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Environmental Quality Advisory Council To Hold Annual Public Hearing
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12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
Jan. 31, 2003
Environmental Quality Advisory Council
To Hold Annual Public Hearing
The Fairfax County Environmental Quality Advisory Council (EQAC) has scheduled a public hearing to solicit comments on the state of the environment in Fairfax County. The public hearing will be held on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Conference Rooms 2 and 3, on the lobby level of the Fairfax County Government Center, located at 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia. Originally scheduled for Dec. 11, 2002, the public hearing was postponed due to inclement weather.
The public is encouraged to attend and share views on the state of the environment and to identify any environmental issues applicable to Fairfax County. EQAC considers environmental issues including water quality, air quality, noise, hazardous materials, solid waste, stream valley protection, wildlife management, light pollution, visual pollution and the use and preservation of ecological resources.
To be placed on the speakers list or for additional information, call
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The tie of the day in the first round of the Mewies Solicitors Craven League's Wynn Cup looked to be at Oakworth, where Barrowford were the visitors.
Only eight days after the chastening experience of being slapped about by Junaid Khan, Oakworth ensured that there would be no repeat.
The Bull Holme side were asked to bat and scored 132 off 40.2 overs. Khan top-scored again but this time making only 33 as Steve Filkin took 3-27.
The reply was stunning as Jack Hainsworth (86no) and Robert Hopkinson (46no) took the Cure Hill side into round two by ten wickets in 28.2 overs.
The day's highest score came at Hepworth & Idle, where visitors Bingley Congs walloped a massive 319-3, with Neil Copping making 90 not out, Matt Roberts 80 and Tom Keighley 78 not out. The Westfield Laners replied with 169-8, with Copping taking 4-33.
Haworth made sure there was no upset when they entertained Riddlesden and restricted them to 90 all out as the Grange Road side turned out virtually a second team to fulfil the fixture.
Mick Hawkes was top-scorer with 46 as Damian Rowell and Dan Trowers both claimed 3-10. Hawkes then took two wickets before Jamie Rowell (54no) and Nick Trowers (33no) took the Bronte side to an eight-wicket victory.
David Henson (112no), Steve Wright (70) and Gareth Wright (42no) helped Wilsden plunder 241-2. Visitors Ingrow replied with 176, with Mark Price making 64 as Mudasser Riaz claimed 3-32.
Ingrow St John's made the long trip to Chatburn and came away victorious by six wickets.
The Ribble Valley side slipped to 25-6 before Andy Booth (46) and Matt Eglin (16no) brought a bit of respectability as they closed on 104, with Nadeem Safdar (4-17) and Nadeem Zaman (3-21) doing the damage. Wasim Hussain (34) top-scored as the Saints progressed.
Pendle Forest were restricted to 112 by visitors Embsay as Scott Robinson took 5-24 and Philip Binner 3-35. Then Duncan Ward (62) and Josh Robinson (40) opened with 107, where both fell. But the damage was done and soon after the Shires Lane side had won by eight wickets.
Sam Solley (54 and 3-30) was Sutton's man of the match as they overcame visitors Skipton CI by 94 runs.
Chris Williams scored 61 for the hosts as they closed on 184-4. The Sandylands side replied with 99, with T Carlisle top-scoring with 30.
Thornton made 154 at Airedale, with Kev Pollard topscoring with 55 as S Khan, Wayne Coppack and Martin Casey took three wickets apiece. The Bradford Road side were hustled out for 61, with Luke Scothern taking 4-18.
First Division Crossflatts overcame Third Division Cononley by four wickets at Ryshworth Park. Bryan Fremanis made 43 for the winners and Joel Granger 42 for the South Craveners.
The draw for the second round on Sunday, May 25 is: Haworth Road v Haworth, Cowling v Embsay, Gargrave v Thornton, Wilsden v Bingley Congs, Denholme v Crossflatts, Ingrow St John's v Bradley, Foulridge v Sutton, Long Lee v Oakworth

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Design submitted by Anders from Sweden.
This concept springs form Anders' interest in steampunk, hence this mechanical, planet-geared almost victorian timepiece, which can be used as a wrist or pocket watch with its removable leather strap.
The basic concept is an exclusive steampunk take on a wrist watch, with separate hour, minute, and second hands, connected by gears. The gear ratio means that the inner face has to rotate against the hour hand, constantly changing the watch's appearance. The glass is divided into two parts and also rotates.
There is also a bluetooth function that adds to the usability of the design and contrasts with the very old-school, mechanical style.


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For Immediate Release: July 18, 2012
New Ten State Alliance to Provide Quality Benchmarks and Measures of Success for Career Pathway Initiative
(Washington, D.C.) -- Ten states, in conjunction with CLASP, the Center for Law and Social Policy, are launching the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways, a national effort to create a framework of benchmarks and measures of success for career pathway initiatives. The participating states will draw upon their combined decades of experience with this promising approach to education and training.
"Career pathways are a promising solution to ensure America remains globally competitive, and that all workers—regardless of initial skill level—can have access to postsecondary credentials and economic opportunities," said Evelyn Ganzglass, Director of Workforce Development at CLASP. "Even in this sluggish economy, career pathways could help nearly 48 million workers who need better skills and wages for economic advancement."
Career pathways are a coordinated sequence of education and training services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in a given industry or occupational sector. They typically target low-skilled adults and out-of-school youth to help them earn the postsecondary credentials they need to compete for higher-skilled jobs. This approach has been gaining popularity across the country for a number of years, but until now, there has been little research on what constitutes a high quality initiative and how to best measure program successes. The Alliance will identify benchmarks that signal high-quality systems and programs.
Alliance state members Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin are national leaders in the design and implementation of career pathways. The Alliance is supported by the Joyce and James Irvine Foundations.
"The national framework produced by the Alliance for Quality Career Pathways will help existing career pathway initiatives ratchet up quality and help accelerate the development of new career pathway initiatives for individuals who need postsecondary training and credentials," said Whitney Smith, Employment Program Manager of the Joyce Foundation. "We are pleased to be supporting this groundbreaking initiative as part of our strategy to improve systems and support opportunities for lower-skilled adults to gain the skills needed to advance in their careers and obtain good-paying jobs."
"Building state and regional career pathways systems is the core of Virginia's strategic plan for workforce development under Governor Bob McDonnell's administration. This project will inform such current efforts in the Commonwealth as the production of an annual report card for Virginia's Career Pathways System and the development of legislative and administrative priorities for workforce development," said Laura Fornash, Secretary of Education for the State of Virginia.
For more information about this initiative, please visit www.clasp.org/careerpathways.
CLASP develops and advocates for policies at the federal, state and local levels that improve the lives of low-income people. Through careful research and analysis and effective advocacy, we develop and promote new ideas, mobilize others, and directly assist governments and advocates to put in place successful strategies that deliver results that matter to people across America. www.clasp.org
The Joyce Foundation supports the development of policies that both improve the quality of life for people in the Great Lakes region and serve as models for the rest of the country. We invest in and focus on today's most pressing problems while also informing the public policy decisions critical to creating opportunity and achieving long-term solutions. The work is based on sound research and is focused on where we can add the most value. We partner with others and encourage innovative and collaborative approaches with a regional focus and the potential for a national reach. www.joycefdn.org
The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation dedicated to expanding opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society. The Foundation's grantmaking focuses on three program areas: Arts, California Democracy and Youth. Since 1937 the Foundation has provided over $1 billion in grants to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations throughout California. With about $1.6 billion in assets, the Foundation made grants of $65 million in 2011 for the people of California. www.irvine.org


