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A Vaccine for Last-Minute-Itis
Several times in the past (check the RISE Group Page), I've written about the problem of last-minute-itis among NSF grant proposal writers. Symptoms of this illness are well-known to grant administrators at universities as well as at science museums, and, let's face it, we've all succumbed to its indignities at one time or another. FastLane has to become a very WideLane on the deadline day for grant submission. One of the biggest casualties of last-minute-itis has been the "broader impacts" portion of a research center's grant proposal, and with it, the potential for robust educational outreach partnerships with science museums, and that's what I'm going to talk about today. The NSF "Broader Impacts Criterion" (BIC) for evaluating research proposals was established in the mid-1990's alongside the "Intellectual Merit Criterion" to try to ensure, according to one observer (Bob Eisenstein, on the American Physical Society website) "that scientists would have to think more carefully about the ways in which their work impacts society and to help provide the public with more information about what scientists are doing." Eligible BIC activities include education and outreach (E&O) as well as broadening participation of underrepresented groups, and enhancing infrastructure for research and education. A 2008 "Dear Colleague" letter from the Director of the Division of Materials Research (nsf08062) emphasized rigor, meaningfulness and innovation in pursuing these activities, and advised prospective grantees…
It is expected that project activities related to broader impacts will be of the same caliber as those addressing the intellectual merit criterion. Contributions to broader impacts should be based on good scholarship, and be designed to achieve clearly stated goals and metrics, while possessing the appropriate expertise and resources available for implementation.
In other words, NSF wants researchers to take these activities very seriously. However, it is also true that most NSF research proposals are reviewed by peers in the relevant science and engineering research fields, and not by specialists in education, outreach, diversity, or any of the various domains of societal impact research. So, although in theory a critical review of a research proposal's "broader impacts" merits is meant to be as meaningful to a proposal's success as a critical review of its "intellectual merits," how often do review panels include the necessary expertise? Does this lead, in some cases, to a tacit acceptance among peer reviewers that the right motions in the direction of education and outreach, diversity, and public engagement will suffice, based on nominally accepted practices, such as giving of public lectures, field trip tours arranged for local school groups, a laboratory open house, and diversity recruitment for graduate student posts? Because these are generally thought of as good will gestures requiring little advance preparation, no front-end or formative evaluation, nor measures of actual impact, there is generally little basis on which to rate the relative merit of the activities, and thus, sadly, not much incentive to devote the effort to make them as effective and far-reaching as possible. It is not surprising then, that last-minute-itis strikes particularly at these more vulnerable and less-fortified BIC portions of the research proposal, sometimes meriting only a paragraph or two and a rather minimal wedge of budget, while relying chiefly on good will and peer pressure among the respective faculty and particularly their graduate students to give a portion of their time to education & outreach. Realizing that they do not have the necessary audiences nor the appropriate venue for E&O activities, some university researchers contact their local science museums with offers to give a series of talks or to (ask their graduate students to) build an exhibit. This offer typically comes during the last very stage of the onset of last-minute-itis and can result in an urgent call-in to a senior science museum staff member, accompanied by a disarming request for an institutional letter of support for the research proposal, to be faxed the next day. Needless to say, there is little opportunity here for true partnership and collaboration, and no time to talk of budget, design, content, appeal, educational value, or audience. Now, many of us in the NISE Network have been blessed with university research partners who value education, support public engagement in science, respect the professionalism of ISE institutions, and contact us weeks before the proposal due date to propose a meeting to work out some concepts for E&O and a level of support that will become a line item or a subaward in their budget. And many ISEI's reach out on their own to local researchers to invite them to participate in exhibit planning activities, guest researcher encounters, and programs for teachers and high-schoolers. We need more of this. It would be terrific if NSF review panels took it upon themselves to examine more critically the proposed E&O and other BIC activities. Some researchers, perhaps with good reason, feel that the BIC burden is unfair, that they do not necessarily have the training nor the proclivity for E&O; others realize that the responsibility can often be best shared by partnering with organizations which do have this expertise – such as science museums. NSF in fact recommended this approach in the 2005 NISE program solicitation, NSF 05-543:
Research organizations are content-rich, offering depth of knowledge and resources based in STEM fields, such as nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. Science museums and similar informal science education organizations are audience-rich and closely tied to their communities, with expertise in translating complex topics into forms that engage and educate the public, especially families and children, including K-12 school groups. Thus these organizations can serve as intermediaries that can connect audience needs and interests with knowledge based on current science and technology.
