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Thursday, August 30, 2012

The Glee Project

At Mckinley High, the Glee Club has been closed down..so as those kids have nothing to fight for days later a group of students start up a secret Glee Club are you gonna be raising your glass this year ?

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Queen Wears Hoodie, Rolls Out in Style

Introducing H.R.M. Queen Elizabeth II, O.G.

In a photo only slightly less surprising than the ones of Prince Harry naked, the 86-year-old British matriarch was photographed over the weekend wearing a hooded sweatshirt behind the wheel of her Range Rover. Straight chillin.

Here's the Queen in her hoddie ...

The morning shows, including Today, first ran the pictures, which showed the Queen driving on her Scottish estate, Balmoral, after a grouse shoot.

Last week, the Queen was reportedly joined at the family's Scottish residence by her scandal-stricken grandson, as well as his father Prince Charles.

We would love to have been a fly on the wall then.

Fun fact, Elizabethis the only person in the U.K. who does not need a driver's license to drive, which she rarely does anyway, at least in London.

Royals ... they're just like us. Sort of a little.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Using Fertilizer Wisely Could Help Feed 9 Billion People

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Farmers in the U.S. and China should use less fertilizer, freeing it up for application where such nutrients can do the most good

By David Biello ?| August 29, 2012?| 5

Can the world's existing farmlands provide enough crops to satisfy the hunger of the nine billion people?up from seven billion currently?that demographers predict will be living on the planet by the mid-21st century? Or will more and more forests and other ecosystems have to be cleared to feed all the extra mouths? A new study, published in Nature on August 30, suggests that increasing deforestation could be avoided provided farmers made better use of water and nutrients on land currently under cultivation around the globe. (Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.)

The central premise of the new analysis is that intensifying agriculture where it already exists is the key to preserving a balance between farming and forests. To do that, the researchers from McGill University in Montreal and the University of Minnesota (U.M.) analyzed the so-called yield gap. That's the difference between what the highest yielding farm or area within a given region can produce?for example, corn?compared with what the average yield is. The difference between this best-practice farm and the average farm is the yield gap.

The researchers then employed national and regional agricultural data from outfits such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Fertilizer Industry Association to determine the root causes of these yield gaps. Simply by improving fertilizer application and irrigation, the researchers find that global yields of corn, wheat and rice?the three main staple crops?could be increased by 64 percent, 71 percent and 47 percent, respectively.

"We are not claiming to diagnose the exact management practices needed on any particular plot of land," explains research fellow Nathan Mueller, who led the study from the U.M.'s Institute on the Environment, because local factors such as soils and weather can play an important role. Instead, the goal is to identify what practices might help close yield gaps at the regional or even global level and highlight those areas most in need of intervention.

That list includes the U.S. Great Plains and China, where more fertilizer is used than is strictly necessary. For example, American farmers apply so much fertilizer on Midwestern corn fields that much of it ends up running off, ending up in the Mississippi River and, ultimately, reaching the Gulf of Mexico. There the copious fertilizer fuels a bloom of algae and other microscopic plants that then die. Microbes that consume the dead plants also use all the oxygen available in surrounding waters, creating a vast "dead zone" that is devoid of sea life?an unfortunate side effect of the demand for more maize.

Lessening fertilizer use in the U.S. and China would free up nutrients to be applied to fields in eastern Europe and western Africa with no detriment to American or Chinese people. As it stands, the researchers estimate that some 11 million metric tons of nitrogen fertilizer and five million metric tons of phosphate could be saved annually at present without diminishing current yields. Those savings then could be applied to underachieving areas.