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Agriculture's Role in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Agriculture's Role in Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
September 2006
Keith Paustian, Colorado State University
John M. Antle, Montana State University
John Sheehan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Eldor A. Paul, Colorado State University
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Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
This Pew Center report is the fourth in our series examining key sectors, technologies, and policy options to construct the "10-50 Solution" to climate change. The idea is that we need to tackle climate change over the next fifty years, one decade at a time. This report is also a companion paper to Agriculture and Forest Lands: U.S. Carbon Policy Strategies, being published simultaneously.
Our reports on electricity, buildings, and transportation described the options available now and in the future for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from those sectors. Agriculture may be less important than those other sectors in terms of its overall contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, but it has an important role to play within a strategy to address climate change. Agriculture is important not only because of the potential to reduce its own emissions, but because of its potential to reduce net emissions from other sectors. Agriculture can take carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, out of the atmosphere and store it as carbon in plants and soils. Agriculture can also produce energy from biomass that can displace fossil fuels, the major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
Looking at options available now and in the future, this report yields the following insights for agriculture's potential role in greenhouse gas mitigation:
• If farmers widely adopt the best management techniques to store carbon, and undertake cost-effective reductions in nitrous oxide and methane, aggregate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced by 5 to 14 percent.
• With technological advances, biofuels could displace a significant fraction of fossil fuels and thereby reduce current U.S. GHG emissions by 9 to 24 percent. Using biomass to produce transportation fuels could also significantly reduce our reliance on imported petroleum.
• Further research is needed to bring down the costs of biofuels and, particularly if agriculture is to participate in a GHG cap-and-trade system, to better assess the impacts of practice changes.
• The level of reductions achieved will strongly depend on the policies adopted. Policies are needed to make it profitable for farmers to adopt climate-friendly practices, and to support needed research.
The authors and Pew Center would like to thank John Bennett, Henry Janzen, Marie Walsh, John Martin, and David Zilberman for their review of and advice on a previous draft of this report.
Executive Summary
The impact of human activities on the atmosphere and the accompanying risks of long-term global climate change are by now familiar topics to many people. Although most of the increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations is due to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels, globally about one-third of the total human-induced warming effect due to GHGs comes from agriculture and land-use change. U.S. agricultural emissions account for approximately 8 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions when weighted by their relative contribution to global warming. The agricultural sector has the potential not only to reduce these emissions but also to significantly reduce net U.S. GHG emissions from other sectors. The sector's contribution to achieving GHG reduction goals will depend on economics as well as available technology and the biological and physical capacity of soils to sequester carbon. The level of reductions achieved will, consequently, strongly depend on the policies adopted. In particular, policies are needed to provide incentives that make it profitable for farmers to adopt GHG-mitigation practices and to support needed research.
The agricultural sector can reduce its own emissions, offset emissions from other sectors by removing CO2 from the atmosphere (via photosynthesis) and storing the carbon in soils, and reduce emissions in other sectors by displacing fossil fuels with biofuels. Through adoption of agricultural best management practices, U.S. farmers can reduce emissions of nitrous oxide from agricultural soils, methane from livestock production and manure, and CO2 from on-farm energy use. Improved management practices can also increase the uptake and storage of carbon in plants and soil. Every tonne of carbon added to, and stored in, plants or soils removes 3.6 tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere. Furthermore, biomass from the agricultural sector can be used to produce biofuels, which can substitute for a portion of the fossil fuels currently used for energy.
Carbon stocks in agricultural soils are currently increasing by 12 million metric tonnes (MMT) of carbon annually. If farmers widely adopt the best management techniques now available, an estimated 70 to 220 MMT of carbon could be stored in U.S. agricultural soils annually. Together with attainable nitrous oxide and methane reductions, these mitigation options represent 5 to 14 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions. The relevant management technologies and practices can be deployed quickly and at costs that are low relative to many other GHG-reduction options. To achieve maximum results, however, policies must be put in place to promote, and make attractive to farmers, practices that increase soil carbon and efficiently use fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, and animal feeds. It is also important to ensure funding to improve the measurement and assessment methods for agricultural GHG emissions and reductions, including expansion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resource Inventory. In particular, this inventory needs to include a network of permanent sites where key management activities and soil attributes are monitored over time. Such sites would provide information vital to helping farmers select the most promising management practices in specific locations.
Profitability of management practices varies widely by region, as does the amount of carbon storage attainable. Initial national-level studies suggest that, with moderate incentives (up to $50/tonne of carbon, or $13 per tonne of CO2), up to 70 MMT of carbon per year might be stored on agricultural lands and up to 270 MMT of carbon per year might be stored through converting agricultural land to forests. Mitigation options based on storage of carbon in soils would predominate in the Midwest and Great Plains regions; whereas in the Southeast, agricultural land would tend to be converted to forestland. Information on the costs and supply of GHG reductions from reducing nitrous oxide and methane emissions are very limited, and more studies in these areas are needed.
Agriculture can also reduce GHG emissions by providing biofuels—fuels derived from biomass sources such as corn, soybeans, crop residues, trees, and grasses. Substitution of biofuels for fossil fuels has the potential to reduce U.S. GHG emissions significantly and to provide a major portion of transportation fuels. The contribution of biofuels to GHG reductions will be highly dependent on policies, fossil fuel prices, the specific fossil fuels replaced, the technologies used to convert biomass into energy, and per acre yields of energy crops. In a "best-case" scenario, where energy crops are produced on 15 percent of current U.S. agricultural land at four-times current yields, bioenergy could supply a total of 20 exajoules (EJ)—almost one-fifth of the total U.S. year-2004 demand for energy. This corresponds to a 14 to 24 percent reduction of year-2004 U.S. GHG emissions, depending on how the biomass is used. If advanced conversion technologies are not widely deployed, or if yield gains are more modest, GHG reductions would be on the order of 9 to 20 percent. For biofuels to reach their full potential in reducing GHG emissions, long-term, greatly enhanced support for fundamental research is needed.
Application of best management practices in agriculture and use of biofuels for GHG mitigation can have substantial co-benefits. Increasing the organic matter content of soils (which accompanies soil carbon storage) improves soil quality and fertility, increases water retention, and reduces erosion. More efficient use of nitrogen can reduce nutrient runoff and improve water quality in both surface and ground waters. Similarly, improving manure management to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions is beneficial to water and air quality and reduces odors. Biofuel use, particularly substituting energy crops for imported petroleum for transportation, has important energy security benefits. However, as biofuel use expands, it will be important to ensure that biomass is produced responsibly, taking both environmental and socio-economic impacts into consideration.
Although challenges remain, agriculture has much to offer in helping to reduce net GHG emissions to the atmosphere, while at the same time improving the environment and the sustainability of the agricultural sector. Further research and development will result in improved assessments of GHG contributions from agriculture, increases in agriculture's contribution to renewable energy for the nation, better ways to manage lands, and design of more efficient policies. Government policy plays an important role in making best management practices and biofuel production economically attractive, and farmers will adopt best management practices for GHG reduction only if they seem profitable. Perceived risks and availability of information and capital play important roles in perceptions of profitability. Thus, risk reduction, availability of information, and access to capital are some of the key issues that must be addressed through policies. With the right policy framework, U.S. farmers will be important partners in efforts to reduce GHG emissions while reaping multiple co-benefits.
Farmers' decisions about whether to adopt new management practices and whether to grow energy crops will ultimately determine the level of success of any agricultural sector GHG mitigation strategy. Farmers' decisions are motivated first and foremost by what they perceive to be most profitable. Thus, mitigation practices must be economically attractive to farmers. If farmers can be persuaded to adopt desired practices, the impacts on GHG emissions could be significant. It is technically feasible that 70 to 220 million metric tons (MMT) of carbon could be added to U.S. agricultural soils annually over two to three decades. This would remove 260 to 810 MMT of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere annually, offsetting 4 to 11 percent of current U.S. GHG emissions. Economic potential to store carbon varies substantially by region, and current studies suggest that at prices of $50 per tonne of carbon ($13 per tonne CO2), soil carbon increases would be limited to 70 MMT per year. If an aggressive research and development (R&D) program succeeds in substantially improving per-acre yields of energy crops and reducing costs of conversion technologies, biomass from agricultural sources could supply up to 19 percent of total current U.S. energy consumption. This would yield GHG savings on the order of 180 to 470 MMT of carbon, which is equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by 670 to 1,710 MMT CO2 per year (by substituting for fossil fuels) or 9 to 24 percent of total U.S. year-2004 GHG emissions.
Overall, studies so far indicate that agriculture is likely to be a competitive supplier of emission reductions if and when farmers are offered suitable payments. Among agricultural mitigation options, soil carbon sequestration will likely be most significant for lower carbon prices (less than $50 per tonne of carbon or $13 per tonne CO2). At higher prices, afforestation and biofuel options become increasingly more competitive.
Agricultural activities have a broad and multi-faceted impact on all three of the main GHGs—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—and policies designed to mitigate GHGs must consider impacts on all three GHGs. Globally, land use (including agriculture) accounts for about one-third of all GHG emissions due to human activities. In the United States the proportional contribution is smaller, about 8 percent of net U.S. GHG emissions. A variety of agricultural sources contribute to these emissions, including fossil fuel consumption in agricultural production; oxidation of soil organic matter and attendant CO2 releases; nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertilizer, manure, and plant residues; and methane emissions from ruminant animals, animal wastes, and flooded rice.
However, agriculture as a sector is unique in that it can function as a sink for both CO2 and methane, helping to reduce their concentrations in the atmosphere. In addition, agricultural production of biofuels can provide a substitute for some of the fossil fuel currently used for energy. Thus, agricultural mitigation of GHGs includes utilization of agriculture's sink capacity, reduction of agricultural emissions, and bioenergy production. Utilization of agriculture's sink capacity is primarily accomplished through increasing soil carbon stocks. Soil carbon increases, which are typically in the 0.1 to 1 tonnes per hectare per year range, could be achieved through adoption of practices such as:
• Reducing the frequency and intensity of soil tillage;
• Including more hay crops in annual rotations;
• Production of high-residue-yielding crops and reduced fallow periods;
• Improved pasture and rangeland management; and
• Conservation set-asides and restoration of degraded lands.
Although soil emissions of nitrous oxide constitute the largest GHG emissions from U.S. agriculture in terms of global warming potential, both measuring emissions and achieving large reductions will be challenging. On average, nitrous oxide emissions are roughly proportional to the amount of nitrogen added to soils, through nitrogen fertilizer, manure, and nitrogen-fixing legume crops. Since nitrogen fertilizer use is an important component of modern, high-yield agriculture, more efficient use of nitrogen inputs is the key to reduction of nitrous oxide emissions through:
• Use of soil testing to determine fertilizer requirements;
• Better timing and placement of fertilizer; and
• Use of nitrification inhibitors and controlled-release fertilizer.
Agricultural methane emissions in the United States occur largely from livestock production through enteric fermentation and during manure storage. Methane capture and use to produce energy is an almost ideal way to address emissions from manure, as it reduces methane emissions, reduces GHG emissions from fossil fuels by providing a substitute energy source, and also provides air and water quality benefits. Strategies to address emissions from enteric fermentation include: improving animal health and genetics, feed additives, and more productive grazing systems.
Storing carbon in soils, reducing nitrous oxide and methane emissions, and producing energy from animal wastes all are potential sources of income or cost reductions for farmers. Relatively few studies of the economic feasibility of agricultural soil carbon sequestration have been done to date, and studies of the economics of nitrous oxide and methane reductions are even more limited. Initial conclusions from studies of the profitability of practices that sequester carbon include:
• Geographic differences in the technical potential and cost of carbon sequestration are substantial;
• Cost considerations are likely to limit agricultural mitigation to levels well below those suggested by technical potential; and
• Strategies based on contracts that pay per tonne of carbon stored or that take into account geographic variation in environmental and economic conditions are more economically efficient (less costly) than contracts based on average conditions.
In addition to profitability strictly defined, several other factors are likely to affect farmers' willingness to participate in mitigation programs:
• Risk, particularly given the likelihood of long-term contracts for carbon sequestration and the high likelihood of changes in economic and technological conditions that can result in unforeseen costs;
• Financial constraints and access to credit when adopting new practices;
• Uncertainty about the long-term effects on crop productivity of adopting carbon sequestering practices;
• Program implementation costs, including contract and transaction costs; and
• Sociological factors, such as age and education level of farmers, farm size, and access to information.
Production of biomass energy could provide a significant opportunity for agriculture to contribute to GHG mitigation. The overall impact of agricultural biomass on GHG mitigation depends on (1) how much energy can be produced from biomass, and (2) the net (life cycle) GHG impact of biomass use for energy. Biomass is particularly well-suited to providing liquid fuel substitutes for petroleum. However, further development of advanced technologies for conversion of biomass into transportation fuels is needed to make biomass more cost-competitive with petroleum.
Current U.S. agricultural bioenegy products for transportation fuels include ethanol made from corn grain, and biodiesel. Although the efficiency of grain-based ethanol production has improved over time, fossil energy use in its production is still high (three units of fossil energy required to produce four units of ethanol energy), limiting its value as a GHG offset. Moreover, there is likely to be an upper limit on the amount of corn-grain ethanol that can be produced economically, currently estimated at 10 billion gallons per year, less than one percent of current energy demand. Biodiesel, made from oil seed crops (e.g., soybean, sunflower) is more energy efficient—about 1 unit of fossil energy to produce 3 units of biodiesel energy, but biodiesel from oil seed crops is currently 50 to 90 percent more expensive than conventional diesel.
Responsible use of agricultural residues such as corn stover or wheat straw for biofuel production could supply 2 to 6 percent of current total U.S. energy demand or 7 to 24 percent of total U.S. petroleum energy demand in the on-road transportation sector. Addressing sustainability issues (soil conservation) is important in determining the amount of residues that could be utilized. Production of energy crops such as switchgrass at current yield rates could displace perhaps an additional 3 percent of current energy supply while utilizing about 10 percent of the total U.S. agricultural area. Improvements in grass genetics could potentially boost this amount to 6 to 12 percent of current energy supply, using up to 15 percent of prime cropland. Potential bioenergy supply from corn, animal manure, CRP lands, agricultural residues, and energy crops grown on prime agricultural land could represent almost one-fifth of total year-2004 U.S. energy demand and more than 80 percent of current U.S. petroleum energy demand in the on-road transportation sector.
Designing and implementing effective agricultural mitigation strategies depends on cost-effective and reliable methods to estimate GHG fluxes and carbon stock changes. Collecting information on management activities such as tillage practices, fertilizer use, and grazing practices at some or all of the NRI locations would improve GHG inventories and assessments. Establishment of a national soil-monitoring network along with additional long-term experiments that include measurements of nitrous oxide and methane fluxes are also needed to improve GHG estimation methods and reduce uncertainty.
A single "magic bullet" solution to the problem of reducing GHG emissions from fossil energy is unlikely, and biomass can play a useful role within a diverse portfolio of GHG reduction strategies. Practices that sequester carbon can maintain and increase soil organic matter, thereby improving soil quality and fertility, increasing water-holding capacity, and reducing erosion. More efficient use of nitrogen and other farm inputs is key to reducing GHG emissions and nutrient runoff, as well as to improving water quality in both surface and ground waters. Using digesters to capture methane from animal wastes can improve air quality and reduce undesirable odors. Consequently, policies should consider not only the GHG benefits but also associated co-benefits to arrive at the most effective solutions in a comprehensive framework. Further R&D is needed to improve the assessment of agriculture's GHG contributions, to find better ways to manage lands to improve environmental quality, to design efficient policies to implement mitigation options, and to strengthen agriculture's potential to contribute to producing renewable energy. Although challenges remain, agriculture has much to offer in helping to reduce GHGs in the atmosphere while at the same time improving the environment and the sustainability of agricultural resources.
About the Authors
Keith Paustian
Colorado State University
Keith Paustian is a Professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University. He also serves on the Scientific Steering Committee for the US Carbon Cycle Science Program. Professor Paustian co-chaired the Council on Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) taskforce on agriculture, climate change, and greenhouse gases; and served as Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) volume on greenhouse gas inventory methods for agriculture, forestry and other land use.
Professor Paustian's work includes assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration for the annual US inventory, and development of accounting tools for farmers and ranchers to get credit under the US 1605B voluntary GHG reduction program. He and his colleagues have developed models for estimating GHG inventories in developing countries, models now being applied in 11 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Professor Paustian's areas of research include assessment of agricultural mitigation strategies, evaluation of environmental impacts of agricultural bioenergy production, soil organic matter dynamics, and agroecosystem ecology. Professor Paustian has written more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is currently working to develop effective mitigation strategies and better methods to measure and predict greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture.
John M. Antle
Montana State University
John M. Antle is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. He holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics from Albion College, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Montana State, he served as assistant and associate professor at the University of California, Davis; and as Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future; senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers; and member of the National Resource Council's Board on Agriculture. He was President of the American Agricultural Economics Association from 1999-2000. His current research focuses on the sustainability of agricultural systems, greenhouse gas mitigation and impacts of climate change in agriculture, and payments for ecosystem services in agriculture.
John Sheehan
Senior Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
John Sheehan holds a B.S. and an M.S. degree in chemical and biochemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh University, respectively. He has served as an analyst and project manager at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) since 1991. During his tenure at NREL, Sheehan has led research on the production and use of biodiesel and ethanol. In the past six years, Sheehan has authored groundbreaking life cycle assessments of biodiesel and ethanol technology, including a comprehensive life cycle evaluation of soybean-based biodiesel. His most recent study is an evaluation of the sustainability of use of agricultural residues as a feedstock for fuel ethanol production.
From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Sheehan led strategic planning activities for the Department of Energy's Biomass Program. In October 2005, he joined the newly formed Strategic Energy Analysis Center at NREL, where he supports the Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis within DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Eldor A. Paul
Colorado State University
Eldor Paul is currently a Senior Research Scholar at the Natural Recourses Ecology Laboratory and Professor of Soil and Crop Sciences Colorado State University. Previously he held academic positions in Canada, and at the University of California, Berkeley, and Michigan State University.
Professor Paul has written over 260 articles and books, and his research interests include the ecology of soil biota, the role of nutrients such as nitrogen in plant growth, and the dynamics of carbon and nitrogen in sustainable agriculture and global change. His studies on the sequestration of carbon and nitrogen under afforestation and the sensitivity of different soil organic matter fractions to increased temperatures have led to a better understanding of the role of soils in climate change.


