Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/PdASP0T7kts/130911184823.htm
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Friday 13 September 2013
Plants in space: A novel method for fixing plant tissue samples maximizes time, resources, and data
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers are working to understand plant growth and development in spaceflight. They have developed a single fixation protocol for use in space that allows plant material to be used for multiple experimental applications. The new protocol boasts low costs and wide application to any situation where recovery of biological resources is limited.
Sunday 25 August 2013
NintyChronicle App! Out Next Week For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Users!
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Source: nintychronicle.wordpress.com --- Sunday, August 25, 2013
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Saturday 24 August 2013
Academy at the Lakes sports own version of ?Dirty Dozen?
BY MIKE CAMUNAS
Tribune correspondent
Tribune correspondent
Published: August 23, 2013
LAND O?LAKES ? Fittingly, John Castelamare is playing the role of Lee Marvin.
Castelamare, like the late actor known for his tough-guy roles, is a hard-nosed coach, expecting the best out his players. All 12 of them.
?We?ve got ?The Dirty Dozen? here,? the long-time Pasco County coach said of his Academy of the Lakes football team. ?We?ve got 12 guys and we need them all.?
The Wildcats? 7-on-7 football team, which made the second round of the playoffs last season (7-1), is back, and despite having the fewest number of players rostered in recent seasons, is poised for a good run. That?s because Academy returns seven seniors ? the most ever ? including running back and leading scorer Ahkill McGill, plus the team?s big and athletic signal caller: junior Max Stepanets.
Yet, with only 12 players, it means most will have to be two-way stars both offensively and defensively, especially since Castelamare has just five reserves, three of them linemen.
?We think with what we put on the field, we can go pretty good,? said Castelamare, who coached both Ridgewood?s and Wesley Chapel?s football programs. ?But if one of them gets hurt, and with a lot of them playing both ways, as it is, then its going to get real tough.?
Most coaches, at the beginning of the season, will stress their team needs to stay injury free, but none more so than Academy since Castelamare has only 50-60 boys enrolled at the school, not too mention many of his 12 play other sports, as well.
?I?m a little worried about the future (graduating seven seniors this season),? Castelamare added. ?Same as I would at any other school that lost such a big senior class and any other coach probably would, too, going through the same thing.?
However, the future does look bright for athletics at Academy, with the private school recently purchasing 47 acres from the McManus family. While the school has not announced its official plans for the land, many have speculated it could be athletic fields, from a football stadium to a playing field for the 2A state softball semifinalsts.
But as the Wildcats prepare for their season opener hosting Winter Park Geneva, Castelamare is focusing on keeping his unit tough, just as Marvin would have done in the 1967 classic, despite many of the young players never seeing the movie.
?I?ve told them about ?The Dirty Dozen? was a tough unit, one unit of tough guys that stayed together and worked hard together,? Castelamare said, adding, with a shrug, whether or not he would show the movie to his players.
Though if the Wildcats are to stay tough, and together, Castelamare, like Marvin, is the just the man to lead them.
?We expect to do very well as long as no one gets hurt and can work together and work well together,? Castelamare said. ?They have to take it by each game, one at a time, but we expect a lot out of these guys with just 12 of them. ? But what?s on that field can be pretty good, just like the original ?Dirty Dozen.??
Correspondent Mike Camunas can be reached at mike.camunas@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @MikeCamunas.
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Wednesday 21 August 2013
Groklaw closing in light of NSA spying revelations
After the closures of Lavabit and Silent Circle, we had wondered which online service would be next to wind down after Edward Snowden's PRISM revelations. Turns out that we're losing Groklaw, the technology and law blog, which is stopping operations from today. In an impassioned sign-off, founder Pamela Jones has said that she cannot keep running the site knowing the extent to which her private communications are subject to public scrutiny. She has also advised others to spend less time on the internet and use Kolab, a Swiss email service, which is apparently safe from the NSA -- at least for now.
Filed under: Internet
Via: TechDirt
Source: Groklaw
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Tuesday 20 August 2013
Care agency shortlisted for business award | PR Fire
A Sussex based care agency is celebrating after being shortlisted in this year?s Business Matters Awards 2013.
Avens Ltd, who has a care home in Crowborough and a care agency providing supported living for adults across the county, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Education and Training award.
The Business Excellence Awards which takes place this year on September 13th at the Copthorne Hotel, in Effingham celebrates the best businesses from across East and West Sussex. To be shortlisted for the Education and Training award entrants had to demonstrate how staff are trained, what methods are employed to do so and how objectives are met.
The shortlisted entry impressed judges by explaining how the company provides in house training and employment for over 80 members of staff. Taking a huge financial risk, the company chose to set up its own in-house training system which has proven to be a great success. Staff receive training regularly from one of three dedicated trainers who help staff to reach the required level of attainment.
