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Earth nears 'tipping point'
Scientists fear potential of catastrophe as world population balloons
New York has 88 endangered or threatened species, 87 Superfund sites, one of the world's largest garbage dumps, and about two billion gallons of untreated sewage that pour into the Long Island Sound each year.
New York also has 19.5 million people. They own 10.8 million registered vehicles and 8.1 million houses. About eight million people live in New York City alone, each producing on average about three pounds of trash each day.
In the public arena, almost no one connects these plainly visible dots.
For various reasons, linking the world's rapid population growth to its deepening environmental crisis, including climate change, is politically taboo. In fact, in the United States, Europe and Japan there is public hand-wringing over falling birthrates, and government policies to encourage child-bearing.
But those declining birthrates mask explosive growth elsewhere in the world.
In less than a lifetime, the world population has tripled, to 7.1 billion, and continues to climb by more than one and a half million people a week.
A consensus statement issued last May by scientists at Stanford University, signed by more than 1,000 scientists, warned, "Earth is reaching a tipping point."
An array of events under way — including what scientists have identified as the sixth mass extinction in the earth's history — suggest that human activity already exceeds earth's capacity. Climate change is but one of many signs of environmental stress. "The big connector is how many people are on earth," said Anthony Barnosky, a UC Berkeley integrative biologist.
The world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by mid-century. The United States is expected to grow from 313 million people to 400 million. Economies have expanded many times faster than population, vastly increasing consumption of goods and services in wealthier countries.
"The combination of climate change and nine billion people to me is one that is just fraught with potential catastrophes," said John Harte, a UC Berkeley ecosystem scientist.
"The evidence that humans are damaging their ecological life-support system is overwhelming," said the report by the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere at Stanford. "By the time today's children reach middle age, it is extremely likely that the Earth's life-support systems, critical for human prosperity and existence, will be irretrievably damaged."
California Gov. Jerry Brown had the report translated into Chinese and sent it to China's president in June.
The Anthropocene
So complete is human domination of earth that scientists use the term Anthropocene to describe a new geological epoch.
The most obvious sign is climate change. People have altered the composition of the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. But other human impacts, widely discussed by scientists, seldom reach the political arena.
Residues from 100 million tons of synthetic chemical compounds produced each year are so pervasive that they commonly appear in polar bear tissues, whale blubber and the umbilical cords of babies. Each year, humans appropriate up to 40 percent of the earth's biomass, the product of photosynthesis, earth's basic energy conversion necessary to all life.
Humans have converted more than 40 percent of the earth's land to cities or farms. Roads and structures fragment most of the rest. Humans appropriate more than half the world's fresh water. Ancient aquifers in the world's bread baskets, including the once-giant Ogallala in the Great Plains, are being drained.
Only 2 percent of major U.S. rivers run unimpeded. California's Bay Delta has been entirely re-engineered.
Humans surpass nature as a source of nitrogen emissions, altering the planet's nitrogen cycle.
A quarter of known mammal species, 43 percent of amphibians, 29 percent of reptiles and 14 percent of birds are threatened. African elephants may be extinct within a decade. A third of world fisheries are exhausted or degraded. Ocean acidification, a product of fossil fuel burning, is dissolving calcifying plankton at the base of the food chain.
A garbage gyre at least twice the size of Texas swirls in the Pacific.
"We're changing the ability of the planet to provide food and water," Harte said.
Even scientists who doubt ecological collapse, such as Michele Marvier, chair of environmental studies at Santa Clara University, acknowledge that "humans dominate every flux and cycle of the planet's ecology and geochemistry."
Falcons in skyscrapers
Ecosystems can endure large stresses. But multiple stresses can act synergistically.
Take food. The World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank, estimates that by mid century the world will need 70 percent more food, because as people grow wealthier they eat more meat, requiring more grain to feed livestock.
But that will require converting more land to crops, even as urbanization destroys prime farmland. Farms are a big source of deforestation, which removes carbon sinks, and a big emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Climate change reduces yields by increasing the frequency of droughts and floods. Lower yields will require conversion of more land to farms.
Nature has shown great resiliency, said Santa Clara University's Marvier. Peregrine falcons nest in San Francisco skyscrapers. Coyotes roam Chicago.
"We can't just continue dumping nitrogen into the ocean at the same rate and expect everything to be fine," Marvier said. "The good news though, is that when we do clean up our act, we tend to see some pretty amazing bounce back."
Barnosky agreed that natural systems are resilient. "But you have to give them a chance to be resilient," he said. "Falcons can live in cities. But elephants can't."
People have been predicting disaster for centuries, including 18th century scholar Thomas Malthus and Stanford University ecologist Paul Ehrlich, who in 1968 with his wife Anne predicted famines from runaway population growth in "The Population Bomb."
Yet humans have always invented new technologies, such as the plant breeding breakthroughs of the Green Revolution, to forestall disaster. Ehrlich said he was right because at least two billion people are malnourished.
Reducing population growth was central to the U.S. environmental movement at its birth in 1970, spurred in part by the Ehrlichs' book and the Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth." Most environmental groups now steer clear of the subject.
Population and consumption both drive ecological damage.
"Even in poorer nations that don't have the impact that the average American has on the planet, population, as it grows, squeezes out other species, because people need space to live and the other species need space to live," said Jeffrey McKee, an anthropologist at Ohio State University who found a high correlation between human population growth and wild species extinctions. "At some point they come into juxtaposition, and something has to give. So far, it hasn't been us."
Population momentum
Plummeting fertility rates, from 4.9 births per woman worldwide in the 1960s to the current 2.6, led many to believe that worries were overblown.
The drop surprised demographers. Half the world, including Japan and Western Europe, but also China, Vietnam, Brazil and many other emerging economies are below the 2.1 replacement fertility rate. The U.S., the world's third largest country behind China and India, and the only rich country still growing rapidly, recently saw its birth rate fall to 1.9.
News coverage has stressed a "birth dearth" that threatens economic growth and elderly retirements. Some have worried that the entire human species could contract to just one billion by the year 2300 because of a failure to reproduce.
An important exception to falling fertility rates is sub-Saharan Africa, along with such places as Afghanistan and Yemen, where birth rates remain exceptionally high. United Nations demographers sharply raised their population projections last year, adding another billion people by century's end, to nearly 11 billion, because African fertility rates have stalled at high levels, over five births per woman.
Africa's population is expected to more than double by 2050 to 2.4 billion, accounting for nearly half of worldwide growth. Nigeria is expected to reach one billion people by the end of the century, and surpass the United States before mid-century.
From now until 2050, poor countries will add the equivalent of a city of one million every five days, said a report last year by the Royal Society, a British scientific organization.
Population momentum ensures that absolute numbers will keep rising for decades despite falling birth rates. That's because the exponential growth that took just 12 years to add the last billion in 2011 — and will take just 14 more years to add the next billion — means growth is building from a large base of people, many in their child-bearing years.
Falling birth rates have lulled people into complacency, said J. Joseph Speidel, a professor at UC San Francisco's Bixby Center on Global Reproductive Health. "The annual increment is rising quite dramatically," he said. "We are still adding about 84 million people a year to the planet."
Unintended births
More than 40 percent of the world's 208 million pregnancies each year are unplanned, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a family planning research group.
Half of U.S. pregnancies, about three million a year, are unintended, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
About half of these end in abortion.
An estimated 222 million women in poor countries want to limit their family size but have no access to contraception. Across cultures, from Iran to Thailand to California, voluntary access to contraception has slashed fertility rates, Speidel said. But discussion of population growth remains taboo.
"Many young people on university campuses have been taught over the past 15 years that the connection between population growth and the environment is not an acceptable subject for discussion," said Martha Campbell, director of International Population Dialogue at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health, in a recent essay.
Campbell argued that voluntary contraception is not coercive, but blocking women from controlling how many children they have is. When given a chance, she said, women across cultures choose to provide a better life for fewer children.
The Guttmacher Institute said it would cost an extra $4.1 billion a year, little more than a rounding error in the $3.8 trillion U.S. budget, to provide birth control to all 222 million women in the world who want to limit their pregnancies but lack access to contraception.
"What many of us really worry about is that there will be this crash landing, from a planet with nine billion, rapidly down to five or so," said ecologist Harte. "The landing will result from methods of population reduction that none of us want to see, like famine, disease and war. I don't think anybody has described a workable trajectory that gets us up to nine and then softly back down to five."
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As if Shane Beamer needed a reminder life for him was about to be very different with the start of Virginia Tech's spring football practices, he got confirmation early on from his 3-year-old daughter, Sutton.
When she got her first glimpse of players on Tech's practice fields this spring, she wasn't fooled by the new guy wearing the No. 4 jersey. No longer was the jersey occupied by David Wilson. Instead, incoming freshman running back J.C. Coleman had the number on his back.
It was an upsetting reality for a little girl that was looking forward to seeing Wilson in maroon and orange again.
"She loves David Wilson a bunch," said Beamer, who is entering his second season as Tech's running backs coach. "That's her favorite player. She's come out a couple times to practice this spring with my wife and she's asked my wife, 'Where's David?' Well, I'm kind of the same way.
"I miss him. It's taken me a while to get over not having him here."
Wilson is indeed gone, destined to be chosen in the NFL draft in two weeks after finishing his junior season at Tech last year with a school single-season record 1,709 rushing yards. In his place, Tech is left with a bunch of talented but unproven players in the backfield.
Coleman, a 5-foot-7, 176-pound product of Oscar Smith High in Chesapeake, enrolled in January so he could participate in spring drills. He was considered by most recruiting analysts to be among the nation's top 35 running backs coming out of high school
As with most true freshmen running backs, the primary goals for Coleman are to get used to blocking responsibilities and the speed of the college game.
"Everybody wants to play right away, but I know what I have to do before I can play," Coleman said. "I'm trying to learn a lot before the season starts. I feel like being here right now is going to help me get in games this year."
Redshirt freshman Michael Holmes, a 5-11, 208-pound Harrisonburg native, ran for an incredible 5,626 yards and 82 touchdowns combined in his junior and senior seasons at Group AA Harrisonburg High. He has taken first-team reps so far this spring.
In addition to Coleman and Holmes, 5-11, 226-pound senior Martin Scales has been moved from fullback to tailback this spring. He's been impressive enough that he's challenging Coleman for second team reps, but offensive coordinator Bryan Stinespring has been impressed with Coleman thus far.
"I've been astonished at his maturity level and the way he's approached this thing," Stinespring said. "We've gone back and looked over the course of this spring and there's probably only about three or four mental errors he's had out here total."
Junior Tony Gregory is the only returning running back on Tech's roster that has a carry in a college game. He has 39 carries for 129 yards in the last two seasons, but he's sitting out this spring while he rehabilitates from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
"(Holmes) took the first rep of spring practice because he had the most experience and Tony Gregory wasn't healthy," Beamer said. "If Tony would've been healthy, then he probably would've come into spring as our No. 1 tailback. I'm not forgetting about Tony Gregory right now. I know he's got a lot of ability, but Michael has been the No. 1 guy this spring. … He's earned everything he's gotten right now and worked his (rear end) off to be in this position. It's up to him to try to keep it."
Beamer actually has some experience working with a backfield that featured a strikingly similar level of inexperience.
In 2006, when Beamer was Mississippi State's running backs coach, the Bulldogs lost Jerious Norwood, who ran for more than 1,000 yards in each of his final two college seasons. Mississippi State was left with a player that was a third teamer the previous season (like Gregory at Tech), and two incoming freshmen — Anthony Dixon and Arnil Stallworth — that were expected to be the Bulldogs' top two backs in '06.
"It was really kind of the identical situation, except (at Mississippi State) I didn't have the two hotshot freshmen there for spring practice," Beamer said.
This season, at least Beamer isn't the one playing catch-up anymore. Last spring, Beamer said Wilson and former Tech running back Josh Oglesby were teaching him a lot of Tech's offensive terminology because Beamer had just arrived in February in Blacksburg. Now, Beamer has a handle on everything.
"This year, I know the system, and most of the guys in that room really don't," Beamer said. "From that standpoint, it's a lot more fun because I'm able to convey more to them what we're doing as opposed to them conveying to me a lot of the stuff that they'd already done."