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Topic: My Father, and My Best Friend
My Father passed away at 1303hrs on Oct 22nd. I have not had the courage to post for a while and during his last month in the hospital, I stayed by his side and his condition just went downhill. He was diagnosed in June of 06 followed by partial segmentectomy of liver 4/8, clear margins. At that time was so positive until October when three new "spots" appeared which were treated with RFA, then recurrence in February of this year. He was on three regimens of chemo, 1st FOLFOX, 2nd Gemzar/Erbitux (C225), then Gemzar/Avastin. CA19-9 continued to climb and I believe the cancer was somewhat controlled by the Chemo but never killed. He had a nasty reaction to Avastin, and stopped by the 3rd time which sent him into emergency on Sept 15.
My heart is broken as I sit here and write, and it is truly a horrible disease. Towards the end of his life, he maintained maximum dignity and did the best he could to fight the cancer. He fell into coma about one week before his death, the swollen ankles / bloated stomach were treated and Ascites were drained with "pig-tail." The morning of his death Doctors were able to drop his Ammonia levels via Diruetics / Syrup (diaherra) and thus he opened his eyes in the morning and we were able to say good bye. He took his last breath in peaceful sleep as his BP / SP02 / HR dropped at 1250.
I still cannot believe that he is gone and can only say that he has gone to a better place with no more suffering from endless injections (my dad hates injections). He went in peace and did not have any morphine or any pain. The Doctors truly did the best they could and I am heartbroken that I could not have done more to control this horrible disease. I feel like there are many things that my father still had to do, like go on more family vacations, spend more time with his granddaughter, play more golf, or even meet his future grandchildren, but all this has come to an end now. He has returned to heaven and I can only say that while sad, he is now in eternal peace. I know that I one day will join him and be re-united with him, but right now just feel so empty. My father was only 61.
I dedicate this message to a man that was not only my father, but a role model and my best friend. I will truly cherish my memories together with my father, and remember his as a perfect role model, hard working, totally honest, and incredibly fair all this coupled with a sense of humour. I am honored to be his son, and I know that he was a true soldier and fighter and even through the difficult times and suffering through his sickess, he maintained maximum dignity. I will truly miss him and can only wish him all the best in heaven, and look forward to the day that I will be re-united with him forever. Dad, go in peace and please watch over us and give us the support like you always have, and God bless. Miss you so much.


