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All About Glass
All About Glass
This is your resource for exploring various topics in glass: delve deeper with this collection of articles, multimedia, and virtual books all about glass. Content is frequently added to the area, so check back for new items. If you have a topic you'd like to see covered, send us your suggestion. If you have a specific question, Ask a Glass Question at our Rakow Research Library.
"One of my big motivations for teaching is to share the information that I have and learn from other people working in the medium of cast glass. I think it's a very exciting medium for contemporary art and I'd love to see more work done in this area" says Richard Whiteley. Whiteley became
"My role when I am teaching is to just push people to make. For being a good dancer, you don't need to know a lot about technique – you have to stand up and dance," says Silvia Levenson. Levenson believes her work is an expression of her soul. She uses glass not for its natural beauty, but for its
See all of the construction of the new Contemporary Art + Design Wing condensed into two minutes and 14 seconds! Also watch highlights from the construction including the lift of the steel wall that became the 150-foot porch, and pouring the concrete floor that became the 26,000 square foot
Watch as Micah Evans demonstrates for his class, Design and Function, which focused on cultivating a productive design and the prototyping process.
Watch as Hugh Salkind demonstrates for Suellen Fowler's class, Flamework Glass Sculpting: Solid and Blown Forms. Salkind makes a marble at the torch using gold to create a pattern on one side and a fish-scale or dot stacking pattern on the flip side.
On this simple tumbler, small aqua rings hang freely from loops. See 360˚ photography and learn more about this object in The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking by William Gudenrath. The Venetian glass industry enjoyed a golden age during the Renaissance. By the early 1500s, the
This vessel is made using faux reticello, which produces an appearance similar to traditional reticello without the bubble at the intersection of the canes. See 360˚ photography and learn more about this object in The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking by William Gudenrath. The
Join Mark Matthews as he presents his Behind the Glass lecture "Origins, Inspirations, and Unprecedented Extrapolations: Confessions of a Glass Sphere Maker." Described by Matthews as a "comprehensive jaunt through my odyssey," he traces his development as a glass sphere artist
November's 2300° event featured artist Jaime Guerrero who joined the Hot Glass Demo team in the Amphitheater Hot Shop for his demonstration titled Refugees and Pinatas. Larkin Poe, an edgy folk-rock band formed by Atlanta-based sisters Megan and Rebecca, brought their high energy and
Watch as Mark Matthews demonstrates for his class, Graphic and Color Systems in Glass, which focused on freehand use of colored rods, powders, frits, and techniques such as color overlaying and cane making, to create combinations of graphic patterns and experiment with integrated color schemes.
At the December 2015 2300° event, visual artist Alli Hoag, performance artist Tinna Thorsteindottir, and their team from Bowling Green State University collaborated with our Hot Glass Demo team to bring sound and sight together for an unforgettable performance. Music by the high-energy and fun
See master gaffer James Mongrain and our Hot Glass Demo team explore traditional Venetian and Italian forms during Mongrain's extended stay as a guest artist in our Amphitheater Hot Shop. In this demo, Mongrain makes the decorative glass animals used later in the week in his 2300° demo. Watch
Guest artist James Mongrain took over the Amphitheater Hot Shop in this unforgettable 2300° glassmaking demo. Mongrain is known for his mastery of traditional Venetian glassmaking techniques and goblet-making skills and in this demo he made a large-scale work decorated with glass animals created
How can technologies enhance human sensation, imagination, skill, communication? These are the questions Yasuaki Kakehi seeks to address through his experiments with interactive tools, toys, and sculptures. An artist, scientist, and technologist, Kakehi challenges our perception of the boundaries
In his Behind the Glass lecture, SPACE: Real and Imagined, Tom Patti, who recently completed a Specialty Glass Residency in Corning, discusses his life and projects, including work created during his residency. Patti is the second artist to have completed this residency program, which is offered to
Three centuries ago, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek made hundreds of simple microscopes. He experimented with at least three methods to make their tiny lenses but kept his techniques secret. Based on scholarly research, this video made by The Corning Museum of Glass demonstrates how van Leeuwenhoek might
A short historical documentary initially premiered at the 2016 Glass Arts Society conference via public viewing stations.
Watch a functional, preserved 19th-century wooden lampworking table, complete with a leather bellows, in action. The Museum's wooden table is equipped with a foot-operated bellows that acts as an air compressor, pushing air through two hollowed out wooden pipes built into the table. The crossed
Watch what's happening inside the furnace when glassmakers take a gather. Animation by Brian Hewitt, Designer/Front-End Developer, and gathering and narration by Eric Meek, Hot Glass Show/GlassLab Manager.
Watch as Nick Mount demonstrates for his class, Taking the Next Step, which worked on a variety of forms and decorative techniques intended to push students to the next level. See the final piece starting at 1:27:34.
Low relief of glass is not simply the combination of kiln casting and flameworking. It is the creation of a new outcome: a new vision and a new point of view. It is widely known that when flameworked figures are 'sandwiched' by layers of cast glass in the hotshop, or kiln-casted, these figures
Emma Stein in inspired by patterns and circularity as they relate to nature and human history. As a teenager, she visited The Corning Museum of Glass, where she witnessed glassblowing for the first time. It ignited a passion that led to a life of exploring the material, focusing her work on the
Jackie Pancari loves discovering the ways glass and light interact. She thinks of her studio as "a laboratory where curiosity and imagination lead to experimentation and discovery." With an MFA from Alfred University School of Art, Pancari has exhibited her work across the U.S. and in Japan. She
Watch as Pavlína Čambalová demonstrates for her class, Experimental Glass Engraving, which focused on the basics of diamond wheel engraving as well as experimenting with various textures, deep carving, overlaid glass engraving, printing engraved sheets, and more.
Watch as Jeff Ballard demonstrates for his class, Gaffers Inc., which aimed to prepare students for the real world of glassblowing by helping them become 'gaffers,' or the people in charge of getting things done.
Watch as Simone Crestani demonstrates sculpting a large glass chicken for his class, Developing Your Idea in Boro, which focused on finding the best flameworking techniques to develop your projects.
Helen Tegeler is inspired by the transitional properties of plants, and extrapolates upon that in her work. From growth patterns and branching to surface textures and patterns, she feels there are infinite design possibilities when interpreting plants in glass. She loves exploring seeds, and the
John Miller, known for his large-scale pop art glass, creates a giant cupcake in celebration of The Studio's 20th birthday, including a not-to-be-missed ending!
Take a #cellfie in the Be Microscopic interactive in the Revealing the Invisible exhibition at the Rakow Research Library. This exhibition tells the story of the exploration of the microscopic world from the 1600s through the 1800s. Unleash your sense of discovery as you explore the invisible
Internationally known bead-maker Kristina Logan stepped away from the torch to collaborate with Corning Museum gaffers in creating a large blown glass work.


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Julia Alvidrez, Gawker Media's operations manager, is an unabashed fan of Bill Simmons and everything Grantland. She is also an occasional reader of Deadspin. Every week, she will recap Simmons's podcast, The B.S. Report, for us.
It's a rainy Monday morning here in Southern California. I know the B.S. Report Report usually comes to you on Fridays but this week I am on the West Coast; the time difference and traffic prevented me from fulfilling my weekly duty to you, dear readers. I hope you can forgive me. You would think that we would have a lot to catch up on, but last week was a lackluster in podcastland. Cousin Sal and Bill guess the Week 16 lines, Mike Lombardi doesn't spill the beans on any upcoming career changes, and Zach Lowe and someone with a crazy name talk NBA.
