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Should be stated as a fact rather than a question
There is no opinion involved here. If anyone disagrees with this they are unaware of the facts. I know this to be true first hand. My hope is that this is increasingly less true as time goes on. Belief in the sanctity and permanence of marriage should never institutionalize abuse.
Just the opposite in fact
The domestic violence section of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops indicates that the church views men as abusers and women as victims. When pressed, they refer you to help outside the church. I am a man who was in an abusive relationship. My pastor counseled that even if she took medication people like her generally stop taking medication when they feel well. The church counseled ending the marriage rather than try to find a way to help an abusive woman. The church's views on domestic violence need to be updated, but in my experience they do not counsel maintaining an abusive marriage.
That's not the question
It is quite true that the Church does not counsel to remain in an abusive relationship. I never said they did. The question was not about pastoral counsel -- it was about the "church's teaching". There is no question that the Catholic culture surrounding the Church's teaching on divorce has caused people in an abusive Catholic marriage to feel 'stuck', to feel guilty, and to avoid, or at least delay, separation and divorce - despite the USCCB statement. I am pleased to know of your experience but my experience, too, is first hand. Not everyone has the ability or courage to seek counseling when trapped in an abusive relationship. Not everyone has the benefit of such good counsel. Not everyone can accept that counsel as long as abuse is not grounds for for an immediate, automatic, incontestable annulment. The USCCB statement does not change the ban on remarriage without an annulment and is, therefore, of limited value in the larger picture, of limited value toward truly changing the culture that generations of Catholics have accepted. Counseling civil divorce is not authentic change when, in the eyes of the Church - one would still be married. Certainly that long-held cultural tradition has an affect -- can and does cause undue hesitation in some, at times most certainly to the detriment of health and well-being. As I said before, it is my hope and belief that the fact of this question is lessening over time. You have validated that hope. No single experience can be extrapolated to universality, but the answer to the question posed is still yes. Nothing in the question refers to quantity. I believe in the permanence of marriage - but I also believe exceptions, such as abuse, should be clearly defined, articulated, implemented and universally accepted.
Church's teaching on marriage vs their teaching on divorce
I think you misunderstand the question. The question is about the church's teaching on divorce, not the church's teaching on marriage. The two are quite distinct. Abandoned or abused spouses can find support within the current teaching of the church - which most do not understand. Accusations of abuse/violence should not be an easy out for people tired of marriage. First things first. The violence needs to be handled as a criminal and/or civil matter, this will protect the victim. Then the matter of the marriage can be addressed - Safety first, then worry about what to do with the marriage. Even on the civil side a protection order can be granted in a matter of hours, a divorce can easily take 2-3 years.
Not in reality
Teaching on the dissolution of marriage can not be removed from the teaching on marriage - not in the real world. Such survey questions are always subject to interpretation and are typically understood differently by different people. I'm not going to re-make my arguments. I understand and agree that the Church tries to mitigate, absolutely values and tries to protect to protect the safety of the abused. The Church is clearly moving in the right direction regarding the issue of abuse and this was not intended as an argument over Church teaching. None of that changes the fact that, in my own experience, the answer to this question is yes. There is nothing you can say - no teaching you can cite - no scripture you can quote that can change the fact of that experience.
That there are false accusations in the world does not and can not change the right way to deal with the truthful accusations. If an accusation is true, it is no longer an accusation -- it is fact.
In the world God created
They are two separate issues. The fact - you seem to like that word, fact - that abuse sometimes happens does not invalidate the church's teaching on marriage. The church's teaching on marriage is at odds with the world. Spirit vs flesh. We need the church's teaching on marriage more than people in the world care to admit or acknowledge. There exists a rather large ministry to work with those who are divorced, those who are suffering in their marriage. Most do not know what the teaching of the church is - on divorce or any other subject - and this is not surprising. The world gets in the way all to often.
Are we speaking the same language?
I never advocated or implied -- nor do I believe that the Church's teaching on marriage is invalid. I have been in a sacramental marriage for 31 years. I readily acknowledge and praise the Church's efforts to deal with the issue of abuse. I am well aware of the Church's ministry to those suffering in their marriage and laud those efforts, as well.
"In the world God created"? Well - since you seem to know God's intent I can not and will not argue. It is a moot point when, in the world God created, real people sometimes feel trapped and powerless in an abusive marriage -- when, in the world God created, those feelings are sometimes amplified, rightly or wrongly, informed or misinformed, by centuries of Church teaching and tradition that is only recently, much to the Church's credit, being changed for the better. I am not blaming the Church for this phenomenon - I'm just recognizing the fact of its existence... yes "fact". Not sure what you meant by that "fact" comment and will not guess. I am simply using the word correctly.
It seems we are really only disagreeing semantically and not on substance. I think we've both made our points.
domestic violence
I always tell my clients that Protection Orders are only made of paper. They cannot stop fists or bullets. The real answer to "what should one who is being abused do about it" is to LEAVE and go to a safe haven - a shelter or the home of a friend where someone is present all of the time to protect from the abuser.
Who needs divorce -- just leave your
spouse. Specially if you're living off their money anyway.
This magazine must be run by people who are not Catholic
Is there more than one story a month in this magazine that is critical and undermining of Catholic faith and the Catholic Church? This month is no exception.
Stories on how Republicans, (who generally are very pro-life, love God, free exercise of religion, country, and personal responsibility), are evil and unions are the only hope of the public. Stories about how gay pride parades and Masses should be acceptable. What is next? Masses of acceptance for pedophiles and serial killers?
Now we have a question that implies a wrong in the church and suggests the faithful think about how wrong the teachings related to divorce and marriage may be.
I have a groundbreaking idea. Stop writing stories each month about women Priests, accepting the sins of homosexuals, slamming church teaching and being so soft on the idea of murdering babies through abortion and I may renew my subscription. Until then, I will continue to warn anyone I know about your magazine. I find it offensive.
You can much more clearly write stories on the same topic by explaining a bit of the church teaching and pointing out what people need to know so they avoid danger and pitfalls. Instead, US Catholic seems to try to correct Church teaching each month and stir up unrest among the faithful where none is needed.
It truly is offensive to proud Catholics who understand the dogma and theology of the Roman Catholic Church.


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400 Meter Dash: 59.39
500 Meter Dash: 1:25.03
600 Meter Run: 1:47.21
800 Meter Run: 2:38.24
2012 Outdoor Track: Ran the first leg of the 4x400 meter relay at the Northeast Conference Outdoor Championships, the team placed seventh with a time of 3:58.28...Placed seventh in the 400 meter dash at the Holy Cross Invitational on April 21 with a career-best time of 59.39.
2012 Indoor Track: Ran the second leg of the distance medley relay at the NEC Indoor Championships, the team placed first and qualified for ECAC competition with a time of 12:03.70...Recorded career-best time of 1:47.21 in the 600 meter run at the UCONN Winter Invitational on Jan. 7 for fourth place...Ran a 1:00.13 in the 400 meter dash at the Great Dane Classic on Jan. 20 for 36th place.
2010-2011: Competed in the 800m event posting a time of 2:38.24...Ran a 59.84 in the 400m and a 1:25.03 in the 500m events.

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August 02. 2013 8:11PM
Startup company aims to spotlight Granite State businesses
By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — If you were shopping for a good bottle of wine, and saw one with a label suggesting that your purchase would help the New Hampshire economy, would you pick that bottle over another?
Anthony Comito thinks so, and he's basing a new business on that idea — the Economic Information Exchange Co. The Goffstown native has developed a system for assessing the economic impact that certain purchases can have on a particular state or the nation as a whole.
"We'll rate a product or service, or in some cases an entire establishment like a restaurant," he said. "We'll go in and evaluate information from the owner, the accountant, the bookkeeper, to get the data we need. Then we come up with a calculation and award a rating from one to five stars."
