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DURHAM — Maybe the worst thing the University of New Hampshire hockey team did all weekend was force Northeastern goalie Chris Rawlings from Friday night's game.
The mountain was too high to climb 24 hours later when backup Bryan Mountain made a career-high 44 saves in a 0-0 overtime tie Saturday in Boston.
Still, taking three of four points is a pretty good weekend in the competitive Hockey East, given the way it started for the Wildcats.
The Huskies scored three goals in the first 12 minutes of Friday's game. They pulled Rawlings in favor of Mountain after the tying goal as UNH rallied from a 3-1 deficit to win a game it probably would have lost last season.
Senior John Henrion scored the game winner against Mountain with less than a minute remaining in the third period.
"It shows a lot of character on our part," Henrion said. "We have a lot of guys in our locker room working to play a full 60 minutes. It's good to see early in the season. Facing adversity early is never a bad thing. Obviously we faced it last year and were never able to get on top of it as well as we would have liked. This year has been a little bit different. We're been forcing a 60-minute game instead of one or two periods."
The Wildcats, who were playing their first road game of the season Saturday, extended their unbeaten streak to five games (4-0-1).
That's the polar opposite of last year when they opened 0-4-1. UNH and goalie Casey DeSmith held Northeastern scoreless over the final 113 minutes and 15 seconds of the two games.
Saturday's contest was the first of what could be a defining stretch for the Wildcats, who play six of their next seven games on the road.
They struggled away from home last season, especially early. UNH has only two home games in the month of November, and have dates at Massachusetts (Friday) and Maine (Sunday) next weekend.
"Obviously we're on the road for a while here," Henrion said. "It's exciting. We get to bond a little bit as a team on the road. It's kind of facing adversity, not having the comfort of being in our own locker room and sleeping in our own beds. I think we're excited for it. It's good to be at home, but it's also good to get out on the road for a few games."
The Wildcats have been emphasizing a net-front presence this season.
Henrion's goal Friday night, where he camped just outside the crease, was an example, although linemates Casey Thrush and Jeff Silengo did much of the work.
"That's been a big part of the way we've been playing," he said. "There were a lot scrums last year and … rebounds that we kind of missed out on. We don't want to miss them this year so we're really putting pressure on ourselves to stop in front of the net and clean up the rebound area and also get to the net on rushes. If there's a guy going to the net it creates chaos and gives the goalie a hard time tracking the puck. It creates scoring chances."
Henrion is one of the seniors expected to produce offensively this season, and so far he's come through. He's tied for the team lead in goals (3) with classmate Austin Block.
"I'm glad (Henrion) got rewarded because of the way he's been playing for us," said coach Dick Umile. "He's played as well as anybody."
It was funny at the time, but it wouldn't have been nearly as comical if Northeastern had come back and scored.
Thinking he had scored an empty-net goal in the waning seconds to seal Friday's win, Kevin Goumas quickly raised his stick and headed for the bench to celebrate.
There was just one problem. The puck hit the left post and the Huskies were on the counter-attack. Fortunately, they didn't have enough time to score the tying goal.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Goumas deadpanned when asked about it afterward. "I don't even know what happened to be honest. I thought it was right in the center. It's the last time I'll do that."
The Wildcats moved Greg Burke to center and Goumas to wing for Friday night's game and the switch seemed to pay dividends.
The line, which also includes Austin Block, finished with two goals and three assists.
Goumas and Block each had a goal and an assist, and Burke set up Goumas's game-tying goal after taking a hit along the left wall.
Wildcats have successful weekend
DURHAM — Maybe the worst thing the University of New Hampshire hockey team did all weekend was force Northeastern goalie Chris Rawlings from Friday night's game.


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Holiday meals can be so heavy, it's refreshing to have a dessert that is relatively light, like this flourless lemon almond cake. This is a classic cake recipe, if I'm not mistaken, from southern Spain. The basic ingredients are simply almond flour (finely ground blanched almonds), eggs, sugar, and lemon zest. No butter or wheat flour. The cake behaves a bit like a soufflé in that it gets most of its rise from the eggs in the batter, and then gently falls as it settles. I've included a bit of baking powder to help the cake maintain a bit more structure as it cools. The result is a light and tender crumb, softly sweet and lemony. You could easily twirl some raspberry sauce around it, or add a dollop of whipped cream. Enjoy!
It helps to separate the eggs first, while they are cold, and then let them sit to come to room temperature as you prep the other ingredients. Eggs are easier to separate when cold, and they perform better as leavening agents when at room temperature. When whipping egg whites, make sure your equipment is perfectly clean. Any fat (or even bits of egg yolk in the whites) can keep the egg whites from properly whipping up.
- 4 eggs, separated into 4 egg yolks and 4 egg whites, room temperature
- 2 Tbsp lemon zest, packed
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/2 cup (100 g) white sugar, divided 1/4 cup (50 g) and 1/4 cup (50 g)
- 1 1/2 cup (170 g) finely ground almond flour*
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (make sure your baking powder is fresh!)
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- Pinch of salt
- Powdered sugar for sprinkling
* If almond flour is not available at your market, you can grind up blanched, slivered almonds in a food processor until finely ground. I would start with a little more than 1 1/3 cups, perhaps 1 1/2 cups. Our local Whole Foods carries a Bob's Red Mill brand of finely ground almond flour which is what we used for this recipe.
1 Preheat the oven to 350°F (175 °C). Place a round of parchment paper on the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan, and grease it and the sides of the pan with butter or cooking spray.
2 In a large bowl, beat together with a wooden spoon the egg yolks, lemon zest, and 1/4 cup sugar until smooth.
3 In a separate bowl, whisk together the almond flour, and baking powder. Add the flour mixture to the egg yolk mixture and beat until smooth.
4 With an electric mixer with a very clean bowl and clean whisk attachment, beat the egg whites, starting on low speed and gradually increasing the speed. When bubbles start to form, add a pinch of salt and the teaspoon of vinegar (both the salt and the vinegar will help the beaten egg whites maintain better structure, as will the sugar in the next step). As the egg whites begin to increase in volume, sprinkle in the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar, a little at a time, as you continue to beat the eggs whites. Beat until soft peaks form.
5 Fold the beaten egg whites into the almond mixture a large scoopful at a time. You won't get much lift with the first third of the egg whites, but as you add more, you'll be able to gently fold in the whites in such a way as to create a light batter.
6 Gently scoop the batter into a the prepared springform pan and place in the oven. Bake for 35 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool. Run a sharp knife around the edge of the cake helping it to separate from the side of the pan. Release the springform pan sides, and gently move the cake (on parchment) to a cake serving plate. Sprinkle with a little powdered sugar before serving.
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A few days ago Peter Jackson announced that, in celebration of Tolkien week, a second, full-length trailer would be released for the first installment in his Hobbit trilogy, titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. For many a fan, this is the first new footage they've been treated to since the teaser premiered some nine months ago; others will recognize that a healthy chunk of the new trailer features excerpts from the 12 minutes of material previewed at the Hobbit Comic-Con panel.
