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Events on June 2, 2012

  • First Saturday Art Mart at Native Quest

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 4:00 pm, June 2, 2012

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Events on June 5, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board and United Indians Elder Lunch

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 1:30 pm, June 5, 2012

  • Urban Indian Legal Clinic at Chief Seattle Club

    Starts: 1:00 pm

    Ends: 3:00 pm, June 5, 2012

  • Seattle Clear Sky Native Youth Council

    Starts: 6:00 pm

    Ends: 8:30 pm, June 5, 2012

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Events on June 7, 2012

  • Healthy Heart Fitness Class at SIHB

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 7, 2012

  • 2012 Annual NIBA Awards Banquet

    Starts: 5:00 pm

    Ends: 8:00 pm, June 7, 2012

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Events on June 8, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board Native Elders Lunch/Bingo

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 2:30 pm, June 8, 2012

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Events on June 12, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board and United Indians Elder Lunch

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 1:30 pm, June 12, 2012

  • Seattle Clear Sky Native Youth Council

    Starts: 6:00 pm

    Ends: 8:30 pm, June 12, 2012

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Events on June 14, 2012

  • Healthy Heart Fitness Class at SIHB

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 14, 2012

  • Honoring Our Graduates Ceremony 2012

    Starts: 5:00 pm

    Ends: 9:00 pm, June 14, 2012

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Events on June 15, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board Native Elders Lunch/Bingo

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 2:30 pm, June 15, 2012

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Events on June 19, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board and United Indians Elder Lunch

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 1:30 pm, June 19, 2012

  • Leadership Institute for College Women

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 23, 2012

  • Urban Indian Legal Clinic at Chief Seattle Club

    Starts: 6:00 pm

    Ends: 8:00 pm, June 19, 2012

  • Seattle Clear Sky Native Youth Council

    Starts: 6:00 pm

    Ends: 8:30 pm, June 19, 2012

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Events on June 20, 2012

  • Leadership Institute for College Women

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 23, 2012

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Events on June 21, 2012

  • Leadership Institute for College Women

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 23, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Healthy Heart Fitness Class at SIHB

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 21, 2012

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Events on June 22, 2012

  • Leadership Institute for College Women

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 23, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board Native Elders Lunch/Bingo

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 2:30 pm, June 22, 2012

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Events on June 23, 2012

  • Leadership Institute for College Women

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 23, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

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Events on June 24, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

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Events on June 25, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

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Events on June 26, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board and United Indians Elder Lunch

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 1:30 pm, June 26, 2012

  • Seattle Clear Sky Native Youth Council

    Starts: 6:00 pm

    Ends: 8:30 pm, June 26, 2012

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Events on June 27, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

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Events on June 28, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Healthy Heart Fitness Class at SIHB

    Starts: 2:30 pm

    Ends: 3:30 pm, June 28, 2012

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Events on June 29, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Seattle Indian Health Board Native Elders Lunch/Bingo

    Starts: 10:00 am

    Ends: 2:30 pm, June 29, 2012

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Events on June 30, 2012

  • In the Spirit: A Contemporary Northwest Native American Art Exhibit

    Starts: 12:00 am

    Ends: 12:00 am, July 27, 2012

  • Duwamish Tribe Gala, Dinner & Art Auction

    Starts: 4:00 pm

    Ends: 10:00 pm, June 30, 2012

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Businesses Should Invest in Correct Equipment & Employee Training

In the ongoing effort to maximize profit, business owners are on the lookout for ways to keep their costs down. During this quest for higher profits, business owners would be wise to not compromise the safety of employees. Every year American businesses report millions of work-related injuries to the U.S. Department of Labor. While a variety of factors can lead to workplace injuries, businesses should play their part to reduce instances. Ensuring that employees have the proper equipment to perform tasks is an important step to take. With a little ingenuity, employees will often result to ad-hoc solutions if necessary equipment is not available. However, even well-intentioned home-grown solutions can result in injury if all scenarios are not considered. Examples of common improperly performed tasks include transporting heavy items, storing waste, working in high places, using cleaning supplies and letting fellow employees/customers know about hazards. An Internet search can provide a multitude of vendors that can help with your equipment needs (i.e. scaffold). Proper employee training should accompany the use of correct equipment as part of business operations. Employee turnover and changing processes can create gaps in the job knowledge of your operations staff. Proper training will ensure that all staff members have current knowledge on proper job execution. Workplace safety training companies can often be found by contacting trade associations applicable to your industry. Modifying your Internet search accordingly (i.e. ?employee safety training?, ?OSHA education?) can provide options. Just remember that workplace-related lawsuits are often more expensive than proper training for your employees.

