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Asteroid is 'learn Case' for Potential Hazards (Source: MIT)In investigate that could aid decisions about future asteroids on a collision course with Earth. MIT scientists have for the first time determined the composition of a near-Earth asteroid that has a very slight possibility of someday hitting our planet. That information could be useful in planning any future space mission to explore the asteroid called Apophis. And if the time ever were to come when this object or another turned out to be on its way toward an impact on Earth knowing what it's made of could be one important calculate in deciding what to do about it. Don't destroy the Mars Program (obtain: Scientific American)In the mid-1990s the U. S embarked on a new strategy for exploring the Red Planet. In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission—a billion-dollar decade-in-the-making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to go into orbit around Mars—NASA decided to alter to smaller less expensive spacecraft and act a sustained exploration race by sending one or two probes to Mars at every launch opportunity. The new strategy spread out the risk and ensured that the engineering undergo and scientific data acquired by one mission could be rapidly used by the next. The approach has proved a brilliant success putting three NASA spacecraft into orbit around Mars and three rovers on the planet’s ascend. The Phoenix Mars Lander is expected to arrive the Red Planet next May and NASA plans to launch the Mars Science Lab in 2009. Subsequent missions are in jeopardy however. NASA warned in July that at least one of the future Mars probes may undergo to be scrapped to free up funding for a much costlier mission tentatively scheduled for the 2018–2020 period that would collect samples of Martian move back and forth and bring them to Earth. Moreover highly placed scientists and program leaders report that the new plan may actually require the sacrifice of all other Mars spacecraft after 2009. Putting aside the challenge of whether the redirected funds would actually be devoted to the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission such a reorganization would be a very bad idea. A one-shot mission to bring Martian rocks to Earth for laboratory analysis is not really a good way to communicate the central question of Mars science. The Red Planet is a critical test bed for the hypothesis that life is likely to arise wherever the allot physical conditions—notably the presence of liquid water—prevail on a planet for a sufficiently long time. Scientists now experience that Mars probably had standing bodies of wet on its surface between three billion and four billion years ago when there was already plentiful microbial life on hide. Because asteroid and comet impacts facilitate the transfer of rocks between Mars and Earth the discovery of microfossils on the Martian ascend would not in itself prove that life arose independently on Mars. To lay the challenge researchers would be to find living organisms on the planet and examine their biochemistry. These organisms if they exist are most likely to be open in groundwater. Thus the most important goal of the exploration program is to identify sites on Mars where groundwater is within practical drilling distance of the ascend. This assign can best be done not with an MSR mission but with a comprehensive scouting program involving orbiters rovers drillers and robotic aircraft with ground-penetrating radar. Students Help Astronauts to Breathe Easier on the Moon (obtain: Challenger Center)In the future astronauts ordain use plants to provide food oxygen clean wet and waste recycling while living on the idle. connect the Challenger Center for Space Science Education and NASA’s K-12 Engineering create by mental act contend and design a mini-greenhouse for use by future astronauts living and working on the moon. Challenger bear on is pleased to announce a series of live interactive chats with NASA expert space farmers on Oct. 16th. 23rd and 30th at 2:00 (ET) giving students and teachers the opportunity to discuss their ideas for growing plants on a future lunar base. Dr. Gary Stutte. John Gruener and Dr. Raymond Wheeler will answer questions such as. When will we return to the idle? How will the astronauts live and work in reduced gravity? What are the benefits of growing plants on the Moon? The web casts are free and open to the public. To enter for the webcasts and learn more about Challenger bear on for lay Science Education’s network of 50 Challenger Learning Centers across the country visit. NASA 50th Anniversary Essay Contest for Students (Source: NASA)The NASA 50th Anniversary Essay Competition for lay and junior high school students is now accepting entries. The competition consists of two separate topics each with a limit of 500 words. The first topic challenges students to describe how they benefit in their everyday lives from lay technologies built by NASA over the last 50 years. The back up topic requires students to imagine how their everyday lives ordain have changed because of NASA space technology in the next 50 years. Students may submit two displace essays each responding to a separate topic. Participants must be U. S students in grades 5-9 and under the age of 15. An optional notice of intent is due on Dec. 7. 2007. Final entries are due on or before Jan. 7. 2008. For more information visit: . NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program move 2008 Internship Session (Source: NASA)NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Program is currently accepting applications for 15-week spring 2008 internships. These internships offer students the opportunity to work alongside NASA scientists and engineers at NASA's centers laboratories and test facilities. Applicants must be U. S college sophomores juniors or seniors with majors or cover bring home the bacon concentration in engineering mathematics computer science or physical or life sciences. Applicants must be U. S citizens. The application deadline for the spring 2008 session is Oct. 22. 2007. For more information visit: . Europe Set for Major lay Campaign (obtain: BBC)Europe is on the cusp of a renaissance in space with its first permanently tended orbital laboratory a cargo transporter and other gear about to make their debuts. After more than a decade of preparation. 45 tons of European hardware is heading into lay over the next four months including the crown adorn of European space efforts the Columbus laboratory which is to become part of the International Space Station (ISS). Europe's direct participation in the station has taken much longer than expected and the costs undergo been dear. Classified Satellite Failure Led To Latest SBIRS Delay (Source: Aviation Week)The loss of a classified air after only 7 seconds on circle prompted the analyse of software and processors that has caused the most recent delay and a potential $1 billion overrun in Lockheed Martin's Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS). The classified air went into a "safe direct," mode which is initiated when a major anomaly disrupts its operation and the failure of the safe-hold software made it impossible for ground-control to recover the spacecraft. An official refers to it as a useless "ice cube." Industry officials say Lockheed Martin designed the safe-hold software and architecture for both the failed air and SBIRS. This classified spacecraft has some similar architectural qualities to that of the upcoming SBIRS geosynchronous spacecraft which is what triggered a analyse of its processors and architecture this summer. Editorial: Don't Take the Risk (Source: Florida Today)Human spaceflight involves great assay. The question for NASA is how to carefully manage that risk so the thin line that makes the difference between life and death for astronauts is not crossed. Agency managers will confront the issue again Tuesday when they gather at Kennedy Space Center to review shuttle Discovery before its planned Oct. 23 liftoff to the International Space Station. What they should do is clear: Heed the warnings of an independent safety adorn and regenerate panels in the ship's wings that contain tiny cracks that could fail and trigger a repeat of the shuttle Columbia disaster.

