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I was visiting a friend in the San Francisco area. On Saturday, we walked around the town a bit, walked about halfway across the Golden Gate Bridge, and then ended up checking out the Amoeba Music store. There just happened to be a live performance by Robyn shortly after we got there. Wasn't sure if I had heard of her before, but there were a couple catchy pop tunes in the set. I believe there were instructions not to take any video, but alas, someone posted four of the six songs on Youtube, and I found one of the other two posted by someone else.
The first song was kind of slow and didn't impress me much, but the second song got my attention -
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Of the four songs this other user posted, this one is probably my favorite - "With Every Heartbeat"


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Oyster sauce, garlic, chili sauce and cilantro "Thai" up the spicy flavor in these grilled wings.
If you don't have oyster sauce, you can use 2 tablespoons of soy sauce instead.
Purchase chicken drummettes (you'll need about 40) instead of chicken wings. Drummettes are cut up and ready for marinating.
You can prepare and grill these zesty wings up to 24 hours ahead. Place in a rectangular pan, cover with foil and refrigerate. To reheat, place the covered pan in the oven at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes or until heated.
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Just "dyeing" for a new treat? Make colorful family-friendly cupcakes that need no frosting and pack perfectly to go!
The brightly colored sprinkles melt into the cupcake batter, making a tie-dyed look inside and on top.
Top vanilla ice cream with the same sprinkles to carry the color throughout the dessert.
If you have only one pan and a recipe calls for more cupcakes than your pan will make, cover and refrigerate the rest of the batter while baking the first batch. Cool the pan about 15 minutes, then bake the rest of the batter, adding 1 to 2 minutes to the bake time.
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Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents
The Maternal and Child Health Library released a new edition of the knowledge path, Health Insurance and Access to Care for Children and Adolescents. The knowledge path points to resources that analyze data, describe effective programs, and report on policy and research aimed at advancing health coverage and improving health care access for children and adolescents.
Emphasis is placed on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Separate sections present resources for professionals (health professionals, program administrators, policymakers, and researchers) and for families. A special topics section points to resources that address health reform, outreach and enrollment, and school-based and school-linked care.
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By Stephanie Rebman/NEMS Daily Journal
BOONEVILLE – The Booneville Police Department has contacted the FBI and is continuing its investigation of a Friday evening bank robbery.
According to Police Chief Michael Ramey, the downtown Renasant Bank branch was robbed at 4:57 p.m. Friday. He said a white man came into the West Market Street bank, passed a note demanding money to one of the tellers and left with an undetermined amount of cash.
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Disputes between farm owners, employees and families can have a devastating impact on people and happen all too often in the rural community.
A recent prosecution, where a Coromandel farmer reneged on his agreement on milk payments to his sharemilkers, resulted in him receiving a 12-month prison sentence and a sharemilking couple failing to meet their goal of farm ownership.
This may be an extreme case but, unfortunately, disputes are common in farming.
There are an increasing number of areas which can spark a dispute, from contractual issues to effluent management to leasing agreements.
The Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand, (AMINZ) expects Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers scheme will produce conflict between owners and sharemilkers.
Federated Farmers has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with AMINZ, the country's largest professional institute for people working in dispute resolution.
For those in sharemilking, the MOU provides clear pathways for resolving disputes, with provision for conciliation and arbitration led by AMINZ into Variable Order Sharemilking contracts.
As well as avoiding the expensive court system in resolving disputes, the conciliation and arbitration offered by AMINZ provides an independent and neutral perspective on the situation which can ensure parties can move beyond the personal.
AMINZ can help people communicate more effectively with each other, allowing them to get past petty point scoring to find a mutually beneficial solution.
AMINZ executive director Deborah Hart outlined a recent example of a contract milking couple who leased out their stock to a farm owner using a formal stock lease agreement. It provided for any replacements to be on a "like for like" basis.
"Unfortunately, when the stock was returned, many were not in calf, other stock had low body condition scores and the replacement stock offered lower breeding worth (BW) than the cows originally provided," she said.
The contract milkers and the farmer were unable to reach an agreement and went to AMINZ for a conciliation process.
Once this began, they were able to reach an agreement on the same day.
This included compensation being made to the cows' owners and replacement stock provided by the farmer.
The relationships between farm owners and herd-owning sharemilkers is another area which is often fraught with potential for dispute, with conflict often arising around the areas of body condition scores, milk production and timing of calving.
The disputes can rumble on, potentially leading to explosive disagreements if not confronted and settled.
Federated Farmers Dairy Industry policy advisor Ann Thompson says dealing with disputes early can avoid damaging morale, which can affect the performance of the overall business.
"Federated Farmers' experience is that using professional rural arbitrators and conciliators can lead to lasting resolutions, even after apparent impasses," Thompson said.
"It is better for everyone involved and the wider industry to avoid these situations by better managing relationships."
AMINZ has a vetted list of professionals trained in rural disputes and it also operates the National Panel of Conciliators, who are specifically trained for sharemilking disputes.
Using AMINZ's services means a professionally trained and qualified conciliator with rural experience can help the parties reach a resolution people can live with, Hart says. "In many cases, the parties in dispute need to continue to work together, so this is key."
Hart said it is difficult to imagine in the middle of contentious and often personal dispute that it can be resolved to the point parties can go back to a healthy working relationship.
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Visions of the Renaissance During the lengthy course of repertoire development for this disc, we began to realise that what appealed to us from the Renaissance and Baroque periods shared certain characteristics with the Twentieth Century music we enjoy. The music sounded good to us on our (modern) instruments. The musical phrases felt natural to us. Some of the music seemed downright bizarre, and therefore highly attractive. And much of it represented quite a technical challenge. As we began to think about the logic of a Baroque/Renaissance disc, it dawned on us that the musical vision represented by the composers we had selected was not at all alien to us, two hundred, three hundred, even four hundred years later. The structural complexities of a Bach Contrapunctus, the tortuous harmonies of a Gesualdo madrigal, the rigorous technical challenge of an Albinoni trio sonata - these all spoke to us in a direct fashion. We therefore present these pieces to our audience not according to any ideas currently in vogue concerning authentic period performance practice, but as an exploration of the sounds, the emotions, the visions of the past as seen from today.... Meridian Arts Ensemble
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The playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes, the admiration of his peers and success at the box office and bookstore. Ever accessible, he gave lectures, responded to queries about his plays and even acted in them. But eventually he tired of strangers asking him what the ladders in Our Town symbolized or what metaphor readers should take from The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder had been so famous for so long that, nearing 65, he felt worn down. He wanted a break, he told the Associated Press in March 1962, so that he could "refresh the wells by getting away from it all in some quiet place."
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Wilder's travels over the years had taken him to spas, aboard cruise liners and to world capitals, where he mingled with the intelligentsia. This time, though, he sought an unpretentious town in which to settle for a while, envisioning, he told the AP, "a little white frame house with a rickety front porch where I can laze away in the shade in a straight-backed wooden rocking chair." It would be a place where he could belly up to a local bar and hear real people talk about day-to-day trivialities. Most of all, he wanted a place where he could read and write at his own pace. He hoped, his nephew Tappan Wilder says, for "solitude without loneliness."
Shortly after noon on May 20, 1962, Wilder backed his five-year-old blue Thunderbird convertible out of the driveway of his Connecticut home and lighted out for the Great Southwest. After ten days on the road and almost 2,500 miles, the Thunderbird broke down on U.S. Highway 80, just east of Douglas, Arizona, a town of some 12,000 on the Mexican border about 120 miles southeast of Tucson. Douglas lay on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, and summer temperatures there routinely exceeded 100 degrees, broken only by occasional thunderstorms.
