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If you want to fly unaided, using only your hands and arms, no amount of positive thinking will allow you to do that flying. As a matter of fact, of course, if you stand on the top corner of a high building and spread your arms and hands and expect to fly when you jump off that building you will kill yourself.
On the other hand, healthy optimism will get you farther down the road of life than pessimism. Health and wealth are just two of the possibilities that may come your way when you hold a consistently positive attitude.
Studies have shown that people who are consistently affirmative in their attitude toward everything and everybody enjoy better health than those who do not. A whole craze has grown up around casting positive vibrations upon the Universe, expecting positive return on thoughts and feelings from the Universe.
Neither Too Hot Nor Too Cold
Healthy optimism, in my opinion, is somewhere between fatalistic pessimism and irresponsible optimism, sometimes called Pollyanna-ism. Fatalistic pessimism might be defined as believing that everything, all the time, will turn out poorly or badly. Irresponsible optimism might be defined as the attitude that everything all the time will turn out well or good. That one can fly unaided would be irresponsible optimism; that one can never fly in any way might be fatalistic pessimism.
Healthy optimism has got to be somewhere in between.
You Can Fly
Of course, you can fly ? in a plane or a giant kite or in the newer para-suits where you look like a flying squirrel. The person who set out to learn to fly, by holding a positive attitude, kept working and inventing until human flight become possible. Enter the Wright brothers and their flying machine.
So positive thought long held will produce results. Those results can be, literally, in any walk of life, through any occupation or avocation. Your life can be improved through healthy optimism.
How Do I Get One?
Simply said, you develop a positive attitude by developing a positive attitude. Yes, I know the former sentence sounds redundant. But is it really redundant? If your attitude is negative at this time, you?ve got to turn things around by turning your mental posture in a different direction.
You?ve got to see the virtuous and benevolent in everything and everybody. Yes, I know that is not easy in every case. Sometimes it is downright difficult when it comes to some people or some disasters.
Your atrocious boss may try to browbeat you into submission with his impossible demands and deadlines. The tornado that destroyed your home and took all your possessions is not easy to see as presenting opportunities to find the good in it.
A Foundation Is Necessary
To develop and keep healthy optimism you need a foundation upon which to build. You need a place where you may position your confidence that things will turn out, if not for the best, than better than first might meet the eye.
You find such a foundation in the meaning of life, which, I believe, is to be happy. You find that happiness by developing a genuine relationship with The All There Is. You develop that relationship by being in constant touch with The All There Is through such activities as the many forms of meditation.
In that relationship you will find total and complete acceptance from The All There Is. In that absolute acceptance you will find happiness that weathers every and all conditions. There is no greater feeling of well-being than to be perfectly accepted just as you are right now. A supreme feeling of well-being is happiness. Said another way, happiness is a feeling of constant well-being.
Develop That Base
Use one of the forms of meditation and begin today to develop healthy optimism that your life be positive. You can turn your life around in this moment by deciding you will develop the foundation and the relationship that leads to the ability to maintain positivity.
Get to it.
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?Facebook does not provide users with the option to see who un-friend them from their friend?s list and those that refuses to confirm them as friend. But interestingly, there is a script that can alert you when friends unfriend you, when someone you?re friends with deactivates their profile and those that rejects you as a friend.
? 1. Install Greasemonkey?
Add Greasemonkey to Firefox from the addon homepage Here? Validate by clicking on "Install now", and restart Firefox. ? Greasemonkey is installed, and you should see a smiling brown monkey head in the top-right corner of Firefox, next to the search bar.?
Now, close all your Facebook tabs to install Unfriend Finder.? ? 2. Install Un-friend Finder
Click on the logo to download and install Unfriend Finder.?
Download & Install
If Greasemonkey is properly installed, this window should appear :
Click Install, and this is it. You can re-open Facebook, Unfriend Finder is installed.?
Now just check it Out as who Unfriended you !
When Someone Unfriends me , I just assume that they have LOw Tolerance for AwesOme !
Apple has made a small but significant tweak to its App Store for iOS 6 users, changing the Apps for Passbook section of the store. Before, when you clicked through in Passbook the link that brings you to a list of apps, that's all you saw: a simple listing of compatible apps. Now, there's a new paragraph describing what Passbook is, and what Passbook-enabled apps are capable of.
