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Nucor's Hypocrisy: Funding The Heartland Institute's Attacks on Climate Change Science
Nucor, the largest producer of steel in the U.S., takes great pains to present a "green" image. Nucor's website is full of oak trees and pastoral scenes next to the tag line "Nucor: It's Our Nature."
However, since 2010, Nucor has given at least $500,000 to the Heartland Institute, a right wing corporate front group that attacks climate change science and scientists. According to Heartland's own fundraising documents, Nucor's contributions were earmarked specifically for attacking climate science and environmental regulations. Heartland has recently made headlines for a billboard campaign featuring a picture of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, next to the words "I still believe in Global Warming. Do you?"
The billboard campaign is the latest in Heartland's continuing battle against the scientific evidence of climate change. Heartland has also sponsored and organized six conferences on climate denial in the past 5 years, and they recently held a seventh that took place May 21-23 in Chicago. The "International Conferences on Climate Change," as Heartland calls them, provide a platform and meeting space for the small cadre of professional climate science deniers that have derailed meaningful solutions to the threats of global warming in the U.S.
This year's conference featured the usual self-contradictory climate denier arguments, which includes everything from outright denial that the earth temperature is going up, to admitting the globe is warming but denying that humans and CO2 are involved, to admitting the earth is warming, humans and CO2 are involved, but the warming will be beneficial. However, this year's meeting also delved in to other fanatical conspiracy theories, like the belief that President Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is not real.
Because of their outrageous attacks on climate science, 15 corporations have dropped the Heartland Institute. Send Nucor's CEO Dan Dimicco an email telling him to stop funding the Heartland Institute and climate denial.
The truth is, if Heartland's deceptive and dishonest talk about climate science was aimed at the few aging contrarians that attended the latest meeting, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. However, Heartland doesn't get paid by Nucor and other big carbon emitting corporations to mislead a fringe tribe of retired old white men (picture of conference at right). Heartland gets paid to derail solutions to climate change. This has meant creating anti-science curriculum for grade schools, paying spokespeople to deny climate science, and attacking the scientists that do real work on climate change.
Given that the $500,000 Nucor has given Heartland in the last 3 years was specifically for attacking climate science and environmental regulations, Nucor must be held accountable for Heartland's climate science denial.
Send Nucor CEO Dan Dimicco an email telling him to stop funding attacks on climate science and the Heartland Institute.
For updates on the Heartland Institute, see PolluterWatch's ongoing investigation.


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Actor Zo In-sung, the star of the recent hit film `A Frozen Flower,` has joined the Air Force, the ROKAF Education and Training Command in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province said on Monday.
Zo will go through physical exams, personality tests, and other procedures for a week and preliminary training for five weeks before being assigned to a unit for a 25-month stint of service. He passed a special screening last November to serve in an Air Force band.
This was the last chance that the actor was allowed to join a military band since the Air Force puts an age limit -- 29 years -- to joining a special unit. He reportedly wanted to be an Air Force man following his father, who served as a non-commissioned officer in Air Force.
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News4u-Business Desk- SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc infringed some of Oracle Corp's copyrights on the Java programming language, a US jury found on Monday after days of deliberation.
Oracle may have suffered a setback, however, because the jury could not reach a decision on whether Google's actions constituted fair use and were legally allowed.
The fair use question is crucial to determining damages. If Google's use of the Java programming tools is determined to be fair, the company would not be liable for damages in connection with some of Oracle's copyrights.
"There wouldn't be damages, at least on this part, if their(Google's) use was determined to be fair. If the fair use defense was upheld, they wouldn't be liable," said Edward Naughton, partner of Brown Rudnick LLP in Boston who is not involved in the case.
"That's why from a dollars and cents standpoint it's a pretty important argument. I think it's frustratingly inconclusive and we'll have to wait and see how it all comes to a conclusion," Naughton said.
The partial verdict in the high stakes lawsuit, which focuses on Google's development of theAndroid mobile operating system, was read in a San Francisco federal courtroom. The lawsuit, brought in August 2010, now moves on to the next phase: patent claims. A third phase of the trial would decide damages.
After Monday's verdict, Google's lawyers challenged the key jury finding on Java copyrights and moved for a mistrial.
Google says it does not violate Oracle's patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an "open-source," or publicly available, software language. The trial has featured testimony from Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison and Google CEO Larry Page.
Earlier in the case, estimates of potential damages against Google ran as high as $6.1 billion. But Google successfully narrowed Oracle's patent claims, so that the bulk of Google's exposure to damages now derives mostly from copyright claims. Oracle is seeking roughly $1 billion in copyright damages.
The main questions in the case revolve around Google's use of APIs - application programming interfaces — or a set of tools through which developers utilize the Java software language, and whether they can be copyrighted like software code.
"We appreciate the jury's efforts, and know that fair use and infringement are two sides of the same coin," Google spokesman Jim Prosser said in a statement.
"The core issue is whether the APIs here are copyrightable, and that's for the court to decide. We expect to prevail on this issue and Oracle's other claims."
Oracle said in a statement that it welcomed the verdict and that "the overwhelming evidence" demonstrated that Google knew it needed a license for Java.
"Every major commercial enterprise — except Google — has a license for Java and maintains compatibility to run across all computing platforms," Oracle said.
Almost immediately after rendering the copyright verdict, the seven-woman, five-man jury began hearing opening statements on the patent issues. The trial, which began in mid-April before US District Judge William Alsup, is expected to last at least eight weeks.
The case in US District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.Reuters


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[Intro: Wale]
So yeah like
I'm not really like worried about fucking up or you know what I'm sayin'
The plight of a rapper or whatever
Or the trials of tribulations
Cause you know, aside from me strugglin' or coming up in one of the most
Fucked up, hating ass areas in the world
I played football for twelve years you know
And anybody who plays sports, you know you got politics
And you got all the other bullshit
So I'mma talk about a little bit of that
And I'mma stop rappin' and start rappin' now
So drop the slam and let's get sick
[Verse 1: Wale]
Halfback toss to right
Yeah the coach used to say I was awesome, right
O.D. was in the weight room all his life
But I was more self concerned with the broads in life
On to college, Im always on the yard like farmers
Never in class
Dorm room hoppin' if workouts optional
Im not rockin'
I can run an option best in my conference
Look at my accomplishments, I'm all county
You double A niggas should be lucky y'all signed me
Lucky y'all found me, lucky y'all stole me
I could be with Bowden, I could be with Friedgen
Two a day curfews, where's my Freedom?