By stepping up to the plate to fund the NISE Network, the NSF offered the science museum community an opportunity to temporarily fund research center – informal science education collaborative activities without relying on direct E&O subawards from research centers. This is a win-win situation for all of us, and for our audiences, if we all work together diligently and intelligently. But NISE Net funding will eventually sunset, and then we will again be vulnerable to last-minute-itis. Hopefully by that time, we will have proved the effectiveness of the collaborative approach and we can stave off that infection with healthy doses of an old-fashioned vaccine – advance planning - jointly crafting and budgeting effective E&O programs well before FastLane deadline time. In the aforecited NSF 05-543, the agency seems to be pointing us in the direction of research center – ISE collaborations for addressing broader impacts in all research fields:
Although firmly grounded in nanoscale science, engineering, and technology appropriate to NISE, this form of collaboration should serve as a model transferable to other STEM fields and should assist researchers in addressing the broader impacts of their work. Whether you are a researcher or an informal science educator, then, there is no reason not to start planning E&O collaborations now, whether to bolster your NISE Net connected efforts or to initiate new research – ISE collaborations in other fields of science and engineering. Public audiences are standing by, ready to be engaged. For more information on the NISE Net's Research – Informal Science Education partnership initiative (RISE) and resources, check out the RISE Group page.


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HOUSTON — The Houston Dynamo not only had to spend the week getting used to being without longtime teammate Brian Mullan, but also getting to know a new face in Colin Clark.
The Dynamo traded Mullan for the Colorado native, who joins the club from the Colorado Rapids.
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Chris Bosh held the NBA championship trophy, LeBron James stood atop a double-decker bus with a cigar in his mouth, and Chris Andersen flapped his arms in a nod to his "Birdman" moniker.
The NBA champion Miami Heat were in quite a mood to party on Monday.
Players, families, staff members and friends crammed buses, flatbed trucks and cars for the parade honoring the latest Heat championship, with the caravan snaking its way through downtown Miami before a huge crowd of fans. A crowd of up to 400,000 was expected on a hot, steamy morning where the heat index reached the mid-90s by 11 a.m.
"It's the ultimate," James told Sun Sports, the Heat broadcast partner, as he rode along the route. "It's the ultimate. This is what I came down here, to be able to have a parade at the end of the year. I'm extremely blessed, man. It doesn't get any better than this."
Several players held super-soaker squirt guns and sprayed water on fans below, confetti blew through the air and dotted the streets, and bands blared as the team rolled past with horns honking. Heat managing general partner Micky Arison and team president Pat Riley stood in the front of one bus, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra — his championship cap turned backward — waved and clapped at fans, and Dwyane Wade pointed at people along the route.
"All the fans that we're seeing here is who supported us throughout the whole season, man," James said. "This is the least we could do is ride through the city and show our appreciation."
Wade said that without the fans, Miami wouldn't have found a way to win the title.
"It's humbling. It's very humbling to be here," Wade said, gazing out at the enormous crowd. "I envision a lot of things. I can't say I envisioned this. This parade down Biscayne Boulevard was once a vision by Coach Riley and now we've taken this ride three times. It's special."
Miami became the sixth franchise in NBA history to win consecutive championships, after topping the San Antonio Spurs in this year's finals for the third title overall for the Heat franchise. Wade and Udonis Haslem — a Miami native — are the only players to be part of all three titles, and Wade insisted Monday that the city is going to be his home now for good.
"This is my home. They've treated me well since Day One," Wade said. "I'll be here for probably the rest of my life in this amazing city. I thank the Miamians for accepting me as one of their own."
James was the series MVP for the second straight year, and won his fourth regular-season MVP award as well.
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A rally inside the team's home arena was scheduled for later Monday afternoon.
One vehicle carried a number of uniformed military personnel. The Heat have honored military members before every home game in Miami for the past several seasons.
Police reported no major problems early on, and bomb- and drug-sniffing dogs were spotted working their way through the crowd. City officials banned fans from carrying backpacks, though several were spotted along the route and some people were searched randomly for security reasons. The huge crowds and parking difficulty did not seem to take away from the fans' celebratory mood.
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"It hasn't hit me yet," James said. "This is unbelievable to be a part of such a great franchise and to be able to go back-to-back."
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Developmental and Neuronal Cell Biology
The core problem in developmental biology is how spatial asymmetry is established to enable single cells to form complex tissues and entire organisms. Spatial asymmetry in development originates in the ability of a progenitor cell, a fertilized egg or stem cell, to produce two daughter cells with different cell fates. The mechanisms important for such cellular asymmetry is the focus of several labs in the department studying stem cells and their seemingly inexhaustible capacity for self-renewal and differentiation, or investigating how the egg itself is constructed during oogenesis.
Among mechanisms under study are epigenetic programming, transcriptional control, translational regulation, and cytoskeletal dynamics. Other labs are investigating organogenesis whereby groups of diverse cells form complex tissues and organs such as bone, the vascular system, or the brain. Of particular interest here are molecular and cellular mechanisms, such as intercellular signaling, cell-cell fusion, and branching morphogenesis, which direct the development and organization of cells into structurally and functionally intricate multicellular systems. We use a variety of experimental models, from mammalian cells to /Drosophila/, C. elegans, and the mouse, and exploit the power of genetics and innovative cell biological methods to investigate central issues in contemporary developmental biology.
