the Bottom Line nightclub and its landlord, New York University, misspelled the surname of a lawyer for the university. He is Martin Meltzer, not Metzer.Continue reading the main story


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Increasing concerns about global environmental change and food security have focused attention on the need for environmentally sustainable agriculture. This is agriculture that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the environmental systems that underpin it, or deplete natural capital stocks. We convened a group of 29 'practitioners' and 17 environmental scientists with direct involvement or expertise in the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The practitioners included representatives from UK industry, non-government organizations and government agencies. We collaboratively developed a long list of 264 knowledge needs to help enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture within the UK or for the UK market. We refined and selected the most important knowledge needs through a three-stage process of voting, discussion and scoring. Scientists and practitioners identified similar priorities. We present the 26 highest priority knowledge needs. Many of them demand integration of knowledge from different disciplines to inform policy and practice. The top five are about sustainability of livestock feed, trade-offs between ecosystem services at farm or landscape scale, phosphorus recycling and metrics to measure sustainability. The outcomes will be used to guide on-going knowledge exchange work, future science policy and funding.
The sustainability of food production has become a strong focus of attention in recent years, in policy, within the food industry [
One aspect of this 'sustainability' is environmental sustainability. Environmentally sustainable food production can be defined as food production that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the environmental systems that underpin it, or deplete natural capital stocks. In a recent working paper [
As part of the focus on sustainable food production, many organizations within and linked to the food and farming industry, are actively supporting or developing more environmentally sustainable agriculture. Government, industry and third sector organizations use a number of levers to influence farming practices to this end. They include regulation to impose minimum environmental standards; advice, guidance or voluntary approaches to encourage the uptake of good practice; investment in research and development [
Scientific knowledge about the environmental sustainability of agriculture is derived from a wide range of disciplines including: agronomy, livestock science, ecology, hydrology, climate science, plant and animal pathology, entomology and economics. Some aspects of environmental sustainability in agriculture have been well researched, such as management methods to supply floral resources for pollinators on farmland [
With increased appreciation of the importance of sustainable food production, new funding streams are being developed in the UK and elsewhere to bridge these key research and development gaps. It is now important to identify the most pressing knowledge needs, from both scientist and practitioner perspectives. Three of the authors (LVD, RPF and WJS) have been involved in several previous exercises to identify questions of importance to policymakers and practitioners [
Improving the environmental sustainability of agriculture will inevitably involve changes in farming practices, aided by the development and adoption of new products and technologies [
The exercise described here uses such a collaborative approach to identify and rank knowledge needs which, if addressed, would facilitate change and enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture in some way. It goes beyond identifying research questions, as it includes cases where the scientific knowledge already exists but needs to be communicated or adapted for use. Often the challenge comes in translating a large body of existing scientific information to address an applied problem. In common with a recent exercise on conservation of wild insect pollinators [
This exercise is about enhancing the environmental sustainability of agricultural production within the UK or for the UK market. It includes agricultural areas around the world that provide food for UK markets, as well as all UK farming. It does not include issues surrounding consumption and demand for food, or human health and nutrition.
Our process of defining priority knowledge needs for enhancing sustainable agriculture involved collaborative development of an initial long list, followed by three stages of voting or scoring. Online surveys were designed and conducted using the online survey tool Qualtrics [
Forty-six people participated in one or more stages of the prioritisation process. They comprised 17 research scientists, 20 from businesses or trade associations involved in agriculture, food production or retail, five from government departments or agencies and four from charitable organizations with a strong focus on sustainable agriculture. Of these 46, eight participated in only the early stages of prioritisation, by suggesting knowledge needs or taking part in the initial round of voting. The remaining 38 (those included here as authors) participated in all stages.
The research scientists were either from UK higher education institutions, Government-funded or independent research institutes, including the British Trust for Ornithology and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. They were all either leading academics, selected by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Knowledge Exchange Programme on Sustainable Food Production, or Knowledge Exchange Fellows working on aspects of sustainable agriculture, funded by NERC. Leading scientists from the following research areas pertinent to sustainable farming were selected, based on relevant research grants awarded and publications in the scientific literature: soil science, crop ecology, weed ecology, biogeochemistry, farmland biodiversity and ecosystem services, plant disease, livestock disease and farm management. Of the 14 research scientists who took part in the full process, three had expertise in soils, three in biodiversity, three in crop ecology or health and two in whole farming systems, while one had expertise in livestock health (specifically diseases of dairy cattle). The remaining two researchers were Knowledge Exchange Fellows working with large food sector businesses.
