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Sumba (Faroe Islands)
Sumba is a village in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. It is the southernmost village in the Faroe Islands.
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There are two roads, which connect Sumba with the village Lopra, one of these roads goes over the mountain, and passes by the 470 meter high sea cliff Beinisvørð. The road has only one lane, but there are meeting places and not much traffic. The road is very curvy, but a beautiful drive if you don't get seasick. You can make a stop when you come up on the top of the mountain, next to the high mast, there are only a few meters to the edge, and the cliff goes vertically down to the sea, right next to Beinisvørð. There is however an easier and faster way to get to Sumba. A road tunnel was made and ready to use in 1997. It goes from the valley of Lopra, below Beinisvørð and comes out west of the village Sumba. The public bus drives through the tunnel.
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It is easy to get around in Sumba by feet, but of course you can also drive around with a car. If you travel by car and you wish to visit the cliff Beinisvørð, but you worry about the curvy road from Lopra, then it would be better, if you go to Sumba first via the tunnel, drive through the village and then take the old road which passes be the football field and goes up to Hesturin, which is next to Beinisvørð. You can park there on top of the mountain by the mast and walk the 50 meters or so to the edge, and of course you take care not to fall over the edge. The view is amazing, you can see rigth down to the sea and the cliffs and sea stacks below, and lots of birds flying around, if it is season for the birds. There is also a great view down to the village Sumba and the islet Sumbiarhólmur and towards north to a large part of the island. If it is not foggy you will also see the island Lítla Dímun and some of the other islands. In very clear weather one can see the Northern Islands too from Hesturin. After your visit on Hesturin and perhaps on Beinisvørð, if you wish to go for a walk on the cliff's backside, which is very green in summertime, then you can go back to your car and drive back to Sumba. On your way down to the village you will pass by a cross road, the left one has a sign saying "Akraberg". Akraberg is only 2 km away, it is well worth a visit, the road has only one lane, but again, there is not much traffic, and the road to Akraberg is not curvy, and there are meeting places there as well. Akraberg is a peninsula with a white painted lighthouse with red roof and a couple of red houses. There are high masts here also and lots of birds, when it is season for them, mainly in May to August. From Akraberg there is a beutiful view and a nice place to go for a walk. You can se Flesjarnar, which are a few rocks/islets further south. The southernmost point of the Faroe Islands is Munkurin, which is one of Flesjarnar, it is also called Sumbiarsteinur. The Monk (Munkurin) is lying a bit by itself, away from the other cliffs. The road ends in Akraberg, you can turn your car around there and drive back again on the same route. If you travel to Sumba by the public bus, then you can go for a walk to Akraberg and up to Beinisvørð, if you have time for both.
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There are no shops at the moment in Sumba (January 2011), this may change again, there used to be shops there until May 201.
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There are no restaurants or cafés in Sumba, so you will need to bring food with you or go back to Vágur or one of the other villages to find a restaurant or even a shop, where you can buy food.
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There are no bars in Sumba.
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There are a few B&B's and vacation rentals in Sumba, no hotel. There are four appartments in the neighbouring village Lopra. More info about these on the website of the Tourist Information in Suðuroy www.visitsuduroy.fo
Tourist Information Center of Suðuroy [1] is in Vágur and in Tvøroyri.
Get out[edit]
You travel out of Sumba either via the tunnel or via the old road over the mountain. There is one bus connection, it is route number 700. You can find the bus schedule on the SSL website: www.ssl.fo Be aware that sometimes the bus only comes if someone has called for it, that is on request. If you travel to Sumba by bus, be sure that you know for sure, that the bus goes back again. You can arrange it with the driver or by contacting Strandferðslan, contact info on www.ssl.fo


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THIS WEEK'S GUEST-BIANS: Lucia Rijker fantasizes about the future; Holland Taylor holds court; Malaya Rivera Drew checks Jenny's vital signs.
The most meta teaser ever — Via voice-over, we learn that Alice had a dream about girls last night. Er, sorry, a dream about Lez Girls. Shane asks for details.
I love it already! Except I sort of wish she had been able to say, "Me, you and Dana."
That would be Bette/Bev, natch. And everyone else is perfectly cast, too. Rachel Shelley is channeling Jaclyn Smith as Kelly; Kate Moennig has donned a smart vest and sleek wig to play Sabrina (the futch Kate Jackson role); and Leisha Hailey is an uproarious Farrah Fawcett/Jill Munroe, complete with dazed pout and awesomely feathered hair.
Tina/Nina is Bosley — second in command to Bette/Bev once again. Laurel Holloman is pretty adorkable in that getup. She looks like the love child of Austin Powers and Ann-Marie MacDonald (Better Than Chocolate, Interviews With My Next Girlfriend and even The L Word).
Through a speaker phone with a rainbow flag on it, Bev tells the lesbians that their new mission involves going undercover.
This promise is much appreciated. And I think Leisha is cracking Rachel up.