Our ability to think, react and remember relies on the function of the nervous system. We cannot understand the human brain without first elucidating the properties and function of its main unit elements, the neurons. Neurons are complex and specialized cells. However, the improved understanding of cellular evolution achieved over the last several yeas has revealed that even the most sophisticated and unique properties of nerve cells represent an adaptation of basic functions observed in all eukaryotic cells, including unicellular organisms. Thus, cellular neurobiology has become an important chapter of cell biology.
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Formation and plasticity of synapses are also investigated. In the tradition of the department, questions in these fields are approached in a multidisciplinary fashion using genetics, protein and lipid biochemistry, molecular biology and state of the art light and electron microscopy imaging techniques. Experimental systems include the nematode C. elegans, mouse models, cultured neurons, large model synapses, isolated synaptic preparations and cell free systems.
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Our burly Dodge Tug-Truck is getting closer to trail-ready after another month of work under its belt—belt line, that is. This is the retired military Dodge airplane tug that we are reissuing as this year's official truck of the Ultimate Adventure 2014, since so many readers begged for a return to an old iron off-roader. The Dodge has been under the scalpel at Pacific Fabrication, and we're hustling to get it back up and running. The further we dive into this project, the more work we find it needs, but lucky for us we started with a pretty rust-free specimen and we have a quality fab shop on the job.
A word about the Pacific Fab team. They are really known for their GM LS-engine swaps into both 4x4s and hot rods of all makes and models, but after we had gone there years back for Dumpster, our Dodge M37 project, we knew Pacific Fab was more than capable of this Frankenstein mobile. Yes, it has a Cummins diesel under the hood and not a fire-breathing GM V-8, but the rest of the build is mostly custom fabrication and just requires solid building skills, which Pac Fab is great at.
As with any project, we had hoped to be further ahead. We wanted to tell you about the suspension this month, but we opted to start with some solid rock sliders, and that snowballed into boxing the entire frame for additional strength. All this work while the drivetrain is out will give us a longer-lasting Tug-Truck for years to come.
The Tug-Truck has some low-hanging rocker panels, which are fine when dragging planes around the tarmac but not ideal for a week of rockcrawling and trail bashings. This sheetmetal hangs almost 3 inches below the doorsill.
We buzzed away the rockers with a plasma cutter and then ground them smooth to be flush with the bottom of the door. This will give us some clearance, but even better, it will allow us to build rock sliders that don't hang down below useless sheetmetal.
The military trailer bed of our truck has a very square look, and so does the first-gen Dodge sheetmetal, so we followed that through to the rock sliders and built them from 2×4 rectangular tubing.
The rock sliders tubing is 1⁄4 inch thick under the door where the majority of abuse will occur and then 1⁄8 inch thick up along the bed. We added rectangular tube kickers to attach to the frame.
The rock sliders stick 6 inches past the bed before replicating the bed wheel opening angle up to the lower bedrail. We added a patch of expanded metal to that gap so it can work as an easy step for accessing the front of the bed.
We like how the rear of the frame is almost flush with the back of the bed, and without a big rear bumper the tailgate can be opened 180 degrees. The Pac Fab team added a stick of 2×2-inch square tube under the bedrail and added a piece of 2×4 out at the ends to run under the rear corners of the bed. Additional 2×2 gussets run to the frame, but we still need to add taillights, recovery points, and corner caps too.
After adding the rock sliders we noticed they moved a lot when we tried lifting the truck with them. We added a 2×2 crossmember above the frame from one rock slider to the other that runs under the bed. Then we decide to go a step further and box in the entire frame. These old Dodges have an open C-channel frame, which is as floppy as a fish out of water. Jason Howerton started by making a cardboard template of the frame.
Next, Howerton copied the outline on a sheet of 1⁄8-inch (0.125) steel. The frame is currently 3⁄16 inch (0.188), but the 1⁄8 will be enough to help make it more rigid without adding more weight than is necessary. We considered hole-sawing and dimple-dying the plate for even more strength, but that was deemed superfluous work at this point.
We tacked the plates into place and then brought the frame down off the lift and onto jackstands to be sure it was level and square before welding. Then when we did weld it, we stitched it and jumped around from side to side letting it cool and measuring it to be sure it didn't pull or move. We will eventually add to the front section and maybe pull the Cummins completely out to finish the frame.
As we were moving forward on the frame, a special package arrived with our new transmission. We approached the guys at Rockland Standard Gear about an NV-4500 five-speed manual for Tug-Truck, and they turned us onto a new five-speed, the Tremec 4050. This is a transmission still in production (unlike the NV-4500) and made as a replacement. However, it uses an all-aluminum case with substantial ribbing for a light but strong gearbox. It has a 6.16 First gear and a 0.24 overdrive Fifth gear, and uses standard Dexron ATF instead of gear oil or the expensive lube required for NV-4500s.
