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The Slocum Creek boat ramp in Havelock is set to close temporarily as work begins to tear down the old Church Road Bridge.
The Slocum Creek boat ramp in Havelock is set to close temporarily as work begins to tear down the old Church Road Bridge.
Brad McMannen, Division 2 assistant resident engineer for the N.C. Department of Transportation, said the contractor�s plan to demolish the old bridge was approved Thursday. Work could begin any day, and crews have until the end of the month to complete the demolition. If the work is completed sooner, the boat ramp will re-open.
�We�ve got to close down the channel for navigation,� McMannen said. �There�s a safety concern there. We don�t want anybody going underneath it and something falls off and causes any kind of injury.�
McMannen said the old bridge will be cut up with saws and drills.
�They�ve got to cut the bridge in pieces by drilling holes, lifting different pieces with a crane to take them off,� he said.
A containment system will be built to capture any falling debris to prevent it from going into the water.
�Basically you can�t let any material fall into the water,� McMannen said. �We�ll use best management practices that are given out by the different environmental agencies.�
The demolition of the old bridge, constructed in 1924, clears the way for a new bridge that will connect services roads on both sides of the creek just off U.S. 70. Church Road is being reconfigured and will intersect the service road on the east side of the creek near the old Wendy�s restaurant.
Palmetto Contracting is in charge of the project.


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The Escapist Game Circle: Psychonauts
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I've really enjoyed the game, can highly recommend it to people in the future, but it had a tendency to lose my interest when I wasn't playing it. I'm not really sure why that is.
- Atmosphere. NO question. Best part of the game.
- I feel that the story was weak, not bad, just weak. It was the type of story that feels cookie cutter to me, and in the middle of a game so unique, feels a little out of place. The game does soften this blow by making fun of itself as well.
I think I enjoyed the game more because of the collecting impulse. The wall at the Milkman Gate is kind of lame, but I got a genuine thrill from finding new arrowheads and cards, and seeing if I could reach that ledge or that tree or that roof, etc.
I agree with Tom about the levels, though. They were more fun as spectacle than experience. The Bullfighter level was frustrating as hell until the third playthrough or so, after I figured out the timing of thew acrobatics, but it was glorious to behold.
Oh, to squeeze in a last comment before the end of the month: there's something psychological about the end of the game, which I'll describe hopefully without spoilers - the power you have in the final battle is suspiciously representative of a transition to adulthood.
And: they cover dialogue for everything in the game - for instance, use the Brain Tumbler to enter Sascha or Milla's mind after they disappear, and the conversations you have change.
Well, I finally got my 800 arrowheads. I hope I don't need any more arrowheads for anything other than Psi Cores.
Maybe more like puberty? You can think of the bounce between giant, energy-based, Raz, and back down to pipsqueak raz, as voice squeaks and the inevitable moments when your parents are old, wizened people, (parents), and then suddenly flawed, human, adults just like you (friends, contemporaries).
Personally, I lack the patience to go back and talk to everyone after every mission. Once I get into the groove of the story, I have the urge to go save Lili, and not wait. I know it's a game, and (like Oblivion, ha) the world pauses in between milestones and I can mess around as much as I want. To ME, there is still an urgency to climbing that tower and saving Lili.
At least in the PC version, the stock animations were skippable by pressing the "X" key.
I have to say, this game circle thing has done wonderful things among my social group. We have all been playing Psychonauts this month, and loving it. The discussion here has been great, and the discussion among my friends has been even better.
Here's to looking forward to the next game. As far as discussion goes, I definitely intend to try and seed questions and feed even deeper discussions.
Suggestions for the next game:
Deus Ex
@Trillinon: I wish I knew about the "X" key a long time ago. That's what I get for not reading through the key-bindings more closely...
Of your three suggestions, any but Call of Duty. Having played it, I'm not sure I see much potential for discussion, but I could be wrong.
Edit: Explanation probably not required, but I meant "I'd take any of the three that aren't Call of Duty" or "Of your four...". You seemed to comprehend my halfway mumbo-jumbo just fine anyway.
Actually, I discuss Call of Duty all the time. It's a prime example of solid, well polished gameplay, pacing, and immersion. Moreover, nothing I've ever watched or read more powerfully conveyed WWII to me. That said, it's not the highest on my list of games that belong here.
If you didn't catch it, check out the Zero Punctuation video on Psychonauts.
Leaning toward Deus Ex. It's available for PC and PS2, and is easy to find used on both platforms. Plus, it's a great game with a lot of Game Circle potential. We might even be able to convince Warren to stop in and talk to us about that one.
Still thinking about it though. Expect an official announcement Monday or Tuesday, whatever we decide.
You just described why I had to stop playing WindWaker. Once I found out there was treasure in the ocean, I just *had* to find it all...which, naturally, became an exercise in futility and frustration. I stopped playing shortly afterwards.
Yes, I have issues. I know.
If it is Deus Ex, I ruined myself by playing Deus Ex 2 first (I did actually finish it too), although I have Deus Ex I never played past the tutorial (sacrilege! heretic! traitor!). At least it'd mean I should reinstall it and play it through properly.
I'd love to have an excuse to play Deus Ex again. It can be my homework assignment :)
I can see it now......
Tom's Mum: Tom, stop playing those damn video games and do your homework!
Tom: But I am doing my homework mummy, I am!
I remember trying to argue along those lines, my mother was cannier than I gave her credit for though - she knew the score.
That's why I took "Videogames as Contemporary Literature" at my local college. We were required to play games.
You know, this game has just been built up so much... I think I was expecting it to be something more than it is.
Im assuming your talking about psychonauts still. I completely understand where your coming from.
The first time I put the game in and sunk a couple hours into it, I was quite surprised that this was the game everyone had been raving about so much. It wasn't until I forgot about what other people where saying and lost myself in the story and the characters that I began to really enjoy it.
I feel the same way about ICO. Everyone goes on about it so much, that when I finally got around to playing it all I could think was that it was a pretty standard platform puzzler with a story that didn't make any sense.
Guilty as charged re: ICO. :P
Yeah, I was talking about Psychonauts. I'm definitely enjoying the game, especially the twisted humour... but it really hasn't blown me away like, say, Shadow of the Colossus did. For reference, I just finished the Milkman level that everyone raves about. I liked it, but wasn't floored the way a lot of people seem to have been. Of course, the fact that I hate collecting stuff in games doesn't really endear the game to me.
Alright I'm trying to be patient but after finishing the amazing Psychonaughts I've been waiting to hear what the next Game Circle game is so I can get started on it. So seriously, WHAT IS IT??
A little past Tuesday, any consensus on this? Not exactly the hardest thing to deicide I'd have thought, unless there truly is only one good game to discuss :)
That must be it. Psychonauts was the only example of the artistic quality of videogames. Everything else is just a remake of pong. Too bad. I'll have to start reading books again.
I never played this game so i watched the milkmanlevel video on youtube and i have to say that i really liked it
Because if its multi iam gonna buy it through steam immediatley else iam gonna trying buy it this monday from the nearest software store :>
Answer would be appreciated much
I have a theory about why this game partly failed...
... and it's about ugly main character design.
Finished it today. The last level was horrific.
Sorry. I've been out of the office.
Expect an official announcement this coming week. And if you want to get a head start, Deus Ex would be a safe bet.
If I wanted to get a head start, and were willing to bet on Deus Ex, does anyone have recommendations as to the best way to obtain it? I see that Steam has it for 9.95 (or bundled with Invisible War for 19.95, 5 cheaper than buying separately). OTOH, Amazon merchants have the boxed version (which includes soundtrack CD, and "newspaper" according to Wikipedia) for ~8.50 with shipping (but with an inherent shipping delay).
Then again, there's a PS2 port called Deus Ex: The Conspiracy, which seems to be about the same, and can be had in a similar price range from online merchants. Gamefly has it as well, so that's an option for others, but I'm not in that crowd.
Thoughts, anyone?
Geoffrey, I would love to find out whats in said newspaper, and the soundtrack is pretty good, so I may have to rebuy this just for that. If all you want is the game for now, steam seems convenient, I've seen GOTY Edition Jewel Cases at various vendors for not too much at all.
@Geoffrey42 Stick with the PC versions of the game. From what I heard Invisible War was not great, however I've not personally played it.
If your big on having the box then order the game from Amazon. However I didn't find the game's music to be exceptional good, and the "newspaper" is probably cool, but unless you collect that kind of thing...
So in the end I'd say just get it off of Steam, grab both games, 'cause hell Invisible War could be good. Or could be shit, but at twenty bucks for two games with Deus Ex being worth twenty by its self your not going to feel ripped off.