Comito has a patent pending on the system he's designed to create the five-star ratings, and is now in the process of building the company.
"We look at the portion of the purchase price that's going toward things like labor in the state," he said. "We also look at the components and where they come from, the level of charitable contributions in the state and taxes paid. There are some weighting factors that go into it. A dollar spent on New Hampshire components or New Hampshire labor will yield higher points than charity and taxes."
Adjustments are also made for factors that a business cannot possibly control.
"You can't grow bananas in New Hampshire," he said, "so you don't want to punish a restaurant that has banana pudding."
A recent graduate of UNH with a B.A. in communications and a minor in business, Comito is pursuing a second bachelor's degree at SNHU and working toward his CPA designation, while living in a Manchester apartment and surviving on earnings from the last tax season.
The 25-year-old entrepreneur is dedicated full-time to his startup.
"I truly believe we have one of the most innovative economic tools in recent memory," he said.
His most likely customer is a business that knows it has strong connections to the state's economy and wants to leverage that fact in its marketing efforts.
"The dream is, you pull in the people who are doing well in that regard and eventually you pull in other people until you have businesses competing on who can make the most economic impact in the area where their customers are," he said. "It creates a multiplier effect."
Comito claims to be in serious negotiations for his first contracts, which call for the customer to pay an upfront fee for the analysis that determines a rating. If the company then decides to join the program, it has to pay an annual licensing fee to display the Economic Impact logo on its products or premises. "The hope is to keep it credible and keep it accurate through semi-annual or quarterly updates," he said. The analysis and licensing fees are variable and tied to the size of the business.
The Economic Information Exchange Co. hopes to partner with its clients by helping them find ways to purchase components or otherwise conduct business in ways that will result in a higher rating at the next update.
"We're hoping to build a network in the local economy and help steer customers in the right direction," he said. "If a lot of wine-makers are buying their bottles out of state right now, maybe we can find producers right here in New Hampshire, and all of the sudden there is a market for a New Hampshire bottle-maker."
The long-term business plan relies on a certain critical mass to succeed.
"It's going to be tough to find a five-star rating," he said. "And the value of the system will grow as there are more and more products to compare."
While the "Made in America" label, monitored by the Federal Trade Commission, fills a niche, it has too many loopholes and nothing like it exists at the state level, Comito said. As much as 90 percent of the various components of a product can come from other countries, and the product still qualifies for the "Made in America" label. He believes a five-star system is better able to capture such nuances.
The young entrepreneur has been talking to potential partners and investors, and getting advice from his professors and mentors.
"The reaction has been good," he said. "Everyone says it's going to be tough, but people really like the idea."
The company website is at www.eiecompany.com


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in reply to Re^2: Use of Autoloader in Modern Times
in thread Use of Autoloader in Modern Times
Which is one of the reasons why "load dependency at compile-time" vs "load dependency at run-time" should be decided by the environment (when possible). Modules that define new syntax must be loaded at compile-time. A huge fraction of modules don't need to be loaded at compile-time so it can be very handy to allow the invoker to pick which behavior.
Almost all unit tests should delay loading modules since the process isn't going to live very long and isn't going to use the vast majority of functionality eventually reached by the dependency tree (so no reason to wait for all of the too-early initialization over and over). But you should have at least one unit test that specifies "load all dependencies at compile-time" so that you can very quickly tell if any dependencies are missing, even if you haven't figured out how to exercise every single one of them.
Pre-forking servers should load dependencies at compile-time in the parent but at run-time in the children.
Lots of command-line tools (especially in a corporate software development house) can benefit from loading dependencies at run-time, so that I can do something useful with the frobnitz repository management subsystem from my laptop without having to install all of the PDF, XML, e-mail, GD, and plotting modules despite parts of the frobnitz repository needing to know how to send e-mails with PDF and/or XML attachements, some of which contain bar charts as png files (while also not having to constantly groom the dependency tree to make selected dependencies optional or at run-time to get that benefit).
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The Lakers were hours away from playing the third of their eight exhibition games this month, and the rumor mill was cranked up to full throttle Saturday. They were said to be interested in upgrading their backup point guard position in a big way.
Whether there was any truth to it was irrelevant.
The chatter was as loud as it was relentless.
Steve Blake and Chris Duhon reportedly were available to any team willing to make the Lakers a respectable offer. The Lakers also were interested in re-signing free agent Derek Fisher, although under league rules they couldn't do it until March 15.
Then there was a Twitter feeding-frenzy about the Lakers' rumored pursuit of Toronto Raptors point guard Jose Calderon, Pau Gasol's teammate on the silver medal-winning Spanish Olympic team. It turned out to be bogus.
Lakers coach Mike Brown then announced he would rest Blake for Saturday's exhibition against the Utah Jazz at Staples Center in order to give more minutes to Duhon and Darius Morris. Brown laughed off the rumors, saying he didn't follow Twitter.
Living in the fact-based world does have its benefits, according to Brown.
"I still don't know who my backup (point guard) is or my backup (shooting guard)," Brown said. "I'm going to try to play Antawn (Jamison) as my backup (small forward) and I'm going to try to play Jordan (Hill) as my backup (power forward).
"I'm still searching for what my second five will be."
Robert Sacre appeared close to locking up the backup center position, starting for the third consecutive exhibition while Dwight Howard continues his recovery from surgery to repair a herniated disc in his back in April.
The Lakers solved their starting point guard concerns when they acquired Steve Nash in a sign-and-trade deal with the Phoenix Suns on July 10. Blake appeared to have the backup job won without lifting a finger, based on his service the last two seasons.
The Lakers acquired Duhon in the deal that brought Howard to Los Angeles from Orlando on Aug. 10. They drafted Morris 41 st in 2011, but played him in only 19 of 66 games during the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.
Meanwhile in Charlotte –
Ramon Sessions (remember him?) said last week the reason he opted out of his contract with the Lakers for this season and signed a two-season deal worth $10 million with the Charlotte Bobcats was because he was afraid he would be traded.
"It was one of those situations I looked at like, 'If I do come back, what if they trade me?'" Sessions told Yahoo! Sports. "There were talks about getting Deron (Williams). They always wanted a bigger-named guy.
"What if I get traded to a team and it's my contract year? It was one of those things that I can't say if I opted in, (Nash) wouldn't have come (to the Lakers). They still might have tried to get him. You just never know."
In fact, the Lakers began their pursuit of Nash after Sessions surprised general manager Mitch Kupchak and exercised his option to terminate his contract. The Lakers hoped Sessions would be their point guard of the future despite his playoff struggles.
The Lakers acquired Sessions from the Cleveland Cavaliers and dealt Fisher to the Houston Rockets to clear a starting position for him.
Sessions averaged only 9.7 points and 3.6 assists in 12 playoff games last spring, however.
Jazz 99, Lakers 86
Reserve Enes Kanter (Stoneridge Prep of Simi Valley) scored eight of his 14 points during a decisive fourth-quarter run and had 14 rebounds, leading Utah to a victory.
After playing their first two exhibition games way off-Broadway in Fresno and Ontario. — and losing both by a combined margin of 45 points — the Lakers (0-3) returned to Staples Center for the first time since their 103-100 loss to Oklahoma City on May 19 in Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals.
Kobe Bryant, who sat out Wednesday's loss against Portland because of a right shoulder strain, had 18 points, eight rebounds and five assists in 24 minutes.
The Associated Press contributed


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Wishlist/Expansion Protocols
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|Hardware wishes warning! This article or section documents a Hardware Wish List item, the features described here may or may not be implemented in future devices.
What FIC could do.
On slightly deeper modifications, one or two GPIO pins brought out to a connector would be ideal. Perhaps a connector next to the USB port, with connections for all the USB pins, 2 GPIO, battery VCC. I2C would be a great addition, perhaps instead of the GPIO pins.