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Sad: 75 Year Old Explanation For Why Copyrights Are Bad... Locked Up Behind Paywall
from the too-bad deptA few weeks ago, we wrote about famed economist Gary Becker (along with his colleague Judge Richard Posner) discussing problems with the patent and copyright system, and pondering if the laws on both needed to change. Becker's thoughts were particularly interesting, because he actually brought up some writings on the topic that I was unfamiliar with:
The various harmful effects of the patent and copyright systems encouraged Arnold Plant, an English economist, to publish over 75 years ago two influential articles on why England and other countries would be better off without patents and copyrights.While I've seen a number of historical arguments along those lines (Fritz Machlup's economic review of the patent system comes to mind), I had not heard of Plant's two articles. So I went in search of them... and discovered that they're locked up behind a paywall. Plant's key paper, entitled "The Economic Theory Concerning Patents for Inventions" can be found on JSTOR, where they want... $43 for the 21 page article. Yes, it's more than $2 per page. For a 78 (almost 79) year old document. Then there's his other key article, "The Economic Aspects of Copyright in Books." It, too, can be found on JSTOR for $43, though this one is 28 pages, so you get a per-page price of slightly under $2 this time... which still seems crazy.
It's not just ridiculous that these two publications, both published in 1934, are not in the public domain -- considering they argue that such locking up of information and ideas is bad for society, it's particularly ironic that they are so hard to get and and that JSTOR charges such ridiculous fees for them. Though, I guess if you want to keep such prices high so you can act as a gatekeeper, what better way than to effectively hide these works by pricing them out of the market?
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Four days of fame
Each year, India's Punjabis give their all in the Rural Olympics, an extravaganza of archaic trials of strength, traditional culture, martial arts and animal show
Ouch! A whack on the ankle, a slosh of giddiness. I sit down on the grass, and only now do I see the hockey ball that seemed to come flying from nowhere. Chaos is all around. People perform motorcycle stunts, heft weights, someone leads a dancing camel.
Wheelchair races, tractor races, dog and horse contests, and continuous, deafening announcements blaring from dented megaphones. The man at the mic is master of ceremonies, commentator and ecstatic fan all in one.
I alternately follow the moves of two female discus throwers, both with scarily broad shoulders, while attempting to grasp the rules of kabaddi, a kind of team wrestling that's in progress a couple of meters away.
But first things first. The turf on which I am sitting, rubbing my ankle, is in Kila Raipur, in the state of Punjab in northern India, 300 kilometers north of New Delhi. Home mainly to Sikhs, most of the time it's a perfectly ordinary village, where farmers grow rice, wheat and sugar cane, and tend their dairy cows, bullocks and donkeys.
For four days of the year, though, around the first weekend in February, the village becomes a stage. A stadium built especially for the big event hosts a bizarre mix of athletics, animal shows and martial arts. Everyone joins in: old, young, able-bodied, the physically impaired, men and women – well, some women, at least.
This Kila Raipur Sports Festival have been held for 83 years now. The village expects at least a million visitors, as I learned from the official website. That's huge, I thought to myself. I want to go!
My first feeling: disappointment. The field is more like a rough training ground than a stadium. I count the practically empty seat rows on the covered stands, take a guess at how many spectators could sit on the whitewashed concrete steps to right and left, multiply, add, and come to a rather optimistic total of no more than 20 000.
It's nine in the morning, and it's cold.The first visitors begin to arrive, most in the obligatory Sikh turban combined with thick sweaters and jackets. Expectations are high, but as the games haven't started, everyone homes in on the foreign woman – cell phones are whipped out.
Snap? Selfie? In an attempt to attain invisibility, I drift to the edge of the sports ground, where a tousle-headed man is watering a horse by a lush green rice field.
When I win, I feel that I am someone special
Who are you? Javindar Singh, 25 years old. "But people call me Kaka (boy)." He strokes the gleaming bay mare. She's not his, he's her jockey. If he wins the race, he gets 5000 rupees (67 euros); if he loses, nothing. His prospects of earning something today look good, as several horse owners have booked him.
Kaka's life is simple: He still lives with his parents, two hours away by motorcycle; he trains other people's horses and travels to local races. For him, it's not mainly about money. "When I win," he says, beaming, "I feel special." He keeps clippings of every press article he finds about himself.
Slowly, I'm beginning to get it. In a country with over a billion inhabitants, it's not being part of a celebration with millions of other people or the biggest spectacle in the world that matters, but the rare opportunity to stand out from the crowd. So Kila Raipur is basically Indian for 15 minutes of fame.
A firecracker startles a flock of green parrots. The air is now hot in the midday sun, and the stadium has filled up. I meet 19-year-old Prachi Virk, a tall, slim student from Ludhiana, the largest city in Punjab, with her hair scraped severely back but, unlike most of the village women, not covered. She's running in the 400 and 800-meter races.
In Germany, she would probably go unnoticed, except maybe for her long, silver fingernails, but here in Kila Raipur, Virk is an exception. She travels alone and spends the night in unfamiliar places – freedoms barred to many women in rural India. "I think its awful how backward people are here," she scolds. "Just look around you – almost only men."
And the men are having trouble staying in their seats. The marshals try shooing them back, but they keep erupting onto the field to be near the action. I follow suit.
A new throng is forming around a man holding between his teeth the end of a massive wood-and-iron structure with a cycle on top. Arms outstretched, he raises the contraption into the air. Incredulous, runner Virk films the scene with her cell phone, giggling "It hurts me to watch, but I just have to! I'll send this to my mother, but later – no signal here."
Oh, the Internet. Jagbir Singh Grewal sighs and flops down onto a saggy sofa. Grewal is a bulky man in glasses, vest and corduroy pants. I meet him in the media center set up under one of the stands for the duration of the event. The walls are hung with framed photos of former hockey stars.
"If the government gave us more money, we could afford WiFi – and floodlighting!" Grewal introduces himself as a descendant of the festival founder, Inder Singh Grewal. He tells me about his ancestor, who was an influential member of village society and a visionary who believed that athletics were important for Punjabis.
He was committed to promoting physical education among the young men living in villages and decided that the best way to achieve this was to hold sports contests.
It was the perfect place for this idea, since the people of northern India had always been fighters due to the regular bloody conflicts between Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus. The Sikhs established the Nihang military order in the 17th century, whose members still cultivate their riding and fighting skills to this day.
A young troop of Nihang are performing today – the oldest is possibly around 20, the youngest no more than four or five years old. Their uniforms look fantastic: Bright-blue robes and either a blue or mustard-yellow turban. To up-tempo Indian music, they leap and whirl through the air, wielding knives, sabers and battle-axes, now individually, now in groups.
They told me the weapons weren't real, but I can't help hoping they can control them, especially when the youngest gives the final flourish and swings a metal ball on a chain round and round at a crazy speed.
No doubt about it, the Nihang show is the most impressive here, and that includes the next turn, featuring riders straddling two horses – one foot on each horse's back. First up is a teenager, who looks a bit shaky and keeps his eyes on his feet.
The next rider shows what determined training can achieve: He's as relaxed up there as a seasoned surfer on his board, his long beard fluttering in the wind, his right hand swinging a scimitar above his head.
"That's the tradition with us," explains a young man awaiting his turn. "Our forefathers did it, too. If you can't do it, you're not a real man." The small boy beside him nods.
Tough judgement but, I suspect, water off a duck's back to Nichhattar Singh – 80 years old, bushy, white brows shading clouded eyes, shaggy-bearded chin. He tells me that he cycles three kilometers to the sports ground every day, where he runs for two hours, and that, as a police and military trainer for 28 years, he has always kept himself fit.
This is his fourth time in the seniors' race at Kila Raipur, he says proudly, and his first in the Over 80s category. But now he has to hurry along, sorry, his race… he disappears into the crowd.
The stadium speaker blasts "The Final Countdown" in a permanent, manic loop. Teenagers in taekwondo suits smash boards. An old Sikh circling on his motorcycle zooms by, endlessly blowing on a whistle. Above our heads, the latest attraction: another Sikh, this one also circling, but with a paramotor 20 meters up.
There's action all around, and it's slowly getting too much for me. I need a break. The horse racing is about to begin. While most visitors flock to the finishing area, I head over to the starting line on the edge of some wasteland a few hundred meters away, where a dozen spirited horses are waiting with their jockeys.
I seek out Kaka. Barefoot and in thin sweatpants, he looks like a kid in pyjamas. Kaka is here with a black mare, Rani, who's rolling her eyes, snorting and prancing.
Kaka talks softly to her, clicks his tongue. Is she nervous about the upcoming race or has she had something stronger than a little sugar and water, which he obviously denies? He mounts.
Someone waves a red flag on a bamboo cane and the first race begins: The horses shoot off with their jockeys on their backs – each without a saddle but yelling loudly.
I meet Kaka again on the last day at the awards. He won the race with Rani. He poses briefly for a photo, while men slap him on the back. He still has to lead his horse out to the parking lot and into a pick-up truck. After all the fuss, Rani finally gets some peace.
I, too, have had enough – seen and heard enough, and had more than enough dust up my nose. But before I go, I want to find out how Prachi Virk, the runner, fared, and actually manage to find her. She beams. She, too, won her race, and plans to spend most of the prize money on new clothes.
The old Sikh is nowhere to be seen. I do find a list with his name in second place, though, but I don't know whether the result made him happy or annoyed him. But one thing I do know: This year, he, too, had the stage for a brief moment, had his moment of fame.
The world's most bizarre contests
Combative Camels
At the Turkish camel-wrestling festival, camels fight against each other. The winner trips his rival up or makes him bellow. Biting is not allowed.
Weightless wives
Husbands in Sonkajärvi, Finland, compete to see who can carry their wife fastest over a 253.5 meter obstacle course.
Munching monkeys
Fruit, cake, juice: Every year, the folk of Lopbury in Thailand set up a gigantic buffet, which is then stormed by thousands of monkeys.
Flying fish
Australian hammer throwing: At the Tunanama Festival in Port Lincoln, Australia, men and women toss rubber tuna fish as far as they can.
Bawling babies
At the Japanese Nakizumō festival, two wrestlers each hold a baby; the winner is the one whose baby cries first.
Marine music
The Gulf of Mexico is not just a great place to see coral – you can also listen to concerts here, at the Florida Keys underwater music festival.


