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New York, NY
New York, NY
I am a New York City metro area artist and graphic designer. I received my BFA from St. John's University, and my MFA from New Jersey City University, where I am currently an adjunct. My MFA show "Iconic" showcased the sleek, yet playful aesthetic that has become the foundation of my work, which spans many mediums. Nerd culture, Korean and Japanese pop culture influences, and a fascination with mass production and marketing collide in works, which are bits and pieces of myself, simplified and packaged for consumption.
llustration: Old Man Lamprey
Identity: Ez Laundry Delivery
Packaging: Ben Bath and Beyond Out and About
Responsibilities: Prepare and deliver lectures which break down concepts of art and design disciplines including, Digital Illustration, Typography and Advertising Design. Provide guidance and instruction that helps students sharpen concept development, organizational, time management, and communication skills. Introduce students to design software and assist them in developing technical skills, while providing an environment conducive to discovering and honing individual design sensibilities.
Responsibilities: Cooperate with packaging manager to produce unique packaging for textile-based home-style products. Communicate with product developers and home fashion designers to create customer-specific packaging solutions for products sold domestically and internationally by retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, and Bed Bath and Beyond. Update and organize packaging templates for Ellery's various customers and brands. Edit and organize product photography.
Responsibilities: Design and maintain museum's "@Studio" event mailer. Assist in design of announcements to be displayed on museum lobby screens. Create signage for special events and exhibitions. Create printed event and exhibiton announcements to be displayed in the museum, as well as corresponding digital announcments to be sent to museum mailing list. Assist with layout of museum publications.
Responsibilities: Assist creative directors and designers with concept development, copywriting, comp creation and research for ad campaigns for accounts including Kraft and Reebok. Create promotional material for McGarry Bowen. Illustration.


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I almost titled this "rewilding your mind", but that implies a split between one's mind and body, a pernicious myth, which as far as concerns me creates a kind of schizophrenia, even when used innocently for convenience. The human bodymind, not an abstracted mind-brain, reasons, discerns, and recognizes patterns. Perhaps that needs another blog to fully address…in any case, how do we rewild this faculty of reason?
The first step requires us to see the cult of science clearly…in Henry H. Bauer's Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method the author states the case very clearly.
In his book he refers to the model of the success of science not having to do with a mythical scientific method (known as the "hypothetico-deductive method", a hundred-odd year old creation of science philosphers trying to explain the success of the creature known as "science"), but rather with the revolution in communication…the ability of investigators to communicate experiment and speculation more easily and quickly than ever before in civilization.
"Historians are agreed that modern science has its roots in the seventeenth century…continuity becomes much harder to discern as one goes back farther than that. One knows of bits of science in particular places at some times—in ancient China, and ancient Mesopotamia, in classical Greece, in early Islam—but there is not much coherent progression towards modern science to be discerned in them. If modern science owes its success to application of the scientific method, then one has to regard the seventeenth century as a time when people, specifically in western Europe, first become really adept at drawing conclusions from observations, at testing hypotheses, at learning about the world from actual experience. Such an explanation is simply not tenable. From at least two or three millennia before that we have records of insightful discussion of empricism and logic…Human beings knew about empiricism and skepticism and were capable of logic long before the seventeenth century, and not only in western Europe…"
Please note that the author doesn't claim a lack of useful knowledge or discoveries in ancient civilization…he just wants to explore why modern science has the accelerated pace and particular qualities that it possesses today. Also, as a reader of this blog you'll know that, as a student of tracking, I consider humans innate, age-old users of empiricism, skepticism, and logic, knowing that we became humans by becoming trackers. For more on this see Louis Liebenberg's the Art of Tracking: the Origin of Science. So humans have practiced empiricism, skepticism, and logic for countless millenia — since they began tracking.
"…If modern science is recognized to be an inescapably cooperative, social activity, it becomes plain enough what was crucial in seventeenth-century western Europe: viable scientific societies were formed and scientific journals were established. Indeed, it is remarkable how well the measurable growth of those indicators of scientific activity over the last three centuries extrapolates back to a beginning in the seventeenth century (fig 7)…"
Figure 7 (enjoy the tiltedness):
Remember again, we trace the roots of (modern) science to the seventeenth century. This should serve as a wake-up call to the true believers in the church of science — science owes its success to wide communication and fellowship; it does not constitute a better form of knowledge, but results from the dividends of sharing knowledge. Science describes a social phenomenon, not an intellectual one. Bauer cites a wonderful model for this behavior, the "puzzle and filter".
