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One of the reasons that climate science is so difficult to effectively communicate is because it's so data rich, and real data is messy. Like, super messy. I once did an experiment that involved running goats on treadmills. The goats had strain gauges attached to their legs so that I could measure relative amounts of different types of stress on the bones as the goats ran. I was expecting the data to match the idealized patterns I had seen in a book. They didn't. They were a total mess. That's when I learned that data pulled from the real world is not in any way, ideal.
In my experiment, there was just a goat and a treadmill. Climate scientists have to contend with an entire planetary system. There are a zillion variables to feed into models that try to capture the behavior of the atmosphere, the oceans, winds, currents, orbits, tilts…and those are just the natural variables. These projections also take into account various likely scenarios of population growth, economic growth, fossil fuel consumption, and on and on. All of this information is fed into a model and used to make projections of what will happen in the next 5, 10, 25, 100 years. I don't even know what I'm going to eat for breakfast tomorrow and yet these scientists are giving us detailed projections of what surface temperatures are likely to be in various locations around the planet by 2100.
It's amazing, rigorous, and completely scientific work. And yet, because misconceptions about climate and science persist (in part due to the carefully orchestrated actions of some influential players), scientists have to get in the papers and get on the radio and get on to TV to explain why we had a cold February in New England.
And thus, there was some furor in the media when it was reported last week that Antarctica was set to break a record this month—not a record for high temperatures or shrinking ice, but for the greatest extent of sea ice. That's right—more sea ice in Antarctica than ever this month! As one would predict, those in the anti-science camp had some fun. This story of increasing Antarctic ice is not new; this is actually the third year in a row that it has broken records, which generates glee among those who cherry pick evidence. (Note, I could provide links, but I don't want to give them any attention—it's like how the camera pulls away when someone runs onto the field during a sporting match—I'm not going to do these guys any favors.)
There were many articles out there that provided rational "no, it doesn't mean that Earth isn't warming" accounts of this data. My favorite, however, came from Slate writer Eric Holthaus, who wrote about this seeming contradiction concisely, clearly, and calmly.
Holthaus first distinguishes between land ice and sea ice, writing, "Since sea ice floats in the ocean, its growth or melt doesn't affect global sea levels. Antarctic land ice, on the other hand, does contribute to sea level rise, and it's losing volume at a record pace." Antarctica is setting a record for sea ice, so right away, Holthaus has grounded us: this doesn't affect sea level rise either way and the land ice is still disappearing. Check and check.
Then, he introduces the anomaly. In the Arctic, sea ice has been declining in recent years, while Antarctic sea ice has been increasing over that same period, though at a fraction of the pace. (The Arctic is losing ice at a rate of about 4 percent per decade while the Antarctic is gaining at less than 1 percent per decade.)
From here, Holthaus goes into the various hypotheses that scientists have proposed to explain this seemingly unexpected bit of data: melting land ice or an increase in precipitation lowers the salinity of ocean water making it easier for sea ice to form, or (and this is the hypothesis favored by most of the scientists I read about) stronger than usual winds push ice away from the continental shelf and new ice fills in the gaps.
It is in the concluding paragraphs, however, that Holthaus earned his "well said!" Here, he explains that, well, real data is messy:
"The reality is probably some combination of the above [hypotheses]. After all, there's still a lot of legitimate debate among scientists on this topic. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading global authority on climate change science, admitted as much in its latest report, which was released last year. New evidence shows the Antarctic sea ice trend itself may have been overestimated because of a statistical fluke."
To be crystal clear: the legitimate debate among scientists is not, as some would pretend, about whether or not human activities are altering the climate system and heating the planet, but rather about how some of the complex interactions occur and what their implications might be.
Projections aren't perfect because the data isn't idealized. This is the planet, not a vacuum, and this seemingly odd bit of data about increased sea ice in the Southern Ocean does not mean that the scientists are wrong or hapless or completely befuddled—it just means that Earth's interactions are complex and often non-linear. My messy goat data didn't mean that the basic principles of bone tension and compression were wrong—it just meant that there was something else going on that I hadn't figured out yet*.
But—and this is the most important part—climate scientists have already figured out that the Earth is heating due to human activities. This phenomenon in the Southern Ocean does not negate the overall trends or projections of global change. In fact, it could be explained by changes already underway. Each of the hypotheses Holthaus mentioned—more melting, more precipitation, stronger winds—have their roots in a changing Earth: more ice melting because of a warmer Earth; more precipitation because warmer Earth means warmer air, which holds more moisture than cooler air; stronger winds caused, in part, by changes brought about by a depleted ozone. In other words, "It seems weird, but like this winter's epic polar vortex outbreaks in North America, this week's record-breaking Antarctic sea ice could be a further sign of global warming."
Holthaus goes on to explain that scientists do not expect the trend of increased sea ice extent, no matter the cause, to last:
"Eventually, scientists expect the sheer temperature increase from global warming to swamp whatever complex combination of atmospheric and oceanographic physics that's producing the counterintuitive ice growth, and Antarctic sea ice will begin to decline as Arctic ice already has. By the end of the week, Antarctic sea ice will probably set yet another record. Just remember, it's definitely not because Antarctica (or any other large swath of the planet) is getting colder."
Well said!
* Well, that, or the goats were secretly sabotaging my research…they're smart, those goats, I wouldn't put it past them.


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Dennis Shasha is a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of New York University. He currently works with biologists on experimental design and network inference, with entrepreneurs on database outsourcing and on safe banking processes in the third world, and with finance folks on algorithms for time series prediction. You can find some of his Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner puzzles at DrDobbs.com.
Cathy Lazere is a freelance writer. A former editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, she has written extensively about corporate finance and technology.
This article is based on a section from the authors' latest book Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines published by W.W. Norton in May 2010. Besides exploring the themes in this article in much greater depth (and in a biographical style), the book discusses even more extreme frontiers -- computing with bacteria, viruses, DNA, and even Jello. Their earlier book, Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, concerns the lives and work of the pioneers of computer science.
Reams of design documentation.
Legalistic specifications in incomprehensible specification languages.
Endless overly large meetings.
Most good programmers will run the other way. They want the freedom to create new functionality and make that work. But when they design software for safety-critical applications, say in aerospace or power generation, most will grit their teeth and do what they have to. After all, they look at mechanical engineers and the micron tolerances they can achieve. Clearly, the future belongs to the careful, to the precise, to the thorough.
Clearly. Except that this is probably wrong.
Designing high quality software for a controlled surgical environment or a well-studied automotive setting may not work at all for space, finance, or even large terrestrial engineering projects. When you are designing for what Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers call "unknown unknowns," a committee's reams of documentation may leave millions of scenarios unexamined.
Is there some alternative? Yes, look in the mirror. Whenever you repair the wiring in an old house, ski down a wooded trail in imperfect conditions, climb a boulder for the first time, or cook a meal with the ingredients you happen to find in your refrigerator, you don't search your memory for a worked-out procedure. You adapt. It's as if some designer (intelligent/evolution -- we don't care) gave you hands, feet, and rudimentary senses and told you "go figure it out". Software for applications on the frontier of computing follows a similar paradigm: minimal human design, maximal adaptability. Let us demonstrate that to you.
Reactor Design: Compromise Without Prejudice
During World War II, a secret city arose in the hills of Tennessee. Oak Ridge National Laboratory started as part of the Manhattan Project with a mandate to produce and purify plutonium for the atomic bomb. Since then, the laboratory has diversified into energy, systems biology, and materials science research. Lou Qualls, a senior researcher and nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge, describes himself as a systems integrator. He puts different subcomponents together in order to realize complicated engineering designs for nuclear reactor systems. He uses genetic algorithms to propose designs. His approach is of the classic Holland-style [Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems by John Holland]:
- Start with a population of candidate designs, each consisting of choices about individual components that can vary in expense, weight, and performance.
- Evaluate each one to give a "fitness" score, perhaps based on the total system's monetary cost.
- Create a new population by selecting the fittest candidate designs and changing some of their components individually or by combining different designs together. (Always hold onto the best design to date in case you come up with nothing better.)
So, for example, one design might call for an expensive shielding material and a certain fuel whereas another might make do with a cheap shielding material and a second fuel. Combining them would associate the expensive shielding material and the second fuel, potentially arriving at a synergistic design that lowers cooling costs.
Qualls has used these designs, because they are better than what he has been able to come up with himself. He sees several reasons for this. First, unlike human designers, the genetic algorithm is willing to try designs very different from previous ones it has tried. The algorithm has no loyalty to history. If you doubt that humans preserve their biases as constraints when technology changes, just remember how many years passed in the early 1900s before cars no longer looked like "horseless carriages." Consider also that many recent business and technological innovations -- express mail, microprocessors, and the Web -- arose from people outside of the establishment who found better ways to perform existing services. The establishment was stuck in its initial design frame of mind.
Before he began using genetic algorithms, Qualls would take three weeks to come up with a preliminary design "and I made everybody real mad at me because nobody got what they wanted." But when a genetic algorithm churns out hundreds of designs, the specialists begin to see a pattern of compromises. People's attitudes improve. "The algorithm helps different subsystem experts understand the constraints of others," says Qualls. As a result, there's more cooperation among team members.
Qualls recalls trying to design a container for a spacecraft that also had to shield the spacecraft against gamma rays. The question was where to put the shielding material and nobody had a good idea. There were millions of ways to make layers out of different materials. "The genetic algorithm said that putting the gamma shield in a thin layer in the middle yields the cheapest and lightest-weight solution," says Qualls. The shielding expert confirmed that this design could work. The genetic algorithm had discovered the solution by exploring thousands of generations of designs in only a few minutes, saving time and money.
Whereas Qualls's team arrives at a tightly specified design, the method of finding those designs is entirely adaptive. Each choice of material or shape has a cost and a benefit. The genetic algorithm finds hundreds of good designs. Adaptation comes nearly for free: When the cost or benefit of a component changes, Qualls enters it, and reruns the genetic algorithm. No tears and no prejudice.

