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For the first time, observations coordinated by ESA's space hazards team have found an asteroid that comes close enough to Earth to pose an impact threat. The space rock was found by amateur astronomers, highlighting the value of 'crowd-sourcing' to science and planetary defence.
The discovery of asteroid 2011 SF108 was made by the volunteer Teide Observatory Tenerife Asteroid Survey (TOTAS) team during an observation slot sponsored by ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme in September.
The four-night survey used the 1m-aperture telescope at ESA's Optical Ground Station at Teide on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
This is not the first asteroid found under SSA sponsorship, but it is the first that qualifies as a 'near Earth object' – an object that passes close enough to Earth during its orbit around the Sun that it could pose an impact threat.
Images require human evaluation
During TOTAS observations, the telescope runs automated asteroid surveys for several hours using software developed by amateur astronomer and computer scientist Matthias Busch from the Starkenburg Amateur Observatory in Heppenheim, Germany.
However, potential sightings must still be evaluated by humans.
The team comprises 20 volunteers, most of whom took part in the manual evaluation of images captured during the session on 28/29 September.
Safe distance: 30 million km
"Images are distributed to the entire team for review, and any one of them could be the discoverer of a new asteroid," says Detlef Koschny, Head of NEO activity for SSA. "This time, the luck of the draw fell to Rainer Kracht."
"As volunteer work, it is very rewarding. When you do spot something, you contribute to Europe's efforts in defending against asteroid hazards."
The orbit of asteroid 2011 SF108 brings it no closer than about 30 million km to Earth – a safe distance.
When you do spot something, you contribute to Europe's efforts in defending against asteroid hazards.
The object is the 46th asteroid discovered by Mr Kracht, a retired school teacher who lives in Elmshorn, near Hamburg, Germany. "Eight of us reviewed images on the night of the discovery, and I was lucky to be the one who found 2011 SF108 as part of this team," says Mr Kracht.
"The discovery was only possible with the excellent software developed by Matthias Busch, who also spotted this object in the images on the second night and sent the observations to the Minor Planet Center."
To date, some 8000 NEOs have been discovered worldwide but many thousands more are suspected to exist, particularly in the size of metres to hundreds of metres. It is important to find and track these to determine if any pose an impact threat to Earth.
Amateur TOTAS team lays foundation
TOTAS is helping to lay the foundation for a future European asteroid survey as part of the full SSA programme, which is to be decided in 2012.
Such a survey would use multiple 1m telescopes to scan the complete sky every night, a much larger effort than at present, and is expected to discover several NEOs per week. It would use a mix of professional and 'crowd-sourced' astronomers.
Currently, professional asteroid surveys are performed only in the USA. The only significant asteroid survey in Europe now is the La Sagra Sky Survey, undertaken by amateur astronomers in southern Spain.
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TOTAS is helping to lay the foundation for a future European asteroid survey as part of the full SSA programme, which is to be decided in 2012.
Such a survey would use multiple 1 m telescopes to scan the complete sky every night, a much larger effort than at present, and is expected to discover several NEOs per week. It would use a mix of professional and 'crowd-sourced' astronomers.
Currently, professional asteroid surveys are performed only in the USA. The only significant asteroid survey in Europe now is the La Sagra Sky Survey, undertaken by amateur astronomers in southern Spain.
TOTAS racks up impressive results
Since starting their SSA-sponsored survey work in January 2010, the TOTAS team has identified nearly 400 candidate asteroids; 20 have been confirmed and numbered. Over 8000 others have been seen and confirmed as previously catalogued objects.
For ESA's SSA office, the main aim of the observing programme is to gain experience in techniques for detecting NEOs.
The surveys use the telescope mainly for performing 'follow-up' observations of recently discovered asteroids, which are announced on behalf of astronomers worldwide by the US-based Minor Planet Center.
Amateurs make professional contributions
The story of how 2011 SF108 was discovered and confirmed illustrates the crucial importance of amateur astronomers to Europe's asteroid survey efforts.
The automated sky-scan software was first customised to work with the Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope by Matthias Busch of the Starkenburg Observatory in 2009.
This came about after a chance opportunity to use the telescope together with another amateur, Rainer Kresken, who had learned about the SSA programme's plans to start sky surveys at his day job – as a flight dynamics engineer at the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt.
It was agreed that the amateurs could use the OGS telescope in exchange for taking part in the nascent SSA–NEO survey.
The exchange was later expanded to include other keen amateurs from Starkenburg, giving birth to the TOTAS team.
TOTAS has so far accumulated about 120 hours of observing time, and slots are now allocated about once per month, for three or four nights.
On a typical night, the telescope conducts a survey lasting several hours, generating a large amount of image data. Mr Busch's processing software then analyses the images and flags any moving objects – indicating a potential asteroid.
The flagged data are then distributed electronically to the TOTAS team, who examine the original images on their computer screens and decide whether the flagged objects are real or just noise.
This is how Mr Kracht, who has also discovered a large number of comets in images acquired by the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft, came to his lucky find last month.
The find was submitted to the Minor Planet Center, and a preliminary orbit computation marked the object as a possible NEO.
To confirm the find, Mr Busch manually checked the survey images from a second night and found the object again. Only after a manual measurement on a third night could the orbit of the object be determined accurately enough to confirm the object was indeed an NEO.
"It was really an exciting moment when I saw 'our' asteroid appearing on my computer screen. It confirms the excellent quality of work done by the entire TOTAS team," says ESA's Detlef Koschny, who conducted the confirmation check on the third night.
Volunteer work not always so exciting
Most of the observing time at the OGS telescope is allocated to confirming known NEOs. Precise repeated observations are needed to characterise an asteroid's orbit fully to determine that it will not pass too close to Earth. As future observations provide better orbit determinations, the impact risk from any particularly NEO can change.
The object with, currently, the highest risk of hitting Earth is asteroid 2011 SG68, which ESA's telescope observed in the September 2011 TOTAS observation slot.
Risk computations are done in Europe by the Near Earth Object Dynamics Site (NEODyS) in Pisa, Italy, which is now being integrated into ESA's SSA precursor services.
Similarly, the Spaceguard Central Node, operated by Italy's National Institute of Astrophysics in Rome, maintains a list of objects that must be observed again urgently in order to confirm their orbits.
The DLR German Aerospace Center in Berlin maintains a Solar System database listing physical properties of asteroids, the European Asteroid Research Network. Both of these are currently being integrated into the SSA–NEO portfolio of services.


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Faster Builds with MSBuild using Parallel Builds and Multicore CPUs
UPDATE: I've written an UPDATE on how to get MSBuild building using multiple cores from within Visual Studio. You might check that out when you're done here.