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High-flying finale for Mission X
For the last two months, youngsters in 25 cities worldwide have been enjoying fun activities inspired by astronaut training. Now these 4000 children have officially crossed the finishing line of the Mission X astronaut training programme.
'Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut' has been an inspirational international educational undertaking to promote healthy eating and regular exercise.
The two-day sprint to the finishing line ended on Wednesday when children from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and UK gathered in their countries for final exercises, to learn about space and to follow the live audio and video streaming from the International Space Station.
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, beamed onto large screens, came over loud and clear from the Station explaining the importance of exercise and nutrition.
"It's about an attitude that begins when you're a child and continues throughout your entire life," Paolo Nespoli told the children.
The astronauts entertained the children with somersaults, floating food and jokes, before fielding questions from the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, where German schoolchildren asked questions on behalf of all the European teams.
Day as an astronaut at Cologne
The lucky kids at the astronaut centre were treated to an extensive day of activities.
It started with a packed programme at the School Lab of the German space agency, DLR, where 85 children from 12 German Mission X teams were challenged to assemble a puzzle while wearing gloves and dark goggles, and perform push-ups and other physical activities to show they are now as fit as astronauts.
After that, four real astronauts were waiting for the children: ESA astronauts André Kuipers and Michel Tognini talked about their experiences as space explorers.
Astronauts Michael Fossum from NASA and Satoshi Furukawa from Japan took a break from their training to attend the ceremony and have a look at the Mission X posters prepared by children from 13 countries.
A replay of the inflight call to the ISS is available below


