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VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: it is necessary to place the liquid contained in this flask, inside a crystal storage flask with stopper-scion (for example model TBB010, or in the flasks (model TBB020) that takes the Testing Set D5 model TBA040). Like it´s a liquid very corrosivly and dangerous , we advise to break the stopper of the bottle, inside the same carrier bag that contains it, in order to protect ourselves from possible splashes, and carefully and using appropriate gloves, lower the bag to be able to spill it in the flask where we will store it.
Way of employment:
1st -Scratch the object on a Testing Stone forming a wide and homogeneous outline.
2nd -With the help of the stopper-scion of the crystal flask of storage extend the acid on a part of the outline.
3rd -Watch the reaction attentivly during ten seconds.
4th -For better accuracy, we recommend to test simultaneously on another outline of known metal, for example using a Testing Star (model TBA060).
If the outline alters or forms a brown color, it is indicative of lower carats than the used Testing Acid. If it disappears completely, it indicates that it is not gold.
Attention to the pieces that could be gold or silver plated: we recommend to scratch strongly in some corner with a soft sandpaper, if we need to save the piece. If it is a piece that will be melted, directly scratch it with a File or Needle file, forming the outline with the scratched part on the Testing Stone.
To clean the Testing Stone: use a humid fabric, a soft sandpaper, or use the platinum Testing Acid, if gold or silver was touched before, because this acid will disapear up the remains other metals.


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Look, if it were up to me, it would be Chiwetel Ejiofor for Best Actor. But as I said the other day, it really is looking like it's going to be a battle between Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey. Which, from a campaign observational standpoint, I have to admit, might be a lot of fun. They both have factions. They're both, as you know, very well connected. The high school cafeteria seems pretty equally divided right now. How will they be swayed in the next 6 weeks?
But no one this morning is happier than Jonah Hill. Jonah Hill gets to go back to the Oscars! He gets to gaze admiringly at Leo and Marty all night! And, maybe, even sit with them! And from now on, we have to live with the fact that Jonah Hill is a TWO TIME Oscar nominee. F-ck us all.
It's looking really good for American Hustle right now too. Hustle placed in all four acting categories – Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are making two for two in nomination years – and received a nomination for directing and screenplay and Best Picture. The Directors Guild and the Producers Guild have acknowledged the film too, not unlike Silver Linings Playbook but the momentum for Hustle feels a lot stronger than it did for SLP. Which is why…
Brad Pit – GET TO WORK, where are you?!? 12 Years A Slave came out with 9 nominations behind Hustle and Gravity with 10 each. 12 Years had the potential for 13, as mentioned yesterday, which means, again, it's slowing… the hype is slowing. And Brad has 6 weeks to turn this sh-t around, COME ON.
Let's big up Barkhad Abdi, a first time actor who's now going to the Oscars. There's a feel-good story. Let's big up Dame Judi Dench because Philomena is WONDERFUL and you should go see it. Let's big up Lupita Nyong'o because she's a dream and also because we all win when she steps on a red carpet. Let's big up Before Midnight because yes, YES the screenplay deserves to be acknowledged.
Oh, the biggest.
No. Oprah.
Nothing significant for The Butler. Nothing significant for Inside Llewyn Davis either. That means Oscar Issac won't be there. And we expected this. For Oscar and for Michael B Jordan, it was a building year. There was no way they could take on all those others.
August: Osage County not included among Best Pictures. That surprised me. Everyone was talking like the "actors" were all behind this film. Well, not enough.
There are tight races across several categories – it's the most competitive we've seen it in a while. Which means they will be pimping themselves HARD until February 25 when voting closes. And that is Great for Gossip.

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The OMHA Players Club presented by HockeyShot is all about providing new and exciting challenges to help players celebrate hockey skills and develop their game at home throughout the year!
By joining the club you will gain exclusive access to hockey tips, challenges and awesome prizes.
The OMHA Players Club is comprised of three challenges. Check below for more information on the 5000 Puck Challenge, 10,000 Touches and the 30/30 Challenge.
Be sure to keep us in the loop with how the challenges are coming along by staying social; use the hashtag #OMHAPlayersClub.
This is a Total Development program that provides players with lots of repetition, opportunity to be creative and is engaging and fun!
The Challenges are open year-round and there are no deadlines to submit your finished tracking sheets.
When completed, either mail the finished tracking sheet or email [email protected].
Step 1 - Register below for the OMHA Players Club. When you Register you will receive an exclusive HockeyShot discount code for Players Club members only.
Step 2 – Participate in OMHA Players Club Challenges, events & activities!
Step 3 – Check your email for weekly tips, special contests and more challenges from the OMHA Players Club
Step 4 - Tell your friends!
So, how well do you think your shot would improve if you were to take 5000 shots over a 10-week period?
Think it can't be done? Think again! We have created a plan for players of all ages and abilities to follow over 10 weeks to accomplish this goal.
Shooting one hundred pucks a day, five days a week for ten weeks will help you develop your shooting & scoring skills at home.
The GOAL: Increase shot speed, quickness and accuracy
The PLAN: Shoot 5000 pucks in 10 weeks.
WEEKLY GOAL: 500 shots per week
DAILY GOAL: 100 shots per day (5 days per week)
How well do you think your stick handling would improve if you performed 10,000 Touches, stickhandling over an 8-week period?
We have created a plan for players of all ages and abilities to follow over 8 weeks to accomplish this goal.
The GOAL: Improved puck control skills through increased hand speed, quickness & coordination
The PLAN: Develop stickhandling skills performing a minimum of 10,000 touches
WEEKLY GOAL: 5 days per week | 75-150 minutes per week
DAILY GOAL:15-30 minutes per day
So, how well do you think your agility, balance, coordination (ABCs) and speed can improve over an 8-week period?
We have created age-appropriate programs for players of all abilities to follow over 8 weeks to accomplish this goal. This program was created as a development opportunity for hockey players to develop physical literacy skills and introduce them to an age-appropriate at-home dryland program.
The GOAL: Improved physical literacy and fundamental movement skills
The PLAN: 8 week program designed to develop physical literacy skills and ABC's using age-appropriate exercises and guidelines
WEEKLY GOAL: 3-5 days per week | 30-100 minutes per week
DAILY GOAL: 10-20 minutes per day
Hockey Canada and the OMHA believe in celebrating skill achievement. In Canadian minor hockey, coaches should be encouraged to foster the development of the fundamental skills required to play the game at the minor levels by measuring and providing positive individual feedback on skill development. It is essential that minor hockey associations and parents have a method of measuring success beyond wins and losses
The National Skills Standards & Testing (NSST) is a series of six (6) individual skill tests for Players and three (3) for Goaltenders have been designed to measure the skill level of players. These tests can be administered by team coaches requiring very little equipment, expense and set up time.


