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The Future of Arctic Sea Ice Research and Forecasting: A Workshop
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Study Director:
Jacqueline A. Richter-Menge
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Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Jacqueline Richter-Menge is a Research Civil Engineer at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL). Ms. Richter-Menge has focused her research activities towards developing a more comprehensive and quantitative understanding of the Arctic sea ice cover, addressing both dynamic and thermodynamics processes. As part of the NOAA contribution to Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), Ms. Richter-Menge currently leads a multi-agency team establishing an Arctic network of autonomous in situ sea ice thickness and mass balance observatories. She coordinates this network with similar ocean and atmosphere efforts and international programs. Ms. Richter-Menge graduated with a Master of Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware and has been with CRREL since 1981. In association with her research, Ms. Richter-Menge has gained significant first-hand Arctic experience leading or participating in more than 15 field programs. In association with her research, Ms. Richter-Menge has gained significant first-hand Arctic experience leading or participating in more than 15 field programs. From 1997-2006, Ms. Richter-Menge served as Chief of the Snow and Ice Branch. In this capacity she supervised a diverse research staff of over 20 people and oversaw the execution and development of a research program that, on an annual basis, was composed of over 80 projects and totals $5.5M.
Dr. John E. Walsh
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks
John Walsh is a President???s Professor of Global Climate Change at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF). He is also the Director of the NOAA/UAF Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research and of the Center for Global Change. His primary research interests are: Arctic climate change over the decade-to-century timescale; predictability of climate change in high latitudes, sea ice variations; and extreme weather events in the context of climate change. He was the lead author for the cryosphere chapter of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2005) and a lead author for the Polar Regions chapter of the IPCC???s Fourth Assessment Report (2007). He is a Coordinating Lead Author for the 2013 National Assessment Report being produced by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.. Prior to his position at the University of Alaska, Walsh spent 30 years on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana. He is the co-author of an undergraduate textbook on severe and hazardous weather. He earned his Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1970.
Dr. Marika Holland
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Marika Holland is a an Ice Specialist in the Oceanography section of the Climate and Global Dynamics division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She received her Ph.D. in 1997 from the Program in Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences at the University of Colorado in the area of sea ice modeling for climate applications. Her training continued with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria in British Columbia studying the influence of sea ice variability and change on the global ocean circulation and climate. In 1999, Dr. Holland moved to the NCAR in Boulder, Colorado, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and joined the scientific staff in 2000. Her research interests include polar climate variability and future change, including the role of ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks. She has extensive experience using coupled climate models to study these issues and has been active in the development of improved sea ice models for climate simulations. She is currently serving as Chief Scientist for the Community Earth System Modeling Project.
Robert Raye
Shell Projects and Technology
Robert Raye is the Ice and Metocean Project Lead for Shell Projects and Technology in the U.S. Arctic. In this role, Mr. Raye is responsible for providing support to field activities and design engineering to ensure safe and efficient operations. He has a key role in delivery of Shell???s Arctic physical science program, which includes collection of field measurements, characterization and research studies, and collaborative programs with industry partners, academia, and governmental agencies. Mr. Raye has established a field observation program in Alaska that includes a network of instrumented buoys, coastal meteorological stations, and vessel-based observers that report near-real-time data used to validate models and forecasts. Recently, he has been instrumental in developing collaborative agreements with NOAA offices to share data and resources, with the goal of improving overall weather and ice forecasting in Alaska and improving hurricane intensity forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico. He serves on the Data Management and Communications Committee in the Gulf Coast Ocean Observing System, where he supports initiatives promoting data interoperability, metadata standards, and web services for data products and has applied these concepts in Shell internal data management and dissemination systems. Mr. Raye is Shell???s subject matter expert for oceanographic surveys and is skilled in environmental instrumentation, data analyses, and data management. Mr. Raye holds a Master???s of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Jennifer A. Francis
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jennifer A. Francis is a Research Professor at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and the Graduate Program in Atmospheric Sciences at Rutgers University. She studies the Arctic climate system, causes for rapid change, and linkages between the Arctic and the global climate system. Her work is funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. She has served on several national committees in the National Science Foundation, the American Meteorological Society, and the science steering committee for the Study of Arctic Environmental Change (SEARCH). Dr. Francis received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1994. Dr. Francis is currently a member of the Polar Research Board.
Dr. Rebecca Woodgate
University of Washington University of Washington
Rebecca Woodgate is a Principal Oceanographer and Associate Professor at the Applied Physics Laboratory and the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. She is a Physical Oceanographer, specializing in polar research, with special focus on the circulation of the Arctic Ocean, interactions between sea-ice and the ocean, and the role of the polar oceans in climate. Her research concentrates on the collection and analysis of in-situ oceanographic data. She has worked for many years in the deployment and recovery of moored oceanographic instrumentation in ice-covered waters, and the analysis of both mooring and hydrographic data. She is involved in undergraduate teaching and graduate education. She has worked on British, German, Norwegian, and American research vessels and led expeditions to Bering Strait and the Arctic Ocean. Her first degree is in Physics from the University of Cambridge and her Ph.D. (University of Oxford) is in Data Assimilation in Ocean Models. Her postdoc work was done at the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Germany. Dr. Woodgate's research goal is to understand the physical processes in both Arctic and Antarctic regions, and to use her background to bridge the gap between theory, modeling, and real observations of the oceans.
Dr. Son V. Nghiem
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Son V. Nghiem is the Science Applications Development Lead of the Radar Science and Engineering Section, and the Hydrology Discipline Program Manager of the Hydrology Office in the Earth Science and Technology Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. His research encompasses active and passive remote sensing, advanced satellite radars and radiometers, electromagnetic scattering and emission, and earth sciences and applications. He has published 70 peer-reviewed articles and over 230 conference articles. He received the 1999 Lew Allen Award for Excellence in recognition of his pioneering research in the areas of polarimetric scatterometry for Earth science remote sensing and contributions to future advanced satellite instrument concepts; the 2006 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for developing scientific applications of scatterometry in land, ice, and snow processes; the 2008 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his contributions to understanding the melt state of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets, its significance in Earth science missions, and its implications in climate change; and the 2010 NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for his contributions in developing a new technology using NASA satellite scatterometer data to measure high-resolution global wind for off-shore wind energy development. His research results were reported worldwide by major news networks and many radio stations. Dr. Nghiem received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1991.
Dr. Lawson Brigham
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Lawson Brigham is Distinguished Professor of Geography & Arctic Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North in Anchorage. During 2005-2009 he was Chair of the Arctic Council???s Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment and Vice Chair of the Council???s working group on Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment. Dr. Brigham was a career U.S. Coast Guard officer serving from 1970-95 and retiring with the rank of Captain. He served at sea in command of four Coast Guard cutters including a patrol boat, Great Lakes icebreaker, offshore law enforcement cutter, and the polar icebreaker Polar Sea sailing in Alaskan, Arctic & Antarctic waters; he also served as Chief of Strategic Planning in Washington, DC. Dr. Brigham has been a Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a faculty member of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, and Deputy Director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. He is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (B.S.), a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval War College, and holds graduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S.) and the University of Cambridge (M.Phil. & Ph.D.). His research interests include: Arctic marine transportation, remote sensing of sea ice, Arctic climate change and polar marine policy.


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The Avilla/Zion Community Garden won't end hunger, stop childhood obesity, reform welfare, clean up the environment or reinvigorate the American community by itself. But it's a start.