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A generation ago, most farms were still relatively small and independent, but the past 20-30 years have seen factory farms become a quasi-monopoly. What will farms look like a generation from now?
One thing's for sure — farming won't look the same as it does now. Even if you ignore larger factors — like skyrocketing fuel prices that may make transporting food long distances way more expensive, or increasing droughts that may drive up feed prices — the way we're farming now probably can't be sustained for another generation.
Here are 10 wide-spread methods of food production that may well collapse under their own weight in the next two decades.
As Michael Pollan writes in the New York Times Magazine:
To call a practice or system unsustainable is not just to lodge an objection based on aesthetics, say, or fairness or some ideal of environmental rectitude. What it means is that the practice or process can't go on indefinitely because it is destroying the very conditions on which it depends.
Top images: Andrew Baines' Bovine Surrealist Art Installation, photographed by Paul Kane/Getty Images.
So here are 10 huge farming practices that may fall apart within a generation:
10) Chocolate
It's nature's anti-depressant, but within 20 years, chocolate may be the new caviar, warns the Ghana-based Nature Conservation Research Council. Says director John Mason: "[Chocolate] will become so rare and so expensive that the average Joe just won't be able to afford it." It's not just that rising demand is outstripping supply of chocolate, which is grown on cacao trees. It's also the fact that chocolate growers in Ghana and other countries have gone over to methods that are quicker, but doomed to failure all too soon.
Because cacao trees require years of tending before they mature — a labor-intensive process that eventually yields a fairly small reward for growers — farms have gone over to hybrid seeds to increase output. And these hybrid trees grow in full sunlight as a monoculture, rather than within the shade of a rainforest. But they also deplete the soil way more than regular cacao trees — forcing the farmers to cut more rainforests to produce more land for their cacao trees.
As NGO News Africa explains, Ghana "has experienced a decades-long decline in cocoa yield per acre farmed." And Ghana is the world's number two producer of chocolate. So enjoy your chocolate fix while you can! Image by Natalie Shau on Deviant Art.
9) Salmon farming
If you live in the United States, chances are you've eaten salmon farmed in Chile. The reason why salmon is so cheap in U.S. supermarkets because of huge farms along the Chilean coastline. As Charles Fishman explains in his amazing book The Wal-Mart Effect, salmon used to be an expensive delicacy, until the Norwegians developed methods of farming salmon inside cages. And as this business grew, it moved to Chile, where restrictions were lighter. As Fishman wrote in 2006:
The Atlantic salmon doesn't appear naturally anywhere south of the equator. Farming salmon in Chile is a bit like farming penguins in the rocky mountains. Now, however, not only are there far more Atlantic salmon in Chile than there are people, there are ten times as many, maybe even one hundred times as many. More salmon are harvested in Chile now than anywhere else in the world, including Norway.
Many environmentalists, of course, warned that salmon-farming in Chile was unsustainable. Not only are these fish swimming in their own waste products, and there were alarming levels of nitrogen and phosphate in the water. Not to mention a fungicide that may cause cancer. But Chile was on track to double its salmon yield in just five years — until disaster struck. A virus called infectious salmon anemia, or I.S.A., killed millions of fish and decimated the salmon-farming industry. The industry moved south into Patagonia. But the underlying problems, of millions of fish squashed into cages, remain.
8) Bug resistant genetic crops.
Companies like Monsanto have been trying to do away with pesticides by introducing genetically engineered crops that are bug resistant. And while many people can agree with genetically modifying crops to make them more drought resistant, improve yields, or even make them more nutritionally complete to help prevent malnutrition, the anti-bug contingent is doomed to fail. Why? Because the bugs are always evolving. And they can do so faster, and along many more lines, than a company could probably even imagine.
Not to mention, these companies are engineering toxins right into your food plants. And while we trust that tomatoes – members of the nightshade family – will keep their mild toxins in their roots, can we really trust a company trying to make food plants poisonous isn't going to screw this up somehow?
7) Grass lawns
In this spectacular New Yorker article (yes, it's about lawns – go with us here) Elizabeth Kolbert explains the social and physical history of lawns. Lawns used to be a combination of grass and clover plants. The clover would fix nitrogen in the soil and then the grass would use that nitrogen in its growing cycle.
With the advent of herbicides, companies that sold lawn care products (everything from grass seed to mowers to fertilizer) convinced homeowners that clover was unsightly. Suddenly homeowners had to buy herbicides to kill clover, then fertilizer to replace the depleted nitrogen that the clover no longer fixed. It was the beginning of a vicious and terrible cycle that continues to this day — to the tune of $40 billion a year in lawn upkeep. Image via TractorByNet.
6) Slash and burn for grazing
If throwing out your Christmas tree every year makes you sad, watching videos of rainforests being burned down, hacked at with machetes, and then turned into cattle grazing land, probably breaks your heart. It probably also breaks the heart of those machete-wielding ranch hands who will have to clear another section of land next year. Rainforest soil is notoriously poor in nutrients (because nutrients are always being upcycled into new plants, instead of hanging out in the dirt during fallow winter periods) and can only support enough grazing for cattle for a year or two.
After that, the land is depleted, and more land needs to be cleared. The poor soil erodes causing flooding and mudslides. Eventually, the ranchers will run out of rainforest, and the eroded land cannot support any agriculture (and if particularly unstable, cannot support buildings, either.)
5) Factory meat production
Our favorite culprit, evolution, is going to make factory-farming of livestock harder and harder. The antibiotics needed to keep animals in such close quarters are overused and applied universally — and thus are creating super germs.
Not to mention the issue of animal waste. Yes there are a few biogas converters out there, and manure makes excellent fertilizer if processed appropriately. But most animal waste ends up in holding ponds, and leaches away in rain and snow melt, where it eventually ends up in the waterways. Image via Market Oracle.
4) Bees
Bees, like every other part of our food system, are big business. Once they were a small part of every family orchard and most farms, such small scale operations no longer cut it in a world of hundreds and hundreds of miles of a single crop. And since bees are only needed to pollinate once a year, and since extracting honey and beeswax requires specialized equipment, not to mention bees sting and are annoying at picnics, the modern corporation farm chooses to rent its bees.
These bees are delivered via eighteen wheeler to the appropriate place, and then get to work moving pollen around. This peripatetic lifestyle has been blamed for colony collapse disorder — and honestly if you were placed in a medically induced coma, forced to eat the equivalent of glucose syrup instead of pollen, driven all over the country to be exposed by all sorts of new germs and then forced to do manual labor, you would probably collapse too.
Colony collapse disorder gets more reporting at some times than others, but if it continues at very high rates the entire industrial food system could well collapse.
Equally worrisome is SmartStax Corn, a genetically modified corn plant that produces its own insecticide. One of the chemicals it produces is clothianidin, which has been shown to kill wild honey bees. So not only will farmers pay to have honeybees work their fields, they will also pay extra for varietals of plants that poison bees.
Similarly, growers of seedless mandarin oranges have been spraying insecticides that are known to kill bees. If left to their own devices, the seedless orange trees will produce the desired fruit asexually — but if a bee comes waltzing through, the oranges will produce seeds, reducing their value.
So you often have huge swathes of crops that depend on bees for fertilization growing near huge swathes of crops that need to get rid of bees at all cost. This article by Kim Flottum explains exactly what happened in parts of California, where the beekeepers, orange growers and almond growers reached a détente.
3) Herbicide-resistant crops
Often known as "Round-Up Resistant" or "Round-up Ready," these plants are immune to broad-leaf plant killers. This means that farmers can liberally spray toxic chemicals all over your food to get rid of pesky weeds. And not just any toxic chemicals, but the ones provided by the company that engineered the resistant plants. Aside from the toxins on the food and in water run-off (which could kill the plants of nearby farmers who don't fork out the extra cash for herbicide resistant crops) it has also created superweeds that are immune to broad-leaf herbicides.
The New Scientist describes these superweeds as "not uncommon." Which as we all know is scientist-speak for "holy crap, that superweed is about to eat your dog." Just wait until there's super-kudzu.
2) Irrigation
Two-thirds of the water used world-wide is used in agriculture. As agriculture's needs for water expand, more and more water is being pumped out of aquifers. Aquifers feed ground water sources, like springs, with water that has been stored up over long periods (sometimes hundreds of years). As well-irrigation (the kind that should have protected the 2006 spinach from e-coli) becomes more common, aquifers are being drained. This means less ground water, and the eventual drying up of springs and streams. Also, empty aquifers are essentially hollow ground and are unstable, and have the tendency to settle. Or collapse into sinkholes.
Here's a UN Map of unsustainable irrigation practices around the world.
And as more and more land is converted to farm land due to growing populations, the amount of fresh water needed will inevitably outstrip supply.
1) Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer
If you ever hear a farmer, agriculturalist or a professor at a land grant college talk about the Green Revolution, they are not talking about Iran, or about Berkeley banning plastic shopping bags. They are talking about the combination of processes and technologies that were combined after World War II and exported to developing nations. High-yield varietals, better irrigation and new farming equipment let the world once again escape the dark cloud of Malthus and produce more food than we could consume. The population exploded, and famines were eradicated from the developed world. Even in the developing world, famines are often part of larger political unrest (though food insecurity and malnutrition are still problems).
But the greatest (and worst) technological innovation in agribusiness was the invention of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. The Haber–Bosch process catalyzes natural gas and the nitrogen in the air to produce ammonia. Ammonia is biologically reactive nitrogen (instead of the stuff in the air) that can be used as fertilizer.
Suddenly, land too poor to be worked was available for farming. And farmers no longer had to spread smelly manure on their plants. Or rotate their fields, planting them with nitrogen fixing crops like alfalfa or legumes that don't pay as much as nitrogen depleting cash crops like cotton or corn.
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer seemed like the answer to all our agricultural problems. The world could be fed.
But it's unsustainable, being produced from natural gas. And the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is at the root of all of the other unsustainable farming methods — the ease of use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer eliminated the market for actual manure from animals, and that in turn helped farms turn away from integrated systems of animals and plants. Plants could now be grown on poor soil or in arid regions, requiring more irrigation water. As a result, monocultures and super-farms that rely on standardization and technology became more and more common.
So really, it's all the nitrogen's fault.
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Minestrone, pronounced :- meen -es-strohn -ay
I first made this dump in soup when I was 11 or 12.. don't quite remember the exact time, but it was definitely the early times when I first learnt to cook. I didn't know that it's an actual soup called minestrone. To me at that time, it's just a no name soup.
How come I could bump into a minestrone soup? Well, my mom liked to buy vege that can keep well in the fridge, and these were available in the fridge at that time. So, I put in whatever I could find, pork, celery cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, and onions. I liked the outcome of this soup, so I made this dump in soup with the same ingredients the next time, and the next time, and the next time.Minestrone was made with broth as the soup base, I just made the meat broth as I made the soup.
Sigh…. I guess I have to change the ingredients next time I make this, no more tomatoes in my minestrone, as Mike doesn't quite like tomatoes. But it does taste good with them in, what can I do? He doesn't like the red plump fruits.
Therefore goodbye my old warming friend, and I shall say hello to the new tomatoless minestrone next time.. The name Minestrone still sticks to it, as there are no rules to a minestrone.
1 cup cabbage, cut into 1 inch squares
1 cup sliced celery
¼ cup sliced carrots
2 tomatoes, cut into 8pcs each
¼ cup sliced red onion
100gm thin pork/chicken slices
3 cups water
1 Tbsp oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat pot and put in oil.
2. Put in onion and sauté until fragrant, but dun brown it.
3. Put in pork slices and fry for a while until colour changes white.
4. Pour in water, tomato and carrots.
5. Bring to a boil, let simmer for another 5 minutes.
6. Put in celery and cabbage. Simmer for another 3 minutes.
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In this April 21, 2010 file aerial photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court reversed course Thursday on its earlier ruling favoring BP in a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute, handing at least a temporary setback to the energy giant as it seeks to defray some of the enormous costs associated with the huge 2010 Gulf oil spill.
BP has argued that it is entitled to a portion of $750 million in coverage from a drilling contractor's insurance policies to help the London-based multinational help pay pollution-related costs following the explosion, fire and spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP leased the drilling rig that exploded from Transocean Ltd. and required by contract that the Swiss-based drilling company maintain minimum insurance coverage for BP's benefit. Transocean's policy with Ranger Insurance Ltd. provided at least $50 million in coverage, while its policies with several "excess liability" insurers added at least another $700 million in coverage.
BP contends it is entitled to coverage under those Transocean policies as an "additional insured" party, but U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier rejected the company's interpretation of the policy language in a November 2010 ruling. Then the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed Barbier's ruling on March 1 in a decision favoring BP.
On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the same New Orleans based appeals court said the outcome of the dispute isn't clear and it would seek answers from the Texas Supreme Court to two questions that could help the federal appeals court ultimately decide the case. For now, Barbier's ruling against BP stands.
"We continue to believe that the 5th Circuit got it right in its previous unanimous opinion and think that result will be confirmed," BP spokesman Geoff Morrell said in a statement Thursday.
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon triggered an explosion that killed 11 workers and left millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf, a disaster that already has cost BP billions of dollars in cleanup expenses and other costs. The insurance dispute is one of several spill-related appeals to wind up in the 5th Circuit.