Rockland Standard Gear got us what may be the first Tremec 4050 in use in the United States, so we're definitely treading new ground. Rockland believes that this transmission will be a perfect fit for trucks, Jeeps, and most standard diesels. We'll be hot-rodding our Cummins slightly but nothing extreme, so it should be fine. We bolted an Advance Adapters bellhousing to the gearbox, but had a small issue with one of the four mounting holes being off on the transmission. We simply drilled a new one and everything fell into place.
The output shaft on the Tremec 4050 is a 23-spline version, so we will need to match that with our Magnum 205 transfer case from Offroad Design. The circular six bolt pattern on the back of the Tremec is standard for ease of assembly.
We started mocking up a custom upper axle truss for our front Dynatrac ProRock 80 but stopped midstream when we decided to box the frame. Since the frame suspension mounts will need the frame boxed first, we want to get our transmission and transfer case in before we lay out our front links so we can verify that the driveshafts and links will clear items like the bellhousing and starter.


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- Date: 10/11/2019 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location: Garden Rooms
3330 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, California 90503
Healing Song Ministry presents JOY in the Garden Rooms, 3330 Civic Center Drive.
Free event. Donations will be received but not required.
An evening of Jazz flavored worship in a beautiful setting overlooking the Pine Wind Japanese Garden. Healing Song is a non-profit musical therapy ministry dedicated to bringing peace, comfort, and healing to Seniors, Veterans, and the general public in the South Bay Community.


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Centennial of Women's Vote in California is 2011: Berkeley Celebrations Planned
In June of 1908, as Berkeley prepared to ceremonially lay the cornerstone of a new City Hall, a group of local women registered a protest. They weren't against the building itself, but wanted to use the occasion bring attention to the cause of Women's Suffrage, the campaign to achieve voting rights for women.
California—and most of the United States—did not, at the time, grant women the vote.
The Berkeley Political Equality League, under the leadership of Mary McHenry Keith, proposed placing a letter to the future in the cornerstone.
"We…hereby commit the cause of Equal Suffrage for man and woman to the judgment of future generations, in the confidence that in after years whoever shall read these lines will wonder that so late as the year 1908 the women of California were political serfs; they were taxed without representation, governed without their consent, and classed under the law with idiots, insane persons, criminals, minors and other defective classes…We, about to die, greet you, the inheritors of a better age, men and women of the future Berkeley, equal before the law, enfranchised citizen; co-operating in all public service."
The all male Town Trustees ultimately looked askance at the proposal and the letter wasn't included in the City Hall cornerstone. But this month, 103 years later, Berkeley's early equal rights crusaders will finally have the last official say.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, the Berkeley City Council will proclaim a resolution in that same City Hall commemorating the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote in California in 1911, calling it a "triumph that has been partially forgotten or ignored, and has for too long been denied its rightful place in the history of our state."
The resolution is sponsored by Susan Wengraf and Linda Maio, the two women who currently serve on the nine member City Council.
How women won the vote in California will be a focus of both statewide and local celebration and educational activities over several months. Activities will climax in October, the anniversary of the October 10, 1911, statewide election when women won the right to votes by a narrow margin.
Commemorative activities in Berkeley are being coordinated by a local committee, led by Phyllis Gale of the Berkeley Historical Society and Nancy Bickel of the Berkeley-Emeryville-Albany League of Women Voters, and including others from both groups, the American Association of University Women, and other interested organizations.
Activities will include a costumed march of suffragists in the Solano Stroll and four exhibits (two on campus, one in the Central Berkeley Library, and one at the Berkeley Historical Society). The main exhibit, at the Berkeley Historical Center, will be paired with a day of celebration in Downtown Berkeley in October. Details are now being planned.
The local League of Women Voters is celebrating a double anniversary. October 30, 2011 is the centennial of the formation of the organization, originally called the Berkeley Center of the California Civic League.
Winning the vote in California was a long and arduous process for women and their male allies. A measure to amend the State Constitution had failed in the 1890s and it was more than a decade before the proposal got back on the official ballot.
Amendment 8, to be voted on October 10, 1911, would win, but not without an enormous and exhausting campaign throughout the State and in Berkeley.
Berkeley had a special place in the California Suffrage struggle since some of the prominent statewide leaders came from here and there was a vigorous, and successful, local campaign effort.
And Berkeley—which was, in that era, still one of California's five largest cities—was the only municipality in the Bay Area to vote for suffrage.
The election arguments were passionate. "Women are equal to men intellectually. In fact, if we take the number of graduates from our schools and colleges, we must admit that they are farther advanced mentally", wrote H.G. Cattrell, Speaker of the State Assembly, in an official ballot argument.
"Women should not be subject to taxation without representation any more than men. 'Consent of the governed' means women as well as men…"
"Suffrage is not a right", countered J.B. Stanford, Chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the ballot argument against the amendment. "Politics is no place for a women consequently the privilege should not be granted to her."
"The mother's influence is needed in the home. She can do little good by gadding the streets and neglecting her children", Sanford went on. "The courageous, chivalrous, and manly men and the womanly women, the real mothers and home builders of the country, are opposed to this innovation in American political life."
