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After 10 years this solid, reliable machine continues to be a shop mainstay.
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It's surprising we haven't written an Endurance Test about the Powermatic Model 66 table saw before now. When we set up the Popular Woodworking shop more than 10 years ago, it was the first machine we bought, and it's been the central machine in our shop ever since.
It's not overstating this saw's reputation to say that if you ask most home woodworkers what saw they would like to have, the Model 66 usually tops the list. In fact, lots of professional woodworkers also prefer the 66. We're not surprised. It's built like a tank, and it has run almost trouble-free during hundreds and hundreds of hours of service.
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Jetting off to Barcelona for an amazing few days ahead… Seems all I've been doing lately is live in front of a camera, and in a few hours I will be reunited with my girls for another amazing event… Meanwhile here are some great pictures taken a month ago by my gorgeous Ginger (a.k.a Miranda) while we were enjoying the time of our lives… Fancy cocktails, bright sun kissing our pale skin, bare legs all day long, tons of french fries and cameras filming us 24/7… all of this in New York City! (see my diaries here) And in one of those splendid days, in our 70sq meter roof top on our Hotel on Rivington, we decided to have fun with her latest collection Acid Green... You can't get enough of it either right? So quick! click on "read more" and watch the video + images now!!
All my clothes are from Acid Green by Miranda Makaroff. Glasses are Reiss 1971. And Birthday cake courtesy of my friends :)

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Carcharhinus longimanus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861)
|Regional Assessments:
Common Name(s):
Carcharhinus maou (Lesson, 1831)
Carcharias insularum Snyder, 1904
Carcharias longimanus (Poey, 1861)
Carcharias obtusus (Poey, 1861)
Pterolamiops budkeri Fourmanoir, 1961
Pterolamiops longimanus (Poey, 1861)
Pterolamiops magnipinnis Smith, 1958
Squalus longimanus Poey, 1861
Squalus maou Lesson, 1831
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Compagno, L.J.V. 1973. Carcharhinidae. In: J.-C. Hureau and T. Monod (eds), Check-list of the fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean (CLOFNAM). Volume 1, pp. 23-31. Unesco, Paris.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A2ad+3d+4ad ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Baum, J., Medina, E., Musick, J.A. & Smale, M.
|Cavanagh, R.D., Stevens, J., Dudley, S., Pollard, D. & Fowler, S.L. (Shark Red List Authority)
This formerly widespread and abundant large oceanic shark is subject to fishing pressure virtually throughout its range. It is caught in large numbers as a bycatch in pelagic fisheries, with pelagic longlines, probably pelagic gillnets, handlines and occasionally pelagic and even bottom trawls. Catches, particularly in international waters, are inadequately monitored. Its large fins are highly prized in international trade although the carcass is often discarded. Fishery pressure is likely to persist if not increase in future. Outside of the areas detailed below, this species is under similar fishing pressure from multiple pelagic fisheries, there are no data to suggest that declines would and have not have also occurred in these areas, given there are similar fisheries throughout the range. As such, a precautionary global assessment of Vulnerable is considered appropriate for the oceanic whitetip. Efforts are underway to improve the collection of data from some regions and effective conservation and management of this species will require international agreements.
Northwest Atlantic and Western Central Atlantic:
The oceanic whitetip shark is assessed as Critically Endangered in the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic because of the enormous declines that have been reported. Two estimates of trends in abundance from standardized catch rate indices were made from independent datasets. An analysis of the US pelagic longline logbook data between 1992 and 2000, which covers the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic regions, estimated declines of 70%. An analysis of the Gulf of Mexico, which used data from US pelagic longline surveys in the mid-1950s and US pelagic longline observer data in the late-1990s, estimated a decline of 99.3% over this forty year time period or 98% over three generations (30 years). However, changes in fishing gear and practices over this time period were not fully taken into account in the latter analysis, and there is currently debate as to whether or not these changes may have resulted in an under- or overestimation of the magnitude of these declines.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This is one of the most widespread of shark species, ranging across entire oceans in tropical and subtropical waters, usually found far offshore between about 30°N and 35°S in all oceans.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:American Samoa; Angola; Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia); Bahamas; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Bouvet Island; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago); Brunei Darussalam; Cambodia; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Chile; China; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Colombia; Comoros; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cook Islands; Costa Rica; Côte d'Ivoire; Cuba; Curaçao; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; Fiji; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia; French Southern Territories; Gabon; Gambia; Ghana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Heard Island and McDonald Islands; Honduras; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Israel; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kenya; Liberia; Macao; Madagascar; Malaysia; Maldives; Marshall Islands; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán); Montserrat; Morocco; Myanmar; Nauru; New Caledonia; Nicaragua; Niger; Niue; Northern Mariana Islands; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Peru; Philippines; Pitcairn; Portugal (Azores, Madeira); Puerto Rico; Réunion; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa; Sao Tomé and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape Province, Western Cape); Spain (Canary Is.); Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Taiwan, Province of China; Tanzania, United Republic of; Thailand; Togo; Tokelau; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; Tuvalu; United States (Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaiian Is., Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia); United States Minor Outlying Islands (Johnston I., Wake Is.); Uruguay; Vanuatu; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands, British
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central; Atlantic – eastern central; Atlantic – northeast; Atlantic – northwest; Atlantic – southeast; Atlantic – southwest; Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – western central; Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – southeast; Pacific – northwest; Pacific – southwest
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|This species, together with the silky shark Carcharhinus falciformis and blue shark Prionace glauca, has often been described as one of the three most abundant species of oceanic sharks and large marine animals (Compagno 1984, Taniuchi 1990, Bonfil 1994, Castro et al. 1999). Recent observations, however, indicate that this species that was formerly "nearly ubiquitous in water deeper than 180 m and above 20°C" (Castro et al. 1999) is now only occasionally recorded (e.g., Baum and Myers 2004, Domingo 2004).
The population dynamics and structure of this species are unknown. Distribution appears to depend on size and sex and the nursery areas appear to be oceanic (Seki et al. 1998). Larger individuals are caught deeper than smaller ones and there is geographic and sexual segregation (Anderson and Ahmed 1993). Longline catches in the Central Pacific show that this species definitely increases in abundance as a function of increasing distance from land, and, unlike the silky shark Carcharhinus falcifomis, it does not congregate around land masses (Compagno in prep.).
In the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic enormous declines are estimated to have occurred. Two estimates of trends in abundance from standardized catch rate indices have been made from independent datasets. An analysis of the US pelagic longline logbook data between 1992 and 2000, which covers the Northwest and Western Central Atlantic regions, estimated declines of 70% (Baum et al. 2003). An analysis of the Gulf of Mexico, which used data from US pelagic longline surveys in the mid-1950s and US pelagic longline observer data in the late-1990s, estimated a decline of 99.3% over this forty year time period (Baum and Myers 2004). When trends in abundance from the former analysis are extrapolated back to the mid-1950s, they match the latter analysis almost exactly (99.8%). Over a period of three generations (30 years), the estimated decline is 98%. However, the latter study has recently been criticized because temporal changes in fishing gear and practices over the time period were not taken fully into account and the study may, therefore, have exaggerated or underestimated the magnitude of the declines (Burgess et al. 2005, Baum et al. 2005).
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This is one of the most widespread sharks, ranging across entire oceans in tropical and subtropical waters. The oceanic whitetip is an oceanic-epipelagic shark, usually found far offshore in the open sea in waters 200 m deep, between about 30°N and 35°S in all oceans; it is normally found in surface waters, although it has been recorded to 152 m. It has occasionally been recorded inshore, but is more typically found offshore or around oceanic islands and areas with narrow continental shelves (Fourmanoir 1961, Compagno in prep, Last and Stevens 1994). Temperatures of waters in which it regularly occurs are 18 to 28°C, with water above 20°C preferred. Although one whitetip was caught in water of 15°C it tends to withdraw from waters that are cooling below this, as in the Gulf of Mexico in winter (Compagno in prep.).
This is a slow-moving but quite active shark, apparently equally active at daytime or night (Compagno in prep., Ebert 2003).