First they invaded our factories, and now it's our hotel rooms. Is nowhere safe from the robots? In truth, Ibis' upcoming Sleep Art project is very slick, even if it smacks of robot voyeurism. Ibis hotels in Berlin, London and Paris will let 40 successful applicants sleep on beds that each have 80 sensors translating movements, sound and temperature into truly unique acrylic paintings by robotic arms connected through WiFi. You don't have to worry that the machines are literally watching you sleep -- there's no cameras or other visual records of the night's tossing and turning, apart from the abstract lines on the canvas. All the same, if you succeed in landing a stay in one of the Sleep Art hotel rooms between October 13th and November 23rd, you're a brave person. We all know how this ends.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If history is a guide, Democrat Barack Obama will have a tough time in the first presidential debate on Wednesday, Republican Mitt Romney will be particularly aggressive, and both will risk committing a damaging gaffe if they wander off their talking points.
The 90-minute showdown in Denver - the first of three televised Obama-Romney encounters in October that will set the tone for the final month of the presidential campaign - will feature two experienced and competent debaters who are at their best in scripted settings.
Neither the Democratic president nor his Republican rival has ever seemed to enjoy the more freewheeling aspects of a candidates' debate, and both have said things during debates that became headaches for their campaigns.
Obama, known for soaring rhetoric and inspirational generalities in his speeches, suffered in some 2008 Democratic primary debates from a diffident and nuanced style that could make him seem flat and uncertain. His most pointed responses often seemed condescending or flippant.
Romney, who survived a grueling series of debates in this year's Republican race, often displayed an efficient and feisty style in rolling over his challengers.
But Romney also can seem stiff and awkward when challenged.
When frustrated, he can also make mistakes - like his offer to bet Texas Governor Rick Perry $10,000 over a disputed point during one Republican primary debate, a scene that was a reminder of critics' charges that Romney is an out-of-touch rich guy.
"They are pretty evenly matched as debaters," said Alan Schroeder of Northeastern University in Boston, who has written a history of presidential debates. "They both tend to be more intellectual than emotional, and they are both articulate and comfortable on camera. But they would both prefer to be in a more controlled setting."
The high-stakes debates - particularly the one on Wednesday, which will be moderated by PBS' Jim Lehrer and focus on domestic policy - could be the last chance for Romney to reclaim momentum from Obama.
The president leads his Republican rival in most national polls and in the politically divided "swing" states likely to decide the November 6 election.
Romney has taken frequent breaks from the campaign trail to practice for the debates, which could draw a television audience dwarfing the 30 million who watched his speech on the last night of the Republican National Convention last month.
The first of the three debates in the 2008 presidential race between Obama and Republican John McCain drew 52 million television viewers.
Debates rarely make a big difference in the final results of presidential races, but a strong performance can give a candidate a bump of a few percentage points in polls, said Mitchell McKinney, a political communications specialist at the University of Missouri.
"You don't normally see game-changer type moments in a presidential debate," he said. "But now the game is almost over, and this is Romney's chance. Can he take advantage?"
Both candidates are proven debaters, but have weaknesses that can be exploited, analysts said.
"If you are Romney, you want to figure out a way to get under Obama's skin, you want to see him get prickly," said Dan Schnur, an aide to McCain's 2000 presidential campaign. "If you're Obama, you want to be a little unpredictable and throw Romney off his script."
A CHALLENGE FOR OBAMA
Recent presidential debates suggest the first debate could be Obama's toughest.
Three of the last four incumbent presidents to seek a second four-year term - Ronald Reagan in 1984, George H.W. Bush in 1992 and his son George W. Bush in 2004 - suffered difficult first debates, although Reagan and the younger Bush won re-election.
The exception was Bill Clinton, a natural debater, in 1996. Clinton had defeated the elder Bush in 1992, and was a much sharper communicator than Kansas Senator Bob Dole, Clinton's Republican opponent in 1996.
"An incumbent president is used to having his way and being deferred to. He is not as used to being challenged," McKinney said. As a result, "they may come across as perturbed. Their job is to defend their record without becoming defensive."
That could prove tricky for Obama, who also will have to walk a fine line in acknowledging the nation's high unemployment rate and the economic difficulties faced by most Americans, while offering a more hopeful vision for the future.
During the 2008 debates, Obama sometimes sounded like the constitutional law professor he once was, exploring every angle of an issue in a rambling style. His staff says it is trying to curb those tendencies in debate preparations.
Obama was reminded of the danger of straying off message earlier this year when he punctuated a speech about the government help that business owners receive with the line, "You didn't build that."
Romney's Republicans called it an insult to business owners and made "We Did Build That" a theme not only of campaign commercials but the Republican convention.
Obama's most memorable 2008 debate gaffe came in what was widely viewed as an insensitive putdown of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton after a moderator questioned her likability.
"You're likable enough, Hillary," said Obama, who after his election appointed her as secretary of state.
Romney faces his own challenges on likability, and the trick for the former private equity executive will be to mount an aggressive attack on Obama without coming off as too cold, calculating or desperate.
