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I'm moving the blog over to Scientopia. Still the same Mistress of the Animals
New Link: http://scientopia.org/blogs/mistressoftheanimals/
Its still a bit rough. but content is there!
I'm moving the blog over to Scientopia. Still the same Mistress of the Animals
New Link: http://scientopia.org/blogs/mistressoftheanimals/
Its still a bit rough. but content is there!
At xBio I heard a great talk by Gordon Mitchell, the Comroe lecture. The lecture, about respiratory plasticity and apnea was great. It was not my area, so I was also listening on a more meta-level. What Mitchell did was give the history of his scientific development. Being able to do this is a good skill, and I tweeted so.
Enter, the inestimable Dr. Becca who said "this is how I approached my TT job talks". So we're writing this together – a double dose of advice. It's good for talks, but it is also incredibly important for any pre-tenure mentoring meetings, and a near necessity for tenure documents.
Doc Becca:
I arranged to practice my TT job talk in front of some folks from my post-doc department, and as was customary for my talks until that day, at the bottom of the title slide I had "Dr Becca, advisor's lab, post-doc Institution." Before I even got a chance to begin speaking, one of the newer TT profs in the audience said, "Take your advisor's name off this slide. This talk is about YOU." This was some of the best advice I ever got in preparation for my interviews. This WAS about me. It's the Me Show! It is not about me representing my mentor anymore. That tiny change helped me frame the whole talk to be about my journey, not just my data. I took my audience through the thought processes that led from my graduate work to my post-doc, and then how I used my post-doc work to carve a niche for myself in my field. And I guess I did a pretty convincing job, because I got offers from both departments that interviewed me. When search committees interview job candidates, they're looking for someone who knows who they are and what they're going to do with their careers- not just someone who's done some stuff in some fancy labs. Your job talk is your narrative, just like your tenure packet statements will be your narrative in another 6 years' time. Do you know what your story is, where it's going?
Back to Potnia:
At my MRU there is a letter that goes in with your CV for your tenure or promotion package. Its called the Dean's letter cause the chair signs it and addresses it to the Dean (who may or may not ever read it. There is a school wide committee who certainly will). The chair may sign it, but by and large the candidate writes it.
This letter is the narrative of what you have done. It needs to include ideas and data and references to papers you have published. For an assoc prof, its at least 5 single spaced pages, and for full its nearer to 10. Crafting this letter is a skill, and one that you can't start too sooWhat does it look like? It is the story, the narrative. It fills in the gaps in the CV.
To wit:
As a postdoc, I was in the world's foremost bunny hopping lab. When I moved to MRU, I started a new program in chinchilla hopping. The first 2 papers I published developed the chinchilla model, and demonstrated the ways in which chinchillas were different from bunnies, and the interesting biomechanical and ecological consequences of chinchilla hopping. This led me to do field work on chinchillas in South American and my paper XYZ is an ecological study of chinchilla hopping in their natural setting, something that was unknown until I did this work. While I was there, the chinchillas all started losing one leg. I first studied one legged hopping in collaboration with Dr. Jose BigWhig, an expert in chinchilla bacterial 8leg disease. Working with Dr. BigWhig, we published papers X3, X4 and X5. I was responsible for all the biomechanics, but also learned a great deal about bacterial leg disease. When a similar outbreak occurred in North American bunnies, I was able to document that this was the same bug as infected the chinchillas. In fact, it is likely that I was responsible for the transfer of this bug because the outbreak occurred shortly after my return from South America. In my papers Y1 and Y2 I did both the biomechanics and the bacterial disease analyses for the North American bunnies.
This para shows: 1) independnce from postdoc advisor, 2) growth of abilities 3) collaboration and 4) new program. If this was for real, there would be references to students who worked on the projects, papers presented at meetings, grants etc. Its woven into a timeline of the history and intellectual development.
This op-ed in the New Scientist has its heart in the right place. It's telling mathematicians not to work for the NSA. Other mathematicians want to cut all ties to the NSA. They want math departments to cut ties to the NSA. The NSA hires more mathematicians, they say, then any place else in the world.
I wonder how many young math PhDs have their only job offer at the NSA? Or how many take a job there, opening up an academic position for someone else?
When I was in grad school (probably before you were born) I shared a house with two math PhD students. Their job search strategy was a lot different than mine. They picked where they wanted to go (NYC as it turned out). There were multiple jobs at every Ivy League school, every major Inst of Technology. These weren't tenure track – they were "instructors", aka glorified postdocs. They were there to do research and teach calculus to the unwashed masses of bio and chem majors. In my day these jobs were even called Ast. Prof jobs.
I have a friend in the math dept and she (yes, she) suggests that things are not much different. (But feel free to slap me upside the head and say its not this way). Today they tend to be "fellows" or even "postdocs". Math depts teach a lot of a calculus to non-majors (aside on calculus to follow) – this is their bread and butter. There are usually not a lot of math majors, relative to all the various Bio majors and even Chemistry.The crunch for these guys comes after the fellowship, or postdoc. My sense is that this is now much closer to what life sciences PhDs perceive.
Its lovely that the old guys can tell the young guys not to take a job. Are any of them giving up their tenured (or even tenure track) jobs so that the new PhDs have an alternative to the NSA? What about the ones who don't get tenure, willing to step down so they can have a job? Hmmm… not seeing a lot of hands here.
So when we last left our fearless data, we had done some basic, first step exploration.
