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UPDATE 15:45 UTC : Earthquake-Report is reporting the data as it comes in.
We usually compare the USGS or other main data distributors with the data of the local seismological agencies (if present) and bring this information too. Especially the depth is an important factor of ration safe/unsafe. Readers of earthquake report are among the best informed people in the world. On top of this, our many measuring tools (QuakeSOS iPhone app., sudden surge in visitors, hundreds of sources, etc) are creating one of the best earthquake reporting websites in the world.
Keep us in your favorites and/or join our Facebook/Twitter accounts and be among the best informed in the world.
UPDATE 15:43 UTC : USGS pager data is as good as the data itself. The difference in depth alone makes the difference in between a light shaking and a strong shaking. Luckily USGS was wrong this time.
UPDATE 15:40 UTC : Almost all USGS felt reports are mentioning a III to IV MMI shaking (light shaking)
UPDATE 14:59 UTC : We will keep an eye on the local earthquake emergency services and will report if we notice any damage or injuries.
UPDATE 14:58 UTC : We assume that the JMA data were correct (JMA data are in-line with the experienced shaking)
UPDATE 14:55 UTC : The Japanese press is rather silent on this aftershock (they are mentioning it as a serious shock). No additional footage.
UPDATE 14:30 UTC : At earthquake-Report we fear these close to Tokyo aftershocks. until now Tokyo got at most indirect aftershocks, but a shallow 6.0 hit could make a lot of damage in the City.
UPDATE 14:28 UTC : The greater Tokyo business area got an intensity 3 shaking.
UPDATE 14:23 UTC : All will depend on the exact earthquake numbers. USGS and JMA have different values for a) epicenter location b) magnitude and c) depth. Especially the depth of the hypocenter is very important as it will be the main factor of damage or no damage.
UPDATE 14:20 UTC : So far the local Japanese press is only mentioning the occurrence of the intensity 5 lower earthquake in Chiba prefecture, no word on any damage or injuries
UPDATE 14:17 UTC : Our iPhone application QuakeSOS has received a number of I AM SAFE alerts from the Tokyo area = people have been seriously shaken by the earthquake
UPDATE 14:12 UTC : As the epicenter is below or near land (depending on the data source), and the magnitude of the earthquake is limited, there is NEVER been a tsunami risk
UPDATE 14:10 UTC : JMA, the local Japanese seismological service is still maintaining a depth of 70 km, which is a VERY BIG difference (less dangerous) than the 42 km from USGS.
UPDATE 14:09 UTC : Following the GDACS calculations 23 million people are living within a radius of 100 km from the epicenter. GDACS makes his theoretical calculations on the USGS data, which are more dangerous than the JMA data
UPDATE 14:05 UTC : GDACS published an ORANGE earthquake alert for this earthquake = moderate chance on damage and/or injuries
UPDATE 14:01 UTC : Following the USGS data, the epicenter is below land in the direct area of Chiba
UPDATE 14:00 UTC : JMA Intensity 5- for Chiba-ken Hokutobu, 4 Ibaraki-ken Hokubu, Ibaraki-ken Nambu, Chiba-ken Hokuseibu
This aftershock was at an intermediate depth but very close to Tokyo.
USGS has now reported a magnitude of 6.1 at a depth of 42.9 km.
Only 64 km from Tokyo ! The earthquake occurred at late night.
Most important Earthquake Data:
Magnitude : 6.1
UTC Time : Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 13:37:03 UTC
Local time at epicenter : Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 10:37:03 PM at epicenter
Depth (Hypocenter) : 42.9 km
Geo-location(s) :
64 km (40 miles) E (95°) from TOKYO, Japan
83 km (52 miles) S (182°) from Mito, Honshu, Japan
Links to important maps
JMA (Japan) Did You Feel It Map
Google satellite map of the area showing the kind of terrain the earthquake took place
USGS historic earthquakes map
USGS Seismic hazard map
USGS Impact on Population map
USGS Shaking map
GDACS ORANGE earthquake report
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Quake-Maps.com was also created by SOS Earthquakes. Quake-Maps.com makes it easy to let the world know which shaking people have experienced during the earthquake. Quake-Maps.com gives also the opportunity to write some additional text. Filling up the form takes only 1 minute. Quake-Maps.com gives an overview of all the resent earthquakes and let you even go back in time and retrieve earthquakes of a certain date in the past.
Earthquake-Report.com headlines on twitter
@OnlyQuakeNews : Get all the headlines of our earthquake-report.com articles + regular updates on ongoing events
@QuakeSOS : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of USGS earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in the America's and the Pacific Ocean sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was created for our QuakeSOS and QuakeSOS+ iPhone applications
@ShakingEarth : earthquake-report.com news + automatic earthquake notifications of EMSC earthquakes of M 4.0 or higher with emphasis to earthquakes in European and Asian / Middle East sphere (4 and up) and a lot of the rest of the world (5 and up). This account was originally created to stimulate our Facebook account
@QuakeMaps : earthquake-report.com news with mapping notifications of ALL earthquakes M 3.0 and higher from all over the world via EMSC and USGS. This account was created for our http://www.quake-maps.com website


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Life Fitness named John E. Stransky as its new president. Stransky succeeds Peter B. Hamilton, who has been named president of Knoxville, TN-based Brunswick Boat Group. Formerly president of Brunswick Bowling and Billiards, Stransky is based in Life Fitness' Schiller Park, IL, world headquarters and will continue to report to Brunswick Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dustan E. McCoy.
The National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA) through its NIRSA Services Corp. and its in-house agency, College Connect Inc., has appointed IMG, a sports, entertainment and media company, as its authorized agent and representative in connection with sponsorship and marketing programs associated with NIRSA and its member institutions.
The Reno YMCA will move to a new location two miles from its 60-year-old downtown facility, which has fallen into a state of disrepair and would cost $12 million to fix. The Y plans to build an 11,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art fitness center complete with a locker room, cardio and strength training equipment, a mind-body-spirit center and an aerobics studio. The new facility will open this summer.
Retention Management launched a new blast e-mail program for its clients. As part of its research-based attrition reduction service, clubs have the ability to send members marketing messages using a variety of HTML formats.
Three new fitness industry veterans joined Octane Fitness. Ken Germano, former president and CEO of the American Council on Exercise, became the new commercial sales manager for the West Coast and national accounts; David Corley, previously a regional sales manager at True Fitness Technology Inc., was named the commercial sales manager for the central U.S. states; and Daniel Kennedy, most recently a regional sales manager at Precor Inc., became the commercial sales manager for the East Coast and hospitality accounts.
Active Network, a San Diego-based technology provider to sports, nonprofits and activity organizers, has acquired Promote It, a Lakewood, CO-based club promotions agency. David Bunch, marketing/member relations manager, said the acquisition would help Promote It to expand its offerings to health clubs.


