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Train like an astronaut
ESA and its partners are launching a new kind of fitness initiative using the example of space explorers to promote exercise and healthy nutrition to young people worldwide. 'Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut' is boarding now in eight countries.
Kids: throw away the remote control, leave the Internet to run without you for a while and swap your burger for blueberries! Easier said than done.
ESA and other space organisations are using the excitement of spaceflight to help children and their teachers change their sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets – two of the most significant risks that can lead to chronic health problems as adults.
Getting people up and moving
'Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut' will encourage physical activity and healthier diets among young people in order to promote healthier societies. It is a worldwide initiative supported by ESA and the national space agencies of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, UK and USA.
The initiative will start in the second week of January 2011 and run for six weeks at the teachers' discretion during the following eight weeks.
The teams, consisting of children aged 8-12 years, will perform a number of physical exercises and classroom lessons to become as fit as an astronaut and learn the importance of an active lifestyle and healthy nutrition.
Scores will be awarded after each exercise and, at the end of the 'mission', the winning class for each country will be announced. A website will allow teams to upload results, download educational material, check the results and share comments.
One mission, eight ways to participate
National challenges of the 'Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut' are organised in different ways in each country.
Information will be available on the web pages of the participating organisations; see links on the right.
Taking part in the Netherlands
ESA and the Netherlands Space Office are running the Dutch challenge together. The teachers of the 10 selected classes will be invited to a training day and all the teams will attend two events, with an opportunity to talk to an astronaut.
To apply, you need:
- an enthusiastic teacher with pupils aged 8-12
- a science or gym teacher supporting the group
- a gym
- availability to spend at least 10 hours over 6 weeks on the mission (about 4 hours of these in the class room and 6 hours in the gym)
- availability to attend a one-day training course in Noordwijk in autumn 2010 (travel expenses covered by ESA)
- availability to attend the opening and closing ceremonies (January 2011 – spring 2011 in the Amsterdam/Noordwijk area)
How to apply?
- fill in the attached form (see link in right-hand bar)
- write a cover letter describing your motivation and interest in fitness and space (about 250 words, Dutch or English)
- write a slogan about space and fitness and the name you would like to assign to your class team (Dutch or English)
- send a picture from your school that represents the spirit of the initiative: space, fitness and children
- send all material to firstname.lastname@example.com
The selected teachers will be announced later in June on the ESA Human Spaceflight website.
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Laura North 1927-2012
Laura Claire (Pringle) North, age 85, passed away at Beth Haven Nursing Home in Hannibal, MO, on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012.
She was born on Jan. 28, 1927 to Charles and Juna Pringle in Emmetsburg. On March 14, 1948 she married Charles F. North at the First Congregational Church in Emmetsburg. They lived on the North family farm outside of Cylinder until Charles passed away in 2000.
Laura was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Avery, Norman, Kenneth; and two sisters, Edna and Alice.
She is survived by her three children: Deborah of Des Moines, Robert (Mila) of Redondo Beach, CA, Frank, (Sara) of Hannibal, MO; in addition, two granddaughters, one step-granddaughter, and one great granddaughter.
Laura enjoyed genealogy, collecting stamps and coins, and spending time with her family and friends. She was also a member of the Cylinder Women's Club and the DAR.
Visitation will be Saturday, Oct. 27. from 9 to 10:30 a.m. at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg. The service will follow. She will be interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Emmetsburg.
Condolences can be left at www.martinmatticefuneralhome.com

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The analysis of modern financial market data relies heavily on mathematical and statistical techniques. Mathematical techniques and tools devised using financial mathematics have contributed greatly to the development of the financial services industry and continue to play a key role in this sector.
This programme starts with a firm foundation to the mathematics and statistics that is in daily use in the financial industry. It then leads to advanced studies in financial mathematics, including asset price modelling, the risk-neutral pricing of financial derivatives, time series analysis, actuarial maths, and financial econometrics. This prepares graduates with relevant mathematical and statistical backgrounds to enter careers in the financial services industry, actuarial and insurance sectors or further study in financial mathematics.
The final year includes an advanced project on a topic in financial mathematics. In response to increased student interest, we also offer courses such as Mathematics and Society and Mathematics Education and Communication. The latter offers teaching experience through the Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme (UAS).
The aims of the programme are:
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Universities in the United Kingdom use a centralized system of undergraduate application: University and College Admissions Service (UCAS). It is used by both domestic and international students. Students have to register on the UCAS website before applying to the university. They will find all the necessary information about the application process on this website. Some graduate courses also require registration on this website, but in most cases students have to apply directly to the university. Some universities also accept undergraduate application through Common App (the information about it could be found on universities' websites).
Both undergraduate and graduate students may receive three types of responses from the university. The first one, "unconditional offer" means that you already reached all requirements and may be admitted to the university. The second one, "conditional offer" makes your admission possible if you fulfill some criteria – for example, have good grades on final exams. The third one, "unsuccessful application" means that you, unfortunately, could not be admitted to the university of you choice.
All universities require personal statement, which should include the reasons to study in the UK and the information about personal and professional goals of the student and a transcript, which includes grades received in high school or in the previous university.
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FROM subjects studied at A-level or equivalent qualifications, including at least 80 points from mathematics studied to A-level or equivalent.
PLUS GCSEs in English and mathematics at grade C or above, or equivalent qualifications such as key skills level 2.
Applications from students taking Access to Higher Education courses are welcome
No work experience is required.
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student's tuition fees."
Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students
* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Greenwich.
This bursary will be available to all new full time entry students paying the maximum level variable rate home fee of £3290 who also qualify for student support from Student Finance England.
The bursary will be payable for a maximum of three years and is dependent on successful progression each year of your programme. It will not be paid during any repeat or industrial placement years.
