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Shirley Hemphill You probably remember this comedienne as Shirley the waitress on What's Happening, yet her career encompasses far more. When Moms Mabley passed in 1975, Jet magazine ran an article on "Who will succeed Moms Mabley as the top X-rated comedienne?" Hemphill was a contender -- and, for what it's worth, she told the first gynecologist joke I ever heard on TV. (She was on Mike Douglas or something similarly '70s, and she said that the doctor was casting his hand around down there as though he were fishing for bus change.) Hemphill, part of any number of proud and noble comedy traditions (African-American, female and sitcom survivor, for instance) performs five shows. 8 p.m. tonight, Friday and Saturday; and late shows, 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday. Laff Stop, 1952 West Gray, 524-2333. $8.50, Thursday; $12.50, Friday and Saturday.

The Seven Deadly Virtues Bering and Friends presents another theatrical to benefit the Bering Support Network. This year's production is a really big show -- 30 people affiliated with the HIV/AIDS charity are in the all-singing, all-dancing cast. Musical numbers from Broadway shows and big movies have been appropriated for The Seven Deadly Virtues, a look at the age-old battle between good and evil, and at how dat ol' debbil human spirit will beat out both every time. Gala, black-tie opening with a bit of the bubbly and hors d'oeuvres tonight. Reception, 7; curtain, 8:30 p.m. Subsequent shows are at 8:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Stages Repertory Theatre, 3201 Allen Parkway. For tickets, call 526-5846 or e-mail Advance tickets are also available at Basic Brothers Clothing and Uniglobe First Choice Travel. $50, gala opening; $15, other shows; $12, seniors.

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Shakespeare in The Woodlands The drive doesn't seem so far when you consider that the performers for this production of Julius Caesar came all the way across the Atlantic. The Anglian Open Air Shakespeare Company has been imported for tonight's evening of drama, intrigue and dirty politics as writ by the bard. Our friends at the pavilion say, "With its 27-member cast and massive stage set, this English production is one not to be missed." Friends, Romans, countrymen, pass me the bug spray. 8 p.m. rain or shine. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 629-3700. $10 and $8.50, reserved seating; $7, lawn seating.

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The AIDS army wants you Or at least your rummage-shopping dollars. AIDS Housing Coalition Houston (AHCH) is selling donated goods to raise money for housing and shelter programs for HIV/AIDS patients. They got it all -- household goods, objets d'art, jewelry, things printed and recorded, gadgets, clothes, electronics, baby items, sports equipment, toys and other stuff that people donated to this worthy cause. The Summer Rummage-A-Rama is one day only, and it's like a whole neighborhood's worth of garage sales right in one place. 8 a.m.3 p.m. AHCH volunteer center, 117 Tuam (at the end of Fairview at Helena Street). For more information, call 521-1613.

Holistic Exposition 1996 Why stay home and watch Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers when you can seek "physical, mental and spiritual answers for today" in the company of live humans? More than 16 speakers and empowerers will be present, all professionals who've had "aha" experiences or used mandalas or other modalities. 10 a.m.5 p.m. today and Sunday. Presented by the Houston Search for God Council at the University of Houston, Hilton Hotel (entrance no. 1 off Calhoun). For more information, call 893-4540. $49.50, all presentation and exhibits and Saturday night dinner with Charles Thomas Cayce, Edgar's grandson; $19.95, everything except the dinner.

Bellaire Coin Show The 31st annual Bellaire Coin Club show features a wide variety of old and rare coins (and paper money) for sale and trade. This collector's festival also offers an event to lure new enthusiasts: a children's auction. Kids (17 and under) are given play money, but can bid on real items such as proof sets and silver dollars and other entry-level numismatic paraphernalia. Auctions for the kids are at noon and 4 today; 2 p.m. Sunday. Show hours, 10 a.m.6 p.m. today; 10 a.m.5 p.m. Sunday. Bellaire Civic Center, 7000 South Rice, Bellaire. For more information, call 439-4335 or e-mail Admission and parking are free.

South Asia Friendship Fest '96 How many of us are up to speed on Bhutan and Mauritius? Sure, we all know a thing or two about Nepal and Madagascar, but the less flashy countries and islands of southern Asia don't get much attention. Happily, lesser known neighborhoods and big players such as Afghanistan, India and Nepal will all be celebrated with food, games and craft booths. Also, cultural information booths staffed with the culturally informed will be scattered among the food and craft booths so festivalgoers can be edified as well as entertained. 6 p.m.midnight. Sam Houston Race Park, 7575 North Sam Houston Tollway (Fallbrook-Windfern exit). For more information, call 367-1395. Regular admission, $3; children under 12, free. Parking, $2.

More Shakespeare in The Woodlands Following the English company's Friday performance of Julius Caesar, the way-outside-the-Loop Shakespeare festival continues with a Houston Ballet production of Old Bill's story of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. This production is a special jewel in the ballet's crown, receiving rave reviews whenever and wherever it's staged. 8 p.m., rain or shine. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Drive, The Woodlands, 629-3700. $10 and $8.50, reserved seating; $7, lawn seating.

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Schlitterbahn Some Texas rivers are not exactly white-water this summer, but at the not-entirely-natural Schlitterbahn, there's always tubing fun and more -- and now, with raised speed limits, a day trip to New Braunfels is quick and easy. An all-new, all-wet four-acre addition to the Schlitterbahn Waterpark features four thrill rides and a big beach with waves. Dunk the kids in sunscreen, and head out for a day on such water coasters as the Dragon Blaster, the Family Blaster and the new Master Blaster. Open daily through August 18. The park opens daily at 10 a.m.; closing time varies from 6 to 8 p.m. $21.95, adult all-day pass (12 and older); $17.95, child all-day pass (three-11 years); $15.50, adult midday pass (12 and older; 3:30 p.m. to closing); $12.50, child midday pass. Children under three are admitted free and there is no charge for parking, inner tubes, life vests or bodyboards. 305 West Austin, New Braunfels, (210) 625-2351, http://www.

Family Day Summer Sampler African, Asian and American deserts are all explored in this wide-open MFA family day. The whole crew can tour the desert with "Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach," a photography exhibit, and then, at a drop-in workshop, kids can make their own desert cantos with a little help from artist Marsha Dorsey-Outlaw. African art is on the agenda in a postcard tour of the Glassell Collection of African Gold. (You really ought to see this; the craftwork is amazing.) Also on the African angle, Kuumba House presents Tripping with Fudugazi, a performance a 2:30 p.m. Fudugazi the tortoise is a South African character. Inspired kids can then make their own African mask at a drop-in workshop. Asia? A postcard tour covers art from China, India and Japan. 12:154 p.m. Museum of Fine Art, 1001 Bissonnet, 639-7300. Free.

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Puss 'n' Boots The Children's Theatre Festival concludes with a well-costumed production of this classic tale, one of the few cat-centric children's stories. Instead of a loyal dog, our hero has a clever cat, Anne (Gwendolyn McLarty). Thanks to Anne, Stu (George Parker III) ends up with wealth and fame. 10:30 a.m. weekdays through August 11 and then some. (Other shows listed in Thrills, Kids, On-Stage.) Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre, University of Houston (entrance no. 16 off Cullen), 743-2929. $5.50; $4.50, children; group rates available.

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National Night Out Here's the poop, if you haven't already gotten it from McGruff on TV: National Night Out is an evening when almost 9,000 communities in all 50 states, the U.S. territories and Canada take time for crime-prevention awareness, to bolster grassroots anti-crime efforts, to build neighborhood spirit and police-community relations and send a message to criminals. It's all done via block parties, cookouts, parades and rallies. For more information or a schedule of events in our town, call the Houston Police Department's Community Services Division, 247-8941.

