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Tra la la. A new year awaits. Make the most of this first weekend of 2013 by moving, learning, watching -- all in the name of fitness and health. Here are some tips to get your started.
1. Count birds. Guess how many species of birds make their home in the Trinity River region at various times during the year. Six? Eleven? Twenty-seven? Woefully low. The answer? 160! Help count them at the Trinity River Audubon Bird Count, which we found out about through an email from REI Plano.
To volunteer for the Saturday event and to get more details, please contact Sahar Sea at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 214-309-5813.
Want to read more about bird counting? Click here for the DMN story.
2. Sign up for run/walk classes that start TOMORROW! Yes, the air might be a little nippy for these, especially by the lake. But ohhhhh welllll. You won't be alone, and within a few minutes your body and your heart will be warmed.
Luke's Locker's classes start Saturday; Run On has one also that starts Saturday, plus another on Sunday. Still another began Jan. 2, but we're betting you can still sign up.
Click here for Luke's OR here for Run On. C'mon. What have you got to lose (but perhaps a little insecurity)?
3. Hike! Last I checked, the weather this weekend is supposed to be sunny and in the 50s. NOT the kind of day you want to be inside wishing you still had Christmas decorations to take down.
The Dallas Hiker site offers lots of trail info
If you want to run some trails, click here for our Best in DFW: Running Trails story.
OK, that should get you (and perhaps me) started. Happy New Year!


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Andy Murray mania: Kate, Pippa and the Beckhams join the crowds at Wimbledon
MURRAY mania is gripping the nation today as tennis star Andy bids to beat Roger Federer and become the first British man to win Wimbledon for 76 years.
The Duchess of Cambridge arrived at at Centre Court, where tickets have sold for £32,000 a pair, and so will the Beckhams and the Prime Minister.
A record 20 million TV viewers are expected to tune in to watch Murray take on six-times champion Federer in the final of the world's greatest tennis tournament this afternoon.
Nearly 31,000 fans at Wimbledon will fill every seat on Centre Court and pack Murray Mount, nervously hoping the Scot can secure a place in the history books as the first male British singles champion since Fred Perry in 1936.
The last 600 face-value Centre Court tickets went on sale yesterday via a ticket agency and were snapped up in 20 seconds. Meanwhile, websites priced pairs of seats at £16,000 per person.
A record 20 million TV viewers are expected to tune in to watch Andy Murray take on six-times Wimbledon champion Federer on Centre Court in the final of the world's greatest tennis tournament
The Duchess of Cambridge and David Cameron will be in the Royal Box for what looks set to be the tennis match of the century.
Superstar couple David and Victoria Beckham were due to arrive in Britain last night after flying in from Los Angeles to witness the British No1's bid for glory and were expected to be in the Royal Box too. A source said the former England football captain has met Murray several times and has sent him good luck messages in the past.
A spokesman for Buckingham Palace said the Queen and Prince William, though both committed to attending private engagements, will be keeping one eye on the match.
"The Queen has met Murray and seen his Wimbledon progress. She keeps up to date with the news and she'll be aware of what happens this afternoon," the spokesman said.
Federer, 30, and Murray, 25, will each be allowed 19 guest seats close to the Royal Box. The predicted TV audience is set to comfortably beat the record 17.3 million who watched the 1980 final between Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe.
Supermarkets were expecting rocketing sales of strawberries and cream, snacks and drinks for armchair fans' parties. Many more will watch in pubs and bars which are hoping for a £60million sales boost.
Tens of thousands will see the match on 22 BBC big screens set up across the country in cities including Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. In an unusual twist, however, 85,000 revellers at Scotland's T In The Park music festival in Kinross will miss out. Spoilsport organisers will not show the final and have even refused to give score updates.
A spokeswoman said: "There's no facility for us to give updates, but we hope Murray wins." Murray himself will be trying to behave as normally as possible today to keep calm ahead of the match.
After practising at Wimbledon yesterday morning with British player Oliver Golding he stayed away from the public spotlight, saying he would watch a comedy film on TV and have an early night.
Today, he said, he would have a lie-in until 9am, then have a bowl of porridge, a few yoghurts, some energy drink and relax with his PlayStation and by taking his dog Maggie May for a walk. He will stick to his routine, meaning his friend Rob Stewart will drive him to Wimbledon from his home in Oxshott, Surrey, for the biggest match of his life in a VW Polo.
In his last pre-match interview Murray said: "There's obviously going to be nerves and pressure there for sure, but I need to try to stay focused."
Ben Bullman, assistant manager of the Old Bear pub in Cobham, Surrey, served Andy's mother Judy and a friend when they came in for lunch yesterday.
He said: "I asked how Andy was and she said, 'He's feeling good going into the match'. She looked happy and confident."
Murray will scoop £1.15million in prize money if he wins and £575,000 if he loses. Bookmakers face a £5million-plus pay-out if he triumphs. The Scot is 6/4 with Ladbrokes, which makes Federer the 8/15 favourite despite Murray winning eight of their 15 previous matches.
The children of Britain's tennis greats are backing Murray to take the title.
Fred Perry's son David, 68, said his father would have been so proud of the Briton, while John Austin, son of Henry "Bunny" Austin, the last British man to make it to the final 74 years ago, said his father would have been delighted by Murray's success.
Fred died in 1995 without seeing a British successor but Alex Perry, David's son and Fred's grandson, was at Centre Court to watch Murray's semi final victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday.
From his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, David Perry said his father, whose bronze statue stands at the All England Club, would be hoping Murray claims the title. "I think he'd be thrilled that someone in a Jubilee year, an Olympic year in London, has achieved what Andy has," David said. "Dad would have said, 'It's been 75 years, it's time for somebody else to get there'." People started camping on Friday to get a place on Murray Mount today and hundreds of fans were travelling from Scotland by coach yesterday.
Wimbledon will show the match on big screens on the 4,000-capacity Mount and at the 4,000-seat Court No 2.
Fans queueing for tickets included Rebecca Simpson, 24, of Croydon, who said: "It is the biggest day in Andy's life and I want to be part of the party. My friends and I are going to make so much noise in front of the big screen that he can hear us as he plays."
Jack Walker, 27, of Carshalton, Surrey, said: "I got here at 4am. I am going to get a ground pass which will enable me to get on to Murray Mount. It is going to be a top Sunday."

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text: What does fast look like? It looks like this helmet-cam footage captured by Specialized's Mitch Ropelato, who put in a blazing run down the alleys and streets of the Mexican city of Taxco. While a downhill race on city streets may sound tame, that ain't the case here. Taxco is an old, silver-mining town that was wedged onto the side of a mountain–there is some serious steep to be had here. And dirt. And air. Pretty cool.


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While portable storage ensures convenience of storing and carrying your data from places to places, most of them are not sturdy enough. An accidental drop or bump could damage the components within and result in data loss. Well, not if you're using Transcend's new portable storage solutions.
Transcend has introduced its latest anti-shock portable storage solutions that provide military grade shock resistance—the JetFlash V70 USB flash drive, the StoreJet 18M and the StoreJet 25M portable hard drive.
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Unlike USB flash drives that are usually made of plastic or metal materials, the JetFlash V70 is constructed of durable eco-friendly silicone rubber that provides a pleasant tactile feel and makes the drive highly resistant to excessive shock, splashes and dust. Offered in 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities, the JetFlash V70 is an excellent storage tool that allows users to take their important files wherever they go.
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Transcend's 1.8-inch StoreJet 18M mini portable hard drive sports a large 120GB storage capacity, while the ever-popular StoreJet 25M-R (Red) is available in 250GB, 320GB and 500GB, and the StoreJet 25M (Black) is offered in spacious capacities of 160GB, 250GB, 320GB, 500GB and 640GB.
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Mapping Eileen's life – Chen Qing
From Shanghai Daily:
Eileen Chang to Shanghai is as Charles Dickens to London and Victor Hugo to Paris. Now a book details and maps the life of the complicated legendary female writer who penned the city's living history.
Shanghai and Eileen Chang (or Zhang Ailing º†Áà±Áé≤), the city and the legendary writer – the idea came to Chun Zi, whose real name is Li Chun, a city radio presenter and writer, when she visited one of Chang's old residences.
The idea became a book "Right Here Shanghai: A Map of the Life of Eileen Chang," recently released in an updated 166-page second edition with new photos and information. It contains more than 100 scenes of Shanghai and is a virtual map of Chang's life in the city. [Full Text]


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The paradise islands and their deadly curse Pirates Of The Caribbean : The Curse Of The Black Pearl: He�s Not Your Average Pirate
Captain Jack Sparrow is not some obnoxiously serious pirate of yesteryears, but a strangely fashionable, entertaining, drunk who speaks with a lisp and even (unintentionally) evokes laughter and mockery from his crew mates.