Play the PC version if at all possible. This game was MADE for the PC in ways that few games have ever been. Computers in the game recognize keyboard commands for copy and paste. Numberpads in the game recognize your keyboard numberpad.
Also, if you have trouble with the training mission, just skip it. It's only partially important, and harder than most of the game.
I'll get onto Deus Ex then, thanks Russ.
And don't play it on a console. Its a PC game, through and through, especially control wise (which is partially why Deus Ex 2 sucked, being made for a console at the same time made the controls really poor on the PC version).
Wow. Still no official announcement on Deus Ex. But, hey, this is the hundredth post, so that's something special, right?
Psychonauts is still being played around here. I live in a house with four other people, and they all started playing it, as well as the rest of my social circle. I swear, my friends alone probably doubled the total sales figures for that game. :)
Escapist Game Circle - Deus Ex
It was posted! Though it went in news instead of featured articles, I'm not really sure where it fits in their schematic, and it would appear neither are they :)
EDIT: Wrong forum. Got my tabs mixed up ~.~ Never mind.
Wait..You're putting a Forum in my Forum, so I can Discuss while I'm Discussing?
I still have the case and the manual that comes with it.
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Recently, I've been thinking about a really, really minor perl issue: what's the best way to format your script's main routine? I'd also always wondered how you were supposed to unit-test the main routine in your script. I recently came up with an idea (inspired by a brian_d_foy article) that answers both questions for me.
When I first started coding, I just put everything in my main routine at top level-- in global scope. My scripts looked something like this (translated from perl 4):
The problem with that format is that any variable I have in the main routine, like $name above, is in scope for the whole file. If I'd misspelled $name in the argument list to say_hello(), it could have given rise to a hard-to-trace bug.
I've seen some people solve this problem by declaring a subroutine called main(), then calling it immediately afterward. This solves the immediate problem, but makes the code a little more confusing, at least to my eyes:
It works, of course, but something about it bothers me. It's easy to miss the call to main() when reading the code, and my eyes tend to skip over the subroutine when looking for the main routine. Worse, if the main() call gets deleted, the entire script will fail to run with no error or warning.
The style I adopted uses a named block to split the difference between subroutine and toplevel code, like so:
Here, I thought, was the One True Main Routine Style. My main routine is in a lexical block, but is automatically executed whenever I run the script. A friend of mine pointed out the issue with this code, though: I should call exit(0) afterward, to prevent any other code from being run:
OK, that works, but the extra statement in every script got me thinking. Could I create some syntactic sugar that makes it obvious where the main routine is, but means that I don't have to remember to type 'exit' in every script?
The answer was inspired by a brian_d_foy article, "Five Ways To Improve Your Perl Programming", in which he describes modulinos, which are programs declared as modules. The key here is that he uses the 'sub main' method, but combines it with a function call that only happens when the file is run as a script. That lets you still use the package as a library, or write unit tests for it. Still, the code was a little more complicated than I wanted to write every day:
Today, it occurred to me that I could write a module that provides some syntactic sugar for the perfect main routine. It would be simple and obvious, provide a lexical block, and exit afterward. In short, like this:
It might seem odd to make syntactic sugar that does so little, but this is the best solution I've come up with. The 'main' block will run if this file is called as a script. If it's brought into another script via require() or use(), the main routine won't run, but it will create a function called run_main() that will call the main routine with @ARGV set to its arguments. That way, I can write a test script like so:
Which would print:
So here's the code that provides the syntactic sugar. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has already done this on CPAN, but a cursory search didn't show me anything.
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How to Keep Volunteers Close to Your Nonprofit Organization
Guest post by Roxanne Reyes
There are times when a nonprofit organization hosts an event that is welcomed by a large audience. But once the occasion is done, the number of people who were involved decreases and only a few will remain to be active volunteers for the organization.
It's a good move to try and keep event volunteers close to your program. After all, if you have numerous supporters for your nonprofit, you have more people to help you reach the organization's goals.
So to prevent losing volunteers, you could try out the following tips:
1. Ask feedback from the volunteers.
If you want to know what your volunteers feel about being a part of your institution, then be sure to conduct a survey or even a quick discussion. This will help you voice your part and hear what the volunteers have to say, too. You can even work out a solution if there are some issues that arise. By getting their feedback, you are showing them what they mean to you as active supporters of your program.
2. Recognize the volunteers' efforts.
Remember that you should show the value of the work that the volunteers are doing. You could do this by hosting an awards program or even giving out gifts. This is a way of letting your volunteers know you appreciate all their contributions.
It could also be good to turn your recognition activity into an annual celebration for you to continuously shower your volunteers with the gratitude they deserve.
3. Inform volunteers what to expect.
For you to be sure that your volunteers stay longer, you must start by letting them know what they should expect. Give them basic training or conduct a few classes where they can attend and raise questions on the activities that will happen.
You could also share some handouts which they could keep and review should they wish to learn more about the program. It can also be helpful to let them know some nonprofit benefit programs that your group is involved in.
Always maintain a good flow of communication between you and your volunteers. This will be beneficial for both of you. It could even be a bridge for you to gain more volunteers.
Roxanne is an online writer who shares her ideas about nonprofit organizations and their missions. She currently creates articles for PrintRunner, a trusted company for full color brochure printing and an active partner to nonprofit organizations through Nonprofit Printing by PrintRunner.


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Chair and Directors
Mark E. Lococo, Ph.D.
Title/s: Director of Theatre
Office #: Mundelein 1314
Phone: 773.508.7511
Dr. Mark E. Lococo has served as Director of Theatre since 2007, during which time he has directed Spring Awakening, Lost in Yonkers, Urinetown, Measure for Measure, Pippin, As You Like It and Mnemonic on Loyola's stages. Last year, he directed Other Desert Cities at the Citadel Theatre. He also directed The Gifts of the Magi at the Porchlight Music Theatre in 2012, A Chorus Line at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in September 2010 (Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best Director of a Musical), The Producers at Milwaukee's Skylight Theatre in November 2008, Wings at the Apple Tree Theatre in February 2009, and Once On This Island at Porchlight in May 2009. He directed The Miser at the Northlight Theatre in 2007, for which he received a Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best Director of a Play. In 2006, he directed Mountain for the Apple Tree Theatre, where he is an Artistic Associate. Previous productions there include: the Midwest premiere of Dessa Rose (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Director of a Musical), Uncle Vanya, the Chicago premiere of A Man of No Importance (winner of the 2004 After Dark Chicago Award for Best Production of a Musical), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Indian Ink, Syncopation, The Dresser, The Swan, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Waiting for Godot, and Sugar. Also in 2006 he directed The Elephant Man at the Peninsula Playhouse in Wisconsin.
In 2005, Dr. Lococo directed Shaw's Misalliance in a joint production of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and the University of Wisconsin Madison's Graduate program, as well as a new musical version of The Princess and the Pea at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In 2004, he directed Trumbo featuring noted author and Chicago personality Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theatre's Traffic Series. He directed The Taffetas at the Peninsula Playhouse and the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, (nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Review). He also directed Nunsense there in 1997. From 1997-1999, he was the Artistic Director of Theatre On the Bay in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he directed productions of Working, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Lost in Yonkers, Crow and Weasel, and In Their Own Words: A Vietnam Chronicle, among others. In 1996, he directed A Christmas Carol for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Prior to that, he spent several months in London assisting director David Bell on the West End production of Hot Mikado. Other Chicago productions include Offending the Audience for Econo-Art Theatre, Fish and Rice for Pegasus Players, Letters from a Divided House for City Lit Theatre and the Chicago Historical Society, Streamers, Getting Out, The Actor's Nightmare, and original adaptations of the novels Less Than Zero, Riddley Walker, Einstein's Dreams, and The Water-Method Man by John Irving.
Until 2007, Dr. Lococo was Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Waukesha, where he directed productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, Merton of the Movies, Crow and Weasel, The Comedy of Errors, The Primary English Class, Talking With..., Story Theatre, and And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank. He has also taught at Columbia University, the City University of New York, Columbia College Chicago, Triton College, National Louis University, and Northwestern University. He was the director of the theatre arts division of the National High School Institute of Northwestern University (Cherub Program) from 1992-1997. In July of 2007, he participated in a Roundtable at Oxford University on the divide between the humanities and sciences. Dr. Lococo was Vice President for Conference Planning 2012 for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Professor Lococo is a 2013 graduate of the SITI Company Theatre Intensive in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Professional & Community Affiliations
Dr. Lococo is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and serves on the Board of Directors for Pivot Arts, a home for innovative music, theatre and dance on Chicago's far north side.


