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Phalaenopsis orchid is one of the easiest varieties of orchids to grow as a houseplant, and is often called the beginner orchid due to its easy going nature, or the moth orchid due to the shape of its blooms.
Type: Hybrid
Colour: Orange
Fragrance: No
Plant Size: Blooming Size
Plant Stage: Matured
Pot Type: Clear Pot
Pot Size: 4 inch
Potting Media: Sphagnum Moss
Growing Conditions: Tropical (Intermediate)
Growing Level: Easy
Note: Plant will be delivered without flowers / spikes / buds
Water: Phalaenopsis is a "monopodial" orchid, which means that it grows from a single stem. Hence, this plant has a lower tolerance for drought. Water them in the morning when the media is dry. Ensure there is moisture in the media and keep them from drying up.
Light: Ensure a good dose of indirect sunlight. Ideally the early morning light is advisable.
Temperature: Warm to cool growing orchids with temperature between 21°C to 38°C suitable for growth. During fall, limited exposure to lower night time temperatures encourage growth of spikes. Higher temperature will encourage faster growth.
Humidity: Maintain humidity level of 60% - 80%. Regular watering in plants helps maintain the humidity and encourage growth. Good air circulation is a must.
Fertilizer: Weekly fertilizing required during active growth. In winter months, plants are fertilized twice a month.
Note: Never fertilize an orchid that is completely dry, because this can cause major damage to the roots.
Potting: Phalaenopsis should be repotted in a small transparent pot with coarse mix which can hold moisture and can maintain humidity. Media should be as such so that water drains out properly and provides proper aeration.
1. Open the box under the shade (cool area).
2. Keep the plant for rest for at least 12 hrs.
3. Clean the plant and wash them with a fungicide solution and keep spraying the fungicides once in a week.
4. After 15 days you can start spraying fertilizer after every 10 days in growing season (summers) and after every 15 days in dormant season (winter).
5. Repotting is preferred to be done in the growing season.
6. Keep checking the growth of new roots which indicates the plants have successfully settled in your location.
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OCEAN CITY — Nearly one year to the day after threatening to sue federal fisheries officials over a failed threatened or endangered listing for Atlantic Bluefin tuna, an environmental watchdog agency last week filed suit in U.S. District Court in an attempt to reverse a rule change expanding the fishery.
In late December 2010, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced an endangered or threatened listing for Atlantic Bluefin tuna was not warranted based on the best available science. Instead, NMFS officials kept Bluefin tuna on the "species of concern" list and promised to revisit a potential ESA listing for the species in 2013.
Just days later, the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the original petition for an Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing for Atlantic Bluefin tuna, threatened to file a federal suit against NMFS and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for failing to take steps to protect the troubled species.
Last week, the Center for Biological Diversity made good on its promise when it filed suit in U.S. District Court against NMFS and NOAA attempting to reverse the agencies' Final Rule for 2012 on the fisheries management of the species. Essentially, the federal suit accuses NMFS of expanding the domestic Atlantic Bluefin tuna commercial fishery at a time when the species is at its greatest peril.
"With depleted Bluefin tuna populations and, therefore, declining revenue, the industry has pressured the fisheries service to increase the economic potential of the Bluefin tuna fishery," the complaint reads. "As a result, the fisheries service has incrementally expanded the Atlantic Bluefin tuna general category fishery from approximately five months a year, while the tuna were still off in northern New England, to 10 months a year, allowing fishermen to target Bluefin tuna as far south as Florida."
The Center for Biological Diversity is challenging the new rule that it believes expands overfishing of the highly imperiled Atlantic Bluefin tuna. The lawsuit, filed last Thursday in U.S. District Court, seeks to halt the dramatic expansion of commercial fishing from Massachusetts to Florida and everywhere in between, including the mid-Atlantic region off the coast of Ocean City, in an effort to prevent Bluefin tuna from being fished into extinction.
It's important to note the federal suit does not target the recreational Bluefin tuna fishery, a staple of the multi-million sportfishing industry off the coast of Ocean City each year. The recreational Bluefin tuna fishery is governed by a different set of rules, although the sportfishing industry does share the resources with the commercial side. In addition, local commercial anglers engage in the harvest of Atlantic Bluefin tuna when there is quota available and more than a few recreational fishermen cross over with a commercial permit at certain times of the year.
Center for Biological Diversity officials said last week NMFS' final rule regarding the expansion of the Bluefin tuna fishery just months after it was added to the "species of concern" list could signal a death knell for the burly behemoths that often grow to over 1,000 pounds.
"Bluefin tuna were once the giants of the sea, but overfishing has depleted the ocean of this remarkable fish," said CBD staff attorney Catherine Kilduff. "It's completely backwards to ramp up fishing of Bluefin tuna at a time when they're increasingly rare."
According to CBD officials, NMFS' latest rule nearly doubles the number of Bluefin tuna that can be caught each day as well as lengthened the fishing season.
"This rule enables fishermen to chase the remaining Bluefin tuna down the Atlantic coast on their way to reproduce in the Gulf of Mexico," said Kilduff. "At some point, the last Bluefin tuna will be caught and there will be no fishery left at all."