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New Anti-Clotting Drug Outperforms Plavix
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 13 (HealthDay News) -- A new clot-busting drug, Brilinta, may soon take the place of Plavix in treating patients with acute coronary syndrome, which includes angina and heart attack.
In a new trial, the upstart drug, ticagrelor (Brilinta) reduced the risk of second heart attacks and death without raising the risk of bleeding, as clopidogrel (Plavix) can do.
"For people with acute coronary syndrome, this very well may replace Plavix," said study author Dr. Christopher Cannon, a cardiologist with Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, both in Boston. "This is pretty compelling evidence from this trial that ticagrelor is better without any increased risk of bleeding."
An accompanying editorial concurred, while also pointing out that, as always, a "personalized approach to drug selection should be used."
The study is published in the Jan. 14 online edition of The Lancet.
Approval for Brilinta from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could come late this year, although it's difficult to predict the timing of such decisions, Cannon noted.
The study was funded by AstraZeneca, which makes Brilinta. Earlier results from the trial were presented at several major medical conferences last year. These published results seem to be the final step in solidifying the ascendancy of the new drug over the mainstay, Plavix.
Combined with other blood-thinning therapies now in the pipeline, these findings may also mark the dawn of a new generation of blood thinners, experts say.
Plavix is used with aspirin to prevent blood clots that can lead to heart attacks, stroke and death. It has been the standard of treatment for heart patients for about a decade, Cannon said.
But the drug has its share of problems, namely a lag time between when it is administered and when it takes effect, and variability in how different individuals respond to it. And because of an increased risk of bleeding, Plavix must be discontinued before surgery, Cannon said.
In this study of more than 13,000 patients with acute coronary syndrome, Brilinta, which appears to be more potent than Plavix, emerged with several advantages over the old standby.
Because it is processed as soon as it's swallowed (meaning it doesn't have to go through the liver), Brilinta kicks in faster than Plavix, Cannon explained.
"It's a more reliable level of anti-clotting effect. There's less variability," he stated. "At the dose we've chosen, it has about twice the level of anti-clotting effect, hence its benefit in preventing heart attacks and stent thrombosis [closure]."
And unlike Plavix, Brilinta is quickly reversible: When you stop taking it, it stops working, whereas Plavix binds to platelets for as long as they are around, Cannon noted. This means patients could have surgery with a lower risk of bleeding.
The authors estimated that for every 1,000 patients using Brilinta instead of Plavix for one year, there would be 11 fewer deaths, 13 fewer heart attacks and six fewer cases of blocked stents.
Drug maker Sanofi-Aventis, which markets Plavix in a partnership with Bristol-Myers Squibb, stood by the safety record of its product.
"Ticagrelor is an investigational drug, and has not been approved by any regulatory authorities," the company said in a statement released Wednesday. "Ticagrelor's efficacy and safety have been studied in a clinical trial setting in the ACS [acute coronary syndrome] population, and in the real-world setting the efficacy and safety is still unknown."
"The effectiveness of Plavix has been proven, and the safety profile supported by four large clinical studies involving 81,000 patients across the entire spectrum of its approved cardiovascular indications," the statement continued. "Plavix has been prescribed to more than 100 million patients worldwide during the 11 years it has been on the market. Plavix is recommended in national and international guidelines for heart attack, stroke and/or PAD [peripheral arterial disease] patients at risk for future atherothrombotic events, and is an important treatment option for millions of patients at cardiovascular risk."
However, one expert was impressed by the latest findings on Brilinta.
"This were top-line results," said Dr. Kirk Garratt, clinical director of interventional cardiovascular research at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. "It's important that, for the first time, we have a drug that is not only more powerful in its ability to control platelet behavior but able to do that without increasing bleeding. That's astonishing."
Still, enthusiasm may need to be tempered, he said.
Garratt pointed out that the vast majority of participants in the trial came from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, not North America. "And in that group of North American patients there was no benefit for ticagrelor," he said. "It could just be play of chance but you can't get around the fact that when the population was [studied] separately, there was no benefit."
Secondly, Brilinta needs to be taken twice a day to maintain its effect, not once daily as with Plavix.
"No matter how good you are about medicines, you're going to miss some," Garratt.
This, added to the fact that the drug stops working if you stop taking it, means that a person who forgets his or her medication at night could see their risk for heart trouble rise by the morning.
"When it's morning again, you not only have made new platelets [which happens continuously] but the old platelets are springing back to life and people are most likely to form blood clots in the early morning hours," Garratt said. "I'm a little concerned about a drug that could leave a patient really unprotected in the early morning hours when they're most likely to form blood clots if they miss the evening dose, which will happen."
More information
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An intriguing pair of tweets from a Fox News producer given the sourcing. Sounds like they are, or were, thinking about doing this, but maybe are debating whether the home-stretch budget will allow it.
Senior Romney aides confirm to Carl Cameron that they are planning to run a 30-minute infomercial in key battleground states
— Joy Lin (@JoyLinFN) October 23, 2012
After 2 Romney aides disclosed plans for a 30-min infomercial to run in battlegrnd states, a snr adviser tells Carl Cameron it won't happen
— Joy Lin (@JoyLinFN) October 23, 2012
Obama's running a 30-minute ad this week too, in the guise of a half-hour MTV interview to air this Friday. The network's also invited Romney but it's O whose chances depend upon turning out young voters. Awfully nice of Viacom to give him a pipeline right before the election.
I'm debating with myself over whether it's a smart use of dwindling campaign funds for Team Romney to pop for a half-hour spot. Con: If Mitt starts to see real movement in Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, he might wish the millions earmarked for the ad had been available for organizational purpose. Pro: Thirty-second ads probably aren't moving many votes at this point so you're better off doing something splashy to grab eyeballs. No one will sit through half an hour of Romney at a whiteboard explaining the deficit but they might watch something that incorporates biography and personal detail. After all, one of the strongest aftershocks of Romney's Denver debate performance was the rise in his favorable rating; people like him more than they used to, and many are no doubt curious to better know the man who might be the next president. Check out the spot from Crossroads below as a starting point. If you believe that women respond to soft-focus ads like this more than men do, then here's one way to chip a point or two off of the gender gap.
Obama ran a 30-minute ad too in the last few days of the 2008 campaign, incidentally. Victory was all but assured at that point, but he still managed to crack a 20 rating in markets where it ran. Part of that may have been due to curiosity about his historic candidacy, so Romney likely wouldn't draw as many viewers. But then, he doesn't have to. The race is tight enough that even a one-point move in the polls could be decisive.


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Putnam Investments announced on Wednesday that it has opened an office in Beijing, representing the firm's first foothold in China, and the latest step in building its presence in strategic markets within Asia.
The new office will be managed by Michael Luo, chief representative of Putnam Investments Beijing. He will "represent the firm in building and managing relationships with governmental and private institutions in China," according to the company. Luo will also be responsible for developing Putnam's longer-term strategy in the country.
Putnam currently has a presence in Asia and Australia through an investment office in Singapore, and sales and client service offices in Sydney and Tokyo. In addition, the firm has offices in London, Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Putnam says it "will be looking to its Beijing office to assess intermediate- and long-term business opportunities and to evaluate future staffing needs in China."
"With the opening of our Beijing office, Putnam is placing an important stake in the ground to potentially offer our investment management, product design and distribution expertise to one of the most important growth markets in the world," President and CEO Robert Reynolds (left) said in a statement. "As the financial industry continues to develop in China, we think there is tremendous opportunity for a deep-rooted, global asset manager to help their major institutions with the type of fundamental research-driven active investment approach that a firm like Putnam can bring to the equation. We look forward to beginning this journey."
Reynolds also noted that the firm is "looking forward to building upon its successful experiences elsewhere in the region, including the growth of its business in Japan and expanding investment research presence in Singapore."
Luo has has experience in the region, joining Putnam from Invesco Great Wall, based in Shenzhen. Prior to that, Luo was an advisor with China Investment Corp., based in Beijing, where he helped establish the firm's fixed-income team. Luo began his career in investment research and portfolio management with Morgan Stanley Investment Management in 1998, after receiving his M.S. in financial engineering from Columbia University.
Putnam had $124 billion in assets under management at the end of April. Mutual fund assets were $62.4 billion. Institutional assets were $61.3 billion.


