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Q&A with Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel
"Are you interviewing me?" Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel bellows in his broad Chicago accent from the doorway of his office in College Hall.
The commanding cadence of his voice, the way he whisks by, indicates that he's a man on the move, with scarce seconds to spare.
Emanuel joined the Penn community in September as the University's 13th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and the vice provost for global initiatives. Since then, he's been as busy as the Schuylkill Expressway at rush hour.
Trained as a medical doctor, Emanuel also serves as the inaugural chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy in the Perelman School of Medicine. His appointment is shared between the Perelman School of Medicine and the Department of Health Care Management in the Wharton School.
Furthermore, he teaches a health policy course called "The Future of the American Health Care System: Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act."
"As I like to say, I'm the eldest son of a doctor who had recently immigrated to the United States, so my being a doctor was over-determined," Emanuel says. "And I was good at science, which my brothers were not."
Emanuel is the oldest of three phenomenally successful brothers. Rahm, the middle brother, is the current mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to President Barack Obama. Youngest brother Ari is the co-CEO and director of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment.
When Penn President Amy Gutmann announced Emanuel's appointment, she remarked that Penn "is tremendously fortunate to have attracted to our faculty one of the most insightful and well-respected bioethicists of our time."
"[Zeke Emanuel] has time and again demonstrated the vital importance of putting the broadest and deepest understandings to work in service of others," she said. "I am delighted that he will join the ranks of our esteemed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professors."
In between an important meeting and an overseas phone call to China, Emanuel took the time to talk with the Current about his life, Penn, ethics, and why he doesn't own a television.
Q. How are you enjoying Penn so far?
A. It's great. It's got a lot of the things I came for, which is a very collegial, very supportive environment that is striving to be the best. I love the fact that all the schools are on the same campus and I can actually go from the Medical School, to the College, to Wharton, to the Law School, to Nursing in five minutes. That really just makes a world of collaborations possible. And I love the fact that I have students from all those different schools in my class.
Q. I'm sure you could have had your choice of universities…
A. Yes, I had a few choices.
Q. What was it that attracted you to Penn?
A. It's definitely the collaborative environment. One aspect, just as a matter of personality, is I realized I really couldn't be on the West Coast, I had to be on the East Coast. I'm an East Coast kind of guy. Too much sun and good weather are probably not conducive to my being productive. Second is through the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professorships, Penn is more committed to integrating across the schools and within the schools. That's not to say such collaboration doesn't have its challenges, but Penn is definitely much more interested in fostering cross-school collaboration. I did talk to other schools; collaboration was going to be much more difficult. At one of the other Ivies that I talked to, all the people in health policy had never actually sat down in the same room together. Ever. That's crazy. At Penn, I didn't have to start that far behind the eight ball.
There are some challenges to working across schools. There are silos. There are issues of how projects are funded that I think can make it challenging to work across schools and to get some projects going. On the other hand, what I do find at Penn, which I think is really wonderful, is people want to work on those barriers and solve the problems. Being willing and open to looking at things anew I think is very much something that's very attractive about Penn.
Q. You received your Ph.D. in political philosophy. Were you interested in politics in your younger days?
A. It was mostly ethics. As an undergraduate, I actually had completed all the requirements for a philosophy major, including the oral exam, except I didn't take logic. I refused to take logic. I've had a longstanding interest, actually, in ethics and political philosophy, not politics per se. I leave politics to my brother; I stick to the high ground of political philosophy.
Q. Why did you refuse to take logic?
A. It was boring, as far as I was concerned.
Q. You earned your Ph.D. while you were also enrolled at Harvard Medical School?
A. I finished all the requirements for medical school in three years, and then basically stopped medical school and went across the Charles River to do the Ph.D. in Cambridge. I was not a big fan of my medical school experience.
Q. What didn't you like about it?
A. First, I found it required way too much memorization. Second, I found it too hierarchical; whatever the senior doctor said went, rather than being open to the exchange of a lot of ideas. That sort of hierarchy didn't go along with my personality.
I also saw a lot of practices at that time mainly related to end-of-life care that weren't going so well and I thought that given my interest in ethics and given my training in medicine, I had clear, distinctive skills to address those issues.
Q. You were previously on the faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. How did you become interested in cancer care?
A. Cancer care has all the interesting issues. If you are a bioethicist, all the issues are present in cancer care, whether it's end-of-life care, informed consent, or what to do about high-cost treatment. Second, if you are interested in science, cancer care has been at the cutting-edge of gene research, defining what genes cause cancer, and personalized medicine, so it's cutting-edge from a scientific standpoint. And last, if you're interested in physician-patient interactions, your patients have a serious illness. They come to see you every other week or every four weeks, you get to know them very, very well, very intensely. It's not like being a primary care physician and seeing your patients once a year for a routine annual physical. As a cancer doctor, you get to know your patients intimately; you get to know their families very intensely. Every aspect, whether it's having meaningful clinical relationships with patients, scientific research, bioethics—cancer is the best medical field to be in.
If you are a bioethicist, all the issues are present in cancer care, whether it's end-of-life care, informed consent, or what to do about high-cost treatment."
Q. You and your brothers sat down with Charlie Rose in June of 2008. During the interview, you mentioned that when you were younger, you used to tag along with your father while he made his rounds on the weekend. Did that have any influence on you becoming a medical doctor?
A. I don't know that it had an influence on me becoming a doctor. I certainly got a sense of how my father practiced medicine. I would say at least this: We weren't afraid of the hospital or afraid of sick patients. And I could see how much good a person could do by being a doctor. So I guess in those senses, it had an influence.
Q. And your mother was heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement?
A. Very, very, very actively involved in civil rights. Growing up in the '60s, we were probably the only white family—certainly the only white family we knew—that had a lot of African-American friends. We had a helper in the house whose family we were very friendly with, and we would go to her West Side Chicago apartment once a month. We hung out on the West Side when no whites hung out on the West Side. We had a very close [African-American] family friend that my mom knew as a child, and they were active together in the Civil Rights Movement. Her two sons were very close friends.
Plus my brothers, especially Rahm, would get extremely dark in the summers from suntans and were very frequently confused with being African American, so we used to get a lot of racism directed at us. We certainly experienced that as young kids in the '60s. We were in a very different place than most whites growing up.
Q. Am I correct that your mother made you wear black armbands to school after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated?
A. I don't know that she so much made us, as we just wore the armbands. She had gone to the March on Washington in 1963, and then she remained heavily involved in civil rights.
Q. Were you and your brothers competitive with each other when you were younger?
A. We had this funny situation where all of us were competitive with each other inside the house, and outside the house we were all pretty unified. I think that actually remains true today. My brothers can scream at me and I can scream at them, yet we can also dare anyone on the outside to try to put a wedge between us. It's not a very good thing for them to attempt.
A. I think it's not a coincidence that we're all in very different professional fields. We need a lot of room between us. Neither Rahm nor I are going to compete with Ari in media, TV, business deals. No one's going to compete with Rahm in political success. They don't try to compete with me in academic success. As a matter of fact, when their kids need help writing speeches, or science projects, or math problems, I get the call.
Q. You and your brothers used to spend the summers in Israel in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What impact did those trips have on you?
A. We have a lot of identification with Israel from that period. It was very formative in making us the kind of people we are, but those summers also allowed us to forge a very strong bond between us because, as three American kids in Israel, we hung out together. We were each other's playmates. It's not like we went off to camp and were in different age groups. We spent a lot, a lot, a lot of time together, mostly lazing on a beach and swimming and surfing and bodysurfing.
Q. Your first trip to Israel was in June of 1967, right after the Six-Day War. How was the visit?
A. It was very funny because we were going to a place where there were terrorist attacks all the time. We get to Israel and it feels much safer than the streets of Chicago. The chance of being mugged in Israel was zero. A random bomb? Yes, a higher chance in Israel than in Chicago. But that's probably not what's really dangerous. The really dangerous stuff is are you going to be mugged or attacked? The chances of that were way higher in Chicago. If there was a real threat of injury in Israel, it was probably from driving in cars. The Israelis were lunatic drivers, much more lunatic than today. They were classic Third-World drivers. Traffic lights were merely suggestions.
All these adults were nervous as hell about our going to Israel, but from our standpoint it was wonderful. We could walk to the beach, we could walk all around Tel Aviv unsupervised. It was a very small country at that time, 2 million people. Everyone knew everyone else. It was very hard to go awry without someone noticing. We had, in some funny sense, much more freedom in Israel, even though a lot of our friends in the U.S. thought my parents were nuts to send us.
Q. You served on President Clinton's Health Care Task Force in 1993 and as special advisor for health policy to President Obama from January 2009 to January 2011. You were involved in two contentious healthcare battles, one unsuccessful and one successful. Why do you think healthcare is such a divisive issue?
A. A huge amount of money, about 17 percent of the GDP, ergo lots of interest groups. It touches everyone. You have a very big ideological divide about the free market versus government interaction, and it's incredibly complex. On the one hand, any little change is very big, and on the other hand, there aren't that many people who really understand the system in detail. The large number of interest groups, the ideological issues, the complexity of it all, make it hard.
Q. Do you think President Obama should have used so much political capital on healthcare reform?
A. I'm not the political brother---ask Rahm that question. But let me just say the following: Healthcare reform is a world historical event. We've been trying to get a universal system in this country for a hundred years, since 1912. It finally got enacted in March 2010. That is the first thing.
The second thing is, it is necessary. Now I know a lot of people will think healthcare reform was necessary because it extended access to uninsured Americans. That's absolutely important. But reform is also necessary because it's going to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare in America. It will lower costs and restructure the system in a way that is not going to add to the debt of this country. As a matter of fact, it will give us a better handle on getting our arms around the debt. So from almost any perspective, it's a step in the positive direction.
Is it perfect? No bill that comes out of Congress is perfect. Is it a very good advance? Absolutely. Are there things we could have done to make it better? Absolutely. But you have to ask yourself also, 'What was the alternative?' It's not like the Republicans had a coherent alternative, and the system was and remains deeply flawed, if not broken, and you had to do something to reform it. So I don't think there's any alternative.
And when we make major social change in America, whether it's Social Security or civil rights, there is always going to be controversy. In a huge country like the United States, these major social changes don't go smoothly. It's a big country with lots of diverse people and philosophies. That doesn't mean you don't try to make big changes. One of the things I learned about working with President Obama is that when he makes up his mind, you're not going to move him. He doesn't make up his mind fast, but when he makes up his mind, it's really hard to get him to move off because he's really thought about it in detail and he knows himself.
Q. Do you think the government has a responsiblity to provide healthcare for its citizens?
A. It has a responsibility to ensure that Americans can get the healthcare they need, which is short of unlimited healthcare, in my view. That's a very different thing than socialized medicine or a government takeover of healthcare. Most of the American healthcare system is a private healthcare system. It's funded in a variety of different ways, some governmental, some private.
Q. You developed The Medical Directive, a comprehensive living will that allows people to record their wishes regarding their medical treatment in various scenarios if they become too ill to think clearly. What were your motivations for creating the living will?
A. I had done a lot of work on end-of-life care in the mid to late 1980s, and clearly one of the problems was that the living will documents that we had—while there was a big movement to get people to sign them—were quite poor, and so we thought we could do better. We did, in fact, do better in many ways. The basic structure of our document has been copied by a lot of other people.
We tried to make it, among other things, comprehensive, but also to give people a chance to see, through scenarios, the various different, most common situations that they might confront. We also thought of the document more as a jumping-off point for discussions with family members, with doctors, and caregivers.
Q. You mentioned that you have had a longstanding interest in ethics. Do you think ethics is something you can teach?
A. You're certainly not born with it. We may be born with some brain structures that enhance ethical thinking, and we clearly need to have ethics because it's about the principles that regulate human interaction with other human beings, with animals, and the environment. But clearly we have issues where it's not obvious what the right answer is, and we need to study and give reasons why one approach is better than another. That's what I take our role as bioethicists to be, and we need to see how practices vary. People have a lot of, you might say, intuitions or assumptions about what's going on in many situations that turn out either to be true only sometimes, or to be false. I've certainly confronted a number of cases in my career where people are sure they know the right answer and it turns out that it's probably not the right answer.
Early in my career, when we began working on end-of-life care, people were like, 'Patients don't want to talk about this.' Well, really? Have we talked to patients? Let's find out what they want to do. We were among the first people to show that, in fact, patients were very interested in talking about end-of-life care, very interested in filling out advanced directives, and that the medical system was not responding. In another part of my career, a very common view was that if you're a terminally ill patient and you have extreme pain, you would naturally want euthanasia. Well, really? Why don't we ask patients? So we asked patients and it turns out, no, terminally patients who are in pain are not interested in euthanasia. Their interest is to get rid of the pain. It was patients who were depressed or hopeless who were interested in euthanasia. That puts a very different color on thinking about legalizing euthanasia …
I think in a lot of ethical issues, people think they know the right answer and part of my job is to say, 'Are we sure we know the right answer? Maybe we should think this through again in a little more detail.'
Q. Is it true that you don't own a television?
A. I don't own a TV. I don't have Netflix. I don't do Hulu. I think I've seen about four, maybe five YouTube videos in my life. I don't drive a car anymore. I don't own a car. And I don't spend a lot of time surfing the Web.
Q. Can I ask why?
A. I find it a waste of time. I don't find TV, videos, surfing the Web particularly interesting, or intellectually or otherwise stimulating.
Q. Do you still compete? All of you are very successful.
I think it's not a coincidence that [my brothers and I are] all in very different professional fields. We need a lot of room between us."
The job here at Penn is fantastic. There are things I can do here that I can't do [in Washington]."
Q. If President Obama is reelected, would you have any interest in returning to work for the administration?
A. [Laughs] There are things you can do in Washington that you can't do any other way. It's a huge privilege to be able to work for the country in the government and try to make things better for the country. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working in the White House. I thought I made a contribution. It was a great honor to be able to be called upon to do that. If I could be of help again, I'd be more than happy to serve, but there are lots and lots of other interesting jobs to do. The job here at Penn is fantastic. There are things I can do here that I can't do [in Washington]. There are amazing opportunities as well as challenges. I like to find places where there are challenges and opportunities and work with them.
On the other hand, as I said, there are certain things you can do in government that you can't do anywhere else. It gives you a different kind of platform. And whatever the pressures, the heat, the abuse that you get as a result, it's worth it because you can do good there. But I'm loving it here at Penn and have no plans to move.