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News of the shift comes after a 59-year-old fan allegedly used a Taser during a fight in the stands at the Jets-Cowboys game in East Rutherford, New Jersey on the 10-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Discussion in 'The Howard Stern Show' started by Ruffypup, Jan 28, 2013.
More annoying ?
Show all work plz.
Another shit thread from a shit poster, I've been a lurker for a minute and noticed this jaggov's shit posts shining out from the rest.
as annoying as Hathaway is, especially with that little boy haircut, at least you can tell she's fairly intelligent and somewhat genuine. Beth is annoying as hell, doesn't come off the least bit intelligent nor genuine.
Hathaway at least has actual talent. Plus, she IS the future Queen of Genovia.
Team Ruffy
shit piles says what?
You really picked the wrong Jaggoff to fuck with. He is beloved. If you don't like him keep it to yourself.
Beth is far more annoying.
ruffypup is one of my favorites.
I can't stand Anne Hathaway, but at least she has some sort of talent and is an earner. Beth has zero talent. None. At anything. Nothing at all. Not one single thing that she has ever attempted.
Thank you.
anne hathaway is talented....VERY talented at that
....however SHE IS THAT GIRL IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA CLUB...SHE IS SOOO THAT GIRL
I always wanted to rail that drama club girl
Fuck off cop
She hit paydirt with Howard.
I just wanted to stick my dick in her mouth just so she would shut up...god she never stopped with the yapping, and the acting and the feh
As annoying as Hathaway is, I would like to think that if she was in Beth's position that she wouldn't walk around acting like she is some kind of A List celebrity and realize every acting, TV, and book project is because people are trying to capitalize on her husband's name and fame rather than her actually earning those roles and projects. I also think Hathaway might have more dignity than to take some of the shit projects Beth takes.
btw- i'm no fag or nothing but she got so much hotter when she got that boy's haircut
...also, that upskirt helped alot as well....
EDIT: you can tell that she has that soft "mound" pussy that comes from a girl who is just the right amount of skinny
EDIT 2: the above is the creepiest thing ever typed on the interweb
Even after Hathaway's atrocious acceptance speeches these last few weeks, Conehead wins for Most Annoying Vapid Twat.
Beth is more annoying unless she decides to flash vagine while exiting a limo.
What tha fuck????
I'm not an Anne Hathaway fan, but at least she has talent - she also doesn't have to be referenced as the wife of a 60 year old AGT judge in order for people to know who she is.


