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By Pankaj Jethwani, president of the Rotaract Club of the Caduceus, Mumbai, India. The club's project, Vision Six by Six, was selected as the 2013 Rotaract Outstanding Project Awards international winner.
In June of last year, I was interacting with a group of kids at a school health camp in Dharavi. There, among uninterested and bored kids, I met Payal. She was bright, talkative, and a lot of fun! But I was surprised with her teacher's feedback: Payal hated studying.
A quick vision test revealed she had myopia in both eyes. After organizing eye camps in low-resource schools in the area, we learned that 15 out of every 100 of the kids we tested couldn't see clearly.
Children with undiagnosed vision problems often aren't aware that this isn't normal, and thus don't complain of the symptoms. At a young age they can develop an aversion to attending school. The motivation behind our Rotaract club's project, "Vision Six by Six," was that this aversion could be prevented.
Since its inception, the program has provided primary eye care to over 10,000 low-income schoolchildren. The intervention is inexpensive (US$1.50 per child including treatment) and we have observed that 92 percent of the children adhere to the recommended treatment.
In this amazing journey, we did a few things right, but also made a lot of mistakes!
Skilled manpower wasn't the program's limiting factor, since our Rotaract club includes 135 doctors and medical students. The challenge was funding. But our club members worked together through crowd-funding to raise over $15,500 from more than 1,000 donors via a stand-up comedy fundraiser.
We defined our goals when we started and collected relevant data at each camp. At every step, we communicated impact to our funders and team. This kept our team motivated, and supporters happy to help again. A lot of great initiatives don't share the amazing work they're doing – we found that sharing our story always helped!
In retrospect, we would save so much time if we engaged the right partners sooner. Don't spend time doing things someone else does better. At first, we struggled with school outreach and permissions. Then, we began partnering with NGOs already working with local schools. This helped us focus on program delivery rather than initial outreach.
Finally, we learned that you don't have to solve all of mankind's problems. Whenever we were tempted to do more than what our program permitted, our quality suffered. It is important to define your program well, and not let your scope creep. Keep it simple!
- Read more about this year's Rotaract Outstanding Project Awards winners
- Hear more from Jethwani and other Rotaract award winners during a video chat on Thursday, 11 April, at 09:30 CDT.

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National Education Association Vice President Lily Eskelsen today urged hundreds of Hispanic business, community and political leaders to continue working together to deliver on the promise of great public schools for every student. Eskelsen delivered the opening luncheon address at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Public Policy Conference, an annual event that brings together leaders to address issues affecting the Hispanic community.
"I say it as someone who loves this country for the opportunity it has provided to millions of people from all corners of the world," said NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen. "And I say it as someone who is committed to making sure that the door of opportunity stays open. That's why NEA's vision is a great public school for every child-no matter what zip code they live in, how much money their parents have, or what language they speak."
Eskelsen is one of the highest ranking labor leaders in the United States and one of its most influential Hispanic educators. Recounting her experience, she said, "I started my career working in a public school lunchroom. A week ago, I became the vice president of the largest professional organization in the United States."
Hispanics are changing the composition of cities and states from coast-to-coast and influencing all segments of American life. They have become the largest minority group in the U.S. and that growth is reflected in America's public schools. About 20 percent of public school students-10 million children-are Hispanics. Half of these children are English Language Learners.
"But for many of these children, language is not the only barrier to learning," said Eskelsen. "They also struggle in school because of cultural differences and poverty. We can't keep that door open without public education."
Drawing a contrast with the current debate in education and elsewhere regarding the growing number of English Language Learners, she said, "instead of punishing these students because of their background and culture, we must help them make the most of their opportunities. Instead of pointing a finger at those who are struggling, we must lend a helping hand."
Eskelsen outlined the Association's unprecedented initiative to help educators who teach English Language Learners. The effort encompasses developing a specific curriculum and the appropriate pedagogy to help these students learn and thrive in a 21st century world. She also called for strengthening public education by providing quality pre K programs, reducing school dropout rates, and expanding the teaching profession to include more great Hispanic teachers in America's classrooms.
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For those of you with Indoor Cats
Now that the warm weather has come to the northern hemisphere, it is important for those indoor cat people to understand a few truisms that many would like to deny:
a) Mosquito-borne Parasites, Diseases & Viruses: parasites such as heartworm, viruses such as West Nile and diseases such as Horse Encephalitis all affect cats, and may be transmitted by bite. If a cat is on the 20th floor of a NY apartment, or the ground floor of a house, it may be exposed. Use a preventive at any time mosquitoes are prevalent.
b) Parasites 2: Fleas, Ticks, Mites, Worms: Immature fleas can go through the finest of window-screens, and often do. Fleas may be on the pet in the next apartment, on mice, rats, squirrels in the yard, and on your ankles from walking the streets. There are four different ticks carrying diseases dangerous to cats (and people). Immature specimens may be smaller than a grain of salt, and attach to you then to your cat, and also get through some window screens. They may remain dormant for almost 2 years as well. Mites may be carried by birds as well as other sources, as above. Ear-mites are most often transmitted from mother cats to kittens, and can also remain dormant for long periods. Worms and their eggs may be in droppings, and transmitted to your pet via your feet. All of the above parasites are active at any time the temperatures exceed 45F. Use a preventive all year round to be safe.
c) Rabies: There is a school-of-thought that "My cat does not go out - I do not need rabies vaccination". In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, if any pet-animal that could carry rabies bites a human being under any circumstances, *including abuse*, and cannot be shown to be immunized against rabies, that animal may be destroyed and its brain tested for rabies. Many other states have similar laws. NOTE: This would also apply should your dog bite a home-intruder while defending its family. Draw your own conclusions.
d) Other immunizations: Bluntly, people and other pets are vectors for a number of feline disease such that common sense (which isn't) suggests that pretty much every cat should be immunized against common diseases by a responsible owner.
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"The health and safety of Ohioans remain our top concern, and we must take every precaution to protect our citizens," said BWC Administrator/CEO Stephanie McCloud.
The Medical & Health Symposium will not be rescheduled for a later date in 2020 due to the size and scope of the event. Please mark your calendar now for next year's event, April 9 - 10, 2021. The event will take place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio.