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Translated by Jerrold Landau In 1927, the Gordonia group was founded by Shneur Geynichovitz and Shlomo Bronshteyn. The first to join Gordonia were the 5th and 6th grade students of the gymnasiums. Following them, the working youth joined, including those who worked in workshops and stores. The number of members reached 50-60.
Since general meetings were forbidden by law, we were forced to meet in private homes for the purpose of conversation. The content of the conversation was general topics, history, Zionism, and the doctrine of A. D. Gordon. In addition to the discussions, there were also Hebrew lessons given by those who knew Hebrew, especially by the teacher Shneur Geynichovitz.
The first celebration that was organized to mark the founding of the chapter is still etched in my mind. It took place in Suslensky's workshop on the eve of Simchat Torah. This celebration served as a form of farewell party for Shlomo Bronshteyn on the occasion of his aliya to the Land. With the passage of time, this first Simchat Torah celebration turned into a tradition in the life of the movement. The Romanian authorities accepted the character of the Zionist movement. They recognized it and did not interfere with our work. We decided to search for a suitable headquarters for the chapter. Through the intercession of activists for whom the matter of the movement was close to their hearts, we received a room in the Yeshiva building, which served as our meeting hall.
With the opening of the hall, the members were divided into various groups: older youths of age 16-18, up-and-coming youths of the age 14-16, and scouts of the age of 12-14. Counselors were trained and arose from the chapter. Members of the older group (who knew Hebrew for the most part) directed members of the younger groups. The chapter was directed by forces from the youth (independent direction), a council of advisors, secretaries and treasurers. It sustained itself by its membership dues.
Each group met twice a week. On the Sabbath there was a general gathering of all of the groups in order to deal with a common topic. This gathering concluded with dancing.
The movement carried out its activities in a modest manner. The movement refrained from smoking, salon dances, cracking seeds, etc. There was also a set uniform (gray shirts).
The members kept their obligations honestly. When we received a plot of land in the yard of the ORT School, we decided to actualize the idea of the distinguished teacher A. D. Gordon. We called this plot of land Gan Yarok (Verdant Garden). It became the central point for the activities of our chapter. Every group tended to it and guarded it day and night according to a rotation. One could see groups of children with their counselors each evening as they were assembling in the hall of the chapter waiting for their turn. On Sabbaths, excursions were arranged to the Seleshty Forest outside the city for the purpose of drawing the youth close to nature and communal life. These excursions were an experience for both the members and the counselors. The first inter-chapter meeting, which took place in Kishinev on the occasion of the visit of Nachum Sokolov, left a great impression. At this meeting, the high organizational level of the members of Gordonia of Orheyev stood out. Our movement flourished and continued on until the day finally came when most of the Jewish students belonged to Gordonia. Members older than age 18 were required to go on hachshara for actualization, or to leave the movement. The Keren Aliya (aliya fund) was founded in our first year of existence.
In the center Aliza Yagolnitzer-Shemovny -- on her left Avraham Rechulsky
The first hachshara group was in Massada (Bessarabia). With the increase of the stream of aliya to the land, several hachshara points were established in the region of Orheyev, such as the chapter of Onitskany. In Teleneshti, where Jews who owned vineyards lived, a hachshara chapter was founded in the fields of Dr. Kleiderman and Petrushka. Our members stood up to the test of the work, and were encouraged also by gentiles such as General Yanoshovich. Two hachshara chapters existed in Orheyev itself in the Talmud Torah building. The members obtained work in the brick kiln of Dizengof (from the family of Meir Dizengof). They were employed in the cutting of trees, baking of matzos for Passover, etc.
Standing: 1. R. Daskal 2. [alef]. Vyshkautzan 3. Y. Yadovsky -- Zeevi (coordinator of the group) 4. L. Cheriyan 5. M. Gendler 6. [feh]. Belfer
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Trooper on Christie's Security Detail Busted for Theft in PA
A 35 year old State Trooper assigned to protect Governor Chris Christie and his family was arrested on theft charges in Hamburg, Pennsylvania last month, according to a report at NJWatchdog.
Trooper William A. Carvounis of North Brunswick is accused of stealing $267 in gun supplies and other goods from a Cabela's store.
"During the course of his shopping, (Carvounis) would place items in his shopping basket. While walking around and continuing to shop, he would take various merchandise out of the package and conceal in his pockets…He would discard the empty packages on shelves throughout the store," wrote Schwoyer in his sworn statement.
Security video also caught Carvounis' coup de grace: The trooper tore the price tag from a Cabela's hat, which he wore while trying to leave the store.
When Carvounis was apprehended and searched, authorities found a concealed weapon along with the pilfered loot. They soon realized their suspect was a law enforcement officer.
The report said Carvounis tried to get the retailer and the local police to drop the matter as a "professional courtesy" and that he invoked his connection to Christie in his plea for leniency.
Carvounis has been suspended from the NJ State Police and is due in Berks County Court of Common Pleas for his arraignment on February 10.Posted: February 3rd, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Chris Christie, Crime, Crime and Punishment, New Jersey Watchdog, NJ State Police | Tags: Cabela's, Chris Christie, NJ State Police, William A. Carvounis | 5 Comments »


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YIKES! Who can see energy? THAT'S a loaded one isn't it-
But- I "do" see colors when I practice on occassion- espescialy within repetitive movements say durring the excersize part of class right-
And I'm curious- does anyone else?
To better describe what I'm talking about- right- because I realize that it can sound really strange right-
When we get going sometimes- durring class- and I find myself really focused in "on nothing" but my practice- my fingers and arms will trail a color doesn't really matter what color but it does change and it's through a periphial vision usualy type thing- but it's quite real for me-
there's this "thing" called the aura- it's around our bodies much like the atmosphere of the earth is around the earth right-
my suspiscion is that being focused in on what I'm doing is creating a state of mind to where I can see bits of my aura or something to such effect-but I wouldn't call myself an expert in the matter so I was curious as to what others had experienced-
HAve the senior Sensei's ever had any of their students talk about this or anything like that before?
It's not having tired eyes- or medication or anything else like that- though I do where glasses- LOL- and it isn't the lights or cars or anything like that-
Has anyone else ever experienced something like this and if so- wanna discuss it?
(p.s. this is the sort of topic to which I was referring inside verbal defense thread about why people don't post here's a doozy for ya LOL or maybe it isn't who knows- but if there are people out there who experience this as well you aren't crazy or alone )


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To fill the void, Kumar started growing plants indoors using hydroponics.
Kumar studied cognitive science at the University of California in Los Angeles before moving to the East Coast. Last summer, having established himself as a software engineer and taking up residence in Williamsburg, he took summer classes at New York University for recreational purposes, where he met his business partner, Michael Doherty, a grad student at the school.
The two decided to develop Bitponics, a hydroponics monitoring system that includes an Internet database to help growers monitor the nutrient and pH levels and other needs of their indoor gardens.
"The issue with gardening for a lot of people is that they just don't know how to keep the plants alive," Kumar said. "What we're creating is a system to make hydroponic gardening just a lot easier for people, to let them know what they're doing every step of the way."
The pair teamed up to make the process easier for growers, particularly New Yorkers who favor hydroponics as many don't have yards, with Kumar handling the software and Doherty constructing the hardware.
"This whole urban gardening concept is a concept that's become more and more incorporated in the general awareness," he said. "People have an awareness now that it is beneficial to grow your own food."
To foster the collective awareness, the Web-based portion of Bitponics includes a domain for users to share and swap gardening ideas in an online hydroponics community.
The team so far developed several rough prototypes, but are raising funds on a Kickstarter to develop polished prototypes and secure manufacturing.
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CALGARY - A record $15-million donation from local philanthropist and entrepreneur Don Taylor to the Calgary Stampede Foundation will go to establishing a western heritage centre as part of a new Youth Campus.
The donation, which is the Foundation's largest individual donation in its history, will help create the SAM Centre - the future home for the Stampede's archives and the Foundation's Stampede School program.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the Stampede said the centre will house new permanent and temporary galleries which will celebrate western heritage and commemorate the history of southern Alberta.
Taylor said he is honoured that the centre will be named after his father Robert Samuel Taylor.
"I'm a strong believer that Canada in general does not honour their heroes . . . We have many heroes of southern Alberta that we do not really recognize and our children have completely no knowledge of. I think it's a crime we're not showing our heritage and teaching pride in who we are," said Taylor.
