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The Growing Importance of Infographics
Posted by Brian Kelly on 13 Feb 2012
Last week Liz Lyon, UKOLN Director gave a talk on "The informatics transform : re-engineering libraries for the Data Decade" at the VALA 2012 conference held in Melbourne, Australia. If you weren't there and are interested in Liz's thoughts of the implications of the growth of data for the research community in general and research librarians in particular you can view the video recording of Liz's talk.
I was particularly interested in the infographic on the volume of tweets which are currently being produced, which, as shown below, Liz included in her slides.
The Twitter infographic was produced by Touchagency.com and the infographic is free for reuse. I think it succeeds in putting across the importance of Twitter in a very succinct way – although, of course, the volume of tweets should not be regarding as providing an indicator of its value and, beneath the surface, there will be a need to question the figures presented – for example, is 5pm the best time to get retweeted if you have an international following or will you need to take into account these numbers of international followers and their time zone?
But I feel that people will be aware that infographics will only provide a summary, and not the full picture. Or, as Wikipedia puts it "Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly".
The need to be able to put across complex information quickly and clearly is becoming increasingly important in today's environment in which, as Liz states in her slides "A single sequencer can now generate in a day what it took 10 years to collect for the Human Genome Project" (see reference).
I'm therefore pleased to see that a recent JISC Call on Activity Data: Analytics and Metrics is inviting submissions for a report on Activity Data: Analytics and Metrics which will be one of a series of high profile reports JISC is commissioning to inform the UK FE/HE sector on key issues relating to digital infrastructure which states that:
It is intended that this Report will be made available in a web format, and that it will contain a lot of visuals, including "infographics" where appropriate.
I'm aware, however, that some people feel that infographics 'dumb down' complex issues. But for me this is simply restating the aims of infographics in a negative way: what is the difference between "infographics present complex information quickly and clearly" and "infographics present complex information is a trivial and superficial way"? You may make the second point if you disagree with the arguments being presented in an infographic rather than responding to the points being made.
Which isn't to say that there can't be bad infographics as well as good infographics. For me it will be important that the sources of information used to provide an infographic are readily available, so that if you disagree with the arguments being presented in an infographic you are able to provide a different interpretations from the same source.
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13 Feb 2012 at 3:04 pm
I think the big problem is that a lot of things that get badged as infographics aren't actually infographics.
The Twitter infographic is a good example of that. The information isn't any easier to understand or memorable than it would have been as a list of plain text. There's virtually no graphical representation of the data (it's mostly a lot of numbers that have been placed in arbritarily coloured circles that have no scale to show any relationships between them), according to the definition, it's not an infographic.
For some examples of infographics done well I'd recommend the book / website "Information is Beautiful" by David McCandless – http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to clean up contaminated soil and sediment at the Lower Ley Creek area of the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site located in the Town of Salina, Onondaga County, New York. Discharges from nearby industries and a landfill have contaminated the soil and sediment with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other hazardous substances. PCBs are potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can build up in the tissue of fish and other wildlife and pose a threat to people who eat them. The EPA proposal calls for a combination of excavation, capping and disposal of contaminated soil and sediment.
"The proposed plan is an important step in the ongoing effort to control sources of contamination to Onondaga Lake and protect people's health," said Judith A. Enck, EPA Regional Administrator. "PCBs are dangerous and contaminate fish, so it is important that the Lower Ley Creek be cleaned up."
The EPA will hold a public meeting on July 29, 2014 to explain the proposed plan and is encouraging public comments. The meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the Town of Salina Town Hall, 201 School Road, Liverpool, New York. Comments will be accepted until August 14, 2014.
The Onondaga Lake Superfund Site, which includes the lake itself, six tributaries and various upland sources of contamination, was placed on the EPA's Superfund list in 1994. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the EPA have organized the cleanup work for the Onondaga Lake Superfund Site into 11 areas. These areas are in various stages of cleanup.
The Lower Ley Creek area is located in an industrialized area in the Town of Salina, just north of Syracuse, New York. Since the late 19th century, several industries have been operating near Ley Creek and its branches. As part of these operations, industrial wastes containing PCB oils and other hazardous substances were discharged into the Creek. In the 1970s, Ley Creek was dredged and redirected through the Town of Salina Landfill by Onondaga County in an effort to control flooding. Dredged material was spread along the shoreline of the Creek and also disposed of at the Town of Salina Landfill.
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The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. At sites which are placed on the Superfund list of the most contaminated waste sites, the EPA searches for parties responsible for the contamination and seeks to hold them accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups.
In May 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice and the EPA reached a legal agreement with Motors Liquidation Company, the successor to the General Motors Corporation after its bankruptcy. For a period of 40 years, General Motors discharged PCBs and other hazardous substances from its Inland Fisher Guide facility into Ley Creek. Under the agreement, the EPA received approximately $22 million for the environmental cleanup of the Lower Ley Creek area.
The proposed cleanup of the Lower Ley Creek area under the EPA's plan is expected to cost between $18 and $35.5 million, depending upon the actual volume of estimated contaminated material, the degree to which it is contaminated, and where the excavated soil and sediment is properly disposed.
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Plentiful fossils of dinosaur contemporary allow population study
November 3, 2004
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for hundreds of millions of years, then disappeared so completely that to find even a partially complete skeleton of a single multi-ton animal is rare. Meanwhile, the Virginia Museum of Natural History has scores of fossils of Tanytrachelos ahynis, a 12- to 18-inch reptile that also lived millions of years ago at the same time as the earliest dinosaurs.
