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Twelve-year-old Colton Clayton caught a Maryland record largemouth bass while fishing at a farm pond in his hometown of Huntingtown, in Calvert County, on July 31. The fish was 11 pounds, 6 ounces, 26 inches long and 18 inches around. Clayton caught the fish using a spinning rod loaded with eight-pound test line and a plastic worm, rigged weedless and without a weight.
Fisheries biologist Keith Lockwood verified the catch as the new Freshwater Largemouth Bass State Record. Lockwood said that the fish could have easily weighed more if it had been in a fattened condition.
The previous record of 11 pounds, 2 ounces was held for nearly 30 years by Rodney Cockrell.


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WETC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 117 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
The Weymouth Educational Telecommunications Corporation, Inc. or WETC is based in Weymouth, MA. We develop documentary-style programs for Weymouth residents to educate and inform them about the town. Our shows mostly focus on the government and town agencies such as the schools, police & fire depts., etc. We've also done more creative programs about Weymouth's history and public service announcements. We also cover government meetings.
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The drought that's turned most of the United States into a dessicated hotbox may be a symptom of climate change, a brutal blowback from carbon pollution.
Climate scientists, who prefer to speak in terms of probabilities and trends rather than single events, are reluctant to point fingers at any one cause — but signs point to human influence making a natural dry spell unnaturally severe.
"In any single event, it's hard to really know if you're just seeing a natural variation or climate change," cautioned climatologist Chris Funk of the University of California, Santa Barbara. With that caveat, Funk said when asked if human activity exacerbated the drought, "Tentatively, the answer is yes. To some extent, it is."
Public sentiment has already linked the drought, which has turned much of the Great Plains and Midwest into disaster areas, wrecking crops and driving food prices dangerously upwards, to unnatural climate fluctuation. Belief in climate change is now at an all-time U.S. high, and while explaining the causes of any large weather pattern is always difficult, enough is known about climate to make some educated guesses.
Funk's specialty is the dynamics of sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. Over the last century, and in particular the last two decades, these rose by an average of 1.25 degrees Fahrenheit. Ocean temperature trends can be tricky to interpret, but there's little scientific disagreement about Indian Ocean warming: It's almost certainly man-made, a result of greenhouse gases trapping heat in Earth's atmosphere.
When the western Pacific is especially warm and the central Pacific is especially cool — the latter a natural, cyclically occurring condition known as La Niña, which has prevailed since 2010 — the temperature gradient causes changes in atmospheric circulation.
Dry air is pushed westward toward the Horn of Africa, which in 2011 experienced a massive drought. There also seems to be an eastward ripple effect, interacting with other weather patterns to produce drought conditions in mid-latitude regions.
La Niña generally produces dry spells in southern North America, but adding a warm-to-cool Pacific gradient generates what some scientists call "the perfect ocean for drought," spreading it far and wide. This occurred between 1998 and 2002, when a similar warm-to-cool Pacific gradient existed and drought struck the United States and mid-latitude regions worldwide. Another, lesser gradient occurred in 2007 and 2008, just before another U.S. drought.
The latest warm-to-cool gradient occurred in 2010 and 2011. Martin Hoerling, a research meteorologist at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory who coined the "perfect ocean for drought" term, said it may well help explain the current disaster.
"The 2011 drought in Texas was part of the La Niña effect, and we've carried it on here," he says. "When background conditions in the tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean are warm, it leads to the worst of all possible worlds for droughts in the mid-latitudes. I can't confirm that's been driving the conditions we've been seeing, but it's an useful first guess."
If that dynamic is at work, then fossil fuel pollution is implicated. "Some part of it is related to extra water vapor that wouldn't be there" if not for human greenhouse gas emissions, Funk says. "If we didn't have all that extra anthropogenic water vapor, the western Pacific would be cooler, and the gradient wouldn't be as great."
Bin Guan, a drought specialist at the California Institute of Technology, struck a cautionary note on early interpretations. "Drought development is a long, complicated process," he said. "Its response to greenhouse gases is more complicated than temperature alone because it's a combination of temperature, precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture, and other conditions."
Whether the current drought's severity is linked to greenhouse gas pollution is "difficult to say with certainty," Guan said. "It could be a combination of both natural forces and human impact, but we can't be sure, at least for now."
