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Researchers used Earth-orbiting satellites to map coral reef biodiversity at a global scale to show that areas of high habitat diversity also have high species diversity.
This new satellite mapping technique can help guide future efforts to identify and protect highly biodiverse reefs, according the researchers who conducted the study.
“As remote sensing technology becomes more advanced, and we continue to use satellite imagery to map ecological habitats, we must understand the biological and ecological meaning of these products,” says Sam Purkis, professor and chair of the marine geosciences department at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the senior author of the study.
The conventional approach of conducting SCUBA-diver surveys to measure the biodiversity of coral reefs is both time consuming and expensive. Therefore, the research team set out to find a new method utilizing remote sensing to produce habitat maps at a global scale.
To conduct the study, they extracted the diver-measured diversity of reef fish and of coral species in the global dataset of SCUBA diver surveys from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) Global Reef Expedition across the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. KSLOF maps cover approximately one quarter of Earth’s shallow-water tropical coral reefs. Purkis serves as the chief scientist for the foundation.
The scientists then used these maps to audit the complexity of the patterning of seabed habitats, which they showed to be correlated with the species diversity of the organisms that inhabited them. This relationship held across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and, the scientists recommend can therefore be used as a proxy for reef biodiversity.
“We show how the biodiversity of these ecosystems can instead be retrieved from satellite maps of the seabed,” says Anna Bakker, a PhD student in the Rosenstiel School’s marine geosciences department and lead author of the study. “This discovery offers the opportunity of assessing reef biodiversity, at global scale, from orbit.”
The results from this study can aid in marine spatial planning and the designation of marine protected areas to protect reefs with high biodiversity, according to the researchers.
The study appears in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. Additional study authors are from the University of Miami, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, and the Coral Reef Alliance.
Support for the research came from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Lyda Hill Philanthropies, and a NASA ROSES Biodiversity Award.
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Ottawa, ON – Five collaborating breast cancer research teams received a $2.9 million research grant from the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA), in conjunction with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Institute of Cancer Research and Institute of Gender and Health, to pursue research related to the newly identified roles of insulin signalling and vitamin D in breast cancer risk.
“Recent data suggest that, particularly in northern countries such as Canada, lower than required levels of vitamin D in many women may increase breast cancer risk – and confirmation of this would suggest interesting and novel approaches for risk reduction,” says team leader Dr Michael Pollak, professor of oncology at the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir Mortimer B Davis – Jewish General Hospital and McGill University in Montreal.
“With respect to insulin, recent provocative studies suggest that many women, especially those who have a low level of physical activity in relation to the amount of food they consume, and who have high insulin levels – have increased breast cancer risk and/or a worse prognosis,” continues Dr Pollak. “It is important to clarify the molecular mechanisms involved in insulin action on breast cancer cells so that we can improve current methods for minimizing breast cancer risk and maximize the effectiveness of treatments offered to breast cancer patients.”
Until recently, the main diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency and insulin control in women were osteoporosis and diabetes, respectively.
“This innovative multi-project proposal has the potential to quickly translate laboratory research findings into novel approaches for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer,” says Dr Philip Branton, scientific director of CIHR’s Institute of Cancer Research.
Five teams under the translation acceleration grants for breast cancer control will pursue four main research directions, in breast cancer development:
– The role of vitamin D and calcium supplementation in reducing breast cancer risk for some women. The group will also build upon recent laboratory research examining the role of insulin in both treatment and prevention of breast cancer;
– The implications of insulin resistance, which is increasingly common in populations with a Western diet and lifestyle, and which has been linked to a poor prognosis in breast cancer;
– Novel approaches to overcoming resistance to current breast cancer treatments that will lead to clinical trials of novel drug candidates that target signals in cancer cells related to insulin; and,
– The relationship between clinical outcomes in-patients and specific molecules or activation of molecular pathways within cancer cells. To do this, the researchers will examine thousands of breast cancer specimens.
“As an oncologist who treats breast cancer patients, I am reminded every day of the need to improve current prevention and treatment methods,” says Dr Pollak. "The teams of dedicated scientists and clinicians we have assembled are eager to move forward with a research program that will explore a number of promising leads that deserve investigation because they have the potential to influence clinical practice.”
The translation acceleration grants for breast cancer control foster a team approach which brings together top researchers to focus on accelerating the application of recent laboratory research findings into prevention and treatment strategies. Dr Miriam Stewart, scientific director of the Institute of Gender and Health, noted that the institute, as a co-lead on this important initiative, is delighted to support transformative research like Dr Pollak’s that will ultimately exert a positive impact on practice, programs and policies. This project was selected for funding on the recommendation of a specially convened panel of international scientists with broad knowledge and expertise in the proposed areas of study.
Dr Pollak’s collaborators, all recognized experts in their fields, are Dr Jacques Brisson (Laval University), Dr Sandra Dunn (University of British Columbia, Vancouver), Dr Ivan Fantus (Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto) and Dr Nahum Sonenberg (McGill University, Montreal).