Development is viviparous and embryos have a yolk sac placenta that attaches to the uterine wall of the mother (Bigelow and Schroeder 1948). Born at about 60 to 65 cm TL after a gestation period of about 10 to 12 months (Compagno in prep.), males mature at about 170 to 96 cm and females at 170 to 190 cm TL (Seki et al. 1998). Oceanic whitetip sharks grow to a large size, with some individual reaching almost 4 m. However, most known specimens are et al. 1973, Stevens 1984, Seki et al. 1998), although 15 foetuses were recorded from a female of 245 cm TL from the Red Sea (Gohar and Mazure 1964) and larger females appear to carry more young, although there may be regional variation (Bass et al. 1973). Birth is thought to occur in early summer in the northwest Atlantic and south west Indian Oceans (Bass et al. 1973), and January to March off New South Wales (Stevens 1984), whereas Seki et al. (1998) found that parturition was February to July in the North Pacific. Pregnant females of this species are less frequently found in the Indian Ocean than other sharks of this genus (Gubanov 1978). In the Central Pacific, females with small embryos have been found throughout the year, suggesting a less tight seasonality of birth (and presumably mating) than the Western Atlantic (Compagno in prep). Also, non-breeding adult females have been found to outnumber gravid females in the equatorial Central Pacific (Compagno in prep). The location of nurseries has not been reported, but very young oceanic whitetip sharks have been found well offshore along the southeastern US, suggesting offshore nurseries over the continental shelves (Compagno in prep).
Seki et al. (1998) studied the age, growth and reproduction of the oceanic whitetip in the north Pacific. They found similar growth rates in both males and females with a Von Bertalanffy equation of: Lt = 299.58 * {1 - e-0.103 x (t + 2.698)} where Lt is expressed as precaudal length in cm at age t. They used Bass et al.'s (1973) transformation of TL = 1.397 x PL for conversions to total length. Using vertebral analysis they showed that annular formation occurred in spring. Both male and female oceanic whitetips matured at 4 to 5 years of age. Smith et al. (1998) investigated the intrinsic rebound potential of Pacific sharks and found that oceanic whitetips to be among a moderate rebound potential, because of their relatively fast growth and early maturation.
This pelagic species feeds mainly on bony fishes (including tunas, barracuda, white marlin, dolphinfish, lancetfish, oarfish, threadfish, swordfish) and cephalopods and to a lesser extent, seabirds, marine mammals, stingrays, and flotsam, including garbage.
|Major Threat(s):
Oceanic whitetip sharks have been caught in large numbers virtually everywhere they occur, particularly in pelagic longline and drift net fisheries. This species was initially described as the most common pelagic shark beyond the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico (Wathne 1959, Bullis 1961), and throughout the warm-temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific (Mather and Day 1954, Strasburg 1957). In the Gulf of Mexico, for example, between 2 and 25 of these sharks were usually observed following the vessel during longline retrieval on the exploratory surveys in the 1950s and their abundance was considered as a serious problem because of the high proportion of tunas they damaged (Bullis and Captiva 1955, Backus et al. 1956, Wathne 1959). Recent shark papers on the Gulf of Mexico have either not mentioned this species or have dismissed it as rare, not recognising its former prevalence in the area (Baum and Myers 2004).
Few data are available on the catch rate of these sharks, and this is a serious hindrance to assessing the status of this species in regions other than the Northwest Atlantic and Eastern Central Pacific. Strasburg (1958) reported that the oceanic whitetip shark constituted 28% of the total shark catch in exploratory tuna longline fishing south of 100 N latitude in the central Pacific Ocean. According to Berkeley and Campos (1988), oceanic whitetip sharks constituted 2.1% of the shark bycatch in the swordfish fishery along the east coast of Florida in 1981 to 1983. Taniuchi (1990) analysed Japanese fishery statistics and noted that this species was most commonly taken by fishery boats in the Pacific, where they made up 20 to 30% of the number of sharks taken by tuna longliners, compared to about 3 to 4% in the Indian Ocean, because the boats are fishing for southern bluefin tuna in cooler waters. Guitart Manday (1975) demonstrated a marked decline in the oceanic whitetip shark landings in Cuba from 1971 to 1973. In the Maldives, Anderson and Ahmed (1993) reported that oceanic whitetip sharks were taken commercially by pelagic shark longliners and incidentally by tuna fishermen, and that in a previous exploratory fishing survey oceanic whitetip sharks constituted 23% of all sharks caught.
Domingo (2004) reported that the Uruguayan longline fleet observer programme in 1998 to 2003 recorded catch rates of only 0.006 sharks/1,000 hooks in Uruguayan and adjacent high seas South Atlantic waters (latitude 26° to 37°, 16 to 23°C) and 0.09 sharks/1,000 hooks in international waters off the Atlantic coast of Africa. He notes that similarly infrequent records are obtained by Brazilian and Ecuadorian Atlantic longline fleets.
|Conservation Actions:
|Conservation and management action are urgently required for this species; the only known conservation measure at present is a broad, multi-species pelagic shark quota for U.S. Atlantic waters. Specifically, fishing pressure on this species must be considerably decreased through reduction in fishing effort, catch limits, measures to enhance chances of survival after capture and possibly also through the implementation of large-scale oceanic non-fishing areas. Effective conservation of this species will require international cooperation. The oceanic whitetip is listed as a highly migratory species under the 1995 UN Agreement on the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (UNFSA). The Agreement specifically requires coastal States and fishing States to cooperate and adopt measures to ensure the conservation of these listed species. To date, there is little progress in this regard. See United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for further details. Also of relevance is the FAO International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (IPOA-Sharks) which specifically recommends that Regional Fisheries Organisations (RFO) carry out regular shark population assessments and that member States cooperate on joint and regional shark management plans. This is of particular importance for pelagic sharks such as C. longimanus whose stocks are exploited by more than one State on the high seas. Although steps are being taken by some RFOs to collect species-specific data on pelagic sharks, and to ban the practise of shark finning, to date no RFO has limited shark catches or drafted a "Shark Plan" as suggested in the IPOA-Shark guidelines (R. Cavanagh, pers. comm).
|Baum, J., Medina, E., Musick, J.A. & Smale, M. 2015. Carcharhinus longimanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T39374A85699641. . Downloaded on 16 October 2018.
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Arctic Research
Boundary Layer Processes & Cloud Physics
Boundary layer processes and cloud physics in arctic regions are poorly parametrized in the current generation of global climate models. For example, phase difference of clouds (ice and water) could effect radiative balance of atmosphere significantly. PSD researchers are tackling those difficult problems by using observations and models. Below is some of the research being conducted by the PSD Polar Observations and Processes team:
EOS Satellite Retrievals and Validation
This project focused on the intereactions of atmosphere, land, and oceans with one another and with solar radiation. Our team developed long-term cloud data sets in the Arctic to validate the Arctic cloud retrievals. Read more...


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A U.S. Supreme Court order late last month protecting the Little Sisters of the Poor from the immediate effects of the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate is being hailed as a triumph for the religious order. But the outcome may leave the average person wondering what has been gained.
The good sisters, who operate non-profit nursing homes in Baltimore and Denver for the elderly poor, refused to sign a form which eventually would have passed on the responsibility for providing free contraception insurance coverage to insurers.
Merely to sign the form, they said, would involve them in a system that provides contraception, even though an insurance company would have to pay for it.
Besides their overall opposition to contraception, the sisters consider the morning-after pill, which prevents sperm from joining an egg, an abortion-inducing drug.
The dispute involving the sisters is separate from the two cases set to be heard March 25 in the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the owners of "closely held" for-profit companies can refuse to provide contraception coverage for women employees, as required by the act's contraception mandate, because of the owners' religious beliefs.
The outcome in those two consolidated cases, as well as the outcome of the sisters' challenge, may determine whether the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, survives even in piecemeal form.
The mandate is not in the language of the Affordable Care Act, but in regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services implementing the act.
Churches, their "integrated auxiliaries," and conventions or associations of houses of worship are exempted from having to provide their female employees with contraception coverage. Religious institutions not affiliated with a house of worship, such as hospitals, charities or schools -- or in the sisters' case, nursing homes -- are not exempt, but under a compromise offered by the administration do not have to pay for contraceptive coverage. Insurers do.
But those religious institutions included in the compromise are supposed to sign a form indicating they object to contraception on religious grounds to be included in that category.