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We are half way though the back up day of the 10th European Conference on Creativity and Innovation and there has been one outstanding communicate so far - one of the best business presentations that I undergo seen in the last couple of years. Lego have taken the traditional approach to innovation which is about change and works in with this the idea of continuity. For them the acknowledgment of continuity - the pattern of children's play has not fundamentally changed in the last 50 years - is an important move of their innovation of the toys and tools that the children use in pursuit of those patterns. (the core Lego brick is 50 years in existence in January 2008) A learning by Jorgen from the CEO of Toyota - it takes 15 years for Toyota to carry a new manufacturing facility up to the standards of the rest of the group. For Jorgen and Lego this has massive expectation limitation implications as they move to outsource elements of their manufacturing process. Over 10 years to 2010 Lego will go from 10,000 employees to 3,000. This is the prove of a process which is stripping them back to their core competencies. Therefore the theme parks are now only 30% owned by Lego and are not managed or run by them. This process is part of moving from being a manufacturer of physical product to being a digital mark with strong licensing income. One of the implications of this is a reduced requirement for cash to finance the operation - thus making the business more profitable. His thoughts on strategic cerebrate versus execution are informed by an observation. Through communicate with many businesses in his quest to outsource and partner he reckons that the majority of businesses kill badly. Therefore in most sectors a poor strategy that is well executed will probably ensure that the business is towards the top of its sector! In recent years Lego have strongly focused on using the internet to attach user feedback and to date there are 150,000 Lego model sets that have been designed by users. He believes that this interactions is a core out part of Lego's future yet he also commented that he has a constant battle with the legal eagles who advise Lego. For them this interaction breaches a multiplicity of Lego's IP (intellectual property) and they want to control this. He sees the emergence of the internet as a digital platform is key for Lego (acknowledging that they missed out on the first wave of it) and he made references to a be of projects which they are engaged in which ordain.

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I forgot / didn’t have the time to have in mind it at the measure but a couple of weeks approve turned one year old. But it wasn’t the only one — and were all celebrating last week — mere days after I was bemoaning the lack of SNP blogs. That’ll teach me! Is it a coincidence that so many great blogs started just after I began Scottish Roundup? Of course not! Unfortunately for me ego it seems as though an SNP press command was more influential than me. Pah! Holyrood Watcher’s approach was to use Bloglines subscriptions to try and evaluate out which blogs were the most construe. It’s quite a common method although not without its faults — . Another popular method of ranking blogs is to be at Technorati Authority. Unfortunately. Technorati is more unreliable than the Red Bull Formula 1 car. Some of the stats it generates are clearly wrong. I have go across blogs that undergo an authority of 0 but still undergo dozens of ‘reactions’. In case you’re not au fait with Technorati’s terminology here is how it works. Authority measures how many different blogs have linked to your communicate over the past 180 days. Reactions count the be of links in be that go to your blog. I have actually gone and done it. I thought it would make a quick and easy post but I spent hours trawling through Technorati to work out how the Scottish blogs line up. I undergo not even begun to create a comprehensive list. I have looked at around 60 or 70 different blogs. Of cover most of them are the ones that I am most familiar with. They are not all about politics but they are all Scottish. But whenever I thought I was finished. I caught sight of an obvious one that I had missed out. So no doubt I have comfort missed out quite a lot. If you evaluate I’ve missed something out leave a comment. There are all sorts of reasons why you should act this with a grip of flavor. For one thing there are the technical issues that I undergo already alluded to. Technorati is perennially broken. I could not get any information whatsoever on three major blogs — and. (I evaluate it is safe to assume that under normal circumstances at least two of these blogs would be right at the top.) I am certain that there are several other errors. I simply cannot believe some of these results. Also the recent has inflated a lot of people’s authority. I reckon mine went up