An Unexpected Journey continues to look like a visually-magnificent treatment of J.R.R. Tolkien's source novel, as you would expect from the filmmakers behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Middle-earth is as gorgeous a fantasy realm as ever, thanks to Jackson's expertise at capturing the New Zealand landscapes in all their majesty - not to mention, improvements in CGI over the past nine years since Return of the King was released in theaters.
Moreover, this trailer offers a taste of the lighter tone Jackson and his collaborators are aiming for with the first Hobbit installment, when compared to the weightiness of the second and third Rings movies. Not only are the stakes lower, but the colorful Dwarves lend themselves to comedic antics. So far, the humor in An Unexpected Journey is broader than anything since the Shire opening to Fellowship of the Ring, but the jokes don't seem too forceful - nor do they appear to diminish the dramatic atmosphere of the film's action-packed portions (again, so far).
Here is the official synopsis for An Unexpected Journey, followed by a collection of screenshots from the latest trailer:
"The Hobbit" follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Giant Spiders, Shapeshifters and Sorcerers.
Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever… Gollum (Andy Serkis).
Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of guile and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum's "precious" ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities… A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-Earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters on December 14th, 2012; its sequel, The Desolation of Smaug, follows on December 13th, 2013; and the final installment, There and Back Again, release on July 18th, 2014.
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Today we're sitting down with Damian Velasquez of Half 13 to learn more about his vibrant and sculptural line of outdoor furniture.
How did you wind up designing furniture?
I started my path of design and fabrication at 11 – I used to hang out with my father while he made silver jewelry. The time we spent together at the bench was when I started learning about the joinery of metals. I continued to make jewelry throughout high school and college, but it wasn't until I returned from backpacking through Europe in 1989 that memories of Italian furniture design would unknowingly shape my future forever.
I embarked on a journey of self education from that moment on – I taught myself to weld, to work with wood, acrylic, glass and concrete. I continue to build on that base of knowledge 23 years later.
What is your studio like? How do your surroundings influence your designs?
My studio is 7500 square feet of machinery and tools. All aspects of fabrication including CNC plasma cutting, woodworking and powder-coating is done in-house.
I haven't ever been able to attribute a direct influence from my surroundings to my work. I started back in the day when "Southwestern Style" was at its peak. Modern furniture was not very strong in New Mexico back then. I think what does influence me is the fact that I do live in a unique part of the country and that fosters my desire to be unique in my endeavors as well as my designs.
Where did the name Half 13 come from?
Half 13 is the term for the size of the diamond and guage of the expanded metal that is used in the construction of my outdoor furniture line.
Are there any furniture precedents or designers who inspire your work?
The Half 13 line came about from my love of the chair "How High the Moon" by Shiro Kuramata. Because I was not formally educated in furniture design I never really had any exposure to the history of designers before me to latch onto. I have always loved Shiro's chair and never though of it as an influence until one day I decided to try my hand at using expanded metal as a medium for furniture. I soon appreciated the challenge posed by this material and the difficulty manipulating it. After much persistence, the current line was born, and adheres to my core values of function blended with aesthetics.
Did you see a hole in the outdoor furniture market? If so, how are you filling it?
I actually envisioned the Half 13 line as a way into sculpture, but soon realized after much feedback from clients that there was a lot lacking in the outdoor furniture market. I quickly addressed the issues posed such as comfort, durability and ease of maintenance; that is why these pieces are now fabricated from stainless steel.
Thank you so much to Damian for letting us get to know him better today.
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Indrek Martinson, an OSA Fellow who was a world-renowned expert in accelerator-based atomic physics, died unexpectedly on November 14, 2009. He was 71.
Martinson was an Emeritus Professor and Director of the Institute of Atomic Physics at the University of Lund, Sweden. He was also a former chair of the Physics Section of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Martinson began his research as an assistant at the Nobel Institute of Physics in Stockholm, working under the directorship of Manne Siegbahn on beta- and gamma-ray spectroscopy. Interestingly, in a 1964 nuclear physics experiment, Martinson and a coworker set a lower limit to the lifetime of the proton that subsequently became a test of weak interaction theories. In 1968, Professor Ingmar Bergström, then director of the Nobel Institute, suggested that Martinson investigate the field of time-resolved fast ion beam atomic spectroscopy, which was being developed by Stanley Bashkin and William Bickel at the University of Arizona. An exchange program was arranged whereby Professor Bickel came to Stockholm, and Martinson spent a year working in the Tucson laboratory.
Martinson received his PhD from the University of Stockholm in 1971. In 1976 he was selected to occupy the Professorship at the University of Lund that had been vacated by the retirement of Bengt Edlén. As professor and director of the Atomic Physics Institute at Lund, Martinson brought about a merger of traditional high wavelength resolution metrology with fast ion beam time-resolved measurements, laser- and tokamak-produced plasma studies, synchrotron radiation measurements, and Fourier transform spectroscopy. He and his coworkers made pioneering measurements of doubly-excited states, developed quantum beat techniques that yielded unprecedented accuracies in lifetime and fine-structure measurements, devised ingenious methods for directly observing forbidden transition rates through differential lifetime measurements, and made measurements that have altered accepted elemental abundances in the sun and stars.
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have developed ways to exploit the addictions of cancers to kill them without harming normal tissues. A report on their work appears online today in the journal Science.
Many cancers are driven by the overexpression of oncogenes. These oncogenes are two-faced. On one hand, they promote processes that allow the cells to become immortal and to grow unchecked. On the other hand, the expression of these oncogenes creates additional anti-growth cellular stresses, conflicts that the cancer cell must subvert in order to survive.
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"For 30 years, scientists have tried to attack the oncogene myc," said Dr. Thomas Westbrook, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics and biochemistry and molecular biology at BCM and a senior author of the report. "However, it has not been amenable to the drugs we have. Now we have to take advantage of the stresses the oncogene puts on the cancer cell and determine if we can ramp those up to kill the tumor."
"Tumor cells experience considerable mitotic stress," said Westbrook. Regular chemotherapy takes advantage of this, but the drugs kill dividing cancer and normal cells. Experts think that special programs within the cancer cell allow it to cope with the stress as it grows and divides (mitosis).
"The fundamental question we asked was how are the stresses in cancer cells different from those in normal cells?" said Westbrook. "We want to exploit that idea and see if we can exacerbate that stress.
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To identify genes involved in coping with this stress, Westbrook and his colleague Dr. Stephen Elledge of Harvard Medical School used a special RNA interference screen to disrupt the function of each gene in the genome and identify the genes required to allow the cancer cell to tolerate the stress of the myc oncogene.
One of the core biochemical processes they uncovered was SUMOylation, a three-step process. Westbrook, Elledge, and colleagues showed that SUMO-activating enzyme, the first step in the process, is required for myc-driven cancers to go through cell division. Thus, inhibiting SAE could be a therapeutic strategy for myc-cancers.
To test this, they turned off the SAE enzyme in a form of myc-driven breast cancer.
"The tumors stopped growing and many of them melted away," said Westbrook. Today, many of the mice are still alive and healthy. If they did not turn off production of the enzyme, the tumors grew and eventually killed the animals.