The Avilla/Zion Community Garden won't end hunger, stop childhood obesity, reform welfare, clean up the environment or reinvigorate the American community by itself. But it's a start.
The garden, which rests on land owned by Zion Lutheran Church in the Saline County community of Avilla, allows anyone to sign up to plant in a four-foot-by-12-foot raised bed for free. Expert volunteers including the garden's founder, Bruce Schrader, grow seed beds, offer advice and teach classes. Families can harvest some of the tomatoes, blackberries and other produce grown in shared community areas. For their part, they must pledge to tend their own plot and perform four hours of service to the community each year.
You bet I signed the contract.
Schrader, a retired school principal and current master gardener, spent several years studying gardens across America and Canada before starting this one two years ago. He and more than 90 volunteers built raised beds and laid 38,000 donated bricks so families and students from Zion's Avilla Christian Academy wouldn't have to tromp through the mud. During its first season, the garden attracted 39 families, 23 of whom had never planted before. This year there were 60 families, plus the school, plus Girl Scouts and others growing food on 124 plots.
It's amazing how much can be grown on that small amount of land. According to Schrader, a four-foot-by-four foot piece of ground can produce enough vegetables for two adults to eat a salad every day, 365 days a year. One gardener in his 80s harvested 78 pounds of potatoes in June and then planted and harvested 72 pounds of sweet potatoes
Schrader, who had volunteered 560 hours this year as of late November, says people eat healthier out of a garden. He says kids need to know where their food comes from. He distrusts the way modern food is grown and shipped.
"(I) won't say I'm a gung-ho, just back-to-earth person, but I do believe in sustainability," he said. "When I get finished with the ground, I want it in better shape than what it was when I got it, or at least as good a shape."
The garden originally provided food for the church's food pantry, but now Schrader says he doesn't donate much food there. Instead, he works with pantry recipients willing to invest their time and sweat on one of the plots. Three pantry recipients joined the community and take home food they grow themselves.
The American Community Garden Association says it has more than 500 member gardens across the United States and Canada. There are a number of gardens in Arkansas, including the Dunbar Community Garden in Little Rock, which says it serves 700 students along with members of the community. Avilla has hosted visitors this year from Batesville and Mt. Ida.
Maybe this is the way welfare ought to work. For decades, Uncle Sam has tried a something-for-nothing approach that encourages able-bodied beneficiaries to work the system instead of work the land. If rookie gardeners can be taught to grow their own food – and if an 80-year-old can harvest 150 pounds of potatoes in a year – then there's no good reason for hunger to exist in America at all.
This is ultimately a ministry sponsored by Zion Lutheran Church and led by a church volunteer. For Schrader, who volunteered two years as Avilla Christian Academy's principal for free, it offers a chance to turn a hobby into a service. That's why he cans food grown in his own personal garden and then delivers it to elderly shut-ins. That's why he helped lay 38,000 bricks on a piece of church property.
"For me, I've always felt as close to God right there as anywhere. … I do see God's creation in that – a seed sprout, a chicken hatch or whatever else," he said. "You know that there had to be something that started that, and I believe that it was God."
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @stevebrawner.


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Amare Stoudemire scored 34 points to lead the surging New York Knicks to their fifth straight victory, 121-114 over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.
Wilson Chandler added 21 points and Raymond Felton had 18 points and 11 assists for the Knicks, who won for the 10th time in 11 games and improved to 13-9, the first time they've been four games over .500 since finishing the 2000-01 season with a 48-34 record.
The key has been Stoudemire, who has surpassed 30 in every game during the winning streak, the first Knicks player with five straight 30-point games since Stephon Marbury from Feb. 4-11, 2005.
Kevin Love had 33 points and 15 rebounds for the Timberwolves, who duplicated the sizzling start they had in a victory over Cleveland on Saturday but didn't have the defense to make it stand up. Michael Beasley, who missed that victory with a sprained ankle, returned and scored 25.
Coming off his second player of the week of the season, Stoudemire shot 15 of 23 from the field, reaching the 30-point plateau with one of his powerful dunks that stretched the lead to 105-96 with 4:18 remaining. He scored 12 in the fourth quarter, but the Knicks didn't put it away until Danilo Gallinari's 3-pointer made it 114-107 with 49 seconds to play.
Following a 3-8 start that seemed to indicate another long winter in New York, the Knicks have won five in a row for the second time this season. They will try for their first six-game winning streak since January 2006 when they host Toronto on Wednesday.
Luke Ridnour scored 16 for the Timberwolves, who got off to sensational start but fell apart in the second half. Already dealing with a number of injuries, they were hurt by the loss of former Knicks center Darko Milicic, who scored 10 points on 4-of-4 shooting in eight minutes before leaving with an injured right quadriceps.
Love had 31 points and 31 rebounds when the Wolves beat the Knicks on Nov. 12 in Minneapolis, the first 30-30 game in the NBA since Moses Malone in 1982. He hit his first seven shots Monday, but struggled after that and was overpowered when forced to play Stoudemire after Milicic's departure.
Trailing by seven in the third quarter, the Knicks came up with five steals during a 12-0 burst that gave them an 82-77 lead on Felton's layup with 5:16 left in the period. After surrendering 68 points in the first half, the Knicks limited the Wolves to 18 on 6-for-17 shooting in the third, surging to a 92-86 lead entering the fourth.
Minnesota cut it to four a few times early in the final period, but Stoudemire answered each time with a bucket. He was averaging 29 during the previous 10 games, giving Knicks everything they could have hoped since signing the free agent this summer.
The Wolves made their first nine shots, and when they finally missed, Milicic grabbed the rebound and fed Love inside for an easy hoop. They hit 14 of 15 to start the game and 16 of 21 (76 percent) in the opening quarter, but led only 36-32 because the Knicks made 65 percent.
The Knicks grabbed the lead early in the second but couldn't contain Love, who set a franchise record with eighth consecutive successful 3-point attempt. His free throws gave Minnesota an 11-point advantage with 3:06 left, and the Wolves led 68-61 at halftime.
NOTES: The Wolves said an MRI confirmed that F Anthony Tolliver has a sprained right MCL and he would miss six to eight weeks. Tolliver wrote on his Twitter page that he'd be back sooner. … Stoudemire is the first Knicks player with multiple player of the week wins in the same season since Patrick Ewing won three times in 1992-93.


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Another Friday in October. Another Havelock shutout victory.
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Another Friday in October. Another Havelock shutout victory.
Derrell Scott celebrated his 18th birthday by scoring a touchdown on Havelock�s first offensive play, and Matthew Boykin added four more touchdowns as the Rams dominated West Carteret 67-0 in a Coastal 3A Conference game Friday in Morehead City.
In four October games, top-ranked Havelock (10-0, 5-0) outscored its opponents 220-0.
�Our defense is playing lights out right now,� Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant said. �It makes the offensive play calling really easy.�
And that first offensive play against the Patriots went to Scott, who took a handoff, cut left and then went right up the field for a 57-yard touchdown run just 14 seconds into the contest. Scott finished the game with 134 yards on just nine carries.
Bryant said the first play didn�t go to Scott because it was his birthday.
�If you check back on our tapes, Derrell gets the first carry in pretty much all of our games,� Bryant said. �It�s great that he scored a touchdown on his first touch on his birthday, but that was not necessarily in the game plan. Our game plan is to get Derrell the ball as much as we can get it to him. It usually works pretty good.�
Boykin would score next. On fourth-and-7 from the Patriot 33, the junior caught a screen pass from Travis Sabdo, broke out of a tackle, and then headed up the field for a touchdown.
