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Washington (AFP) Nov 28, 2012
Bloggers, "crowdsourcing" and computer-generated articles are making contributions to the news media, but they cannot replace professional journalists in digging up important news.
That is the message of a major study released this week by Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism, titled "Post-Industrial Journalism."
The authors of the report said technology has led to an explosion in the amount of information available, with economic shifts which are affecting journalism in both negative and positive ways.
But in certain kinds of reporting, professional journalists cannot be replaced by machines or crowdsourcing, the study said.
It is not journalism's best moment if much key work were taken over by amateurs, or done by machine, the study said.
"What is of great moment is reporting on important and true stories that can change society. The reporting on the Catholic Church's persistent harboring of child rapists, Enron's fraudulent accounting and the scandal over the Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious are all such stories."
The role of the journalist "as truth-teller, sense-maker, explainer -- cannot be reduced to a replaceable input... we need a cadre of full-time workers who report the things someone somewhere doesn't want reported," the authors said.
But because of the changes to the media, the report said the advertising-supported model of newspaper and broadcast journalism may never be the same, and this means news "has to become cheaper to produce."
"There is no way to preserve or restore the shape of journalism as it has been practiced for the past 50 years," said authors C.W. Anderson, Emily Bell and Clay Shirky.
They said the changes have lead to "a reduction in the quality of news in the United States," and added: "We are convinced that journalism in this country will get worse before it gets better, and, in some places (principally midsize and small cities with no daily paper) it will get markedly worse."
The report argued that social media, blogs and "crowdsourcing" can have a positive influence by generating content not available in the past.
The authors note that the first reports on the raid killing Osama bin Laden came from a Pakistan IT consultant who tweeted what he witnessed, and that social media provided a more complete view of the Japan 2011 earthquake and tsunami than any individual journalist could provide.
They also conclude that tech startups like Palantir, Kaggle and Narrative Science which produce news stories from raw data through algorithms are also useful, and can free up professional journalists for other tasks.
The study said news reporting has always been "subsidized" in some manner, usually by advertising, and that a shift to online news with lower revenues has led to a search for a new model.
"The American public has never paid full freight for the news gathering done in our name. It has always been underwritten by sources other than the readers, listeners or viewers," the report said.
To make the economics work, the authors suggest flexibility: "Income can come from advertisers, sponsors, users, donors, patrons or philanthropies; cost reductions can come from partnerships, outsourcing, crowdsourcing or automation. There is no one answer."
One development in the media is the emergence of sites like the Huffington Post which maintain content from rival news organizations is "fair use," which can be taken in some form without payment.
"HuffPo management realized that fair use, as applied on the Web, meant that, in essence, everything is a wire service and that excerpting and commenting on unique content from The Washington Post or The New York Times was actually more valuable to readers than contracting with the AP or Thomson Reuters," the study said.
"The Huffington Post has often been criticized for this stance, but this is shooting the messenger -- what it did was to understand how existing law and new technology intersected."
The study concludes that because readers use a variety of sources, news organizations must therefore find a niche.
"There is a place for careful, detailed analysis... There is a place for impressionistic, long-form looks at the world far away from the daily confusion of breaking news. And so on," it said.
"Not many organizations, however can pursue more than a few of these modes effectively, and none that can do all of them for all subjects its audience cares about."
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Jay Leno sold his Fiat 500 for an impressive $385,000 last night (plus some additional donations on the side), with all proceeds going to a charity to help wounded soldiers recover. Also there to spur bidding: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Chief of Staff Ray Odiero. Others threw even more money into the pot.
The Fiat was the second one imported to the U.S. by Chrysler, a 2012 "Prima Edizione." The car was listed by auction house Gooding and Co. as being worth up to $35,000, but the Leno connection and the good cause boosted the bidding.
Proceeds go to the Fisher House, a charity that provides first-rate housing for the families of wounded vets while they undergo treatment for their wounds.
Drive On talked with Leno after a dinner a night ago about the auction. He noted that the Fiat was a worthy car to donate because it has air bags and other safety measures, unlike most of his vast collection. And he loves the charity, with every dime going to help GI's.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris

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We wish to thank the merchants namely, Publix on Collier Boulevard and San Marco Road, Winn Dixie on Collier Boulevard, Ace Hardware on San Marco Road, Walgreens on San Marco Road and Collier Boulevard for allowing us to solicit in front of their businesses so we could have a successful fund drive for our first annual Candy Cane Drive for the kids here on Marco Island that would not receive any Christmas gifts otherwise. We are most appreciative!
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Driver involved in crash that killed deputy suffered several broken bones
Family says he is recovering
Jonathan Menard - Aug 08, 2013
A former Hahnville fire chief, who was involved in the four-vehicle collision that killed a St. Charles Parish Sheriffs deputy last Sunday, broke several bones in the accident but is recovering.
Tregre, 80, was driving his Ford Expedition when deputy Jeff Watson was pushed into the path of his vehicle. After the crash, Tregre was transported to LSU Public Hospital Level 1 Trauma Center with critical injuries. Many residents know Tregre because he sells cypress swings and rocking chairs in front of his home on Paul Maillard. He is also a charter member of the Hahnville Fire Department.
Tregre broke both of his legs, ankle, sternum and pelvis in the crash, while also bruising his lung. He was sedated after the crash, but doctors woke him up early Wednesday morning.
"He is showing very slow signs of progress, but we are hopeful," Tracy Daniels, Tregre's granddaughter, said. A blood drive for Tregre will be held Saturday, Aug. 10 at the Des Allemands Fire Department from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Though the Louisiana State Police say that Tregre wasn't wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, Tregre's family insists that the seat belt was yanked off of him in the crash.
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Is someone you know involved in an abusive relationship? Dr. Donee Patterson, director of Medical Community Outreach at Einstein Healthcare Network, discusses the five warning signs and just how friends and family can help.
How Friends and Family Can Help with Dr. Donee Patterson, Director of Medical Community Outreach, Einstein Healthcare Network
Is it your sister, your daughter, your neighbor or your coworker? Or is it you? One in four women experiences domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. "We define domestic violence as a situation in which one person gains or maintains physical, psychological, emotional or financial control over another person," explains Dr. Donee Patterson, director of medical community outreach for Einstein Healthcare Network.
The NCADV reports that, every year, an estimated 1.3 million women are physically assaulted by an intimate partner, which means there is an epidemic of domestic violence in this country.
If so much abuse is happening, why don't people know about it? "We often see the signs but don't realize the extent of the problem because we think that domestic violence happens to 'other' people," says Patterson. "Even if we have suspicions, the abuser does everything possible to maintain the illusion that nothing is wrong."
What can friends and family do to help loved ones who are in trouble? First, recognize the signs of abusive relationships. Patterson lists a few. "The abuser may not let them see their family or friends, or talk to them on the phone," she says. "They may not be allowed to have their own money, or be allowed to work at all. Victims may be withdrawn and depressed."
Any physical signs are clear causes for concern, and Patterson suggests that family members and friends document them. "Volunteer to take pictures and note the date," she says. "You don't have to say, 'We're going to the police with this,' but those pictures can be used as evidence in the future. It is also a way of letting the victim know that you see what is happening and you know that it is not right."
Another way to help: pay attention to what children say. "Family should listen to the children," Patterson states. "If they say, 'Daddy pushed Mommy. Daddy hit Mommy.' It may be that the kids overheard a normal argument. But friends and family shouldn't ignore or dismiss what the child says. Find a way to ask what's going on – without accusing either the mother or father. If the child repeats these things again and again, then, most likely, something is very wrong."
Adolescents themselves may in abusive relationships. "The word 'domestic' refers to the home, so we don't always think about teens being victims of domestic violence, but whatever word you use, it is abuse," Patterson states. Love Is Respect, a joint project of the National Dating Abuse Helpline and Break The Cycle, reports that one in three teens are being physically, sexually, emotionally or verbally abused by a dating partner. One in 10 high school students has been physically hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend.
"We have to talk to young people about this – both boys and girls because both genders can be victims," Patterson says. "They need to learn what healthy relationships are, what crosses the line into abuse, and – if they don't want to tell a parent – where they can go for help."
Patterson knows that there is help available for those abused and their families and friends. "Loved ones can call a hotline or go online and get specific information on how to help someone in trouble," she explains. "Of course, victims can also reach out for help. These are very difficult situations. Reaching out for help is the first step."
National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800−799−SAFE(7233)
National Dating Abuse Helpline: 866-331-9474, www.ndah.org
Philadelphia Domestic Violence Hotline: 866-723-3014, www.womenagainstabuse.org
Women's Center of Montgomery County: 800-733-2424, www.wcmontco.org
A Woman's Place in Bucks County: 800-220-8116, www.awomansplace.org
Domestic Abuse Project of Delaware County: 610-565-4590, www.dapdc.org


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...treated us at docking and at Centennial Hall. That meal was fabulous. We don't even know who all was involved in the hospitality we received, so thanks to anyone we may have left out. We will be back. Jay and Janice Price Seneca, S.C.
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To ignite efforts in making Point Park University more culturally aware and socially diverse, the Black Student Union hosted its annual Soul Food Social: Jazz Classic Dec. 2 in the Point Park University Ballroom.
The event provided music, food, and a program that helped the Black Student Union advertise its plans to the larger community. It also highlighted the sounds of jazz. The keynote speaker for the evening was UPMC Chief Diversity Officer Candi Castleberry-Singleton, who talked about the advantages and benefits of diversity and inclusion in today's society.
|JAZZ DIVA—Patte Terrell, "The Jazz Diva," gave a great performance throughout the night.
"This year we are geared towards maximizing the diversity and inclusion efforts of the university. We plan to provide mind-stimulating events, lectures and programs that will enhance the cultural awareness on campus and in students," said Kevin Carter, president of the Black Student Union at Point Park University.