Jeff asked the question "Should All Developers Have Manycore CPUs?" this week. There are number of things in his post I disagree with.
First, "dual-core CPUs protect you from badly written software" is just a specious statement as it's the OS's job to protect you, it shouldn't matter how many cores there are.
Second, "In my opinion, quad-core CPUs are still a waste of electricity unless you're putting them in a server" is also silly. Considering that modern CPUs slow down when not being used, and use minimal electricity when compared to your desk lamp and monitors, I can't see not buying the best (and most) processors) that I can afford. The same goes with memory. Buy as much as you can comfortably afford. No one ever regretted having more memory, a faster CPU and a large hard drive.
Third he says,"there are only a handful of applications that can truly benefit from more than 2 CPU cores" but of course, if you're running a handful of applications, you can benefit even if they are not multi-threaded. Just yesterday I was rendering a DVD, watching Arrested Development, compiling an application, reading email while my system was being backed up by Home Server. This isn't an unreasonable amount of multitasking, IMHO, and this is why I have a quad-proc machine.
That said, the limits to which a machine can multi-task are often limited to the bottleneck that sits between the chair and keyboard. Jeff, of course, must realize this, so I'm just taking issue with his phrasing more than anything.
He does add the disclaimer, which is totally valid: "All I wanted to do here is encourage people to make an informed decision in selecting a CPU" and that can't be a bad thing.
Now, enough picking on Jeff, let's talk about my reality as a .NET Developer and a concrete reason I care about multi-core CPUs. Jeff compiled SharpDevelop using 2 cores and said "I see nothing here that indicates any kind of possible managed code compilation time performance improvement from moving to more than 2 cores."
When I compiled SharpDevelop via "MSBuild SharpDevelop.sln" (which uses one core) it took 11 seconds:
TotalMilliseconds : 11207.7979
Adding the /m:2 parameter to MSBuild yielded a 35% speed up:
TotalMilliseconds : 7190.3041
And adding /m:4 yielded (from 1 core) a a 59% speed up:
TotalMilliseconds : 4581.4157
Certainly when doing a command line build, why WOULDN'T I want to use all my CPUs? I can detect how many there are using an Environment Variable that is set automatically:
C:>echo %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%
But if I just say /m to MSBuild like
MSBuild /m
It will automatically use all the cores on the system to create that many MSBuild processes in a pool as seen in this Task Manager screenshot:
The MSBuild team calls these "nodes" because they are cooperating and act as a pool, building projects as fast as they can to the point of being I/O bound. You'll notice that their PIDs (Process IDs) won't change while they are living in memory. This means they are recycled, saving startup time over running MSBuild over and over (which you wouldn't want to do, but I've seen in the wild.)
You might wonder, why do we not just use one multithreaded process for MSBuild? Because each building project wants its own current directory (and potentially custom tasks expect this) and each PROCESS can only have one current directory, no matter how many threads exist.
When you run MSBuild on a SLN (Solution File) (which is NOT an MSBuild file) then MSBuild will create a "sln.cache" file that IS an MSBuild file.
Some folks like to custom craft their MSBuild files and others like to get the auto-generate one. Regardless, when you're calling an MSBuild task, one of the options that gets set is (from an auto-generated file):
<MSBuild Condition="@(BuildLevel1) != ''" Projects="@(BuildLevel1)" Properties="Configuration=%(Configuration); Platform=%(Platform); ...snip... BuildInParallel="true" UnloadProjectsOnCompletion="$(UnloadProjectsOnCompletion)" UseResultsCache="$(UseResultsCache)"> ...
When you indicate BuildInParallel you're asking for parallelism in building your Projects. It doesn't cause Task-level parallelism as that would require a task dependency tree and you could get some tricky problems as copies, etc, happened simultaneously.
However, Projects DO often have dependency on each other and the SLN file captures that. If you're using a Visual Studio Solution and you've used Project References, you've already given the system enough information to know which projects to build first, and which to wait on.
More Granularity (if needed)
If you are custom-crafting your MSBuild files, you could turn off parallelism on just certain MSBuild tasks by adding:
to specific MSBuild Tasks and then just those sub-projects wouldn't build in parallel if you passed in a property from the command line:
MSBuild /m:4 /p:BuildInParallel=false
But this an edge case as far as I'm concerned.
How does BuildInParallel relate to the MSBuild /m Switch?
Certainly, if you've got a lot of projects that are mostly independent of each other, you'll get more speed up than if your solution's dependency graph is just a queue of one project depending on another all the way down the line.
In conclusion, BuildInParallel allows the MSBuild task to process the list of projects which were passed to it in a parallel fashion, while /m tells MSBuild how many processes it is allowed to start.
If you have multiple cores, you should be using this feature on big builds from the command line and on your build servers.
Thanks to Chris Mann and Dan Mosley for their help and corrections.
Related Links
- MSBuild Blog - The MSBuild team's blog.
- MSBuild Sidekick v2 - A visual editor, ala NantPad, for MSBuild files.
- MSBuild Visualizer - An old project of Mitch Denny's trying to make large MSBuild files easier to visualize.
- How to get MSBuild building using multiple cores from within Visual Studio
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If you are custom-crafting your MSBuild files, you could turn off parallelism on just certain MSBuild tasks by adding: ... But this an edge case as far as I'm concerned.That's a pretty big caveat right there. We had to ditch solution files about 1-1/2 years ago because msbuild couldn't get the dependency tree right, likely due to a size limitation (~200 projects). I suspect that's why other's generate their own msbuild files as well. Ironic that the code bases most in need of scalable build solutions are the ones left high and dry.
For what it's worth, the /m parameter is only available in .NET 3.5 and above.It's funny that I always have to read through the comments to verify that kind of stuff. @Scott, there are still people using VS2005 and .Net 2.0 (our employers are either too cheap to upgrade or we work in non-profit[my case]) So it would be nice for posts like this to clearly denote that these are things only availble in the 3.0/3.5+ world. Or should I just assume that .Net 2.0 is dead?
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WASHINGTON — The Ted Stevens guilty verdict can be viewed through a variety of prisms.
These include its impact on the Democrats' drive for a filibuster-proof Senate (a 60-seat majority), the sullying mark of corruption on the Republican brand as a whole, and potential shifts to the GOP leadership pecking order.
Let's tackle these in reverse order.
First, it seems pretty unlikely Alaska voters will send a convicted Ted Stevens back to Capitol Hill. This means some true lions of the Senate are going to be clearing out this election cycle.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Ted Stevens has been in the Senate for all or part of five decades; retiring Republicans Pete Domenici and John Warner have been in the upper chamber for all or part of four. Trent Lott resigned late last year, but should also be considered part of this "leaving lions" list.