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Flint was a Managing Director, who had built his business on the basis of Talmudic teaching and values that expands on its responsibility to the shareholders, but also for the workers and community (Shafran, o.j., p. 1). When a fire destroyed factories in 1995 of New England companies, compared to Feurestein a ethical dilemma (moral consciousness). While the most other material produced were, close plants in the United States to reduce the production costs, he had maintained his factories in Maine. Flint explains that had starred the ideas of its religious heritage in its decision (p. 1), (moral judgment). He said magazine in an interview with parade in 1996, that I have a responsibility to the workers; both blue-collar and white collar?I have an equal responsibility for the community (s._1). Its final decision (ethics), which was in line with its stated values, was to rebuild the plants and to keep as many employees on the payroll until she reopened operations (p. 1).

Give any hope of promoting it can the ethical behaviour in the modern business culture? Public general skepticism of business ethics is understandable given the track record of the organizations ongoing job cuts, outsourcing, scandals, increasing pay and decreasing employee benefits in recent years. Because it comes to any hope of a promotion of ethics in a corporate culture, ethics training, policies, programs and finally actions must provide deep gimmicks, in a culture of a company to more than half of the heart as a public relations only lip service to ethical behavior while running the real culture of an organization in the opposite direction. Ethics must be a primary function and responsibility of the modern leader to concrete impact on companies and teams. While these leaders still need to protect and promote the healthy gains of their organization, they must recognize also , that company has a responsibility for his unique abilities, certain social problems, and because a healthy social environment prerequisite for a healthy environment (p. 7).Ethics is a body of principles or standards of human behavior, the behavior of individuals and groups (Bottorff,_o.j.,_s._1). Ethical conduct is based, although on a set of values and principles ethics goes beyond mere faith; It includes also actions of individuals, groups and organizations (p. 2). That ethical behavior in an organization heads of State and Government to give must be not only the belief in a series of actions, their actions as a leading company in accordance with these values and beliefs. The guides must work establish clear, that the commercial practices within the Organization to promote reward and positive ethical behavior and promote the argument and follow the ethics as much as they promote business results. In time, all individuals and teams must can impact the ethical decision-making process involving; moral consciousness (recognition of the existence of an ethical dilemma), moral judgments (decide what is right) and ethics (be, to do the right thing) (Trevino and Nelson, 2005, p. 15). You can do this only if a corporate culture has been developed that clearly defines its values and support measures in accordance with these values. Because individuals have different values and cognitive ability to recognize the impact on their ability and ethically to act, government training, rewards, recognition and consequences clearly in the Organization are defined to help people act accordingly ensure leaders.

All those responsible must support the same moral courage, and similar ethical decisions, even if they are on a much smaller scale. The company attracted and top talent part based on one of his declared people developing core values maintained. Due to this basic value and our international approach for the development of the company had acknowledged for several years on the worlds best training organizations. I faced an ethical dilemma, when was the company that project sales in the coming years decided loses, smaller, and 4 g the leaning and Development Department. I saw this as a significant departure from the company declared value of human resources development (moral judgment). (Ethics) I decided that I would stay with the company for a further year, so that all cuts and re alignments were carried out in a way that showed respect for the people that had dedicated development on people and help our customers finish their learning and obligations. The publics confidence in ethical business conduct can be recovered only through strong leadership individual leaders within their own jurisdiction; large or small. Leaders need to increase strong actions the importance of ethical behaviour, based on clearly defined values, to emphasize the equal engagement for all stakeholders alike. Managers and organizations benefit would development and coaching of ethics trainers and coaches who can help leaders understand to establish the steps to the ethics in a team or organization.

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What is ethics? Retrieved July 6, 2007

Aaron Feuerstein: Bankruptcy and wealthy. Retrieved July 6, 2007

Trevino, L., and Nelson, k., (2005). Corporate social responsibility and administrative ethics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and sons, Inc.