School ain't even start yet, there ain't not freaks here
Might as well prepare
Season opener, finna be there
When the depth chart came, there was no me there
I mean me is there, but it's like three there
Which made me have to wait like leap year
Cause I ain't really lift weights, I didn't need them
I run a 4.4, so they won't catch me there
Knocking on my coach door like a missionary
Playbook like a Oxford dictionary
Attitude that was not really felling
And he put me on ice, I was Oksana literally
I keep talking, I keep talking
My scholarship won't straight like Rodman
So Im walking
Fuck it, Im leaving
VSU next season
[Chorus: Kanye West]
I need you right now
I need you right now
You know how long I've been on ya
Since Prince was on Apollonia
Since O.J. had Isotoners
Don't act like I never told ya
[Verse 2: Wale]
They say, Trojans never break but it ain't that
For God sake, you can call coach Faison
I've seen dreams turn dust, cause he made them
Cause he played them, when he ain't played them
I've seen niggas loose cool, niggas leave school
And back to the block with nothing better to do
VSU don't regret you
Just regret the fact that I left too soon
I got kicked off, I used to shit talk
Excuse my complaint, but I got to get it off
Hey Mr. coach, I don't like you
You don't me, that don't mean I gotta move
You see the way I move, I am in another gear
You can ask Los, I was like a young Gale
My coach ain't care, so I ain't care
He ain't even respect the name, he said Whale
So I said yeah, and he was like yeah
You fumbled in a drill, young man get on the hill
So Im like fuck it, Im out get on your head
Such Karma, next year they 4-6
A few niggas stay, a lot of niggas quit
And now I only listen to this hip-hop shit
A few niggas stay, a lot of niggas quit
Man fuck this shit
[Chorus: Kanye West]
I need you right now
I need you right now
You know how long I've been on ya
Since Prince was on Apollonia
Since O.J. had Isotoners
Don't act like I never told ya
[Verse 3: Wale]
I go, in when I start putting words out
Words sharp like a Jerry Rice curl route
Im moonshine, y'all merlot
I got on, and I gotta thank Marlon
Thank Kenny Burns, though we not talking
But my squad like the 72' Dolphins
Climate Shula, my flow Csonka
Im so Bonkas, Im not conscious
They are not confident when Im talking
Make them more insecure when they caught one
He tried tossing to Andre Johnson
Now Im getting compliments on how charming I am
And Im way out London, way out conscious
Y'all never seen
Exclusives, y'all never seen
They wait on my return, I am Vai Sikahema
Write it in my leisure, I rather go shopping
Gucci & Nike, that's what I call an option
Um Tom Frazier, new LeBron haters
Got you niggas all over my bars just like Frasier
I've become immune to you no name haters
They can not pause like Ryu on Sega
I get inspired about your make up
You no good like a stripper with a "A" cup
Young Arrington, coming for you Aikman
Aye Jay, 8 grand skins gonna take that
Aye Bo, 10 stacks on the Patriots
Aye Rich, another 5 on the G Men
Another 5, Eli won't even be there
No Strahan, y'all need to rebuild
Back to you homo spittin so, so
You can't kick it like Romo hold for ya
No more for the broke I am more so
A first rounder, y'all don't want a Russell
I must go like fly route
My tires align with the play, but the times out
Yeah hail Mary full of grace
I swear these off rhyme bums are full of hate
Young Peyton don't huddle, still run my play
Still run that break, still get my ring, still run my shit
And it ain't no thing, you in Dungy's dungeon
So get that straight, yeah get that straight
Ain't nothing to Peyton
I am Marvin with mind, but I listen to Wayne
And I listen to 'Ye
Still listen to Big
And I listen to Jay
They are the coaches in this
And I listen to thought
And I listen to Common
We have nothing in Common
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OTTAWA - Canada is following the United States in once again stepping up the pressure on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine.
Two Russian companies and nine individuals, including two billionaire friends of President Vladimir Putin, will face new sanctions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday.
The latest round of sanctions comes in response to Russia's continued actions to destabilize the Ukrainian government, Harper said in a statement.
And he suggested that more economic sanctions could be on the way unless Putin follows through on an April 17 agreement that was designed to ease tensions in Ukraine.
"The illegal occupation of Ukraine continues and Russia's military aggression persists," Harper said. "That is why we are imposing sanctions against an additional nine individuals and two entities."
Among the nine individuals facing sanctions are Boris Rotenberg and his older brother Arkady, the billionaire co-owners of SMP Bank and SGM Group, a major supplier of construction services to Russia's gas giant Gazprom.
The Rotenbergs have close ties with Putin and were at one time his judo sparring partners.
Boris Rotenberg holds dual citizenship in both Finland and Russia.
It's not clear how the sanctions would impact the men or their business interests.
Others facing similar sanctions include Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, the founder and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia; and Oleg Evgenyevich Belaventsev, the Russian presidential envoy to the Crimean District and a member of the Russian Security Council.
As well, several lawmakers, bureaucrats and the director of the Russian Federation's federal protective service have been singled out.
Canada is also imposing economic sanctions against ExpoBank and RosEnergoBank.
Meanwhile, the government said Monday that six CF-18 fighter jets were scheduled to depart Tuesday from Bagotville, Que., to assist NATO operations in eastern Europe.
The planes will be stationed in Romania, said Defence Minister Rob Nicholson.
"These jets will support air policing and training missions," Nicholson told the Commons.
Earlier Monday, the United States imposed sanctions on seven Russian government officials and 17 companies linked to Putin. It also revoked licenses for some high-tech products used by Russia's military.
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Nathan Hartman is Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics and Director of the Purdue University Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Center of Excellence. He teaches undergraduate courses in 3D modeling and model-based definition, interoperability and data exchange standards, and product data management. He has also taught graduate courses in product lifecycle management (PLM), research methods, and measurement and evaluation. Professor Hartman's research focuses on the use of 3D CAD tools and digital product definition within the product lifecycle, model-based enterprise, long-term archival (LOTAR) of CAD data, and 3D data interoperability and exchange. Professor Hartman holds a Bachelor of Science in Technical Graphics and a Master of Science in Technology from Purdue University, and a Doctor of Education in Technology Education from North Carolina State University. Dr. Hartman has also held industry positions with Fairfield Manufacturing Company, Caterpillar, and RAND Worldwide.


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Though this is not a funny situation at all, it is definitely OK to take a break and have a few laughs at the irony of all the things happening while you are not friending BP on YouTube.
Here is a really funny parody created on the BP Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico called BP Spills Coffee, have fun and watch how they are trying to contain the Coffee Spill.
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What Pleasanton wants from the city of San Francisco
PLEASANTON — Close to a decade after a handshake deal fell apart for a prime piece of downtown real estate, the cities of Pleasanton and San Francisco have restarted talks over the land.
Pleasanton city leaders and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, a department of the city and county of San Francisco, began negotiations Jan. 15 over a 3.3-acre parcel of land on Old Bernal Avenue, just west of the Pleasanton Public Library.
Negotiations have been in closed sessions and city officials have said little about the discussion, but Mayor Jerry Thorne confirmed talks involve the land directly across the street from the library. The land, next to Pleasanton's Civic Center, ¿yet belonging to San Francisco, is a vital piece to Pleasanton's desire for an expanded Civic Center and library that has been in the works for at least the past 15 years.