Tanytrachelos is a long-necked reptile that was related to the perhaps better-known 9-foot (up to 3-meter) long Tanystropheus, also known for its very long neck. They belong to the Protosauria, a suborder of aquatic and terrestrial reptiles. As a contribution to efforts to create a family tree for all protosaurs, a Virginia Tech graduate student is taking advantage of the plentiful and nearby collection of Tanytrachelos fossils to study their preservation and population dynamics.
Michelle Casey, of Elk River, Minn., a master's degree student in geosciences at Virginia Tech, will present her findings at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Denver Nov. 3-6 and at the Geological Society of America 116th annual meeting Nov. 7-10, also in Denver.
All but one of the small, aquatic reptile fossils are from the Solite Quarry, located on the Virginia-North Carolina border not too far from the museum in Martinsville, Va., and all specimens are currently accessible through the Martinsville museum.
The quarry reveals the late Triassic Cow Branch Formation. The location was a rift basin lake, one of a series of lakes from South Carolina to New Jersey that formed inland when the European continent pulled away from the American continent, forming the Atlantic Ocean.
"Working with Tanys is cool because you find a lot of them still articulated — the pieces of bone are still put together," Casey said. "They must have been buried really fast or left completely undisturbed after they died."
The bones are still in the rock. "They are too fragile to remove from the sediment." Nevertheless, with 90 specimens so far, Casey has measured everything she can about all the little bones — shape, size, relationships — more than 100 linear measurements. She plots each fossil using statistical methods to condense multiple-dimensional space into two-dimensional plots and then looks for variation between different groups of Tanys.
So far, Casey, museum vertebrate paleontology curator Nicholas Fraser, and Virginia Tech geosciences professor Michal Kowalewski have discovered there are no differences in morphology between populations of fossils from different times. "We have fossils from different lake cycles, about 350,000 years apart, but found no statistically significant differences in the size of specimens from the different periods," Casey said.
The researchers also tested for size differences between two different types of Tany based on a bone in the pelvic region that about 40 percent of them have. One might be female and one male, Casey said. "We found no significant differences in shape or size between the two forms, suggesting that they definitely belong to the same species."
In addition to the morphometric studies, the team is doing taphonomic analyses, trying to determine what effects the exceptional preservation might have on other Tany studies.
Casey's bone measurements also note when bones were missing, "so all the missing values are data. For instance, we can look at how many are missing a tibia, how many are missing a femur, how many are missing both, and how many fossils have all or most of the variables."
"We are looking at which variables are most common and which are least common. Even in this collection, where there is exceptional preservation of articulated specimens, the outlook is bleak," Casey said. "Only 47 percent of specimens have both of the two most common variables, femur length and femur width. Most have more missing variables than stuff you are looking for."
Casey said that such preservation trends are often linked to environmental factors rather than any intrinsic differences between the fossils themselves. "These specimens were preserved at the bottom of a lake, where there was not much oxygen. In that environment, there were not many scavengers. Perhaps there were differences in these factors in the two horizons the fossils come from," she said. "Another research group from the museum is working with Dr. Fraser on the geochemistry to address these issues."
The paper, "Morphometric and Taphonomic Analyses of Tanytrachelos ahynis from the Late Triassic Cow Branch Formation, Solite Quarry, Virginia," by Casey, Fraser, and Kowalewski, will be presented at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Adam's Mark Hotel and at the Geological Society of American meeting at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in rooms 111/113 of the Colorado Convention Center. "It is unusual to have this kind of data to present at the SVP," Casey said, "because the sample sizes are usually so small."
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair (RYA.I) launched a third bid to take over Irish rival Aer Lingus AERL.I on Tuesday, offering shareholders a 38 percent premium to the market in a deal that would require regulators to drop opposition to a merger.
Europe's largest budget carrier, which already owns just under 30 percent of Aer Lingus, said in a statement after markets closed that it would offer 1.30 euros per share in a bid to secure at least 50 percent.
The bid, which values Aer Lingus at 694 million euros ($880 million), would be subject to the approval of the European Commission, which in 2007 blocked an earlier bid by Ryanair for Aer Lingus on competition grounds.
The surprise bid came after repeated offers by Ryanair to sell its stake in Aer Lingus and days after Britain's competition watchdog launched a probe into the control it already wields at its Irish rival.
"This offer represents a significant opportunity to combine Aer Lingus with Ryanair, to form one strong Irish airline group capable of competing with Europe's other major airline groups," Ryanair's chief executive, Michael O'Leary, said in a statement.
Aer Lingus, which operates out of Europe's largest airports, would complement Ryanair's fleet, which focuses on cheaper regional bases, he said.
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O'Leary has long pursued the takeover of Aer Lingus, Ireland's 75-year-old former flag carrier, to cap the rise of Ryanair, which started with one 15-seater plane in 1985.
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Britain's Office of Fair Trading last week ruled that Ryanair's ownership of a minority stake threatened competition.
"It is very hard to see how it would be accepted by European competition authorities," said Brian Devine, an analyst with NCB Stockbrokers.
Ryanair said it believed it could overcome concerns about competition in the Irish market that derailed earlier bids, citing consolidation within the industry and increased capacity at Dublin airport.
"Ryanair believes that any competition concerns ... can be addressed by Ryanair making appropriate remedies prior to the completion of this offer and by significant synergies and cost efficiencies resulting from this combination," it said in a statement.
It said the fact that an employee share trust, which had opposed a merger, has been disbanded also increased the chances of securing 50 percent approval.