"I certify that, on account of religious objections," the form says in part, "the organization opposes providing coverage for some or all of any contraceptive services that would otherwise be required to be covered; the organization is organized and operates as a non-profit entity; and the organization holds itself out as a religious organization."
As the Jan. 1 deadline approached, the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for an 11th-hour injunction. Nearly 500 Catholic non-profit ministries provide employee benefits through the trust.
"In less than 10 hours, a regulatory mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will expose the Little Sisters of the Poor to draconian fines unless they abandon their religious convictions and participate in the government's system to distribute and subsidize contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs and devices," the sisters' application told the court.
"The Little Sisters are an order of Catholic nuns whose religious faith leads them to devote their lives to caring for the elderly poor. Not surprisingly, they have sincere and undisputed religious objections to complying with this mandate," the application said. "Yet they were denied relief by the [U.S.] District Court for the District of Colorado ... and ... by a motions panel of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Without an emergency injunction, Mother Provincial Loraine Marie Maguire has to decide between two courses of action: (a) sign and submit a self-certification form, thereby violating her religious beliefs; or (b) refuse to sign the form and pay ruinous fines."
The sisters said they would have to pay $6,700 a day in fines, while all the organizations in the trust would have to pay about $1 million a day after the Jan. 1 deadline.
In its own brief to the Supreme Court, the Obama administration said neither the Little Sisters nor the Christian Brothers trustee would be required to provide contraception coverage. Just sign the little form.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who oversees the 10th Circuit, which includes Colorado, came to the rescue, issuing a temporary injunction. Sotomayor is one of six Catholics on the high court.
Sotomayor enjoined the contraception mandate's enforcement as applied to the parties in the case -- the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust.
On Jan. 24, the other shoe dropped. The entire U.S. Supreme Court issued an order protecting the sisters until the federal appeals court in Denver acts. There were no dissents. But the order specifically said the high court was not indicating how it would eventually rule.
"The application for an injunction having been submitted to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the court, the court orders: If the employer applicants inform the secretary of Health and Human Services in writing that they are non-profit organizations that hold themselves out as religious and have religious objections to providing coverage for contraceptive services," the Supreme Court said, the Obama administration is "enjoined from enforcing against the applicants the challenged provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related regulations pending final disposition of the appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. To meet the condition for injunction pending appeal, applicants need not use the form prescribed by the government and need not send copies to third-party administrators. The court issues this order based on all of the circumstances of the case, and this order should not be construed as an expression of the court's views on the merits."
Which may leave the average person scratching his or her head.
If signing the form unacceptably involves the sisters in the governmental apparatus that may lead to contraception insurance coverage, does notifying Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of their religious objections, even though it spares them for the moment, amount to essentially the same thing?
After all, the Little Sisters already had obtained a preliminary injunction from Sotomayor.
Emily Bazelon, writing in the online magazine Slate, also appeared puzzled.
"The Supreme Court said ... the Little Sisters of the Poor don't have to fill out the Obamacare form for non-profit religious groups seeking an accommodation to the contraception mandate," Bazelon wrote. "Instead, in order to get the exception, Little Sisters, which provides housing to elderly people in need, essentially has to provide the same information to the Department of Health of Human Services in a ... form [or maybe it's a letter?] the court devised itself. Got that? I know, it sounds weird, but that's pretty much the upshot of the court's three-sentence order, which will remain in effect until the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rules in the case."
SCOTUSBlog.com's Lyle Denniston pointed out the practical difference between signing the form and writing the same thing to Sebelius. The Supreme Court order relieved the sisters temporarily of the requirement to sign the form and send it on to its insurance plan's trustee, but "the justices did give the federal government something, too. The government, in resisting the Little Sisters' challenge, had said that the government has to have some workable mechanism that religious groups can file in order to be let out of the mandate's obligation.
"The justices supplied that with the requirement that the Little Sisters make a written declaration [the court did not say what exact format it must have] that they are seeking an exemption."
Denniston said presumably that was more acceptable to the good sisters "because under the ACA only a properly filled-out Form 700 could lead to actual coverage of the contraceptive services included in the mandate."
Despite the many hurdles ahead, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is helping the Little Sisters at the Supreme Court, said it was happy with the high court action.
"We are delighted that the Supreme Court has issued this order protecting the Little Sisters," Mark Rienzi, senior counsel for the fund, said in a statement. "The government has lots of ways to deliver contraceptives to people -- it doesn't need to force nuns to participate."
The statement said injunctions already have "been awarded in 18 of the 19 similar cases in which relief had been requested."
"Virtually every other party who asked for protection from the mandate has been given it," Rienzi said. "It made no sense for the Little Sisters to be singled out for fines and punishment before they could even finish their suit."
It's hard to say how the Little Sisters' appeal will fare in federal appeals court in Colorado. A federal judge and the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' motions panel in Denver already have denied a stay, which is why the sisters turned to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But the 10th Circuit earlier ruled Oklahoma City's Hobby Lobby and companies like it may assert a free exercise of religion claim to fight the contraception mandate, even though it is a secular for-profit company.
The Hobby Lobby case is one of the two accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court for argument in March.


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DeSean Jackson responded to Josh Scobee's tweets Sunday night in which the Jaguars kicker called the Eagles wide receivers a "punk" after he was flagged for taunting.
"This man @joshscobee is Waaaaaaay outta LIne!! Stick to ya Own business.. Mind ya own!! I don't respect what u sayin.. Lil Boi status," Jackson wrote.
Jackson then followed up with another tweet: "I don't even know who this guy is."
Apparently. Scobee's Twitter sign-on is @JoshScobee10.
Here's what Scobee initially wrote:
"Desean Jackson is a punk. #growuputinybastard."
And then, after some readers complained about his first tweet, Scobee wrote:
"Relax people. He's just a punk, which to me means he doesn't respect anyone or anything around him. Therefore, I don't respect him."
Scobee apologized a day later, writing, "Shouldn't have called Desean Jackson that, I used the wrong words to try and make my point."
Eagles tackle Todd Herremans was confused by the apology. "Which 1? Punk, tiny or bastard?" Herremans wrote.
Eagles guard suggested on Twitter that MTV should bring back celebrity death match so Jackson and Scobee can settle their differences.
The Eagles do not play Jacksonville in their final six games.


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Old thread that I didn't want to resurrect here.
Pauldotcom.com is supposed to be pretty good, I haven't heard it yet.
Security Now with Steve Gibson is...well, it's Steve Gibson (of GRC fame...or infamy.) I'm a fan of Leo Laporte, who hosts with Steve. Leo's TechTV and TWiT host the show. It's mostly Security for Dummies, via a podcast, but if you can get through Steve's ranting and crying wolf, it's a very informative show. I won't say Steve is a dumb guy, he's very smart. I just don't like the causes he trumpets, or the means by which he does some things. The show also has a LOT of plugs for his SpinRite hard drive band-aid program (do not tell me it is a data-recovery application or I shall squash you under the muddy boot of truth and reality.)
The Silver Bullet Security Podcast is a nice interview style show (updates irregularly) by Craig McGraw of Cigital. He interviews different InfoSec pundits, curmudgeons, and gods. Good stuff.
Cyber Speak is an AWESOME digital/computer forensic focusing show, I'm new to it but the few I've heard are VERY good.
The Security Catalyst is OK in a touchy feely Tony Robinson sort of way. I like Santarcangelo (Michael is his first, I think), but he is a professional speaker on InfoSec, and it comes out in his show a lot. Lot's of plugs for the forums on his site (traffic drivers) and his business.
Network Security Podcast is ok. I try to like Martin McKeay, but he gets on my nerves real fast. Not sure why. But it's worth listening to.
And last, but certainly not least, is SecThis.com These guys are AWESOME. There is drinking on the show, honest personal opinions from guys in the trenches of working security (you have to be a CISSP to be on the show. not much of an honor, actually, if you listen to the guys.) and they blast everything and everyone, including each other, if they feel the need. Good stuff.
I've heard of others but have no knowledge of them.
So what do you guys listen to (that is Security focused?)
P.S. You can find all of these in iTunes if you do a search for Security Podcast. If you don't have iTunes, Google is your friend.