One of the things we saw was that variation within a time point, within a species seemed to differ by time point and species. One exploratory step to look at this further is to generate a new measure of variation and plot that out. So for each smallest-level group (species at a time point), I calculated the Interquartile range.
The interquartile range is to the standard deviation, as the median is to the mean: it is a measure of variation that is not as biased by outliers as the sd. It is simply the value of the upper quartile minus the lower quartile. Visually, it is the box of the box plot, and it is the range in which half the data fall. Here is a boxplot for our SCLEN variable for young, blue species, values < 7am. The value for the IQrange here is 0.51. The standard dev is 0.44.
Now, lets plot the AMOUNT of variation vs. time, for old and young, by spp:
The y-axis here is the IQrange. It shows us that the young red do have much more variation than the others. And the young seem to have, maybe, more variation than the adults. But pretty much its the red that is weird. Depending on your data you could do different things at this point: figure out why red is more variable (were the methods suspect, is it the species, or just variation). There might be more variation at 7 & 8 am than other times, and that might be worth testing. But I'd be pretty comfortable about going forward with other hyps about the data.
Now back to original data:
So the first hypothesis this suggests to me is that pre-dawn and post-dawn differ (call this time-of-day). I could test if 5am is different from 7am, and lump all that data. Or I could set it up in a nested fashion with hour nested within time-of-day. If I was doing this, I'd also add age and cross age with time-of-day. This plot also suggests a bigger effect of time-of-day in the older than younger animals. People often forget to test for effect size differences. In clinical work, that can be as important as an effect itself.
Another hypothesis that these data suggest is that the changes in pre-dawn are consistent, but that there is a pattern of change in the adult post-dawn. If all I was testing were multiple comparisons, I might end up testing if times are different from each other. If on the other hand I had seen this (but is it dominated by yellow in this plot?), I might craft a more specific hypothesis about the relative values in each hour in the post dawn time range.
I've not used up degrees of freedom by making this graph and examining. Instead I've honed in on what differences *might* exist. Even if pre-collection, I had hypothesized a pre-dawn/post-dawn difference, and a young-old difference, looking at these data can give me the shape of those differences, and suggest the specific differences for which I could test.
Yesterday on the tweets:
Michael R. Hunsaker
@mrhunsaker Please remember that if using t-tests for post hoc paired comparisons, correct your t tests for multiple comparisons #reviewertip
Potty Theron
@pottytheron @mrhunsaker or decide upon some (or one!) a priori tests, based on exploration of your data so you don't do n*(n-1)/2 tests.
Michael R. Hunsaker
@mrhunsaker @yarbsalocin GRAPH IT! Don't just type in the data and hit GO on SPSS @pottytheron
What does exploring your data mean? Here are some real data, but the variable names (and question) have been changed to protect the innocent.
We measured blood levels of hormone X hourly in sets of animals (remotely! in the wild! because we can!). Measurements started at 1am, and ran through 11am. No measurement was taken at 6am (which was dawn). There were eight animals in each group. What were the groups? So glad you asked. There were four species (oh, of monkeys), let's call them red, blue, yellow and green. The red and blue species live up in the trees and the yellow and green species live on the ground. Also, there were five adults, and five juveniles in each group. The numbers are not absolute values, but scaled to body size or total blood volume.
If you were clever, as Michael Hunsaker implied, you would have generated your hypotheses before starting. Things like: hormone X increases linearly over time. Or hormone X is always higher in adults than juveniles. Or tree dwellers have higher levels of X.
But what if someone gave you these data. Someone clueless who did not have specific hypotheses, but sorta kinda a feeling that hormone X is going to be different? (alternatively, you are the brilliant trainee and your clueless mentor just handed you these data and said: tell me what it means). These are situations for (cue voice of Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson depending on your generation)… Exploration .
What is your first exploratory step? Plot the data. The second? Plot it a different way. And? keep plotting till you have a sense of "the story" so you can generate some hypotheses. In these data there are obviously enough potential differences (10 time points * 2 ages * 4 species) to do far more comparisons than any sane person would want to do.
Here is the first and most simple plot I can think of. (but perhaps you could think of something different. that's ok).
There are a large number of hypotheses from this graph. First – there is a difference in nighttime levels versus morning levels. Next, there is a difference in daytime levels between adults and young, but not in nighttime levels.
But, there are also some weird things you can see in these data. For example, what the heck is going on in the red species young? Let's look at those data (I have "jittered these data so that the points don't overlap. this means adding a small random noise on the x-axis):
Compare this to the previous plot. There is more variation in the young data in red. Is this true of other species? Here is the green species:
Now this shows a different, but interesting relationship. What is going on in the 7-11 hours in this animal? Less variable than Red, but different. Here's blue:
Yet another pattern. These different patterns may have to be tested separately. But certainly doing an all-possible-groups comparison would not have found these differences.
It is time to do experiments again (they have gone well so far this week). More on this tomorrow.
I've missed a few flights. And I am sure that I still waste too much time at the airport. I try to work there, but mostly I appreciate a small bit of downtime. Being able to take downtime in the midst of chaos is a talent? skill? ability? that I have worked hard to, if not master, at least achieve threshold ability.
The equivalent for data is the project that didn't work. The data that is still on the backup hard disk (if you're young, on paper and notebooks if you're not). I used to feel mildly guilty about ignoring it in favor of the more exciting stuff. I used to worry much more about that stuff than I do today.