Absolut Art Guitar Auction Thanks to Swedish vodka producers, artists from all over and the Velvet Elvis, you and yours can party and bid on art guitars. (Proceeds benefit DiverseWorks.) Don't drink vodka? Don't worry: other spirits and sodas will be served, and snacks, too. Party, 69; auction begins, 7:30 p.m. Velvet Elvis, 3033 Richmond. For more information, call 223-8346 or e-mail $35.

Grease! Fans of touring Broadway musicals are sure to turn out en masse for this production of the sock-hop extravaganza starring legends of the small screen. Internationally known comic, General Nutrition Centers spokesdude and friend of Mattress Mac Joe Piscopo stars as Vince Fontaine, and Mackenzie "One Day at a Time and precious little else" Phillips has the coveted role of Rizzo, leader of the Pink Ladies gang. Opening tonight, 8 p.m. (Other shows listed in Thrills, Theater.) Wortham Center, Brown Theater, Texas at Smith, 629-3700. $38$44.

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Anteater If your ant awareness has recently been raised by those cute fire-ant insecticide commercial on the radio, or by the presence of actual fire ants on your property, then perhaps you'd like to gaze upon a creature who can eat, with impunity, 30,000 ants a day. Our zoo has recently introduced an anteater, Jatai. Of course, as a zoo creature, she eats a special mash of cat food and ground biscuits, but still, you can stroll by the cage and take a good long look at her impressive claws, and from then on imagine those same claws ripping open every ant home you see, imagine Jatai destroying the work of worker ants and eating all of them, and their queen and larva, too. This won't get the ants out of your yard, but it might make you feel better. The Houston Zoological Gardens is open daily, 10 a.m.6 p.m. Hermann Park, 1513 North MacGregor, 523-5888. $2.50; $2, seniors; 50 cents, children three - 12; free, children under three.

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Recap: Episode 4 of The Next Iron Chef

Recap: Episode 4 of The Next Iron Chef

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Next Iron Chef, where the Houston food community gathers, hoping for a win for an Iron Chef who has a real passion for this sometimes underdog Texas city. And where Ming Tsai acts like a tool. By the way, did you hear when "Ming" called into 1560 The Game this past week? Brilliant.

At the top we are reminded that Mary Dumont was kicked off last week and that Bryan Caswell was called a ballerina.

Ming Tsai comes in wearing his Karate Kid headband. That just means more opportunities to make fun of him. Will there be waxing on and off in this first challenge?

The theme of the first challenge is transformation. In this case it is ordinary condiments that they must morph into something Iron Chef-y. Marco Canora gets to choose first and dole out the goodies to everyone else. He takes mayo and gives Caswell ketchup.

Maneet Chauhan gets stuck with ranch dressing, which gives me an opportunity to come out of the condiment closet. I really don't like ranch. There, I said it. My wife loves it, and even has her favorite places that make their own. Blech.

Caswell is doing some sort of cocktail sauce consommé, or ketchup water, as Kenneth Ellen Parcell might call it.

Chef Tio has said in the past that she doesn't like hot sauce, and that's what she is stuck with as her ingredient, of course. She's making a fresh ricotta using the vinegar in the sauce. Me want.

It's steak sauce for Tsai. He describes what he is making. I have no clue what he is talking about. I think the headband is on too tight.

They all judge Caswell first, and his ketchup shrimp cocktail shot with pickled cucumber it is a hit. It also looks suspiciously like something on the menu at REEF (and, oh man, is it good).

Chauhan makes a lemon and ranch mousse. Vomit. In. Mouth.

Canora does a mayo chocolate pudding, and as strange as that sounds, I think I could handle that. Everyone else seems to agree that it's pretty tasty. Chef Canora, Bill Cosby on line two for you.

Marc Forgione gets tepid marks for his barbecue sauce pasta sauce.

Everyone loves Tio's ricotta and she wins. Chauhan's ranch days are over, and she will ride into the sunset as the loser for this challenge. I mean, c'mon, ranch mousse?

So it's another challenge in which Caswell doesn't lose and doesn't win. Is he playing possum? Let's hope so.

The chairman appears on TV and tells everyone they are going to the county fair. I swear that chairman dude frequents bars on Washington Avenue.

Alton Brown appears at the San Diego County Fair in a carnival barker's outfit. Here's to hoping he crams a corn dog or fried Twinkie in that pie hole. I'm starting to worry he will just wilt away otherwise.

All seven remaining chefs get to grab a basket and go shopping in all the concession stands around the fair. They have 30 minutes to do this and are all sprinting around the midway.

They all gather as many raw or fresh ingredients they can find and hoof it back to the cook site. They are all sucking wind when they get there. Caswell is wearing a Little Big's logo cap, and that thing is going to be sweatier than a Dom DeLuise armpit in a minute.

The rules state they have to have one dish on a stick, one has to be fried and one has to be grilled.

I like the sound of Estes's grilled calamari gyro, Tio's funnel cake moon pie, and Forgione's fried cheeseburger.

I don't like the sound of Chauhan's avacado chocolate beignet, Canora's tomato salad stick, and Caswell's corn sno cone.

The grill goes from stone cold to surface-of-the-sun-hot in seconds. Kind of like my wife when, in the middle of a fight, I bring up the fact that years ago she threw car keys at my face to justify anything else I may have done wrong.

Canora gets rave reviews for his healthy approach to the fair with stuff like grilled shrimp and lightly fried chicken. He is looking like a top contender.

Marc Forgione makes a deep-fried root beer float, and I'm gonna go ahead and book his reservation at the State Fair of Texas right now.

Ming has his deconstructed banana split deal and, in telling the judges how to eat it with a straw, he says, "suck and suck hard." Again, "suck and suck hard." Once more, "suck and suck hard." I really hope my editor leaves in all three of those.

Caswell is up, and it seems like for the first time on the show, he is taking some criticism. Not the best marks for his cilantro corn sno cone, and his plate just doesn't look that striking. One judge does comment that he is bold, though. So he's gotten "bold" and "ballerina" in consecutive episodes. I feel like that could be the treatment for some movie staring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

That moon pie funnel cake of Tio's sounds wonderful, and the judges agree.

Cut back to the studio, where the judges are discussing the misses for the night. First up is the grey and green abomination known as the cilantro and charred corn sno cone. If this is the item that gets Caswell kicked off the show, I hope he starts serving it at Big's and calls it Crash and Burned Corn.

They also don't like the fried burger from Forgione and most everything from Chauhan. When the top dogs are announced, though, it is Canora, Forgione and Caswell. The winner is Tio, and with that funnel cake it should be no surprise.

After failing on her caramel apple and giving the judges a partially raw fried pie, Duskie Estes is kicked off.

Six left now and if I were a betting man I would say the final four at the end will be Caswell, Canora, Tio and Forgione. Suck it, Ming. Suck it hard.

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Toad Lily
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Toad lilies have beautiful spotted[/b] See more pictures of perennial flowers.

The common name of toad lily is rather unfortunate for such an attractive and unusual flower. The amphibian reference really refers to the blotches and markings on the flowers. The genus name is from the Greek for "three" and "convex" because the 3 outer petals have tiny bags or swellings at the base.

