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By Tim Gaynor

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Crews with hand tools battled to contain wind-whipped Arizona wildfires on Wednesday that have raced across more than 30 square miles of parched ponderosa forest, brush and grassland, consuming several buildings and threatening a small town.

The Sunflower Fire, the largest of at least four blazes in central and eastern Arizona, has burned nearly 20 square miles (52 square kilometers) in the Tonto National Forest, about 40 miles north of Phoenix, fire officials said.

Days after the weekend eruption of the blaze, fire crews had managed to carve containment lines around just 10 percent of its perimeter.

This week’s conflagrations marked the first major wildfires of the year in Arizona, after a record 2011 fire season in which nearly 2,000 recorded blazes swallowed more than 1,500 square miles, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

The fires left a translucent veil of gray-brown smoke over the northeast Phoenix valley, obscuring views of nearby highlands where the blazes were burning.

About 350 residents of Crown King in central Arizona remained under evacuation orders after another blaze, the fast-moving Gladiator Fire, burned nearly 9 square miles (22 square kilometers) of ponderosa pine, brush and chaparral in the Prescott National Forest and destroyed several buildings.

Fanned by strong winds and dry weather, the Gladiator Fire also threatened homes in the Horsethief Basin area, as well as U.S. [More]

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Check out today’s pricing and retail availability for San Luis Obispo Syrah.

By way of background, opening thoughts: Here’s a relatively high alcohol, but reputedly lighter-bodied syrah than others you may find from, say, California or Australia. 

Original tasting and review : This is Marmesa Vineyards Cerro Romauldo Syrah, San Luis Obispo, Central Coast, California, 2006, finished at 14.5% alcohol.

In the glass: Medium deep red/purple.

On the nose: Poured cool with a brief decant and swirled vigorously, shows soft, just lightly funky and fruity.  From the aroma, seems like this will be mild and balanced.

On the palate: The primary elements on the palate are in fact full purple with inky fruit on the nose – to me a bit more reminiscent of the warmer climate merlots than a Central Coast syrah.  There is some nice black pepper and a certain tannin “grab” that surrounds the somewhat simple center fruit, however, and brings this to a more interesting place.  It may, in fact, decant well.  Finish is quite clean and shows red fruit.

In summary: Overall, rates three stars on the five-star Spirit of Wine scale, with a plus for its persistent power, suggestive of promise for the future.  Makes good value status.

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Scientists in Australia have discovered a molecule in the brain, called fractalkine, that could help protect against dementia. The brain produces more of the molecule during excercise, which stimulates the growth of new cells associated with memory.

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Cantina Antinori, Cortona, Italia

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A 14-year old girl was killed when police forces evicted a rural village in Cambodia. The case highlights the growing land disputes in the country and the use of violence by government forces to stifle dissent Written by Mong Palatino · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter ·…

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Aaliyah Aaron Carter Aaron Eckhart Aaron Kamin Aaron Paul

1. Our immune system may be like those small bands of Japanese ?holdout? soldiers after World War II. Not knowing that the war was over, they hid for years, launching guerrilla attacks on peaceful ?villages.

2. With our living environment well scrubbed of germs, our body?s immune ?soldiers? mistakenly fire on innocent peanuts and cat dander.

5. Most food allergies result from an immune response to a protein. In 2004 a team at Trinity College Dublin tried to counter that reaction by injecting mice with parasites, giving the animals? immune systems the sort of threat they evolved to fight, thus distracting them from the food proteins.

6. The experiment worked.

7. Excited by such findings, in 2007 British-born entrepreneur Jasper Lawrence flew to Cameroon and walked barefoot near some latrines. His aim was to acquire hookworms, which he hoped would defeat his asthma and seasonal allergies.

8. That worked too.

9. Lawrence has since started a business shipping the parasites worldwide (but not here, where the FDA prohibits it). For $3,000, customers receive up to 35 hookworm larvae…

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By Ruairidh Villar

TOKYO (Reuters) – After Penguin Number 337 made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay two months ago, many feared the worst for the adventurous feathered fugitive.

But the one-year-old Humboldt penguin has now popped up on video footage in a different part of the bay, frolicking in the water and apparently healthy.

The penguin, still too young to determine whether it is male or female and thus known only by a number, scaled a rock wall four meters (13 ft) high and squeezed through a barbed wire fence to escape its harborside aquarium in March.

“You can see it’s got the same ring around its flipper and identical facial patterns,” said Kazuhiro Sakamoto, deputy director of the Tokyo Sea Life Park, when shown footage of the tubby escapee taken by Japan’s Coast Guard.

“It didn’t look like it has gotten thinner over the past two months, or been without food. [More]

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You never know.