In addition to the above you will be required to qualify for the Maintenance Grant or Special Support Grant. These are grants that you can apply for when you make an application for your student loan for tuition fees and maintenance or what we call collectively Student Support.
A 10 per cent fee discount is available to all students who progress from an undergraduate to a non-government/research funded postgraduate programme at the university. The undergraduate degree programme must have been completed on one of the universitys campuses (Avery Hill, Greenwich and Medway), at University Centre Folkestone or at one of the universitys partner colleges prior to registration onto the postgraduate programme. The discount is applicable to the fee due after any other allowances have been deducted.
This bursary provides financial support to students entering higher education direct from local authority care. The student must have been in the care of the Local Authority for a minimum of 52 consecutive weeks immediately prior to beginning a programme of study. The bursary is available to UK students who on the 1st of September in the year of entry are 20 and under. Applicants must be studying full-time undergraduate programmes at one of the universitys campuses (Avery Hill, Greenwich or Medway) and qualify for the maximum level of government means tested maintenance of special support grant.
The bursary of £1,000 per year is payable for a maximum of three years. Payment in subsequent years is dependent on satisfactory progression and payment in a placement year is dependent on the placement being unpaid. In addition to the annual award, students will receive £100 in their final year towards the costs of the graduation ceremony.
A 10% tuition fee discount is available to home students that achieve a first upon completion of an undergraduate degree and continue their study to postgraduate level. To be eligible, students must have completed their three or four year degree programme on one of our main campuses or at one of our partner colleges and have paid the variable rate tuition fees for the entire degree programme.
The scholarship is not available to government/research funded and PGCE programmes.
This scholarship can be awarded in addition to the Alumni Progression Bursary and the 5% prompt payment discount.
10 scholarships of £525 each are available to students who progress from a University of Greenwich programme at one of our partner colleges directly to the final year of an honours degree programme at one of our campuses (Avery Hill, Greenwich or Medway). The applicant must have achieved to a high standard at the college. The 10 highest achieving students will be awarded.
Full time students paying maximum variable fee who receive the Mandatory Bursary detailed above who progress from year 1 to year 2 of study will receive a Progression Bursary payable in year 2 of study only. The award will be for £150.
When we say progression we mean that you have passed 120 credits and completed all last items of assessment at the first attempt. If you are awarded this bursary it will be in addition to the Mandatory Bursary and paid at the same time into your nominated bank account (the one your loan and grant is paid in to).
The Progression Bursary is not available for Foundation degree, HND other sub-degree programmes or for the majority of Partner Colleges programmes where the fee is below the maximum variable charge.
This scholarship of £525 per year for a maximum of three years (years 2 and 3 dependent on satisfactory progress), is available to full-time home undergraduate students on honours degree programmes who are studying at one of the universitys campuses (Avery Hill, Greenwich or Medway) and paying variable fees. On entry to the university, you must have achieved a UCAS tariff score of at least 300 points from A-levels or equivalent qualifications (not including AS-level, key/core skills or passport points) obtained within two consecutive years. The scholarship is not available to students on HNDs, foundation degrees and NHS-funded programmes.
Established in memory of former Deputy Vice-Chancellor Mr John McWilliam this scholarship assists students studying specified programmes of study, within the School of Architecture & Construction.
Each recipient, of five selected annually, will be able to use the scholarship of £1500 to fund a variety of educational costs not necessarily met by any other grant, award or scholarship including the opportunity to travel oversees as part of their programme of study. Scholarships are available for one year only and can only be received by each recipient once during their studies.
Applicants must be entering the first year, full-time UK home students, studying a specified programme on one of the universitys campuses (Avery Hill, Greenwich or Medway).
Additionally, priority will be given to applicants that have been resident for a minimum of three years in the one of the boroughs surrounding the university campuses; these include the London Boroughs of Bexley, Greenwich, Lewisham and the Medway Towns area. The successful recipients will be required to write a report at the end of the academic year detailing their progress.
This scheme is for all final year level 2 and 3 undergraduate students who are judged by a board of examiners to have demonstrated outstanding achievement during their programmes of study at the university or one of its partner colleges. Recipients of this award will be presented with a medal, certificate and £100.
This cash bursary of £1,000pa (payable in two £500 instalments) is awarded for a maximum of three years and is available to all students at the university who join the University of Greenwich Choir.
The bursary is awarded in memory of Dr David Fussey, the late Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, who gained great enjoyment from singing in choirs. If you have choral experience and pass the audition to join the choir, you may apply.
The choral exhibitioner must remain an active member of the choir, attend all rehearsals and give full support to the universitys Music Director. In the second year, the choral exhibitioner, in conjunction with the Music Director, is responsible for publicity and general administrative tasks for the choir. The closing date for applications each year is 30 September.
Madame Martina Österberg was a pioneer of physical education for women until her death in 1915. She founded the Bergman Österberg Physical Training College at Dartford, which until recently formed part of the university.
The furtherance of education was extremely important to Madame Österberg, and awards in her memory are available to all registered students of the University of Greenwich and its partner colleges. Applications can be made for additional educational experiences that are not directly associated with a students current programme of study.
Bursaries are available to students studying at the University of Greenwich or studying University of Greenwich programmes at one of its partner colleges. Students must have experience of playing rugby union to an appropriate level, with a minimum standard of County 18s group or a senior level of rugby, the equivalent to London South East 2 or above.
Bursaries are offered on an annual basis dependent on the students satisfactory performance and progress, a commitment to the Gravesend club and continued registration at the university.
The University of Greenwich, working closely with the Royal Navy Crown charity, Greenwich Hospital, has been awarded funds to assist students studying at the University of Greenwich. The scheme aims to provide support to students who are serving or former members of the Royal Navy or Royal Marines or their sons or daughters. Navy and marine personnel must have a minimum of three years service.
