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Service at Circular Congregation Church
Sunday, April 22, 2007
When Henry David Thoreau set out to build his cabin at Walden Pond one snowy morning in March 1845, he created a new chapter in American thought – about the value of self-reliance, honest self-reflection, and the courage to live modestly: to live simply in means, but grandly in thought.
Less well-known is the fact that Thoreau built his cabin out of pine trees he cut on the site and covered it with boards he salvaged from a nearby shanty. By building a cabin for $28, he crafted a message about simplicity. By using the materials he found around him, he was being sustainable….
We are here today to celebrate an addition to Lance Hall, which was originally built just 6 years after Thoreau retreated to the shore of Walden Pond.
While he lived at Walden Pond, Thoreau wrote that "every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold." As a child growing up in North Carolina, my favorite activities were outdoors, under the trees. Most of what I know as an architect I first learned playing along the banks of a stream in Greensboro.
Thus it came as a shock to me as a young architect to learn that everything I designed would cause the earth to be stripped or mined. I remember being paralyzed for nearly a year while I was designing my first house on the shore of the James River. How could I destroy that soft forest floor for my client's floorplan? Finally, I realized that the only way I could work as an architect was to promise to make the site better than I found it. Sometimes that has meant not to build at all.
It seemed natural to me to design buildings to catch the sun, accept the breeze, and grow naturally out of the earth. I was thinking sustainablity, but at the time we didn't call it that. I simply thought it was good architecture. Let me give you an example:
Ten years ago, Jim and Janice Taylor asked me to design a summer house for them on a remote island in the Bahamas. At the time, there was no electrical power on the site and no drinking water. I designed a house that was like an umbrella, with a generous, spreading roof that provided shelter from the sun and collected rainwater for drinking.
There was, of course, no air conditioning. But the shape and orientation of the house allow it to capture prevailing breezes and enjoy natural ventilation. The house is quite simple and quite liberating. Staying there, you experience the sun and sky, ocean and wind with an intensity unknown before.
Needless to say, the house is sustainable. It has to be. And through it, I began to understand the logic of Thoreau's cabin: Reduce our daily needs to the essentials and live life to the fullest. Begin the world again, to some extent.
Children are not the only ones to discover the world anew. Decades ago, but especially since 2001 and Katrina, it has become apparent that our addiction to oil, our appetite for land, and our carelessness with water were not only polluting the environment, but making our lives unhealthy. Our lungs, immune systems, and skin, for example, are affected not only by how we live, but how we drive and how we built.
According to the Energy Department, residential and commercial buildings account for 40 percent of total energy consumption in this country, versus just 28 percent for the entire transportation sector, including automobiles. Thirty percent of all the forests are cut to make architecture, and 25 percent of all our fresh water is used in buildings.
Clearly, if we want to make a future in which human health and environmental health are one, a sustaining architecture is a good place to start.
Two years ago, you asked me to make a start: to design an addition to Lance Hall – "small rooms with big ideas," you said. The site was a small outdoor room that held the graves of generations and an ancient elm tree. You asked for classrooms, an elevator, bathrooms – all next to a perfect temple. Talk about a challenging site – to do all this on a swatch of land about the size of a tennis court! I promised to leave the site better than I found it, and to make it "green."
"Of course, your green building also has to be approved by the B.A.R," your building committee told me.
Being from North Carolina, I thought a B.A.R. was a place where you went to drink. But as you know, the B.A. R. is the Charleston Board of Architectural Review, the Supreme Court of architectural review boards.
So while I was designing the modern, green addition to Lance Hall, I kept thinking about the elephant in the living room no one talked about – the B.A.R. How would we make a modern, sustainable Sunday School in historic Charleston, a city more tortured than most by the conflict between past and present.
Well, what we did was to design the most "green" Sunday School we could, with respect for its place – not only its place in Charleston but in the 21st century. The new addition to Lance Hall has a green roof, which keeps the building cool and collects rainwater. We use cisterns to store the rainwater for irrigating the new courtyard, where children will play in the shade of live oak trees. To conserve energy, the new Lance Hall has a geothermal heat source, using the earth's constant temperature to heat and cool the rooms. Those rooms will be lit by daylight and filled with fresh air, with windows offering views over the Circular Church. The morning sun will fill the Sunday School rooms. Wherever possible, we used local materials, as Thoreau did. The floors are recycled heart pine. The structure itself is made of Southern yellow pine and recycled steel.
We have tried to use materials reverently.
In the 21st century, unfortunately, we take wood, steel and glass for granted, no matter the effect of cutting or mining them. In historic Charleston, however, you can see in the way people wove a sweetgrass basket, built a steeple, or made a Windsor chair expressed joy in work, and a spiritual quality in how something was made. Materials, no matter how common, are precious. I hope that in the porches of Lance Hall, the way steel columns grasp wooden floor beams, and the way the smoothness of heart pine contrasts with the strength of stucco walls, express our joy in the making of it.
The addition to Lance Hall will have all these wonderful, efficient, green systems, but you won't have to know that to like it. Just as playing beside a stream can be the greatest learning experience because it is unconscious, so the addition to Lance Hall will teach by experience. Children and visitors will learn about sustainability simply by being here. The new Lance Hall will automatically inspire those who experience it, and exist as your gift to future generations.
And what about the elephant in the living room – the B.A.R.? I presented the green design concept to the B.A.R. with Whitney Power's invaluable coaching, Bert Keller's spiritual support, Susan Davis' advice, and some trepidation. To my great relief, they approved this sleek, modern, sustainable building outright!
"We've been waiting for a building like this for years," they said.
Reinvent the world, I thought.
That brings me to my last point, which is about balance. What our experience with the BAR shows is the possibility that the past and present might learn to coexist and complement each other. The ancient Greeks thought that perfection in art meant balance; that in a painting or a building, you would add nothing nor take anything away without destroying it: balance.
Since the Greeks, we have come to equate balance with beauty, and that alludes to a state we call happiness. I hope that the addition to Lance Hall has balance and happiness!
The task we face – to build sustainably and to deal with climate change — is immense. I was reminded of that last night, driving to Charleston past miles of suburban sprawl and parking lots, unable to see the sky because of light pollution. What we have done at the Circular Congregational Church is a small start. But I am reminded of the immense change brought about by Thoreau's cabin — 10 ft. by 15 ft.
A League Of Its Own
Wednesday, September 13, 2000
In an age of declining civic involvement, a Raleigh bowling alley continues bringing people together.
When I learned to bowl in 1961, Western Lanes on Hillsborough Street was two years old, and I was a freshman architecture student at N.C. State. Every Thursday afternoon that fall, about 50 PE students crossed Hillsborough Street, climbed to the second floor of Western Lanes and learned how to bowl strikes and spares. The new building was decorated with orange and turquoise panels and trimmed with lots of shiny aluminum. Raleigh was a sleepy town, but here we felt very up-to-date.
Bowling was big business in the 1960s.
"If you built a bowling alley back then, people would run over you to get in," says Paul Blomquist, manager of Western Lanes. Most people bowled in leagues: Western Lanes was booked solid every night and weekends with leagues of civil engineers, soldiers, glee clubs and church groups. Some people bowled in two or three leagues. Weekends were for family leagues.
League play became a kind of social connector, not only in Raleigh but throughout America for the next two decades. Folks who bowled in leagues stayed in touch. League bowling, like joining a civic club, participating in church activities and voting in local elections, was a measure of civic involvement. More people competed in bowling than in any other sport.