Also fueling the drought was the exception warmth of the past winter and spring, which by drying U.S. soils reduced the amount of moisture entering regional weather systems through evaporation. The extent to which that reflects climate change is unknown, as is the provenance of a high-low pressure system now sitting off the U.S. west coast that funnels warm, dry air from approaching storm systems, said Hoerling.
Those factors may prove unrelated to human activity, but represent the type of patterns with which climate change interacts, ultimately producing a world that — regardless of this drought's origin — is expected to become a much hotter, drier place. "We're not creating weather patterns we've never experienced before," Hoerling says. "But when these patterns do materialize from time to time, through the vagaries of weather, they're materializing in a warming climate."
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This story first appeared on Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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text: Show Hide image Culture 6 December 2012 Just don't call it champagne, sweetie How to make your festivities effervesce slightly more cost-efficiently. Sign-up Before I launch into a hymn to sparkling wine, I'd better make something clear. I love champagne, with its rich and subtle flavours and richer, subtler history, not to mention the canniness of its makers who have somehow persuaded your average punter to spend five or six times their normal outlay because the wine in question contains carbon dioxide – free, last time I checked, in every location in which Homo sapiens can inhale. We Brits are among the world's most enthusiastic consumers of champagne and long may that continue. Yet there are an awful lot of sparkling wines out there, some much better than others, and our passion for champagne at one end of the market (and contempt for atrocious cava at the other) ignores too many. Our newly minted sparkling wine industry can't help, since these wines still tend to be about the same price as a non-vintage champagne. I could talk to you about Australian sparkling wine or prosecco or even the better cavas but space is short and the sun is headed for the yardarm, so I will tell you about crémant instead. Champagne is only the bestknown sparkling wine region in France. Limoux in Languedoc- Roussillon has been making its blanquettes and crémants since the 16th century; the Loire has six kinds of fizz, grouped under the name fines bulles but each with an array of rules even finer than those bulles, or bubbles. In 1900, Julien Dopff came home to Alsace from a champagne-making demonstration at Paris's Exposition Universelle full of plans for Champagne Dopff; his descendants and their neighbours are still making their fizz, using the champagne (traditional) method and their own grapes, including Pinot Blanc and Riesling, although now they have to call it Crémant d'Alsace. Even before you look across the Alps to the miasma of fizzing prosecco or franciacorta droplets above northern Italy, the choice is phenomenal. The wines vary in quality but then so do those of their more famous countrymen – and it's a lot easier to practise trial and error at £14 a bottle than at £30-plus. Why is most sparkling wine so much less expensive than champagne, even when made using the same méthode traditionnelle of a second fermentation in the bottle? Sometimes, it's because the grapes are machine-harvested – in Australia, a Melbourne sommelier tells me, a lot of women ("Oops, that's sexist – I mean people") want to drink bubbles all through lunch without going bankrupt: "There's no way that would be possible if the producers stuck to champagne's rules." Or sometimes, fizz is where producers put the grapes that don't make it into the still wine. Wrong Burgundy If you are a Burgundian lucky enough to have premier cru or grand cru land, your only permitted varieties are Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, two of the three traditional champagne varieties. You may choose to make Crémant de Bourgogne from whatever doesn't go into your unbelievably good still wines because these grapes are only below par in the sense that Jenson Button is a substandard driver because he's not Ayrton Senna. It is party season now but, given that many of us have less to celebrate and fewer pennies to spend on the celebrations, this may be a good year to look at ways to make your festivities effervesce slightly more cost-efficiently – or you may simply consider the booziest part of the year an opportunemoment for a little vinous experimentation. That's my méthode traditionnelle: less killing two birds with one stone than getting one bird stoned with a fine array of glasses. Nina Caplan is the 2018 and 2014 Fortnum & Mason Drink Writer of the Year and the 2014 Louis Roederer International Wine Columnist of the Year for her columns on drink in the New Statesman, and the author of The Wandering Vine: Wine, The Romans and Me, published by Bloomsbury. She tweets as @NinaCaplan. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 10 December 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Greece: a warning for Britain? SUBSCRIBE More


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A Vinyasa yoga class is known for its fluid, movement-intensive practices. Vinyasa teachers sequence their classes to a smoothly transition from pose to pose linking breath to movement, and often play music to keep things lively. No two vinyasa classes are the same so if you dislike routine and love to test your physical limits, vinyasa may be just your ticket.


