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Whether you're attending the ASBMB annual meeting in April or making a poster for a departmental retreat, you're sure to find these tips useful.
As scientists, we spend much of our time formulating hypotheses about questions that haven't yet been answered, designing and conducting experiments to test if our initial predictions about the outcome are accurate, and then again developing new educated guesses based on accomplished work. Yet this work hardly ever is done alone. Underlying all the work a researcher conducts is a constant stream of communication. To formulate the original hypothesis and to determine what needs to be addressed, we read journal articles. While designing and conducting experiments, we seek feedback from lab members and collaborators. When adequate data has been collected, we proudly present it at symposia and conferences as posters and talks and, finally, in print.
Even though it may seem otherwise, putting together an effective poster and delivering its content to the audience is no easy feat. Everything from the poster's layout to the font size and colors you use to represent your data must be carefully thought out. Although a variety of software can be used to make posters, generally PowerPoint is used because it is both Mac and PC friendly, and most researchers are familiar with it, making the work of summarizing results on a poster just that much easier.
Although you will find many different poster layouts at a conference, generally they all conform to the following basic format. They have a title, centered on the poster, which, in a single sentence, serves to summarize the findings. Though sometimes it appears in ALL CAPS or Title Case, the title is more legible when written as any other sentence, with only the first letter capitalized. To make the title stand out from the remaining content on your poster, enhance the size, set the font to bold and consider using a different color from the body text. Below the title are the author names and affiliations. These too are centered across the upper panel of the poster.
Below the title, author and affiliation headings, the content of a standard scientific poster generally is laid out in three-column format. The column on the left generally contains the introduction, which recaps the background information about your project. Better presented in bullet format rather than a single paragraph, the introduction summarizes relevant previous findings (whether by your research team or others) as well as the questions raised by these findings that you ultimately addressed. If at all possible, it is best to present this information as a diagram to make it easier for the reader to grasp the significance of your work as quickly as possible. (Remember that depending on the conference, there may be hundreds of posters on different topics displayed at any given time, so you want to do everything within your power to help your readers understand the significance of your work in an efficient manner.)
Although usually your project's abstract appears in the meeting guide, some organizers require a copy of the abstract also to appear on the poster. In this case, the abstract section of the poster replaces the introduction.
The left column also should clearly state (preferably in a single sentence) the hypothesis underlying your work and describe, under a Materials and Methods section, how the hypothesis was tested. Avoid being too wordy and again, especially if new technology is being used to address the question, try to include a graphic.
The central panel of the poster generally displays figures representing the findings of your work and the corresponding figure legends. Several things should be kept in mind when putting this section of the presentation together. First, although it is good to be creative and color readily draws the attention of the reader, be careful when selecting colors to represent your data (e.g., on a chart or in a graph). It is estimated that in the U.S., nearly 8 percent of men and nearly 0.5 percent of women are color blind. Therefore, it is better to use different symbols, all in black, to distinguish among different groups on a graph rather than using different colors. If you are tempted to use color, however, avoid using red, green, blue and yellow.
If you show the same data (i.e., treatment type) on multiple graphs or charts, keep its representation (symbol and/or color) consistent from one figure to the next. Again, this serves to help your reader understand your findings in the least time-consuming manner.
The legends below each figure should summarize the finding depicted by the figure in a single sentence and explain, if appropriate, whether statistical significance between the various groups compared has been attained. Although you may be tempted to present all of your work on the poster, include only the work most relevant to the title of the poster. You can discuss your other findings with your audience in person if they are interested in learning more about your research.
The last column is used to summarize the findings of the presented work under a Conclusion heading and to address its significance and any future work you may conduct based on the questions you already have addressed. Remember also to thank everyone who helped you under the Acknowledgment heading. This also is the place to include information about the agency funding your work and to whom the funding was issued.
Remember that a poster should speak clearly and concisely about your work, so it likely will take several attempts and drafts for you to design a poster that does it right. However, seeing audiences engrossed by your work at a conference should serve as a reminder that the effort you put into your poster is well worth the satisfaction you'll feel as a reward.
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It is just a little over a year since the passing of our founder and dear friend, Jennifer Jaff, who will always remain with us in spirit. To commemorate her extraordinary contributions on behalf of those with chronic illness through advocacy, education and public policy, we have changed the name of our organization to The Jennifer Jaff Center.
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I remember listening to music on my iPhone one morning in the salty, rust-tinged gym at the Dolphin Club, one of the oldest swimming and boating clubs in San Francisco. An elderly man in a Speedo tapped me on the shoulder. "We don't do that here," he said, pointing to my headphones as I removed them. "The Walkman effect," a term coined by the music scholar Shuhei Hosokawa in 1984, refers to the disconnection between a person using headphones to listen to music and her surroundings. It turned out that the man had been trying to tell me something important as I listened to Rihanna on the Stairmaster.
In most places outside the Dolphin Club, headphone use hasn't raised an eyebrow for nearly a quarter of a century. It seems normal that certain technologies let us immerse ourselves in a private environment while in the public sphere. Google Glass, the company's new wearable computer built into glasses, promises to allow users to access their e-mails, texts, and the Internet via voice and physical commands, while keeping their eyes on the world. The social norms for the product have yet to be established; Google cautions wearers to be prepared for a reaction when wearing them in the real world. Those reactions are not always positive. Google Glass is a computer on your face, which has been a hard sell for many.
Sarah Slocum, a technology and marketing consultant, was wearing Google Glass last week when she entered Molotov's, a neighborhood dive bar with a punk vibe on Haight Street in San Francisco, around 1:30 A.M. on February 21st. "Molotov's is not really Google Glass country," Brian Parks, a thirty-two-year-old who patronizes the bar but wasn't there that night, told a local news station. Slocum was at the end of a pub crawl when she entered Molotov's, and patrons were less than pleased. A woman at the bar flipped her off, and another guy tore the glasses from her face and ran off with them. He eventually returned them, but, Slocum said, her purse and other belongings went missing amid the confusion. Slocum posted a YouTube video of part of the incident, recorded through her Google Glass, in which the woman who flipped her off is shown telling her, "You're killing the city." That sentiment has been echoed in many other San Francisco dustups related to the area's rapid influx of tech wealth. Some see Google Glass as the perfect symbol of the current struggle.
I know the woman in the video—the one who flipped Slocum off and told her she was killing San Francisco—casually through a mutual friend. She hasn't spoken to the press about what happened and talked to me only on the condition of anonymity. She told me that when she saw Slocum wearing Google Glass, she felt uncomfortable and assumed she was being recorded. "I couldn't believe someone was wearing them in the bar," she said. "It did not sit right with me. When she looked my way I flipped her off so she knew how I felt about her wearing them there." The woman, an off-duty bartender employed at Molotov's, said she was fired after the incident drew media attention.
"People know I'm soft-spoken, so they were surprised that I said anything to her, but I felt like I needed to protect our town," she told me. "When I saw her wearing the glasses, all I could think of was my friends who are being pushed out of the city. The only people who can afford to live here are techies. I was born and raised here, and for the first time in my life I want to leave."
Slocum, who was also raised in the Bay Area, acknowledged that the conflict stemmed partly from the perception among some that Google Glass is a symbol of privilege and the rising presence of affluent tech workers in the community. "I think this whole situation is very much about techies versus non-techies," she said. "It's rooted in the fact that Google Glass is seen as a new product that only certain people have access to." But she said that the people at the bar made assumptions about her. "Maybe they saw me as some super-wealthy élite and privileged person," she said. "I've been struggling to make good money as well. I totally understand these people. I'm not a tech millionaire, but even if I was their behavior was uncalled for."
Slocum received the glasses about a month ago from a developer friend who wasn't using them on a regular basis. She wears them regularly, and was approved to join Google Glass's Explorer program, which uses a small group of testers, now in the thousands, to receive feedback on the product and how it is perceived. Slocum finds that most people respond with enthusiasm. "Ninety-nine per cent of the time, it's a very positive experience," she said. I asked her what she thought had gone wrong this time. "This instance is predominately rooted in misunderstanding and a lack of knowledge about the technology," she said. "Whenever there are new and emerging technologies, there is always going to be some resistance."
