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5482c884-afc5-4be8-8c23-90a9877c1f23 | General Question
What exactly does it mean to "resuspend the cell pellet"?
I can't go into much details about the experiment, but I'm not getting any results from trying to obtain DNA from E. coli cells.
I have E.coli cells in a pellet in a tube. The very first step is to resuspend it using this particular buffer. I know the problem I'm having has to be at the beginning because the setup is in such a way that I can tell where the issue must be if I get absolutely no results from controls or the test samples.
(If it isn't the resuspension part, then my E.coli cultures must be bad, but I doubt it because they're fresh and have a high absorbance)
When I do that resuspension step, I pipette the required amount into the tube. . .but the pellet doesn't necessarily "suspend" in the liquid. It just stays there at the bottom. I invert the tube a little and part of the pellet breaks off. I've been told to always "be careful" with the pellet, so I'm confused as to what "resuspension" then should LOOK like when using it to resuspend a cell pellet. Do I have to break up the cell pellet?
4 Answers
Yes, resuspension involves breaking up the cell pellet. It means to get the cells back into solution. Usually this involves vortexing the sample, which isn't exactly gentle but at that stage of the procedure is usually not a problem. It's only after lysis stocks are added that more care needs to be taken so that genomic DNA is not shredded.
Say you have a DNA pellet. Not a cell pellet this time. Obviously it's very small, but you assume it's there in the tube after you wash it with ethanol. My procedure says "remove excess ethanol". I'm unsure about how this is worded because it's not exactly clear if that means "remove all the ethanol you used to wash the DNA" or "remove only some of it".
I have gotten results before but the point is – what's the best way to remove ethanol after washing a DNA pellet and then resuspending it? How am I sure that I didn't accidentally pipette some DNA out when I removed the ethanol?
Hmm, I haven't ever washed DNA with ethanol before, that's strange. Well, columns I have, but not a pellet. In general, though, you need to get rid of all of it. Ethanol will disrupt most reactions you'd want to do with DNA. For getting rid of it, blowing air is probably the best method, since it will evaporate readily, but you'll have to be careful to make sure it really it fully gone. | 557 |
196edbbd-57de-451b-a316-8e8a6f41133e | Just the tools the mind needs to choose what content it wants to learn. Literacy is more important than ever. Believe it or not, the simple things in this eBook will prepare the mind to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex society more and more dependent on rapidly advancing technologiesA thorough and comprehensive self-help book for teaching the left-handed student. With the most up-to-date research & info. on left-handedness that puts southpaw rumors and myths to rest, valuable information on how to nurture & teach the left-hander in a right-handed world with a writing method just for lefties. Plus some fun interviews with Celebrity Lefties on how they coped with being a lefty.
This illustrated teachers guide provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to teach children ages 6 to 10 a fun and effective safety program that emphasizes predator and stranger abduction prevention techniques.
A 100-year-old, tried-and-true spelling method. Get back to the classics - Education the way it was for every great man of every generation, for about 200 years. The Classical Speller is an invitation to return to a time when people cared about their spelling and everything else they produced. Students following this method will build real self-esteem and pride in a job well done | 255 |
20b59a13-c4df-434d-a514-1010e543fbe6 | What is Screen Mates, Screen Savers, Create Your Own Screen Saver?
Screen Mate is an executable from the software Screen Mates are free, interactive, animated entertainments that exist on your desktop!
A screensaver is a kind of computer program originally designed. Screen Saver Producer is a powerful tool designed to generate Windows® screen savers.
Create your own private slide show. Create a screen saver that includes pictures of family members, sports stars, and movie stars. Your Own Screensaver allows you to add your own pictures to create a very only one of its kind screensaver.
Everyone loves holidays and special occasions, although not everybody likes EVERY holiday and special occasion! Special Occasions, Holidays, Travel, and Vacations. Develop a "moderation mentality" mindset & lifestyle. | 159 |
81e090ff-9d2f-4b78-b5da-baea3ba60af3 | John King
Born in Cincinnati, singing actor John King briefly attended that city's university before embarking upon a series of manual-labor jobs. By the time he was in his early twenties, King was working as a radio announcer and vocalist at Cincinnati stations WCKY and WKRC. He was hired as a… | 65 |
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ff25897f-f5f2-4a5d-a733-842b433bc4b9 | TCP Networking Suite Debug Support RL-TCPnet
The TCP Networking Suite libraries are supplied in debug and release variants. Both variants are
functionally equivalent and either one can be selected as a single build option.
The debug versions automatically generate a log of operations which can be
viewed in a console window or captured in a file for later analysis. This information
can be used to debug unexpected behaviour and resolve coding or configuration
problems quickly and easily.
TCPnet debug log viewed in the console window.
Different levels of debugging information can be viewed and the Configuration Wizard makes it straightforward to control the type of debug information collected for each RL-TCPnet component. | 132 |
903b711f-93ab-48eb-b8f6-97416b848079 | This lesson will teach you all about the Sri Lankan Tamil writer, K. Daniel and his indefatigable quest for a solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. His novel "Kaanal" reveals his social consciousness, his characterization and style.
K. Daniel was born in 1927 in Jaffna. He was imprisoned for eleven months for having participated in the protests of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Later, he came to India and settled down in Thanjavur. He was the organizer of the Untouchability Eradication Movement, and the President of the People's Art and Literature Association. He died in 1986 in Thanjavur.
Daniel's short stories and novels describe social irregularities in the 1960s and aim at stimulating reformist feelings in the readers. Notable among the Dalit novels written by Daniel are:
In addition, Daniel has also authored several novellas and short stories.
Daniel believed that unless there are changes in the basic structure of society, irregularities will always remain. Literature should be one of the weapons capable of establishing a society devoid of social, economic and religious differences. His novel "Kaanal" was written with this objective.
By reading the novels of Daniel, we can understand the culture and customs of the ancient Sri Lankan Tamils. We can also learn about their social structure, political conditions and ethnic conflicts.
Thus, this lesson teaches you all about the conditions of the Sri Lankan Tamils, especially the Dalits, their hard work, sacrifice and so on. | 314 |
33a6dbb8-fbaf-4245-81b9-0522cb79b274 | They purported to release campaign internals to Drudge saying they were ahead in some battle ground states, that was a play to keep hope alive among the faithful and try not to depress their vote. Romney is toast.
Go on the teevee and say "it's over, folks, we don't have a snowball's chance in hell"? What would anybody do, but chin up all the way to the end, hoping that at least your voters will come out and make the loss less humiliating | 99 |
1b7366d4-911a-46fd-a063-7a70b15124af | You are here
Survivors united
Husbands of breast cancer survivors, Tommy Hemphill, center left, and Randy Owens, share a supportive hug at end of the Heroes in High Heels fundraiser for the After Breast Cancer program Thursday at the Memorial Building. Hemphill's wife Jacque has survived 7 years, and Owens' wife, Celia, 1 year. The ladies on the stage, all breast cancer survivors, hold up signs with the number of years they have survived cancer. They received a standing ovation | 109 |
d515361e-2508-4e5d-b9d5-d04c54a11120 | Texas Orthopedic Hospital loves supporting its local community. On January 16th, Lovett Elementary, in Bellaire, TX, held its 2nd annual student jogathon. Every grade level participates in this annual...
Screening for Leukemia
The purpose of screening is early diagnosis and treatment. Screening tests are usually administered to people without current symptoms, but who may be at high risk for certain diseases or conditions.
There are no screening tests or screening guidelines for leukemia.
However, your doctor may order blood counts during a routine physical examination. An examination of the blood, either for the presence of anemia or changes in white cells, is the basic diagnostic test for leukemia. Occasionally, these tests, done routinely, will result in the early diagnosis of leukemias, especially the chronic varieties | 161 |
0bb522b0-3242-4319-9065-ea123288269e | in this situation you have to take issue with unions, not the circumstances here. I think the Home's hands are tied until the investigation runs its course, or criminal charges are brought forward (despite what seems to be overwhelming video evidence that these employees are scum)
There is a process to be followed. They will be fired at the resolution of that process. The process is there to protect good employees from being unfairly targeted by bad managers and fired for petty or personal reasons. Everyone goes through the termination process, no matter the evidence against them - it's the only way to ensure that good employees are properly protected. It's just like ensuring that every criminal gets a fair trial, even when the outcome is obvious.
It's just a delay to the inevitable. Unions don't like keeping bad employees any more than management does. The success of the union is tied to the success of the company. The more successful the union can make the company, the better deal the union can broker for the workers.
It's not how its portrayed in the media these days, but that's how it actually works in the real world. Unfortunately there's been a persistent effort to redefine unions and how they work, and its showing up as a shift in the public view of unions. | 255 |
2e890dc2-ec8e-48f9-98ad-3d17cf00282c | Visits
Constitution of Uruguay
1 The original constitution was signed on 10 September 1829, written on sheets of size 39x 47, bound with blue plush covers with gold lettering, the text was written by Agustin Iturriagra.
2 juarda constitution in 1830 made up 159 articles, and the signature of all members of the Constituent Assembly of 1829. This assembly of representatives in 1825 worked in a historic house, this house was demolished in 1918.
3) Francisco Acuña de Figueroa, creator of our national anthem, in this book we see several of his creations that were in history, such as "Cielito Orient", the fragment is:
"Honey, sweetie East, Cielito of Arrebol, Anarchy is the eclipse And our country is the Sun "
4) topographic map of the city of Montevideo, after the demolition of walls and application site. (Illustrative Plans 1829) | 210 |
85fcc689-6d02-4615-a41b-8e12d1379c4a | Left: Buzz Aldrin on the moon. Right: An artist's rendition of humans on Mars. (Photos courtesy of NASA.)
Forty years ago today, July 16th, 1969, mankind blasted off for the Moon, on its way to "The Eagle has landed" and "one small step." Ticker tape parades and the American flag planted proudly on the lunar surface.
Forty years later, we have problems closer to home. But space still beckons. The US has competitors on the high frontier. And American space enthusiasts are debating where the next big push should be. Back to the Moon – maybe to build a giant solar energy station? Or straight on to Mars – maybe to create a second Earth.
This hour, On Point: Moon versus Mars, and what comes next in space | 164 |
24b73a11-044a-43da-83d9-e5cd91b41fa1 | Is there a secular, non vulgar alternative to "for heaven's sake"? Certainly not everyone who uses "for Pete's sake" associates it with St. Peter. But that doesn't change the origin of the phrase. The same goes with "pity": it's a minced oath. Many phrases with religious origins enter the vernacular and lose the original context.
Between you and ("me" or "I")? I can't help but notice that you used the phrase "bear with me" in your question and not "bear with I." The situation is the same. In english, objective pronouns follow prepositions like "with" and "between". | 133 |
aacd4a3d-fc5a-4030-9adc-9305769cf1de | Editor's note: Stephen Wolfram is a scientist and inventor who created Wolfram/Alpha and Mathematica, founded Wolfram Research and is the author of "A New Kind of Science." TED, a nonprofit organization devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," hosts talks on many subjects and makes them available through its Web site.
(CNN) -- At the age of 12, Stephen Wolfram was reading college physics textbooks and toying around with a computer roughly "the size of a large desk. With 8K of 18-bit words of core memory. And programmed with paper tape."
By the age of 20, he had gotten his Ph.D. and was on his way to inventing his own computational system.
But last year, at the age of 50, Wolfram launched what may be his most ambitious effort -- Wolfram|Alpha, a knowledge engine that answers users' questions on the Web by computing answers in real time with the help of a vast collection of databases.
In a talk at the TED2010 conference in February, Wolfram outlined the potential of the Alpha engine and talked more broadly about using computing to understand physics and model the universe.
"It was quite tense. The culmination of about five years of work and 25 more years of previous development. An absurdly ambitious project that I hadn't been sure was going to be possible at all.
"Our long-term goal was -- and is -- to make all the world's systematic knowledge computable. To take all the data, and models, and methods that our civilization has accumulated -- and set it up so that it can immediately be used to compute answers to whatever questions people ask.
"There's a long, long history to this basic idea. [German mathematician Gottfried] Leibniz was talking about a version of it 300 years ago. And 50 years ago, when computers were young, it seemed like it wouldn't be long before it was possible.
"But people mostly thought that it'd happen by computers managing to emulate brains -- and pulling in knowledge and processing like we humans do. Well, I myself am right now 50 years old... and, as perhaps I'll show you later, I'd actually been thinking about globally systematizing knowledge since I was a kid.
"It was about 30 years ago when I first started thinking about making knowledge broadly computable. And at the time I concluded it'd require solving the whole problem of artificial intelligence -- and was way out of reach. But then I spent the next 25 years doing things that, as I'll explain, finally made me think: Maybe, just maybe this computable knowledge idea isn't so out of reach.
"I must say that at first I still didn't know if it was only not out of reach in the 50-year-type time frame. Or the 20-year. Or the five-year. But I decided that we should give it a try.
"It had all started with some abstract intellectual ideas. And now, in the end, it had turned into millions of lines of code, terabytes of data -- and 10,000 servers that we'd just been finishing assembling.
"Some news had come out about our project, so there was a lot of anticipation. And we knew there'd be a big spike in people wanting to try out what we'd done.
"We'd obviously done lots of testing. But we really didn't have any idea what would happen when millions of people actually started accessing our system.
"But we thought: Let's let as many people as possible share the experience of finding out.
"So we decided to do a live webcast of the moment when we actually made our system live to the world.
"Well, actually, the day of the event I was thinking: this is going to be such boring TV. All that's going to happen is that at some moment we'll push a virtual button, and everything will go live.
"Well, needless to say, it didn't stay boring long.
"Early in the day, we had finally finished assembling all our servers -- and were able to switch them all on. And... oh my gosh... lots of stuff didn't work.
"Well, at the appointed time we started the live webcast. And still things weren't working. There was a horrible networking and load-balancing problem.
"We'd advertised 9 p.m. as our go-live time. We figured at that time on Friday evening most people wouldn't be thinking about us... so we'd have a comparatively soft launch.
"You know, some people had said when you look at other peoples' control rooms they often have television weather and news playing. Perhaps we should have that too. "I said bah, we won't need that. This is just a computer thing. We don't care if it's raining.
"Well, fortunately we did actually have good weather and news feeds. Because this was May in the Midwest. And as it turned out, with perhaps 30 minutes to go, there was another problem. Here, we can actually look at live Wolfram|Alpha to find out about it. [By typing in "weather champaign may 15 2009," a chart was generated of wind speed in Champaign, Illinois, for that date.]
"See that giant spike in wind speed just before 8pm? That was a tornado. Approaching our location. Well, we had backup generators -- and of course we had several remote co-location sites for our servers.
"But still, we had a tornado coming straight for us.
"Well, fortunately, at the last minute, it turned away. And the power didn't even go out. So at 9:33:50 p.m. central time on May 15, 2009, I pressed the button, and Wolfram|Alpha went live. | 1,176 |
2596723e-5907-4950-869d-eda4beaad665 | That's what I'm hoping for. I get that Portland is an awesome community that wants to help each other, but I swear I'll unsubscribe if I see another "Be careful out there on bikes folks" post. As a grown adult, I've made it through 27 years without the internet reminding me that water makes roads slippery.
I disagree with you. Life isn't that hard, (statistically) a tree isn't going to fall on your car, and if it does that's why you have insurance. Are we all really going to drive blocks away from our normal parking spots because there are trees? This whole city is filled with trees. | 132 |
f11de9b8-074a-48e0-94e8-40f4db6c769b | At first Chernabog regretted naming his thread "Videogames are art, dammit!" instead of "put videogames in paintings," because people were weighing in with dumb words instead of posting Photoshops. But then argondamn explained "video games are like a building that sometimes gets used for art exhibitions and sometimes for laser tag." With that settled, the content rolled right in | 81 |
d4331e11-ee9c-469a-8abc-4c2ec54cf007 | * ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' ** Type 0: Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Scrappy-Doo, most other normal people ** Type 1: Scooby-Doo, Fred, most fake monsters[[note]]Almost all of them have shown themselves capable of some impressive feats of strength and acrobatics, no matter how implausible it may seem[[/note]] ** Type 2: The Moonscar Island zombies, the Boo Brothers and most other [[NonMaliciousMonster friendly real monsters]], more elaborate fake monsters such as the Snow Creature and Dinosaur Ghost, Thorn ** Type 3: [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Simone Lenoir and her cadre]], most evil real monsters such as the villains from the ThreeShorts show ** Type 4: [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils The spirits from the Chest of Demons]], [[EvilSorcerer Ben Ravencroft]] ** Type 5: [[HumanoidAbomination Sarah Ravencroft]], [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination The Evil Entity]] unleashed]]. | 226 |
f31dacfc-6186-487f-b3cd-701cc0b82ac6 | Pages
Hair in need of continuous care. Regular brushing, preferably twice a day, is of great importance. Irritation of nerve endings in the skin when scratching revives blood circulation, which promotes the growth and preservation of the hair.
