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Sukkot is an eight-day harvest holiday that starts four days after the fast of Yom Kippur; it is also known as the Feast of Tabernacles.
In ancient Israel Jews would build huts (Sukkah = hut) near the end of their fields during harvest season, so that they could spend more time in the fields and harvest more efficiently. For us, Sukkot is a reminder of how our ancestors lived while wandering in the desert for 40 years (Leviticus 23:42-43), moving from one place to another and using tents (sukkot) for temporary shelter. Associated with these two meanings are three main traditions:
1 – Building a sukkah.
2 – Eating inside it.
3 – Waving the lulav and etrog.
(above, Sukkot seen by Italian artist Emanuele Luzzati)
Between Yom Kippur and Sukkot , those observant Jews who have the space construct a sukkah in their backyards or decks (in cities like Manhattan or Venice with a lot of small apartments, it's normal to just share meals in the synagogue's sukkah). In ancient times most people would just "move" to their sukkas for the whole holiday and even sleep there: nowadays few do, especially in colder climates, but it's still customary to eat meals in the hut, or at least snacks, reciting a special blessing.
Since Sukkot celebrates the harvest, there is a custom of waving the etrog and lulav: (a kind of citron, similar to a big lemon/lime, and a bunch of myrtle,willow and palm twigs). The lulav and etrog are waved in all directions representing God's power over the whole creation. All kids love decorating the sukkah with drawings, and mine are no exception!
As a fall harvest holiday, Sukkot celebrates the bounty of the new crops, and its food traditions revolve around seasonal vegetables and fruit. In this sense, some believe that the pilgrims may have come up with the idea of Thanksgiving inspired by the Biblical descriptions of Sukkot: after all, the Puritan Christians had landed on American shores in search of a place where they would finallly be free to worship as they pleased – a recurrent theme in Jewish history. Besides, just like the ancient Israelites, the pilgrims also had to dwell in makeshift huts (built with the help of the Indians) during their first cold winter in Massachusetts!
That's why so many of you, unfamiliar with Jewish traditions, will immediately notice how Thanksgiving's culinary themes mirror those of Sukkot.
All kinds of vegetables and fruit grace our tables, together with stuffed pies and pastries: stuffing one food inside another is in fact another metaphor for abundance. Many of these symbolic foods have already appeared on our Rosh haShana table, often in the form of a seder (served in a specific order and reciting blessings on each one).
Among these seasonal offerings, both the pumpkin and pomegranate stand out: in Venice we like our favorite local variety of pumpkin so much that we call it "suca baruca" (from the Hebrew "baruch", "blessed / holy pumpkin"); as to pomegranate, it is so important in the Jewish tradition that Torah scrolls are decorated with silver ones – apparently because this fruit contains more or less 613 seeds, the number of the Mitzvot (commandments) that Jews are given to observe.
Why not combine these two symbols into a super-pretty and super-festive soup?
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 2 lbs cubed pumpkin
- 1 medium onion, very finely chopped
- vegetable stock
- 1/2 orange (or 1/3 cup orange juice)
- 1 pomegranate (or 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds plus 1/3 cup pomegranate juice)
- 3 tablespoons mild extra-virgin olive oil
- salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 or 3 tablespoons coarsely ground hazelnuts (optional)
Heat the oil in a pan, add the onion and allow it to cook until soft (add little water if it starts sticking). Add the pumpkin and allow it to cook for 5 minutes, stirring. Add the orange zest and 1/3 cup of pomegranate juice (you can skip the juice if you prefer a less tangy flavor and a lighter color). Keep cooking until the juice has evaporated, then add enough hot vegetable stock to barely cover the pumpkin, salt and pepper, and cook until very tender. (at least 30 minutes).
Process with a hand mixer; adding more salt and stock as needed, and pour into individual bowls; decorate with the hazelnuts (if using), a few pomegranate seeds and salt. In the context of a dairy meal, you can decorate it with a little sour cream or Greek yogurt. Serve warm.


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12 comments:
- Elizabeth said...
I so love this. There are not many projects that work nicely for boys, but this is so dear.
- March 4, 2011 at 11:34 AM
- Jen said...
How wonderful is this. I'm the musical director working on Pinocchio with a school right now for their spring production. We have our first show in a couple weeks. I now know what to make the director for a gift. Thank you so much for sharing.
- March 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave today [05 Mar 12:00am GMT]. Thanks, Maria
- March 4, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Meg said...
Holy cow, I love it! And wow - I'm now super excited about that del Toro adaptation.
- March 5, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Corinne said...
Oh I am so glad to hear this may be going on someone's "To-stitch" list! I admit my stitching isn't the best on my example so I look forward to seeing where other people take it (surely to better places). Thanks for the kind words everyone!
- March 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Glenda said...
That's such a beautiful design, Corinne. And I think you stitched it up quite lovely!
- March 5, 2011 at 10:52 PM
- Emily said...
Oh wow! I adore this! I love how clean the design is and it's just so charming!!
- March 7, 2011 at 9:08 AM
- RosaMaría said...
beautiful beautiful work!!! Pinocchio is an all time favorite, and your desing is perfect!
- March 9, 2011 at 7:58 AM
- Sarah K. said...
I'm new to embroidery, so this is probably beyond my capability for the tine being, but it is fantastic! Thank you! I'm also thrilled to have found your blog via Made by Rae. Yay!
- March 9, 2011 at 10:23 PM
- Nicole Follow the White Bunny said...
Love this pattern! It's cute for girls too.
- March 13, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- www.sillones.nom.es said...
In my view one and all may read this.
- November 17, 2011 at 11:51 AM
I am overwhelmed after finding your blog~such beautiful ideas, such lovely work. For many years I have watched as my mother has held a hoop and hand embroidered. I have vowed to carry on the craft she so loves, but, sadly is unable to do any longer. Thank you for the inspiration you give freely on your blog. And for the lovelies you offer in your shop.
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"As soon as somebody writes a story saying somebody did something, that doesn't make it a fact," Hendry said.
Sosa has been the subject of steroid speculation for years, based on changes in his physical appearance, his rapid ascent to home-run hitting legend by 1998 and his testimony before Congress in 2005, during which the slugger said he never had taken "illegal performance-enhancing drugs" and added that he "[never] had injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything." Sosa testified alongside Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro and Curt Schilling.
But no physical evidence had been reported that might prove he had taken performance-enhancing drugs, and Dusty Baker, Sosa's manager in 2003 and '04, once referred to such speculation as "steroid McCarthyism."
Tribune efforts to reach Sosa were unsuccessful. Commissioner Bud Selig would not comment on the record.
Now that the evidence reportedly exists to prove Sosa used steroids, his legacy and Hall of Fame candidacy could be in tatters as voters wrestle with how to judge players from the steroid era. Sosa ranks sixth on baseball's all-time home run list and, as with McGwire's first three years on the ballot, could find support lacking. Sosa had said recently that he expected to "calmly wait" for Cooperstown to come calling.
While the Sosa story dominated the pregame news conferences Tuesday, managers Ozzie Guillen and Lou Piniella said the names of those who tested positive during testing in 2003 should be made public to clear other players. The results were promised to remain confidential but since then some have leaked, ensnaring Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, who acknowledged the results after a Sports Illustrated report.