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2010 Plush Reserve Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, Oregon 2-Pack

• Varietal: 100% Pinot Noir
• American Viticulture Area: Willamette Valley
• Start of Harvest: October 18, 2010
• Sweetness at Harvest: 22.6º Brix
• Clone Name: Pommard, Wädenswil and assorted Dijon clones
• Alcohol by Volume: 12.9%
• pH: 3.61
• Titratable acidity : 5.25 g/L
• Residual Sugar: 0.16 g/L
• Cases Produced: 2516

Bright garnet in color with a purple tint. Offering aromas of black cherry, cranberry, raspberry, spice, and new leather. A rich essence of fresh Bing cherries, pomegranate, blueberry with hints of cola, oak and anise. Beautifully crafted and very polished. This wine has a proportioned tannic backbone, bright acidity and an appealing silky finish. It will benefit from another year in the bottle but is very approachable now. Drink through 2016.

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• Wine sold by winery
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• If you’re drunk when the package shows up, you will not be allowed to receive it
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• We highly recommend you use a business address as your shipping address

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If your state’s not on the list, you’re out of luck… for now. Keep up with the ever-changing laws over at ShipCompliantBlog.com, and/or sound the alarms with your state assembly person through FreeTheGrapes.org. Meanwhile, all Federal, state and local laws are complied with in providing this wine.

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Al Franken Al Jean Al Jourgensen Al Joyner Al Pacino

For companies that participated in the Dept of Commerce’s investigation the preliminary tariffs are roughly 31%, and much higher for those that didn’t.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/united-states-slaps-tariffs-chinese-solar-power-modules.html

Albert Finney Albert Hughes Alec Baldwin Alec Mapa Alejandro Amenabar

Unscientific opinion polls can be forgiven. Misrepresenting the facts to potentially put cyclists in danger cannot

Earlier this week the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) issued a press release headlined, “More than half of cyclists jump red lights”, claiming 57% of cyclists had jumped a red light at least once. The figure came from a poll on the IAM website to which many cyclists had responded, encouraged by tweets and cycling forums to add their experience.

Unusually, BikeBiz.com, an industry newsletter, and the Guardian broke an embargo to publicly criticise the IAM and its statistics in advance of publication by the rest of the media. Reaction across cycling forums and Twitter was quick to condemn the validity of the IAM’s figures and to question the organisation’s motives and integrity.

I’m trying hard to see this debacle as a case of good intentions gone horribly wrong rather than a case of the the IAM deliberately playing fast and loose with statistics and using cyclists as the bait to catch some red top headlines.

I’m also struggling to resist schadenfreude because, as a professional pollster, I normally at least allow myself a wry smile when poor research gets outed and usually laugh out loud when this type of home-cooked, half-baked poll falls flat.

I’m trying not to gloat because even though I’m both a researcher and a cyclist, I’m finding it difficult to put the IAM in the same sentence as the phrase “fast and loose”. In my mind, the IAM are sticklers, an organisation of cardiganed uncles driving within the speed limit, hands at ten to two and able to stop well within the necessary distance. Hardly the type of people to take chances and act with any reckless disregard.

I’m struggling because I know from working with him on research projects for Road Safety Scotland and the Scottish government that Neil Greig, the IAM’s director of policy and research, is a decent man, committed to improving road safety, who gives good advice.

But I’m also pretty angry with the IAM, for this reason: I am one of their 57%. I picked up the tweets, I read about the survey on my local cycling forum, and I filled it in, wanting to add my experiences thinking, as I suspect many others did, that it would add, in some way, to the calls for improvements in cycling provision.

I’m not angry because I’ve only just found out that this type of poll is not a carefully crafted and systematically sampled survey of the cycling and motoring population. I’ve designed those and I know they don’t involve tweeting your mates and sending them to a website where you can complete the survey as many times as you like.

I’m not even angry because the IAM used the results for publicity. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Who doesn’t these days, especially when newspapers will recycle press releases with barely an amendment?

But this one is different. First, because it misrepresents me personally and many people like me. People who ride day in, day out, carefully doing what it takes to get to work on time and home alive. I am one of the 57% although my particular red light is part of Edinburgh’s tram works and simply fails to detect a cyclist. You either ride through it or sit there until a car comes along. At 7.15am that could take a long time.

Second, I am angry because in spite of all the weaknesses in this type of uncontrolled, self-selecting, online polling, the real dodge was to accumulate the frequent, sometimes, rarely and “once or twice” and include them all in the “over half of cyclists” headline. With this sleight of hand sensible manoeuvres and distant misdemeanours are turned into a current habit and whatever subsequent explanations follow, what sticks is that 57% of cyclists jump red lights.