"We have many heroes in Canada and most of us know very little about them. And some of those heroes are cowboys, and ranchers and pioneers in southern Alberta . . . The Calgary Stampede has been an essential part of the character of Calgary. And (to) those people in Toronto and in Montreal who call us a bunch of cowboys, and maybe we are, but I don't see any reason not to be proud of it."
He said the centre will be able to show visitors the character and the kind of people that made southern Alberta - not only the rodeo and ranching people but the sod-busters and the farmers as well.
"I hope it can underline some people who I think are truly heroes and are going unnoticed," said Taylor.
The Youth Campus will be located just north of the Saddledome. The SAM Centre will be about 32,000 square feet. The initial estimate is that the centre will cost about $30 million to build.
Taylor and his family have been generous in their philanthropy throughout the city in recent years. In 2006, they gave the University of Calgary $25 million for a new digital library. In 2010, they gave Mount Royal University $20 million for the Bella Concert Hall in honour of Don's mother. Earlier this year, $40 million was donated to the U of C to build a new teaching institute for students.
Taylor was named this year to the Calgary Business Hall of Fame.
Taylor said he had a 70-year history with the Stampede. As a 10-year-old, he peeled potatoes at his father's hamburger stand at the old grandstand.
He said he has been haunted by the fact that such a huge piece of land is unused and nothing but a parking lot. Taylor also said the centre will allow people to get a feel of what the rodeo and Stampede are all about as well as the "very fibre of Calgary."
Aritha Van Herk, an author, historian and professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, said the city's story is in so much danger of being lost.
"Having a SAM Centre that can advance education, that can be an archive, that can be a place where people can go to look at the photographs, look at the papers and see the past, it's so visual and it's so important," she said. "This is amazing. It shows so much foresight because if we don't regard our past we will never remember our future and that's what we really need to do."
On Tuesday, the Foundation and the Calgary Stampede also officially launched its $100-million capital campaign which is called "We're Greatest Together."
Ann McCaig, board chair of the Foundation, said the campaign is helping Stampede Park become a year-round gathering place that will connect the next generation of Calgarians to "our Western values and spirit of what makes Calgary great."
She said Taylor's donation is a "transformational" contribution to that vision.
"This new facility will showcase, honour and celebrate our Western heritage in a variety of different ways," she said. "Think of the SAM centre as a legacy book to be read by everyone, especially our youth, to instill in them the values they need to build on the strong foundation laid by people like Don's father and Don himself."
Vern Kimball, chief executive of the Calgary Stampede, said the organization has three major community projects on the go that will transform the Park and funds raised in the campaign will be directed to them: Youth Campus, housing Stampede School, The Young Canadians School of Performing Arts, Calgary Stampede Showband, Calgary Arts Academy, and other groups from across the city; Riverfront Park, a new public park along the Elbow River; and the Agriculture Discovery Zone, a space dedicated to showcasing the agricultural community, featuring the Agrium Western Event Centre.
So far, the capital campaign has raised more than $89 million.
The Agrium Western Event Centre will open June 2014 followed by Riverfront Park in 2015 and Youth Campus in 2017.
"It's a big vision and it's a community-minded vision," said Kimball.
"Don's gift will both enable and elevate our vision for Youth Campus."
He said Stampede archives are currently being stored in a small room in the Grandstand. The archives will be stored in the SAM Centre which will also feature permanent and rotational galleries.
"We envision it as a place where Calgarians and visitors come to gain an understanding of where we've been, who we are, and where we're going," added Kimball.


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It's a muggy, fog-flecked morning, and the rainforest smells like rum. The air smells of bananas, too—not surprising, given the hundreds of acres of fruit farms we've driven past on the winding mountain road to Macouba from Saint-Pierre. As I look downhill from the roadside pullout, the thick gnarl of vegetation below is a dark, feral green, peppered with the punctuation of red-and-white ashanti-blood blossoms and golden trumpet. Curling up from the clearing below are traces of a festive funk, a sweet and vegetal whiff of fresh sugarcane and old rum—the former from the cane being crushed by the truckload in the Rhum JM distillery in the clearing; the latter emanating from the barrel-filled warehouses beyond the trees. Into the distillery go mounds of freshly cut cane stalks and out comes a fragrant, earthy, alluring spirit distinctive to Martinique.
Rum's origins can be traced to the Caribbean, the archipelago curving from Cuba to Trinidad. Historically home to colonial rivalries and sprawling sugar plantations, the Caribbean islands each developed its own approach to making rum—but as those with a passion for this most diverse of spirits are increasingly discovering, perhaps no other island's rum is so different from the others, and so engagingly evocative of its home island, as the rum that comes from Martinique. "If you look at the islands, which were isolated from each other, you're going to have regional differences in the styles of rum—in the way they make it, and in their personal tastes," says Ed Hamilton, publisher of the Ministry of Rum website and an evangelist for (and importer of) Martinique rum.
Hamilton notes that not only does Martinique rum taste different, but it's distinctive enough to have the precise peculiarities of its production defined by law—a relatively novel concept for the freewheeling category of rum. "Martinique is the only geographic area in the rum industry that has its own AOC [appellation d'origine contrôlée] marque; that's a big deal," he says.
The neighboring French islands of Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante make near-identical styles of rum, but thus far, only Martinique has earned the AOC marque from the French government. (Haiti, once a French colony, produces a rum with some similarities.) This designation is rooted in the notion of terroir and denotes that a particular food or drink—such as the rich blue cheese from Roquefort or the sparkling wine from Champagne—is a regional specialty notable enough to merit its own identity.
The basis of Martinique rum's character comes from the spirit's inception. Almost all of the world's rum is produced by fermenting and distilling molasses, a byproduct of the sugar industry; in Martinique and its neighboring French islands, the rum originates as the juice from fresh-cut sugarcane, taken directly from field to distillery to prevent spoilage. This direct link between land and bottle is evoked in this style of spirit's name: rhum agricole, or agricultural rum, as distinguished from the more common rhum industriel. This use of a fresh, fragrant base material and a rigorously defined set of guidelines regarding its production and aging mean the rum readily expresses its distinctive character: young rhums are bold and grassy where molasses rums may be soft and sweet, and aged rhums have a crisp, earthy complexity more akin to whiskeys and brandies than to the vanilla-tinged richness of traditional rums.
The peppery vegetal fragrance of rum blends with the fresh-grass smell of the sugarcane as I look down at the Rhum JM distillery, situated on the northern tip of Martinique, where the sugarcane, banana farms and breadfruit trees flourish from the chocolate-dark volcanic soil at the foot of Mount Pelée. Long familiar to the French for its expressive character, rhum agricole is now catching the attention of American drinkers—and on this particular morning, it's certainly caught mine.
Deep Roots
A 436-square-mile expanse of land in the Lesser Antilles, Martinique was home to native Arawaks and Caribs when Christopher Columbus visited the island in 1502. In 1635, the island was claimed by the French; except for brief periods before and during the Napoleonic Wars, when it was occupied by the British, the island has remained in French hands ever since, and today Martinique is a departement of France. Though it's geographically closer to Panama than to Paris, Martinique is fully a part of the French nation: its Euro-based economy is relatively robust compared to many of its Caribbean neighbors; it has a well-maintained public infrastructure of roads and utilities; and it has a distinctive culinary identity that seamlessly meshes the island's French and Caribbean sides, with restaurants such as Le Petibonum serving French-Creole dishes like sautéed conch and a curry-like colombo made with banana-fed pork to tent-shaded diners on Carbet Beach, prepared by chef Guy Ferdinand, cross-culturally clad in a formal black chef's coat and cutoff shorts.
As with many of its Caribbean neighbors, Martinique's history is tied to the influence of sugarcane; the valuable crop was first planted here around 1640. Sugar plantations soon covered much of Martinique, from the misty, mountainous forests around Mount Pelée in the north to the drier, flatter regions in the island's south. Planters (among them the family of Joséphine de Beauharnais, a Martinican who became the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and, in 1804, the Empress of France) and merchants grew powerful from sugar's sweet largesse; but its cultivation also had an aspect of intense ugliness, in the form of the institution of slavery that forced thousands to labor in the cane fields before it was finally abolished in 1848.
Cane's power plummeted in the mid-19th century, and with it went Martinique's fortunes. Seeking ways to make a profit from the island's most prominent crop, distillers began the large-scale production of rum directly from sugarcane, removing the sugar factory (the source of molasses) from the standard equation. By the early 1900s, the island's distilleries were booming, and the capital city of Saint-Pierre was once again rich and cultured, the so-called "Paris of the Caribbean" with an 800-seat theater that hosted visiting performers from Europe. But on May 8, 1902, Saint-Pierre was almost totally destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelée, a blast that killed all but a few of the city's 30,000 inhabitants.