On March 12, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton, M.D., MPH, signed a COVID-19 order to prohibit mass gatherings in the state of Ohio. This order took effect immediately and will remain until the state of emergency Executive Order 2020-01D declared by the Governor has been rescinded or modified.
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Pork producers could be on the verge of turning profits after suffering several months of losses caused by drought-decimated feed resources, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt said.
Widespread struggles began in the spring of 2012 and have continued into this winter. But with feed prices reaching their peak last summer, Hurt said there is now light at the end of the tunnel.
"Feed prices reached a summit in the third quarter of 2012 with the peak of the drought," he said. "Estimated total hog production costs shot up $10 per live hundredweight, reaching an estimated $72. Costs last fall and this winter dropped about $4 per hundredweight and are expected to moderate an additional $8 with normal 2013 crop production.
"By next fall, that could put estimated costs of production around $60 per hundredweight."
Reduced beef supplies and strong pork export markets also are expected to drive higher hog prices. Live hog prices averaged about $62 per hundredweight in 2012 but are expected to hit $66 for 2013.
Hurt said that while prices will increase to an average of about $63 per hundredweight in the first quarter of this year, $71 in the second quarter and $69 in the third quarter, producers will continue to suffer losses until spring.
"For the immediate future, losses will continue in the first quarter of 2013 and are expected to average about $15 per head," he said. "The return to profitability is expected to come in late-April or early May when the spring hog price rally is under way and as meal prices edge lower with the South American soybean harvest.
"Profits are projected at about $10 per head for the second and third quarters before returning to break-even in the fall of 2013 and winter of 2014."
Even with profitability on the horizon, Hurt said producers need to be cautious about expanding their herds. Extreme drought in the western Corn Belt and Great Plains continues to threaten feed supplies and profitability because poor 2013 crops in those states could cause corn and soybean prices to hit record highs.
If the drought were to subside and crop production return to normal, he said feed prices would drop and pork profitability would climb.
"Most pork producers realize that the level of feed prices are both the biggest threat to those anticipated profits and the greatest opportunity for extraordinary profitability over the next two years," Hurt said.
Hurt's full comments can be found in his article, "Pork Profits on the Horizon" at http://www.farmdoc.illinois.edu/marketing/weekly/html/010713.html.


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Using the engineering approach of synthetic biology, Chris Anderson has set out to program bacteria to selectively kill cancer cells. He is combining DNA sequences from different types of bacteria and inserting them into the bacterium E. coli to create an organism that can evade the immune system, home in on tumors, and trick cancer cells into letting it inside, where it releases a toxin.
Anderson has built and tested all the biological parts for the cancer-killing bug and is now working on putting them together. "All of these things exist as little genetic programs," he says. He also expects to be able to engineer bacteria for other medical purposes, because "everything is designed in a modular way, so the parts can be used for a totally different application that shares some of the same problems." For example, the genetic parts he has developed could be used to deliver medicine to an HIV-infected immune cell.
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the very last day of this two-month-old grassroots
movement occupation of the Puerta del Sol square.
But as the sign says, "we are not going away,
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The reason the political system has become so dysfunctional is that it is based on representative democracy (or RepDem, for short) invented in the 18th century. While there is little doubt that it has served the West well for two centuries, it is no longer fit for the 21st century. Much of the gridlock in the US political system can be ascribed to the Americans' absurd adherence to the principles edicted in the Constitution by aristocratic gentlemen farmers wearing breeches and wigs. Direct Democracy (DirDem for short) was not practical when England, France, and even more so the United States, were large countries with big populations scattered all over the land. How could you summon all of your country's voters in your capital to vote on a policy or a leader? So we had to settle for a proxy: smaller and more manageable constituencies would vote for a congressman/Member of Parliament/deputy and send him (then there was no "her") to the capital (Washington, London, Paris) to represent our interests. Except that two centuries on, as the current crisis shows all too clearly, that "representative" represents other interests and when those conflict with the voters' it is clear to all whose interests prevail.
Look at Obama, about to become a brilliant failure. He is a politician who came to power through a grass-roots movement. On Inauguration Day he announced (and signed) the closing of Guantanamo Bay camp, a blot on America's conscience, where hundreds of men have been kept in jail for a decade without any due process of law, no trial, let alone any conviction, a complete violation of the lofty principles those bewigged 18th-century gentlemen bequeathed to the nation. Also, Obama supporters expected tougher regulation and sanctions on those who, through their greed, fraud and incompetence, provoked the crisis. On the foreign-policy front, Obama promised a new dawn for the Middle East by promoting democracy and putting pressure on Israel to pull out from occupied Palestinian lands.
And what did we get? Zilch. Guantanamo is still shamefully open for its ghastly business; the Middle East peace process has resulted in neither peace nor a meaningful process, Obama caves in to the pro-Israeli lobby; Bahrain has instituted a reign of terror against its Shiite majority to America's silent acquiescence; and as for bringing the bankers to account for their (mis)deeds and reforming the system that produced the crisis from which the US is still reeling, two words summarize the situation: full impunity. In case you think I am exaggerating just read this report on the financial crisis by nobody else than the U.S. Senate or the one published by Stanford University. Both show unequivocally that the financial crisis was largely criminal and yet none of the perpetrators has been made to pay for their crimes. Could it be that after the "military-industrial complex" of Eisenhower's days we have now entered the age of the "political-financial complex"?
Today outrage spread to the cradle of Western democracy with thousands of Greeks battling police in Athens while protesting against those who put them in that situation: the rent-seeking and maximizing elite. The Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou's offer to form a national unity government with the Conservative opposition is not going to change much since it is exactly the same situation I alluded to earlier: Party A or Party B will not change anything. They have both been in power and turned a blind eye, when they didn't actively encourage, the behavior that led to the current mayhem. In Barcelona, Spain's second city, what Gore Vidal would call the ruling class has resorted to tactics which we associate more with the Arab dictatorships in Libya and Syria than a Western pseudo-democracy: planting plainclothes police as violent elements in an otherwise peaceful demonstration of the Outraged Citizens, in order to sabotage and delegitimize the movement. You can watch the video on YouTube (comments in Catalan.)