We use the term 'practitioners' for all the non-academics, or end-users of research in the process. This encompasses people engaged in promoting or practising sustainable agriculture at a wide range of levels, from corporate sustainability strategies and large-scale international procurement decisions to management of individual farms. The selected participants were all directly linked with the production aspects of farming. We did not seek organisations whose main focus was food processing, waste management, packaging, distribution, consumer choice or health and nutrition. We invited representatives from the seven largest UK supermarkets by market share [
The initial long list of potential knowledge needs was developed by all participants submitting up to 10 possible knowledge or evidence needs for consideration by the group. Participants were invited to select issues that they considered important for making agriculture more sustainable. The objective was for suggestions to be as specific as possible, but for the list as a whole to consider all aspects of the natural environment—air, soil, water, biodiversity, climate, weather and natural hazards, disease, pollution and human health. Participants consulted their colleagues and told them that the outcomes from the process would be used to shape future science investment. Thirteen example knowledge needs were provided. These were either gathered from previous or concurrent exercises that identified knowledge needs or research priorities, such as the Feeding the Future project [
All the submitted knowledge needs were compiled into a list by the first author (LVD) and categorized by subject area. Nine categories were selected to provide groups of knowledge needs as similar in size as possible. Each knowledge need appeared in only one category. Where possible, the categories were chosen and named to reflect priority research areas for sustainable agriculture recently identified for new funding by the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and two UK Research Councils (NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC). This matching was a deliberate effort to enhance the linkage between the identified knowledge needs and future research investment, but no matching category was created if there were insufficient suggested knowledge needs to make a group of at least 15.
In the first voting stage, all members of the group anonymously voted on the long list of knowledge needs, using an online survey. Participants were asked to select between three and five items from each of the nine categories that represented the most important current knowledge needs for sustainable agriculture either within the UK, or serving UK food markets. For groups of similar knowledge needs, participants were asked to select one that most matched their concern, and told there would be a chance either to amalgamate similar needs at the workshop or to identify the most useful need. Participants had the opportunity to make comments or suggest alternative wording for each knowledge need.
The final prioritisation of knowledge needs took place at a one-day workshop held in Cambridge on 8 January 2013. In the second stage, each item on the long list was discussed during a 90-minute session dedicated to each section of the list (see
Structure of the initial long list of knowledge needs for environmentally sustainable agriculture.
|Number of proposed knowledge needs
|Crop plants, including crop selection, rotation, plant breeding, yields and agroforestry, but not including pests and diseases. Future impacts of climate change on crop suitability or cropping patterns were included here.
|Management of livestock, including livestock health and interactions between environmental sustainability and animal welfare.
|Includes the use of non-mineral fertilizers, nutrient-related emissions to air and water.
|Managing and understanding soil health and fertility, including soil carbon.
|Pest control
|Sustainable strategies to deal with crop pests (including plant diseases) and weeds, but not livestock disease.
|Farm-scale management of biodiversity and ecosystem services
|Management of biodiversity, habitats & ecosystem services at farm scale (except soil carbon and water quality issues associated with nutrients, which are in soils and nutrients respectively).
|Landscape-scale planning for sustainable agriculture
|Balancing ecosystem services and food production at landscape scale (beyond the individual farm). Includes governance and decision-making at this scale.
|Markets and Drivers
|Understanding the wider drivers for decision-making on farms, including influences of global commodity markets, global environmental change (expect impacts of climate change on cropping patterns) and developing markets for ecosystem services or biofuels. Issues related to farm economics and farmer behaviour were included here, including questions about implementing precision agriculture and other new technologies.
|Understanding the status of the farmed environment through monitoring or application of existing datasets.
During the discussion sessions, all participants could see the anonymous comments or alternative wording others had suggested during the first voting stage along with the number of votes for each knowledge need. Similar knowledge needs were placed together, shaded in colour and then placed in the rank according to the one in the group that received the most votes during Stage 1. However, the original wording of each need was always retained, to maintain transparency in the process and avoid misinterpretation of individual knowledge needs.