"Why don't we come up with the [bleeping] names, and that's it?" Guillen said. "Every time somebody says he's clean, the next day it's in the [bleeping] paper. Alex [Rodriguez] says, 'They can check me.' He gone. Manny [Ramirez] say, 'They can check me.' He gone.
"A couple of days ago, Sammy says, 'I'm clean, I should be in the Hall of Fame.' He gone. ... OK, don't wait for those guys. Right here. Open it up, we're talking about one time, and let's move on. Because I know in one month I'll be sitting with [the media] talking about someone else."
Piniella said during spring training that the names should be released. He reiterated that notion Tuesday.
"It would probably create a lot of havoc for a while, but it might be the best thing," Piniella said. "But look, I don't make those decisions. I have enough problems handling the Chicago Cubs, so let baseball handle this the way they want."
Hendry was upset that the discussion of alleged steroid users from the '03 test tainted the names of the 1,000-plus players who passed the drug screening. Asked if he ever had talked to Sosa or any of his players about steroids, Hendry simply replied: "No."
Did Hendry ever suspect any of his players were on steroids?
"There was an era in college baseball where you'd scout guys and you know for a while that creatine was passed around like M & Ms," Hendry said. "And you always heard that it was mixed with stuff, and all of a sudden home runs were up. And was it the aluminum bat or something else?
"I think if you were in baseball of any kind for a 10-15 year period, you sometimes left the ballpark thinking, 'Wow, that guy has a lot more power than he used to. Or that guy is a lot bigger than he used to be. You didn't think a guy was necessarily going in the back room and doing something before the game.
"But you certainly had your doubts. From a general manager's point of view, it became a tough job, contract-wise, or free-agent wise, or long-term-deal-wise [to guess which players were using PEDs]. You never know."
Though steroids were prevalent in the 1990s and early 2000s, both Piniella and Guillen said they never had seen one.
"I wouldn't know a steroid from [marijuana]," Piniella said.
Players, managers and coaches have become versed in discussing steroids. Guillen said he can't win whichever way he answers the questions.
"If I say, 'Well, Sammy, he made a mistake,' people will say, 'Shut the [heck] up. You knew what he was doing,' " Guillen said. "On the other side, if I say 'Sammy shouldn't be doing this,' well, he wasn't the only one.
"Personally, Sammy saved this city. Sammy saved the game. People were looking at Sammy like he was God. To me, Sammy saved baseball. Three people -- Cal Ripken Jr. [after the '94] strike, Sammy and Mark McGwire, they saved the game."
Sosa and McGwire completed a much-celebrated march to breaking baseball's single season home run record in 1998, both surpassing Roger Maris' 61 -- Sosa with 66, McGwire 70.
Sosa went on to hit 60-plus homers twice more. Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds, who has been a key figure of the BALCO steroids investigation, holds the record with 73 in 2001.
Guillen also believes that the names of Latino players are being leaked at a disproportionate rate.
"As more names come out, you're shocked," he said. "It's like, 'Damn, who's next? What's going to happen next?' ... A couple days ago we were talking about Pablo Ozuna. What the heck are you doing? Now we're talking about Sammy Sosa. Why don't we get the names out there."
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This month the studio features Sarah Green, Program Chair, 2011 AAA Annual Meeting
(1) What are you most passionate about–in life? In your work?
People and their relations with one another, as well as their diverse perspectives on the world. I am almost as equally passionate about other animals and their relations, though that is more of a personal than a work passion. A quite distant third is a passion for logical problems; that one is at the heart of my interest in gadgets and various technologies.
(2) What were you like as a 10 year old? As a 13 year old? As a 16 year old? Rebellious? Studious? Popular? Shy? Intense?
Generally, my two brothers and I were seen as being 'different,' though in what way depended on who was looking. That's probably a common experience for children who grow up outside the country to which their parents tell them they belong. Otherwise, my memories of my childhood are marked by political events:
As a 10 year old: I was living in central Athens, and it was two years before the end of the military junta under Georgios Papadoploulos. I was aware of it, and most people I knew thought it was bad. The overthrow of the junta in 1974, which centred in Athens, was the scariest thing through which I have ever lived.
As a 13 year old: I had arrived back in the UK the year before, when I was 12, after 10 years of living in Greece. This was the early 1970s, when there was a serious energy shortage in the UK imposed by the sudden steep rise in oil prices (I remember a 3-day working week was imposed, and we were constantly exhorted to 'SOS' – Switch Off Something).
As a 16 year old: In that year, I began to read academic books and was very quickly hooked.
(3) When and how did you first encounter anthropology? And when did you decide to embrace it as a profession? Do you remember the moment?
I knew about the existence of anthropology from a young age, because my mother had studied some anthropology at university (she later became an Egyptologist).
My decision to become an anthropologist was made more than once. The first was when, as an undergraduate studying both archaeology and anthropology, I shifted my attention more to anthropology. The second was after my former director of studies at university persuaded me to apply for a scholarship to study for a PhD. That was a major decision. Third, after completing the doctorate, I applied for a job as a post-doctoral research fellow and was awarded it. And finally, I applied for a permanent job at Manchester, and was appointed to a junior post in 1995. It was at that moment, I think, that I decided that perhaps my past in journalism and law (in both of which I dabbled after I graduated) were over.
Yes, when I first went to university, my idea was that I should become an archaeologist. In Greece, I was surrounded by material evidence of all the stories my father told about the Classical Greeks, which also brought alive his stories about the Romans, and my mother added to that with her knowledge of the Egyptians.
(4) I know that you spent much of your childhood in Greece and that your father is a classicist. Did you grow up imagining yourself an archaeologist, visiting many archaeological sites in and around Greece, and reading the "classics"? Do you ever think of yourself now as a "closet" archaeologist or a "wannabe" one?
However, once I got to university, I realised that my experience in Greece had highlighted the politically charged complexity of the relationship between the past and the present. I was aware that all the classicists I knew in Greece were, like my father, not Greeks, but scholars from other countries. It seemed to me there was something interesting going on there about how Greek Classical history had been written. Whatever it was about, it was not closely related to contemporary Greece; that just happened to be where the archaeological sites were located. So, as I began to learn more about social anthropology through university, I came to the conclusion that this was where my deepest interests lay, and that this discipline could provide me with a means to think about those kinds of issues.
(5) Much of your own work over the years has engaged with space (urban, rural, national, regional, and international), and perhaps especially with ambiguous border zones that matter to people, countries, and institutions but are never quite as clearly demarcated or separate as some imagine or hope. Your 2005 book, Notes from the Balkans, is a great example of this type of work and you experimented with both the topic and the way to think about it. How did you first come to think so much about these issues? Do you remember your own trajectory of thought, in other words, how you came to think that this was such an interesting issue worth pursuing?
I became interested in the politics of space, place and location during my PhD research in London on radical and revolutionary feminist separatists. Those women had a strong concept of 'safe space,' which meant safe from physical, emotional and ideological threats. My interest in the way location and place are used to create particular kinds of intellectually and politically coherent worlds really began with that work. At the time, queer was just developing within the lesbian and gay areas of London (which overlapped with the lesbian feminist areas). That introduced the idea of complex, dynamic, multiple, transgressive boundaries: these areas of London would later come to be known as LGBT space, emphasising the proliferation and transient character of the categories that these areas represented. The relationship between the shifting definition of locations and shifting politics became a central part of my work at that time.