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Developer Rabsky Group filed for a new-building permit for the third building on the enormous Rheingold brewery site in Bushwick Thursday. The building at 115 Stanwix Street will be eight stories tall, with 130 apartments and stores on the ground floor. The architect is Nataliya Donskoy of ND Architecture & Design.
The apartments will be spread over 87,588 square feet of space, or about an average of 673 square feet per apartment, suggesting rentals. The building is located on a corner along Flushing Avenue, a busy commercial street that is one of Bushwick’s main thoroughfares. In addition to 3,298 square feet of stores, there will also be parking for bikes and 65 cars on the ground floor.
The second, seventh and eighth floors will have an “open roof,” according to the Schedule A.
Rabsky is assembling quite a sampler of popular Brooklyn architects to design the complex: Over at 10 Montieth Street, ODA is designing a 398-unit, seven-story building. ODA is known for designs that play with constructions and deconstructions of boxes; Donskoy, a former protege of Robert Scarano, does a lot of work in Williamsburg, some of it creative and unusual given what appear to be the usual budget constraints.
S9 Architecture is designing the first building in the complex to file, 123 Melrose. Read Property Group is the developer.
Maple Street School, a Prospect Lefferts Gardens preschool founded in 1978, is expanding. The school signed a 15-year lease for 5,500 square feet at 626 Flatbush, the 23-story mixed-use 80/20 tower Hudson Companies is building in the neighborhood.
The school will mostly occupy the second floor of the community and retail space at the base of the building, pictured above. It will have a private entrance and a 1,200 square foot roof terrace, a Hudson spokesperson told us.
The school has been at 21 Lincoln Road since 2001. The new location will more than double the school’s space.
“Every year, Maple Street School has to turn away more students than it accepts. We are thrilled at the opportunity to expand to this second location, so that we can accommodate more children and help meet the great need in this community for quality early education,” said school Director Wendy Cole in a prepared statement.
The building is expected to be ready for occupancy in early 2016, said Hudson. GMAP
This Park Slope house isn’t terribly fancy or large, but it’s pretty. The original details appear to be largely intact, including plaster moldings, arched marble mantels, and wood work. It’s set up as an owner’s duplex over a garden floor rental. What do you think of it for $2,795,000?
Longtime residents of East New York care about the historic bank building at 91 Pennsylvania Avenue and want to save it. A group of about eight stood in the bitter cold Tuesday to protest its planned demolition, the Village Voice reported. As it happens, the protest was sparked by our story, we were surprised to read. Residents had seen the scaffolding and netting shrouding the building but assumed it was being repaired, not demolished.
We spoke last night to one of the organizers of the protest, Chris Banks, who is the director of local community group East New York United Concerned Citizens and a member of Community Board 5. He said the owner of the building has been in touch and they plan to meet, as he also told the Voice. Banks has also reached out to local Council Member Rafael Espinal and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries for help.
We hope a new use for the building can be found that will benefit both the owner and the community. Click through to the Voice story to read what the protesters said about the building.
The entire City Point mall at 1 Dekalb Avenue is shut for construction until 2016, a guard told us yesterday when we stopped by. Armani Exchange moved out two weeks ago, he said.
Armani Exchange was the first tenant in the building and opened in 2012. Century 21, CityTarget, and Alamo Drafthouse have also signed leases, but have not yet opened. A sign in front of the building lists Century 21, Alamo Drafthouse and A/X as tenants.
A taco stand outside in front, the only thing open when we stopped by, seemed busy.
We have reached out to City Point PR and will update if we hear anything more. Click through for more photos.
Update: We received this statement from Paul Travis, managing partner of Washington Square Partners and co-developer of City Point:
“Armani Exchange’s short-term lease expired and Century 21 Department Store is taking possession to begin construction of its multi-level, 145,000-square-foot space. We’d like to thank Armani Exchange for playing a significant role in promoting City Point and for its commitment to hiring local residents, which falls in line with our philosophy of ‘By Brooklyn, For Brooklyn.’ We’re looking forward to the possibility of them returning to City Point in the future.”
Vinegar Hill House and Pizza East will open restaurants inside Empire Stores at 55 Water Street in early 2016, a spokesperson for the conversion project told us today. Pizza East will be located in the space at left pictured in the rendering above, with the schist wall. Vinegar Hill House will be on the right, in the space with the glass wall.
Both will have indoor and outdoor seating, although the outpost of the popular and nearby Vinegar Hill House will be “primarily grab and go and casual,” he said. The Vinegar Hill counter — apparently there will not be table service — will have its own menu and will serve breakfast, lunch, early dinner, coffee, and juices. It will also offer catering.
This will be Pizza East’s first New York location. The upscale eatery was created by private club Soho House and has locations in London and Chicago, all with different menus and decor. This one will offer ciabatta-crust pizzas baked in a wood-burning oven, as well as other dishes, according to a press release. Both restaurants will focus on “responsibly” and locally sourced ingredients.
This Neo-Grec brick-and-brownstone two-family isn’t very big, but the relatively low asking price might appeal to house hunters on a budget. It has some charming details, such as the plaster and moldings in the rear parlor, as well as some unfortunate alterations, such as midcentury doors.
It doesn’t appear to have been recently renovated, although the listing says it’s in move-in condition (and indeed, it’s occupied). The listing says it could be delivered vacant “for the right offer.” The ask is $775,000. What do you think of it?
We are smitten by the latest home to be featured on Design Brooklyn for several reasons:
*The open plan kitchen is a thing of beauty. Appliances are enclosed in a navy-colored l-shaped room divider that looks like a sculpture. The matching cabinets above look like a painting in the center of the tiled kitchen wall. This is the best open plan kitchen we have ever seen.
*The unique kitchen island transforms into a pull-out table that seats 10. Row house owners with parlor floor kitchens too narrow or shallow for a separate dining area should consider this brilliant idea.
*It’s a 650-square-foot one-bedroom and was renovated on a budget.
*The layout and ideas are highly relevant to Brooklyn tenement apartments as well as new construction.
*The owners preserved original details, such as parquet and window surrounds, plus upgraded the bath while keeping its 20th century tile and tub. This was partly a cost savings move, but the results look great.
Naturally, the owners are an interior designer and an architect. Here are all the details — and extra-large photos — from writer Anne Hellman and photographer Michel Arnaud.
When interior designer Nora Calderwood and architect Adam Darter bought their 650-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in Park Slope, they knew they would need to renovate in a major way but on a scaled-down budget. A year later, the result is not only airy and light, it smartly blends original details with the owners’ forward-thinking design ideas.
The apartment had endured some wear and tear, and had been divided up into four small rooms. But with some consideration, the couple realized what could be found underneath the surface. “We were able to look beyond the tattered conditions of the apartment and realized that, with nine-and-a-half-foot ceilings and six south-facing windows, it had potential,” said Adam.
By removing the walls in the main area, Nora and Adam created a loft-like living room, open to the inventive kitchen and dining area. To maximize space and minimize visual clutter (which are musts in a small apartment), Adam designed a kitchen island unit that can be used as both an eat-at island and as a dining table that pulls out into the room for larger dinner parties. (more…)
The scaffolding has come down at 177 Harrison Avenue to reveal a nearly complete religious school in the Broadway Triangle area. The building, which will house Bais Ruchel High School for girls, is considerably more elaborate than the simple cement block apartment buildings common in the area, with big arched windows and bands of trim accenting red brick. It departs significantly from the rendering, however, which can be seen after the jump.
Congregation Y.G.S. at 174 Rodney Street is the owner. Mark Marisca is the architect, according to the new-building permit. The five-story building will have an auditorium on the top floor and a play area on the roof, according to the Schedule A.
A worker died yesterday unloading massive beams for the construction of the green roof at Barclays. Peter Zepf, 52, was transferring joists from a truck onto a hoist and four fell on him around 1 in the afternoon, crushing him to death almost instantly. Work at Barclays has stopped while investigators look into what happened. Two possibilities are that the truck driver could have released the beams at the wrong moment, or the worker accidentally pressed an emergency release button.
“My signal man was crushed,” a fellow worker told the New York Daily News. “The load was top heavy, the truck driver unhooked it without being told, (and) it toppled right on top of him. I checked his pulse: he was there for half a second, and then he was gone.”
NY1 said, “Investigators believe the victim may have accidentally hit the emergency release button, causing the load to come down on him.”
“We are all devastated by what happened,” said Greenland Forest City in a prepared statement. “All of us at Greenland Forest City Ratner Partners and Barclays Center extend our most heartfelt condolences to the worker’s family and friends.”


A low-cost chemical sensor comprising surface-mount light-emitting diodes (LEDs) has been developed for colorimetric gas detection. The device consists of a pair of LEDs connected to a simple PIC microcontroller circuit and in the most basic form, requires the use of only two input-output (I/O) pins on the chip. The key features of this sensor are the use of a LED rather than a photodiode for light detection and an all-digital light detection protocol that leads to a reduction in cost and power consumption by avoiding the need for an analog-to-digital converter. The surface-mount diodes employed are more compact than standard LEDs and are more amenable to coating by solid-state sensor films. Results from sensors employing a chemochromic ammonia sensitive film are presented, and the detection of this target is demonstrated in the parts-per-million range. The configuration is applicable to a wide range of colorimetric gas sensing materials.


