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Rosetta Media factsheet
Rosetta is the first mission designed to orbit and land on a comet. It consists of an orbiter, carrying 11 science experiments, and a lander, called 'Philae', carrying 10 additional instruments, for the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted.
Rosetta gets its name from the famous Rosetta stone that led to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics almost 200 years ago. Similarly, scientists hope that Rosetta will unlock the mysteries of how the Solar System evolved.
Rosetta's launch was originally scheduled for January 2003 on an Ariane-5 rocket. Rosetta's target at that time was Comet 46P/Wirtanen, with the encounter planned for 2011. However, following the failure of the first Ariane ECA rocket, in December 2002, ESA and Arianespace took the joint decision not to launch Rosetta during its January 2003 launch window. This meant that Rosetta's intended mission to Comet 46P/Wirtanen had to be abandoned.
In May 2003, a new target comet and launch date for Rosetta were selected: the spacecraft was launched in March 2004 and will meet its new target, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in 2014.
ESA's comet-chaser will be the first to undertake a lengthy exploration of a comet at close quarters. After entering orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, Rosetta will release its Philae small lander onto the icy nucleus.
Rosetta will orbit the comet for about a year as they head towards the Sun. Once they have passed perihelion (closest distance to the Sun), Rosetta will keep orbiting the comet for another half year, while the comet moves back out towards the orbit of Jupiter.
As the most primitive objects in the Solar System, comets carry essential information about our origins. Their chemical compositions have not changed much since their formation, therefore reflecting that of the Solar System when it was very young and still 'unfinished', more than 4600 million years ago. By orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and landing on it, Rosetta will allow us to reconstruct the history of our own neighbourhood in space.
Rosetta will also help to discover whether comets contributed to the beginnings of life on Earth. Comets are carriers of complex organic molecules, delivered to Earth through impacts, and perhaps played a role in the origin of life. Moreover, volatile light elements carried by comets may also have played an important role in forming Earth's oceans and atmosphere.
During its long journey, Rosetta was scheduled to have two close encounters with asteroids of the main asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The first was with (2867) Steins, a rare E-type asteroid. The flyby started on 4 August 2008 with optical navigation of the asteroid itself – a technique never before used in ESA spacecraft operations. The closest approach was on 5 September 2008, 18:58:19 UTC, when (2867) Steins was 2.14 AU from the Sun and 2.41 AU from Earth. The encounter occurred with a relative velocity of 8.62 km/s and reached a minimum distance of 802.6 km. The flyby took place on the Sun side of the asteroid in the plane defined by the relative velocity and the Sun direction. The flyby strategy allowed continuous observations of the asteroid before, during and after closest approach as well as passing through phase angle zero. To keep the asteroid in the field of view of the scientific instruments during the closest approach phase, the spacecraft had to target with an accuracy of better than 2 km and to perform an attitude flip manoeuvre lasting 20 minutes, after which autonomous tracking of the asteroid started.
On 10 July 2010 Rosetta had its second asteroid close encounter, this time with (21) Lutetia, a large asteroid (dimensions: 126 km x 103 km x 95 km – about 10 times bigger than Steins). The flyby was a spectacular success with Rosetta performing faultlessly, passing the asteroid at 15 km/s. The spacecraft had its closest approach at 15:44:57 UTC, at a distance of 3162 km. The cameras and other instruments had been working for hours and in some cases days before and after closest approach providing important new insights about the nature of this heavily cratered asteroid that has suffered many impacts during its 4.5 billion years of existence.
The total cost of the mission is 1.4 billion Euro of which the total Philae costs are 220 Million Euro. This includes the launch, the spacecraft, the science payload (instruments and lander) and mission and science operations.
Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 by an Ariane-5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Mission timeline
|2 March 2004
|1st Earth swingby:
|4 March 2005
|(distance from Earth: 1955 km)
|Mars swingby:
|25 February 2007
|(distance from Mars: 250 km)
|2nd Earth swingby:
|13 November 2007
|(distance from Earth: 5301 km)
|Steins flyby:
|5 September 2008
|(distance from Steins: 802.6 km)
|3rd Earth swingby:
|13 November 2009
|(distance from Earth: 2480 km)
|Lutetia flyby:
|10 July 2010
|(distance from Lutetia: 3162 km)
|Enter deep space hibernation:
|8 June 2011
|Exit deep space hibernation:
|20 January 2014
|Comet rendezvous manoeuvres:
|May - August 2014
|(distance from comet: 600,000–100,000km)
|Arrival at comet:
|6 August 2014
|Philae lander delivery:
|November 2014
|(distance from comet: 3 km)
|Comet escort phase:
|From Dec 2014
|End of mission:
|December 2015
Planned mission lifetime
Rosetta's mission will last for almost 12 years – until December 2015.
Rosetta resembles a large black box. The scientific instruments are mounted on the top of the box (the payload support module), while the subsystems are on the 'base' (bus support module). On one side of the orbiter is the steerable 2.2 m-diameter communications dish, while the lander is attached to the opposite face. Two enormous solar wings extend from the other sides. Both panels can be rotated through ±180° to catch the maximum amount of sunlight.
Approximately 3000 kg (fully fuelled) including 1670 kg propellant, 165 kg scientific payload for the orbiter, and the lander weighs about 100 kg.
The main spacecraft is 2.8 x 2.1 x 2.0 m, on which all subsystems and payload equipment are mounted. Two 14 m-long solar panels with a total area of 64 m2 provide electrical power.
Industrial involvement
Prime contractor was Astrium GmbH, Friedrichshafen, Germany, the leader of an industrial team involving more than 50 contractors from 14 European countries and the United States. Canada also participated in the construction of ESA's first 35 m-diameter Deep Space Antenna in Australia, which was built for Rosetta. Throughout Europe, about 1000 people were involved in the development of Rosetta.
What's on board?
Rosetta orbiter
The orbiter's scientific payload includes 11 experiments, in addition to the lander. Scientific consortia from institutes across Europe and the United States provided these state-of-the-art instruments.
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer - ALICE will analyse gases in the coma and tail and measure the comet's production rates of water and carbon monoxide and dioxide. It will provide information on the surface composition of the nucleus.
Principal Investigator: Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment - CONSERT will probe the comet's interior by studying radio waves reflected and scattered by the nucleus.
Principal Investigator: Wlodek Kofman, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Cometary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser - COSIMA will analyse the characteristics of dust grains emitted by the comet, such as their composition and whether they are organic or inorganic. Principal Investigator: Martin Hilchenbach, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator – GIADA will measure the number, mass, momentum and velocity distribution of dust grains coming from the cometary nucleus and other directions (deflected by solar radiation pressure).
Principal Investigator: Alessandra Rotundi, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope", Naples, Italy.
Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System - MIDAS will study the dust around the comet. It will provide information on particle population, size, volume and shape.
Principal Investigator: Mark Bentley, Institut für Weltraumforschung, Graz, Austria.
Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter - MIRO will determine the abundances of major gases, the surface outgassing rate and the nucleus subsurface temperature.
Principal Investigator: Samuel Gulkis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.
Optical, Spectrocopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System - OSIRIS has a wide-angle camera and narrow-angle camera that can obtain high-resolution images of the comet's nucleus. Principal Investigator: Holger Sierks, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis - ROSINA will determine the composition of the comet's atmosphere and ionosphere, the velocities of electrified gas particles and reactions in which they take part.
Principal Investigator: Kathrin Altwegg, Universität Bern, Switzerland.
Rosetta Plasma Consortium - RPC will measure the physical properties of the nucleus, examine the structure of the inner coma, monitor cometary activity, and study the comet's interaction with the solar wind.
