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Apple crop 'a disaster'
By Rob Gowan
Local apple growers' fears are being realized.
The Southern Georgian Bay area, which accounts for about a quarter of the province's production, has been all but lost this year.
On Saturday morning Brian Gilroy, chair of the Ontario Apple Growers and owner of Nighthawk Orchards just south of Meaford, toured some Meaford-area orchards with Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker, Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MP Larry Miller and Vail's Orchards partners Bill Vail and Tom Critsch.
Gilroy said earlier predictions that 80% to 90% of the area's apple crop had been wiped out are now looking optimistic.
"It is a disaster," said Gilroy. "Nothing close to this has ever been seen before."
Gilroy said producers are still scratching their heads about what they are going to do this year.
"We honestly don't know what we are going to do," said Gilroy. "We are going to do the best we can with what we've got."
Gilroy said there will be some apples but is unsure of just how much.
He said other areas of the province weren't hit as bad as southern Georgian Bay. Quebec's crop hasn't been hurt.
Normally the trees would become laden with blossoms, but because of the mild weather in March, which was followed by hard frosts in April, the trees have been damaged to the point where there will be very little fruit on them this year. The orchards are full of dead buds that were frozen by the cold snap and didn't bloom. The unusual weather pattern is even expected to affect next year's crop as in some places next year's buds have been frozen as well. Some of the younger trees were damaged so badly that it is questionable if they will even survive.
In 1945 there was a really early spring, but it didn't get cold like it did this year.
"They had an average apple crop that year," said Gilroy. "This is by far the worst we have ever seen."
Gilroy estimated the crop loss at somewhere in the $15 million range. He also said the economic spinoff from the area orchards won't be felt either. There will be far fewer apples to pack this year and area orchards employ about 800 people, many of them migrant workers, and already those numbers are being reduced.
Geological record shows air up there came from below
by Staff Writers
Princeton NJ (SPX)
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The influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, according to new research that links the long-ago proliferation of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere to a sudden change in the inner workings of our planet.
Princeton University researchers report in the journal Nature that rocks preserved in the Earth's crust reveal that a steep decline in the intensity of melting within the planet's mantle – the hot, heat-transferring rock layer between the crust and molten outer core – brought about ideal conditions for the period known as the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) that occurred roughly 2.5 billion years ago.
During the GOE – which may have lasted up to 900 million years – oxygen levels in the atmosphere exploded and eventually gave rise to our present atmosphere.
Blair Schoene, a Princeton assistant professor of geosciences, and lead author C. Brenhin Keller, a Princeton geosciences doctoral student, compiled a database of more than 70,000 geological samples to construct a 4-billion-year geochemical timeline. Their analysis uncovered a sharp drop in mantle melting 2.5 billion years ago that coincides with existing rock evidence of atmospheric changes related to the GOE.
Based on this correlation, the researchers suggest in Nature that diminished melting in the mantle decreased the depth of melting in the Earth's crust, which in turn reduced the output of reactive, iron oxide-based volcanic gases into the atmosphere. A lower concentration of these gases – which react with and remove oxygen from the atmosphere – allowed free oxygen molecules to proliferate.
The Princeton research offers the strongest data-driven correlation yet between deep Earth processes and the GOE, Schoene said. Previous hypotheses are largely based on qualitative observations of the rock record and computational models that simulate how this rapid oxygenation might have occurred. The Princeton research, however, is based on a statistical analysis of the geologic record and the chemical traces of deep-Earth activity it has preserved, Schoene said.
"The perspective behind past efforts to connect geologic processes to the Great Oxygenation Event has been hypothetical, saying that 'If the Earth had been X, there would have been reaction Y,'" Schoene said. "But these ideas cannot be tested experimentally because they are largely notional. In our paper, we have the evidence to say, 'The Earth was like this,' and then propose a hypothesis that can be tested by examining the same rich database of mantle and deep-crust changes we used in our work."
A change in subsurface activity around the time of the GOE has been noted before, Keller explained. But evidence of that shift is geochemically subtle, especially after billions of years. The database he and Schoene created allowed them to show more precisely how the geochemical makeup of the crust changed through time, resulting in a more detailed hypotheses about how this would affect the atmosphere, Keller said.
"Research in this area has been largely qualitative, but with this much data, we can pick up finer features in the geologic record, particularly a level of detail related to this sudden change 2.5 billion years ago that people had not seen with such clarity before," Keller said.
A missing piece of the GOE puzzle?
Woodward Fischer, an assistant professor of geobiology at the California Institute of Technology who specializes in the GOE, said that the Princeton research could help shed more light on an important factor in Earth's oxygenation that is not well understood. Fischer is familiar with the paper but had no role in it.