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I don’t know where to start. I guess from the beginning.
My father died at 46yrs old and I was just a young boy of 12. I have two brothers that were 15 and 8 at the time. I was very close to my father and loved him dearly. He was a Doctor and very well respected. I was the first of my friends to have a parent die. It was devastating for me as most children when they lose a parent. I went through the years trying to understand why he was taken from us instead of others but came through just realizing that he was gone and there is nothing I could do about it. The harsh reality set in. Every time I would see a movie where a child runs up to his father and call him Daddy, without even a reflex, tears just start to roll down my face. It’s the weirdest thing as to how very sensitive I am to the loss of my father. I try and forgive him for leaving when I know it was not his fault but I have difficulty getting past this. I am also 46yrs old now with three young boys of similar age and the reality of my mortality scares the hell out of me. I feel that I have not been the best father to my three boys and always tell them I love them, especially before I go to sleep at night. I worry that it might be the last time I see then and vice versa. If I start to tell them how much I love them, they see me getting teary eyed and want me to stop and leave. I need help and don’t really know where to turn. I think my feelings of abandonment are so deep that I can’t get out of my own way and it keeps me down from succeeding in life and being a better parent. I have had advice from friends that I need to tell my father how I forgive him for leaving me and it was not his fault and come to the realization myself that I need to move on. I just can’t. I’m trying but can’t. It affects me with my children every day.
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Trinidad Hot Sauce Recipe
This is hot. Makes any commercial stuff seem like child's play.
- Mince, grind, blend or chop finely the raw peppers.
- Add the rest of the ingredients.
- The vinegar is used to cover the peppers and as sauce. The amount of vinegar you use will depend on your preference as to how thick or how thin you want your sauce to be.
- Bottle in jars in the fridge, will last for up to a year.
Use regular mustard and regular white vinegar. Keep the mixture covered at all times with the vinegar sauce. Top up with additional vinegar as needed.
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Charity calls for routine BRCA testing of ovarian cancer patientsBMJ 2013; 347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5664 (Published 17 September 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f5664
- Jacqui Wise
All women in England with ovarian cancer should be tested for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations at the time of diagnosis, as currently happens in Scotland, a charity has demanded.
The call by Ovarian Cancer Action was backed by an expert panel of geneticists, genetic counsellors, and medical oncologists at a panel discussion held last week at the Royal Society in London.
The charity’s policy paper calls for all women with invasive non-mucinous epithelial ovarian cancer, …

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Greek Feta Cheese
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Shrimp feta dishes are an excellent way of combining seafood with fresh feta cheese. The shrimp may be sautéed, deep fried, or steamed and served with a range of ingredients to make casseroles, soups, dips and ... More »
Mediterraneam Pizza With Shrimp And Feta
Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Coat a baking sheet with no-stick spray.
Sprinkle with the cornmeal.
Unroll the pizza dough and spread on the prepared sheet.
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Shrimp Mezze With Citrus And Feta
To Marinate: In a small bowl whisk together the citrus juices, oil, garlic, Pernod, tarragon, and pepper to taste.
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Seed tomatoes and chop coarsely.
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Peel shrimp and add shells to small saucepan.
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Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
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Combine all the ingredients except the pasta in a large bowl and toss.
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A Comparison of Masters Level Research Projects in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs in Central Texas
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|An Applied Research Project Submitted to the Department of Political Science, Southwest Texas State University, in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Public Administration, Fall 1999.
|The controversy surrounding what should be considered acceptable in terms of PA research is discussed in this paper. Additionally, as a part of an ongoing effort to assess the quality of the Applied Research Projects (ARP) produced by MPA students at Southwest Texas State University (SWT), the empirical portion of this paper analyzes a set of master's level research projects from three PA schools located in Central Texas -- University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), SWT, and University of Texas at Austin (UTA). The purpose of this research is to: 1) review existing PA literature dealing with the various debates that surround the issue of research and 2) assess the quality of the ARPs from SWT by comparing them to master's level research projects from PA and public affairs programs in Central Texas (UTSA and UTA) through the use of a specific set of criteria developed in relevant literature.
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|Gute, M. (1999). A comparison of masters level research projects in public administration and public affairs programs in central Texas. Masters of Public Administration, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.
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|A Comparison of Masters Level Research Projects in Public Administration and Public Affairs Programs in Central Texas
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These decadent potatoes have a crispy crust and creamy inside texture. The flavors of the ghee and chicken broth are absorbed throughout the potatoes with hints of garlic and thyme. This fan favorite is perfect for your dinner parties or for a simple night in.
Course: Side Dish
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6medium russet potatoes
3-4sprigs fresh thyme
Salt and pepper to taste
Scrub potatoes under cold running water then pat dry using paper towel.
Cut ends off the potatoes and stand potatoes upright. Using a knife, peel from top to bottom creating uniform cylinders. Cut cylinders in half (crosswise) to make 12 potato cylinders, approximately 2 inches tall.
Soak potatoes in cool water for 5 minutes to remove excess starch. Drain and pat dry.
Preheat oven to 425°F.
On the stovetop, preheat a cast iron pan to medium heat and add oil. Stand potatoes upright and cook about 5 minutes or until bottoms are browned. Flip and repeat on opposite end. Using a paper towel, blot excess oil from pan and turn off heat.
Add ghee, whole garlic cloves, sprigs of thyme and lightly season potatoes with salt and pepper. Using the sprigs of thyme, brush ghee over potatoes. Cook for 2 minutes and then add chicken broth to the pan.
Before transferring cast iron pan to oven, remove sprigs of thyme. Roast in oven for 30 minutes, adding additional chicken broth if pan becomes dry. Use knife to check that potatoes are tender.
Cool slightly before serving and garnish with fresh thyme and flaky sea salt.
Tip: Russet potatoes work best since they crisp up nicely and have a light, fluffy interior to soak up maximum flavor. There should be hardly any chicken broth left in the pan after roasting.


Congressional candidate Chris Donovan\’s former campaign manager and seven others have been charged in an ongoing FBI probe.
Josh Nassi, who has been mentioned in the case for weeks, turned himself in after authorities could not find him at his home, according to The Hartford Courant\’s veteran federal court reporter Edmund Mahony. Early Thursday, FBI agents fanned out across the state to make multiple arrests regarding the fundraising activities of Donovan\’s campaign.
Nassi has been one of Donovan\’s closest aides at the state Capitol in recent years and was paid more than $100,000 per year. He left his job as a state employee last year in order to devote his fulltime energies to Donovan\’s election and was among the first workers hired by the campaign.
Seven Donovan supporters were named in an indictment that was unsealed Thursday, and the eighth person charged in the case was Harry \”Ray\’\’ Soucy, who pleaded guilty Tuesday in a court hearing that was closed to the press.
Besides Nassi, those charged, according to the U.S. Attorney\’s office, include:
Benjamin Hogan, 33, of Southington. An employee at a roll-your-own smoke shop in Waterbury, Hogan showed up at federal court wearing a green Boston Celtics tee shirt that said, \”Beat The Heat.\’\’
David Moffa, who is also known as \”Buffalo\’\’ and \”Moff.\’\’ The 52-year-old Middlebury resident is a former AFSCME Local 387 union president.
Daniel Monteiro, 33, of Wolcott.
Paul Rogers, 39, of Watertown. Known as \”Paulie,\’\’ he is a co-owner of a tobacco shop.
George Tirado, 35, of Waterbury. He is a co-owner of Smoke House Tobacco with Paul Rogers.
Donovan is running in the Democratic primary on August 14 in the Fifth Congressional district, which stretches from Simsbury to Danbury to Salisbury. He is facing off against former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty and political newcomer Dan Roberti of Kent. Roberti is currently running a 30-second television commercial that mentions the FBI probe but does not mention Donovan by name.
In addition, Soucy pleaded guilty Tuesday at the federal courthouse in New Haven. He was captured on videotape coming outside of the courthouse by FOX CT\’s George Colli, but Soucy and his attorney refused to say whether Soucy had pleaded guilty. The attorney said he could not speak about the case because it was a closed proceeding in court. It was publicly revealed Thursday that Soucy had pleaded guilty.
Meanwhile, The Courant\’s Wes Duplantier reports that a pro-Roberti Super PAC has released its first TV commercial, which blasts both Donovan and Esty without mentioning Roberti\’s name. The commercial cites The Courant for information on the FBI probe into Donovan.
The ongoing scandal became public when federal prosecutors announced in late May that Donovan\’s campaign finance director, Robert Braddock, had been arrested in the case. Braddock was the first of the seven, who were all named in an indictment, to be arrested.
Word was spreading quickly throughout the state Capitol as the phones started ringing on Thursday morning as The Courant was reporting that additional arrests would be happening.
For further updates throughout the day, go to www.courant.com.