�The dude had me,� Boykin said of the Patriot defender. �I was just trying to make a move off him. I felt he didn�t have me good enough, so I just went off of him, and then touchdown.�
Boykin then took a jet sweep 81 yards for a touchdown, giving Havelock a 20-0 lead with 7:56 left in the first half.
�I saw the opening and I just took it and used the speed I had,� said Boykin, who had 92 yards rushing and 82 receiving. �I just saw that crease to the outside.�
Havelock put the game out of reach in the final 2:20 of the first half. First, Taylor Woods scored on a 7-yard run, Boykin returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown, and after Julian Cuthbertson recovered a Patriot fumble, Sabo threw 28 yards to Kyran Bowman for a 40-0 Ram lead at halftime.
�We came out with a lot of energy,� Boykin said. �The line did what they had to do. The receivers did what they had to do. Travis came out hot, and Coach Bryant was calling the right calls. We just had a good overall team win.�
In the second half, Scott had a long run to set up Sabdo�s 1-yard touchdown plunge, and then Boykin caught a 45-yard touchdown pass from Sabdo for a 53-0 margin with 6:32 left in the third quarter.
The Rams began to substitute, and Jordan Begley threw 17 yards to Christian Crowe, and Corey Cooper threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to Trey Owens to wrap up the scoring.
�We got some young guys in there to get them some varsity experience in the third and fourth quarters, and they did a great job, too,� Bryant said. �We had a freshman throw to a sophomore on a touchdown pass with freshmen and sophomores on the offensive line. They did a great job.�
Sabdo was 10 of 12 passing for 167 yards. In all, the Rams totaled 258 yards rushing and 270 passing.
Defensively, Shondel Granison recovered two fumbles and had a sack, while Andrew Ramirez also had a fumble recovery for the Rams.
The victory extends Havelock�s school-record winning streak to 24. The Rams have won 41 of their last 42 games. In those games, Havelock has outscored its opponents 2,025 to 438, or an average of 48.2 to 10.4.
Havelock is off this week and is scheduled to play West Craven at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 in Vanceboro.


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Sweeney Todd
I know Terry Teachout reveres the stage version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at least as much as I do, but I can't entirely agree with him that Tim Burton's film version "is -- without exception, and by a considerable margin -- the best film ever to have been made from a Broadway musical." However, this is only because I think Bob Fosse's Cabaret is a more profound and innovative film. Fosse turned an awkward and mediocre musical into something newly rich and strange, and the camera work and editing in Cabaret remain breathtaking even after thirty-five years and oodles of CGI movies. Tim Burton simply had the task of not obscuring the brilliance of his source material. That he did more than that is something to be celebrated.
Burton has created what is certainly his best film in many years, and perhaps his best film yet, although opinions on that will depend on how much you prefer Burton's darker side to his goofier side. This Sweeney Todd is dark indeed -- dark in color palette, dark in tone. By cutting out the "Ballad of Sweeney Todd" segments from the play, Burton has removed the device that allowed the audience to keep a bit of distance from the gore and mayhem, and his ending is more that of a Jacobean tragedy than a Victorian melodrama, for the untainted purity and goodness of Anthony and Johanna is left more unresolved in the movie than in the play. (Did I miss the "Ballad" sections? Sure, because they contain some of my favorite lyrics, and I love the moment when Sweeney rises in the final one. But they're theatrical and would either have made the movie campy or Brechtian, and Burton wisely chose to go in other directions.)
This is very much a Tim Burton movie, and that's just fine, because Burton has tremendous respect for the original play, and his style is not one that is at odds with the source, although it certainly offers a different experience. He is a filmmaker with as distinctive a visual vocabulary as any director I can think of -- there is a continuity of imagery between many of his films, and at times Sweeney reminded me of Beetle Juice and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Batman Returns and Corpse Bride and, at the very least because of the razor blades, Edward Scissorhands. Indeed, Sweeney is the nasty Struwwelpeter underside of the sentimental sweetness at the core of Edward Scissorhands (which, I rush to say, is a movie dear to my heart). Sweeney's line upon getting his razors back -- "At last, my arm is complete again!" -- could be the cry of Edward after having grown up and lost his way for a while. We don't need to refer to Isaiah Berlin to know that some artists have many different styles and visions and others are masters of digging away at particular stylistic obsessions -- Burton, it seems to me, is the latter, with each new film a work unto itself, certainly, but also a work that offers variations on its predecessors' images.
There are a few moments of Sweeney that feel a bit long, a bit theatrical, a bit off (mostly with Anthony's song "Johanna", which generally comes off as silly in the movie because Anthony's passion is a shallow and ridiculous passion of love-at-first-sight, the sort of thing theatrical melodrama can absorb, but which is unintentionally funny on screen). For the most part, though, Burton's version works quite well as a film, making for a fine meld of gory gothic horror and movie musical.
I had heard enough clips of the singing online that I knew what to expect, but I wasn't sure how it would all fit together -- would it seem as thin as it does alone, or would the intimacy of the camera and the lushness of the production design compensate? Overall, I was perfectly comfortable with the singing, and I say that as someone who knows nearly every note of the score by heart. It's simplified in the movie, certainly, and has more the quality of a pop album than an operetta, but the only singer who really disappoints is Helena Bonham Carter, because the quality of her voice is so thin that, for instance, in her first song ("The Worst Pies in London") many of her words are lost beneath the orchestra. But she's a fine actor, and that matters -- I've seen productions of Sweeney Todd with excellent singers who are not particularly good actors, and it is a far more painful experience than productions with adequate singers who are excellent actors. (And her voice is just right, I think, for her later song "By the Sea", which is one of my favorite sequences in the movie.) Burton gets his actors to create vivid, over-the-top characterizations that are often mesmerizing. Johnny Depp is just about the best in the business at such characterizations, and many of the people who can give him competition for that title are in the movie, too: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman, and Timothy Spall. Each sings, and each is at least competent -- the key is that they do what the best actors do, and throw themselves so deeply into their roles that how they sing becomes a vital part of the character. Timothy Spall's version of "Ladies in Their Sensitivities" is much less pretty than it usually is, but his characterization of Beadle Bamford is also far less pretty than the usual -- he is no self-important fop, but rather a rat-like creature, a lurking pustule of corruption. Johnny Depp's Sweeney lacks the bombast and rugged masculinity of most stage Sweeneys, and so his gentler, less forceful singing makes good sense for his character -- there is a creepiness to him that I've never encountered in Sweeney before, because usually he is presented as rugged, strong, forceful -- whereas Depp finds something else within him: not a vulnerability so much as the ghost of vulnerability, the shell of a man who was once too sensitive, who was nearly destroyed because of it, and who now maintains an obsession because nothing else will keep him from shattering into a thousand tiny bits of self. It lacks the complexity some of the best stage actors have found in the role, but it provides a unity the film needed.