The jump from there to an interest in what the media were describing as 'Balkan' borders in the early 1990s (when my research on the Greek-Albanian border in Epirus began), was quite short. Having watched as queer developed in London and began to change the shape of both lesbian and gay and feminist spaces there, I was alert to the possibility that borders are not just 'there:' they have to be made to appear as such. Studying that in terms of state borders was an intriguing new challenge. With the conflicts in former Yugoslavia and the collapse of socialist regimes more widely in the Balkan region during that period, important changes in the what borders were supposed to separate or bring together were going on. Although I was working in a border area that was not receiving any of the media attention (the Greek-Albanian border), people assumed it was all part of the same region, the 'Balkan' region, and had some similar characteristics. I became quite interested in what those might be, in such an apparently rapidly changing context.
To cut a long story short, I ended up concluding that the perceived difficulty with the Greek-Albanian border was what the border was supposed to stand for. Most borders research focuses on people's identities. It was clear to me that this was not the issue here: nobody I met had any doubt about who they were, where they came from or to which social group they belonged. The problem was the effectiveness of the border in defining the places simultaneously brought into relation and separated from each other by that border. The ambiguity emanated from there, not from the people.
(6) Your earliest work on radical lesbians in the London metropolitan area, at least on the surface, looks different from your later work on IT technology and space in Manchester and your work on mountains, animals, people, states, surveyors, and expectations at the Greek-Albanian border. Some might say that it was part of sexuality or gender studies and that you now do science studies (with little reference to sexuality or gender studies concerns). Does the question bother you? Am I wrong to assume that some people wonder about the change in your interests. Did you just become interested in a different set of issues and questions after your immediate postdoctoral years, or is there some continuity in the work that is less obvious to others until they get to know you?
Hah, that is a fair question, and in some ways, I think I have already begun to answer it above. The theme of the politics of relative location has been in my work since the earliest days. However diverse my subject matter has been, that core interest has remained. I have a couple of things to add here:
First, though I have worked in several regions, I have kept to the intellectual or geographical edges of what most people consider to be 'Europe. ' I think there is still work to be done on the self-other relation/distinction in anthropology (and whatever people think of dichotomies, that one is unlikely to go away simply because dichotomisation has been effectively critiqued; there is too much invested in this particular, self/other, dichotomy). If many anthropologists are concerned with difference, I am also, and equally, concerned with sameness, and where the limits of sameness are located. This inevitably includes investigating anthropology's own intellectual homes, and how the discipline has constituted the notion of self.
Which brings me back to the point about historical and political change: is it not reasonable to think that perhaps both self and other are conceptually and spatially moving targets? This has not been debated to the degree that I think it should have been.
Second, all my research after my doctorate has been done collaboratively. In order to do that, I have had to be flexible about where the next research project will take me. So long as I could maintain a clear sense of my own questions, and could see that I had the opportunity to develop them within the framework of one or other collaborative project, then I went with that. In a sense, this is just taking what happens during ethnographic fieldwork one step further: although there is a plan about what needs researching, ethnographers are usually dependent on whatever people are doing, and they have to go with the flow, in order to get any decent data. I am much the same with entire research projects: I negotiate them with others, and if we can agree a theme that would work for my research questions, I pursue it and go with the flow.
(7) What makes you mad, and is that an easier question to answer than what makes you sad or what makes you satisfied or what fills you with joy?
What makes me mad (angry, rather than crazy, I take it): very little. One of the things I have learned as an ethnographer is to try to understand someone else's point of view, and as soon as I do that, any nascent anger tends to dissipate.
Nevertheless, the following invariably get my heckles up: political attacks against research and higher education that appear to be developed from a position of nearly complete ignorance; people who do or say things that are deliberately intended to harm, belittle or undermine others; any act of cruelty towards people or animals whose sole motivation is entertainment, or which is caused by indifference.
What makes me sad: in personal terms, the most important is the loss of good friends, either through their passing away or their physical or social distance. In a wider sense, I am saddened by what could be called the turn towards financialization: increasingly, something is only officially defined as being good if it makes financial sense – either in addition to its 'social good' status, or as a complete replacement of that status.
What makes me satisfied/fills me with joy: Mostly, small everyday things that involve either managing to do something that seemed impossible at first; or that somehow improved things for one or more people; or witnessing small acts of kindness or thoughtfulness; or that is aesthetically beautiful to watch, listen to or feel. Finding enough time to sleep, exercise properly and eat properly makes me satisfied.
(8) Do you think of yourself as British? I know that people who know you in the U.K. (and many who will listen to our oral interview) will think of this as an odd question because you sound so British (perhaps especially to Americans). But you grew up so transnationally and you live your life now in and out of so many countries that I am not sure what role your U.K. citizenship and passport play in the way you lead your life, think of yourself, or take on scholarly research projects (like the 25-country project on borders in Europe that you currently run).
That's an interesting question. There has been an ongoing debate in recent years in the UK about what it means for anyone to be English (as opposed to British), which has been prompted in part by the devolution of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So the issue is a bit of a moving target.
Some would say I am quintessentially English. There is a now fading rhetoric in Britain about English cosmopolitanism: the idea that one section of the English population (this is a class issue, of course) should be able to travel anywhere and adapt, as a key characteristic of Englishness. My parents and grandparents were deeply committed to these cosmopolitan ideals, and felt themselves to belong to the social group that lived this kind of life. So as I was growing up in Greece, my parents taught me that I was English; and that I should learn to be as Greek as any other Greek, as part of being English.
(9) Birds and other animals at airports? Some 3-4 years ago at a dinner we had in Manchester you mentioned a research project you started (or did) that concerned birds and other animals at airports. I remember being fascinated and thinking that you must have a great eye/ear for phenomena worth pursuing (and not being pursued sufficiently by scholars). Do others tell you the same thing? Do you sometimes get odd stares from people who think (or say) that your topics are "unusual," possibly even "marginal," fascinating but not "central" topics for social science research, or even just not anthropological enough?
Yes, this has been something people have said about me way before I became an anthropologist. I remember taking a job as a temporary secretary one summer. I was obviously bored, as at one point I stared up at the ceiling and saw it was covered with those noise-reducing white ceiling tiles. Each one had a pattern of holes in it – a kind of swirly design. I wondered aloud whose job it was to design those patterns, and whether the particular pattern chosen was related to functional or aesthetic design considerations. After that, I gained a reputation amongst the other secretaries in that office of being a distinctly peculiar person. But several of them did also stare up at the ceiling on several occasions after that.
My family says I never quite grew out of having the curiosity of a 2-year old. Everything interests me and I am endlessly asking questions about things, people, situations. I also spent a lot of my childhood observing things intensely; this was in large part because I was the youngest child of three in an extremely chatty family, and I often did not get the chance to get a word in edgeways. So I watched and listened to everything instead, and learned to notice even the tiniest details. That stood me in very good stead in later years as an ethnographer.
(10) In a very recent email exchange you and I had about some logistical matters concerning the 2011 AAA Annual Meeting in Montreal this coming November (which I am truly delighted you agreed 2 years ago to run/lead at my request), you described yourself as somewhat of a "nerd." You made me smile. Can you describe what it is about you (and perhaps the things you enjoy doing) that make you think of yourself this way? (And, by the way, is this a term used in the U.K. and not just in the U.S. and I think Canada)? Also, is this one of the reasons you accepted my presidential invitation 2 years ago to be the lead/organizer/head/guru for our 2011 AAA Annual Meeting in Montreal?