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If this happy looking man appears relieved, it is because he is. Daniel L. Shilts Jr., 36, of Waldo, Wisconsin was arrested after his fifth DWI and then urinated on the back of the head of the officer taking him to jail. Officers spotted him driving erratically and striking a pole. Then things went from bad to much much worse . . .
On the way to the station, Shilts decided to relieve himself. It is not clear whether he intended to hit the officer in the back of the head. However, he was convicted of felony counts of operating while intoxicated and bail jumping tied to other pending cases. Remarkably, he will be allowed to drive again. He was sentenced to a year in prison, three years probation, $3,599 in fines, and his license was revoked for three years. That will result in less than a year in jail. A felony count of expelling bodily substances at a public safety worker was dropped.
That is one good defense attorney.
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Homeland Security: Drivers license fraud is national security threat
Posted: Jul 17, 2012 6:52 PM PDT Updated: Jul 17, 2012 6:52 PM PDT
by Tom Lyden
The Department of Homeland Security says the use of fraudulently obtained Minnesota drivers licenses is a threat to national security.
Michael Feinberg, Special Agent in Charge of the regional Homeland Security Office, called the discovery of thousands of fraudulent state IDs "a vulnerability that we need to address."
"I revert to the 9-11 hijackers," Feinberg explained. "They were able to get licenses in other states very easily."
Homeland Security's Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force has been examining nearly 10,000 cases of Minnesota drivers licenses obtained through possible fraud. So far, 18 people have been arrested and several have been indicted.
The latest case is Oluremi George, also known as Victoria Ayoola, a clerical employee working Minnesota Secretary of State's Office. According to the recently unsealed federal indictment, George used a fraudulent Social Security number to get a real Minnesota drivers license, and she then used that license and the Social security number again to get a valid U.S. passport under that alias.
As uncovered by the FOX 9 Investigators, there are nearly 24,000 Minnesota drivers licenses that may be cases of possible fraud. Those cases were discovered by facial recognition software that electronically compared photos in the Department of Vehicles Services data bank of 11 million photos. That facial recognition scrub was conducted in 2008, paid for with a federal grant.
However, Agent Feinberg is quick to point out that no facial recognition scan has been done of photos since 2008.
"That was just a snapshot in time," Feinberg said.
The FOX 9 Investigators also learned that the Department of Vehicle Services did not voluntarily turn over names of possible fraudulent drivers licenses. In 2011, a Federal Grand Jury issued several subpoenas for those names. The Department of Vehicle Services told FOX 9 News it has provided 5,800 names to law enforcement, but Feinberg said nearly 10,000 is a more precise number.
Feinberg says the task force is currently looking at the most egregious cases and those that could pose a national security threat.
Homeland Security: Drivers license fraud is security threat - Minneapolis News and Weather KMSP FOX 9We have immigration laws that just need to be enforced.
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On March 18, 2017 a concert was held, entitled "Children of Suzuki - Moscow".
Young stars and students of Teresa Kotlar, Suzuki Piano Teacher, Russia were accompanied by the "Kremlin" Chamber Orchestra
Elena Sterelyukhina, Suzuki Violin Teacher, Russia (left), with her students Valeriya, Filaret and Rasul
at their Book 1 Graduation Recital
Accompanist Svetlana Briantceva, ESA Country Director for Russia
The European Suzuki Viola Gathering 2017 this weekend brings together for the first time Suzuki Viola pupils, teachers and families from the entire ESA community and beyond.
Dr. Päivi Kukkamäki (Finland), ESA Suzuki Voice Teacher since 1986 and Trainer since 1991
Mette Heikkinen (Finland), ESA Suzuki Voice Teacher since 1988 and Trainer since 1993
Jaume Fargas i Fernàndez (Spain), ESA Suzuki Voice Teacher since 1992
Analia Capponi-Savolainen (Finland), ESA Suzuki Voice Teacher since 2000 and Trainer since 2012
Amelia Seyssel (USA), ESA Suzuki Voice Teacher since 2008
Dr Suzuki's video 'Birch Trees and Violins' which was made in 1965 is now available on the YouTube channel of the Talent Education Research Institute, Japan by kind permission of the President, Dr. Hayano.
Discussion Group Name Change: ISA Trademark
January 18, 2017 ISA Board
ESA Violin Teachers: Lili Rene Fantayna-Ramos, Elena Sterelyukhina,
Anna Orgina, Elena Scherbakova, Anna Simurzina.
Accompanist: Svetlana Briantceva
A little bit of history was made last month when the first Suzuki Violin exams to take place on Russian soil were conducted in an historic mansion with a great musical history and the home of the International Union of Musicians. The building is in the historic centre of Moscow and is located opposite the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.


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Ben Simonds is a Managing Director at Climate Advisers and serves as the group’s the Director of Communications, where he designs and executes CA’s communications strategies and is working to grow its communications consulting practice.
Before joining Climate Advisers, Ben served as the Head of Communications for the Fijian COP23 Presidency, building a global communications apparatus to support Fiji’s recent leadership of the UN climate negotiations. Working closely with the Fijian Prime Minister, Ben led a comprehensive program that encompassed strategy, message development, speech writing, media engagement, branding, social media, website development and the deployment of a diverse array of campaign tactics. Through this work, Fiji succeeded both in emphasizing the human impacts of climate change, as well as infusing the negotiations with urgency and a renewed emphasis on building consensus through dialogue.
Prior to that, Ben helped direct Qorvis Communications’ operations in Europe, working with sovereign clients, intergovernmental organizations and corporations to shape opinions, manage crises, protect reputations, build support and advance policy.
Ben’s career began in Fiji, where he was a communications adviser to the government of Fiji for three years during a period of profound social, economic and constitutional transformation in the country.
Ben attended the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he received his bachelors and masters degrees in history.
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As originally published on the Nature4Climate Newsroom webpage. Momentum for nature-based solutions continues to grow. The United Nations climate negotiations, COP25, came to a close
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Sevco Security announced $15 million in Series A funding on Wednesday contributing to a vision from the founders to transform an emerging product category much in the same way they did endpoint detection and response (EDR) with Carbon Black in 2002.
J.J. Guy, Sevco co-founder and CEO and a Carbon Black founder, said the company will use the funding to deliver cloud-based visibility into a company’s asset inventory and the telemetry required to understand how those assets change over time.
Guy said while companies have had trouble gaining visibility into their assets for several years, it came to a head in a March 2019 hearing when Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, pressed Equifax CEO Mark Begor and Chief Information Security Officer Jamil Farschi about whether a lack of an IT asset inventory caused the now-famous Equifax breach of 2017.
Farschi ultimately conceded that better visibility into corporate assets would have helped – a best practices that the National Institute of Standards (NIST) has recommended of all companies.
“Companies have all these devices in silos,” Guy said, adding that when managers ask for the inventory numbers on the devices, they get different numbers from the Active Directory person, the patch management department, the endpoint management team, and the person who manages the vulnerability scanner.
“The numbers are all different and they overlap in very complex ways,” Guy said. “We import inventory from all existing sources inside the organization and go through the correlation process and present the converged inventory. For the first time the customer sees the total number of devices in their environment.“
By having the asset inventory information, companies can now see in real-time when the device counts change. For example, Guy said when an executive spends a full morning at an off-site meeting and may change conference room locations three or four times, the system will register the IP address of the Wi-Fi system the executive uses at each location and flag them if the IP address is on a blacklist. Simply knowing where their assets are and the last IP address used is valuable information during an incident response investigation, added Guy.
The initial funding was headed up by SYN Ventures, with participation from .406 Ventures, Accomplice, Bill Wood Ventures and fama Ventures.