Clair Andrews, head of Education and Training within the company said: ?We are thrilled to have made the shortlist for The Business Matters Awards and to be chosen from among so many other successful businesses is a real honour. As far as we are aware we were one of the first care organisations of this size to bring training in-house to the level that we are able to offer it and we consider this to be a huge advantage over our competitors. ?Although this is recognition for the department?s efforts, we couldn?t achieve what we do without the great team of people we have around us.?
The company?s head office is based within the residential care home in Crowborough, East Sussex from where the company?s care agency which has branches across the county, is also managed. Avens currently provides care and support for 98 individuals across Sussex and in their second branch based in Northamptonshire. ENDS
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Source: http://www.prfire.co.uk/health/care-agency-shortlisted-for-business-award-144688
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Britain defends detention of journalist's partner
By Estelle Shirbon and Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government, accused of abusing media freedom, said on Tuesday police were right to detain a journalist's partner if they thought lives might be at risk from data he was carrying from fugitive U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Facing legal and diplomatic complaints after police held Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald's Brazilian partner for nine hours on Sunday - and accused by the newspaper of forcing it to trash computers holding copies of Snowden's data - the interior minister said officers were entitled to take security measures.
Home Secretary Theresa May said police held David Miranda at a London airport under anti-terrorism powers, which allow for action to prevent stolen data aid terrorists. Material from Snowden, published by the Guardian, has revealed extensive U.S. and British surveillance of global communications networks.
"It's absolutely right that if the police believe that somebody is in possession of highly sensitive, stolen information, that could help terrorists, that could risk lives, lead to a potential loss of life, the police are able to act and that's what the law enables them to do," May told the BBC.
She added, however, that an independent reviewer was looking into the police conduct.
As interior minister, May said she was briefed in advance that Miranda might be stopped but she stressed that she did not decide whom the police detained. The United States - which has charged Snowden, now in Russia, with spying - said Britain gave it a "heads up" but it did not ask for Miranda to be questioned.
A British lawyer who launched an action on the Brazilian's behalf to question the legal basis of his detention said police seized a laptop computer, a telephone, memory sticks, a computer hard drive and a games console from him. He was released without charge after reaching a time limit on such detentions.
Miranda had been in transit at Heathrow, carrying material from Snowden that was being passed from Berlin-based American documentary film-maker Laura Poitras to Greenwald, an American writer for Britain's Guardian who lives in Rio de Janeiro.
"These items contain sensitive, confidential journalistic material and should not have been seized," Miranda's London lawyers wrote in a letter to May and the police.
The Brazilian government has complained to Britain. The action against Miranda was also denounced by British opposition politicians, human rights lawyers and press freedom watchdogs.
The leaks by Snowden, a former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who has found temporary asylum in Russia, gave details of NSA and British surveillance of public telephone and Internet traffic. Washington and London say their agencies act within their laws and the leaks threaten their security.
"YOU'VE HAD YOUR FUN"
On Tuesday, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said he received a call from a British official a month ago who told him: "You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back." The paper had been threatened with legal action if it did not comply.
Later, two "security experts" from the secretive Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) visited the paper's London head office and watched as computer hard drives containing copies of Snowden material were reduced to mangled metal.
Asked by the BBC who he thought was behind those events, Rusbridger said he had "got the sense there was an active conversation" involving government departments, intelligence agencies and the prime minister's Downing Street office.
Downing Street and GCHQ declined to comment.
A White House spokesman said he could not comment on the destruction of some of the Guardian's Snowden material. But he said he could not see U.S. authorities destroying an American media company's hard drives to protect national security.
"That's very difficult to imagine a scenario in which that would be appropriate," spokesman John Earnest told reporters.
Dunja Mijatovic, media freedoms chief at the 57-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said she had written to Britain to express concerns about the police action against Miranda at the airport: "The detention can be interpreted as putting pressure on Glenn Greenwald after his recent reporting on security issues in the Guardian," she wrote.
Britain also came under attack from press freedom group Index on Censorship, which denounced the forced destruction of computers revealed by Rusbridger in his Tuesday column.
"It is clear that the Snowden and NSA story is strongly in the public interest," the group said. "It seems that the UK government is using, and quite literally misusing, laws to intimidate journalists and silence its critics."
Rusbridger said the destruction of the computer material was "pointless" as there were copies of what was lost, and it would not stop the Guardian from pursuing Snowden stories: "We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents," he said. "We just won't do it in London."
A British source with knowledge of the security services said GCHQ had no powers to seize material from the Guardian, but could have accused the paper of possessing stolen materials and demanded they be destroyed.
(Additional reporting by Andrew Osborn and Belinda Goldsmith in London and Mark Hosenball in Washington; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge, Peter Graff and Alastair Macdonald)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guardian-says-britain-forced-destroy-snowden-material-100257074.html
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