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Pick Up A New Sport and Dance During Holidays

During this November and December school holiday, your child could pick up a new sport or brush up his/her skills on a particular sport. Picking up a sport or dance during this time is good as many of the courses or programmes are short and it acts as trial lessons for the child.? If he likes it, he can then continue his interests after the school holidays. Or if he don?t, he experienced it and knows what he disliked.

Best of all, these programmes are great for exposing your child to various kind of sports which promote healthy living and better motor skills.?? Most of the skills that he picked up during this holiday could benefit him/her for the rest of their life.? Who knows, he may be our next sportsman to represent Olympic?

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School Holiday Intensive Swimming Lessons @? Choa Chu Kang & Sengkang
For: Child (Age 5 onwards )

If you are planning for non-academic, fun, enjoyable and meaningful activities for your child during the school holiday, you have probably come to the right place. You may consider to enrol your child to our holiday swimming classes. This class is design for kids from age 5 to 12 years old, three times a week swimming lessons during the school holiday. This is an opportunity to learn swimming and make new friends with other kids at the same time. Please make advance booking to avoid disappointment as we only have 10 slots for each class. Hurry, promotion is now on!

Duration:15 Lessons + Free 3 lessons.? 45 ? 60 minutes per lesson

Date: 19 Nov 2012 (Choa Chu Kang & Sengkang SC start 20 Nov 2012)

Cost: S$360

Booking and Contact: Call +65 96517946 ?

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Russian Ballet Academy Holiday Camp

For: Child (Age 5 - 9)

During this holiday, let your child explore and experience the world of classical ballet!? The Russian Ballet December Holiday Camp provides a safe, fun and nurturing environment for the young ballet student to be taught the Russian ballet technique, also know as the Vaganova method.? In addition to a daily ballet class, students also get to learn cherography from the ballet classic, "Sleeping Beauty" as well as participate in games and craft activities.?? The 5-day camp concludes with a mini-showcase.

The camp is open to children 5-9 years old and no prior ballet experience is needed.

Camp 1 Date: 10 December to 14 December 2012.???? Venue: Dance on Us @ Carpenter Street.

Camp 2 Date: 7 January to 13 January 2013.???? Venue: Dance on Us @ Claymore Hill.

Duration: 3 day or 5 day camp.

Cost: S$200 for 3-day Camp (10-12 Dec 2012 or 7 to 9 Jan 2013), early bird $170.?? $300 for 5-Day Camp, early bird $270.

Booking and Contact: Call +65 91088490.

HIP HOP Line Dance 1 For 1, Let's Dance 4 Fun!

For: Families with kids? (Age 6 - 12 )

Calling parents and children! Come dance the salsa, cha cha and samba! Here's a fun activity for families to move feet, hands and body and experience something dynamic together. Get your rhythm, coordination, agility and balance right, and strengthen your family ties through it all.

Date and Venue: See the following available dates in the following table.

Duration: 1 sessions of 1.30 hours.

Cost: $28 (Members of PA), $40 (Non-Members)

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Booking and Contact: Check the following Dates and Community Centres (CC).

Date/Day	Time	Register With	Contact Number
19-Nov-12	2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	NEE SOON EAST CC	62570446
03-Dec-12	2:30 PM - 4:00 PM	ANCHORVALE CC	64894959
05-Dec-12	9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	BISHAN NORTH CC	64581615
08-Dec-12	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	TAMPINES WEST CC	67881912
12-Dec-12	2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	WHAMPOA CC	62547060
13-Dec-12???	2:00 PM - 03:30 PM	YIO CHU KANG CC	64570414
15-Dec-12	1:30 PM - 03:00 PM	FENGSHAN CC	64412412
21-Dec-12	11:00 AM- 12:30 PM	KAMPONG UBI CC	67423564

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Northeast back to business after Sandy's hard hit

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions across the U.S. Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume their normal lives on Wednesday as companies, markets and airports reopen despite grim projections of power and mass transit outages around New York for several more days.

With six days to go before the November 6 elections, President Barack Obama will visit flood-ravaged areas of the New Jersey shore, where the storm of historic proportions made landfall on Monday. As his guide, he will have Republican Governor Chris Christie, a vocal backer of presidential challenger Mitt Romney who has nevertheless praised Obama and the federal response to the storm.

Leaders at all levels had immense amounts of work to do to bring a semblance of normality back to the densely populated Eastern Seaboard.

Sandy, which killed 40 people in the United States, pushed inland by dumping several feet of snow in the Appalachian Mountains, more than 8.2 million homes and businesses remained without electricity across several states as trees toppled by fierce winds tore down power lines.

Subway tracks and commuter tunnels under New York City, which carry several million people a day, were under several feet of water. The lower half of Manhattan remained without power after a transformer explosion at a Con Edison substation Monday night.

Hit with a record storm surge of nearly 14 feet of water, New York City likely will struggle without subways for days, authorities said. Buses were operating on a limited basis and many residents were walking long distances or scrambling to grab scarce taxi cabs on the streets.