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bbPress 2.1 – Theme Compatibility
You posted, I listened.
Version 2 of bbPress's theme compatibility is now in the 2.1 plugin branch of code for your perusal. This second iteration removes the need to add current_theme_support() to your theme, and totally automates the process.
If your child or parent theme contains the template files that bbPress looks for, bbPress will use them. If not, bbPress will fall back on it's default templates and styling. No more logic necessary.
Please test it. It's new code with a new approach, so I'd like to get some fresh eyes on things right away to avoid a long beta period like 2.0 had.
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The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful.
– James 5:16
The Living Rosary Association was founded by Venerable Pauline Marie Jaricot at Lyon, France in 1826, at the age of 27. She first founded the Propagation of the Faith at the age of twenty. Pauline was a close friend of Saint Jean Marie Vianney, the CurÉ of Ars. It was approved and richly indulgenced by Pope Gregory XVI, and accorded official canonical status on January 27, 1832.
The Living Rosary Association began its revival on December 8, 1986, with 30 local members. Blessed 1000-fold by Our Lady and under the powerful patronage of St. Philomena, the membership is now 11,369,699 and has been planted in every continent of the world. Over 3/4 of the membership lives in foreign and Third World countries. Each member is asked to voluntarily give a small monthly donation. There is no other financial support other than from its members. The funds received are placed directly back into the work of our Missionary Centers around the world. For those who are unable to contribute a monetary donation, we ask for your fervent prayers that our material needs are met.
Let us reach all souls with the spiritual remedy of the Living Rosary!
To register as a member of the Living Rosary, please click here. A list of 15 names will be assembled, and when the Rosary is complete, the decade you have been assigned and the day to begin will be sent to you.
Partnered in prayer with Our Lady for the Salvation of the World!
Let us unite with one purpose, spirit and prayer. The intentions of the Universal Living Rosary Association are:
The Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in honor of St. Philomena our patroness and protectress.
The Living Rosary is a "perpetual" Rosary! That is, you accept the obligation to pray your daily Mystery faithfully for the remainder of your life. These obligations do not bind under pain of sin, but your effort and desire to remain faithful are necessary. If you should decide that you can no longer fulfill your obligation, we do understand. Our only concern is to keep the Rosaries complete. Please do let us know if you can no longer participate so that we may reassign your Mystery.
Have courage, my dear children! I exhort you to fight against the persecution of the Church and against anarchy, not with the sword, but with the rosary, with prayer and good example.
– Pope Pius IX, on May 23, 1877
A regular Spring and Winter newsletter, "Dedicated Decades", is posted to each member in an effort to encourage all to persevere and remain faithful. The individual devotion of isolated souls is often a spark in the middle of darkness without the influence of a flame. Through our union of charity in prayer and intention, this spiritual remedy is 'injected' into the souls of all who participate as "spiritual medicine". In this way, those who are strong uphold the weak; those who are fervent inspire the lukewarm and the spiritually rich enrich the poor: BRING THEM TOGETHER AND YOU HAVE A FURNACE! One who prays the Rosary alone receives the grace of one Rosary but, if he is united with many, he gains the graces and merits of the whole. Your Decade may be offered at any time of the day or night.
The Living Rosary Associates must pray daily one OUR FATHER, ten HAIL MARY's and one GLORY BE, accompanied by meditation on the Mystery assigned. It is recommended that this be done during the morning hours. The graces of this great union of prayer will fortify and strengthen you for the many difficulties and duties of your busy and demanding day.
One Our Father
Ten Hail Mary's
Meditation on the Mystery
Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
In Honor of Saint Philomena
Any time of the day or night and in any place – no need to gather in a group.
Daily until death!
$1.00 a month will help us meet the expenses of the Apostolate.
Bring in new members
List your first and last name
Pray for deceased members
Pray for us
The indulgences granted to this simple devotion include all those of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary and more! The 15 Promises >>>
The Rosary is our greatest weapon – the rampart against which the forces of evil have no defense. It is the most highly indulgenced and recommended prayer. It is a weapon "without equal" that will crush the enemies of Holy Mother the Church, and finally, bring peace so needed in our world! The Rosary is the Bulwark of the Church:
"Many Christian nations seek the protection of the Mother of God with an ardor that grows greater every day; may they cling more and more to the practice of the Holy Rosary, not only as a remedy for their misfortunes, but as the very badge of Christian piety! The Rosary is the protection of the Mother of God against the enemies of the Catholic Church. To Mary we must fly. We wish to see it offered more widely in all places and at all times! The great virgin of the Rosary is the most potent help of Christians."
Mary worked through St. Dominic and now works through us to pray the Rosary to rescue Her children from the powers of Satan and into the abundant life found in Christ our Savior.
May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith, and may charity be the root and foundation of our life.
– cf. Eph 3:17
Following the example of the Venerable Pauline Jaricot, who founded the work of "a penny a week" for the Propagation of the Faith, you and your family may also consider dedicating monetary support equivalent to a meal a month or other offering to the Living Rosary.
The majority of the members of the Living Rosary are in third world countries. Every donation received goes directly back into this universal and heroic missionary effort through the distribution of Catholic literature, holy cards and sacramentals such as the holy oil of St. Philomena.
Universal Living Rosary Association of St. Philomena is a nonprofit Corporation 501(c)(3) charitable organization and as such we automatically give "Tax Receipts" to all those who make a financial donation. For those who donate $100 or more, a "TRIDUUM of MASSES" will be arranged for the donor and his/her family. Thirty dollars of every $100 donated supports the missionary who will offer these masses. Through your help, the prayers of the missions will continue to work miracles in the lives of all of its members and families, thus strengthening the Mystical Body of Christ.
Another option is to donate $50 to cover the flat rate to send a parcel of materials and sacramentals to the missions abroad. God bless you for your generosity.
For centuries, our cherished Catholic faith has been passed from person to person, parent to child, etc. Each of us carries in our heart a special memory of how God first graced us with the knowledge of the faith and how Our Blessed Mother, St. Philomena, Venerable Pauline Jaricot and other saints changed our lives and brought us closer to Christ.
In our work in the Universal Living Rosary Association, we see first hand how millions of souls are currently living without that knowledge of God and are living outside of His grace. We have been given a beautiful opportunity to carry out Christ's work and pass on our faith and blessings to others who would otherwise never be introduced to Our Lord, the Savior of all mankind. Just as we pray for the souls in Purgatory who have no one to pray for them, we should also make it a part of our life's mission to pass on our faith to as many souls as possible who have no one else to pass it on to them, who don't know Our Lord and His promise of salvation.
This is the box we send out to the foreign Missions @ $77.95. It contains Rosaries, Scapulars, Miraculous Medals, Cord & Oil, Newsletters, Calendars, Catechism books, 2 TAN books, large color prints, lists and encouragement for our Promoters.
Patti Melvin, Director
Universal Living Rosary Association
P.O. Box 1303, Dickinson, Texas 77539, U.S.A.
Fax: (281) 337-3722 / (281) 309-9821
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Update 11:30 a.m. March 3:
According to an expert in geoscience, the earthquake which caused a stir in the Shuswap on Saturday, March 2 is not likely to result in aftershocks.
Taimi Mulder, an Earthquake Seismologist working for the Geological Survey of Canada which is a part of Natural Resources Canada, said aftershocks are not generally observed following a quake of this size.
"You can never rule anything out, Mother Nature has her own rules," Mulder said.
According to Mulder, the earthquake was detected by multiple monitoring stations, the nearest of which was in Lillooet. She said the station in Penticton out of operation for maintenance.
Read More: Magnitude 4.5 earthquake reported off Vancouver Island
Mudler, based at the Pacific Geoscience Centre in Sidney B.C., said the Juan De Fuca Plate, located off the west coast of Southern B.C. and the Northwestern United states, is slowly subducting or sliding beneath the North American Plate. She said the subduction creates stress in the North American Plate and small inland earthquakes sometimes result as the plate readjusts itself.
According to Shuswap Emergency Program spokesperson Tracy Hughes the emergency program was monitoring the situation after the tremor was fel on March 2.
"Members of the Salmon Arm fire department investigated, but there were no reports of damage or injuries. This meant there was no need for us to launch any further activation of emergency services," Hughes said.
Mulder said although Saturday night's earthquake was not powerful enough to cause damage it is a good opportunity to review preparedness for natural disasters. In a serious earthquake people should seek shelter beneath a piece of furniture and hold on tight. Other precautions people can take include securing large shelving units to walls, storing heavy objects on bottom shelves and avoiding placing heavy wall hangings above beds.
Update 7:40 a.m. March 3:
According to Earthquakes Canada, on of their monitoring stations detected an earthquake four kilometres Northeast of Salmon Arm at 8:39 p.m. Saturday night.
The monitoring equipment picked up a 2.2 magnitude earthquake originating a kilometre below the earth's surface. According to Earthquakes Canada's website, no damage was reported and none would be expected from a quake of this size.
Original Story:
At approximately 8:45 p.m. on March 2, something shook homes from Sicamous to Tappen and alarmed residents, though no confirmation has yet to come in as to what exactly happened.
Initial conversations on the scanner said an explosion was reported at 16 Avenue NE in Salmon Arm; fire and ambulance crews responded but found nothing at the scene. Social media indicated multiple calls were made to RCMP, who reported nothing conclusive, and CP Rail dispatchers were reported contacting train crews to see if anything could be reported.
Dispatchers updated over the scanner at approximately 8:15 p.m. updating that ground shaking was felt in many areas.
At approximately 10 p.m., Shuswap Emergency Program stated there have been widespread reports of the explosion but nothing has yet been found.
"Officials are still investigating the situation, but at this time, 9:50 p.m. on Saturday, March 2, there has been nothing found. Currently, our emergency management has not been activated. We will report back as soon as we know more information," states the SEP Facebook page.
SEP also says Sicamous Fire Department is reporting no indication of any unusual activity or emergency within their boundaries.
Read More: Earthquake early warning sensors installed off coast of B.C
While social media conversations suggested a small earthquake may have occurred, the Seismogram in Lillooet reported no activity at the time of the shake.
The suggested cause of the event that shook homes in the area are various on social media, from a sonic boom resulting from a low-flying jet plane to a possible meteor. A post in the Vernon Rant and Rave Facebook page reports seeing a large shooting star or possible meteor at the approximate time the shaking was felt.
As of yet, none of this has been confirmed by authorities however, and no injuries or property damage has been reported.
Read More: Meteorite fragments found in the Kootenays
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Community Fishing Assistance Program
- MDWFP Community Fishing Assistance Program Lakes Map
- Community Fishing Assistance Program Regulations
There are many small water bodies in Mississippi that are owned by counties, cities, and private groups. The quality of the fishing in these waters varies depending on the knowledge of fisheries management techniques possessed by those who own or manage these waters. In an effort to provide quality fishing experiences in these waters the MDWFP has established the Community Fishing Assistance Program (CFAP). The goal of our Community Fishing Assistance Program is to enhance the management and development of lakes and ponds in urban settings so that local residents, especially youth, will be able to experience the joys of fishing close to home.
Communities, cities, counties, and other sponsors participate in this program by executing a cooperative agreement with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. This agreement specifies the services each party agrees to provide. In order to enter into a cooperative agreement with the department, the local sponsor must agree to abide by all provisions in the cooperative agreement.
The MDWFP will:
- provide technical advice regarding fish harvest regulations, aquatic plant control, management recommendations, and fish for stocking, free of charge
- provide a management plan through periodic on-site sampling of the fish populations
- provide signs recognizing all entities who participated in project development and list the regulations for the water body.
The Cooperating agrees to:
- maintain the grounds around the fishing site
- follow the fisheries management recommendations provided by the MDWFP
Currently, there are 24 water bodies totaling 442 acres in 19 locations enrolled in the MDWFP Community Fishing Assistance Program.
For more information, contact:
Dennis Riecke, Fisheries Bureau CFAP Coordinator
(601) 432-2207