Add the possible departures of Elizabeth Dole (a Dole has been in the Senate for all or part of the past five decades) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — and you've got a somewhat unrecognizable upper chamber.
The Senate Republicans are finding themselves in a similar spot to Senate Democrats in 1980. That's when a handful of big names lost in a GOP landslide.
Video: Palin chastises Stevens These vacancies mean that there will be a leadership vacuum in the Senate, with a lot of younger players vying for dominance.
This power struggle will be one of the more interesting post-election stories to follow — particularly if McConnell loses in November.
As new Republican leaders emerge, keep your eye on Jon Kyl of Arizona, John Cornyn of Texas, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and perhaps, John Thune of South Dakota.
Reputation woes?
The Stevens' verdict could also effect the party's overall image.
Consider how devastating it must be for John McCain and a whole herd of GOP incumbents to see the words "Senator," "Republican," "convicted," and "corruption" in the news just eight days before the election.
If it weren't for bad luck, the Republicans would have no luck at all this year.
These are some of those infamous "tea leaves" that many in the media force themselves to read.
It's just another link in the negative political news chain that's weighing down the GOP ahead of Nov. 4.
Perhaps some will see the sweeping out of a pork-loving Senator like Stevens as a good thing in the long term. But, don't forgot, he's the poster child for big government Republicanism — the very same phenomenon that caused the party to lose its "less government" conservative way over the past decade.
Interactive electoral map predictions
November prospects
As for the Democrats drive for 60, the Stevens' verdict means they'll likely pick up at least five seats next week.
November prospects
Alaska joins Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado and New Hampshire as the party's best nets. Another four are looking very good for the Democrats, including Oregon, North Carolina, Minnesota and Georgia.
Toss in Kentucky and Mississippi, and the Democrats actually have a one seat margin of error in their quest for 60.
One thing to keep in mind on Senate races — they all tend to move in the same direction.
We've seen this occur in the last five senate cycles and there's no reason it won't happen again on Tuesday.
Of course, do the Democrats really need 60 seats? Do they have a governing majority at 57 or 58? Probably, but the symbolic nature of 60 could be the sledgehammer on the nail of the GOP's 2008 coffin.
Such a victory would also shed some negative light on the legacy of one George W. Bush.
Karl Rove was hoping the president would be an agent for positive change within the Republican Party. Instead, there was GOP unbuilding and unraveling.
So when Rove talked about realignment of his party, he may have been right. But with just days to go until Election Day, it looks like that shift wasn't in the anticipated direction.
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The boy was fed twice a day with fast food, was left alone for long stretches each day, did not attend school and spoke limited English, authorities said yesterday.
Police were alerted to the boy by the Children Aid's Society, which received a tip from the public, London Police Detective Kevin Heslop said. When police arrived to the home where the boy was staying alone at the time, they found him locked in a bedroom with food waste and feces strewn about.
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The boy was taken to hospital Thursday and was diagnosed as being underweight and suffering from malnutrition. He has since been released from hospital and is in the care of the Children's Aid Society.
Officials said the child had access to a toilet and shower because the home's master bedroom had an en suite bathroom, but said the entire house was in squalid condition. "It's a horrific case and everyone sees it like that," said Heslop. "Of course this is upsetting, it's upsetting to everyone."
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"Me, personally, I didn't like painkillers," says Nate Jackson, a former tight end for the Denver Broncos. "I just medicated on my own. Most players do that."
Football is a violent game. If you play football, you will experience pain. If you experience pain, you will seek ways to alleviate it.
So, what are your options? Well, you can get painkillers from your team's medical staff, though some are circumspect about just handing them out. And, anyway, a lot of players don't like the way prescription painkillers make them feel — queasy, sluggish, out of it. They prefer to self-medicate. They prefer to smoke pot.
Jackson didn't really start self-medicating with marijuana until he got to the National Football League. He didn't need to. "In college, my body felt great. I would hurt for a day after the game but the pain wasn't that bad," he told me. "In the NFL, these guys are grown men. Just the normal occupational reality is slamming yourself into other humans at high speed, so your body hurts. It hurts and it's misaligned."
You can read all about Jackson's six seasons in the NFL in his fantastic new memoir, Slow Getting Up. Jackson adores football, but he is also fully aware of the sport's inherent violence and destruction—"Pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early onset dementia," he writes—and his book is about the personal compromises you have to make to love a game that hates you back.
Tucked in between Jackson's stories of life on the NFL margins is this miniature op-ed article:
The NFL should remove marijuana from their banned substances list. Don't tell anyone about it: just stop testing for it.
Pain is a big problem in the NFL. Pain management is necessary.
Weed is the least harmful and least addictive of the painkillers players use to cope with the violent demands of the game.
However you feel about marijuana, players bodies belong to themselves. They're the ones getting pounded week in and week out, doing permanent damage to themselves for our entertainment. (Also, yes, their enrichment, though it's worth remembering that the average NFL career lasts three years. Meanwhile, players' health insurance continues for five years after their careers end, at which point they're on their own, trying to find a carrier willing to insure someone who crashed into 300-pound men at full speed for a living.) "It should be up to guys how they manage their lives off the field, especially with something as innocuous as marijuana," says Jackson.
Of course, the NFL is about as likely to legalize marijuana—even in states where it's already legal—as it is to hang flags from players' waists. But before we completely dismiss Jackson's proposal as a fully baked delusion, keep in mind that in the coming years millions of dollars will be pouring into research into both the medicinal benefits of marijuana and the question of how to make football less dangerous. Already, there are studies that have shown that, in addition to numbing pain, pot might also help protect the brain from injury. An ingredient in marijuana apparently may neutralize the neurotransmitters that are released after severe head injuries and that cause cell degradation.
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Cannabinoid receptor agonists inhibit glutamatergic synaptic transmission and reduce the production of tumour necrosis factor- and reactive oxygen intermediates, which are factors in causing neuronal damage. The formation of the endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoyl glycerol is strongly enhanced after brain injury, and there is evidence that these compounds reduce the secondary damage incurred. Some plant and synthetic cannabinoids, which do not bind to the cannabinoid receptors, have also been shown to be neuroprotective, possibly through their direct effect on the excitatory glutamate system and/or as antioxidants.
Get it? Neither do I, really. I am sure about one thing, though: Playing professional football is a lot more hazardous to your health than smoking marijuana. In a story for the website Deadspin, Jackson described the aftermath of a near-decapitation at the hands of linebacker Willie McGinest:
I approached our team doctor as the flight closed in on Denver and asked him if he could give me something for the pain. He said the best he could do was one Vicodin and one muscle relaxer. "Really, Doc? That's it? You're gonna make me hit the streets for this one?"
