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|Fruition Sciences' Sebastien Payen and Thibaut Scholasch In Napa at Silver Oak Cellars Soda Canyon Ranch Vineyard in Napa, California.
|By Jeffrey M. O'Brien October 21, 2012
Napa Valley's Bordeaux grape varieties were mostly planted after the wine boom of the 1970s; then nearly half the planted acres were the likes of Chenin Blanc. Napa's entrepeneurs attempted to create a kind of Burgundy and Bordeaux in America. Napa Valley's ecosystem was far drier, especially the eastern hills and mountains where today we find winemakers hiring Fruition sciences. In Wired Magazine Fruition points out that the 'Bordeaux model includes frequent summer rains, that allows vineyard managers to pack their fields tightly with vines.' Napa winegrowers copying Bordeaux in the 1980s and 1990s planted their fields in a similar manner. "They assumed that if you copied and pasted the best vineyards, they would produce the best fruits," says Fruition's Scholasch.' Here is a excerpt from the story.
"Perched high atop Pritchard Hill, Ovid Napa Valley's vineyard boasts a majestic view of Northern California's wine country. From the front of the property, you can see all the way to the Mayacamas Mountains that divide Napa and Sonoma counties. This breathtaking tableau is lost for the moment on Thibaut Scholasch, who's crouched in the vineyard, gently parting clusters of blueberry-sized cabernet sauvignon grapes. "This is a pipe," he says, holding a vine between his thumb and forefinger. "Water flows right underneath the surface."
We all learned in grade school how a plant conveys water and nutrients to its extremities. But Scholasch, who holds a PhD in grape growing, understands this distribution process far more intimately. With this particular vine he knows precisely how much water is flowing in the pipe at any given moment. That's because he can see inside.
Scholasch tugs on a section of Velcro and peels back a layer of insulation, revealing a sap-flow sensor. About 3 inches long, it's a simple device consisting of a heating element, two thermometers, and a transmitter. "There are two wires that measure the temperature, one before the heat is applied and one after," he says. The difference between the readings indicates the amount of water present. The system, while simple, is powerful enough to unravel thousands of years of farming practices.
Scholasch and fellow French expat Sébastien Payen are cofounders of a small Oakland-based consultancy called Fruition Sciences. The company deploys arrays of sensors like this one to monitor dozens of vineyards around the world, the majority of them here in Napa Valley. Powered by solar panels, the systems wirelessly transmit readings over the Internet to the cloud, where they're analyzed to determine the plant's level of hydration. The scores are correlated with various external data, including weather, date, berry sugar content, soil moisture, and vine arrangements. Using all this information, Fruition advises clients about optimal planting schemes and irrigation schedules and predicts the best harvest dates.
This type of real-time monitoring and analysis may be increasingly common in Fortune 500 supply chains and smart electricity grids, but in agriculture it still counts as radical. To this day, farmers rely primarily on observation and instinct for everything from planting and fertilizing schemes to watering schedules. According to a USDA survey, more than three-quarters of American farmers irrigate based on observable crop conditions, like the way a leaf shrivels in heat. Nearly 7 percent simply irrigate when their neighbors do. The result is massive overwatering. This holds for Napa Valley as well. For some of the wineries they work with, Scholasch and Payen have already reduced overall water consumption by more than 10 million gallons a season.
Napa's grape whisperers will be reluctant to change their century-old methods just because two Frenchmen show up with water sensors.
Of course, whenever hard data invades the realm of intuition, conflict is sure to follow. The establishment and the geeks have already scuffled in sports, advertising, medicine, policing, and real estate. And so it goes here in wine country. For the past 100 years, the farming decisions—planting, pruning, irrigating, and harvesting—have been dictated by experience and often even a degree of mysticism. This is the land of grape whisperers. And many of Napa's elite are not going to change the methods that have proven themselves for a century just because a couple of Frenchmen show up with water sensors.
But to a growing cadre of A-list winemakers, there's actionable intelligence in the data. Many of Fruition's clients are altering their irrigation techniques, turning laggard vineyards into top performers and using far less water than they ever imagined. Along the way they're extracting lessons that could extend far beyond this rarified corner of agriculture. By gaining insight into the relationships between water, sunlight, yield, and taste, Fruition Sciences is showing the way for farmers of all stripes to increase productivity and quality in a world of shifting weather patterns and decreasing supplies of freshwater.
Fruition's Office overlooks a knockoff Jiffy Lube in a gritty section of Oakland's Temescal district. Scholasch is the wine expert. He moved to the US in 1999 after earning a master's degree in winemaking from Montpellier SupAgro, one of France's top agronomy schools, landing a job as a research viticulturist for Napa's legendary Robert Mondavi. His English was minimal at the time, and he learned the language mostly from Mexican field hands. Studying the relationship between irrigation and fruit composition, he quickly recognized how little anyone knew about what was happening in their vineyards. "I was amazed to realize that so many winemaking or vineyard decisions were being made based on empiricism or unreliable deductions made from observations," he says.
Scholasch traveled the world working as a consulting winemaker for several years but found himself drawn far more to decoding the mysteries in the vineyards than to crafting the perfect cabernet. He felt that he was a scientist among artists. Hardly one to romanticize Napa Valley, he primarily drinks what he can buy at Trader Joe's. In 2005 he returned to France to pursue a PhD in viticulture. He'd persuaded five iconic Napa wineries—Dana Estates, Ovid, Napa Valley Reserve, Roy Estate, and Vineyard 29—to foot the bill for his studies in exchange for using their vineyards as test beds. In 2006, a mutual friend introduced Scholasch to Payen, now Fruition's numbers guy. At the time, Payen, who has a PhD in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, was looking to commercialize custom sensors that measured fruit sugar content. The two realized they could combine their skills to measure water—and get a better picture of how grapevines are doing. In 2007 they launched their self-funded company, focusing on boutique wineries and using off-the-rack sensors to keep costs down."
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Is the End Near for Affirmative Action?
The Fifth Circuit has just handed down its opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas upholding UT-Austin's race-conscious admissions for those not among the auto-admitted top ten percent of their high school classes. I flagged this case some months ago and have been eagerly awaiting its result. In August, I devoted an entire post to the prospect of the Roberts Court granting certiorari to Fisher's inevitable petition and, in turn, reversing precedent to rule higher education affirmative action unconstitutional.
Senior Judge Patrick Higginbotham's opinion depends entirely on the Supreme Court's 2003 decision, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, writing for herself and the Court's liberal bloc, reaffirmed the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education. While Justice Samuel Alito has not faced a higher-ed affirmative action case since arriving on the Court, his vote in 2007's Parents Involved and his generally conservative voting pattern overall strongly suggest that he will not vote in accord with his predecessor's opinion in Grutter.
The Fisher decision notably includes Judge Emilio M. Garza's 30 page anti-Grutter broadside, more politely labeled as a "special concurrence." Judge Garza, a Reagan appointee to the district court, a George H.W. Bush appointee to the Fifth Circuit, and a runner-up to Justice Clarence Thomas for Justice Thurgood Marshall's seat on the Supreme Court in 1991, apparently wrote his special concurrence specifically for the consumption of the current Court's conservative bloc–including Justice Anthony Kennedy, who dissented in Grutter and concurred in Parents Involved.
Garza's concurrence in Fisher begins:
Whenever a serious piece of judicial writing strays from fundamental principles of constitutional law, there is usually a portion of such writing where those principles are articulated, but not followed. So it goes in Grutter, where a majority of the Court acknowledged strict scrutiny as the appropriate level of review for race-based preferences in university admissions, but applied a level of scrutiny markedly less demanding. To be specific, race now matters in university admissions, where, if strict judicial scrutiny were properly applied, it should not.
Today, we follow Grutter's lead in finding that the University of Texas's race-conscious admissions program satisfies the Court's unique application ofstrict scrutiny in the university admissions context. I concur in the majority opinion, because, despite my belief that Grutter represents a digression in the course of constitutional law, today's opinion is a faithful, if unfortunate, application of that misstep. The Supreme Court has chosen this erroneous path and only the Court can rectify the error. In the meantime, I write separately to underscore this detour from constitutional first principles.
