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Even though there are many different changes that can be made to the home, changing the Windows is one that certainly should not be overlooked. It doesn?t matter if you are replacing your older Windows with new aluminum windows or wood windows, if they are up to the right standards, you can benefit from it in many different ways (Source: Wood Windows by AAA Windows For Less). What are some of the things that you should consider when replacing the home windows and how can you benefit from it to the full?
One of the things that you should consider is the fact that replacing windows in the home is going to help you save money on your energy bill. A lot of the energy that leaves the home, leaves through the windows or through the door. That is why it is important for you to make sure that you are buttoning up the home as tightly as possible by replacing the windows with high quality items. It will also help to even out the temperature in the home, as you will not be getting as much of the inside temperature radiating from outside through the windows. This will allow you to be comfortable in more areas of the home, which you are certain to appreciate. One final benefit of doing such a home improvement project is the fact that you will often be rewarded with a tax refund. This can either be on a local level, statewide or perhaps even on your federal taxes. Talk to your accountant about the options that are open to you and how you may even get part of your windows paid for through such a deduction.
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2012) ? Doctors who commit suicide appear to be under-treated for mental health problems, despite their seemingly good access to health care, a new University of Michigan study shows.
Although more physicians than non-physicians in the study had known mental health problems prior to suicide, this didn't translate into a higher rate of antidepressant use, according to the study, which appears in General Hospital Psychiatry and provides a deeper look at why physicians may have a higher-than-average suicide rate.
Major depression is a known risk factor for suicide, particularly for female physicians.
Stigma, lack of confidentiality, and desire to self-treat may explain why physicians don't seek formal treatment for mental health problems, says lead author Katherine J. Gold, M.D., M.S.W., M.S., assistant professor of family medicine and of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School.
The study found that physicians who committed suicide were much more likely to have potentially lethal prescription medications in their system -- but not medication prescribed for depression.
"Even though this population presumably has very good access to health care, it doesn't appear that they're getting adequate treatment," Gold says. "I think stigma about mental health is a huge part of the story. There is a belief that physicians should be able to avoid depression or just 'get over it' by themselves."
Other findings:
There was a difference in methods for suicide. Firearms were the No. 1 method for both groups. The No. 2 method for physicians was an overdose, likely related to the physicians' knowledge of lethal drug dosing and prescribing ability.
On-the-job stress could also be a bigger suicide risk factor for physicians, according to the study. A physician who commits suicide is far less likely to have had a recent death of a friend or family member or a crisis contribute to the suicide but much more likely to have a job problem contribute. Gold says this finding suggests that a physician's identity is strongly linked to the job role and physicians may be particularly vulnerable to problems at work.
The U-M study follows up work from another U-M Family Medicine study that addressed risk factors for stress and burnout among medical students.
"This paints a more detailed picture of external events and risk factors in a physician's life before a suicide, rather than just looking at a death certificate," Gold says.
"We've seen a number of studies now that show a high rate of anxiety, depression and burnout among both medical students and physicians but we haven't done very much to develop programs to reduce or treat these risk factors and to increase mental health-seeking among physicians," Gold adds.
"There needs to be greater effort to address the stigma, under-diagnosis and treatment of depression among physicians and understand how we can reduce the stress related to work. We need to make mental health treatment more available, safe and confidential."
Additional authors: Thomas L.Schwenk, M.D., former chair of U-M's Department of Family Medicine, now dean of the University of Nevada School of Medicine and vice president of the University of Nevada, Reno, Division of Health Sciences; and Ananda Sen, Ph.D., research associate professor in the U-M Department of Family Medicine.
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Britain released Islamist preacher Abu Qatada on bail Monday after a British court ruled he could not be extradited to Jordan.?
By Arthur Bright,?Staff writer / November 13, 2012
Abu Qatada, left, gets out of the rear of a vehicle as he returns to his residence in London on Tuesday. The radical Islamist cleric cannot be deported from Britain to Jordan to face terrorism charges, judges ruled Monday in the latest twist in a protracted legal saga.
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Monday saw the release of Islamist preacher Abu Qatada from prison in Britain, after a British court ruled that he could not be extradited to Jordan. The ruling is just the latest setback for the government, which has been unsuccessfully trying to remove Mr. Qatada for the better part of a decade. But while a familiar name and face to British readers, Qatada is not well known on this side of the Atlantic.?
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Who is Abu Qatada?
Qatada is a radical Islamist preacher and alleged terrorism supporter currently living in Britain. Born in Bethlehem while the city was under Jordan's control, Qatada is of Palestinian descent and also holds Jordanian citizenship.
Qatada arrived in Britain in September 1993, seeking asylum on the basis of having been tortured by Jordanian authorities, and was granted refugee status a year later.
He quickly became a prominent figure, both in London's militant Islamic community and abroad, by advocating the overthrow of oppressive, foreign-backed governments in the Middle East in favor of regimes founded on Islam. Qatada's sermons also backed the use of violence against apostates ? including their wives and children ? as religiously justified.
Why is the British government trying to deport him?
Qatada was not initially regarded as a domestic threat ? indeed, MI5, the British security agency, attempted to consult with him more than once for better understanding of the country's Islamist community. But by the end of the 1990s, the British government had begun to revise its opinion of Qatada, who had become even more vocally hardline, targeting Jews in his sermons and speaking out in favor of suicide attacks.
At the same time in Jordan, Qatada was charged and convicted in absentia for several terrorism-related crimes. In 1998, he was sentenced to death for supporting attacks on foreign targets in Jordan, though his sentence was quickly commuted to life in prison. And then in 2000, he received a 15-year sentence for supporting similar attacks against tourists attending Jordan's millennium celebrations. Jordanian prosecutors said he provided backing for both operations from Britain.