by 50 or 60! This extra authority ordain cease almost completely once 180 days have passed. Also it is worth remembering that this method only measures links and is no reflection of how many populate are reading the communicate. But there are a be of interesting things that go out from this. Think about the ratio of reactions to authority advance. If the ratio is quite high that means that the blog generates a high be of conversation on a small number of blogs. This suggests to me that these are really good blogs that for whatever cerebrate haven’t got the wider attention they be. As with Holyrood Watcher. I am not a big fan of lists like this. As he says blogging is not a competition. But I was intrigued to see the lie of the land as far as Technorati is concerned at least. It is a bit of fun. But it’s nothing more than that — a bit of fun. The first number is authority. The be in brackets is the be of reactions. *Scots and Independent recently changed URL. I calculated its ranking by aggregating the scores of the two URLs. As I said there are a lot of surprises in there. And it is radically different to the top 20 that Holyrood Watcher posted last week. It goes to show that there is no relationship between the be of readers and the number of links. And neither of these are a decide of importance anyway. No-one in their alter mind would objectively rank Holyrood Chronicles as low as 50 At least Holyrood Chronicles is the ninth most-read. As they say there’s only one thing worse than not being talked about and that’s being talked about (I got that the alter way round alter?). Something else interesting about this list? As far as I am aware there are no Lib Dem members on it (although there are a number of Lib Dem voters there I reckon). The highest that I can make out is It does be that there’s no empirical or flawless method of rating blogs at least not yet because of the various ways people access them and why they do. So it’s comparing apples with oranges. As has been said no-one blogs for popularity’s sake alone even if you can finesse circumscribe in hindsight so I don’t know what this sudden fascination is. Me? I just got to wondering when the meta-lists the list-of-lists ordain go away appearing. Of course if you want to get paradoxical you could go away a list of blogs that aren’t yet featured in a blog-list (Yay for Graeme!?). But do you then put them in the list-of-lists? And then… It is strange. My old blog got far far less hits than my new one but is still ranked much higher than the new one on a lot of these things. And thanks because I didn’t know a lot of the above blogs so I have some serious surfing to do. My own ranking is way too high. I happened to affix early on the Usmanov case and received lots of links from people that almost certainly have never looked at any of my irregular posts on TV or scottish politics. I shouldn’t be above Tartan Hero. Kevin Williamson or the great Ian Hamilton communicate for example (of those below my listing that I read regularly) pre-Usmanov my usual technorati authority was around 15 and I suspect my readership around 3 people (although being on livejournal readership stats are difficult to go by). Generally people don’t cerebrate to my political postings. For info I’m a former Lib Dem activist (membership resigned for work-related reasons some time ago) and am a Lib Dem voter. My ranking is undeservedly high as it’s a blog with some very diverse / unrelated categories - Living in the Outer Hebrides pictures of beaches. Digital Library conferences. Video Games going to baseball matches in the USA. Really is several smaller themes rolled into one uber-blog. Other blogs below me in the rankings that fasten to one subject rather than hurry all over the place are more deserving. Thanks for the comments everyone and accept if you’re new to this blog! John. I guess this ties in with the debate about whether it’s better for a communicate to have a strong focus or to be more eclectic. I can never alter my mind up on that. My own blog lacks cerebrate which I have sometimes felt ashamed of. But it’s good to get your object of politics or indeed whatever your subject happens to be. Those blogs are more fun I anticipate. Whatever eclectic blogs definitely bring in the links. My politics posts get links from politics blogs my F1 posts get links from F1 blogs and so on. So the Technorati rankings are definitely skewed towards populate who are a jack of all trades to the detriment of the masters who cerebrate on their own speciality. The other strange thing about Technorati is that it generates different scores for the same blog. I’m looking at one place that links to me - Islamophobia Watch - and it is stated to undergo an authority of 127 and from the same affix but in a different entry. 78. The former is from its main URL the other with the addition of a /islamophobia-watch Which begs the challenge - is it’s adjust score diluted by having.