Justice Kennedy spoke to this very "misstep" in his Grutter dissent, arguing not that affirmative action is unconstitutional, but rather that the majority unlawfully loosened its own strict scrutiny standard for such race-conscious admissions programs. Kennedy's pivotal position is not lost on Garza, as evidenced in his explicit invocation of the justice:
After finding that racial diversity at the University of Michigan Law School ("Law School") was a compelling governmental interest, the Court redefined the meaning of narrow tailoring. See Grutter, 539 U.S. at 387 (Kennedy, J., dissenting) ("The Court, however, does not apply strict scrutiny. By trying to say otherwise, it undermines both the test and its own controlling precedents."); see generally Ian Ayres & Sydney Foster, Don't Tell, Don't Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter and Gratz, 85 TEX. L. REV. 517 (2007). The Court replaced narrow tailoring's conventional "least restrictive means" requirement with a regime that encourages opacity and is incapable of meaningful judicial review under any level of scrutiny.
Ultimately, Garza cites Kennedy five times despite Garza's own more hardline opposition to affirmative action, which he spells out in conclusion:
My disagreement with Grutter is more fundamental, however. Grutter's failing, in my view, is not only that it approved an affirmative action plan incapable of strict scrutiny, but more importantly, that it approved the use of race in university admissions as a compelling state interest at all. […]
Yesterday's racial discrimination was based on racial preference; today's racial preference results in racial discrimination. Changing the color of the group discriminated against simply inverts, but does address, the fundamental problem: the Constitution prohibits all forms of government-sponsored racial discrimination. Grutter puts the Supreme Court's imprimatur on such ruinous behavior and ensures that race will continue to be a divisive facet of American life for at least the next two generations. Like the plaintiffs and countless other college applicants denied admission based, in part, on government-sponsored racial discrimination, I await the Court's return to constitutional first principles.
In so writing, Garza, who could have been the Court's first Hispanic justice, makes sure to appeal not only to Justice Kennedy, but also to Justices Scalia and Thomas, the latter of whom has been a vocal opponent of affirmative action on and off the bench. Neither Chief Justice Roberts nor Justice Alito have yet voiced their opinions on higher education affirmative action from their perches on the Supreme Court, but Roberts's concluding aphorism in Parents Involved, which was joined by Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, is instructive towards those seeking to divine the two George W. Bush appointees' votes in Fisher.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Chief Justice Roberts famously wrote in Parents Involved. Justice Kennedy agreed to disagree with the statement's simple certitude, filing his own concurrence in the judgment that put forward his more accepting–but still quite restrictive–take on race-conscious government measures. As such, Judge Garza was smart in addressing the Court's entire conservative bloc in his special concurrence: either way, Grutter's days are numbered. Just as Citizens United reversed McConnell v. FEC and Gonzales v. Carhart all but wiped out Stenberg v. Carhart, Fisher will find the Roberts Court once again doing away with an O'Connor-backed, 5-4 precedent by the new 5-4 reality.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: next term is going to be a doozy.
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The Next Roberts Court: Affirmative Action
Michael Kirkland of UPI wrote yesterday about Fisher v. University of Texas, the affirmative action case currently before the Fifth Circuit. I noted this case in a link at the top of my last post, and had originally gone on to discuss it, but I decided to keep that post focused on the abortion laws in Nebraska. Now's as good a time as any to continue my thoughts on the hot buttons that may reach the Court in the next election cycle, and how the Court may handle them:
Affirmative action in higher education is the remaining hot-button issue on which Kennedy and O'Connor disagreed, but has yet to be tested since Alito joined the Court. When O'Connor sided with the liberal bloc in determining that the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions policy survived strict scrutiny in 2003's Grutter v. Bollinger, Kennedy dissented.
Although Kennedy is not hostile to affirmative action itself, he believes the Grutter majority watered down the Court's strict scrutiny standard formulated in Justice Powell's concurrence in 1977's Bakke, which approved of a narrowly tailored use of race to achieve the compelling state interest of holistically diverse student bodies in higher education. In other words, Kennedy approved of the use of race, but would give higher-ed affirmative action schemes more searching review than the Grutter majority had demonstrated. As he concluded in his Grutter dissent:
If the Court abdicates its constitutional duty to give strict scrutiny to the use of race in university admissions, it negates my authority to approve the use of race in pursuit of student diversity. The Constitution cannot confer the right to classify on the basis of race even in this special context absent searching judicial review. For these reasons, though I reiterate my approval of giving appropriate consideration to race in this one context, I must dissent in the present case.
Whether or not Kennedy believes that UT's consideration of race for applicants beneath its top-10% auto-admit program satisfies his application of strict scrutiny, what is certain is that his application of strict scrutiny will supersede Grutter as precedent.
If Kennedy rejects UT's policy, he will be the limiting agent on the conservative bloc in the Roberts Court's first foray into higher-ed affirmative action. Dependent on Kennedy for the fifth vote to invalidate UT's race-conscious admissions policy, the conservative bloc could not go the whole Thomas and strike down all consideration of race. After all, Kennedy, in giving the conservative bloc its fifth vote in 2007's Parents Involved, refused to sign onto Roberts's opinion declaring that the "way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." This maximalist statement was certainly not only meant for public high school admissions schemes.
Nevertheless, Kennedy's accepting UT's policy will have the same constitutional effect as his rejecting it. In any scenario (assigning the majority opinion to himself and strong-arming the liberal bloc into joining him lest he change his vote; assigning the majority opinion to himself and losing his majority, thereby writing for himself in a 4-1-4 decision; assigning the majority opinion to a justice he believes to be simpatico who manages to keep him in the fold; assigning the majority opinion to another justice unwilling to revisit Grutter, compelling Kennedy to write for himself), Kennedy will bury–or, at the very least muddy–Grutter.
The justice to watch, then, will be the Chief. In Parents Involved, he showed his hand. He wrote more aggressively than he had written in Wisconsin Right to Life, in which he refused to follow Kennedy, Scalia, and Thomas towards striking down the same provision of the McCain-Feingold Act that he ultimately voted to put out of its misery this past year in Citizens United. By making his antipathy to affirmative action so clear in Parents Involved, then, the Chief does not leave himself the same room to backpedal on affirmative action as he had given himself to press onward with campaign finance.
Yet might he want to cast his lot with Kennedy in Fisher? Roberts's best case scenario for effectively ending affirmative action is to work with Kennedy to make its scrutiny impossibly restrictive rather than stand on the sidelines calling for affirmative action's immediate demise. Roberts can better retain control over his Court's direction by placing himself in the position to put his own stamp on Kennedy-dominated jurisprudence and placing seeds of doubt within the opinion that at present will be within Kennedy's boundaries but in the future could be used, should the Chief have a majority, to bring upon affirmative action's demise.
But I don't think this will happen. I take the Chief's position in Parents Involved at face value. He will stand firm in his opposition to affirmative action, extending his antagonism to its use in higher education. In doing so, he will be mindful of his own words in his Citizens United concurrence, where he stated that
if adherence to a precedent actually impedes the stable and orderly adjudication of future cases, its stare decisis effect is also diminished. This can happen in a number of circumstances, such as when the precedent's validity is so hotly contested that it cannot reliably function as a basis for decision in future cases.
Kennedy had hotly contested the Court's approval of campaign finance restrictions since he had joined the Court, refusing the entire way to give any weight to disagreeable precedent. Ultimately, that resulted in the Court's overturning not only 2003's McConnell, the most recent facial affirmation of campaign finance rules, but also 1990's Austin v. Michigan, the case of original sin for Kennedy and his Citizens United majority.
Having provided the justification for such principled intransigence on disagreeable lines of precedent, Roberts might rather dig his heels in and argue that the problem is not simply Grutter, as Kennedy will suggest, but Grutter's very root, Bakke. This position will not prevail with the current court, but if elections work in Roberts's favor, he will be able to cite his own hot contestation–in which he and Alito will have joined Scalia and Thomas's decades of protest–in striking down affirmative action well before Justice O'Connor's suggested 25-year sunset provision in Grutter.


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Gift of the Givers Foundation came into being on August 6, 1992. It commenced as a disaster response NGO. The first project being a response to the war in Bosnia, previously part of ex-Yugoslavia. Our involvement in supplying relief aid was over a three year period from August 1992 to July 1995.
