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I disagree with this. 90% of the ACROD parishes are located in areas from Ohio eastward. The heaviest concentrations are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. The Deaneries of Chicago and Florida are dwindling in membership almost if not worse than the churches in the other deaneries, but the seat of ACROD is located in Johnstown, PA. However, with Met. Nicholas in charge, who knows where this might go. I can certainly see people fleeing ACROD as many already have. The big problem with ACROD is that the birth rate and retention rate are growing at a much slower rate than the death rate, as ACROD is made up of alot of Elderly members. The children, however, are not really staying in the church as ACROD has developed a very liberal view of orthodoxy (in my opinion of course).-Nick
I know this may sound dumb but was does ACROD stand for?Thomas
Heck, once we got a 50 year old chinese lady to dance tsifteteli ("belly dance") at our festival, at which of course the yiayaides (grannies) were staring and pointing, cheering and laughing.
Wow, some of your guys on here know Fr. Stavros Chatzis? He's an amazing priest, very young and full of energy. I almost wish I was part of his parish, but alas his is 40 minutes away by car, although I might help with some youth activities over there- btw, he now has a beautiful baby girl named Anna.
So my family is in the process of converting, as is another couple we know, but we're not fully decided on jurisdiction. There isn't an Orthodox parish that is precisely convenient to our house. I'm leaning toward the GOA parish, as it is closest. Downside is that part of the liturgy is still in Greek. OTOH, the closest OCA is 30 minutes away in good weather, and the liturgy begins at 9 am, which would require having the troops up and moving fairly early.At any rate, my friend is concerned about GOA, and how "liberal" it may or may not be - especially with regard to ecumenism. My intention is decidedly not to start a jurisdiction bashing contest, but would be interested in the perspectives of folks from different jurisdictions as to the state of their own jurisdictions. Thanks!
Timos and Elisha,Well, at my home parish last night in the 12 Gospels service, Greek was only used at one occaison, and that was followed immediately by English...the person messed up at the chanter's stand and read it in Greek, and then corrected his mistake.Btw--there was no choir. Only three chanters.The two neighboring GOA parishes are in the same boat, except they used more Greek...up to 10% of all that was spoken in one case!What I find interesting, Elisha and Timos, is that your own posts support my contention more than your own. The GOA is a large group of people, with many parishes that have different needs. The priest should be able to exercise a pastoral decision to use whatever language suits the parish at that time.You may dispute the decision made by the priest, but as soon as you are able to know all the factors involved in that preist's decision, let me know. Your powers of clairvoyance are quite remarkable indeed.
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Junior quarterback Tyler Tettleton broke Ohio's record for all-time career passing yards Wednesday night during the Bobcats tough loss to Bowling Green. He completed 21-of-34 passes for 145 yards, surpassing the previous record set by Bobcat Sammy Shon by 62 yards. His total and the new record for career passing yards is now 5,475 yards.
Tettleton is averaging 227.2 yards a game this season with 171 completions for 278 attempts, passing for 2,045 yards on the season. He has contributed 16 touchdowns this year and has thrown two interceptions.
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MOVIE REVIEW-Wild wizards: Newest Potter's not <i>Half </i>bad
All the wizards' spells haven't kept me from becoming progressively disenchanted with the Harry Potter films as they've gotten darker, more CG-dependent and, with increasing obviousness, evolved into extended teasers for the cataclysmic battle to come in the final episode.
Despite these flaws and irritating factors, I enjoyed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the latest movie, more than the last two. It offers more variety: adventure, romance, and numerous action scenes, including an opening sequence that has little to do with the plot but looks spectacular.
At the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix we learned the Prophecy: "Neither one can live while the other one survives." It doesn't make much sense if you think about it, but it sets up the ultimate showdown between Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), a.k.a. the Dark Lord, whose sins include killing Harry's parents.
The forces of darkness in Lord Voldemort's thrall include fellow student Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton); Bellatrix Lestrange (Helena Bonham Carter) and her sister, Draco's mother, Narcissa Malfoy (Helen McCrory); and, apparently, Professor Severus Snape (Alan Rickman), although we may be in for some more Snape-shifting. They have plenty of opportunities to take Harry out and resolve everything in this movie, but if J.K. Rowling hadn't written a seventh book (which will become a two-part film) the world's economy would be in even worse shape than it is.
Headmaster Albus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) stops Harry from hooking up with a waitress, instead flying him to Hogwarts School for an early start on his sixth year with his pals Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron's sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright). This year they'll all face romantic temptations before things get sorted out the way they were seemingly always destined to.
New students of note are Lavender Brown (Jessie Cave), who becomes a seriously unserious love interest for Ron, arousing Hermione's jealousy; and Cormac McLaggen (Freddie Stroma), who crushes on Hermione.
A new addition to the faculty is Dumbledore's "old friend and colleague" Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), the new Potions professor. Harry goes to the head of the class by following notes in a used textbook, formerly "Property of the Half Blood Prince." This scores him a vial of "liquid luck," which you know will come in handy.
Harry spends a lot of time playing Tweedledee to Tweedledumbledore, reviewing the headmaster's memories of a young Voldemort, then known as Tom Riddle (Frank Dillane and Hero Fiennes Tiffin at 16 and 11 respectively). Harry only has to touch Dumbledore's elbow and they can fly from place to place so quickly it's like teleportation (yet they need a boat to cross an underground lake).
Professor Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith) gets a little more screen time than usual in a sympathetic but not significant role.
Director David Yates (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) works hard to come up with variations on the usual scenes and situations. Quidditch is back, giving Ron a chance to be a hero and letting McLaggen get the movie's biggest laugh with his pose astride a phallic broom.
Spell-casting practice provides some humor and razzle-dazzle, while occasional attacks by Voldemort's minions do more serious damage. Speaking of serious, Sirius Black is still dead, but you never know who might come to life in old photos.
With product placement becoming ever more blatant, I keep expecting Harry to show up with a monogram that resembles the Hewlett-Packard logo.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't read the books or seen the first five movies, but according to sales figures that doesn't leave many out. I think I preferred it to the last two films, but maybe it's like Harry says to Dumbledore: "After all these years, I just sort of go with it."#
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science doubling the number of best picture nominees! Who knows? I know a comedy film that will be among the nominees!! I can see it now! This film yielding much and receiving an immediate return. I am telling you it will bring to the table drama, comedy and suspense. Hilariously funny causing both the muscles in your face and stomach to tighten up from laughing so hard.
Some might even fall from their seats. Believe me! You will not be able to keep a straight face. I suggest that you use the restroom first before you enter into this movie. Why? Because you will not be able to hold what is longing inside of you. You will release it from cracking up! Yes Sir! The remake of Sanford and Son! THE MOVIE!! The right cast! Hey!! There is a guy that sound like Fred G. Sanford on youtube.com/healingprophet
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This is currently at Sony. What an opportunity! Perhaps Jamie Foxx would be willing to respond to this project? The remake of Sanford and Son. This can be a tribute in honor and recognizing Red Foxx contributions to this industry besides, with the right cast this will be a great movie!