This would be a one-time plug in to the connector by the user. The cable would then be taped or glued onto the case, to provide strain relief in case the user opens the case without care.
I2C breakout
I2C is an internal 2-3 wire bus in the phone. It is low powered, and can be daisy-chained. It would be a great candidate to bring out into the Expansion Back with an additional connector.
Readily available I2C chips range from temperature sensing, digital input/output chips to 1-wire bridge chips (which is designed for external switches, ID, sensing, ...)
Many microcontrollers, e.g. the Atmel AVR ATmega8 popularized by the Arduino project or many Microchip PIC ones, are able to serve as I2C slaves. This may allow easy and inexpensive creation of wide array of peripherals, e.g. a TV remote control (leverage the LIRC.org project here, namely use an avrlirc device modified to use 3.3V and I2C instead of UART) or an arbitrary number of buttons or an entire external keyboard (or even mouse/trackball), RFID reader, A/D and D/A converters with any desired precision, arbitrary number of GPIO pins, short-range nRF24L01 based transceiver to communicate with other devices, tamper-resistant ID tokens, or just about anything. The advantage over USB is the absence of need for an USB hub for connection of more devices, and no cost/logistics/power consumption of USB interfacing. The disadvantage is lower speed, which is irrelevant for most low-speed applications, especially if the I2C bus runs on 400 kHz.
A set of design guidelines, unifying and streamlining the process of interfacing with such peripherals (registration of a peripheral, polling for status changes...), maybe additional signals for things like sleep mode forcing (perhaps two power lines, one active always, one only when not sleeping, allowing the add-on microcontrollers to either directly sense the sleep mode and adjust their behavior or directly power the hungrier additional electronics - eg. LEDs - only when not sleeping, further simplifying the design), may speed up add-on development and increase compatibility. A nice thing to have would be a protocol standard for additional buttons and LEDs, with adequate software-side support, offering an easy solution for a range of other hardware wishlist items; maybe a functional equivalent of /dev/usb/event devices?
With a suitable simple mechanical/electrical standard for clip-on add-on modules there can be even a sizable secondary market for such enhancements. Even a suggested size of the add-on boards (considering the possibility of using multiple add-ons concurrently), especially together with the Expansion Back, would be greatly useful. A problem with limited set of I2C addresses would have to be solved (e.g. by plug-and-play like software allocation, microcontrollers allow setting their I2C address via a register) but that can be solved by a predefined power-on address (eg. 0x7F), an internal device unique ID, and an iterative device enumeration protocol similar to 1-wire scan.
-What did you mean by this "digital input/output chips to 1-wire bridge chips " -And I fully agree It would be really good to have it :) -By the way is it posible to them to make it to march 2009(My Mam is going to USA and I would like to buy a -FreeRunner)


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Life (US - BD)
Gabe watches more glorious HD animals from the folks at the BBC...
The BBC Earth crew continues their successful run of spectacular high definition nature documentaries with Life. Unfortunately, following Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Life of Birds, Life of Mammals, etc, there apparently isn't a lot of nature left to film on this planet. This release overlaps thematically with some of those other releases, but unlike the footage BBC has sold off to Disney for re-editing (see Earth and Oceans), the amazing fetes captured for this collection are original, and new. These US release episodes feature slightly shorter runtimes than their UK counterparts, and some awkward commercial break fade-outs.
Challenges of Life starts things off. This is an effective introductory episode, but most of the stories contained within are covered again throughout the rest of the series. Perhaps ten fully filled-out episodes rather than ten and a half that fall just short next time? Reptiles and Amphibians comes next, and was my my favourite section. The footage includes two adorable, postage stamp sized toads from different sides of the world who cannot hop, and have developed the ability to fall incredible distances without dying (one folds up and literally bounces down sheer rock faces). Also featured is a male garter snake who wakes up a few days late from hibernation, and pretends to be a female in order steals the body heat of other males, who don't seem to notice or care they aren't rubbing up against a ladysnake. Mammals covers a lot of ground already covered during Planet Earth and The Life of Mammals, including the usual oft-told, always depressing tale of a mother polar bear and her cubs (who likely died of starvation shortly after filming stopped). The giant fruit bat section is definitely an exciting bit of nature on film, however, and the hyenas that take brutal revenge on a trio of lions certainly gets the vigilante blood boiling.
Disc two starts with Fish, which isn't the best chapter, but it's probably the most consistently visually appealing. This particular selection of fish stories features more rock 'em, sock 'em fights than most oceanic documentaries, and it's difficult to argue with a good smack down. The whole of the mudskipper section is also hard to resist, as the fish themselves are eternally funny to look at no matter what they're doing. I giggled through most of this episode, and was continuously reminded of Miyazaki's Ponyo. Birds is probably the most unremarkable part of the collection, assume one's already sat through all of The Life of Birds. The producers do their best to find new species to cover, but the subject was rather driven into the ground (though this is the fourth time I've seen those same bird dances in a BBC property). The chinstrap penguin march is a definitely highlight, visually speaking, and the bower bird's interior decorating, which hasn't been filmed before, is incredibly adorable. Insects is another of the collection's better entries, and probably the most educational for me personally. The chauvinistic dung beetle that tosses its mate off a tree after he's done mating might be the funniest thing I've seen in months.
Hunters and Hunted benefits from being more of a miscellaneous catch-all, but also recycles a little too much footage from the other sections to fill out the time. The Ethiopian wolf footage is probably the most valuable bit, simply because the animals are so rare, and the stoat and ground squirrel scenes are the most entertaining. Creatures of the Deep is visually pleasing, and delightfully alien, but isn't as informative as I'd prefer, probably because I've already seen Blue Planet, and just about every other sea documentary available (I'm a little obsessed with the concept). The final part, which covers the choral reef, picks things up a bit with footage of some adorably odd looking creatures with a penchant for eating each other. The third disc ends with Plants, which is less instantly enticing than the fauna based episodes, but thanks to spectacular time-lapse photography, the section isn't nearly as uneventful as most viewers might assume. As a simple, visually hypnotizing technical achievement Plants is the set's most innovative chapter. Unfortunately, the behind the scenes footage reveals that there were digital and practical effects used to make the more complex shots work, which ruins a bit of the magic, even if the effort was still gargantuan.
The fourth and final disc starts with Primates, which also suffers from nature documentary oversaturation. I've personally seen basically the same stories of brutal baboon family unites, macaques warming themselves in hot-springs, gorillas chilling and eating large amounts of food, and gibbons swinging through trees a couple dozen times on the Discovery Channel. It's certainly not a waste of time by any means, it's just not as wildly educational as some of the others. The tarsier sequence is a highlight, and I don't believe anyone has ever caught baboons hunting for muscles and shark eggs in high definition before. The Making Of Life completes the series with a collection of behind the scenes footage, some of it culled from the making-of featurettes available on each disc. The section captures the boredom of waiting for wild animals to do something spectacular without coaxing (without being boring itself), the preparation involved in filming in remote and unwelcoming areas of the world, and the danger the crew often inadvertently put themselves in. The moral conundrums of remaining neutral on a given situation are also covered, which is the ongoing question when it comes to nature documentation.
It's pretty much a forgone conclusion that BBC Earth releases are going to be among the most incredible looking discs in any collection, so I'm sure no one will be surprised when I verify that this four disc set looks fantastic. The video is, however, not perfect. Problems arise early with the encoding. The back panel states that the video is of the 1080i variety, and apparently the original UK version release is 1080p. I didn't notice any of the usual signs of interlacing, such as combing effects, but I don't have the 1080p version to compare frame rates, and don't have a 'smoothing' mode on my particular set. The closest the transfer gets to genuine, eyeball snagging shortcomings are likely also the fault of either my set, and/or the original source material. Some of the most expansive helicopter shots are a bit over-sharpened, and on my 1080p, but not top-of-the-line set these shots feature some noticeable loss of detail and edge-enhancement. I've seen enough BBC specials used for television store demo models to know that shots like these can make the difference between the best and worst sets, so I'm going to give the transfer the benefit of the doubt on this one (some of the meerkat footage seems to be filmed using non-HD cameras, as does a lot of the behind the scenes footage presented during The Making Of Life). The only other 'problem' shots are the super-super slow motion shots, which apparently still must be shot on traditional film. These shots feature plenty of detail, but more grain, less vibrant colours, and a few shutter effects that may be a result of the interlaced encoding.