So, enough of describing the disease which we are all aware of. What can be done? The RepDem political system has shown its limitations and is increasingly losing its legitimacy as people lose faith in it. Citizens are no longer willing to elect a politician and then give them carte blanche for four or five years since that will just entrench them and their moneyed sponsors. What is needed is to move to a DirDem system.
If, as I said earlier, in the 18th century it already was not feasible to gather all voters in one place, in the 21st century it is even less so. But is it? Maybe physically, but what about virtually? Technology, which has become so pervasive through every nook and cranny of society, can help bring people together in ways unthought of before ― in many countries now you can fill your income-tax return, and pay your taxes, online. If internet is good enough for my taxes, why can't it be used to get my opinion as a citizen and my vote? Why can't I vote directly on proposed laws? a privilege hitherto reserved for an elite that has done such a dreadful job of it. Any citizen should be able to suggest an initiative or law through a Facebook-like tool where its pros and cons could be discussed by the electorate at large (your user name would be your unique national identifier such as Social Security number, with maybe some biometric identification to prevent voters from selling their votes.) Such discussion of the proposed laws through comments would enlighten and enrich the political process and at the end of this debating process (akin to a political campaign) all interested voters could cast their vote online and, if a majority supports the initiative it becomes law. No more need for parliament or congress, half of which (the upper chambers) were completely useless anyway as they just served to provide cushy jobs for the well-heeled (case of the Senates in many countries such as France and Spain; in the case of the British House of Lords it is just indefensible that almost 100 members of this body are there just because they inherited the seat from some distant ancestor.) As for the other half (for example, the Chamber of Deputies in France) they often tend to just rubber-stamp whatever decisions the executive branch has decided on.
With technology we can get rid of the political middleman who served only his interests or powerful interest groups and lobbies, rarely the average citizen. This disintermediation process which has radically changed many businesses (brick-and-mortal travel agencies and bookstores are on their way out as people buy directly from producers such as publishers and airlines) can be applied to politics as well. With the legislative branch technologized out of existence and the people finally regaining what has been until now a nominal sovereignty, we can shift our attention to another class of politicians: those in the executive branch of government, whose function will be maintained since somebody will have to implement laws and administer policies.
Bringing executive-branch politicians to heel is even more important since elected parliaments have anyway always be supine and deferring to the unelected administration of the day. One typical example in this pseudo-democracy that France is can be seen through the use of décrets d'application whereby a law, although voted on by the people's "representatives," cannot be enforced until the government has decreed so. As an HR person I have always been shocked that the law voted on by the elected French Parliament in 2006 on anonymous CV's is still not enforceable (and therefore not adopted by companies) because the unelected government has yet to give it its stamp of approval And you call this a democracy?
The same technology used to bypass lawmakers can be used to keep executive-branch politicians and officials in check. For one thing, not only presidents and prime ministers (I'd call them "Chief Executive") could be elected directly online but also any citizen would be free to run for office (with, of course, some conditions such as the number of certified friends they would have on Facebook to make the process manageable.) Why should politics be reserved to professional politicians? I don't remember who said that "the business of politics should be everybody's business" but they were damn right, and a public social media allows just that. For efficiency reasons, the members of a cabinet or administration would still be chosen by the Chief Executive but confirmed by the people (the way the US Senate confirms ambassadors and other officials) after hopefully vigorous online hearings. This should help weed out incompetence, nepotism and dishonesty, because, and this would be a marked departure with RepDem practice, at any moment citizens would be able to recall any official, starting from the Chief Executive down. That carte blanche given for several years to politicians to do as they please would thus be a thing of the past.
By the same token, every policy (war, taxes, budget etc.) will start with an online discussion and end with a formal vote where citizens sign off on it ― or not! By the way, if you think this is a novel approach, a little historical perspective is in order. In Republican Rome, during Cicero's time, decisions by the Senate were then read out on the Field of Mars to gathered citizens who would then vote them up or down. If it worked for ancient Romans, why can't it work for us int he 21st century?
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Finally, technology is only an enabler as I have discussed in so many of my posts, articles, presentations and speaking engagements (mainly in the business arena.) There are also other cultural symbolic measures that can be taken to keep politicians and public officials on their toes and remind them that they are supposed to serve the people, and not the other way round. To go back to ancient Rome, when a general was granted a triumph after a big victory, he would parade through Rome in full glory but there was a slave standing next to him and whispering repeatedly in his ear, "Remember you are mortal." Our politicians need a similar type of reminder: You are here to serve the people.
I have always been flabbergasted by the total lack of accountability of politicians in our pseudo-democracies. When you give instructions to your cleaning lady, you can pretty much expect her to carry them out as well as show some respect to you. Same thing with your employees at work. Why? For a simple reason: you are the one who have hired them, you are the one describing their duties, paying them a salary and if you are not happy with them you can always fire them. That's why you usually tend to get from them what you need. But not with politicians. You are the one hiring them, because you vote them into office; you give them their job description, by choosing their political program over their adversaries' (I almost wrote partners in crime); you pay their salaries through your taxes; and you can fire them when you vote them out of office. And yet politicians behave as if they were the boss and you the employee, or the servant.
I would therefore suggest some symbolic changes to remind politicians who the real boss is and that the word public servant should mean what it means. One way would be to have direct access to them ―say, one day a week. Every public official from the Chief Executive down to a small-town mayor, should set aside a day a week where any citizen can come and talk to them. Since obviously it would not be feasible to see all citizens, the lucky visitors could be selected on a first-come, first-served basis or, after signing up online, be selected at random. Then, during the meeting, the citizen could ask any question they want, have access to any document (why did you pick this supplier? what was this expense for?) and film with their smartphone the whole proceedings to be posted then on YouTube for the whole electorate to view, post comments on and, if they feel like it, initiate a recall procedure.
I can already see my detractors shouting down my proposals on the grounds that they would lead to chaos, demagoguery and populism. If you ask people whether they want their taxes raised, you can be sure they would vote it down. Ask them if they want welfare spending to be raised and you can expect them to click yes enthusiastically. How could you then ever be able to balance a budget? True, DirDem could lead to some messy outcome, but then many governments have been running deficits for years (the French government has NOT presented a balanced budget for over 30 years!) DirDem can't be worse. And then, I am pretty sure that most people would rather live with a mess of their own than one imposed on them by self-serving politicians and greedy bankers.