"His problem is that people don't believe what he says," said Democrat Doug Hattaway, an aide in the presidential campaigns of Al Gore in 2000 and Hillary Clinton in 2008. "He delivers the lines fine, but the punches don't land the way they would if he was trusted more, so he comes off as more scripted."
During the primary debates, his offer of a $10,000 bet to Perry was not Romney's only out-of-touch moment.
During a debate in Nevada, he countered an attack on his use of a lawn service that employed illegal immigrants by saying that he had told the company, "I'm running for office, for Pete's sake, I can't have illegals."
ROMNEY'S GAFFE PROBLEM
On the campaign trail, Romney has unintentionally reminded voters of his wealth and privilege with comments about his friendship with NASCAR owners and his wife Ann's Cadillacs.
In what could be a turning point in the campaign, Romney was secretly recorded at a private fundraiser telling wealthy donors that the "47 percent" of Americans who do not pay taxes are "victims" who depend on the government for handouts and probably would never vote for him.
"Romney has shown a greater facility for gaffes and missteps, obviously," McKinney said.
Even so, Romney - who participated in more than 20 debates in the 2012 primaries and more than 15 during his unsuccessful run for the White House in 2008 - will be the most experienced presidential campaign debater ever to appear in a general election debate, McKinney said.
Romney will have far more camera time and a much bigger audience in a one-on-one debate with Obama than he did during the crowded primary debates. Analysts said he would need to articulate a sharper vision for the nation and avoid looking like he is merely trying to score debate points at every turn.
Gore learned that lesson the hard way in 2000, when he seemed to win the verbal jousting with George W. Bush but turned off viewers with his impatient demeanor and exasperated sighs when Bush was talking.
The Nevada Gaming Commission approved three more gambling operators to provide their services in the state?s newly regulated gambling industry. The three groups are American Casino and Entertainment Properties LLC, PokerTrip Enterprises and WMS Industries.
American Casino and Entertainment Properties LLC (ACEP) was granted an interactive gambling operator?s license by the Nevada Gaming Commission. The group owns the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and is keen to combine its terrestrial operations with online gambling services to its customers.
According to ACEP, it plans to run free-to-play online poker games for the duration of this year, but by next year it will switch to real money online poker.
Following the approval of its license applicaiton, ACEP and Bally Technologies issued a joint statement, saying that Bally would provide an iGaming platform to ACEP and its properties, including the Stratosphere, as well as its two Arizona Charlies properties.
The Vice President of Business Development for Bally Technologies, John Connelly said after the signing of the agreement: ?We are excited about the opportunity to partner with a premier gaming operation and a globally recognized brand like the Stratosphere. What makes this even more significant is the fact that ACEP is located in Nevada, one of the only approved and regulated markets within the United States.?
?We are pleased to be involved in the leading edge of this emerging segment in the U.S.,? said American Casino and Entertainment Properties? CEO, Frank Riolo. ?This partnership with Bally will allow us to establish a play-for-free poker site by the end of the year, which we plan to use to further enhance our brands and enable us to be poised to launch a real money poker site at such a time as permitted.?
PokerTrip Enterprises, a group based in Las Vegas, was awarded an online poker marketer license, while the Illinois based WMS Industries Inc. was granted a license as a service provider and interactive gaming system manufacturer.
We all know those web pages where the only alternative to a site-specific login is a social networking account. That's not very reassuring for anyone skittish about linking their commentary to a Facebook account relatives might see, if they're even willing to join a social network in the first place. Mozilla has been aware of that hesitation long enough to have just released its long-in-development Persona sign-in service as a beta. Although it has the same kind of simple approach to a login as a Facebook or Twitter pop-up window, Persona's emphasis is on privacy: it stops paying attention the moment credentials go through, keeping any diatribes or subscription details from landing in social streams or central databases. Users don't have to play a rousing game of guess-the-username, either, as they just need to sign in with one or more familiar e-mail addresses and a single password. Persona faces an uphill battle in getting web developer adoption when the establishment sign-in services are open to hundreds of millions of internet citizens, but it does have The Times' online crossword section, OpenPhoto and Voost as early poster children -- and anything that lets the privacy-minded join the party has our vote.
Los Angeles, CA (September 27, 2012) Since the newspaper industry started to experience a major decrease in readership in recent years, many people have deemed the internet and other forms of new media as the culprits. However, a recent study published in the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, a SAGE Journal, finds that sales are down because readers need more engaging and stimulating content.
Study authors Rachel Davis Mersey, Edward C. Malthouse, and Bobby J. Calder suggested that it is crucial for journalists and practitioners to focus their efforts on creating stimulating content in order to "curb the tide" of newspaper abandonment. In order to test their hypothesis, they selected 52 newspapers nationwide, and issued a series of surveys to their readers to find out exactly what they wanted.