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Lenten season begins at UMC
Come and join the United Methodist Church for the six-week series for the Lenten season entitled "Final Words" by Adam Hamilton. This DVD series will explore the meaning of Jesus' last words. Materials will be provided.
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The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GM
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The acrimonious debate and serious lobbying that developed around California's Proposition 37, which would have required the labelling of genetically-modified ingredients in food products had it passed, is an indication that the subject inspires extreme views and involves big money. But an interesting post in Slate argues that GM labelling is really a minor issue compared to the main problem -- gene patents:
GM foods' effect on health is uncertain, but their effect on farmers, scientists, and the marketplace is clear. Some GM foods may be healthy, others not; every genetic modification is different. But every GM food becomes dangerous -- not to health, but to society -- when it can be patented. Right now, the driving force behind the development of new genetic crop modifications is the fact that they possess the potential to be enormously profitable
As the article points out, the leading player here, Monsanto, has built its empire on this fact:
It was utility patent protection that opened the door for Monsanto's present-day global seed and insecticide portfolio, including rights to its infamous "terminator" or "suicide seed" technology (which effectively sterilizes second-generation plants and makes it not only futile but a legal violation for farmers to gather seeds for next year's crop). Monsanto has prosecuted farmers who discover GM corn or soy sprouts growing on their land after the wind carries seeds over from neighbors' GM fields. The basis for such ridiculous lawsuits? Plant patent laws: These farmers are inadvertently violating Monsanto's intellectual property rights.
The author of the piece, Frederick Kaufman, notes that GM technology isn't necessarily about money. He cites the case of Dr. Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant genomics at UC-Davis:
After seeking to decode the rice genome for a decade, Ronald and her team came up with a genetically altered version that resists Xanthomonas, Asia's worst rice blight. What better, more socially beneficial use for genetic modification could there be? Ronald and UC-Davis filed the gene with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, so that the genetic sequences for Xanthomonas immunity would become their intellectual property
Initially, Monsanto and Pioneer asked to license the gene, but then lost interest for some reason. So eventually Dr Ronald made the GM rice freely available to developing countries, thus allowing them to exploit it for their peoples' benefit without needing to pay.
The post concludes by calling for patent reform, explaining why patents on food are deeply problematic:
A copyrighted movie or book remains the same movie or book, but when food becomes a legal construct or an intellectual property right, it stops being food. Of course, you can eat patented popcorn the same way you can consume its unpatented cousin. But unlike an iPhone or a flatscreen TV, everyone needs food, and we need it every day. The world's largest purveyors of industrial agriculture would like to convince the rest of us that the global food market is as free as the market for any other widget -- even though no one can opt out of purchasing breakfast, lunch, or dinner for any extended period of time, or in any meaningful way. Since everyone must participate in the food market to the tune of 2,700 or so calories a day, food property rights allow those who hold food patents a guaranteed portion of profits from a guaranteed purchase, which is fundamentally unfair.
Now that patent reform is being widely discussed, perhaps it's time to consider whether food patents are really beneficial for the public, or just for the giant corporations like Monsanto that own and enforce them so ruthlessly.
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The first time a story about the murder of Sidney "Sid" Wells appeared in The Denver Post it was buried deep in the newspaper on page four of the B section.
The relative anonymity of the case would not last long. The following day, the newspaper ran a story about the same case on the front page after it was learned that Sid had been the boyfriend of 22-year-old Shauna Redford, the daughter of actor Robert Redford.
When he first began dating Shauna, Sid didn't know that she was the daughter of a celebrity.
His friends described him as a "clean-cut, All-American boy." He grew up in Longmont, played football in high school, was working his way through the University of Colorado and dreaming of a TV journalism career, according to dozens of media accounts the past 31 years.
The journalism major was about to enter his senior year in college. He was interning that summer with KMGH-TV in Denver. He was a member of the "Silver Steps," a four-member disco dance group he'd joined with friends from Longmont.