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Redesign Technical NotesMay 30
Next in the series of follow-ups to this past week's redesign is a look at some of the technical changes for the new mezzoblue.
Meta Data
Meta data is now showing up in the right-hand sidebar on pages where it feels appropriate. Each individual article has a special yellow "Context" box that informs the reader of what they're looking at in plain English. These auto-generated pseudo-summaries are mainly for the sake of those coming in off Google, but I'll be interested in seeing how valuable I find them myself when I hunt back through the archives for older entries. (I have to use this site too, after all).
The extended-sidebar concept is continued on monthly archive pages, where the space is used to host the calendar, entry list, and previous month listing. The old structure saw them cramped into the content area as a kludge and left unresolved for entirely too long. Problem now solved, and the new category archives continue the paradigm. I've been diligently categorizing each article for a year and a half; finally there's a front end for viewing past articles this way.
Of course we've been over the new comment highlighting system which has seen some tweaking, and will no doubt continue to improve. The other change to comments on this site involved moving them away from the main article onto their own page. There are still a few technical issues to figure out to make this system work properly; at the moment posting a new comment dumps you back onto the article page and not the comments page as you'd expect, and I'm still working out how to use my standard templating given Movable Type's reliance on .cgi pages for previewing and comment errors. (Shaun Inman and "M. Perakis" have suggested solutions which may lend themselves to this problem.)
But these are details, and this isn't an experiment—I'm choosing to keep a degree of separation between the original article and the comments that go along with it. This is no bandwidth issue, it's about perception and managability. Though I'm not opposed to a gentle shift off-topic provided there's value in the discussion, when a web standards primer aiming to wean absolute beginners off of tables starts bandying about the phrase 'MIME type', we have a problem; one example, but more exist.
This is my way of allowing myself to care less, which means ultimately I'm placing more responsibility in your hands to keep the discussions relevant. If the comment pages become a typical message forum wasteland of inanity they will just go away.
Browser Compatibility
I'll go into the CSS changes in the next article but there are a couple of browser support issues to highlight here. While I tested widely, the fringe cases popped up anyway. Win/IE5.5 renders properly, Win/IE5.0 is a mess. My testing in Opera 7.x checked out, but the menus didn't function. This is an acceptable degradation, but some have pointed out they do work though not as expected. I don't know why I continue to write code that Opera interprets differently than everything else, including IE6, but this is my curse. There should be a solution (indeed, one has been suggested) so a bit more testing should resolve this issue.
And then there are the IE6 problems. The first reared its head after commenters pasted long URIs into their comments. It has since been fixed.
overflow: hidden isn't an ideal solution, but it's effective. The second came as a result of my effort to allow the top menu
:hovers to function in IE. Since I didn't need the whole IE7 suite for this I grabbed Peter Nederlof's whatever:hover hack and after tying it into the style sheet, didn't need to do anything else to get them working. But it seems the hack needs to parse the entire style sheet on each page load. Given my large CSS files the slowdown is unacceptable so we're back to square one. No menus for IE users.
Content Management
The site is still running Movable Type and I've even upgraded to 3.0. During the redesign process (well before the MT fallout [large page load, may crash browser]) I began a conversion to WordPress. It's way easier to say "me too" after the fact, but the more I use open source the more I want to use open source. (Not to mention the convenience of having the lead developer on my iChat list)
Figuring out my new templates and learning a new templating system at the same time proved to be too much of an uphill battle, so it fell by the wayside. Something has to be done sooner or later though, all's not well. I'm unable to re-build archives past a certain point due to errors, and going back too far in the archives leads to breakage in both Radar and Proton thanks to an inability to propogate the new structure.
Whether this is a template error, a Movable Type error, a server error, or whatever else, I simply don't know. Either I figure it out, I pay someone to figure it out, or I switch tools. Purely circumstantial: our intranet runs on MySQL (which is fast, I'm told), and the main weblog has upwards of 1100 posts. Posting a new comment takes 30 seconds to a minute, but other weblogs run by the same installation of MT are far quicker. It appears MT has growth issues, perhaps the 330 posts and 4750+ comments on this site are causing it to choke. Perhaps not. I simply don't know.
Next up: CSS features, functionality, and tweaks.
Reply HighlightingMay 25
Replies to mezzoblue's redesign have been, well, let's say 'polarizing'. The various issues that have been raised will be analyzed in more depth over the coming week or two. First on the list is the new 'Reply Legend' on the comments pages since it's bound to be the most controversial.
There are two issues here, the technical implementation, and the social aspect. Let's tackle the easier of the two first: how I did it.
There's no XFN going on—although if I'd figured out a way that would have been a neat option, and now that it has been suggested someone should—all that's happening is that a PHP regular expression is being run against the URI a commenter leaves behind.
Low-tech, insecure, but hopefully managable. The easy way to game this system is to leave someone else's URI instead of your own, but I'm counting on the magic of PageRank and the desire for overflow links to keep everyone honest. There's absolutely nothing now (short of TypeKey) stopping one from spoofing another on anyone's site, but the payoff is a tiny little bit more in this case. Obviously this won't scale, and will probably break sooner than I'd expect, but for now it works.
The first thing I did was build an array of domains. This is where there's marked room for improvement, but since I just wanted something that would work, I literally dropped a big list options into an array. This is how the Zen Garden runs, this is how the 'Recommending' booklist on this site runs, and now this is how the Reply highlighting runs. When you've got a good thing...
$item[0] = "1976design.com";
$item[1] = "andybudd.com";
$item[2] = "7nights.com";
$item[3] = "wholelottanothing.org";
$item[4] = "cssvault.com";
$item[5] = "designbyfire.com";
And so on. The next step was to set a final count of how many are in the list, something I should be able to do automatically, but don't:
$itemCount = 6;
And finally the PHP that does the search and replace looks like this:
function importantVoice($authorURL) {
global $itemCount, $item;
if ($authorURL == "http://www.mezzoblue.com/") {
return " dave";
for ($i = 1; $i < $itemCount; $i++) {
if (eregi(($item[$i]), $authorURL)) {
if ($authorURL != "") return " voce";
if ($authorURL == "http://none/") {
return " troll";
if ($authorURL == "") {
return " anon";
First it checks if the comment author is me. If so, it returns the value " dave". Next it checks for the list of 'Important Voices' and if there's a match, returns " voce". The troll/off-topic check basically won't work unless I manually change a commenter's URI in MT, so I don't expect to use it a lot, but I want to see if it will prove useful. Finally, if there is no URI, the comment is considered semi-anonymous and " anon" is returned.
If you strip out the comments interspersed above and drop all code between
<? and
?> into a PHP file, you've got the basic setup. The last step is to tie it in. When the container for each comment is being generated, the function above is passed the author's URI as an argument:
<div class="reply<?=
In this case, Movable Type generates the URI and then
importantVoice parses it. The final output is a