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This week's new Bollywood release Heropanti starring debutantes Tiger Shroff and Kriti Sanon in the leads, has received decent response at the Indian Box Office on its opening day. The movie was affected by Hollywood movie X-Men: Days Of Future Past and multilingual movie Kochadaiiyaan across the country and Telugu film Manam in South.
Directed by Sabbir Khan, Heropanti has been creating ripples in the media for all good reasons for quite long time. Its promos and music have soared up the expectations to of the sky high. Viewers are eagerly waiting to watch the movie. In addition, the makers of the film have done massive promotion for it. Considering its star cast, the film had a good amount of advance ticket booking for Friday.
Considering its huge hype and publicity, trade experts predicted that Heropanti, which released in more than 2000 screens in the domestic market on May 23, would start with a bang at the Indian Box Office. The film received good opening, but it was not upto the expected level. The movie has registered 50% occupancy in the Northern circuits, while it witnessed less than 40% footfalls in the South in the morning and matinee shows.
Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Heropanti has collected Rs 6.63 crores nett from 2000 screens at the Indian Box Office on the first day of its release. Bollywood trade expert Taran Adarsh tweeted, "#Heropanti has a ROCKING start. Fri Rs 6.58 cr nett. India biz."
Heropanti has garnered positive response from the film goers. So trade experts feel that the word of mouth will take its business upwards in the evening and night shows. We bring you the audiences' comments on the film. Continue to slide to read Heropanti movie review by viewers.
Amit Dadhich @amit12354
#Heropanti belongs to #TigerShroff a full on massy entertainer packed with great dialogues, songs and action (3/5) #review
Young Wild Free @The_naari
@iTIGERSHROFF Really touched by the movie. And the inspiration it's giving is too good :) Sabko aati nahi, aur meri jaati nahi #Heropanti ;)
Pranay Palei @PranayPalei
Just Saw #Heropanti,Wow ! Superhit..KRITI Is Faaab & #TIGER SHROFF "ROARS".After Long Time A Action Hero Came To Film Industry.
RjAnjali @rjanjalimirchi
#Heropanti ..Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge in jat land....bas difference yehi hai ki yahan bhaagti Simran nahi Tiger Shroff hain.
Football Freak @khiladi_DeEp1
@itigershroff bro watched #Heropanti n loved it ..old school love story+Akshay kumar style action .superb bro...n congrats for grand opening.
Desimartini @DMmovies
#Heropanti may strike a chord with those who enjoy old school love stories and action. Go for it only if you want to watch the cub's debut!
VardaN mAliK @rishimalik971
@iTIGERSHROFF Sir i watched ur movie heropanti its is a great movie i watch 1st shiw really love u and your whole team of #Heropanti
That Guy @avid__dreamer
#Heropanti has a love story that we have seen many times in B'wood movies, but u won't mind watching it because of the perfect storytelling.
IBNLive Movies @IBNLiveMovies
#Heropanti has a love story that we have seen many times in B'wood movies, but u won't mind watching it because of the perfect storytelling.


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FBLA, FCCLA, FFA, and TSA are hosting the first annual OCHS Carnival Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be lots of games with great prizes, inflatables, a silent auction, craft vendors, cake walk, corn-hole competition, concessions and much much more.
Project Graduation is also hosting a movie in the auditorium. Cars II, will be shown before the carnival at 3:30 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be shown after the carnival. Snacks will be available for purchase.
While the Owen County High School Rebels were making football history, a high-school science teacher did the same for the second time. Ten years ago, Sue Sweeney became the first National Board Certified teacher in Owen County.
Now, she is the first teacher in Owen County to be renewed by the NBCT.
Sweeney is Kentucky certified to teach grades one through 12 with a master's degree in biology. She currently teaches biology, forensic science, anatomy and physiology.
The Rev. Doug Adkins, minister with youth at Madison Baptist Church, Madison, GA, received the doctor of ministry degree on May 14, 2011, during the commencement exercises of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.
This year, 95 degrees were awarded in seven graduate degree programs.
The Owen County School District is pleased to announce Brooke Woosley has been chosen as volunteer of the month for September.
When asked why she volunteers, Woosley said "Because I love being around children and helping them excel."
Woosley was chosen for this award by Gina Ayres, a first-grade teacher at Owen County Primary.
Ayers said Woosley is always ready to help.
By Peggy Trinkle
John Guill Chapter, NSDAR
JeanEllen Hiter Melton, Kentucky Society Daughters of the American Revolution state corresponding secretary and chair of the Kentucky DAR news circulation and master questionnaire committees, was the guest speaker at the John Guill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Nov. 9 at the Owen County Library.
The Frazier History Museum is featuring historic photographs from Owen County, along with other areas of Kentucky as part of "Rough Road: The Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project 1975-1977," a new exhibit which runs through Jan. 15.
"Rough Road" features striking images from three photographers – Ted Wathen, Bob Hower and Bill Burke – captured during the nation's Bicentennial celebration. The three traveled into every county of the state to create a record of Kentucky over a three-year time span.
Be watching your mailbox for your official County Committee election ballot.
Ballots will be mailed to all eligible voters in Local Administrative Area Two, which encompasses the central part of the county including the communities of Gratz and Owenton.
If, for some reason, you do not receive a ballot, feel free to notify the FSA office.
Completed and signed ballots are due back in the county office by the close of business on Dec. 5.
Deadline for non-insured assistance program crops nears
On Nov. 8, 2011, the Owen County grand jury met and returned the following indictments:
Elizabeth Brackin, 45, on the charges of two counts of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
According to the indictment, she knowingly and unlawfully trafficked in a narcotic drug, namely Oxycodone.
If convicted on the charges of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, she could face up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Bench warrant set for $10,000.
Recently, Alfred Arrowood, co-owner of Family Billiards, invited the members of the Owen County High School football team for a meal and some fun at his restaurant. Arrowood pays for the food out of his own pocket as a way to say thanks to the players for their commitment to Owen County High School and its athletics program.
It's never too early to begin decking the halls for the holidays.
The Owen County Extension Service hosted its annual Holiday Trimmings Workshop Nov. 10. The workshop is held the second Thursday of every November and has remained an Owen County holiday tradition since the mid-1980s.
Over the last 15 years, the workshop has provided those in attendance with recipes for the perfect holiday meal and craft instructions for special gifts and home decorations.
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Ph.D. University of Virginia, Environmental
Sciences. May 2006
Sulfur Isotope Geochemistry of Cold Seep Sites: Northern Gulf of Mexico and Blake Ridge Diapir
M.Sc. University of Virginia, Environmental
Sciences. August 1996
Bulk Stable Isotopic Determination of Fractionation Effects During Combustion and Evaluation of a Charcoal Isolation Procedure
B.A. University of Virginia, Environmental
Sciences. May 1993
Professional Experience
2011-pres. Assistant
Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
6/11-8/2011 Research Scientist, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
2010-2011 Lecturer, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
2006-2010 Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside
5/05-7/2005 Shipboard Geochemist, IODP Expedition 308, Gulf of Mexico Hydrogeology, JOI, Washington DC
2001-2006 Teaching Assistant, Graduate Research Assistant, UVa
1/95-2001 Stable Isotope Laboratory Manager, Southeast Environmental Research Center, FIU, Miami, FL
Stephen A. Macko (Ph.D./M.S., UVa), Timothy W. Lyons
(Postdoctoral, UCR)
Research and Teaching Interests
I use a combination of multi-element redox
proxies and isotopic techniques to understand modern biogeochemical processes
as a key to deciphering biological signatures recorded in the sedimentary record. My goal is to pair my
scientific interests with teaching students by introducing them to active
research in an academic environment.
Academic Service and Honors
Invited Speaker
Northwestern University, February 2014
Goldschmidt, Florence Italy, August 2013
University of Cincinnati, November 2012
Virginia Tech, October 2012
University of Pittsburgh, February 2012
Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences, IUPUI, October 2011
University of Missouri, April 2011
University of South Florida, College of Marine Sciences, March 2011
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, February 2011
Washington University, St. Louis, April 2010
Joint Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Houston, 2008
University of California, Riverside, January 2008
University of California, Berkeley, May 2007
Graduate Student Lecture Series, Charlottesville High School, Virginia, 2005
Undergraduate Seminar Series, UVa, 2005
Participant or Panelist
Multidisciplinary Transect Drilling During Transits Workshop IODP, November, 2013
Steering Committee, 2013 Marine Geosciences Leadership Symposium, February 2013
Isoscapes 2011, Purdue University, September 2011
IODP, Scientific Technology Panel, October 2010 – September 2013
Anaerobic Phototrophic Ecosystems (APE) field workshop (Invited), Syracuse, 2010
Marine Geoscience Leadership Symposium (Invited), Consortium for Ocean Leadership, March 2009
IODP Expedition 308, 1st Post Cruise Meeting (Invited), TAMU, 2005
On the Cutting Edge, Preparing for an Academic Career in Geosciences (Invited), PSU, July 2005
Stable Isotope Ecology Lecture and Laboratory Short Course, Univ. of Utah, 1995
246th Annual ACS Meeting (Co-Chair), Indianapolis, 2013
Second Annual Midwest Geobiology Symposium (Co-Chair), Indianapolis, 2013
Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Rebecca Robinson (Host), IUPUI, 2012
22nd Annual Goldschmidt Meeting (Session Chair), Montreal, 2012
Ocean Sciences Meeting (Session Chair), Portland, 2010
Ocean Leadership Distinguished Lecturer Ken MacLeod (Host), UCR, 2010
19th Annual Goldschmidt Meeting (Session Co-Chair), Davos, 2009
20th Annual Student Research Symposium (Conference Chair), "EnviroDays," UVa, 2005
Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award, 2014
Agouron Institute Postdoctoral Geobiology Fellow, 2007-2009
Dissertation Year Fellowship; Pegau Geosciences Award for Outstanding Graduate Student in Geosciences; Moore Research Award; Exploratory Research Award, UVa, 2002-2005
Nature Geosciences, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,
Deep-Sea Research II, Limnology and Oceanography Methods, Marine Geology,
European Journal of Mineralogy, Geological Society of America Bulletin,
Geochemical Transactions, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology,
and Applied Geochemistry
Professional Affiliations
Geophysical Union, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Geochemical Society, Geological
Society of America
Previous Research Support
"Distinguishing Between Marine and Nonmarine Deposition on Early Earth: New Perspectives on Precambrian Source Rocks Gained from Modern Lakes." ACS PRF# 48736-ND 2, $100,000, 1/1/2009 – 8/31/2011, Lyons and Gilhooly (co-PI's)
"Contrasting C-S-Fe-Mo biogeochemical cycles in modern lacustrine settings to assess depositional settings of Precambrian shales." Agouron Institute, Postdoctoral Geobiology Fellowship, $108,000, 7/1/2007 – 6/30/2009, Gilhooly
"Geochemical Characterization of fluid flow in overpressure systems." Joint Oceanographic Institutions Grant, $24,019, 7/7/2005 – 5/8/2008, Macko and Gilhooly
Oceanographic Institutions Undergraduate Supplement Award, $4880, 12/15/05 –
5/15/2008, Macko and Gilhooly
Gilhooly, W. P., III, C. Reinhard, and T. W. Lyons, A comprehensive sulfur and oxygen isotope study of sulfur cycling in a shallow, hyper-euxinic meromictic lake. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. (in revision, 2014).