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NEA President Touts Role of Labor in Civil Rights Movement
Weaver says unions must work together for equality in public education
WASHINGTON - February 11, 2008 -National Education Association President Reg Weaver discussed the role of labor unions in the development of the civil rights movement in a speech today before government workers. Weaver delivered the keynote speech to approximately 350 attendees at the American Federation of Government Employees' (AFGE) Women's and Fair Practices Departments' 2008 Civil Rights Luncheon.
"The labor movement has fought for fair wages, fair treatment in the workplace, and a fair chance to get ahead," said Weaver. "The labor movement has been a force for fairness in every aspect of American life – including the civil rights movement."
In his speech, Weaver recalled the efforts of Black civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph to organize sleeping car porters on passenger trains. Randolph recognized that the labor movement represented "the great masses of workers," and therefore has "the moral responsibility for its commitment to the principle of civil rights." Randolph went on to organize the 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The theme of this year's Civil Rights Luncheon was "Have We Done Enough?" NEA believes that more must be done to close achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity, income levels, language background, disability status and gender.
"Organized labor remains one of the strongest voices for those who are without power, without equal opportunity and without hope," said Weaver. "Public education is the key that opens the door of opportunity for every working family in this nation. We must work together to provide equal opportunity to every child in America through great public schools."
For more information on NEA's achievement gaps initiatives, please go to www.nea.org/achievement/index.html
The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization, representing 3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
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Tokyo Says It's 'Safe' to Host Olympics
According to the governor of Tokyo, radiation levels at Fukushima are "absolutely safe" and won't cause any problems for Japan's capital if it is selected to host the 2020 Olympics. WSJ's Jake Schlesinger has the story.
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The stress of a spelling bee or a challenging science project can enhance a student's focus and promote learning. But the stress of a dysfunctional or unstable home life can poison a child's cognitive ability for a lifetime, according to new research.
While educators and psychologists have said for decades that the effects of poverty interfere with students' academic achievement, new evidence from cognitive and neuroscience is showing exactly how adversity in childhood damages students' long-term learning and health.
Those studies show that stress forms the link between childhood adversity and poor academic achievement, but that not all adversity—or all stress—is bad for students.
"Children from their earliest life need to learn how to manage adversity," such as dealing with the first day of school, said Dr. Jack P. Shonkoff, the director of Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child, in Cambridge, Mass.
Research from Dr. Shonkoff's center and from other experts finds that positive stress—the kind that comes from telling a toddler he can't have a cookie or a teenager that she's about to take a pop quiz—causes a brief rise in heart rate and stress hormones. A jolt can focus a student's attention and is generally considered healthy.
Similarly, a child can tolerate stress that is severe but may be relatively short-term—from the death of a loved one, for example—as long as he or she has support.
"Adults help children develop strategies to help cope with these stressors," Dr. Shonkoff said. "Whether it's reading or managing stress, adults provide the scaffolding for children to build those skills themselves."
By contrast, so-called "toxic stress" is severe, sustained, and not buffered by supportive relationships.
The same brain flexibility, called plasticity, that makes children open to learning in their early years also makes them particularly vulnerable to damage from the toxic stressors that often accompany poverty: high mobility and homelessness; hunger and food instability; parents who are in jail or absent; domestic violence; drug abuse; and other problems, according to Pat Levitt, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Southern California and the director of the neuroscience graduate program at the Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. Both Mr. Levitt and Dr. Shonkoff are part of the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, which is studying the effects of environment on children's health and cognitive development.
Good experiences, like nurturing parents and rich early-child-care environments, help build and reinforce neural connections in areas such as language development and self-control, while adversity weakens those connections.
Over time, the connections, good or bad, stabilize, "and you can't go back and rewire; you have to adapt," Dr. Shonkoff said. "If you've built on strong foundations, that's good, and if you have weak foundations, the brain has to work harder, and it costs more to the brain and society."
For example, a study in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Child Development found that out of more than 26,000 students in the Minneapolis public schools, those who moved more than three times a year had significantly lower mathematics achievement and academic growth than students with more stable homes.
In a separate study, Richard P. Barth, the dean and a professor of social work at the University of Maryland College Park, found children with six or more adverse experiences before age 3 were overwhelmingly likely to be identified as needing special education for developmental delay.
Moreover, a child's ability to delay gratification and control him- or herself—often seen as a personality trait critical for academic success—can be hugely dependent on the child's sense of stability in the environment and trust in surrounding adults.
In a twist on the classic Stanford University "marshmallow experiment," in which young children's ability to resist eating a marshmallow was tested to show their self-control, researchers led by Celeste Kidd, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York recently found children who trusted the word of the adult tester and felt their environment was more stable waited four times as long for a treat as those who felt more insecure.
The effects of early stress can linger for decades and go well beyond learning difficulties.
"What happens in childhood, like a child's footprint in wet cement, leaves its mark forever," said Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, the director of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study at the health-care provider Kaiser Permanente's department of preventive medicine in San Diego.
Known as the ACE study and done in collaboration with Dr. Robert F. Anda at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the project analyzed longitudinal data on more than 17,400 middle-class adults in the Kaiser Permanente system.
Participants reported whether, as children, they had experienced repeated physical, sexual, or severe emotional abuse, and whether they had grown up with any of five types of "household dysfunction": a family member in prison; domestic violence; an alcoholic or drug abuser in the home; someone in the home who was depressed, mentally ill, or suicidal; or loss of at least one biological parent during childhood for any reason.
As it turned out, more than half the adults had had at least one type of severe abuse or home dysfunction in childhood, and one in 16 had experienced four or more. The number of traumatic childhood experiences, Dr. Felitti found, was directly proportional to a person's risk of a wide variety of major medical and social problems, from teenage pregnancy and drug abuse to adult heart disease and hepatitis.
"These results are almost unique in their magnitude," Dr. Felitti said. A boy with six indicators of abuse and home dysfunction was 4,600 percent more likely than a boy with no risk factors to become an intravenous-drug user, according to the study.
Such findings mean that teachers and doctors are left trying to fix late symptoms, like poor reading skills or boredom in school, rather than underlying issues that occur much earlier in life.
"The science [on the effects of poverty and stress] has exploded in the last 25 years, but the policy on the delivery of child care has stalled, without anything close to similar progress," Dr. Shonkoff said.
While federal and state education programs typically focus on academic remediation and nutrition for disadvantaged students, "for some kids, no matter how well you do that, it's not enough, because the amount of adversity in their lives overwhelms," he said.
"It's asking too much," Dr. Shonkoff said, "to require parent education and an enriched preschool program to counteract the effects of the level of adversity in some kids' lives that is whipping up their stress-response systems."
Researchers, including Mr. Levitt of USC and Dr. Felitti, are starting to explore new interventions, both medical and cognitive, that might protect children's developing brains from damage caused by stress and improve their ability to cope.
So far, there are no classroom-ready techniques beyond developing supportive relationships between teachers and parents and their children, Mr. Levitt said. "Helping people after the fact is really nibbling at the edges of the problems," Dr. Felitti said during a presentation on the research at the Society for Neuroscience conference in New Orleans last month. "We need a polio vaccine, as opposed to buying bigger and better iron lungs."
"Stress is not something you get a lot of sympathy for," Dr. Shonkoff said in a separate interview at the Society for Research in Educational Effectiveness meeting in Washington. "This is a culture that says suck it up and get over it."
But in reality, Dr. Felitti concluded, "the [ACE] study makes it clear that time does not heal some of the adverse experiences we found so common. ... One does not 'just get over' some things, not even 50 years later."


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Washington. D.C. - The Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act, which would guarantee reliable and efficient processing of artist visas, has been introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate. The bill is sponsored in the House by Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and seven other bipartisan cosponsors, and was introduced in the Senate by Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). Orchestras and the wider performing arts community are working to advance this legislation to passage.
The League is a member of the Performing Arts Alliance, a coalition of national performing arts service organizations dedicated to advocating for national policies that recognize, enhance, and foster the contributions the performing arts make to America.