Wilder checked into the Hotel Gadsden, where rooms cost from $5 to $12 a night. Named for the United States diplomat who, in 1853, negotiated with Mexico for the land Douglas sits on, the Gadsden has an ornate, high ceiling with a stained-glass skylight. Its staircase is of Italian marble. Its restaurant offered a fried cornmeal breakfast with butter and syrup for 55 cents and a lunch of calves' brains, green chili and scrambled eggs with mashed potatoes for $1.25.
The Phelps Dodge copper smelter just west of town dominated the landscape—and the local economy. Established at the beginning of the 20th century by mining executive James Douglas, the town was laid out in a grid with streets wide enough for a 20-mule team to make a U-turn. It mixed an Anglo upper and merchant class with a strong, union-oriented Mexican-American working class; schools were loosely segregated.
Wilder informed his sister Isabel, who was handling his business affairs back East, that he found his fellow Gadsden bar patrons that first night an amiable lot. No one asked him about ambiguity in the poems of T. S. Eliot or nonlinearity in the fiction of John Dos Passos. He extended his stay for another day, then a week, followed by a month, finally staying more than two months at the Gadsden.
"Arizona is beautiful," he wrote to his friends writer-director Garson Kanin and his wife, actress Ruth Gordon, "oh, overwhelmingly beautiful." Wilder wrote frequently to friends and family, ruminating on literature, theater and his solitary life. He started a ritual of sunset drives into the nearby Sonoran Desert, and when he drove farther in search of good food—to Bisbee, Tombstone or Sierra Vista—he marveled at the "grandeur of the ride, an hour into the Book of Genesis." He introduced himself by his middle name, Niven, and people called him "Doc" or "Professor," perhaps because of the many questions he asked.
In early August, Wilder rented a small three-room furnished flat on the top floor of a two-story apartment house at the southwest corner of 12th Street and D Avenue. It had everything he needed: two single beds—one for himself, the other for his papers—a divan, an overstuffed chair, four gas burners atop a stove he was afraid to ignite, an unsteady card table on which to work and Art Nouveau lamps.
It was here that he established a routine of reading and writing. His agenda included Lope de Vega, Finnegans Wake and refreshing his Greek. He'd set his work aside around noon and stroll to the post office for his mail. Lunch was usually a sandwich of his own making, followed by more work. He'd take an occasional jaunt into Agua Prieta, the Mexican city adjoining Douglas, or explore other nearby towns. Dinner would usually find him at the Gadsden, the Palm Grove or the Pioneer Café. He'd end most evenings chatting in a bar. "My plan is working splendidly," he wrote to Isabel. Back in Connecticut, his sister told callers he was somewhere in the Southwest recovering from exhaustion.
A typical Wilder report: "Midnight: Went up to Top Hat to close the bar...new bowling alley restaurant and bar has stolen business from all over town." At the end of one letter, he wrote, "Now I must get this to the P.O and then go to the Gadsden Bar and get a hair of the dog that bit me last night." Sometimes, when Douglas bartenders announced last call, Wilder and his drinking buddies would cross the border a mile to the south to continue their drinking in Mexico.


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To understand the architectural philosophy underpinning the work of Eskew+Dumez+Ripple (EDR), it helps to consider the humble parking space. In New Orleans, where the firm is based, city code requires a 20-foot length for a car, but why use pavement for the entire span, particularly in a waterfront city prone to flooding? "The car can extend beyond a green space just as well," says Mark Ripple, AIA, partner and director of operations at EDR. "So you use the final 2 feet of a parking space on each end, carve out 2 feet in the middle, plant native vegetation that doesn't require maintenance, and you have a 6-foot bioswale."
In a heavy storm, that parking spot becomes a small containment area minimizing water running into the main storm drain system. It's a common-sense redesign that works for a water-clogged place like New Orleans. Yet even with a simple idea such as this, Ripple says, "the challenge isn't figuring out the technology or the design, the challenge is questioning the existing idea of how we design and solve problems."
Since its founding in 1989 by the late Allen Eskew, and particularly in the nine years since Hurricane Katrina, EDR has challenged conventional notions of typology. The firm has infused historic New Orleans with contemporary design, as it did with the 930 Poydras Residential Tower project, which reinterprets the low-level courtyard design of the French Quarter in a 21-story high-rise. EDR transformed a ubiquitous and seemingly lifeless 1970s suburban office building into an energy-efficient hub of creative activity for the client, Lamar Advertising. And, perhaps most dynamically, the firm has redefined civic and community buildings for a post-Katrina world. In a renovation plan for New Orleans East Hospital, for example, EDR raised the emergency room and the building's critical infrastructure to the second floor, ensuring that the building can function after a serious flood.
"One of the lessons learned from Katrina is that the on-ramps of highways make great boat launches," says Ripple, whose own home flooded in the storm. "What we have at New Orleans East is an elevated second floor emergency department, with a ramp for the ambulance to drive up. But in the event of another Katrina, it could serve as a way to get people there by boat."
"We believe," adds partner Steve Dumez, FAIA, the firm's director of design, "that all buildings can have value if thought of creatively."
Which may account for the diversity of building types in EDR's portfolio, ranging from historic restorations to contemporary high-rises, from small community libraries to multimillion-dollar hospital campuses, from private residences to cultural centers. And all of this doesn't even touch on projects at the urban scale, such as the Reinventing the Crescent Development Plan, a post-Katrina proposal for turning a 6-mile swath of land along the East Bank of the Mississippi River into an active greenway connecting New Orleans to its industrial waterfront.
Every EDR project considers how the design will be experienced. "There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the place where you are building," Dumez says. "Those lessons are often about the way in which we live in a place. It's not just about style; it's about experience. It's not that we don't care about how our projects look. It's that we consider how a building feels, how it operates, how it works for people. That's the harder question in design. And that's intrinsic to our approach."
For the $38-million LEED-Gold New Orleans Bioinnovation Center, which opened downtown in 2011, EDR was asked to develop the city's first commercial wet lab and life sciences incubator. Aaron Miscenich, the center's president, says that the trustees believed the firm was best equipped to create the unique experience that they hoped to offer the building's users. "This is a novel project, a business incubator meant to bring life sciences entrepreneurs together as a community and help them to interact informally," Miscenich says. A retail food service area connecting to Canal Street and an interior atrium facing an outdoor courtyard are some of the amenities that now entice individuals out of their work areas and into sociable public space. "EDR helped create an environment that would draw people out of their labs."
LaToya Cantrell is now a city councilmember for New Orleans, but when Katrina flooded her Broadmoor neighborhood, she was a community activist who helped lead the rebuilding efforts there. EDR assisted the community with its redevelopment plan, which included the rebuilding of the local library. The EDR-designed, award-winning Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center is the result. "They clearly understood how we wanted to bring back the library in a way that wasn't just about books," Cantrell says. "It was about empowering people."
On a recent spring afternoon, just days before Jazz Fest was to take over the city, Dumez and Ripple sat at a table in the EDR office to reflect on the firm's past and to consider its future. Here, 52 employees work in an open-plan office that embodies the collaborative environment fostered in the studio. In one corner, a Voodoo-inspired altar reminds visitors that while this office may be located in a contemporary tower 31 stories above the city, it's still very much a part of the New Orleans culture below. Wall-to-wall windows command a nearly 360-degree view of the city that EDR has helped to rebuild. In the distance, you can see the recently opened Crescent Park, a 1.4-mile greenway hugging the river's edge near the Bywater neighborhood, which was part of the Reinventing the Crescent Development Plan.
Notably absent from the table is firm founder and principal, Allen Eskew. In December of last year, just days before EDR learned of its Architecture Firm Award honor, Eskew unexpectedly passed away at the age of 65. Eskew was a force in both New Orleans and the architecture community, and was known for his collaboration and civic engagement. "With Crescent Park, the thing that Allen liked to say—and this epitomizes Allen's personality—is that 'For any project of consequence, it requires a cheerleader, and sometimes that's you,' " Ripple says.