The teeth of the comb must be stupid, that they are not scratch the skin. Combing the hair is well ventilate them and to some extent, clean, remove dust. With increased greasiness and dust is recommended to use a fine toothed comb with a layer of absorbent cotton at the base of the teeth.
Combing long hair should start from the ends, short - from the root. For short hair, combing should only use a comb. Hair longer than 25-35 cm is better to comb first brush, then comb.
Combing hair brushed smoothly tidies tangled long hair. If your hair is very long, it is necessary to cover the hair tightly near the head lock for a lock, and hold on them with a brush to the end. After such preparation the hair easy to comb and comb fit. Care should be taken to combing was not pulling hair. Combs and brushes should be chistmi, they must be washed regularly.
The most common combs of hard rubber (ebonite), so to clean the comb should be applied warm but not hot, soapy water. Ebony in hot water softens takes dull gray, but most importantly, loses its shape and becomes unfit for consumption. Particular attention should monitor the cleanliness of hair brushes.
Brush dirty faster than the crest, due to beard growth. It should be washed frequently (once in 2-3 days) soap-ammonia solution (1 liter of soapy water add 2 tablespoons of ammonia). This solution quickly and easily wash it with a brush for washing hands. Before you wash your brush, you should release it from the remnants of hair and dandruff.
To do this, hit the bristles on a hard surface (shaken), the dirt falls off the end of the bristles, and hence it is easy to comb-toothed comb or metal needles. Bristle brush to clean blows on the surface with soapy water, then rinse with clean water, wiped with a towel and hung to dry. Polished side brushes can be lightly rubbed with oil.
Everyone should have its own comb and brush. Transfer it to others is unacceptable because it can be transmitted microbes.
When washing, combing hair and rubbing hygienic means of mechanical action falls a certain amount of hair. Fall in this old, dead hair. It should be borne in mind that the life of one hair on his head is calculated approximately four years, and therefore loss of a small amount - is normal, especially spring and fall.
So one day can fall up to 80 hairs. The dead hair falls from the hair follicle, called the "root", but the dermal papilla, giving rise to new hair remains in the skin. Therefore, the hair grow again. Insufficient replenishment of lost hair and a gradual thinning of a signal that the hair of patients (a consequence of violations of the nervous, endocrine and metabolism). In such cases, hygiene care is not enough to cure. | 655 |
0ad0e6ee-3747-463b-913e-c15f4f5af69a | The measure before the commission would create a five-member authority that would write the ballot question. The DIA is seeking a point-two mill tax increase in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
The millage would cost the owner of a $200,000 home $20 a year.
If all three counties approve it, the tax would raise $23 million for the museum. The money would pay for operations. The DIA is promising free admission to residents is counties that approve the millage.
Commissioners in Wayne and Macomb counties have already voted to create the authority.
*Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that commissioners in Wayne and Oakland counties had voted to put the millage question on the ballot. Wayne and Macomb have done that; Oakland commissioners vote this week. Also, the money raised by the millage would pay for operations, not an operations endowment. The copy above has been corrected. | 186 |
0d600bd4-ce89-4bab-816f-1aab0a08028c | Lys
Lys (lēs) [key], Du. Leie, river, c.135 mi (220 km) long, rising in the hills of Artois, N France, and flowing northeast, forming the Franco-Belgian border between Armentières and Menen. It continues into Belgium past Kortrijk to empty into the Scheldt (Schelde) River at Ghent (Gent). The Lys is canalized from Aire to Ghent. The Lys valley is known for flax spinning and weaving. It was the scene of severe fighting in World War I. | 128 |
e3ec8743-d070-4d4e-bbf9-1c0ab3d0a1c3 | Researchers have found that 'Eat for Life,' a new wellness approach that focuses on mindfulness and intuitive eating as a lifestyle, is more effective than traditional weight-loss programs in improving individuals' views of their bodies and decreasing problematic eating behaviors.
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Problematic eating behaviors and dissatisfaction with one's body are familiar struggles among women. To combat those behaviors, which have led to higher healthcare premiums and medical trends, employers have offered worksite wellness programs to employees and their families. However, the vast majority of wellness programs limit their approach to promoting diets, which may result in participants regaining the majority of their weight once the programs end. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that "Eat for Life," a new wellness approach that focuses on mindfulness and intuitive eating as a lifestyle, is more effective than traditional weight-loss programs in improving individuals' views of their bodies and decreasing problematic eating behaviors.
"Eat for Life offers a non-diet approach to weight management," said Lynn Rossy, a health psychologist for the UM System. "Traditional wellness programs focus on weight challenges in which participants are repeatedly weighing themselves. These actions can help participants initially lose weight, but often, people gain the weight back when the challenge is gone and the program is over."
Rossy says that weight cycling, losing weight and then gaining it back, is common in traditional wellness programs and can be more harmful than never losing any weight. Participants in the Eat for Life program are asked not to weigh themselves the entire 10-weeks of the program.
In the study, Rossy and her colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of the Eat for Life program, which combines intuitive eating and mindfulness to assist participants in developing positive relationships with food and their bodies. Intuitive eating is when individuals learn to eat, exercise and experience their bodies from their own internal cues, such as hunger and fullness, rather than external cues, such as calorie counting and weight scales.
"Intuitive eating and mindfulness are two relatively new intervention approaches that have been effective in supporting healthy eating and body image," Rossy said. "Eat for Life encourages individuals to become more engaged with their internal body signals and not the numbers on the scales."
Rossy found that women who participated in Eat for Life reported higher levels of body appreciation and intuitive eating and lower levels of problematic eating behaviors such as binging, purging and fasting, as compared to women who did not participate in the program. Eat for Life participants' weights ranged from normal to morbidly obese, and some women displayed eating disorder behaviors. At the end of the program, participants in the Eat for Life program were significantly more likely not to exhibit disordered eating. Mindfulness was a major factor in all of the positive outcomes, Rossy said.
"Eat for Life is not just for individuals with eating disorders," said Rossy. "This type of intervention program is for a variety of individuals who want to have more knowledge on how to be healthy and how to appreciate their bodies' value."
Rossy's research, "Eat for Life: A Worksite Feasibility Study of a Novel Mindfulness-based Intuitive Eating Intervention," was published in the American Journal of Health Promotion.
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645effe2-b3c2-46e9-a2ab-9872423260e6 | Space Image: Dusty Mars rover's self portrait
Mar 23, 2012
(PhysOrg.com) -- This self portrait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter. The dust reduces the rover's power supply, and the rover's mobility is limited until the winter is over or wind cleans the panels.
This is a mosaic of images taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) during the 2,111th to 2,814th Martian days, or sols, of the rover's mission (Dec. 21 to Dec. 24, 2011). The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted.
The portrait is presented in approximate true color, the camera team's best estimate of what the scene would look like if humans were there and able to see it with their own eyes.
Opportunity has worked through four Martian southern hemisphere winters since it landed in in January 2004 about 14 miles (23 kilometers) northwest of its current location. Closer to the equator than its twin rover, Spirit, Opportunity has not needed to stay on a sun-facing slope during the previous winters. Now, however, Opportunity's solar panels carry a thicker coating of dust, and the team is using a strategy employed for three winters with Spirit: staying on a sun-facing slope. The sun will pass relatively low in the northern sky from the rover's perspective for several months of shortened daylight before and after the southern Mars winter solstice on March 30, 2012. Opportunity is conducting research while located on the north-facing slope of a site called "Greeley Haven."
Related Stories(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet -- trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. ...
The most recent self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the solar panels still gleaming in the martian sunlight and carrying only a thin veneer of dust two years after the rover landed and ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five | 471 |
8c786eab-4daf-4c0f-a935-b2ae25d4992d | When the CEO of Exxon Mobil recently claimed that society could adapt to the extreme planetary heating caused by burning of global reserves of unconventional oil and gas, climate physicist Marty Hoffert had enough with the bullshit and lies. His epic rant in a blog comment on NYTimes DotEarth, picked up by Joe Romm, lays out why it's Game Over if we burn unconventional stores of carbon.
However welcome the news may be to market economists — and I'm confident Exxon-Mobil and company are licking their chops over continuing our highly profitable to them fossil fuel energy infrastructure — it's an unmitigated environmental disaster for climate change: "Game Over," as Jim Hansen rightly says.
Shale gas, shale oil and tar sands don't fundamentally change estimates of total fossil fuel resources; but these "unconventional" sources, now more cost-effective to extract as fuel for the bottomless pit of world energy demand, will make disastrous climate shifts from the CO2 greenhouse a near-certainly. Forget solar, wind and nuclear fission. They can't compete costwise now with coal-fired electricity, and unconventional cheap hydrocarbons could become as cheap as coal on a dollars per Joule of energy basis.
The result will be a hothouse planetary climate as different from today's as the middle Cretaceous a hundred million years ago was, when sea level was a hundred meters higher and both poles were de-glaciated; when dinosaurs roamed a verdant Antarctic continent. This will happen virtually instantaneously from a geological perspective as fossil fuel resources accumulated over hundreds of millions of years are burned in a hundred years or so and CO2 in the atmosphere rises as much as fourfold over pre-industrial values.
The best analogy I can think of is watching the rise of Hitler from an isolationist USA in the late thirties as the threshold for stopping him early enough to matter is passed and a holocaust of some as yet unknown horror becomes inevitable. Optimists might observe that Homo sapiens survived WWII and the subsequent cold war. But the coming inundation of coastal zones and cities along with massive species extinctions will likely be far worse. We will need to burn even more fossil fuel to "adapt" to this change by building seawalls and air conditioning, an option perhaps for rich countries, or mass migration inland and poleward for everyone else. Moreover, any attempts by our descendants to rebuild high tech civilization will be seriously hampered by the depleted state of both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon fuels. Maybe they, unlike ourselves, will learn to go straight to solar and controlled fusion power, necessity being the mother of invention. More likely is a feudal agricultural economy in high latitude lands still fertile for crops and habitable in climate; or in the worst case scenario, hunter-gathering capable of supporting perhaps a million or so humans worldwide.
Many climate researchers breathed a sight of relief when Jim Lovelock backed off from nightmare scenarios with humans huddled in polar refugia against a greenhouse-induced waterworld. Too many accept the GOP denialist scam claiming human-induced global warming is a hoax to risk being perceived as alarmists, or worse. We didn't sign on for this. We went into science and engineering, many of us, not only for the thrill of learning new by mastering objective nature, but to avoid the crazy subjectivity of human behavior. Give us labs and computers and some money and let us be geeks. We make mistakes, but we didn't sign on for abuse. Thank you Ben Santer, Michael Mann, Jim Hansen, Ken Caldeira and all my other climate/energy colleagues for your courage to speak truth to crazy. The truth is that if we burn identified fossil fuel resources, particularly the so-called unconventional ones now making free marketeers dance with joy, it is only a matter of time before a transition to "hothouse Earth" occurs.
A technology optimist, I like to believe that some genetic evolution of the human genome can produce intelligent Homo superior better adapted to living in a high tech world wrought by scientific revolutions. I hope the spark of self-awareness survives, even if our particular experiment by nature doesn't adapt and survive.
If, as Carl Sagan speculated, technological civilizations are time bombs triggered by the inability of species evolved in technology-free environments to adapt to the technologies they themselves create, then we may be destined for self-destruction. Short lifetimes of technological civilizations is a reason for the absence of intelligent life in our Milky Way galaxy according to the Drake Equation for computing the number of contemporaneous technological civilizations in a galaxy. Too bad, if true, as we have now discovered that extrasolar planets sound other stars are a dime a dozen, and may discover potentially habitable "other Earths" soon with NASA's Kepler Planet Finder.
I'm not in the "were doomed" school. Most climate model outputs indicate we still have time to avoid the worst outcomes. Scientists are actively debating how severe climate change will be and how rapidly it will happen. What we know for certain is that spikes of carbon in the geologic record are associated with mass extinction events. We don't want to go there. It is pure folly to think that we can feed anything close to the present number of people if there is a major mass extinction the religio/fascists are trying to control our military; the thought of an apocalyptic-believing/wanting military doesn't warm my heart..........
as I understand it, the military is preparing for global warming; is that right? if they are, why is the public allowed to be lied to and the plutocrats wring every last ounce of profit before the tipping point is reached?
I belong to the "US" of America, not the "ME,$,ME,$,ME,$,ME,$" of America!
When people are starving they go to war. You needn't worry about fundamentalism or anything else then. Just where you can find some food and water. And you and anyone else will sign on with the first armed band that offers them to you.
They already have solar and wind forward operating posts. The military does this, because they have to. It's a tactical adaptation to fuel shortages because we have reached peak oil.
The military right now is a massive combustion engine, so they are whittling away at every fossil fuel consuming device outside the "motor pool" as they begin a slow transition away from oil and gasoline and diesel.
The Military Industrial Petroleum Complex lies to the people, because there is a large contingency of our population that WANTS to be lied to. They are too scared to change. They cannot visualize beyond this and have dressed up as a religious and ideological issue, to justify their fearful, willful ignorance and apathy.
The Pentagon's green push -- including outfitting Marines and soldiers with solar gear, testing aircraft and ships on biofuels and building renewable power plants at bases -- won supporters from both sides of the aisle over the past year as leaders drew a clear line between the technologies and military might...At a budget hearing last week, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, the department's most high-profile alternative energy advocate, took volley after volley from Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee. They said that his priorities were misplaced, argued that spending on clean energy was taking money out of more important missions and hinted at a link between the Pentagon's green efforts and the prominence of former Silicon Valley clean-tech investors within the Obama administration.
This quote cracks me up--
Across the Potomac River from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon's top energy officials say they are baffled by the sudden controversy.
BP, meanwhile, remains a heavy supplier of military fuel under contracts worth at least $980 million in the current fiscal year, according to the Defense Logistics Agency. In fiscal 2009, BP was the Pentagon's largest single supplier of fuel, providing 11.7 percent of the total purchased, and in 2010, its contracts amount to roughly the same percentage, according to DLA spokeswoman Mimi Schirmacher.
The U.S. military recognizes that dependence on fossil fuels is a threat to U.S. strategic influence and its own operational effectiveness. With that in mind, it's trying to make itself lighter and leaner, reducing energy consumption at bases and on the battlefield while working to develop fuel alternatives for its ship and plane fleets. Republicans have been quietly grumbling about this for a while; now they are openly opposing it. The GOP wastes no opportunity to boast of "supporting the troops," but that support apparently ends where Big Oil contributions begin. Here's another story: Republicans try to force Military to use Dirty Energy. The Grist.
Basically the desire wasn't just to limit the use of Green Fuels, but also to make it so that the military could not even test using alternatives.
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More of this Famous Fail Doctrine.
It makes me wonder when I see such a self destructive agenda, if these clowns also cut themselves or freebase carpet powder.
and the same dynamic that drives the desire of the 1% to amass society's wealth directly. History has shown that empowering the middle class benefits the 1%, but it's not as satisfying, not as direct, not as full of win as an exercise of power in just plain taking it, because you can.
Those with the money, the science/engineering knowhow, and the infrastructure can be kings of energy in a renewable energy world, but it's more satisfying, direct, and full of win to continue the rampage.
We are being driven to oblivion (and you and I differ on that) by people who are doing it as a matter of preference, not of necessity.
it's the self-gratification, stupid (not YOU, of course!) -- those who lack the gene for empathy/altruism (or don't have an adequate complement of eithor or both) naturally strive to gratifiy their need to hoard what they crave (power, included) & deny to others what they want.
it's mean & petty & cruel, but that's the way the genes shake out sometimes -- & it doesn't mean that the condition these unfortunate (imo) individuals suffer from should be celebrated or even tolerated.