The bursary aims to assist eligible students with educational costs by making awards of up to £3,000 per academic year for a maximum of four years. Payment in academic years 2 and 3 is dependent upon satisfactory academic progress; payment during a placement (Sandwich) year is dependent on the placement being unpaid.
The Foundation provides bursaries, to permanent residents of the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. Applicants must have lived in the borough for a minimum of three years, be under 25 and have a family residual income in the region of £25,000 a year.
Bursaries can be used for travel, equipment, tuition fees, university excursions and general living expenses. UK full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students are eligible to apply.
International students who progress from an undergraduate to a non-government/research funded postgraduate programme can obtain a 10 per cent discount on their fees.
This £1,000 bursary is available to full-time and part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students who are serving in the Gurkha military or are former Gurkha military personnel. Immediate family members may also apply.
The University of Greenwich automatically awards scholarships of £1,000 to students from:
Bangladesh, Barbados, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkic States, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Students must be on a full-time programme that lasts for at least one academic year.
The university awards scholarships of up to £1,000 to students who have completed an approved programme at one of the universitys partner or link institutions in China and have progressed to an eligible programme at the university.
New international undergraduate students selected for outstanding achievement at the end of the first academic year receive a fee remission of £1,000 for years two and three of study.
Postgraduate students selected for outstanding achievement at the end of the diploma stage of Masters study are awarded a fee remission of £2,000 for the final stage of their Masters.
This programme will meet the educational requirements of the Chartered Mathematician designation, awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, when it is followed by subsequent training and experience in employment to obtain equivalent competences to those specified by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for taught masters degrees.


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Nintendo's Wii U: Why You'll Want One, Why You'll Never Play It
Going into E3, the Wii U was the thing I was most excited about. After being announced last year, Nintendo's newest console has gotten a ton of hype and I was anxious to spend some time with the console, as well as learn what games would be headed its way.
If you've been out of the gaming loop, Nintendo's newest console puts a tablet of sorts in your hand in the form of a new controller called the GamePad. The GamePad can be used as a second screen, or can let you do things like play against other people in the same game, showing you a different screen than other players see on the television. You can also stream games from the console to the controller and play them while your TV is being used for something else like watching a movie.
The console has gotten a ton of hype, and after it all I have to say: I'm pretty disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, the Wii U is cool. The game console offers the ability to do a number of things that weren't possible on the console –- or any other for that matter -– before. For instance, in a demo of Luigi's Ghost Mansion, a part of NintendoLand, the player with the GamePad played the role of a ghost that was out to get the other four players using traditional Wii controllers on the screen.
The game is made possible by the GamePad, simply because the player playing the ghost can be shown an entirely different screen than what the other players are seeing on the television, and consequently play against them. The functionality comes into play again with the Super Mario Brothers U, where the GamePad player is given the ability to assist other players in the game by creating things like platforms to help them get to their destination.
Wii Fit has also been updated to work with the Wii U, and other games will use the GamePad as less of a controller and more of a second screen, giving you access to things like maps or your weapons.
It sounds like a great idea, but the execution leaves something to be desired.
This controller is big
The Wii U GamePad is about the size of an iPad, but considerably thicker to accommodate rear buttons and controls. While it's certainly not gigantic or heavy by any means, it's also a little bigger and heavier than you'll likely be comfortable playing with for any extended period of time.
I did quite a few demos with the controller over the course of the week. After a 10 minute mini-game was done, I was often ready to hand over the controller for someone else to play. Playing for any extended period of time will definitely take some getting used to.
Playing is awkward
Trying to play a game with two screens is a lot more awkward than it sounds. In several of the demos, in fact, I was encouraged to just play the game on the GamePad and ignore the television all together. While that's well and good, if I had wanted to play a game on a small screen rather than my television then I would have been better served to load up the title on a Nintendo DS, or a tablet rather than my giant high-definition set.
Playing a game physically on the GamePad defeats the purpose.
When playing games such as Scribblenauts Unlimited, I actually started to feel like playing on the GamePad was even hindering my gameplay in a way. In the game, you tap on characters to interact with them and then input in things you'd like to do on a virtual keyboard. The bit of the game I got to play had to be played almost exclusively on the GamePad, and could have very easily been played on something smaller and lighter, while removing my TV entirely from the equation.
Why you'll still want one
While using the GamePad seems like more of a gimmick than an actual improvement to the console, it's still an attractive gimmick. You're going to have ton of fun playing NintendoLand the first 3 days you have the console, and at parties a few months later when friends come over and say "Oh! Is that a Wii U?!?" It's going to be a great thing to have at parties.
Long-term, however, I don't see very many people using the console to play games outside of the occasional party atmosphere, forcing the console into the dark dusty corner of your entertainment center where you've probably already stashed your original Wii.
What do you think about the Wii U? Let us know your thoughts about Nintendo's next-generation console in the comments.


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So, you want to do some soldering, but can't find that blasted stand that came with your iron. What's a Maker to do? Well, you could settle for setting it on a block of wood, or perhaps an unsuspecting siblings toy. If you've got an old coathanger handy, though, you can do much better with this DIY soldering iron stand (if I do say so myself). Thanks to Mitch Altman for demonstrating the technique, which has come in handy multiple times during our soldering workshop tour!
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The scoop: Galaxy Camera, by Samsung, about $550 (with month-to-month data service)
What is it? The Galaxy Camera is a melding of an Android smart device (minus the phone) and a digital camera. When combined, the camera is network-enabled (via Wi-Fi or a 4G LTE connection from either AT&T or Verizon), giving users the ability to immediately upload and share their photos and videos without needing to upload them to a separate computer.