The episodes today still remain hilariously funny and touch almost all age groups crossing cultural lines; Foxx did deliver in this character role! The thing that ignited this, I would impersonate Fred G. Sanford and people would enjoy it and the thought hit me! There has not been a Sanford and Son Movie made yet! Della Reese response "Your voice is very much like Redd Foxx's". The creativity of makeup artistes today with an acting coach can make me look exactly like Fred G. Sanford. In my search this was posted:
Sanford and Son could be heading to the big screen
Posted Apr 2nd 2007 3:01PM by Adam Finley
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Does this really surprise anyone? Sanford and Son, Redd Foxx's sitcom from the 1970s, might be made into a feature film with Bernie Mac taking on the role of Fred Sanford popularized by the late Foxx. The film has been kicking around the studios for a few years now, and is currently at Sony. Nick Cannon is also slated to play Lamont Sanford, Fred's son.


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As I was psyching myself up to attend as an observer, I got word late Wednesday that Tim Kaine supporters were going to rally 45 minutes prior to "welcome" Americans for Prosperity. I was encouraged -- there would be a few kindred souls willing to stand up to purveyors of the big lie.
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I couldn't believe it. With the Koch money and organization I'd figured there would be a glitzy bus and lots of signs and people. When I walked to my car about 5:15 pm there was still no sign of AFP. So, I am left with several questions:
- How does AFP, an obviously partisan group, get tax-favored 501(c)(4) "social welfare" nonprofit status?
- Is it true that AFP and the Koch's deep pockets really can't buy grassroots support for their lies?
- If AFP can make robo calls to tell me (and others) of an event, why can't they tell me it is cancelled? How rude!


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People look at some of my work and compliment me on my "artwork". Okay, I think of it as art, but they're confusing it with paint, brushes, an easel and a pretty serious mess. The best I can do with "real" art is draw a stick figure, and maybe some people might have a hard time figuring that out. No, I'm a photographer who can't leave well enough alone. As I've said several times over the past few years, a properly exposed digital negative (which is actually a positive image) is the goal "in the camera". What happens after that is totally up to the mind of the maker. I've spoken about Bill Eppridge a couple times in the past. He was a photog for Life magazine in its heyday. His iconic image of a dying Robert F Kennedy is probably his most famous image. I attended a talk he gave one time. In it he showed the print that he said kickstarted his career. Follow the link (his name) and you'll see the image. It's a white horse in a meadow with a threatening sky. He won a national prize of some sort for the image and brought him to the attention of the photography power brokers of the day. During his talk he explained that he had spent the better part of an entire day in the darkroom, making print after print, refining his dodging and burning until he had the image he saw in his mind. The point is that what comes out of the camera is the start of the photographic process, not the end. Today's image is the end result of a "good" digital negative. How it got to it's present condition? Hit the "Read More" to find out.
Today's image started out just screwing around with a properly exposed, lackluster image. A nice memory of a train engineer. I've used several other images from the same shoot, but the shot of the engineer was trivial. Just a grab shot as I walked down along the train. After my "experiment" with Topaz Labs' (TL) Simplify (previous post) I went looking for other sorts of images that might "benefit" from a trip through LR Simplify. The engineer always had a stern look him and I could see removing a lot of the detail might make it stand out. The route to today's image is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom (LR) to TL Simplify to LR to Adobe Photoshop (PS) to LR. Each step was necessary to achieve specific goals.
Everything starts in LR. I use it exclusively for all my DAM (Digital Asset Management) work. It's where I store and find every image. It's also where I make my basic adjustment before shipping an image out to anything. It's sort of like a yoyo. You let the string out to other plugins or applications and pull it back for storage. Once any basic tasks were taken care of the image went out to TL Simplify. (Photo/Edit In/Fusion Express 2 (64 bit)/Simplify 2). From there I went through several iterations of the defaults to find a good starting place. I ended up in Harsh Color Painting (?). Some of the sliders were played with to get the "right" amount of simplification versus detail. Once satisfied the yoyo was wound back up on the spool and the image returned to LR.
I felt the details weren't strong enough, so I let the yoyo out again and sent the image to PS (Photo/Edit in/Open in Photoshop as a Smart Object). Two Curves Adjustment Layers were added. One for the Shadows and one for the Highlights. (Do a Google search on Scott Kelby to find out how to use this Dodging and Burning method.) I actually used two sets. One for the shirt and another set for his face. Every highlight was brightened and every shadow was deepened. This produces an "almost" three dimensional effect to the image. Once that was done it was time to pull back the yoyo again and have the doctored image retract back to LR (File/Save - File/Close).
Back in LR the "details" were corrected and/or added. The left shoulder of the shirt was blown out. Using the Adjustment Brush a similar color was "painted" on both the shirt and the cap. Shadows were added to both. Color adjustments were made using the HSL tab, taking some of the red out of his face. A little bit a Sharpening and a slight Vignette finished off the image.
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So, this release is larger than normal because it's technically our winter CHA release. (CHA=Craft & Hobby Association: trade show for those of you who are new...where stores buy product from manufacturers). For the past two years, Paper Smooches had a booth at the winter CHA trade shows in California, but I decided not to have a booth again this year. Even though we are not exhibiting, I thought it would be fun to have a larger release for old times sake.
The reason we are not exhibiting this year is simple really...it's a very stressful time for me (which spans about five months) and I just don't want to put myself through that at this time. I may have a booth in the future (it sure was a TON of fun) but I want to make sure this venture is always super fun and I want to continue to enjoy the process. I WILL be at the show though...I will be walking the floor. I started going to trade shows 8 years ago and boy, do I love them! Meeting (and hugging) people who love what I love is always a delight!
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In the luxury brand's latest collaboration, Louis Vuitton is working with the New York-based artist Jeff Koons to create a new range of bags and accessories. One of the most widely recognized figures in contemporary art, Koons has brought imagery from his recent 'Gazing Ball Paintings' – a series of large-scale hand-painted reproductions of works by the Old Masters – to a range of Louis Vuitton products.
His re-creations of masterpieces by da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Fragonard and Van Gogh have been transposed on to such iconic Louis Vuitton bags as the Speedy, the Keepall and the Neverfull. In choosing works which themselves consciously referenced paintings of the past, Koons's 'Gazing Ball' series of paintings placed the artist within a chain of influence and inspiration that runs through the history of Western art.
These artworks represent both the visual breadth of the canon of art history and the interconnectedness of artists working across the centuries.
Now, by re-presenting these celebrated pieces on Louis Vuitton bags and boldly emblazoning each with the name of the original artist, Koons once again invites viewers to consider these works anew, opening the museum to the world and encouraging us to experience the Old Masters in novel ways.
Koons has also reconfigured the famous Louis Vuitton Monogram to bear his initials. This represents a radical departure for the luxury brand, which has never previously allowed its iconic pattern to be reshaped.
Just as the 'Gazing Ball paintings' placed Koons within the lineage of art history, so this collaboration situates the artist within the heritage of Louis Vuitton itself, demonstrating the power of the artistic gesture to connect the present day with a shared cultural history.
The name of the original artist appears on each bag in big metallic letters, reflecting the viewer in a way that recalls the gazing ball in the original works. Koons's signature is also present on the surface as a design element.