But most importantly, I am angry with IAM because while most of these polls are silly PR fluff, this particular example is potentially dangerous. Many cyclists already feel that they are treated with contempt by drivers and that their safety is compromised on Britain’s clogged and poorly designed roads. Distorting the data and giving the impression of cyclists as serial lawbreakers has real potential to bring those wing mirrors a little bit closer, make the abuse a little louder and the cutting up a little more life threatening.

The reality is that cyclists are being killed on Britain’s roads to an extent that has motivated thousands of cyclists to campaign for better safety. IAM members, who represent the antithesis of the driving that cyclists experience everyday, should be cyclists’ allies. The organisation had been making genuine attempts to contribute to improving safety.

One can only wonder what happened when the release was written but in what seems like a momentary lapse in concentration, the trust that saw cyclists help IAM’s polling efforts has been thrown away. A familiar story: cyclists hurt because someone wasn’t paying attention.

? Steven Hope regularly cycles between his home in Fife and his job as managing director of Ipsos Mori’s office in Edinburgh. He writes in a personal capacity

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2012/may/18/iam-red-light-survey-cyclist

Adrian Alonso Adrian Grenier Adrian Lyne Adrian Pasdar Adriana Barraza

Paul Symington was officially crowned as Decanter’s 2012 Man of the Year at an intimate dinner in London last night.

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Adam Rodriguez Adam Sandler Adam Scott Adam Shankman Addison Timlin

Point a camera at a particular patch of sky for more than 50 hours and what do you get? This image of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light years away:

New image of Centaurus A. See bottom of post for link to bigger version. Credit: ESO

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By Yoganonymous

Happy July 4th Weekend!

July 4th is always an exciting time to celebrate – perhaps even the pinnacle of the summer! Even though we know there is a lot going on this weekend, we suggest making some time for at least a little bit of yoga – it will keep you feeling good and healthy, even if you do go a bit overboard on the tofu dogs and organic brews. Check out some of our favorite events going down on this glorious weekend of independence – July 4th, 2011!

Don?t see events listed in your city? Want to submit an event of your own? Email us at Submissions@yoganonymous.org and let us know the deal!

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Watkins Glen, NY

Friday, July 1st – Sunday, July 3rd

We are just so freakin’ excited for this one – Super Ball IX – Phish’s 3 days festival in Watkins Glen, NY!

Don’t worry friends, we didn’t forget the yoga – our good friend Chris Calarco will be teaching his ‘Phish Yoga’ on-site, and we will be there supporting him and holding it down! Phish Yoga is aligned vinyasa yoga with heart set to the sonic spectrum of live Phish. The connections between Phish and Yoga are more than meets the eye! Join us!

Class Times: Friday, July 1st & Sunday July 3rd |  1:30pm – 2:30pm

Click here for the Full Scoop!

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Boulder, CO

Monday, July 4th

Head on over to Om Time Yoga on the morning of July 4th (10am – 11:30am) for Fire Cracker Flow with Gina Caputo, and celebrate your independence!

Embody a celebration of FREEDOM in this creative and dynamic Prana Flow® 4th of July class with a firecracker of a teacher. We will explore several vinyasa waves of multi-dimensional sequences that unfold intelligently to ignite your inner sparkler! Through fluid namaskars, hip openers, arm balances and backbends we?ll light up our agility, fearlessness and sense of Self to start summer with a festive, pranic BANG! Appropriate for all injury-free yogis interested in having a blast.

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Lenox, MA

Sunday, July 3rd – Friday, July 8th

This Sunday kicks-off Shiva Rea’s Prana Flow Energetic Vinyasa Summer Immersion at Kripalu! This program is for teachers and students of yoga, bodywork, dance, and flow arts.

Whether this is your introduction to Prana Flow or you are a Prana Flow teacher, this week-long transformational gathering will give you tools to enhance your life-flow. Drawing from tantra, bhakti yoga, Ayurveda, Kalarippayatu (Indian martial arts), and Shiva Rea?s 20 years of teaching experience, this workshop will liberate your life force to express in body, heartfire, voice, creativity, relationships, vision, and action.

Click here for the Full Scoop!

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New York, NY

Saturday, July 2nd – Monday, July 4th

Get your HUG on with Amma at the Roseland Ballroom on Saturday, July 2nd and at the Manhattan Center on July 3rd and 4th!

For the past 35 years Amma has dedicated her life to easing our suffering humanity through a simple hug. Her gentle yet powerful embrace has soothed more than 25 million souls all over the world. She believes that in this universe, it is love that binds everything together.

Click here for the Full Scoop!