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LAS VEGAS >> Lawyers in Las Vegas want immigration authorities to release a wealthy Malaysian businessman who was charged in a World Cup betting scheme and remains in custody even after his poker star friends posted his bail.
Wei Seng "Paul" Phua, 50, and his son, Darren Phua, 22, were in the Henderson Detention Center on Monday on a hold from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to jail records. A few days earlier, poker professional Andrew Robl and 10-time World Series of Poker Champion Phil Ivey posted a combined $2.5 million to secure the Phuas' release.
"Our clients have complied with every condition set by a federal judge for their release," David Chesnoff, an attorney for the Phuas, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "We have repeatedly attempted to contact ICE authorities, who have not responded. We are going to take further legal steps."
An ICE spokeswoman couldn't immediately provide details about the case on Monday, but said more information was expected to be released soon.
The Phuas are among eight people who were arrested July 13 and charged with taking World Cup bets in an illegal sports book set up in Caesars Palace villas. FBI and Nevada Gaming Control Board agents who raided the suites reported finding a laptop computer logging illegal wagers and other records.
U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said the Las Vegas operation began shortly after Phua left the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau, where he had been arrested June 18 and posted bail on similar allegations of illegal wagering on World Cup soccer games.
Bogden identified Phua as a high-ranking member of 14K Triad, an organized crime group.
During their arraignment July 14, a federal judge granted a request that Phua and his son stay with a Las Vegas doctor and poker enthusiast while awaiting an Aug. 4 preliminary hearing.
The Phuas were told that once they posted bail, which was set for $2 million for the father and $500,000 for the son, they would also have to wear GPS monitoring devices, surrender their passports and put up a $48 million private Gulfstream jet as collateral, among other conditions.


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Far Cry 4
Far Cry 4 Kyrat Edition Includes Pagan Min Statue
Alongside a trailer highlighting some of the positive feedback Far Cry 4 has already garnered, Ubisoft has unveiled the Kyrat edition.
The special Kyrat edition of the game includes a statue of Pagan Min, a travel journal, a propaganda poster, a map of Kyrat, a collector's box, and some in-game contact with Hurk's Redemption (the three single-player missions in the Limited Edition) and The Impaler weapon. The Kyrat edition will be $129.99 and will be available for all platforms.
Far Cry 4 launches on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC on November 18.
For more on Far Cry 4, check out all the features from our month of exclusive Far Cry 4 coverage by clicking the banner below.
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Ever notice some people seem to eat anything they want and never gain a pound, while others seem to gain weight just by looking at fattening foods? You may be seeing things correctly after all. According to research this may have a biological cause. Using fruit flies, researchers have found that genes interacting with diet, rather than diet alone, are the main cause of variation in metabolic traits, such as body weight. This helps explain why some diets work better for some people than ot…hers, and suggests that future diets should be tailored to an individual's genes rather than to physical appearance.
"There is no one-size-fits all solution to the diseases of obesity and type-2 diabetes," said Laura K. Reed, the lead investigator in the work. "Each person has a unique set of genetic and environmental factors contributing to his or her metabolic health, and as a society, we should stop looking for a panacea and start accepting that this is a complex problem that may have a different solution for each individual."
To make this discovery, the scientists studied 146 different genetic lines of fruit flies that were fed four different diets (nutritionally balanced, low calorie, high sugar, and high fat). Researchers then measured a variety of metabolic traits, including body weight, in each group. Flies in some of the genetic lines were highly sensitive to their diets, as reflected by changes in body weight, while flies of other lines showed no change in weight across diets. The scientists were able to ascertain what portion of the total variation in the metabolic traits was determined by genetics alone, by diet alone, or by the interaction between genotype and diet. Results showed that diet alone made a small contribution to the total variation, while genotype and genotype interactions with diet made very large contributions. This study strongly suggests that some individuals can achieve benefits from altering their dietary habits, while the same changes for others will have virtually no effect.
"The summer beach season often serves as a 'gut check' for many in terms of their weight," said Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetics. "This research explains why the one-size-fits-all approach offered by many diet programs can have dramatically different effects for people who try them."
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h-event is a simple, open format for events on the web. h-event is often used with both event listings and individual event pages. h-event is one of several open microformat draft standards suitable for embedding data in HTML.
h-event is the microformats2 update to hCalendar.
- Status
- This is a Living Specification yet mature enough to encourage additional implementations and feedback.
- Participate
- Open Issues
- Advance the spec by contributing to a consensus in issue: adopt same change control as h-entry
- License
- Per CC0, to the extent possible under law, the editors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. In addition, as of 2024-02-29, the editors have made this specification available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement Version 1.0.
Here is a simple event example:

Microformats Meetup

<time class="dt-start" datetime="2013-06-30 12:00">30th June 2013, 12:00</time>
to <time class="dt-end" datetime="2013-06-30 18:00">18:00</time>
at Some bar in SF

Get together and discuss all things microformats-related.

Parsed JSON:
"items": [
"type": [
"properties": {
"name": [
"Microformats Meetup"
"start": [
"2013-06-30 12:00:00"
"end": [
"2013-06-30 18:00:00"
"location": [
"Some bar in SF"
"summary": [
"Get together and discuss all things microformats-related."
Get started
The class h-event
is a root class name that indicates the presence of an h-event.
p-name, dt-start, dt-end, p-location, p-summary, and the other h-event property class names listed below define properties of the h-event.
See microformats2-parsing to learn more about property class names.
h-event properties, inside an element with class h-event:
- event name (or title)p-summary
- short summary of the eventdt-start
- datetime the event startsdt-end
- datetime the event endsdt-duration
- duration of the eventp-description
- more detailed description of the event- WARNING: Proposed to be replaced by
(re-used from h-entry) - See and follow-up: https://github.com/microformats/h-event/issues/3
- WARNING: Proposed to be replaced by
- permalink for the eventp-category
- event category(ies)/tag(s)p-location
- where the event takes place, optionally embedded h-card, h-adr, or h-geo
All properties are optional.
Experimental Properties
These properties are currently in use in the wild but not (yet) part of the draft h-event spec:
- a person attending the event, optionally embed h-card
- This draft has not been updated in almost 2 years. During this period,
has been standardised, thus making it robust and mature enough for the addition. I guess it's about time to unlabelp-attendee
as experimental.- I've filed https://github.com/microformats/h-event/issues/2 to track advancing this draft as a whole. Let's do that with the existing draft before discussing p-attendee in particular. And rather than guessing, take a look at the vocabulary maturity levels in h-entry and perhaps help evaluate (in another issue) p-attendee according to those criteria. Tantek 01:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- I would also suggest to extend expected value to h-entry, so that, while the personal info can be preserved, the attendee can also support p-rsvp property of h-entry.
- I don't understand this. p-attendee is supposed to represent a person, e.g. an h-card. How would it having that be an h-entry make sense and work (from a publishing and consuming code perspective)? This proposed extension to p-attendee may be worth its own issue as well. Tantek 01:10, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- a person organizing an event, optionally embedded h-card. Used in Indieweb events, but not consumed. https://github.com/microformats/h-event/issues/10u-rsvp
- similar to the proposed u-comment on h-entry, this would be the proposed property to mark up displayed RSVPs on an h-event. https://github.com/microformats/h-event/issues/9
h-event is a microformats.org draft specification. Public discussion on h-event takes place on the #microformats channel on irc.freenode.net (view recent discussions), and specific issues may be filed on GitHub.
h-event is ready to use and implemented in the wild. For backwards compatibility you should also mark up top-level h-events as classic hCalendar events.
Property Details
(stub, to be expanded)
is typically a physical address, optionally marked up with h-adr, for example:

17 Austerstræti
Reykjavík
Iceland
Reserved Properties
Reserved properties:
- a person (co-)organizing the event, optionally embed h-cardMain article: h-card- proposed as way to implement copying an event organizer to Eventbrite
Examples in the wild
Real world in the wild examples:
- ... add uses of h-event you see in the wild here.
- W3Conf 2013 uses h-event for the main event, and h-card for all the speakers and notable attendees. The h-cards make particularly good use of implied name, url, and photo properties.
- Tantek Çelik uses h-event on his home page
- microformats.org at 7 years presentation with h-event
- Rise of the Indie Web hCards (from Personal Democracy Forum 2012 #pdf12 #pdf2012) has microformats2 h-event and h-card markup
- WebMaker by Mozilla has h-event and h-card on event search (e.g. search near Portland Oregon) and event pages (e.g. IndieWebCamp 2012).[1]
- IndieWebCamp has microformats2 h-event markup with embedded h-cards for the organizers and the location.
- Mozilla Events page has microformats2 h-event markup with attendees marked up with h-card.
- https://gregorlove.com/events has h-event markup, for example: https://gregorlove.com/2017/06/homebrew-website-club/
- has additional property from h-entry:
- has additional property from h-entry:
- https://oauth.net/events/ has a list of h-event marked up events relating to OAuth, both future and past
- http://68middle.st/events has events marked up in h-event
- gov.uk mentions that iCalendar can be translated into h-event microformats in their "Exchange of calendar events" guidance.
You can map events to and from iCalendar from other formats, such as h-event.
See microformats2 examples in the wild for more
Test and validate microformats2 markup in general with:
- https://pin13.net/mf2/ - enter your markup directly
- https://pin13.net/ - enter a URL to a page to test where it says "Microformats Parser"
Software implementations that publish or consume h-event, including themes, plugins, or extensions:
When adding an implementation, please provide and link to its home page and open source repo if any.
- mf2 to iCalendar: Convert microformats h-event to iCalendar. Example: https://gregorlove.com/calendar/
Backward Compatibility
Publisher Compatibility
For backward compatibility, you may wish to use classic hCalendar classnames in addition to the more future-proof h-event properties, for example:

Some great event

Parser Compatibility
Microformats parsers SHOULD detect classic properties only if a classic root class name is found and parse them as microformats2 properties.
If an "h-event" is found, don't look for a "vevent" on the same element.
Compat root class name: vevent
Properties: (parsed as p- plain text unless otherwise specified)
- parse asp-name
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- h-adr
- h-geo
- h-card
- hCalendar
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text: On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 01:31:27PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > So probably you don't want to turn off the nodes automatically, you > want to turn them *off*. If your cluster is half idle, why bother > turning it on at all? Some people have clusters used for undergraduate instruction. So they're very busy before assignments are due, and not so busy during the rest of the time. That's only one of many reasons someone might intentionally have idle nodes. BTW, there are many solutions to remote power management. The most common one I've seen deployed is "intelligent" PDUs, although this is pretty expensive, $100 per node. Cheaper methods include X10, IPMI, and Wake on Lan. -- greg


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Outreach, primarily through UMass Extension, is another important aspect of our School, and complements our excellence in academics and research. Our Outreach educational services and research programs affect all aspects of agriculture, including farmers, homeowners, landscape managers, golf course superintendents, sports turf managers, pesticide applicators, etc. Our community service programs also reach out to educators and the general public, and invite them to share in our knowledge and vast resources.


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Last summer, Erika Moretti '15 was on a lobster boat on Great Bay helping a UNH researcher pull lobster traps for an annual survey when they found a blue crab in one of the pots. Green crabs are often mixed in with the catch; blue crabs are not. They don't like cold water.
But it turned out, Moretti later learned, that local oyster researchers had discovered a few of the blue crustaceans in their oyster beds and that they were eating the oysters. That cinched it for Moretti, a senior majoring in zoology. She crafted a proposal for a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grant through UNH's Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, outlining her interest in studying the crabs and their green counterparts, hoping to learn how they might impact Great Bay's lobster population.
"I love research. I've always been into science," says Moretti, who spent last summer as a research assistant working with Win Watson, UNH's associate director of education of the School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering and professor of zoology.
This year, with support of the 10-week SURF grant, the Salem, N.H. native has been conducting her own research, trying to learn what would happen if the blue crab population increased. Would they prey on the invasive green crab—something Moretti says would be good for Great Bay because the green crabs destroy the eelgrass, critical to the 6,000-acre estuary's habitat. Would the blue crabs eat the small lobsters as the green crabs do, possibility leading to reduced supply? And what about those pesky green crabs? Would they attack their blue cousins?
To find those answers, she decided to force the species to live together. Working at Jackson Estuarine Laboratory at Adams Point in Durham, she built three mesh enclosures to house the crabs and lobsters, mixing up the test size: a large lobster with a small blue crab; a blue crab with a smaller green crab, etc.
Moretti set the three enclosures inside a large tank filled with bay water and placed a camera that snaps pictures every two seconds above the tank to record the activity. She added red lights to see what happened after dark.
"A lot goes on at night," Moretti says. "I saw the lobster going after a small green crab, and the crab going after the lobster—whichever one is bigger has been dominating."
One sequence of photos, appearing like a video because of how fast they are shot, shows a young lobster and a blue crab stalking one another.
"They spent the entire time trying to figure each other out. They were definitely trying to establish who was dominant. But by the end of the night, the blue crab had the run of the tank," Moretti says. "You could assume that the young lobster had never seen a blue crab in its life, so that could be part of it."
Then she swapped out the young lobster for a larger one.
"Unfortunately for the blue crab, the big lobster proved to be too much for him. I found the lobster alive and very aggressive, surrounded by pieces of the blue crab's shell," Moretti says.
The experiments are giving Moretti a better idea of how lobsters and crabs interact in close quarters, and what factors might influence the exchanges. If she feeds them, for example, and one is aggressive, she can assume it isn't because it is hungry. She will also test changes in habitat, shelter and what happens when she places all three species in one tank.
"My main focus is the ecology of the three species, and how their interactions might affect the local populations of lobsters, which would, in turn, affect the industry," she says, adding, "I like that it's my own research and that I've been able to run with it. I came up with the idea and it's been great to see it play out—to be responsible for the outcome."
Moretti says she has known what she wanted to do since taking a zoology class at Salem High School, one of the few high schools in New Hampshire that offers zoology. And UNH, she says, is one of two state colleges in New England where the subject is available as a major.
In the fall, Moretti will sit down with Watson to discuss her research, which she plans to continue throughout the coming school year. "I want to see where I can go from here," she says. "There is still so much to learn. That's the thing I love about research—you don't know where it will lead."
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Nearly a decade has passed since Max Payne last brought his brand of violent street justice to a dark and unjust world, and videogames have changed dramatically in this time. And Max has changed with it, under the new direction of Rockstar Vancouver who are contributing the first game in the series not created by originating studio Remedy.
Max Payne 3 is a game which is instantly recognizable by its gameplay tropes yet manages to achieve a fresh take on the character and his world without betraying his origins. Packed with fast action, brutal violence, and a striking cinematic style, all of the stops have been pulled out to make this the most exciting entry in the series to date.
Max Payne 3 (PC, PS3, Xbox 360 [reviewed])
Developer: Rockstar Vancouver
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Released: May 15, 2012
The story mode takes Max from the mean streets of New Jersey to the equally mean streets of São Paulo, Brazil. Keeping with tradition, the entire plot is experienced in flashback, narrated throughout by Max as he reflects upon the recent state of his life. Beyond that, events are frequently presented out of their chronological order so that the settings constantly shift and blur together, keeping the player constantly guessing where they'll wind up next.
By this point in his life, Max has effectively hit rock bottom and has been spending all of his time searching for meaning in a bottle. That pursuit doesn't stop just because he's hired by a wealthy Brazilian family to work as a bodyguard, with the promise of good pay for babysitting socialites. But the job doesn't turn out to be the cakewalk it was supposed to be, and a drunk Max fails to protect the family when a local street gang targets them, leading to a series of events which will leave hundreds dead in the wake of his efforts to redeem himself.
Throughout the series, Max has always been the unfortunate victim of circumstance. He's the guy who's in the wrong place at the wrong time, either through no real fault of his own or due to the concerted efforts of others surrounding him. In some ways, you can make the same argument about Max Payne 3, but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Yes, there are secrets to be learned and villains to be punished, and Max is still the guy who gets stuck in the middle of a bad situation.
Unlike prior games, though, Max has to bear far more responsibility for his role in the course of events. Throughout the story, it becomes clear that most of the situation could have been avoided had Max chosen a better way to deal with his problems than becoming a drunk. While it may make him a less sympathetic character, the story is considerably better for the change as it provides an opportunity for Max to be more than just the man standing between evil and its goals and experience genuine character growth.
The tale may be dark, but the presentation is flashy as hell. Max Payne 3 transitions almost seamlessly from cutscenes to gameplay sequences and back, rarely giving the player an opportunity to have the time to think about doing anything but playing further and driving the story forward. The non-interactive sequences give the impression that they fold in and out organically, but serve another function as cover for the game's lengthy loading sequences. One has to wonder if some of the rather lengthy story sequences are of the length they are simply to cover up the fact that the player is playing a game, particularly upon discovering that many of the longer scenes cannot be skipped until they're almost completed. Nevertheless, they are entertaining and effectively maintain immersion by never disconnecting the player from the narrative.
There's a lot of visual style imparted on these sequences. During cutscenes, bits of phrases in Max's narration will pop up on the screen to provide emphasis, and Max Payne 3 makes heavy use of a blurring effect aimed at giving the game a modern, cinematic tone and connecting the player with the sense of disorientation Max feels. While the bits of text are used to great effect throughout, the blur wears out its welcome over time and feels a bit tedious eventually, but it appears so often that it eventually becomes easy to ignore through repetition.
What cannot be ignored is Max's narration. When he's not shooting other people in their heads, he's inside his own, and Max has gobs of dialog throughout the game. He is constantly contributing wry observations about whatever crosses into view, and with fantastic variety. Every time Max picks up health-restoring painkillers, he has something to say about them. If the player tarries too long in a room, Max will pipe up to remind them what the next objective is. His voice is a constant companion throughout the entire affair and expertly performed by returning actor James McCaffrey (who also provides motion capture for the role).
Better still, the writing of Max has been elevated. Gone are the overwrought metaphors in Sam Lake's version of the character; Max doesn't once try to compare telephone lines to a human circulatory system or any such pretentious crap. He's still clever and just as full of pathos as ever, but without giving the impression that his words are forced or disingenuous. He's such a joy to listen to that players will likely be scouring environments in search of more pearls of wisdom, and those who do will be amply rewarded for their diligence.
Controlling Max is also more satisfying than ever before. Max Payne has always been a series where cover played an important role, but Max Payne 3 is the first game to feature an actual mechanic for employing it, allowing the player to hide behind objects, lean out, and blind-fire. The cover mechanic does not provide a means of easily moving from one object to another, however, leaving the player to either rely on a rather slow, rolling dodge, or to take advantage of "bullet time" (earned by being shot at, killing enemies, and more) to slow the action and minimize the damage.
Max isn't a space marine, after all. He may be tough as nails, but it doesn't require much more than a few bullets to take him down, and there are a lot of bullets in his general vicinity pretty much all of the time. But death need not be the end with the introduction of a "last stand" mechanic, activated when Max runs out of health but still has unused painkillers. When in the last stand, bullet time is activated and the player has a few seconds to eliminate the specific enemy responsible for the killing blow. If successful, Max will survive in a prone position with a majority of health restored, at the cost of a painkiller and all stored bullet time.
These new mechanics go a long way toward deepening the gameplay experience, but Rockstar also has an eye for broadening appeal. Max Payne 3 offers a variety of options that gear it toward players of a wide skill range, most significantly by providing aim assistance in the series for the first time in two different forms. When in "Soft Lock" mode, aiming Max's gun causes the targeting reticule to move to the center of mass of the closest enemy. The still easier "Hard Lock" works similarly, with the exception that the reticule will stay with a targeted enemy and try to maintain its relative position on their body even if they move.
Aim assistance is optional; it's set at the beginning of the game and can be switched from the pause menu at any time. Players new to Max Payne or less skilled at third-person action games will likely appreciate the advent of aim assistance, but it's not perfect. Sometimes the game will make questionable choices about which enemy should be targeted, and there's no means of manually switching between targets when the necessity arises, leaving the player no choice but to freely aim. The system works well overall to make a challenging game much easier to manage, up to a point.
That challenge level gets rather considerable late in the campaign. The last third of the game is filled with enemies who are wearing full combat armor, seem capable of taking more rounds than Max, and are best dispatched with a quick headshot. Of course, they are also wearing helmets that will simply fly off their heads when hit, leaving the player to have to shoot them in the head again. Since aim assistance moves the target to the center of enemies, it can go from a crutch to a hindrance when Max is up against these more difficult foes.
Players are able to revisit completed stages in two Arcade modes. First is Score Attack, in which points are tallied for killing enemies and score multipliers awarded for doing so stylishly and effectively. Bonuses are earned for accuracy, the use of bullet time, and a variety of other opportunities which will allow a skilled player to rack up high scores. In addition, the New York Minute mode introduced in Max Payne 2, in which players are given one minute to complete the entirety of the game and awarded more time for killing enemies, also returns; players can race against the clock in each of Max Payne 3′s 14 chapters.
And then there's multiplayer content, as well. Players will be able to choose between playlists designed for "Soft Lock" and "Free Aim" targeting, and play in three different types of competitive multiplayer. The standard Deathmatch appears, offered in solo and team flavors. "Payne Killer" is a game in which one player assumes the role of Max (well-populated games allow a second player to become his partner, Passos) who becomes the target for the other players and must try to survive as long as possible to earn points. Finally, "Gang Wars" consists of a dynamically selected series of objective-based scenarios linked together, where two gangs compete to claim dominance.
It's a robust offering, complete with experience progression, tons of customization options, and a host of social features. Players earn experience and cash, which is then used to unlock new weapons. Balance between player loadouts is achieved with an encumbrance mechanic that compensates for a heavily armed player by making him slower in movement and healing.
And since this is Max Payne, the multiplayer would be remiss if it did not include the bullet time system in some regard, though it does function a little differently. When activated, bullet time only affects those players who are within the line of sight of whoever activates the ability. It's also a bit of a double-edged sword to employ, as human players have a far easier time putting a little dot on the head of a slow-moving character and a player in bullet time might find themselves overwhelmed if there are more than a couple of opponents aiming at them.
Rockstar has also expanded this concept beyond just bullet time to create a range of abilities called "bursts" relating to the meter in multiplayer, now referred to as "adrenaline." Whatever you call it, adrenaline is earned the same way as in the solo campaign, but players can accumulate more by looting the corpses of other players. Bursts come in a delightful variety of forms more interesting than a basic damage buff. In addition to standard bullet time, bursts also can allow you to pinpoint the locations of your enemies or even confuse an opposing team by making all teammates appear to be opponents.
It's damn good fun, creating an environment of chaos and thrilling combat. The new Rockstar Social Club features allow players to team up easily in Crews, pairing them up with players on teams who are members of the same Crew, and it makes it easy to get into a game with people you might actually want to play with. Crew members will engage in the game on a whole new level, becoming embroiled in bitter feuds through a mechanic which adds another objective layer to playing online by giving players specific enemies to target based on their associations and prior conflicts between Crews.
Max Payne 3 is a fantastic package, with a top-notch presentation and plenty of content to keep players busy and happy. It may have been a long time in coming, but there's no arguing with results, and Max is the kind of guy who gets them. Fans and newcomers alike are going to find plenty to enjoy in this exceptional title.