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David Snyder, chief of Hampstead Police Department, said he’s worked with cameras throughout his police career, so adding body cameras to his uniform was an easy transition.
Law enforcement throughout Carroll County is looking into using body-worn cameras while they work. Police agencies in Carroll participated in a pilot program to test body-worn cameras and are looking to purchase them for its officers. Westminster Police Department has already been approved for the cameras. And the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office requested county commissioners last week to look into buying a $1.54 million package from the company WatchGuard that includes body cams and storage space, piggybacking off of an existing Hampstead Police Department contract.
“Video evidence, it’s not an easy or an inexpensive prospect but it is the reality of modern policing,” said Thomas Ledwell, chief of the Westminster Police Department, which participated in the pilot program and already has plans to purchase some body cameras. “We solve a good amount of our open investigations through video cameras and without that video evidence we would probably have on going cases.”
House bill 670 in Maryland’s General Assembly is moving through the legislature with no opposing legislation in place. The bill would require video recording technology for all patrol officers by 2025, including body-worn cameras.
Snyder said his department started using the body cameras in June, the month they were first tested in the field, and his officers received training on the cameras through WatchGuard. He was wearing one on Thursday at the station. It was clipped to his tie and blinking a green light to show that it was working.
“They seem to, for the most part, make it officer-proof,” he said.
A few more were sitting on a charging station in the office. Hampstead has eight body cams and could end up with 12 at the end of the budget cycle.
“Our inventory of cameras will grow in the next couple years as we phase in newer models,” he said.
Matt Spencer, a Hampstead police officer, had his magnetized to a vest on his chest. He said when an officer arrives to work, they select a camera and sign it out. The camera can be held by a clip, magnet or pins. The small camera lens can be adjusted to catch different angles and Snyder said a person’s body type can determine where the camera should be placed. Spencer said a taller officer wore his on his stomach.
Snyder said this is the department’s second generation of cameras. The patrol cars had cameras for the past 15 to 20 years.
“For us, it’s just the way we’ve been doing business,” he said.
Some cars still have the Panasonic system, and others have transitioned to the new WatchGuard cameras, which are compatible with the body cameras and capture a wider angle.
Spencer said the car cameras can turn on automatically when the emergency lights turn on. The WatchGuard system also allows them to categorize and add notes to the footage. If he pulls someone over for speeding, he can label the footage “traffic warning.”
Sheriff Jim DeWees told the county commissioners he did not necessarily initially support body-worn cameras but he now sees their value. The video holds everyone accountable, he said.
Chief Michael Spaulding of the Sykesville Police Department, which participated in the pilot program, said he approached the town council and mayor about purchasing them several years ago but it “wasn’t met with a whole lot of support at the time. Now it appears to be the right time.”
He said he thinks there’s a lot of acceptance with the body cams by the public and law enforcement nowadays and he hopes the town can purchase them by the next fiscal year.
Chief John Hess with the Manchester Police Department said they also participated in the trial program but they do not yet have body cameras. He said there are lots of pros to the body cams, like having a 70% decrease in complaints and it’s helpful in court prosecutions.
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“Transparency is a big part of law enforcement right now,” he said.
Chief Jason Etzler of the Taneytown Police Department did not respond to interview requests.
Chief Douglas Reitz of the Mount Airy Police Department said they are doing research on body-worn cameras and coming up with a plan to implement them in the field. They used two of them during the pilot program and said 15 body cameras are in the town’s fiscal 2022 budget.
Reitz said it’s inevitable for legislation on body-worn cameras to pass at some point, but even if it doesn’t pass this year, his department will still move forward with them. He said some of the selling points for him were its user friendliness and its capability of syncing with the police cameras, but a con is the amount of time it will take to process the footage. However, he said having officer accountability and strong support evidence is worth it.


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Spring Break in the Texas Hill Country
There is a new ghost town like music destination in the Texas Hill County, giving Luckenbach a little competition. It looks a lot like Luckenbach and is also located just outside of Fredericksburg. They have a fancy website, and they are having a spring break fest for those looking to take the risk and have some fun. They have a handful of cool events hitting all the classic genres lined up for 2021. Luckenbach is pretty sweet, this place looks like a a new hip cooler version. Can’t wait to check it out. Anywho, on tap for March is a Polo and Hot Air balloon festival, complimented with the helicopter rides. Talk about super fun. Yep!
Bandara is in full swing, there is something just about every weekend if you surf around the internet. Llanao rock stacking and earth festival
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2020 is now officially behind us and the much needed vaccine is now available to a lucky few. For many others the festivities and promise of a “normal” 21 seem close. Some even are officially canceled or virtual in 21, a few are already planned, while others are still in a wait and see mode. Cowboy Mardi Gras will kick things off with a band in the Hill Country, SXSW is online, ACL and the title wave of South Texas Octoberfest are anticipating a Covid free world. When the world finally open back up, it should be the party of the century.
A trip to Spider Mountain
It’s been tough to keep the fun blogging spirits up and find cool things to do in the Texas Hill Country during Covid. During the last week of September it was the owners Birthday so we had to make sure we found something fun to occupy our time. We decided to head to the upper part of Lake Buchanan with our boat to the Thunderbird Resort on Spider Mountain. Spoiler alert, it’s awesome and we can’t wait to go back.


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Jonathan Richman has been playing music, recording and touring for most of his life. Jonathan and his drummer Tommy Larkins win fans wherever they play. In the early 1970s, Jonathan formed the noted band The Modern Lovers. Tommy Larkins was in the groups Naked Prey, Giant Sand and other popular bands in Tucson, Arizona.
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Battery Daptor from V mount to 2x D Tap & USB
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The Holiday Inn Express and Suites Eagan is situated approximately eight miles from Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport and 14 miles from downtown Minneapolis. Local attractions include the Mall of America, Minnesota Zoo, Xcel Energy Center, and Target Center.

Hotel amenities include 24-hour complimentary airport shuttle, complimentary continental breakfast, 24-hour business center, guest laundry, laundry/dry cleaning, free local telephone calls, ice machine, room service, fax/photocopy services, and safe deposit box. Guests may also enjoy the indoor pool, whirlpool, and 24-hour fitness center.