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Director Steven Spielberg propels viewers into a future of astounding technology and adventure in the critically-acclaimed film A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, arriving for the first time on Blu-ray April 5, 2011 from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film depicts a future world of awe-inspiring scientific advances where humans share every aspect of their lives with sophisticated companion robots called Mechas. But when an advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love, his human family isn't prepared for the consequences. So David embarks on a quest to discover the startling secret of his own identity.
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE has been digitally remastered for this release. The Blu-ray Disc boasts nearly two hours of in-depth special features including a look at the design, special effects, sound, music and acting in the film, as well as comments from Steven Spielberg about our responsibility to artificial intelligence.
A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Blu-ray
The A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital with English, English SDH, French and Spanish subtitles. Bonus features are presented in standard definition except where noted HD:
* Creating A.I.
* Acting A.I.
- A Portrait of Davido
- A Portrait of Gigolo Joe
* Designing A.I.
- A.I. : From Drawings to Sets
- Dressing A.I.
* Lighting A.I.
* The Robots of A.I.
* Special Visual Effects and Animation: ILM
- An Overview
- The Robots
- The Miniatures
- New York City Sequence
- Animating A.I.
* The Sound and Music of A.I.
* Closing: Steven Spielberg: Our Responsibility to Artificial Intelligence
* Two Theatrical Trailers (HD)
* A.I. Archives
- Storyboardso Chris Baker's Portfolio
- Production Design Portfolio
- ILM Concept Arto Portrait Gallery - Photographs by David James
- Steven Spielberg—Behind-the-Scenes Photos by David James
Street date: April 5, 2011
Pricing: $24.99 U.S.
Runtime: 145 minutes
U.S. Rating: PG-13 for some sexual content and violent images
Canadian Rating: 14A
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Vermont is poised to become the first state to require food products with genetically engineered ingredients to carry labeling. Is the Green Mountain state the first domino to fall?
I don't want to sound like some smug parent when their kid — against all manner of advice — goes ahead and does something totally dumb that results in disaster.
But I told you so.
As Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin anticipates signing the country's first bill requiring mandatory labeling of foods containing GMO ingredients, it's being viewed by many as merely the tip of the iceberg. In fact, Connecticut and Maine enacted legislation last year with "trigger clauses" that require implementation of those two states' own mandatory GMO labeling rules at a point when more states enact labeling requirements of their own.
"Vermont has fundamentally changed the landscape," Dave Murphy (no relation), founder of the Iowa-based activist group Food Democracy Now, told The Washington Post. (Murphy likes to point out that he's been called "The most crucial and politically savvy actor in the ongoing efforts to help move American agriculture into the 21st century" — I guess the 21st century doesn't include biotechnology).
H. 112, Vermont's GMO labeling bill, was pushed through the legislature by Vermont Right to Know GMOs, a coalition that included groups such as Rural Vermont, the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Vermont Public Interest Research Group and Cedar Circle Farm (an organic grower and marketer), along with a number of private-sector businesses and non-profits. Obviously, most of those groups stand to profit if consumers are encouraged to avoid "mainstream," conventional food products because they now labeled as containing genetically engineered ingredients.
So I'm less than swayed by all the cheering from activists over "the public has won the right to know what's in our food!" rhetoric, since what excites members of Vermont Right to Know GMOs isn't necessarily principles as much as profits.
But back to the iceberg analogy: Even as organic marketers get set to celebrate in Vermont — current reports have Shumlin set to sign the bill soon — anti-GMO activists elsewhere are pressuring legislatures in more than 20 states to introduce bills similar to H. 112, and various advocacy groups will continue to push ballot measures forward in three more states this election cycle.
Other states with GMO labeling bills currently pending include Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and California. The ambitions of the biotech haters are only going to be inflamed even more by their success in Vermont.
And according to The Washington Post, when Gov. Shumlin signs the bill into law, the state expects to be sued over it and is ready to fight back. "Legislators, officials and advocates are preparing for it," the newspaper reported.
Back in April, Vermont state Attorney General Bill Sorrell told Vermont Public Radio he would be "very surprised" if the state isn't sued when the bill becomes law. In fact, the Post reported that legislators were so convinced there would be a legal challenge that the bill's language included a $1.5 million legal defense fund, to be paid for with settlements won by the state.
The push for GMO labeling is only going to escalate going forward.
A tenuous tactic
If you've skimmed even a couple weeks' worth of commentaries in this space, you've probably read (or maybe deliberately skipped) a column of mine shilling for industry to initiate voluntary GE labeling. I'm all for publishing scientific papers "proving" that genetic engineering of seeds doesn't endanger public health, and I strongly disagree with the seemingly ubiquitous organic marketing strategies that demonize conventional producers on the basis of their use of GE crops or feed ingredients.
But at the end of the day, hardly anyone is going to be convinced that GMOs are safe and can be consumed without any worries on the basis of some scientific study or a magazine article or even a marketing campaign complete with high-powered ads. That tactic worked in California and Washington when voters in those states rejected ballot measures that would have mandated GMO labeling, but that was because the vote was turned into a pocketbook issue.
Nobody likes voting for anything that's going to cost them more money. Tapping that resistance may well be enough to continue defeating statewide referenda, but it won't change people's belief that genetic engineering is an ill-advised technology and that foods made with ingredients from GE crops are ultimately suspect in terms of their effects on human health.
Unless industry wins the battle over GMO safety, it will find itself endlessly fighting a rear guard action from a defensive posture.
That's no way to run a railroad. Or a ranch or a food processing business.
Nor can industry and its scientific supporters make a credible case for the safety of genetically engineered foods if at the same time its leadership is fighting on all fronts to prevent mandatory labeling on food packaging. I understand the rationale that labeling is only mandated for safety or nutritional reasons, and GMOs involve neither issue.
But that argument doesn't trump the reality of an entire industry marching in lockstep to prevent what millions of people believe to be a commonsense way to satisfy the public's need to know.
The only way to put the controversy over GMOs to rest is creating labeling that delivers the information in context, in a positive way — and is done voluntarily, without having been forced to do so by a majority of elected officials or the voters who put them in office.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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FAISON, N.C. — Growing their potatoes in the heart of the Mid-Atlantic region, North Carolina sweet potato growers remain in prime real estate to market their products as locally and regionally grown.
"Local is seeing strong demand," said Stewart Precythe, president and chief executive officer of Southern Produce Distributors Inc.
"I've traveled all over Europe. It's the same way there. They have pictures of farmers in their produce displays. Everyone wants to highlight locally grown products."
Precythe said interest in locally grown is demonstrated by North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia chain stores featuring he and his son, Kelly Precythe, in merchandising display photos.
Though the definition of local varies with the customer, Thomas Joyner, general manager of Nash Produce Co., Nashville, said he defines local as product grown within 600-700 miles.
"We consider ourselves local to the Northeast, the largest piece of the U.S. population, as opposed to going to California," he said.
"We are able to promote that a little bit. We're seeing people across the board wanting to know more about what they're buying. Our customers are speaking about it too. Some of the larger retailers are interested in buying regionally because it helps them tout the local aspects of it."
Burch Farms sees a large number of people drive to its operation to buy sweet potatoes directly from the farm versus the supermarket, said Jimmy Burch Jr., a salesman.
The state's retailers are doing a good job promoting local growers through the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, he said.
"A lot are sourcing as much as they can from their home state, wherever their distribution centers are located," Burch said.
"Once they're not available, they'll end up buying from other regions. Luckily, we have product year-round so we can keep going with them. With the transportation costs of coming from California, we should see a lot more locally grown vegetables on the East Coast."
Mixed demand
Local demand doesn't make as big a profound change on items such as sweet potatoes, said Daniel Bissett, president of Bissett Produce Co. Inc., Spring Hope.
"Sweet potatoes, we aren't as affected by the buy local push," he said.
"When I think of local, I think of the guys growing crops like broccoli, cauliflower and heirloom tomatoes. Those are crops that have a much higher per-acre return and much of that is in very small tonnages.
"Chefs in New York send crew out to fields to buy some things like red leaf lettuce. With sweet potatoes, you don't see that."
Local demand is good, said George Wooten, president of Wayne E. Bailey Produce Co., Chadbourn.
It has its limits, however, he said.
"I think you are seeing a lot of people looking for local," Wooten said.
"The thing about it is, everyone can't be local. The thing about local, the pressure retailers are putting on us to do all our food safety issues, the (Global Trade Identification Numbers) and traceability, we have all that and that may limit some of the smaller people from being able to afford to it."
Wooten said he thinks local witnesses higher demand than organic produce.
Though he said organic has its place, Wayne E. Bailey doesn't grow organic sweet potatoes but markets some from other growers.
Wayne E. Bailey used to offer organics during the late 2000s. Wooten said the category represents a limited market.
Organic demand is increasing, Joyner said.
"It has done OK, and we have been very fortunate with it," he said. "It's a good product, but it's still considered a niche. It allows Nash to broaden its product offerings and complements the bags and microwaveable product we offer."
Burch sells all its organic sweet potatoes to processors that produce organic baby food, Burch said.