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Daily Archives: July 20, 2010
Hiiii! Remember me?? I had a busybusy day yesterday and I'm poking my head in here late to tell you all about it!
Let's first relish in these photos of healthy food. This was my "balance" for the day ;)
Leftover tofu balls. I really dig these!! Don't let the term "tofu ball" scare you.
Raw jicama and carrots. Reeeeally loved the jicama cold and in cubes like this. Much better than the cooked version.
All dipped in Averie's peanut sauce! I added a squirt of soy sauce in there for an extra kick. Dipping lunches are so fun. I munched and crunched till my tummy was ready to burst :)
Shortly after lunch, I set off to work to get in some exercise before my first ever client! The workout wasn't very noteworthy, I just plugged in the earphones and watched the Food Network for 50 minutes while doing intervals on the elliptical.
As for my first training session – I loved it. I can't believe how quickly it went by! I lucked out with a great first client, who at one point told me "It's always the nice ones that get you." Muhaha. I've already got my second client and I can't wait to get started on a program for him!
I left the gym with a big smile on my face and anticipating the fun evening I had in store. Stopped to fuel up first at Freshii.
This is a chain that I've only so far seen in Toronto, but I'm sure is elsewhere.
They do made-to-go wraps, sandwiches and salads. I ordered an albacore tuna wrap with a dill dressing.
Thumbs up on the taste front! Thumbs down on the price – $7 for a small wrap.
Okay, okay. Next I am going to share quite possibly the best and most important recipe ever on this blog…
It was so important, I had to tweet it.
First, you pour Jagermeister into a shot glass.
Then, you put a dash of Red Bull into a glass.
Line it up and admire your handy work. Take a deep breath and get ready for the hard work that is about to follow.
And take an endearing photo with your significant other ;)
Drop the shot glass in, clink the glasses together and let out a holler along the lines of "heyyoooo!"
It should be mentioned we don't always drink like this.
Okay, we did in university. It was like old times! Except, instead of sitting around and bitching about classes and professors, we sat around talking about work :P
The part I was really excited for though was our ultimate destination, The Horseshoe Tavern.
The Horseshoe is legendary for all of the amazing and famous shows they've housed over the decades. Some of the country's greatest acts got their starts here.
We were here to see We Are Scientists, an indie pop band from Brooklyn (and yes, that's the audience dancing on stage). Their first album is my running playlist on my iPod. I danced and bopped along to every song and loved every minute of it.
Scuzzy bathroom photos just aren't the same without my gal Holly.
We stuck around for a while after the band finished. There may have been another round of Jager Bombs, and I enjoyed a couple of my first Steam Whistle beers.
Not bad! I want to tour the brewery here!
Some of our party stopped for street meat…
Some of us made the mistake of putting street meat in our purse. Those keys are looking pretty tasty covered in bacon bits ;)
I managed to avoid the hot dogs, but I didn't realize we were coming home to chocolate cookies and chocolate cake.
I do not recommend food photography while drinking. And I probably shouldn't condone eating chocolate cake before bed either ;)
In all, a wonderful day! I feel surprisingly well today so I'm off to get a workout in, eat a spectacular lunch, go to a job interview and get a fitness assessment done at my new gym. Happy Tuesday!! xoxo
Question of the Day: What's the best concert you've ever been to? Mine is probably a Sloan concert I went to with my mom in 2004. They were playing under an alias in a small bar and played all my favourite songs :)


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State troopers, police back gambling bill
Law enforcement officers say casino would bolster budgets
New Hampshire state troopers and police officers said law enforcement problems will only get worse if the state doesn't legalize casino gambling.
Leaders from the New Hampshire Troopers Association and the New Hampshire Police Association held a news conference Monday to back a Senate-passed bill that would legalize up to 5,000 slot machines and 150 table games. They argued that a casino would bring no more crime than a large shopping mall and said without it, critical public safety programs would suffer.
They hope casino revenue would boost their budgets, allowing more troopers to be hired and providing funding for police efforts to combat drugs and help troubled children and the mentally ill.
The bill passed the Senate last week but is expected to face a more difficult test in the House.


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Day 41:
Wind: 12-14 knots
Time: 1.5 hours
Location: Ilha do Guajiru / Praia da Barra
Kite: Dyno 18
Lines: 25m
Board: Flyradical 128x38
Another day with light wind. A bit came in the afternoon, only good for filming a few tricks.
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For the quick pickles, try using other crisp vegetables, such as radishes, celery, or fennel.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- 6 ounces wide bean thread noodles
- 1 small garlic clove, finely grated
- 1/4 cup fish sauce (such as nam pla or nuoc nam)
- 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 2 tablespoons unseasoned rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons finely grated peeled ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large daikon (Japanese white radish; about 1 pound), julienned
- 1 English hothouse cucumber, thinly sliced
- 2 large carrots, peeled, julienned
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup torn fresh cilantro, divided
- 3/4 cup unsalted, dry-roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped, divided
- ingredient info: Bean thread noodles and daikon can be found at Asian markets and some supermarkets.
- Place noodles in a large bowl and add boiling water to cover. Let noodles soak until tender but not mushy, 15-20 minutes; drain. Rinse under cold water and drain well.
- Whisk garlic, fish sauce, lime juice, vinegar, sugar, ginger, and pepper in another large bowl. Add daikon, cucumber, and carrots; toss to combine. Let sit 10 minutes.
- Add noodles, oil, half of cilantro, and half of peanuts to bowl; toss to combine. Top salad with remaining cilantro and peanuts.
- DO AHEAD: Vegetables can be pickled 2 days ahead. Cover and chill.


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11 March 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
A*STAR scientists identify micro-RNA switch controls the migration of skin cells necessary for wound healing
Singapore: In the non-healing wounds of diabetics, miR-198 does not disappear and wound healing remains blocked. This therefore identifies miR-198 as a potential diagnostic biomarker for non-healing wounds.
These findings were recently published in the prestigious journal Nature. The research leading to this discovery was carried out in collaboration with A*STAR's Bioinformatics Institute (BII), National University Hospital (NUH), Singapore and Jnana Sanjeevini Diabetes Center, Bangalore, India.
Dr Prabha Sampath, principal investigator at IMB and lead author of the paper, said, " Moving forward, we hope to translate this research into improved patient outcomes. We can now build on this research, to see how we can modulate the defective switch in chronic wounds by targeting miR-198 and its interacting molecules, to develop new strategies for treating chronic wounds. Our research provides a comprehensive understanding of the mechanism of the wound healing process."
The information necessary to expressmicroRNA-198 (miR-198) and follistatin-like 1 (FSTL1) protein are found in a single "message" produced by the cell. However, miR-198 and FSTL1 protein cannot be produced at the same time - it can only be one or the other.
These two molecules also have opposite roles: miR-198 (found in unwounded skin) inhibits skin cell migration and wound healing, whereas FSTL1 protein (expressed after injury) promotes skin cell migration and wound healing. A regulatory switch dictates their expression, and hence controls the "see-saw" between inactive resting skin cells and the cell migration necessary for wound healing.