Guest rooms feature satellite/cable TVs, coffeemakers, hairdryers, high-speed Internet access, in-room movies, irons, ironing boards, mini-bars, dual-line telephones, voicemail, and work desks with lamps.
Green Mill Restaurant
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With the January days starting to get slightly longer day by day, my desirer to carry on re-styling our home is only getting stronger. We will soon be remodelling the Bathroom this month (so I will show you all some pictures soon), however with the style now decided, I have moved my attention to our bedroom. We haven’t got a huge amount to spend on this room, so there will be a budget revealed at the end.
When we moved here back in May 2014, we were desperate to get our stamp on the house and make it feel like our own. When we first moved into the flat before the house, we were both much more into the vintage style furniture. This is lovely but we both have become bored of the style and feel like a freshen up.
As you can see we have a very white bedroom, with a blue flowered print feature wall, yet feel this is now slightly dated. In addition, we have had this style bed for a number of years, so think its time for a shape up!
On the other hand at this angle, I do still love this chest of draws which we picked up free in our last flat, as it adds a real sense of character to the room. Also this canvas of Hot Air Balloons over Paris is still one of my favourite pieces. Additionally, our brand new White Company laundry basket will defiantly not being going anywhere.
So what are the plans?
Rip down the wallpaper!
My now husband did a brilliant job putting this up for his first shot at wallpapering, so he is still coming to terms with the plan. However he favours the idea the whole wall will be painted white with a shelf hung above the bed, with all our favourite prints and pictures. I’ve already picked up this print and frame from Ikea for only £10 (I’ve sold this as futureproofing and it seems to be working!) Much like the images below found on Pinterest.
So, we will be taking out the Laura Ashley shade and replacing probably with an industrial look fitting, which I have had my eye on for a while now. Our ceilings are quite low, so we have the be careful with what we pick (oh to long for a high ceiling house). We are also going to fit in lights hanging down from the ceiling on cord as side lights. No shades, just antique style bulbs.
We are both still fans of the iron frame beds. These are much versatile and are much better value, however we have tired of our white Ikea frame. So instead we are going for a black, more simple frame. We’ve found this cracking bed from The Original Bed Co. which ticks every box. Its much more simple but still has some character to it. And for £169 for a Kingsize bedframe, I would say bargain!
To complement this lovely bed, its going to need some fitting bedside tables. And also the lights hanging down will have to look right. So we are going to aim to find some wood bedside tables with either one of two draws. We love the 70’s style bedside tables at the moment with their retro feel and shapes. Some ideas featured below from again Pinterest.
Pull up the carpet!
We need to do a little more investigating however we believe that we are lucky enough to have original floor boards under our carpet. So the plan will be to take this up the evaluate from there. If all is well, we will either wash these white or leave natural if good enough. But just to make sure the place has a little Hygge to it, add some mismatch rugs to bring out the cosy factor.
We have a few other plans to move various bits of furniture and also inherit some from family, but I will leave this as a surprise for next time.
And finally BUDGET. As said before, we are spending most of our house funds this year on the bathroom renovating, so we are going to cut this restyle right down and use as much as we have at the moment. The plan is to come in at either on or under £500. Do you think its possible? Let us know your thought.
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This tutorial is so quick and multifunctional that you may end up doing it more than you think!
I love doing these quick buns for running out to the store or if I want to wear a ball cap.
It's also a great workout hairstyle. You can make the buns as high or as low as you’d like.
You will need:
- Bobby pins
- 2 hair elastics
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- Hairspray (optional; I don’t use hairspray for this style)
I hope you find this hairstyle helpful when you’re in a jam and need a quick updo or some hat hair inspiration!
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Looking at the AXY there appears to be further decline due to key global and economic issues surrounding the USA, china and UK markets.
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bunnies and pollen
I finally got the tablet up and running so I did this on Gimp. It’s fun finding out what the program will do within the framework of a task. I got the idea about pollen from the way the brush tool worked. That and not wanting to keep doing the thing over.
For the bunnies, it’s the same doodling effort. Still starting from the ears and making that and the head in one line. For these I used more than one line because I wanted to work the tablet a bit more. The baby bunnies was a one-line exercise, though.
OK. Off to blow my nose again.
I could have kept messing with this forever in trying to get it “right”. Everything is reminding me of spiders (still).
I was inspired by Ed Emberley (who Melanie mentioned in her previous post) and tried working with shapes in Photoshop. Reminded me very much of playing with a grown-up version of Colorforms.
I had no premeditated message and it took me a while to figure out what the bunny wanted to say. In fact, I didn’t even realize how the title of this post would come into play until just this red hot minute. Making an ecological statement was the farthest thing from my conscious mind when I started messing with the shapes. I had no idea what to title this and so I started with Go Green and a big shrug. Then adding This Easter sort of materialized. Now it makes almost too much sense.
I swear there are fairies in my head.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that one jalapeno pepper sample is a positive genetic match with the Salmonella Saintpaul strain causing the current Salmonella outbreak.
The positive sample was obtained during an FDA inspection at a produce distribution center in McAllen, Texas. The pepper was grown on a farm in Mexico, however, that does not mean that the pepper was contaminated in Mexico.
The produce distribution center, Agricola Zaragoza, is working with FDA to voluntarily recall jalapeno peppers the company distributed since June 30, 2008.
Since a recall will not immediately remove all potentially contaminated peppers from the food supply, FDA is also asking consumers to avoid eating raw jalapeno peppers or foods made from raw jalapeno peppers until further notice in order to prevent additional cases of illness. This recommendation does not include cooked or pickled jalapeno peppers.
The FDA is continuing to advise that people in high-risk populations, such as elderly persons, infants and people with impaired immune systems, avoid eating raw serrano peppers or food made from raw serrano peppers until further notice..
Discovery of the positive jalapeno pepper sample was the result of several weeks of investigation by FDA scientists and field staff – including examining traceback data from the locations where there were clusters of foodborne illness, scrutinizing distribution records and collecting environmental samples from water, soil, work surfaces and packing boxes throughout the entire chain of production and distribution.
The FDA is continuing to investigate the other parts of the distribution chain to determine if there is any evidence that the contamination occurred on the farm in which the pepper was grown or at some other point in the supply chain before the distribution center in McAllen, Texas.
According to the CDC, 1,251 persons with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 43 states, the District of Columbia and Canada since April 2008. For more details, click here.


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NFB: SMEs are key to delivering infrastructure and housing
The Government has announced that £300 million of the Housing Infrastructure Fund will be invested in the West of England, Oxfordshire and Greater Manchester to help unlock housing developments and strengthen infrastructure.
The Government has shortlisted a further 44 areas for major infrastructure projects, which could deliver up to 400,000 new homes.
The National Federation of Builders (NFB) thinks that this funding will go a long way towards helping improve local infrastructure network, as well as enabling the delivery of affordable homes. However, solving the housing crisis requires planning reform, access to finance for SMEs, and a more diverse housing market.
Richard Beresford, chief executive of the NFB, said: “Reforming the planning process is key to solving the housing crisis but we must also do more to reform the procurement process. SMEs and regional contractors need to be able to compete on a level playing field alongside volume developers and the largest contractors to deliver affordable homes and infrastructure.
“SMEs have a unique understanding of their local communities. Working within 15 miles of where they are based, SMEs deliver high-quality homes more quickly than their larger counterparts and have an intrinsic understanding of local need. They are integral to the regional economy.”


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Listen to the twelve minute interview via podcast or go to feature on philanthropy.com:
Pushing Foundations Toward the Common Good
Foundations have long attempted to promote change through their grant-making efforts.
But focusing on specific issues, rather than the common good, often undermines their effectiveness, says Mark Rosenman, director of Caring to Change, a project in Washington that seeks to improve how grant making serves the public.
He says foundations can be more effective in their grant making and can solve more problems by adopting a broader mindset.
In an interview, he discusses this notion, which is outlined in the new report Foundations for the Common Good. You can also read an opinion article Mr. Rosenman wrote for The Chronicle as a preview of the report.