Principal Investigators: Hans Nilsson, Institutet för rymdfysik, Kiruna, Sweden; James Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA; Anders Eriksson, Institutet för rymdfysik, Uppsala, Sweden; Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany; Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, Orléans, France ; Christopher Carr, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Radio Science Investigation - RSI will, by using shifts in the spacecraft's radio signals, measure the mass, density and gravity of the nucleus, define the comet's orbit, and study the inner coma.
Principal Investigator: Martin Pätzold, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany.
Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer - VIRTIS will map and study the nature of the solids and the temperature on the surface. It will also identify comet gases, characterise the physical conditions of the coma and help to identify the best landing sites.
Principal Investigator: Fabrizio Capaccioni, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Rome, Italy.
Philae lander
The lander's structure consists of a baseplate, an instrument platform and a polygonal sandwich construction, all made of carbon fibre. Some of the instruments and subsystems are beneath a hood covered by solar cells. An antenna transmits data from the surface to Earth via the orbiter. The lander carries nine experiments, with a total mass of about 21 kg. A drill will sample the subsurface material.
Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer - APXS. Lowered to within 4 cm of the ground, APXS will detect alpha particles and X-rays to gather information on the elemental composition of the comet's surface.
Principal Investigator: Göstar Klingelhöfer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany.
Rosetta Lander Imaging System- ÇIVA/ROLIS is a CCD camera that will obtain high-resolution images during descent and stereo panoramic images of areas sampled by other instruments. Six identical micro-cameras will take panoramic pictures of the surface. A spectrometer will study the composition, texture and albedo (reflectivity) of samples collected from the surface.
Principal Investigators: Jean-Pierre Bibring, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France; Stefano Mottola, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Berlin, Germany.
Comet Nucleus Sounding - CONSERT will probe the internal structure of the nucleus. Radio waves from CONSERT will travel through the nucleus and will be returned by a transponder on the lander.
Principal Investigator: Wlodek Kofman, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Cometary Sampling and Composition experiment - COSAC is one of two 'evolved gas analysers'. It will detect and identify complex organic molecules from their elemental and molecular composition. Principal Investigator: Fred Goesmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany.
Evolved Gas Analyser - MODULUS PTOLEMY is another evolved gas analyser that will obtain accurate measurements of isotopic ratios of light elements.
Principal Investigator: Ian Wright, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Multi-Purpose Sensor for Surface and Subsurface Science - Mupus will use sensors on the lander's anchor, probe and exterior to measure the density, thermal and mechanical properties of the surface.
Principal Investigator: Tilman Spohn, Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Berlin, Germany.
Rosetta Lander Magnetometer and Plasma Monitor - Romap is a magnetometer and plasma monitor that will study the local magnetic field and the interaction between the comet and the solar wind.
Principal Investigators: Hans-Ulrich Auster, Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany; István Apáthy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary.
Sample and Distribution Device - SD2 will drill more than 20 cm into the surface, collect samples and deliver them to different ovens or for microscope inspection.
Principal Investigator: Amalia Ercoli-Finzi, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Surface Electrical, Seismic and Acoustic Monitoring Experimens - SESAME's three instruments will measure properties of the comet's outer layers. The Cometary Acoustic Sounding Surface Experiment will measure the way sound travels through the surface. The Permittivity Probe will investigate its electrical characteristics, and the Dust Impact Monitor will measure dust falling back to the surface.
Principal Investigators: Klaus Seidensticker, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Cologne, Germany; István Apáthy, KFKI, Budapest, Hungary.
Mission Operations Centre: European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany.
Prime Ground Station: ESA Deep Space Antenna in New Norcia, near Perth, Australia.
Rosetta Science Operations Centre: European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in Villafranca, Spain.
Lander Control Centre: DLR, Cologne, Germany.
Lander Science Centre: CNES, Toulouse, France.
ESA Mission Manager: Fred Jansen
ESA Project Scientist: Matt Taylor
ESA Spacecraft Operations Manager: Andrea Accomazzo
More information about ESA's Rosetta mission at: www.esa.int/rosetta
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Bald Eagle Nest With Eggs Spotted in Cape Cod for First Time Since 1905
That nest is part of a dramatic uptick in the number of active nests, with more than 70 spotted this spring, according to a post on the Mass Wildlife website, as CNN reported. While spotting active nests is not rare, one with eggs is. Also, for the first time, there is a documented case of eagles nesting on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
The 1905 nest with eggs was in the town of Sandwich.
On its website, Mass Wildlife said the population of bald eagles is soaring this season. The birds are currently in the middle of their nesting season, according to CBS News.
The return of bald eagles is a testament to the strength of the Endangered Species Act, since the birds have recovered from the brink of extinction. Bald eagles recently improved from threatened to special concern on the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act list thanks to successful conservation measures. Mass Wildlife embarked on an eagle reintroduction program in the 1980s that has led to an uptick in the population of bald eagles in the New England area, as CNN reported.
A bald eagle that hatched in Massachusetts holds the record for the oldest bald eagle in New Hampshire. The eagle, which was photographed in New Hampshire this spring, was identified by banding records as a 23-year-old male that hatched in Ware, Massachusetts, in 1997, according to WCVB, Boston's ABC News affiliate.
While bald eagles are no longer on the endangered species list, they are still protected under multiple federal laws, including the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
However, their new found strength could spell trouble for other birds.
In one example, Mass Wildlife said, "[a]n eagle pair took over an osprey nest and were incubating eggs when the ospreys returned from their wintering grounds. The osprey pair that most likely built the nest harassed the incubating eagle who would flip upside down with its talons in the air in defense. Eventually the eagle cracked the eggs doing this, and this historic nesting attempt failed."
In another example, "[t]wo other eagle nests on the mainland have also failed as a result of an intruding eagle invading the territory and killing the chicks in the nest."
"Although difficult for observers to witness, these events are all signs of a thriving eagle population in Massachusetts," MassWildlife said, as CBS News reported. "On the upside, more and more people across the Commonwealth are experiencing the thrill of seeing eagles in their own neighborhoods as these birds continue to expand their range to urban and suburban landscapes."
Bald eagles build the largest nests of any bird in North America. Mating pairs build their nests in winter months and then return to them every year to add to the nest.
The species holds the record for the largest nest ever recorded, with a nest spotted near St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1963 that measured nine feet, six inches wide and 20 feet deep, and was estimated to weigh more than 4,400 pounds, according to Newsweek.
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By Heather Houser
Compost. Fly less. Reduce your meat consumption. Say no to plastic. These imperatives are familiar ones in the repertoire of individual actions to reduce a person's environmental impact. Don't have kids, or maybe just one. This climate action appears less frequently in that repertoire, but it's gaining currency as climate catastrophes mount. One study has shown that the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from having one fewer child in the United States is 20 times higher—yes 2000% greater—than the impact of lifestyle changes like those listed above.
The Stickiness of Population
Only five years ago, there was minimal coverage of the child-free for climate movement. AOC is just one of many reasons it's lighting up now. New scientific analyses, scholarly debates, and social media conversations have shined a light on reproduction and climate. The influential Project Drawdown framework for climate mitigation includes a list of solutions ranked by their potential impact, two of which—educating girls and providing access to family planning—they project will have a greater combined impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions than almost all other climate solutions because of their effect on fertility rates.