"We have the master plan for the library and it involves the land, so at some point we would like to own it," Thorne said. "I can't say there has been one driving force on why talks began now, but we have always wanted to expand the Civic Center."
In October 2009, the city and the Library Commission began considering an expansion of the Civic Center and library at a cost of $71 million. The plan would more than double the library's 30,000-square-foot facility to 72,000 square feet, and it would also increase the size of the Civic Center from 48,000 square feet to 56,000 square feet.
Talks focusing on the purchase of the land come nearly 10 years after a court ruled in favor of San Francisco and said it did not have to honor a promise by Willie Brown, the outgoing San Francisco mayor at the time, who agreed to sell the land at a reduced price.
Pleasanton sued San Francisco in the summer of 2003, claiming San Francisco had reneged on its promise to sell the 3.3 acres for $500,000 as part of the larger $126 million property on the south side of Bernal Avenue.
"There are stories about a handshake agreement with Willie Brown and one of our former mayors," Thorne said. "When we went to buy the land, the price went up, and there was no written agreement."
The assessed value of the land a year before the verbal agreement was struck was more than $3 million. Current tax records show that Alameda County had assessed just the land at a little more than $31,000.


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This is the final installment of Christina Ball's culinary updates from Firenze. She's back in town with a hearty appetite for news. –editor
FLORENCE– What does a Florentine forno have that Charlottesvillle's Albemarle Baking Co. lacks? Certainly not yeast, sacks of hard wheat flour, and an artisanal approach to the baking craft emphasizing quality, tradition, and consistency over mass-produced quantity.
Master baker Gerry Newman, who started his European-style bakery nine years ago with his wife, Millie Carson, even stocks several items which I could find right around the corner in Florence- pane toscano (crusty, usually unsalted "Tuscan bread"), ciabatta (a light, porous oblong "slipper"), sweet and savory focaccia rounds, bags of seasoned crostini, and even special Italian holiday breads like the colomba pasquale ('Easter dove') and fruit-bread panettone ("big bread"), traditionally served at Christmas and New Year's.
What you definitely won't find at most Italian bakeries are breads from other countries– French baguettes, German dark bread, hearty American multi-grains. In fact, you'll even have a hard time finding breads native to other Italian regions in Tuscany.
Like wine, food, and accents, Italian breads are an inherent part of each region's culinary history and identity. Tuscan bread is rustic and noticeably salt-free because it accompanies hearty, salty foods like Tuscan salami, prosciutto, and pecorino cheeses. A self-respecting Florentine wouldn't think of eating moist, salty, semolina flour breads from Apulia or Sicily with their bistecca, tripe, or roast pork. It just wouldn't make sense.
Chefs in Albemarle County have an easier time breaking with tradition. Since we're talking bread, a bakery like ABC is crucial to an evolving, increasingly international culinary scene like Charlottesville's because it combines traditional European craftsmanship with a knack for versatility and innovation.
"I never wanted to be an American bakery," Newman says. That's why– despite the regional emphasis of the bakery's name (emphasizing the area served, not the breads' pedigrees)– his first calling card was the classic, crusty French baguette. Trivia tidbit: Newman's breads first appeared on tables at Michael's on The Corner. ABC now serves more than 40 local restaurants, cafes, and shops.
An Italian baker would be even more amazed than I was to witness the well-oiled, multi-talented team of Gerry Newman and Co. (his staff numbers around 20) at work. Though rooted in the European traditions (he trained with a Swiss master), Newman is also free (i.e. from sacred regional traditions like those in Italy) to experiment with new hybrids like "potato-rosemary focaccia," sourdough "oatmeal crunch" and spelt-quinoa.
An Italian fornaio (bread baker) would also be shocked to find that this American baker makes a mean tiramisù. As anyone with a semi-sweet tooth knows, ABC bakes a lot more than bread. In fact, they actually got their start stocking coffeehouse pioneers like Mudhouse and Greenberry's with scones and coffeecakes– and they now make everything from cookies to fruit tarts and specialty cakes. In Italy, such multitasking would be virtually unthinkable, since sweets are made and sold primarily in special pastry shops (pasticcerie).
Tonight I'll raise my glass of effervescent prosecco to the panegyrical pair of tradition and innovation. Don't tell a Tuscan, but even when it comes to something as sacred as bread, they do collaborate nicely.
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Title IX: New Opportunities for Girls, But Gender Gap Remains
Many more take part in high school sports since 1972, but the gender gap remains huge
Forty years ago next week, 37 words permanently changed the landscape of sports.
On June 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits gender discrimination in any federally financed education program or activity.
Title IX is far-reaching, but the law is most often associated with school and college athletics.
"We can safely say, of all the areas Title IX covers—and it's key to remember it's more than athletics—athletics is probably the place where we've seen the most visible strides," said Lisa Maatz, the director of public policy and government relations for the Washington-based American Association of University Women.
Russlynn H. Ali, the U.S. Department of Education's assistant secretary for civil rights, agrees and notes the irony that the word "athletics" does not appear in the text of the law.
Experts are unanimous that progress has been made toward the elimination of gender discrimination in high school athletics, based on participation figures alone, but they also say there's still plenty left to do.
In 1971-72, the school year leading up to the passage of Title IX, 294,015 girls took part in high school sports, compared with nearly 3.7 million boys, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations, or about 3.4 million more boys than girls.
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
In a 1979 policy interpretation, the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights introduced the three-prong test to explain how it would enforce Title IX. As OCR clarified in 1996, schools only need to satisfy one of three prongs to remain in compliance with the law:
Proportionality: Schools must offer athletic participation opportunities to male and female athletes in proportion to their overall respective enrollments.
Opportunity: Schools must show a history and continuing practice of expanding athletic programs for the underrepresented sex.
Interests and Abilities: Schools must demonstrate that the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex have been fully and effectively accommodated.
Fast forward to 2010-11, which yields the most recent available data, and that gap shrinks by more than 2 million, with nearly 4.5 million boys and 3.2 million girls participating in high school sports.
Still, the number of female athletes in the 2010-11 school year does not even match the number of male athletes from 1971-72, as Bernice Sandler, a senior scholar at the Washington-based Women's Research and Education Institute, is quick to point out.
Girls made up 49.7 percent of the overall high school student enrollment in 1970—ever so slightly more than they do now, according to the U.S. Census.
Ms. Sandler, who has been called the "godmother of Title IX" by The New York Times and played a critical role in its passage, acknowledged that she and other advocates at first did not realize athletics would even fall under its purview.
"We didn't realize there was so much gender discrimination there," Ms. Sandler said in a recent interview. "We figured it out in a few months, though."
Now, having opened up athletic opportunities to millions more girls each year, Title IX has made sports go from "a freakishly rare part of girlhood to an absolutely typical part of girlhood," said Deborah Brake, a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh.