 with two classes:

From there it's easy to hook my CSS into the

 and style it as-needed.
Now that we have the technical stuff down, let's move on to the other issue, the social aspect. The problem that this is solving is that I have less and less time to keep up with the comments on this site. When any new post easily gathers 30 or 40 within a few days, the options are threefold. First, disable all comments. Second, play the absentee landlord and let the comments take on a life of their own. Third, do something to make cruising the list more fun.
I have my own opinions on why the first and second aren't a good idea, so I've decided to try something different. My choices of those who I often read manifest themselves in various ways; my newsreader, for example, and the list of links on the right-hand side of many pages on this site (not all pages anymore, just most). In the same way, I'd like to see my comments pages filtered a bit by who I find stimulating.
I'm still resolving how the highlighting should work. I began the idea by listing only seven or eight commenters I felt to be 'experts' in their chosen specialty, but the list grew to about 20 by the time I launched. So now there's a taxonomy problem, since the distinction between 'important' and 'regular' comments is off-putting. I don't mean to create a hierarchy, I just still not sure what to call each. Further, I didn't have any system at all for determining those 20, so from now on the list of who is marked in orange is pulled from the link list in the right-hand column of this site's home page. The list is public, so you know ahead of time who's orange, and now I use the same criteria for building both lists. What are those criteria? Probably the same as you use to build your own blogroll or newsreader feed list or whatever you choose.
Note that domains have to match too, so for example when a certain Mr. Clark comments and leaves his joeclark.org domain, the highlighting doesn't pick it up because it expects his fawny.org domain. (Of course, now the opposite is true, since I'll assume that's what he'll use for future comments.)
Semi-Anonymous comments are, as most have noticed, comments that are made without a URI attached. I don't mean to imply that those without their own sites have less worthwhile things to say, but at the same time, most issues discussed on this site are about building for the web. If you're here to discuss that, I don't understand why you wouldn't have a site of your own. It's partially a credibility issue, but partially an accountability issue too—it's easier to be snide when you're hiding behind a facade of anonymity.
I don't really intend to turn everything inside-out, so I'll leave it at this. I don't expect everyone to love this system, and I may end up completely overhauling it, but for now it's something new to play with. Good? Bad? We'll certainly find out.
mezzoblue v4May 24
If you've been on this site any time over the last couple of days, you might have noticed a small sign at the top saying that mezzoblue was getting a minor structural upgrade, and things would be back to normal today. That was a lie and a half.
In fact the structural upgrade was major, and things won't be going back to normal. mezzoblue redesign №4, dubbed 'Proton' is here to stay.
Some of you will love it, some of you will hate it. Over time those with strong feelings for the old design (known as 'Radar' from now on) will come to appreciate the new one for what it is. Thanks to the magic of Cascading Style Sheets, Radar isn't going anywhere, so feel free to continue using it as your default view of this site.
What's new in Proton? A ton. The design itself came to be on my metaphorical drawing board in November of 2003. It was meant to launch early in the new year, so take that as indicative of how busy the intervening 5 months were. Of course the scope creep didn't help either, as I decided to peg more and more of the problems I was aware of on the old site. This involved re-thinking the way my post/comments system works, re-doing the 'Recommending' list, re-structuring my heading order (most headers were bumped up two spots, ie. old

