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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 16, 2009) – The current edition of the U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on March 16 includes briefs on national team players competing overseas, trivia questions, how to purchase replica national team jerseys, updated list of United States players competing professionally overseas (including non-National Team members) and much more.
For the complete PDF document that includes the international transfer list, trivia questions and other fan interaction sections, click here.
USAV, ANAHEIM MOVE FORWARD ON WOMEN'S TEAM RELOCATION: The Anaheim City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to authorize City staff to negotiate an agreement with USA Volleyball that would relocate the U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team to train in Anaheim at the American Sports Centers as early as this spring. The vote is a step forward in the process that would move the U.S. Women's National Team to Anaheim from its current home at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Once the agreement is finalized, Anaheim would be designated the Official Host City for the U.S. Men's and Women's National Volleyball Teams through the 2016 Olympic Games. The American Sports Centers, which has been the training site of the U.S. Men's National Team since it moved to Anaheim in 2006, has agreed to host the U.S. Women's National Team as well. The facility, which opened in March of 2004, is the largest indoor court facility in the United States featuring 22 volleyball courts, 16 basketball courts and nine indoor soccer courts. Among the ASC's other tenants is the Southern California Volleyball Association, one of 40 regions within USA Volleyball. For the complete story, click here. For player reactions to Anaheim City Council's vote, click here. To read an Orange County Register article on Hugh McCutcheon, click here.
2009 PAN AMERICAN CUP COMING TO MIAMI: USA Volleyball will host the Eighth Annual Women's Pan American Cup June 26-July 4 in conjunction with the USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships in the Miami area. The nine-day Pan American Cup, which will tentatively have three of the four 2008 Olympic Games semifinalists (Brazil, USA and Cuba), will be played on the campuses of the University of Miami and Florida International University. A total of 12 teams are scheduled to compete in the event, which serves as a qualifying event into the 2010 FIVB World Grand Prix. The top three teams from NORCECA in the Women's Pan American Cup and the highest placing South American country will earn berths to next year's premier annual event. "USA Volleyball is extremely excited about the opportunity to host one of the largest international volleyball events in Miami and to pair it with the 2009 USA Junior Olympic Girls' Volleyball Championships," USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal said. "It will provide a unique opportunity for our developing young volleyball players to be exposed to elite international volleyball teams from North America, South America and the Caribbean. The two events will also generate terrific excitement in the community and lead to greater popularity for the sport." The tournament schedule and competing teams should be available soon once teams have confirmed participation. Ticket prices and online purchasing will be available at http://usavolleyball.org/event/event/572 once determined. For the full story, click here.
TRIVIA QUESTIONS: 1. Where did the U.S. Women's National Team train prior to moving to Colorado Springs? 2. Who scored the final three points in the U.S. Women's National Team victory over Cuba in the 2008 Olympic Games semifinal match sending the Americans to the gold-medal match? Answers can be found on page four in the full PDF version (click here) of the current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update.
BOWN UPDATE: Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), a three-time Olympian and middle blocker on the silver-medal winning 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, helped her Italian professional team Monte Schiavo Banca Marche Jesi to the title of the CEV GM Capital Challenge Cup last weekend. Jesi, which hosted the semifinals and final, defeated the Russian team of Leningradka St. Petersburg 22-25, 25-22, 25-20, 27-25 in the semifinals on March 14. Bown scored 11 points in the 25-20, 25-20, 25-13 title match victory over Greece's Panathinaikos on March 15. At the conclusion of the tournament, Bown was named the event's Best Blocker. Bown and Jesi return to Italian Serie A action on March 17 with a match against league-leader Scavolini Pesaro, followed by a March 22 contest against SoloAffitti Tradeco Cesena. Jesi is currently in fourth place in the league standings with 42 points and a 14-7 record.
SCOTT-ARRUDA UPDATE: Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), a four-time U.S. Olympian middle blocker, is playing for CGF Recycle Florens Castellana Grotte in the Italian Serie A league. She charted 13 points in a five-set 19-25, 25-19, 25-16, 19-25, 15-9 victory over Solo Affitti Tradeco Cesena on March 14 at Cesena. Scott-Arruda provided nine kills on 25 attacks while adding four blocks in the victory. Castellana Grotte, 10-12 on the season and in ninth place in the league standings, hosts 10th-place Riso Scotti Pavia on March 22.
WILLOUGHBY UPDATE: Kim Willoughby (Napoleonville, La.), a 2008 U.S. Olympic Games silver medalist, is now playing for Despar Perugia in the Italian Serie A league. Perugia dropped a 25-21, 28-26, 25-23 decision to second-place Foppapedretti Bergamo on March 15. Willoughby returned to the starting lineup and provided eight points in the match. She tallied seven kills on 15 attacks with just two errors while adding a block. Perugia, 11-11 on the season and in sixth place, takes on Yamamay Busto Arsizio on March 22 in its next Italian Serie A match.
METCALF, STALLS UPDATE: Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), a 2004 Olympian, is playing for Eczacibasi Zentiva of the Turkish professional league along with 2008 Olympic Games alternate Tracy Stalls (Denver, Colo.). Eczacibasi Zentiva blanked Fakro Muszynianka 25-17, 25-16, 25-22 on March 11 to sweep its two-match home-and-home series in the CEV Indesit Champions League Playoff 6 Round. Stalls scored 10 points with three kills, four blocks and three aces. Metcalf added nine kills on 14 errorless attacks as Eczacibasi Zentiva advances to the semifinal round of the tournament hosted by Perugia March 28-29. Eczacibasi Zentiva returned to its Turkish League schedule on March 14 and claimed a 25-13, 25-22, 25-17 victory over Iller Bankasi GSK. Stalls scored 17 points with 11 kills on 14 errorless attacks while adding four blocks and two aces in the sweep. Metcalf chipped in six kills in the victory.
NNAMANI UPDATE: Ogonna Nnamani (Bloomington, Ill.), a two-time Olympian now playing professionally in Turkey for Galatasaray, played well in a losing effort against Fenerbahce Acibadem on March 11. She scored 22 kills on 56 attacks to go with one block for 23 points in the 25-23, 26-28, 25-19, 26-24 loss. Nnamani also compiled a 73 positive percent on 15 service reception attempts. Galatasaray is currently 9-9 on the season with 25 points.
McGINNIS, HUGHES UPDATE: Angie McGinnis (Fraser, Mich.) and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.), both alternates on the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team, are now competing for Besiktas JK Bayan of the Turkish professional volleyball league. On March 15, McGinnis and Hughes reunited with former U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach "Jenny" Lang Ping, who now leads Turk Telekom. Lang Ping and her club won the match 25-17, 25-19, 25-14 as Turk Telekom converted on 52 percent of its attacks. McGinnis came off the bench to set in the first stanza and played the rest of the match as she provided a kill and block while setting Besiktas to a 33 kill percent. Hughes started the second set and chipped in three kills on seven attacks in limited action. Besiktas is now 9-10 on the season and in sixth place in the Turkish League standings. Meanwhile, Turk Telekom edged into first place with a 16-4 record and 48 points, while second-place V. Gunes Sigorta has 46 points and a 16-2 record.
TOM UPDATE: Logan Tom (Salt Lake City, Utah), a three-time U.S. Olympian and Best Scorer of the 2008 Olympic Games, is playing with Hisamitsu Springs in the Japanese V-League. Hisamitsu Springs (17-8), currently in third place in the V-League standings, was idle this past week and will finish the regular season against Takefuji Bamboo on March 20 and top-ranked NEC on March 21.
HANEEF-PARK UPDATE: Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.), a two-time U.S. Olympian, is competing for the Pioneer Red Wings of the Japanese V-League. She tallied 32 points in a marathon 25-14, 20-25, 23-25, 25-20, 23-21 loss to Toyota on March 14. Haneef-Park contributed 28 kills on 70 attacks with just four errors for a 40 kill percent. A total of eight of her kills came from 20 back-row attacks. Haneef-Park added three blocks and an ace in the loss. Pioneer closes its regular season against Toray on March 20 and JT on March 21.
