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# Library mulls tighter security in light of book thefts

The theft of more than 1,350 children’s picture books from the Port Orchard Library has prompted the Kitsap Regional Library (KRL) system to review its security procedures.

In several of KRL’s branch libraries, staff working at the circulation desks do not have a clear view of the entire facility. 

In addition, the implementation of self-checkout for library materials means that more than one-third of KRL’s patrons do not necessarily stop at the circulation desk when they leave the branch libraries with books. 

According to Jeff Brody, director of community relations, KRL is considering the installation of mirrors and door alarms where library users can leave a building without walking past the staff at the circulation desk. 

“KRL has checked with other libraries in an attempt to determine how our record of loss may compare to other systems,” said Brody. “KRL has actually suffered less theft than other library systems in the past, but there is concern that the growing market for used books online could be an incentive for more theft in the future.”

In the longer term, KRL plans to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of installing a radio frequency tag system to protect its collection. 

Radio frequency tags are used to identify each book, and books that are not properly checked out set off an alarm at the exit.

“The issue with this type of system is cost,” explained Brody. “Even though these systems have become less expensive in recent years, it still costs about 25 cents per tag.

“That would mean an initial expenditure of more than $125,000 for the tags,” he said, “plus additional funds for the equipment to read the tags at the circulation desks and for the alarms at the doors.”

Since library adds about 80,000 new items to its collection each year, “There would be an additional annual cost of about $20,000 for this kind of security system,” Brody said.
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# Drought’s impact on livestock may raise food prices 8% in 2013

The livestock industry is taking a direct hit by this summer’s drought, and that will impact consumers’ wallets next year, says a University of Missouri agricultural economist.

“I expect to see food inflation, but it will take time,” said Scott Brown, research assistant professor in the MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources (CAFNR). “The short term effects will be fairly muted for the remainder of 2012, but we’re going to see food price increases in 2013 and maybe into 2014 because of this drought.”

Brown expects to see an 8 percent rise in meat, dairy and poultry prices next year.

The problem is that the drought has dramatically reduced the feedstuffs that animal agriculture needs to raise cattle, swine and poultry. Corn yields, Brown said, will probably suffer a 10 percent or more decrease compared to last year. This has caused corn futures to jump to $8 per bushel in late July from $5.50 per bushel at the beginning of June. 

Soybean meal and hay prices, also staples as animal feed, have also reached extremely high levels. “It is sobering to realize that 2013 feed expenses very well could be three times higher than the 1990-2004 average, and 70 percent above the 2007-2010 average,” Brown pointed out.

The livestock industry will experience a lot of short-term pain as it tries to adjust, Brown commented. Some producers will have to exit the industry, he said. Producers are already culling and slaughtering their existing animal inventories to a level they can afford to feed.

To offset the rising feed prices, some producers are now using pasture hay that is usually banked to feed cattle during the winter months. 

“This creates an added uncertainty for the cattle industry in the hardest hit areas,” Brown said. “Fall rains will be essential if any additional pasture growth is to occur. If available forage supplies are difficult to source or unavailable entirely, I expect to see herd liquidation.”

This shrinking livestock supply will mean less meat in grocery refrigerators in 2013. “That’s certainly going to raise prices,” he said.

Brown said that the pork and chicken industries will fare worse because there are not many substitutes for their rations of corn and soybeans. 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture in August added nearly 220 counties in a dozen drought-stricken states to the government's list of natural disaster areas. Counties in Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee and Wyoming were included in the announcement. The USDA uses the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor to help decide which counties to deem disaster areas, which makes farmers and ranchers eligible for federal aid, including low-interest emergency loans.
# More black smoke: Cardinals don’t agree on pope

  
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals remained divided over who should be pope on Wednesday after three rounds of voting, an indication that disagreements remain about the direction of the Catholic church following the upheaval unleashed by Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise resignation.

In the second day of the conclave, thick black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, prompting sighs of disappointment from the thousands of people gathered in a rain-soaked and chilly St. Peter’s Square.