Interest and Opportunity
Title IX allows schools to prove their athletic compliance in one of three ways, known as the "three-prong test." They can provide a proportional number of athletic activities for boys and girls based on their overall school populations, prove they are increasing athletic activities for girls on a continuous basis, or prove they are satisfying girls' interest in athletics.
"Regarding the prong that talks about the interest and ability of women: At that point, the feeling was, women aren't interested in athletics, so that would be just fine," Ms. Sandler said.
As the high school participation figures suggest, things unfolded just a bit differently.
"That's really been the big take-home lesson of Title IX," said Ms. Maatz. "If you build opportunities for girls, their interest rises to match and exceed those opportunities every step of the way. Girls' interest in sports is much broader than it was 40 years ago, and a big part of that was Title IX."
John Johnson, the communications director for the Michigan High School Athletic Association, believes that despite the 1.3 million-student gender gap in high school sports, many schools are maximizing opportunities for both genders.
"I think that's really the end goal," Johnson said. "It's not necessarily a number, although if everything was fifty-fifty, that would be the proverbial perfect world."
Mark Cousins, the athletic director for Texas' University Interscholastic League, believes the gap will likely prove "difficult to bring down as long as football's in the equation."
In the 2010-11 school year, roughly 1.1 million high school boys took part in football, while only 1,395 girls did, according to the national federation.
In 2005, under President George W. Bush's administration, the Education Department's office for civil rights issued a "Dear Colleague" letter saying that schools could survey girls' interest in athletics via email. Schools were allowed to equate a lack of response to a lack of interest under the guidance.
The Obama administration repealed the guidance in 2010 and instead required schools to assess interest through multiple measures, not just an online survey.
Title IX Turns 40: What's Left to Do?
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Title IX, three Education Week writers discussed the academic, athletic, and social aspects of the law.
• Read through the transcript.
As the United States battles a youth-obesity crisis, the physical benefits of sports speak for themselves, advocates say.
Diana Parente, the director of Title IX operations for the 1.1 million-student New York City school system, believes that sports teaches girls how to lead a healthy life even after they graduate from high school.
"With the obesity problem that's currently facing the nation, it's really important that kids aren't just learning academics; they're learning about a healthy lifestyle, too," she said.
Along with the District of Columbia, the New York City schools started offering female flag football as a varsity sport this past school year. The league featured about 500 girls on 29 teams throughout the city, according to Jennifer Blum, the supervisor of the league.
"You can see how excited they get about it," Ms. Blum said. "You can see they want to bring home the trophies and score the touchdowns and get the interceptions. ... Watching these girls do that, it gives them so much confidence."
Legal Challenges
Research indicates other benefits from playing sports. A study published in the June 2007 issue of Youth and Society Journal found that female high school athletes were 41 percent more likely to graduate from college within six years compared with their peers who did not participate in sports.
Meanwhile, research from the New York City-based Women's Sports Foundation suggests that girls involved in K-12 sports are less likely to use illegal drugs or become pregnant in their teenage years. And a 2002 survey from the Opperheimer Funds and MassMutual Financial found that more than 80 percent of high-level women business executives reported having played sports in their K-12 days.
"For women trying to break through glass ceilings, understanding the language of sports is a really great way to breakthrough," said Ms. Maatz of the AAUW.
Throughout its 40-year history, Title IX hasn't gone without challenges. The law arguably was dealt its biggest setback in 1984, when the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Grove City College v. Bell limited the application of Title IX to educational programs or activities directly receiving federal assistance, effectively excluding most school sports programs.
Four years later, over a veto from President Ronald Reagan, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which reversed the Grove City decision by expanding the coverage of anti-discrimination laws to cover entire educational systems.
At this point, experts say, the courts have well defined the scope of Title IX, though lawsuits continue to emerge, particularly challenging the application of the three-prong test to high school athletics. Title IX critics often argue that the proportionality prong amounts to a "quota system," resulting in schools' being forced to cut what are deemed minor sports for men.
"The three-part test imposes an assumption of illegality if schools aren't balanced," said Joshua Thompson, a lawyer for the Pacific Legal Foundation, who represented the American Sports Council in a recent, albeit unsuccessful, Title IX lawsuit against the Education Department. "Schools are afraid that if they're not in balance, that will raise a presumption of illegality."
"I think that athletic administrators have been blaming the law, but it's really an administrative decision about how they're going to be fair," said Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the senior director of advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation. "When institutions blame Title IX for their decisions, it's unethical."
Ms. Ali, the head of the OCR, agrees. "When we do some digging, it's not that those sports are being cut because of Title IX," she said. "They're being cut because of the budget."
Resources and Facilities
Besides addressing the gap between boys and girls in high school athletics, Title IX advocates say many recent cases have focused less on equal opportunity and more on equal and fair distribution of resources and facilities.
"Even now, where we can credibly say we've seen enormous strides in terms of girls in athletics, there's still some smoke and mirrors being played," said Ms. Maatz. "In efforts to mask that they're not in compliance, schools do some fuzzy math with the numbers on their roster."
For instance, some schools may double- or triple-count the same female student-athlete if she participates on multiple teams, to help balance out the proportionality prong. Other cases involve inequitable distribution of resources, such as a girls' softball team playing on a field that's subpar to the boys' baseball field.
Ms. Brake of the University of Pittsburgh cites scheduling discrepancies as well.
"It's a Title IX problem if the boys are always scheduled for prime time and weekend nights, and the girls only get weeknights," said Ms. Brake. "You reinforce the reality of second-class status because the girls' team won't get as much fan support."
Ms. Maatz and others have called for congressional action for high schools similar to the 1994 Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, which requires coed colleges and universities that receive federal funding to submit annual reports to the Education Department detailing the gender breakdown of their athletic programs.
Still, compared with 40 years ago, the K-12 athletics scene for girls has undergone a night-and-day transformation, according to advocates.
"We've made a lot of progress because it was so awful," said Ms. Sandler. "We've gone from absolutely horrid to very bad, and that's a lot of progress."
Vol. 31, Issue 35, Pages 1, 16, 19Published in Print: June 13, 2012, as Title IX: With New Opportunities, Girls' Interest Rises
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Robert Pattinson is blaming Kristen Stewart for the wedding night scene that, before it was re-edited, nearly earned "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1" an R rating.
"What were you doing?" Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson asked the Brit on Thursday afternoon as he promoted the November 18-due film.
"Weird stuff… It was gross," Robert laughed. "No one wants to see that kind of stuff."
When Shaun asked what director Bill Condon left on the cutting room floor, Robert suggested it was things done by his leading lady – K-Stew.
"It was more the noises. It was Kristen's fault, really. I was just doing standard stuff," Robert replied, trying not to look like the guilty party.
"I was just kind of going through the motions – breaking the headboard, I just kept breaking the headboard repeatedly," he carried on, laughing. "Kristen was just over the top. It was just too much… Her wig [was] falling off."