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Discretizations for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (1999)
A discrete velocity model with spatial and velocity discretization based on a lattice Boltzmann method is considered in the low Mach number limit. A uniform numerical scheme for this model is investigated. In the limit, the scheme reduces to a finite difference scheme for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation which is a projection method with a second order spatial discretization on a regular grid. The discretization is analyzed and the method is compared to Chorin's original spatial discretization. Numerical results supporting the analytical statements are presented.
Transition from Kinetic Theory to Macroscopic Fluid Equations: A Problem fo Domain Decomposition and a Source for New Algorithms (1999)
In the paper we discuss the transition from kinetic theory to macroscopic fluid equations, where the macroscopic equations are defined as aymptotic limits of a kinetic equation. This relation can be used to derive computationally efficient domain decomposition schemes for the simulaion of rarefied gas flows close to the continuum limit. Moreover, we present some basic ideas for the derivation of kinetic induced numerical schemes for macroscopic equations, namely kinetic schemes for general conservation laws as well as Lattice-Boltzmann methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.


text: Last year Fudd and I discovered the fun of micro cache runs on the motorcycle. The problem in the past has been not being able to bring along cache descriptions. All that printed off paper is a waste and a new toy like a PDA just isn't going to happen soon. I have the laptop for car rides but now we use my nano to carry along cache descriptions. I don't know exactly how he does it yet because its only been a day but it has to do with copying the filter from GSAK into a word txt file and then putting in to the notes section on the Ipod. WooHoo


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There was a public outcry when R.A. Dickey did not start the All-Star Game, a journeyman for the Chicago White Sox threw a perfect game, and the Pittsburgh Pirates of all teams were in first place as the first half of the baseball season drew to a close.
What's next, postseason baseball in the nation's capital? It sure looks that way.
An eventful and unexpected first half that included Dickey knuckling his way to stardom with the Mets, Phil Humber's out-of-nowhere perfecto for the White Sox, and the Yankees muzzling former slugger Reggie Jackson after some disparaging comments about Alex Rodriguez is only expected to get more intriguing as the season rounds second and heads for third.
The non-waiver trade deadline is looming at the end of the month, and the Baltimore Orioles and White Sox got ahead of the curve by acquiring Jim Thome and Kevin Youkilis, respectively, to bolster their offenses. Milwaukee's Zack Greinke, Philadelphia's Cole Hamels and Arizona's Justin Upton could be headed elsewhere as the contenders and pretenders separate themselves.
"There's several teams involved in races right now," said Detroit manager Jim Leyland, whose Tigers joined the Phillies and Red Sox on the list of big-spending underachievers in the first half of the season. "There's probably going to be a lot of teams that would like to go out and get somebody. But the more teams that want to get something, the tougher it is to get it."
And there's even more motivation for deals to be made in the first year of baseball's expanded postseason. The Fall Classic will be a little wilder this time around. A new format kicks in this year that adds an extra wild-card team to each league. That means 10 teams will have a chance to get in and go for it all.
The Orioles, who trail the Yankees by seven games in the AL East, haven't been to the postseason since 1997, the Pirates haven't been there since 1992, and the nation's capital hasn't hosted a playoff baseball game since 1933, when Mel Ott homered in Game 5 of the World Series to help the New York Giants beat the Senators for the championship.
That was long before Natitude, long before "that's a clown question, bro," and certainly way before the All-Star Game decided home-field advantage in the World Series. It's a new day, and if Bryce Harper and the Nationals or Andrew McCutchen and the Pirates somehow Buc the odds and make it to the Series, they'll be hosting the party after the National League beat the AL, 8-0.
With so much on the line from here on out, the game in Kansas City could be one of the last nights of baseball without any juice for quite a while.
"We're playing for a lot more here," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "We're playing for a city, the goal being to re-bond the city with its ballclub."
The Yankees hold a seven-game lead over Baltimore in the AL East, but it's still early and every division is up for grabs. Here's a few of the races that are expected to remain tight until the final days.
•NL Central: The Pirates are just one game ahead of the Reds and only 2 1/2 games ahead of the defending champs in St. Louis.
•NL West: The Dodgers looked like the class of the league at the start of the season, but injuries to stars Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier have brought them back to the pack. And the Giants, just half a game back, are brimming with confidence after Pablo Sandoval, Melky Cabrera and Matt Cain led the NL to the All-Star Game win.
•AL West: The Rangers may be the best team in baseball, but the Los Angeles Angels have rebounded from a slow start to show that this will be no runaway. The Rangers lead by four games in search of their third straight AL crown.
Several big names figure to be trading places by the end of the month as teams look for that extra edge to push them into the postseason.
•Felix Hernandez, RHP, Mariners: Seattle has been adamant that it is not considering moving King Felix. But if they ever would, now may be the time. The 26-year-old is 6-5 with a 3.13 ERA and is signed through 2014. He has already topped 1,500 innings pitched in his young career, and the Mariners appear nowhere close to contending.
•Francisco Liriano, LHP, Twins: Got off to a horrendous start to the season and was moved to the bullpen. But it's what have you done for me lately, and the lefty who will be a free agent this winter is 3-2 with a 2.74 ERA and .175 opponents' batting average since rejoining the rotation. The last-place Twins need young assets, and Liriano may be best trade chip.
•Cole Hamels, LHP, and Shane Victorino, OF, Phillies: The Phils already moved Charlie Manuel favorite Jim Thome. Now these two mainstays, who are eligible for free agency at the end of the season, could be available for the right price.
•Carlos Quentin, OF, Padres: Any team looking for some proven power should consider Quentin, who topped 20 homers in each of the past four years for the White Sox. In his first season in spacious Petco Park, Quentin has just seven homers and could benefit from a change of scenery.
These guys better get healthy if their teams expect to have a chance to play into October.
•CC Sabathia, LHP, Yankees: On the disabled list with a strained left groin, the Yankees desperately need their horse back at the top of the rotation. With Andy Pettitte out until late August at the earliest with a fractured left ankle, big No. 52 is more important than ever in New York.
•Evan Longoria, 3B, Rays: Longoria is on the shelf with a torn left hamstring that could keep him out for a while. In the meantime, the Rays will try to stay within shouting distance of the Yankees and the wild card without their leader.
•Kemp, OF, Dodgers: He has emerged as perhaps the best player in the game, a "five-tool guy" who has given the Dodgers their swagger. But he's played in just two games since May 14 because of a strained left hamstring, the kind of injury that can linger if it's not taken care of properly.
•Stephen Strasburg, RHP, Nationals: He has shown no ill effects coming off Tommy John surgery, which will make the second half all the more intriguing for the Nationals and their young flamethrower. GM Mike Rizzo has said that the team intends to hold Strasburg to an innings limit and will shut him down once he reaches that point to try to avoid another major arm injury. But if the Nats are in contention for a title, will they be able to hold true to that?
AP sportswriters Larry Lage in Detroit and Paul Newberry contributed to this report.