Anyone not looking for interlacing effects will likely be satisfied enough with this release to enjoy the transfer's finer moments. The big highlights include are usually of the extreme close-ups variety. My favourite bits all include chameleons, which are mostly found on the Reptile section. These little critters feature fine, multi-layered textures, they can change their vibrant skin colour, and they live in incredibly lush environments. As stated in the series review section, most viewers will probably recycle the Fish section of the second disc through their player the most often, and I can't fault anyone for preferring these cool blues to my preferred lush greens. The Birds section certainly isn't hard on the eyes either, though the incredible detail is sometimes revolting during the Insects section (I have a bit of a phobia).
Each episode in this four disc collection comes fitted with a lovely DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track. The majority of the sound on these shows is, believe it or not, not captured on site, but the sound designers create some smashing post-production magic. The sound is normally as natural, and 'invisible' as possible, as to not draw attention to the fact that the sound isn't always genuine, but there are some funny standouts, such as ricocheting bullets and bouncing springs. The Insects section features some particularly impressive folley work that work very well directionally over the front channels. The deep sea and plant related time-lapse footage is augmented with some truly grotesque crawling critter sounds throughout the channels. Real source audio highlights include the awesome chest rumble of a caiman, the surreal thrust of overhead waves, the chortling of meerkats, and the untamed screaming of monkeys. The music is more eclectic this time around, though it still features plenty of bland, 'inspirational' brand of 'world' music. Often the music takes its cue from narrative film scoring, and the appropriate genre is applied (clangy electric guitars for the western landscapes, for example).
However, media mogul Oprah Winfrey's narration is occasionally terrible, and otherwise entirely unremarkable. I, like most, would prefer Sir David Attenborough's original narration on an alternate track myself, which is available on an alternate Blu-ray and DVD version. Apparently there are small differences between the US and UK edits, which would make alternate tracks difficult, but I still find the lack of choice on a single release suspect. Video quality and encoding issues aside, readers really should get the Attenborough version instead just for the narration. There is the option to turn Oprah off, which is nice for those that have already seen the series, and would prefer a bit of background noise to zone-out to, but narration is usually necessary for a nature documentary release, and until you know what you're watching you'll probably be want some guidance. The music and effects track is only available in Dolby Surround, unfortunately.
The first three discs feature BBC Channel 'Making-of' featurettes. These featurettes, which were included at the tail end of each original UK release, are all presented in 1080i video (not as good or consistent as the series proper), and DTS-HD Master Audio sound (actually a hair louder than the series proper, actually). They are hosted by Sir David Attenborough, and mostly cover the intense hardships the BBC film crews had to deal with to capture the incredible images on film. These are consistently entertaining, often even more entertaining than the Life series itself, but they are short, each running about 11:00 apiece. There is some overlap between these and the final official episode of the series, so I'd recommend watching these over the final section of the set, if not for anything more than Attenborough's narration. The fourth disc in the set also features a collection of seven deleted scenes (18:10, HD), culled from throughout the episodes.
Life would often be better entitled Evolution(Nature, God) is a Jerk[/i]. I'm We're meant to be awed by the complexity of obscure creature's life cycles (and usually we are), but as the complexity builds, so does frustration. Survival is way too involved process for some of these poor creatures. There's this poor frog, seen in the opening segment, that carries each of her up to five tadpoles, one by one, to different water deposits on the tops leaf clusters in the Amazon rainforests. If they share a pool they'll eat each other. Then she make the same five trips again, every day, to lay unfertilized eggs in the pools, which the tadpoles then feed on. Really Evolution/Nature/God? She has to do this every day? All the way up in those trees? That's just kind of a dick move.
And Speaking of wrongful moves, I'm going to go out of my way to once again recommend fans of BCC Earth's other documentaries go out of their way to get the UK version of Life, which is available on most major online outlets for the same, or at least a similar price. I have not compared the two versions directly, but experience tells me original edits are preferable, as is David Attenborough to Oprah Winfrey (who really isn't cut out for this kind of narration). Readers with really nice set-ups will also likely notice a difference between this 1080i release, and the 1080p original cuts, even if I didn't.
*Note: The images on this page do not represent the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
My box (Attenborough version) says that they are 1080p and the Plants episode is 1080i. I didn't notice any interlacing effects on the Plants episode, but oddly enough some of the shots looked like they had PAL speedup. I think a lot of the grainier images throughout the series aren't necessarily because they used worse cameras, but because they had to zoom in to get a lot of the footage.
I enjoyed this one about as much as Planet Earth, which is a lot. Only minor quibble, as you mentioned, was that nearly every segment of the Challenges of Life episode was included in other episodes. Loved the On Location bits as well. Following komodo dragons around for a week? Yeah, no thanks. And the guy who camped out for 3 weeks to watch birds mate for 2 seconds. Unbelievable dedication.
I also lost it at the dung beetle.
I enjoyed this one about as much as Planet Earth, which is a lot. Only minor quibble, as you mentioned, was that nearly every segment of the Challenges of Life episode was included in other episodes. Loved the On Location bits as well. Following komodo dragons around for a week? Yeah, no thanks. And the guy who camped out for 3 weeks to watch birds mate for 2 seconds. Unbelievable dedication.
I also lost it at the dung beetle.
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The thing I was reading said that digital slo-mo just can't get the speed of film yet, so the grain in those super slo-mo shots is just what comes along with film.
I heard the 1080i plants episode was causing problems with some players, did you have any problems?
I heard the 1080i plants episode was causing problems with some players, did you have any problems?
No problems playing it on my computer or on my friend's PS3.
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I watched one episode and liked it, but didn't love it.
Also the first couple sentences of the last paragraph of this review is royally messed up.
Also the first couple sentences of the last paragraph of this review is royally messed up.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st June 2010
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080i
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Surround Music and Effects Track
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Making Of Life Featurettes, Deleted Scenes
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Oprah Winfrey, Various Animals
Genre: Documentary
Length: 440 minutes
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Personal Finance management should also include expenses for housing, transportation, food, personal insurance and pensions, healthcare and entertainment. If you see that you are accumulating more and more debts and you are not able to pay your debts on a regular basis, it is probably a good idea to budget your money. However, if you feel like you aren't able to do that, a last option would be to hire a financial planner who can help you get out of this mess.
Money Tips represent another useful idea that could help you manage your finances better and become satisfied with your style of life. Some persons need such tips more than others ad it has been proven than women often have a hard time when it comes to establishing their budget. Many women spend more than they actually earn and they become trapped in debts, but fortunately this can change.
Money Tips are important and they can help us overcome a difficult financial situation. It is believed that money represents power, love or control and that our beliefs about money and relationships influence the way we manage our finances. Money Tips can be very helpful for people who are in a difficult financial situation and here is a list of the most important tips: don't rely on others for your financial security, set goals and stick to them, don't use money when you feel bad, spend less than you earn, build an emergency fund and learn from your money mistakes.
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As promised, Aaron and Gareth have been documenting their adventure and have just released their first video update from the field. It will give you a great sense of what they've been dealing with thus far, including passing through rainforest so dense that their guide abandoned them after just 16 km (10 miles). Left to fend for themselves, they managed to find their way into what they describe as a "no man's land" along the Brazil-Guyana border. The region is uninhabited even by indigenous tribes, but from the video it looks absolutely beautiful. From there, they move on a river that local miners told them was impassable, but they managed to run it just 11 days.