Assessing the damage, officials with New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority said they would release a timetable of their recovery plans sometime on Wednesday.

Despite much of the city's financial district being damaged by flooding, officials planned to reopen financial markets on Wednesday as well. How much activity could take place remained to be seen, however, as many workers may be unlikely to get to work without subways and commuter railroads from the suburbs.

Christie took a helicopter tour of the Jersey shore on Tuesday and saw boats adrift, boardwalks washed away, roads blocked by massive sand drifts and other destruction. He stopped in the badly damaged resort towns of Belmar and Avalon.

"I was just here walking this place this summer, and the fact that most of it is gone is just incredible," he said at one stop.

Christie said it could be seven to 10 days before power is restored statewide. He also said residents could not yet return to homes on the shore's battered barrier islands.

WAITING FOR RESCUE

Obama faces political danger if the government fails to respond well, as was the case with his predecessor George W. Bush's botched handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Thousands of residents of Hoboken, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, were stranded in their homes due to flooding, the mayor said.

"We have, probably, about 20,000 people that still remain in their homes, and we're trying to put together an evacuation plan, get the equipment here," Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer told MSNBC television.

The remains of Hurricane Sandy slowed to 8 mph over Pennsylvania, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was expected to continue north toward western New York and Canada, the National Weather Service said.

The slowed pace meant it was dumping a lot of snow on the Appalachian Mountains, with nearly 30 inches recorded in Red House, Maryland.

Blizzard warnings and coastal flood warnings for the shores of the Great Lakes were in effect. The western extreme of Sandy's wind field generated gusts of up to 60 mph on the southern end of Lake Michigan and up to 35 mph in Chicago, the weather service said.

The storm killed 22 people in New York City, among 27 total in New York state, while six died in New Jersey. Seven other states reported fatalities. One disaster modeling company said Sandy may have caused up to $15 billion in insured losses.

Sandy hit the East Coast with a week to go to the November 6 presidential election, dampening an unprecedented drive to encourage early voting and raising questions whether some polling stations will be ready to open on Election Day.

Obama and Romney put campaigning on hold for a second day on Tuesday, but Romney planned to hit the trail in Florida on Wednesday and Obama seemed likely to resume campaigning on Thursday.

BROADWAY IS BACK

Sandy became the biggest storm to hit the United States in generations when it crashed ashore with hurricane-force winds on Monday near the New Jersey gambling resort of Atlantic City.

Two of the area's major airports - John F. Kennedy International in New York and Newark Liberty International - planned to reopen with limited service on Wednesday.

New York's LaGuardia Airport, the third of the airports that serve the nation's busiest airspace, was flooded and remained closed.

Nearly 19,000 flights have been canceled since Sunday, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.com.

On Broadway, the Theater League announced that most shows would resume performances on Wednesday. Shows had been canceled since Sunday due to the storm.

Sandy forced New York City to postpone its traditional Halloween parade, which had been set for Wednesday night in Greenwich Village.

(Additional reporting by Daniel Bases, Michael Erman, Anna Louie Sussman, Ed Krudy, Chris Michaud and Scott DiSavino in New York and Ian Simpson in West Virginia; Writing by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Bill Trott)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/east-coast-reels-massive-deadly-storm-020602474.html

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Import of proteins into chloroplasts is differentially regulated by age

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? New research has found that the transport of proteins into chloroplasts in plants is differentially regulated by the age of the chloroplast; upturning the previously accepted notion that this process is age-independent or only globally up- or down- regulated for all proteins.

The research, led by Dr. Hsou-min Li, a Research Fellow from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica of Taiwan, is published October 30 in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

It's long been known that gene expression changes with age, for example, some genes are expressed in young organisms, others in aged organisms. However, up until now, it has been generally believed that the protein-transport processes that take place inside a cell occur independently of the cell's age.

Dr. Li and colleagues investigated pea leaves of different ages and discovered that proteins imported into chloroplasts -- the organelles in plant cells where photosynthesis occurs -- can be divided into three groups: one group prefers to be imported into very young chloroplasts, the second group has no special preference, and the third group prefer to be imported into older chloroplasts.

"Age-dependent regulation at the protein transport level had not been thoroughly investigated due to technical difficulties," Dr Li explained. "Pea seedlings offer an excellent model for such studies because each plant has leaves of different ages on a single stem and they are cheap to grow. Other scientists have taken advantage of this but at that time, they only had a very limited number of proteins to test. Now with data from genomic and proteomic analyses, we can test a lot more proteins and can show not only that the regulation exists, but also that every protein can be regulated differently."

After finding this novel regulation, Dr Li's group then attempted to find the signal that controls age selectivity. They found that, for each protein, the age-selective signal is located within the signal peptide that controls organelle import. They also identified a signal-peptide motif that is necessary for targeting proteins to older chloroplasts.

"We knew that signal peptides specify the organelle a protein is supposed to be targeted to, acting like address labels," said Dr Li. "When we found that they also contain the information for the age selectivity we observed, we decided to try to identify the "code" that instructs a protein to go to older chloroplasts first. The existence of such a code means that chloroplast signal peptides are not just address labels -- they also contain information about "when" a protein should be delivered."

