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It flows through the city; it flows past parks, gravel pits and buildings, but unless it's rising up in a winter flood or we happen to glance down while driving over the I-5 bridge, the Willamette River rarely seems to flow through our minds. Eugene is a river city; the Coast Fork Willamette and the Middle Fork come together to the south and the McKenzie River, the source of Eugene's drinking water, has its confluence with the Willamette to the north. The river goes through the heart of town, carrying our waste, our stormwater and sometimes ourselves — in fishing boats and on inner tubes. It winds its way northward past Corvallis and to Portland where it joins the Columbia and spills out to sea. The river, literally and figuratively, defines us, but the majority of us never think very much about it at all.
A murky industrial "mixing zone" in the willamette near Halsey. Photo by Camilla Mortensen. Aerial support by Lighthawk. |
Water is treated at a pulp mill before being discharged into the Willamette. Photo by Camilla Mortensen. Aerial support by Lighthawk |
Paddling with Willamette Riverkeeper 8 miles downstream from Eugene. Photo courtesy Travis Williams, Willamette Riverkeeper. |
The Willamette River is both meticulously planned, permitted and controlled and yet never completely controllable. As we look to a future of climate change, what President Obama recently called "the destructive power of a warming planet," Eugene is planning around the river, but like most cities, not necessarily planning for global warming's effect on the river such as wintertime flooding and summertime drought. Is the best way to love the urban river to try to make it natural again, or would the Willamette benefit if more urban dwellers had access to the river, even if that access was sitting in a restaurant rather than a park?
In the Eugene/Springfield area there are only three places someone can buy a drink and sit at a table by the river: McMenamins North Bank and Valley River Inn in Eugene and Roaring Rapids Pizza Company in Glenwood. "It's a catch-22," says Joe Moll, executive director of the McKenzie River Trust. "Do we want concrete to the edge of the Willamette? Not really." But he and other river advocates say at the same time in order to get people to understand how much the river matters they need to be able to experience it, even if that experience for a city dweller is sitting at a table, under an umbrella, sipping a drink with a view of the water.
"People can get there and sit, listen to the water and watch the birds fly by," Travis Williams of Willamette Riverkeeper says. "Part of that helps build that connection to the river — most people aren't boaters and aren't inner tubers." Connecting to the river might be what saves what is left of the natural river in face of global warming and growing populations.
Water Flows
Fly over the river in a plane and what looks from the ground to be a fairly straight flow of water is actually a twisting snake of a river. Thanks to human engineering, the Willamette twists a lot less than it used to. "Our ability to manipulate the river far outstrips our ability to think ahead," Moll says. An animal behaviorist before he became a river advocate, he points out that catastrophes tend to be what get our attention in terms of risk, and evolutionarily humans aren't necessarily hardwired to think about long-term consequences. Those consequences include impacts from industry, homes, pavement, natural disasters and gradually warming temperatures.
The historic manipulation of the river is one reason Eugene has the urban riverfront that it does today, says developer Hugh Prichard. The last of the Willamette's 13 dams was built in the 1960s, he says, and before that historical flooding meant that the riverfront through Eugene was not seen as developable. Much of the damming up the river and the zoning in towns down the river was done in the '40s and '50s, he says, adding that the feeling at the time was that areas along the river that could flood were not suitable for houses and restaurants but instead better as industrial sites. The dams, while bad for fish, were good for controlling the Willamette's flooding.
Before damming the river, the Army Corps of Engineers also removed side channels and islands to improve the river for navigation in the mid-to-late 1800s to allow steam-powered paddle-wheel boats and other large craft to ply the waters, sometimes as far south as Eugene. Later, towns and gravel mines concreted and rip-rapped the riverbanks to control the channel and the river's tendency to flood and to meander. Eugene, Springfield and other cities began to empty our industrial waste, sewage and stormwater into its flows, all of this leading to the urban river we now have.
Warmer Waters
In recent years restoration projects along the Willamette have tried to undo some of the effects of past wrongs to the river. Moll's McKenzie River Trust works to restore islands, side channels and woody debris. Watershed councils work to restore tributaries such as the Long Tom River and in urban Eugene the Be Noble Foundation is trying to buy the land where the headwaters of Amazon Creek lie. But the river is facing a new challenge, one that though we recognize it, we aren't required to plan for: climate change.
"We're expecting more winter rain instead of snow, less snowpack, less late spring and summer flows," says Babe O'Sullivan, the city of Eugene's sustainability liaison. Lower summer flows could affect the river's ability to dilute wastewater and more winter flooding could bring more contaminants into the water.
"The plans that are currently in place don't account for climate change but it's something we are working on," O'Sullivan says.
Matt McRae, a climate and energy analyst with the City Manager's Office, says that they are specifically looking at critical infrastructure — things like hospitals, police departments, fire departments, schools because they tend to be shelters — and making a plan to over time to move infrastructure away from the river, outside of the flood zone, because of a recognition that "that flooding is likely to intensify here, both river flooding and urban flooding in the streets."
When Eugene does its planning around the Willamette, it takes into account natural disasters such as historic flooding and earthquakes, says Carolyn Burke from the city of Eugene's Planning Division. It also takes into account statewide planning goals that were put into place to protect timber and farming and prevent urban sprawl. Goal 5 sets standards for open spaces, scenic and historic areas and natural resources. Goal 15 established the Willamette Greenway, which says that space, public access, native vegetation and scenic views must be considered when planning new developments. Though Nena Lovinger of LandWatch Lane County warns, "The Willamette River Greenway Program has good intentions but no teeth." She says, "It lacks strong legal hooks needed to prevent development that damages natural, scenic and historical aspects of the riverine environment."
That riverine environment is altering thanks to climate change, but according to Philip Mote of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute (OCCRI), most state and municipal governments are not required to use best available science to plan for future issues, such as global warming. Eugene and Lane County are no different, but Eugene is trying to take a different tack, according to McRae, and bring climate change into the equation in its planning.
"We need to look at risk as changing over time," he says.
McRae says that though the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is coming out with new planning maps, those new maps don't include climate change as a variable, and the maps are not going to project climate change onto projected precipitation patterns. As part of Envision Eugene, in which the city is planning growth for the next 20 years, the city is considering taking climate change into the equation, something that is key when dealing with a living river flowing through town.
Eugene and Springfield haven't always made the best planning decisions for critical infrastructure even based on historical data. Sacred Heart's RiverBend hospital was built in a floodplain and the Eugene Police Department's recent move to Country Club Road puts those emergency responders in the floodplain as well, leaving those emergency services vulnerable in a flood.