The footage in this five minute video is simply spectacular and if they continue to release short films of their expedition of this quality, we are all in for a treat. We already knew this was going to be an amazing experience before they after started, but this first update is nothing short of stunning. I'm already looking forward to more videos in the weeks ahead.


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SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Ha-Neul Kim saw friend Inbee Park after the world's top-ranked player took the lead in the morning session at the U.S. Women's Open.
Kim, with an afternoon tee time playing the major for the first time, wondered, ''Wow, how did she shoot that score?''
Then Kim went out on Thursday and shot one stroke better, finishing with a bogey-free 6-under 66 to take the first-round lead at Sebonack Golf Club.
Park is trying to make history by winning the first three majors of the year. For a day at least, she was upstaged by a much less heralded fellow South Korean.
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''I'm enjoying myself,'' Kim said through a translator. ''I'm just happy to be here and to be playing in this big event. I'm not really thinking about winning or results but enjoying the moment.''
Currently a member of the KLPGA Tour, Kim is a seven-time winner in South Korea. She kept giving herself short birdie putts on Thursday and making them.
Kim birdied her second-to-last hole with daylight waning to claim the lead after Park held it for most of the day with her 67 in the morning session.
No player has won the first three majors in a season with at least four majors. Park, the 2008 U.S. Women's Open champion, has already won five times this year, including her last two tournaments.
American Lizette Salas, Swedes Caroline Hedwall and Anna Nordqvist and South Korea's I.K. Kim shot 68.
Concerned about bad weather, tournament officials moved up the tees, and with the rain holding off, Park was able to play aggressively.
''I never had practiced from those tees, so I was a little bit shocked when I went to the tees,'' Park said.
Not that she was complaining.
She repeatedly set up short putts, and the way she has excelled in her short game lately, Park was headed to a low score.
''So instead of hitting like 5-irons, we were hitting 9-irons, and that was making the course much easier,'' she said. ''I was actually able to go for some pins and give myself a lot of opportunities today. I made a lot of putts and didn't leave much out there.''
Starting on No. 10, Park birdied her first hole, then started racking up pars. She made the turn at 2 under before birdies on three of her next four holes.
At 5 under, Park briefly struggled with her tee shots, needing to save par on Nos. 5 and 7. On No. 6, her 15th hole of the day, she had to lay up out of the tall grass and settle for her lone bogey.
Park got back to 5 under on the par-5 eighth with a chip shot to about 5 feet that set up a birdie putt.
Hedwall and I.K. Kim were each at 5 under with a hole left but closed with bogeys. Nordqvist birdied her last two holes to pull into the tie for third.
The two Swedes grew up playing together.
''Certainly seeing her shooting 4 under in the morning session gave me a little bit of inspiration for the afternoon,'' Nordqvist said.
Salas, a 23-year-old former Southern California star, played with Park in the last group of the final round of this year's Kraft Nabisco Championship. Three strokes back starting the day, she opened with a double bogey and tumbled to 25th after shooting a 79.
She bounced back to reach a playoff at the LPGA Lotte Championship in April, losing to Suzann Pettersen for her best LPGA finish.
''I'm just getting a lot more used to being in contention and really studying the leaderboard and really managing my patience,'' Salas said. ''I think that's been key for me this week. Yes, I still get nervous on the first tee and my hands keep shaking, but I just know that if I just trust myself and trust my instincts, I can perform out here.''
Chile's Paz Echeverria, a 28-year-old LPGA rookie also making her U.S. Women's Open debut, and Canada's Maude-Aimee Leblanc shot 69.
Among eight players at 70 was Natalie Gulbis, who withdrew from a tournament and missed two others earlier this year because of malaria. Infected by a mosquito during the LPGA Thailand in late February, she returned for the Kraft Nabisco in early April. Gulbis hasn't finished better than 13th since, missing the cut at the LPGA Championship.
Defending champion Na Yeon Choi, second-ranked Stacy Lewis and 19-year-old amateur Kyung Kim from USC were among 11 players at 71.
Lydia Ko, the 16-year-old New Zealand amateur who won the Canadian Open last August to become the youngest LPGA winner, had a 72.
Michelle Wie opened her round with a quadruple-bogey 8 on No. 10. She was at 11 over through 14 holes before birdies on three of the last four to finish with an 80.
With Park's two major titles to start the year, South Koreans have won four straight majors. But Ha-Neul Kim was an unlikely representative to lead after the first round of this tournament.
''I was very nervous coming in, and I thought in the practice round that the course was very difficult,'' she said. ''Before playing today, I thought that even par would be a very good score for me.''


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In the last month, gas prices in Georgia have gone up 20 cents. In the last three years, prices at the pump have steadily risen an extra $2 a gallon.
However, the roller coaster ride started in July 2008 when people were paying a little over $4 for a gallon of gas.
Then, the great recession began and prices hit an average low of $1.48 in January 2009.
Compared to that price, if you fill up your 12 gallon tank once a week, you are paying an extra 1,248%.
Who is to blame for these prices? Oil companies love to talk about Israel and Iran while some blame the President. But, the facts are Exxon Mobile's profits were up about 50% over the previous year. Profits in 2010 were $19 billion and $30 Billion in 2011. So, part of the blame could go to federal regulators who, 13 years ago, let #1 Exxon and #2 Mobile merge.
But, if you think gas is expensive here, we've actually got it good compared to many other companies.
Canada's average is a dollar more than the U.S. Italians pay nearly $6.00. The big differences are steep fuel prices.
On the other end, in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, motorists pay $0.90 per gallon. The lowest price of a gallon in the world is $0.12 in Venezuela.
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Hosts Sri Lanka open cricket's World Twenty20 against Zimbabwe Tuesday, kicking off the country's biggest ever sports event -- and just three years after the end of a bloody civil war.
Mahela Jayawardene's men will take the field in Hambantota, the southeastern home town of President Mahinda Rajapakse, with hopes high they can end a 16-year wait for their second global title in front of their cricket-obsessed fans.
The match, at 7:30 pm (1400 GMT), starts a three-week cricket fiesta involving 12 teams in coastal Hambantota, hill town Pallekele and the capital Colombo, where the fourth World Twenty20 champions will be crowned on October 7.
The tournament offers the "Teardrop Island" the chance to showcase its lush landscapes, beaches and temples, and turn the page on the 37-year ethnic conflict that claimed up to 100,000 lives.
In 2009, Rajapakse's government declared victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels, a group notorious for suicide bombings. The brutal final offensive prompted a UN Human Rights Council resolution against Sri Lanka earlier this year.
"The T20 World Cup programme will provide an excellent platform to endorse the new Sri Lanka brand during the next three weeks," said Nivard Cabraal, the central bank governor.
"I am confident that this trend will continue in the future, and those so-called international calls for (war crimes) investigation will fade away," he told AFP.
Sri Lanka start the tournament as marginal favourites, although predictions are notoriously difficult in cricket's shortest format, which has revolutionised the sport and divided opinion since its introduction in 2003.
Home advantage will help the hosts, who have a well-balanced side including the newly crowned cricketer of the year, wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara.
Sri Lanka won the 50-over World Cup in 1996 and have reached the tournament's two most recent finals, along with the 2009 World Twenty20 title match which they lost to Pakistan.
"Lots of people have asked us why we have choked in the finals," skipper Jayawardene said. "I'd rather be in that situation than being knocked out in earlier rounds."
Defending champions England arrive with a youthful squad shorn of star batsman Kevin Pietersen, who is in international exile after a sequence of bust-ups with team management.
South Africa, the number one Test team, are seeking their first ever limited-overs world title, while the powerful West Indies would be a popular winner. The World Twenty20 is the one major trophy to elude Australia.