Those with the money, the science/engineering knowhow, and the infrastructure can be kings of energy in a renewable energy world, but it's more satisfying, direct, and full of win to continue the rampage.
Me thinks this is a part of what's going on plus mental laziness and hubris and being in a comfort zone.
But I also suspect that a wind/solar type of renewable energy would be seen as a threat to the oligopolists because of the diversification of ownership of clean energy sources.
It may not be as efficient to diversify because location is important to the efficiency of natural power sources, but from the point of view of Big Oil Big Coal Big Nuke, the competing clean sources don't require a massive infrastructure that can be dominated by oligopolies.
That's why I suspect that they love wasting 10 years building some nuke plant - no pesky consumers could ever be in control of their own energy sources with that type of power like they could be with solar panels or a wind turbine.
"Am I wrong........?" (John Goodman as Walter in the Coen Bros "The Big Lebowski")
Finally people have gotten sick and tired of being had and taken for idiots. Mikhail Gorbachev
Too often we assume that the plutocracy is acting in some conspiratorial fashion to deliberately trigger a multi-hundred-Hitler holocaust, wiping out the majority of humanity in order to enslave the rest and live like kings upon the backs of the dwindled masses.
More likely what we're dealing with here is the impulsiveness, compulsive risk-taking, and excessive gratification-seeking of diagnosable sociopaths.
It's time to chuck the political/economic model of plutocracy and replace it with a psychiatric model of plutocracy.
Then we can see these people for what they truly are, and when that point of view becomes sufficiently widespread in the culture, the demand for change will be as inexorable as the law of gravity.
"Minus two votes for the Democrat" equals "plus one vote for the Republican." Arithmetic doesn't care about your feelings.
agricultural just opens the door for industrial agriculture on a whole new scale.
For example, hydroponic-grown vegetables in greenhouses in Greenland run by nuclear power plants using desalinated water also provided by the nukes, and plant nutrients provided by evil, evil companies like Monsanto . ..
Which isn't necessarily a bad thing (or, in the name of purity, should 6 billion people be condemned?), but it will be a change for sure.
And it may well be possible. i am kind of thinking though that if we can't motivate the political will to create the relatively straightforward transformation of the power system to renewables, how on earth are e going to manage to do the far more complex transition to something like that at a time when the economy is collapsing (since I expect the strains of climate change are going to create pretty severe negative economic effects).
Maybe instead of draining our planet dry, we could oh, I don't know do things like stop letting religious fanatics block birth control, and encourage people to use family planning, and congratulate people who are childless by choice.
Sustainability will not be achieved without addressing overpopulation, which seems to be primarily driven by sectarian weirdness based on bronze age fears of scattered, vulnerable populations.
Some 40% of pregnancies in the US were unplanned in '11. That was before all the laws closing clinics, etc.
So I would love to see American women get behind a better idea than going Galt. It doesn't have to be as much as the 40% that actually refrain from getting pregnant for a year. Some who were planning to could likely hold off a year to leverage a better future for the kids. Since the unplanned ones won't ever be controlled to even 5%. Would a 25 % drop in the pregnancy rate put the fear of anything in them?
Now, think of what could happen to the BC supply. Condoms, spermicide, diaphragms, implants, pills, IUDs? How far would the psychotic plutocrats go to crush the birth strike? It's not like they could infiltrate the unions since there really wouldn't be any. Unless the plan on denying abortions from rape had a longer range intent. That's a bit too far for me, so I tell myself 'Then don't put it past their depraved minds'.
It would rely on a similar percentage of the male population becoming very cooperative. I know, hard for some of us to believe. I will go out on that limb because of being able to wield power in a way the plutos ultimately couldn't do a damn thing about.
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. " Audrey Hepburn "A Beautiful Woman"
I'm almost inclined to say that the "birth strike" is what's been happnening in the last 50 years, driving birth rates way down and facilitating women entering the workplace in large numbers. That's why their so freaked out now.
And yes, you'd have at least some significant numbers of men behind that. Or rather I should say you do have
Will take one of two paths. Either the people will rise up democratically and expel the sociopaths minions in their governments and demand that the 'owners' start relinquishing their 'ownership' or the society will demand that a 'savior' come and restore 'order'. I don't hold out much hope that America will be in the former category.
'Osama Bin Ladien is still dead and GM is still alive' - Joe Biden "Dems kill terrorist. The GOP keeps them around as a boogeyman - so they can continue to steal."
much food production takes place either on flood plains near rivers that have been relatively docile these last few millennia which will in the near future be pushed beyond their banks regularly by new climate rain patterns, or on barely arable land relying heavily on dwindling aquifers or reservoirs for water.
and inversion of religious, humanitarian, economic and scientific values and principles over the last forty years didn't occur by accident or coincidence any more than global climate change itself has.
Personally I think our greatest problem and the plutocraty's greatest success has been the creation of fake authorities which has required a great deal of work and money to create and widely and frequently disseminate their key opinions about what constitute truth and reality.
Human idiocy has a far longer and deeper-reaching effect on human history than does human conspiracy. 99.9% of the hyper-rich lives lives so insular and protected they grow up with the sense nothing drastically bad can ever happen to them.
But when it comes to a reduction of the human population from a level of 7x10^9 to something like 3x10^7 all the penthouse condos in all the toniest cities of the world will be as nothing compared to knowledge of farming and handicrafts.
These skills are in short supply among the 1% of the 1%. And electronic tallies of wealth on some underwater Cayman Island bank will count for naught.
It's a batshit, crazy gamble. What does ownership mean without a government to enforce it? It is just a piece of paper. Armies to keep the riff-raff out march are their stomach too - and they are human. IF we saw the CEO's and chief officers of these oil companies and of these banks creating massive citadels in the architect Canada, then I could believe that they are thinking ahead. But really, what they are doing is continuing to make massive profits in hopes that the future will pretty much be status quo. The only difference being that they can start their summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard in April instead of June.
'Osama Bin Ladien is still dead and GM is still alive' - Joe Biden "Dems kill terrorist. The GOP keeps them around as a boogeyman - so they can continue to steal."
I think part of the problem is that the scientists aren't getting the message out about the 'worst case' scenarios, which are now also the 'current path' scenarios.
We need to focus like a laser beam on exactly what happens to agriculture in the US under a 6C warming scenario. We need to discuss the idea that the US goes from a net exporter of food to the world, to a country totally dependent on foreign imports. Yes, our entire supply of corn and wheat will have to come from Canada!
We need to discuss economic impacts of being as dependent on foreign countries for food as we are currently for oil. We need to discuss the impact on food prices globally as the US sucks up all available surplus around the planet, and billions of people in other countries can't afford to eat.
And we need to talk about the next century, not the current one, when an additional 6C warming kicks in, and agriculture essentially ends worldwide.
Yea, it's a dire message, and some people will dismiss it as hysterical overreaction. But there are enough people in the middle who will start to fear those consequences that we may start to shift their willingness to do the obvious thing.
Yea, the glaciers pushed all the good dirt into the US midwest, left a lot of rocks behind. And the sun will be low on the horizon, even if it's warm. And extreme weather will still destroy crops left and right. Everything comes together nicely to reduce crop yields globally. We'll be lucky to have enough food for a billion people, total.
Which needs to be our message: Agriculture ENDS in a 6C warming scenario. Let the other side try to explain how everything will be fine without agriculture, as long as we have cheap fuel for our cars.
Polar bears are meaningless, they are essentially already extinct. Even sea level rise is nothing but a nuisance. When ecological collapse arrives, it will instantly mean agricultural collapse, and nothing else will matter. Food and water are always going to be our first priority. (Ok, second priority if you want to count air.)
There is no almost no way that we can avoid 3 degrees C
(5.4 degrees F) by the end of the century. We're already seeing extreme weather effects with less than 1 degC of warming. I doubt very much that the global agricultural system can continue working at the level of warming that is almost inevitable.
Look at the current Midwestern heat wave. What happens if we have those conditions every year?
The ONLY way we can avert disaster is to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere. That will require CO2 emissions roughly in half. But we are already committed to further temperature increase as well as continued melting of Greenland and Antarctica. We have to stop the process before it becomes self sustaining. It may well be too late for that, though.
Our 'current path' trajectory appears to be a 6C target. Maybe slightly less, if enough people take individual action below the government level.
But I honestly believe that it won't be that hard to halt the warming at 2.5C, and drop it after that. Once we have the political will to do something, we'll discover that a survivable target is pretty easy to reach.
So I'm a total pessimist if we continue on our current path, but really quite optimistic if we manage to actually take meaningful action.
overthrowing most of the people now in power; the corporations, their associated media, and their tame governments. Unfortunately, the majority of people buy from the first, believe the second and support the third.
Swathes of Colorado and Utah are on fire this year. This is partly a function of heat, wind, and lack of precipitation, but it is also caused by plagues of insects that infest the forests in this warmer climate. You would think that the good folks in those states would become born again environmentalists, but they're not.
Texas was on fire last year, and both last year and this it has been stinking hot, but here's some quotes from the 2012 Texas GOP platform: [3]
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U.S. Department of Energy – We support the elimination of the Department of Energy.
Incandescent Light Bulbs - We support the freedom to continue to use and manufacture incandescent light bulbs.
Keystone XL Pipeline – We support the immediate approval and construction of the Keystone XL and other pipelines that will reduce our reliance on imported oil and natural gas from unstable or unfriendly countries.
Deep Water Drilling – We support immediate resumption of deep water drilling and production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Land Drilling – We support land drilling and production operations including hydraulic fracturing.
O.K., this is the GOP and the crazy committed arm of it at that, but most people simply don't have a handle on cause and effect.
"There's a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in". Leonard Cohen
Government Restrictions – We support immediate removal of government barriers to free market solutions to production and distribution of energy including restrictions on:
•drilling and production operations on public and private lands and waters
•refineries
•electric power generation and distribution
•federal gas mileage standards (CAFÉ standards) and fuel blends
"There's a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in". Leonard Cohen
Colorado springs was hit by something that can only be described as an 'epic firestorm'. It has been described as if the earth opened up and revealing 'Hades'. Years of forest miss-management, global warming induced forest drying and insect infestation, El Paso county's absolute refusal to raise taxes resulting in many services being shutdown, including police, park and fire services. 50 years of forest fire service neglect resulting in a steep drop in tankers. Federal budgets slashed to feed the war machine. And who are they blaming in the editorial pages of the Gazette? Obama. The most you will get out them is that we are just experiencing a 'natural warming weather cycle'.
'Osama Bin Ladien is still dead and GM is still alive' - Joe Biden "Dems kill terrorist. The GOP keeps them around as a boogeyman - so they can continue to steal."
message out?! Have you watched the Discovery channel, et al, doomsday documentaries? I know I've run across many and that's on Netflix alone!
I constantly run across climate news or hear news stories from climatologists even on the radio and I live in RURAL MISSOURI! The message is out, it's being ignored because no one knows what the solution is and the only ones being floated around are way too scary and unconvincing - so... people ignore it. If I don't know how to fix it, and it's not messing up my life right now... I have way too many other things to worry about like how to pay for a full tank of gas to get to work or how to make a $50 grocery budget last 2 weeks! People are stressed and when the solution isn't clear and promising, it's easier to worry about other things and wait until it all comes. Every time a solution comes out, we find out how NOT perfect it is and how in fact, we're really not sure if there is an answer! Wind power might change the weather if we went full scale, hydrogen power could be dangerous, ethanol takes more gas to make than it creates, solar power is not currently cost effective, batteries for electric cars can have a HUGE carbon footprint, nuclear energy is dangerous and has a lot of waste. We don't know exactly how to fix this in a practical way yet.
In the past when we have told people what to do to help, they usually do it. Hybrid car sales went through the roof, energy efficient bulbs are most everywhere now (even at the feed store where I live), recycling has truly improved over the years with offices and schools participating and making it a habit for folks. These are good, direct things the public was shown could be effective, and lo and behold they did it.
People know, people have heard the arguments, the warnings. You can walk down the street and ask 10 people about global warming and every one of them will have an opion. It's NOT a secret, and I'm so tired of this argument I keep running into that scientists aren't getting the message out. It's out!!!
We need a central leader, be it a group or a political person whatever that has a real solution that people can understand and see how it would work. Until that day, the problem will just continue to get bigger.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when geniune passion moves you, say what you've got to say... and say it hot. - D. H. Lawrence
No, I don't watch the Discovery channel anymore, they have too many shows about BigFoot and Ancient Aliens and UFOs.
But in general, people have gotten the message about the 2C warming scenario. They understand more extreme weather, rising oceans, loss of biodiversity. They may not believe all the consequences are gonna be real, but they know what they are.
What most people don't know about is how much worse it'll be if we go all the way to 6C warming this century. They don't understand mass extinctions, and how loss of biodiversity and environmental stress will cause a collapse of our agricultural system. People talk about economic damages, but nobody is talking about a collapse of our food supply.
when I hear the farmers around here though they seem to know how bad it is - they are suffering more from the effects than anyone else, they just don't know how they can fix it and still survive day to day in the mean time.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when geniune passion moves you, say what you've got to say... and say it hot. - D. H. Lawrence
By nature, are 'conservative' people. A good scientist will not stand behind something unless they can repeatedly prove something, their peers can prove it, and it is accepted by their field. They may make claims or engage in scenarios of logical extremes, but most will not put their reputation on the line unless they can prove something with certainty. All climate change models are conservative by nature. Only the most likely scenarios are offered.
It is not the responsibility of the scientist to be more aggressive. There simply is no debate in all (but one) scientific community on several key points: global warming is happening, it is caused by humans digging up carbon in the earth and dumping it into the atmosphere, it will continue to happen even if we reduce our carbon footprint to 0 (there is still carbon in in pipeline) and the consequences are catastrophic. You want to blame someone? Blame those who ignore science and fill the populace with doubt.
'Osama Bin Ladien is still dead and GM is still alive' - Joe Biden "Dems kill terrorist. The GOP keeps them around as a boogeyman - so they can continue to steal."
In a commentary published Sunday in the prestigious journal Nature, Weaver and colleague Neil Swart analyze how burning all global stocks of coal, oil and natural gas would affect temperatures. Their analysis breaks out unconventional gas, such as undersea methane hydrates and shale gas produced by fracking, as well as unconventional oil sources including the oil sands.
They found that if all the hydrocarbons in the oil sands were mined and consumed, the carbon dioxide released would raise global temperatures by about .36 degrees C. That's about half the total amount of warming over the last century.
When only commercially viable oil sands deposits are considered, the temperature increase is only .03 degrees C.
In contrast, the paper concludes that burning all the globe's vast coal deposits would create a 15-degree increase in temperature. Burning all the abundant natural gas would warm the planet by more than three degrees.
Jim Hansen came up with a different answer. I suspect that he has a higher climate sensitivity to CO2 in his model. I suspect that means that civilization would collapse before we could burn all the coal if he's right
There is more than enough uncertainty in the range of inputs, scenarios, and climate sensitivity for both Hansen's paper and the paper you cite to deserve to be in the scientific literature.
I absolutely oppose censorship of anyone who has fairly passed the rigors of peer review. Scientific progress is based on a dialectic process. Progress ends when everyone agrees. I oppose the faux debates that deniers try to engage in but there's a legitimate debate about climate sensitivity.
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There's at least 1.5-2 degrees C rise already baked into the system. With that we have Dust Bowl conditions throughout the midwest up to Alberta, chronic drought (and fire) in the southwest and west, little to no Sierra snowpack in California, and even the wet northwest gets hotter and drier. And there's no certainty it'll stop at 2C.
Time to avoid the worst conditions? Less time every day, and the problem is there's no political will to do anything meaningful in the little time remaining. See Rio+20, lack of action.
Sometimes it comes in a dream, and sometimes in one more newspaper headline. And then you know. With your cells and past and future you know. It's over. We are killing it all and soon it all will be dead. We are here at the death of the world—killers, witnesses, and those who will die. How then shall we live?
The Dutch kids' chorus Kinderen voor Kinderen wishes all the world's children freedom from hunger, ignorance, and war.
of most scenarios is a real World War III as nations try to protect their resources or go after another nation's resources. Most of humanity will probably die sooner or later from starvation or lack of water in the grim scenarios but there are a lot of nations out there that will fight when it comes right down to sharing (or not) its resources. Factor in a full scale nuclear war down the road and all bets are off as to the survival of the human race.