A biography and portrait of the original artist are printed on the interior of each bag, while a tag in the silhouette of the blow-up rabbit, a recurrent motif in Koons's most widely recognized works, hangs from the handle.


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Alain Wong Designs The Hong Kong Deerhill Bay Residential
Alain Wong, the author of the award winning design Residential by Alain Wong demonstrates, An irregular false ceiling with light troughs in Living and Dining Areas is the main element in the design, highlighting the travel experiences and revealing the personality of the client. It extends from the ceiling and goes down to the wall, taking the advantage of rare high floor height in Hong Kong, while a 'shadow' is outlined on the floor with the use of a different material from other areas. To create a characterized visual element in the room and keep the rest simple, white and beige colors spread over the room, with black and grey furnishes in simple lines and proportions..
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Of course I've always thought I personally have the best job in the world making up the prettiest (and sweetest) faces… but getting to do Rachel Bilson's makeup for her first Shoemint campaign and having access to her AMAZING line of shoes before the world got to see them… forget about it! There's just nothing better when it comes to style and fun than Rachel + shoes + makeup!! Here's exactly what I used on her for her ShoeMint shoot:
FACE: I applied Sensai by Kanebo Fluid Finish Lasting Velvet Foundation in Almond Beige all over with the Beauty Blender pink egg sponge brush then bronzed + contoured her cheekbones with Hourglass Illume Cream Duo in Bronze Light.
EYE: I swept two layers of Chanel Illusion D'Ombre in Epatant all over her lid + crease with my ring finger, lined the top + bottom lashlines with Tom Ford Noir Absolute for Eyes then finished with two coats of Tarte Gifted Amazonian Clay Mascara.
CHEEK: I swirled Chanel Powder Blush in Orchid Rose atop the apples of her cheeks with my favorite blush brush, NARS Yachiyo Kabuki Brush.
LIP: I applied on coat of Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet Matte Lip Color in L'Exquise.
And… not only can we do our makeup like I did Rachel's, but as TBD beauties and first time buyers, we get a special 20% discount off our first pair when we sign up on Shoemint.com using the discount code: BEAUTY20 at checkout!!
Membership is free, shipping both ways is free, because Rachel has teeny feet, she made sure to offer all sizes (5-11), there is no obligation to buy, a new collection premieres each month and you can pick one or skip that month (or buy them all a la carte!)… and best of all, you get on-trend heels, flats + booties for $79.98 each that Rachel personally designed with her stylist Nicole Chavez in collaboration with Steve Madden. A match made in heaven! My personal favorites that I'm obsessing over are the Hattie and the Rosemary… what are yours?
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Huggies plans to update its advertising campaign after it angered some dads. The campaign was called "Dad Test" and it promised that the diapers were durable and easy enough to use for clueless dads. According to The Washington Post, dad bloggers complained to the company and one dad even launched a petition called, "We're Dads, Huggies. Not Dummies." It had more than a thousand signatures.
The revamped ads have new images of confident fathers carrying their babies, instead of showing struggling dads. The company said it was never their intention to promote the stereotype of dumb dads, but it was aimed at showing real-life situations. Huggies even sent representatives to the Dad 2.0 Summit in Austin, Texas last weekend to talk to dad bloggers and apologize for the mistake.
Did you see the original ads? How involved is your partner in caring for your baby? Was he offended by the campaign?


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Hot Summer Cool Meals are always a challenge, so while its still to hot to cook I was visiting some of my favorite blogs I found some great ideas
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- Tropical chicken salad wrap. These wraps can be eaten at home or wrapped up and taken to the lake for a picnic. Mix the following together: 2 cups of cooked and shredded chicken, 1 can of mandarin oranges (drained), ½ cup of shredded coconut (toasted), ½ cup of cashews, 1 bunch of scallions chopped, juice of 1 lime, ¼ teaspoon of salt, ¼ teaspoon of pepper, and 1/3 cup of mayonnaise. Place a couple of lettuce leaves on your large tortilla, add chicken salad and wrap it all up.
- Butter bean, tuna, and celery salad. In a small bowl mix up the dressing for the salad by combining 2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard, and then slowly whisk in ¼ cup of extra virgin olive oil. Add ¼ cup of chopped chives and salt and pepper. In a large bowl add 7 cans of Italian tuna packed in olive oil (drained), 3 stalks of celery sliced on the bias, 2 cans of butter beans (drained and rinsed), and 1 ½ tablespoons of capers (drained). Toss the dressing and salad together and enjoy.
- Cold cucumber soup with some French bread. In a food processor add 3 seedless cucumbers that have been peeled and chopped, ¾ cup of chopped green onions, 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of lemon zest, 1 teaspoon of sea salt, ½ teaspoon of pepper and 1 ½ cups of vegetable broth. Puree. Stir in ½ cup of sour cream and chill for about an hour. Garnish with additionally chopped cucumbers, green onions and lemon zest if you like.
- Meat and potatoes. This menu requires the grill, which is a good alternative when you need to cook food but don't want to do so in the oven. Salt and pepper your favorite cut of steak and put it on the grill. Slice potatoes and par boil them on the stove top before bringing them to the grill. Sprinkle the par cooked potato slices with a little steak seasoning and lay them on the grill. Watch these closely as it won't take long for them to pick up some grill marks. Flip them over and continue to grill on the other side until cooked and heated through. Allow the steak to rest for 5 minutes before slicing. Chop up some lettuce and lay the sliced steak on top of the lettuce, then arrange the potatoes around the salad and your meal is complete.
- Baked potato bar. Nope, you're not going to cook the baked potatoes in the oven or in the microwave. Wash the number of potatoes that you need for your family. Wrap the potatoes up individually in foil and place on the bottom of your slow cooker in a single layer. To have the great result, remember to use your best slow cooker in the kitchen. Turn the slow cooker on high for potatoes in about 4 hours or low to have baked potatoes in about 8 hours. The potatoes will stay in the cooker so as family members get home they can eat when they are ready. Have a selection of toppings ready, including cheese, sour cream, pre-cooked bacon bits, chopped ham, and butter. Anything your family likes on their baked potatoes can be used here.
Thanks to Baby Setting.net for these great recipes
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Last week, three women were honoured for their work in nanoscience with L'Oréal Singapore for Women in Science Fellowships (from the news item on Nanowerk),
In its second year, the Fellowships is organised with the support of the Singapore National Commission for UNESCO and in partnership with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). The Fellowships aim to recognise the significant contribution of talented women to scientific progress, encourage young women to pursue science as a career and promote their effective participation in the scientific development of Singapore.
The three outstanding women were awarded fellowships worth S$20,000 to support them in their doctorate or post-doctorate research. This year's National Fellows are:
– Dr. Low Hong Yee, 2010 L'Oréal Singapore For Women in Science National Fellow and Senior Scientist at A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering. Her work in nanoimprint technology, an emerging technique in nanotechnology, focuses on eco solutions and brings to reality the ability to mimic and apply on synthetic surfaces the structure found in naturally occurring exteriors or skin such as the iridescent colours of a butterfly's wings or the water-proofing of lotus leaves. This new development offers an eco-friendly, non-chemical method to improve the properties and functionalities of common plastic film.