The study authors discovered that readers are looking for more engaging content and offered a few suggestions that could help newspaper organizations provide more variety.
Mersey, Malthouse, and Calder suggested that newspaper journalists could include "a question of the day around a major, local, or even barely known but interesting news story that runs on the front page and is designed to encourage conversation among readers and between readers and the newsroom."
Find out more tips by reading the complete study, "Focusing on the Reader: Engagement Trumps Satisfaction" in the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. This article is available free for a limited time at: http://jmq.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/08/29/1077699012455391.full.pdf+html
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Los Angeles, CA (September 27, 2012) Since the newspaper industry started to experience a major decrease in readership in recent years, many people have deemed the internet and other forms of new media as the culprits. However, a recent study published in the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, a SAGE Journal, finds that sales are down because readers need more engaging and stimulating content.
Study authors Rachel Davis Mersey, Edward C. Malthouse, and Bobby J. Calder suggested that it is crucial for journalists and practitioners to focus their efforts on creating stimulating content in order to "curb the tide" of newspaper abandonment. In order to test their hypothesis, they selected 52 newspapers nationwide, and issued a series of surveys to their readers to find out exactly what they wanted.
The study authors discovered that readers are looking for more engaging content and offered a few suggestions that could help newspaper organizations provide more variety.
Mersey, Malthouse, and Calder suggested that newspaper journalists could include "a question of the day around a major, local, or even barely known but interesting news story that runs on the front page and is designed to encourage conversation among readers and between readers and the newsroom."
Find out more tips by reading the complete study, "Focusing on the Reader: Engagement Trumps Satisfaction" in the Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. This article is available free for a limited time at: http://jmq.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/08/29/1077699012455391.full.pdf+html
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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on research in journalism and mass communication. Each issue features reports of original investigation, presenting the latest developments in theory and methodology of communication, international communication, journalism history, and social and legal problems.
Impact Factor: 0.542
Ranked: 48 out of 72 in Communication
Source: 2011 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. An independent company, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com
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CAIRO (AP) ? A spokesman for Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi said Wednesday that there is currently no need to amend the peace treaty with Israel, despite calls in Cairo to revise the 1979 accord to allow the country to beef up its presence in the Sinai Peninsula to combat militants there, the state news agency reported.
For years, many Egyptians have considered the limitations on troop deployments to impinge on national sovereignty. Egyptian political groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, have called for revising the treaty, particularly as lawlessness in the peninsula has increased since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.
The Jewish state has allowed Egypt to temporarily strengthen its forces in the Sinai to fight Islamist militants who have attacked targets both in Egypt and across the border in Israel. But it is opposed to formalizing any changes to the treaty, Israel's first with an Arab country.
The treaty restored Sinai, which Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war, to Egyptian control. Areas near the border were demilitarized, however. The country's hardline foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday there was "no chance" Israel would reevaluate the terms of the peace deal.
Yasser Ali, speaking from New York where Morsi is attending the U.N. General Assembly, said Egypt now has the troops it needs in the Sinai to restore security. The military has been conducting a sweep against Islamist militants there following an August assault on an outpost that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, the worst attack on the army in peacetime.
Ali said the operation is "unhindered" and will continue until it is successful. His comments came in response to published comments by one of Morsi's advisers, who said he will soon present the president with a proposal to amend the 1979 treaty. Mohammed Seif el-Dawla was quoted by the independent Dostor daily as saying the proposed changes, not described, were based on "popular demand and a strategic and security need."
"With all due respect to all political and intellectual luminaries on the presidential advisory panel, only the president and his spokesman speak for the presidency," Ali said, according to the state news agency MENA.
Israel had welcomed the crackdown by Egypt, which deployed armored personnel carriers and attack helicopters to root out militants in the Sinai this summer. But it balked once Egypt sent in tanks, some of which were removed after Israel complained.
by Rob Melton, Contributing Editor September 26, 2012 Filed under Fall Press Day, Uncategorized
One of the English-speaking world?s top writing coaches will speak to delegates at this year?s NWSP Fall Press Day Oct. 24 at University of Oregon in Eugene. Jack Hart?s session will reveal ?The Secret of Telling Stories? based on news reports that will put your publications on the path of the world?s best narrative journalism.
Hart is currently the interim director of the SOJC?s George Turnbull Center in Portland, headquarters of Northwest Scholastic Press.
During his quarter century at?The Oregonian,the Pacific Northwest?s largest newspaper, Hart served as managing editor, training editor, and writing coach. He has conducted writing workshops throughout the English-speaking world.?He also has worked as a reporter, arts and leisure editor, Sunday magazine editor, and editor at large. He has additional reporting experience at two other newspapers.