Following Sept. 11, 2001, Britain enacted laws empowering the government to detain terrorism suspects without charge. Qatada, whose teachings were said to have influenced both Zacarias Moussaoui, the "20th 9/11 hijacker," and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, was by then a clear concern for the United Kingdom. Although initially able to avoid capture, he was arrested in October 2002. Since then, Qatada has been in and out of jail pending his deportation to Jordan, though he denies supporting terrorism.
Why was he set free?
The short answer is that Jordan's case against Qatada appears too dependent on evidence extracted via torture.
Barack Obama?s victory this week was hoped for, and celebrated, in Canada as a triumph of Canadian-style Americanism. Here in Toronto, for example, the writers group PEN Canada invited a wide range of people to a public-speaking event titled, ?Democracy in the Year of Election? that amounted, at least in its advance notice, to an election-eve secular prayer meeting for an Obama victory. (It was explained in the invitation that it was a contest between an incumbent who wished to extend medical care to the disadvantaged and an opponent who wished to lower the taxes of the rich.)
Writers always hold themselves out as torch-bearers for truth, intellectual integrity and rigorous analysis of the complex. Likewise broadcasters: The election results, on Tuesday night and in days following, were presented on the CBC as an uplifting victory of a deserving winner and a crushing defeat of an evangelical, Zionist, misogynist, fat-cat reactionary.
I know it sounds silly, and it might be a copyright issue, but would it be possible to add the Skyrim Dovah font so that you could type and "speak" in the dragon language? I was able to download the font so I can use it on my computer at home for personal use and entertainment, but would RPGateway be against downloading it and adding it to the list of fonts that the site recognizes?
Again, it might be a copyright thing so if it is then I apologize and we can drop the subject.
Denon's 2012 earphone onslaught continues with the Globe Cruiser AH-W200, which sounds a lot less goofy than, say, the Urban Raver AH-C300 . The Globe Cruiser is a stereo Bluetooth pair of in-canal earphones ($179.99 list). It's a worthy competitor in the space, especially for lovers of deep bass; this is a sound signature for modern mixes where sub-bass frequencies often play a central role. There's some distortion at top volumes, which is a bummer, but the Globe Cruiser's overall performance at less intense volumes is laudable, and it comes with a nice array of accessories, so the good ultimately outweighs the bad.
Design While the Globe Cruiser is wireless, its in-canal earpieces are connected with a single, behind-the-head cable. The earpieces themselves are rather bulky, but such is the way with wireless in-ear designs: You either get a shirt-clip compartment that houses the wireless receiver electronics, or you have them stuffed into chunky earpieces. The good news is that the metallic gray-and-black design sits comfortably in your ear, with a flexible, over-the-ear connecting piece between the actual in-canal drivers and the circuitry compartments.
The right earpiece houses controls for Play/Pause (which doubles as Power and Pairing) and Volume, as well as the microphone, the micro-USB charging connection, and the cable connection, which facilitates wired use.
The Globe Cruiser ships with a USB cable for charging and a 3.5mm audio cable for the above-mentioned audio jack. There's no actual charger included, which is standard for Bluetooth earphones, but I'm going to keep complaining about it until some company starts including them?you shouldn't have to rely on a computer (or buy a USB charger) in order to juice up your earphones.
Also included in the handsome, sturdy black leather zippered soft case: four pairs of silicon eartips (in various sizes), one pair of Comply foam eartips, an airplane jack adapter, and, so you can loop the case from your backpack, a carabiner.
One brief note about fit and audio performance: the Globe Cruiser sounds tremendously different without a secure in-ear seal. This is true of all in-canal earphones, but because of the weight of the earpieces, it's tougher to get a perfect seal, and it's essential that you experiment with all of the ear tip sizes or you risk having a dramatically reduced bass response.
The Globe Cruiser employs Bluetooth 3.0 and supports the aptX codec. Denon estimates battery life at roughly five hours per full charge.
Performance Assuming you find the right eartips, the Globe Cruiser provides a tremendous amount of sub-bass presence. On songs with or without deep bass, the Globe Cruiser can sound thunderous. Somehow, this thunder doesn't ever really overwhelm the overall mix. This is not a pair for audiophiles, but the bass isn't so ridiculously booming that things sound horrible. In fact, if you're a fan of deep bass, the Globe Cruiser does a good job of bringing the sub-bass up in the mix without losing definition or articulation in the sub-low to mid-low range.
Unfortunately, at top volumes, deep bass tracks tend to distort. Our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout" became quite distorted and fuzzy at about 85 percent volume on an iPhone 4S with the volume of the earphones set to maximum. This is not a safe listening level, and at moderate listening levels, distortion does not occur. However, it does, on certain tracks, start to appear at loud volumes that users could conceivably listen at. Again, it's not a good idea to listen to music at levels this high, but if you do, be aware that these earphones will likely distort on tracks that have substantial low end.
The Globe Cruiser also packs a crisp, high-end punch?it helps vocals stand out against the bass-boosted mix, and it sounds great for most pop and vocal-driven music. The treble's presence makes the attack of the kick drum loop on Jay-Z & Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild" hit with a serious edge, while the sub-bass synth part rumbles below. The various vocals on this track all stand out over the busy mix, and the Globe Cruiser does a good job of providing thump and high-end grit without ever losing clarity. This is a sculpted sound signature, for certain, but it sounds pretty exciting.
On classical pieces, like John Adams' "The Chairman Dances," the enhanced bass can be a tad too intense, with the lower register strings and percussion sounding almost as if they were amplified instruments instead of acoustic. It doesn't sound awful, but if instrumental genres are your bread and butter, the Globe Cruiser lacks the subtlety and balance that you're likely seeking. The highs sound magnificent, but the lows are just a bit too intense here.