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Singapore

Friday, July 1st – Sunday, July 3rd

Join Brock and Krista Cahill at Pure Yoga in Singapore for iFly!

Balance Your Life! (bala)nce yoga is Brock & Krista?s blend of inversional vinyasa flow ? bala is a Sanskrit word meaning strength. Therefore, in this practice, we use our strength to create balance.

What a wonderful way to use your power to cultivate harmony, clarity, grace and peace. Expect to spend a good deal of your time upside-down or in an arm balance, challenging gravity and using your roots to find wings.

Click here for the Full Scoop!

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Wishing you a safe and spectacular 4th of July weekend!

With LOVE,

YOGANONYMOUS

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A.C. Green A.J. Buckley A.J. Trauth AJ McLean AJ Michalka

‘How are we ? after 30 years of being warned about impending disaster ? still working at a level at which an 11mm tweak to a cardboard tube can be lauded as any kind of triumph?’

Do you know that “Did I miss a memo?” feeling? You know, the one when someone says something so stupid or self-evidently untrue that you look up and down and round, open-mouthed, before mentally giving up and assuming that you must have missed a vital step in proceedings somehow. I get it about a thousand times a day, but never more strongly than when a new corporate green initiative is trumpeted.

Sainsbury’s, for example, recently announced it was reducing the size of its loo rolls’ inner tubes. Less cardboard, you see, and fewer lorries transporting smaller packages means fewer carbon emissions polluting the atmosphere. Praise for the company’s ecological awareness duly flooded in.

I’m sorry, did I miss a memo? Specifically, did I miss a memo saying, “Great news just in, world population! We have made such brilliant, unexpected and entirely unpublicised leaps in combating global warming, reversing the rising tides and inventing perfect, totally harmless substitutes for irreplaceable resources that all we’ve got left to do is a quick nip-and-tuck on loo rolls. The rainforest is saved! All known species have unendangered themselves! China’s agreed to knock all that economic superpower stuff on the head and go back to subsistence-level farming, while the Americans have agreed that it’ll be nothing but tofu burgers from sea to shining sea from now on. And everyone has agreed to stop, literally and metaphorically, fracking about. Hurrah!”

My point is: how are we ? after 30 years of being warned about impending disaster ? still working at a level at which an 11mm tweak to a cardboard tube can be lauded as any kind of triumph?

I haven’t used an aerosol of any kind since 1985 when I first heard about CFCs (remember them?) leading to holes in the ozone layer, more UV rays and polar icecaps melting and ? in what I appreciated even then as a notable irony ? washing away the parched corpses strewn across a baking land. It spooked me then, and now ? as I watch actual film footage of actual polar bears stranded on disintegrating ice floes on warming waters, turning the nightmare into literal, visible fact ? it terrifies me.

Why does it not, seemingly, terrify the powers that be? While we all do our piddling, insignificant, individual bit, they do nothing. Nothing compared with what they could be doing, nothing compared with what they should be doing.

We should ? as we stare down the barrel of a catastrophic two-degree and more likely we-need-a-new-word-for-catastrophic four-degree rise in worldwide temperatures ? be at this level: unquestioned rule by green despots charged with saving this planet from becoming a spinning ball of dust. Carbon rationing. National service for all, laying the ground- and pipework for a national water grid (through which shall be pumped H2O laced with iron, to replace the meat we can no longer have, and contraception to stop the children we can no longer support). Coupon books issued at birth for all other goods, worked out according to a highly detailed but essentially simple equation that boils down to this: finite resources left divided by number of people left over number of years remaining species would like to live.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/may/18/lucy-mangan-saving-world-toilet-rolls

Amber Heard Amber Sainsbury Amber Smith Amber Tamblyn Amber Valletta

DOWNERS GROVE TOWNSHIP, Ill. — With current battery systems reaching their performance limits, researchers are scrutinizing every component of lithium-ion cells in order to develop energy storage mechanisms that can make electric vehicles better competitors to fossil-fueled engines.

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Filed under: In The News

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Just because the folks next door are drug dealers doesn’t mean they’re bad parents.

In fact, researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children say the children of couples who operate marijuana grow rooms are often extremely healthy, physically and emotionally. And they rarely use illegal drugs.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports researchers question whether parents caught growing marijuana should automatically lose custody of their children.

“After examining 75 of the kids over several years, we came to very clear conclusions that a vast majority of these kids are doing well — well fed, well kept, doing well in school and developing well,” lead researcher Gideon Koren of the University of Toronto tells the CBC. “Taking a small child from his or her parents in a well-adapted environment causes fear, anxiety, confusion and sadness.”

Traditional procedure in Toronto, the network reports, has been to remove children from homes where illegal marijuana operations have been discovered and place the kids in foster care.