In January 2020, 11,000 scientists signed onto a study that warned about the unfolding climate emergency. The authors prescribe steps in six sectors that can prevent irreversible planetary collapse, including that "the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity." The framework they propose includes universal access to family planning as well as education and equity for young women. (Other scientific takes on population-based climate actions are more skeptical about their immediate impact given the scale of fertility reductions needed to balance out longer lifespans.)

Even before 2020, a new movement was afoot to address climate by forgoing reproduction. Blythe Pepino, a British musician in her 30s, formed BirthStrike in 2018 to build a community of people—typically women-identified—who have opted not to reproduce in response to the ecological and social crises that climate change is creating. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer, the group recognized the need to acknowledge the oppression that colors conversations about reproduction as it relates to climate and so reformed itself into a support group for those grieving parenthood. Their new stated goal is to channel that loss into action on climate justice.

Organizations such as Conceivable Future, however, continue to keep reproduction at the fore. Led by climate activists Meghan Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, Conceivable Future is raising awareness about how the climate crisis affects "intimate choices" like reproduction. The Conceivable Future and now-defunct BirthStrike campaigns share ideological terrain with "population engineers," a group of bioethicists who forward policies for limiting the size of the global population through positive incentives like family planning classes and negative ones such as taxes on wealthy procreators.

In proposing specific policies rather than individual action, population engineers acknowledge the structures within which reproductive choices occur, everything from media influence to the tax code. Even with this shift to the structural, however, the racist, sexist, colonialist, and nativist legacies of the population question within environmentalism still plague child-free for climate. As do the historical and social injustices that constrain so-called choices.

Racism and Xenophobia in Environmentalism
This summer and fall, the climate crisis and its correlated catastrophes—extreme heat, flooding, wildfires—are intensifying alongside Black Lives Matter uprisings and the coronavirus health disparities among Black, Indigenous, and Latinx populations. This confluence has brought overdue attention to racism in environmentalism, as evidenced by the Audubon Society's recent reckoning with racial injustices in its past and present, including publicizing that its famed founder was a White supremacist and a slaveholder. The intersections of climate justice and racial justice have also come to the fore through studies of how Black communities are greatly harmed by hotter temperatures and through the popular intersectional environmentalist platform created by Leah Thomas, a young Black activist and "eco-communicator." To these reckonings we need to add the racism and xenophobia that have long characterized environmentally motivated population controls.

The New York Times recently exposed these sins in a profile of Cordelia Scaife May, showing how this heir to the Mellon fortune converted a love of birding into a network of anti-immigration, pro-population-control organizations that still influence politics today. In the 1960s May linked threatened birdlife to the rapidly expanding human population. May wasn't wrong to see and worry over this link: A host of human activities—from toxic agriculture and industry to sprawling settlements and light and noise pollution—decimate avian habitats and habits. May's anti-immigration approach, however, indicates how readily environmentalism can mutate into racist and xenophobic actions.

The Times investigators show that "protecting natural habitats and helping women prevent unplanned pregnancies merged over time into a single goal of preserving the environment by discouraging offspring altogether." Taken on its own, this goal resonates with Conceivable Future's and population engineers' aims. To be clear, this does not mean that today's child-free climate advocates are racist nativists. However, it does indicate how readily the affiliation arises because of the ugly history of forced population control.

Contemporary Examples
And this history is hardly past. For example, race and class conflicts erupted around a population platform within the Sierra Club only 15 years ago. In 2004, a faction of club members took a page from May and argued that more people living in the U.S. meant more encroachment on less developed land and water. As with May's effort, this anti-immigration push amounted to "the greening of hate," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League, who entered the dispute when they found White supremacists lobbying for anti-immigration Sierra Club board candidates. A 2010 SPLC report firms up the connection between environmentalist intentions and racist agendas by explaining why White nationalist John Tanton infiltrated the club: "Using an organization perceived by the public as part of the liberal left would insulate nativists from charges of racism—charges that … would likely otherwise stick."

Charges of racism ultimately did stick to Tanton and his anti-immigration, pro-population-control allies. And they continue to stick in analyses of the child-free for climate movement today. Earlier this year, climate journalist Meehan Crist took up AOC's question of whether it's OK to have a child. In arriving at an answer (for her, yes), she affiliates child-free positions with "anti-feminist, racist and anti-human" values and with bad science. "Darker visions" proceed from this analysis, she writes, visions of those who believe "racial purity will save the planet. Closed borders. . . . Ecofascist death squads." The dark visions Crist spins from the child-free for climate question underscore how readily calls for reproductive limits touch the third rails of modern environmentalism: racism, eugenics, xenophobia, even death-dealing.