Captain Jack Sparrow is not some obnoxiously serious pirate of yesteryears, but a strangely fashionable, entertaining, drunk who speaks with a lisp and even (unintentionally) evokes laughter and mockery from his crew mates.
Captain Jack�s fellow pirates are atypical as well. More precisely, the pirates responsible for stealing Sparrow�s ship are humans cursed to neither live nor die � permanently stuck in limbo; when exposed to moonlight their true essence appears in skeletal form.
And these pirates are not your archetypal pirates either as rather than steal hidden treasures Captain Jack�s foe, Barbossa, wishes to return a stolen treasure to its original location.
Years ago before Barbossa seized Jack�s ship (known as the Black Pearl) the two pirates were close friends. While heading on an expedition to collect a huge pile of gold Barbossa led a mutiny against Jack on the ship, leaving him stranded on a deserted island.
Naturally, Jack was furious about being stranded, though he would later be thankful for his absence. The treasure Barbossa and his crew uncovered initiated a curse on them all; the curse, which leaves them painfully in between life and death cannot be reversed except if all the booty is returned to its rightful place.
Additionally, there more complicated catch. Another requirement for the curse�s removal is that the blood of each pirate who seized the treasure should be dropped on an individual coin and placed back into the chest.
This is not an easy task since Barbossa murdered one of the original thieves. However the blood of the thief�s descendant will suffice, which prompts the Captain�s living-dead crew to kidnap an innocent lady before discovering their true target � who is also seized.
To reclaim his ship and save innocent lives Captain Jack must work alongside authorities who, under ordinary circumstances, would prefer to behead him rather than befriend him.
�Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl� was awarded 5 Oscars and earned more than $654 million worldwide, not including home video rentals and purchases.
This movie is rated PG-13 for action/adventure violence.
Year: 2003
Runtime: 143 mins
Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Fantasy
Johnny Depp
Orlando Bloom
Keira Knightley
Geoffrey Rush
Zoe Saldana
Jonathan Pryce
Jack Davenport
Lee Arenberg
Mackenzie Crook
Directed by: Gore Verbinski


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The newly-appointed headteacher at a Barnoldswick primary school says she aims to make it outstanding.
Michelle Dodgson, who will start as headteacher at Barnoldswick CE Primary School after the Easter holidays, believes the York Street school has what it takes to reach Ofsted's top grade.
Ms Dodgson will move to the Barlick school from the headteacher position at St Saviour's Community Primary School in Bacup and met children and staff for the first time earlier this month at an Easter Blessing service at Holy Trinity Church in Barnoldswick.
Acting headteacher Rebecca Moulden will become the permanent deputy headteacher.
Barnoldswick CE Primary will move to its new location in time for the new school year in September behind the West Craven Sports Centre off Kelbrook Road.
At its last Ofsted inspection in September 2011, church school was rated as good with outstanding elements, but Ms Dodgson believes the new location will provide the perfect opportunity for the school to achieve its full potential.
Ms Dodgson said: "I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to be an exciting new chapter for me working with all the children, meeting all the parents and working with the school.
"There are four new teachers starting in September and I want to develop the staff and develop the church side of the school.
"We are working towards becoming an outstanding school.
"The new facilities are fantastic and there is just so much space. It's going to be amazing."
An open day at the new building is planned for September so parents and children can meet the new headteacher and staff familiarise themselves with the new school.


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Car won from casino still undelivered
Woman claims she was taxed $134,000 for Aston Martin she never got
Don Bauder 3 p.m., Nov. 23
The set's authentic. That's because Coffee Shop Chronicles takes place at the Big Kitchen in South Park, where Judy "the Beauty on Duty" Forman has reigned benevolently for decades, and where San Diego's famous comediennes - Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Mo Gaffney, and others - worked to support their art (which I still think could make for a wonderful TV series).
Chronicles is a work-in-progress: a menu of short plays in a cafe setting, served with coffee, tea, and savory, vow-breaking desserts.
Like the Car Plays at La Jolla Playhouse, each one-act runs around 10 minutes. That's no time at all to introduce the situation, create characters and conflict, turn the piece into a surprising but artistically logical direction, and conclude. In 10 minutes. Badda, like, bing!
Since the actors are never more than eight or ten feet away from the audience, there's a premise inside the premise: if you could overhear conversations in a cafe, be a fly on the wall or whip cream melting on that to-die-for hot fudge sundae, what would they be about?
Not what you'd expect.
In Soroya Rowley's "Witch Cafe," Willow and Rhiannon sit silently. When they begin to talk, Willow can only move her mouth. Older sister Rhiannon cast a "body control spell" on her. One flick of the fingers, mummified. Can Willow, motion-deprived, turn the tables - er, table?
Kevin Six's very funny "Between Heaven and Hell" pits Josh (i.e. God) against Stan (short for Satan) in their ongoing contest about free will versus determinism ("the devil made me do it"). They bicker and fume, but aren't the only deities in the coffee shop.
Teresa Beckwith's "Message Send Failure": two women have a, rare these days, face-to-face chat, but do it in tech talk. And communicate. At least to each other.
Short plays are a great exercise for writers to discover the virtues of compression. Many of the scripts could use tightening; some more clarifying at the outset. And the talkier ones more urgency, more at stake.
The form's also a great workout for actors, since even nuances are on the clock. The nine-person cast does capable work, thanks to ace directors Kym Pappas and Carla Nell.
Nell also performs in the finale: Jonathan Hammond's whacko "Terminator 4." Nell plays Tammy, a waitress tired of patrons trying to skip the bill.
Enter two strangers - strange strangers - wearing shades and twitchy body language. They claim to be from the future, 2042, and seek the mother of the savior who will lead the rebellion against the "Cyborg Apocalypse." Or words to that effect.
John Connor? Nope. Different apocalypse, though "the future of humanity's at stake."
When she learns she's the next Linda Hamilton, Tammy, thinking they're just trying to get a free milkshake, asks, "how much would it suck to be Joan of Arc's mother?"
Excellent writeup! For those who want tickets, the best place to get them is: http://newplaycafe.com/shows/ Or you can call the box office at 619-663-4852.


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Business is More Than a Game
I love sports. They have had a tremendous positive influence on my life, and I can trace some of the most valuable lessons I have learned from the football field, the wrestling mat and the track. I am an enthusiastic fan of my kid's sports teams, my college lacrosse and hockey teams, and the Denver Broncos. I am the CEO of a company focused on sports, TeamSnap, and I derive enormous satisfaction knowing we are helping millions of people around the world participate in sports activities.
As in almost any kind of human activity, we can learn a lot from sports. I enjoyed reading about how Germany's dismantling of Brazil in the recent World Cup comprised an effective pivot. Sometimes, though, folks take it a little too far. Just as with analogies to war or interpersonal relationships, sports analogies start to break down if we take them beyond a certain point.
We have all been taught some of the ways that sports mirror business: the importance of strong leadership and teamwork, the satisfaction of working towards a common goal, and the value of hard work and sacrifice. It is important to keep in mind, though, the ways in which business is different, the ways in which it does not really track the characteristics of sports:
• Time frame — Great business take years to build. Sports teams are typically focused on a season. A few look out two or three seasons, and almost none, though the Chicago Bulls and a few other teams will in retrospect claim "dynasty," are worrying about anything longer than that.
• Number of people on the team — Even a young company will have hundreds of employees, while the largest may have tens of thousands. The largest major team sport in the US is football, with 53-man rosters. Throw in the coaches, trainers, water boys and girls, and other miscellaneous hangers on, and maybe you have a hundred.
• The goal — The goal for a business is to provide a return for the company's owners or lenders, make a positive contribution to its customers and communities, and provide a fulfilling experience for its employees. In sports, the goal is more prosaic. For individual sports, it is to go faster, farther or higher than the other guy. For martial sports, it is to beat, often literally, the other guy. For team sports, it is typically to get more balls across a line or into a net more times than the other team.
• Complexity — The range of activities a business must successfully execute far exceeds that of a team. Sure, folks on a team often have specific specialties and knowledge (e.g. Moneyball). And the challenge of scoring, whether it's on the field, court or golf course, takes skill and stamina. It doesn't compare however with the myriad activities that many businesses perform, from developing new technologies to serving millions of customers.