In August 1992, we supplied 31 containers (620 tons) of food aid and in November 1992 we supplied eight containers (160 tons) of blankets, warm clothes and sleeping bags. All these items were shipped from South Africa to Turkey, then to Croatia and into Bosnia. We worked closely with the Bosnian Government to facilitate the distribution of all our relief supplies.
In 1993 we designed, developed and deployed the world's first containerised mobile hospital in Mostar, Bosnia. This hospital was a unique feat of South African engineering and to date, the only one of its kind in the world. A CNN journalist equated the South African container hospital in Bosnia to any of the best hospitals in Europe. This was in 1993. This was the prototype, our flagship project and a huge achievement for an organisation that was only founded seven months previously. The hospital received international acclaim and international recognition.
The containerised South African mobile hospital was transported from Durban, South Africa, to the port of Trieste, Italy, on the South African naval vessel, SAS Outeniqua. This cost was carried by the South African Government. From Trieste, the hospital was sent to the port of Ploce, Croatia, by ship. This expense was carried by the Gift of the Givers Foundation.
Thousands of lives were saved, thousands were operated on and treated, and hundreds of new babies were born here. This was a 28-container, state of the art mobile hospital with its own generator, own ambulance and own patient bus. The containers were stand alone units comprising of the following facilities: two theatres, an intensive care unit, an x-ray unit, a burns unit, a physiotherapy unit, a casualty unit, orthopaedic wards, an outpatient unit, a dental unit, sterilisation unit, incubator unit, etc. In the x-ray unit a special lead wall was built to prevent radiation penetration to the outside and exposure to unsuspecting patients. A dark room was also built in this unit to develop x-ray films on site instantaneously.
In 1995, additional aid was provided to families of the victims of the Srebrenica massacres.


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Mountain Bike Destinations, Great Fall/Winter/Spring
As someone who spends 12 months a year traveling the world coaching mountain biking, mountain biking and racing I have my favorite spots! I will start with the continental United States and deep winter (Mid-December through Feb.). When 90% of the country is freezing there are a few spots I love to ride in.
The number 1 spot is actually Phoenix, AZ! Before you judge let me tell you about mountain biking in Phoenix, it is incredible. Phoenix is by far the best big city in the country for mountain biking. In Phoenix (not off in distant suburbs) are two great riding areas and one pretty decent mountain biking area. When you add in the suburbs, Scottsdale, Mesa, Cave Creek, Glendale and Black Canyon you could ride for over a month and never repeat a trail (but that would be lame because the trails are so good you will want to repeat them). They don't have daylight savings time in Arizona so the sun sets a 5:30 on the shortest days of the year and the winter weather is amazing, warm (mid 60's are the average high temps in the coldest month of the year, January) and sunny. If it does rain it just makes for better riding as the rain makes the mountain bike trails tacky and fast.
Coaching World Champ Ross Schnell at South Mountain, Jan. 2010
We will start with South Mountain. At over 16,000 acres (for comparison Vail Resort is the largest single mountain ski resort in the US at 5,289 acres) and over a thousand vertical feet it has great trails for advanced beginners to pros. South Mountain is my favorite place to ride in Phoenix as it has some of the rockiest, most challenging trails in the country that always keep me on my toes. They claim 51 miles of trails but I bet there are double that if you include the super challenging ones like Old Man Trail. Despite being in the city of Phoenix South Mountain is never that crowded as Phoenix does seem to the most outdoorsy city (this mountain would be mobbed if it was in Denver or Salt Lake City). South Mountain also has great views in all directions and cool cacti everywhere.
Next is the Dreamy Draw/Trail 100/Camel Back/Phoenix Mountain Preserve area (locals will use any of those 4 names to describe the area). Although not as big as South Mountain the terrain is pretty similar with fun, flowy, flatter trails and very steep and technical trails. A very fun and underrated area to ride.
Right between Phoenix and Tempe is Papago Park which doesn't have the elevation or size of the other parks but has some fun flowy trails scattered about as well as a little free-ride jump area.
For great camping and fun advanced beginner/intermediate trails check out McDowell Park. There is $6 day use fee but the trail head has a shower! The main mountain bike focus trails are short loops with a lot of fun corners and dips. Not as challenging as South Mountain but very fun if you crank the speed up a bit. They also have trails that can be linked to form epic rides including the punishing Quadruple Bypass ride that some sadistic locals enjoy.
North of Phoenix off of I-17 is the Black Canyon Trail which has several trail heads and will one day go from Flagstaff to Tucson. It has quite a few fun sections all not far from I-17.
My number 2 Spot for deep winter mountain biking is a tie between Tucson, AZ and Sedona, AZ. Tuscon has warmer weather and better night life while Sedona has a lifetime of great trails and incredible scenery but colder weather (usually about 10 degrees colder than Phoenix or Tucson). Both Tuscon and Sedona are also less than 2 hours from Phoenix making it easy to hit all three in a week.
My number 3 spot for deep winter mountain biking in the continental US is Boulder City, NV. Boulder City has the famous Bootleg Canyon mountain bike park (known for it's challenging downhill trails but it also has some fantastic cross country trails). Visit the most well stocked bike shop I have ever seen, All Mountain Cyclery for advice on trails to ride and any upgrades you are seeking. It is also 20 miles from the Las Vegas airport and 30ish miles from the great "Cottonwood Trails" Southwest of Vegas.
For late fall and late winter riding (Mid-November through December and mid-February through April) all of the above are great with Sedona and Boulder City warming up quite a bit.
Other favorite late fall and late winter destinations are Austin, TX, Albuquerque, NM, Saint George/Hurricane, UT and most of California.
Austin has friendly people, great music and really good trails. No huge elevation gains or losses but fun flowy trails at Walnut Creek (with a great pump track), one of the most technical trails I ever ridden at City Park and fun trails you can ride right from downtown in the Green Belt. Some famous road racer lives in Austin too!
Albuquerque has trail options in many different environments. Check out White Mesa for cool desert canyon singletrack and Sandia Peak for high alpine wooded singletrack. Be sure to stop in Bike Works for local trail advice.
Saint George/Hurricane, UT is home to the famous Gooseberry Mesa Trail as well as many less famous but very fun trails. Great high desert riding from singletrack to Red Bull Rampage jumps and drops. Say hi to Quinten and DJ at Over The Edge in Hurricane and they can update you on trail conditions and recommend rides.
Although the late winter can be the rainy season in California there are good trails from San Diego all the way to Oregon there. Do some research online before heading out to California. My favorite areas inland San Diego (Nobel Canyon area), the Laguna Hills, the Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz (I haven't explored much North of their yet).
I have purposely left out a lot of great trails and areas near those above as we live in a big, beautiful country, go out and explore! If you have a favorite winter spot or two tell us about them!


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Patty Smith (pictured), along with classmate Shami Entenman, will participate in their final home games of their career at Blodgett Pool (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
The Particulars
It's Senior Day at Blodgett Pool, as the Harvard women's water polo team takes on Connecticut College and Marist in a doubleheader as its final home games of 2011. Seniors Patty Smith and Shami Entenman.
Last Time Out
Junior co-captain Devan Kennifer notched five scores and had five takeaways on the defensive end to lead the Crimson in a 12-8 win over visiting Wagner Sunday. Harvard totaled 17 steals as a team, with eight players recording at least one takeaway and five grabbing two or more.
About Harvard
Harvard will use Saturday's doubleheader as a final tune-up for a stretch of seven Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) games beginning April 9. Devan Kennifer leads all scorers for Harvard with 50 goals. Classmate Monica Zdrojewski has 39 scores and sophomore Aisha Price has found the back of the net 35 times. Junior Shannon Purcell has been running the offense with a team-leading 30 assists and Kennifer has been a force on defense with 56 steals this season.
About Connecticut College
The Camels (4-7) took a week off after winning three of their five games at the Penn State-Behrend Round Robin Tournament March 19-20. The team has gone over double-digits in goals four times this season and is averaging 8.55 goals per game.