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Painted Rooms: An Artist's Vision of Winterthur
November 2012–January 6, 2013
This special exhibition featured select paintings of Winterthur's rooms by English artist Michael John Hunt. The paintings offer an intimate and authentic glimpse into the private and public spaces of Winterthur.
The artist was inspired by the different styles, periods, histories, and stories while wandering around the rooms of the house on his first visit to Winterthur in 1996. That inspiration led him to embark on an artistic journey to paint every room in the house. Upon returning to his home in Sandwich, Hunt began the first painting in the series that will ultimately include 200 depictions of Winterthur. The works range from scenes of rooms of the house to views of special exhibitions to images of the garden.
One of the most striking features of Hunt's portraits is his theatrical use of natural light. He creates his pictures with layered acrylics and glazes to produce subtleties of light and color that are usually associated with oil pigments. His technique allows his works to capture sunlight as it filters between wood wall paneling, spills through window panes, and pools onto floorboards by open doorways, forever capturing fleeting shadows in paint.
On his endeavor to paint the rooms of Winterthur, Hunt has completed 121 paintings to date and has also produced limited-edition prints of a number of the images. The special exhibition at Winterthur will feature a small selection of his paintings.
The Hunt Gallery is located in the medieval Cinque Port of Sandwich, Kent, England and includes a collection of paintings featuring the rooms, spaces, and grounds of Winterthur.


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Athabasca Basin and beyondMay 1st, 2015
Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere to May 1, 2015
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NexGen ends winter with outstanding step-outs, plans 2015 maiden resource
Following a season in which 44 of 46 holes at Rook 1's Arrow zone found mineralization, the last one released by NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE showed the project's highest total composite mineralization. That April 29 announcement followed an April 23 batch of results that included some of the zone's strongest offscale radioactivity. Although lots of assays are still pending, drilling resumes in early June with five rigs expected to sink a total of 25,000 metres. The longer-term goal is a maiden resource by December.
Winter's record-breaker was angled hole AR-15-45b, which drilled through A2 and A3, two of the zone's three mineralized shears. It returned a composite 226 metres of mineralization distributed within a 468-metre section starting at 391 metres in downhole depth. Included was a composite 9.8 metres that went "offscale" between 10,000 and 54,000 counts per second.
The results come from a hand-held scintillometer that measures drill core radioactivity. Readings above 10,000 cps are considered offscale due to the limitations of earlier devices. These measurements don't substitute for assays, which have yet to arrive.
Another radioactive announcement six days earlier heralded a substantial expansion to A2's high-grade core, some of Arrow's strongest off-scale measurements and semi-massive to massive pitchblende that would make a geologist's mouth water. Currently marking Arrow's southwestern border, hole AR-15-44b stepped out 76 metres southwest along strike from AR-14-30, which last October assayed 7.54% U3O8 over 63.5 metres.
AR-15-44b found a composite 190.7 metres within a 519-metre section, starting at 430.5 metres in depth. The results included an offscale composite of 40.45 metres.
Other highlights include:
- AR-15-43a, with 92 composite metres within a 501.5-metre section, starting at 346 metres
- AR-15-42a, with 68.9 composite metres within a 592.5-metre section starting at 142.5 metres
Arrow now covers 515 metres by 215 metres, with mineralization found vertically at depths between 100 metres and 920 metres. Still open in all directions and at depth, the zone boasts significant off-scale mineralization at both its southwestern and northeastern extents.
Beyond Arrow, NexGen's winter season also resulted in Rook 1's Bow discovery.
Athabasca Basin bought deals: Fission closes $20 million, Denison announces $15 million
April 29 proved a good day for uranium financings as the Basin's two most prominent explorers announced substantial bought deals. Fission Uranium TSX:FCU completed a private placement of 13.34 million flow-through shares at $1.50 to bring in $20.01 million. Denison Mines TSX:DML announced an agreement to purchase 12 million flow-through shares at $1.25 for $15 million, an offer that's expected to close around May 26.
Fission's placement started at $15 million on April 1. Within hours the figure rose to $17.4 million. With the underwriters exercising their additional 15% option, the deal closed on $20.01 million. Earlier this month the company finished its winter program at Patterson Lake South, which strived to expand and upgrade the Triple R deposit and the R600W zone, as well as explore the PLS property farther afield.
Denison also wrapped up winter work earlier this month after sinking 61 holes totalling 30,400 metres on seven projects, most of them joint ventures. Summer plans call for about 34,000 metres on eight projects, focusing on the flagship Wheeler River project, which has a maiden resource for the Gryphon zone planned for December to complement the very high-grade Phoenix deposit three kilometres southeast. Denison holds 60% of the JV with Cameco Corp TSX:CCO (30%) and JCU (Canada) Exploration (10%).
Also announced April 29, Cameco's Q1 results showed $566 million in revenue, a 35% increase over the same period last year. Gross profit reached $129 million, a 19% increase. But a net loss attributable to shareholders sunk to $9 million, or $0.02 per share diluted, 107% below Q1 2014 performance. The company attributed blame "primarily due to higher mark-to-market losses on foreign exchange derivatives."
In a more modest financing the following day, Kivalliq Energy TSXV:KIV closed the final tranche of a private placement totalling nearly $2.8 million. UEX Corp TSX:UEX offered a $2.5-million placement on April 21.
Phase I drilling finds U3O8 at Lakeland Resources' Star/Gibbon's Creek project
Assays released May 1 show a promising start to Lakeland Resources' (TSXV:LK) Star/Gibbon's Creek project. As a result the company plans geophysics and drilling to complement last winter's 14-hole, 2,550-metre program on the road-accessible property a few kilometres from the town of Stony Rapids, on the Basin's north-central rim.
Among highlights from the project's South trend was hole GC15-03, immediately below the sub-Athabasca unconformity, which showed:
- 333.8 ppm U3O8 over 1.1 metres, starting at 106.8 metres in downhole depth
- (including 0.13% over 0.23 metres)
True widths weren't available.
The hole also revealed uranium enrichment, strong hydrothermal alteration and the pathfinder elements boron, cobalt and nickel between 106.8 and 133 metres in depth.
Additional anomalous uranium came from two holes north and south of GC15-03:
- 86.7 ppm over 1 metre, starting at 114.2 metres
- 123.3 ppm over 2.1 metres, starting at 103.4 metres
GC15-02, collared near an historic hole that assayed 0.18% over 0.13 metres, showed:
- 120.3 ppm over 1 metre, starting at 101 metres
At the South zone's eastern end, GC15-10 returned "a strong illite clay alteration assemblage from the unconformity (80.9 metres) to 148 metres' depth," Lakeland stated. "This interval corresponds to a zone of strong ductile shearing and local brittle-ductile cataclastic brecciation."
GC15-06 on the Centre zone tested an area with some of the Basin's strongest land-based RadonEx measurements. "Highly anomalous geochemical pathfinders were noted throughout the hole, including a zone of uranium enrichment from approximately 41 metres to 109.5 metres in depth."
The company now plans airborne electromagnetics on the project's eastern margins, ground gravity at the South trend and additional RadonEx surveys. Further drilling around GC15-06 and the South trend will follow.
"Given the early stage of exploration at Gibbon's Creek, results obtained from this first round of drilling are very encouraging," said president Jonathan Armes. "The geochemical, clay and alteration results are suggestive of a nearby basement-hosted or unconformity-hosted uranium occurrence…. Lakeland will have multiple exploration programs ongoing in and around the Athabasca Basin this summer and fall, which should provide for an exciting year."
With one of the Basin-region's largest portfolios, Lakeland currently holds 32 properties totalling over 300,000 hectares. Among other drill-ready projects are Newnham Lake, east of Star/Gibbon's, and Lazy Edward Bay on the Basin's southern rim.
Last week the company appointed well-known geologist Jody Dahrouge to Lakeland's board of directors. During his 25-year career he played a key role in Fission Energy's acquisition of Waterbury Lake, Patterson Lake and Patterson Lake South. Waterbury Lake now hosts the J-zone discovery, while PLS holds the Triple R deposit.
Read more about Lakeland Resources' Star/Gibbon's Creek project.
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) -- Waterbury police say they arrested a 7-year-old boy who brought a pellet gun onto his school bus.
Police said Wednesday that the first-grader showed the gun to other children on the bus ride to Hopeville Elementary School on April 11. They say the bus driver noticed a commotion and confiscated the gun, which resembled a real gun. No one was hurt.
Officers say the boy found the gun in his uncle's drawer. He was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon and released to his parents. School officials also suspended him for seven days.
The boy's name wasn't released because of his age.
Police say the Newtown school shootings played a role in an officer's decision to arrest the boy, whose case will be handled by a Juvenile Court judge.