This goes back to the third passion I have in life and work: logical problems. It is what led me into a brief encounter with the legal profession (which combined my interest in logic and anthropology) and it is also what gives me an enduring fascination with various gadgets and technologies. It is not what made me say 'yes' to the job of being AAA EPC Chair; that was more to do with being supportive of your aim of further internationalising the AAA, combined with hoping that people from my research network, EastBordNet, would choose to attend. But what I call my 'nerdy' tendencies probably did contribute to my agreement to take on the role: I imagined that my fascination with logical problems would help in dealing with something this size. And so it has turned out.
Just returning to EastBordNet for a moment, that network is a breath of fresh air: I am constantly being prodded in the ribs to think differently, and while that is sometimes painful, it has also been enormously productive. And as I said, it is a big reason I agreed to be the AAA EPC Chair; I thought I could persuade a few unusual voices to come to the AAA – from Russia, Croatia, Serbia, Latvia, etc. And some have decided to come, much to my delight. However, the costs have made it very difficult for others. The really enormous difference in academic income levels in some of these countries compared with the USA, and the virtual absence of money to attend conferences, continues to make it difficult for them to participate on anything like a level playing field.
(11) What is one thing that only close friends know about you that you are now willing to share with others?
I do not like walking. When people list their hobbies, walking almost always seems to be there, which I find mildly baffling. Running, cycling, swimming, climbing, scuba diving, horse riding – I love them all. But walking, not.
(12) What do you love to do when you are not working? Do you sing, paint, play a musical instrument, read detective stories, hike, do math puzzles, play poker, or stare at the stars? The list could be much longer, of course. I do not even want to guess.
My five most common activities when I'm not working are: spending time with friends, which includes going to galleries, the movies and theatre (I am not a great fan of concerts); reading news and reviews (I am a big fan of the London Review of Books); getting some exercise (running and swimming are my favourites); cooking – which includes the associated shopping for the right ingredients, as I love markets and delicatessens; and learning some new skill, most frequently languages (I am currently struggling with Turkish, but I enjoy the struggle), or some new software package.
(13) What is the single most unexpected and interesting aspect of taking on the huge organizational task of envisioning, organizing, and orchestrating a 6000-person strong scholarly/professional conference (like our AAA Annual Meeting)? Are anthropologists actually trained to do this type of thing, or is it quite a stretch for people who are not conference planners and organizers by training and definition? I think you are really good at it, but does it have anything to do with the kind of training you got at the university level or the people who trained you and mentored you? Can you identify what that was or could be?
It's not finished yet, so there might be something yet to come. So far, there have been two unexpected aspects. First, that it's not been quite as impossible as I imagined it would be, which has been mostly because of the support I have received from just about every quarter: the AAA office in Washington, the section editors, the Executive Program Committee, the people at Confex who run the online system, and, most importantly, from you as President. And second, that there were many people who were as uncertain about how it all works as I was! In retrospect, that should not have been unexpected, as most academic participants in the organization of the meeting have quite a short term of office, so many people are new.
In terms of training for this job: really, just having good organization skills and some experience in working with a lot of different people to tight deadlines. If there is one thing that has improved with age for me, it's that I no longer panic. That's certainly been helpful!
(14) What is the one question you wish I had asked but didn't?
None about myself, I don't think.
A question about what is happening in anthropology more widely, perhaps. Like many others, I am very concerned about attacks against the social sciences and humanities in many parts of the world. This is often done in the name of financial stringency, but to my mind it is related more to the financialisation issue I mentioned above: that there is no such thing as a social good irrespective of cost anymore. In the UK, I think we are in an exceptionally dangerous period for academic freedom and for the protection and maintenance of higher education and research structures.
I suspect this period will lead to some fairly significant changes, and some heart-searching debates, about how anthropology is done, who anthropology is for and how it relates to other things going on in the world. That is a real challenge, but I think it could also be a very positive moment: when the deck of cards gets thrown up in the air as has occurred just now, opportunities arise to rearrange the cards in interesting ways – but only if people are consciously aware of the current dangers and positively work towards finding our own ways of dealing with them, rather than having our lives and work redesigned by others who were quicker off the mark. If there is one thing that I currently feel passionate about, it is that.


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Texas A&M professor recognized for methods used to elucidate the dynamics and functional mechanisms of complex molecular machines.
"I am very honored to receive this award, and I thank ASBMB and the students, postdocs and collaborators who made this possible. Since Dr. Lipmann discovered EF-Tu, the focus of much of my early research, being named the Lipmann lecturer has extra significance for me."
Arthur E. Johnson, a distinguished professor at the Texas A&M Health Science Center's College of Medicine, has been chosen to give the Fritz Lipmann Lectureship at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology annual meeting in April in Washington, D.C.
"Art revolutionized our understanding of how complex protein machines operate," says Vytas A. Bankaitis of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, who nominated Johnson for the award. "The level of international acclaim and respect afforded to him by the larger scientific community is richly deserved on the basis of his outstanding research accomplishments over a distinguished career."
The lectureship, which is awarded every two years, recognizes investigators who make conceptual advances in biochemistry, bioenergetics and molecular biology. Johnson was named the winner for pioneering the use of site-specific incorporation of non-natural amino acids into polypeptides and biophysical fluorescence approaches toward detailed elucidation of the dynamics and functional mechanisms of complex molecular machines.
After completing his undergraduate studies in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in the 1960s, Johnson taught and coached football in Boston. He then went on to earn his doctorate in chemistry at the University of Oregon in 1973 and conduct postdoctoral work at Columbia University.
Thereafter, he joined the faculties of the University of Oklahoma in 1977 and Texas A&M University in 1994. Today, he holds the E. L. Wehner-Welch Foundation chair in chemistry at the College of Medicine.
The Fritz Lipmann Lectureship was established by friends and colleagues of Nobel laureate Fritz Lipmann and is awarded every other year for conceptual advances in biochemistry, bioenergetics or molecular biology. The award provides a plaque, a $3,000 purse, and transportation and expenses to the ASBMB annual meeting to present a lecture. Johnson will give his talk, "Membrane Protein Biogenesis," at 9:03 a.m. April 11.
You can view award presentations from the 2010 ASBMB annual meeting in our archive.
To this day, Bankaitis says, the approaches Johnson pioneered remain the most powerful, yet accessible, tools to study the dynamics of complex biochemical systems. Additionally, he says, Johnson always has been "a gentleman scientist."
"These days, it is all too common for researchers to be driven to prolific productivity by the motive of enterprise – the desire to be recognized, to win awards, to establish themselves personally," he emphasizes. "While all of these motives are legitimate in proper measure, what is often lost is the proportion between mentorship and enterprise, between noble scientific pursuit and competition for the more material rewards, between a genuine desire to foster the independent careers of young researchers and exploitation of those talents.
"Art Johnson has always been a consummate professional – a great scientist, an effective and engaged mentor, a dedicated and effective teacher, and an outstanding citizen with respect to professional service."
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"Painting has the power to heal communities," says Taglit-Birthright alumnus and self-defined "community-based public artist" Max Levi Frieder.
"I discovered that painting is a lot more powerful than something hanging on a wall," he told Taglit participants from the former Soviet Union at a recent exhibition of his work, held at the Beit Hatfutsot Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.
23-year-old Max has spent the last five years travelling the world and bringing communities together to make art: "Art plants seeds, it inspires, it brings communities together." The last three months have been spent bringing communities together in Israel. He has worked with children all over Israel and the West Bank—from Ashdod to Ariel, from Be'er Sheva to Beit Jalah.