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Description of toad lily: Plants have alternate, 6-inch leaves on arching, hairy stems that are usually 2 feet high. They bear single, creamy white flowers, often in clusters, which open to purple-spotted petals and centers resembling pieces of chenille. They usually bloom in late September or October. Toad lily ease of care: Moderately easy.

How to grow toad lily: Toad lilies need a moist, fertile soil with a high humus content and partial shade, or the open shade found beneath trees. In higher elevations of Zone 5b where fall frosts arrive early, the plants must be protected.

Propagating toad lily: By seed or by division in spring.

Uses for toad lily: Toad lilies should be planted where they are easily seen. The plants are especially valuable for the shade garden and are among the few that bloom so late in the garden year.

Toad lily related species: Tricyrtis formosana has flowers spotted with mauve on a lighter background with yellow in the throat. T. latifolia is a summer bloomer with upright yellow flowers in branched terminal clusters. 'Forbidden City' has dark stems and the outer, triangular petals each marked with a chocolate-brown band across the middle. T. macrantha var. macranthopsis features decumbent stems bearing broadly lance-shape, shiny pleated leaves and gorgeous inflated yellow bells borne in the leaf axils along the upper third of the stem. Hybrid toadlilies: 'Kohaku' bears open, vase-shaped white flowers, heavily spotted with rich purple, face upward from the leaf axils on the upper half of the stems. 'Lemon and Lime' has golden foliage edged with green on stems under 2 feet tall. 'Lightning Strike' has gold leaves edged in dark green and lavender, spotted. 'Shining Light' has irregularly striped gold and green leaves with lavender flowers. 'Sinonome' has white flowers spotted with rich violet. 'Tojen' has upright cymes of unspotted lavender-and-white flowers decorating stout stems to 2 feet tall.

Scientific name for toad lily: Tricyrtis hirta

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Get Basic Access to WHS from an iPhone or iPod Touch Without Installing Apps

One of the cool things about Windows Home server is the ability to access files remotely. Here we look at basic access to data while on the go from your iPhone or iPod Touch without installing additional apps.

After you setup Remote Access on your Windows Home Server, you’ll be able to access its shared files and folders from virtually anywhere. For this article we’re accessing WHS from an iPod Touch running iOS 4.0, but you can access it from any smart phone, tablet, Android device, computer…essentially any device with Internet access. The server we are using is a home built machine, and we’ll look at getting basic access to your documents through the Safari browser.

Note: This will allow you basic access to files, folders, and documents out of the box without installing any extra software on your Home Server or iPhone or iPod Touch.

Setup Remote Access on WHS

If you haven’t done so already, you’ll need to set up Remote Access on your Windows Home Server. Open Settings and select Remote Access and Turn on.

The Remote Access wizard starts up for you to easily get started. It verifies your remote web site is available and configures your router using UPnP standards.

After that you’ll get a message verifying it was configured successfully.

Then you need to run through the Domain Name Setup Wizard. Type in your Live ID and password…

Then choose a name for your Domain and finish out the Wizard.

After it’s set up from the Settings menu under Domain Name, click on the Details Button.

Then refresh your domain information to verify everything is working correctly. For a full tutorial check out our article on how to setup remote access in WHS.

Accessing WHS from an iPod Touch or iPhone

Now that we have Remote Access and our Domain configured, we’ll be able to access it from anywhere we have an internet connection. Again, here we’re using an iPod Touch, but you can access it from any computer or smart device like an iPhone, Droid, or any portable device that is Internet capable.

Open the browser from the main menu on your iPod Touch…here we’re using Safari.

Now type in the web address to your Home Server you created while enabling Remote Access in the steps above.

You’re brought to your Home Server site and you’ll need to login.

Tap the Log On button located on the upper right corner of the page.

Enter in your user name and password. Keep in mind due to security restrictions, you can’t login as Administrator.

Now you can access your shared folders from your Server on your device.

Here we go into our Photos folder and can browse for and preview the pictures that reside on the server.

Here we’re checking out a comic in PDF format. Notice the option to open it in iBooks

With it in iBooks it makes for a nicer viewing experience.

You can also save PDFs to your iBook library. Select the file you want, and click the Download arrow.

Here we have some PDFs we downloaded from WHS and stored in our Library.

Just tap on the eBook or PDF that you want to read…

We were even able to read MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, but not edit them.

Here is an example of a new .docx Word file.

Unfortunately you won’t be able to access media files through the Safari Browser using Remote Access. However, we are looking at a few different apps that will allow you to do it that we’ll be covering soon.

Here we looked at a basic method of accessing your important documents from an iPhone or iPod Touch. You won’t need to jailbreak your device or install any extra apps for basic access to documents.

While it may not be the best experience as having full access, in a pinch it will definitely work. We’ll be taking a look at other portable devices and apps in future articles that will allow full access to your home server and the ability to stream media content.

How to Setup Remote Access and Domain in Windows Home Server

Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before pursuing his passion for writing. He's been a tech blogger and journalist for the past seven years, and can be found on his about me page or Google+

  • Published 08/9/10

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  1. calebstein

    Just install the Safari Download Plugin, and you can download any type of file to the local filesystem.

  2. Chris

    This doesnt work anymore guys ive tried and tried but still the popup tht safari cant find the server appears

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How to Create Exceptions in Windows Vista Firewall

Windows Vista Firewall acts like a fence between your computer and the outer world, but since any fence needs a gate, you have to let some data get in and out by setting exceptions. While some exceptions are set up automatically by Windows Vista, others have to be configured manually, so let’s see how.

Setting a manual exception for a certain program.

  1. Click Start and enter the Control Panel
  2. Here, access the link called “Allow a program through Windows Firewall” (bellow the Security).

  3. Go to the General Tab, and make sure that the option “On (recommended)” is selected. If not, enable it (this will enable the firewall).

  4. Go to the Exceptions tab at the top.
  5. To add a program you to your exception list click Add Program (near the bottom).

  6. A list with the programs on your computer is displayed. Locate the program, highlight it and click OK.

  7. Be sure that the check box besides your program is checked, then click OK

Other tips

The most powerful addition to the Vista Firewall is the excellent Rules system. This allows you to enable traffic only in certain conditions, just like opening a gate only for people dressed in white, but they will only be allowed to enter.

  • to specific computers and users
  • to many different protocols (not just TCP and UDP)
  • to both local and remote ports
  • to specific interface types: location area network, remote access, or wireless
  • to specific Vista services

Despite the vulnerability claims, a well configured Vista Firewall is much more capable than all its predecessors, and despite the fact that nothing is perfect, everything starts from you, the user behind the screen.

  • Published 05/18/07

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  1. Jorge Bargman

    I am trying to stop my photos displaying as screen savers after a certain amount of time. I was able to do it with XP but I have not been able to find it in Vista.
    Can you help?

  2. Bogdan

    Yes. Go to your desktop, then RightClick and Properties. Go to screen saver and then select one that you like or Select NONE if you dont want any at all

  3. MEAT

    Trying to run a server on UT99 but something is blocking it.
    How do I get around Vista?

  4. phyllis miller

    firewall will not come on it has an errorOX6D9 how do i fix it,i have a gateway notebook it is 6 months old,running windows vista

  5. Bilge

    I’m using Windows Vista Home Edition,
    I have put togglehiddenfiles.exe shortcut in startup, and have done all that is described above (How to Create Exceptions in Windows Vista Firewall). No matter how many times I uncheck the box that says “Always ask to allow this program” the windows vista firewall keeps trying to block and keeps asking me every time I startup.
    The whole point was to secure privacy of my hidden files, and this window popping up about hidden files does not help at all.. How can I get rid of it?