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Pioneering doctor remembered for Paralympic idea

Fireworks mark the arrival of the Paralympic flame outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales Monday Aug. 27, 2012. The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between Aug. 29 to Sept. 9. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

In this Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 photo, Eve Loeffler, daughter of the founder Paralympic games Ludwig Guttman, stands by the logo of the Paralympic Games at the athletes village at the Paralympic park. The Olympics have Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern games. The Paralympics have Sir Ludwig Guttmann. Guttmann, a Jewish neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany, pioneered athletic competition as therapy for patients with spinal injuries and organized an archery competition for 16 patients at Britain's Stoke Mandeville hospital in 1948. From this humble start have come the Paralympic Games, which this week will bring more than 4,000 athletes from around the world to London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Torchbearer Robyn Johnson hands over the Paralympic flame to torchbearer Nazim Erdem outside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales Monday Aug. 27, 2012. The 2012 Summer Paralympic Games will be the fourteenth Paralympics and will take place between Aug. 29 to Sept. 9. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

LONDON (AP) ? The Olympics have Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern games. The Paralympics have Sir Ludwig Guttmann.

Guttmann, a Jewish neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany, pioneered athletic competition as therapy for patients with spinal injuries and organized an archery competition for 16 patients at Britain's Stoke Mandeville hospital in 1948. From this humble start have come the Paralympic Games, which this week will bring more than 4,000 athletes from around the world to London.

"The Guttmann story is massive," said Olympic historian Martin Polley. "He was the one who linked rehab to competitive sport."

This month has been Guttmann's moment, what with a BBC film about his life, "The Best of Men," an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in London and his daughter, Eve Loeffler, being named mayor of the athletes village ? a sort of ambassador in chief who welcomes the participants for games that start Wednesday and end Sept. 9.

It follows a resurgence of interest in Guttmann, who escaped in the late 1930s and settled in Britain, where his research on treating spinal patients drew the attention of the government. Guttmann began working with injured soldiers at Stoke Mandeville hospital, just north of London, during World War II ? a time when suffering a spinal injury was considered a death sentence. Patients were discouraged from moving, leading to secondary infections from bed sores or from pneumonia.

Known for an authoritarian streak and his stubborn insistence on changing the status quo, Guttmann swept into the hospital and took patients off sedation, which had been administered to make them comfortable. But Guttmann was having none of that. No one was going to be comfortable.

"One patient told me 'I'm waiting for God almighty to take me up," the Times of London reported Guttmann as saying at a conference in 1962. "I told him 'While you are waiting, you can do some work'."

He made the patients sit up and work muscles. Seeking to keep them motivated, he hit upon competition as a way to make them work harder. He tried wheelchair field hockey, but when that became too violent, he got the patients involved in wheelchair basketball, Loeffler said.

It was tough and demanding, but grateful patients nicknamed him "Poppa." They were still paralyzed. But many lived ? and carried out Guttmann's wish that they become taxpayers.

Loeffler said her father was marked by his past. Many of his relatives perished in Auschwitz. He was driven, intent to give back to the country that had given his family refuge.

"I think that's another thing that made him work so hard," she said. "He was Hitler's gift to this country in a way, and he was determined to be a good British citizen."

On the same day that London opened its 1948 Olympics, Guttmann organized a competition for wheelchair athletes, which he called the Stoke Mandeville Games. They involved 16 patients taking part in archery. From those humble origins, the Paralympics have grown into a festival of sport involving 4,200 athletes from 166 teams. Though smaller than the Olympics ? which had more than twice the number of athletes ? London's event represents the largest field ever for the games.

The London event ? the first to have come as a result of a joint bid from the host city ? have also benefited from greater integration with the Olympics, particularly in terms of marketing and organization. London essentially connected the rings to the Agitos, the Paralympic symbol of three circling arcs ? a move that helped also spread the fairy dust of attention that the Olympics receive to the Paralympics as well. Queen Elizabeth II agreed to open the event, a reflection of their importance to the country.

Some 2.3 million tickets have been sold, the most ever, many to Britons new to Paralympic sport but who wanted to get an opportunity to see the glittering new stadiums and experience the excitement of first class sporting competition.