The dominant theory of oxygenation is that an abundance of photosynthetic life emerged some hundreds of millions of years before the GOE and began producing oxygen via photosynthesis, Fischer said. The problem is that this output would not have been enough to overcome "sinks" that were absorbing more oxygen from the atmosphere than was being put into it. So, a lingering question is what happened to those sinks to bring about oxygenation.
Keller and Schoene show how one of the primary sinks – volcanic gases – might have suddenly been neutralized, Fischer said. The exact effect this would have had on atmospheric oxygen levels is difficult to know – even recent fluctuations are hard to gauge, he said. Nonetheless, the clear and objective data the researchers use strongly suggests that a quick reduction in volcanic gases brought about by a drop in mantle-melt intensity was an important precursor to oxygenation, Fischer said.
"This paper offers a really striking assessment of changes occurring in the solid Earth that greatly helped set the stage for one of the most marked environmental transitions in Earth history," Fischer said.
"And their methodology precludes a strong tendency that researchers, as humans invested in our work, have to look for anecdotal geological evidence and conclude based on coincidence that events co-occurring in time must have been related," Fischer said. "The statistical approach taken by the authors in this paper really lets the data shine and reveals that there were important secular changes in the way the Earth made igneous rocks, and that these changes were possibly part of an interplay between life and deep-Earth processes."
Keller and Schoene fashioned their expansive database from previously reported rock and trace element analyses, which are increasingly available through online databases. They focused on changes in the chemical composition of basalt, a byproduct of melting in the Earth's mantle.
When melting in the mantle is high, Keller said, basalt contains greater concentrations of "compatible" elements such as chromium and magnesium that are ordinarily found in the mantle. Less intense melting, on the other hand, results in basalt with a higher content of incompatible elements such as sodium and potassium that are found closer to the Earth's surface.
From their examination, Keller and Schoene saw that the Earth's mantle has undergone a gradual cooling since the planet's early history, which is consistent with scientists' expectations based on heat loss at the Earth's surface. Around 2.5 billion years ago, however, the levels of compatible elements in the sampled basalt plummeted, indicating that the magnitude of melting deep in the mantle dropped off suddenly.
Keller and Schoene confirmed their findings by checking them against existing analyses of crust-level "felsic" rocks such as granite, which form when hot basalt merges with other minerals. Heightened melt activity in the mantle leads to deeper melting in the Earth's crust, and felsic rocks can indicate the intensity of mantle melting, Keller said.
The researchers conclude that when melting happens at a great depth in the crust then the concentration of the iron-oxide gases in magma increases. When emitted into the air by volcanoes, these gases bond with free oxygen and essentially remove it from the air. On the other hand, when crust melting becomes shallower, as they observed, atmospheric levels of those volcanic gases drop and free oxygen molecules can flourish.
Connecting the Earth's systems
In a broader sense, said Schoene, his and Keller's research depicts a close interaction between the Earth's geologic and biological systems that is becoming more apparent. "In science, it is becoming increasingly obvious that seemingly different systems act together and the question is how," Schoene said.
"Overall, this analysis strengthens emerging arguments that interaction between the solid Earth and biosphere are very intimate and important," he said. "This is strong evidence of how biological and geological systems might work together, and it suggests that important planetary change is not simply the result of life dragging the rest of the planet along."
Fischer of Caltech added that this interplay of systems applies to various events in the planet's history – such as mass extinctions – that are the result of multiple factors both above and below the Earth's surface. Decidedly more difficult is tracing how these events influenced one another and ultimately led to a greater planetary change, he said.
"Because of the complicated questions of how solid Earth changes lead to biological innovations, scientists now have to start thinking deeply and working across the boundaries of what have traditionally been pretty rigid subdisciplines in the Earth sciences," Fischer said.
"It's clear from research like this," he said, "that there is hay to be made by interdisciplinary efforts to connect processes and mechanisms from the solid to the fluid Earth, and to understand that interplay with an ever-evolving biology."
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Indonesia's rapid deforestation continues?
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Jakarta (UPI)
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Indonesia needs to address loopholes in its moratorium on deforestation, Greenpeace said.
The two-year moratorium, announced last May by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was part of an agreement with Norway.
Under that agreement, Norway had committed up to $1 billion in assistance funds in 2014 if Indonesia is successful in reducing levels of deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions under REDD+, an internationally agreed mechanism for compensating countries that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Indonesia has the world's third-largest area of tropical forest after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Deforestation is mostly attributed to logging for the conversion of forests to plantations for palm oil and to supply the pulp and paper industry.
While globally deforestation accounts for up to 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, in Indonesia that figure is up to 85 percent, making it one of the highest emitters in the world.
"The existing moratorium only suspends the issue of new forest use permits, it did not order a review of existing permits," Yuyun Indradi, forests policy adviser for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, told reporters this week, as Indonesia marks the first year of the moratorium.
Greenpeace says the ban is being undermined because the legislation and enforcement of it is weak.
