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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
MPs reject badger cull pilots
25 October 2012
Last updated at 13:16 ET
MPs have voted against the government's policy of culling badgers in two pilot schemes in England.
It follows a highly-charged debate led by backbenchers in the Commons.
Ministers want to hold a pilot badger cull in two areas of the south west next year because badgers spread tuberculosis to cattle.
In a non-binding vote, MPs rejected the policy by 147 votes to 28, calling instead for vaccination, improved testing and bio security.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson told MPs it was "essential" the pilots go ahead next year and that they would be rolled out elsewhere if they were successful.
He said: "There will be time to prepare, there will be no hitches next year, we will deliver this policy."
The motion was tabled by backbenchers so is not binding on the government, but there have been widespread protests against the scheme.
Labour's shadow environment secretary said it was clear the "writing is on the wall" for the controversial plan.
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Ministers have given approval for a cull in two areas, Gloucestershire and west Somerset, as part of efforts to control bovine tuberculosis.
Under the plans, badgers will be shot in the open without first being trapped in cages which is current practice.
Opponents, including the RSPCA, say that is inhumane, with an e-petition to the government attracting more than 160,000 signatures.
The cull was originally planned to start earlier in the summer but was delayed until after the after the Olympics and Paralympics, with recent bad weather also hampering preparations.
A number of MPs spoke out against the plan, including Green MP Caroline Lucas who labelled the policy "ill-judged, unscientific and deeply unpopular".
She said: "We don't need any more trials or pilots. Scientists are queuing up to warn that badger culling is not the solution."
Labour's Barry Sheerman said Mr Paterson was simply "wrong" on the cull.
"These wonderful creatures roamed this country before we did, it's wrong because it's a destruction of tens of thousands of living animals and there is no scientific evidence it will do any good at all," he said.
'Absolutely devastating'However, others spoke out in favour of the plan.
Tory Gary Streeter, MP for South West Devon, said if the badger culls were not pursued next year the "impact on farmers' livelihoods would continue and also the impact on their mental health".
He said it was a "dreadful disease and it's extremely distressing for farmers to have to cope with it".
Daniel Kawczynski, Conservative MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, said he had seen a huge increase in the disease in his constituency.
He talked about the distress of farmers facing the slaughter of their cattle because of bovine tuberculosis.
"I don't mind saying that sometimes grown men and myself, we've sat round the table and cried," he said.
"When they see sometimes whole herds being taken away for slaughter, the impact that that has not just on themselves but also their families, particularly young children in that family, is absolutely devastating."
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MY COLONIAL HOME: Say prayers for my Niece and family
Say prayers for my Niece and family
Sorry to put this on my blog but I'm asking for prayers for my Niece Tina and her family. ?She's my brother's daughter.This afternoon a pickup truck pulled out in front of Tina and Mark and Mark died instantly.?Tina was flown by Flight For Life to Froedert Hospital with broken pelvis, broken ribs and will need plastic surgery on her face and many bruises.
They are a farm family - from a large family and will get much support from them as well as their 'farm families' in the area...they will not go unhelped in that sense -?but they will need prayers for Tina.
Mark on the left in Orange shirt, Krista in front, Angie in wheelchair, Jessica, Alex in back and Tina.
Know what else is sad...he finally has beaten Hodgkin Lymphoma...so sad.
Thank you everyone...this family is dear to me and so I ask for your prayers.
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Voting amendment foes mobilize college students to get out message
Opponents of the proposed voting amendment on Tuesday mobilized college students to hammer home its message: The ballot question is too expensive to implement and could significantly alter absentee balloting and end Election Day registration.
A group of student leaders from across the state joined Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak in front of Coffman Memorial Union at the University of Minnesota to condemn what they called an unnecessary amendment that would end Election Day registration?? crucial for many student voters ? and complicate absentee voting for transient college kids.
They also raised concerns that students might not be able to use college IDs as acceptable identification to vote.
?With all of these unintended consequences, what problem are we trying to solve?? Rybak asked. ?The Legislature needs to get this done ? send this back ? let?s not use our constitution to limit rights.?
If the amendment passes, the new Legislature then would have to draft enabling legislation to outline how it will be implemented. Opponents have seized on that uncertainty and urged voters to send the measure back to the Legislature to have all of its effects publicly aired and potential problems fixed.