I was really depending on Cousin Sal and Bill to give me some insight into the Niners-Seahawks game. You see, this week I played for the championship in our office fantasy football league, and I have both Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson on my team. I was exhausting myself trying to decide which one to play and which one to bench. On one hand, I thought San Francisco was going to win, and I have a Niners sweatshirt. But I had been playing with Wilson for weeks; I feel loyal to him; Bill loves him; something about home-field advantage; and I like the Seahawks jerseys better. What's a girl to do?! Bill and Sal were no help so I chose to dance with the girl who brung me, and so I went with Wilson. If you watched the game last night, you know that my pocket is full of money this morning (well, it will be as soon as everyone ponies up!). There were two good things that came out of this week's podcast. First is the notion that Bill Clinton should take over for Roger Goodell as NFL commissioner. God, could you imagine—Clinton tooting his sax at halftime of the Super Bowl? Clinton feeling Ray Lewis's pain? Clinton executing Ndamukong Suh just to prove how tough he is on player health? I would just die to see this happen. Maybe I have a thing for Bills. Second is the collect-call voicemail that Bill left for Sal last week after the Seahawks played in Toronto. Listen in for our Sports Guy Moment of the Week.
Bill thinks Mike Lombardi is going to become a coach or something, but Mike's tightlipped and pretends he knows nothing. This makes for a boring podcast. I listened to it during my commute to work but I totally zoned out and missed most of the beginning. Then I tried to listen to it again on a flight and fell asleep. You know that cross-country flight is way waaaay too long. I can't even sit still for six minutes, let alone six hours. To make sure I don't go totally bonkers I've devised a pretty good system. I spend the first hour trying to get myself situated and entertained enough not to fall asleep before they bring the booze around. Something about the takeoff is really soothing to me and sometimes I pass out before we're even off the ground. This isn't a part of my plan. Then I try to chug a drink fast enough to make me drunksleepy so that I can nap through hours two, three, and four. Then hours five and six can be spent watching in-flight TV. If I am able to stick to this system I pop out of LAX looking and feeling like a spring lily. This last flight did not go according to plan. I fell asleep immediately because of the takeoff thing and because Lombardi was boring me to death. I woke up just as the stewardesses were banging the cart down the aisle. The drink only pepped me up. I tried to do some typing but I got motion-sick and I had to get up to go pee every hour. The only saving grace was that the Bo Jackson "30 For 30" was on ESPN and that made the whole nightmare worth it. Thanks, Bo. No thanks, Lombardi.
Zach Lowe joined Bill for another edition of Smart Guy Wednesdays. Are we really sticking with that name? Bill invents a fun game called "Agree or Disagree?" and presents Zach with a few statements to ponder such as:
"When Amar'e comes back he will screw up the Knicks."
"Miami is terrified that Chicago is going to get the 3 seed."
"It's more likely that Brooklyn will miss the playoffs than make the playoffs."
"Golden State will win 50 games this year."
"Minnesota is definitely a playoff team."
You get the point. Lowe disagreed with every one of them except for the last one. "This is a good podcast." To which Lowe agreed and giggled like a girl. I disagree. When you hear from me next, I will be back on the East Coast. Until then, Sports Guy, over and out.


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I think we can all agree with country music star Luke Bryan when he sings, But where I come from, rain is a good thing.
As we officially enter the summer season, we can only hope the skies above will start raining down on us. The dry climate puts great stress on our area farmers and ranchers. It cannot be overemphasized how important water is to our environment. It is the responsibility of everyone to do their best to conserve and manage this most precious resource.
The La Plata County 4-H Youth Development program strives to instill a strong sense of responsibility in our members. This is done with a variety of approaches. At an early age, members are expected to belong and participate in a local club. In addition, they successfully complete a 4-H year by finishing a project record book, attending an interview about their project, giving a demonstration to their peers and participating in a community service or service-learning activity. Furthermore, as members continue in the program, they are encouraged to take on more responsibility through becoming officers in their club and on a regional and state level.
These requirements can sometimes be very challenging and difficult. So we look to provide effective leadership and life skills trainings to build confidence to support our members. The rewards of responsibility are shown through the hard work our youths and adult members exhibit. Hard work builds talents and awareness of working together for a greater good. By belonging to this organization and having the responsibility of common struggles, challenges and goals, our members have a unique perspective of what it takes to be a part of a greater community.
Last week, I was able to witness this hard work in action. The Florida 4-Leaf Club hosted a Fun Festival at the Florida Grange. Club leader Kali Fassett helped organize and plan an opportunity for her members to have a meet-and-greet dinner with members of the community who are potential livestock buyers for the upcoming La Plata County Fair. Local businesses, banks, farmers and ranchers attended the event. Youth members were responsible for introducing themselves and talking to visitors about their projects and involvement in 4-H. Overall, it was a great way to establish strong youth adult partnerships through dialogue and build community through civic engagement.
This week, 18 La Plata County 4-H members and I are up at Colorado State University in Fort Collins for our annual 4-H State Conference. They are participating in contests related to their projects and attending workshops from motivational speakers about a variety of important leadership topics. These members will then have the responsibility to share what they learned and experienced to our members who could not attend.
Next week, we will have our local general projects day on Tuesday and livestock day on June 28 at the Extension office and Fairgrounds. Members please call to RSVP.
Finally, I have my dancing shoes on, so please, please, please: Let it rain.
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How to Create and Assign Named Vectors in R
You use the assignment operator (<-) to assign names to vectors in much the same way that you assign values to character vectors.
Imagine you want to create a named vector with the number of days in each month. First, create a numeric vector containing the number of days in each month. Then use the built-in dataset month.name for the month names, as follows:
> month.days <- c(31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31) > names(month.days) <- month.name > month.days January February March April 31 28 31 30 May June July August 31 30 31 31 September October November December 30 31 30 31
Now you can use this vector to find the names of the months with 31 days:
> names(month.days[month.days==31]) [1] "January" "March" "May" [4] "July" "August" "October" [7] "December"
This technique works because you subset month.days to return only those values for which month.days equals 31, and then you retrieve the names of the resulting vector.
The double equal sign (==) indicates a test for equality. Make sure not to use the single equal sign (=) for equality testing. Not only will a single equal sign not work, but it can have strange side effects because R interprets a single equal sign as an assignment. In other words, the operator = in many cases is the same as <-.


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6 Tips Starting a Home Business Service
Because of so many people getting lost their jobs in recent several weeks, home companies within the service industry has turned into a quickly growing trend. As regular job positions have become harder to locate, getting an online business services are growing in recognition. It's becoming a lot more attractive because the launch cost and overhead is extremely low compared to a physical service business.
If you've been considering making use of your talent to begin an online business service, and you're feeling that you're prepared to invest in supplying an online business service, then read these guidelines to help you get began.within the right direction.
First I must clarify what an online business service really is.
An online business services are conducting a service or task that can help others with tasks they either don't wish to perform or are not able to do by themselves. Something business supplies the reply to a necessity and will include everything from walking your dog to working out a clients taxes. Virtual assistants have grown to be the most popular service that's provided at home.
I am not likely to cover the advantages of getting an online business because it is already common understanding, I am certain that you know what your reasons are suitable for wanting for you to use home and why.
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1. Generate a Office At Home
Obtaining a office at home setup for your house business service is among the first things that should be done. Obtaining a business phone is an integral part of promoting something as you will have to have the ability to talk to clients. If this sounds like unthinkable from your budget, right now, obtain a business line added to your house phone once you can.
You may need a separate work place from all of those other house, especially if you're planning to possess clients come to your house.
2. You may need a Website
Explore just have a pc, that we assume you have as you are studying this short article, but you'll also require a website. An internet site would be the gateway for the business nearer your home. It's important to develop an online business for the business. The Phone Book are rapidly being a factor of history, and the price of running an advertisement within the Phone Book is frequently beyond small business owners financial means whilst in the launch process.
Getting an internet site is a lot more effective compared to Phone Book as possible up and indexed by days, while you need to wait for a next publication from the Phone Book to become printed. Also, increasing numbers of people 're going online to locate local services and companies than are searching within the Phone Book. Locating a listing online is faster and much more current the phonebook.