– Dr. Madhavi Srinivasan, 2010 L'Oréal Singapore For Women in Science National Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University. Dr Srinivasan seeks to harness the power of nanoscale materials for the answer to the future of energy storage. Such technologies are vital for the future of a clean energy landscape. Its applications include powering electric vehicles, thus reducing overall CO2 emission, and reducing global warming or enhancing renewable energy sources (solar/wind), thus reducing pollution and tapping on alternative energy supplies.
– Dr. Yang Huiying, 2010 L'Oréal Singapore For Women in Science National Fellow and Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Dr Yang's fascination with the beauty of the nano-world prompted her research into the fabrication of metal oxide nanostructures, investigation of their optical properties, and the development of nanophotonics devices. These light emitting devices will potentially be an answer to the need for energy-saving and lower cost display screens, LED bulbs, TV and DVD players etc.
This announcement reminded me of a question I occasionally ask myself, why aren't there more women mentioned prominently in the nanotechnology/nanoscience narratives? There are a few (the ones I've heard of are from the US: Christine Peterson/Foresight Institute; Mildred Dresselhaus, advisor to former US Pres. Bill Clinton; Kristen Kulinowski/Rice University and the Good Nano Guide, please let me know of any others that should be added to this list) just not as many as I would have expected.
On a somewhat related note, there was this blog post by one of the co-authors of the article, The Internet as a resource and support network for diverse geoscientists, which focused largely on women,
In the September issue of GSA Today, you can find our article on The Internet as a resource and support network for diverse geoscientists. We wrote the article with with the idea of reaching beyond the audience that already reads blogs (or attends education/diversity sessions at GSA), with the view that we might be able to open some eyes as to why time spent on-line reading and writing blogs and participating in Twitter might be a valuable thing for geoscientists to be doing. And, of course, we had some data to support our assertions.
As a white woman geoscientist in academia, I have definitely personally and professionally benefited from my blog reading and writing time. (I even have a publication to show for it!) But I would to love to hear more from minority and outside-of-academia geoscientists about what blogs, Twitter, and other internet-based forms of support could be doing to better support you. As you can see from the paragraph above, what we ended up advocating was that institutional support for blogging and blog-reading would help increase participation. We thought that, with increased participation, more minority and outside-of-academia geosciences voices would emerge, helping others find support, community, role models, and mentoring in voices similar to their own. Meanwhile those of us closer to the white/academic end of the spectrum could learn from all that a diverse geoscientist community has to offer.
The 2-page article is open access and can be found here.
Meanwhile, women in technology should be taking this tack according to an article by Allyson Kapin on the Fast Company website,
We have a rampant problem in the tech world. It's called the blame game. Here's how it works. You ask the question, "Why aren't there enough women in tech or launching startups?" From some you get answers like, "Because it's an exclusive white boys club." But others say, "Not true! It's because women don't promote their expertise enough and they are more risk averse." How can we truly address the lack of women in tech and startups and develop realistic solutions if we continue to play this silly blame game?
Yesterday, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch wrote a blog post saying, "It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich."
That's a nice idea and if it were true then the amount of wealthy entrepreneurs would better match our population's racial and gender demographics. The fact remains that in 2009 angel investors dished out $17.6 billion to fund startups. Wonder how many funded startups were women-run? 9.4%, according to the 2009 angel investor report from Center for Venture Research at University of New Hampshire. And only 6% of investor money funded startups run by people of color.
Yet Arrington says it's because women just don't want it enough and that he is sick and tired of being blamed for it. He also says TechCrunch has "beg[ged] women to come and speak" and participate in their events and reached out to communities but many women still decline.
Unfortunately, the article is expositing two different ideas (thank you Allyson Kapin for refuting Arrington's thesis) and not relating them to each other. First, there is a 'blame game' which isn't getting anyone anywhere and there are issues with getting women to speak on technology panels.There are some good suggestions in the article for how to deal with the 2nd problem while the first problem is left to rest.
Kapin is right, the blame game doesn't work in anyone's favour but then we have to develop some alternatives. I have something here from Science Cheerleader which offers a stereotype-breaking approach to dealing with some of the issues that women in science confront. Meet Christine,
Meet Erica,
One of these women is a software engineer and the other is a biomedical engineer. Do visit Science Cheerleader to figure out which woman does what.
Changing the way women are perceived is a slow and arduous process and requires a great number of strategies along with the recognition that the strategies have to be adjusted as the nature of the prejudice/discrimination also changes in response to the strategies designed to counter it in the first place. For example, efforts like the L'Oréal fellowships for women have been described as reverse-discrimination since men don't have access to the awards by reason of their gender while standard fellowship programmes are open to all. It's true the programmes are open to all but we need to use a variety of ways (finding speakers for panels, special financial awards programmes, stereotype-breaking articles, refuting an uninformed statement, etc.) to encourage greater participation by women and the members of other groups that have traditionally not been included. After all, there's a reason why most of the prominent Nobel science prize winners are white males and it's not because they are naturally better at science.


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After years of warfare between humans and vampires, who thought a ceasefire was a good idea? That was our biggest question after watching footage from Priest. Instead of finishing off the vampires, the humans have put the vamps into reservations.
So we asked Cam Gigandet, who plays the frontier sheriff facing the vampire threat every day, and here's what he told us. We also got the chance to talk to Lily Collins about getting past the "damsel in distress" stereotype.
We asked Gigandet just how rough it gets on the frontier, with the constant threat of vampire attacks. How does Sheriff Hicks cope? Gigandet said:
You know, it's kind of like your average everyday... No, it's definitely different. And I think he feels a lot of responsibility to protect these people. Even though I think, deep down, he knows he doesn't have what it takes to protect them from the dangers they are potentially in.
So whose idea was it to have a truce with the vampires? Why the vampire appeasement? Here's what Gigandet told us:
Yeah. I'm not sure why they did that. Because it's that whole thing, let's try to have peace among times of war. And so, you know, it might have been a valiant effort but evil will always rise. [The Vampires] tried the chickens, and the chicken blood. But what are you going to do?
And we also got to talk to Lily Collins, who plays the young Lucy, who gets kidnapped by vampires, thus sparking the movie's rescue plot. We asked Collins how she tried to take the character beyond the usual "damsel in distress" role. And she said:
I start out as a damsel in distress [and] end up a fighter. There's pivotal moments in the film where you'll see Lucy clocking certain weapons or things, and she stores them to use up later, and she ends up turning into a fighter and taking her destiny into her own hands. So she definitely has her own thing going on at the end.


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As an article in this week's issue of TIME explains, the burgeoning sport of acro—the short form of "acrobatics and tumbling"—is striving to distance itself from its cheerleading roots. Likewise, when photographer Holly Andres visited the University of Oregon acro team to shoot the young athletes at practice, she wanted to avoid the tropes of cheerleading photography. There would be no green backgrounds or vivid colors. Instead, the shoot had been planned entirely in black-and-white, the participants envisaged as frozen shapes on a stark field—an idea planned by TIME in order to match a story about a sport striving to be taken seriously.