“I’m not happy to see black smoke. We all want white,” said the Rev. ThankGod Okoroafor, a Nigerian priest studying theology at Holy Cross University in Rome. “But maybe it means that the cardinals need to take time, not to make a mistake in the choice.”

Cardinals voted twice Wednesday morning in the Vatican’s famed frescoed Sistine Chapel following an inaugural vote Tuesday to elect a successor to Benedict XVI, who stunned the Catholic world last month by becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign.

The cardinals broke for lunch at the Vatican hotel and planned another two rounds of voting Wednesday afternoon.

The drama — with stage sets by Michelangelo and an outcome that is anyone’s guess — is playing out against the backdrop of the church’s need both for a manager who can clean up an ungovernable Vatican bureaucracy and a pastor who can revive Catholicism in a time of growing secularism.

The difficulty in finding both attributes in one man, some analysts say, means that the world should brace for a long conclave — or at least one longer than the four ballots it took to elect Benedict in 2005.
# Right to bear bazookas vs Wall Street

Watch the full Keiser Report E322 later today! In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss crimes against capital, financial blockades and hoax Op-eds. They also suggest that Boris Johnson may be the illegitimate step nephew of Louis XV and how all your financial opinions come from a warped fortune cookie written by some guy that just dropped massive tabs of acid. And they discuss this while minding their Second Amendment right to bear a shoulder launch missile. In the second half, Max interviews Birgitta Jonsdottir about the need to form Pirate Parties around the world to protect privacy, democracy and stop financial blockades of certain groups for their beliefs and campaigns. Follow Max Keiser on Twitter: http://twitter.com/maxkeiser Watch all Keiser Report shows here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL768A33676917AE90 (E1-E200) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC3F29DDAA1BABFCF (E201-current) Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/b/102728491539958529040 RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark
# 37: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Tied to Serotonin

A study released in July dispelled some of the mystery surrounding sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, which kills 2,500 babies a year in the United States.

Jan-Marino Ramirez, a biologist at the University of Chicago, figured out how two aspects of SIDS fit together. First, a child who has the syndrome cannot gasp air. Thus, if a pillow blocks her airway and her brain begins to starve for oxygen, she can’t kick-start her breathing back to normal. Second, in a SIDS child, the neurotransmitter called serotonin often doesn’t bind properly to brain cells. In experiments with laboratory mice, Ramirez and his colleagues distinguished two groups of pacemaker neurons that govern breathing. One group regulates normal breathing; the other group regulates gasping. They found that serotonin regulates the sodium channels that drive the gasping cells. Moreover, problems in sodium channels play a role in epilepsy and heart disorders—both common in children with SIDS. “So we have the missing link,” says Ramirez. “A disturbed serotonin mechanism could lead to disturbed gasping.” 

Knowing which cells initiate gasping is just a start. “Now you can ask questions like, What happens if a mother smokes? Does this affect these nerve cells?” says Ramirez. In the meantime, advising parents to put babies to sleep on their backs has proved preventive. Since the “Back to Sleep” public health campaign began in the mid-1990s, the number of annual SIDS deaths in the United States has dropped by 40 percent.
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# Kyiv again discusses revision of gas contracts with Moscow

Ashgabat - Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev have discussed the revision of Ukrainian-Russian gas contracts. "This subject was discussed again. We're getting closer [to the revision of gas contracts], step by step," Azarov told journalists in Ashkhabad (Turkmenistan) on Wednesday, when asked when the results of talks on the revision of gas contracts will be disclosed, and whether this issue was discussed with the Russian prime minister.
# [神戶]明石海峽大橋-阪神大地震不倒，屹立不搖

**明石海峽大橋** 是連接日本神戶和淡路島之間跨海公路大橋，它跨越明石海峽，是目前世界上跨距最大的橋樑及懸索橋，橋墩跨距1991米，寬35米，兩邊跨距各為960米，橋身呈淡藍色。明石海峽大橋擁有世界第二高的橋塔，高達298.3米，僅次於法國密佑高架橋 (342米)，比日本第一高大樓橫濱地標大廈 (295.8米)還高，甚至可與東京鐵塔及法國艾菲爾鐵塔相匹敵，全橋總長3911米。