Patrick Lake, executive director of York Region Children’s Aid Society, tells the CBC child welfare workers have learned more about the effects marijuana growing operations have on children since 2006, and have changed how they maintain the children’s safety.

“We have developed a more customized and comprehensive process to determine best response, on a case-by-case basis, while looking for ways to safely maintain children with their parents or relatives,” Lake says.

Koren tells the CBC he hopes Canadian authorities will see the children of pot growers a little differently after his study.

“When police and children’s aid go into that situation, they have to look much more carefully on what happened to that child, and not blanket-wise moving kids out of their homes,” he says.

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Source: http://www.parentdish.com/2011/07/27/the-kids-are-all-right-even-if-their-parents-grow-pot/

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Filed under: Retirement

The average American will face a 28% income shortfall in retirement, according to a recent survey by Fidelity Investments. And that’s just the broad percentage: In dollars-and-cents terms, Gen Xers will be scrambling to find an extra $1,700 a month to cover living expenses, while baby boomers will fall a whopping $2,100 a month short of what they need to maintain their current standards of living.

That may sound like an insurmountable problem, but don’t throw in the towel. As Fidelity’s Kathy…

A 5-Step Plan to Fill That Scary Retirement Income Gap originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-15T05:30:00Z.

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Globewriter applauds the contribution of Senator Corinne Baptiste-McKnight “in response to a Clause in the Children Bill that criminalized same sex intimacy among youth”, saying: “Give that woman an award!” Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter · reddit · StumbleUpon · delicious ·…

Source: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/18/trinidad-tobago-laws-for-lgbt-too/

Amber Heard Amber Sainsbury Amber Smith Amber Tamblyn Amber Valletta

Hot Prob: Simon Fuller just called and offered you J. Lo’s Idol judging spot, but for no pay and you have to be in LA by tomorrow to hash out [...]

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Albert Hughes Alec Baldwin Alec Mapa Alejandro Amenabar Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Some species emerged unusually early due to the warm March while others have been hit by April deluge, conservationists say

The spring weather has baffled Britain’s butterflies, with some emerging unusually early due to the warm March while others were hit by the April deluge, conservationists said on Friday.

Some spring species emerged several weeks early in March, but the wettest April on record and the continuing rain this month has delayed the appearance of many butterflies.

And wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is warning that if the wet conditions continue it could affect the breeding success of some species later in the year.

Cold, wet weather makes butterflies less active, reducing feeding and mating.

Among those to put in an early appearance were the small blue butterfly, which was seen on 30 March on the Isle of Wight, one of the earliest dates recorded for the species and several weeks ahead of its usual emergence between mid-April and early May.

The wood white, which usually emerges in late April or May, was seen on 10 April in Surrey, while the threatened pearl-bordered fritillary was also recorded earlier than usual, Butterfly Conservation said.

But as the wet weather took hold, butterflies started to be spotted later than normal, with the common blue and brown argus appearing in early May, rather than being seen in mid-April which they would be in warm years.

Marsh fritillaries and adonis blues both emerged in the final week of April in 2011 but were not seen until the second week of May this year.

Richard Fox, Butterfly Conservation surveys manager, said: “Overall, butterflies have experienced an unusual spring so far – the mild winter and very warm March led to some extremely early emergences, but the cold, wet April delayed the emergence of other species.

“The worry about this April is that the butterflies that did emerge will have poor breeding success due to the bad weather.

“Unless conditions improve in the next few weeks their opportunities to breed will be very limited and, therefore, we may see population crashes later in the year or next spring.”

He added: “Last year we had a hot spring and a poor summer. This year we’re having a poor spring, so let’s hope the summer is better.”

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/18/spring-butterflies

Aaliyah Aaron Carter Aaron Eckhart Aaron Kamin Aaron Paul

Space X is looking good to launch its Falcon 9 + Dragon capsule on Saturday morning at 08:55 UTC (04:55 Eastern US time). NASA tweeted about it, saying there’s a 70% chance of good weather at that time. It’s Florida, so that can change in an instant. Check with NASA and Space X for updates.

Space X put together a press kit with details on the launch and mission activities. Via Universe Today I saw this nice video with a great CGI animation of what will happen:

It’s actually a couple of years old, but still fun to watch. NASA TV will be carrying the launch live, as will Space X, and Elon Musk — CEO of Space X– will be live-tweeting it.

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Could a combination of alligator farming and hydroponics be the savior of former chicken farmers, or is it a dangerous and cruel distraction?