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Texas Tech University's financial planning program and compliance-friendly social media startup Finect have partnered up in a new program that teaches college students how to use social media as a sales and marketing tool for advisor practices.
The university's Personal Financial Planning Department and Finect's founder, Jennifer Openshaw, announced their collaboration Monday at an online press conference. Students in the Texas Tech program were also on hand during the conference to talk about how they're learning to bring the technology, marketing and entrepreneurship of social media to firms where they will serve as interns and new hires.
Student Dustin Parks, 43, a career changer and U.S. military veteran who served in Afghanistan, said that he previously had worked in information technology as a Web designer and noted that social media offers a low-cost way for firms to reach out to clients, especially if those firms hire interns to get them started with their online sales and marketing efforts.
"The cost of using social media is almost nil compared to a traditional advertising effort for a new financial planner, which can take a lot of time and money," Parks said. "Plus, everything is headed to social media. With FINRA and the SEC, you normally can't talk to clients and stay compliant, but you can with Finect. In Finect you can take something and push it out to Facebook or LinkedIn. I have friends in the military who want financial advice and sometimes they don't want to phone me or send an email."
'Hiring Firms Will Say, "You're Our Tech Director"'
Personal Financial Planning Prof. Barry Mulholland, CFP, ChFC, said the department has received more than $5 million in gifts from tech firms along with about 50 donated software packages.
"Our students know social media from a Facebook perspective, but they need to go from a social to a business standpoint" Mulholland said. "There's a push for students to study marketing data and to take on the role of understanding what's in the technology. Hiring firms will say, 'You're young, you like technology, so you're our tech director.' This is why the next generation will be hired by financial planning companies, and the Finect partnership is part of that."
Located in Lubbock, Texas Tech University operates a large financial planning degree program where more than 200 students annually seek undergraduate and graduate degrees, including the first Ph.D. ever offered in personal financial planning. The financial planning industry, meanwhile, reports better-than-average job prospects for skilled students. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects personal financial advisor job growth of a "much faster than average" 32% from 2010 to 2020, with 2010 median pay of $64,750 per year.
Texas Tech Prof. Deena Katz, CFP, said students are learning to create sales and marketing plans in the university's entrepreneur class, where they're using Finect. "The more they know, the greater likelihood they'll get hired before they go out of the door," Katz said, adding that the Personal Financial Planning Department's annual placement rate now stands at 95%. As for retention, the department tracks students three years after graduation and has found that 85% to 90% remain in the advisory business.
Half of Advisors Won New Clients via Social Media
Citing Accenture findings on how tech-savvy advisors can regain investor trust, Openshaw said 48% of advisors report using social media to interact with investors on a daily basis and 50% say they have successfully used social media to convert prospects into clients. Also, she said, 52% of advised social media users said they would like to interact with their advisors via social media, according to LinkedIn.
"Social media is a huge growth opportunity. Marketing and niche sales come into play in social media," she said. "This is a rich and growing opportunity for students coming out of financial planning programs who need to operate in today's environment."
In reporting for ThinkAdvisor on the Finect startup on June 19, Research magazine editor Gil Weinreich summed up the platform as follows: "In one fell swoop, the advisor can share content with followers on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter — thus cutting down the time involved in staying social. Meanwhile, merely by checking a few boxes, the compliance officer can permit allowable communications in advance and know that everything will be tracked and archived for a period of five years, as required."
During the online press conference, Openshaw elaborated on Finect's social media platform, showing how the compliant site allows for an advisor home page, followers, trending posts, blogs, news, groups, companies and more. Advisors can build public pages as well as private pages for clients.
Jeremy Ransom, 24, student president of the Personal Financial Planning Association (PFPA) on the Texas Tech campus, pointed out that the PFPA already has a membership page on Finect, which is backed up both for compliance purposes and to provide a history of the group's activities.
"People like my folks used to read newspapers, but nowadays, Google knows everything," said Ransom, who served in the Marines for five years before attending Texas Tech. "I have buddies in Afghanistan who I communicate with every week on Facebook. The social media is industry is huge and will have a big impact on the financial planning profession."
Read LinkedIn Payoff: Morgan Stanley FA Lands $70 Million Account at ThinkAdvisor.


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Ducks Lane
I'm a small wine producer and retailer, selling a range of my own brand wines in my little retail shop and also to select restaurants and other retailers.
The wines I sell are all typical of the region in which they were grown. All offer excellent value in fresh, modern, dry styles.
Ducks Lane Wines are fine cool climate wines. The wines are delicate, elegant and refined – a bit like fine French Burgundy. The label needs to reflect this.
The target audience is male and female aged 22 - 60 at a retail price of $25 - $30. The aim is for these wines to be sold mainly through restaurants and cafes as well as select retail.
There will be 2 wines initially, a white and a red. I'd like to have the option of slightly different labels for each.
The label needs to be a single label (probably wraparound style but) with all necessary information on it as per below. (Note: not a front and back label)
The brand name of the wine is Ducks Lane.
The region and wine name. eg: Yarra Valley Chardonnay 2008.
In small font (about 5) there needs to be legal text eg: "12% alc, 7.1 std drinks, pres 220 added. Wine of Australia 750ml"
Bottled for Sparrow and Vine Pty Ltd
72 Hordern Street, Newtown NSW 2042
0409 467456
Also need additional text of approximately 80 words for a wine description/ story.
Must be a single label that would have main name and brand on one half with the other half containing additional text. (eg: 80/90mm high, 150mm wide).
What we don't want:
No gold, no silver. Needs to be CMYK colours. No images of grapes, bottles, vine leaves or other cliched wine images.The files need to be editable.
Feel free to experiment with fonts, while I'm looking for something elegant it doesn't need to be old fashioned! Feel free to use images, illustrations, strong colours and to be creative!
Final artwork as EPS files or .ai saved as illustrator 3 or earlier.
Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have further questions.


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African Journal of Business Management Vol. 6(15), pp. 5234-5242, 18 April, 2012
ISSN 1993-8233 ©2012 Academic Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Evaluation of domestic partner relationships and environmental uncertainty on degree of localization and performance of enterprises: The case of Iranian small and medium enterprises
Reza Gharoie Ahangar1, Katayoun Alimardani1, Khadijeh Jahanian1*, Amir Faridnia2, and Mostafa Mardi3
1Department of Management and Economics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
2Department of Management, Mazandaran Payame Noor University, Iran.
3Department of management, Islamic Azad University, Tehran central Branch, Iran.
*Corresponding author. E-mail: email@example.com.
Accepted 5 December, 2011
With the development of organizations and their expansion, and connection to free business global market, the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will appear in space of global competition day to day. Now, these organizations must increase the power of self competition with appropriate visions to gain the ability of competition in the world competitive markets. This research studies the impact of both domestic partner relationships and environmental uncertainty on Iran SMEs' localization strategy and assesses whether this strategy influences the performance of firms. Results showed that environmental stability and domestic network partnerships influence the degree of localization positively and this in turn influences the firm's internationalization performance. The research findings can help SMEs' managers, in that the effective use of localization strategies and also can help them to gain competitive advantage and achieve superior performance.
Key words: Internationalization, performance, growth, small and medium enterprises, Iran.
Ahangar et al. Evaluation of domestic partner relationships and environmental uncertainty on degree of localization and performance of enterprises: The case of Iranian small and medium enterprises. Afr. J. Bus. Manage. 18 April, 2012.


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Appointed: 1 July 2007
Second term expires: 30 June 2017
Geographical allocation: Asia-Oceania
Dr Zhang previously worked as Chief Accountant and Director General of the Department of International Affairs at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC).
He has been actively involved in accounting standard‑setting and implementation issues, auditor oversight, and cross-border regulatory co-operation issues at the CSRC and through his work with the International Organization of Securities Commissions.
From 1998 and 2004 respectively, Dr Zhang was a member of the China Accounting Standards Committee and the China Auditing Standards Committee.
Before joining the CSRC, he was Head of the Department of Accounting at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE) where he also received his PhD in economics.
Dr Zhang was a PhD supervisor at SUFE from 1993 and at Tsinghua University from 2000.
He has published a number of articles and monographs on issues related to accounting, corporate governance, and globalisation.
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Inland Northwest Rail Museum
Displays of Inland Northwest Railroad historical memorabilia as well as tours of restored full-size train cars including the last surviving Spokane Street Car. Over 20 other full-size railcars are on display. Formerly located at the Spokane County Fairgrounds for over 30 years, an outstanding selection of railroad memorabilia and an extensive library. Hours are Fridays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., April-December. Admission includes one 2-foot gauge train ride.
- Where:
- Inland Northwest Rail Museum, 27300 Sprinkle Road North (two miles west of Reardan on Highway 2 and 231 South), Reardan
- City:
- Reardan
- Cost:
- $10/general, $8/seniors and military, $6/ages 5-12, free/age four and younger
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- (509) 796-3377
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WASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) recently introduced legislation that could encourage businesses to implement workplace wellness programs for their employees.
The Healthy Workforce Act would provide tax incentives to businesses — particularly small- and medium-sized employers — that provide opportunities for their employees to lead healthier lives and prevent chronic illnesses.
According to the Healthy Workforce Act, companies that spend $400 per employee on comprehensive wellness plans would receive a tax credit of up to $200 per employee for the first 200 employees and up to $100 per employee thereafter.
The types of employee wellness programs eligible for the tax credit must include three of the four following provisions: health awareness programs; behavioral change programs; an employee engagement committee; and an environment to encourage employee participation, including offering incentives such as lower health insurance premiums.
An employer can receive the tax credit for 10 years after establishing qualified wellness programs.
"In America, we don't have a health care system; we have a sick care system," Harkin said at a press conference on July 9. "Corporate America has the expertise, the resources and the enlightened self-interest to change the way we approach health care in this country."
Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) is a co-sponsor of the bill.
According to Workforce Management magazine, the bill could be attached to a Senate tax bill this fall. Harkin is seeking backers in the House of Representatives. Harkin's staff spent two years consulting with companies and business and health groups before writing the bill, according to the magazine.
Advocates of wellness programs estimate that for every $1 spent on wellness, a company can save $3 to $4 in health care costs.