"Even though science is done very differently in the various specialties, and the consensus over how things ought to be done embodies significantly different emphases in the various fields, the different sciences nevertheless can be seen to have somehting in common if one focuses on the social activiites that make up the enterprise of science…
…As Michael Polanyi has suggested, doing science is rather like putting together a jigsaw puzzle:
Suppose we share out the pieces of the jig-saw puzzle equally among the helpers and let each of them work on his lot separately. It is easy to see that this method, which would be quite approprate to a number of women shelling peas, would be totally ineffectual in this case, since few of the pieces allocated to one particular assistant would be found to fit together…The only way the assistants can effectively cooperate and surpass by far what any single one of them could do, is to let them work on putting the puzzle together in sight of the others, so that every time a piece of it is fitted in by one helper, all the others will immediately watch out for the next step that becomes possible in consequence. Under this system, each helper will act on his own initiative, by responding to the latest achievements of the others, and the completion of their join task will be greatly accelerated. We have here in a nutshell the way in which a series of independent initiatives are organized to a joint achievement by mutually adjusting themselves at every successive stage to the situation created by all the others who are acting likewise
Polyani's metaphor, straightforward as it may seem, is capable without further ado of illuminating salient features of science: that modern science began when cooperation among scientists became widespread and systematic; that modern science is a quite particular sort of cooperative venture, working most successfully when autonomous; that what really constitutes pseudoscience is isolation from the scientific community; why science cannot be successful and also produce what ideologues want…"
Notice that second-to-last point: psuedoscience means isolation from the scientific community. I see a connection between that and our anti-social "rewilder", aka "the mountain man". You cannot perform an essentially social and cooperative activity in isolation. Though the hermit plays a role in human culture, they play a very particular role, and need to find a place amongst a diversity of human co-action. The community itself can consist of any group (scientific or otherwise), but inquiry outside of the community, in isolation from it (or simply belonging to a different group), identifies a fundamentally different activity, a different "science", a different sphere of exploration. Pseudoscience simply means the fields which scientists don't cooperate on. Which sheds some interesting light on the idea of pseudoscience…can we call any sincere inquiry a pseudoscience? Perhaps pseudoscience most usefully describes the act of insincere inquiry.
Through an inherently conservative human process, the puzzlers' game puts ideas through a filter, with the fit of puzzle pieces reaching broader and broader consensus (as disagreements over certain arrangements filter many out). In the same vein, however broad the consensus, a new revolutionary piece, that fits in an unexpected way, will force the abandonment of an entire section of the puzzle, since the players had based it on the fit of fundamental pieces that now they see work less well than the new piece. Players can expect substantial resistance if they think they will easily convince other players to accept a revolutionary new piece that requires the complete reworking of substantial sections. No one likes to feel like they've "wasted" their time, and yet one cannot actually waste time in this fashion…the perception of having to "do it all over again" still persists, thus the well-known resistance to new scientific paradigms.
Alright. Next step: the inherent uncertainty of knowledge (inclusive of the "scientific" kind). Bauer, in the section titled "Discarding the Myth of the Scientific Method", continues on:
"…Under [the filtering process discussed], scientific knowledge becomes…more firmly accepted as time goes by–those parts of it that are not jettisoned along the way…At no stage, however, is guaranteed certainty reached; at no stage is it definitively proven that scientific knowledge is truly in accord with nature. Science is seen not to be dealing in permanent or absolute truth, as it was or could be seen if the scientific method could crucially test hypotheses against reality.
The myth of the method is not easily discarded, for one thing, because humankind is reluctant to accept that all knowledge contains an irreducible, inherent element of uncertainty. Over the last few centuries, the authority of science came to supersede that of religion precisely because science seemed to offer more certain knowledge, at least about the tangible world. If scientific knowledge now turns out to harbor ineradicable uncertainties, then science is in essence a false god, and moreover, is inferior to the God on whom science turned its back. So there is a reluctance to accept that the method is a myth, reluctance especially on the part of atheists, secular humanists, Marxists, and other such ideologues—perhaps the more so because fundamentalists and New Age obscurantists have also been so eager to topple science from its pedestal of authoritative uncertainty."
So, we've reached a good stopping point. The vital importance of all this talk about science comes down to the need to understand what makes the engine of scientific activity, a social phenomenon that accelerates the pace of investigative/intellectual activity, so successful.
So now we can understand that if we want to accelerate our own explorations, we need only copy what the scientific and industrial revolutions have accomplished, an idea already suggested by Daniel Quinn in his book Beyond Civilization. We don't need keener intellects, bigger vocabularies, or more extensive education and scholarly degrees. We can perform rewilded inquiry, animist inquiry, every bit as successful as science, simply by emulating the social revolutions of recent history, which amounted to a revolution of communication.
Did I just say the internet will save us? Well. Whatever the medium, whether digital or face-to-face, or in paper periodicals, the sharing of information of how to live in a new way will accelerate the pace of rewilding itself.
Also, we now know that scientific knowledge does not consist of a "better", "higher", "more objective", "more accurate" kind of knowledge. At any time, new data and models can topple the most well-founded of scientific thought. Scientific activity does produce a highly filtered, highly cooperative, highly reviewed amount of information and understandings, to its credit. We could ask no more of such a pursuit…but we shouldn't hesitate for a moment to think that we too have the skills and abilities to perform important and useful inquiry, inquiry that we find satisfying, based on sustainable and inspiring paradigms: a living world woven out of our relatives, our bodies, our sensations.