Eskew was a mentor, not only to the clients and community but to the firm's young architects. "He had an incredible humanity and would share openly both information and opportunity," Dumez says. "That's something that Mark and I and the other leaders who have grown this firm with him will miss the most. It's a legacy that we hope to build on."
That spirit of community engagement—and an architectural ethos rooted in place, research, sustainability, and design excellence—is what draws many of the young associates to EDR. Tom Gibbons is an architectural intern who recently joined the firm. He first became acquainted with EDR during a 2009 internship with Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation. "I really liked EDR's approach to that project," Gibbons says of the house that the firm designed for the rebuilding efforts.
Equally important, Gibbons says, is what EDR fosters outside of the studio. "The firm fully embraces the city's culture and believes: Why be a bystander when you can participate?" This goes for volunteerism and professional development, as well as imbibing in the infamous New Orleans party festivities.
Marissa Campos is another young designer who was attracted to EDR for its engagement of broader ideas. A recent University of Cincinnati graduate, she relocated to New Orleans for a year to work as a research fellow at the firm. The fellows program, which Eskew launched in 2012, tackles a different topic with each fellow class and invites talented designers to contribute to the firm's evidence-based approach to building. "There's a real desire to learn here at EDR, a curiosity about what else is out there, and apply it to practice," Campos says.
This year, the theme for the fellowship is resiliency. "The word 'resiliency' is so prevalent in architecture right now, and we've been attacking what that word truly means, and how it relates to buildings and community," Campos says.
Resiliency is also a word that could apply to the firm itself. Eskew, Dumez, and Ripple had a set of complementary skills and worked in tandem to build the firm's legacy. Now, in the wake of Eskew's passing, EDR is faced with its own rebuilding of sorts. Eskew was in the early stages of a retirement plan, according to the partners, but his loss is deeply felt throughout the firm, and the city. His passing also happens to coincide with the final phases of many FEMA-funded, post-Katrina projects. After nearly a decade of focusing on New Orleans, EDR is again looking to grow.
"We were a practice that was working around the country before Katrina," Dumez says. "While we are known as a firm that is invested in place, and that place is New Orleans, our approach to design is a research-based one that strives to understand culture, place, and climate, and that allows us to travel and look with open eyes at any locale. We're now pursuing more of that work." EDR now has projects in places like São Paulo and Greenwich, Conn.
Back in New Orleans, down on the river's edge at Crescent Park, it's already hot and muggy, even though it's only mid-April. James Hollister, EDR's young marketing and public relations manager, is giving me a tour of the recently opened park. The project reclaimed a brownfield site with beautiful landscaping that includes walking paths and a dog run, but also remnants of the old Piety Wharf building. It's a reminder of the site's industrial legacy. The centerpiece of the park is the David Adjaye, Hon. FAIA–designed Piety Street Bridge, a high arching pedestrian walkway that rises above active railroad tracks to connect the river's edge, for the first time, with the adjacent Bywater community. Locals have taken to calling the bridge, which is fabricated from oxidizing steel, the "rusty rainbow."
There is a moment, after climbing the steep steps of the Piety Street Bridge and reaching the middle of the structure, when the sides rise well above your head and you lose your peripheral view, your sense of where you're going. Here Hollister hoists himself up the sidewall of the bridge and perches his feet on a handrail. He offers a hand. "Climb up," he says, "you won't believe the view."
Rising above the rusted sidewall, a cooling breeze comes off the water. A barge blasts its baritone horn. And there is the city, splayed out in all its glory. There, too, is the river that defines the city. Here, in the center of the bridge, perched above the railroad tracks, with the water to our left, and the city to our right, we are momentarily suspended amid these variant worlds.
What does the future hold for EDR—post-Katrina, post-Eskew—as the firm seeks to work again outside the region? Wherever EDR goes next, you can bet that the lessons learned at home, in Louisiana, will carry them forward. "We live in a unique place," Ripple says. "It's too hot, too humid, too close to water, and it's sinking at a measurable rate. It underscores the truth that we all have to build in a different way; we all have to live differently now. I think more people realize that, particularly after Sandy. There's no such thing as a static condition, and our architecture will need to deal with those changes."


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Community Meeting - Meet Your BPD Area Coordinator and PG&E Pipeline in Berkeley
What: Community Meeting to introduce our new BPD Area 4 Coordinator and to discuss the PG&E pipeline in Berkeley
Date: September 13th, 2011
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Rosa Parks Elementary Multipurpose Room, 920 Allston Way
I just wanted to remind you all that we have an upcoming meeting for community members to meet our new Berkeley Police Department Area 4 Coordinator, Officer Cesar Melero and to discuss the natural gas pipelines that run through Berkeley.
Officer Melero was selected by the Berkeley Police command staff to replace Officer Karen Buckheit who has completed her 3 plus years in the Community Services Bureau and rotated back to patrol.
To discuss the natural gas pipeline system in Berkeley, I have invited a representative from PG&E, the Fire Chief and City Manager to discuss safety precautions, the City's disaster response capabilities, and any other questions or concerns that residents might have.
Hope you all can make it.
Berkeley Patients Group is holding their inaugural community picnic. In appreciation of the 10 years of support from the community, Berkeley Patients Groups is starting an annual tradition of hosting a picnic for our neighbors in the multi-purpose room of the Frances Albrier Center, located in San Pablo Park.
After the picnic, BPG is offering tours of their facility.
If you are interested in attending, please contact Brad Senesac at 510-847-1401 or firstname.lastname@example.com
What: Berkeley Patients Group's Inaugural Community Picnic
Date: September 10th, 2011
Time: Noon to 4pm
Where: Multipurpose Room at Frances Albrier Center in San Pablo Park, 2800 Park Street between Russell and Ward Streets
Property Crime Down 16% In First Six Months of 2011
The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) Crime Analysis and Records Units have completed work on crime statistics for the first six (6) months of 2011.
Based on preliminary FBI Uniform Crime Statistics (UCR), for the first six months of 2011, Part One Violent Crime in Berkeley declined by 4% while Part One Property Crime declined by 16%. Part One Crime includes Homicide, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Theft, Auto Theft and Arson. Based on preliminary data for 2010 and the first few months of 2011, decreases in Part One Property Crime appear to be ahead of both state and national trends.
While violent crime is of paramount concern, the City of Berkeley Police Department has increased its efforts in dealing with the significant level of property crime in the City. The most common crime, theft, is frequently a crime of opportunity with suspects focusing on personal property (e.g., GPS, laptops, smart phones, purses) left unattended or left visible in parked vehicles.
To address this, the BPD is employing multiple strategies including focused attention in areas and at times where crimes are occurring, multiple weekly crime analysis meetings and concentrated efforts on habitual offenders. In addition, BPD is working with the District Attorney to encourage a priority in charging and stronger sentences for chronic offenders. Finally, BPD is working with the University of California Police Department (UCPD) to educate students on the small lifestyle changes that can lessen their chances of being victimized.
Part One Crime-January-June, 2011
Homicide-down 1 case or 50% (2010-2 / 2011-1)
Rape-up 4 cases or 36% (2010-11 / 2011-15)
Robbery-down 5 cases or 3% (2010-155 / 2011-150)
Aggravated Assault-down 9 cases or 12% (2010-73 / 2011-64)
Burglary-up 3 cases or 0.6% (2010-503 / 2011-506)
Auto Theft-up 22 cases or 8% (2010-292 / 2011-314)
Theft-down 524 cases or 23 % (2010-2186 / 2011-1662)
Arson-up 5 cases or 50% (2010-10 / 2011-15)
PROJECT: The City of Berkeley has hired Team Ghilotti to replace old culverts and add additional gravel, rock and boulders (rip-rap) along the shore where the old shoreline has settled into the Bay.