"There are other glaring loopholes in the moratorium which need to be addressed if Indonesia is to honor its international commitments," said Indradi.
A Greenpeace report estimated that since the moratorium has been in place, Indonesia has lost nearly 5 million hectares of forest and peatlands out of a total 71.01 million hectares covered by the moratorium.
If Indonesia's deforestation were to continue averaging more than a million hectares annually, Greenpeace says, all of the country's forests will have been destroyed within the next 50 years.
But Agus Purnomo, a presidential special aide on climate change, told Antara news agency the Greenpeace report was misleading and the Forestry Ministry's records indicate the deforestation rate over the past few years "has drastically decreased to around 500,000 hectares annually."
In September, Yudhoyono said he would dedicate the final three years of his presidency to protect his country's rainforest.
In a related development, World Wildlife Fund and Indonesian non-governmental organization coalition Eyes on the Forest announced a Google Mapping Tool on Wednesday that shows the impact of deforestation on Indonesia's Sumatra Island.
"Our conviction is that if we empower people with the information, the forests of Sumatra cannot only be saved, but we can restore them," said Carter Roberts, WWF president and chief executive officer.
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No Privacy Due to CyberTerrorism Threat?
Published on May 24, 2012 by RTAmerica
The looming threat of cyberterrorism is being ramped up by the day-from government officials to mainstream media pundits-who say that cyberterror will soon outweigh terrorism as the number one security threat facing the United States.
Cyber insecurity: the new WMD
Published on May 24, 2012 by RTAmerica
With the war on terror not as popular as it used to be, top US officials are allegedly hyping up a new threat, cyber terror. Many are saying it isn't a matter of if, but when. Defense contractors are ready to cash in at keeping America safe from the next "9/11″ attack that could potentially wipe-out our financial systems and electrical grids. Mike Rispoli, campaign strategist for AccessNow.org, joins us with his take.
Lawmakers question whether Google misled Congress on data collection
Two Democratic lawmakers on Thursday questioned whether Google misled Congress and regulators over its collection of data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks.
Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and John Barrow (D-Ga.), who both serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to re-open the Justice Department's investigation into the case.
From 2007 to 2010, Google cars collected data from unprotected Wi-Fi networks as they drove through neighborhoods taking pictures for the company's Google Maps Street View project. The data included Internet activity, passwords and other personal information.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Justice Department investigated the incident and concluded that Google did not violate wiretapping laws.
In their letter, Pallone and Barrow noted that Google officials had said, including in testimony before Congress, that the company had "mistakenly" collected the data and never used it.
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Week 12 of 52: Financial Preparedness
Tess Pennington
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There was a time in the not too distant past where I was enslaved to debt. I supplemented my income with credit cards in order to maintain an overindulgent lifestyle, and when my daughter needed emergency medical care, my financial situation worsened because I didn't have medical insurance. The medical bills were a nightmare, and paying them off seemed like a never ending uphill battle. For years we had to live below our means in order to sort out our financial mess. During this time frame, I repeatedly asked myself, "Why didn't I set some money aside for harder times? Why didn't I prepare for this?" It was these questions that led me on a journey of financial discovery. Instead of wallowing in self pity, I educated myself in finding practical ways to fight back and to simplify my lifestyle, which became a huge lesson in self control.
Emergency agencies suggest a person have at a minimum 3 months pay saved up to fall back on. Although, this can be a difficult amount to save in our economy, it is possible if you simplify your lifestyle. Here are 7 Ways To Save a Buck :
1. Counteract financial emergencies by preparing for them in advance. Even when times are financially prosperous, it is a good idea to have a financial contingency plan in place and some emergency funds set aside to fall back on; this money can act as a buffer when things do go financially awry.
2. Focus on meeting your practical needs, i.e., food, water, shelter. As long as you have shelter and food to provide for your family, you are ok. The rest of the financial mess will eventually sort itself out.
3. Stop spending frivolously. Cut the following from your budget: restaurants, manicures, and Starbucks (my sister just fainted). Set a goal to save as much money as you can.
4. Take advantage of grocery store advertisements and coupons. You can save a substantial amount of money when you search for discounted goods; throw away brand loyalty.
It Tastes Just Like Chicken!
Contributing Author
Ready Nutrition
May 2012
Article written by Sarah Duncan
When I was younger I was lucky enough to have a job that allowed me to travel to some relatively exotic locations. As a jewelry importer, I visited rural Mexico and Italy on several occasions. I never hit the big tourist destinations – my time was spent in small villages where the culture was very unique to the area.
One unforgettable element about those years was the food. Sometimes it was so fantastic I tried to recreate it when I returned home. Other times the simple food I was served reflected the poverty of the area, which was underlined by an attitude of using the resources that were available, whether or not they happened to be appetizing or generally acceptable to my North American standards. To encourage the reluctant American guest to try the unfamiliar foods, my hosts nearly always told me "It tastes just like chicken."