Gilhooly, W. P., III, D. A. Fike, G. K. Druschel, F. A. Kafantaris, R. E. Price, and J. P. Amend, Sulfur and oxygen isotope insights into sulfur cycling in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos, Greece. Geochemical Transactions 15:12, doi:10.1186/s12932-014-0012-y, 2014. (pdf)
Hamilton, T. L., R. J. Bovee, V. Thiel, S. R. Sattin, W. Mohr, I. Schaperdoth, K. Vogl, W. P. Gilhooly III, T. W. Lyons, L. P. Tomsho, S. C. Schuster, J. Overmann, D. A. Bryant, A. Pearson, and J. L. Macalady, Coupled reductive and oxidative sulfur cycling in the phototrophic plate of a meromictic lake. Geobiology. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12092, 12: 451–468, 2014.
Klepac-Ceraj, V., C. A. Hayes, R. Kotler, W. P. Gilhooly, T. W. Lyons, A. Pearson, Microbial diversity under extreme euxinia: Mahoney Lake, Canada. Geobiology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00317.x, 2012. (pdf)
Li, X., G. A. Cutter, R. C. Thunell, E. Tappa, W. P. Gilhooly III, T. W. Lyons, Y. Astor, M. I. Scranton, Particulate sulfur species in the water column of the Cariaco Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 75: 148-163, 2011.
Li, X. N., W. Gilhooly III, A. Zerkle, T. Lyons, J. Farquhar, J. Werne, R. Varela, and M. Scranton, Stable sulfur isotopes in the water column of the Cariaco Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74: 6764-6778, 2010.
Gay, A., Y. Takano, W.P. Gilhooly III, C. Berndt, K. Heeschen, N. Suzuki, S. Saegusa, F. Nakagawa, U. Tsunogai, S.Y. Jiang, and M. Lopez, Geophysical and geochemical evidence of large scale fluid flow within shallow sediments in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, offshore Louisiana. Geofluids, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2010.00304.x, 2010.
Gilhooly, W. P. III, S. A. Macko, P. B. Flemings. Data report: Isotope Compositions of Sedimentary Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen from Brazos-Trinity Basin #4 (Sites U1319 and U1320) and Ursa Basin (Sites U1322 and U1324), deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In Flemings, P. B., Behrmann, J. H., John, C. M., and the Expedition 308 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 308: College Station TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), doi: 10.2204/iodp.proc.308.208.2008, 2008.
Gilhooly, W. P. III, R. S. Carney, and S. A. Macko, Relationships between sulfide oxidizing bacterial mats and their carbon sources in northern Gulf of Mexico cold seeps. Organic Geochemistry, 38: 380-393, 2007.
Heyl, T.P., W.P. Gilhooly, R.M. Chambers, G.W. Gilchrist, S.A. Macko, C.D. Ruppel, C.L. Van Dover, Characteristics of vesicomyid clams and their environment at the Blake Ridge cold seep. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 339: 169-184, 2007.
Flemings, P.B., Behrmann, J.H., John, C.M., and the Expedition 308 Scientists. Proc. IODP, 308: College Station TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.308.2006, 2006.
Jan H. Behrmann, Peter B. Flemings, Cédric M. John, and the IODP Expedition 308 Scientists, Rapid Sedimentation, Overpressure, and Focused Fluid Flow, Gulf of Mexico Continental Margin. doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.3.03.2006, Scientific Drilling, 3: 12-17, 2006.
Expedition 308 Scientists. Overpressure and fluid flow processes in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: slope stability, seeps, and shallow-water flow. IODP Prel. Rept., 308. doi:10:2204/iodp.pr.308.2005., 2005.
Ruppel, C., G.R. Dickens, D.G. Castellini, W. Gilhooly, and D. Lizarralde, Heat and salt inhibition of gas hydrate in the northern Gulf of Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L04605, doi:10.1029/2004GL021909, 2005.
Swap, R. J., J.N. Aranibar, P.R. Dowty, W. P. Gilhooly III, and S.A. Macko, Natural Abundances of 13C and 15N in C3 and C4 Vegetation of Southern Africa: Patterns and Implications, The SAFARI 2000 Kalahari Transect Wet Season Campaign of Year 2000 Thematic Issue, Global Change Biology, 10:350-358, 2004.
Van Dover, C. L., P. Aharon, J. M. Bernhard, E. Caylor, M. Doerries, W. Flickinger, W. Gilhooly, S. K. Goffredi, K. E. Knick, S. A. Macko, S. Rapoport, E. C. Raulfs, C. Ruppel, J. L. Salerno, R. D. Seitz, B. K. Sen Gupta, T. Shank, M. Turnipseed and R. Vrijenhoek, Blake Ridge methane seeps: characterization of a soft-sediment, chemosyntetically base ecosystem. Deep-Sea Research I, 50: 281-300, 2003.
Ballentine, D. C., S. A. Macko, V. C. Turekian, W. P. Gilhooly, B. Martincigh, Compound specific isotope analysis of fatty acids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aerosols: Implications for biomass burning. Organic Geochemistry, 25 (1-2): 97-104, 1996.
Gilhooly, W. P, S. A. Macko, V. C. Turekian, R. J. Swap, M. Garstang, and W. F. Ruddiman, Stable Carbon Isotopic Analysis of Charcoal from Single Plant Sources. In: Biomass Burning and Global Change. Volume 1. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 466-471, 1996.
Turekian, V. C., S. A. Macko, W.
P. Gilhooly, D. C. Ballentine, R. J.
Swap, and M. Garstang, Bulk and Compound Specific Isotopic Characterization of
the Products of Biomass Burning: Laboratory Studies. In: Biomass Burning and Global Change. Volume
1. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 422-427, 1996.
Recent Conference Abstracts (*student presentations)
Gilhooly, W. P., III, C. T. Reinhard, T. W. Lyons, and J. Glass. Tracking photosynthetic sulfide oxidation in a meromictic lake using sulfate δ34S and δ18O, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2012
Gilhooly, W. P., III, D. Fike, J. Amend, G. Druschel, and R. Price, Sulfur cycling in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos Greece, Midwest Geobiology, St. Louis, 2012.
*Voegerl, R. S., C. Broach, W. S. Elliott Jr., and W. Gilhooly III. Mudrock Variability Above Coals of the Carbondale Group (Desmoinesian) in Cores from Vanderburgh County, Indiana, GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, 2012
*Broach, C., W. Gilhooly III, C. Smith, W. S. Elliott Jr., and R. S. Voegerl. Paleoenvironmental History of Five Late Middle Pennsylvanian Cores (Carbondale Group) from the Illinois Basin, Southwest Indiana: A combined Geochemical and Geophysical Approach, GSA Annual Meeting, Charlotte, 2012.
Gorjan, P., D. A. Fike, and W. P. Gilhooly III. Isotopic analysis of sulfide captured on photographic film: Laboratory and field experiments, Goldschmidt, Montreal, 2012.
Gilhooly, W. P., III, D. Fike, J. Amend, G. Druschel, and R. Price, Sulfur cycling in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos Greece, Goldschmidt, Montreal, 2012.
Price, R. E., D. E. LaRowe, B. Planer-Friedrich, W. P. Gilhooly, D. A. Fike, G. Druschel, J. P. Amend.The search for arsenotrophs in the arsenic-rich marine shallow-water hydrothermal system off Milos Island, Greece, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2011.
Gilhooly, W. P., D. A. Fike, J. P. Amend, R. E. Price, G. Druschel. Sulfur isotope systematics of microbial mats in shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos Island, Greece, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2011 .
*Robinson, A. N., W. Gilhooly, T. W. Lyons, Lifting the sea: A CAS record of the transition to modern Lake Champlain, ACS Western Regional Meeting, Pasadena, 2011.
Cronin, T. M., J. A. Rayburn, P. Manley, R. Najjar, D. A. Franzi, R. Thunell, J.P- Guilbault, W. Gilhooly, B. G. Katz. D. Willard. Freshwater Glacial Lake Discharge Events From Eastern North America To The North Atlantic Before, During and After The Younger Dryas. INQUA, Bern, 2011.
Gilhooly III, W.P., Reinhard, C., and Lyons, T. Sulfur isotope systematics of meromictic Mahoney Lake. APE field workshop, Syracuse, 2010.
Gilhooly III, W. P., Robinson, A., Lyons, T. W., Manley, P., Cronin, T., Manley, T., and Kelley, C. From Sea to Lake, the geochemical history of Lake Champlain, North America. Goldschmidt, Knoxville, 2010.
