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Make a Mini Beach-in-a-Box
Who wouldn't want to spend everyday at the beach? If you can't make it to the beach this summer but your preschooler is begging to go, try making this tabletop beach instead. There are no jellyfish, no crowds, and you won't get sand in your shoes! This way, you can go to the beach whenever you want, all year long.
What You Need:
- Shoebox
- Blue, white, and yellow paint
- Paintbrushes
- Sand (about 2 cups)
- Seashells (or seashell shapes cut out of cardboard)
- Small plastic spoon (like the disposable tasting spoons at ice cream shops)
- Beach-themed stickers
What You Do:
- Divide the inside of the bottom of the shoebox into two parts. They don't have to be equal, but one section will be for the "water" and one side will be for the sand. Paint one section blue and the other yellow, and paint the sides white. Set it aside to dry.
- Hand your child the stickers and let her paste them onto the sides of the box. A beach ball here and a seagull there will help get you in the mood for some beach time!
- Invite your child to pour the sand into the shoebox and add the seashells. Use the little spoon to comb through the sand. This also makes a great prop for dolls and action figures!
- Now lay out some towels and break out that beach ball! You're ready for a day at the beach without even having to leave home!

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Nearly $50 billion of the federal stimulus package last year went to promoting energy efficiency and investments in renewable industry, according to the Center for American Progress. This year, President Barack Obama in his 2011 State of the Union address proposed a deadline of 2035 for 80 percent of America's energy to be supplied by clean or renewable sources. And it's becoming clear at state and local levels that more cash assistance and tax credits will become available as governments try to incentivize their constituents to go green.
"There's a lot of interest in green energy," says Al Titone, deputy district director of the Small Business Administration's New York District Office. "With the government putting money into it, that pretty much guarantees there's going to be more of a market for it in the future.
"It's the way of the future," he adds. "It's been bubbling for a number of years, and now it seems to be coming to a boil."
Nearly every state has programs incentivizing home- and business-owners to make their buildings more energy efficient. With ample grant money and tax incentives up for grabs (not to mention imminent new efficiency requirements), businesses and homeowners are turning to an array of businesses—contractors, landscapers, window and door manufacturers—to install changes. Here's how to do business in the growing field of renewable energy.
Breaking Into the Green Energy Business: Find Your Niche
The modern green energy industry covers myriad micro-sectors. "There's no one area," Titone says. "Everyday it's becoming more diverse, the things that can be done from a green standpoint." Titone says there is definite business to be had in green energy, but, he warns, "Don't just jump in. (Small businesses) need to do their research; otherwise they can get into trouble."
"One of the biggest barriers to entering the renewable energy industry is you have to know something about electricity," says Mark Holmes, co-founder of Green Wave Energy, a renewable-products manufacturer in Newport Beach, California. "Most people have no working knowledge of electricity."
Renewable energy may evoke images of the wind farms spanning acres, but manufacturing those products requires serious capital investment, Holmes says. "It's very hard to do," he says. "It takes lots and lots and lots of money and time and sweat going into it." Green Wave's products are essentially power generators that run on renewable sources. After $8 million in cash, personnel, and technology investments since October 2008, the company has some big prospects in the industrial sector. But, Holmes says, that's atypical. "You have to come up with something different, and something different that works."
The periphery of green energy has lower start-up costs for small business while keeping the profit potential. Holmes suggests businesses looking to get into renewable energy explore sales, installation, or research and development with the intent to sell an idea to a manufacturer. "We have over 100 people selling our stuff," Holmes said. "That's the fun part. We're the ones doing the hard part—manufacturing, service, making sure everything works."
Due to significant capital requirements, most renewable energy operations are supported by large companies, such as Pacific Power in the Northwest, that are expanding the green in their energy portfolio—but therein lies potential. Half of Pacific Power's portfolio is coal, and another third is hydroelectric. To make wind and solar part of its portfolio, it invests in the technology and also buys energy produced by renewable sources, even if it doesn't have infrastructure in place to sell that electricity to customers. That power becomes available wholesale. A company that has the infrastructure—or access to infrastructure—to transmit that power to a customer base could buy it wholesale and sell it for a profit.
For example, in Texas, the Public Utility Commission calls such operations Retail Electric Providers. It can buy excess power and resell it directly to customers. The top company on the 2010 Inc. 500 list, Ambit Energy, grew 20,369 percent in three years buying wholesale electricity and selling it direct to customers. Regardless of your approach, look to state and federal incentive programs that make renewable energy improvements widely accessible.
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Breaking Into the Green Energy Business: Follow the Incentives
In an effort to seduce constituents to change, state governments are making grant money and tax incentives available to residents and business owners that shift to renewable or efficient energy. Last year's $50 billion in federal stimulus money went to bolster that cause. For businesses that are even loosely associated with "green," these incentives can create a customer base that, with a little help, will purchase and install big-ticket items.
For example, the Energy Trust of Oregon since 2002 has offered financial assistance for people who want to upgrade their energy efficiency. Through state law, the Oregon Public Utility Commission ordered its two largest public utilities to collect a 3 percent so-called public purpose charge from their customers; that steady source of revenue from power customers ultimately goes to home and business improvements that over eight years, the organization reports, have saved customers $600 million in energy costs. Residents have the option of cost-sharing or tax breaks for weatherization improvements; heating and cooling upgrades; water heating; transfer to solar power; and purchasing energy-efficient appliances.
Hammer and Hand, Inc., a contractor based in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in energy-efficient residential and commercial building, joined Energy Trust of Oregon last year once it started offering home-performance evaluations. The evaluation offers certified energy audits and retrofits, and helps find incentives to pay for them. "The expansion was a logical progression for us," says Zack Semke, Hammer and Hand's director of business development. "Because we're passionate about building science and about improving energy performance of a home environment, this is a way to get at a low-hanging fruit—building performance—as opposed to the more aggressive, comprehensive approach," such as the company's larger-scale passive house contracting. Passive houses use 90 percent less energy than typical construction. "We're busy with assessments all the time, we're doing lots of home energy retrofits, and that's all related to Energy Trust," Semke says.