Hart is also the author of?A Writer?s Coach: An Editor?s Guide to Words That Work,released as a Pantheon hardback in 2006 and as a Vintage Books paperback in 2007. A Writer?s Coach?is Hart?s effort to make writing less painful for the rest of us. The book can help any writer learn the tricks and habits of good writers.
?Just about everybody agrees that good writing is tight, that it?s forceful,? Hart explains. ?Good writing incorporates lively verbs and clean syntax. It?s colorful. It includes descriptive elements that can put you in the scene. It?s rhythmic. ? Developing a process to get you there is not some closely guarded mystery, Hart explains, but the step-by-step conquest of craft.
His latest book, Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction?(Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) was published last summer.
Hart?s other works include?The Information Empire,?a history of the?Los Angeles Times,?along with dozens of articles for popular magazines, academic journals, and trade publications. His column, ?The Writer?s Workshop,? ran in?Editor & Publisher?magazine for a decade.
He edited four Pulitzer Prize finalists, including winners in explanatory journalism and feature writing. He also edited a portion of the work recognized with the 2001 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service and the 2006 breaking-news Pulitzer.?Along the way he developed an international reputation for his work with narrative nonfiction.
Hart, who earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin doctorate in Mass Communications, was a tenured faculty member and acting dean of the journalism school at the University of Oregon, and taught at six major universities. He?s also served as visiting faculty at the American Press Institute and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.
He has coached two Pulitzer Prize winners (and contributed to two others), as well as national winners of the ASNE writing awards, the Ernie Pyle award, the Scripps-Howard business-writing award, the Overseas Press Club awards, the Headliners awards and the Society of Professional Journalists feature-writing award.
He was recently profiled by the University of Washington as an outstanding alumnus of the Department of Communication. (http://www.com.washington.edu/alumni/notes/profiles/hart.html)?The article explains how he accidently discovered journalism and became one of the first writing coaches for a daily newspaper.
Read the in-depth Q&A with Hart about??Storycraft? and narrative nonfiction as an American literary form by Andrea Pitzer for the Nieman Storyboard:?http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2011/10/20/jack-hart-storycraft-narrative-nonfiction-interview/
Other excellent craft articles by Hart about how to write well and tell great stories can be found online:
Two F-22 Raptor fighter jets intercepted two other planes that had entered restricted airspace over the United Nations General Assembly in separate incidents today, the military said.
The two unidentified planes entered temporarily restricted airspace over the international diplomatic headquarters where President Obama spoke and were later intercepted over central New Jersey, according to the North Atlantic Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Both planes, described as "general aviation aircraft," landed at a nearby airport without incident.
The F-22s were called to take on the intercept mission just months after the Air Force claimed to have solved a mysterious problem with the $420 million-a-pop fighters in which pilots reported experiencing symptoms of oxygen deprivation in mid-flight. The problem forced the entire fleet of 180-odd aircraft - which has never been in combat - to stand down for months in 2011 and the planes were only let back in the air under strict flight restrictions - restrictions that are now being lifted.
ABC News Investigation: The F-22s' Fatal Flaws
The F-22's past problems apparently weren't a concern for the joint U.S.-Canadian NORAD command, where spokesperson Lt. Al Blondin told ABC News that choosing an aircraft for an intercept mission - either an F-22, F-15, F-16 or a Canadian fighter - really just comes down to a matter of convenience.
"It's whichever one is readily available," he said. "Day to day, we've got them on stand-by all over North America."
F-22s have previously been scrambled to intercept aircraft from Maryland to Illinois, according to NORAD, and once, in 2009, F-22s reportedly shadowed a Russian patrol near the arctic.
Those incidents are the closest any planes in the $79 billion Raptor fleet have ever come to combat, as they went unused in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the temporary U.S.-led no-fly zone over Libya last year. The 180-odd F-22 planes, built by defense contracting giant Lockheed Martin and billed by the Air Force as the most advanced stealth jets on the planet, simply weren't necessary in those operations, the Air Force said.
In May, an ABC News investigation into the mystery F-22 problem found that in more than two dozen instances since 2008, Raptor pilots reported experiencing the symptoms of oxygen deprivation including dizziness, sluggishness and poor judgment while in mid-flight. In one instance, a pilot apparently became so disoriented that his plane dipped down and skimmed treetops before he was able to save himself. In a separate incident, Capt. Jeff Haney was killed in a crash shortly after a still unknown malfunction caused his oxygen system to shut down mid-flight.
READ Exclusive: Air Force Warned of Fatal F-22 Flaw Decade Before Crash
The Air Force launched multiple investigations of their own with the help of NASA engineers and Navy divers, but for months were unable to figure out what was causing the pilot's problems. It wasn't until July that the military announced it had found what they believed to be the main problem: an overinflated pressure vest that was restricting the pilots' breathing.