"If you inhibit this enzyme in a non-myc driven breast cancer, nothing happens," said Westbrook. "If you inhibit it in normal cells of many kinds, nothing happens."
That means that turning off SAE2 exacerbates the stress on cancer cells but not normal cells and thus be a great way to kill cancers without many of the side effects of traditional chemotherapies.
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The findings in this report have particular importance for an aggressive form of breast cancer called triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). This subtype is often driven by myc, and there are currently no effective treatments for these patients.
"This may provide that target," said Westbrook. The therapeutic value is that a drug targeting SAE will cause the cancer cell to no longer tolerate myc but will not be detrimental to normal cells.
In addition, myc drives many others kinds of cancers and he anticipates that inhibiting this enzyme in these tumors may have the same effect.
Others who took part in this work include Jessica D. Kessler, Tingting Sun, Kristen L. Meerbrey, Earlene M. Schmitt, Samuel O. Skinner, Mitchell Rao, Peng Yu, Rocio Dominguez-Vidana, Ronald J. Bernardi, Tiffany Hsu, Ido Golding, C. Kent Osborne, Chad J. Creighton, Susan G. Hilsenbeck, Rachel Schiff, Chad A. Shaw, all of BCM; ,Kristopher T. Kahle, Michael R. Schlabach, Qikai Xu, Mamie Z. Li, Anthony C. Liang and Nicole L. Solimini, all of Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital; Bing Yu and Ji Luo, both of the National Cancer Institute and Zachary C. Hartman of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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On Wednesday, April 18th, The Department of Community Justice, will honor Professor Deborah Arthur-Smith, during the during the Multnomah County Annual Volunteer Award Ceremony for her outstanding work many hours of service in helping DCJ to achieve their mission.
Professor Deborah Arthur's Juvenile Justice Capstone Class from Portland State University works with the DCJ every term train 15-20 Portland State University students how to work with inmates in the juvenile detention detail and help facilitate writing workshops using the national curriculum called: The Beat Within (http://www.beatwithin.org/). The Beat Within is a writing forum/publication for incarcerated youth from all over the country. Detention inmates have been very receptive and open-minded when Capstone students are facilitating the topic/project as the students have had a normalizing affect on youth in detention.
Professor Arthur and 11 other recipients will be recognized for providing a wide variety of experience, enthusiasm and creativity to the DCJ. Congratulations to all of the award recipients; they provide a very valuable service to the Department of Community Justice.
The Multnomah County Annual Volunteer Award Ceremony will begin at 4:45 PM in the Commissioners' Boardroom on the first floor of the Multnomah Building. A reception will follow.


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GLOBALFOUNDRIES signed a MOU with Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Masdar Institute of Science and Technology of Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Nov. 26, to set up an Abu Dhabi-Singapore Twin Lab. The Twin Lab will aim to advance electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technologies for automotive, aerospace, consumer, healthcare, environmental monitoring, industrial and mobility applications.
The announcement was made at the 7th convening of the Abu Dhabi-Singapore Joint Forum (ADJSF) hosted in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands Expo Convention Centre. The total funding pledged was US $21 million for three years.
The Twin Lab is a unique collaborative effort between research institutions and industry with GF as the industrial partner. GF will serve as an overall program manager, as well as manufacturing partner for the Twin Lab. The partnership will help GF to expand its IP portfolio to address MEMS high-volume manufacturing at effective cost levels and capacity to serve the fast growing MEMS market.
As the academic partner, Abu Dhabi's Masdar Institute will develop device designs based on market requirements and the Institute of Microelectronics Singapore will serve as the research institute for the execution of design concepts. GF will work closely with ATIC and EDB to bring these concepts into realization.
The initial areas of focus for the Twin Lab will include MEMS inertial sensors, energy harvesters, nano-opto-mechanical sensors, and ultrasonic transducers. The collaboration is intended to deliver capabilities that can mitigate power issues in high performance devices, such as automobile, industrial and autonomous wireless sensor nodes. It is also expected to improve sensitivity and accuracy for effective detection in healthcare, aerospace and industry applications.
"We are pleased to be in a strategic and mutually beneficial collaboration with the renowned research institutes from Singapore and Abu Dhabi," said Mr. K. C. Ang, Senior Vice President and General Manager of GF Singapore. "This joint partnership will enable us to harness their R&D capabilities to create innovative technologies that will further solidify and strengthen our foundation in MEMS manufacturing."


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Celebrate The Right To Share On 'World Intellectual Property Day'
from the not-the-right-to-lock-up-speech deptThe folks at the human rights organization Article 19, who are focused on protecting free speech around the globe (as per Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), are using today -- which is technically "World Intellectual Property Day" -- to set forth their Principles on Freedom of Expression and Copyright, also known as The Right To Share.
These Principles seek to establish a framework which can be used to ensure firstly, that the right to freedom of expression and the ability to share knowledge and culture are fully protected in the digital age; and secondly, that copyright interests do not unduly restrict them. The Principles also seek to promote positive measures which foster both the free flow of information and ideas and greater access to knowledge and culture on the Internet and beyond.The full document is well worth a read. It's available in a variety of languages, though I've embedded the English version below. It is truly unfortunate that, over the years, certain copyright maximalists have increasingly used copyright as a tool to stifle free speech and to lock up speech, when, as the principles note, its purpose is supposed to be to encourage and enable more speech. If we start from that principle, we can start to look more closely at what a more reasonable policy might look like, and it's great to see the folks at Article 19 jumping into the fray.
The Principles were developed as a result of concerns that the fundamental human right to freedom of expression, guaranteed in UN and regional human rights instruments and nearly every national constitution, has been increasingly eroded on the grounds of protecting copyright. The Internet has been at the centre of an alarming expansion of copyright claims at the expense of freedom of expression and, more generally, the protection of human rights. These Principles affirm that the right to freedom of expression and the free flow of information and ideas cannot be seen as marginal to such developments.
Freedom of expression – that is, the freedom of all people to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds - is the foundation of diversity within cultural expression, creativity and innovation. It is, therefore, an essential part of the right to participate freely in the cultural life of society, enjoying the arts and sharing in scientific advancement: the very benefits that copyright exists to promote.
Along those lines, it is rather silly to see something like "World Intellectual Property Day," because "intellectual property" -- or, more specifically, patents, copyrights and trademarks (leaving aside the other smaller categories) -- should never be seen as an end in and of itself, or something to celebrate in and of itself. The point (officially speaking, though some argue there were truly ulterior motives) from the beginning in the US was supposed to be that it would be a tool to "promote the progress" (with copyright and patents) or to act as a form of consumer protection (with trademarks). Tragically, we've strayed far from those ideals, where the concept of locking up and shutting down ideas, expression and the like is considered a perfectly reasonable action under today's laws, in part because the pursuit of "intellectual property" for the sake of "intellectual property." It is this distortion that is such a big part of the problem in the various debates held on the topic. Moving us back to some basic principles of free speech and looking at what best promotes free speech, open expression and creativity seems like a very good idea, rather than automatically assuming that "intellectual property" itself is the goal.