Participants were told to identify knowledge needs that, if met, would allow their organizations to take action, change practice or enhance agricultural sustainability. They were guided by session chairs to discuss, for each knowledge need, what could be done if this was known, and to prioritise needs that would catalyse or facilitate change and could be delivered in a reasonable timeframe of less than five years.
In general, knowledge needs with more votes were given more discussion time, but there was ample opportunity to speak up for needs that had no votes, or few votes. Some knowledge needs were re-worded or amalgamated with others at this stage, by consensus. It was also possible to add additional needs at this stage. Knowledge needs were first eliminated to create a short list, then voting by show of hands during each session was used to produce a shorter list of knowledge needs under each section. We aimed to emerge from each session with four, six or eight knowledge needs, depending on the number of knowledge needs in the initial list for each category. The thresholds were set so that approximately 20% of the initially suggested knowledge needs from each category could proceed to the next stage. The selected knowledge needs in each category were also ranked, by counting votes or by consensus.
In a final plenary session, 53 knowledge needs drawn from all categories of the long list were presented to all participants, each showing the category it came from and the ranking it achieved. The list was ordered so that high-ranking knowledge needs from all categories appeared first, the low-ranking knowledge needs were at the end and the categories were dispersed evenly through the list. Each knowledge need was briefly discussed by the whole group (largely for the benefit of those who had not been in the relevant sessions). Then all participants privately scored each knowledge need between 0 and 10, with 10 being of highest importance, using hand-held electronic voting devices. The workshop facilitators (WJS and LVD) did not vote or score the knowledge needs at any stage. An initial ranking of all knowledge needs was presented to participants at the end of the one-day workshop.
As the final scores are ordinal data, we used medians to rank them. This also reduced the influence of unusually high or low scores from single individuals. The list of priority knowledge needs was initially drawn up as the top 20 knowledge needs according to scoring by practitioners. Taking a cut at the top 20, allowing for ties, included 23 knowledge needs scored by practitioners with a median of 7 or higher. To give scientists an equal hearing, we added to the priority list any knowledge needs scored with a median of 7 or higher by scientists, even if scored lower by practitioners.
During the workshop, all participants were asked to record how many people they had consulted to suggest knowledge needs or to help them with the initial voting stage. At least 293 people were consulted in identifying and voting on the knowledge needs prior to the workshop, in addition to the 46 involved in the process, giving 339 consultees in total.
We used a Friedman test to identify whether any of the knowledge needs were scored significantly differently from others. We used a Multiple Factor Analysis, using the R Package FactomineR [
Our initial long list comprised 253 knowledge needs. Three were discarded because they were too general or out of scope, and 14 were added after the initial voting stage, due to late submissions. In total 264 knowledge needs fed into the meeting where the final stages of voting and scoring took place.
The knowledge needs were categorized into groups as shown in
Five of these categories could be matched to already emerging research priorities at Defra, NERC and BBSRC. These were: nutrients, pest control, landscape-scale planning for sustainable agriculture, farm-scale management of biodiversity and ecosystem services, and markets and drivers. One area identified for research investment by the two research councils as part of a new Sustainable Agriculture Research and Innovation initiative—water—did not emerge as a category of knowledge needs in its own right from this group. However, nine suggested knowledge needs were specific to water, and these were placed in 'crops', 'nutrients' or 'farm-scale management of biodiversity and ecosystem services'.
Similarly, twelve questions about adoption of practices by farmers, on-farm economics, use of evidence/decision support and precision agriculture were placed in 'markets and drivers', because there were not quite enough of them to warrant their own section, which might have been called 'farmer adoption'. This made 'markets and drivers' the largest section.
We identified 26 priority knowledge needs that met the scoring criteria identified above. These are shown in
The 26 highest scoring knowledge needs, ranked according to median score (0 = not a priority, 10 = high priority) from practitioners (
|Knowledge need
|List section
|Median practitioner score
|Median scientist score
|Overall median (interquartile range)
|How can we develop a sustainable animal feed strategy?
|8 (3.75)
|What are the trade-offs between delivering different ecosystem services (including biodiversity and crop production)?
|8 (1.75)
|How can phosphorus be recycled effectively for farming systems?
|8 (3)
|How can we develop 'multi-functional' land management options to maximise both agricultural productivity and environmental benefits?
|8 (2)
|What is the smallest set of metrics to evaluate the sustainability (economic, social and environmental) of agricultural systems and interventions at farm and landscape scales?