LOCATION: 300' of shoreline along the southeast shoreline and 900' along the west shoreline.
TIMELINE: Mobilization, delivery and construction is scheduled to start on September 12th, 2011. Barring unforeseen problems or weather conditions, this work will be completed by late October. Work hours will be 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Monday-Friday.
The perimeter trail will be closed adjacent to the worksite from Monday through Friday. The perimeter trail will be open on weekends when possible. Please watch for uneven pavement and loose gravel. Detours signs will be posted during closures.
POSSIBLE INCONVENIENCES: Pedestrian access to various areas of the Cesar Chavez Park will be periodically restricted or limited. In order to complete the work, crews will need to transport heavy equipment and loads of rock and gravel across the Park. Park users should know that access might be prohibited for periods of time during the operations. Parking, dumpsters, bike racks and portable toilets will be unaffected during the construction. Picnic tables and barbeques along the east shore may need to be removed or moved during construction.
Cesar Chavez Park users
· Keep all dongs on leash until safely within the Off Leash Dog Area, heavy equipment will be using the pathway across the Park adjacent to the Off Leash Area.
· Do not allow dogs to run near or across the path of heavy equipment.
· Keep dogs away from the construction to assure their safety and that of workers.
· Keep children away from work area.
· Watch out for trucks and heavy equipment at all times.
· Please observe all detours and prohibited area signs.
· Do not move displaced picnic tables or BBQs
John Mann, Waterfront Manager, 510-981-6737
Reeve Battle, Asst Public Works Engineer, 510-981-6336
Lorin Jensen, Supervising Civil Engineer, 510-981-6411
After work hours and for emergencies, please call Public Works Customer Service at 510-981-6620 or the Marina Office at 510-981-6740.
We are lucky to have Cooper Hawks and Barn Owls in our community. They eat enormous numbers of rats and mice. Even with this critical help from hawks and owls, there will always be some rats and mice here and an effective way to reduce the populations further is to set out snap traps. Recent improvements in snap traps make them more effective, easy to use, and much easier to set and dispose of the animals. Find spat traps at your local hardware stores. If you use baits such as D-Con, Havoc, Tomcat Ultra and Just One Bite, which contain brodifacoum and/or bromadiolone, can set back collective efforts to control rodents. These baites are particularly toxic and accumulate in the blood of the rodents. If eaten by owls or hawks, they often die due tot he poison in their prey's blood. Cats or dogs that may eat poisoned rodents can also be poisoned. There have been a number of poison deaths of Coopers Hawks and pets in recent years.
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The Daily Rituals of Ten of the World's Most Creative People
Do you have a daily ritual when you write? I don't know of a single writer who does not. Maybe it's summoning the Muse…everything must be just so if there is any hope of words appearing on paper. Most of us are NOT like the writer, Muriel Spark who, Ann Lamott notes, "is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning — sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this."
No, most writers have certain things they are committed to doing every day: common milestones are a starting time, and ending time, and a number of words that must be met. Oh, and a reward at the end (or perhaps that's just me…. but I doubt it). Here are ten creative people who know that while the result may appear effortless, the process is paramount.


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Monday, June 13, 2011
Designer Tidbits: Joanna Figueroa
The Fat Quarter Shop is excited to welcome Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree Quilts to the Jolly Jabber. Joanna's latest fabric collection is the much anticipated Strawberry Fields from Moda. We featured this collection in our 2011 Designer Mystery Block of the Month program which is now shipping! If you are considering joining this club sign up today as our spots will be sold out soon.
Q: What was the first seed that grew into the Strawberry Fields collection?
A: Strawberry Fields is my take on a 50's retro look as I imagine it. The group was inspired by a few of my favorite vintage linens and tablecloths as well as my interpretation of 50's fashion- especially the skirts. Think colorful poodle skirts with little cardigans in creams, aquas, tomato reds, slate greys and buttery yellows. Ponytails with big gingham bows and summery rides in convertibles. Picnics at the park with rattan picnic baskets and yummy sandwiches on bright, colorful quilts. Lots and lots of polka dots and little feminine prints. Lots of summer and sun and dressing up just for the fun of it. Top it all off with lots of stops at the local soda fountain and there you have it. Strawberry Fields.
I think maybe that's what I would like to be doing this summer!!
Q: What are 3 words you would choose to describe this collection?
1. Summer Picnic
2. 50's Retro
3. Fresh
Q: What single print/SKU in the collection is your favorite (can only pick one!)?
A: My favorite print in this collection is easily the large floral. I just love the feel of it and how it turned out. If you are going to make me pick just one, I guess I would have to go with the grey one.
Q: What is your dream project using this collection?
A: I have always wanted to live in the 50's- dresswise anyway. There is something about those twirly skirts with crinolines underneath that just feel so girly, free, flirty and fun. I know they probably weren't that fun but a lot of work to put together from what I have heard but in my imagination, they are the ultimate fun, girly skirt for the summer. I would love to wear some like that out of some of the large florals in this group. Oh, the imagination wanders!
Joanna's Silly Secrets:
1. What music are you listening to right now?
I am listening to 80's tunes right now. They make me feel full of energy and some of the only songs that I still know all the words to. Kind of scary if you think about it. I am using up lots of brain space remembering words to songs that I learned in high school!
2. What is your guilty pleasure food?
Chocolate. In any form. But it has to be good chocolate. Dark and preferably with nothing else in it other than maybe orange. I know, its a strange combination but it's my favorite. Dark chocolate and orange. Okay, now I have to go find some. Thanks.
4. Where did you grow up and where do you call home?
Grew up in a small suburb of Warsaw Poland and then in Southern California after that. As an adult, we have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of my married life. Couldn't really imagine living anywhere else at this point. Except for maybe a little town somewhere in Northern California.
5. Do you have any pets and what are their name(s)?
We have a spazzy Beagle named Lucy. We had one named Emma for 14 years before we lost her last year. We also have a "carnival" fish that has somehow survived against all odds. It doesn't have a name. We refer to it as "the fish". As in "did anyone feed the fish today?" However, at the moment we are contemplating adding chickens to our family. Yup, we are researching that urban farming craze and looking into building a chicken coop in the back yard this summer. You'll have to check back on the blog to see if we actually go through with it!
8. What is the most important part of a sandwich?
The bread. Good bread can make or break any sandwich. In fact, sometimes the bread is enough. Good bread with some butter. Nothing else is necessary.
Posted by Stephanie Howard at 1:47 PM
Labels: Designer Tidbits, Moda Fabric
9 comments:
- Vroomans' Quilts said...
I have fallen in love with Fig Tree and currently working on a summer quilt with the Strawberry Fields. I love the floral on the grey, too.
- June 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Judy said...
This is my favorite too, but went with the yellow for a border. I want this fabric for my backing. I love this collection!
- June 13, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Staci said...
I love this collection! I'm going crazy trying to decide what to make with it so I can pick up the yardage. Decisions, decisions! I really love the reds & yellows.
- June 13, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- charlotte said...
I love the chair cushions and would like to make them. Is there or will there be a pattern for these? And also, how did you make the covered buttons? I seem to remember someone blogging about a covered button machine this spring but can't remember the name of it. Thanks.
- June 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM
- Jeanne said...
I love all things Fig Tree and am feeling especially drawn to Strawberry Fields. Very fun!
- June 13, 2011 at 5:41 PM
- BillieBee (billiemick) said...
I'm working on the first block of the Designer Mystery using Strawberry fields. Love the fabric.
- June 13, 2011 at 7:33 PM
- Judy said...
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- June 13, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- Carrie P. said...
I love anything Joanna does.
Oh, yes, a good bread and butter, perfect.
- June 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- Svanhild said...
That flower print is gorgeous.. as is the rest of the collection, so sweet.
Have to agree on the bread, that has to be good.