"Sorry, Nate," he said with a chuckle, not knowing if I was kidding, and he handed me two stupid pills. Since it was a Thursday, we had three extra days of recovery time before the next game. I lay in bed for all three of them, unable to move. The Vicodin and muscle relaxer didn't make it off the plane so I did what I said I would do. I hit the streets—weed, a few pills, nothing heavy.
Football is a violent game. If you play football, you will experience pain. If you experience pain, you will seek ways to alleviate it. Should the NFL really get to decide how?
Jonathan Mahler is a Bloomberg View columnist. Follow him on Twitter.
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Neil Armstrong Joins NASA
A graduate of Purdue University, Armstrong studied aeronautical engineering; his college tuition was paid for by the U. S. Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier USS Essex. In September 1951, while making a low bombing run, Armstrong's aircraft was damaged when it collided with an anti-aircraft cable which cut off a large portion of one wing. Armstrong was forced to bail out. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U. S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs.


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If ever there was a band destined to be forever tagged as outsiders, it was I Am Kloot. Their songs were grand, occasionally beautiful, but they spoke of dark subjects – broken romance, bitter characters and long regrets, tailoring the Manchester three piece to an audience predisposed to one too many and three day stubble. A running joke at Kloot gigs comes when singer John Bramwell declares the next number to be all about drink and disaster. What follows could be anything from the band's back catalogue, and they'll all fit the bill.
However, two and a bit years ago, something happened that brought I Am Kloot, if not into the spotlight, then at least a little more into focus. Long time friends Guy Garvey and Craig Potter of Elbow produced the band's fifth album The Sky At Night, and the presence of the recently Mercury-winning duo seeming to sharpen Bramwell's songwriting and the band's sonic adventure. The album was duly recognised in its own right: after years of near misses I Am Kloot finally appeared on Radio 2 playlists and end of year polls.
Now, they arrive with the follow-up, and again Garvey and Potter sit in the production booth. Thankfully, Let It All In isn't a straight retread of its orchestral predecessor, and nor does it push the boat out towards more bombast. Instead, Let It All In is a tighter, more relaxed LP, full of beautifully restrained, crafted songs. I'd hate to suggest that I Am Kloot have gone soft by any means, but there're tracks here that seem to have nothing to do with drink or disaster, but are simply expertly crafted moments of confessional songwriting.
Musically, the album tends to be stripped back, with the band's basic three-piece set up at the fore, such as on the Rubber Soul-esque 'Masquerade': a bright number that skips along fuelled by some wonderfully hazy backing vocals. Listen closely though, and Bramwell is singing about borrowing money from a poltergeist, so it might still turn towards disaster…
Let It All In is by no means a sparse record however, with subtle additions to the standard Kloot sound throughout. 'A Better Day' sits on a bed of warm brass and a bouncing chorus that most Britpop bands would have sold a rib for, while the opening, 'Bullets', creeps along with some of the old sense of foreboding (complete with a musical nod to the band's debut single 'Twist') before exploding into a howling guitar solo that's as thrilling as it is unexpected. One of the finest moments on the album comes when the title tracks shuffles towards a King Creosote-style lilting outro, an accordion gently fading into the distance.
The highlight of Let It All In has to be 'These Days Are Mine', an epic slice of orchestral, optimistic psychedelica. Just as The Sky At Night had the rousing 'Radiation' wrapping things up, here the band's latest comes to a climax with this gong-rattling, raga-fuelled piece of anthemic wonder. It's up there with the best that I Am Kloot have done, like one of those wondrous collaborations The Chemical Brothers used to do with gruff indie blokes, and proof positive that the band are more than kitchen sink troubadours.
And then, after the reflective 'Forgive Me These Reminders', it's all over. Let It All In definitely seems compact, as if the band and their collaborators have stripped away anything excessive in favour of a taut collection of their finest. More frequent glimpses of sunshine amongst the drink and disaster seems to suit I Am Kloot, and it's likely to push them closer to the spotlight than ever before.
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Kelly The Hero's Place: Medieval Literary Traditions of Space and Belonging
Molly Robinson Kelly, assistant professor of French, presents an innovative study of how the spaces described in a literary work contribute dynamically and profoundly to that work's meaning. She focuses on three seminal works of the Middle Ages—The Life of Saint Alexis, The Song of Roland, and Tristan and Iseult.
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Ex-Tiger Northrup, '68 Series star, dead at 71
Former Detroit Tigers outfielder Jim Northrup, who hit a decisive two-run triple in Game 7 of the 1968 World Series, died Wednesday. He was 71.
Longtime friend Bill Wischman said Northrup after having a seizure at an assisted living facility in Grand Blanc. Wischman says Northrup had been in poor health for some time and had been at the home for about a month because of Alzheimer's disease.
Northrup spent parts of 12 seasons in the major leagues.
His seventh-inning triple off the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson in the final game of the 1968 series broke open a scoreless game and scored Norm Cash and Willie Horton. Detroit went on to win 4-1.
He also played for Montreal and Baltimore and later worked as a sportscaster with the Pass Sports network, in the 1980s and '90s.
"He was an astute student of the game," said Wischman, who hired Northrup for the network and became a close friend. "He loved the game."
Northrup was heavily involved with community and charity work, including an effort to help Polish orphans, Wischman said.
"He was completely unselfish with his time," Wischman said.
Detroit pitching ace Denny McLain, also a longtime friend, was warming up in the bullpen when Northrup hit the decisive triple.
"Jimmy didn't want to lose at anything," McLain told the Detroit Free Press. "He was even competitive at the postgame meal. He was the emotional backbone of our team that year. He'd get mad at you if he even saw you exchanging pleasantries with guys from the other team. Jimmy was a big reason why we were just a grind-it-out-type of team."
Northrup was born in Breckenridge, Mich., and signed with the Tigers in 1960 as an amateur free agent. Detroit traded him to Montreal in 1974.
He made his major league debut in 1964. In 1,392 major league games, he hit 153 home runs, drove in 610 runs and batted .267.
"I knew him very well. It's a shame," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said after Detroit lost 7-3 at Texas on Wednesday night. "I got to know him at Tigertown, throwing BP."
In addition to having Alzheimer's, Northrup also battled rheumatoid arthritis for many years, Wischman said.
"As ill as he was, he never complained," the friend said.
Northrup is survived by his wife Patty; children Kamil, Azaria, Jim, Paige and Kate; and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Wednesday night.


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Cruise Ship Wreck: Five More Bodies Found
Ship Capt. Francesco Schettino placed under house arrest.
Jan. 17, 2012 -- Divers searching the capsized cruise ship found five more bodies today, bringing to 11 the death toll in the catastrophe off Italy's Tuscan coast.
The victims were found at the stern of the ship under water after search-and-rescue divers blasted holes in the hull of the ship to access the lower decks.