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Date: Oct 29, 2012
Press Release Number: 160-2012
Due to high winds from Hurricane Sandy, effective immediately the Port Authority is banning tractor trailers, car-pulled trailers, house trailers and motorcycles from the George Washington Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, Goethals Bridge and Bayonne Bridge until further notice. Other vehicles are restricted to 35 mph.
The agency reminds travelers to check http://www.panynj.gov/ for updated information about PATH, the airports, the tunnels and bridges, and all other Port Authority facilities. For further information about safety precautions, evacuation routes and best practices for New York State, visit http://www.governor.ny.gov/stormwatch. For New Jersey, visit www.ready.nj.gov. Travelers can also check 511NY.org and 511NJ.org for travel updates.
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Founded in 1921, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities is among the busiest in the country, supports more than 550,000 regional jobs, and generates more than $23 billion in annual wages and $80 billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where construction crews are building the iconic One World Trade Center, which is now the tallest skyscraper in New York. The Port Authority receives no tax revenue from either the state of New York or New Jersey or from the City of New York. The agency relies on revenues generated by facility users, tolls, fees and rents as well as loans, bond financing, and federal grants to fund its operations. For more information, please visithttp://www.panynj.gov.


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Find three positive whole numbers such that for any two of them, the number one less than their product is divisible by the third number.
This is one of my favorite integer problems. The wording is a little off. I think it should read, "their product is evenly divisible", no fractions. I think there is also a proof that shows there is exactly one solution to this problem. When posting solutions, please post your method as well.
(x × y 1) ÷ z = (int)
(y × z 1) ÷ x = (int)
(z × x 1) ÷ y = (int)
Does 1, 1 and 1 count?
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
Ahh, good question. For this solution, x ≠y ≠z. For all values of x, y, z such that they are all integers, positive, and unique.
Here's my reasoning, hidden for anyone who wants to do it themselves:
Sorry to anyone uptight about punctuation, but the hide tag has a problem with apostrophes.
Anyway, if you read that, you can see that it was mostly guesswork that got it and we're still nowhere near proving that that's the only combination. I've got as far as showing that there needs to be 1 even and 2 odd, but beyond there I'm stuck.
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Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
I coded a small program that searches for solutions.
Below is a copy of the output file.
Bounded integer solutions list
Bounds: x:[1;500] y:[1;500] z:[1;500]
x y z
2 3 5
2 5 3
3 2 5
3 5 2
5 2 3
5 3 2
6 solutions found
And with more and more attempts I always get this result. 6 Solutions! Could it be?
I know that brute-forcing the equation WILL NEVER PROVE that *ONLY* 6 solutions exist...
Even if I asked the program to search within bounds [1 to 50000000000]...we don't know if 50000000001 has a solution...
Its not the maths way. But it can give us great clues!
Just for curiosity...even from 1 to 5000 there are still only these 6 solutions : )
mathsyperson got it. He used the same method that I did, "plug-and-chug". Sometimes that's the best way to solve a problem. I also wrote a program to cycle all combinations of all integers from 1-100,000 and only found one unique solution. Later, I found on the same website that I originally found the problem a proof showing there was a single unique solution.
I said it was easy.
kylekatarn is also correct. Technically, there are six solutions but they are all permutations of the same three numbers.
I know I am new here but I'm quite impressed with the speed that you found an answer.
... but the hide tag has a problem with apostrophes.
I think I got the hide tag straightened out. Quotes should work now
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Later, I found on the same website that I originally found the problem a proof showing there was a single unique solution.
Can you post the proof? I got as far as Mathsy did, that two of the numbers should be odd and one even. Maybe, the proof has got something to do with 2 being the only even prime
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
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Design Matters: Design by Proportion
Simple adjustments in ratios can produce pleasing and functional results.
By George R. Walker
Pages 60-62
My wife, Barb, set a bag of groceries on the kitchen counter and said, "I saw a great work table – will you build me one?"
On the surface it sounded like a simple request, but I've been down this road before. She spied a trestle table in a furniture store that sparked her interest and got her thinking about what she really wanted. This was confirmed when we visited the store showroom.
After a few moments of looking it over she said, "This is exactly what you can make for me, except the top is too wide, I don't like this breadboard end on the top, the feet need a little spice (maybe a flowing curve?) and the cross-brace thingy – can you move that down a bit so I can rest my foot on it while I'm sketching? But other than that it's perfect!"
What I took away from that conversation was a sense for the scale and proportions she wanted. Smaller details, such as the profile on the trestle foot, would be easy if I could nail the overall feel she was after.
Deceptively Simple
It's hard to imagine a furniture design that's simpler than a trestle table. Yet that simplicity comes with a challenge. With everything in plain sight, a single miscue can throw the design off. Trestle tables span a wide range of tastes from robust, sort of timber-frame like, to light and delicate. Because this form is so basic it's a good example to use while sharing some practical insights on proportioning. I actually built this without using a tape measure and opted to rely on simple proportions to guide the design.
We started by establishing the overall width and length of the top. I asked Barb to spread her hands apart and show me how deep she'd like the tabletop and then I mocked up few configurations in cardboard for her to look at. All were rectangles defined by simple whole-number ratios stepped off with dividers. I made up several different samples, all the same width but with different lengths, 3:5, 4:7 and 1:2 (see "Visual Notes" on page 62 for more information). She quickly chose the 4:7 as the footprint for her tabletop.
Proportioning the Trestle
I've included here a few trestle table drawings to work out the proportions of the feet and the brace at the top of the upright that supports the top. Barb wanted a narrow tabletop and it worked out to be the same width as the overall height of the table. That meant the end view of the table is essentially a square.
Blog: Read more from George about design on his Design Matters blog.
In our store: George R. Walker's DVDs: "Unlocking the Secrets of Traditional Design" and "Unlocking the Secrets of Traditional Design: Moldings."
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WOLFEBORO � A man accused of attempting to murder his girlfriend this past spring will face a final pre-trial conference next month, with a hearing for a motion to suppress evidence on Tuesday, Oct. 9.
David Connor Ford, 31, with a last known address of 15 Zaleda Farm Lane in Tuftonboro, was indicted on 18 counts, according to Carroll County Superior Court clerk, ranging from misdemeanors including simple assault to criminal threatening, criminal restraint and attempted murder.
Police allege Ford struck his 28-year-old girlfriend numerous times in the face with a rock before holding her down into a burning fire pit in the early morning hours of April 24 in the backyard of her relative�s home on Middleton Road.
According to accounts by the victim provided to the Wolfeboro Police Department, Ford was highly intoxicated when the couple went to the backyard of the Middleton Road residence to make a campfire.
Police say when a fight ensued, Ford allegedly grabbed a rock and struck his girlfriend in the head and face approximately 10 times. When she attempted to flee, Ford allegedly wrestled her to the ground and dragged her to the campfire, while attempting to strangle her.
Police Detective Guy Maloney previously told Foster�s, Ford verbally threatened to throw the victim into the fire, though he could not disclose the exact wording at that time. Ford then reportedly held the victim into the flames where she suffered severe burns to her arms, hands and face as she tried to push herself away from the hot coals and flames.
Police described the victim�s injuries, with first- and second-degree burns, as so severe that those who knew her wouldn�t be able to recognize her. Maloney said he thought the victim was �fighting for her life.�
Since his arrest April 25 Ford continues to be held without bail at the Carroll County House of Corrections.
A motion to suppress hearing will be held on Oct. 9 with a final pre-trial conference scheduled for Nov. 19. A clerk reported jury selection, in the event of a trial, has been scheduled for the week of Nov. 19.
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WOLFEBORO � A man accused of attempting to murder his girlfriend this past spring will face a final pre-trial conference next month, with a hearing for a motion to suppress evidence on Tuesday, Oct. 9.


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Today my doctor called with some news: I have hypertension. After a week of at-home blood pressure readings and record-keeping, the doc has decided that I need to go on medication. Apparently increasing my cardio routine to 45 minutes instead of 30, gravitating toward low-sodium labels, and eating more fruits and vegetables, were all great lifestyle changes, but not quite enough to keep the meds at bay.
