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This is Part 18 of the El Hierro Volcano eruption report
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With the collaboration of Joke Volta, an El Hierro resident
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Update 11/12 -23:55 UTC
Nothing special to report. NO earthquakes and the eruption has continued at the same pace for the last few days. Harmonic tremor with very strong bursts goes on.
Update 11/12 -18:24 UTC
Yesterday we wrote in our 22:04 update : "Some think the eruption would stop if the earthquakes ceased".
Dr. Boris Behncke from the INGV-Osservatorio Etneo, Catania commented on this statement as follows :
As a matter of fact, most eruptions are preceded by earthquakes, but in most cases the earthquakes stop once the eruption has reached a stable regime. The stopping of earthquakes does not mean that the eruption will stop anytime soon, the eruption might continue for years after the end of significant earthquake activity. Earthquakes are indicative of breaking rocks, caused by magma pushing into areas where there is no established conduit.
Once a stable magma flow occurs through a well-established conduit, there will be no longer any earthquakes.
The cessation of earthquakes only means that the situation has somehow stabilized, not that magma is ceasing to flow.
The real indicator of continued magma flow is volcanic tremor.
Only once the volcanic tremor disappears, then one might reasonably argue that the eruption is over.
Update 10/12 -17:07 UTC
- The jacuzzi has been active to very active all day long. The harmonic tremor graph is showing that the eruption is continuing at a steady pace and accordingly that the vent is growing.
- If the process continues at the current level, we expect that in the coming weeks or even days, the steam bubbles will reach the air and if the vent remains open, the steam will gradually go higher.
- Currently bursts lasting 2 to 4 minutes are occurring every 8 minutes (see picture below for the current time frame).
Update 11/12 -13:47 UTC
- Pevolca is generallyly far too late with its comments if important phenomena are occurring. The current very strong pulses / bursts of harmonic tremor need an official explanation. The most recent bulletin we find in the IGN site describes the situation on December 9 ! and in very general terms.
- Our opinion : as the eruption is still continuing, the water column on the growing vent is decreasing every hour and every day and the hydromagmatic bursts are occurring faster and faster (see IGN graph). Pevolca might consider telling the people what will happen next.
Update 11/12 -10:16 UTC
- 1 M 1.9 earthquake at 02:11 with epicenter in the El Golfo bay
- VERY active harmonic tremor bursts continuing with less time between each burst.
Jose Luis Barrera Morate blog
On December 10th, the submarine volcano La Restinga marked 60 days of uninterrupted eruption. This puts it eighth in duration for all the Canary Islands' recorded eruptions (see table). Multiple fissure eruptions have been treated as a single eruption (for example, the Siete Fuentes-Fasnia-Arafo fissure eruption). At La Restinga, bathymetric data indicate the existence of three vents, some of which are only 150-160 meters deep. Which one is the most active, if several are? This is not well understood. The fact that for 48 hours the tremor has shown more explosive episodes in a nearly periodic manner may indicate hydromagmatic bursts, implying that the active crater is shallower than in the first eruption. (thanks to Denise for the translation)
Update 10/12 -22:14 UTC
Today's Guardia Civil Helicopters / Involcan flight still shows a very active stain and a very special circular jacuzzi without pumice at the middle. Involcan has not given any additional comment on the data they have obtained during this flight (gas analysis and water temperature).
Update 10/12 - 22:04 UTC
NO earthquakes but the powerful (probably hydromagmatic) bursts are more frequent than ever before. Some think the eruption would stop if the earthquakes ceased, which would then happen soon. Our own expectations are written below (green highlighted).
Update 10/12 - 17:48 UTC
Still NO earthquakes but the volcano is still erupting.
Below a collection of today's hourly harmonic tremor graphs (see below for more information) - For all the hourly graphs from 00:00 until 18:00 in full size, please click the individual image.
Update 10/12 - 16:10 UTC
- Readers following the IGN harmonic tremor graphs should know that IGN is rescaling regularly as the burst peaks are reaching the limits of the scale.
- 30 motorcyclists arrived today at La Restinga in support of the local economy.
- The Tourist board of La Restinga has decreased the hotel rates hoping to attract more tourists in the coming weeks
- Airlines serving El Hierro have also reduced the flight rates to El Hierro by request of the El Hierro authorities. They agreed as a gesture to support the hard hit economy of El Hierro.
Update 15:29 UTC - December 10 Joke Volta images
Joke was very active from early this morning on taking pictures of the port, the reef and the coast. When she sends us new ones this afternoon, we will add them to this Picasa video sequence. If you want to see the images Full Size, please click on one of the pictures.
Update 10/12 - 09:24 UTC
- NO earthquakes so far today.
- Medium harmonic tremor with a lot of powerful bursts.
- Very bad weather at the Las Calmas sea and La Restinga this morning.
- Due to the white topped waves one can hardly see any jacuzzi activity or stain, but the stain is clearly present as well as a weak jacuzzi - NO SLS (SLS = smoking lava stones).
- Why are we always talking about bursts ? People who are only looking at the daily harmonic tremor graph will only see vertical extended lines in the graph (upper graph). These vertical lines are sometimes events that last many minutes. The lower graph shows the hourly graph tremor between 08:00 and 09:00 this morning (gray area from the upper graph). The lower graph shows regular bursts lasting many minutes.
Update 09 - 10/12
Diario de Avisos had an interview with Alpidio Armas, the president of El Hierro. One of the most important quotes from Mr. Armas was that the volcano grew 80 meters in the last couple of weeks. The change in depth was measured by the oceanographic ship Ramon Margalef. The first bathymetry took place on October 24 (2 weeks after the start of the eruption) and the last one last week. Mr. Armas also said that according to the data of the Ramon Margelef 3 vents are active intermittently.
What to expect next ?
Based on Mr. Armas interview and taking into account a number of uncertainties, Earthquake-Report.com expects that :
- if the eruption continues at the present rate and in the same vent, it will take a maximum of 2 weeks to arrive at a depth less than 100 meters. We then would expect very strong Jacuzzis during the hydromagmatic bursts.
- if the same process continues for about 3 to 4 weeks and in the same vent we would expect regular hydrovolcanic explosions during the bursts.
- if the same process goes on 5 to 6 weeks the eruption may become Surtseyan. This is the most spectacular phase of the eruption. During this phase of the eruption ash and steam clouds can reach hundreds of meters to several km in height. Particular to Surtseyan eruptions are the thick,dark-pointed cypressoidal bursts of fragments, often accompanied by lava bombs, shot from the vent.
- if the same process goes on 7 to 8 weeks and in the same vent, the eruption will at least have created a new island.
- the main vent is at a safe distance from La Restinga, so we do not anticipate any immediate danger to the population. 90% of the time the wind blows from the north or north east at this time of year, and accordingly the eventual ash will be blown further into the Las Calmas sea, avoiding damage at La Restinga.
- If a new island forms, it may indicate several months of uncertainty for the La Restinga population as no one knows how long the eruption will last and when it will finally stop for an extended time as there may be several new eruptive periods.