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Those 150 million Android devices that have been activated to date? All running on an OS built on the Linux operating system kernel. Let's raise a Samsung Galaxy S II to those all-important 14 million lines of Linux code.
At the last count, nine out of 10 Hollywood animation studios ran on Linux servers. Dreamworks is a big fan – say thanks for Chicken Run and Shrek – and James Cameron also chose Linux servers to power 2009's Avatar.
The selfless birthday boy reckons its greatest achievement is providing the foundation for successful online businesses. Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon and eBay are all built on open source architecture. You know what they say: there's no 'I' in Linux. Oh, wait.
It's only the best for supercomputers like IBM's faster-than-fast Sequoia so it makes sense that a whopping 413 out of the top 500 supercomputers on the planet run Linux.
Linux is a Unix-like OS, using the core behavioural and operational values, without adhering to any particular Unix specification. Another Unix-based OS is taking the world by storm: Mac OS X. Read our OS X Lion review.
Linux is the original open-source. You'd have to be pretty attached to Internet Explorer or Safari not to have used an open-source web browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, which ramp up the browser competition with killer features like Chrome's menu-free interface and Firefox's Panorama tabs feature.
Asus' Eee PC range of tiny laptops, running on the Xandros distribution of Linux, kickstarted the netbook trend back in 2007. Okay, later models had the option to run Windows but plenty of netbook users stayed with the alternative OS.
Bet little old Linux isn't the first thing that springs to mind when surfing BBC iPlayer on your 52in plasma. Most of the smartness in Smart TV offerings from the electronics giants, like connecting to the internet and running apps or add-ons, is originally based on Linux, Unix or similar open-source platforms.
Playstation used to brag about setting up your PS2 with Linux but these day it's a little trickier due to some over competent hackers. It's still possible to transform your PS3 into a PC by installing Linux on the console. A variant called Yellow Dog was designed for this purpose.
Until last summer, Dell was selling a fair few PCs and laptops running the Ubuntu version of Linux – including the Latitude business range and the Inspiron Mini 10 netbook. Windows-bashers can still order hardware running Ubuntu over the phone.
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Well, it's the halfway point of the LGRAB 2011 Summer Games. How are you doing with your events? If you need some inspiration, check out some of the submissions we've gotten so far.
Wendy and her husband took a group ride in Cleveland. As she points out, group rides are a great way to build confidence and learn from more seasoned riders. She also wrote a letter to the city council requesting a bike rack outside her local grocery.
Our friend Melissa is going gangbusters on the Games from her new home in Denver. She test rode a different bike and fell in love with the Electra Townie.
Looks like a good fit! She also commuted to her new job by bike for the first time. "I was definitely more awake during the day and the ride home helped me relax."
A&P of The Notables also test rode a different sort of bike (I love reading about people doing this). They enjoyed the Giant commuter model they tried, but are talking about a trip to NYC to see what Adeline Adeline has to offer.
Daniel of La Pedaleada went on a group ride and performed a maintenance task—and videotaped them both! Check it out. I need to proofride MY Brooks…
Cathey decided to perform a maintenance task on her Globe—checking the tire pressure and filling them up. "I never thought I would enjoy doing work on my bike, but now, strange as it may seem, I kind of have my fingers crossed that a tube will need replacing or my chain will need work. I can't wait to keep learning!" she writes.
Deb went on a group ride to celebrate her one-year anniversary of cycling. Her official mileage tally: 1,140.98 miles. Makes me wonder what mine would be if I kept count! Maybe in 2012. :) She also explored new territory by riding the entire width of her township in Michigan.
Reader Annie from Minnesota has already completed FOUR events. She, too, has logged more than 1,000 miles on her bike in the last year. "I made up a Tshirt that I wear often when I ride. It says, "Bicycle Minnesota" on the front and "Ride, Fat Girl, Ride" on the back. It makes me smile," she tells us.
Keep the entries coming!
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AMD Radeon HD 4830: Affordable Performance And Heavy Competitionby Derek Wilson on October 23, 2008 12:01 AM EST
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Update: AMD has confirmed to us that there were some issues with the BIOS on our sample board. Rather than 2 disabled SIMD units, our review sample 4830 had 3 disabled SIMD units. AMD has assured us that no retail boards will be affected and this is only a problem that affected reference boards built as review samples. We are working on resolving the issue with our review sample and will complete updated tests as soon as we can. This will affect our performance results, but until we run the tests we can't be sure how much more performance we will get out of retail 4830 hardware.
Update 2: We have updated all the performance graphs in the article with data re-run on a card that actually has all the SIMD's available. There was a difference, but it hasn't changed the overall conclusion of the article. For more information, see our update article with details on the problem, the situation, and performance differences.
Since the launch of the RV7xx GPU, AMD has been steadily filling out a top to bottom Radeon HD 4000 series lineup. The first markets addressed were gamer centric with the 4850 and 4870. Next in line was the hardcore enthusiast class with the dual-GPU 4870 X2. Since then we've seen the 4670, the 4550 and the 4350 filling out the bottom end value and mainstream segments. But there was a bit of a performance and price gap between the 4670 and the 4850. This gap has now been filled.
Today we see the introduction of the Radeon HD 4830 which is to be priced at or below $130. This part is poised to split the difference between the 4670 and 4850, and filling in this market segment should finish rounding out AMD's line up of RV7xx based cards for now. At least we hope.
In the past both ATI and NVIDIA have flooded the market with way too many different models that overlap in price and performance in ways that just confuse their customers. While AMD has been releasing cards at a fairly steady pace, all these parts have been well positioned and have served to disseminate their new architecture. We have been really happy to see how quickly AMD has gotten their new GPU out into the world.
By now, we've covered the architecture and other versions of the hardware quite a bit. The really interesting bit about this launch is the price and the prices of competitive hardware.
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nirolf - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkThat low core/mem looks promising. It would be interesting to see if you can get close to 4850 with some tweaking. Reply
Mathos - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkAnd I think I found my next video card upgrade. Have been either waiting for the 4850 to drop a bit more, or something to come out between the 4670 and 4850 to come out, and this one hits exactly where I figured it would. Nipping at the heels of the 9800gtx in a few benchies there, and at the Res that matters for me 1680x1050. This looks like something I can pair with my 3870 toxic edition till I can afford a full on 4850 or 4870. Then if I wanted to I can get rid of the 3870 and run Xfire with the 4830 and 4850. Reply
DXRick - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkThe charts for power consumption are totally different (show a lot more consumption, especially at idle) than the charts done for the 4670 article: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3405...">http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3405... Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkFrom the other article: "At idle our entire testbed (Intel G45 + Core 2 Quad Q9450) used only 67W with the Radeon HD 4670." Note that this article uses QX9770 and 790i, among other differences. Reply
DXRick - Friday, October 24, 2008 - linkI had no idea that different chipsets (or mobos) and cpus could result in such a dramatic difference in power consumption. I sure want my computer to consume as little as possible when I am not using it.
Are there any other articles here about this?
Thanks! Reply
strikeback03 - Monday, October 27, 2008 - linkhttp://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.a...">http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.a... Reply
Jovec - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkMore importantly, all your previous reviews show roughly a 40+ idle and load watt difference between the 4850 and 4870, yet this review has it down to 3-4 watts at both. Was there a problem with 4870 power consumption that has now been fixed? Reply
Jovec - Saturday, October 25, 2008 - linkAnd now these 4850 and 4870 numbers show a wider margin again. With a different testbed I'd expect different numbers, but the relative difference on the same testbed should be the same. These numbers are more in line with AT's other 4850/70 power numbers. The original article's numbers need to be explained. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkI believe that was one of the issues with previous Catalyst drivers: for some reason the power saving stuff wasn't working on 4870. It's good to see that finally addressed. Reply
Jovec - Thursday, October 23, 2008 - linkSeems likely for idle numbers, but I'd be curious what power saving can be done under load. Reply


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ARLINGTON, VA -- More than 300 amateur and professional cyclists participated in the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic, which was held Sunday in the Washington, DC, area.
The event included an amateur participatory ride that was open to cyclists of all abilities, a professional men's 150K race and the Academy Shootout, featuring teams from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, NY, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
"This is more than a little competition," Bill Anderson, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and logistics, and a participant in the cycling event, said before the event. "These three academies have come here to do battle. We've got 15 members from each of the academies. They're intense. I think it'll do great for competition between the academies and also drive some camaraderie. The [cadets] are strong, focused, and they are very, very fast."
This was the second year the Air Force hosted the event, formerly called the Crystal City Classic, as part of its efforts to build a signature sports event in the Washington, DC, area. Proceeds from the event go to service members who sustained traumatic brain injuries while serving in the military.
"Just like the Marine Corps Marathon and the Army 10K, [events] like this reach out to the community and let them see their services," says Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley. "The cycling event is a vehicle to get to the greater good and have some fun on a beautiful day here in the Capitol."
Although the Air Force team won the timed trials before the event, the Navy cadets garnered the most total points and took home the title for the overall event.
"I think the cycling classic is a great opportunity to get the academies together," Moseley says. "We do a lot together in the real world, we do a lot together in combat, and we work together as a joint team. The academies have a lot of athletic interface, and what a treat it is at the Air Force Classic to [compete against the other academies' cycling teams]. I think it's just indicative of the close cooperation and partnership we have across the board."