Yet league bowling today is declining, and some would argue, so is civic life. In "Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community," published this year, Robert Putnam writes that voter participation, membership in clubs, church attendance and other forms of neighborliness have all declined steadily during the past 35 years. League bowling, for example, has decreased by 40 percent.
"The vibrancy of American civil society has notably declined over the past several decades," Putnam writes.
To gauge the effect of Putnam's "civil decline," I walk into Western Lanes at noon on a recent Thursday, sit down in the brown-and-gold restaurant, and order lunch. Throughout the rise and fall of league bowling, Western Lanes has continued to thrive on Hillsborough Street, though its turquoise and orange lockers have faded, and some of the once-shiny trim is dull.
In a corner of the restaurant, a small television flickers like an electronic fireplace. The place reminds me of someone's family room. Indeed, the folks who run Western Lanes are a family of old-timers. Cathy, the restaurant manager, has worked there more than 30 years, and Miss Nina has been cooking for 42. Theresa, who serves me a BLT with fries and sweet tea, has been behind the counter 18 years. As customers enter the restaurant, Theresa gets them what they want without asking--a light beer, popcorn, a slice of coconut cream pie.
"I can tell you what half of Raleigh eats, drinks and smokes," she says. Her eyes narrow as she spots a glass of soda that needs refilling in a corner of the restaurant.
Restaurants, like bowling alleys, are a kind of third place between home and work where we can hang out with friends. Unlike fast-food joints, restaurants offer companionship. Judging by the years people have worked and played at Western Lanes, the companionship here is good.
Companionship of another sort is built into the walls of Western Lanes. Here under one roof is a quirky mix of uses: a PE classroom and a restaurant, billiards and a church-sponsored cafe, shops and an architect's office--all reached by a sidewalk. Buildings like this are little melting pots in a democratic society.
During the afternoon, PE classes come and go, learning footwork, how to score (complicated) and important facts such as the length of a certified bowling lane (64 feet, 10 and 3/16 inches). Next to the PE students, groups of walk-in bowlers play through the afternoon.
"Walk-in bowlers have taken up the slack created by the loss of league bowling," Blomquist explains.
Around 5 p.m. the tempo picks up. Two workers appear to oil the lanes for tonight's league play. Behind the gold anodized arches that hover over each set of 10 pins, Emery Adkins fusses with the pin-setting machines. Adkins is 72 years old and has maintained the 24 Brunswick Type A machines at Western Lanes since 1972.
"He lives and breathes these machines," the night manager tells me. "A real company man."
Adkins wears a blue uniform shirt with his name embroidered over his heart. In his shirt pocket are lined five rum crook cigars. He stands beside a pin-setting machine about the size of a pickup truck. Its metal parts shiver in the fluorescent light.
"With these machines, you want to use preventive maintenance," he says. "Just like an airplane."
Maintenance is laid out with astonishing neatness along the 150-foot-long brick wall behind the pin-setters, where Adkins has stacked and hung thousands of spare parts with the precision of an operating room. To him, the machine has a soul.
"When the Type A pin-setting machine was perfected in the 1950s, it was a mechanical marvel, the peak of American mechanical genius," he says. Today the newest machine is still about 80 percent like a Type A.
Action is picking up on the other side of the arches. A 16-pound bowling ball approaches the pins with a roar, followed by an explosion. Immediately the machine shakes the fallen pins, whirrs and delivers the pins to a steel sorting drum with a clank. Pistons hiss. It's like hearing a mechanical thunderstorm. Adkins lights a cigar.
"Everything is better when it's busy," he says. "Time passes better. And if your business is hustling, somewhere along the line you'll help someone." On the other side of the arches, the machine places 10 pins softly on the maple lane.
At 6 p.m. the NCSU faculty-staff league begins with a few announcements. It's a relaxed game, not highly competitive, where the payoffs seem more social than high-scoring. Folks act out every delivery; little dramas unfold around the scoring tablets.
"It's an extended family," one bowler in her 50s tells me. "Like church in a way. It's one of the few places where professors, lab technicians, bookkeepers and graduate students can get to know each other."
Inevitably, talk turns to declining attendance. "Eighteen years ago we had 60 people in the league bowling 32 weeks a year," says Jim Nye, a civil engineering professor in the league. Now the NCSU league is down to 24 bowlers.
"People just don't seem to be interested in coming out to bowl in leagues any more," says O. W. Robison, a bowler since 1960. He leans back and drains a Miller Light. "Last year the Continental League, after going for 33 years, folded. That's a generation!"
No one can account for the decline in league bowling--mobility, the growth of suburbs, increased choices for leisure time, and television are possibilities. Times are changing at Western Lanes and elsewhere. America has moved on from the mechanical genius of the automatic pin-setter to the virtual community of the Internet age. As we are more connected electronically, our lives spin further apart.
Meanwhile, instructors have taught generations how to bowl, and in league bowling there is another lesson: Making neighbors out of strangers is part of the game. Bowling is a classroom for civic pleasure, for having fun in the company of people you don't know. As Dr. Samuel Johnson, the 18th-century writer who loved the taverns of London for their social spirit, said, "As important as finding people you have things in common with is learning to live in pleasure alongside people you don't."
A week later I went back to the Western Lanes restaurant to have lunch with my daughter, Laura. Theresa was obviously pleased to see us.
"Sweet tea with your BLT and fries?" she asked me.
Unparking UNC
Wednesday, February 23, 2000
Will the Chapel Hill campus become a model for easing sprawl?
Faced with an enrollment spike of 25 percent over the next few years, UNC-Chapel Hill is planning the campus of the future. By 2008 bike paths, greenways and regional rail could serve both the old campus and new academic buildings clustered around traditional brick courtyards. Under a plan that goes before the UNC Board of Trustees in the fall, the restructured campus would resemble a pre-automobile town, with residential, research and academic life mingling in a walkable environment.
More than a bold vision for one university, the new Chapel Hill campus could become a model for containing sprawl in the Triangle's cities and towns. Walkable town patterns are being urgently discussed throughout the region today, as planners seek to replace sprawl with intelligent growth. The key, of course, is figuring out what to do about all those cars. And the success of UNC's plan will depend on how it deals with the 17,000 already parked on campus every school day.
Cars were on the mind of Jonathan Howes, former mayor of Chapel Hill and professor of planning and public policy at UNC, when I met him on campus recently to talk about the new plans. In a room padded with maps, diagrams and models, Howes described the past and future of UNC--and the way he hopes they'll be intimately connected.
"From its founding in 1793 to 1945," Howes explained, "the campus developed as a parklike chessboard of quadrangles. Polk Place and McCorkle Place, with the Old Well at their intersection, form the core of the North Campus." This is the UNC campus you see in postcards: a serene mix of academic and residential buildings, bikes and pedestrians, small streets and undergraduates sunning themselves on low stone walls.
After 1945, the campus spread southward during a time of rapid growth and postwar prosperity, with UNC Hospitals and research labs leading the way. As enrollment grew from 8,000 to 24,000 students, cars became a prominent feature of the new campus. From an intimate campus where folks walked to class, UNC was transformed into a commuter destination for thousands.
To provide beds for some of the new students, high-rise dormitories were built in the woods south of Kenan Stadium. The rationale was simple enough, however flawed it looks today: High-rise buildings were quick to build, and they required less effort to fit into the campus. Building high also meant more space on the ground--for parking, of course. At the same time, the nearby hospitals grew exponentially, with additions (and parking lots) added like barnacles to a shell. To serve the increased traffic, four-lane Manning Drive was built, bisecting the campus like a modern Mason-Dixon Line.
The result has been clear for quite some time. "The South Campus," said Howes, "has little relationship to the charm of the North Campus. There is less sense of intellectual community there."