?We can?t be sure just how many votes will be restricted if the Voter ID amendment passes because the Legislature has failed to provide any details about its associated enabling legislation, engaging, instead, in a ?trust us? game on this critical issue,? said professor Chris Cramer, a faculty leader at the U.
Taylor Williams, president of the U?s Minnesota Student Association, said funding the potentially costly amendment could go toward holding down tuition prices and making higher education more affordable.
?It?s time we put students in front of unnecessary constitutional amendments,? he said. ?We are a better investment than this law.?
But voting amendment advocates say the cost of any new system ? estimates vary wildly ? is worth clean elections. They insist that most aspects of voting in Minnesota will stay the same, despite opponents? doomsday predictions.
Rebecca Doepke, president of the U?s College Republicans, criticized student leaders for taking a stand against the ballot question. Statewide, she said, her group has been working with advocates to support the amendment.
?I personally don?t think it?s the place of student government to get involved in the amendment issues because they tend to be more partisan,? she said in an interview on Monday. ?Student government, like the U, ought to remain unpartisan and represent the student body as whole.?
Greta Bergstrom, a spokeswoman for the opposition groups, said after the event that it?s important to constantly engage the diverse constituencies that oppose the amendment.In the past the Our Vote Our Future coalition has highlighted the voting amendment?s potential consequences on seniors, local governments and the military.
?There?s so many complications, there?s so many consequences and the amendment would impact really different constituencies in different ways,? Bergstrom said.
With two weeks till Election Day, recent polls have shown the voting amendment?s popularity slipping. Our Vote Our Future released another broadcast TV advertisement on Tuesday that?s airing in the Twin Cities.
?Two weeks is an eternity in politics ? you have to remember we?ve also been on the phone for three months. We?ve talked to hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans, and the support is really soft and has been soft on this amendment,? she said. ?I think the TV ads are coming at the right time and helping to reinforce what a lot of Minnesotans have already been hearing.?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Blood Chromosome Differences are Linked to Pancreatic Cancer ...
Madison, Wisconsin -?A new study published today by scientists at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic shows that a blood marker is linked to pancreatic cancer.
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First author Dr. Halcyon Skinner, assistant professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, says the study is the first time pancreatic cancer risk has been linked to differences in telomeres? length in blood cells.
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?This suggests a new avenue to identify those with pancreatic cancer or those at risk of developing the cancer in the future,?? he says.
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Skinner?s colleagues at Mayo Clinic took blood samples from more than 1,500 people - 499 of them with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and 963 of them cancer-free control subjects. Specifically, the scientists were interested in the length of the telomeres - the end caps on chromosomes - found in white blood cells. They found a direct relationship with the risk of pancreatic cancer: the shorter the telomeres, the more likely a person was to have pancreatic cancer.
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Telomeres maintain the stability of genes, and are known to shorten with age as cells divide. People of the same chronological age can have vastly different telomere lengths. In other words, some people?s cells can by viewed as biologically older than cells from other people the same age.
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?We know that people with many factors that are classically unhealthy also tend to have shorter telomeres. ?Those who have had stressful lives, exposed to chronic inflammation, have poor glucose control or smoked cigarettes ?tend to have shorter telomeres, and that can set the stage for genetic damage," Skinner explains.
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Shortened telomeres in the blood have already been associated with other types of cancer, including colon cancer.
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?We found the same relationship with pancreatic cancer, and for the vast majority of our participants, there was a direct linear relationship,? he says, ?the shorter the telomere, the higher the likelihood of pancreatic cancer.?
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But because shorter telomere length is also associated with the development of other cancers and other diseases of aging, measurement of telomere length alone is not a specific marker for pancreatic cancer.
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Dr. Lisa A. Boardman, of Mayo Clinic, who led the overall study, says that future studies need to address if telomere length and other markers of pancreatic cancer should be combined to create a test that could be used clinically.
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Skinner and UW colleagues Ron Gangnon and Kristin Litzelman led the design and data analysis of the study. It is being published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Date Published: 10/23/2012
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The iPad mini vs. the competition: fight!