Irish transport minister Leo Varadkar said he would make a statement on the offer after consulting with his cabinet colleagues.
Aer Lingus' shareholders include Etihad Airways, which bought a 3 percent stake in Irish airline in May.
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The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, former governor of Pennsylvania and United States attorney general under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and Louis D. Boccardi, retired president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press, will comprise the independent review panel that will examine the process by which a recent "60 Minutes Wednesday" report was prepared and broadcast.
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Safeway Inc. and a California coffee drinker have agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming Safeway committed fraud by selling coffee labeled as a Kona blend even though it didn't include much Kona coffee.
Court documents show Chanee Thurston, of Benicia, Calif. and Safeway settled the case on March 21. Thurston's attorney says settlement terms are confidential.
Thurston filed the lawsuit in federal court in Northern California two years ago, accusing the supermarket of false and misleading labeling. Safeway argued its labels clearly indicated the coffee was a blend that mixed different types of beans.
Kona Coffee Farmer Association board member Bruce Corker said Monday the settlement is disappointing. The association had hoped the court would address the legality of selling coffee that's primarily not from Kona as a "Kona blend."


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Philip L from WY
Constructed well. Too small for our application, Burros. Too small for single flake of hay. Now I have to pay $48.00 to return it.
Mark B from Texas
This is a very nice feeder. Both hay and feed work equally well in it. It would have been nice to have drain holes factory drilled into it, but a few minutes with my drill and my problem solved. Some my not want the holes in theirs, so I guess that is a personal preference.
Andrea P from NM
Feeding single rams with this feeder. Needs to have a bigger pan for feeding grain. Bars could be wider and set out farther to the front. Big rams can pull feed from the top. It only holds 1 small block of hay. Built well and appears to be holding up to abuse that rams dish out. This was the main reason for purchase.
Mona K from Ca
feeder is better than I had, which was nothing but goats still waste lots of hay with this feeder. They drag hay out top, should have some sort of flap for a covering. Is a bit smaller than the flakes, too.
Robert B from idaho
this is a great single animal feeder. I set this up for my goats and it holds enough hay where I don't have to feed every day plus I feed beet pulp pellets in the bottom. Took me all of less then a minute to set up. Ease of use and filling my needs for the animals makes this a no brainer. The price is the best on the market.


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Combustible dust, also known as explosive dust, cleaning is a required preventative maintenance program in manufacturing and production facilities to prevent safety hazards, possible fires and explosions.
This type of cleaning also helps preserve proper indoor air quality (IAQ).
Combustible dust is fine particulate dust, which is generated from wood, metal, grain, agricultural, chemical, plastic, paper and carbonaceous products.
Manufacturing and production facilities" equipment and machinery often pulverize, mill, grind, crush, macerate and cut bulk product.
In return, dust is generated and accumulates on all equipment and facility structure surfaces.
The fine powder dust, which is suspended on higher, inaccessible and unnoticeable surfaces, is the most problematic.
Combustible dust can impact the facility"s workers" health, leading to illnesses and injuries.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 6.1 percent of private-sector employees suffered 5.7 million workplace injuries and illnesses in 2000.
Forty-six percent of those injury cases required days away from work for recuperation or restricted work activity.
J. Paul Leigh of the Stanford Medical Center notes that businesses spend $170.9 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses — expenditures that come straight out of company profits.
Injuries and illnesses increase workers" compensation as well as retraining expenses, absenteeism and production faults.
They also decrease productivity, morale and ultimately, profits.
Fortunately, statistics from injury and illness reports filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) show that workplaces that establish safety and health management systems reduce their injury and illness costs by 20-40 percent.
"In today"s competitive business environment," notes OSHA Administrator John L. Henshaw on the organization"s website, "the black-and-blue of workplace injuries can be the difference between operating in the black and running in the red."
Where To Target
Some of the cleaning services that may be required to control combustible dust and areas to target include:
- High ceilings and surfaces
- Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
- Dust collectors
- Conveyor belts
- Silo tanks
- Lab fume hood cleaning
- Dust control vacuuming.
These services help prevent airborne dust and particulates from accumulating in the manufacturing and production facility.
These services may also help promote equipment longevity, decrease utility costs for operating equipment, increase the brightness of lighting, stabilize insurance rates and allow a greater return on investment on manufacturing equipment.
Combustible dust cleaning should be performed by a certified and trained cleaning company.
The certified cleaning contractor should have the proper industrial and commercial cleaning equipment.
Recommended Equipment
Industrial, explosion-proof, high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter equipped vacuums are the main pieces of equipment for this type of cleaning.
Broom sweeping and compressed air is not a viable means of cleaning combustible dust, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 654 Standard.
The act of broom sweeping and compressed air actually stirs up dust and particulates into the air, which may create more issues with sensitive equipment and possible dust explosions.
High-reach equipment, such as high-reach platforms, scissor lifts, articulate booms, scaffolding, fiberglas extension ladders and fiberglas A-frame ladders for the interior work, is necessary.
Standing and portable floodlights may be required for night work and hard-to-see areas.
Performing combustible dust cleaning requires several important procedures.
The first and most important procedure is safety.
Preventing static electricity, sparking and any electrical charge is the first preventative step.
Proper grounding of in-house electrical systems, equipment, forklifts, high-reach equipment, vacuums, extension cords and lighting is mandatory.
Testing and sampling the powder and bulk dust particulate is required to see if the dust particulate is combustible or explosive.