One big reason for the contrast between UNC's older and newer campuses, says N.C. State professor and landscape architect Mary Myers, is the prevalence of cars--and spaces for them--on South Campus. "The greatest impact on the UNC campus is not computers, but cars," Myers says. "Look at the old North Campus: big trees, gracious lawns, elegant buildings grouped in quadrangles and very few cars."
While the North Campus is built to pedestrian scale, South Campus sprawls with cars. "What the strip mall and big-box store are doing to the Triangle, the mega-sized research lab and parking lot are doing to South Campus at UNC," she says. "The South Campus is not about people anymore, it's about cars."
Enter Ayers Saint Gross, a Baltimore firm of architects hired by UNC two years ago to restructure the campus and plan for future growth. Architect Adam Gross wants to make the South Campus "not only livable but enviable." His vision is bold. With input from faculty, students and alumni, Gross has proposed a plan that would extend the old North Campus southward, creating a series of new quadrangles. In this chain of outdoor rooms, classrooms will mingle with new, small-scale student dormitories, cafes and shops.
But what will happen to the parking lots? The keystones of the new plan for South Campus, according to Gross, are new academic structures that will replace the Bell Tower parking lot and the Rams Head parking lot--sort of.
Because both of these parking lots are located in natural valleys, Gross plans to fill each valley with a parking deck. On top, at ground level, would stand academic buildings around a North Campus-style quadrangle. The quads would invite pedestrian traffic, with students changing classes and flowing easily to and from other parts of the campus. Parking and academics could peacefully coexist.
To see the clash of parking and academia Gross' plan would avoid, look no further than the Kenan-McColl Center, perched on a South Campus hill next to the Dean Dome. Built recently in a brick-and-stone style that looks like the North Campus on steroids, the Kenan-McColl Center forms a courtyard about the size of a baseball diamond. Unlike the North Campus buildings it resembles, though, the center is ringed by roads and parking. A multistory parking deck, nearly the size of the Kenan-McColl Center itself, is attached on the north side of the hill.
You immediately sense that the environment at the Kenan-McColl Center belongs to cars, not to you. Instead of inviting you outside, the center gives you the message to stay indoors. Campus life, the brisk exchange of knowledge and sociability both indoors and outdoors, is not encouraged. And yet that kind of campus life is the traditional essence of UNC.
For academic life to prosper nowadays, Mary Myers and other planners believe that public transport is essential. "Parking structures are a very expensive short-term solution," she notes. "We've got to explore options, using rail, bus, bicycles and footpaths to move people."
Chapel Hill-Carrboro and UNC have a head start, with a well-serviced bus system and a budding system of bike paths and greenways. The Ayers Saint Gross master plan builds on those systems, planning for no growth in parking spaces and adding a corridor for light rail along Manning Drive. In the future, Myers believes, UNC could be linked by rail to Duke, N.C. Central and N.C. State universities--with students at all four campuses using their laptops, not their brakes, while traveling from home to class.
Ayers Saint Gross will present its final master plan to the UNC Board of Trustees in the fall. If the trustees approve it, they will not only secure UNC's future as an academic environment, but make a giant leap away from the Triangle's sprawl patterns. As Myers asked, "What if we said, 'We're not going to build parking structures anymore, we're only going to build train stations?'"
A remodeled UNC, mixing the academic environment of the past with transit technology of the future, could provide some important answers to that critical question.
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School-based depression education and outreach collaborations
Early recognition and management of depression can help better prevent negative outcomes and tragedy among young people in our schools and our communities. Since the peak onset of depression and bipolar symptoms is between 15 - 24 years of age, increased awareness of depression among this age group is the first step toward implementing effective intervention.
Since 2007, the Depression Center has collaborated with school districts locally, across the state, and nationally to develop depression awareness and suicide prevention education, training, and support programs for school personnel, students, and the community. These initiatives are designed to:
- Address the need for early recognition of depression, bipolar disorder and risk for suicide among youth;
- Further educate teachers, counselors, mental health professionals, and other "front line" personnel working with young people to raise their awareness and knowledge of depressive and bipolar illnesses and suicide risk factors.
Read more about ongoing partnerships with Ann Arbor Public Schools and Byram Hills (N.Y.) High School.
An earlier collaboration between the Depression Center and Gull Lake Community Schools continues to serve as a model for our active partnerships. This initiative focused on youth depression and suicide prevention and incorporated nationally recognized "best practices" into the training and education of staff and students.

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35 ACRE RANCH, if you like country you will love this 1,844 sq ft ranch style home sitting back from the main road offering privacy. The Bermuda and orchard grass pasture is fenced and cross fenced with two spring fed ponds. There is a covered area for round bale feeding. Arena area is 100x200 with cow return down side and roping boxes. The 72x38 horse barn has five stalls inside with electric outlet for heated water buckets and one stall outside. Barn is fully lighted with tack room and hay storage in loft. Horse trailer parking with electric outlet. There is also a separate large shop and equipment storage area. The two spring fed ponds are loaded with fish. Close to many riding trails in Central Arkansas.
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Jerry Hairston starts, Scott scratched
Written by | Bill Center | 4:19 p.m., Sep 13, 2010
Tony Gwynn has been activated from the disabled list and Jerry Hairston Jr. returns to the starting lineup Monday night as the Padres open a crucial three-game series against the streaking Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver (5:40 p.m.; TV: 4 San Diego).
Even Padres manager Bud Black admitted that much in his pregame comments.
Every series in September is important," said Black. "This is an important series."
With the Giants off Monday, the Padres will finish the night either a half-game ahead of the Giants or a half-game behind. And an 11th straight win by the Rockies would move them to within a game of the lead and a half-game of the Padres.
Which might be why Jerry Hairston Jr. has been pressed back into the lead-off spot while playing second. Black believes Hairston's arm must still get stronger before he plays the left side of the infield
Scott Hairston was also in the original starting lineup Monday, but was a late scratch when his left shoulder injury was aggravated during batting practice. Both Hairstons have had great success against Rockies left-handed starter Jeff Francis. Jerry is 6-for-11 against Francis and Scott is 7-for-18.
Cory Luebke will be making his third start for the Padres.
Gwynn will be available only for late-game defense and pinch-running duties for at least the next couple days. He hit live pitching for the first time Monday.
The lineups:
1. Jerry Hairston Jr., 2B (.249-10-50)
2. Aaron Cunningham, LF (.304-1-14)
3. Miguel Tejada, SS (.248-5-18)
4. Adrian Gonzalez (L), 1B (.305-27-90)
5. Ryan Ludwick, RF (.212-4-16)
6. Chase Headley (S), 3B (.266-10-54)
7. Chris Denorfia, CF (.268-9-35)
8. Yorvit Torrealba, C (.286-5-33)
9. Cory Luebke, LHP (.000-0-0; 1-1, 3.27 ERA)
1. Eric Young Jr. (S), 2B (.277-0-7)
2. Dexter Fowler (S), CF (.249-4-33)
3. Carlos Gonzalez (L), LF (.337-32-100)
4. Troy Tulowitzki, SS (.323-20-72)
5. Melvin Mora, 3B (.274-4-30)
6. Todd Helton (L), 1B (.249-6-30)
7. Ryan Spilborghs, RF (.282-10-33)
8. Miguel Olivo, C (.278-13-56)
9. Jeff Francis (L), LHP (.091-0-1; 4-4, 4.56 ERA)
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Is She or Isn't She? The Gisele Bundchen Bump Watch Continues! (Photos)Sunny Chanel
Look at the this picture at left. Doesn't it look like Gisele Bundchen is just laughing at all us baby bump watchers with a "ha, ha, ha, I'm not telling," followed by a bellowing maniacal laugh? But she can do that….she's frickin' Gisele Bundchen the highest paid model ever!