Harvard has never lost to Connecticut College, holding a commanding 23-0 lead in the all-time series that began in 2000. The Crimson has failed to reach double-digit goals against the Camels just three times, while the Camels have never scored 10 or more against Harvard in 23 tries.
About Marist
The Red Foxes (11-15) picked up two wins at the Lancer Tournament hosted by California Baptist, March 18-19. Their two wins at the end of the trip snapped a four-game losing streak. Through 24 games, Marist was led in scoring by Jackie Puccino with 33 goals. Rosie Pauli was the team's leading assists person with 18, and goalie Alexis Solar had 154 saves in 20 appearances.
Marist and Harvard met once already this season, a Feb. 20 game that went to the Red Foxes by a score of 13-10 at their own Marist Tournament. That extended the Red Foxes' win streak in the series to six games, giving them a 6-2 edge all-time over the Crimson.
'D' Up
The Crimson upped the defensive effort against Wagner Sunday in holding its opponent under 10 goals for the 12th time this spring. Harvard is 11-1 when holding opponents to nine goals or less this season.
Fab Five
This spring's freshman class has made quite a splash for Harvard this year, making significant contributions on both ends of the pool in the players' first collegiate season. Jelena Cyr, Christy DiSilvestro, Riley Kessler, Shayna Price and Jamie Williams have totaled 65 goals, 34 assists and 62 steals as a quintet, amounting to 28 percent of the Crimson's scoring this season and 25 percent of the team's takeaways and helpers.
Double It Up
Harvard's offense has been lighting up the scoreboard all season long, totaling 232 goals as a team and reaching double digits in scoring 12 times. The Crimson is 7-1 in games decided by 10 goals or more.
Devan Kennifer has been putting in effort on offense and defense this season, leading the team in both goals and steals with 50 scores and 56 takeaways. Her 50 tallies outdistance the nearest teammate by 11 and give her a goals per game average of 2.5, while her 56 steals are 19 better than teammate Aisha Price's 37 so far this season.
Receiving Votes
On three different occasions this season, the Crimson has received votes in the CWPA Top-20 poll, most recently in the March 16 poll as the team was in the midst of its seven-game West Coast swing.
Up Next
Harvard heads to Lewisburg, Pa., to take on Princeton and host Bucknell in two CWPA games. Action starts at 10 a.m. inside the Bison's Kinney Natatorium.


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If this story wasn't witnessed firsthand, it would be hard to believe.
A brother and sister had been estranged for 15 years, despite living next door to one another.
In fact, if Michael, the brother, ever saw his sister when he walked outside, he'd immediately turn 180 degrees and walk back inside his house.
But that was before Hurricane Isaac—and perhaps the Holy Spirit—hit this small town of LaPlace, La., in late August.
For the first time that anyone living here could remember, LaPlace had flooded, as the storm surge pounded Lake Pontchartrain at just the right angle.
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More than 6,000 homes damaged by waters six-inches to five-feet deep had turned everything upside down in this town of 32,000 people.
But Rapid Response Team chaplains Dennis and Ginger Sanders had no idea how these flood waters would turn into healing waters.
The family drama between Michael and his sister had cemented into a bitter feud sometime in the mid-to-late '90s. It was so bad, that cousins growing up next door weren't even allowed to play with each other.
God, however, through words spoken by these two chaplains, gripped Michael's heart and he finally gave his life over to the Lord.
Within 30 minutes, Michael saw his sister outside and momentarily froze in his tracks.
Would he retreat back to his house, avoid making eye-contact?
"This time he didn't turn," Ginger reported the healing moment. "I told Michael, 'It's time to step out of the boat.'"
Michael's mother, an 83-year-old woman living five houses down the street, had been praying for years—decades even—for restoration in the family.
In the midst of the chaos and uncertainty that Isaac delivered to this community, Michael decided 15 years was enough.
"He walked out on the sidewalk,"Ginger said.
Michael's sister, stunned by the gesture and "afraid" to walk over to her brother, summoned the courage and delivered a message she had played in her mind many times.
"Will you forgive me?" she asked. "I am so sorry."
Empowered by the Spirit, Michael gave his sister a huge hug as the two reconciled, just as mom had been pleading to God.
But that's not all.
Michael's son Brett, noticing a decisive change in his father's spirit, wanted to know what was different and later asked the chaplains for their insight.
"This is a miracle," Brett told the Sanders. "I can't believe the change in him. I already see something's going on."
The chaplains led Brett, along with his 24-year-old friend, in a prayer to receive Christ.
'Tragedy Before the Storm'
For Dennis Sanders, a 32-year police officer veteran, this deployment has touched his soul more than others.
LaPlace's trials weren't simply from the hurricane. Just days prior to the landfall, a horrific ambush of LaPlace police officers left two dead and two others wounded and rocked the community.
"This deployment has been heavy," Sanders said. "We've seen a lot of pain and hurt that's not supposed to be in a community like this.
"This community had a tragedy before the storm."
And if that wasn't hard enough to swallow, the police community was also dealing with another incident where police officers were forced to return fire on two perpetrators and ended up killing them both.
"It's just a small town. Everybody knows everybody," Ginger said. "The flood came and about 80 percent of the deputy's homes were affected."
But these first responders in many cases could not even focus on their own devastation. There were citizens to serve and keep safe.
"As soon as we rolled into town I heard about the shootings," said Sanders, who prayed with the police chief and other officers, including one who accepted Christ. "I saw the police officers on duty for hours and hours and hours, trying to serve the community during the storm. I know how they feel. I knew they were hurting.
"This storm more than others I've felt compelled to minister to the officers"
And to their families.
In fact, the Sanders were able to talk with the grandparents of one of the slain officers. The conversation took a spiritual turn and the grandfather grabbed Ginger's hand.
"I said if Billy Graham was sitting here I know what he'd say," Ginger said. "He'd tell you, 'God loves you. And He loves you so much that He sent his son to die for you.'
"Tears were flowing down the 75-year-old grandfather's face. We led him in the sinner's prayer and the grandma joined in and prayed as well."
'There's Nothing Else They Can Do'
Part of the Rapid Response Team's responsibility during a deployment is to be ready for the unexpected.
The unexpected came two days after the Sanders arrived in the tiny town of Norco, about 7 miles away from LaPlace.
Turns out, hospice was sending home a woman in her late 50s fighting the final stages of cancer and they brought the family together to the house.
"They told them there's nothing else they can do," Ginger said. "She was just days from dying."
So Dennis and Ginger went to present a Billy Graham Training Center Bible to the family and try to help comfort them with a prayer.
They shared about the hope and love of Christ to the family and after much conversation, led six family members to receive Jesus, including the husband of the dying woman, who kept lamenting, "I'm losing my best friend."
"And as soon as we said 'Amen,' a car light shined through the window," Ginger said. "It was the ambulance who was here with her. They all had just enough opportunity to receive Jesus."
God's miraculous timing didn't stop there.
The dying woman was taken to a back bedroom and was writhing in pain and incoherent.
Ginger and the woman's pastor went to visit her in the bedroom and shared the gospel message with her anyway.
"The pastor said, 'I don't know if you can hear me or not, but God loves you,'" Ginger recalled. "If you don't know Him, if you can understand me, pray this in your heart."
And as if God was calming a raging ocean, the moment the pastor started praying, the woman went completely still.
"Even her hand stopped twitching," Sanders said. "But when he said, 'Amen,' she started moving again."
Continue to pray for the Isaac victims, as well as the 17 Rapid Response Team chaplains, who are ministering in four different parishes throughout the Gulf region (St. Tammany, St. John The Baptist, Jefferson, Plaquemines).
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Include GNOME 3
- Desktop SIG
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 15
- Last updated: 2010-01-24
- Percentage of completion: 80%
GNOME has been mostly updated to 2.91.5 in rawhide. dconf, gtk3 and yelp-xsl and other new components are in rawhide. The dbus a11y stack is now the default. gtk3 modules have been added for at-spi2-atk, PackageKit and gtk3-engines. The GNOME 3 visual appearance is being defined in the new theme packages gnome-icon-theme-symbolic and gnome-themes-standard.