Before the bodies were discovered authorities had said that 29 people were missing, including Jerry and Barbara Heil of Minnesota. Also among the missing was a 5-year-old girl. The victims recovered today were not immediately identified.
Operations are now in motion to retrieve a second black-box recorder that has been located in the wreckage, Warrant Petty Officer Massimo Macaroni of the Italian Coast Guard told ABC News. The device, along with another recorder that has been found, will be analyzed by prosecutors to determined what happened during the disaster.
While divers searched the ship, the Costa Concordia's captain Francesco Schettino was in an Italian courtroom which is deciding whether to file criminal charges against him for reckless control of the ship, abandoning his ship and the death of his passengers.
PHOTOS: Inside the Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Tragedy
In court officials played a tape in which a port official could be heard angrily and repeatedly ordering Schettino to return to his ship to supervise the evacuation of passengers. Schettino can be heard making excuses. It's not certain that he ever returned to his ship.
The court later decided to release Schettino from jail, but put him under house arrest.
Today's grim discovery came four days after the vessel ran aground and searchers were keeping a wary eye on the weather as waves threaten the stability of the ship. It moved slightly on Monday and another 3.5 inches today.
The rescue divers say they can hear the screech of steel every time the 114,000-ton vessel shifts around them.
Rescue efforts had been halted for about three hours Monday because the huge vessel sits on a 120-foot ledge and had shifted slightly as the water got rough. Officials feared the ship could be pushed off the ledge into water that is 224 feet deep.
PHOTOS: Cruise Ship Runs Aground Off Italy
The luxury cruise ship was carrying more than 4,000 passengers and crew when it struck rocks Friday evening near Giglio, off the coast of Tuscany. The Costa line says Schettino was wrong to steer the ship so close to the island.
Genoa-based Costa Cruises, which operates more than a dozen Italian-flagged ships, is controlled by Carnival Corp. of Miami.
Adding pressure is the fear of an ecological impact, as concerns grow that the 500,000 gallons of fuel on the ship could seep into the ocean. Rescue boats are deploying boom -- a temporary floating barrier used to contain a spill -- around the vessel.
Facebook Post: 'Ship Will Pass Very Close'
New indications that the captain of the ship might have veered four miles off course on purpose have come to light as the sister of a waiter on board reportedly posted on Facebook that the ship would soon be moving toward the island.
"In a short period of time the Concordia ship will pass very close -- a big greeting to my brother who finally gets to have a holiday," the Facebook post read.
Italy's La Repubblica newspaper reports that Schettino was heard saying after the last phone call on deck with the port authorities: "My career ends here. They will fire me."
At a news conference Monday, Costa Cruises chief executive officer Pier Luigi Foschi said Schettino had made an unapproved, unauthorized maneuver to change the ship's programmed course.
"We believe it has been a human error here -- the captain did not follow the authorized route, which is used by Costa ships very frequently," Foschi said, "probably more than 100 times a year we travel this route.
"The company will be close to the captain and will provide him with all the necessary assistance, but we need to acknowledge the facts and we cannot deny human error," Foschi told a news conference in Genoa. "He wanted to show the ship, to [go] nearby this island of Giglio, so he decided to change the course of the ship to go closer to the island."
Experts are still analyzing the ship's first black box, which has already revealed a one-hour lag between the time of the impact on the rocks at 9:45 p.m. local time Friday and the ship's alarm call to the coast guard at about 10:43 p.m. Investigators suspect Schettino tried to maneuver the ship before alerting the coast guard, Ansa reported.
Infrared video of the scene aboard the ship as it began to capsize shows people lined up like ants, trying to escape Friday night by climbing down a rope ladder to rescue boats below.
"We were not allowed to deploy any more life boats because the previous one had got stuck to the side of the ship. And it was chaos, because of glass, everything was everywhere," survivor James Thomas told ABC News.
Newly released videos show passengers seated in lifeboats, trying to figure out who was responsible for the accident. One woman is heard saying, "Take pictures, take pictures, it is very important to discover whose fault it is…"
"It was every man for himself," Emily Lau, a passenger from Boston on board the Costa Concordia, said Monday on "Good Morning America."
"The main thing is no one knew how to help because they were never trained. That is the cruise ship's fault," Lau said.
"We had to improvise. There was no instruction," Benji Smith, Lau's husband, told "GMA." "No one was telling us what to do."
ABC News Phoebe Natanson and Clark Bentson contributed to this report.


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When switching between running applications via Command-Tab one can see all of the currently running programs.
This is however somewhat cumbersome, for instance I don't want certain programs to be listed there, say Adium - I would rather click on the icon in dock to bring it up, since I need it not as often as other apps.
I guess the solution I am looking for is similar to the behavior apps minimized into Windows tray area - can I somehow have an app running on Mac Os, active in the dock but not in the list of switchable apps?
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Look for drawing entry tickets in Morenci Area Chamber of Commerce stores starting Friday.
A ticket will be given for every $5 of goods or services purchased now through Oct. 23 when a drawing is scheduled at Wakefield Park. That's the night the Chamber will sponsor Halloween activities for children at the park.
Tickets should be brought to the park that night for the "Spend It Now! Give-Away" drawing. Tickets will be drawn from a barrel for several prizes totaling $500 of Morenci Money—a special currency that must be spent in Chamber member stores.
There's an added catch to this drawing, and that's where the "spend it now" comes into play. The money must be used that night after the drawing.
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Authorities' 'endangerment' is just a mother's desperation (Column)
Sheena Johnson reportedly said desperation forced her to make a home out of a New Jersey storage unit for her 5- and 10-year-old boys.
Hard times have a way of forcing hands. Ask anyone with a short friends list, minimal cash, and seemingly no escape route from a tight spot between rocks and other hard places, about difficult decisions.
Johnson, 27, has been charged with two counts of second-degree child endangerment but a case can be made that with the information she had, the mother of two made the best decision available in April before police and county officials extricated them from tin can alley.
Johnson alleged she had no other options.
It's easy to judge this woman from the comfort of our living rooms, a lifetime of knowledge, or a relative list that could offer love, food and shelter to offset any run on bad luck. I've seen desperation, wallowed in it, rolled around next to it like a pig takes on a muddy environment.
Desperation tastes nothing like chicken. Desperation embraces you in a bluer funk than the Blue Man Group. So, if you're somebody like Johnson, you weigh it all out then make a choice.
Poverty wrapped in desperation is a circus, staged in a world of welfare appointments. Frequently, you work without a net. You slide downward in a rough game of chutes and ladders or simply fall, and most of the landings are disabling.