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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Sometimes I....
Sometimes I hear a little voice in the back of my head that says "I can't," but I do it anyway.
Sometimes I get incredibly annoyed by people and situations that are beyond my control.
Sometimes I think the best part of coming home is my dog who cries and wiggles her body in excitement, so happy to see me.
Sometimes I wish that I didn't make things so hard, but its usually just how I do things.
Sometimes I eat cereal for dinner.
Sometimes I hate picking a Mother's Day card for my grandma, I usually end up getting a generic one because I can't bring myself to buy one that says "thanks for always loving and supporting me."
Sometimes I am astonished at how quickly time seems to be going by.
Sometimes I wish my blog friends lived closer so we could all go to Happy Hour or Sunday brunch.
Sometimes I think of how far I've come in the past 12 months.
Sometimes I wonder where I'll be in the next 12 months.
Sometimes I forget that that every person I encounter is fighting some kind of battle that I will most likely never know about.
Sometimes I wish my friend could live in the present and not be entirely consumed by wishing for a future that may never happen.
Sometimes I just have to write to get it all out.
Your turn. Sometimes I......
16 comments:
- Katelin said...
i love cereal for dinner! so tasty.
- May 06, 2009
- looking4#3 said...
Sometimes I wish I didn't know you only in blogland. Sometimes I wish I had you as a friend in my life since childhood. Sometimes I think that maybe, just maybe you might realize how much I value having you as a friend!!
- May 06, 2009
- alexa @clevelandsaplum said...
i constantly think about where ill be in the next 12 months. i'm kind of obsessed with trying to figure out the future.
random fact #283 about me. haha
- May 06, 2009
- Stacy said...
sometimes I go to sleep dreaming of what my wedding day will be like. (this coming from a single girl...go fig!)
- May 06, 2009
- Kylie said...
"Sometimes I wish my blog friends lived closer so we could all go to Happy Hour or Sunday brunch."Ditto. You are definitely one of them! :)
- May 06, 2009
- Auburn Kat said...
Sometimes I wish I didn't tell myself I need to go to bed early because then maybe I would actually get to bed early! =)
- May 06, 2009
- Cameo said...
ALWAYS I hate cancer. Really fucking hate it.
- May 06, 2009
- amanda said...
sometimes i actually like the rain.
sometimes i put his old sweatshirt on just because i like that it smells like him.
sometimes i wish you didn't have to be famous to be on dancing with the stars.
and i loveee your sometimes!
- May 06, 2009
- LBluca77 said...
Sometimes I wish all bloggers lived in the same city so we could have happy Hour and Sunday brunch together all the time.
I guess there would not be much of a need to blog, but I am sure we all still would.
- May 06, 2009
- MeLaNiE said...
I was thinking earlier today that I needed to do a post like this again! I definitely love cereal for dinner! Oh..I also have a hard time picking out cards for my crazy grandmother because they are not always true...so I stick with generic...Happy Mother's Day..Hope you have a great day type cards :) (nothing mushy for her)
- May 06, 2009
- Andy said...
Sometimes I... wonder what would happen if I failed.
- May 07, 2009
- Jen said...
sometimes i just want to stay in bed...or build an ark!! and of course i wonder what it would be like to live close to blogger friends!!
- May 07, 2009
- Kyla said...
Sometimes I beat myself up for the silliest things - something I said that was a little uncontrolled or a little too revealing. For days. It's a terrible habit!!
- May 07, 2009
I eat cereal for dinner also and I love every minute of it. It's quick, easy and delicious. Raisin Bran is my favorite one for some odd reason.
I enjoyed how honest this post is! I have no doubt in the next 12 months you'll be the same incredibly strong, amazing person you are now, only in school pursuing her masters! =)
- May 07, 2009
- Lauren said...
I love eating cereal for dinner. I never am ashamed to do it a few times a week!
I wish I had more blog friends...and IRL friends who were nearby too!
- May 07, 2009
I eat cereal for dinner all the time and I love drinks or Sunday brunch! I like living in blog world for the most part...but it would be nice to have a huge get together and meet all the authors of the blogs we read!
- May 07, 2009


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Wot I Think: About That Level
It's bullshit, isn't it?
The big problem is – like a big chunk of anything that manages to be controversial – the debate shakes down to "they shouldn't be allowed to do this" versus "they should be allowed to do this" while entirely neglecting the more important "Is this any good?"
It's not any good. It's bullshit. It's a lie. It means nothing.
In terms of craft, Infinity Ward are… well, joint top of their field. The idea of turning a progression through a linear, scripted environment into a storytelling experience had its moment of apotheosis with Valve's Half-life back in 1998. Specifically, its opening. The first people to really grasp the implications of Valve's innovations were Infinity Ward, in their previous life at 2015, whose Medal of Honour: Allied Assault was the first game to not entirely ignore Half-Life and hope the lessons would go away. They (with Valve) have had a duopoly on the form ever since. Everyone else is frankly, second best, at best. So while it's easy to pick holes in the illusion of a scene of No Russian – oh! The shirts repeat occasionally! – it doesn't change the fact moving through it is like walking through a living painting. It's a clockwork machine. In the seconds I managed to step back from what was actually happening, I felt a lot like I did when playing its opening scene in a military base – as in, I was scared to look anywhere, because there was so much stuff happening everywhere. No matter where I lay my eyes, there'd be something I'd miss.
"No Russian" positions you as an undercover agent, trying to infiltrate an evil terrorist's group. By doing this, you're helping out at a massacre at an airport. You walk in. People look at you. Your four comrades open up at the crowd, and they fall. People run, cry and die. You walk slowly through the airport, slaying those who haven't run. Eventually, a military response arrives via chopper. You fight them and then… well, spoilers.
It'll be foolish to deny it doesn't provoke a response. Of course, the level and nature of that response isn't solely about the game, or even the person playing it. So, yes, merely talking to my friends, I find people telling stories of leftist political radicals and pillars of the community mowing down people while cackling while bar-room thugs dismiss it as exploitative war-porn. Like any work of human creativity, the seriousness you bring to the game impacts upon your experience. But it's more complicated than that. People's response seems to change depending on who you play with or in front of. It's like an inverse of the ErotiSim reaction I talked about previously. Playing with friends, we all fucked around with the Sims. Playing by myself, I took the emotional turmoil more seriously. Conversely, with No Russian, with someone standing behind you and judging you, even the most sociopathic may feel a little twinge before pulling that trigger.
But it's bullshit.
It's bullshit because, like a whole lot of Modern Warfare, it's bad writing. By which I stress, I don't mean "the writer can't write". Because the real nature of writing in games ("Everything which appears in front of your eyes with which we create the story") rather than the responsibilities of the word-dude ("Whatever you can write quickly on freelance which the team ignore and/or present badly") is what matters here. As others have noted, the most disturbing part of No Russian is its context. A few seconds previously you're involved in a high-speed James Bond chase involving snowmobiles. A few seconds later, you're mowing down civilians. That tonal shift isn't brutal. It's laughable. At best, you're comedy. At worst, you're cheap exploitative trash. Modern Warfare leans towards the latter. You have to earn the right to shove an audience's face in that material. Before it, Infinity Ward do nothing to earn it. Afterward, they do barely anything with it – by which you can read there is slightly more than "nothing" there, which I'll get to eventually – to justify the leap of faith you've taken with them.
And then there's the matter of realism… oh, shit.
Yeah, realism is a tricky thing with Call of Duty. It's clearly ludicrous, unless you're the person in Alec's Wot-I-Think comment thread who somehow thought that 24 was a documentary or something. But it lives of the sense of authenticity. It wants you to believe in its techno-thrillerness, at least on its own terms. The problem comes when you introduce this attitude into something like five dudes strolling into an airport and opening up.
Because as accurately, as disturbingly rendered as the slaughter is, it's not convincing. The beat where people try to surrender… yeah, that's impressive analysis. People would assume they were taking prisoners, even if they weren't. But the rest is simply ludicrous. Machine-guns are loud. People are gone the second they start firing. Anyone anywhere near doesn't hang around. They certainly don't find themselves hanging around to be gunned down in lobbies. Rent-a-cops with pistols – and fuck me, if you've been in a Russian Airport, you know you get guys with SMGs, not pistols, walking around – don't charge guys with hefty-machine-guns. They get the people hanging around OUT OF THERE. And crucially, SWAT-or-local-equivalent response isn't a wall of men walking slowly towards you with riot shields. It's snipers on the rooftops taking down these psychopathic shits.
In other words, Infinity Ward have taken great effort to render a scene of a massacre which bears no relation to any massacre that could ever happen. It's nothing more than that moment of revulsion (or, for those sort of gamers, excitement) when you open up on civilians. It means nothing human because it's about nothing that's human.
So it's exploitative and pointless. But its real failing, ironically enough, is one of cowardice. Let's assume you accept the warped reality of their airport slaughter. It's their universe. Let's roll with it. Well, the idea that you're an undercover agent who can walk alongside your homicidal comrades without you firing a shot, without them realising or caring, is openly stupid.
(I've heard people say they take notice and call you a coward. I've played through it three times and not had it once. C'est la vie.)
For the level to matter – to be the true Jack Bauer ends-justify-the-means statement – you must be forced into joining in. You've got a chance to skip the level. Great. But to play the level, to accept it on its own terms, you must open up at those people. That's the cowardice of Infinity Ward. They realised a level where you had to kill the innocents is more offensive than a level where it's your choice… but choosing the latter is the single thing that stops it ever being some manner of effective artistic statement and rendering the whole thing laughably pathetic.
There is – AND SPOILERS ARE NOW – a twist to it, of course. Your terrorists comrades shoot you at the end and pin the attack on the yanks. Which, if you look at it, could be an excuse for them not caring that you're not mowing down people with them. Except it doesn't matter when you get shot, as long as they can pin the attack on you – so having someone who's coming along and not helping is merely someone who could open up at them when their conscience cracks.
(Why you don't just shoot this terrorist leader now that you're close enough to him isn't really explained. Why infiltrate the cell to stop an attack when you can just kill the ringmaster now?)
Part of me likes to think that the whole section – in fact, the whole game proper – is actually a statement that the blind following of orders leads to the death of the world. The one irony of the twist in the plot is never commented on in the game – that being, the Russians are entirely justified in being phenomenally pissed off. An American organisation knew there was a serious attack wiping out dozens of Russian citizens… and rather than warning, they sent a man to join the attack. They were complicit. You were complicit. Imagine what the US response would be to the tables being turned, and there was real evidence that a foreign government helped out a 9-11-esque attack on US soil to infiltrate a terrorist organisation. Throughout the game you're forced into performing tasks which only lead to worse devastation, because you're following fucking brain-dead orders.
You could see Modern Warfare 2 as the sister of BioShock – as in, mocking the player for being stupid enough to follow this linear string of events. Giving up your morality to a higher power and obeying those orders only leads to World War 3.
Well, you could if they'd only actually made their statement clear. As it is, it's just a mess of sound and fury signifying jack-shit. The final half of Modern Warfare 2 is the sort of thing which Wikipedia entries were made for flicking through and catching up on. Clarity never hurts. Rambling purple prose sections about the nature of war do. If the above is actually what Infinity Ward were trying to say they should have made sure they fucking said it loud and clear.
That's the most annoying thing about "No Russian" though. It's not that the ideas are necessarily bad – I wrote a hell of a lot to defend Super Columbine Massacre RPG, after all. It's that the execution is weak. If you're going to do this, you do this. You make the move knowing that you've thought it all through. That you've considered everything. That you know what you're saying and what it means. The sickening thing is that communicating simple yet powerful messages is what Infinity Ward have excelled at (Cross Ref; Call of Duty's River landing missions, with you forced to progress with no gun due to Soviet supply problems). That clarity is missing. Instead, we're left with a dumb shock.
That's the problem. That's what sickens me. It's that they had the balls to try to do this… and they blew it. They fucking blew it. Anyone else who tries it will be living in their diseased shadow. If you want to try to do this thing you have a responsibility to do it properly, or not at all. Infinity Ward failed the medium and failed themselves with No Russian.
They've always cut levels which weren't good enough, arguing for a concentrated, higher-quality experience. They should have cut this one. It's bullshit and they should be ashamed.