"The night before, I was really struggling with how I was going to pull this off," says Andres, for whom the assignment was a departure from her usual style. But, she says, the answer came to her in her sleep, when she thought of Leni Riefenstahl's photographs of divers from the 1937 Olympics. "I was thinking about the way that she shot really low angles and exposed for the sky in such a way that the athletes looked like these graphic objects. I thought if I could just get them outside and shoot from a low angle I could probably get a more compelling shot than shooting in the gym."
On the day of the shoot, Andres, whose work is normally highly orchestrated, couldn't interrupt the practice to adjust composition. Nor did she have much experience with sports—as a photographer, as an athlete or even as a spectator. But her instincts proved correct. Outside on the football field, with a low angle, she was able to capture the dizzying acrobatics in striking graphic fashion. And, as a bonus, nobody fell on her. "It was pretty terrifying," she says. "I appreciated having my camera as a buffer to look through because I think it detached me a bit from the reality. I just had to have faith that this is what they do and no one's going to misstep."
The bold look of the shoot continued when the team returned to the gym for the rest of their practice. Using seven strobes, Andres was able to freeze their movements against a white seamless wall and the light gray of their gym mats.
And despite her lack of sports experience, the photographer found that the acro team's ethic fit in with her own work as a photographer of the feminine experience. "The fact that there were no male team members and that they were the ones who were throwing and hoisting their fellow team members in the air was really interesting," she says. "Certainly it challenged some of my preexisting ideas or stereotypes about cheerleaders."
Read the story from our current issue: Cheer Factor
Holly Andres is an American photographer. See more of her work here.


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The third year of medical school is a pivotal experience in the lives of training physicians. In some ways, it is one of the most difficult years in training, besides intern year. In this series, I will share lessons I learned as a third year medical student and my experiences teaching third years.
In the first installment of this series, I discussed the common pitfalls encountered by third year medical students. This time, I will discuss the qualities of students that make them shine and prompt their attendings and residents to say, "Wow, she is a great student."
While many medical schools now have common parameters on student evaluation forms asking residents and attendings to grade knowledge, examination skills, critical thinking skills, cultural competency, systems awareness, and professionalism, the bulk of a student's performance that distinguishes her from her peers centers on qualities that are not specifically queried in these evaluations. These are typically strengths of character that underscore every aspect of the student's behavior. While this is by no means a comprehensive list, I describe some of these virtues here:
1. Consistency.
The training of physicians emulates the principles of future practice, and one of these principles is that physicians are required to perform to the highest achievable quality of care (and other roles, such as teaching and research) every day. Accordingly, students who maintain a steady and improving performance curve during the course of their clerkships are the ones who succeed. Much of the notion of reliability centers on a consistent manifestation of behaviors and attitudes. For example, the reliability of a consultant depends on his routine demonstration of politeness, enthusiasm, and thoughtfulness in evaluating cases and offering advice. The more the consultant strays from this path by angrily berating consulting physicians for an excess work load and by offering unhelpful suggestions, the more this consultant is viewed by his peers as unreliable.
Similarly, the best students are consistent in their behaviors and attitudes towards all people they work with: the patients and their families, nurses, therapists and technicians, residents, attendings, fellow students, etc. Students who only pander to their senior residents and attendings are flaky kiss-ups, while students who treat all with respect, kindness, and collegiality are viewed as solid.
2. Enthusiasm.
The practice of medicine can be tiring and grueling. Nonetheless, teaching is often a source of joy that cultivates energy for many physicians. Accordingly, students who demonstrate and foster enthusiasm for learning are more likely to be engaged by their residents and attendings in minute-by-minute teaching and guidance throughout the working day rather than just during scheduled teaching sessions. Similarly, students who are enthusiastic about patient care rekindle this desire within tired resident physicians, prompting those residents to perform better in order to serve as good role models and guides to the students and their patients.
The most enthusiastic students might also sometimes share enthusiasm in a meaningful, nonintrusive and noncompetitive way with their peers (fellow students), encouraging all towards improvement of knowledge and practice. A genuinely enthusiastic student can truly galvanize a team towards functioning as a better unit, engaging in more teaching, and delivering better care.
3. Passion
While enthusiasm is a must, passion for the professional field of the clerkship (e.g. the training chosen by the residents and attendings) is not required for students. For example, I do not expect students on the Neurology clerkship to all want to become Neurologists. While an expression of genuine interest is always a pleasant occurrence, this does not set up this student in my mind as a better performer or as one that I should treat more kindly or with more attention. Inevitably, I do end up interacting with students who do have interest in this field slightly more because of the desire to ask questions and seek advice about residency, but this does not reflect on performance.
However, passion for something is an important quality that all physicians should have but many do not display, at least not openly. Whether it is a passion for public health or improving education or delivering better patient care or restructuring health policies, the expression of passion by students almost always works in their favor. People want to work with others who care about something, because passion is an energizing force.
4. Integrity
Moral behavior is usually the principle tenet underlying the concept of integrity for physicians-in-training. In particular, honesty is an essential trait. While it is acceptable for patients (particularly with neurologic, psychiatric, or systemic symptoms) to confabulate, it is NEVER acceptable for a student to outright lie or even slightly bend the truth. I have utmost respect for the students who say "I don't know," "I didn't ask that question," or "I didn't examine that" when asked about history or examination details by an intimidating attending physician or senior resident. By corollary, I immediately lose faith in the integrity of students who fudge the truth, and I can no longer trust anything he says or does. Integrity can seem to be a very difficult quality to cultivate, but in reality, only the strength of a student's commitment can keep him honest.
5. Compassion
Most physicians engaged in patient care derive some satisfaction and expression of purpose from patient care, and in particular, the giving of compassion to those who are sick. Particularly in a system which constantly conspires to keep physicians and patients at a distance (separated by time, excess documentation, and threat of litigation), the demonstration of compassion by a young trainee shines like a beacon that inspires hope. In particular, since each aging generation predicts destruction for the next, it is encouraging to see a commitment to the primary virtue (compassion) that fuels the practice of medicine, even when the health care delivery system itself does not readily support this virtue and often works against it. Seeing compassion in a student reminds the rest of us why we came into Medicine in the first place. For some attendings and residents, having that reminder each year with new students helps us cultivate and maintain our own commitments to this virtue.
6. Confidence
While overconfidence and lack of confidence can both discolor student's performance, displaying a healthy degree of confidence is a positive asset for students on their clerkships. In particular, when faced with a question to which he does not know the answer (a frequent occurence on the wards given the nature of "what am I thinking?" questions often asked by residents and attendings), a student should feel comfortable stating that he does not know the answer but still have the confidence to try and reason through: "I do not know for sure, but I think that this could be caused by (etc., etc.)."
Most people do not know from where confidence should arise: often the assumption is that confidence comes with knowing everything, but this is a losing game for students because inevitably someone (an attending or resident) will know more. Rather, confidence should arise from a student's commitment to fundamental principles of Medicine and to performance as a physician according to those principles: "I am confident that although I do not yet have all the knowledge or skills I need to perform this task, I will continue to constantly improve and learn. I am confident that I will always provide care for patients with as much compassion and integrity as I would want for myself or my own family."