Think about it...Is he saying we should give up if the line is crossed?
Because it surely will be crossed. That tar in Canada will be sold & burned, Keystone or not. Disgusting and dangerous, yes, but fatal? No more so than the rest of the suicidal carbon economy. It's all fatal if you want to look at it that way.
We should fight as hard as we can, and eventually we'll either win or die, but please, no premature threats of Game Over.
If you read his statement as 'give up', then you're right, it's not very helpful.
But if you look at it from another angle, he's saying that this is the path to collapsing civilization, it's the path to 6C warming and the end of agriculture, it's the path to a complete and total disaster. Humanity loses big time. And I think that's a message that isn't getting out. People aren't looking at the real consequences of 6C warming, and they need to.
Scientists are warning about the consequences of 2C warming, and trying to avoid 2.5C, but nobody is drawing a clear picture of what happens at 6C and beyond. And fully exploiting our existing fossil fuel resources, conventional and unconventional, make 6C a virtual certainty. We need to discuss the actual consequences of the 'current path', rather than the consequences of 'getting sane sometime soon'.
when sea levels were 75-120 feet higher than they are now.
Life existed in the Pliocene. Probably some type of agriculture would have been possible, but it was a world unlike what we have today.
The earth has not been 6 deg hotter than today since the PETM 55 million years ago.
6 degrees is an extinction event.
2 or 3 degrees within, say, a hundred years would make agriculture infeasible in much of the world. The earth would not be able to support its current population.
It is possible to stop before we get above 2 degrees, but it will take an organized and concerted effort. Does anybody see that happening?
at most, the tar sands are responsible for 3% of petroleum based emissions, which - according to our previous discussion in this thread - are 1/3 of overall global carbon emission.
Therefore, the tarsands are responsible for about 1% of global carbon emissions - thus how is 100% apparently OK (i.e. w/o the tar sands) but when the emission reach 101%, that's suddenly "game over"?
That totally strains credibility.
Another way to look at this is via the figures you are currently disputing where total non-conventional oil provides (according to Nature publication) a 0.36 C increase in temperature compared to 15 C for coal.
Sure, due to the factors you raise, maybe that should actually be 1 degree C? Fair enough, but in that case coal would give rise to an even more disastrous 45 C increase in temperature. Again, the contributions of oil are rather minimal compared to coal.
For the life of me I don't know why we are so timid as to attack a minor, minor part of the problem. In this regard we could totally learn something from the Karl Rove types who - exemplified by his strategy against Kerry - don't dilly dally around the edges but go straight for the jugular.
has a whack-a-mole aspect to it - e.g., coal may decrease slightly but only because cheap natural gas is flooding the market (which domestically, is great - for example it is providing a huge bolus of investment in domestic petrochemical industry that has long thought to be totally lost to this continent).
OTOH, James Hansen's going to the mat with crazy statement about the Alberta tar sands (especially wrt the Keystone pipeline) remain baffling headscratchingly strange. In particular, in the last couple of years the entire capacity of Keystone has been filled by new production from the Bakken, which is being moved by rail of all things. Again, the whack-a-mole aspect at play.
Seriously, this problem will NEVER be solved at the production level, although it's an easy target to rant about, the much more difficult issue of demand must be addressed for long term solutions.
because it reinforces the notion that basically hadn't been popularized that we are very much with our backs against the wall.
"Running out of tiem" is not nearly as effective as "time is almost up" or "the end is here NOW"
I think that it communicates the sense of a threshold well that, given human pyschology, is what is required. A slow moving crisis gets ignored.
I'm far too old for that . . . I'll probably outlive Summer ice in the Arctic, but not the Antarctic ice cap. Neither is the planet doomed . . . "the Earth abideth forever" (more or less, viewed from a human time scale). But it is going to be a very different world from the one of the history books, or of our own experience. Generations to come will see whatever world they grow up in as "normal", and wonder how we managed to survive in the crazy world the passing of which we now lament.
But spare me the false optimism that we can somehow "stop it", that the "tipping point" is still tomorrow, rather than yesterday. Our world is over . . .
...now they're just switching to the "Yeah, but it's no big deal" defense?
While the global warming vs. natural climate variances debate continues on in other quarters, it seems significant that one of the major contributors to global warming: Exxon Mobile, has apparently decided that they aren't even going to bother to deny their adverse impact on the climate any more.
They've now shifted their strategy from "No we don't" cause global warming" to "Well, we probably do, but so what? People adapt, right?"
The UAH data shows a trend of 0.013 degrees C per year, for a total of .442 degrees C (in the lower troposphere) since satellite measurements began in 1978. The CO2 concentrations since that time have increased by 62 ppm.
GISSTEMP shows 0.0157 deg C per year, or more than .5 degrees C since 1978. That is a lot of warming.
Over the last decade, we've added 24 ppm of CO2 to the atmosphere. Unless there are some major changes in the world economy, that rate of increase will almost certainly accelerate.
Street gets sea water in the street and the Stock Exchange building has it's basement full of salty wetness, there will be a change. Probably not until then. The stock market part of Wall Street is only 30 feet above sea level, and where it ends at the waterfront it's only 10 ft. It wouldn't take much of a hurricane to push the ocean up that high and get 'em wet.
Of course, by the time things get that bad, it will be inevitable that Manhattan will be submerged eventually.
my understanding of human behavior. Fossil fuels do not burn themselves, we burn them to achieve our goals. And the reason we have not solved this problem is very likely a lack of will. Technological solutions only come about after people work on them. And there is very little support for this research. We should have started on the research path in the mid 70s. We ignored research then and we ignore it now. And by the time it gets really bad it will be too late. You can argue 2C or 6C but without any real attempts to do the engineering needed to forestall the problem we are screwed.
… as his opposite number, some superpower summit agreements might have been hammered out to the long-term benefit of humanity as a whole. One of the areas Carter tried to spearhead was alternative energy.
As things happened, the fall of the Berlin Wall was quickly followed by "ethnic cleansing" and NATO intervention in former Yugoslavia, and no so-called "peace dividend" ever materialized.
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In the month of June we've lost over 600 homes to raging out of control fires from historical extreme drought and heat. 2 Weeks ago a fire in northern Colorado smashed the record for the most houses ever destroyed by a forest fire, and that record was smashed again a few days ago. About 85% of the biggest forest fires in Colorado history have occurred in the last 15 years.
I would love to see that moron CEO come to Colorado and tell all the people not to worry because they'll "adapt".
I predict within 20 years, much of Texas will be a desert. Las Vegas region will be a ghost town as their one source of water will be gone. Raging large fires will be a constant during summer months. Mudslides will be a constant. Incredible flash floods will hit , just look around all of this is basically in motion now.
24 inches of rain in Florida in 2 days, Colorado and New Mexico on fire, most of the country baking in crazy heat.
Here is where science become lacking, by the time the are ready to declare something as a fact, its it too late, it by very definition, has already occurred. Test and verify has its limits. We cant wait for science to tell us what we should be able to for see with our own minds.
I see one hope and one hope only. Battery technology. Things such as this may be our last hope
Which empirical data series lag various modeled forcings by how much? Curve fitting is troublesome enough with the short histories we have, and gets really crazy when time lag windows are sliding around.
It's good to have statisticians around to warn about threats to significance. It's even better when models actually contain physics for all the theoretical constructs rather than relying on parameter fitting.
Japan is restarting their nuclear reactors now, one at a time as they are checked. That will let them bring their C02 emissions down even further as they use nuclear again for baseload and continue the renewables boom.
50% nuclear, 50% renewables. Then push for 30% nuclear and 70% renewables. That is the path forward. It's very simple. We have nuclear power and 7 billion live, or we continue burning coal, and 7 billion die.
Everyone who lobbies for a nuclear plant shutdown that keeps the coal burning will have blood on their hands. And you don't have to take my word for it...
As societies disintigrate, they have less to lose. At some point a threshold is reached, past which probability of nuclear weapons deployment nears 100%.
What happens when agricultural production areas shift so far north that civilization in the US, Europe, and Russia begins to collapse? Are the warlords who rise to power going to view nukes the way we now do? Even in developed nations, keeping nukes locked down is a challenge, imagine a society in which people's outlook extends into the future no further than their next meal.
You raise an interesting point, but I think this is a problem that solves itself. If we are having wars over scarce resources like usable farmland and fresh water, why are we going to use weapons that indiscriminately destroy farmland and fresh water? It's far better to occupy the enemies land, so you can take his water and food.
There will be wars, no question, but I think infantry will be the dominant tool.
Like it or not, some kind of 'nuclear option' (pardon the pun) will be needed to provide a carbon free form of energy with technology available today.
It's understood that there are risks in operation and storage of spent fuel but we have invested next to nothing in bringing forward cleaner, safer and more efficient nuclear fission technology (forget about fusion for now).
Nuclear weapons may in fact by necessity be beaten into plowshares, i.e. their fissile materiel converted into nuclear reactor fuel. Fissile uranium and plutonium are not inexhaustible but can serve as a bridge to a full renewable energy infrastructure that minimizes carbon use.
namely that people aren't quite convinced that the current warming is due to CO2. As nasty as the weather is now, I think we probably have at least close to enough shock. What we need, and what Exxon et. al. are trying to prevent us having, is some clarity on how the greenhouse effect works. Just like when the oil companies spread FUD, it's necessary to say repeatedly that more oil and coal burning means, at best, more of what we have now.
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"We can adapt." Is a road we can travel for a while, but that road eventually ends at the edge of a cliff.
I recently watched a TED lecture by David Roberts. He spoke about what a 6 degree (celsius, mind you) increase would mean. Under those conditions, peak surface temperatures on the surface of the earth could reach 170 degrees Fahrenheit. You don't adapt to that; you go outside and cook to death.
The "adapt" crowd is peddling the lie that we can keep on doing what we're doing and just turn up the air conditioning. Not true. Large swathes of the earth will be either underwater or too hot to sustain human life. The people living in those places aren't going to sit there and die; they are going to try to move. Imagine a global refugee crisis with many millions of displaced people – it would be unlike anything the earth has ever seen.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Some climate models may suggest we have time to avoid the worst outcomes - but that's if we start now. We are so far away from that I don't see it happening even within the next few decades, by which point it will be way past too late. As China and India and other developing countries continue to accelerate the rate of increase of their energy use we will hit the point of no return very soon.
Also, climate models from a decade or more ago have been proving again and again to have been too optimistic, as we are regularly hitting or surpassing all their worst predictions. Personally I believe it will be as bad or worse than even the worst case predictions today.
Atheism is a religion like Abstinence is a sexual position. - Bill Maher, 2/3/2012
Year after year most important indicators are worse than the worst case scenario. We must cap things now, but instead the changes are accelerating. North Carolina can outlaw nonlinear projections, but Nature will ignore human laws. The only questions are how bad and how fast.
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37bbcd07-5538-4022-bad1-2207ac35935a | How to Stay Healthy Over 50
Staying healthy is always a good idea, whatever age you are, but staying healthy over 50 is even more important for your well being. That's because our bodies gradually start to wear out, making it more difficult to move around, shift excess weight, process our food and recover from illness. When you are over 50, you are more likely to suffer from life threatening diseases such as heart attacks and different types of cancer, as well as osteoporosis. It's essential to find out how to stay healthy and to be proactive in seeking medical help. Here are some of the common conditions that affect men and women over 50, some of the preventive measures you can take and ways to stay healthy for a long time.
Common Conditions Some conditions affect men and women equally as they get older. For example, most people tend to gain weight in their 50s as their metabolism slows down and their body's ability to process nutrients declines. This increases the risk of developing heart disease and other life changing conditions. High blood pressure can affect your heart, kidneys, brain and blood. Left untreated, this puts you at higher risk of heart attacks.
High cholesterol levels also affect the health of your heart and arteries. Staying healthy means keeping this under control. High blood sugar levels can cause heart disease, blindness and kidney failure. As we age, our vision starts to decline. Cataracts and glaucoma are common in seniors, but can be treated if caught early.
A Testing Regime With most conditions, early identification is the key to treatment, so there are a number of tests both men and women should have regularly when they reach their 50s. These include:
a cholesterol test at least every five years; more regularly if your family history means that you are at risk of having a heart attack
a rectal examination to check for colon cancer at least every ten years
a regular blood pressure test
a regular blood sugar check to catch diabetes
a regular check on weight
an annual check for moles, which can be a sign of some cancers
an annual flu vaccination.
an eye test every one to two years
regular dental checks to detect any gum disease
As you move into your 60s, you should get a hearing test every three years. The hearing loss experienced by 30 percent of people over 60 can usually be treated. If you are over 60, you should also guard against pneumonia with a pneumococcal vaccination. Everyone should also have a tetanus shot every ten years.
Staying Healthy For Women There are a number of conditions that particularly affect women. Women should have a thyroid test every five years from the age of 50, as this gland, which regulates hormones, may begin to function erratically. Women usually start menopause in their 50s, and may experience hot flashes, aching joints, night sweats, bladder problems and mood swings. However, just because you have stopped menstruating, it doesn't mean that you can kiss the gynecological exam goodbye. Women in their 50s and older still need pelvic exams and pap smears every one to three years, especially if they are sexually active. This test can help you to detect cervical and ovarian cancer in time to do something about it, as these conditions typically affect women in this age group.
Breast cancer is another risk area for women over the age of 50. Get an annual mammogram and breast exam to detect any changes in breast tissue. One third of women are also affected by osteoporosis, which thins the bones and makes them more likely to fracture. Staying healthy involves eating a healthy diet and doing weight-bearing exercises several times a week.
Staying Healthy For Men A key area for men is prostate cancer, but this can be detected by an annual PSA-prostate test, which checks for the level of PSA in the blood. A rectal exam is another way of checking prostate health. Bladder cancer may also affect men over 50, especially smokers. Though no predictive tests are listed for this form of cancer, check with your doctor if urination is painful, more frequent or bloody. Other conditions that may affect men over 50 include incontinence, erectile dysfunction and male menopause (or andropause), when levels of male hormones begin to drop.
Diet and Exercise In addition to regular health checks, other ways to stay healthy include improving diet and nutrition and engaging in regular exercise. Exercises for strength, endurance, balance and flexibility are crucial at this age. If you quit smoking and reduce alcohol intake, you will also improve your health.
Quality of life is not dependent on age . We can be unhealthy and out of balance at any age. There are choices we can make and decisions to be made that affect the way we age. It is important to get the assistance that we need, be as strong as we can, be active in life, and enjoy the adventure.
Aging is not a simple process. It is a multidimensional and dynamic process. Not everyone experiences aging in the same way or at the same rate. Some people are fortunate enough to live long and healthy lives. | 1,049 |
24e252f9-32a1-4346-a8a2-15433a43c50e | I was actually thinking that Obama was one politician who would not be caught with his pants down in a sex scandal cheating on his wife like Edwards, Clinton or Elliot Spitzer. I couldn't put my finger on it but I thought that something didn't sit right. I believe that Obama was being groomed to become president as long as 25 years ago. I believe his mom must have known Ayers. I belive he was told to become a christian and chose a church. I believe he was directed toward Michelle and told he needs to have 2 kids to fit the american idea of an average family. He was made a senator and the biography was writted by Ayers all to create a viable candidate and erase the poor student, pot smoking, Marxist student that he was. Who writes a biography when they are in their 40's? It was written to get his name out there and to take people's minds off of the questions we are all asking now.
As for the commenter swim-r-sink who says Obama is gay, if this is true it's never too late to bring this out on Fox News perhaps. But only if it is verifiably true.
I might add, if Obama's mother was alive he would have had a hard time running for president since she was a serious Marxist. It would have been very hard for the MSM to get around that.
As opposed to all those people who write their autobiographies at the ripe old age of 20.
And you are hereby forbidden from using the word "Marxist" in American political rhetoric. It no longer has any meaning whatsoever, largely thanks to twits like you carelessly hurling it about at whatever it is that has your collective panties in a bunch at the moment.
What the hell?! You honestly believe that Obama has been groomed for the presidency since the eighties? Are you nuts?! Wait a minute, don't answer that question, of course you're nuts. American Thinker, you have no right to call yourself that. I still haven't forgiven the commenter on here who asked if "American Thinker" was a name of one of those "joke magazines" such as "Famous Italian War Heroes" and "Great German Comedians". You are giving all of us a bad name, so GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY!