- June 16, 2011 at 7:38 AM


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|Warmwater flyfishing Bass, pike and even muskies in your backyard
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Domenic, if you haven't already seen it, you ought to check out this article, courtesy of pmflyfisher.
It's about the Great Lakes but has excellent info that can be applied anywhere, although fly selection may be more of a local thing. It's probably best to work on your presentation first, using any fly that is known to catch carp, and then start trying different flies until you find one that works where you are. The "wrong" fly probably won't spook them but the wrong presentation will, regardless of what fly you are using.
Try for the fish that are grubbing on the bottom, especially the ones that stay in one place for a while. They are definitely feeding and are usually so preoccupied with their search for food that they are less likely to get spooked. I even motored right past one such bottom grubber and then drifted back and caught it. I had motored practically over its head in 2 feet of water and it never left its feeding spot (until after I hooked it :hehe: ).
Domenic, I'm one of those carp flyfishers who swear by nymphs, but due to my limited experience, you should take that oath with a grain of salt. My favorite fly right now is a bead head prince nymph, since it's the only fly I've had eaten so far.
On friday I had a few follows on a very poorly tied crayfish pattern, so I'm planning on spending a little time at the vise this week to try and improve the fly a bit in hopes of enticing a strike.
One thing to note: I've only had luck with fish that were actively feeding. From what I've seen, a fish that's hanging in the current, or sunning itself on top is more likely to take off and spook the whole pod than it is to eat, no matter how good the presentation.
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If the fish are flashing near bottom, then they're probably taking nymphs. Nymphs are what many carp flyfishers swear by, but a few of us forum members have had our most recent successes with small brown wooly buggers.
FWIW, you might want to also check out Quentin's post about catching carp on top.
Good luck.
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I am new to this warm water fishing. I have been riding my bike in the Lowell area, and noticing some very large Carp in the river.
you can see them hanging in the current. What are some good flies to try ?I am seeing them flash occasionally ,leading me to believe that they are feeding.
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Heather Long, mother of Rhiannon, 5, and Kaylee Peddle, 1, remembers the parties of her childhood as small, home-based events with homemade treats.
"We would go to the birthday kid's house and play some games, (like) pass the parcel, musical chairs. The food, cake and cookies were always homemade. Typically there would have been six or eight kids present."
Heather Long, mother of Rhiannon, 5, and Kaylee Peddle, 1, remembers the parties of her childhood as small, home-based events with homemade treats.
"We would go to the birthday kid's house and play some games, (like) pass the parcel, musical chairs. The food, cake and cookies were always homemade. Typically there would have been six or eight kids present."
Today, she finds the parties her children attend are more elaborate, with takeout food and store-bought cake, and more guests.
Sherri O'Halloran - mother of Chris, 10, Cody, 6, Cameron, 5, and Connor, 3, - agrees, remembering the parties she attended as mostly home-based, with the occasional McDonald's party thrown in.
She says the parties her kids attend often seem to involve a lot of competition.
"Every party has to be better than someone else's, especially as the children get older. They want the greatest loot bags, they need to have it at the greatest, most expensive place ever and they want everybody to come, no matter how much it costs."
She sees the competition originating with both the kids and the parents, but she tries not to buy into it, preferring to entertain party guests at a scale and cost that suits her family.
No matter what the scale of the party, it still requires some careful planning to provide food, entertainment - and loot bags - for the birthday child's guests.
Long says her process involves discussing the party with her partner, Ed, then getting her child's opinion, considering the costs of available activities and matching them to the age of the guests. And she has used the fact that her eldest child was born near Hallowe'en to create a party theme.
"We asked the guests to wear their Hallowe'en costumes and planned Hallowe'en activities. We've also had the last two parties at home and it's been great fun. We've planned age appropriate activities for the children and had some food, then cake, then presents."
With four kids to consider, Sherri O'Halloran and her husband Glenn have more logistical concerns than many parents. After she and her husband discuss it they take the options to the children.
"We go to the boys and ask them what do you want to do for your birthday party? Then we go through the options of what would make sense for who they want to invite and the time of year."
Cost is an important aspect of every parent's party planning, because rates can range from a per-person cost to a group fee. O'Halloran prefers the latter.
"We try to do a lump sum option, everything included for one great price and everybody has a big hee-haw and we just take it from there."
Guest list
Another difference between today's parties and those from Long's and O'Halloran's childhoods is the number of guests. Parties used to be limited to a few close friends and relatives but today's parties often include a child's entire class from school or day-care.
Long tries to find a middle ground to keep things at a reasonable size and expense for her family.
"I invite children in the family of a similar age that she knows - her cousins, then I invite some friends that she would like to have there. She has friends from our street and friends that she's met through playgroup and preschool."
O'Halloran has seen the size and nature of party guest lists change as her children get older.
"Christopher, last year he invited the whole class. This year, now that he's in Grade 4, he decided that it was only boys. No girls, just the boys, and a couple of friends that he went to school with last year at his other school."
Another consequence of bigger guest lists is that you no longer know all of the families of the children you've invited, so parents tend to stay at parties with their children. For some, this has led to concerns about how to occupy the parents, and what and how much to feed them. O'Halloran and Long don't worry too much about entertaining the adults.
"The children are our main priority," O'Halloran explains. "Feeding the parents is usually not my top priority on the list of how much food we need. You are more than welcome to what's there, but as long as the children are fed."
Some people are competitive and elaborate when planning children's parties but with so many choices available, parents can choose to withstand the pressure to go big and make a choice that works for their family.
And with the average party being held at bowling alleys, swimming pools or other centres, a home-based birthday could be a novel choice.
Long agrees. "I do think that in some cases, while the kids had fun at the big location party, they would have had just as much fun doing something at home that was cheaper on the parents."
Birthday party choices fall into a few categories - hiring someone to come into your house, booking a location and having entertainment come in, or booking a location with built in entertainment.
Here are a few local suggestions:
Parents can hire entertainers for home parties or for parties at a rented location.
Abracadabra Magic: 697-4242,
Hot Hoops, hula Hoop making and instruction:
Matt Sharpe, magician: 682-5925,
Magic Marker Entertainment, magician: 691-1571
Newfoundland Jungle, exotic animals (and their handlers):
Sassy Tuna, a variety of arts-based parties: e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
Sky High Amusements, inflatables for jumping: 773-3333
Wandering Brush, face-painting of all kinds: 579-5807,
Location parties
Aside from the standards, like bowling or swimming parties, children might like to try the activities available at the following locations:
The Fluvarium: All-in-one parties with an environmental theme. 754-FISH(3474),
Frontline Paintball/Laser Tag: Laser tag for ages 5-plus, paintball for ages 10-plus. 747-4653,
Glow-in-One Mini-golf: Mini-golf /party room. 754-4569.,
Johnson Geo Centre: Geologically themed parties. 737-7880,
Memories Forever: Bus parties (parked option for smaller kids), 790-7433,
Party Bus: A variety of options for mobile parties. 727-8928,
Parents can also look into booking local day-cares where the variety of toys will keep young children occupied.
Fitness-focused parties
The Little Gym: Call 754-7655,
Bulldog Interactive: Call 739-5437,
Home-based party ideas
If you don't want to go with the old standard Pass the Parcel or Pin the Tail on the Donkey you can do an Internet search for children's party games or children's party themes and find a huge variety of ideas.
You can keep costs low by limiting your guest list, making your own food and buying a small book, a craft kit, a take-home treat or a small musical instrument for each guest rather than providing a loot bag.
Local education or theatre students (or even high-schoolers) might be interested in running a theme-based party for you. Ask around.