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A crane operator died when his 100-ton crane toppled over Thursday morning at a construction site where a garden store burned down last year in Conroe.
The crane fell over about 10 a.m. at 16778 Interstate 45 near Texas 242 at the site of the former Garden Ridge store, according to the Conroe Police Department.
The crane was on its side when Conroe firefighters arrived at the scene. They found the body of the operator, Louis Ruiz, 56, within the wreckage, authorities said.
The force of the impact crushed the cab. More cranes were pressed into service to secure the scene and pull away the wreckage. The body of the Porter man was finally removed about 7:15 p.m., officials said.
The cause of the collapse wasn't known but Conroe police officials at the scene said it appeared Ruiz was trying to lift a concrete wall.
No other injuries were reported.
Ruiz was working at the site where crews are rebuilding the store that burned down in October 2011. Police said investigators are trying to determine what caused the crane to fall over. However, police added, there appeared to be no foul play or criminal intent involved.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be investigating the wreck, officials said.
Read more: Feds join investigation into Conroe Garden Ridge Fire


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I was very impresses with the newest interviews, she does a good job of digging herself out of a hole... but I am still skeptical about the Oscar issues. This answer doesn't address the comments her father made...ForJazz926 wrote:YES. Thank you. I wanted to use an excerpt from it to prove a point that has been debated on here and never really cleared up.
So for all those of you who misconstrued her dad's comment to mean that she snubbed both Rob and the Oscars...you know what happens when you assume, right?When Stewart wasn't at the Oscars last month, critics pounced again. Did she dislike Twilight so much that she wasn't willing to support it like Pattinson, who was a first-time presenter? Was she scared that the supposed secret romance between her and her costar would be too hard to hide if they appeared together on the same stage on Hollywood's biggest night?
Um, no! She had a very good reason for not being there—she wasn't asked. "If I was invited to the Oscars, I would be there in a nanosecond," she says. "If I got an invitation to the Oscars, I wouldn't turn it down!"
And some people have pointed out that this is all too little too late and that she is just saying what those around her are telling her to say.
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Liverpool defender Fabio Aurelio will be out of action for up to a month with the hamstring injury he sustained during Sunday's victory over Manchester United.
The Brazilian limped off only 24 minutes into the 3-1 win at Anfield and the club on Tuesday confirmed he has suffered a tear to the muscle. Aurelio has been troubled by a series of niggling injuries this season and had only just returned from an adductor problem.
Liverpool's head of sports medicine and sports science, Dr Peter Brukner, told www.liverpoolfc.tv: "He's got a significant hamstring injury. Unfortunately his body lets him down. He always play well when he's fit. We've been managing him carefully because he's not been playing twice in a week, but this just came out of the blue."
He added: "He had a minor adductor strain a few weeks before that. We rehabilitated him and he trained all week with no problems at all.
"He's obviously very down. It was a sad sight to see him walking off the pitch. He's frustrated because he was playing well on Sunday. He was looking forward to getting a run of games but it wasn't to be."
Dr Brukner also revealed central defender Daniel Agger is unlikely to recover from a knee injury in time for Thursday's Europa League clash with Braga.
He said: "Daniel had a nasty kick on a joint to the side of his knee. It's an unusual spot to get an injury. They take time and he's a bit of a slow healer.
"He's still not 100% so we'll have to see if he's fit for the game this week. But it's more likely to be the following week."
Martin Kelly, who has a similar hamstring injury to Aurelio's, and Jonjo Shelvey (knee) will definitely miss the trip to Portugal.