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You will have to be aware of legalities for registering your home based business service as well as for any zoning limitations which may be relevant for an online business where you live.. Every county in each and every condition has different laws and regulations and ordinances. The county clerk might be able to assist you with these details or will a minimum of have the ability to lead you right place to have it.
4. Obtain a Business License
You are able to usually purchase one at either the county court or even the county clerk's office.. The license will not set you back anything, but when your company is began it will likely be exposed to a new tax structure.
I'm not a tax attorney and can't offer any suggestions about the tax exemptions for the condition or with the us government. What I will tell you, is that you'll be permitted more exemptions that you're getting let's focus on making use of your home for the business.
5. Generate a Strategic Business Plan and hang Goals
Getting an online business service can be cultivated right into a very lucrative business. Make sure to possess a definite strategic business plan strategy labored out that's measurable and which you can use like a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly guide. Make sure to set goals that may be achieved. Set your beginning goals in small time period increments. Mix them off your list if you have achieved them after which add bigger goals to shoot for.
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Acquire some business card printing designed to hands to everybody where you live that you simply are exposed to. Who knows once the service you're supplying is going to be needed locally. You will get business card printing online for free at Vista Print.com. You pay the shipping that is about $6.00
Print fliers with information on the service you're supplying and don't forget to incorporate your site URL as well as your home telephone number. Pay a higher school kid locally to pass through them out for you personally.
Put fliers and business card printing on advertising boards at supermarkets, liquor stores, apartment structures, laundromats, the publish office, and any other vacation spot you are able to consider that will permit advertising.
Provide a free offer with your home based business service. Vista Print frequently has promotions on free advertising venues for example purses, publish cards, refrigerator magnets, etc.
Place small ads in local newspaper and free press newspapers. Place ads on internet sites for example C-list, eBay, and USFreeAds. Make sure to list your home based business service with Google Local Directory so that you can go on their own Goggle business map for the area.
Use viral marketing, e-mail marketing and article promotion online to obtain people aimed at your website. Submit an announcement regarding your start up business both offline an internet-based. There are many free services you are able to undergo. Perform a Search to locate them. Before you begin receiving clients, spend all your scheduled work time marketing your home based business service both offline and online.
Once you begin receiving clients it may be tough to manage your projects time, your marketing time and your loved ones time. Plan accordingly. Schedule business tasks that should be done daily between time spent with clients. Set a restriction regarding once the workday will finish to be able to spend more time with the household. I really hope these couple of tips provides you with a starting point to get your home based business service off the floor and running.
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LOS ANGELES - In the upcoming video game "Wolfenstein: The New Order," players will be doing only one thing - killing Nazis - but the creators at MachineGames, who have never before taken on a "Wolfenstein" game, have added several updates to make the 32-year-old first-person shooter franchise feel modern.
"New Order" is celebrating the kamikaze style of the "Wolfenstein" series, which essentially launched the first-person shoot-'em-up genre, while reinventing it with a story line reminiscent of "Inglourious Basterds" and "Captain America."
For the first time, Army Ranger protagonist William "B.J." Blazkowitz is illustrated as a real person and not another action hero. "New Order," set for release May 20 for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PC, is giving Blazkowitz a back story, moral choices and a love interest.
After spending a few hours with the first three chapters of the PS4 edition, I discovered five ways this "Wolfenstein" is different from its predecessors:
The bulk of "New Order" is set in an alternate rendition of the 1960s where the Nazis rule. After taking some shrapnel to the head during a secret mission, Blazkowitz spends 14 years in a coma in a Polish hospital. He awakens to find himself in a world completely controlled by the Nazis.
During the first chapter, Blazkowitz is forced to choose who will live among a pair of his squad mates. It's unclear what impact that will have on the rest of the game, but the question gives "New Order" a sense of morality, unlike previous editions of "Wolfenstein," where choices consisted of deciding which body parts to shoot.
"New Order" forgoes the wacky supernatural elements from prior "Wolfenstein" games in favor of heavy metal. The brutal Nazi regime depicted here employs all manner of robotic technology, from swarms of deadly soldiers equipped with mechanized suits to massive laser-wielding behemoths that patrol the battlefields. There's even a pack of vicious robo-dogs.
Anya Oliwa, Blazkowitz's nurse while he was recuperating in the hospital, is also serving as his love interest in "New Order." After rescuing her from drone-equipped Nazi forces, one early mission finds the pair sneaking behind enemy lines with the aid of her gun-toting grandparents.
In a nod to old-school shooters, "New Order" requires players to scour the landscape and loot victims to replenish health and armor instead of relying on regeneration. If a player's health is maxed out, Blazkowitz temporarily becomes overpowered. The boost lends itself to frenetically running into skirmishes in order to take advantage of the fleeting vigor.


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I just filed this story to the Post's online folks. Not sure how long it'll take to post it, so I thought I'd just cut and paste it here, too. Bottom line: the Avs were banged up worse than people thought:
By Adrian Dater, The Denver Post
How bad was the Avalanche's injury situation by the end of the season Thursday night?
So bad that two players who were on the ice in the season finale at the Pepsi Center against the Detroit Red Wings were playing on broken feet. Avs vice president Jean Martineau today disclosed that defenseman Scott Hannan and forward Ian Laperriere played with broken bones in their feet.
Martineau also said that star left winger Peter Forsberg didn't have one groin injury, he had two. Trying to stay onsides in Game 3, Forsberg pulled his right groin. He already was playing with his left groin area heavily wrapped.
Also, Paul Stastny tore his medial collateral ligament in Game 3 after a freak collision with Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk. That injury would have kept Stastny sidelined about four weeks, but Stastny is expected to make a full recovery.
And, Avs winger Wojtek Wolski suffered five cracked ribs in Game 1, after another freak collision with Johan Franzen – after Franzen had been leveled on a hip check from Ruslan Salei.
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Having said that, the two highlighted DGWs lie with Arsenal and Chelsea who both enjoy a nice run of fixtures leading into the double. Arsenal in particular look to be the best investment this week though it is tough to read their injury situation with any certainty as the promising return of Fabregas and Walcott has been limited with Wenger stating he "has not decided if they will start the game". With Van Persie also facing a late fitness the Arsenal stars look to be risky plays this week though with by the far the best fixture they might just be worth the gamble. With Denilson sidelined I would think Fabregas is the most likely to return though I think I prefer Lampard over the next 3 or 4 gameweeks. My advice would be to bring in a role player like Nasri and go with Van Persie if your current front man is an injury doubt (like Tevez).
Clean Sheet Rankings
- Man City
- Arsenal
- Newcastle
- Birmingham
- Chelsea
- Everton
- Bolton
- Fulham
- Stoke
- West Brom
- Tottenham
- Man Utd
- Sunderland
- West Ham
- Liverpool
- Blackpool
- Wigan
- Aston Villa
- Wolves
- Blackburn
- Arsenal
- Everton
- Tottenham
- Man Utd
- Man City
- West Brom
- Fulham
- Liverpool
- West Ham
- Chelsea
- Blackpool
- Aston Villa
- Wolves
- Newcastle
- Wigan
- Bolton
- Blackburn
- Birmingham
- Stoke
- Sunderland
Arsenal players are clearly the most attractive here with their predicted 3.5 goals leading the pack this week. The injury doubts make it hard to pick too many captain options and you might consider someone like Nasri who has been solid on his return from injury (3.7 PPG, 2 assists in 3 games). Of the bigger names I think Fabregas is most likely to start though with potential penalty and free kick duties, Van Persie probably has the higher upside. The Dutchman has been sensational in the second half of the season (9.00 PPG, 11 goals in 8 games) and if fit is the pick for the remainder of the year. The Arsenal defense is a little tricky to forecast and without the budget Djorou it's hard to get too excited about this unit (especially with Almunia between the pipes).