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Video: Obama auto team called shareholder lawyer a "terrorist"
posted at 8:46 am on June 13, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
When we last left the negotiations between Chrysler's senior bondholders and Barack Obama's auto task force, Thomas Lauria and his clients alleged that the government used intimidation tactics and threatened to sic the White House press corps on individuals if they didn't give up their rights to allow the unions to win in the bankruptcy. Congress took an interest in this"madman" theory of the Presidency and got access to some e-mails floating between the task force and an analyst. Rep, Steven LaTourette (R-OH) reads from the e-mails, in which the auto task force calls Lauria — their attorney — a "terrorist" and refuses to negotiate after a Chrylser expert consulted him:
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The important part comes at the end: an email exchange between Matthew Feldman, attorney on the President's Auto Task Force, and Robert Manzo, Chrysler restructuring expert. Manzo is basically pleading to further negotiate to prevent bankruptcy, but Feldman is having none of it. Here is the exchange:
Robert Manzo, Chrysler restructuring expert: "I hope you think it's worth giving this one more shot."
Matthew Feldman, attorney on the President's Auto Task Force: "I'm now not talking to you. You went where you shouldn't."
Manzo: "Sorry. I didnt' mean to say the wrong thing and I obviously did. I was trying oto make sure that if we had to contribute to the solution you knew we had some room. Sorry I did not realize the mistake!!"
Feldman: "It's over. The President doesn't negotiate second rounds. We've given and lent billions of dollars so your team could manage this properly….And now you're telling me to bend over to a terrorist like Lauria? That's B.S."
A terrorist like Lauria? Lauria represented a teacher's pension fund in Indiana (among other bondholders), and had the temerity to insist that the government follow contract law. I may be no fan of lawyers, but I don't call them terrorists. Apparently the White House has another view of lawyers, especially when they insist that the government follow the law.
In this process, we see which side tried to terrorize the other, and it wasn't Lauria's.
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I hope he was talking to me. "I used the term "mason dixon". And you know what that means You will see these signs along the PA Maryland border. South of the Mason dixon line voted mostly for conservative values. Most counties throughout this country voted for more conservative values.
That makes me a racist
Makes sense to me
PS I'm already feeling the impact and its only the first day of 1460 and some odd days to go
he!! and I don't even have a party to blame.


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Mumford & Sons
"I Will Wait"
Track Review
It's been a veritable 21st-century British Invasion the last few years, with Adele and Amy Winehouse having led the charge on the neo-soul side of things, and One Direction and The Wanted putting a new spin on the boy band template. Then there's Marcus Mumford and his musical mates (not sons, as it turns out) injecting the folk-rock formula with an infusion of passionate zeal not seen or heard in decades … if ever.
The band's up-tempo, banjo-driven, British-accented bluegrass sound made it one of the surprise breakout sensations of 2010. Now Mumford & Sons is back with its first single, "I Will Wait," from the sophomore effort Babel.
"I Will Wait" picks up where the often spiritually themed songs on Sigh No More left off. Which is to say, it's hard at times to tell whether Marcus' yearning vocals are describing a relationship with a woman, with God, or maybe with both. With his words carefully stacked atop a jubilant blend of blazing banjo, staccato acoustic guitar, thumping upright bass and boot-stomping drums, "I Will Wait" erupts into earnest thanksgiving and, perhaps, prayer.
As the curtain opens on the narrative, we hear the testimony of a weary road warrior singing the praises of home—and, it would seem, the faithful woman waiting for him there. "Well, I came home/Like a stone/And I fell heavy into your arms," we hear. "These days of dust/Which we have known/Will blow away with this new sun."
He's home, it would seem, for good—or at least a good long while—and that thought evokes something like a spontaneous outpouring of humble devotion. "But I'll kneel down/Wait for now/And I'll kneel down/Know my ground." Then the triumphant chorus kicks in, as Mumford repeatedly promises, "And I will wait, I will wait for you."
Who is you? Entertainment Weekly reviewer Grady Smith answers this way: "So, who exactly is Mumford singing about—his lady or his maker? There's a universality (as well as a certain sense of self-loathing) in his words that I'm guessing will help listeners of all sorts connect to the tune."
The possibility that the you in question is God gets bolstered (if not sealed) by the spiritual language Mumford appropriates for the balance of the song: The second verse begins with him singing about his willingness to relinquish control ("So break my step/And relent"), followed by the acknowledgement that he's been forgiven ("Well, you forgave, and I won't forget"). Because of that, he says he needs to "shake the excess," even as he determines to be a wiser, better man ("Now I'll be bold/As well as strong/And use my head alongside my heart").
Mumford knows he still needs help. Accordingly, we hear this petition, as he apparently prays for deliverance from his own weaknesses as well as from his own mind's deceptive lies: "So tame my flesh/And fix my eyes/A tethered mind, freed from the lies/And I'll kneel down/Wait for now."
The last verse concludes reverently, "And I'll kneel down/Know my ground/Raise my hands/Paint my spirit gold/Bow my head/Keep my heart slow/'Cause I will wait, I will wait for you."
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A Top-40 single.
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The Ergonova Team Handlebar isn't the most luxury-priced piece of kit in 3T's line, but it may be the most common handlebar at the start line of most local races and criteriums. The reason for its widespread appeal is rooted in its carbon construction, which follows the same lines as the more expensive LTD model with a nominal claimed weight gain of just 18g.
While those few grams are what separate the Ergonova from the LTD, the slightly flattened shape of its top section is what sets it apart from the industry's legion of carbon fiber bars. The flattened shape adds some aerodynamic oomph to your cockpit, but the real benefit is the larger surface area for resting your hands during climbs or while sitting in on long days in the peloton.
Since the bar is relatively shallow for an "ergo" model, it accommodates an aggressively low stack while still letting you reach your levers from the drops, which are contoured to provide a secure platform for tucked, flat-out hammering.
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my favorite bar
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
For me it has just the right amount of flat top to it, I have small-mid size hands and it's not overwhelming, I don't feel like I could set a picnic basket on it. Ride is exceptional and helps smooth out the chatter. Still stiff enough that I don't feel like I'm flexing when I stand up and put all I have into it. It's one I'd recommend to a friend.
Comfy, Aero and Awesome!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
The flat top profile and the cable groove underneath the bars really give the bike a more sleek profile. I really like the flat top for comfort, just a larger resting spot for you hands. Plus the bars are full carbon, a big reduction in vibrations.
Does 3T say one use clip-on aerobars with these?


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in case anyone wasn't aware:
April 14, 2009
Contact: Karen Parker, 386-758-0525
Flooding has closed three wildlife management areas (WMAs) and cancelled the spring turkey hunts previously scheduled there for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The Division of Forestry closed the Twin Rivers WMA in Madison, Hamilton and Suwannee counties. The Suwannee River Water Management District closed the Holton Creek WMA in Hamilton County. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) closed the Suwannee Ridge WMA, also in Hamilton County. All three locations were closed due to the flooding in the area.
"We expect the areas to be closed at least through the weekend and probably longer," said Roland Garcia, regional director at the FWC's North Central Region office in Lake City. "Unfortunately, because of the lack of access to the areas, the spring turkey hunts, scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, have been cancelled."
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Washington, DC (February 12, 2013) – In comments filed yesterday with the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Propane Gas Association (NPGA) called on DOE to include a Full-Fuel Cycle (FFC) analysis in its new water heater test procedure and the new universal energy descriptor. Additionally, the propane industry urged DOE to include FFC information on any label recommendation to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
NPGA argues in its filing with DOE that of the two types of possible energy consumption measures:
The FFC analysis is the most accurate way to calculate energy use and environmental emissions because it accounts for (1) Energy consumed in the extraction, processing and transport of primary fuels; (2) Energy losses in electric power-generation or gas processing plants; (3) Energy losses associated with transmission and distribution of fuel to the end user; and (4) Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with each step within this process.