North Carolina State University has a database—the Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency—of state-by-state energy efficient grant dollars and tax cuts available for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. For businesses, that means an easy way to see where profit potential lies. According to the database, all 50 states have financial incentives for renewable energy in the form of personal, corporate, sales or property tax incentives, rebates, grants, loans, or bonds. The database shows all 50 states and six U.S. colonies have 1,380 incentives—77 percent of those rebates—for energy efficiency. As far as renewable energy, 50 states and two colonies have 1,005 incentives—46 percent of those rebates—available.
There are a multitude of tax breaks at the federal level and in most states to help solar and wind power businesses. The federal renewable energy production tax credit (set to expire December 2012), for example, credits 2.1 cents per kilowatt hour produced.
Dig Deeper: Say Yes to Solar
Breaking Into the Green Energy Business: Consider Contracting
According to the U.S. Department of energy, U.S. agencies could save $200 million a year in energy costs. For businesses looking to break into green energy, that means a chance to bid on a large pot of projects in coming years, and earn a portion of the $10 billion of spending annually on energy-using projects.
"There are a lot of federal contracts coming up," Titone says, pointing to FedBizOps, fbo.gov, for listings and information on contracts. "Initially they won't get a major contract, but they can work their way up. The best way for a small business to break in if they have current technology is to be a supplier to or subcontractor for a major contractor. … It's still competitive, still a lot of marketing, but it's a good way to break in."
Federal government needs are expansive, the Department of Energy wrote in a 2008 guide, "Selling Energy-Efficient Products to the Federal Government." So when pursuing energy efficient and renewable energy projects by contract, "The key is understanding the best route, best niche for sales of your product … via energy-saving performance contracting or large construction work, or some combination, and pursuing it accordingly." Small businesses are given some advantage: The Department of Defense and General Services Administration purchase the bulk of services and supplies for the U.S. government. They both have programs specifically to counsel small businesses, veteran-owned businesses, and woman-owned businesses (see the GSA's Office of Small Business Utilization Overview and the DOD's Office of Small Business Programs) on how to compete for bids to sell products or services.
However, most government energy savings performance contracts and utility energy service contracts to upgrade efficiency in government buildings are separate from the primary purchasing agencies, according to the Department of Energy guide. "These contracts enable agencies to obtain new capital equipment, improve the indoor environment, and reduce pollution," the guide reads, meaning federal agencies may go to the private sector to make energy and water efficiency improvements; that opens doors for design firms, contractors, manufacturers, roofers, and companies that create or install lighting and plumbing.
"Do your research," Titone says. "Make sure you're prepared, because if you get in a contract and don't perform… The biggest thing we don't want to see folks do is jump in when they're not prepared. There's free help." The Small Business Administration offers free classes on contracting through its business development centers and district offices.
Federal contracts are awarded through a competitive bid process. The bids are announced on an agency's website and publicized through solicitation lists; a business is advised to sign up for the lists of agencies most likely to use its product or service.
To enter the federal government's consciousness for closed bids or regional projects, join the Business Partner Network, a central source for federal agencies to access vendor information. The network ties to the Department of Defense's Central Contractor Registration, the Small Business Administration's PRO-Net database, and FedBizOps, a site that posts government needs for products and services.
Dig Deeper: Greening the City's Rooftops
Breaking Into the Green Energy Business: Become "Green" Certified
As the field of green becomes saturated, the Small Business Administration advises differentiating your business by becoming certifiably "green." Many residents who are using incentives to improve their energy efficiency or switch to renewable energy are probably concerned about eco-friendliness, and will seek out companies that appear to share their values. Federal agencies are required to look for businesses that can provide services with the most energy efficiency, and in some cases will specify in bids that those companies will receive preference.
Many states have their own standard of green certification. The Oregon Energy Trust, for example, has more than 1,000 "trade ally contractors"—contractors, manufacturers, and installers the organization supports as providing energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy products or installation in a responsible manner. Hammer and Hand is an allied contractor, and is also affiliated with 14 other organizations that certify the business. Semke says the certifications—ranging from Building Performance Institute to Energy Star—"prove we know what we're doing. It's an advantage to have a third party vouching for quality work," he says. "In a sense we've been vetted, and also, each one of these certifications shows we have a body of knowledge that has been tested."
Aside from state- and region-specific certifications, there are national certifications for contractors: Passive House Institute US, Efficiency First Home Performance Contractor, and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, known by its acronym, LEED. For other small businesses, it might be worth checking out Green-e, Green Business Certification, Green Seal, and Energy Star.
Residents, businesses and government are all shifting toward green, and more and more assistance is breaking down financial barriers and making green energy widely available—giving it profit potential for your business.
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Night of the Red Moon, 2010
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For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20-21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where there will hang a mottled, coppery globe—our moon—completely immersed for a while in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed sky watchers will have a view of one of nature's most beautiful spectacles: A Total Eclipse of the moon.
Unlike a total eclipse of the sun, which often requires a long journey to the path of totality, those of the moon can usually be observed from one's own backyard. The passage of the moon through the Earth's shadow is equally visible from all places within the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon.
The total phase of the upcoming event will be visible across all of North and South America, as well as the northern and western part of Europe, and a small part of northeast Asia including Korea and much of Japan. Totality will also be visible in its entirety from the North Island of New Zealand and Hawaii—a potential viewing audience of about 1.5 billion people. This will be the first opportunity from any place on earth to see the moon undergo a total eclipse in 34 months.
Stages of the Eclipse
There is nothing complicated about how to view this celestial spectacle. Unlike an eclipse of the sun which necessitates special viewing precautions in order to avoid eye damage, an eclipse of the moon is perfectly safe to watch. All you'll need to watch are your eyes, but binoculars or a telescope will give a much nicer view.
The eclipse will actually begin when the moon enters the faint outer portion, or penumbra, of the earth's shadow a little over an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint "smudge" on the left part of the moon's disk at or around 1:15 A.M. Eastern Time or 10:15 P.M. Pacific Time (on Dec. 20).