• Impact — Businesses and the profits they create can change the world. Think about the impact of even recent companies like Google and Facebook. One can argue that a championship changes the mood of a nation — maybe even gets a few more kids to play a sport — but 20 years from now it will be hard to trace the impact of that Super Bowl, World Cup or Little League game lost or won.
Let's have fun with sports. Let's draw lessons from them that we can apply to our lives and our endeavors, including our businesses. Let's not think of them, though, as providing an answer to everything we wrestle with in business.


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My glasses steamed up, but OK with me
Awkward, delicious time at Little Sheep
Ian Anderson 9:30 a.m., Nov. 23
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"During the really cold nights, below 35 degrees, I'm even nervous [using biodiesel in my car] about [getting] stuck somewhere, because the biodiesel has jellified," she says. "However, in San Diego I don't really have to worry about that most of the year. You run the same risk with the vegetable oil, except it would solidify at an even higher temperature. That's why people who use straight vegetable oil usually add heaters to their car to keep the oil less viscous than it is at room temperature. So it really depends."
The Biofuel Action and Awareness Network is an on-campus group devoted to both educating the community about alternative fuels and implementing their use on campus, starting with university transportation vehicles. The network is currently working on a reactor that will allow them to make batches of biodiesel themselves.
Back in La Mesa, Paul turns on another of his veggie vehicles, a cherry-red Mercedes. Though not nearly as loud as the Unimog, it's still a noisy car, engine jolting as it roars to life. A jet of smoke explodes from the exhaust pipe. It smells like a deep fryer.
"There's Thai oil in there," Patrzalek explains, smiling proudly.
Patrzalek's business, named Greasel My Diesel, evolved shortly after he went veggie, when friends and friends of friends began to approach him about doing conversions of their cars. So far, he estimates he's done 10–15 conversions. His clients, he says, are mostly environmentally minded people who want to go the extra mile to help minimize the effects of fuel emissions.
"They're either going to be…very environmentally aware, into mountain biking or cycling, surfing," Patrzalek says of his clients. "[They're] just environmentally conscious people. [People] that would probably be eating organic food, aware of the environment. It's usually not a cost thing. I mean, granted, it's enticing, but mainly it's people who are just concerned about the environment."
With a vegetable oil car, fuel cost is not an issue; the harvesting of oil, however, is. Restaurants are the prime sources of waste vegetable oil and must pay to have it removed from their facilities. Many, according to Patrzalek, are happy to give it up and hand it off to him in the same five-gallon jugs they purchased it in. He can harvest, he says, 5–15 gallons per restaurant; two or three restaurants are enough to fuel his fleet of three — soon to be four — veggie oil vehicles.
Connor gets his oil primarily from Asian restaurants.
"Local places support it," he writes. "The big nationwide chains couldn't care less. Chili's, however, has been great to me."
"I enjoy it," says Patrzalek, speaking of harvesting oil. "I enjoy picking it up. I go hunt it down. I enjoy the whole thing of it."
Others, however, may not. The process is, as Patrzalek describes it, "gross," not to mention laborious. First, one must locate oil sources and figure out how and when to pick it up. Also, before the oil can be used, it must be filtered to ensure it is free of food debris and other contaminants. For this process, Patrzalek uses a large plastic drum with a special kind of nylon filter attached to it that catches whatever gunk should not be in his fuel. This "home-fueling station" is kept in a shed in Patrzalek 's backyard, along with extra steel cans of filtered oil.
Every new oil source Patrzalek finds, he screens.
"If I find a resource and they agree to let me have it, I'll take home a gallon, and I'll watch it and I'll see if water settles on it, how much fat is in it, or anything like that," he says. "I've been at places where I actually won't use the oil, it's too dirty or it's got too much fat [or] too much water in it." Patrzalek says he disposes of the unacceptable grease in the restaurant's grease traps, though having gotten his filtration and harvesting system down to a science, this happens less often than it used to.
But there are other drawbacks, which Connor outlines.
"Grease is like glue," he writes. "It sticks to everything. [Also] grease smells [and] you have to keep things clean. You [also] can't drive up to your local Shell station and buy grease; it takes time to find a source and then time to ensure you have good, filtrated grease."
Difficult or not, grease car drivers persist and, for the moment, restaurant vegetable oil is relatively plentiful. There are, however, others out there that have found a use for the same product. Biofuel companies like San Diego upstart New Leaf Biodiesel, a corporation that is currently working on producing biodiesel for wholesale purposes, are installing locked boxes on restaurant premises for oil collection. New Leaf's website boasts a laundry list of restaurants that have provided them with oil, well over 100 in all.
"Basically, we want to help clean up San Diego's air quality by providing biodiesel and recycling a local product into local fuel," says David Richards, co-founder of New Leaf. "We want to help transform the way fleets are using fuel by providing them with a cleaner alternative energy such as biodiesel."
New Leaf is constructing its facility in Barrio Logan and plans to officially open in late April or early May.
Patrzalek, who still has his stock of oil sources, has mixed feelings on the subject.
"I mean, it's great that they want to collect it and filter it and sell it, but I think there's also a point where I kind of like the idea of still getting it for free," he says. "I think it should totally be accessible. If people are willing to go through all the trouble of collecting it themselves and using it, I think it's fantastic. I mean, I understand capitalism and whatnot, but it's kind of rad that you can do that. If there's no free vegetable oil available, that would totally suck."
"I think it's great," says Richards enthusiastically, speaking of grease car drivers. "I think that what they're doing is awesome. They have the same intentions as [we do], using alternative renewable fuels, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think it's great that they're running an alternative or renewable fuel in their vehicles."


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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2006
The average temperature of the water near the top of Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003. New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures. Although the average temperature of the upper oceans has significantly cooled since 2003, the decline is a fraction of the total ocean warming over the previous 48 years.
"This research suggests global warming isn't always steady, but happens with occasional 'speed bumps'," said Dr. Josh Willis, a co-author of the study at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "This cooling is probably natural climate variability. The oceans today are still warmer than they were during the 1980s, and most scientists expect the oceans will eventually continue to warm in response to human-induced climate change."
Willis said the findings have significant implications for global sea-level rise. "Average sea level goes up partly due to warming and thermal expansion of the oceans and partly due to runoff from melting glaciers and ice sheets," Willis said. "The recent cooling episode suggests sea level should have actually decreased in the past two years. Despite this, sea level has continued to rise. This may mean that sea level rise has recently shifted from being mostly caused by warming to being dominated by melting. This idea is consistent with recent estimates of ice-mass loss in Antarctica and accelerating ice-mass loss on Greenland."
For the study, Dr. John Lyman at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, and his co-authors estimated the heat content of the upper 750 meters (approximately 2,500 feet) of Earth's oceans from 1993 to 2005. This area represents about 20 percent of the global ocean's average depth.
Researchers found the average temperature of the upper ocean increased by 0.09 degrees Celcius (0.16 degrees Fahrenheit) from 1993 to 2003, and then fell 0.03 degrees Celcius (0.055 degrees Fahrenheit) from 2003 to 2005. The recent decrease is a dip equal to about one-fifth of the heat gained by the ocean between 1955 and 2003. They analyzed data from a broad array of ocean moorings, floats and shipboard sensors, and supported their results with data from NASA's Jason and Topex/Poseidon satellites.
Lyman said the recent cooling is not unprecedented. "While global ocean temperatures have generally increased over the past 50 years, there have also been substantial decadal decreases." "Other studies have shown that a similar rapid cooling took place from 1980 to 1983. But overall, the long-term trend is warming."
Monitoring the heat content of the oceans is vital to understanding how Earth's energy balance is changing. "The capacity of Earth's oceans to store the sun's energy is more than 1,000 times that of Earth's atmosphere," Lyman said. "It's important to measure upper ocean temperature, since 84 percent of the heat absorbed by Earth since the mid-1950s has gone toward warming the ocean. Measuring ocean temperature is really measuring the progress of global warming."
The recent changes in ocean temperature run deep. A small amount of cooling was detected at the ocean's surface, consistent with global measurements of sea-surface temperature. The maximum amount of cooling was at a depth of 400 meters (about 1,300 feet), but substantial cooling was still observed at 2,500 feet, and the cooling appears to extend deeper.
Lyman said the cause of the recent cooling is not yet clear. Research suggests it may be due to a net loss of heat from the Earth. "Further work will be necessary to solve this cooling mystery," he said.
Another implication of the study is greater uncertainty in estimates of long-term ocean warming rates. "Understanding decadal rises and dips in Earth's ocean temperature is important in predicting Earth's climate," Lyman said. "Hopefully, the results of our study will help refine the ability of computer models to make these predictions."