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) of each product will be useful in testing the dust.
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The simple act of dragging a piece of metal across a concrete floor can create a spark, which can lead to a dust explosion.
Proper lock-out/tag-out documentation, slip and fall prevention, high reach and harness protection and confined space awareness are some examples of safety musts.
Donning proper personal protection equipment (PPE), including safety lanyards and harnesses, hard hats, safety glasses, ear protection, disposable gloves, special coveralls and steel toe boots, is essential as well.
Placing orange safety cones and yellow caution tape in working areas is required to inform others of hazardous conditions.
Additionally, preparation is one of the most critical procedures of combustible dust cleaning.
Proper preparation will contain dust and particulate and will alleviate a possibly unhappy customer.
Preparation materials will include covering your customer"s equipment, contents, walls and floors.
The covering will also serve as a containment barrier for any possible recontamination.
Trashcan containers or 55-gallon drums with liners can be used to collect the debris.
Combustible dust cleaning involves several main aspects of cleaning.
First, always work from ceiling to walls to floor.
The actual cleaning and removing of dust and particulate buildup will consist of several cleaning techniques and methods.
Cleaning and removing grease and particulate buildup should be performed by HEPA vacuuming and/or mechanical wet wiping.
This portion of cleaning should be performed under containment to prevent any cross contamination of other areas and equipment.
Mechanical cleaning procedures are based on parameters set by the NFPA, the Fire Protection Research Foundation, the National Air Duct Cleaning Association (NADCA), the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), the American Biorecovery Association (ABRA), the Indoor Air Quality Association (IAQA) and OSHA.
Not all cleaning vendors are alike in safe cleaning procedures, techniques, quality and pricing.
Be aware of vendors who only clean using dirty rags, brooms, push brooms, compressed air, dustpans and contaminated cleaning equipment.
Facility owners should ask the vendor they hire to provide a liability insurance and workers" compensation certificate.
Photos of past work can document in detail the quality cleaning the vendor has performed.
A certificate of completion for combustible dust cleaning is also required for insurance policies.
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Named after Sir Samuel Blackall, the second Governor of Queensland, Blackall is located on the Matilda Highway . The district was discovered in 1846 by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell and the township was gazetted in 1868; there is plenty of heritage and history to uncover.
Literally growing on the sheep's back, Blackall became a thriving outback township. You can discover all about the wool industry at the Historic Blackall Woolscour, the last remaining scour in Australia, a virtual living museum.
Blade shearer Jack Howe put Blackall on the map in 1892 at 'Alice Downs' when he set a world record by shearing 321 sheep in seven hours and 40 minutes. It actually took another 58 years before anyone could match this feat and that was by machine shears.
Blackall was the first Outback town to start drilling an artesian bore back in 1885, today visitors can rest, relax and revive in the natural artesian waters at the thermal spa and swimming pool at Blackall's Aquatic Centre.
Blackall is also the home of the Black Stump which was used for surveying purposes and permanently marks the original Astro Station established in 1887. Anything west of this point is said to be 'beyond the black stump'.
Whether spending a long time or a short time, there is plenty to see and do in Blackall!
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As 2007 draws to a close, we look forward to new beginnings in the upcoming year. There's nothing like a fresh coat of paint to wipe the slate clean and start the year right. Benjamin Moore helps us do just that with its new paint colors for 2008, a soothing selection composed of three lines: Modern Tranquility, Organic Comforts and Pure Opulence. Arizona Home & Design gets an inside peek at color trends and what's around the corner with the help of Doty Horn, director of color and design with Benjamin Moore.
Returning home, the theme for Benjamin Moore's '08 lines, is a response to what Horn describes as our hurried lifestyle. "(We) want to feel at home in any space," she says. "Trends are evolutionary, not revolutionary. They reflect (through color in this case) the major influences of the day." These top 10 colors for 2008 help establish a soothing, relaxing ambiance.
Organic Comforts
This nature-inspired assortment of shades is a skillful blend of the outdoor world with that of the interior. "Where the other ('08 series) are much more light and airy, this color palette is much more earthy," Horn says. Green, yellow and red is a classic color combination in hospitality settings, which is used to create an association with home — they welcome and comfort. Horn says the colors connote nature — the earth, grass and renewed spring life.
Mayflower Red
Reminiscent of an Arizona sunset, this fiery hue brings the outdoors in. Names of colors in this series elicit "an environmental, nature-inspired theme…more organic and some historic," Horn says. Just like the famous Mayflower brought colonists to the New World, Benjamin Moore paint ships new life into your home.
Misted Fern
Taking a cue from nature, the color brings both warmth and coolness to a room, striking an aesthetic balance. "Green is here to stay," Horn says.
Sulfer Yellow
A dose of sunshine does the body good, and this cheery yellow can have the same effect indoors, arousing feelings of enlightenment and clarity . A boost in color can also up energy levels.
Pure Opulence
"Pure Opulence represents the core of the center of the earth, it's raw and pure," Horn says. These elegant, deep-toned hues put a new spin on classic colors.
Cherokee Brick
Projecting connotations of youthful effervescence, this deep-toned shade looks great on entire walls or just as an accent. Its spirited color effortlessly revives bland spaces.
Aegean Teal
A burst of cool, this calming blue tone contrasts with the blazing red-hot landscape of the desert.
Ferret Brown
This rich brown represents minerals found deep within the earth, its luxurious shade is anything but dull.
French Violet
French Violet is like "discovering an amethyst in the raw," Horn says. Like the precious gem itself, this shade is not only exquisite to look at but also highly usable and multifunctional. The color pairs well with a variety of interior spaces.