We get even closer to these third rails when we consider that the question of whether to reproduce is, for some people, no choice at all. Modern efforts to limit fertility, which ramped up after World War II, have targeted poor women in the Global South, and Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the U.S. using coercion and force. BIPOC reproductive justice advocates such as Loretta Ross have condemned dichotomous pro-abortion-rights versus anti-abortion politics for producing "anemic political analyses" that ignore the reality of forced sterilizations in prisons and the appallingly high maternal mortality rate for Black women in the U.S. These are all forms of what medical historian and ethicist Harriet Washington calls "medical apartheid."

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At this time of year, in Russia's far north Laptev Sea, the sun hovers near the horizon during the day, generating little warmth, as the region heads towards months of polar night. By late September or early October, the sea's shallow waters should be a vast, frozen expanse.
Comparison of autumn sea ice formation for the first half of October 2012 (the record year for Arctic sea ice extent loss) and in 2020 (second place for sea ice extent loss). The satellite record goes back to 1979. @Icy_Samuel, data provided by NSIDC
Arctic sea ice extent on Oct. 25, 2020 was at a record low 5.613 million square kilometers for this date, surpassing the record set in 2019 of 6.174 million square kilometers. ChArctic NSIDC
The Arctic appears to be changing into an entirely new climate state due to rapid warming. The extent of sea ice in the late summer, when it reaches its minimum each year, has already entered a statistically different climate, with surface air temperatures and the number of days with rain instead of snow also beginning to transition. Simmi Sinha, ©UCAR
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Picture Antarctica today and what comes to mind? Large ice floes bobbing in the Southern Ocean? Maybe a remote outpost populated with scientists from around the world? Or perhaps colonies of penguins puttering amid vast open tracts of snow?
Giants of the Sky
As their name suggests, these ancient birds had sharp, bony spikes protruding from sawlike jaws. Resembling teeth, these spikes would have helped them catch squid or fish. We also studied another remarkable feature of the pelagornithids – their imposing size.

The largest flying bird alive today is the wandering albatross, which has a wingspan that reaches 11 ½ feet. The Antarctic pelagornithids fossils we studied have a wingspan nearly double that – about 21 feet across. If you tipped a two-story building on its side, that's about 20 feet.

Across Earth's history, very few groups of vertebrates have achieved powered flight – and only two reached truly giant sizes: birds and a group of reptiles called pterosaurs.

Full-size model of a Quetzalcoatlus on display at JuraPark in Baltow, Poland. Aneta Leszkiewicz / Wikimedia
Pterosaurs ruled the skies during the Mesozoic Era (252 million to 66 million years ago), the same period that dinosaurs roamed the planet, and they reached hard-to-believe dimensions. Quetzalcoatlus stood 16 feet tall and had a colossal 33-foot wingspan.

Birds Get Their Opportunity
Birds originated while dinosaurs and pterosaurs were still roaming the planet. But when an asteroid struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, dinosaurs and pterosaurs both perished. Some select birds survived, though. These survivors diversified into the thousands of bird species alive today. Pelagornithids evolved in the period right after dinosaur and pterosaur extinction, when competition for food was lessened.

The earliest pelagornithid remains, recovered from 62-million-year-old sediments in New Zealand, were about the size of modern gulls. The first giant pelagornithids, the ones in our study, took flight over Antarctica about 10 million years later, in a period called the Eocene Epoch (56 million to 33.9 million years ago). In addition to these specimens, fossilized remains from other pelagornithids have been found on every continent.

Pelagornithids lasted for about 60 million years before going extinct just before the Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago). No one knows exactly why, though, because few fossil records have been recovered from the period at the end of their reign. Some paleontologists cite climate change as a possible factor.

Piecing it Together
The fossils we studied are fragments of whole bones collected by paleontologists from the University of California at Riverside in the 1980s. In 2003, the specimens were transferred to Berkeley, where they now reside in the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

There isn't enough material from Antarctica to rebuild an entire skeleton, but by comparing the fossil fragments with similar elements from more complete individuals, we were able to assess their size.

In life, the pelagornithid would have had numerous 'teeth,' making it a formidable predator. Peter Kloess, CC BY-NC-SA
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Gingered Pears in Phyllo Cups
An elegant dessert filled with pears and walnuts and topped with tangy whipped cream.
Pears and ginger are a perfect combination in this fall dessert. The phyllo cups take a little effort to make, but they can be done in advance. Top off the crispy phyllo and spiced pears with a tangy whipped cream for an impressive and low-stress dinner-party dessert.... Read More
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Question:I have been paying my mortgage for 5 years and now some extra income. Should I make additional principal payments? My mortgage is a 30-year fixed at 6.25% interest.
And how does the taxation play a role here? I am in the 25% tax bracket.
Answer:If you prepay your mortgage or increase the monthly payment to pay of quicker, then your savings are 6.25% annually. What would you do with the money if you would NOT use it to pay down the mortgage?
You could put it in CD accounts which will yield maybe 4 to 5% interest. The benefit is that you are more flexible in case of an emergency (loss of job, health related bills).
There is zero risk in paying down the mortgage, and also zero risk in buying CD accounts, but the return of the mortgage is higher than the CD accounts.
If you buy stock, your risk is substantially higher. It is basically gambling. Your possible return is higher as well.
Investing in mutual funds on average yields 9% in the long term. However, in the short term, you may take losses. The risk is substantially lower than buying stock though.
The right decision also has to do with your age and your life, its schedule and what you expect to do in the future.
Taxation plays almost no role in the decision of whether to pay off early or invest otherwise.
Let's say you pay additional principal. That means you save interest in future payments. The interest is tax-deductible. So one could argue that the real cost of the loan is not 6.25% but 6.25% * 0.75 (since you are in the 25% tax bracket) = 4.7%
However, if your mutual fund yields 9% profit, you also pay 25% tax on that. So the effective profit is only 9% * 0.75 = 6.75%
Similarly a CD account yielding 4% effectively only returns 3% (4% * 0.75 = 3%)
The only exception is if your investment is pretax as a 401k plan or a tax-exempted bond. In that case you should compare the bond's full return against the prorated mortgage interest.
In your specific case - 6.25% is a pretty low rate. If you wait a little longer, you may find zero-risk investments such as savings accounts that will beat that return.
And now a completely different perspective on this topic:
If your mortgage is fully paid off, and your house gets hit by a hurricane or earthquake, then you are in more trouble than your neighbor who had only 10% equity in his place. You just lost all your house and try now to get money from the insurance. If the bank has the equity (and you have the mortgage) then the bank will deal with the insurance.
And there is also the thought that free and clear owners may more likely be subject to lawsuits if something happens to someone on your property. Not sure how relevant this is but I thought I should add it.


