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NEW YORK CITY, NY—APRIL 22, 2003—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that leading workstation system integrators are adopting the new NVIDIA nForce™3 Professional platform technology for their upcoming professional workstation computing systems. Optimized for NVIDIA Quadro® graphics solutions, as well as the new 64-bit AMD Opteron™ processor, NVIDIA nForce3 Professional incorporates advanced platform technology solutions—including enterprise-class networking functionality, fault tolerant storage designs and a single unified driver architecture—that are paramount to providing a compatible, stable, and reliable platform for deployment in professional computing environments.
Workstations offering NVIDIA nForce3 Professional platform processors will be available from:
- @Xi Computer Corporation
- Alienware® Corporation
- Angstrom Microsystems
- BOXX Technologies Inc.
- Colfax International
- Concordia Graphics
- Core Microsystems
- DigitalScape Corporation
- Einux
- Hypersonic PC
- Max Black
- MaxVision Corporation
- Polywell Computers
- Si Computer Italy
- Sys Technology, Inc.
"The combination of the NVIDIA nForce3 Professional platform with the industry-leading performance of NVIDIA Quadro graphics solutions forms the foundation for an extremely compelling workstation solution for CAD professionals," said Sam Corralz, vice president of engineering at @Xi Computer Corporation. "We look forward to being one of the first companies to bring the power of NVIDIA nForce3 Professional-based workstation solutions to the market."
"The introduction of NVIDIA nForce3 Professional-based workstations provides digital content creators, application developers, and visual effects designers with a platform that delivers tangible price and performance benefits," said Todd Bryant, chief technology officer of BOXX Technologies. "NVIDIA has addressed the features and performance needs of the DCC community with NVIDIA nForce3 Professional, and we are pleased to begin offerings systems based on this technology in the near future."
All NVIDIA nForce3 Professional-based systems and motherboards utilize the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), a single stable system image for simplified deployment and upgrades in the enterprise environment. The NVIDIA commitment to product longevity further ensures IT investment protection. NVIDIA is also partnering with ASUSTek Computer Inc, a world leader in motherboard engineering and design, to bring NVIDIA nForce3 Professional-based motherboards to the workstation system integrator market.
Systems will available in the summer of 2003.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,500 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release, including any statements relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled "Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties.
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JACKSONVILLE � A baby who died Tuesday had an object lodged in his throat, and the main suspect, the boy�s father, shot and killed himself Wednesday as the investigation pointed his direction, police said Thursday.
JACKSONVILLE � A baby who died Tuesday had an object lodged in his throat, and the main suspect, the boy�s father, shot and killed himself Wednesday as the investigation pointed his direction, police said Thursday.
Marine Cpl. Rodney Burton, 22, was found dead in his pickup truck outside a house on Camelia Road in Trent Woods.
Police said Burton was not a resident of the house on Banks Street where officers responded Tuesday to a call of an unresponsive child. The 11-month-old boy had a blockage in his throat. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Onslow Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville Public Safety Director Mike Yaniero said Thursday in a news conference.
Yaniero said the object � which he declined to describe � had been sent to a lab for forensic testing.
The object was a baby wipe, which was stuffed into the baby�s windpipe, according to a law enforcement official involved in the case, but who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
Police initially regarded the baby�s death as suspicious, but after conducting interviews and collecting evidence, the case became a homicide investigation, Yaniero said.
Authorities have not released the name of the child.
Burton was interviewed by investigators Tuesday, before the case was upgraded to a likely homicide. Once police spoke to medical examiners, they sought to re-interview Burton, Yaniero said, but by that time he had killed himself in Trent Woods.
NCIS assisted local authorities in the case. Joe Kennedy, special agent in charge of the Carolinas Field Office, said his agents always work well with the Jacksonville Police Department.
Kennedy said Southeastern North Carolina is no different than any other part of the country and that violent crime could be found anywhere.
Residents of the Banks Street neighborhood said they live on a mostly quiet road in mostly owner occupied homes.
The Kettle Diner, located on South Marine Boulevard, is taking donations for the baby�s funeral.
Burton joined the Marine Corps in July 2008 as a consolidated automated support systems technician. He deployed with the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16 to Afghanistan in 2010. His awards include the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and two Navy Unit Commendation ribbons.
Capt. Binford Strickland, the public affairs officer for II Marine Expeditionary Force, said the case is still under investigation and the Marine Corps is working closely with all investigative and medical authorities involved.
Crime Stoppers of Onslow County is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to an arrest or apprehension in the crime.
Anyone with information concerning this incident can contact the Jacksonville/Onslow Crime Stoppers at 910-938-3273 or the Jacksonville Police Department at 910-455-4000. Callers do not have to reveal their identities.
An earlier version of this story is below:
JACKSONVILLE - Police have identified the decedent in an apparent suicide Wednesday in Trent Woods as Camp Lejeune Marine Cpl. Rodney Burton, 22, of Jacksonville.
Burton died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound in a pickup truck parked outside a house at 306 Camelia Road.
He was the main suspect in the Tuesday death of his 11-month-old son, according to police.
The child was discovered Tuesday afternoon at a home on Banks Street with a blockage in his throat. He was unresponsive and died on arrival at Onslow Memorial, said Jacksonville Public Safety Director Mike Yaniero
Authorities have not released the name of the child.


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The Winchester House, Architectural-Led IT Strategy and Your Challenges – What You Told Us
A few months ago, after a my previous blogs discussing cloud computing adoption, I changed subject and authored a short series of articles around the challenges of adopting an architectural-led approach to your IT strategy in general, and data center design in particular. (If you missed them, you can read them here: part 1, part 2, and part 3). The theme of these articles centered on the Winchester House in San Jose, California.
This house was extended by builder after builder, without any architectural blueprint. Consequently, this house had many doors opening into blank walls, abandoned staircases, and other "features" — and it was in construction for year after year, with point additions compounding the problems. I then asserted that this analogy can apply to how IT architectures sometimes evolve – bit by bit, without a formal blueprint or "grand master" plan, if you will.
I finished the series with a poll on our Cisco Data Center Facebook page – thanks to all of you who spotted the poll and took the time to respond. The results were indeed interesting, so I thought I'd share back the results with you and discuss the implications. As the diagram shows, you certainly told us loud and clear what your biggest issue was when it came to adopting an architectural-led approach to your IT strategy and data center design: "We don't have clear enough business goals for IT" scooped 65% of your votes, way ahead of all other options (!!) – so let's discuss now in some more detail.
The Poll Question
Given the theme of my series of articles, I posed a straightforward question: "What is your biggest challenge in taking an 'architectural-led' approach to your data center design". I listed a number of options, from which respondents could choose one response.
The Poll Results
Let me first caveat the results: this is not an authoritative study, nor a formal market research poll. Facebook polls have clear limitations, however they do allow us to obtain quick, semi-objective insights. And when direction in business (sometimes at least!) is decided upon personal opinion rather than upon objective data and analysis, the sample size of 72 respondents gives at least some backing to the conclusions.
Let's look at the results in some more detail. The following pie chart gives you a better idea of the distribution of poll results.
I posed 5 questions in this Facebook poll, as you can see, in the diagram, which I'll list out here too:
- We don't have clear enough business goals for IT
- We don't have the right level of architectural expertise in our team
- We are too busy "fire fighting" today's issues
- We have too many silos – network, storage and compute teams work independently
- We need independent experts to help guide us on the opportunities
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100 Best Restaurants in the South
Southern Living Deputy Editor—and intrepid restaurant scout—Jennifer V. Cole hit the road to determine the top 100 places to eat in the South now. The list highlights Jennifer's favorite restaurants for 2014, both new and old, in her most frequented towns. This list is always evolving, so follow @jennifervcole on Twitter for her latest stops.
The South is filled with fantastic restaurants. From fine dining to barbecue joints, Delta tamales to soul food, Southern food is some of the most amazing in the country. Southern restaurants bring the best fresh, down home, local cuisine to diners across the South. The best Southern restaurants know that good food and great people make a fantastic meal. Here are our best Southern restaurants 2014. From Acre in Auburn, Alabama, to Woodbury Kitchen in Baltimore, Maryland, the editors of Southern Living bring you the (almost) A-to-Z of the best southern restaurants—plus a few hot numbers as well. The food is anything but ordinary at The Ordinary in Charleston, South Carolina, and you will feel like you are in charge at Commander's Palace in New Orleans. Take a table at any of these—they are some of the best Southern restaurants you will find.