Ok you know what? Someone being groomed for presidency from a young age is not unheard of, it can and does happen in a few democratic nations.
But to believe, for even a second, that a couple middle class guys and his mom would start a conspiracy that would take twenty years and a probably large amount of money to make young Obama appear to be presidential material just to further an agenda? That's crazy even by the standards of what goes on this site
I know, I said it's happened before, I was pointing out the absurdity of someone at a much lower economic scale than the Kennedys planning to make their kid president because anyone who ever "Groomed" their kid for office was already influential or wealthy enough that their family name already had power.
Grain of truth behind this. There was a segment on MSNBC the other day about how historically the lack of major scandals in the Obama administration is unprecedented; statistically we should have had a sex scandal or something by now.
You're wrong. In fact, he was being groomed to become president long before he was born. His grandfather was employed by Stalin to have a daughter and she was told to marry a Kenyan man by the Kremlin. This goes back much farther than you think. | 730 |
096af631-712a-4463-b77c-79f7777f883e | Quest for Better Yields
Follow Kip Cullers, a Purdy, Mo., farmer known for his bin-busting soybean yields, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie and Farm Journal Machinery Editor Margy Fischer as they travel to Brazil to learn more about the country's soybean production.
Brazilian Sugar Cane Harvest
Feb 23, 2012
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie and Missouri farmer Kip Cullers give their insights into Brazilian sugar cane production from a field where they are in the process of planting sugar cane.
The Brazilian farmers are harvesting the "seed cane" in an adjacent area. Around 20% of every acre of the seed cane field is used to plant an acre for new production. One sugar cane is planted and harvested for six years before replanted into sugar cane or another crop. The seed cane is cut into 8" to 10' pieces, and every node can produce a stalk. It is spread into a knee-deep furrow with a fertilizer applied when the trench is dug. Then a machine comes through and covers the plant segments and applies an insecticide (to control termites) and a fungicide. | 243 |
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Yes, this is to be expected and perfectly normal - when you have a half filled container of beer, the carbon dioxide that's dissolved in the beer will come out of the beer to fill the space available, so you have less carbon dioxide in the beer, and less fizz.
You can try keeping the half-filled bottles cool which will retain more carbon dioxide in the ...
weigh your priming sugar, don't measure the volume
boil it in just enough water to dissolve it for a few minutes
pour that sugar syrup into your bottling bucket
rack the beer onto the sugar mixture
give it a couple gentle stirs with a sanitized spoon
That works for me. Hopefully it will work for you, too!
My experience has shown that going through the beer out line doesn't change the rate the beer carbs up. Whether using the 'set and forget' process, or the high PSI and shake method. The bubbles coming out the bottom really aren't increasing the surface ratio enough for it to be significant. The bubbles just rush up to the surface.
The downside to the ...
It's probably just too cool. I had lots of problems with carbonation when I left my bottles in my 65-70 degree basement. In fact, I had one batch where the bottles on the concrete floor did not carbonate but the ones sitting on top of those, off the floor, did carbonate. Eventually, I started putting them in the laundry room on a shelf above the dryer, where ...
Let's separate this out into two phases: carbonation and dispensing.
Carbonation inside a keg can be done just like carbonation inside a bottle: by the addition of a specific amount of sugar, which will be fermented by the residual yeast, which will create a specific amount of CO₂, measured in "volumes". With external CO₂, however, you can also "force ...
You're on the right track, but DME is around 80% fermentable, so you wouldn't get much residual sweetness.
Using a blend of lactose and sucrose (table sugar) might work. The sucrose will ferment producing a small amount of alcohol and carbon dioxide. The lactose will not ferment and will provide residual sweetness.
You could also try an artificial ...
For what it's worth, I usually set mine at 40psi for 24 hours, then 20psi for 24 hours, then 10psi for 24 hours, and fine tune from there. I usually serve at about 8psi.
Naturally, I pour myself a pint at each interval for quality control purposes. ;)
If you saw a beer head during the 2nd fermentation, you likely just let the beer get too cold. Ales tend to like 70F+ bottle fermenting conditions.
You can tell if your beer's yeast has died by the foam created when mixing in sugar. The reaction will always create alcohol and CO2. The reaction creates bubbles, which make the foam during fermentation. ...
The beer inside a keg should (and virtually always will) be fully fermented and carbonated if you're dispensing it. This is how beer in a commercial keg comes. In the situation I think you're referring to, CO2 or a pump is simply used to add/maintain enough pressure within the keg to push the beer out and into a glass. CO2, when applied at the right ...
Commercial kegs in distribution, either in transit or in waiting to be put on tap in bar are … exactly the situation you describe. It will be just fine. You don't really need to add any additional headspace pressure over the pressure to reach you intended carbonation level. Hop flavors fade over time, of course, but that's unrelated to your question.
I suspect it has to do with the ratio of liquid volume to gas (head) volume. When bottling each bottle has a certain amount of headspace, while when kegging the amount of headspace relative to the liquid vloume is much smaller since there is only one vessel.
Now, I am not talking about the speed of carbonation, just the final result (the equilibrium):
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The carbonation process shouldn't matter with respect to your altitude. Inside your keg is a closed system. So the same rules of temperature and pressure applied will get you the same volumes of CO2.
The rate at which the beer 'de-carbs' in the glass IS effected by your altitude however. So if you find that the beer is getting too flat to quickly, well ...
I would assume higher pressures aren't used because of the greater possibility for overcarbonation. If you carbonate a little too long at 20 PSI your beer will be less overcarbonated than if you overcarbonated at 40 PSI. The room for error/deviation is greater at a lower PSI. Perhaps there is a more scientific answer...
Ehhhh, not having 50 points... Either way, I would HIGHLY recommend not opening up the bottles and adding anything, or taking anything else out. This is just asking for contamination or at least oxygenation. Warm the bottles up a bit should work. Or letting them sit longer works too.
Also, the yeast that is left in suspension when bottling is normally the ...
This is called "back sweetening", and you can look it up for a more authoritative answer than mine. As far as I know there are three approaches (purely from reading books and recipes, I've never actually back-sweetened myself):
Add sugar right before you drink it.
Add non-fermentable sugars or sweeteners. I've seen lactose most commonly recommended.
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It depends entirely on what you mean by 'the nature' or 'quality of of the carbonation'.
If we're talking carbonation and only carbonation (literally the level of dissolved carbon dioxide in the finished product, usually expressed as volumes of CO2/volume of liquid, or as parts per million) there's no difference between reaching that by bottle-conditioning ...
Assuming the same beer properties, the surface tension should be equal between force carbonation and bottle carbonation. Assuming equal surface tension, the CO2 bubbles should be equivalent in size.
With equal temperature, pressure, time, and surface tension, the CO2 bubble size should be equivalent.
Carbonation can have a dramatic effect on beer flavor. I suspect your beer is overcarbonated and that's the cause of the off flavor. You can reduce the carbonation by allowing the keg to warm up to room temperature and periodically venting the keg as the CO2 comes out of solution. As suggested by @Pepi, use this chart to determine what you should set your ...
Five gallons worth of priming sugar going into four gallons of beer is most likely your problem. The possibility of inadequately stirring it into the beer before bottling (surprisingly not all that uncommon for beginners) may exasperate the problem to the point of bottle bombs.
If over-carbonation is a common problem for several of your bottles, you may ...
If you took a specific gravity reading before you bottled and were confident that it was at final gravity, de-gas a sample and take another gravity reading now. If it's the same, it's over-carbonated. If it's noticeably lower, then some other wild yeast or bacteria else has likely got a hold of it.
A week might not be long enough (especially if your yeast is particularly beleaguered, which would depend mostly on what the ABV of the finished beer is and how long it's been since fermentation).
Also, make sure your bottles are in a warm enough area (~70 deg. F is ideal for bottle-conditioning). Lower than this and it can definitely take several weeks, ...
It could be that there was an insufficient amount of active yeast in the beer when you bottled it. You could try this:
Uncap each bottle
Add two or three grains of dry yeast
Recap the bottles
Keep somewhere warm for a week or two.
The other possibility is that the alcohol percentage in the beer is high enough to kill any yeast. If the beer is above 10% ...
The yeast that carbonates your beer should already be in suspension, that is, invisible without a microscope. So, unless you've filtered the beer, don't worry about the yeast. Don't stir up the yeast cake either, those might not be very happy/tasty.
But, you should stir the sugar into the beer to get good carbonation, as discussed here and in many other ...
If only some of the bottles were overcarbonated, in my experience that means the priming sugar wasn't mixed into the beer thoroughly enough in the bottling bucket. Two ways to ameliorate that are:
if you have enough length, coil the tubing coming from your racking cane on the bottom of the bucket, creating a gentle whirlpool
sanitize a spoon and gently ...
Your general understanding is pretty much spot-on. I think the thing to consider here is that your reasoning assumes that half or a third of the priming sugar is meant to yield the same amount of carbonation as it would in the bottle. I'd argue this isn't the case. Notice how recommendations like this keg-underpriming 'common wisdom' usually don't go so far ...
Based on my experience, you'll have more than enough yeast to carb. I've lagered beer for 2-3 months and still had plenty. If you really feel that you need to add yeast, any neutral yeast will be fine. I tend to use US05 becasue it's inexpensive, easy and reliable. You use so little that it has no effect on flavor, so you don't need a lager yeast. | 1,987 |
3ddbd0b6-af38-4816-b1af-7915363918f6 | andi- aggregate nutrient density index… and my health!
Have you heard about nutrient density? It's a great way to learn how to value our foods and help us build a better diet.
Nutrient density is measured using the Aggregate Nutrient Density Index Scores (ANDI), which can help you determine which foods are high in nutrient density and which are low– in other words, which foods give you the most bang for your buck. Dr. Fuhrman is one of the biggest proponents of ANDI scores, saying the most Americans do not have a good understanding of the true nutritional value of our food. Why is nutrient density important? Here's what Dr. Fuhrman has to say:
The Standard American Diet (SAD) is made up mostly of disease-causing foods, with 30 % of calories from animal products and over 55 % from processed foods. In addition, 43% of Americans polled reported that they drank at least one sugar-sweetened drink each day, 40% said that they eat 'pretty much everything' that they want, and 33% of overweight and obese individuals reported that they were at a healthy weight. Lifestyle-related diseases are the most common causes of death, but according to a 2011 poll by Consumer Reports Health, 90% Americans believe that they eat a healthy diet.
ANDI scores are calculated by evaluating an extensive range of food factors, including vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidant capacities, based on an equal number of calories for each food. Here is an abbreviated list from the longer one found on Dr. Fuhrman's site. This table shows the most nutrient dense vegetables and the most nutrient dense fruits. For additional ANDI information click the link above.
Veggies!
Fruits!
Kale
1000
Strawberries
212
Mustard greens
1000
Pomegranates
199
Watercress
1000
Tomato
164
Collard greens, cooked
1000
Plums
158
Bok choi, cooked
824
Raspberries
145
Spinach
707
Blueberries
130
Spinach, cooked
697
Orange
109
Brussels sprouts
672
Grapefruit
102
Swiss chard, cooked
895
Arugula
604
Carrots
458
Brussels sprouts
490
bell pepper
265
Cabbage
420
Romaine lettuce
389
Broccoli
376
I love that my favorite veggies are top on the list (well, I usually eschew mustard greens); and I also love that these high-scoring veggies end up on my plate everyday. Though I was not at all surprised to see all leafy greens at the top of the list; I was most surprised to see radishes and romaine so high on the list, and broccoli so low. Broccoli is in the same big family (brassica) as collards, kale, bok choi, so it seems that it would be much higher (maybe the yummy broccoli leaves would score higher than the heads..?). Unfortunately, many of the high scoring fruits are absent from my diet, since they are hard to obtain locally. But bananas, mangoes, pineapples and citrus- which I have plenty of here in Hawaii- are not on the list!
Here's a funny aside: while doing the research for this post I found Eat Right America's home page, which offered a little survey to see how healthy I am…. so let's check it out:
First question: I'd be happier if i could… (can I just be happy AS I AM..?)
fifth question: How many servings of meat, fish, dairy, veggies, fruit, nuts, beans, processed things, do you eat everyday? After tabulation, the following pie chart is my result! They say, "Congratulations! We urge you to continue your efforts and look ahead to further refinements to your dietary habits to maintain a healthy lifestyle and live a long and active life". But guess what? Because I said Iwanted to have more energy, they can sell me a NUTRITION PRESCRIPTION FOR ONLY $149.95!
Standard American Diet (blue is processed, greens is fruits and veggies, red is meat and dairy) | 880 |
889eaea0-9760-4d41-aeb4-bf1dc4eb1d09 | Latest University of Copenhagen Stories
Researchers, including plant researchers from the University of Copenhagen, have developed a new type of the corn-like crop sorghum, which may become very significant for food supplies in drought-prone areas.
Investigating the history of water on Earth is critical to understanding the planet's climate. One central question is whether Earth has always had the same amount of water on and surrounding it, the same so-called "water budget". | 90 |
c4808d96-65b9-4ca5-8a31-c1e925860982 | Quintet in E flat major for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452, dated 30 March 1784 by the composer, was given its first performance on 1 April at the Burgtheater with Mozart himself at the piano. Some days later he wrote to his father about this benefit concert, commenting on the beauty of the performance and saying he considered the Quintet the best work he had produced.
Despite this opinion, K452 is in fact Mozart's only quintet with piano, and the combination of instruments used is itself unusual. Single wind, as opposed to pairs, pose problems of blend so he explores the numerous different permutations of instruments to produce different sonorities, and uses short phrases and motifs for variety. No instrument is given preferential treatment and, despite occasional concertante-type passages, the basic chamber-music character is maintained.
Of the three movements, the first has fewest bars and comprises an expressive Largo introduction which leads into the happy Allegro moderato. The opening bars of the B flat major Larghetto are very reminiscent of the middle section of Leporello's 'catalogue' aria from Don Giovanni, and there are some particularly beautiful moments later when the different groupings of the wind are accompanied by arpeggio patterns on the piano. The finale is a rondo with, near the end, a written-out cadenza for all five instruments.
Mozart had set himself a difficult task in writing for the combination of oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano—that he succeeded is without question. The achievement was recognized by Beethoven who admired the work and, in 1796–7, wrote his opus 16 for the same forces.<.p> | 358 |
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7be3733e-85c5-4fd5-92ab-bf3474d301a9 | Caity's Pick: "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke (featuring Pharrell and T.I.)
It's undeniable that this song is catchy as hell! I can definitely see people shakin' it to this song for the rest of the summer… and likely for the rest of the year! | 63 |
c535f56c-2237-481c-bb12-5570a3a78505 | This author's objective is to investigate how intellectual activity in Romania under Ceausescu contributed to reproducing an ideology in which "the nation" had pride of place. Much as had occurred in the period between the two World Wars, Romanian intellectuals debating with one another helped to strengthen a national ideology; their actions, and not simply Ceausescu's much-invoked "manipulation of nationalism to promote legitimacy" contributed to fortifying the idea of the nation and undermining the discourse of Marxism-Leninism on which Romania's socialist system supposedly rested | 110 |
2e99ade1-ffd3-4c9e-8933-9fc3009ff1fe | The SUV sized rover automatically stopped when it encountered soft sand and sensed that it wasn't making enough progress. It's been programmed with this built in safety check to avoid being trapped in a quagmire.
Earlier last week, Curiosity celebrated another milestone anniversary on June 24 (Sol 669) – 1 Martian Year on Mars!
A Martian year is equivalent to 687 Earth days, or nearly two Earth years.
During Year 1 on Mars, Earth's emissary has already accomplished her primary objective of discovering a habitable zone on the Red Planet that contains the minerals necessary to support microbial life in the ancient past.
So there's no stopping Curiosity on her way to Mount Sharp, which dominates the center of Gale Crater and reaches 3.4 miles (5.5 km) into the Martian sky – taller than Mount Rainier.
Curiosity rover panorama of Mount Sharp captured on June 6, 2014 (Sol 651) during traverse inside Gale Crater. Note rover wheel tracks at left. She will eventually ascend the mountain at the 'Murray Buttes' at right later this year. Assembled from Mastcam color camera raw images and stitched by Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer
Driving, Driving, Driving – that's Curiosity's number one priority as she traverses across the surface of Gale Crater towards towering Mount Sharp on an expedition in search of the chemical ingredients of life that could support Martian microbes if they ever existed.