PUERTO RICO ALL-STAR MATCH: The Puerto Rico Super League All-Star match was held on March 15 with the non-Puerto Rican All-Star team defeating the locals 25-22, 126-25, 25-22, 25-18. U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) attended the match as a guest of the Puerto Rico Volleyball Federation. Jordan Larson, with 14 points in the match, was named the most valuable player by the media and received $100, round-trip flight to New York courtesy of Delta Airlines, a free-month's pass at Gold's Gym, Dasani products and a $25 gift card to Sports Connection. As part of the skills test, Alexis Crimes won the speed test with a time of 8.34 seconds.
BUSSE, CRIMES, PRESSEY UPDATE: Toa Baja, competing in the Puerto Rico Super League, features three players who trained with the U.S. Women's National Team during 2008. Cassie Busse (Prior Lake, Minn.), Angie Pressey (Lake Mary, Fla.) and Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) all are sharing a heavy offensive load for Toa Baja. The Llaneras won two matches last week to extend their win streak to 14 matches to begin the season. Toa Baja blanked Juncos on March 12 as Busse and Pressey each totaled 11 points and Crimes added seven points. Kelly Wing scored 10 points for Juncos in the loss. Busse collected 21 points with 20 kills to lead Toa Baja to a four-set victory over second-place Corozal on March 13. Pressey added 15 points with 13 digs and 14 service receptions, while Crimes touched Pinkin for nine points. Kristee Porter led Pinkin with 21 points in the loss. The Llaneras now have a 2.5 match lead over Corozal in the standings.
OTHER AMERICAN STANDOUTS IN PUERTO RICO LEAGUE: Nicole Fawcett scored 27 points as Carolina defeated Bayamon in four sets on March 11. Atherstone added 14 points in the victory and Erica Short chipped in 12 points. In the loss, Jordan Larson hammered 27 kills as part of a 30-point performance. Kristee Porter notched 12 points and Erin Moore added 10 points as Corozal defeated Mayaguez in three sets on March 12…Jessica Jones tallied nine blocks as part of a 20-point night in leading San Sebastian to a four-set win over Caguas on March 12. Jane Collymore scored 21 points and Shonda Cole pitched in 13 points in the victory for San Sebastian…Fawcett notched 15 points in leading Carolina to a three-set victory over Ponce on March 15…Collymore hammered out 25 points in pacing San Sebastian to a five-set victory over Juncos on March 15. Cole added 18 points in the victory, while Jessica Jones added 15. Wing led Juncos in the loss with 18 points, while Sarah Kirkwood was credited with 14 points…Larson collected 17 points as Bayamon swept Guaynabo on March 15. Patrice Arrington scored 14 points in the loss…For more highlights from the Puerto Rico Super League, click here.
GLASS UPDATE: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian, is playing professionally in Russia with Universitet Belogorie. The Russian Super League was idle this past week and Glass' team returns to the court on March 19 against Uralochka-NTMK.
JOINES, RICHARDS UPDATE: Jennifer Joines (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 U.S. Olympian, and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), a 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate, are competing for Fakel in the Russian professional league this winter. The Russian Super League was idle this past week and Fakel returns to the court on March 19 against Balakovskaya.
HOGAN SELECTED AS COLORADO ASSISTANT: Tom Hogan, an assistant women's volleyball coach for the U.S. Women's National Team from 2005-2008, was named March 10 as an assistant women's volleyball coach at the University of Colorado. While with Team USA, he assisted the Americans to a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. Hogan assumes his duties at Colorado on March 16. For the full Colorado press release, click here.
BARBOZA SELECTED AAU SULLIVAN AWARD SEMIFINALIST: Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), an alternate for both the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Olympic Women's Volleyball teams, has been selected as a one of 12 semifinalists for the 79th Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Sullivan Award. The AAU James E. Sullivan Award is based on the qualities of leadership, character and sportsmanship. The award goes far beyond athletic accomplishment and honors those who have leadership skills and strong character which is evident in the nominee's lifestyle as a whole. The Sullivan Award Reception and Presentation will take place April 15 at The New York Athletic Club in New York City. The night's activities start with an athlete autograph session at 5:30 p.m., followed by the dinner at 6:15 p.m. and the awards presentation at 7:15 p.m. To cast your vote for the award on USA Today's fan poll, click here.
DESTINEE HOOKER WINS NCAA TITLE: Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas), who trained with the U.S. Women's National Team last spring in hopes of making a spot on the 2008 Olympic Games team, has been busy this spring in another sport that she excels in at the University of Texas. At the NCAA Indoor Championships at College Station, Texas, Hooker cleared 6-6 in the high jump to win her first career NCAA indoor title. In the process, the junior broke a nine-year old collegiate indoor record of 6-5.5 in the high jump, which also represented an 11-year-old University of Texas record. To view a photo gallery that includes Hooker's record high jump, click here.
REPLICA JERSEY AVAILABLE FOR LIMITED TIME: Are you looking for a unique gift for your volleyball loved ones? USA Volleyball has the answer with replica jerseys from its 2008 Olympic Games indoor teams being made available for a limited time by clicking here. The U.S. Olympic Women's Team replica jerseys, priced at $65 apiece, are available in extra small, small, medium, large and extra large. Replica jerseys are available for all 12 U.S. players who participated in the 2008 Olympic Games. Each replica jersey will have the Olympian's name on the back with their jersey number on both the front and back. In addition, USA Volleyball has several other 2008 Olympic Games apparel items commemorating the unprecedented indoor and beach volleyball success obtained in Beijing. Products available on the online store include short and long-sleeve T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies in multiple designs.
OLYMPIC COMMEMORATIVE APPRAREL ON SALE: USA Volleyball has unveiled five commemorative logo designs to appear on apparel saluting USA Volleyball's medal successes at the recent Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in Beijing. Apparel can be purchased by clicking here. Men's and ladies' T-shirt designs are $15, while the youth T-shirt size is $13. Long sleeve t-shirts are $18, crew sweatshirts are $23 and hoodies are $30. Sizes XXL and larger have a slightly higher price. USA Volleyball's success on the Olympic grand stage in Beijing has never been achieved by any other nation since volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The U.S. Olympic Men's Indoor Volleyball Team, which was named the United States Olympic Committee Team of the Month for August 2008, captured the gold medal at the Olympic Games without losing a single match. Women's Beach Volleyball (Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh) and Men's Beach Volleyball (Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers) both came back from Beijing with Olympic Games gold medals. The U.S. Olympic Women's Indoor Volleyball Team captured the silver medal in Beijing, as did the U.S. Women's Sitting Team during the Paralympic Games. No other country has ever participated in the gold-medal match of all four Olympic Games volleyball disciplines during the same year. Team USA added a fifth gold-medal appearance at the Paralympic Games.


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Banks weigh on share market
Big falls by the banks have caused the share market to lose ground on the first day of the new financial year.
Banks were in negative territory from early in the session, and weakened further in afternoon trade following positive economic data out of China and the Reserve Bank's decision to leave the cash rate on hold yet again.
"The banks have just been slammed today," IG markets dealer Chris Weston said.
"There doesn't seem to be a red flag for that to be fair.
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Investors may also have rotated into the resources sector as expectations of strong economic growth in China continue to grow, he said.
Chinese manufacturing activity expanded at its fastest pace so far in 2014 in June, new data showed.
No change in the RBA's commentary on the Australian dollar fuelled a rise in the local currency, and that may have also detracted from equities trading, Mr Weston said.
ANZ lost 50 cents to $32.84, Westpac shed 50 cents to $33.38, National Australia Bank dropped 48 cents to $32.30 and Commonwealth Bank was 91 cents weaker at $79.97.
In resources, Rio Tinto gained $1.14 to $60.45, BHP Billiton added 10 cents to $36.00 and Fortescue Metals was one cent higher at $4.36.
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* The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index dropped 19.8 points, or 0.37 per cent, to 5,375.9.
* The broader All Ordinaries index shed 15.5 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 5,366.5.
* The September share price index futures contract was 14 points lower at 5,340, with 30,721 contracts traded.