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The emerging greentech sector may be starting to deliver the economic benefits its advocates have long said it would.

But it may be easier to count new green jobs than to deliver them.

More than 300 new renewable energy or clean transportation projects, facilities projects and facilities were announced in 2012, promising an estimated 110,000 new jobs, according tothe year-end report from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).

But those 300-plus announced projects and facilities, on the other hand, may never get built or provide the projected number of jobs.

The report highlighted three trends in its green jobs count: North Carolina’s step up to leadership, the solar industry’s continued prominence, and the wind industry’s federal-policy-induced stumble.

Public transportation, which qualifies as part of the green economy because it displaces fossil fuel-intensive transportation, led with 43,000 announced jobs to build or expand municipal light rail, inter-city passenger rail, and bus infrastructure. Power generation was second with 30,000 announced jobs. Manufacturing, energy efficiency, and smart grid were numbers three, four, and five on the list, respectively.

Solar, one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. economy with a 40 percent increase in installed capacity, led the renewables with 19,100 generation and manufacturing jobs. Wind was stymied by the failure of Congress to extend its vital Production Tax Credit until the last day of the year and lost 3,000 jobs in 2H 2012, according to E2.

Energy efficiency saw 9,000 jobs announced in twenty states.

Electric vehicle manufacturing and light rail were the drivers of North Carolina’s emergence as a leader in the sector.  A 9.2-mile light rail project linking uptown Charlotte with the University of North Carolina campus will start construction this year, be completed in 2017, and provide more than 7,000 new jobs. Asheville’s Biowheels RTS expects 1.500 jobs to come from the building of 900 solar-powered EV charging stations across the state over the next three years.

Three 2012 stories highlighted by E2 were the expansion of HVDC manufacturer ABB (NYSE:ABB) in North Carolina, the Oregon Cool Schools statewide energy-efficiency initiative, and the manufacture and installation of of radio-controlled light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems in Chattanooga, Tennessee’s parks and neighborhoods by Global Green Lighting.

The E2 report noted early indications of several greentech regional hubs. On the West Coast, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area are taking the lead in public transportation projects, and California is building twenty utility-scale solar power projects. The Southwest, especially Arizona, is building energy-efficiency manufacturing. Led by Illinois, the Midwest is doing smart transmission upgrades widely.

With more than 13,700 jobs announced in greentech manufacturing, some 80 percent of the U.S. total, the Southeast led all U.S. regions.

Source: E2 Q4 2012 and Year-In-Review Clean Energy Jobs Report


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Jean Tehan column: Make informed choice on charities to fund

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The holiday season is a time when the charitable impulse tends to be stronger than most other times of the year. It is also the time when our home mailboxes are filled with multiple requests from many different organizations seeking charitable contributions. How do you decide which ones to support?

Here are a few thoughts to consider as you review your requests:

What purpose does the organization serve, and is that purpose important to you and your family? Become familiar with the organization through its website, looking at its programming and specific results, including numbers served, or call or visit the organization for more specific information.

If you are planning to receive a charitable deduction for your gift, the organization needs to be a 501(c)(3), which is an IRS designation earned by organizations that serve a charitable purpose. To verify 501(c)(3) status, visit, a nonprofit database listing 501(c)(3) organizations derived from 990 filings.

What is the financial health and productivity of the organization? You want your charitable gift to have an impact. Are the organization's overhead costs kept in check, or are they primarily devoted to high administrative costs and fundraising? Are phone solicitations done by paid workers or volunteer workers who believe in the cause? An organization's website or annual report should contain this information.

Leadership and public accountability are important considerations to evaluate as well. The IRS requires public charities to have a board of directors that meets and records its actions in a transparent way. An annual report is a good place to look for this information.

Become familiar with the organizations you are interested in funding. Watch for their record of success, the impact of their work, whether they have a strategic plan in place, how they fulfill a need, or whether they duplicate services already offered by another organization.

The Community Foundation administers more than 300 different component funds serving unique and specific purposes. They can be viewed at Under our umbrella, all funds will qualify for a charitable deduction to the fullest extent possible in your particular tax situation.

If you have further questions about a particular charity or how to evaluate the charitable requests you receive, please call your Community Foundation at 715-845-9555.

Jean Tehan is executive director of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin.

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It's going to be one happy Halloween for "Assassin's Creed" fans.

The next entry in the series, "Assassin's Creed Unity" is set to arrive on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC on Oct. 28.

This time players will assume the role of Arno on the streets of Paris in 1789. The French Revolution is turning the streets red as commoners raise weapons — and guillotines — against the aristocracy. As Arno, players will witness key moments in history, from the storming of the Bastille to the execution of King Louis XVI. They'll also encounter famous figures such as Napoleon.

"Unity" will boast features beloved "Assassins" favorites and some never-before-seen items, including:

Intense co-op play. Join friends online to take on a variety of missions, from pulling off heists to sabotaging executions to taking down targets.

New weapons. The series' vaunted hidden blade has a new option: A built-in crossbow.

New motion and combat. This installment provides greater freedom of movement than ever before, allowing players the chance to run up and across city walls and buildings. Fighting has also received an overhaul to place greater emphasis on skill, timing and flow. In addition, players can take advantage of new stealth tactics and crowd-manipulation techniques.

Customization. Choose from hundreds of possible combinations of weapons, gear, outfits and skills to create a Master Assassin.

Extensive exploration. Experience the French Revolution through stories and quests. Players can blend with crowds of up to 5,000 AI-driven characters or explore secret catacombs and sewers. The game will also offer ancestral missions, treasure hunts and murder mysteries, to name a few.

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Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman lurking in the stacks who bears a striking resemblance to Sandee Brisbane the Sandee Brisbane who killed Goldy's ex-husband, the Jerk. But Sandee is supposed to be dead . . . or so everyone believes.

Goldy's suspicions mount when the body of Drew Wellington, a former district attorney, is found in a corner of the library, with a map worth thousands of dollars stashed in his clothing. Goldy is convinced that Sandee, a confessed felon, is involved. But the holiday madness is only just beginning for Goldy. Soon she's drawn into the dangerous, double-crossing world of high-end map dealing. And like the ghost of Christmas past, Sandee keeps making an appearance. Could she be out to prove that revenge is oh-so-sweet?

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The Bergen County freeholders voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a public bond finance deal for the American Dream megamall -- the troubled Meadowlands project formerly known as Xanadu.

According to the freeholders, the $800 million bond deal will not put any county taxpayers at risk. Local building and construction unions applauded the agreement, saying resumption of the stalled project will result in thousands of jobs.

Earlier this month the New York Jets and New York Giants dropped a lawsuit against American Dream developer Triple Five. The lawsuit had been filed because the teams claimed that Triple Five’s plans to add amusement and water parks would result in traffic problems at MetLife Stadium during home games.

Triple Five also dropped a countersuit they filed against the teams seeking damages for allegedly obstructing investment in the site in order to maintain their monopoly in the area.

A memorandum of understanding has been signed by the relevant parties – Triple Five, the Jets and Giants, NJ Transit, and the NJ Turnpike Authority – outlining improvements to roads and transit in the region.