s are now [more appropriately]

s), and much more.
For now, rest assured that there are all sorts of new bits waiting for you to discover; things like the obvious menu treatment, the not-so-obvious tab treatment, the liquid layout treatment, and plenty more I'll write up in the coming months.
This is far from the end of the process though. I still have to figure out what to do with those 'Latest Projects' links, which have lived long past their prime. I need to do something about the big link list on the home page (and many interior pages). The comment preview pages are still stuck on Radar until I figure out how to get Movable Type's .cgi-extension files to run PHP. I have a lot more general tinkering to do, but such is the nature of a site like this—it's never really 'done', just 'good enough for now'.
Proton lives. And with that, I welcome feedback and complaints. How do you like the new look?
What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication?May 19
The little orange buttons that are starting to litter the web have no doubt caused mass confusion. What are they good for? Why are they there? And why don't they work? While I and others are starting to look into suggestions for developers to alleviate this design flaw, I thought I'd take a minute to talk about what this technology potentially means to you, the user. (If you already know what RSS stands for, this article won't tell you anything new, but feel free to reference when you need to explain syndication.)
RSS/XML/Atom are technologies, but syndication is a process. RSS and Atom are two flavours of what is more or less the same thing: a 'feed' which is a wrapper for pieces of regularly and sequentially-updated content, be they news articles, weblog posts, a series of photographs, and more. For the purposes of this article, consider the terms interchangable. XML is the base technology both are built on, but that's almost totally irrelevant; the orange buttons are mislabelled, and should read 'RSS' or 'Atom' instead. Strange, but true.
Syndication is the process of using RSS/Atom for automated updates, another way of getting the information you want. You no doubt have a list of web sites you browse daily for updates, whether they're stored in your bookmarks or your head. If you find yourself loading 20 or 30 sites a day, and you notice if a few stop updating as frequently, you'll inevitably stop checking them.
What if there were instead some way to have your list of bookmarks notify you when the sites you read have been updated? You wouldn't waste time checking those that haven't. Instead of loading 30 sites a day, you might only need to load 13. Cutting your time in half would enable you to start monitoring more sites, so for the same amount of time you originally invested in checking each site manually, you may just end up end up following twice as many.
Syndication provides the tools to do this. A news reader, or aggregator as they're also known, is a program or a web site that automatically checks your list of bookmarks (which you only have to set up once) and lets you know what's new on each site in your list.
It goes beyond simple updates though—the news reader works by pulling in the feeds of your various bookmarks. As we covered above, a feed is a wrapper for content items, so on top of notification, a feed delivers the content that has been updated itself. You may choose to read the new content in the news reader, or you may choose to leave the reader and visit the site. Some authors will only provide summaries of the content, forcing you to visit anyway.
As an analogy, the news reader acts like a customizable newspaper. You can pull a variety of content from a growing number of sources into one place, to be read however you choose. Sources like major news media outlets (BBC, Reuters, Washington Post) to non-news content providers (Apple's iTunes Music Store, the Government of Canada, USGS' World Earthquake updates) to smaller independent voices (BoingBoing, VanEats, Sidesh0w). The only stipulation is that the source must provide a feed; many are.
Beyond day to day use, a particularly nice feature is that you're able to take your news with you on the go. Have your newsreader grab the latest feeds before you rush to the airport, then check out of the in-flight movie to catch up on the most recent goings-on. Of course the author has to be providing full content for this to work, and some only provide summaries—it's about 50/50. Leave the summaries unread, and you can come back to them later when you're connected again. In this regard, news readers also function like temporary bookmarks. Unread items will stay flagged until you're near a connection or have more time to read them. No more forgetting what it was you wanted to check up on your lunch break, it'll be there waiting for you.
If this introduction has whet your appetite, the next step is to grab a news reader and start playing. Popular at the moment are FeedDemon for Windows, NetNewsWire for Mac OS X, and Bloglines which is a platform-neutral, web-based news reader.
If you're interested in more information about the mechanics of it, much more technical overviews are available, complete with RSS/Atom specs to help you implement them in your own work if you so choose. And of course, as syndication spreads across the net, more and more choices of content are available. Soon you'll have a whole new problem on your hands: how many feeds are too many?
Tables? Oh, the horror!May 15
Apparently there remains some confusion after my Thursday-afternoon rumination on the potential use of tables, as opposed to pure CSS-based layouts. I'm going to share some of my experience to help clear this up.
Some of the comments on this site were discouraging, it sounds like the original piece was interpreted to advocate laziness. Some of the replies on other sites perpetuated this interpretation, so once more, tables should be considered only with the proper education to use them responsibly. This means attention to accessibility, as well as offloading all other presentational attributes to the CSS, leaving the simplest of layout-structural tables.
The point I was clear to make was that I am not talking about dropping CSS and going back to 1997-era coding techniques. Standards-based coding practices aren't so fragile that a small injection of common sense and/or objective analysis will excuse full-scale dismissal, so let's not pretend like the world is going to use this discussion as a springboard to revert; chances are the people who would are doing so anyway.
I am suggesting merely that in some cases, it might make sense to explore a
layout table. Again, I do not mean three-level-deep nested tables rife with the required
colspans. I mean a light table with two or three columns to keep a layout
together, sans all other presentational markup. This is what I have in mind:

(Column One)
(Column Two)
(Column Three)
cellspacing remains simply because the CSS equivalent (
er, that is,
0 applied to
border-spacing is what I was looking for here [thanks to those who clarified]) isn't well supported. The

 remains merely because it's still required. The important piece of
this table is that three columns keep the layout together, as expected.
Why am I saying this might be preferable over floats or absolute positioning? First of all, the pitfall of absolute positioning is that placing a footer below the three columns is near impossible. Creating this layout using absolute positioning causes a reliance on one of the columns to be longer than the others; given a dynamic site, if you build this reliance in to your work you'll get bitten by it sooner or later. Pages will start looking funny when a column grows longer than intended, as the content area grows shorter.
Floats, then, are the more reliable way to achieve your three columns. Except that they
have their own glitches too. The most popular browser on earth, IE6, has spectacularly
inconvenient error-handling in this regard. Anyone who has built more than one or two
sites with floats knows what I'm talking about: a placed element too wide for its container,
be it an
 or a