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Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic

TROMSO, Norway (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday ventured north of the Arctic Circle and urged international cooperation in a region that could become a new battleground for natural resources.

On her trip to the northern Norwegian city of Tromso, she conveyed that message of working together in one of the world's last frontiers of unexplored oil, gas and mineral deposits. The region is becoming more significant as melting icecaps accelerate the opening of new shipping routes, fishing stocks and drilling opportunities.

To safely tap the riches, the U.S. and other countries near the North Pole are trying to cooperate to combat harmful climate change, settle territorial disputes and prevent oil spills.

"The world increasingly looks to the North," Clinton told reporters after a two-hour boat tour of the nearby Balsfjord and meeting with Arctic scientists. "Our goal is certainly to promote peaceful cooperation," she said, adding that the U.S. was "committed to promoting responsible management of resources and doing all we can to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change."

At the least, the U.S. and the other Arctic nations hope to avoid a confrontational race for resources. Officials say the picture looks more promising than five years ago when Russia staked its claim to supremacy in the Arctic and its $9 trillion in estimated oil reserves by planting a titanium flag on the ocean floor.

The United States does not recognize the Russian assertion and has its own claims, along with Denmark, Norway and Canada, while companies from Exxon Mobil Corp. to Royal Dutch Shell PLC want to get in on the action. China also is keeping a close eye on the region.

Moscow has eased tensions somewhat by promising to press any claims through an agreed U.N. process. But Washington has yet to ratify the 1982 Law of the Sea treaty regulating the ocean's use for military, transportation and mineral extraction purposes.

With 160 countries having signed on, the Obama administration is making a new push for U.S. Senate approval. Refusal puts the U.S. at risk of getting frozen out of its share of the spoils.

Arguing for its ratification at a recent Senate hearing, Clinton said the treaty would offer the U.S. oil and gas rights some 600 miles into the Arctic. She said American companies were "equipped and ready to engage in deep seabed mining," but needed to join the treaty to take exploit oil, gas and mineral reserves.

On Saturday, in the eight-nation Arctic Council's home city, she stressed that the international agreement "sets down the rules of the road that protect freedom of navigation and provides maritime security, serving the interest of every nation that relies on sea lanes for commerce and trade."

The Arctic's warming is occurring at least twice as fast as anywhere else, threatening to raise sea levels by up to 5 feet this century and possibly causing a 25 percent jump in mercury emissions over the next decade. The changes could threaten polar bears, whales, seals and indigenous communities hunting those animals for food, not to mention islands and low-lying areas much farther away, from Florida to Bangladesh.

The changing climate also is changing the realm of what is possible from transportation to tourism, with the summer ice melting away by more than 17,000 square miles each year. During the most temperate days last year, only one-fifth of the Arctic Circle was ice-covered. Little of the ice has been frozen longer than two years, which is harder for icebreakers to cut through.

Europeans see new shipping routes to China that, at least in the warmth and sunlight of summer, are 40 percent faster than traveling through the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean Sea. A northwest passage between Greenland and Canada could significantly speed cargo traveling between the Dutch shipping hub of Rotterdam and ports in California.

The Arctic Council is hoping to manage the new opportunities in a responsible way. It includes former Cold War foes U.S. and Russia, but Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said governments were prepared to deepen cooperation "in a region that used to be frozen, both politically and climatically."

"Now there is a thaw," he said.

Last year in Greenland, Clinton and her counterparts from other nations took a small step toward international cooperation by agreeing to coordinate Arctic search-and-rescue missions for stranded sailors and others.

Officials are now trying to enhance the cooperation, including through joint plans to prevent oil spills in an environment that would make cleanup a logistical nightmare.

The U.S. has been championing measures such as shifting away from dirty diesel engines, agricultural burning and hydrofluorocarbons to lessen the effect of short-lived greenhouse gases that are a particularly potent source of climate change in the Arctic.