There are also privacy concerns. The general public doesn't seem aware of exactly how Google Glass works, and people often assume it's recording at all times. (It isn't, unless the wearer speaks a command or takes a physical action, and the screen illuminates when recording, making it clear to others that it is recording.)
"I didn't start recording until I got called names and flipped off, in hopes that they would correct and refrain their behavior," Slocum told me. "Instead, it instigated the situation."
The woman in the video recalls that after she flipped Slocum off, she saw the light on her Google Glass turn on. She asked Slocum to stop and was ignored. "She was talking shit to me the whole time," she said. "I have said that I'm not comfortable with people taking pictures of me when I'm at the bar. Facial recognition scares the shit out of me." (Update: Slocum said that she doesn't recall being asked to stop recording.)
Why does Google Glass make people uncomfortable when cell phones and cameras are routinely accepted? It's not as if the actual recording of images is particularly controversial; most bars comfortably allow you to take selfies and Instagram your row of Jäger shots. But snapping with your smartphone gets a pass, whereas Glass often arouses suspicion. Part of the reason may be that Glass bypasses the familiar, disarming physical ritual of photography: when a person raises a camera, or a smartphone, everyone know what it means. Somehow an indicator light seems insufficient to overcome perceptions of Glass as furtive and dishonest. Some businesses have asked Google Glass users to remove their wearables or leave.
Mat Honan, a Google Glass user, wrote in an essay for Wired that he has a hard time figuring out where the device will be welcome. "I'm not wearing my $1,500 face computer on public transit where there's a good chance it might be yanked from my face," he wrote. "I won't wear it out to dinner, because it seems as rude as holding a phone in my hand during a meal. I won't wear it to a bar. I won't wear it to a movie." He went on, "Again and again, I made people very uncomfortable. That made me very uncomfortable. People get angry at Glass. They get angry at you for wearing Glass."
Chris Dale, a spokesman for Google Glass, declined to comment on the incident at Molotov's but spoke generally about etiquette. "We know that new technology raises new concerns," he wrote in an e-mail. "That's why the goal of our Explorer program is to get Glass in the hands of people from all walks of life. They provide feedback on the product, and help others understand how Glass works. Our Explorers have also been great at coming up with useful etiquette that provides their suggestions on how to use Glass in social settings."
Google published the user-generated etiquette guidelines last month. They even acknowledge the term "glasshole"—slang for people wearing the glasses in a fashion that comes across as rude. Slocum doesn't consider herself a glasshole, but rather an ambassador for the new technology: "It's exciting for me. I'm able to explain to them that it's just like a cell phone." When I asked Slocum about etiquette for wearing Glass, she felt that the rules should be "no different from using a cell phone. It's ridiculous to think that any normal restaurant or bar could ask you to leave your cell phone at the door. If they did, that business would fail."
She and many others argue that Google Glass will soon be ubiquitous. "Some of the irony is that the people hating on me for wearing Google Glass are probably going to have a pair in six months or a year," Slocum said. The anonymous woman in the video laughed when I asked her if she saw herself in Google Glass in six months to a year: "Are you kidding? I was late to get a cell phone. I will never wear those glasses. Never." Even some within the tech community seem less than totally enthusiastic about Google Glass; at Fast Company, Mark Wilson pointed out that even some Google insiders choose not to wear the glasses in public.
In the years since Hosokawa described the Walkman effect, unspoken rules for using headphones in public spaces have developed and are largely respected. Often this simply means knowing when and where to remove them. Perhaps enjoying a drink in a lively bar is one of those times. When I finally removed my headphones that morning at the Dolphin Club, I was able to hear the information the older gentlemen were trying to share with me. People were being told not to venture into the bay, because a shark had been spotted, circling close to shore.


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AT&T's fancy new flagship shop in Chicago's Magnificent Mile district is a 10,000-square-foot space teeming with technologies.
There's the biometric security system, which reads employees' fingerprints. The iPad point-of sale system (which the carrier hopes to roll out to all of its stores in the next couple of years). An "Apps Bar", a "Lifestyle Boutique", plus plenty of other customer friendly corners of the store. Oh, and over 100 flat screens.
Visitors will get to play with new and not-yet-released AT&T devices and engage in group demos. Smells something like the Apple store, doesn't it?
It's very pretty and pretty impressive. Check out the video tour above. [9to5Mac]


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Happy Belated Ash Wednesday!
This week marks the release of two awesome issues. Jurassic Strike Force 5 #2 and Alice #2 are now available in stores and digitally. Make sure to head to your store quickly to get your hands on these issues, as they are both selling very well.
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We really appreciate everyone who is picking up our comics digitally. I find it to be a great way to have your comic collection on the go. I love collecting each issue of the comics I love and it's nice to have them at home in my long box, safely bagged and boarded. But still being able to read the story, without worrying about ruining the copy itself, is a big reason why I read a lot of stuff digitally. If you haven't yet, make sure to download the Zenescope App on your iOS devices. If you can't find Alice #2 in stores, it is very easy to pick her up on the digital storefront.
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Gestational Diabetes (Pregnancy)
What is Gestational Diabetes?
Gestational diabetes is a condition in which the glucose level is elevated and other diabetic symptoms appear during pregnancy in a woman who has not previously been diagnosed with diabetes. All diabetic symptoms disappear following delivery.
Unlike Type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes is not caused by a lack of insulin, but by blocking effects of other hormones on the insulin that is produced, a condition referred to as insulin resistance.
Approximately 3 to 5 percent of all pregnant women in the United States are diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
Although the cause of gestational diabetes is not known, there are some theories as to why the condition occurs.
The placenta supplies a growing fetus with nutrients and water, as well as produces a variety of hormones to maintain the pregnancy. Some of these hormones (estrogen, cortisol, and human placental lactogen) can have a blocking effect on insulin. This is called contra-insulin effect, which usually begins about 20 to 24 weeks into the pregnancy.
As the placenta grows, more of these hormones are produced, and insulin resistance becomes greater. Normally, the pancreas is able to make additional insulin to overcome insulin resistance, but when the production of insulin is not enough to overcome the effect of the placental hormones, gestational diabetes results.
Risk Factors
Although any woman can develop gestational diabetes during pregnancy, some of the factors that may increase the risk include the following:
- Obesity
- Family history of diabetes
- Having given birth previously to a very large infant, a still birth, or a child with a birth defect
- Having too much amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios)
- Age - Women who are older than 25 are at a greater risk for developing gestational diabetes than younger women
Although increased glucose in the urine is often included in the list of risk factors, it is not believed to be a reliable indicator for gestational diabetes.
Gestational diabetes may be diagnosed with a 50 gram glucose screening test, which involves drinking a glucose drink followed by measurement of blood sugar levels after one hour.
If this test shows a blood sugar level of greater than 140 mg/dL, a three-hour glucose tolerance test may be performed after a few days of following a special diet. If results of the second test are in the abnormal range, gestational diabetes is diagnosed.
Specific treatment for gestational diabetes will be determined by your physician based on:
- Your age, overall health and medical history
- Extent of the disease
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures or therapies
- Expectations for the course of the disease
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment for gestational diabetes focuses on keeping blood glucose levels in the normal range. Treatment may include:
- Special diet
- Exercise
- Daily blood glucose monitoring
- Insulin injections
Possible Complications for the Baby
Unlike Type 1 diabetes, gestational diabetes generally does not cause birth defects. Birth defects usually originate sometime during the first trimester (before the 13th week) of pregnancy. But, the insulin resistance from the contra-insulin hormones produced by the placenta does not usually occur until approximately the 24th week. Women with gestational diabetes generally have normal blood sugar levels during the critical first trimester.