Detailed Description
GNOME 3 is the next major version of the GNOME desktop. After many years of a largely unchanged GNOME 2.x experience, GNOME 3 brings a fresh look and feel with gnome-shell. There are also many changes under the surfaces, like the move from CORBA-based technologies such as GConf, Bonobo and at-spi to dbus-based successors.
The user experience of GNOME 3 is largely defined by gnome-shell, which is a compositing window manager and desktop shell. It replaces the GNOME 2 desktop shell, which consisted of metacity, gnome-panel, notification-daemon and nautilus.
Apart from pure window management, gnome-shell provides the top bar on the screen, which hosts the 'system status' area in the top right, a clock in the center, and a hot corner that switches to the so-called 'overview' mode, which provides easy access to applications and windows (and in the future, documents).
In gnome-shell, notifications are displayed in the 'messaging area' which is an automatically hiding bar at the bottom of the screen. This is also where integrated chat functionality is provided.
Since the requirements of gnome-shell on the graphics system may not be met by certain hardware / driver combinations, GNOME 3 also support as 'fallback mode' in which we run gnome-panel, metacity and notification-daemon instead of gnome-shell. Note that this mode is not a 'Classic GNOME' mode; the panel configuration will be adjusted to be similar to the shell.
The fallback will be handled automatically by gnome-session, which will detect insufficient graphics capabilities and run a different session.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora stays in sync with upstream, and gains a modern user experience. Some long-standing problems with the CORBA-based accessibility stack will hopefully be solved as a side-effect of the move to D-Bus
- Package new components
- gnome-icon-theme-symbolic [review] [packages]
- gnome-themes-standard [review] [packages]
- gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks [review]
- cantarell-fonts
- gsettings-desktop-schemas [review] [packages]
- gtk3 [review] [packages]
- yelp-xsl [review] [packages]
- dconf [review] [packages]
- gnome-desktop3 (Done)
- telepathy-logger [review] [packages]
- atkmm [review] [packages]
- gtkmm30 [review] [packages]
- folks [review] [packages]
- Build packages which provide gtk modules for gtk2 and gtk3 (tracked [upstream]):
- librsvg2 (Done)
- ibus-gtk [bug] (Done)
- at-spi2-atk (Done)
- PackageKit-gtk-module (Done)
- Make GTK-using libraries parallel-installable, or port them to GTK3, or drop their GTK dependency:
- libnotify (done, dependency now implicit)
- gnome-desktop (done, parallel-installable gnome-desktop3)
- libunique ([done], parallel-installable libunique3)
- gtksourceview ([done], parallel-installable gtksourceview3)
- webkitgtk ([done], parallel-installable webkitgtk3)
- vte ([bug], parallel-installable vte3)
- libwnck ([bug])
- libmetacity-private ([bug])
- clutter-gtk
- libchamplain-gtk
- gtkimageview
- cheese-gtk
- polkit-gtk
- gnome-media (library has been split off as libgnome-media-profiles, ported to GTK3)
- Switch to the dbus-based accessibility stack (Done)
- Implement data migration for applications that are ported from GConf2 to dconf
- done for evince
- done for gedit
- done for brasero
- done for gnome-bluetooth
- done for nautilus-sendto
- done for gnome-color-manager
- done for gnome-packagekit
- done for gnome-power-manager
- Implement fallback from the shell to gnome-panel+metacity for unsupported hardware
- All system status indicators must use symbolic icons, others are optional
- power (Done)
- sound (Done)
- bluetooth (Done)
- updates (not a system status indicator anymore)
- network
- keyboard
- Make sure applications keep working and don't run into mixed linkage against both gtk2 and gtk3 via gtk-using libraries. Currently known problems:
- solang (uses gtk2, but needs libbrasero-burn/media which has moved to gtk3)
- rhythmbox (the gtk3 port will be completed in time for F15)
- Current mixed linkage problems that need to be addressed:
- gnome-volume-control-applet
- rhythmbox (via libbrasero-burn/media and gnome-media-profiles which are gtk3) [bug]
- gnomeradio (via gnome-media-profiles) [bug]
- gthumb (via libbrasero-burn) [bug]
- emerillon (via libclutter-gtk) [bug]
- seahorse-plugins [bug]
- gnome-user-share [bug]
- claws-mail-plugins (via libclutter-gtk) [bug]
- gnome-phone-manager [bug]
- meego-panel-devices (via libclutter-gtk)
- meego-panel-zones (via libclutter-gtk)
- moblin-app-installer (via libclutter-gtk)
- tracker [bug]
- Several new technologies need additions to the packaging guidelines
- Upgrades need to ensure that all new components of GNOME 3 get installed when upgrading from an earlier Fedora release including GNOME 2.x. This includes in particular
- gnome-shell (handled by a gnome-panel -> gnome-shell dependency now)
- gnome-themes-standard
How To Test
How to test basic gnome-shell functionality:
- Use a system with supported graphics card
- Log in to a GNOME session
- Verify that your desktop has:
- A black panel at the top
- Your name on the top right
- Next to it, a system status area, with icons for sound, universal access, network, battery, etc, in symbolic style
- in the center of the panel, a clock that brings up a calendar popup when clicked
- on the left, an 'Activities' item that brings up the 'overview' when clicked
- the top left corner of the screen also functions as a hot corner to bring up the overview
- Notifications (ie 'bubbles') appear centered at the bottom of the screen, and are still available afterwards in the auto-hide 'messaging area' at the bottom right
How to test the accessibility stack:
- Make sure at-spi2-core, at-spi2-atk, pyatspi are installed
- Turn accessibility support on, with the command
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface accessibility false
- Log in again
- Use the 'Universal access' menu in the system status area to turn various accessibility technologies on and off
- Verify that accessibility technologies work as expected
- Bring up the Universal Access settings, and make various changes
- Verify that the changes take effect
How to test fallback:
- Use a system with supported graphics card
- Log in to a GNOME session
- Verify that you end up with gnome-shell
- Switch to a system with a graphics card on which we don't have 3d support (e.g. a VM)
- Log in to a GNOME session again
- Verify that you end up with the 'classic GNOME' desktop
User Experience
The user experience (on supported hardware) will be defined by gnome-shell. If graphics hardware (and/or drivers) do not support gnome-shell, GNOME 3 starts in a 'fallback mode' where we run gnome-panel and metacity instead of gnome-shell. Note that this is not a 'GNOME 2' mode, the panel configuration will be adjusted to give a similar look-and-feel to the shell.
In GNOME 3, nautilus is no longer part of the desktop shell, but just a regular application, and it is no longer started by default.
Accessibility tools will work as well as (or hopefully better than) they used to. The onscreen keyboard will no longer be gok, but caribou, which may offer a slightly different user experience.
- gnome-shell uses clutter, which relies on 3D hardware and drivers. In F13, the shell is known to work ok with Intel and ATI graphics, and work somewhat with the nouveau driver for NVidia graphics. For F14, we want the shell to work well with all three of
- xorg-x11-drv-ati
- xorg-x11-drv-intel
- xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
- Any packages that install modules for gtk2 (such as image loaders, input methods or theme engines) need to do extra work to make their functionality available to gtk3 too.
- The libnotify 0.7.0 version removes some APIs that were available in 0.6. All packages that use libnotify to show notification bubbles and attach them to status icons will need some (minor) updates. (mostly done in rawhide)
- The GDesktopAppInfoLookup extension mechanism has been disabled in GIO (it is still installed to mainain API stability, but GIO now determines default handlers by looking for x-scheme-handler mimetypes (see recent xdg-list discussion about this). Only very few packages in other GTK+-based desktops are affected by this.
- To make default applications work, applications need to add suitable x-scheme-handler entries to the mimetype field in their desktop files. (mostly done in rawhide)
Contingency Plan
If gnome-shell is not complete or stable enough, keep it experimental and use the 'fallback mode'. If there are problems with certain combinations of graphics hardware and drivers, use gnome-shell only on known good combinations, and use fallback mode everywhere else.
If the dbus-based accessibility stack is not sufficiently functional, we switch back to the CORBA-based stack.
Applications can be ported from GConf to dconf and from gtk2 to gtk3 one-by-one, so if the porting work is not complete (and it is very unlikely that it will be), we can just ship with some applications using the new technology, while others still use the old one.