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DAMASCUS, Syria — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday that reports of a poison gas attack in a rural village north of Damascus were so far "unsubstantiated," adding that the United States was trying to establish what really happened before it considers a response.
Both sides in Syria's civil war blamed each other for the alleged attack that reportedly injured scores of people Friday amid an ongoing international effort to rid the country of chemical weapons.
The details of what happened in Kfar Zeita, an opposition-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, remain murky. Online videos posted by rebel activists showed pale-faced men, women and children gasping for breath at what appeared to be a field hospital. They suggested an affliction by some kind of poison — and yet another clouded incident where both sides blame each other in a conflict that activists say has killed more than 150,000 people with no end in sight.
"We are trying to run this down," said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, during an appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"So far it's unsubstantiated, but we've shown, I think, in the past that we will do everything in our power to establish what has happened and then consider possible steps in response," she said.
In the Syrian capital, Syrian President Bashar Assad said the conflict in Syria was shifting in the government's favor.
"This is a turning point in the crisis, both militarily in terms of the army's continuous achievements in the war against terror or socially in terms of national reconciliation and growing awareness of the true aims of the attack on the country," state-run Syrian television quoted Assad as saying. He spoke to a group of students and teachers from Damascus University.
His comments follow a string of government triumphs against rebels, particularly around the Syrian capital. Assad's forces also have struck local cease-fire agreements with the opposition in a number of neighborhoods, where weary rebels have turned over their weapons in exchange for an easing of suffocating blockades.
Opposition groups, including the main Western-backed Syrian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack at Kfar Zeita hurt dozens of people, thought it did not identify the gas used. State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front rebel group for the attack, saying they used chlorine gas to kill two people and injured more than 100. It did not say how it confirmed chlorine was used.
Chlorine, one of the most commonly manufactured chemicals in the U.S., is used to purify drinking water. But as a gas, it can be deadly.
Adham Raadoun, an opposition activist on the edge of Kfar Zeita, said government helicopters dropped a number of barrel bombs on the village that appeared to carry the toxic gas, killing one person and choking about 100 people, many of them in their homes.
Quoting eyewitnesses, Raadoun said the gas had a thick, yellowish color that smelled of chlorine.
The videos documenting the attack were reminiscent — albeit on a much smaller scale — of an Aug. 21 chemical attack near the capital, Damascus, that killed hundreds of people.
The U.S. and its allies blamed the Syrian government for that attack, which crossed a "red line" that President Barack Obama had said would bring harsh consequences. The attack nearly sparked Western airstrikes before a negotiated diplomatic settlement saw Assad's government agree to give up its chemical weapons. Damascus denied the charges and blamed rebels of staging the incident.
About half the weapons have been removed from Syria so far. The Syrian government has missed several deadlines, blaming the delays on security concerns.
The opposition also has claimed other, limited use of chemical weapons or poisonous gas attacks near Damascus in recent days.
Power's comments came as heavy fighting raged Sunday across many parts of the country. In the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo, activists said at least 29 people were killed over the weekend.
The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 16 rebels were among those who died in the overnight combat. At least 13 civilians also were killed when government aircraft dropped barrel bombs on the city's rebel-held districts.
Another activist group, the Syria-based Local Coordination Committees, said Assad's warplanes launched fresh airstrikes there on Sunday.
Aleppo, Syria's largest urban center and its one-time commercial hub, has been a key front in the civil war. The fighting has been in a stalemate for months.
Both activist groups also reported airstrikes on rebel positions in a village in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province near the Iraqi border. The Observatory said the strikes killed at least four people and wounded scores.
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5 citations: Charlottesville Police begin enforcing citizen snow removal
Charlottesville Police have gotten tough on businesses and individuals who have not removed snow from public sidewalks, and issued five summons for noncompliance with the city's snow removal ordinance.
McDonald's, Wendy's, and Yellow Cab got tickets February 11, and individuals in the 1700 block of JPA and in the 700 block of Monticello were written up this week.
"We've received over 150 complaints," says Lieutenant Gary Pleasants. "The majority were warned, and most complied."
Since the December snowpocalypse, police have come under fire for not enforcing the sidewalk ordinance, which requires that residents clear walkways within 12 hours after snowfall ceases.
At the end of January, Chief Tim Longo admitted that he didn't think the ordinance seemed enforceable after the so-called December "Snowpocalypse" because of the city's failure to clear its own sidewalks.
Subsequent storms were not as voluminous, and the city's grade from Pedestrian Safety Committee member Kevin Cox was much improved, particularly in clearing curb ramps and crosswalks that can impede travel, particularly for disabled citizens.
"Police went around and issued warnings," says an impressed Cox, who calls the enforcement operation "a good idea and long overdue."
Sidewalk scofflaws face a Class 1 misdemeanor that carries up to 12 months in jail and/or up to a $2,500 fine.
"Obviously, this amount of snow and frequency are unprecedented," says Pleasants. "That's why we gave such leeway. And once we gave the warning, they had 12 hours."
Police are still on snow patrol. On Wednesday, February 17, says Pleasants, they're concentrating on sidewalks around schools.
"It's a civic obligation," says Cox, "and most people meet it."
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How about failure to secure load? I'm disappointed you didn't come up with that GSOE...
Folks, the notion of a "City sidewalk" does not mean that the City owns it, or that the City has to clear it. The "Prospect Avenue complex" that you refer to is, I assume, what is now known as Blue Ridge Commons. It is not owned by the City or any piece of the City. It is privately owned, and if the sidewalk there has not been cleared, it is the private landowner who is not doing it and who is liable. And Maplewood Cemetery is not City-owned, I'm pretty sure.
My problem with the "clear the sidewalks" ordinance is that, as in the case of my house, the City snowplows pile up the snow on my sidewalk to 5 feet deep, and that pile won't be gone before spring.
No way 46.2-1156 would cover snow on top of a car.
First off, you haven't "loaded" anything into or onto your car. Secondly, snow hardly qualifies as "contents" you have loaded into or onto your car.
§ 46.2-1156. Construction, maintenance and loading must prevent escape of contents; load covers; exemptions.
A. No vehicle shall be operated or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed, maintained, and loaded as to prevent its contents from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping.
And last time I looked the city's sidewalk on Lexington Avenue and vicinity by Maplewood Cemetery has not been cleared. Snow piled on it by plows. The city needs to cite itself!
"World-class city"- what a sad sack joke!
Bravo to the city! Finally! They have cleared the right turn lane from Melbourne onto Park Street.
But, IMHO, they should also have cleared the straight thru lane from Park Street onto Rio Road right beofre the bridge. It's still too narrow when a person is in the left turn lane and a large vehicle or truck tries to squeeze by them. Oh well!
Anyhow......... § 46.2-852 Reckless Driving would cover snow on the top of a car. It's kinda a catch-all when something isn't specifically spelled out in the state code.
The wording "any person who drives a vehicle on any highway....blah blah blah... or in a manner so as to endanger the life, limb, or property of any person shall be guilty of reckless driving."
As a result of this last storm, and with temperatures remaing so low, there have been numerous reports locally of snow/ice flying off tall trucks and smacking the cars behind them.
Great! Just what this topic needs...a theologian. Thanks for offering your vast array of knowledge buddy. The fortuity of my/our rhetoric has ended now that you've cleared it all up for us. Nothing else I can add.
I'd love it if the city would stroll down Locust and check out what hasn't been shoveled in the 600, 700, and 800 blocks. As someone who walks down Locust every day -- and sees lots of other people commuting similarly -- it would be nice if we didn't have step gingerly on packed-down snow and ice and climb over the big piles of snow at every intersection.
Forget the sidewalks. The roads aren't even fully cleared yet. We would be better off having the police monitoring roads and enforcing better snow plowing than passing out tickets. The police should be out there with plows and shovels. Is this an effort to fund budget shortfalls?
Just came by Maplewood. Hollow Boy is right. The sidewalk is not shoveled. And Blue Ridge Commons is owned by the city as well, Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority to be exact.
The inmate idea is great!
How about places where city plows decided to put 6 ft of snow on someone's sidewalk?! And what's an elderly homeowner to do with 12 hours notice who now has over 1,000 cubic ft of snow to remove or face penalty? The best thing I saw last week was 8 inmates at the regional jail being supervised while clearing snow. Might as well put them to good use since they're living on the taxpayer dime, and while I don't generally care about anything regarding inmates other than making sure they're treated fairly within the penal system, you know 98% of inmates would gladly take the opportunity to work outside 6-8 hours a day.
Maplewood is city-owned. Agreed on the giant piles. Nobody could get to my cleared sidewalk if they wanted to, and part of it is obscured with fallen tree limbs.
Perhaps the city should first take another look at their own sidewalks! I noticed yesterday that the sidewalks on 5th Street S.W. have not been done yet. In particular, the sidewalks behind the Prospect Avenue complex. People have to walk out in the roadway.
The city also won't clear the roadways. Melbourne Road has a left turn lane onto Rio Road that's open. The right turn lane onto Park Street has a pile of snow about 200 feet tall.
On Park Street turning onto Melbourne Road, the left turn lane is open. The straight through lane onto Rio Road is so narrow I am surprised many cars haven't been sideswiped. Or maybe they have, I don't know.
A misdameanor 2500 dollar fine? A year in jail?
How about the same ticket a car would receive for double [parking and impeding traffic?
So you go to jail for that?