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The college consulting business has become a supernova, and according to a former Ivy League admissions officer, has grown by 300 percent over the last five years. Even a quick search uncovers many websites promising stunning results. The overconfidence of these businesses is frightening. Hire them and you will soon enter the Ivy League college of your choice. With their promises they deftly convert hope into cash. Increasingly propelled by greed, the industry preys on the fear of families, especially parents. A 2014 study conducted by the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) on criteria says that colleges look for students found that both well-written essays and “personal characteristics that will contribute to a diverse and interesting class” have grown in importance over the last couple years.
Benefiting from the sky-high anxiety that swirls around this, the industry is exploding in size. According to the IECA, the number of independent admissions consultants in the U.S. has grown from 2,000 to nearly 5,000 in recent years. Another report found that nationally, $400 million was spent on college consultants in 2012. Hourly rates in the Bay Area can be as high as $400 an hour, and comprehensive packages with regular meetings throughout high school can add up to several thousand dollars.
The private counselor business has been booming and largely unregulated for a decade now. Thousands of such counselors exist, ranging from solo practitioners to large companies that offer packages in which students are advised and coached for several years in high school. A candidate’s every move is in an admissions cycle, and with companies such as boasts made about inside connections to the admissions offices where many private counselors used to work, the industry is cited by some critics as an example of the way college admissions has become a game, a unregulated game that favors the wealthy. Private college counseling creates massive inequalities in college accessibility. According to CNBC, one such counseling service in New York starts off with a 90-minute consultation and then a six-hour boot camp so a counselor could review her essays and Common App costing $10,000. Because of its high costs, it restricts social mobility by giving rich students an unfair advantage in getting accepted into top tier schools. Other students are competing with lots of other students for a few minutes of attention with their high school guidance counselor.
Another concern for private college counselors is that the growing number of consultants appear to have little or no working experience in the college admissions field. It could be a young college grad establishing a extra business by providing essay advice, an individual seeking a career change, or, according to University Business, an entrepreneur fashioning a glitzy website with the financial backing of hopeful investors. Some consultants allege incredible success rates at “the most selective colleges.” Of course, there are no ways to verify these claims, which makes the private college counseling industry not worth investing into because of the many risks it possess.
Some private admissions consultants have worked as admissions readers at universities. Many of their brochures will advertise that they are college application readers and can help with application writing. In most cases, this means they are temporary “external readers” hired for application season. That is, during every admissions reading period from December to February, most large universities hire temporary readers to help sort the great pile of applications. This means that some of the consultants won’t know all the facts unlike a more professional consultant, making them an untrustworthy choice and a waste of money.
What had long been a collection of local, relatively low-cost, home-based businesses is morphing into an expensive industry. Independent private counselors can still play a crucial role in educating families, providing them with guidance on how to effectively make use of their high school counselors and on when to seek out private counselors. Many school counselors are put off by families seeking outside help. Still, they must face the fact that private advisors are growing. It has grown from about 1,500 in 2008 to more than 8,000 professionals, IECA said. This figure does not include the extra 10,000 to 15,000 who “dabble” in it to earn extra income. This is the gilded age of education, where the rich and powerful are able to perpetuate their influence by getting an advantage into elite schools. Private counselors only increase the educational opportunity gap between those who can afford such a luxury and those who can’t, making it something to deeply think about before considering one yourself.