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Three of the NFL's top seven leading receivers are 25 years old or younger.
GREEN BAY -- The intrigue was instant. He made the wrong decision not once, but twice, and scored touchdowns both times.
Against the New Orleans Saints last year — in a prime-time opener — Randall Cobb said God told him to return a kick eight yards deep in the end zone and he took it the distance. On offense, he ran the wrong route ... and scored a touchdown anyway.
From Day 1, Mike McCarthy knew he had something special.
"Everybody did," the Packers head coach told USA TODAY Sports. "We knew he would definitely make us different on offense."
Young gun: Andrew Luck establishing his own NFL mark
But plays like those are typical of young receivers: Between flashes of brilliance come knuckleheaded moves that sometimes turn out OK, but often do not. They're the plays that try coaches' patience and force them to see the long-term potential, not the minute-ago goofs.
Take a look around the NFL this season and you see them — young pass-catching playmakers making tremendous impacts. While putting up gaudy numbers, second-year players like Cobb, Torrey Smith of the Baltimore Ravens, Julio Jones of the Atlanta Falcons and A.J. Green of the Cincinnati Bengals are maturing with each crisp route.
Take Sunday, for example: Green, who made the Pro Bowl last year , had seven catches for 99 yards and a touchdown — his seventh game in a row in which he has had a TD reception. Cobb had three catches for only 37 yards, but two were for TDs, and he now has five touchdowns in his past three games. Smith had four catches, including a 19-yard score, and Jones caught five for 129 yards.
Some in their third season, like Victor Cruz of the New York Giants, already have broken out. Or they're on the cusp of stardom, like Eric Decker and Demaryius Thomas of the Denver Broncos and Antonio Brown of the Pittsburgh Steelers .
At a time when former receiving stars Terrell Owens, Plaxico Burress and Chad Johnson can't find jobs, there's a new wave of wide receivers taking over. Three of the NFL's top seven leading receivers are 25 years old or younger.
Fast learners
Once, the script on receivers went like this: In the first year, they were too busy studying the playbook and developing a relationship with their quarterbacks to make a difference. Coaches scolded them for running the wrong routes or misreading sophisticated coverages. The next season, with some confidence, they made a contribution. Then, in the third year, they broke out. But with more receivers playing in pro-style offenses in high school and college the transition happens faster.
"They're in passing leagues before they get to college," said Hall of Fame wide receiver James Lofton. "And then, when they get to college, they have basically eight seasons -- four fall seasons and four spring practice seasons. And if they're on a good team, they have a bowl season also.
"They get a lot of repetition before they get to the NFL. "
So now, a year later, Cobb is what Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers deems "a star in the making." Cobb, 22, has 45 catches for 500 yards and six touchdowns. Rodgers predicts Cobb's selection "is probably going to go down as one of the best picks in (Packers general manager) Ted Thompson's career, if not the best."
For these wide receivers the ascension starts not between the sidelines but between the ears.
"I changed my mindset in the way I was going to approach things this season," Cobb said. "I was just going to continue to try to get better every day and improve every day."
Smith, too, has taken his development seriously. The Ravens say the 2011 second-round pick out of Maryland arrived at the team's complex at 7 a.m. in the offseason to work out and watch film. During receivers' meetings, he's the guy who always seems to have one more question.
Smith, 23, showed his mental toughness earlier this season when he played only hours after his brother was killed in a motorcycle accident — and caught two TD passes. He has 29 catches for 481 yards and five TDs.
Their maturity is more amazing when you recall that they "came in off the street," as Smith says. Because of a lockout last season, they didn't have a rookie offseason, filled with minicamps and workouts. They've had to make up for that lost time.
The receivers, like Cobb, who could grasp the playbook more quickly are thriving.
McCarthy spent time with Cobb at the NFL scouting combine . These meet-and-greets are often artificial, McCarthy said. But Cobb was different. There was a genuine drive in the Kentucky quarterback/running back/wide receiver he knew would fit into a loaded offense. And Cobb was smart. He used to sit in on coaches meetings in Kentucky.
So the Packers took him in the second round of the 2011 draft.
"He's a natural route-runner because of his instincts and his time clock," McCarthy said. "Playing quarterback and having experience at both ends of the time clock really helps him as far as understanding you run a corner route a certain way when you're a primary receiver as opposed to the corner route when you're the second or third receiver.
"He's got a chance to be special."
Breaking out
If Cobb has "a chance," Cruz already is special. Even if, you know, defensive backs aren't ready to admit it.
Two weeks ago, Cruz's 77-yard touchdown reception against the Redskins prompted cornerback DeAngelo Hall to tell reporters, "We gave him that play." Cruz was irked by Hall's comments. Not everyone, it seems, believes Cruz has arrived.
"I have no idea where it comes from," Cruz said. " I think it's just them feeling that way because they lost and the way they lost. I don't know why it comes off that way. It's definitely a little disrespectful."
Although the Giants' passing game has been sputtering lately, Cruz, 25, the former undrafted free agent out of Massachusetts, is no fad. His 57 catches, 717 yards and seven touchdowns this season are the results of his rapport with quarterback Eli Manning. And those numbers follow a Super Bowl championship season of 82 catches for 1,536 yards and nine TDs. The Giants are trying to lock him up with a long-term contract.
"You've got to give great credit to Victor, his understanding this offense, understanding how to get open," Manning said. "He makes it very easy to read his body language ."
Green, 24, was the fourth overall pick in 2011 out of Georgia and the first rookie receiver to make the Pro Bowl in eight years. But much of what he accomplished as a rookie was based on sheer ability – "ridiculous skills," CBS analyst and former quarterback Rich Gannon said. This year, the Bengals are stressing precise route-running.
Offensive coordinator Jay Gruden recalled a recent game when the Bengals had forgotten about Green.
"I think he had one catch in the first half," Gruden said. "So, I said to myself, 'Self, that's probably not very smart.' (Forget) the running game, let's try to throw it to A.J."
In Baltimore, Smith believes he'll keep getting better as he grows along with Ravens QB Joe Flacco. "I think I just came in at the perfect time, with Joe throwing," Smith said. "We added some weapons around him . As we all get more comfortable, we've been playing a lot better."
The Falcons version of Flacco and Smith is QB Matt Ryan and Jones. Ryan marvels at the innate abilities of a guy who has 40 catches for 628 yards and five TDs.
"Julio is a special talent," Ryan said. "He can run and fly. And he's getting better every game."
Meanwhile, the rookies in general have struggled. But while Cleveland's Josh Gordon, at times, has been stricken with critical drops, the potential is there. Yet, halfway through the season, the 6-3, 225-pounder is among the league leaders with 22.3 yards per reception.
"My speed and size are to my advantage," Gordon said. "I might come off slow and look slow. I use that to my advantage, because most players and coaches have never heard of me. They don't know who I am."
Soon enough, they will. Cobb was once an unknown. Not anymore. Praise from Rodgers has been weekly, and more attention is inevitable. But Cobb promises he's ready.
"I love pressure," Cobb said. "I've always loved pressure."
Contributing: Mike Garafolo, Joe Reedy, USA TODAY Sports.