India, schooled in Twenty20 cricket in the lucrative Indian Premier League, won the inaugural event in 2007, while mercurial Pakistan will hope to reprise their 2009 title run.
The teams have been divided into four pools of three for the preliminary league, with the top two from each advancing to the Super Eights round.
If the seedings go to plan, fans can expect exciting cricket in the Super Eights -- a week-long race to the semis and final.
England, the West Indies, Sri Lanka and New Zealand are seeded to meet in group one of the Super Eights, with the top two teams making it to the semi-finals.
Group two is already being billed as the "Group of Death", with arch-rivals India and Pakistan seeded to face Australia and South Africa.
World Twenty20 to get under way in Sri Lanka
Hosts Sri Lanka open cricket's World Twenty20 against Zimbabwe Tuesday, kicking off the country's biggest ever sports event -- and just three years after the end of a bloody civil war.


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andypanix necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 86 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Opera della Provvidenza S.Antonio, a non-profit foundation of religion which provides assistance to persons with disabilities
The Opera della Provvidenza S.Antonio di Padova (that we can translate as Work of Providence of St. Anthony of Padua, thereafter OPSA) is a non-profit foundation of Catholic religion in the diocese of Padua (in Italy) which provides assistance to persons with disabilities.
I am working as a freelancer for OPSA and I am helping them to build their new website.
What we need is template for our site, particularly the design of the homepage of our new site, which can be found online at http://www.operadellaprovvidenza.it (username / password = opsa / opsa). The online version of the site has been built from our own drafts, is fully functional, and corresponds to the final structure of the site.
You can read more information about OPSA on our development website (www.operadellaprovvidenza.it, username / password = opsa / opsa, in Italian) or in the attached PDF: "MoreAboutOPSA.pdf" translated in english.
Caritas cum fide - Christo in fratribus
(The charity combined with the faith: to serve Christ in others)
To give these children of God for various reasons, far from home, a home and a family again. To enable all those who come into contact with this reality to be present with their hearts, their generosity, their willingness, their prayers; as a concrete invitation of Christ the Lord to practice works of mercy that one day we will open the gates of heaven.
• People seeking information about services offered from the OPSA for their loved ones with disabilities.
• All volunteers who are serving or who wish to serve in the OPSA.
• People who want to come to visit the OPSA and then seek further information.
• People wishing to give their contribution to the work of Providence St. Anthony with their donations.
• Doctors and professionals seeking information on training courses.
Considering our main target audience, the message that the website has to transmit must be oriented toward the individual, the person. The visitor should perceive the OPSA firstly as a big family, a community, where guests (as they are called the people who find hospitality in the OPSA, we never use the word patient) should have the impression of being at home.
It is the human relationship, the affection, the liveliness and the vitality of the community that the visitor should be able to perceive.
Therefore we don't want a corporal or institutional website, unfriendly or cold-hearted, but a website full of life that delivers firstly human warmth and affection.
We mainly need a template for our site. Particularly we only need the design of the homepage, but you must design the navigation menu based on full site navigation (so an example of the expanded/opened navigation menu would be appreciated). Please consider the fact that our website should be fully accessible.
All buttons and links should have a rollover effects, so in your design you should include a hovered version of the icon or link, and a visited version of links.
Linked titles should have different color or graphics from non linked one's.
We would like a website of soft warm pastel colors . Font colors must be dark text on light background (so please no designs with dark backgrounds).
The logo to be used is the one currently on the site, and available as logo.pdf attached to this brief. The logo preferred color is red as you can see in "color_mosaic.jpg", but you are free to experiment.
We would like to use a photo or a stylized sketch of OPSA church positioned on top of our site, above top menu, to the right (see "homepage_mokup.pdf" for a sketch of this idea, and our_church_01 and our_church_02 for two photos of our church). Please note: this is only a possible idea, it's not mandatory, and if you think that there is no good way to put a church in that position, forget about it, we will not penalize your design for not using the church. Thanks
Preferably a photoshop PSD file with open layers (but we can accept other formats as PNGs if you don't use Photoshop)
If you need an extra image for your design (ie for background), you can search http://www.istockphoto.com, since we have an account with them.
You can build your design using the actual homepage as your mockup (or using homepage_mockup.pdf).
Browse http://www.operadellaprovvidenza.it using opsa / opsa as username and password to get an idea of how the navigation menu works.
The top menu is built on 4 levels. Since the second level of the navigation menu is not always visible (eg it is not shown on the homepage, but instead is present in most of the inside pages), you should try to design the graphics for the menu to be "compatible" with this feature.
In the attached document (top_menu_overview.pdf) you can find some menu designs that we like.
The site's structure has been build using the 960s grid system (more info at http://www.960.gs). We have used a 16 columns grid system, with 40 px wide columns and 20px gutters. See 960s_grid.png (attached here) for a grid overview.
IMPORTANT: you should try to use the graphic design to hide the grid on which layout is based, not to highlight it. We should be aware of the existence of the grid only if we observe carefully the structure of the site, as we can see in many of the sites shown on http://www.960.gs. Try to avoid the use of sharp rectangles to define areas of the page or contents of the page, since rectangles seem to strengthen the grid not to loose it. And I want to loose it.
To further clarify what I mean when I say "try to loose the grid", I think that this article of Smashing Magazine could help:
If you think you have a particularly good or original idea, and you feel the actual grid too limiting for your creativity, we might consider the idea of making some changes to the grid or to the structure of the page itself, but try to maintain the relative importance of the different sections and/or contents.
Good works!
http://www.operadellaprovvidenza.it using opsa / opsa as username and password
This is the full working development version of the final site, build on our mokups.
The OPSA website should not be an institutional website. Try to build something with a style more similar to http://www.centromissionario.diocesipadova.it (informal) than http://www.diocesipadova.it (institutional and formal).
In this page you can find a website template with colors that we like: http://www.templatemonster.com/webs…tml?tab=40
What we like: soft relaxing colors
What we don't like: flash animations
Another interesting template: http://osc.template-help.com/wt_23851/index.html
What we like: the conceptual idea of the background (the tree and the sky); we would like to see something like that, but using the OPSA church instead of the tree (it's only a possible idea, but it's not mandatory and if you think that there is no good way to put a church in that position, forget about it).
What we don't like: colors (too cold), typography and animations (we don't care).
http://www.joniandfriends.org, a site we like for style, the attention to details and the typography, but we will tend to prefer something more colorful.


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SHoP Architects
Vishaan Chakrabarti, is the Holliday Professor of Real Estate Development and the Director of CURE., the Center for Urban Real Estate, at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation. Simultaneously, Chakrabarti is a Partner at SHoP Architects where he advances large-scale projects worldwide.
Prior to joining Columbia and SHoP, Chakrabarti was an Executive Vice President at the Related Companies where he ran the Moynihan Station project and oversaw planning and design. From 2002 to 2005, Chakrabarti served as the Director of the Manhattan Office for the New York Department of City Planning, where he directed the City's design response to the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11 and several other major development proposals in Manhattan.
Prior to his work with the City, Chakrabarti was an Associate Partner and Director of Urban Design at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, as well as a transportation planner at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Chakrabarti holds a Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and dual Bachelors' degrees in Art History and Engineering from Cornell University. He serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and Enterprise Community Partners, is a trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission; Metropolis Magazine named Chakrabarti one of the top 12 "Game Changers" for 2012.


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Scientists find groundwater inundation doubles flood predictionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Kolja Rotzoll, (808) 587-2419
Postdoctoral Researcher, UH Water Resources Research Center
Scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa published a study today in Nature Climate Change showing that besides marine inundation (flooding), low-lying coastal areas may also be vulnerable to "groundwater inundation," a factor largely unrecognized in earlier predictions on the effects of sea level rise (SLR). Previous research has predicted that by the end of the century, sea level may rise 1 meter.