Succintly: set free your ability to reason. Rewild your bodymind. Know that science has no authority. Emulate the social revolution that it embodies, using new/ancient nourishing paradigms, such as animism.
Really, if I had you here next to me, I'd just teach you tracking, and I wouldn't have had to write any of this…

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By Lennie
from Ottawa
I ordered this dress in the Ivory/Black medium. This type of print is NOT my usual style but the price was right and I love "Lennie for Leonard Nina" products so took a chance. When I first tried it on, I was hesitant about the colour. I dress rather conservatively and thought it was a bit loud. However, the fit was so great and it felt sooooo comfortable that I decided to keep it. I have paired it with a Guillaume black suede jacket and wow,wow, wow! For a pop of colour, I add red shoes and handbag. It would go well with many colours. It is a keeper!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Nice dress
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Just received my dress in ivory/black in medium size. The dress is really nice. The material is so light and very comfortable to wear. Looks like a silk. I am a tall woman (178cm) but dress does not look like a tunic on me. It is just slightly above the knees and it is perfect for summer, or with tights in winter and falls. You have many options how to wear this dress. Fits perfectly not too tight not too baggy. So feminine. Love it. For this price I am really surprised how this dress is nice.
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By Saskia
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I ordered this dress in brown and I think I will order the other color as well. The dress is true to size, beautiful fabric, with a nice weight, and great style!It is perfect to hide those love handles and a little belly :-)All in all, better than expected!
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This dress is amazing. LOVE it. Super comfortable with a great fit. Flattering length, perfect for the office or going out at night. My first purchase from Nina leonard and I am very impressed with quality and style and fit. Another dress is in order!
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Unfortunately, the elastic waist on this dress was just a little too high. I am a short person with an average body type. Because it is Blouson style the waistline could have been a little lower which would have only make the top a little fuller. Other than that the dress was lovely.
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I followed the size chart and should not have done so-the dress is a little too large. Will keep it though and wear a belt.Dress is too long for 5'3" and will be shortened.I really wish there were petite sizes for the shorties of the world.The fabric and construction are fineOrdered the brown and it is definitely a fall winter pattern and weight.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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I just received mine but it will be returned. I like the style but the colours are not very nice and not many choices. The light one is too light for me and the dark one is my worst colour (brown), but since it was not just brown I took a chance and ordered it. Unfortunately it did not look good on me at all, oh well.......


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First bit of advice is to slug your bore, U.S. Krags come in a wide range of sizes. My '98 has a generous .3104 groove diameter at the muzzle, probably a bit more in the worn throat. Pick a larger 30 cast bullet to fit if your bore is similar.
My own target load is a Lapua D-166 FMJ over 48.0 grains of IMR 4831, this produces sub 2" groups at 100 yards for me and my tired eyes. The D-166 is the Finn bullet for the M39 rifle in 7.62X54R, 200 grains measuring about .3094. I crimp lightly at the cannelure and feed singly, for magazine feed they must be seated deeper. Since I have no chronograph I can't comment on velocity, but they sure are accurate!
With the Krag's long throat the next best choices would be round nosed bullets of 180 grains or better; the 220s group well for me but the Lapuas edge them out slightly. Of course, your milage may vary since I have seen Krags with bores as tight as .306. Good luck!


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The mission of the NIA is to improve the health and well being of older Americans through an extensive program of high-quality research. There are currently 35 million Americans over the age of 65 B more than at any other time in history. Of these, more than four million are over 85, and some 65,000 have attained their hundredth birthday. In the coming years, the ranks of American elders are expected to swell; by 2030, the number of individuals age 65 and older likely will double, reaching 70.3 million and comprising a larger proportion of the entire population, rising from 13 to 20 percent.1 In particular, explosive growth is anticipated among those most at risk for disease and disability, people age 85 and older, whose ranks are expected to grow from 4.3 million in 2000 to at least 19.4 million in 2050.
The aging of the population presents a number of social and economic challenges as increasing numbers of Americans reach retirement age. It also has important implications for our nation's health. For example, more than half of all Americans over age 65 show evidence of osteoarthritis in at least one joint. 2 Over half of Americans older than 50 have osteoporosis or low bone mass.3 Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes remain common among older Americans, and as many as 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease (AD).4
However, we now know that aging itself is not the cause of disease, disability, and frailty. Rather, disease and disabling processes influenced by age-related changes in the body and by unhealthy choices and sedentary lifestyles are the most important factors in compromising the quality of life for older people. This fundamental shift in thinking was reinforced most recently with insights from the National Long Term Care Survey (NLTCS). According to this study, the rate of disability among older Americans dramatically declined from the 1980s through the mid 1990s, even among people age 85 and older. These findings, along with evidence from a number of other studies, suggest more strongly than ever that disease and disability can be delayed or even prevented through specific interventions.