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/could-gatorponics-revive-defunct-chicken-farms.html

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Annular eclipse (Credit: sancho_panza)

When the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon this Sunday, for many observers across much of the world it will be temporarily replaced by a beautiful ring of fire – a brilliant annulus of stellar plasma just peeking out around the dark lunar disk. This doesn’t always happen, partial solar eclipses merely trim away a chunk of the solar disk, and true total eclipses perfectly blank out the visible surface of the Sun. It’s all a matter of alignment between Sun-Moon-Earth and our mutual orbital gymnastics.

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By Mark Berman Opposing Views

A new study out of Harvard University (so you know it’s true!) claims that children who attend Fourth of July parades are more likely to grow up to be Republicans than kids who stay in their backyards.

Fourth of July celebrations in the United States shape the nation’s political landscape by forming beliefs and increasing participation, primarily in favor of the Republican Party.

According to a report in the Daily Mail, the study found that kids under the age of 18 who attend parades are 2% more likely to become GOP voters. This is mostly because Republicans feel they are more patriotic than Democrats, study authors Harvard professor David Yanagizawa-Drott and Bocconi University professor Andreas Madestam wrote:

According to this interpretation, there is a political congruence between the patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican party. Fourth of July celebrations in Republican dominated counties may thus be more politically biased events that socialize children into Republicans.

Overall, parade watchers vote Republican over Democrat by 4%.

There is no evidence of an increased likelihood of identifying as a Democrat, indicating that Fourth of July shifts preferences to the right rather than increasing political polarization.

Regardless of your political leanings, the authors say in order to have the most fun, you just might want to head to a Republican stronghold to celebrate the Fourth, writing:

Republican adults celebrate Fourth of July more intensively in the first place.

Source: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/july-4-parades-turn-kids-into-republicans

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A dynamic app combining an Earth browser with multimedia resources brings near-realtime updates on Earth-changing events

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/new-app-focuses-global-extreme-weather-events-xweather.html

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Trying out new themes is fun, isn’t it? I think so! The thing about changing my blog’s theme that has traditionally bugged me, though, is the 10-15 minutes right after you click “Activate” when you have to rush through uploading a new custom header, maybe resetting the background, fiddling with a new sidebar configuration, and [...]

Source: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/look-before-you-leap/

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By Fit Bottomed Girls

Credit: *Micky

Ready to start the holiday weekend a little early? Kick it off with these fab and fun links!

Save some money on your favorite healthy foods with these online coupons! ?FitSugar

The best summer workouts! And, hey…we recognize that byline! ?All Women Stalk

Weak in the knees? Try taking it back…way back?backwards that is! ?Silicon Valley Fitness

We’re so loving these magazine recaps! It’s like CliffsNotes for your favorite mags! ?Brooklyn Fit Chick

Seven new ways to enjoy strawberries this summer. Yum! ?Prevention

Happy Independence Day weekend! ?Jenn

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photo courtesy of Mary Morris If you’ve got some family heirlooms or other old treasures that may not be in the best condition, the University of Michigan Library has some help available. The library presents its annual Preservation Clinic this…

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As Bordeaux takes another break for bank holidays, the market is digesting the latest round of releases.

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By Greater Good Science Center

Got Gratitude?  Share it here! 

Welcome to our community gratitude journal, open to all who?d like to express their thanks or share a happy thought. 

Thankful for?our first ziplining adventure. I think [my son and I] both felt gratitude for the feeling of being suspended amidst such refreshing nature, and the exhilaration of “flying” (or coming close!).
Paula Kiger

I am grateful to my mother in-law for making the call and sorting out the mis-communication.
xyz

I am grateful for the family that I wake up with every day, and I have heaps of gratitude for everyone anywhere who takes the time to promote gratitude as a necessity of life as important as eating and breathing.
Shannon Potts

I?m happy my husband found some people to join his fantasy Tour de France league, because he?s happy, I?m happy.
happy wife

I am thankful for my very generous in-laws.  They are hiring someone to do a big home repair project for us so we can enjoy our summer weekends as a family instead of working on the house.
Liz

Oh boy, oh boy am I grateful that my dentist can fit me in next week!
Owie Mouth

I’m grateful for quiet, peaceful mornings.
Alissa

It takes a village to raise a child – I am grateful to all those who helped raise my oldest son, mentored him, listened to him, and influenced him in so many ways.  He graduated from high school and
moved to the dorms at UC Berkeley to begin classes all last weekend!  He’s had so many wonderful people in his life, and I am thankful for their support.
Allysson McDonald

I?m grateful for the gift of new friends.
Janine Kovac

Send us your photos! Every week we post a photo submitted by one of our readers along with all the happy and thankful comments gathered throughout the week. 

To contribute, email your gratitude (a sentence or two would be great) or your favorite photo to Janine at janinek@berkeley.edu. 