The study included researchers from NASA, NOAA, and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research of the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Results are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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Research Detects Human-Induced Climate Change At A Regional Scale
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2006
Canadian and British climate scientists have clearly detected human-induced climate change at a regional scale in Canada, southern Europe and China. This new research is the first to combine the results from several climate model simulations, increasing scientific confidence in these findings.
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Holy cow we did a lot of journalism in 2016
In starting the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in June 2015, we knew there were two enormous needs to address: the financial straits of community and independent publications that can keep the lights on but have zero extra operating money to do critical enterprise reporting, and the shortage of opportunities available for young media makers to cut their teeth and for experienced reporters to stay in the game and earn fair compensation.
A year and a half later, we have parsed those lofty and enormous goals and launched a number of initiatives that collectively demonstrate just how much of a difference an incubator like BINJ can make in boosting independence and integrity in journalism, not only in Boston but anywhere a new kid on the block is willing to mix it up with the existing media infrastructure. Thanks to several opportunities to speak about our model all across the country in 2016, there have already been seeds planted for cousins of BINJ to sprout elsewhere. All while we are more and more committed to covering developments in Greater Boston that are overlooked by major and commercial publications, with our reporting reaching hundreds of thousands of people through dozens of outlets.
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We are confident that friends, readers, supporters, and potential donors will be delighted, if not amazed, by the amount of quality journalism we were able to produce with freelancers and to distribute widely. BINJ is still a part-time operation, raising approximately $100k in 2016* (almost half from the Reva & David Logan Foundation and craigconnects, the rest from donations and individual subscriptions — including on Medium, where we currently have 70 sustaining monthly supporters). With that reportorial firepower, we generated 20 features and more than 100 columns in addition to multiple education, event, engagement, and experimental initiatives.
With a long form and opinion output throughout 2016 that matched that of our first 12 months (June '15 to June '16), we used the solid footing we developed early on to expand into several new mediums. From Beyond Boston, our monthly news digest done in collaboration with a dozen PEG access stations and counting, to our new bi-weekly LPFM radio show and podcast, LOCAL EDITION: The BINJ Report, our multimedia efforts land the reporting done by our hard-working contributors in front of thousands of fresh ears and eyeballs each week, many of which are outside of the traditional news-consuming demographic.
This year-end report is a window into all the content we disseminated in 2016 and a peek at some of the endeavors we will take on in the new year. If you dig what we are doing, please consider helping with the effort. When you support independent journalism, you support all your favorite causes at once.
* The $100,000 figure does not include an additional $50k grant that BINJ received from the Logan Foundation earlier this month, which will propel us into next year with vigor.
Though our editorial team didn't enter the year with a master plan that would tie all BINJ longform together under a common idea, in retrospect one might say that a running theme for many of our 2016 stories is that we answered, with thorough investigations, some long-standing open inquiries of Bostonians — from our digging to the bottom of the city's historically troubled licensing system to our impugning of administrators at the prestigious Boston Latin School. Overall, from shorter spot features to intricate deep dives that took hundreds of hours of work by multiple contributors, we can proudly say that everything that BINJ produced this year fit into the alternative media maxim that guides us to cover stories that aren't being covered at all, as well as those which are being covered wrongly or inadequately elsewhere.
THE THIRSTY GAMES: Boston's liquor licensing quota was born out of elitism and has fostered a poisonous disparity over the past century. Can lifting the cap break the cycle? (By Haley Hamilton | DigBoston, El Planeta)
Anyone who's ever paid attention to Boston's notoriously broken licensing system knows [that] the state capped the number of licenses Boston could distribute decades ago, and the ensuing procedural rigmarole has been an issue of contention ever since … The current quota system has spawned a hardly regulated secondary market in which the cost of a license can run upwards of $350,000. It has fostered political corruption, bred an incestuous cuddle puddle of greed and hand greasing, and stymied Boston's growth potential in the long run — all while posing a staggering disservice to communities of color.
MAVERICK APPROACH: An East Boston update to 'The Thirsty Games.' (By Karen Morales | DigBoston, El Planeta)
As part of the incubator business model, budding entrepreneurs rent space to grow their enterprise in a community environment. For a small restaurant in this part of town, this opportunity is more unique than some may realize. The cafe holds one of the 75 liquor licenses that the Massachusetts legislature … granted Boston in 2012. Of those licenses, 80 percent were allocated to businesses in areas like Eastie that have been historically underserved and underrepresented.
UNACCOMMODATING (A BLS STORY): This summer the city's most elite high school, Boston Latin, came under federal investigation due to allegations of racial discrimination. Here's a look at how the esteemed pre-Ivory Tower failed another minority: special needs students. (By Nate Boroyan | DigBoston)
By early November 2014, Christina had become a social pariah. She was having trouble sitting through lessons and could barely bring herself to go to school in the morning. She refused to participate in class. According to the Smiths and as suggested by documents obtained by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, through the bullying, some of Christina's teachers as well as BLS administrators refused to formally acknowledge her anxiety. She received zeros for not presenting projects in class, and instructors began to view her as a disinterested pupil who couldn't hack the famously advanced BLS course loads. She was given multiple detentions and even suspended.
TRASH TO TABLE: Everything you didn't want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK. (By Evan C. Anderson & Katie Campisi | DigBoston)
Our months-long statewide investigation revealed that inspections of facilities where pigs eat trash are sparse, making for conditions, along with a weak regulatory infrastructure for oversight, that could feasibly harbor infectious disease. This as Massachusetts has drastically reduced its annual budget for swine garbage feeding surveillance.
AND THEN THERE WERE FIVE: The story of the Boston police officer injured in the Watertown shootout in 2013. (By Adam Sennott | Watertown Tab*, Quincy Patriot Ledger)
If the story about Dennis Simmonds wasn't surprising enough, this past August, the BPD made another stunning disclosure: Eight Boston cops reported that they were injured in the shootout. Of the eight, only Officer Rick Moriarty was named in media accounts as being injured at the scene. According to the Boston Globe, the 22-year department veteran strained a ligament in his hand while performing CPR on MBTA Officer Richard Donohue, who suffered life-threatening injuries after he was shot in the leg. If the media missed the injuries sustained by Simmonds and these other officers, they weren't alone.
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BOSTON'S MARATHON APOCALYPSE: In hashing out what happened on that dark day three years ago, it's important to consider the Bay State's history as an apocalyptic ground zero. (By Chip Berlet | DigBoston)
When the Tsarnaev brothers were announced as suspects in the 2013 attack, the search began for a motive. Most reporters missed the clues indicating the Tsarnaev brothers had been swept up in an apocalyptic mission based on a marginal and much-disputed Islamic prophecy about apocalyptic End Times and the proper role for religious heroes … Some terrorism experts debated whether or not the ISIS "Khorasan Group" is part of the al Qaeda network. They are missing the big picture. They don't understand that we are witnessing the emergence of an apocalyptic Islamic army drawing devout young men like a magnet to the Middle East.
HOW MASS BECAME GROUND-ZERO FOR CORPORATE ED PRIVATIZATION: With a statewide referendum looming in November, Massachusetts voters will have to decide just how much school privatization they're willing to bear. (By Chris Faraone | Alternet)
In Massachusetts, where K-12 alternatives have had more than two decades to metastasize, charter schools mean millions less in funding for traditional institutions, and an all-out war in every budget season. In Boston, individual schools are bracing to lose beloved programs, as well as teachers and tutors, and, in some cases, resources for the most vulnerable special needs students. As charter allies boast about their high success rates and sophisticated, wired buildings, those stuck in the ailing BPS systems are in an uproar.
LITTLE HOUSE EMISSARIES: From Martha's Vineyard to Boston to Los Angeles, the small home movement struggles for acceptance at the end of the road. (By Karen Morales | DigBoston)
In some places, however, an increasing number of city planners and housing advocates are looking at small dwellings as a possible solution to housing pressures. On the famously elite islands off Cape Cod, that impact is most severely felt by people in the lower and working classes.
JOEY'S ANGELS: No one ever accused Joe Donovan of killing anyone, but he was convicted of murder nonetheless. (By Chris Faraone | DigBoston)
After spending more than half of his life in a cage, Donovan found himself before the Massachusetts Parole Board in May 2014. Despite his being sentenced to life with no chance for release for his involvement in the '92 slaying, Donovan's plight brightened in December 2013, when the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that it is unconstitutional for defendants under 18 years of age to receive life without parole for any crime.