- http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/accessibility/atk/at-spi/at-spi_on_d-bus
- http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/
- http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointZero
- http://www.gnome3.org
Release Notes
- Fedora 15 includes GNOME 3. It brings the first major overhaul of the GNOME user experience in 10 years.


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"I need help focusing on what really matters," said Joe. "I need to know how to actually do the stuff you guys talk about."
"Are you really ready to make some changes?" Charlie asked.
"I couldn't be more ready. I had quite a bit of time to think yesterday. Impending death really boils down the important stuff. I need to show up and speak up and all of those things. Otherwise, I might as well shut up and show myself to the door."
"That's a nifty little twist," chuckled Charlie. "I guess you really were paying attention."
"Oh, I don't have any problem with the hearing," said Joe. "It's the doing I've had a tough time with. I don't know what the Hell I'm doing. I feel like I'm just shadowboxing with the truth."
Excerpted from The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable
Joe, one of the key characters in The Offsite, is an amalgam of people I have met over the years. People like Joe walk through life in a fog and hope people don't see through the masks they wear that cover up their fear of being recognized as a fake.
If an epiphany happens to the "Joes" it usually takes a trauma or two to shake them free from their limited thinking patterns. However, weather patterns shift. Fog clears.
For leaders, one of the best ways to clear the fog is to draft what I call a Vision Story. Similar to the vision work in The Leadership Challenge® Workshop, a Vision Story takes it a bit further. It asks participants to actually create a story, one they can use in its entirety or as selected sound bites in all of their communication.
As this process became more popular with clients, it organically became more formalized. It was obvious that the process could help create community, team spirit, and direction. It was not a check-the-box activity. And it needed a name. Thus, the Never Ending Story Community Building process was born, which I then used in my book The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable.
While this technique — which resulted from my reading, research, as well as tons of trial and error — was not spanking new, it was a new way for me to look at the vision process and it produced great results for clients looking to bring focus to their efforts. In addition, it allowed individuals to see that they, too, could be creative and provided them with a template to use in both their personal and professional lives.
The Never Ending Story Community Building Process
- Discover what matters to you. If you are going to take the lead, what excites you about doing that? You must deeply care about the issue or outcome to light your pilot light.
- What is today's story? You must specifically identify the good, bad and ugly of your current situation. Knowing where you are and where you want to be on a day-to-day basis is crucial. It is only then that you can fill the gap.
- What does the future story need to be? Identify the compelling elements. Be sure your values can be seen and heard. Once you have written this piece, re-read it. Be sure you believe in it. Your passion pilot light must be intense or your story won't pass the snicker test.
- Who/What will assist you? Who/What will oppose? You must look at individual behaviors, systems, process, policy, staff skills, strategy, and budget, to name a few.
- Take action by personally inviting supporters to join with you in developing your story. Just because they're working with you does not mean they feel invited.
- Clarify the benefits to you and your colleagues. Everyone wants to know what's in it for them.
- Ask why you want this repeatedly until you arrive at your deepest reason.
- Write your story. Let your pilot light burn brightly. Just write what you really want. Don't edit as you go. Rewrite and edit later.
Through the years, I have found Stephen Dennings book, The Leaders Guide to Storytelling, to be the best and easiest resource to help people ignite their inner storytelling creator and go deeper into the process. He advises us to be sure our story "has a happy ending; its brief and naturally interesting; it should personify the change message; it should be able to be understood easily and move the listener to a deeper level of understanding."
When people get stuck, I always advise them to just tell us about "a day in the life" of their workplace a year from now. When they come to work what is going on? How are people behaving? What results are you getting? Sometimes participants reach back into the past, pulling experiences forward and using them as levers to move to the future.
I recently had the opportunity to work in-depth with the top executives at San Diego's Palomar Pomerado Health, a non-profit health organization. Hers a recent story from Joanne Barnett, a nurse manager, who was concerned about keeping the care in caring. Her story, which reaches into the past, hits most of Dennings suggestions. It definitely helps provide direction for her team and motivation for the organization as well.
Late one night, there was a man: a father, a husband who fell asleep at the wheel. He woke to lights, sirens, and firefighters in their yellow turnouts while pinned under a semi-truck with the engine block on his lap. In the distance, he could hear a helicopter arriving. He loses consciousness as the jaws-of-life are used to attempt to save his life.
As black fluid leaked from his vehicle, a flight nurse and firefighter are talking and they both shake their heads. The nurse puts on a pair of yellow turnouts, and climbs in the back of the mangled car.
"Sir, where do you hurt," she asks. He hesitates and says "I don't" and then pauses, "Its bad isn't it?" he whispers with a strange calm in his voice.
A moment-of-truth. What can you say to make the patient feel better?
"Sir we are doing everything we can and I promise to do everything I can to get you to the hospital, but every time they try to get you out, you lose consciousness. Is there anybody you would like to talk to?"
"My wife", he says.
The nurse looks at the firefighter whose head is poking through the driver's window with tears streaming down his face as he says, "I have a cell phone".
The patient whispers his phone number and closes his eyes. It takes all of his strength to talk.
" Honey, just wanted to let you know I'll be home late tonight, there is an accident on the freeway, No I'm fine, kiss the kids and see you soon."
He closes his eyes and his breathing is a little shallower. The nurse and firefighter nod knowingly to each other . . . its time.
As the nurse gets out of the car, the patient whispers, "Please, I don't want to die alone". At that moment, the heaviness in her heart outweighs the weight of the turnouts. The nurse holds the man's hand as a single tear rolls down his cheek.
The roar from the Jaws of Life was deafening and in one swift motion, the car is pulled from the semi. In it, lies a lifeless man and the nurse lets go of his hand. As she turns around, the silence is deafening and tears glistened from the faces of the firefighters as she too started to cry.
Compassion makes us humble. Caring makes us real. Riding the wave of the future of healthcare is exciting. New technology, innovative ideas are invigorating and working in the hospital of the future is our goal. Growth is challenging. My hope is that as we evolve, no one loses sight of why we are in healthcare. What we do is noble yet it is easy to lose sight of what matters. The patient is what matters and their perception about how we cared. It's easy to get lost in the future but we must continue to set the example of compassion while empowering each other to do our best.
Technology may allow us to do more in a shorter period, but we are measured by not just what we did, but how we did it. I will never forget that night and how four little words "I have a phone" made such a difference. I have touched many lives, but this one left such an impression, I encourage us all to be extraordinary. Always want to do what is best for the patient and not just what is best for you.
The team that night could have very easily done the job without any thought as to who that patient was. It's easier to blend with technology and innovation rather than wear your heart on your sleeve. Nevertheless, we can truly shine in the darkness when we do the right thing. Why? Because we touch a life. Why? Because we can save a life. Why? Because we can make a difference. Why? Because the difference is what counts. What patients remember is everlasting. To really see what is before you, to put yourself in your patients shoes and do the right thing, is compassion and caring, and if the only thing you can do is hold the hand of a dying man or let him speak to his wife one last time, that is greatness.
As a PPH employee, I encourage everyone to continue to persevere to do the right thing, to hold that hand and care for every patient that you touch with compassion. Compassion and teamwork is the legacy of Palomar Pomerado Health.
Joanne's emotionally charged story is certainly a candidate to be used in a variety of settings. Other stories generated from this organization focused on patient care, community outreach, and staff retention with many touching an emotional chord like Joanne's as well. In some way, they all reflect the official vision of the organization. All of their stories make a solid foundation for future presentations.
Many people balk at first about writing a story. "I'm not a writer," they shout. However, my experience says that once people see how well they have done with the process they become more excited. They begin to use their story in full or as sound bites in their conversations and emails, etc. They also find that it is just a great template to keep in mind for their many communication needs.
Robert Thompson is the author of The Offsite: A Leadership Challenge Fable. A sought-after speaker, workshop leader, and executive coach, he is founder of Applied Performance, a leadership and personal communication services company. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or www.leaderinsideout.com.


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kingcrim needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 87 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Create a logo and web page design for an e-Commerce site called SomeSimpleThings
SomeSimpleThings.Com is an eCommerce site, so all site designs will need to reflect that (meaning I am not looking for 'wild' designs that break common expectations for what an eCommerce site looks like).