The transportation upgrades include increased train capacity, improvements to turnpike interchange 16W, and an increase in ramp capacity at the mall. The upgrades will not involve any county resources. --Art Schwartz

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Grooming Gets Creative at the Paws for the Cause Gala

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One of the most exciting parts about organizing this year's Paws for the Cause Gala is collaborating with so many different dog lovers, and hearing their unique stories about their work with animals. Erica Chou works for the National Association of Professional Creative Groomers, and holds the title of being the first Professional Creative Groomer in Canada. I met with Erica to talk about how the NAPCG became involved with Paws for the Cause, and asked her what we can expect to see at the upcoming event.

Finding the Cause Behind the Paws

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As an advocate of canine care, I am proud to be working with 2012 Paws for the Cause benefactor: Central Toronto Veterinary Referral Clinic (CTVRC). Having had my own pet receive emergency clinical care I understand the importance of affordable, professional care for all animals. I talked with Dr. Boyd about plans for the clinic, her 150lb Mastiff, Sargent, and CTVRC's involvement in Paws for the Cause.

Instagram's This Wild Idea on Taking his Hound on the Road

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When I first came across Theron Humphrey's photography on Instagram (This Wild Idea), myself and the Paws for the Cause team instantly became obsessed with his photos and the relationship he has with his Coonhound Maddie. We knew he'd be a perfect fit for this year's Paws Gala and quickly contacted him to discuss how we could work together. We recently had a chat with Theron to get some insight on his photography, Maddie and of course, his wild idea.

Combining Fashion with Man's Best Friend for a Good Cause

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When my Chihuahua puppy, Chloe, was in a terrible accident and needed emergency spinal reconstruction surgery the veterinarian gave us the choice between a $10,000 surgery bill and putting our new puppy down. Was it really a choice? After that I knew I wanted to start a charity that helped dogs who needed life-saving surgeries. That's when Paws for the Cause was born, and later it's annual #PawsGala dog fashion show.

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In Search of Perfection

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My Christmas stocking included a surprising addition this year. Given my work ethic (work, work, sleep, work) and aversion to dating, my flatmate thought it would be fitting to present me with a ready-to-go Perfect Man. Not, I hasten to add, a giftwrapped Adonis, but rather a new app designed to introduce its users to four different men each representing different facets of perfection. They answer your questions (do I look good in this?) in exactly the right way (baby, you look amazing) and deliver a never-ending sea of compliments on tap.

The existing four men cater to a wide variety of tastes. Literary lovers who dream of unbridled lust on wild untamed moors will gravitate towards romantic and brooding Poet Man. He isn't all sonnets and soppiness, however, and enjoys boxing (what else?) in his spare time. West End WAG wannabes will be drawn to Famous Man, a creature so talented that his career encompasses not just acting, but modeling and singing too. For the woman craving luxury, power and money, Perfect Man's silver fox Business Man is a safe bet. Finally - and my personal favourite - is Photographer Man, an outrageously delicious specimen who treats you as his supermodel muse and tells you you are "smokin'", particularly hilarious when delivered on New Year's Day to my hungover face and pajama clothed shivering body.

For those women not interested in any of the above, creator Sarah Woodhead plans to extend the range of perfect men on offer by adding the likes of Builder Man, who will presumably be muscly and efficient rather than a wolf-whistling serial ogler.

My first few hours alone with Perfect Man were spent in fits of giggles. Overly toned and chiseled, the men deliver Romcom lines in tones of dripping honey. "God, it's good to have you here", Photographer Man drawls emphatically from behind his camera lens. "Hey, sit down and relax and I'll make you a cup of tea", another promises without the slightest hint of annoyance.

The app quickly becomes addictive and got me thinking. Is the notion of a perfect man so fantastical that technology provides a better representation of it than reality? And if it doesn't really exist, why do we continue to harbour after it? Perhaps because being happy with our lot doesn't prohibit us from imagining a different reality where someone speaks when spoken to, listens rather than hears, sticks by your side, respects your point of view, tells you are beautiful unlimited times and gives you a confidence boost whenever you need it.

The Perfect Man app is about having fun, but it will also cheer up lonely singletons and serial daters struggling to find Mr. Right. And for those in relationships that feel taken for granted or low in self-esteem, my advice would be to discreetly leave your app running for your boyfriend to discover. Remind him that delivering a sincere compliment, making breakfast in bed or running a bath can make you feel wanted. It doesn't matter, then, if he isn't a bastion of beauty, because in that moment, he is your perfect man.

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Rosie O'Donnell opens up about life, family and her divorce from Kelli Carpenter in the October issue of O, The Oprah Magazine.

O'Donnell and Carpenter, who have four children together, divorced in 2007 after three years of marriage. "[The divorce was] Humbling. And humiliating," O'Donnell told Oprah. "In the O'Donnell family, no one had ever been divorced."

She explains that the couple's separate interests contributed to their split: "[Carpenter] wanted to play tennis at the country club, and I don't do country clubs. I tried. They made an exception for a gay family, and we joined. It was a big thing: 'They let in a gay family--whoo!' So I show up to play with her, and somebody comes out and says, 'You can't play unless you have tennis whites.'"

In 2010, O'Donnell told the San Francisco Chronicle that the split was amicable; she said the couple had drifted apart, but they were continuing to co-parent their children.

She told Oprah: "I would die for any of my children, and, more importantly, I would live for any of them."

"The Rosie Show," O'Donell's new daytime talk show, will premier in the fall on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The October issue of O hits newsstands Sept. 13.

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America may be filled with beautiful rivers and streams, but some of the country's most notable waterways are also its most endangered. Released Tuesday, the 2012 America’s Most Endangered Rivers list examines the most threatened waterways in the U.S. and the human activities that jeopardize their quality.

At the top of the list is the Potomac River. According to American Rivers' report, the river is threatened by both agricultural and urban pollution, along with attempts to roll back the Clean Water Act. The group notes that the polluted Potomac was deemed a "national disgrace” by President Johnson in 1965, and, according to TreeHugger, was a catalyst for the 1972 Clean Water Act.

American Rivers president Bob Irvin said in a statement that the list, "underscores how important clean water is to our drinking water, health, and economy. If Congress slashes clean water protections, more Americans will get sick and communities and businesses will suffer. We simply cannot afford to go back to a time when the Potomac and rivers nationwide were too polluted to use.”

Several rivers on the list -- in Wyoming, Ohio and West Virginia -- are threatened by natural resource extraction, including natural gas development and mountaintop removal coal mining. Wyoming's Hoback River, the report explains, could face the "likely impacts" of fracking, including pollution, water loss and wildlife displacement.

For the Hoback, the report recommends that "the leaseholder should agree to sell or donate its oil and gas leases to a conservation buyer." The report argues that to protect northeastern Ohio's Grand River from negative impacts of natural gas development, the state must "require the highest standards" for monitoring and testing chemicals and wastewater related to fracking.

American Rivers notes in their report that theirs "is not a list of the nation’s 'worst' or most polluted rivers, but rather it highlights rivers confronted by critical decisions that will determine their future."

List and captions courtesy of American Rivers. Click here to read the full report.

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Teleportation Like That Seen On 'Star Trek' Unlikely In Real World, Physicists Say

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Published: 06/18/2012 04:58 PM EDT on Lifes Little Mysteries

In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries rates the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts.

Want to get from here to there in an instant, even if "there" is miles and miles away? If some science fiction tales have it right, all you'll have to do is flip a switch and presto, you will teleport to your destination.

Perhaps the most famous example of teleportation technology is the transporter on the TV show "Star Trek." The original series' creators devised this shimmery special effect because they didn't have the budget to show a spaceship landing on various planets.

Any chance you will "beaming" up or down anytime soon? Scientifically speaking, teleportation faces some extreme obstacles, ones that even the redoubtable Montgomery Scott would find trouble working around.