Modern Tranquility
The collection's main motive is tranquility, a sense of peace and serenity. The colors seem to be infused with air, giving one a sense of floating. No color stands on its own, but rather flows together into one. Relaxing tones were selected for the warm, comforting aura they exude.
Green Tint
This lightly hued color has slight green undertones, perfect for subtly highlighting a space.
"Names evoke a color association with something familiar, yet inspirational," Horn says. As delicious as its namesake, Latte is warm and enticing.
Litchfield Gray
Here's a more inviting version of classic gray. Like others in the series, this soft shade seamlessly mixes with other colors. "It's not about individual color, it's how the color reflects the mood in context with another," Horn says.


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U.S. beefs up security measures before possible military strike on Syria
(CNN) — U.S. authorities are tightening up domestic security measures ahead of a possible U.S. military attack on Syria.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are warning of a higher risk of cyber attacks after months of similar disruptions by hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army.
One such attack brought down the website of The New York Times in recent days, and authorities say more attacks are likely.
Warnings from Iranian officials that any U.S. attack on Syria could be met with retaliation has also prompted warnings of possible terror threats in the United States or its interests abroad, U.S. law enforcement officials said.
FBI officials have asked agents around United States to focus on ongoing investigations related to Syria and the surrounding region, checking in with contacts and informants, and "redoubling their efforts," as one official said.
Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah have intervened in the 2-year-old Syrian civil war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. The United States has blamed al-Assad's regime for alleged chemical weapons attacks that have killed scores of civilians.
Hezbollah is known to have extensive fundraising operations inside the United States, and authorities often worry those assets could be used for terrorism.
Unlike previous U.S. military operations against Libya and Iraq, which prompted the FBI to conduct thousands of interviews with exiles living in the United States, FBI officials say the Syrian crisis isn't prompting such a move this time.
Instead, law enforcement officials say they are trying to focus on cases already under way and working to develop any new information that signals possible retaliation against the United States.
The Syrian diaspora in the United States amounts to fewer than 150,000 people with Syrian ancestry, according to 2010 U.S. Census estimates. Syrian immigrant communities in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey and elsewhere tend to be longstanding.


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To get your car up and running again, we employ the most skilled technicians, who utilize state-of-the-art diagnostics and equipment to correctly service your car right, the first time. Having served the Silverthorn, CO community for many years, we have seen it all, so we can handle any vehicle issue you bring our way!
We are trained and equipped to handle a full range of services on many car makes and models.
No matter what vehicle you drive, you need to follow a regular preventative maintenance schedule so you don't experience any problems in the future that could have been avoided.
Leadfoot Linda's is one of the best auto repair shops in the Silverthorn, CO area for honest, reliable, and cost-effective service—our many repeat customers will tell you the same! We have built a reputation for professionalism that truly sets us apart.
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We ask that all visits to the Art Museum and Skinner Museum be scheduled through a staff member, and we invite you to arrange an initial planning meeting to discuss your ideas for a new class experience or assignment. Collaboration is key! The better we understand your teaching objectives and specific course content, the more helpful we can be in structuring your museum visit.
To better serve you and to give us time to make all necessary preparations, we ask that you contact us at least 2-4 weeks in advance to arrange your museum visit. Due to high demand, we reserve our Teaching Spaces—the gallery spaces and our classroom, the Carson Teaching Gallery—on a first-come, first-served basis. The classroom is often booked a semester in advance, especially for classes visiting multiple times throughout the semester and for popular afternoon seminar times.
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Ulrike G.K. Wegst
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Ulrike Wegst studied physics at the University of Göttingen in Germany and received her PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1997 for analysis of the mechanical performance of natural materials. She worked on the CES Eco-Selector software before moving to the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in France in 2000 and to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany in 2001. She has been a faculty guest scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Anne Stevens Assistant Professor at Drexel University. Professor Wegst joined the faculty at Dartmouth in January 2012.
- PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cambridge 1997
Research Interests
Mechanical performance of natural materials; biomaterials and tissue engineering; self-assembly; biotemplated materials; biomimetics; novel materials for nuclear fuel applications; multifunctional hybrid materials; materials selection and eco-design; eco-audits; materials in musical instruments and sports equipment; science education through interdisciplinary projects linking music, arts and sport
Active Research
- Biomaterials by freeze casting
- Freeze-casting as a novel manufacturing process for fast reactor fuels
- Properties of microscale constituents & interfaces in hierarchically structured composite materials
- Structure-property-processing correlations in ice-templated materials
- ENGS 17: Making Music: The Art, Science, and Symbolism of Musical Instruments (ENGS 17.04)
- ENGS 21: Introduction to Engineering
Selected Publications
- Wegst, U.G.K., Hao, B., Saiz, E., Tomsia, A.P. and Ritchie, R.O. (2014) Bioinspired structural materials; Nature Materials, DOI: 10.1038/nmat4089.
Ice-templated Materials
- Francis N.L., Hunger P.M., Donius A.E., Wegst U.G.K., Wheatley M.A. (2014) Strategies for neurotrophin-3 and chondroitinase ABC release from freeze-cast chitosan-alginate nerve guidance scaffolds, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/term.1912.
- Donius, A.E., Liu, A., Berglund, L.A. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2014) "Anisotropy Effects on Mechanical Functionality of High-Porosity Nanocellulose-Nanoclay Aerogels Prepared by Directional Freeze Casting," J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mater. 37, 88–99, DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2014.05.012.