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They're social, fun and a really good workout. Our classes range from low impact to the more intense and guide you through every step with our fantastic instructors. You can enjoy it with a friend or meet new people each week.
Are classes the activity for you?
A class is a great way to improve your health and fitness . And the good news is that they can all be booked online. It's an ideal way of getting friends together and having immense fun in the name of exercise.
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We have older adults classes available throughout the week as part of our regular programme.
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Classes range from gentle to high impact so you can work hard and enjoy the support of the pool improving strength and fitness.


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In a finding that could lead to a way to identify elusive adult stem cells, an MIT researcher reported in the Dec. 1 issue of Cancer Research that he has created cells that divide the way adult stem cells do - by hanging onto their original DNA and passing copies on to the next generation.
James L. Sherley, assistant professor of biological engineering and principal investigator in the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center at MIT, hopes his work will lead to a marker for therapeutically useful adult stem cells and help researchers better understand how we age and how cancer cells work.
Unlike embryonic stem cells, which exist only during early embryonic development, adult stem cells are the only cells in our bodies that create new tissues throughout our lifetimes. They may lead to promising new disease therapies such as organ and tissue replacement.
According to a longstanding theory in cancer biology, adult stem cells avoid mutations that may arise from DNA replication errors through a unique pattern of chromosome segregation.
When adult stems cells divide, the theory goes, instead of randomly passing along half their genetic material like other cells, adult stem cells keep their original DNA - so-called immortal DNA strands - and pass along only the copies.
According to a 1975 study by researcher John Cairns, this would help explain why cancer rates in humans and other long-lived mammals are not as high as they might be. If adult stem cells did not have a mechanism to protect their DNA, it would be rife with replication errors accumulating over a lifetime - more than our built-in repair mechanisms could handle.
Adult stem cells produce new skin, intestinal lining, red blood cells and even brain cells. They have huge potential for tissue regeneration. Adult stem cells found in bone marrow, for instance, can be channeled to become fat cells, cartilage-forming cells or bone-forming cells.
Research on embryonic stem cells is limited in the United States. Adult stem cells are not controversial, but they are very rare and difficult to isolate because they look just like any other cells. Researchers who try to isolate them say it is easier to find a needle in a haystack.
When adult stem cells divide, one of the two resulting cells becomes a functioning tissue cell, and the other, which keeps the original copy of the DNA, stays a stem cell forever. While some researchers were confident that this process existed, "it wasn't clear that this mechanism could be demonstrated," Sherley said.
The usual way to mark DNA is to let it incorporate modified building blocks when it is being made. Newly made strands of DNA containing the modified building blocks can then be followed over time as they move into successive generations of cells. You can't do this with immortal DNA in adults because it is already made.
By manipulating a gene that's implicated in many human cancers, Sherley has created a line of cultured cells that do exactly what Cairns proposed. Sherley manipulated the gene that expresses the p53 tumor suppressor protein to create an immortal cell line that divides just like adult stem cells under one culture condition and like cancer cells under different culture conditions.
Although Sherley's cells are not cancer cells, they are immortal like adult stem cells and cancer cells. When Sherley's p53-manipulated cells are growing like cancer cells, it's possible to mark their DNA before immortal DNA forms. Thereafter, the cells can be switched to grow like stem cells and the fate of the labeled immortal DNA strands can be studied.
"It's not clear whether p53 causes the mechanism or puts the cell in a state where this mechanism occurs," Sherley said. "But it proves that mammalian cells can do what Cairns proposed."
Sherley and his co-authors - MIT graduate students Joshua R. Merok and Janice A. Lansita, and former MIT postdoctoral associate James R. Tunstead - wrote that their results, in addition to shedding light on cancer and adult stem cells, "lead us to consider new ideas regarding the nature of aging mechanisms. Some changes that occur in tissues with advancing age are likely to reflect alterations in the number and function of adult stem cells ... Alterations that accumulate in these stable immortal DNA strands over time may compromise adult stem cell function and viability, precipitating a decline in tissue function."
Sherley pointed out that we still don't know how cells accomplish the unique process of maintaining immortal DNA strands. The next step is to look at the proteins that help humans' 46 chromosomes divide. There must be a unique set of proteins, he figures, behind this unique mechanism.
The identity of these proteins could lead to a quick and easy way to identify adult stem cells.
This work is funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 4, 2002.