Kolja Rotzoll, postdoctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa Water Resources Research Center and Charles Fletcher, associate dean for academic affairs at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, found that the flooded area in urban Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, including groundwater inundation, is more than twice the area of marine inundation alone. Specifically, a 1-meter rise in sea level would inundate 10% of a 1-km wide heavily urbanized area along the shoreline of southern Oʻahu and 58 percent of the total flooded area is due to groundwater inundation.
"With groundwater tables near the ground surface, excluding groundwater inundation may underestimate the true threat to coastal communities," said Rotzoll, lead author of the study.
"This research has implications for communities that are assessing options for adapting to SLR. Adapting to marine inundation may require a very different set of options and alternatives than adapting to groundwater inundation," states Fletcher, principal investigator on the grant that funded the research.
Groundwater inundation is localized coastal-plain flooding due to a simultaneous rise of the groundwater table with sea level. Groundwater inundation is an additional risk faced by coastal communities and environments before marine flooding occurs because the groundwater table in unconfined aquifers typically moves with the ocean surface and lies above mean sea level at some distance from the shoreline.
Rotzoll and Fletcher combined measurements of the coastal groundwater elevation and tidal influence in urban Honolulu with a high-resolution digital elevation model. With this, they were able to assess vulnerability to groundwater inundation from SLR.
"We used the digital elevation model with our improved understanding of groundwater processes to identify areas vulnerable to marine inundation and groundwater inundation," explained Rotzoll. "It turned out that groundwater inundation poses a significant threat that had not been previously recognized."
Although effects of SLR on coastal areas have been discussed for a long time, this study is the first to explicitly assess the effects of including groundwater dynamics.
"Finding that the inundated areas double when including groundwater inundation in coastal flooding scenarios will certainly be a surprise for everyone assessing the effects of SLR without considering the local groundwater table," said Rotzoll. "We hope other coastal communities use our research as the basis for conducting their own localized analysis."
Strong evidence on climate change underscores the need for actions to reduce the impacts of SLR. Groundwater inundation has consequences for decision-makers, resource managers, and urban planners and may be applicable to many low-lying coastal areas, especially where the groundwater table is near the ground surface and groundwater withdrawal is not substantial. However, groundwater withdrawals can be used to mitigate effects of a rising water table, even if it means pumping brackish water to avoid inundation.
The authors will present the findings from this paper at two international meetings: the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Charlotte, NC) and the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA).
The study's authors plan to substantiate their assessment of the groundwater table with further measurements throughout the coastal Honolulu caprock aquifer and improve understanding of the dynamics of the water table.
Rotzoll, K. and Fletcher, C.H. Assessment of groundwater inundation as a consequence of sea-level rise. Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1725
This study was funded by grants from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration-Coastal Storms Program.


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June Boswell Adams, 85, Neosho, died Dec. 25, 2013, at Mercy Hospital, Joplin after a short illness.
June was born March 30, 1928, in Baxter Springs, Kan., to Roscoe Albert Boswell and Alta Marie Brinkley Boswell. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, Newcomers and Neosho Area Widow to Widow. She was a seamstress working at La-Z-Boy Midwest for many years. She lived south of Seneca for about 50 years, and moved to Neosho 1 1/2 years ago.
She married Donald William Adams on Jan. 26, 1943 in Post, Texas. He preceded her in death on Oct. 7, 1997.
She had six children: Tresea June Adams, (died in infancy), Jan. 15, 1944, Evelyn Marie and Jerry Oxford, Inola, Okla., Aleta Sue and Bud Boyer, Neosho, Donald Wayne and Patty Adams, Neosho, Franklin Roscoe 'Ross' and Glenda Adams, Neosho, and Calvin Victor 'Butch' and Sarah Adams, Seneca.
She had one brother, Albert Boswell who is deceased. She also had three sisters, Wanda Gilbert, Seneca, and Roberta Miller and Myrtle Kissel both deceased.
She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and numerous great and great-great grandchildren.
Services will be held held at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Clark's Chapel of Memories, Neosho, with Dr. Horace Peterson officiating. Interment will follow at New Salem Cemetery, west of Neosho. Pallbearers will be grandsons: Marty Oxford, Scottie Adams, Matthew Boyer, Chad Adams, Wade Adams, Eric Boyer, Clayton Adams.
The family will receive friends from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. today at Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.
Service arrangements are under the directions of Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.
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and Barker
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A wall of finger prints
and then over to Robert Koch for Michael Wolf's Hong Kong photos. Super flat sides of buildings. Pretty sweet in person.
And then to Fraenkel Gallery to see some of the amazing photos from Richard Misrach. This photo above was so rad. Huge one person floating in the water. He has a new book out and I flipped through in at the gallery. So fucking great. It's only $53 dollars. I thought it would be like over a hundred.
For some reason I kept thinking that the show could have been a lot better. I love his photos, and I wasn't feeling the show that much. I wish there were more larger prints, but I guess they are trying to span his life's photography to conicide with the book or something and wanted to get a lot in there.
walking around in a haze I stumbled across these chairs.
and then to these dude's show. Very nice. @Urbis Artium
At the Rare Boks shop, I think.
and then at Catherine Clark gallery. Packard Jennings and Felipe Dulzaides. They always seem to have good shows at this place.
Ran into Ert and here new friend who's from Toledo where me be from.
The over to Yerba Buena for the new Peer Presure.
They have a show of prision inventions of sorts. This rad thing was made to annoying pigeons with. A bird drops down to grab the bread and takes off. He flys around in a hectic mission trying to loose the trailing rocket/ paper thinking it's a trailing bird trying to steal his bread... Gotta try that. Genius.
Homemade prision dice made out of toliet paper.
A "recreational" private time activities.
and then went down to check out the continuing Black Panther show.
some Denny's with Richard, Oliver Rosenberg, and Mariah (not pictured, obviously)
Missed a bunch of photos... but then ended up a bit tore up as Breezy kept buying shots.
and then listened to records with Andrew.
Smooth Jazz.
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|December 28, 2012, 11:24 PM
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how to lose your CCW permit
An incident just investigated by my police department.
Public employee with a valid CCW permit working in a public building. The permit holder has some kind of Smith & Wesson 9mm auto pistol. He uses the rest room and elects to take the gun out of the holster and hang it on the coat hook on the inside of the door of the restroom stall.
When he is finished, he walks off and leaves his gun hanging there. Somebody finds it, and a controversy ensues . . .
If you're going to carry a gun, you need to have your brain switched on all the time . . .
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|December 29, 2012, 12:17 AM
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there is a guy in the other side of town from me that lost his CHL when he opened fire on two store thieves leaving the scene. Said he was trying to shoot out the tires, thieves got away and the police arrested the citizen.
Then also in my state a guy goes to the movies with his CCW and it falls out of the holster and he goes home. A highschool student finds it and calls the police. He lost his permit and the gun...... a WWII era Beretta taken from a Nazi trooper. shame....
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|December 29, 2012, 05:21 AM
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Bathroom stalls -- and old thing for the BGs is to go into a bathroom ,look under the door and see if there's someone inside . If so they reach over the door and grab anything on the hook..This happened to an off duty cop recently here. The BG fumbled with the gun having two NDs in the process .Gun recovered ,BG escaped.
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|December 29, 2012, 05:59 AM
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Yeah, seems that negligence is a good reason for losing your permit. If you leave your gun lying around where others, especially kids, have access to it, then you have to pay the consequences. At least no one was hurt or killed!
In Koda's first link, the ccw holder was using deadly force on someone who was fleeing. He is not a cop and even the cops are not supposed to shoot at fleeing suspects.
The ATF should be a convenience store instead of a government agency!
|December 29, 2012, 08:29 AM
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Happens to cops regularly, why should it be such a big thing if it happens to a CCW licensed citizen?
|December 29, 2012, 10:07 AM
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It's an accident, not deserving of legal ramifications unless something bad were to happen as a result.