-wrapped chunk of text, will
cause the parent element to grow to contain it. Other browsers let the content overflow to no
ill effect other than a bit of overlapping, but because the parent element resizes in IE,
the column gets bumped all the way below the others and you have a situation no one
is happy with.
I'm hearing contention against the claim that proper CSS design is hard. Okay, fair enough, learning the basics isn't terribly difficult. Learning the basics well so that you know how to keep the above scenarios from happening is a different matter, and requires browser-specific tricks that go against the nature of what CSS is meant for. Anyone can build a fixed-pixel layout in CSS with known font sizes, that's easy stuff. Build me a liquid three column layout that allows for text scaling in Internet Explorer, and watch how easy it is to break by increasing your font size. Especially once the code leaves your hands. This is where it gets hard, folks.
Which brings me to my next point—working with other team members and clients. I mentioned this on Thursday, but it bears repeating. There are many different working conditions out there which don't match your own. Assuming because you know how to maintain your layout integrity with CSS that everyone else can is a leap of faith, or the by-product of a cozy environment that doesn't test your endurance.
I've worked in settings both where I've dictated all markup start to finish, and where
I've had to rely on others to continue producing valid, well-formed, structural markup.
The first scenario makes it dead simple to assure a site's continued abstraction of
presentation, the second does not. Even if you have the most responsive team members, you're
still limited to what they know. Like it or not, many people look at markup from a
presentational standpoint, ie. "this form element needs to sit below this label, insert

 here." Either you have to clean this up after them, or more likely,
you've moved on to other projects by this point and don't have the time to.
A little bit of presentational markup isn't going to hurt things, and probably, alone, isn't a justification for a structural table. What is is how likely the chances are that anyone not-you is going to trigger something like the IE float problem mentioned above. Anecdote: I built a site earlier this year that worked fine with my sample data. When passed off to the client for implementation, breakage occured. The culprit turned out to be a small piece of non-semantic markup that was used in various spots over years of accumulated content. I was not contracted to clean up the content; the client had no desire to fix years worth of material. The seemingly easiest fix was to throw the page into a structural table. I knew a CSS hack or two to work around this, and we didn't end up using it after all; but would everyone?
Let's also not forget that we're talking amongst people who have spent a lot of time working with this stuff, and that there are those who haven't. For a beginner transitioning to CSS-based design, a few iterations of table layouts that move more and more presentation to the CSS is one of the better ways to learn. Even once the intricacies of positioning are fully understood, it takes time to become comfortable with them. Let's cut these folks some slack; their continued use of a table is just fine if they're continuing their education so one day they don't have to.
And finally, let's talk semantics. I hate discussing semantics, personal interpretations (unavoidably) shade the conversations. But let's do it anyway. This is the point that's going to get me into the most trouble because everyone is going to have a different take, but I'm going to throw it out there. Using a table for tabular data is universally accepted as being proper use of a table. Which carries with it the assumption that the table is structural and not presentational in that case. Fair enough.
But if tabular data is structurally tabular, then what inherently (besides a fear of the
past) makes a two- or three-column layout structurally non-tabular? Two columns
invariably end up in a pair of

s, or a pair of
s. What makes the former structural, but the latter any less so? A
pair of

s implies two distinct, separated blocks of structure; a
pair of
s does the same, and carries with it the further implication
that the blocks are structurally side-by-side columns. Two columns may be presentational to
some, but they may be structural to others.
I'm not committed to the notion, but it's something to think about. There are those who
would advocate multiple nested lists (scroll
down to Tantek's technique) as a structural replacement for the