INTERNALLY BLEEDING: Allen Curry, a veteran and the first African-American to serve in his firehouse, was the victim of an unspeakable attack at the hands of fellow Boston firefighters. Decades later, his struggle endures, as does the BFD's diversity problem. (By Alejandro Ramirez | DigBoston)
Forty years ago, Curry's mother warned him against joining the BFD and said her friends in the police department faced harassment. He says despite the lack of black role models who fought fires, he applied anyway in order to give back to his community and save lives. "I chose the fire department [instead of] the police department because I had just come from a situation where I had to use a firearm," Curry says, referring to his time in Vietnam. "I didn't think a fire would follow me home."
Oral Histories
50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE: An Oral History of Haley House (By Chris Faraone & Haley House Staff and Volunteers | DigBoston, South End News)
For half a century, Haley House has underpinned a major slice of the Hub's grassroots social service sector. First as a temporary shelter, then through the years as much, much more … for the 50th anniversary of Haley House, we asked Executive Director Bing Broderick to assemble a roundtable of voices to dredge up memories for us to spin into an oral history. Documented here in detail, it should serve as an inspiration to us all.
RETURN TO DEWEY SQUARE: An Occupy Boston Oral History (By BINJ Staff & Boston Occupiers | DigBoston)
In 2011, thousands of New Englanders occupied an obscure slice of Boston and became leaders in a national movement against greed. Five years later, we asked some of those activists to reflect on their radical protest camp experiment … And so with the arbitrary but critical half-decade marker of the start of Occupy Boston — which lasted in encampment form at Dewey Square across from South Station for 70 days — upon us, we compiled an elaborate oral and pictorial history detailing what happened during those noteworthy months. Asking more than a dozen participants to look back, our hope was to extract lessons, get the basic backstory straight once and for all, and see where some of the peaceniks have landed.
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MASSROOTS: The Relatively Short But Nonetheless Inspirational History of 'Boston For Bernie' (By Patrick Cochran & Boston For Bernie Volunteers | DigBoston)
Over the past year, this ragged batch of activists — from first-timers to weathered social workers, young idealists to longtime politicos who have lost more races than they care to count — rushed around the city and throughout New England and beyond, many of us getting caught up in the whirlwind … While it would be impossible to speak with all the tens of thousands of people who helped bolster Bernie in the Bay State, the story of how grassroots grew around the dark horse here is a memorable one, and so with recollections still relatively fresh, I used this opportunity to collect stories in hopes that these tales can help inform like-minded efforts in the future.
COMMON GROUND: Meet the students from the most important school in Boston you've never heard of (By Chris Faraone, Press Pass TV & the Students of Community Academy | DigBoston, El Planeta)
In considering the plight and state of Community Academy — the dropout rate was 57 percent in 2015 — it is important to acknowledge the remarkable pain its population has endured through the years. From almost the beginning, students from the school have had their lives cut short by senseless violence … Despite torrential hardship , there is significant school pride at Community Academy. Asked about potential options if the school ever closed down, some students said their only other feasible next choice is the corner, the streets.
A HIGHER ALLEGIANCE: The Disaffection of Tibetan Elections (By Joshua Eaton | DigBoston)
In Boston and across the country, Tibetan Americans are queueing up to vote in presidential primaries and looking ahead to November. But on March 20, they also cast ballots in an election for the Tibetan government in exile, based in India. It was a way of asserting their Tibetan identity and maintaining their culture, many said. The two elections also prove that nationality isn't a choice — that Tibetan and American can exist fully, side by side.
SPECIAL REJECTION: Election officials can't stop this East Boston activist from running for State Senate (By Chris Faraone | El Planeta, DigBoston)
Though she is calling for more Latino voices on Beacon Hill, Sierra says she isn't asking for special treatment in the electoral process. At the same time, the twice-rejected candidate has grown weary of the Boston Election Department, which she argues has been stubborn in reviewing her signatures. Several submissions shown to the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and El Planeta, for example, were rejected because the name listed on the form did not match exactly with the department's internal record. Sierra says this isn't surprising, since many Hispanics have multiple family names that they do not always list exhaustively.
OF BOLIVAR AND BOSTON: Social and economic insecurity in Caracas has a significant impact on Venezuelans in Massachusetts (By Alejandro Ramirez | El Planeta, DigBoston)
According to Pew Hispanic, Venezuelans' median earnings were higher than the general Hispanic population's (though still lower than the overall US median). Traditionally, Venezuelans, the 13th-largest population of Latino origin, come to America either for work or education, but a turbulent political and economic climate at home has resulted in an influx of immigrants applying for asylum.
DAKOTA DISPATCH: Mass residents participate in humility at Standing Rock (By Kori Feener | DigBoston)
Danny and Marisa have been volunteering at Oceti Sakowin since they arrived. Danny, formerly a fellow at the Boston-based Climate Disobedience Center, and Marisa, a substitute teacher in Lowell, headed to Standing Rock in mid-November in a caravan filled with donations for those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was slated to cut through sacred land and a water source for millions of people.
TOO LEGIT TO QUIT: The Hub's unlicensed radio stations spin their wheels in the face of adversity (By Basim Usmani | DigBoston, Dorchester Reporter, Boston Haitian Reporter)
Though the digital revolution has changed listening habits for many people, in Massachusetts, immigrant communities in urban centers like Boston, Lowell, Brockton, and Worcester still rely on these outlets for critical information and entertainment. For people who are just starting in the Commonwealth, unlicensed frequencies — sometimes dismissed as pirate stations, a characterization their listeners and DJs eschew — offer programming in Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese that can't be found elsewhere on the dial.
ART ATTACK: Crisis in the Creative Professions Roundup (By Haley Hamilton | BINJ Medium exclusive)
A round-up of local creatives of all stripes — dancers, musicians, writers, you name it — revealed that the struggle to make ends meet as a creative professional in Boston is very real but not totally hopeless … Yet.
STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION: Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub. (By Dan McCarthy | DigBoston)
While humor aficionados know lots about the stand-up landscape that pedestrian showgoers aren't aware of, there can be a disconnect between scenesters and audiences at large. On that note, we figured that just like with our crumbling republic, which gets the Cliffs Notes account of current events in a simple State of the Union speech every year, it could be something of a community service to document the inner state of the Hub's funny farm.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: Haiti, dance, and healing with Jean Appolon (By Micaela Kimball, Photos by Jason Pramas) | DigBoston, Boston Haitian Reporter, Dorchester Reporter)
In Haiti, dance is a way of life. When a young Haitian man relocated to Boston after tragedy struck his family, he brought the healing and restorative powers of traditional dance with him, and spread the love to Hub residents … While movement has deep therapeutic roots and uses in innumerable cultures, Appolon notes that dance — and particularly Haitian folkloric dance, which he teaches, performs and choreographs with his company, Jean Appolon Expressions — is common alternative medicine among Haitians and Haitian Americans.
Apparent Horizon
As the editor/publisher of the left wing nonprofit newsweekly Open Media Boston from 2008 to April of this year, Jason Pramas had gained regional notoriety for his regular editorials when he joined BINJ as network director in July 2015. On Labor Day of that year, he started a new column to build upon that legacy. He called it Apparent Horizon — after a new concept in astrophysics popularized by Stephen Hawking — to indicate his desire to comment on all areas of human endeavor, and has already addressed a broad array of topics from labor, to global warming, to nuclear power, to prisons, to mass transit. This plus a major nine-column series strongly criticizing the recent deal between General Electric, the City of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. All this is framed with a Boston hook and a critical edge that only a protest leader with 30-plus years of grassroots political activism under his belt can bring to bear on issues of the day.
Terms of Service
The service industry — bars and restaurants — makes up 8.5 percent of the Greater Boston area economy, yet the creativity, talent, and knowledge required to make it in the city's most frequented establishments is largely misunderstood by those who have never donned an apron. Here, a local bartender (and BINJ staff writer) tackles the nuances of industry life, for both those living it and those who fail to see it as a worthwhile career.
The Tokin' Truth
We are very much aware that it is risky business to associate with cannabis reformers. Some of our mentors even warned against taking on Mike Crawford, a noted medical marijuana activist and media personality in Boston for many years. With that said, we are proud to have him and his cadre of frequent guest columnists rail against censorship and hypocrisy, gain syndication in Alternet and other national outlets, and hold politicians accountable for their hypocrisy on this topic. With cannabis now legal in the Bay State but the fight between the public and the State House still raging, the possibilities for this column and expanded marijuana coverage are endless.