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Carondelet High swimming standout Chelsea Chenault has given an oral commitment to USC.
The middle distance specialist chose the Trojans over Cal, Virginia and Georgia after taking official visits to all four campuses this fall.
"When I went (to USC) on junior day I just had this connection and loved the school," Chenault said. "When I went on my (recruiting) trip, I built a bond with the girls and even the guys and it made me realize that's where I wanted to go."
Chenault, a senior, is the North Coast Section record holder in the 500-yard freestyle and as well as the defending section champion in the 200 freestyle. She's also well-known on the national swim scene.
Chenault, a Walnut Creek native, just missed qualifying for the London Olympics. She placed eighth at the Olympic Trials in the 200-meter freestyle, an event in which the top six finishers are selected to the Olympic team.
But her summer was still plenty successful. She earned a spot on the U.S. team for the FINA Short Course World Championships in Istanbul this December after taking second in the 200 freestyle at this summer's U.S. Open.
Chenault also took first place in the 200-meter freestyle at the Junior Pan-Pacific Championships.


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Friday night, SR and I went on our first movie date. He had the afternoon off and we had gone to our prenatal appointment where he and our midwife manipulated my cervix for a while determining dilation, station and effacement.
Then we went to see the late afternoon showing of Juno. It's a very good story and SR and I found ourselves crying a bit more than is acceptable in public (and in front of our co-workers nonetheless). Then we went out for some pretty bad Chinese food. We did learn that my year's sign in China is a sheep and SR's is a rabbit, signs that are meant to be together, but that was no surprise.
But then the excruciating back pain started. I had to get out at about 12pm for a cervix check and there had been minimal change and the baby was face up! Ahhh! That was how I was born and my whole life I've heard stories of my mother's agonizing 48 hour labor with me. I was cursed! Apparently only 1% of babies are born face up, but perhaps it runs in our family.
More than slightly discouraged, I asked for water papules to be injected into my back. This saline injection treats pain a lot like acupuncture (by confusing the pain signals) and worked so well. But only for a half an hour.
By 1pm I was in absolute agony again. Now screaming and crying with each cursed contraction. At 2pm, the next cervical check showed again very little change. We were pretty much all thinking he was stuck at this point, but no one wanted to say it.
SR, the midwife and the nurse all recommended I get an epidural so I could relax and give the baby a chance to turn. I'd do anything to avoid a c-section.
It took 2 1/2 hours before the anesthesiologist arrived to do the epidural. There were a lot of tears and "why me?"s involved. Poor SR didn't know what to do to comfort me, but he did. I did get fentanyl and nubain in the meantime. I went from the all-natural-birth girl to the drug seeker pretty quickly once I realized all the pain wasn't bringing the baby any faster.
Then, I got the epidural.
Wow! Why would anyone not get this????
Over the next three hours, my cervix went from 5cm to complete. And there was no pain. I actually slept for a couple of hours while the baby turned.
I woke up ready to push, feeling just a slight pelvic pressure with each contraction. And after 15 minutes of pushing, there he was. And we thought we had cried a lot at the movie.Now we could love a real human. All 6lbs 1 oz of him.
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The East Bay will be getting the latest edition of Apple's popular and sleek stores.
This Saturday a new Apple Store will open along 4th Street in Berkeley. The story was first reported by Berkeleyside.com and finally confirmed by Apple.
The store will open Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. and it will give away T-shirts to the first 1,000 people who walk through the doors.
Apple's newest store will open at 1823 4th St., along a popular strip of stores that include Crate and Barrel, Z Gallerie, CB2 and more.


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Managers Can Be More Awake By Improving Your Blood Circulation
Does your management job require you to sit in front of a desk a lot? Your job might be the reason why you are becoming more and more forgetful with each passing day and why you are struggling to focus. Sitting for long periods of time is actually killing you because you don't get a proper workout so your body can burn fat and sugar and the way you are sitting is constantly affecting your blood circulation. When your blood circulation is affected your mind doesn't get quite as much oxygen as it needs and is slowly shutting down. When your mind and body does not get enough oxygen you can soon start experiencing pain in your legs and back and you will soon grow forgetful, sleepy and distracted.
Top ways to improve blood circulation
Your business is important to you and, unlike what most people believe, the boss is actually the one who puts the most hours and effort into keeping a business running. Most business managers and owners will spend a lot of extra after hours to keep their businesses up and running. That means that you are probably spending eight plus hours in front of a desk on certain days which is terrible for your body. Here are some great ways to improve blood circulation so you can stay focused during your grueling work sessions;
Get compression socks – Compression socks were originally used in hospitals for medical reasons. These socks are great for improving blood circulation to legs by adding pressure and heat to your legs. Compression socks for men is great for when you are active because they keep your muscles firm and prevents injuries and they are great for sitting in front of the desk because they prevent swelling and promote great blood flow to your toes and ankles.
Put your feet up – You are the boss and there is no one who is going to tell you that you cannot put your feet up a bit during your tough day. When you elevate your legs a bit you improve blood circulation and reduce varicose veins. You can also continue working on your laptop even though your feet are in the air for a bit.
Drink water – Drinking plenty of water is essential for keeping your body healthy. Your organs can remove toxins and poisons much easier from your body and your blood flow will be improved when you are nice and hydrated. Warm water is best because they keep your veins nice and open so you can be focused and alert.
Move a bit – Just because you can't take frequent breaks when you have a lot of work to do doesn't mean you can't move at all. Start creating the habit of moving your legs from side to side throughout the day. You probably don't move around in your chair a lot since it is a sign of nervousness but moving around can be incredibly healthy to your body because you are constantly shifting your position so blood can get to all parts of your body and you are actually getting in a mini workout throughout the day without ever realizing it.…Read More


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DIY Ruffle Cuffs Presented by Amann Group Mettler
Added Nov 28, 2011
By burdastyle
New York, New Yo...
Many of us are in love with ruffles and cuffs a la Chanel, but if you don't want to don the look head-to-toe (or can't afford to), you can still include ruffles in your style repertoire. If you're looking for an easy sewing project or a potential gift for the holiday season to doll up one's wardrobe, try this DIY ruffled cuff project! We made a matching set of ruffled cuffs to dress up a black 3/4-length sleeve blouse and embellished them with pearls.
It's important to use strong thread when making the gathering stitches, so we send a huge thank you to Amann Group Mettler for providing us with their 8-Spool Silk Finish Thread kit.
Inspiration for ruffle cuffs from the runways of Chanel and Marc Jacobs. Click on the instructions tab for the tutorial!
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Nov 29, 2011, 04.25 AMby freakusbzzz
Pleas don't make me these for my Xmas gift!! I think I'd die.
Nov 28, 2011, 11.41 PMby Timea Schmidt
seriously?? a la Chanel??
Nov 28, 2011, 09.48 PMby carottesauvage
hum..the second featured project in a row sponsored by a some sort of corporation…is that the new party line?
Nov 28, 2011, 07.07 PMby lennert
Clever idea!