The most noticeable part of this eclipse will come when the moon begins to enter the earth's dark inner shadow (called the umbra). A small scallop of darkness will begin to appear on the moon's left edge at 1:33 A.M. Eastern Time or 10:33 P.M. Pacific Time (on Dec. 20).
The moon is expected to take 3 hours and 28 minutes to pass completely through the umbra.
The total phase of the eclipse will last 72 minutes beginning at 2:41 A.M. Eastern Time or 11:41 P.M. Pacific Time (on Dec. 20). At the moment of mid-totality (3:17 A.M. Eastern Time/12:18 A.M. Pacific Time), the moon will stand directly overhead from a point in the North Pacific Ocean about 800 miles (1,300 km) west of La Paz, Mexico.
The moon will pass entirely out of the earth's umbra at 5:01 A.M. Eastern Time/2:01 A.M. Pacific Time and the last evidence of the penumbra should vanish, about 15 or 20 minutes later.
Only the Shadow Knows the Moon's Color
Although astronomers do not expect to gain new astronomical insights from the eclipse, lunar eclipses vividly reflect the overall state of the earth's atmosphere. Under normal weather and atmospheric conditions, as the moon slides into the shadow of the earth, its normal yellow-white color changes into a still-visible but dull coppery-red at the height of the eclipse. Since the earth's shadow is cone-shaped and extends out into space for some 844,000 miles (1,358,000 km), sunlight will be strained through a sort of "double sunset," all around the rim of the earth, into its shadow and then onto the moon.
However, because of the recent eruptions of the Mt. Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland last spring and the Mt. Merapi volcano in Indonesia in October, one and possibly two clouds of ash and dust might be currently floating high above the Earth. As a result, the moon may appear darker than usual during this eclipse; during totality, parts of the moon might even become black and invisible.
Or . . . the moon might wear its normal eclipse cloak of a deep red or a coppery-hue or take on still other colors (orange, chocolate brown or gray). Color possibilities are unpredictable and that it is impossible to tell exactly how much light the earth's atmosphere will refract as its shadow creeps across the moon. Cloud cover and other atmospheric conditions may also affect the visibility and coloration of the Moon.
In short: we'll all just have to wait for eclipse night and see what actually happens.
At mid-totality, from rural locations far from city lights, the darkness of the sky is impressive. Faint stars and the Milky Way will appear, and the surrounding landscape will take on a somber hue. As totality ends, the eastern edge of the moon begins to emerge from the umbra, and the sequence of events repeats in reverse order until the spectacle is over.
Past and Future
The last total lunar eclipse occurred on Feb. 20-21, 2008 and was visible from most of the Americas, as well as Europe, much of Africa and western Asia. In 2011 there will be two total lunar eclipses. The first, on Jun. 15 will be visible primarily from the Eastern Hemisphere and will have an unusually long duration of totality lasting one hour and 40 minutes. Another total lunar eclipse will occur on Dec. 10 and will be visible over the western half of North America before moonset. For the next total lunar eclipse that will be visible across all of North America, we must wait until Apr. 14-15, 2014.


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Sunday, December 6, 2009
Turning Off, Again!
Back in July I wrote about turning off 2.0, just temporarily - just for part of the summer, to get some needed rest, time with the family, and check in with myself without the computer. Well, it must be a twice-yearly itch, because as you can tell from my lack of new posts, I am bowing out for a while again. At work I am quite busy. But after my day job, I am consumed with family and now the upcoming holidays. So I just wanted to let any readers (my loyal fellow librarians) know, that I am fine, busy, happy - and I will post again. I'm just taking a break. And although my Google Reader numbers are astounding, I cannot catch up on reading all of it until I finish reading Shanghai Girls. I am still facebooking and twittering but I'm just pulling back a bit. I highly recommend taking time off once in a while to step back and look around at the world. And to dive back in when ready!
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A couple of weeks ago on Episode 85: A Win Wyn Situation of the Twisted Nether podcast, my name was suggest by a listener/reader known as Rilandune of Heroicly Random!. The suggestion was accepted, the invitation was sent, and confirmation was given.
So I'll be joining them tonight on the Twisted Nether Podcast!
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St Agnes High School Student iPad Survey
St Agnes High School Rooty Hill surveyed their Year 8 students about their response to the implementation of iPads for their year group.
They had been using the iPads for one term before the survey took place.
Infographic adjacent summarises the results.
|St Agnes students learning with their iPads
iPad Scotland EvaluationRecently there has been also been extensive research done on the implementation of iPads in Scottish schools. The research sample covered eight schools with 365 iPad used across schools. The schools had a variety of implementation models from class sets to 1 to 1.
The research for the completed 116 page report aimed to identify how the use of personal tablet devices in schools impacted teaching and learning and was drawn from:
- Baseline and exit surveys of parents and students
- Interviews with various teaching staff
- Lesson observations by the research team
- Reflective journals by the teachers
- Video logs by students
- Personal ownership of the device is the single most important factor for successful use of this technology, as students take ownership of their learning and customise their learning experience.
- Early familiarisation with the iPad by teachers was a key factor in success along with time to experiment, share, reflect and joint plan with other teachers.
- Parents appeared to be more engaged with the school and their child's learning when the iPad was brought home.
- Co-learning and collaborating with students to learn with the iPad had great benefits in the classrooms. It was seen to be a partnership where students were teaching each other and the teacher.
- In terms of the SAMR model, "even in cases which might appear to be a straight substitution of technologies, there are often 'discernible functional improvement' leading to the conclusion that the 'substitution ' level may not be applicable in the case of tablet computers like the iPad." p92
Kevin Burden, Paul Hopkins, Dr Trevor Male, Dr Stewart Martin and Christine Trala from the Facultof of Education, The University of Hull, October 2012.
You can download the iPad Scotland Evaluation report from here:
'iPad Scotland Evaluation researchers to visit Learning Exchange- Monday December 3rd
Kevin Burden and Dr Chris Bonfield from the University of Hull are visiting us at Learning Exchange on Monday 3rd December. We will be visiting St Agnes High School as well as taking time to discuss and share from their research and our experiences.