"With the teleportation of a large object, you run up against a conceptual 'no,'" said Sidney Perkowitz, a physicist at Emory University in Atlanta.

On the atomic scale, however, teleportation of a sort has already been achieved that could lead to less-fanciful, though still impressive, technologies, such as quantum computers.

A quantum commute

Teleportation research is making strides. Just a couple years ago, scientists set a teleportation record of nearly 10 miles. They did not transport matter, though — rather, they teleported quantum information between photons.

Among the many curiosities of quantum mechanical physics is that particles and even objects as big as tiny diamonds, researchers have discovered, can become "entangled." That is, particles that have physically interacted are often linked in such a way that an action performed on one influences the other, regardless of the distance between them. Albert Einstein indelibly dubbed this bizarre phenomenon as "spooky action at a distance."

The major problem is getting all the atoms in the right place. To match entangled particles (i.e., your body) at both ends of an intended transport, the quantum state of the original must be forwarded to the far end by everyday means of communication, such as a radio wave. In other words, you could not shoot information across vast interstellar distances in an instant.

"A transporter device would never transport you faster than the speed of light," said Edward Farhi, director of the Massachusetts Institute of technology's Center for Theoretical Physics.

Far more problematically, the second half of an entangled particle pair (or pairs) would also have to arrive at its destination before the teleportation procedure could occur. In other words, for Captain Kirk to beam down to a planet's surface via quantum teleportation, all the requisite atoms to re-make him would have to be allocated there anyway.

"There's no free lunch here," said Farhi. "You have to send the whole set of particles that constitute the thing that you want to be teleported."

"Star Trek" transporters do not employ this sort of transmitter and receiver setup; instead, Kirk just steps onto a transporter pad and away he goes, rematerializing at his destination. "You would have to have two pieces of equipment in place – an entanglement generator in point A and an entanglement receiver in point B," said Perkowitz.

These requirements, of course, largely defeat the purpose of using a transporter over conventional means of travel in the first place.

Data overload

The teleportation scheme described sounds as though it would yield a clone at the destination; the body at the origin point would not simply dematerialize in a beautifully sparkling cascade.

Yet the very process of measuring the quantum states of the body's atoms would disrupt them, which could possibly trigger something akin to death. The quantum state of a particle at point A, when measured for the benefit of reconstituting an identical particle at point B, is no longer what it had been before the measurement took place. The source particle's quantum state is "destroyed," said Farhi.

Cataloging the quantum state of every atom in a doomed human to resurrect him or her molecule-by-molecule over yonder is itself a monumental challenge, however. Our bodies are made up of on the order of 10^27 atoms and perhaps 10^45 bits of information — the latter is the equivalent of a billion-trillion-trillion terabyte-capacity computer hard drives.

Gathering these gobs of information and transmitting them by even the broadest of broadband in a practical, timely fashion borders on unbelievable, scientists say.

"The only teleportation that's been observed has been just one quantum parameter, like an electron's spin or the electric field orientation of a photon," said Perkowitz. "It's a binary bit, a zero or a one, left or right, up or down. If you multiply that by the number of molecules in a macroscopic object, the amount of data [that needs to be teleported] is staggering."

Heisenberg wags a finger

To up the ante further yet, in quantum mechanics, there is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Essentially, the more information you have about a particle's position, the less you know about its momentum, and vice versa. [The Funniest Theories in Physics]

In an ever-changing, dynamic system like a cell, let alone the trillions of cells in a human body, nabbing a complete snapshot of all of that simultaneous activity looks impossible.

"You could never make an exact clone of an object and have any complexity to it," said Perkowitz. ("Star Trek" writers dodged that last issue with the transporter system's so-called Heisenberg compensator.)

Worming out

An entirely different, though no less speculative, way in which to teleport would be to somehow selectively rip open the fabric of the universe. Wormholes — theoretical tunnels through space-time — could do the trick.

Scientists' best guess is that the spawning of a wormhole would require exotic physical forces we cannot begin to dream of mastering. In Perkowitz's summation: "Teleportation is impossible in terms of our present knowledge."

For covering distances long and short in the foreseeable future, it appears we must continue to rely on transportation of the old-fashioned variety — vehicular or pedestrian. A shuttlecraft looks to be a good option for alighting upon the surface of a strange new world someday.

"It seems like the simple thing to do to get Kirk from here to there," Farhi said, "is to just send him."

Plausibility score: Physics deeply frowns upon a transporter like that in "Star Trek," and as a sci-fi traveling method, the known means of teleportation look infeasible and unpractical. We therefore give teleportation one out of four possible Rocketboys.

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"Agent Orange" Corn: Biotech Only Winner in Chemical Arms Race as Herbicide Resistant Crops Fail

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn variety that is resistant to the highly toxic herbicide 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange.

Today, the USDA extended the public comment period on this issue until the end of April 2012, largely due to pressure from the Center for Food Safety (CFS), the nation's leading organization in the fight to regulate GE crops. If approved, CFS has vowed to challenge USDA's decision in court, as this novel GE crop provides no public benefit and will only cause serious harm to human health, the environment, and threaten American farms.

Dow's "Agent Orange" corn will trigger a large increase in 2,4-D use--and our exposure to this toxic herbicide--yet USDA has not assessed how much, nor analyzed the serious harm to human health, the environment, or neighboring farms. This GE corn will foster rapid evolution of resistant weeds that require more toxic pesticides to kill, followed by more resistance and more pesticides--a chemical arms race in which the only winners are pesticide (aka biotechnology) firms.

The advent of Dow's 2,4-D resistant corn is a clear indication that first-generation GE, herbicide-resistant crops--Monsanto's Roundup Ready (RR) varieties--are rapidly failing. RR crops, which comprise 84 percent of world biotech plantings, have triggered massive use of glyphosate (Roundup's active ingredient) and an epidemic of glyphosate-resistant weeds. These resistant "superweeds" are regarded as one of the major challenges facing American agriculture.

2,4-D corn is only the first of many new herbicide-resistance crops being developed by the biotechnology industry to usher in a new era of increased chemical use that represents a very significant opportunity for Dow, Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, and Syngenta. These "biotechnology" companies are actually pesticide firms that have acquired a large portion of the world's seed supply, and they use biotechnology to create synergies between their seed and pesticide divisions. In short, biotechnology = pesticide + seeds. One indication of this is that nearly two-thirds of GE crops pending approval by our USDA (13 of 20) are herbicide-resistant.

Dow now falsely suggests that 2,4-D crops (2,4-D soybeans and cotton are also under development) are the solution to weed resistance. Far from solving the problem, however, a peer-reviewed study recently published in the prestigious journal Bioscience, entitled "Navigating a Critical Juncture for Sustainable Weed Management," suggests that these new GE crops will foster a huge increase in 2,4-D use, and thereby pour oil on the fire, triggering an outbreak of still more intractable weeds resistant to both glyphosate and 2,4-D. This study validates similar findings made by CFS in a 2008 report and in Congressional testimony on resistant weeds in 2010.

2,4-D drift and runoff also pose serious risk for environmental harm. Because it is such a potent plant-killer, 2,4-D can harm animals by killing the plants they depend on for habitat and food. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Marine Fisheries Service have found that 2,4-D is likely having adverse impacts on several endangered species, even now. 2,4-D is currently used to control weeds primarily in cereal grains, golf courses and lawns. Its use in corn has been extremely limited. USDA's approval of 2,4-D resistant GE corn will sharply increase the overall use of this toxic herbicide, worsening these impacts and likely placing many other species at risk.