Britain's team is also strong. They were second in the Paralympic table at Beijing with 102 total medals, including 42 gold. The hometown crowd wants to see their athletes ? and of course wants to see them win.

Loeffler believes her father's vision has come to pass. And when she wanders the village, people recognize her, like Canadian athlete Jessica Vliegenthart, who saw Loeffler having her photograph taken in a smart navy jacket with its massive circular gold badge.

"Aren't you the daughter of ..." Vliegenthart asked, as two wheelchair basketball athletes drew their wheels in.

Loeffler nodded, her pride clear. Her father dreamed of an "Olympic Games for disabled men and women," and now a whole new generation is learning about him.

"Who but he could have imagined that it would have happened," she said. "I don't think anybody else could."

Britain embraced Guttmann, giving him a knighthood in 1966 and making him a fellow of the Royal Society ? honors of which he was extremely proud. Though he died in 1980, he lived long enough to see the Paralympics grow. The first full scale games took place in Rome in 1960, and souvenirs from the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics are part of the collection on display at the Jewish Museum.

"I just couldn't be more proud of him," Loeffler said. "I just hope he's up there watching it all."

Associated Press

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Sony Xperia T flagship unveiled at IFA 2012: offers 4.6-inch HD display, 13MP camera and NFC

The Xperia T, formerly codenamed Mint, rumor and leak victim since January, has officially broken cover. Revealing its 4.55-inch face to the crowds in Berlin, the Reality Display packs a 1,280 x 720 resolution and offers what Sony is calling the "best HD experience on a phone to date." The company claims you can view vids in full 1080p HD quality, though we're still waiting to receive additional clarification on this statement. (Update: Sony clarified that it was merely referring to the 1080p video recording capabilities of the phone.) The Xperia T runs on Ice Cream Sandwich, but we're told it will be upgraded to Jelly Bean shortly after launch. It also features a 13MP fast capture camera and boasts a feature Sony is calling Sleep to Snap, which means you can go from a black screen to taking photos in an instant. What else does this new flagship offer? A one-touch function with NFC which you can use to tap to connect to other Sony devices, a 60-day premium trial of Music Unlimited and a new tier called Access which will be available in Europe for 0.99 Euros per month and will deliver full access of the service to PCs and the PS3.

The T -- which will be known as the TX in select markets, and should be launching globally over the next few weeks -- also sports a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm MSM8260A Snapdragon S4 CPU, pentaband UMTS / HSPA+ radios, a front-facing cam with 720p video capture, MHL connectivity, FM radio, 16GB onboard storage and an 1,850mAh battery. Dimension-wise, the T will weigh 4.9 ounces (139g) and come in at 9.35mm thick. Lastly, the new Xperia flagship will be available in black, silver and white hues (while the TX appears to come in pink as well). Pricing is still an unknown, but as we've seen before, it may largely depend on the market anyway. We'll keep you posted as more details come in.

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By WILL GRAVES

AP Sports Writer

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updated 10:06 p.m. ET Aug. 28, 2012

PITTSBURGH (AP) - Josh Harrison provided the pop. Pedro Alvarez provided the power. The reeling Pittsburgh Pirates eagerly accepted both.

Alvarez homered twice and drove in four runs after Harrison barreled into St. Louis catcher Jadier Molina and the Pirates rolled to a 9-0 victory over the Cardinals on Tuesday night.

While Alvarez crushed his 24th and 25th home runs of the season, it was Harrison's violent collision at home plate with Molina in the second inning that sent the message the struggling Pirates aren't quite finished just yet.

Harrison broke from second on Jose Tabata's single to right with two outs and dashed for the plate. By the time he got there, Molina had the ball in his hands. The second baseman lowered his left shoulder and plowed into the catcher's head. Molina somehow held onto the ball to end the inning

It also ended his night.

Molina got up slowly and went to the clubhouse with neck, back and shoulder injuries and was replaced by Tony Cruz. Watching Molina walk off the field was difficult, but Harrison insisted he had no choice.