When offered hospitality in a poverty-stricken area, it was important to cast aside my reservations and simply eat what was offered. In the Third World, survival is dependent on making the most of what is available. One day this may be true for us as well.
After the first time I was served el gato (cat) in Mexico, I learned the valuable lesson of not asking where the meat had originated until after I'd already eaten. In Mexico, I have consumed cat, rattlesnake and armadillo. Here, I learned that with enough tasty seasonings and spices, nearly anything can be not only palatable, but downright tasty.
DIY Faraday Cage Ideas
Tess Pennington
Ready Nutrition
In the event of an EMP strike or solar flare, all of your electronic devices are vulnerable to destruction. Both cause a dramatic fluctuation in the magnetic field of the Earth that, in turn, causes voltage surges and damaging currents. These surges will irrevocably destroy any modern electrical components they come in contact with. By creating a Faraday cage, you can protect priority devices from this threat.
In 1836, English scientist Michael Faraday conducted an experiment on electrostatic charges that resulted in the creation of the container that bears his name. He was not the first to experiment with this concept; his work was based on research performed by Benjamin Franklin nearly one hundred years earlier, in 1755.
A Faraday cage is an enclosure made of conductive material that blocks both static and non-static electrical fields. This protects devices from a weapons EMP strike, a solar flare event, or a lightning strike.
Many websites have complex instructions on how to build a Faraday cage. For more information on building a custom Faraday cage, click here. There are also expensive Faraday bags and boxes that can be purchased. They are "guaranteed" to protect your items from an EMP strike, but collecting on that guarantee could be rather difficult, given the circumstances that would cause the necessity for that protection.
There are many less complicated ways that you can improvise an EMP-proof container of your own for a far less expensive price tag. Although these homemade Faraday cages are perhaps not as stylish and elegant as the retail units, they should be just as effective. The following items can be pressed into device protection duty:
• An aluminum garbage can with a lid
• A metal filing cabinet
• A metal tool box
• A gutted microwave oven
• Tin canisters or ammo cans
Insulate items by lining the container in a non-conductive material, like cardboard. You can also make cardboard sleeves for your devices. It is vital that none of your electronics directly contact the metal of the container. It is important to add that your make-shift Faraday cages should be grounded in order to disperse the energy.
What should you store in your Faraday cage? Anything that you don't want to live without post-EMP and anything that you can charge in an alternate manner is a good candidate for residence within the container. Some items that you might want to prioritize for a place inside the cage are:
Police Captain Ray Lewis punished for supporting OWS?
Published on May 23, 2012 by RTAmerica
The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to combat corporate power but has since evolved. Police brutality took center stage when New York City police officers pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters, and since then a retired Philadelphia police captain has come forth to bridge the gap between protesters and law enforcement. Ray Lewis is in the process of potentially being stripped of his union benefits for protesting in his uniform, and he joins us with more on why he feels that it is necessary for him to speak out.
700 students arrested in Montreal during clashes with police
Published on May 24, 2012 by RTAmerica
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Police in Montreal arrested over 700 students during the latest night of demonstrations. The students are protesting against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of a controversial bill that is seen as a tool to limit freedom of speech. Arrests were also made in Quebec City with some 170 detained and in Sherbrooke. Most of those arrested have already been released, though many face $1,000 fines. Protesters reportedly threw fireworks and bottles at officers forcing law enforcement to carry out extensive arrests in the hundreds. It's been more than 14 weeks since the largest student demonstration in Canadian history started.
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Big Brother spying on your car
Published on May 24, 2012 by RTAmerica
All across America, cameras have become the weapon of choice when it comes to spying on its citizens. Law enforcement agencies in California and Texas has started using license plate recognition devices to spy on drivers. These devices are used to capture the plates of every car that passes by regardless if they are breaking the law or not. Many critics feel everywhere they go the police are watching. JD Tuccille, news managing editor for Reason 24/7 News, joins us for more.
China at heart of ivory plunder surge, US Senate told
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP)
Chinese-backed crime groups are leading a surge in African elephant poaching to meet China's thirst for ivory, and terror groups are elbowing in on the lucrative trade, US lawmakers heard Thursday.
Seizures of contraband ivory in Africa and China have soared in recent years as syndicates with deep roots in the billion-dollar wildlife smuggling trade seek to feed the spike in demand among increasingly wealthy Chinese.
The resulting killings — highlighted by the mass slaughter of elephants in Cameroon, where park officials say at least 480 have been killed by poachers since January — are putting the pachyderms at unprecedented risk.
"The Chinese government and others have made substantial seizures, but clearly more needs to be done to eliminate the illegal marketplace," Senator John Kerry told a hearing on the global implications of poaching.
"Increasingly, criminal gangs and militias are wiping out entire herds and killing anyone who gets in their way."
Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has studied elephants in Africa since the 1960s, warned of an "acute crisis" going unnoticed by the wider world, and stressed that China has emerged as "the leading driver of illegal trade in ivory."
He cited Kenyan reports that 90 percent of ivory seized at the country's airports is linked to the Chinese, and that large numbers of Chinese nationals for the first time are "living in Africa, collecting ivory and shipping it out."
Controls imposed to restrict ivory imports have "failed," in large part because two one-off sales of legal ivory stocks in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia allowed poachers to exploit confusion over the rules and sell illegal ivory as though it were legal, Douglas-Hamilton added.
Crime syndicates are also exploiting lax US rules on shell companies that allow foreign nationals to set up vast money-laundering operations, said Tom Cardamone, managing director of monitor group Global Financial Integrity.
GFI said the ivory trade has become a lucrative offshoot of the illicit wildlife trade, valued at up to $10 billion.
Cardamone said US authorities and others must tighten corporate rules to prevent crime syndicates and terror groups from "posing serious national security concerns for the United States and our partners."
Senator Chris Coons warned of the harmful secondary effects of the ivory trade.
"It is financing terrorism, guerrillas and organized crime," Coons told AFP.
"We should add the trafficking in illegal ivory to counterfeiting, to counternarcotics and terrorism, as among the central issues that we're pushing with countries in international fora."
Experts have described 2011 as an "annus horribilis" for elephants, with the seizure of more than 23 tonnes of illegal ivory last year — tusks from nearly 2,500 animals.
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Goat sacrifice fixes aeroplane
Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft.
Nepal Airlines, which has two Boeing aircraft, has had to suspend some services in recent weeks due the problem.
While many airlines might choose to tackle the problem by, say, having engineers fix the problem, Nepal Airlines opted for a more goat-centric approach.
The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal's only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, according to an official at the company.
'The snag in the plane has now been fixed and the aircraft has resumed its flights,' said Raju K.C., a senior airline official, without explaining what the problem had been.
Local media last week blamed the company's woes on an electrical fault, rather than a superabundance of goats.
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A visit to Big Oak Tree State Park is a visit to Missouri as the first explorers saw it. Towering hickory trees and oaks form a canopy that averages more than 120 feet in height and the soaring trees and marshy terrain translates visitors back to when southeast Missouri was dubbed "Swampeast Missouri." The trees and wetlands make the park a prime place for wildlife as well as picnic sites and shelters that are shaded by trees that have seen centuries of history. A self-guided boardwalk trail and an interpretive center tell the story of this rich landscape.
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(iii) Itching powder on its keys. Just try sitting still once you've opened it up – IT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to find a barber that can turn my middle-aged fat whitey skinhead into a beautiful dark full afro!! – darceysdad
King Crimson – Dangerous Curves
OK I know, they have been around since the 60′s in one form or another and will forever be tagged as "Prog Rockers". But for me Robert Fripp has, without doubt, been responsible for more innovation in music than any other musician over the same period. This track, taken from the 2003 album "The Power to Believe" could be called 'Fripp's Bolero'. It starts very quietly and then introduces a single theme that follows throughout the piece.
It builds up and then falls back and starts again more powerfully, coming to a crashing crescendo and tailing off on a single held note. A tremendously strong, staccato piece of music to be played loud. – bluepeter
Mecano – Una Rosa Es Una Rosa
Time for my hardcore flamenco cred to take a battering! A pseudo flamenco rumba in the company of Spain's best pop group of the late eighties/early nineties. The ambiguity – Ana Torroja sings a lyric written from the male point of view – just adds to my enjoyment of this admittedly lightweight but undeniably well constructed piece of flamenco pop fluff. – makinavaja
Joe Ely – She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
I have plenty of Joe Ely stuff on vinyl, but this week I picked up "The Best Of Joe Ely" on CD. It has some of his better known things like "Fingernails" and "Boxcars" which are great, but this one keeps going over and over in my head ever since I heard it and is one of the few tracks I didn't have on vinyl. (Who said CDs are a marketing ploy to make us buy our record collection again?) – rockingmitch
Count Basie – One O'Clock Jump
Earworms surely predate our era as I hope this little gem will demonstrate. I love how the whole orchestra takes a turn at a bit of improv before finally arriving at the signature phrasing in the last 30 seconds. My late Uncle would sometimes just turn out of nowhere & blast out his horn section imitation of this just for the pure joy of it. Did it right to the end he did.- fintan
Los Lobos – Jupiter or The Moon
When you're coming up on 35 years together, why trot out a 'keep the franchise going' album like their new Tin Can Trust? Jupiter, my standout, sounds more like Latin Playboys, the side project that freed Hidalgo and Perez from the weight of being 'The Los Lobos'. The Wolf has survived but his fur is grey and he's lost most of his teeth. – tincanman
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EDIT: A number of 'Spillers have been asking if there is a record kept of submissions that have been used so far. I have been keeping a record during my brief tenure and aim to add the Tin weeks to the document over the coming weekend. I will add a link at the end of each week's post so that you can check that your intended submissions have not already appeared. More than one of us – yes, me included – has recently asked (themselves in my case!) whether or not they had already sent in certain tunes! I hope you will find this useful.
