divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/24710?ns=guardianpageName=Environment%3A+Oh+Christmas+tree%2C+oh+Christmas+treech=Environmentc3=guardian.co.ukc4=Ethical+living+%28Environment%29%2CGreen+Christmas+%28Environment%29%2CEnvironment%2CChristmas+%28Life+and+style%29%2CLife+and+stylec5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEthical+Living%2CChristmasc6=Leo+Hickmanc7=2008_12_04c8=1128849c9=articlec10=GUc11=Environmentc12=blogc13=c14=Ethical+Living+blogh2=GU%2FEnvironment%2Fblog%2FEthical+Living+blog" width="1" height="1" //divpIt's at this point each December where I begin to feel as if I'm being haunted by the ghost of Christmas dilemmas past. Every year most of us go through the ritual of worrying about which Christmas tree to buy, or indeed whether to buy one at all./ppAren't they just a colossal waste of money? Can such a decadent waste of resources be justified in our (supposedly) eco-aware times? (Such cries have been heard for centuries – Oliver Cromwell banged on about the "heathen tradition" of decorated trees, but he had his own all-together-different reasons.)/ppAnd then we buckle and relent as the children at our feet whimper and plead with us to get one. So what are the options for those of us who still want to follow this once-pagan yuletide tradition?/ph2Buy a real tree/h2pThis is still considered the only true option by most tradition-loving followers of Proper Christmas. There's something magical, they say, about the aroma of those pine needles and the presence of a just-felled, real tree in their home. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without one. /ppThe reality is a little less romantic: the vast majority of the trees we buy from garden centres and garage forecourts are intensively farmed on an industrial scale, sometimes beyond these shores. /ppAs with most monocrops, Christmas trees are typically sprayed with potent fertilisers and herbicides such as Monsanto's Roundup (glyphosate). Just how much Christmas cheer does that spread to local biodiversity and the a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_6_16/ai_n15895166"seasonal workers hired to harvest the trees/a? Erase from your head any idyllic notion that these trees are carefully scythed from a snow-laden forest floor ready for your home. /ppIn many ways, though, this is a positive. If Christmas trees were gathered this way they would be responsible for deforestation on an epic scale considering that we get through millions of things each year. They also offer some farmers a profitable harvest for otherwise unproductive fields positioned on steep hills./ppThere are some basic things to look out for, though, when sourcing a real tree. The a href="http://www.soilassociation.org/christmas"Soil Association/a has details of retailers selling organic Christmas trees. And the a href="http://www.fsc-uk.org/"Forest Stewardship Council/a has a list showing you how to get hold of an FSC-approved tree. Between them, these standards offer a guarantee that your tree has been farmed sustainably. /ppAnd try to find a tree that's been grown as close to your home as possible – for anyone living outside a large conurbation this usually isn't too tricky as it's usually easy to find a local farmer who sells Christmas trees. Whether they are grown sustainably or not is another matter that only your questioning will uncover./ppIt is also worth considering getting a potted tree, rather than one that has been felled, so that you can use it again, following a wee trim, in subsequent years. The problem, of course, is storage. Not everyone can host a living Christmas tree at home throughout the year even if they are blessed with some outside space. /ppIf you do have to buy a cut tree it is worth finding out first from your local authority whether it offers a Christmas tree collection service whereby it chips up all the trees into mulch. Many local authorities still do not offer such a service which could leave you with the headache of working out what to do with the tree come the twelfth day. Streets strewn with naked trees in early January is usually a good sign you do not live within a progressive local authority./ph2Buy a plastic tree/h2pThis option is often presented as the eco alternative to buying a real tree, but such claims fail to stack up in my view. First, there's the canard that a plastic tree is "for life", whereas most plastic trees are used little more than a handful of years before being discarded. /ppThere's also the claim that a plastic tree prevents a real tree from being cut down, whereas, as has already been mentioned above, Christmas trees are no different from any other farmed crop and are only planted with harvesting in mind./ppAnd do we really want to encourage the production of yet another piece of plastic tat being produced thousands of miles away and shipped around the planet for our seasonal gratification?