These findings may have implications for selectively targeting proteins into organelles of aging tissues, said Dr Li. "We believe similar kinds of regulation mechanisms may also exist for other organelles in other organisms, like humans. For example, there may be signal peptide motifs that will allow us to specifically target therapeutic proteins into mitochondria in aging cardiac tissues."

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Hurricane Sandy: Tips to Make Tap Water Safe for Drinking

Oct 29, 2012 7:10pm

If water supply becomes contaminated, you can either boil water for one?minute or make water safe with bleach.

Here is how:

If tap water is clear:

1. Add eight?drops of household unscented liquid bleach to one gallon of water.

2. Mix well and wait 30 minutes or more before drinking.

If tap water is cloudy:

1. Add 16 drops of unscented household liquid bleach to one gallon of water.

2. Mix well and wait 30 minutes or more before drinking.

In addition:

• Never mix bleach with ammonia or other cleaners.
• Open windows and doors to get fresh air when you use bleach.

For more information, go to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

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Five iPhone 5s in five days: win a black Verizon iPhone 5 and two cases, courtesy of Seidio!

Whether or not you're having a case of the Mondays, you have to admit that this is a pretty solid way to start off the week. Amidst the swarm of tech news coming out today, we're kicking off a full week of iPhone 5 giveaways! Seidio is here to get things going the right way, offering a black 16GB Verizon iPhone 5 and two of its rugged cases: the ACTIVE, complete with metal kickstand, as well as the CONVERT Combo. As you may have already guessed, Seidio produces a full ecosystem of premium accessories like the ones you see above. Head to the link above (and the Facebook link below) to see more options if you're still on the lookout. And while you're on the lookout, keep an eye out for the rest of the iPhone 5s we give away this week!

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Energy markets rise on Sandy, insurers fall

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline and heating oil futures gained while U.S. Treasuries also rose on Monday, as economic worries over Hurricane Sandy fuelled safe-haven buying in thin trading as the powerful storm began to batter the U.S. East Coast.

The storm closed Wall Street on the anniversary of the 1929 stock market crash. It was the stock market's first weather-related closure in 27 years, and other markets closed early as investors braced for the impact of Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to slam the U.S. eastern seaboard.

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Tuesday, but the two-largest U.S. stock exchange operators, NYSE Euronext and Nasdaq OMX Group, intend to reopen Wednesday, conditions permitting.

Trading was thin in U.S. foreign exchange, fixed income, precious metals and energy markets as public transportation was shut in New York and parts of lower Manhattan were evacuated.

"You have uncertainties now. You have these safe haven purchases. People are trying to figure out the economic impact from the storm," said Larry Milstein, head of government and agency trading at R.W. Pressprich & Co in New York.

"Right now it's the easy way to buy Treasuries and wait to see what happens," Milstein said.

Benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury notes traded 8/32 higher in price to yield 1.7206 percent.

U.S. heating oil futures gained, touching the highest level relative to U.S. crude oil on record, as dealers hedged against the risk of power outages and flooding from Sandy that could damage refineries and keep production shut for weeks.

The crack spread, the difference in value between a barrel heating oil and a barrel of crude oil, touched $45.15 a barrel.

"Markets will be watching for reports of damage to energy infrastructure, notably refineries, post-Sandy, given the state of extremely low gasoil inventories as we move into winter season," Deutsche Bank analysts said.

Gasoline futures reached $2.8115 a gallon, the highest since October 17, before paring gains as traders factored in the reduced demand for fuel with the almost total shut-down of eastern seaboard roads and airports.

In Europe stocks, led by insurers, fell on expectations Sandy-related damage will boost claims, while political jitters in debt-laden Italy cast shadows on the euro zone.

Reinsurers Swiss Re and Hannover RE led a weaker European insurance sector index as the market tried to foresee the clean-up costs of Sandy.

"We are seeing insurers slide and we've sold a bit of Aviva and RSA," said Ed Woolfitt, head of trading at Galvan Research.

Euro zone blue chips shed 0.7 percent to 2,478.84 points after former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi threatened to bring down the government of his successor, Mario Monti, which has appeased markets with its austerity agenda.

The broader MSCI world equity index lost 0.26 percent to 327.74 points - on track for its worst monthly performance since May as doubts grow over the effect of the latest round of central bank efforts to boost activity.

The euro fell against the dollar and yen, hurt by uncertainty over whether Greece can agree to a deal on austerity and with no sign of when Spain might request aid.

The single currency was expected to stay subdued against the dollar and the yen, with investors preferring safe-haven currencies on renewed worries about weak earnings from top companies in the region.

The single currency was down 0.3 percent at $1.2898, not far from a two-week low of $1.2881.

The dollar rose to a session high against the yen ahead of a Bank of Japan policy review on Tuesday at which the central bank is expected to further ease monetary policy.

The dollar was last up 0.2 percent at 79.80, the session peak.