"A gunshot into the back of his head stilled those dreams," former Denver Post Staff Writer Jane Cracraft wrote in that front page story on Aug. 3, 1983.
It has been 31 years to the day since Sid Wells was murdered. His brother, Sam, found his body on Aug. 1, 1983.
Since Sid's death his family became heavily involved in the movement to bring justice to the families of murder victims. His brother, Robert Wells, is the executive director of Families of Victims of Homicide and Missing Persons, an advocacy group that has spearheaded new laws that ensure cold cases continue to be investigated.
Sid Wells was 22 at the time of his murder. He was living with his brother, Samuel, in a condominium at Spanish Towers, 805 29th St.
When he moved into Shauna's condominium in January 1983, Sid wrote an advertisement in the Boulder Daily Camera looking for someone to take his place in the fifth-floor condominium. "Luxury condominium for $300 a month. Call Sid, 443-1441."
Real estate agent Thayne Smika, a 24-year-old college dropout, called back and signed a rental agreement.


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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child develops knowledge about life science by pulling handles and making sure their plant has enough sunlight and water.
Your child practices ordering large numbers by directing which numbered apples to shoot in descending order.
Your child develops exploration and curiosity skills as well as building narratives and object identification by playing a variety of games and being a creative contributor to the environment.
Your child develops an understanding of primary and secondary colors by interacting with the color creation process.
Your child develops an understanding of rhymes by creating their own endings to the verses.
Your child develops an understanding of economics by choosing the correct price tags and looking after Bella's store.
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Your child will engage in a variety of creative, as well as cognitive, activities such as coloring, memory, dressing up, and music etc in this game.
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A radical shift in the culture of the NHS is needed to rid it of outdated working practices, cure it of widespread bullying and heal the damaging rift between managers and clinicians, the head of its official regulator has warned.
David Prior, chairman of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), also called for serious "transformational change" of the health service, without which it will "go bust".
Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Prior called for greater input from the private sector, the merging of hospitals and changes to the way the NHS is held to account - particularly, the scrapping of waiting targets.
He highlighted the "alarming" revelation that a survey of 100,000 NHS staff found one in four had been bullied. He also described the NHS as having a culture that "stigmatises and ostracises" whistleblowers who raise concerns or complaints.
His warning comes at a time when the NHS is struggling to emerge from crises such as the Mid-Staffs scandal, where hundreds of patients died and suffered neglect, as well as facing rising costs and an ageing population.
Mr Prior, a former MP and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, who was appointed to run the CQC last year, said: "Too often it (the NHS) delights in the ritual humiliation of those deemed to fail, tolerates and institutionalises outdated working practices and old-fashioned hierarchies, and can almost encourage 'managers' and 'clinicians' to occupy opposing camps.
"I have worked in the NHS for 12 years. I love it - I am often overwhelmed by the kindness, care and skills of its staff - and yet am too often shocked by some of the behaviour I see."
He also described a "them and us" relationship between hospital managers and clinicians, a dangerous rift he said needed "radically altering" to avoid jeopardising patients' safety and blocking care improvements.
Mr Prior called for a major restructuring in healthcare provision, with more successful hospitals taking over failing ones, shared services, improved community services and better care outside hospitals.
More competition - with more entrants into the market from private sector companies, the voluntary sector and other care providers - is needed to drive up standards, and measures of hospital performance need to change, he said.
"We need the Government to change the way it holds the NHS to account: an end to trusts being blindsided by waiting targets that miss the point, skew priorities and have unintended consequences."
Mr Prior added: "Without serious change, the NHS will deliver poor care, and ultimately go bust."
A Department of Health spokesman said: "Significant changes to the NHS are already under way - and we're seeing results, with increases in productivity for the first time in a decade, even at a time of rising demand.
"We have given doctors the power to make decisions about who should provide care for their patients, and this government is investing £3.8 billion to join up health and social care.
"Poor care is now being addressed like never before.
"We are turning around 14 hospitals where failure was previously tolerated.
"We have taken swift and strong action to create an NHS culture of transparency and openness where staff and patients are free to raise concerns.
"Whistleblowers are now better protected and cannot be ignored.