All of this is no surprise. Hypertension runs in my fam (my father passed away at 46 from a stroke), and I delivered my son, Javier, two and a half months early due to preeclampsia, or pregnancy-induced hypertension. He was hospitalized for two months, and I was a mess for about a year or two. Now it's back, and I'm about to turn 38, which means my biological baby-making window is shutting, and I suddenly have to give serious thought to whether I want another baby.
If I go for it, life will change dramatically. Mine would be considered a high-risk pregnancy, with daily blood pressure monitoring and a strong likelihood that I'd end up on bed rest, with one hand on the TV remote and the other on a copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. I'd probably have to take extra time away from my job, which could mean a shorter maternity leave, if I want to stay in the game at work. Would clients like Lego be OK with a conference call while I'm in my PJs? Maybe for a while, but it wouldn't be the same. Visions of Diane Keaton handing her baby to a coat check girl in Baby Boom pop into my head.
After being a single mom for five years, I've finally got things under control. Awesome career that keeps growing and growing? Check. Happy, healthy, well-adjusted kid? Check. Cute house and enough money to pay for it and semi-regular vacas? Check and check. As if things couldn't get any better, I've been in a fabulous relationship for the past year that stops shy of being Fifty-Shades-of-Grey scandalous but is certainly h-o-t. Mark is amazing—whether with his own son, mine, or frankly, me. I've found a real gem, and lately we find ourselves talking babies and baubles of the engagement variety.
But I'm scared. What would another pregnancy mean for my health—and my life—exactly? Life may be a whirlwind, but it's a happy one. Some people say it's busy, but I prefer to think of it as full. Really full. Do I want to risk jeopardizing that, let alone my health? My dad died at 46, for goodness sake, shouldn't I just enjoy my life instead of trying to complicate it?
The doc has run through the stats. I am already 25 percent more likely to develop preeclampsia than most women in this situation. Daily hypertension meds only add another layer of concern. There are pills I can take while preggers, he says, but it complicates an already complicated situation. "It's not impossible. I would never tell a patient not to get pregnant, but it's certainly a concern," he said. Not exactly the words a woman turning 38 wants to hear.
Am I getting ahead of myself? Shouldn't I be happy that we've discovered this early and we can get it under control before it becomes life-threatening? Isn't it enough that Mark and I have two healthy boys and a wonderful relationship? I have an amazing but huge job that keeps a steady stream of stress in my life, so it's not like things are going to get calmer anytime soon. Maybe our little family is all we can handle. Still, I can't help it. My friends are having seconds and thirds, and the feeling I get when I hold their babies is clearly one of longing. We don't have a daughter. Wouldn't that be great? Am I being ungrateful? Greedy? Can women really have it all?
Mark and I are not even engaged yet, and it's not like it's a shoo-in that a woman near 40 will get pregnant anyway. But when the choice is suddenly off the table, it changes everything. I've built an amazing life and career making my own choices, at times when folks told me I couldn't. Is this that different? I think it is—and I don't like it one bit.


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I recently asked a distinguished garden designer what I should plant in the blank space next to my garage, and he said a wheat field. Interesting choice. But then I've read that "heritage grains" are fashionable in that obsolete kind of way: like landlines and pencils and romantic love.
The distinguished garden designer went on to recommend parsley as a digestive and mint for tea. And thistles, because they repel evil wizards. If I knew any homeless birds, he added, I should probably grow a birdhouse gourd, right?
Wait, did I say I consulted a distinguished garden designer? I meant to say I asked my 6-year-old son. That plant list also happens to be what we grew together last summer. After failing to make a plan, we scattered a shoe box full of orphaned seeds over the dirt. Instant garden.
Failing to make a plan: that was probably an oversight. So last week, after I polled my own seed, I really did call three distinguished horticulturists and garden designers. And I asked what they would make of a neglected 10-by-10-foot space close to their homes: in suburban New Jersey; Washington, D.C., and Seattle. Almost every yard has one. A forgotten province on the far side of the driveway. A patio to nowhere. A limbo that could be heaven if you just knew what to grow there.
The garden designers also named a few places you can find some of their pet plants. But first a note about shopping for plants online: These nurseries are not Amazon, and they are not headquartered in the Amazon, either. The proprietors may hesitate to ship a half-living specimen into an arctic dead zone. A good local garden store will be able to order many of the plants on this page, and they'll know the best time to do it.Continue reading the main story
Still scared of evil wizards? Drop me a line. Lots of seeds left in my shoe box.
Susan Cohan
ROOTS Susan Cohan Gardens is a boutique landscape-design firm in suburban New Jersey, with a semiparadoxical aesthetic. The most successful projects match the homeowner's style so naturally, she said, that "it doesn't really look like I've been there." But Ms. Cohan, 60, is hardly invisible: She currently is the president of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers. And she blogs about gardens at Miss Rumphius' Rules, with the occasional burr included: e.g., "I'm tired of the so-called 'new' perennial gardens with all of their blowsy grasses and prairie leanings."
HOME FIELD Ms. Cohan runs a game preserve in Chatham, N.J., 30 miles west of Midtown Manhattan. That is to say, herds of deer loot the garden and plantings outside her tiny 1920s home, which was originally a summer cottage. The plants she trials in the yard, then, should be as appetizing as asphalt. Ideally, a little greener.
LEAF MOTIF The shady nook.
GROUND RULES Her 10-by-10-foot void is a shaded corner with a stone wall. Her vision? A spot to read a book, drink a cup of coffee — and maybe watch the deer promenade.
THE DIRT Ms. Cohan started by setting some personal boundaries. For a low hedge, she likes a "great little plant" called sweet box (Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis Fragrant Valley). This tight, shiny evergreen is sort of the Shetland pony of shrubbery: It's adorable and it won't grow much bigger than two feet tall. Not only is sweet box fairly cold-hardy, she said, but: "This one blooms in March. And it's incredibly fragrant." (Source: Rare Find Nursery, at 732-833-0613 or rarefindnursery.com.)
Tall native grasses would overwhelm this hedge: may as well serve a 72-ounce porterhouse steak on a spoon as an amuse-bouche. For a right-size ground cover, Ms. Cohan praised the pink pyramidal blooms (picture a Smurf's hat) of the native foam flower (Tiarella Pink Skyrocket). "I love this plant so much I would give up all my other ground covers," Ms. Cohan said. (Source: Digging Dog Nursery, at 707-937-1130 or diggingdog.com.)
A six-foot-tall perennial is a big boy in a playpen. You can put a smaller plant at eye level with a booster seat — that is, a container. One of Ms. Cohan's favorites is a Branch Tapered Hudson Pot, made in Detroit from galvanized steel. It comes in various sizes, any of which will develop a lovely patina and last practically forever. Remember, though, that your plant is going to quintuple over the growing season, and a smaller pot will need to be watered three times a day in the swelter of August. Ms. Cohan's specifications: "Always go bigger than you think you need" — which actually sounds like a rule for living. (Source: Detroit Garden Works, at 248-335-8089 or detroitgardenworks.com.)
If you feel ambitious, you could fill your container with a new display every season. Or you could go with Ms. Cohan's "one-time deal": a Dixie wood fern (Dryopteris x. australis), which "makes a big statement in a pot"; and Lamium maculatum Purple Dragon, which "kind of cascades over the side," she said. (Source: Plant Delights, at 919-772-4794 or plantdelights.com, and White Flower Farm, at 800-503-9624 or whiteflowerfarm.com.)
Setting her sights yet higher, Ms. Cohan said, "People don't think about flowering vines for a vertical space in the shade." A favorite is Clematis macropetala Bluebird. "It's got graceful, nodding blooms," she said, that remind her of little ballerinas. The vines of this tiny dancer won't reach much more than eight feet high. "The best thing for a small garden is it won't eat the house." (Source: Wayside Gardens, at 800-845-1124 or waysidegardens.com.)
On the subject of munchies, "A question I get asked all the time," Ms. Cohan said, is "what can I grow instead of a hosta? Anyone who knows deer knows you might as well put out a jar of salad dressing!" An alternative to brighten a shade garden is Siberian bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla Silverheart). She likes this cultivar for its heart-shaped foliage and blue flowers. And "deer don't like them." (Source: Klehm's Song Sparrow Nursery, at 800-553-3715 or songsparrow.com.)