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Meet a man sure to go down in the Kludging Hall of Fame. In 1993, Emile Leray, a French electrician, was driving through the Moroccan desert when his Citroën car broke down.
Stranded in the desert, and far out of walking distance of civilization, Leray pulled up his bootstraps, made a small offering prayer to MacGyver (allegedly), and proceeded to disassemble his trashed car and reassemble the parts into a fully functional motorcycle.
Leray is quoted as saying:
"I put myself in what one calls survival mode. I could not have gone back on foot - it was too far."
Survival mode paid off big-time, as Leray successfully rode his new motorcycle back to civilization, and out of the clutches of very painful and unfortunate death in the desert. In the end, he journeyed over 20 miles, which may not seem like much, but let me reiterate: try walking 20 miles in the scorching north African desert heat.
Despite making his journey 19 years ago in 1993, he has only recently begun telling his story to the press. Now that is a TIFI WIN of monumental proportions.


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Stars Come Out To Support National Breast Cancer Awareness , October is designated National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Pink the chosen colour by NBCAM to wear during the month of October to show support of National Breast Cancer Awareness. Stars and Celebrity Ball Players were seen on television, and everywhere sporting the pink supporting the cause.
Scream Famous 7712 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles hosted Partyby5's "HallowScream" a halloween themed pink carpet launching KD Luxe Jewelry's Custom Pink Spring/Summer 2014 Collection. Some celebrities in attendance were Trinity Marquez (Nickelodeon), Angelique Bates (Nickelodeon), Shayda Farah, Jason Arthur, Honuki Fiji, Reatha Grey (Betty White's Off Their Rockers), Sophia Strauss, Kathleen Doonan Largent, performing recording artists Lela Brown, Chris Morris and Celebrity DJ Midas Goldenballz (FloRida, Real Housewives Beverly Hills, MTV, VH1) and more.
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Recording Artist Chris Morris has a sister battleling breast cancer. Her name is Monica and she has a blog beingpink.wordpress.com. Dr. Cheryilynn Lee (former nurse to Michael Jackson), Author of "Written Before I Was Born" offers free breast exams at her clinic all year round. Recording artist LeLa Brown also mentioned she had cancer survivors in her family. This was a great night for all to gather and celebrate the Awareness of Breast Cancer.
Sponsors Gil Soto, Niche' Beverage Products donated a Toshini Pink Moscato, very smooth and sweet tasting, Crystal Glacier Water with glowing pink bottles a crisp cool tasting water, and Splash Magazine. Some of the celebrities in attendance received KD Luxe Jewelry custom Pink pieces and "Hot Pink" iPhone 5 handsfree 360' wrist cellphone holders.
Glitter Rose hosted American Girl Music Video And Official Trailer Debut donating 100% of the proceeds to benefit the Los Angeles County Affiliate of Susan G. Coleman on October 26, 2013 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. at Gibson 9350 Civic Center Drive in Beverly Hills.
Michelle Phillips "Mama's and The Papas" and David Harrison Levi were honored by The Artists in Music Awards. Guests enjoyed complimentary food and drinks with a silent auction. Glitter Rose Band performed to a well attended audience.
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It probably won't command as much global attention as the royal baby, but there's a meeting on Wednesday that will determine the future of Nantucket.
I described the issue in detail last week. Here's the short version:
Rising sea levels are accelerating beach and bluff erosion on a short stretch of shoreline on the Eastern side of the island.
This stretch of shoreline is owned and occupied.
This winter, three successive storms gobbled up some 30 feet of the bluff, taking a couple of once-expensive houses along with it.
If the erosion is not stopped, it will soon take many more houses, along with a section of a road.
If a section of the road disappears, the municipal electricity, water, sewage, and telecommunications lines to about a dozen houses and a famous lighthouse will get cut off, along with access to the houses and lighthouse themselves.
To restore access and services to the houses and lighthouse, which the Town of Nantucket is legally obligated to provide, the Town would have to buy some new land from unwilling sellers via eminent domain and then rebuild the road and infrastructure. This will cost the Town many millions of dollars.
The owners of the property that is getting eroded have been trying for almost two decades to persuade the Town to let them spend their own money to build erosion-control measures. For almost all of this period, the Town has refused, citing conservation and environmental concerns. (The erosion-control measures, it was said, might ruin the beach, starve the ocean fisheries of important nutrients, and accelerate erosion elsewhere. And, besides, why should the Town knock itself out to save a bunch of single-season vacation houses that cost more than most island voters earn in the their entire lives?)
This spring, however, an attorney hired by the homeowners made a new and more persuasive case to the Town: The attorney reminded the Town how much tax revenue it would lose if a couple dozen more $5-$10 million houses plunged into the Atlantic. And the attorney added up the millions of dollars the Town might have to spend to build a new road, as well as the costs the Town might incur while defending itself against a "damages" lawsuit the attorney might file that would hold the Town responsible for $100+ million in property losses.
The Town found this new logic compelling.
And so, a month ago, in a 4-1 vote, the Town's Selectmen voted to allow the deftly-named "Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund" to build a 4,000 foot "hard armour" seawall to protect the bluff, houses, and road, with construction scheduled to start later this summer.
And now, the only thing that remains between that seawall and the bluff is the Nantucket Conservation Commission.
This Commission apparently has the ability to block, or at least delay, the construction of the seawall.
So the forces on both sides are firing up their armies for the final battle.
The Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund, for example, has created a classy web site and hundreds of pages of impressive documents explaining why the seawall will do no harm and much good. After two decades of trying to save their houses, the threatened homeowners can finally see the finish line. Given the rate of erosion in recent years, they can also see another finish line, one that they desperately don't want crossed. So time is of the essence. And the homeowners will hit the Conservation Commission with everything they've got.
The (less well-funded) island conservationists, meanwhile, are arguing that the seawall will destroy the beach, ruin some of the best bass-fishing grounds in the world, hose homeowners who live on either side of it (whose properties will now be "scoured" by erosion that can't happen on the seawall), and, in any case, will only delay the inevitable. After all, the conservationists point out, Nantucket has always moved. That's what islands like this do. Nantucket erodes on the east and builds up on the west and, as it does so, crawls slowly but inexorably toward New York. And although it's a bummer to lose one's house and land, this pattern has been visible for decades. If you don't want to lose your house to erosion, the conservationists say, don't build it on an eroding bluff. Time and tide wait for no man.
Whatever Nantucket decides to do about the bluff erosion this time will likely determine what Nantucket will do about it forever.
So this decision matters to more folks than just the folks who live on eroding Baxter Road.
The first Conservation Commission "hearing" to determine the future of Nantucket will be on Wednesday, July 24th at 4pm at the Public Safety Building on Fairgrounds Road (a.k.a., tomorrow).
Business Insider, naturally, will be there.
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Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute
What goes up and doesn't come down? Greenhouse gas emissions, apparently. The world set another record in 2012, spewing some 31.6 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, methane, hydrofluorocarbons and other greenhouse gases into the air.
The 2012 contribution keeps us on pace for not one more degree Celsius of warming, or even two, as is the avowed goal of the international climate negotiations that saw another inconclusive round conclude this past week. We are on track for 3 degrees C of warming or more, this century.
That calculation comes from the International Energy Agency, a kind of cartel for oil-consuming rich nations. But don't despair. The U.S. in recent years has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions back to levels last seen in the 1990s. That's thanks mostly to burning less coal.
And there are some quick and easy steps that could reduce emissions globally: more energy efficiency, less leaking methane, an end to fossil fuel subsidies and a ban on inefficient coal-fired power plants. If we did all of those, we might get on a new track that leads to a world that's less hot and bothered.
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UH Manoa Colleges of Arts and Sciences to hold Serving Heart benefit dinner
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Colleges of Arts and Sciences are pleased to announce the Serving Heart benefit dinner on Saturday, June 24, at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Coral Ballroom (IV and V), at 5:30 p.m. Three special persons will be honored at the event:
Ramon K. Sy, a physician, international humanitarian, and founding member of the Aloha Medical Mission, a Honolulu-based charity, which provides free health care overseas and inHawai'i to address the needs of people whose health is challenged by poverty and access to proper medical care.
Nainoa Thompson, renowned navigator and sail master of the Polynesian Voyaging Society's double-hulled canoe Hokule'a, has inspired and led a revival of traditional arts associated with long-distance ocean voyaging in Hawaiʻi and throughout Polynesia.
The late Hideto Kono, a Nisei veteran and well-respected leader in business, government, and education embraced lifelong learning, cross-cultural understanding, and community service, and was admired for bringing out the best in others with his warmth, humility, integrity, and humor.
Each will receive Serving Heart, a civic character award, founded by Universal Values for a Democratic Society—Nisei Veterans Endowed Forum Series. The award honors individuals whohave made exceptional contributions towards improving community life and advancing humanity. The inaugural awards will be presented on this occasion. Proceeds from this event will benefit the forum series endowment fund.
The forum series reaches out to students throughout the State of Hawai'i thanks to a unique partnership between the community, university, and Hawai'i Department of Education. Itsmission is to foster thoughtful discussions on values and their role in enhancing a democratic society by examining values from all perspectives and from people of all walks of life.
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Before i get into our hunting for this year, i'd like to bring up a moment of nostalgia for ya'll... You're back on the sand lot, or the school play yard or the local park that had a baseball diamond that you used to play softball with your buddies in the summer. You're up to bat and get thrown a nice soft pitch low and a little outside. You swing the hickory and really connect - one of those hits that you feel in your wrists and you get that resounding *thwack* sound from as it sails high and far out into the outfield..... and you knew when you got that nice solid sound... it was as good as over the fence.
Ok enough nostalgia - for now at least 8)
So as we wind down to the last couple days of firearm deer season this year here in michigan, i'd like to share our experience with ya'll. Other than my brother going up to hunt the 29th/30th we're pretty much done for the season.
weather played a huge role for us this year - mostly in keeping the deer moving in very unpredictable patterns. I cant say for sure if the super moon had anything to do with that or not, but i'll say this - being able to walk into your stand at a little after 6am without flashlights is kinda weird!
the fog rolled in a little after 9am opening day - which in places was quite thick. not too bad back in the woods, at its worst i had about 40 yds of visibility
still a bit on the creepy side to watch a wall of fog roll towards you to say the least
at least with the rule changes i was able to bring my suppressor along, so i was well prepared for any zombies ;D ;D
temps were all over the map and deer were not really moving well. thursday afternoon temps were in the mid 60's, and friday we hit 69*F, only to snow on saturday! I was sitting in the blind on friday in jeans and a tshirt, sweating. Firearm season for us is Nov 15-30th.
if you look at the high/low we had 24 hour temp swings of over 40 degrees!
There was some movement opening day - my cousin bagged what turned out to be a little button buck about 8:30am.
as you can clearly see, he still had his collar on (and unless my bro tags a poodle, wins our annual "camo collar award")
the amish guys who we decided to try out for their butchering this year decided he needed some horns when we dropped him off and they all had a good laugh when we told them not to worry it had its puppy shots already
about an hour later our friend chris that hunts with us muffed a shot on a nice buck - he's got a natural hand/arm tremor, but usually is a decent shot so we suspect there was a fair amount of buck fever going on. My bro spent 2 hours helping him track the deer and all they could find was enough hair to look like a barber shop floor where he shot it, 3 little pinpricks of blood, and little fluffs of hair for about 300 yds until even that stopped. it was quartering away from him and we suspect he shaved the chest/left front shoulder area and that the deer will live to tell a story another day.
i saw my first deer on the 2nd morning - a tiny little button buck who at corn under my bucket feeder for almost 45 mins. Other than that the woods were fairly boring this year, other than squirrels and birds.
on friday morning 11/18 just after sunup i had a half dozen baldies out in front of me - 3 of which were yearlings. I was watching for the trailing buck as there were a couple large mature does with the group. The yearlings were under the feeder munching corn. Sure enough at about 720 the spin feeder goes off and scares the hell out of the ones up close and my hopes of antlers ran off as 3 deer sent the white flag up about 120 yds down in the swail out in front of me and up the back hill when those spooked by the feeder. I had a serious moment when i thought about putting a bullet through that spin bucket motor >:( >:(
unfortunately opening week got cut short by a day for me due to an emergency work order, so saturday afternoon saw me packing up to head home. not terrible since i did get 4½ days of solid hunting in, but i was hopeing for 6 - especially with the poor results early on.
Went back up night before thanksgiving. Bounced all around the property between thursday and last night. I was spending my mornings in the woods and afternoons overlooking the fields.
(this is an earlier picture of one of the plots i hunted, field of turnips)
had a good group of does in front of me friday evening over the turnip patch but had forgotten to get a antlerless tag when i was in town on friday :-[ wasnt too much of a heartbreak because they kept looking over their shoulders into the trees, so i was still hoping for a buck to wander out with them.
finally after 9 days out hunting (and a doe tag in hand!) i had some deer out in front of me yesterday evening - 2 big momma's and a couple babies wandered into the turnips to chow about 5pm to my northwest about 60 yds out. one of them must have busted my silhouette through the window though as they spooked when i put my gun up into the window. However it may well have been the other group of deer coming out to my southeast that i couldn't see yet.
with about 15 mins of hunting light left, i had a group of 4 does approaching me from over 200 yds out - traveling south to north down the turnip plot. with mere minutes left to go (and only a short time before i'm packing up to head home) one of the bigger ones in this group crosses the 100 yd point, so i kick the front of the blind to anchor her in her tracks and she's staring right at me, lightly quartering away from me, her body maybe facing 5 o clock. Since its getting dark, and a light fog is coming in i was in no mood to track, so held the crosshairs of my 300 blk right in the middle of her head and squeezed the trigger. Remember that nostalgic *thwak* sound i mentioned earlier? Thats the closest thing i can compare the bullet impact on her to when shooting suppressed.
DRT - flat on her back with all 4 pins in the air, lasered at 95 yds.
in the right cheek, right through the teeth, and out just behind and below the left ear. Exit hole was about 1". She was dead before she knew i pulled the trigger and probably before the bullet came out.
i even managed to get some blood on the truck to christen that too!
please remember to fasten all safety restraints and keep your seat backs and tray tables in the full, upright position!
i'm guessing she probably field dressed at around 120 lbs, and i think i left about 5 lbs of fat on the ground next to the gut pile. I figure she's about 1.5 years old, but no way to tell at this point i doubt as aging by the teeth is going to be difficult, however she had definitely had at least one fawn as her udders were tougher than shoeleather!
as a closing note - this year was probably one of the lowest number of shots i've ever heard while out hunting. The weather was not favorable for daytime deer movement at all i had days in the field were i doubt i heart 10 shots total for the whole day, which is very unusual around us as there's a LOT of hunters in the woods. ANd its not for a lack of deer - the herd is quite strong and we had 5 or 6 different bucks on the cams this fall and were regularly seeing a dozen or more deer out in the bean fields in the weeks leading up to the season.
hopefully for next year the weather will go back closer to 'normal' for us and we can get back to a regular 4-10 deer season on the property.