U.S. consumer spending rose solidly in September, putting the economy on a firmer footing heading into the fourth quarter even though households had to pull back on saving to fund purchases.

But the rise in consumer spending will mask a pullback late in the year as businesses hold investments in anticipation of higher taxes and cuts in federal spending that will kick in beginning early next year if Congress doesn't act, said Ellen Zentner, senior U.S. economist at Nomura Securities in New York.

Positive surprises, including third-quarter U.S. growth data and signs of stabilization in China, have failed to persuade investors that the world economy can achieve lasting growth as multinational global companies have forecast weak revenues.

(Reporting by Herbert Lash; Editing by David Gregorio and Steve Orlofsky)

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Homelessness, high mobility threaten children's achievement

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Children who are homeless or move frequently have chronically lower math and reading skills than other low-income students who don't move as much.

That's the finding of a new longitudinal study on children's risk and resilience conducted through a university-community partnership by researchers at the University of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Public Schools, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Iowa, and Hong Kong Sue Yan University. The study appears in the journal Child Development.

About one million American school children are homeless each year, and many more are thought to move frequently. This study looked at more than 26,000 students in the Minneapolis Public Schools, a large, urban district, to examine whether homelessness and frequent moving over a six-year period are related to learning, beyond the risk of poverty.

The researchers found that students who were homeless at some point during the six-year study or moved a lot (making three or more moves in a year) had persistently lower levels of reading and math achievement in elementary and middle school compared to other low-income students and their more advantaged peers. These achievement gaps either stayed the same or worsened as students approached high school, even when the researchers took into account other factors. Students also made slower gains in math achievement during the years they were homeless or highly mobile compared to years when they were not homeless or didn't move as often.

Even though children who were homeless or highly mobile showed low achievement as a group, there was striking variation in the achievement of individual children, with 45 percent scoring within the average range or better on these skills. This finding suggests that many children who are homeless or move frequently nonetheless show academic resilience.

"Understanding their successes may offer clues for strategies to address achievement problems in their peers," suggests J.J. Cutuli, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and the study's lead author. "Alleviating problems for these students requires simultaneously addressing short-term risks tied to homelessness or moving frequently and long-term risks associated with chronic poverty and disadvantage. One starting point may be understanding the protective influences that keep many of these children on track academically."

The researchers used administrative data (such as test scores, attendance, and eligibility for free and reduced-price meals and special services) on all 3rd through 8th graders in the district, comparing students identified as homeless or highly mobile to other students receiving free meals, students receiving reduced-price meals, and students who did not participate in the federal meal program. Achievement was gauged by looking at reading and math achievement scores on annual standardized tests.

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Oil refineries shut down as Hurricane Sandy nears

By Janet McGurty , Reuters

NEW YORK ??The second-largest refinery on the U.S. East Coast was shutting down on Sunday and three other plants cut output as Hurricane Sandy threatened widespread power outages and a massive storm surge across the region.?

Phillips 66 has begun shutting its 238,000-barrels-per day (bpd) Bayway, N.J., refinery, nicknamed the "gasoline machine" because of its key role supplying motor fuel to the New York City area. The plant, the only one to close during Hurricane Irene last year, should be completely shut by early Monday morning, the company said in a statement.?

The region's biggest refinery, Philadelphia Energy Solutions' 330,000-bpd facility in Philadelphia, has begun to reduce rates, according to a source familiar with the plant. The refinery had shut an acid unit but it was unclear by how much rates had been cut at the other units.

PBF Energy reduced output at its Delaware plant and Hess Corp curbed runs in New Jersey, sources said, as Sandy affected operations at refineries that account for two-thirds of the East Coast's 1.2-million-bpd capacity.

While major refineries are built to withstand hurricane-force winds, they are vulnerable to power outages, which can damage units in the case of a "cold shutdown", as well as flood damage if the storm surge accompanying Sandy ? forecast to be as high as 11 feet ? breaches their defenses.?

Oil traders were already factoring in a potential squeeze on fuel supplies. Benchmark gasoline futures jumped 1 percent and heating oil rose 0.6 percent as New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) trading began on Sunday evening, U.S. time. Crude oil prices dipped by 0.4 percent.

Sandy, forecast to come ashore late Monday or early Tuesday as one of the widest storms ever to hit the area, is expected to create strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast from the Mid-Atlantic states to New England.?

Hurricane Irene, which hit the region in August 2011, caused severe flooding and power outages along the East Coast as well as some refinery disruptions. Phillips 66 closed the Bayway refinery while other refiners cut rates, but the oil industry escaped Irene with relatively little, if any, damage.

Storm Tracker: Live interactive map of Hurricane Sandy

The CME Group halted all NYMEX floor trading for Monday, although electronic trade, which makes up the lion's share of the exchange's futures activity, will continue normally.

The storm comes as low inventories of refined products, especially distillates and heating oil, have stirred concerns of potential price spikes during the winter heating season.?