Broken Records
This has been the most important year in the last four decades for government transparency in Massachusetts. With the state's dismal public records law being updated significantly for the first time since the 1970s, we started this column to discuss the dysfunctional nature of our public records law and to cover government transparency and accountability issues in the state. As prolific requesters of record and persistent curmudgeons, the Broken Records crew has given voice to freedom of information hurdles faced by reporters from a number of outlets, even major ones, and has effectively brought the conversation about how the journalistic sausage is made to the meat counter.
Throwback BINJ
Our ongoing series connecting headlines from the past 350 years of Boston media with current events. From corruption on Beacon Hill to the debate over transgender rights — it's all happened before, and we have some amazing pics and articles to prove it. Our throwback columns are a great research and reporting activity for some of our young writers who are rising through the ranks.
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GENDER CONFINEMENT: Mass Department of Correction contends it can discriminate against transgender inmates (By Maya Shaffer)
THE HIGH AND THE MARTY: Boston Mayor Walsh is a lousy anti-addiction spokesperson (By Britni De La Cretaz)
SNUBWAY: This may help explain why you've had so much trouble renting and returning public bikes in Boston (By Noah Shaffer)
FLAME WAR: Council greenlights social media surveillance despite lack of BPD transparency (By Sarah Betancourt)
CAUGHT WITH OUR GANTRIES DOWN: Everything you think you know about the new Mass tolls is wrong (By Evan C. Anderson)
While we've continued to produce important written journalism on topics ranging from art to activism, in year two we also pledged to reach people in other ways. Not only through newfangled social media apps and web portals, though there's that too, but through every conceivable method imaginable by working with various kinds of media makers. That includes one-on-one engagement, podcasts, and good old-fashioned public television.
Beyond Boston
Among the many other ways that BINJ attempts to boost existing media in Massachusetts, we saw an opportunity in the hundreds of cable access stations in the Commonwealth. We teamed up with producers and news makers from stations including Somerville Community Access Television (SCATV), Cambridge Community TV (CCTV), Malden Access TV (MATV), and Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) for our monthly digest, "Beyond Boston," which features stories and highlights from our partners, as well as interviews with special guests and analysis from BINJ reporters.
Podcasts & The BINJ Report
With a number of experienced and talented radio engineers and reporters in our network, it was a natural move for BINJ to enter the podcast and broadcast space. Testing the waters, columnist and Network Director Jason Pramas began uploading a recorded version of Apparent Horizon to multiple podcast platforms, while the team also produced a special, "Return to Dewey Square," to complement our oral history commemorating the fifth anniversary of Occupy Boston. Finally, building on the aforementioned assets plus interviews and dispatches from ongoing news coverage, BINJ has teamed with Boston radio veteran Dave Goodman's Independent Broadcast Information Service (IBIS) for a biweekly news program called LOCAL EDITION: The BINJ Report. While the show initially aired on the City of Boston's LPFM radio station, WBCA 102.9 FM, in 2017 we will be syndicating it on multiple legacy stations and digital networks as well.
- Manchester Divided: United Through Hip-Hop: A concert and fundraiser component of our pop-up newsroom at the New Hampshire primaries
- Crisis in the Creative Professions: A panel and open group discussion about the challenges facing artists and media makers in Greater Boston
- Fighting Addiction on Film: A comedy fundraiser for our program working with people in opiate recovery
- The Thirsty Games Live: A discussion of Haley Hamilton's two-part series on liquor license disparity in Boston
- Return to Dewey Square: A pop-up newsroom for the fifth anniversary of Occupy Boston
- Holiday BINJ 2: A reader engagement carnival and fundraiser
- Artists for Democracy: A meeting called as part of our BINJ Arts program to help network Boston-area artist activist projects post-election
At which BINJ presented
- National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation conference (Framingham, MA)
- Massachusetts and the Carceral State Conference (Harvard Law School, MA)
- The Media and the Elections: Political Reporting (Cambridge Public Library, MA)
- Alliance for Community Media conference (Boston, MA)
- Association for Alternative Newsmedia annual conference (Austin, TX)
- Privatizing Massachusetts (Harvard Faculty Club, MA)
- Hacks & Hackers (MIT Media Lab, MA)
Youth Media
As we have noted since day one, while we believe that it's important to have a conversation about diversity in media, the best way to diversify the media is to train a wide array of young reporters to become community storytellers. Our forays to explore this notion have come naturally, as BINJ operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Roxbury-based Transformative Culture Project (formerly known as Press Pass TV), which has been engaging young people in Boston for a decade through workshops and hands-on media experience. BINJ journalists help train middle and high school journalists in several TCC programs, and in 2016 helped guide and curate a photo project at Snowden International School, and assisted their students at Community Academy in Jamaica Plain to tell the remarkable story of their school, a so-called "last chance" stop in BPS that plays a special role in the lives that pass through.
As a major part of our journey with BINJ, we are documenting the procedures, processes, and ideas that emerge in our grand experiment, from the technical to the ethical. In considering the latter at great length, we have had significant help from Craig Newmark of craigconnects, who in January 2016 awarded us a $25,000 grant and challenged us to put all ethical concerns and conversation front and center. That led us to hosting a colloquium for BINJ contributors to tackle questions with philosophy and journalism scholars, and also to a partnership with the UMass Boston Philosophy Department to found a community journalism project within the UMass Boston Ethics Institute. In the fall 2016 semester, BINJ journalists provided UMass Boston students the opportunity to strengthen their understanding of applied ethics by applying it to cases cited in investigative reports and columns. We envision developing a pedagogical model similar to the one used by ethics students who accompany medical doctors on their rounds, appropriately modified for investigative journalism, and will release a report on ethics in early 2017 in addition to continuing our work at UMass.
Peer Consulting
Through the conferences that we had an opportunity to present at, we were able to meet reporters, editors, and even publishers from several cities — and even other countries — who are interested in learning from and in some cases modeling their own incubators after what we are doing with BINJ. For those who can't be reached in person, we have published several accessible media analyses and how-to pieces to spread the independent journalism gospel.
A 10-Step Starter Guidemedium.com
- How To Start a Grassroots Nonprofit Journalism Incubator from Scratch
- Medicine for a Mendicant Media
- Where journalism meets dialogue and deliberation
The Boston Bubble
Our sleek (approaching) quarterly pocket-sized print mag about tech and innovation in New England dropped one new issue this year under the fitting theme of "survival." Though still a loss leader due to the outstanding quality of content and production value, by attracting readers through multiple channels — from social media to offering issues through crowd-funding campaigns and drives for other BINJ programs — we were able to surpass our goal of 100 subscribers in year one. Under new managing editor Clarence Smith Jr., in 2017 we plan on releasing at least three issues, distributing in select retail stores, holding events, and more.
Manchester Divided
Though it's still hard to believe that we pulled it off, last February, in the face of ugly weather and some even uglier candidates, the BINJ team set up a pop-up newsroom at a bar in Manchester, New Hampshire, and syndicated coverage to more than a dozen outlets nationwide.
With editors set up at tables in the Shaskeen Pub front window, more than a dozen freelance reporters — more than half of them covering a presidential race for the first time — produced in total nearly 30 of the most unique dispatches from the primary madness, some of which were syndicated beyond our local Boston network. Among the placements:
- "Panel, report decry push for privatization in Massachusetts" (Bay State Banner)
- TV INTERVIEW: "DigBoston Looks at Liquor License Hurdles" (BNN)
- "Comedy Fundraiser in Saugus to help addicts" (Boston Globe)
- "Boston journalism nonprofit hopes Medium will be a moneymaker" (Boston Globe)
- "Pittsfield Police Public Records Lost" (Boston Magazine)
- Nonprofit Roundup (Jamaica Plain News)
- TV INTERVIEW: "'Oxy Moron' Then and Now" (NECN)
- Regular Mentions in the daily Massachusetts Playbook (Politico)
National & International
- "How memberships can work for nonprofit journalism" (Journalism.co.uk)
- "Your license plate: Window to your life" (CSO Online)
- "A Boston Journalism Nonprofit Is Among The First Publishers To Sell Subscriptions on Medium" (Nieman Journalism Lab, Editor & Publisher, American Press Institute)
- Mention in philanthropy roundup (Philanthropy Journal News)
- PODCAST INTERVIEW: "BINJ seeks to finance independent, investigative reporting" (It's All Journalism)
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Invisible, Inc - Interview @ Indie Game Insider
Game Designer Jason Dreger is interviewed by Indie Game Insider about his game Invisible, Inc. Some of the topics include the games name change, and stealth tactics.
Can you tell me a little bit about the basic premise of the game and what has changed since showing Invisible, Inc. at PAX Prime?