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Jason Zweig is causing controversy—again. The Wall Street Journal gadfly posted a column last week, suggesting the ongoing SRO debate would be solved not by the SEC, or FINRA, but with robots (seriously).
"Investment advisors are being examined infrequently, inconsistently and incompletely—largely because regulators are outnumbered and reliant on outmoded technology," Zweig writes. "In a business world that routinely runs on 'big data,' it's time to put computers on the case."
To make his case, he notes that in fiscal 2011, the SEC examined just 8% of the 12,600 advisors under its jurisdiction. Roughly 5,000 advisors have never been audited by the SEC. State regulators, who are responsible for inspecting smaller investment advisors, look a bit nimbler. Two-thirds of the states say they examine advisors at least once every four years.
"FINRA inspects brokerage firms roughly every two years. Those more-frequent inspections, however, didn't detect Allen Stanford or Bernard Madoff's Ponzi schemes."
At the heart of these gaps, he adds, are antiquated databases and other crude technology that one person who deals regularly with regulators calls "right out of the Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse."
"The Self-Regulatory Organization for Independent Investment Advisers, an organization in Oxford, Miss., established last year as a potential alternative to existing oversight agencies, says regulators need to embrace 'data analytics.' Computers should be parsing vast quantities of information in search of overall patterns and potentially risky exceptions."
He explains that advisors "would have to upload standardized reports on all their clients' assets—with personal identification removed—to a national data repository each month. Software would probe for any gaps between the reported account values and independent records from the custodian firms where the money resides. Then, examinations would be driven by what pops out of the data, not by what pops up on the calendar—regardless of which regulator runs the show."
To be fair, he notes regulation is inching into the electronic age.
He describes an operation at the SEC, the "aberrational performance initiative," which uses software to analyze data about hedge funds to look for unusually high or suspiciously smooth relative performance.
"The API project has already led to four fraud cases—with more in the pipeline, according to people familiar with the matter. Another team at the SEC electronically analyzes large amounts of data on more than 10,000 advisers—but much of the raw information isn't yet in automated form."
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Spiked in the Sand: Upcoming FMB Volleyball League info New players always welcome to join
The annual Sunday King/Queen of the Beach League begins Sunday, Jan. 9, at 9:30. It looks like we may post fewer nets so, my advice, sign up now online to reserve your spot. You can pay online or on-site Sunday, but please bring exact change.
There have been a couple of procedural (and rule) changes to the Sunday League. Please be sure to acquaint yourselves accordingly. See the info/FAQs page on the website (FMBvolleyballClub.com). I'd recommend you give that page a thorough read before playing in the league there's a lot of information there that you should want to know.
So far, the consensus for changing back to the old "let serve" rule is to leave it as-is (no fault when the ball touches the net during serve). People who sign up online get a vote we'll let you know the final result Sunday prior to the beginning of play.
Remember, we're at the beginning of high season, and, if you don't get over the bridge early, you're going to need to add another 20 or more minutes to your travel time.
I don't know when the Holiday Inn of Fort Myers Beach will begin charging to park, but expect that it will happen. The only place we can park is on the old tennis courts it's that or Santini Plaza.
I'm not going to harass people about which division they sign up for if you make the wrong choice, you'll figure that out pretty quickly (perhaps cheerfully assisted by some of the better folks in your pool).
The way I look at it is, if you can routinely pass consistently well, that moves you out of Rec/B.
"BB" should know the rules of the game and have some understanding of a strategy and how doubles is actually meant to be played.
"A" players pass well all the time, may have some skill at hand setting and definitely communicate during play.
"AA" players can do all these things well, are somewhat relaxed in the process, and have figured out which side they should play. When they start "thumpin" people regularly in AA, it's probably time to move up. Remember, this is just how I see it and hardly the "gold standard."
Novice volleyball players: If you want to get good, there are a couple ways to do that: 1. Practice; 2. Attend one of Troy's skill sessions; and 3. Play in the Sunday League.
Big Game Bar and Grill evening leagues will resume when it gets a little warmer (probably the end of February). Ditto for Fort Myers Downtown 4's (don't have any dates yet from Eric).
Pick-up is a good option at both locations when the temperature is right Jack Delgado has Thursday nights going in Estero in the sand.
For any more information on upcoming Fort Myers Beach Volleyball League happenings, visit FMBvolleyballClub.com.


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Consumers have an increasing appetite for wireless data whether they're on a contract or not. AT&T responded Wednesday by doubling its data plans for prepaid customers to bring them more in line with competitors.
AT&T GoPhone data plans now offer 50MB per month for $5, 200MB for $15, and 1GB for $25. The move is aimed at getting more potential prepaid customers to consider a smartphone: Just as in a contracted plan, smartphones on prepaid accounts require a data plan, and that puts more money in the pockets of the carrier.
The packages debut on April 22, the company says.
How does GoPhone compare? Verizon offers a $30 monthly unlimited data plan for prepaid customers, while Virgin Mobile does the same (including 300 minutes of talk time) for $35 a month.
The prepaid champion though is T-Mobile, which offers an unlimited talk, text, and data plan for $50 a month. My colleague JR Raphael recently compared the prepaid plans of various carriers, and found T-Mobile one of the best. So AT&T still needs to do a bit more here to be truly competitive.
Prepaid Plan Popularity
Prepaid has become much more popular over the past few years as the U.S. mobile phone industry matures. The line is now blurred: It wasn't too long ago that prepaid customers had to deal with shoddy, expensive, and/or poor phone selection. Now many carriers give the user the option to purchase top-end phones without the discount, and offer plans that are not much different from those available on contract.
AT&T needs to do better with its prepaid offering. 1GB of data is a pittance and could be consumed quickly by even an average user streaming video or audio. It also seems like a rip-off compared to contract data plans.
AT&T's prepaid users spend $25 to get that single gigabyte of data. On the other hand, the contract user gets 3GB of data for $30. Do a little math, and that contract user is paying only $10 per gigabyte. That's quite the difference and doesn't seem fair.
Yes, contract consumers should expect more for signing their mobile lives over for two years to a wireless carrier. At the same time, that carrier shouldn't be taking advantage of someone just because they refuse to sign a contract, and that's what this pricing seems like.
For that reason, AT&T still remains near the bottom of the heap when it comes to most bang for your prepaid buck.
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The Fukanzazengi by Dogen Zenji is good instruction, but is very difficult to understand. It is especially hard to comprehend how to work with the mind, and how the practice relates to enlightenment. I will briefly explain how to practice shikantaza.
Generally speaking, zazen can be described in three phases:
first, adjusting the body,
second, the breathing,
and third, the mind.
The first and second are the same both in koan Zen and shikantaza. However, the third, adjusting the mind, is done very differently in the two practices.
To do shikantaza, one must have a firm faith in the fact that all beings are fundamentally Buddhas. Dogen Zenji says in the ninth chapter of Precautions on learning the Way:
You should practice along with the Way. Those who believe in the Buddha way must believe in the fact that their own self is in the midst of the Way from the beginning, so that there is not confusion, no delusion, no distorted viewpoint, no increase or decrease, and no errors. To have such faith and to understand such a way and practice in accordance with it is the very fundamental aspect of learning of the Way. You try to cut off the root of consciousness by sitting. Eight, even nine out of ten will be able to see the Way- have kensho- suddenly.
This is the key to practicing shikantaza. But this does not at all mean that one must believe that one's small-minded, self-centered life is Buddha's life-on the contrary! Casting all sorts of self-centeredness away and making yourself as a clean sheet of paper; sit, just firmly sit. Sit unconditionally, knowing that sitting itself is the actualization of buddha-hood- this is the foundation of shikantaza. If one's faith in that fact is shaky, one's shikantaza is also shaky.
In doing shikantaza you must maintain mental alertness, which is of particular importance to beginners-and even those who have been practicing ten years could still be called beginners! Often due to weak concentration, one becomes self-conscious or falls into a sort of trance or ecstatic state of mind. Such practice might be useful to relax yourself, but it will never lead to enlightenment and is not the practice of the Buddha Way.
When you thoroughly practice shikantaza you will sweat-even in the winter. Such intensely heightened alertness of mind cannot be maintained for long periods of time. You might think that you can maintain it for longer, but this state will naturally loosen. So sit half an hour to an hour, then stand up and do a period of kinhin, walking meditation.
During kinhin, relax the mind a little. Refresh yourself. Then sit down and continue shikantaza.
To do shikantaza does not mean to become without thoughts, yet, doing shikantaza, do not let your mind wander. Do not even contemplate enlightenment or becoming Buddha. As soon as such thoughts arise, you have stopped doing shikantaza. Dogen says very clearly, "Do not attempt to become Buddha."
Sit with such intensely heightened concentration, patience, and alertness that if someone were to touch you while you are sitting, there would be an electrical spark! Sitting thus, you return naturally to the original Buddha, the very nature of your being.
Then, almost anything can plunge you into the sudden realization that all beings are originally buddhas and all existence is perfect from the beginning. Experiencing this is called enlightenment. Personally experiencing this is as vivid as an explosion; regardless of how well you know the theory of explosions, only an actual explosion will do anything. In the same manner, no matter how much you know about enlightenment, until you actually experience it, you will not be intimately aware of yourself as Buddha.
In short, shikantaza is the actual practice of buddhahood itself from the very beginning-and, in diligently practicing shikantaza, when the time comes, one will realize that very fact.
However, to practice in this manner can require a long time to attain enlightenment, and such practice should never be discontinued until one fully realizes enlightenment. Even after attaining great enlightenment and even if one becomes a roshi, one must continue to do shikantaza forever, simply because shikantaza is the actualization of enlightenment itself.
Hakuun Yasutani (1885-1973). Excerpted from "Koan Practice and Shikantaza" reprinted from On Zen Practice by Hakuyu Taizan Maizumi. Boston: Wisdom Publications 2002