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Online:

Arctic Council: http://www.arctic-council.org

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Travel Postcard: London for the Jubilee

LONDON (Reuters) - Got an extra long weekend to explore the British capital where Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the throne with a massive Diamond Jubilee party? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors explore London amid the royal hoopla.

Friday

6 p.m. You'd better arrive at least a day or two ahead of the main festivities. Many people will get to London even earlier and will already be staking out places for Sunday's 1,000-boat flotilla along the Thames, Monday's pop concert outside Buckingham Palace and Tuesday's royal procession along the Mall. For a full official guide look on: http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/

Why not familiarize yourself with some of the local culture and go for a pint first. Friday night before a national holiday means the pubs will be buzzing.

Ditch the ubiquitous lager dens dotted around the capital in favor of a visit to the 2010 "pub of the year" as chosen by Britain's Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).

The Harp in Chandos Place lies in the shadow of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, near Covent Garden shopping, dining, Leicester Square, the theatre district and the pubs and clubs of Soho.

8 p.m. Dine with the ruling class at Rules restaurant (www.rules.co.uk) in Covent Garden. It's old, it's grand, the food is traditional English and it's a popular dining spot for the privately educated elite. This gastronomic institution has been reviewed by Kingsley Amis, defended by John Betjeman, immortalized by Graham Greene and frequented by Edward VII and his lover Lillie Langtry.

Top up at the bar with a pre-dinner drink from the Royal Collection Cocktails menu: One recipe for every one of the 16 countries where Queen Elizabeth is head of state.

10 p.m.

Throw some regal shapes at one of the clubs favored by the young royals. Cut loose at Whisky Mist (www.whiskymist.com), get your Middleton mojo on at Mahiki (www.mahiki.com) or shake your aristocratic booty at Boujis (www.boujis.com) until the wee hours. Plenty of Sloane Rangers and Hooray Henrys to choose from here. But remember: keen royal watchers are already standing five deep at the barricades.

Saturday

Unless you have tickets for the Epsom Derby, where Queen Elizabeth will kick off jubilee celebrations by indulging in her passion for horse-racing, today is the best of two days to get your sightseeing in before the pageantry of the coming days.

9 a.m. Head to the Tower of London (www.hrp.org.uk). Founded by William the Conqueror after his 1066 invasion of England, the Tower, with its strategic location on the River Thames, has been a royal palace, a place of execution, a prison for traitors and still holds Britain's Crown jewels.

12 p.m. Cross over Tower Bridge, turn left and go for lunch at one of the many restaurants on the South Bank. For top dining try Le Pont de la Tour which overlooks the Thames, or the slightly less formal dining at the Chop House and Blueprint Cafe. They are all found at one website (www.lepontdelatour.co.uk/)

1 p.m. Head back toward Tower Bridge and keep walking past it. Here are the Mayor's round and gleaming glass and steel offices. There is a broad walkway beside the Thames that is popular with both locals and tourists.

As you stroll along you'll pass the Clink museum (www.clink.co.uk), Vinopolis (www.vinopolis.co.uk) -- a wine-lovers' emporium of all beverages related to the grape -- a replica of Francis Drake's globe-circumnavigating ship the Golden Hinde (www.goldenhinde.com), and a lovely bankside pub called the Anchor Bankside before arriving at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (www.shakespearesglobe.com).

The thatch-roofed, oak-beamed Globe is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse designed in 1599 and a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote.

Take in nearby Tate Modern Museum (www.tate.org/modern/), housed in an imposing converted power station. Further along the river you can go for a ride on the giant London Eye (www.londoneye.com) Ferris wheel or cross the Millennium footbridge just opposite the Tate for a visit to Christopher Wren's magnificent St. Paul's Cathedral (www.stpauls.co.uk), where Charles and Diana were married.

If you'd like to recreate last year's royal wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton - now known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - wander a bit further on and cross over Westminster Bridge for a visit to Westminster Abbey (www.westminster-abbey.org).

Here is also where England's monarchs are crowned and many put to eternal rest alongside the graves of the unknown warrior, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, George Frederic Handel and Laurence Olivier.

Sunday

7 a.m Get up! Get out! If you want to catch even a glimpse of the royal flotilla as it passes through London on the River Thames, you'd better make your way to a viewing spot soon alongside a million expected spectators.

