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Yesterday the S&P finished just below the 1,000 level, an important area of resistance. As is this manipulated market's custom, key areas are often jumped overnight and that occurred again last night in the midnight hours. The release of higher than expected jobless claims, however, sent prices back below that level and they are now very close to even:
The Dollar is mostly flat, bonds are up again, gold is down and oil futures are down.
One of the few people I pay to follow, Jim Shepherd, has an economic model that he uses that takes in all sorts of inputs (proprietary) from things like the PPI, velocity, money aggregates, interest rates, etc. and his model BOTH when back tested and in operational use has been nearly perfect with its calls. It is looking for the big picture things that will trigger market crashes or will trigger inflationary spirals or deflationary spirals. He confirmed yesterday that indeed, the latest PPI release WAS SUFFICIENT TO TRIGGER A DEFLATIONARY SPIRAL.
There's a fly in the ointment, though, from his perspective, and that is how much of the historic drop in PPI that was attributable to energy. He is carefully examining the ramifications in his model to be certain that the energy component is not sending a false signal. My personal belief is that oil was driven higher by speculation and rose on demand caused by the largest credit bubble in history. The credit bubble burst, and thus, so too did the price of oil. It's what was and is expected when shipping and trade throughout the world collapse at a historic pace – as they have.
During this trumped up hot money rally, however, oil and energy in general have been very strong with oil just yesterday producing a technical breakout above resistance. I think that anyone shorting the market needs to be careful and look for oil to break back down, which I believe it will eventually do. However, at this stage during the Great Depression, it was not long before equities continued their descent following the point at which the deflationary spiral signal was triggered.
Here is the latest weekly chart of oil. You can see that it is in the $73 range and that a break above will not encounter much resistance until its back above the $90 level. Maybe it gets there, but I'm doubtful as of right now.
And this is the latest P&F chart of oil, you can see that it triggered a bullish price of $87 just yesterday:
And to contrast with the deflationary spiral signal, McHugh believes that we still have large chunks of wave c up of B up to come! So, we have oil sending a breakout signal, a market that can only move sideways (with a little help from Ben's friends) but at the same time we have a Deflationary spiral signal in Shepherd's model.
Getting the market right at this stage will not be easy, but it is my belief that the deflationary forces are going to win that battle. It may take a little bit of time, but it won't be THAT long.
In fact, just this morning we had weekly claims for unemployment jump again. Gee, I thought we had already run out of workers to lay off! The weekly number rose from 558,000 to 576,000 when the consensus was saying 550,000. Here's Econoday's take, this time with no excuses, now that's a surprise:
Jobless claims data are a disappointment, showing increases in both initial claims and continuing claims. Initial claims for the Aug. 15 week rose 15,000 to 576,000 with the Aug. 8 week revised 3,000 higher. The result is well above expectations for 550,000. Continuing claims for the Aug. 8 week rose 2,000 to 6.241 million for a second increase in three weeks. There are no special factors skewing the data. The four-week average for initial claims rose for a third straight week and is now trailing the latest week at 570,000. The four-week average for continuing claims offers some good news, at 6.266 million for a 3,000 improvement in the week and well down from 6.548 million a month ago. The unemployment rate for insured workers, unchanged at 4.7 percent, also offers some good news. But the headline rise in initial claims is a disappointment pointing to no improvement for August payroll data. Stocks and commodities dipped in immediate reaction to the news.
Both the index of Leading Indicators and the Philly Fed Survey come out at 10 Eastern. I'll bet the Leading Indicators will be cheered, and it may be just enough to produce yet another move to suck in more fiat dollars that will ultimately be destroyed.
I'm thinking the manipulators just can't wait for the midnight hour! This could be Goldman's new theme song…
Wilson Pickett – In the Midnight Hour:

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Water Sports in Monterey: Diving, Kayaking, and SUP
The Monterey Bay is the premier Northern California locale for a number of water sports, especially scuba diving.
Scuba Diving
Any native Northern Californian knows that there's only one really great place in the region to get certified in scuba diving—the Monterey Bay. Even if you go to a dive school up in the Bay Area, they'll take you down to Monterey for your open-water dive. Accordingly, dozens of dive schools cluster in and around the town of Monterey (check Carmel and Santa Cruz as well, if you prefer).
A local's favorite, Bamboo Reef (614 Lighthouse Ave., 831/372-1685) offers SCUBA lessons and rents equipment just a few blocks from popular dive spots, including Breakwater Cove.
Another of your many dive shop options is the Aquarius Dive Shop (2040 Del Monte Ave., 831/375-1933, Mon.-Fri. 9am-6pm, Sat.-Sun. 7am-6pm). Aquarius offers everything you need to go diving out in Monterey Bay, including air and nitrox fills, equipment rental, certification courses, and help booking a trip on a local dive boat. Aquarius works with five boats to create great trips for divers of all interests and ability levels. Call or check the website for current local dive conditions as well.
Kayaking and Stand Up Paddleboarding
With all the focus on sustainable tourism in Monterey, coupled with the lovely recreation area formed by Monterey Bay, it's no wonder that sea kayaking is popular here. Monterey's coastline is as scenic a spot as any to learn to stand up paddleboard (SUP). Whether you want to try paddling for the first time or you're an expert who hasn't brought your own gear out to California, you'll find a local outfit ready and willing to hook you up.
Adventures by the Sea (299 Cannery Row, 831/372-1807, summer daily 9am-8pm, winter daily 9am-8pm, tours $60 pp, rentals $30/day) rents kayaks for whole days to let you choose your own route in and around the magnificent Monterey Bay kelp forest. If you're not confident enough to go off on your own, Adventures offers tours from Cannery Row. Your guide can tell you all sea otters, pelicans, seagulls, and maybe even a whale in the wintertime! The tour lasts about 2.5 hours and the available tandem sit-on-top kayaks make it a great experience for school-age children. Adventures by the Sea also run a tour of Stillwater Cove at Pebble Beach. Reservations are recommended for all tours, but during the summer the Cannery Row tour leaves regularly at 10am and 2pm, so you can stop by on a whim and see if there's a spot available.
Right on Monterey Beach, Monterey Bay Kayaks (693 Del Monte Ave., 800/649-5357, tours $50-60 pp) specializes in tours of central Monterey. (There's also a branch up in Moss Landing on the Elkhorn Slough.) You can choose between open-deck and closed-deck tour groups, beginning tours perfect for kids, or long paddles designed for more experienced sea kayakers. Check the website for specific tour prices, times, and reservation information. If you prefer to rent a kayak and explore the bay on your own, Monterey Bay Kayaks can help you with this too. If you really get into it, you can also sign up for closed-deck sea kayaking classes to learn about safety, rescue techniques, tides, currents, and paddling techniques.
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by Stuart Thornton
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Today's theme over at GeneaBloggers is Wedding Wednesday. Today's photo is provided by John Plenzler, who graciously sent me a number of photos quite a while ago. It is a mystery photo. Per information that was provided with the photo:
Unknown wedding, may be descendants of Joseph and Eva Dauer. May be Sophie Plenzler and Steve Szymanowski, not sure need verification. Bride resembles Barbara Szymanowski. May also be Frank Plenzler and Sophie Szymanowski, Sophie was Steve's sister. Click the photo to see a larger high-res scan.
I have no other clues. If any one can help identify these two, leave a comment here or drop me an email.