Our expectation is based on medium harmonic tremor such as we have seen the last couple of days. In case of strong or very strong harmonic tremor the time to arrive at these different phases could well be a lot shorter.
If our expectations come true, the eruption will make El Hierro appear on every news show in the world. The island will start to attract visitors from all over the world.
El Hierro Images from Henar Bravo and Joke Volta
Data Update 09/12 - 23:59 UTC
- 2 earthquakes today, 1 with epicenter in the El Golfo bay and the other between Los Llanillos and Tigaday.
- Medium harmonic tremor with irregular bursts keeping the eruption in the Las Calmas sea ongoing.
- The jacuzzi activity in the Las Calmas sea during the day while we only had moderate harmonic tremor indicates that the vent is getting closer to the surface.
Update 09/12 - 16:17 UTC
- Not a lot to report today, but the (weak) jacuzzi area can be clearly seen at this moment. Joke has just reported that a beautiful green stain has been created today.
Update 09/12 - 11:43 UTC
- On the RTVC webcam we have seen a number of Fisherman returning their boats (through the small newly-opened corridor in the sea) from La Estaca to the port of La Restinga. During the evacuation the fisherman had been instructed to move their boats to La Estaca.
Update 09/12 - 09:18 UTC
- Continuing Jacuzzi action this morning
- Medium harmonic tremor
- 1 M 2.0 earthquake with epicenter n the El Golfo area at 03:00
Update 08/12 - 23:55 UTC
- Screenshots from Juan del Castillo Vivero and images from Joke Volta (stain and surroundings)
Update 08/12 - 21:09 UTC
- Only 1 earthquake today (just after midnight) but the eruption is gradually picking up again. Before the collapse at 04:24 the harmonic tremor was extremely strong. The graph below shows the relation of the tremor after midnight to the current harmonic tremor.
Update 08/12 - 16:31 UTC
- The new IEO oceanographic ship "Cornide de Saavedra" is navigating close to the stain and even on the stain. This is the 4th research vessel from Spanish organizations like IEO and CSIC to conduct work on the El Hierro eruption.
Update 08/12 - 15:42 UTC
- 1 minute video recorded from the RTVC webcam at La Restinga, El Hierro by Julio del Castillo Vivero.
Smoking lava seen this morning (11.11am) at La Restinga, El Hierro after changing patterns in the volcanic activity characterized last night. The strongest activity occurs at 0:34.
Update 08/12 - 11:34 UTC
- Smoking lava stones can be seen intermittently which proves that the vent is still active.
- We are happy that the best webcam (RTVC) is working again.
- Julio del Castillo Vivero was able to (screen) capture a strong smoking lava block at 11.11.37 this morning. Click here for more activity pictures
Update 08/12 - 08:28 UTC
- We wrote the 07:18 update while it was still dark.
- Reader Max wrote in our comments at 07:33 : Well, regardless of tremor changes, smoking lava stones are still coming up to the surface at 7:30 camera time. It's still ongoing.
- and .... indeed tremor is gradually picking up again, therefore the eruption continues.
Update 08/12 - 07:18 UTC
- Harmonic tremor subsided to one of the lowest levels since the eruption started on October 10. After a period of very strong bursts that started yesterday at 22:00, a sudden collapse of harmonic tremor occurred at 04:24 UTC early this morning. We expect that the vent has collapsed due to the strong activity that took place yesterday evening.
What will happen now ?
--1-- As we have had almost no earthquakes for many days, and only medium harmonic tremor, the chance that the activity is subsiding seems very likely. If this is the case, the earthquakes will not pick up again and the eruption will be over.
--2-- If the magma is still very active below El Hierro and if it cannot find an opening any longer via the vent, the earthquakes will gradually pick up again from now on. The pace at which this happens will give scientists clues as to how much power to expect.
Update 08/12 - 00:47 UTC
- Very strong Harmonic tremor which started at 22:00 UTC. Not just bursts but lasting minutes in a row.
- NO earthquakes since midnight.
- 2 small earthquakes yesterday.
- The profile of the eruption changed completely. Harmonic tremor shows constant eruption activity. It seems that the El Hierro volcano wants to join the debate of the alert levels. It looks like it is saying : you counted me out too soon 🙂
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The country has long had a complex relationship with international opennessby George Magnus / September 3, 2018 / Leave a comment
The Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square records several revolutionary events in China's recent history, starting with the Burning of Opium in Humen. It was on the banks of the Pearl River Delta in 1839 that China seized and destroyed 1,000 tonnes of opium from British merchants, triggering the First Opium War and the start of what the Chinese call their "century of humiliation" by foreigners. It is a reminder that for China, trade and openness to the outside world have been historically both an agent of progress and a cause of profound instability.
This dichotomy is newly relevant given the challenges facing Xi Jinping's China, especially as President Trump prepares to widen the trade war in which probably half, and perhaps all bilateral trade between the two countries will be affected.
As I explain in my forthcoming book Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy, Britain's 19th century insistence on the use of opium for payment in trade, the legalisation of opium for sale in China, and tariffs structured for Britain's own benefit comprised the early agenda to force China to open its markets. The Chinese had to accept unequal treaties, pay indemnities and cede territory to foreign jurisdiction including treaty ports such as Hong Kong. Other European powers joined the fray, along with Russia, Japan, and eventually the United States.
Foreign powers carved up China and undermined its sovereignty, and the country was certainly forced to trade on unfavourable terms. But foreigners also brought new technologies in transportation, finance and commerce, along with employment opportunities and outlets for the sale of tea and silk that paid for industrial imports and essential infrastructure.
Fast forward to the present day and you can still see the ambivalence that trade represents for China. The country has been a major beneficiary of globalisation, and there is no question that the policies adopted to prepare for World Trade Organisation membership in 2001 (and take advantage of it afterwards) helped propel Chinese economic development. Today, China professes to champion globalisation as Donald Trump's America backs away from it, arguing that US trade policies are tantamount to an attack on the Chinese state.
Yet China is in the cross-hairs for exploiting global rules governing trade and investment for its advantage. Intellectual property theft and plagiarism, technology transfer requirements to do business locally, restricted market access for foreign companies and a heavily biased regulatory, procurement and competitive environment that favours local…


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I don't believe we've written about the Obama Justice Department's suit against Standard & Poors, which alleges that S&P manipulated bond ratings for its own purposes. Actaully, there's good reason not to write about it, since we don't have access to the evidentiary record on which the DOJ is relying.
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The Obama administration's suit against the rating agency Standard & Poor's makes for riveting headlines and lousy history. We want to blame the financial crisis and Great Recession on greed and dishonesty. The charge that S&P rigged bond ratings for its own gain — providing artificially high ratings on the mortgage-backed securities that inflated the credit bubble — fits this self-serving morality tale. The discomforting reality is that the financial collapse resulted from an extended period of prosperity, which led to weakened credit standards and inspired wishful thinking about the permanence of economic growth.