In this price range, the Phiaton PS 20 BT offers quality audio performance with a less sculpted sound signature, but it lacks the crispness of the Globe Cruiser. However, the PS 20 BT uses a shirt-clip compartment instead in-earpiece circuitry?if that appeals to you, it's worth checking out. There's also the Phiaton PS 210 BTNC , which combines Bluetooth streaming and some passable active noise cancellation. If comfort and secure fit are your main priorities, however, you might want to consider an on-ear headphone pair rather than bulky in-ear Bluetooth earphones. The Sennheiser MM 100 is an excellent, affordable, lightweight on-ear option, and the bulkier, more expensive Beats by Dr. Dre Wireless offers serious Bluetooth power, with distortion-free, booming low-end?though the headband can get a bit uncomfortable after a while. The Globe Cruiser, however, offers exciting audio performance at moderate levels for bass lovers. The distortion shouldn't be a deal-breaker, especially if you don't listen to music with seriously deep bass and at levels that are unsafely high to begin with.
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During last month, a new Xbox 360 Dashboard reached our beloved consoles and to much surprise, many users found out that the maximum storage capability for flash drives was doubled, from 16 GB to 32 GB. It was surprising mostly because of Microsoft?s policy with external storage devices and the limitations applied, making customers buy the official Xbox 360 Hard Drive to get full functionality.
It seems like the increase was intentional and not some side effect of the new dashboard update: a Microsft spokeperson confirmed today that the increase was to encourage players to use their Live profile more and buy even more digital content. More storage space = more contents. So don?t worry people, buy and download like there?s no tomorrow, Microsoft isn?t going to go back to those little 16 GB! It doesn?t really improve on the storage limitations of the console but still, it?s a good thing that Microsoft is slowly opening up to the idea of having wider storage possibilities.
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Facebook has just launched relationship and friendship pages in the Timeline layout. For some, these pages may seem like sweet pictorials of time spent together, but others may feel the pages cross the privacy line. Don't worry, though ? you can still edit these joint pages, just like your own profile.
With friendship pages, you get to see yourself paired with each of your Facebook friends, along with photos of the two of you together, a list of mutual friends, and all of your shared posts, all in the Timeline format most have grown to love or hate. And if you've specified that you're "in a relationship" with someone, the two of you get a special "us" page.
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Friend pages really aren't new. Facebook launched them in 2010, but what is new is the big focus on photos and your ability to edit them. Couple pages, however, are entirely new. For both types of pages, Facebook pulls photos in which both you and your friend or significant other have been tagged. However, if you don't like Facebook's automated selections, you can change them. Here's how:
Go to a friend's page; click the gear icon at the top of your friend's Timeline, and select "See Friendship." You can see relationship pages by logging into your Facebook account and then navigating to facebook.com/us. (Note that the other person in the couple must confirm the relationship before it appears as part of a Facebook profile, a safeguard against crushing teens and others who may not have a realistic view of their coupledom.)
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You can use the same editing steps for both types of joint pages. Hover over the cover photo until the edit icon appears, and then choose a new photo, just like when editing your own?cover photo . You can also highlight certain posts and make them larger by clicking the star icon. Or you can hide posts from a page. But keep in mind that this only removes the story from your page. It may still be visible on your partner's page, unless you delete the post entirely.
Facebook said in its blog that they would roll out the new Timeline joint pages out over the next few days. The new pages are not part of Facebook mobile.
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As part of the?WriteCamp?event of the?Singapore Writers Festival, Dr. Tommy Wong, author of the??Wisdom on How to Live Life??book series, will be giving a talk on ?From engineering professor to author of philosophy, spiritual and self-help books ? an intriguing writing journey?.
The?WriteCamp event will be held at Level 3 Seminar Room, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University on Sunday, 11 November 2012 between 2.30-6.30 pm.?The exact timing and venue of Dr. Wong?s talk will be posted on the WriteCamp?website?in due course.
Admission to the event is free. All are welcome.
Tommy S. W. Wong
Dr. Wong is a civil engineer by training, and is a world-renowned hydrologist. Having lived a worldly life, he now lives spiritually in the midst of modern Singapore. For more than a decade, together with his wife, he took care of his mother and mother-in-law (both near centenarians), while working full-time and looking after his three sons.
Nowadays, he serves the world at large as a freelance engineering and personal growth consultant. He is also an editor and has authored books of four different genres: engineering, philosophy, self-help and spirituality. He is committed to bringing engineering and spiritual teachings to the world for the benefit of mankind.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) ? The Vatican is trying to resurrect Latin.
Pope Benedict XVI issued a decree Saturday creating a new pontifical academy for Latin studies to try to boost interest in the official language of the Roman Catholic Church that is nevertheless out of widespread use elsewhere.
Benedict acknowledged Latin's fall from grace in his decree, saying future priests nowadays often learn only a "superficial" knowledge of Latin in their seminaries. The new academy will promote Latin through conferences, publications and instruction in Catholic schools, universities and seminaries, he wrote.
As would be expected, the decree and its founding statutes were written in Latin.
Benedict's move is further evidence of his attempt to restore the church to its traditional roots as it battles to prevent the faithful from straying in today's increasingly secular world. Benedict has been promoting this "new evangelization" to try to reassert Christianity's place in society in parts of the world where it's fallen by the wayside, a victim of competition from Pentecostal churches as well as its own priestly sex abuse scandals.
The initiative is also an olive branch to traditionalist Catholics, who have long lamented the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council which replaced the Latin liturgy with Mass in the vernacular.
In 2007, Benedict relaxed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass ? a move which supporters say has increased interest in the Latin language as well as the Latin liturgy.
Since becoming pope in 2005, Benedict has reintroduced Latin in much of his own Vatican celebrations, with the Gospel often chanted in the ancient language.