I love looking at old wedding photos. This bride has such a sweet face. Doesn't the groom look ahem a bit as if he is wondering what he'd just gotten into? If you zoom in on the wedding dress, check out the detail. It appears as if there is an apron embroidered with hundreds of delicate stones–beautiful! If you zoom in on the bride's stockings, they're lovely and embroidered also.


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Lubrigyn Cream uses hyaluronic acid and elastin in synergy to moisturize and maintain tissues. The hyaluronic acid helps to maintain the structure of tissue, enabling the cells to retain water, and elastin helps to limit stretching of skin. Sweet almond oil is easily absorbed and contains vitamins E and B proteins, glucids, and mineral salts. Vitamin A provides a thin barrier that helps to guard against infections. The cream can be used for daily moisturizing and as a lubricant for comfortable intimacy.
Manufacturer: Uniderm USA
Lubrigyn Cream offers moisturizing as well as lubrication, so can be especially helpful to women with regular vaginal dryness. Rated 73 by SkinSAFE; contains fragrance, coconut, MCI/MC, and propolyne glycol.
One of our medical advisors, Dr. Michael Krychman, recommended this product, calling it "a revolutionary product, since it has the moisturizing and lubricating effects of hyaluronic acid and elastin. It nurtures the vaginal and vulvar tissues to help restore, revive, and replenish the health of the tissue."
Aqua, prunus amygdalus dulcis oil, propylene glycol, cetearyl alcohol, cetyl alcohol, stearyl alcohol, ceteareth-12, isopropyl myristate, retinyl palmitate, calendula officinalis flower extract, isopropyl palmitate, dimethicone, BHT, imidazolidinyl urea, cocamidopropyl betaine, PEG-32, PEG-6, glucose, hydrolyzed elastin, benzyl alcohol, triethylene glycol, lactic acid, sodium hyaluronate, magnesium chloride, magnesium nitrate, methylchloroisothiazolinone, methylisothiazolinone.
As a moisturizer, apply to cleansed area two or three times a day, using five pumps from the dispenser. As a lubricant, apply before intercourse, using five pumps from the dispenser.
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AH! YES VM is specially formulated to release moisture as it's needed over several days, a property scientifically described as "iso-osmotic." It's identical in water concentration to vaginal tissues, formulated to release water more slowly to provide moisture over several days. AH! YES VM will soothe and calm irritation, itching, and burning with regular use. It's pH balanced and contains no fragrances or coloring and has no taste or residue. Pre-filled single-use applicators enable discreet and hygienic delivery of the right amount of gel to the inside of the vagina.
Choose AH! YES VM vaginal moisturizing gel if you have problems with vaginal dryness. It's especially good if you prefer to use natural organic products, perhaps because of skin sensitivities or allergies.
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Aqua (water), linum usitatissimum (flax) seed extract*, aloe babadensis leaf juice powder (aloe vera)*, ceratonia siliqua (locust bean gum)*, cyamopsis tetragonolobus (guar gum)* sodium chloride, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate, citric acid, phenoxyethanol. *Organically grown ingredients, certified by The Soil Association, UK
Follow package directions for safe and effective use.
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Emerita Personal Feminine Moisturizer contains vitamin E, aloe vera gel, chamomile, and calendula to heal tissues that can be disrupted by vaginal dryness. The all-natural ingredients are in a water-based solution that is completely washable, unscented, flavorless, and non-staining. Available in 2-oz and 4-oz bottles. Choose the "with syringe applicator" option if you'd like that convenience for use (note the applicator is not pre-filled).
Women addressing vaginal dryness who prefer natural products. Rated 82 by SkinSAFE; contains parabens, preservative, and fragrance.
Our medical advisory team recommends it for its effectiveness in restoring moisture in a soothing formula.
All natural ingredients
No mineral oil, petroleum, or animal ingredients
No animal testing
Formulated by women for women
Water (purified), glycerin, pentylene glycol, hydroxyethyl cellulose, sorbitol, xylitol, aloe barbadensis (aloe vera) leaf juice, tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), retinyl palmitate, calendula officinalis (calendula) flower extract, chamomilla recutita (matricaria) extract, panax ginseng root extract, allantoin, squalane, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate, disodium EDTA, citric acid
Apply to vaginal area as needed—even daily.
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Tested by both dermatologists and gynecologists, Oasis is paraben-, hormone- and fragrance-free, and pH-balanced for the vaginal environment. One 10-ml airless pump provides 30 applications; regular use increases comfort and improves tissue health.
Manufacturer: PrevaLeaf
Any woman with vaginal dryness, which is common with the hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause.
We like PrevaLeaf's mission to help women stay in control and well, and their focus on all-natural ingredients.
Oasis is water-based, is properly pH balanced for the vagina, and is hormone-, paraben-, and fragrance-free.
Water, emulsifying wax NF (naturally derived coconut, palm, and corn), ethylhexyl stearate (naturally derived vegetable-palm), cyclomethicone, sorbitol (naturally derived), lactobacillus ferment (naturally derived), vitis vinifera (grape) seed extract (naturally derived), tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), sodium benzoate (naturally derived), aloe barbadensis leaf juice (natural, freeze-drying process), lactic acid (naturally derived), disodium EDTA
Wash hands and apply a fingertip-sized amount (two pumps) of PrevaLeaf™ Oasis as needed.


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Border Controls Are Back In Europe
Somewhere in America, Barbara Boxer is weeping.
The California senator's version of the Highway Bill (S.1813, also known as MAP-21) which passed the senate and seemed destined to become law, has been dropped in favor of a rival bill that President Obama will sign into law today.
If you recall, Boxer's highway bill contained provisions authorizing the government to deny US citizens a passport in the event of unpaid taxes.
These provisions have been removed from the new version of the law; so the US governments efforts to restrict Americans' travel have been dropped. For now.
Don't worry, though there are still plenty of bonehead line items in the law, like authorizing public service campaigns to raise awareness about the risks of 'leaving a child or unattended passenger in a vehicle after the vehicle motor is disengaged.'
Your tax dollars at work.
Speaking of travel restrictions and border controls, though, European authorities seem to have no qualms about implementing them.
For the last several days, I've been weaving between northern Italy and Switzerland checking out great places to bank, new places to store gold, and taking in these gorgeous lake views.
Every single time I've crossed the border, I've been met by rather snarly police on both sides; they're stopping cars, turning people's trunks inside out, and causing major traffic problems.
A friend of mine who came up on the train from Florence to meet me for lunch in Lugano said he was stopped at the border for nearly an hour as thuggish customs agents randomly questioned train passengers and demanded to see their IDs.
So much for Europe's 26-country 'borderless area.'
Based on Europe's 1985 Schengen Treaty and 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, you're supposed to be able to drive from Tallinn, Estonia to Lisbon, Portgual without so much as slowing down at the border.
This is not dissimilar from driving between states in the US or provinces in Canada.
Yet as Europe descends into greater financial and social chaos, leaders are starting to ignore these agreements which guarantee freedom of movement across the continent.
No big surprise, electing Marxists and Neo-Nazis tends to bring that sort of change. Border controls, currency controls, wage and price controls– these are the usual tactics of desperate, insolvent governments.
As times get tougher, they tighten their grip, foolishly believing that they can decree and legislate their country back to health.