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Artist league spotlights September artist
Judy Sanders has been named by the Lenoir County Artist League as the featured Artist of the Month for September.
Sanders lives in Kinstonand has been painting all her life. She took her first art class at the age of 5 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. She is a member of the Lenoir County Artist League and the Community Council for the Arts. She has been juried into several shows; her work is featured in private and professional collections.
While she works mostly in oil, she does enjoy painting abstracts with acrylic. She paints in still life, abstracts, and lately has been painting seascapes and boats.
AARP hears mayor
Mayor B.J. Murphy recently updated the AARP chapter members on things going on in the Kinston area.
Murphy told the group about the repaving program, bus service for Amtrak, investigation into the utility cost, revitalization of the area around the Community Council for the Arts and many other items.
For more information about the city, call 252-939-3115. For AARP information, call Bob Jeffcott, chapter coordinator, at 252-522-3411.
Violence-free event set for Thursday
A celebration of violence free living will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lenoir County Farmer�s Market.
The event, hosted by S.A.F.E. in Lenoir County, will feature free hot dogs, chips, sodas and prizes.
Featured agencies will include Department of Social Services of Lenoir and Greene counties, the Lenoir County Health Department, Young Women Outreach Center, Lenoir Memorial Hospital, ICOR, EPIC, the Salvation Army, East Pointe, the district attorney�s office and law enforcement officers from Kinston and Lenoir County.
Church plans harvest festival
Wheat Swamp Christian Church will have a harvest festival beginning at 10 a.m. Oct. 12 in the church fellowship building, 2705 Institute Road, La Grange.
Barbecue pork and chicken plates will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., costing $7 per plate. Pepper relish will be on sale at $6 per pint or $9 per quart. An auction will begin at 7 p.m.
For more information, call Carol Gardner at 252-522-2886.


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Markley Street Single-Lane Pattern Saturday in Norristown
Motorists Advised to Use Alternate Route during Daylong Installation
…As part of the $20.8 million project to rebuild and improve Markley Street/U.S. 202 South in Norristown Borough, Montgomery County, crews will install an underground drainage pipe Saturday (April 27), reducing Markley Street to one lane between Elm Street and Harding Boulevard, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said today.
Flaggers will direct an alternating single lane of northbound and southbound Markley Street traffic through the work area Saturday (April 27) from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Motorists traveling on Markley Street can expect backups and delays in both directions approaching the area as crews excavate and install a large drainage pipe 15 feet under the street. The Markley Street restriction also may cause backups on Harding Boulevard and other intersecting streets in the borough.
Motorists are advised to avoid the area or allow extra time for travel through the work zone.
The pipe installation is part of stage one construction on the project that began in February 2013 to improve 1.1 miles of Markley Street between Elm Street and Johnson Highway, and a half-mile stretch of Johnson Highway between Markley Street and DeKalb Street. Construction is scheduled to finish in fall 2016.
The Markley Street improvement plan includes rebuilding the street to provide one lane in each direction plus a center lane for left turns; adding recessed parking bays in residential areas; installing trees and decorative pedestrian street lights; building an off-street parking lot at the corner of Harding Boulevard and Markley Street; upgrading traffic signals; installing new curb ramps; and adding Intelligent Transportation System components.
J.D. Eckman of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor on the $20,825,701 contract that is financed with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funds.
This project is the first of two to improve the Markley Street Corridor. A second project to rebuild Markley Street from Main Street to Elm Street is presently in engineering design. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2015.
PennDOT reminds motorists they can log on to www.511pa.com or call 511 from any phone to check traffic conditions on major highways before heading out.
For more information, visit www.dot.state.pa.us. Follow local PennDOT information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly.
For more information, visit www.us202-markleystreet.com or call 484-681-9431.


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This should explain why your device (Storm) prompts you for CDMA or GSM after a battery pull. The information will help you make an informed decision on how you want to proceed. I compiled this from several different sources in the hopes of answering your questions.
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) and GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications).
CDMA Wireless Service vs. GSM Wireless Service
CDMA offers improved coverage, improved voice quality, reduced dropped calls, far more security, and higher data speeds compared to GSM and TDMA.
CDMA was originally developed by the military during World War II, for field communications to create a more secure communications system, that was resistant to interference by the enemy. Users are separated using randomly generated codes(data) that are never transmitted over the air. The signals from other users appear like noise, providing a security mask, and encryption makes it impossible to identify the individual user. CDMA technology makes it virtually impossible to hack into data or voice conversations.Every GSM carrier in the world today is upgrading their network to CDMA technology.
CDMA takes an entirely different approach from GSM/TDMA. CDMA spreads data out over the channel after the channel is digitized. Multiple calls can then be overlaid on top of one another across the entire channel, with each assigned its own ?sequence code? to keep the signal distinct. CDMA offers more efficient use of an analog transmission because it allows greater frequency reuse, as well as increasing battery life, improving the rate of dropped calls, and offering far greater security than GSM/TDMA. For this reason CDMA has strong support from experts who favor widespread development of CDMA networks across the globe. Currently, you will find CDMA mostly in the United States, Canada, and North and South Korea.
CDMA and GSM are Radio technologies, and a mobile Phone is just an Antenna to recieve these Radio Signals. Since both the technologies work on different frequency range and has different modulation shemes therfore the mobile phones for both are different ( excluding the Storm).
Apart from this 3G tehchnology which is combination of both GSM and CDMA (WCDMA) is compatible with both GSM and CDMA. So a 3G mobile can serve for both GSM and CDMA radio signals.
SIM (Subcriber Idendity Module) is consists of Credential for network authorization. Since Both GSM and CDMA technologies has different Authorization functions and parameters hence both SIMs are different.
Note: In CDMA technology SIM is often called as RUIM (Removable User Idendity Module)
CDMA uses Different Frequencies than GSM. CDMA also does not require a SIM card.
Now some companies do provide SIM cards for CDMA connections also, such as Reliance communications and TATA Indicomm in India.
CDMA can hold more calls per channel on their towers, while GSM drops alot of calls. That is why people are always complaining about T-Mobile and At&t dropped calls. GSM is used internationally while CDMA is mostly used in the domestic United States. CDMA carriers are Verizon, Alltel, Sprint, Cricket....while GSM carriers here in the U.S. are T-Mobile and At&t.
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications).
GSM is the "branded" term referring to a particular use of TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access) technology. GSM is the dominant technology used around the globe and is available in more than 100 countries. It is the standard for communication for most of Asia and Europe.
International Use
Where international useage is important, GSM really does win hands down. GSM networks are used in more than 74% of the markets across the globe, and so users of tri-band or quad-band GSM handsets can travel to Europe, India, and most of Asia and still use their cell phones. CDMA offers no multiband capability and is rare outside of the United States so it is not
really much use for international travellers. You can also move the SIM of a GSM-based phone to any other GSM-based phone, or use a different SIM in your own phone, making GSM the optimal choice for international travelers who need connectivity.