A Chinese junk, Venetian gondolas and a boat rowed by Olympic champions will be part of the 1,000-vessel flotilla, where the queen will also be accompanied by a host of musicians playing everything from Bollywood songs to James Bond tunes.

London mayor Boris Johnson has said he expected the flotilla to be "like Dunkirk except more successful", a reference to the evacuation of British troops from France during World War Two.

Olympic and Paralympic champions including five-time rowing gold medal winner Steve Redgrave will lead the flotilla in a vessel also manned by soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first Chinese junk to visit London since the Great Exhibition in 1851 will join the flotilla, as well as several gondolas, passenger ships, kayaks and lifeboats.

The flotilla will be over seven miles long and travel 25 miles of the Thames, passing every bridge in central London, some of which will be open to spectators at each end. For help with finding a spot to watch, click on: http://www2.thamesdiamondjubileepageant.org/

4 p.m. After the procession, Go for tea. Claridges (www.claridges.co.uk) was named by the United Kingdom Tea Council as London's top afternoon tea place for 2011 and it's just around the corner. Make sure you book in advance and obey the dress code: Elegant smart casual; no shorts, vests, sportswear, flip flops, ripped jeans or baseball caps.

6 p.m. Head back to your hotel for some rest.

8 p.m. Now that you've tasted a bit of royal hoopla, you might also be hungry for dinner. There are some 140 restaurants in Britain with Michelin stars, four of which have the highest accolade of three stars. Two of those are in London.

One is Restaurant Gordon Ramsay on Royal Hospital Road (www.gordonramsay.com) in Chelsea, the other is Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester hotel (www.alainducasse-dorchester.com).

Monday

10 a.m. Have a lie-in. You might not have tickets for the pop concert at the palace tonight http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nh923 . But you can be in the vicinity to soak up the tunes and the vibe.

In the meantime, take the opportunity to visit the London dungeon experience (http://www.the-dungeons.co.uk/london/en/index.htm) near London Bridge. Scare yourself with the prospect of transportation or execution, take the rat walk or the Traitor; Ride to Hell as you experience 1,000 years of the darker side of British history.

12 p.m. Go for lunch at the George Inn, a 17th century pub which earns a mention in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" and is London's last remaining galleried coaching inn. Dickens used to come here for coffee.

The George's aged two-tiered balconies overlook a courtyard set aside for patrons to enjoy beer, ale, porter, stout and all other manner of drink as well as a hearty menu of pub food. This London treasure was rebuilt in 1676, after a fire destroyed the original. Shakespeare was another well-known regular.

2 p.m Take the Underground to the Imperial War Museum near Westminster. Winston Churchill was the queen's first prime minister and it was from here that he directed the Allied Forces which defeated Nazi Germany in World War Two.

The original Cabinet War Rooms - today part of the Churchill War Rooms - which sheltered the people at the heart of Britain's wartime government during the Blitz, lie beneath London's bustle.

In 1940, shortly after becoming Prime Minister, Churchill stood in the War Cabinet Room and declared: 'This is the room from which I will direct the war'. Today, you can step back in time to explore the secret headquarters where Churchill and his staff changed the course of history.

4 p.m. Head to the nearby Strand and Covent Garden for a bit of early supper or a late tea in one of the many restaurants and cafes.

6 p.m. You have three choices. If you have tickets for the party at the palace, get over there and have a mooch round the royal gardens and then take your place for a gala pop concert which will include Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, JLS, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams on a spectacular stage built around the Queen Victoria Memorial, right in front of Buckingham Palace.

If you don't have tickets you could join the thousands of people who are likely to be in the vicinity, head back to your hotel to watch it on the BBC, see it on a BBC big screen outdoors (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bigscreens/events/diamond_jubilee_concert.html) or find a local pub holding a jubilee pop concert party.

Tuesday

6 a.m. By now you must be royally exhausted. Nevertheless, today is THE day. The royal procession, the horse-drawn coach, the guards on horseback, a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral and the royal wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace, a flypast and fireworks.

Get your sandwiches, thermos of tea or coffee, bottles of water and a spot along the royal process route and hang onto your view.

A timetable can be found on: http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/celebrations-5-june.>

4 p.m. Go home.