- Donius, A.E., Obbard, R., Burger, J.A., Hunger, P.M., Wheatley, M.A., Baker, I., Doherty, R. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2014) "Cryogenic EBSD Reveals Structure of Directionally Solidified Ice-polymer Composite," Materials Characterization, 93, 184–190, DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2014.04.003.
- Snyder, J.E., Hunger, P.M., Wang, C., Hamid, Q., Wegst, U.G.K. and Sun, W. (2014) Combined multi-nozzle deposition and freeze casting process to superimpose two porous networks for hierarchical three-dimensional microenvironment, Biofabrication, 6(1), 015007, DOI: 10.1088/1758-5082/6/1/015007.
- Francis, N.L., Hunger, P.M., Donius, A.E., Riblett, B.W., Zavaliangos, A., Wegst, U.G.K. and Wheatley, M.A. (2013) Ice-templated, linearly aligned chitosan-alginate scaffold for neural tissue engineering. J Biomed Mater Res Part A 2013:00A:000–000.
- Snyder, J., Hunger, P.M., Wang, C.Y., Wegst, U.G.K. and Sun, W. (2013) Controlled porosity of ceramic scaffolds by directional freeze casting and scaffold printing, ASME Proceedings of the ASME/ISCIE International Symposium on Flexible Automation, ISFA 2012, 59-65.
- Hunger, P.M., Donius, A.E. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2013) Platelets Self-assemble into Porous Nacre during Freeze Casting, J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, 19, 87-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.10.013.
- Hunger, P.M., Donius, A.E. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2013) Structure–property-processing correlations in freeze-cast composite scaffolds, Acta Biomat., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2013.01.012.
- Saiz, E., Zimmermann, E.A., Lee, J.S., Wegst and U.G., Tomsia, A.P. (2013) Perspectives on the role of nanotechnology in bone tissue engineering, Dental Materials, 29(1), 103-115. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2012.08.001.
- Riblett, B.W., Francis, N.L., Wheatley, M.A. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2012) Ice-Templated Scaffolds with Microridged Pores Direct DRG Neurite Growth, Advanced Functional Materials, 22(23), 4920–4923. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201290142.
- Tomsia, AP., Lee, J.S., Wegst, U.G.K. and Saiz, E. (2012) Nanotechnology for Dental Implants, Oral & Craniofacial Tissue Engineering, 2(1), 23-34.
- Wegst, U.G.K., Schecter, M., Oroho, A.E., and Hunger P.M. (2010) Biomaterials by Freeze-casting, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: "Advanced Processing of Biomaterials," 368(1917), 2099-2121.
- Meghri, N.W., Donius, A.E., Riblett, B.W., Martin, E.J., Clyne, A.M. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2010) Directionally Solidified Biopolymer Tissue Scaffolds: Mechanical Properties and Endothelial Cell Response, JOM, 62(7), 71-75.
- Saiz, E., Tomsia A.P., Lee J.S., Mankani M.H., Marshall S.J., Marshall G.W., Wegst, U.G.K. (2008) Novel nanocomposites for bone regeneration, Advanced Materials & Processes, 166(7), 66-67.
Electrospun Biomaterials
- Donius, A.E., Austero, M.S., Schauer, C.L. and Wegst, U.G.K. (2013) New crosslinkers for electrospun chitosan fibre mats. Part II. Mechanical properties, J. R. Soc. Interface, 9(75):2551-2562. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0946.
- Schiffman, J.D., Kiechel, M.A., Donius, A.E., Wegst, U.G.K. and Schauer, C.L. (2013) Crosslinking poly(allylamine) fibers electrospun from basic and acidic solutions, Journal of Materials Science, 48(22), 7856-7862.
- Austero, M.S., Donius, A.E., Wegst, U.G.K. and Schauer, C.L. (2012) New crosslinkers for electrospun chitosan fibre mats. I. Chemical analysis, J. R. Soc. Interface, 9(75):2551-62. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0241.
- Frohbergh, M.E., Katsman, A., Botta, G.P., Lazarovicia, P., Schauer, C.L, Wegst, U.G.K. and Lelkes, P.I. (2012) Electrospunhydroxyapatite-containing chitosan nanofibers crosslinked with genipin for bone tissue engineering, Biomaterials, 33(36), 9167–9178.
Materials Characterization and Properties
- Srot, V., Wegst, U.G.K., Salzberger, U., Koch, C.T., Hahn, K., Kopold, P. and van Aken, P.A. (2013) Microstructure, chemistry, and electronic structure of natural hybrid composites in abalone shell. Micron. (Published online 13 March 2013)
- Wegst, U.G.K. (2011) Bending Efficiency through Property Gradients in Bamboo, Palm and Wood-based Composites, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 4(5), 744-55.
- Srot, V., Wegst, U.G.K., Salzberger, U., Koch, C.T. and van Aken, P.A. (2010) ELNES Investigations of Interfaces in Abalone Shell, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 16, 1218-1219.
- Huber, G., Orso, S., Spolenak, R., Wegst, U.G.K., Enders, S., Gorb, S.N. and E. Arzt (2008) Mechanical properties of a single gecko seta, International Journal of Materials Research, 10, 1113-1118.
- Juodkazis, S., Mizeikis V., Seet, K.K., Misawa H., and Wegst, U.G.K. (2007) Mechanical properties and tuning of three-dimensional polymeric photonic crystals, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 241904.