Today, the volcano's verdant summit rises above Saint-Pierre—after the eruption, the capital was moved south to Fort de France—and is shrouded in clouds for much of the year. The charred stone-and-cement foundations of the theater and the jail remain as reminders of the mountain's power, and the city is now quiet and subdued, its streets bordered with bougainvillea and its once-promising future as ruthlessly broken as the bronze bell in the city's volcano museum, squashed almost flat by the blast's intense heat.
But while Saint-Pierre's fortunes shifted, rhum agricole has held on, though the number of operating distilleries has shrunk dramatically, from around 75 in 1935 to seven today. Above the waterfront city, as the hills gradually rise to Mount Pelée, a grand sugarcane plantation manor, built in 1922 to replace the original structure destroyed by the volcano, is home to the Depaz distillery. In the estate's grassy gardens, beneath the breadfruit and mango trees and with goats and cattle grazing near the fields of sword-leafed sugarcane, I get a glimpse of Martinique's history and future, all rolled into one. "In Egypt, you visit pyramids; in Thailand, the temples," says Lauren Brival, a Saint-Pierre guide who's escorted me to the Depaz estate. "In Martinique, you visit the rum distilleries."
Island Style
With its sweeping hillside views down to the sea, Depaz may be a more scenic distillery than some; and while production and aging techniques may differ somewhat among the various Martinique distilleries, Depaz provides a good idea of the basics of rhum agricole production.
Owing to the tropical heat and humidity, much of the distillery is open at the sides, and on this late-spring day during sugarcane harvest, the place is humming. Fresh-cut sugarcane begins to ferment almost immediately; to control the process and capture the cane's peak flavor, producers truck the cane directly from field to distillery. There, in a steam-powered, Steampunk-worthy process driven by flywheels, pistons and other Victorian-looking contraptions, the cane is chopped and repeatedly crushed. This extracts the murky vésou, or slightly fermented fresh juice, and leaves wispy strands of spent bagasse behind (this steam-driven machine is largely a closed-loop system; the dry, fibrous bagasse from one shipment of cane is used to fire the boilers to crush the next). The juice, smelling brightly of fresh-cut grass and tropical fruit, is then placed into a stainless-steel fermentation tank with yeast and allowed to ferment for anywhere between 24 and 72 hours (depending on the distillery and the style of rum), creating a lightly alcoholic grappe, or sugarcane wine. The wine is then distilled on "Creole-style" continuous column stills fitted with copper condensers, producing a potent white spirit of between 70 and 75 percent alcohol—much lower than traditional molasses-based rums. With less alcohol in the distillate, this means a greater portion of the fresh rum is composed of the various compounds that translate into flavor.
And somewhat surprisingly for such a fresh spirit, the flavor of the young rum is quite engaging—vigorously grassy and bright, with hints of sunshine and open fields. This bright flavor is most evident in rhum blanc, the young rum that's rested in stainless-steel tanks for a few months before being diluted and bottled. Aged rhum agricole is matured in oak barrels—used bourbon barrels, French oak barrels or massive tuns, or some combination of these—and each distillery ages and blends rums to create particular expressions, ranging from the straw-hued rhum ambre and elevé sous bois, which spend a year or two in wood, to deeper, more delicate rhum vieux, which is at least three years old. Distilleries also make older XO and special-reserve selections, such as the vintage cuveés from Rhum JM, ranging up to La Favorite Cuveé Spéciale de la Flibuste, with rum aged more than 30 years.
Even with the tightly defined set of rules governing its production, this kind of flexibility in producing the finished rum provides room for creativity among Martinique distillers. For example, at the La Favorite distillery, which dates to 1842, distillers ferment some batches of rum for 48 hours, and other batches for 72; the shorter fermentation results in a rum that's sweeter and fruitier, and is mostly sold to the local market, whereas the longer fermentation results in Coeur de Canne, a drier, bolder rum that's largely exported.
There's also some flexibility with raw materials; the rules governing production of Martinique rhum agricole stipulate that 12 varieties of sugarcane may be used. At the brightly pastel-colored Neisson distillery—the smallest on the island, and along with La Favorite, one of the only remaining family-owned distilleries in Martinique—between 9 and 11 varieties are typically used, and each variety interacts differently with the yeast during fermentation. Neisson keeps the fresh rum from each type of cane separate during a six-month rest in stainless-steel tanks following distillation; the rum is then blended like Champagne to create the desired characteristics.
A Taste for Rhum
In the cool of the morning at a beachfront market in Saint-Pierre, a fisherman deftly fillets a small shark with a long knife, and women stack cloth-covered tables with piles of papaya, bundles of canella, and bottles holding slender vanilla pods, segments of ginger or chunks of pineapple soaking in rum.
These small-batch infusions are about as ambitious as mixology gets in Martinique, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The island's signature cocktail, the Ti' Punch, is a simple preparation of sugarcane syrup and rhum agricole with a small squeeze of fresh lime. While the pink, guava-enhanced punch planter and other fruity drinks are found in hotel bars, and some restaurants and bars make noble efforts at bespoke cocktails, the Ti' Punch is the overwhelming favorite on the island, for good reason: whether prepared with the heat and spark of a bright rhum blanc, the mellowed spice of elevé sous bois or, decadently, with an older, more contemplative expression of rhum agricole, the Ti' Punch is unfailingly delightful, and the cocktail seeker is seldom left wanting.
Martinique may have once had exponentially more distilleries than are operating today, but the names that remain are increasingly familiar outside the island. Venerable brands such as Rhum Clément and Saint James can be found in American and European cocktail bars, and Neisson, La Favorite and Rhum JM are also finding ardent fans among rum-curious bartenders and drinkers. Rhum agricole is a favorite in classic tiki drinks, such as the Three Dots and a Dash and the Mai Tai, and today bartenders ranging from Rumba in Seattle to Hogo in Washington, D.C., are utilizing the spirit's distinctive grassiness in a range of creative cocktails.
Enjoyed closer to its home, the ethereal flavor of aged rhum agricole benefits from a light touch. On a hotel deck overlooking the Caribbean, with the evening sun skewing tangerine as it meets the horizon, we toast the day with glasses of rhum vieux lightly softened with splashes of fresh coconut juice, purchased from a roadside vendor. The drink is fragrant and elemental, smelling and tasting of sun-soaked days in the tropics. It's not complicated, but it is perfect—which is exactly what a day and a drink in the Caribbean should be.


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transmit secret messages, are crucial dating props and deadly weapons.
En garde! In the Japanese martial art tessenjutsu, fans are used to parry knives or swords, and also to provoke attacks. Even the Samurai used to use the harmless-looking fan as a secret weapon, its metal ribs sharpened to a point. Potentially deadly, such fans could come in useful on occasions which required that swords be set aside.
Can you read me? Spanish fan gestures like "Follow me!" (1), "I love you" (2), "I love someone else" (3) were once used to convey secret messages. Some fan researchers claim that they were really just a 19th-century marketing trick, but fans really are great flirt aids, even without the knowledge of a complex secret code.


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PECKVILLE - Playing with passion, while staring down and overcoming adversity with emotion and energy, Dunmore is moving on in the state football playoffs again.
Fueled by a third-quarter outburst, the Bucks defeated traditional state power Southern Columbia, 35-29, Friday night at John Henzes/Veterans Memorial Stadium in the PIAA Class A first round.
"I told our kids to be persistent and to be patient," Dunmore coach Jack Henzes said. "Overall, we are very happy with our kids. We are very proud of the kids.
"I thought they played extremely well both offensively and defensively."
It's Dunmore's fifth state playoff win in school history and is the fourth time that a District 2 team eliminated Southern Columbia, which has been to 13 championship games. The Bucks (12-1) will return to John Henzes/Veterans Memorial Stadium on Friday to play the winner of today's first-round game between Williams Valley and Bristol.
"This is just amazing," Dunmore quarterback Brandon Kujawski said. "It was an emotional game for all of us. With Southern Columbia's background, it just feels great to get a win.
"They played a heck of a game, but we executed when we had to and came up with the win."
Dunmore's physical defensive line and linebackers controlled the line of scrimmage for the first three quarters, stuffing the normally productive Southern Columbia running game that thrives on speed and deception in the multi-option attack.