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My previous experiences with Apple products in a retail environment all dealt with the store-within-a-store concept that Apple piloted with CompUSA (a chain that, shockingly, is no longer in business).
For those of you who might not have had the opportunity to visit a CompUSA Apple "store," allow me to paint a word picture: Think of the opposite of an Apple Store and you've pretty much got it. The CompUSA Apple stores were tucked away in far corners, requiring you to walk past racks and racks full of PC software. (Yes, kids, there was a time when you had go to a store to buy software on a shiny disc. Then you would take it home and slide it into your computer using an arcane device called a CD-ROM drive.)
Once there, you couldn't help but notice that the fluorescent lights in the Apple section seemed to either be flickering or non-functional. Perhaps this was intentional, since all the Macs on display were usually in some state of distress. I spent many a visit to the CompUSA in White Plains, NY fixing Macs and answering random customers' Mac questions.
That's what made me fall in love with the Apple Store in the first place, and why I knew it totally made sense for Apple to control its own retail destiny. And this strategy has obviously been a success, since Apple makes more per square foot of store than any other retailer, including high-end stores like Tiffany and Nordstrom. Sadly, this wild success is the very reason I now dread going into an Apple Store.
Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded
Devoid of customers, your typical Apple Store is a temple of commerce, lovingly tended by a loyal band of retail employees. But when was the last time you experienced an Apple Store that wasn't packed to the gills with people? Of course, as a company, this is exactly what you want to happen in your store: lots of people coming in to check out your wares. However, a crowded Apple Store (i.e. almost every Apple Store during retail hours) isn't a pleasant place to be if you're on a mission to buy something or have a Genius fix your ailing Mac.
People of all kinds are camped out at the demo machines, doing everything from checking Facebook to filming, editing, and posting videos of themselves rocking out to some sweet tunes. Interested in actually, you know, trying out a machine before you buy one? You'll often have to wait.
Speaking of waiting, you'll have to do that fairly often at the Genius Bar, even if you have an appointment. Without a doubt the Geniuses are great at what they do, and the idea of seeing an actual human for tech support is fantastic.
In the early days of Apple Stores, you could just walk up to a Genius Bar, chat with someone, and have them fix your problem. You might even see a Genius pick up the red phone to Cupertino for a particularly tough problem (the red phones are a thing of the past). Success strikes again: You're now lucky to get to see a Genius on time, even if you've made an appointment in advance. Luckily for Apple, the Geniuses are so good at their jobs that they can usually turn a slightly aggravated customer with an ailing Mac/iPhone/iPad into a happy Apple customer--even if they've had to wait past their assigned time.
Shut up and take my money
By now you've probably figured out that most of my problems with the Apple Store can be traced to a general distaste for my fellow man. Apple can't fix that, but it can address the one thing that totally drives me crazy about the Apple Store: paying for stuff.
In case you've never been to a store and bought an item, here's how it usually goes down: You select your item (perhaps a Supernatural novel, based on the hit TV show of the same name), stand in the clearly defined check-out line for a varying amount of time, and hand the item to a cashier. That person in turn rings you up, collects the needed money, and hands you the item in a branded bag of some sort. Simple.
Given the crazy amount of foot traffic Apple stores get, someone decided that the designated cash registers had to go. Now any Apple Store employee on the store floor can check you out (plus there's an app for that). It's an amazing idea--in theory.
Here's the thing, though: All the Apple Store employees are overwhelmed helping the myriad folks browsing and asking questions. When I walk in with a mission to purchase a Lighting cable, I must push my way through the crowds to the corner of the store and grab the cable. Now the fun begins: I need to track down an Apple store employee who isn't engaged with a customer. In the past I've actually abandoned the whole thing and left the store without buying the cable. My ever-clever wife has come up with a solution for this problem though: She simply raises her hand. This is surprisingly effective in summoning an Apple Store employee over the general hubbub of the store.
The jerk store called and they're all out of McNulty
As I said at the beginning of this article, the Apple stores are making an insane amount of money for Apple. At this point, Apple could open a store inside an old orange crate and sell hundreds of iPhones a day--but isn't "the experience" part of what Apple sells us? The experience of going to an Apple Store is no longer a pleasant one; it's now more of a chore. I just want to grab that iPad and get the heck out of there so I can give Apple even more of my money in the comfort of my own home.
If Apple were to hire me as its next retail chief (which it really shouldn't), I'd do a couple of things differently:
Hire more staff for the most popular stores. I know Apple Stores are already well staffed, but they need more Geniuses and more floor staff to handle these crowds.
Impose a 30-minute limit on usage of the demo machines. If you don't know whether you're going to buy that MacBook Pro after 30 minutes, it might be time to consider an iPad mini.
Add an obvious place for people to pay for purchases. This would be in addition to having every floor staff person available to check people out (and letting people check themselves out for certain items).
With those three small--and granted, expensive--changes I would once again become a devoted Apple Store visitor. I won't fix the demo Macs though. I promise.


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Relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina
Whereas many Indians now living in Robeson and adjoining counties are descendants of that once large and prosperous tribe which occupied the lands along the Lumbee River at the time of the earliest white settlements in that section; and
Whereas at the time of their contacts with the colonists, these Indians were a well-established and distinctive people living in European-type houses in settled towns and communities, owning slaves and livestock, tilling the soil, and practicing many of the arts and crafts of European civilization; and
Whereas by reason of tribal legend, coupled with a distinctive appearance and manner of speech and the frequent recurrence among them of family names such as Oxendine, Locklear, Chavis, Drinkwater, Bullard, Lowery, Sampson and others, also found on the roster of the earliest English settlements, these Indians may, with considerable show of reason, trace their origin to an admixture of colonial blood with certain coastal tribes of Indians; and
Whereas these people are naturally and understandably proud of their heritage, and desirous of establishing their social status and preserving their racial history: Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Indians now residing in Robeson and adjoining counties of North Carolina, originally found by the first white settlers on the Lumber River in Robeson County, and claiming joint descent from remnants of early American colonists and certain tribes of Indians
Originally inhabiting the coastal regions of North Carolina, shall, from and after the ratification of this Act, be known and designated as Lumbee Indians of North Carolina and shall continue to enjoy all rights, privileges, and immunities enjoyed by them as citizens of the State of North Carolina and of the United States as they enjoyed before the enactment of this Act, and shall continue to be subject to all the obligations and duties of such citizens under the laws of the State of North Carolina and the United States. Nothing in this Act shall make such Indians eligible for any services performed by the United States for Indians because of their status as Indians, and none of the statutes of the United States which affect Indians because of their status as Indians shall be applicable to the Lumbee Indians.
June 7, 1956


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10.4 GCMs with Variable and Increased Horizontal Resolution
This section deals with the relatively new idea of deriving regional climate information from AGCMs with variable and increased horizontal resolution. Although the basic methodology is suggested in the work of Bengtsson et al. (1995), where a high resolution GCM was used to simulate changes in tropical cyclones in a warmer climate, it is only in the last few years that such models have been used more widely to predict regional aspects of climate change. Even so, only a limited number of experiments have been conducted to date (see Table 10.1) and hence what follows is not a definitive evaluation of the technique but an initial exploration of its potential.
Analysis of current climate simulations has considered both deviations from the observed climate and effects of changes in resolution on the model's climatology. Most studies have considered just the mean climate and some measures of variability, either globally or for a particular region of interest. The only extreme behaviour studied in any detail was the simulation of tropical cyclones. Even for mean climate, no comprehensive assessment of the surface climatology of variable or high resolution models has been attempted. Europe has been the most common area of study to date, although southern Asia and the polar regions have also received attention
10.4.1.1 Mean climate
The mean circulation is generally well simulated by AGCMs, though relatively large regional-scale biases can still be present. Many features of the large-scale climate of AGCMs are retained at higher resolution (Dèquè and Piedelievre, 1995; Stendel and Roeckner, 1998; May, 1999; Stratton, 1999a). A common change is a poleward shift of the extra-tropical storm track regions. It has been suggested that this is linked to a general deepening of cyclones, noted as a common feature in high-resolution atmospheric models (Machenhauer et al., 1996; Stratton 1999a). More intense activity is also seen at higher resolution in the tropics. For example, a stronger Hadley circulation was observed in ECHAM4 and HadAM3a that worsened agreement with observations (Stendel and Roeckner, 1998; Stratton, 1999b).