The traditional trail of inventory listings, leaked casings and internal components have teased us enough: it's finally time to get down to the nitty gritty specs, and see how Apple's latest (and daintiest) iPad shapes up to the competition. We've collected a trio of like-sized slabs to pit the device against, just for the fun of it. Read on to see how it stacks up against its peers.
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Brothel, funeral home bail out Greek football clubs
ATHENS (Reuters) - A brothel and a funeral home have become the newest benefactors of two cash-strapped Greek football clubs struggling to survive the country's economic crisis.
As Greece endures its worst slump since World War Two, thousands of businesses have closed, one in four is jobless and government funding for anything from health to sports is hard to come by.
So Yiannis Batziolas, chairman of the Voukefalas club that competes in the A1 amateur league, decided to turn to the local brothel owner for help.
"We had a very serious financial problem so I thought, why not?" Batziolas, who has managed the club since 2010, told Reuters from the team's home city of Larissa in central Greece.
Their new sponsor Soula Alevridou, a stocky 67-year-old woman who owns three luxury brothels, agreed to cover all costs and the players now flaunt pink shorts and T-shirts emblazoned with her brothels' logos, including "Villa Erotica".
"The players couldn't believe it at first but now they're happy about it," Batziolas said, estimating the club needs about 10,000 euros a year to survive.
"The first thing they said to me - half-joking, half-serious - was 'What kind of bonuses will we get?'" he added, laughing.
Voukefalas, named after the horse of Alexander the Great, is not the only ailing club to sign a deal with unconventional sponsors.
On Saturday Voukefalas, which is fighting a ban by local league organisers to wear the jerseys at matches, played against Hercules, a team sponsored by the All Day Bar, an escorts bar.
Further north in the city of Trikala, the Palaiopyrgos club - many of whose players still attend school - have signed a deal with a funeral home.
"For us it was a matter of survival," manager Lefteris Vassiliou told Greek radio, saying the team had not been able to secure any sponsorship since Europe's debt crisis erupted here three years ago.
Despite the macabre attire - black jerseys with the undertaker's logo and a large white cross down the middle - Vassiliou said the players had taken it well, and it had even given them an advantage over their opponents.
Recounting a recent match, he said: "The goalkeeper kept crossing himself, our competitors lost every play. It seems they were too scared to come near us."
(Editing by Rosalind Russell)
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Ace Hotel Share Their Philosophy and Preview Their New Reigning ...
Part of the success of Ace Hotel has been its refusal to adhere to any defined set of boundaries. Whether collaborating with fashion labels like wings + horns and Generic Surplus or with Uslu Airlines for it own line of nail polish, the company and its founders have reinvented ?hospitality? by focusing instead on full cultural experiences for its guests. Built around ?collaborations and friendships with local designers, artists and independent businesses,? each Ace Hotel location is unique and individual to its setting and ?residents.?We recently sat down with Alex Calderwood ? hotelier, ?cultural engineer? and co-founder of Ace Hotel Group ? to find out more about the company?s latest partnership with Reigning Champ, the CYC-owned label specializing in comfortable, well-made basics. Along the way, we found out more about the defining characteristics of Ace Hotel, the thinking behind its brand alignments and the future of the boutique chain.
Read the interview below and be sure to check out the new Ace Hotel x Reigning Champ items, available at the Ace Hotel online shop.
Can you introduce yourself?
My name?s Alex and I am a co-founder of Ace Hotel Group.
Ace Hotel has done a great job of bringing an added element to collaboration and user experience. What prompted Ace Hotel to go this route?
We like to work with people who are innovators in their field and create great things or ideas, and thus highlight their talents. Collaborations help satisfy a curiosity we have for how things work and how they?re made. It?s always a rewarding learning process to be able to have a dialogue with a person or a group of people who you genuinely admire.
What sort of brands do you see yourself aligning with most often?
Our alliances and creative unions tend to follow lines of common interests and mutual curiosity. It normally starts with either an existing friendship or a cup of coffee with someone. If it expands beyond that, it does so more or less organically. We think it?s important to let things unfold on their own.
Atelier Ace seems unparalleled in its approach to embracing in-house creatives for all things Ace Hotel. What?s the purpose and strategy of Atelier Ace?