In the early 4th century AD after decades of economic turmoil and social strife within the Roman Empire, Diocletian issued his infamous Edictum De Pretiis Rerum Venalium, or Edict on Prices.
In addition to setting a fixed ceiling on over 1,000 products, services, and wages, Diocletian also commanded the death penalty for currency and commodity speculators who he blamed for inflation (as opposed to the steady debasement of the currency).
Obviously very little has changed.
Capital controls usually follow; these amount to the direct confiscation of wealth by a government from its citizens.
Often capital controls take the form of legal requirements which prevent people from moving money abroad, holding foreign currencies, or buying precious metals.
Just yesterday, in fact, Argentina's central bank formally banned people from buying US dollars– forcing them to hold rapidly depreciating pesos and watch their savings inflate away.
At some point, people finally reach their breaking points and spill out into the streets to be beaten by the police. This is when we see social controls implemented– turning off mobile and Internet infrastructure, curfews, etc.
These tactics have been all too common over the last 18-months.
And finally, if things get really bad, border controls are implemented as a way to prevent a flood of people from leaving. After all, the government needs as many milk cows as it can get.
This is why I say that the US passport denial provision has been dropped… but only for now. Don't be surprised to see it creep up in another proposed law in the near future.


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A number of schools were closed and hospital appointments cancelled after a burst pipe left large parts of London with little or no water.
Thames Water said the fault at its main regional pumping station at Hampton had caused problems in the west and south-west areas.
It said that while some water supplies were returning to normal it would take time for everyone to have their supplies restored.
Engineers would continue to work through the night to fix the issue, it added.
The TW, KT and W postcodes had been affected.
Thames Water said in a statement: "Repairs to the burst pipe inside our water treatment works are under way.
"The work we've done to bypass the pump and bring water into our pipe network from other areas has meant water supplies are returning to normal.
"It will take longer for some customers to get water back than others, as it takes time for the water to flow through every part of the network, but we expect all supplies to come back on over the course of the evening."
The company said hundreds of bottles of waters had been delivered to customers on its priority services list, which includes those with medical and mobility issues.
A number of bottled water stations had also been set up in affected areas.
Richmond Council said a number of schools had closed, as well as Teddington Pools, Orleans House Gallery and Hampton Hill Library.
All planned clinics and sessions at Teddington Memorial Hospital, including the Urgent Treatment Centre, and Teddington Health and Social Care Centre were cancelled.
A number of GP services also closed.
Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham, which had been left without flushing toilets and washing facilities in the kitchen, had to send children home.
Radnor House School in Twickenham also closed at 10.30am but exams were still taking place.
The evening fixture at Kempton Park Racecourse in Surrey was also abandoned because of the problem.
Meanwhile, Twitter users posted pictures of supermarket shelves stripped of bottled water.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said it was "unacceptable that so many people are left without water for several hours with little or no information on when supplies will be restored".
He said he expected Thames Water to compensate all those affected.
Thames Water has apologised for the inconvenience caused and pledged to investigate the cause of the burst pipe "so we can take steps to stop it happening again".


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Like sands through the hourglass... Days of Our Lives will keep airing at least through September 2014, NBC announced Wednesday.
"We are thrilled to announce that Days of Our Lives is not going anywhere. It is NBC's longest-running drama series by far and is one of the most historic brands in television," NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke said in a statement.
This week marked Days' 12,000th episode. In November, the show will celebrate its 48th anniversary.
Are you looking forward to more Days of Our Lives?
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Nuclear War Can't Be 'Regional'
Any nuclear conflict would devastate cities and threaten global population through climate change, researchers say.
Even the smallest nuclear powers today and in the near future may have as many as 50 or more Hiroshima-size weapons in their arsenals.
UCLA News release
Even a small-scale, regional nuclear war could produce as many direct fatalities as occurred during all of World War II and disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, impacting nearly everyone on Earth.
These conclusions are reported by a team of scientists from UCLA, the University of Colorado at Boulder and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in two research articles posted online in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions and at a press conference today at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.
The new results represent the first comprehensive quantitative assessment of the consequences of a nuclear conflict between small or emerging nuclear states, said Richard Turco, professor in the UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a member and founding director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment.
The team of scientists reviewed the current status of nuclear weapons development, analyzed data on modern megacities and applied a state-of-the-science climate model. They calculated the local effects of individual "small," Hiroshima-size (15-kiloton) nuclear detonations in urban centers, including potential casualties from the blast and radioactive fallout, Turco said.
Even the smallest nuclear powers today and in the near future may have as many as 50 or more Hiroshima-size weapons in their arsenals, according to the scientists. Moreover, about 40 countries possess enough plutonium and uranium to construct substantial nuclear arsenals.
"Considering the relatively small number and sizes of the weapons — perhaps less than one megaton in total yield — the potential devastation would be catastrophic and long-term," Toon said. "A single low-yield nuclear detonation in an urban center could lead to more fatalities, in some cases by orders of magnitude, than occurred in major historical wars."
Megacities attacked with nuclear devices, through war or terrorism, would likely be abandoned indefinitely, inducing mass migration and long-term economic decline, Turco said. Turco in the 1980s headed a group — whose members included Owen "Brian" Toon, a co-author on the current research, and the late Carl Sagan — that originally defined the "nuclear winter" phenomenon, a phrase that Turco coined. For a regional-scale nuclear conflict, fatality estimates range from 2.6 million to 16.7 million, Turco said.
The scientists estimated the quantities of soot — the highly absorbing component of smoke — that would be generated in urban firestorms ignited by nuclear detonations. This effort was led by Toon, professor and chair of the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, together with Turco and University of Colorado student Charles Bardeen. At Rutgers, Alan Robock, professor of environmental sciences and associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction at Rutgers' Cook College, professor Georgiy Stenchikov and postdoctoral associate Luke Oman (now at Johns Hopkins University) employed a coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model to simulate the effects of the putative smoke emissions in perturbing the global climate system and causing regional climatic anomalies.
The amount of soot emitted by firestorms was found to exceed 5 million metric tons in many cases. Because so many people live in megacities, the quantity of black smoke generated per kiloton of explosive yield could be more than 100 times larger than previously estimated for a full-scale superpower nuclear exchange involving thousands of megatons, according to one of the journal papers.
While a regional nuclear confrontation among emerging nuclear powers might be geographically constrained, the environmental impacts could spread worldwide, Robock and his colleagues conclude.
"We examined the climatic effects of the smoke produced in a regional conflict in the subtropics between two opposing nations, each using 50 Hiroshima-size nuclear weapons to attack the other's most populated urban areas," Robock said. The post-war climate simulations used soot emissions provided by Toon, Turco and Bardeen.
As had been suggested in earlier nuclear winter studies, and more recently by observations of large wildfire smoke plumes, Robock's calculations indicate that a large fraction of the nuclear soot could linger in the upper atmosphere for up to a decade, producing significant cooling and reduced precipitation, with the greatest changes occurring over land. The implications for global food supplies appear grim.
"A cooling of several degrees would occur over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions," Robock said. "As was the case with earlier nuclear winter calculations, large climatic effects would occur in regions far removed from the target areas or the countries involved in the conflict."