The repositioning of the storm tracks generally improves the simulations in the Northern Hemisphere, as it reduces a positive polar surface pressure bias which is present in the models at standard resolution. In the case of HadAM3a, this leads to substantial improvements in Northern Hemisphere low level flow in winter (Figure 10.8). In the Southern Hemisphere, the impact on the circumpolar flow is not consistently positive across models (Figure 10.8; Krinner et al., 1997). In ECHAM4 and HadAM3a, increased resolution has little impact on the negative surface pressure bias over the tropics but improves the low-level South Asian monsoon flow (Lal et al., 1997; Stratton, 1999b).
The existence of these common responses to increased resolution suggests that they result from improved representation of the resolved variables. In contrast, an increase in the intensity of sub-tropical anticyclones observed in ECHAM4 results from a tropospheric warming promoted by excessive cirrus clouds attributed to a scale-dependent response in the relevant parametrization (Stendel and Roeckner, 1998).
The aim of increasing resolution in AGCMs is generally to improve the simulation of surface climatology compared to coarser resolution models (Cubash et al., 1995). Early experience shows a much more mixed response. ECHAM3 at T42 improved the seasonal cycle of surface temperature in seven regions, compared to the driving AOGCM, but overall surface temperature was too high (by 2 to 5ºC). Increasing the resolution to T106 did not improve winter temperatures and, in summer, the spatial patterns were better but the regional biases worse (Cubasch et al., 1996). For precipitation, spatial patterns were improved in summer but degraded in winter. The summer warming was due to excessive insolation from reduced cloud cover and overly transparent clear skies (Wild et al., 1995). Improved physics in ECHAM4 reduced some of the radiation errors but the precipitation and temperature biases remained (Wild et al, 1996; Stendel and Roeckner, 1998). In simulations of European climate with ARPEGE (Dèquè and Piedelievre, 1995) and HadAM2b/3a (Jones, 1999; Stratton, 1999a), improved flow at higher resolution generally led to better surface temperatures and precipitation. However, over south-eastern Europe, precipitation biases increased in both models, as did the warm temperature bias in HadAM3a.
The increased summer temperatures in Europe in HadAM3a were caused by reduced cloud cover at higher resolution (Jones 1999) and warming and drying, in summer, was seen over all extra-tropical continents (Stratton, 1999b). This clearly demonstrates a potential drawback of increasing the resolution of a model without comprehensively retuning the physics. Krinner et al. (1997) showed that, to obtain a reasonable simulation of the surface climatology of the Antarctic with the LMD variable resolution AGCM, many modifications to the model physics were required. The model was then able to simulate surface temperatures to within 2 to 4ºC of observations and to provide a good simulation of the ice mass balance (snow accumulation), with both aspects being better than at standard resolution.
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There's a scale of weirdness to any film made by the Coen Brothers, and "A Serious Man" hits the red zone of idiosyncrasy immediately. An ode to Midwestern Judaism and the havoc of guilt, "Serious Man" is a tapestry of neuroses and personal damage, given a classic black comic strangling by the Coens, who leave no domestic discomfort behind. In fact, all this film contains is unease, making it a perfect itchy sweater film for those who enjoy their cinema on the suffocating side.In suburban Minnesota during the summer of 1967, physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is trapped in misery: facing the end of his marriage, a frantic Korean student who is looking to bribe his way out of a failing grade, a shiftless brother (Richard Kind) who's lost in depression, the complete disinterest of his children, and goy neighbors messing with property lines. Larry is at the end of his rope, looking for guidance from a series of rabbis who only offer perplexing anecdotes and more confusion. Finding each new day worse than the last, Larry is unwillingly pushed into making difficult decisions about his life, hoping to avoid stern judgment from above and the wrath from those around him.
While not reaching the heights of insanity of such films as "Barton Fink," "Serious Man" remains a pretty strange movie for Joel and Ethan Coen. Taking inspiration from their youth growing up Jewish and anxious in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, the boys revel in the fine details of the era, sending Larry through the spanking machine of life, with the hurt sweetened by a faith that traditionally demands the comfort of misery. The Coens write a knowing screenplay of despair, and if there are any filmmakers around able to convey a sense of hopelessness with minimal exertion, it's these guys. Yet, "Serious Man" is a comedy, and flavorful one at that.
Observing Larry, a man making a living reducing the world to equations, trying to extract sense from his misfortune leads to some golden moments of conflict, most startlingly with his wife's cooing, calculating lover, Sy Ableman (a wonderful Fred Melamed). Backed into divorce proceedings and kicked out of his own house, Larry finds a torrent of trouble awaiting him in the outside world, with his kids seeking drug-induced mischief, fighting temptation with a willing neighbor (a smoldering Amy Landecker), and finding his desperately needed tenure brought into question. Magnificently registering the peaks of paranoia, Stuhlbarg follows the Coens anywhere, committing to a performance of chest-tightening worry that rarely subsides.
"Serious Man" doesn't enjoy a full dramatic agenda, preferring an episodic route with Larry and his woe as a way to hit the man from all sides, thus creating the needed swell of religious motivation for the blunt finale. The film's a bit on the icy side and doesn't penetrate too deeply, but the suffering is massaged magnificently by the Coens, making the emotional disconnect a relief.Looking to his rabbis for guidance, Larry endures a runaround that brings him to a boiling point of moral sacrifice, pitting his faith versus the reality of his hopelessness. Again, the film ends cryptically and suddenly, taking standard religious rituals of guilt and heavenly punishment to their natural conclusion, leaving the audience right on the razor's edge. It's a finely bewildering knockout punch, but not uncharacteristic for the movie, which opens with a five-minute prologue showcasing a century-old Yiddish folk tale for reasons wonderfully interpretive. The Coens just love to play, and bless 'em, they do it brilliantly.
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Alternative name Plage des surfeurs
Wave qualityRegional Classic
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By Brice75 , 05-05-2007
Tartane November 2006 - I was in Martinique in November 2006 for a 2week trip.I Surfed Tartane almost everyday. The wind speed was still pretty high some days making the surf not so great the first week. But second was really nice. almost no wind (less than 15 knots) and 1 meter swell.Best season for surfing is definitely between Novemeber and March.What you have to know about Martinique is that most consistent spot is in Tartane and is actually unique on the island. So it sounds like crowded and it actually is. But the really good point about it is that surfing community is not so large and most of the people are just nice with each other.So it is not a world class surf destination like Guadeloupe or other places in the Carribean.But the place is really great and the surfing is so nice that anyone who'd been there would probably come back again and recommend it to friends.For people who do not know the island, I recommend you to rent an apparment close to Tartane and rent a car for the week to visit the island. There are really beautiful beaches in the south (Le Diamant and Les Salines) that you do not want to miss.There is a surf school close to Tartane : Bliss where you can rent surf board (referenced into World Stormrider guide volume 2)If you go there for only one week, it is not worth bringing your own board. Personnaly I brought mine (7'6 Takayama) and it was perfect but it cost me 120 euros to bring in aboard Air France flight. Most of people are surfing short boards (6'0 to 6'5). There are some bodyboarders and a few longboarders.Language on the line up is either French or Creole. I haven't heard so much of english.Locals are not hostile as long as you pay attention to priorities.No sharks in the water. The only dangers that I am aware of are sun burns and mosquitoes (Dengue).Night life can be hot but you'll need a car to go to Fort de France (main city ~ 45 minutes from Tartane).Beware that traffic is really crazy and jammed. So be patient and just enjoy zouk music !!And last but not least, local cuisine is just great.Conclusion: great surf, great weather, great culture ...What are you waiting for ???