You can also contribute by commenting at the bottom of this post.  Please include: your name if you?d like us to use it and any other info you?d like us to list, e.g., if the ?gratitude? is from one of your children, it would be great to know his or her age.

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Filed under: In The News

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“Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.” — Cole Porter

We commonly refer to something simple as mere child’s play.

However, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University say there is nothing “mere” about child’s play. Children are actually performing complex experiments.

They are little scientists, Wired magazine reports.

To prove just how scientifically children approach their work, researchers gave a group of them a toy that lights up and plays music when the child places certain beads on. When children didn’t know which beads would activate the toy — what scientists call “ambiguous evidence” — they tested each variable in turn.

Laura Schulz, a professor at MIT, tells Wired it’s like someone trying unsuccessfully to open a door with a key.

“You might change the position of the key, you might change the key, but you’re not going to change both at once,” she says.

Researchers say their study begins to “bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and child’s play.”

Remember that the next time you find flour scattered all over the kitchen. Scientific discovery can be messy.

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Source: http://www.parentdish.com/2011/07/28/kids-are-like-scientists-and-not-just-mad-ones/

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Filed under: In The News, Special Needs, Bullying

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Brace yourselves for a shocker. Kids with special needs — who struggle with medical, emotional or emotional issues — tend to have more problems in school and are bullied more often than other kids.

Researchers at the Poindexter Institute for the Painfully Obvious reached this conclusion after examining their middle school yearbooks and remembering how they spent all of seventh grade trapped inside their lockers while asking if someone would please pass them their inhalers.

Their conclusions were backed up by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

According to U.S. News & World Report, researchers there tracked more than 1,450 kids in fourth through sixth grades from 34 rural schools. A third of the kids had problems such as asthma, chronic pain, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral problems.

These children were a more likely to be (wait for it, wait for it) bullied or feel socially isolated. These conclusions were further confirmed by everyone who has ever attended public school.

“Health affects school performance,” lead researcher Christopher Forrest tells U.S. News. “Special health care needs have manifold effects on school outcomes that increase the likelihood that these kids are not going to successfully transition to adulthood.”

Researchers obtained data from kids and their parents from a questionnaire. Children were classified as having a special health care need if they had a condition lasting at least 12 months and needed prescription drugs, therapy, counseling or other services.

School records on attendance, grades and standardized tests also were analyzed.

Kids with special health care needs “have significant differences in their engagement in school and their school relationships as well as academic achievement,” Forrest adds. “It sets up a trajectory for these kids that’s highly distressing.”

Communities can help if they look at the whole child, he says.

“I also believe it’s the kind of challenge we’re starting to understand in the 21st century,” Forrest says. “We have to look at the child as a whole person … and recognize that individuals need health systems and education systems to work together.”

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Source: http://www.parentdish.com/2011/07/28/kids-with-special-needs-get-gasp-bullied/

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As most of us know, it is not easy to find mature burgundy of unimpeachable provenance available for sale. Thanks to extensive tasting, excellent contacts and a lot of hard work, Beaune wine producer Nicolas Potel presents us with his personally selected Collection Bellenum. You can read some.

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Sunday will come to a close with a spectacular solar eclipse across much of the United States with the Southwest enjoying the best view and weather.

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By Laura Zuckerman

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The U.S. [More]

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A smart Maker has devised a simple but more accurate way to tell just how well your solar panels are doing.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/meter-hack-reveals-solar-arrays-true-power.html

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Florence Fabricant offers advice on confronting a relative when he or she isn’t sensitive to your food allergies.

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From scary-looking stag beetles to beautiful butterflies, a vast array of bugs share our cities

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2012/may/17/insects-britains-cities-spotters-guide

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Filed under: Company News, People, Best Buy

If you want to make an easy $6.6 million at Best Buy (BBY), find a way to be its next CEO and then commence an inappropriate relationship with an employee.

The struggling retailer’s audit committee has found that even though ex-CEO Brian Dunn did have a “close personal relationship” with a female employee that violates Best Buy’s policy, he will still receive a severance package worth roughly $6.6 million.

I wonder how much he would have gotten if he had carried on two inappropriate…

Best Buy Gets Worse: CEO Dunn May Be Done, but His Payday Isn’t originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-15T11:20:00Z.

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[quote user="mrsmarkdave"] (I picture Bambi sliding across the ice.)[/quote]

Or the model walking down the runway falling off her shoes. LOL!

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Willcox Arizona Wine Country has several great wineries and vineyards, all within a short distance from Sonoita Arizona and Tucsonin Cochise County Arizona.