When Robock and his team calibrated their climate model against the recorded response to the 1912 eruptions of Katmai volcano in Alaska, they found that observed temperature anomalies were accurately reproduced. On a grander scale, the 1815 eruption of Tambora in Indonesia, the largest in the last 500 years, was followed by killing frosts throughout New England in 1816 during what has become known as "the year without a summer." The weather in Europe was reported to be so cold and wet that the harvest failed and starvation stalked most of the continent. This historical event, according to Robock, perhaps foreshadows the kind of climate disruptions that would follow a regional nuclear conflict.
The researchers emphasized that known climatic anomalies associated with major volcanic eruptions such as Tambora typically last for a year or so because volcanic particles tend to fall out of the atmosphere relatively quickly. By contrast, nuclear-generated soot particles may remain suspended in the upper troposphere and stratosphere for up to a decade as a result of the strong interactions between solar heat absorption by the smoke and wind patterns in the upper atmosphere. Consequently, the climatic effects can be significantly greater and longer lasting than those associated with any historical volcanic eruption.
"With the exchange of 100 15-kiloton weapons as posed in our baseline scenario, the estimated quantities of smoke could lead to global climate anomalies exceeding any experienced in recorded history," Robock said. "And that's just 0.03 percent of the total explosive power of the current world nuclear arsenal."
In related research, researcher Michael Mills of the University of Colorado at Boulder led a broad team, including Toon and Turco, in defining the impacts of a regional nuclear conflict on the stratospheric ozone layer. Mills' results, based on detailed simulations with a two-dimensional global chemical-transport model, reveal average column ozone losses exceeding 20 percent worldwide and persisting for at least three to four years, with mid-latitude losses as large as 30 to 40 percent and polar reductions up to 70 percent.
Such ozone depletions would be unprecedented in human history and imply serious ecological and human consequences, Turco said. The primary effects on ozone are due to accelerated catalytic chemical cycles, which are caused by the heating of the stratosphere as injected soot absorbs sunlight, and to severely perturbed dynamics of the region, again owing to the soot heating.
Previous studies, carried out in the 1980s with less sophisticated models, had indicated comparable or smaller ozone losses for a full superpower nuclear exchange, Mills noted.
Turco said that a small nuclear state is likely to direct its weapons against population centers to maximize damage and achieve the greatest advantage, thus making such outcomes more plausible.
The research team concludes that the confluence of nuclear proliferation, political instability and urban demographics forms perhaps the greatest danger to the stability of human society since the dawn of civilization.
The research team assessed uncertainty at each step of their analysis. Because of the complexity of the problem and the limited data available to support calculations, they emphasize that further research is needed to improve the predictions described in their publications.
Nevertheless, the researchers note that the largest uncertainties are associated with the possible scenarios for a nuclear exchange. They conclude that the current buildup of nuclear weapons in a growing number of states points to scenarios in the next few decades that may be even more extreme than those considered in the present analysis.
The papers are: "Atmospheric Effects and Societal Consequences of Regional Scale Nuclear Conflicts and Acts of Individual Terrorism," O. B. Toon, R. P. Turco, A. Robock, C. Bardeen, L. Oman and G. L. Stenchikov, and "Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts," A. Robock. L. Oman, G. L. Stenchikov, O. B. Toon, C. Bardeen and R. P. Turco. Both can be accessed on the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions journal Web site, at http://www.cosis.net/members/journals/df/recent.php?j_id=1.
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What You Should Know Before Dealing With Strangers Online
Have you ever responded to an ad on a public forum website? Most of us have made a purchase, unloaded unwanted merchandise or contacted someone at least once after reading a post online.
It's a wonderful system. People can make transactions with eager buyers or sellers in any city. Individuals offering jobs or looking for employment can find each other quickly. But there is a dark side to this enterprise . And it can be deadly.
Should You Agree To Meet?
The Internet makes it easy for you to get in touch with people who might be interested in what they have to offer. While this is very convenient, you may be putting yourself at risk.
In 2007, Katherine Ann Olson replied to an ad for a nanny position. She made an appointment to meet her prospective employer, but never returned. Her body was later found stuffed into the trunk of her car.
This case made national headlines and was deemed the first time someone was murdered after replying to an ad on Craigslist. It would not be the last.
Have Something To Sell?
As a seller, you usually have the option to ship an item to the buyer or meet in person. Always be careful about whom you invite into your home.
In April 2010, James and Charlene Sanders placed a Craigslist ad to sell a diamond ring. They received a response from an interested party and set up a time to discuss the sale at their house in Tacoma.
When the day came, the Sanders displayed the ring and agreed on a price. Before they could finish the deal, one of the visitors pulled out a gun.
The terrified couple was tied up, and their two sons were brought downstairs. The older boy arrived in time to witness his mother getting kicked in the head. He attempted to fight back. When the intruders began to beat the teenager, James Sanders freed himself and ran over to rescue his son.
Sanders' heroic efforts were met with gunfire. He fell to the floor and died as his wife held him tightly in her arms. The criminals threatened to shoot Charlene next, but opted for a quick getaway instead. Four suspects have since been captured, and they await trial.
Know Whom You're Dealing With
People who place or respond to ads often invite strangers into their homes. Even those who only complete transactions via the postal service often exchange addresses with people they don't know. You must take steps to protect yourself, and your family.
Before you give away your address or agree to meet someone, run your own investigation. Many sites allow users to leave feedback about people they deal with personally. Start by reading these comments to learn about the other person's reliability.
If someone appears to be worth dealing with, it's time to dig deeper. Your next step is to order a Comprehensive Background Check. This is a report that provides intensive details about anyone, including their full name or aliases and whether or not they have a bankruptcy, tax lien or criminal record on file.
Did you know you can learn about anyone's criminal history? This knowledge may help you decide whom you want to deal with, and whom you do not. A Nationwide Criminal Records Report shows you if someone has a misdemeanor or felony in their past, and gives you specific details about each offense if they do. It's a great way to learn about someone before you get involved.
Of course not every predator has a criminal record. There is always potential for danger when you make contact with someone you don't know.
If you frequently use online auctions, classified and forums, consider investing in a PO Box. If you agree to meet with a stranger, get together in a public location. The old adage is true: there is safety in numbers.
Using sites like Craigslist and EBay can lead to mutually beneficial experiences, but you must think about your own safety. Learn about people before you agree to deal with them, take every precaution to protect yourself online and in person, and thank you for reading the PeopleFinders People Search blog.Tags: Background Check, Criminal Records, Online Identity, Online Safety, Social Media
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It's a relation where we attach ourselves with nature. Silence has another form also which we call submission. Silence is the characteristic of "I" and submission is the action of silence. When person attains silence, submission itself comes. Silence's characteristic and submission is knowledge.
What is characteristic?
It is the positive energy of "I" or we can say it is the nature of "I".
What is knowledge?
It is the understanding of nature of the object.
How can we recognize understanding?
We will be above that topic of life which we have understood. For example 2+2 is thought in first grade. When we know it we are promoted to second standard. To be above means that when the characteristic of the object come to our life in the form of knowledge and if we have the capability to utilize it then it means that we have gained maturity. If not then it means that we have knowledge of that object but not understanding. The knowledge of this understanding will bring happiness, peace, independence and love.
Understanding is like a fuel whose output is peace, happiness and independence. Understanding makes life easier and lighter. All these characteristics and knowledge are nature of our "I". To understand the nature of "I" we can use another point.