|8 (3)
|Can integrated control strategies protect crop yield and quality as the number of available plant protection products falls?
|7 (2)
|What metrics define "soil health" and how can we measure this?
|7 (3)
|What is the relationship between soil biodiversity and agricultural production?
|7 (2)
|What measures might be adopted to deliver more effective means of marketising ecosystem services (such as auctions) and rewarding land managers for their delivery?
|7 (3.5)
|Assuming a substantial increase in the demand for livestock products, what systems of production, and in which locations, have the least adverse effects?
|7 (3)
|Why is there an increasing gap between observed yields and maximum attainable yields in arable systems, and how can this be closed?
|7 (2)
|How will climate change affect the suitability, yields and management of crops on which the UK is currently or could become reliant?
|7 (4)
|How much further can we increase potential yield and quality of the crops on which the UK is reliant, via whatever technology?
|7 (3)
|How do we best make crop production more water efficient?
|7 (2)
|How can we optimise nitrogen inputs for different agricultural systems whilst minimising nitrous oxide emissions?
|7 (3)
|What are the relative benefits of changing different management practices (e.g. tillage, cropping system and crop choice) for soil health?
|7 (3)
|Which technological advances are most likely to deliver sustainable intensification in the next 10 years?
|7 (3.75)
|How can we economically and efficiently provide sources of livestock feed protein?
|6.5 (3.75)
|Better use of data sets such as yield mapping to enable precision farming methods that target resources (such as nutrients, pesticides or water) to where they are needed
|6.5 (4)
|What factors control the resistance and resilience of soils to environmental change?
|6 (1)
|How could agri-environment scheme options be targeted and adopted at the farm scale to meet shortfalls in ecosystem services underpinning production?
|6 (3)
|How are we going to reduce losses due to soil-borne pests and diseases in the long-term (for example nematodes in potatoes)?
|6 (2.75)
|What would increase the feed conversion efficiency/ratio of ruminants and monogastrics?
|6 (3)
|What are the appropriate scales for managing different ecosystem services?
|7 (3)
|How can we create a business case for food processors, retailers (as the major buyers) and consumers to financially reward growers for adopting better sustainable methods in conventional agriculture?
|7 (4)
|How can we build more resilient and sustainable agriculture in the face of increasing variability, in terms of market commodity prices and changing climate?
|7 (3)
A Friedman test found that there were significant differences between the scores given by scientists and practitioners for the 53 different knowledge needs scored at the end of the workshop (Friedman test statistic M = 238.01,
Results of Multiple Factor Analysis. Upper panel: Individual scorers plotted in multivariate space according to the first two dimensions. The percentage of variance explained by each dimension is given in brackets. Closed circles (●) = practitioners, open circles (ο) = scientists. Lower panel: Groups of knowledge needs corresponding to relevant categories of the list (described in
The importance of each category of knowledge need to the classification is plotted in the bottom panel of
Interestingly, the type of scorer (scientist or practitioner) was relatively unimportant in the first two dimensions. We also ran the multiple factor analysis with the scorers re-categorised as 'business', 'government or NGO' and 'scientist', to see if the practitioner groups separated out. Results were very similar, again with no clear differences between groups.
Median scores for each of the 53 knowledge needs given by practitioners (n=24) and scientists (n=14); 0 = not a priority, 10 = high priority. Spearman rank correlation coefficient rs = 0.488,
Our analysis demonstrates that the practitioners and scientists in this exercise generally agreed on what knowledge is needed, despite coming from a wide variety of backgrounds and knowledge bases.
Many of the knowledge needs (particularly numbers 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 21, 24 and 26) demand integration of strands of knowledge from different disciplines to inform policy and practice. As argued above, much existing evidence on the environmental sustainability of agriculture focuses on individual environmental outcomes or aspects of land management. The challenge now is to integrate this evidence in a coherent way to inform farm and landscape management. Our exercise demonstrates that this challenge is coming from practitioners in business and government who are trying to implement sustainable agriculture in the real world. There is a need for integrated sets of metrics, understanding of how different aspects of agricultural systems and different environmental services interact, and adequately substantiated modelling tools that allow the results of management decisions to be visualized easily.