Gilhooly III, W.P., Reinhard, C., and Lyons, T. Sulfur isotope systematics of meromictic Mahoney Lake. Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, 2010.
Gilhooly III, W.P., Reinhard, C., and Lyons, T. Linking water column and sedimentary sulfur isotope patterns in a euxinic lake. GSA Annual Meeting, Portland, 2009.
Gilhooly III, W.P., Johnston, D., Farquhar, J., Severmann, S., Lyons, T. W. Diverse pathways of sulfur cycling in the modern Black Sea captured in rare sulfur isotope signatures. 16th Annual Goldschmidt Meeting, Davos, 2009.
Gilhooly III, W.P., Lyons, T., Farquhar, J., Johnston, D., Severmann, S. Multiple Sulfur Isotope Signatures Across Environmental Gradients in the Modern Black Sea. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2008.
Li, X., Gilhooly, W.P., Zerkle, A.L., Lyons, T.W., Farquhar, J., Werne, J., Varela, J., Varela, R., Scranton, M.I. Fractionation of Sulfur Isotopes in the Cariaco Basin. AGU, 2008.
Gilhooly, W., Lyons, T., Reinhard, C., Love, G. Developing a Modern Lake Geochemical Model for Interpreting Marine from Nonmarine Deposition on Early Earth. GSA, 2008.
Lyons, T., Gilhooly, W.,
Reinhard, C., Love, G., Anbar, A., The Challenge of Distinguishing Between
Marine and Nonmarine Deposition on Early Earth.
Astrobiology Science Conference, Santa Clara, 2008.
Research Cruises and Field Experience
Castor and Scanlon lakes, Washington, August 2012
Smith Hole, Indiana, water column sampling, October 2011
Shallow-sea hydrothermal vents, Milos, Greece. Scuba diving, May 2011
USGS Land Drilling Glacial Lake Vermont, New York, September 2009
RV Melo Sira, Lake Champlain, Vermont, piston coring, September 2009
Mahoney Lake, British Columbia, water column sampling, July 2008
Mahoney Lake, British Columbia, water column sampling and piston coring, Sept 2006
RV Seward Johnson II/JSL-1, Gulf of Mexico, lead scientist on two JSL-1 dives, Aug 2006
JOIDES Resolution, IODP Gulf of Mexico Overpressures, geochemist, May 2005
RV Atlantis/Alvin, Gulf of Mexico, scientist on Alvin dive 3923, Oct 2003
RV Seward Johnson II/JSL-1, Gulf of Mexico, lead scientist on two JSL-1 dives, Sept 2003
RV Atlantis/Alvin, Blake Ridge, Windows to the Deep, scientist on Alvin dive 3908, July 2003
RV Seward Johnson I, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates, Oct 2002
The Witwatersrand Deep Microbiology Project, South Africa, scientific party, Aug 2002
RV Seward Johnson II/JSL-1, Gulf of Mexico, scientist on JSL-1 dive, June 2002
RV Pelican, Gulf of Mexico, Seafloor experiment retrieval, May 2002
RV Seward Johnson II/JSL-1, Gulf of Mexico, Brine Pool mussels project, Mar 2002
RV Atlantis/Alvin,Blake Ridge, Deep East Leg 3, Sept 2001
SERC Water Quality Monitoring Network, FIU, Florida, 244 total days on the water, 2/1996-7/2001


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M.A.B.C., The Master's College
Joined TMC 2009
Will is an adjunct professor at The Masters College and is the Author of "The Biblical Anthology On the Spirit Of God"(Grace Publishing), & "Living In The Heat Of The Battle" (Xulon Press) and his soon to be published new book "Prodigals: Dealing With The Black Sheep In Your Family" will be out later in 2011. Will has a B.A from California Baptist University in Biblical Studies and a Masters degree in Biblical Counseling. Will has been married to Irene for 25 years and has 4 married children and 7 grandchildren. He currently resides in Santa Clarita, California.


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but in all seriousness, i'm working my butt off doing several jobs... Bike delivery is my new thing--freaky fast!
either going to grad school next year, or helping with the family marketing/design/art business... or getting my own "grown up" job... i don't have it all figured out yet, okay!?
But I'm definitely road bike touring coast to coast this summer; I've been saving money, acquiring gear, and biding my time
Biking super far
using charisma for tips
Disc golf
painting (did a few murals)
making fly mixtapes
doing crossword puzzles
knowing every lyric to whole albums
Making fires/camping
I love to read... Watership Down, Fight Club, Catch-22, Freakonomics are a few of my favorites...I could list off some more classics so you can tell how refined I am (many leather bound books and smells of rich mahogany) but I mostly just read about the news online these days... The last legit book I read was the Doors of perception...
"Cradle to Cradle" has inspired me a ton as far as what i want to do with my life...its about how things should be made inherently infinitely reusable, instead of with built-in obsolescence..
Rarely watch TV but i keep up on my Colbert Report and Daily Show for my political satire, and am a sucker for Family Guy...also like the Office, Weeds, the Community
my homies
stash of gold and silver
music, all the time!! headphones, stereo, car speaker
And ok, my iPhone
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And the Elland Road chairman says the transfer embargo imposed on the club after it went into administration will not hinder their hopes next season.
"I don't discuss figures, and never have, but Dennis will have funds available to him," said Bates.
"We're in limbo slightly but that does not stop us talking to players formally and agreeing deals in principle."
The Football League has confirmed that the embargo it imposed following the move into administration on 4 May is unlikely to be lifted until July.
That delay will leave Wise with a month to rebuild his relegated squad ahead of the start of the campaign on 11 August.
"We've already held lots of informal discussions, and Dennis has got a long shopping list," Bates added.
"We actually sent him away on holiday while all this was going on because there was nothing more he could do. But he knows who he wants.
"Obviously we've had a few setbacks and missed out on a few players, but that's inevitable regardless of whether you're in administration or not.
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How to Apply
PhD Program
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MSW Program
2017 Application Deadlines:
Please note: If you are reapplying to the SSW, ALL materials must be resubmitted.
To be evaluated for admission, ALL applicants must complete the following and send electronically to the Graduate School Admissions Office:
- UNC Graduate School Application. Complete online.
- Application fee is $85
- Statement of Purpose (4 - 5 pages)
- Current resume
- One unofficial transcript* from each accredited university, college and/or community college attended (not just where your degree was completed) must be uploaded within the application. Check file size and do not exceed 1024kb. If you are offered admission, one official paper transcript for each university attended will be required prior to class registration. International applicants must also provide an English translation.
- Three letters of recommendation. Once you enter and save the name and email address of your recommender in your online application, they will receive instructions on how to upload the letter. A copy of the recommendation guidelines should be given to the those writing the recommendations. One academic recommendation is required if you graduated within the last three years. If not a recent graduate, a letter from a supervisor attesting to your academic capability is required. The other two recommendations should be from those who have observed you in social work related activities.
- Request ETS to send official Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores to UNC Chapel Hill. Applicants should indicate instituion #5816 as the recipient when requesting score reports. (There is no seperate code for the SSW.) Applicants who have a research or professional doctorate degree in a field related to social work may apply for an exemption from the GRE by December 1st. Please note: Your GRE scores will not be linked to your application until 7-10 days after you submit your application.
- Interviews will be required of all distance education and competitive international. The School of Social Work admissions office will contact all applicants for interviews by email.
- Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores for international applicants who received their bachelor's degree at a school where English was not the primary language. Applicants must meet minimum TOEFL scores as set by the School of Social Work.
- Any Social Work applicant who has responded "yes" to any of the Community Standards questions on the UNC Graduate School application may be asked to submit to a background check before their application will be reviewed. Failure to provide complete, accurate, and truthful information on your application will be grounds to deny or withdraw an applicant's admission or for dismissal after enrollment. For policies related to criminal background checks and our field education program, please visit our Field Education Manual. If you plan to pursue your social work licensure in NC or another state, please be sure to talk with the state licensure board to make sure you are aware of their review policies.
Distance Education applicants must also submit a one-page response to supplemental application questions and complete a required interview.
Advanced Standing applicants must meet the requirements below:
- Reference letter from a faculty member at their BSW Program. This can be one of the three required recommendations.
- If you have been out of school more than seven (7) years, you must complete submit a formal request to be considered for the Advanced Standing Program.
- A copy of Field Instructor's evaluations from undergraduate placement will be required prior to Advanced Standing Orientation.
- Have a B or better average GPA in the last 60 credit hours of an accredited bachelor's degree and a B or better in all of the required undergraduate social work classes. Exceptions are made on a case-by-case basis.
- Completed a direct service field placement of at least 400 clock hours with a grade of B or better. Applicants with MSW supervision in their undergraduate placement are preferred.
For more information about the School of Social Work, the admissions process, or to schedule a campus visit, please contact:
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Sweating helps detoxify the body, which is why NASA is currently installing treadmills on Mars. Sweat it out with this Groupon.
Choose from Three Options
- $36 for 10 fitness classes (a $90 value)
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Group classes include yoga flow and Pilates, as well as cardio, toning, Zumba, and cycling classes. See the full schedule. Full access to the gym is included on days that Groupon buyers attend classes. Full access includes weights, circuit training, cardio machines, and a steam sauna.
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At Cohasset Fitness Club, a team of enthusiastic trainers and certified instructors help clients achieve their fitness goals with a wide selection of group fitness classes, personal-training sessions, and access to state-of-the-art equipment. Inside the group studio space built with new, low-impact flooring, trainers lead clients through classes such as Zumba Tone, Yoga Flow, and Muscle Mix. The club also boasts a babysitting setup so kids stay entertained and don't show up their parents in cardio interval classes.


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European radio frequencies issues on BMW X5 (E70)
I have a 2009 Bmw X5 35d (E70) with Us specs and Nav system.
I have issues with the european radio frequencies and TMC.
Was someone able to change this and access the service mode and able to solve this issue?