McRae says the city is "chipping away" at improving the way it deals with stormwater, partnering with the Long Tom Watershed Council to retrofit existing private properties along Amazon Creek, whose waters eventually flow into the Willamette, with features such as bioswales, raingardens and permeable pavement.
According to OCCRI, climate change-induced increasing rain and decreasing snow in the Cascades will affect water supplies: "Recent research, using sophisticated observations, climate models and Northwest U.S. hydrological models, indicates that as much as 60 percent of these changes in the water cycle result from human activities. The chances for a water crisis are high in Oregon."
Warmer and lower-flowing streams affect water quality for humans and fish, more frequent storms mean paved urban areas will be more prone to flooding and warmer temperatures and less water in the summer means more unmet demand for water.
And McRae says, "Everybody acknowledges that no one has a crystal ball" when it comes to population projections, and he says that climate change could throw a "wild card" into predicting the amount of people who could move to Eugene in the next 20 years, possibly fleeing drought and rising temperatures in areas like the Southwest, and competing for space and water.
While Eugene doesn't currently pull its drinking water from the Willamette, we do send our treated and cleaned sewage into it. And downstream cities such as Corvallis pull their water from the river. Lance Robertson of Eugene Water and Electric Board says that EWEB has an interest in the Willamette as a backup source for water because Eugene, which gets its water from the McKenzie, is "one overturned chemical tanker truck on Hwy. 126 from being out of water."
Water Woes
One thing that Eugene does have along the river is parkland, says Jeff Krueger of the Lane Council of Governments. He has been part of a Rivers to Ridges partnership that asked people to envision what they would like to see the river be in 30 years. There are 15 miles of paths along the Willamette corridor, he says, and one of the things people wanted for the river was connectivity. He says to picture the Willamette as a necklace with parks such as Mt. Pisgah, Dorris Ranch and Alton Baker as its pearls. Some, he says, need polishing while others need to be added.
Delta Ponds is an addition that is cited often. Former gravel pits, the ponds have been rehabilitated, Krueger says, into recreation and habitat where you can find juvenile Chinook salmon, western pond turtles and other native species. The extension of the paths in Delta Ponds in particular has really good benefits in terms of public use and getting people down to the river, Krueger says. They give direct river access to a huge population of north Eugene. Pointing to the ponds and to other bike and open space projects, he says, "No one should drive 40 miles for a bike ride or to get into a canoe."
"In our area we have very little development that goes right up to the river that is residential or retail," says Krueger, a landscape architect, adding, "Older commercial, industrial uses may not be the highest and best use for urban portions of the river."
Those commercial and industrial uses have, and will continue to have, effects upon the river through town. While the gravel pits at Delta Ponds were shallow — only 12 to 15 feet deep — and made for good ecological restoration, other pits that are along the river are more than 100 feet deep, sometimes as much as 200 feet deep making them difficult, if not impossible to restore.
Moll points out that at least one portion of Alton Baker Park was historically a dump site, and he wonders what effects flooding could have on what remains there. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the dump accepted liquid and chemical wastes from the JH Baxter wood treatment plant, possibly including creosote, coal tar, pentachlorophenol and chlorodibenzodioxins, but information on hazardous materials disposed at the landfill is not available for most of the 11 years of operation. In 1974 when the landfill closed, the entire site was covered with a minimum of two feet of sandy, silty loam and grass was planted over it.
Water Views
"People care more about something they have access to," Krueger says. In order for people to comprehend how much we affect the river and how important the river is to us, they need to do more than just drive over it on their way south from Portland. "I don't know how many times the word microbrew came up," Krueger says of conversations on how to best use the river and potential riverfront sites.
Eugene has the 27-acre EWEB site to look to as it tries to balance open space, river values and development. The site has been used for storage and operations since the 1950s, but EWEB has been moving that over to a new location on Roosevelt. "It's been pretty heavily used," Robertson says. A portion of the site was home to a coal gasification plant that dates back to the '20s and '30s, before EWEB owned the property. "There is some soil contamination there that if that portion of the site were to be developed would have to be dealt with," Robertson says. He says the previous owners would be responsible for the vast majority of the clean-up costs.
For industrial properties such as EWEB, or heavily used commercial properties such as the ones along the river in Glenwood that are undergoing a refinement plan process, "Habitat restoration might not be the most bang for the buck," Krueger says.
Goal 5 planning means that there is to be a 100-foot setback from the top of the bank to where development begins and most private development can't take place there. Goal 15's Willamette Greenway means that in some areas there is much more open space along the river. Williams of Willamette Riverkeeper says he thinks a good riverfront development would have a riparian zone throughout with 30 or 40 feet of willows, more mature stands of cottonwoods, "a basic buffer a great blue heron can duck into when people walk by" and then gaps where people can get down to the river and have a view.
Robertson says that EWEB went through an extensive master plan planning process and that the EWEB site master plan should go before the Eugene City Council and the city's Planning Commission in early 2013. The "master plan fits what the community wants for this site," he says, both protecting the riparian area where the land and river come together and allowing people to enjoy the riverfront to create something that is aesthetically pleasing. The plan calls for open space, mixed-use apartments and retail, Robertson says.
In addition for planning for the changing river, part of the challenge lies in putting in infrastructure like roads, cleaning up the coal gasification plant and deciding on what to do with historic buildings like the old EWEB steam plant, which Robertson says has pipes made with asbestos but has been suggested as spot for a brewpub or steam museum. Once the master plan is in place, the site just needs a bunch of people with money to come in, Robertson says, adding, "It's a pretty prime piece of real estate for someone who believes in communities and rivers."
Developer Hugh Prichard agrees, "It's a great opportunity for people to think about what would be most attractive and would what be best for the most people, and those are not necessarily two different things."
Moll of the McKenzie River Trust waxes a little more philosophical about the river in the face of a changing climate: "The more pertinent question becomes 'If that is what I believe, then what can be done about it all?'" He says, "I think encouraging people to enjoy, use, see, touch the river gets at that in some ways — encouraging self-interest and satisfaction in the immediate time frame and then appealing to a sense of legacy — that this is what we want our grandchildren's grandchildren to have access to in the future as well."


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The researchers assessed neutrophil phagocytosis (engulfing by white blood cells) and stimulated superoxide (killing chemical) production against E.coli in 24 bereaved and 24 age and sex-matched non-bereaved controls all aged 65 years and over. Cortisol and DHEAS levels were determined in serum to assess potential mechanisms. Neutrophil superoxide production was significantly reduced among the bereaved when challenged with E.coli. The same group also had a significantly higher cortisol: DHEAS ratio compared to the controls. There was no difference in neutrophil phagocytosis between the two groups.
Alongside the clinical tests, the results of a psychological questionnaire showed that bereaved older people had significantly greater depressive and anxiety symptoms that the non-bereaved.