Gisele with or without her baby bump (who knows right?) was spotted at the launch of the 2012 contest Top Cufa, which is a contest aimed at up and coming models that are living in the slums of Brazil. She was there to speak about her amazing career and to give advice to the girls. And no, she did not dish on whether she was pregnant or not!
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Thanks to a National Science Foundation grant, more than 50 years' worth of field documentation of important research collecting may be recreated at the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI), home of the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection.
Proposals from three Tulane University researchers are among 22 being funded by the latest Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) program. More than $4 million will be awarded to scientists in the School of Science and Engineering, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies.
Pictured: Vijay John, Leo S. Weil Professor of Engineering
The Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy at Tulane University has received $1.4 million from the BP Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) to collect new information about health, social well-being and economic impacts of the oil spill in three hard-hit coastal communities in Louisiana and Alabama.
If that mockingbird won't sing, could lead be the problem?
Tulane University researcher Renata Ribeiro wants to find out by setting up bird feeders around homes throughout New Orleans as part of a yearlong project funded by the Morris Animal Foundation.
Research has shown that older New Orleans neighborhoods have high levels of lead in their soil that can cause health problems, including neurological damage that is especially acute for children.
To the average person, names like Faure, Kastner, Hitchon, Brantley and Wedepohl probably don't mean much. To Karen Johannesson, a geochemistry professor at Tulane University, the names represent the best in her field, a virtual who's who of geochemists from around the world.
A research team lead by Tulane University biologist John J. Schenk has discovered a previously unknown flowering plant in a remote corner of the Grand Canyon.
"Sea-level rise will become our biggest enemy," in terms of flooding in coastal areas, says Torbjörn Törnqvist, professor and chair of earth and environmental sciences at Tulane University.
More than eight years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a team of Tulane University ecologists, sociologists and geographers is joining forces with other national experts to better understand how rebuilding after a disaster can effect human and ecological well-being.
This spring marks the 40th year that Tulane University will offer the Grand Canyon Colloquium, a course that directly explores the majesty of one of America's great landscapes.
As the effects of the continuing government shutdown are being felt across the country, it's easy to think that a private university would be somewhat immune to such public-sector woes. However, impact of the shutdown is reaching members of the Tulane University research community as well.
For some Tulane University students, a bird in the hand is … well, the most interesting way to learn about conservation.
A group of eight Tulane students traveled to the mountains of Ecuador for two weeks in August to participate in a Tropical Field Biology and Conservation course led by biologists Jordan Karubian and Renata Duraes.
When researchers from Tulane and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette began a study of blue crabs in the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, they expected a big kill-off. However, their investigations have not indicated any obvious or dramatic mortality rates.
Tulane University scientist Kyle Straub has been recognized with a national award for his work in sedimentary geology.
An assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Straub won the James Lee Wilson Award at the annual meeting of the Society for Sedimentary Geology in Pittsburgh.
In the February issue of New Phytologist, Tulane University biologists examine why leaf-cutting ants target some plants and avoid others, concluding that high levels of friendly fungi in the leaves of some plants protect them from destruction by ants.
Some courses are suited to a classroom environment, while others are best out in the field, where hands can be dirtied and theories put into practice. Jordan Karubian, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane University, tends to subscribe to the latter school. He will be taking a group of students to Ecuador for an intensive field course this summer.
The Water Institute of the Gulf has hired veteran researcher and Tulane University alumnus Ernst Peebles as director of coastal systems ecology. Peebles has studied coastal ecology and estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean for more than 30 years.
Carrie Manore, a postdoctoral fellow in the in the Center for Computational Science and Department of Mathematics, at Tulane University, is making waves as a promising early career scientist.
On the coast of Ecuador, along the Pacific Ocean, on the western side of the Andes Mountains, lies the Choco rain forest. Here, Jordan Karubian, his students and local residents, whom he's enlisted as "environmental ambassadors," study an endangered species of bird — the long-wattled umbrellabird.
Tiny poison dart frogs living wild in Panama may provide clues about relatively rapid biodiversification, says Tulane University evolutionary biologist Corinne "Cori" Richards-Zawacki. Her team of students has spent most of the summer at two field sites on an archipelago studying natural selection.
The full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has yet to reveal itself, say researchers in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The largest-ever accidental release of oil into marine waters could impact earth's ecosystems for years to come — and not just along the 650 miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline directly affected by the spill.
Noise, whether from the city or nature, may be enough of a nuisance to convince birds to change their tune over time, according to a new study co-authored by a Tulane University evolutionary ecologist.
Inadequate knowledge about the effects of deep-water oil well blowouts such as the Deepwater Horizon event of 2010 constrains scientists' ability to help manage and assess comparable events in future, according to an article that Tulane University scientists and colleagues will publish in the May issue of BioScience.
Jerrycans — 20-liter plastic containers ubiquitous in third-world countries — are a favorite for relief organizations because they're so versatile for storing water or fuel and easily transportable. What if they could be adapted to work double-duty as a cheap disinfection device in areas with scant access to clean water? A medical student and a graduate student at Tulane University have a novel idea.
The rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Gulf Coast has increased dramatically this past century compared to that of the preindustrial millennium (600-1600 A.D.). This sobering news for residents from the Florida panhandle to east Texas is just one part of the findings by Tulane University researchers in a study published March 30 in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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Fish biologists have named a newly identified genus of fossil anglerfishes after Tulane ichthyologist John H. Caruso. "It's a tremendous honor having a taxon named after you, especially a genus," says Caruso. "It's one of the top honors one can get in systematic biology."
On WGNO's News With a Twist, graduate student Bhan Sunkara, explains how composite particles are made from Louisiana sugarcane and crawfish shells. These particles absorb chemicals in contaminated groundwater and naturally degrade reducing clean-up time from decades to months.
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Henry "Hank" Bart Jr. is an expert in astacology, the study of crawfishes. Thanks to Bart, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane, a group of alumni is now well informed about astacology. He was guest speaker at a gathering celebrating crawfish that was hosted by Alumni Affairs on Thursday (Jan. 19).
The lure of waterfront property goes back a long way in human history, according to researchers. Ardipithecus ramidus, one of the earliest known ancestors of modern humans, preferred to live close to the water's edge rather than in the interior regions of East Africa where previous research suggested the ancient hominins resided.
The functioning of tropical rain forests, particularly the vast Amazonian forest, is a crucial factor for global climate, and accurately calculating deforestation is important for understanding relationships between the forest and trends in climate. Tulane ecologists monitoring tree losses in Amazonia rely on spectral images taken by Landsat satellites orbiting overhead.
A consortium of research institutions led by Tulane University is slated to receive a $10.34 million grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to help develop new dispersants that more favorably balance effectiveness and toxicity in combating deep-sea drilling accidents.
Tulane EENS Professor Karen Johannesson's arsenic research contributes to understanding the origins of groundwater arsenic contamination in South Asia.
A major river event occurred this past spring: The Mississippi and Atchafalaya became the two largest rivers on earth. It was an extraordinary time to be a scientist who is interested in what rivers do to oceans, says Alex Kolker.
Tiny female wrens commonly found in gardens of Papua New Guinea are the subjects of intense scientific interest. Jenny Hazlehurst, a doctoral student in the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has received a National Geographic Young Explorer grant to study a specific species of fairy wren.
Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beat the Internet: Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed "TU-103," that uses paper to produce butanol, a biofuel that serves as a substitute for gasoline. The researchers are currently experimenting with old editions of The Times-Picayune newspaper with great success.
What does a dead space alien really look like? When the Green Lantern movie crew, filming in New Orleans, needed to know if their special-effects creations were believable, they turned to Tulane biologist and longtime science fiction fan Bruce Fleury for advice.
While he was in Kenya doing fish biology research, professor Hank Bart visited the Kogelo village of Sarah Obama, grandmother of President Barack Obama, with a group of students and colleagues from Tulane and the University of Nairobi.
A team of Tulane engineers is addressing the problem of groundwater pollution through the formation of NanoFex — a company with an innovative method to curb contaminants in groundwater.
Engineers from Tulane and Louisiana State universities teamed up to draft an article that explores key issues related to last year's Gulf of Mexico Macondo well oil spill and proposes the need for predictive modeling tools to forecast and manage the next spill.
Tungsten is all around us. Widely used in manufacturing and industry, tungsten wire has glowed in countless light bulbs, and tungsten carbide hardens the steel used for drill bits and cutting tools. Until recently this heavy, dense metal was considered non-toxic and environmentally friendly. But is it? That's what Tulane biogeochemist Karen Johannesson wants to know.
If there has been one overarching and unanswered question hanging over New Orleans and southeast Louisiana since their populations were dispersed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it is this: How many people are now living here? Data from the 2010 census finally answers that question with only a few surprises, says Tulane geographer and author Richard Campanella.
"Within hours, at a cost of about $100 per child, exterior play areas at childcare centers can be transformed from lead-contaminated to lead-safe with a margin of safety," says Tulane professor Howard Mielke, who has led a study in alleviating lead issues for young children.
Every fall, millions of tree swallows arrive in Louisiana to begin their winter roosting period. The pint-sized creatures roost in the protective shelter of the sugarcane fields until they are forced to relocate at harvest time. What researcher Caz Taylor wants to know is, where do they go?
In the rivers of Kenya, new species of fish are waiting to be discovered — or at least, to be properly named. Hank Bart, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a taxonomist, traveled to Kenya with four students from Tulane and Xavier University last summer...
Undergraduates in the Tulane University biomedical engineering program have won a prize for a technology design that could detect malaria in the millions of people worldwide who are at risk for the disease.
Did the melting of ancient ice sheets after the last Ice Age cause sudden sea-level rises? What can be learned from this distant history that could send cautionary messages to modern populations living at the ocean's edge? Tulane researcher Torbjörn Törnqvist is drilling into coastal soils in search of answers.
The benefits of long-term research, mixed with a little serendipity. That's how David Heins, professor and chair of the Tulane Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, sees a fish mystery in the wild waters of Alaska that led to a new area of research.
Beyond the immediate BP oil disaster, the long-term history of impacts to Louisiana's coastal zone is "turning out to be the more important story," says Alex Kolker, an adjunct professor and research scientist in the Tulane Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Tulane University a grant of nearly $200,000 to enhance an important online resource marine scientists use to study the impact of the BP oil spill.
Tulane University scientists are among more than 150 recipients of National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research grants to study the impact of oil that spewed from the Macondo oil field into the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
A group of academics, government scientists and industry representatives met in Rogers Memorial Chapel on the Tulane uptown campus on Thursday (Sept. 2) for the third in a series of "listening sessions" organized by the Unified Command of the Deepwater BP Oil Spill. The session focused on strategies for measuring oil and dispersant still in the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana and Texas scientists gathered on the Tulane University campus Thursday to comment on a proposed sampling plan aimed at answering lingering questions about how much oil and dispersant remains in the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent shoreline from the BP Macondo blowout.
During the months following Hurricane Katrina, Tulane geologist Stephen Nelson extensively researched the New Orleans-area levee failures. In November 2005, Nelson began offering field trips to the breach sites, calling the trips, "Hurricane Katrina — What Happened?"
When rivers are contained by dams, what happens to the river-native species of fish trapped inside? How will a fish that has evolved for the conditions of a fast-flowing river current fare in the still waters of a reservoir? Tulane scientists have found one species of river fish that morphs into a new shape in response to a lake-like environment.
Much has been made recently about the rift between Louisiana officials and scientists over the prudency of building coastal sand berms as a defensive measure against the Gulf oil spill. Among members of the science community there is no such division, says Torbjörn Törnqvist, professor of earth and environmental sciences.
Tulane University researcher Howard Mielke and his colleagues have observed an unforeseen positive result of flooding in New Orleans following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita — post-flood decreases in lead contamination in some neighborhoods and corresponding decreases in blood lead levels in young children.
A single, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, according to a new study by Tulane University researchers. While storms have long been recognized as a cause of Amazon tree loss, this study is the first to produce an actual body count. The losses are much greater than originally suspected, suggesting that storms may play a larger role in the dynamics of Amazon forests than previously recognized.
Undergraduates from New York, Tennessee and Louisiana are getting hands-on research experience in the Tulane School of Science and Engineering laboratories through the Louis Stokes Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation. The 10-week summer program is funded by the National Science Foundation and Louisiana Board of Regents.
Since the oil crisis began, concerns have mounted about the toxic crude's possible impact on marine life in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as coastal estuaries and marshes. While studying spawning habits of blue crabs recently, researchers from Tulane University and the University of Southern Mississippi stumbled upon something very troubling.
Earth was just coming out of an ice age 9,300 years ago when a cataclysmic event occurred that plunged the planet into a cold "snap" that lasted for centuries. Scientists have suspected that water melted from snow and ice introduced into the North Atlantic Ocean was the cause — but the source and volume were a mystery. A new study led by Tulane researcher Shiyong Yu pinpoints the source.
Following the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April that has created the largest oil spill in U.S. history, scientists and pundits have speculated on the "worst-case scenario" for the Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf Coast in general. As bad as the current situation appears, it could get worse, according to one Tulane professor.
Last week Michael Blum, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, took MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on a tour of Barataria Bay to demonstrate how Louisiana's protective barrier islands are in danger of disappearing as oil chokes oxygen from plant life.
Louisiana's coastal birds face an uncertain future as oil continues to seep into the marshes where they live. Tulane University ecologist and conservation biologist Thomas Sherry explains that the birds will endure long-term effects as a result of the oil arriving during their peak breeding season.
On Friday (April 29), the National Guard was mobilized to help deal with an oil slick that began lapping onto the barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana. Those first oily waves mark the landfall of a massive oil leak that could cause the largest ecological disaster in the United States, eclipsing the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
Kimberly Roe, a doctoral student in earth and environmental sciences, embarked to Antarctica earlier this semester as part of an expedition funded by the National Science Foundation.
Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Vijay John was honored during a ceremony at the Lavin-Bernick Center as this year's School of Science and Engineering Outstanding Researcher on April 8.
Since 2008, the Tulane School of Science and Engineering and the A. B. Freeman School of Business have been collaborating on research into next-generation fuels for clean power, including butanol from sugar cane waste products, but more research is needed, says Geoff Parker, director of the Tulane Energy Institute.
When children are playing at childcare centers, it's expected that minor injuries such as a skinned knee or a bump on the head will occur. What is not expected are the kinds of long-term disabilities that can occur from environmental poisons. Tulane researcher Howard Mielke is not only shining light on the problem of toxins in play yards, but also is trying to mitigate their effect on children.