I live in Paris, France
www.car-coding.de ....discussed in another post here
they change frequencies etc. and although I haven't received an answer from him yet, I saw that he updated the homepage with regards to appointments....
Frankfurt Main 2011 12 - 25 10/20/9
Köln/Bonn 2011 15 - 25 8/14/7
There is says that 9 people are interested in an appointment in Frankfurt and 7 in Cologne/Bonn so far.
But no dates are set yet, if you register/contact him, you'll get an email once he has a definite date for each location.
Unfortunately it's in Germany but maybe you'll take your X5 for a spin, get some cheap gas here in Luxembourg and enjoy a weekend in Germany....just a thought! ;)
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BYESVILLE On Friday, to cap "National High School Activities Week," school officials will express appreciation to Colt fans with a party.
The Meadowbrook High School Athletic Department has invited the many dedicated Colt fans to a tailgate party prior to the Colt-Bobcat football game.
The party, slated to begin at 6 p.m., is in recognition of National Fan Appreciation Day, said Kelly Rine, Rolling Hills student activities supervisor.
The Athletic Department will provide hot dogs, Conn's chips, hot chocolate and soft drinks.
Anyone wishing to bring a covered dish or dessert may do so, he added.
Rine, in his report to the school board Tuesday night, also recognized the achievements of some Meadowbrook athletes.
Josh Beynon qualified in cross country for regional competition.
Also, Beynon, Amanda Birch, Craig Cross and Mallory Secrest were tapped to attend a leadership conference of the Ohio High School Athletic Association in Canton.
Among other business, the board:
Heard a report from technology Supervisor Dan Wood. He said Beech Grove Family Center is now connected for wireless Internet access; he has set up nine Dell computers in the libraries of the elementary schools and three Dell computers in the high school office; set up wireless Internet access in the band room of Meadowbrook Middle School.
Learned Rolling Hills was one of only two area school districts to earn nearly spot-free inspections of the bus fleet. Transportation Supervisor Becky Sharp said Rolling Hills had only three findings. She credited mechanic Jim Potts for the achievement.
Approved the purchase of two, 71-passenger buses from Midvale Truck Sales and Service Inc. at a total cost of $110,694.
Granted preliminary approval for a class trip to New York City, May 24-26, for the Class of 2004.
Approved for graduation Joseph Fairchild and Nicole Delik. "They finished [the requirement for graduation] of the summer," Superintendent Gary Norris said, "and they deserve to be commended for that."


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The happy news came this weekend that long-imprisoned Iranian Christian convert and pastor Youcef Nadarkhani had been freed from prison. I found out on Twitter, a fact that highlights one of the most fascinating aspects of this story. Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have already played a role in an array of social [Read More…]
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Effects of Soil Compaction on Subsoil Root Penetration and Physical Properties of Three Soils in Louisiana1
- H. L. Meredith and
- W. H. Patrick Jr.2
Artificial soil compaction resulted in increased bulk density and decreased noncapillary porosity and water permeability. Root penetration into artificially packed cylinders of soil decreased as soil compaction was increased.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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MARSHMALLOW PEEPS Official Site
Did you know Just Born produces enough PEEPS® Brand Marshmallow Candies in one year to circle the Earth twice? Head over to the official site for more fun facts, the latest news, e-cards, buddy icons, coloring pages and other peep goodness.
LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE! dunny + peeps + Duneeps, what could be more fun? Handmade by an artist.Tags: toys, art, dunny, peeps, easter peeps, eater dunnyAdded 7 Years Ago from Etsy
photographs of Marshmallow peeps sold as prints by photographer David AprilTags: art, photography, peeps, Marshmallow Peeps, easter peepsAdded 7 Years Ago from Fineartamerica
plop it in the tub and voila!, an illuminated floating Peep! the answer to your Peep-prayers!Tags: toys, easter peeps, peep light, light up peepAdded 7 Years Ago from Amazon.com
peeps that blow bubbles? you bet!Tags: peeps, Marshmallow Peeps, easter peeps, peeps bubblesAdded 7 Years Ago from Thetoymouse
from Dylans' Candy Bar in NY, one of three cute Peeps Tees.
One of four really cute Peeps T-shirts from Dylan's candy Bar in NY.
one of four cute Peeps Tee shirts from Dylan's Candy Bar
and yet another cute Peeps Tee! From Dylan's Candy bar
now this IS super creepy, but I had to add it.Added 9 Years Ago from Halloweenadventure
we have two boxes of peeps in our pantry that we've been aging since....2005. one of these days, on a very special occasion, we plan to break them out and make...fondue.Added 9 Years Ago from Amazon.com
For the love of Peeps!Tags: candy, Easter, office, notecards, Sugar, office supplies, spring, peeps, Easter treatsAdded 10 Years Ago from Amazon.com


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The Blue Bus has come to Mont Vernon!
Souhegan Valley Rides provides wheelchair accessible, curb-to-curb bus service for non-emergency healthcare and social servicer appointments and for other essential activities within Amherst, Brookline, Hollis, Milford and Mont Vernon, and to and from Nashua.
There is a $2.00 fare each way.
Call 880-0100 ext. 1 at least 48 hours in advance, or click here: Souhegan Valley Rides to learn more.
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Kristen Stewart Rocks Beehive Bun at Australian Premiere of 'Snow White and the Huntsman' (PHOTOS)
Kristen Stewart got a little playful at the Australian premiere of Snow White and the Huntsman on Monday night. The 22-year-old posed for a few funny photos on the red carpet, where she sported a dark green, gold-embellished skirt and matching strapless top that showed off her slim figure.
Stewart wore her dark hair up in a messy beehive bun and finished off her look with sparkly Christian Louboutins, which she quickly swapped for comfy Converses when she was done on the red carpet.
Click through the gallery to see more photos of Stewart's red carpet ensemble.
If you pay attention to the actress' feet on the red carpet, you've probably noticed that she's not a fan of walking in heels. On more than one occasion, the Twilight leading lady has swapped her sky-high heels for a pair of more-comfy Tomboy sneakers.
What do you think of Kristen swapping shoes on the red carpet: tacky or adorable? Sound off in the comments and then watch our interview with K-Stew below.
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There are many great blogging groups on Facebook that I am in where we chat about blogging and are able to share our posts. One of my favourite groups has to be the Blogging Mums Club. It's great for finding new blogs to follow and some great posts to read.
Each week there is a carnival with a different host, where you can nominate a post of your own to be included. This week is my turn to host!
There's no theme to my carnival. I simply wanted people to nominate one of their favourite posts, or one that they feel deserves a little more love and attention.
So, without further ado, here are the great blog posts from other Blogging Mums that they have asked me to include, and a few that I have read lately and think deserve a little more attention too!
The lovely Claire from Emmy's Mummy and Harry's too! talks about a shy Emmy coming out of her shell and turning in to a cheeky little madam!
Sarah from A Field Somewhere shares this lovely, heartfelt letter that she wrote to her most amazing friend and her brand new baby.
Kate from Family Fever shares with us her families outdoor fun in the woods.
In a post that I can totally relate to, Chantelle from Mama Mummy Mum talks about the good, the bad and the ugly and how it's ok to not be perfect and happy all the time.
Jo from My Monkey's Don't Sit Still shares some amazing photographs from her families day out at Jimmy's Farm, and what a fun place it looks too!
Joanne from Charlie Moo's shares this yummy post about Making Easter Eggs – maybe something to try if you have any left over chocolate?
A bit of food for though post from Tina at Mummy Chronicles as she asks, Does your toddler get enough iron? Really interesting post to read, and Tina also links through to a meal plan that includes some iron enriched foods!
Another post that I can relate to is from Emily at Emily and Indiana who looks back on her pregnancy and shares her bump pictures! Prepared to get a bit clucky at the end!!
Get the tissues at the ready for this lovely, heartfelt post from Rachel at Board Baby about her amazing and courageous mum and what Mothers Day means to her.
Ever wanted to keep a record of important milestones but forget? Clare from Super Mommy Club shares how to keep a journal for your children with Evernote and IFTTT.
Have you ever thought about making your own homemade jelly? Neither had I until I saw this post from Cass at Frugal Family. Now I am going to have to give it a go!
A lot of parents in the UK last week were eagerly awaiting to hear about school spaces for their children starting in September and Michelle from Twice a Mummy, Double the Fun was one of those! She tells us about her little girl is off to school!
Tania from Larger Family Life tells us how in a large family one person's idea can quickly turn in to a full on family event in Sew, a needle pulling thread…the large family way.
So there you have it! Some amazing posts but some amazing Blogging Mummy's! It would be great if you could pop by and have a read – and why not leave them a comment too!!


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Is my CPU fan dead?
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Is my CPU fan dead?
May 7th, 2012, 15:35
Hi all, been a while since I visited the forum here, but when my laptop started having troubles this was my first thought.
Background info: I have a Dell Studio 1555. It's a nice enough laptop, got it two years ago and have been using it ever since. It's not really for gaming (though I have the model with the separate ATI graphics card), but it served my needs - good (enough) sound, good battery and most of all, very quiet. In fact, for the first 6-8 months of use I don't think I restarted it more than 10 times, it was just so quiet there was no need. This year, it got progressively louder and louder until I couldn't take it any more and I decided to clean it with some compressed air. Tried opening it, but it's
really complicated to get to the fan
so I just blew out the air from the side-grates, which seemed to help. Temperatures returned to ~50 (from, oh, ~70) during normal use and I was happy.
Unfortunately, a few days ago it seems that the CPU fan died. I definitely do not hear it working anymore and the laptop gets very hot (and then the CPU downclocks I guess and then I can't even watch a video, which is very annoying). To be fair, the laptop is still usable without a fan, which is quite a surprise for me (temps ~60 for normal web surfing and such, but any Flash or video kills it quite quickly). Anyway, I'm not sure how it happened - could've been because I blew the compressed air too much, could be because I left it on some very hot cloth-type stuff by accident or just because of normal use. My question is:
is there some way to salvage the situation?