In 1994, my father and I saw the glorious London production of Sweeney Todd at the National Theatre (with Julia McKenzie as a strong and multifaceted Mrs. Lovett and Adrian Lester adding more depth and the role of Anthony than anyone probably ever imagined could be there). My father didn't know the show at all, but likes horror movies, so I thought he'd enjoy it, and he did, saying, afterward, "That had more blood in it than any play I've ever seen!" I don't remember it being particularly bloody, myself, but it's one of those plays that, regardless of how much blood actually gets poured onto the stage, feels like a bath of gore. The movie, though, is full of blood right from the opening credits, but the notable thing about the blood is how stylized it all is -- Burton doesn't try to make the blood look realistic, but rather makes it very, very red, and the effect is both unsettling and beautiful. Perhaps unsettling because it is beautiful. The only truly painful moment of gore is one of the slightest and involves Pirelli's technique with a razor, strop, and Tobias's fingertips.
An interesting change Burton makes from the play involves Tobias, who is generally played as a dim-witted young man. Tobias in the movie is played by Ed Sanders, a young boy. It's a notable performance because it is so understated and sincere, the one character who lacks almost any trace of caricature in the movie. (It's interesting that this year two of the best American movies are musicals -- I'm Not There and Sweeney Todd, and both include startling performances by kids: Sanders here, and Marcus Carl Franklin in I'm Not There.)
I had hoped the film of Sweeney Todd would at least not cause me to cringe while hearing some of my favorite theatre songs sung on screen. I crossed my fingers that it might do more than that, and might even provide occasional moments of joy. It exceeded even those hopes. It was entertaining, entrancing, surprising, delightful, and emotionally affecting in ways different from, but not inferior to, the stage version. It is very much a work of art of its own, separate and different from the other iterations of the story and music -- which was my highest hope, the one I didn't dare dream of, because the chances of disappointment were so high. There was, though, no disappointment at all.


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Dewalt Likes What He Sees in Elkhart Market
August 24, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Dewalt Likes What He Sees in Elkhart Market
It's been just three weeks since the new Campers Inn RV dealership opened on Cassopolis Street in Elkhart, Ind., but already Tom Dewalt, location manager, likes what he sees.
"I am happy with the traffic we've been getting. (Even) In great years, this would have been good," he told RVBUSINESS.com.
The store, owned by East Coast dealer Jeff Hirsch, exclusively carries Forest River Inc. products — both Forest River and Coachmen RV towables and motorized brands. New inventory is arriving daily.
Dewalt also is selling a decent number of FEMA trailers Hirsch picked up at auction, some of them, especially the early units sold directly through RV dealers in 2005, in pretty good condition, he said.
The property is located on Cassopolis Street on the north side of Elkhart, the main point of entry into Elkhart from the Indiana Toll Road (Interstate 80/90) and was formerly occupied by Michiana RV, a former Coachmen company store. It covers seven acres and features a 15,000-square-foot enclosed showroom and 16 service bays.
Dewalt concedes that he is starting slowly, having rehired some of the former Michiana RV employees, including certified service techs who were laid off when the dealership closed.
"We already have most of our lines settled," said Dewalt. "It will be business as usual for the most part. Right now our focus is on getting our processes and systems in place, people trained and Internet up and running. I'm looking to actively buy some used."
He expects to do a significant amount of business over the Internet.
Hirsch is leasing the site from Forest River, which obtained the former Michiana RV dealership property when it bought the RV segment of Coachmen Industries Inc. late in 2008.
The property sat idle for the past year and a half until Hirsch and Forest River hooked up. Hirsch also owns stores in Kingston and Merrimack, N.H., Leesburg, Fla., Raynham, Mass., and Macon, Ga.
"We're not standing alone in this," Dewalt stressed. "We're part of the Campers Inn operation."
Like Hirsch, Dewalt grew up in the RV business. His parents started Dewalt's RV in Easton, Pa., in 1966, the same year Hirsch's father started his first dealership in New Hampshire.
Dewalt and the younger Hirsch participated in the same Spader 20 Group and became good friends after Dewalt left the family business, which subsequently closed, and joined Coachmen. Dewalt was working on a special project for Coachmen when the RV segment was sold to Forest River.
That job went away, but Dewalt took on a Coachmen territory in the Southeast selling Catalina travel trailers. With retail selling in his blood, however, Dewalt welcomed the opportunity to join Hirsch when the Elkhart store post opened up. "Jeff and I share a lot of the same philosophies in business. It's a nice fit for me," he said. "For me, retail is what I know and wanted to get back into that."
Hirsch is the third out-of-state dealer to try the Elkhart County market in the past five years. Two earlier attempts, by Florida-based Suncoast RV and Pleasanton, Calif.-based DeMartini RV, both failed during the recent recession.
Why will this be any different?
"The market here is difficult but there has been a terrific amount of attrition.," said Dewalt. "There used to be 15 dealerships in Elkhart. Now, counting us, there are five. This is a tremendous opportunity. We have low overhead, despite this facility. We don't need a lot of business to make this work."
And in Dewalt's view, there's still magic to selling RVs in Elkhart, Ind. "A tremendous amount of people come through here from out of the area who want to see if they can make a deal in the 'RV Capital of the World,' so that's driving some traffic," he said.


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My heart is rejoicing with you two (FOUR!) right now! I cannot wait to hear details. Congratulations!!!!ReplyDelete
God is so good. I can't wait to hear more!!!ReplyDelete
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TWO children!!!! God is so good and his timing is SO perfect! :-) SO SO thankful sweet friend!ReplyDelete
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Squee! Double the love. Double the fatigue. Double the fun! Woohoo!!ReplyDelete
I was originally going to tell you that I was wearing my I <3 Camp shirt today, and someone who apparently grew up in your town (Katie?) recognized it. It was SO fun to get to have that conversation and meet this girl all because of your sweet Camp. SO, that's what I was coming to tell you...but then I saw THIS, and this news is soooo much bigger, I didn't even need to mention that t-shirt conversation that happened in the science building at our little school. : ) I just can't WAIT to hear details. Ah!!!!
Hallelujah God is good!!!!!
A double blessing!! So excited for all of you!ReplyDelete
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WYNNE!! I'm sooo excited for your family!!! Can't wait to hear more. :) Praying for you guys and your journey ahead.ReplyDelete
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Has anyone have experience of BF a Autistic Child or one with a little to no receptive language. My Son is 24m and will constantly scream for BF tug pinch and pull and will not give up with any amount of distraction due to his Language and ASD he is very controlling and will not give up, so traditional weaning techniques don't work.
I think it is more of a sensory/comfort need for him now as 85% of the time he is chewing whilst climbing and playing on me - when he actually wants a feed he is on and off pretty quick, he would be on the breast 24hrs but is bad especially from 5.30am -12 noon constantly crying pulling, pushing me until I give in, he is a different easier child when he is around others and I am not there.
This is a big problem now as this constant screaming and demands is making my 3yr old very angry and she has starting to push and pull her brother and I can't cope with being chewed/pinched/pulled/climbed on or screamed at for much longer.
I can however find no advice for weaning/stopping behavior in Special needs children. I have tried using Visual timer but his receptive language is poor so don't know if he gets it.
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RV Industry Shows Off its Best at Edmonton Show
February 19, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on RV Industry Shows Off its Best at Edmonton Show
The RV industry faced difficult times in the last two years as both manufacturers and dealers closed their doors.
But the 30th Annual Edmonton RV Show and Sale added a solid dose of optimism to the industry's outlook. When the doors to the show opened on Feb. 11, the crowd surged in to look at the latest in RVs and decide what to buy, according to the Edmonton Journal.
Within a few minutes of the opening, the first deals had been written. Many observers agreed it was the busiest opening to the show that they had seen in years.
Don Humphrey, manager of Roadmaster RV in Leduc, went further, saying it was the busiest opening night he had seen in his 30 years of attending shows.