"The men are able to run the government and take care of the woman. Do women have to vote in order to receive the protection of man?" Sanford argued. He asserted that in Colorado where woman had won the vote, the divorce rate and crime had increased.
"Woman is woman. She can not unsex herself or change her sphere. Let her be content with her lot and perform those high duties intended for her by the Great Creator…" he concluded.
The Suffragists saw it differently.
"If the ballot was granted to women the men would not have quite as much liberty in the control of affairs. She would have something to say about the city government and things in general that pertain to the community in which she lives. I believe that the hand that rocks the cradle should rule the world," Dr. Mary Plumb had said in the Oakland Tribune in 1909, as the next attempt at suffrage was heating up.
And Sarah Shuey, a pioneering East Bay doctor from Berkeley, said at the same time, "Why do I believe in suffrage for women? Because I am a human being as well as a woman, and I believe in true democracy, and wish to get into the company of rational human beings before the law, and not to be classed with the idiots, imbeciles, the insane and criminals—because the city, State or nation is only a larger family, therefore it is inevitable that women should share in the responsibility for the normal development of the race."
Women and their male allies in the California Suffrage movement pursued a vigorous campaign in 1911.
"There were posters and all kinds of designs" leaders of the national suffrage movement wrote in 1920 in a recap of their cause, "city circularizing of the most thorough kind in many languages; pageants, plays, concerts and public social function; the placarding of city bill boards over miles of country; advertising of every possible kind; huge electric and other signs; long weeks of automobile campaigning in the country and the villages; special speakers for all sorts of organizations; a handsome float in the labor day parade; speaking at vaudeville shows—there was no cessation of these eight months' strenuous work."
Automobile campaigning seemed a particularly novel and effective form of making contact with rural voters. City women would drive out into the countryside and stop in a small town. Local men, who rarely got to see an automobile up close in that era, would gather 'round to examine and admire the vehicle, and the women would seize the opportunity to speak to them about Suffrage.
In Berkeley the City was divided into 35 districts and Mrs. Hester Harland headed up a campaign headquarters at 2515 Bancroft Way, just east of today's Sproul Plaza.
Campaign workers, primarily women and including many UC students, spread out through the City identifying sympathetic voters. They gave talks, speeches, and parades. Notable Berkeley leaders included Mary Keith—one of the first women to earn a law degree in California—and Mrs. Mary (Charles Crocker) Hall who lent her palatial home on Hillside Avenue for Suffrage events.
"We secured every available hall and meeting place, large and small, and sometimes we were offered rooms in private homes for lectures", Mrs. Harland later wrote.
"This we planned ahead for eight months. At these places we had from our own Berkeley, San Francisco, and from other places far afield, the best and most brilliant speakers we could secure. For the last night of the campaign, we secured the Berkeley High School Auditorium, which was the largest meeting place in town, and this turned out to be a grand rally celebrating our victory when the returns came in."
Voters went to the polls on October 10, 1911. Thousands throughout the state worked all day to get male supporters to vote. Over 1,000 campaign staff volunteered in San Francisco alone.
In Oakland there were 240 women who stood near polling places for 12 hours, canvassing for Suffrage and "this work was paralleled in Berkeley, Alameda and other places around the bay." The Daily Californian reported that one hundred co-eds from the campus had joined the Election Day canvassing.
Early election reports prematurely reported the demise of Amendment 8. But as later returns arrived in subsequent days, the balance tilted in favor of the measure.
Big cities in California tended to go against suffrage. In San Francisco the amendment lost by 35,471 votes to 21,912; in Oakland, the loss was by 1,743 votes. Although Los Angeles voters approved suffrage by a very small margin, votes from rural counties made the real difference. And suffrage in California passed in 1911 by only 3,587 votes out of 246,487 cast.
Berkeley Suffrage supporters, including Socialist Mayor J. Stitt Wilson, celebrated November 2, 1911. More than 500 gathered in the auditorium of Berkeley High School for a victory rally.
"The recent campaign resulted in the grandest victory ever gained in any state", Hester Harland told the crowd. "We are here tonight to celebrate this achievement of government, not by part of the people, but by all. We are here to celebrate the beginning, of a new era."
"Not many years ago it was not a pleasant thing to say that one was a suffragist," said the Rev. Dr. Florence Buck of Alameda, "and any one who believed in the enfranchisement of women was ridiculed. But that time is past."
She was right. It was a victory and the nationwide effect was electric. "With the winning of this old, wealthy and influential State the entire movement for women suffrage passed the crisis and victory in the remaining western States was sure to be a matter of a comparatively short time", the women leaders would write in 1920.
It would take another 8 years to get universal suffrage approved by Congress, and a year more to achieve sufficient State ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
By then, even suffrage opponents were mollified by the California results. In 1915 both houses of the California Legislature, which had seen bitter battles over Suffrage before 1911, approved a resolution that read:
"Resolved, that so successful has been the operation and effect of granting political rights to women that it is generally conceded that, were the question to be again voted on by the people of this State, it would be re-endorsed by an overwhelming majority; and be it further resolved, that the adoption of woman suffrage by California is one of the important factors contributing to the marked political, social and industrial advancement made by our people in recent years."