'The emotional stress of bereavement is associated with suppressed neutrophil superoxide production and with a raised cortisol:DHEAS ratio,' the authors conclude. 'The stress of bereavement exaggerates the age-related decline in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) and combines with immune ageing to further suppress immune function, which may help to explain increased risk of infection in bereaved older adults.'
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Listen to Lana Del Rey's Somber New Single 'Hope Is a Dangerous Thing…'
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Albert Henry Fullwood (1863-1930), artist, was born on 15 March 1863 at Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, son of Frederick John Fullwood, jeweller, and his wife Emma, née Barr. From 15, Henry, as he was known, attended Birmingham Institute on a scholarship. On completing his studies he migrated to Sydney in 1883.
Employed first by John Sands Ltd, Fullwood worked as a black and white artist for the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia in 1883-86. He travelled extensively, including visits to Thursday Island, Torres Strait, Palmerston (Darwin), Port Moresby, New Guinea, and later New Zealand. His illustrations were workmanlike but diverged little from those of other staff artists such as Julian R. Ashton. In the 1880s he shared a studio with Frank Mahony; with Ashton they spent the weekends painting. For a time he lived with friends Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton at their camp at Sirius Cove in Sydney. Fullwood, encouraged by Livingston Hopkins, also returned to etching. He contributed drawings to the London Graphic and Black and White as well as to the Australian Town and Country Journal, the Bulletin, Illustrated Sydney News and the Sydney Mail. In the centennial issue of the Sydney Mail (21 January 1888) he made a large wood-engraving of the city.
A member of the Art Society of New South Wales from 1884, Fullwood, with Roberts and others who were dissatisfied with the influence of laymen on its committee, was active in setting up the breakaway Society of Artists, Sydney, which was confined to professionals; he served on its council. On 13 October 1896 he married Clyda Blanche, daughter of J. H. Newman, a photographer; she bore him two sons. In 1900 he auctioned his work and took his family first to New York for a year, thence to London. He visited Capetown in 1903. He found plenty of black and white work in London, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1906 and the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris. A member of the Chelsea Arts Club, he was a friend of English artists and Bertram Mackennal.
Soon after the outbreak of World War I Fullwood joined the Allied Arts Corps. From April 1915 to November 1917, when he was discharged as medically unfit, he served as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was posted to No.3 London General Hospital, Wandsworth, with fellow Australian artists, Roberts, Streeton, George Coates and Miles Evergood. In 1918, with the rank of honorary lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force, he went to France as official artist to the 5th Division and painted scenes of the Western Front, mainly watercolours, for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
Demobilized on 31 December 1919, Fullwood embarked for Sydney in February next year. In 1920 with John Shirlow he was a founder of the Australian Painter-Etchers' Society and in 1924 served on the first committee of the Australian Water-Colour Institute.
Fullwood died from pneumonia in the War Memorial Hospital, Waverley, on 1 October 1930 and was buried in the Anglican section of Rookwood cemetery. He was survived by a son. His estate was valued for probate at £844. Fullwood's work in oil, water-colour and etching is equally significant, His monotypes are also of interest. His earliest landscapes, dark in tone, reflected the influence of Ashton and were consciously Australian in spirit; from the late 1880s his work was lighter in mood. In England the illustrative qualities of his Australian oils and watercolours gave way to painting rather more rich and academically Impressionist. His portrait by James Quinn is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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text: Led by the restless saxophonist Johannes Schleiermacher, this Berlin-based quintet (which is now and then completed by the Danish-Mozambiquan singer Natalie Greffel or malian guitar legend and singer Ahmed Ag Kaedy) has been pushing the boundaries of Afro-Funk to its most extreme, incorporating explosive Jazz improvisations, far out Krautrock, bubbly keyboard sounds and Psychedelia to create a spell-binding musical melange completely their own which proves that is perfectly possible to keep one´s feet firmly on the dancefloor while heading for the stars in a glittering spaceship. the band: Johannes Schleiermacher – ts Jörg Hochapfel – synth Kalle Zeier – gui Kalle Enkelmann – bass Bernd Oezsevim – dr album info: The group has developed a unique groove and style of playing, constructing a collection of eight songs, that throws together tight and funky influences from Marocco and Ethiopia with crunchy analogue synths, spacey organs and effects, and fluid sax and flute lines for a sound that's all their own. The LP is a collection of compositions by travelling sax man Johannes Schleiermacher, inspired by his journeys through the world. The band even travelled to Morocco for playing and recording with a quartet of percussionists/ singers in the Issawa tradition, a Sufi Trance Brotherhood in central Morocco. Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers have been playing together for years, and it shows. Taking Schleiermacher's compositions, the group rehearse the songs, play them live to finalize arrangements and get feedback from friends, before recording the tracks to different 4-track tape machines, mostly at drummer Bernd Oezsevim's rehearsal space. Take the track "Cool Runnings" for example: locked in the groove, the intertwined sax and synth melody moves up and down the Anichihoye scale. Not to be confused with the comedy of the same title, the track is named after a bar in Berlin-Friedrichshain, where friends of the band put on their night Tropical Timewarp. This interlocking of groove and melody is a signature element, and also inspired the title of the album. "Cranes and Carpets" alludes to changing patterns, and how the parts of a wider whole can work together in synchronicity. Combine an almost telepathic group intuition with the fact that Schleiermacher also engineered and produced the record, and the pieces start to add up to why the Disco Jumpers sound like they do. It's an authentic mix of North African rhythms and modes, live jazz musicianship and analogue synths that's reminiscent of electronic African pioneers like William Onyeabor and Manu Dibango as much as modern ensembles like The Heliocentrics. While the album sounds like it could have been discovered on a dusty old tape down a Marrakesh marketplace, it has a modern twist in the neat craftsmanship and tight arrangements that ensures a blend of styles that couldn't be anyone else. Releases Tartit Magic Polaroid Onin Okalan feat. Ahmed Ag Kaedy Liquid Love Rar Cranes and Carpets 2 Feet On Tour No shows at the moment.


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Star Wars Art: Comics
Abrams BooksStar Wars and sequential art share a long history: Star Wars debuted on the comic-book page in 1977, when Marvel Comics began publishing a six-part adaptation of the first film, which morphed into a monthly comic book. Now, more than three decades later, new series by Dark Horse Comics continue to expand the Star Wars galaxy. The second book in the Star Wars Art series, Star Wars Art: Comics brings together the very best artwork from the entire history of Star Wars comics publishing, showcasing original art from the top comics artists working in the industry. Hand-selected and curated by George Lucas, the art featured in this volume includes interior pages and fully painted covers from artists such as Al Williamson, Howard Chaykin, Adam Hughes, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Dorman, and many more—as well as new work created exclusively for this book by over 20 renowned artists, including John Cassaday, Sam Kieth, Mike Mignola, Paul Pope, Frank Quitely, Jim Steranko, and other comics superstars. Star Wars Art: Comics is a tribute to sequential storytelling, a worthy and justly celebrated art form.Praise for Star Wars Art: Comics:"George Lucas has left no medium unused, as this visually arresting compendium proves." —Entertainment Weekly


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Another great week for Shared Topic Awesomeness!