The current standard, called site or point-of-use consumption, reflects only the energy use by an appliance or vehicle at the site where the appliance or vehicle is operated. This type of measurement does not give a realistic portrayal of the energy consumed by a product, such as a water heater, because it fails to take into account energy losses occurring from the generation, transmission, and distribution of the fuel to the product.
For example, under the site consumption standard, an electric storage water heater might operate with 95 percent efficiency and a propane gas heater with 70 percent efficiency. However, when the full scope of energy consumed is accounted for in the FFC method, the electric water heater operates at about 24 percent efficiency compared to the propane heater's 62 percent efficiency.
Rick Roldan, President and CEO of NPGA stated, "It's incumbent on the Department of Energy to inform consumers of the entire energy consumption portfolio of a product, not just the end use. Water heaters are a great example of how utilizing the FFC method can help consumers make a better informed decision when shopping for energy efficient and environmentally friendly products."
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) also supports this concept. Stating in its final report on a study authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the NAS concluded, "DOE should consider moving over time to the use of a full-fuel cycle measure of energy consumption for assessment of national and environmental impacts, especially levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and to providing more comprehensive information to the public through labels and other means, such as an enhanced website."
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The panel I was asked to speak on is called...
As in, they'd like to know about my experience being a blogger on the scene for two years or less.
They'd like to know...
- How have I found such great success in a seeming short amount of time?
- Why and where is there more room in the blogging world for new bloggers?
- If I were launching a blog right this minute, what advice or tips would I give myself?
Interesting topic, right? I feel both honored + inadequate to teach on this as I'm not exactly blog saavy...I'm just a girl writing her guts out in hopes that it resonates with people, but still feeling very fresh to the world of blogging and tricks of the trade. BUT, I've come up with a few ideas of what I've done this past year. And I'm so happy to share any bit of it.
It has also been fun to hear the secrets of success of my awesome fellow panel members (they've also been blogging for two years or less - and I've already learned a ton from them!)
Kirsten Krason / 6th Street Design School (from South Jordan, UT.) She writes about interior design and has her own design practice. (I really think I have to get that Moroccan leather pouf.)
Stephanie Morgan / Modern Parents Messy Kids (from Seattle, WA.) Stephanie writes about all things useful to parents. I especially love her "Project Organize Your Entire Life" series.
Erin Kennedy / My Thirty Spot (from Phoenix, AZ.) Erin shares advice for any woman in her thirties. (She has a cool "Love for Thirties" Project where people share what they've learned in their thirties)
And here we are!
I'm so glad I've gotten to know these awesome women behind these blogs.
And now, I'm dying to hear what you guys would say...(though I admit, I feel strange and vulnerable straight out asking this!) But....here goes...
Why would you say think a lovely community of people has been coming to read our blog? You all probably know better than I do! I may even quote you in my panel!
Thanks so much!
P.S. Also, if you have thoughts about any of those questions - for my blog or any blogs - I'd love to hear. I certainly hope to improve this little space this next year...in lots of ways. I have big plans and I hope I can carry them out!
Gabby Blair has going through her mind...and she just shares every bit of it that she can. It's so amazing. I try so hard to follow in her lead.)
And, of course...I love seeing all the famous bloggers & creatives. This year I hope to meet the lovely Emily Henderson. (She recently just wrote about me, here, which made my day!!)
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CNWRA scientists have developed models that reflect complex source zone geometry and wave propagation through faulted geologic terrain, information essential for modern site characterization.
Established in 1987 as a federally funded research and development center, the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses (CNWRA®) is sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
Mission of the Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses
The overall mission of the CNWRA is to resolve technical and regulatory issues related to a potential geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
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Body found in North Spokane County
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. - Authorities searching for the body of a missing Malden, Wash. teen in North Spokane County have located human remains.
The Whitman County Sheriff's Office is working with the Spokane County Sheriff's Office in looking for the remains of 17-year-old Donavin Stapert, who disappeared in early March. A tip led both Spokane and Whitman County sheriff's deputies to a forested area in North Spokane County as part of the search for Stapert's body.
"It's a long process obviously once we are done and we leave we can't recreate this, so we have to make sure that we collect all the evidence as we possibly can the first time," Spokane County Sheriff's Deputy Craig Chamberlin said.
First, the forensics team, along with Major Crimes detectives, spent several hours just documenting the area. Then they started digging in an area where they say the dirt was disturbed."
"We have to be very methodical as to how we dig up the area we have to sift through the dirt, consistently looking for evidence," Chamberlin said.Malden death investigation body found
They sifted through the soil, six inches down at a time and after quite some time digging the located a body.
"The body was located 4 or 5 feet underground so obviously someone took a lot of time to dig up a large area to put this victim in," Chamberlin said.
The sheriff's department can't say what else they found at the scene.
Stapert's mother, Crystal Ann Rothbart, still can't believe her son is gone.
"He was the most gentle soul; there is no reason anybody should have ever hurt him," she said.
Three people were arrested for the death and cover-up of Stapert, who was reported missing from Malden on March 8. Authorities believe he died on or about March 7 at a Malden home and his body was moved.
James Ramson, 30, of Spokane was booked into the Whitman County Jail on charges of Unlawful Disposal of Human Remains, Rendering Criminal Assistance and Possession of Methamphetamine.
Chastity Barkhuff, 38, of Malden was booked into the Whitman County Jail on charges of Controlled Substance Homicide, Providing a Controlled Substance to Persons Under Age 18 and Rendering Criminal Assistance.
Acting on an arrest warrant from Whitman County, authorities in Missoula, MT arrested Bobby Bilderback, 44, of Malden at a home in Missoula Monday in connection with Donavin's death.
Rothbart said the news of her son Donavin's body possibly being recovered doesn't bring her any closure. She says she needs to see the body for herself until she can start moving on.
She will have to wait until the medical examiner performs an autopsy to confirm the identity of the body until she knows for certain if it was her son authorities found buried in a remote stretch of forest north of Spokane.
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
Designer Tidbits: Kris Lammers
Despite the blazing Texas heat, this has been a summer full of Christmas spirit. Kris Lammer's collection, Fresh Fallen Snow Flannel for Maywood Studio has me dreaming of a white Christmas. Sheets of snow, big soft snowmen and snowflakes all provide a taste of winter that leaves you longing for December, and a cup of hot cocoa!
Q: To what or whom would you dedicate the Fresh Fallen Snow collection?
A: I would dedicate it to my mom, the best mom a girl could ever have. She has always been encouraging and supportive in whatever her children chose to do. I love you mom!
Q: What is your favorite project using this collection?
A: My favorite WILL be a quilt I can snuggle under with a good book!
Q: If time travel became possible, what year would you want to be in?
A: That's tough, every decade had its issues. I love history, so it would be a treat to visit just about any year in the past. Just a quick peek though – I'm very attached to our current technologies and comforts!
Q: If you had to change your first name what would you change it to?
A: I've always liked my name, except for when my mother would say KRISTINE ANN! Ha ha! But if I HAD to change it, maybe something not so plain like Dahlia, or Chloe.
Q: What was your favorite childhood TV show?
A: It's totally embarrassing to admit, but it was Gilligan's Island. Such a ridiculous show!
Q: Who is the most famous person you have ever met?
A: I have met some amazing artists and designers that really SHOULD be famous. But years ago I met James Garner while he was filming Rockford Files in Beverly Hills.
Q: What is your favorite App to play on your phone?
A: Words with Friends, Hanging with Friends, and Scramble.
Q: If you could marry a technology, what would it be?
A: AIR CONDITIONING! I do not do well in the heat, anything above 80 makes me pretty cranky. When I am cool I can think more clearly and be much more productive.
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8 comments:
- Carrie P. said...
I love this Christmas fabric.
- August 4, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- Kim~Stay Joyful said...
Lovely! Makes me wish for cooler weather even more!