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A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water.
At issue is a Food and Drug Administration rule, set to take effect in April, that will prohibit the use of the brains and spinal cords of older cattle as ingredients in livestock feed and pet food.
Some of the rendering plants that grind up carcasses for use in feed have already announced they will stop accepting dead cattle from farms because it would be too costly to remove the banned organs. Other renderers are likely to raise the prices they charge farmers.
As a result, many farmers — especially now, with the economy in crisis — may simply bury dead cattle on their property or let them rot in the open, industry officials and regulators say.
"I think there will be some illegal disposal — animals that get dragged into the woods or into the back fields," said Gerald F. Smith Jr., president of Winchester, Va.-based Valley Proteins Inc., which operates 12 rendering plants in seven states but will no longer remove dead cattle from farms come February. He said the fee per animal would have to go from $85 to $200 to cover the additional expense, and "I don't think the farmers would be willing to pay."
Farmers already routinely bury, abandon or compost millions of cattle carcasses each year without serious environmental problems, according to the FDA.
More likely at dairy farms
But the fear is that the new rule could lead farmers to put hundreds of thousands more dead animals into the ground, especially on dairy farms, which tend to have many more older cows than cattle ranches do, and are often closer to populated areas, too.
According to the FDA's own environmental assessment of the new rule, abandoning dead cattle or improperly burying or composting them can cause foul odors; pollute soil, groundwater and streams; and attract insects and scavengers. Moreover, the infectious agent that carries mad cow disease may survive burial or composting, the agency said.
"In some areas of the country ... adverse environmental impacts could be expected unless new disposal capacity is developed," the FDA said.
Thomas Glanville, an agricultural engineering professor at Iowa State University, said farmers who opt for burial will need to pick sites with favorable drainage and geology to avoid contaminating groundwater and soil.
For decades, farmers have sent their dead cows to rendering plants to be turned into pet food, soaps, cosmetics, toothpaste, lubricants and other products. The carcasses are ground to a uniform particle size, heated under pressure to separate fat, protein and bone, and then refined.
The FDA regulation is aimed at providing an added layer of protection against mad cow, a brain disease that has been linked to more than 150 human deaths worldwide, mostly in Britain. Scientists believe the human version of mad cow is transmitted when people eat tainted beef. The United States has had no known human cases linked to U.S. beef.
Nearly 2 million head of beef and dairy cattle annually, or more than 40 percent of all those that die before they can be sent to slaughter, are rendered in the U.S., according to government and industry estimates. The remaining carcasses are mostly buried.
Regulators estimate the new feed ban will reduce the number of cattle handled by rendering plants by 500,000 to 800,000 annually.
California bans composting
Some farmers will be hamstrung by state or local regulations that limit burial or composting, in which the carcass is left to decay in a pile of clippings and other organic material. Iowa, for instance, limits the number of cattle carcasses that can be buried to seven per acre. California prohibits composting of dead livestock.
Still, properly done, composting is a good alternative to rendering, experts say.
Dairy farmer Tim Forry said he began composting his 1,200-pound Holstein cows about two years ago after the cost of sending them to the rendering plant got out of hand. When a cow dies on his farm in Pennsylvania Dutch country, he dumps the carcass onto a 200-foot-long compost pile behind his barn, where dozens of dead cattle are slowly decaying in a steaming, aboveground tomb of manure, wood shavings, hay and leaves.
"I can't say I've noticed any odor at all coming off of this," he said.
Glenn Stoltzfus, 42, a dairy farmer with 500 cows in Pennsylvania, said he has been composting cows for years without a problem, although a bear or coyote will occasionally dig up a carcass, and "then there's not a very pleasant odor."
Other farmers, though, drag dead calves into the woods and leave them for scavengers, Stoltzfus said. "You'll see the turkey buzzards circling," he said. "It's not a very pleasant thing. A large cow, you don't want to do that with."
Tom Craig, 60, who runs a 1,000-cow dairy farm near State College, said he is not sure how he will dispose of his dead livestock if rendering is no longer an option. Housing developments border his 1,600-acre farm, and he said the neighbors may not take kindly to a compost pile.
"You don't want to have that next to somebody's house," he said.
The U.S. banned the feeding of bovine byproducts to cattle in 1997, but regulators say that didn't eliminate the risk of mad cow. Without the new rule, pigs and chickens could eat contaminated feed and then in turn be rendered and fed to cattle.
Because younger cattle are believed to pose almost no risk of mad cow, only the brains and spinal cords of cattle 2 1/2 years and older will be prohibited from animal feed. The FDA rule is expected to affect the dairy industry more than the beef industry because most beef cattle are slaughtered before they turn 2 1/2.
In Pennsylvania, the No. 5 milk-producing state, hundreds of farmers have attended recent workshops on composting. Agriculture officials also plan to mail an informational brochure to livestock farmers. The idea, said Shelly Dehoff, of Pennsylvania's agricultural ombudsman program, is to "get the word out that there are alternative methods, and legal methods, that do not include throwing an animal out in the woods somewhere, and just expecting it to decompose or have other animals pick away at it."