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On the camera side, the Galaxy Camera features 16 megapixel imaging, a 21x optical zoom, a 23-millimeter-wide zoom lens and 1080p-recording camcorder. Additional features include image stabilization, specific modes (like macro, landscape, nighttime, etc.) and the ability to control camera features with the Samsung S Voice app. The camera features 8GB of internal memory and up to 64GB via microSD memory card.
On the Android side, the Galaxy Camera features the 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, with the ability to check email, download apps and do everything you'd do with an Android smartphone or tablet (again, except make phone calls).
Why it's cool: The camera seems to answer the question/statement, "If only my smartphone could take better photos!" The camera part of this device is incredibly impressive, and should dwarf anything you can produce via your current smartphone (it will certainly generate oohs and aahs from friends or co-workers when the zoom lens pops out). The Wi-Fi (you can also use this as a mobile hotspot) and 4G network connections give users the quick ability to share their photos -- whether it's uploading to Flickr, Picasa, Facebook or other social sites. For people who need to quickly send things to the Internet without heading to a PC, this is a nice benefit.
In my tests, I was able to use the Galaxy Camera to take photos and shoot videos at a trade show without needing to carry a much larger and bulkier camcorder, although it's only an advantage in quieter rooms/areas -- the microphone on the Galaxy Camera is still inferior to XLR-connected camcorders.
Some caveats: Transferring data to my computer (a MacBook Pro) was more difficult than with my Sony camcorder -- the Galaxy Camera couldn't import directly into iMovie, but rather required a separate Samsung app (Kies) for data transfer. I didn't have a microSD card, so the camera's internal memory filled up quickly with video files, limiting its usefulness. While a network connection may be useful for transmitting photos, the limitations of Wi-Fi and data usage caps of 4G service make video transfer a concern.
The combination of smartphone (sans phone) and digital camera is a nice idea, but you may feel that separate smaller phones/cameras may be more useful, unless you're really aching for a portable camera with a network connection that also lets you play Angry Birds Star Wars.
Grade: 3.5 stars (out of five)
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Big oil front group poured millions into lobby against fracking regulation
The same oil and gas companies that set up a front group to campaign against regulations over hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") have spent a combined total of more than $126 million on lobbyists, while pouring money into the campaign coffers of the Hill's loudest fracking regulation opponents.
DeSmogBlog recently exposed "Energy in Depth" as an oil and gas front group set up to lead the charge against anyone legislating against or even investigating the dangers of hydraulic fracturing and other natural gas industry practices that pose public health and water contamination threats.
Purportedly set up to represent "small, independent oil and natural gas producers," instead "Energy in Depth" is funded by some of the largest oil companies on the planet, such as Chevron, BP, Shell and Occidental, along with the American Petroleum Institute and other trade associations.
The "Independent" Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) memo obtained by DeSmogBlog was written in 2009, five days before the introduction of bills aimed at closing loopholes around the chemicals used in fracking.
In 2009, Congressional Democrats introduced two bills proposing to close the current loopholes around the use of chemicals used in fracking– The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act (S. 1215), and The Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009 (H.R. 2766).
Greenpeace (thanks to OpenSecrets.org, DirtyEnergyMoney.com and MapLight.org) looked at the recent lobbying records of the giant oil and gas interests that describe themselves as "small and independent" operators that funded EID. During 2009 and 2010, the EID funders spent a combined $126.8 million on lobbying.
Of course these companies were also lobbying on other issues, but the two fracking bills were key issues listed in their lobby registration documents.
A ProPublica investigation into oil and gas money received by members of the Natural Gas caucus found that they received 19 times more money on average than members of Congress who signed a letter in support of a proposal to require fracking companies to disclose the chemicals they use when drilling on public lands.
All of the five members of Congress mentioned in the leaked "Energy in Depth" memo testified against the proposed legislation before it was tabled. For their efforts, each have received regular payments from a majority of EID members, including the IPAA itself. (See financial figures, compiled below)
The Congressional battles over regulation continue with Republican Representatives Joe Barton (R-TX) and Fred Upton (R-MI) taking up the issue late last year, and another key fracking supporter, Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA) pressuring Ken Salazar to back off a proposal to introduce new regulations through the Department of Interior if Congress refuses to act.
Lobby figures:
The IPAA
2010: $1.1million
2009: $1.6 million
(it also contributed $15,000 to the coffers of one of the Republican fracking-defenders, Rep. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming).
2010: $12.89 million
2009: $20.81 million
Total Chevron lobbying and political contributions.
2010: $7.36 million
2009: $15.99 million
Total BP lobbying and political contributions.
Occidental Petroleum
2010: $2.58 million
2009: $2.76 million
Total Occidental lobbying and political contributions.
2010: $10.37 million
2009: $10.19 million
American Petroleum Institute
2010: $6.75 million
2009: $7.32 million
Marathon Oil
2010: $5.1 million
2009: $9.95 million
Total Marathon lobbying and political contributions.
Anadarko Petroleum
2010: $5.51 million (some of this was likely spent to deny culpability in the Deepwater Horizon disaster due to their 25% stake in BP's Macondo well)
2009: $2.81 million
Total Anadarko lobbying and political contributions.
El Paso Corporation
2010: $1.07 million
2009: $1.0 million
2010: $535,000
2009: $1.1 million
Total Halliburton lobbying and political contributions.
Political Recipients:
Dan Boren (D-OK), chair, House Natural Gas Caucus.
For the 2009-2010 election cycle Dan Boren raked in $216,250 from the oil and gas industry. He is the natural gas transmission and distribution industry's top recipient, and second highest for the oil and gas industry. Among his funders are Chevron, Occidental, Anakardo, Marathon, and, of course, the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Doc Hastings (R-WA)
At $84,671 in contributions, the oil and gas industry is Hastings' top contributing industry with regular payments from the EID member companies.