We cast opinions on the poor, or Johnson, as if we know our end-game to life's next challenge. In our fictional victory over poverty, we make every appointment, catch every bus, fill out every job application, bathe our children every night, and ensure they brush their teeth three times a day.
We make it back to Easy Street in a walk.
Yeah, we pen a fantastic finish with our life challenges. It all ends fantastically wonderful as we surpass expectations in our move from the poor house to what's left of the middle class.
Listen, I don't know Johnson's mental state and I wish she would have sought a better solution then to put her kids in a container, but one system's child endangerment charges can be another woman's attempt to keep her family together.
At least she stood by them. A report said police were looking for the father of her two children.
If he had them, then authorities should charge him, too. Maybe if he stayed around to contribute financial, emotional or physical support, Johnson and her two boys would not have ended up in that Ewing storage container.
Instead, desperate times called for desperate measures.


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The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
Are butter, cheese and steak really bad for you? The dubious science behind the anti-fat crusade
"Saturated fat does not cause heart disease"—or so concluded a big study published in March in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. How could this be? The very cornerstone of dietary advice for generations has been that the saturated fats in butter, cheese and red meat should be avoided because they clog our arteries. For many diet-conscious Americans, it is simply second nature to opt for chicken over sirloin, canola oil over butter.
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A Muslim dies and finds himself before the pearly Gates. He is very
excited, as all his life he has longed to meet the Prophet Mohammed.
Having arrived at the Gates of Heaven, he meets a man with a beard.
'Are you Mohammed?' he asks ..
'No, my son. I am Peter. Mohammed is higher up And he points to a
ladder that rises into the clouds ..
Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than Peter, he climbs the
ladder in great strides, climbs through the clouds coming to a room
where he meets another bearded man.
He asks again, 'Are you Mohammed? 'No, I am Moses. Mohammed is higher
Exhausted, but with a heart full of joy, he continues to climb the
ladder and, yet again, he discovers an even larger room where he meets
another man with a beard.
Full of hope, he asks again, 'Are you Mohammed? 'No, I am Jesus...You
will find Mohammed higher up.
Mohammed higher than Jesus!
The poor man can hardly contain his delight and climbs and climbs,
ever higher Once again, he reaches a larger room
where he meets a man with a beard and repeats his question:
'Are you Mohammed?' he gasps, as he is by now, totally out of breath
from all his climbing. 'No, my son. I am God. But you look
exhausted..Would you like a coffee?'
'Yes, please, my Lord'
God looks behind him, claps his hands and
Calls out: ' Hey, Mohammed, two coffees!'
Keep your trust in God.
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6 comments:
- chibi curmudgeon said...
This made even less sense than I expected.
- 21 August, 2009 16:24
- Celia said...
Because, you see, people with brown-person names are servants.
- 21 August, 2009 18:18
- Anonymous said...
So the lesson is... Muslims do go to heaven? Or maybe that Muslims are closest to God, even closer than Jesus and Moses? Wouldn't bringing God his coffee be like the most favored place in heaven? I'm so confused...
- 21 August, 2009 20:04
- Anonymous said...
I'll keep my trust in science, you loons. Trusting in god is what's getting us all killed in the first place.
- 21 August, 2009 23:31
- Snarla said...
...Delighted that Mohammed should be higher than Peter...
Okay, so it has to be a Muslim who's well acquainted enough with cultural Christianity to know that this Peter fellow supposedly stands at the Pearly Gates. Possibly this Muslim has read lots of B.C. cartoons.
Mohammed higher than Jesus!
Well, duh. Mohammed was the final prophet, after all.
Do even Christians believe that Heaven is arranged on a "higher is better" system?
- 22 August, 2009 10:11
- Anonymous said...
I'm confused, too, bc I thought that Jesus taught about serving others being the highest calling. Hence, if Mohammad is G-d's personal servant, then Mohammad is very highly regarded by G-d.
Clearly, yes, Xtians cling to the notion that, although heaven is meant for all "true" believers, there will certainly be those who are "better than" YOU and get to "live" in a "higher" place than low-lifes!
Epic fail on all levels. No surprise.
- 22 August, 2009 12:08


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Old Salty: Does Age Affect the Ability to Detect Salt?
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AbstractSauerkraut, pickled fish, pickled vegetables, kimchi, corned beef, processed cheeses, smoked lunch meats. Do you like these high-salt foods? What about your grandparents, do they? Do your grandparents seem to like most foods to be a bit saltier than you do? Try this science fair project if you want to find out more about the incredible, edible rock known as salt, and why people vary in how much of it they like to eat.
To determine if people older than age 60 have a higher threshold of sensitivity to detecting salt than people younger than age 30.
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Has this situation ever happened in your family? You're all seated around the dinner table in front of steaming plates of food. One person tastes his meal and says, "Could you please pass the salt?" While another person says, "Oh, this is so delicious! Perfect!" Everyone has a different ability to detect a salty taste, one of the five tastes that humans can sense. On top of that, everyone prefers a different level of saltiness in foods, often based on past exposures to levels of salt. If you're cooking for a crowd, this can make getting the level of saltiness "just right" tricky, if not impossible!
Taste is a complex experience. Humans can sense fives tastes: salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and savory (or umami). Sensing is done through receptor cells in taste buds on the tongue. There is genetic variability in the number of taste buds, but many people have about 10,000 of them. The receptor cells transmit signals to the brain. The experience of taste comes from these signals, combined with other information about a food's texture, viscosity, mouth feel, appearance, and aroma, as well as a person's appetite, cultural traditions, and past encounters with the food. It's no wonder there are such strong and differing feelings about which foods taste good!
A basic liking for a salty taste seems to be something humans are born with, probably because salt is essential to survival. Humans, like all animals who evolved from creatures that started in the sea, carry a small piece of the ocean inside their bodies. That bit of oceanlike water is located in the fluid in the space around cells and in the plasma, the fluid part of your blood. Plasma is kind of like the broth in a soup. It is the medium that carries proteins, carbon dioxide, clotting factors, hormones, red and white blood cells, and mineral ions all throughout your body. The mineral ion, sodium (Na+), in the plasma comes from the salt (NaCl) that you eat in your food. That sodium is what makes your blood, sweat, and tears taste slightly salty.
Sodium is vital for many body processes, like transmission of nerve impulses, muscle function, and regulation of blood volume. Many animals, including humans, must take in a small amount of sodium each day to replace the sodium that is lost through sweat and urine. The amount of sodium is kept in balance inside your body through your kidneys, which regulate how much sodium is excreted. If you take in too much sodium, for example, then your kidneys will increase the amount of sodium excreted to avoid an excessive increase in blood volume, fluid retention, and swelling (called edema).