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Eyes - glaucoma
Published on Vision.
Glaucoma is always known as the green cataract, to distinguish it from the common cataract, also called grey cataract. This is caused by hypertension in the eye. The internal ocular pressure increases.
Eyes turn red. The destruction of the eye has begun. This is an ophthalmologic urgency and a painful symptom.
The eye acts as a magnifying lens. The person focuses, concentrating the rays of light. In this particular case, the person experiences a progressive contraction of his field of vision until he reaches a tubular vision, losing his vision of the whole. He can only see the area he is focusing on. Glaucoma denotes the person's obsessive fear of not being able to attain the (that) goal on time.
The person projects the solution over himself with great intensity, in a situation he perceives as excessively dangerous. He ends up seeking refuge in his lack of sight.
This is a creepy attitude, since no objective can be so important to make it necessary to go blind on its account. What is more dangerous then? Not to attain the goal or to go blind?
The person who is prone to developing glaucoma feels great insecurity and stubbornness with matter-related things. He is a person who needs to take his foot off the accelerator and go over his life. His priorities are completely reversed. The person is caught in a vicious circle of extremely yang, fighting behaviour. This yang behaviour is due to the major insecurity the person is feeling.
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Telemann: Concerto for Viola, Strings and Basso Continuo TWV 51:G9 in G Major
Telemann: Concerto for Viola, Strings and Basso Continuo TWV 51:G9 in G Major
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Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann. Edited by Leonid Leibowitsch. Dowani Book/CD. Play Along. Book and CD. 24 pages. Dowani International #DOW14500. Published by Dowani International (HL.44006405).ISBN 9783905476422. UPC: 884088087951. 9.0x12.0x0.14 inches. International (more than one language).
Dowani Tempi Play Along is an effective and time-tested method of practicing that offers more than conventional play-along editions. Dowani 3 Tempi Play Along enables you to learn a work systematically and with accompaniment at different tempi. The first thing you hear on the CD is the concert version in a first-class recording with solo instrument and orchestral, continuo, or piano accompaniment. Then the piano or harpsichord accompaniment follows in slow and medium tempo for practice purposes, with the solo instrument heard softly in the background at a slow tempo. Finally, you can play at the original tempo to the accompaniment of an orchestra, piano, or basso continuo. All versions appearing on the CD were recorded live by renowned soloists, accompanists, and orchestras. There are no synthesised sounds in a Dowani edition!
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- II. Allegro
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John Kerry on Energy & OilJr Senator (MA), Democratic nominee for President | |
Here is the reality of global climate change. At both poles & nearly all points in between, the temperature of Earth�s surface is heating up. Nearly every researcher professionally engaged in the study of climate change, from across the political and ideological spectrum, agrees that the increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by human activity is responsible for the current warming trend
KERRY: The Kyoto Treaty was flawed. I was in Kyoto and I was part of that; I know what happened. But Bush didn�t try to fix it, he just declared it dead, ladies and gentlemen. And we walked away from the work of 160 nations over 10 years. You wonder why it is that people don�t like us in some parts of the world. You just say, Hey, we don�t agree with you, good-bye. Bush�s done nothing to try to fix it. I will.
That�s a pattern Bush has repeated time after time: on issue after issue, George W. Bush keeps saying one thing to the people, and then doing another big favor for the special interests. As my friends in Nevada can tell you, I have stood time and time again with Nevada families to stop George W. Bush from turning this state into a nuclear waste dump. As your President, I�ll continue that fight for Nevada - and you�ll have the White House working for your top priority, instead of selling you out to the special interests.
A: I support updating CAFE standards to 36 miles per gallon by 2015. This proposal will reduce America�s dependence on oil by saving 2 million barrels of oil per day -- almost as much as we currently import from the Persian Gulf. It will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, smog and ozone pollution.
KERRY: It needs to be banned, taken out. And the companies that have put it in need to be held responsible for it. One- sixth of the lakes of New Hampshire are polluted with MBTE. Now, Tom DeLay and his friends in Congress have been busy protecting those companies from their responsibility, trying to give them liability immunity for what they�ve done. This is the worst environmental administration that I�ve ever seen in all my time in public life. They�re going backward on clean air, backward on clean water, backward on forest policy.
As president, I will balance between jobs and the economy, but I�m not going to give people a phony choice that says, �It�s either the jobs or the economy.� Cleaning up the environment is jobs. And we�re going to create 500,000 of them for Americans in the first years.
A: We have to encourage the use of hybrid vehicles and invest in research and development. We have to set a goal by 2020 that 20 percent of our energy will come from renewable fuels. I am going to create an energy efficient trust fund to look for news sources of energy and we are going to create tens of thousands of jobs doing that. We can�t drill our way out of this.
In the 1960�s President Kennedy challenged America to conquer space and land on the moon within a decade. It�s time for comparable Apollo Project approach to energy independence, with a focused effort that relies on public-private partnerships and creates millions of new jobs. For Americans who work in engineering, design, and industry, the growth of wind, solar, and geothermal energy would spark a surge in production and jobs. And since developing new energy technology requires research and path-breaking applications, we can create thousands of high-paying jobs in those areas as well. Americans can take the lead, or we can let Germans and Japanese dominate this new industry.
The first sign of indifference was the summary rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on Global Climate Change. the handiwork of dozens of countries acting under U.S. leadership for a decade. Kyoto could and should have been improved; instead, it was dismissed by the Bush government out of hand. This was followed by the United States� refusal to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, another product of long years of American leadership. Both rejections came in the president�s first year in office.
KERRY: The Arctic Wildlife Refuge won�t provide a drop of oil for 20 years. And the total amount of oil, if it were to come through at the level that some people in the oil industry predict, will amount to about a 1% to 2% reduction in the total dependency of the United States on oil.
A: Today we have an energy policy of big oil, by big oil, and for big oil. With common-sense investments in advancing and speeding breakthroughs, we can harness the natural world around us to light and power the world we live in with secure forms of energy at reasonable costs for a modern economy. I recently unveiled a plan to increase America�s security and improve the environment, by ending our dependence on foreign oil within 10 years.
CNN FACT CHECK:Kerry has never sponsored or voted for any legislation to raise gas taxes by 50 cents per gallon, although an extensive search did reveal one 1994 article in which he is said to have voiced support for the idea in general. In 1993, Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia introduced legislation that proposed phasing in a 50-cent increase, but Kerry did not vote for or co-sponsor this bill.
GEPHARDT: I agree that we need to do it. However, we need to put together an energy program that includes an increase in the CAFE standards, but also includes setting a 10-year goal of not only mileage requirements and pollution requirements, but also moves us to hybrid cars in the interim and hydrogen fuel cells in the long-term. I would put the auto companies, the oil companies and the environmental groups at a table and I would work out a 10-year plan. I�d call it an Apollo 2 program, and I believe we could pass it, have everybody committed to it and get this done for the country.
Proponent's Argument for voting Yes:
[Sen. McConnell, R-KY]: The White House is trying to impose a backdoor national energy tax through the EPA. It is a strange way to respond to rising gas prices.
But it is perfectly consistent with the current Energy Secretary's previously stated desire to get gas prices in the US up to where they are in Europe.
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Sen. Lautenberg, D-NJ]:We hear the message that has been going around: Let's get rid of the EPA's ability to regulate. Who are they to tell us what businesses can do? Thank goodness that in this democratic society in which we live, there are rules and regulations to keep us as a civilized nation. The Supreme Court and scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency agreed that the Clean Air Act is a tool we must use to stop dangerous pollution. This amendment, it is very clear, favors one group--the business community. The Republican tea party politicians say: "Just ignore the Supreme Court. Ignore the scientists. We know better." They want to reward the polluters by crippling EPA's ability to enforce the Clean Air Act.
Status: Failed 50-50 (3/5
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R, SC): The climate change proposal that was in the President's budget would create a massive tax increase on anybody who uses energy, and that would be every American middle-class family, which already has a tough time getting by. This [amendment creates a procedure to block] any bill that would raise the cost of energy on our middle-class families who are struggling to get by. I ask the Senate to rally around this concept. We can deal with climate change without passing a $3,000-per-household energy tax on the families of America who are having a hard time paying their bills.
Opponent's argument to vote No:No senators spoke against the amendment.
Sec. 202 is amended by inserting at the end the following: "The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget shall not revise the allocations in this resolution if the legislation is reported from any committee pursuant to sec. 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974."
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R, SC): This idea to most people of a debate about reconciliation probably is mind-numbing and not very interesting. But there is a process in the Congress where you can take legislation and basically put it on a fast track. It is subject to 50 votes.
The whole idea of the Senate kind of cooling things down has served the country well. In that regard, to end debate you need 60 votes. If 41 Senators are opposed to a piece of legislation, strongly enough to come to the floor every day and talk about it, that legislation doesn't go anywhere. If you took climate change and health care, two very controversial, big-ticket items, and put them on the reconciliation track, you would basically be doing a lot of damage to the role of the Senate in a constitutional democracy.
Senator Byrd, who is one of the smartest people to ever serve in the Senate about rules and parliamentary aspects of the Senate, said that to put climate change and health care reform in reconciliation is like "a freight train through Congress" and is "an outrage that must be resisted." Senator Conrad said: "I don't believe reconciliation was ever intended for this purpose."
I think both of them are right. Under the law, you cannot put Social Security into reconciliation because we know how controversial and difficult that is. I come here in support of the Johanns amendment that rejects that idea.
Opponent's argument to vote No:No senators spoke against the amendment.
Despite the positive elements of this legislation, the main sticking point is whether temporary extensions of tax relief should be offset with permanent tax increases elsewhere. The White House issued a statement recommending a Presidential veto of this bill in its current form. [Vote NAY to] allow the Senate to work its will and pass legislation that can be quickly signed by the President.
But what happens with the DeMint motion, he gives China and India a veto power over what we should be doing. Imagine saying we are not going to do anything about human rights until China acts. Why would we give up our chance to take the mantle of leadership and finally grab hold of this issue? I cannot look into the eyes of my grandchildren and tell them: Sorry, I am giving over my proxy to China & India, and I can't do anything about it.
Proponents support voting YES because:
This legislation seeks to end the unwarranted tax breaks & subsidies which have been lavished on Big Oil over the last several years, at a time of record prices at the gas pump and record oil industry profits. Big Oil is hitting the American taxpayer not once, not twice, but three times. They are hitting them at the pump, they are hitting them through the Tax Code, and they are hitting them with royalty holidays put into oil in 1995 and again in 2005.
It is time to vote for the integrity of America's resources, to vote for the end of corporate welfare, to vote for a new era in the management of our public energy resources.
Opponents support voting NO because:
I am wearing this red shirt today, because this shirt is the color of the bill that we are debating, communist red. It is a taking. It will go to court, and it should be decided in court.
This bill will increase the competitive edge of foreign oil imported to this country. If the problem is foreign oil, why increase taxes and make it harder to produce American oil and gas? That makes no sense. We should insert taxes on all foreign oil imported. That would raise your money for renewable resources. But what we are doing here today is taxing our domestic oil. We are raising dollars supposedly for renewable resources, yet we are still burning fossil fuels.
Status: Bill passed Bill passed, 65-27
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
Our NOPEC bill will authorize filing suit against nations that participate in a conspiracy to limit the supply, or fix the price, of oil. In addition, it will specify that the doctrines of sovereign immunity do not exempt nations that participate in oil cartels from basic antitrust law.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
No one likes OPEC. But this amendment, in my opinion, would make bad law. The Framers of the Constitution wisely assigned responsibility for formulating foreign policy and conducting foreign relations to the President and to the Congress, not to the law courts.
The amendment before us has its roots in a lawsuit filed by the labor union nearly 30 years ago. The union at that time charged OPEC with price fixing in violation of our antitrust laws. The trial court dismissed the case on the ground that OPEC members are sovereign nations and are immune from suit. Adopting the amendment will undoubtedly be very popular, but it is also very unwise.
In addition, we here in the Senate ought to consider how enactment of this amendment might affect our relations with OPEC members. What will be the international repercussions when the US starts awarding judgments against foreign nations and attaching their assets in this country? Will other nations start to view our trade policies--such as our nuclear trade restrictions--as violations of their antitrust laws?
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
It just seems logical that we ask the Corps of Engineers to include in their analyses, judgments about the potential impact of global climate change. All this amendment seeks to do, as a matter of common sense, is to ask the Army Corps of Engineers to factor climate change into their future plans. Secondly, we are making a statement here to finally recognize the reality of what is happening with respect to climate change.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
The same people today who are saying we are all going to die from global warming, just back in the middle 1970s were saying another ice age is coming and we are all going to die. Which way do you want it?
If a surge of anthropogenic gases--this CO2, methane, or whatever it is--were causing a warming period, then around 1945 we would have a warming period because in the middle 1940s we had the greatest increase in greenhouse gases. But what happened? It did not precipitate a warming period.
Peer reviewed evidence shows that the sun has actually been driving the temperature change. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the Sun can have something to do with climate change.
Implementing Kyoto would reduce the average annual household income nearly $2,700, at a time when the cost of all goods would rise sharply.
Modernize Environmental Policies
National environmental policies, mostly developed in the 1970s, have been remarkably successful in improving the quality of our air and water. But we face a new set of environmental challenges for which the old strategy of centralized, command-and-control regulation is no longer effective.
The old regime of prohibitions and fines levied on polluters is not well equipped to tackle problems such as climate change, contamination of water from such sources as farm and suburban runoff, loss of open lands, and sprawl. Without relaxing our determination to maintain and enforce mandatory national standards for environmental quality, it is time to create more effective, efficient, and flexible ways of achieving those standards.
For example, a system of tradable emissions permits would give factories, power plants, and other sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases a powerful incentive not only to meet but to exceed environmental standards. Decisions about solving local environmental problems should be shifted from Washington to communities, without weakening national standards. Finally, to empower citizens and communities to make sound decisions, government should invest in improving the quality and availability of information about environmental conditions.
Dear President Bush:
We are deeply disturbed to read reports this morning that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House have decided to omit data and language pertaining to climate change from the Agency's upcoming "State of the Environment" report. We would like to know if this is true. [Note: The section on climate change was indeed omitted�Ed.]
According to these reports, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made decisions to delete from the "State of the Environment" report scientifically sound, consensus-based conclusions about the human contributions to global warming that have been confirmed by the National Research Council and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We would like to know why, and who within the Administration made this decision.
Perhaps most distressing are reports that Administration officials substituted into the report for the deleted language a reference to a study partially funded by the American Petroleum Institute that questions the National Research Council's conclusions. If true, this action brings into question the ability and authority of the EPA or any agency within this Administration to publish unbiased scientific reports. This would dramatically weaken both Congressional and public confidence in the Administration to allow credible, peer-reviewed study to prevail over political agenda. If these reports are accurate, your Administration has done a serious disservice not only to the hard-working professionals at the EPA, but also to the American people and our future.
We request all drafts of the report as well as comments prepared by the EPA, OMB, & CEQ. We request a list of all participants involved in review of the document, including all Administration officials and entities outside the Administration. Furthermore, we ask that appropriate actions be taken regarding those responsible for doctoring this report.
Mr. President: A recent federal court decision regarding energy efficient air conditioners is a significant victory for consumers, for the environment, and for our nation's energy future. We respectfully request that you do not appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District (Natural Resources Defense Council et al v. Abraham, Docket 01-4102) affirmed that central air conditioners sold beginning in 2006 must be at least 30% more energy efficient than those available today.
Air conditioners are a necessary modern convenience but are also major users of electricity. On hot days, cooling homes and businesses is the largest category of electricity demand. Requiring air conditioners to be as energy efficient as possible will begin to reduce the stress on the electricity generation and transmission network and decrease the likelihood of blackouts that many regions of the country experience during warm weather conditions.
Air conditioners that meet the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating 13 standard will provide benefits for consumers, the environment, and the nation. The SEER 13 standard will alleviate the need for additional electricity production and transmission resulting in as many as 48 fewer power plants required by 2020. This standard will also result in less harmful air pollution being emitted into the atmosphere. Moreover, by 2020 power plant emissions of carbon dioxide will be 2.5 million tons lower as a result, and emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides will also be held down resulting in cleaner air and healthier citizens.
Finally, the higher standard can be expected to save businesses and residential consumers $1 billion per year in lower electricity bills. Lower electricity bills will recover the slightly higher purchase cost for the more efficient air conditioners in less than 18 months.
OFFICIAL CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: A bill to provide for a program of scientific research on abrupt climate change, to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the US by establishing a market-driven system of greenhouse gas tradeable allowances, to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the US and reduce dependence upon foreign oil, and ensure benefits to consumers from the trading in such allowances.
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: Sen. McCAIN: This bill is designed to begin a meaningful and shared effort among the emission-producing sectors of our country to address the world's greatest environmental challenge--climate change.
The National Academy of Sciences reported, "temperatures are, in fact, rising." The overwhelming body of scientific evidence shows that climate change is real, that it is happening as we speak.
Terrible things are happening at the poles, which will have global implications. Amplified global warming, rising sea levels, and potential alterations in ocean circulation patterns are among the global concerns.
The International Climate Change Task Force recommended that "all developed countries introduce mandatory cap-and-trade systems for carbon emissions and construct them to allow for future integration into a single global market." That is already being done in Europe as we speak, which is the substance of this legislation.
If we do not move on this issue, our children and grandchildren are going to pay an incredibly heavy price because this crisis is upon us, only we do not see its visible aspects in all of its enormity. We have done relatively nothing besides gather additional data and make reports. That is what the US national policy is today: gather information and make reports. I would argue that is a pretty heavy burden to lay on future generations of Americans.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Referred to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works; never came to a vote.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 CAF scores as follows:
The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is a center for ideas and action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change. The Campaign advances a progressive economic agenda and a vision of the future that works for the many, not simply the few. The Campaign is leading the fight for America's priorities--against privatization of Social Security, for investment in energy independence, good jobs and a sustainable economy, for an ethical and accountable Congress and for high quality public education.
About the CAF report, "Energy Independence: Record vs. Rhetoric":
Energy independence has surfaced as a defining issue in the current elections. Are most candidates and both parties truly committed? To help distinguish the demonstrated level of support for homegrown, clean energy alternatives, we examined the voting records of current U.S. Representatives and Senators on bills vital to promoting those interests. Key pieces of legislation included goals for independence, and subsidies for the development of alternatives compared to subsidies for drilling and digging. We then compared votes on these issues with campaign contributions from major oil interests. The results show strong inverse correlations between political contributions from big oil and votes for energy independence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DESIGNATION OF PORTION OF ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AS WILDERNESS.
The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 is amended by adding at the end the following:
Designation of Certain Land as Wilderness- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska comprising approximately 1,559,538 acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 'Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--1002 Area. Alternative E--Wilderness Designation, October 28, 1991' and available for inspection in the offices of the Secretary, is designated as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act'.
A resolution that it is the goal of the United States that, not later than January 1, 2025, the agricultural, forestry, and working land of the US should provide from renewable resources not less than 25% of the total energy consumed and continue to produce safe, abundant, and affordable food, feed, and fiber. [Governors also signed letters of endorsement at www.25x25.org]
Rep. SALAZAR: "Our resolution establishes a national goal of producing 25% of America's energy from renewable sources--like solar, wind and biofuels--by 2025. The "25x'25" vision is widely endorsed, bold, and fully attainable. If implemented, it would dramatically improve our energy security, our economy, and our ability to protect the environment.
"I am pleased that more than 20 of my colleagues in the Senate, from both sides of the aisle, are cosponsoring this resolution. In addition, the "25x'25" vision has been endorsed by 22 current and former governors and several State legislatures across the country. The Big Three automobile manufacturers--Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors--are all behind "25x'25" So are many agricultural organizations, environmental groups, scientists, and businesses, ranging from the Natural Resources Defense Council to John Deere.
"These Americans understand that we cannot continue to import 60% of our oil from foreign countries, many of which are hostile to the US, if we aim to be strong and secure in the world. They know that we will have to build a clean energy economy if we are to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It is time for Congress to take a more active role in our clean energy future. Establishing a national goal--"25x'25" is the first step."
A bill to permit California and other States to effectively control greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, and for other purposes. Amends the Clean Air Act to approve the application of the state of California for a waiver of federal preemption of its motor vehicle emission standards.