Curiosity still has about another 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers) to go to reach the entry way at a gap in the dunes at the foothills of Mount Sharp sometime later this year.
To date, Curiosity's odometer totals over 5.1 miles (8.4 kilometers) since landing inside Gale Crater on Mars in August 2012. She has taken over 162,000 images.
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To Drill or not to Drill? That's the momentous question posed by the international team of scientists and engineers who commanded NASA's SUV sized Curiosity rover to reach out with her high tech robotic arm | 490 |
7ab68fd5-0dee-4655-bdb2-8a78d74c83d1 | Comment Preferences
Oppress somebody enough and when they take power, they're going to want to be the ones pushing people around for a change. If it's their former oppressors, so much the better, but they'll take what they can get.
Very few peoples(possibly none)* can resist that temptation when it falls into their lap.
*Note I said "peoples" and not "people". Many individuals are able to resist falling into this tempting | 92 |
983c3239-ddec-40a5-a82c-0f50e956d1f9 | my biggest theory is that they didn't get the joke. the joke being that i found it funny that the guy had to go through so much unnecessary gore in order to have cake. Which is literally the joke that the thread made. But they probably perceived it as me saying "how dare they make that poor stick figure go through all that just to have a piece of fictional cake. i laugh at everyone's madness and menial perception of humor". Which is totally not what i was going for 'cause i found this **** hilarious. pic related: mfw this backfired more than anything ive ever posted
Hey, can anybody find the comic about the dude who has to go through a waterfall of **** to get to this hot woman? The end of this comic has a gif of a cockatoo going head first into a chocolate waterfall. Made me piss myself but I can't find it anymore. Thumb for whomever can find it.
2d drawing was inaccurate imo, because if that really was the case, it should've looked like this instead of the one above because connecting the small space to the outline of the floor implies that there was no other route for efg to go through buuut yea i get the joke | 251 |
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0d5a4483-a289-4de5-ab2d-9ea3af3cfe03 | Maltese
History
The forebears of today's Maltese are thought to have been brought to the Mediterranean region by Phoenician traders over 2000 years ago. One of the small breed of dogs referred to as 'bichons', these dogs have been present around, or at least passed through, the Mediterranean for thousands of years. The dogs are considered one of the oldest European toy breeds and their popularity has endured throughout the centuries. Today's Maltese is somewhat different from those earlier dogs and is likely the result of crossings of miniature spaniel and miniature poodle breeds.
Appearance
The Maltese is immediately recognisable by its prolific, long, silky white coat, shiny black nose and proud head carriage. Black eye rims surround the dark brown luminous eyes. This dainty dog grows no higher than 25cm at the shoulder and should weigh around 2-3 kg. In full coat the hair should hang to floor length and the hair over the eyes is tied up into a small topknot. Slight lemon markings in the coat can also occur and are not considered a flaw.
Temperament
Maltese epitomise the companion dog. They are generally sweet tempered, although sometimes snappy and aggressive, but always loyal to their owners. Owners will find their Maltese constantly by their side, whether they are working around the house or relaxing in bed. Bright and assertive, the Maltese will not appreciate rough handling and can become snappy with children. Responsible breeders have however recognised this problem and have taken steps to breed for a more desirable temperament.
Health and lifespan
As with many other toy breeds the most common health issue relates to the leg joints. Patellar luxation, the locking of the kneecaps, is not entirely uncommon and can progress to cause more serious osteoarthritis. This condition can usually be addressed with surgery. When purchasing your puppy have a vet check it over thoroughly. The vet will check the leg joints and as a matter of routine will also check the heart for congenital heart murmur. Maltese are prone to gingivitis and need a diet that includes chewy food such as raw chicken necks. Report any vomiting to the vet straight away as this may indicate the dog has a liver shunt. Keep the coat well out of the eyes otherwise constant tearing will cause a painful dermatitis. If neglected, the coat will also cause serious health problems such as skin infections, pain and restricted movement. If you're not showing your Maltese and aren't prepared to groom it daily, clipping is strongly advised.
Care and Maintenance
Maltese are one of the highest maintenance dogs. Even a clipped dog will need regular grooming. Unless bathed weekly and groomed daily, the long luxurious coat will mat, especially when the puppy coat is replaced by adult hair. If you're not up to grooming daily, the coat can be clipped right back, about an inch long, ensuring that the dog stays warm. Maltese like to be clean and dry and although an active breed, they don't require a great deal of space. This makes them ideal for those who have small yards or live in apartments. Your Maltese would be quite content just lazing around the house.
Breeding
While most Maltese have little difficulty whelping, they occasionally need help in the delivery of large puppies. Most often it is the first litter of pups which present the most problems and a cesarean section may be required in small bitches.
Cost and recommendation
Due to its fondness for inside environments the Maltese is an excellent apartment dog. They're not particularly suited for those families with very young children due to the snappy nature of some of the breed. If you have a very busy lifestyle and want a dog you should perhaps consider a lower maintenance breed, these dogs do require regular care. Maltese are dedicated companions and are best as a single pet or possibly a pair. Pups are regularly available and will set you back from $450 for a pet up to around $600 for a show quality dog. Endeavour to visit those breeders recommended by your state's canine authority, this will help ensure that your puppy is likely to be bred from sound parents with good temperaments.
National contacts
To find up-to-date contacts for breeders, contact the following organisations. | 891 |
2eb3b04b-d01f-4ee9-a59a-0559ac9c145e | Richard Moll of "Ghost Shark" on Syfy
"I like the crime-drama genre, and I particularly like film noir, old black-and-white films. I enjoy Westerns, too, but I feel like I've seen them all." | 50 |
bcd95bed-363c-402d-8356-983b8dc3bafb | How much is Guy Oseary Worth?
What is Guy Oseary's net worth? Guy Oseary's net worth is $60 million dollars. Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Guy Oseary grew up in Los Angeles. He always knew that he wanted to be involved in the music business, and began looking for talented musicians and developing them while he was still in high school. This ambition led to work as an A&R executive at a label that would eventually become Maverick Records. He subsequently became Maverick's CEO, and is credited with making the company one of the most successful entertainment management groups in the world. He discovered and signed such artists as Alanis Morrisette, Paul Oakenfold, Prodigy, and Michelle Branch. He produced the soundtracks to such films as "The Wedding Singer", "The Matrix", and both "Austin Powers" films. He is part owner of Untitled Entertainment, the management company that manages such actors as Lucy Liu, Marisa Tomei, Naomi Watts, and David Caruso. He is the manager and business partner of Madonna, and executive produced the "Twilight" films. He has also published four booksGuy Oseary
Guy Harley Oseary is an Israeli-born American talent manager, investor, writer and businessman who began his career in entertainment at 17 at what was to become Maverick. He is Madonna's manager and in November 2013 was appointed as the manager of Irish rock band U2 followin... | 302 |
5031b229-0e05-4e43-8a29-c924871035fb | Predicting the Trajectory of Very Early Stage Companies
[Sorry this is a longish post, but I kind of felt the need to build to the question I wanted to raise]
It's widely acknowledged that initial startup costs for many internet-enabled companies (SAAS, consumer web, mobile apps, etc all fall into this bucket) have dropped dramatically in the last decade. As a result, many companies can get off the ground and make significant progress on modest amounts of capital... often well under $1M initially.
Countless companies you've never heard of got started on a few hundred thousand dollars or less. Most never become anything, a small portion become small to medium sized companies, and a tiny handful become hugely successful companies. It's easy to think of the ones that got big... like Facebook which started off as a product in a dorm room, and grew as a startup with a $500K investment from Peter Thiel in 2004, entered the realm of VC-backed companies in 2005, and of course today is a worldwide phenomenon and very successful company.
The chart below isn't meant to be a highly precise analysis, but rather a graphical depiction of broad "envelopes" of outcome and capital investment. There are always rare exceptions, but the vast majority of companies that ultimately become $1B+ outcomes raise at least tens of millions of capital (if not significantly more) to get there. Similarly the vast majority of companies that only raise ~$1M or thereabouts in capital result in outcomes of substantially less than $100M.
The question of what makes a great seed stage investment has two answers, one absolute and one relative to the investor you're asking. Outcomes in the upper part of any of the envelopes above could be considered absolute successes, but relatively speaking these may not be considered success depending on the type of seed investor. A good outcome (i.e. return on investment of 5-10x+) in the green box may be considered a win for an angel investor if the company remains capital efficient, but it wouldn't be for most VC funds (small or large). A good outcome in the red box might be a win for a small VC fund but probably not for a large VC. A large VC obviously seeks outcomes in the top part of the blue box. These relative answers explain the motivations of different types of investors actively pursuing seed stage companies, as ChrisDixon and plenty of others have discussed.
So for many in the VC and startup ecosystem, none of this is news. What I think remains very much unresolved in this world of lower startup capital requirements is the question of how well investors and entrepreneurs can prospectively predict the potential scale of outcome. I'm not talking about predicting the likelihood of success (obviously important), but rather predicting how big the company might ultimately become and how much capital & time it might take to get there.
There are a range of factors that can help in trying to assess the probability of actually building a company of significant scale:
Size & Attractiveness of Market Opportunity - some are obviously big and some are obviously small, though many not entirely clear
Caliber of Team - never a precise science judging a team, but well understood ways to evaluating a group of co-founders based on their prior accomplishments, raw intellectual horsepower, charisma, etc. In addition to raising the chances of success, small or large, an exceptional team also usually increases the chance of creating something very big.
Founders' Stated Ambitions - most entrepreneurs like to think big, but sometimes they make it clear to seed stage investors that their goals are more modest. Entrepreneurs also make a continuous evaluation over the life of a startup as it reaches various value creation points.
Scale of Competitors - if other startups in the space have already achieved real scale a new entrant might also be able to, but again hard for those startups truly pioneering a market or new class of product
Companies where one can prospectively see high probability of a large scale outcome are attractive seed investments for large VCs, provided they believe there's also a good probability of success. It's not uncommon for VC's to write $250-500K "blank checks" to entrepreneurs they know working on a concept that fits this description. Similarly those that are probably not venture scale outcomes (i.e. the green box above is a best case scenario) may receive angel investment but typically not seed funding from VCs.
But what happens to everything in between those two extremes? What's the shape of the probability distribution, i.e. do 10% of startups obviously have large scale potential and 10% obviously have small scale potential, with the remaining 80% hard to assess? Or is the distribution more even?
Take Twitter just as an example... it started life as a side project within a struggling startup called Odeo. In 2006, Ev Williams returned what was left of Odeo's capital to its investors (in fact made them whole out of his own pocket) and was widely praised for doing so. He (and collaborators Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey) was rather uncertain about what sort of scale Twitter or other projects within Odeo's successor corporation (Obvious Corp) might ultimately achieve, and freely admitted it at the time.
So what happens to the startups that have decent potential for success, but real uncertainty about scale of outcome? Do most of these get funded and launched or do most die on the vine without ever taking a shot?
Some large VCs deal with this segment with a "portfolio" approach (or less generously described "spray and pray"), by making a large number of passive seed investments and investing larger amounts only in the small handful that prove out A) some greater potential for scale than at inception and B) some continued probability of success. Some of these companies undoubtedly receive angel funding (e.g. Facebook example above).
A very small portion of VCs have specifically crafted their investment strategy in part to cope with this uncertainty. For example, Josh Kopelman has described First Round Capital's outlook on scale of outcome with the express vs local train analogy. FRC can seed a company and if it exits at $10M or $40M, that works fine for the firm given their strategy and fund size. If it has a chance to take in more capital, but shoot for a $200M+ outcome that's fine too. His point is that this funding path looks like a "local" train whereby you can get to a faraway destination, but also have options to disembark at stops along the way. By contrast seed investments from large VCs can be likened to an "express" train... i.e. they can work just as well and maybe get you there faster, but only if all parties involved are committed to the faraway destination at the outset.
What do you think? How easy or hard is it to prospectively predict potential scale at the seed stage? For those that are difficult to clearly predict scale, what happens to them today? How ought investors (either individuals or VCs) approach these opportunities in the future?
Lee Hower is a Principal with Point Judith Capital. This blog post was originally published on November 4, 2009. You can find this blog post, as well as additional content on his blog called Venturesome. | 1,478 |
eb4f2702-8530-4b12-8a7e-c4c316c93859 | chocolate brown | 2 |
4bc5d21c-9a62-4c89-bd7d-6d381d294f64 | Robot teaches medical school students
Aug 10, 2006
Wake Forest University School of Medicine students expecting a lecture on the brain and nervous system instead find themselves treating a robotic patient.
The "patient" is known as "SimMan" -- a reproduction of an average-size adult that emits realistic heart, lung, and bowel sounds and which can simulate medical problems that students can treat. Students can also use SimMan to practice procedures such as giving injections and inserting urinary catheters.
Many medical schools use such computerized simulated patients to teach clinical skills, but Wake Forest officials say their school is one of the first to use the technology in large group lecture settings to teach basic science principles.
"Using a 'live' clinical scenario to emphasize basic science learning allows students to understand the clinical relevance of the subjects they are studying," said Dr. Michael Fitch, an emergency medicine specialist who developed the teaching scenario. "What I think is really great about the concept is to create a learning environment that engages the students actively -- as opposed to passively observing a lecture."
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is an academic health system comprised of North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University Health Sciences | 236 |
c45fc1d0-87b9-4cd3-849d-6644f6b5f2e4 | This is due to a number of factors. One issue that causes large, hard stools like this is a decrease in transit time through the intestines and not going daily.
RickMD :
This is really nothing to worry about but I think that there are some things you can do to help him have smaller stools.
RickMD :
Encourage him not to hold his stools. This can happen in children as they don't want to take time out from their other activities to poop. See if he can start reading while relaxing on the toilet.
RickMD :
Also, increase his water and fiber intake. He should drink at least 8 8oz glasses of liquid/day or morel.
RickMD :
more.
RickMD :
Also, he should eat a lot of fruits, veggies and foods that help with maintaining a healthy gut flora, such as yogert.
Customer:
you are right there he doesn't like to leave his xbox, he does drink alot, but hates veggies and most fruit, he likes yogurt
RickMD :
Does this answer your question to your satisfaction?
RickMD :
Set up the xbox in the bathroom lol! (After 5 kids myself, I know what you are going through)
Customer:
yes it does, I can now tell him the Dr. said to eat vegge and fruit. thank you very much, 5 kids myself lol
RickMD :
You could use that soluble fiber, it is kinda orange flavored
RickMD :
They make it all worthwhile, eh?
Customer:
yes I can do that, Yes they do!!
RickMD :
Have a good day. | 322 |
f2843acf-800b-47f3-8ab1-887c02dd9079 | Mistakes & Errors
• Mistake – a performance error that is either a random guess or a
"slip," in that it is a failure to utilize a known system correctly.
• Error – a noticeable deviation from the adult grammar of a native
speaker, reflecting the interlanguage competence of the learner.
Mistakes & Errors
Incorrect - John cans sing.
Correct - John can sing.
Incorrect - John wills go.
Incorrect – John mays come.
Error Analysis
• Errors can be observed, analyzed, and classified to reveal something
of the system operating within the learner. | 121 |
b3985746-abd1-4e70-b251-d10f5d65babc | So, what if the Xbox One........
Is indeed more powerful than the PS4. This guy seems to think so and has some pretty good theories and links to make a good argument. If that NDA is in place MS really has people mouths tightly sealed.
I wouldn't say more powerful but it might have more tricks up it's sleeve to create better graphics if it has to. Unlike the PS4 which can just use raw power. --- Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Because I can buy both.
#3RyuuHou25Posted 9/2/2013 11:26:15 AM
That guy is giving MS far too much credit there. That whole thing reads like some conspiracy theory >.> --- PSN ID: RyuuHou24 "I never said that....and even if I said it, I never said it" - Dr Peter Venkman RGB
#4Foxx3kPosted 9/2/2013 11:29:41 AM
I feel like when you make an argument like this, you must also pair it with a hypothesis for what reason they would have to hide that information
#5DesperateMonkeyPosted 9/2/2013 11:39:31 AM(edited)
Well it says that its illegal for MS to disclose any information about it until September 29th.