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Corn & Moisture
URBANA – Crop ratings continue to slide as the crop shows visible symptoms of drought stress in those areas that have received little rain over the past six weeks.
According to University of Illinois crop sciences professor Emerson Nafziger, as of June 10 the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) reports that the average crop height is a record-high 29 inches, but the corn crop is rated at only 56 percent good to excellent (G-E), and the soybean crop is at only 50 percent G-E.
Midwest Regional Climate Center data show that rainfall from May 1 through June 12 ranged from 2 to 5 inches in Illinois, with deficits ranging from 1 to 2 inches along and south of I-80. The large deficit in far southern Illinois was somewhat alleviated by rainfall on June 12, but dryness persists throughout much of the state.
According to the weekly NASS measures of the dryness of the surface and subsurface soil, 26 percent of the topsoil was "very short" of moisture, 52 percent was "short", and 22 percent had adequate moisture on June 10. Subsurface numbers were similar with 28 percent having adequate moisture.
The Palmer Drought Index of June 5 showed most of Illinois except for the northeastern part as "abnormally dry," which is the mildest form of drought. A small part of extreme southern Illinois had "severe drought" conditions. Areas north of the severe-drought area and in central-west central Illinois were in "moderate drought."
"Despite these conditions, soils that can hold 2 to 3 inches of plant-available water per foot of depth should have had enough water to keep the crop growing through mid-vegetative stages," Nafziger said. However, here are several indications that this year's crop is feeling the drought.
Water use and photosynthetic rates are closely linked, so a decrease in water availability means a decrease in daily dry-matter production. Thus, even though the recent cooler weather has slowed water use and allowed the corn crop leaves to be out and active longer in the day before rolling up, lower temperatures also mean slower photosynthesis rates.
For corn planted in drier areas or in fields planted later in the season, the current dry period will result in smaller plants. If the weather remains dry, cells that make up kernels, silks, leaves, and seeds may also be restricted in size, with direct effects on yield.
Another problem with the corn crop is that in some areas, the root system was not able to tap the water in the soil. One cause was poorly-developed nodal roots, resulting in "rootless" or "floppy" corn. In some fields that were planted later or into drier soils, soils dried between the moist soil zones and the root ends, preventing the roots from reaching the moisture. Insect or disease problems also can keep roots from reaching moisture.
The soybean crop is also showing symptoms of lack of water. Some soybean fields planted into dry soils have poor stands in places, and others have roots that have not reached soil moisture.
"Leaves don't roll in soybean as they do in corn, but instead tend to lose turgor and droop, in some cases dropping to vertical orientation," Nafziger explained. "This helps them avoid sunlight and the heating that comes with it when there is not enough water to keep photosynthesis going, but it also means that they are doing no photosynthesis, which means they are not growing."
Growth is an increase in plant dry weight, which happens only during photosynthesis in daylight hours and is often not visible to the eye. By forming sugars using the energy of sunlight, photosynthesis powers the processes that result in cell expansion, which occurs when water moves into cells to push out cell walls.
Taking water into cells is not really growth," Nafziger said. "Still, the ability to photosynthesize and to form grain is affected by cell expansion, so having enough water so cells can expand fully is critically important to the plant." Cells have to attract water from the rest of the plant to expand, so this process is quite sensitive to water availability."
To see how well plants have been able to tap soil moisture, Nafziger advised looking at how plants are growing. Plants with enough water available will grow to normal height, while those that are unable to get enough water end up shorter than normal. "Plants do tell us, through their growth, how they are doing," he added.


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CSS Crib Sheet?November 19, 2003
Alright you Nielsenites you, that didn't go quite like I expected. It's probably my fault for calling it 'Best Practices' in the first place — what we're looking to create is more a crib sheet of practical advice, something for reference when a designer gets stuck while using CSS specifically.
"A lot of these 'best practices' are just arbitary favouritism for a particular way of working." - jgraham
I'd tend to agree. While nobody wants a blue, underlined link world, and we'll be debating for ages the best way to size fonts, this is what I was getting at: "a CSS Best Practice is a one sentence action statement, a 'thou shalt' or 'thou shalt not' (paraphrased, of course) that highlights a specific issue, be it browser compatibility, code integrity, or whatever else can actually be considered factual (instead of opinion)."
Take a look at my original four examples again — the point is to specifically address things we've learned about CSS after working with it for years, that may not be covered in the spec, or pop up when validating. Things like browser compatibility, code integr… you get the idea.
After sifting through the comments, here's an updated version of my original list. Feel free to add more in the comments, but consider the focus.
- When in doubt, validate.
- When debugging, you may save yourself a lot of headache by simply validating your code first. Improperly-formed XHTML/CSS will cause many a layout glitch.
- Make sure your desired effect actually exists.
- There are browser-specific CSS extensions that aren't in the official spec. If you're trying to apply
filters or scrollbar formatting, you're working with proprietary code that won't work in anything but IE. If the validator tells you the code you're using isn't defined, chances are it's proprietary, and won't work consistently across browsers.
- Avoid the Flash of Unstyled Content in IE.
- If you rely on
@importalone for external style, sooner or later you'll notice IE 'flashes' plain, unformatted HTML briefly before applying CSS. This can be avoided.
- Be careful when styling links if you're using anchors.
- If you use a classic anchor in your code (
) you'll notice it picks up
:activepseudo-classes. To avoid this, you'll need to either use
idfor anchors instead, or style with a slightly more arcane syntax:
:link:hover, :link:active
- Specify units for non-zero values.
- CSS requires you to specify units on all quantities such as fonts, margins and sizes. The behaviour of particular browsers when no sizes are specified should not be relied upon. Zero is zero, however, be it px, em, or anything else. No units are necessary. Example:
padding: 0 2px 0 1em;
- Test embedded; launch imported.
- If you work with a stylesheet embedded in your HTML source, you eliminate any potential caching errors while testing. This is very important when working with Safari, among others. But make sure to move your CSS to an external file, imported with
<link>before launching.
- Test different font sizes.
- Advanced browsers like Mozilla and Opera allow you to resize text no matter which unit you use. Some users will definitely have a larger or smaller default than you; try to accomodate as large a range as possible.
- Remember "LoVe/HAte" linking.
- When specifying link pseudo-classes, always do so in this order: Link, Visited, Hover, Active. Any other order won't work consistently.
- Build and test your CSS in the most advanced browser available before testing in others, not after.
- If you build a site testing in a broken browser, your code begins relying on the broken rendering of that browser. When it comes time to test in a more standards-compliant browser, you will be frustrated when that browser renders it improperly. Instead, start from perfection and then hack for the less able browsers. Your code will be more standards-compliant from the start, and you won't have to hack as much to support other browsers. Today, this means Mozilla, Safari, or Opera.
- Don't use quotation marks around paths/URLs.
- When setting a background image, or loading in an imported file, resist the urge to surround the path with quote marks. They're not necessary, and IE5/Mac will choke.
- Try to avoid applying padding/borders and a fixed width to an element.
- IE5 gets the box model wrong, which really makes a mess of things. There are ways around this, but it's best to side-step the issue by applying the padding to the parent element instead of the child that gets a fixed-width.
- Combine selectors.
- Keeping your CSS light is important to minimize download times; as much as possible, group selectors, rely on inheritance, and reduce redundancy by using shorthand.
As well, there were some notable theory items that don't particularily apply to the functionality side of things, but probably should be mentioned:
- Organize your CSS file
- Make sure to comment blocks of CSS appropriately, group like-selectors, and establish a consistent naming convention, white space formatting (recommendation: spaces instead of tabs for cross-platform considerations), and property order.
- Name classes/IDs based on function, not appearance.
- If you create a
.smallblueclass, and later get a request to change the text to large and red, the class stops making any form of sense. Instead use descriptive classes like
- Consider accessibility when using image replacement
- Classic FIR has known problems in screenreaders, and for those who have turned off images. Alternatives exist; use discriminately.
And finally, there were a few points I want clarification on before adding: is using a number at the beginning of an ID just invalid, or does it actually cause rendering problems? And this one — "Avoid horizontal margins and padding on floated elements, IE tends to render them incorrectly" — yeah? Sounds right based on experience, but I don't have supporting documentation on hand.
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In classes, though, numbers and special characters are allowed. So the following is valid (X)HTML:

Something

Something

Something

But to make it valid CSS, you have to use the Unicode escape character for the CSS selector with the special character, and you are supposed to escape the the first digit before the class, something like:
#a123color { color: red; }
.\ 123color { color: red; }
.\0000A9right { color: red; }
That being said, neither Mozilla or Opera will follow the last two rules. IE will only follow the first two (it will also incorrectly parse #123color).
"…is using a number at the beginning of an ID just invalid, or does it actually cause rendering problems?"
Personally, I don't care. Even if it doesn't cause rendering problems in all browsers in existence today, that doesn't mean it won't do so tomorrow. Just look at how quickly KHTML went from being the rendering engine for an obscure browser (Konqueror), to a multi-platform embeddable rendering engine used by Konqueror, Safari and Omniweb. What's around the corner? Will it have bug-for-bug compatibility with everything else out there? Do _you_ want to rely on that?
Here's another few for the list:
When debugging a layout, use background colours or borders to clarify the exact position and dimensions of each box.
Don't forget that floating elements will not affect the size of the parent element. Use a cleared child element at the end of the parent element if this is a problem.
When asking for help debugging something, please ensure you have valid code. You can't waste a validator's time. You can waste a human's time.
Thank you for this list and thanks for the floating elements thing, Jim. I was having that same problem and didn't know what the heck was going on!
If your client wants pixel-perfect everything, post GIFs.
Someone else beat me to the punch, but yes, IDs can begin with digits in XHTML. Not in HTML4.
As to the question of "why validate?" Well, other than giving you a smugly superior feeling, your pages render more quickly and more predictably. I've found the difference is noticeable (not huge, but noticeable) even on lightweight pages. Most browsers have a "quirks mode" that they enter when the parser chokes on a page. This forces it to try to lay out the page another time and take edumacated guesses at what the page author intended (admittedly, this assumes the browser's parser doesn't have any quirks of its own…). The process of getting a page to validate can help you uncover problems you may have missed, anyhow, so in that respect, it can be a helpful exercise.
Not all my pages validate, but I'm working on it.
"Test embedded, launch imported."
Actually, I've found that Safari consistently reloads the CSS file when reloading, at least in my case with a ed stylesheet containing @imports. IE/Mac, however, consistently does not.
I like the LoVe/HAte memory trick. Very nice.
"(recommendation: spaces instead of tabs for cross-platform considerations)"
Does this really cause cross-platform compatibility? Only I've never heard of such problems before. Personally, I think it's ludicrous to use spaces instead of tabs. It increases file sizes, and is a lot less flexible to individual reader / writers' preferences.
I don't know of any half decent editor that won't let you specify the amount of spaces each tab should be, so it can work at the right width for you and someone else, even when you both use different widths. However, I know of quite a few editors that can't change all the leading spaces around so easily.
I suppose I'm out of the loop. In the LoVe/HAte thing, why should :hover be defined before :active?
Define font-family and margins for the page in a rule for html and body for Opera.
Eric Meyer will tell you that links should be in the following order in your stylesheet (as will Joe Clark):
:link, :visited, :hover, :focus, :active
If I am not mistaken, early Opera 7 versions also flashes with unstyled page before it applies the css. I have not been abled to reproduce this with the latest 7.22 though.
Since you mentioned remembering LoVe/HAte for link order, another good reminder is TRouBLe for the shorthand of border/etc. properties: Top Right Bottom Left. :)
Name your stylesheets consistantly – if you put sitename.css in the images subdirectory of every site you design, it'll be easy to reference in new pages without thinking.
HTML editors with syntax highlighting (or better yet, a CSS editor like TopStyle) can really help if you are still learning where semicolons and curly brackets should be – you'll be more likely to see an error faster than if you were using a text editor.
If your client wants pixel perfect support in NS4, double your budget and be prepared to walk. :)
"is using a number at the beginning of an ID just invalid, or does it actually cause rendering problems?"
I have had a page break mysteriously in MSIE (probably version 5). In the end the problem turned out to be "id"s named with numbers at the beginning. Most of the time MSIE will grok such "id"s, but not always. So better be safe than sorry.
Numbers at the start of an ID (and NAME) are, in fact, invalid. They are also case sensitive.
Good suggestions, BTW.
"you can apply said title attribute to elements using it."
That's ingenious. It would be nice to use for something like a credit to the designer of a logo.
On topic: This is hard. Most of the documented stuff, if it is specific, is not up-to-date. I had a good trawl through this rather lengthy list:
Full and good as it is many of the links refer to problems and ways of working that are no longer current.
"Most browsers have a �quirks mode� that they enter when the parser chokes on a page."
AFAIK, quirks mode is not triggered by valid or invalid code, but rather by the doctype that you use.
Perhaps i'm just an amateur that pursues web design as a hobby, but I run my church's website, and I found two of your original 4 pointers (not using quotes around an image location in CSS, and the IE5 padding/absolute width snag) to be **EXTREMELY** helpful. The issue with using quotes around a root-relative image location I figured out on my own, but had I been alerted to the box-model hack earlier, it would have saved me months of bemusement and frustration. Thank you.
I'd love a whole section of the CSS crib sheet to be devoted to web forms. I haven't found many good references for marking up and styling accessible web forms.
I think the main advice with styling forms is "don't". In general it's not defined by the spec (I think that form controls are supposed to be replaced elements, like images. However the style rules for images and forms generally work differently). There are also significant platform issues. For example OSX buttons aren't designed to butt up against each other in the same way that windows controls are. This can break layouts. Other controls are also intrinsically difficult to style. How would one style a select, for example. Form controls, in general, aren't a problem that is in the domain of CSS; to work with them properly you need something more sophisticated like Mozilla's XBL.
Obviously some things will work. For example sizes of text areas will probably play nicely across different platforms and browsers. I'd guess you'd be OK with positioning as well and maybe even things like background colour (although, without reading the spec, I'd guess that most background colour implementations are wrong per the spec). But don't rely on form elements to hold together a layout e.g. by having a specific size. Care to write that as a crib note?
"When specifying elements such as margin: 0 0 0 0, remember the order with �TRouBLe� - Top, Right, Bottom Left."
Can you not do just
margin: 0;
or is that not allowed anymore?
Also, how come css images have no alt text variation? Isn't this a kind of hindsight considering that IMG tags must have alt text defined for it to validate.
In this case, wouldn't IMG tags be better suited for images than the css version, as alt text is defined for no images browsers and it is, in a sense, content of a sort?
I think you're right after all. My goof. However, I have noticed that Safari (at least) does render valid pages faster than in-.
Dave A–
There was a good intro on styling forms at ALA:
This has nothing to do with goofy stuff like making your buttons pink, of course…
I have a question: After you have a well-marked (X)HTML page and you begin coding in CSS, do you begin with type styling and colors or overall layout??
"Also, how come css images have no alt text variation?"
Because they are presentational and thus have no meaning. The meaning is derived from the (X)HTML.
Or, if you don't want all the crufty markup of the ALA method: http://illuminosity.net/thoughts/archives/styling_forms/ [insert standard self-plug disclaimer here].
How about these two:
1. Provide a fall-back list, including either "serif" or "sans-serif" for any font-family declarations. Make sure that your list is consistent with your first choice, i.e., if your first choice font is sans-serif, all the fallback fonts should be sans-serif as well.
2. Use font-size-adjust to maintain a consistent look when users don't have your first choice font.
:: #49 I disagree with a few of Motekye?s items:
:: - For images and objects: Set the height and width of objects with CSS, rather than width and height attributes.
:: That doesn?t make any sense. The width/height of those elements is usually important, irregardless of CSS or not and they often need to maintain those dimensions apart from the CSS.
Often when I change site styles, more than the CSS needs changing. I like to leave my markup alone over re-designs, but often images need to be re-sized to fit the new layout. Thus, I specify the size in the CSS and with no style, the image will adopt it?s normal size.
:: - Code for CSS scroll-bars should be kept in a different file as to prevent the main stylesheet from failing validator checks.
:: I?m probably going to get jumped on for this one, but what?s it matter if a style sheet is valid? So long as browsers ignore styles they don?t know you are good to go. People?s obsession with validity is puzzling to me (unless you need to send your XHTML through a parser, then that?s a different story).
Though validation has few if any practical applications, it says a lot about a designers credibility and integrity when they uphold to the standards presented by the W3C. Sure, depreciated code works, but it?s not optimal. Major validation errors can mean that your code will render improperly when a browser upgrades it?s web-standards support. It?s just a good idea to follow these guidelines. Also, I like the little yellow button!
:: - When an element appears only once in a document, use an ID instead of a class.
:: Not necessarily a good idea either. If you are positive that that element is only going to appear at most once on every page, then yea, go for it. But often times you don?t always know.
It?s pretty simple to predict that you will not need to use an element elsewhere. #nav would be a likely id candidate, unless you have navigation menus on the top and bottom / left and right of your site. footers, logos on layers, etc.. are all excellent uses of IDs.
:: - Wrap the contents of the body in a div or span so if you decide to move to a fixed-width or contained style, it will be MUCH easier.
:: That?s a good one, for now. Since most modern browsers will allow you to style the BODY tag apart from the HTML tag, that is becoming less of a must.
I have never been able to get styles on the html tag to work on IE 4 or Opera 6. I nest for safety reasons.
:: - When specifying titles, use h1, h2, h3, etc.. instead of divs with the class "title". Use paragraph blocks or blockquotes instead of text-containing divs.
:: Hate to be picky, but that falls under the category or HTML practices, not necessarily CSS.
The two often share jurisdiction. I just noticed that a lot of new CSS designers are blinded from proper html structure by the lure of styling a proverbial blank slate ( the div ) and thought I?d tie it in.
:: - Floated elements should appear before non-floated elements in the page source. Use floats for layout whenever possible. Use clear on footer elements, even if the floated block does not reach them.
:: That?s a bad practice because you should apply your CSS after you have the HTML and not have to put it the other way around.
For modest styling, I agree. But when a design relies on CSS, it?s better to change a bit of html than go through a CSS nightmare. I placed the side-bars before my content on my old blog for this purpose, it has not hurt the layout in any way for non-float type designs.
:: - Avoid using alpha-layer transparency, drop-down menus and other IE only CSS.
:: I think it is perfectly acceptable to use browser-specific CSS, be it IE scrollbars, Mozilla border-radius, etc. Use what you have available if they fit the situation. And Moz does have support for alpha transparencies. (Not sure how drop-down menus are IE-only CSS.)
Hmm.. I see your point. However, browser only CSS should be avoided when a major feature relies on it. I have seen IE-only drop down menus before, IE-only for lots of things. Something as crucial as navigation should not be left to chance.
:: Sorry to be the devil?s advocate.
Don?t apologize, it?s people like that who keep web designers on their toes. :)
:: #51 Floats always seems to require so much more from me when doing layouts, especially when it comes to IE.
I have never had any float crisis? with IE aside from horizontal padding/margins, I just find them to be universally acceptable practice. They are they only method I know of for doing columns on a fixed-width, centered design. Floats are also good for sizeable designs - I don?t know why everyone bad-mouths them.
Responding to AndyT
margin:0; is perfectly valid. It will be translated by the browser into: margin:0 0 0 0; to go on:
margin:0 1px; => margin:0 1px 0 1px;
margin:0 1px 2px; => margin:0 1px 2px 1px;
Some images shouln't have a alt text. If you are embedding such an image using HTML you will have to specify alt="".
About id attributes. This works and AFAIK, it is valid too:


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Fatalism, Causal Reasoning, and Natural Hazards
John McClure
Fatalism about natural disasters hinders action to prepare for those disasters, and overcoming this fatalism is one key element to preparing people for these disasters. Research by Bostrom and colleagues shows that failure to act often reflects gaps and misconceptions in citizen's mental models of disasters. Research by McClure and colleagues shows that fatalistic attitudes reflect people's attributing damage to uncontrollable natural causes rather than controllable human actions, such as preparation. Research shows which precise features of risk communications lead people to see damage as preventable and to attribute damage to controllable human actions. Messages that enhance the accuracy of mental models of disasters by including human factors recognized by experts lead to increased preparedness. Effective messages also communicate that major damage in disasters is often distinctive and reflects controllable causes. These messages underpin causal judgments that reduce fatalism and enhance preparation. Many of these messages are not only beneficial but also newsworthy. Messages that are logically equivalent but are differently framed have varying effects on risk judgments and preparedness. The causes of harm in disasters are often contested, because they often imply human responsibility for the outcomes and entail significant cost.
Flood Warning Systems and Their Performance
Dennis John Parker
Humankind is becoming increasingly dependent on timely flood warnings. Dependence is being driven by an increasing frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events, a growing number of disruptive and damaging floods, and rising sea levels associated with climate change. At the same time, the population living in flood-risk areas and the value of urban and rural assets exposed to floods are growing rapidly. Flood warnings are an important means of adapting to growing flood risk and learning to live with it by avoiding damage, loss of life, and injury. Such warnings are increasingly being employed in combination with other flood-risk management measures, including large-scale mobile flood barriers and property-level protection measures.
Given that lives may well depend on effective flood warnings and appropriate warning responses, it is crucial that the warnings perform satisfactorily, particularly by being accurate, reliable, and timely. A sufficiently long warning lead time to allow precautions to be taken and property and people to be moved out of harm's way is particularly important. However, flood warnings are heavily dependent on the other components of flood forecasting, warning, and response systems of which they are a central part. These other components—flood detection, flood forecasting, warning communication, and warning response—form a system that is characterized as a chain, each link of which depends on the other links for effective outcomes. Inherent weaknesses exist in chainlike processes and are often the basis of warning underperformance when it occurs.
A number of key issues confront those seeking to create and successfully operate flood warning systems, including (1) translating technical flood forecasts into warnings that are readily understandable by the public; (2) taking legal responsibility for warnings and their dissemination; (3) raising flood-risk awareness; (4) designing effective flood warning messages; (5) knowing how best and when to communicate warnings; and (6) addressing uncertainties surrounding flood warnings.
Flood warning science brings together a large body of research findings from a particularly wide range of disciplines ranging from hydrometeorological science to social psychology. In recent decades, major advances have been made in forecasting fluvial and coastal floods. Accurately forecasting pluvial events that cause surface-water floods is at the research frontier, with significant progress being made. Over the same time period, impressive advances in a variety of rapid, personalized communication means has transformed the process of flood warning dissemination. Much is now known about the factors that constrain and aid appropriate flood warning responses both at the individual and at organized, flood emergency response levels, and a range of innovations are being applied to improve response effectiveness. Although the uniqueness of each flood and the inherent unpredictability involved in flood events means that sometimes flood warnings may not perform as expected, flood warning science is helping to minimize these occurrences.
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Urban Flood Flows and Disaster Risk Reduction
Brett F. Sanders
Communities facing urban flood risk have access to powerful flood simulation software for use in disaster-risk-reduction (DRR) initiatives. However, recent research has shown that flood risk continues to escalate globally, despite an increase in the primary outcome of flood simulation: increased knowledge. Thus, a key issue with the utilization of urban flood models is not necessarily development of new knowledge about flooding, but rather the achievement of more socially robust and context-sensitive knowledge production capable of converting knowledge into action. There are early indications that this can be accomplished when an urban flood model is used as a tool to bring together local lay and scientific expertise around local priorities and perceptions, and to advance improved, target-oriented methods of flood risk communication.
The success of urban flood models as a facilitating agent for knowledge coproduction will depend on whether they are trusted by both the scientific and local expert, and to this end, whether the model constitutes an accurate approximation of flood dynamics is a key issue. This is not a sufficient condition for knowledge coproduction, but it is a necessary one. For example, trust can easily be eroded at the local level by disagreements among scientists about what constitutes an accurate approximation.
Motivated by the need for confidence in urban flood models, and the wide variety of models available to users, this article reviews progress in urban flood model development over three eras: (1) the era of theory, when the foundation of urban flood models was established using fluid mechanics principles and considerable attention focused on development of computational methods for solving the one- and two-dimensional equations governing flood flows; (2) the era of data, which took form in the 2000s, and has motivated a reexamination of urban flood model design in response to the transformation from a data-poor to a data-rich modeling environment; and (3) the era of disaster risk reduction, whereby modeling tools are put in the hands of communities facing flood risk and are used to codevelop flood risk knowledge and transform knowledge to action. The article aims to inform decision makers and policy makers regarding the match between model selection and decision points, to orient the engineering community to the varied decision-making and policy needs that arise in the context of DRR activities, to highlight the opportunities and pitfalls associated with alternative urban flood modeling techniques, and to frame areas for future research.
Integrating Access and Functional Needs in Community Planning for Natural Hazards
Nnenia Campbell
Populations that are rendered socially invisible by their relegation to realms that are excluded—either physically or experientially—from the rest of society tend to similarly be left out of community disaster planning, often with dire consequences. Older adults, persons with disabilities, linguistic minorities, and other socially marginalized groups face amplified risks that translate into disproportionately negative outcomes when disasters strike. Moreover, these disparities are often reproduced in the aftermath of disasters, further reinforcing preexisting inequities. Even well-intentioned approaches to disaster service delivery have historically homogenized and segregated distinct populations under the generic moniker of "special needs," thereby undermining their own effectiveness at serving those in need.
The access and functional needs perspective has been promoted within the emergency management field as a practical and inclusive means of accommodating a range of functional capacities in disaster planning. This framework calls for operationalizing needs into specific mechanisms of functional support that can be applied at each stage of the disaster lifecycle. Additionally, experts have emphasized the need to engage advocacy groups, organizations that routinely serve socially marginalized populations, and persons with activity limitations themselves to identify support needs. Incorporating these diverse entities into the planning process can help to build stronger, more resilient communities.
Old Media, New Media, and the Complex Story of Disasters
Josh Greenberg and T. Joseph Scanlon
Media have always played an important role in times of emergency and disaster. Undersea cables, international news agencies, the press, radio and television, and, most recently, digital and mobile technologies—all have played myriad and complex roles in supporting emergency response and notification, and in helping constitute a shared experience that can be important to social mobilization and community formation. The geographical location of disasters and the identities of victims, the increasingly visual nature of disaster events, and the ubiquitous nature of media in our lives, all shape and influence which kinds of emergencies attract global media and public attention, and how we come to understand them.
Globalization has compressed time and space such that a whole range of disasters—from natural events (cyclones, earthquakes, and hurricanes) to industrial accidents and terrorist attacks—appear on our television and mobile screens with almost daily frequency. There is nothing inherent about these events that give them meaning—they occur in a real, material world; but for many of us, our experience of these events is shaped and determined in large part by our interactions with media industries, institutions, and technologies. Understanding the media's construction of these events as disasters provides important insight into the nature of disaster mitigation, response and recovery.
Public Participation in Planning for Community Management of Natural Hazards
Andrea Sarzynski and Paolo Cavaliere
Public participation in environmental management, and more specifically in hazard mitigation planning, has received much attention from scholars and practitioners. A shift in perspective now sees the public as a fundamental player in decision making rather than simply as the final recipient of a policy decision. Including the public in hazard mitigation planning brings widespread benefits. First, communities gain awareness of the risks they live with, and thus, this is an opportunity to empower communities and improve their resilience. Second, supported by a collaborative participation process, emergency managers and planners can achieve the ultimate goal of strong mitigation plans.
Although public participation is highly desired as an instrument to improve hazard mitigation planning, appropriate participation techniques are context dependent and some trade-offs exist in the process design (such as between representativeness and consensus building). Designing participation processes requires careful planning and an all-around consideration of the representativeness of stakeholders, timing, objectives, knowledge, and ultimately desired goals to achieve. Assessing participation also requires more consistent methods to facilitate policy learning from diverse experiences. New decision-support tools may be necessary to gain widespread participation from laypersons lacking technical knowledge of hazards and risks.
Risk Governance of Limited-Notice or No-Notice Natural Hazards
Maria Papathoma-Köhle and Dale Dominey-Howes
The second priority of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 stresses that, to efficiently manage risk posed by natural hazards, disaster risk governance should be strengthened for all phases of the disaster cycle. Disaster management should be based on adequate strategies and plans, guidance, and inter-sector coordination and communication, as well as the participation and inclusion of all relevant stakeholders—including the general public. Natural hazards that occur with limited-notice or no-notice (LNN) challenge these efforts.
Different types of natural hazards present different challenges to societies in the Global North and the Global South in terms of detection, monitoring, and early warning (and then response and recovery). For example, some natural hazards occur suddenly with little or no warning (e.g., earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, snow avalanches, flash floods, etc.) whereas others are slow onset (e.g., drought and desertification). Natural hazards such as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and floods may unfold at a pace that affords decision-makers and emergency managers enough time to affect warnings and to undertake preparedness and mitigative activities. Others do not. Detection and monitoring technologies (e.g., seismometers, stream gauges, meteorological forecasting equipment) and early warning systems (e.g., The Australian Tsunami Warning System) have been developed for a number of natural hazard types. However, their reliability and effectiveness vary with the phenomenon and its location. For example, tsunamis generated by submarine landslides occur without notice, generally rendering tsunami-warning systems inadequate.
Where warnings are unreliable or mis-timed, there are serious implications for risk governance processes and practices. To assist in the management of LNN events, we suggest emphasis should be given to the preparedness and mitigation phases of the disaster cycle, and in particular, to efforts to engage and educate the public. Risk and vulnerability assessment is also of paramount importance. The identification of especially vulnerable groups, appropriate land use planning, and the introduction and enforcement of building codes and reinforcement regulations, can all help to reduce casualties and damage to the built environment caused by unexpected events. Moreover, emergency plans have to adapt accordingly as they may differ from the evacuation plans for events with a longer lead-time. Risk transfer mechanisms, such as insurance, and public-private partnerships should be strengthened, and redevelopment should consider relocation and reinforcement of new buildings. Finally, participation by relevant stakeholders is a key concept for the management of LNN events as it is also a central component for efficient risk governance. All relevant stakeholders should be identified and included in decisions and their implementation, supported by good communication before, during, and after natural hazard events.
The implications for risk governance of a number of natural hazards are presented and illustrated with examples from different countries from the Global North and the Global South.