Wild herbivores, like deer, who eat a completely plant-based diet, have to supplement their diet with salt to get the sodium they need. These animals find salt in brine springs, or in natural outcroppings of salty rock, called salt licks. Wild carnivores, or animals that eat only meat, do not have to eat salt. Their sodium needs are met through the flesh and blood that they eat. In human history, salt became highly valued as people developed farming and ate more grains and vegetables. Even when diets were supplemented with the meat of domesticated farm animals, the meat was not enough to meet all the sodium needs, so the rock known as salt became like gold! Somehow, people knew that they needed it, and that their domesticated farm animals needed it too (actually, in amounts 5-10 times that of the people). People learned that salt was an amazing preservative for their food, as well as an antibacterial and anti-fungal agent. Many cultures thought it had spiritual or magical powers. It seems strange today, but centuries ago, people were paid in salt, just like it was money, and wars were fought over salt!
Today, the modern salt industry lists about 14,000 uses for salt. In cooking, it is prized for reducing bitterness, enhancing smells, and balancing sweetness. In this science project, you'll explore this extraordinary, edible rock by looking at the threshold of sensitivity to detecting salt. You'll see at what concentration of salt in saltwater people can first identify the taste as "salty," and you'll see if age affects that threshold of sensitivity.
Terms and Concepts
- Detect
- Savory
- Umami
- Receptor cell
- Variability
- Texture
- Viscosity
- Mouth feel
- Aroma
- Plasma
- Excretion
- Retention
- Herbivore
- Carnivore
- Domesticated
- Preservative
- Antibacterial
- Anti-fungal
- Threshold
- Sensitivity
- Concentration
- Control
- What factors go into the experience of taste?
- Why do humans and some other animals like salt?
- What role does sodium play in the body?
- How has salt been used throughout human history?
- McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking. New York, NY: Scribner, 2004.
- Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New Your, NY: Walker Publishing Company, Inc., 2002.
This source provides an animation that describes how the salt that you eat works inside your body to transmit nerve impulses:
- McKinley, M. and O'Laughlin, V. (2006). How the Sodium-Potassium Pump Works. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
This source describes the effect of sodium on the physiology of the human body:
- Merck Research Laboratory Contributors. (2003, February). Sodium. The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library. Retrieved September 16, 2008.
For help creating graphs, try this website:
- National Center for Education Statistics (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved May 23, 2008.
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Materials and Equipment
- Pitchers (3)
- Plastic wrap, if the pitchers do not have lids
- Masking tape
- Permanent marker
- Measuring spoons
- Kosher salt, non-iodized
- Soup pot, 3-gallon capacity or larger
- Liquid measuring cup, 1-quart (qt.) size
- Large spoon
- Access to a sink
- Dish towel
- Small disposable cups (at least 60)
- Pencil
- Volunteers, older than age 60 years (at least 10)
- Volunteers, younger than age 30 years (at least 10)
- Lab notebook
Experimental Procedure
Making Your Salt Solutions
To conduct this experiment, you will need to make three batches of saltwater solutions, each with a different concentration of salt. The first batch of saltwater will be the control. It will contain no salt. The second batch will contain 0.05 percent salt. The third batch will contain 0.10 percent salt (double the salt concentration of the first batch).
- Fill the first pitcher up with tap water and cover it with a lid or with plastic wrap. This will be your first batch of saltwater, your control, containing no salt. Put a small piece of masking tape on the pitcher and label it with the number "1."
- With your measuring spoons, measure out exactly ½ tsp of salt and put it in the clean and dry soup pot.
- Add 5 qt. of tap water to the soup pot with the liquid measuring cup.
- Stir the soup pot for approximately 5 minutes with the big spoon to allow the salt to dissolve.
- Have an adult help you pour the saltwater solution into the second pitcher. Cover the pitcher with a lid or with plastic wrap. This is your 0.05 percent solution. Put a small piece of masking tape on the pitcher and label it with the number "2."
- Rinse and dry the soup pot.
- With the measuring spoons, measure out exactly 1 tsp. of salt and put it in the clean and dry soup pot.
- Add 5 qt. of tap water to the soup pot with the liquid measuring cup.
- Stir the soup pot for approximately 5 minutes with the big spoon to allow the salt to dissolve.
- Have an adult help you pour the saltwater solution into the third pitcher. Cover the pitcher with a lid or plastic wrap. This is your 0.10 percent solution. Put a small piece of masking tape on the pitcher and label it with the number "3."
- If you are not going to be testing your volunteers all at the same time, or on the same day, then place your pitchers in a refrigerator to keep the solutions fresh. Note: Always allow the pitchers to come to room temperature before testing.
Preparing Your Cups for Testing
With the pencil, label:
- 20 disposable cups with the number "1."
- 20 disposable cups with the number "2."
- 20 disposable cups with the number "3."
- When a volunteer is ready to test, make sure your pitchers are out of the refrigerator and at room temperature. Fill a cup with the number 1 on it half full from the number 1 pitcher. Fill a cup with the number 2 on it half full from the number 2 pitcher. Fill a cup with the number 3 on it half full from the number 3 pitcher. If you are not going to be testing any more volunteers right away, then cover up your pitchers and put them back in the refrigerator.
Testing Your Volunteers
- Give each volunteer the three cups that you filled in the Preparing Your Cups for Testing section. Ask each volunteer to taste the cups in order of 1, 2, and 3, and to tell you what each one tastes like: water or saltwater. Write down your volunteer's response in one of the data tables appropriate for his or her age, like the ones below, in your lab notebook.
Under Age 30 Data Table
|Cup 1
|Cup 2
|Cup 3
Over Age 60 Data Table
|Cup 1
|Cup 2
|Cup 3
Analyzing Your Data
- Count how many volunteers under age 30 said cup 1 tasted like saltwater. Enter your count into a third data table, like the one below. Count how many volunteers under age 30 said cup 2 tasted like saltwater, and record your count. Count how many volunteers under age 30 said cup 3 tasted like saltwater, and record your count.
Repeat step 1 of this section for the volunteers over age 60.
Count of Volunteers Who Tasted Saltwater Salt concentration Under Age 30 Volunteers Over Age 60 Volunteers Cup 1: 0.00% salt Cup 2: 0.05% salt Cup 3: 0.10% salt
- Make a bar chart showing salt concentration on the x-axis (0.00%, 0.05%, and 0.10%), and the counts of each group of volunteers who identified the solutions as saltwater on the y-axis. You can make the bar chart by hand or use a website like Create a Graph to make the graph on the computer and print it. Looking at your bar chart, does age affect ability to detect saltiness?
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- Evaluate whether genetics affects salt-detection ability. If someone is a "supertaster," is he or she able to detect salt at weaker concentrations than most people? Does the number of taste buds affect salt-detection ability? See the Science Buddies science fair project, Do You Love the Taste of Food? Find Out if You're a Supertaster! for help on evaluating the number of taste buds.