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3-time Olympic beach champ Walsh has new partner
After more than a dozen years and three gold medals with Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh Jennings will be trying for a fourth Olympic beach volleyball championship with a new partner.
With May-Treanor retired, the sport's most successful partnership is breaking up and Walsh Jennings is teaming up with April Ross starting this weekend at the AVP Santa Barbara Open. Ross won the silver medal at the London Games, losing to Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor in an all-American championship match.
"It's really exciting because I think our potential to be the best team in the world," Walsh Jennings said in a telephone interview this week as she prepared for the California event. "We have all the tools. We have something special, and we know that, and I think we're both willing to go through fire."
First partnering up in 2001, Walsh Jennings and May-Treanor have won a record 104 tournaments together, including three straight Olympic gold medals in Athens, Beijing and London. May-Treanor will not be trying to make it to the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, and neither will Ross' partner from the London Games, Jennifer Kessy.
"I'm sad that Jen and I had to come to an end, while at the same time it is kind of perfect timing," Ross said. "I don't think a partner switch could have gone any better."
So far, at least.
With their recent Olympic hardware, Ross and Walsh Jennings immediately become the team to beat — at least domestically. But they concede that with little practice time together there are still many kinks to work out.
By finishing up this season together, they have a chance to be an established team when Olympic qualifying begins in 2015. And that starts on the AVP tour Saturday.
"It's our first showing, we just want to go out and play good volleyball," Walsh Jennings said. "She's just so geeked out to get better. She brings new life; everything is new with April. All of that is really fun and really refreshing. It makes me uncomfortable, but it's not a bad uncomfortable. ... . I'm just excited for the journey to start."
Walsh Jennings, who is married to fellow beach volleyball pro Casey Jennings, gave birth to their third child this spring. She said she rarely actually talks to May-Treanor much; both are so busy that they communicate with missed phone calls, text messages and on Twitter.
"But that doesn't change the love," she said. "That will be with me forever."
Instead, Walsh Jennings will find herself getting teary-eyed at an airport, thinking back to the trip she once made with her old partner.
"What's lingering is the fact that I miss Misty so much on a personal level," she said. "It's affected me at every tournament'; it's affected me on every day of every tournament. But I'm all-in with April."
Beach volleyball partnerships are sometimes compared to marriages because the players spend so much time on the road together — a trip can take them from Russia to Brazil to China — that they need to get along as well as play well together.
"It's a relationship and it's a partnership and, like with the best marriages, it's not all about work," Walsh Jennings said. "I feel like we're kind of in the honeymoon stage. It's all very fun and upbeat. We both want to please each other, which is really fun."
But Ross doesn't like the analogy.
"I don't feel like I divorced Jen," she said. "We're still great friends. It's more like adding a new friendship."
Replacing May-Treanor, either as a teammate or a friend, is not something Ross feels pressure to do.
"I think of us as a completely different team, a completely new team. And we have to find our own path," she said. "Kerri doesn't expect me to be the same type of player that Misty was. I'm just not. So I don't look at it that way. I don't think anyone going into a new partnership looks to fill the old partner's shoes. And I'm not going to try to."