The product that SomeSimpleThings sells is open-ended. It is intended to sell product that 'matches' the domain name, but that is pretty vague. The product to sell could very well be determined by the design it uses.
Logo only award: $150
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Indonesia Loses Its Blind Seer
When Abdurrahman Wahid died at the end of December in Jakarta, thousands of people gathered spontaneously to pray together throughout the country. Current president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono declared seven days of official state mourning.
Known as Gus Dur ("brother Dur") from October 1999 to July 2001 Wahid, a former Muslim leader, was Indonesia's fourth president – the first for decades to be democratically elected.
Shadowed by interreligious conflicts
For Wahid, however, his term of office more closely resembled the low point of his life. He became entangled in corruption scandals and most of his reform ideas were unsuccessful. He was unable to end the fighting between Muslims and Christians on the Maluku Islands and in central Sulawesi, the civil war in Aceh or the conflict in West Papua.
Although he fired defence minister Wiranto, responsible for the atrocities associated with the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999, and exposed the co-operation between Islamists and generals, he was never able to reduce the influence of the military.
In July 2001 an alliance of Muslims and the military forced him out of office. The Australian historian Adrian Vickers wrote that Indonesia was not ready for Gus Dur's offensive for democracy.
A "cleric of pluralism"
Wahid's significance to the country extended way beyond his time as president however. A diabetes sufferer left blind following three strokes, famous for his courage, his unorthodox behaviour and his black humour, he was Indonesia's seer, guru and its "cleric of pluralism", as the Jakarta Post named him.
He fought for interreligious dialogue and a peaceful Islam. He openly supported Christians and Chinese and even advocated a normal relationship to Jews. He was a blessing for all faiths, Jakarta's archbishop said.
He apologised to the victims of the Suharto dictatorship and the East Timorese for their sufferings under Indonesia's rule. He ended the ban on communism, asked the victims of the anti-communist killings of 1965/66 for forgiveness and attempted to introduce a process of reconciliation which enraged the military, many Muslims, his party and even certain members of his family, who had spearheaded the mass murders.
Wahid's unconventional behaviour was apparent even during his student years at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. Instead of pursuing his studies in Muslim scripture he soaked up new-wave films, French, English and Marxist literature and left Cairo disappointed, finding the lessons there irrelevant. He went to Baghdad, where he made a name for himself with socio-religious writings.
Wahid was born in East Java in 1940 into a highly regarded religious family. His father was minster for religion under the state's founder Sukarno, his grandfather founded Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the world's largest Muslim organisation, with over 30 million members worldwide. Wahid himself was its leader from 1984 to 1999.
Well before his presidency he called on the Ulamas to work for a social and cultural transformation of society. He was the first member of the elite to develop plans to topple the dictator Suharto and to talk of the need for revolution.
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Translated by Steph Morris
Interview with Yenny Zannuba Wahid
Religious Diversity instead of Intolerance
Yenny Zannuba Wahid, daughter of the former Indonesian president Abdurahman Wahid, is the head of the Wahid Institute in Jakarta, which promotes a tolerant, pluralistic Islam and social reforms in Indonesia. Zaki Amrullah spoke to her
Liberal Islamic Networks in Indonesia
A Counter-Movement to Political Islam
In recent years Indonesia has seen the development of a network of various Muslim NGOs that convey a contemporary understanding of Islam, working to counter the advance of Islamization.
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How Do Women Influence Political Islam in Indonesia?
Efforts to influence political Islam are made by Indonesian women both within the Islamic movement and outside it. Which is more effective is difficult to say. However it is clear, that women in Indonesia have changed their political strategies considerably over the years. By Susan Blackburn


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In Zaragoza, from Thursday onwards the nights are for having a good time. There are numerous clubs in the city for dancing to all kinds of music, having a few drinks and staying out until the early hours. In the old part of the city, thousands of young people and students congregate in the area around Calle Moncasi street, Royo and Zumalacárregui, where the atmosphere is amazing. There is also a lot of atmosphere at the discos and bars in the university area, for example along Calle Tomás Bretón.
The options for a night on the town continue along Calle La Paz, León XIII and Magdalena, which are very lively: you can see live performances, dance to the rhythms of house and techno, or have a cocktail in one of the trendy pubs. If you're in the mood for a quieter place, head for Avenida Goya. And if the weather's good, don't miss the outdoor terraces.
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Lakeland College's Katie Shumway, an instructor of Spanish, is the 2014 winner of the annual Underkofler Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Shumway, who is in her 12th year as a member of Lakeland's faculty, is the college's 23rd winner of the Underkofler, which recognizes outstanding performance in undergraduate teaching.
The Underkofler Award was presented on April 2 at Lakeland's annual Honors Banquet, which recognizes outstanding academic accomplishments of students and faculty.
Shumway's accomplishments include the development of valuable study abroad opportunities and supporting students learning the Spanish language and culture by creating an engaging and comfortable classroom setting.
"Learning a foreign language can be intimidating," said Jessica Korrison, a senior majoring in resort management, in a letter nominating Shumway for the award. "Professor Shumway knows how to take that feeling away. Taking Spanish in high school was far from a pleasant experience for me. I can never thank Professor Shumway enough for changing my view on learning a foreign language."
Shumway has led a number of study abroad experiences that allow Lakeland students to gain immersion into Spanish-speaking cultures. She has partnered with faculty in the hospitality management program to take students to Mexico and Costa Rica and has worked to expand the relationship between Lakeland and its sister school in Colombia, Universidad Reformada.
Karissa Anderson, a junior majoring in education with a Spanish minor, accompanied Shumway to Colombia to study for a month.
"Senorita Shumway helped me to grow intellectually, morally and spiritually by providing an opportunity for a study abroad experience in the life of someone from another culture," said Anderson in a letter nominating Shumway for the award. "She helped us experience their values, create connections with what we learned in Colombia and the United States, be accepting of a diversity of people and make ethical decisions."
Shumway has provided innovative opportunities for Lakeland students throughout her career. She has created an environment where upper-level Spanish students gain experience teaching within the introductory Spanish sequence and has coordinated language learning exchanges through Skype. She has also served as lead English instructor for Lakeland's English Language Institute summer program and engaged students through the interdisciplinary Core.
Shumway has both a bachelor's and master's degree in Spanish from Marquette University.
The Underkofler Award is presented through the Alliant Energy Foundation and the Wisconsin Foundation for Independent Colleges, Inc. The Underkofler Endowment Fund was created in honor of past Wisconsin Power & Light president and chairman James R. Underkofler to recognize his 48 years of service to the utility industry.


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I want to focus this week on new and emergent technologies, their affordances and their potential use to support different forms of learning.. I will argue that social and participatory media in particular offer rich ways in which learners can communicate and collaborate, but that, on the whole, these technologies are not been used extensively. I will describe a number of strategies we have developed to try and enable practitioners to make more informed design decisions which make effective use of new technologies. I will conclude by arguing that we need new metaphors to understand the ways in which users are interacting with digital technologies.
As a background to this you might like to read two chapters from my forthcoming book – one on social and participatory media and one on design representations. They are available on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole/chapter-4-open-social-and-participatory-media and http://www.slideshare.net/GrainneConole/chapter-8-design-representations-11882051
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AndrewSMiller needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 81 designs submitted by 34 freelance designers.
We are creating a brand that targets business owners and sales executives. That brand is called Exceed Quota. We would like a logo that depicts a company exceeding their sales quota.
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Facebook-for-the-enterprise company Yammer announced a big new round of funding on Wednesday: $85 million, bringing its total financing to $142 million.
That's an impressive amount raised for a company premised on the relatively new idea of social networking for businesses. The 3-year-old San Francisco company offers companies a secure place for employees to collaborate online, using a freemium model that has helped it spread virally to become used in 85 percent of the Fortune 500.
Yammer plans to use the new funding to beef up its sales force and engineering teams, and will also be considering some acquisitions. They're also planning to expand their marketing efforts.
"We still wouldn't buy traffic — there's no amount of money we could spend to grow faster than our virality," said David Sacks, Yammer's founder and CEO. "But we can increase our brand awareness among decision-makers who matter in the enterprise."