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This story of profound spiritual transformation demonstrates how a bishop and a local monastery turned a village riddled by scandal into one of the most spiritually vibrant towns in all of Greece. The book covers the political history and religious character of the region of Nikopolis, from time of the Apostle Paul in 63 AD to the arrival of Bishop Meletios in 1980.
With great sensitivity, the author deals with the issue of sexual misconduct within the church, the restoration of the local church to spiritual health, and the renewed trust between church leaders and the laity. He focuses on the actions of the local monastic community and their leader, Bishop Meletios, who applied his ancient faith in a modern context to bring about social and religious change. This true story from Greece is an inspirational and valuable resource for seekers of Christian Orthodoxy.
Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California Polytechnic State University. His professional research centers on ascetic traditions.
Excerpt: As an institution, the Church cannot overcome the inertia of moral decline, subjectivism, and hedonism in our society. As an institution, the Church can never train all the priests to be educated, holy vessels of God. As an institution, the Church will not preserve the Truth of God and the purity of His altar unblemished. If the Church was only a human institution, despair would be entirely justified. Bishop Meletios wants to remind people that, fortunately, the Church is not merely a human institution.
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I don't often comment on the design or layout of newspapers or magazines or cereal boxes at the store. I understand that design in particular is often subjective and people can view it in many ways.
Unfortunately, I must say that I thought [the May 6] cover was not only horribly insensitive, but trashy and tasteless. It actually upset me enough to comment.
If cheap tabloids are what you are going for, I get it, cool, you've done it. But if it's not, I think you should be looking for a new graphic designer.
Anyway, in a town full of intelligent and talented people, I'm just writing to say I'm disappointed. Outside of this instance, I've frequently appreciated all of your hard work and interesting stories and thank you for that.
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text: A quiet sort of revolution has been brewing online. Amateur astronomers have taken to the web on cloudy, light polluted nights and turned newly found computing power normally reserved for gaming and Second Life into something truly productive and phenomenal; the reprocessing of planetary images. This link includes more examples than you can shake a robotic camera arm at; the data is culled not only from the raw image archives of older spacecraft such as Mariner 10 and Voyager 2, but newer generation spacecraft such as the Cassini orbiter around Saturn and the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity pictured above. These images frequently circulate the web and are processed and discussed long before even NASA engineers get to them. And with the mounting number of new missions out there and the transparency and access to public data increasing, the trend is likely to continue. But beyond just pretty pictures, the images dug up often have real scientific merit and value as well; for example, Philosophy professor Ted Stryk actually caught Neptunes tiny moon Despina in the act of transiting as he sifted through old Voyager data! This makes one wonder; what else might engineers and scientists have missed? Emily Lakdawalla, web editor for the Planetary Society has contributed extensively to this growing revolution of online citizen scientists, taking advantage of Cassinis equinox mission to produce some stunning images. So give it a try; put that ultimate power sitting idle on your desk to work doing something useful and productive you just might spot that unknown moon or monolith!


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If you think cel-shading is only something done in cartoons, or a few video games (and mostly then to stilted effect), check out what's possible when you put a little thought into the process.
The clip is sadly silent. May I be so bold as to make a recommendation.
More info, and a download link to the effects used, can be found below.
Cell Shading Experiment with Particular [Vimeo, via GiantMecha]


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Apple chief Tim Cook has volunteered to take a bonus hit depending on how poorly Apple does on the stock market, according to a regulatory filing.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, "Mr. Cook is leading this initiative by example and has the full support of the Board of Directors," according to Bruce Sewell, senior vice president, general and secretary of the board. Cook also requested that there will be no "upside" or bonus boost for surpassing expectations.
However, it's doubtful anyone will shed tears over Cook's loss. He was compensated $376 million in 2011 and $41.7 million in 2012, according to Mashable. Unfortunately, looking at Apple's recent drop in share prices, it's unlikely that Cook will receive anything resembling a bonus. Apple stock was $402.54 a share at the close on Monday, a steady decline from a high of $705 last September.
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Apple has gone through several transitions since the chief executive resignation and death of founder Steve Jobs, including reorganization, terminations and accusations of tax evasion. Part of Apple's business model revolved around putting out new wireless devices each year, but so far there's been no big announcements since the iPhone 5 in September. Either Apple must be hard at work on several exciting products or it has no mojo left.


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Unusual news of the past week as reported by GateHouse newspapers.
Mysterious meat has residents baffled
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- For the past four weeks, once a week, someone has dumped meat at the Town Centre, said Chris Walsh, who lives nearby.
And it wasn't a small amount of meat, or rotting meat. Rather, it was large hunks of meat that appeared to be recently purchased at a grocery store.
The first three times people discovered the meat, they threw it away, but Walsh decided to call the Board of Health and the Framingham Police when he discovered what appeared to be a shoulder cut of beef on the ground Tuesday.
The Board of Health sent someone who took pictures of the meat, he said, and Walsh spoke to a police dispatcher.
"The dispatcher said maybe someone was trying to lure their pet back," said Walsh. "What kind of pet would you lure back with that? A cougar?"
Board of Health Director Ethan Mascoop said an inspector has been assigned to handle the case of the mysterious meat. The latest piece appeared to weigh 4 to 5 pounds.
"It's unusual, there's no doubt about that," said Mascoop. "It's not your typical complaint that comes to the Health Department. We take every complaint and situation seriously."
Mascoop would not say if the meat is being tested.
Walsh said he was concerned because so many people walk their dogs through the common, and he's worried the meat may be poisoned to harm animals.
Driver passes out, crashes car into church
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. -- The driver of a car that crashed into a church after reportedly passing out behind the wheel faces charges of driving while intoxicated and careless and imprudent driving.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found the driver passed out with his foot still on the accelerator.
According to information provided by the Osage Beach Fire Protection District, the accident happened Monday at 9:35 p.m.
Police were responding to a suspicious vehicle spotted near the Cornerstone Methodist Church.
Officers were originally responding to the area for a suspicious vehicle report when the 2000 Chevy Malibu crashed into the church and became wedged inside the building.
Because the driver was still accelerating, the vehicle's tires were spinning, which caused the building to fill with smoke.
Witnesses told police the driver and passenger had passed out prior to the crash.
Once the driver, a 37-year-old Osage Beach resident, was determined to be fit for confinement, he was transported to the Osage Beach jail, where he was detained for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The driver is also facing charges of careless and imprudent driving and driving while intoxicated.
Teen charged with strapping explosives to teddy bear
BROCKTON, Mass. -- The Massachusetts state police bomb squad detonated a homemade explosive device that had been attached to a teddy bear and left on a street Monday afternoon, a fire official said.
A 15-year-old boy has been charged in connection with the incident, police said.
"It was a plastic bottle that had a solution inside the bottle that was mixed in a way that, after a period of time, it would explode," Deputy Fire Chief George Phillips said. "A teddy bear was wrapped around the plastic bottle and it was left in the street."
Police and the state police bomb squad responded at 5:15 p.m. Monday after receiving a 911 call reporting the explosive.
A representative from the state fire marshal's office also responded, Phillips said.
It took authorities about 30 minutes to detonate the device with a robotic machine designed to disarm explosives, Phillips said.
The 15-year-old boy, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was charged with possessing an explosive device and disturbing the peace.
Bee Gees help save man's life
MONMOUTH, Ill. -- County Market Store Director Rob Ravel is convinced that along with the fruits, vegetables and pop in the store aisles is a guardian angel.
Divine intervention is the only explanation he can come up with to describe the events that took place last month and ended with customer Jim Gavin surviving heart failure in the store the morning of Oct. 18.
But for Ravel, the story really starts the day before, during his lunch break. Just as he was about to head back to work, a news story caught his attention. Though he should have gone back to work, he decided to stay and watch. The segment was about a new CPR technique that syncs the compressions to the rhythm of the Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive."
While he was once CPR certified, he had not done any training since 1998, and hadn't thought much about it until seeing the news segment that Friday.
"Who would have ever guessed 17 hours later, I'd be putting what I saw into practice," he said.
On Saturday morning, Ravel was working and stopped for a moment to talk to one of his regular customers — Gavin. About 15 minutes later, he heard a yell that someone had fallen and he came running. Ravel said the security tape showed Gavin had fallen flat on his back so hard that his glasses bounced off head and left a large bruise.
As his staff called 911 and blocked the aisles, Ravel and one of his employees, Kay Lincoln — who along with being a cashier also works as an emergency room nurse — tended to Gavin.
While at first they thought he was having a seizure, he then stopped breathing. Ravel described his decision to start CPR as "instinctual."
"I don't know really what was going through my mind," he said, other than the Bee Gees.
Gavin stopped breathing and turned blue several times in the three minutes Ravel performed CPR before the ambulance arrived. But Ravel was not sure he had done enough. Lincoln told him she had heard the "death rattle." Several hours later he heard a helicopter fly over and was sure Gavin was being transported. He was — to Springfield.
"I thought he was gone," said Ravel, who became emotional as he recounted the story.
But the following Monday, Gavin's wife, Danny, called Ravel and told him he survived.
GateHouse News Service