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A 2012 report from the Progressive States Network noted that the ratio of federal Department of Labor enforcement agents to U.S. workers has fallen from one for every 11,000 in 1941 to one for every 141,000 today.
Minnesota joined Oregon and Hawaii as states that have advanced legislation this session to protect the rights of domestic workers, a sign of progress for efforts to protect workers who often earn less than the minimum wage and face exploitation and abuse:
The plain hypocrisy of "small-government" conservatives backing state efforts to preempt local communities from passing their own wage and benefits standards continues to gain attention, even as more local efforts to pass paid sick days and living wage laws advance. But, as reports this week showed, corporate-backed state legislative intrusions into local communities have not been limited to attacking wage and benefits standards -- they have also extended to blocking local environmental regulations and redrawing district lines for local offices:
In 2010, New York passed a statewide anti–wage theft law that the Progressive States Network described as the strongest in the country. In January, the Chicago City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that threatens offending companies with the loss of their business licenses.
In recent months, unprecedented strikes by fast-food workers have taken place in both New York City and Chicago. This week, the action spread even further through the heart of the country, as workers in St. Louis and Detroit staged one-day work stoppages to demand higher wages and the right to organize. At the same time that such strikes are spreading, anti-worker legislative attacks that have already spread through many neighboring states in recent years are being met with strong opposition throughout the region as well. Workers in Missouri and states across the Midwest continued this week to stand up both in the streets and at statehouses to demand fair wages and respect on the job:
Takumi decided to work on a Hawaii domestic workers' bill of rights four years ago, after hearing National Domestic Workers' Alliance director Ai-jen Poo speak at a Progressive States Network conference about how domestic workers have historically been excluded from all major labor protections, leaving them vulnerable to wage theft and exploitation.
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Late this week, the U.S. Senate approved legislation by unanimous consent that would give the Federal Aviation Administration the ability to end furloughs of air traffic controllers, hoping to end a week of delays at airports across the nation that resulted from the automatic budget cuts in sequestration. These kinds of impacts were the intentional purpose of the blunt and painful automatic cuts of sequestration, which were originally intended to be so frightening that the possibility of their enactment would force an alternative federal budget compromise. Yet while business travellers might be breathing a sigh of relief as they fly home this weekend, the intentionally painful cuts to other critical programs are still being felt by states, kids, students, seniors, and other victims of sequestration -- and the pain they are feeling may soon get worse:
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Korean architect Eun Young Yi beat out 235 other proposals to win the honor of designing the new central library in Stuttgart, Germany. The project took three years to complete and costs roughly 81 million euro. Young Yi'...
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Over the day each hour there is a train connection from Munich to Kempten. You can find the times and prices on the homepage of the german train company (Deutsche Bahn). See the link. Enter 'Kempten Hbf' as destination. It is the main station. Unfortunately the trainstation here is not downtown, so if you have much to carry it is better to take a taxi or the bus (ZUM) to get downtown. Sorry, the local traffic page is just in german.
Tha main train station is some way from the town centre, regular bus service or a short taxi ride.
There are rail links to Munich, Augsburg, Ulm, Lindau and Oberstdorf that we saw, probably more as well.
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After re-reading your post, I realized you are confusing liberals with Libertarians: "if everyone was allowed to do whatever they wanted."
That philosophy is strictly Libertarian, as in Tea Party /Timothy McVeigh Libertarian.
I'm definitely agin' that, and David Hunter likely is too.
Crock_Holiday, you too seem to be confusing, and therefore misrepresenting different groups. You are confusing LIBERTINES with libertarians. Night and day differences there. What you describe is a snot-nosed, selfish, hedonistic, libertine. The very first and foremost principle of a libertarian is that of non-aggression against other individuals, and thus by definition, libertarians do NOT advocate that "everyone is allowed to do whatever they want to."
McVeigh and the other libertine TP-ers are evil, selfish, and hurtful people. Hardly libertarian to be certain!
Meth, pot, hashish, oxycodone? No, the most widedly abused substance is labels, most specifically, socialist and communist that get thrown around as a perjorative, but with no relation to the subject itself, as though calling someone a liberal is supposed to make people instantly vomit.
Myself, I'm good with liberal but really progressive liberal feels more comfortable. Socialist? Don't have any idea what they are talking about.