The Air Force has since began lifting the flight restrictions on the plane and is in the process of installing a secondary automatic back-up oxygen system on the planes as a precaution - a system that Haney's family said would have saved his life had it been in place two years ago.
READ: Air Force Admits Wrong in Nixing F-22 Fighter Safety System
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Contact: Christa Stratton cstratton@geosociety.org Geological Society of America
Boulder, CO, USA The program for GSA's 124th Annual Meeting & Exposition, 4 November in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, is now set and searchable online. Highlights include a Pardee Keynote Symposium on the current work of the Mars rover, Curiosity, and sessions on sea-level rise, hydrofracking, and the 2011 central Virginia earthquake. Notable speakers include Bill McKibben, this year's GSA President's Medal recipient; Scott Tinker, who will present both a lecture and a screening of his energy film, SWITCH; and Julie Brigham-Grette, who will describe her work in Arctic Russia.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to attend and cover the meeting (eligibility and registration details in III below). Public information officers from universities, government agencies, and research institutions are also welcome to represent their organizations to members of the media at the meeting.
Find out what is new and newsworthy by browsing the complete technical program schedule at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/.
To identify presentations in specific areas of interest, search topical sessions by discipline categories or sponsors using the drop-down menus at www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/sessions/topical.asp, or use your browser's "find" feature to search for keywords or convener names.
I. SPECIAL LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
See www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/extras.htm for a full listing.
Sunday, 4 Nov.
GSA Presidential Address and President's Medal Presentation (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): GSA President George H. Davis, Regents Professor (emeritus), University of Arizona, will speak on "Where Our Deepest Passions Intersect the World's Compelling Needs."
President's Medal Lecture (3 to 4:15 p.m.): Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben will speak about "Getting Serious about Climate Change."
Monday, 5 Nov.
GSA Gold Medal Lectures (2 to 3:30 p.m.): GSA's 2012 medalists will deliver brief talks reflecting on their careers: Raymond A. Price, "The influence of conceptual models and geo-poetry on tectonics and structural geology"; John M. Eiler, "The isotopic anomalies of natural substances"; and Katharine W. Huntington, "Orogens, isotopes, and the evolution of Earth's surface.
Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture (5 to 6 p.m.): UMass-Amherst professor Julie Brigham-Grette will talk about her experiences as U.S. Chief Scientist in "Driven to Extremes -- The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia."
Tuesday, 6 Nov.
Michael Halbouty Distinguished Lecture/Lunchtime Lecture #3 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): UT-Austin professor Scott Tinker will discuss his documentary film in a lecture titled "SWTICH: The Global Energy Transition."
Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecture (4:15 to 4:30 p.m.): Penn State professor Scott Burns will talk about "Urban Landslides: Challenges for Forensic Engineering Geologists and Engineers."
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture (4:30 to 5:30 p.m.): UC-Irvine professor Jay Famiglietti will speak on "Water Cycle Change and the Human Fingerprint on the Water Landscape of the 21st Century: Observations from a Decade of Grace."
Wednesday, 6 Nov.
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #4 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): David Conover (senior vice president at Dutko Grayling) and Albert Teich (research professor of science, technology & international affairs at George Washington University) will speak in a session moderated by Kasey White (GSA's director of geoscience policy): "What do the Election Results mean for Science?"
Geomorphology of the Anthropocene (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on human impacts on Yellowstone; land use and soil erosion; "wilderness is dead"; buried streams beneath urban landscapes; and evolution of Earth's surface. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30644.htm
Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I & II (8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): These sessions convene leading scientists from diverse disciplines to present current research on one of the most compelling issues in the geosciences: rapid sea-level rise and the attendant threat to coastlines worldwide. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30943.html
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session31945.html
Teaching Controversy in the K? Earth Science Classroom (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on the sale and ownership of fossils; teaching evolution and climate controversies; "the elephant in the wetlands"; "water is worth fighting over"; and hydraulic fracturing. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30461.htm
Monday, 5 Nov.
Pardee Keynote Symposium P2: Mars Rover Curiosity: Geoscience in Gale Crater (8 a.m. to noon): https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30627.htm
Progress in Forensic Geochemistry (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on geo-referencing a cold-case victim; the nature and distribution of lead at a former gunnery range; and geochemical analysis of cremated human remains. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30540.htm
Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on the Cambrian explosion; "the construction of animal diversity"; and investigations of a wide variety of fossil animals. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_31951.htm
Tuesday, 6 Nov.
Recent Sea-Level Rise: Accelerating or Not? (8 a.m. to noon): Examines the direct and indirect evidence for changes in the rate of sea-level rise over the past 100 to 200 years.