"Sales are at least double last year," Humphrey said in an interview, pointing out that there is "pent-up demand."
"This year, people are eager to buy."
This year's RV show was the first held in the recently expanded Edmonton Expo Center and filled all the main floor halls, including the brightly lit new halls that opened late last year. In contrast, the recent Edmonton Motorshow did not use Halls A and B on the main level.
The show presented a variety of new RVs and features to grab the attention of consumers. A feature that attracted the attention of many visitors was the outdoor kitchens on a variety of RVs.
After years of seeing many RVs add more and more comforts of home, some of the trailers at the 2010 show took a back-to-basics approach to bring the outdoor experience back to camping. These more Spartan models are available both in tent and hard-wall travel trailers.
The Quicksilver tent trailers sold by Carefree Coach and RV exemplified the minimalist approach. These trailers are available in lengths ranging from just under nine feet to just over 21 feet. The Quicksilver line also includes tent-style truck campers that fold down for travel.
Quicksilver RVs, built by Livin' Lite, rely on aluminum construction for strength, light weight and long-term durability.
"When I looked at today's generation of pop-ups, I saw heavy, expensive units, but nothing that could be towed by a car or station wagon," said Scott Tuttle, Livin' Lite founder. "That's when we decided to build our own tent camper that would be both affordable and able to be towed by most cars and minivans.
"Do our units have all the frills of the expensive units? No," Tuttle said. "But that's not what camping is all about. Camping for us is about having a great time in the outdoors."
Not only can the Quicksilver units be towed by cars and minivans, the company also offers units designed to be pulled by motorcycles.
When Tuttle says Quicksilver units don't have all the frills, he's talking about trailers and truck campers that don't have appliances or a bathroom. Storage cabinets and a sink are available in some units. Carefree also displayed one unit with a hole in the floor for ice-fishing.
Carefree president Elmer Lastiwka said Quicksilver trailers are priced at $4,000 to just over $9,000. "It's affordable for any family with a small car."
Because of the light weight of the Quicksilver campers, in some situations they could be towed by a quad, such as heading up a cut line into the wilderness or onto a lake for ice fishing. Using a quad would alleviate the fear of a truck or sport utility vehicle going through the ice.
The Kamparoo Camper, a lightweight, folding tent trailer manufactured in Australia and distributed by Kamparoo Campers in Wetaskiwin, is a similar concept.
Some travel trailers at the show also showed a more basic, affordable approach, including the Wolf Pup in the Cars RV and Marine display and the Takena Curv at the Roadmaster RV exhibit. Both of these trailers have a sloping, curved front to reduce wind resistance and make them easier to tow.
A number of manufacturers offer outdoor kitchens on their trailers this year. Some trailers with two entrance doors now come equipped with a bathroom just inside the rear door to shorten the mud trail when children go in to use the toilet.
Most outdoor kitchens are built into the rear corner of the trailer with a lift-up door that doubles as a canopy.
Outback Country RV sells the North Trail, made by Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC, which offers a fully equipped outdoor kitchen that includes a sink, microwave, refrigerator, television and stove. The refrigerator is electric only — the main refrigerator inside the RV is a gas-electric model.
Tango trailers, sold by Western RV of Leduc, have a different outdoor kitchen design, one that slides out of the rear corner of the unit.
Tango's Dane Found talked about the reasoning behind building an RV with an outdoor kitchen:
"The idea is that most people want to spend as much time as possible outside," Found said, explaining that this is the first year that Tango has offered the outdoor kitchen.
In addition to offering the option of preparing food outdoors, the slide-out kitchen also fulfils other roles.
Found said it can serve as a privacy barrier in a campground and a windbreak at the campsite.
The outdoor kitchen has been well received by consumers, he said.
During the show, it wasn't unusual to hear showgoers comparing the various kitchens as they made their way from exhibit to exhibit.
Although RV manufacturers have failed in recent years, some new companies have been started to fill at least part of the void. Arrkann Trailer and RV Center sells the Tracer Ultra Lite trailer line, manufactured by Prime Time Manufacturing, which started producing trailers in August. Prime Time strives to build trailers with designs that appeal to buyers while ensuring that they're priced right.
Earthbound RV is another new line Arrkann has added to give customers a lightweight RV that's easy to tow. Arrkann's Ken Friedenberg said Earthbound interiors are reminiscent of a luxury car. The sleek exterior is slate grey, in contrast to the usual white RV exterior.
Friedenberg said his dealership was selected by RV usiness magazine as one of the top 50 RV dealers in North America and was the lone Canadian to make the top 10 in that group of 50.
Many RV dealers at the show displayed, in addition to tent trailers and various styles of travel trailers, motorhomes ranging from large bus-style Class As to Class B van conversions and the intermediate-size Class Cs.
In Class A, improved fuel economy such as that offered by the Avanti from Damon is a welcome change for buyers. While many Class As travel less than 10 miles per gallon, the Avanti raises that to better than 14 miles per U.S. gallon or more than 16 miles per Imperial gallon.
Chris Cook of Woody's RV said the Avanti uses a number of European design features such as a sloped front and reduced height to improve fuel economy. Woody's recently sold one of these units, which have prices starting around $130,000 US.
Roadtrek Motorhomes Inc., a Kitchener, Ont.-based manufacturer of Class B motorhomes, has added a rear slide to its van conversion based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis. This van, in the Grove RV display, drew a steady crowd of interested onlookers.
Chalet RV Inc. to Unveil New Towable Products
November 24, 2009 by RVBusiness · 2 Comments
West Coast manufacturer Chalet RV Inc. is adding two new products to its Takena towable line, as well as two new truck campers. The Takena Curv (shown at left) is a small ultra lightweight weighing in at 1,600 pounds. Properly equipped four-cylinder vehicles can tow the Curv. Another Chalet introduction is the Takena5 (shown at right). Targeted for the small, lightweight pickup market, the Takena5 is a 21-foot fully laminated, lightweight, (3,495 pounds) fifth-wheel. The Takena5 has a dry bath and a large galley slide. This may be the only fifth-wheel at next week's 47th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky., that could easily be pulled by small trucks, like a Ford Ranger, Dodge Dakota or Toyota Tacoma, the company contends. Also debuting at this year's show is the Chalet TS116 triple slide-out truck camper. This innovative feature-rich plush camper has the feeling of a Class C motorhome. Chalet plans a complete line of lightweight top-of-the-line truck campers. Chalet RV is also making its debut into the high-end truck camper market with the Chalet TS116 triple slide-out truck camper.


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Shrimp & Field Greens Salad with Quesadilla Croutons
Plump, spicy shrimp top a salad of field greens. A tangy vinaigrette dresses the salad. Quesadilla wedges, golden brown and oozing cheese are great garnish.
5 oz. lime juice
3 oz. olive oil
3 oz. vegetable oil
1 1⁄2 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. garlic, minced
1 tbsp. lime peel, grated
1⁄2 tbsp. red pepper flakes
1⁄2 tbsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. oregano, dried
2 1⁄2 lb. shrimp, raw (72-ct.)
3⁄4 lb. queso blanco, shredded
2 oz. cotija cheese, grated
6 8-in. flour tortillas
2 poblano chiles, roasted, coarsely chopped
1 3⁄4 cups olives, chopped
1 lb. mixed field greens
3⁄4 lb. baby yellow squash
3⁄4 lb. cherry tomatoes
1 1⁄2 cups tomatillos, chopped
1 cup fresh cilantro
1. In a bowl, whisk together first nine ingredients and season to taste. Reserve about 2⁄3; marinate shrimp 2 hr. in remaining vinaigrette. Drain; grill 2 min. per side until done.