7. Groundedness
Much of the third year of medical school on an intellectual level is based in theory and discussion: third years spend a large portion of their time in attending rounds, tutorials, and conferences. However, the faster students transition to the reality of delivering actual patient care, the better they will be suited for their imminent roles as interns and residents. Accordingly, students who delve more actively and deeply into the nitty-gritty of patient care tend to find rewards in the form of gratitude from patients as well as from residents (who appreciate the care given that they otherwise would have to deliver and the identification of issues that might not have yet been addressed or discovered). Residents and attendings want to see progression of students as they emerge from their coccoons of the preclinical years to becoming full-fledged clinicians who are capable and pragmatic.
8. Hardiness
While clerkship policies vary from one medical school to the next, there in theory are no work hour restrictions for medical students (while there are strict restrictions for residents). An amazing amount of respect and gratitude goes to students who jump into the trenches with their interns and residents to actively engage in patient care, work long hours, and see tasks through to their completion (rather than wait for the updates the next day, a task which requires more time from the residents in the morning when they are otherwise busy preparing for the work day). By corollary, there is a strong cultural stigma against asking the question "Is there anything I can help you with? (two seconds later) Can I leave?" The general wisdom among medical students that is handed down by residents and attendings is that the more one helps out with patient care and getting work done, the more likely one will be given opportunities to learn as the residents will have more time to teach. This, of course, is a probability game: the teaching will not always happen, and not all residents are interested in teaching and not all are effective teachers. Nonetheless, demonstrating hardiness and resilience is an admirable trait: just like in battle, there are people you want to have by your side, and being one of those people gives one considerable value and respect in the eyes of others.
9. Camaraderie
Finally, at this time, medical care is rarily delivered solo, and within the hospital setting it is always delivered by teams. Accordingly, it is essential for physicians-in-training to cultivate camaraderie among their fellow trainees, with residents and attendings, and with other staff members who help to deliver care to the patients. Recruiting patients and their families into this "team" is also one of the most effective strategies for delivering long-lasting positive effects on individual health outcomes. The students who do this best support their fellow classmates (by sharing their learning and serving as leaders among the students), support their residents (by helping them out with patient care tasks, including performing initial evaluations, scut work without calling it or thinking of it as scut), support other staff (by treating nurses and others with respect and as equal partners in this enterprise), and supporting their patients (by becoming the primary liaison with patients and their families, fielding questions and offering capable answers when appropriate and seeking assistance when needed). Team players are valued in medicine, while most self-imagined virtuosos (or prima donnas) are almost all failures due to paralyzing personality traits (e.g. succumbing to the pitfalls mentioned in the previous post and not embodying the virtues described here). As such, anything one does to foster camaraderie on the wards will earn respect and admiration.
Fellow residents and attendings, what qualities do you value in students? What characteristics or behaviors help distinguish students as the strongest performers and the most likely to become excellent physicians? Please send in your comments and thoughts.


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Currently we have an idea for a insidious corporation who are only out for money and don't care about hurting the environment or Pokemon. They are using agents to infiltrate key parts of the Island where the player will have to fight them off.
We wanted to make it accessible/challenging for all players but we are unsure how to do that while providing a non game breaking reward.
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All my building experience is limited to Van's RV's so I have no experience with building tube and fabric or "plans building". I have much to learn so take everything I write with a grain of salt and reasonable skepticisim.
I do not intend to follow a "traditional" path for the construction of #88. I intend to employ low level technology and $ to reduce the construction time and difficulty where possible and practical. By low level technology I am referring to CAD, laser, waterjet, CNC. For example:
- I have purchased a complete wing spar kit from Jerry Kerr.
- A rib kit from Mr. Bartoe.
- Brunton Flying Wires and Drag wires from Harvey Swack.
- CNC profiled tube kits for the fuselage, tail feathers and landing gear from VR3.
In addition I have converted all of the wing fittings, brackets, links, lugs etc. to CAD and had them cut by water jet. I have designed a laser cut wing spar drill template/jig which positions the five spar components so that all of the holes can be drilled in a complete spar as an assembly. I plan to continue converting as many parts as I can to CAD so that I can reduce the "hand-made" components to a minimum.
Note: As of June 2015 I have over 100 CAD files which provide 600+ water jet cut parts for the Skyote.
While it takes a little time, converting the design to CAD is a great way to truly understand the drawings. plus a huge amount of information has been extracted from the rather complex drawings. This can be a great help to others in understanding and interpreting the design.
The Skyote is uniquely suited for conversion to CAD in that a "computer" was used in it's original design. I have read that Mr. Bartoe used a HP calculator to "compute" the design and dimensions of the Skyote. The plans show all of the critical dimensions to three decimal places for X,Y and Z axes.
Amazingly, when I put the design into CAD the resulting 3D models agree with Mr. Bartoe's thee decimal place dimensions about 99.9% of the time. I have found one discrepancy but less than 0.030"!
If you want to build your Skyote as cheaply as possible, or if you enjoy handcrafting the same parts over and over again then my approach to building is not for you!
If you want to build your Skyote in the minimum possible time with highly accurate parts then this approach may be the answer. I personally get a lot of satisfaction out of organizing the project so that it can be produced accurately. Hopefully some of this work will prove useful to others in the future.
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CES 2013: flying a helicopter with brain waves
January 10, 2013
The Neurosky MindWave is a headband with EEG sensors that, paired with software, let's you control things by thinking.
The latest gadget to use the Neurosky interface, the Puzzlebox Orbit, has a helicopter inside an orb (to keep it from damaging itself when it inevitably crashes). It comes with a transmitter that hooks up to a mobile device, software, and a Neurosky headset; the package costs $189.
Video Source: IEEE Spectrum


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This is a maiden from a Canadian Production Wheel and had been previously repaired. It was repaired with hide glue but the small bamboo skewer just wasn't big enough to reinforce the joint.
I had to remove a nail holding the stub of the tenon on the end of the off-side maiden. Instead of making a new maiden, I decided to use a shouldered tenon and make it match the original. With the nail removed I could remove the stub tenon.
I cut the maiden off flush at the shoulder for the end of the maiden, then drilled a 1/4″ twist auger and then enlarged it with a 3/8″ duck bill spoon bit. I fit the new birch tenon into the hole, applied hide glue and clamped it together.
I also drilled a hole with a gimlet bit for the wedge and made a new one of birch to match the original
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Beijing is famous for a palace that's a city unto itself, a Great Wall once purported to be visible from space, and Brobdingnagian architectural experiments by design giants such as I.M. Pei and Zaha Hadid. Traversing one city block can mean a hazy hike between mega malls and rows of traffic congestion; standing in Tiananmen Square is an exercise in humility, its vastness a reminder of how insignificant we are in this crowded world.
But the imposingly scaled side of Beijing fades into the gritty beige air as I stand in the middle of a maze created by the city's old hutongs, or back alleys. In the narrow space that runs between the chipped brick walls of one-story dwellings, a scrappy kid kicks around a dusty ball while a mutt watches and yawns; a vegetable hawker pedals leisurely by, pulling a full cart while belting out Mandarin tunes.
Beijing used to have many such intimate neighborhoods brimming with siheyuans, or courtyard mansions, that were eventually partitioned into apartments for the proletariat. Today, skyscrapers sprout all over the city like weeds, and beltways proliferate like age rings, plowing over these traditional communities. But in the heart of the central Gulou area, an enclave of sloping eaves and winding hutongs has escaped the ubiquitous bulldozers, defying the Chinese capital's growth spurt.