At the same time, however, this downward trend in disability among the elderly is in real danger of reversal. Data from the National Health Interview Survey have found that, over the same period, the disability rate actually rose significantly for people ages 18–59, with the two most important causes of disability being musculoskeletal problems, particularly back problems, and mental illness. Findings also indicated that combined disability cases from musculoskeletal problems and diabetes, both of which can be associated with obesity, were increasing more rapidly by the mid-1990s than those from other problems, and that the growing prevalence of obesity is the dominant factor in the rise in disability among individuals ages 50–59.5
The NIA portfolio emphasizes research aimed at increasing the Ahealthspan,"or years of healthy, active life expectancy. With guidance from the National Advisory Council on Aging, the NIA conducts and supports research on the biochemical, genetic, and physiological mechanisms of aging in humans and animal models; the structure and function of the aging nervous system; social and behavioral aspects of aging processes and the place of older people in society; and the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of age-related diseases, degenerative conditions, and disabilities. In all of its efforts, the Institute pays special attention to reducing health disparities among different groups of Americans. NIA-supported researchers can be found in all fifty states, and the Institute also conducts a thriving program of training opportunities for researchers wishing to become involved in aging research.
- Federal Interagency Forum on Aging Related Statistics. Older Americans 2000: Key Indicators of Well-Being. 2000.
- See "Handout on Health: Osteoarthritis," National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, July 2002.
- See America's Bone Health: The State of Osteoporosis and Low Bone Mass in Our Nation. National Osteoporosis Foundation, February 2002.
- Hebert LE et al.: Alzheimer disease in the U.S. population: Prevalence estimates using the 2000 Census. Arch. Neurol. 60: 1119-22, 2003.
- Lakdawalla DN, Bhattacharya J, Goldman DP. Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Health Affairs 23(1): 168-76, 2004.


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Hip Roof Ventilation Question
I currently have a 1500 sq foot home with a 4/12 pitch hip roof. Soffit has proper ventilation around the entire home. When i purchased my home, it had 3 standard square roof vents( the type that the majority of roofs have) on the rear side of the roof. A few years ago i removed the center vent and replaced it with a 1600 cfm power vent. I am getting estimates for a new shingle roof and this is one area that i am addressing. I have about 24 feet of ridge that i could install a ridge vent. After reading some info on the internet, i found it is not a good thing to install a power vent close the other vents as it will suck air from the closest vents vs the overhangs. Any recommendation on what types of vents and how many i should have to properly vent my attic?
A 1,500 sq foot attic floor space with the "Minimum" code requirement if all conditions are met, would require 5 square feet of Total ventilation, best optimized by equal or slightly more intake ventilation as compared to exhaust ventilation. If the ventilation is not balanced between the intake and ridge exhaust, or if you do not have a vapor barrier under the warm side of your attic insulation, then the requirements for "Minimum" code and warranty approval must be Doubled, so you would then need 10 square feet of total ventilation NFVA.
24 feet of Ridge using the Shingle Vent II ridge vent or the Cobra Snow Country ridge vent, will provide 432 sq in of NFVA, which is exactly 3 square feet.
Now, ensure that you have at least 3 square feet of soffit intake ventilation or have the Smart Vent under shingle ventilation product installed along the perimeter eave edges of your home, which will provide 9 sq in per lineal foot installed.
OC makes a "Ridge Vent" product, which I will NOT use as a ridge vent, but they warrant it for applications on Hips of roofs, if you wanted to consider venting the Hips in addition to your ridge. This goes against most advice given about ventilation, and I would NOT recommend it, unless you have a vaulted/cathedral ceiling instead of an actual attic area, which I do not thik you do, based on your usage of a PAV previously.
house is exactly 1440 square feet...roof is a 4/12 pitch hip roof.. I currently have 2 standard roof vents (OC states same size vents give 50 sq inches of vent area) and one roof power vent. The power vent is between the 2 standard vents and about 8-9 feet away from each vent(middle standard vent removed for power vent install) I think it is 1600cfm but could be wrong(it is at least 1200cfm. Based on Ed's formula i come up with 1008 cfm. I am getting a new roof soon and would like to make sure the exhaust end of the ventilation is correct. It sounds like the power vent alone is enough for exhaust. Is this a correct assumption? Would i be better off removing the 2 standard roof vents and only have the power vent? After reading through this forum, i wasnt sure if the proximity of the other vents to the power vent was defeating some of the airflow( power vent sucking air from the closer roof vents vs overhang vents). Another option i am looking at is to remove the 2 vents and power vent and install 23 feet of ridge vent...
I hope that answers your current batch of questions adequately enough.
Thanks for the info Ed...with all the info at hand...i have been wanting to do away with power vent...besides being noisy it is an energy guzzler as you said. 23 feet of ridge vent is only a little of 3 sq feet of ventilation. The 3 original roof vents only gave 50 sq in each. I know it is not recommended to mix exhaust vent types...what would you recommend Ed? I am leaning towards closing up the 3 roof vents and installing ridge vent only. Would the difference between the 3 sq ft of ridge ventilation vs the 5 sq ft your required exhaust calculation comes up with be acceptable? I think it would take 12 or so standard vents @ 50 sq in to get 5 sq feet of exhaust. Really do not want to see 12 vents in the roof..