If you have any questions that you would like us to ask the researchers please post a comment with your question, with details of your school, your role and where your school is at in regards to iPads.


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(CNN) -- Walking into the Khatmul Nabeen Masjid (mosque), you can for a moment forget that you're in Afghanistan. Beautiful buildings, walkways, flowerbeds and even a grass soccer pitch.
Mohammed Asif Mohseni is said to be behind the law.
Young men and women, dressed in Muslim attire, walk around freely and with smiles.
Smiles are a bit of a rarity in today's Kabul, a polluted city of survival and despair, so this was both shocking and refreshing to me.
We didn't have an appointment but we were hoping to interview Mohammed Asif Mohseni, a conservative Shia cleric. He is said to be the man behind the controversial Shia state law, a law critics say strips Afghan Shia women of many rights.
While security was checking our bags, one guard said that Mohseni had been waiting for us. I tried explaining that we did not have an appointment.
Nonetheless, we were sent back to where Mohseni was waiting. Before entering the room I was cautioned by a guard to make sure none of my hair was showing below my headscarf. They were apologetic; one even asked me to zip up my sweater higher because too much of my neck was exposed.
I complied, tucking in my hair and zipping my sweater as high as it could go. Now paranoid about the design holes in my scarf that exposed parts of my hair, I took off my shoes to enter.
As we walked in, Mohseni, an older man with a white beard wearing a Shia-style turban called a "dulband" was sitting on a brown couch.
He looked at the two men who brought us in and said, "These aren't the two I was waiting for." I explained that we just showed up for an interview because we did not have a number to reach him.
He smiled and said, "I guess you are in luck."
Mohseni welcomed us and asked me to translate his warm welcome to our Scottish cameraman.
As the interview started, I noticed that Mohseni avoided my eyes. I wondered if it was because I was female. I was also prepared for verbal attacks; a journalist friend told me that when he brought a western journalist to interview Mohseni a few days ago, the journalist ended up having more questions thrown at him than he was able to ask.
But it didn't take long for Mohseni to warm up and explain why Shia state law is just and a part of Islam. Those who don't agree don't understand it, he said.
"The law ... which I created I see as correct for both men and women," he said. "We have given rights to both men and women, even better than rights given to women in the West. We give women more in this law."
I asked him about reports that if a woman does not comply in having sexual relations with her husband, then the husband can refuse to feed her. "Yes, I said that," Mohseni said looking me in the eye. "When a couple marries, sex is a part of marriage, and they agree to that."
He went on to explain that a woman isn't obliged to have sexual relations every single night or if she is told by her doctor to refrain. But otherwise it is her obligation and something she signed up for when she got married. He calls it the wife's duty.
Mohseni added that a wife wearing makeup "prevents a man from thinking about other women on the streets and he can just think of his wife."
He continued: "It is natural that women (wear makeup). Don't they in the West? Their women wear it on the streets and in shops. Women should put make-up on for their husbands as it will increase the love and attraction between the two."
The cleric also explained that a woman is not required to ask the permission of a man to leave the house if she has a job and needs to go to work. But they do need to get permission if they are leaving for other reasons.
More importantly, he said, a couple needs to make clear the day they marry whether or not she will need permission to leave the home. If they disagree then they should not get married.
"Like, you are working for CNN," he said. "If your boss tells you, you'll be working for 8 hours a day, then you're responsible for that. It's the same here. They both have to agree on it."
According to Mohseni, the West is imposing its beliefs on the Muslim world because they don't understand.
However, it's not just people in the West who are opposed to this law. Many Afghans, men and women, have vehemently resisted it. They fear it will set women back after the progress that has been made in the last seven years.
Sima Samar, head of Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission, has been working for a year now, trying to amend certain articles within the law.
"I feel discriminated. Clear-cut. I don't feel equal in this country," she told us.
Samar said the law does not represent Islam. It blatantly contradicts the constitution of Afghanistan, which states that men and women are equal.
Critics have labeled the law as "Talibanistic," but Samar says even many of the Taliban's actions were not enshrined in law.
She admitted that a law for Shias is necessary but that it should be what is stated in Sharia or Islamic Law. "One of the very important pillars in Islam is justice, there is no justice in this law," she said.
Samar also pointed out the absurdities in the law, such as the edict on makeup.
"If she doesn't (put on make-up), will the husband go complain to the police that she didn't put (on) the lipstick? Or, 'I like red but she put on pink.'"
However, Samar didn't blame the clerics alone for creating the new law; she blamed various parts of the government for allowing it to pass.
"I think they -- all of them -- took the whole issue very superficially. And none of the state institutions, ministry of justice, parliament, senate and the office of the president, really didn't look at the law as serious as they should," she said.
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Validation Through ValidatingApril 14, 2003
It says a lot about CSS–based design when you run your first check on a complete draft, and it comes out as valid XHTML, CSS, and hits Section 508 accessibility guidelines without any changes needed. It's also rather gratifying when only a few slight revisions are needed to get a triple–A from Bobby.
It is, however, a pain in the ass that adding a simple link to an accessibility validator will break your XHTML. I find it excessively picky that "url=myurl&content=" can't simply be copied and pasted into an href. Instead you must re–format that to "url=myurl&content=".
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Tell me about it. This is one of those cases where I often times acknowlege that it doesn't validate and try (keyword here) to move on. I usually last about 10 minutes before I get in there and fix the damn thing.
Cascading Style Sheets
Or How I Stopped Worrying And Love Web Development
Yep, there's a lot about XHTML that's a pain in the ass… sticking to valid code is currently very difficult for anything more complicated than a weblog.
One day all this will be worth it!
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A sperm whale that was drifting off an eastern Florida shore on Sunday has died, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The agency now plans to look into a report from a resident of Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, who said she saw the whale alive earlier in the day and saw one of two swimmers get on top of the whale, NOAA said.
"This whale was likely ill or injured and that is why it came in so close to shore," said Blair Mase, NOAA's southeast regional stranding coordinator. "This type of harassment could have caused more harm and added stress to an already stressed whale and ultimately caused its demise."
It is a federal offense to harass a marine mammal, Mase said.