大橋1988年5月動工，歷時10年，耗資5000多億日元，于1998年4月建成通車，其間經歷了1995年1月17日的阪神大地震的考驗。阪神大地震的震央雖然距橋址僅4公里，但大橋安然無恙，只是南岸的岸墩和錨錠裝置發生了輕微位移，使大橋的長度增加了約1米（大橋原設計長度為3910米，主跨距1990米）。

橋面有6車道，設計時速100公里，可承受芮氏規模8.5強震和百年一遇的80米/秒強烈颱風襲擊。由於明石海峽大橋的建成，再加上原有的連接淡路島和四國的大鳴門大橋，本州與四國在陸路上連為一體。

舞子公園包括有船的科學館、舞子海上散步道、孫文紀念館等  


官網：http://www.hyogo-park.or.jp/maiko/contents/sisetsu/area_prom.html

自助旅行交通方式：

1.從大阪至明石海峽大橋：約一個小時

搭乘私鐵（阪急、阪神）往姬路的直通特急到舞子公園站下車  
搭乘JR新快速，到三宮下車，在搭JR快速或普通到舞子站

2.從京都至明石海峽大橋：約一個15分

只能搭乘JR往姬路的新快速，到三宮下車，在搭快速或普通到舞子站  
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吃飽飯坐上遊覽車花了大概一個多小石的時間到達神戶的名石海峽大橋  
說也好笑，版主來過關西三次  
經過明石海峽大橋兩次  
竟然都沒在這裡停留過  
剛好這次行程有排進去?讓我非常的興奮?因為終於可以得償所望

在船的科學館旁就有展示明石海峽大橋的鋼索  
體積非常的巨大  
裡面是用非常多的細鋼索所組成的大鋼纜  
可能是藉此分散力量?讓大橋可以非常的堅固  
事實也證明了?在經過神戶大地震的洗禮後  
明石海峽大橋仍然屹立不搖

到橋下可以看到一望無際的海洋  
溫暖的陽光照射下來?海面反射著陽光?真是一個適合出遊的好日子

搭乘電梯往步道走去

牆壁貼著的海報

有懼高症的朋友可不要輕易嘗試  
因為看起來還真有點高阿

橋下的維修通道

孫文紀念館，又稱移情閣，是神戶的貿易商吳錦堂所有，外觀為獨特的六角造型  
在國父來到日本之際，曾經在此入住  
移情閣早早就關門了  
要進去也是要門票  
導遊沒幫我們買  
所以我們就在外面拍拍照就走了  
舞子公園真的是個粉不錯的地方，適合情侶一起來踏踏青看看海，感覺很舒服歐
#  Digitization Efforts 

Smithsonian Gardens (SG) strives to support the Smithsonian Institution goal of promoting access through digitization by photographing the plants in our living collections. Our goal is to create digital surrogate standards for each collection item. Digitizing our orchid and tree collections provides a resource of images that can be used to represent physical specimens for remote study by researchers or as a record of a specimen appearance if damage or loss occurs. All of these professional photos are available through Plant Explorer. Smithsonian Gardens hopes to serve as a resource for North American orchid collections and other scientific research interests. Since the collections are constantly being added and subtracted from, digitization will be an ongoing process.

### Orchid Collection Digitization

Smithsonian Gardens has been digitizing Orchid Collection records since 2010. In the Fall of 2017, the Digitization Program Office supported a project during which more than 6,000 orchids were professionally photographed to capture overall plant size and flower characteristics. This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.

### Tree Collection Digitization

Smithsonian Gardens is currently working on photographing all of the trees within our Collection. Digitizing a tree collection is challenging because specimens are not contained within a building or small enough to light and position for an ideal photograph. We hope to photos captured as part of this project to create a field guide to the trees of Smithsonian. This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

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### Smithsonian Gardens Digital Backgrounds

Download these scenes from Smithsonian Gardens to use as your desktop background, or on your next Zoom meeting!
## Episode 177 - Charby the Vampirate forever!