Other critics might point out that in Europe many legislative and executive functions have moved one level up to the European Union institutions. My proposals are even more valid since most people, not less national politicians (who see the mote in somebody else's eye) have always decried "Europe's" democratic deficit. For issues that are a country's responsibilities (for instance taxes or labor relations) only national voters would participate in the Facebook-like voting system. For issues that are dealt with at European level (including the appointment of European commissioners) all European voters would participate. And as for the European Parliament it will join the national ones in the graveyard of history.
This is the longest blog post I have ever written, and I doubt I will soon be able to match its length. But then the stakes described here are higher than any other I have tackled in my one-year-old blog. My sincerest hope is that it would generate a lot of positive debate to fix what has become an untenable system. I still have confidence in my fellow humans and believe that many of my ideas make sense and, if implemented, could solve many of the current issues in our 21st-century polity.
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call2arms wrote:Meh... I COULD have free boarding (outdoors) for a horse, if I had one, and with 2 dogs and 1 cat, I don't even think I could afford it. SIGH.
One day. By then I'll probably be too old and broken by lifting danes on x-ray tables to ride, but hey...
Well, if you ever get a wild hair and come to Oregon you can come ride with me!!!
Also - if you're that broken by the time you get one you could always get a mini and brush it and braid it's mane and have it pull you around in your wheelchair! I've always said if I couldn't afford a full size horse I'd get a mini just to still be able to have one .


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Lunch for One: Yuba
The focus of the menu at the recently opened Yuba in the East Village is, as you would expect, yuba—best known as tofu skin or beancurd sheet. Prices are high at dinner, but a $16 lunch prix fixe makes it a more affordable lunch option. (However, none of the options on the prix fixe feature yuba, which might defeat the purpose of visiting the restaurant in the first place.)
You're better off composing lunch from a few small dishes. Start with the Yuba and Mushrooms ($12), a warm dish of fried and braised yuba, the many individual layers of tofu skin pressed together to form what might be more familiar to others as "mock" duck or chicken primarily featured in Asian vegetarian dishes. A tangle of sliced shitake and enoki mushrooms are layered above with a thin, soy-based sauce to tie it all together. My only regret was not ordering a side of hot white rice, the ideal starch to pair with this dish. Follow with a selection of rolls, including one of miso-tofu, avocado and a little spoonful of creamy yuba ($10) on top of each piece. The combination of that trio makes for pure luxury, each bite borderline buttery in texture. We'll be back to try more dishes—I've got my eye on foie gras and duck in steamed buns, and sweet corn with shiso tempura. Desserts are from Lady M (including their signature mille crepe in green tea), and service is courteous, if slow at times.
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Rocky wrote:Thanks Fiona ans Sylvia. I asked her. 111 candles (no significance to the number, it just happened to be that many), flowers, champagne, she came in the door from work, I said my piece, got down on one knee and asked her to marry me. It was scary.
Classy, man. Well done. Congrats!
Of course, now you've set the bar for anniversaries pretty high for the future. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, eh?


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In the previous post of our twelve-part blog series on the Top 10 Technology Trends for advisors and their partners, we discussed how advisors can take advantage of the benefits of social media, and how to avoid its dangers. The ninth trend we will discuss in this post is crowdsourcing.
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or a community (crowd) through an open call. While the outsourcing trend discussed earlier typically consists of hiring an individual or firm to perform a task, crowdsourcing is accomplished by a group of people helping you accomplish your task.
Crowdsourcing really grew out of the technical arena. With the advent of chat rooms, IT people would post their technology challenges online and other tech experts would answer questions, thus providing value to the entire group. To see an example of this, take a look at the results of this Google search on "Windows 7 error message opening Word documents." There are 66 million results, many of them chat rooms or forums in which experts share ideas on how to solve specific problem.
There are a number of examples of companies that have built businesses based on crowdsourcing. For example, iStockphoto.com allows amateur and professional photographers, illustrators,and videographers to upload their work and earn royalties when their images are bought and downloaded. Threadless.com lets online members submit T-shirt designs and vote on which ones should be produced. 99designs.com is a crowdsourcing marketplace where individuals and small businesses can post graphic work that they need done. Amazon has created a crowdsourcing marketplace called Mechanical Turk where anyone can get work accomplished by posting tasks to the marketplace.
For the financial industry, a simple example of crowdsourcing is coming up with a logo for a new advisory firm. In the past, if you wanted to start your own practice, you may have hired a marketing firm and paid them several thousand dollars to create a firm name that captured the essence of who you are and what you're trying to achieve. With crowdsourcing, you can create a competition, where many users compete to provide you with a logo and you offer a prize for the winning entrant. Another good example would be naming your new firm. With crowdsourcing, you might share your challenge in an online forum (e.g., a private LinkedIn group) and group members will share their ideas with you, free of charge.
The bottom line for advisors is that for many tasks and projects where it was previously difficult to find the right resource or prohibitively expensive to hire someone, those same tasks can now be done affordably and efficiently through crowdsourcing. As client expectations increase and advisors need to get more work done, crowdsourcing may be the right solution for your firm to get tasks accomplished quickly and cost effectively.
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Tough judge: Caravati court known for harsh sentencing
Former Mayor Blake Caravati made his first appearance in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court on Friday, September 16, but details of the incident that led to his being charged with spousal assault on September 9 may remain cloaked until trial.
After waiting quietly in the courtroom for nearly an hour for a tardy Judge Dwight Johnson to arrive, the 60-year-old commercial contractor and prominent local Democrat, dressed in a sportcoat and slacks, was among the first called to the bench, where Charlottesville Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Elizabeth Killeen announced that, due to a conflict in her office, Greene County prosecutor Ronald Morris will handle the state's case.
If questions linger about the details of Caravati's alleged crime, his potential punishment also remains a question, and anyone familiar with Johnson's judicial record might ask– hyperbolically, one hopes– if Caravati could be the second mayor hanged for a crime against his wife.