By surf76 , 04-02-2007
surfshop ? - hi, i surf in the north ouest of france and i plan to go in martinique in the beginning of march. i would like to know if the swell is usually OK during this period ? and what type of board we should take ? are the waves quick or slow ? is there a surfshop that i can borrow a shortboard for one week ?can u let some adress and phone if you know please.thank you very much by advance
By Killer , 25-02-2006
honeymoon in martinique - We went to honeymoon in martinique and then in guadeloupe.We surfed in tartane.Nice spot,beautiful place the sand is black and yellow.Everybody surfed on the leffr but no onr in the right!I understood really quick why nobody surfed on the right!!!Urchain!We werw there on september but the locals told me that the best months are october and november!And we will go again this year.You can find a nice surf school.The guys there are really cool the name was bliss!Nice trip and a so beautiful place!I you have the chance to go there don't hesitate!
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The second year in Major League Soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps FC was marketed as Round 2. We had a new coaching staff, some new players, and lots of optimism going into the new season.
Preseason had gone well in Arizona and Florida and everybody wanted to get the season started. Martin Rennie – in his first year coaching in MLS – liked the look of his Whitecaps FC squad and felt his team could challenge for a playoff spot. Getting there would be no easy task though.
Fast start
The season began in fine fashion as our 'Caps won their season opener at BC Place with a 2-0 victory against expansion side Montreal Impact. Optimism was high, but we all certainly knew that an opening day win does not make a season (see 2011 opening win vs. Toronto FC).
The next game, however, provided further proof that this would be a historic year. The boys got their first away win in MLS by beating Chivas USA 1-0 on a Jay DeMerit header. This was a sign that the mentality of this team had changed; Rennie was slowly but surely building a winning culture.
The next two games would end up as 0-0 draws, which meant the 'Caps remained undefeated and had shut out the opposition in every match. The run of form continued as the team achieved an MLS record for longest shutout streak to start a season.
It was a great start for the team, but this was only the beginning. Much work remained.
Proving their mettle
April saw the 'Caps hit with their first taste of adversity. A blown lead and first loss on the season at San Jose and a home loss to Sporting Kansas City could have sunk the ship early, but Vancouver persevered. The Blue and White grinded out a pair of 1-0 wins, at home to FC Dallas and on the road to Columbus Crew.
The early season success altered expectations. Suddenly fans and media were dreaming big, how good could this second year team really be?
Lessons learned
The season was steadily moving along until the 'Caps faced off against Toronto FC in the Amway Canadian Championship finals. A 2-1 aggregate loss to the team that would end up finishing dead last in MLS was nothing short of a massive disappointment.
Having been brought back down to earth, it became easier to reflect and evaluate. Clearly there was still work to be done.
Rome was not built in a day
Despite the positives from the first portion of the campaign, questions also remained from fans, media, and the club itself. What is the ultimate goal for this team? Is winning the only thing that matters? What about entertainment value, many asked? Was the team scoring enough goals? What about the young players, shouldn't they be playing more? Why aren't there more Canadian players?
These are all important questions that need to be posed and each of them are part of the values that the club is looking to instil moving forward. But it can also be easy to lose sight of the big picture. This remained only the second year for the club in MLS. All of these questions will be answered over time, but only so many aspects can be managed at once. Building a winning team, an entertaining team, a team filled with Canadian talent on the field – it's all a process. For now, the most important thing was to allow coach Rennie to put his own stamp on this team. He has built a winning culture at every club which he's coached, but that takes time and patience. If he could get this team to the playoffs in his first year, it would be a massive achievement and a big step in the right direction.
Tough decisions
Many coaches would not tinker with a team that was picking up points fairly regularly, but Rennie had made it clear that he was not just building for this year; he was looking at a team that could be one of the best for years to come.
Tough decisions had to be made before the season, and it was felt at the midway point of the season that more changes were needed.
This was not an easy time for players to come into the team. It's never easy to adjust to a new team, a new city, a new culture, and a new league. It's especially difficult to do it in the middle of the season during a stretch of nine out of 13 games on the road.
Results were mixed, but sometimes it takes one step back to take two steps forward.
Making history
With 39 days away from home and a rough winless stretch, it would have been easy for the team to fall apart and look for excuses, but you never heard that from the coaches or players. The team showed great resiliency, and in the end the season's body of work achieved the main goal at the beginning of the year – a first ever playoff spot for a Canadian MLS club.
Their reward? A date with the defending MLS Cup champions, the star-studded LA Galaxy, on the road no less.
In the end the boys gave them the fright of their lives – probably much more than they expected. Not only did we score an early goal, but we also nearly doubled the lead to 2-0 with 20 minutes to go. Unfortunately it was not to be, as the Galaxy eventually came back to win 2-1.
I was so proud of the performance in our first playoff game and it just reinforced what I already knew: we belonged in the playoffs after competing all season long in a tough Western Conference.
Final thoughts
We have a coach in Martin Rennie who is not afraid of making big decisions. Of course not everyone will agree with every decision – you can't please everyone. And not every decision will be correct either. As a coach you make some choices that will work and some that will not. The key is that everyone learns from the process. That is why I am really excited for next year.
This team has come a long way from last year and has shown it can compete with the best teams in MLS. Now Rennie and his coaching staff have a season under their belt and are more familiar with what works in this league. They will also have a squad of players that are also more accustomed to playing in North America, with the physicality and the travel.
Of course there will be more changes, but having made the playoffs this year, expectations will again be raised. There will be highs and lows again next season, as there always will be, but I'm confident that the best is yet to come.


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Canada's foreign minister has warned Egypt that the detention of two Canadians without charges for the past several weeks is a significant threat to relations between the two countries.
Foreign Minister John Baird said Tuesday that he told his Egyptian counterpart that in "no uncertain terms" it is unacceptable. He said Canada's prime minister has directed that all resources be brought to bear to secure their release.
John Greyson, a filmmaker and professor, and Tarek Loubani, a physician, have been held without charges since mid-August and were ordered detained for another 45 days on the weekend. The men say they were observing an anti-government demonstration Aug. 16 when Loubani heeded a call for a doctor and began treating wounded demonstrators while Greyson recorded the unrest on video.
The pair released a statement on Saturday saying they've been beaten and subjected to degrading treatment.
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Baird said he "didn't' see any light at the end of the tunnel" despite holding what he called a productive meeting with his Egyptian counterpart on Friday. He said the Canadian government is taking both a political and judicial approach to securing their release.
"The government, at the prime minister's direction, has been engaged in a big way to secure the release of these two Canadians," Baird said. "I don't want to up the rhetoric that would impede their expeditious release. I would just say we're having strong discussions with the Egyptian authorities on this."
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Images show the majesty, the mundane of aged ship
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Weary, wondrous, talking with the excitement of a small boy on Christmas morning, ocean explorer Robert Ballard unveiled for reporters Wednesday breathtaking new images of the luxury liner Titanic, which he discovered Sept. 1 more than two miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
"This to me was an incredible picture. Imagine … a little flagpole survives," declared Ballard, the scientist who led the expedition that found the sunken liner southeast of Newfoundland. Indeed, there on the screen for hundreds of rapt reporters to see was a clear picture of the intact bow of the Titanic, from which sprouts a small but distinct flagpole.


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11 May, 2010
Now You Were HugeAlthough I went to many U2 shows between 1985 and this show-I remember this one especially. Rather I remember getting tickets. You were so popular and I had been an original fan. Now everyone knew you and you were difficult to get to see. Remember when you had to get tickets from a ticketmaster in person? Remember wrist bands? If at my first U2 concert I was engaged by this one I had 3 children and they had friends. We all went to the ticketmaster outlet and they all got wristbands! This enabled us more chances of a number that could get us tickets and it did. I tell this story to my kids and they can't even comprehend it. This show was so cutting edge at the time. It was really something...