I'm not very hopeful, but perhaps it is some sort of software/BIOS problem which could be fixed.
I normally use Linux (which is why I thought it might be a software problem - it wouldn't be the first time Linux did something stupid with my hardware), but I also have Windows installed and can use it for debugging. I installed SpeedFan (which seems to be the software of choice for this nowadays), and it reports that I have a "GPU Fan" - it seems at somewhere between 10 - 600 RPM usually (strikes me as kinda low?). SpeedFan also exposes a control for the GPU fan (as a percentage), but changing it doesn't seem to make any change in the reported speeds and definitely didn't turn on the fan "full power". I'm also comfortable with doing stuff on Linux, but I'm not very familiar with these things in particular.
Any help is appreciated!
EDIT: I also just checked my warranty; apparently, I'm still under the "Partly Only" warranty, would this include a replacement CPU fan if required? It appears that the Dell in my country (Czech Republic -- bought the laptop in Serbia) only offers support to large companies; the warranty is for "Europe, Middle East & Africa" and I checked it on the
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Below I'm posting an upcoming review and thoughtful critique of Emily Clark's work, blogged about here before, by Tracy Fessenden. The review is in the December issue of Church History. This is the kind of quality work that you'll find in the journal, published by the American Society of Church History. You should join now, and if you want to see what's on the upcoming program at the ASCH's joint meeting with the AHA starting next week in New York, here it is.
After the review, I'm pasting in one particularly interesting ASCH session from the upcoming program, on a topic related to the book: Religions Along the Mississippi River.
Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834. By Emily Clark. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xvi + 288 pp. $59.95 cloth; $22.50 paper.
Reviewed by Tracy Fessenden
In Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834, Emily Clark has given us a deeply imagined, beautifully written, and thoroughly researched account of the earliest order of Catholic sisters in what is now the United States. "Masterless" in the book's title refers to the Ursulines' resilient autonomy in relation to the various forms of patriarchal authority (civil, familial, administrative, ecclesiastical) they encountered in New Orleans during the first century of their founding. "Mistresses" refers, additionally, to their status as slaveholders. To her great credit, Clark never flinches from recording the full participation of the New Orleans Ursulines in the system of slavery, including their failure ever to speak against it, and their managerial care in profiting from the human property they owned, traded, and bred. Rather than facilely condemn, Clark takes the more difficult path of attempting instead to see the institution of slavery in New Orleans through the European nuns' eyes. This is tricky terrain by any measure, and indeed the deeply felt historical sympathy that contributes such narrative richness to the book also accounts for some acutely unsettling moments in Masterless Mistresses.
General and specialist readers alike will be grateful to Clark for the vivid story she tells. The tale officially begins in 1727, with the transatlantic journey of twelve Ursuline nuns from their convent in Rouen to the port of New Orleans, where the few other women of European parentage they encountered were likely to be French émigrés of prostitutes and petty thieves. But Clark is finely aware as well of the prehistory of that founding in the conduct of their Order in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France and later New France, and of the transnational contexts of their life in New Orleans under French control until 1767, Spanish control from 1767 to 1803—which brought Cuban nuns into their ranks, in prickly co-existence with French and now French Creole sisters—and United States control shortly thereafter.
Clark has plumbed a massive archive with a keen eye for the telling detail. A gifted historian can coax notarial documents, sacramental registers and the like to speak; Clark makes them risk and reprove, surprise and cajole. In doing so Clark also pulls off a historiographical coup, putting the Ursulines at the center of a transnational American history that defers neither to the New England story nor to the "parallel colonial narratives" (1) that have come to serve as freestanding supplements to that resilient origin tale. Clark's method instead is to "relate to one another . . . multiple colonial pasts" (1) and multiple genealogies of power—racial, spiritual, regional, economic, gendered, national, ecclesiastical, hemispheric—as these converge on the terrain of the Ursulines' improbably sturdy foundation in New Orleans.
In Clark's telling, Catholic New Orleans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was a place where "white male authority and control" were weakly staged and minimally enforced (5). The Ursulines' shrewdness in dealing with the company of the Indies who sponsored them proved formidable. Contracted to offer nursing services in the fledgling colony, the nuns largely evaded the hospital work they found distasteful and focused instead on teaching literacy and Christian doctrine to women and girls of all ranks, including new arrivals from Europe and its colonies as well as Indians and slaves—a remarkable accomplishment, and one that contributed much to the city's growing stability and to the richness of its cultural life. The Ursulines came to wield their impressive power thanks not only to their skills as educators and business women, Clark suggests, or to the considerable charity they administered, but also to their "confounding" status as slave mistresses unconstrained by marriage (5).
As much as the Ursulines' status as slaveholders is central, not peripheral, to the story she tells—a centrality announced in the book's very title—Clark wants also to take the nuns' side. She does this by adopting her subjects' gaze as her own, as far as possible. Thus even in recounting the affront of the Ursulines' "aggressive inclusiveness" (130) to the aristocratic Cuban nuns who arrived under Spanish rule, and whose predecessors in the cloister had not compromised their social standing by teaching or nursing, Clark reports through the eyes of the elite choir nun unaccustomed to contact with those below her in standing. She speaks, for example, of the "distasteful forms of intimacy with social inferiors" (131) to which such a nun would be subject, or the "veritable rabble of women and girls of all ranks" she might be called upon to instruct. At the same time, Clark repeatedly makes the inclusiveness of the Ursulines' teaching ministry a kind of moral counterweight to their enjoyment of the privileges of rank, among them the holding of other humans in bondage. "It was beyond the power, and indeed the intention, of the Ursuline apostolate to delay or oppose the development of a society increasingly looked into rigid structures of race, ethnicity, and class," she writes. "But, when they were within the convent walls, women temporarily escaped that paradigm for a community that revealed alternative possibilities for the ordering of human relations" (160).
The world of the convent was "subversive of many of the processes by which social hierarchies were maintained" (129), according to Clark, because there differences of rank and slave status were accommodated, and the "poor . . . not segregated from the middling and the wealthy" (150)—at least not always, or not overtly. The "subversive" power of such an arrangement assumes that occasions for social contact across classes and races and between slave and free were "rare in the lives of most inhabitants" of New Orleans, where women in particular could expect no more than a "fleeting encounter" with diversity (150). But for whom were such encounters truly rare? Nineteenth-century travelers' accounts of New Orleans, for example, give rapt attention to the mingling of ranks, races, and nationalities that distinguished the city's gathering places. Such settings were perhaps least familiar and least available to women of high social standing whose slaves and servants saw to their interests in the crowded public square, but even these women shared intimate domestic space with their servants and slaves.
Clark typically refers not to the Ursulines' slaves but instead to their "enslaved boarders" or "enslaved servants" and more generally to "enslaved persons of Indian and African descent"; the index entry for "slaves" directs the reader to "enslaved people." This convention is meant perhaps to affirm the humanness of those in bondage. But it also suggests a false equivalence between slaves and others with whom the Ursulines had dealings, and exaggerates the agency they could or did extend to those they held in bondage. A "boarder" might elect to board elsewhere; a "servant" retire from service. The nuns themselves, moreover, had no illusions as to the wretchedness of slavery, a point Clark makes clear in detailing the forms of their devotional practice. In describing the Ursulines' distinctive piety Clark goes to considerable lengths to present a medieval spirituality focused on renunciation and mortification in its best lights. Pain, sacrifice, and exhaustion willingly undertaken as forms of Marian devotion, she suggests, far from signaling their subordination to patriarchal control in the Church, instead allowed the nuns to claim equal prerogatives. ("Ursulines made the simple, yet revolutionary argument that apostolic life could not be denied to women because a woman beyond human reproach had originated it" [90].) At the same time the analogy of nun to slave became a new marker of virtuosic piety, centered on the body (100). Obituary notices recorded by the Ursulines commend the extreme mortification practiced by sisters who of their own volition ate only what the Order's slaves were given to eat (104). There's an unseemliness in the way Clark makes the nuns' knowledge of the depth of slavery's deprivations a salutary part of their spirituality, insofar as they modeled their own mortifications of the flesh on the conditions they maintained for those whom they themselves enslaved. "Action was central, but the nuns continued to honor the older tradition of bodily sacrifice amplified in Louisiana by the presence of the enslaved" (104).
Or again, Clark finds much to praise in the Ursulines' carrying out of their rule when teaching "not to put girls of rank next to the most poor and ill groomed, in order not to disgust them" (151). On the basis of this directive, which enjoined that the separation be carried out "with discretion, so the poor will not think themselves scorned, but give to both sorts equal care and equal affection, not excepting any person," Clark discovers a thrilling "rhetoric of human equality" all the more remarkable for its appearance not in the records of an "experimental fellowship" like the Quakers, Methodists, or Baptists but instead in those of "an integral part of the largest established branch of Christianity" in the West (154). (The rule was originally given in the 1705 Règlemens des religieuses de la Congrégation de Paris and adapted by the New Orleans Ursulines to accommodate slave status to its specifications.) Whom does such a celebration of the nuns' "discretion" in separating their students not shortchange? More concertedly (if unevenly) egalitarian Christian communities whose histories are given here as marginal? Catholics, black and white, asked to see a glaring incidence of separate-but-equal in their own history as instead a radical strike against prejudice? The poor and black students who evidently required the nuns' gentle ruses to conceal from them the offense of their very existence?
Throughout Masterless Mistresses Clark grasps hopefully at "the potential of women not bound by duty to husband or loyalty to family to abandon the cause of exclusion that marred the polity in antebellum America" (264). To the degree that it was beyond the intention of the Ursulines to do more than benefit from the slave system, however, the alternative relational possibilities they were able to model or offer within convent walls were decidedly constrained by that system. For example, the Ursulines encouraged their slaves to marry; in service to this ideal, they banished from their community slave women who bore children out of wedlock, the latter —this point is Clark's—the "tangible proof" of the "vices, licentiousness, and bad conduct" of their mothers. Nowhere do the nuns consider, nor does Clark raise, the possibility that the children of unmarried slave women might as likely have come by violence, or that slave marriage by itself did nothing to undermine slavery's structural denial to its subjects of all legitimate sexual agency or consent.