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Guest posted a topic in HealthAssefa Hailu Baraki, a 22-year-old student, has been suffering from dual kidney failure and has been on hemodialysis since October of 2010 at Saint Yared General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the money collected in the United States from some generous and compassionate people. He has been receiving kidney dialysis at least twice a week and paying 1,500 ETB for one session. Assefa and his entire family are appealing to all Irob natives at home and abroad as well as to all compatriot Ethiopians anywhere in the world and to all other peoples of goodwill around the globe seeking for financial aid to save his life that is now dependent upon the medical-care and treatments for the rest of his life. Assefa is anxiously waiting for a kidney transplantation to take place hopefully in the United States of America as a probono service. If everything goes well with the approval process, his younger brother is determined to donate one of his kidneys to help him live, God willing! But kidney transplantation is not a cure but it is gaining of better quality of life to live longer and healthier. He also has some other health complications that can easily complicate his health and life. If he is lucky enough to have the kidney transplant as a probono service in the United States, Assefa will still need a life-time immunorepressant drugs to prevent rejection of his body to the foreign kidney transplanted. The anti-rejection medications or immunorepressant drugs are extremely expensive for his family to afford. The anti-rejection medicines are estimated to cost in the United States from $3,000.00 to $4,000.00 US Dollars per month, which is between $36,000.00 and $48,000.00 US Dollars per year. In order the probono service for his kidney transplantation to take place, his family has to be able to afford and secure the financial resource to immediately provide him with the immunorepressant drugs or the anti-rejection medications after the kidney transplantation takes place and then for the rest of his life. Without any health insurance coverage and/or any governmental medical-care system that never exists in Ethiopia, members of Assefa's family will never be able to afford to purchasing those extremely expensive anti-rejection drugs that are not even available in Ethiopia. Therefore, Assefa and his whole family are appealing to all those who visit this Forum to help them save his life with their compassionate life-saving monetary gifts. To help or learn more, please visit the following sites: http://www.barakikidneyfund.net or https://www.wepay.com/donations/118393 or http://barakifamily.blogspot.com/ or http://helpassefahai...i.blogspot.com/[/size][/font] irob2010 Site Admin Posts: 18 Joined: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:26 pm Top


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text: Culture Art & Media Harry Potter Wizarding Genetics Decoded By Laura Moss Writer University of South Carolina Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. our editorial process Laura Moss Updated June 05, 2017 Photo: Jaap Buitendijk, Warner Bros. Pictures/AP. Share Twitter Pinterest Email Culture History Travel Sustainable Fashion Art & Media Holidays Community If the wizarding gene is dominant, as J.K. Rowling says in her famous series of Harry Potter books, then how can a wizard be born to muggle parents (non-magical people)? And how can there be squibs (non-magical people born into wizarding lines)? It seems these baffling genetic questions have finally been answered, thanks to Andrea Klenotiz, a biology student at the University of Delaware. In a six-page paper, which she sent to Rowling, Klenotiz outlines how the wizarding gene works and even explains why some witches and wizards are more powerful than others. "Magical ability could be explained by a single autosomal dominant gene if it is caused by an expansion of trinucleotide repeats with non-Mendelian ratios of inheritance," Klenotiz explains. What does this mean? In school we learn the fundamentals of genetics by studying Gregory Mendel's pea plant experiments and completing basic Punnett squares. Basically, we're taught that whenever one copy of a gene linked to a dominant trait is present, then the offspring will exhibit that dominant trait, regardless of the other gene. However, Non-Mendelian genes don't follow this rule, which is the basis of Klenotiz's argument. She says that the wizarding gene could be explained if it's caused by a trinucleotide repeat, which is the repetition of three nucleotides — the building blocks of DNA — multiple times. These repeats can be found in normal genes, but sometimes many more copies of this repeated code can appear in genes than is standard, causing a mutation. This kind of mutation is responsible for genetic diseases like Huntington's Disease. Depending upon how many of these repeats occur in the genes, a person could exhibit no symptoms, could have a mild form of the disease or could have a severe form of it. In her paper, Klenotiz argues that eggs with high levels of these repeats are more likely to be fertilized, a phenomenon known as transmission ratio distortion. She also suggests that the egg or sperm with high levels of repeats is less likely to be created or to survive in the wizarding womb. This argument answers several questions about wizarding genetics: How can a wizard be born to muggle parents? Genetic mutations can randomly appear, meaning anyone could be born with the wizarding gene. However, there's a better chance of magical offspring occurring if the parents are on the high side of the normal range for mutations. How can a squib be born to wizard parents? Although parents with these mutated magical genes would be likely to pass the gene on to their children, there's still a possibility that any given offspring might not inherit the trinucleotide repeat. How can varying degrees of magical ability be explained? The more repeats a wizard inherits, the stronger the magical power he or she will have. If both wizarding parents are powerful wizards, it's likely their offspring will also be powerful.


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Astronomer Marcus Chown wonders if science fiction is dying. With technology and scientific discovery advancing so quickly, it's unclear what will become of a genre based largely on predicting the future. Charles Stross has gone so far as to say that it's no longer possible to write near-future science fiction. Six other science fiction writers, including William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Kim Stanley Robinson, join him in the latest issue of New Scientist to weigh in how science fiction needs to change.This week New Scientist comes out with its science fiction issue, and Chown, who consults for the magazine, launches the discussion on where science fiction is headed. His question, whether science fiction is a dying genre, comes from individuals who suspect that science will leave science fiction with nothing to explore, a belief Chown does not share:
Such claims seem reminiscent of the perennial claims that science is dead or dying, most famously expounded by the prominent physicist Lord Kelvin in 1900, when he declared: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." This, of course, was just before the atom came apart, the quantum genie burst free and all scientific hell broke loose. In the case of science fiction, the premise of the doomsayers' claims is that the genre is about predicting the future. In fact, very little of it is.
Chown ultimately concludes that science fiction as we know it may change, but it will be an evolution rather than a distinction. And cyberpunk author William Gibson seems inclined to agree, noting that science fiction's value has less to do with accuracy than on speculation, which casts a reflection on our society even as it imagines another time:
If I could magically access one body of knowledge from the real future, I think I'd choose either their history of the ancient past or whatever they might have that most resembles science fiction. The products of two different speculative activities. They'll know a lot more about our past than we do, and trying to reverse-engineer history out of dreams, as I recall, was quite a uniquely exciting activity.
Ursula K. Le Guin also emphasizes speculation over prediction, suggesting that recent science fiction has more successful when it puts less emphasis on the "science":
Science fiction that pretended to show us the future couldn't keep up with the present. It failed to foresee the electronic revolution, for example. Now that science and technology move ever faster, much science fiction is really fantasy in a space suit: wishful thinking about galactic empires and cybersex - often a bit reactionary. Things are livelier over on the social and political side, where human nature, which doesn't revise itself every few years, can be relied on to provide good solid novel stuff. Writers like Geoff Ryman and China Miéville are showing the way, or Michael Chabon, who foregoes the future to give us a marvellous alternate present in The Yiddish Policemen's Union.