- Do other taste sensations have an age sensitivity component? Modify the experiment to test sweet, bitter, sour, or umami.
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Chesapeake Forest Champions celebrated for conserving critical habitat
Four winners were honored at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum.
by Catherine Krikstan
October 17, 2013
Protecting undeveloped land, planting native trees and monitoring forests for insects and disease: each of these actions can conserve critical forest habitat, and each has been put into practice across the region by this year's Chesapeake Forest Champions.
A researcher, a forester, a teacher and a regional water provider were among the four award-winners in the annual contest sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
"The need for local champions of trees and forests has never been greater," said USFS liaison to the Chesapeake Bay Program Sally Claggett in a media release.
Across the watershed, forests are disappearing at an average rate of 100 acres per day, which can mean less habitat for wildlife and more pollution flowing into rivers and streams. But the examples set by these Chesapeake Forest Champions are a "continual reminder of the positive local action and careful land stewardship that is taking place to restore our treasured natural resources," said Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Executive Director Al Todd.
Newport News Waterworks was named an Exemplary Forest Steward. The regional water provider serves 400,000 Virginia residents and manages 12,000 acres of land, more than half of which has been a certified American Tree Farm since 1947. Here, farm fields have been reforested, stands of timber have been improved and insects, disease and invasive plants have been monitored and controlled.
Maryland middle school teacher John Smucker was commended for Greatest On-the-Ground Impact in light of his talent as a volunteer organizer and environmental educator. Smucker grows trees and shrubs from seed in a Frederick County nursery, which he and his volunteers plant across the region. Smucker also remains involved in forest maintenance, watering trees throughout the summer, mowing tall grasses and replanting trees that have died.
Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) District Forester Roy Brubaker was named Most Effective at Engaging the Public. Brubaker manages 85,000 acres of land and water at Michaux State Forest, where he engages stakeholders to resolve issues related to public use. As owner and operator of a grass-fed livestock farm, Brubaker is also involved in sustainable agriculture in the state, and has helped promote forest management to the region's farmers.
Stroud Water Research Center President and Director Bern Sweeney received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his research and writing about the environmental impact of streamside forests. For more than two decades, Sweeney has worked to demonstrate the link between healthy forests and healthy streams.
The Chesapeake Forest Champions were celebrated at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum in Shepherdstown, W.Va. The eighth annual conference also commemorated the three decades of restoration work in which so much of the conservation community has been engaged. Learn more about the winners.


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Get to Know Us: Will Gordon, Bottom Shelf Columnist
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Editor's Note: You may know Will Gordon better than many of the SE crew, thanks to his wonderful storytelling every week. You know he likes 7-Eleven and lives in Cambridge, and you know the man can drink. But today's your chance to learn a bit more about our Bottom Shelf expert. Take it away, Will!
Name: Will Gordon
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Occupation: Editorial vagabond/dive-bar doorman
Twitter: @WillGordonAgain
Tell us a little about your career path as a writer and drinker. I studied journalism but never became a real journalist. Instead I've just sort of kicked around from one lower-middle level editorial job to the next: proofreading children's books, writing marketing stuff, copyediting a couple different food and wine magazines. I met Kenji at one of those magazines. We lived in the same neighborhood and drank in the same bars, so we became friends and when he washed up at SE, he smuggled me in with him. As for the drinking part, that came naturally. My parents taught me how to hold my liquor and tell my stories, and I'm glad to have finally found someplace where I can combine both life lessons.
What have you learned about cheap booze since starting Drinking the Bottom Shelf? That a lot of it is just as good as the next step up. The bottom shelf is almost always a better value than the next-to-bottom shelf, because the biggest difference is marketing. I've also learned that there is no limit to the flavors vodka manufacturers will cram into the bottle. I fully expect to be reviewing an asparagus-flavored one here by year's end.
Has anything surprised you over the course of your column? I was pleasantly surprised at the variance among cheap regional lagers. I've done a few stories about things like Genny Cream Ale and Rainier and Narragansett and other localized legends, and while I didn't really like a lot of them, I give them credit for originality. Bud, Miller, and Coors all taste like each other in a way that Grain Belt and Utica Club do not.
How does 'research fiancée' Emily really feel about your column? I think she gets a kick out of it, and she likes the free liquor (well, sometimes she does. She wasn't that thrilled when I went through my Four Loko/Blast/Crunk Juce phase).
What are your guilty pleasures? I don't feel any guilt about it, per se, but I probably drink a lot more shitty faux-Polynesian cocktails than the rest of the SE Drinks staff does. If you call it a mai-tai, I will order it and love it. It could be a bottle of Bud with a pineapple wedge and an umbrella and I'll still be thrilled with the chance to say, "Another mai tai, please."
Describe your perfect meal. I'm very fond of the neighborhood bar-snack-crawl meal, stopping for one drink each at a dozen different places while I gather a stomachful of oysters, cheese, nuts, tacos, gumbo, 2/3 of a hamburger (Em gets the other 1/3), onion rings, etc.
What drink won't you drink? I don't like mixed shots, anything-and-Coke, Jack Daniel's, or crappy oversized margaritas full of sour mix.
What do you drink when you're not drinking for Serious Eats? Lately it's been Mayflower Porter, Fox Barrel pear ciders, Old Crow, and tons of water and green juice.
What would you like to try but haven't yet? Moderation and Triple 8's whiskey.
What do your family and friends think of your job as a bottom-shelf booze reviewer? A lot of my friends were surprised to find out I am functionally literate; the ones who know I like to write regard it as inevitable. I mean, what ELSE would I do?
What are your favorite food and drink sites or blogs? I like stealing ideas for fast food reviews from the guys at Grub Grade, and I like Beer Advocate. Other than that I mostly read newspaper dining sections.
Everyone has a go-to person they call for restaurant and bar recommendations. Who's yours? Kenji was useful until he steered me horribly wrong for a first date a couple million years ago. When I lived in New York I got a lot of good ideas from my buddy Rhea at Bleecker Street Bar.
And what's the best recommendation she's ever given you? She's an East Village $1 oyster savant; the best oyster time I remember having with her was at Belcourt on 2nd Avenue and 4th Street. Then there were dozens of other memorable times that I can't remember.
What is your favorite meal of the day and where do you get it? Dinner, which I cook for Emily and I most weeknights. On the weekends, I like a late lunch that starts at a bar around 3 and ends four bars later at around 7.
What's the best dish you make? My favorite thing to make is my pal Sandra Wu's White Chicken Chili recipe from Cook's Illustrated; Emily likes it when I make turkey meatballs.
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