Before the bedroom scene between Robert's Edward Cullen and Kristen's Bella Swan-turned-Cullen, the two characters had to marry and the Brit said filming the giant nuptials was a day he'll remember for a long time.
"It was really sweet. There was a big build [up] of excitement because there were a lot of new cast as well who came in and everyone knew it was a big deal," Robert said. "There were all these paparazzi helicopters flying around, so everyone was kind of excited. But, it looks a lot prettier in the movie than it was in reality."
And Robert continues to insist – even though none of his cast mates support him on the matter – that the man who married Edward and Bella on screen was the real deal.
"[He] was a real priest and Kristen's going around saying it wasn't a real priest," Robert said. "It was a real priest. They were wrong, they weren't paying attention, they were just thinking about themselves."
While a giant, on-screen wedding can sway an actor's feelings in real life, Robert is pretty firm on his beliefs about walking down the aisle.
"I don't feel like marriage is that big a deal," he told Shaun. "It just seems very simple… It's like having a big birthday party. It's like, if you wanna throw a really elaborate birthday party for your girlfriend, it's kind of the same deal."
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Graphite Pencil Drawing Tutorial: Female NosePosted by Faith Te on November 30th, 2007
Here is a female nose to go along with the female eye tutorial I did. This tutorial demonstrates how I render noses as realistically as I can, using mostly direct application of graphite. I hope you will find the following images and descriptions informative and helpful as a guide in drawing noses. Many thanks to Toni-Marie Hudson for the use of her picture as reference for this tutorial.
Step 1: Here is the outline on 8.2 x 10.1 cm (3.25″ x 4″) Canson paper. The highlights have also been lightly indicated.
Step 2: I've used a Chinese brush to apply the initial 2 or 3 layers of graphite powder. This brush produces a smoother effect than the soft brush I used in the eye tutorial. I applied the graphite powder in very light layers, adding more as needed. This is the base tone and it helps make additional layers of graphite tone smoother.
Step 3: I began using a small soft brush for the edges and for the darker areas.
Step 4: Taking the kneaded eraser, I lightly and carefully, tap some of the tones off the highlights on the bridge of the nose, the ball of the nose, and below the nostrils. The Chinese brush was used to dull the highlights a little bit.
Step 5: Using a 0.5 mm 2B Dong-A mechanical pencil, I drew the nostrils. Less pressure was used as I came near the skin below the nostrils.
Step 6: Using a 0.5 mm HB Dong-A mechanical pencil, I began darkening the lower area of the nose. I also lessened the sharpness of the edges of the nostrils by gradually darkening the skin around them. To blend the tones, I used the small brush and a shop towel. It helps if the shop towel employed for blending and smoothening pencil marks is used. New, clean ones tend to pick up tone instead of spread them around.
Step 7: More skin tones using the HB mechanical pencil were added to the middle and upper parts of the nose. Most of the outlines have been smudged off and erased at this point.
Step 8: The skin on the sides of the nose and the nostril wings have been darkened. This created a more three-dimensional effect. For blending, I used the shop towel and the two brushes. A clean shop towel was used to lift excess graphite tone from the drawing. In this stage, I have also started making necessary corrections to capture the likeness of the subject.
Step 9: The tones were further blended. It's almost finished.
Step 10: The final stage of the nose. For the finishing touches, the tools I used mainly were: a 0.5 mm 2B mechanical pencil with the tip sharpened using fine sandpaper — this was used for filling up light spots; a clean shop towel for lightening up graphite pencil tones; and a kneaded eraser for removing dark spots. Finalizing my "serious" works is usually the most difficult stage of the whole drawing process. It takes quite a long time to do as well.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial of a female nose.
Happy drawing!
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Veterans Support Group Forming in Champaign County
The annual ceremony in Urbana recognizing the efforts of those who enlist in the U.S. armed forces was also a call to help local veterans in need.
About 40 people attended Veterans Day ceremonies at the Champaign County Courthouse Memorial on Thursday. Mark Friedman, the Superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Champaign County, spoke at the event.
Friedman's organization exists in about half of Illinois' counties. Groups like the VFW and American Legion has requested their county governments to form such a group, in which tax dollars help indigent veterans with areas like utility bills and assistance paying their rent or mortgage. Friedman said his organization has only been in the talking phase for the last 10 years, but its mission is starting to take shape.
"The VAC will be liasoning with groups like the (Champaign County) Regional Planning Commission for low-income energy assistance and programs like that," Friedman said. "We're basically going to be a clearinghouse to help route people who don't know where else to go. We're still looking at what we're going to describe as to what our complete mission is going to be."
Illinois' Military Assistance Act, passed in 1992, allows veterans organizations to form such groups. In other counties, the assistance groups also provide transportation for some veterans.
Meanwhile, veterans' groups say there is a new appreciation for what men and women in uniform do when serving in the armed services. Lieutenant Clifford White of Lincoln's Challenge Academy said only veterans know what it is like to stand guard all night while others sleep, and believes he is instilling those same values into the young cadets in Rantoul.
"It's not just a one-day event, it's an every day event," White said. "Our country is having turmoil everywhere, and they need to understand that if it wasn't for the men and women, both young and old, if it wasn't for that we wouldn't have the freedom to be able to do what we need to do and what we can do in our country."
White said since the Gulf War, Americans have learned to appreciate the role of the military.
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Pearl Jam, Epstein make charitable donation
CHICAGO -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Theo Epstein, Cubs president of baseball operations, visited the South Chicago Arts Center on Wednesday to announce a contribution of $130,000 from the rock band Pearl Jam and the Foundation to be Named Later in support of education and inspiring under-served young people in Chicago through the visual arts.
As part of Pearl Jam's upcoming sold-out concert July 19 at Wrigley Field, the band is donating $2 per ticket from their Vitalogy Foundation to benefit Chicago visual arts programs Marwen and South Chicago Arts Center. The city of Chicago made the recommendation of the visual arts programs to the band. Approximately $40,000 will be donated to each organization from the foundation.
Given the Chicago connection with the concert, Epstein's Foundation to be Named Later and Chicago Cubs Charities added to the contribution. The Foundation to be Named Later will contribute $15,000 to each organization and another $10,000 will be donated to each organization from Chicago Cubs Charities.
Marwen celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to supporting the development of Chicago's under-served youth in grades 6-12 through free visual arts, college planning, and career preparation programs. Students from 54 of the city's 57 zip codes and from more than 220 schools travel to MARWEN, where they take classes designed and taught by practicing artists.
The South Chicago Art Center's mission is to provide youth with an accessible, safe place to participate in quality visual arts programs.