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How to Replace Sealed-Beam Headlights
Older vehicles have sealed-beam units, which are relatively easy to deal with. If one of your headlights ceases to shine, first consult your owner's manual to see whether it contains instructions for replacing the bulb. If it doesn't, the following steps should get you through the job with a minimum of hassle:
Make sure that the vehicle's ignition is off before you open the unit.
Remove any exterior rings or frames that surround the headlight.
If you need some exotic tool to do this, forget the job and have it done professionally.
Loosen the retaining plate that holds the unit in place.
The plate has several screws; round headlights have three screws that loosen the plate, and rectangular headlights have four. The other screws align the headlights by adjusting the angle of the bulb.
If you turn the wrong screws, your headlights go out of alignment, so check your owner's manual for details.
Remove the headlight.
If the retaining screws stick, spray a little penetrating solvent (like WD-40) on them. Hold onto the headlight as you remove the screws so that it doesn't fall out and smash.
Pull the wiring connector off the back of the old bulb and set the bulb out of the way.
Scrape any corrosion off the connector, and check its wiring for wear.
If the connector is very corroded or the wiring looks bad, the problem with the light may be in the wiring rather than the bulb. You'll know for sure in a minute. . . .
Plug the wiring into the new bulb, and insert the bulb into the receptacle.
Be sure to put the new bulb into its locking slots with the unit number at the top. Any small bumps you find on the back edge of the bulb should align with corresponding little depressions in the socket.
Hold the bulb in place while you put back the retaining plate. Then replace whatever trim surrounded the headlight.
Turn your headlights on. If the bulb is still out and the fuse is okay, have a professional diagnose and fix the problem.


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Nepal: mine risk education
23-03-2012 PublicationRef. T0016
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All modern-day armed conflicts have left behind problems of explosive remnants of war (ERW), usually for years or even decades after the conflict ended. Nepal is no exception and during the decade-long conflict the parties to the conflict used improvised explosive devices (IEDs), landmines and other types of explosive devices. Due to the nature of the conflict, explosive ordnance contamination was widespread and has affected many different districts in all five regions of the country.
This publication in Nepali.


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Van Drunen Farms Introduces Drum-dried Butternut Squash
Make foods more nutritious with Drum-dried Butternut Squash from Van Drunen Farms.
Butternut squash is low in calories, high in fiber, and contains a multitude of B vitamins, vitamin A and minerals like zinc, iron and calcium. While this vegetable fits well into a healthy diet, it also offers a mild, nutty and slightly sweet flavor profile that pairs well with everything from savory entrées to sweet, baked goods.
Available in powder or flake form, VDF's Drum-dried Butternut Squash is certified kosher, offered in conventional or organic varieties, and is a convenient way to add the health benefits of butternut squash to many foods.


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Kerala Drug Controller as per Order No. L.122253/11/DC dated 29.12.2011 banned the use of plastic containers in Homoeopathic medicine dispensing.
As per schedule M1 of Drugs and Cosmetic Rules 1945, it is found that plastic containers may not be used, as they are react with the ingredients present in Homoeopathic Medicine.
You are instructed to desist from using plastic containers in Homoeopathic Medicines and inform the compliance to this office.
Yours faithfully
Drug Controller/ IC
Office of the Drug Controller
Source : Homoeosasthravedi 2012 March issue


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On August 17, 2010, I got an e-mail from Facebook notifying me that I had received a message. It was from my ex-boyfriend's mother. Its subject heading was "Goodbye from Nancy and Bill." Nancy and Bill are my ex-boyfriend's parents, though I've changed their names (and those of everyone else here). I opened the message with great curiosity and a little terror. Why was Nancy saying goodbye? Was she finally moving to Switzerland to live near her brother and his Japanese wife? Did she have a terminal illness? The message said:
Hi, Lena—Bill and I remember you with such pleasure and fondness! But it's time to sever the Facebook connection so I'm going to block you. We wish you all the BEST!
I was dumbfounded. I can only compare it to the feeling of opening your cupboard to grab a cookie, but instead of getting a cookie you get dick-slapped. I wanted to write back "Why?" I wanted to write back "What the fuck?" I wanted to write back "Like I'd even notice if you just unfriended me, or even if you died, you crazy fucking hag." But I couldn't. I couldn't write anything. Because she had blocked me.
Close to tears, I called my mother. My mom is a Long Island Jew, and my dad is a Connecticut Wasp, and they were in Deer Isle, Maine, visiting his best friend from boarding school. Everyone but my mom was out sailing on a boat known as Cognac; she was inside the cottage, having an asthma attack. That is, she was happily avoiding day-old tuna salad and being asked to "grab the rudder for a second" and reading Vanity Fair by the land line instead. I told her the story, and she was scandalized. "How inappropriate!" she cried. "How wrong! That woman is a grownup, and you are a child. Why would she do this?" She told me to write a levelheaded query about it to my ex-boyfriend, Noah. I did as I was told. A model of equanimity, I forwarded the message to him with the heading "What the fuck is this shit?"
He wrote back quickly: "Oh my god. Well, I was just hanging out with them and we kept on getting into these conversations (with my grandparents, too) about the Internet and virtual spaces and avatars. . . . Something must have reorganized in her thinking about her online presence. She means it when she says she remembers you with pleasure and fondness. By the way, I have moved to the Bay Area. I hope you are well."
He had moved? Without even telling me? After a year and a half of my telling people that I wished he would move and not even tell me? I was insulted. And I wouldn't drop it. I e-mailed him again: "What did I do? What set it off? Was it the trailer for my movie? Was it my Twitter?" He conceded that Nancy did feel she learned too much about me from my status updates. Like the one where I said something like "It's Christmas day and I have a raging UTI—do you think I got it from watching 9½ weeks?" Or was it the one that sort of goes "I want to date a male flight attendant. Everyone I've slept with is gay anyway." Here's the thing, or at least a thing, about me—I hate offending people. Even though I love the feel of something vaguely offensive on my tongue, I guess I want to have my cake and tweet it, too.
I promptly unlinked my Twitter and Facebook accounts. I was both angry and mortified. The thought of Nancy consciously deciding that she didn't want to hear what I had to say was torturing me. It's not as if we were soul twins. She was a former est person. She was always doing cleanses, yet she still had an inner tube of flesh around her middle—something that I wouldn't begrudge if her son hadn't once told me that he thought Nancy and I had "the same genre of body." She put hot clarified butter in her eyeballs with a dropper, which is supposedly an Ayurvedic tradition. When Noah was young, she would walk him to school, walk straight home, and lie in a patch of sun on the carpet until it was time to pick him up. She recounted this more as an act of devotion and less as a symptom of an almost Victorian melancholy. She noticed that I always picked all the carrots out of my stir fry.
The main result of Nancy's Facebook rejection was to send me down memory lane in a pretty disconcerting way. My relationship with Noah had, I realized, ended two years before, to the day—on August 17, 2008—after a year and a half of dating that felt like fifty. The emotional acrobatics involved turned my heart into a hardened little gymnast with tiny tits and a leotard wedgie. Although I usually refer to him as "that interpretive dancer I dated," Noah was, in fact, my best friend and arguably the only man I've ever truly loved.