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Emotions ran free in Ottawa Saturday as the more than 150 Canadians killed in Afghanistan were honoured during a sombre ceremony attended by hundreds of family members, many of whom continue to struggle with the loss of their loved ones.
The ceremony involved the re-dedication of a cenotaph built during the war in honour of the fallen. It stood first in Kabul and later at the Kandahar Airfield, where the Canadian Forces was headquartered for most of its time in Afghanistan, serving as a place of reflection and remembrance for those overseas.
Under overcast skies, the families and former comrades of the fallen listened as Gov.-Gen. Julie Payette, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance and others spoke of the enduring legacy left behind by those who fought and died during Canada's 13-year war in Afghanistan.
One-hundred-fifty-eight Canadian soldiers died during the mission, which started shortly after the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry, journalist Michelle Lang and two civilian contractors were also killed during the war.
"Because of their sacrifice, the Kandahar stadium is used for playing soccer," Sajjan, who served two tours in Afghanistan, told those in attendance. "Because of their sacrifice, young girls are allowed to freely go to school. Because of their sacrifice, we are safer at home. We will never forget the price these women and men paid."
Yet much of the ceremony focused on the families of those who died, whose lives were irreversibly changed during the mission even as much of the rest of the country moved on, turning the page on the war in Afghanistan when the last Canadian troops returned home five years ago.
Families like that of Pvt. David Robert James Byers, whose daughter was born a few months after he and three other Canadian soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in September 2006. Byers' mother Catherine Jane Byers and his daughter were among the 600 family members to attend Saturday's ceremony.
READ MORE: Canada marks fifth anniversary of end of Afghanistan mission
"We're the ones that live with this every day," Catherine Jane Byers said as she stood outside the specially built memorial hall where the cenotaph, comprised of plaques bearing the names and pictures of the fallen, is housed. "We're the ones that celebrate birthdays. See our grandchildren grow up without a father. That is our reality."
The re-dedication ceremony at the Department of National Defence's new headquarters building in west Ottawa was actually a redo for the military, which came under fire after holding a private event in May. Some families were angry they were not invited at that time, prompting an apology from Vance and plans for Saturday's event.
Afterward, Catherine Jane Byers and several other relatives of those killed in Afghanistan told reporters they were grateful for the second ceremony, during which Payette, Sajjan and the rest underscored this country's gratefulness to those who paid the ultimate price — and the loved ones they left behind.
"All of you who lost someone … you know what has been lost," Payette said. "A wound that this memorial can acknowledge even if it cannot fully heal. But it must be acknowledged, and that is why we are here today, to focus our attention on these brave men and women and the people who loved them."
While many family members struggled to contain their emotions during the ceremony, which included the laying of wreaths, a flypast by Canadian Forces aircraft and the playing of the Last Post and the Lament, they weren't alone; Vance was forced to stop several times during his remarks to gather his composure and wipe away tears.
Vance served two tours in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010, a time period that coincided with some of the worst losses for the Canadian military during the war. He recalled his visits to the cenotaph when it was in Kandahar, saying it served as not only a place of mourning but also of solace and comradeship for those who served on the mission.
"The cenotaph contains the grief," Vance said, "but also carries the hopes and fear, the courage and vitality of the people who lived and those who died and the mission they were trying to accomplish."
Some have questioned whether the cenotaph, which was designed and built by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, should be in a more public space rather than its current location inside what is essentially a security zone. Anyone wishing to visit it now must register with the Defence Department for a guided tour.
Theresa Charbonneau, whose son Cpl. Andrew Grenon was killed along with two other soldiers when their armoured vehicle was attacked in September 2008, supported the current location in part because of that security but also because of its day-to-day proximity to other service members.
"I know it's under lock and key. I like it under lock and key," she said, adding: "Where else would we put it so that it could be close to their comrades? NDHQ is the perfect spot. Their lives were involved here. This was their second family. This is a good place for it."
The government has promised to build a separate national memorial for the war in Afghanistan that will be placed in a public site near the Canadian War Museum.
Jim Davis, whose son Cpl. Paul Davis was killed when his vehicle flipped in Kandahar in March 2006, said he would continue to visit the cenotaph, which carries a special meaning for the families of the fallen as well as all those Canadians who served in Afghanistan.
"I feel not only my son's spirit, I feel the spirit of his fallen comrades," Davis said. "I can go to his grave and he's not there. But if I go in here, his spirit's in here. I feel it."
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Jaime Hayon Works
Jaime Hayon has a book coming out! And consider it on my wishlist… as i'm sure you know by now, i love those sleek, smooth lacquered curves of many of Jaime's signature pieces, and have posted about him many a time! Launching sometime this month is Jaime Hayon Works from Die Gestalten (one of the best design publishers!), Format: 24 x 30 cm
Binding: 320 pages, full colour, hardcover, gilt edging - and it is described as:
Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon will be one of the most influential designers in the years to come, and this is the first monograph to present the full spectrum of his work. Ranging from clear and harmonious to playfully extravagant, all of the included examples of interiors, furniture, tableware and decorative ceramics attest to his inimitable grasp of form, style and colour. In addition to celebrated collaborations with clients such as Camper, Swarovski and Bisazza, Jaime Hayon Works contains previously unreleased personal sketches, illustrations and productions of new projects that will make its world premiere debut at the annual Milan Furniture Fair in April 2008.
It should be incredible! Check out peek from within the book after the jump… and those who are ready to pre-order, it's available at Amazon for $63 (instead of the listed 100)


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Learning from failure
| kaizen, life, productivityAs a foreigner working in Canada, I have to deal with lots of paperwork. The three documents I stress out about the most (and therefore remember to renew) are my work permit, my passport, and my temporary resident visa. Without a valid work permit, I'd be an illegal alien. Without my passport, I can't travel. Without my visa, I can't come back into the country.
Ah, paperwork.
Because there are big consequences if I don't get things like that sorted out (possibly getting kicked out of the country? having to answer yes to awkward questions on future visa applications? getting stuck on the wrong side of the immigration counter?), I haven't needed long-term reminders.