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April 12. 2014 9:20PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Mujica may be key to Sox' success
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Edward Mujica (54) pitches against the New York Yankees during the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium on Friday night. (Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports)
Yanks go yard to bury Lackey, Boston
According to the radar gun, the fastball on which he struck out
Brett Gardner
to finish Boston's 4-2 win over New York was the hardest
Edward Mujica
had thrown a pitch this season.
The velocity itself wasn't overly impressive, with its 92 mph equaling the reliever's average heater of a year ago, when he ramped it up closer to 95. But to see it then, under those circumstances, should have been something of a reminder for Red Sox fans - that they've yet to really see what the right-hander can do, and that a pitcher with his track record deserves a chance to prove himself over more than merely an outing or two.
Especially now that it looks as though the Red Sox really need him.
Mujica may have struggled during his first homestand at Fenway Park - yielding five hits and four earned runs over 1 1/3 innings that encompassed two rough appearances - but when pressed into service in the ninth inning Friday because
Koji Uehara
felt stiffness in shoulder before the game, Mujica looked comfortable in working the ninth inning.
He won a battle with
Yangervis Solarte
, then got
Ichiro Suzuki
to fly out, and finally punched out Gardner on five pitches, his smooth frame a reflection of the success he had last year in a similar role in St. Louis, at least until he strained his groin in late August.
The anchor of the Cardinals' bullpen for much of the summer, Mujica saved 37 games in 41 chances during 2013, sporting a 2.78 earned run average, a rate of 1.005 walks and hits per inning pitched, 0.7 walks per nine innings, and making the National League All-Star team. He struggled in September as he tried to pitch through his ailment, and subsequently wasn't trusted to pitch more than two Division Series games in October.
However, when the campaign was finished he registered the fifth-most saves in the National League and most of stats were in line with what he'd done since the start of 2011. They affirmed that when healthy he is a hurler who throws strikes, limits the number of baserunners, and knows how to pitch amid the unique pressures of the ninth inning.
So the Red Sox wasted little time in poaching him from the team that challenged them during the World Series. They offered him $9.5 million for two years, and on Dec. 7 he agreed to a deal with Boston that nearly tripled his career earnings - but filled a priority for the Sox, who needed to beef up their bullpen as part of the insurance plan required when relying upon a 39-year-old closer.
And although there have been some struggles so far, the Sox may need Mujica now more than ever. And his history suggests he should be up to the task. After Friday's win, manager
John Farrell
declared Uehara as day-to-day, however Uehara subsequently compared the tightness to a feeling he had a couple of years ago with the Rangers. And that instance shut him down for a couple of months in 2012.
It remains to be seen how much time Uehara will miss this time. It could be that long, again. Or he could be back on the mound shortly - but even in that case the club is sure to proceed cautiously with their other-worldly closer, which would likely mean more responsibility for Mujica.
Based on Friday night, Farrell is still as confident as the day the Sox prioritized his signing that the righty can handle that role. He knew before the game that Uehara was unavailable, yet he used
Junichi Tazawa
in the seventh and the eighth. Then in the ninth he could've pieced together an inning based on matchups, or gone to another of his veterans.
But instead he gave the ball to Mujica, in Yankee Stadium, with a two-run lead. It was an opportunity, based on what he's done in his career, Mujica had earned. And as his importance increases for Boston, it should've earned him some trust, too, regardless of what the radar gun might say or how a couple early outings may have gone.
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A leadoff hitter's primary responsibility is to get on base ahead of the lineup's run-producers, but a close second among his roles is seeing pitches. And while the Red Sox' replacements for
Jacoby Ellsbury
have struggled to do the former at the start of games - reaching in just three of their first 11 contests - they have been fulfilling the latter part of those duties.
Entering Saturday, Boston's first batter had seen at least four pitches in nine of 11 games, and were averaging 4.55 pitches per plate appearance. That's just a fraction below the 4.57 pitches
Mike Napoli
saw in leading the league last season. And part of that patience is by design. During a six-game stretch not once did the Sox leadoff man swing at one of the first three pitches his first time up, and in seven of the team's first eight games he swung no earlier than the fourth offering.
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If everything remains on schedule, it won't be long before
Will Middlebrooks
returns from his calf strain. When he's ready, newcomer
Ryan Roberts
may be expendable - particularly with prospect
Garin Cecchini
continuing to prove himself at Triple-A. After eight games, he entered Saturday with a .345 batting average and .406 on-base percentage, building on an OBP that was .417 OBP after 287 minor-league games.
The challenge will be defensively. If he can prove himself with the glove, those types of numbers could make him a big-league option at the hot corner should the Sox have a need there later in the year.
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STAT OF THE WEEK: Over the first two turns through their rotation, Farrell and pitching coach
Juan Nieves
only allowed a starting pitcher to start an inning after having already thrown at least 90 pitches. Both times it was
Jon Lester
, who then threw 113 tosses while pitching into the seventh inning on Friday.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Rusty Miller had been best known for his slithering guitar work on Cake's hit single "Never There" before the formation of Jackpot. Guitarist/vocalist Miller, bassist Sheldon Cooney, drummer Mike Curry, and keyboardist Lee Bob Watson began the group in the late '90s as an alternative country-rock band.
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From the course readings for this topic, Peter Suber's initial article begins by drawing on a number of sources for a definition of Open Access. These include:
- The Budapest Open Access Initiative
- There are many degrees and kinds of wider and easier access to this literature. By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
- The Public Library of Science
- free availability and unrestricted use
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Peter is a very influential character in the Open Access movement and has written extensively about the subject. There are numerous links to several of his other writings from within the text.
Peter highlights the importance of three declarations to the Open Access movements:
- Budapest Open Access Initiative http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/bethesda.htm
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berliner-erklarung/
I think that the primary point that Peter is making in his article is that Open Access is comparable to conventional scholarly publishing, with regard to the rigour of the peer-review process, academic career advancement, etc. it's just that with Open Access there is no financial barrier to readers accessing the content; and that copyright holders have given their consent with prior licensing arrangement (be that via Creative Commons, or similar). It must be remembered that free doesn't mean free to produce, but free to the reader. However, production costs are much less that conventional publishing. Open Access isn't an attempt to put existing publishers out of business, but instead it's intent on making content freely available to readers.
Because the publishing of academic articles are royalty-free for the author (they receive no payment from the work but develop greater prestige and career advancement), then to some extent this is the initial place where Open Access can make a significant difference. This is increasingly the case as we begin to see other pressures becoming important, particularly the requirements by funding bodies that research findings are made open and freely available.
Peter goes on to highlight the distinction in Open Access publishing of research articles. The best know distinction is Gold (Open Access Journals) and Green (Open Access Repositories), with the former always conducting peer-reviews and the latter not but may be hosting articles peer-reviewed elsewhere.
Funders and universities are upstream from publishers and can adopt policies to ensure green OA and the permissions to make it lawful. Because most publishers already permit green OA, and because green OA is a bona fide form of OA, authors who fail to take advantage of the opportunity are actually a greater obstacle to OA than publishers who fail to offer the opportunity. Funders and universities are in a position to close the gap and ensure green OA for 100% of published work by their grantees and faculty. Because authors cannot close this gap on their own, funders and universities who fail to close the gap have no one else to blame if fast-rising journal prices enlarge the fast-growing fraction of new research inaccessible to those who need it. All publishers could help the process along and some are actually doing so. But there's no need to depend on publishers when we could depend on ourselves.
Open Access Overview by Peter Suber, http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm (Accessed 8 Feb 2012)
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, SPARC provides much useful advice and resources on the Open Access section of their website. The material here could prove very useful in my own efforts to move the institution I work for to implementing an Open Access policy.
The next reading on the list is the UNESCO Global Open Access Portal (a knowledge portal) which is at a much more strategic level, providing an overview of the current global state of play with Open Access. Its content is aimed more at policy-makers. The Portal allows individual countries to see what level they are actively engaged at with regards Open Access. From a UK perspective, the situations is quite encouraging. Perhaps the initial main area for further work to be done in the UK is to increase awareness amongst academic researchers about Open Access and their role.
Heather Morrison Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in her blogpost 'Happy 2012 Open Access Movement! December 31, 2011 Dramatic Growth of Open Access' provides a summary of the growth of Open Access over 2011.
It's possible to find out more about the progress of, and about, the Open Access movement and to get involved via the annual Open Access Week, 'a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.'
(http://www.openaccessweek.org/profiles/blogs/welcome-to-open-access-week, Accessed 8 Feb 2012)
Perhaps the final element in the jigsaw puzzle is finding and accessing the Open Access journal content you require for your individual academic, scholarly, research or learning activities. That's where directories come in, allowing browsing and searches to be carried out. These include:
And OpenDOAR, an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.