Another thing no deer will nibble: a boulder. Ms. Cohan said she would surround her rock with cushion moss (Leucobryum glaucum). You can find a home in the woods, she said, or you can bring a bit of the woodlands home. (Source: Moss Acres, at 866-437-6677 or mossacres.com.)
Rizaniño (Riz) Reyes
ROOTS Mr. Reyes, 31, was a plantsman before he was a grown-up man: he started propagating plants on a small apartment deck during grade school. Under the name RHR Horticulture, Mr. Reyes now designs residential gardens in Seattle. "And I've been getting back to doing some floral work," he said. He talks about his favorite plants (and people) on the Next Generation Gardener blog.
LEAF MOTIF Out-of-the-office space.
GROUND RULES Mr. Reyes's 10-by-10-foot space is the unused "urban postage stamp" front yard of an office endurance champion. It's full sun to part shade: There's practically nothing growing there but a plant or two for appearance's sake and a bag of red mulch. The client's main question, Mr. Reyes said: "How can I make this look like an awesome jungle, but I don't really have to do anything?"
THE DIRT This yard needs more than a makeover. It needs a personality transplant. "Agave parryi is a spiky, big succulent," Mr. Reyes said. "It's bold, it's dramatic and it's just very imposing." That said, the rosette of spiny, grayish-blue leaves won't grow much bigger than two feet across. Put it near the front of the bed to stare down the neighbors. They'll stare back: "It's something you wouldn't normally see in the Pacific Northwest, where we're known for the damp," Mr. Reyes said. (Source: Cistus Nursery, at 503-621-2233 or cistus.com.)
For the agave's big brother, Mr. Reyes likes an exhibitionist of a shrub called Arctostaphylos densiflora Sentinel. The evergreen canopy of this manzanita will form a vase shape, about 15 feet tall and 8 feet across. And the whole thing will turn pale pink when it blooms. But Mr. Reyes feels an attraction to the muscularity of the limbs and their smooth, reddish bark. "It's like running your hand down a really tanned, buff leg." (Source: Moosa Creek Nursery, at 760-749-3216 or moosacreeknursery.com.)
Consider posting a caution sign instead of a botanical tag for the winged thorn rose (Rosa sericea ssp. omeiensis f. pteracantha). "It's not your classic hybrid tea rose," Mr. Reyes said. It produces small white flowers in season, sure, he said. "But it has long, arching canes with really big thorns that are deep blood red. When the sun hits it, they kind of glow. It's pretty stunning." (Source: Far Reaches Farm for pickup in Seattle, at 360-390-5114 or farreachesfarm.com; or Whitman Farms, at 503-585-8728 or whitmanfarms.com.)
Having cowed the neighbors, Mr. Reyes is ready to play nice. Near the sidewalk, he likes to install "something that people will instantly recognize. And I want to throw in an edible." His pick: a compact blueberry bush called Top Hat. One or two could fit in a container. For his part, Mr. Reyes would go bountiful, planting five or six at least. For passers-by, he said, "Give the suggestion: Hey, there's plenty here. Help yourself to a little snack." (Source: Raintree Nursery, at 800-391-8892 or raintreenursery.com.)
Now that the architecture is taken care of, it's time to cover up that ghastly red mulch. Mr. Reyes favors drought-tolerant perennials and bulbs. Hellebores are "so adaptable and hardy," he said. The Winter Jewel series produce draping blooms in January, he added, and "will continue on looking good until the end of March." (Source: Plant Delights, at 919-772-4794 or plantdelights.com.)
Mr. Reyes doesn't go in for drips and drabs of color. He wants a river. The right pairing for the job is Narcissus Jack Snipe and grape hyacinth (Muscari latifolium). In the Pacific Northwest and other temperate zones, these bulbs will light up the yard in spring and then linger as perennials. Twenty-five of the daffodil Jack Snipe should put on "an instant show," he said. The grape hyacinth runs small — and the price is small enough, too. "I would get a hundred. Why not?" (Source for a late-summer/fall
order: Brent and Becky's Bulbs, at 804-693-3966 or brentandbeckysbulbs.com.)
Janet Draper
ROOTS For 15 years, Ms. Draper, 50, has been the lead horticulturist (and lone horticulturist) at the Mary Livingston Ripley Garden, part of the Smithsonian Institution. Her little patch also happens to sit on the National Mall, where it is open to the public 24 hours a day, every day of the year. This is the opposite of a secret garden.
HOME FIELD Ms. Draper's third-of-an-acre garden is an exuberant encyclopedia of plants, with 800 taxa on display — and individually labeled, too. "I have a habit of overdoing color," she said. A co-worker once claimed, "It looked like Walt Disney threw up here," she said. "It's a statement that has stuck with me for a long time."
LEAF MOTIF Contemplation near the Capitol.
GROUND RULES A weeping (and sprawling) maple and two decrepit evergreen shrubs used to occupy a kidney-bean-shaped garden bed. Seeing it newly empty, Ms. Draper said, is like having your boyfriend shave his decades-old beard: disorienting. The 36-inch-high bed forms a placid backdrop to a fountain popular with government workers on their lunch hour. "So many visitors come to escape these concrete bunkers all around," Ms. Draper said.
THE DIRT Nature is not a minimalist, and neither is Ms. Draper. She credits a colleague, Rick Shilling, with helping to pare down her messthetic in favor of a few woody plants. For a start, Japanese snowbell (Styrax japonicus) will succeed the old weeping maple. It's a big shrub or a small tree, depending on how you look at it. She praises the silver-gray bark and the elegant May blooms. You can buy pink, but Ms. Draper will be "trying to keep it subtle" with classic white. (Source: Rare Find Nursery, at 732-833-0613 or rarefindnursery.com.)
Not every matchmaker would set up a snowbell with a Tanyosho pine (Pinus densiflora Umbraculifera). Even with its reddish peeling bark, this evergreen looks like rough trade. You'll often find the deep green needles of this dwarf cultivar sheared into a kind of yakuza flattop. Ms. Draper prefers a "natural-looking cloud pruning." (Source: Forestfarm, at 541-846-7269 or forestfarm.com.)
With its thick and tight evergreen foliage, the Kingsville dwarf boxwood (Buxus microphylla) looks as if it just made a stop at the barbershop. But, in fact, you won't need to perform any trimming at all, unless you're planning a bonsai garden. "It is so tiny," Ms. Draper said, "it will only get to be one foot tall in 50 years." A small shrub can equal a big price, especially if you're planting seven of them, as Ms. Draper is. You can find cheaper littleleaf boxwood, she said, but none cuter. (Source: Avant Gardens, at 508-998-8819 or avantgardensne.com.)
Gardening in a bed that's three feet above the path can feel like performing on a dais. A cascading plant like Cotoneaster dammeri Streib's Findling sits at the edge and dangles its feet above the audience. The white flowers are almost too small to be noticed; the red berries that follow are hard to miss. One or two plants will form a spider web of low, creeping branches. More than that, you have a rat's nest. (Source: Forest Lakes Nursery, at 707-726-9371 or forestlakesnursery.com.)
Moving still lower toward the ground, Ms. Draper will be planting "an extremely dwarf mondo grass" called Ophiopogon japonicus Nana. The name sounds like one of the lesser Transformers — much lesser. Clumping at just an inch or two high, the turf may be smaller than the botanical label Ms. Draper will dutifully place next to it. (Source: Commonwealth Nurseries, at 508-755-1780 or comnur.com.)Continue reading the main story


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What Industrial Designers Do
Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and toys. They combine art, business, and engineering to make products that people use every day. Industrial designers focus on the user experience in creating style and function for a particular gadget or appliance.
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How to Become an Industrial Designer
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The median annual wage for industrial designers was $59,610 in May 2012.
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Franklin County farm-land values cool down in 2013
Despite showing a slight increase last year, land values in Franklin County slowed down significantly compared to their scorching jump in 2012.
Iowa State University's annual land value survey reported the average price of one acre of Franklin County farmland at $9,717 in 2013. That number is up 1.16 percent from 2012's estimate of $9,606, but doesn't even scratch the 25.7 percent jump seen from 2011 to 2012. According to the report, the slowdown mirrored a trend that saw land values cool off – and even drop in some cases – throughout Iowa.