Max arrived in Israel in December as a Taglit participant. Taglit Chief Operations Officer Nimrod Ran says all program participants have an opportunity to extend their ticket for three months after their initial ten-day whirlwind taste of Israel.
In those ten days, participants are led by specially-trained educators on bus trips that take them from one end of Israel to the other. Since 1999, The Jewish Agency for Israel, in partnership with the government, Jewish Federations of North America, and individual philanthropists, has enabled more than 350,000 Jews worldwide between the ages of 18 and 26 to experience Israel.
Ran says that participants are encouraged to give back to their community. One of Max's projects in Israel included a Taglit group from the USA and Canada, who joined Israeli youth from the Ayalim Foundation and local children in Be'er Sheva to paint a 30 meter long mural. The mural will be displayed at the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command headquarters, located in Beer Sheva.
The exhibition also showcased 14 other murals that Max co-created with children from diverse backgrounds. He begins by asking the group to make a sketch in response to the question: What do you want your future to look like? They discuss their drawings, and Max then makes a composite sketch on the large canvas-mural. Together, the children then paint "their future."
Max believes in bringing people together to make art and to have fun. He says that inspiring others to love what one loves, and to create beautiful things, can make the world a better place.
"This is tikkun olam - this idea, which I learnt from my family, is the foundation of my work," says Max.
In August, Max says he plans to invite Israelis at large to paint a massive mural at Beit Hatfutsot. This one - a one-mile-long canvas - will then be divided into segments that will be later distributed among Jewish museums around the world. Follow artolution.org for more information on the project.


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A white back I posted a most delicious bathroom swathed a glorious rainbow of tiles. Smitten at the sight, many of you asked for the source and I was forced to declare my ignorance. Well as luck would have it, I came across the maker after asking The Queen of Tile herself for some help finding fancy new ceramics for the inlaw's kitchen. And.... tada!
Thanks to Miss Nelya of the fabulous blog Head Over Heels for pointing me to a post she wrote on Made a Mano, a most amazing purveyor of all things glazed and good.
I am OBSESSED with those white herringbone floors. Texas homes are filled with barfy saltillo and -- even more loathsome -- screenprinted ceramic tiles. I bet the labor to lay those suckers was outrageous, but I say it was worth it. As long as someone else is footing the bill.
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Insights into Router Design: Implementation of Networking Protocols
Modern data networking consists of a large number of networking protocols, each of which has its own domain of applicability. Some run on end stations (also called hosts), some on enterprise routers, some on provider edge devices and some on provider core systems. This is a very broad classification of networking systems, and there are other ways to classify them. A networking protocol is the specification of interactions between two or more networking elements. These two or more sides of the conversation are often dissimilar. For instance, one may be a host, and the other a router. Most hosts today, such as a computer running Linux, can function as routers if necessary. Whenever a new protocol is being specified or gains currency, there often appear implementations of the protocol for these hosts, especially for those in the open source segment, such as for Linux or FreeBSD. In several cases, the open-source implementation will include the network side of the protocol as well. Often, these implementations are very good, and in general, the networking industry owes a lot to these public-domain implementations.
There are also companies that sell complete networking stacks to other companies. And the points made in this article may apply to this case as well, with the exception that commercial networking stacks may often be designed to have cleaner interfaces and are usually written for use in routers and switches. So, some of the items mentioned below may be less of a problem.
Adaptation of Public-Domain Implementation
And of course, there are the companies that want to implement the protocol for use in the networking systems they manufacture. As the implementation of each protocol can be quite complex and time-consuming, there is a natural tendency to search for any publicly available implementations that can then be customized and used with the appropriate licensing arrangement, for example, the BSD license or the GNU General Public License (GPL) etc. Depending on time-to-market and other financial constraints, a decision may also be made to buy source code from any of the commercial protocol stack vendors.
One may imagine that the job of adapting or porting an open-source host-based protocol implementation to a router may be just a matter of taking the source code and compiling it within the build infrastructure of the router vendor. However, this is rarely the case.
This article looks at the various challenges involved in a typical porting/adaptation effort of this nature, though not all of these may be applicable to each situation.
Look at the License
The first thing that is usually looked at is whether the source code is being distributed under the GPL or any of its variants, or under a BSD-like license. This is important for a commercial vendor trying to make money out of its product. While the vendor will want to use and appropriately credit any publicly available code, it may not want to have to freely distribute its own proprietary code.
Does it build?
These (open-source) implementations are usually written for end stations or for hosts that can also be used as routers. That is because each router vendor has its own proprietary infrastructure and software interfaces that are not publicly available for applications to use. So, there is usually no way for public-domain code to be written to conform to the architecture of a proprietary networking system. However, present-day routers do often use host operating systems such as Linux or BSD variants. That may make it easier to adapt a public-domain stack for one's own purposes. Once it is evident that the licensing arrangement is feasible for the company to use, the appropriate software developer downloads the software and attempts to build it for the target operating system, i.e. the OS on which it is expected to eventually run. If the OS it was written for, and the OS it will run on, are the same or similar, this is often not a big problem. However, problems may arise if the implementation uses certain system-specific header files that may not be available on the target system, in which case appropriate header files may have to be found or the code modified to use other utilities or data structures.
C or C++
It may be that the acquired software is in C, but the target implementation is all C++. It may be prudent in such situations to merely write C++ wrappers that interact with the C code, rather than attempt to convert it all to true C++ classes.
Integrate with the system architecture
Once it is clear that there are no major compiler or linker issues to deal with, one has to figure out how to integrate what is usually a free-running Linux or FreeBSD process with the rest of the router/switch product. These days, it is often the case that router vendors use popular operating systems, but it is not necessary that each protocol will be running as a free running process. For instance, the downloaded implementation may be a process written in C, while the router may contain a multi-threaded process written in C++, running several protocols. Or each protocol may be split into several components, each of which runs on a different processor. Decisions may have to be made on how best to partition the available implementation such that its various parts run on different parts of the possibly distributed router or switch.
How does it talk to the data plane?
Any networking protocol typically is a mechanism for exchanging control information that eventually influences the flow of data traffic through the system. So, the output of the protocol is often some communication to the data plane for programming its hardware or software tables for flow of data traffic. For instance, the output of the routing protocol OSPF is a set of IP routes that make their way to a forwarding table, so the incoming IP packets can be looked up based on their destination IP address and then forwarded to their appropriate destinations. The public implementation may talk to the kernel for communicating to the data plane. However, there is no guarantee (in fact, it is rather unlikely) that the kernel tables will be used for forwarding traffic on the vendor's router. This means that the programming interfaces (APIs) that the protocol implementation has with the kernel will have to be modified to use the APIs of the target router software.
Is it dynamically reconfigurable?
Just as the interfaces from the control plane to the data plane may have to be completely re-worked, the same is often true of how the protocol is configured and managed. Most protocols require large amounts of configuration, including names, addressing, and other information. On a Linux host, for example, these are usually placed in a configuration file or given on the command line to the process as it is started. However, on a commercial router, it is not practical to restart a process or thread when the configuration is changed. This is actually a big difference in concept. Host implementations are rarely dynamically re-configurable. Router implementations have to be so. This implies that pathways have to be created in the code to take user input and modify the operation of the protocols dynamically. This can lead to several issues to do with how memory is managed. For instance, it is possible that the public implementation uses a fair amount of global data structures, assuming that they remain for the lifetime of the process. However, in a router, that assumption is rarely true.