The complications of gestational diabetes are usually manageable and preventable. The key to prevention is careful control of blood sugar levels just as soon as the diagnosis of gestational diabetes is made.
Infants of mothers with gestational diabetes are vulnerable to several chemical imbalances, such as low serum calcium and low serum magnesium levels, but, in general, there are two major problems of gestational diabetes - macrosomia and hypoglycemia.
- Macrosomia
Macrosomia refers to a baby that is considerably larger than normal. All of the nutrients the fetus receives come directly from the mother's blood. If the maternal blood has too much glucose, the pancreas of the fetus senses the high glucose levels and produces more insulin in an attempt to use this glucose. The fetus converts the extra glucose to fat.
Even when the mother has gestational diabetes, the fetus is able to produce all the insulin it needs. The combination of high blood glucose levels from the mother and high insulin levels in the fetus results in large deposits of fat which causes the fetus to grow excessively large.
- Hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia refers to low blood sugar in the baby immediately after delivery. This problem occurs if the mother's blood sugar levels have been consistently high, causing the fetus to have a high level of insulin in its circulation.
After delivery, the baby continues to have a high insulin level, but it no longer has the high level of sugar from its mother, resulting in the newborn's blood sugar level becoming very low. The baby's blood sugar level is checked after birth, and if the level is too low, it may be necessary to give the baby glucose intravenously.


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Played 16 games in net, posting an 8-5-3 overall record ... Named to All-Ivy League second team ... Posted four shutouts and owned a 1.22 goals-against average ... Recorded 63 saves and had a .768 save percentage ... Ranks tied for 10th in program history with 107 career saves ... Stopped five shots, earning shutout at Massachusetts (Aug. 31) ... Recorded five saves in 2-2 tie against Boston University (Sept. 3) ... Turned aside a career-best eight shots against Dayton (Sept. 7) ... Made five saves in victory at Colgate (Sept. 9) ... Stopped one shot in the first half against Quinnipiac (Sept. 12) ... Turned aside four shots in the first half against No. 5 Boston College (Sept. 15) ... Made five saves in Ivy opener at Penn (Sept. 21) ... Earned a clean sheet, stopping four shots against Central Connecticut State (Sept. 26) ... Recorded a shutout against Yale (Sept. 29) ... Stopped one shot in 1-1 tie against Cornell (Oct. 6) ... Made two stops in win over Holy Cross (Oct. 16) ... Turned away six shots at Princeton (Oct. 20) ... Earned the shutout, making five saves against Brown (Oct. 24) ... Stopped seven shots at Dartmouth (Oct. 28) ... Recorded five saves in 1-0 win over Columbia (Nov. 3).
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Played in 15 games and boasted a 9-3-1 record with two shutouts ... Owned a 0.94 goals-against average during the regular season and made 44 saves during rookie year ... Was fifth in the Ivy League in goals-against average and saves ... Recorded two saves in season opener at Long Island (Sept. 2) ... Made three stops and earned first career win against Elon (Sept. 4) ... Turned aside two shots against Hofstra (Sept. 16) ... Stopped three shots, including a penalty kick, at Rhode Island (Sept. 18) ... Recorded three stops in win over Penn (Sept. 23) ... Tabbed Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Sept. 26) ... Made two saves in an overtime victory at Yale (Oct. 1) ... Recorded two saves in win over Fairfield (Oct. 4) ... Turned aside five shots at Cornell (Oct. 8) ... Earned a shutout against Siena (Oct. 11) ... Recorded a career-high nine saves in win over Brown (Oct. 15) ... Honored as Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week Oct. 17 ... Stopped three shots in victory against Princeton (Oct. 22) ... Made four saves in key win over Dartmouth (Oct. 29) ... Turned aside two shots to earn shutout at Columbia (Nov. 5) ... Recorded four saves in first round of NCAA tournament against Boston University (Nov. 12).
Before Harvard:
2007-09 Olympic Development Program Region IV team pool ... Four-time selection to the Utah Olympic Development Program member (2006, '07, '08, '09) … Earned all-state and all-region honors in 2007, 2009 and 2010 … Played varsity soccer for three years in high school, lettering as a goalkeeper each year … Served as captain of the soccer team in 2010 … Earned two varsity letters as a small forward on the basketball team and another as a member of the swim team … High school team reached Utah high school state quarterfinals in 2009 and finals in 2010 … Was a member of the 2008 Placer United Championship squad …Earned 2011 all-state swimming academic team honors … Member of the National Honor Society … Four-year member of the Key Club … Four-year Natural Helpers Board member … Garnered the 2011 Utah Youth Soccer Association scholarship.
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I know you never thought it possible, but little Troy Bolton is about to get sexual and thrilling, all at once. Also today: tons of TV news about renewals and cancellations, plus a sexy little companion piece to the Efron news.
- Zounds! While everyone guzzles champagne and lusts after cute French waiters in Cannes, they are also making movie deals. Here's a titillating one: sun-dappled wood twink Zac Efron has been cast in The Paperboy, which is being billed as a sexual thriller. Gurgle. It's based on
the early '90s Nintendo gamea 1995 novel about death row inmates and a killer-obsessed girl. Maybe that's the part Efron will play? The thing was "developed" by Pedro Almodovar, so it's a possibility! Precious sensationalist Lee Daniels is directing, and Efron will be joined by Matthew McConaughey, Sofia Vergara, and Tobey Maguire. It could be directed by Uwe Boll and costar Katherine Heigl and Patch Adams and I would still see Zac Efron in an Almodovarian sexual thriller. I mean let's be real here. [THR]
- The big networks continue to figure out their new schedules and, inevitably, there are some casualties. One major one just announced is ABC's Brothers & Sisters, a Sunday night show about feelings. That is too bad! I have never seen a single episode of that show but I'm told there are Cutegayz™ on it, so I'm sad. Other canceled shows are ABC's V and NBC's The Event and Law & Order: Los Angeles. The LOLA news is a shame, because it's really not a bad show, just like regular Law & Order only not in New York. So now we're down to like, what, one and a half Law & Orders? That is not nearly enough Law & Orders. [TV Line, EW]
- Enough with the doom and gloom! Let's have some good news. NBC has picked up the new sitcom from Chelsea Handler. [Stands up from desk, walks out of room, sound of gunshot, crows caw as they fly away, gray world spins on. Beat. Comes back inside, missed self with first bullet, looks at article again, sees that The Chuck has been renewed for another season, goes back outside, another gunshot, loud thump, silence. Then, wind chimes.] [The Wrap]
- OK, basically there's just too much TV pickup stuff to cover individually, so here's a good roundup of what ABC's doing. And here is NBC.
- Oh good gravy. Alex Pettyfer has just landed the lead role in Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike, the movie based on Channing Tatum's real life experience as a male stripper. Pettyfer will play a young newbie stripper and Tatum will be his mentor. Hahahaha. Whaaaaat? Will Burt Reynolds be in it too, covered in Vaseline? Or will it just be, um, Alex Pettyfer covered in various goos? Look, I know Alex Pettyfer is a big jerk with annoying tattoos and everything, but c'mon. Alex Pettyfer stripping in moody Soderberghian lighting? I don't even... I just... Too bad I killed myself on the back porch just now. Can ghosts go to movies? I'll have to ask the other ghosts. [Deadline]
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About Renny Yater
Reynolds "Renny" Yater was one of the first commercial surfboard builders of the 1950s, a generation that put surfing on the map. As the sport of surfing has continued to grow and flourish throughout the years, so too has Yater's reputation as a leading contributor to the surfing industry. Perhaps even more remarkable than Yater's early accomplishments has been his ability to change and grow with the industry, staying on top of current trends and new materials and continuing to produce innovative new boards.
In the early 1950s, Yater shaped and fiberglassed his own boards. During the mid-5Os, Hobie hired him to glass his balsa boards in his Dana Point shop. In 1957, he moved over to Dale Velzy's shop in San Clemente where he began to shape balsa boards.