Renewing my social insurance number, which I really only dig up during tax time and when opening new accounts? That apparently gets me every time. This is the second time I've pulled out my SIN card and realized it had expired.
So here's a checklist for other folks on work permits, if you ever need to renew your passport:
- Renew your work permit, which was probably issued with the same validity as your old passport.
- Renew your social insurance number record, which was probably issued with the same validity as your work permit. The process is very fast, but you'll need your passport and your work permit.
- Renew your temporary resident visa. This involves sending your passport in the mail, and you should do it after #2 to avoid the wait.
Something like this happens when my task management system fails. I'm getting better at not letting things fall through the cracks, so little failures like this are instructive. I much prefer testing my task management now rather than later, when it might Really Matter.
So, where had it failed?
- When I received my previous SIN card, I didn't make a long-term reminder. I briefly mentioned it on my blog before I renewed my work permit, but (a) I didn't create a WAITING-FOR task, and (b) I didn't stop and think about it when I received the card. Either action would've caught this, although a good WAITING-FOR system is better. I didn't have an electronic task in Toodledo, which I've gone back to using for my day-to-day tasks. (Emacs stores my long-term goals, and I fill Toodledo tasks in based on that.) I didn't store anything in my then-not-yet-set-up tickler file. This lack of task recognition was the key point of failure. Action: Record WAITING tasks and add them to my weekly review.
- I didn't have one place to put my SIN card. I checked three places and two folders (Employment, Identification) for my card. I found a SIN card in the first place I checked (one of my drawers), but because it had expired and I remembered being in this situation before, I thought I must have another SIN card. Also, the drawer was the wrong place to put it – I should've moved it to the Identification folder when I set up my filing system. ACTION: Tidy up this weekend and file things that are out of place.
- I didn't have a good action log. Back when I published my full task list, I could easily find out when I last renewed my SIN. I thought I'd renewed it later than that, but apparently I didn't. So my confusion resulted in maybe five minutes of looking around for a possibly newer SIN card, just in case I happened to have two. Although I suspected that I turned in my expired SIN card during the renewal, it was good to check anyway. ACTION: Get back to posting my task list. I do something like that in my weekly review, but it might not be granular enough.
Slowly figuring things out!


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There is good news for cancer survivors - their numbers continue to grow.
There are currently 14.5 million cancer survivors in the USA and that will grow to almost 19 million by 2024, according to the second edition of Cancer Treatment&Survivorship Facts & Figures, 2014-2015 and an accompanying journal article published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Cancer rates have been decreasing for 10 years and the number of cancer survivors is growing, even with an aging population. This is due primarily to earlier cancer detection and more effective treatments.
The three most common cancers among males living with a history of cancer in 2014 are prostate (43%), colorectal (9%), and melanoma (8%). Among women in 2014, the three most common cancers are breast (41%), uterine (8%), and colorectal (8%). While lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, a low survival rate makes it the number eight cancer site represented among survivors. The distribution of prevalent cancers is expected to be largely unchanged in 2024.
Other selected findings:
- The majority of cancer survivors (64%) were diagnosed five or more years previously, and 15% were diagnosed 20 or more years ago.
- Nearly one-half of cancer survivors (46%) are aged 70 years or older, while one in 20 (5%) is under age 40.
- The age distribution of cancer survivors varies substantially by cancer type. For example, the majority of prostate cancer survivors (62%) are aged 70 and older, whereas less than one-third (32%) of melanoma survivors are in this age group.
- By January 1, 2024, it is estimated that the population of cancer survivors will increase to nearly 19 million individuals (9.3 million males and 9.6 million females).
In addition to prevalence estimates, the reports also include data on cancer treatment patterns, survival, and information on common short- and long-term effects of cancer and its treatment for eleven selected cancers. Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Facts & Figures also contains sections on the effects of cancer and its treatment, impairment-driven cancer rehabilitation, palliative care, long term survivorship, the benefits of healthy behaviors, and resources for cancer survivors from the American Cancer Society and other organizations.
"The growing number of cancer survivors in the U.S. makes it increasingly important to understand the unique medical and psychosocial needs of survivors," said Carol DeSantis, MPH, American Cancer Society epidemiologist and lead author of the reports. "Despite the fact that awareness of survivorship issues has increased, cancer survivors face numerous, important hurdles created by a fractured health care system, poor integration of survivorship care, and financial and other barriers to quality care, particularly among the medically underserved. An important first step in addressing these challenges is to identify 'best practices' for the delivery of quality post-treatment cancer care."


text: A few comments and thoughts about crime books set on the mainland of Europe, with titbits about real eurocrime. We hear so much about crime in the USA that many people imagine that Europe is a crime free zone. In crime fiction Europe has become a real challenger to the Americans, but unfortunately real life crime especially in Britain is increasing as well.


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Unpredictability is the active ingredient of New York's annual Winter Jazzfest. This year, fans will meander around six nearby clubs and take their pick of simultaneous shows. Choosing from among so many acts will be difficult.
Many of the bands are new, paced in rapid succession and often cryptically named. If you only have 45 minutes to spare, do you check out Breeding Ground? Hazmat Modine? Merger? 40Twenty? 10^32K?
Which band, led by an Israeli clarinet ace, will play Indonesian folk songs this year? Which tuba and harmonica ensemble will play its biggest Siberian hits? Which great bebop harpist, beloved to hip-hop fans, will be honored this year in a DJ-driven set?
I've been finding out the answers for the jazz bee, WBGO's new HD2 stream for emerging artists, which is currently hosting a preview mix of music by all of the groups at Winter Jazzfest. With more than 70 acts set to take the stage this Friday and Saturday, here's a sneak peek at five acts who will present new music this year.
5 New Projects At Winter Jazzfest 2013
Dan Tepfer And Lee Konitz
"Elande No. 1 [F#]"
From 'Duos with Lee'
Astrophysics student turned jazz pianist Dan Tepfer often aims high: He recorded his own take on J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations in 2011, and he often improvises on classical themes with legendary bebop alto saxophonist Lee Konitz. To mix things up at Winter Jazzfest, the duo will be joined by the Harlem String Quartet, who will play a score Tepfer composes on the spot. Each member will play notes displayed on an iPhone as Tepfer chooses them in real time, via a MIDI keyboard next to his piano. The strings will be free to choose their own rhythm, dynamics and texture, while Tepfer provides the harmony. Tepfer and Konitz perform on Friday at 8 p.m. at Zinc Bar. Here, the pair plays Tepfer's composition "Elande No. 1 (F#)" from their 2009 release Duos With Lee.