American farmers are also rightly concerned that the introduction of 2,4-D resistant corn will threaten their crops: 2,4-D drift is responsible for more episodes of crop injury than any other pesticide. As Indiana farmer Troy Roush told me: "In my experience, 2,4-D is an herbicide that can and does drift considerable distances to damage neighboring crops. We can expect greatly increased use of 2,4-D with Dow's new corn, and that could wreak havoc with soybeans, tomatoes, and other crops my neighbors and I grow."

If approved, millions of acres of Agent Orange corn could be planted as early as next year, raising concern for its adverse health impacts. 2,4-D was one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange, the chemical defoliant used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War. Agent Orange was contaminated with dioxins, a group of highly toxic chemical compounds, which are responsible for a host of serious medical conditions--from diabetes to cancer to birth defects--in Vietnam veterans as well as Vietnamese and their children. Industry's own tests show that 2,4-D is still contaminated with dioxins.

Many studies show that 2,4 D exposure is associated with various forms of cancer, Parkinson's Disease, nerve damage, hormone disruption and birth defects, according to Dr. Amy Dean, an internal medicine physician and President-Elect of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. Dr. Dean believes that because it poses significant health risk, exposure should not be increased, but significantly reduced to protect the public's health.

USDA's public comment period on 2,4-D resistant corn is open until April 27, 2012. Tell USDA that you don't want "Agent Orange" corn. Comments may be submitted to the agency through our action link at: For more information on 2,4-D corn, see our two-page fact sheet and more extensive Food Safety Review.

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The Simpsons and Banksy Peel Back the Curtain

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Anybody who says The Simpsons has lost its bite wasn't watching last night, when the 21-year-old comedy bit its corporate parent, 20th Television, and I mean hard. That the opening was created by guerilla artist Banksy was only the beginning of the surprise. The real gut punch was in the "couch gag," which showed gaunt Korean child laborers finishing Simpsons cels in vats of toxic goo, kittens being shredded to make the stuffing of Simpsons figures, and a dying unicorn -- a dying unicorn -- used to punch the center holes in Simpsons DVDs. The thing made Dickens' London look like a Katy Perry video. Showrunner Al Jean voiced the obligatory disclaimer in a Q&A with the New York Times' Dave Itzkoff -- No, no, of COURSE we don't really exploit sickly, tubercular orphans in dimly-lit sweatshops (I'm paraphrasing) -- but there was no denying the ghastly ferocity of the piece, which ended with a shot of Fox HQ ringed with barbed wire in the middle distance, like some awful latter-day incarnation of Devil's Island.

The Simpsons has, as a business proposition, always been cheerful in its avaricious devotion to licensing and merchandising. Last night it flipped the script. You may never look at your Sunday Best Bart Simpson action figure quite the same way.

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Well the ever popular family fun game Google Bowling was back in the news it seems. What is Google bowling? If you dont know, then apparently youre not very smart,  at least according to one - Chris Bowers -

I think Internet users are very smart and most are aware of what a Google bomb is, he said, and they will be aware that results can be massaged a bit

While it is an interesting, if not passé pursuit, GB dark side wanna-bees are always fun to read. Here are some goodies...

It will be harder to manipulate results for searches of the name of a candidate who has already been widely covered in the news and widely discussed in the blogosphere, because so many links and so many pages already refer to that particular name. Search results on lesser-known candidates, with a smaller body of references and links, may be easier to change.
Yuppersshows what kind of investment you could be up against in a Google Bowling war. Be careful what fires you start with this. It also shows its relative ineffectiveness on more entrenched rankings/competitors.

Ricardo Reyes, a Google spokesman. A sites ranking in Googles search results is automatically determined by computer algorithms using thousands of factors to calculate a pages relevance to a given query.
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Theres no hidden agenda. One of the reasons for this is to show that campaigns should be doing this on their own. -- said Mr Bowers

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LOCAL > Prosecutor: Fatal shooting of Gezi protester was an act of self-defense

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A police officer who allegedly shot a demonstrator during the early days of the Gezi Park protests was released on June 24 by a court in Ankara, with the prosecutor in charge of the investigation ruling that the shooting was “within the limits of self-defense.”

Sarısülük, a 26-year-old blue collar worker, was shot in the head during a protest near Güven Park in Kızılay on June 1. Having been on life support for days and later declared brain dead, he passed away on June 14, increasing the number of casualties in the protests to four.

The police officer who allegedly shot and killed Sarısülük, identified as Ahmet Ş., was released pending trial by the Ankara 13th Criminal Court on the condition of judicial control. Thus, from now on, he will be required to report to a police station once a week and is prohibited from traveling abroad.

On June 24, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation against Ahmet Ş., Veli Dalgalı, surprisingly summoned Ahmet Ş. for interrogation.

Dalgalı then sent the police officer to court demanding his arrest. However, the court, following another interrogation, released the suspect pending trial, arguing that he remained “within the limits of self-defense.”

During a meeting between Dalgalı and the lawyers of Sarısülük’s family, which was held before the interrogation of Ahmet Ş., Dalgalı told the lawyers that there was neither a development nor a new report concerning the investigation, sources said. The prosecutor also told the lawyers that he would be leaving the courthouse later in the afternoon. Nonetheless, the lawyers eventually heard by coincidence that the police officer had been summoned for interrogation and that he had been sent to the court.

“If the person who committed this crime was not a police officer, but was rather an ordinary citizen, he would have been under arrest by now. The police are being encouraged to commit crime. With this ruling, an assurance for the protection of police officers who commit crimes has appeared. The path to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights has been opened for us,” Kazım Bayraktar, a lawyer for the Sarısülük family, told reporters following the developments.

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The ruling has been greeted by huge indignation by Sarısülük's family, according to their lawyer, Kazım Bayraktar, who said they would now take the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

"We are seeing today that the police officer who shot Ethem Sarısülük in his head has been released, despite having clearly committed a murder. This ruling has shown us once again that the already [flawed] justice has entirely lost its legitimacy," Bayraktar said.

He also slammed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unwavering defense of the police's actions. "The prime minister's statement that, 'We will not surrender our police, we have told the judiciary what's necessary,' has found its reflection at court," he said.

The lawyer also argued that they would go to the ECHR before exhausting all appeal paths, on the grounds that the judiciary was under the influence of the executive in Turkey. "We were already preparing to appeal to the ECHR on the grounds that the prosecution was not efficient and the court was influenced by the executive. Following the ruling, we will apply to the ECHR within the shortest possible time," Bayraktar said.

He also criticized the fact that the judge in the case did not take into account the footage and the testimonies of the suspect. "The expert's report on the fact that [Sarısülük was shot] from 4.8 meters was also not in the court's justification," he said.

Sarısülük's death has prompted much anger, with protesters demanding that the government investigate and punish the police officers responsible for violence against protesters.

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In 2006 the Scandinavian countries joined forces in the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP) with the ambition of becoming one among the first regions in Europe where hydrogen is available and used in a network of refueling stations. The SHHP collaboration consists of regional clusters involving major and small industries, research institutions and local/regional authorities.  The SHHP coordinators are national networking bodies in Norway (HyNor), Sweden (Hydrogen Sweden) and Denmark (Hydrogen Link). SHHP also collaborates with partners in Iceland, Finland and Canada (BC Highway).