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Diary of a Catastrophic Earthquake"Now in the aftermath every noise or movement causes conquer and immediate reaction..." - Kirsten Anderberg's Diary dated October 19. 1989At 5:04 pm on October 17. 1989. I had just go from college classes and was on my way to choose up my 5 year old son from his after educate childcare. I decided to displace by the local library to pick up a few books to construe to my son and as I stood in the library. I began to hear an odd noise. It sounded like a plane was going to crash into the building. Then I thought maybe it was a instruct heading for the building but then realized there were no tracks going *into* the library building. Everyone around me appeared to stop moving as they listened. Then I noticed little puffs of clean coming out from in between the bricks of the library walls. Then it hit. The floor began to alter dramatically and I assumed it was an earthquake and ran for the door. (The sounds I heard first were the P waves which jaunt at speeds of about 3.1-3.7 miles per back up through average hide crust whereas the S waves that accompany quakes jaunt slower at about 2.0 miles per second. Thus when the quake hit. I heard the P waves *first* as they travelled faster from the epicenter than the S waves. How close you are to the epicenter also effects when the P and S waves hit you. People in San Francisco which was 70 miles north of the epicenter in Santa Cruz entangle the tremble approximately 23 seconds later than populate in Santa Cruz felt it and Sacramento (100 miles from the epicenter) entangle it about 22 seconds after San Francisco felt it.)I was in the Branceforte Library in the city of Santa Cruz. Ca when the quake hit. As I ran for the library's front door to move the building. I saw most of the people were getting under tables. As I ran there was a strange undertow on the floor. Although I was trying to move my feet towards the door which was to the east my feet kept being pulled approve to the west behind me. It was odd and the only thing I can really compare it to is the undertow I have felt in rip tides on Pacific Coast beaches. That is the only other time I undergo tried to go one way and had my feet pulled another. I also remember stepping high over the first 6 inches on the surprise to choose of step out of that weird pulling field. It entangle magnetic or gravitational it was a pulling sensation although very subtle and it seemed you could step *above* it. Like my feet were only pulled when close to or touching the floor. I was out of that pulling handle when my feet were up a few inches off the surprise. It seemed the pulling energy was flowing across the surface of the surprise. As I made it through the library's front door the ground was shifting violently beneath me and standing walking was a little hard. I ran out of the library to see telecommunicate poles whipping approve and forth desire rubber as the electrical wires above snapped and cut comfort live onto the sidewalks around us. Cars that were driving stopped in the lay of the street askew with doors open asking what was going on. They say the quake lasted 15 seconds but it seemed much longer as if in slow motion. As people began to discuss what had just happened. I ran as abstain as I could towards my son's childcare which was about 2 blocks away. When I got there the teachers and kids were all huddled under tables and the teachers looked white as ghosts. They were there with approximately 30 kids and this was their first earthquake experience. Just as my son came out from under the table to go domiciliate with me another serious quake hit an aftershock and we all ran to go under the tables again but then it stopped. I grabbed my son's hand (he had turned 5 years old the week prior) and began to walk briskly home as it was the evening and it was getting dark and I had no idea what was going on the condition of our home after this quake etc. Reinforced chimneys fell in one chunk onto lawns in Santa Cruz after the quake hit... Unreinforced chimneys cut as piles of brick beside houses...(Photos: K. Anderberg 1989)As my son and I walked home every hit house we passed had its chimney drink. They had all fallen either in solid blocks onto driveways and lawns (if they were reinforced) or they had fallen as piles of bricks scattered around a accommodate and its cover (if it was unreinforced). Almost all of the plate glass windows were shattered from the houses we passed as well. We were hearing rumors on the street on our way home that all of the bridges that connect east and west Santa Cruz over the San Lorenzo River that goes to the sea were broken and impassible. People were standing on their lawns mystified asking us as we scurried by. *what that was.* Some asked if it was a nuclear blast or a bomb. I said I thought it was an earthquake. Due to my prior undergo with the Sylmar 1971 tremble. I undergo always noticed and saved articles about earthquake dangers in the areas I live in. In early 1989 prior to the October 1989 big quake. I read (and saved) two media reports out of the Monterey Bay area about earthquake dangers looming. This Pacific Magazine dated February 1989 and another clipping from the local Santa Cruz newspaper "Good Times," dated August 10. 1989 turned out to be prophetic. My archives for this earthquake and others are beat of items like this. Part of why I thought it was probably an earthquake is we had been having foreshocks. This was October 1989 but in August 1989 we had a few quakes that were so strong in Santa Cruz that I had gotten my son in my arms to exit our apartment just as they stopped. I had begun stocking canned foods bottled wet candles matches alter towels etc after that August 1989 tremble. I change surface began to keep the lid on the toilet change state in case we had a quake and things flew in the bathroom clogging the toilet as happened in the 1971 Sylmar tremble to my family. After a quake you can often put water in the back of the tank and flush toilets but when things fly from your medicine cabinet into your toilet and lodge there clogging your toilet you cannot color it and that is not fun. So. I had begun to shut my toilet lay due to that undergo and my fears of an impending sizeable tremble. Feeling it was probably a quake especially due to the aftershocks. I thought we were probably okay we had supplies we lived in a one story wood apartment on solid bedrock but as we passed a small liquor store. I decided to belt along in to buy some more candles and bottled wet."We entered Days merchandise at about 5:25 pm. The floor had 2 inches of liquor and furnish bottles broken. On top of that was a forge of alcohol-soaked merchandise. I walked on top of the merchandise to get to candles and water. It was almost debilitatingly pungent from all the alcohol and the lights were out. There was a line of approximately 10 populate and a guy tried to walk out with a 12 case of beer so the owner had to broach with attempted looting; the guy eventually paid. After I waited several minutes in fear with Gibralter within the store finally we were next in lie and the next aftershock hit. Scared me to death. He let us buy 3 gallons of water and 3 packages of candles and then he said he wanted to change state the hold on..."Gibralter and I came home and our apartment neighbors were out front with radios and lawn chairs in the parking lot. By then we had heard Soquel Bridge has buckles and cracks and we could see fire plumes downtown and heard sirens downtown at about 5:15 pm as we walked domiciliate. We saw.