The 4.8 square feet was the Total ventilation NFVA.
That can include the Soffit Intake Ventilation that you stated that you have already, or as you said, " Soffit has proper ventilation around the entire home".
Now, what do YOU mean by proper ventilation all the way around.
Each ventilation product has a manufacturers NFVA rating for these too.
A continuous strip vent typically provides 9 square inches per lineal foot.
A 4" x 12" rectangular louvre vent is about 26 square inches each.
An 8" x 16" rectangular louvre vent is about 56 square inches each.
Add up all of the total intake vents you have and arrive at your total intake ventilation numbers.
That was where i was getting confused...4.8 sq ft was the total for both intake and exhaust vent area. My overhangs have vinyl soffit . Each piece is divided into 3's where the center section is perforated with small round holes for the intake. I could not find the exact sq in intake specs for this type of soffit. Any guestimates Ed?
First, you have to make sure that the guys who installed the soffit panels actually cut out the wooden soffit material to the exact dize as the perforated panels. Sounds logical, doesn't it? But, in most cases, it is either not cut out at all, or they just drilled a 3"-4" hole saw in or close to the area.
Soffit panels vary from 6 square inches to 9 square inches per square foot of actual vented soffit panels.
So, if your overhangs are 12" extended past the walls of the home and you have the triple 4 panel, the center vented panel should be 4" wide x 12" of overhang equaling 1/3 square foot or 2 square inches to 3 square inches of NFVA per vented section in the panel.
You should be able to look up the brand of vinyl soffit and check out the manufacturers website to see if they list an actual rating of NFVA for it.
One other thing, even if the wood soffit is cut out, you have to make sure that no attic insulation is covering the vent holes and also clean away any dust or cobweb particles and debris from the vent holes to allow them to function.
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Bobby Jones Bracket
• No. 1 Lee Westwood def. No. 64 Henrik Stenson, 3 and 2. The world's top-ranked golfer was erratic, with three bogeys on the first seven holes, but Stenson stumbled as well at 5-over par.
• No. 32 Nick Watney def. No. 33 Anthony Kim, 5 and 4. It was a daylong struggle for Kim, who did not have a birdie and was eliminated after 14 holes.
• No. 49 K.J. Choi def. No. 16 Retief Goosen, 1 up. Choi did not take his first lead until the 16th hole, closing out the two-time U.S. Open champ, who made a bogey at the 18th green.
• No. 48 Ryan Moore def. No. 17 Francesco Molinari, 3 and 1. Despite three birdies on the back nine and no bogeys, Molinari couldn't make up any ground on Moore.
• No. 57 Matteo Manassero def. No. 8 Steve Stricker, 2 and 1. Trailing by a hole at the nine-hole turn, the 17-year-old Italian took advantage of Stricker's three-bogey back nine to post a big upset.
• No. 25 Charl Schwartzel def. No. 40 Ryo Ishikawa, 20 holes. Costly bogeys for the Japanese teenager at No. 17 and on the second extra hole cost him the match, despite four birdies and an eagle.
• No. 9 Luke Donald def. No. 56 Charley Hoffman, 6 and 5. Donald was plus-seven after the 10th hole, then won at the 13th green.
• No. 24 Edoardo Molinari def. No. 41 Martin Laird, 3 and 2. With seven birdies, the Italian built a three-hole lead after the 13th hole to win without pressure.
Ben Hogan Bracket
• No. 4 Phil Mickelson def. No. 61 Brendan Jones, 6 and 5. Mickelson had only three birdies. But Jones struggled, finishing at 5-over par through 13 holes.
• No. 29 Rickie Fowler def. No. 36 Peter Hanson, 1 up. Fowler didn't trail in a tight match, and he did not lead by more than one hole at any time. He won with a par at No. 18.
• No. 13 Matt Kuchar def. No. 52 Anders Hansen, 22 holes. In one of the day's top rallies, Kuchar was 2-down through 16, and got even with mere pars, winning with a birdie on the 22nd hole.
• No. 45 Bo Van Pelt def. No. 20 Louis Oosthuizen, 2 up. After opening with 11 pars, Van Pelt advanced when Oosthuizen imploded with bogeys at Nos. 16 and 17.
• No. 5 Graeme McDowell def. No. 60 Heath Slocum, 4 and 3. It was a breeze for the defending U.S. Open champ, winning five holes in a seven-hole stretch as Slocum posted five bogeys.
• No. 37 Ross Fisher def. No. 28 Robert Allenby, 4 and 3. With a three-birdie rally at Nos. 11, 13 and 15, Fisher ousted Allenby, who had just one birdie all day.