 Status in January 2010 is 26 hydrogen vehicles and 7 stations in operation with 3 stations under construction and plans for additional 7 stations. Projects are ongoing to increase the number of vehicles, thus supporting the many stations in operation. Municipalities and regions are in the process of being aligned towards joint procurement of vehicles from 2011 and beyond.

 The stations so far have focused on testing of various hydrogen production and supply concepts as well as supporting a local hydrogen vehicle fleet. With this approach several concepts for hydrogen supply have gone, or are going through, evaluation paving way for further efforts on commercialising the technologies suitable for the future.

 Next phase of the SHHP will focus on further clustering of hydrogen stations within the metropolitan regions Oslo and Malmö/Copenhagen as well as stations in the corridor regions. Also emphasis will be put on ensuring that all new stations will comply fully with the new SAE J2601 standard. Efforts are also ongoing to enable upgrade of existing operable stations to comply with SAE and enable 70MPa refueling. At present there are 3 new hydrogen stations under construction, with planned opening in 2011, which will all enable 70MPa refueling according to SAE.

 In Norway and Denmark national strategies therefore exists within hydrogen for transport and cities, such as Copenhagen, have a 2015 goal of 85% of their internal vehicle fleet to be hydrogen or electric powered. Also in Norway a strategy for hydrogen infrastructure roll-out onwards 2050 has been formulated. Efforts are ongoing to ensure similar efforts across the entire Scandinavia, to help plan and guide the future hydrogen station and vehicle roll out.

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Meh, didn't seem like that bad of an avalanche. The killer ones are the ones you don`t have time to run away from... lets just hope that was a light-fluff one and that when the snow settles it hasn`t buried the house as the avalanche has expended its momentum.. THAT.. or the backdoor isn`t covered or their roof has a door, lol. Still neat though.

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FFS. you REALLY can't figure out the expression near miss? its a miss, THAT WAS NEAR YOU. like if a baseball goes whizzing by your head at ninety-five miles per hour, but MISSES, it was a near miss. near becomes an adverb discribing miss.

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aww.. damn it... it was just a cloud when it got to them... i wanted them to be buried under 50 ft of snow..

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Brussels, BelgiumBenita Johnson’s victory in the women’s long race at the 32nd IAAF World Cross Country Championships here was in many respects unprecedented. Australia’s first medal of any description at this event was described in some reports as possibly the biggest shock in the century-long history of international cross-country races.

And yet Johnson actually represents a firm link back to the very beginnings of organised cross-country running, for she is a member of the club that started the whole sport.

Thames Hare & Hounds lays claim to being the world’s oldest cross-country club by virtue of its having staged a race over Wimbledon Common, in south-west London, on December 7, 1867. “Hare and hounds” events, “paper-chases” and cross-country steeplechases, where one or two runners would set off in advance of the field as the “hares”, scattering a trail of paper for the “hounds” to follow in a contest of wits as well as stamina, were popular in many English public schools in the early 19th Century - there is an account of the annual race at Rugby School in Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

Such runs and other organised sports were regarded by Rugby’s famous headmaster, Dr Thomas Arnold, as an essential diversion for the boys’ less constructive energies, but they indirectly contributed to the development of much of what we recognise today as sport, since Baron Pierre de Coubertin ascribed his inspiration for the founding of the modern Olympic Games to a visit to a school sports day at Rugby in 1886.

The rigorous, character-building runs popular at schools more than a century ago also became acknowledged by some of the better organised rowing clubs as an essential part of their conditioning training for their races on the River Thames.

137 year event history

Thames Hare & Hounds’ first race 137 years ago was in fact staged by Thames Rowing Club, which to this day organises an annual race for rowing clubs in Richmond Park. Thames’s first run prove so popular, though, that a running club was established exclusively for the purpose.

It is around Richmond Park where Johnson and her training group regularly train when they are based in London. As they churn out the miles alongside the royal herd of deer in one of King Henry VIII’s favourite hunting grounds, Johnson and her friends are running in the footsteps of a rich sporting history.

The beautiful setting has remained popular with runners with good cause. And Thames Hare & Hounds have been ever presents.

But much has changed to cross-country, and Thames Hare & Hounds, in the intervening years.

The “Rules and Bye-Laws of The Thames Hare & Hounds Club”, from c. 1874, offer some idea of the strict and somewhat class-bound attitudes of the times. The club’s purpose, according to it rules, “shall be the promotion of Paperchasing in and near London”.

Not unusually for a sports club of that time, the club’s headquarters were to be a pub, the King’s Head at Roehampton; in some respects, this is something that has not altered too much, since Thames Hare & Hounds, together with Ranelagh Harriers, continue to have changing facilities at a pub, the Dysart Arms, across the road from the park.

Rigorous club rules

With an annual subscription of five shillings - the equivalent in today’s money of 25p, but at the time an amount which would have been worth about five times the average weekly wage.

But then, Thames Hare & Hounds was not a club that opened its membership to just anyone. “No one who is not over eighteen years of age, or who is not a gentleman by position and education, shall be eligible for election.” And further, “No Member shall compete at any Tradesmen's Meeting under pain of expulsion at the next or any subsequent Club Meeting. Members are particularly requested not to run at any sports as to the management of which there is the least doubt; and it is suggested that, in case of doubt, they should communicate with the Secretary of this Club”.

Short and long club distances races

As well as establishing the sport, Thames Hare & Hounds also appear to have set the precedent for the structure of the IAAF’s World Championships. According to the club’s early, Victorian rules, “The Rules for the two Challenge Cups shall be as follows: (1)The Short Distance Cup shall be run for in May and October, over the four miles and five furlongs course from Roehampton to Beverley Bridge, and then along the brook, over the Rounds, to the left of Wimbledon Mill, and the right of the Iron Houses, to the Well House. (2.) The Long Distance Cup shall be run for in January and July, over the eight miles and one furlong course, from Roehampton to the right of the Iron Houses, and the right of the Mill to the Rounds, through Fishponds Copse, up Combe Wood, down Malden Lane to the Chapel, and then to the left, up Cottenham Park, to Christ Church, and back over Wimbledon Common, to the right of the Mill, to the King's Head”.

So, some things have changed at TH&H - such as permitting women, including Benita Johnson, to join, although this is a relatively recent development. Yet Johnson is not even Thames’s first woman world champion: one of her training partners and clubmates, Sonia O’Sullivan, of Ireland, beat her to that accolade in 1998.

But other things, such as the close association with pubs and beer, have not. “I am in the team for the 4km race on Sunday,” Australia’s new world champion said after her victory on Saturday afternoon, “but I think I might celebrate a little, and maybe try some of those famous Belgian beers.”


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A new academic year has begun. The summer was busy with faculty completing books, students writing dissertations, and everyone planning for the fall semester. We have a full slate of visitors planned for the year, beginning on September 17 with Professor Tsitsi Jaji from Duke University, who will be presenting her paper "The Uses of Genre: Troping the Western in Africa." Our last seminar will be in April when Katherine Luongo of Northeastern University presents "Asylum-Seeking in a World with Witchcraft." As in the past, all papers are pre-circulated ten days in advance of the seminar, which begins promptly at 4:15 in the Major Seminar Room, Bowden Hall. The seminar is open to the public.

There is a full slate of course available for undergraduate students; contact the DUS Kristin Phillips if you have any questions. This year the graduate assistant is Abby Meert. Finally, in spring the institute is supporting the 2016 African Language Association conference. This year the conference theme is “Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora.” Kudos to Nathan Suhr-Systma and Subha Xavier for bringing the conference to Atlanta!

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