I met him junior year at Oberlin. He had recently returned from six months in India and wore hemp cargo pants that in theory were offensive; in practice, they highlighted his lean, impressive body as he strode across the quad, deep in thought. Our first meeting took place in the cafeteria. My friend Molly and I were pounding veggie burgers and planning an ironic weekend trip to the Cleveland Salvation Army when Noah and his friend Brian walked in. It was snowing, and they were both wearing giant high-tech mittens that made them look like Transformers. They sat down at our table. They were holding hands.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"It's an experiment," Noah told me. "Girls hold hands with their friends all the time. Why can't Brian and I do it, too?"
I said something unenlightened like "Because it looks super gay. Are you gay?"
He eyed me with vague sadness (and did I detect some wanton longing?). "I used to wonder about that," he said. "But then I realized that being gay is much too easy a solution for the problem that I have."
Suddenly, he was everywhere: in the library, leaving a screening of "J'Accuse," parking his bicycle and running into the general store to buy two apples. He told me that he ate only meat and fruit, and that he slept without a pillow or a blanket. He was writing his cinema-studies thesis about "Hook," using it as "a metaphor for self-actualization and childhood regression." He gave me the thesis to read. I read seven pages, enough to determine that he was probably very smart, then I put it down in favor of the autobiography of Rupert Everett.
Noah took a liking to me. I could just tell. We hung out a lot, but he never tried to kiss me. He told me that sex was "complicated" for him, and that he was more interested in figuring out his life's work. The night before spring break began, he came over to my dorm. I was near tears because I had left a mess of dishes in the sink for almost a month and they had sprouted a terrifying mold. He rolled up the sleeves of what was, in hindsight, a blouse of some kind, and he washed every one. "I don't mind," he said. "Just as long as you'll keep talking to me."
People started seeing us around campus together. "I'm warning you," a friend told me. "He's weird with girls. I've never known him to kiss anyone more than once." I didn't really care. Everything I said made him laugh. He took notes in a tiny brown notebook. I took note of every one of his wonderful inconsistencies.
Our campus held a drag ball every April. The event was notorious: Students cross-dressed. They fucked while cross-dressed. Guys from our small and stunted football team stumbled home at dawn in nothing but sports bras and Juicy sweatpants. I avoided the event—I've hated dressing like a boy ever since theatre camp—and Noah wasn't interested, either. We stayed in my room and listened to Leonard Cohen, like real originals, and our hands crept toward one another at that glacial pace you see only in French films and twee music videos. Then we were kissing. It was raining outside, and on the way over he'd gotten his pants and long johns soaked. He took them off and hung them on my collapsible hamper to dry. So he was naked. But we only kissed. I told him I'd rather not have a sleepover. He put on his pants but left his long johns. After he went back to his dorm, I sat on the tiles in the public shower and tried to decide whether I loved him or hated him.
Overnight, his long johns dried into a crunchy, twisted shape, like that bog man they found in Ireland, all hard and brown, millennia after his death. I announced to my friends that he made too many appreciative kissing noises and had a cereal-box-shaped head, like James Van Der Beek from "Dawson's Creek." But the next day, when he walked into the computer lab, the feeling in my gut was just stupid happy.
I can draw a very clear diagram of the sixteen months that followed. At first, he liked me more than I liked him, but then, suddenly, I loved him. Which is a word he thought implied ownership and all kinds of hetero-normative things that smart people avoid, but it was what I felt. I would watch his strong back as he rose from bed to get a Mason jar of water and think, That's mine. He graduated but stuck around our college town, though he swore it wasn't because of me. I started wearing clogs and baking a lot of gluten-free foods for him—gluten made him feel slow and sad, he said—and stopped speaking to most of my friends. All my explanations for this behavior are purely conjecture at this point, because, four years later, it's so hard for me to tap into the well of desperate emotion the relationship unleashed in me. I'd spent my entire life getting my kicks from various esoteric hobbies (fashion illustration! Shrinky Dinks!) and quality time with my nuclear family, but here he was. My only pleasure. I told him I hoped we would die at the same time in the mouth of a lion.
Relationships often change people, but this was a weird one, because I was the same before and after it, but very different during. Aside from the obvious clogs, which I now sported daily, I was wildly supportive of pursuits I would normally parody. For instance, he told me that he was applying to a graduate program in Internet studies; he was interested in hypertext and the psychology of linking. During the coldest months of winter, he spent most of his time updating a blog he kept set to private.
When I graduated, we'd been together for more than a year. I have a few photographs of me with my diploma and my father at graduation, but even more of Noah looking forlorn on the lawn as he waited for me to enter the adult world. He'd spent Christmas with my family, and Passover, too. We took mushrooms together twice and Ecstasy once. The first time we "shroomed," we stayed in his room and I saw exactly what he'd look like as an old man.
After graduation, we took a two-week trip to Mexico. I made reservations at an eco-resort with no electricity or Internet access. He didn't bring any books, because, he said, he wanted to meditate, but when we got there he was just bored. Also, I had no idea it was a nudist resort: suburban couples frolicking nude and then eating nachos—still nude. Noah wore a hat and a long-sleeved shirt with S.P.F. built into it. At night, I lay in bed full of fear that he might not be the man I'd marry, even though he'd already told me, in no uncertain terms, he didn't plan on marrying me, at least not until he'd had "a long period of solitary seeking."
We moved to Brooklyn to house-sit for my high-school voice teacher. The apartment was plastered with posters of all the great divas and was home to three cats. Noah was, of course, horribly allergic to cats. But he had never known that, because people who put butter in their eyes usually don't let their kids have cats. I went to work as an intern for a socially conscious documentary filmmaker, and did a lousy job of sorting footage of a lesbian detective, while Noah sat at home updating his invisible blog. He mostly ate canned beans and basmati rice that he prepared in a rice cooker. We almost never had sex. He got into Internet college and decided not to go.
I took a trip with my parents, and he stayed behind with the cats he couldn't touch. I read "Eat, Pray, Love," and it seemed applicable somehow to my life. I called him all the time. I called him, crying, from a rocky beach in Greece and a balcony in Rome and an airport in Chicago. I spent about a thousand dollars calling him. When I got home, we went to see an Argentinian acrobatics show, and he told me that he was moving back to his parents' house, in Arizona, on August 17th. Two years to the day before Nancy unfriended me.
Noah remained interested in hallucinogenic drugs. The night before he left New York, he went to an ayahuasca ceremony in Williamsburg, where he met more cultural anthropologists than I knew Brooklyn could hold. He phoned me at four in the morning. The ceremony was over, and I called a car service and picked him up. He said that the drugs hadn't really worked. We lay in bed clutching each other, and the next morning he kissed me goodbye and wheeled his suitcase out into the hall. I ran to the elevator just as it was closing, and cried even more at the injustice of this. I called him, crying, every day for a month. Often, Nancy picked up. Noah said I needed to accept that the relationship was over. I moved in with my parents and developed a crush on a rude guy in a fedora at my menial job and rekindled my old friendships. I started to relax.