The Colonial Pipeline, a critical supply link for the East Coast which carries about 15 percent of the country's gasoline and diesel from Gulf Coast refineries up to the New York Harbor, is preparing for the storm, spokesman Steve Baker said.

The pipeline activated its hurricane preparedness plan on Friday afternoon and has started making sure emergency generators are in place, as well as sandbagging critical areas that may be prone to flooding.

Buckeye Pipeline, which owns and operates about 6,000 miles of oil product pipelines mostly north and west of Philadelphia, has prepared a hurricane contingency plan.

"Buckeye will continue to operate their pipelines as scheduled until the time that it is no longer safe to do so, or power or product availability make it no longer possible to run a particular line section," the company said in a statement.

"Buckeye has secured some generator capability that is being staged strategically to provide temporary power to certain pump stations," it said.

Vessels in and out of some southern and Mid-Atlantic ports are operating under Coast Guard storm conditions.

In Hampton Roads, near Plains All American's 6.6-million-barrel crude and oil products storage facility in Yorktown, Va., coastal waters are closed and under code Zulu, the highest warning level. The warning extends from Virginia to the Maryland/Delaware border, with expectations of gale-force winds within 12 hours.

Phillips 66 said it had temporarily shut its Riverhead, N.Y. ?and Tremley Point, N.J., oil terminals.

The New York Harbor is under Code Yankee, with gale-force winds seen within 24 hours.

PBF Energy began to cut rates by an unspecified amount the crude unit, coker and gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 190,000-barrels-per-day plant in Delaware Cityon, as well as some downstream units, a source familiar with refinery operations said.?

"We continue to treat this storm seriously. We have comprehensive preparedness plans in place and will continue to follow them as well," said Michael Karlovich, a spokesman for the company.

The status of PBF Energy's 180,000-bpd Paulsboro plant in southern New Jersey, across the Delaware River from the Philadelphia area, was not immediately clear.

Meanwhile, Hess Corp was to begin cutting rates at its 70,000-bpd refinery in Port Reading, N.J., at 6 p.m. EDT as a precaution, a company spokesperson said.

Delta Air Lines' 185,000-bpd Monroe Energy plant in Trainer, Pa., was monitoring the storm.

"We have not and do not anticipate changing operation at this juncture," said a source familiar with operations. "We are on the leeward side of the storm's path."

Other industrial facilities were also affected. Dow Chemical Co said it would temporary close three plants in New Jersey ahead of Hurricane Sandy, as well as its East Coast headquarters in Philadelphia and a research facility nearby.?

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A Field Guide to Hurricane Photography

The taxonomist in me can?t help but notice that photographs of Hurricane Sandy, now bearing down on the Atlantic coast, fall into distinct categories. So I?ve made a helpful guide to 10 common storm images, complete with identification tips.

1. The Satellite Overview

Hurricane Sandy approaches New Jersey. Photograph by NOAA.

Diagnostic traits: white, swirly, often accompanied by a NOAA stamp. You wouldn?t be able to take these with your cell phone. Unless you?re an Astronaut. Which is unlikely.

Other examples: (1,?2)

2. The Rising Tide

Flooding at the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences' Eastern Shore Laboratory. Photograph by Mark Luckenbach.

Diagnostic traits: water in places it really shouldn?t be. If you look out your window and see something like this, you should probably think about moving to higher ground.

Other examples: (1,?2,?3)

3. The Concerned Politician

President Barack Obama receives an update on Hurricane Sandy. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

Diagnostic traits: furrowed brows, telephones, bureaucrats. I?d give the above looks-of-concern 7 out of 10.

Other examples: (1, ?2)

4. The Oddly Empty

Times Square, normally NY's busiest station, abandoned before Hurricane Sandy. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Aaron Donovan.

Diagnostic traits: whatever the venue- subway stations, roads, grocery store shelves- it?s got an unsettling amount of open space. If you?re a storm photographer averse to doing anything dangerous, here?s your genre.

Other examples: (1,?2)

5. The Intrepid Journalist

Hurricane Katrina, 2005. Photo by Jim Reed.

Diagnostic traits: expensive equipment, windswept clothing, general chaos. High potential for self-inflicted damage.

Other examples: (1,?2)

6. The SandBag

The New York Stock Exchange sandbagged in preparation for Hurricane Sandy. Photograph by Eleazar David Mel?ndez.

Diagnostic traits: Preparatory barriers and supplies, often with neighbors pitching in to help, or a child and/or family pet waiting for the storm. The pinnacle of this genre would be neighbors laying sandbags under a dark, stormy sky while a kid and her dog stand by.

Other examples: (1,?2)

7. The Obligatory Wind Shot

Hurricane Dennis hits Key West, 2005. U.S. Navy photo by Jim Brooks.

Diagnostic traits: Objects more sideways than usual. These scenes sometimes attract Intrepid Journalists.

Other examples: (1, 2)

8. The ?Are you insane??

"Surfing Irene". Photograph by G. E. Long.

Diagnostic traits: subjects apparently unaware there?s a hurricane going on.