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Raivas (Cinnamon Butter Cookies) (Adapted from Nick Malgieri)
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon and salt.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until combined after each.
Add dry ingredients and stir by hand until just combined. Scoop the dough onto a lightly floured surface; fold the dough over on itself 2 or 3 times, until smooth.
Evenly divide the dough into 24 pieces. While keeping the other pieces of dough covered, roll one piece into a long rope, about 12 to 16" long - join the edges together, forming a circle of dough. Place circle onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper - push the sides of the circle toward the center, making a very irregular pattern. Repeat process until all the dough has been used - you will most likely need two to three baking sheets.
Place baking sheet into the oven and bake until they are firm to the touch and golden, about 12 to 16 minutes, rotating the pans halfway through. Remove from the oven and gently transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Snapshots from Paris: Salads at Le Relais Gascon
I can't take one little bit of credit for discovering the Salade Gascon (€15.50) from Le Relais Gascon in Paris's Montmartre neighborhood. Robyn Lee wrote about it back in 2006, and Maggie Hoffman pointed me there, too, after a visit of her own. But even my trusty colleagues' recommendations didn't quite prepare me for how good this salad was.
It's essentially a salad in name only. There is a nice bed of greenery down there, dressed in a simple, creamy vinaigrette. But on top are potatoes sauteed in garlic and olive oil; and in the case of the Gascon, an incredibly generous cut of foie gras and tender petals of smoked magrets (duck breast). So that's: fatty duck, fried potatoes, and fattier duck. (And green stuff.)
Hard to imagine when a salad contains this much delicious duck, but the best part is really the potatoes. They're thinly sliced and salty and garlicky like the best kind of garlic fries, with the slightest crisp on the outside; crunchy and warm when you first get the salad, they soon soften into the vinaigrette, and are perfect eaten that way or with foie smeared on top or with thin slices of magrets wrapped around them.
Just about any salad here would probably be excellent—swap out the duck for roquefort and ham, or smoked salmon and crème fraîche. You can add goat cheese or salmon or fried eggs to any of the salads, too; I considered how good a few runny yolks would be on those potatoes, but figured that magrets and foie gras were indulgence enough.
It's the kind of lunch that demands wine.
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On Wednesday, I received a Samsung Galaxy Note from AT&T to review. This is a smartphone I've been very interested in testing. It has a whopping 5-inch screen, an LTE connection and a fast processor, but it's still slim and light. It seemed to me that larger size would allow for a bigger battery, which in turn would mean longer times between charges than most other smartphones that use fast LTE data connections – which are notorious for killing a battery's staying power.
So when I finally got a chance to open the box and play with the device during last night's episode of Technology Bytes, I realized something that seriously killed my geek buzz: This brand new, state-of-the-art smartphone comes with an out-of-date operating system. The Galaxy Note runs Android 2.3.6, a.k.a. Gingerbread. It does not come with the newer Android 4.0, or Ice Cream Sandwich.
But wait! This is a new phone from Samsung, which last year began selling the Galaxy Nexus – the first smartphone running ICS. Once that cat's out of the bag, why would Samsung even consider releasing newer phones running older versions of Android?
Samsung has said that it will have an ICS update for the Galaxy Note by the end of the current quarter. AT&T, however, won't say when it will make that update available to owners of the Note on its service, according to InfoWorld. However, I suspect it will be several more months before the ICS bits begin to flow to Note owners.
Look, Samsung, AT&T, and all other handset makers and carriers who are churning out hot new Android phones: Get with the program.
It's a gross disservice to your customers and to the Android community as a whole to release new smartphones that don't have the latest available operating system. As the meme says, You're doing it wrong. It perpetuates fragmentation and thus gives the top competitor – Apple and its iPhone – an edge.
Apple would never think of shipping one of its smartphones with, say, a version of iOS 4 now that version 5 is out.
Of course, Apple has it easier, because it controls both the hardware and software on its devices, and the carriers don't have much of a say over those updates. (That may change now that Apple's moved to over-the-air updates for iOS, but so far, there's no indication the carriers are butting in to that process.) With Android, there are many different handset makers, and each carrier has further customized its phones with service-specific features and, yes, crapware. Compensating for this complexity environment is why it takes so long to get Android updates to users, and that's Android's second biggest problem.
The first, I wrote back in October, is that Android lacks polish and consistency when compared to iOS. Ice Cream Sandwich goes a long way to fix that problem, but owners of the Galaxy Note won't find that out until some time this year. And then, of course, it will be a version that AT&T and Samsung will have tweaked to their own ends. it likely won't be as pleasurable as the nearly "pure" Android 4.0 experience found on the Google-controlled Galaxy Nexus.
The bottom line is this: At this point, all new Android phones should have Ice Cream Sandwich, period. The fact that we're still seeing cutting-edge hardware with an outdated OS is a major failure of the relationship between carriers, handset makers and Google.
Update: Today's Dilbert cartoon is semi-apropos. I'll address the Galaxy Note's size and other hardware attributes in my print column on Tuesday, but Scott Adams is on the case today . . .