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|December 29, 2012, 11:02 AM
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There is a story - could be an urban myth - of an officer who hung a semi on a coat hook and somehow the trigger got jostled. The gun spun around the hook, emptying its mag as it kept bouncing on the hook.
Much gun hilarity ensued in the police station due to the string of rapid fire shots.
Anybody know if this is real.
People leave their infants to die in a car oven in the sun. So leaving a gun is in the realm of prospective memory errors.
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|December 29, 2012, 11:11 AM
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Double standards.
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|December 29, 2012, 05:21 PM
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I feel like I've heard this story but it was a DHS employee. The DHS part makes it more believable in my book.
|December 29, 2012, 05:22 PM
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We had a guy on the PD who left his off duty gun unattended in the squad car. When the next guy coming on duty checked the car out, he found the gun.
The officer in question got a letter of repremand and TEN days off without pay. He's damn lucky he didn't get fired, because that was discussed.
So, if a cop in your town leaves their sidearm in a rest room (or someplace else) unattended, and all they get is "written up" it's not an issue of "double standards" it's an issue of poor management practices at that particular police department . . .
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|December 29, 2012, 05:48 PM
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J's post, ADs & criminal charges...
I read over J's post & it reminded me of the topic I put up a few days ago, a private citizen with a concealed license leaving a Beretta pistol in a movie theater.
Cops & security officers can and do lose firearms a lot. I worked with a guard in 2004 in NW Florida. He was a US Army veteran & "trained" but wasn't very ethical or responsible. He told our shift members how he got fired from a company in the Fort Myers area because he left a loaded .38spl revolver in a restroom! Dumb!
As I stated before, lost sidearms happen a lot during POTUS campaign stops too. I guess they get stressed out or tired from the long details.
I've learned to pull my weapon & duty belt in my lap if I need to use a stall.
I also remember gunwriter & tactics trainer Massad Ayoob writing about the subject. He said the TV cop character; Det Fish from the sitcom; Barney Miller was a good example of older license holders or cops using shoulder holsters.
If they need to use the restroom often, it's a good way to keep your firearm secure.
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A friend and I were returning home from a shoot in NE OH. We had stopped and had steaks after the shoot. My buddy's steak was not agreeing with him and we stopped at a rest stop. While he was doing what had to be done I heard something hard hit the floor and he swore loudly. His Glock 27 had fallen out of the Shark-Tac (junk) holster he uses. It bounced out of the stall he was in. I was not as, engaged, as he was so I walked over and picked up his pistol.
We had a good laugh about it back in the car but it could have been pretty bad if someone else was in that restroom rather than me.
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|December 30, 2012, 03:14 AM
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ADs & embarrassments....
ADs or NDs are serious with holsters, but many times it's more annoying or a cause of embarrassment.
In the late 1990s, I went to a popular hot dog restaurant outside of Pittsburgh PA with my cousin. I was wearing my Aker shoulder holster and didn't want to take my weapon inside. It was only concealed by my heavy coat. I secured my pistol, a 96D .40 and got out of the small car. When I took my coat off to remove my shoulder rig, I could swear EVERY restaurant patron by the windows stared directly at me! There was no discreet way to take my holster off. Lol.
I'm glad that in my mostly 2A + state, new laws were put in to allow license holders to not get in any legal trouble if their gear or firearms are exposed like that. Wind, bad weather or some other factor may expose a holstered weapon.
|December 30, 2012, 05:57 AM
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Just had a bad mistake happen. I was going to shoot my G27 at the range so I grabbed a new (ie, untested!) IWB holster for my G23. I have proven holsters but this one was similar to a famous brand and handy at the time. Slipped it on and seemed fine.
While I was out and about I loosened my gun belt a tad for the long car ride, and later when I bent over out plops my G23!!! Fortunately it was in a remote area of a parking lot and I was able to grab it quickly and tuck it back into place. I immediately went to the trunk and ditched the pistol into an ammo box and removed the holster.
Turns out the design of the holster only has kydex on one side and the flexible leather shield on the other side. It holds the pistol if your belt is cinched tight but any slack and the holster no longer grips the pistol!!
Lesson: never ever ever wear CCW gear that I have not worn and practiced with for some time in private. I shudder to think what the scenario would have been in a crowded grocery aisle or such.
|December 30, 2012, 07:19 AM
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All the holsters I use for CCW have a thumb snap to retain the pistol. Yes, I need to remember to un-snap it, but that is part of my training.
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Yeah we had somebody do something like this... In Afghanistan!
Guy went on a short convoy from one PB (patrol base) to another PB just down the road. Finished their crap and were back on the road when they received a radio call "Uh (won't mention the persons name), where's your rifle?"
Wasn't there to see it personally but I'm sure he had to clean his cammies after that one. I also know of a 2LT platoon commander who got relieved of his command for doing the same thing.
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|December 30, 2012, 09:45 AM
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I doubt the guy in OP will lose his permit permanently. In a shall issue state I'm not sure they could justify denying him his permit on that basis.
|December 31, 2012, 06:36 PM
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Regardless of how many police officers or security officers it happens to, it still doesn't make it right. Maybe there needs to be more severe consequences for leaving firearms behind. I think everyone here can agree with the law that prohibits leaving firearms accesible to children.
There was a recent article online about a couple of kids finding a loaded weapon in a movie theater. Thankfully they were responsible and notified an adult rather than picking it up and playing with it. The articles mentions that the boys are scouts and were taught to treat all guns as if they were loaded. Imagine if it was a couple of thugs who decided to play with it and accidentally shot you or a loved one.
Let's hold ourselves accountable for our weapons rather than pointing out the obvious double standard.
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|December 31, 2012, 07:47 PM
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How do FORGET YOUR GUN? is it that small you cant feel it?
|January 1, 2013, 05:04 AM
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Semi-auto pinwheel?
I read that story (semi-auto pistol hung by the trigger guard on a coat hook and emptying the magazine as it spun around the hook/post) in a Gun Magazine in the 1970's.
I believed it then, as it was presented as a cautionary tale about safety. I suppose it could be a myth.
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|January 1, 2013, 09:59 AM
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Wasn't there also some kid in a Starbucks recently. That had just obtained a permit to carry. He was in the bathroom of Starbucks practicing his draw in front of the mirror, he then put a .40 bullet into the sink. Destroying it and cause a ruckus.
He then waltzed on out like nothing ever happened.
Police caught up to him somewhere in the plaza with the description given.
I'm sorry, but knowing the full story. I find that hilarious.
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|January 1, 2013, 11:37 AM
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Good find Alabama Shooter.
Does it seem reasonable that in grabbing a jacket the gun in the pocket went off twice?
Obviously the gun went off twice because there's two holes in the ceiling so that part of the story is not in doubt. Maybe the thief and the cop were fighting for control of the gun? (But it doesn't say that in the story.)
Pin-wheel semi-auto story. For Lost Sheep and Glenn, I heard it when I visited a Texas Instrument campus in Dallas around 1978. My version was a security guard heading out to his car 'for just a minute' didn't bother unloading the gun and hung it on a peg in the arms safe and it went off several times spinning around on the peg with richochets going out into the room. I trust Lost Sheep's version that it was written up in a gun magazine and my friend that told me the story was embleshing it and making it local.
It IS the kind of story that sticks in your mind.
|January 1, 2013, 12:59 PM
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A few months back a friend of mine from central Fl. sent me a local news article about a driver bringing an AR 15 with several loaded mags in a ballistic case to the local police station, Seems he pulled over to relieve himself(he's on a diuretic) couldn't wat for restroom, saw case in front of his car when he came back and opened it and did the right thing. Sheriff deputy with special response team, had a flat and had to take the gun out to get the spare. The local PD brought it to the sheriff's dept and it was on his desk with a note to see the watch cmdr, he had continued his shift with the spare, so the gun beat him to the dept.
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