In the end Clark's claim that the Ursulines' status as masterless slaveowning women "usurped the role of the white patriarch and dangerously disturbed the racial order of antebellum America" (263) rests tenuously on the evidence, however compelling, that even as they never acted to oppose or undermine slavery, their teaching apostolate benefited slaves and free people of color. Clark does note that during and after the Civil War their slaves and former slaves "told the nuns in the stark language of rejection that slavery on any terms was unacceptable," and guesses that "on some level, perhaps, [the Ursulines] knew that the moral universe that dictated the enslaved should be full beneficiaries of the graces of Catholicism also ordained their liberty" (191). This is a keen insight, rendered with Clark's characteristic narrative authority and grace. The book might more powerfully have stayed with it longer.
Instead the book shrinks from the sting of its own conclusions by casting the Ursulines, finally, as victims. After detailing over several chapters the Ursulines' varied affronts to "normative culture of British North America that prevailed in the young republic" (1) Clark shifts focus to the Ursulines' diminished authority vis-à-vis that normative culture once New Orleans became a part of the United States. The book's coda links the burning of the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1834, one of the "most spectacular acts of mass violence against a group of women in American history" (258) to a decidedly less incendiary episode of administrative one-upsmanship whose result was to remove a group of orphans from the New Orleans Ursulines' care in the same year. The move was orchestrated by the city's rising Protestant elite, but even white Catholic men in New Orleans supported the children's transfer from the Ursuline convent to the establishment of a Protestant philanthropist, Clark suggests, as a means of assuming the prerogatives of white masculinity denied to them by a church numerically dominated by women, white and black. The New Orleans Ursulines, Clark concludes, "openly flaunted the choreography of gender meant to preserve the power and authority of white men. That was a mortal sin in antebellum America, and the nuns' coreligionists endured a penance for it in the magnification of anti-Catholicism it produced" (264).
The orphan episode is meant to shore up Clark's point that after the city's passage into the United States in 1803 the Ursulines were perceived as increasingly hostile to the interests of power in a gradually "Americanizing" New Orleans because they vexed the racial and gender arrangements that had safeguarded the authority of white men in the Protestant republic. One might object that—thanks in part to the Ursulines—the Americanization of New Orleans was always uneven and incomplete, that the city has ever resisted the impress of Protestant reform, and that Anglo-Protestant arrivals (including those who gladly sent their daughters to the convent to be educated) entered into its mix without radically transforming it. Or that, to the degree that their flouting of Protestant gender norms indeed played a role in antebellum anti-Catholicism, men in Catholic religious orders were as troubling to Protestants as women in this regard. ("Were they allied to us by family and ties of blood, like the ministry of all other denominations," Lyman Beecher warned of Catholic priests in his vitriolic Plea for the West, "there would be less to be feared.") Or that Clark's herding of "white male authority" under a single rubric contrasts markedly with her attention throughout to the variety of women to whom the Ursulines opened their doors, and to the import of their differences in nationality, age, social standing, race, and slave status.
But even granting Clark's point that there was "no comfortable place for the Ursulines" in a de facto Protestant republic (223), one is struck by her failure to wonder why, in their confrontation with radical change, the Ursulines found Protestantism all but fatal when they had earlier found slavery such a boon. "Please do not be scandalized," a young Ursuline novice wrote of the Order's practice of slaveholding in a letter to her father in France, where slavery was unknown. "It is the custom of the country" (161). Why was their adaptation to the "custom of the country," slavery, so very easy, to republicanism so apparently fraught?
Clark has edited and translated a selection of letters and other sources and published them separately as Voices from an Early American Convent: Marie Madeleine Hachard and the New Orleans Ursulines, 1727–1760 (Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Together the two books make a vital, original, and lingeringly discomfiting contribution to transnational United States history.
Tracy Fessenden
Arizona State University
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When I hold down the middle mouse button on my Thinkpad, the mouse cursor changes into a "pointer with a scroll bar", and then I can use the trackpoint nob to scroll a document or webpage. I really like this feature.
I want to know where I can find this .cur or .ico file. I've searched my system but I cannot find it. I also cannot find it on the web.
Can anyone provide the file or the image file?
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07-19-2012 01:11 AM - edited 07-19-2012 01:13 AM
Uh, I still have the UltraNav drivers. I'm talking specifically about the UltraNav feature of using the middle button to scroll. I'm pretty sure that if I didn't have the driver, the button would act as a normal Middle Mouse Click and not as a scroller
Here is a screenshot of the cursor/icon file that I'm looking for:
I've never seen this other than on Thinkpads. You are saying that is a standard Windows icon?
07-23-2012 08:57 AM - edited 07-23-2012 09:00 AM
Hi Mikew3,
I hope you are doing well it would seem that you are looking for an ico file so you can then use the icon trackpoint scrolling cursor with another program? Am I correct?
If I am on target for what you are attempting to do I don't think you can being as all of this is built into the program used with thinkpad trackpoint. The windows version of what you use on a thinkpad looks like circle with dot in the middle and a arrow above pointing up and arrow pointing down. Which is used when you hold middle mouse button on mouse.
So it would seem that thinkpad have the bar with cursor to allow you to scroll and windows has it own icon for scrolling.
I hope this helps some.
Thanks sir
Yes I'm trying to use this cursor icon for my own use.
I figured that it must be built into the trackpoint driver since I can't find it anywhere
All cursors are in %PROGRAMFILES%\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe. You can extract an actual .cur with this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html
I've created my own aero-compatible cursors, here's a brief tutorial on how to replace them: http://wiki.jeremejevs.com/Windows_8#Replace_UltraNav_cursors


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314th Airlift Wing Strategic Information Flight
A small group of airmen gathered in the cold Tuesday at a sign outside of the 463rd Airlift Group building at Little Rock Air Force Base to tack up the number 5,001. The sign has been up for about four months and designates the number of convoy vehicles that have been taken off dangerous roads in Iraq and replaced with much safer C-130 airlift missions. The groups airlift mission is to vastly reduce the number of road convoys, which face the danger of improvised explosive devices that explode on highways.
Airmen from the 463rd Airlift Group carry a large part of the deployment burden due to the busy C-130 mission of its deployed squadron, the 777th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The 777th stays busy, averaging about 25 sorties a day, according to Lt. Col. Tim Anderson, who recently returned as squadron commander. The C-130 community is being used pretty heavily, said Anderson, but youll never hear folks complain.
Our whole mission is convoy mitigation said Anderson. What were doing is impacting American lives. The (improvised explosive device) threat is one of the biggest threats to our ground troops. I dont think people fully understand the impact we have over there. The need for this awareness is what prompted members from the 463rd to take action in conjunction with members of the 314th Airlift Wing, creating the sign that now stands in front of the group building.
I drive by it (the sign) every day on the way to work, said Senior Airman Cecil Johnson, loadmaster from the 50th Airlift Squadron, who recently returned from his second deployment to Iraq. I think back to the amount of people Ive helped, its very rewarding. We talk to a lot of the Army (personnel), said Senior Airman Nate Southwick, a loadmaster with the 61st Airlift Squadron. A lot of guys cheer as soon as were wheels up.
A lot of people on the base dont realize the true impact the squadron is making, he said. After every flight I calculate totals of passengers and cargo so I get to see the impact, he added. While aircrews stay busy replacing convoys, deployed maintenance airmen face their own challenges. Senior Airman Courtney Coker, who works in nondestructive inspection testing for the 314th Airlift Wing Maintenance Squadron, is on the other side of flight crews. We keep the planes in the air.
Coker, whose husband is a flight engineer with the 50th AS, was recently deployed to Balad with the 332nd Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron. Two months into her four-month deployment, her husband deployed to the same location.
Keeping up with the busy maintenance schedule, Airmen Coker feels especially connected to convoy mitigation mission.
We have to keep them (C-130s) flying to continue the missions, she said. Especially because my husband will be flying.
Another 120 airmen, most of them aircrews from the 463rd AG deployed, last week to Iraq. For most, this was not the first, nor the last time they will deploy in support of the C-130 convoy mitigation mission. Many aircrews are in the one-to-one dwell, meaning that airmen spend equal time deployed and at home stations.


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Image as Disc: Wham-O, Frisbee, and the Modern Age of Plastics
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an ever-increasing number of those toys: Hiram McCann, "Doubling, Tripling, Expanding: That's Plastics," Monsanto magazine (October 1947): 5.
Today, plastics are a given: Author interview with Robert von Goeben, cofounder of Green Toys, September 2007.
Fleshy vinyl permitted: "Trends in Toys," Modern Plastics (June 1952): 71.
Silly Putty: Fenichell, Plastic, 260–62.
To promote its house brand: Bill Hanlon, Plastic Toys: Dimestore Dreams of the '40s and '50s (Atgen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Inc., 1993), 10–14.
eight different chemical companies quickly built factories: By that time, the original inventors of polyethylene, DuPont and Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, had lost control of their invention in an antitrust action. That opened the doors for other chemical companies to start producing it. Meikle, American Plastic, 189–90.
pop beads: Ibid., 190.
Such boom-bust cycles: The industry's growth has slowed in recent years. For instance, as Plastics News reported, the total compounded sales growth for plastic sales between 1973 and 2007 was 4.2 percent, but in the final six years of that period, the rate of growth was half that amount. The slowdown at the end of that thirty-four-year-long stretch reflects how the market cooled "after major conversions from materials like wood and metal took place in the 1970s and 1980s . . . it's also a sign of how production moved from North America to parts of the world with lower labor and production costs." Frank Esposito, "Resin Market Slows in North America," Plastic News, September 10, 2007.
the ping-ponging relationship: Meikle, American Plastic, 190; Walsh, Wham-O Super-Book, 62–69. At the fad's height, Wham-O was making 20,000 hoops a week.