Chelsea don't have the ideal fixture this week (at Stoke is the sixth hardest game you can have in terms of average goals conceded) but they are starting to show some form both up front (17 goals in the last 8 including 7 in the last 3) and at the back (4 clean sheets in the last 8 games including 2 in the last 4). No one has been better over that period than Lampard who has 6.67 PPG in the second half including 47 in the last 6 games. Given his low ownership (7%), penalty duties and solid fixtures, Lampard is my main transfer target for this week and is my number one rated midfielder from now through GW35. Interestingly he has actually performed better away from home of late with a 7.2 PPG average away from Stamford Bridge.
The theoretically sensational pairing of Drogba and Torres looks too pricey right now having really struggled to gel together and I would pass on both. If you are desperate to ditch Tevez and are scared of Van Persie's injury I would favour Torres here based on his ownership (7%) but I wouldn't be thrilled to own him right now.
There was once a time when the Chelsea defense was so good that the likes of Cole and Terry deserved captain consideration every week. I'm not suggesting they're there yet but Luiz clearly looks like a good capture and with a couple of goals to his name already, he seems to be one of the more offensively promising defenders around. Captain status this week is a stretch but he is my number one defensive target and at 6.3m looks like a potential steal yet to be fully exploited (6%).
Tim Cahill has the fixture but lacks the form or fitness and Everton lack the talent elsewhere on their roster to justify consideration here.
For Spurs, Van der Vaart appears to be fit enough to consider owning but it might be a bit early to hand him the arm band just yet. Teammate Bale is banged up and cannot be considered here at the moment.
United's trip to Upton Park is trickier than it looks (two straight clean sheets) though the Hammers can still be leaky and United should have some joy. Rooney and Nani are obviously the first thoughts and both have shown excellent form of late (Nani 7.3 PPG, Rooney 7.4 PPG over the past 8 GWs). Nani's struggles on the road (5.2 PPG vs 9.75 PPG at Old Trafford) suggest that perhaps Rooney is the better pick here though do check who your opponents look to captain this week if you are leading your league (Nani is more likely the pick with 42% ownership). The presence of Hernandez makes Berbatov un-captainable and possibly un-ownable right now.
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Every move you make now needs to be made with an eye on the remainder on the season so I thought it might be useful to highlight the strength of schedules for the final run in:
Strength of Schedule remaining (defensive)
(in order of total predicted goals conceded, games conceding less than a goal in parenthesis)
- Chelsea (7)
- Man City (5)
- Sunderland (5)
- Man Utd (4)
- Arsenal (3)
- Fulham (4)
- Liverpool (4)
- Bolton (3)
- Stoke (2)
- Tottenham (3)
- Birmingham (4)
- Aston Villa (4)
- Blackburn (3)
- Everton (1)
- Newcastle (1)
- Wolves (0)
- Wigan (0)
- West Ham (0)
- West Brom (0)
- Blackpool (0)
(in order of total predicted goals scored, predicted games scoring over 1.5 goals in parenthesis)
- Arsenal (7)
- Man Utd (6)
- Chelsea (6)
- Newcastle (4)
- Everton (3)
- Man City (4)
- Blackpool (4)
- Tottenham (4)
- West Ham (3)
- West Brom (2)
- Liverpool (3)
- Wolves (2)
- Bolton (2)
- Aston Villa (4)
- Blackburn (1)
- Stoke (2)
- Fulham (2)
- Sunderland (2)
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IRVINE, Calif. – UC Irvine senior Kassandra McCalister torched UC Santa Barbara for a career-high 36 points and handed out five assists to lead UCI to a 72-65 win over the Gauchos on Saturday night at the Bren Events Center.
McCalister, who previously lit up the Gauchos in the Anteaters' win in January in the Thunderdome for 21 points, went on a half-turning 8-0 run in the first half and then a 9-0 run by herself in the second half to turn the game around.
Kirsten Tilleman's basket with 4:43 left gave UCSB a 58-57 lead, the Gauchos' first since midway through the first half, but McCalister scored the next nine points to give the Anteaters back control. UCSB had its three-game winning streak snapped and falls to 11-14 overall and 5-7 in the Big West. UC Irvine improves to 12-14, 8-6.
The Gauchos seemed to be their own worst enemy for much of the night as the team committed 18 turnovers, leading to 27 UCI points. Between that and McCalister's torrid shooting, UCSB was fortunate to be in the game. However Santa Barbara shot 49.0% from the floor to keep countering its turnovers and McCalister, who was 15 of 16 from the free throw line and buried five three-pointers.
The 36 points scored by McCalister was the most by a Gaucho opponent since Felicia Ragland had 36 against UCSB in January, 2002. Ironically, McCalister transferred from Oregon State to UC Irvine. The senior's total equaled the eighth-most points allowed by an opponent in program history.
UCSB came out on first to open the game, leading 12-7 early on. But McCalister heated up and went on her 8-0 run to swing the game back to UCI's favor. Destini Mason knocked down a 17-foot jumper from the left side near the end of the first half to bring the Gauchos to 34-32, but said something that caught a referee's ire and was given a technical foul.
McCalister hit both free throws and Kelly Meggs nailed a three, one of 12 by Irvine on the night, to create a five-point swing.
The Gauchos went on a 17-4 run midway through the second half to take its one-point lead with just under five minutes remaining, but on senior night in Irvine, McCalister made sure she left in good form and finished off the Gauchos.
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The Very Ugly Side of Mike Huckabee
This was the same depraved character who "joked" about Obama diving for cover from assasins.
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Mike Huckabee, presidential aspirant and former governor of Arkansas is a dangerous politician who prays harm on president Obama judging by his false and malicious statements.
It's one thing to criticize and oppose the president on policy --as this newspaper also often does-- but it's unconscionable to make statements that are completely false and made to create resentment towards the president by promoting the false notion that he is not an American and also un-American.
During a radio appearance on WOR's "The Steve Malzberg Show" Huckabee maligned President Obama using cheap shots he knows still appeals to part of the U.S. populace that crave for the "good old days."
The show's host brought up the tired and discredited issue of President Obama's citizenship which has been peddled by the show-me-your-birth-certificate lunatic brigade, and asked Huckabee whether he wasn't bothered that some people didn't know enough about Obama. The good ex-governor did not refute the false notion that the president wasn't a U.S. citizen. He thereby provided credence and endorsement.
Then Huckabee, now warmed up, went further, tossing more meat to conspiracy theorists and even White supremacist. "I would love to know more--what I know is troubling enough," the racial arsonist chimed. "One thing that I do know is that, his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits for example; very different than the average American."
One need not be a rocket scientist to figure out what Huckabee's concept of this "average American" is and how she or her looks; or does not look.
There is malicious in the remarks since Huckabee knows that Obama did not grow up in Kenya. He was born in Hawaii, where he grew up, and also lived for some time in Indonesia, when his mother married an Indonesian.
"When he gave the bust--the bust of Winston Churchill back to the Brits, a great insult to the British," Huckabee added. "But then if you think about it, his perspective, growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya is very different from ours because he probably grew up thinking the British were a bunch of Imperialist who persecuted his grandfather.."
Again correction--Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Yet there are many people who have a different perspective about the history of British colonial rule in Africa that may differ from Mike Huckabee's, including the Kenyans killed during the Mau Mau and those whose lands were stolen.
What's more, the British were in fact Imperialists, in case Huckabee forgot; at one point they did not want to leave America. Even Sarah Palin knows that the American War of Independence was fought against the British, Mr. Huckabee.
Does Huckabee care about facts and accuracy? Of course not, since he does not challenge the shows's host, who at some point exclaims, referring to Obama, "Oh, he despises the West, he despises the Brits and I think he can take it all out on Israel...."
We are only in March, 2011. The next presidential election isn't until November 2012, but Huckabee, a Southerner who knows that race-bating can earn votes, has already started to display his ugly side. After all, this was the same depraved character who is so fixated on Obama that during the last general election he made a joke about Obama diving for cover from assassins.
People often think out and "joke" about what they hope for. Shame on the despicable Mike Huckabee.