Protocol implementations, once they read their configuration, usually cache it in memory. However, in a modern router, this may not be in the protocol's process or thread at all. The configuration may be managed by another process, potentially on another processor.
How does it do IPC?
The protocol in question may be an enabling protocol, for other protocols. For instance, BFD information is used by OSPF, or PPPoE information is used by PPP. The mechanism for IPC (Inter-Process Communication) may be quite different in the way it operates on a host versus how it is expected to operate on the target router. On the host, the implementation may use sockets or files or kernel tables. But it is likely to be very different in the target implementation. The vendor's IPC mechanism is often proprietary.
Can it call you back?
Interaction with other protocols also means that various callback schemes may have to be implemented afresh to deal with callbacks from the protocol code into other modules in the system. These may have been direct function calls in the case of the downloaded code, or not even implemented. Besides, the infrastructure of the vendor's software may be distributed not only with regard to processes, but also with regard to processors.
States and Events
A protocol state machine can change state only if it is informed of an event. One type of event is the change of state of an interface such as an Ethernet link. Every protocol implementation will have a mechanism to receive such events. However, there is no guarantee that the event distribution mechanism assumed by the available implementation has anything in common with the software architecture of the vendor's system. This is an important issue to address, as is the similar issue that may be found in the case of timer or packet events.
The host-based implementation may need to have only one instance of the protocol running within a process. However, a router may need several, perhaps thousands of instances of the protocol running at the same time. This means the memory model of the implementation may have to be substantially modified to suit the purpose.
Endian-ness and Byte ordering
Great care must be taken to ensure that the protocol implementation is correct in its use of byte-ordering. Many a problem has been created by the typecasting of packets into structures assuming a Big-endian environment. Careful endian conversions may have to be done to ensure correctness. If the downloaded implementation assumes the endian-ness of the processor, then each field in the protocol header must be carefully analyzed to make sure there are no byte-ordering issues when it finally runs on the target platform.
High Availability
These days, in certain technologies, most of the differences between vendors have come down to how fast they react to failure conditions such as a link going down, or a software process crashing, or a line card or other hardware malfunctioning. The internal recovery procedure, usually called High Availability, often consists of 2 parts: an initial movement or caching of various kinds of data in other processes or processors, and after failure, recreation of the state from the surrounding processors and processes. It is usually unlikely that the free software contains any implementation of High Availability, because any HA implementation will have to be tied to the target platform. Most features these days are not considered complete on high-performance networking devices unless they also contain a mechanism to deal with failure. So, the HA implementation is usually something that has to be completely written from scratch.
As the protocol implementation originated as a standalone process, however, there can be some definite aids to debugging, if the adaptation of the code is planned right. When the various modules are modified to fit the target system, care must be taken to also code test clients that can be hooked up to these software interfaces, so much of the modified code can continue to be tested on a standalone host. This has the advantage of being able to continue to test and debug issues using standalone processes, for such testing is often much faster and easier than testing on a target platform.
Another problem is the maintenance of the core protocol logic. For a public distribution from say, a well-regarded open source project, new versions are periodically released where bugs are fixed. If the protocol code has been altered beyond recognition during the process of integration, it can become difficult to upgrade to those bug fixes. One way to do it would be to always keep the original distribution in the repository, so it can be compared to the latest version. And any differences can be selectively and manually made in the target software.
Think and Decide
Thus, the porting or adaptation of a publicly available protocol implementation to a vendor's router/switch platform is a serious project, and should be attempted with great care. If the free version is a good and reliable distribution, this may often be a better approach than completely writing the protocol implementation from scratch, especially for complex networking protocols. The time that may be saved by avoiding the writing and testing of the actual protocol state machine, can turn out to be quite significant for the overall lifecycle of the product. However, the time required for the above aspects of the work should be carefully considered and scheduled in, for the project and the product to turn out to be a success.
About the author --- Rajesh Kumar Venkateswaran has been developing software in the data networking and telecommunications industry for many years. He has led teams, architected solutions, and created new products in this space.


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If you want to configure a standard Xbox One Wireless Controller, see Customize a standard Xbox One Wireless Controller with the Xbox Accessories app.
When you open the Xbox Accessories app, you'll see two buttons, Configure and Device info.
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Select Configure to create and edit custom configurations for your controller. Your saved configurations stay with your profile and are available on any Xbox One or PC your controller is connected to.
Get started by browsing in Community configurations and adding ones you like to your own list of configurations. Or choose New configuration to make one from scratch.
Below these options are the configurations that are currently assigned to the two slots in your controller.
The next section down lists all your saved configurations. Select one to perform these actions:
- Save to a slot in your controller
- Edit
- Copy
- Rename
- Delete
Edit is where you do your customization, including these options:
- Button mapping
- Left stick
- Right stick
- Triggers
- Vibration
- Xbox button brightness
Button mapping - Use the top drop-down menu to select which button you want to change and then, under Map to, select the corresponding button that you want to remap its functionality to. The image of the controller on the screen will update to show you which buttons are which.
This screen also gives you these options:
- Swap sticks
- Invert right stick Y axis
- Invert left stick Y axis
- Swap triggers
Left and right stick sensitivity - Select Left stick or Right stick to customize and control how each stick responds during gameplay. Once you've chosen the stick you want to customize, you can select Default, Delay, Aggressive, Instant, or Smooth depending on how responsive you want the stick to be in your game. For example, if you want the controller to respond faster over a shorter stick movement, select Instant. You'll see a graph that shows you the response curve of the stick.
Note Depending on the game you play, these settings will have different responses. One way to test your settings is to set Slot 1 to Default and Slot 2 to your customized setting.
Trigger sensitivity - Adjust the maximum and minimum ranges of your triggers. You have two options for customizing them—with the hair-trigger mechanical switch on your controller or with the Trigger sensitivity section in the app.
The hair-trigger mechanical switch works great for shooting games, because it reduces how much you need to pull on the triggers to fire. It may not work as well for driving games, since you need the accelerator to go the full distance for maximum acceleration. Adjusting the trigger sensitivity comes in handy here. You can change the max and min thresholds for the triggers. For example, if you shorten the max distance, you'll get to maximum acceleration with less pulling of the trigger. Try setting your two slots differently and adjusting in real time to see the differences.
Vibration - Adjust the vibration sensitivity of your controllers. You can independently adjust four motors: Left trigger, Right trigger, Left main (in the handle), and Right main. The motors are at a default of 100% and can be adjusted down to 0%. When you adjust these slides, this changes the intensity of the vibration.
Xbox button brightness – Decrease the brightness of the Xbox button if you prefer, down to 10% of standard brightness. This is especially useful if you like playing in the dark.
Save to slot 1 / Save to slot 2
The slots correspond with the Profile Switch in the middle of your Xbox Elite Wireless Controller. You can have two different profiles saved to your controller at one time. For example, if Slot 1 is your shooter profile and Slot 2 is your racing profile, just flip the switch and you're ready to go. You won't need to adjust any other settings. You can also do this while you play a game.
Your configuration of the slots travels with your controllers. If you take your controller to a friend's house, the configuration will be saved on the controller and usable there.
If you customize Slot 1 or Slot 2 on your controller on a different console, the new configuration will be saved to the controller and overwrite your old configuration.