In the fall of 1959, Renny opened Yater Surfboards on Anacapa Street. Here he established the famous Santa Barbara Surf Shop logo, an insignia synonymous with Yater surfboards. In 1961, he moved his shop to Summerland where it remained until 1964, when zoning regulations made it impossible to stay. In 1965, Yater moved his shop to Gutierrez Street while at the same time opening up a retail surf shop at 401 State Street which would be in business until 1971. In 1967, Yater moved his shaping and glassing facilities to Gray Avenue.
It was during the 1960s, that Yater's two most popular surfboard models were conceived. From 1965-66, he shaped the Yater Spoon, one of the most innovative surfboard designs of the time. He produced this model until longboard-style surfing went through an evolution in 1968. From 1969-72, he produced the Pocket Rocket, a surfboard designed with Hawaiian surfing in mind, riding the crest of the short board era. In the 1960s, Yater's customers included surfing legends the likes of Joey Cabell, Gordon Clark, Mickey Dora, Philipi Pomar, Kemp Auberg, Bob Cooper, Bruce Brown and John Severson.
In 1991, Yater's retail showroom was established at the Beach House at 10 State Street in Santa Barbara. The Beach House has been the exclusive dealer of Yater surfboards in Santa Barbara to the present day. His legacy continues with his son Lauran, who has been shaping since the early 1980s and plans to continue to uphold the reputation and standard of Yater surfboards for future generations to enjoy.
Renny has, more recently, evolved his craft to include collaborations with artists to create one-of-a-kind decorative pieces. He has returned to his roots by hand-crafting balsa wood boards and combined them with modern techniques for an especially polished final product. Check out our vintage boards section for pictures and information on some of Renny's latest works of art.


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CMD Mentor Protégé Program
Coming in 2015, CMD's Mentor-Protégé Program(MPP) is designed to encourage and motivate prime contractors to assist CMD certified Micro-Local Business Enterprise (LBE) firms and enhance their capability of performing successfully on City and County of San Francisco contracts and subcontracts. The goal is to increase the overall number of LBEs receiving City and County contract awards, resulting from mentor ship and refined business practices.
The City and County of San Francisco's Mentor Protégé Program provides a platform for successful prime companies to assist CMD Micro-LBE Certified firms in any of the following, including but not limited to, areas:
- Organizational/Structural Needs
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A Mentor is a successful prime consultant or contractor with the capability to mentor small businesses in the area of capacity building in order to successfully bid or propose on City contracts.
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A Protégé is a CMD Micro-LBE Certified business in the fields of construction and architecture/engineering (A/E) seeking technical and managerial assistance to develop capacity in order to achieve entrepreneurial success and contribute to the strength and vigor of the San Francisco economy.
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The Mentor/Protégé program will include the participation of 10 Mentor/Protégé teams, 5 from professional services (A/E) and 5 from Construction.
A. All prospective Mentors or Protégés must first complete the application as shown above.
B. Application submitted by the deadline will be reviewed by CMD.
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D. Approved Mentors and Protégés will outreach to each other based on the Mentor's experience and the Protégé's needs with the goal of forming a Mentor/Protégé team.
E. Each Mentor/Protégé team will submit a letter of interest summarizing why the Mentor and Protégé make a good match, and what the Protégé can gain from working with their prospective Mentor.
F. Ten teams will be randomly selected from the pool of teams submitted, five for construction services and five for professional services (A/E).
G. The selected Mentor/Protégé teams will submit MOU to the MPP Steering Committee stating objectives, goals, and deliverables from both Mentor and Protégé for the duration of the MPP cycle.
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Seminar title: "Local Dive Love" by Jennifer Idol
Wednesday, Nov 1, 2017 10:00 AM - Room #S310E
Synopsis: Local diving treasures abound throughout the United Sates. Learn about how to promote the natural beauty at local dive sites as the first woman to dive all 50 states shares her photographic journey.
Bio about Jennifer Idol: Jennifer Idol is the first woman to dive 50 states and author of An American Immersion. Her photography and articles are published in DIVER, Sport Diver, Alert Diver, SCUBA Diving, X-Ray Mag, Outdoor Oklahoma, SCUBA & H2O Adventure, and Texas Aquatic Science. Her work has been featured in competitions and exhibits across the country. Jennifer was moved to raise awareness for local waters through her underwater photography when she flew over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
She's earned more than 28 certifications and has been diving for 20 years. This native Texan is an accomplished designer with more than a decade of experience creating print, web, logo, and three-dimensional work for a variety of clients. Her design firm, The Underwater Designer, provides design and photography services for clients in water related industries. Jennifer is a technical diver, designer, and underwater photographer. She helps others understand the underwater world through her photography, design, and by sharing her exploration.
Seminar Title: "Forty Years of Shipwreck Exploration" by Richie Kohler
Friday, Nov 3, 8:30-9:45 - Room S210DE
Synopsis: From personal exploration of some of the most challenging shipwrecks in the world, Shadow Diver Richie Kohler has engaged audiences through television, his book, Mystery of the Last Olympian: Titanic's Tragic Sister Britannic, and hundreds of personal appearances. He brings his insights to DEMA 2017 to share thoughts about how diving became such a big part of his life and how that information can apply to today's dive operators and divers.
Bio about Richie Kohler:
Richard Kohler is one of only four men in the world who has been to the RMS Titanic and physically diving inside her equally tragic sister ship, HMHS Britannic. His passion for technical scuba diving and maritime history began in 1980, and he is internationally known for exploring some of the most challenging and dangerous shipwrecks in the world. His explorations have helped to locate and name numerous lost vessels, including the minelaying submarine U-215 on the Georges Banks off Nova Scotia and the WWII destroyer USS Murphy that was crushed and forgotten.
Seminar title: "Does Scuba Diving Have a Retirement Age?" by Dan Orr
Synopsis: Does scuba diving have a retirement age? When taking stock of our physical abilities and capabilities as we age, there are absolutes that divers should be familiar with. The good news is that with age usually comes wisdom, and that improved judgment and reasoning can help you compensate for most negative body-function changes. Knowing that we will have some level of impairment as we age brings us to how we can make accommodations and still dive safely. Aging is a fact of life, but how we handle growing older can make the difference between enjoying diving well into our Golden Years and having to prematurely hang up our fins.
Bio about Dan Orr: Author of Scuba Diving Safety, Dan currently serves as President of Dan Orr Consulting, providing a variety of services to the diving community. Retired from the position of President of Divers Alert Network (DAN) and Chairman of the Board of International DAN, he helped DAN focus on its worldwide diving safety mission. Prior to coming to DAN, he worked and taught recreational diving in a retail store, developed and implemented course curricula in the academic environment, collected data and supervised research efforts in the field of science diving, tested diving equipment for military contractors and worked for or served on the Boards of various not-for-profit organizations during his career including The Historical Diving Society, Diving Equipment & Marketing Association (DEMA), Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences, The Our World Underwater Scholarship Society, The Institute of Diving and others.
He has published and co-authored over 200 articles and a dozen books and manuals including: Scuba Diving Safety, Pocket Guide to First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries; Pocket Guide for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries; and the DAN Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries Training Manual. He has also been the recipient of many prestigious awards and honors including the NOGI Award in Sports/Education, the Leonard Greenstone Award for Diving Safety, the Our World-Underwater Award, Beneath the Sea's Diver of the Year, the Wyland Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Hall of Fame for Divers with Disabilities, the 2012 DEMA Reaching Out Award, 2014 Inductee into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame and 2016 Inductee into the NAUI Hall of Honor.


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Lard is pig fat and its use in cooking dates back hundreds and hundreds of years. When rendered with care, lard contains 54 percent less saturated fat than an equal amount of butter by weight. In addition, unlike many margarines and some vegetable shortenings, pure, unprocessed lard contains no trans fat. For these reasons, among others, chefs, dieticians and "enlightened" health-care professionals have revisited the usefulness of 100 percent natural lard in many time-honored recipes.