Hastings has been fighting any rules or transparency around fracking and its chemicals, writing to Ken Salazar late 2010 arguing that such rules would " threaten thousands of jobs, deepen the federal deficit through reduced revenues, and harm natural gas development and our nation's energy security."
Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Lamborn's second-highest industry favorite was oil and gas, at $31,500, again with EID members prominent in the ranks.
Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
Gohmert raked in $48,550 in oil and gas money in the last election cycle. The oil and gas sector was his third highest donor by industry, a contributions from EID members included Chevron, Marathon and Halliburton.
John Fleming (R-LA)
Oil and gas was Fleming's second biggest earner at $123,500, including Chevron, Occidental, Marathon, IPAA, Halliburton.
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
Lummis's top funders are the oil and gas industry, with $89,550 in 2010 dirty donations.


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I'm not sure of the date, but will guess it is from the late 1800's. I don't know when this ship was built or where the person standing took the photograph.
The ship is so majestic.
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Peter Dinklage and his wife Erica Schmidt were seen making their way through Los Angeles International Airport with their 1-year-old daughter Zelig.
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Nicolas Cage, his wife Alice and their 7-year-old son Kal-El arrived from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport to catch another flight to China on Monday (September 23).
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New mom Kim Kardashian was seen lunching in Los Angeles, CA with her sister Kourtney and a friend on Tuesday (September 24). Kourtney's long-term boyfriend Scott Disick was also seen on the outing. Kim gave birth to daughter North West this July.
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Grant keeps weather buoy afloat in Lake Michigan
HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) -- A weather buoy will remain in afloat in Lake Michigan off Holland compiling data on wind speed and direction, air temperature, wave height and surface water temperature.
The Holland Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/VhLyP6 ) the buoy will be deployed three miles off Port Sheldon from May through November.
The cost of operating the buoy over the next three years will be covered by a $100,000 grant. More funding is being sought to add equipment that can measure water temperature and do real-time image and video recording.
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MIAMI (CBS4)- Hundreds of participants joined Occupy groups in South Florida, specifically Fort Lauderdale and Miami, as they gathered on Saturday to be a part of the 'Occupy' movement that's continuing to spread to cities across America.
The Occupy Miami event began at 1:30 p.m. at the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre. By 2 p.m. approximately 400 participants were in attendance, with that number expected to grow.
Meanwhile, Occupy Fort Lauderdale participants met up at 11 a.m. at the Federal Court House to BOA Plaza.
Occupy Fort Lauderdale and Occupy Miami is taking a cue from Occupy Wall Street, an ongoing protest against corporate influence on U.S. politics (among other things) headquartered in the heart of the Lower Manhattan Financial District. Other cities, including Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago have already followed suit.
On Friday, four protesters were arrested in Gainesville for trespassing after the city park had closed, the Associated Press reported.
In central Florida, Brook Hines was among more than 400 who arrived Saturday morning for an event in Orlando. More were expected to arrive by early afternoon.
"I felt like this was really helpful and about the most positive grass-roots activity I've seen in a long time," said the 25-year-old marketing and public relations employee. "I think that it's not the same kind of protest, attitude or movement as we've seen in the past."
Ricky Jackson has been following the movement and re-posting messages on his Facebook page for weeks.
Slideshow: Occupy Miami Demonstrates At Bayfront Park
"I just want people to pay attention and they will see around them the things that are really messed up," Jackson told CBS4's David Sutta. "Just ask someone. I'm pretty sure you are one person away from someone who has been kicked out of their house because they don't have enough money."
According to Occupy Fort Lauderdale's facebook page, the group met for their first assembly in front of the Broward Main Public Library at 100 S. Andrews Avenue last Saturday. At the assembly, organizers asked participants to bring their "ideas and passion for change so we can plan to occupy Fort Lauderdale's financial district."
"Basically, I think it's grown out of general discontent, economic discontent, unemployment, general class relation stuff," said Occupy Fort Lauderdale organizer Evan Rowe.
Rowe continued saying, "There seems to be a toleration of it for a while when there's just a boiling point where maybe it's not going to be tolerated.
Occupy Miami participants also met last Saturday at Miami-Dade's Wolfson campus for their first assembly.
October 2 approximately 200 local activists met in Bayfront Park to vent their anger at corporate greed, cuts to education, the bank bailouts, the Federal Reserve, unemployment and innumerable other issues, CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald reported. Occupy Miami also has their own facebook page as a medium for those interested in participating.
During a news conference earlier this month, President Barack Obama said protesters are expressing "the frustration that the American people feel."
"Yes, I think people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial sector works," Obama said.
"Right now, this is a broad-based 'we're mad as hell, we want things fixed,'" said Nova Southeastern University History Professor Charles Zedon.
The Florida Occupy movement is drawing support from the state legislature.
"I'll definitely be out there as the movement picks up," said state representative Dwight Bullard. "I have no problem supporting that."
Bullard believes the movement may be necessary to finally change things.
"What the people want and what the people are yearning for is a democracy that works in their best interest and if this is how it has to get done; this is the way it gets done," Bullard said.
The collective group, Occupy Wall Street, said they are a "leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants."
Professor Zeldon said the movement is similar to the Tea Party when it began.
"This new movement is blaming big business, it's blaming the banks, it's blaming corporate America, saying you're the ones who got us into this mess we don't like and we're going to show our discontent by marching, by protesting, by being visible," Zeldon said.
Zeldon said that if the Occupy Wall Street movement is to grow, it will have to focus on key issues and look for support amongst other groups. Unions in New York are joining in with the movement.
For a list of events across the U.S. visit Occupy Together's Web site.