Today we will bring all religions in the court of our life. Here our "I" is judge, our understanding is our advocate and culprit is our thought process. Feelings will be employee and jury consists of all religions. Our characteristics will be our witness.
What is oneness?
The Taste of love.
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form of similarity where all differences are eradicated. First time we feel life. It feels like everything is born now. From here life starts growing, means the journey of life and not of human starts from here.
Here "I" sees that everything is expanding. It itself is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian. It sees that love is prevailing everywhere and is the same. All this expansion which seems different is depicting the feature and characteristic of that oneness.
We can do one thing here at the place where we are standing. We can look deep into our every thought and every feeling. What do we see? When we pass through this experience then this feeling will introduce us with the Hindu as well as Muslim, Christian as well as Buddhist.
Whenever we go to the depth of thoughts we will be introduced to some scientist or prophet. When we see, while flowing in the feelings, we ourselves will become river or air. The experience of that flow will introduce us to the deep feeling of a saint, a prophet or a sage.
When we know of our habits and know how habits are born then we will become attached to rich and poor. When we know and understand our actions then we can see our merits and shortcomings in everything.
We can see the expansion till the extent we are awaken from inside. If we see and understand the world through "I" then only can we understand "I" as well as the world. If we don't understand life we cannot be religious. Our one though travels a life time; just like this someone's feeling or someone's wish travels a life time and life itself remains unexplored.
What is society?
It is the arrangement of rituals.
What are rituals?
Rituals are the process to make life easy as per time.
Does time remain same every time?
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wholeness is the symbol of the law. Everything in existence reveals a rule or law.
If we concentrate then we will come to know that everything is trying to say something. All our circumstances are the result of our understandings.
What are circumstances?
Circumstances are those accidents in which we have to take decision about our actions. Why did these accidents happen? The conflict between two decisions becomes accident. This conflict is in every direction and in every situation.
Thoughts have conflict with thoughts; feelings have conflict with feelings, person with person and countries with countries, religion with religion and so on.
How can we come out of this conflict?
With the help of conflict of "I" with "I", by imbibing the main features of "I".
How? When "I" becomes object as well as subject. Means we start doing surveillance on ourselves. We have to test ourselves in the laboratory of us. What we think and do, why we think and do it? Where we go, why we go? What will be the positive reason of going and what will be the positive reason of not going? Our question to our inner self will clean our conscious and we will be attached to "I" naturally.
When we will look inside our self we will move closer towards "I". This will remove our burden and we will feel lighter. We will be enlightened to the fact that burden which we were bearing was of lack of knowledge.
When we become familiar with "I" then we know that we all are one. Feeling of oneness is born only after knowing one. In the same way we can understand the greatness of God after knowing God. Oneness takes the
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What is religion?
To know the nature of "I" or to know the characteristic of "I".
What is the rule of "I"? What does religion teach us? The same thing which life teaches us, our duty. What is our duty? It is to lead our life as per the characteristic of "I". To lead our life with love, care, affection, truth, peace, independence, and oneness.
Don't we have love in us? If we don't have it inside then nobody can fill us from the outside. Everybody has it but its speed is slow. Why? Because we are traveling towards different subject. Because we are wrong at the first step itself.
This journey of "I" starts with "I" which after traveling in different forms converges into one. All these endless color, shapes, are the potential of "I". Information, knowledge, familiarity, are all the stages of "I" which tells us how developed our "I" is. We can take any subject, it has a very deep journey.
All this expansion is very vast and very deep topic. Leaving aside everything we will discuss this normal topic. These words which we speak, write, now a days, type are due to this new object whose speed is much faster i.e. technology. Typing is a part of technology. When we start analyzing these words then the depth of these words will take us to our "I". Jesus said "In the beginning there was Word". Nanak said "Shabad Guru", Krishna said ''Giyaan Yog''. What does it mean? Many things have been said. Here I want to say that we can enter into religion by going into the depth of the words because everything has depth weather positive or negative.
Till the time we don't look into "I", we don't recognize "I" we are not living our life. Our life starts with our "I". When we recognize our "I" world becomes family, world becomes country.
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"I" is a feeling. It's a sensation. It is consciousness. How can we see consciousness? Question is one but it has many answers because "I" is a producer as well as director and actor. "I" is a story as well as words. Its shape is shapeless.
"I" is a universe, it's a country, it's a home but still its shapeless.
"I" is nature as well as seasons. Happiness, sorrow all are seasons. "I" is school as well as teacher and student. "I" is subject but when it becomes object then the journey to know "I" begins and hence starts the journey of religion. "I" meets object, weather family or country. Weather "I" goes to Church, Temple, Gurdwara or Mosque. These are all objects, though they are religious objects. Every object's subject is one i.e. "I". This means all these religions are expansion of some form of "I".
Every religion is also known as "Mat" i.e. knowledge, Akl or understanding.
Sikh "Mat" is the "Mat" of Baba Nanak. It is about how Guru Nanak saw and understood life, world, and universe. This action of describing, its sensation, the moments of those divine feelings, is how the capability to describe it was born, that capability is the "mat" of Guru Nanak. When "Mat" finds acceptability in society it becomes the process of the religion but not religion. Same is with Bible, Quran, Geeta, etc.
Religion means to be engrossed and imbibed in "I" or to know the character of "I" and then live with it; the pleasure obtained from it is religion.
When we reach that level then we will also describe that experience with our "Mat" or understanding. The interesting thing is that there will be no difference between the experience of Geeta, Quran and Bible. We will understand that only the way of describing the divine experience is different. This different way of description becomes different personalities. If we look deeply then we will understand that all these differences are the same which are created by the creator whom we call God.
I Asked flower about its Secrets
I Asked flower about its Secrets, then flower said,
" While you are here with LIFE, be here; be totally here so that you can learn a new mode of movement, so that you can move into eternity, not in time.
Time is the world and eternity is God; horizontal is the world, vertical is God. From here and now you can go on two journeys: one journey in the world, in the future; the other journey into God, into depth. Become more and more aware, become more and more alert and sensitive to the present. NOW! Look at me! "
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For example "I" was born in Sikh religion, so I had to go to Gurdwara but I dreamt of Krishna though I do not know who Krishna was.
At the physical level "I" am sikh but at mental level "I" am hindu. At night I would hear music. After 20 years I came to know that it was verses of Quran, means at deep mental level "I" was muslim.
Now the question is that if in this physical world we call this "I" as Sikh but is that the reality?
"I" means that in this "I" the whole universe exist. With the birth of the baby, the word family comes into existence. Country or society come into existence rarely and religion comes into existence very rarely in centuries. Why? Because the journey of "I" is physical, it is the journey of an object.
Not only in this world but in whole universe the religion is one and the first word of it is "I." The journey starts with "I" and ends with "I."
Many people die in their childhood. The body can age to 90 but "I" always stays in childhood. If 52% reach their youth, then old age has been rare. Why? Because our speed is slow, by then, time has come to change the body.
Then what should be done? We should live the character of "I." Means we should make "I" as subject. We should not let any object become subject.
What is this "I"?
The answer to this question changes at every level, it changes with every color and shape. Why?
"I" is like water – see through. Whatever color we put into water, it becomes that color. But what is the color of water? What is the color, and shape of air? What is the color of space and temperature?
Body, society, family, country, these are mirrors through which we see and recognize "I".