I've come to a better place (an analog, not homologue to downtime at the airport). I feel that as long as I am productive, as long as my peeps are doing well and they are productive, as long as the distress and discomfort to the animals is as low as I can get it, and they are not wasted, its OK not to use Every Bit Of Data.
Maybe when you are a first year asst prof you don't have data you won't have used or not want to use (but its not unreasonable that stuff from your thesis might not see the light of day).
But if you use all the data you collect, well, you are making every plane. You've not taken the risks you need to take. Need? yes. You need to push and grow intellectually. There are lots of different paths to get there, but risk-free ones are ultimately as rewarding, challenging (in a good way) and leading to success.
What one can learn from failed experiments is multifaceted. This includes: what doesn't work, ways it might work, and an array of micro, low level, proximal solutions. Or solutions to proximal, low level and micro problems. It also includes ideas for New Things. Something lots of jr. faculty (but not Maria) worry about: where will I get my new ideas? From your mistakes. From the data you can't publish. From dreams late at night (but also see this).
The balance of risk and surety is hard. But total risk-avoidance and making every plane is not a good thing.
My father was an economist and we grew up with cost/benefit principles governing our lives. In general, irrationality was not well received while I grew up, which did lead to frustration and top-of-our-lungs fights when my sibs and I were teenagers. Sigh. I loved being a teenager, but I would not want to be in the thrall of my hormones again.
My URM has a program to bring first year med students into labs. Its 10-12 weeks of free to the faculty labor of the intensely serious and quite often solemn type.
For choosing a trainee, I have quite simple criteria: what was your grade in Anatomy/Cell Biology/Biochemistry/Physiology (since I teach in one of these, I know)? The knowledge base is not particularly important. What matters to me: Can you work hard at something that really may not seem (to you) immediately relevant to your goal (of becoming a world famous neurosurgeon)? For undergrads, I want to know your grades in Chem/Physics. If you picked a "soft major" like psych don't bother applying (and dear readers, please do not bombard me with comments about the non-softness and importance of social science – I'm talking about people who want to go to medical school. They picked an 'easy' major for good grades. People who want to do psych do NOT come to my lab to do a research project).
One point to keep in mind: Getting summer help is NOT the same thing as finding a postdoc or even picking a grad student to do a rotation in your lab.
Two of my most beloved junior faculty are interviewing right now. They schedule an hour each with 6 or 7 students. One reason they think this is necessary is a problem with the application form. It is not much more than what is your experience and a CV. They feel they need more info. But seriously, IT IS NOT WORTH THE TIME. Six hours? That is an experiment. Or a set of serious data analyses, or doing all the extra bits of an NIH grant. Writing a lecture for class. Editing a student's (argh) paper.
Repeat after me: I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO WASTE. TIME IS MY MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE.
This student will not make or break your research. You want a smart (hence the grades) and hardworking person who will be the bottom of the food chain of your lab (even if it is only you and the student) over the summer. They will help push your productivity. You will give them a good experience. You do not need to know what was their biggest challenge and how they met it.
Which brings me to the second point. What do you do with this student over the summer? How much time do you spend with them? It's still cost/benefit (yes, Pops, I listened). If you end up putting more into them than you get out, it is NOT worth your time. Training a summer student is not something you have to do. I am not advocating treating them like … well the way we all got treated. But you are working in a factory. The factory produces widgets. These widgets are called scientific papers. There are other things you must do besides produce widgets to keep your job. You do them. They are called teaching and service. When it is time to do them, you do them as well as possible, within the limits of the stopping curves. But, if your summer is devoted to research, then you are in the widget producing business. (this is URM territory, I recognize that this is different for SLACs, etc). There is a threshold productivity for non-widget production, but the ultimate judgement (for tenure) is widgets.
I have been told that this advice sounds very cold and hard. Not caring. Not empathetic. That's right. There is lots of time for caring after you get tenure. But if you fill your time with things that do not produce widgets, you will never have time to do the other things in the future.


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1/4 cup ground chia seeds (about 2 tablespoons whole)
1 cup water
2 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup peanut butter
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup quick-cooking oats
1 cup gluten-free flour (I used King Arthur Glutenfree Multi-Purpose Flour)
1/4 teaspoon salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom of a 13x9-inch baking pan with wax paper and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine chia seeds and water. Let sit for a few minutes or until water is absorbed. Add canola oil, brown sugar, peanut butter, and vanilla extract, stirring to combine.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine oats, flour, and salt. Gradually incorporate this mixture into the wet mixture until combined.
- Dump mixture into prepared pan and lightly press into one even layer. Place pan in preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
- Remove from oven and let cool thoroughly. Turn pan over onto a cutting board and it should come out as one large rectangular piece. Remove wax paper and cut into rectangular bars about 4 1/4-inches long by 1 1/2-inches wide.
Yield: 16 bars
Serving Size: 1 bar
Allergen Info: contains peanuts

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We have 9 years of costume building experience here at Wild Life! Costume building is a passion of ours; we put love and hard work into every costume we produce. We do not take custom commissions, preferring to explore and develop ideas without the constraints of deadlines and expectations. We love the process of evolving a character from a vague idea to a unique, fully rendered costume. This allows us to present a quality product that is available to you quickly after purchase. You get exactly what you see!