One morning in October, I awoke at eleven to see Noah standing above me. My parents, who are artists, were out of town, I was asleep in their bed, and my mom's studio assistant had buzzed him inside. He was wearing a parka and carrying a bag of rice and beans and a bunch of daisies dyed purple, the kind you find in finer Korean delis. He had moved back to New York, he said. He missed me. I found everything about him revolting.
"Maybe it's because you're hurt," my therapist said. "Sometimes hurt manifests itself as anger when you love someone a lot and try very hard and they don't accept that love." I refused this analysis. For months, he wrote me heartbroken e-mails. He was living five miles away, in Brooklyn, but I wouldn't see him.
Later, I found out that he was involved with a man, and I threw up. He came to a screening of a movie I'd made, and he had an asymmetrical haircut and the kind of cool shoes I had given up to be with him.
In a strange twist of fate, I now live across the hall from the voice teacher. Every night I come home and open the door directly opposite the one we shared, and step into the apartment where I live happily alone. I don't think about it very often, but occasionally there's a smell—a whiff of cat, of stale air-conditioner, of a frozen gluten-free pizza warming—that is so purely ours that I could resume being a woman who cries dolefully every fifteen minutes at some perceived slight. One night recently, as I headed out to the corner store, my voice teacher popped his head out at me. "Oh, hey," he said. "I have your boyfriend's rice cooker." ♦


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text: SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION (As approved February 3, 2005) Minutes of the regular meeting of Thursday, December 16, 2004. The San Francisco Public Library Commission held a regular meeting on Thursday, December 16, 2004 in the Koret Auditorium, Main Library. The meeting was called to order by President Higueras at 4:11pm. The following members were present: Bautista, Chin, Higueras, Steiman, and Strobin. Commissioner Coulter was reported excused attendance. Agenda Items: 1) Public Comment 2) Approval of the Minutes of the November 18th Meeting 3) Library Budget Workshop 4) Bond Program Manager's Report 5) Adjournment APPENDIX A -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #1 PUBLIC COMMENT An anonymous member of the public commented on aspects of the closed session meeting held on December 6th that this individual found questionable. Ms. Rosemary Wren requested that the Library have a holiday tree and recounted her efforts to persuade library staff to put up a holiday tree. Additionally Ms. Wren offered to facilitate donation of a tree and expressed concern with staff's negative response to her request in 2003. Mr. Peter Warfield thanked the Commissioners for not reducing hours but expressed disappointment that the growth in the Library's budget made possible by Prop. E (Library Preservation Fund 1994) did not in his view result in commensurate increases in books and hours. Mr. Warfield also requested clarification of the status of RFID at the Library, recommending that references to it be eliminated from the Strategic Plan. In response to Ms. Wren's comments and President Higueras' request, Acting Deputy City Librarian Marcia Schneider noted that while the Library had holiday trees in the past, changes in City policies and previous expressions of concern at their appropriateness had resulted in not having such trees in recent years. Ms. Schneider noted that perhaps after clarification of City policies, a holiday tree might be possible next year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 18TH MEETING Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 18TH MEETING An anonymous member of the public commented on omissions and inaccuracies in the Minutes citing: report Vice President Steiman's announcement that the quorum would be lost at 5pm and that public comment would be therefore limited; and Commissioner Coulter's six points concerning the City Librarian Search process that were not specifically detailed in these minutes. Mr. Peter Warfield found several inaccuracies and omissions in these minutes report of discussions, citing: a comment by Supervisor-Elect Mirkirimi; omission of a request to speak by representatives of the Bernal Height preschool program; and about Vice President Steiman's announcement of when the meeting's quorum would be lost. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #2 APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF THE NOVEMBER 18TH MEETING MOTION: by Commissioner Bautista, 2nd Commissioner Chin for approval of the November 18, 2004 regular meeting minutes. ACTION: AYE 5-0 (Bautista, Chin, Higueras, Steiman, and Strobin) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #3 2005-06 LIBRARY BUDGET WORKSHOP Former Library Chief Financial Officer George Nichols presented a detailed overview of the City and the Library's budget outlook for 2005-06 calling attention to the impact of the loss of two proposed revenue measures in November and a continuing decline in general Fund tax revenues accruing to the Library. Mr. Nichols highlighted how the Library staff had responded to the Mayor's Budget Office's request for reductions in this year's budget and discussed the continuing impact of loss of General Fund revenues in the next year. Mr. Nichols additionally noted that the revenue loses were only one half of the problem and that continuing escalation in mandated personnel and work order costs beyond the Library's control would have significant cost increase impact in upcoming budget cycles. Mr. Nichols then outlined this year's budget schedule noting that an approved 2005-06 Budget had to be submitted to the Mayor's Budget office by February 22nd. Mr. Nichols noted that detailed proposals would be brought to the Commissioners for their consideration and review at their January 20th and February meetings. The former Chief Financial Officer reported that the Library's Finance Office staff were considering both short-term steps and long-term planning necessary to address the likely budget challenges. Mr. Nichols noted that there were sufficient funds available to maintain current levels of services but that this would become increasingly difficult as increases in baseline costs beyond the Library's control continued to occur. Mr. Nichols suggested that in the future, no part of the budget could be considered immune from review and that the Library would have to carefully manage and strategically expend its reserve funds during the next three difficult budget cycles. Public comment AGENDA ITEM #3 2005-06 LIBRARY BUDGET WORKSHOP An anonymous member of the public questioned the creditability of Mr. Nichols' report, suggesting that $300,000 on reserve for RFID proposed to be cut from this years' budget was additionally programmed to be spent on youth employment. This person also suggested that the budget report did not take into consideration the budget savings that would occur as branches were closed during renovation and assumed costs. Mr. Peter Warfield expressed concern with investment of limited funds in technology, citing RFID in particular, and expressed puzzlement with what was meant by the proposed cut of reserved funding for it. Mr. Warfield wanted an explicit abandonment of use of RFID, asked about the allocation of the $300,000 on reserve for RFID for youth jobs, and suggested that Library funds be spent on books and hours instead of staff salaries. Commission discussion of the 2005-06 LIBRARY BUDGET WORKSHOP President Higueras began the discussion by noting that given the fiscal realities everything had to be placed on the table for review. President Higueras noted that there would be a need to re-evaluate personnel expenditures with a view toward finding new ways to better deliver public services and that new technologies offered opportunities to maintain current services. The Commission President noted that the Commission and Library staff should seize this opportunity to make long-term plans anticipating new ways of doing business so that the Library could continue to serve the community despite future budget issues. President Higueras urged staff to take the next two months to carefully craft their plan. Commissioner Chin recommended that the Library consult experts and look to teen users to see where the future demands for services would be. Commissioner Chin recommended considering what other libraries are doing addressing what the future of our libraries might be like. Vice President Steiman observed that care must be exercised when cutting administration and back of house services because inevitably such reductions lead to reduced quality in front line public services. Vice President Steiman noted that our Library had a larger proportion of higher classification librarian positions than most and that reconsideration and reallocation of these