• No. 53 Stewart Cink def. No. 12 Ian Poulter, 19 holes. Cink rallied from two-down at No. 14, winning with a birdie on the first extra hole as the defending champ lost his lead with a bogey at 17.
• No. 44 Y.E. Yang def. No. 21 Alvaro Quiros, 20 holes. The 2009 PGA champion didn't play especially well, with bogeys at three of the first seven holes, but Quiros struggled as well.
Gary Player Bracket
• No. 2 Martin Kaymer def. No. 63 Seung-yul Noh, 7 and 6. In the quickest match of the day, Kaymer played even-par golf, but Noh was 4-over.
• No. 34 Justin Rose def. No. 31 Zach Johnson, 2 and 1. Rose survived a double bogey at 14 and bogeys at 10 and 12 to send Johnson packing after a bogey at 17.
• No. 15 Robert Karlsson def. No. 50 Hiroyuki Fujita, 5 and 3. Fujita self-destructed in midround, tacking up bogeys at Nos. 7, 9 and 10 to fall back by two holes and not recover.
• No. 18 Hunter Mahan def. No. 47 Sean O'Hair, 4 and 3. Never trailing, Mahan pulled away with four birdies between the No. 9 and No. 15 holes to send O'Hair home.
• No. 7 Rory McIlroy def. No. 58 Jonathan Byrd, 4 and 2. Never trailing, McIlroy eagled the No. 4 hole and had birdies at Nos. 2, 8 and 11.
• No. 39 Ben Crane def. No. 26 Adam Scott, 4 and 2. A birdie at the first hole gave Crane a lead he didn't relinquish. He closed the match with three birdies.
• No. 55 Ryan Palmer def. No. 10 Jim Furyk, 2 up. It's difficult to imagine the ex-Arizona Wildcat playing worse; Furyk was 8-over par with double bogeys at Nos. 7 and 8.
• No. 23 Miguel A. Jimenez def. No. 42 Yuta Ikeda, 2 and 1. It took some clutch play by Jimenez, who had birdies at Nos. 13, 14 and 16 to rally after the 12th hole.
Sam Snead Bracket
• No. 62 Thomas Bjorn def. No. 3 Tiger Woods, 19 holes. Bjorn held up to the pressure, playing the final 13 holes in 2-under par without a bogey as Woods self-destructed with a wild tee shot in sudden death.
• No. 30 Geoff Ogilvy def. No. 35 Padraig Harrington, 4 and 3. The 2009 champ led from start to finish, taking advantage of Harrington's 3-over par and no birdies.
• No. 51 Mark Wilson def. No. 14 Dustin Johnson, 19 holes. The long-hitting Johnson saw his 2-up lead fizzle after 15 holes as he made bogey at No. 16 and on the first hole of sudden death.
• No. 19 Bubba Watson def. No. 46 Bill Haas, 3 and 2. The long-hitting Watson had the day's best start - three straight birdies - to grab a two-hole lead from which he breezed to a victory.
• No. 6 Paul Casey def. No. 59 Richard Green, 19 holes. The finalist a year ago couldn't get any cushion, never leading by more than one hole at any time, even though Green had five bogeys.
• No. 38 Jason Day def. No. 27 K.T. Kim, 3 and 2. When you birdie six holes and eagle another, in just 16 holes, you move on, as Day did on Wednesday.
• No. 11 Ernie Els def. No. 54 Jeff Overton, 19 holes. The Big Easy had one of the day's top comebacks, rallying from a 3-hole deficit through six holes to win, even though he didn't have a birdie over the last 11 holes.
• No. 22 J.B. Holmes def. No. 43 Camilo Villegas, 4 and 2. The last man in the field, an injury replacement, was 6-under par with an eagle at No. 13.
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My mini dachshund is 5yrs.only been in heat 4 times.got out and is pregnant.How long till she has pups.may have hert mur
if she has a heart murmer should she have pups at the vet.daughter is vet tech thinks she may have heart problem.How long do they usually carry pups.
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Dogs pregnancy lasts 63 days. Regardless of her possible heart murmur, she should go to the vet periodically anyway to make sure she doesn't have issues while being pregnant.
Kali earned her wings 10/21/14 answered on 8/4/12. Helpful? / 1
You could have the vet terminate the pregnancy.
If you decide to go ahead with it, definitely read up and try to inform yourself.
I'm not a breeder, but I do know that when she's in labor you'll need to already have a whelping box out and have the phone ready in case you need to call the vet.
Here's an article on taking care of newborn puppies: www.chelsea
Gray Dawn Treader answered on 8/4/12. Helpful? / 0
Having had dogs with heart murmurs, there is a good chance it will be passed on to the pups. Depending on the dergree of the heart murmur. It may be a good idea to have her fixed if it is not a problem because giving birth can be hard on her also. Good luck
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Roll up your sleeves and help construct a beautiful new house, both inside and out.