As longtime readers of the Hook may recall, 107 years ago, Mayor Samuel McCue was hanged for the bludgeoning, strangling, and shooting death of his wife, Fannie. While Caravati isn't accused of anything so extreme– he's facing a single misdemeanor charge for assaulting his spouse– Judge Johnson once issued a sentence in another high-profile matter that shocked even the prosecution.
That was the case of Albemarle County resident Elisa Robinson, whom Johnson sentenced to eight years in prison for providing alcohol at her son's 16th birthday sleepover. At the time, those who knew Robinson– who has since divorced and changed her name to Elisa Kelly– described her as a devoted soccer mom who simply made an error in judgment.
In addition to the eight-year sentences for both Kelly and then husband George Robinson (both later reduced on appeal), the pair were perp-walked out of the courtroom in front of waiting media– adding further humiliation that, some suggested, Johnson orchestrated to deter other alcohol providers.
In the present case, however, even if Johnson, a conservative Christian, wants to throw the book at Caravati, he appears limited by statute, which sets the maximum possible sentence at 12 months behind bars and a $2,500 fine.
Even that, however, would be extreme for a first offense, says legal analyst David Heilberg, who points out that the state explicitly offers first-time offenders in violence against a family member an alternative to standard punishment: anger management classes or other counseling and a two-year probation, after which the charges may be dismissed.
Heilberg says he doubts Johnson would single anyone out for harsher punishment unless there were some aggravating fact.
"He has these cases all the time, and he's pretty consistent," says Heilberg. "If the Commonwealth agrees, and it's a first-time offender, he usually offers a deferral."
If Caravati's worried about Johnson's sentencing history, he's not saying. He remained in the courtroom for at least 30 minutes following the hearing, forcing some reporters on deadline to leave without questioning him. His attorney, Sheila Haughey, however, suggests the media should just ignore the case.
The Caravati family, "has obviously hit a rough patch," says Haughey. "Let's leave them alone."
The trial is scheduled for Friday, October 21, in the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.Read more on: Blake Caravati
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Ms. Haughey, Mr. Caravati chose to be in the public's vision.
Perhaps he should have thought about that when he first ran for public office.
Good on the hook for pointing out how harsh Judge Johnson can be!
God forbid one of Charlottesville's leading citizens be punished harshly. That should only be reserved for the rest of us.
If The Hook won't stick up for the powerful and politically connected in this town, who will?
Why is the Hook talking about hanging, 8 years in prison, and 12 months in prison? The scurrilous rabble-rouser who wrote this article must be a female. The Hook has a fetish about alleged crimes involving females - and the Hook believes they are obviously guilty unless proven innocent. What trash you publish!
Hanging? WTF is wrong with you people? You're comparing this to someone giving alcohol to a minor? Have you lost your mind Stuart?
what's the big deal if Caravati beat up his wife a little? The hook is right. Domestic abuse isn't a big deal and should be punished as lightly as possible. If Judge Johnson , a conservative christian, punishes this crime harshly, there is clearly something wrong with the Judge!
There's different degrees of domestic abuse in determining if it's a big deal or not. Pushing a wife aside is indeed not a big deal. But punching her out or pushing her down a flight a stairs is a big deal. I'm sure Judge Johnson will decide fairly whether this particular case was a big deal or not. And I doubt Judge Johnson will penalize Caravati moreso simply because he is a public figure. :)
Heilberg has pretty accurately predicted the outcome of this case.... "anger management classes or other counseling and a two-year probation, after which the charges may be dismissed."
GSOE, you do a disservice to victims of domestic abuse everywhere when you attempt to categorize this behavior or that as "not a big deal." Plenty of spouses are "pushed aside" quite regularly, and that kind of behavior is a form of abuse, as well. Some spouses experience abuse that never reaches the physical, but is just as intimidating and fear-engendering. Victims of domestic violence receive so many messages like this, telling them to shrug off such behavior, calling it "nothing." It's gaslighting at best, and at worst, prelude to a tragedy.
The Shelter For Help in Emergency, among other organizations in town, is available for people in domestic crisis, and has a 24-hour hotline. (434) 293-8509.
Gasbag, dont be pushin no woman!
The link to the article: "Caravati gets unpredictable judge"
The actual article: "He has these cases all the time, and he's pretty consistent"
The title of the article: "Tough judge: Caravati court known for harsh sentencing"
The actual article:"he usually offers a deferral."
The hook is now in Glenn Beck territory. "The President is a racist." One moment later, "I'm not saying 'The President is a racist'".
Does Courteney Stuart actually read the words she writes in her article? Is she at all responsible for the completely misleading link text and article title? Do the words in her own article mean anything at all? Is it amateur hour over at the hook or what?
I have found Johnson and other judges to be extremely soft on domestic violence. The person gets sent to anger management which is a prescribed class which uses a workbook and has prescribed questions. It is usally run by someone who is not even a licensed therapist. Even their website says the individual may continue to abuse during the class. There is no counseling involved, i.e . a slap on the wrist at most. This gives a clear message to victims that no one, including the court will protect them or thinks it is a big deal.
Unpredictable judge? Sounds like Mr. Caravati may well be an unpredictable person............
Of course, the females and girlymen have already convicted this guy. What do you know of the facts? Nothing. Nothing at all. For all you know she might have abused him, and he suffered it for the sake of his 30 year marriage to her. This is fantasy also, just like your false visions of of presumed guilt, and justice. All of you females (and girlymen) should be ashamed of yourselves.
bintherdunthat learned a new word, girlymen. And the wonder is he, or she, aint ashamed to use it!
Just another big Cville ego that got out of hand? She didn't do what HE wanted, so he tried to "influence" her with his fists? Facts will be revealed for all in court.
As my aunt used to say, "no one knows what really goes on behind closed doors" and "there are always two sides to every story."
Woman allows teenage boys to drink some beer at a sleepover, no one is killed or injured, victimless crime, she gets sentenced to 12 years in jail. Man beats up his wife, is likely to get sentenced by the very same judge to an anger management course and no time in jail. Something seriously wrong with this picture. The mother should have been required to take an alcohol safety course and maybe pay a fine. The wife-beater should serve hard time. Talk about a messed-up situation.