Kim Stanley Robinson suggests a wholly different approach, however. He suggests science fiction writers return to form by setting their stories in a more distant future:
One solution is to jump past the next century to the familiar comforts of space fiction. If we survive we'll get out there, and it's a great story zone. Without the next century included, though, the imagined historical connection between now and then will be broken, and space fiction will become a kind of fantasy. We need to imagine the whole thing. So we have to do the impossible and imagine the next century. The default probability is bad - not just dystopia but catastrophe, a mass extinction event that we will have caused and then suffered ourselves. That's a story we should tell, repeatedly, but it's only half the probability zone. It is also within our powers to create a sustainable permaculture in a healthy biosphere.
The issue also features meta-science fictional predictions from Margaret Atwood, Stephen Baxter, and Nick Sagan. The Science Fiction Issue [via New Scientist]


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Miwa Shoda joined Squaresoft, now Square Enix, in 1995 and went on to write Japanese Legend of Mana and Final Fantasy XII. Those are big games with big stories — something that they apparently do not need.
"I've worked all over the place and gained a great deal of valuable experience from all sorts of people," Shoda said via her Twitter account, "and learned approaches to writing games I would not have been able to do on my own, but the one approach I could never understand is the notion that 'games don't need storylines.'"
Shoda concedes that not all games need storylines. "But when I was told that RPGs don't need storylines, I was really shocked. They said players weren't after a storyline, so the bare minimum of events would suffice."
She does not explicitly say who told her that role-playing games don't need stories. Besides Square Enix, she has also recently worked as a freelance scenario writer for Marvelous Entertainment (2005's PSP title Valhalla Knights 2) and for Jaleco (2009's Wii title Kizuna).
"I've enjoyed RPG stories ever since I was a child," she added. "A thrilling adventure in a new world, with interesting companions. Events are how you enjoy that, together with a storyline, or so I thought. So I can't believe it when people say a storyline is unnecessary in an RPG."
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There's an old saying that there are two ways to make a donkey walk forward: Either offer a delicious carrot out in front of it, or hit its behind with a stick. Think of businesses as "donkeys" which people are trying to move. Traditional consumer advocacy uses a lot of "sticks," such as protests, petitions, boycotts, and so on. We want to use the "carrot" instead. We believe that we can get businesses to make big positive changes by offering them lots of money in return. It's a positive, win-win model. So that's what the "carrot" means. The mob refers to the large group of consumers who come together to achieve shared goals.
No. Never. And yes, the Oxford American Dictionary and New York Times have both spelled it with a big M, but you wouldn't jump off a bridge just because the NYT jumped off a bridge, now would you?
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Carrotmobs are planned by local organizers. You cannot organize a campaign to benefit yourself.
Yes! We expect the biggest, most successful Carrotmob campaigns to be created by other organizations using our platform. We are focused on building the Carrotmob network, and we want this network to function as a "commons" which should be available for organizations to tap into in order to better advance their missions.
Most people see Carrotmob campaigns as an advocacy tool...a way to more effectively vote with your money, advance your values, and so on. But businesses think about Carrotmob from a business strategy perspective. Each business has its own priorities, but here are some common reasons why businesses may get excited about Carrotmob:
Carrotmob can create a great deal of value for businesses. But keep in mind, businesses can't take advantage of what Carrotmob offers unless they earn it by taking a significant action! Win-win!
There have been over 250 campaigns in over 20 countries. The majority of the campaigns which have happened so far have focused on issues of sustainability and energy (ie: stores doing energy-efficiency retrofits). So far the #1 country in the world for Carrotmobs is Germany, followed by the US, and then Finland. Australia has done the most on a per capita basis, with Canada in the number 2 spot. Asia, Africa and South America have each had Carrotmob campaigns, but Antarctica is our weakest continent, with zero Carrotmob campaigns. Hey Antarctica! You do realize that being a continent comes with certain responsibilities, right? I mean, sorry for melting you, but it's probably in your best interest to pull yourself together and start Carrotmobbing! UPDATE! Antarctica has responded!
Anyone can organize campaigns in their community. Carrotmob HQ does not generally organize small-scale community campaigns. Most campaigns are organized by ordinary people, community leaders, schools, advocacy organizations, and so on. However, when it comes to large-scale campaigns with larger companies, Carrotmob HQ will always be actively involved, vetting and approving the campaigns. Anyone who wants to create a campaign focused on large companies should contact Carrotmob HQ for assistance.
We used to spend a lot of time worrying about this, imagining that it would be a big problem with our model. What we've learned is that it's actually almost never a problem. The reason it hasn't been a problem is that the businesses who win Carrotmob campaigns are very interested in improving their reputations. They want to look good, so they have a strong incentive to follow through. However, in the future we plan to design campaigns to have even more certainty that the business will take the promised action. We are still researching what will be the best approach, but we have a couple options we're exploring. One approach is to simply sign contracts with businesses to create a legal obligation. Another approach is to collect payments from consumers directly (and give out redeemable vouchers), and in that position as a "middleman" we could hold a portion of the business' money in escrow until they completed the promised action.
We believe that there's no such thing as a "good business" or a "bad business." Every business has a wide diversity of practices that can each be judged individually. As far as Carrotmob is concerned, every business starts out with a blank slate. You can probably think of a dozen companies that you think are horrible. But even if you're right, Carrotmob won't pre-judge anybody, or automatically disqualify them from winning a campaign. Carrotmob will always be a safe place for brands. Everyone gets a chance to improve if they are willing to come to the table and take a good, meaningful action.
Furthermore, we have no problem with businesses that choose not to participate in our campaigns. We are here to help businesses do good by making it economically advantageous to do so. If businesses don't participate in our campaigns, we recognize that we have not yet offered enough value to them in return. There's just no good reason for us to ever criticize a business, so we won't. As long as businesses are honest with us, we're happy.
Well, some people may think that any work related to addressing social and environmental problems is inherently "political" in some way. But no, we don't think of ourselves as political. We don't do campaigns related to politics or elections, and we don't align ourselves with political candidates or parties. Why not?
Well, politics is a nasty horse race... the negativity of politics clashes with our positive carrot sensibilities. Politics is like several herds of horses running in different directions, and each herd hates all the other herds. Carrotmob is a unicorn. We're not like the other horses. We don't belong in anyone else's herd. Regardless of their herd, most horses tend to support what we're doing. Unicorns are rare, magical, and beloved by everyone. We're staying out of politics because we want to keep it that way.
Our goal is not to limit what organizers can do. All of the success of this movement has been (and will be) because of the energy and creativity of organizers. We want to push more power to our organizers. But we think it's in the mob's best interest that we have some sort of review process in place. We need to be part "spider" and part "starfish,"
as they say.
Here are the main reasons for having a review process, and not necessarily approving every single proposed campaign:
1) We are a mission-driven organization. People join Carrotmob because they care about having an impact on a cause. Reviewing campaigns lets us make sure that all our campaigns are going to have a good impact, and not a bad (or non-existent) impact.
2) We need to be strategic about what messages we put out there. If someone creates a campaign which attacks a business, or promotes dendrophilia, people will get the wrong impression of what we're about. On behalf of Carrotmob organizers everywhere, we feel a responsibility to protect the reputation of the movement.