Brad Rosenheim, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Tulane, is pursuing two studies funded by the National Science Foundation using advanced carbon-dating techniques. One study uses radiocarbon records stored in corals and sponges from several sites in the tropical North Atlantic to look backward at how ocean currents have changed over time.
For eons, sailors have told tales of frighteningly freakish, humongous waves emerging out of the blue. They have described completely calm ocean waters seconds before a "rogue" wave suddenly rises steeply at a height six or more times greater than usual waves.
Two decades ago, the government in West Bangal, India, encouraged people to drink groundwater instead of contaminated surface water. Over time, the groundwater drinkers began to show signs of arsenic poisoning, including discoloration of their hands and feet and higher than normal rates of certain cancers.
Hormones from plastics, pesticides and even common prescription drugs are seeping into waterways and having unintended consequences on wildlife, says environmental studies professor John McLachlan.
The Tulane Museum of Natural History received a grant of nearly $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation to redesign a leading computer program it developed to help researchers around the world catalog natural history collections. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
"Daytime or nighttime, rain or shine, the river is always rushing through the front door of our city, and it's something that can be part of our energy security and energy independence," says Doug Meffert, project director of RiverSphere. (Photo by Ryan Rivet)
Staff members from the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research look at a potential site for a new environmental laboratory. They are, from left, Douglas Meffert, Giselle McKinney, Yannis Vassilopoulos and Charles Allen. (Photo by Yannis Vassilopoulos)
Seepage caused by underground flow of water is the likely cause of the network of channels scouring the levees along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal, a Tulane scientist says. (Photos from Kyle M. Straub)
Mark Fox, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane, studies plant stress and diversity of insect life in Bayou Sauvage. (Photo by Sally Asher)
With rising sea levels and diminishing wetlands, new ways of thinking are crucial to preserving New Orleans and Louisiana, say Torbjörn E. Törnqvist and Douglas J. Meffert of Tulane. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
Törnqvist, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences and director of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research Coastal Center at Tulane, is studying subsidence of the Mississippi River Delta. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano)
A study led by Jeffrey Chambers, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, examines the relations between global warming and damage to forests caused by intensifying weather systems. (Photo by George Long)
Tulane researchers recently published findings that may explain why continued use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers reduces agricultural crop yields. (Photo by Getty Images)
Just how many people could live above sea level in New Orleans?
Professor Thomas Sherry examines Katrina's impact on birds at study-sites.
Tulane University has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science as the host university for its new National Institute for Climatic Change Research Coastal Center. The center, established through a nearly $1.7 million per year cooperative agreement with the Department of Energy, will solicit, review and make recommendations to the department regarding funding research projects.
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When natural gas drillers arrived in Harrison County, resident Jim Rosenberry, a retired district manager for Beaver Excavating, saw the economic benefits of leasing property going to his neighbors while he received nothing.
Rosenberry leased his property to Gulfport Energy, but was bypassed when it came time to drill. When he went in search of a reason, he concluded the problem stemmed from a stringent road use and maintenance agreement being used by Washington Township trustees. Rosenberry addressed the Harrison County Commission regarding the issue at a prior meeting and again appeared before the board Wednesday asking for help in finding a resolution.
The agreement for Washington Township includes a sentence not found in other agreements used in the county. While other agreements release the company drilling the well at the completion of the process, the document from his township states, "Completion of said drilling is not just for the termination of this agreement, as long as the well is in operation/production this RUMA is to remain in effect."
"The oversize trucks hauling to and from drilling sites are tearing up local roads, creating hazardous conditions," township Trustee Bob Stewart said. "The safety of the residents was and continues to be the primary concern of the trustees.
"Gulfport Energy has not approached us to negotiate the agreement. We want Gulfport to participate. We want them to do it right, we want them to do it safely and at no cost to the taxpayers."
"If these gas and oil companies strengthen and upgrade the roadways with due diligence beforehand this is not an issue," commission Chair Dale Norris said. "The townships and the county are more than willing to be more lenient."
Norris said companies in neighboring Carroll County had completed full-depth reclamation of roads prior to using them for drilling.
"This process completely rehabilitates and reinforces the structural strength of the underlying base of the road," he said. "Then it will hold up to the traffic for the life of the well and there is no need for long-term bonding or RUMAs."
Doug Crabtree, county engineer's office business service officer, explained the state's model agreement does not address safety issues.
"There are no stipulations for driveways or designation of responsibility for signage; there are no provisions to maintain accessibility for fire, law enforcement or EMS," he said. "Stock Township requires each company requesting a RUMA to supply 100 tons of stone. Even when we get them signed, there is the issue of 'Can we enforce them?'"
Norris cited a road in the county that was scheduled for repair last summer by an oil and gas company and still has not been touched.
"Measures to ensure that roads are repaired don't capture the full cost of damage, potentially leaving taxpayers holding the bill," he said.
"The fact of the matter is that the Washington Township trustees as well as other township trustees within the county, their main duty is to make sure that the township roads are passable." County Prosecutor Michael Washington said. "The commissioners have no control over the trustees.
"The county has formed a committee to establish what is called a model township RUMA, which will be presented at the annual township trustees' dinner. We have developed this RUMA to both keep the roads passable and keep the drillers and pipeline companies in line and require them to fix what need to be repaired because we have had many companies that sign the agreement but they do not follow through."
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Snorkeling was impressive with sightings of 3 different kinds of rays, lobster, crab and many, many fish and coral. Lunch on one of the cayes made for a perfect 1/2 day outing.
A walk along the beach at the hotel in the late afternoon made for a great day. Had the lobster for dinner. Tried it both ways - broiled and grilled. Would recommend broiled as it let the subtle lobster flavor come through. Stuffed ourselves with another wonderful desert!


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Divergent Cast Reveals 7 Shocking Secrets! (VIDEO)
Heralded as the next Hunger Games, hot new movie franchise Divergent hits theaters on March 21 and we're digging up all we can about the sci-fi movie and its famous (and attractive) cast.
We've already learned plenty about leading lady Shailene Woodley (including what particular part of her body she likes to sunbathe) but her fellow stars have even more secrets to share. Divergent fans, prepare to be shocked!
Secret No. 1: Theo James' abs don't make the film! If you were hoping to see more of the British hottie, whom you may recognized as Lady Mary's ill-fated lover Kemal Pamuk from Downton Abbey, don't hold your breath.
Theo, who plays Shailene's love interest in the film, won't be baring much of anything in the movie. In fact, the most we'll see are those steamy clips already making the rounds in the trailer. "We didn't want it to just be gratuitous," he tells ClevverTV. Insert eye roll here.
The remaining six secrets range from One Direction to Shailene's love of hugging. Did any really shock you? Watch the video above and tell us in the comments below! And remember, Divergent premieres on March 21 and sounds to be a movie worth watching even without Theo's abs.


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Monday, January 18, 2010
Devils have reason to be worried after losing 4-0 to Islanders
Three conseutive games in which the Devils fell behind 2-0. Three consecutive losses in regulation for the first time this season. Shut out for the second time in four games.
Clearly there are multiple reasons for Devils coach Jacques Lemaire to be concerned, particularly after today's 4-0 loss to the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.
And he is.
"A little," Lemaire said. "There's no doubt I would be very concerned if we didn't have the (road) trip. I'm a little concerned right now because I can see that we're slipping a bit."
The players share Lemaire's concern over the three-game losing streak.
'It's growing, so you have to have a little bit of concern," goaltender Martin Brodeur said. "We know we didn't play well. We've got to go back to basics and playing at home this week is going to help us out."
Center Dean McAmmond said what is troubling is that the Devils' problems began before this three-game slide did.