Atelier Ace is the in-house studio for all Ace Hotels. The Atelier team handles cultural programming, marketing, concept and other aspects of interior design, brand relationships, social media, web design, graphic and textual identity. It?s also an incubator for ideas going forward, for both new and existing hotels and whatever else the future may hold. It?s a self-educating unit that works hard and dreams big.
How does Ace Hotel slot it amongst the increasingly competitive boutique hotel landscape? What makes it different from others?
We stand apart in the sense that we?re not locked into a set of parameters ? we have an idiosyncratic and dynamic definition of Ace, that really rests on ideas and not trends. While there?s a commonality of voice at all of our properties, each is inspired by its location ? city, neighborhood, building, community, history, and all the ineffable and immaterial elements that make a ?place.?
To what extent have you considered overseas Ace Hotels?
There are so many cities we?re in love with around the globe ? we?re excited about pursuing interesting buildings and good partnerships, and our ears and hearts are open to the right opportunities.
What factors into your strategy to entering new cities and locations?
The short answer is inspiration. It could be the context of location, the people, the history, the building. But something with a story that we can hopefully weave our own chapter into.
Your most recent collaboration involves Reigning Champ. What?s your working relationship with Craig and the guys over at CYC/RC?
We?ve been friends with Craig for years. In a past life, Craig and I worked on several projects together. Because there?s a history, the process is easy. We know each other, how we work and what each others? tastes are. And Reigning Champ makes beautiful, sturdy things. Ace?s first collaboration with Craig was actually with his other brand, wings + horns. We co-designed a bathrobe inspired by boxing robes that we hang in the rooms at Ace Hotel New York. They?re one of the most popular collaborations we?ve done ? a staple of the guest experience, and a top request on our online shop and from the front desk.
Given the perceived simplicity of Reigning Champ?s bread-and-butter fleece, how did you look to make your mark?
We took Reigning Champ?s classic sportswear and highlighted their construction with color contrast flat-lock stitching, custom labeling, and Ace touches like screen prints and patches inspired by vintage and new ideas.
What can we look forward to in the future from Ace Hotel?
Downtown Los Angeles. We?re opening up a new Ace in downtown LA on the site of the landmark United Artists Theater ? a beautiful example of Gothic Revival architecture built by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and company as the flagship of their upstart production company. It?s a place that?s teeming with history and inspiration and part of a broader project to revitalize downtown LA. We?re proud to be a part of it.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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Music and spoken word artists/lovers are invited to attend the Urban Projex Poetic-Artistic Showcase hosted by Harold Branch of HomeBase Poetry on November 18 at Hard Rock Cafe, 3 South 2nd Street, Phoenix. Doors open at 7pm.
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Featured acts: Kevin Daily from the late WordPlay Poetry, Shaikh Sammod, MysticBlu, Roosevelt Watts, Kafiah Winston, Nikki G, Vaughn SWIF Willis, Tomas Stanton, D. Fahie, Charles Levett, and IamJones!
With special guest performances from: Morris Alan, Mocha, Connie Muhammad, Art Hughes, Kaos!
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State-of-the-art beams from table-top accelerators
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) ? The rapidly evolving technology of laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) -- called "table-top accelerators" because their length can be measured in centimeters instead of kilometers -- promises a new breed of machines, far less expensive and with far less impact on the land and the environment than today's conventional accelerators.
Future LPAs offer not only compact high-energy colliders for fundamental physics but diminutive light sources as well. These will probe chemical reactions, from artificial photosynthesis to "green catalysis"; unique biological structures, inaccessible to other forms of microscopy yet essential to understanding life and health; and new materials, including low-temperature superconductors, topological insulators, spintronics devices, and graphene nanostructures, which will revolutionize the electronics industry. With intensely bright beams spanning the spectrum from microwaves to gamma rays, table-top accelerators will open new vistas of science.
LOASIS, the Laser and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), demonstrated the first LPA beams with a narrow spread of energies in 2004, and by 2006 was first to reach energies of a billion electron volts. But because of their unique method of acceleration and their pulses only femtoseconds long (mere quadrillionths of a second), testing the quality of LPA beams isn't easy.