Guess who we had on THIS week? It was Amelius and Evil Emperor Nick! The husband and wife powerhouse behind some very popular comics on DD including Charby The Vampirate and Cwen's Quest. We haven't had them on since Quackcast 10 and 11 which have unfortunately been totally wiped from the interwebs... But that doesn't matter so much since you can hear them both afresh now and they have some goo stuff to say, including talking about the newly revamped version of Charby on charbythevampirate.com that's only up to 50 or so pages as well as the new related project Here there be monsters. We apologise for some slight technical difficulties, but Amy and Nick were good sports anyway and it was a an enjoyable interview!

Aww, thanks! This is a real surprise considering how few followers my comic has here. :0

They're a delightful pair!

This was fun! And these two are so darn nice! I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't been there m'self!
# Star Trails Prove Earth is the Center of the Universe

Star trail time-lapse photography is absolute proof that Earth is the stationary center of the universe around which everything in the sky revolves. If the Earth's supposed motion was what caused the star trail effect, Earth would have to be performing daily 360 loop-de-loops, inverting upside down, coming back around, and NOT rotating on an axis, otherwise the same stars would not remain visible in the sky for well over 12 hours (as they do), and would all move across the sky horizontally! The fact that we can see the same stars all ... več Star trail time-lapse photography is absolute proof that Earth is the stationary center of the universe around which everything in the sky revolves. If the Earth's supposed motion was what caused the star trail effect, Earth would have to be performing daily 360 loop-de-loops, inverting upside down, coming back around, and NOT rotating on an axis, otherwise the same stars would not remain visible in the sky for well over 12 hours (as they do), and would all move across the sky horizontally! The fact that we can see the same stars all night long revolving perfect circles around Polaris proves it is the stars moving relative to a fixed Earth and not the Earth doing roller-coaster loops around Polaris! Also, the stars are all said to be at varying incredible distances from one another so their relative positions to each other should be shifting constantly. In actual fact, however, all the constellations maintain their positions relative to one another day after day, year after year. This is only possible if we are fixed and the universe is a fixed sphere moving around us, like a planetarium dome.
# Intoxicated Driver Charged in Fatal Car Crash

  
A Woman driving her late model Nissan Altima with four passengers was charged with a handful of serious crimes after one of her passengers died. A.D., 23 years old, was reportedly speeding when she lost control of her car around 4:00 a.m. on a recent weekend. The driver and at least one of her passengers were all from Connecticut but were visiting New York for the evening. She was heading east when she failed to negotiate a turn onto the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Her car careened into a metal barrier before spinning out into westbound traffic lanes. The force of the collision with the metal road divider caused one of her passengers, a 21-year-old female, to be ejected from the vehicle. The woman landed on roadway and suffered severe injuries. She died at the scene. A.D. and the remaining three passengers had also been injured. All four were taken by ambulances to a local hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries. A.D. was arrested by police upon her release from the hospital the next day. She has been charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, criminally negligent homicide, second-degree manslaughter and manslaughter. No information was available concerning whether or not the family of the victim who died will be pursuing a wrongful death civil suit. Talk to a personal injury lawyer as soon as possible if you were the victim of a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Car accidents result in thousands upon thousands of injuries and fatalities every year in the U.S. Many of these accidents could have been prevented but were not due to negligence or recklessness. Drunk drivers, drugged drivers, texting while driving, speeding, aggressive maneuvers and other actions are often to blame. Make sure you are not unfairly stuck with medical bills, lost wages and other damages after an auto crash.  
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#  U.S. Ranks Ninth Out of 12 Countries in Energy Efficiency 

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's first-ever global survey showed the United States fared poorly, ranking ninth among 12 of the world's largest economies.

The council's International Energy Efficiency Scorecard, released Thursday, showed the United Kingdom in first place with a score of 67 out of 100, thanks to efficient industrial and transportation sectors. Germany came in second at 66 points for strong national leadership across its entire economy.