That these hutongs have maintained their ancient anatomy doesn't mean that the area is ossified in the past, however. Following a fortuitous tip from a Shanghai fashionista, I find the avant-garde boutique Wuhao, tucked inside a series of stately courtyards. Its red door is unmarked except for a bilingual sign that reads, in English, "Politely refuse visiting, please don't disturb."
I knock anyway, with the shameless chutzpah that comes from being a tourist. Soon, an elegantly shawled employee is escorting me around the grounds, explaining in French-scented English that China's last empress once lived in the compound. Moving through the villa, which was restored in 2010 and now houses the boutique, I take in the contemporary furniture, the couture and the accessories by Chinese and overseas designers that Empress Wanrong certainly never owned.
A hand-sized ceramic skull wearing a gold crown adorns a bookshelf, while a wheeled wooden crate has been transformed into a closet full of bright dresses. Beneath a canopy of lush bamboo foliage stands a bench of aerodynamic design. Conspicuously missing are price tags — so presumed is the limitless wealth of the clients, most of whom are members of the growing Chinese upper middle class.
But I'm not here for the high fashion or the one-of-a-kind jewelry. In this city of superlatives, discovering this quiet reinvention is my real reward.
As soon as the unmarked gate spits me back out into the hutong, I wonder whether Wuhao was just a chimera cooked up by a combination of jet lag and toxic smog. A pajama-clad woman walks past, dragging her feet, clad in plastic slippers, and adroitly maneuvering a toothpick in her mouth. A few steps away, two hunks of raw meat hang from the rusty bars of a window. The wild juxtaposition heightens my anticipation for other surprises. After all, isn't the real allure of travel the possibility of being transported to an unexpected universe at a moment's notice?
Another open gate, no more weather-beaten than Wuhao's, affords me a glimpse into the ordinary lives of those who haven't benefited from China's economic resurgence. There are no designer indulgences here: Instead, a footpath barely wide enough for two people leads me past the tiny living quarters that numerous families have constructed in the once-grand yard. People here live so close to one another that they must be familiar with one another's most intimate sounds and smells. A rusty oil canister leans against a wall, while a broken umbrella swings beside an empty picture frame that's hanging outdoors, for some inexplicable reason. A few moldy cardboard boxes keep some locked bicycles company.
Just steps away at Wuhao, a single designer item might cost as much as all the possessions of one of these families. Suddenly, the jarring disparity no longer feels like a charming aspect of the neighborhood.
Perhaps the lower cost of living in the hutongs has been a driving force behind the explosion of enterprises here. The rent is low, "so it gives people a chance to experiment while allowing the neighborhood to grow organically," says Shannon Bufton, the Australian architect who co-owns Serk, an airy space on Beixinqiao San Tiao Hutong that has doubled as a bike store and a watering hole since opening in June 2012. "Beijing is crying out for creative people. Chinese consumers have disposable income." Still, most of the clients who buy his upmarket wheels are, Bufton says, expats.
Floor-to-ceiling front windows separate Serk's minimalist wood-and-concrete decor from the debris and chaos outdoors. But when the weather warms up, the store removes the front panes, blurring the border between the store and the hutong. Recently, Bufton's bar patrons have become equally split between foreign and Chinese revelers.
Bufton and his partner, Liman Zhao, are hardly alone in infusing the Chinese capital's quaint nooks with youthful optimism. The past couple of years have seen an influx of globally minded entrepreneurs opening pint-size bars and discreet boutiques that are part Berlin and part Brooklyn.
In 2010, American emigre Carl Setzer's Great Leap stamped Doujiao Hutong with the surefire mark of hipsterdom: a microbrewery. Meanwhile, Rose Lin Zamoa transformed her private kitchen into the Caribbean eatery Jamaica Me Crazy in Cheniandian Hutong last October, just as the Taiwanese studio Good Design Institute opted to open its first store not on its home turf in Taipei but in Baochao Hutong.
The rent may be low, but these hutong shops' products tend to be pricey. The three-month-old S.T.A.R.S. boutique stocks Parisian haute couture, but its converted-mansion store is catty-corner from a public toilet shared by hutong residents who don't have private bathrooms.
The more I talk to these internationally oriented entrepreneurs, the more it seems that all roads lead to Joel Shuchat, the Canadian who opened the boutique hotel Orchid two years ago. I follow the address, which takes me to the end of a trash-strewn passageway off Baochao Hutong. Once I get buzzed in through the frosted door, I'm in the fragrant lobby that doubles as a chic bar, where hirsute men in skinny jeans and pixie girls in vintage-ish attire are hanging out to lazy down-tempo beats. I'd believe it if you told me that I was back in the Mission in San Francisco. I look around and realize that, for the first time since landing in China, I'm the only Asian in the room.
Expressive and energetic, Shuchat has an encyclopedic knowledge of all the internationally owned businesses in the area. Yet he seems as weary of as knowledgeable about the transformation of this neighborhood.
Baochao Hutong "used to be exclusively residential," he says almost wistfully. Now, "tons of businesses have evolved." When I ask him about the media attention his hotel has brought to the alley, he rolls his eyes and throws his hands in the air. "Who hasn't covered us?" he asks, annoyed.
Perhaps his exasperation is born of fear. While Baochao Hutong, with its mom-and-pop enterprises, remains relatively low-key, it's showing signs of imminent gentrification, with a tapas bar and intriguing shops such as Triple Major, a clothier inside a former apothecary.
Shuchat must know, however, that his own hotel and its Western guests herald the force that may destroy the very authenticity that his establishment touts as its appeal. I realize that Beijing reminds me of Brooklyn and San Francisco not because of the superficial trappings of hipsterdom — beards! brews! specialty shops beyond the neighbors' reach! — but because it's running into the very same pitfalls of gentrification that you find around the world.
An opaque dusk settles over the street as I make my way down Nanluoguxiang, arguably the most popular hutong, which has become a cautionary tale for many. Jampacked with teenagers walking arm in arm and tourists toting cameras, the thoroughfare has a strange feel of both a mall and an open-air museum, with tacky galleries, souvenir shops, fast-food joints and crowded cafes occupying impeccably refurbished traditional buildings. Completely absent is the cozy, rundown feeling of residential hutongs.
Ironically, it's this immense commercialization that has ensured the survival of Nanluoguxiang, says Yuan Yuan, a 31-year-old Beijing native. Together with her boyfriend, Omar Maseroli, she runs a year-old Bolognese trattoria named Mercante in Fangzhuanchang Hutong, just 10 minutes — but also a world away — from the bustle of Nanluoguxiang.
"Every day you see a new opening," Maseroli says. "We're trying to turn the hutong into something modern that can work in today's Beijing, so obviously it has to become commercial in some way. At the same time, we want to keep the neighborhood in its shape."
In January, Yuan says, the government announced yet another planned session of chai, the word meaning "to tear down" that has become synonymous with razing hutongs, in the adjacent area behind the 15th-century Drum Tower. The two-story landmark serves as a guiding point for lost pedestrians, but it will be dwarfed by new arrivals once the area is bulldozed. At a moment's notice, Yuan and Maseroli's own beloved quarter may disappear like so many others.