Our characters are designed around loose ideas, and then refined throughout the building of the costumes. What starts out as a husky might become a wolf, a solid black wolf might turn into one with more complex markings, and then might even turn into a lady-wolf. It is all part of the creative process for us. We strive to bring you characters you have never met before, drawing inspiration from photographs, cartoons, anatomy illustrations, and videos of animals in the wild to develop appealing designs that capture the qualities of their species. We believe facial expression is the heart of a character and we take care to craft unique, expressive faces that enhance each suit's personality, whether it's mischievous, surly, bashful, or downright giddy.
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The following text cites a conversation between a prominent British imperial politician and an American diplomat in London, in 1910. It is an interesting example of what key players say when they feel free to speak their mind. This was before Wikileaks, after all ...
"As Germany's industrial and financial power as well as its trade increased, a growing antagonism between Germany and the British Empire arose. Everywhere the ambitious German industry confronted a British competitor avidly observing the growing danger to his monopolistic trade relations, jealously guarded until then. A 1910 conversation between Lord Balfour, leader of the British Conservative Party, and Henry White, then United States Ambassador in London, shows the contrast between the two European industrial powers, and the attitude of the British leadership:
Balfour: We are probably fools not to find a reason for declaring war on Germany before she builds too many ships and takes away our trade.
White: You are a very high-minded man in private life. How can you possibly contemplate anything so politically immoral as provoking a war against a harmless nation which has as good a right to a navy as you have? If you wish to compete with German trade, work harder.
Balfour: That would mean lowering our standard of living. Perhaps it would be simpler for us to have a war.
White: I am shocked that you of all men should enunciate such principles.
Balfour: Is it a question of right or wrong? Maybe it is just a question of keeping our supremacy. "
(This text is from Georg Franz-Willing, 'The origins of the Second World War', Journal of Historical Review, Vol 7, Number 1, Spring 1986, p 97. The Balfour-White conversation was taken from a biography of Henry White)
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Onboarding is the cross-functional process of assimilating employees into organizations. This management procedure has never been more important as the government continues to press for I-9 and E-Verify compliance.
An E-Verify system is an Internet-based solution that allows organizations to access an employee's Form I-9, a record used to verify whether or not an individual is authorized to work in the country. Accessing this record is mandatory for employers in particular states and for federal contractors and subcontractors that carry the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) E-Verify clause.
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Complying with this requirement is a heavy task. Good thing Infor has partnered with Tracker Corp. to deliver a comprehensive onboarding solution that streamlines compliance to Form 1-9 and E-Verify regulations and provides companies the ability to monitor all their records at every location.
The Infor Onboarding with Tracker I-9 integration keeps the onboarding process running smoothly and as quickly as possible while raising compliance level up to virtually 100% and minimizing I-9 overhead by more than 75%. A major constituent of Infor HR Service Delivery Suite, Infor Onboarding leverages the power of Tracker I-9 to:
- centralize management of records;
- automate audit trails;
- reduce errors and missed deadlines; and
- enable remote hiring.
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These are but a few of the features of this new joint offering, which Infor customers can now experience either on-premise or in the cloud.
Both companies agree that the Tracker I-9 integration makes the Infor HR Service Delivery Suite a cohesive solution that encompasses the many critical functions of HR departments.
The integration of Tracker I-9 to Infor technology is another achievement by Infor CEO Charles Phillips. Go to this website to find out more about Infor Onboarding with Tracker I-9 integration.


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I have been a fan of The Body Shop's fragrances since my pre-teen years and am amazed that every year they bring out new scents that never fail to capture my attention. This season they have launched Scents of the World - their first fragrance collection containing 100% organic essence and globally sourced natural extracts.
I was sent a set of perfume oils to sample, which are all alcohol free. I love the dinky size of these as they are super easy to throw into a handbag and apply on to pulse points throughout the day to freshen up.
The fragrance selection includes:
- Indian Night Jasmine - This seductive, feminine blend of floral and oriental accords was inspired by a moonlit night in a Mughal garden.
- Japanese Cherry Blossom - This romantic, captivating blend of floral and hinoki wood accords was inspired by a spring day in Kyoto.
- Atlas Mountain Rose - This bright, dewy blend of floral accords was inspired by dawn in a field of blossoming roses.
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The fragrance oils retail at £7 each for 15ml and work perfectly when layered with the other products in the collection of the same scent - eau de toilette, body mist, shower gel and body lotion. You can check out the whole Scents of the World collection here.


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Choir performs mini-concert at Grace United Methodist Church
SHREVEPORT, LA — Centenary's Choir is performing a mini-concert at Grace Community United Methodist Church Saturday, September 21, at 5:30 p.m. The performance is in conjunction with Reverend Mande Muyombo's visit to Centenary College and Grace Community United Methodist Church. The event is free and open to the public.
Officers of Centenary's College Choir
Hailed as "America's Singing Ambassadors," the Centenary Choir has traveled for seven decades with a repertoire ranging from Bach to Broadway, world folk music to contemporary church music, and oratorio to opera. The Choir was organized in 1941 by Dr. A. C. "Cheesy" Voran and has performed throughout the world, giving concerts in 32 nations on six continents.
The Choir is affiliated with Centenary's Hurley School of Music and offers scholarships for all its members. Members audition November through February for the following term. Persons wishing to audition should contact the director of the choir to arrange an appointment.