In the first half, Mike Boland, Jake Korgeski and Austin Seamon overmatched the Tigers and limited them to 66 yards on 14 carries and a pair of first downs.
"That's a credit to our coaches," Seamon said. "They had us in great positions to make plays."
But Southern Columbia (12-1) still had a 7-6 lead. And when the Tigers recovered a fumble early in the third quarter, Tigers quarterback Taylor Young pushed the margin to 14-6 on his second touchdown run of the game.
That's when Dunmore turned up its intensity.
Mike Kolcharno returned the ensuing kickoff 44 yards and on the next play Kujawski hit Josh Zilla with a 37-yard touchdown that riled up the jam-packed home side of the bleachers.
After another tough defensive stand, Dunmore went on a eight-play drive that got a kick-start when Daiqwon Buckley broke free for a 23-yard run.
Once again, Kujawski went to Zilla, who maintained his concentration on a tipped ball and cradled it in as he fell to the turf. Kolcharno added a 2-point conversion on a reception.
"Southern Columbia is a great defense, but we were able to hit some passes on their coverage," Zilla said. "That is just practice. That second one felt like it was in the air for 20 minutes. When I came down with it, it was a great feeling."
Matt O'Connor made a powerful open-field tackle on the kickoff, jarring the ball free. Josh Sawka made the recovery and two plays later Seamon sent the Dunmore faithful into a frenzy with a leaping dive over a defender for a touchdown. Kolcharno's second 2-point conversion reception made it 28-14.
"We just had to stop making little mistakes and settle down," Seamon said.
Then came the big blow.
On fourth down, Boland and Korgeski sprinted in on a punt. The 6-foot-5 Boland swatted the kick and raced to get the ball. He sprinted 40 yards for a touchdown that made it 35-14 with 9:59 left in the fourth.
"I knew that if I tried to rush hard, I could get in there," Boland said. "I started to run out of gas at the end, so I was worried about getting caught from behind.
"That was a big boost for the team."
Southern Columbia, which played with the pride of a champion from that point, made the Dunmore fans uneasy with a pair of long scoring drives in the fourth quarter.
Matt Lupold finished a nine-play 65-yard drive with an 8-yard run.
Then, Joe Kleman recovered a fumble and the Tigers covered 67 yards in just seven plays. Adam Feudale scored on a 5-yard run and Taylor tacked on a 2-point conversion run to make it 35-29 with 2:09 remaining.
But the Bucks recovered the onside kick and Buckley picked up 20 of his 126 yards to run out the clock.
"The linemen blocked great," Buckley said. "We had to keep moving the ball to win the football game."
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Adaptive Governance
Ronald D. Brunner and Amanda H. Lynch
Adaptive governance is defined by a focus on decentralized decision-making structures and procedurally rational policy, supported by intensive natural and social science. Decentralized decision-making structures allow a large, complex problem like global climate change to be factored into many smaller problems, each more tractable for policy and scientific purposes. Many smaller problems can be addressed separately and concurrently by smaller communities. Procedurally rational policy in each community is an adaptation to profound uncertainties, inherent in complex systems and cognitive constraints, that limit predictability. Hence planning to meet projected targets and timetables is secondary to continuing appraisal of incremental steps toward long-term goals: What has and hasn't worked compared to a historical baseline, and why? Each step in such trial-and-error processes depends on politics to balance, if not integrate, the interests of multiple participants to advance their common interest—the point of governance in a free society. Intensive science recognizes that each community is unique because the interests, interactions, and environmental responses of its participants are multiple and coevolve. Hence, inquiry focuses on case studies of particular contexts considered comprehensively and in some detail.
Varieties of adaptive governance emerged in response to the limitations of scientific management, the dominant pattern of governance in the 20th century. In scientific management, central authorities sought technically rational policies supported by predictive science to rise above politics and thereby realize policy goals more efficiently from the top down. This approach was manifest in the framing of climate change as an "irreducibly global" problem in the years around 1990. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established to assess science for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The parties negotiated the Kyoto Protocol that attempted to prescribe legally binding targets and timetables for national reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But progress under the protocol fell far short of realizing the ultimate objective in Article 1 of the UNFCCC, "stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." As concentrations continued to increase, the COP recognized the limitations of this approach in Copenhagen in 2009 and authorized nationally determined contributions to greenhouse gas reductions in the Paris Agreement in 2015.
Adaptive governance is a promising but underutilized approach to advancing common interests in response to climate impacts. The interests affected by climate, and their relative priorities, differ from one community to the next, but typically they include protecting life and limb, property and prosperity, other human artifacts, and ecosystem services, while minimizing costs. Adaptive governance is promising because some communities have made significant progress in reducing their losses and vulnerability to climate impacts in the course of advancing their common interests. In doing so, they provide field-tested models for similar communities to consider. Policies that have worked anywhere in a network tend to be diffused for possible adaptation elsewhere in that network. Policies that have worked consistently intensify and justify collective action from the bottom up to reallocate supporting resources from the top down. Researchers can help realize the potential of adaptive governance on larger scales by recognizing it as a complementary approach in climate policy—not a substitute for scientific management, the historical baseline.
The Climate Change Regime
Philipp Pattberg and Oscar Widerberg
In 1992, when the international community agreed on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the science of climate change was under development, global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were by and large produced by developed countries, and the concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere had just surpassed 350 ppm. Some 25 years later, climate change is scientifically uncontested, China has overtaken the United States as the world's biggest emitter of CO2, and concentrations are now measured above 400 ppm. Against this background, states have successfully concluded a new global agreement under the UNFCCC, the 2015 Paris Agreement. Prior to the Paris Agreement, the climate regime focused on allocating emission reduction commitments among (a group of) countries. However, the new agreement has turned the climate regime on its feet by introducing an approach based on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Under this approach, states decide their ambition levels independently instead of engaging in negotiations about "who does what." The result is a more flexible system that for the first time includes all countries in the quest to reduce GHG emissions to keep temperature increase below 2°C compared to preindustrial levels. Moreover, the international climate regime has transformed into a regime complex, denoting the broad activities of smaller groups of states as well as non-party actors, such as cities, regions, companies, and non-governmental organizations along with United Nations agencies.
The Two Degrees Celsius Limit
Christopher Shaw
International climate negotiations seek to limit warming to an average of two degrees Celsius (2°C). This objective is justified by the claim that scientists have identified two degrees of warming as the point at which climate change becomes dangerous. Climate scientists themselves maintain that while science can provide projections of possible impacts at different levels of warming, determining what constitutes an acceptable level of risk is not a matter to be decided by science alone, but is a value choice to be deliberated upon by societies as a whole. Hence, while climate science can inform debates about how much warming is too much, it cannot provide a definitive answer to that question. In order to fully understand how climate change came to be defined as a phenomenon with a single global dangerous limit of 2°C, it is necessary to incorporate insights from the social sciences.
Political economy, culture, economics, sociology, geography, and social psychology have all played a role in defining what constitutes an acceptable level of climate risk. These perspectives can be applied through the framework of institutional analysis to examine reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other international organizations. This interdisciplinary approach offers the potential to provide a comprehensive history of how climate science has been interpreted in policy making. An interdisciplinary analysis is also essential in order to move beyond historical description to provide a narrative of considerable explanatory power. Such insights offer a valuable framework for considering current debates about whether or not it will be possible to limit warming to 2°C.


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One day the baby's in, the next it's out.
Project Runway host Heidi Klum and musician husband Seal welcomed daughter Lou Sulola Samuel to the family on Friday in Los Angeles, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.
In a statement, Seal wrote that he had found it "difficult to imagine loving another child as much your existing children.
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"Anyone who has a family will tell you this. Where will one find that extra love?" the "Kissed From a Rose" singer wrote.
"If you love your existing children with all of your heart, how then can one possibly find more heart with which to love another? At 7:46 p.m. on Friday, the answer to this question came in the form of our fourth child and second daughter... From the moment she looked into both of our eyes it was endless love at first sight. She is beautiful beyond words and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years."
Seal had said in an interview that the couple was waiting until the baby "popped out" to name her.
Little Luo will have plenty of company at home.
Klum and Seal have two sons together, Henry, 4, and Johan, 3. Luo's big sister Leni, 5, is Klum's daughter from a previous relationship, according to Us.
The pair were married in 2005 but only recently has Klum applied to take on her husban's last name of Samuel.
The top model now hosting the seventh season of Lifetime's "Project Runway" also isn't sweating how long it will take her stomach to return to its former glory.
After all, Klum rocked a bikini at a 2005 Victoria's Secret fashion show only two months after having Henry.