s we
use today, so if there are two ways to look at semantic representation of data, there are
just as easily three.
Anyway, at the risk of sparking a howl over the last point and ignoring what went before it, I'll finish by saying this is based on the sum of my experiences in real-world situations. There are many factors at play here, and boiling this discussion down to "tables bad, CSS good" is counter-productive at best.
I'll end with the contentious quote of the day, coming from Joe Clark:
If smart, informed people are using
i, it�s because they have made smart, informed decisions to do so. We�re not slacking off; we�re not making a mistake; we�re not harming the grand ideals of semantics or accessibility. We�re not doing anything but using
Different argument, misappropriated quote, but similar sentiment. Semantics only get you so far; at some point, you have to compromise and just use the tools you have at your disposal.
Colour SchemesMay 14
A designer's 'style' is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results.
A 'technical' method of colour-selection involves choosing one or two dominant colours from the colour wheel, to be used with a small set of complementary colours. Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary and triadic colour schemes offer a wide range of variation, particularly when you start throwing in shades, tints, and saturation adjustments.
Pro: An easy way to start with good, workable colour. Con: being too technical can lead to dull and uninspired colour choice.
Matching involves starting with an image or an object (usually a photograph) and picking colours from within to generate a colour scheme. Boxes and Arrows ran a great article a while ago about selecting colours from nature.
Pro: Naturalistic, familiar-feeling colour schemes that appeal. Con: it's easy to select the wrong colours from a photo.
Probably my most frequently-used method. I begin with a blank canvas and fill it with whatever colours seem appropriate. Naturally my mind computes the corresponding compliementary and similar colours on the fly, but now and then I'll ignore solid colour theory just to see where it gets me. Hence this site's colour scheme, among others.
Pro: Fresh and surprising colour schemes. Con: dangerous without a solid knowledge of colour theory. Dangerous even with.
These are a few of my own methods, and what influences my design sensibility. Others will differ, of course. Tell me about your own methods, comments are open.
Gasp! Tables!May 13
Andy Budd, a name some of you will recognize as a proponent of CSS-based design, has decided to take a long, hard objective look at the arguments made in favor of CSS.
I'm sure we've all found ourselves writing fairly complicated CSS to do something that would be trivial using tables. Take form styling for example. It's possible to lay out even very tricky forms using tables in just a few minutes. You can achieve similar results by floating elements with CSS, but it's a lot more involved
The rest of Andy's points are lucid, level-headed, and enforce something that you may or may not personally believe: CSS-based design under all circumstances, while a goal to strive for, is hard. Using a table for layout may at times be the best way to get the job done.
For example, it's (relatively) easy to keep a CSS-based design functioning on a simple 10 page, custom-designed site; you're designing for rigid and known conditions. There's almost never a need to fall back to tables under those circumstances.
But it's a whole new level to keep a large 500 page CMS-driven site functioning, which could potentially see large images dropped in the content area (thus breaking your floats), or multiple hands involved in creating markup (including those that are markup-illiterate), or any number of other conditions beyond your direct control. More and more of us are learning this from direct experience, myself included. Just because you know how to code without a table in sight doesn't mean the rest of the stakeholders in your project will.
None of this is permission to go wild. One simple table stripped of presentational markup should almost always suffice in these circumstances. And please, leave the multiple nested tables in 1999.
But claiming structural tables are wrong under any and all circumstances is too much of an ideal at this moment in time. The practical reality of today's web is that learning curves and browser support can sometimes raise the bar too high for full-out CSS design in certain scenarios. A designer using proper discretion who pays special attention to accessibility, essentially a designer who is educated and capable of using tables well, may consider the layout table a still-valuable tool.
Reactions will be mixed. Vive la difference!
: The thinking behind this post has been expanded on and clarified here.
Self Promotion DayMay 10
A whole lot has been busting through the pipeline lately, to the point where I can start talking about what I've been working on recently. Here's a bit of a roundup to get some of this out there. (If you can't get away with horn-blowing like this on a Monday, then honestly, when can you?)First, the Blogger thing . Yep, Blogger.com just upgraded to a shiny new Adaptive Path/StopDesign collaboration of a site, and wow is it hot. As you'd expect. I played a tiny little role in the news too (making this photo not as entirely ironic as it looks, though still somewhat so), with my contribution of a new Blogger default template I call 'Snapshot'. Since we're still not sure whether we can link to these or how much we can promote them, here's a sample screenshot . As Steven Garrity has already noted , Snapshot has a personality of its own. This was something I debated during the design process, as a 'template' generally should be just that—generic. Doug Bowman (the project coordinator from my standpoint) and I went back and forth a bit, but we concluded that a bit of personality in this case was a good thing. If a user is savvy, he or she can update the header graphic themself. If they're not, they have 23 other templates to choose from. The 'We' in the paragraphs above, of course, refers to my cohorts Doug , Dan , Dan , Jeffrey , and Todd . A heck of a team, and a heck of a lot of good work from these guys (and me) await new and existing users of Blogger. I'll save for others any further reflection on what the new, simplified signup process means for web users, but suffice it to say it's all good stuff. Second, I'd like to point out that Web Essentials '04 is happening from 30 Sept – 1 Oct 2004 in Sydney, Australia. I'll be there to speak, along with the afore-mentioned Doug Bowman , and the inimitable Joe Clark , alongside a handful of local Australian presenters (including John Allsopp of WestCiv and Russ Weakley of MaxDesign ). I'm sure I can speak for the three of us non-Australians when I say we're absolutely thrilled to be a part of what's shaping up to be an amazing two-day event. WE04 is open for early bird registration . Get your name in before July 1st, and you save a hundred bucks per person. Also keep in mind that the Australian dollar is on par with the Canadian dollar, making it much cheaper for those in the US and UK. It might be worth a look no matter where you live, I hear Australia in the springtime is beautiful. Third, Bright Creative is now live. This is the premiere launch of my new design studio's site, replacing the old placeholder. Though I've been doing business under the name since the beginning of the year, working for clients has kept me busy enough that the business site fell off my radar immediately. The placeholder graphic had promised as early as January the launch would be a distant mid-2004. Optimistically it should have been up in early March. Realistically it ended up happening in May, right on target. Where's the blue? Stowed away in the box of crayons for now. Bright Creative indicates a new direction for my work, and a new beginning for my life. Old habits die hard, but they can be put to rest with effort. Bright Creative is red and cream with grey and white highlights. Header type is set in Gill Sans, with Trebuchet MS for body copy. Photos rich in texture were used for section headers to add a tactile feel, heavy lines and solid blocks of colour were used to visually distinguish background from foreground. Line continuation effects were used to place the header in relation to the background stripes, and a jarring discontinuation was used to affect the home page in a somewhat disconcerting, but intentional variation from the internal pages. A light touch of Flash was applied to the home page for that extra oomph. Flash is a nice tool for the toolbox if done right. Technical notes: should be validating XHTML Strict, with a CSS-based layout. Tested across the major browsers, but rendering glitches are inevitable in some of the fringe browsers at the moment. A migraine knocked me out of commission on the weekend, so Mac IE5 users will have to ignore the wierdness, which will be attended to in short order. There's another factor in the continuing quest for standards-based design that hasn't been touched on: wellness and mood. Bright Creative: Brilliant Design Solutions. Come see what 'we' do. And finally, the company I spend part of my week with during non-Bright hours has relaunched a site of their own. Navarik Corp. , here in Vancouver, is a software company building solutions for the shipping industry. They're an open source shop using all the coolest acronyms (PHP, MySQL, XML, MT) for large clients in a focussed industry, one that I know next to nothing about yet. I won't generally be able to talk about the work I'm doing with them. Suffice it to say some very large companies that you have heard of are starting to get standards-based solutions for their internal systems, and more will do so. It's exciting work, but locked heavily under NDA's. What I can say is that the company site has been coalescing for the past few months after a slow start late last year, and thanks to some extra effort by the staff and myself we've launched what we're calling a starting point. Over the next few months more content will be added through the Movable Type posting system we've built (Movable Type also runs all the internal weblogs that form the Navarik intranet) and more focus will be given to telling the story of what the company is all about. Team member Derek Miller, a local copywriter and editor, has written up the process in more detail. His notes are a good case study of a company that understands why web standards are important, and how said company has put them into practice. Building a standards-compliant site, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 . Good reading. And that concludes this Monday update. Hope your weekend was better than mine, but I also hope your week has started as well as mine did. ]]>
One YearMay 7
With a few caveats and a bit of apprehension, I present to you my latest pet project: The CSS Zen Garden.
Since I just about missed it (I could have sworn it was May 8th, 2003, but my archives don't lie) I don't have anything much planned to mark the occasion. So lacking that, I'll take you through some of my design process when I was building 'Tranquille', the default template.
Everything but the type in 'Tranquille' was hand-painted in Photoshop, similar to the process I used for design #013, 'Coastal Breeze'. (The images for the latter were done years ago for another long-dead site of mine)
It began on a sketchpad, which I don't have anymore unfortunately. The title text was important to me, since I was interested in a calligraphic, natural brush stroke look. A paintbrush, some india ink, and an hour spent in concentration determined that I just can't do calligraphy. Lesson learned.
Instead I ended up using some random font I had on hand that seemed to work, 'Calligraphic 421' from Bitstream. I'd probably use a different choice if I were doing it again, but that's just changing tastes for you.
I spent a bit of time researching the Kanji in the 'scroll' that hangs down from the top left corner. Rather than pull a 'Westerner' and use a bunch of random characters that would quickly prove my ignorance, I tried to find something with meaning, however tenuous.
The symbols I chose represent, roughly, 'A beginning', 'Complete' or 'Whole', and 'Skill'. I suppose I wanted to say something like 'We're trying something new' or similar, and maybe that even works in some contexts. But if it does it's more luck than anything.
The pagoda in the top right was also researched, though not heavily. I flipped through Google image search for some inspiration, and ended up finding exactly what I was looking for, completely coincidentally, in a Mozilla Lizard illustration on DMOZ. Somehow that seems appropriate. I traced the shapes with the pen tool in Photoshop and then applied some texture and shading to tie it into the Tranquille style. Stealing? Please. Let's call it 'creative misappropriation'.
Remember the project in grade school that had you dump some india ink onto a sheet of white paper, then blow it with a drinking straw to create a black tree-like shape, and finally paste on crumpled pieces of tissue paper as 'blossoms'?
The tree in the bottom right corner grew out of fond memories of that project. As you can see from the above example, it had to go through a few revisions to start looking right. The simple, solid tree above just didn't cut it, obviously. So back to my Photoshop painting techniques to flesh it out.
As you can see, the process involves sketching a rough outline with simple colours, then building up layered detail over top. There are many different ways to achieve this, involving burns and dodges and colour/level/saturation adjustment layers.
My preference is to build every new highlight/shadow/shape/whatever on its own layer, so that I can adjust later without affecting anything else. This leads to plenty of layers of course, so the new nested layer folders in Photoshop CS are a welcome addition. (for an extreme example, Coastal Breeze ended up having well over 300 layers by the time it was done)
So there you go, Tranquille in a nutshell. Happy first year, baby.
Javascript Bonsai, ConclusionMay 5
What have we learned in the last 24 hours? When you've got a good thing going, don't tinker with it.
My initial reaction to hearing Rares' proposal was an immediate 'no way': it's too late in the game to start thinking about changing the rules. I was, however, curious enough to wish to see a proof-of-concept, so a big thank you to Rares for taking the time to build the beautiful demo. (which, if you feel like tinkering a bit more Rares, should be added to the Garden-proper sans script)
My feelings still leaned towards 'no' for all the reasons I summarized yesterday, and some more that I didn't (which were adequately covered in the comments). But in the interest of progress, I was curious to see what the consensus was. And most felt the same as I did.
Do I think the idea has merit? Of course, otherwise I wouldn't have posted it. Do I think there's some good opportunity for experimentation of separation of behaviour and structure? No doubt. But it just doesn't fit with what we're doing now.
I still get suggestions for improvements over the existing Garden. A lot of them are good ideas. Many of them are incremental, although some could be revolutionary if they were done right. I'll keep advocating anyone who has a spark of an idea to run with it and see where it goes; I don't discourage anyone from creating a similar project. But changing our established goals for the Garden obviously isn't a good idea now.
Oh, and I did delete quite a few comments—don't take it personally, some were valid, just off-topic; hence the warning. I'm playing with methods of making the comments on this site a little more relevant. More on that later.
Javascript Bonsai TreeMay 4
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Well, it's Tuesday, and you all know what that means... IBM announcements!
This week, IBM announced the IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, affectionately referred to as "MRE". This is basically TPC for Disk but with two key differences:
- A special license that covers only DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 series, whether natively attached or virtualized behind SAN Volume Controller.
- A new pricing model based on the number on controllers and drawers, rather than by TB managed. For example, if you have a DS5300 and two expansion drawers, then you pay for three units of MRE. As you upgrade from smaller capacity disks to larger capacity disks, your license costs won't increase. This eliminates the quarterly hassle to "true up" your software licenses to match actual capacity that is required on TB-based licensing.
This includes the [new DS3500 model] that was announced last month. This was part of the set of solutions to [help midsized businesses].
A fresh new blogger on the scene, Anthony Vandewerdt (IBM), covers [10 things I like about the IBM DS3500], saving me the trouble.
For more information on Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Disk Midrange Edition, see the IBM [Announcement Letter].
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- Inclement Weather Recording/Class Cancellation Line: 617-243-6900
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Childbirth Education
Whether you are expecting a baby for the first time or have other children, all parents have questions about birth and caring for their newborn. Childbirth Education classes give you the opportunity to become familiar with the choices you have and will help you make informed decisions about your labor, your birth and your baby.
Our childbirth classes follow the content and time guidelines recommended by Lamaze International and the Boston Association of Childbirth Educators. All of our instructors are certified in their area.
Registration/Info: 617-243-6649
Maternity Tours are held once or twice a week at 5:30 pm. Register at 617-243-6649.
Or please visit our maternity virtual tour.
Wellness Center
Our exercise and fitness classes are designed to accommodate various levels and abilities. Instructors are always able to suggest ways of adapting any class or workout to meet your individual needs. Please note you must pre-register to attend a class. You may also register for any class at any time during the session and the price of the class will be adjusted accordingly.
Current Schedule of Exercise, Pilates, Yoga and Tai Chi Classes
Fall 2016 Session Schedule (pdf)
Winter 2017 Session Schedule (pdf)
Registration/Info: 617-243-6221
Insurance Reimbursement: Ask your insurance provider about coverage. We will provide a certificate of completion to submit to your insurance company upon request.
August 4
Non-aerobic routine of strength building exercises (standing & floor) using repetitions, resistance bands and hand weights. Focus is on using correct form for maximum strength gain and to improve posture, balance and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. For all ages with the ability to get down to and up from the floor. For more information or to register by phone, please call the Wellness Center at 617-243-6221.
Pilates mat work and gentle stretching to strengthen the core muscles, tone and increase flexibility in the back and spine. Will also improve balance, breathing, energy level and posture. All levels welcome.
Non-aerobic routine of strength building exercises (standing & floor) using repetitions, resistance bands and hand weights. For all ages with the ability to get down to and up from the floor. Focus is on using correct form for maximum strength gain to improve posture, balance and reduce risk of osteoporosis. For more information or to register by phone, please call the Wellness Center at 617-243-6221.
Aerobic class based on dance moves and includes arm and core strengthening exercises. Focus is on energy boost, improved heart function and stress reduction. For all ages and abilities, no dance experience required.
Through controlled, slow and rhythmic movements achieve a state of relaxation for your body and mind. Increase circulation, promote joint & muscle flexibility, increase strength and relieve stress. Over time, you will experience a marked improvement in concentration, range of motion and balance.
Class is a vinyasa-style yoga that is designed to meet the special needs of expectant and new mothers. This is an excellent class for all fitness levels, no experience necessary, and can be taken throughout pregnancy. Enjoy community of women, release tension, build awareness, confidence and energy with each practice. Please call the Childbirth Education Department to register at 617-243-6649.
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The Annual Sands Cancer Center Golf Classic, held on Monday, June 6, raised more than $32,000 for the Sands Cancer Center at Thompson Health. Since its inception, this event has raised more than $292,000 for the Sands Cancer Center.
The following awards were given at the event:
The Sands Cancer Center Golf Classic Committee is grateful for the support of its Corporate Sponsor, Constellation Brands, and its Hole-in-One Sponsor, Randall Farnsworth Auto Group. It also thanks Eagle Sponsors Angelica, Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Co., Thompson Health and The Wizard of Clay Pottery. A special thanks goes to Greg Mulhern, Tim Schenk, Gregg Radak and the entire staff at Bristol Harbour Resort, where the tournament took place.
Next year's golf classic will be held on Monday, June 4, 2012. For more information, contact the F.F. Thompson Foundation at 585-396-6155.