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Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, Ryan Seacrest and Keith Urban?
According to theexaminer.com and several other sources, Keith Urban has signed on to fill one of the vacant judges' chairs on American Idol.
Fresh off his stint as a judge on The Voice: Australia, he will now go head to head with fellow country star and judge of the American version of The Voice, Blake Shelton.
Rumors had been running rampant that the show wanted a country angle, with names such as Brad Paisley making the rounds, but in the end, and according to the report, it is indeed Urban.
The deal is reportedly in the ballpark of $3 to $4 million per year. While not chump change, the offer is definitely lower than Mariah Carey, who is slated to make nearly $18 million.
The changes to the upcoming season of the show come courtesy of the departures of Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez.
Other rumored judges that will be seated at the Season 12 table include Nicki Minaj and Enrique Iglesias, provoking yet another question – more judges this coming season?
American Idol will be back on FOX for a 12th season this coming January, albeit with a very different look to the judges table.
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UH Manoa mourns passing of retired political science professor Glendon SchubertUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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SEATTLE — Glendon Schubert, one of the most creative and influential political scientists of the mid-20th century, died on Jan. 15, 2006, in Seattle, Wash., following a long illness. He was 87 years old.
Born in Oneida, N.Y., on June 7, 1918, Schubert received his AB (magna cum laude) in English and Mathematics in 1940 and a PhD in Political Science in 1948, both from Syracuse University. He served in the U.S. Army, Signal Corps (Intelligence) from 1942-1946 as a first lieutenant and was awarded a Bronze Star.
After teaching in the political science departments of several universities on the East and West Coasts from 1947-1951, Schubert settled down in the political science department of Michigan State University in East Lansing from 1952-1967, rising from assistant to full professor. He was also a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University from 1960-1961, and a Senior Scholar in Residence, Institute of Advanced Projects, at the East-West Center in Honolulu from 1963-1965.
After brief visits at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and York University near Toronto, Canada, Schubert came to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1968 again as an East-West Fellow and became a permanent member of the Department of Political Science with the newly-created rank of university professor in 1971. He was awarded the Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research in 1975. From 1986 to 1991, Schubert was also Research Professor at Southern Illinois University, becoming Emeritus Professor there in 1991. After a distinguished career primarily focused on research, he officially retired from UH Mānoa in July 2000.
Schubert was largely responsible for creating two subdisciplines within political science—judicial behavior and biopolitical behavior. The latter emerged from his deeper understanding of the roots of the former. Scholars in the field of judicial behavior recognized that values, opinions and attitudes that judges held explained an important part of their reasoning and decisions on the bench. This was a controversial and often-denied position at the time, but he and many others established the validity and importance of the argument in studies of judges in many jurisdictions around the world, correlating judicial attitudes and life-experiences with the ideological direction of their judicial decisions in an impressively large number of studies and publications. Work in this field still continues among political scientists worldwide. In 1999, Schubert received a Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association for his pioneering and continuing work in judicial behavior.
His first published work in judicial behavior was "The Study of Judicial Decision-Making as an Aspect of Political Behavior," American Political Science Review (December 1958) followed by scores of articles and research reports. Among his major books in judicial behavior are Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior (1959), Constitutional Politics: The Political Behavior of Supreme Court Justices and the Constitutional Policies That They Make (1960), Judicial Decision-Making (1963), Judicial Policy-Making (1965), The Judicial Mind: The Attitudes and Ideologies of Supreme Court Justices (1965), Political Attitudes and Ideologies: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Approach (1977), Comparative Judicial Study (1981), and ending with Political Culture and Judicial Behavior (Two Volumes)(1985).
During the late 1970s, Schubert recognized that there must be a biological basis for the attitudes and behavior of judges (and all humans), and so he took two years out of his already illustrious professional career and devoted it to the study of the life sciences, first as a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Scholar at the Zoological Laboratory of the Biological Center of the University of Groningen, Holland (1977-78), and then as a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Wassenaar, Holland (1978-79). From that point on, while he continued to contribute to the field of judicial behavior, his research and publications increasingly focused on the relation between the life sciences and politics broadly, beginning with "Cooperation, Cognition, and Communication," Behavioral and Brain Sciences (December 1978), and "Ethology: A Primer for Political Scientists," Center for Biopolitical Research Notes (January 1979), and continuing with numerous articles.
His major books in the field were Evolutionary Politics (1989), Primate Politics (1991), and Research in Biopolitics, Vol. 5 (1997), co-edited with his son, James Schubert, and Steven Peterson. Schubert received a Lifetime Career Achievement Award in 1994 from the Association of Politics and Life Sciences.
Schubert had five children, one of whom, James, was a highly-regarded political scientist in his own right who died of a brain tumor shortly before Glendon on Sept. 5, 2005. Schubert is survived by his sister, Dolores Nabkel; his children Frank, Susan, Kathleen and Robin; and his widow, Natalie Klavans.


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El Centro College has awarded seniors Nicolas Figueroa (photo at left) and Alfredo Rodriguez OneMain Financial Completion Scholarships, enabling them to complete degrees in Business Administration and an Associate of Science in December 2016.
"I try hard in my studies," said Figueroa. From graduating 11th at his high school to now earning a 3.7 GPA at El Centro, he strives to always do his best. He said the OneMain Financial Completion scholarship will help him finish his associate degree and then transfer to The University of Texas- Austin and major in Finance. "Then I plan to be financial analyst."
"I'm a current student at El Centro College completing the ultimate requirements to transfer to Baylor College of Dentistry or Texas Woman's University," said Rodriguez. "Your financial support has helped me tremendously to accomplish these requirements and be able to transfer fall of 2017. Because of this scholarship, Rodriguez was able to complete a week shadowing a dental hygienist.
The Completion Scholarship, funded by OneMain Financial and administered in five community colleges by reform leader Achieving the Dream, provides $3,000 to students who are close to finishing their degrees.
Figueroa was born in Mexico and came to the states at the age of three. He grew up speaking Spanish at home and English at school and is fluent in both languages. He also grew up loving to learn at school; his mother, whom he says is his biggest fan, enrolled him in the Head Start Program at a very young age and he quickly became a top student.
"Growing up in a traditional Mexican home where the father is the only bread winner, and mother the housewife, I had to face some hardships." By the age of eight, he began working with his dad every weekend from before sun up until after the sunset. Figueroa said his dad wanted him to know what laid ahead if he didn't get an education. "His whole purpose was to make me value an education, and I guess it did work."