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30920.html
Landslides and Debris Flows: Global Problems, Local Solutions (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on debris flows and landslide hazards in western North Carolina; landslide susceptibility mapping in the Yukon; and the effects of wildfires and debris flows on the Salmon River, Idaho. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30643.htm
Central Virginia Earthquakes of 2011: Geology, Geophysics, and Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America (8 a.m. to noon): Includes a variety of presentations on the August 2011 magnitude 5.8 Virginia earthquake. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30197.htm
Recent Advances in Geology & Health (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on "how not to communicate geology and health issues"; lead in urban soils; and the detection of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in groundwater. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_31141.htm
Wednesday, 7 Nov.
Hydraulic Fracturing for Resource Development or Remediation (8 a.m to noon): Includes presentations on shale gas opportunities and challenges; "the original 'frackers'"; groundwater quality assessment; and hydraulic fracturing as am environmental remediation tool. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30214.htm
Geology in the National Parks (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on national parks in Alaska; geology along the Blue Ridge Parkway; and an inventory of protected volcanic properties managed by the U.S. National Park Service. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30500.htm
III. MEDIA PARTICIPATION
Representatives of the media and public information officers from universities, government agencies, and research institutions, may participate in technical sessions, field trips, and other special events. Eligible media personnel will receive complimentary registration and are invited to use GSA's newsroom facilities while at the meeting. Journalists and PIOs must pay for any short courses or field trips in which they wish to participate.
For information on media eligibility and registration, go to www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/media.htm.
The pre-registration deadline for media reps is Friday, 26 October 2012. After that date, media may register onsite in the GSA Newsroom, Room 204 in the Charlotte Convention Center. Wifi Internet access and a quiet space for interviews will be provided in the newsroom, along with beverages and light snacks throughout the day.
Newsroom Hours of Operation
Saturday, 3 Nov., 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, 4 Nov., through Tuesday, 6 Nov., 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, 7 Nov., 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Newsroom telephone number (incoming calls): +1-704-339-6207 (starting Saturday afternoon).
Contact Christa Stratton, GSA Director of Communications & Marketing, for additional information and assistance.
www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/
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Boulder, CO, USA The program for GSA's 124th Annual Meeting & Exposition, 4 November in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, is now set and searchable online. Highlights include a Pardee Keynote Symposium on the current work of the Mars rover, Curiosity, and sessions on sea-level rise, hydrofracking, and the 2011 central Virginia earthquake. Notable speakers include Bill McKibben, this year's GSA President's Medal recipient; Scott Tinker, who will present both a lecture and a screening of his energy film, SWITCH; and Julie Brigham-Grette, who will describe her work in Arctic Russia.
Representatives of the media are cordially invited to attend and cover the meeting (eligibility and registration details in III below). Public information officers from universities, government agencies, and research institutions are also welcome to represent their organizations to members of the media at the meeting.
Find out what is new and newsworthy by browsing the complete technical program schedule at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/.
To identify presentations in specific areas of interest, search topical sessions by discipline categories or sponsors using the drop-down menus at www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/sessions/topical.asp, or use your browser's "find" feature to search for keywords or convener names.
I. SPECIAL LECTURES AND ADDRESSES
See www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/extras.htm for a full listing.
Sunday, 4 Nov.
GSA Presidential Address and President's Medal Presentation (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): GSA President George H. Davis, Regents Professor (emeritus), University of Arizona, will speak on "Where Our Deepest Passions Intersect the World's Compelling Needs."
President's Medal Lecture (3 to 4:15 p.m.): Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben will speak about "Getting Serious about Climate Change."
Monday, 5 Nov.
GSA Gold Medal Lectures (2 to 3:30 p.m.): GSA's 2012 medalists will deliver brief talks reflecting on their careers: Raymond A. Price, "The influence of conceptual models and geo-poetry on tectonics and structural geology"; John M. Eiler, "The isotopic anomalies of natural substances"; and Katharine W. Huntington, "Orogens, isotopes, and the evolution of Earth's surface.
Subaru Outdoor Life Lecture (5 to 6 p.m.): UMass-Amherst professor Julie Brigham-Grette will talk about her experiences as U.S. Chief Scientist in "Driven to Extremes -- The Roadless Pursuit of Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Arctic Russia."
Tuesday, 6 Nov.
Michael Halbouty Distinguished Lecture/Lunchtime Lecture #3 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): UT-Austin professor Scott Tinker will discuss his documentary film in a lecture titled "SWTICH: The Global Energy Transition."
Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecture (4:15 to 4:30 p.m.): Penn State professor Scott Burns will talk about "Urban Landslides: Challenges for Forensic Engineering Geologists and Engineers."
Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecture (4:30 to 5:30 p.m.): UC-Irvine professor Jay Famiglietti will speak on "Water Cycle Change and the Human Fingerprint on the Water Landscape of the 21st Century: Observations from a Decade of Grace."