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The year 2011 is starting out rather promisingly, at least from the point of view of science-based medicine. Its beginning coincides with the release of two — count 'em, two! — books taking a skeptical, science-based look at vaccines and, in particular, the anti-vaccine movement. First off the mark is a new book by a man whom the anti-vaccine movement views as the Dark Lord of Vaccination, sitting up in Barad-dûr(apparently the University of pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), a man utterly reviled by anti-vaccine quacks everywhere, Dr. Paul Offit. He has been subjected to considerable bile and harassment due to his simply standing up for the science behind vaccines. The book is entitled, appropriately enough, Deadly Choices: How the Anti-vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. Also being released is a new book by Seth Mnookin entitled The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear. Mnookin is a contributing editor at Vanity Fairand whose work has appeared in numerous publications. Because I got a copy of Deadly Choices before my copy of The Panic Virus arrived, I decided to review Deadly Choices first; after I've managed to read The Panic Virus, I'll write a review of it as well. Both books are arrows shot at the heart of the pseudoscience and fear at the heart of the vaccine manufactroversy, and it might well be useful to compare and contrast the two once I've finished The Panic Virus.
In the meantime, let's take a look at Deadly Choices, an excellent, well-researched book with which I have relatively few disagreements. It is a followup to Dr. Offit's last book, Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, which I reviewed back when it first came out. In contrast to Autism's False Prophets, which concentrated primarily on the manufactroversy that claims that vaccines are responsible for the "autism epidemic," Deadly Choices steps back to take a broader look at the anti-vaccine movement. Regular readers of SBM hardly need to be reminded how pervasive and dangerous the modern-day anti-vaccine movement has become. Indeed, it is a frequently discussed theme of this blog, given that the anti-vaccine movement is such a major force among the forces that deny the efficacy of scientific medicine and seek either to replace it with unscientific or pseudoscientific "alternatives" or to "integrate" pseudoscience into science-based medicine. Indeed, anti-vaccine sentiment infuses large swaths of what we refer to as "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM), be it chiropractic, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, or a wide variety of other modalities and systems.
In examining the modern anti-vaccine movement, Dr. Offit structures his book into three major sections. First, beginning in a chapter entitled The Birth of Fear, Dr. Offit begins with a description of the birth of the modern anti-vaccine movement, which in the U.S. Dr. Offit traces, in large part, to the broadcast of an irresponsible and anecdote-driven news documentary about the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine in 1982, and in the U.K. to a scare about the DPT triggered by a presentation by Dr. John Wilson to the Royal Society of Medicine about horrific complications thought to be due to the pertussis vaccine in the DPT. Next, Dr. Offit goes back into history to describe the development of the anti-vaccine movement in the 1800s in England and notes parallels with the modern day anti-vaccine movement. Finally, the story shifts back to today, where he describes the situation now, how demands for vaccines turned into fear of vaccines, and what we might do about it.based medicine./