Well if it was up to MS, there would be no reason to have an NDA at all. AMD and Intel, however, do not care. AMD makes parts for both consoles and Nvidia probably hates both consoles equally for using AMD.#10Foxx3kPosted 9/2/2013 12:12:32 PM
cpcjlc3 posted...The NDA supposedly lifts on September 30th, per that topic.
My conclusion is that the NDA is there because ATI wants to keep the technology from nVidia, rather than MS keeping it from Sony. I suspect that the technology (if any) is related to ATI's upcoming 8000 series cards which I think are rumored to be revealed this Q4 for a 2014 release. I speculate that the NDA is to cover up until that announcement... Or, the NDA is in place just in CASE the Xbox One used that technology. And the NDA could be in place for something that doesn't even exist | 484 |
d63e6e07-6f8b-4fd9-a4c5-dac4be7a078c | Because Bush wouldn't remove him even if he knew it was the right thing to do. He's so shallow and concerned about "staying the course" that he'd just keep him and sacrifice the lives of our men and women to satisfy his stubbornness.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. ~James Durant
It's nothing more than an empty phrase; a justification for stupidity and the inability to understand the true cost of this war. They are genetically unable to feel the pain, loss and despair of others, which they amply demonstrated and continue to demonstrate in connection with hte victims of Katrina.
It's no disgrace not to be able to run a country nowadays, but it is a disgrace to keep on trying when you know you can't. | 159 |
7f4d1788-08ba-47a6-9430-085ff2206f49 | rc
Despite what extraordinarily overpowered quadcopters suggest, the air pressure of whatever a flying machine flys at is extremely important. Pressure is dependent on altitude and temperature, and there are hundreds of NTSB investigations that have concluded density altitude – pressure altitude corrected for nonstandard temperature variations – was the reason for a crash. Normally density altitude is computed through a slide rule or a flight computer, with the pilot entering in altitude and temperature, but somehow accidents still happen. For his entry to The Hackaday Prize, [Neil McNeight] is building an automated density altitude calculator to automate the process entirely.
Instead of having a pilot enter the altitude and temperature into a flight computer manually, [Neil]'s device grabs the current altitude from a GPS unit, and reads the temperature with a tiny sensor acquired from SparkFun. With just a little bit of math, this device will spit out the altitude an airplane or 'copter thinks it's at.
While the FAA won't allow instruments that are cobbled together on a breadboard, this does have a few applications in the RC world. There are extremely high performance racing quadcopters out there now, and knowing how the craft will perform before flying it will save a few props[Bauwser] had some spare RC Helicopter parts laying around and cobbled together an RC Hovercraft. It worked but not to his liking. That's okay though, he know it was just a prototype for what was to come; a fully scratch built hovercraft with parts spec'ed out specifically to make it handle the way [Bauwser] wanted.
He started out by sketching out some cool faceted shapes that would both look good and be easy to construct. Sheets of a light but rigid foam were then cut into the appropriate shapes and glued together to create a three-dimensional body. The foam was then covered with a layer of fiberglass and resin to add some strength. A hole was cut in the body to mount a 55mm ducted fan which provides the required air to fill the skirt and lift the vehicle. Another ducted fan is mounted at the back of the craft and points rearward. This ducted fan provides the forward thrust and a servo vectors this fan in order to make turns.
[Bauwser] sewed the skirt himself. It is made out of an old beach tent. The fabric is extremly light and flexible, perfect for a hovercraft. During the test runs, dirt and debris was getting trapped in the skirt tube. A quick trip back to the sewing machine to add some gauze netting fixed that problem and keeps debris collection to a minimum. In the end, [Bauwser] shows what a great DIY RC build can look like with a little planning and experimentation.The massive engineering-defying Helicarrier from the Avengers is a brilliant work of CGI. Too bad it'd never actually fly… Like… Never.
Luckily, that didn't stop our favorite RC hackers over at FliteTest from making a scale model of it — that actually works! If you're not familiar, the Helicarrier is a fictional ship, the pride of S.H.I.E.L.D's air force, or is it their navy.
It's a massive aircraft carrier with four huge repulsor engines built into it, borrowing tech from Stark Industries. The shear size of it is what makes it completely ridiculous, but at the same time, it's also unbelievably awesome.
Unfortunately, repulsor technology doesn't seem to exist yet, so the FliteTest crew had to settle with a set of 8 brushless outrunner motors, with two per "engine". The whole thing is almost 6′ long.
For some people, R/C cars just aren't enough. [djMedic2008] has gotten his hands on a monstrous 1/5 scale wheel loader. The loader weighs in at 500lbs, and can lift up to 250 lbs. It was built several years ago as a prototype by [Richard] at Tiny Titan Earth Movers.
The design is based upon huge machines made by companies like Caterpillar and Komatsu. The 4WD system is driven a DC motor through a worm gear reduction. Bucket operation and steering are both operated by a hydraulic system driven by an electric pump. Just like the full-scale machines, the mini loader uses an articulated steering system. The front wheels are locked in place while the entire chassis bends at the middle pivot point. This allows for a much stronger solid front axle.
After several years of hard life, the loader came to [djMedic] in need of some TLC. The biggest issue was that the rear axle bevel gear had lost several teeth. This gear is under enormous loads when the loader is turning. A gear made of harder steel was the easy answer. Thankfully, you can order high carbon steel bevel gears from Amazon. The repair video gives us a look at the design of the loader. The main components of the machine are welded up from steel sheet and tube stock. This means that [djMedic] won't have a hard time finding spare parts for his machine once he puts it to work clearing snow, dirt, or anything else that gets in its way!
Armed with a variety of 3D printing techniques and years of model-building experience, [Steve] is taking the lid off a number of previously undocumented techniques, many of which are especially relevant to the model-builder equipped with a 3D printer in the workshop.
As he continues his video log, [Steve] takes you through each detail, evaluating the quality of both his tools and techniques. How does a Makerbot, a Formlabs, and a Shapeways print stand up against being used in the target application? [Steve] evaluates a number of his turbine prints with a rigorous variable-controlled test setup.
How can we predict the plane's center-of-gravity before committing to a physical design? [Steve] discusses related design decisions with an in-depth exploration of his CAD design, modeled down to the battery-pack wires. Though he's not entirely finished, [Steve's] work serves as a great chance to "dive into the mind of the engineer," a rare opportunity when we usually discover a project after it's been sealed from the outside.
3D printing functional parts with hobbyist-grade printers is still a rare sight, though we've seen a few pleasant and surprisingly practical components. With some tips from [Steve], we may complete this video journey with a few techniques that bump us out of the "novelty" realm and into a space where we too can start reliably printing functional parts. We're looking forward to seeing the maiden voyage. | 1,358 |
02f798f8-71f7-4678-8dc2-00e8d29adf24 | Pack All The Things
Over the holidays, I had a ton of time off so Mister and I used that to our advantage to start organizing, decluttering, and packing. Our Leaving Las Vegas date is just under 6 weeks away, and we still have a lot to do, but we've also made a lot of progress.
A lot of the issues that I've had with clutter is that when we moved in together, I had a very hard time integrating our stuff. At first, a lot of my stuff was in boxes in the garage because I moved into Mister's one bedroom apartment, and I felt weird moving in and declaring all of his stuff as ours. Then, when we moved house, I finally got to open those boxes, but the storage situation in this house kind of sucks, and things just got shoved wherever they could be put away. Not the most effective solution. I still clung tightly to that "mine" and "yours" attitude regarding our stuff, and in some ways, I think Mister did too. Either way, we just dealt with a lot of stuff by not dealing with it.
Now we come to where we are packing to move cross country, and we have to decide if we really want to move this stuff. We've already made multiple trips to donation centers and thrown a lot of stuff away. We still have a ways to go, but this decluttering feels good.
We've also made decisions about some furniture. I brought into the household a bunch of modular cabinets. Some of them you've seen before (here and here), but they haven't had a proper purpose since Mister and I moved in together. They've just been extra places to shove stuff. So, they go. We'll have to find some more storage, but it will be more effective and something that we both like, since neither one of us is really fond of the blonde wood.
We also made the decision to get rid of our desks. Remember when I showed you my desk? Mister and I both have the same desk – a slick glass desk with an extra shelf on it. It's never been my favorite, but Mister insisted that with two desks in a small room, glass would be better because it would visually open things up. It's a great theory, until you start piling lots of crap on your desk. Then it doesn't matter what it's made out of, the room just ends up looking cluttered and small. So we talked about it, and rather than risk moving two glass desks that we're not fond of, we're going to do something like this:
One long desk, and rather than the sweet $1 cabinets that John and Sherry used, we'll use stair newel posts as supports, and use furniture we already have and love for storage underneath, like my aqua file cabinet and other small items like that. Then we won't have our backs to each other, we'll have a surface space that we can get better use out of, and we can use the wall behind us for bookshelves and have ourselves a proper looking office rather than a clutter cave.
So that's where we're at right now. Office and garage are partially decluttered, plans to declutter furniture right before we leave are in place, and we still have a ton of packing to do. I guess you all know what I'll be doing for the next 6 weekends! | 693 |
c5078116-3a32-4ed7-bb55-43e3f9670316 | 'All the years of calling the Indian a savage has never made him one.' Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux.
Survival's Stamp It Out campaign aims to challenge racist descriptions, however unwitting, of tribal peoples in the media.
What's the problem?
Terms like 'stone age' and 'primitive' have been used to describe tribal people since the colonial era, reinforcing the idea that they have not changed over time and that they are backward.
This idea is both incorrect and very dangerous. It is incorrect because all societies adapt and change, and it is dangerous because it is often used to justify the persecution or forced 'development' of tribal peoples. The results are almost always catastrophic: poverty, alcoholism, prostitution, disease and death.
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The idea that tribes are backward leads directly to their persecution. For example, it is claimed that forcibly developing tribes is 'for their own good', and helps them 'catch up' with the 'civilised' world. The results are almost always catastrophic: poverty, alcoholism, prostitution, disease and death.
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Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2013. In a review of Jared Diamond's book 'The World Until Yesterday', the author Stephen Budiansky refers to the tribes of New Guinea and others as 'primitive'. Read the full article | 507 |
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7130c349-1713-45c1-8a85-c4cfc8a4dbc0 | I'm working on a streaming media application that pushes a lot of data to the graphics card at startup. The CPU is doing very little at the point when the data is being pushed, it idles along at close to zero percent usage.
I'd like to monitor which machines struggle at pushing the initial data, and which ones can cope, in order that I can get to a minimum recommended spec for our customers hardware.
I've found that PCs with PCIe 1.1 x16 slots struggle with the initial data being pushed over the graphics card.
My development PC has a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, and it has no problems with coping with the large amount of data being initially pushed to the graphics card.
I need numbers to prove (or disprove) my point.
What I'd like is to be able to determine:
Which slot type is the graphics card on?
What is the speed of that slot?
Gfx card name
Gfx card driver version
But most importantly, the data flow over the PCIe slot - e.g. if I can show that the PCIe bus is being maxed out with data, I can point to that as the bottle neck.
I know that system memory speed is also a factor here, e.g. the data is being transferred from RAM, over the PCIe bus to the graphics card, so is there a way to determine the system memory speed also?
Finally, I write in unmanaged C++, so accessing .NET libraries is not an option.
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Do you get errors pushing your massive amounts of data, or are you "simply" concerned with slow speed?
I doubt there's any easy way to monitor PCI-e bandwidth usage, if it's possible at all. But it should be possible to query the bus type the video adapter is connected to via WMI and/or SetupAPI - I have no personal experience or helpful links for either, sorry. | 388 |
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In 1998, Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba and IBM came together to form the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. No single company owns the technology, so the member companies of the group work to promote awareness and use of Bluetooth technology.
The name comes from the 10th-century Danish king Harold Bluetooth. Bluetooth helped bring peace to the warring factions in Norway, Sweden and Denmark; like King Bluetooth, the technology "allow(s) connectivity and collaboration between disparate products and industries."
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A Bluetooth transmitter is a small device that, when paired with a Bluetooth receiver, can establish a small wireless network that has a range of about 30 feet, called a piconet. This network allows a person to synchronize different electronic devices without any cords when they are in range.
A Bluetooth dongle is an adapter used on non-Bluetooth enabled computers to connect wirelessly to a Bluetooth device. Most dongles plug into a USB port. A Bluetooth enabled computer has the adapter installed with the hardware inside the device, allowing the user to preserve USB ports for other uses.
A computer with installed Bluetooth has a label at the bottom of the system with the word "Bluetooth" plus the Bluetooth logo on it. Another way to tell if a computer has Bluetooth is to search for it.
Bluetooth is a form of technology that allows electronic devices to transmit and receive data wirelessly across short distances. This technology utilizes low-power, short-wavelength radio waves to establish a link between two or more devices that support Bluetooth. As a networking standard, it operates on two levels: physical and protocol. The physical level includes the radio frequencies, whereas the protocol level handles the accuracy and means of data transmission. | 342 |
bccc916f-a505-4bfc-b14a-cd74186be1c0 | Yay! That was great! I can't get enough of Buffy/Methos pairings, and there are certainly not enough of them to go around. So, thanks very much for deciding to do this drabble series. I'll be looking forward to more.
I especially enjoyed the first chapter, it was exactly how I pictured Methos observing her. And the second was great as well. Update soon, please :-)
Love the pairing and delighted to know there are 98 more drabbles to come. I think Methos and Buffy make a great pair, they have a lot in common and can learn a lot from the other's differences. I really liked how Methos can see the difference in Buffy during the night, the hunt and that he appreciates it. How often has Buffy had someone that really sees her, really knows and appreciates ALL that she is?
I also liked this second chapter, although it was more poignant. I feel for Buffy, her resurrection was entirely different. However, Methos has had generations of lifetimes to get used to death and life and death. While he's never been ripped out of heaven, and really how fully could one recover from that anyway, he has the other side of the coin...no real end in sight. Buffy knows there is a heaven and what waits for her there, that has to provide some comfort. Methos dies and lives until his head is taken, what happens then? His quickening is absorbed by someone else...is that just memories or is his soul taken and trapped in another? Maybe Buffy is luckier than she knows. | 325 |
1cee93b9-0330-407f-92ec-f08b10f12d71 | Spectacular star cluster a wing-span away from Eagle Nebula
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April 25, 2012
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FULL STORY new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the 2.2-metre MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favour of its more prominent neighbourNGC 6604 is the bright grouping towards to the upper left of the image. It is a young star cluster that is the densest part of a more widely scattered association containing about one hundred brilliant blue-white stars [1]. The picture also shows the cluster's associated nebula -- a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas that is called Sh2-54 [2] -- as well as dust clouds.
NGC 6604 lies about 5500 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent) and is located about two degrees north of the Eagle Nebula in the night sky. The bright stars are easily seen in a small telescope and were first catalogued by William Herschel in 1784. However, the faint gas cloud escaped attention until the 1950s when it was catalogued by Stewart Sharpless on photographs from the National Geographic-Palomar Sky Atlas.
The cluster's hot young stars are helping a new generation of stars to form in NGC 6604, by collecting star-making material into a compact region with their strong stellar winds and radiation. This second generation of stars will quickly replace the older generation, as although the brightest young stars are massive, they consume their fuel copiously and live short lives.
Aside from aesthetics, NGC 6604 has other reasons to draw the gaze of astronomers, as it has a strange column of hot ionised gas emanating from it. Similar columns of hot gas, which channel outflowing material from young star clusters, have been found elsewhere in the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies, but the example in NGC 6604 is relatively nearby, allowing astronomers to study it in detail.
This particular column (often referred to by astronomers as a "chimney") is perpendicular to the galactic plane and stretches an incredible 650 light-years in length. Astronomers think that the hot stars within NGC 6604 are responsible for producing the chimney, but more research is needed to fully understand these unusual structures.
[1] This stellar association is called Serpens OB. The first part of the name refers to the constellation in which it lies and the letters OB refer to the spectral type of the stars. O and B are the two hottest stellar classifications and most stars of these types are very brilliant blue-white stars, and relatively young.
[2] The name Sh2-54 means that the object is the 54th in the second Sharpless catalogue of HII regions, published in 1959 | 611 |
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This game intends to put you into the hot-seat of an air traffic controller. Guide those planes to their correct destinations. This is a game of logistics and thinking ahead, sometimes you will need the right reflexes thouNo Gravity is a fantastic and futuristic universe made of five intergalactic worlds. An arcade type game with great playability, where it is easy to plunge into space battles against spacefighters, space stations and more !