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Eating When Not Hungry
Binge Eating
Does this sound like you — able to control your portions sometimes but losing control and uncontrollably eating large amounts of food at other times? This is called "binge eating" and lots of people do it.
A binge is when you eat a lot of food in a short time and it's usually not healthy food. Binge eating is bad for you, especially if you have diabetes.
Emotional Eating
Many people eat when they are feeling upset, angry, stressed, sad, lonely or fearful. Emotions such as these can be powerful triggers to eat.
If you're an emotional eater, you can learn other ways to react to your emotions. Emotions usually don't last long — often just 10 minutes to an hour — so you only need to distract yourself from eating for a short time, until the emotion passes, like going for a 10-minutes walk around the block.
Nighttime Eating
For many people, dinner is only the start of their nighttime eating. There's nothing wrong with a healthy snack such as fruit, plain popcorn or whole-wheat toast with a little jam a couple of hours after dinner. However, nighttime eating is a problem when you eat large amounts of food or foods high in saturated fat, sodium and calories like cookies, chips, full-fat ice cream, sandwiches or leftovers.
If nighttime eating is a problem for you, try to eat most of your calories during daylight hours. Reach for a light, healthy snack in the evening.
Instead of
|1 piece whole-wheat toast with jam
|1 piece fresh fruit
|2 cups low-fat. lower-salt popcorn
|Cheese and crackers
|½ to 1 cup fat-free or 1% cottage cheese
|½ to 1 cup of veggies, raw or leftover from dinner
|Ice cream
|½ to 1 cup low-fat yogurt (flavored or plain)
To help control binge, emotional and nighttime eating:
- Get into the habit of eating three meals a day — breakfast, lunch and dinner — so you never get too hungry.
- Don't keep binge foods at home. If you're a binge eater, you know which foods you usually eat during a binge. Common binge foods are cookies, candy bars, ice cream or chips.
- Make a list of other things you'll do. Here are some suggestions:
- Take a walk or enjoy another physical activity for at least 10 to 15 minutes.
- Talk to a friend who can help you get your feelings under control.
- Do something you enjoy, like reading, playing or listening to music, playing with pets or children, handcrafts or taking a long hot bath.
- Do some physical work, such as gardening or housecleaning.
If these behaviors become regular occurrences, speak to your healthcare provider about what you can do.
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Adobes Lightroom is probably the best software available when it comes to a photographers digital darkroom needs. The company has been putting lots of time and effort into building it into something that appeals to both pros and enthusiasts, and now its releasing Lightroom 5 beta, representing the fastest turnaround for a major point release in the apps history.One big change is the new flexibility of the spot removal tool. Now people can change the shape of the spot removal brush, so that it isnt just a circle. You can make it person-shaped, for instance, to get rid of a someone with a single digital brushstroke. Its now fully customizable, so you can change it to whatever shape best suits your needs for the actual composition youre working on. Adobe Digital Imaging Product Manager Sharad Mangalick explained in an interview that this was among the top-requested features from users, and from the team itself.The algorithm underlying the spot removal tool itself has also been completely redesigned, making it much better at matching than has been possible at the past for taking out large chunks of the scenery and replacing them with seamless background. The change is both fast and non-destructive. In a demo, it worked extremely well about taking out a person in the foreground without any noticeable detrimental effects.Other great new features include the spot highlighting tool, which points out dust and specks in stark relief, making them much easier to zap with the spot removal tool so they wont show up and ruin large-scale prints. Theres also a great new engine for selectively highlighting certain parts of an image, which makes it much easier to give focus to a composition that otherwise might not have any one place that draws the eye, with varying degrees of impact. And theres a new tool called upright that automatically corrects distortion and horizon skewing, which can instantly transform an image from unusable to attractive in a single click.Images can now be edited in a preview mode that doesnt actually require the files to be physically present on the working drive. Any changes made by an editor are automatically backed up to the preview version, and then applied to the original when its present, which is great for photographers who store most of their library on external disks.Adobe Lightroom 5 beta is available as a free public beta for anyone to try, regardless of whether youve ever used an Adobe product before, and it will remain free and fully functional until Adobe releases a full retail version of the program later this year. Requires Windows 7 or Windows 8 on PC, or Lion and Mountain Lion on Mac, and supports HiDPI (0r Retina display resolution) on both.
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I didn't see the date that the article was written. Might it have been April 1st?Cya,JJ
Doesn't seem anything to really warrant a full upgrade except of course that now you will have to buy it to get compatibility for newer cameras.
However the situation at present and no doubt for the future is that DNG has not taken the world by storm, has not been adapted by the camera manufacturers and if Adobe persist in updating LR every year giving users a choice of update or pain in the neck DNG conversion I've got a feeling they may start losing customers.
As the core issue appears to be every new camera having a new proprietary raw format, I'm not sure how this is Adobe's issue or fault. They do provide a 'fix' for this which is free but does cause YOU to have to convert the data. That's more than Canon and Nikon are doing for the customer so I always find it odd that Adobe is the bad child here.
Canon for one supply free software with every camera, I don't know the current position with Nikon.
This is kind of a ying/yang issue.I understand why the camera manufacturers are not moving to DNG.


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"I Love New York" Empire State Tourism Conference set for May 1-3 in Niagara Falls
Tourism industry professionals are invited to gather at the Conference & Event Center Niagara Falls from May 1 to 3 for the annual "I Love New York" Empire State Tourism Conference, hosted by the New York State Travel & Vacation Association and the New York State Department of Economic Development, Division of Tourism (I Love New York).
Complete conference details, including seminars, speakers, schedules, registration rates and hotel information, is online at www.nystva.org/empire-state-tourism-conference.
The theme of this year's conference is "Building Our Empire: Tourism is the Strong Economic Foundation in New York State." According to statistics provided by the state Hospitality & Tourism Association, tourism is big business, sustaining nearly 700,000 jobs (as the state's fifth largest employer), and generating nearly $7 billion in annual tax revenue. Attendees at the conference can utilize the educational seminars for professional development and to improve the tourism products and revenue for their destinations and attractions.
In addition to professional development, the "I Love New York" Empire State Tourism Conference will feature a trade show of industry services and products; a "speed-dating" networking event for tourism professionals with travel media, tour operators and travel agents; a fundraising auction for student scholarships; a golf outing; and a local tour.
The keynote address, titled "Partnerships to Increase Travel in the United States," will be delivered by Amir Eylon, vice president for partnership development at Brand USA. Brand USA, the first ever destination marketing organization for the U.S., is a public/private partnership with the mission of promoting increased international travel to the U.S. Brand USA was established by the Travel Promotion Act in 2010 to spearhead the nation's first global marketing effort to promote the U.S. as a premier travel destination and communicate U.S. entry/exit policies and procedures.
Additional presentation topics include packaging and collaboration, social media, downtown shopping development, finance for non-financial people, and best practices for reputation management.
NYSTA said it is pleased to welcome I Love New York as co-host of this year's conference. Under the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York state has increased funding for tourism promotion and has acknowledged the economic impact that the industry provides to the state.
"We are pleased that I Love NY is partnering with us to host this conference," said NYSTVA president Jim Walter. "It shows that the state and private industry continue to work towards a mutual goal of promoting our vibrant tourism products."
Conference registration is ongoing through the end of April, with early bird registration discounts available until April 12. Businesses interested in exhibiting may also go online to www.nystva.org/empire-state-tourism-conference for opportunities and registration.
The New York State Travel & Vacation Association, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Akron, is the tourism industry leader in communication, legislative awareness, professional development and promotion. For more information or to join, visit www.nystva.org.