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MARSHALL – A little less than a year after Jacob's Law went into effect requiring both parents to be notified in cases where a child is the victim of physical abuse or sexual assault, legislation that would make it easier for Minnesotans who were sexually abused as children to bring civil lawsuits against their abuser or the institution that facilitated the abuse has been introduced at the state Capitol.
The Minnesota Child Victims Act would remove the current statute of limitations that requires victims to file lawsuit within six years of their 18th birthday. If the bill is passed into law, victims could file a lawsuit at any time no matter how long ago the abuse occurred.
The legislation is supported by numerous child abuse victim advocate organizations, including the National Center for Victims of Crime, Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Minnesota Alliance on Crime, Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center and the National Child Protection Training Center.
Kathleen Blatz, a former chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, told the Independent on Thursday that Minnesota has taken a step backward when it comes to protecting young victims of sexual abuse.
Blatz was a judge in 1989 when the original statute passed in Minnesota that said people had six years from the time they knew or had reason to know injury was caused by sexual abuse. In 1996, the Minnesota Supreme Court interpreted that statute to mean that a child who is sexually abused immediately knows they are injured and has only until their 24th birthday to file a lawsuit. That law, she says, is antiquated and needs to change.
"Minnesota, instead of being on the forefront of giving a voice to victims in the court system, is behind now," said Blatz. "This law has virtually capped any lawsuits from going forward in Minnesota. Victims just don't really ever get justice in the courts. Oftentimes, the victims, when they get older, have a lot of issues with relationships and have to deal with what happened to them as children."
Rep. Steve Simon, a DFLer from St. Louis Park, authored the legislation. Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, is sponsoring the bill in the Senate. Blatz said she is confident the bill will be received with strong bipartisan support. Jeff Dion, deputy executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime, said efforts are under way to get Republican co-sponsors for the bill.
"I feel bad that Minnesota law does not protect children," said Blatz, who served as a Republican legislator from 1979-1993 before becoming a trial judge. "The idea they have to go to trial about when they knew versus their injuries is the wrong focus. The law needs to be fixed. I do think it will enjoy bipartisan support; it's a bipartisan issue."
Dion said four states – Alaska, Delaware, Florida and Maine – have eliminated their civil statutes of limitations for child sex abuse, thus allowing victims to seek justice at any time from the moment the law was enacted, and three others – California, Delaware and Hawaii – have created a civil window, allowing child sex abuse lawsuits to be filed no matter how long ago the abuse occurred, as long as the file date is within the window. This bill, he said, would be retroactive in nature and open up a window for past cases of sexual abuse to be heard.
"That's very important, because we know victims can take decades before they're ready to discuss the abuse, or they don't recognize they were harmed, or just weren't strong enough to come forward," Dion said. "When they do, we often find the perpetrator is still alive and molesting kids. Pedophiles don't retire. They're not going to stop until we make them stop."
Amy Russell, deputy director of the National Protection Training Center, said the impact of victimization goes on for years and carries with it a negative impact that can go beyond one's emotions or ability to carry out relationships in their adult years.
"The impact includes mental and physical health issues," she said. "There is support out there that says there are very close correlations between victimization and heart disease, lung disease and other long-term medical issues."
According to the National Center for Victims of Crime, 10 percent of Minnesotans were sexually abused as children and one in two know someone who was sexually abused as a child.