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All Work and No Playlist: Andrew McMahon of Jack's Mannequin
(*Spoken as Jimmy Fallon doing wacky FM DJ*) And we're back! Actually, we were planning on being back a few weeks ago, but Andrew McMahon, lead singer and songwriter of Jack's Mannequin, is a tough guy to pin down. Turn your back on him for a second, and he's peeled off in his tour bus to do another four months of dates. We caught his final show with Guster last month, and it was a blast, especially when the two teamed up for a cover of Peter Bjorn and John's "Young Folks."
The Mannequin's third album, People and Things, was released last week, and when McMahon finally decided to sit down and rest for a second, we were quick to strike: Tell us the 10 songs rocking your world at the moment, or your piano bites it. Surprisingly, there is little piano to be found here, but there are lots of happy techno beats. Rave on, rave on.
"Safe and Sound," Capital Cities
A great tune in the indie/techno vein.
"Our Hearts Are Wrong," Jessica Lea Mayfield
"The only time I miss you is every single day." That says it all.
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Dodgers start David Wells, LHP (8-8, 5.40) vs. Brandon Webb, RHP (16-10, 3.03)
Dodgers: 79-75 (4th place NL West, 8.0 GB; 6th place WC, 6.5 GB; L6)
D'Backs: 87-67 (1st place NL West, - GB; W3)
Current postseason odds for the Dodgers, from Baseball Prospectus: 0.01%
From Dodgers.com, the scouting report on the starters:
Dodgers: Wells gave up leads of 3-0 and 5-3 in Coors Field, yet was in position to gain his fourth win as a Dodger until Todd Helton's walkoff homer on Takashi Saito's final pitch. Wells had pitched only once previously at Coors Field, and it went very much like this one, when he allowed five runs in five innings. He'll be coming back on three days' rest to face Arizona.Snakes: Webb was not crisp in his last outing, although he threw a quality start in allowing three runs over six innings. He was working behind in the count a little too often and took a no-decision in a game the D-backs eventually lost. Although this day is Webb's regular day to start, there was speculation he was going to get an extra day of rest as manager Bob Melvin has been monitoring Webb's workload more closely recently. Webb leads the Major Leagues in innings pitched, and is fifth in the National League in pitches.
COMMENTS: I guess it is hard to play spoiler, IF YOU CANT WIN! Our six game losing streak is pretty craptacular and maybe we can pull out a win or two while playing the kids. The veterans can complain all they want, but the dodgers go as the rookies go. We didn't trade them at the deadline for a reason and now is the time to play them.