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We are committed to Education. We express the importance of education through initiatives like our response database that allows us to open up new channels of partnership with our schools, our community initiative to address the summer reading slide and our dedication to fostering civic engagement and opportunities to the students of Delray Beach through Leadership Delray Students.
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Better Say: 'I don't know' ..Published by Ybose en 23:19
Better Say: 'I don't know' ..
Imaam Maalik Ibn Anas (d.179H) – rahimahullaah – said:
"The shield of the scholar is saying, 'I do not know.' So if he forgets it, then his enemies strike him!" [Hilyatul-Awliyaa 6/323]
Al-Haytham Ibn Jameel said:
"I heard Maalik being asked about forty-eight questions, he replied to thirty-two of them saying, 'I do not know.'"
'Abdur-Rahmaan Ibn Mahdee (d.198H) – rahimahullaah – said:
"[I]We were with Maalik Ibn Anas when a man came saying, 'O Abaa 'Abdullaah, I have traveled a distance of six months. The people of my land sent me to ask you about a matter.' So he said, 'Ask!' So the man asked him some things, so he replied, 'I do not know.' – and the man thought he had come to someone who knew everything, so he said, 'What shall I tell the people of my land when I return to them?' He said, 'Say to them, Maalik Ibn Anas does not know.'"
Several of the Salaf, including Abu Al-Dardaa' :anhu:, were quoted to have said: It is half of knowledge to say "I do not know". (Siyar A'lam Al-Nubalaa' by Imam Thahabi 8/77)
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DCA and DOE Discuss Fire Prevention
HAMILTON – As part of a statewide fire education campaign, Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria, Department of Education (DOE) Commissioner Lucille E. Davy and the New Jersey Fireman's Benevolent Association today discussed a fire safety education awareness campaign geared toward middle and high school age students. This included viewing of the fire safety video "Fire Is…" for 300 sixth grade students at Crockett Middle School in Hamilton Township (Mercer County).
""Fire Is…" provides a straight-talking fire safety message to the young and old alike," said Commissioner Doria. "The video is a great education tool with an effective message that will save lives."
"We at DOE believe that every middle school student in New Jersey should see this important video," said Commissioner Davy. "Lives could depend upon what they learn from it, and we are proud to partner with DCA and the NJFMBA in getting that message out to school districts."
The DVD, "Fire Is…," is an effort to change fire safety education in all school districts from an exercise that in the past has been superficial and entertaining to a focused, organized program that is educational, serious and age appropriate. This video was produced and written by Dr. Frank Field.
The NJFMBA is providing this video on its website, in English and Spanish, to all New Jersey school districts and it is recommended for grade 5 and older students. The video can be accessed online at www.njfmba.org. As the NJFMBA website fills the screen, users can click on the "Fire Is…" video icon in the left margin of the screen. Schools can download any one of five segments of this video by clicking the appropriate title at the bottom of the screen. Each segment is divided into two parts, each of which is approximately 8-9 minutes in length. The segments are: "Fire is Black," "Fire is Hot," "Fire is Smoke and Gas," "Fire is Fast" and "Fire is Emergency."


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"Our goal is to change how climate science informs resource management in the Northeast."
- Richard Palmer
Richard Palmer, civil and environmental engineering, directs the center's academic efforts and with NECSC's first permanent federal director, Mary Ratnaswamy, has been working to bring center partners online as well as bridge communication between the NECSC and other federal and regional centers. Partners in the northeast consortium include the College of Menominee Nation, Columbia University, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri, and the University of Wisconsin, in addition to UMass Amherst.
The Northeast region faces perhaps the biggest challenge to climate modeling and climate change management, with 22 states, 41 percent of the U.S. population, and a wide array of ecosystems. The region holds an important piece to the national climate puzzle; information collected will determine how the federal government will prepare and respond to climate change.
The UMass team was victorious in the highly competitive center selection process due to a strong proposal and national research expertise. Distinguished Professor of Geosciences and climate scientist Raymond Bradley is a co-principal investigator (PI) for the center. Bradley co-authored the paper that highlighted the "hockey stick graph"—a finding that clearly demonstrated the current warming period as dramatically uncharacteristic in the context of thousands of years of natural history, stirring worldwide controversy in the late 1990s. The center's other co-PIs, Curtice Griffin department head of environmental conservation, and environmental conservationist Keith Nislow, bring outstanding strengths in environmental conservation and resource management.
Recent events acutely demonstrate the need for these national climate science centers. The Northeast region has seen increases in extreme weather, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, wetter weather and habitat shifts. In the last two years, events include Hurricane Irene, which swept across the Northeast region of the U.S. in August 2011 killing 15 people and causing $7 - $10 billion dollars of damage to farmland, roadways, and bridges; and super storm Sandy, which overwhelmed the Northeast region in October 2012, killing more than 100 people, flooding major cities, and devastating coastal communities. At an estimated $30 - $50 billion in damages, Sandy was a record-breaking storm in terms of economic costs and environmental and cultural impact.
These effects are expected to intensify over the coming years, so the DOI hopes the center will provide legislators and resource managers with the information they need to best preserve water resources, wildlife and human habitats, and natural landscapes. "Our goal is to change how climate science informs resource management in the Northeast," Palmer says.
Palmer and the other PIs are building the center with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Engineering, conservation planning and management, and field investigations will be as important as the climate science.
"The center is not about university researchers deciding what science managers need. The center's researchers are listening and learning from natural resource managers about the real problems they face today and what problems they anticipate in the future due to climate change. Our goal is to make sure the proper information and tools are developed to help them answer some of their most important questions," Palmer says.
Each of the eight regional centers is tasked with determining how climate change will impact their broad regions and, in many cases, estimating how climate change will impact specific areas, like watersheds and ecosystems. One of several approaches to this task includes the downscaling of Global Climate Models (GCMs) and Regional Climate Models (RCMs) so they are relevant on a smaller spatial scale.
"What we have to do is refine the information that comes from these large scale climate models down to a scale that is useful for resource managers," Palmer says.
Bradley is leading the geophysical aspect of the center by continuing to run climate models that can be used to forecast future temperature trends. Meanwhile Kevin McGarigal, environmental conservation, is conducting field research that will directly inform NECSC projects. This is one of seven stakeholder-defined research projects funded during the center's first year of operation.
McGarigal is building models for climate-driven landscape change using sophisticated simulation software. He is using the models to map climate impacts on habitats in the Northeast Terrestrial Habitat Map, which he is now extending into Atlantic Canada. McGarigal says that he always takes climate into account when modeling landscapes and habitats. "If we're trying to forecast changes to landscapes and their effects on ecological integrity, it would be a big mistake to ignore climate change."
Among the other projects funded this year is a two-year project looking specifically at water systems and the effects of climate change. The Great Lakes are an international resource with an economic footprint of about $7 billion annually. Center researchers will be looking closely at water temperatures in the Great Lakes and consequential effects on fish populations and migration. In addition, other projects are developing temperature models for rivers and streams in the region and examining water levels in relation to fish populations, hydrological power and flood control.
Palmer and the team are dedicated to connecting people in the United States with tangible information to better inform the future. Palmer says that the center's primary focus is to address what is happening and look for ways to better adapt to the changing world. "The funding of this center is just one of many ways in which the importance of this research has been recognized."
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But the Red Roof
Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879 - 1940
Made in Switzerland, Europe
Glue tempera on jute-and-flax fabricDimensions:
23 3/4 x 35 11/16 inches (60.3 x 90.6 cm) Framed: 28 5/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 inches (72.7 x 103.5 x 7.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
1950-134-121Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in Switzerland, Europe
Glue tempera on jute-and-flax fabricDimensions:
23 3/4 x 35 11/16 inches (60.3 x 90.6 cm) Framed: 28 5/8 x 40 3/4 x 3 inches (72.7 x 103.5 x 7.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 268, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (Kaiserman Gallery)Accession Number:
1950-134-121Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
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ProvenanceWith Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris, 1935-1937; with Karl Nierendorf, Nierendorf Gallery, New York, 1937-1943 [1]; on consignment to Galka E. Scheyer (1889-1945), San Francisco and Los Angeles [2]; sold to Louis Blembel, [Los Angeles?], 1943 [3]. With Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles, as of August 1948 (from Blembel?) [4]; sold to Louise and Walter C. Arensberg, Los Angeles, September 28, 1948 [5]; gift to PMA, 1950. 1. Kahnweiler shipped the painting to Karl Nierendorf in New York on November 19, 1937 (information provided by Dr. Christian Rümelin, director, Catalogue raisonné Paul Klee, letter in curatorial file). As is evident from Nierendorf's correspondence with Earl Stendahl of the Stendahl Art Galleries (Archives of American Art), at the time of the 1941 Klee exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which traveled to San Francisco and Los Angeles, Nierendorf sent the painting, along with thirteen others, on consignment to Galka Scheyer in California. Probably shortly after the exhibition, she or Nierendorf lent the painting to John Huston on approval as a prospective buyer; when Huston left for military service around 1942 he returned the painting to Scheyer without buying it. In the meantime, after major disagreements Nierendorf had cancelled his business agreement with Scheyer. He attempted to retrieve this and other paintings he had with her, without success. Nierendorf was still trying to get the paintings back, or at least prevent her from selling them, when he wrote to Stendahl on February 9, 1943, that he had received an offer for the painting from Scheyer, who had found a buyer for it. Later, on February 23, he wrote Stendahl that "in spite of my protests she has sold Klee's 'Red Roof'," to a buyer she apparently did not disclose to him (see copies of correspondence in curatorial file). 2. A photo of ca. 1943 shows the painting hanging in Scheyer's house; see Sandback, "Blue Heights Drive," Artforum, v. 28, no. 7, p. 124. 3. According to the curatorial records, "Property of Louis Blembel" was written in pencil on the back of the frame; however, because the painting has been reframed the name cannot be verified. The same person (apparently a young man; Scheyer refers to him as a 'boy') bought two works by Lyonel Feininger from Scheyer in 1944, an oil entitled 'Fishing Cutter' of 1940 and a watercolor called 'Shelter Cove' of 1939. Scheyer mentions in a letter to Feininger of August 5, 1944, that Blembel "fell in love before" with a beautiful Klee which he paid for in installments -- undoubtedly "But the Red Roof!". The architect Rudolph M. Schindler built a house in Hollywood for a L. Blembel in 1949, possibly the same person. 4. Stendahl offered the painting to Curt Valentin of the Buchholz Gallery in a letter of August 25, 1948 (Stendahl Art Galleries records, Archives of American Art). 5. Receipt of this date from Stendahl Galleries in curatorial file (original in Arensberg Archives). A note in the curatorial file records a conversation with Stendahl, April 8, 1954, in which Stendahl said that he sold the painting to Walter Arensberg five or six years previously and that it came from Galka Scheyer's collection, who originally offered it to Arensberg.
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Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project
Some background Four years ago I created Google Earth resources for the classroom and posted them to the GE Community Forum. Two of them were called Maths in Madrid and Maths in Las Vegas. These were based on the fact that there is maths all around us, every day, everywhere we look. Google Earth (and Maps) gives us a great perspective on it all. It also provides easy access for our students to see rich visual content that depicts everyday maths. I have always loved the idea of children seeing the maths they are working on. The only issue with Google Earth is that it is restrictive in two ways. It is not browser based and it is impossible for me to create a resource for others to collaborate on.
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Last night I spoke at NMK's Clients in the Wild event. It was broadly about how PRs can, could and should use social media. Nice event Ian, and a cracking quality crowd. The audience was a who's who of the UK PR blogosphere. I was up alongside Midnight's MD Sarah Ogden and social media agency Nixon McInnes' MD, Will McInnes, who is on most of the social networks himself. He's done some very cool stuff online. And the moderator was Roger Warner of Squiz and Velocity Partners.
Attendees who've blogged about it already have said how they thought it was a good event, and I'd agree. Lots of useful banter about metrics, measurement, control and all that. Ian Delaney, having organised the whole thing, has done a super report. Other write-ups have gone up online from Edelman's Simon Collister who was in the audience and chipped in a fair few times on some social media theory, as did his colleague Tim Callington (cool to meet Tim again - I have read his blog for a long time and only realised when we met again yesterday that we'd met before at a Microsoft gig). Alan Patrick asked a few questions on Facebook. Ben Maynard at Harvard made a good point on client counsel. Stephen Waddington at Rainier asked about revenues and profits of social media campaigns, but his colleague Tim Hoang did the blogging. Ged Carroll at Waggener Edstrom has done a great write-up, but sadly I missed catching up with him at the event. Other attendees like Giles Shorthouse at Webitpr and Lloyd Gofton have also blogged about what they thought. And someone from Cake had a fair bit to say too.
But the after-event buzz in the room and over email today was on how everyone avoided talking about elephant in the room. That elephant being the notion that ad/design/digital agencies are encroaching on PR turf and could potentially steal all our work, flattening our revenues and growth in tech PR. That this is a fundamental shift in what we're doing in our jobs. And that PRs are getting worried.
I'm seeing an entirely different room, and we're the elephants.
We have a massive opportunity to develop the right skills in cutting edge areas such as web 2.0, social media, word of mouth, call it what you will. People that do will be allowed to do develop very cool and applicable work, they'll be fun to work around and very useful to have on campaigns. I know guys like Simon, Stephen, Mikey and James must see what I mean. Now and over the past year or two, not just recent months. Being the elephant in this other room, I'm seeing there are marketing as well as PR plans, budgets and concepts on the table. So the grey are emerges between PR and digital media production. Some of us PRs upskill and learn how its done. But we're working too with people who can't and will never need to write a feature for a magazine or know which journalist to call at a newspaper for placing a story. But they can create digital content, build apps and make virals that are core to new campaigns from the beginning. The kind of stuff that as a whole package I really enjoy and am motivated by.