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- Choose stucco, wood, or brick panels to finish the exterior of the house
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Biggest Disappointment For The 2009 Mets: Mike PelfreySeptember 3, 2009
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In the video post above I explain why I feel Mike Pelfrey has been the biggest disappointment in the Mets starting rotation for 2009. I also make a recommendation as to who I feel the Mets should sign in the off-season as a number two pitcher behind Johan Satana.
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Transportation Advisory Committee
September 19, 2013
Community Conference Room
Committee Members Attending: Victoria Harris, Mark Ballock, Harvey Riggs, Robert DuPont, and Bijal Patel.
Committee Members Absent: Ed Boyan.
Council Members Attending: None.Planning Commission Liaison: None.
Teen Council Liaison: Shalaka Phadnis.
Guests Attending: None.
Staff Members Attending: Lisa Bobadilla, PJ Dhoot, and Amy Sekhon.Chair Victoria Harris called the meeting to order at 6:30pm.
M/S/C/U (DuPont/Riggs) to approve the August 15, 2013 as written (4-0). Bijal Patel was not present for this item.3. PUBLIC COMMENT
Lisa Bobadilla, Transportation Division Manager, introduced new Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Teen Council Liaison, Shalaka Phadnis. Ms. Phadnis stated that she is a junior at California High School, and has learned about the committee from Mischa Fritz, previous Teen Council Liaison to the TAC.
The TAC members and staff introduced themselves to Ms. Phadnis.
4.1 TRAFFIX School Year 2013-2014 Fall Campaign
Elaine Cortez-Schroth, TRAFFIX Program Manager, provided the presentation. She stated that TRAFFIX is a traffic congestion relief program that provides bus service in the San Ramon Valley. Funding for the program is provided through the Contra Costa Measure J half-cent sales tax program, Bay Area Quality Management (BAAQMD) Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA), and parent contributions. TRAFFIX is a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) made up of the City of San Ramon, Town of Danville, San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD), and Contra Costa County. Ms. Schroth stated that the TRAFFIX program has been successful at alleviating congestion in the San Ramon Valley, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Ms. Schroth stated that TRAFFIX entered its fifth year of service for School Year (SY) 2013-2014, and that 1300 passes have been sold to date; in San Ramon 478 passes were sold. Fehr and Peers transportation engineering consultants conducted a Valley-Wide Traffic Analysis to determine TRAFFIX impact at reducing congestion, and the study showed that it has helped improve intersections that were operating at unacceptable levels of service. The study also surveyed Dougherty Valley intersections, and intersections approaching school sites were at acceptable levels of service. Ms. Schroth stated that TRAFFIX will embark on a route planning study, which will provide input on route planning for SY 2014-2015 to improve ridership for the program.Questions/Comments
Harvey Riggs asked if the sequences for the buses are based on school bell times. Ms. Schroth replied yes. Mr. Riggs asked if TRAFFIX is running on optimized size buses. Ms. Schroth stated that all buses are the same size, and can seat 85 elementary school students, and 72 middle school students.
Chair Harris asked if it will be easier in the future to secure funding for the TRAFFIX program with the analysis that was conducted. Ms. Bobadilla stated that funding for the program is secured until 2034, through the Measure J half-cent sales tax.
Chair Harris moved onto the next item.
4.2 San Ramon Valley Street Smarts School Year 2013-2014 Fall Campaign
Cathy DeLuca, Street Smarts Program Coordinator, provided the presentation. Ms. DeLuca provided handouts to the TAC with detailed information regarding the fall campaign.
Community Outreach: Ms. DeLuca stated that during the summer, Street Smarts staff attended concerts in San Ramon and Danville; teaching community members about the Street Smarts program. Ms. DeLuca stated that it was great way to reinforce traffic safety techniques to parents and children.Storybook Poster Contest: Ms. DeLuca stated that every year a local author writes a story about a particular traffic safety theme. The story is given to elementary schools, and the children are to draw a picture for the particular page in the book. Students compete to have their artwork featured in the traffic safety themed storybook written by local author Dana Mentink.
"Be Reel!" Video Contest: In the valley-wide competition, middle school students work in teams of up to four students to create a 60-second Public Service Announcement (PSA) that focus on traffic-safety issues. The Fall traffic safety theme is "Teach Your Parent to be Street Smart."
"It Happens" Campaign: The "It Happens" is the high school program. It is an interactive campaign created by Street Smarts that engages teens to learn about driving safety based on their own experiences on the road as a driver or passenger. Ms. DeLuca stated that their activities range from utilizing drunk goggles, displaying a badly wrecked vehicle on campus, and an advertising campaign. The contest is an advertising contest based on traffic safety (bicycling, walking, driving, etc.). Ms. DeLuca displayed the winning posters to the committee members, and stated that the advertisements will be posted throughout the San Ramon Valley. In light of the recent vehicular collision that resulted in the death of a San Ramon Valley High School student, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) has been in touch with the Street Smarts Program to collaborate the CHP Start Smart Program with the San Ramon Valley Street Smarts Program. The CHP Start Smart Program is a two hour program for new drivers and their parents, the program discusses driving safety and the consequences of bad driving techniques. Ms. Bobadilla stated that the SRVUSD, Contra Costa County, City of San Ramon, and the Town of Danville are collaborating together with CHP on promoting the program to the community.Safe Routes to School: Ms. Deluca provided the schedule for the Fall Campaign. Street Smarts will be hosting twenty assemblies this fall at a total of 9 elementary schools. San Ramon Police officers also attend the events, and promote traffic safety to the students.