Source: http://www.southwest-wine-guide.com/willcox-arizona.html

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Filed under: In The News, Special Needs, Bullying

Credit: Getty Images

Brace yourselves for a shocker. Kids with special needs — who struggle with medical, emotional or emotional issues — tend to have more problems in school and are bullied more often than other kids.

Researchers at the Poindexter Institute for the Painfully Obvious reached this conclusion after examining their middle school yearbooks and remembering how they spent all of seventh grade trapped inside their lockers while asking if someone would please pass them their inhalers.

Their conclusions were backed up by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

According to U.S. News & World Report, researchers there tracked more than 1,450 kids in fourth through sixth grades from 34 rural schools. A third of the kids had problems such as asthma, chronic pain, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning disabilities or emotional and behavioral problems.

These children were a more likely to be (wait for it, wait for it) bullied or feel socially isolated. These conclusions were further confirmed by everyone who has ever attended public school.

“Health affects school performance,” lead researcher Christopher Forrest tells U.S. News. “Special health care needs have manifold effects on school outcomes that increase the likelihood that these kids are not going to successfully transition to adulthood.”

Researchers obtained data from kids and their parents from a questionnaire. Children were classified as having a special health care need if they had a condition lasting at least 12 months and needed prescription drugs, therapy, counseling or other services.

School records on attendance, grades and standardized tests also were analyzed.

Kids with special health care needs “have significant differences in their engagement in school and their school relationships as well as academic achievement,” Forrest adds. “It sets up a trajectory for these kids that’s highly distressing.”

Communities can help if they look at the whole child, he says.

“I also believe it’s the kind of challenge we’re starting to understand in the 21st century,” Forrest says. “We have to look at the child as a whole person … and recognize that individuals need health systems and education systems to work together.”

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Source: http://www.parentdish.com/2011/07/28/kids-with-special-needs-get-gasp-bullied/

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Could your reusable bag make you sick? Here’s a reminder of why we should wash those bags.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/cleaning-organizing/reusable-bag-linked-norovirus-outbreak.html

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We?ve added a user showcase where you can view stunning customizations made by people just like you. From complete redesigns with CSS to adding pizzazz with Custom Fonts to clever use of options like background and header, this showcase will spark your imagination and inspire creativity. Discover details about what each showcase blog is doing [...]

Source: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/look-at-these-gorgeous-blogs/

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There?s just something so delightfully refreshing about celebrities speaking directly to their fans. This week Scarlett Johansson bypassed her press rep and wrote a blog for Huffington Post addressing the lies tabloids printed about her ?dramatic weight loss? for her role as Black Widow in The Avengers. While she confesses to working out harder than usual to prepare for the movie, she completely denies her alleged crash diet that supposedly resulted in her losing 14 pounds. More »

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The wheels of justice move slowly, and it may be some time before Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson is actually extradited to Costa Rica, but should that happen and he’s convicted he faces over a decade in prison.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/culture/paul-watson-faces-15-years-imprisonment-costa-rica.html

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Few chateaux in Bordeaux produce red and white wines of quality that sell for a fair price. Domaine de Chevalier is an exception to that rule.

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I used to be a wine addict but when my Orange County dentist noticed that my teeth are getting yellowish, I decided to drink just occasionally. I had teeth whitening treatment and it's expensive that I don't want to ruin it by drinking too much wine.

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Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered a previously unrecognised volcanic process, similar to one that is used in chocolate manufacturing, which gives important new insights into the dynamics of volcanic eruptions.

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See our new guide to all readers? restaurant reviews . It’s a well-known fact that most top restaurants have a well-priced lunch menu. Some are more cynical than others in what you are being offered for the price, but some give you a really good deal with the opportunity to experience the chef’s.

Source: http://www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/a201204093.html

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Analysis bridges differences between various climate change models to predict North American climate change with high certainty. Will skeptics finally be convinced?

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/statistical-analysis-shows-2-degree-temperature-rise-zones-north-america.html

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Filed under: Personal Finance, Lifestyle, Power of Planning

Geneen Roth was a successful author before she received what she now dubs “the call.”

The call brought news that the financial adviser to whom she had entrusted her and her husband’s life savings was a fraud. They had been ripped off by Bernie Madoff — victims of his now-notorious Ponzi scheme.

The initial horror of learning that her financial adviser was a fraud brought on a range of reactions — panic, terror, self-blame, rage.

Over time, however, Roth was able to struggle through the…

How Getting Robbed by Bernie Madoff Led Her to a Happier Life originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-11T14:50:00Z.

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After a couple months of work the methane leak amounted to not much at all, but it is a reminder that potentially environmentally damaging leaks are business-as-usual with fossil fuels.

Source: http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/north-sea-natural-gas-platform-leak-finally-stopped.html

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