For more information about the Centenary College Choir, and future tour dates, visit their website.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
News: Stresa Highlighted In Ten-Day Garden Tour
5:54 AM | Dana Kaplan, Stresa Sights | Edit Post
Some come to Stresa for it's views of mountains, lakes, and villages. But many also come looking for views of manicured gardens, flower beds, and exotic plants. And why not? With Stresa as a base, lovers of giardini can easily visit several famous Italian gardens: Isola Bella, Isola Madre, Giardino Botanico Alpinia, Villa Taranto, and Villa San Remigio, to name the closest and most well known. For those of you looking to combine this with a more far-reaching garden tour, here is an article, written by Steve Whysall for the Vancouver Sun, detailing a ten-day Italian lakes garden tour of Italy, which does, of course, include Stresa, of which he seems particularly fond, calling it his 'all-time favorite'. After all, four out of the five photographs used to illustrate the article are of Isola Bella.
I'm offering this article here as inspiration to plan your own garden-based trip.
I'm offering this article here as inspiration to plan your own garden-based trip.
Off to tour Italy's lake gardens
Tour starts in Milan and includes visits to Isola Bella and Isola Madre on Lake Maggiore
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Today I am in Bologna on my way to Milan to lead a 10-day garden tour of the great Italian gardens around lakes Maggiore, Lugano, Como and Garda, as well as time spent in the Dolomites and in the Romeo-and-Juliet city of Verona.
I'm in Bologna because I have heard so much about this city's food culture, especially in and around its old Roman quarter (Quadrilatero) that I thought it would be a good way to recover from jet lag before launching into the garden tour, which kicks off in Milan on Tuesday.
There are about 30 of us doing the tour, which also includes time in Milan to see spectacular sites such as the magnificent 700-year-old cathedral, as well Leonardo's iconic Last Supper fresco and, of course, the groundbreaking styles of the fashion district.
You can follow our experiences on my In the Garden blog at www.vancouversun.com. I intend to post an entry with photos every day, so you can follow along with us.
This is my fifth European garden tour, the second one to Italy. Two years ago, we visited great gardens in central and southern Italy, including Villa d'Este outside Rome, Villa Cimbrone in Ravello on the Amalfi coast and top gardens in Florence, Sicily and Padua. This time, we are concentrating on Italy's famous lake district, just north of Milan, starting with visits the first day to three of the outstanding gardens on Lake Como at villas Balbianello, Melzi and Carlotta.
Most of the gardens on this tour rely heavily on their context within the greater natural landscape with spectacular mountain and lake views. They were all built specifically to take advantage of this superb "borrowed landscape" - the scenery that comes for free outside of the garden. But it takes skill and intelligence to design and structure gardens to take maximum advantage of what Alexander Pope would have called "the genius of the place".
If you saw the James Bond movie, Casino Royale, you will have seen glimpses of the gardens at Villa Balbianello. It was the location chosen for the final scene where Bond tracks down the illusive Mr. White. It was also the garden and villa featured in scenes from the Star War's movie Attack of the Clones.
A beautiful formal garden, Balbianello is located on a small wooded peninsula on the western shore of Lake Como and features some very elegant terraces.
The garden at Villa Carlotta dates back to the 1690s and contains a romantic woodland while the terraces are loaded with lemon and orange trees in large containers.
On the outskirts of Bellagio, Villa Melzi is considered the "pearl" of Lake Como with wonderful, structural formal shrub and flower gardens that are outstanding year-round and have been enjoyed over the centuries by countless aristocrats, politicians and artists, including the composer Franz Liszt.
The next day, we start out on Lake Lugano, visiting the city that gives the lake its name as well as the eccentric, almost fantasy landscape of Parco Scherrer, built by textile baron Arthur Scherrer in the 1930s.
An amazingly eclectic work, this garden contains a world of features, including Greek temple, Venetian fountain, statues of Greek and Roman gods and heroes, a classical Renaissance garden, a Moorish garden mimicking Spain's Alhambra, and much more.
This garden was designed to impress people with a big, global, sweeping and inclusive vision of all that is fabulous and fantastic in gardens around the world - a celebration, really, of the world of wonders from Egypt to India, Greece to Japan.
You think it would be enough for the day, but no, we are headed after lunch out to Lake Maggiore to visit two of my all-time favourite gardens, Isola Bella and Isola Madre, part of what is known as the Borromeo group of islands.
I remember seeing pictures of Isola Bella and reading about it in one of Penelope Hobhouse's books more than a decade ago and thinking 'What a wonderful place' and 'wouldn't it be nice to go there.'
But I never thought I would. And then, lo and behold, I did, back in 2004, on my first trip to Italy.
This is where Napoleon and Josephine spent time together, looking out from the superb 10 levels of terraces filled with exotic, tender and fragrant flowers and fruiting trees to the gently lapping blue waters of Lake Maggiore below.
The craggy rock of an island was transformed into this stunning, almost ethereal garden of delights in the mid-1600s for the Borromeo family and named by Count Carlo III after his wife, Isabella.
Isola Madre is Isola Bella's sister island and is regarded by some garden critics as the more refined, big sister, being less theatrical and desperate to please. Both island gardens are, of course, delightful, but Madre is certainly bigger and has some special plants from North Africa, as well as wonderful climbers, orchids and other specialties.
It will be a fabulous contrast of styles and after the curiosities of Scherrer, it will certainly provide a soaring conclusion to a splendid day's adventure.
But we will also stop to see Giardino Giusti, the 16th-century garden designed by Count Agostino Giusti. This is considered one of Italy's most famous gardens and was a must-see show garden on any 18th century Grand European Tour.