Finding pure lard, that is lard that has not been "hydrogenated," can be difficult to find, so unless you want to render lard yourself (see recipe below), in which case you will need a supply of quality pig fat, your next plan should be to seek pure lard that has already been rendered. Although "leaf" lard, made from the soft fat around the pig's kidneys and loin is touted as the "best," pure rendered lard supplier, Jim Fiedler, owner of Fiedler Family Farms, in Indiana, tells me that his regular lard is "just as good" for a number of cooking applications. (Fiedler carries and ships both - $2.50 a pound for regular lard and $5.00 a pound for leaf lard, plus shipping; reach Jim by email at firstname.lastname@example.com).
Obtaining lard like Jim's is well worth the effort, too, as pure lard often was the "secret ingredient" in many of our ancestors' treasured recipes, especially in things baked, such as pies, pastries and fluffy, sky-high biscuits.
Should you not have heirloom recipes containing lard from your own family, the folks at GRIT magazine (www.grit.com/lard-home.aspx), a bi-monthly magazine celebrating country lifestyles of all kinds, do.
The magazine's 150 sweet and savory recipes, garnered from more than 100 years of magazines, are contained in Andrews McMeel Publishing's newly released "Lard: The Lost Art of Cooking with your Grandmother's Secret Ingredient." To have a peek inside this book, where you will find more recipes and additional resources for obtaining rendered lard (www.lardcookbook.com), visit the amazon.com website at www.amazon.com/Lard-Cooking-Grandmothers-Secret-Ingredient/dp/1449409741.
I realize it's been difficult keeping up with the flip-flop stream of information that comes from researchers regarding what's OK for us to eat and what's not, but as far as natural lard goes, it appears it's time for the vilification of one of grandma's favorite ingredients to stop - pure and simple.
Grandma's Homemade Biscuits
These biscuits are as authentic as they come, from a time when lard from the family's hog and milk from the backyard cow were common fare. The dough can be rolled and cut with a biscuit cutter or dropped from a wooden spoon. Make these for a big family supper, as biscuits are best when eaten fresh from the oven.
1/3 cup, plus 1 tablespoon lard and coarsely chopped, plus more greasing the pan
2½ cups all-purpose unbleached flour, divided
3 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon salted butter (optional)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with lard and set aside. Place 2 cups of flour, the baking powder and the salt in a large mixing bowl; whisk together. Using a pastry blender, work the lard into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Add the milk and stir. On a sheet of wax paper, sprinkle the remaining ½ cup of flour. Turn the dough mixture onto the wax paper and knead for 5 minutes. Roll out the dough to a 1-inch thickness and cut with a biscuit cutter; alternatively, drop the dough using a large spoon and pat down onto the prepared baking sheet, spaced 1-inch apart. For color, brush the biscuits with melted butter, if desired. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown. Makes 1 dozen.
Sky-High Biscuits
½ cup lard, cold and coarsely chopped, plus more for greasing pan
2¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
¼ cup warm water (105 to 115 degrees)
2½ cups all-purpose unbleached flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¾ teaspoon cream of tartar
1½ teaspoons baking soda
1 cup plain yogurt
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with lard and set aside. In a small bowl, dissolve the yeast in warm water. Let stand until foamy,* 5 to 10 minutes. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, cream of tartar and baking soda. Using a pastry blender, or two knives, cut the lard into the flour mixture until coarse crumbs form. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture; add the yogurt and yeast all at once. Toss with a fork until the dry ingredients are moistened. Do not over mix. On a floured surface, roll the dough to a ¾-inch thickness using a floured rolling pin.
Cut the biscuits using a floured 2½-inch round biscuit cutter. Gather the trimmings and repeat. Place the biscuits 1 inch apart on the prepared baking sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes, until puffed and golden. Leave the biscuits on the baking sheet and cool for 5 minutes on a wire rack. Serve warm. Makes 1 dozen.
*Kitchen Ade note: Be sure your yeast is still good and develops a milky kind of foam on top of the water before using. If your yeast does not foam, it's likely dead, and you'll need to get fresh yeast before proceeding with the recipe.
By Karen Keb
Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Fill a large roasting pan with the chopped fat. Roast slowly for 30 minutes to 1 hour until the fat has melted and you have protein particles and connective tissue floating on top. Skim off the solid particles and set them aside for the chickens. Pour the liquid fat through a mesh colander lined with a double layer of cheesecloth. Store in a glass canning jar in the refrigerator or freezer. It will keep for months.
Sue Ade, a Lowcountry resident since 1985, is a gourmet baker and collector of vintage cooking utensils and cookbooks. She can be reached at email@example.com or 683-0375.


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'It is time to tell Congress to go to hell'
Federal judges, long used to being blasted as "judicial activists" by members of Congress, are now directing a stream of anger and vitriol right back at Capitol Hill.
Driving judges' ire: the budget austerity and chaos lawmakers have imposed on the judiciary. Jurists say funding for the courts has already been cut to the bone by way of sequestration — and now the government shutdown has added insult to injury, leaving the government's third branch running on fumes that likely won't last out the week.
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"It is time to tell Congress to go to hell," Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf wrote on his blog last week. "It's the right thing to do."
(PHOTOS: House GOP meets on shutdown, debt deal)
Kopf, a George H.W. Bush appointee who sits in Lincoln, Neb., urged his fellow judges to evade the shutdown by designating all their staff as essential and exempt from furlough.
"Given the loss of employees already suffered by the judiciary on account of the sequester and otherwise, why shouldn't every remaining employee of every federal district court (including [federal public defenders]) be declared 'essential?'" the judge asked.
"Such an order would set up an inter-branch dispute worth having….[Congress] could do nothing, in which event Congress loses its ability to destroy the judiciary [by] failing to pass a budget. Or, Congress could go batshit and the judiciary and Congress could have it out," he said.
( PHOTOS: 25 great shutdown quotes)
Such exasperation is even creeping into judicial rulings.
When lawyers for the House urged Judge Amy Berman Jackson to keep a case demanding Operation Fast and Furious-related records from Attorney General Eric Holder moving forward during the shutdown, the judge said lawmakers could cool their heels, just like others with claims pending against the government.
"While the vast majority of litigants who now must endure a delay in the progress of their matters do so due to circumstances beyond their control, that cannot be said of the House of Representatives, which has played a role in the shutdown that prompted the stay motion," Jackson wrote.
Even before the shutdown, the judiciary shed nearly 2,700 support staff positions over the past two years. Funding for drug testing and electronic monitoring of pre-trial detainees had also been slashed by 20 percent, and federal defenders were under orders to take about 15 days of unpaid furlough in the past year.
( PHOTOS: 18 times the government has shut down)
The cuts have caused delays in criminal and civil cases. Even the posting of judges' orders has slowed, with many federal court clerk's offices looking largely empty compared with a few years ago.
Sequestration cut $350 million, or about 5 percent, from the judiciary's budget in the past fiscal year, bringing it to about $6.6 billion annually.
Judges themselves are effectively exempt from furlough because the Constitution says their salaries — currently $174,000 for district court judges — cannot be reduced.
For the past two weeks, the federal courts have essentially operated on fumes, using funds from filing fees and so-called no-year appropriations to pay salaries and keep the lights on. Court budget personnel now predict that money will run out on Thursday or Friday of this week. After that, work deemed essential will continue, but there will be no way to pay employees, contractors or utilities until Congress passes legislation including temporary or year-long funding.
( PHOTOS: D.C. closes up shop)
The chief judge of the U.S. District Court located just blocks from the Capitol building said that the shutdown's funding lapse, piled on top of two years of tight budgets and staff reductions, has prompted his colleagues' frustration level to rise.
"I have to say it's fairly high," Judge Richard Roberts said in an interview with POLITICO Friday. "Court budgets have essentially been slashed to the bone, with us losing nationwide thousands of judicial employees performing very important tasks…We're being told to furlough where we're already cut to the bone."
Back on Capitol Hill, earlier complaints had drawn some skepticism.