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Portrait of an Artist: The Life and Work of Edward Sorel
This major retrospective exhibition explores the life and work of the iconic illustrator, satirist, author, and political cartoonist, Edward Sorel. The twenty-four case exhibition features original material from the Edward Sorel Collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, including original artwork, cartoons, correspondence, awards, books, and photographs.
In addition to his more than 40 covers for the The New Yorker, Sorel's art has appeared on the covers of The Atlantic, Harper's, Fortune, Forbes, The Nation, Esquire, American Heritage, The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair. He has illustrated numerous children's books, three of which he also wrote. Unauthorized Portraits (Knopf, 1997) is the most recent of several collections of his work. His latest book, Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936, was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. In 2001, the Art Directors Club of New York elected Sorel to their Hall of Fame; he is the first cartoonist since John Held, Jr., to be so honored.
Located in the Richards-Frost Room in the Gotlieb Memorial Gallery on the first floor of Mugar Memorial Library. The exhibition can be viewed Monday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM.
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Torrisi Italian Specialties, NYC: 20-Course $125 Tasting Menu That Manages To Be Flat-Out Fun
Fun is usually not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of tasting menus. Expensive? For sure. Exciting? I hope so. Tasty? Better be. Show-offy? Often.
So when I went to Torrisi Italian Specialties for Rich Torrisi's freshly designed $125 twenty-course tasting menu, I couldn't help but wonder: could the chef's characteristic sense of humor make such a marathon meal a fun experience?
I knew if anyone could do it, it would be Torrisi, an insanely talented and impish young chef with serious cooking chops, a strong sense of what works, and a remarkable ability to be able to laugh at himself.
When chefs and friends Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone (who had both put in serious time at restaurants like Del Posto and Cafe Boulud) opened Torrisi, they were serving the elevated Italian-American food at lunch they are now serving next door at Parm day and night. The chicken parm of our dreams was succeeded by a $45 four course tasting menu for dinner that is still served to most diners at Torrisi, albeit at $60 these days. Those menus gave us an inkling of the restless culinary intellect of Torrisi and Carbone. (If you're ever there when they're offering the pastrami-seasoned short rib you'll see why.) But the new tasting menu was not put together in a night. Rich Torrisi has spent the last thirteen months working closely with chef de cusine Eli Kulp and sous chef Dan Haar developing the tasting menu that you're about to read about. (Carbone is focusing on Parm at the moment, though according to Torrisi, his partner still supplied general direction and inspiration for the new tasting menu.)
Of course, the chefs realized that a $100+ tasting menu had to be served in a different setting than the original Torrisi. Rich Torrisi says:
The way I like to describe the new setting, food, and service is we changed a lot of things but didn't change anything. I believe the spirit and the soul of the restaurant to be a natural evolution of what was. We removed the deli counter and coolers and built a chef counter. We framed the deli menus so everyone will always know that's what it started as. We added a booth where the cash register used to be. In the end its the same number of seats, but everyone has a little more room to breathe. The room was polished and detailed, new lighting, new central air, new seats, new menus, new plateware, new wine list. Basically we sought to upgrade across the board; we also did a lot of kitchen renovation as well.
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*Full disclosure: everyone working at the restaurant knew who we were. But looking around, it seemed as if everyone in the restaurant felt well taken care of. To close the disclosure loop, we paid full price for our meal and received no additional courses or other comps.
Torrisi tips his hand with the first couple of courses, bar snacks that are as whimsical as they are delicious. Torrisi is equal parts culinary historian, anthropologist, and chef, so I wasn't surprised when our server brought us a small bowl of freshly baked soft pretzel nuggets: perfectly baked, yeasty, and easy to dive into. Let the fun and games tasting menu begin. As an infrequent drinker who tends toward the nonalcoholic, I loved "The Americano," a mocktail based on a classic NY drink made with housemade bitters and a twist of orange.
Check out all the dishes in the slideshow »
Torrisi has the intellectual curiousity of a lay NYC food historian, so if he says his little dish of olives stuffed with a soft-poached quail egg is based on a turn of the century dish, who are we to argue. These olives are a little bit of culinary sleight of hand; in fact they are not olives at all, but rather a quail egg that's been dyed and compressed with black olive juice to look like an olive. These are extraordinary bites of food, accented with fresh sage, olive oil, and lemon peel, with the poached quail eggs literally exploding as they hit your palate.
And you don't have to be a smoker to appreciate these sable "cigarettes": gnocco frito with cream cheese, smoked sable, and poppyseed ash is an exquisitely rendered tribute to Jewish appetizing stores like the venerable Russ & Daughters.
A raw Peconic Bay scallop and a small local oyster (both sourced from Widow's Hole) tasted as if they came directly from the sea to the plate, accompanied by one jingle bell pepper and one tabasco pepper from the Brooklyn Grange urban farm in Long Island City. And escargot replace clams in Torrisi's Escargot Casino featuring house-smoked bacon. Another dish as tasty as it is clever.
I never really understood the appeal of the Chinese-American staple chicken and cashews, but the same cannot be said for the version of the dish here, featuring a chicken oyster (one of the two small, round pieces of dark meat near the thigh) that gets poached and fried then rolled in cashews and oyster sauce. And no Chinese restaurant I've ever been to would serve these with original Tiffany oyster forks, and the very juxtaposition of the dish and the forks made me chuckle.
A caviar course? But of course, though this is not your parents' caviar service: Royal Transmontanus caviar from California is served with a wink and a nod and creme fraiche atop tiny bite-size knishes stuffed with a molten potato puree with leeks that tastes like the best potato knish ever created. A bed of toasted kasha is a lovely textural contrast to the the smooth and creamy potato puree. Brighton Beets, "a nod to the people of South Brooklyn," are roasted beets, crunchy brussel sprout leaves, pickled apples, dill pollen, and a homemade cream made with pumpernickel bread. It's informed by tradition yet thoroughly contemporary, and so evocative of a New York neighborhood Torrisi's tasting menu might as well come with a subway map so that diners can get their bearings.