It is still a charming garden full of grace and beauty with an excellent assortment of features including an elegant avenue of pencil-thin cypresses, dolphin fountain, statues of Minerva and Apollo, grotto carved out of tufa and a maze, believed to be one of the oldest in Europe.
We will also slip into Andre Heller Botanical Gardens, named after the Austrian artist whose foundation now runs and maintains it.
Started at the turn of the 20th century by dentist and naturalist Arturo Hruska, the botanical garden contains more than 2,000 plants covering a wide range of climatic zones.
Today, it is admired not only for its beautiful plant collection and interesting design features, but also as a place where contemporary art is often displayed. So it has become known as a garden for art as well as a plants.
The part of the tour I have been most looking forward to comes up next when we visit Lake Garda and Sirmione, where the Roman poet Catullus wrote his wonderfully touching poems, including Hail and Farewell (Ave Atqua Vale).
I have been memorizing (and learning to sing) Tennyson's Frater, Ave Atque Vale poem, in preparation for this. James Joyce, Erza Pound, Thomas Hardy and many others have made a cultural pilgrimage to "olivesilvery Sirmio" and I can't wait to do the same.
Back in Milan, there will be time to see Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, and many other sites around the city before we say farewell to one another.
Join me each day on my blog to see more photos and details of this special garden tour.
Here's the link to the original article: http://www.vancouversun.com/homes/tour+Italy+lake+gardens/5377461/story.html#ixzz1xZDlYgDg
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Seven thoughts with Robins & Morton COO Robin Savage
By BRYAN DAVIS, Birmingham Business Journal
The Alabama chapter of the Associated Builders & Contractors of America has been a strong voice for contractors in the state for years.
The organization is looking at 2015 as another pivotal year in the growth of Alabama's construction sector, as industry leaders face new challenges in the post-recession world.
Federal legislation like the Affordable Healthcare Act, as well as state laws, have affected construction in Alabama, as companies face labor shortages throughout the nation.
ABC, which as 600 members statewide, elected Robin Savage, COO of Birmingham-based Robins & Morton, to chair the chapter's board of directors in 2015.
We caught up with Savage recently to talk about the issues ABC will be facing head on over the next 12 months.
On legislation calling for alternative delivery methods in construction
One thing we're looking at in particular is alternative delivery methods for construction and design on public works projects. This is a bill we've worked on in year's past. Kind of the bottom line of it is it's construction management and design build type approach where the public owner is able to put together a collaborative team at the beginning of a project. Those teams would consist of the client, the owner, the design group, the contractor, or construction manager and even some of the key subcontractors, so that you have all of the players at the table, working through a project from the time you draw the first line on the page. You've got everybody working toward the most efficient way to deliver that project. Right now the only methodology in public works in Alabama is just a straight design, bid, build method…You don't get the advantages of having a team put together that works together on a project all the way through it.
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McNish To Drive In Rolex 24
Scotland's Allan McNish will return to Daytona International Speedway later this month to run in the Rolex 24-hour event.
He will be co-driving a Riley-Ford for Starworks Motorsports.
A two-time winner of the Le Mans 24-hour race, McNish will be attempting to win at Daytona for the first time in his storied racing career.
Dumfries-born McNish, who celebrated his 42nd birthday recently last week, has twice finished second at Daytona (1998 and '99), said the Rolex will help get him ready for the season ahead – he drives an prototype for the factory-back Audi Sport team.
"Contesting a 24 hour race so early in the year will certainly blow away the winter cobwebs," McNish said. "The Rolex 24 At Daytona offers a stern challenge and will undoubtedly be tough.
"Having finished second overall twice in this race, I'd love to add this 24 hour race win to my two triumphs at Le Mans but I'm under no illusion just how difficult it will be."
McNish, who is able to race at Daytona for a seventh time as he has no clashing test or race commitments for the German team, will co-drive the Riley in the 50th running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona with former Audi team-mate Lucas Luhr (D) plus Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series regulars Ryan Dalziel – Scotland's 2001 Rolex 24 race winner – plus Venezuelan duo Enzo Potolicchio and Alex Popow.
McNish, who had a brief run in the Riley at Sebring just before Christmas, added: "The Daytona 24 Hours is always a tough challenge – just like any twice-around-the-clock race. This year's race is not only the opening round of the 2012 GRAND-AM Series but also the 50th running of the Rolex 24 so a big entry is guaranteed. Last year's race was decided on the very last lap with less than four seconds covering the top-four finishers.
"It will be a massive challenge but the Starworks team are proven winners in the GRAND-AM category and with our driver line-up that includes fellow Scotsman Ryan Dalziel, who incidentally I watched at the beginning of his career in karting, we've got a good opportunity of being at the sharp end when the chequered flag comes down."
Starworks Team Principal Peter Baron commented: "We weren't going to add a fifth driver but you do not pass on the opportunity to put Allan McNish in the car. He is a legend. He brings much more than his speed. He elevates the other guys, gets the others even more motivated and it is great to work with someone with his kind of history in sports car racing. Plus Allan has won just about everything in sports car racing but the fabled Rolex Daytona."
McNish tests the Starworks Riley again at the "Roar Before the Rolex 24" at Daytona this week (6-8 Jan). The 24-hour sports car endurance race is held annually at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach. The track consists of a 3.56-mile combined road course, utilising portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield section. The 50th running of the Daytona 24 Hours begins at 2030 (UK time) on Saturday 28 January.
Allan McNish – Daytona 24 Hour history:
1998: 2nd overall, 1st GT1 (Champion Porsche).