Wednesday, 6 Nov.
GSA Lunchtime Lecture #4 (12:15 to 1:15 p.m.): David Conover (senior vice president at Dutko Grayling) and Albert Teich (research professor of science, technology & international affairs at George Washington University) will speak in a session moderated by Kasey White (GSA's director of geoscience policy): "What do the Election Results mean for Science?"
Geomorphology of the Anthropocene (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on human impacts on Yellowstone; land use and soil erosion; "wilderness is dead"; buried streams beneath urban landscapes; and evolution of Earth's surface. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30644.htm
Rapid Sea-Level Rise and Its Impacts: Past, Present, and Future I & II (8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): These sessions convene leading scientists from diverse disciplines to present current research on one of the most compelling issues in the geosciences: rapid sea-level rise and the attendant threat to coastlines worldwide. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30943.html
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session31945.html
Teaching Controversy in the K? Earth Science Classroom (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on the sale and ownership of fossils; teaching evolution and climate controversies; "the elephant in the wetlands"; "water is worth fighting over"; and hydraulic fracturing. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30461.htm
Monday, 5 Nov.
Pardee Keynote Symposium P2: Mars Rover Curiosity: Geoscience in Gale Crater (8 a.m. to noon): https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30627.htm
Progress in Forensic Geochemistry (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on geo-referencing a cold-case victim; the nature and distribution of lead at a former gunnery range; and geochemical analysis of cremated human remains. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30540.htm
Fossil Preservation, Biological Evolution, and Environmental Change at the Dawn of Animal Radiation (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on the Cambrian explosion; "the construction of animal diversity"; and investigations of a wide variety of fossil animals. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_31951.htm
Tuesday, 6 Nov.
Recent Sea-Level Rise: Accelerating or Not? (8 a.m. to noon): Examines the direct and indirect evidence for changes in the rate of sea-level rise over the past 100 to 200 years.
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Session30920.html
Landslides and Debris Flows: Global Problems, Local Solutions (8 a.m. to noon): Includes presentations on debris flows and landslide hazards in western North Carolina; landslide susceptibility mapping in the Yukon; and the effects of wildfires and debris flows on the Salmon River, Idaho. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30643.htm
Central Virginia Earthquakes of 2011: Geology, Geophysics, and Significance for Seismic Hazards in Eastern North America (8 a.m. to noon): Includes a variety of presentations on the August 2011 magnitude 5.8 Virginia earthquake. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30197.htm
Recent Advances in Geology & Health (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on "how not to communicate geology and health issues"; lead in urban soils; and the detection of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in groundwater. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_31141.htm
Wednesday, 7 Nov.
Hydraulic Fracturing for Resource Development or Remediation (8 a.m to noon): Includes presentations on shale gas opportunities and challenges; "the original 'frackers'"; groundwater quality assessment; and hydraulic fracturing as am environmental remediation tool. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30214.htm
Geology in the National Parks (1:30 to 5:30 p.m.): Includes presentations on national parks in Alaska; geology along the Blue Ridge Parkway; and an inventory of protected volcanic properties managed by the U.S. National Park Service. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/finalprogram/session_30500.htm
III. MEDIA PARTICIPATION
Representatives of the media and public information officers from universities, government agencies, and research institutions, may participate in technical sessions, field trips, and other special events. Eligible media personnel will receive complimentary registration and are invited to use GSA's newsroom facilities while at the meeting. Journalists and PIOs must pay for any short courses or field trips in which they wish to participate.
For information on media eligibility and registration, go to www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/media.htm.
The pre-registration deadline for media reps is Friday, 26 October 2012. After that date, media may register onsite in the GSA Newsroom, Room 204 in the Charlotte Convention Center. Wifi Internet access and a quiet space for interviews will be provided in the newsroom, along with beverages and light snacks throughout the day.
Newsroom Hours of Operation
Saturday, 3 Nov., 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday, 4 Nov., through Tuesday, 6 Nov., 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday, 7 Nov., 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Newsroom telephone number (incoming calls): +1-704-339-6207 (starting Saturday afternoon).
Contact Christa Stratton, GSA Director of Communications & Marketing, for additional information and assistance.
www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/
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Apple has made a small but significant tweak to its App Store for iOS 6 users, changing the Apps for Passbook section of the store. Before, when you clicked through in Passbook the link that brings you to a list of apps, that's all you saw: a simple listing of compatible apps. Now, there's a new paragraph describing what Passbook is, and what Passbook-enabled apps are capable of.
The Nevada Gaming Commission approved three more gambling operators to provide their services in the state?s newly regulated gambling industry. The three groups are American Casino and Entertainment Properties LLC, PokerTrip Enterprises and WMS Industries.
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