/ph2Decorate an existing tree/plant/h2pYou may well get a nasty neighbour shouting "Scrooge!" at you through your front window, but some families just decorate a large house plant instead of buying in a cut conifer, as tradition dictates. Decorating a tree in the garden is also an option, although this could leave the presents underneath a tad soggy./ph2Do nothing/h2pHow about just foregoing the whole tradition altogether? (Granted, this is probably a little easier to pull off in child-free homes.) Some charities try to exploit – in the nicest sense – the fact that some of us just don't like to suffer the guilt of excess that comes with Christmas. The Woodland Trust, for example, offers its a href="http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/christmas/plantatree/"Plant a Tree for Christmas/a gift. For £25, the price of a modest Christmas tree, you will be able to dedicate three trees in a wood of your choice./ppAnd if you want a valid excuse to supply to exasperated family members that explains to them why you have not bought a Christmas tree this year, show them this frankly quite scary clip of a a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J-mpQRJD5wU"Christmas tree fire/a:/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicalliving"Ethical living/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/greenchristmas"Green Christmas/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/christmas"Christmas/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FNEn8kHD6WgPQoIXfHJh0VB-0pY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FNEn8kHD6WgPQoIXfHJh0VB-0pY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/wagons/" rel="tag"Wagons/Estates/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/" rel="tag"Euro/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/mazda/" rel="tag"Mazda/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/misc-auto-shows/" rel="tag"Misc. Auto Shows/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1200287/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/aslkjfaafasdfasdfas_opt.jpg" //abr / div align="center"emstrongsmallClick above for high-res gallery of the Mazda3 five-door hatchback/small/strong/embr //div br /Mazda has officially taken the wraps off its a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/25/mazda3-hatch-unveiled-will-debut-next-week/"five-door hatchback version/a of the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/la-2008-2010-mazda3-shows-its-smiling-face/"redesigned Mazda3/a at the Bologna Motor Show today. As you can see in the gallery of new high-res pics below, the Mazda3 five-door gets the same swoopy sheetmetal as its four-door brethren, including the super happy smiley front end face. What's new is an extended roofline that drops down at a steep angle to create a wagon-esque profile. With a D-pillar that kinks up at a swept back angle, the look is very similar to that of a Pontiac Vibe/Toyota Matrix that's been stepped on by a giant. The new cargo capacity will no doubt be appreciated by families who can put every extra cubic foot to good use, and if the current generation Mazda3 is any indication, this will also be the basis for the Mazdaspeed model. br /br /At the moment, all the specs for the new Mazda3 five-door hatchback are for the European market, so don't expect its new 2.2L and carryover 1.6L turbo diesel engines to be available in the U.S. Europeans will also have a choice of 1.6L and 2.0L gas engines, though we expect the U.S.-spec model to offer the same 2.0L and new 2.5L four-cylinder engines as the sedan. Check out the official press release from Mazda after the jump for more details and the high-res image gallery below for more shots of the new Mazda3 five-door hatchback.br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="%GalleryURL%"2010 Mazda3 Hatchback/a/strong/pa href="/gallery/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1200287/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/19_mazda3hatch09_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1200286/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/20_mazda3hatch09_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1200285/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/21_mazda3hatch09_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1200244/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/00_mazda3hatch09_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="/gallery/2010-mazda3-hatchback/1184902/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/2010mazda3_hatch_hi02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: Mazda]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/officially-official-mazda3-five-door-hatchback-gets-real/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emOfficially Official: Mazda3 five-door hatchback gets real/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/officially-official-mazda3-five-door-hatchback-gets-real/"Officially Official: Mazda3 five-door hatchback gets real/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:57:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/officially-official-mazda3-five-door-hatchback-gets-real/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1390000/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/officially-official-mazda3-five-door-hatchback-gets-real/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7tczGvbJ3WZHjnQvJGXRw45vmhg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/7tczGvbJ3WZHjnQvJGXRw45vmhg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=d4luFEdl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=d4luFEdl" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=vBzDQD7d"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=vBzDQD7d" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/8XoAjjfDZIU" height="1" width="1"/