Here's a dish to convert any and all mackerel haters. Clean, fresh-tasting mackerel cooked in crazy water, tomato broth made with summer tomatoes that have been preserved, served with seabean ash. The amazing broth tastes like the best gazpacho you've never had.
Classically trained chefs love to play with foie gras, and Torrisi is no exception. Here the foie is poached in butter with a classic Newberg sauce (associated with an old-fashioned lobster dish that bears its name), made with cream, brandy, cayenne, and mushrooms. It's served with cured brandy maple syrup gelee and a little fresh tarragon, and comes with buttery toasted brioche. Spread the insanely smooth, rich and delicious foie on this brioche, and you will know things you didn't know before.
The foie arrives simultaneously with a Delmonico steak tartare, topped with the cutest mini-cornichon slices you've ever seen and an intact egg yolk filled with luscious bearnaise sauce. You will be tempted to just break the yolk, spread it over the tartare and transport it immediately to your mouth. That definitely works, but you can exponentially increase the pleasure you derive from the dish by spreading the tartare on the thrice cooked thick potato chips dredged in capers and salt that accompany the dish. My grandmother made these kinds of thick potato chips, but she never dredged them in capers. Both these dishes are served on original Delmonico's plates (Delmonico's was NYC and America's first fine dining restaurant that opened in 1837) that Torrisi bought six of at auction.
Torrisi's dad is a court reporter in downtown New York courts, so it was at lunches with his Dad that he fell in love with Chinese food. The most Chinese of the dishes, Cantonese lobster, is served with lobster broth, chive blossoms, ginger, scallion, pork, fermented black beans, egg, bread crumbs all in a decidedly non-Asian Carbonara-like sauce. A little too busy and a little too cross-cultural for my taste, but indisputably delicious.
Back to the hood with Sunday supper, a beef ragu made with meat that's been dry-aged for 24 to 30 days, served with beef "ricotta" (actually rendered beef fat, with tapioca maltodextrin helping it achieve that texture) and homemade semolina twist bread. No utensils necessary, you use the bread to scoop and eat. They do offer you tiny silver spoons to make sure you get every morsel of the ragu.
Tomahawk cut of lamb (developed by Pat LaFreida) has a Manischewitz glaze, Jerusalem artichokes, macerated Concord grapes that taste like popsicles, fried mint and celery. It's presented quite ceremoniously with a smile before being sent back to the kitchen to be carved. It is also served with deer antler knives. The loin is very lamb-y; the other meat is deckle meat, closest to the rib bone, it tastes beef-like. Taken as a whole, this dish is big fun with big flavors that make perfect sense.
And bitter greens served with a bitters vinaigrette is a nifty palate-cleanser, its distinct bitterness preparing your palate for the array of sweets coming your way.
Check out all the dishes in the slideshow »
Most decidedly not your childhood bakery's cheese danish, this version is Torrisi's riff on the cheese course. A buttery, flaky housemade danish comes studded with crushed bits of black walnut, and then topped with preserved Brooklyn figs and cheese from upstate. The danish would merely be funny and diverting if it wasn't so delicious and powerful. Italian Ice is another old Torrisi touch, a paper cup full of Granny Smith ice for palate cleanser number two.
A three component dessert: a maraschino float made with housemade maraschino cherry soda sucked up with an edible evaporated milk straw is clever and funny, but doesn't quite deliver what the visual suggests; there's a funny and resonant malted root beer candy bar that has a distinct malty taste with a pleasant root beer finish; and sour cherry vanilla ice cream with pretzel breadcrumbs that was so good I wished I could have taken a pint home.
Finally, the cookie-pastry plate features a combination of old Torrisi favorites and some new ones developed for the tasting menu: the winners for me were the coffee cake with a layer of vincotto fig jam, the fresh ricotta mini-cannoli with orange zest and fennel, and (taking home the gold medal) the salt water taffy with bonito flake and dried seaweed. Sounds weird, but when you bite into it, it makes perfect sense. In general the sweets don't rise up to the level of the rest of the meal, but I must admit I will never forget the saltwater taffy.
Torrisi, his talented crew, and his surprisingly polished servers succeed in creating a different kind of tasting menu experience. They quietly but resoundingly showed us their chops in clever but convincing ways, while keeping a sense of humor about every bite. The ability to laugh at themselves, and share the joke with diners, is a rare one. Taste buds and humor have rarely been so closely aligned.
Check out all the dishes in the slideshow »
Curious to try yourself? Torrisi tells us that to make a reservation for the tasting, you have to call our receptionist from 9-5 Mon-Fri and book a table; they take bookings 30 days out. They serve anywhere from 8-14 people a night this menu.
Torrisi Italian Specialties
250 Mulberry Street, New York NY 10012 (map)


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The Central Connecticut baseball team earned a 6-0 victory over Mount St. Mary's on Friday afternoon behind a dominating effort from senior right-hander Tom Coughlin.
Coughlin tossed nine innings to pitch his second consecutive shutout and help the Blue Devils improve to 8-7 on the season and 1-0 in Northeast Conference play. Coughlin struck out six while scattering five hits and two walks. He faced just 33 batters, six over the minimum, in the game.
The Mountaineers (6-10, 0-1 NEC) had their best opportunity to score in the seventh inning with runners on first and second with one out, but Coughlin worked out of the jam with the help of his defense. Freshman Matt Blandino ran down a long fly ball to left field for the second out of the inning and then senior second baseman Josh Ingham ranged far to his left to field a ground ball for the final out of the inning.