"People need to be aware that they shouldn't do that," she said.
Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, also are an endangered species, she said.
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Marine scientist Stefan Harzen said it's possible a boat struck the whale or something simply made the whale sick.
"There's really very little you can do for a whale if it gets seriously ill or injured," he said.
On its 'last leg'
The witness, Margie Casey, 49, told NBC 6 that she saw two swimmers twice go up to the whale Sunday morning. She said she watched them from her fifth-floor balcony and snapped photos of one swimmer getting on the whale.
Casey said the whale at the time was drifting north along the shore, just south of a stretch of beach near the Northeast 14th Street Causeway.
Casey said she considered the whale to be alive, because it was flapping its tail at the time. Perhaps the whale was on its "last leg," she said. "So sad."
About 11:45 a.m., bystanders reported the whale was about 40 feet from the shore, according to sheriff's spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright.
A marine mammal rescue team, the Broward Sheriff's Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded.
US sued over Navy sonar tests in whale waters
Before it was announced the whale had died, beachgoers said they hoped the whale would survive.
"I think it's totally amazing, man," said Brad Schwab. "It looks like they're trying to keep him out in the open sea."
Beachgoer Dennis Cooper added, "I guess everybody's concerned about the health of the whale and everybody's trying to save it."
Christina Coniglio, who was also on the beach, said she suspected that pollution contributed to the whale's illness.
"The environment is so dirty," she said. "When the whales go and eat all those plastics and bottles and things we throw in the sea, they get sick and this is what happens."
The whale had been coming close to shore while rip currents kept pulling it back out, Coleman-Wright said. When officials arrived, a specialist went into the water and determined the species that died was a sperm whale, Mase said.
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Anyway, one cool thing this search engine has is called LoginShare. It lets webmasters (you and me) allow users on our websites to login with their Aliixer login.
I use it on my 30+ forums and blog service websites to allow users to skip the sign up process and just use their Aliixer.com login. The code is simple as can get, they have a very nice and secure way of doing this without information at risk of being stolen.
I've simply pasted the example PHP code from their website, the full documentation is at:
Anyone need help making LoginShare work let me know by the way, I've done it 1000 times with about every forum script there is.
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//Get the access code from Aliixer and store as $accesscode variable
$accesscode = $_REQUEST['accesscode'];
//Use the $accesscode variable to post to the API
$api_url = "http://www.aliixer.com/login share/?accesscode=$accesscode";
$data = file_get_contents($api_url);;
$xml = new SimpleXmlElement($data);
$authentication = $xml->loginverification->authentication; // <authentication> Note: returns 1 for success 0 for failure
$username = $xml->loginverification->username; // <username>
$firstname = $xml->loginverification->first_name; // <first_name>
$lastname = $xml->loginverification->last_name; // <last_name>
$email = $xml->loginverification->email; // <email>
$birthmonth = $xml->loginverification->birth_month; // <birth_month>
$birthday = $xml->loginverification->birth_day; // <birth_day>
$birthyear = $xml->loginverification->birth_year; // <birth_year>
if ($authentication == "0"){
##If <authentication> </authentication> equals 0 then the request failed. Print a message to the user.
print "A invalid access code was provided or your accessing this page without permission.";
} else {
##Run whatever your login process is here. (example: create a session)
//Uncomment for debugging
//echo $authentication;
//echo $username;
//echo $firstname;
//echo $lastname;
//echo $email;
//echo $birthmonth;
//echo $birthday;
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TEDxEustonSalon 2015 - Facing Forward: Harnessing Energy has arrived!
If you have not already purchased your ticket, it's now too late as we are sold out!
You will find us on the lower ground floor of the Crowne Plaza – City hotel, in Blackfriars in the Conference Centre.
Registration opens at 5.30pm, and if you've attended a TEDxEuston event before, you know you do not want to miss the start.
As always, there will be our trademark goodie bags provided courtesy of Shell filled with keepsakes.
In true TEDxEuston fashion, no event is complete without our networking AfterParty. After the talks make sure you take a moment to talk to like-minded TEDx-ers you have never met before and shake a leg to the tunes played by our DJ for the night - DJ Josiah, winner of 2014's International Music Conference, Best New Producer Award.
Our TEDxEustonSalon speakers – Andrew Hunt, Eunice Ball and Olasimbo Sojinrin are ready to share their stories and ideas with you. Richard 'Rich BLK' Mkoloma is ready to energise you. The TEDxEuston Team is ready to welcome you! We hope you're prepared for what we promise will be an incredible evening.
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In 1910 Andrew McCulloch was hired as the Chief Engineer of the Kettle Valley Railway. It would be the project that would forever define his career. He was an avid reader of Shakespeare and to this day you can still see that influence... Juliet Creek, Othello Tunnels, Iago Mountain. They all are names inspired by this passionate man. After the KVR opened, it was a main route for moving goods from the interior of the province to the coast and the railway thrived for many years. But then declining demands for moving ore, fruit from the Okanagan and other goods forced the inevitable closure of the line and, sadly, the last section of the railway was closed in 1990.
The KVR is approximately 600 km long so obviously we weren't going to tackle it in just one trip! The most
popular section of the trail is the Myra Canyon route but we decided to save that for another time. On this trip we decided to visit Tulameen.
Tulameen? Where is that you say? Well let me tell you that Tulameen, British Columbia is one of my favourite places in BC. It is a quiet little "cabin town" just north of Princeton and about 3 hours from Vancouver. Once upon a time this land was the hopeful destination for thousands of gold miners, searching for their fortune. Today the air is heavy with the echoes of their past. Ghost towns like Granite Creek and Blakeburn are waiting to be rediscovered and lovely little Coalmont lingers on still. If you're a history lover, there is no better place to explore in BC than Tulameen.