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06 Nov, 2012, 08:00 GMT
-- Unique Powerpac APU system successfully bridges existing fuel infrastructure with hydrogen economy of the future
LONDON, Nov. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the fuel cell for auxiliary power unit market, Frost & Sullivan recognises PowerCell Sweden AB with the 2012 European Technology Innovation Award for its pioneering Powerpac auxiliary power unit (APU) technology.
"PowerCell's Powerpac APU system successfully bridges the existing fuel infrastructure, dominated by petroleum-based fuels, and the much awaited hydrogen economy of the future," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Avimanyu Basu. "The system which innovatively combines a fuel reformer and a fuel cell stack effectively addresses one of the major challenges in the trucking industry – idling."
The technology is sufficiently matured to be commercialised. It also meets various environmental regulations and overcomes limitations related to the existing APUs such as noise pollution and reliability. Thus, the all-round solution provided by PowerCell meets every aspect of an ideal APU system.
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"Whereas most of the fuel cell developers are concentrating on implementing fuel cells to energise the main drivetrain in automobiles, PowerCell is focusing on using fuel cells to achieve optimum performance with respect to improved fuel efficiency in the overall running of the vehicle," remarks Basu.
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Applications and libraries/Hardware verification
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- David J. King and John O'Donnell's digital circuit simulator
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Traditional African masks facts for kids
Traditional African masks are one of the elements of great African art that have most evidently influenced Europe and Western art in general; in the 20th century, artistic movements such as cubism, fauvism and expressionism have often taken inspiration from the vast and diverse heritage of African masks. Influences of this heritage can also be found in other traditions such as South- and Central American masked Carnival parades.
Ritual and ceremonial masks are an essential feature of the traditional culture of the peoples of a part of Sub-Saharan Africa, e.g. roughly between the Sahara and the Kalahari Desert. While the specific implications associated with ritual masks widely vary in different cultures, some traits are common to most African cultures. For instance, masks usually have a spiritual and religious meaning and they are used in ritual dances and social and religious events, and a special status is attributed to the artists that create masks to those that wear them in ceremonies. In most cases, mask-making is an art that is passed on from father to son, along with the knowledge of the symbolic meanings conveyed by these masks. African masks come in all different colours, such as red, black, orange, and brown.
In most traditional African cultures, the person who wears a ritual mask conceptually loses his or her human life and turns into the spirit represented by the mask itself. This transformation of the mask wearer into a spirit usually relies on other practices, such as specific types of music and dance, or ritual costumes that contribute to the shedding of the mask-wearer's human identity. The mask wearer thus becomes a sort of medium that allows for a dialogue between the community and the spirits (usually those of the dead or nature-related spirits). Masked dances are a part of most traditional African ceremonies related to weddings, funerals, initiation rites, and so on. Some of the most complex rituals that have been studied by scholars are found in Nigerian cultures such as those of the Yoruba and Edo peoples, rituals that bear some resemblance to the Western notion of theatre.
Since every mask has a specific spiritual meaning, most traditions comprise several different traditional masks. The traditional religion of the Dogon people of Mali, for example, comprises three main cults (the Awa or cult of the dead, the Bini or cult of the communication with the spirits, and the Lebe or cult of nature); each of these has its pantheon of spirits, corresponding to 78 different types of masks overall. It is often the case that the artistic quality and complexity of a mask reflects the relative importance of the portrayed spirit in the systems of beliefs of a particular people; for example, simpler masks such as the kple kple of the Baoulé people of Côte d'Ivoire (essentially a circle with minimal eyes, mouth and horns) are associated with minor spirits.
Subject and style
African masks are usually shaped after a human face or some animal's muzzle, albeit rendered in a sometimes highly abstract form. The inherent lack of realism in African masks (and African art in general) is justified by the fact that most African cultures clearly distinguish the essence of a subject from its looks, the former, rather than the latter, being the actual subject of artistic representation. An extreme example is given by nwantantay masks of the Bwa people (Burkina Faso) that represent the flying spirits of the forest; since these spirits are deemed to be invisible, the corresponding masks are shaped after abstract, purely geometrical forms.
Stylish elements in a mask's looks are codified by the tradition and may either identify a specific community or convey specific meanings. For example, both the Bwa and the Buna people of Burkina Faso have hawk masks, with the shape of the beak identifying a mask as either Bwa or Buna. In both cases, the hawk's wings are decorated with geometric patterns that have moral meanings; saw-shaped lines represent the hard path followed by ancestors, while chequered patterns represent the interaction of opposites (male-female, night-day, and so on).
Traits representing moral values are found in many cultures. Masks from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast, for example, have their eyes half closed, symbolizing a peaceful attitude, self-control, and patience. In Sierra Leone and elsewhere, small eyes and mouth represent humility, and a wide, protruding forehead represents wisdom. In Gabon, large chins and mouths represent authority and strength. The Grebo of the Ivory Coast carve masks with round eyes to represent alertness and anger, with the straight nose representing an unwillingness to retreat.
Animals are common subjects in African masks. Animal masks might actually represent the spirit of animals, so that the mask-wearer becomes a medium to speak to animals themselves (e.g. to ask wild beasts to stay away from the village); in many cases, nevertheless, an animal is also (sometimes mainly) a symbol of specific virtues. Common animal subjects include the buffalo (usually representing strength, as in the Baoulé culture), crocodile, hawk, hyena, warthog and antelope. Antelopes have a fundamental role in many cultures of the Mali area (for example in Dogon and Bambara culture) as representatives of agriculture. Dogon antelope masks are highly abstract, with a general rectangular shape and many horns (a representation of abundant harvest. Bambara antelope masks (called chiwara) have long horns representing the thriving growth of millet, legs (representing roots), long ears (representing the songs sung by the working women at harvest time), and a saw-shaped line that represents the path followed by the Sun between solstices. A 12th/13th century mural from Old Dongola, the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria, depicts dancing masks decorated with cowrie shells imitating some animal with long snouts and big ears.
A common variation on the animal-mask theme is the composition of several distinct animal traits in a single mask, sometimes along with human traits. Merging distinct animal traits together is sometimes a means to represent unusual, exceptional virtue or high status. For example, the Poro secret societies of the Senufo people of the Ivory Coast have masks that celebrate the exceptional power of the society by merging three different "danger" symbols: antelope horns, crocodile teeth, and warthog fangs. Another well-known example is that of kifwebe masks of the Songye people (Congo basin), that mix the stripes of a zebra (or okapi), the teeth of a crocodile, the eyes of a chameleon, the mouth of an aardvark, the crest of a rooster, the feathers of an owl and more.