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Destroyer's 2002 album This Night was the David Bowie-informed Canadian art-rock band's most ambitious, with Hunky Dory-style songs developing slowly over an average of five to six minutes. By contrast, the longest song on Destroyer's Your Blues is the opener, "Notorious Lightning," which takes almost six minutes to get through a spare story of sacrifice, building along the way to a duet of strings and synthesizer and a climax of clashing percussion, over which bandleader Daniel Bejar howls "Someone's got to fall before someone goes free" for two minutes. The remainder of Your Blues sports briefer songs more in the mode of Bejar's work for the Canadian power-pop supergroup The New Pornographers, though decidedly sketchier. Bejar still builds the tracks deliberately, but the changes are fewer, which makes sketches like "It's Gonna Take An Airplane" and "An Actor's Revenge" even more evocative. Both hum quietly for a verse or two and then quickly shift into vamp mode, creating the impression of an overheard story reaching its most dramatic point without any significant setup.
Bejar's shifting style seems like a work in progress, and a lot of these songs are too much of nothing (or, as can be a problem with Bejar, too pretentious), but the rippling piano break in "Mad Foxes" and the woozy midsection of "What Road" serve as examples of how tighter Destroyer songs heighten the high points.
Tightness practically defines the songs on Fall Back Open, the second album by the arty Georgia band Now It's Overhead, an indie-rock/prog-rock group noteworthy for its confidence. The elastic twang of the guitar on "Surrender" is ropey and forceful, like something from late-'70s FM radio, while the rumbling rhythms and bandleader Andy LeMaster's belting vocals make the capitulation described in his lyrics sound regrettable but inevitable. LeMaster's complex, studio-crafted arrangements and pained, literate lyrics mark him as a crony of Conor Oberst, albeit with Mark Isham, Depeche Mode, and R.E.M. on his influences card instead of Bob Dylan, The Cure, and Neutral Milk Hotel. (Oberst and Michael Stipe even lend background vocals to Fall Back Open's title track, a gently pulsing lullaby.)
Some of the soundscapes on Fall Back Open sound featureless and flat, but most are amazingly accomplished given Now It's Overhead's youth and modest means. The band looks unassuming, but it sounds substantial.


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July 29. 2013 6:22PM
Derry officials trying to collect overdue lunch money
By ADAM SWIFT
Union Leader Correspondent
— The school administration is looking at ways to keep overdue school lunch balances at a minimum when students come back to the district's cafeterias in the fall.Under new federal school lunch program guidelines, school districts are required to transfer any overdue funds for the lunch program from the general fund into the food services fund, according to district business manager Jane Simard.As of the end of July, the district is still owed nearly $8,000 for the lunch program, according to Simard.
In addition to lunches that may have been charged by students, that figure also takes into account breakfasts, extra snacks and milk.
"The district has paid the bill to the food services program, and now the district is sending letters to parents requesting they pay the balance of what their students owe," said Simard. "Once the students make the payments, we credit their payments on the food services end. Any student owing more than $1 was sent a letter requesting the payments."
Simard said the payments have started to come in, but that there are still a number of large balances the district is looking to collect. She said the district has received a number of checks or people walking in with cash to pay the smaller past due amounts.
"It is the smaller amounts that are coming in, and it's a little discouraging," said Simard. "There are some large balances that are due for students, so we are hoping that those get paid prior to the new school year."
Over the summer, Simard said she will work with the School Board's food services committee on some policy changes that could help lower the amount of overdue balances in the food services department.
In the K-8 school district, no students are denied a lunch if they cannot pay or have not paid an overdue balance.
Simard said that policy does not necessarily apply when students begin high school at Pinkerton Academy.
"I believe the students get $5 or two lunches, and there is no charging," said Simard. "It's a different deal with students who are 15 or 16 as they are responsible and have the ability to bring in their own money for a lunch. First- or third-graders are reliant on their parents to pack their lunch or to pay for the food for lunch."
Simard said the district will continue to work on ways to improve the overdue balance situation for the coming school year.


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MADISON, Wis.—The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is looking for a new top cop.
Chief Conservation Warden Randy Stark plans to retire by December after serving 30 years in the agency's Bureau of Law Enforcement.
The DNR is taking applications to fill Stark's position. Anyone interested can find a job description and application form on the DNR's website. The deadline for applications is Aug. 5.


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Anything that causes the circulation in the face to increase can worsen the condition of Rosacea. There are foods that should be avoided and foods that help stifle the disease. Understanding these food triggers and eating a proper diet will reduce side effects. Conventional medicines and creams will treat the physical symptoms of Rosacea, but they will not treat the fundamental cause. There is no cure for Rosacea, but there are preventatives. One of the best ways to attack Rosacea symptoms is to attack it from the inside. This is the key to long term relief.
Foods that trigger circulation and cause symptoms include hot foods or drinks, spicy foods, and spices like black pepper, red pepper flakes, and vinegar. Some fruits and vegetables can also trigger side effects. Tomatoes, bananas, raisins, figs, and citrus fruits should be avoided. Vegetables like avocados, spinach, eggplant, or beans that come in pods like peas should not be consumed. Dairy products play a large roll in flare ups. Yogurts, sour cream, and some cheeses are more commonly known as flushing foods. Some patients reported outbreaks after other foods like artificial sweeteners, lobster, food colorings, and even chocolate. Everyone is different, so discovering which foods affect the individual is important.
The higher intake of carbohydrates we ingest, the higher our body fat becomes. As our bodies become heavier, we become warmer and symptoms of Rosacea begin to flare. The goal is to reduce the amount of calories taken in so our body doesn't have to burn them as much. Foods that are good for Rosacea are whole grains, nuts, fresh vegetables and vegetables (other than the ones mentioned above). Fruits like blackberries, blueberries, and cherries are vascular constrictors and assist in reducing the redness. Tofu is a wonderful protein and is recommended over red meat. Water is the most important factor to the Rosacea diet. Keeping the body temperature down is the key. The correct diet can minimize symptoms and improve the quality of life for anyone.