The sustainability of livestock systems in a global market is prominent in the priority list. Four knowledge needs relate to it (number 1, 10, 18 and 23 in
Seven out of the top 14 priorities had a specific crop- or animal-feed focus (numbers 1, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13 and 14). In general the animal component of livestock systems was not highly ranked, featuring in only knowledge needs 10 and 23. Livestock feed, rather than the animal component, was also the focus of knowledge need 18. The relatively low prioritisation of knowledge needs related to the animal component of livestock systems is perhaps surprising, seeing that the value of the output of the UK livestock sector is about 40% greater than the value of the UK crop sector [
Practitioners tended to consider metrics to measure sustainability as more important than did scientists. Two knowledge needs rated with relatively high priority by practitioners (numbers 5 and 7 in
Phosphorus is a greater concern than nitrogen in this set of priorities. Knowledge needs 3 and 15 are the only two from the nutrients category that made it to the priority list. The priority need related to phosphorus is not 'Where are the supplies going to come from?' or 'How much do we have left globally', or even 'How can we reduce dependence on phosphorus?', all of which have been raised in several fora recently [
Three of the four priority knowledge needs relating to soil (knowledge needs 7, 16 and 20), are about monitoring and maintaining its natural integrity and fertility, often referred to in policy as 'soil health' [
Soil is the only feature of agro-ecosystems for which this group wanted to know more about the role biodiversity plays in delivering ecosystem services (knowledge need 8). In a previous exercise focused on the conservation of wild insect pollinators [
There are three knowledge needs at the end of the list which would not have appeared in the top 20 according to scoring by practitioners, but which were scored with medians of seven or higher by scientists. One is about the appropriate scale of management of environmental services (knowledge need 24). Whilst both groups saw a strong need for knowledge about the implications of managing for several different services at once (knowledge needs 2 and 4), scientists saw scale as a stronger component of this than practitioners. Scale is much discussed in the academic and policy communities and known to be very important for understanding and managing trade-offs between ecosystem services [
The opportunities for re-integrating arable and livestock farming at the farm-scale was an issue represented in three separate proposed knowledge needs in the initial long list, but none made it through even to the final scoring session of our workshop. This may reflect the increasingly global nature of food production systems and the economic advantages of specialisation in farm businesses, processing and logistics. The priority questions on livestock feed (1, 18 and 23) are perhaps indicative of the interdependencies between specialist arable and livestock farms on a larger scale than individual farms.
Of the 26 priority knowledge needs in
In the next stage of this process, the same group of scientists and practitioners will consider how the priority knowledge needs they have identified can be addressed. We will follow similar methods, working collaboratively with iterated discussions to specify, in detail, what is already known in each area, where the relevant knowledge lies and what steps can be taken within or outside the group to meet the knowledge need cost-effectively. Our aim will be to ensure that knowledge and data from all sectors are taken into account.
The list of knowledge needs includes a range of different types of question and levels of information. Some are scientific questions that require large research programmes. These may need to be unpacked into smaller, more manageable scientific questions.
Aspects of many of the knowledge needs have already been tackled, or are in the process of being answered by existing projects in the UK or internationally. Trade-offs between ecosystem services, for example (knowledge need number 2), are the subject of active on-going research [
Clearly, the priorities that emerge from a process like this depend to an extent on the participants involved. As in previous similar exercises, we made every effort to be as inclusive as possible, and to involve representatives from all sectors, so we suggest that these results reflect a broad range of interests relevant to the implementation of environmentally sustainable agriculture for UK food systems.
This work was funded by NERC Knowledge Exchange Programme Grant NE/K001191/1. WJS is funded by Arcadia. TGB's input was funded by the UK Global Food Security Programme. We thank Richard Brazier, Humphrey Crick, Bridget Emmett, Corrina Gibbs, Rob Macklin, Sarah Mukherjee, Simon Potts and Andy Richardson for contributions to the early stages of prioritisation. We also thank Stephanie Prior, Joscelyne Ashpole, James Hutchison, Hugh Wright and Richard German for help before and during the meeting, and for collating results during and after the workshop. Special thanks to Michel Kaiser for chairing sessions.
The following authors represented the interests of their organizations in this process. We do not interpret this as a conflict of interest because the process was designed to take account of a wide range of interests, including those of commercial and campaigning organizations.