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received its aim. Who's strength is it? It is of "I". "I" owns potential, What is Potential? "I" virtue.
Family and country turns the limited potential of "I" to unlimited by giving motion. This motion do not belong to family or country instead it belongs to "I" which has created its motion in this family, society and country.
In family this "I" takes the form of son, daughter, brother, sister, mother, father, which is very limited. In society it becomes friendship and in country it takes the form of human due to which this limited form undergoes expansion.
"I" is neither a ritual nor it is subjected to any discrimination. It's not a citizen of any country that we can label it as American or Canadian. We should not see this "I" through any object. Everything is expanding of this "I" and is projecting the possibilities of "I." There is one question ( what am "I") and one subject ("I") and we have to take one action (finding the answer) and this action will become Karma. Family is the foundation of life. Society has erected its wall and country made the house.
Family acts as boundary, society makes person mature and country takes care and give direction to this maturity. What are these outer supports? Do they not supported "I"?
Our personal life is a part of public life. It is our companion in developing the potential in "me" because the companion is one which is with us.
Where are we together?
We are together in family, society and country and nothing else. "I" is a kind of seed from which countless features can grow. Here grow means that we awake towards the potential of our virtues.
In childhood the potential of "I" spends in family, and youth in society and country. Do not forget that potential of "I" is not of family or country.
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What does family say? What are the rules and regulations of the country? What is religion? Why is there religion? What is the true definition of religion? We have to analyze all these points on the basis of our own deep existence and always consider "I" as a subject.
Everything in this world is beautiful. Everything has value, has rule and discipline. We have to recognize this. Today, we have to look at family and religion through the eye of "I". If there was no "I" then? With "I" family and religion are identified. Then why not, we first try to understand "I", and what are its virtue.
Virtues that awakens within "I" are the ones we recognize, which means we travel with the virtues and vice in motions.
Life's motion is due to this virtues and vices only. Love, service, care, for family, is the form of "I". Whatever we see in the family like love, care, peace, sorrow, is because it is already within us. Family awakens our internal potential, giving us the ability to walk.
When we go in society, then we learn what is yours and mine, rituals and economic differences.
Family strengthens the roots then society like leafs and branches of the tree brings happiness due to which our potential become deeper as well as new ones spout.
"Country" takes our potential ahead from which flowers of deep feelings blooms upon our happiness. It means, "I" potential individual identity starts to grow.
If these three stages (family, society and country) we stand in the physical world, where we developed relationships with physical appearance, shape and size. These potential, which are in motion within "I", becomes powerful with the supported by these three stages. Why did "I" became powerful? Because it had power, its strength has motion, and became powerful with the three stages, or in other worlds the power


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An eviction crisis of a different sort has hit San Francisco, as one by one, recycling centers are closing across the city. Supervisor Eric Mar today called for a hearing on recycling center closures, to measure the impact on the city's poor and its zero waste policies.
"I've heard from many of our residents that (the closures) will have severe impact on the low and no income members of our community," Mar said at today's Board of Supervisors meeting. "Many are immigrants who rely on this stream of income."
The hearing was spurred by the announcement of the upcoming closure of a recycling center at the Market and Church street Safeway. But the problem is deeper than just one facility.
Since the closure of the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's recycling center by Kezar stadium, four other recycling facilities in the northern half of San Francisco have closed or announced their closure. A sea of NIMBY neighbors are making war not on poverty, but the impoverished, as gentrifying neighborhoods chafe against rubbing shoulders with the downtrodden and homeless who trade in cans and bottles to make a meager living (many of whom we've profiled before).
Sup. Mar's office is partnering with the Coalition on Homelessness to see just how those low-income communities are affected. Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach said many poor and lower-middle income earners depend on recycling centers for extra income.
"Pretty much all impoverished people recycle (at these centers)," she told the Guardian. "It's a class delineator. You don't recycle? You must be rich."
And it's those monied few, like that Haight Ashbury Improvement Association (who pushed out the HANC recycling center) who cry out against their existence.
San Francisco Chronicle columnist C. W. Nevius likes to poke at the poor by playing up the arguments of the "improvement associations" and other neighborhood groups that are calling for the recycling centers' ouster. In his latest piece just last Saturday, Nevius lambasted the ills of the recycling "criminal enterprise."
From his article: "What the closure will do is make it more difficult for the large-scale scavengers, who have turned theft of recyclables into a criminal enterprise. They cruise the streets at night and loot the curbside recycling bins. Some even pay homeless individuals a small sum to raid the bins and collect bottles and cans for them."
Thanks @cwnevius , good to know the poor and suffering are now officially a "public nuisance." #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/uR3laNetuZ
— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) January 11, 2014
It's an open secret in San Francisco that many recycling scavengers in the city raid blue bins meant for Recology in search of cans and bottles. But the idea of the closure of the Market street Safeway recycling center spelling an end to their black market presence is perhaps a bit extreme.
Friedenbach agreed that Nevius' theory makes little sense.
"Actually the close of these recycling centers has shown a dramatic increase in secondary recyclers," Friedenbach said. "These people don't have a place to recycle, and are forced to sell them at a cut rate to people in trucks."
Those trucks driving around with ill-gotten hauls of recycling? They may increase without the presence of all those recycling centers — because they're competitors. In addition, closing the the centers outright may not even now be as necessary as new regulations from the state, via CalRecycle, limit the amount of recyclables processing centers can take at any one time.
"January 1 there was a reduction in the daily load limit," Marc Oldfield, communications director at CalRecycle told us. The previous limit of 500 pounds of aluminum or plastic was reduced to 100 pounds, closer to the average CalRecycle found most customers brought in. Oldfield was cagey about how his phrasing, but implied the new limits were meant to curtail the recycling black market.
"That could potentially affect the 'business material' coming in," he said.
Closing recycling centers has deleterious effects on businesses as well: when they close, state law mandates that local shops pick up the slack. Mom and pop liquor stores, grocery stores, and most shops that sell cans and bottles would be required to buy-back cans and bottles (like a recycling center) or pay a $100 a day fee. That's upwards of $35,000 a year.
The small business commission was so worried about the impact on independent store owners that they started an outreach program to educate them on their options just last year, which we've covered before.
But you know, at least people in the neighborhood won't have to be subjected to poor people. That's what matters, right?


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Tomorrow's IT Service Future Today
21 Jan, 2014, 15:43 GMT
ORPINGTON, Kent, January 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
The world's first global IT Service conference
Tomorrow's IT Service Future Today announces BrightTALK partnership.
TFT (Tomorrow's IT Service Future Today) announced today that BrightTALK, the world's leading professional video and webinar platform, is providing an exclusive platform to host, live steam and deliver TFT14, the third 24-hour global, virtual conference focused on IT Service Management.
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TFT12 (05 December 2012) was the world's first global 24 hour IT service virtual conference, with 24 crowd-sourced speakers from around the world presenting for 24 hours via Google Hangout on Air to YouTube. Read more about the genesis of TFT here. Next came TFT13 (18 June 2013) which innovated further by integrating speakers at the physical SDI conference in to the live TFT stream. TFT13 statistics can be viewed here.
This year BrightTALK will provide professional quality live streaming of the content for a continuous 24-hour period, on a channel dedicated to the event. This enables TFT to move away from Google Hangouts and air a continuous live streamed event. The partnership also shares the content with the hundreds of thousands of professionals that are part of the IT service management community on BrightTALK.