We rented a gorgeous little house right in Tulameen called The Front Porch. This adorable little cottage went way beyond our expectations. It was clean & well stocked, beautifully decorated and just a few metres away from the Kettle Valley Railway Trail. If you're planning a visit to this area we highly recommend the Front Porch as your home base.
|Signing the logbook
We were starting to think, well this is nice. Nice bike ride, nice easy caches and then we came to SITC#5 Thank You Kris and Jordy - GC2ZEJD. Once we read the cache page we knew that one of us would be "up a tree" - literally. At this point I have to digress a bit and explain that we are a group of "mature" women. Now we don't consider
ourselves old, in fact we act like teenagers most of the time, but the reality is that 3 of us are already grandmothers! Tree climbing isn't something we do very often any more. But you know, there is something to be said for pushing your boundaries and stepping out of your comfort zone. After a lot of encouragement from my fellow cachers I was the one who made the climb. I haven't been that excited to sign a logbook for a long time!
The next day we took our bikes to Princeton and then biked the KVR from Princeton to as far as the HooDoos cache. This gorgeous section of the KVR includes one of the many tunnels along the trail. This tunnel travels underneath the Hope-Princeton highway and is about 300 metres long. At first we thought, "piece of cake!" but then, when we got about half way through, we were very happy that we brought our flashlights along! It was so dark we couldn't even see the bikes we were sitting on! After the tunnel we crossed the Tulameen River and rode along some of the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen. Our main goal today was to reach an earthcache called "The Red Wall" and we were so glad we did. This unique and historically significant site is not to be missed. Wow.
Before we knew it our first biking adventure was over. Fortunately we had no mishaps or flat tires.... just some aching, under-used muscles and some sore backsides! And it was all worth it...we collected a lot more "smileys" to log, spent time with dear friends and gained a hundred more memories to cherish.


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Developed by FCI, the Ministry of Health of Ecuador, and QAP this manual facilitates a process to adapt delivery care to cultural expectations. It provides guidance for conducting a series of three workshops that bring together health care providers, traditional birth attendants, community leaders, and mothers to discuss cultural practices and preferences and to identify changes that can be made to facility-based delivery care to make institutional delivery more acceptable to expectant mothers. Through role-playing and discussion, participants learn how delivery care is provided at a hospital and by traditional midwives in the community. Those who would change facility-based delivery are allowed to make suggestions, while medical staff have opportunities to consider community preferences and explain to participants any evidence that controverts those preferences. Through the process, hospital staff and midwives come to understand and respect each other's practices. Available only in Spanish.
Manual para la humanización y adecuación cultural de la atención del parto (HACAP)
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European shares ended a choppy session mostly higher Thursday, with gains for the oil and auto sectors after well-received earnings from Royal Dutch Shell and Volkswagen helped counter a steeper-than-expected drop in euro-zone economic sentiment.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index (SXXP) ended 0.1% higher at 257.20 after trading at a session low of 255.05.
Volkswagen AG (VOW) shares surged 7.8% after the auto maker beat analyst expectations for first-quarter earnings and confirmed its forecast for the year. Volkswagen shares surge as earnings beat estimates
Leading losses for the index, shares of Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) ALU, +5.44% plunged 17%. The company reported a 12% drop in first-quarter revenue and warned that the outlook for Europe and North America remains uncertain. Read more on Alcatel-Lucent.
Banks were also lower. In Paris, Credit Agricole SA (ACA) shed 3.2%, Société Générale SA (GLE) gave up 3.5% and BNP Paribas SA (BNP) shed 0.9%.
Pointing the other direction, Vivendi SA (VIV) rose 4% following a Bloomberg News report that the company may split into two units. In a statement, Vivendi denied it was planning such a move.
'It's not just the periphery that is being affected ... it's beginning to be a problem for the whole region.'
The French CAC 40 index (PX1) ended the day 0.1% lower at 3,229.32, largely reflecting the retreat in banking shares.
Markets pushed deeper into the red after data showed little change in weekly U.S. jobless claims, but turned mixed after data showed U.S. pending home sales rose to a 23-month high in March. A tech-led rise by stocks on Wall Street also provided support.
Earlier, the broader European stock market was pressured by data from the European Commission, which said economic sentiment for the euro zone dropped to the lowest level since December. Its sentiment indicator fell to 92.8 in April from 94.5 the previous month, disappointing economists' expectations. Read about dropping euro-zone sentiment.
"This basically tells us that there are concerns that it's not just the periphery that is being affected, but it's beginning to be a problem for the whole region," said Peter Dixon, strategist at Commerzbank.
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"The markets are beginning to ask 'Where are we?' We thought the economy was getting back on its feet, but events in the past few weeks illustrated that it may have been a little too optimistic," he said.
In Germany, Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) sank 2.8% after reporting a 33% drop in first-quarter profit. Commerzbank AG (CBK) fell 1.7%.
Fresenius SE (FRE) shares initially lost ground after the company offered 3.1 billion euros ($4.1 billion) in cash for hospital operator Rhoen-Klinikum AG(RHK). Rhoen-Klinikum skyrocketed nearly 44%. Fresenius shares turned higher, gaining 2.8%.
Germany's DAX index (DAX) rose 0.5% to close at 6,739.90.
AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) AZN, +1.78% was a leading drag in London, shedding 6.1% after Chief Executive David Brennan announced his resignation following lower-than-expected first-quarter earnings and a cut in full-year profit target. AstraZeneca CEO leaving as profits slide, warns
London's FTSE 100 index (UKX) gained 0.5% to finish at 5,748.72.
Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA)(RDSB) RDS.A, +0.72% RDS.B, +0.76% jumped 3.5% after reporting 16% growth in adjusted profit for the first quarter, surpassing most analyst expectations. Fellow oil major BP PLC (BP.) rose 2.8%.
Unilever PLC (ULVR) UL, +0.24% also gained, rising 2.8%, after beating sales expectations for first quarter and saying its board recommended hiking the company's dividend by 8% compared with a year earlier.
Spanish and Portuguese indexes were under pressure amid earnings from major components. Spain's IBEX 35 (IBEX) fell 1.3% to 7,027.10.
Banco Santander SA (SAN) reported a 24% drop in first-quarter profit as its provisions for bad loans jumped. Its shares dropped 3.4%.
In Lisbon, the PSI 20 index (PSI20) fell 1.5%. Retailer Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA (JMT) lost 5.1% as its first-quarter fell short of some analysts' expectations.