When I step out into the darkness, vendors are packing up their vegetable carts and meat stalls as residents shuffle home for dinner. People like Maseroli and Yuan are walking a tightrope. If their enterprises become too successful, the hutongs will become carbon copies of Nanluoguxiang — chain shops and endless traffic squeezing out the original inhabitants and atmosphere. But if these winding paths and old quadrangles remain as they are, the development-hungry city may haul out the wrecking ball at any moment.
Either way, change seems inevitable.
Kwak is a travel writer based in San Francisco and Berlin. His Web site is kwak.in/motion.


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It was standing room only in LeFrak Auditorium when Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, professor of neurosurgery and oncology at Johns Hopkins University, presented his lecture, "Brain Cancer: Building Bridges As You Walk On Them." He started off by showing a scene from the NBC hospital drama ER, in which a brain surgeon described a pioneering technique for treating neurological tumors. When used in real-life cases, the technique has extended the life of many individuals with brain tumors. Dr. Q, as the renowned surgeon-scientist is known, used this clip to demonstrate the powerful impact that translating basic science research into clinical practice can have on improving patient outcomes.
Alfredo Quiñones, M.D., Ph.D.Dr. Q was selected by students in Einstein's Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) to be their guest speaker at the eighth annual Student-Invited Translational Medicine Lecture Series earlier this spring. This academic lecture is one of the pinnacle events sponsored by the MSTP Student Council (MSC) each year.
The MSC represents the MSTP student body at Einstein and serves to provide academic, professional, and social support to the 114 students currently enrolled in Einstein's program – which is one of the nation's oldest, having continuously received funding from the National Institutes of Health since its inception in 1964. The program's goal has been to train a diverse group of outstanding students, who earn both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, to become future leaders of academic medicine and medical research.
"The Einstein Translational Medicine event provides us with the opportunity to interact with physician-scientists who have successfully combined science and medicine in their careers," explained Jaime Schneider, a fifth-year MSTP student and president of the MSC. "As M.D.-Ph.D.s in training, we are always looking for role models who have effectively been able to translate basic research findings into clinically relevant therapeutic advances. Pursuing either scientific research or clinical medicine is hard enough, so the more exposure we can have to people who are successful in both realms, the better."
Over the past few years, Einstein's MSTP student body has hosted a diverse array of clinician-scientists from all over the country. Past speakers include Dr. Denise Faustman from Harvard, Dr. Carlos Cordon-Cardo from Columbia, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis from Duke, Dr. Robert Gatenby from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of Southern Florida, and Dr. David Spiegel from Yale. A bagel and coffee hour prior to Dr. Quiñones' lecture, which is part of each of these annual visits, provided MSTP students the chance to interact one-on-one with Dr. Q and have a frank conversation about choosing the physician-scientist career path. "The hope is that the invited speaker will provide us with some personal insights into how to launch a successful career in academic medicine," said Ms. Schneider.
MSC Presidents: (from left) Current MSC president Dayle Hodge with recent past-presidents, Jaime Schneider, David Gross, Joy Hazleton and Keith HazletonIn addition to the annual lecture series, the MSC organizes several events throughout the year that contribute to the educational and personal enrichment of the medical-scientist training process. These events include hosting panels to impart advice about the USMLE Step 1 board examination, the qualifying examination in graduate school, and the residency match process.
"Through events organized by the MSC, upperclassman offer invaluable advice to those of us who follow them," noted Roman Deniskin, a fifth-year MSTP. "They share information about writing a thesis, preparing for oral presentations and studying for the qualifying and medical board exams. These tips are crucial in helping us to identify proper study resources and in reminding us that others have accomplished these important MSTP milestones successfully."
The MSC also hosts bi-monthly coffee hours that serve as a relaxed forum for catching up with fellow MSTP colleagues, a Faculty Appreciation Winter Mixer to express gratitude to those faculty who have invested their time in educating and supporting MSTP students and a Back-to-the-Wards party to celebrate the return to clinical training for those students who have successfully defended their thesis dissertations.
A newly proposed event sponsored by the MSC will invite MSTP alumni to return to Einstein to share information about their current positions and about the steps they took that led them to a career in academic medicine. Additionally, preparations are currently underway to welcome the newest crop of MSTP students to Einstein, beginning with the Summer Welcome BBQ in July and a post-histology celebration to mark the completion of their first course at the College of Medicine.
"Because M.D.-Ph.D. students straddle the diverse worlds of medicine and basic science, the MSC aims to ease these difficult transitions by offering these various opportunities for academic and social support," concluded Ms. Schneider.
Posted on: Tuesday, June 04, 2013


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By Robin Schmahl
Milk prices have been improving the past two months, but still are generally below the cost of production. The October federal order price will be announced on Friday and will be near $12.70. Looking at the futures contracts, one can get more excited over milk prices next year. Class III futures prices for 2010 currently show March through December contracts averaging near $15.30/cwt.
Throughout the year the cry has been for lower production. Cow numbers were too high and production too strong for demand. This problem would be solved if the economy rebounded quickly resulting in increased demand. There are signs the economy is getting better, but it will take awhile. In the mean time, measures have been taken to improve prices by killing cows and temporarily raising support prices. There has also been much discussion and recommendations made to control production as a means to improve and stabilize milk prices. None of which have yet come to fruition.
The combination of CWT's herd reduction program and continued low milk prices are getting the job done. The September milk production report indicated cow numbers were 197,000 head lower than the previous year. This has reduced milk production. In fact, so much that some processors are now indicating production has fallen too much and they are having some difficulty getting enough for needs. Milk handlers in California do not have any previously imposed quotas in place and have actually encouraged producers to increase production. Class I demand is strong despite the interruptions from the flu, which is causing many schools to close down for a few days.
Milk production is on a downward trend with September milk production 0.7 percent lower than the previous year according to the USDA. U.S. milk production has now declined four consecutive months. This lower trend has been anticipated and is welcomed by farmers. Milk prices are improving as a result and Class III futures indicate higher prices to come. World prices continue to improve, aiding the milk price recovery.
Caution must be exercised however, as this time of year generally shows a demand increase followed by a few months of slower demand. We cannot feel comfortable that milk prices will continue to increase as suggested by 2010 futures. September cheese inventory did see some reduction in the latest cold storage report, but not near the average decrease seen in other years. If cheese stocks do not decrease as much as they should and inventory begins the New Year somewhat burdensome, a significant price recovery could take longer to materialize. Buyers may not need to step up and replenish aging programs quite as aggressively as most other years.
Lower milk production will eventually tighten the availability of dairy commodities and thereby increase prices. This is what we have been waiting for all year.
Upcoming reports to watch for are the October Federal Order class prices on October 30, the Agriculture Prices report on October 30, the California 4a/4b price on November 2, the September Dairy products report on November 4, and the World Agricultural Supply and Demand report on November 10.
--Robin Schmahl is a commodity broker and owner of AgDairy LLC, a full-service commodity brokerage firm located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He can be reached at 877-256-3253 or through their Web site at www.agdairy.com.
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