BrightTALK provides live and on-demand webinars and videos for professionals and their communities. IT service management is just one of the many communities of professionals participating in the vibrant exchange of knowledge that happens every day through the online event technologies that BrightTALK has created.
Chris Dancy, Founder of TFT says "It is only through the power of a hyperconnected community, utilising technologies that leverage social and mobile, that we are able to break down the barriers which until now have kept conferences and content locked away from everyday consumers." Watch Chris here.
The TFT model has also partnered with three other communities (see below) outside of ITSM and set free millions more minds and speakers. Each conference was 24 hours, starting in New Zealand and spanning the globe.
Day of Global Jewish Learning - November 17, 2013
World Aids Day 2013 - December 2, 2013
SP24 The 24 hour Global SharePoint conference- April 16, 2014
Managing Director of SDI Tessa Troubridge commented "We can no longer permit organisations, companies, and membership bodies to dictate how and where we consume and network. We are delighted that BrightTALK have supported us in bringing content to an unlimited number of people. Having BrightTALK as our exclusive strategic platform partner elevates the profile of TFT14, putting our content onto a platform that is aimed at the professional audience that is our primary target. We are truly delighted to be working with BrightTALK for this and future TFT events."
"We're excited to have TFT happening live exclusively on BrightTALK," said Andrew Goldner, VP of Global Audience at BrightTALK. "IT service management is one of the most engaged communities on BrightTALK and it's great to be able to share TFT with these professionals."
Speakers for TFT14 are currently being crowdsourced via List.ly and the first 8 speakers will be announced by 27 January 2014.
TFT14 is brought to you by the Service Desk Institute.
Follow @FutureITService #TFT14 for updates.
Vote for speakers at http://list.ly/list/7Pn-tft14-february-2014.
About the Service Desk Institute (SDI)
As the leading authority for the service desk industry, SDI exists to raise the standard of service and support delivery by inspiring, supporting, guiding and educating the wider community in an engaging and responsible way.
Further information about SDI can be found at http://www.servicedeskinstitute.com
About BrightTALK
BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities. Every day thousands of thought leaders are actively sharing their insights, their ideas and their most up-to-date knowledge with professionals all over the globe through the online event technologies that BrightTALK has created. BrightTALK makes it easy to create compelling content, grow audiences strategically and measure the results.
About ServiceSphere
Chris Dancy founded ServiceSphere in 2008. To make the most of an extensive background in help desk, Chris created ServiceSphere as a small, independent software company to provide help desk outsourcing services. In 2009 he transitioned the company to become an ITSM consulting organization, providing a larger outlet for his core expertise. During this time development of ITMM (IT Marketing Management) began. ServiceSphere partnered with Kory Smith to bring this idea of an IT marketing framework to life.
While investigating ITMM, Chris saw the concept of "social media" for the help desk as a means to bridge the cultural divide in enterprise organizations. Capturing and documenting this radical shift in information creation, consumption, and transfer became the full-time mission of this small business.
Early in 2010 ServiceSphere developed classes for ITSM professionals to use social media as a way to extend day-to-day operational communications for service management organizations. At this same time ITSM Weekly the Podcast was breaking ground as the most listened-to podcast in the IT management community. In November 2010, Pink Elephant, the IT management experts, acquired the intellectual property of ServiceSphere and hired Chris as its digital engagement director.
The birth of both the ServiceSphere brand and the professional identity of founder Chris Dancy marked the start of an industry-defining period. Dancy experienced explosive growth in speaking engagements around the globe and quickly "ServiceSphere" the brand and "Chris Dancy" the person were seen as one and the same.
ServiceSphere was re-born in October 2011. The ServiceSphere website, company blog and community are now Chris's professional blog. While the company no longer offers services, the community of passionate ITSM professionals lives on in the podcasts, speaking engagements and many lives that have been influenced by this three-year journey.
As of August 2012, Chris joined BMC.
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Pennsylvania's Chesapeake Forest Champion keeps it in the family
When Susan Benedict talks about her forest – a 200,000 acre property in Centre County, Pennsylvania -- she talks about family.
by Caitlin Finnerty
December 15, 2011
When most people talk about forests, they mention hunting, or the timber market, or environmental conservation. But when Susan Benedict discusses her forest – a 200,000 acre property in Centre County, Pennsylvania – she talks about family.
"We all work together. This is a family operation," she says as we drive to her property along a Pennsylvania State Game Lands road that winds through the Allegany Mountains from Black Moshannon to Pennsylvania-504.
(Image courtesy Susan Benedict)
A desire to keep the mountaintop property in the hands of her children and grandchildren motivated Benedict to implement sustainable forestry practices, participate in Pennsylvania's Forest Stewardship Program and certify the property under the American Tree Farm System. By managing her forest in an environmentally conscious way, Benedict ensures that stands of ash, red oak and beech will be around in a hundred years for her great-grandchildren to enjoy.
But Benedict's involvement in forest conservation doesn't mean that she's rejecting the land's economic and recreation potential. The property's plethora of hardwoods allows the family to participate in the timber market. As a large and secluded mountaintop property, it has attracted wind farms seeking to turn wind into energy. Its location along the Marcellus Shale makes it a desirable location for natural gas developers. This multitude of interested parties, each with its own vision, can be overwhelming for any property owner.
Since different stakeholders preach different benefits and drawbacks of extracting these natural resources, Benedict took charge and carefully investigated the issues herself, knowing her family's land was at stake. Her decisions balance the property's economic potential with her desire to keep her family forest as pristine as it was when she explored it as a child.
We talk so much about the environmental benefits of trees that it's easy to forget that they're also a business.
(Image courtesy Susan Benedict)
"My forester assures me that your woods are like your stock portfolio," Benedict explains. "You don't want to cut out more annual growth than what you're generating, and in fact, you want to shoot for (cutting) less than what you're generating. Right now, we are good; what we are taking out, we are generating."
Before any logging is done, a county forester walks the property and designates which trees can be removed. Then it's time to cut. Benedict has one logger, an ex-Vietnam veteran whose wife occasionally accompanies him. "He cuts whatever the mills are wanting," says Benedict.
The challenge occurs when mills want something that shouldn't be cut. "It's a little more problematic because we have to market what we want to get rid of, instead of the lumber mills telling us what they want," Benedict explains.
But Benedict won't let natural resource markets sway her forest management decisions. She's taking charge by telling lumber mills that she'll give them what she wants to give them – no more, no less. Of course, the economic incentives of sustainable forest management make saying "no" easier.
One of these economic rewards is the Department of Agriculture's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQUIP), which provides financial and technical assistance to landowners seeking to "promote agricultural production and environmental quality as compatible national goals."
Benedict's EQUIP project will enhance growth on mass-producing trees such as hickory, oak, cherry, hazelnut, beech nut and others that produce animal feed. "Basically, we want to get the trees to grow quicker, and re-generate better."
Family health problems put Bendict's EQUIP project on hold. Since it needed to be completed by the end of summer, Benedict's brothers and her three sons (age 15, 24 and 27) held mandatory family work days each weekend from the Fourth of July to the end of September.