Angela Booth (AB Agri), Jan Bouwman (Syngenta), Chris Brown (Asda), Ian Crute (AHDB), Frances Dixon (Welsh Government), Caroline Drummond (LEAF), Andrea Graham (National Farmers Union), James Hallett (British Growers Association), Beth Hart (Sainsbury's), John Holland (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust), Vanessa King (Unilever), Tom MacMillan (Soil Association), Daniel McGonigle (Defra), Carmel McQuaid (Marks and Spencer), Tim Nevard (Conservation Grade), Steve Norman (DowAgro), Catherine Pazderka (British Retail Consortium), Inder Poonaji (Nestle), Duncan Sinclair (Waitrose), Juliet A. Vickery (RSPB) and William Wolmer (Blackmoor Estate).


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As an active member of the LGBT community Dr. Hakimi fully understands our special needs and how to deal with AIDS and hypatitus paitients.
I cannot stand it when dentists are rough and talk when they are working on your mouth. My gums bleed easily and so going to the dentist has always been uncomfortable for me. I am so thankful I found Dr. Hakimi he really understood my issues and helped me plan to improve my gum health and over oral hygiene. This offices offers so much more than regular dentistry, they have amazing specialty services and I recommend them to all my friends. I have friends that have gone to see Dr. Hakimi and are now regular patients just like me.
Great office. Dr. Hakimi is the best there is. I will definitely visit him again for any dental treatment I decide to do in the future. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
The best there is! I always have a great experience whenever I visit. I make sure to keep my regular cleanings every six months and the office staff is great. They are nice, efficient and very thorough.
I am in my late fifties and had ok teeth from childhood. My parents thought braces were not a priority for me because of the extra expense. Now I was ready to take charge of my own dentistry. I went to Dr. Hakimi for invisaline, He was so kind. He sat and talked with me about my options and never rushed me or pressured me. I decided to go for it and the results are great and the entire process is easy and virtually painless.
So I was going here for dental surgery. I needed to go under anesthesia and I started to panic. I had traumatic experiences as a kid and thankfully Dr. Hakimi understands. He offers sedation dentistry for those patients like me who as adults still do not like going to the dentist. This procedure begins at home where you take a pill to relax. Then you are escorted to the office by a member of the Hakimi team and accompanied to a comfortable room and rapped in a nice big blanket. I was so relaxed I did not even notice when it was going on and when it was over I was escorted back home. The relaxation lasts about six hours and you can take minor pain medication after if needed, but I was able to sleep and this was the best dentist visit of my life. I am thankful to have a dentist who truly cares.
Customer service is the main priority here. Dr. Hakimi and his staff really care about their clients and whenever I am there I feel welcome and appreciated. When I first started I really liked how they do patient education and explain all their procedure and give information on general dental care. Dr. Hakimi is the only dentist I will go to and all my friends and family have switched to him too, and are so happy they did!
Dr. Hakimi is the best! His gentle manner and excellent skills are the perfect combination for what I had, a root canal. His assistant, Alisha, is so knowledgeable at her job she was ready for his next procedure before he had the need or opportunity to ask, and they are both very cool people too, and the music that I asked for through "Pandora's" were songs Alisha also knew by heart and relaxed me so much I nodded off and slept quite a few times for a little each time. And this was for a 'root canal.' I felt pain for a total of about one second, which Dr. Hakimi took away with more Novocaine. This was my second root canal, and I'm planning to get my third and last within a few weeks. Thank you, Doctor!
I went to have some minor work done. I was hoping to put it off, but I have heard wonderful things about Dr. Hakimi and knew I had to go in. My entire experience was great and best of all it was painless. I usually feel the numbing lasts long after I go home, but not this time. The doctor was so professional and I felt comfortable throughout the experience. Dr. Hakimi changed the way I view dentists.
I visited Westlake Smile Design to seal some old cavities I had and were driving me crazy. I really liked the results so I decided to have some other cosmetic procedures done. My insurance covered most of the treatment so I was really happy for that. The Dr is an excellent dentist and I will definitely visit him again for any dental treatment I decide to do in the future.
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By Traci Watson and Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON The smog in more than 300 counties across the USA threatens public health and must be cleaned up to save hundreds or even thousands of lives a year, under new federal rules announced Wednesday.
The long list of smog-ridden counties is the result of a new ozone limit the Environmental Protection Agency finalized Wednesday. Under the old standard, set in 1997, 85 counties have air quality considered too poor to breathe.