The tangible local reward for winning the suffrage election came April 27, 1912. Voters went to the polls in a Berkeley election and, for the first time, the electorate fully included women.
"Many of the most prominent women in Berkeley participated in the election, casting their ballots with womanly grace and with a skill equal to the masculine", the Oakland Tribune reported in the afternoon.
Many less prominent women—ordinary housewives, sales clerks, office workers, UC students—also went to the polls that day. The Tribune commented on the number of women—office workers and sales clerks, in particular—who voted early in the morning at polling stations along Shattuck Avenue before boarding the interurban trains for jobs in Oakland and San Francisco.
The 1912 voter rolls show the extent of the change. Hester Harland lived on Union Street—essentially underneath Lower Sproul Plaza on the UC campus today—and the fruits of the victory she and her allies had won in Berkeley were apparent among her neighbors who were now voters.
Among them were women who were teachers, nurses, bookkeepers, chambermaids, clerks, students, a "rooming house proprietor", "research assistant" and lawyer, in addition to those who simply listed themselves as "housewife", "housekeeper", "widow" or "spinster".
And Harland herself was working that election as an election clerk for Precinct No. 28, with its polling place at Bancroft and Ellsworth, not far from her home and the home of Mrs. Keith. There were three women among the six staff assigned to that poll.
It must have been a sweet experience helping to staff the locations where they were also now full participants, not simply on-lookers.
The Proclamation Recognizing the 100thAnniversary of Women in California Winning the Right to Vote will be read and presented at the March 8th Berkeley City Council meeting. Ceremonial items are first on the agenda, at 7:00 pm. The Council Chambers are at 2134 Martin Luther King Way.
For more information on the Statewide efforts visit California: 100 Years of Women Voting website, organized by the League of Women Voters.
(The author is the First Vice President of the Berkeley Historical Society, and will be involved in organizing one of the commemorative exhibits on the UC Berkeley campus. He'll write periodically through 2011 about the Suffrage Centennial plans and events.)


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Carroll and his current club are a third of the way through Group B play in the CONCACAF Champions and into the last eight games of the MLS season but put that aside Wednesday for a semifinal of the U.S. Open Cup vs. D.C. United in RFK Stadium. The winner faces either Seattle Sounders FC or Chivas USA.
He joined United out of Wake Forest in 2003 and the next year started 26 regular-season matches and all four playoffs games to help the team to its fourth MLS Cup and entry into international play.
"It was fun because I was younger and I hadn't had that experience yet, so being able to play in CONCACAF games, being able to play in other tournament games—(Copa) Sudamericana, etc.—was a good learning experience," he said.
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In each product description, under the tab labelled "Additional Information" you will find health and environmental information regarding the product. For example, the fact that products are free of bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and lead (as is the case with all our products). As well, we indicate if the product is recyclable and/or compostable.
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Life Without Plastic and Sanctus Mundo have gone through a rigorous screening process and have been granted Green America's top tier Gold Seal of Approval. Green America is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of harnessing economic power - the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace - to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
The Green America Seal of Approval that we sport indicates we have been comprehensively screened by the Green America Screening Team to ensure we are:
- Actively using our business as a tool for positive social change;
- Operating a "values-driven" enterprise according to principles of social justice and environmental sustainability;
- Environmentally responsible in the way we source, manufacture, and market our products and run our operations and facilities;
- Socially equitable and committed to extraordinary practices that benefit workers, customers, communities, and the environment; and
- Accountable for our work by continually improving and tracking our progress, and operating with radical transparency in every facet of their business.
Ethical Sourcing
What is Ethical Sourcing?
Ethical sourcing means ensuring that the products being sourced are created in safe facilities by workers who are treated well and paid fair wages to work legal hours. It also implies that the supplier is respecting the environment during the production and manufacture of the products.
This is an issue we take very seriously. We go to great lengths to ensure our products are ethically sourced, whether the product is one of our own Life Without Plastic products, or from another supplier. Some of the key details of our sourcing policies are laid out below with respect to environmental and labour criteria we consider when sourcing products. You could say that ethical sourcing is in our DNA.
Environmental Criteria
When considering a new product, we look at it from several environmentally-related angles and ask the questions laid out below, which also have health-related criteria mixed in. We consider both positive screening criteria – i.e., desirable attributes – and negative screening criteria – i.e., undesirable attributes. We verify these criteria through discussions with the supplier in question, ideally in person with high level company representatives, and when possible during an on-site visit to the supplier's facilities. We seek to develop long-term trust relationships with suppliers who are actively and openly interested in helping the environment and who consider environmental criteria in the manufacture of their product(s).