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Wasteful Pentagon spending
The Pentagon cannot account for more than $8 trillion U.S. taxpayers have given it since 1996, according to a report by the Reuters news agency.
Yet, even as the Defense Department insists it needs more money to defend the nation, officials admit waste and fraud are rampant.
Just this fall, lawmakers learned they were lied to over the purchase of more than $1 billion worth of helicopters for Afghanistan. Pentagon officials in 2011 assured Congress a study had concluded Russian helicopters would be best for the job, so they were purchased. A few weeks ago it was revealed the report actually recommended Chinook helicopters, made in the U.S.
With knowledge taxpayers have of specific cases of Pentagon misspending, it is highly disturbing to realize there is no way of telling whether hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted or used fraudulently.
Reuters found that at this very moment, the Pentagon has more than $500 billion in contracts that have not been audited.
Defense Department bureaucrats claim their agency is just too complex to be handled by simple, responsible bookkeeping procedures. That is, quite simply, unacceptable. Congress should demand the Pentagon account for its spending.


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Veteran actor, noted for 'Harry Potter' role, dies at 65
The Columbus Dispatch - March 29, 2013 10:32 AM
Richard Griffiths, the British actor who portrayed Uncle Vernon in the popular Harry Potter series, died of complications following heart surgery, according to the Associated Press.
The corpulent British thespian was acclaimed for his role in The History Boys, a play for which he won 2006 Tony, as well as many television series from the U.K. He was, however, best known to American audiences as the guardian of Hogwarts' Harry Potter, the boy wizard whose antics kept book stores and movie theaters packed for years.
Griffiths said he enjoyed playing the role in the Harry Potter series, "because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids."
Vernon was Harry Potter's caretaker who dealt gruffly with the boy. He was a key player in many of the Harry Potter movies.
The actor appeared in numerous movies throughout the years, from the 1981 classic Chariots of Fire to the 1991 farce The Naked Gun 2 1/2. He was 65.
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We have found SO many ladybug mugs it's amazing! There are different ladybug mug styles and colors to choose from and they are all customizable so you can add your name, company or whatever text you'd like.
Its fun to start the day drinking your coffee or tea out of a ladybug mug Of course remember to check to make sure that it isn't a real ladybug crawling on the side of your mug LOL. We occasionally find real ladybugs exploring in our home.
These mugs are great too for people who collect mugs, a ladybug mug makes a great gift!
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The name game
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
Yesterday we alluded to a new era for the Warren County School District, an era wherein the physical configuration of half the district is being changed significantly.
And, we expressed optimism, eschewing negativity as being counter-productive.
Today, allow us to suggest an exercise to express that optimism in a way that speaks to the communities those emerging schools represent.
After all, one of the important reasons the school district landed on this particular configuration for the future of its physical plant was the demand by the communities served by two high schools that those schools should be spared closing, if, for nothing else, their place in their respective communities' identity.
So, why not give those communities a chance to decide the identity of those schools?
We're not suggesting that sports teams be renamed or mascots changed; that would surely bring hoards of angry Knights and Wolverines to our door.
And, the respective communities may choose to stick with Eisenhower K-12 School and Sheffield K-12 School – though those monikers might be confused with some newly discovered vitamin – or decide to simply shorten them to Eisenhower and Sheffield.
Or, the Northern District could decide that something emotive of their region might be in order. The Sheffield folks could lean toward something indicative of their community's heritage and perhaps avoid an unfortunate abbreviation contained in a school district document presented Monday night.
Juliet Capulet's observation that names of things don't matter as much as what things "are" ignores the fact that names of schools provide them with an identity and a connection to some place or concept or tribute to some person of importance or leadership. Imagine how bland and unimaginative it would be if Warren County Schools were named P.S. 2, P.S. 3, etc., as they are in some cities. And, imagine the brouhaha over which school would be labeled No. 1.


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Forty Weeks of Fitness | With Chelsea
Jogging while Pregnant
Still have a little bounce in your step? Jogging is a full body workout that can be safe for you and your baby provided you are not considered to be a high risk pregnancy.
Before heading out for each run, consider the temperature, precipitation, amount of daylight left and level of traffic on your route. During your run listen to your body and slow your pace or walk when you feel the need. The increased weight on the muscles of your pelvic floor, combined with the impact from jogging, may lead to uncomfortable pressure in the deep abdomen. Should this occur, choose one of the many other activities available to you.
Pay special attention to your clothing, from head-to-toe. Suit up with a comfortable and supportive sports bra, weather-appropriate clothing, good socks and shoes that give you the stability and cushioning needed to absorb the shock of each foot strike. On a business trip? Don't forget to pack your running shoes and ask the hotel concierge to recommend a safe and scenic jogging route; running is a great way to discover a new city. If you are more comfortable indoors, hit the treadmill at your local gym. Leave your earphones at home and take your cell phone or a friend. No matter where you are walking, be sure to keep a bottle of water with you and rehydrate frequently.
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This paper discusses the potential impact of demand response with dynamic pricing and how by using best available technologies, the customers could potentially lower the national peak demand. Against this backdrop, the authors also estimate the market potential of demand response based on realistically achievable penetration rates. Specifically, the following topics are discussed in the paper:
- How demand response and dynamic pricing can help deal with the challenge?
- How much demand response can be achieved through dynamic pricing?
- What is the value of a five percent demand response?
- The cost-benefit ratio of investing in dynamic pricing


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Big Daddy's Blackened Tilapia
- Blackening Spice:
- 3 tablespoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried ground thyme
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- For Fish:
- 4 tilapia fillets
- 2 tablespoons grapeseed oil
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
In a small bowl combine all of the spices. Press a heaping tablespoon of the spice mix onto each fillet so that both sides are liberally coated. Allow the fish to sit for 15 minutes at room temperature prior to cooking.
In a large skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Once the oil is almost smoking, add the fillets and cook for 2 to 3 minutes on each side. Sprinkle with lemon juice and transfer the fillets to serving platter.
Recipe courtesy of Aaron McCargo Jr.
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Pinot Grigio
Citrusy, light white wine
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Collection: Congressional Research Service Reports
The European Parliament
Date: July 22, 2009
Creator: Archick, Kristin & Mix, Derek E.
Description: The European Parliament (EP) is one of the three key institutions of the European Union (EU), and the only EU institution whose members are directly elected. This report discusses the construction and history of the EP, its role in functions of the EU as well as internationally, various international supports and criticisms of the EP, and the EP's ties with the U.S. Congress.
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'The majority of forests in the Southwest probably cannot survive in the temperatures that are projected.'in 2000, is the fifth most severe since AD 1000, set against similarly devastating megadroughts that have occurred regularly in the region. One struck during the latter 1200s (probably driving people from the region) and another in 1572-1587, a drought that stretched across the continent to Virginia and the Carolinas. Few conifers abundant in the Southwest — including piñon, ponderosa pine, and Douglas fir — survived that latter event, despite lifespans approaching 800 years; those species have since regrown.
A study projects 'severe and widespread drought' by the 2060s from the Americas to Australia.across the American West, according to a 2009 Science study, and recent analysis from the National Center for Atmospheric Research projects "severe and widespread drought" by the 2060s for much of the Americas, as well as Europe, southern Africa, southeast Asia, parts of the Middle East, and Australia.
One expert notes that even extreme fires do some good, correcting unsustainable growth after wet decades.once common and continue to act as natural part of the western ecosystem.