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The tax overhaul that became law in December contains numerous temporary provisions that are set to expire after 2025. But Republican lawmakers, who created the expiration date in order to limit the tax package's 10-year cost to $1.5 trillion, want to make those cuts permanent, and the House Committee on Ways and Means is working on legislation that would do just that, according to comments from Barbara Angus, the committee's chief tax council, at a conference held by the Tax Policy Center Monday. There could be a vote in Congress as early as this spring in what President Trump has referred to as a "phase two" of the tax cuts.
Virtually all of the individual tax cuts are temporary, and making them permanent is being pitched politically as a win for middle-class taxpayers. But according to a new analysis from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the extension the temporary tax cuts after 2025 will do little to change the overall distribution of benefits provided by the tax overhaul. This is due in part to the fact that a handful of the temporary tax cuts, such as the reduction in the estate tax and the new rules for pass-through business income, benefit wealthy taxpayers most.
According to ITEP's analysis, which examined tax and income changes in all 50 states, the wealthiest 20 percent of Americans receive 71 percent of the benefits of the tax legislation in 2018. The same group would receive 65 percent of the benefit of making the temporary provisions permanent. Combining the effects of the tax law and the extension of the temporary cuts, the wealthiest 20 percent still claim about 71 percent of the benefits. "This analysis," the authors write, "finds that extending the temporary tax provisions in 2026 would not be aimed at helping the middle-class any more than TCJA as enacted helps the middle-class in 2018."


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The research helps identify conditions under which financial statement users are more likely to detect accounting and disclosure choices that are seemingly intended to misrepresent firms' financial positions. The evidence indicates that participants in the experiment do not naturally adjust for financial statement impact. These participants perceive a deficiency in management credibility only when they understand both the financial statement impact of an incentive-consistent accounting choice and believe that management has not been forthcoming about that choice. The research suggests that investors make credibility judgments based on the forthcomingness of corporate disclosure as well as on what they understand about managers' choices from the broader information environment.
For more information on this study, please contact Susan Krische.
Krische, S. D., P. R. Sanders, and S. D. Smith. 2014. Management credibility and investment risk: An experimental investigation of lease accounting alternatives. Behavioral Research in Accounting 26 (1): 109-130.


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