For products sourced from Canadian and U.S. suppliers, but manufactured elsewhere, we rely heavily on discussions with, and representations of, the Canadian or U.S. supplier because it is generally not possible to contact the actual manufacturing facility directly (confidential business information). Again, we seek to develop long-term trust relationships with our Canadian and U.S. suppliers, and we choose suppliers who are actively and openly interested in helping the environment and who consider environmental criteria in the manufacture of their product(s).
For our Canadian-made products, we have met most of the suppliers and have close trust relationships with all of them. For the ones close to us, we have visited their facilities.
Here are the environmentally-related questions we ask when deciding whether or not to source a product from a particular supplier:
The Product:
Material and Process
What is the environmental impact of the material and process used to make the product? (e.g., Are toxins released into the environment during manufacture? Is energy efficiency considered?)
What is the quality of the material and the final product? (e.g., Is it high quality food grade stainless steel, ideally 300 series, such as 304?; if 200 series, do the independent test results meet our quality standards?)
Do the independent test results meet our quality standards? (e.g., re lead, endocrine disruptors)
Other features
Does the product contain any plastic? What kind of plastic? Does it contain phthalates or bisphenol A? For food and drink containers, does the plastic come into contact with the conent of the container?
Is there paint? If so, what type of paint is used? For food and drink containers, does the paint come into contact with the conent of the container?
Is the product durable and well made? What is the level of quality of workmanship?
Can it be recycled at the end of it's functional life?
The Supplier:
Does the supplier follow all applicable environmental regulations in the country of operation?
Can the supplier meet our requirements for environmentally-friendly product packaging?
What environmental measures does the supplier, including the manufacturing facility, have in place (e.g., recycling, waste management, pollution control measures, emissions control measures)?
Does the supplier have an environmental management and/or quality management system in place (e.g., ISO14000, ISO9000) or any other environmental certifications?
Is the supplier interested in helping the environment? If so, how?
Labour Criteria
When considering a new product, we look at it from several labour-related angles and ask the questions laid out below. We consider both positive screening criteria – i.e., desirable attributes – and negative screening criteria – i.e., undesirable attributes. We verify these criteria through discussions with the supplier in question, ideally in person with high level company representatives, and when possible during an on-site visit to the supplier's facilities. We seek to develop long-term trust relationships with suppliers who respect their workers and provide safe, fair working conditions.
For products sourced from Canadian and U.S. suppliers, but manufactured elsewhere, we rely heavily on discussions with, and representations of, the Canadian or U.S. supplier because it is generally not possible to contact the actual manufacturing facility directly (confidential business information). Again, we seek to develop long-term trust relationships with our Canadian and U.S. suppliers, and we choose suppliers who respect their workers and provide safe, fair working conditions.
Here are the labour-related questions we ask when deciding whether or not to source a product from a particular supplier:
Does the supplier employ children to work at any of its facilities?
Is the workers freedom of movement unreasonably constrained by the supplier (e.g., is prison or "sweatshop" labour used)?
Do employees receive a fair wage for their work (at or above the national minimum wage)?
Do employees have reasonable work hours? What are the average work hours?
Are there safety precautions in place for workers? If so, what?
Are health benefits available for employees? If so, what?
What policies and/or management systems are in place to ensure worker health and safety?
What is the supplier's health and safety record?
Has the supplier been involved in any legal actions related to discrimination in the workplace or employment equity issues?
Do workers receive paid leave?
Are workers free to express their opinions and make suggestions to management?
Is there a profit-sharing program in place?
Does the supplier have any labour-related certifications (e.g. fair trade, social accountability, unionized)?
Is there anything else the supplier does to make the employees working conditions positive?
Sourcing from China
We are often asked if any of our products come from China. [Note: The country of origin/manufacture for every single product we sell is clearly indicated in each product description.]
First off, it is important to note that just because a product is made in China does not mean it is a low quality or unsafe product. China is home to some of the most advanced manufacturing facilities and expertise in the world, and some of the highest quality products in the world are made in China.
We have made a conscious decision to be extremely careful about sourcing anything from China. This decision is based on environmental, labour and human rights reasons, and also for trust-related reasons flowing from previous experiences we have had with a former Chinese supplier and interactions with other Chinese suppliers.
Regarding the former supplier, we had ordered a particular type of food container made of 100% food grade, 304 stainless steel and when we tested the initial sample we received, it was fine. All seemed to be in order. When the actual shipment arrived and we began selling the containers, we started getting complaints from customers that the clips holding on the lid of the container were rusting. Clearly, the clips were not made of stainless steel – or at least not the same quality as the rest of the container. The company did send us replacements for one detachable part of the clip, but they never really acknowledged the problem or admitted any wrongdoing.
We have deep respect and admiration for the Chinese people and their rich culture and history. Our main problem is with the repressive dictatorship that is the Chinese government, and its sometimes questionable environmental, labour and human rights records. There are many examples to choose from to illustrate the problems, but a few big ones include the widespread ongoing use of coal-fired energy, the invasion of Tibet, the continuing oppression of the Tibetan people and the ongoing persecution of other minorities in China, such as the Uyghur people and practitioners of the Falun Gong/Falun Dafa belief system.