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Mission Statement
The mission of Carmi-White County Schools, as the leader of an educational partnership with the community, is to ensure that all students acquire the knowledge and skills to succeed and to contribute as ethical, responsible citizens in a rapidly changing global society.
Food Service
Carmi-White County Community Unit School District No. 5 offers a breakfast and hot lunch program to each student. Free or reduced rate meals are available utilizing ISBE guidelines. Contact your child's school for further details.
Full-time custodians work to provide a clean and pleasant learning/working environment for district students and staff. In addition to keeping the buildings safe and clean, maintenance staff work year round to keep district facilities at optimal levels.
Fourteen bus routes (nine regular and five additional) are run daily in order to transport approximately 1,100 district students to and from school. Buses travel an average of 991 miles per day over the 290 square miles that encompass the district. A transportation director oversees this entire operation.
Safety Management and Worker Safety
Providing a safe working environment in the district is important. Custodians are trained annually in such areas as asbestos awareness, the use of personal protective equipment, and handling of hazardous materials. Annual building inspections are conducted by the Regional Office of Education and abatement of hazardous situations continues to be a goal of district personnel.
REFERENCE 5 ILCS 140/4, amended by Public Act 96-542
"5-Essentials" Survey
Beginning November 16, students, teachers and parents across Illinois will have an opportunity to participate in the fourth annual statewide Illinois 5Essentials Survey. This survey is designed to generate a detailed picture of the inner workings of your child's school. As a parent, this opportunity will allow you to share your thoughts on the important elements of school effectiveness in a survey about your child's school.
On behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois 5Essentials Survey will be administered online by UChicago Impact at the University of Chicago. The survey gathers data related to five indicators that can predict important student outcomes, including improved attendance and larger test score gains. These five indicators that affect and predict school success are:
· Effective Leaders
· Collaborative Teachers
· Involved Families
· Supportive Environments
· Ambitious Instruction
Prior research in more than 400 schools has shown that schools that were strong on at least three of these "5 Essential" indicators were 10 times more likely to improve student learning gains in math and reading than those that were weak on three or more Essentials.
All teachers and 6th through 12th grade students will be responding to this survey. 5Essentials Reports will be generated for schools if their teachers and/or students meet the response rate threshold of 50 percent. These reports will be sent to schools and districts in March 2017 and will also be included in the State School Report Card.
Additionally, your district has chosen to provide the optional 5Essentials parent survey. If at least 20 percent of Carmi-White County High School parents complete this survey, a parent supplement will also be generated. The parent data will not be reported on the State Report Card.
Your participation in the parent portion of the survey will help us understand the conditions at your child's school and guide improvement. Your identity and survey responses will be kept completely confidential and will never be connected to you or your child.
The Illinois 5Essentials Survey will be conducted November 15 through January 18, 2019. To take the survey please visit https://survey.5-essentials.org/Illinois/ and select the appropriate survey to begin.


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Westley Wallace Law was well known as a go-getter civil rights leader in Savannah.
What many didn't know about him was his deep love for, and knowledge of, music.
On July 29, the fourth anniversary of his death, the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum will use its 10th anniversary celebration to honor Law's memory.
"It's a tribute we want to do,'' said Savannah dentist and museum board member Dr. J.W. "Billy" Jamerson III.
"A Taste of Music - Law Style," a sampling of songs Law loved, will be featured during the gala at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront.
Before the program, never-before-published photographs of Law will be exhibited as part of "The Many Moods of W.W. Law."
The photos were provided by an unidentified donor after Law died, said Helen S. Johnson, executive director and chief operations officer at the museum.
Law, civil rights leader and historic preservationist, died July 29, 2002 at age 79.
He left behind an extensive collection of historic documents, books and music. "Mr. Law was into music of all kinds," Johnson said.
In a 1969 booklet entitled, "We Shall Not Be Moved," Law explained various aspects of the music he loved.
Jamerson, who is working with Johnson on the tribute, said Law's musical tastes ran from slavery and freedom songs, jazz, blues, classical and gospel.
"Not many people know he was actually a musical enthusiast," Jamerson said.
"Law's love for history taught him about the slavery music," he said.
"It was not unusual to visit Law at home and hear classical music playing in the background."
Jamerson's father, the late Dr. J.W. Jamerson Jr., also a dentist, played the violin and, like Law, was an expert in classical music, Jamerson said.
The two men often discussed the classics, he said.
Various local musicians whom Law enjoyed have been asked to play medleys of the music he loved, Jamerson said.
Lillian Ellis, wife of the Rev. Edward Ellis at First Bryan Baptist Church, will sing a number of those selections, Johnson said.
First Bryan Baptist was Law's home church.
"She was his favorite soloist," Johnson said.
We are doing this to celebrate the memory of Mr. Law, Johnson said.
But the evening will also serve as a fund-raiser for the museum.
"Any nonprofit like ours needs money," Jamerson said. "All museums need operating funds."


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VIENNA (AP) — Russia and the United States clashed Monday over the nuclear hazards posed by any U.S. attack on Syria, with Moscow pressing the U.N. atomic agency for a quick assessment of such dangers and the U.S. dismissing the request as outside of the agency's authority.
The dispute at the opening session of this week's 35-nation International Atomic Energy Agency board meeting appeared to be eclipsing the usual focus on Iran and suspicions that it is interested in acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies such goals and with IAEA efforts to probe the allegations at a standstill, IAEA chief Yukiya Amano had nothing new to report on the issue in his opening comments to the meeting.
Instead, the morning meeting focused on Russia's request, backed by Cuba, and U.S. rejection of the appeal. Caught in the middle was Amano.
A Sept. 5 letter to Amano from the Russian foreign ministry obtained Monday by The Associated Press repeated Russian concerns expressed last week by ministry officials, warning of "catastrophic" consequences if a research reactor near Damascus is hit.
"There is a probability of contamination of (the) surrounding area with highly-enriched uranium and fission products," said the letter, whose circulation was restricted to the 35-nations on the agency's board. Additionally, it warned that the material could fall into the hands of terrorists.
The agency last week agreed to consider an assessment of such dangers after receipt of the letter. On Thursday, two diplomats who were inside the closed IAEA meeting cited Russian envoy Grigory Berdennikov as saying urgent action was needed on the Russian request. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press about the session.
But in comments made available to media, chief U.S. delegate Joseph Macmanus argued there were no grounds for the agency to conduct "a highly speculative investigation of this kind" because it was not part of the IAEA's mandate.
The argument heated up after Russia again took the floor in an afternoon session to urge IAEA action and Britain backed America, prompting Macmanus to call for an end to the discussion. The United States, he said, opposed having the agency "dragged into a political debate" on the issue.
Amano told reporters the reactor contained only about 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of highly enriched uranium. That's a fraction of the 25 kilograms (55 pounds) needed to make a weapon. Experts say the amount in the reactor could spread radiation only over a relatively small area if the facility were struck, with some even questioning that scenario.
"A direct hit on the reactor would most likely bury its tiny core — the size of a paint can in a deep well — under tons of building debris where it would be perfectly safe," said nuclear engineer Robert Kelley, a former senior IAEA official.
But Vladimir Voronkov, another senior Russian envoy to the IAEA, said that amount — if exposed by an attack — is enough for terrorists to use for a "dirty bomb," which is far easier to make than a normal nuclear weapon and spreads radioactivity through a conventional explosion.
He told the AP he could not estimate how many people could be killed by a direct hit on the reactor but said "any such attack would be a disastrous one."
Amano told reporters the agency had to take into consideration the views of other board members as well as legal and technical issues involved in such an assessment before deciding whether it can go ahead.


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Okay, so we've been battered so far, but our first win is just around the corner, or possibly the next corner, or the one after that or ............
We're quite flexible (although team-work may well be questionable!) so just about anything considered!
We (okay, I) like trench.
(I'm) Happy to include singles match ups.
Multi-clan is okay - opportunity to include some standard/ terminator/ assassin games?
Reply here or drop me a pm and we can work something out.