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In its latest presentation to industry partners, AMD detailed its upcoming Deccan low-power computing platform, targeting the market Intel's Atom and VIA's Nano processors do. AMD is currently behind the "Zacate" and "Ontario" processors, which deliver high performance/watt x86 computing at low power draw and costs. The company's future platform will be called "Deccan," consisting of processors codenamed "Wichita" and "Krishna," targeting the ULV desktop and netbook markets, respectively. With the next generation, AMD is looking to take advantage of the 28 nanometer manufacturing process to put four x86-64 cores based on the Bobcat architecture on a single piece of silicon, with an integrated memory controller and AMD Radeon discrete-class graphics. The biggest change here isn't the fact that there are four cores, or that it's built on 28 nm, but that Wichita and Krishna are completely single-chip. The FCH or Fusion Controller Hub has been completely fused into the APU silicon. Motherboards and notebook logic boards will have just one big chip, with no "chipset" of any form. This makes AMD's Wichita and Krishna the industry's very first true x86-based consumer SoC (system on chip). The integrated memory controller now supports DDR3-1600 MHz memory. The integrated AMD Radeon graphics is set to get a performance and SIMD boost, as well, including a Secure Asset Management Unit (SAMU). AMD's next generation APUs are slated for 2012. Source: DonanimHaber
Too bad there's no more specificity other than the year 2012. Looking forward to see how these perform against Sandy Bridge ULV's. My girlfriend could use a lighter ULV notebook in the near future.
Something to note is that even though the Deccan chip is 20w, it's still 2w less than the 18w Brazos because the Brazos needs a 4w FCH(an overgrown Southbridge)
Man I'd really like something like this in a new Macbook...*hint* *hint*...Steve...I want graphics, not craphics!! I don't need i7s in a budget machine!! But I do want to have a decent GPU. Course, they've already lost my business outside of the used market. So, my opinion doesn't matter. That and I don't think Steve understands the meaning of the word "budget".
If only the integrated FCH of these chips also featured at least 4-channels of ONFI, these would have made the perfect x86-based SoC.
wait what? krishna? haare raama haare raama, raama raama haare haare haare krishna haare krishna, krishna krishna haare haare \m/ there must be an indian at AMDs naming dept
Intel's answer? I was planning on building an e350 based htpc in the near future, but hearing about these made me wonder if I should wait. But "sometime in 2012" might just be alittle too far off. The real question though is, what will Intel's answer to this be? Sandy/Ivy Bridge based Atoms? I just wonder how much longer Intel can keep it's market share in this segment without greatly improving its video capabilities. I am impressed with what AMD is rolling out lately, but they really need to make more of an effort in marketing. If more computer illiterates or "non enthusiast" buyers knew about AMD and APUs, they would gain a lot more market share. Most people I talk to about them didn't even know they existed.
Intel's answer is scaled down Atoms. Sandy and Ivy ULV processors could be 10 times as fast but they also cost an arm and a leg compared to Atom/Brazos
Sounds very promising. So if they can fuse all this together then AMD should be able to make some serious cpu's in the near future for Desktops ? Maybe a fused 24core desktop cpu eventually that is already 5 years late. I can see a few of these APU's in a server farm / data centre, space, size, heat, power .... NC37 APU in a macbook air sure, not in a ?? pro or whatever it is called now, not with the 2nd Gen I7 mobile cpu's they have now. As for craphics "Apple Achilles heal" there is no chance in hell that it would improve. I have been asking since PB G4 ATI1600 the last Apple laptop that was build. Remember the Apple joke " my mobile phone has a better graphics card than the PB pro"
I love my Zacate based netbook. Playing those indie steam games or watching HD flicks in the airport. No doubt Krishna will be another winner.
Well yes, of course they will scale them down, but do they have a quad core atom in the works? Let alone a quad core atom that can compete with the GPU capabilities of these new APUs? Even when paired with an Ion chip, the best current atom gets beat by the E-350. Intel needs to increase both cpu and gpu performance of their atoms chips in order to produce some real competition for these new APUs.
i couldn't help but think of the movie Zombie Land when I read the name Wichita... so i guess they'll tell us how many gpu cores later?
There are already ATX FM1 mobos, so yeah they are for desktops and HTPCs as well. You can even add a second HD 6450 video card in their PCI-E slot and get very decent 3D perf.
My 2c: after the 32nm factories are depreciated in 1 or 2 years, Intel will start selling cheap sandy bridge ULVs en-mass and continue to scale down atom it hits the <1W mark. Problem is Atom doesn't scale so well once you increase the power package(it lacks out-of-order execution and has a very long pipe-line kinda like P4), so increasing frequency and TDP to compete with Brazos doesn't make sence. So Intel will leave the >8W space for ULVs and the <8W space for Atoms. At least this is what happened with the core solos and core duos before Atom was released...I don't think anyone can answer your question for certain. So my guess is as good as anybody's right now


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The sign on the back of the Tri Met bus reads "Become a Green Street Steward!" Thinking this might be another Randy Leonard spy on your neighbor program, I looked into it. It's nothing quite so nefarious.