"I don't think we're at a plateau, I think we've dipped already," said Kelvin Leibold, Farm Management Specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach for north central Iowa.
Leibold's assessment of 2013 land values went a step further than the survey. He felt the numbers were the beginning of a statewide decline due to a host of factors like low commodity prices, market fluctuation, and speculation about increased interest rates. Leibold explained uncertainty would lead to less land purchases, which would eventually drive down prices even further in 2014.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected efforts by a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit to keep his claim in state court rather than more business-friendly federal court by limiting the amount of money sought to under $5 million.
The justices threw out a federal appeals court ruling in favor of an Arkansas homeowner who sued his insurer, the Standard Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn., over the cost of repairing hail damage. The appeals court sided with the homeowner, Greg Knowles of Miller County in southwestern Arkansas, in allowing the case to go forward in state court because Knowles promised in writing to seek less than $5 million for himself and other Arkansas homeowners insured by Standard Fire.
But Justice Stephen Breyer said for the high court that Knowles could not bind all others who might join the lawsuit to the $5 million limit. A 2005 federal law, the Class Action Fairness Act, allows defendants to transfer class actions involving more than $5 million to federal court.
Breyer noted that the trial judge found that the sum of the damages would have exceeded $5 million, but for the promise.
"And we must decide whether the stipulation makes a difference. In our view, it does not. Our reason is a simple one: Stipulations must be binding," Breyer said.
The Class Action Fairness Act was intended to prevent what business interests have described as the gaming of the legal system by plaintiffs' lawyers to drag out lawsuits and make fighting them so expensive that companies would rather settle than continue in court.
Standard Fire and interest groups supporting it at the Supreme Court complained that Knowles' home of Miller County has become a "magnet" for class actions because of judges who refuse to shut down even meritless lawsuits.
The Supreme Court has in recent years backed limits on class actions, most notably in the 2011 decision that stopped a suit against Wal-Mart involving up to 1.6 million of its female employees who complained of sex discrimination.
The case is Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles, 11-1450.


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Former Michigan receiver Junior Hemingway signs 4-year deal with Chiefs
Junior Hemingway participated in his first NFL practice Friday.
Then he got paid.
The former Michigan football receiver signed a four-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, according to kcchiefs.com. Terms of the deal were not announced.
Hemingway was selected with the 31st pick of the seventh round in last month's NFL Draft. Based on last year's pay scale, his deal likely is worth around $2 million over the four years.
Idaho tight end Daniel Hardy, selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the 238th pick last year, also received a $45,900 signing bonus.
Hemingway finished his five-year Michigan carreer with 88 catches for 1,638 yards and 11 touchdowns. He was the team's top receiver a year ago.
He is the second Michigan draft pick to ink a pro deal, after center David Molk signed a four-year contract with the San Diego Chargers earlier this week.
Defensive tackle Mike Martin, a third-round pick of the Tennessee Titans, is the Wolverines' lone draft pick yet to sign.
Kyle Meinke covers Michigan football for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at 734-623-2588, by email at firstname.lastname@example.com and followed on Twitter @kmeinke.
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Junior Hemmingway is going to succeed in KC for sure, I mean look at Ernest Hemmingway, he started in KC too and look how his career turned out, am I right?
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Sat, May 12, 2012 : 10:27 p.m.
Wow....outstanding for Junior. He is going to find a home with the Chiefs. With Dwayne Bowe on the opposite side, Breaston in the slot and Junior out there too...they have some talented WRs. The Chiefs got a steal with this pick in the 7th round.
Sat, May 12, 2012 : 3:50 p.m.
Yea!!!! He deserves it, and, like Kiper said, the Charges and Chiefs got steals.
Laura J
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The Eagles scored 88 points to finish behind Mount Anthony (108) and Mount St. Joseph (98) in the seven-team D-II field. As a result of their third-place effort, the Mount Abe cheer squad earned an invitation to the All-New England competition as a D-III all-girl squad.


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Tropical medicine study finds most rapid way to detect dengueUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Prof. & Chair, Tropical Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawai`i Mānoa scientists have found that a commercially available, FDA-approved dengue detection kit bests the former "gold standard" test by producing results in under five hours.
A study conducted at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) sought to evaluate the use of the commercially available, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved InBios Dengue virus IgM ELISA kit for rapid diagnosis of dengue virus infection. This kit detects anti-dengue virus IgM antibodies, which are produced within three to five days after the onset of dengue fever.
Dengue virus clinical manifestations vary from asymptomatic infection, mild fever to a severe disease characterized by hemorrhage and shock. Dengue virus outbreaks occurred in Hawai`i in 2001 and 2011 with 153 and four dengue cases, respectively.
Rapid diagnosis of dengue virus infection is critical for effective patient management, thus can prevent the severe dengue disease. In addition, it also helps to prevent the spread of dengue virus infection, which can occur after the bite of dengue-virus infected mosquitoes.
In the study, published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, JABSOM's Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology tested 79 well characterized clinical serum samples collected from Hawai`i, Vietnam, Niue, Singapore and American Samoa, where dengue virus outbreaks occurred in the past, using InBios DENV IgM ELISA kit and results were compared to that of "gold standard' DENV IgM antibody capture ELISA (MAC-ELISA). The agreement, sensitivity, and specificity of the InBios assay were 94, 92 and 94% respectively. The study found that InBios' DENV Detect IgM Capture ELISA is advantageous compared to the in-house MAC-ELISA, as the results can be obtained in less than five hours, whereas the in-house MAC-ELISA requires 2 to 3 days. We conclude that InBios DENV IgM Capture ELISA can be effectively used for rapid diagnosis of acute or recent DENV infection.
This study was supported in part by grants P20GM103516, U01AI078213 and U54MD007584 from the National Institutes of Health, grant W81XWH0720073 from the Department of Defense and by institutional funds.
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Dengue is a significant human pathogen of global importance. Today about 2.5 billion people, or 40% of the world's population, live in areas where there is a risk of dengue transmission. Dengue is endemic in at least 100 countries in Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, Africa and the Caribbean. Recent reports indicate that there are about 350 million people infected with the dengue virus annually worldwide, triple the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates of 50 to 100 million annual infections, mostly among children. Recently there have been reported outbreaks in Kenya (May 2013) and Angola (June 2013). Although most of the reported cases in the United States are acquired by travelers or immigrants, autochthonous dengue fever outbreaks have occurred in Brownsville, TX (2005), southern Florida (2009-2011) and Hawai`i (2011).
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The Harry Potter movie series finished last year, but the magic of J.K. Rowling's story continues to captivate fans.
A Harry Potter amusement park in Orlando, Florida is a hit, and two more theme facilities are under construction in Japan and Los Angeles.
But nothing gets closer to the real experience that the elaborate Harry Potter Museum in England.
Part of The Warner Brothers Studio, just outside London, "The Making of Harry Potter" features actual sets, costumes, and special effects stations used in the movies.
Russian photographer Konstantin Shestakovsky went to the museum and documented the experience in a detailed photo essay.
We are featuring some of highlights of the tour here, courtesy of Shestakovsky, that are bound to bring you back to Hogwarts.


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While the three other teams in the AFC West prepare for the playoffs, the Raiders head into the offseason with a sea of uncertainty for the 11th straight season.
The Raiders concluded their season with a 34-14 loss to the Denver Broncos in a game that wasn't anywhere near as close as the score might indicate. They finished 4-12 for the second straight season under the leadership of coach Dennis Allen and general manager Reggie McKenzie.
Yet, Allen is confident and almost defiant that he'll be allowed back for a third season.
"Yeah, I do," Allen said, when asked if he exects to be coaching the Raiders in 2014. "I expect to be back and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to come back. But those are decisions that somebody else is going to make… But, yeah, I expect to be back."
In fact, Allen already is looking into the future, salivating at the prospect of the Raiders having north of $60 million in salary-cap room and a full complement of draft picks.
"Absolutely. And like I've said before … Listen, it's just the cards that we have to play with … This will be the first offseason where we've got some money that we can go out and try to acquire some free agents, to be able to sign some free agents on our football team that we'd like to keep here, and we'll have a complement of draft choices to go out and begin to build this football team.