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The day after Scott Walker demonstrated the sheer might of the conservative vote over the power of public unions, media outlets are doing everything they can to find something else to talk about. For example, Ross Tucker at The Exchange writes "Republicans Bungle the Battle Over Light Bulbs". His article is all about how Republicans are preventing Americans from saving money by preventing Democrats from making incandescent light bulbs illegal. Apparently, the only way Americans know how to buy economically is if the government eliminates all non-economical options as determined by bureaucrats in DC.
In other news, MSNBC tried to say that the Walker win was a great thing for Obama because the exit polls that showed Walker barely surviving also showed Obama winning in Wisconsin. Of course, Walker didn't barely survive, but instead creamed his opponent by a 7 point margin. If you adjust exit polling by the actual results of the election, Romney will have the distinction of being the first Republican President to win Wisconsin since Ronald Reagan.
AP highlighted Elizabeth Warren tweeting about Scott Brown's no vote the Democrat equal pay bill that would unintentionally make more women unemployable. I'm not sure why Warren needs an equal pay bill for women; she already got her affirmative action benefits for being a "Cherokee".
But the best hit piece was a headline from Rick Newman at US News & World Report stating that Mitt Romney's desire to sell the government owned GM stock would cost taxpayers $15 billion. Or as his headline put it, "Mitt Romney's Stance on GM Sale Would Cost Taxpayers Dearly". What a headline.
Newman himself reviews the reason we have GM stock in the first place, but can't seem to make the connection that the losses to taxpayers from GM might actually be Obama's fault. When GM was faltering and heading into bankruptcy, instead of selling GM to Italy like he did with Chrysler or allowing them to go through the legal bankruptcy protection process, Obama funneled about $25 billion dollars into GM making the US taxpayer a Wall Street shareholder. He did the same thing with AIG and Citigroup.
When it comes to playing Wall Street fund manager with our tax dollars, Obama sucks. I wonder what Occupy Wall Street thinks about our Wall Street fund manager-in-chief?
When GM re-emerged on the market at $35 a share, Obama did not cut our losses and sell. Instead he held on to GM with our tax dollars. GM has now dropped to $21 a share according to Newman's article. Newman admits that GM would have to reach $52 a share in order for taxpayers to recover the original money Obama invested in GM.
The premise of Newman's article is that we don't need any of our money back and can wait to see if GM makes it back to $52 a share. Of course, at this point GM would have to more than double in value. Newman thinks this could happen by the end of 2013. I'd like to know what he is smoking and where I can get some.
Large cap stocks rarely double in a year. Large cap stocks freshly out of bankruptcy with 60% of their common stock shares owned by a government who is just itching to sell may never double in price. Romney is wise to cut our losses.
By Newman's own math, Obama cost taxpayers $8.7 billion by not selling when GM peaked at $39.
Newman was trying to use fuzzy math to make Romney the bad guy for cleaning up the President's taxpayer funded investment. Instead, he unintentionally presents a clear indictment of one more foolish Wall Street fund manager: Barack Obama.
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Last week, I attended a screening of Wong Kar-wai's latest film, The Grandmaster (Aug. 23, limited release), starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Ip Man, who's most well known for popularizing Wing Chun and training Bruce Lee.
Leung showed up after the screening to answer questions, and I'll include some of the highlights after the review.
The movie opens with a dramatic fight scene at night in the street in the rain, during which Ip takes on many men. I don't have to tell you the outcome, do I?
Ip then takes on a challenge by Gong Yutian, a grandmaster from northern China, who thinks the South should have its own grandmaster. Ip also ends up fighting the grandmaster's beautiful daughter, Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), and an attraction develops, though Ip is married with children.
The story follows Ip through the late 1930s and Japanese occupation of Foshan, and Ip's eventual exile in Hong Kong, where he starts teaching Wing Chun. The film also shows how Gong Er won back her family's legacy, after her father's protegé, Ma San, betrays Gong Yutian.
I'm still not sure what to think of this movie overall, because its parts are more than its sum. (Leung said this version is about 10 minutes shorter than the one released in China.) The acting is fine, with Leung doing his charismatic thing, and Zhang infusing every frame she's in with grace and fire under the surface stoicism. The actress doesn't have to move a facial muscle when she can convey so much with her eyes. And when she fights, her lithe frame belies her strength.
The cinematography is lush, and Wong's trademark melancholy and atmospheric shots are present, with longing, In the Mood for Love-type looks between Zhang and Leung. But perhaps there are too many shots in which the director lingers on something, as if determined to impress us with its beauty.
The action scenes are fraught with tension and impressively staged, but often we're not allowed to see the whole spectacle. Wong keeps cutting to close-ups of feet shuffling along the ground, or rainwater sliding off the brim of a hat in slo-mo, or Ip and Gong Er's faces coming within kissing distance while fighting. I wanted to see the entirety of the fights, but would only get bits and pieces.
The movie's narrative also jumps around a bit. There's an extended section when Ip disappears so we can see how Gong Er restores her family's honor. No disrespect to Leung at all, but I didn't miss Ip during these scenes. When Zhang gets that determined look on her face, I was just waiting for the sneering Ma San to get his butt kicked.
I'd recommend the movie because of the magnetic leads, and a fantastic fight scene on a train platform while a train is moving through it, but it's not quite a fast-paced action movie, or a relationship drama, or a biopic. So it leaves us with a feeling it's neither here nor there, like a man in exile.
Nerd verdict: Grand style, medium impact
During the post-screening Q&A, Leung was witty and down to earth. Below are highlights from the conversation:
- Leung knew no martial arts whatsoever, and started learning it for this movie, at the age of 47. He trained with one of Ip Man's students.
- He practiced kung fu for 3-4 years, starting about a year before production and continuing until the end of the job.
- He read books about Bruce Lee and Lee's knowledge of kung fu, and realized this form of martial arts was not just a way to train your body, but also to train your mind and a way of life. Leung discovered that Lee was more than an incredible martial artist; he was a great philosopher as well.
- Leung broke his arm twice, and his first fight scene back after his arm healed was the opening fight sequence, in which he took on 15 guys, the last opponent being a real-life MMA champion (the others were stuntmen).
- The fight scene in the freezing rain—the most difficult of his acting career—took 40 overnights to film, during which he was often sick. He finished it in 10 days at first, but then Wong decided he wanted Ip to wear a white hat during the sequence instead of a black one, and it took 30 more nights to reshoot. Below, in the video clip I recorded, he talks a little about the physical toll this took on him:
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RENTON, Wash. (AP) Brandon Browner didn't mind being forced to sit out the final four games of the regular season due to suspension because it was fun watching his Seattle Seahawks continue to roll toward the postseason.
``It was fun because we were kicking everyone's butt. I was missing not playing with the guys but it was awesome to watch from that perspective,'' Browner said Thursday, speaking for the first time since returning from his four-game suspension for using a banned substance. ``The progression of our quarterback is awesome. He's playing like one of the elite quarterbacks and the defense is playing lights out. They're playing like when I left. They didn't skip a beat.''