"JSBSim Python Bindings" is a Python wrapper around the open source flight dynamics model JSBSim ( It allows to use most of the JSBSim C++ API from the Python programming language. | 131 |
f8b5a90c-72bd-4881-80be-dc0eb53be1ca | Self-Expression & Fine Motor: Rainbow Salt Tray
Great DIY idea! Line tray with pieces/strips of colored construction paper taped together. Use finger instead of brush. For out of sight fun: use a small thin tray or cardboard box lid. Drop in a bingo chip or other small metal object (paper clip, washer...) Then use a magnetic wand UNDER the tray to move the chip. It's like MAGic! CAUTION- small object = choke hazard. (Thanks learning 4 kids for the idea)
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CCSS.Math.Content.K.NBT.A.1 Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones. Kroger's Kindergarten: Rainbow teen numbers base ten math freebie.
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92e93290-b4a3-4790-ab47-c196b648fb0a | Chapter 65:4-6 Dealing with Forbidden Goods
4. Even if, at the outset, no interest was stipulated, and the borrower
voluntarily adds to the amount he owes when he repays the debt without
referring to the increase as interest, this, too, is forbidden.
5. Even when the borrower explicitly states that he is giving the increase
as a present, the lender is forbidden to accept it from him. However, under
such circumstances, should the lender have already accepted the interest he
took, if the borrower foregoes repayment, the lender is not obligated to
return the money.
6. It is also forbidden to pay interest before or after taking a loan. For
example, Reuven wanted to borrow money from Shimeon. Therefore, he sent him
a present beforehand, explicitly telling him that the present was being
given so that he would grant him the loan. Alternatively, he sent him a
very large present with the obvious implication that he was doing so in
order to receive a loan.
The above exemplifies interest given before a loan. An example of interest
being given after a loan is a person who took a loan, repaid it, and,
afterwards, sent the lender a present in appreciation. | 264 |
0ac3c26f-b3dc-47d7-8cd9-df83f5cf4bf3 | A Banana Plantation in Florida
A group of banana plantation workers are posing for this picture. They all wear dirty, white shirts. The ground is rough, with no discernable road. Bunches of bananas can be seen in the trees.Galleries:Banana, Farm ActivitiesKeywords:agriculture, banana, plantationOriginal Dimensions: 1579×979Picture Orientation: LandscapeGPS Coordinates:Source:A Banana Plantation, Florida (Palatka, FL: The Cochrane Co., Wholesalers) 1Picture Number: 16825
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f2e1d9b7-5231-4176-8cf0-04b55b2eac87 | Its a great idea Chef and you've given it tons and tons of hard work. I'm not gonna recopy all my feedback from when it was in development cause you have incorporated most of it but my biggest thing was my in system starbase idea. I didn't see it in your wall o text and you or Cryptic are welcome to use or trash it.
When your faction owns all the possible mining platform spaces in a system (ground and space), you would then be able to construct a starbase. The starbase would then provide extra defense for the system and depending on what type of starbases we'd make these they'd provide extra defense and then that system would officially become Federation territory. This could possibly then be the staging point of possible first contact or diplomacy missions (something for the Federation Ambassadors to do). The starbases would also have to be maintained, although not as much as fleet bases.
However this system could be taken back by the opposing faction. This would have to require a minimum of like 50 people or something to essentially raid the system (and once they attack a notice would go out to all people of the same faction to aid in the fight). Then the defending faction would receive a warning that a Federation system was being attacked and then players would travel there to defend it. The starbase itself would have some NPC defenses (ships and turrets) but not enough so that it can defend itself against a massive raid. What would follow next would be an epic space battle (with necessarily no time limit) where the attacking faction would either try to destroy the starbase and at least half of the space mining platforms (easy route) or they could choose to completely take over the entire system by destroying all the mining platforms and capturing the starbase (hard route). The latter would be like a SB 24 kinda thing where you fight your way to the base send like half of your force down while the rest stay in space to defend you. You would then have to take over vital areas of the station and force the occupying faction to flee. However members of the defending faction can also beam down to defend the base. The battle would be over once the base was captured and the platforms destroyed. If the defending faction successfully repels the attackers then nothing really changes but if the attackers win they either take control of the base and can construct new platforms(if they went the hard route) or they get half of the system's platforms and the defenders get the other half (if they just destroyed the base).
Sorry about that B,
I was up 36 hours finishing this post.
If in some way there could be a trigger mechanism like you mention, that when one faction has TOTAL control over a mining system, to where they can form some time of base or blockade, that would be ideal.
It would be taking it to the next level of Territory Control.
Ideally as well, when they expand exploration to deep space, new resource maps could include species which each Faction could then open up negotiations (fed side) or raids (kdf side) for the rights to mine or build starbases in their areas.
Having a system on "Lockdown" as you mention, would be a great additional level of immersion. It would force players to come up with keen strategies to ensure no one side controls a single system to prevent them from building a defensive outpost there...And hence force them to lay siege on the Outpost before returning to warring over the resources being protected. | 701 |
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5 -ster grouped name results ending with -ster for females. Here is the list of -ster names for boys. These girl names reached the height of their popularity in 1890-1899 and have become much less popular since then, with names like Hester, Ester and Easter becoming less fashionable. | 71 |
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Two months of practice will be rewarded as
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Primary school students from across South Auckland have been
practicing their community spirit through dance, music and
performance.
Kiwi Can Jam brings together the South
Auckland community to encourage kids to have the confidence
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community. Each Kiwi Can school has to prepare an item; five
minutes long around the theme and then perform it on stage.
It is a heart-warming experience, with the children of South
Auckland showing off their Kiwi CAN DO attitude.
Kiwi Can
Jam is part of the Foundation of Youth Development's (FYD)
Kiwi Can programme and involves 400 children from the 11
primary and intermediate schools. Kiwi Can is a life skills
and values programme delivered to the whole school. Children
attend a Kiwi Can lesson once a week, every week of the
school year. The programme promotes a can-do attitude and
encourages children to take responsibility for their
actions.
Foundation for Youth Development (FYD) is a
child and youth charity founded by Graeme Dingle and Jo-anne
Wilkinson and is a leader in the field of youth development
in New Zealand.
FYD provides young people with the
opportunity to build self-confidence and learn valuable life
skills by participating in unique development programmes
from the time they start primary school through to the end
of high school.
Through FYD's current programmes –
Kiwi Can, Stars, Project K and MYND – they help 18,000
young people each year to be confident, healthy individuals
who contribute positively to society | 380 |
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Published: November 2, 1999
To the Editor:
Your Oct. 31 Week in Review article ''The Fat War: Hope Amid the Harm,'' reporting that Americans are getting fatter every year and that more than half are now overweight and nearly 18 percent are obese, drives home the message that there is no ''one size fits all'' approach to obesity.
However, you do not emphasize enough the role of registered dieticians in the development of a national comprehensive obesity prevention policy.
Studies have confirmed that a community-based registered dietician working with a doctor is the most cost-efficient source of personalized weight management service.
A national health care policy that combined this with better education for consumers on diet and exercise would give the three elements that guarantee successful long-term health maintenance and disease prevention: awareness, accessibility and affordability. | 171 |
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I have never seen a Troubie show that didn't crack me up! Great show ideas, hysterical physical comedy, sly jokes, and slightly (sometimes a little more) raunchy attitudes make for a night to remember. If you can handle some craziness, don't miss them! | 90 |
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A dog is truly a man's best friend, but not only for their loyalty. The majority of American's own a pet, but if you are amongst the 40 percent who do not, you may want to reconsider – a pet may not only warm your heart, but may actually help to protect it as well. Heart disease is … Read More
Almost all of us would love the opportunity to live longer and proper cardiac care can help us to do just that. Unfortunately, when it comes to cardiac care and preventing a potentially fatal heart attack or stroke, there are a lot of myths. So before you go swearing off eggs for the rest of your life or … Read More
For decades, heavy consumption of alcohol has been associated with various cardiovascular diseases including hypertension and stroke. Despite the health campaign initiated by physicians and other healthcare-related groups, the population of alcohol drinkers in society has remained the same. It is thus important for the general public, with the aid of physicians, to monitor changes in their bodies … Read More
Cardiovascular disease is regarded as the leading cause of mortality in countries across the globe. This disease may result in the development of a stroke, which may be debilitating if an individual is not given immediate medical attention. A stroke generally occurs when the heart health of an individual of an individual is not maintained, often resulting in … Read More
Heart health should be a top priority because heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention. Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease and can lead to heart attack. According to the CDC someone has a heart … Read More
New research from the University of Western may have you swapping your morning eggs for a healthier option to experience good health benefits and help to prevent heart disease and stroke. Researchers found that eating eggs yolks may be almost as harmful as smoking for individuals who are at risk for heart disease and stroke. The findings … Read More
Heart disease has affected millions of people around the world and thus health programs have promoted various lifestyle interventions to improve cardiac care and enhance good health. Similar to most chronic diseases, heart disease can affect people of various ages and thus it may also be helpful to recognize methods in detecting heart disease at its earliest stages … Read More
Heart disease is considered as one of the major causes of mortality across the globe. To live longer, it is thus important to understand the various ways of cardiac care, including that of preventing the possibility of suffering from a heart attack. Cardiac care may also involve the adaptation of a healthy lifestyle, such as consuming healthy … Read More
In North American, over 1 million people suffer a heart attack each year. Understanding why and how heart attacks occur is important so that individuals seek treatment early in order to avoid adverse outcomes, such as death. A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is blocked long enough that part of the heart muscle is … Read More
You probably already know that if you want to preserve your health and live longer, then a healthy diet, regular exercise and proper cardiac care can help you to do just that. You may also be aware that your genes play a role in determining what types of health struggles you may face, but did you know that … Read More
Do you feel that your current job makes you suffer from high blood pressure or hypertension? Coronary heart disease is regarded as a major cause of mortality across the globe and is strongly associated with problems in maintaining a normal blood pressure. Although studies have shown that improvement in cardiac care and health programs have resulted in a | 737 |
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Thomas R Grover Middle School is located in Princeton Junction, NJ and is one of 2 middle schools in West Windsor-plainsboro Regional School District. It is a public school that serves 1098 students in grades 6-8. See Thomas R Grover Middle School's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Thomas R Grover Middle School had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The New Jersey average is 13 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Thomas R. Grover Middle School is an excellent school, providing an exciting curriculum as well as pleasing commodities. Built in 1999, Grover has been offering amazing classes, and has won many academic, athletic, and art/music awards. There is a welcoming ambience throughout the school and all the people there are polite and nice.
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About the NJASK
The New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) is an annual test used to assess a student's mastery of the state's grade-level academic standards.
Which Grades and Subjects?
Students are assessed in grades 3 through 7 in language arts literacy and math, and in grade 4 in science.
How is it Scored?
Students are rated at one of three levels: partially proficient, proficient, or advanced proficient. The goal is for all students to score at or above the proficient level.
About the GEPA
What is it?
The New Jersey GEPA is used to measure a student's mastery of the state's grade 8 academic standards.
Which Grades and Subjects?
Students are assessed in grade 8 in language arts literacy, math and science.
How is it Scored?
Students are rated at one of three levels: partially proficient, proficient, or advanced proficient | 385 |
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ecd45e8b-4121-495f-98cd-87124424a643 | UNC Law Students Research Law of the Old South at Wilson Library
Wilson Special Collections Library was the site of some unusual legal research last year.
Students enrolled in the UNC School of Law seminar "Property and Slavery in the Old South" used the Library's rare publications and archival documents to investigate how the law was applied to moral issues in the antebellum South.
Al Brophy and Ben Kleinman research historical debate societies in the Wilson Library at UNC.
Chris Dwight, a second-year law student, ensconced himself in the Rare Book Collection to read an address by Mississippi High Court Justice William L. Harris. The publication documented Harris's evolution toward anti-Unionism through what seemed to be a straightforward application of legal logic.
"I want readers to understand how ideas can snowball into a conflict that leaves 600,000 men dead," said Dwight. "There has to be a hyper-awareness that our smallest actions can cause something extraordinarily tragic down the road."
Third-year law student Ben Kleinman went to the Southern Historical Collection to transcribe handwritten papers from UNC's student debating societies in the years leading up to the Civil War. The debates reflected the issues of the day. Kleinman credits the project with making him a better writer, more able to frame and contextualize arguments. | 258 |
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2219aba4-b709-4d90-ba97-93aa1b2f35f0 | 2. Chao Phraya River in Bangkok
Bangkok Waterway
Like all urban rivers, the history of the Chao Phraya is intertwined with the city it flows through. The original site was chosen by early settlers because of its fertility and abundant fish. Later King Taksin, after the fall of Ayutthaya to the Burmese, located his new capital here, on the western banks today known as Thonburi.
In 1782 King Rama I, finding the eastern banks more favourable, founded modern Bangkok and celebrated the occasion by building some of the world's most beguiling temples. Later still the canals it feeds became famous, earning Bangkok its 'Venice of the East' epithet. And, meanwhile, eminent Western authors like Maugham, Conrad and Coward were singling out the Chao Phraya as one of their favourite spots in the Far EastThe River of Kings'
Truly, the River of Kings - as King Rama I named it - is the lifeblood of Bangkok. And not just because of this rich history. Around 50,000 people still use its ferries to get to each day. Slow barges bearing cargo coast upstream. Kids still frolic in the russet-brown water. Wooden shacks, mottled by the elements, still lurch over the water.
Soaring hotels and condominiums hem in solemn temples, churches and civic buildings that look 19th century European, while yards away the odd wooden sampan sells noodle soup or dried squid to hungry river workers. It is this juxtaposition of calm and chaotic, modern and traditional, religious and secular, ugly and sublime, foreign and indigenous that makes the Chao Phraya so evocative.
River Boats and Ferries
Five public boat lines, all operated by the Chao Phraya Express Boat company, ply the same 21km route: 'local line', 'orange', 'yellow', 'blue' and 'green-yellow'. Operating between 06:00 and 19:30 daily, each is identifiable by the coloured flag hanging off its rear.
The rush-hour only 'local line' stops at all 34 piers, while the other four are express lines stopping at only selected piers. Only the Orange Flag Line, with its flat fee of 15 baht, runs all day and on weekends – for most journeys this fits the bill. The others stop at around 09:00 and begin again at around 16:00. Cross-river ferries operate at most major piers and will drop you to the other bank for 3.5 baht (see Chao Phraya Pier Guide for details).
'Tourist Boats' are another option, offering unlimited trips to nine prominent piers for a 150 baht flat fee (service hours: 09.30 - 15.00 daily). Not a bad deal if you plan to do a lot of hopping on and off over one day, want more comfort and the sites to be pointed out to you. Bear in mind though – these run every 30 minutes while the public lines used by locals typically run every 15 to 20 minutes. Other options for exploring the river include hiring a long-tail boat (usually includes trips down the city's canals), a river cruise or dinner cruise. All give a different perspective on this fascinating river.
Chao Phraya River
Phra Arthit Road runs parallel to the Chao Phraya River, stretching from Phra Sumen fort to Thammasat Universty. Lined with quaint shop-houses, cosy hole-in-the-wall restaurants, bars and cafés with live music, this is where the artsy type convene after sundown before hitting nearby Khao San Road. The nearest river pier is Phra Arthit Pier.
Thewet is scintillating. People come here to make merit by releasing fish or to feed the school of frenzied catfish scraps of bread. There's also a ramshackle yet photogenic wet market, and the Royal enclave of Dusit nearby. The nearest river pier is Thewet.
Oriental, the old Westerner Quarter with crumbling European architecture, antiques shops and the venerable Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where some of the 20th century's most eminent scribes once stayed. The nearest river pier is Oriental.
Pak Khlong Flower Market, a living breathing oriental market teeming with life and colour, is one of the most pleasant places to spend an early morning. Find fresh flowers of all species, fruits and vegetables at wholesale price. The nearest river pier is Rajinee.
The Khlongs and Canals of BangkokWat Pho (the Temple of the Reclining Buddha), or Wat Phra Chetuphon, is located behind the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and a must-do for any first-time visitor in Bangkok. It's one of the largest temple complexes in the city | 1,013 |
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