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"This delicious, dazzling novel about the rise and fall of a great American debutante kept me up all night. Begley knows everything about the secret lives of the American aristocracy, and he tells all." —Susan Cheever
"Absorbing … [Begley] tells this tale with all the archness — and yearning — of a voyeur looking in … His evocations of glistening mahogany in New York's club rooms, of summering in the Hamptons, of oysters and whiting at the Paris Savoy have the clear ring of truth. He has observed the relevant mannerisms, and he garnishes his scenes with all the glee of a name-dropping arriviste … Begley proves he is a master dissector of the American character. Among contemporary novelists, he may be the wryest, most devastating critic of class in American society … Begley delivers a literary stiletto to what Tiffany or Crate & Barrel might blithely call 'the Gatsby set' … Read it and weep." —Marie Arana, The Washington Post
"[E]ngrossing … Begley gives us a chance to see into two different, often obscured worlds. One is the most private recesses of another couple's marriage. The other is high-WASP society — though most people don't usually even know where that particular unmarked door is, let alone get a chance to have it quietly shut in their faces … The pleasures of this novel reside not so much in where the 'truth' lies as in its context. The world of the highly entitled at play and at work — seen traveling the globe over the decades, installing themselves in European hotels and joining exclusive men's clubs and marrying into families made up of 'very much our kind of people' — remains irresistible." —Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times Book Review
"[A] consummately constructed monument to human imperfection." —San Francisco Chronicle
"In this compact, voyeuristic novel, Begley creates his latest larger-than-life character in the beguiling but sharp-tongued socialite Lucy De Bourgh … Begley's effortless storytelling will have readers…fascinated by Lucy and Phillips's complex, tangled relationship." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A fiendishly clever, Fitzgeraldesque tale about marriage, friendship, gossip, and self-justification … Begley, marvelously droll and possessed of a rapier wit, revels in his mercurial characters, intricate psychological puzzles, unreliable memories, counterintuitive class divisions, and all the mysteries and miseries of lust and love."—Booklist
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Suit claims Rep. Ayala drove drunk
BRIDGEPORT -- State Rep. Christina Ayala was intoxicated when she crashed her car into one driven by a young city woman and then fled, a lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court here Monday by crash victim Krystal Velez, also names Ayala's father, Alberto "Tito" Ayala, for allegedly allowing his daughter to drink alcohol at his restaurant before she drove.
"This girl is making a mountain out of nothing just to get some money," said Alberto Ayala, who denied his daughter had been drinking. "She is as much to blame as my daughter for the accident. She should have known the light changes fast there."
Velez, 26, of Bridgeport, could not be reached for comment. Her lawyer, John Kennedy Jr., declined comment except to acknowledge they filed the lawsuit.
Christina Ayala, D-128, is scheduled to be in court Tuesday for a pretrial conference on her criminal charges in the crash. She is charged with evading responsibility, failure to obey a traffic signal and failure to renew her vehicle's registration.
On Aug. 15, police say, Ayala was driving home from a party at her father's restaurant with two young passengers when her Nissan Sentra collided with a 2002 Honda Accord driven by Velez. Police said Ayala fled the scene at the intersection of North and Briarwood avenues, but was eventually flagged down about six blocks away at Brooklawn Avenue and Laurel Place by a witness to the accident who pursued her.
When questioned by officers, Ayala said she attempted to check on the other driver after the crash, but left the scene because a man was yelling at her and she felt "scared." When they took her into custody, police did not test Ayala for alcohol, stating later that she exhibited no signs she had been drinking.
The lawsuit claims that Ayala crashed into Velez "as a direct result of her intoxication."
As a result of the crash, the suit states, Velez suffered a concussion and back injuries that have already caused her $10,734.15 in expenses for medical care.
Velez is asking a judge to freeze $500,000 in both Ayalas' assets until the case is resolved. A hearing on the freeze is scheduled for April 29.
The suit against the senior Ayala and his Beechwood Avenue restaurant is being filed under the so-called Dram Shop Act, which holds that bars and bar owners are responsible for injuries caused by someone who becomes intoxicated at their establishments.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (ŏp´ənhī´mər), 1904–67, American physicist, b. New York City, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1925), Ph.D. Univ. of Göttingen, 1927. He taught at the Univ. of California and the California Institute of Technology from 1929 (as professor from 1936) until his appointment in 1947 as director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. His early work was concerned with the quantum theory and nuclear physics. With Max Born he contributed to the quantum theory of molecules, and later (1930) he published an important paper on the nature of antiparticles, which had been predicted but not yet detected.
As director of the atomic-energy research project at Los Alamos, N.Mex., from 1942 to 1945, Oppenheimer made important contributions to the development of atomic energy for military purposes. After the atomic bomb was used against Japan, Oppenheimer became one of the foremost proponents of civilian and international control of atomic energy; he was chairman of the general advisory committee of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1946 to 1952 and consultant to the American delegate to the UN Atomic Energy Committee. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb in 1949 on technical, financial, and moral grounds. In 1953, Oppenheimer was suspended by the Atomic Energy Commission as an alleged security risk, in part due to criticism from Edward Teller, who was instrumental in the hydrogen bomb's development. Oppenheimer's case stirred wide controversy. Declassified in 2014, transcripts of the secret hearings tend to exonerate him of any disloyality. In Oct., 1954, he was unanimously reelected director of the Institute for Advanced Study. In addition to his contributions as a theoretical physicist and an administrator, Oppenheimer achieved a reputation as one of the outstanding teachers of his generation; he left a lasting influence both at California and at Princeton. His book Science and the Common Understanding was published in 1954.
See I. I. Rabi et al., Oppenheimer (1969); J. Major, The Oppenheimer Hearing (1971); P. M. Stern and H. P. Green, The Oppenheimer Case (1971); P. Goodchild, J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds (1985); G. Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb (2002); J. Bernstein, Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (2004); K. Bird and M. J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005); D. C. Cassidy, J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century (2005); P. J. McMillan, The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005); R. Monk, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center (2013).


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Whether you're a beginner or a virtuoso, your electric guitar is only ever going to sound as good as its amplifier. Investing in a quality solid state combo guitar amplifier will help you enhance and perfect your tone as well as rock gigs large and small on the road with your band. One of the longest standing arguments in music, even more heated than the Beatles vs. the Stones, is the debate over which is better: solid state or tube amps. Musicians love to argue for their preferred style of amp, but the truth is that both are excellent options, and the entire thing comes down to personal preference. You're always going to want to choose the amp that produces the tones you love, so try not to get hung up on the details. The same can be said about whether or not you should own a combo amp or a separate amp head and speaker. Again, musicians will love regaling you with details on what makes one option better than the other, but the truth is that the right decision is to go with the amplifier that best suits your needs. A combo amp minimizes the need to pick and choose various head and speaker configurations, and since it's all one unit, it is more compact, less prone to needing repair, and easier to transport, making it a great option for the traveling musician. When you make the choice that's right for you, you can rest assured that your guitar is going to unleash the sounds you're expecting. If you make the decision to go with a solid state combo guitar amplifier, there are still a variety of options to pick and choose from to make sure you've got the amp that's right for you. Speaker size is arguably the most important factor to investigate. If you need a bigger sound for your live shows, you'll want an amp with larger or multiple speakers such as the Mustang IV V.2 150W 2x12 Guitar Combo Amp. Though that's not to say you absolutely need a larger amp for a live show, just look at the Lunchbox 200W 1x6.5 Guitar Combo Amp from ZT. This amp is ultra-compact and weighs less than 10 pounds, yet is still able put out seriously powerful sounds that will blow you and the audience away. Owning a quality solid state combo guitar amplifier is an important step in taking your music to the next level. Whether you're playing for fun with friends, professionally with the band, or just casually by yourself, one of these reliable amps will help keep you growing and thriving as a musician.


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Eli Olsberg
Eli Olsberg is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Los Angeles, CA. He performs at clubs and colleges across the country. He performed at the TBS' Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in 2012 and has been seen on E!'s "Chelsea Lately."
In LA, he co-produces (with comedian TJ Miller) the popular bi-weekly stand-up show "Performance Anxiety," at The Pleasure Chest in West Hollywood. He can be seen at local clubs and alternative venues and is a regular at The Laugh Factory and the Hollywood Improv.
He also co-hosts (with comedian Jake Weisman) the popular podcast "The Morning After… Podcast," named Best New Podcast of 2010 by Laughspin Magazine. The podcast also records live episodes, along with video segments done at various premiers, red carpet events, and fan conventions.
'an alternately confident and self-depricating style.. a man to watch if you are looking for comedic entertainment that is intelligent, incisive, and with a bit of an edge." – LA Comedy Club Examiner
That quote had some big words in it, the person who wrote it clearly know what they're talking about! Eli also loves dogs, cookie dough, and like everyone else, enjoys all kinds of music, except country.


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Erin Boylan is in her fourth season at Plymouth State in 2012-13 as head competitive cheer coach. She joined the Panther staff in 2009 after successful coaching stints at Bishop Brady High School in Concord, N.H., and Manchester (N.H.) West High School.
Boylan has been instrumental in PSU's move from a varsity sideline cheerleading program to a competitive cheer team.
A former cheerleader and 2002 graduate of Elmira College in New York, Boylan earned a Masters degree in Sports Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She was the head spirit coach at Bishop Brady from 2002-08, and followed by a years in the same position at Manchester West.
In her years as Bishop Brady, the spirit team never finished below sixth place at a state competition, including a runner-up finish in 2007 when the team also won the Class I Sportsmanship Award. Boylan led a unit that was named Top Team at a National Cheerleading Association Summer Camp and also received a bid to compete at the NCA National High School Championship in Dallas Texas. Boylan had 37 athletes nominated for NCA All-Americans with 11 being selected.
In addition to being a member of the N.H. Coaches Association, Boylan is also certified by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA) and the American Sports Education Program (ASEP) Coaching Principals.