Jason Lindner's Breeding Ground
"Sparkle Wolf"
From 'Unreleased'
Breeding Ground combines the two most successful projects of New York-bred pianist Jason Lindner: Now Vs. Now, his propulsive groove trio with electric bassist Panagiotis Andreou and drummer Mark Guiliana; and his big band, which started at the Greenwich Village basement club Smalls a dozen years ago. For this new 11-piece band, Andreou and Guiliana sit in the engine room, while Lindner himself plays more piano than synths, leaving room for a string section. Breeding Ground and Now Vs. Now will both release new CDs this year; the former performs Saturday evening at midnight at the Culture Project Theater. Here, the group plays "Sparkle Wolf," an unreleased track from a session in October 2012.
Brandee Younger
"Breakfast With Adrianna"
From 'Unreleased'
Harpist Brandee Younger and DJ Raydar Ellis share a passion for the music of Dorothy Ashby, who played bebop harp in the 1950s and '60s. Ashby's trailblazing recordings are frequently sampled by DJs and producers, so her sound is well known to hip-hop fans, even if her name is not. Younger moves with ease from jazz to classical music to hip-hop, and she decided to create a tribute to Ashby in a way that honors her twin legacies. She and Ellis will be joined by Casey Benjamin (alto saxophone), Sharel Cassity (flute), Ameen Saleem (electric bass) and Kim Thompson (drums) to re-create Ashby's seminal 1968 record, Afro Harping. The band will perform arrangements of the full album for the first time at 10:15 p.m. Friday at Sullivan Hall. Here, Younger plays "Breakfast With Adrianna" from her debut album, which comes out later this year.
Oran Etkin
"Gambang Suling"
From 'Unreleased'
New York-based clarinetist Oran Etkin often draws inspiration from African traditional music, and when not on the road, he can be found on Wednesday nights playing with West African musicians at Barbes in Brooklyn. (These interactions were the basis for his 2009 album Kelenia.) Etkin's most recent work draws from a different continent: Twice in the past year, he toured Asia, and his forthcoming recording draws from these experiences. In his travels, he learned folk melodies, including one which both Japanese and Chinese listeners claim as their own, and reveled in improvising "Basin Street Blues" with traditional Indonesian drummers. He performs at 1:45 a.m. Saturday (early Sunday morning) at The Bitter End. Here, he plays "Gambang Suling," an Indonesian folk song from his upcoming release, with drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Ben Allison.
Mark de Clive-Lowe
"More Than A Woman"
From 'Live At KCRW'
CHURCH, the monthly late-night sessions hosted by British DJ Mark de Clive-Lowe at the East Village club DROM, have developed a cult following among New York jazz fans over the past year. For one, he regularly welcomes jazz musicians to his bandstand; he also approaches the DJ's stock in trade — mixing and breaking beats — with a background as an instrumentalist. De Clive-Lowe started out as a jazz pianist before he fell under the spell of the dance floor. Now, he plays keyboards in his sets, spins Thelonious Monk and McCoy Tyner on his turntables and challenges himself to improvise beats on the fly, interacting with the other instruments. Nia Andrews, who here sings "More Than a Woman," will join him at 12:45 a.m. on Friday (early Saturday morning) at Sullivan Hall, along with Mark Kelley on bass, Jaleel Shaw on alto saxophone and MC John Robinson.
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Argument preview: In the footsteps of Lewis and Clark
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On December 7, the Court will hear argument in PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana. The case is one for history buffs. The question is whether the state of Montana holds title to portions of three riverbeds in the state. The parties agree that the relevant legal test is historical: were the river segments in question part of a waterway that was "navigable in fact" when Montana became a state in 1889? Prominent among the many bits of historical evidence cited are the journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who explored the rivers in 1805 on their famous expedition.
The dispute arose this way. In 1999, petitioner PPL Montana purchased a series of hydroelectric dams on three Montana rivers: the Missouri, the Clark's Fork, and the Madison. All but one of the dams were built by predecessors of PPL between 1891 and 1930. The state of Montana made no effort to charge PPL's predecessors any rent for their use of the land on which the dams are built. Then, in 2003, two Montana citizens sued PPL and two other hydroelectric companies, asserting that the riverbeds were state-owned lands and that the power companies owed substantial back rent to the state for the use of these lands. The state eventually joined the suit, which started out in federal court but was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction and then re-filed by the power companies in state court.
The Montana trial court rejected arguments by the power companies that the demand for rent was preempted by the Federal Power Act. The court also found that defenses – such as unfair change of position (estoppel) and undue delay (laches) – which would ordinarily bar a private party from seeking to recover unpaid rent did not apply to Montana as a sovereign state.
The state then moved for summary judgment on the question whether the river segments in question were navigable in fact in 1889. The state submitted a variety of documentary evidence in support of its claim of ownership, including the journals of Lewis and Clark, old newspaper articles about fur traders and miners using the rivers, and various representations made in more recent regulatory proceedings. PPL submitted affidavits of a local history professor, who stressed that the Missouri and Clark's Fork Rivers contained significant stretches that were impassable at statehood, and of a fluvial geomorphologist, who testified that the Madison River, a prized trout stream flowing north out of Yellowstone National Park, was too braided and interrupted by sandbars to support navigation at statehood. Notwithstanding the conflicting evidence, the district court granted the state's motion for summary judgment.
After further proceedings to determine the fair rental value of the land occupied by the utilities since they purchased the dams, the district court awarded the state forty million dollars in damages (approximately forty-nine million with statutory interest). PPL's co-parties then settled with the state.
PPL appealed to the Montana Supreme Court, which affirmed by a vote of five to two. With respect to the title question, the court stated that "the concept of navigability for title purposes is very liberally construed by the United States Supreme Court." A river need not be in actual use for commerce at statehood; instead, all that is required is that it be "susceptible" of providing a channel for commerce. Nor do obstructions or portages defeat a finding of navigability. The term "commerce" is also broadly defined, the court said, so that "emerging and newly-discovered forms of commerce can be retroactively applied to considerations of navigability."
PPL filed a petition for certiorari, and the U.S. Supreme Court invited the Acting Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the view of the United States. The Acting SG urged the Court to deny review, arguing that the Montana Supreme Court's decision was "largely fact-specific" and did not conflict with the decision of any other state supreme court or federal appeals court. The Court nevertheless agreed to hear the case, limiting its review to the question of state title and denying review on the preemption question.
Why did the Court disregard the Acting Solicitor General's advice? One can only speculate, but it is possible that some Justices saw a parallel to the recent judicial takings case, Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (2010). PPL's petition accused the Montana courts of perpetrating a "land grab," and it cited Stop the Beach and other judicial takings cases as presenting analogous "temptations" for state courts eager to transfer property from private parties to the state without paying just compensation. The fact that Montana had made no effort to charge rent for the land for over a hundred years lent credibility to this claim of opportunism by the state.