Feminine beauty
Another common subject of African masks is a woman's face, usually based on a specific culture's ideal of feminine beauty. Female masks of the Punu people of Gabon, for example, have long curved eyelashes, almond-shaped eyes, thin chin, and traditional ornaments on their cheeks, as all these are considered good-looking traits. Feminine masks of the Baga people have ornamental scars and breasts. In many cases, wearing masks that represent feminine beauty is strictly reserved to men.
One of the well-known representations of female beauty is the Idia mask of Benin. It is believed to have been commissioned by King Esigie of Benin in memory of his mother. To honor his dead mother, the king wore the mask on his hip during special ceremonies.
Ancestor masks (masks of the dead)
As the veneration of defunct ancestors is a fundamental element of most African traditional cultures, it is not surprising that the dead is also a common subject for masks. Masks referring to dead ancestors are most often shaped after a human skull. A well-known example is the mwana pwo (literally, "young woman") of the Chokwe people (Angola), that mixes elements referring to feminine beauty (well-proportioned oval face, small nose and chin) and other referring to death (sunken eye sockets, cracked skin, and tears); it represents a female ancestor who died young, venerated in rites such as circumcision rites and ceremonies associated to the renewal of life.
A special class of ancestor masks are those related to notable, historical or legendary people. The mwaash ambooy mask of the Kuba people (DR Congo), for example, represents the legendary founder of the Kuba Kingdom, Woot, while the mgady amwaash mask represents his wife Mweel.
Materials and structure
The most commonly used material for masks is wood, although a wide variety of other elements can be used, including light stone such as steatite, metals such as copper or bronze, different types of fabric, pottery, and more. Some masks are painted (for example using ochre or other natural colorants). A wide array of ornamental items can be applied to the mask surface; examples include animal hair, horns, or teeth, sea shells, seeds, straw, egg shell, and feathers. Animal hair or straw are often used for a mask's hair or beard.
The general structure of a mask varies depending on the way it is intended to be worn. The most common type applies to the wearer's face, like most Western (e.g., carnival) masks. Others are worn like hats on the top of the wearer's head; examples include those of the Ekhoi people of Nigeria and Bwa people of Burkina Faso, as well as the famous chiwara masks of the Bambara people. Some masks (for example those of the Sande society of Liberia and the Mende people of Sierra Leone, that are made from hollow tree stumps) are worn like helmets covering both the head and face. Some African cultures have mask-like ornaments that are worn on the chest rather than the head of face; this includes those used by the Makonde people of East Africa in ndimu ceremonies.
Commercially-produced masks
As African masks are largely appreciated by Europeans, they are widely commercialized and sold in most tourist-oriented markets and shops in Africa (as well as "ethnic" shops in the Western World). As a consequence, the traditional art of mask-making has gradually ceased to be a privileged, status-related practice, and mass production of masks has become widespread. While, in most cases, commercial masks are (more or less faithful) reproductions of traditional masks, this connection is weakening over time, as the logics of mass-production make it harder to identify the actual geographical and cultural origins of the masks found in such venues as curio shops and tourist markets. For example, the Okahandja market in Namibia mostly sells masks that are produced in Zimbabwe (as they are cheaper and more easily available than local masks), and, in turn, Zimbabwean mask-makers reproduce masks from virtually everywhere in Africa rather than from their own local heritage.


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A Norwegian gunman disguised as a police officer beckoned his victims closer before shooting them one by one, claiming at least 91 lives, in a horrific killing spree on an idyllic island teeming with youths that has left this peaceful Nordic nation in mourning.
The island tragedy Friday unfolded hours after a massive explosion ripped through a high-rise building housing the prime minister's office, killing seven people in a scene some likened to the aftermath of 9/11.
The same man - a blonde-blue eyed Norwegian with reported Christian fundamentalist, anti-Muslim views - is suspected in both attacks. He has been preliminarily charged with acts of terrorism.
On the island of Utoya, panicked teens attending a Labour Party youth wing summer camp plunged into the water or played dead to avoid the assailant in the assault that may have lasted 30 minutes before a SWAT team arrived, police said.
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said the twin attacks made Friday peacetime Norway's deadliest day.
"This is beyond comprehension. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare for those who have been killed, for their mothers and fathers, family and friends," Mr Stoltenberg told reporters. He said he would meet victims later in the day on Utoya.
The toll in both attacks reached 91, and police said that could still rise as they search the waters around the island for more bodies. Acting Police Chief Roger Andresen said he did not how many people were still missing. The Oslo University hospital said it has so far received 11 wounded from the bombing and 16 people from the camp shooting.
The carnage began on Friday afternoon in Oslo, when a bomb rocked the heart of Norway. About two hours later, the shootings began at a retreat for ruling Labour Party's youth-wing, according to a police official. The gunman used both automatic weapons and handguns, he said. It was not clear whether experts had succeeded in disarming a bomb that the official said had been left unexploded.
The blast in Oslo, Norway's capital and the city where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, left a square covered in twisted metal, shattered glass and documents expelled from surrounding buildings.
The dust-clogged scene after the blast reminded one visitor from New York of September 11. People were "just covered in rubble," walking through "a fog of debris," said Ian Dutton, who was in a nearby hotel.
While survivors evacuated the buildings, including ones that house other government offices and Norway's leading newspaper, word came that someone had opened fire on an island about 20 miles north west of Oslo.
Mr Stoltenberg told reporters that he had spent many summers on Utoya - "my childhood paradise that yesterday was transformed into hell".
A SWAT team that had been put on alert after the bombing was dispatched to the island once the shooting began. Police official Johan Fredriksen said that means they may have taken 30 minutes to reach the island.
Survivors described a scene there of terror. Several people fled into the water to escape the rampage, and police said they were still searching the lake for bodies.
A 15-year-old camper named Elise who was on Utoya said she heard gunshots, but then saw a police officer and thought she was safe. Then he started shooting people right before her eyes.