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League of American Orchestras Announces Six Appointments to Board of Directors
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League of American Orchestras Announces Six Appointments to Board of Directors
New York, NY (July 16, 2012) - League of American Orchestras Chair Lowell J. Noteboom has announced the appointment of Burton Alter, Angelo Fatta, Jim Hasler, John Hayes, James Mabie, and Robert Peiser to the League's Board of Directors. The six new board members, who will each serve three-year terms, were elected by the League membership during its annual meeting in June.
"The League is committed to providing strong leadership for orchestras in a time of dramatic change," said Noteboom. "We look forward to drawing on the expertise of this group of proven leaders who care deeply about sustaining and deepening the valuable role America's orchestras play in their communities."
Burton Alter, a retired attorney, has served on the Board of Directors of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra for four years, and is currently president. He is also a trustee of the National Guild for Community Arts Education and was formerly board president of Neighborhood Music School in New Haven.
Angelo Fatta is the current treasurer and former chair of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's Board of Trustees, on which he has served since 2004. Fatta is also former chair of the Board of Trustees of the University at Buffalo Foundation, Inc. and is currently a trustee of the State University of New York. He was founder and CEO of ACTS Testing Labs, which he sold in 1998. He later became president of BuffLink, a not-for-profit facilitator of life sciences commercialization in Western New York. He and his wife, Carol, are founders of The Fatta Foundation, which supports the welfare and development of children in the Buffalo area.
Jim Hasler is the vice president/chair of the marketing and programs committees of East Bay Performing Arts, the parent company of the Oakland East Bay Symphony. Hasler is also the former president of the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and a board member since 1997. He is director of marketing development at The Clorox Company.
John Hayes was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra for seven years, serving as vice chair from 2007 to 2010 and as chair in 2011. From 2001 to 2005 he was as a member of the Board of Directors of the Denver Area Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, which he chaired in 2002 and 2003. He retired from the private practice of law in 2011, and currently works as a mediator/arbitrator.
James Mabie is a life trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He also serves as trustee of The Cara Program; co-founder and chairman of Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts); trustee and past chair of Chicago Public Media; trustee of WTTW (Chicago Public Television); trustee of Ravinia Festival; and trustee and chair of Lyric Opera of Chicago's finance committee. Mabie is a principal of William Blair and Company and former managing director of A.G. Becker & Company.
Robert A. Peiser is the president of the Houston Symphony Board of Trustees. He also serves on advisory committees of the Jones School of Management, and the Shepherd School of Music, at Rice University He currently serves on the board of the Houston Area Women's Center, is president of the board of the Foundation for Jones Hall, and is on the Investment Committee of the Greater Houston Community Foundation. Peiser's most recent management roles include chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Omniflight Helicopters, Inc. (2008-2010), and President and Chief Executive Officer of Imperial Sugar Company (2002-2008). He is currently a director for two public companies (Team, Inc. and USA Truck), and three private companies (Americas PowerSports, eCardio Diagonistics, and NMG Group). Peiser is the immediate past chairman, and a continuing director, of the Texas TriCities Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
The League of American Orchestras leads, supports, and champions America's orchestras and the vitality of the music they perform. Its diverse membership of approximately 850 orchestras across North America runs the gamut from world-renowned symphonies to community groups, from summer festivals to student and youth ensembles. The only national organization dedicated solely to the orchestral experience, the League is a nexus of knowledge and innovation, advocacy, and leadership advancement for managers, musicians, volunteers, and boards. Its conferences and events, award-winning Symphony magazine, website, and other publications inform music lovers around the world about orchestral activity and developments. Founded in 1942 and chartered by Congress in 1962, the League links a national network of thousands of instrumentalists, conductors, managers and administrators, board members, volunteers, and business partners. Visit americanorchestras.org .
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As a first time homebuyer, getting a mortgage might seem a bit daunting. As you navigate the approval process, don't be confused, a pre-approval is much different than being pre-qualified. Here's the skinny:
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Even though fall harvest has been off to a slow start in many parts of the country, the 2008/09 marketing year for U.S. soy exports showed no signs of slowing down the continuing trend of year-after-year growth. With more than 1.56 billion bushels of U.S. soy exported, soy remains the leading U.S. agriculture export valued at $15 billion. Soybean checkoff-funded international marketing efforts assist U.S. soybean farmers and the U.S. soy industry in reaching these record-breaking exports.
Of the 2008/09 soybean crop, the U.S. exported 55 percent, including 1.24 billion bushels of whole soybeans. The U.S. exported nearly 320 million bushels of U.S. soybean meal, and exports of U.S. soybean oil totaled nearly 900,000 metric tons.
"The checkoff funds programs that help increase the demand and preference for U.S. soybeans around the world," says Jim Call, soybean farmer from Madison, Minn., and United Soybean Board (USB) International Marketing chair. "And, despite the worldwide economic situation, U.S. sales of soy internationally have increased."
For the 2008/09 marketing year, China remained the top importer of U.S. soybeans with a total of 686 million bushels or 23 percent of total U.S. soybeans. The United States' southern neighbor, Mexico, imported the most U.S. soybean meal at 56 million bushels and the second-highest amount of U.S. soybeans with 113 million bushels and U.S. soybean oil with 110,600 metric tons. Total Mexico imports of U.S. soy equaled over $1.6 billion. India imported the most U.S. soybean oil, totaling 172,600 metric tons. U.S. soybean exports to Japan dropped slightly at 88 million bushels. The European Union remained a strong market as the Netherlands imported 32 million bushels and Germany imported 25 million bushels.
To maintain and increase U.S. soybean exports, the soybean checkoff supports a number of international marketing efforts, including hosting trade teams from around the world who visit the United States to see farms, U.S. soybeans in various growth stages, animal-feeding trials and other uses for U.S. soybeans. USB farmer-leaders also participate in trade missions to foreign countries to meet with farmers, processors, agricultural associations and government officials to discuss the quality and benefits of U.S. soybeans.
"Other countries know that when they buy U.S. soy, they are going to get a consistent product," adds Call. "U.S. soybean farmers produce a high-quality product."
The slow harvest poses some concerns for the 2009/10 marketing year. With the U.S. harvest moved back, this crop will be coming on the market later than usual. This could upset the opportunity for U.S. soy in the winter months. Further disrupting the possible success of the 2009/10 marketing year is the likely possibility that the South American harvest could be earlier and larger than last year. Part of the increase in 2008/09 exports resulted from a drought in Argentina that left a gap for soybeans on the international market that the United States continues to fill.
"The U.S. soybean farmer cannot rely on some of these outside market forces to continue to drive our export growth," says Call. "For this reason, we are looking at ways to optimize our investments in the markets that represent the greatest growth opportunities, and we're going at this by looking at the model in which we approach the entire international marketplace. U.S. soybean farmers take very seriously our role of helping to feed the world, and optimizing our international marketing efforts will allow us to continue helping with global food supply issues even with the population growth we're facing. "
USB is made up of 68 farmer-directors who oversee the investments of the soybean checkoff on behalf of all U.S. soybean farmers. Checkoff funds are invested in the areas of animal utilization, human utilization, industrial utilization, industry relations, market access and supply. As stipulated in the Soybean Promotion, Research and Consumer Information Act, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has oversight responsibilities for USB and the soybean checkoff.