(Reporting by Paul Casciato, editing by Steve Addison)

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Human hands leave prominent ecological footprints

Friday, June 1, 2012

Early human activity has left a greater footprint on today's ecosystem than previously thought, say researchers working at the University of Pittsburgh and in the multidisciplinary Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, created by the National Science Foundation to investigate ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales. Highlighted in the June issue of BioScience, the Pitt/LTER collaboration shows how historic human actions caused changes in nature that continue to reverberate throughout present-day ecosystems.

In the article, researchers take a retrospective look at the impact of human activity on LTER Network sites spanning states from Georgia to New Hampshire and propose methods for measuring the effects of such activity. The study of legacy effects is important because it provides insights into how today's actions can affect tomorrow's ecological systems, says Daniel Bain, coprincipal investigator at the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER Network site and an assistant professor in the Department of Geology and Planetary Science in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Bain notes that decision makers at all levels, including those creating policy, need historical information about ecosystems to make more effective environmental policies. In a democracy, says Bain, a diverse group of stakeholders?such as outdoor enthusiasts like Trout Unlimited, fiscal watchdog groups such as Common Cause, and individual landowners?needs this kind of data to effectively engage in the management of common resources.

"Increasingly, we propose to manage our ecosystems with sophisticated and complicated strategies," Bain says. "For example, we are attempting to manage agricultural runoff by changing how streams and floodplains are arranged. However, while designing these strategies, we tend to address the most recent impacts rather than the entire history of impacts. This can lead to wasted effort and misuse of relatively limited resources."

Legacy effects from human activities are all around us, says Bain, but few people ever give them a thought. For example, urban systems accumulate a lot of human-made materials, some of which have large ecological footprints and will ultimately leave a legacy. Bain cites the example of lead, which has been banned from gasoline and paint in the United States for several decades but can remain in soils for much longer periods of time. "We should be careful about growing food close to roads or near old houses," he cautions.

In agriculture, areas that were plowed hundreds of years ago react differently to contemporary acid deposition from air pollutants when compared with adjacent unplowed areas. Similarly, our extensive use of cement may add substantial amounts of calcium to urban soils, although the ecological impact of this practice is not yet fully understood, Bain adds.

Indeed, many landscapes that provide baseline ecological data for evaluating environmental change were structured in part by previous human interactions, such as settlements and agricultural practices. To make sense of the observed ecological patterns on such landscapes, Bain says, we must know something of the history of the processes acting to shape those patterns. A recent example of the need for historical data associated with the impact of humans is the debate over global warming and its associated climate change?the legacy of increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over millennia, but hugely accelerated since the industrial revolution and, especially, over the past several decades.

Bain points out that without a systematic collection of data recorded by the LTER Network, the broader geographical patterns of legacy effects would be much more difficult to detect. For example, scientists have discovered that recently glaciated areas have much less dirt accumulation than unglaciated areas. When Europeans first arrived in the eastern United States and dramatically changed local agricultural practices, eroded soil ultimately found its way into waterways. However, the glaciated areas produced less dirt, leaving less of an erosional signal in contrast to unglaciated areas, which lost more dirt and left such erosional legacies as buried valley bottoms and filled harbors. "In terms of policy, the management of glaciated and unglaciated areas requires different approaches," Bain says.

Nevertheless, Bain says, "although LTER sites have decades of data to draw from, we do not necessarily capture these changes, even with our best multidecade studies. It's hard to know what we might have been able to understand now had the LTER Network been established six or nine decades ago instead of three."

Another major benefit of the LTER approach, according to Bain, is the network of scientists that can jointly design a study, analyze the data, and produce such synthetic work efficiently. This type of historical analysis would take a small scientific team much longer to produce and perhaps be restricted to a smaller geographical and time scale than this regional synthesis of historical human legacies at long-term research sites in the eastern United States, Bain emphasizes.

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The Most Valuable Investment You Can Make Towards Your Financial

Financial freedom and independence are something which all of us wish for, but which few of us ever accomplish. What makes the difference in people who are successful in building financial freedom and those who struggle? The difference lies within how individuals invest their money, time and energy. People who have financial independence possess habits that result in building a lifestyle which is conducive to the achievement of financial freedom.

In this article, we?ll be talking about the most valuable investment you can make towards building this type of lifestyle for yourself?