The Vatican argues that while few ordinary Catholics may understand Latin, it is a universal language that represents the universal church and doesn't favor the language of one particular group over another. Critics say the return to Latin is just another indication of how out of touch today's Catholic Church is with the modern world.
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Contact: Jason Vogel Jason_vogel@tamu.edu 979-845-5580 Texas A&M AgriLife Communications
COLLEGE STATION Fertilizing one's lawn is considered a necessary practice, as is with most agricultural crops. But how many people know about fertilizing a commercial forest, and how that might affect the environment and their investment?
Dr. Jason Vogel, assistant professor of forest ecosystem science within the Texas A&M University department of ecosystem science and management, is studying just how much difference fertilization can make to the productivity of the forest and carbon sequestration.
Vogel is a part of the Pine Integrated Network Education, Mitigation and Adaptation Project, known as PineMap, a coordinated adaptation project awarded in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The institutional leads are the University of Florida and Virginia Tech, and there are 12 institutions and 52 principal investigators participating.
Joining Vogel on the Texas A&M team of researchers are Dr. Tom Byram, Dr. Jason West, Dr. Carol Loopstra, Dr. Jinbang Gan and Dr. Eric Taylor, all faculty members of the ecosystem science and management department. These researchers share $2.1 million of the total $19.1 million five-year grant.
The entire project is trying to prepare southern pine forest owners for potential climate change, Vogel said. The region in the study is from North Carolina to Oklahoma and Texas, plus everything south. The climate is expected to be warmer, which could induce drought stress on trees.
In the southeastern U.S., forests are responsible for 5.5 percent of all the jobs and 7.5 percent of industrial output, he said.
"This is a commodity that supports a lot of communities from East Texas to the eastern seaboard, so it is important we know how to best manage this natural resource," Vogel said.
Vogel's primary interest is in the below-ground processes of a forest how much root mass the trees carry and how soil organisms respond to fertilization and climate. The larger goal is to find the best management scheme that maximizes a forest landowner's investment in a sustainable way.
"My role is to try to determine how forestry practices can be made efficient in terms of fertilizer use and to sequester more carbon," he said. "I'm focused mainly on production forests, where large landowners already use some fertilization."
His study also is assessing the sensitivity of loblolly pines to reduced water availability.
"Can we quantify how our management schemes affect a tree's ability to take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in their tissues and in the soil?" Vogel questioned.
Within his study, Vogel and his students are going to forested areas in East Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas to measure tree biomass, soil carbon and other nutrients in the soil.
"Trees are generally fertilized when they are planted and again when they are between eight and 10 years of age," he said. "When the trees are 20 to 25 years old, they are considered harvestable."
Trees are estimated to take up about 13 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from a region. If they are fertilized, thus growing bigger faster, they can store more carbon in their tissue and in the soil beneath them, Vogel said.
"That's my interest why does the soil take up more carbon?" he said.
More carbon means improved properties for plant growth, and eventually, less carbon release into the atmosphere, Vogel explained.
"On the front end, the carbon is in the ground, and as the tree grows faster, more carbon is pushed into the soil," he said, "then the microbes begin the decomposition process. But the rate of decomposition is slower because there are plentiful nutrients. This slowed decomposition then slows down the carbon release into the atmosphere.
"You want the sequestration to be larger than the emissions," Vogel said. "So we are looking at different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization to see how it changes the carbon emissions and the input in the plants."
Through a modeling component of the combined study, Vogel will take what his study finds about the below-ground life of a forest and add it to the other researchers' findings.
"We hope in the end PineMap will have a web-based interface that landowners can go to and learn about their options for what types of trees to plant and fertilizer recommendations given the potential for future climate change," he said.
Part of the project is aimed at letting the smaller landowners with managed forest land know what changes they might make to improve their forest's productivity and resistance to change in climate, Vogel said.
Decisions by small landowners are critical because it is estimated that 65 percent of the forests in Texas are owned by small landowners. The PineMap study will give them the tools needed to help make decisions on the best future avenues to take.
"The big issue for a small landowner is whether the land will stay in their family," he said. "They have to make an investment today that will not pay off for about 25 years. And the question is, 'Will that land still be with their children or grandchildren and so will it pay for us to make an investment in forest management?'"
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COLLEGE STATION Fertilizing one's lawn is considered a necessary practice, as is with most agricultural crops. But how many people know about fertilizing a commercial forest, and how that might affect the environment and their investment?
Dr. Jason Vogel, assistant professor of forest ecosystem science within the Texas A&M University department of ecosystem science and management, is studying just how much difference fertilization can make to the productivity of the forest and carbon sequestration.
Vogel is a part of the Pine Integrated Network Education, Mitigation and Adaptation Project, known as PineMap, a coordinated adaptation project awarded in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The institutional leads are the University of Florida and Virginia Tech, and there are 12 institutions and 52 principal investigators participating.
Joining Vogel on the Texas A&M team of researchers are Dr. Tom Byram, Dr. Jason West, Dr. Carol Loopstra, Dr. Jinbang Gan and Dr. Eric Taylor, all faculty members of the ecosystem science and management department. These researchers share $2.1 million of the total $19.1 million five-year grant.
The entire project is trying to prepare southern pine forest owners for potential climate change, Vogel said. The region in the study is from North Carolina to Oklahoma and Texas, plus everything south. The climate is expected to be warmer, which could induce drought stress on trees.
In the southeastern U.S., forests are responsible for 5.5 percent of all the jobs and 7.5 percent of industrial output, he said.
"This is a commodity that supports a lot of communities from East Texas to the eastern seaboard, so it is important we know how to best manage this natural resource," Vogel said.
Vogel's primary interest is in the below-ground processes of a forest how much root mass the trees carry and how soil organisms respond to fertilization and climate. The larger goal is to find the best management scheme that maximizes a forest landowner's investment in a sustainable way.