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When I lift, my chest and arms develop quickly and are easy to get stronger and bigger. I have really small lower legs — and no matter what I do, they get stronger, but not bigger.
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It was certainly an unusual sight at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert—a bagpiper, in full regalia, slowly marching down the left aisle of Verizon Hall, playing a tune with the stirring but mournful sounds of his instrument. We saw and heard this in the final moments of Peter Maxwell Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, the first piece on the orchestra's program on Thursday night, January 18.
For the second week of the orchestra's "British Isles Festival," all three works on the program had a Scottish flavor. I won't say that they were Scottish, since none of the three composers are natives of Scotland. But Davies comes the closest, as this English-born composer (1934-2016) took up residence in the Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland (brrrr!). This 1984 piece colorfully depicts a wedding, including a drunken party, and ending with a calming sunrise. This was the first Philadelphia Orchestra performance, and the audience responded enthusiastically to the piece.
The next work, Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, is an established crowd-pleaser. Bruch incorporated Scottish folk melodies in this showpiece for violin and orchestra, and the audience was treated to an outstanding performance by Juliette Kang, the orchestra's first associate concertmaster. I know that this orchestra is filled with fine musicians, but this performance was many levels above "fine." Tone, technique, phrasing, emotional commitment—she has it all.
The melodies in Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony (No. 3, but actually the last of five adult symphonies he composed) are not specifically folk tunes, but were inspired by Mendelssohn's visit to Scotland at age 20. There are no bagpipes in this symphony, of course, but my personal impression is that the aura of that instrument—sounds which are both mournful and stirring—can be found in this gorgeous work. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led a warm and flowing rendition of this beloved symphony.
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I was just in the Philippines this past February and stayed in our condo at Rockwell 1. I wonder why my cousins didnt bring me to your club.
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Should architecture students be taught sustainable design? And if so, how? The AJ presents five contrasting views
Green infrastructure specialist Blanche Cameron proposes a 'deep green' strategy informing everything an architect does. Environmental engineer Doug King wants a collaborative approach, with Nottingham's course director Sergio Altomonte calling for sustainable design to be prioritised by educators. And, while Tim Waterman argues landscape architecture must play a key role in architecture students' understanding of what sustainability is, lecturer and journalist Austin Williams - who opens the debate - thinks the 'S' word should be completely ignored.
Austin Williams: The anti view
The University of Gloucester has 'embedded Education for Sustainability across the curriculum'. De Montfort is 'integrating sustainability into the very fabric of the university'. Coventry seeks to be higher in 'the People and Planet Green League by 2015'. Nottingham is 'committed to becoming a leading green university'. Blah, blah. The list goes on.
Sustainability is ingrained in higher education. It is an orthodoxy… and one that I resent. When the Higher Education Funding Council for England states that it seeks 'to promote sustainable development across the sector', one wonders where the critical engagement with government instrumentalism has gone. Where, too, are independence of academic enquiry and pride in intellectual rigour?
As the Unesco Decade of Education for Sustainable Development comes to an end, it is worth asking whether the autonomy of educational enquiry is being sacrificed in a climate of conformity. Are students being educated, or indoctrinated?
Indeed, such is the power of the sustainability mantra that it is almost unconscionable to be opposed to it. When asked to contribute to this feature, it was suggested that I take the view that sustainability shouldn't merit special consideration and should just be 'embedded in good teaching'. What other political ideology should be taught in universities (and schools) as if it is uncontestably a good thing?
I am opposed to the teaching of sustainability because I disagree with it. It is misanthropic, parochial and risk-averse. But primarily I am opposed to it because it undermines critical engagement and replaces it with blind loyalty.
The European Copernicus Charter insists that it is the 'duty' of universities 'to promote the practice of environmental ethics in society'. I think not. For me, it is the duty of universities to prioritise unadulterated education - without prefixes.
- Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities project and a lecturer in architecture and urbanism at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
Blanche Cameron: The deep green view
A fashion for concrete, glass and steel and swathes of impermeable paved surfaces has turned our towns and cities into hot, dry and polluted urban heat islands. At the same time, our natural ecosystems are in severe decline. Add to this the built environment sector's sloth-like response speed, vested interests and a lack of ecological understanding, combined with the dogma of 'starchitects' - and we the public and the planet have a problem.
Architects need the skills to respond to this challenge. If we want livable 21st century towns and cities, we need to train our future built environment professionals to integrate soil and vegetation into every site, with rain gardens that manage storm water, living roofs and walls that cool the city and reduce energy demand, street trees that provide shade and beauty all providing biodiverse habitats for nature and countless economic, energy, water and health benefits for us all.
I taught ecological design for many years at the Graduate School of the Environment in Wales, where the architecture Masters and RIBA Part 2 courses include in-depth theory and practical training from urban green infrastructure pioneers, such as Dusty Gedge and Gary Grant. Working with nature is not the preserve of a single profession.
Each discipline has a role to play in integrating ecology into development. Working in groups on design projects, site-based assessments of the potential to retrofit green infrastructure and visits to exemplar projects give graduates the tools and confidence to integrate nature in their own work as architects, landscape architects, engineers, ecologists, contractors, planners and policy-makers. We revere the Victorians for their innovative solutions to public health, housing and transportation challenges. Today we face similar challenges to make our cities resilient in a hostile climate. Unless we adopt a deeplyrooted restorative approach, we may just end up fiddling while Rome burns.
- Blanche Cameron is director of RESET Development
Doug King: The engineer's view
Clients often view sustainability as optional. It isn't.
Government seems to think BIM will drive sustainability. It won't.