text: Businessweek ranks Sellinger School No. 5 in nation for undergraduate marketing program May 15, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos The Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business and Management is ranked No. 5 in the country on Bloomberg Businessweek's new list of the top 10 "Best Undergraduate B-Schools for Marketing" for 2013. Loyola is the only Maryland institution and only Jesuit institution on the list, which includes the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, and Cornell University, among others. "We've always known our marketing program was outstanding, so I'm thrilled that it has been lauded for the third year in a row by a nationally-recognized business publication alongside programs at the nation's most elite business schools," said Karyl B. Leggio, Ph.D., dean of the Sellinger School. "Our exceptional marketing faculty continue to anchor the Sellinger School's rigorous, Jesuit academic environment, which, across all of our programs, challenges students to think critically and strive for innovation, preparing them to become ethical leaders in their professional careers." The Sellinger School's marketing program is no stranger to accolades. In 2012, Gerard Athaide, Ph.D., department chair and professor of marketing, was named one of the world's top-50 innovation management scholars by The Journal of Product Innovation Management, a leading academic journal devoted to the latest research, theory, and practice in new product and service development. Businessweek ranked Loyola's marketing program No. 15 in the country that same year, along with high marks for microeconomics, macroeconomics, business law, information systems, and ethics. Overall, the Sellinger School was recently ranked No. 53 on Businessweek's "Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2013," the only ranked undergraduate program in the state of Maryland. In addition, both the accounting and finance programs within the Sellinger School's MBA program were recently ranked in the top 30 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. The latest Businessweek specialty ranking is based on undergraduate business student responses to an online survey about the full range of their business school experience. All students surveyed were from the class of 2013. More information about Businessweek's marketing specialty ranking is available at businessweek.com.


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JeppeKM needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 159 designs submitted by 33 freelance designers.
IGPlay is an upcoming game portal that wishes to differentiate itself on the game provided to an audience that prefers to play small, fun and even experimental/artsy games.
Indie games is a market in growth, and many games are neglected by other game portal. IGPlay wants to pick up the best amongst Indie games and gather them on one page.
Together with the cream of casual games, mainly played by women, the mix of the two game types will attract customers, who currently have to go to different portals to fulfill their different needs.
IGPlay wishes to set the customer in the center of attention, and not just the games - as other portals tend to do.
The company behind IGPlay has a green/eco-friendly profile.
The primary target group are female 20-50 years old (~65%) and men aged 15-45 (~35%).
They are likely to have children and have an above-average income. They play small-medium sized games, as they do not have time or need to spent many hours in a row on a single game.
A fair amount of the users are looking for new and 'experimental' stuff and visits IGPlay to get a unique experience not found elsewhere.
* Company name must be included
* Icon included, but must also work without the company name
* The look and feel should be pleasant, positive and appealing – NOT edgy and masculine.
* Light-weight
* The logo should work both as small and big. In color and as black/white - on web and on print.
* A somewhat cartoony look is fine, but don't take it over the edge.
* Personally I am a sucker for the color green. Orange is also a pure pleasure to me. But, perhaps you can come up with something that shows me otherwise!?
* I have an idea for the icon in my head: 'The creation of Adam' - In game-terms translated to a hand/finger touching a magical ball/sphere/orb as a symbol for the game on the site (see the attached document for pictures)
* Most likely the theme of the website will be inspired by nature - a forest which can be investigated - and the magical sphere/orb as a metaphor for the games to be found on the site. How and if it is a good idea to have nature be a part of the logo, I will leave up to you.
* No joysticks or joypads in the logo, please!
- See the attached document for refernece pictures, other logos and a LITTLE more talk from my side :-)
Logo should be delivered in a handful of standard formats that would be useful for IGPlay (layered .psd .png .jpg .ico + ?) .fft where available.
Looking forward to see from you!
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I seriously want to throw all of these parties. (Flavorwire)
20 must-see places before the world ends. Better hurry, we've only got nine months and one day to go! (Buzzfeed)
This tumblr owns my life. I check it multiple times a day. The author's posts are so eerily accurate to my life, I think she has a window in to my soul. (#whatshouldwecallme)
A delicious recipe for homemade thin mints. Now the Girl Scouts don't control my cookie needs, which is really excellent, because some of them can be cruel little bitches. (Chicagoist)
Julie, of the girl with kaleidoscope eyes, and I are big fans of the show Community (honestly, if you're not a fan of the show, I suggest that you seriously reexamine your life) - so to celebrate its return, here's a compilation of over a hundred (101!) gifs from seasons past. (Screen Junkies)
A great resource for important places in music history in London, it's been especially helpful when trying to find more obscure sites of the sixties and seventies. (The Shady Old Lady)
I made a film a few months ago where I do my best effort to recreate Baby Jane Holzer's screen test. It's being exhibited at my school during my absence this semester. Though you can't see my short, check out one of Warhol's most famous and infamous screen tests featuring his first superstar. (YouTube)


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The black 7x35 Aculon A211 Binocular from Nikon is a handheld fixed-magnification optic with multicoated aspherical lenses and an ergonomically-designed housing. For the redesigned Aculon series, Nikon endows the Aculon A211 binoculars with environmentally-friendly Eco-Glass elements composed of responsibly-sourced arsenic-free material. The Aculon binocular's Porro prism design delivers enhanced depth of field, and its multicoated aspheric optical path delivers the image clarity and flat FOV demanded by nature observers.
Also new to the 2013 version of the Aculon binocular is a sculpted rubber-armored housing that is designed to fit comfortably into the observer's hand and provide non-slip handling. Grooved ridges atop the housing and a generously-sized focusing wheel enable adjustments to the interpupillary distance and the point of focus even while wearing gloves. Nikon's Turn-and-Slide eyecups allow quick adjustment to the eye relief. The combination of image quality and user-friendly design make the 7x35 Aculon A211 a cost-effective option for mid-range recreational glassing.