26 April, 2010
my first u2 showI remember- i had to go to the bathroom from the very start, yet I WOULD NOT leave and held it the whole time!!!! Bono saying "I've heard some of you have paid up to 500 dollars for a ticket to tonight - we're not worth it" Ultraviolet- the disco ball lowered over Bono's head during "sometimes I feel like I dont know...." , then when the music kicked in- a spotlight hit the discoball and the whole place was disco light!!! being BLOWN AWAY by all the monitors and the words during the Fly. My first U2 show did not disapppoint - culminating with Where the Streets have No Name- the moment I had been waiting for ever since I saw it on Rattle and Hum. AWESOME SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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The number of employees working at book, periodical, and music stores fell nearly 60% between 2000 and 2011. That is just one of the millions of data points that appear in the new Proquest Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2013. The new edition is the first one released through the copublishing efforts of ProQuest and Bernan Press, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. The two companies took over publication of the reference work after the U.S. Census Bureau announced in March 2011 that it would stop publishing the book after the 2012 edition. ProQuest handled the editorial updates—including the addition of 39 new tables—while RLPG is doing marketing and distribution. Statistics are based on data available as of August 2012. Price is $179.
In some other book-related data, the Abstract found the hourly pay for book, periodical, and music stores employees rose to $10.88 in 2011 from $9.59 in 2005. Hours worked, however, fell from 25.4 hours per week in 2000 to 22 hours in 2010.
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As I sit here pondering the end of another year, sometimes it's the hard times that seem to rise to the surface of my consciousness more quickly than anything else. The low point of the year was losing a good friend and genealogy partner, John Melton, quite unexpectedly. I had the blessing of working with John on various projects off and on for the last ten years, and will miss his unending energy and his sense of humor. Rest in peace, friend.
I also had to say goodbye to one of those rare places on earth that, when you look at it, fills you with abundant history and happy memories. Voorhees Hall, the main building of long-defunct Huron College, was torn down after 100+ years of service. I loved the beautiful architecture of every part of it, and enjoyed my years there, especially sitting on the north steps smoking a cigarette between classes with all of the other slaves to the habit, and met some wonderful people while doing so. It will be hard to drive past that site and not see it there.
On a more positive note -
I started what hopefully will be the most fruitful thing I've ever done, at least in genealogy terms. I've blogged about my great-uncle, Flight Officer Raymond Christensen, whose Beaufighter plunged into the sea near Corsica while tangling with the Nazis. I'll be blogging more about this, but to make a long story short, through one of those Genealogy Angels, I've discovered that the body of Ray's pilot, Joseph Leonard, HAD been recovered and identified. This certainly increases the chances that Ray's body was recovered as well, perhaps just not identified. Our family has begun the process of looking for a match, aided by mitochonrial DNA. Perhaps 2012 will be the year we can bring Ray home to rest.
I've been able to scale of couple of other genealogy mountains in 2011 as well. After years of trying to positively identify the parents of Charlotte DeBolt, it looks likely that her father was Patrick Burnside(s) of Ohio. A book of will abstracts was published years ago listed among Patrick's heirs a Charlotte DeBolt and her husband William DeBolt. Hmmm… my Charlotte's husband was Daniel DeBolt. I got the entire probate packet and later in the probate, Charlotte is again mentioned with her correct husband, Daniel. The initial mention of William was perhaps an error, as her brother, another heir, was also named William and listed next after Charlotte. I'd like to find at least one more solid indication of a relationship between Charlotte and Patrick Burnside before I'm ready to call this mystery "solved", but this is a wonderful piece of evidence.
Another big breakthrough was finding the grave site of Roland and Elizabeth Sisson. I've tried for two years to visit their graves, but due to a comedy of errors online, including a mis-naming of the cemetery and a grossly incorrect mapping of it, I hunted in vain. It was thanks to Find-a-grave and another Genealogy Angel that the name was corrected and an accurate map was provided. I also learned of another small cemetery a couple of miles away, in the middle of a cornfield, where Roland and Elizabeth's two young daughters are buried. I was able to find their graves as well.
One of the things that warms my heart the most concerns my granddaughters'families. I've been working on these lines for several years and have amassed a fair amount of information, but not one photo of anyone in this family. Thanks to my tree on Ancestry.com (which is private, but shows up in the index), I was contacted by a distant cousin of theirs who is also working on these families and had photos that she most graciously shared. I feel so good about being able to show these little girls who these ancestors were, and what they looked like. It's especially fun seeing some strong family resemblances. I truly did not think we'd ever have photos to put into the family history. Cousins truly are the most wonderful genealogy resource available, and can oftentimes turn into great friends in the process.
In addition to continuing with my ProGen Study Group, I also took on another county site for Genealogy Trails – Peoria County, Illinois. This is a special county for me, as my ancestors hail from there, and I used to have a Peoria county website that operated independently, but after nine years, had to take it off-line. I'm glad to be "back in the saddle" and involved with Peoria County's rich history and pioneer families, and grateful to the site's former host for all of her hard work in making this a fantastic resource for Illinois researchers. I look forward to adding a ton of data to the site in 2012. In addition to the Peoria County site, I'm still hosting the South Dakota state site, as well as Beadle and Hand County sites.
I'm looking forward to an exciting, even exhilarating, 2012, and wish the same for all of you!


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New Outlook on Colorblindness
Phone Apps, Videogames Offer Color Help; Seeking a Cure Through Gene Therapy
For people who are colorblind, life involves little workarounds and big compromises alike. Daily challenges range from not knowing whether meat is fully cooked to not being able to read whether a horizontal traffic light is showing green or red. More serious repercussions include being shut out of a dream job, like piloting planes, because misreading landing-strip lights can have life-or-death consequences.
What Color-Blind People See
Compare what the same image looks like to people with red, green and blue colorblindness.
Are You Color Blind?
Look for the numerals in each circle of dots and see the answers below. Note: Colors may vary slightly on individual screens.
These are samples from a test with up to 104 questions. The full test, with more detailed analysis, is available at www.testingcolorvision.com for $29.50 -- or $5 if you use the code "WSJ."
Source: TestingColorVision.com
Color Challenges
Occupations that are usually closed to colorblind people for safety reasons:
- Pilots: They must recognize colorcoded instruments, maps, landing-strip approach lights
- Air traffic controllers: Colors represent different altitudes on radar screens.
- TSA officers: Colors are crucial to explosive wires and X-ray screens.
- Law enforcement officers: Identifications often rely on color of suspects' clothes, cars and hair.
- Railroad engineers: Signal lights are color-coded.
- Lab technicians: Colors can be critical on slides, samples, litmus tests.
Now, a host of new research and tools promise to improve life for the estimated 32 million Americans—8% of men and 0.5% of women—who have some degree of colorblindness. For many, getting through the day—avoiding wardrobe perils and worse—has often involved bringing in a second pair of eyes. But new websites and smartphone apps offer to help identify or enhance hard-to-see colors. Videogame manufacturers are increasingly including "colorblind" modes in their games. And researchers are homing in on more specific vision tests that may allow mildly colorblind people to qualify for jobs that, until now, have been closed to them.
A genetic test, made by Genevolve Vision Diagnostics, will soon be available that can identify the exact type of colorblindness someone has, which the company hopes could pave the way for customized tools.
A cure for colorblindness might even be in the offing. Vision scientist Jay Neitz and his colleagues at the University of Washington are building on their 2009 breakthrough in which they restored red-green vision in two colorblind squirrel monkeys by inserting the missing gene into a virus and injecting it into their retinas. Four years later, the monkeys, Sam and Dalton, still pass daily vision tests, identifying colors on a computer screen correctly. They also have a newfound liking for green M&M's, Dr. Neitz says.
"So What's It Like Being Colorblind?"
Colorblind people and their family members talk about what it's like to see things differently than most people.
He and his colleagues are working on a similar therapy for humans, but many hurdles remain. "We know it's effective. The issue is whether it's safe," says Dr. Neitz.
Many colorblind people aren't even aware they have a "color-vision deficiency," as it's officially known, unless they apply for a job that requires precise color recognition. Even people with mild colorblindness can be barred from being pilots, air-traffic controllers, police officers, lab technicians and electricians—usually for safety reasons.
The term "colorblindness" is actually a misnomer. "People think you're living in a black-and-white TV show and that's not true. There are all different degrees, from mild to severe. And you can see colors—they're just different," says Terrance Waggoner, an ophthalmologist consulting on color vision for the U.S. Navy.
But the impact does go beyond missing just one color. "A colorblind person who can't see red can't see the red in purple—he just sees blue," says Dr. Neitz. Since red and green make brown, people with red-green blindness often have trouble telling the three colors apart.