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I have a few duck legs that I made a confit from earlier this week. I'm thinking of serving them with Parmesan Dauphinoise and some beans from the garden tonight. I was wonderring though, what would be the traditional accompaniment for duck confit?
In southwest of France, we serve confit with "pommes sarladaises", which are more or less fries cooked in duck fat in a pan. There is also garlic and parsley.
You can use confit in "cassoulet" as well. This is something like chili con carne with white beans instead of red ones, onion, carrot, tomato, garlic (and many other secrets which change from home to home).
EDIT: A variant of "pommes de terre sarladaises" includes mushrooms, in particular "cèpes" (Boletus edulis) together with potatoes.
I saw on the wikipedia entry that pommes de terre à la sarladaise was the traditional accompaniment, but having never been to France I couldn't be sure. It's good to have it confirmed by an actual Frenchman. – hobodave Sep 18 '10 at 23:14
Purple Cabbage.
I fry it with onions, balsamic, and something to sweeten it a bit. (Maple Syrup, Honey, Red Currant Jam). Goes nicely with duck.
also consider an Onion Marmalade.
When I've eaten it in south west France it's almost always with parboiled potatoes 'roughed up' by shaking in a pan with the lid on with some crushed garlic, then roast in the oven in the duck fat from the tin and served with French beans.
So I'd say you are not a million miles away from it, especially as the other times have been with douphinoise.
A complement of duck is apple sauce, or sage and onion.
Duck does of course have a traditional (albeit perhaps no longer mainstream) place in European cuisine, for which there are many different ways of severing it. However, if you're a fan of Chinese cuisine I highly recommend trying plum sauce as an accompaniment. This is a traditional and common way of serving (crispy) duck Chinese-style - not least in take-aways! If you're feeling bold, you may even want to try making it yourself.
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Heroes come in many shapes, sizes, situations, and packages. A hero to one person is not necessarily a hero to another. This day in history provides a chance for students to explore the definition of a hero. Have students ask at least three people (one who is their age, one who is younger, and one who is older) these questions:
- Who is someone you identify as a hero?
- Why do you think that person is a hero?
Once they've gathered their interview answers, ask students to share them with the class. Have them explore, as a class, the characteristics that are repeated and the reasons for any commonalities found in the results. Additionally, ask students to note anything particularly unusual in the responses. Then, use the interactive Venn diagram to create a classroom Venn diagram with three circles, each identifying one of the most common characteristics of a hero. Finally, have students place each of the heroes' names on the appropriate place in the Venn diagram.
When everyone has had a chance to share their findings, students can create posters that include pictures of their own heroes and words that describe the qualities that make each one heroic.
- America's Story: Amelia Earhart
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- The Flight of Amelia Earhart
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Iowa Lawmakers Luring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series With Expansion Plan
For NASCAR fans in South Dakota, the closest to live Sprint Cup racing you can get is a 360-mile jaunt south to Kansas Speedway. Or you could head east about 575 miles and take in a race at Chicagoland Speedway.
Those tracks are similar in nature as 1.5-mile ovals that create amazing amounts of speed. In some circles those tracks have been derided as "cookie-cutter" tracks because there are so many facilities of that type where NASCAR currently race. Atlanta, Charlotte, Kentucky, Homestead and Texas come to mind.
Our friends in Iowa are trying to figure out a way to get their own brand of racing on the top circuit. The State Legislature is currently considering a plan that would funnel $8 million to the Iowa Speedway in Newton, just east of Des Moines. The track is about 320 miles from Sioux Falls.
The track capacity currently is 40,000 seats. The track hosts two NASCAR Nationwide Series events and one Camping World Truck Series competition. Even an IndyCar event is staged at the track. If Sprint Cup would ever consider joining the ranks, it would be a major accomplishment. However, for that to happen about 100,000 seats would be needed. Thus the need for a huge bump draft from the elected officials. Then there is the obstacle of actually being awarded a date on the schedule. NASCAR is not looking to add a date to the 36-event schedule. Nor will the sanctioning body be willing to horse trade with another track to let Iowa Speedway host a premier event. Would the drivers like to take one less trip to Pocono? Maybe. Also if there would be a track that has trouble putting fans in the stands for one or two events, there could be a shift.
The track is uniquely configured with a distance of .875 miles, which technically makes it a short track. Plus Rusty Wallace, the man who designed the place was extremely successful at races with distances of less than a mile around the joint. Not much of a stretch that he built it with his preferences in mind. As far as the action, one case could be made that it would be an upgrade for NASCAR as the Nationwide Series footage at the top would attest.
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Psychopathy: Continuous or Categorical?
I've been thinking about the "continuous vs categorical" debate in relation to psychopathy. I just started reading a book called "Thinking about Psychopaths and Psychopathy" edited by Ellsworth Lapham Fersch. It's a collection of questions and answers from seminars he's given on psychopathy, with contributions by various academics. Based on Fersch's introduction, it looks is promising and insightful. However, I wonder if Fersch really "gets it". While he talks about the importance of psychopathy quite eloquently and identifies the problems inherent in the conflation of psychopathy with antisocial personality disorder, there is a question and answer in the first chapter that is puzzling. (It is possible one of his colleagues answered this question, as the individual author is not listed for each section.)
In this question on the debate between psychopathy as either categorical (i.e. you either have it or you don't, like Turner's syndrome) or continuous (the extreme end of traits shared by everyone, e.g. someone with very high intelligence), he firmly takes the "continuous" side. However, I get the impression that he does so without understanding the crux of the matter, the implications of such a position.
He concludes that psychopathy is continuous because the PCL-R gives results on a spectrum (0 being "least psychopathic", 40 being "most psychopathic"), and because people can score low on the checklist (and thus, technically, have "psychopathic" traits), that people are only "more or less" psychopathic. In other words, because non-psychopaths can score more than 0 on the test and not be considered psychopaths, Fersch concludes that psychopaths only have extreme degrees of more or less "normal" human traits.
I think he is correct, but not for the reasons he would argue, because his argument is fairly weak and susceptible to distortion. First of all, the fact that the PCL-R measures a spectrum of traits does NOT mean that it is measuring a disorder which is itself a "spectrum". The fact that there is no definite "cut off point" on the scale does NOT mean that psychopathy is not categorical. It could just as well mean that we do not yet have the means of identifying an exact cut off point, or that there could be two distinct taxons (normal and psychopathic) that can overlap on the scale.
It is also possible that psychopathy is both categorical and continuous, i.e. that a person is either a psychopath or not, and that those who are psychopaths show a spectrum of indicators of psychopathy (theoretically, all psychopaths would have a majority, perhaps all, of the traits listed in the PCL-R, but they may not be detectable by known personal history and interview).
A thought experiment will make this clearer. Imagine that scientists create a robotic human with artificial intelligence, which will then be tested using a variation on the Turing test, which we will call the "human" test. Questions are asked to the robot based on a checklist of human traits. A normal human, responding to the test, will receive a score of 30 to 40, while primitive forms of AI will receive a low score. Severely mentally ill people may score in the mid-range.
Let us say that our new robot scores 26. It would be fallacious to say that, because the test is continuous, that this implies that the robot is "more or less" human. All it shows is that it shares traits with a human, and these traits may be mere programs. They are algorithms, not experiences with syntactical content. They only give the appearance of humanity.
In this example, one is either a human or not. A human will score mid- to high-range on on the scale, depending on various factors. A non-human will score low- to mid-range. In addition to this categorical difference (human or not), there is a spectrum of how "close" to human a non-human can test. Some robots will test 0 on the scale, while those with complex programming may score fairly high. However, this just shows the limits of the method of testing. Conclusions about the nature of the phenomenon cannot be discerned from measurements of a limited test.