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One of the important contributors to health risk from air pollution, methylene chloride (dichloromethane) is
a volatile, nonflammable, and colorless liquid with a sweetish chloroform-like odor. Volatile organic compounds
are readily released from this liquid into the air. California has determined under Assembly Bill 1807 and Proposition
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to the eyes, respiratory tract, and skin. It is also a central nervous system depressant, causing decreased visual
and auditory functions, and possibly headache, nausea and vomiting. At high exposures, methylene chloride can cause
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Methylene chloride is used as a solvent, a blowing and cleaning agent in the manufacturing of polyurethane foam
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chloride in California. The primary stationary sources that have reported emissions of methylene chloride in California
are plastic product manufacturers, manufacturers of synthetics, and aircraft and parts manufacturing, which account
for approximately 61% of total emissions. Many manufacturers of consumer products are voluntarily phasing out their
use of methylene chloride. In the case of aerosol paints, use will be restricted by an Air Resources Board (ARB)
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for automotive maintenance and repairing. The statewide annual average concentrations of methylene chloride declined
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Ambient levels of methylene chloride are routinely monitored at approximately twenty sites in the California air
toxics monitoring network. The statewide average concentration of methylene chloride during 1998-2000 was 0.6 ppb
(parts per billion), with values ranging from 0.5 ppb to 8.3 ppb. The limit of detection for methylene chloride
is 1 ppb, so when levels fall below this level, the observed value is 0.5 ppb. In the absence of monitored high
levels of methylene chloride, monthly averages will remain around 0.5 ppb. The current routine monitor closest
to Fruitvale is in Fremont. Relative to the statewide average, the Fremont region was 23% higher, with an average
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Cancer risk is the number of excess cancer cases among a million people if the people are exposed to levels
of a toxic air pollutant over 70 years. Nine measured compounds, excluding diesel particulate matter, make up most
of the estimated cancer risk at Lockwood. Methylene chloride represents less than 1% of the potential cancer risk
of the nine measured compounds, excluding diesel particulate matter. Methylene chloride represents less than 1%
of the potential cancer risk of the nine measured compounds and the estimated diesel particulate matter.
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Fremont, CA-More than 200 golfers participated in the 29th Annual Ohlone College Golf Tournament Monday, September 23, 2013 at the exclusive Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, California. The weather was absolutely beautiful and something magical seemed to have infected everyone, because from beginning to end, people were having a great time, enjoying themselves, the food, and if they weren't golfing their best game ever, you wouldn't know it from reading their score cards!
The tournament, hosted by Ohlone College and presenting sponsor FORM (Fremont Orthopaedic and Rehabilitative Medicine), was packed with entertaining activities including longest drive, most accurate drive, closest to the pin contests, and two hole-in-one contests featuring a new Lexus and a $10,000 CD from Fremont Bank to the winner. Sadly, once again, there were no hole-in-ones this year, but there were plenty of spotters on hand to see if someone hit the mark.
Both the hill and valley golf courses were open and filled with foursomes who were kept refreshed throughout the day by hospitality tents from Dave & Busters, Dale Hardware, and Allana Buick & Bers. The tournament was followed by a reception where awards were handed out to the best flight on each course, best mixed group, best women's group, as well as the prizes for the contests.
At the reception special recognition was given to the tournament's Founding Sponsor, Fremont Bank, and its CEO Mike Wallace. Mike Wallace and Fremont Bank were integral in starting the popular golf tournament in 1985, and the bank has helped to run and fund the tournament every year since. Fremont Bank has also provided financial support to many of Ohlone College programs for years.
In addition, awards were given to the male and female Ohlone College Athlete of the Year. Women's Softball player Katelin Weger, an All-Conference Player for two years, Team Captain and voted 2013 MVP, is also a 1st team Academic All State honoree and an Ohlone College Share Your Dream scholarship recipient. She is currently attending CSU Chico, after graduating with a 3.77 GPA in Kinesiology. The male athlete of the year is L.J. Kalawaia, Men's Baseball, who has a .405 batting average, receiving 1st team All-Coast Conference honors, Pacific Division and CCCBCA All-American honors. He has also achieved high academic marks, maintaining a 3.4 GPA, receiving his AA and transferring to University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
All proceeds from the auctions and the event benefit Ohlone College Athletic Programs. Last year over $32,000 was raised, and preliminary results show that this year's goal of $50,000 will be exceeded. Half of the event proceeds are used to support the post-season experience for student-athletes that move on, while the other half goes into the athletic endowment. In addition, the funds are used to support a $500 scholarship to each of the Athletes of the Year.
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Just 1 Bottle: 14 Cocktails to Make With Tequila and a Trip to the Grocery Store
All the recipes you need for cocktails, juice blends, milkshakes and more.
Most of us wish we had a more fully-stocked bar; a stash with all the major spirits plus essentials like Cointreau and Campari, sweet and dry vermouth. But sometimes you don't have a ton of bottles at the ready, so many cocktail recipes are out of reach.
If your bar is down to just one bottle of tequila, we've got your back. These 14 drink recipes don't need Grand Marnier or Aperol, St. Germain, or Green Chartreuse: just your bottle of tequila and a quick trip to the market for fresh supplies like citrus and herbs.
Paloma Brava
The Paloma is a highball everyone should know: just mix tequila with grapefruit soda, lime juice, and maybe a pinch of salt. This variation on the classic is just a touch more complicated, but it pays off in flavor. The addition of fresh orange and grapefruit juice makes for a well-rounded sweet-tart cocktail that's wonderfully bright and refreshing.
Strawberry-Balsamic Tequila Sour
It may sound strange to put balsamic vinegar in a cocktail, but we urge you to give it a try. Here, balsamic adds a tangy caramel depth to the layered acidity of sweet-tart strawberries and lime. Tequila takes the edge off of those sour notes, but leaves that vibrant hue intact. With some muddled mint added to the mix, it makes for a delightfully summery, colorful refreshment.