Wim Leemans of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) heads LOASIS, which has continued to extend and improve LPA performance with teams uniting theorists, experts in computer simulation, and gifted experimentalists -- teams in which students earning their Ph.D's are often important contributors to the work. Leemans assigned Guillaume Plateau, a graduate of the ?cole Polytechnique near Paris (and now a postdoc at the University of California at Los Angeles) to investigate radiation associated with LPA x?ray production as part of his dissertation.
"We had a grant to study laser plasma accelerators as x?ray and gamma-ray light sources, and we wanted to know more about background radiation," Leemans says. "In a serendipitous development, we found more than we had expected."
The LPA measurement challenge
The conventional way of accelerating charged particles like electrons is with an oscillating electromagnetic field, controlled by metal vacuum cavities that make up the segments of the accelerator. The oscillations are timed so the field pulls the electrons forward as they enter each cavity; the field strength is the "accelerating gradient," expressed as volts (typically millions of volts) per meter. Conventional accelerators may require many segments and stretch for miles.
A laser plasma accelerator works very differently. When a powerful laser focuses a pulse on a plasma of free electrons and positive ions, its radiation pressure pushes the electrons and ions apart, creating strong accelerating gradients. Some of the electrons "surf" the resulting wave behind the pulse, in a bunch that almost instantaneously reaches near light-speed. Over short distances, LPAs have sustained accelerating gradients of hundreds of billions of volts per meter, immensely stronger than those of conventional accelerators.
An LPA's intense laser pulses and short electron bunches require new measurement techniques to understand performance. One particularly challenging gauge of performance is emittance.
"This parameter determines how well the beams can be focused," says Cameron Geddes of LOASIS, who worked with Plateau on the experiment. "Low emittance means the velocity of the particles isn't random -- they travel nearly along streamlines."
When the experiment began, however, emittance wasn't at the center of attention. Says Leemans, "Since we wanted to get images of the x-ray pulses associated with the electron beam, we formed a collaboration with colleagues at GSI" -- Germany's Center for Heavy Ion Research -- "who came to Berkeley with an excellent commercial camera. We were impressed by what we could see, so we asked ourselves what more we could do with these images."
Marco Battaglia of the Lab's Engineering Division then supplied a more advanced camera, using rugged, sensitive Berkeley Lab CCDs, which yielded even better information. Says Leemans, "We were not the first to image LPA x?rays, but because of the quality of the new cameras, we were able to measure the x-ray spectrum in detail. From that we worked backward to see what we could learn about the electron bunch."
Geddes explains that emittance can be measured as the product of the beam size and its angle of spread (divergence). Traditional methods for measuring emittance use devices like "pepper-pots" or wire scanners, placed right in the accelerator beam -- which can destroy a low-emittance beam. And with an LPA, the powerful drive laser can destroy the diagnostic devices themselves.
The LOASIS team could measure the energy and dispersion of the LPA electron bunch by deflecting it with magnets, then dumping it. But to determine emittance, they had to measure the size of the beam before it left the accelerator. X-ray spectroscopy gave them the means.
"With x-ray imaging we had a way to measure beam quality right inside the plasma, where the laser wakefield is accelerating the electron bunch," says Geddes. That's because the x-rays are a manifestation of what's called betatron radiation, generated by electrons inside the accelerating "bubble" that trails immediately behind the laser pulse. As the electrons gather in the bubble they swing back and forth. This betatron oscillation emits a forward-directed throb of x-rays -- tight, bright, and ultrashort.
The laser beam, the electron beam, and the x-rays all travel in the same direction. To measure the x-rays without interference, the experimenters first dumped the electron beam and then deflected the laser beam with a mirrored foil. The x-ray pulse passed through the foil to the CCD camera, which was capable of counting every x-ray photon and measuring its energy. Although the camera was almost five meters from the accelerator, the spectrum of the tight betatron pulse it captured carried the information necessary to determine the beam radius.
"By comparing their x-ray spectra to theoretical predictions, we pegged the electron beams in these experiments at a radius of 0.1 micrometer, a tenth of a millionth of meter," Geddes says. "This is smaller than any previous experiment could resolve, allowing us to estimate the emittance across the beam -- in terms of how far the momentum of the particles spreads within an angular slice of the beam -- to be as low as 0.1 millimeter per thousandth of a radian."