Make a copy of the configuration so you can use it as the basis of a new configuration without having to start over.
Change the name of your saved configuration. For example, if your configuration is for playing Halo 5, you can name it Halo 5 or anything you want.
Deleting the configuration doesn't affect the controller, it just erases the configuration.
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Retro is in these days — vintage looks, vintage music, vintage drinks (thank you, "Mad Men," from the bottom of my Manhattan) and that's all well and good, but sometimes you have to wonder what people — particularly artists — are looking backward for. Are they doing it just to be cool, or are they actually looking for something.
Which brings us to the latest video from Veronica Falls, "Teenage":
The visuals are squarely '90s-music video influenced, and the sound is drenched in '60s pop. And yet, it all feels like a thoroughly modern portrait of a 21st-century teenage wasteland: wistful, bleak and despondent, but still, there's a sense where the song clings to a moment … not even a particularly good moment.
"Driving late at night," sings vocalist-guitarist Roxanne Clifford, "I let you listen to the music you like/ then I'll drop you home." The song's persona holds on to what she has, even if, from the outside, it seems like very little. Driving late at night," she sings, "It's all right." But we don't believe her. We know from her tone that it won't be. And if we're a little older, we know from experience. The song, after all, is called "Teenage."
Veronica Falls captures that desperation with near-pitch-perfect alacrity, and the dream pop sound and retro visuals give the video a sense of timelessness: This could be a portrait of a teenager in any era. And maybe that's the point. In any case, it's a captivating, even unsettling little song, from a band that continues to impress. (Victor D. Infante)


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Star Wars actor Richard LeParmentier has passed away. He was 66. LeParmentier is best known for his role in 1977's Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, in which he played Darth Vader's cohort Admiral Conan Antonio Motti. Darth, using the "force," memora… Read more


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Earn Cash with Your Smartphone
Today I'd like to tip you off to some neat opportunities to earn cash using some apps identified by LearnVest.com.
Auto-based: ZumRide helps you sell seats on your car trips or do car sharing. You can rent your car (name your own price) through Relay Rides. And while your car is out earning money, rent out its parking space with Parking Panda!
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Sitting: Websites like SitterCity or Care.com work great for matching sitters with families. Sitters can post special qualifications or skills and clients can spell out their specific requirements and needs. You can do it for pets, too, at Petsitting.com.
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Katharine Wolf discusses overcoming constraints, to achieve greatness.
Katharine Wolf
Social Challenge Advisor
The availability of organs for transplants depends entirely upon location. Katharine Wolf helped to found OrganJet, a company that uses private jets to move patients around the country when and where these organs become available.
Katharine Wolf is an entrepreneur and investor for social good. She advises OrganJet, a company that helps transplant patients travel across the United States to receive treatment with the use of private jets. The company aims to address the mismatch of supply and demand for those in need of organ transplants. Katharine's first venture was Anh Chi Em (ACE), a microfinance organization that she co-founded in Northern Vietnam to provide loans, savings, and training to rural farmers. Previously, Katharine spent four years with Deutsche Bank's Leveraged Finance group in New York and Mergers & Acquisitions group in Paris. She also worked at Root Capital (social investment fund) and Impact Investment Exchange Asia (capital markets for social good) in Singapore. Currently, she is working as a venture capitalist in domestic impact investing helping to scale high growth companies that are solving the health care and education crises in the United States. She holds a BA from Middlebury College, an MBA from Stanford University, and a MPA-ID from Harvard Kennedy School.


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Team co-captain ... All-America skipper ... Named to All-NEISA coed first team ... Selected Academic All-Ivy League ... Awarded NEISA Coed Sailor of the Week (April 19) ... COOP Athlete of the Week (Sep 12) ... Placed second in the A division, leading the Crimson to a fifth-place finish at ICSA Coed National Championship ... Notched a third-place finish in the A division in Harvard's third-place finish at ISCA semifinals ... First-place performance in the A division helped the Crimson to victory at New England Dinghy Championship ... Helped skipper Harvard into sixth at New England Team Race Championship ... Led the A-division boat to a seventh-place finish, including three race wins at Admiral's Cup ... Skipper of the A-division boat for a fourth-place finish at Boston Dinghy Club Cup ... Helped the Crimson open its spring season with a fourth-place showing at the Sharpe Trophy ... Led the A-division team to take second in the grouping and an overall 11th-place showing for the Crimson at Atlantic Coast Championship ... Skippered the A-division boat into second place and led Harvard to a second-place finish at 70th Erwin Schell Trophy ... Sailed in the A division, placing fifth, to help the Crimson to a ninth-place finish during the Hatch Brown Trophy ... Helped the Harvard coed sailing team finish ninth at the Danmark Trophy ... Led the way to a Crimson first-place finish with an A-division win at Steadman Hood Trophy ... Finished fifth in the A division at the Hatch Brown Trophy ... Skipper in the A-division boat for a second-place division and team finish at the Harry Anderson Trophy.
Skippered the winning boat in the B division at the Boston Dinghy Cup, leading the Crimson to a seventh-place finish overall … Contributed to victorious effort at the Southern New England Team Race … Finished 10th in the B division, helping Harvard to ninth overall at the Truxtun Umsted regatta ... Skippered 12 races in the Crimson's third-place finish at the St. Mary's Team Race ... Was a skipper in Harvard's victory at the Sharpe Trophy Team Race ... Helped Harvard finish fourth at the Hap Moore Trophy … Finished first in the A division at the Oberg Trophy … Placed fifth in the B division and helped Harvard capture second at the Moody Trophy … Finished first in the B division and helped Harvard capture the Hood Trophy …Notched a second-place finish in the A division at the Hatch Brown Trophy … Helped the Crimson win the Central Series One with first-place A division score of 31.
Sailed to a first-place finish in the B division at the Boston Dinghy Cup, helping Harvard finish fourth overall … Skippered during Harvard's first-place finish at the John Jackson Memorial … Finished fourth at the Erwin Schell Trophy in the B division … Came in third in the B division at the Moody Trophy.
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Member of 2007 national doublehanded championship team with US Youth Sailing team ... Recipient of 2007 Bemis Sportsmanship Award ...Ran in Philadelphia Marathon ... Is a black belt in Taekwondo.
Lived in Italy during senior year of high school ... Other interests include skiing, music, running, biking, reading and squash ... Father, Jay, was captain of North Carolina crew and mother, Liz, was on sailing team at Stanford.


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Yin Yoga & Yoga Anatomy Workshop at Tauranga Yoga, Tauranga
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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." (Confucius)
Yin yoga is one of the calmest and most relaxing forms of yoga in the world, consisting of a series of passive poses of the body.
By means of long-held stretches (3–5 minutes) without muscle tension, we focus on the deep connective, fascial and ligamental tissues – stimulating, strengthening and stretching the tissues.
We mobilise the joints, and stimulate and calm the nervous system, thereby reducing stress and encouraging regeneration.
During the practice we temporarily slow down the flow of Chi energy, enabling the revitalising energy to accumulate and then flow more freely on conclusion of the practice.
Indeed for days after a yin yoga practice, we'll feel blissfully relaxed and recharged.
Depending on the length of the workshop, either all or only certain themes of Yin Yoga and Anatomy theory – as listed below – will be discussed.
Depending on the length of the workshop, either all or only a selection of Yin Yoga and Anatomy listed below will be practised.