2. Sprinkle cheeses over half the tortillas. Top with chiles, 1⁄4 cup olives and remaining tortillas. Grill 2 min. per side until cheese is melted. Cut into eighths.
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Dear Editor,
We visited Pratt last week, hung out with friends and went to the fair and totally enjoyed ourselves. When we prepared to leave on Sunday, we pulled our camper into 6th street park where we had been told we'd find a dump station for our waste tanks. It was there, but was locked. A sign told us that Mon-Fri we could get a key at the city building or we could go to the police station. This was not very convenient.
For one, many visitors may not know where those places are located. The other, we had a 21 Ft camper, it is not easy dragging it around town, and then trying to find a place to park at those locations to go get the key and then bring it back.
We found out later there was a dump station at the lake. It might have been nice if that information was available there in the park so people would know of other and more convenient options. As it was, we headed home with full tanks and eventually we pulled into the campground area at Wellington Lake to empty our tanks.
I think Pratt might want to find some way to make this easier for visitors. When we left, I was not sure I EVER wanted to bring my camper back again if it was going to be that much trouble to dump the tanks. Now that I know about the lake, I will take it there. (Hopefully they don't lock it as well!)
On another note, Pratt has one of the best History Museums in the state. Very creative, well thought out and a very good collection. The museum at the Fish & Game Headquarters is worth seeing and the B29 memorial at the airport is very nice. If you live in Pratt and have never taken time to visit these places, or maybe it has been awhile, you need to go. You just might learn something.
Other than the "dumping issue" we enjoyed our stay and all the friendly people and interesting things we found.
John Shelman
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Combining Medications to Enhance Depression Outcomes (CO-MED)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00590863
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 11, 2008
Results First Posted : April 23, 2014
Last Update Posted : April 23, 2014
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|December 26, 2007
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|November 28, 2012
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|April 23, 2014
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|April 23, 2014
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|March 2008
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|September 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms [ Time Frame: Measured at Month 7 ]
Percentage of patients that achieve remission, as defined as QIDS total score below 6 for last 2 study visits. QIDS depression scores range from 0 (normal) to 27 (very severe).
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Remission rates in patients with chronic and/or recurrent major depression. [ Time Frame: 7 months ]
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|Quality of Life Inventory [ Time Frame: Measured at Month 7 ]
The Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) is a 32-item comprehensive self-report of satisfaction in 16 areas of life, such as love, work, and health. Each area is rated in terms of satisfaction and the relationship of that area to overall quality of life. It yields an overall raw score and satisfaction ratings for the 16 individual areas of life. The QOLI raw score is an average of weighted satisfaction ratings computed only over areas of life judged to be Important or Extremely Important to the respondent. Higher scores indicate higher reported quality of life.
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|anxiety, social functioning, quality of life, cognitive and physical well being, treatment emergent psychiatric symptoms, side-effect burden [ Time Frame: 7 months ]
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|Combining Medications to Enhance Depression Outcomes
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|Combining Medications to Enhance Depression Outcomes
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|This study will compare whether a combination of antidepressant medications is better than one antidepressant medication alone when given as initial treatment for people with chronic or recurrent major depressive disorder.
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The overall aim of Combining Medications to Enhance Depression Outcomes (CO-MED) is to enhance remission rates for outpatients with chronic or recurrent nonpsychotic major depressive disorder (MDD) as defined by DSM-IV TR, treated in primary or psychiatric care settings.
Current evidence indicates that remission, the goal of treatment, is found in only about one-third of representative depressed outpatients treated for up to 14 weeks with an initial SSRI. In addition, even for those who do respond or remit, over one-third relapse in the subsequent 12 months. Combinations of antidepressants are used in practice at the second or subsequent steps when relapse occurs in the longer term, or, in some cases, even acutely as a first step when speed of effect is a clinical priority. Whether such combinations could potentially offer higher remission rates, lower attrition, or greater longer-term benefit if used as initial treatments as compared to monotherapy remains to be examined.
CO-MED will test whether two different medications when given in combination as the first treatment step, compared to one medication, will enhance remission rates, increase speed of remission, be tolerable, and provide better sustained benefits in the longer term. Results of this study will inform practitioners in managing the treatment of patients with chronic or recurrent MDD.
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The money and power behind this week's election results confirm what everybody knows: democracy is under siege. We, the People, don't control our leaders; moneyed interests get their way. Corporations are free to buy politicians, judges, and elections with virtually unlimited cash, and big media conglomerates reap billions from political advertising. D
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2 robbed outside Greensboro restaurant
2 robbed outside Greensboro restaurant
Two people were robbed in the parking lot of a Greensboro restaurant early Saturday, police said.
Investigators said the victims were leaving the San Luis Restaurant at 4207 High Point Road when they were approached by two men about 12:42 a.m. Saturday.'
The victims said the robbers displayed a gun and a knife and demanded their money.
The robbers then fled in a large black passenger vehicle.
The robbers are described as two men of average height and weight last seen wearing blue jeans, gray jackets and ski masks.
The victims suffered minor injuries during the incident and were taken to Moses Cone Hospital for treatment.


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Where most time-based distributions have a schedule of round and about six months, Debian takes another approach, obviously because Debian is more about stability and longevity than about the latest and greatest features in each release. As such, the project adopted a two-year release schedule, with a development freeze every December of odd-numbered years, with the actual release following in the first half of the following year.
The first of this new type of freeze will happen December 2009, making the time between the current release and the next one rather short - this is a one-time occurrence. "To accommodate the needs of larger organisations and other users with a long upgrade process, the announcement reads, "the Debian project commits to provide the possibility to skip the upcoming release and do a skip-upgrade straight from Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (not yet codenamed)."
Despite the relatively short development time, the next Debian release, codenamed Squeeze, will still have some interesting features, such as multi-arch support, which will make it easier to install 32bit packages on 64bit installations. It will also sport an optimised boot process which will reduce boot times and improve reliability.


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xbay wrote: And while I checked 'em, I couldn't help but notice Bada DID NOT choose a winner for the Steelers/Titans game. I see he's trying to give us a one game handicap.
hmm, well that blows!!! oh well, I think I could give you guys a 5 game handicap and still be ok by the end of the year!