The vast majority of colorblind people have trouble seeing red or green, due to a genetic defect in the color-sensing cells, called cones, at the back of the eye. About 75% of them are specifically green-deficient; another 20% are red-deficient. Either way, the impact on their vision is so similar that it's considered one disorder, red-green colorblindness, which is the most common single-gene disorder in humans, affecting 1 in 8 men and 1 in 230 women of Northern European descent world-wide (and slightly fewer in other racial groups).
Blue-yellow colorblindness is rarer and develops later in life, often brought on by aging, illness, medication or head injuries. Rarer still is achromatopsia, the inability to see any color.
Red-green colorblindness is far more common in men than women because it's a recessive gene carried on the X chromosome. Men have one X and one Y, so a defective gene on the X shows itself readily. Women have two X chromosomes, and a normal copy of the gene will override the defective one. But women who have one defective X will be carriers of colorblindness. Each of their children has a 50% chance of inheriting the defective gene. Within families, red-green colorblindness typically travels from the maternal grandfather to grandson. A woman can only exhibit colorblindness if she receives a defective X chromosome from a colorblind father and another from a carrier mother.
But it does happen—and it can come as a surprise if previous generations didn't notice or didn't discuss their colorblindness. Ingrid Perri, a life coach in Melbourne, Australia, discovered she was mildly colorblind at age 47. "My family howled, 'That explains so much!'" says Ms. Perri.
Experts recommend that children have regular eye exams, including color-vision tests, starting between ages 3 and 5. Some children with color vision problems are labeled "learning-disabled" if they can't follow instructions. That happened with Dr. Waggoner's son at age 6, prompting the doctor to develop pediatric color-vision tests using shapes instead of numbers, now used by about 15% of school nurses.
Many colorblind people say they have no problem recognizing pure, strong colors. It is the blended and muted colors in between that are often difficult to tell apart.
The DanKam, an augmented-reality app for iPhone and Android, works on the same principle. Users look through the phone's camera and the program converts all the reds and greens in view into pure, basic versions that are easier for colorblind people to see. "It is like having magic eyes," says Andy Baio, a writer and programmer in Portland, Ore., who is red-green colorblind. "It doesn't make me see red or green the way you see them, but it makes it blazingly obvious the difference between them."
Contact lenses and glasses for colorblind people, which can cost up to $700, use tinted lenses to alter light coming into the eye. Manufacturers say they make hard-to-see colors brighter. Many employers don't let applicants use them during vision tests. Other online tools, such as Color Name & Hue, can identify colors by name or numerical codes, so that graphic artists, say, can "see" what colors they are using. Apps such as Colorblind Avenger let people do the same thing through smartphone cameras. Other apps, such as HueVue and Colorblind Helper, assist with matching or harmonizing colors.
Some tools, like Colorblind Vision, help businesses and marketers see what their materials look like to colorblind people by simulating various color-vision deficiencies.
To help colorblind users in the trading world, Bloomberg financial-data terminals include plus and minus symbols or up and down arrows to indicate the direction of the market or stock price, says a spokeswoman for Bloomberg LP. After speaking with many traders with color-vision deficiencies, designers of DJ FX Trader, a foreign exchange tool offered by Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, say they made a point of using icons to supplement color. FactSet Research Systems Inc., a financial information company, says it uses patterns and labels in its graphs, and avoids using colors that most colorblind people can't discern.
Some popular videogames, such as PopCap's Peggle and Zuma Blitz, now let gamers switch to colorblind modes, where color codes turn into shapes.
Advocates for the colorblind say the world could be more accommodating to the nearly 10% of people who have trouble seeing shades of red and green. Battery chargers blink orange for empty and green for full. Hotel keycards flash green for entry and red for stop.
Vision and design experts say the best maps, charts and presentations use words and icons in addition to color. "Color deficiency is way low on the totem pole of accessibility problems, but when doing the right thing isn't hard, you should at least take that into account," says Mr. Baio.
Write to Melinda Beck at email@example.com
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You betcha Tina Fey won another Emmy.
The "30 Rock" star bested other actors from her own comedy show to bring home a trophy for her impersonations of former Republican Veep candidate Sarah Palin on "SNL."
Fey accepted her award at the Creative Arts Primetime Emmy's, which mostly honors technical achievements in television. She thanked her parents "who are lifelong Republicans, for their patience," and also gave a shout out to the former governor from the great state of Alaska.
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"Mrs. Palin is an inspiration to working mothers everywhere because she bailed on her job right before Fourth of July weekend," Fey said in her acceptance speech, Reuters reported. "You are living my dream. Thank you, Mrs. Palin!"
E! will air an edited version of the show at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday. Then on Sunday 28 Emmys will be given out during the program's live broadcast -- with Fey's "30 Rock" leading the competition at 22 nominations, Reuters reported.
Fey could repeat last year's win as best actress and the show also could again claim top comedy honors.
Justin Timberlake was another "SNL" winner Saturday, honored as best guest actor in a comedy series.
On the drama side, Michael J. Fox won the guest actor award for his turn on "Rescue Me," and Ellen Burstyn was honored as best guest actress for "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
"I always wanted one of these," Burstyn said, winning her first Emmy after being nominated five times.
Neither Timberlake nor Fox were on hand to accept.
Kathy Griffin was host of the nearly four-hour ceremony, her trademark outrageous humor intact with risque jokes and filmed bits.
The top network winner was HBO with 16 trophies, followed by NBC with 11. Fox and ABC each won eight awards, with CBS, PBS and Cartoon Network each claiming six.
PBS' "Little Dorrit," an adaptation of the Dickens novel, was the most-honored program with four awards. Several shows, including the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and "American Idol," received three creative arts trophies.
Next Sunday's Emmy ceremony, with Neil Patrick Harris as host, will air on CBS.


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Premier BeehiveSituated in the heart of the stunning Wairarapa region, Premier Beehive is New Zealand 's number one bacon and ham company.
Trading since 1991, our flavoursome products are known throughout the country thanks to our pioneering honey cured and wood smoking processes.
We strive to consistently supply New Zealand families with our well crafted and award winning meats, as well as being at the forefront of innovation, creating delicious new products.
We are also proud to be the exclusive licencee for Freedom Farms smallgoods, responsible for manufacturing and distribution throughout NZ. Freedom Farms is a wonderful range of products made from pork supplied from South Island SPCA approved free farms.
Come and take a glance at our world, get to know us, and see how our team meticulously crafts our products.


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I know some people get all excited when they discover their Lagacé lineage.
They immediately connect to Emeril Lagasse.
I don't mind that at all.
When the excitement is over, then they start digging deeper and then they find there is so much more to learn about their roots.
I did not know who Emeril Lagasse was before I started searching for my ancestor André Mignier.
So let's say I discovered Emeril Lagasse after I discovered everything about the Lagacés and the Lagasses and the LeGasse and the LeGacy and… so on and so on…
Emeril is my 8th cousin meaning our common ancestors were brothers 8 generation back.
Who do you think you are…?
In a way, just someone extraordinary like celebrities are.
Like Idala Lagasse who is a celebrity to his descendants, and yourself when you will become your descendants' ancestor.
That what I think you are…


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Paula Deen bails on 'Today' show appearance
Ann Oldenburg
The Today show had been touting a live, Friday interview with Paula Deen, who is in the middle of a bubbling controversy over her use of racial slurs.
But at the start of the NBC morning show, Matt Lauer explained that there would be no interview.
"We just found out she's a no-show," he said.
He said he had chatted with her on the phone last night when she had flown in to New York, but that he hadn't talked to her this morning. Her rep told him that she was "exhausted."
On Twitter, Lauer added, "Hoping to get more info on the Paula Deen situation soon. Very confusing."


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Not the Daily Mail.
Who's scared of the bankers? I mean, it can't be any worse than Deal or No Deal, surely?
We could get Noel Edmonds on the phone to these guys…
Would he be any worse at it?
Truly the drunks are running of the brewery, the vampires are in charge of the bloodbank, the lunatics have taken over the asylum…
The Morning Star reports:
Labour MP John McFall tore into Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Parliament on Thursday over obscene bonus payments to bankers.