Both workshops are suitable for yoga teachers and also yoga students wishing to learn more about yin yoga and yoga anatomy (à la Paul Grilley).
Workshop I - Yin Yoga
- What is yin yoga?
- What is yang yoga?
- What are the advantages of each kind of yoga?
- How do they complement each other?
- What is tension and what is compression?
- What is the function of our connective tissue/fascia in this practice?
- Stress and back pain, and yin yoga as a "therapeutic touch"
- Yin yoga class /classes (Paul Grilley style)
- Focus: hip opener and/or back class
Workshop II - Yoga Anatomy
- Skeletal variation
- Function/aesthetics
- Compression and tension
- Analysis of a yoga pose
Skeletal variation tests and practical consequences for yang yoga asanas and assists – such as lotus, shoulder stand, pigeon, down dog, warrior, etc.
We'll analyse the following asanas in detail:
- Lotus position - external rotation of the hip joint
- Reclining hero - internal rotation of the hip joint
- Shoulderstand - neck, shoulder, collarbone and shoulder blade
- Headstand - collarbone and shoulder blade
We'll discuss the following issues:
- What restrictions does my individual bone structure impose on me?
- How different is it from other people's bone structure?
- Will I or my students ever manage to get into the lotus position or achieve a "perfect" pigeon, etc?
- Where are the areas of compression and tension within my individual bone structure? How do I deal with it?
- How can I stretch and stimulate the tissues, when compression is constricting me?
- What is the physical function of a yoga pose?
For more information please contact Tauranga Yoga at:


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Fire alarm systems are expected to help protect people, property, and assets. But you can't tell if they're fully operational just by looking at them. As with any other system, electronics and other components can degrade over time and compromise the system's operation. Dust, dirt, and other contaminants can cause problems with smoke detectors. Such things as vandalism, remodeling, and improper maintenance procedures can also damage fire protection equipment. The good news is that with proper testing, inspection, and maintenance you can keep your fire alarm system at optimum operating performance. In addition to ensuring protection, keeping your system in good condition reduces expenses by preventing unbudgeted emergency repairs and costly false alarms.
Where to start. Knowing the system's age and maintenance history helps you determine the steps you must take to maintain its operational readiness. Systems under five years old should require little effort to maintain. In systems so young, problems are usually due to marginal installation like improper grounding or environmental factors like voltage transients. Periodic system testing and inspection by qualified specialists can detect many such problems.
Systems between five and ten years old may experience component breakdown caused by harsh, but normal, environmental factors. Voltage fluctuations, temperature, and humidity may cause system failure or nuisance alarm problems.
Systems between ten and fifteen years old can still provide appropriate life-safety response. However, systems in this category need close attention, even with proper maintenance procedures in place. If the system has had a history of poor maintenance or none at all, it's likely that failure of components and improper monitoring of system components will occur.
Systems approaching 20 years of age may be beyond their technological life expectancy. The system may continue to work satisfactorily if properly maintained, but you need testing and inspection by trained specialists to ensure proper system response will occur in an emergency.
The steps. The maintenance activities for fire alarm systems can be summed up in five steps.
- Test and calibrate alarm sensors, such as flame and smoke detectors, per manufacturer specifications. This requires knowing about the different sensors—and their testing requirements, failure modes, and re-installation requirements.
- Simulate inputs and test the annunciators. This requires specific knowledge of the system under test.
- Set sensitivity. This requires an understanding of the particular system, the specific application, and fire detection theory.
- Coordinate with fire department to test the input to their system.
- Check the battery for corrosion and expiration date, then take appropriate action, if necessary.
These steps seem simple enough, provided you have the knowledge. However, that knowledge is useless if you don't pay absolute attention to detail. Experience shows that maintenance technicians under pressure to keep production equipment running often overlook important details because "nothing is broken."
Standards and guidelines. Most system manufacturers recommend at least one full annual test and inspection after initial installation and acceptance. Various agencies, organizations, and local authorities recommend, and in some cases, mandate, testing intervals. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) provides the National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72. This standard deals with the application, installation, performance, and maintenance of protective signaling systems and their components. Chapter 7 is devoted to inspection, testing and maintenance. A table included in the document is several pages long and includes generators, batteries, interface equipment, and other aspects of fire detection and alarm systems.
The local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ) and insurance companies also influence, recommend, or set forth standards they deem necessary for the proper operation of life-safety systems. AHJs may establish guidelines that exceed NFPA guidelines.
In virtually all cases, the standards outline minimum requirements. The potential problem, however, is that not all fire alarm systems are subject to the same environmental and ambient conditions. Therefore, meeting minimum standards of all applicable codes and standards may not provide the optimum protection for a facility. Because of this, manufacturers' service organizations may recommend inspections and maintenance that exceed published standards and guidelines.
System maintenance. In addition to system age, you must consider budget and staffing resources. Does your staff have the time and expertise to properly maintain this critical life-safety system? Will it be more cost-effective to have the manufacturer's service organization or a contractor specializing in fire alarms perform the maintenance? The most stringent standards and guidelines are meaningless unless the people performing the inspection, testing, and maintenance are knowledgeable and qualified to service the fire alarm system.
Facility maintenance people usually don't possess the experience and knowledge found in manufacturer's service technicians, whose daily work revolves around fire alarm system technology in a variety of environments and circumstances. Some facilities have answered this problem by sending their people to factory-sponsored training courses. This approach works, if done on an ongoing basis.
You can get around the training dilemma by using a factory service agreement. These can range from a basic on-call agreement to regularly scheduled service visits. Emergency service offering four-hour and eight-hour response times, on a 24-hr-a-day basis, is an option available in most service agreements. This service usually provides response within the specified time, along with repair and replacement of equipment. Rapid emergency response is almost universal for the healthcare and lodging industries because of around-the-clock occupancy by staff, patients, and guests.
For most facilities, contracting out that function makes sense. Before you sign a maintenance agreement, though, ensure technicians are certified by the National Institute for the Certification of Engineering Technologies (NICET) and specialize in life safety. NICET certification indicates thorough knowledge of system installation and life cycle inspection, testing, and maintenance protocols. Some facilities have their own staff NICET certified.
The best-designed fire alarm system can be rendered ineffective, if improperly maintained. Each month, NFPA members read about fire catastrophes that a well-maintained system would have prevented. They also read about fires where properly functioning systems saved lives and reduced the business interruption. When you're pinched by budgets, it's tempting to take the risk that a fire won't happen and delay responsible decisions about your fire protection until the next quarter. However, courts have increasingly ruled against people who have made such decisions, and held them—and their managers—personally and criminally liable. You must ensure your fire protection system operates properly, even if that means dipping into other budgets.
Lohr is the director, service marketing for SimplexGrinnell LP, Westminster, Mass.


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White Papers and Application Notes
Heat and Mass Transfer in Convective Drying ProcessesC. Gavrila[1], A. Ghiaus[1], and I. Gruia[2]
[1]Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Faculty of Building Services, Bucharest, Romania
[2]University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, Bucharest, Romania
A dynamic mathematical model, based on physical and transport properties and mass and energy balances, was developed for the simulation of unsteady convective drying of agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) in static bed conditions. The model utilizes water sorption isotherm equations and the change in solid density due to the shrinkage phenomenon.
The aim of this article is to describe the modeling and simulation of the dehydration of grapes in a complex drying system processes. The model was applied to full scale experimental data with good results.


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