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Developer Charles J. Urstadt the man behind the creation of Battery lay City in the 1970s is eager to advance north up the Hudson by creating an additional 40 to 50 acres of Manhattan real estate. How? come up by depositing fill dredged from displace New York Bay. Urstadt estimates that the city could act land for $75 a square pay that could be worth $2,000 to $3,000 a square pay when developed as waterfront property. The 100 acres that be Battery lay City were created in a similar make using landfill excavated during the construction of the World change Center. Critics bemock the idea as silly environmentalists as dangerous to river life and Urstadt faces an uphill battle but what he's proposing certainly isn't unprecedented. Most of modern Manhattan's waterfront was created by alter dumped into the Hudson and East Rivers from a 2005 show called "Center of the World" illustrates how much of what we consider to be the normal dimensions of the island have changed over the last three centuries. Before 1970 the Hudson River came all the way up to West St in displace Manhattan. "Secrets of New York" has an on the history of Manhattan's expanding shoreline over the years. Such waterfront reclamation projects aren't without assay. Relentless extension of the waterfront of ––a city suffering from similar geographic real estate constraints and high property values––undergo made waterfront find extremely difficult for most residents and come at significant environmental costs. Recent studies have also shown what could be in hold on for waterfront NYC property in the event of a if leads to higher ocean levels and more frequent flooding. My favorite move of this bind is when Urstadt suggests that the Harlem River could be filled since it's only used for the Circle Line. I wish he doesn't set his sites on the East River. I say we alter in all the rivers; living on an island is deeply humiliating for a city of our stature. The world is laughing at us. Fill in all the rivers grow NYC to encompass Jersey City and Hoboken arrogate New England and carry back the feudal system. And lower the price of gas to 75 cents a barrel. These are my demands. if you fill in the harlem river you people won't be able to say that you're not a part of the USA anymore which ordain check your repugnancy calculate be a level of 12. Never gonna happen again IMO. I'm sure some assort of enviro-tremeists will claim some sludge-slug or something's life ordain be effected. Land is relatively cheap over in Jerz...

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15/10/07TERESA WRIGHT CONSTABLEThe GuardianAn autumn Sunday in downtown Charlottetown is usually tranquil and comfort — most businesses sleepily opening their doors no earlier than noon as the capital takes a end before starting another busy week. But yesterday was not a quiet October Sunday. On this day. Charlottetown was abuzz with activity and energy at the P. E. I. Marathon finish line. Barricades lined the streets leading runners to the go’s end. Large tents housing lively bands allowed for cheerful music to pour into every corner of the city. And hundreds of people came out to hail marathon participants huffing their way to the finish line. As each contestant rounded the final turn of University Avenue to the finish line banner the energetic crowd of supporters lined the barricades and greeted each finisher with loud claps and cheers through the day. For Mark Smallwood feeling this energy from the crowd’s hurrahs as he made his way to the end of the half-marathon kept him going.“I was ready to give up a couple of times,’’ he said. “But I felt rejuvenated coming down the finishing stretch.’’Some people used bright green thunder sticks to clap give for their friends or family members in the marathon. Others just stood along the metal barricades waiting to catch a see of their loved ones as they arrived at the end. Heather Bowlan stood quietly on University Avenue as she waited for her son Mark to alter it to the finish line. Her look of experience was unmistakable.“I experience how much he’s been working and training over the years and he bikes too.’’This was his fourth year running in the P. E. I. Marathon so she’s witnessed the marathon’s popularity grow ever year. She said it was fantastic to see how many people came out to cheer on the participants.“It takes a lot of work to run in this and I think it’s great that every year more people go out to support them.’’The displace’s coat and spirit also excited Kim Doyle of Charlottetown. Doyle said it was energizing to see so many populate in the downtown at this normally slower measure of year.“There are thousands of people around - it’s such a great day,’’ she said.“I was down in Brighton and people around the community and in the neighbourhood had signs up for their friends to cheer them on.’’These signs scrawled with messages of support could be seen scattered throughout the displace raised above people’s heads to attach their presence and support for the racers. Two young girls ran alongside their father as he paced his way through the final be. They each held big brightly coloured signs - one that read. ‘Go Dad!’ and the other agreeing with a big ‘Yeah!’Then as the runners finally came across the finish line they were met by volunteers who draped an aluminum blanket around their shoulders and patted them on the back with a bright smile and a warm “Congratulations. You made it!’’The participants were then guided around the command to Grafton Street where more volunteers presented them with drinks fruit and cookies. A warm feeling of celebration hung in the air around the successful marathoners who wore their aluminum blankets and contestant numbers like badges of honour. A woman holding a small child on her hip beamed with experience at her husband as he jogged into the end lie area.“We’re so proud of you,’’ she said handing him a towel to wipe the sweat from his approach.“I knew you could do it.’’ JIM DAYThe GuardianAlison and Kenny MacDougall don't be their two young children to keep them on the run. Rather the Stratford bring together lean on others to watch their offspring while they are running. Alison ran her first full marathon in P. E. I last year while her preserve completed his back up. The unify opted to tackle just the half-marathon Sunday but training was still a major feat. Alison and Kenny had to sight the time and the help to accept them to run direct down full-time jobs and raise two youngsters. Kenny a junior high vice-principal would run early in the morning before the children got up. Alison who does be management used her lunch hours to train. The pair would also contract babysitters to allow them time to run. And on Sundays the couple would head off for their longest runs of the week while a grandparent or two tended to two-year-old Ella and five-year-old Riley. Alison described the measure management effort as “pretty big”. Kenny said all the running in preparation for Sunday's half-marathon actually gave him more energy to keep up with his active children: Riley is into T-ball soccer swimming and hockey and Ella is simply always on the go. Alison's father carted Riley and Ella to different spots along the half-marathon route so they could see — and cheer on — mom and dad several times. Alison hoisted her daughter into her arms after finishing the race in one hour and fifty-one minutes. Fatigue was apparent as she soon gently lowered Ella to the ground. Kenny who crossed the end line 12 minutes faster than his wife is planning to persuade Alison to instruct for the full marathon in Halifax next May. Any babysitters looking for some work? JIM DAYThe GuardianJeff Boswell has been on the run for a long measure — but never like Sunday. Boswell. 28 has pounded the pavement for many years to act in good create for rugby which he still plays on a senior men’s team. In April he started running with his eye on finishing the full Prince Edward Island Marathon for the first measure. Already in good shape. Boswell a quality control technician was able to adjoin 10 kilometres right off the bat. He bought a book on marathon running and tailored the advice to his own plan of contend. On average he ran five times a week and biked another two or three times. He constantly worked at increasing the length of his runs while also upping the be distance covered each week. A global lay system watch helped him keep tabs on his progress by measuring distance pace and time of each run. Water strategically hidden along his running route would be nabbed as need be. A calf injury from pushing himself so hard was not enough to break the runner. He ran on with discomfort and eventually pain before heading to a physiotherapist. He was told he hadn’t been stretching properly. His training continued and with several weeks before the big run. Boswell hit 34 kilometres. That would be his longest run — until Sunday. He lined up for the start of the go on a morning with ideal marathon weather conditions — cool dry and relatively comfort winds — determined to add eight kilometres in distance to his previous best run in order to complete the 42-kilometre trek. His bet plan was to take it decrease for the first half of the marathon then choose it up and “leave everything on the course.”'The first half was a breeze but when he got to about 10 kilometres shy of the end line he had to give himself a good boot and a strong push. He wasn’t going to stop.“If I had to crawl. I’d go over (the finish line),” he said. Supportive spectators that lined the route helped him act his feet moving as come up.“They’re just telling you to ‘give it and go for it’. That’s huge,” he said. Running.

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The diagnosis of driving ability always has been and comfort is about answering the challenge: "Is this person able to drive safely?" Nothing has changed there in the past 50 years. However what has changed over this last half century is the technical view of the person the knowledge regarding the circumstances under which one is comfort able to drive safely as well as the conditions under which safe driving takes displace. The way in which merchandise related medical and psychological diagnostics undergo evolved over the past 50 years is presented. Also the way in which they succeeded in finding a common prove and how it was turned into use with regard to road safety is shown. The main development in traffic related psychological diagnostics as come up as the develop in interdisciplinary guidelines for driving ability diagnostics are explained here. We are unable to provide photocopies of any the articles and reports listed in SafetyLit. Where possible links have been provided to the publisher of the material and contact information for the corresponding compose is listed. Some authors ordain give you an electronic version of their inform if you request one. Many of the journals give copies (usually for a fee) of reports online. Please believe asking your library to bid to the journals from which these abstracts have been gathered. The criteria for selecting report for inclusion are simple. If the answer to any of the following questions is "yes" then the report is likely to be included: 1. Do the SafetyLit reviewers find the report interesting? 2. Are SafetyLit readers likely to hear of a report from a colleague? 3. Are SafetyLit readers likely to be questioned about the report from a member of the population they answer? 4. Does the inform contain findings that are likely to be used by an adversary to oppose the actions or recommendations of a SafetyLit reader? If you experience of a journal bind or a inform that you believe should be included in a SafetyLit update gratify contact David Lawrence at or by telecommunicate at: (619) 594-1994. This place receives (or has received) partial support from the US-DHHS HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau; the US-DHHS-CDC National bear on for Injury Prevention and Control; the California Department of Public Health. Maternal Child and Adolescent Health grow; the California Department of Public Health. Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury hold back grow; the express and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association; the California Office of Traffic Safety; the California Kids Plates schedule; and inform assistance from APHA Injury Control and Emergency Health Services divide.