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• 7x magnification, 35mm objectives
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• 12mm eye relief, 5mm exit pupil
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Illinois Foreclosure Activity Dips 6 Percent in August
Illinois home foreclosure activity fell 6 percent in August compared to July, and has fallen almost 60 percent in the last year.
A report released Thursday by Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac shows Illinois with 7,289 foreclosure filings in August. That represents a rate of one in every 725 housing units — the eighth-highest in the nation.
Filings include default notices, auction-sale notices and bank repossessions.
Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate in August — one in every 359 housing units. Other states with foreclosure rates worse than Illinois were Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio and Utah.
Nationally, the foreclosure rate in August was almost 2 percent lower than in July and 34 percent lower than August of 2012.


text: Primary dysmenorrhea is a normal cramping of the lower abdomen caused by hormone-induced uterine contractions before the period. Secondary dysmenorrhea may be caused by abnormal conditions such as endometriosis or pelvic inflammatory disease. Unless one of these potentially serious conditions is present, the treatment for painful periods is pain relief. If a hormone imbalance is detected, birth control pills may restore the proper hormone levels.


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Avery Supreme Wrapping Film SW900
Shipping Weight: 9.00 lbs.
Product Details: Avery Supreme Wrapping Film SW900
- Overview
Avery Supreme Wrapping Film a Justin Pate recommended film and is a premium quality 2 mil cast air egress vinyl with a 1.2 mil clear-coat. No need to use application film. Supreme Wrapping Film is ideal for "paint replacement" wraps applied to protect the OEM paint finish or customize the appearance of a vehicle. The adhesive with easy Apply RS technology features an easy application mechanism which allows faster positioning and air-bubble free film application, as well as long term removability after the intended period of use.Features:
- Very high gloss super conformable film in combination with patented adhesive technology
- Excellent application characteristics: repositionable adhesive with easy removal of entrapped air
- Excellent Long Term Removability (LTR) of the film during the lifetime of the applied product
- Standard color range with colors comparable to existing Avery 900 Supercast colors
- Film application without the use of application tape
- Outstanding durability and outdoor performance due to dirt repellent film characteristics
- Custom Color product available


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James Watson, who earned the Nobel Prize for helping figure out the structure of DNA, said Thursday that sequencing genes isn't proving to be particularly useful in fighting such diseases as cancer and that much of the research being done on the subject is irrelevant.
Watson made the remarks during an interview with U-T San Diego that was conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, where he joked about the intelligence of the Irish and got into a testy public argument about research with University of California San Diego Nobel laureate Roger Tsien.
In 2007, the iconoclastic Watson was forced to resign as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, N.Y. after he suggested to a British newspaper that blacks are not as smart as whites.
Watson, 84, visited the Salk to give a public lecture on the roles that oxidants and anti-oxidants might play in cancer and diabetes. The Salk is deeply involved in cancer research, and it has plans to spend millions of dollars on new sequencing machines to better explore how mutant genes contribute to disease. La Jolla has become a major research center, in part, because Watson and Francis Crick resolved the structure of DNA in 1953, opening up genetics and molecular biology. Watson also was the first director of the Human Genome Project.
While noting that genetics is vital, Watson said, "You could sequence 150,000 people with cancer and its not going to cure anyone. It might give you a few leads, but it's not, to me, the solution. The solution is good chemistry. And that's what's lacking. We have a world of cancer biology trained to think genes. They don't think chemistry at all."
Watson, who had his entire genome sequenced, said the current level of cancer research funding is enough to find a cure. But he added that "most of the experiments we do are irrelevant ... We're not going to cure cancer by doubling the money. We're going to do it by being more intelligent. The money thing is just a red herring of people not thinking."
About five years ago, Watson was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He began to take metformin, a comparatively inexpensive drug that is widely used to treat diabetes. Watson says that metformin could be useful in fighting cancer.
"Metformin seems to me our only real clue into the business (of fighting cancer)," Watson said. "It seems to kill the nastiest cells, not the un-nasty. We don't know how it works, exactly."
His comments are partly based on the work of Reuben Shaw, a Salk biologist who recently published a widely-noted paper that says phenformin, a derivative of the widely-used diabetes drug metformin, decreased the size of lung tumors in mice and increased the animals' survival.
Watson cited Shaw's work during an hour-long public lecture in which he spoke with certitude while criticizing the work of other scientists. The remarks didn't go over well with UCSD's Tsien, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for research that greatly advanced science's understanding of how cells work.
Tsien, who was sitting in the second row, tried to add a different perspective to what Watson had been saying about oxidants and antioxidants. Watson cut him off. Tsien pressed on. Watson got agitated and said, "All you have to do is think clearly and these difficulties vanish."
As an audience of 400 looked on, they continued to spar, and Watson went right at Tsien, saying, "You don't want to win!"
Tsien then responded by suggesting that Watson could find evidence for one of his speculations about the effects of exercise, saying. 'Go look up the work of James O'Keefe.' "
Salk biologist Ron Evans stepped in, easing the tension with his own take on exercise research. Watson then brought the lecture to an end with an off-hand remark about the waning days of the late French critic and essayist Marcel Proust.
When asked about the exchange after the lecture, the 61-year-old Tsien said, "You should take all elderly scientists with a grain of salt -- including me."
Watson's sharp remarks weren't limited to cancer research. Early in his talk, he recounted that he had difficulties in the early 1990s with Bernadine Healy, the first woman to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health.
"Bernadine Healy didn't like me, I didn't like her. She's now dead, but even if she were alive today ...," Watson said, drawing laughter from the audience. Then, without explanation, he referred to the "historic curse of the Irish, which is not alcohol, it's not stupidity. But it's ignorance."
Healy died of brain cancer in 2011. She was 67.
"(Watson) likes to provoke people," Tsien said. "He enjoys being politically incorrect."
It also can be difficult to tell when Watson is joking. He was asked Thursday what he thinks of the news that the family of the late Francis Crick -- who spent much of his career at the Salk -- intends to auction off his Nobel medal.
"Oh, I hope it sells for a lot of money because it would mean that mine would be worth a lot of money," Watson said, chuckling. "I'm not counting on it."
Gary Robbins, UT San Diego
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