Change the law to a 25 dollar fine and write a ticket every day until it is done. Then use discreation for all of the complaints above and write hundreds of tickets INCLUDING to the city. If it is not cleaned within twn days then have the inmates clean it and bill the homeowner for the cost of icarcerating that inmate for a day.
If it is a "public side walk" (and not my private property) it is NOT my responsibility to clear it. And I wont.
Snow on sidewalks really is a public safety concern. Joggers, elderly, families with strollers, handicapped in wheelchairs, blind, and just about most pedestrians are forced to share a snow-filled and icy road with cars.
Whether you think that the city should do it, inmates should do it, or property owners should it, I think we can all agree that the city needs to make sure that it gets done, and MUCH MORE QUICKLY. Do we need to wait for pedestrian accidents before the city makes a move?
Sorry guys and girls, Bab Bab is correct. You are responsible for the sidewalk on your property. The good news is that we've probably got at least a decade or two before we have another winter close to this.
Bob Bob, you actually own the sidewalk and the public has an easement. Just like any easement, that means you can't park your truck across the sidewalk, and if your tree falls on the sidewalk you need to clear it. If snow falls on it, you need to shovel it.
Anyway, not shoveling is fine too -- we could use more inmates to shovel our walks next year :)
The City is UNFAIR!!!!!!!!! Those sidewalks are on city property, we pay taxes, too much at that. The City should clean up THEIR STUPID SIDEWALKS. In addition, will the city give a ticket to a citizen who is old, sick, or otherwise unable to clean the sidewalk? YES THEY CAN.
I'm no expert on Virginia municipal code, but I believe Virginia Code § 46.2-1156 covers it this quite well...
ââ?¬Å?No way 46.2-1156 would cover snow on top of a car.
First off, you haven't ââ?¬Å?loaded" anything into or onto your car. Secondly, snow hardly qualifies as ââ?¬Å?contents" you have loaded into or onto your car."
I think if you consult the Commonwealth's attorney or perhaps a judge about the interpretation of the law, you will find you are mistaken. Regardless of how the "load" came to be on your vehicle, it is still a load and you are responsible to maintain it. As was previously stated by another comment, it absolutely poses safety hazards for all that may come in the vicinity of that vehicle while it is in motion. I'm certain there are other laws regarding endangering others on the roadway as well. Ignorance is no excuse.
If od put the snow down then it is gods responsibiliy to pick it up.
Man With A Paper a-hole, I know the answer. It's not § 46.2-1156.
It's actually pretty obvious. But I think a cop would have an extremely hard time getting a conviction.
Anybody else want to take a guess?
The FACT remains it is CITY property. If I were Tiger Woods and a bunch of people were picketing me, I can only tell them to stay off my property, and because the CITY owns the sidewalk and the street too, I cannot tell them to go away unless I have a peace warrant filed on any specific person in that crowd.
It is city property, we pay taxes out the rear-end the CITY should pay to remove the snow. Even Fairfax County does not require owners to remove snow from sidewalks and they have far more sidewalks than Charlottesville. The city is soaking us and they want us to face a possible $2,500 fine.
Sure, I will clear any sidewalk which belongs to me, and if the city wants me to labor on thier sidewalk, then I will send them a bill. Maybe $2,500.
Hey you guys who are claiming that the city owns the sidewalk- what if someone were picketing your residence on that sidewalk, would you go tell them that it was your property or the cities?
Get the damn snow and ice off the sidewalk and be done with it- until then, keep your check book handy- they also take credit cards...
heck, slip down a city snow mound somewhere, on "city" property, have a lawyer with you and sue the city............
Statistically speaking, you are correct Locust Ave. Guy. However, if the "global warming" theorists are correct, then crazy weather patterns are going to be par for the course and only getting crazier. Being the all knowing prognosticator that I am, my prediction is for 8" of snow on April 28(snowfall actually beginning 10PM April 27) followed by 85Ã?Å¡ and sunny on April 29. Coincidentally, Mt. Chipotle shall cease to exist on April 27 at 12PM. So if you have your money in that pool, be prepared for the controversy to erupt.
I'll save my comments on that ridiculous "global warming" notion for another day...
CvilleBoy- guess what I was aiming at was (and you have heard it before) "be part of the solution, not part of the problem".
Our sub division road (public county road)- one way in one way out- was not plowed for 6 days following both storms. We complained to ourselves while we shoveled and tramppled it down ourselves. We shovelled each others driveways and walkways and had cars going in and out in two days.
So became part of the solution instead of part of the problem. It was a one time (oops, two time) event.
Fairfax County- taxes are a lot higher as well- I was their last week and their sidewalks are piled a lot higher than you might believe. Went to Staunton too- nowhere to run there either. Cars still covered and blocking roadways.
Good luck next time- perhaps a plan might be worth while..
How about failure of the police to find and secure suspects and prisoners...........hummmmm?
It's just common courtesy to remove the snow from the top of your vehicle. Not only can it hinder drivers around you but it can also slide down your front windshield and obstruct said automibles vision. In addition it leaves big chunks of snow/ ice in the road that scraps the bottom of other cars. Point Blank it's not safe
As for the City of Charlottesville, they have done better in 2010 with their snow removal but they only improved from and F to a C. There are still several areas as to it's nearly impossible to see around the massive mounds of snow, especially when turning. Then look at the streets ok the sidewalk may be clean but how do you access it if the entire street in front of it is still heavily piled with snow and ice. Thanks for the improvement but its still not enough.
I enjoyed seeing the inmates removing snow the other day. Can't lie I chuckled at first and took a 2nd look to make sure I was seeing correctly. Then thought it was a great idea being that our tax dollars give them 3 hots and a cot with cable, exercise equipment, educational training, medical attention, etc. It's a great way for them to give back to their community !! But don't feel They should not be paid for the work it should be done on a barter system they remove the snow and "we" the community give them a few hours of fresh air and sunshine.
Yesterday around 11Am. Huge mountain of snow completely blocking the sidewalk beside Charlottesville Wrecker on High St. To get around it necessary to step well into the street,not just on edges.
Whether it was done by the city or by whoever plowed for the wrecker company, someone should be held accountable for this hazard.
Its against the city code to put snow into the street. It should also be illegal to pile it on sidewalks and intersections, blocking passage. So many times a completely cleared walk will have a wall of snow and ice at the curb by the intersection.
Agreed; Likely difficult to convict, unless property damage is incurred. Obviously, I'm no cop and have vested little time searching for the correct title. I ALWAYS clear the snow from vehicle so it is little more than an annoyance in my life when that mass of snow and ice is approaching my vehicle at 88 fps. Either way, I still find it an entertaining debate.
Reason #7676 why people of foreign nations generally hate Americans...
Thanks for the reminder wonderer.
FWIW: If the snow and ice STAYED on your vehicle, no one would care. As the erudite nature of your comment clearly indicates, you are obviously an aeronautical engineer and fully grasp that there's no possible way for that mass of snow and ice to dislodge from your vehicle and cause problems for other drivers on the roadway. My enlightenment is nearly complete.
...Reason #7676.1 why most Americans hate Americans
Thanks again wonderer
"Reason #7676.1 why most Americans hate Americans
Thanks again wonderer"
Don't even try to troll me. But yes, your enlightenment is almost complete.
you know what i'm all about safety. due to super cop that set behide a desk all day and eat and answer phone does not count ok but those that need help or other wise cant get it done is over the top you have cities that need money and the only way is to fine people that dont have the time or the money. so the best way is to steal from the taxpayers whom play for the sorry service from any cities with the pricetag
how about
§ 46.2-1156. Construction, maintenance and loading must prevent escape of contents; load covers; exemptions.
A. No vehicle shall be operated or moved on any highway unless it is so constructed, maintained, and loaded as to prevent its contents from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise escaping.
I'm a little POed that our layabout city council hasn't taken advantage of its power to do this:
6. Authorize the designation of certain highways, or portions thereof, as play areas for sledding and similar recreational activities.
That's from § 46.2-1302. Regulation of operation of vehicles in snow, sleet, etc.; designation of play areas; penalties.
Maybe we could petition to have Roy's Place designated a sledding area, although I think leaving Cherry Ave. or Rose Hill unplowed and open for sledding would be a lot more fun.
there once was a mayor of chicago who lost his reelection bid over his poor response to winter weather.
46.2-1003 Illegal use of defective or unsafe equipment
46.2-1111 Extension of loads beyond line of fender or body
This clearly states that if you do not like the snow on my vehicle you can kiss my arse.
quote: "ticket the people that drive around on the roadways with 12-18 inches of snow still atop their vehicle. This is a safety issue for everyone too."
What would the charge be? Can you cite a code section?
Bab Bob,
You must not be aware of where the property lines are, in most situations in C'ville, it is 6" beyond the sidewalk. This is NOT an easement street side sidewalks, curbs and gutters are all on city property. (A sidewalk from the edge of a street side sidewalk to the front door of a house is of course on the homeowner's property.) Go check the property records in the Court House and see it for yourself.
The city should have a form that the old or infirmed can fill out to request that the city have the sidewalk taken care of. If we can give free housing to people with cadillacs then we can assist those among us who need some genuine help. I would volunteer to go to those homes and help out.
I will also go to any hotties who want to bring me in afterwords and show me their thong collection.
I like the idea of the inmates contributing to the C-ville sidewalks. I also wish that our local law enforcement agencies (county, city or state) be PROACTIVE; ticket the people that drive around on the roadways with 12-18 inches of snow still atop their vehicle. This is a safety issue for everyone too.
Can I write the morons running the Cville government a ticket for not having the roads cleared. How about a ticket for VDOT for running over my mailbox, my newspaper box, the brick light column by my driveway and getting there truck stuck blocking my driveway for 12 hours and destroying my lawn.
Blue Ridge Commons is owned by Blue Ridge Commons Corp, not the city.
Oh, and agreed, the inmate idea is great.