Other examples: (1,?2,?3)

9. The #Instacane

"The calm before the storm" by Instragram user ivankatrump.

Diagnostic traits: Artful vignetting, hashtags in the caption, may be interspersed in a social media stream with moody photos of food.

Other examples: (1,?2)

10. The Wreckage

Winds from Hurricane Katrina knocked over this tree crushing this Mobile home. MARVIN NAUMAN/FEMA photo.

Diagnostic traits: Trees where houses should be, houses where trees should be, unruly debris.

**Update. And how could I miss:

11. The Blatant Fake

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On a more serious note: if you are in the path of this hurricane, please be careful! Pay attention to official advice and act accordingly.

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Buffalo Chicken Meatballs (Slow Cooker) - Emily Bites

I was feeling creative this weekend and I wanted to come up with a new recipe that would be good to serve while watching football. I?ve had meatballs on the brain lately and whenever I think of football I think of Buffalo chicken, so I decided to combine the two.? I always make meatballs in the crockpot, and I figure pouring a bottle of wing sauce over these would keep them moist and help them suck up the Buffalo flavor. The meatballs are a mixture of everything you?d find on a plate of wings: chicken, carrots, celery and blue cheese. I thought they featured those flavors really well and were a perfect warm, hearty dish for cheering on your team from the couch.

I served these a la carte with a dish of light blue cheese dressing for drizzling and they went over really well. I think they?d also be great on a sub or served over pasta with some blue cheese dressing or light alfredo mixed in. Get creative and let me know how you serve them!

Buffalo Chicken Meatballs
Source: Emily Bites Original

Ingredients:
1 lb ground chicken breast (if you can?t find breast meat only you can grind your own chicken breasts in a food processor)
1 medium carrot, chopped finely in a food processor (or shredded on the small side of a box grater)
1 medium stalk of celery, chopped finely in a food processor (or shredded on the small side of a box grater)
? cup plain dried breadcrumbs
2 eggs
Splash of skim milk (about 2 T)
1 t garlic powder
1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
12 oz bottle of Buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank?s Red Hot Buffalo Wings Sauce)

Directions:
1.??? In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients except wing sauce until thoroughly combined. Use your hands to form the mixture into 12 equal sized balls.
**My slow cooker has a detachable pot that rests on a heated base. If your crock pot is all attached and the pot is not removable, complete step one in a heavy pot on the stove and then transfer contents to crock pot for step two**
2.??? Mist the inside of your crock pot (or other pot) with cooking spray and brown the meatballs on all sides on the stove top. Do not cook all the way through.
3.??? Transfer pot (or contents of pot) back onto your crock pot base and pout the wing sauce over the top. Stir meatballs to coat. Turn crock pot temperature to low and cover. Cook for 7-8 hours.

Serving Suggestions: I liked these meatballs a la carte with a little light blue cheese dressing drizzled over the top, but the possibilities are endless. You can serve them as an appetizer or as a meal. You can make them into a sandwich or sub or serve them over pasta. Let me know how you eat yours!

Yields 12 meatballs. WW P+: 2 per meatball (P+ calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Nutrition Information per meatball from myfitnesspal.com: 82 calories, 4 g carbs, 3 g fat, 11 g protein, 1 g fiber

Source: http://www.emilybites.com/2012/10/buffalo-chicken-meatballs-slow-cooker.html

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Woodinville Easy Tips: How to Improve Efficiency This Winter

?So I heard that energy prices are going down,? said no one ever. With energy prices on the rise and no end in sight, we?re all dreading our monthly utility bills. That?s why people everywhere are looking for cheap and easy ways to make their homes more energy efficient. We?ve put together some simple ideas that are fast and affordable to make your home more efficient this winter. By keeping more of your heat indoors you can use your heater less and potentially save yourself some money.

Insulation

The first thing you should do is climb up into your attic and check the insulation there. Heat naturally rises and will collect in your attic. If your insulation is old or if you have holes in it, you could be leaking all of that heat energy to the outside. Insulation is given an ?R? value that determines its efficiency. Replacing your old insulation with newer, higher rated insulation could help keep more that heat indoors. You can also check the insulation in your floors and in your walls. These are other areas where heat can escape.

Window and Door Frames

Another place where heat can escape is through the frames in your doors and windows. Having your windows and doors sealed is a great way to keep more of that energy inside. There are weather stripping products and indoor sealants that are specifically designed for this application. Particularly important is the door to your attic and the door to your basement. These can be places where heat easily escapes to the outside. There are also thin, transparent seals that can be applied to your windows to keep heat from seeping through the spaces between the glass and the frame.

?Insulate your Water Heater and Pipes

Another way to improve the efficiency of your home is to look at your hot water system. If you have a tank water heater in your basement you might be losing a lot of heat energy there. Your basement can get freezing cold and if your water heater is there, the cold air could be sucking heat out of it. Insulating your heater is a great way to trap more heat inside of it so that it doesn?t have to keep reheating the water. You may also want to think about insulating the water pipes in your house. Not only can this keep more heat in the water as it is en route to your faucet, but it can also potentially prevent damage to your home from frozen pipes.