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BERLIN- Decatur's young, but talented varsity baseball team got the 2013 off to a good start last week, beating Pocomoke, 13-0, in a game shortened to five innings.
With several key pieces from last year no longer on the team, Decatur is decidedly young in terms of age but long on experience. Coach Rick Ferro's team has just three seniors and four juniors, but is loaded with talented underclassmen including a handful of sophomores who saw extended playing time last year as freshmen.
The Seahawks will rely on strong pitching and solid defense at all positions this season and got both in abundance in the season opener at home last Friday against Pocomoke. Freshman Lane Dillon was outstanding on the mound, pitching a complete game shutout while allowing just one hit. Dallas Harrington was one of the stars at the plate with two doubles and two RBIs. Next up for the Seahawks is a home game against Washington next Tuesday.


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Last Saturday afternoon I took a ride with my very good pal Mark Panichelli, yes that Mark Panichelli host of WWNB ESPN Radio�s �The Drive,� up to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville for East Carolina�s annual Spring Football Game.
Last Saturday afternoon I took a ride with my very good pal Mark Panichelli, yes that Mark Panichelli host of WWNB ESPN Radio�s �The Drive,� up to Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in Greenville for East Carolina�s annual Spring Football Game.
It was my second time going to the Pirates� purple and gold affair, after years of going to the Orange and White Game at Tennessee.
Spring games do not often do a lot for me. I�m not a fan of games that do not count or glorified practices.
However, I always have fun and it is great to catch up with our local athletes, especially at ECU because so many go there and the �big wigs� (coaches, sports information directors, etc.) are always so great to us with hospitality, so I offer a huge thank you for that.
I was expecting to see the usual offensive showcase with very little defensive tenacity, but what I got was so much more than I ever thought.
I�ve always been a loyal and selfless person, and I am very proud of that, but a lot of times in this business and in others, you encounter those who are driven by themselves and have super-sized egos.
All of us, members of the professional media, walked down to field level for the final few plays so we could catch the coaches and players walking off the field for interviews.
Then, ECU quarterback Shane Carden seemingly handed the ball off to somebody on the final play, although we couldn�t see who, because a wall of Pirate defenders was obstructing our vision.
Moments later, a small boy in a mini Pirate jersey and a helmet umpteen sizes too big for him, was headed straight for us in the end zone.
Noah Roberts was his name, and he was asked to come up to the game with his family from his home in Wilmington, for the spring game.
Roberts has a disease called Neurofibramatosis, which causes tumors to appear on the body. Keep in mind he is only eight years old.
When I was eight, I was hitting baseballs out of the hand of my dad, honing my skills for Little League All-Stars, not having brain surgery or chemotherapy.
Roberts� mother informed me that he has had two tumors removed from his brain, and one from his spinal cord and still has some left in his brain now.
With all of that trouble, all Roberts did Saturday was smile, run and possibly enjoy being hounded by us in the media.
What stuck out most about this courageous young man was a comment made by ECU head coach Ruffin McNeill.
�Noah is very special to us,� he said. �When I think about Noah, I think about any pain or complaint that I may have and then how insignificant it is.�
That got me thinking.
Especially in the social media driven world that we live in, people are constantly complaining about something.
�I can�t believe that person feels that way, or my hair isn�t looking right today, or God, I�m tired of this weather.�
Shame on all of us. I made it a point that if an eight-year old child can battle tumors and brain surgery and still put on a smile everyday, then why in the heck can�t I.
So, I�m going to do my best to be inspired by Noah, just like Coach McNeill and others are, and it would be great if more people in the world would follow suit.
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Read Slate's complete coverage of the BP oil spill.
For three months, BP and the U.S. government raised hopes that the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico would soon be plugged. Every promise proved false.
Now, to the surprise of the company, the government, and everyone else, the leak has stopped. A "capping stack"—a new blowout preventer lowered onto the old one—has shut off the oil flow. Unless signs of leakage show up elsewhere in the well, the cap will stay in place until the well is silenced for good, through the cap or a nearly completed relief well.
Let the complaints begin.
1. Great. Just when we were finally ready to capture all the oil. In April and May, all the escaping oil poured into the Gulf. In June, BP began to collect a fraction of it. On Friday, President Obama announced that new equipment would finally allow us to capture virtually all the oil. Perfect: The equipment is arriving just in time to be useless.
2. Great. Just when the relief well is almost done. In early May, BP began drilling a relief well to stop the leak. Two weeks later, under orders from the government, it initiated a second relief well. The second well now extends 15,874 feet below the water's surface, and the first has reached a depth of 17,864 feet—just 100 feet from its destination. The point was to kill the leak by pumping mud and cement into the bottom of the troubled well. But now that the cap is in place, BP and the government are considering a "static kill"—pumping in the fatal mud from the top. Three months of drilling for nothing.
3. We could have done this months ago. BP thought of a capping stack in April but focused on other brilliant ideas—giant box, "junk shot," "top kill"—that the company and the government considered more promising. When the "top kill" failed, BP and the feds shelved the capping-stack idea, fearing that the well was damaged and would spring more leaks if capped. So the oil kept gushing.
4. We stupidly delayed the cap so we could finish the second relief well. Last month, according to the New York Times, BP wanted to remove the blowout preventer from the second relief well and try it as a capping stack on the leaking well. "But the federal government intervened and ordered BP to continue drilling the well as a backup in case anything went wrong with the first relief well." Nice going.
5. We should have had a cap ready at the outset. The Wall Street Journal says the cap took two months to produce because it "had to be designed and built from scratch." BP's plea, the paper explains, is that "such short lead times for creating new equipment like the capping stack are unheard of in the industry." You must be joking. Any company that can build a blowout preventer before opening a well can build a backup blowout preventer, too. It's cheaper than spilling 100 million gallons of oil and paying for the damage.
6. Now we can't prove how much oil was leaking. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, is upset that the cap, by halting the flow of oil, might thwart the government's ability to measure how much has been pouring from the leak. If we don't know how many barrels have spilled, we can't calculate how much money BP owes. "By shutting in this well, we could be shutting off our last best chance to determine what BP could pay in government fines," Markey wrote in a letter to federal authorities. Good point! Let's reopen the leak.
7. The cap is working because the well has bled out. Why is the pressure in the capped well remaining manageable? And why would a "static kill" work today after the "top kill" failed two months ago? Because the loss of 100 million to 200 million gallons of oil has depleted the reservoir, weakening its resistance. Success is finally within our reach, thanks to three months of catastrophic failure. Congratulations.
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Rare plant and animal species are like rare stamps or coins: they are perceived to be inherently more valuable to people, whatever they look like. Researchers Elena Angulo and Franck Courchamp, from Université de Paris-Sud, have found that people are more attracted to species labeled "rare" than those labeled "common" even when they do not know which species are involved. The study, published April 22 in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE shows that this irrational value conferred to unknown items only for the sake of rarity is both an asset and a threat for conservation.
It has been recently suggested that the value people place on rarity could lead to the extinction of rare species as we are willing to pay the high costs of exploiting the last individuals. Many hobbies, such as ecotourism or the keeping of exotic pets, may cause this effect, known as the anthropogenic Allee effect. However, this theory relies on the untested assumption that people do indeed value rarity.
To assess whether people really do value rare species more than common ones, Angulo and colleagues set up a website where visitors were told they could view one of two slideshows of images: either one containing images of "rare species" or one containing images of "common species." No other information about the featured species was provided. When visitors downloaded a slideshow, a progress bar appeared, showing what percentage of the slideshow had been downloaded. The bar filled up after six minutes but the file still appeared to be downloading and did not open. Visitors could cancel the download at any time and were taken to an error page, which would then link them back to the slideshow download page to try again (although the slideshows never opened).
The researchers measured: a) how attractive the rare slideshow was to the visitors (based on the proportion of visitors who downloaded the rare slideshow as their first or only choice), b) how long visitors were prepared to wait to download each slideshow and c) how perseverant visitors were (how many times they tried to download each slideshow before giving up). Even though visitors knew nothing about which species each slideshow contained, more people opted to view the rare species slideshow. Visitors also waited longer for the rare species slideshow to download before giving up than they did for the common species slideshow and after the download failed, they made more attempts to download the rare species slideshow than the common one.
Angulo and colleagues concluded that people do value rare species more than common ones and propose that conservationists should be prudent when using rarity to promote conservation. "This is a crucial measure for the conservation of countless plant and animal species, which fall victim to a growing international trade of fuel collections, exotic pet, traditional medicine or luxury markets," explain the researchers.
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Describe the procurement function for chemical companies. Are there any unique elements that distinguish it from procurement in other industries?
Like any manufacturing company, chemical companies need to be masters at purchasing raw materials in order to produce their end products. However, there is one major difference—the materials bought by chemical companies can be more complex to source and ship, and sometimes they can even be dangerous (think a toxic substance vs. sugar). So, being a master in the chemical industry requires procurement personnel to have a strong understanding of what they are buying and how they buy it.
Cost reduction is key for chemical companies as they seek to maximize profitability. How do new procurement technologies, processes and supplier collaboration lead to cost savings?
An executive at a chemical company once told me that buying indirect materials was like buying canned goods at home. You always pick up more when you are out, regardless of how much you may have. The issue with this approach? The cost of all those materials and accompanying services can add up quickly.
To save on indirect purchases, we are seeing chemical companies move to supplier networks, cloud-based catalog buying tools and more streamlined collaboration processes. The idea is to still drive towards buying compliance—and eliminate maverick spend—while making it quick and easy for employees to get what they need. These new tools and processes help with faster delivery for the right price from the right supplier.
What does digital transformation in procurement look like for chemical companies?
In addition to the cloud-based tools already mentioned, there is a big push for mobile procurement. For example, more than one chemical plant manager has found that it is faster to buy things online with a smartphone while walking around the plant than to write down what is needed, walk back to a computer at a desk and enter the order into the company's procurement system.
Additional mobile procurement options include bar code scanning technology to confirm a match when buying materials. There is also the ability to perform mobile receiving, which allows for real-time inventory updates.
Predictive analytics is another exciting prospect for digital transformation in procurement. By understanding possible buying trends, demand for certain materials/services and operational metrics, chemical companies could save more through better planning.
You've taken an active role in supporting Accenture's recruitment efforts at your alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University. Why is this important to you?
I have served as a campus champion at Carnegie Mellon University for 14 years, working with our recruiting organization and a superb recruiting team to help ensure Accenture is a key corporate face on campus. I'm pleased to say we just finished two successful recruiting seasons in a row. Whenever I visit the campus, I am immediately energized by the innovation and determination of the students I meet.
Tell us about the urban garden you've started with your children.
As a hobby, I like to tend to my vegetable garden with the help of my daughters, ages 5 and 2. Recently I read about a program in Pittsburgh that allows people to adopt vacant lots and make good use of the land. Given our family interest in gardening, I decided to start a program that uses the adopted lots to grow vegetables that can be donated to local food banks. Thus far we have adopted one lot and will begin planting in the spring of 2017.