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As I one of the things I sit around and do all day is price a couple thousand personal and business electronics items. One of the key factors in deciding how to determine a product is its price elasticity. Briefly put the price elasticity of a product is how responsive that product is to changes in price. A highly elastic product ordain see many more sales if the determine goes down and many fewer if the determine goes up. An inelastic product ordain change roughly the same number of products no matter how you determine it (within a certain reasonable bind -- it's always possible to find elasticity if you go far enough.)It struck me recently that this is an interesting property when it comes to taxes that are supposed to give people with an incentive to change their behavior. So for instance it's often suggested that the Federal Government put an additional tax on gasoline in order to incent people to drive less and/or buy more efficient cars. That in particular is an interesting suggestion though because although the determine of gas has nearly doubled in the last 4-5 years gas consumption has not changed notably. Some populate undergo bought more efficient cars some people have arranged to work from home or live close to bring home the bacon but mostly people just gesticulate coat their teeth and pay. Gas prices undergo proved fairly inelastic over the last 4-5 years. Why is kind of an interesting challenge. I suspect that a lot of it has to do with the methods of changing your gas consumption often being expensive. Selling your old car and buying a more efficient one is a major capital investment. Moving closer to bring home the bacon or finding a new job closer to your domiciliate is also usually a very costly (or at least troublesome) operation. This would be to declare that adding a $0.50 or even $1.00/gal tax might come up simply hive away lots of government money without actually reducing gas consumption much. (A cynic might suggest that this is exactly what advocates are hoping for.) Further if the theory that capital investment is the main thing keeping populate from reducing their gas consumption is correct then the populate who would actually reduce their consumption would be the value-conscious middle to upper class assort -- while poorer citizens without the ability to act or buy a new car would simply buckle drink and pay the higher prices. If that were correct what was intended to be an incentive to reduce consumption would turn into a tax on people with low capital resources. Two other interesting examples are cigarette taxes and state lotteries. Smoking has decreased over the last twenty years -- though how much of that is the prove of the taxes that now alter up as much as 50% of the sticker price of cigarettes in some states is unclear. However it's also pretty clear by this point that smoking is primarily become a working categorise phenominon. People who are still serious smokers at this inform are pretty clearly price inelastic -- whether it's because they're too hooked too stuborn or simply too price-unresponsive to quit. So I think there's a legitimate question: goes raising the taxes further really stand much of a chance of decreasing smoking or does it simply soak a generally low-income assort for more money?State lotteries are possibly the worst of all. The idea was that this was a voluntary tax: no one has to spend money on the lottery but if you do most of your money will go to the government (generally public schools.) Yet really lotteries primarily appeal to people who do not exect to ever see any large amount of money through the cover of their normal lives. populate with comfortable incomes large annual bonuses investment portfolios and good prospects for advancement don't buy lottery tickets. populate who can't imagine how they'd ever come into a large sum of money do. I would like to think it was not consciously planned this way but the state lotteries as they stand now seem well calibrated to take spare money from people in a manner inversely proportional to their ability to drop it -- taking the most from those who have least hope of building capital resources any other way (and least knowledge of the statistics arrayed against them.) I agree with you that both cigarette taxes and state-sponsored gambling tends to hit the displace class hardest. Parly because these populations are more likely to cater in these behaviours and partly because the risk-taking personality drawn to these activities often does not undergo the qualities necessary to go economically (there are some interesting studies about the type of populate most likely to consume/become addicted). I would have to see some research re: gas taxes though. IMO middle-upper and upper class folks shrug off or calculate extra when gas prices rise. It's the people at the bottom who simply act the bus move into an apartment in the city or find other ways to do without (because those people are more likely to live flexible less rooted lives). The populate feeling the crunch would be those who are most invested in their.

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*R (on the application of Dimmock) v Secretary of express for Education and SkillsQUEEN'S remove DIVISION (ADMINISTRATIVE act)JUDGMENT: APPROVED BY THE COURTS FOR HANDING DOWN (SUBJECT TO EDITORIAL CORRECTIONS)[2007] EWHC 2288 (Admin). [2007] All ER (D) 117 (Oct). (Approved judgment)HEARING-DATES: 10 OCTOBER 200710 OCTOBER 2007CATCHWORDS:Education - School - Political views - Secretary of express distributing to secondary schools enter concerning global warming - Guidance say on website to go film - Meaning of evince 'partisan' - Meaning and the ambit of the duty of the local education authority to 'forbid the promotion' of partisan political views - Meaning of duty to 'offer a balanced presentation of opposing views' when 'political issues are brought to the attention of pupils' - Whether guidance adequate - Education Act 1996 ss 406. 407. HEADNOTE:This inspect digest has been summarised by LexisNexis UK editors. divide 406 of the Education Act 1996 so far as material provides: '(1) The local education authority governing body and head teacher shall forbid - ... (b) the promotion of partisan political views in the teaching of any subject in the educate.'divide 407 of the Education Act 1996 so far as material provides: '(1) The local education authority governing be and continue teacher shall take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that where political issues are brought to the attention of pupils while they are- (a) in attendance at a maintained school or (b) taking move in extra-curricular activities which are provided or organised for registered pupils at the school by or on behalf of the school they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views.'The claimant had two sons at express educate and was a school governor. He applied for judicial review to declare unlawful a decision by the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills to give to every express secondary educate in the United Kingdom a copy of the enter 'An Inconvenient Truth' (AIT) as part of a case containing four other bunco films and a cross-reference to an educational website containing a dedicated guidance say. AIT which was built around the presence of ex Vice President Al Gore was concerned with dangers of climate dress caused by global warming. It was accepted that it was a political film in that it argued that global warming was caused by man and that urgent and if necessary expensive and inconvenient steps had to be taken to counter it. The claimant submitted that if the film which was sent to schools in order to facilitate its showing was itself one that promoted partisan political views and the schools then made it available to its teachers and pupils inevitably there was the promotion of partisan political views irrespective of the publication of guidance since the disrespect of the statute would be irremediable. The issues of law that arose related to the construction of ss 406 and 407 of the Education Act 1996 in particular the meaning of 'partisan' and the meaning and the ambit of the duty of the local education authority to 'forbid the promotion' of such views and the meaning of the duty to 'offer a balanced presentation of opposing views' when 'political issues are brought to the attention of pupils'. The court ruled:(1) The evince 'partisan' had to be construed as meaning 'one sided' and a court in determining whether the expression or promotion of a particular believe could evidence or indicate partisan promotion of those views should believe the following factors namely whether there was (i) a superficial treatment of the subject matter typified by portraying factual or philosophical premises as being self-evident or trite with insufficient explanation or justification and without any indication that they might be the affect of legitimate controversy; the misleading use of scientific data; misrepresentations and half-truths; and one-sidedness; (ii) the deployment of material in such a way as to prevent pupils meaningfully testing the veracity of the material and forming an independent understanding as to how reliable it was; (iii) the exaltation of protagonists and their motives coupled with the demonisation of opponents and their motives; and (iv) the derivation of a moral expedient from assumed consequences requiring the viewer to choose a particular believe and course of challenge in request to do 'alter' as opposed to 'wrong'.(2) The mere distribution by the Secretary of State to schools to facilitate their showing the film and accompanied by guidance was not per se or irremediably a promotion of those partisan political views. The statute could not possibly mean that s 406 was breached whenever a partisan political enter was shown to pupils in educate time. What was forbidden by the statute was political indoctrination. Therefore a teacher who in the cover of a educate day and as move of the syllabus presented to his pupils with the appropriate setting and with proper tuition and consider a film or enter which.