centerimg border=0 title="Lower Monthly Tariff For T-Mobile G1" alt="Lower Monthly Tariff For T-Mobile G1" src="http://www.uberphones.com/photos/2008/12/g1-uk-price.jpg" style="margin: 0 0 0 0;" //center br/pT-Mobile G1 users might be happy with the phone and all, but the initial monthly tariff pricing of £40 ($59) was a little steep, and it looks like T-Mobile is indirectly acknowledging it by dropping the monthly tariff to £30 ($44) instead. T-Mobile claims that it isn’t a reaction to poor sales figures, but the fact that a company spokesperson can state that it has chosen to "offer the device free with a £30 contract to make the pricing more competitive in light of recent device launches," is just another fancy way of saying that they’re dropping the price of it so that you don’t buy something else. Whatever the reason behind it, we’ve really got no complaints against them offering the phone for cheaper./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.uberphones.com/2008/12/lower_monthly_tariff_for_tmobile_g1/"Lower Monthly Tariff For T-Mobile G1/a from a href="http://www.uberphones.com"Uberphones/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xGpJZQT5-dVOARSfGQ_rgsBrlQc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xGpJZQT5-dVOARSfGQ_rgsBrlQc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/launchcast_johnlegend.png" alt="image" align="right" width="210" height="112" /Yahoo has turned to CBS to help keep its a href="http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/" title="LaunchCAST"LAUNCHcast/a streaming radio service alive. As part of the new partnership, a href="http://www.cbsradio.com/index.html" title="CBS Radio"CBS Radio/a will provide the player and handle the ad sales for LAUNCHcast, and various CBS (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=CBS" class="ticker" title="CBS"NYSE: CBS/a) stations will be available on Yahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker" title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a) Music. Yahoo will also incorporate more radio content throughout its news and sports portals. It's the latest move in Yahoo's strategy to a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-opens-up" title=""completely open"""completely open"/a its music operations to other services: the company recently a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-music-rhapsody-partner-for-music-search-paired-with-full-track-st" title="launched an enhanced music search service with Rhapsody"launched an enhanced music search service with Rhapsody/a (the same company it a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-switches-premium-music-service-to-realnetworks-rhapsody" title="offloaded its premium music subscription business to"offloaded its premium music subscription business to /a in February).nbsp; /p p Yahoo started shifting the focus away from LAUNCHcast a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-citing-steep-royalty-payments-aol-and-yahoo-consider-dropping-streaming" title="late last year"late last year/a, plagued by the higher royalty fees that threatened to a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-will-pandora-play-the-end-soon-royalty-rate-hikes-could-be-its-demise" title="shut smaller Webcasters like Pandora down"shut smaller Webcasters like Pandora down/a. Michael Spiegelman, head of Yahoo Music said CBS came courting at the most opportune time: "We didn't want to scale down or put up a lot of barriers with LAUNCHcast, but the economics of online radio had changed. It made sense to have a partner like CBS Radio ... They've made the investment in the infrastructure, the platform and the sales force to operate in a sustainable way." /p p CBS Radio's ad sales expertise is a big plus: it has a 1,600-member sales team, can sell ads on national and local levels, and has a a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-cbs-backed-targetspot-buys-radio-ad-rep-firm-ronning-lipset" title="vested interest"vested interest/a in TargetSpot, the ad technology firm that can serve hypertargeted ads into various types of streaming media. CBS also has experience with a partnership of this size, as it a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-aol-and-cbs-unite-radio-networks-cbs-to-manage-ad-sales-across-350-chan" title="merged