So how do we account for seemingly psychopathic traits in non-psychopaths? I think this can be explained fairly easily. Lobaczewski describes psychopathy as a deficit, NOT an excess. That is, psychopathy is a LACK of certain essential human qualities, and this lack gives rise to the peculiarities of psychopathy. In the case of psychopathy, this lack is syntonic (social) emotions: those responsible for bonding and empathy. Because of this lack, psychopaths see people as objects and a lifestyle develops that makes use of these objects (parasitic, manipulative). Lacking "other-centered" emotions, psychopaths are wholly self-centered (traits which normal humans DO possess, in varying strengths when compared to their other-centered emotions), and thus grandiose, not able to take responsibility. They are unable to feel guilt.
The LACK is what categorically makes them psychopaths, the cause which gives rise to their psychopathic traits WHICH NORMAL HUMANS CAN SHARE. Dabrowski, a contemporary of Lobaczewski, and his concept of multilevelness of emotional functions, provides the necessary context. Normal humanity DOES exist on a spectrum. Many exist with a low level of emotional development, what Dabrowski called primary integration, thus they can be extremely self-centered and even possess many psychopathic traits. As such, normal people can have very poorly developed "other-centered" emotions (and thus the possibility to develop them), the difference being that psychopaths LACK these emotions.
It is also possible that non-psychopathic individuals can originally have such a potential for growth, yet at some point in their lives acquire brain damage that severely alters their emotions and behavior. They can also "learn" psychopathic behaviors. These people may even achieve the same score on the PCL-R as a real psychopath, but people like Fersch don't seem to see this possibility: that the PCL-R is not a perfect measure of psychopathy. It is very effective, but it is not 100% accurate. So the fact that the scale is continuous does NOT imply that the disorder is continuous.
That said, it seems that other factors may be responsible for the continuity WITHIN psychopathy, for example, hippocampus size. Successful psychopaths are perhaps just better at masking their traits, so that an interview and personal history would not necessarily reveal these traits. If we had omniscience, perhaps we would be able to make an accurate diagnosis for these cases, but a mid-range PCL-R score does not necessarily mean that a person is not psychopathic. It could simply be the result of insufficient data.
So it is important to make a distinction between the continuous nature of the PCL-R as an instrument of measurement, and and the nature of psychopathy as a categorical disorder, or taxon. To ignore this distinction is dangerous. As Lobaczewski related from his experience in Poland, pathocratic authorities muddy the waters of psychopathy research so as to evade detection. They do this by creating a "catch-all" phrase for criminal deviance. We have seen this phenomenon in American psychiatry where the official DSM-IV only recognizes "antisocial personality disorder", a catchall label that can apply to both psychopaths and non-psychpoaths. Psychopathy is NOT included in the DSM-IV, and is thus not officially recognized as a valid personality disorder by the Manual.
This might have been enough in pathocracies such as in the Soviet empire, thus providing "cover" for psychopaths who do not fit the diagnosis of "antisocial personality disorder". However, the concept of psychopathy, thanks to Cleckley and Hare, seems too well established in the scientific literature to be so easily embargoed. Thus, a new tactic was needed. Viewing psychopathy as simply an "extreme" form of normality robs us of any real understanding of the disorder.
The entire makeup of a psychopath is qualitatively different from a normal human: their thinking, their worldview, their behavior. It is this "otherness" that is responsible for their dreams of Empire and world domination. By bracketing the true nature of psychopathy from our awareness, we give up any hope of identifying the root cause of the social disease which threatens to choke humanity's life in the near future.


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Catalog of the exhibition edited by Victor Mair. Bowers Museum, 223 pp., $39.95
After three and a half weeks the "Secrets of the Silk Road" exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology—a collection of some 125 astonishing artifacts from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China—continues as a ghost of its former self. Life-size photos now replace the original artifacts that have been sent back to China, and wooden replicas (constructed by the museum's modeler) mimic its vanished mummies. The Chinese unexpectedly withdrew their exhibits. Yet in the brief weeks of its showing, the full exhibition was seen by an unprecedented 42,000 visitors, the opening hours were extended, and whatever politics prompted the Chinese decision resulted in more—but baffled—publicity.
On the face of it the exhibition is more specialized and narrow than its Silk Road name implies. (The trade routes of the Silk Road interwove across all Asia from China to the Mediterranean.) Yet paradoxically the exhibition is also more ambitious. For it concentrates almost exclusively on the ancient civilizations of China's giant northwest province of Xinjiang, a land divided between high northern grasslands and—crucially—southern desert, whose sands have preserved many artifacts eerily intact.
The provenance of this region's early peoples is controversial. Traces of their presence date back to at least 2000 BC, and the direction from which they first reached the edges of Xinjiang's bitter Taklamakan Desert is still uncertain. Some scholarly opinion locates their origins in the Andronovo culture of the Eurasian steppe, or perhaps still farther west on the fringes of Europe itself—and recent DNA analysis appears to support this.
But around the third century BC, the westward counterflow of Mongoloid peoples began in earnest, and some of the early sites in Xinjiang now lie a thousand miles within the borders of modern China. The complex ethnicity of the region's inhabitants, the scattered sites of their settlement, and the intermittent centuries of their arrival all militate against their being better known. The culture and even the appearance of the earliest settlers—locked in uncannily preserved mummies—are not Chinese at all, but Caucasoid. They belong, astonishingly, with the West.
If there is a guiding theme in the museum's presentation, it is the insistence on Western origins and influence. One of the most striking exhibits is a kneeling bronze warrior from the fifth century BC, a figure of Scythian extraction perhaps, or even Hellenic. The remains of a handsome tapestry (later sewn into a pair of trousers) feature a warrior of fleshy Europoid features and wide blue eyes, with a centaur cantering across the panel above (see illustration on page 18). The exhibition's early robes, it…
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If you think earth-friendly design is earth-toned, you haven't seen interior designer Tobi Fairley in action. The Little Rock-based design dynamo lights up rooms with playful palettes that are eco-kind.
After being named by readers at the Arkansas Times as the state's Best Interior Designer, Tobi was asked to design two rooms in an energy-efficient charity showhouse near Hot Springs.
She enlivened the master bedroom and attached sunroom with a tangerine-and-turquoise color combo, using a mix of new and recycled furnishings, organic fabrics, and low-VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints.
"I started with color," says the designer, who chose an organic cotton in an ethereal aqua floral from Rubie Green for draperies and sofa. Vintage chairs were re-covered in vibrant orange linen for blasts of boldness.
Salvaging discarded furniture and decorative items is an easy and creative way to be environmentally responsible, Tobi says, especially given today's ever-growing choices in natural- and recycled-fiber fabrics and low- and no-VOC paints.
"The sky's the limit when it comes to color, especially with paint," Tobi says. "You don't necessarily have to buy new furnishings in the colors you want. You can create the look by painting items to fit your palette."
The bases of two flea-market-find table lamps were painted orange and topped with new linen shades. A past-its-prime desk looks years younger with a coat of turquoise paint.
A collection of mismatched, discarded frames was repaired, painted orange, and arranged on the wall. "Rather than being used to frame art, the frames are the art," Tobi says.
More color and artistry are provided by circa-1930 mint-green jadeite plates arranged around a large new mirror.
"People are looking for ways to take older things and make them fresh again. That's a lot of what drove my design for this space," Tobi says. Recycling makes for more interesting interiors, too, she adds. "Nobody else is going to have your grandmother's furniture painted chartreuse. That is going to add so much personality to a space."
Not every item in the room is sustainable, she admits, but that's part of the message, too. "Green design doesn't have to be all or nothing. We want people to introduce sustainable products into their homes when they can but not feel guilty if everything they buy isn't green," she says. "It's OK to start small. Just introducing 10 or 20 percent sustainable product can make a difference to the environment."
Happily, there are more eco-friendly interior design products introduced every day, Tobi says, including fabrics, wall coverings, furniture, and lighting.
The bed headboard is upholstered in organic cotton, and most of the bed linens are also organic cotton.