3) We are building a technology product to support campaigns. We need to have a focused product. We don't want people creating campaigns which our technology can't support, so we'll widen the scope of what we allow over time, as our technology develops.
We plan to expand the issues we allow over time, but we're going to start with a limited list of issues for the reasons explained in the previous question. Here are the issues we allow, and two examples to illustrate each issue:
Civil Liberties
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Reward a business for changing a policy in order to better protect consumer privacy on the Internet.
Reward a business for changing a policy in order to advance freedom of speech.
Climate Change
For example:
Reward a business for making their operations more energy efficient or embracing renewable energy resources.
Reward a business for switching to a low-emission vehicle fleet.
For example:
Reward a business for improving their operations so they don't pollute water sources.
Reward a business for adjusting their supply chain in order to preserve the habitat of an endangered species.
Fair Trade
For example:
Reward a business for sourcing more of their coffee beans from fair trade sources.
Reward a business for prominently featuring fair trade products at their retail stores.
For example:
Reward a restaurant for switching to local, organic, GMO-free food.
Reward a restaurant for offering more healthy/vegetarian/vegan menu options.
For example:
Reward a business for removing a dangerous/toxic chemical from their product.
Reward a business for investing money in order to have emergency defibrillators on hand.
Human Rights
For example:
Reward a business for switching suppliers to ensure that when they buy their raw materials they aren't inadvertently supporting the child slavery industry.
Reward a business for refusing to do business with nations where the government encourages hostility and discrimination against its LGBT citizens.
For example:
Reward a business for changing a policy in order to allow employees to take more time off to be with their adorable newborn babies.
Reward a business for changing their operations in a way which creates more local, high-quality jobs.
Local Economy
For example:
Reward a business for embracing a policy which uniquely meets the needs of the local community.
Reward a business for taking actions which strengthen the local economy in a positive way, reinvesting locally rather than channeling community resources out of the community.
Social Justice
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Reward a business for changing a policy in order to remove barriers preventing women from advancing into positions of leadership.
Reward a business for choosing to spend more money to safely dispose of waste, rather than incinerate their waste next to a school in a poor neighborhood and give all the kids asthma.
We wanted to start with these issues because we think they cover many of the most pressing social problems in the world, and they represent mainstream values. No list will ever be perfect, and this list is a starting point which will surely change in the future. If you don't see the issue you care about, don't panic, it may be a subset of one of these existing categories. Just because we didn't list your issue as an example doesn't mean it's not OK. If you're not sure whether your campaign idea will be approved, feel free to email us and ask us. If there's something big that you think we've missed, you can suggest other issues you'd like us to address by clicking here.
As a general guideline, we plan to base our decisions about what to approve based on the following beliefs: Facts matter. Science matters. Research matters. Here's an example of what we mean. We have a lot of campaigns focused on helping businesses take action to stop climate change. Let's say someone comes to us and proposes the following: "Let's reward Jimmy's BBQ Shack for burning more charcoal, all night long, even when they aren't cooking anything, because that will accelerate climate change, and catastrophic climate change will improve the global economy." We would judge this campaign to be based on ignorance, rather than facts, and we would not allow it on our website. We don't expect many people to propose campaigns like this, but hey, we ought to have a policy in place, so there you go.
If you disagree with a campaign, you shouldn't participate in that campaign. We're about voting with your money, but it's your money, so you get to decide what you want to vote for. The campaigns with the widest base of support will be the most successful, and less popular campaigns will be less successful. We're a grand buffet, not a prix fixe menu.
Also, if you've found a campaign you don't like, please keep in mind that just because a campaign exists in your community it doesn't mean that the Carrotmob organization has masterminded that campaign. If you find something about a campaign objectionable, send us an email to let us know.
So glad you asked. We have written up two documents about this... our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you have any feedback or suggestions on these documents you can email email@example.com.
Most people prefer using Facebook to join because it's the quickest and easiest way to create an account. It also makes it easier to share with your friends on Facebook (if that's something you want to do). We don't require you to connect your Carrotmob account with Facebook, but it's encouraged. We chose to request permissions when you join that will help make your experience as streamlined as possible, and the Carrotmob movement as successful as possible.
Here are the permissions we currently ask for, and the reasons why:
Basic Information: Your basic information gives us your name and picture so we can quickly and easily create your account. It also includes a list of your friends so we can show you which friends are also using Carrotmob.
Email: We need a way to contact you!
Location: This let's us make sure we tell you about local campaigns near you, and that we don't bother you about campaigns that are nowhere near you.
Likes: You're great and everything, but no, we don't actually care that you like "America's Next Top Model" on Facebook. As you know, we will have the biggest possible worldchanging impact if we are able to change large companies. So we have to grow our network and convince these big businesses that winning a Carrotmob campaign will be valuable to them. They will ask us questions about who our mobbers are, so having some stats will be critical to convincing them that they want our business. For example, we can go to an outdoor apparel company and tell them "We have 25,000 Carrotmobbers who like 'hiking' on Facebook!" and they will flip out. Or we could go to a restaurant and brag that we have 50,000 sushi lovers who are also interested in sustainability. We don't really care, but businesses will eat this stuff right up. This permission amplifies the power and influence of everyone in the mob.
Birthday: We're going to buy you a pony this year! Just kidding, it's the same as above... knowing the age range of our mob helps us convince companies that our people will be interested in whatever they are hoping to sell.
Post on Your Behalf: Sometimes we may ask for this permission. We want to make it easier to share campaigns with your friends so we can spread the word and grow the Carrotmob movement. We'll make it clear each time there's an opportunity for you to post something, so you'll be able to choose when you do and don't want to share.
So that's why we've chosen what we chose. Thanks for trusting us!
First, read this FAQ page. Then, if you have ideas, complaints, praise, suggestions and other questions that may be interesting to other people, please use our Feedback Form. If you represent a large business or an advocacy organization, email firstname.lastname@example.com. Any other inquiries can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also say hi on Facebook and Twitter, but we can't promise a response to every comment we get. Thank you!
Have ideas for Carrotmob? Experiencing problems on our site? Please use the form below. You can also reach us at: email@example.com. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Happy mobbing!
The fastest and easiest way to join Carrotmob is by connecting with your Facebook account. You will also be able see what your friends are doing on Carrotmob and quickly share some of your activities with your network. To learn more about how this works, read this. If you are curious about the permissions we're requesting of your Facebook account, read this. Clicking this button will NOT post anything to your Facebook wall.


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For the past couple of weeks we have been running Heroic 10s as part of our raid schedule as a test experiment. We do them after our normal 25 run and break our guild into three groups: Thrall, Sylvanas, and Bloodhoof. The goal when we set this up was to have two groups that were stong enough to kill Anub, and one group that could easily do the first 4 bosses, but not anub as we are using alt healers/tanks in this group.