"It's the way we've been playing the last six or seven," McAmmond said. "We've been in some close checking games. The results are we lost three in a row, but it started before that. Maybe a month ago, we were addressing our slow starts, but we kept finding ways to win some hockey games and then it went away. It wasn't on the front burner anymore. And here we go again."
Lemaire offered two explanation for this slump: fatigue and lack of preparation.
He noted that they played in Phoenix on Thursday and Colorado on Saturday and that travel can take a lot out of a team.
"Definitely we look tired," Lemaire said. "I don't think that we were sharp mentally making plays. We were intercepted all night. We even had trouble in our own end. Usually we're really good in our own end and tonight they could make plays as they wished. So, not a very nice-played game."
The Devils were particularly bad early. Like the Avalanche did on Saturday, the Islanders jumped on the Devils from the drop of the puck, scoring twice in the opening 3:44 and had having another goal waved off because the referee loss sight of the puck. It easily could have been 4-0 or 5-0 after one period. The Islanders outshot the Devils 17-4 in the first 14 minutes.
Such poor starts have Lemaire talking about a "lack of preparation."
"I use lack of preparation because I see things from our top players that didn't happen in the past," Lemaire said. "You look [today] and it's the same thing. We're making mistakes. We have the puck on our stick. We're waiting. We haven't decided what we're going to do with it and then somebody takes it a way, they make a play and they get a goal. So, it's being sharp mentally, not only physically."
"We've got to find that sense of urgency again," Devils captain Jamie Langenbrunner said. "It's definitely missing at the start of games. If you don't show up early, it's tough to catch up every night."
In just his third start after missing more than a year because of multiple knee surgeries, Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietr needed to make only 20 saves to post his first shutout since Feb. 21, 2008 vs. Tampa Bay.
The Devils knew they let DiPietro get away with an easy one.
"I don't know (how many shots) we had, but it couldn't have been too many," Langenbrunner said. "We've got to make him work. Obviously, he hasn't played a lot lately and we wanted to make it hard on him and we didn't do that. It's hard to get shots, though, when you're spending most of the game in your end."
Lemaire, who was battling a cold himself, said the team needs rest, so he decided to cancel Tuesday's practice. The Devils have three games in four nights after that, beginning with Wednesday's home game against Florida.
"There's no doubt they need rest because they're tired from the trip," Lemaire said. "If you're not used to it and you don't get the proper rest, you'll get tired easily. But we'll sit down and we'll figure out something."
The players didn't think fatigue was a legitimate explanation.
"Everybody else has played more games than us, so we're not going to use that excuse," Langenbrunner said. "Obviously, this was a tough stretch for us, but a lot of teams have had to go through that."
"We're just not sharp," left wing Zach Parise said. "I don't know whether it's (being) tired or what. We're not making good plays. We got to beat to the puck everywhere. It's tough to win games when you're losing every race."
Oddly, the one player who Lemaire said didn't look tired was goaltender Martin Brodeur, who started his 26th consecutive game. Brodeur gave up four goal on 32 shots before being replaced by backup Yann Danis to start the third period.
"He's the one that plays the most and he doesn't look tired," Lemaire said. "He stops the puck."
Lemaire said Brodeur and Danis, who stopped all 14 shots he faced in the third period, were the only positives for the Devils today.
"They've been tested," Lemaire said.
Brodeur said he did not mind being pulled after the second period. He said he was a good opportunity to get a little rest.
"It's just more (playing) time for no reason," he said. "It's one thing when you have a chance to get back (in the game). I've played so much, you have to get the rest somehow, sometimes and it's good for Yann to get a little play. When he gets a start, at least it's not going to be a lot of games without playing. He's been playing a few here and there and I'm sure he'll get a start soon."
Danis said he has not been told anything about possibly getting a start in the team's next three games. Today's game was his first regular season appearance at Nassau Coliseum since leaving the Islanders to sign with the Devils as an unrestricted free agent. He would have preferred it to come under better circumstances, but is not in a position to be picky. He has not started a game since Nov. 21 in Dallas, but has made three relief appearances since then.
"It's not the way I wanted to come in," he said "We're down 4-0, but, for me, it's ice time and a chance to feel the puck, make some saves and get a little confidence."
Brodeur has been pulled after two periods in his last two starts at Nassau Coliseum (7-3 loss on March 7, 2009) and the Devils have lost their last three visits there by a combined score of 15-3
Parise's left circle shot that his the far post made a strange sound, as if it did not just hit the pipe. Parise said he thought it might have hit the padding inside the frame of the net. There was plenty of time to review the shot because there was a TV timeout at the next stoppage in play, so it would seem that they didn't see anything up in the war room in Toronto. It looked like the puck just hit the post on the replays shown on MSG Plus, but, like I said, it made a strange noise.
Rookie right wing Niclas Bergfors said John Tavares' stick hit him on the right arm before he tripped him with 4:36 left in the first period. That was why Bergfors was holding his arm and trying to shake it out on the bench after that. He did not play on the resulting power play, but didn't miss any time after that,
"It's fine now," he said.
Lemaire admitted he might consider putting rookie defenseman Matt Corrente back in the lineup after making him a healthy scratch for seven consecutive games.
"He can do a certain job that others didn't, definitely," he said.
Defenseman Colin White confirmed he went to the locker room midway through the second period to get his skate fixed.


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So we should not take the advise of his friends attorney and wait until he has his court date in a week or so and see if the case is dismissed? I told my son I didn't think his friends case had anything to do with him and each boy would have to go to court to get a "possible dismissal" is that correct? Because my sons friend told him it might be dropped after his court date, now he wants to wait. How would you know if your warrant is dropped without going through the process? Would the DA actually drop all their cases because of the one boy or would he have to see each one of them in court to drop it (if he does that is).
No my son and no prior record and has had no issues with the law at all.
Thanks you have been very helpful. I think this is my last set of questions.
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text: Don't Read This editor July 25, 2011 Scuttlebutt 5 Comments You should be writing right now. But how could you, asks Tony Perrottet, when your computer offers instant access to a "cocktail party of chattering friends, a world-class library, an endless shopping mall, a game center, a music festival and even a multiplex?" In his piece for the Times, "Why Writers Belong Behind Bars," Perrottet identifies writers who were most prolific and proficient when imprisoned, literally and metaphorically. From the Marquis de Sade, who penned eight novels during 11 years of incarceration, to John Cheever, who holed himself up in his "dark and dismal" basement, even legendary writers needed to be removed from the real world in order to engage with their fictional ones. But the invasive internet creates new challenges, Perrottet says. "These days, Walden Pond would have Wi-Fi, and Thoreau might spend his days watching cute wildlife videos on YouTube. And God knows what X-rated Web sites the Marquis de Sade would have unearthed." Even literary retreats no longer provide escape from distraction. Perrottet describes writers at colonies frolicking in fields with smartphones strapped to their hands. I recently witnessed this from afar when a friend, Jessica Zlotnicki, Program Manager and ersatz warden at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, digitally chastised one the residents to "get back to work" after they "liked" a post on her Facebook wall. (Case in point: here's a post from one of the Mailer residents, writing about writing, written of course, when he should have been writing.) But there's hope! Perrottet lists tactics employed by the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Dave Eggers, Nora Ephron, and Jonathan Franzen, who use crippled computers or employ sensory deprivation techniques to keep them focused. Computer programs like Freedom promise to keep you focused by keeping your computer on internet lockdown. Still procrastinating? There's plenty of inspirational distraction to keep you thinking about writing instead of actually getting down to it. For example, my former writing professor, Brian Morton (who said a disabled computer helped him find the focus to write The Dylanist and Starting Out in the Evening) gives his classes Michael Ventura's illuminating essay "The Talent of the Room." In it, Ventura says the most important lesson for a writer is to learn how to behave and perform in isolation. "Writing is something you do alone in a room," says Ventura. "Copy that sentence and put it on your wall…" Or don't. You should probably be writing instead. Do you have tactics that keep you attached to the keyboard? Share your tips below. *** –Benjamin Samuel is the Online Editor of Electric Literature. He is pursuing an MFA in fiction at Brooklyn College and doesn't spend enough time writing. 5 Responses Swati July 25, 2011 typewriter. no internet = no distractions no delete key = less nitpicking over things like commas and misspellings that can be worried about in a later draft lock yourself in a room without your cell phone and you're golden. Reply Laura July 26, 2011 Rumor has it that the law enforcement is considering the option of ticketing walkers who are texting!! So no phone while you drive and no texting when you walk … now that will surely help society in being more in the NOW … or NOT! So many distractions make is really necessary for us to be present to what is present!! Reply Nancy July 27, 2011 Turn off the electricity and sharpen your pencil! Reply How Not to Write » Adad Press July 30, 2011 […] a good writer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet." Check out these other views on this argument for differing […] Reply A Love Story Inspired by Norman Mailer | The Outlet: the Blog of Electric Literature August 5, 2011 […] no denying that I faced several distractions during the fellowship, most of them caused by me. Too much time spent on the internet. Too many hours wasted on American […] Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.