Mr Brown went along to a question and answer session with senior MPs hoping to fob them off with a tame document suggesting a few feeble banking "reforms."
But the terrier-like Mr McFall made Mr Brown squirm, telling him: "I put it to you, Prime Minister, that the horse has bolted."
He instanced the average bonus of half a million pounds each for bankers at Goldman Sachs announced just this week.
The West Dunbartonshire MP, who is chairman of the Treasury select committee, protested that the recent £9.6 million pay package for Royal Bank of Scotland chief Stephen Hester "is very similar to Cristiano Ronaldo's contract at Real Madrid."
He added: "The City has won. Like Ronaldo, they are running rings around both the government and regulators."
Mr McFall demanded that Mr Brown must act to make sure that ordinary citizens can "trust the banks" and get a "fair deal from the banking system."
Pale with tension, Mr Brown could only fall back on his prepared brief as he faced Mr McFall and other members of the Commons liaison committee in the Boothroyd Room in Portcullis House.
The Prime Minister agreed that "excess payments" to bankers were "unacceptable."
Then he added weakly: "It is only on the basis of long-term performance that we can guarantee the bonus system."
He said that an interim review of banking governance published on Thursday recommended that "bonuses and remuneration should be over a five-year period."
Mr Brown stressed that there also needed to be "proper transparency" and a regulatory system "to take action where necessary."
Thursday's review was drawn up by City bigwig Sir David Walker – who was director of Lloyds Bank between 1992 and 1994.
He urged that non-executive directors of banks should be "better informed" and actually attend to company duties a bit more often. He suggested they spend "up to 50 per cent longer" at the bank.
Bonus schemes should include a "significant" deferred element to discourage short-termism, he added.
His wishy-washy report said: "Many boards inadequately understood the type and scale of risks they were running and failed to hold the executive to high standards of sustainable performance.
"Bonus schemes contributed to excessive risk-taking by rewarding short-term performance. And shareholders failed to exercise proper stewardship."
Mr Brown told the MPs' committee that Sir David "makes some very clear recommendations which I believe will be adopted."
Tory MP Edward Leigh asked him whether there was any truth in press reports of plans for 20 per cent cuts in public spending.
Mr Brown dismissed this as "quite ridiculous," but then added that "there are tough choices that have to be made."
He said that £9 billion of cuts were being made in back-line public services "so that we can increase spending in front-line services."
And he confessed that extra spending on the Iraq and Afghan wars had amounted to £14bn.
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300 gm onion,peeled and diced small
2 lbs potato,peeled ,diced and steam or boiled
1 lb chicken breast,diced
1 cup green pea
3 tbsp curry powder(Baba's or Burung Nuri prefer)
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
2 tbsp oil
Dough Ingredients:
Water dough:
400 gm all purpose flour
2 tbsp rice flour
80 gm butter or margarine
240 ml cold water
1/2 tsp salt
Oil Dough:
200 gm all purpose flour
1 tbsp rice flour
100 gm butter
enough oil for frying
1:Peeled,washed and dice onion and potato.Boil potato until semi soft.
2:Heat large pan or skillet with oil,add in onion ,fry until fragrant then add in diced chicken,potato,seasoning and curry powder.Stir fry all the ingredients for 5 minutes before add in green pea,mix well before dish out and set aside to cool down.
For Water and Oil Dough:Use the same method but separate the portion of oil and water dough when kneading.
1:Sift rice flour and all purpose flour together.Combine well with butter,water and salt.Knead into dough.Divided each dough into 5 equal portion and wrap with saran wrap and keep in fridge for 15-20 minutes.
2:Wrap a portion of oil dough with a portion water dough in a ball shape.Then flatten with your palm before roll thin with rolling pin
3:Refer step to step method at below pix
pix #1; filling ingredients
pix#2 ;cooked filling
pix#3; oil and water dough
pix#4: water dough flatten before wrap over oil dough in ball shape
pix#5 ;flatten ball shape and roll up in oblong shape
pix #6; use rolling pin to flatten the oblong shape dough
pix#7; roll up again
pix#8 ;use sharp knife to cut the dough into 5 pieces
pix#9 ;flatten and roll into round shape
pix#10: fill with 2 tsp or more filling
pix#11:fold the edge together before crimps the edges
pix#12:place on floured tray before fry
pix#13 :fry curry puff until golden brown


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Demian Bichir Gossip
Demian Bichir gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The Bridge 1.10: "You're not the only person to lose everything"
Jonathan Leibson/ Larry Busacca /Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images
Last week my family tried to watch The Bridge with me while I did my recap, and they were lost, so the simplest explanation I could come up with was, "There was a whole thing about the border and missing women and corruption and cartels, but that all turned out to be a ruse for your basic revenge plot/excuse to become a serial killer. Full Story
The Bridge 1.7: "I am the truth"
The Bridge Season 1 Episode 7 recap Last week my neighborhood experienced a blackout, which meant I missed The Bridge, which meant no recap. But after catching up, the takeaways from episode six are that truculent teen Gina, who was introduced only to witness Serial Killer Doug serial killing her father, was herself serial-killed, the man who killed Sonya's sister (played by Coover Bennett) was permanently brain damaged courtesy Hank, and Marco's father co-founded a cartel with Fausto's father, which Fausto in now running. Full Story
The Bridge 1.5: "I saw the Beast"
The Bridge Season 1 Episode 5 recap Jumping right in with Jefe and an underling discussing how a serial killer is different from any other kind of killer. Jefe determines he isn't a serial killer because he doesn't enjoy killing. Then he murders some guy he tortured. He's trying to track down the Raging Lunatic Pimp because he killed that lady in El Paso. Full Story
The Bridge: "Check the border"
Jason Merritt/ Getty
I don't know what to expect from FX's new crime drama, The Bridge. Reviews have been positive but there are a number of distressing references to the rage-inducing The Killing, but then some have also said it soothes the hollow ache caused by Justified's absence. All I know about it is that it stars Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir and is about a serial killer operating on the Texas/Mexico border. Full Story
The Actors 2012
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As Academy President Tom Sherak joked yesterday at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon:"We know awards season can be exhausting. Today is about taking a moment, taking a breath and realizing what a special family this is… So take the applause. This is probably the last time you'll be applauding each other. Full Story


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Always wanted to see the remains of the Titanic, 3.8km below the surface? You better start making travel arrangements, because this never-seen-before bacteria "rusticles" are eating away at the ship.
An iceberg may've knocked the ship from the surface back in 1912, killing 1,517 people, but it's now this bacteria which is finishing it off for good. It's been named Halomonas Titanicae, thanks to its prey, and while it's obviously causing damage to a very important historical artefact, scientists believe that the bacteria could be used in recycling. "This could be useful in the disposal of old naval and merchant ships and oil rigs that have been cleaned of toxins and oil-based products and then sunk in the deep ocean," said researchers from the Dalhousie university in Canada. [The Guardian]


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Automating SQL Injection with Burp, Sqlmap and GDS Burp API
I came across GDS Burp API which seems like a very useful tool for parsing Burp Proxy logs. The GDS Burp API exposes a Python object interface to requests/responses recorded by Burp. The below link provides a very good introduction to the API.
I wrote a simple script to use the API to parse the Burp proxy logs and send it to SQLMap to automate testing SQL injection for all GET and POST parameters and skip all urls without any parameters.
1. Clone the GDSSecurity burpee repository git clone https://github.com/GDSSecurity/burpee.git
2. Download burpSQL.py from https://github.com/milo2012/burpSQL into the burpee folder
3. Next, we will have to configure logging in Burpsuite
4. Change the proxy settings of your browser to 127.0.0.1:8080
5. Crawl the website with Owasp Ajax Crawling tool or spider with Burpsuite or the manual way.
Below are the command line options for burpSQL
6. The above is pretty self explanatory. If your Burp proxy log is cluttered with urls from multiple domains, you can filtered the SQL injection testing to specific domains using the –domain switch.
Drop me a message if you have any suggestions or comments. Thank you !