resources, intelligent use of automation, and careful cost/benefit review of proposed changes could maintain our quality services even in difficult budget times. Commissioner Bautista recommended vigilance against efforts to divert dedicated Library funds to other city purposes and inquired about escalations of employee healthcare costs. In response to the questions about the elimination of the $300, 000 on reserve for RFID, Mr. Nichols noted that cutting of these funds was not a policy decision but merely a response to the request for reductions by the Mayor's Budget Office. Acting City Librarian Paul Underwood noted that the Library remained committed to implementing RFID as had been previously discussed and suggested that funds for that purpose would be included in the proposed 2005-06 Budget. In response to the Commissioners' discussion, Acting City Librarian Paul Underwood and Mr. Nichols noted that staff were considering structural changes that would address many of the points raised including a process over time to convert some librarian positions to other uses. In response to a query by President Higueras, Mr. Nichols noted that the $300,000 in reserve funds would simply drop out of this year's budget and that Supervisor Daly had been informed of the Library's plan for reductions. President Higueras noted that the Library Commission remained committed to a process that would thoroughly consider RFID before going forward with implementation. In response to a question by Vice President Steiman, Mr. Nichols reported that no layoffs were envisioned in next year's budget. In response to a query by Commissioner Bautista, it was noted that landscaping work orders from the Recreation and Park Department could be given greater scrutiny. Commissioner Bautista noted that it was important that POE (Post Occupancy Evaluation) Report related Main Library improvements be continued. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #4 BOND PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT Branch Library Improvement Program Manager Marilyn Thompson presented her regular three part report beginning by noting that there would be no informational presentation at this meeting. Ms. Thompson then presented her budget, schedule, active projects reports and a construction report, (copy attached). The BLIP Manager then reported on upcoming community and outreach meetings, the 6th Floor Main Library display, and the current issue of the Bond Program newsletter. Ms. Thompson concluded her report by presenting the staff response (copy attached) to the Peer Panel Review and recommendations for changes in the design for the renovation of the Western Addition Branch Library. Vice President Steiman left the meeting at 5:34pm. Due to an impending loss of the meetings' quorum President Higueras continued Public comment on and Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #4 BOND PROGRAM MANAGER'S REPORT to the January 6, 2005 regular meeting of the Public Library Commission. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENDA ITEM #5 ADJOURNMENT MOTION: by Commissioner Bautista, 2nd Commissioner Chin to adjourn the December 16, 2004 regular Public Library Commission meeting. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #9 ADJOURNMENT None offered. ACTION: AYE 4-0 (Bautista, Chin, Higueras, Strobin) The Commission meeting adjourned at 5:59pm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Housh, Commission Secretary 12/21/04 Please note: Copies of Commission Minutes and handouts are available in the Office of the Commission Secretary, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 ATTACHMENTS: December 10th 2005-06 Library Budget Report Current BLIP Summary Schedule, Budget, and Construction Reports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix A The Public Comment Summary Statements included in these Minutes are authorized by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.16. These summary statements are provided by the speaker. Their contents are neither generated by, nor subject to approval or verification of accuracy by, the San Francisco Public Library Commission. The number of members of the public who spoke anonymously at this meeting. 1 Explanatory documents: Copies of listed explanatory documents are available as follows: (1) from the Commission Secretary/Custodian of Records, Main Library, 6th Floor, (2) in the rear of the Koret Auditorium immediately before and during the meeting, and (3)to the extent possible, on the Library's Web site. Additional materials not listed as explanatory documents, if any, that are distributed to the Library Commissioners prior to or during the meeting in connection with any agenda item will be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with Government Code Section 54954.1 and Sunshine Ordinance §§ 67.9, 67.28(b) & 67.28(d).


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Modern highway tolling is about people, technology and innovation, so it's no surprise that the worldwide tolling industry would come to the Mile High City to hold a major conference. At a time when the United States faces huge challenges in managing and funding its highways, some of the most creative solutions were born here in the Denver metropolitan area.
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A York County, Pa., soldier left partially paralyzed when he was shot in Afghanistan nearly two years ago is banking on stem cells to help him regain movement.
Matthew Hanes, 22, of Manchester Township will head to China in April to undergo surgery to repair part of his damaged spinal cord.
Doctors essentially will use minor surgery and stem cell therapy to build a bridge over two vertebrae that were shattered when Hanes was shot.
"At the minimum I'll get at least some feeling back where I don't have it in certain places, but I could get everything back if it goes well," Hanes said.
U.S. Army Cpl. Hanes was shot while on patrol in Afghanistan in June 2012. He was left with limited use of his upper body and no use of his lower extremities.
RESEARCH: Soon after he returned to the U.S., Hanes began researching stem cell therapy as possible treatment.
That's how he found Puhua International Hospital in Beijing, where he will fly on April 1 for the treatment. He's slated to return stateside later that month.
"It's coming up slowly now that I know it's on," Hanes said.
During his research, Hanes said he found the U.S. is "so far behind on stem cell" research compared to some countries in Asia, such as China, and Europe.
For years, the federal government imposed tight restrictions on stem cell research until it was loosened in 2009 by President Barrack Obama.
THE PROCEDURE: According to the hospital's website, it treated 1,757 patients with spinal cord injuries from 2005 to 2013. Of those, 90 percent showed improvement and 80 percent showed significant improvement.
Hanes said he's hopeful to be in the latter category, but said he knows results vary depending how each body receives the stem cells. He could go back for additional treatments.
"They'll build what they call a nerve graft to build an artificial spinal cord in the section that got severed in the injury," Hanes said.
That bridge will help recreate the flow of nerves in Hanes' spinal cord. After that, he'll undergo stem cell injections.
Hanes said he's keeping positive thoughts as he prepares to fly to China with his mother, Chris; and the trainer of his service dog, Leslie Horton.
"I'm thinking positive about it," he said. "Regardless, I'm getting a little something (improvement) and that's good enough for me."
RECOVERING: Since he was wounded, Hanes has been undergoing rehabilitation, including a months-long stint at a Florida hospital.
But Hanes received some added help about a year ago when service dog Jackson came into his life.
The German shepherd is trained to pick up things for Hanes and help him in and out of his wheelchair.
Community members, including businesses and students, also jumped in to help Hanes before he returned home a year ago. They donated time and money to make his parent's home accessible for Hanes.
"I'm still adapting every day and am finding ways to do things every day," he said. "It has been a long road since I've been injured."
That could all change if the stem cell treatment proves successful.
"If he gets anything out of it, it'll be good," said his father, Lee Hanes. "I'm thrilled to death."
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TEL AVIV—Beyond Verbal Communications Ltd., a voice-recognition software developer here, is rolling out an app promising something Siri can't yet deliver: a readout on how you're feeling.
Called Moodies, it lets a smartphone user speak a few words into the phone's mike to produce, about 20 seconds later, an emotional analysis. Beyond Verbal executives say the app is mostly for self-diagnosis—and a bit of fun: It pairs a cartoon face with each analysis, and users can share the face on Facebook or in a tweet or email....