its online radio network with AOL's"merged its online radio network with AOL's/a back in March.nbsp; /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-citing-steep-royalty-payments-aol-and-yahoo-consider-dropping-streaming"Citing Steep Royalty Payments, AOL And Yahoo Could Consider Dropping Streaming Radio Services/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-opens-up/"Yahoo Press Day: Yahoo Music Opens Up, Third-Party Content, Home Page Tweaks/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-not-only-shutting-music-store-but-orphaning-drm-buyers/"Yahoo Not Only Shutting Music Store, But Orphaning DRM Buyers/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=qm3sqS"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=qm3sqS" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=gMK6O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=gMK6O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SRMxO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SRMxO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=fL2ao"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=fL2ao" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=apOUO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=apOUO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=UygHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=UygHO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/473502578" height="1" width="1"/

Publication Date: 2008 Nov 14 PMID: 19041879br/Authors: Jehle, S. - van Rossum, B. - Stout, J. R. - Noguchi, S. R. - Falber, K. - Rehbein, K. - Oschkinat, H. - Klevit, R. E. - Rajagopal, P.br/Journal: J Mol Biolbr/br/Atomic-level structural information on alphaB-crystallin (alphaB), a prominent member of the small heat shock protein family, has been a challenge to obtain due its polydisperse oligomeric nature. We show that magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR can be used to obtain high-resolution information on an approximately 580-kDa human alphaB assembled from 175-residue 20-kDa subunits. An approximately 100-residue alpha-crystallin domain is common to all small heat shock proteins, and solution-state NMR was performed on two different alpha-crystallin domain constructs isolated from alphaB. In vitro, the chaperone-like activities of full-length alphaB and the isolated alpha-crystallin domain are identical. Chemical shifts of the backbone and C(beta) resonances have been obtained for residues 64-162 (alpha-crystallin domain plus part of the C-terminus) in alphaB and the isolated alpha-crystallin domain by solid-state and solution-state NMR, respectively. Both sets of data strongly predict six beta-strands in the alpha-crystallin domain. A majority of residues in the alpha-crystallin domain have similar chemical shifts in both solid state and solution state, indicating similar structures for the domain in its isolated and oligomeric forms. Sites of intersubunit interaction are identified from chemical shift differences that cluster to specific regions of the alpha-crystallin domain. Multiple signals are observed for the resonances of M68 in the oligomer, identifying the region containing this residue as existing in heterogeneous environments within alphaB. Evidence for a novel dimerization motif in the human alpha-crystallin domain is obtained by a comparison of (i) solid-state and solution-state chemical shift data and (ii) (1)H-(15)N heteronuclear single quantum coherence spectra as a function of pH. The isolated alpha-crystallin domain undergoes a dimer-monomer transition over the pH range 7.5-6.8. This steep pH-dependent switch may be important for alphaB to function optimally (e.g., to preserve the filament integrity of cardiac muscle proteins such as actin and desmin during cardiac ischemia, which is accompanied by acidosis).br/br/post to: a href = http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fentrez%2Fquery.fcgi%3Fcmd%3DRetrieve%26db%3DPubMed%26dopt%3DAbstract%26list_uids%3D19041879title=Entrez+PubmedCiteULike/a

img src=http://www.blogotheque.net/IMG/arton4566.jpg alt= align=right width=645 height=203 class=spip_logos / div class='rss_chapo'A new director sent us an email and a bunch of videos. We loved them. His name is Art Perez, and he filmed a Take away show with Margot and the nuclear So and So's in San Francisco by night./div div class='rss_texte'p class=spipIt was your typical backyard...there was a hammock, low lighting, and the sun had just finished setting. The band came in a clan of eight. If you are at all familiar with their music and lyrics, you would be surprised to find that they are exactly the way they feel. After their sound check at the Independent in San Francisco, they sat down with their instruments to play us a little off their newly released album, “Not Animal”./p p class=spipThey are mysterious and reserved, but at the same time their music and lyrics contain a sense of peace and beauty unmatched. 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