"I saw many dead people," said Elise, whose father, Vidar Myhre, didn't want her to disclose her last name. "He first shot people on the island. Afterward he started shooting people in the water."
Elise said she hid behind the same rock that the killer was standing on. "I could hear his breathing from the top of the rock," she said.
She said it was impossible to say how many minutes passed while she was waiting for him to stop.
At a hotel in the village of Sundvollen, where survivors of the shooting were taken, 21-year-old Dana Berzingi wore trousers stained with blood. He said the fake police officer ordered people to come closer, then pulled weapons and ammunition from a bag and started shooting.
Several victims "had pretended they were dead to survive," Mr Berzingi said. But after shooting the victims with one gun, the gunman shot them again in the head with a shotgun, he said.
"I lost several friends," said Mr Berzingi, who used the mobile phone of one of those friends to call police.
Police arrested only one suspect and have said he is linked to both the shootings and the Oslo explosion.
Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight.
NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian. Faiq Barzingi, whose children survived the massacre, said his kids have identified the photo in media as the gunman.
Police said they were still searching the suspect's Oslo apartment today. Officers were keeping a close watch outside while technicians worked inside. About a dozen people, including journalists and neighbours, were hovering outside, but were not allowed to get close to the building.
Mr Andresen, the acting police chief, said the suspect was talking to police.
"He is clear on the point that he wants to explain himself," he told reporters at a news conference.
An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the attack "is probably more Norway's Oklahoma City than it is Norway's World Trade Centre." Domestic terrorists carried out the 1995 attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, while foreign terrorists were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Though the prime minister cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the gunman's motives, both attacks were in areas connected to the left-leaning Labour Party, which leads a coalition government. The youth camp, about 20 miles north west of Oslo, is organised by the party's youth wing, and the prime minister had been scheduled to speak there Saturday.
Mr Sponheim said a man was arrested in the shooting, and the suspect had been observed in Oslo before the explosion there. But he refused to confirm the suspect's identity as reported by Norwegian media.
Mr Sponheim said the camp shooter "wore a sweater with a police sign on it. I can confirm that he wasn't a police employee and never has been".
Aerial images broadcast by Norway's TV2 showed members of a SWAT team dressed in black arriving at the island in boats and running up the dock. People who had stripped down to their underwear moved in the opposite direction, swimming away from the island toward the mainland, some using flotation devices.
The United States, European Union, Nato and the UK, all quickly condemned the bombing, which Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague called "horrific" and Nato Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen deemed a "heinous act".
"It's a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring," US President Barack Obama said.
Mr Obama extended his condolences to Norway's people and offered US assistance with the investigation. He said he remembered how warmly Norwegians treated him in Oslo when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
A US counterterrorism official said the United States knew of no links to terrorist groups and early indications were the attack was domestic.


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The same factor that put the Fukushima power plants at risk—proximity to the ocean—ensured that a sizable fraction of the radioactivity liberated from the plants ended up in the Pacific. That helped ensure that the contamination was diluted back to safe levels rapidly, although radioactive isotopes were detectable in fish caught near the plants. But fish don't sit still, and a new study has also detected low levels of radioactivity from Fukushima in tuna that were caught off the coast of California.
The study takes advantage of the fact that there is an isotope of cesium, 134Cs, that is both short lived and only produced through nuclear processes, making it an excellent tracer of contamination from Fukushima. A second isotope, 137Cs, is present at very low levels due to historic nuclear tests thanks to its longer half-life. These can be contrasted with 40K, a potassium isotope that is naturally present throughout the world's oceans.
The cesium isotopes were detected in sea life near Japan and that gave researchers good reason to look into the tuna population elsewhere. The bluefin tuna of the northern Pacific breed along its western shores, including near Japan. Immature fish stay in that area for a year or two before migrating across the Pacific to mature near California. Thus, younger fish caught near California had a good chance of having been near Fukushima when the reactors melted down.
By selecting for young tuna caught near California, the authors were able to identify a population that had picked up radioactive cesium from Fukushima. At the time of the sampling in August 2011 (about a half-year after meltdown), the average for 134Cs was four decays/second in each kilogram of muscle. Elevated levels of 137Cs were detectable as well. Tuna that wouldn't have been present near Fukushima during the accident, as expected, had no (134) and low (137) levels of these isotopes.
Extrapolating things back to the time of contamination, the authors compensated for radioactive decay and the rapid growth of the fish to get an estimate of where things stood when the fish were near Japan. Their numbers, while between two and 15 times higher than the levels registered in US waters, were consistent with actual measurements taken in Japan. That helps support the contention that these fish were carrying radioactive isotopes across the Pacific.
The levels were well below safety limits set by Japan, and the radioactivity caused by the cesium was about 30 times below that caused naturally by radioactive potassium. So, the tuna don't present a health threat to anyone involved.
The authors suggest there are two lessons here. The first is that, although it's reasonable to focus attention on Fukushima and its surroundings, the presence of migratory species in that area means that we can't limit our attention exclusively to those areas. And the second is that Fukushima has provided, "an unexpected tool for examining migratory origins of apex predators in the Pacific Ocean."
PNAS, 2012. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1204859109 (About DOIs).


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Kate Middleton — or the Duchess of Cambridge, if you want to be correct about it — gave her first public speech ever at a children's hospital in Ipswich. This is mostly a big deal because it was the first one, but also because she was anxious. As she told one guest, "I find doing speeches nerve-wracking." See, it's just like that movie The King's Speech, except she's a duchess and the stakes were significantly lower.
According to the Guardian, Kate "delivered her maiden speech calmly and with no ad-libs."
Referring to her absent husband, who is in the Falklands with the RAF search and rescue force, she said: "I am only sorry that William can't be here today; he would love it here."
Yes, but what was she wearing? So glad you asked. As always, plenty of attention was paid to the Duchess' impeccable fashion sense. For this event she donned a £139 blue dress from Reiss and a black belt. But wait — eagle-eyed Middleton fans will note that Kate's mother Carole was photographed wearing the same dress in 2010. It's only a matter of time before we see the Duchess and her mum in E! Online's "Bitch Stole My Look!" gallery.


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