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So I'm fairly new to the game, roughly been playing for 4 months. I posted a video a few weeks ago and got some excellent feedback that I'm working with concerning my form. Mainly still working on getting the nose of the disc down consistently.
So I get roughly an hour to two hours per week where I have enough free time to hit the field and do some practice throwing. Basically I've been spending my time working on the "working from the hit forward (backword?)" first drill and then adding one step. And then working on full shots so that I can adjust to the grip that I'm trying out (I played for 3 months without ever having the thumb forward).
When I'm working on full shots at this point all I'm trying to do it basically hit my target - I stand at one end of the soccer field and try and land around the goal (or in the goal) of the other end. I'm not spending anytime on shaping shots. Should I, at this stage be putting time into hyzer, anny, flip hyzer, s-curve etc? Or should I just be worried about creating something repeatable and later work on all of the shape shots.
We have two "worthwhile" courses in Tucson, one of which is fairly short but requires more touch/lines. I can get around that course in +3 to +5. The other course is substantially longer (2 holes +500 ft, 1 hole +800 ft) but is fairly wide open - that is you really need to bomb to score well which I get around in +15 to +20. During the winter the longer course is playable (it floods half the year) so my friends and I end up playing there 90% of the time, hence I've been trying to work on adding distance without thinking about shot lines.
Since working my grip moe "thumb forward" I've found that my "misses" have gone from the skied hyzerish shot to a pulled anhyzer (LHBH) and my discs that used to S-curve and mainly pulling left. I've put away my Katana and wraith and have come back to throwing mainly the valk, beast and leapord off of the tee and even going to the buzzz for many shorter holes.
I guess I've rambled on quite a bit here, what I'm really wondering is whether my practice time should be spend more on building power and then working in finesse or if I should be working the opposite or just do both at the same time. Also, can someone explain what exactly the flip hyzer shot looks like? Am I to understand that it starts hyzer and then flips anny?


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Marlins welcome back Ruggiano to lineup
JUPITER, Fla. -- Justin Ruggiano's return to the lineup gives the Marlins a much-needed power threat.
The 30-year-old strained his lower back early in Spring Training, and Saturday was his first Grapefruit League game.
Ruggiano played five innings, getting two at-bats, which both resulted in strikeouts against Adam Wainwright. The outfielder is expected to play on Monday when the Red Sox visit Roger Dean Stadium.
Ruggiano is one of the frontrunners to start in center field. Chris Coghlan and Gorkys Hernandez are other possibilities.
"I'm not even worrying about that," Ruggiano said. "I'm worried about me being at my best when Opening Day comes, and I'll let them make those decisions. I don't think anyone in here has solidified themselves enough from what they did last year. I don't think that is important."
Although he was one of the bright spots for Miami last season -- batting .313 with 13 homers in 91 games -- Ruggiano realizes he has to prove himself in the final weeks of Spring Training.
"What I did last year is not going to guarantee me anything for this year," Ruggiano said. "I'm not going to take anything for granted."
Foremost, Ruggiano is looking to stay healthy and get into playing shape.
The Marlins are looking for power bats to help protect Giancarlo Stanton in the middle of the order.
"He just needs to go out and play his game, and do what he does, and that will be enough," manager Mike Redmond said. "He gives us a guy with a little pop we can hit anywhere in that lineup, in the top part of that order. That's definitely an area that we're looking at, somebody to hit behind Stanton. He's definitely a candidate for that."
Physically, Ruggiano is ready. He is confident in his rehab program and the maintenance involved.
It's the mental side that he is adjusting to.
"Really, it's going to be me having the trust that my back is fine," the outfielder said. "If you're apprehensive to do something, because you're worried in the back of your mind that [another injury] is going to happen, then it's likely going to happen. I know my back is strong. I can do all the exercises with flying colors. That's not the issue."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter


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The forecast calls for 25-30 mph winds, possible gusts up to 50 mph, temps in the mid to upper 30s. No precipitation likely.
This might give everyone an indication of whether the Patriots can control the ball on the ground if they have to, or conversely if they can go with the vertical passing game no matter what.
I would think that 30 mph winds mean any pass over 20 yards would be a crapshoot, but who knows. It could be a night for short slants, screens, and other run-after-the-catch type patterns along with a test for Maroney and the running game.


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Nothing like a little light-hearted shiva talk for my first officially submitted question from a reader! Thanks to everyone who's visited this site so far, and keep the questions coming, funeral and otherwise!
Dear Miriam,
I am hoping your expertise in Jewish ritual and culinary prowess can help me out. Sadly, I find that as we enter these cold winter months, I'm attending a lot of shivas and Emily Post isn't cutting it. So, what does one bring to a family sitting shiva? Savory or sweet? Should it be something that is to be eaten during shiva or something that can be frozen for the family to eat in the coming weeks? Should the item be labeled? Should it include my name? And I've always been told "Jews don't bring flowers." Why?
Mystified Mourner
Dear Mystified,
You're absolutely correct that Jews mourn with food, not flowers. (For the record, I'd argue that we celebrate that way, too. I've had a number of recent conversations with brides who are infinitely more concerned with the quality of the food served at their weddings than the height of the centerpieces. But I digress.)
When going to a shiva house, the mourners' needs are tantamount. According to tradition, visitors aren't supposed to initiate conversation with the mourners; if the mourners want to talk to you, that's up to them. This idea carries over into food as well. Even if you think it would be nice to see your platter available for other guests, think about what will be most useful to the family. There are usually enough sweets, but casseroles, lasagnas, soups and stews are substantial and comforting and can be eaten right away but also frozen for later. That being said, if there's a particular cake that you make that you know the family really likes, don't hesitate to make it for them, or, if all you have time for is to buy something, some non-perishable candies or dried fruit and nuts are also a good option.
I recommend labeling whatever you bring with your name, as well as an ingredient list and directions for reheating. To make things easy on the family, bring your food in a disposable container, so they won't have to hunt you down to return your dish. If you're specifically suggesting they eat it after shiva is over, consider portioning the soup into smaller freezable containers or wrapping individual portions of lasagna in foil. By the way, these guidelines go for when you bring food to a family with a new baby or an illness in the family, too.
When my daughter was a couple weeks old, I froze a casserole, lovingly made by some friends, before cutting it, and then I spent a long, difficult 10 minutes chipping away at the frozen thing with a knife so I wouldn't have to defrost the whole thing. You're bringing food to people who aren't thinking straight, so you can help out by doing the thinking for them.
As for why no flowers, there are, as with so many Jewish questions, many answers. My answer is that flowers became a Christian custom, and so, in turn, became a non-Jewish custom. I knew there were more explanations, though, and when I have such a question, there are typically two places I turn. The first is myjewishlearning.com, a wonderful website and source for information about almost any Jewish topic. They answer this and other questions about funerals here. The second is my dad, a wonderful person and source for information about almost any Jewish topic. He answered this question via email with a variety of answers: "Funerals shouldn't be ostentatious, no distinction should be made between rich people and poor, we shouldn't kill living things to honor the dead, we should make donations to charitable causes rather than buying flowers, and others. No one knows for sure why the custom exists, so we invent reasons, all of which have valuable aspects." He might have also said something about an odor at funerals in ages past, but we'll leave questions about covering up smells for another post.
Finally, going to a shiva house and comforting mourners is an important mitzvah however you choose to do it, so even with all these guidelines, your presence is the most valuable commodity. And if you're still confused about how to proceed, find a friend or non-immediate family member and ask what the mourners need that you can provide.
Be well,