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Join this group to meet other players in Marin. All levels welcome. If we grow this group large enough, we can do group meet-ups.
Website: http://www.kregeltennis.com/
Location: Marin, CA
Members: 70
Latest Activity: Mar 31
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I'm looking to get back into playing tennis. I haven't played for over two years so i'm rusty but I just bought a new racket and i'm ready to hit the courts. I live close to the courts on magnolia street next to the school but can travel anywhere in Marin. Once the weather gets better would love to play, not sure how good i'll be but it's more about having some fun for me.
I'm a member at Mt Tam in Larkspur. I'm a 63 year old 3.5 looking for singles and, maybe, doubles.
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Hi All,
Looking to play in Southern Marin. 2.5-3.0, before 10 am or after 5 pm.
Hi Mari,
Welcome to Marin.
I live in Corte Madera and play mostly here, so if you would like to come we
might play together.
Hi fellow tennis players,
I relocated recently to Corte Madera and looking for tennis partners, preferably ladies (no offence, guys), but if you are not a big hitter I could manage playing with guys. I am 3.5 and like playing matches.
Could play weekdays, except Wed.and Fri.
Hope to hear from you.
Hi tennisopolis Marin- my name is Keith and I just moved to Tiburon a few months ago. I'm not sure how I came across this site but I did. I am a 4.0 and looking for a regular hitting partner. I have a key to the public courts here. I am open to travel. I would be able to hit early mornings or anytime Fri, Sat or Sun. Hope your out there
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text: When time is of the essence, Google comes to the rescue with a sturdy document-creation and collaboration system. Google Drive provides a browser-based way to "create, share and keep all your stuff in one place," or so goes the company slogan. This cloud-storage application includes clients for Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows, and allows uploaded or newly created files to be edited, easily shared and collaborated on in real time. When used with the desktop component for Mac OS X or Windows, Drive files can be bulk-downloaded, edited offline and synchronized when a connection becomes available. Files dragged from the desktop and dropped into the Drive folder are automatically uploaded and accessible from any browser. Drive can import and save files in a variety of formats, including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Google Drive supplies the first 5 GB of storage space for free. The pay version costs $2.49 per month for 25 GB; $4.99 per month for 100 GB and $49.99 per month for 1 TB. Google Drive is a simple file storage that integrates well with Gmail, but offers no password protection for synced files.


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My wife, who is a big Derek Jeter fan, will be disappointed to see this:
Derek Jeter interrupted his rehab work on his surgically repaired left ankle to rub shoulders with the world's most powerful at the Davos Economic Forum. Jeter — invited by Pepsi — said he hopes climate change would be discussed: "I was in New York for Hurricane Sandy . . . It's something that needs to be addressed because we're seeing more and more natural disasters each year, it seems like. Something has to be causing it."
Derek Jeter at Davos: another sign of the celebrity-ization of everything. Someone needs to explain to Derek that hurricane activity has declined to a 30-year low. Other forms of extreme weather like tornadoes are down, too.
Here is an interesting question: why doesn't anyone ever say that human activity, like emitting CO2, is causing a decline in extreme weather events? Why doesn't the logic of "something has to be causing it" apply? If extreme weather events are declining in number, is that an argument for burning more fossil fuels in hopes of suppressing them further? If not, why not?