If you have any questions about increasing the efficiency in your home, contact the heating professionals at?G & S Heating, Cooling & Electric today. We offer comprehensive heating services in?Woodinville and would be more than happy to talk with you about your home heating situation.

Tags: Energy Efficiency, Energy Savings, Heating, Insulation, Woodinville
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To Successfully Launch A Product, You Have To Tell A Compelling ...

?The art of narration and dramatic presentation, together with a keen sense of the oral epic style, became a characteristic quality of the Russian people.? ?Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale

At the end of a week filled with product launches and press conferences, it?s hard not to compare those marketing events. Without even talking about the products, some were much more compelling than others. And it all comes down to the story that you tell, as a company. Failing at that task will greatly endanger your product.

Over the past few days, I had the chance to watch and write about iPad mini?s keynote, attend Samsung?s Galaxy Note II launch event in New York, and go to Microsoft?s Windows 8 conference (and its secret Surface conference).

It?s no mistake that all of those things are happening at the same time. Even though Google had to reschedule its Nexus event, it?s only due to a hurricane. The company would have gladly unveiled its new devices shortly after its competitors.

They want to dominate the news, retaliate and change the subject as quickly as possible. That?s why Surface reviews were all published at 8PM on the day of Apple?s keynote. It?s a coverage war.

Yet, timing and money are only a small part of the equation. What many companies fail to realize is that you have to tell a compelling story in order to stay relevant, convince potential customers and drive sales growth.

Even though technology as we know it is very young, the art of narration has existed for centuries. Building on the work of Russian linguist Vladimir Propp and French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is essential. Propp demonstrated in its book Morphology of the Folktale that Russian fairy tales all had a common structure. He rigorously explained the complex pattern and analyzed all the little details that make those stories work so well.

Just like technology is ruled by science, storytelling is ruled by theorems and implications.

Are you telling a story?

As we?ve recently learned, Wayne Goodrich played a key role at Apple. He was the person working behind the scene before an Apple keynote, writing the text. Even more important, he created a narration around the product launches. It was his job.

Years after those keynotes, I can still remember Scott Forstall asking questions to Siri, Steve Jobs awkwardly browsing the web on a couch with the iPad, and of course the now famous iPhone unveiling. ?An iPod. A phone. And an internet communicator.?

If you present things properly, if you go further than the specs, they will stick in your mind. You just get it.

On Tuesday, Apple unveiled the iPad mini. The anticipation was incredible and we knew nearly everything before the event. In those cases, narration is key. When you ask me about the keynote, all I can think of is that the iPad mini is small and light. In other words, specs.

The emphasis of the conference was on the fact that you can hold it with one hand. This is not a story, this is a use case. I still don?t know why it?s better to be able to hold it with one hand. Now I?ll just have to wait and see one to understand whether it is a better form factor.

Samsung and Windows 8 events

At Samsung?s press conference, the company talked a bit about the brand in the U.S. and how it has gained a lot of recognition over the past year. The Twitter and Facebook numbers were really impressive.

As there was nothing new at that conference, I spent the rest of the conference thinking about the little things that could have triggered Samsung?s incredibly successful year with its smartphones. Of course, products play an important part, but there are many Android smartphones out there. So there must be something else.

And it hit me when seeing the video ad and reading ?The Next Big Thing Is Already Here?. The aggressive ads against Apple didn?t start before the launch of the iPhone 5. It started a year before that, with the Galaxy S II commercial.

Samsung has stubbornly sticked with the same narrating strategy over the past year. When talking with friends who aren?t working in this industry, it?s easy to realize that it has definitely worked. Every few days, I get the question ?what does the iPhone do better than Samsung phones??

As you can read in the comments everyday, people are passionate about their phones. By talking to these very vocal people, Samsung has found a way to spread its message very effectively. It?s all about the story.

At Microsoft?s event, it was something completely different. The audience was composed of two very distinct groups of people: media people and OEM partners. The company went through all the new features of the Windows 8 modern UI and all the new tablet/laptop hybrids from its partners. It was both boring and uninspired.

I?m very excited about the new operating system, the Surface and, more generally, the paradigm shift occurring with Windows 8. I think it?s an important tech launch this year ? maybe even the most important one. But the excitement wasn?t there. I wanted them to tell me a story, and they failed.

Is the story compelling?

Telling a story is one thing, but it has to be a good one as well. Otherwise, at best it doesn?t resonate with the potential customers, at worst it becomes awkward.

An example would be the Windows Phone 7 ads: ?it?s time for our phone to save us from our phones.? Yes, the little scenette showing people forgetting about their environment because they are focused on their phones are funny.

But if I?m concentrated on my phone, it?s because I like it. I don?t want to have a phone to ignore it. It would mean that I have nothing to do with it.

What do the users have to say about your product?

If you get the story right, the salespeople, the early adopters and the early majority will propagate the right message around your product. Otherwise, the salespeople will just say meaningless ineffective things about the product.