The Most Valuable Financial Investment You Can Make

The most valuable investment you can make towards financial freedom has nothing to do with stocks, bonds, real estate or mutual funds. It has to do with the investment you make in developing good money management habits, good timing habits, and good habits for managing your energy. This is the foundational principle behind the Powerspending approach to building financial freedom and even wealth.

How are you spending your money, your time and your energy? Are you spending them in ways which will add value to your life or take away value? Are you spending your time, your energy, and your money towards the building of someone else?s dreams or towards your own? Most of us assume that financial freedom comes from finding investments which bring us a large monetary return and from earning more money.

While it certainly does help to have more money and to be able to find investments which bring the secret ROI, this attitude can also lead us on an endless search for the ?holy grail? of financial freedom. In reality, the most valuable thing you can do is start developing good money habits using the resources which you have right now. Even if you are living paycheck to paycheck, and you are in tens of thousands of dollars of debt, there?s nothing stopping you from developing good money habits starting right here and now.

On the other hand, if you don?t develop these habits now simply waiting for a time when you ?have more money? or if you keep looking for a ?magic? investment that yields you big returns, you?ll probably find a way to get rid of the extra money anyway. This happens to people who win the lottery and Powerball jackpots all the time?lot?s of extra money plus poor money habits equals no money left.

So if you?re ready to make the most powerful investment possible for building your financial freedom, start focusing on managing the money that you have better and on managing your time and energy so that you?ll be well prepared for the opportunities which await you.

By Frederick W. James MD

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Pope to attend La Scala concert

Pope Benedict XVI salutes at the end of a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI salutes at the end of a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI salutes at the end of a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI salutes at the end of a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI salutes at the end of a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican State Secretary Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, right, attend a concert at La Scala theater in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 1, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI greeted the faithful in the square outside Milan's cathedral after his arrival Friday afternoon for the seventh World Encounter of Families, a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler. Then, a concert at the nearby La Scala theater will be followed by a private prayer inside the cathedral with a special focus on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month. (AP Photo/Daniel Dal Zennaro, Pool)

(AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI praised the performance of Beethoven's Ninth symphony on Friday evening at Milan's La Scala theater as "a moment of elevation of the soul."

Benedict's three-day trip to Milan for events focusing on the institution of the family is a welcome pastoral respite from an embarrassing and damaging leaks scandal at the Vatican that has engulfed the pontiff's personal butler.

In contrast to the strains at home, the pontiff was welcomed by tens of thousands of cheering well-wishers in the square outside Milan's emblematic Cathedral earlier Friday and received a standing ovation when he entered La Scala.

The pope, an accomplished pianist known for his keen appreciation of music, sat raptly in a seat placed specially in the main aisle of the orchestra section from the famed opening bars of Beethoven's Ninth through the fourth movement exploding with "Ode to Joy."

He joined in a standing ovation for conductor Daniel Barenboim, the orchestra and chorus, then walked to the stage and through the orchestra to the conductor's pit to address the audience, filled with cardinals, bishops and delegates from the Seventh World Meeting of Families.

"It is not a distinctly Christian joy of which Beethoven sings, rather of the joy of coexistence of the people, victory over egoism," the pope said.

The pontiff thanked Barenboim for his choice of music because "it permits us to launch a message with the music that affirms the fundamental value of solidarity, of fraternity and of peace."

Afterward, the pope went backstage to greet La Scala's performers and workers, before heading to the nearby Milan Cathedral for a prayer and Eucharist celebration focused on the victims of the twin temblors that rocked the Emilia-Romagna region last month.

Barenboim called the pope's attendance at the concert "a great honor for our theater." Benedict was attending his first concert in a public theater since becoming pontiff, and is the second pope after his predecessor John Paul II to attend a performance at La Scala.

"It is not an obligation that the pope comes to La Scala," Barenboim told reporters Friday.

The pope's presence demonstrates that La Scala "is an important cultural institute" and that "one of his preoccupations is culture," Barenboim said.

Barenboim, who is La Scala's music director, said the choice of Beethoven's Ninth was an easy one, noting that it is one of the most accessible pieces written for an orchestra and choir.

"We needed to find an important piece. We can't play something frivolous for the pope," he said.

Weekend events focusing on families include a meeting at Milan's San Siro stadium on Saturday with youths who recently received the sacrament of confirmation, and an open-air Mass expected to attract 1 million followers on Sunday.

Associated Press

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