The briefs on the merits, which are excellent, narrow the legal dispute significantly. All agree that under the equal footing doctrine state governments take title to lands beneath navigable waters. They agree that the relevant question for title purposes is whether a river was navigable in fact at statehood, not whether it is navigable today. They further agree that the relevant question concerns the condition of a river in its natural state.
The principal disagreement concerns the proper treatment of obstructed segments of a river at statehood – in other words, segments that due to water falls, rapids, or sand bars could not be traversed by a watercraft. PPL and the United States (which has filed a brief on the merits supporting PPL) rely heavily on United States v. Utah (1931), involving a title dispute between Utah and the United States over the bed of the Colorado River. They argue that the Court's decision in Utah requires a section-by-section analysis of a river. Sections that were floatable belong to the state; sections that were obstructed do not. Montana relies extensively on The Montello (1874), a case about whether federal admiralty jurisdiction extends to the Fox River in Wisconsin. Montello, according to Montana, instructs that the relevant inquiry is whether it was common practice to portage around an obstruction. If a river was otherwise navigable, an obstruction should not denigrate from the conclusion that the river was navigable if parties would commonly portage around the obstruction and continue on their way.
Resolution of this dispute will have a significant bearing on the title questions involving the Missouri and the Clark's Fork Rivers. In 1889, the Missouri was obstructed for seventeen miles at Great Falls, where several of PPL's dams are now located, and the Clark's Fork contained an impassible stretch of 2.8 miles at Thompson Falls, where another dam is located. If PPL is right, then these segments presumably do not belong to the state. If Montana is right, then it would be necessary to show that these segments were not portaged at statehood in order to deny title to the state.
Another issue concerns the use of post-statehood evidence in order to draw inferences about the status of a river at the time of statehood. There appears to be a broad consensus that post-statehood evidence is relevant. However, the parties disagree on subsidiary matters. One concerns the appropriate meaning of dicta in early Supreme Court cases – such as The Daniel Ball (1870) – indicating that the question is whether a stream is used in commerce or is "susceptible" to use in commerce. PPL argues that "susceptibility" applies only in narrow circumstances where a particular region in a state is not sufficiently developed economically at statehood to support water commerce. Montana argues this would "scuttle" the susceptibility prong. Another question concerns whether post-statehood log floating and recreational use can be cited as evidence that commercial use was practical at statehood. PPL argues that log floating and recreational use are per se irrelevant. Montana says log floating has been recognized to be a commercial use, and recreational use, especially by boating, can be probative of susceptibility to commercial use.
A final issue that divides the parties concerns who has the burden of proof to establish navigability at statehood. PPL says, given the state's temptations to manipulate findings of navigability in order to defeat private rights, the state should have the burden. Montana does not seek to support the state supreme court's "liberal construction" standard, but it argues that imposing the burden on the state in every case would disserve federalism and principles of state sovereignty.
How will the Court rule? One thing seems fairly certain: the case will not be an occasion to revisit the judicial takings issue. PPL continues to invoke the theme of judicial revision of property rights, but it argues the case solely in terms of precedents dealing with navigability for title purposes. It seems likely the Court will take the occasion to clarify how navigability for title should be determined, a matter as to which it has not spoken for many years. Having done so, the Court is likely to reverse and remand the case to the Montana Supreme Court to re-consider the issue under the clarified standard. An affirmance is unlikely, especially given the questionable grant of summary judgment by the Montana courts in the face of conflicting evidence.
On the question of how to deal with river obstructions, I incline more toward Montana's "portage" test rather than the section-by-section analysis espoused by PPL and the United States. Rivers in the nineteenth century were major arteries of commerce, and if there is evidence that a river was in fact used for commercial transportation purposes, even with occasional portages, this should not defeat the claim that the river was navigable in fact. Even if the Court agrees, however, a remand would still be appropriate, since the evidence that the Great Falls stretch was in fact portaged – other than by Meriwether Lewis over an arduous thirty-three days – is not well developed. The same holds for the 2.8 miles where Thompson Falls interrupts the Clark's Fork.
On "susceptibility," I am more taken with PPL's position. All agree that the relevant test is whether the river was navigable in its natural condition at statehood. If this is so, then it is hard to see what "susceptible to navigation" could mean other than that the river would be used for navigation if the economic demand for commerce were sufficiently strong to sustain it. Any other meaning would seem to draw post-statehood developments into the equation, which the parties appear to agree is irrelevant for purposes of determining title.
I am dubious about using post-statehood recreational use as evidence of navigability at statehood. Recreational use was not generally considered commerce in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and it would be anomalous to have title shift based on the emergence a century later of kayaking, whitewater rafting, and the use of flat-bottom boats by fly fishers. Floating logs, however, was a common commercial use of streams in the nineteenth century, so evidence of this practice arguably should be regarded as relevant.
On the question of burden of proof, I suspect the Court will and should avoid both the Montana court's idea that navigability for title should be "very liberally construed" in favor of the state, and PPL's idea that the burden of proof should be imposed on the state because of its self-interest. The conventional answer is that the burden of proof lies with the party seeking relief. In this case, as it happens, that is PPL, which initiated the state court proceedings.


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DIY or DIE
DIY encompasses the following propositions:
- Self-made practices and text. The production and sharing of attitudes and materials is independent of those traditionally imposed by the mass media, namely, by one's own initiative, own rhythm and way, comprising broadcast-, publish-, design-, and make-it-yourself. The content includes machinimas, game mods, video clips, photo galleries, narratives, news, knowledge, and art.
- Persistently promotion and circulation across the open media. New tools are embraced to distribute media content. 'Open media' describes one single channel without contents. This empty channel is populated and fed by a multiplicity of collaborators. YouTube™, Wikipedia®, and Facebook® are examples of open media that oppose 'closed media' that are produced and distributed by one primary collaborator. The ideologies of 'user empowerment' and 'democratization of media' are permanently and simultaneously repeated by all collaborators of the media, and each member urges others to join, produce, and share.
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- There is no evident intervention of a specialist or a culture industry. Everyone is utterly amateur. There is a blind rejection of hierarchies as seen in professional/amateur relationships, ownership, and scholastic elitism. Although the open media certainly has owners and the tools are designed and produced by professionals, users are kept ignorantly indulged in the pleasure of self-production.
- Manovich, Lev. "Generation Flash". New Media Old Media. A History and Theory Reader. Ed. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan. 2006: Routledge, New York, NY. 209-18.