1999: 2nd o/a (Ferrari 333 SP) (Doyle Risi).
2000: Retired, engine. (Ferrari 333 SP) (Risi).
2001: Retired, engine. (Ferrari 333 SP) (Risi).
2005: Retired, engine. (Crawford Pontiac) (Howard Boss Motorsport).
2008: Retired, engine. (Riley Pontiac) (SAMAX).
2011: Riley-Ford (Starworks Motorsports).No Comment


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rgoodness said:
Again, not to give too much away, but I think rather than "allegory" Lands of Dream stuff is more Applicable To Life.
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Like Sea Will Claim Everything is a series of zoom outs showing (immoral) capitalism affecting every aspect of life--it starts with the very personal, showing how one family is affected, then moves to the town, the region, the country--the puzzles are there to show off a series of locations which have all been affected by these issues, and the ending basically states that after a while, solving puzzles is just sticking on bandaids and eventually you need to strike at the root--and that that's something you need to determine for yourself.
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SQF: Why did you start this zine?
Danielle Lowrey: I love words. I can't help myself. If I'm not writing, or reading, or talking about books, or thinking about books, then I'm lost. So when I tried starting a writing career for myself, in very small ways, I was disheartened. My writing style isn't conventional. I'll wake up in the middle of the night and a character will come to me, instantly questioning her current situation because she actually thinks it would be a great idea to go pick up a guy she's been crushing on at a complete stranger's funeral. Who publishes a short story like that? As rejection letters for my non-conventional pieces started rolling in, I realized I had no idea who published work like that and saw a hole in the market. If other writers are writing weird/non-conventional work, their pieces need a home, just like mine did. So I decided to start 500 Miles Magazine. I LOVE reading all these wonderful and insane submissions that come our way. I root for all our submitters to find that perfect home for their one special piece. Because that's what it's all about right? And through interacting with our authors, I've found the market gap 500 Miles was created to fill is still totally there, but at least it's a bit smaller than I thought.
SQF: What are the top three things you look for in a submission and why?
- Weirdness, in a good way. I know it's a vague answer, subject to personal bias, but I like weird things. Like, what if you pulled up your carpet and found a complete replica of your world, but it's mirrored and upside-down?
- Funny. Outside of handling words in some fashion, laughing is my favorite past-time. If I'm going to tell a stranger they need to read 500 Miles and mean it, I need to tell them it'll make them laugh; bring them joy in some way.
- Intrigue/well-written. If I can't stay inside your piece and stay captivated and enthralled by it, then what would make me think I can convince my readers to read it? But just because I personally feel an author's work doesn't fulfill #3, that doesn't mean the work is bad. It just means I honestly don't think it's a good fit for our magazine.
SQF: What most often turns you off to a submission?
DL: Unnecessary violence, erotica, S&M, haughtiness, and truly terrible writing.
SQF: Will you publish a submission an author posted on a personal blog?
DL: Of course! At the end of the day we're all just writers trying to get our work out there, get recognition for it, and maybe one day get paid to write. Who am I to stop a writer from trying to achieve this goal because they're trying to self-promote? I only ask that if you submit a piece from your blog that you hide the piece from view while you submit it to us and until after you hear back from us. If we reject you, no harm no foul. You can just unhide your piece. If we accept your work, please keep the piece hidden until the issue you'll be published in comes out. Once the issue comes out, please let people know the piece is now published in 500 Miles Magazine, just as we'll let our readers know your piece was originally published on your blog.
SQF: What do you want authors to know about the submissions you reject and how authors should respond? Along this same idea, do you mind if authors reply with polite questions about the comments they receive?
DL: I want authors with rejected submissions to know that I'm a writer too. I completely understand that sinking feeling or rise of utter frustration that comes from opening an email saying your work just didn't make the cut. So I don't reject anything lightly. I'm also not going to lie to an author. If I say, 'your work isn't a good fit for our magazine at this time,' there's no secret code hidden in there. I'm not trying to trick you, I don't secretly think your work is bad. I honestly mean, that in shaping our current issue, I didn't feel your piece meshed well with the rest of the magazine. Having said that, please don't re-submit something to us in the hopes it'll be a better fit for the next issue. If I just HAVE to have a piece from you, I'm not above contacting you and begging.
As far as polite questions go, I think it's important to remember that 500 Miles is crazy small at this point, which can be both good and bad for writers. The good thing is that I've personally read and taken notes on every piece. The bad thing is that there's only so much reading a small team can do. The last thing I want is for our inbox to get so overwhelmed with questions, we spend more time responding to them than fulfilling our actual purpose, which is reading submissions to create the next issue. So I'd say if you have a few questions, that's totally fine. I'll be more than happy to answer them the best I can, but please be sparing with the amount you ask. Also, since answering questions isn't the top priority of the magazine, please be patient. We're not going to respond right away, and I don't want that freaking anyone out. On the same note, don't keep sending me reminder or inquiry emails because I haven't gotten back to you by when you wanted. I try really hard to be a nice and flexible person, but if you hound me, there's a really good chance I won't respond to you out of spite. I love this magazine, but it's not my whole life.
SQF: What one question on this topic do you wish I'd asked that I didn't? And how would you answer it?
DL: I'm not quite sure what question I would create here, but there is one last thing I'd really like writers and readers to know about 500 Miles. We have a resources section on our website that I highly encourage writers to take advantage of. I got the idea from The Redheaded Stepchild. Looking at all the magazines authors had been rejected from, really helped me broaden my magazine submission search. Sometimes it's hard to find the right home for a piece. Hopefully, by seeing the magazines our authors have been published in, it will help writers find more magazines that could be a good fit for their work.