"I'm not worried," Klum told Us. "I know my body will go back again."


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You guys, in the future Rock'em Sock'em Robots are intense. In the latest CGI opus from director Shawn Levy (Date Night), the year is 2027, when blood-and-guts boxing has been replaced by the more brutal sport of robot boxing.
Now trainers use remote controls to send eight-foot, 2,000-pound robots into the ring for nuts-and-bolts mayhem that doesn't end until one of the bots is vivisected.
Think of it as the Roman arena for the iPod age.
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) is used to taking his punches. Once a low-level boxer, Charlie was in the generation of fighters replaced by robots. Now he tours state fairs and sleazy underground rings, running a beat-up bot and looking for quick cash.
He even allows his bot to fight a live bull in a sequence that was supposed to be fun but made me want to call PETA. In a light film, this opening sequence is a giant misstep that made me recoil in horror.
It won't surprise you to learn that these antics don't make Charlie father-of-the-year material. Yet when a former girlfriend dies, Charlie gets custody of 11-year-old Max (Dakota Goyo: Thor) through a fluke in Texas state laws.
Charlie could care less about the boy, but he sees a way to make a quick buck: His former flame has a sister who married money. The only way Charlie will sign over the boy to Aunt Debra (Hope Davis: Mildred Pierce) is if her husband gives him $50,000 — the cost of a new bot. Moneybags agrees, but only if Charlie is willing to babysit the kid thru the summer while the couple vacations.
Unsurprisingly, Charlie and his ego manage to destroy his new bot and alienate his son in one night.
Fortunately, Max has a better business head than his dad plus his own obsession with robot boxing. When the pair venture into an illegal scrap yard looking for robot parts, Max discovers a first-generation sparring bot. The bucket of bolts is small, banged up and outdated, but it also has a rare program feature: shadowing, which means he can copy the exact movements of a person and remember them.
Charlie thinks it's a waste of time, but Max cleans up the bot — now named Atom, works on his circuitry and wins his first fight. When Charlie sees the earning potential, he takes an interest. With Charlie teaching his son and Atom the finer points of human boxing, the pile of scrap becomes the Little Bot that Could.
Father and son soon bond as they parlay their scrappy fighter from underground fights to a championship bout against notorious bot-killer Zeus.
Jackman and Goyo's winning chemistry elevate this nuts-and-bolts Rocky story into a sweet tale of one man's atonement. Jackman isn't afraid to show all the warts on Charlie, making his conversion to decent man enjoyable and inspiring. He commits especially to the boxing scenes, swinging wildly in the air as he coaches his giant prodigy. Even Atom turns in a good performance. With kind blue LED eyes and a sense of comic mimicry, he's the bolted version of Buster Keaton.
If robot boxing doesn't become a real sport in the next decade, I'll be shocked. The fights are brutal and gritty — helped by Sugar Ray Leonard's choreography — but no one gets hurt in all the mayhem. Levy's masterful sequences of the electronic carnage left the audience at my screening cheering for more. I'd sign up for season tickets.


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I am trying to work out how to build the form that is in the database (From scratch) The form I am looking at is FormAddDonation_Macro_example_1
The database is sent to us by the awarding body as an example of what we have to do. I tried building the form from scratch and added a drop down box attached to a query. When I select donor it is supposed to fill in status field and current donation field but that doesn't happen. I have tried to work it out from the example form but I am stuck. If I can get past this I can then work on the rest of the form. (Or at least I hope I can) I have tried starting with a blank form and using the wizard but I cant emulate the example form
Appreciate any help and advice
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Welcome to UtterAccess.
All Relational Database Applications, such as those built with Access, start with the tables.
Did you create the tables here? Do you understand how they are related? Is this real data about real people or sample data that is made up to illustrate something.
Why do you need to rebuild the form? What's wrong with it? Why can't you use it as is? What changes would make it appropriate?
"The database is sent to us by the awarding body as an example of what we have to do."
What is an awarding body? Why are they asking you to do this? What will be the resulting product?
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There are various problems here, hard to address in one reply. I'll touch on a few.
"Status" is evidently a calculated value, and won't be a field in a normalized set of tables. There are reasons to denormalize data, but I don't know if any of them apply here.
You'll probably want a function that calculates Status, for use anywhere you need to see that value. It might look like this:
Public Function DonorStatus(curTotalDonations As Currency) As String
If curTotalDonations < 26 Then
DonorStatus = "Bronze"
ElseIf curTotalDonations < 51 Then
DonorStatus = "Silver"
ElseIf curTotalDonations < 76 Then
DonorStatus = "Gold"
Else: DonorStatus = "Platinum"
End If
End Function
The above function can be used in a query like this one, which shows the total and status for each donor:
SELECT tblDonation.DonorID, tblDonor.DonorSurname, Sum(tblDonation.DonationAmount) AS SumOfDonationAmount, DonorStatus(Sum([DonationAmount])) AS StatusOfDonor
FROM tblDonor INNER JOIN tblDonation ON tblDonor.DonorID = tblDonation.DonorID
GROUP BY tblDonation.DonorID, tblDonor.DonorSurname;
The above query can be a rowsource for a dropdown list that shows donors. Any column from the dropdown list can be displayed elsewhere on the form, if desired.
Although Status should be a calculated value in general, it does somewhat complicate the question of how you display "old" and "updated" Status values or donation totals on one form. The calculation will be based on whatever is in the table now, which can be considered "old" or "updated" as you choose. "Updated" might include a new donation that isn't saved yet. Or "Old" might exclude the most recently saved donation. You'll have to decide which. Figuring out how to display "old" and "updated" status or total on one form is a task that deserves its own post. A query that shows the "old" total and status might take Sum(DonationAmount) - Last(DonationAmount) from another query that has ORDER BY donationdate.
You may need to learn some VBA syntax. Code in a form that puts a value in a control might say Me!somecontrol.Value = "somethingorother". There are lots of rules like that. Access needs to know whether a given name refers to a control on the form, or a field in a table, or is just a variable.
Do you want to use the DonorID as a visible identifier for donors, sort of like a CustomerID? When generating things like Customer Numbers, people often create their own systems, rather than using an autonumber field. Some of those systems might be in the UtterAccess code library. That big subject has been discussed here before, and deserves its own post.
How many donors will there be? Right now, your table has just over 50 names. When the number goes well past a hundred, the drop-down list will become cumbersome. Then you'll need to design a dialog box for selecting names. The look of that dialog box will depend on the number of names and on any way they might be organized. That subject also deserves its own post.
Databases with names of people can get complicated, especially as the number of names grows, because people are complicated. Different people may have the same name. People tables are also especially prone to have duplicates in them. When deleting duplicate values, it's easy to accidentally delete some of the donation records, or other related child data. Systems can be coded that step in whenever a parent record is about to be deleted, and re-associate child records with a different parent, selected by the user. That subject also deserves its own post.
Commercial software, such as Raiser's Edge, manages donors and gifts. For organizations of a certain size, that's usually a better choice.
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When I was very young, science was incredible to me. I watched Bill Nye whenever I could, which was almost never—thanks, baby sister of yesteryear. At one point I heard you could watch him on the World Wide Web, so I begged my Dad to let me try. We sat waiting while our 56K modem struggled to load a full ten minutes of Bill Nye. After an hour of my Dad being bored stiff and me vibrating out of my seat, the video finished loading. We pressed play, and got an error message.
That was the saddest moment of my young life.
The next morning, I got up early, dressed in a button-down shirt, and rode to church. It didn't occur to me that this might be a contradiction, liking and trusting in science and religion at the same time. I didn't bother thinking about the origin of species too much. It seemed boring. Besides, my Mom had taught me that God made everything in six days. I had no reason to doubt her—she had taught me to read, and I tested as reading at a college level. (This was supposed to be impressive, I gathered.) It was probably something I would understand as I grew older. Like the magazine covers I wasn't supposed to read.
As I grew, I was homeschooled through Elementary, occasionally dropping in public schools for half a year when my Mom got pregnant. I remember the science books getting suddenly boring at about third grade. They were filled with more facts, but no story. I remember wondering if all science was just accruing arcana. (I was still flexing my reading muscles.)
I entered public school again as I started middle school. After my parents had a close scare with me almost going on a reproductive biology field trip, I was enrolled in a Christian private school. My classes were in trailers and satellite chapels surrounded by overgrown fields where we would play soccer. I remember the day when Evolution first came up. All of a sudden, students were outspoken in how stupid Evolution was. They called Darwin dumb, recited strange new arguments, and spoke more words than the entire year up to that point. The teacher said little of consequence. When I got home, I parroted their words to my parents, who nodded sagely, and smiled.