At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing in July, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) suggested some of sequestration's impacts on the courts were being exaggerated.
"Congress voted and [the] American people seem quite comfortable with the idea that we can reduce spending for a little while around here instead of having steady growth and they're not panicked, and I know we have stories that there's not enough copy paper in a clerk's office somewhere. Well, I would say…you need a new clerk. It's like those school people that would require the students to bring in toilet paper because they can't find enough money to do that, or fix their roof. That's a mismanagement to me."
Sessions said electronic filing systems should allow the courts to shed some clerks, but he acknowledged that the sequester did force some cuts more abruptly than made sense, particularly to federal public defender services.
"You've been asked…to take reductions more rapidly than smart people would ask you to take it," he said.
Now, with the shutdown taking its own toll on the system, House Judiciary Committee Democrats staged a forum on Capitol Hill last week to draw attention to what they portrayed as a crisis in funding for the courts.
The Judiciary Committee's top Democrat, Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, called the impact of the cuts and the shutdown on the courts "grave and growing each day."


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LONDON (Reuters) - The publisher of a much-criticized study suggesting genetically modified corn caused tumors in rats has come under heavy pressure from scientists to retract the paper and explain why it was ever printed.
The calls follow a report by Europe's food safety watchdog this week dismissing the study's findings.
Reed Elsevier, which published the study in its Food and Chemical Toxicology journal in September, said on Friday it was considering the criticisms and would let readers know if it concluded it needed to change the way it checked research.
In a statement on its website, the journal said "the paper was published after being objectively and anonymously peer reviewed, with a series of revisions made by the authors and the corrected paper then accepted by the editor."
Hundreds of scientists from around the world have questioned the research, which was written by French researcher Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen and said rats fed on Monsanto's GM corn suffered tumors and multiple organ failure.
Genetically modified crops are deeply unpopular in Europe but are common in the United State where they have been grown and consumed for more than 15 years.
A day after the study was published, Seralini defended his work, saying it was the most detailed study on the subject to date.
But more than 700 scientists have signed an online petition calling on Seralini to release all the data from his research.
The petition, addressed directly to Seralini, says: "Only a full disclosure of the data can quell any uncertainties over the results you published."
The chief executive of the agricultural research centre Rothamsted Research, Maurice Moloney, said Seralini's study was "seriously deficient in its design, its execution and its conclusions" - failings compounded by "excessive secrecy around the data".
In a letter to the journal's managing editor Bryan Delaney, Moloney said it was "appalling that such work should appear in a respected Elsevier journal".
He also demanded to know how the paper managed to pass peer review - a process in which other scientific experts check a study, analyze its methods, question the authors and decide whether it is robust enough to give a reliable result.
Marc Van Montagu, president of the European Federation of Biotechnology, said this was "a dangerous case of failure of the peer-review system, which threatens the credibility not just of the journal but of the scientific method overall."
Cathie Martin, a scientist at the John Innes Centre for plant science and microbiology research, said in the light of such widespread criticism of Seralini's study, "is it not time for Food and Chemical Toxicology to retract the manuscript?"
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a statement earlier this week confirming the findings of its initial review saying Seralini's study had "serious defects" in design and methodology and "does not meet acceptable scientific standards".
Among other criticisms, the EFSA review panel said the authors had failed to establish appropriate control groups as part of the study, and had chosen a strain of rat that is prone to developing tumors during its normal lifespan.
Six separate national food safety bodies also asked to review the study - in France, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium - also came to the same conclusions.
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LSU close to hiring Cam Cameron as offensive coordinator
BATON ROUGE — Cam Cameron may get that trip to South Louisiana after all.
Fired as offensive coordinator by the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 10 after the 13th game of the season, Cameron did not get to join the team in New Orleans last week to be a part of the Super Bowl XLVII championship.
But he is expected in Baton Rouge early next week at the latest, according to a source close to the negotiations between LSU and Cameron.
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CBSSports.com reported on Friday that Cameron was already LSU's new offensive coordinator, but as of late Friday afternoon Cameron had not yet signed a contract.
PAY DAY:Flacco wants long-term deal
Neither LSU football coach Les Miles nor LSU sports information director Michael Bonnette had any comment Friday, and Miles is expected to leave on a short vacation today and be gone for several days. Whether Cameron, an old friend of Miles who was a groomsmen in his wedding and coached with him at Michigan in the 1980s and '90s, was in Baton Rouge Friday with Miles is not known.
When asked about possible staff changes since the end of the 2012 season, Miles has been evasive and left the possibility open, whereas in years past he often would clearly say that there would be no changes. When asked on national signing day Wednesday about his staff, Miles said, "I haven't given much thought to changes on this staff at this point."
Bonnette said at the time he doubted anything would happen on Friday or early next week because the coaches were off.
Cameron, 52, was fired by Ravens' head coach John Harbaugh the day after a 31-28 overtime loss to Washington partly for a frequently vanilla offense that often excluded the no-huddle as well as star running back Ray Rice. Cameron also tended not to accept much intake from other coaches.
Quarterback coach Jim Caldwell, former head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, replaced Cameron. The Ravens were 9-4 at the time and finished the regular season 10-6 before winning three playoff games and the Super Bowl.
Quarterback Joe Flacco, who had been critical of Cameron at times during the season, blossomed in the playoffs and won the Super Bowl MVP award.
"Listen, Cam has done so much for my career," Flacco told reporters after the firing. "He brought me here and trusted me enough to bring me here. I was definitely stunned."
Harbaugh and Flacco praised Cameron during Super Bowl week and Harbaugh promised him a Super Bowl ring.
"In my mind, he is definitely going to get a ring," Harbaugh said after the victory. "He deserves a ring."
Greg Studrawa, who has been LSU's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach the last two seasons, is expected to remain as LSU's offensive line coach. Studrawa became offensive coordinator in August of 2011 only after offensive coordinator Steve Kragthorpe was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which is a condition that can be aggravated by stress.
Miles had hired Kragthorpe in January of 2011 after letting struggling offensive coordinator Gary Crowton go following the 2010 season. Kragthorpe stayed on staff as quarterbacks coach for 2011 and 2012 and helped dramatically turn around Jarrett Lee's performance in 2011. He also saw his work with new starting quarterback Zach Mettenberger come to fruition late in the 2012 season.
Kragthorpe still wants to coach, but he may be moved to a non-coaching position in the football program or athletic department with the addition of Cameron, who is known as a quarterback guru on the college and NFL level.
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There was improvement in LSU's passing game late in the 2012 season with Mettenberger, but for the most part LSU has struggled with the aerial attack ever since 2008. That was the year after the Tigers won the national championship with one of their best offenses in school history in 2007 under Crowton.
Cameron became known as a top flight offensive coordinator while at San Diego from 2002-06 when he coached quarterbacks Drew Brees and Phillip Rivers, who each were selected to Pro Bowls. The 2006 Chargers led the NFL in scoring with 30.8 points a game and became one of only 28 teams in NFL history to average 30 or more points a game. In 2004, Cameron's offense averaged 27.8 points a game for third in the NFL, and he was named offensive assistant coach of the year in the NFL.
Under Cameron as offensive coordinator with the Ravens, Flacco became the Ravens' all-time leading passer with 13,816 yards and 80 touchdowns in his first four seasons from 2008-11. Flacco's 44 wins over that span are the most by a starting quarterback over the first four seasons of a career in NFL history. In his 11 seasons as an NFL head coach or offensive coordinator, Cameron's offenses finished in the top five of the NFL in scoring three times and finished in the top half nine times.
Cameron is also a former head coach at Indiana and for the Miami Dolphins, where he went 1-15 in 2007 after replacing former LSU head coach Nick Saban. Former LSU head coach Gerry DiNardo, whom Saban replaced at LSU, replaced Cameron as Indiana's coach in 2002.
Cameron and Miles coached together at Michigan from 1987 through 1993 on the offensive side of the ball. On June 5, 1993, Cameron was a groomsmen in Miles' wedding along with DiNardo.