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Bitter Salty Perro
There's nothing wrong with a Salty Dog, but if you're looking to mix up your brunch drink routine, this tequila-spiked version should be on your list. It's made with fresh pink grapefruit juice, plus tonic to up the bitter / savory factor.
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Tangerine Ginger Margarita
Most margaritas need two bottles: your tequila and your triple sec. But this drink gets its sweetness from fresh tangerines and tangy pomegranate juice. Ginger adds vivid flavor and a little heat.
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We've never had super-delicious watermelon liqueur, but watermelon is great in cocktails if you use the fresh stuff. Here it's smashed up and mixed with lime and tequila for a drink that's fruity and refreshing, perked up with a spicy ancho chili rim on the glass.
Cara-Carry Me Away
We love the blush color of cara-cara oranges, as well as their mellow flavor. Here, they're mixed in a taco-night favorite, with fresh grapefruit and lime, plus the essential dose of tequila. Topped up with club soda, these are fun to serve in Champagne flutes.
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If you like a Bloody Mary with your brunch, this Clamato-based tequila cocktail is one you should definitely make. It's somewhere between a Bloody and a Paloma, lightened with lemon juice and a splash of grapefruit soda. It's a little spicy (add more hot sauce if you wish), but don't worry: it doesn't taste like clam juice.
Mango-Ginger Cocktail With Cilantro
The intensely concentrated flavor of fresh-pressed ginger juice is the key to this spicy-sweet drink. Add your tequila and some lemon juice to balance the robust flavor of the mango, and you're good to go. But if you want to go from good to great, then toss in some fresh cilantro for a bright vegetal twist.
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Chamomile Tequila Sour
Good tequila tends to have floral and herbal flavors that are wonderful with a little sweetened chamomile tea. Add in fresh lime and a salted rim and you have a delicious change-up from your standard margarita.
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Tomato Margarita with Fennel Salt
How best to get the fresh, delicate flavor of tomatoes into a drink? Make tomato tequila! It's easy, we promise: you just combine the tomato and the booze in a blender and pulse it to form a purée, and then strain out the extra pulp. Mix your naturally-flavored tequila with agave nectar and lime (plus a fennel salt rim) and you're in for a delicious drink.
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Bee Sting
A spicy variation on the Bee's Knees straight from Texas, this easy cocktail is shaken with lemon juice, honey, and jalapeno for earthiness and heat. The richness of aged reposado tequila latches in nicely with the honey.
Strawberry Rhubarb Fields
We are so excited for the arrival of sweet red strawberries and tangy rhubarb, we can hardly contain ourselves. We'll be making pies and tarts soon, but first, this spring celebration requires a cocktail. Tarragon adds a gentle hint of anise to the mix of tequila, strawberries, tart lemon, and rhubarb.
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Quick and Easy Margarita Shandy
Fresh juice is the way to go when you're mixing one or two cocktails, but if you're hosting a bash and you want a quick pitcher full of drinks for a thirsty crowd, frozen limeade comes in handy. Here, it's mixed with rich reposado tequila and beer for the slightest effervescence and savoriness that makes your mouth water. We recommend serving in salt-rimmed glasses.
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Cucumber-Tequila Cooler
If you like your drinks tall, cool, and tart, use your tequila in this recipe, which calls for muddling savory celery and cucumber with a pinch of salt. A generous dose of fresh lime and a top-off of seltzer make this cocktail super easy-drinking.
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This is Dels new design guyto of AEB-L steel and I find it to be a real winner! I am a home cook and have been using this knife for 99% of all my cutting duties over the last month or so since I first received this knife. It is not like I only have a few knives to choose from, as I can easily use a different knife every day of the month and not use the same one twice. (I am a knife knut!!)
This is a manly-man-knife, it is not a laser. When I first picked it up it felt heavy, as I have been using lasers for the last couple of years, but once I started using it I did not notice the weight as the knife is balanced perfectly for a pinch grip. I have been using this knife daily for almost every task imaginable and all I can say is that I love this knife!!
I have found this to be the perfect all-round guyto! One of the things that really impresses me is the pointy tip; I would call it a dagger style tip and it works perfectly for jobs that I would normally use a paring/petty knife for. In the morning I usually squeeze two fresh oranges for my breakfast OJ and after cutting the oranges in half I cut out the center core to make it easier to juice; for this task I would normally use a petty, but not anymore! Dels design works perfectly for this, whereas most other guytos the tip is too clunky for this job.
I have not been this impressed with a new knife in a very long time. The fit and finish is as flawless as you get in a custom knife! I chose the handle wood, Koa, from Burl Source and had it shipped directly to Del and the fit and feel is perfect. Del does pride himself on the fit of his wood.
Every part of the blade that would touch your fingers is nicely rounded and very smooth.
I really like his idea of convexing the blade, I find it effective on potatoes and even on squash, and it makes it very easy to scoop up food off the cutting board.
This is called a 240mm guyto, the blade length is 265mm from the edge of the handle to the tip and has a full 240mm, 9 ½ inches, cutting edge. The overall length is 400mm, just over 15 ¾ inches long. The blade is wider than most guytos, Id say the average is around 50mm, but Dels is 58mm and I really like this extra width. The extra width is one of the reasons the knife is heavier than the average, but I have come to really appreciate it. It feels really, really good in my hand.
The knife is 2.5mm wide on the edge, just above the heel of the blade, and 2.1mm half way down the blade and 1.8mm thick three quarters down the blade. It has a nice distal taper, and there is no flex to this blade, it is very solid. Did I mention how much I love the tip!!
I met Del at the ECG this year and he impressed me as a good person and a dedicated custom knife maker; his willingness to take constructive evaluation from his customers in the pursuit of making the best chefs knife possible proves to me he is a class act.
I highly recommend Del as a great custom knife maker. Did I already say that I love this knife!!!:thumbsup: :doublethumbsup:


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Teens discuss growing up amid KC violence
Boys and Girls Club offers safe haven, positive environment
With 15 homicides so far in the first month of 2013, violence is becoming a defining problem for Kansas City this year.
Three teenagers who have been helped by the Boys and Girls Club of Kansas City said the city is not an easy place to grow up.
"I would look forward to coming here every day after school, not just to play but to study," said Raquel Phillips, 19.
"I can get my homework done. I can go swimming," said Aleesia Pigie.
The young women grew up in tough neighborhoods. Pigie said she lives next to a liquor store.
"I can't even walk the streets without someone saying or trying to do something," she said. "I always feel unsafe."
Brittany Kinney said she has lost friends to violence, including a high school friend who was killed during a crime.
"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time," she said. "It's so sad. It's just unfortunate."
The Boys and Girls Clubs in Kansas City serve children between 5 and 18 throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. They serve several thousand children and their families each year.


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Michele Gay apologizes for the unfinished look of the house, but her family only moved in three weeks earlier. And even after the boxes are unpacked, the books put away, and the curtains hung, the house, in a quiet suburb west of Boston, will have an empty feel.
Missing is the little girl who loved peanut butter by the spoonful, the color purple, and the two older sisters and parents who doted on her. Michele and Bob Gay's youngest child was among the 20 first-graders massacred in December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Bob Gay had already started a new job in the Boston area, and the family was just weeks away from relocating when the shootings took place.
"We have an extra bedroom here and we still refer to it as Joey's room," says her mother. The bedroom has Joey's furniture, her floral bedding and curtains, her books and her dollhouse, and lots of photos.
The Gays recently agreed to talk about Joey, who loved Barbies and the Baltimore Ravens, and whose death they are still struggling to comprehend. They say their faith in God is sustaining them through their devastating loss, and they are heartened by a fund they have created in Joey's memory, in connection with the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.They asked not to have their new hometown named in this story to protect their family's privacy; they have two other daughters who are 9 and 11.
Josephine Grace Gay — "Joey" to family and friends — turned 7 three days before she was killed. Her birthday party was set for the next day. It was going to be a pool party; Joey loved to swim. The purple cupcakes were already in the refrigerator, the T-shirt her friends signed waiting to be worn.
Most of those children were killed along with Joey and six adults when 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary, and two first-grade classrooms, before turning a gun on himself.
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden and the parents of another little girl killed that day spoke in favor of gun control at a conference on gun violence held a few miles from Newtown. Biden said the shootings had altered the national debate on the issue.
"I say it's unacceptable not to take this on. It's just simply unacceptable," Biden said at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. "I say to my colleagues, if you're concerned about your political survival, you should be concerned about the survival of our children."
For their part, the Gays refuse to talk politics, preferring to focus on their daughter's memory and helping other children who face the challenges of autism.
Just weeks before the shootings, on Nov. 1, Bob Gay had taken a job as senior vice president at Maguire Associates, an educational consulting firm in Concord. He stayed at a local inn during the week and commuted back to Newtown on weekends while he and Michele searched for a school system with services for autistic children like Joey. They found a school and a house. Tragically, the move to Massachusetts came too late for their daughter.
Four days after Joey died, the Gays signed the purchase and sales agreement on their new home here, picked out Joey's cemetery plot in a neighboring town, and met with the executive director of the Flutie Foundation.
"I was on this adrenaline-driven tear," explains Bob Gay, 52, one recent afternoon.
He's sitting on the couch next to Michele in their new living room, with its handsome mantel and fireplace. There are floor-to-ceiling bookcases, and the couple notes that they've been able to put books in the lowest shelves for the first time in years. Their Newtown home had been "Joey-proofed."
"Josephine would decide she'd take things off the shelves and put them on the floor," said Bob with a wry smile. Sometimes Bob refers to his daughter as Josephine, the name he chose for her at birth. Sometimes it's Joey. But most often, she was "Joey Bear" to him, or "Lollipop."
It was Joey who took up the most room in the family of five. She was autistic and did not speak. She had apraxia, a central nervous system disorder that impaired her movement. She sometimes struggled with balance, and would often trip and fall. But she was affectionate, sweet, and funny, and communicated in her own way.
"She had her own language, and she understood it," says her dad, a pensive man who often reaches for his wife's hand. "We relied on sounds, gestures, and her communicative program on her iPad." The program allowed her to construct phrases and sentences so the iPad could then "speak" them aloud for her.
Adds Michele, 40: "She was very persistent, thank God."
'Undercover angel'
When her daughters came along, Michele quit her job as an elementary school teacher. Eventually, Joey's needs alone became a full-time job. There were all the therapies: occupational, speech, physical, behavioral, aquatic. Joey was on a gluten-free, dairy-free diet, which took extra time to shop for and prepare.
Then there were the vitamins and supplements and new therapies to try, such as hyperbaric oxygen, which is used to help heal the brains of autistic and apraxic children. The Gays were planning to rent a hyperbaric chamber for Joey.
"It's full-time . . . going to all the therapies, advocating for your child at school, with the insurance company, researching new treatments," said Michele. "And potty training for five years."
Their family life was far from typical, but they were happy and close. They couldn't do some things, like go on a bike ride together, or to the movies, with one exception. Joey loved Alvin and the Chipmunks and they all went to see "Chipwrecked" in 2011.
"She actually sat through it, which was a huge thing," Bob recalls.
"We changed our lifestyle to accommodate Joey — her sisters sometimes grudgingly," Michele says. "But they loved her so much."
When the American Red Cross donated $1,000 for each of the Newtown victims' families for Christmas expenses, Joey's sisters spent the entire amount on her favorite things — including lots of Barbie dolls — and donated it all to their church, for needy children.
The family is devoutly Catholic and their faith is helping them through the unimaginable.
"I am able to get out of bed in the morning because of it," says Bob. "You can't make sense of it otherwise."
Michele nods. "It's crucial for us to know that she's in heaven. It makes it possible for us to breathe, to put one foot in front of the other, and to carry on with her work on this earth. She was all about love. She was all about generosity."
During the interview, the Gays' oldest daughter enters the room and whispers in her mother's ear. Michele repeats her words aloud: "Joey is a secret undercover angel from God. She was not allowed to speak. And God told her she could only be here seven years."
Joey was born in Maryland. The family moved to Newtown when she was 2 months old, after her father became vice president of enrollment at The New School in Manhattan. Joey's parents are from Baltimore, and the girls grew up huge Ravens fans.
Joey rarely left the house without wearing Ravens purple. Indeed, she was buried in a purple and white casket. Many at her funeral wore purple, and her sisters and cousins released purple balloons with messages of love to her.
Two days after the shootings, the Ravens hung a banner in her honor at M&T Bank Stadium and made "Joey" pins for team employees. Cornerback Chris Johnson painted "Joey" on his cleats and sent the family a jersey with her name and the number "7" on it, for her age. Ray Lewis sent a personal note and urged them to read Psalm 91, known as the Psalm of Protection.
Joey is buried in a cemetery near the family's new home. Her tombstone isn't yet in, and the small grave is set off a ways from others. Eventually, the family will all be buried in adjacent plots. The Gays plan to install her stone and a bench and do some planting in the spring.
For now, there's a small American flag and a little sign bearing her name and dates on it: Dec. 11, 2005-Dec. 14, 2012. Every day, her father visits her grave and tells her he loves her and misses her.
The Gays return to Newtown every couple of weeks for a support group with the other parents. "To be with the parents of Joey's friends is really therapeutic," says Michele. "Nobody else quite understands the pain you're in."
But they say they love their new town, where some neighbors and those at their daughters' school know about Joey. "People have been extra gentle and welcoming with our girls," says Michele. Bob adds that people here have been "very respectful."
One of the most difficult things for Michele to accept is that she was not with her daughter in her final moments. But it helps her to know that Rachel D'Avino, 29, Joey's classroom therapist, was with her.
"Rachel was Joey's right-hand person," says Michele. "She stayed with her at recess, helped with her backpack, her work, the bathroom, helped her communicate with friends. Joey loved her and she loved Joey."
D'Avino died shielding her students in the mayhem. Police have called her a hero. When she was found, she had her arms wrapped around several children, including Joey.
After Joey died, hundreds of people asked how they could help, and her parents thought of establishing a fund for autistic children. They feel lucky that they could afford the various therapies, special foods, and expensive camp to improve their daughter's life, and they want the same for others.
Jack Maguire, founder of Maguire Associates, put Bob Gay in touch with the Flutie Foundation. When he was director of admissions for Boston College, Maguire had admitted Doug Flutie.
The foundation was happy to help, and now has a link to Joey's Fund on its home page, flutiefoundation.org.
"We share a similar mission to what their goals are," says Lisa Borges, executive director of the foundation. "Insurance will cover some basic therapies, but so little of what people really need. We try to fill that gap . . . It might be a music therapy class, a summer camp, or a theater program."
So far, the Joey Gay Fund has raised $85,000 with "more coming in each day," says Borges. Parents can apply for grants to help their child, and Michele Gay plans to volunteer at the foundation.
The Gays don't want to talk about gun control, but Michele is concerned with school safety and hopes somehow to work on the issue.
"We've done a great job of making schools fire-safe," she says. "We can't have front entrances to schools be all glass. We basically have to secure our schools. We need to send our loved ones to school and know that they're going to come back."
The Gays know that their family will never be the same, that there is a hole at the heart of it. Her father says he can still feel Joey's hug at night, and both parents say they must find a way to continue on.
"We have two other kids who made a lot of sacrifices for their sister," Bob says, as one of them brings "Pancake," the pet hamster, into the room. "Especially now, they deserve all the love and attention we have."
Still, he marvels at the impact Joey made on others, about how he'd go to the grocery store in Newtown, where no one knew him but everyone knew — and greeted — Joey.
"I'm 52 years old, and my daughter has a better legacy than I do in seven years, without speaking," he says. "It's pretty humbling."
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On Saleem Shahzad's killing.
The killing of Syed Saleem Shahzad near Islamabad is but another example of the perils journalists face in Pakistan today for challenging the conspiracy-riddled narratives of the military-jihadi complex. Through his articles in Asia Times, Mr. Shahzad gave us perspective on the inner workings of the MJC and its internal competitive dynamics. Lesser journalists in Pakistan who tow the line of the MJC by putting forth conspiracy theories of underhand foreign agencies working in concert to dismember Pakistan are lionized and rewarded. Little wonder then, that Pakistan ranks as one of the most dangerous countries for journalists (Freedom House, 2011).
Voice of America Urdu's Waseem A. Siddiqui catalogs the history of violence (اردو) :
Readers of this blog are no doubt familiar with the conspiracy theory-ridden narratives in Pakistan's vernacular press. Almost every tragedy in Pakistan is attributable to the machinations of the CIA, R&AW, Blackwater or Mossad. Their ultimate quest being Pakistan's nuclear weapons. It should come as no surprise then that the recent attacks against a Pakistan Navy base in Karachi were immediately attributed to India. Because that's easy. And convenient.
In her recent visit to Pakistan, following the raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton urged Pakistanis to understand that conspiracy theories "will not make their problems disappear." But with journalists like these, I wouldn't hold my breath.
Further reading: A brave piece by Mehmal Sarfraz, and Syed Saleem Shahzad's brilliant interview/report on the resurgence of Ilyas Kashmiri and the 313 Brigade.