The EPA will decide in 2010 which counties violate the new standard. By then, some of the 345 counties that now exceed the new limit may be in compliance.
Counties and states decide for themselves how to reduce their smog levels, steps which the EPA says will cost about $8.4 billion a year. They can crack down on vehicles, factories or power plants, which all emit the main ingredients in smog. Some cities, such as Dallas and Houston, have tried to cut smog by lowering speed limits.
The EPA's new smog limit is 75 parts per billion of ozone, down from the current level of 80 — although EPA chief Stephen Johnson said the old standard was "effectively 84 parts per billion."
The EPA's independent science advisory panel unanimously had said the standard should be no higher than 70 parts per billion. In a March 2007 letter to the EPA, panelists said there is "overwhelming scientific evidence" for a reduction of that magnitude.
The Bush administration hasn't "responded to our advice that well," said scientist and panel Chairwoman Rogene Henderson. "At least we've gotten it (lower) than the current standard," she added.
Johnson said the new limit would protect public health and was based only on science.
"I've adhered to the law. I've adhered to the science," Johnson said. He also called for the Clean Air Act to be changed so the EPA could take cost, not just public health, into account when setting air standards.
The EPA and its advisory panel agree that smog has been tied to lung ailments, asthma attacks and death.
States said they would accept the new limit, but meeting the old limit is the bigger worry for some.
"Right now, our energies are going to be focused on meeting the current standard, and then we will switch gears," said Heidi Griesmer of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Twenty-seven Ohio counties exceed the new limit.
Industry groups, which had said before the announcement that the limit shouldn't be lowered at all, said they were disappointed with the decision.
The new standard "could have a devastating effect on manufacturing employment," said John Engler, chief of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Environmentalists said they may sue because the advisory panel's recommendation was rejected. "There is a lot of concern … about what EPA did today," said David Baron of Earthjustice.
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In the recent months, the Commission had the opportunity to assess several projects involving public support to broadband development. The considerations developed in this article reflect the Commission's conclusions in the ensuing decisions and aim at providing guidance on how to design forms of intervention that do not raise competition concerns. A word of caution is, however, necessary. These are the first decisions on State aid relating to broadband projects: the present views might evolve in the light of further experience and in view of the quick pace of economic development and technological evolution in the sector.
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Fiesta de los Reyes: Market Square, 514 W. Commerce, 210-775-2343. Fair food and music throughout Fiesta. Through Sunday. 10 a.m.-midnight through Friday, 10 a.m.-1 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-midnight Sunday.
GET REEL: McNay Art Museum, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., 210-824-5368. Film series continues with screening of 2001's "Mulholland Drive." Free. 6:30 p.m.
PACfest 2013: Palo Alto College, 1400 W. Villaret Blvd., 210-486-3000. The music lineup includes Jay Perez, Heather Go Psycho, Bombasta and Mario Flores and the Soda Creek Band. Free. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
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Carrie Underwood: Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St. Multiplatinum country star and "American Idol" winner hits town behind her chart-topping "Blown Away" album, which earned her a Grammy. Rising star Hunter Hayes opens. $57.08-$78.64 at Ticketmaster. 7:30 p.m.
A Night In Old San Antonio: La Villita, 210-226-5188, www.niosa.org. The historic downtown village plays host to more than 240 elaborately decorated food and drink booths in 15 heritage-themed areas. $1.50-$12. 5:30-10:30 p.m.
"Janis": Rose Theatre Company, 11838 Wurzbach, 210-360-0004. The Rose is bringing back "Janis," in which Jessie Rose sings some of Joplin's songs and talks about her life. $10-$12. Friday-Saturday. 8 p.m.
Outdoor Skills Challenge: Bass Pro Shop, 17907 W I-10, 210-253-8800, www.basspro. com. Event offers challenges such as casting-pond accuracy, youth archery, knot tying and backpack competition. Free. Also Sunday. Noon-4 p.m.


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Dec. 2, 2013
Bells will be ringing at Cal State Fullerton's Meng Concert Hall as 280 students dressed in holiday attire take the stage and belt out holiday tunes.
During this year's "Deck the Hall" performance, conductors and close friends Robert Istad, Christopher Peterson and Kimo Furumoto will celebrate the holidays with the music from University Singers, Concert Choir, Titan Men's Chorus, Women's Choir and the University Symphony Orchestra.