Cameron was a quarterback coach with the Washington Redskins from 1994-96 before serving as head coach from 1997-2001 at Indiana, where he went 18-37 at a program that has struggled historically. He moved on to San Diego for five years before getting the Dolphins' head coaching job. After leaving Miami after the 2007 season, he was the Ravens offensive coordinator from 2008 through most of 2012.
Glenn Guilbeau writes for Gannett Louisiana.


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Ex-NFL cheerleader claims 'cyberbullying' in lawsuit
COVINGTON, Ky. -- Ex-high school teacher and one-time Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleader Sarah Jones took the stand Monday in the retrial of her potentially groundbreaking defamation lawsuit against online gossip website TheDirty.com.
The 28-year-old shed a few tears as she talked about being humiliated after the website published comments in 2009 alleging she was promiscuous and had sexually transmitted diseases.
STORY:Ex-Bengals cheerleader engaged to former student
"It is cyberbullying," the 28-year-old Jones said of the website's posts about her. "I don't believe what the website does is fair. I don't believe it is right."
Jones last October avoided jail time when she pleaded guilty to felony custodial interference and misdemeanor sexual conduct for having sex with a student. Cody York was 17 and a Dixie Heights High School senior at the time the sexual relationship happened.
David Gingras, attorney for the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based website, fired back that Jones has no reputation to defame after she admitted to a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student she taught.
"You must judge Sarah's reputation based on her actions," Gingras said. "Felony convictions are relevant to a person's credibility."
He acknowledged that his client "can be mean, but mean is not a crime."
Jones pleaded guilty in October 2012 in state court to misdemeanor sexual misconduct and felony custodial interference and was sentenced to two years in prison. Her plea agreement allows her to avoid any confinement as long as she follows the terms of her probation for five years.
She walked out of the courtroom at the end of that case holding hands with the student, Cody York. Jones resigned from the high school the following November and is banned from seeking another teaching job as part of her plea agreement.
Jones and York, now 18, announced on social media sites in June that they were engaged to be married. They haven't publicly said if they have picked a wedding date.
York wasn't seen in the courtroom Monday but Jones' mother, Cheryl Jones, attended the first day of trial.
Cheryl Jones, who was principal at Twenhofel Middle School at the time of her daughter's crimes, admitted to sending York a text message telling him to get rid of his phone. Prosecutors said the mother sent the text from her Kenton County School District-issued mobile phone as police were executing a search warrant on the mother's home.
Cheryl Jones pleaded guilty to a charge of attempted tampering with physical evidence. She was sentenced to 12 months, but she also will not have to serve jail time if she does not commit any additional crimes for two years.
First Amendment and technology experts began closely watching Jones' defamation case after U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman ruled the website was not shielded from liability by the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The decision, issued in January 2012, was seen as a departure from numerous other rulings protecting website operators who use material provided to them, known as third-party content.
The first trial ended with a hung jury after three days of deliberations in January.
The retrial will continue Tuesday with Jones retaking the stand. Jones' attorney, Eric Deters, is also expected to call website operator Nik Richie to testify.
One difference in the retrial is that Gingras is expected to call Jones' ex-husband, Nathan Wilburn, to the stand. Wilburn did not testify at the first trial.
Calling Wilburn may create a challenge to authorities because a state judge has ordered him to stay 500 feet away from Jones. She got a protective order in October 2012 after Wilburn had made numerous threatening remarks to her stemming from her relationship with York. Jones and Wilburn married July 16, 2011. Jones moved out of the couple's home on Aug. 24 that year, according to court records. They filed for an annulment March 21, 2012, and Jones was indicted on sex abuse charges eight days later. The marriage was dissolved June 13, 2012.
Bertelsman told the jury of eight women and two men he expects to give them the case Wednesday.


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Human-induced warming is sending Earth into frightening and uncharted climate territory — but humans are not the first force to cause colossal changes to our climate.
Other celestial bodies, including planets, tug at Earth causing it to move in ways that affect our ice caps in history-shaping ways, as discussed by narrator and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday's Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
For example, the pull of the planets influences Earth's tilt. They cause Earth's axis to wobble in a circular motion similar to the spin of a top. You can can see these movements in the Cosmos GIF to the left.
If you could stick a pen out of Earth's north pole, it would draw a circle about every 26,000 years. In 14,000 AD for example, our north star was not Polaris, as it is now, but Vega. In 12,000 years , Vega will be our north star again.
The pull of the planets also cause the Earth's tilt to change between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees over 41,000 years. When our tilt is more extreme, seasons can be more severe, with warmer summers and cooler winters. When the tilt is less, we get cooler summers and milder winters. Currently our tilt is about 23.4 degrees — near the middle.
In the GIF below, you can see another effect of planetary pull. Earth's orbit is not round, but slightly egg-shaped or eccentric.
"The shape of the Earth's orbit changes from being elliptical (high eccentricity) to being nearly circular (low eccentricity) in a cycle that takes between 90,000 and 100,000 years," according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
Currently, Earth is at its closest to the sun at the beginning of January when it is about 91.5 million miles away and at its furthest in July when it is about 94 million miles away. This corresponds to about a 6% difference in how much solar radiation the Earth receives.
Earth, planetary pull, and ice ages
During a highly elliptical orbit, the Earth would receive 20 to 30% higher sunlight intensity between its closest and furthest passes by Earth, "resulting in a substantially different climate from what we experience today," according to NASA.
The pull of every celestial body combines to create Earth's eccentricity, wobble, and tilt. These movements determine how our planet is positioned to receive sunlight and how much sunlight it can receive. Which of these is the dominant determiner of ice ages, however, is still not completely understood.
"There is still some discussion about how exactly this starts and ends ice ages, but many studies suggest that the amount of summer sunshine on northern continents is crucial: if it drops below a critical value, snow from the past winter does not melt away in summer and an ice sheet starts to grow as more and more snow accumulates," said the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change in their 2007 report.
One glacial period, or lack thereof, was particularly significant to human history: Fifteen to twenty-five thousand years ago, the northern ice cap shrunk, revealing a land bridge that our ancestors would use to cross from Eurasia into North America.
How ice forms civilizations
When Earth's northern region is ill-positioned to bathe in the sun's rays, the top third of the world becomes entombed in ice. You can see the northern polar ice cap expand all the way down over California and consume the better part of North America: When the ice grows, it siphons water from the sea, lowering sea levels 400 feet, said deGrasse Tyson. This exposes more land in coastal regions.
When Earth is at a prime angle for sunbathing, this ice thaws and sea levels rise. When Earth thawed about 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, receding ice exposed a land bridge connecting Eurasia and North America. This bridge would later be humanities route into North America. Roughly 10,000 years ago, "the manic swings of the climate and sea levels," subsided, said Tyson, "a new and gentler climate age began."
We entered an interglacial period that we still live in, "one of those balmy intermissions in an ice age," he said. Rivers transported fertile sediments into deltas, where some humans made their homes.
Once solely wanderers, humans had time and resources in this interglacial period to settle and build the civilizations at the dawn of our history.
"The way the planets tug at each other, the way the skin of the earth moves, the way those motions affect climate, and the evolution of life and intelligence, they all combined to give us the means to turn the mud of those river deltas into the first civilizations," said Tyson.
Now go enjoy the beautiful interglacial period. You've only got about another 50,000 years. That is, if we don't throw it all out of wack with our greenhouse gas emissions.
GIFs from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, The Lost Worlds Of Planet Earth. Watch the full episode here.


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Tim and I want to thank you for your support and love this past year! 2012 has been an unforgettable year. Your support and kind words have meant so much. Can't wait to see what is in store for 2013!