"It's a 200,000-acre property, which translates to a lot of work. But I think that's good," Benedict assures me, even though she also sweat through the word during the height of summer's humidity. "When you have concentrated time like that, you actually talk to each other. If you meet for an hour meeting, no one ever gets around to saying what they want. You get down to what's real."
Using the forest as a mechanism to unite her family has been Benedict's goal since she and her brothers inherited the property after her father's death.
Benedict tells me that her three boys "have to help out, whether they want to or not." Their involvement – even if it is forced sometimes – allows the family to connect to the property. Benedict hopes the hard work will inspire them to adopt sustainable forestry management practices when they inherit the land.
When hard work reaps zero benefits
We've all experienced times when nature takes over and there's nothing we can do about it – whether we're a farmer that's experienced a devastating drought or a commuter who's had to pull over in a heavy rainstorm because we couldn't see the road in front of us.
This happened to Benedict and her team six years ago, when a three-year gypsy moth infestation destroyed 80 percent of a red oak stand. The damage cost her more than one million dollars in timber profits on a 2,000-acre lot.
"Al (Benedict's logger) had worked so hard on the stand. And it's not a fun place to work – rocky and snake-infested. We were all so proud of how it came out. And then three years worth of caterpillars, and it was destroyed."
Biological sprays of fungi can sometimes prevent gypsy moth infestations. The caterpillars die after ingesting the fungi for a few days.
Benedict could have sprayed the fungi, but it may not have worked. It's a big risk to take when you're paying $25 per acre (that's $50,000 in total). Not only do you need the money, but you must have three consecutive rain-free days in May, the only time of year you can spray.
So when the emerald ash borer – the invasive green insect that has destroyed between 50 and 100 million ash trees in the United States – made its first appearance in Pennsylvania, Benedict began cutting down her ash trees. "We got them to market before they got killed."
By paying attention to both environmental and market pressures, Benedict's forest is both sustainable and profitable.
Wind farm: someone has to host it
Benedict's property is isolated. For wind-power developers, that means fewer people will complain about the loud noise and shadows that make living near wind turbines burdensome. The land is also atop a mountain, which, of course, means it experiences high winds.
"It's very hard to decide to have that much development on your property, but honestly, it will provide a nice retirement for my brothers and me," Benedict says. "Everyone I talk to assures me that once the construction phase is over, it doesn't hurt the trees, it doesn't hurt the wildlife. The wildlife could care less, which has been my observation on most things that we do. After it gets back to normal, they don't care and they adjust."
Environmental surveys, which are required by law before construction, affirm Benedict's insights. A group hired to do a migratory bird study constructed a high tower atop the mountain. "They stayed up there every evening and morning in March," Benedict says with a shiver.
Another contractor is delineating wetlands on the property: identifying and marking wetland habitat and making sure construction does not affect these areas.
Benedict and her family even had the opportunity to learn what kinds of endangered and threatened animals live on their property. "They found seven timber rattlesnake dens, and had to relocate one of the turbines because it was too close to the den," Benedict explains. The teams also surveyed Allegany wood rats and northern bulrushes, a critical upland wetland plant.
"I decided to [lease property to the wind farm] because the only way we are ever going to know if wind is a viable technology is if we get some turbines up, see what works, see what doesn't work, and allow that process of invention to move. And we have to have someone to host it."
And according to the surveys, Benedict's property is the perfect host.
Keep it in the family
As Benedict drives her pickup around the property, she points out the site of her father's former saw mill, where she once worked, and shows me to the cabin that the family built after her grandfather died in 1976. Nearby, there's a section of forest that the family is converting to grouse habitat, which will support her brother's love of grouse hunting.
(Image courtesy Susan Benedict)
The uses of the property fluctuate as family members' interests change. Benedict affirms that managing the property sustainably will give her grandchildren the freedom to pursue their interests in the years to come.
"A lot of people go the route of having a conservation easement, but who knows what the best use of that property is going to be in 100 years. If my dad did that, we would have very little use of the property now, and certainly very little flexibility with these things, especially the wind and natural gas."
Benedict is a member of the Centre County Natural Gas Task Force. "You hear all sorts of things about natural gas development and water resources, and in order to make sure it wasn't going to be horrible, I joined the task force," she explains.
Benedict also allows 15 or so individuals to hunt and fish on her property for a small annual fee. Control of the deer population in particular is essential for her timber operations.
But no matter what happens, Benedict insists, the forest will stay in the family.
"We made a pact that everyone will have to sell all of their belongings before we sold this," she says. "There's some things, you know, you got to make work out."
Benedict's forest management practices and involvement in the sustainable forestry community has earned her recognition as a 2011 Forest Steward Champion by the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.


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(Pocket-lint) - Sony has announced two additions to its Cyber-shot camera range, both of which coming to Europe in March.
The WX70 and WX50 superslim snappers share many features, including several of the colours they come in, although the former, slightly higher-end version also sports a 3-inch Xtra Fine LCD touchscreen, with a 921k dot resolution. The other comes with a 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD (non-touch) screen, with a 460k dot resolution.
Both cameras are identical in their measurements, coming in at 92.2 x 52.0 x 19.1mm, and offer the same 16.2-megapixel Exmor R CMOS sensor. They house the company's proprietary Bionz processor, a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar lens, 5x Optical Zoom and 10x Clear Image Zoom (25mm wide angle), and offer ISO up to 12800.
HD video recording is available (AVCHD 1920 x 1080 / 50i, with MP4 also offered), while it is claimed by Sony that the battery will last up to 120 minutes (still shooting with LCD on). They each come with the company's Optical SteadyShot Active Mode for image stabilisation.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX50 will be available in silver, black, pink, gold and blue, while the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-WX70 will come in silver, black and white (even though the main image sent to us also features pink and purple versions... Maybe they're for other territories).
Sony is yet to announce prices.


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NKY health dept. seeing more bats, rabies scares
More people getting rabies vaccines this year
Health officials in Northern Kentucky are warning residents there to limit their contact with bats after an unusually high number of people have gotten rabies vaccines due to exposure to the animals.
They say 13 people exposed to bats this year have decided to get vaccinated because bats commonly carry the disease, which is fatal if not treated.
Usually, the number of people who choose to get vaccinated is relatively low.
"This year, because of the abundance of insects, because of the summer we've had being particularly wet, there is plenty of good food for the bats and, unfortunately, they are coming in contact with more people than in past years," Northern Kentucky Health Department Environmental Health and Safety Director Steve Devine said.
Officials say the best way to avoid the vaccine shots after being bitten is to catch the bat and have it tested.
"Remember that exposure to bats, and all bites from mammals, are required to be reported to the health department," said Health Director Lynne Saddler.
But some species are protected and cannot be killed.
"They are not dangerous, they actually are a major predator of night-flying insects and they eat lots and lots of bugs," Cincinnati Museum Center Animal Resources Coordinator Ann Wegman said.


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Flexible Silicone Mold For Multifaceted Squared Ring.
The easier and funny way to make your custom rings!
This rings model was created and sculpted by me for my Soulfulstyle project ,you cant find this same design in other molds
1 mold with 4 sizes:
USA Size 6 - 7- 8 - 9
This mold enable to create 4 ring at time using the same resin effects or inclusion!
Please watch my ring size conversion before to order.
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If you like to know more about OhMymold take a look at my video tutorial!
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If you want to see more rings created using this mold,take a look at my art and handmade shop called Soulfulstyle!
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