Teaching sustainability as an isolated subject reinforces these 'technological fix' fallacies. For a sustainable future, we need to teach integrated design thinking. The complexity of modern buildings exceeds the expertise of any single profession. Components and systems of construction have a wide range of attributes, which must be managed simultaneously. Cost and embodied carbon are important, but so are other attributes like strength, insulation value, durability and manufacturing toxicity.
No single professional can manage all the attributes of even a simple component, such as a façade panel. Some will be expert in weathering, some in energy and some in deflection. Formulating designs on a limited range of attributes, such as cost and appearance, is obsolete. We must instead collaborate across professions to optimise designs over the gamut of attributes.
In buildings, other factors come into play, such as spatial organisation and human performance. Whilst concentrating on the impacts of construction, we must focus equally on cost, operational efficiency and social benefits. We need a method to manage all these diverse issues in synchronicity.
Design is the most powerful tool for solving complex, multi-dimensional problems. Sustainable education must nurture an awareness of attributes and proficiency in design, delivered in a collaborative, interdisciplinary context.
Today's students, architects and engineers alike, must be challenged to apply their creativity to jointly solving real-life problems. This way they'll develop their own sustainable solutions rather than simply following received wisdom. They'll also develop a healthy respect for the contribution of their peers.
- Doug King is a building performance specialist and visiting professor at the universities of Bath and Chongqing
Sergio Altomonte: The view from Europe
Education for sustainability must facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue between different professions. Such was the conclusion of EDUCATE (Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe), an EU-funded research project which reviewed sustainable design pedagogy across seven European universities, including the Architectural Association and the University of Nottingham. The project, which ran from 2009 to 2012, was funded by the European Commission to propose strategies for the integration of sustainable design into the teaching and practice of architecture.
The project concluded that an architecture curriculum must make sustainability a priority from the beginning of studies through to continuing professional development. This means that academic and professional institutions must be fully committed to championing sustainable design and inspiring learners through appropriate methods, tools, and techniques.
A variety of programme structures can deliver these aims, depending on the ethos and organisation of a particular institution. Disciplines can be taught in parallel, be partially or fully integrated into the studio, or the programme can be taught by domain-specific elective classes. In all cases, teaching should be informed by the results of research and built practice as well as by policies and market demands.
Sustainable design education can be understood in three stages: sensitisation, validation and reflection. This can be delivered across undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees, or be condensed in a single cycle of higher or postprofessional education. Without prescribing an ideal curriculum, these three different stages of learning - from the exploratory, through a propositive onto a critical approach - suggest the progression of abilities in sustainable design that should be attained for responsible practice.
- Sergio Altomonte is associate professor and course director at the University of Nottingham
Tim Waterman: The landscape architecture view
As little as a decade ago sustainability was seen as optional in landscape architecture. This is no longer the case, especially among young practitioners and students, who tend to be very green indeed. A sustainable ethic now dwells at the core of landscape architecture. Landscape architects are downplaying conceptual approaches in favour of pragmatic contextual design in which working with landscape is seen as an open-ended dialogue between human needs and desires and natural forces.
The vastness and complexity of landscape as a medium has always imparted a measure of humility upon landscape practitioners. This, paired with confidence along with a willingness to listen, communicate, and collaborate is the recipe for sustainable landscape design. Architecture is changing too with the realisation that buildings and landscapes must work together to satisfy environmental, ecological, social, and economic sustainability. No element can stand alone. Particular exemplars include Jeremy Till's wise and contingent approaches as developed in two books: Architecture Depends and Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture.
The Bartlett at UCL has also embraced landscape. Notable scholars there include Mark Smout, Laura Allen and Peg Rawes, whose forthcoming book Relational Architectural Ecologies: Architecture, Nature and Subjectivity promises to crack open whole new realms of architectural theory.
I fantasise about a future for education in which students begin without a specialisation but are exposed to lectures from across the architectural disciplines, building their appreciation of context. If we are to build a model for education that supports sustainable architectural practice into the future, every architecture programme should be paired with its landscape architecture complement.
- Tim Waterman is a landscape architect, author and honorary editor of Landscape
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I'm with Austin on this.
Somewhat reiterating my comments on the related thread "Who should be taught in the architectural canon?" the education of architects is quite simply too important to jeopardise with such errant syllabi as that stated.
Syllabi that indoctrinate views on architecture masters, theorists, sustainability or whatever else, is rather for researchers, not architects. Unless of course it's again part of that prerogative that get's 1000s of names (not really architects) or in a word 'false-livelihoods' onto the ARB Register.
Saying 'sooo-naa' instead of 'saw-na' for 'sauna' might have fooled someone's perception of an architect in the 1990s, but linguistic corruptions won't work now!
The newer generation of staple architects in the UK will indeed need to sift for those with a command on research vocabulary: the new black for architects' livelihoods, tinged with accent & red trousers for additional security by all means...
RIBA/ARB, I'll bring my fee down to help you differentiate the difference between researchers' and architects' courses. I said £50/hr: I'll go £40/hr now. I don't want the UK embarrassing itself anymore!
I know the NHS is bursting at the seams as Earth's 6th biggest employer (source BBC), but throwing livelihoods, for livelihoods sake, into the architecture profession is no way to go about manufacturing affluence, or taking the weight off the NHS. It's not working!
We'll need real architects (if not real doctors and nurses) to get out of this recession, so give that call RIBA/ARB and I'll sort it out. I'm not going less than 40 on this: I need to make a living too!
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