We stack our two Anub groups to maximize DPS and synergies. Thrall is our melee group, Sylvanas is our caster group (who we give a rogue for MS and interrupts on Anub), and Bloodhoof is a mismash of who we have left that aren't in one of the first two groups. We rotate our melee/casters into the Thrall/Sylvanas groups each week, so the groups are always slightly different to some degree. We allot Thrall and Sylvanas ~90 minutes of time, and Bloodhoof ~60 minutes of time on our given raid night for the zone.
Experiment Week One
The first week we did this, Thrall obtained "A Tribute to Mad Skill". Sylvanas struggled with Anub, largely due to healing, which we sorted, and obtained "A Tribute to Skill", but required us to give them extra time on another raid night to go back in for it. Bloodhoof was able to get the first 3 bosses in the zone down for a few upgrades. Being the first week of this experiment, I thought this wasn't too shabby, even though we had some complaints from Sylvanas that they didn't do as well as Thrall.
All in all though, we thought it was a success. We got two groups through Anub and many members of the raid obtained upgrades. After all, every upgrade, no matter what group, upgrades our 25, no?
Experiment Week Two
Going into our second week, I tweaked the roster some, moving around some tanks and healers to try to better play to the groups strengths, and rotated people into the groups.
At the last minute we had word that our DK tank's PC had blown up and he wouldn't make it on for the raid (shit!). This required me to do some creative juggling with our groups, as we only have 4 tanks (2 main tanks, 2 off spec tanks). So I pulled the only tank I could, a warlock who has an alt that tanks for Bloodhoof, to come tank for Thrall (Brade's Paladin is our other Bloodhoof tank), which meant that I had an open spot in Sylvanas. Ok, no problem, I put a hunter into that hole.
When I made the groups for the week, I had honestly thought that I had put together two very strong groups, better groups than I had the previous week. I was looking forward to going in and having both groups come out with their Anub kills, and shiny new loot in their bags with very little difficulty.
Thrall performed superbly. We came out with "A Tribute to Insanity". I honestly never expected to see this in my list of achievements. Granted it was a typical Monolith kill…the entire raid dead with Anub having died from the ankh'd shaman's Lightening charge as he smushed him. Lots of laughs were had, and people in the group were stoked. The kill could have been much smoother, we lost our rogue somehow in phase 3 (shadowstriked, I think), and I healed WAY too much causing Anub to gain far more life than he should have (bad Beru…no biscuit!). But a kill is a kill, right?
Let's warp over to our Sylvanas group. When our achievement popped up Sylvanas was…still on Jarraxxus? WTF?!?!?! How the hell could this be possible? I mean, I had swapped the rogues from last week, giving the caster group (which is our weaker group right now) the stronger rogue. I had thought I had stacked this group with some of our strongest casters in our 25s. What was happening?
They wiped 3 times on Beasts. A couple of times from tank deaths (indicating healer issues) and once from I think just poor play. As I watched this on Brade's screen, I thought "ok, they just needed to find their groove, and I've healed groups where we let the tank die on Beasts (Thrall last week for example)". So, I have hopes that they just hit a bump, and it would be smooth sailing from there. I mean, last week's group didn't bump until they hit Champs, and even then only took two pulls for a kill.
So…they pull Jaraxxus. And wipe. And wipe. And wipe. At this point, I'm feeling horribly guilty for the first group having done so damn well, while this group flounders. But at the same time I can't help but wonder exactly what is going on…Brade actually had to holler a bit in vent. I'm usually the hollerer! So, I take a gander at his recount. And I'm a bit shocked. We built the caster group to, you know, support casters (and this group has an elemental shaman, mage and warlock). But here was our largely unsupported rogue and hunter on the top of the meters. Seriously?
But again, as I watch them work on Jarraxxus, I again see some seriously sloppy play. People running from their fires/infernals, but not moving back into healing range so they are out of range to get topped off and/or have Incinerate Flesh taken off of them. People clumping up, and chaining themselves to death (I know! It's a 10 man…how the fuck?). And people just not putting out the DPS on the portals/volcanos and ending up with extra shit to have to kill. C'mon. We out gear this, and just had our 3rd 25 man HM kill on this. We should not be having issues with the basics of this encounter.
They finally get him down, and head to faction champs. What a disaster. At this point I'm just flat out nervous that I have made people miserable by trying this 10 man project. Being on a carebare server, this fight is frequently our bane as a guild, in both 10s and 25s. We have people who just don't know how to get the fuck away from the big bad shit. They stand there like stone pilars, unmoving beacons. I mean, they may as well have a giant target painted on them that says "attack me! because I will stand here and take it to the face". It's infuriating. I mean, how do you teach survival instincts? HELLO! IF THE BIG MEAN GUY WITH THE GIANT SWORD IS RUNNING IN YOUR DIRECTION AND YOU ARE MADE OF TISSUE PAPER STOP CASTING AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF DODGE.
It is at this point that I realize a mistake I made. When I had to swap our warlock over to tank for Thrall, I left the caster group without replenishment. While not devastating to the group, it would have had an impact. Apparently the other lock in the group was not specc'd into it. This is something that I am going to have to make sure that I watch more carefully for this group next week.
As it would turn out, the mage had to leave early, and I swapped that warlock back in, as he was done tanking. The very next pull they downed faction champs. Now, I don't know if this was just coincidence, or if it is because the warlock, a PvPer, uses all of his survival tools. But they got it done.
At this point, they had ~15 minutes left for the twins. The first pull fell apart when they lost a soaker, but was damn close to a kill. So they wiped it and had a very clean kill on the next pull. They performed here as I would have expected them to perform on all of the other encounters. We told them we would give them time on Sunday or Monday for Anub. But I'll be honest…I do not want to send them down there if they are going to play like they did for most of last night. It will be nothing but a waste of their time, consumables and repair gold.
We won't even talk about Bloodhoof…
What to Do?
As I listen to the other Resto druid vent in druid chat, and Brade rant sitting right next to me, I can't help but wonder "Is this a mistake". The last thing I want to do is burn people out on the 10s. They aren't supposed to drive people to want to drink (I love you Dend! Save your liver!!!!), they are supposed to be minor challenges (save Anub), that provide decent rewards and make us stronger as a guild. In short, it's supposed to be relatively quick and easy…and well, kinda fun.
As I headed to bed last night, still feeling bad about the disparity between the two groups, I was basically of the mind set to just cancel the whole damn thing and put the 10s back on our optional schedule. I don't want people to feel inferior or like they are the "B" team. I don't want people resenting other people because of their performance.
But…as I slept on it, and thought on it driving into work today, I changed my mind a bit. This was for a number of reasons:
- What the hell else are we going to raid?
- We use close to all of our 50 attempts in the 25s. And we are very conscious about how hard we push people. Nobody wants to wipe for 5 hours straight…it's just not healthy. We spend just about two full raid nights in 25 TotGC.
- We are still working on the last handful of Ulduar Hard Modes that we need. Freya, Firefighter, Yogg 1. We start Freya this week. We are currently allotting one raid night a week for this, but it is soley hard mode attempts, and we are locking out our resets to work the hard modes we have left. So this again fits in with our TotGC attempts. You can only ask people to wipe so much without reward before they don't want to do it anymore. This makes 50-70% of our raid week new Hard Mode content in which we have not mastered. I think that is probably sufficient.