"There was no way to slide around him," Harrison said. "I felt my only way was to go through him."

Molina, who complained of a headache afterward, doesn't believe the hit was malicious.

"I never saw the guy coming," Molina said. "I was concentrating on catching the ball. I never saw him coming, but the real pain was in my head. I don't know if he was (targeting) my head or not."

The play seemed to energize the Pirates, who snapped out of a weeklong funk and drew within two games of St. Louis for the NL's second wild-card spot.

"It can spark a team," manager Clint Hurdle said. "But it will be up to us to play better baseball than we've played lately and play along the lines that we did tonight."

Having the streaky Alvarez heating up once again certainly helped. The third baseman hit a two-run homer in the third to give the Pirates a comfortable lead, added an RBI double in the fourth then hit a 469-foot blast to center in the sixth.

"The second one, the ball looked like it was going to hit the (Clemente) Bridge," Hurdle said. "That's 400 and I don't know how many. That's a whole bunch of feet. It goes to show you he can shrink a ballpark."

It was more than enough offense for James McDonald (12-6), who gave up two hits in seven efficient innings, walking one and striking out six to beat the Cardinals and Jake Westbrook (13-10) for the second time in the last two weeks.

Using his curveball to keep the surging Cardinals off balance, McDonald looked like the pitcher that was one of baseball's biggest surprises during the first half of the year, not the one that has stumbled at times over the last six weeks.

"I think it's just part of the growing process," catcher Mike McKenry said. "He's just starting to come into his own. He had a tremendous first half and every pitcher struggles at some point and he just happened to struggle at the wrong time. He just enhanced it and we just had to take the world off his shoulders."

McDonald had little trouble against the Cardinals' surging lineup, surrendering only a two-out single to Molina in the second and a two-out double to Jon Jay in the sixth. Other than that he was flawless, allowing Pittsburgh's weary bullpen to get a needed break.

Playing with a cushion for once didn't hurt. The Pirates came in losers in six of their last seven since a dramatic 19-inning victory in St. Louis on Aug. 19, forced to play catch-up most nights while the starting pitching faltered.

This time, the Pirates jumped out early.

Garrett Jones hit a sacrifice fly to give Pittsburgh the lead and the Pirates continued to build. Alvarez hit a two-run shot to the notch in left-center to make it 3-0 in the third and got things started in the fifth with an RBI double to score Andrew McCutchen.

McKenry added a run-scoring single to make it 5-0. Westbrook exacted a little payback by drilling Harrison in the leg with a fastball, drawing a warning to both dugouts from home plate umpire Adrian Johnson.

Harrison took no offense at pitch, calling it "a part of the game." He didn't stay at first for long anyway. Clint Barmes followed the plunking with a two-run single the Pirates were up 7-0.

That was more than enough for McDonald. The Cardinals failed to get a runner to third while McDonald was in the game while getting shut out for the second time this month and the seventh time this season.

Westbrook has been a key part of the Cardinals' rise during the second half, winning six of his previous seven decisions. He could do little right on a night the Pirates snapped out of their swoon in a big way.

The veteran right-hander gave up seven runs and 11 hits in five innings, tying a season high with four walks while striking out two. He threw just 61 of his 103 pitches for strikes.

"I haven't been very good the last couple outings and I can't ask the offense to pick me up that big like they did last start," Westbrook said. "It's just a matter of figuring it out."

NOTES: The series wraps up Wednesday in the final meeting between the clubs this season. Joe Kelly (4-5, 3.26 ERA) starts for the Cardinals against Pittsburgh's Wandy Rodriguez (8-13, 4.01) ... The Pirates released pitcher Erik Bedard on Tuesday morning. Hurdle hasn't announced a replacement in the rotation yet and hinted A.J. Burnett could start in Bedard's spot on Saturday in Milwaukee.

Source: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/48820976/ns/sports-baseball/

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