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NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) will award a Japanese scientist with the NYSCF – Robertson Prize for his extraordinary achievements in translational stem cell research.
This award will go to Kazutoshi Takahashi, PhD, Lecturer, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, for his vital contribution to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell derivation.
Dr. Takahashi was lead author on a series of landmark papers that described reprogramming adult cells into iPS cells, which were published while he was a postdoctoral researcher in Shinya Yamanaka's, MD, PhD, laboratory at Kyoto University.
Yesterday, judges in Stockholm announced that Dr. Yamanaka and Sir John Gurdon, DPhil, the Gurdon Institute, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their stem cell research breakthroughs. Both scientists demonstrated that adult cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent cells, cells that can become any cell type in the body.
The NYSCF – Robertson prize will be presented at a ceremony in New York City by Susan L. Solomon, CEO of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, and Professor Peter J. Coffey, DPhil, the inaugural recipient of the NYSCF – Robertson Prize in 2011, Executive Director of Translation at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering, and Director of the London Project to Cure Blindness, University College London.
"Dr. Takahashi's path-breaking work truly has opened up the entire field of stem cell research," said Ms. Solomon. "In addition to his derivation of induced pluripotent stem cells, he focuses on improving this technique and other critical translational studies."
Dr. Takahashi's research group at Kyoto University was established in 2010 to focus on two areas of cellular reprogramming. Their first area of investigation is in the process of cellular reprogramming and the second area is evaluating iPS cell quality and differentiation potential.
"I congratulate Dr. Takahashi for his groundbreaking work, opening new avenues in the search for cures," said Julian H. Robertson, Jr. "The NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize was created to recognize and support the work of young scientists like Dr. Takahashi, whose research offers enormous potential."
The jury that selected Dr. Takahashi in September consisted of Christine Mummery, PhD, Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands; Lorenz Studer, MD, Director of the Sloan-Kettering Center for Stem Cell Biology; Irving Weissman, MD, Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine; and, Peter J. Coffey, DPhil.
The NYSCF – Robertson prize is awarded annually to a young scientist in recognition of innovative and groundbreaking achievement, or body of work, that has significantly advanced human stem cell research toward clinical application. The terms of the prize require that the $200,000 stipend be used, at the recipients' discretion, to further support their research.
Dr. Takahashi, in addition to the monetary award, will receive an award sculpture designed by celebrated architect Frank Gehry. In 2009, NYSCF honored Gehry with its Humanitarian Award, given to a non-scientist stem cell research advocate.
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) conducts cutting-edge translational stem cell research in its laboratory in New York City and supports research by stem cell scientists at other leading institutions around the world. More information is available at www.nyscf.org.
SOURCE The New York Stem Cell Foundation


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Because news doesn't stop for parades:
The Daily News' Paul Hagen is reporting Pat Burrell rejected a two-year, $22 million deal proposed by the Phillies. Burrell led the parade convoy this afternoon, supposedly late, but eerily separating himself from the club as if he was on his way out.
It sure looks that way.