Browner, Seattle's starting cornerback the last two seasons, is expected to play Sunday in Seattle's playoff opener at Washington for the first time since early December when he dropped the appeal of his suspension and went to the sideline for the rest of the regular season. Coach Pete Carroll has not said whether Browner would start, concerned that he might be a bit rusty after four weeks away from the Seahawks facility.
Browner originally began the process of appealing his suspension, but dropped it the week after Seattle's 23-17 overtime win at Chicago in Week 13.
``It was about that time,'' Browner said when asked why he dropped his appeal. ``Sometimes you make mistakes. I was fortunate enough that the guys continued to win.''
Both Browner and fellow starting cornerback Richard Sherman had their positive tests for banned substances leaked following the Seahawks' Week 12 loss at Miami. Sherman said all along that he believed his suspension would be overturned on appeal and was proven right last week. Because of that, the Seahawks will have both available for the postseason.
Browner said he tried to stay in shape by mimicking the Seahawks' practice schedule. He returned to California for most of his suspension and worked out on days that the team did. Then he sat back and watched his teammates win the four games he missed by a combined score of 170-43 and get back to the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.
``I knew I had the suspension but it wasn't hard at all,'' Browner said of watching on TV. ``It was fun to watch the guys win the way they did.''
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From practice management to alternative investing to tax planning and beyond, the 2012 National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) will kick off its biggest-ever national conference on Tuesday in Chicago.
The NAPFA national conference, to be held May 8 through May 11 at the Hilton Chicago, will bring together hundreds of fee-only financial planners. Events include networking opportunities, a daily lineup of keynote speakers including the former Obama administration economist Austan Goolsbee and the retirement expert Natalie Choate, all-day case studies and dozens of breakout sessions that cover five required continuing education (CE) strategies.
"It's never been more challenging to be a financial advisor. There's so much to learn and so much to do for clients," says NAPFA's national conference 2012 Web page, in explanation of why the fee-only planners group has extended its national conference to three and a half days from just three days last year in Salt Lake City.
Scheduled for a keynote address Thursday afternoon is Tom Nally, TD Ameritrade Institutional's new president. TDAI is the national sponsor for the 2012 conference. Nally is on tap to tell NAPFA conference goers what the firm has in store for advisors and what trends he expects to see driving the advisory business.
The program agenda includes breakout sessions such as "Income Taxation of Trusts" with Martha Ferrari and Bernard Kiely; a succession planning panel moderated by Alan Moore; and "529 College Planning: Position Your Clients' Portfolios for Future Tax Hikes…Now," sponsored by BlackRock/iShares.
Nearly 100 exhibitors have signed up for the conference, including American Funds, the CFP Board of Standards, Charles Schwab Advisor Services, Morningstar, Northern Trust FlexShares ETFs, Scottrade Advisor Services and the Social Security Administration.
For those who can't attend the event, 2012 NAPFA National can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/NAPFA.
Read about NAPFA's practice management and investments conference last October at AdvisorOne.


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A High Court judge has ruled that a seven-year-old boy can receive radiotherapy for a cancerous brain tumour against the wishes of his mother - whose judgment, he said, had "gone awry".
Mr Justice Bodey dismissed Sally Roberts' attempt to prevent radiotherapy treatment being given to her son, Neon - and expressed concern over her decision-making regarding the child's welfare.
Ms Roberts, who had earlier failed in a similar legal bid to prevent surgeons performing a follow-up operation on Neon, said she feared that radiotherapy would cause long-term harm.
Mr Justice Bodey, who had been told by doctors that Neon could die within months without radiotherapy treatment, said he sympathised with the "nightmare" confronting Ms Roberts. But he said he was worried that she had not grasped the seriousness of Neon's situation.
"The mother has been through a terrible time. This sort of thing is every parent's nightmare and I have sympathy for her," said the judge, following a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London. "But I am worried that her judgment has gone awry on the question of the seriousness of the threat which Neon faces."
He said the operation Ms Roberts had opposed was life-saving and added: "I have become concerned about the mother's attitude to Neon's welfare generally."
The judge ruled that radiotherapy sessions could start and said Neon should live with his father, Ben - who is separated from Ms Roberts - for the duration of his treatment. And he said that, in future, doctors would need only Mr Roberts' consent when making decisions about Neon's cancer treatment.
He said it was important that doctors were not hampered by a "stalemate" if parents took differing views.
Ms Roberts, 37, a New Zealander who lives in Brighton, East Sussex, said after the hearing that she was "not allowed" to comment.
Mr Roberts, who lives in London and had consented to radiotherapy treatment, was said to be "relieved".


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Murder victim was aspiring rapper
Body of Gandy Kaydea found in cemetery
A homicide victim whose burning body was found in a Cranston cemetery last week was an aspiring rapper followed by thousands of people on Twitter and YouTube.
Gandy Kaydea, 22, of Providence, was known as "Young Shad." His burning body was found in the Pocasset Cemetery last Wednesday night.
Cranston police are still investigating his death and haven't made any arrests. They say the killing was possibly gang-related.
Teny Gross helped teach Kaydea at the Institute for the Study and Practice of Non Violence in Providence. Gross told WLNE-TV that Kaydea was turning his life around and had one more test to take to get his GED.
Kaydea was the father of an 8-month-old girl.
His song, "Providence Girls," has been listened to on YouTube more than 2,500 times.


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Make Your Unwanted Gifts Count This Christmas
24 Dec, 2012, 11:17 GMT
HALESOWEN, England, December 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
With the festive period now in full swing, Christmas is a time for giving and West Midlands based CASH-CLOTHES is giving you the opportunity to turn your unwanted Christmas clothes, shoes, bags, CDs and DVDs into cash, while simultaneously providing much needed support to those less fortunate in the developing world.
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EPA ready to return to recovery act-funded South Minneapolis arsenic site; meeting March 31, 6 P.M.
Release Date: 03/24/2010
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(CHICAGO – March 24, 2010) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today that it will return to its cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at nearly 500 South Minneapolis homes as soon as the ground thaws—most likely in a few weeks. This project is supported by $20 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Residents pay nothing for the cleanup, which would not have started as quickly without the economic stimulus funding.
Residents can talk to EPA representatives, health officials and contractors at an open-house style spring kickoff meeting on Wednesday, March 31, 6 to 8 p.m., at the Matthews Recreation Center, 2318 29th Ave., S.
This phase of cleanup at the site began in September 2009. During the fall season, 40 of 485 property cleanups were completed. Work at the remaining properties is projected to take two full construction seasons, wrapping up in late 2011. Residents may see construction vehicles and workers in required protective equipment in residential areas around South Minneapolis. Progress reports and photos will be posted online.
The South Minneapolis site is one of 50 Superfund National Priorities List sites benefiting from $600 million in Recovery Act funding announced in April 2009. It encompasses a number of neighborhoods near the intersection of 28th Street and Hiawatha Avenue where the CMC Heartland Lite Yard was located from about 1938 to 1968. A pesticide containing arsenic was produced there and material from an open-air railcar-unloading and product-mixing operation is believed to have been wind-blown into nearby neighborhoods.