"The CQC is helping to drive this culture change through rigorous, independent inspections under three powerful new chief inspectors."


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They are not gypsies, though. Gypsies are Roms and originated in India. Travelers are purely of Irish origin, although they have now spread throughout the Western world. I saw examples of their wagons in a couple of museums in Ireland and in Scotland. Amazing how much storage space was inside the colorful wagons like those above. Lots of drawers and cabinets painted in cheerful colors and bunk resembling a sailing ship captain's quarters. Legislation in Ireland has set aside special camping places for the Travelers. There is much controversy there over whether the Travelers' children should be forced to attend school or allowed to remain uneducated and speak Sheldroo. In the U.S., they are supposed to attend school. There's a large base of Irish Travelers in White Settlement, Texas and another in Los Angeles, California. In White Settlement, many live in RV's or mobile homes at a park owned by one of the Travelers. The children don't attend school, or if they go, it's only sporadically. Most of the families are Roman Catholic and the wives attend mass. They were/are also called Tinkers because there was usually one among them who repaired pots, pans, and metal wares.
My first introduction to modern Irish Travelers—also called Tinkers—came one January day when a terrible accident happened on the Interstate just west of Fort Worth, Texas. A group of boys had been driving the new, red, double-cab pickup one received as a Christmas gift and going west to visit their uncle west of Weatherford. The five boys—all related—were going so fast when the driver lost control that the pickup actually became airborne, sailed across a median, and landed on another pickup traveling east. All six people died. Two were brothers, cousins to the other three brothers, plus the innocent man driving to Fort Worth. Highway patrol, sheriff's deputies, and police officers were so moved by the deaths of these young men from one extended family that many of them attended the funeral in White Settlement. As they read the bulletin each person was given, they learned these young men were all underage. Their drivers licenses were fake. The ages were from 13 to 16, not 16 to 21 as the ID's had indicated. Sadly, fake ideas are not uncommon for modern Irish Travelers. This accident sparked several in-depth columns about Irish Travelers in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The photo above right is of a modern Irish Traveler selling various items at a roadside park in Scotland. The woman is the Traveler. About three or four times a year, an Irish Traveler stops by our rural home and offers to pave our drive or repair our roof. The men are usually medium height and have startlingly clear blue eyes. If we were gullible enough—as one of our friends was—to let them resurface our driveway, they would use a mixture of fluid which might resemble asphalt, but actually would be oil which washed away in a hard rain. Another common ploy is to get a 50% deposit for roofing, then disappear.
I am not bashing Irish people! I'm of Scot-Irish descent and love anything to do with Ireland (and the UK). I'm identifying a stereotype. I'm sure there are some good people from the sub-ethnic group, Irish Travelers. As with many other subjects, we hear about the bad ones. For a couple hundred years, Irish Travelers have been thought of as con men and their wives as beggars. Some make good money. Others live hand to mouth. They're accused of "selling" their daughters at a young age to marry much older men. Is that true? I don't know. They've made national news because of their shoplifting rings. Are there honest Travelers? Of course there must be, just as there are honest and dishonest people from any group. I took the photo at left in Ireland. Sorry, but I can't remember where.
In my September book, THE TEXAN'S IRISH BRIDE, the heroine and her family were among those turned off their land by an English landlord. Rather than starve, they joined a band of Irish Travelers. How did they end up trekking across the U.S. into Central Texas? You'll have to read the book to learn the answer. See, it was a trick question.


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The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police is holding their annual conference this year in Nova Scotia, and during the conference global engineering company Intergraph® is showcasing their new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet app Intergraph Mobile Responder. Mobile Responder gives personnel in the field access to a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, allowing for real-time situational awareness. A CAD system allows for dispatchers to view comprehensive information about where officers are located and what they're responding to, and allows for much more intuitive and rapid deployment of first responders. The Mobile Responder app provides the capability to initiate queries, view responses, dispatch reports, update unit status, and issue emergency requests.
In addition to the app showcase, a police cruiser will be on-site at the conference including a dash-mounted BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in place of the traditional notebook computer. With mobile hardware integration into police vehicles, apps like Mobile Responder, back-end management, and end-to-end encryption of data, technology is beginning to be utilized as a holistic solution for police forces with positive results.
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