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About five years ago, I began making daily internet pilgrimages to the Polar Research Group at the University of Illinois’s website – Cryosphere Today. I’d stumbled upon the website after a Google search and found that they provided infrared satellite photos of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice on a daily basis. At the time, somewhat of a human-caused climate change skeptic, but still very interested in the science, I decided that Cryosphere Today would be a fantastic empirical tool to use in discussions with friends, fellow science aficionados, and for developing my personal knowledge-base.
Reading through the site I discovered that since the satellite record had begun in 1979, the Arctic in particular had shown a slow but steady decline in sea ice cover. On the other hand, the Antarctic had remained mostly steady over the period. Overall, world oceans displayed a mild drop in sea ice coverage since the satellite record began. Seeing this, I thought it was a pretty clear indication that the earth was warming, as latent heat in the world’s oceans would have a melting effect on sea ice around the globe. So I kept visiting. But I kept the site under my hat for a time, not yet using it for discussions with friends and wanting to see what would happen over the next few years. Would ice coverage begin to bounce back? Or would it continue its steady decline? The data provided in 2005 was pretty clear to an analytical eye, but I didn’t yet think it was dramatic or conclusive enough to bring to the table. So I kept waiting and watching.
Then, in 2007, something dramatic did happen. Total minimum sea ice coverage fell from an average of about 5.4 million square kilometers to around 2.8 million square kilometers (according to Cryosphere Today data). The stunning decline cut the average low nearly in half! From 2006, the total drop in sea ice minimum was about 30%. The satellite showed an anemic ice cap that seemed to be hugging Greenland and the Canadian archipelago for safety. It had happened in just one year. In one year! It’s worth repeating for one important reason. Most climate scientists, up until that point, had assured the public that any human-caused climate change would be steady, gradual, occurring over vast time scales with almost imperceptible changes. To the unbiased observer, a 30% drop in Arctic ice coverage in one year is anything but gradual. It was sudden. It was explosive. It was a little scary.
In that one year all my remaining skepticism vanished with that giant chunk of ice cap. Increased levels of carbon dioxide, as measured each year at the Mauna Loa Observatory, was the only visible forcing on the earth’s climate system that could create the heat energy needed to melt so much ice so suddenly. Average solar activity was going down, which would have a cooling effect. There was no other legitimate forcing mechanism for warming on the radar. Furthermore, this melt had occurred at a time when temperature increases were in the range of .6 degrees Celsius about the 1900 average and .4 degrees Celsius above the 1950-1981 average. This seemed a small amount at the time. But what it didn’t show was how much more temperatures would have to rise to balance the earth’s climate at the then 370 ppm (parts per million) CO2 or how much the earth itself would have to change in response to that new balance. What became stunningly clear in 2007 was that shifts toward that new balance could be stunningly, dangerously rapid. NASA scientist James Hansen would later expand on this idea stating that natural forces were usually more gradual but that the human-caused increases in CO2 created a forcing on the climate system an order of magnitude greater than most effects in nature. To paraphrase Hansen – the human forcing packs one heck of a punch. And in 2007, that punch knocked out 30% of the Arctic ice cap’s coverage.I went to my friends and family. I began to do my best to spread the word. I wrote an article on my novel website’s blog and bulletined it through the social networks. The results ranged from loss of followers, to glazed-eyed denial, to outright personal attacks. But I hope my minor re-publication of the Cryosphere data had an impact, that it got people considering and acting. That, perhaps, a few more took up the cry who wouldn’t have otherwise. I honestly have no way of knowing. What I did learn is that denial is as insidious as it is numbing. A denier will do all possible to avoid the truth and then, when a change of mind happens, never admit they denied the thing in the first place. In some cases this behavior is simply smug obstinance. In others, it is a condition I like to think of as ‘steady state mind.’ People like to stay within their comfort zones and a part of this perspective often includes the assumption that they are mostly correct about their view of the world. In some ways, we all do this to greater or lesser degrees. It is only natural. For how can a person ever be correct on all counts? How could a person act with confidence without making a certain number of assumptions? But in the case of climate change (or any other imminent danger) it creates a deadly inertia. A barrier to understanding and necessary action. When fed by plausible misinformation, or worse, fear, such mental inertia can become intractable even to obvious proofs. It was once said ‘The Titanic is Unsinkable’ and many believed the comforting, mortal falsehood. And in the same vein, many of us now believe ‘All climate change is natural; humankind is too small to cause it.’ Such is the current state of climate change denial. Many who hold this view are people I care about.
So after the 2007 melt, what I now think of as the first ‘big proof,’ I began to dig in for the long haul, to draw battle lines in my mind. I’d made my first push to do my part, by trying to spread the word. But now I had to do more. I had to arm myself with the best, most useful, available information. So I expanded my search. I read a number of books both by deniers and by the scientists on the cutting edge of climate research. Those like James Hansen, whose life’s work has been the study of climate systems, proved invaluable sources. I dug into paleoclimate (a study of Earth’s past climates) and found that even natural climate change could be deadly quick once certain irreversible tipping points were reached. Of particular interest were the rapid development of ice damns on the giant glaciers of the last ice age and their explosive expulsion of water creating great waves and floods that roared across our planet’s surface. Some of the evidence was found in ten-thousand-year-old petrified trees, embedded horizontally in rock strata hundreds of feet above sea level on some Russian islands. Evidence, some archeologists noted, of a massive wave that swept out from the Laurentide Ice Sheet in Canada to inundate Alaska and deposit some of her trees on the facing shores of islands hundreds of miles away. Evidence mounted. Nature was massive. Tweek her a little and the world undergoes radical, sometimes unbelievably violent, change. But even more useful were new sources of information. The National Sea Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the University of Washington’s Polar Ice Center section of the Applied Physics Lab (APL), became invaluable. NSIDC provided the most trusted source of information on sea ice using a variety of tools similar to the Cryosphere Today website but with great depth and factual analysis. Of particular interest on the NSIDC site was the tracking of remaining old Arctic sea ice. Old sea ice is ice that has remained for two or more years without melting. Indirectly, the volume of this old ice can be used to measure the ice sheet’s health overall. The more loss of old ice, the more unstable the ice cap. Looking at the measurements from NSIDC, showed old sea ice on a steady and rapid decline. More rapid, in recent years, than the decline of total sea ice coverage (See attached graphic).
But the kicker came when looking at sea ice volume as recorded by the Applied Physics Lab. The difference between sea ice volume and coverage is key. Coverage is the amount of sea ice visible on the ocean’s surface. Volume is the total measurement of coverage (surface area) times depth. Coverage measures ice in square kilometers. Volume measures ice in cubic kilometers. What this means is that measurements of sea ice coverage don’t take into account the total amount of ice-the portion beneath the visible ice at the surface. Measurements of sea volume showed a steady, unequivocal, and dramatic decline since 1980 (see graphic here). More dramatic, in many ways, than in observed sea ice coverage. Since 1980, according to APL data, average minimum sea ice volume has dropped from about 18,000 cubic kilometers to a dramatic low of 5,800 cubic kilometers in September of 2010 (about a 67% decline). What is most stunning about this decline rate is that, if it continues on this trend, the Artic reaches zero ice at minimum in 16 years. In little more than one and a half decades, according to APL data, late summer may show zero arctic sea ice.
In my mind, this set of data constitutes the second big proof. Though not visible on the surface, it makes pretty obvious sense. Anyone who has watched an ice cube melt in a glass knows that the underside of the cube melts more rapidly than the surface until what you end up with is a vanishing sliver. And both the APL data and NSIDC old sea ice measurements show that a similar kind of melt, but on a much larger scale, is occurring right now in our planet’s oceans.
At this point of observation, one feels an immediate sense of frustration. One does not want to be the engineer on the Titanic describing why it is inevitable the great ship will sink. In short, we don’t want to reach the third big proof – which would be the disappearance of late summer sea ice in the arctic. Why? Well, after that, things start to get more difficult. The first is that the earth’s reduced reflectivity caused by the ice sheet’s loss results in an increased warming. Dark oceans absorb more heat than white ice. Adding reduced reflectivity to an inexorably increasing concentration of CO2, makes it far more likely that the next big proofs (the scary ones) will follow: Greenland ice melt (#4), West Antarctic Ice Shelf ice melt (#5), and then release of methane bound up in water-ice formations called clathrates or ‘methane hydrates (#6).
A very rapid prognostication shows big proof #4 – melting of Greenland glacial ice, results in significant, dangerous rises in sea level. Same with big proof #5. The nightmare scenario for these melts is similar, but somewhat smaller, ice damning and water release events comparable to the end of the last ice age. But even a steady, non-violent melt resulting in sea level rise would be enough to flood many of the world’s major cities and wipe some nations clean off the planet (Maldives, Bangladesh and others). Big proof #6 – large releases of methane hydrates from the ocean floor result in massive loss of sea life due to ocean chemistry changes and significant increased climate forcings through greenhouse gas releases on top of those already produced by fossil fuel burning. The nightmare scenarios for methane hydrate releases are atmospheric fire storms caused by large methane ‘burps’ being ignited by lightning strikes and a runaway greenhouse effect resulting in Earth becoming more like Venus and less like the world that was the cradle of humankind.
So, for now, here we stand, still well away from that terrible, yet visible, end with two big proofs of our peril before us and with #3 waiting in the wings. We know the world is warming and we know the Arctic Ocean ice is inexorably thinning and shrinking. Our best scientists have provided us with the tools to understand why – human-caused greenhouse gas emissions bringing CO2 concentrations to 389 ppm and rising. It is beginning to dawn in the minds of some of us that the world we live in is already dramatically changed. Not the same world that sheltered human civilization for thousands of years. But a more unstable world. A place of violent storms and rising seas and more unpredictable weather. A tougher place. A place that can still sustain life and, if we’re lucky, human civilization. But not if we keep going. Not if we don’t change. Hopefully, the information before us will be enough to snap out of this comfortable denial and to demand rational action from our governments. To slow the ship down, to stop throwing coal on the fire, to steer clear of the worst storms of climate change, the ones that sink the ship and all the life-boats too.


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Council officials in Llangefni have ordered town centre Christmas lights to be taken down over health and safety concerns.
The festive lights were erected for the big switch-on this week, but the council was contacted by the island authority asking for them to be removed claiming permission had not been granted for the lights to be put up over public highways.
The Town Mayor, Dylan Rees, said, “There has been a communication from the county council over the Christmas lights regarding requiring certain permissions for the lights to go up. With the switch on tonight our view was that they would not be coming down and that the event would go ahead as planned. We think this is the common sense approach as the lights are important to the people of Llangefni and our town centre. The town council meets on Monday and we will debate the communication before deciding what response to give and what action to take.”
However, a spokesman for Anglesey County Council argued, “Anyone who wants to erect festive decorations in or above the highway must submit an application to the county council so that we can ensure public safety at all times. These guidelines are set by a national code of practice. Unfortunately, we recently discovered that new Christmas lights had been erected on the street lighting columns at Buckley Square and town hall car park in Llangefni. This is not permitted and as a result we have asked the town council to take these lights down.”
They continued, “The county council has been actively promoting Christmas events and celebrations in towns on Anglesey, however we ultimately have a duty to ensure that visitors are able to enjoy these activities safely.”