"My role is to try to determine how forestry practices can be made efficient in terms of fertilizer use and to sequester more carbon," he said. "I'm focused mainly on production forests, where large landowners already use some fertilization."
His study also is assessing the sensitivity of loblolly pines to reduced water availability.
"Can we quantify how our management schemes affect a tree's ability to take carbon out of the atmosphere and store it in their tissues and in the soil?" Vogel questioned.
Within his study, Vogel and his students are going to forested areas in East Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas to measure tree biomass, soil carbon and other nutrients in the soil.
"Trees are generally fertilized when they are planted and again when they are between eight and 10 years of age," he said. "When the trees are 20 to 25 years old, they are considered harvestable."
Trees are estimated to take up about 13 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from a region. If they are fertilized, thus growing bigger faster, they can store more carbon in their tissue and in the soil beneath them, Vogel said.
"That's my interest why does the soil take up more carbon?" he said.
More carbon means improved properties for plant growth, and eventually, less carbon release into the atmosphere, Vogel explained.
"On the front end, the carbon is in the ground, and as the tree grows faster, more carbon is pushed into the soil," he said, "then the microbes begin the decomposition process. But the rate of decomposition is slower because there are plentiful nutrients. This slowed decomposition then slows down the carbon release into the atmosphere.
"You want the sequestration to be larger than the emissions," Vogel said. "So we are looking at different levels of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization to see how it changes the carbon emissions and the input in the plants."
Through a modeling component of the combined study, Vogel will take what his study finds about the below-ground life of a forest and add it to the other researchers' findings.
"We hope in the end PineMap will have a web-based interface that landowners can go to and learn about their options for what types of trees to plant and fertilizer recommendations given the potential for future climate change," he said.
Part of the project is aimed at letting the smaller landowners with managed forest land know what changes they might make to improve their forest's productivity and resistance to change in climate, Vogel said.
Decisions by small landowners are critical because it is estimated that 65 percent of the forests in Texas are owned by small landowners. The PineMap study will give them the tools needed to help make decisions on the best future avenues to take.
"The big issue for a small landowner is whether the land will stay in their family," he said. "They have to make an investment today that will not pay off for about 25 years. And the question is, 'Will that land still be with their children or grandchildren and so will it pay for us to make an investment in forest management?'"
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City and much of the Northeast on Thursday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered a region struggling to recover from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, as local governments expanded gasoline rationing in the face of shortages that may last for weeks.
The unseasonably early winter storm dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of Connecticut on Wednesday and battered the region with 50 mph winds, plunging 300,000 homes and businesses back into darkness. Rides aboard crowded trains were made more uncomfortable by the bulky coats, hats and scarves freezing commuters had to wear.
Bitter cold, rain, snow and powerful winds added to the misery of disaster victims whose homes were destroyed or power was knocked out by Sandy. The storm came ashore on October 29 and caused widespread flooding, leading up to as much as $50 billion in economic losses.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was preparing to bring in mobile homes to house those displaced by the storm, a reminder of the scramble after Hurricane Katrina seven years ago to tend to the newly homeless. Some evacuees will be put up nearly 200 miles from home, FEMA said, because there is little available space closer to the city.
The snowstorm also created another commuting nightmare for a region whose transportation system was already under repair.
Train service was again spotty and crowded Thursday night; the Long Island Rail Road appealed to people to travel later in the evening for their own sake. People coming out of the Newport PATH station in New Jersey had to negotiate busy rush-hour traffic without traffic lights, so one man took it on himself to direct cars.
They were lucky to even get there, though.
Confusion reigned at Penn Station, where heavily armed police guarded track entrances, and the Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan, where officers yelled into crowds of people whose normal 30-to-45-minute commutes stretched well past two hours each way this week.
Kim Chan said she would give her line to Maplewood another ten minutes before heading to her mother's house in the city for the night. "I'm not going to see my daughter until maybe when the trains are fixed," said Chan, who works for a dance company. "I'm not sure living in New Jersey is worth the effort."
GAS, PATIENCE RUNNING OUT
With drivers still struggling to find adequate fuel, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city would begin an indefinite program of gas rationing, modeled on one New Jersey implemented last week.
Bloomberg indicated that the city had little choice. One gas station in Brooklyn had an hour-long line Thursday just for government workers, while another along the busy Belt Parkway in Queens had a two-hour line for just one working pump. After he announced the rationing plan, a gas line snaked for blocks through Manhattan's Soho neighborhood.
"It now appears there will be shortages for possibly another couple weeks," Bloomberg said, later adding "if you think about it, it's not any great imposition once you get used to it."
Neighboring counties would implement a similar program, he said, in an effort to cut down lines that ran for hours at local filling stations following Sandy. The city's iconic yellow taxis are exempt from the new regulation, which allows drivers to fill up on alternating days depending on their license plate number.
New Yorkers, never known for holding their tongues, let their exasperation with the bad weather show.
"God hates us!" the New York Post said in a front-page headline. Some 3 to 6 inches of snow fell on the city, which enjoyed dry, sunny weather on Thursday.
'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'
Residents at Waterside Plaza, an apartment complex over the East River on the Manhattan shore, shared the sentiment after having their power restored on Wednesday - temporarily, anyway.
"Then the power went and failed one more time, then came back again, then failed in the evening, then came back again, then failed again this morning and hasn't come back," said Josh Bright, a 39-year-old photojournalist, as he climbed the stairs to his apartment on the 26th floor to feed his cats.
Others received some good news Thursday. Just before sunset, a neighbor called Sandy Iyer-Horan, 35, and said the front lights on her Westchester home were working again. Iyer-Horan had been living in a friend's basement with her two small children since the storm knocked out power at her house.