- August 5, 2012 at 7:21 AM
- Zuzan said...
I love the quilts made from the wonderful fabric. Thank you for the JJ,
- August 5, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- Beth Beal said...
Cheers to Kris Lammers! What a wonderful collection of Christmas projects!
- August 5, 2012 at 12:07 PM
- CJ said...
Cute fabric! I am so with you on the A/C!
- August 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM
What a beautiful design for Christmas - I feel the Christmas spirit coming on - only a few months now. Thanks Edna V.
- August 5, 2012 at 11:10 PM
- Piececorps said...
Does anyone know whether the large quilt hanging in the very middle is based on a pattern and, if so, what it is?
- August 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- kris_lammers said...
Piececorps, I don't know if you found that quilt pattern - but it's free from maywoodstudio.com. Enjoy! Kris Lammers
- October 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM
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It was my VET that suggest the coatedf asprin and metacalm Guess i better look for a new a new one.
It was my VET that suggest the coatedf asprin and metacalm Guess i better look for a new a new one.
Ebeneezer, I'm sure your vet is just fine. All I'm saying, is it isn't smart to medicate your dog according to what someone here told you. YOUR vet looked at YOUR dog and made a diagnosis and prescription. Just exactly as it should be done. I suggest the OP go to HIS vet and do the same. No harm meant.
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I have found that not all vets are familiar with cold tail and if they are not familiar with it will usually order x rays which can be very painful for dog and often require sedation. The. They might order bloodwork, the. Say sprained tail and then present you with a nice bill. They are doing sound work if they are not familiar with cold tail. Often the experienced field lab person is better at diagnosing cold tail than an average vet who has not seen it before.
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My dog had it 4-5 times that i can recall over her 14yr lifespan. the tail tucks bewteen legs and when i'd try to lift it parallel with ground she'd squeal. the first time was duck hunting when she had super long smims i had no idea what it was.....and it just got better over time. The second time it occured on a pheasant hunt in SD when she was not in the water whatsoever, but in cold snowy weather with tail knocking on corn stalks all day. we went to a vet there, and were given Rimadyl - she got better immediately. As she got older, my dog had a Rimadyl pill daily for the last 4-5 years of her life....and she lived happily 14yrs-364 days. Try RImadyl - it works. - get a script from vet, and them buy it from 800petmeds.
My 14 month old has had is the last 2 times we've been out. Today he was normal and I crated him for the ride home. When we got home, his tail has been limp since. If this is like the first time, tomorrow he'll be back to normal. He's been out in cold water/temps one other time and didn't experience this, but 2 times in a row has me concerned. Is there reason to be concerned?
Last year mine got it once and I am not sure if it was from sitting on the dog stand wrong our not, this year opening weekend (first of Oct) he got it again which was not that cold out, last weekend we went out again which I was concerned since it was colder temp (both water and air) and he was fine all weekend. it's odd how it happens.
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I have had two labs that had cold water tail a couple of times during their first winter of swimming during duck season. My vet prescribed a Non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to help with the pain. After their first winter season of duck hunting it never showed up again as a problem.
Check out this link, it references a veterinary study that was performed on cold water tail.
To see the link type this search into google: "update on cold/limbertail july 2004" and select the woodhavenlablimbertail link


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By Naomi Dillon
The large panes of glass lining most of New Tech High School's interior hallway offer a perfect, unobstructed view into the classrooms -- and for the dozens of school board members peering in one morning, an intriguing glimpse into a world of possibilities.
To the students, the board members were just another group of curious onlookers who'd heard about this experiment in the heart of California's Napa Valley.
Part of Napa Valley Unified School District, New Tech High School started 14 years ago as a partnership with district officials and the business community. The ninth- through 12th-grade campus, which houses 400 students, features project-based learning and incorporates many elements of the 21st century skills movement, including encouraging collaboration and seamlessly integrating technology into the curriculum and classroom.
New Tech's successes have inspired Napa Valley Unified to incorporate some of its concepts at other district high schools. And a nonprofit offshoot is bringing the New Tech model to other high schools in the country.
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Treat your family to a cheesy dinner with this rice and vegetable risotto. Perfect if you love Italian cuisine.
French recipes include the name "Florentine" when the preparation follows the style of Florence, Italy. Classic Florentine dishes consist of eggs or fish served over spinach and topped with a cheese-bechamel sauce. In the U.S., Florentine is used in many recipe titles that include spinach as an ingredient.
Risotto gets its rich creamy texture from Arborio rice. This short-grain Italian rice is high in starch. look for Arborio rice in the rice section of the grocery store or in an Italian market.
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I hunt my dog. I also run him in hunt tests. No, I can't bring him to Home Depot every time I go but I do bring him every time I hunt with the exception of big game. The places where I hunt big game don't allow dogs. Otherwise, both of my dogs are with me and are family dogs also.
You have hit the nail on the head about one of my pet peeves. The whole hunt test program was set up so that the average "Joe-hunter" could bring his dog to a weekend test and try to pass the standard. It's gone WAY past that in my opinion and I would like to get it back to that point. You are living what that program was started for. Take your hunting dog to test it on the weekend during the "off season". To me it is a great way to keep the dog in shape for the hunting season and to keep training the dog to a higher standard which translates to a very special dog in the blind AND at home or elsewhere.


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Large-Scale Cyclic and Hybrid Simulation Testing and Development of a Controlled-Rocking Steel Building System With Replaceable Fuses
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Current U.S. building codes and earthquake engineering practice utilize inelasticity in the seismic force resisting system to dissipate seismic energy and protect against collapse. Inelasticity in conventional structures can lead to structural damage distributed throughout the building and permanent drifts after the earthquake motion ceases which can make the structure difficult if not financially unreasonable to repair. A controlled rocking system has been developed which virtually eliminates residual drifts and concentrates the majority of structural damage in replaceable fuse elements. The controlled rocking system for steel-framed buildings consists of three major components: 1) a stiff steel braced frame that remains virtually elastic, but is not tied down to the foundation and thus allowed to rock, 2) vertical post-tensioning strands that anchor the top of the frame down to the foundation, which brings the frame back to center, and 3) replaceable structural fuses that absorb seismic energy as the frames rock.
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What is your favorite PBS or KCPT program and why?
Definitely The Local Show and Check, Please!. I love to see what KCPT uncovers that is only in Kansas City. Food – who doesn't like to find a new restaurant!
What do you enjoy most about being involved with KCPT?
As a volunteer and board member, KCPT is always fun. There is SO much going on. I always leave a KCPT event with a sense that the time spent was worthwhile.
Why should people support KCPT?
KCPT covers what is best about Kansas City and what we need to know about Kansas City. Whether it is human interest or difficult issues, we can always count on KCPT to provide details and perspective. Our region is complicated by the state line. Further, we sometimes have unwelcomed influence by Topeka or St. Louis. There is so much to investigate and keep track of. We have to stay informed to sustain our city. Supporting KCPT helps all of us stay more knowledgeable and dedicated to our city.


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Marketo Summit
Acquia is proud to be sponsoring Marketo's 2014 Summit, the annual conference that brings together the entire community of Marketo experts for 3 full days of marketing and sales best practices, hands-on training, and new innovations!
While at the Summit, check out our sessions...
How Advocate Marketing is Fueling the World's Fastest Growing Private Technology, featuring Chris Newton, Influitive, and Tom Wentworth, Acquia's CMO
Tuesday, April 8 @ 10:00am
Increase Pipeline 60%: A Demand Gen Blueprint, led by Acquia's Claudia Hoeffner & Jamie Quine
Tuesday, April 8 @ 4:30pm
And be sure to stop by our booth (#242) in the Summit Exhibit Hall.
Moscone Center
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San Francisco, CA 94103
For more information and to set up some time with Team Acquia, contact Andrea Rosmarin.