This Year's Highlights:
1. Making My First Batch of Homemade Beef Jerky
2. Celebrating MLK Day
3. Seeing The Civil Wars at the HOB
4. Velvet Taco's Monday Back Door Chicken
5. Reading, Reading, Reading
6. Speaking at a Leadership Conference in Uganda
7. Saying Goodbye to the Fart Box
8. Completing Whole30
9. Running in the Greenville Dash
10. Celebrating 7 years with Timothy James
11. Catching My First Rainbow Trout
12. Meeting Katie Davis
13. Being on the News {Thank You Food Truck Fest}
14. Climbing the Windmill at the Ranch
15. Visiting My Childhood Lake House
16. Meeting Our Sponsor Child, Moti
17. Seeing Hippos on Lake Ziway In Ethiopia
18. Milking a Goat with Bek
19. Catching a 24" Rainbow On the San Juan River
20. Falling in Love with Louisville
21. Camping in the Blue Ridge Mountains
22. Eating a Fried Red Velvet Cupcake at the Texas State Fair
23. Hiking Half Dome with My Best Friend
24. Seeing Ben Howard in San Francisco
25. Stealing Grapes from the V. Sattui Vineyard in Napa
26. Seeing This Photo on Patagonia's Tumblr
27. Taking a Beekeeping Class with Tim
28. Throwing My First Mug on the Pottery Wheel
29. Finding My Dream Car on Craigslist
30. Receiving Our Sweet Pup, River (Best Going Away Present EVER)
31. Flying 41 Times in Twelve Months
32. Driving Around Looking At Christmas Lights with Twinner
Favorite Songs (in no particular order):
1. The Tracks (the Fool) - Margolnick
2. Hearse - Ani DiFranco
3. Wash. - Bon Iver
4. Atlas Hands - Benjamin Francis Leftwich
6. Taller - Foreign Fields
7. Bowsrpit - Balmorhea
8. Sweet Sweeping Joy - Matteo
9. Drift - Kim Janssen
10. Black Flies - Ben Howard
11. Sail - Awolnation
12. Follow the Sun - Xavier Rudd
13. Drift Drive - The Antlers
14. You Don't Know How Lucky You Are - Keaton Henson
15. Where the Light Gets In - Sennen
16. Shut It Down - Sarah Jaffe
17. Rivers and Roads - The Head and the Heart
18. Sideways - Citizen Cope
19. Slow It Down - The Lumineers
20. Strange Like We Are - Campfire OK
21. Bones - Every Kingdom
22. Desperation Breeds - Andrew Bird
23. Death Is Like a Beating Drum - Sanders Bohlke
24. Eyes Wider Than Before - Scott Matthews
25. Hymn #35 - Joe Pug
Best Albums of the Year:
1. Every Kingdom - Ben Howard
2. Ancient Crime - Kim Janssen
3. Babel - Mumford & Sons
4. Spirit Bird - Xavier Rudd
5. Before We Turn to Dust - Sean Hayes
Favorite Concerts / Live Events:
1. Ben Howard (San Fransisco)
2. The Civil Wars (Dallas)
3. Indigo Girls (Dallas)
Favorite Movies:
1. Les Miserables
2. The Intouchables
3. The Hobbit
4. Hunger Games
5. Lincoln
6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
7. Argo
8. War Horse
9. The Perks of Being A Wallflower
10. Life of Pi
Favorite Books:
1. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
2. Love Does by Bob Goff
3. A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
4. Kisses from Katie by Katie Davis
5. Sacred Influence by Gary Thomas
6. When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Bryan Fikkert
7. The Good Life by Helen & Scott Nearing
8. Every Body Matters by Gary Thomas
9. The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
10. The Meaning of Marriage by Tim Keller
Favorite Videos:
1. Seam by Homeland
2. Dispersion by Homeland
3. Conversation by Homeland
4. Odyssey by Homeland
5. Bon Iver at AIR Studios
6. Heart Breads
7. Stools by Sentayehu Teshale
8. Cain's Arcade
Favorite Eats (in no particular order):
1. Velvet Taco: Back Door Chicken (Dallas, TX)
2. Noble Pig: Noble Pig Pulled Pork Salad (Austin, TX)
3. Gristmill: German Chocolate Cake (Gruene, TX)
4. Rockstar Bakeshop: Smoke on the Water Whoopie Pie (Dallas, TX)
5. Chilantro: Beef Tacos (Austin, TX)
6. Mud Street Cafe: Coconut Cream Pie (Eureka Springs, AR)
7. Pecan Lodge: Pork Butt & Sliced Beef (Dallas, TX)
8. Rye on Market: Acorn Squash & Risotto (Louisville, KY)
9. Hammerheads: Elk Burger & Truffle Fries (Louisville, KY)
10. Please & Thank You: Homemade Cinnamon Roll (Louisville, KY)
11. Ten Bells Tavern: Fish & Chips (Dallas, TX)
12. Harvest: Buttermilk Fried Chicken (Louisville, KY)
13. Caffe Trieste: German Chocolate Cake (San Francisco, CA)
14. Nord's: Apple Fritter (Louisville, KY)
15. Hillbilly Tea: Cornmeal Pancake with Chai Butter & Pumpkin Syrup (Louisville, KY)
16. The Pearl Cup: Lavender Chai (Dallas, TX)
17. Contigo: Tempura Fried Green Beans (Austin, TX)
18. Guero's: Fish Tacos & Homemade Limeade (Austin, TX)
19. Oddfellow's: Cider French Toast (Dallas, TX)
20. Legal Grounds: Homemade Granola (Dallas, TX)
Favorite New Websites:
1. WanderLost
2. A Well Traveled Woman
3. Bucolic Beauty
Fist Pump Friday:
1. Countries Represented: Australia, Argentina, Belize, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Jordan, Italy, Ireland, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Uganda, South Africa and Thailand.
2. Favorite Locations: Mount Rushmore, Pyramids in Egypt, Sistine Chapel in Rome, Eiffel Tower in Paris, Caine's Arcade, The Great Wall of China, The Alps, Mount Whitney, Colosseum in Rome, with Katie Davis, These 4 in Lou, Machu Pichu, Petra, and The Parthenon.
Looking forward to 2013 because ...
1. Slower pace of life in the 40206
3. Taking my first pottery class
4. Road trips, road trips, road trips
5. Orvis' Fly Fishing Guide School
6. Celebrating 8 years with Timothy James
7. Holding baby Roberson (due May 28th)
8. Extracting honey from my first hives
9. Building our chicken coop
10. Owning a home
Come out and show yourself, 2013. We're ready!
Em & Tim


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In a study of 50,000 adults published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, Danish researchers found that people report markedly fewer hangover symptoms as they get older. And it's no small gap: Twenty-one percent of women aged 18-29 suffered nausea with a hangover compared with just three percent of women over 60. Drinks on grandma?
I was ready to call bullshit on this whole study because my hangovers are still a nightmare, but I'm closer to 29 than I am to 60. I can say that I have a much harder time bouncing back in my mid-30s than I ever did when I was a 21. I used to drink all night and then work doubles at a coffee shop the next morning. Of course, I had unlimited access to espresso drinks and my coworkers were a bunch of hungover kids and we mainly napped in the back room, so maybe I blocked out the pain?
However, if this is true, it's yet another reason to welcome the golden glory days of older age. Take me, father time — take me straight to the bar!
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Consensus Report
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change (2010)Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
Advancing the Science of Climate Change
Limiting the Magnitude of Climate Change
Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
A five-video series on the America's Climate Choices project
Much of the nation's experience to date in managing and protecting its people, resources, and infrastructure is based on the historic record of climate variability during a period of relatively stable climate. This report from the America's Climate Choices suite of studies concludes that adaptation to climate change calls for a new paradigm -- one that considers a range of possible future climate conditions and associated impacts, some well outside the realm of past experience. Adaptation is a process that requires actions from many decision-makers in federal, state, tribal, and local governments, the private sector, non-governmental organizations, and community groups. However, current adaptation efforts are hampered by a lack of solid information about the benefits, costs, and effectiveness of various adaptation options, by uncertainty about future climate impacts at a scale necessary for decision-making, and by a lack of coordination.
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