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These new production stills from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" would lead us to believe that the movie could be good and gory. We'll have to wait until April 30th to see if this promise rings true.
In a recent interview, Lloyd Kaufman lets slip that there are a number of Troma movies in talks for possible remakes including "Poultrygeist" and "Class of Nuke 'Em High". One would normally take news like this from Lloyd with a grain of salt, but the "Mother's Day" remake has already wrapped and "The Toxic Avenger" is in talks, so stranger things have happened!
Not to let Sam Worthington steal all the godly thunder, Stephen Dorff has signed on to "War of the Gods", another Greek monster fighting montage.
Though we have yet to lay eyes on any of her genre rolls yet, young actress Chloe Moretz has signed on for the serial killer opus "The Fields". With her upcoming turns as our fanged lead in the upcoming remake "Let Me In" and her ass kicking antics in "Kick-Ass", she sure seems to enjoy the genre work.


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So, decided to clean up the thread and remake it, and basically detail my journey. I had been using the following system for a while:
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX Gen3/R2
AMD FX-8350 @ 4.6ghz w/ Corsair H105
24GB G.Skill DDR3 2133
Sapphire Fury Nano
1TB Samsung 850 Evo (Boot & Media)
512GB Samsung 850 Evo (Games)
240GB OCZ Vertex 3 (Online backups)
I had decided to upgrade to Ryzen given the much improved IPC capability, and had actually ordered everything a couple of months ago, but when Microsoft said
I returned them and basically had resigned myself to using what I had until it blew up. Couple months later and Unofficial Patch Unblocks Windows 7 and 8.1 Updates for Kaby Lake, Ryzen came out which removed the update blocks, which were literally just "is_processor_supported" tags in the Windows Update file, which made Ryzen viable again. I had decided to wait for the 4 core 8 thread processors next month, but I figured when it comes time for resale the 1800X would hold its value better, I decided to take the leap again, and went with
ASUS Prime X370-Pro
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200
Samsung 960 Evo 250GB NVMe SSD
I decided to also go ahead and upgrade to a Samsung 960 Evo 250GB NVMe boot drive since I had to reinstall Windows anyway, so it'd be the best time to do it. I wanted to get the 1TB version, but it's $430, and I couldn't justify that considering what I was already spending. I also decided to go with Saturday delivery so I could hopefully get the system built and bughunted before the workweek. Well, Saturday came, FedEx came, got my tower tore apart, went to put in the CPU, and the box was EMPTY! The bottom seal was also cut, so I assume either someone in the warehouse didn't properly check a return or someone in the warehouse stole it. Nice little conversation with Amazon later, and a couple of days since they couldn't get a replacement to me until Monday, and I'm finally setup to go.
Or I thought I was. Windows 7 Setup would not capture my mouse or keyboard no matter which port I had it connected to or even if I used the PS/2 connector. Multiple keyboards and mice tried later, as well as some expletives, I decided to go ahead and try Windows 8.1, I had a copy I got for cheap. I had considered trying it first since it has 3 more years of support over 7 plus native NVMe support, but as there were no Windows 8.1 drivers mentioned I was afraid it didn't work, but it did just fine, and everything installed with drivers. I went ahead and started installing my programs and moving my media to my external drive so I could format my 850 Evo 1TB and use just as a media drive, but when I went to format it, it wouldn't format, not in Samsung Magician (secure erase), not in Windows, and not even in the bootable USB that Samsung Magician creates. Turns out that Windows 8.1 had just attached itself to the existing bootmgr despite being installed on a completely new drive, it still relied on Windows 7, and it also broke Windows Update.
3 drive images and Windows 8.1 setup again, I deleted all partitions on all disks and started from scratch, and this solved all my problems. Installed a gig or so of updates using WSUS Offline Update, and still had about a gig more to download from Windows Update, the patch worked like a charm. Thanks to most programs using %AppData% for data storage a simple copy and paste from old to new meant I had little to actually configure, didn't lose emails or anything. Game re-installation was what I was most worried about, but the bulk of them I repurchased on GoG, and since their installs were still in place on my games drive (restored from image), all I needed to do was scan and verify to get them up and going, took all of 300mb, though it would be much easier if GoG Galaxy had a "Verify/Repair All" button. Some games aren't actually installs, such as Doomsday, and some of them I haven't bothered to reinstall yet.
It's 5 days later and I'm remembering how nice it is to have a computer that just works. My RAM doesn't run at full speed yet, still waiting on ASUS to release an AEGSA 18.104.22.168 update. Overclocking to 4ghz was easy, though it won't stabilize any higher, which is in line with the reviews that Ryzen tops out at 4-4.1ghz, but with the much improved IPC capability it's still a great gain.
I left out a few things, but basically that's how it went. I'm still dealing with a few idiosyncrasies and bugs in Windows 8.1, namely the "This PC" tile on the start screen changing to "computer" and a different icon, and it scares the heck out of me that AMD seems to be dropping Windows 8.1 support just as RX Vega is about to be released, not that the Fury Nano is a slacker in the graphics department I would just hate to see me have to nurse this thing for 6 more years or longer.