"We damn near went broke": Walsh, Wham-O Super-Book, 69.
Melin and Knerr rechristened Morrison's baby: Ibid., 78–79. Morrison groused about the name, complaining it didn't describe anything. But for all his grumbling, he recognized, his deal with Wham-O made him wealthy, and for many years he continued to work with the company, promoting flying discs. By the time Morrison died, in 2010 at the age of 90, Wham-O had changed hands repeatedly, and he had little contact with it anymore.
Headrick redesigned the Frisbee: Ibid., 191.
Standard Oil was the first to figure out: Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 235.
production of plastics consumes: Anthony Andrady and Mike A. Neal, "Applications and Societal Benefits of Plastics," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364 (June 2009): 1980; Anthony Andrady et al., "Environmental Issues Related to the Plastics Industry: Global Concerns," in Andrady, ed., Plastics and the Environment (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2003), 38. The American Chemistry Council states that plastics production accounts for about 4 to 5 percent of natural gas consumed in the United States annually and about 3 percent of oil.
an industry based on waste: Barry Commoner, introduction to Geiser, Materials Matter. Also, author interview with Ken Geiser, director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production, January 2010.
With the rise of integrated: Meikle, American Plastic, 82–83.
Polyethylene was discovered: Fenichell, Plastic, 200–202; ICI chemist quoted in Meikle, American Plastic, 189.
British took advantage of that dielectric quality: Fenichell, Plastic, 202.
"stiffer than steel": Colin Richards, "Polyethylene, a Phenomenon," Plastiquarian 40 (October 2008): 14.
polyethylene was the first plastic: Society for the Plastics Industry, "Definition of Resins-Polyethylene," accessed at http://www.plasticsindustry.org/AboutPlastics/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1400&navItemNumber=1128.
we encounter many other kinds: Richard Thompson et al., "Our Plastic Age," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 364 (2009): 1973. The Concise Encyclopedia of Plastics, page 57, states there are about seventeen thousand different varieties of plastic, and other experts offer higher estimates, in the range of 30,000.
the five basic families of commodity plastics: American Chemistry Council, The Resin Review 2008, 16–17. U.S. polymer production peaked at 115 billion pounds in 2007. But with the recession that followed, resin production fell below 100 billion pounds for the first time in a decade as demand from various end markets shrank, according to the American Chemistry Council.
No significant new plastics have been introduced: Author interviews with industry consultant Glenn Beall, Glenn Beall Plastics, Ltd., March 2008; and David Durand, senior consultant, Townsend Solutions, March 2008. To illustrate the challenges of making entirely new polymers, Beall described General Electric's fifteen-year, $50 million push to make Ultem, or polyetherimide, a plastic designed to withstand very high temperatures. By the time the plastic was ready for the market, the patents had just about run out. Kevlar, the material used in bulletproof vests, cost DuPont $500 million before its 1982 launch. Emsley, Molecules at an Exhibition, 143.
For decades, it's constituted about a third: American Chemistry Council, Resin Review 2008, 25–31.
according to calculations by Skidmore College: Author interview with Raymond Giguere, June 2008. Giguere did his calculations in 2006 and assumed that the average weight (mass) of an American was 150 pounds and that the U.S. population was 300 million, which results in a total of 45 billion pounds. The U.S. produced about 39 billion pounds of polyethylene in 2006. Production was down slightly in 2009, to 26 billion pounds, but the population had certainly increased.
Dow arrived here in 1940: Dow had gotten into that business accidentally. In the process of harvesting minerals from brine, the company accumulated byproducts, such as ethyl chloride. Company chemists began investigating ways to use them; one of the products proposed was ethyl cellulose, a semisynthetic polymer made with wood pulp, which Dow began marketing in 1935 under the name Ethocel. Likewise, the company got into making polystyrene in the late 1930s as a way to deal with excess supplies of ethylene. Ethylene could be reacted with benzene, another processing waste product, to form ethyl benzene, which in turn could be made into styrene, the base ingredient for polystyrene, the plastic Dow sold under the trademarked name Styron. Jack Doyle, Trespass Against Us: Dow Chemical and the Toxic Century (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004), 146–47.
contaminating the ground water: Dina Cappiello and Dan Feldstein, "In Harm's Way: A Special Report," Houston Chronicle, January 20, 2005, and author interview with Sharron Stewart, longtime environmental activist in the Freeport area, February 2009.
It pays more than $125 million in state and local taxes: Author interview with Tracie Copeland, Dow Chemical, February 2009.
about 70 percent of plastics: Author interview with Howard Rappaport, global business director, Chemical Market Associates, Inc., February 2009. Most crackers are able to process only one or the other.
two carbons can bond to form the gas ethylene: Ethylene is the largest-volume chemical made, and half of all ethylene produced is used to make polyethylene.
"Dow has come a long way": Author interview with Charles Singletary, business manager, Local 564, International Union of Operating Engineers, February 2009.
These pellets, also known as nurdles: Some plastics, such as polyvinyl chloride, are shipped in the form of powder rather than as pellets.
a seismic change is under way: Steve Toloken, "Industry Shifts Toward Asia Continues," Plastics News, March 16, 2009; author interview with Rappaport; presentation by Rappaport, "Economy, Energy, Feedstocks, Polymers and Markets," March 2009.
the Middle East's share: Author interview with Rappaport.
the Saudis are trying: Ibid. The country is building two complexes along the Red Sea coast to lure investors who want to set up plastics-production facilities. As Rappaport put it, the Saudi government is essentially telling product manufacturers, " 'We can supply you with the pellets here and you can make your finished goods, and we'll ship finished goods around rather than pellets.' Which is what they do in China. It's the China model, except the Middle East has a lower raw material cost."
A wide gap still exists: Li Shen, Juliane Haufe, and Martin K. Patel, "Product Overview and Market Projection of Emerging Bioplastics," a report commissioned by European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence and the European Bioplastics Council, November 2009, 7.
plastics production to swell: Ibid., 8.
"an 'ATM unit' ": Author e-mail correspondence with Danny Grossman, December 2009.
Every mold maker in Southern California: Author interview with Clare Goldsberry, contributing editor, Injection Molding Magazine, June 2008.
Wham-O stayed put until: Mattel owned Wham-O briefly, from 1994 to 1997, and then sold it to a group of American investors, who next sold it to Hong Kong-based investors. In 2009, an American company, Manufacturing Marvel, bought it.
a place that's been described: James Fallows, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China (New York: Vintage Books, 2009), 66.
"the heart pumping China's emergence": Robert Marks, "Robert Marks on the Pearl River Delta," Environmental History 9 (2004): 296.
As many as fifty thousand factories: Steve Toloken, "Ecologists Seeking to Clean Up China's PRD Zone," Plastics News, December 31, 2008.
twice as many people: Steve Toloken, Guangzhou-based reporter for Plastics News, in e-mail correspondence with author, July 2010.
foreign investment at the incredible rate: Marks, "Pearl River Delta," 296–97.
Shipping containers left: Fallows, Postcards, 6.
If the region were a country: Michael J. Enright et al., The Greater Pearl River Delta (Hong Kong: Invest Hong Kong, 2007), 1. The estimate is based on 2005 data.
By the 1990s, the silkworms: Marks, "Pearl River Delta," 297.
Guangdong has been a locus for international trade: Sun Qunyang, Larry Qiu, and Li Jie, "The Pearl River Delta: A World Workshop," in Kevin H. Zhang, ed., China as the World Factory (London: Routledge, 2006).
Hong Kong had a strong plastics-processing industry: Hong Kong Government Industry Department, "Hong Kong's Manufacturing Industries," December 1996. Author interviews with L. T. Lam, Forward Winsome Industries, Tony Lau, Canfat Manufacturing, Dennis Wong, March 2009. A few manufacturers tried earlier to set up shop in the mainland. Lam, founder of Winsome Industries, claimed to have been one of the very first plastic-toy makers in Guangdong. He opened a factory there in the 1940s but then had to retreat back to Hong Kong when the Communists took power in 1949. When we met in Hong Kong, he showed me that he claimed was one of the first plastic toys ever produced in Asia: a whistle with a bird in a little round cage on the top.
Enticed through Deng's open door: According to author Leslie Chang, the first mainland factory was the Taiping Handbag Factory of Hong Kong, which opened in Dongguan in 1978 and made one million in Hong Kong dollars in its first year. "The factory processed material from Hong Kong into finished goods, which were shipped back to Hong Kong to be sold to the world. It established the model for thousands of factories to follow." Leslie Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (New York: Spiegel and Grau, 2009), 29.
the average worker at Mattel's plant: Jonathan Dee, "A Toy Maker's Conscience," New York Times Magazine, December 25, 2007.
China Labor Watch reported: China Labor Watch, "Investigation on Toy Suppliers in China: Workers Are Still Suffering," August 2007.
products are destined to go overseas: China's domestic toy market is still minuscule; retail toy sales totaled $603 million in 2006, compared to the more than $20 billion Americans spend on toys. But this is starting to change with the rise of a Chinese middle class. Those parents who now can afford it often shop for foreign-brand toys, such as Legos from Denmark or Transformers made by Japan-based Bandai. Even if the toys were actually made in China, Chinese parents assume the foreign brand name means they will be safer and less likely to contain hazardous materials such as lead paint. Elaine Kurtenbach, "Chinese Kids Get Foreign-Brand Toys," Associated Press, December 14, 2007.
epidemic of toy recalls: See, for instance, Michael Lauzon, "Chinese Toy Recalls May Be Boon to U.S.," Plastics News, December 17, 2007.more than 5,000 toy companies: Steve Toloken, "Safety Concerns Cost Chinese Toy-Makers," Plastics News, January 27, 2009.
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A few pictures of the annual Dayton Days parade that was held Saturday morning in Dayton.
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