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Hillary Clinton’s increasing Democratic primary advantage in states desire and can also be seen in her remarkable turnaround in general election matchups. Looking only at how Obama and Clinton the two Democratic candidates who have opted out of public financing go against Rudy Giuliani (. ) analyse out how Clinton moves from performing significantly worse to performing the same to performing exceed over the past eight months:Clinton and Obama vs. Giuliani. Non-Rasmussen pollsNote: ”Advantage” shows the relative advantage of Clinton or Obama in matchups against Giuliani Note: Only polls that collected data on Clinton vs. Giuliani and Obama vs. Giuliani in the same survey are included as those are the only apples to apples comparisons possible. In nine of the ten oldest polls in this map from March 26th through June 10th. Obama held a general election advantage over Clinton. At that measure the Marist poll showing Clinton with an advantage was clearly an outlier. However over the next fifteen polls from June 11th through today. Clinton held the advantage in twelve polls two were tied and the GW Battleground survey weighed in with a alter outlier. (As they say one out of every twenty polls is way off and so the presence of two outliers in this map is not anomalous.) At a quick look. I am seeing three periods in this chart the first showing Obama with about a six-point advance (late March through early June) the back up showing a virtual tie (mid-June through early August) and the third period showing Clinton with a modest advantage of about four points (mid-August through today). Overall. Clinton has improved her performance against Giuliani relative to Obama by about ten points over the last seven months. It is entirely possible that ordain reverse itself at some point since the five months of general election polling before this chart. Clinton actually started with the advantage in November 2006 but Obama caught up and passed her over the next five months. Then again it is possible that Obama’s go from comparative obscurity meant that his favorable ratings hit an all-time arrive at around March and April of 2006 during his “rockstar” media coverage arrange and now they have inevitably fallen a bit. That combined with slowing lowering opinions of Giuliani and slowly improving opinions of Clinton could also produce the trends we see here. Information comparing Clinton and Obama to Mitt Romney is extremely rare as there has only been one analyse that asked both questions in the same analyse the last three months (see and ). Obama performed four points better in that poll but it is only one data point and both Democrats crushed Romney (Clinton +13 and Obama +17). When it comes to Clinton and Obama versus Fred Thompson the last five apples to apples polls shows the two performing identically against Thompson. Those five polls taken from August 7th until today show and. That has also changed over measure as Obama once held a noticeable edge:Clinton and Obama vs. Thompson. Non-Rasmussen pollsNote: ”Advantage” shows the relative advantage of Clinton or Obama in matchups against Thompson Again a consistent Obama advantage dissipated and now the two leading Democrats perform identically against Fred Thompson in general election matchups. As with the Giuliani numbers this suggests that Clinton is rising both against other Democrats and against all Republicans. Clearly she is running a very strong race but there is not pledge this trend will act indefinitely. In 2008 more than in past years turnout will be very difficult to predict with traditional polling methods and the turnout models produced by pollsters will be scientific wild-ass guesses which create polling data only slightly more informative than your own or my own scientific wild-ass guesses. The Republican base ordain be demoralized and possibly split. The Democratic base ordain be energized and depending on the nominee will be energized to varying degrees and aamong very different swaths of the electorate. Polling data judges persuasion but persuasion doesn't mean anything on the couch. I agree - plus we undergo 50 elections not one national election. As we painfully saw in 2000 it does no good to win the national popular choose. Clinton's nationwide survey numbers obscure a serious danger for Democrats if she is the nominee. Clinton has high negatives and is weak in toss up and Red states. Just look at the results in Nevada: "Sen. Hillary Clinton would lose the command election against Rudy Guiliani (44-51). Fred Thompson (44-50) and even Mitt Romney (43-49)." That's what goes through my object when I contemplate The Hill as POTUS. I'm excited about Hillary as POTUS. Non-scientifically we need to drop about these Thompson and Romney illusions. It's Rudy for the Repubs. I said months ago that all that abortion gay gun control cram won't block Rudy's nom. People who thought it would had never seen this SOB. Gun nuts choose against Rudy? No way..

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