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ExtraBITS for 24 March 2014
Lots happened this week, and we have a boatload of ExtraBITS for you to read. Google officially entered the wearables market with Android Wear, a version of its mobile operating system designed for wearables. Time scored a rare interview with Jony Ive, but our own Jeff Carlson wasn't thrilled with it. Twitter made it easy to discover anyone's first tweet, the founder of IDG passed away, and the very first Apple dealer is closing its doors.
First Apple Dealer to Close — When the fifth Apple II rolled off the assembly line in 1977, it went to Team Electronics in Minneapolis inside a leather case festooned with an Apple logo (mysteriously lacking a bite mark). That makes the Team Electronics store, which eventually became Twin Cities institution FirstTech, the first and oldest continually operating Apple reseller. Alas, FirstTech is calling it quits, citing pricing pressure from national resellers after Apple recently loosened restrictions on minimum prices. FirstTech has already closed its
Rochester, Minnesota store, which opened just months ago, and will shutter its Minneapolis headquarters on 29 March 2014. A TwinCities.com report by TidBITS contributor Julio Ojeda-Zapata has the fascinating details, plus a video excerpt from the "Welcome to Macintosh" documentary with background on how FirstTech came about and its historical importance in the Apple world. "And it all started in Minnesota," the video notes.
IDG Founder Dead at 76 — Patrick J. McGovern, founder and chairman of IDG — publisher of Macworld, TechHive, and PCWorld — died 19 March 2014 at age 76. "Over a span of 50 years, McGovern oversaw IDG's launch of more than 300 magazines and newspapers and championed the expansion of IDG's network to include more than 460 websites, 200 mobile apps and 700 events worldwide." He was known for remembering employees' names, even as the IDG empire grew, and hand-delivering each U.S. employee's Christmas bonus. Former IDG president Walter Boyd will replace him as
Discover Anyone's #FirstTweet — Twitter has unveiled an amusing new tool that lets users see the first tweet anyone posted. Mine (@adamengst) linked to a historically interesting pre-App Store article (see "Lights Off for the iPhone," 20 August 2007), @tonyaengst was paying attention to her to-do list and hydration (some things never change!), @lymond's Twitter account
outlasted his job, @GlennF was eerily prescient, @joekissell was unsurprisingly preoccupied with email, and @Moltz was predicting the end of Twitter. Oh, and Senator @BarackObama was anticipating the end of the war in Iraq. Link to other great ones in the comments!
Ive Talks to Time — Writing for Time, John Arlidge scored a rare interview with Jony Ive, SVP of Design at Apple. Ive talks about his design process, how he got along with Steve Jobs, and what drives him. Ive said, "We're surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. It's tempting to think it's because the people who use them don't care — just like the people who make them. But what we've shown is that people do care. It's not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made
things. Our success is a victory for purity, integrity — for giving a damn."
Jeff Carlson Talks About Ive Talking to Time — Our own Jeff Carlson wasn't pleased with Time's profile of Jony Ive. In a post on his blog, he describes the article as "ill-informed puff," pointing out how the author, John Arlidge, compares Steve Jobs to a god, calls an assistant a "tech-head," and lacks key knowledge about Apple. "I really do wish I knew why such high-profile, information-rich interview opportunities like this one are squandered by big magazines," Carlson said.
Tech Geeks Film Explosive Chimney Stack Demolition — TidBITS contributor Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the St. Paul Pioneer Press pulled an undesirable weekend reporting shift recently, but was able to turn it into a grand geek adventure by filming the explosive demolition of the 280-foot chimney stack on a decommissioned power plant. He relied on his iPhone 5c, a Nokia Lumia 1020, a Sony handheld camcorder, and the help of a number of friends, one of whom was flying camera-equipped drones above the site. Julio pulled it all together with Final Cut Pro X
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Decherd Turner and Levi Olan.Southern Methodist University. 1968.
Levi and Sarita Olan, Shirley and Norman Alweis. Czech Torah Scroll. 1977.
Rabbi Olan and Kate Warnickduring luncheon on February 9, 1972.
Decherd Turner and Rabbi Olan. 1972 ground breaking for expansion of Bridwell Library.
Rabbi Olan speaking duringMinisters Week luncheon.February 9, 1972.
Turner, Olan, Quillian, Moore. Southern Methodist University. 1968.
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Levi A. Olan (1903–1984) was a prominent rabbi, scholar, and community leader who held rabbinates at Temple Emanu-El, Worcester, Massachusetts (1929–1949) and Temple Emanu-El, Dallas (1949 to 1970). In Dallas, Rabbi Olan also served as lecturer in Judaism at Perkins School of Theology from 1952 to 1978, working out of an office at Bridwell Library.
Rabbi Olan is remembered as one of Dallas's great preachers. During his entire tenure at Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, his work included preaching over the radio on the Temple Emanu-El Program. Bridwell Library holds 126 reel-to-reel tapes containing recordings of 211 Temple Emanu-El Program broadcasts recorded between 1961 and 1970. Because the magnetic tapes are becoming unplayable due to age, and in order to allow Rabbi Olan's teachings to be heard by the public once again, Bridwell Library partnered with the Olan family to digitize the sermon recordings through SMU's Norwick Center for Digital Services. With permission, Bridwell Library also digitized corresponding typescript copies of the sermon texts that were distributed by the Temple Brotherhood at the time of the original broadcasts. Data needed to complete the project but not held by Bridwell Library was provided by the Dorothy M. and Henry S. Jacobus Temple Emanu-El Archives, Dallas, and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati.
Bridwell Library opened the Levi A. Olan Sermons and Images collection on May 5, 2013 with a public celebration held at Perkins School of Theology. Included is online access to 211 radio sermons as text files, audio files, and video files combining the audio recordings with the texts. Additionally, the collection contains a formal portrait and SMU-related pictures of Rabbi Olan. The digital collection and related archival Collection on Levi A. Olan allow researchers to encounter Rabbi Olan's deep theological insights, keen observations about humanity, clear advocacy for social justice, and powerful delivery. For more information about the Levi A. Olan Sermons and Images at Bridwell Library, please contact Bridwell Library Special Collections.
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I am customizing the Email task notification message body in SharePoint Designer and need to include a link to the task. I can get all the pieces of the url except the task list id. I have:
[%Task Process:Web URL %]/_layouts/WrkTaskIP.aspxList=**?????**&ID=[%Current Task:ID%]
I've tried:
Field Data to Retrieve
Data Source: Association: Task List
Field from source: ID
Find the List Item
Field: Workflow Item ID
Value: Current Item:ID
which evaluates to an integer, not a GUID.
I also tried, Field from source: GUID, which did not evaluate to the ID of the task list.
Is there any way I can obtain the ID of the task list? I prefer not to hardcode the guid, since this workflow will be exported/imported when I promote it to production.