But that didn't make sense. Why did we talk about Evolution so much if it was so obviously wrong? Why do people believe it? Every science thing I could pick up seemed to have something against Evolution. There was a box of strange science things the teacher let me look at, filled with notes about Mayans, Aliens, and Evolution—a Baptist History channel. But we didn't talk about Aliens nearly as much as Evolution. I wanted to be interested in science, but it seemed... boring. And wrong. Just to be interested felt wrong.
High School brought some changes. For one, we could choose the classes we wanted to take. I decided, Freshman year, I was going to take AP Physics. That seemed fun, and not wrong. But at this school, to get into AP Physics, you needed a B on AP Chemistry. And to get into AP Chemistry, you needed a B in AP Biology. And to get into AP Biology, you needed an A in Honors Biology. So to get into AP Physics, you needed to plan out your whole science career meandering through unrelated courses. Just about all the students complained that this made no sense, but the Administration had just completed a brand new campus, so they didn't listen. In retrospect, that's exactly like my college experience.
So I hunkered down in Honors Bio, listening to a shorter, more robotic version of Bill Nye. I didn't remember Bill being so unenthusiastic, though. Or so focused on how to debunk Evolution—strategies for debunking Evolution, rhetorical techniques, etc. Then in AP Bio, I hunkered down harder, under an even more depressing teacher. But the work and lectures were both awful, so my grades suffered. I figured that was probably it for science and me.
I transferred into a very small Charter school at the end of that year, and finally took AP Physics. I fell in love with it. It all hung together, and I could do things with it. I was solving real problems, making real predictions, even measuring things. All of these were major revelations.
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What I didn't like was the people. Instead of the usual, comforting arguments based on theology, I entered a seemingly anarchic society, where arguments would develop from nowhere. While there was a sizable Christian contingent, they almost never engaged, so atheists and Unitarians dominated the landscape. As a trained creationist, I could wade into the battle, trading arguments with ease, but I just didn't want to. In my previous school, arguments quickly became a pile-on of students ganging up on the infidel—here, it was more gang fight. And I didn't have a gang.
So I kept my mouth shut, as my cognitive dissonance grew. I loved science. I loved my religion, too. But all about me were insular in-groups—Christians rejecting Evolution and what "those Scientists" say, and atheists poo-pooing all religions as trite fairy-tales or, at best, using them as toothless platitudes—that said I had to choose one or the other, at the risk of being wrong and dumb. It was like a teenage love triangle between me and two metaphysical concepts, except with even less sex. We're talking makes-Twilight-seem-like-an-orgy levels of sex.
Here's the thing: Creationism isn't a fundamental tenet of Christianity. It's not even in the top 50. The only reason it's taken so much importance is because it's a cultural marker. If you believe in Creationism and can defend it, you're likely a "good Christian." This has very little to do with actually being a good Christian, mind. It's a measure of how well you fit into the honor culture that sits in modern churches like an Asherah pole.
On the other hand, the religious have been involved in science since the studies were formalized. In the past, religious sentiments would sit in scientific publications without the hint of dissonance. Galileo was religious, as was Ibn Sahl. I can't speak to why ridiculing the religious is a plank of certain groups, because I've never been part of them. Maybe someone else can.
This is the part where I should give something specific we can do to resolve this problem of Creationism. But I don't have a magic bullet. What I can do is talk about what helped me.
The religious aren't going to give up their religion, for the most part. Religion gives comfort, community, support, and occasionally motivates people to do good things. Even ridiculing young Earth creationists is difficult for me, when my father, my sister, my brother all believe in YEC. Rather, pointing out that science and religion aren't actually in that much opposition might be better. Talking about something exciting in science is likely to at least get you some polite respect. If you do get them excited, then they might get charged up to do some research, even if it's just Wikipedia research. If people get involved without getting defensive, that's a good start.
Also, for those of us who are Christian and pro-science, we need to talk about this to people around us. One of the most difficult things for me, in working out my beliefs, was not having a pro-science Christian around. It's mainly on us to show how religion vs science is a false dichotomy. Debates like Ken Ham vs Bill Nye are going to happen without us—we have to go outside these publicized encounters and show that there is a third way.
The most convincing thing that happened to me was in a church. During worship, I prayed about Creationism. I was praying for something irrefutable, because it had become clear to me that all my arguments were based on fallacies. But how could I believe in Evolution when I believed so strongly in God? Suddenly, a profound sense of peace came over me, and I realized I could believe in both. I was walking on air for the rest of the week—no more cognitive dissonance, no more need to defend Creationism. I was free.
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But if you look at say, Arizona State University, (which claims to be one of the largest, if not the largest university in the United States), and closely examine their curriculum you find that they have three colleges that might deal with history:
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
- School of Letters and Sciences
The Bachelor of Arts in history allows students to focus on a single geographic concentration. There are four geographic concentrations: Asia, Europe, Latin America and United States. Students must take five courses within a single concentration. Europe (EU) and United States (US) students must take two courses outside US and EU. All students must complete one course from HST 302-307. All students must also complete HST 300, taken in the junior year, and HST 498, taken in the senior year.
Students must complete 30 hours of history course work (HST prefix only); 18 hours must be upper division. A minimum of 12 hours upper division hours must be completed at the Tempe campus. A minimum grade of "C" (2.00) is required in all history course work. A minimum of a 2.25 GPA must be attained in history course work.There are only a very limited number of universities in the United States that offer courses that include genealogy as even a consideration. Why is this?
The answer is both complex and simple. Genealogy is not considered an "academic" subject. Merely documenting peoples' lives is not considered to be something worthy of university level study. Of course, if you want to study the life of a "prominent" person, that becomes history. Here is an example of part of a course description for a graduate level course in Historical Methods from ASU:
This course serves as an introduction to different methodologies and theoretical frameworks used by historians. Professor Manchester will coordinate the course and be present for each session, but most weeks different professors from the history department will take turns teaching either their areas of theoretical expertise, or methodologies with which they are particularly familiar. The course will introduce the students to the major approaches to history they are still employed by historians while also exploring some sub-fields of history. Sessions will include topics such as intellectual history, social history, cultural history, post-colonialism, post-modernism, the new economic history, history of the nation-state, collective memory and the integration of categories such as race, class, and gender into the reconstruction of the past, while also highlighting specific philosophers, such as Weber, Marx and Foucault, who have had a profound impact on how historians approach their craft. Requirements: Weekly essays.Interestingly, if you read the graduate course descriptions carefully, you will find that nearly every skill they purport to enhance relates directly to doing genealogical research as well as general historical research. But at the same time, you can appreciate how different academic historical studies are from what we do as genealogists.
Brigham Young University (BYU) offers a degree in Family History - Genealogy. Comparing that degree to the History degree offered at ASU, the genealogy student at BYU actually take a lot more courses in history than those who are majoring in history at ASU. Out of the 120 hours required for graduation at BYU, a genealogy student might have as many as 79 hours of history related classes and at a minimum, at least ten more class hours than required for a history degree at ASU.
Here is the description of a degree in history from BYU:
History stands at the heart of a liberal arts bridge between the humanities and social sciences. Historical understanding is thus basic to the life of an educated human being. As such, it is the ideal major for the student who wants the broad educational background for entrance into professions such as law, government service, or business, or who wants a liberal arts education. History can also be valuable training for someone who plans to teach.Now, that statement about the basic nature of history, where are we as genealogists? How many of us understand the basic nature of history? Do we really understand the history of the people we are researching? I find that most genealogists only have the vaguest idea of history. I also find that many historians only have the vaguest idea of what genealogy is all about. Why is this the case?


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JACKSON TWP - With an 8-1 vote, the Seneca Valley School Board on Monday approved moving the Evans City school project to the Ehrman Road site located in Cranberry and Jackson townships.
Kathy Whittle was the only dissenting vote. Every board member was in attendance at Monday night's meeting.
CannonDesign's lead architect on the Evans City school project, Mike Corb, presented a geotechnical report of the suggested construction sites before the vote and said Evans City had different bearing capacities which will require deeper foundations at a higher cost than that of the Ehrman Road property. Corb estimated that it would be a price difference of two or three times the cost of putting a foundation on the Ehrman site.
The board also brought in Jim Pearson, Seneca Valley transportation director, to present information on transportation logistics that would accompany moving the school.
As in the previous handful of school board meetings at which Evans City was a main topic, those who will be affected by the board's decision took time to discuss the problems they see with Evans City losing its school.
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