"It's hard to sleep because you're constantly stressing about when your power will be on," she said.
Sandy's death toll in the United States and Canada reached 121 after New York authorities on Wednesday reported another death linked to the storm in the hard-hit coastal neighborhood of the Rockaways, a barrier island facing the Atlantic Ocean.
"Can you believe this? Enough is enough," said Cindy Casey, whose Belle Harbor home one block from the beach in the Rockaways was swamped by Sandy, as she looked out at the snow blanketing the neighborhood devastated by flooding and fire.
Sandy surrounded Casey's home with six feet (two meters) of water and sparked a fire that destroyed at least 20 houses in the neighborhood before stopping short of her own.
The storms have also battered New Jersey's shore, a summer tourist haven where hundreds of beach-front homes were destroyed by Sandy's record storm surge.
"The kids have been home for nearly two weeks and I'm not working, and when I'm not working I'm not making any money. This hasn't been easy," said Michael Platt, 49, an electrician from Toms River, New Jersey, who got an estimated foot of snow.
'FAILED CONSUMERS'
New York City on Friday will open a vehicle tunnel linking midtown Manhattan to Queens, which would restore all of Manhattan's bridges and tunnels except for the tunnel linking lower Manhattan to Brooklyn.
Amtrak plans to reopen three tunnels to the city's Penn Station by late Friday. In the meantime, New Jersey officials said the state would put make more free shuttle buses and ferries available to help commuters get into Manhattan.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who said estimates put the damage and economic loss for the region at $50 billion (including $33 billion in New York state), turned his ire on the power utilities, which he said had failed consumers by taking so long to restore electricity.
Some 715,000 homes and businesses in the region were without power, a net increase of nearly 43,000 from Wednesday night after the nor'easter knocked it out to more customers following those who had lost it from Sandy, the U.S. Energy Department said.
The storm damage exposed deep flaws in the structure and regulation of power utilities that will require a complete redesign, said Cuomo, who oversees the state-controlled utilities and appoints the members of the Public Service Commission, which regulates investor-owned utilities such as Consolidated Edison.
"It is nameless, faceless bureaucracy that is a monopoly that operates with very little incentive or sanction. ... They have failed the consumers," Cuomo said.
(Additional reporting by Barbara Goldberg, Philip Barbara, Michelle Conlin, Chelsea Emery, Jilian Mincer and Edward Krudy; Writing by Dan Trotta and Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Jackie Frank and Stacey Joyce)
If you're like us, every one of your mobile devices could use a performance boost in one crucial area: battery life. Timbuk2 saw the exigency to keep phones, tablets, PMPs and cameras in the juice, and aims to meet that need with the Power Commute messenger bag announced earlier this year. And now you, dear reader can pick one up starting today for $199 from REI or through Timbuk2's website. Before you rush off to part with a pair of Benjamins for the bag and its waterproof Joey T1 portable power source, however, read on for our hands-on impressions.
A team of DIY bloggers, in conjunction with Hometalk.com, have teamed up to collect socks for folks on the New Jersey coast who lost everything to Hurricane Sandy.
Why socks? Laura Kuhlmann, the blogger who spearheaded the project, lives near Tuckerton Beach, New Jersey. Her beachside community was hit hard by the storm ? more than 600 houses could be rendered uninhabitable. When her sister-in-law went to volunteer at the local emergency shelter, what she found was a glut of clothing, but not enough socks. People in the shelter were walking around barefoot because there were simply not enough socks.
?There were people who lost everything and only had the clothes they were wearing. All they wanted out of anything they could have had, they wanted a pair of dry socks ? just a pair of socks. I couldn?t get that out of my head because I get cold feet sometimes and I know how good it feels when you put a pair of warm socks on,? said Kuhlmann.
Kuhlmann, who blogs on The Shed, is part of a close-knit community of DIY bloggers. True to its DIY nature, the members of her community have mobilized to publicize Socks for Sandy.
The project is simple, and it helps people who lost everything to the storm in a profound way: Mail a package of new socks or new underwear, mittens, or winter hats only (please no clothing) to the post office box that Kuhlmann set up for Socks for Sandy. Kuhlmann will deliver the items to emergency shelters on the New Jersey coast. There is a specific need for thick, warm winter socks in all sizes, from baby socks to men?s socks. Many folks on the New Jersey coast are winging it as first time handymen and remodelers, as they try to salvage their homes. They are in critical need of warm socks that are suitable for rugged outdoor work.
Socks for Sandy
P.O. Box 520
Little Egg Harbor, NJ 08087
Please mail by November 14th, as the need is urgent!
For more information, visit Socks for Sandy, or Socks for Sandy on Hometalk.com. Also check out the Socks for Sandy Google+ Hangout video on YouTube.
For all its unpopularity, Congress emerged from election night largely the same, with Democrats holding a majority of the Senate and Republicans controlling the House.
The Senate
Some fresh faces will appear, however, next session: in Massachusetts, Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren defeated incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, confirming Warren's status as a rising star in the Democratic Party.
In Missouri, Democrat Claire McCaskill won a second term in her Senate seat over Republican challenger, congressman Todd Akin. The GOP candidate's remarks on abortion made news this year and appalled many Americans both inside and outside the state. Akin had to give up his House seat to run, so he won't be returning to Washington.
Tim Kaine, who ran against former Sen. George Allen, won the Democrats a Senate seat in Virginia. Another toss-up race, this one in Indiana, went to Democrat Joe Donnelly as Republican Richard Mourdock fell behind, potentially due to recent controversial remarks he made about rape.
One Democratic victory cost a Republican challenger dearly: Chris Murphy won Connecticut's Senate race, defeating Republican Linda McMahon, former president of wrestling juggernaut WWE. Over two unsuccessful campaigns, McMahon spent $100 million of her own personal fortune to pursue a Senate seat.