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Become a Volunteer Firefighter
To become a Levelland Volunteer Firefighter you must meet all of the following requirements.
- Must be 21 year of age or older
- Hold a high school diploma or GED
- Reside within a 10 minute drive of the Fire Department
- Driving at a speed not exceeding posted speed limits
- Have a satisfactory driving record
- Have a satisfactory criminal background
- Meet the health and physical criteria for members of the Fire Department
- A physical will be required with acceptance of application
- Demonstrate a willingness to support the objectives and purposes of the Volunteer Fire Department
- Demonstrate a willingness to actively participate in the training and operations of the Volunteer Fire Department
- Comply with the Volunteer Fire Department's attendance and training requirements.
If You Meet the Requirements
- If you meet all of the requirements to become a volunteer firefighter, please come by the Levelland Fire Department located at 603 5th street and pick up an application packet that will contain the following.
- Job and physical requirements
- Copy of the Volunteer Fire Department Bylaws
- Criminal history report release form
- Driver's record release form
- Application Information Fill out Form
- Application Process will require you to read the job bylaws and all requirements. If there is nothing in those that you cannot do or that you disagree with you may contact the Fire Department for further information in regards to the concern. Then fill out the release forms and the entire application packet needs to be returned to the Fire Department. The release forms will be sent to the appropriate agencies.
- You will then need to be interviewed by the membership committee. You will be called and informed of the next regular meeting of the committee. After the interview, the committee will make a recommendation to the Fire Chief. If the recommendation is favorable and the Chief and City Manager agree, the applicant will be required to contact the City Secretary to set up a drug test and physical that is required for all fire volunteers (men and woman are welcomed). When the result of those test come back, the applicant will then be a member of the Levelland Volunteer Fire Department and equipment will be issued.
For Further Questions or Concerns:
Bill Durham
Fire Chief
Contact Us
603 5th Street
Levelland, TX 79336
Ph: (806) 894-3155