Thank you, Danielle. We all appreciate you taking time from your busy schedule to participate in this project.


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Thank You For Smoking
I like to think of myself as a perpetual kvetcher. Give me anything and I'll find something I don't like about it.
This is an exception.
In the United States, smoking is demonized. Wikipedia and Mad Men tell me this modern fight against tobacco has been going on since the 1950s when the link between lung cancer and smoking was first identified, but for as long as I've been alive smoking has always been "bad," and definitely never "cool."
Yes, I grew up with those hideous commercials of people who are forced to talk out of their throat because they've smoked so much, and those forlorn, neglected children who are inhaling "second-hand smoke" because mommy or daddy are smokers. And of course the, "No one wants to kiss an ashtray!" and "Smoking kills!" catchphrases.
If you're American, you've probably heard them all before.
I've always found the social pressure exerted on smokers by non-smokers to be quite obnoxious, but I agreed with them for the most part until laws started being passed left right and sideways banning smoking in various locations. Now, it seems America is engaged in an all-out war on smoking.
In addition to being the first state to ever institute a smoking ban in 1995, my home state of California has since passed tight city (and state) restrictions. For instance, in Glendale, CA smoking is prohibited within 20 feet of city property. In Berkeley, smoking is prohibited on sidewalks and within 20 feet of bus stops. Belmont, CA banned smoking in all public places including inside apartments and condominiums!
Many cities in Colorado have passed similar bans, and of course, New York City's Michael Bloomberg was a big supporter of more laws that restrict people's individual choices when it comes to their own bodies – pledging $220 million for the purpose of stopping smoking worldwide. There are only 10 states left that have no statewide ban, and even those states have plenty of local regulations when it comes to smoking.
Now don't get me wrong – I'm all for healthy living. But I don't like anybody, especially the government, telling me what to do with my own lungs.
At some point during college, I found myself increasingly irritated by people who wanted to ban smoking on campus or threw temper tantrums about standing near smoke (barring a serious existing respiratory issue or something of the sort). I never understood the people who come stand outside with smokers and then get indignant when the smoker stands "too close" to them. If you don't like it, go away!
It is for that reason that I am pro-smoking rights. While no one is foolish enough to deny that it's terrible for your health and leads to cancer, there are in fact benefits to smoking. Many scientists argue that smokers are less obese than non-smokers (surely an idea for Michelle Obama's next four years as First Lady). Smoking has also been shown to prevent certain types of dementia, Parkinson's disease, and has been proven highly beneficial in alleviating mental illnesses, which makes sense given people smoke when they feel stressed and out of control. According to many of my friends, people who smoke also have an easier time making friends – it's a social activity. So take that American Cancer Society.
The discrimination against smokers in America is just too much. So imagine my delight when I moved to Israel and people didn't make nasty comments under their breath, give death glares, or move 15 yards away from a smoker in an attempt to publicly shame them.
This is not to say, of course, that there aren't smoking bans in other areas of the world, or even Israel, but the attitude is different. And for that, I'd like to say: Thank you, Israel, for smoking.


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:: Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
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The Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a 14,870-seat multi-purpose indoor arena in Phoenix, Arizona, located on the grounds of the Arizona State Fair. It is commonly referred to as simply the Coliseum.
The Coliseum opened November 3, 1965, with a production of Ice Follies. The final cost was estimated at $7 million.
This distinctive arena with its saddle-shaped roof, which sat 13,730 for ice hockey, was the home of the Phoenix Roadrunners of the WHA from 1974-1977 and of the now-defunct International Hockey League from 1989 to 1996, the Phoenix Suns of the NBA from 1968-1992, the Arizona Thunder of the World Indoor Soccer League from 1998-2000,and the Phoenix Mustangs of the now-defunct WCHL from 1999-2000. In 2006, it was announced that the Coliseum would once again be home to pro sports, as the IBLs Phoenix Flame would play home games there.
The arena remains open for some events, even though the Suns left in 1992 for the America West Arena (now US Airways Center). The Arizona State Fair schedules concerts, comedy shows and other events in the Coliseum during the Fair's annual season (which begins each October). Until recently it hosted portions of Arizona's high school basketball championships, but those have been moved to the newer Jobing.com Arena.
In the fall of 2005, the Coliseum sheltered up to 2,500 evacuees from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The evacuees were relocated to other housing in time for the opening of the Fair that October.
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Report: Garnett will retire, ending comeback run with Wolves
MINNEAPOLIS—Kevin Garnett's second run with the Minnesota Timberwolves has ended, the Minneapolis Star Tribune is reporting, citing a league source.
Garnett, 40, was about to enter the final season of his contract and the team was reportedly working on a buyout recently.
He has spent 13½ of his 21 NBA seasons with Minnesota.
The 15-time All-Star ranks 17th in NBA history with 26,071 career points, ninth in career rebounds with 14,662 and 17th in career blocked shots with 2,037.
A high school player who soared straight to the NBA in 1995, Garnett quickly became the face of the franchise.
Garnett was traded to the Boston Celtics in 2007 and was part of that franchise's 2008 championship squad.
Garnett returned to Minnesota prior to the trading deadline in 2015 when he was acquired from the Brooklyn Nets. He played in just five games prior to the end of the season.