- It only takes us an hour to clear out the normal ToC on 25s. This leaves us with one raid night where we've only got an hours worth of content.
- We generally save Ony/VoA for one of the nights we are working new hard mode content so we can actually kill something after spending hours of wiping, and end the raid on a high note.
- I like my off nights. Plain and simple. Not scheduling 10 mans on off nights frees up everyone's time to play alts, get out of the house, etc. I can't help but think everyone likes their time off!
- We can use these as tools for learning. It is far more apparent in a challenging 10 man setting who is having an issue with something than it is in a 25 man setting. We can take these nights and use them to help people become better performers (I hope!). It can only get better, I would think.
We will definitely be doing the 10s for at least one more week, since it is supposed to be a 3-4 week trial. But, in the end, I think that they may offer us more as a guild than just gear upgrades. I think they offer us an opportunity to evaluate and correct in a smaller setting. I think they offer everyone in the guild an opportunity for improvement, and ultimately that IS something that is worth our time.
What do you all think? What might you do if you were in my shoes?


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SO ICY: On Monday night at The Standard hotel's seasonal ice rink, a handful of New York's more sociable types joined the ranks — some 16,000 strong — of amateur curlers in America.
Champagne maker Veuve Clicquot enlisted a team of ambassadors from the Norfolk Curling Club in Norfolk, Conn., to teach the proud, if oft-misunderstood, ice sport to a group that included Helen Lee Schifter, Claude Morais and Peter Davis. Other partygoers, such as Padma Lakshmi, waited for the stones to clear off the ice for the free skate period of the program. More still kept off the ice altogether, opting for the comfort of a cordoned-off section of the lobby and passed hors d'oeuvres.
Though a bit of a strange sight in the Meatpacking District, the demo made a certain sense. Curling is an intensely social sport, as several of the Norfolk club's members pointed out to those who did take a shot at sliding the stones and sweeping the ice. When one participant's broom fell to the ice, several club members extolled those around the rink to drink. A quick survey of the crowd showed no one had needed much enticement.


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The release of the Cedar Waxwings, scheduled for yesterday, was put off until today on account of yesterday's unfavorable weather.
Channel 12 (NBC) was there and I will post their video as soon as it's up; meanwhile, here's a video from the Richmond Post Dispatch telling the whole story. Scroll down in the box just right of center listing available videos.
What isn't shown is, we popped the cork on a bottle of the bubbly and toasted the birds and Amber.
Both the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and an ornithologist from Cornell had warned Amber that if she could manage to save 5 of the birds, it would be an outstanding triumph. But 1 was the predicted outcome, they said, and she should be happy if she could pull that off.
Well, two weeks ago, she released 4, and today she released 16 more. The other seven will need a couple of more weeks in rehab.
She also has 3 Great Horned Owl chicks we got to see. They're still downy babies, but huge already. These are somebody else's, but Amber's look just like them.
Me? So far I just have squirrels, but today I relieved Chris of two of her 30. They are two girls the same age as Puer and Puella. I can't take another thing until late May, due to other commitments.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The Great Bird Release
1 comments:
- Elizabeth @ The Garden Window said...
That is great news ! Congratulations to all of you who worked with the waxwings......
I love those owl chicks !
- April 9, 2008 at 1:59 AM
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Jessica Dorrell's Hiring Documents Obtained
Student-Athlete Development Coordinator Hired As One Of Three Finalists
The process for hiring Jessica Dorrell to the University of Arkansas football staff unfolded over the course of less than a month, and documents obtained from the athletic department outline the resume materials of nearly 160 applicants.
Dorrell was one of three finalists interviewed for the position of student-athlete development coordinator, and was eventually hired at the endorsement of former head coach Bobby Petrino.
Dorrell was interviewed for the position on March 12, and background checks were initiated the following day for Dorrell and another finalist, Benjamin Wilkerson.
Petrino endorsed hiring Dorrell to Danielle Wood, the University of Arkansas' assistant director of affirmative action, on the same day she was interviewed, saying of the candidates, Dorrell "has the best experience and we felt like she would be the best fit for the position."
Dorrell, a former First-Team All-SEC volleyball player and team captain for Arkansas, worked for the Razorback Foundation as assistant director for women's athletics before being hired by Petrino, and previously as a graduate assistant for the Arkansas athletic department from 2008-2009. She graduated with a Masters of Business Administration in 2010.
Arkansas vice chancellor and executive associate athletic director Bev Lewis and Razorback Association assistant director Sean Rochelle were listed as Dorrell's professional references.
Petrino also said the other two candidates, Wilkerson and Tiffany Fields, were both considered "great candidates," but did not have "as much experience as other candidates for this particular position." Wilkerson was interviewed for the position on March 13, and Fields two days later.
Wilkerson played for four seasons at Louisiana State, starting as an offensive lineman in each of them. In 2004, he was named First-Team All-SEC, First-Team All-America and won the Rimington Trophy as the nation's best offensive lineman. He was also named Second-Team All-America and First-Team All-SEC in 2003.
After a decorated college football career at LSU that included two SEC championships and a BCS National Championship, Wilkerson went on to play four seasons in the NFL with the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals. In his rookie year of 2007, Petrino was his head coach with the Falcons.
In 2010, Wilkerson returned to LSU as an offensive graduate assistant, and was then an offensive administrative intern for the 2011 season before applying for the student-athlete development coordinator position with Arkansas.
Among Wilkerson's list of references: LSU head coach Les Miles, Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher, Florida head coach Will Muschamp and Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley.
Tiffany Fields has been a recruiting assistant for the football team since August 2009, and has two post-graduate degrees from the University of Arkansas, as well as being a May 2012 candidate for a Juris Doctorate degree.
Among Fields' recommendations were two Arkansas assistant football coaches, two members of the athletic department staff, University of Alabama-Birmingham head coach and former Arkansas offensive coordinator Garrick McGee, University of Pittsburgh player personnel director Dann Kabala -- the man who previously held the student-athlete development coordinator position -- and Petrino himself.
Dorrell's background check was completed on March 20. She was offered the job and accepted that same day, with her start date effective March 23.
Petrino was involved in a motorcycle accident along Arkansas state route 16 in Madison County on April 1. Three days later, an Arkansas State Police report revealed that Dorrell was a passenger on the motorcycle.
Petrino originally told athletic director Jeff Long and the media that he was alone at the time of the accident, but then told Long about Dorrell's involvement approximately 20 minutes before the police report was released. It was at that time Petrino admitted an "inappropriate relationship" with Dorrell.
Long placed Petrino on administrative leave on April 4, pending an investigation into Petrino's relationship with Dorrell. The findings of that investigation led Long to terminate Petrino's contract on April 11.