Other Democrats also won re-election to the Senate: Bill Nelson in Florida, Sheldon Whitehouse in Rhode Island, Ben Cardin in Maryland and Tom Carper in Delaware.
Also, some history was made when Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) beat Republican Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, becoming the country's first openly gay senator.
Meanwhile, in Tennessee, Republican Sen. Bob Corker held onto his seat. In some other toss-up states such as Montana, where Democratic Sen. Jon Tester faces off against U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, the race is still tight.
Elsewhere, it's been a good night for Independents.? In Vermont, independent junior Senator Bernie Sanders has won re-election, while in Maine, former Governor Angus King has won the Senate seat of retiring GOP moderate Olympia Snowe.
The House
Joe Kennedy III was the likely winner of Massachusetts' 4th congressional district, taking over for prominent Democrat Barney Frank.
Michele Bachmann is still fighting an unexpectedly tough race in Minnesota against Democratic challenger Jim Graves.
In Utah's 4th district, Mia Love may become the first black, female Republican to serve in the House, if she wins the race against one of the last Blue Dog Democrats, Jim Matheson. Early reports show Matheson with a 51 percent to 47 percent lead, according to the Salt Lake City Tribune.
In Florida's 22nd district, Tea Party favorite Allen West lost reelection to Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy, during the concession speech of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
Another Tea Party candidate, junior Rep. Republican Bobby Schilling, lost in Illinois' 17th district to Democrat and former journalist Cheri Bustos.
California's 10th district sees a tight race between "Astro Jose" Jose Hernandez, former astronaut, and Jeff Denham, a Republican freshman. Denham held a slight lead with 44 percent of precincts reporting.
Julia Rogers is the Editor in Chief of MusicianCoaching.com. She is a classically-trained musician, published author, journalist and music writer. She also writes about business strategy, social media and emerging technology for corporate clients, including The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur and American Express. ?She was previously a grant writer and development/marketing strategist for several New York City-based non-profit Arts organizations and has written business development materials and produced online media for a variety of small technology companies. ?As a songwriter, cellist, bassist, singer and pianist, Julia plays out regularly in New York City in various original projects. She has been working with MusicianCoaching.com since 2009.
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Because I write so many bios for ?DIY? artists, I invest a lot of my time helping people discover how to tell their compelling stories and define the specific qualities of their music and personalities that make each of them different from every other musician out there. Something interesting I have realized as I take people through the challenging self-discovery process is that a lot of artists, at all stages of their careers share a common issue:? They are reluctant to celebrate their accomplishments. And they often feel uncomfortable announcing even the major milestones ? like EP releases, show and tour announcements, notable press interviews, etc. ? that are the product of their hard work as they invest in their growth and development.
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Part of this mental and emotional block artists experience is based on crises of confidence that are understandable given the saturation of the modern music market and the fact that the world trains all of us (thankfully) to be modest and realistic about our place in it:? ?Why is what I do important when there are so many other people basically doing the same thing?? But as someone who aspires to truly make a living making music, the pull to avoid inviting fans and potential fans to applaud your successes and join you on your long and winding journey is also the result of simply not knowing which of your plot twists are newsworthy.
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Last year, I wrote an article about how musicians can get the attention of music journalists writing for blogs, magazines, journals and other publications and inspire them to invest in the story of their on-going evolution. Despite all the wonderful online free marketing and PR tools that are available to you as an artist and all the chances you have to engage meaningfully with the press and your fans, sometimes when you have a major milestone to announce in your career, you need a formal press release.
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Even if you are not reluctant to announce your accomplishments and are sharing your story on a regular basis through Facebook, Twitter and email newsletters, as well as through your music and compelling live shows, sometimes all this engagement is not enough. As I have repeated many times to artists I work with and in the articles I have written about communication and marketing, just throwing some tracks up on Facebook, expressing your excitement on Twitter about a track you recorded or emailing your mp3s to someone at Pitchfork with a subject line that basically begs an editor, ?Listen to my music? will not make you the darling of blogs, podcasts, online music communities, music websites and magazines ? nor will it get you to Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall or the Grammys. And, yes, you really do need to go beyond your current fan base and get the attention of media ?influencers? in order to forge ahead successfully.
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When you are managing your own career without the help of a PR firm, you must think like an entrepreneur and build marketing strategies that not only show you are a professional, but also drum up excitement about your music and your unique ?You, Inc.? brand. And to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to figure out stunning ways to call attention to your bright, newsworthy items as an artist through press releases.
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Once you?ve found that exciting item, shout about it! Hiring a professional, experienced press release writer to put together your announcement for you is a great way to capture the moment objectively. But when you are a self-funded music entrepreneur, hiring out is not always an option. Below are 6 tips to help you craft an eye-catching, personal press release that can act as a compliment to your on-going marketing strategy.
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Understand the purpose of a press release. A press release is a written statement to the media that announces a news item, such as a scheduled event (a live show, a record store appearance, a radio performance and interview, etc.), an award or the release of a new ?product? (a single, an EP or a full-length album). Some people also use press releases as a way to generate a feature story, because writers, reporters, bloggers and other press people are more likely to consider a full-length story on a band if they first see a formal press release.Many consider press releases to be part of ?old fashioned? PR strategies, but when used in conjunction with technology-based promotional strategies, a well-written press release acts as strong support for the other elements of an artist?s press kit and overall marketing campaign. It provides yet another way for you to tell your story as a musician and enrich your brand by shedding light on the fact that you are in motion, proactively putting yourself and your music out into the world and working hard to hone your craft.