Media Kick-Off Event: The annual Street Smarts Media Kick-Off is on Thursday September 26, 2013. Vice Chair Ballock will be speaking at the event about bicycle and helmet safety. San Ramon Mayor Bill Clarkson will also be speaking at the event. Ms. DeLuca stated that the "It Happens" advertisements will be unveiled, and information regarding the Street Smarts program.
Bob DuPont stated that the "wrecked car" that is displayed at the high schools for the "It Happens" campaign will have a profound impact on students who see it.
Ms. DeLuca stated that viewing the wrecked car sends the message home to students.
Bijal Patel asked if the program promotes helmet safety to children who skateboard or scooter. Ms. DeLuca stated that the program reinforces helmet safety by use of bicycle, scooter, skateboards, roller blades, etc.
Vice Chair Ballock stated that bicycle lane safety should also be promoted with both the Street Smart and Start Smart programs.
Chair Harris stated that she approves of the advertisements, and that it is great to see the program expand.
4.3 Safe Routes to School Grant Application
Ms. Bobadilla stated that the Contra Costa County Transportation Authority (CCTA) is the congestion management agency for Contra Costa County. She stated that CCTA, on behalf of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), will implement federal Safe Routes to School (SRTS) funding. CCTA will receive the Contra Costa County share of the federal SRTS funding, and will distribute funding to all 20 cities and towns in Contra Costa County. In Southwest Contra Costa County there is $704,600 available, from that share the funding is broken down by the number of school sites, enrollment data, etc. San Ramon's share of that funding totals $247,325, and the grant application was submitted to MTC and CCTA. City Council passed a resolution authorizing matching funds for the grant program. The funds must be applied to enhance infrastructure including in roadway lights, flashing beacons, in-pavement flashers, and traffic signal hardware at or around school sites. Staff has identified five intersections:
Mr. Riggs asked if MTC provides the matching funds. Ms. Bobadilla stated that the local jurisdiction must provide matching funds in order to be eligible to receive funding.
Ms. Patel asked what the percentage of the funding Contra Costa County will be receiving. Ms. Bobadilla stated that Contra Costa County should receive $3.289 million.Ms. Phadnis asked if there are any conditions attached to receiving funding. Ms. Bobadilla stated that the funds must be used for school site infrastructure improvements.
Chair Harris moved on to Unfinished Business.
For one, the Council asked about the cost and benefit of the "In-Crosswalk Pedestrian Crossing" signs. Ms. Dhoot stated that these signs are highly visible and effective, yet replaced frequently. She is working with Mike Talley, Senior Traffic Engineer, to design measures that will prolong the life of the signs.
City Council also asked about the success of the "one-way circulation" at Hidden Hills and Bollinger Canyon Elementary Schools. Ms. Dhoot responded that the circulation has been widely accepted by school-site staff and parents as effective and that she plans to implement the one-way circulation at other school sites in the coming year.
Chair Harris moved on to the next item.
5.2 Active Residential Traffic Calming (RTC) Streets Status Report
Ms. Dhoot provided the update.
Alcosta Frontage Road: Ms. Dhoot stated that a letter was sent to residents along Alcosta Blvd. advising residents in the vicinity not to make U-turns along the frontage road.
Bollinger Canyon Road at Marsh Drive: Ms. Dhoot received a request to address pedestrian crossing at the intersection during commute times and Twin Creeks Elementary School bell times. Ms. Dhoot stated that rose bushes were recently planted in the median, covering a yield to pedestrian sign. Ms. Dhoot stated that the rose bush was trimmed very short to alleviate the problem. Ms. Dhoot stated that the next steps are to conduct selective enforcement during school bell times, consider replacing rose bushes in center median, and provide enhance crosswalk education as part of the Street Smarts program.
Chair Harris asked if any resident responded to the letter regarding no U-turns along Alcosta Blvd. Ms. Dhoot stated that she has not received comments. Chair Harris moved onto Committee Member Items.
Mr. Riggs stated that the new stop signs that have been installed in the city are nice. Ms. Dhoot stated that these are the new signs as listed in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and they are highly reflective.Chair Harris stated that there is a new inflatable bike helmet, which inflates on impact. Vice Chair Ballock stated that he can see problems with using the helmets, but the concept is interesting.
6.2 City Council Liaison Items
6.3 Planning Commission Liaison Items
6.4 Teen Council Liaison
Ms. Phadnis stated that she is excited to share what she learned about the TAC to Teen Council.