Yammer will launch its first major advertising campaign tomorrow, starting with a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal.
DFJ Growth, a branch of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, led the round. New investors include Meritech Capital Partners, Capricorn Investment Group LLC and Khosla Ventures. Previous investors Charles River Ventures, Emergence Capital, Founders Fund, Social+Capital Partnership, and U.S. Venture Partners also participated, along with angel investors Bill Lee, Max Levchin, and Ronnie Lott.
Randy Glein, managing director at DFJ Growth, will take an observer's seat on Yammer's board of directors.
What appealed to investors this time around? In a word: growth. Last year Yammer's user base grew 2.5 times, sales tripled, and the number of paying users almost tripled. The company has about 4 million users.


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Berry and Clark each scored 20-plus as Harvard earned the Ivy League's first victory in the WNIT (Brian Ballweg).
HEMPTSTEAD, N.Y. – Brogan Berry and Christine Clark combined for 49 points as the Harvard women's basketball team knocked off Hofstra Thursday night, 73-71, to become the first team in Ivy League history to record a win in the WNIT. With the victory, Harvard advances to the tournament's second round and will now face Temple Saturday, March 17 at 6 p.m. in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Ivy League entered this year's tournament a combined 0-5 in the WNIT since 2007 when it first earned an automatic bid. For Harvard, it marks the team's first victory in three tries at the tournament and improves the program to 2-8 all-time in the postseason. The Crimson is also the only program in Ivy League history to record a win in the NCAA Tournament, and did so in 1998 when it became the only No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed on either the men's or women's side with a 71-67 victory over Stanford.
Berry dominated the game in the first half, scoring 19 of her 26 points on 7-of-8 shooting while going 4-of-5 from three. She finished the game shooting 9-of-16 from the field and 5-of-9 from three, and added five rebounds and four assists. Berry reached several milestones in the victory, including moving into sole possession of second place in Harvard history and fourth place in the Ivy League with 521 career assists. Berry is also now the 27th leading scorer in Ancient Eight annals with 1,437 points, and is tied with former teammate Christine Matera '11 for the program record with 115 appearances.
Clark went 9-of-15 from the floor and 3-of-5 from three for her 23 points, and added seven rebounds. Victoria Lippert chipped in nine points while Emma Golen led the efforts on the glass with 10 boards. Elle Hagedorn grabbed seven rebounds to go with her three assists.
Hofstra (19-12) was led by Shante Evans' 24-point, 16-rebound double-double. The Pride held a 38-30 edge in points in the paint and a 20-5 advantage in second-chance points, but shot 36.5 percent to Harvard's (18-11) 46.8 percent. Candace Bond and Nicole Capurso added 18 points and 13 points, respectively.
Hofstra scored the game's first points but Berry's first three and a layup by Clark put the Crimson in front, 5-3. A second Berry three-pointer made it an 8-3 game and Harvard led 10-5 following a Golen jumper. Berry continue to have the hot hand early, draining two more from long range for an 16-9 advantage with 12:05 remaining.
The Pride pulled within 22-18 off a jumper by Marie Malone before Berry took over again to help Harvard to its first double-digit lead of the night, 29-19. Back-to-back baskets by Hagedorn and Berry made it an eight-point game, and Berry followed a Hofstra basket with an and-one for the 10-point edge. An 8-2 run by Hofstra momentarily cut the deficit to three, 33-30, but Clark outscored the Pride 7-2 over the final 2:36 to take a 40-32 lead into the break.
Berry led all scorers with 19 first-half points, shooting 7-of-8 from the floor and 4-of-5 from three. Clark added 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting as the Crimson hit 57.1 percent (16-28) of its attempts in the frame. Hofstra held a 22-18 edge on the glass but shot just 31.6 percent while going 2-of-8 from three.
Harvard opened the second half on a 5-0 run with Miriam Rutzen draining a three from the corner and Lippert getting an open layup on a secondary break. Eight straight points by Hofstra in response pulled the Pride within five, 45-40, but the Crimson came right back with a 12-4 stretch to move the score to 57-46 with 12:41 remaining. Jumpers by Clark and Golen opened the run and Clark hit her second three-pointer of the night to make it seven straight points for Harvard. After a pair of Pride baskets cut the lead to 52-46, Lippert followed a Berry jumper with her first three for the 11-point margin.
The Crimson's lead reached as many as 13 points on a Lippert jumper, but Hofstra continued to hang in the game with its strong inside presence. A 9-0 run by the Pride pulled Hofstra to within four, but yet another three by Berry on the ensuing possession pushed the score to 66-59. Bond scored on Hofstra's next possession to make it a five-point game before Clark responded from behind-the-arc for a 69-61 lead with 4:10 to play.
Harvard was unable to put the game away, however, as the Pride made one last push and cut the lead to one, 69-68, on a three from Katelyn Loper. Lippert missed a pair of three-point attempts on Harvard's next possession but Rutzen came down with the first rebound and Clark grabbed the second, and laid it in for a 71-68 edge. Berry added a pair of free throws with 0:24 remaining to move the score to 73-68 before Loper hit a second three for the final 73-71 margin.
Game Notes: Harvard became the first team in Ivy League history to win a game in the WNIT and improved to 2-8 all-time in the postseason … Harvard is also the only Ivy League program to ever win a game in the NCAA Tournament, and became the only No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed on either the men's or women's side with a 71-67 victory over Stanford on March 14, 1998 … Brogan Berry moved into sole possession of second place in Harvard history and fourth place in the Ivy League with 521 career assists … Brogan Berry is also now the 27th leading scorer in Ivy League annals with 1,437 points and is tied for first in program history with 115 career appearances.


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As the year winds down, as the weather gets colder, as the squash and pumpkins and cabbages replace the tomatoes, eggplants, and stone fruits at the market, we start thinking about how much we have to be thankful for.
We've got holidays – and celebrations – on the mind.
And now, we've got yet another excuse for you to celebrate: the debut of The Food52 Cookbook, Volume II!
In honor of our second cookbook together, we're asking you to spread the word, to invite your friends, and to throw the fun, fabulous potlucks we know you Food52-ers are experts at. And if you host, we and some of our favorite small producers will send you lots of cool stuff – 5 cookbooks, 2 pounds of Olli's Handcrafted Cultured Butter (one salted, one herbed), and 10 half-pound bags of Rancho Gordo beans as giveaways for guests.
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Here is a short plot summary of Henry IV Part 2:
King Henry IV has been victorious at the battle of Shrewsbury but the Earl of Northumberland hears rumours that his son, Harry Hotspur, has been the victor. Northumberland and the Archbishop of York decide to oppose the king's forces, led by Prince John. The news of Hotspur's death finally comes, however, and Hotspur's widow and Lady Northumberland urge them not to continue with their rebellion.
The Lord Chief Justice criticises Sir John Falstaff for his behaviour during the wars but gives his blessing to him in his intention to join Prince John's forces. Before Falstaff can leave he is arrested for his debt to Mistress Quickly, the landlady of the Boar's Head tavern. They both land up in court where Falsaff persuades her to patch up their differences. Prince Hal and his friend Poins, arrive at the tavern, disguised as servants. Acquaintances between Hal and Falstaff and his companionsare renewed. Pistol arrives and tells Falstaff that he should have departed for the wars by now. Hal and his friends remain, still dressed as servants, although the king is sick, and worried about the succession. Falstaff recruits men, conforming to his usual corrupt methods.
York, Mowbray and Hastings prepare for battle. The Earl of Westmorland arrives from Prince John to hear their grievances and they come to a peace arrangement. However, as soon as the rebel armies disperse, Westmorland arrests the three leaders for treason.
The king is very ill. Hall arrives from London. He thinks the sleeping king is dead and he lifts the crown and tries it on. The king wakes up and is angered by that. They make up and are reconciled before the king prepares himself for death.
When Falstaff hears of the king's death and Hal's succession he sets out to attend the coronation, expecting to be given high office, but the king denies knowing him and banishes him, commanding him to come no nearer than ten miles of his court. The play ends with Falstaff left hurt and hoping that the king will change his mind, while the King Henry plans a war against France.