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Southpaw scatters five hits as Syracuse wins, 3-0
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The Syracuse Chiefs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals, used seven shutout innings from Aaron Laffey in a 3-0 blanking of the Norfolk Tides on Wednesday night from Harbor Park. Third baseman Brandon Laird blasted a two-run home run in the win, moving the Chiefs to a season-high 12 games over .500.
Syracuse (42-30) broke up left-hander Chris Jones' perfect game, no-hitter and shutout in a three-batter span in the fifth inning. With two outs in the frame, Laird reached on an infield single to third base, and Brian Goodwin followed with a walk. Designated hitter Brock Peterson then blasted a 3-0 pitch from Jones off the left-field wall for an RBI double, scoring Laird for a 1-0 Syracuse lead.
Two innings later, Laird lifted off against right-hander Brad Brach. With one out in the seventh, Jhonatan Solano singled to bring up Laird. The Chiefs' third baseman bashed the next pitch just over the left-field wall for a two-run home run, extending the lead to 3-0. Laird's second home run in as many days gave him four with Syracuse for the season.
Norfolk (29-44), meanwhile, couldn't solve Laffey throughout seven innings. The southpaw scattered five hits and two walks in a game where he struck out just one. Laffey improved to 5-1 with a 1.74 ERA in his last six starts and improved to 9-3 with a 3.08 ERA in 13 games on the season.
Left-hander Mike Gonzalez and right-hander Daniel Stange pitched the Chiefs through a scoreless eighth inning before right-hander Warner Madrigal tossed a perfect ninth.
The Chiefs and Tides will conclude their series on Thursday afternoon at 12:05. Syracuse right-hander Taylor Hill, the I.L. leader with a 1.75 ERA, will oppose Norfolk right-hander Edgmer Escalona.
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I have the FTP server with 1:1 NAT under m0n0wall too, and I have
configured as below:
- firewall rules allow port 65000 - 65050 to my server IP
- firewall rules allow port 21 to my server IP
- "MasqueradeAddress" and "PassivePorts" directive of my proftpd.conf
Both active and passive mode are working.
On Apr 7, 2005 11:04 PM, Jim <jwells at networksisp dot com> wrote:
> Braden
> Yes I did forward the hig port range 55000 - 65535 ports to port 21 and
> 20.
> I am sorry I did not spell out all the configurations I attempted :(
> I did change the vsftpd.conf file to the public IP so the pasv clients get
> that back when they connect. The Public IP is static as well.
> I did not use the Seever NAT Tab since I have 1:1 Nat configured
> If I need to try that I will. My understanding is you use either Server
> or 1:1 Nat but not both. I do have the rules set otherwise.
> Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Braden McGrath" <braden at mcmail dot homeip dot net>
> To: "Jim" <jwells at networksisp dot com>; <m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:37 AM
> Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Passive Mode FTP
> Ok, so you opened * * all ports... did you FORWARD them to your FTP
> server in the Server NAT tab?
> Your FTP server should have an option wherein you can configure the port
> range it uses for passive connections. Set that, and then forward (and
> allow) only that range of ports to the FTP server. Also, the server
> should have a setting that lets you specify the EXTERNAL IP address.
> When clients use PASV, if the server is responding using its INTERNAL
> (NATted) IP address, the client won't be able to do anything with that
> as the address is (or should be) non-internet-routable. If you have a
> static IP, you can set and forget, and if you've got a dynamic IP, you
> will have to hope the FTP daemon has facilities for handling that.
> --Braden
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim [mailto:jwells at networksisp dot com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:31 AM
> > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Passive Mode FTP
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback thus far
> >
> > Simon I have went as far in testing as opening * * all ports
> > both incoming and outgoing with the same results so I am
> > fairly confident it is not a problem with my rules since it
> > does connect but takes 70 sec to perform a directory listing
> > the first time.
> >
> > Christian Thanks for the input and I am putting the old
> > firewall back in place for now in order to resolve this very
> > important problem for my end users.
> >
> > If anyone else has more to offer please let me know. I want
> > to help resolve this issue with my monowall. Linux firewall's
> > don't seem to have this same issue.
> > According to another
> > source the modprobe: ip_conntrack_ftp ip_nat_ftp in linux
> > resolves the same issues.
> > I love FreeBSD and Monowall and have many installed so don't
> > get the wrong idea that I am abandoning it because I am not.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jim
> >
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