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It seems like a simple concept, but nobody has tried it before now.
Western Digital announced that it will be encasing a drive in helium as early as next year, which should boost performance and lower temperatures. A spokesperson for Hitachi, the Western Digital subsidiary that is making the new gear, told Computerworld that while they don't know the specifics of what a helium drive would do, they expect to see performance gains.
Helium is a lot lighter than air. It's why balloons filled with it rise to the ceiling. What Western Digital plans to do is hermetically seal the core of a hard drive in helium gas. This would, they estimate, reduce the drag and friction on the drive, enabling it to use 23 percent less power to operate. They expect that this design will allow them to increase the capacity of the drive by up to 40 percent without changing its size.
Western Digital seems to be using a lot of estimates at this point — the new drives aren't expected out until at least next year — but doing the math based on those estimates shows that their standard, small 4 terabyte data center drives would be able to hold about 5.6 terabytes. So you get a big capacity increase and a cost decrease at the same time. spread across a large data center, that could add up.
Of course, if the drives are completely sealed, one wonders why they wouldn't just use hydrogen, which is even lighter than helium. I suppose the possibility that a spark, however remote, could trigger a Hindenburg-like explosion on your desktop computer might keep most people from buying them. At least you could yell "Oh, the humanity!" as your data goes up in flames.
No, I guess helium is better. Instead of burning metal, we can imagine scenes from the cute Pixar movie Up!, only instead of floating the old man's house with balloons, perhaps in the future we can pilot our strange craft with Hitachi hard drives.
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Only problem is any voice recordings on the drive would play back sounding like chipmunks...
Wow, people need to lighten up a little, the Hindenberg reference is a good analogy to the topic at hand and comical at the same time. I don't think he was focusing in on the people dying, just referencing that Hydrogen is not a good medium for obvious reasons. I have doubts that Helium or a vacumm would be good to encase in a drive because eventually it would leak and the difference in performance charectoristics would lead to data loss and eventual failure.
John, John, John. Some basic high school chemistry please. Helium is non-reactive while hydrogen can be very reactive. Drives are small enough that I would be less worried about the flammability of the drive than the chemical reactions with the drive surface.As others have pointed out, a complete vacuum would produce even less drag so I think you've fundamentally misunderstood WD's proposal. Thanks for bringing it to our attention but a little more research before writing would be appreciated.
A few things seem strange about this approach...first, the statement that reducing friction and drag would allow it to have a greater data density. Power consumption or heat dissipation is not what limits hard drive density nowadays, it's merely the ability to reliably manipulate and detect the smaller bits of magnetized material...and we're approaching what has been declared even the theoretical limits there, so this wouldn't help that. Next, if the drive is sealed well enough to keep helium in/everything else out, then having it encased in nothing produces much less drag/friction than encasing it in helium.
I thought there was a worldwide shortage of helium, so where would the helium come from? However there is no shortage of "hot air" coming out of DC, so why not use that for something useful like shielding hard drives instead of obfuscating reality !
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February 11. 2014 7:14PM
MANCHESTER — While no arrests have been made, investigators are making progress toward solving the murder of a West Side man on Super Bowl Sunday night and believe they identified all involved in the fatal stabbing, a state prosecutor said Monday.
Christopher L. Gagnon, 22, of 73 B St., suffered a single stab wound to the chest when he was attacked across from Mount Calvary Cemetery in a wooded area off Goffstown Road known as Black Acres. Gagnon was stabbed at about 11:20 p.m. on Feb. 2. He died the next day.
"We do have a good sense of what this is about. But since it's an open and active investigation, it's not (something) we can share at this time," Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General Peter Hinckley said.
"We believe all the parties that have been involved have been identified at this point," Hinckley added. He would not elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation.
Police said they were called to the Black Acres section off Goffstown Road after 11 p.m. Sunday for reports of youths running in camouflage gear and pointing lasers, followed by a report of possible gunshots.
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The MVCC women's soccer team is headed back to defend its NJCAA national championship after defeating Finger Lakes Community College in a shootout during the Region III championship at Tompkins-Cortland Community College on Saturday.
The game was a 1-1 tie at the end of regulation with MVCC advancing 3-2 on penalty kicks. Nicole Burline converted the final penalty kick for the MVCC women's soccer team, lifting the Hawks past FLCC.
MVCC goalkeeper Vanessa Jecko stopped two FLCC penalty kicks during the shootout and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Jecko had 12 saves.
MVCC (15-2-1) is the defending National Junior College Athletic Association Division III champions and returns to the national tournament Nov. 6-10 at Tompkins-Cortland.
Sophomore Meghan Carlo scored for MVCC in the first half with an assist from Ashley O'Connor.
Brittany Maggio tied the game three minutes later for FLCC (13-4-1).
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I don't know how much you read Melanie Phillips, former Guardian journalist who has written the book Londonistan, but you've got to listen to this radio interview she does with the BBC. It is a tour de force in the most hostile of environments. It is some of the most gripping radio I've listened to. The host, the callers, the follow-up host cannot disguise – nor try to – their contempt for Phillips. They spit venom, and yet they only serve to frame Phillips's powerful intellect and make her point that Britains are sleeping as the nation commits suicide appeasing radical Islam. Throughout she is composed, persuasive, and simply brilliant. I have no connection to Phillips. I simply read her blog. But you guys should listen to this and share with your readers. It's powerful stuff. Here's the link to Phillips's page on the program, and here's the link to the program's audio archive.
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Hands Of Our Future Daycare in Dover, Delaware, ought to consider changing its name to Fists Of Our Future Daycare – if it ever reopens, that is. The facility has been shut down after three of its employees were arrested when a video surfaced of them encouraging toddlers to fight each other.
Employees Tiana Harris, 19, Estefania Myres, 21, and Lisa Parker, 47, were arrested and charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment and conspiracy. The video itself is not being shown to parents or the public, as it is being held as evidence.
According to the Dover Police Capt. Tim Stump, detectives made the arrest after finding a cell phone video featuring teachers conducting a sort of "Toddler Fight Club," telling children as young as 3: "no pinching, only punching." Caretakers reportedly even made one of the kids continue fighting after he started crying and said he wanted to stop.
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Sacred Heart University broke ground Tuesday, May 7, on the largest new academic building in the school's 50-year history. Located on the corner of Park and Jefferson Streets, the 125,000-square-foot structure will house the John F. Welch College of Business and the Department of Communication & Media Studies – one of Sacred Heart's fastest-growing programs.
"This is an exciting time for the University. This building represents our growth and our commitment to provide our students with state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. It is especially fitting as we approach the 50th anniversary of the University that we are able to successfully meld our past with the future and provide a strong liberal arts education enhanced by the technological advances of the 21st century," said University President John J. Petillo.
"The College of Business has outgrown its current location on the second floor of Roncalli Hall and is ready to begin a new chapter," said John Chalykoff, dean of the College. Chalykoff is particularly excited about the active trading floor that is planned for the building.
"We are pleased to be moving into a new facility for the Welch College that will bring together faculty, staff and students in one location. It will allow for the creation of new and innovative educational experiences and facilitate research and novel pedagogy," Chalykoff said. "The building is designed, through smart classrooms, interactive labs and open spaces, to foster engaged learning – high levels of interaction between students, faculty and the world beyond. For us, this is not merely a new building; it is the start of a new and exciting chapter in the educational mission of the Welch College of Business."
The Department of Communication & Media Studies' new home will include two large studios for television, video and film production, as well as industry-standard post-production facilities, screening venues and multimedia classrooms. Communication & media students will also benefit from new spaces for the student-produced newspaper, radio station and television programs.
"These spaces will benefit the entire University by facilitating the production of digital content across programs and departments, and we look forward to partnering with our colleagues in the digital humanities, business, advertising, graphic design, health communication, instructional technology, sport management, the performing arts, athletic communication, media literacy education and other fields," said Debbie Danowski, chair of the Department of Communication & Media Studies. "As a department, we have seen tremendous growth over the last few years, including the introduction of several new graduate programs and a new undergraduate major. Enrollment in some of our programs is more than double what we anticipated. Our new facilities will allow us to better serve both our current and future students by providing them with state-of-the-art equipment that will make them more competitive in the job market. We are very excited that the University has given us this opportunity."
"Given SHU's proximity to New York City, the media capital of the world, our robust internship program and accomplished faculty who have been recognized nationally for their teaching, scholarship, creative work and service, the addition of these facilities will allow us to become a leader in the Northeast in communication and media studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels," added James Castonguay, founding chair of the department and current director of the MACOMM graduate program. "Over the past decade, communication & media studies at SHU has grown from being a small major housed within the English program to one of the largest departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. This growth reflects the increased importance and presence of digital media and communication technologies not only within higher education but to our global culture."
The three-level building will also house a new Center of Excellence for Pedagogy – a super interactive classroom for training professors on the most up-to-date tools and processes.
Other features of the building include a two-story atrium; multi-media forum for leadership institutes, lectures and screenings; satellite-equipped classrooms for interaction with other University campuses; film screening and editing rooms; classrooms for use by the entire University; faculty offices; conference rooms and lounges for meetings between faculty and students; a café; and elegant landscaping infused with walking paths and benches for informal meetings.
"It will be a vibrant working space where students will collaborate with faculty and each other in the production of TV, radio and print," Petillo added. He said the new building is the cornerstone of a $30 million, five-year campaign that the University has launched. "We hope people will get excited about this opportunity to help provide a top-level education for our students where they can learn using the same kind of equipment and in the same kind of settings that they will experience when they start their careers after graduation. This building will bring continued vitality to campus by giving the College of Business and the Communications & Media Studies program the needed space and equipment for continued growth, while also providing critically needed academic learning space for all students."
The building has been designed by Sasaki Associates – the same firm that designed the University's award-winning Chapel of the Holy Spirit and Linda E. McMahon Commons. It will incorporate the latest in HVAC technologies and efficiencies and energy-saving lighting.
"In its prominent location, it will be a gateway to campus for those exiting the Merritt Parkway – welcoming them to Sacred Heart where tradition and modern innovation combine to provide our students with unique educational experiences," Petillo said. Plans call for the building to be completed by the end of 2014.
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Young mother, VP, active volunteer Tonya Rochette loves being busyBy DALE VINCENT
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 28. 2013 1:23AM
Tonya Rochette, 38Home: Concord
Birthplace: Annapolis, Md.
Family: Husband, Rob; daughter, Abigail, and son, Chad
High school: Langley High School, McLean, Va.
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MBA, University of New Hampshire
Current job: Vice president, human resource solutions at Human Resource Partners, LLC
Key past positions held: Director of organizational development, Bemis Associates; divisional HR manager, Home Depot
Volunteer activities: Intown Concord, board president; Concord TV, board vice chair and host of Non-Profit Connection; Concord Young Professional Network, steering committee member; Capital Area Student Leadership program volunteer; Concord Family YMCA volunteer
CONCORD - Tonya Rochette has an easy explanation for why she is involved in so many organizations and programs - in addition to being employed full time, a wife and mother of two.
"I love being busy," said Rochette, 38.
Busy hardly describes it. In addition to her job as a vice president of Human Resource Partners, Rochette's volunteer activities include board president of Intown Concord, board vice chair of Concord TV and host of "Non-Profit Connection," steering committee of Concord Young Professionals Network, participant in Leadership New Hampshire, and Capital Area Student Leadership program and Concord Family YMCA volunteer.
She's also volunteers in children's programs, right now running the Mill Brook School ski program, where her son is a student.
While she excels at organizing and planning projects and programs, she is equally happy to be behind the scene. "I just love being able to make things happen and be a part of that."
Rochette started making things happen in high school, active in the Key Club and starting a Rugby Club. "I was always interested in participating," she said. Her goal was meeting needs, giving lessons and helping others succeed.
One of her primary goals now is engaging young people in the nonprofit world, starting as volunteers and working their way to board membership. She organized a capital area nonprofit fair, bringing together 30-plus nonprofits and young professionals who would like to become more involved. "A lot of people are fearful they don't have what a nonprofit needs," she said.
But whether it's nonprofits or business, she said: "It's intimidating to break in." That's why she is very active in the YPN, creating a place where young professionals can meet one another, network and have fun in the process. Among the fun aspects, she said: "We have a softball team and a trivia network."
Rochette worries about what will happen if the exodus of talented young professionals continues. She said New Hampshire businesses and nonprofits will need those people to succeed the retiring Baby Boomers.
She's passing down the importance of engaging in the community and giving back. She likes seeing her children getting the bug and looks forward to seeing where that takes them. Her daughter, a student at Rundlett Middle School, has co-hosted Rochette's television show.
While many of her activities are on her own time, she said she is fortunate enough to work for a woman who believes in community involvement.
There is still one professional goal for Rochette. "I don't have my law degree," she said. She wants to earn that degree at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, conveniently located in Concord.


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