The next three spots were held by Japan, Italy and France. The European Union, Australia and China had a three-way tie for sixth place at 56 points, and then came a drop to the United States with 47. Brazil took tenth place with a score of 41. Canada (37) and Russia (36) rounded out the rankings.

The scores were based on countries' performance and policies in four sectors: buildings, industry, transportation and energy use at the national level. The council divided those categories into 27 metrics and awarded the highest score available for each metric to at least one country. The study's most up-to-date data comes from 2010 and doesn't reflect advances made in the past two years.

"The UK and the leading economies of Europe are now well ahead of the United States when it comes to energy efficiency," said ACEEE Executive Director Steven Nadel. "This is significant because countries that use energy more efficiently require fewer resources to achieve the same goals, thus reducing costs, preserving valuable natural resources and creating jobs."

Many of the higher-ranking countries had national energy-savings goals, mandatory energy audits in factories, frequent use of public transportation and fuel-efficient cars. The U.S. got zero points in each of those four categories. When it comes to driving, Americans traveled twice as many miles on average than drivers in nearly every country on the list.

America did score well, however, in the buildings category, thanks largely to now-expiring federal tax credits and loan programs for energy-saving retrofits, as well as investments in R&D and strong efficiency standards for homes, offices and appliances. Buildings account for 40 percent of both U.S. electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

"The UK and the leading economies of Europe are now well ahead of the United Stateswhen it comes to energy efficiency  


Source: PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1hG0L)

"Americans for a long time have seen their country as being really innovative and cutting-edge and globally competitive," Sara Hayes, the report's author and an ACEEE senior researcher, told InsideClimate News. "The United States has a long way to go. ... I don't think it's a given when we do this report again that we will have caught up."
# Stonestreet Legacy Meritage Red 2006

Bordeaux Red Blends from Sonoma County, California

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## Winemaker Notes

This 2006 Legacy is the sixteenth release of our Bordeaux-style varietal blend. With this vintage, we selected lots of wine from our estate vineyards in the hills and eastern mountains enclosing the southern end of the Alexander Valley. Elevation is the key to this wine's combination of boldness and elegance. 

The 2006 vintage of Legacy is led by Cabernet Sauvignon which makes up 86% of the blend and is from both hillside and mountain vineyards in the Alexander Valley. The mountain... 

## Critical Acclaim

WE 96

Wine Enthusiast

Hard to exaggerate the beauty of this mountain-grown wine, which is based on Cabernet Sauvignon but contains the other four classic Bordeaux varieties. Although it's very tannic, those tannins are remarkably soft. Nearly all-new oak provides a framework of smoky caramel, delicious enough, but just an accompaiment to the blackberries, black currants, cherries and dark chocolate. A fantastic wine for drinking now, and should last for many years in the cellar.

RP 91

The Wine Advocate

Sharing the same winemaker, Graham Werts, as the Stonestreet winery, the 2006 Legacy is a 1,400-case blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, and the rest Petit Verdot and Malbec. This gorgeous 2006 boasts a deep ruby/purple color as well as aromas and flavors of spicy oak, creosote, burning embers, and copious quantities of black currant and blackberry fruit. Full-bodied with a subtle smoky component, multilayers, a round, generous texture, and sweet tannin in its silky finish, it can be drunk now or cellared for 15-20+ years.

ST 90

International Wine Cellar

Bright ruby-red. Black cherry, bitter chocolate, licorice and a hint of menthol on the nose. Supple and sweet, with a slightly medicinal cast to its rather velvety redcurrant and menthol flavors. A bit youthfully tight on the back end, with firm tannins and juicy acids currently limiting the wine's length. Needs some patience.

## Stonestreet

In the autumn of 1989, Jess Jackson acquired the Zellerbach winery and renamed it in honor of his late father, Jess Stonestreet Jackson. Stonestreet quickly garnered international acclaim for their powerful reds and luscious whites. 

Today, Stonestreet wines are undergoing a transformation, using fruit from Alexander Mountain Estate and new winemaking techniques. Alexander Mountain Estate, with lean, well-draining soils and cooler temperature, produces fruit with smaller berries and more intense color and flavor. Stonestreet...
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