Just kidding.... that could come back and haunt me


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|Alabastro a pecorella, from Aïn Tekbalet district, Oran, Algeria.
|Geological description:
|Compact banded travertine now at least partially recrystallised. The dendritic development of iron oxides, predominantly red hematite, is most probably the result of cyanobacterial action in the hot spring water.
|Alabastro a pecorella means little sheep alabaster, but it is the richly coloured bushy growths of iron and manganese oxides that are more distinctive, sometimes giving an almost three dimensional effect. Alabastro a pecorella was exported to Rome from about the 2nd century AD onwards and is often found used and recycled in architecture and sculpture. It is not longer quarried today. The fashion for Algerian 'onyx marble' in the late 19th and 20th centuries was for the green or white translucent stone also found in substantial deposits around Oran.
|Borghini (1997) 149-150; Chafetz (1998); Corsi (1845) 134-135; Lazzarini (2002c) 244-245; Merrill (1903) 281-284; Mielsch (1985) 39, taf.3; Price (2007) 54-55; Watson (1916) 355-359
|Further information:
|Corsi's classification:
|Class 1. Marbles; Section 4. Concretionary marbles; Species 1. Alabasters; i. Antique alabaster
|Corsi's text:
|97.36 Alabastro antico. Marmor Alabastrum. Alabastro a pecorella


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Moyers & Company "Between Two Worlds: Life on the Border" No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, this week's guest on Moyers & Company. His own life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea grew up first in Tijuana and then just across the border in San Diego. D
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William and Mary William is hired by a gang of bikers to give one of their members a massive send off. They want to do a final bike ride with the deceased's body attached to his bike, wearing his leathers and helmet.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Working for Wildlife" Professionals and volunteers are in forests and fields - even cities - throughout Idaho working to increase knowledge about wildlife and its chances for survival. Cameras capture "deer tackling" in eastern Idaho; follow scientists and volunteers through deep snows to radio collar the seldom-seen elusive wolverine; and visit a woman raising orphan bears in her backyard in Garden City, adjacent to Boise.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Bald Eagle Recovery, Cyclocross, Jim Anderson" Cameras capture video of eagles in the largest wintering grounds for the birds in the 48 contiguous states. The episode also provides an update on the bird's removal from the Endangered Species List and includes a climb up into an eagle nest.G
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Finding Your Roots "Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho and Martha Stewart" All children of first- or second-generation immigrants, the three subjects share the peculiar burdens of their heritage. The episode heads to India, Korea and Poland to catch a glimpse of three distinct yet oddly overlapping experiences of families leaving their homes and becoming Americans. Part 8 of 10G
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Masterpiece Mystery! "Sherlock, Series II - A Scandal In Belgravia" Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) are plunged into a case of blackmail involving crafty dominatrix Irene Adler, whose motto is "know when you are beaten." It seems she has incriminating photos of a session with a member of the British royal family. She and Sherlock feel an attraction even as they strive to thwart each other's goal.G
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New Tricks "Setting Out Your Stall" The UCOS team reinvestigates a sensitive case when new information links the unexplained death of popular trader, found dead near her stall at Cook Street Market, to a series of recent drug rapes in East London. The team members look into her private life and past for clues while trying to stay out of the way of the other investigation.G
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Three Spartanburg men were arrested on gun and drug charges after they sped away from a traffic stop Saturday.
Three Spartanburg men were arrested on gun and drug charges after they sped away from a traffic stop Saturday.
William Lamar Rice, 23, 106 Nevada St., Steven Lamar Hoey, 28, of 3 Lynwood Drive, and Jasmene Rashaun Sartor, 25, 740 Union St., Apt. 15, were all charged with trafficking crack cocaine, possession of a stolen pistol and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to online jail records. Sartor was also charged with simple possession of marijuana and Hoey was charged failure to stop for a blue light.
An incident report states that a deputy pulled over Hoey for not using a turn signal on Highway 9. Hoey stopped and the deputy noted that Hoey and his passengers, Rice and Sartor, appeared nervous, the report states.
The deputy requested a K-9 unit, and when the K-9 officer arrived, Hoey drove off, according to the report. Deputies saw the car stop and speed off again behind Ingles, the report states. A high speed chase began along Highway 9, with Hoey eventually pulling over for officers in the parking lot of Boiling Springs Junior High School.
Deputies found a small amount of crack cocaine inside the car, and where they saw the car stop behind Ingles, they found a larger bag of cocaine and a pistol, according to the report.
After taking Sartor to jail, a deputy found a bag of marijuana under the seat in his patrol car where Sartor had been sitting, the report states.
Hoey, Rice and Sartor have been released from the Spartanburg County Detention Facility. Hoey's bond was $21,000, Sartor's was $20,620 and Rice's was $20,000.


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Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Field Emission ArraysB. L. Crossley[1], M. Kossler[1], P.J. Collins[1], R. A. Coutu Jr.[1], and L. A. Starman[1]
[1]Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been proven experimentally to be well suited for field emission applications. An optimized triode configured CNT field emission array is developed using the COMSOL Multiphysics Electrostatics Application to adjust five key physical dimensions to investigate the effects on the enhanced electric field at the CNT emitter tips. The five dimensions studied are CNT spacing, array pitch, array element dimensions, element shape, and the dielectric thickness. These results are used to develop an optimized CNT field emission array that fits within the constraints of currently available fabrication capabilities.


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Can you locate the lost giraffe? Input coordinates to help you search and find the giraffe in the fewest guesses.
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These points all mark the vertices (corners) of ten hidden squares. Can you find the 10 hidden squares?
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Volume 18 Issue 28 | Nov. 25 - Dec. 2, 2005
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Alan Hruska
Through January 15
Theatre at St. Clements
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Sam Coppola as Estragon and Joseph Ragno as Vladimir in Alan Hruskas 50th anniversary staging of Waiting for Godot.
Worth the wait (more or less)
By Jerry Tallmer
I dont know whether Samuel Beckett ever saw the great old American vaudeville team of Smith & Dale or, more likely, some British music hall equivalent. In any event, whats being billed as the 50th anniversary production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre at St. Clements goes back, more or less happily for all of us, to those marvelous old vaudeville roots.
One says more or less because of the more, the two characters that are right on the beamthe Estragon (or Gogo) of Joseph Ragno, the Vladimir (or Didi) of Sam Coppolawhile the other two are somewhat less than that.
In their time-tested, Loews-Keith-Orpheum, Jewish-Irish-Italian, up-from-the-stoops-and-sidewalks New Yorkesethink Cagney, Cantor, or Bobby ClarkCoppola, and Ragno in particular, are just what the Dr. Kronkheit ordered.
Coppola as Didi, the tall, thoughtful, and (God save us) intellectual oneDidi who packs all human existence into Astride of a grave and a difficult birth
Down in the hole, lingeringly, the gravedigger puts on the forcepsemanates visual and other overtones of the late Rodney Dangerfield, among others.
Ragno as Gogo, the short, stumpy, hard-beset, elemental, baggy-pants-dropping oneGogo who suggests suicide by hanging because it might spur an erection, but who also asks: Whatll we do now? Now that we are happy?is blessed with the intonations and furies of Moe of the Three Stooges, Professor Irwin Corey, Jimmy Durante, and a thousand other street-seasoned comics, bless him.
This fortunate keystone-combination casting by director Alan Hruska does much to restore the balance of the Godot that was, in its Broadway premier in 1956, overweighed by Bert Lahrs much-loved patented clowning as Gogo.
Trouble is, not as much can be said for the gentleman who, in Becketts words, should enter with a bellow (in terrifying voice) of I am Pozzo
PPPOZZO! as he cracks his whip and snaps the rope that leads to the throat of Lucky the slavecollapsing, baggage-carrying Lucky.
Unfortunately, Ed Satrakian as Pozzo, at least for me, lacks the pomp and bluster of the two-bit tyrant who will reenter blind and helpless in Act II. This Pozzo isnt Dick Cheney or George C. Scott, hes Dick Cavett pretending to be those guys.
One of the great roles in theater, in the right hands, is that of Lucky, i.e., mankind agonistes. Martin Shakar is passable when Lucky just has to shudder and wobble and weep in his tracks, or even when Pozzo commands him to dance for the edification of Gogo and Didi, but the moment the slave has to finally open his mouth to deliver the long, astonishing, pregnant-with-implications soliloquy that starts: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattman
as soon as the show at St. Clements hits that point, everything goes galley west.