Offensively, the Blue Devils got Coughlin all of the run support that he would need in the bottom of the first inning. Sophomore Jeff Osak walked and was sacrificed to second by Blandino. Senior JP Sportman singled to move Oask to third and Ingham followed with a base hit to score CCSU's first run of the game.
CCSU added two more runs in the second inning with senior Anthony Turgeon doubling to left, freshman Bryan Rivera following with a base hit and Osak walking to load the bases. The next batter hit a ground ball to third base, which the third baseman fielded and threw home, but the throw was dropped by the catcher allowing Turgeon to score. Rivera also scored on the play as he hustled in from second while the ball rolled away from the catcher.
The Blue Devils added three insurance runs in the seventh inning as Sportman, Ingham, Severino and freshman Tom Rinaldi strung together four-straight hits with two outs.
For Coughlin the shutout extends his scoreless innings streak to 20. He allowed a run in the fourth inning of his March 21 start against Bethune-Cookman. He pitched a scoreless fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth in that game before pitching a seven-inning shutout against Seton Hall last Saturday and a nine-inning shutout today. He has also allowed just one runner to reach third base over his last 16 innings.
The victory improves his record to 3-1 on the season. Karl Lamont took the loss for the Mountaineers to fall to 1-2 on the year.
Ingham finished the game three-for-four at the plate, while Sportman recorded two hits in four at bats.
Mount St. Mary's leadoff hitter Brandon Scott had three hits in four at bats on the day. He was responsible for three of the Mountaineers five hits.
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If we're looking at public policy through the policy maker's lens, it makes sense to have people live in the same city where they earn a living. Big-city mayors like to argue that the people who work for the city are also vital parts of the community – they make good citizens.
Detroit is grappling with this very issue. They want their police officers to remain as city residents because they are good citizens, and Detroit wants as many of those as it can get.
This was not an issue until cities started to decline. Once middle-class families headed for the suburbs, the idea that city employees may want to live elsewhere emerged. Today, cities are rebounding and this has caused the issue to continually bubble up. New York is electing a new mayor in November, and this may become an issue.
Cleveland recently passed a requirement that all public employees live within the state of Ohio. That seems within reason. But New York City employees have a different problem than public employees in Cleveland and Detroit.
Rents in New York City are very high, and salaries in the city are not. Allowing employees to live in adjacent counties is the right way to go. A city employee who works in lower Manhattan should be allowed to live in Jersey City – which is closer than many neighborhoods within the five boroughs, and it is still affordable.
Eventually this becomes a tax issue, as politicians want to tax the money that they pay in salaries. But New York City employees still put a lot of money into the city economy every day, and living on the perimeter of the city is still beneficial.
Strict residency requirements can put a lot of pressure on families. Let's say a woman teaches in the Nassau County school system and her husband is a New York City police officer (or vice versa). If both Nassau County and New York City decide to enforce strict residency requirements, one of them has to give up a job.
They have enough difficulty buying a home, paying taxes, and finding good schools without worrying about a residency requirement. Some form of a requirement is a good idea, but strict residency requirements are not family friendly.
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On Wednesday, March 20, two local Republicans will be debating the future of the Republican Party. Although Queens, and the rest of New York City, has seen the party shrink, the conversation about ideals is still important.
Dennis Saffran, who ran against Tony Avella for the City Council in 2000, will debate Councilman Dan Halloran at The Davenport Press restaurant. The event is hosted by the conservative Long Island chapter of the Federalist Society.
What makes this worth attending is that both Halloran and Saffran are intelligent debaters when it comes to political ideology. Saffran will most likely be arguing that the party should be more active on the social front and more hands-on legislatively.
Halloran is a libertarian, so figure to hear a lot about the intention of the Founding Fathers, which is music to the ears of "less government" advocates.
This debate comes during a week when a judge will weigh in on the New York City Stop and Frisk policy. This could be an excellent issue for these two men to discuss. Regardless of your politics, it is worth attending a real debate like this, where there is no political job at stake - just two guys with a concern for democracy.
I will not handicap a debate, but I would expect Halloran to stick to his Ron Paul-style of principles, which are strong debate weapons. Saffran has the more difficult task. He has to avoid being too smart for the room, which can be a problem for some of the Giuliani/Manhattan Institute-type Republicans.
These are the conversations that people on both sides need to have when it comes to modern government. It will run you $15 if you're not a member of the Federalist Society, and it gets underway at 7 p.m.


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Energizing educational sessions led by experts in advocacy, precision ag, risk management and other hot agriculture topics at the 18th Annual Commodity Classic in Kissimmee, Fla., will give farmers game-changing information that will make them more efficient in 2013.
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Delta cruises to all-time highApril 23, 2014: 12:22 PM ET
The winter blues didn't get Delta Airlines down.
Shares of the airline (DAL) soared to a record high Wednesday after the company reported a 5% increase in passenger revenue in the first quarter despite a $90 million loss related to weather cancellations.
The unusually severe winter weather was expected to cause more headaches for Delta, like it did for legions of passengers. The company said it cancelled more than 17,000 flights in January and February for weather reasons, twice as many as the same period in 2013.
But Delta, like other airlines, benefited from healthy demand in the U.S., said Joseph DeNardi, an airlines analyst with Stifel Nicolaus. And some of its hubs didn't get hit as hard by the weather as those of its competitors.
Delta's earnings come on the heels of an already remarkable turnaround run. The stock has skyrocketed 118% in the past year, lifted by higher fares, good relationships with airline unions, and overall consolidation in the industry.
"They did a great job, they delivered a great product, and they're getting paid for it," said Helane Becker of Cowen and Company.
Delta shares traded for less than $10 for much of 2012. They're now above $36.
As for Delta's high-flying stock price , Becker said she's not surprised. She predicts it will climb even higher.
"People forget how much money airlines can make," she said.