Geddes adds, "This transverse emittance is as good as state-of-the-art conventional accelerators for free electron lasers and gamma-ray sources, if not yet high enough for a high-energy collider. Our numerical simulations show us that emittance depends on specific ways in which the electrons are trapped in the wave, which opens the door to further reducing emittance."
There are other measures of LPA beam quality that also depend on special radiation but leave their mark outside the accelerator. In Part Two of this article, coming soon, we'll investigate the phenomenon of slice-energy spread in an electron beam.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Dogtober Fest, Black Cat Ball, Muttmixer and other pet events | Tails ...
Give your brain a workout at Dogtober Fest's trivia contest, flex some leg muscles at Woof Woof Walk and Dawg Dash or get gussied up in a costume for one of the other pet events happening this month.
Planning to add a pet to your home? See the adoption specials.
Got a pet event? Send information to tailsofseattle@seattletimes.com.
Dogtober Fest: 2-6 p.m. Oct. 20, Anchor Pub, 1001 Hewitt Ave., Everett. Test your beer and dog trivia knowledge at this event benefiting Scrub-a-Mutt and Everett's Animal Rescue Foundation (ARF). There will be a "whose dog?" photo contest, prizes and food. Must be 21 or over. Dogs welcome outside (weather pemitting).
http://www.everettarf.org/ and http://www.scrub-a-mutt.org/
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Woof Woof Walk: 9 a.m.-noon Oct. 20, Spanaway Park, 14905 Gus G. Bresemann Road S. (Military Road and Pacific Avenue), Spanaway. Walk, other activities and vendors at lakeside park. Registration is $20 for the first dog, $5 for second dog. T-shirts are $10. Food and blanket donations encouraged.
http://www.co.pierce.wa.us/pc/abtus/ourorg/parks/woofwalk.htm
Wildcard Weekend: 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 20, Central Washington Humane Society, 2405 W. Birchfield Road,Yakima. Microchip ID and vaccination clinic for pets. Adoption fees are reduced to $30 for dogs and $5 for cats all month.
http://www.yakimahumane.org/
Apple Day and Mutt Strut Dog Parade & Costume Contest: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 20, Historic Bayview Corner, Whidbey Island. Event features food, fun and dogs in costume.
http://bayviewfarmandgarden.com/2012/09/28/its-time-once-again-for-apple-day-and-mutt-strut/
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Dawg Dash: 7:30 a.m. Oct. 21, University of Washington. Dog-friendly event with a 10K run and 5K run/walk. There also is a Husky Pups run for kids. This year's event is on the UW's upper campus. Check-in starts at 7:30 a.m. The 10K and 5K start at 9 a.m. For a complete schedule and parking details, see the website.
http://www.promotionevents.com/dawgdash/default.asp
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The art work for the 15th annual Black Cat Ball poster and catalog was created by Aki Sogabe. This year's event is Oct. 27. Aki Sogabe / Courtesy of Purrfect Pals???
Black Cat Ball: Oct. 27, Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue. Halloween-themed gala includes a gourmet vegetarian sit-down dinner and auctions. The event benefits Purrfect Pals, a no-kill sanctuary that provides foster and hospice care for homeless cats. Tickets: $100.
http://www.purrfectpals.org/About/NewsAndEvents/CurrentEvents/BCB.asp
Howl-at-the-Moon Muttmixer: 6-8 p.m. Oct. 30, Woodmark Hotel, 1200 Carillon Point, Kirkland. Costume contest, treats for tricks and swag bags. RSVP to rsvp@citydogmagazine.com with the number of people and dogs planning to attend.
http://www.citydogmagazine.com/ and http://www.thewoodmark.com/
Fee Free Felines: Through Oct. 31. Regional Animal Services of King County, Pet Adoption Center 21615 64th Ave. S., Kent. The $55 adoption fee for cats six months and older is being waived this month. The cats are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, tested for feline leukemia and have microchip IDs. Adopted cats go home with a starter bag of food and a certificate for a free veterinary wellness exam, courtesy of the Seattle/King County Veterinary Medical Association.
http://www.kingcounty.gov/safety/regionalAnimalServices/News/2012/October/02NoFeeCatAdoptions.aspx
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Children Like Spicy Red Cheetos; Schools Don'tYour Health Journal ...