So when we started it we knew we wanted to make a stealth game, like a stealth tactics game — tactical espionage as we call it. It's really easy to put a lot of combat features into a tactical game, even if you mean it to be stealth; I feel like it is probably overdone. So we've been spending a few months trying to really double down on stealth. The current build that we are working on is even more extreme in the stealth aspect [than the playable build at PAX East]. Things like there is no more health, one hit and you are down. We are really focusing in on that and seeing if we can push it that far.
Last time I saw the game it was known as Incognita. Now it is Invisible, Inc. Can you tell me about the rebranding of the game?
Sure, so whenever we would talk about it with our friends and media 80% of the time they would forget what the name was. They'd be like, "What is it that you're working in?" and we'd have to remind them. The other 20% that would remember would say something like "Incognito" or something similar so it was just too much trouble that we were dealing with in marketing to get that straight. Coming up with a name that was easier for people to remember was important for us.
What is the background and lore behind Invisible, Inc. right now?
So Incognita is still in the game. It's this artificial intelligence. It's this dystopian, corporate future and you're working for an agency that is investigating the corporations, and it's been really hard to get in. You get this message that's from the inside; someone has information they want to give you. So you bust in and you rescue them, but it turns out it's this hard drive, this AI, and you install it and it takes over your base computer. It's sort of holding you hostage and telling you it knows how to deal with the corporations and it is sending you on these missions to complete its main mission. That is the start of the game.
Information aboutInvisible, Inc
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Modern
Genre: Tactical RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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List of repositories | List of collections at National Library of Wales | Repository home page | Contact details
Reference code(s): GB 0210 HENSOL
Held at: National Library of Wales
Title: Hensol Estate Records
Short Title: Hensol estate, records
Creation date(s): 1429-1789
Level of description: Fonds
Extent: 0.229 cubic metres (8 boxes)
Name of creator(s): Hensol estate
Administrative/Biographical history: The original owners of Hensol estate, Glamorgan, were the Jenkins family which failed in the male line in the early eighteenth century. The estate passed to Cecil (d. 1720), only daughter of Charles Mathew of Castell y Mynach and Cecil, daughter of David Jenkins. Cecil as heiress of Hensol and Castell y Mynach, bought these estates to her husband, Charles Talbot (1685-1737), who was created Baron Talbot of Hensol in 1733.
Charles and Cecil's son and heir, William Talbot, 2nd baron, was created Earl Talbot in 1761, a title which became extinct after his death, and Baron Dynevor in 1780. William's only child Cecil married George Rice of Newton (later called Dynevor Castle) in Carmarthenshire, and M.P for Carmarthenshire 1754-1779. The remainder of the peerage of the barony of Dynevor was left to Cecil who became baroness Dynevor in 1782. She assumed the name of De Cardonnel by royal licence in 1787, pursuant to the will of her mother. William was succeeded in the Barony of Talbot by his nephew, John Chetwynd Talbot of Hensol. Their heir was George Talbot Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor who assumed the additional surname of de Cardonnell by royal licence in 1793, but resumed the name Rice by royal licence in 1817. He was succeeded by his only son, George Rice, 4th baron, who assumed the additional surname of Trevor as inheritor of the estates of the Trevors of Glynde, Sussex. He died without male heir and the estate therefore passed to his cousin, Francis William, 5th baron, vicar of Fairford, Gloucestershire. Francis's heir was his grandson, Walter Fitzuryan, 7th baron, who married Lady Margaret Child-Villiers, eldest daughter of the 3rd Earl of Jersey. He re-assumed by royal licence the surname of Rhys in lieu of Rice.
According to the 1873 return of owners of land, The Rev. Lord Dynevor, owned 10,509 acres in Wales (in Carmarthenshire and Glamorgan), with an estimated rental of £10,509.
Scope and content/abstract: The archive comprises almost entirely of title deeds of the Hensol estate, 1419-1789, almost all in Glamorganshire.
Language/scripts of material: English, Latin
System of arrangement: Arranged chronologically.
Conditions governing access: Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to sign the 'Modern papers - data protection' form.
Conditions governing reproduction: Usual copyright laws apply.
Finding aids: Hard copies of the catalogue are available at NLW under the former title, 'Talbot of Hensol Deeds & Documents'. The catalogue can be accessed online from http://www.llgc.org.uk:81/index.htm
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information: All records deposited at NLW have been retained.
Accruals: Accruals are not expected.
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition: Deposited by H.R. Thomas, Esq., per S.A.H. Burne, Stafford, in December 1939.
Related material: Further papers relating to the Hensol estate are Glamorgan Record Office, DHEN and DD, and National Library of Wales, Dynevor Estate Records.
Note: Title supplied from contents of fonds
Archivist's note: Compiled by Mair James.
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Clark, George T., Limbus Patrum Morgania et Glamorgania (London, 1886); Nicholas, Thomas, Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales (London, 2 vols, 1872), vol. II; The Dictionary of Welsh Biography down to 1940 (London, 1959).
Rules or conventions: This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR II; and LCSH.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2002
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Ernesto M.wrote a review of Sanuk Standard Shoe - Men's on August 3, 2010
Awkward fit...or awkward feet???
I own a 4 pairs of Sanuk Sidewalk Surfers (Hey Jutes, Grifter, Camo and Hybrid); I've never had any sizing issues before, this time the Standard Shoe seemed to be sized differently from they're other lines - they seemed about a half size small and definitely narrower. The characteristic I like best about Sanuk Sidewalk Surfers is the breathability and comfort - I feel like this style was devoid of both. Overall, I think the shoe is okay but not for me - they seemed more like Vans, but not built as well. While I can't recommend, some people may be really stoked with this product. I have so many pairs, I can't dog the company..


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|By Kenneth Tan
As his side makes their way back to Petaling Jaya, ATM coach B Sathianathan should be reflecting on a fruitful trip to Singapore which saw them claim a useful away goal in a one-all draw against the LionsXII last night.
His side now look to be favorites to make the final on October 20, but the former Malaysian national team coach refused to entertain the notion that his side already have one foot in the final.
"The away goal is indeed a bonus, but it's still very open and there's a lot ot play for. If Lions XII score [in the second leg], it'll be back to square one," claimed Sathianathan at the post-match press conference.
"I don't speak about the final first as they [LionsXII] are a good side who play to their strengths - they have a strong defence which do not open up easily like other teams.
"We should not be overconfident, as their away record is good."
In fact, his side could have went home with an even bigger advantage if they did not concede the equaliser nine minutes from time.
"It's a very soft goal to concede, although the Lions XII is good on set pieces," bemoaned Sathianathan.
"I had to take Marlon [James] off because he was on a yellow and I need him for the second leg. The guy who replaced him messed up the midfield instead of keeping the ball, [and] that's how we conceded the freekick [which led to the goal].
"It's a learning curve for us - it's unlucky for us as other than a couple of shots outside the box and some nice movement, the Lions XII did not trouble us."
However, he was a happy man when asked about his star striker Marlon James' contribution.
"On this kind of ground, even Pele [will] find it difficult if he never trains on it!" said a pleased Sathianathan. "He had one chance and he took it, [and] that was with Baihakki [Khaizan] following him all the way."
"In football, the most important thing is to get the goals and he did it," he added.
With the second leg to be played at home next Thursday, the 54-year-old revealed his side will rest for one-and-a-half days, as the synthetic turf 'took a toll' on the players' condition.


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Comparison of Two Methods to Diagnose Coronary Artery Disease
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|Cardiovascular Diseases Coronary Disease Heart Diseases
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Coronary Disease Detection by Thallium SPECT and Fast CT
- Sensitivity of CAC vs coronary plaque volume for detecting CAD by CTA [ Time Frame: Concurrent with CTA ]The question to be answered is what percentage of healthy people with a family history of early onset CAD in a sibling have only non-calcified coronary artery plaque that would not be detected by coronary calcium imaging. How much additional information is provided by CTA?
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Study Start Date:
|June 2003
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
GeneSTAR participant meeting entry criteria
Healthy siblings of patients with early onset CAD (<60 years old) and the adult offspring of the siblings or probands
Detailed Description:
The ability to noninvasively detect CAD at a subclinical stage is fundamental to understanding the biology of the transition of occult CAD to clinical CAD in asymptomatic people at the highest risk for future CAD.