Are your clients interested by your story? Could they become the main character? Thanks to the story, the clients can become product advocates. And who hasn?t talked recently with a friend who couldn?t help saying all the wonderful things that happen when you own a Galaxy S III.

Caring about propagating the story is as important as the story itself. When I received my Kindle Paperwhite, there was letter from Jeff Bezos. I remembered that it was on my first Kindle too and expected the same kind of letter. But Amazon wrote a different letter, a version for existing Kindle owners. Here?s how it starts:

Dear Romain,

Thank you for upgrading to Kindle Paperwhite. As a previous Kindle owner, we think you?ll love Kindle Paperwhite. You are holding our best Kindle yet.

The attention to the little details makes me want to tell the story as well, even if it is one of the simplest ones with the Kindle ? it?s not a device, it?s a way to read. I?m still waiting for the company who will crack the code of storytelling ? just like Vladimir Propp did for fairy tales ? and get it right every time, with every product launch.

(Image credits: Mario Lapid, Wikimedia Commons)

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/28/tech-storytelling/

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On U.S. Farms, Deaths in Silos Persist

E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune

The grain-elevator complex in Mount Carroll, Ill., where two teenage boys died and another was injured while working in July 2010.

STERLING, Mich. ? Tommy Osier, 18, a popular but indifferent student, was still a year from graduating from high school, and that was no sure thing. Farm work paid him $7.40 an hour, taught him discipline and gave him new skills. He had begun talking about making a life in farming.

But he hated the chore he drew on Memorial Day of last year, working inside the silo at Pine Grove Farm. The corn was damp and crusted. It tended to hang up on the sides of the old six-story cement bin and had to be busted up with a steel rod before it would cascade to the bottom to be shoveled out.

That morning, just after 9, the phone rang in the Osier home. ?Tommy?s in the silo,? his sister relayed to their mother, Linda, unsure of what it meant.

Ms. Osier grew up on a hog farm and knew right away. ?He?s dead,? she said, slumping to the floor. ?Tommy?s dead.?

Even as the rate of serious injury and fatalities on American farms has fallen, the number of workers dying by entrapment in grain bins and silos has remained stubbornly steady. The annual number of such accidents rose throughout the past decade, reaching a peak of at least 26 deaths in 2010, before dropping somewhat since.

Silos teeming with corn, wheat or soybeans become death traps when grain cascades out of control, asphyxiating or crushing their victims. Since 2007, 80 farmworkers have died in silo accidents; 14 of them were teenage boys.

The deaths are horrific and virtually all preventable.

Experts say the continuing rate of silo deaths is due in part to the huge amount of corn being produced and stored in the United States to meet the global demand for food, feed and, increasingly, ethanol-based fuel.

That the deaths persist reveals continuing flaws in the enforcement of worker safety laws and weaknesses in rules meant to protect the youngest farmworkers. Nearly 20 percent of all serious grain bin accidents involve workers under the age of 20.

Last year, the Labor Department proposed new regulations aimed at tightening protections for children doing farm work.

The proposed federal regulations would have prohibited children under 18 from working in large commercial grain bins, silos or other enclosed spaces. But the Obama administration, sensitive to Republican charges that it was choking the economy with expensive regulations, pulled back the proposed rules this year in the face of furious farm-state objections.

Even those rules would not have covered working conditions on family farms and small operations like the one where Tommy Osier died and which account for 70 percent of grain entrapment accidents. Experts on farm safety say that most farmers are aware of the hazards of sending someone into a bin full of unstable grain, but often lack the equipment or training to protect their workers against an avalanche.

?The concept of walking down the grain should be avoided at all costs,? said Wayne Bauer, the safety director at the Star of the West Milling Company in Frankenmuth, Mich., which operates grain elevators in five states. ?And people sending kids into spaces where they have no business being deserve to be fined.?

Dave Schwab, who operated the farm where Tommy Osier died, told investigators that he knew the air inside silos could be toxic and combustible, but that he was unaware of the dangers of entrapment in cascading corn. He did not have air-monitoring or rescue equipment at the farm, but investigators found no evidence that he willfully flouted state rules for sending workers into confined spaces.

?They Didn?t Have a Clue?

Wyatt Whitebread, 14, had been on the job for just two weeks at a commercial grain-elevator complex in Mount Carroll, Ill., when he was sent into a 500,000-bushel storage tower to loosen corn kernels that were sticking to the side. Bin No. 9 was one of more than a dozen buildings on the property owned and operated by Haasbach L.L.C.

Shortly after he and other teenage workers entered the bin on July 10, 2010, a manager at the base opened two floor holes to speed the flow of the grain. The sudden action dragged Wyatt, who was walking atop the corn to help it flow, toward the floor of the bin, engulfing him under the corn as he screamed for help. Alejandro Pacas, 19, who had joined the work crew the day before, rushed over to aid him and was quickly entrapped himself. Both teenagers died in seconds.

Seth Berkman and Jake Rosenwasser contributed reporting from New York.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/us/on-us-farms-deaths-in-silos-persist.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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