From The New York Times?..
School districts in three states are waging a battle against a spicy snack that is so laden with artificial ingredients it leaves a trail of red fingerprints behind.
The chips in question, Flamin? Hot Cheetos, are scarlet-red, exceedingly spicy and enormously popular. Multiple fan pages with thousands of followers have sprung up on Facebook, and a rap video about hot Cheetos ? created by children ? has nearly 3.5 million views on YouTube.
But some school districts say the chips are too high in calories, salt and fat, and too spicy for most children. Teachers and parents have complained that the artificial coloring has children leaving behind bright red fingerprints in their classrooms and on their clothing. And emergency room doctors say they have seen patients complaining of stomach pain after eating hot Cheetos, and they warn that eating the chips in excess ? because of the bright food dye they contain ? may cause discolored stool that can lead to unnecessary hospital visits.
In Pasadena, Calif., a principal at an elementary school told a local news station that the chips would be confiscated from any student who brings them to school. In New Mexico, students at the Lyndon B. Johnson Middle School in Albuquerque were sent home with a letter telling parents not to let their children bring Flamin? Hot Cheetos to school. The letter said that the snack lacks nutritional value and creates a mess for janitors, and that students eat it instead of a healthy lunch. The letter also noted that the chips are shared among students, spreading germs.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
NASA C-20A completes radar study of Pacific Rim volcanoes
ScienceDaily (Oct. 19, 2012) ? NASA's Airborne Science C-20A aircraft, carrying a specialized synthetic aperture radar, recently completed a mission to study active volcanoes in Alaska, Aleutian Islands and Japan in early October.
The aircraft, a modified version of the Gulfstream III business jet, made 10 flights totaling more than 50 hours during the eight-day campaign. The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed and operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, collected 60 of 61 planned data lines.
UAVSAR provides a measurement system that complements satellite-based observations by providing rapid revisits and imaging of active volcanoes to better understand their deformation prior to, during or after an eruption.
The flight path took the aircraft north from California, imaging the volcanoes of the Western United States, en route to an overnight stay at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska.
After departing Elmendorf, the NASA aircraft imaged volcanoes in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands before arriving at Yokota Air Base near Tokyo, Japan. Yokota was the staging location for science missions that collected data about volcanoes on several islands in Japan that pose a hazard to nearby populations.
Working closely with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), three volcano-imaging flights were flown from Yokota over various volcano and disaster monitoring sites throughout Japan between Oct. 5 and 8. The aircraft repeated the outbound routing during the return flights to its home base at the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.
John McGrath, C-20A project manager at NASA Dryden, said a mission of this complexity faced numerous challenges.
"Preparation has been ongoing since May," McGrath commented. "We had tremendous support from both Elmendorf and Yokota air bases and our colleagues at JAXA."
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Syrian opposition skeptical of 'feeble' ceasefire plan
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A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country
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By Charlene Gubash, NBC News
United Nations peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi hopes to persuade Syria?s President Bashar al-Assad to comply with a four-day truce during the Muslim holiday marking the Hajj, which begins Oct. 25, but many in the opposition remain skeptical about his plan.??
Brahimi, who arrived in the capital Damascus on Friday afternoon, will meet Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem on Saturday morning, said the U.N. spokesman in Damascus, Khaled al-Masri. He did not say whether the envoy would meet Assad.
"We will talk about the ceasefire and the Syrian issue in general. It is important to decrease the violence - we will talk with the government and political parties and civil society about the Syrian issue," Brahimi told reporters upon arrival.
The violence showed no sign of abating, with opposition activists reporting heavy street clashes in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, and intensified army bombing of towns along the strategic north-south highway. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby backed a ceasefire. "The longer the violence lasts, the more difficult it will be to find a political solution and rebuild Syria," they said in a joint statement.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called for all sides to observe the three- or four-day ceasefire.
"It is important that the Syrian regime, which bombards its own people with fighter planes and helicopters, halts these attacks immediately and unconditionally," Davutoglu said in Ankara.
Iran also backed the ceasefire call but added that the main problem in Syria was foreign interference - a reference to support for the rebels by Gulf Arab states, the United Sates and other Western powers, and Turkey.