From 2004 to 2008, an EPA Superfund team cleaned up 197 properties with arsenic levels above 95 parts per million, or ppm, at the site. The 2009 to 2011 work targets properties with lower levels of contamination, from 25 to 94 ppm. EPA is working in consultation with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minnesota Department of Health and the city of Minneapolis.
EPA representatives will meet with individual residents before work begins on their yards. Following each yard cleanup, EPA will take soil samples to confirm that only trace levels of arsenic remain. Once the contaminated soil is removed, EPA will fill in the yards with clean soil and restore any landscaping disturbed.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Feb. 17, 2009, and has directed the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at www.Recovery.gov.
The federal Superfund program was created in 1980 to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites that pose unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. Superfund sites are often found in industrial areas hardest hit by the recession. Superfund cleanups are major construction projects that employ thousands of workers nationwide.
For more information on the South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination Superfund Site, see https://www.epa.gov/region5/sites/cmcheartland.
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Daily Slice: Russell House Tavern, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A different slice profiled each day.
Daily Slice gives a quick snapshot each weekday of a different slice or pie that the folks at the Serious Eats empire have enjoyed lately.
Boston certainly has a bar pie culture, so it makes sense that Russell House Tavern, a place that focuses on "modern interpretations of American classics" and keeping it local, would have a fancied-up version. When I saw the pies billed as "Tavern Pizza" I assumed it was an eponymous listing. With toppings like figs, house made ricotta, and beef tongue—toppings I would never associate with a workingman's pie—I was totally thrown when the ultra-thin pies arrived.
A good pizza taxonomist would identify and classify the cracker-like crusts right away: bar pie. A little bamboozled, it wasn't until midway in that the lights went on. The Andria ($13), building from the crust up with a puree of garlic (mellowed out by a honey-like sweetness), buratta, sliced black mission figs, and sprinkled with crumbled fried sage, was such an intriguing marriage of flavors that a good study of the crust fell secondary to dissecting the components on top. The sweet garlic base maintained a slight pungency, but not so much that it overpowered the dried fruit notes of the heat-blasted figs or the milky mozzarella.
It wasn't until tasting the House Made Cotechino Sausage ($13) that the crust became easier to focus on. That's not to say that the flavor profile was any less attention grabbing, but the thin, spicy "tomato gravy" (a more interesting way of saying sauce), ricotta, and crumbled sausage are simply a more familiar combination. While nicely browned on bottom, the crusts didn't get dried out or overly cracker-y. Charred portions along the edges lent the dough a little more flavor, though it's primary purpose seems more geared towards transporting flavor. It wasn't the best crust in its class for want of pliancy, but it served its purpose as a good base for quality ingredients.
Russell House Tavern
14 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (map) 617-500-3055; russellhousecambridge.com
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Mark Webber seized pole position for the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday with Red Bull team-mate and quadruple World Champion Sebastian Vettel making a rare error and having to settle for second best.
The pole, with Webber approaching the end of his Formula One career this month, was the Australian's 13th in 12 years and second in three races.
"Mark did a very good lap so congratulations to him," said Vettel, who is chasing his seventh win in a row after wrapping up a fourth successive title with victory from pole in India last weekend.
"I should have done a little bit better, but I don't know if it would have been enough. He did a great job, no mistakes," added the German, whose team also secured their fourth constructors' crown in a row in India.
"We lost it in turn one, sorry guys," the 26-year-old had said over the team radio.
Mercedes filled the second row at the Yas Marina circuit, with Germany's Nico Rosberg qualifying third and Britain's 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton fourth despite spinning off on his final lap.
Only Vettel and Hamilton, when he was with McLaren, had previously qualified on pole in the four races to date in the Emirate.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, currently second overall and fighting to lift his team ahead of Mercedes and back to second in the constructors' championship, had a miserable evening and will start 11th.
It was the first time this season the Spaniard has failed to qualify in the top 10 but it came as no surprise after Ferrari appeared to be struggling in practice.
Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa, who is leaving the team at the end of the year, qualified one place ahead of the double champion.
"All weekend we haven't been so quick and in qualifying we were not so fast," Alonso told reporters. "Also my laps were not so clean and I lost a couple of tenths. Maybe it is better to start in this position tomorrow."
Kimi Raikkonen, who is third overall and 24 points behind Alonso, qualified fifth for Lotus in a race he had contemplated not coming to only days earlier.
The Ferrari-bound Finn, who told reporters on Friday that he had not been paid all season and could yet walk out of the final two races in Austin, Texas, and Brazil, will have Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg alongside.
Raikkonen's team mate Romain Grosjean qualified a disappointing seventh.
Di Resta qualifies 12th, Sutil fades to 18th
Sahara Force India endured a very competitive qualifying session for Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Paul di Resta will start the race from 12th place while Adrian Sutil was way back in 18th position on the grid.
Sutil's fastest lap of 1:42.051 could not took him beyond Q1 as he was among the first six who were eliminated.
Force India, which took six points from the Indian Grand Prix to extend their lead to 23 over Sauber have reasons to worry as Nico Hukenberg has qualified sixth, his second-best of the season.
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BRAVO MEDIA GLEEKS OUT AS THE CAST AND CO-CREATOR OF "GLEE" UNITE ON THE "INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO" STAGE PREMIERING ON MONDAY, APRIL 9th AT 8PM ET/PT
Host James Lipton Welcomes Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith And Ryan Murphy
NEW YORK - March 29, 2012 - It is time for fans to unleash their inner gleek as Bravo Media welcomes the cast and creator of the hit television series, "Glee," to the "Inside the Actors Studio" stage, premiering on Monday, April 9th at 8pm et/pt. Currently in its 18th season, host James Lipton is joined by cast members Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Chris Colfer, Cory Monteith and co-creator Ryan Murphy. From Chris Colfer's never-before-seen audition tape to Lea Michele's first big break on Broadway to Cory Monteith's troubled past, no stone is left unturned as they give viewers an inside look into their fascinating careers and reveal behind-the-scene stories from the set of the hit series. For a sneak peek go to: http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/season-18/videos/glee-tough-guy-in-designer-clothes and to read host James Lipton's exclusive blog about the episode visit: http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/season-18/blogs/james-lipton/just-get-me-there
- "It was my first foray into dance." - Matthew Morrison admitting he was in a gang that got together to breakdance.
- "I was a target, but I was popular and that's because on the sly, I was dating a lot of the football players." - "Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy on his popularity status in high school.
- "She may or may not have posed for Penthouse, but she definitely takes horse estrogen." - "Glee" co-creator Ian Brennan's character description of Sue Sylvester
- "I used to pose for the sonograms."-Chris Colfer on how he has wanted to be an actor since he was an embryo.
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