For the sunroom, Tobi chose a daybed made with sustainable lumber, covered in organic cotton, and softened with soy-based cushions. An aqua curio cabinet and sideboard are from Stanley Furniture, which sources nearly 75 percent of its raw materials within 500 miles of its Virginia and North Carolina manufacturing facilities. In Tobi's showhouse rooms, many of the light fixtures are fitted with energy-efficient LED (light-emitting diode) bulbs.
"I feel it's our duty to be responsible stewards of the environment," Tobi says. "It's my job as a designer to bring information to clients and show them opportunities for using sustainable products in their homes."
Photography: Nancy Nolan
Interior design: Tobi Fairley, Tobi Fairley Interior Design, 5507 Ranch Drive, Suite 103, Little Rock, AR 72223; 501/868-9882, tobifairley.com.
The bed headboard is upholstered in an organic cotton fabric. The Pottery Barn (potterybarn.com) bedskirt and Rubie Green floral pillow shams are also organic cotton.
The vintage desk and chair are refreshed with low-VOC Sherwin-Williams Harmony paint in "Lark Green" on the desk and "Reclining Green" on the chair.
Headboard fabric (organic cotton); floral pillow shams ("Patsy"/Blue): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Bed skirt ("Organic Supima"): Pottery Barn, 800/922-5507, potterybarn.com.
Bed cover: Bed Bath & Beyond, bedbathandbeyond.com.
Tray on bed: Dransfield & Ross, 212/741-7278, dransfieldandross.biz.
Turquoise desk: vintage.
Paint color on desk ("Lark Green" #SW6745): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Desk chair: Fabulous Finds, 501/614-8181.
Paint color on desk chair ("Reclining Green" #SW6744): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Fabric on desk chair seat ("Imperial Trellis II"/Ivory, Mandarin): Schumacher, 800/523-1200.
Shell art over desk (giclée prints): Soicher-Marin, 941/308-7500, soicher-marin.com.
Desk lamp (#S302HAB-NP): Visual Comfort & Co., 713/686-5999, visualcomfort.com.
Magnifying glass: Global Views, globalviews.com.
Coral drawing: Natural Curiosities, 323/906-1083, naturalcuriosities.com.
Terrarium: Roost, 415/339-9500, roostco.com.
Glass jars: vintage telephone wire insulators.
Drapery ("Patsy"/Blue): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Beige table: vintage.
Finish on vintage table ("Navajo White" #SW6126): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Celadon table lamp (#L-M/1001SMA): Festoni, 713/830-1077, festoni.com.
Shell art above table (Albertus prints): Trowbridge Gallery, 404/816-8612, trowbridgegallery.com.
Jadeite plates from the 1930s found at an antiques store enhance a new mirror. Walls are "Navajo White," one of the Sherwin-Williams Harmony low-VOC paints.
The curio cabinet is from Stanley Furniture, one of the founders of the Sustainable Furnishings Council, which promotes environmentally responsible practices (our worldmadebetter.com).
Organic cotton floral fabric from Rubie Green in a serene aqua accents the silhouette of a vintage sofa (rubiegreen.com).
Sofa: vintage.
Sofa fabric ("Patsy"/Blue): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Turquoise pillow on sofa: Bed Bath & Beyond, bedbathandbeyond.com.
Bench (#8910-88): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Bench fabric ("Imperial Trellis II"/Ivory, Mandarin): Schumacher, 800/523-1200, fschumacher.com.
Orange chair: vintage.
Chair fabric; orange pillow on sofa: Cynthia East Fabrics, 501/663-0460, cynthiaeastfabrics.com.
Mirror behind sofa ("Lily Mirror"): Oly, 775/336-2100, olystudio.com.
Green plates (vintage, "Laurel" pattern by McKee Glassworks): Crystal Hill Antique Mall, 501/753-3777.
Garden stool ("Lattice Garden Stool"): Emissary Home & Garden, 800/848-5997, emissaryusa.com.
Wall paint ("Navajo White" #SW6126): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
China cabinet ("Continuum China Display Cabinet"/Ocean finish #816-31-11): Stanley Furniture, stanleyfurniture.com.
Recycled frames and seashells make a bold focal point. Frames were unified with Sherwin-Williams Harmony "Rejuvenate," a low-VOC paint.
The floral draperies are in organic cotton from Rubie Green, a company founded by designer Michelle Adams to promote stylish and eco-kind products (rubiegreen.com).
Drapery ("Patsy"/Blue): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Beige table: vintage.
Finish on vintage table ("Navajo White" #SW6126): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Celadon table lamp (#L-M/1001SMA): Festoni, 713/830-1077, festoni.com.
Shell art above table (Albertus prints): Trowbridge Gallery, 404/816-8612, trowbridgegallery.com.
In the adjoining sunroom, a twin daybed from NaturalLee has soy-based foam cushions, recycled fiber filling, a sustainable wood frame, and organic cotton upholstery (leeindustries.com).
Hanging pendant (24-inch diameter paper lantern): Shoji Decor, 877/746-5437, shojidecor.com.
Daybed (#34-30, by Lee Earth-Friendly Upholstery): Lee Industries, 800/892-7150, leeindustries.com.
Daybed fabric (organic cotton): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Green embroidered pillows ("Popcorn-Border Pillow"): Ankasa, 212/575-1994, ankasa.com.
Garden stool ("Lattice Garden Stool"): Emissary Home & Garden, 800/848-5997.
Art over daybed (Mixed Media Canvas): Festoni, 713/830-1077, festoni.com.
Drapery (organic cotton): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Wall paint ("Navajo White" #SW6126); trim paint ("Dover White" #SW6385): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Bench by wall (#8910-88): Hickory Chair, 800/349-4579, hickorychair.com.
Bench fabric ("Imperial Trellis II"/Ivory, Mandarin #174410): Schumacher, 800/523-1200.
Frames: vintage.
Frame color ("Rejuvenate" #SW6620): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Shell art: shells mounted within the vintage frames.
Carpet ("Alive and Well"/Rice Paper 08): Bliss by Beaulieu, 800/227-7211, beaulieuofamerica.com.
In the sunroom the sideboard from Stanley Furniture was built with sustainable materials and techniques (stanleyfurniture.com). Flea-market lamps are revitalized with new linen shades and Sherwin-Williams Harmony low-VOC paint (sherwin-williams.com).
Drapery(organic cotton): Rubie Green, rubiegreen.com.
Wall paint ("Navajo White" #SW6126); trim paint ("Dover White" #SW6385): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794, sherwinwilliams.com.
Sideboard ("Coastal Living Seaside Inn Sideboard"/Morning Sky#829-J1-06): Stanley Furniture, stanleyfurniture.com.
Lamps on sideboard (vintage): Carrie's Antiques, Crafts & Collectibles, 501/562-8088.
Lamp finish ("Rejuvenate" #SW6620): Sherwin-Williams, 800/474-3794.
Embroidered pillow under desk (Kuk-May Hand Embroidery): through Christian Mosso & Assoc., 404/521-0799, cmosso.com.
Orange pillow under desk: Andrew Morgan Collection, 866/451-3371, morgancollection.com.
Glass jars: designer's collection.


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The Great River Road, a National Scenic Byway that hugs the Mississippi River, is 75 years old. It's a route of great rural flavors as well as beautiful scenery.
The byway meanders through 10 states for almost 3,000 miles and includes about 250 miles in Wisconsin, where small towns and farms nourish visitors in sometimes surprising ways.