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These portion-controlled beef pies are hearty, tasty, guilt-free and, oh yeah, HUGE! Prepare your face for a giant smile of satisfaction...
8 oz. raw extra-lean ground beef (4% fat or less)
1 cup finely chopped broccoli cole slaw
1/2 cup finely chopped green bell pepper
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1 tsp. chopped garlic
2 tbsp. tomato paste
1 tbsp. finely chopped cilantro
1/4 tsp. cumin
1/4 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. black pepper
1 package Pillsbury Crescent Recipe Creations Seamless Dough Sheet
Optional toppings: salsa, fat-free sour cream
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray.
Bring a large skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat. Add beef, broccoli slaw, bell pepper, onion, and garlic. Cook and crumble for 6 - 8 minutes, until beef is fully cooked and veggies are slightly soft.
Transfer beef mixture to a large bowl. Add tomato paste, cilantro, cumin, chili powder, salt, and black pepper. Mix thoroughly.
Roll out dough into a large rectangle of even thickness. Cut sheet lengthwise into two even pieces. Cut each piece widthwise into thirds, leaving you with six rectangular pieces of dough. Thinly roll out each rectangle.
Arrange dough pieces with the shorter sides on the right and left. Evenly distribute beef mixture among the centers.
One piece of dough at a time, fold and stretch the lower left corner to meet the upper right corner. Press edges firmly to enclose the beef mixture. (Your empanadas will be super stuffed!) With a fork, press edges to crimp and seal. Carefully transfer to the baking sheet.
Bake until dough is golden brown, about 12 minutes. Enjoy!
Serving Size: 1 empanada (1/6th of recipe)
Calories: 187
Fat: 6.5g
Sodium: 430mg
Carbs: 20g
Fiber: 1.5g
Sugars: 4.5g
Protein: 10.5g
PointsPlus® value 5*
Savory pastries don't always get as much attention as sweet ones, but they're incredibly delicious and loved by many (including us). Sadly, one of our favorites -- the beef empanada -- typically features a high-fat crust (sometimes deep fried!) and an even fattier filling. There are many variations worldwide, but the stats generally remain the same: SCARY. Still, the combination of crisp buttery dough and zesty beef filling can be so hard to resist! All of this talk about beef empanadas is making us HUNGRY, so we'll cut right to the chase. We've given 'em a mega makeover. Our take on the beloved meat pastry calls for some of our very favorite guilt-free ingredients: extra-lean ground beef (for classic beef goodness), broccoli cole slaw (for filling fiber), and our go-to premade dough (for ultimate convenience). What you get is a batch of totally large, totally tasty, totally easy empanadas that are totally worthy of your taste buds' devotion. Enjoy!
Serving Size: 1 empanada Calories: 456 Fat: 27g Sodium: 717mg Carbs: 42g Fiber: 1.5g Sugars: 4g Protein: 10g PointsPlus® value 12*
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In the near future, the world's fastest supercomputers will incorporate millions of processing elements, a substantial increase in scale over the high performance computing systems in use at leading research centers today. At the same time, however, the rates at which users can access data storage devices, such as hard disks, are not increasing at the same rate.
In fact, the overall ability of file systems to input and output data within these high performance computers is not keeping pace with the increases in raw compute power. Even commercial file systems used on the largest cluster computers — designed for competitiveness in the larger business market — are being stretched to address the demands of the most powerful systems.
Research scientists at the Ohio Supercomputer Center are part of a team researching this issue for the Department of Energy, which, incidentally, owns and operates several of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
"A comprehensive software solution is needed to bridge the gap between processing trends and I/O systems so that leadership-class machines can most efficiently leverage the available storage resources," the DOE grant proposal states.
The team will create a software package that will operate on the IBM Blue Gene, Cray XT, Roadrunner and Linux cluster platforms and function on a variety of file systems. The package will be designed as open-source software and be available online.
Project leads: Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, & James Nunez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research title: Common HEC I/O forwarding scalability layer
Funding source: U.S. Department of Energy


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Amazon purges itself of Apple
Will not sell competing devices
Amazon has finally had a enough of Apple and is pulling its products from its store.
Chromecast Audio launched for $35
Google aims for connected speaker market
Chromecast 2.0 will be the rounded leader of the Google's streaming and casting strategy but the search engine also announced something called Chromecast audio.
Chromecast 2.0 is round and $35 / €39
Available today in 17 countries
Chromecast has an updated version, changed its shape, learned 802.11ac Wi-Fi and hopefully it is doing a better job than its predecessor.
Google sends out invites for September 29 event
Nexus smartphones inbound
Google has finally sent out invites for its even that will be held in San Francisco on September 29th, confirming ealier rumors.
Google Chromecast gets Ethernet adapter
Provides power as well
Google's Chromecast HDMI streaming dongle is quite a popular little gadget and while it already had an integrated WiFi, it now got an optional Ethernet adapter as well.
Qualcomm show off Chromecast 4K-capable rival
Snapdragon 800 inside
Qualcomm was always a very innovative company, but it needed a lot of time to master and conquer new markets.
Amazon wants to beat Chromecast with a Fire TV Stick
$19 for prime users $39 for rest
New Google Chromecast finally brings Android mirroring
Let you share your device screen to TV
Belkin releases Miracast adapter
F7D7501 is what Chromecast failed to be
Nexus 7 with Chromecast combo earn you a $35 credit
Google Play Store deal


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The Sweet One is on the boil today, laying out a multi-point plan for the Great Leap Forward due to the new Honcho-appointment brouhaha. We actually agree with every point Peet makes except one, and it's a doozy: "The commercial airplane business and the car business have exactly zero in common, although Wall Street was positively gushing over Mulally's appointment - but this 'bold move' might just have trouble written all over it, so for now, let's just say it's a giant 'we'll see.'"
Wrong, Peter. The commercial aerospace industry has a lot in common with the auto industry. Both industries are now highly consolidated operations consisting of multinational entities born of competition and acquisition. The products range across the board, from massive people-carriers like the 747 and A380 to airborne cargo vans like the C-17. From doddering warhorses that are continually upgraded like the Lockheed Electra-based P-3 maritime patrol cruiser to the F-22 fighter. Large aerospace entities have to serve niche markets, (especially Boeing, with their diverse markets in defense and commercial fixed-wing and helicopter aviation).
Hot rodding was essentially birthed by aerospace guys. Aircraft companies can't take a "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" approach as they did in the "nobody knows anything, so let's try this" heyday of the first half of the last century, lest they lose multibillion-dollar contracts. Planes have to work, and they have to work now and for a long time afterward to justify the investment. Yes, the Explorer debacle was bad for Ford, but think about how 9/11 affected Boeing, even though the company itself wasn't at fault.
The aerospace industry has a history of modular systems, and developed it far more rapidly than the auto industry did. And it has its own history of rapid turnaround times. Simply look at WWII. Which was also a period when the two industries were greatly entwined; Packard and Rolls turning out Merlin engines — two of the finest automobile manufacturers in the world turning out an engine that helped turn the tide of the European war, and that's just the tip of the auto-aero incest iceberg.
Mulally has engineering degrees, which means he's not a sheer-numbers or marketing guy. In one way or another, the man is in love with machines. Ford needs somebody who understands that, because they've maxed out on industry insiderism. In fact, if you want to talk about "bold moves," this is the first one Ford's made that actually qualifies as such since they announced the campaign. It's the first news out of Detroit since the Challenger unveiling that's truly excited our West Coast bureau. And let's face it, the Challenger's a halo car. It's not going to single-handedly save DCX.
Mulally's appointment is not the same as GM's disastrous hiring of brand-managers from P&G. And while every CEO in the auto industry seems to be subject to your savagery, why not bring somebody in from an industry that has higher standards out of necessity, yet still has to figure out efficient ways to do things? True, Boeing and Airbus have a lock on airborne mass-transit. But it's a serious competition; a constant game of one-upmanship.
It's one of the smarter choices a directionless company could've made, and here's to hoping his vision for Ford is close to yours, Peet.
Dear Alan... [Autoextremist]
BREAKING! Bill Ford To Step Down As President And CEO Of Ford Motor Company, Names Boeing's Alan Mulally As Replacement [Internal]


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Teach Me to Walk in the Light
1. (Child) Teach me to walk in the light of his love;
Teach me to pray to my Father above;
Teach me to know of the things that are right;
Teach me, teach me to walk in the light.
2. (Parent) Come, little child, and together we'll learn
Of his commandments, that we may return
Home to his presence, to live in his sight
Always, always to walk in the light.
3. (Both) Father in Heaven, we thank thee this day
For loving guidance to show us the way.
Grateful, we praise thee with songs of delight!
Gladly, gladly we'll walk in the light.
Text: Clara W. McMaster
Music: Clara W. McMaster


text: Ten years ago, most Americans believed Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Today, most Americans believe Iran has nuclear weapons. And once again, Big Lie propagandists like Erin Burnett are (mis)leading us into war. ONE PERCENTER ERIN BURNETT: OUTFRONT CORPORATE FASCIST AND IRAN WAR DRUMBEATER Various versions have been circulating for weeks, but if there's anyone left in America who hasn't seen the video of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Persian posse strolling around in those white lab coats that our perpetual war profiteers want us to believe are clear indications … Continued


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wikipedia: San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. It is mainly famous for its medieval architecture, especially its towers, which may be seen from several kilometres outside the town.
wikipedia: The Collegiata is the main church of San Gimignano, Tuscany, central Italy, situated in the Piazza del Duomo at the town's heart. It was once the Duomo (cathedral), but since San Gimignano no longer has a bishop it has reverted to the status of a collegiate church.
The first church on the site was begun in the 10th century. The present building was begun in the early 12th century and was consecrated by Pope Eugene III in 1148. It was altered and enlarged by Giuliano da Maiano between 1466 and 1468. The façade dates from 1239 and is remarkably plain.
The Tuscany, one of the most beautiful Italian regions, is known throughout the world for its Landscapes and for the Works of Art that it houses (It is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance). Six localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the Historical Center of Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Pienza, the Square of the Cathedral of Pisa with the Leaning Tower and the Val d'Orcia. It is in the central Italy and borders with Emilia Romagna (north), Marche and Umbria (east) and Lazio (South). The West coast is bathed from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea; here we can find the islands of the Tuscan archipelago including the island of Elba. The regional capital is Florence and the other provinces are: Arezzo, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato and Siena.