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Press Pass: DorothyBy Nicole Rudick
In 2010, Danielle Dutton founded Dorothy, a publishing project, with the aim of producing books that appeal both to fiction readers and to poetry fans. Her own writing—she is the author of two novels, Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L—likewise embraces the slipperiness of not quite being one or the other. The covers she designed for Dalkey Archive, meanwhile, were often as minimal and tonal as the writing within. Who better, then, to shepherd formally unconventional, handsomely made little books into being? On the occasion of her third year of books—she produces a pair each year—I spoke with Dutton by phone about her one-woman operation.
How would you describe the aesthetic of the press?
Part of the idea of starting the press was that I felt that I was in two different camps. In working at Dalkey, I felt tapped into American literary fiction and translation. At the same time, my own writing was more small press, experimental, and I felt that, much of the time, there is little crossover between those two communities. The idea, then, was to publish two books each year that are aesthetically different, in order to try to develop a crossover readership.
The fiction community that my own writing was coming out of at the beginning was really loose and close to poetry, and it seemed like that there was no cross-reading going on. So I published Renee Gladman, who started as a poet. The other book I published that first year was a novel by Barbara Comyns that was out-of-print. I offered those two books together at a special discount to encourage people to buy both when they come looking for just one—to get Renee Gladman's book into the hands of Barbara Comyns's readers and vice versa. So the aesthetic is open, but it's all work that is risking something, that is adventurous aesthetically or structurally.


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I knew the 2013 BMW 640i Gran Coupe was going to treat me right when I found that one of the seat adjustment buttons activated a massage feature. That the metal speaker grilles were inscribed with Bang & Olufsen told me, as did the acoustic lens rising from the middle of the dashboard, the stereo would make beautiful music. And BMW Apps, buried under a few menus, added the novelty of reading out my Facebook and Twitter feeds while cruising down the highway.
In subsequent days driving this new 6-series, I would find many other amenities that make this car a high-tech powerhouse, an excellent example of well-engineered features from wheels to windshield.
As a four-door version of the 6-series coupe, I was prepared to be dismissive, hewing to the definition of a coupe as only having two doors. BMW's clever use of the word "Gran" in front of "Coupe" gives some cover, but the real justification comes from looking at the thing. Its sleek, long and low body oozes a combination of sports car flair and big German cruiser. The rear doors do nothing to compromise the design, and the rear seats are more than adequate.
I did have faith that the Gran Coupe, with its 640i designation, could do quite well without a V-8, relying instead on BMW's 3-liter inline six-cylinder, assisted by a twin-scroll turbocharger. The coming of peak oil might dictate lower displacement, but BMW manages to crank 320 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque out of this engine, the turbo, direct injection, and some very clever valve engineering all extracting more power from every ounce of gasoline than ever before.
That faith was rewarded when, with every sport setting in the 640i Gran Coupe that could be activated online, I mashed the gas pedal and got a combination of satisfying push and lightly growling engine sound. Sure the V-8 in the 650i is going to turn in a better zero to 60 mph time, but BMW's stated time of 5.4 seconds for the run is more than adequate.
BMW builds a number of technologies into the car under the rubric of Efficient Dynamics, which includes regenerative braking, a trick borrowed from hybrid cars. There is no electric drive system in the car, but using braking energy to help keep the battery charged means less load on the generator. It also helps the car with its idle-stop feature, which turned off the engine when I was stopped at traffic lights.
Idle stop can be annoying, but I did not find it intrusive in the 640i Gran Coupe. The engine is relatively small, so the car does not shudder much when it starts up. Taking into account that releasing the brake pedal makes the engine start, I learned to anticipate the green light, making for no hesitation when I was ready to go. And I was impressed that even with the engine off, the stereo was still blasting away and the air conditioning blowing frigid air into the cabin.
As in other new BMW models, the 640i Gran Coupe's console hosts a rocker switch that let me switch among different drive modes, all the way from Sport Plus to Eco Pro, with stops at Sport, Comfort, and Comfort Plus along the way. The difference between the Sport and Comfort dichotomy in the car involves either an aggressive or laggard throttle response, along with changes in the rigidity of the suspension. Eco Pro throws in dialed-down air conditioning to reduce fuel usage.
Efficient Dynamics, which also includes the eight-speed automatic transmission, gives the 640i Gran Coupe an EPA fuel economy of 20 mpg city and 30 mpg highway, impressive numbers for a big German cruiser. In my combination of driving city streets, high-speed freeways, and taking fast curves on mountain roads, the car came in at the lower end of its fuel economy range, with 21.4 mpg.
The adaptive suspension did wonders for the performance, taking the car from comfortable highway luxury box to down-and-dirty street fighter. All of BMW's legendary handling is present in the 640i Gran Coupe despite its 16.5-foot length and over 3,800 pounds of mass. BMW seems to have shaved off some weight, though, as the doors felt very light when I opened them.
And the car felt like a lightweight sports car as I hoisted it through a set of tight turns. The wheel has that neutral response when turning into the corner that BMWs are known for. Excellent grip and the active dampers kept the back end from sliding out, although the Sports Plus setting dials down the traction control so that a little more lateral g-force would result in more rotation. The power, although not as huge as in the V-8, was on tap for the turn exits.
The 640i Gran Coupe's engine felt like it could run all day at 7,000 rpm. The Sport setting for the automatic transmission was willing to keep the revs high, and acted appropriately by downshifting as I jammed the brakes before going into a turn. Going to manual shift mode with the paddle shifters, I was pleased to find that the shifts were quick and responsive. BMW fits this car with one of the best automatic transmissions I have used.