The City planning poohbahs would like you to pull their weeds on their on their bioswales, street planters and all the other stuff they install to slow down cars. It's Orwellian name is: Green Streets.
You can't plant anything, but you can pull the weeds. You have to be, uh, trained. Are we paying for the Weed Pulling Trainer?


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Posted by lindamorgan on February 29, 2012
stunning art you do have!
Posted by paulaolivaart on November 23, 2011
You have a beautiful and amazing gallery! I went a little crazy with the stars, but you deserve them.
Posted by michelejones on August 11, 2011
very cool gallery!
Posted by st_gemma on December 26, 2010
wonderful works, and beautifully rendered.
Posted by aktsion on July 10, 2010
You have some beautiful work. I love the surrealism. My favorites are the "Thwarted Dreams."
Posted by whawkins on July 07, 2010
good stuff!
Posted by schindlerart on July 07, 2010
splendid work, congrats on feature!
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Posted by mecharcoal on May 12, 2010
Great inventiveness and exceptional skills!
Posted by sabineporter90 on April 21, 2010
Your work is breath taking! I love It.
Posted by tombowe on March 05, 2010
Stunning portfolio!!!
Posted by krystallbooth on February 23, 2010
Amazing work! I absolutely love your paintings! They are gorgeous!
Posted by anisja on February 20, 2010
Excellent portfolio !!!
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Posted by elizabethmcghee on February 07, 2010
Amazing work! And welcome to bluecanvas! :-)
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Great portfolio, very nice images, congratulations, welcome to bluecanvas
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your art is very beautiful, denis... i admire it very much...
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Yesterday the Archbishop of Caterbury said that Tony Blair's recent interviews have damaged the case for the war. Dr Peter Slowe was Blair's former economic policy advisor and agrees with the ex-PM.
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Wiltshire woman's skydive boosts right-to-die fund
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Over a year after his death, the legacy of Melksham right-to-die campaigner Tony Nicklinson is still going strong, as the people who knew him continue to raise money and awareness in his memory.
Care assessor Michelle Platt, 50, who visited Mr Nicklinson in his home many times before he died in August last year, has raised over £7,000 for his appeal fund with a sponsored parachute jump.
Ms Platt, from Potterne, near Devizes, completed the tandem dive last Saturday at Old Sarum airfield near Salisbury, on her fourth attempt.
She said: "It was very good, very scary, but I was just glad to get it done.
"I've been waiting for seven weeks to do this; the first time I couldn't do it as I had no medical certificate, then it kept being cancelled due to poor weather."
Mr Nicklinson suffered from locked-in syndrome and campaigned to change the law on assisted suicide, and the money raised will go towards the campaign which is now led by his widow Jane. Ms Platt said: "I worked for a company training in-home carers, so I would go in and do assessments on care staff. I met Tony a few times and realised the complexities of his condition.
"After he died I knew Jane was going to carry on the campaign, and I wanted to help."
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The big news this week were the announcements at Google I/O.
The interview of the week (no app this week) was with David Wang, the man who hacked an iPhone to run Android. Wang came on to talk about the port and how he did it.
Mark Jeffrey was out this week. This Week in Android would also like to thank Android and Me, Android Central and Phandroid for providing us the majority of the news.
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Iran has initiated a massive week-long air defense drill amidst growing international pressure over its nuclear ambitions and last week's firing on a U.S. drone they claim entered Iranian air space.
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I recently had a show of my work at stevenson university, near baltimore. amanda hostalka, chair of the art department at the university, and two seniors, sylwia surowiec and lawrence seaward, put together an exhibition that made me practically cry when i first saw it. you can read a little bit about it in this piece from the baltimore sun: http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-explanatory-graphics-20110514,0,4404881.story
one of the things that amanda did for the opening was to make t-shirts for all who attended. this is it. it's based on an image from my wordless diagrams book, but she made it all blue…as was much of the stuff surrounding the show. more about that in another post. thank you, amanda!


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I'd like to know the names of the songs in wich Jeroen Tel was based to create the music of lemmings. As far as I know all the songs are covers of traditional folk/classical music. In wikipedia are some, but not all of them. These are the songs that I already have:
Lemming 1: Canon in D - Pachebel
Tim 6: Dance of the reed flutes - Tchaikovsky
Tim 7: Rondo alla turka - Mozart
Tim 8: Dance of the little swans - Tchaikovsky
Tim 9: London bridge is falling down
Tim 10: Forest Green - Ralph Vaughan Williams + The good, the bad and the ugly theme
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Mountain: She'll be comin' 'round the mountain
Tenlem: Ten green bottles + Funeral march - Chopin + Here comes the bride - Wagner
Cancan: Infernal Galop - Jaques Offenbach
I was hoping if you can help me to identify all the songs since you are a real lemming fanatic
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