"It's been a tough couple of years. It's been a tough couple of years on everybody–been a tough couple of years on you guys, been a tough couple years on the fans, it's been a tough couple of years with everybody within the organization. It's something that needed to be done and we're excited about the future and moving forward."
Allen said he intends to meet with Davis and McKenzie in the coming days. At that time, they will talk about how to proceed and make sure they're on the game page.
Allen does not seem at all concerned about being told that he isn't in the Raiders' plans moving forward.
"That's a decision that's made over my head," Allen said. "I fully expect to be back. I fully believe that I deserve the opportunity to come back here and get a chance to, as we've said, go through the deconstruction phase … I want to be part of the rebuilding phase."
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor is among those in support of Allen and his coaching staff.
"I like coach Allen," Pryor said. "Personally, I love coach Allen. He's a great leader. He's a great leader. Every single day, the thing I liked about him, he didn't change. When we started the losing streak, he didn't change one bit. He still talked to us the same. A lot of guys tend to crack under pressure.
"Coach Allen handled himself phenomenally, and we look at that type of stuff. He did a phenomenal job. I have a lot of respect for coach Allen and I know this team and my teammates do as well."
— Linebacker Kevin Burnett suffered a concussion, cornerback Taiwan Jones tweaked an ankle and running back Rashad Jennings received a stinger Sunday. None of those injuries is expected to cost the players any practice time during the offseason, assuming they remain with the Raiders.
— Defensive end Lamarr Houston said he wants to re-sign with the Raiders this offseason. However, he said that he isn't sure the Raiders' desire is as intense.
"Who knows?" Houston said. "I believe that Dennis Allen and the Raiders might be looking to move on and have me go to another team or move on and find something more what they want for their system and their scheme. Who knows? It's a rough business and nothing's guaranteed and everything changes from day to day."
What's known is that the Raiders and Houston's agent engaged in contract talks this season as a means of gauging what it would take to get a deal done.
As we reported earlier this season, the Raiders and Houston's representation aren't close on the parameters for a deal, with Houston's side wanting Houston paid as a top-tier defensive end. McKenzie isn't prepared to go that high, at least for now.
Salary-cap space isn't an issue, given the Raiders have more cap room than any other team. And it's unlikely that the Raiders would use the franchise tag on Houston because of a prohibitive figure of more than $12 million for a defensive end.
Therefore, it's not surprising that Houston conceded he might have played his final game in a Raiders uniform Sunday.
"My understanding, I believe that they were talking me up and things like that, but to a certain standpoint, I believe, me and the Raiders, I've had good years and appreciate this organization," Houston said. "I love this organization, but as far as what some of the coaches want, I'm not sure. That's out of my control I play the best I can and do everything I can to contribute."
— Wide receiver Jacoby Ford was a healthy scratch Sunday. That portends the Raiders moving forward without Ford next season and therefore no point in playing Ford one more time.
Yet, that doesn't explain why the Raiders used running back Darren McFadden on Sunday. Either way, McFadden rushed seven times for 6 yards in what likely was his final game with the team that selected him No. 4 in the 2008 NFL draft.
— The Raiders earned the No. 5 pick in the 2014 NFL draft based on their 4-12 finish, but not until a tiebreaker among five teams that had that record.
The Jaguars emerged with the No. 3 pick because their .504 won-loss percentage was the worst among the five 4-12 teams. The NFL figures that a team that goes 4-12 against the worst schedule must be the worst team overall. The Raiders .524 strength of schedule was third among the five teams.
The Raiders held the third in the 2013 draft, though they traded it to the Miami Dolphins for the No. 12 and a second-rounder that the Raiders parlayed into cornerback D.J. Hayden and offensive tackle Menelik Watson.
— Pryor broke Rich Gannon's Raiders record for most yards rushing by a quarterback. He rushed for 49 yards Sunday, giving him 576 for the season.


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My brother accompanied me on my walks along Wildcat Boulevard over the Thanksgiving holidays.
My brother accompanied me on my walks along Wildcat Boulevard over the Thanksgiving holidays. He, my sister-in-law, and one of their daughters were here to help us celebrate Thanksgiving and our upcoming birthdays and anniversary.
My brother thought it was quite "cool" to go on a walk one day in his short sleeves. Perhaps it was because he had called his son who reported it was snowing, windy, and 20 degrees back in North Dakota.
Sadly, things were quite calm along Wildcat Boulevard on these walks. There were no beautiful purple skies, flocks of geese to count, or coyotes dashing through the high school outdoor laboratory.
Our celebrations were quite calm. The most exciting was on the Friday night after Thanksgiving. That evening, we all had cleaned up and wore our pajamas for the festivities. (I guess a person is never too old for a pajama party). I received garlic stuffed olives for each year of my upcoming birthday. (That is more than one jar.) I like olives, so this was a treat.
The night's card playing, laughing, telling stories, and enjoying each other's company was finished with the eating of a Dairy Queen birthday cake.
Leaf removal has gone into gear at our home. Most of the leaves in our yard blow in huge piles on the east side of the house. I used the riding mower to reduce these gigantic drifts to much more manageable piles. They were raked and hauled to the compost pile by the back fence. In time the mulch and compost will be used on the garden and other places it is needed.
As these leaves are meant to rot away, I try to wait until it has rained before raking. This perhaps seems strange to some, but wet leaves pack down and decay sooner.
All this leaf raking also meant the gutters on the house have had to be cleaned. One Saturday my son and I worked together cleaning gutters and checking the roofs for leaks and other problems. When done, we were quite proud of our work.
My son, however, discovered once again that nature is in charge. That afternoon, he was in his back yard and for some reason looked up as a single leaf blew off a large sycamore tree which stands on the back of his lot. This tree is at least 60 or 70 feet from the house.
Still the single leaf blew off and tumbled and floated in the wind for a while until it dropped directly into the freshly cleaned gutter. My son laughed as he told this tale. He said the leaf did not bounce or tumble off the roof, but fell flat into the gutter. I hope it doesn't stop up the downspout.
Take a walk, enjoy your friends and relatives whenever you can (relish those moments together), overuse your signal lights, and see what you notice while passing along Wildcat Boulevard.
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Kim Kardashian to Katie Couric: 'I Hate Fake Media Friends'
Kim Kardashian has just posted a picture on her Instagram account with a picture of a Baby North West congratulations card from Katie Couric, captioned with a warning message to not "talk sh*t".
Katie was quoted as saying to InTouch (via Radar) about the Kardashian family: "I don't understand – why are they so famous? I think it's mostly teenage girls that are interested."
As a comeback, Kim posted the pic of Katie's gift card to her and beau Kanye West, along with the caption, "I hate fake media friends may I humbly suggest you not send gifts then talk sh*t."
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Dodge City cropduster lands hard, walks away from crash.
Jon Erhart, according to several people, made a good landing on Wednesday at Dodge City Airport.
He walked away from it.
Erhart, the owner and operator of Erhart Aerial Spraying, reported that he needed to make an emergency landing after clipping his airplane's wing.
An official report from the Kansas Highway Patrol was unavailable at press time, but two different reports say he sheared 3 feet off a wing by hitting either a pole or a guide wire.
Erhart was able to get the plane back to Dodge City Airport where he landed hard. Reports say the airplane bounced once then cart-wheeled and flipped, landing with its tires facing west.
The engine and propeller were ripped from the aircraft and rested about 10 feet in front of the plane.
Erhart reportedly suffered minor injuries, including possibly a broken arm. Attempts to reach Erhart were unsuccessful. He was transported to Western Plains Medical Complex.


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This is a simple, but very addictive mind twister puzzle game. The rules are not complicated to learn: There is a pattern in the lower left side of the screen that you have to copy into the tiles in the main screen. You touch the tiles to flip them around to change color. But you also might have to apply one or multiple (up to three) transformations in your mind. You might have to rotate it, flip it, swap colors, ... etc. You have to do this in a limited time - so better think fast how the final pattern has to look like after applying the transformations. If you finish it you go to the next level and get bonus points for time left. The game also has a 'Practice' Mode - which is the same as the main game, but has the timer disabled (and does not have a highscore). That mode can be used to practice the skills for the game without the time pressure.
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