Sinsinawa – Heavenly loaves of bread, crescent rolls, caramel rolls and one-pound cinnamon rolls are specialties at Sinsinawa Mound, 585 Hwy. Z, a community of Dominican women who live on 450 hilly acres. Order ahead or choose from whatever is baked while traveling, and save time to walk the outdoor and indoor labyrinths. 608-748-4411, sinsinawa.org
Potosi – Beer cheese soup (with smoked gouda and a malt ale) is on the menu at the restaurant of Potosi Brewing Company, 209 S. Main St., which also is home to the National Brewery Museum and Great River Road Interpretive Center. The annual Potosi Brewfest, Aug. 24, brings in additional small-batch beer producers. 608-763-4002, potosibrewery.com
Beetown – Load up on fresh curds at the outlet store for Schurman's Wisconsin Cheese Country, 7786 Hwy. U East, nine miles northeast of Cassville. Cheddars, especially the extra-sharp versions, are a specialty. 608-794-2422, schurmanscheese.com
Prairie du Chien – The menu is simple at Pete's Hamburger Stand, 118 W. Blackhawk Ave.: burgers, $3.50; chips, $1.25 per bag. Expect grilled onions but no cheese or other fancy fixings. The little box of food stand, a three-generation family business that began in 1909, is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. peteshamburgers.com
Westby – About 20 mile from the riverfront but worth the drive are cottage cheeses and yogurts from the century-old Westby Cooperative Creamery, 401 S. Main St., and specialty butters from Nordic Creamery, whose farmstead shop also sells small-batch cheeses and ice cream made with milk from the Norwegian farm. westbycreamery.com; 608-634-3183; nordiccreamery.com. 608-634-3199
Onalaska – Fainting goats are part of the welcoming committee at Rainbow Ridge Farms, N5732 Hauser Rd., a bed and breakfast where guests can choose whether to help with daily chores. The farmers are two women who raise the goats, sheep, llamas, donkeys and various fowl. Arrive with the kids or ask for the "honeymoon special," which includes chocolate-covered berries and a bottle of bubbly or wine. 888-347-2594, rainbowridgefarms.com
Trempealeau – Walnut burgers at the Trempealeau Hotel, 11332 Main St., are so popular that grocers carry frozen four-packs. The meatless sandwich was created in 1986; the oldtime hotel and saloon are 115 years older. Most of the hotel's eight simple rooms, under $50 per night, have a river view. Outdoor concerts and volleyball are not unusual. 608-534-6898, trempealeauhotel.com
Alma – For a widespread, blufftop view of the river, check out the patio at Danzinger Vineyards, S2015 Grapeview Lane, whose 15 acres of grapes are made into award-winning, sweet wines. Mississippi Mist, a white, was tops at the 2012 Wisconsin State Fair. 608-685-6000, greatriverroadwinetrail.org
Nelson – Dessert first: Lines often stretch way outside the door of Nelson Cheese Factory, S237 Hwy. 35, because of the demand for ice cream in the factory's specialty food store. Six hilly and winding miles east of the waterfront is The Stone Barn, a seasonal and farmstead pizzeria with wood-fired oven that is open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. Diners take a seat amid the salvaged ruins of an 1896 barn, in pretty Norwegian Valley. A converted grainary is an antique store. 715-673-4725, nelsoncheese.com; 715-673-4478, nelsonstonebarn.com
Pepin – Check the chalkboard behind the bar for specials of the day at Harbor View Cafe, 314 First St. The setting is casual and cozy, but the menu changes twice daily and leans toward fine dining: braised lamb, coq a vin and several species of fish (none are served deep-fried). The lazy river is within eyeshot. 715-442-3893, harborviewpepin.com
Stockholm – This little town is a hot pocket for pie lovers. For dessert: Creamy peanut butter fudge is a specialty at The Stockholm Pie Company, N2030 Spring St., which also serves savory pies. Until late November, Tuesday is Pizza Night at A to Z Produce, N2956 Anker Lane, a farm whose brick oven quickly bakes pies made with locally grown ingredients. Bring a chair or blanket and expect to a long wait to eat during summer months. 715-442-5505, thestockholmpiecompany.com; atozproduceandbakery.com
Hager City – The Food Network years ago sniffed out Harbor Bar and its jerk chicken, grilled on open flames and sometimes served by Jamaicans who fly up for seasonal work here. So the laid-back Caribbean vibe feels authentic on this little island, right across the river from Red Wing, Minn., at N673 825th St. Some customers arrive by boat. Bands play classic rock all day on June 29, then blues on July 6. 715-792-2417, harborbar.net
Prescott – Order Three Way Walleye (baked, sauteed or breaded and fried) as blues and reggae groups play indoors and out at the riverside Muddy Waters Bar and Grill, 231 N. Broad St. What a confluence: From the multi-leveled deck are views of where the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers meet. 715-262-5999, muddywatersbarandgrill.biz
For more about the Great River Road: experiencemississippiriver.com. Geocaching sites mark the road's 75th anniversary.
For more about the Wisconsin segment of the byway: wigrr.com, 800-658-9424. Download a free audio tour.


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Narrow down your iSCSI SAN options
The iSCSI SAN market is hot right now. Get started learning about recent developments and key players so you can make good choices regarding iSCSI.
The number and variety of iSCSI SAN options is growing by leaps and bounds. In the first few months of 2006, there were significant iSCSI announcements from Hewlett-Packard, Brocade and, most notably, Microsoft. Furthermore, server virtualization superstar VMware stands to jolt the market for iSCSI arrays, when the iSCSI-friendly ESX Server 3 comes out of beta.
Brocade's iSCSI offering is called the Brocade iSCSI Gateway, or BIG, which consists of two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two FC ports. Based on technology from Sanrad, BIG could theoretically be used to connect up to 100 hosts to an existing SAN array.
Of interest to smaller shops, Microsoft will begin offering an iSCSI target as part of its Windows Storage Server (WSS) 2003 R2 release in the summer of 2006. Thus far, Microsoft has limited its iSCSI wares to a software initiator -- the driver that allows a host to connect to an iSCSI array. The addition of iSCSI target software promises an end-to-end, all-Microsoft block storage environment.
Microsoft's iSCSI target code comes by way of its acquisition of the technology assets of String Bean Software. The product, WinTarget, was developed exclusively for Windows, and includes Virtual Disk Services (VDS) and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support.
The iSCSI target option won't be available to end users, only to WSS R2 licensees, including big names like Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. "The only ones you won't see are EMC and Network Appliance," says Claude Lorensen, Microsoft's group product manager for storage. He expects most WSS licensees to adopt the iSCSI target add-on.
Does Microsoft's entrance into the iSCSI marketplace mean impending doom for the handful of iSCSI array vendors that have carved out a market for themselves? John Joseph, VP of marketing at EqualLogic, doesn't think so. When he looks at WinTarget, he says, "I don't see the layers of intelligence that EqualLogic brings to the table," like automated load balancing, space-efficient snapshots and clustering support. In his mind, Microsoft's WinTarget will be applicable for shops with a maximum of 10 servers and no pressing scalability needs.
Indeed, some iSCSI shops, like Poe Financial Group, an insurance company in Tampa, Fla., are pushing the envelope of how far modern IT will go. Using a combination of VMware server virtualization, NSI Software's Double-Take replication and an iSCSI SAN from LeftHand Networks, Eric Tuley, Poe's senior systems engineer, boasts that from the time of a declared disaster, he can get his environment up and running in about an hour. "I challenge any bigger shops to be able to say that," he says.
With his eye on using VMware's VMotion to perform maintenance on virtual machines, Tuley is beta testing ESX Server 3, which comes with a native iSCSI initiator as part of the kernel. With previous versions of ESX Server, if you wanted to use iSCSI, you had to install initiators within the virtual machine, "and it just wasn't stable," says Tuley. So far, the iSCSI component has been working flawlessly, he reports.
"Actually, we're seeing 90% of the performance of ESX Server to our FC SAN; that surprised us," he says.
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Using Case Stories in Faculty DevelopmentDecember 18, 2008 — seckardt
Wondering how you can use ELIXR Digital Case Stories in your faculty development efforts? Discover how ELIXR case stories can be used in workshops, consultation, program promotion, discussion board prompts, brown bags, etc. by reading this comprehensive list of ideas, compiled by Tasha Souza, ELIXR's Faculty Development Lead.