Your press release should have laser focus. The best press releases are short and to the point. The headline needs to go beyond the mundane ?Artist Plays Guitar on Stage in Front of People? and provide some juicy detail without being overly clever. (Here is an example of a headline I recently wrote for a pop/country artist releasing her debut album:? ?Homegrown Pop Singer/Songwriter Kelly Campbell Releases Sweet Therapy EP.?) Also, the first short paragraph ? the ?summary? ? of the most compelling press releases is not more than three sentences long. These sentences need to draw readers in and keep their eyes moving down the page while still expressing all the very specific details about what has happened or will happen.To stick to the ?short and sweet? rule, only announce multiple events within the same press release if they relate directly to each other ? for example, an EP release combined with an official release party or an extended regional or national tour.
Cut the ?BS.? Use real, meaningful language in your press release ? not lofty, empty ?BS? that you think will sound impressive ? to describe your event. Using big words and industry terms, name dropping or otherwise ?padding? your release to convince others that what you are doing is important is just going to make you look like an amateur.Even major PR firms ? especially those that churn out a lot of press releases ? can fall into the pattern of just ?going through the motions? and plugging in information, forgetting that while press releases do follow a set format, there is still a lot of room for creativity and meaningful ?audience? interaction within that format. The gist of the two most commonly-made announcements in press releases are ?Band Releases Record? and ?Band Plays Show(s).? The ability to tell an absorbing story about events that happen often in the music industry within the parameters of the press release format is certainly a challenge. But your job is to grab the attention of and provide something valuable to those that will read hundreds, if not thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of press releases in their lifetime, so you simply must.
Freshen up your bio. Your biographical information is an incredibly important part of every press release, but resist the urge to just directly copy a section from your professional bio verbatim. (And if you do not have a professional bio, please read this article before you even think about writing a press release!) Add a few special details to your artist bio section that offer readers a new spin on you and your music. For example, if you are releasing an EP, you can provide a bit of insight into your songwriting and recording process, which will make people feel more personally connected to you and also compel them to want to buy your music, come to your live shows and interact with you.
Gather strong press quotes. Press quotes provide essential third-party endorsement of you. Of course, you may very well be sending out a press release because no one has ever formally reviewed your music (aka, you have no quotes), and you want to get people to talk and write about you. Often a very exciting and objectively-written bio can make up for lack of quotes about your band. However, also consider reaching out to popular local bands and musicians you have collaborated with on shows or other projects and ask them to jot down a few thoughts about you and your music, or about the experience of playing with you live and then include the best one or two as quotables for your press release.
Rally around your press release. As with anything else you put out into the world ? whether new music, a new website or live performances ? your press release will not magically get attention just by existing. You need to rally around it with engaging email and social media interaction. Many musicians use services like PRWeb, expecting that they will pay the fee and the press release will get read by fans and everyone else they want to reach.Services like PRWeb act as tools to help your press release filter through some of the other meaningless noise that shows up in Web searches for the type of music you play. But they cannot provide the genuinely sincere touches that you provide when you energetically write about your event on Facebook and Twitter and respond personally to the excitement of champions for your music. Even when your press release finds a permanent home on the Internet, you need to keep momentum going in the weeks prior to your notable show or album release by reaching out to your fans regularly and sending personal emails to those journalists and music industry professionals that will be thrilled to be among the first to discover you.
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So, what about you is newsworthy enough to warrant a press release? The truth is, almost anything you do or that happens to you; you just have to put a spin on the happening that expresses why people should care. Of course, you are not going to formally alert the media the first time your band gets through a song without stopping, every time your band?s drummer shows up for rehearsal on time, or when you finally get more than 10 people to show up at one of your gigs. But you can and should announce anything that really gets you revved up about playing music ? especially those memorable events that give fans and potential fans the opportunity to experience your excitement right alongside you.
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2012) ? Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have discovered a new gene that regulates hemoglobin synthesis during red blood cell formation. The findings advance the biomedical community's understanding and treatment of human anemias and mitochondrial disorders.
The study was published online on November 7, 2012 in Nature.
The researchers used an unbiased zebrafish genetic screen to clone mitochondrial ATPase inhibitory factor-1 gene, or Atpif1. The gene allows animals -- zebrafish, mice and humans for instance -- to efficiently make hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood.
The researchers found that loss of Atpif1 causes severe anemia. Moreover, the researchers uncovered a broader mechanistic role for Atpif1 -- regulating the enzymatic activity of ferrochelatase, or Fech. Fech is the terminal enzyme in heme (a component of hemoglobin) synthesis.
"Our study has established a unique functional link between Atpif1-regulated mitochondrial pH, redox potential, and [2Fe-2S] cluster binding to Fech in modulating its heme synthesis," said Dhvanit Shah, PhD, BWH Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, first study author.
The researchers were also able to produce data on the human version of Atpif1, noting its functional importance for normal red blood cell differentiation, and noting that a deficiency may contribute to human diseases, such as congenital sideroblastic anemias and other diseases related to dysfunctional mitochondria (the energy powerhouses of cells).
"Discovering the novel mechanism of Atpif1 as a regulator of heme synthesis advances the understanding of mitochondrial heme homeostasis and red blood cell development," said Barry Paw, MD, PhD, BWH Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, senior study author.
Shah and Paw continue to identify new genes responsible for hematopoietic stem cell development and red cell differentiation. Their identification of new genes will elucidate the new mechanisms regulating hematopoiesis -- the formation of blood cell components. Their work not only provides greater insight into human congenital anemias, but also new opportunities for improved therapies.
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Even though there are many different changes that can be made to the home, changing the Windows is one that certainly should not be overlooked. It doesn?t matter if you are replacing your older Windows with new aluminum windows or wood windows, if they are up to the right standards, you can benefit from it in many different ways (Source: Wood Windows by AAA Windows For Less). What are some of the things that you should consider when replacing the home windows and how can you benefit from it to the full?
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