"We consider the establishment of an immediate ceasefire an important step in helping the Syrian people," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian said, as quoted by Mehr news agency.
"Syria has taken important steps against terrorism and foreign interference and is pursuing political reforms and the security of the country."
Most opposition forces doubt Syria will comply with what they see as another toothless initiative. The largest opposition group, the Syrian National Council, has thrown its support behind the initiative but will hold the Syrian government responsible for any violation.?
?The last time [a cease fire was agreed upon], the Syrians [who support Assad] violated it the first day. I hope this time they will respect it,? says Khaled Khoja, council representative and spokesman in Turkey. ?I hope this time they will accept it, allow people to express their ideas peacefully, release prisoners and withdraw their forces from cities.?
Although Khoja says the Free Syrian Army, an umbrella organization for defected soldiers and armed opposition, has conditionally accepted the truce, its fighters will respond if attacked first by Syrian government forces. Khoja, like many in the opposition, worries that the initiative will fail because there is no penalty to compel the regime to observe the ceasefire.???
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?There must be a mechanism in order to make the Syrian regime comply. If there is no mechanism, the Syrian regime will continue to do the same.?
Rafif Jouejati, the Washington, D.C. based spokeswoman for the Local Coordination Committees, the largest activist network inside Syria, believes the truce is destined to fail.
?It is a feeble attempt by the international community that has no timeline, no consequences for failure to observe it, no consequences for continued bombardment. Since there are no consequences, any plan will fail and [Assad] will continue to kill civilians. It carries the same weight as a U.N. condemnation," she said.
U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is calling for a four-day cease-fire in Syria next week to mark a Muslim holy day. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
"Unless there are actual consequences, it is meaningless. I have relayed messages to Brahimi from the protesters: ?Welcome to Syria on your mission impossible. Why didn?t you send Tom Cruise?? It is an insult to the people who go out everyday and brave the bombing and bullets.?
Syrian government forces strike rebel held towns
Jouejati said this was the fourth attempt at brokering a ceasefire deal. ?Assad has proven he is not going to look for political solutions. He has confirmed it through word and deed and will continue his security solution.??
A Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, doubts Brahimi?s ability to influence armed elements, whether they're on the opposition or government side. Brahimi cannot control Jebhat al Nusri, a jihadist militia, said director Rami Abdulrahman. ?"He cannot control what is happening on the ground," Abdulrahman said. "He doesn?t know how many Syrian troops are on the ground.?
More than 30,000 people have been killed over 19 months in the intensifying conflict.
More weapons in Syria could trigger 'all-out war'
There is little agreement among the many armed rebel militias who are temporarily unified by the desire to topple Assad. Although the Free Syrian Army reportedly supports the truce, a senior commander in Daraa, a Syrian city on the border with Jordan and the starting point of the revolution, told the British Guardian newspaper, ?Brahimi?s proposal for a truce is stillborn.?
?His project does not have any hope. Even if [exiled FSA leader] Riad al Assad accepts the truce, we will not. We will continue to fight," Staff Col. Ahmad Fahd al-Nimah, commander of the military council in Daraa, told the Guardian. "We represent those fighting on the ground in Syria. No one outside Syria can tell us what to do.??
An activist reached by phone in the same city told NBC News the people in the streets of Syria do not accept the ceasefire. Da?il, who gives only his first name for security purposes, believes the regime will use the ceasefire to fortify military positions.?
?Before, when the Arab League and U.N. sent in peacekeeping observers, peaceful protesters were still being shot at. How can there be a ceasefire now, when there is nobody on the ground to observe it? No way will it work. Right now there is a roadblock with a sniper in front of me. If I walk out I will get shot. There is no way to stop the fighting. It is going on all the time,? he said.?
Da?il went on to express the public?s cynicism toward the initiative: ?There is a local saying here: If somebody tries something and fails, he is crazy if he tries the same thing again.??
Reuters contributed to this report.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Internet Marketing ? Why Launch Platforms Right Before Campaigns?
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Determining to buy property is a big stage. Don?t consider that phase without understanding the earth you?ll be adding your ft . on. This article?s information and facts need to provide you with a little bit of forewarning concerning the situations you?ll get if you purchase real estate property. Educate yourself further more to get with more self confidence and obtain even better discounts.
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