This Lucky doesnt rattle off those words, he glides into them like snakeskin. Its too fancy, too elegant, too ornate. It isnt being, its acting. And then, at the peroration, the windup, Mr. Shakars Lucky works himself into a frenzy. HeJesus, save us (since Jesus lies at the center of Becketts masterpiece) he emotes.
Yet despite any of the above, it is good to have Godot back with us once again, and there is much in Alan Hruskas staging to admire and enjoy. His precisioned timing, for instance, of the old burlesque passing-the-hat routines that Bill Irwin and David Shiner also celebrated in their Fool Moon. Or the tiny little miserable carrot on which Gogo is allowed to nibble in Act I. Or, speaking of hats, the way Gogos battered relic dangles back and forth from his fingertips in demonstration of suicide by hanging.
But I dont know why Pozzos topper is not a stage-worthy stovepipe, but the same kind of Derby as Gogos and Didis. I dont know why in Act II the fallen Pozzo and Lucky seem to lie around on the ground forever, only to be joined down there by Gogo and Didi as forever stretches into unintended eternity. (A failure of directorial ingenuity?) I dont know why in Act II the barren trees one green leafits new leafhas turned into one brown leaf. Signifying death, I guess. But we knew that.
Stop quibbling, critic! Mr. Godot, as the messenger boy (Tanner Rich) calls him, is maybe never going to come, not at least while the gravedigger with the forceps is still waiting around for all of us, but Waiting for Godot is back again in an acceptable, watchable productionmore or less. And the more, that keystone combination of Ragno and Coppola, is better, far better, than nothing.
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Raidmax Quantum Review
A brand that many computer enthusiasts may have heard of is the manufacturer Raidmax. We have published quite a few reviews of some of their products and each have done well. Raidmax is known more particularly for their budget "gaming" cases, for example the ones with windows and extra lighting. Some people may state that you get what you pay for, but in most cases the price to performance ratio of their less expensive products exceed that of other manufacturers budget cases. Raidmax has more recently been producing some upper to middle-end cases in the $70 and $80 price range, one of these being the recently reviewed Raidmax Skyline, which outperformed all of the comparison cases in 4 out of 8 tests. The Skyline lacked a little bit of stability, but that is what made it lightweight. I do slightly expect to revisit that again with the Quantum, but I'm not making any hard assumptions yet. As with any case, I do look forward to seeing what it has to offer and how well it performs, and with the Raidmax Quantum, I don't expect any less!
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The Raidmax Quantum is packaged in a brown cardboard box with red writing. It is quite plain actually, and the only way I knew what it was, is because of the UPC code on one side that said "Quantum". This box was actually shipped inside what looked like another box that was turned inside out, which I was a little confused about, but I didn't judge it on this. Other than that, there isn't really much else to day about the box that it's packaged in. Just about the only other text on it is "Made in China", and a few symbols referring to the contents, like "this end up", a trash-can with an 'X' through it, and others. The case itself is in a plastic bag that is sandwiched between two blocks of foam and arrived undamaged.
Through the plastic bag I could see the front of the case, which was all mesh. The front of it kind of reminds me of the way a high-end full tower would look. However, I did notice that about half of the drive bay covers had come loose and were "pushed" into the bezel. On the inside behind the bezel was a strip of masking tape that looked like it was there to hold the covers in place. The original pictures that I had of the un-boxing process were lost due to my camera's memory card getting corrupted, so I had to retake them. I had misplaced the bag that it came in, which is why it does not appear in the picture below. I have further determined that the box that I received the case in is not what is being sent out retail, as I saw a picture of the box on the Raidmax website. The Styrofoam blocks that it came with did seem pretty obvious that they did not belong with this case. They were, for lack of a better word, "shoved" into the box and gave it a little bit of bulge. The loose drive bay covers can be seen less dramatically below.
Anyway, the case is packaged with a manual and a bag of screws and other mounting hardware. The bag of screws there are what was left over after putting the computer together. This is for the same reason about how the original pictures were lost, so I just put what was left in the picture. Anyway, I didn't come across any tool-less drive rails, but after discovering that this case was indeed tool-less, I looked it up and saw that it supposedly is. At this point, I assumed that the tool-less mechanisms are part of the case itself. This will be explored on a later page, but now that the case is out of the box it's time to take a closer look at the exterior and what features it has.


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Consensus Report
Preparing the Next Generation of Earth Scientists: An Examination of Federal Education and Training Programs (2013)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Federal agencies play a key role in educating the next generation of earth scientists, offering programs that attract students to the field, support them through formal education, or provide training for an earth science career. The report examines 25 federal earth science education programs, describes ways to evaluate the success of these programs, and identifies opportunities for leveraging federal education resources. A centerpiece of the report is a conceptual framework for thinking about these programs as part of a larger system. In this framework, individuals become aware of earth science, then engage in learning about the Earth and the nature of earth science, and finally prepare for a career by acquiring specialized knowledge, skills, and expertise and by exploring different employment options. The framework shows how the various education opportunities fit together and where stronger or more visible connections are needed to move students along earth science pathways to careers. Federal agencies can also use the framework to identify gaps, overlaps, and imbalances in existing programs; to identify potential partners in other agencies or organizations; and to inform program evaluation for individual projects.
Key Messages
- Federal agencies offer earth science education programs for a variety of purposes, including supporting agency missions and helping to build a pool of potential recruits.
- The federal earth science education and training programs considered in this report provide a range of opportunities and experiences that engage individuals in the field and prepare them for employment. Although these programs operate independently, they can be thought of as part of a larger system that moves individuals along a path to an earth science career.
- A conceptual framework was developed to describe this system of education opportunities and experiences. In this framework, individuals become aware of earth science through formal education or informal learning, then actively engage in learning the discipline, and finally acquire knowledge, skills, and expertise needed for a career.
- The particular pathway individuals will take through the framework depends on their specific interests, the educational and career opportunities available to them, and the needs and expectations of their families. Understanding these different populations and pathways could help federal agencies design awareness and engagement programs that attract and retain a wide range of individuals.
- Stronger and more visible connections between federal, academic, and professional society programs—for example, through a central listing of available internships—would increase the visibility of earth science education opportunities and help students find a path to an earth science career. Such connections are particularly important for attracting and retaining underrepresented groups in earth science.
- A systems approach would also help federal agencies leverage resources to recruit a diverse population of students. By mapping their diversity programs onto the conceptual framework, agencies could identify potential partners and share effective practices for attracting and retaining minority students. Collaborations with professional societies focused on diversity, such as the National Association of Black Geoscientists, could help connect minority students to education and training opportunities and available positions. Coalitions of partners from federal agencies, private companies, universities, and professional societies would stretch federal dollars and bring a wide range of expertise to bear on the common goal of increasing diversity.
- In a time of reduced budgets, it is important for federal agencies to invest in education programs that are effective. Program evaluations provide a means and rationale for determining whether and why a program is succeeding. Such evaluations focus on understanding program goals, establishing criteria for success, and gathering data on program performance.
- For the evaluation process, logic models provide a useful mechanism for helping program managers define who the program is trying to reach, what it is trying to achieve, what resources it requires, and how to turn program resources into near-term and long-term results.
- Some programs considered in this report have demonstrated success through formal evaluations. Other programs may also be successful, but have not collected the data necessary to make this determination or to understand how to improve, sustain, or expand the effort.