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Hotel Room Germs Abound on TV Remotes Light Switches
Study tracked bacteria counts in facilities in three U.S. states
SUNDAY, June 17, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Television remotes and bedside lamp switches are right up there with toilets and bathrooms sinks in having the highest levels of bacterial contamination in U.S. hotel rooms, a new study shows.
It also found high levels of bacterial contamination on sponges, mops and other items on housekeeper's carts. This is a particular cause for concern because it could lead to cross-contamination of rooms, according to the University of Houston researchers.
Their analysis of samples collected from 19 surfaces in three hotel rooms in three states -- Texas, Indiana and South Carolina -- and found the lowest levels of contamination on bed headboards, curtain rods and bathroom door handles.
The researchers could not say whether or nor the bacteria detected in the hotel rooms can cause disease, but said that the contamination levels are a reliable indicator of overall cleanliness. Unclean rooms pose a potential risk to guests, especially those with weakened immune systems.
The study was scheduled to be presented Sunday at an American Society for Microbiology meeting, in San Francisco.
"Hoteliers have an obligation to provide their guests with a safe and secure environment. Currently, housekeeping practices vary across brands and properties with little or no standardization industry wide. The current validation method for hotel room cleanliness is a visual assessment, which has been shown to be ineffective in measuring levels of sanitation," Katie Kirsch, an undergraduate student at the University of Houston, said in a society news release.
She said the study findings could help hotels develop more effective and efficient ways to clean rooms.
"Currently, housekeepers clean 14 to 16 rooms per eight-hour shift, spending approximately 30 minutes on each room. Identifying high-risk items within a hotel room would allow housekeeping managers to strategically design cleaning practices and allocate time to efficiently reduce the potential health risks posed by microbial contamination in hotel rooms," Kirsch explained.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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As usual for Somali recordings of this vintage, the audio quality of these songs is not up to modern standards, but I'm sure you'll agree that their musical and historical qualities more than compensate. Here's what Sanaag has to say about them:
Dur Dur - Shaacaan Ka Qaadaa
Dur Dur - Rag Kaleeto Maa Kuu Riyaaqayee?
Dur Dur - Doobnimaadey Maka Dogoownee
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Happier Days
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Labels: Dur Dur, Sahra Dawo, Somalia
Sunday, December 9, 2007
More Somali Funk: Sahra Dawo & Durdur
I wrote in my first posting that through Likembe I sought to educate but also hoped to be educated. The response to the post Somali Mystery Funk has certainly borne out that expectation - in fact it's yielded an embarrassment of riches. Our friend Sanaag, who so kindly provided information on the songs in that posting, has answered a number of questions I posed to him, which provide essential background on Somali music. I specifically asked about Sahra Dawo (above), who sang lead on two of those tracks by Iftin, and the group Durdur, which she fronted. I'm just going to let Sanaag speak for himself. This is the first of several postings.
Sahra Dawo was a pop star in the 80's and probably up 'til now. As the lead singer of Durdur, she was very popular with the younger generations, specially teenagers and twentysomethings, including me at the time. I am not sure how she did with the general public. As far as I know, she didn't strike a strong chord with the older audience probably because of the obvious dissonance between her lyrics (often emotional) and music (usually joyful with sometimes an over-the-top acts in live performances).
Durdur (rivulet, creek, streamlet...) was simultaneously Iftin's little cousin and rival; they started their career in the late '70s or early '80s and were quite influneced by Iftin which was founded about a decade earlier, I think around 1970. I vaguely remember that some of Durdur's musicians had learnt their craft as trainees with/friends of Iftin.
In "Juba Juba Aaka Aka Sholo Lob" Sahra Dawo & Durdur are singing about their mutual love in a Southern dialect that I don't understand very well as I come from the North, a + 1000 km walk. The title sounds like a sort of Somali scat singing without any specific meaning. Juba or Jubba is the biggest river in Somalia. It's also the name of a famous hotel in Mogadishu where Durdur often performed. I believe some/many of their videos were recorded there:
By the way, this kind of music is quite popular in Somalia. It's actually the transcription of shareero music on modern instruments. Shareero is an old Somali instrument:
In comparison with many/most contemporary bands, Durdur & Iftin were quite atypical in the sense that their lyrics were often simple, almost exclusively about (the pains of) love and totally non-political. Iftin also sang about the importance of education (a ministerial obligation, I suppose) as illustrated in this song, "Toban Weeye Shaqalladu" (The Ten Vowels):
Iftin - Toban Weeye Shaqalladu
For most Somalis, the lyrics are at the very least as important as the music. 'The Nation of Poets' is one of Somalia's nicknames; hence the wild popularity of poetry cassettes you referred to in your post. Moreover, art was one of the major channels - if not the major channel - to ventilate dissidence during the [Siad Barre] dictatorship. Even when love was the subject matter, as was often the case in lyrics, the socio-political message was up for grabs beneath the surface. Iftin's (forced?) marriage with the authorities was probably the culprit for their political and poetic castration. I don't know why Durdur acted like an ostrich; as far as I know they were not sponsored by the Government.
"Ligligaan Jacaylkiii Hayaa" means "Holding On to Love With Tremors." It is also known as "Mays Af Garanaa?" - "Shall We Strike A Deal (and Become Partners)":
Sahra Dawo & Durdur - Ligligaan Jacaylkii Hayaa
"Wax la Aaminaan Jirin" - "Nobody to Confide In, Nothing To Trust." This is a parable for 'betrayed love and careless environment'. The girl is pregnant but the guy is shunning the responsibility and she's reluctant to talk with her family/friends as pregnancy out of wedlock is a social stigma:
"Gucliyo Orod" - "Trot and Gallop/Dawdling and Darting." I am hardly familiar with this song and the sound is so distorted that it's difficult to decipher what exactly she's saying:
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Labels: Dur Dur, Iftin, Sahra Dawo, Somalia, Video


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MIAMI, May 14 (UPI) -- LeBron James has walked back comments made by Roger Mason Jr., his former teammate and vice president of the NBA Players Association.
Mason indicated Tuesday that James would consider leading a player boycott if Donald Sterling still owned the Los Angeles Clippers next season.
"I was just in the locker room three or four days ago. LeBron and I talked about it," Mason said. "He ain't playing if Sterling is still an owner."
James told reporters on Wednesday that he and his teammates supported NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who slapped Sterling with a lifetime ban from the NBA last month.
"We as players see what Adam Silver's doing," {link:James said" target="_blank"}. "He's moving forward, and if he continues, which we believe Adam Silver will do, to move aggressively on the situation, then as players we have nothing to worry about."
The NBA's Board of Governors is expected to vote to force Sterling to sell the Clippers, though observers expect the 80-year-old to put up a legal fight to keep his team.
"We don't know what's going to happen," James continued. "We know what we want to happen, but the legal system can be a pain. The fact we have to continue to talk about this at a great time in our sport [stinks]."
Mason also backtracked on his comments Wednesday.
"Jim asked me about guys playing next season if Sterling remained an owner. I mentioned I spoke to LBJ as I speak to many players," he tweeted. "My bad if I was not clear.LBJ never said anything about boycotting.He's a friend and I would never want to imply something he didn't say."