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Video reveals deceit of Iran's president
So-called 'moderate' boasts of buying time to build nuclear program
Video courtesy of Nasim Online / Translation: Reza Kahlili
In a newly revealed videotape of a pre-election interview, Iran's new president bragged about deceiving the West over the Islamic regime's illicit nuclear program and claimed credit for vastly expanding it.
Hassan Rowhani, dubbed a "moderate and reformist" by worldwide media in June after his election, took the oath of office Sunday with the blessing of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
However, the video shows Rowhani is anything but a moderate – one who not only is committed to the ideals and goals of the Islamic regime, but also who proudly boasted of his deceptions during his tenure as the regime's nuclear negotiator starting in October 2003 in talks with France, Britain and Germany.
"The day that we invited the three European ministers (to the talks), only 10 centrifuges were spinning at (the Iranian nuclear facility of) Natanz," Rowhani said on the tape. "We could not produce one gram of U4 or U6 (uranium hexafluoride). … We did not have the heavy-water production. We could not produce yellow cake. Our total production of centrifuges inside the country was 150."
But then Rowhani admitted the purpose of prolonged negotiations: "We wanted to complete all of these – we needed time."
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Rowhani said the three European ministers promised to block the U.S. desire to transfer the Iran nuclear dossier to the United Nations, using veto power if necessary. He called Iran's claim that it stopped its nuclear program in 2003 a statement for the uneducated and admitted that the program not only was not stopped, but further was significantly expanded under his tenure.
While President George W. Bush was increasing pressure on Iran in 2007, a report by American intelligence agencies concluded that Iran halted its nuclear program in 2003 and that the program had remained frozen since.
In the interview, Rowhani said that when he took over the country's nuclear project, the country's 150 centrifuges grew to over 1,700 by the time he left the project.
"Do you know when Bushehr's (Iran nuclear power plant) first phase was completed? The beginning of 2004," Rowhani said on the tape. "Do you know when the next phase was inaugurated? The fall of 2004. Do you know when the project was completed? March of 2005. How about the heavy-water plant? Do you know when the production started? The summer of 2004. Do you know when yellow cake was produced? The winter of 2004. Do you know when the number of centrifuges reached 3,000? In 2005."
Then Rowhani made his boldest statement: "We did not stop. We completed the program."
He said that Iran's nuclear activity was under the supervision of the supreme leader and that he, as Khamenei's representative, was to make sure of this deceit.
Discover the stunning reality that Rowhani's campaign of fooling the West is not new, but a well-practiced technique taught to Iran by the KGB! The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West reveals all in "Disinformation," available from WND Books.
Today Iran has over 10,000 centrifuges spinning at its Natanz facility and has stockpiled enough low-enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs while its stock of the higher-enriched uranium is constantly rising.
Reports suggest the country's heavy-water plant will go online ahead of schedule in 2014, which could put the country on a dual track for building nuclear bombs, which means spent fuel could be used for plutonium bombs.
Other reports indicate that the Islamic regime will likely complete its intercontinental ballistic missiles program in 2014, which would put the United States within its reach.
Despite U.N., U.S. and European sanctions, the Islamic regime never halted its illicit nuclear program and is inching ever closer to production of nuclear bombs. Its decade of negotiations with the West managed to buy it time while making gains in both its nuclear and missile programs.
World leaders have shown an eagerness to engage the new Iranian president, stating that Rowhani could possibly break the impasse and make way for constructive negotiations over Iran's illicit nuclear program. The White House issued a statement that Rowhani would find "a willing partner" in the U.S. if he chooses to "to engage substantively and seriously to meet its international obligations and find a peaceful solution" to the country's nuclear program.
In an exclusive May 20 report WND revealed the vast "Quds" site, where Iranian scientists are trying to perfect nuclear warheads at this underground facility previously unknown to the West.


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