The cross-sectional study is designed to identify the factors explaining why some individuals have exercise ischemia without significant coronary artery calcium (CAC) while others have extensive CAC without exercise ischemia. The investigators will compare the pathophysiological features of a functional test for subclinical CAD detection (exercise radionuclide perfusion SPECT) and an anatomical test to detect coronary calcification (ultrafast CT) in a high-risk asymptomatic population of 30 to 59 year old siblings of people with premature CAD. Siblings will undergo screening for occult CAD using both detection methods. Individuals who are abnormal on either test (exercise-induced ischemia or calcium score greater than 75th percentile for age and sex) will be offered cardiac catheterization, which will include quantitative coronary angiography, assessment of endothelial function by intracoronary acetylcholine, and measurement of plaque volume and composition in a selected coronary artery by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). The study will focus on the pathophysiology of occult CAD among individuals who have exercise ischemia with low calcium scores and other individuals who have high calcium scores without ischemia. Discrepancies between these two tests measure potentially different biological pathways and such discrepancies are observed frequently in high-risk asymptomatic siblings (40% in our recent pilot study). Analyses will be done to determine which biological risk factors can account for variation in plaque calcification that results in discordances between these two measures of occult disease (including lipid levels and subclasses, Lp(a), diabetes, thrombotic factors, pro-inflammatory cytokines, and importantly, those factors involved in calcium regulation, and bone regulatory proteins). In those siblings undergoing cardiac catheterization, analyses will be done to determine whether the severity or extent of coronary luminal narrowing, the presence of epicardial or microvascular endothelial dysfunction, or the volume or calcium content of plaque by IVUS can account for discordances between the two screening tests. Polymorphisms in several candidate genes that may affect tissue calcification will be examined as a possible explanation for variations in plaque calcification as reflected in test discordance. Plasma and DNA will also be collected for novel studies of factors that may account for variability in coronary plaque calcification in this unique well characterized asymptomatic high risk population. This will be the first comprehensive study to define the unique biological and genetic factors related to occult CAD, as detected by both perfusion imaging and ultrafast CT.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Siblings of hospitalized index patients with documented CAD prior to 60 years of age
- Index patients who have demonstrated angiographic lesions greater than or equal to 50% in greater than or equal to 1 vessel, accompanied by angina or a documented CAD event
- Siblings with no known history of CAD
- Siblings with a positive screening test for occult CAD (abnormal ETT or thallium scan, or CAC score greater than 75th percentile) will be invited for coronary angiography
Exclusion Criteria:
- Index patients with CAD associated with some other primary disease (e.g., collagen vascular disease, transplantation, or chronic corticosteroid therapy)
- Siblings with a life-threatening comorbidity (e.g., AIDS, cancer)
- Siblings who have had an organ transplant
- Siblings receiving chronic glucocorticosteroids
- Siblings with known collagen vascular disease
- Siblings with a limitation that would preclude the capacity to exercise sufficiently for the test
- Siblings unable to give informed consent
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00063531
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00063531
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
|Principal Investigator:
|Lewis C. Becker, MD
|Johns Hopkins University
|Responsible Party:
|Lewis C Becker, MD, Robert L Levy Professor of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00063531 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01HL071025 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Submitted:
|June 30, 2003
|First Posted:
|July 1, 2003
|Last Update Posted:
|March 4, 2014
|Last Verified:
|March 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart Diseases
Coronary Disease
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Vascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases


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Let's be honest -- they promised there were going to be growing pains.
Whenever it was suggested the Stampeders were Grey Cup favourites whose season would be a failure without a visit to the big game, they bristled. They backpedaled. They squirmed.
Turns out deep down they knew something the rest of us didn't: They're not that good.
At least not yet, anyway.
Outscored 97-23 over the last two road games, which included an incredible streak that saw them outscored 82-0, the Stamps were obviously hammered in every aspect of the game. They turned the ball over like it was a playoff game, their young defence was a minor irritant to the opposition and their offence was almost as embarrassing as Canada's under-20 soccer team, which didn't score at all.
Local pie throwers had a better completion percentage (one for two) than Calgary's previously vaunted quarterback duo of Henry Burris and Akili Smith.
Yet, if the Stamps have accomplished anything positive over the last six days it's the fact that they have lowered expectations. Dramatically.
And fortunately for them they have done it at a time when a good chunk of the team's fans have been more focused on Stampede's funnel cakes than football.
Truth is, football is still playing second fiddle to Flames talk so far this summer. It's too early for anyone to be that emotionally invested in this season.
While the size and scope of their losses is truly stunning, word of the Stamps' second-consecutive trouncing Thursday elicited little more than a confused look and a shrug from Stampede goers. Obviously, no one is too thick to suggest the season is lost by any means.
That said, if they pull one of those no-shows at home next Saturday against the Argos there will be hell to pay. There's quite a difference between seeing your team get pistol-whipped while surfing channels than there is while investing three hours of your life in a home game in which the host team doesn't show. The locals will snap, putting surprising pressure on the squad just four games in.
The irony of it all is that the Stamps went into the season knowing the regular season wouldn't mean squat. The 18-game schedule was to be considered a mere warmup for the true test of this organization's desired progression from laughingstock to top dogs. The season will be judged on the team's playoff showing and nothing else.
Good thing, as the campaign hasn't exactly started the way Red & White fans expected.
The Stamps were so bad the last two games they couldn't even break the club record for consecutive thrashings, finishing one point shy of the 1956 squad which followed up a 52-0 punking with a 37-14 loss -- a 75-point difference.
The good news is that no one is screaming for Burris to be replaced by Smith as the backup has proven to be equally as inept as his CFL mentor. The quarterback controversy we all expected -- as ridiculous as it may be -- won't start until after Saturday's game at the earliest when the true character of this team will show, whatever that may be.
By then there will be no more excuses as the players will have had three days off to recharge before getting a full week of practices to address the club's considerable weaknesses.
Remember, the players weren't the ones talking Grey Cup.
And they certainly won't be any time soon.


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It is so good to see Tony work with someone who is listening to him and appreciates what he has to offer her and instruct her on.
I enjoyed them, but I wasn't up screaming, either.
Very good.
It is so good to see Tony work with someone who is listening to him and appreciates what he has to offer her and instruct her on.
I enjoyed them, but I wasn't up screaming, either.
Very good.
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I agree. Grey is a shoo-in for F3. That can't be said about any of the others right now. It's boring and predictable.Originally Posted by Tilden;4082041;
It would have been nice if this was the year that Tony could finally take home the mirrorball...After Kate last year, they should have just gave it to him, he earned it.
But no chance of that, Derek and his easy partner again this year will take it. ...Week 4 already clinched it for sure.
I hope they at least get to finale but we will have to vote like crazy to make that happen.Originally Posted by laceygirl;4082055;
Worst piece of musical pairing ever...Jefferson Airplane, AT?? no, no, no....
Audrina: Not feeling her feet/legs. Yes, she could have....has done better in the past. We all know she's got it in her, but I just don't see it tonight. Audrina....come back!!!
"...each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom, one helluva writer.
When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you know which one you hit by the one that yelps!
These singers make want to . Reminds me of the old K-tel records of the 60's, knock offs of originals that were sold dirt cheap...and sounded it too.
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I really don't think this is a fair critique. How can we judge her pathologically ashamed of her body when she's on live television wearing a leotard and seamed stockings? The rhumba is the stupidest dance ever invented. There doesn't seem to be any techniqe, just a lot of swizzling and rolling around on the floor. I'd think anybody who wasn't a professional sex worker would be a tad uncomforable and awkward doing that dance televised to millions with a virtual stranger. Do you think young Bristol should be as 'comfortable' doing the rhumba as "Miss Poster Child for Hep-C" Pamela Anderson? Now THAT would be sad, in my opinon. Bristol is a healthy, athletic attractive young lady who was unashamed enough of her body to have a child at 18. The rhumba is a very fake body consciousness situation. I'd be happy never to see it again, unless I'm dancing it in a bedroom with somebody I love.Originally Posted by prhoshay;4082035;
Yay to Tony for taking a shot at Jennifer
Audrina is really good and really enjoyable. Didn't like the music at all for an AT but overall she did a very nice job. She won't take Grey out of 1st but she should score well and be high up.


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James K. Sullivan, MD, is the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Butler Hospital. Previously serving as deputy medical director for clinical services, Dr. Sullivan joined Butler in 2007 as assistant unit chief on the Kent Unit.
A clinical assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Dr. Sullivan received his PhD in biology from Wesleyan University and his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He completed his internship in medicine at Hartford Hospital and his residency in psychiatry at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where he was a chief resident. Dr. Sullivan is a past recipient of the Prattle Excellence in Teaching Award from Brown University and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Exemplary Psychiatrist Award. A past president of Butler Hospital's Medical Staff Association, Dr. Sullivan was awarded the Robert J. Westlake Award for Physician Excellence in 2013.
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