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Army testing lab selected to analyze software for Joint Strike Fighter
The Army will help provide independent software analysis of the Pentagon's next-generation stealth jet known as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The Army's Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center, or AMRDEC, was selected by the F-35 Joint Program Office to evaluate safety-critical software in the aircraft's operational flight program software, an Army press release announced Aug. 12.
The integrated system is comprised of many components, including propulsion, weapons and autonomic logistics systems, the release said.
"The F-35 has over 24 million lines of code and is clearly the most complex weapons system ever designed by the [Defense Department]," AMRDEC Acting Director James Lackey said in the release.
AMRDEC's Software Engineering Directorate, which will perform the software analyses, has provided similar work for other aviation systems such as the AH-64 Apache, and various weapons systems like the Hellfire missile.
This is the Army's first involvement in the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Lockheed Martin is leading a team to develop the F-35 Lightning II, which is a single-engine, single-seat fighter jet for the U.S. military and eight international partners.
It is being manufactured in three versions: a conventional-takeoff-and-landing on for the Air Force, an aircraft-carrier version for the Navy, and a short-takeoff/vertical landing version for the Marine Corps and the U.K. Royal Air Force and Royal Navy.
In a report (pdf) published in March, the Government Accountability Office said the total U.S. planned investment in the program is nearing $400 billion to develop and purchase about 2,500 aircraft through 2037, "plus hundreds of billions of dollars in long-term spending to operate and maintain the aircraft."
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- download the GAO report (.pdf)
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The Acquisition is at an enterprise value (on a cash free, debt free basis) of £5.87m, including net assets at completion, estimated at £0.2m. The consideration payable by Communisis totals approximately £7.1m, including acquired cash of about £1.2m.
Editions Financial ("EF"), has delivered in excess of 2,000 projects for more than 33 financial brands over 14 years; more than any other content marketing agency in the UK. EF is based in Edinburgh and has a 31-strong team of specialist writers, designers, digital experts, content strategists, BAFTA-winning broadcasters and marketing specialists.
EF works directly with major financial brands to develop their content strategies (including benchmarking, proposition development and campaign planning). It then implements the strategy by providing a co-ordinated content marketing delivery service in all key channels including copywriting, video production, digital content, print and digital magazines, ezines, social media, event content and front line sales collateral.
Communisis' recent high profile contract signings in the financial services sector include Lloyds Banking Group, with which they hold a 10 year contract for the production of all transactional customer communications. In addition, Communisis signed a nine year contract for all Nationwide's customer communications' production earlier this year.
The acquisition is expected to provide significant synergy opportunities with Communisis' financial services offering, adding content marketing to the group's overall design capability as it looks to build a fully integrated agency for the digital age.
Content creation will also be a cornerstone capability for Communisis as it builds on its new agency model, which it recently appointed Malcolm Cotton, formerly of Publicis Chemistry, to lead.
"Given the recent stellar growth in the discipline of content marketing, a hurdle for brands in fighting for attention will be relevance. By leveraging Communisis' depth in data-driven personalised communication we will be able to deliver knock-out content propositions," said founder Caspian Woods.
Andy Blundell, Communisis Chief Executive, added, "As the UK's leading content marketing agency within the financial services sector, Editions Financial is a clear strategic fit with the Group's aspiration to broaden and deepen its service offering. The acquisition also strengthens our already strong position in the financial services sector.
"We are delighted that Caspian and Ruth have decided to join Communisis and that they are equally committed both to the continuing development of the Editions Financial business and to the growth and expansion of the Group."
EF has recently completed the inaugural Financial Services Content Marketing Survey in conjunction with the Financial Services Forum. It shows 80% of financial brands are focusing on building their capabilities in-house, but only 41% have a defined content strategy. EF sees the big opportunity in strategy consulting, and integrating with in-house teams.
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Admission on academic warning may be granted to transfer students with: 1) a cumulative GPA of less than 2.00 with more than 25 credits, or 2) less than a 1.60 cumulative GPA with 24 credits or less, pending an academic history review by the Admissions Committee. The Admissions Committee will review student files for acceptance or denial. Transfer students admitted on academic warning are required to take UNS 103, Fundamentals of Academic Effectiveness, and are limited to registering for 14 credits in the first semester of enrollment at Finlandia University. Any student admitted on academic warning who fails to meet the required satisfactory academic standing will be placed on academic probation for the following semester of attendance and limited to 14 credits. All other Finlandia University academic standards will apply.
Finlandia University course equivalencies for many Michigan colleges and universities can be found on the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (MACRAO) website, in the Michigan Transfer Network section, at www.michigantransfernetwork.org. Finlandia also has articulation agreements with various Michigan colleges and universities; please contact the Office of Admissions for more information.
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Fresh Android Apps for Feb. 3: Translatr Pro, TextBusy, Text Monkey
by Ian Black
Text messaging is now fairly old technology but you can't argue with its usefulness or relevance. Two fresh apps add functionality to this standard feature of cell phones. TextBusy forwards SMS messages to email while Text Monkey lets you schedule text messages for the future. Finally, Translate Pro allows you to translate on-the-fly over your Android.
Translate Pro (Free)
Get proficient in foreign countries. Translate Pro translates words, phrases, or full sentences back and forth between 58 languages. Once translated, you can edit a phrase and then reverse the translation back to the starting language.
Helpfully, the app lets you translate directly to email or text message. And, it integrates with Facebook, Twitter, and Evernote.
TextBusy (Free)
Ever want to get your text messages in an email? Enter TextBusy. The app forwards all the SMS you receive directly to your Gmail account.
If you have two phones – personal and business – you could use it track personal text messages while your non-work phone is at home. Or visa versa, if you are expecting important work texts while off-duty.
Text Monkey (~$1.61)
Want to send a text in the future? Text Monkey lets you write and schedule a text message for future delivery. Maybe you want to send a reminder or queue up an important text so you don't forget, for example.
The app integrates into Android's notification bar and your Messaging "sent" folder so you can track the scheduled messages before and after it has been delivered.


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The comfortable, lower-profile shape feels good in either hand—even after a long day of work.
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