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Fans Show Support for Ariana Grande's Sick Grandfatherby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Ariana Grande has often tweeted about her love for her 90-year-old grandfather Grande and in a series of emotional tweets last night, July 4, Grande seemed to indicate that her grandfather was not doing too well.
grandpa's chilly feet bundled up by me in about a thousand blankets pic.twitter.com/hHjwPv9Uxy
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 5, 2014
love u grandps i need u please pull thru
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 5, 2014
thank u for the prayers. my loves u are so powerful… u are in my heart. i wish Frankie were here. grandpa said "no he gotta win the game!"
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 5, 2014
wish u knew how incredible he is…. humble, respectful, hardworking, polite, thoughtful, humorous, generous. an example for all gentlemen
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 5, 2014
he is all things wonderful
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) July 5, 2014
She also shared this sweet photo of her with her mother and grandfather at the hospital in Florida.
Grande's grandfather was previously diagnosed with malignant cancer earlier this year, but in early June, she announced that he had finished treatment and beaten the disease, hailing him as an "inspiration" and "hero."
After Grande's tweets about her grandfather last night, her fans took to Twitter to show her support with the hashtag #PrayForGrandpaGrande, which trended throughout the night on Twitter and into the morning.
Thank you for making Ariana the person she is today #PrayForGrandpaGrande
— i$$y (@AriAndBieb) July 5, 2014
we're always here for the Grandes, he's such an amazing person, he's so strong and i really hope he'll get trough this #PrayForGrandpaGrande
— (@malikagrande) July 5, 2014
the way she looks at him is so adorable,it would break her heart if anything happened #PrayForGrandpaGrande pic.twitter.com/OV8p7LX4bn
— arianas love (@osnapitzbay) July 5, 2014
I'm trying so hard not to cry right now. grandpa Grande doesn't deserve this. NO ONE does. this is tough for anyone. #PrayForGrandpaGrande
— christina desiree (@lovingarigrande) July 5, 2014
We, too, are pulling for you, Grandpa Grande.


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First the government lowered tax rates producing less revenue but more debt for America, however I benefited from the lower tax burden and life was good, so I was happy!
When Congress abolished rules and regulations for the financial world and my dividends blossomed, I invested more heavily in hedge funds and utilized tax loopholes to increase my disposable income, and life was good, so I was happy!
When U.S. corporations sent millions of American jobs overseas, I invested heavily in those multinationals; luckily my munitions company was safe so my pension prospered, my dividends doubled, and life was good, so I was happy!
While U.S. debt grew, the housing market bubbled big time, I invested more heavily and my dividends tripled, my taxes were lowered again and I sought more loopholes; military operations abroad grew my company, and my wealth multiplied by leaps and bounds. And life was good, so I was happy!
When the housing bubble burst, banks failed, my investments plunged, my pension fund was raided, my houses were devalued, my IRAs went south, and my company closed its doors in the U.S. Thank God for those multinational dividends which keep me happy!
Now some Americans want government to increase my taxes, close the loopholes, means test my Social Security benefits and Medicare coverage! Life has changed and I am not happy, and it's all the fault of the 99 percent who want a government hand-out.


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A tennis referee arrested in New York on suspicion of bludgeoning her 80-year-old husband to death with a coffee mug arrived in Los Angeles Thursday night to face murder charges, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office said.
Lois Ann Goodman, 70, landed at LAX shortly before 8 p.m. and will be booked at LAPD Topanga Station in Canoga Park before heading to LAPD Van Nuys Station, where she will be held, officials said.
She is set to be arraigned Monday in Van Nuys Court House, said Jane Robison with the DA's office.
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Goodman was arrested on Tuesday in New York, where she was set to work as a line judge at the U.S. Open.
Leaving from a Manhattan court house Thursday afternoon, Goodman was silent as she was escorted by LAPD detectives. She wore her navy-blue uniform for the U.S. Open, seemingly the same outfit she wore at her first court appearance earlier in the week.
Lawyer Guy Oksenhendler says the high-ranking tennis umpire is "anxious to defend herself" in California. Earlier in the week, Goodman waived her right to an extradition hearing, saying she wanted to get back to LA as soon as possible to fight the charges.
Goodman is alleged to have bludgeoned her husband, Alan Goodman, to death on April 17 at the couple's townhouse in a gated community in the 20000 block of Oxnard Street in Woodland Hills.
Police say pieces of a mug were found in the man's scalp.
The death was originally ruled suspicious by police, but investigators could not determine if foul play was involved, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
"Her story was that she came home, she found her husband dead in their bed. There was a lot of blood at the location," LAPD Detective Dave Storaker told NBC4. "She surmised that he must have had a heart attack and fallen down the stairs."
Alan Goodman's death was ruled a homicide on Aug. 2, and his wife was the "prime suspect," an LAPD press release stated. LAPD obtained a murder warrant last week but needed help from the New York Police Department to serve it once detectives realized Goodman was at the U.S. Open.
If convicted, Goodman faces life in prison.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Apple filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization over seven Apple-themed domain names that forward to a mobile porn service.
The names, which are all variants on the iPhone, also include www.iphone4s.com, according to a report from Domain Name Wire. The additional domains are (NSFW):
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The WIPO is part of the United Nations and along with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, they have developed rules for resolving domain name ownership disputes.
Apple has turned to WIPO before for domain name disputes, according to AppleInsider. Last July, the organization ordered that domain name ipods.com be tranferred back to Apple.
Anything that has "iPhone" and "porn" in the domain name seems pretty self-explanatory, but the iphone4s.com may cross the line (Apple owns the iphone4.com domain.) What's strange is that the company that now operates iphone4s.com bought the domain in back in 2008, three years before the iPhone 4S launched. A lucky guess, do you think?
We're not really sure about the veracity of Domain Name Wire, especially since it didn't use the WIPO's correct name in its post (AppleInsider did, bless them,) but it does shed light on how to get spammy porn sites to quit using your name and reputation to lure unsuspecting searchers.