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I'm looking at Snp 4.11 (aka KN 5.49 or PTS: Sn 862-877) which has the word pahūtā in varying compounds. It seems to be translated as "arising" but I'm having a hard time figuring out why (other than that it makes sense from context). Is it some form of "hoti" or "bhavati" or some other "bhu" word? If so, how does it get formed?
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(CNN) -- A winter storm has halted operations at some airports in the Northeast, and thousands of flights have been canceled.
No flights will operate at Reagan Washington National or Dulles International airports on Wednesday, according to Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority spokeswoman Tara Hamilton.
Travelers are urged to check with their airlines for flight status updates and rebooking policies. Most airlines will waive change fees for travel in and out of areas affected by the weather system.
Crews at the Washington airports continue to work on clearing runways.
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Demond Vaughan was supposed to fly from New York to Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, but his flight was canceled.
"Right now, I'm upset. Our plans were to go to a wedding, a Valentine's wedding. ... If we don't go today, the lady said we won't have another flight until Monday. That's going to be terrible for us," Vaughan said.
New York metro area airports were operational Wednesday afternoon, but airlines canceled most flights in and out of LaGuardia, Newark Liberty International and John F. Kennedy International airports.
Operations will continue for as long as crews can keep the runways clear, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
JetBlue Airways canceled all flights in and out of New York airports Wednesday, according to spokesperson Mateo Lleras.
Most airlines canceled Wednesday flights in and out of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, according to the airport's Web site. Some airlines have canceled flights through Thursday morning.
Delta Air Lines has temporarily ceased flights in and out of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the majority of flights are canceled in and out of New York and Boston, Massachusetts, Delta spokesman Anthony Black said. The airline has canceled 900 Wednesday flights.
United Airlines canceled about 600 Wednesday flights, according to spokeswoman Sarah Massier. More than 1,000 flights on US Airways and its affiliate US Airways Express have been canceled, according to the airline.
Continental Airlines canceled 850 flights Wednesday, including all flights at the airline's Newark hub, according airline spokesperson Macky Osorio.
American Airlines and American Eagle canceled about 500 flights Wednesday, according to spokesman Tim Smith. The airline's operations in the Washington area have been suspended through noon ET Thursday. American's operations in Philadelphia have ground to a halt and are expected to resume Thursday morning.


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True, celebrities aren't always known for saying the smartest things. But this year, eight female stars made big statements that really hit home.
Whether it was Jennifer Lawrence and Miranda Lambert embracing a healthier weight, Miley Cyrus remaining true to herself or Sandra Bullock savoring life's little moments, we found their quotes quite inspiring – and when we shared them on Instagram, you loved them, too!
So take a look back at the wise words we received from these leading ladies in 2013, and be sure to think about them in the new year when your life needs a bit of a boost.
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KINGSTON, N.Y. -- Connor Polacco scored the winning goal 2:46 into overtime, as Kingston advanced to the Section 9, Class A boys lacrosse semifinals with a 7-6 victory over Pine Bush on Wednesday at Dietz Stadium.
Polacco beat Pine Bush goalie Joe Schof with a low to high shot from 12 yards out to clinch the game for the No. 4 seed (12-4) Tigers, who travel to face top seed and defending sectional champ Minisink Valley and Section 9 scoring leader Jake Levins (49 goals, 23 assists) on Friday at 4 p.m.
"It was a great high school game," Kingston coach Bob Cappelletti said. "We've played Pine Bush three straight times and they've all been one-goal games. They have a class group and both sides respect each other."
Hunter Niles and Polacco had two goals, while Brian Loughlin, Connor Kovacs and Liam Regan also scored and Dante DeCicco made 16 saves in the contest for Kingston.
James Keeley had a hat trick, while Adam Sawitsky scored twice and Kyle McNamara tallied once for the fifth-seeded (10-6) Bushmen. Schof finished with 15 saves.
In the other semifinal, Third-seeded Warwick (13-4) plays 5:30 p.m. Friday at No. 2 Valley Central (13-4). Warwick rolled past No. 6 seed Monroe-Woodbury, 16-2, in Wednesday's quarterfinals, while Valley Central ripped No. 7 seed Middletown, 19-4.
The championship is slated for 8 p.m. on May 28 at Faller Field in Middletown. Minisink defeated Valley Central, 9-6, in last year for its first-ever sectional crown.


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Six students traveled to Europe as part of a foreign exchange program. Upon reaching the airport they realized that they had mixed up the order their flights left and the details of where they were going. Although each detail is in the correct column, only one entry in each column is correctly positioned. Match the name and surname of each student, which school they are from, and which country they are visiting.
Name Surname Country School
Matt Jones France Eastside
Will Smith Germany Northside
Iris Cantrell England Sky View
Josh James Russia Southside
Sara Clark Italy Westside
Tiara Recko Spain Central
1) France is three places above Central
2) Smith is somewhere above Recko and 2 places above the Sky View
3) Sara is 2 places below Germany
4) Clark is 1 row below both Will and Italy
5) Tiara is immediately below Sara but 3 places below Jones
6) Will is 1 row below Westside and somewhere above Iris
7) Northside is 2 rows above England
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Matt Jones Germany Southside
Josh Cantrell France Northside
Sara James Spain Eastside
Tiara Smith England Westside
Will Recko Italy Central
Iris Clark Russia Sky View
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You'll open up a world of opportunities by majoring in Spanish at Hastings College. Our small class sizes help you excel and allow you to easily pair a Spanish degree with another degree of interest - and still graduate in four years. With so many jobs and organizations being global or looking to hire graduates with a knowledge of language, Spanish is a great option!
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Running back Sean Lanoza's fourth-quarter touchdown proved to be the game-winner for the Los Altos High football team, which edged host Overfelt 17-10 Friday night.
Lanoza rushed for 66 yards in the nonleague game, 10 of which came on the TD run.
The Eagles (2-0) overcame three turnovers, two missed field goals and the absence of quarterback Lambie Lanman.
With Lanman out for what coach Trevor Pruitt described as "family reasons," receiver Patrick McColl moved from receiver to quarterback. McColl – who tossed a first-quarter touchdown pass to Victor Ruiz – "led our team to a great victory," Pruitt said.
The Eagles are scheduled to play their homecoming game 7:30 p.m. Friday against rival Mountain View at Foothill College.
After two games, Mountain View still seeks its first points of the season. The Spartans fell 48-0 at Sacred Heart Prep Saturday; they lost 45-0 to Burlingame the previous week.
Mountain View trailed 14-0 after one quarter of Saturday's game and 34-0 at halftime.
"Defense played well for the first quarter, (but) injuries caused some issues with depth," Spartans coach Shelley Smith said. "(We) really did not execute very well after the first quarter on both sides of the ball."
Mountain View committed five turnovers in total – three interceptions and two fumbles.
Pinewood kicked off its season of eight-man football with a 40-6 rout of Stuart Hall.
Girls volleyball
Mountain View dropped to 1-5 with a four-game loss at Westmont Thursday.
Elyse Fitzsimons tallied eight kills and five blocks for the Spartans; Rosa Lutz and Moira Huang added five kills each.
Los Altos split a pair of road games last week to go to 5-2. The Eagles beat Westmont in four games Sept. 10 and lost to Burlingame in four Friday.
Carmen Annevelink led Los Altos in kills both days, tallying 28 against Westmont and 16 versus Burlingame.
After sweeping Aptos to start last week, St. Francis dropped four-game matches to Bishop O'Dowd and Menlo to fall to 5-3. Taylor Poncetta notched 12 kills in the Sept. 9 win over Aptos.
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Mountain View went 2-1 at last weekend's Lincoln Tournament. The Spartans bounced back from a 10-2 opening-round loss to Pioneer by beating Santa Teresa 13-6 and Silver Creek 12-3.
In the final game, freshman Kate Atherton scored five goals on seven shots.
"(That) forced Silver Creek to double-team her, which opened things up for the rest of the team," said coach Drew Enlow, whose Spartans improved to 4-2.
The St. Francis Invitational went to the home team. The Lancers knocked off league foe Sacred Heart Prep 9-4 Saturday in the title game of the tournament.
St. Francis beat Burlingame, Mitty and Clovis West to reach the final. Senior Courtney Batcheller scored seven goals in the 12-4 semifinal win over Clovis.
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Host Menlo defeated St. Francis 10-5 Friday in nonleague action. Shawn Welch scored twice for the Lancers (0-1).
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Paced by medalist Nancy Xu, St. Francis opened the season with a 202-224 win over Menlo Sept. 11 at Shoreline Golf Links in Mountain View.


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