Life Without Plastic does sell some carefully chosen products made in China, such as the Klean Kanteens and Lunchbots, but these products and the facilities where they are made are closely monitored by the manufacturers. From the health perspective, we may test the Chinese products ourselves for toxins, even if the manufacturer has done their own testing.
Country of Origin or Manufacture
We like to know where our products come from, and we assume you do too. Where a product is made can be an indication of quality and price. And for various reasons, one might wish to avoid purchasing products from a particular country.
The country of origin/manufacture for every single product we sell is indicated in the product description under the tab labelled "Additional Information".
All new materials used to pack your order are made of non-plastic packing materials - paper, cellulose, cornstarch. There may be some plastic in the packaging of a particular product, and this is because it was packaged that way by the manufacturer, not by us. We work closely with our manufacturers to decrease and eliminate all plastic packaging. This is an ongoing task. We do our best to indicate any plastic packaging in the 'Additional Information' section of every product description.
In keeping with our mission to help clean up the planet and minimize waste however possible, we reuse boxes and packing materials that come into our warehouse and office. Some of these materials may have residual plastic on them, or we may reuse plastic packing materials we receive. We encourage you to reuse packing materials as well.
New boxes and mailing envelopes we use are made of recycled material. Our packing materials are primarily paper-based, including the tape (we sometimes use cellulose tape where a clear tape is required). We also sometimes use cornstarch peanuts which are reusable and compostable, but not recyclable. While we strive to use packing materials that are 100% recycled, this is not always possible, in which case we use the highest recycled content available at the time of shipment.
We encourage you to give the packing materials another life by reusing them for your own packing needs, or as a last resort, recycling them.
Care Instructions
Please note that some of our products require special care - for example, they may not be appropriate for the dishwasher. Please read each product description carefully because not following the product care instructions voids the warranty and may cause damage to the product. The care instructions are clearly described in each product description under the tab labelled "Additional Information".
All Life Without Plastic products have at least a one year warranty against manufacturing defects. The one year is calculated from the date our records indicate you have successfully received your order.
Normal wear and tear, such as scratches and dents, are not covered under the Life Without Plastic warranty.
Some products may have a longer warranty, and this will be indicated in the specific product description under the tab labelled "Additional Information".
If you have a warrantly claim, please see the Warranty and Returns page for details on how to proceed.
Product Detail
Products are described as accurately and appropriately as possible in order to ensure that a customer understands the product she or he is ordering. Although we try to offer the best quality possible, if the quality of the material used is lower than other products we carry, this will be indicated. The price you pay would then be a reflection of such quality. The descriptions, data, pictures, and information on our website are intended to be accurate at time of upload to our site. All information is subject to change without notice.
Colours are represented as realistically as possible, but colour variations of product images or colour swatches are outside of our control because software, hardware and Internet connections can alter the appearance of colours.
Catalog Mail Order
If you are ordering from our Catalog, please follow the ordering instructions laid out in the Catalog on the Order Form. Please note that where there are differences between the Catalog and this website regarding product line, availability and pricing, this website supersedes any information presented in the Catalog. This website is the most up-to-date representation of our products and prices at all times.
While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of product and price information, errors can occur. We reserve the right to correct any errors or inaccuracies at any time without prior notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


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Egypt's senior religious cleric has condemned rumors circulating around the country that Coca-Cola is an enemy of Islam, the weekly newspaper Rose al-Yussef said Saturday.
The mufti, Sheikh Nasr Farid Wassel, said there was no truth to the rumor that Coca-Cola's logo, when turned around in a mirror reflection, resembles Arabic calligraphy that says "No to Mohammed! No to Mecca!"
The rumor had sparked pamphlets calling for a boycott of the US soft-drink manufacturer.
Sheikh Wassel said Islam is against "the propagation of empty rumors and intended lies that affect either public or private interests."
The mufti said such rumors could lead to the dismissal of thousands of workers in Egypt, where Coca-Cola has a production plant, and make it difficult for the employees to support their families -- CAIRO (AFP)
© 2000 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)


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Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides the latest updates for Office 2013. This service pack includes two kinds of fixes:
- Previously unreleased fixes that are included in this service pack. In addition to general product fixes, these fixes include improvements in stability, performance, and security.
- All the monthly security updates that were released through January 2014, and all the Cumulative Updates that were released through December 2013.
How to determine whether you have SP1 installedIn order to determine whether SP1 is already installed, you can look for the program version in the list of installed programs in the Programs and Features item in Control Panel. If SP1 is installed, the version will be 15.0.4569.1506 or later. Additionally, if you have installed the SP1 update for a Windows Installer (MSI) product, SP1 will be listed in Installed Updates in that same Control Panel item.
PrerequisitesThere are no prerequisites for installing this update.
Restart requirementYou have to restart the computer after you apply this update.
How to obtain and install the service packNote: If you have the Click-to-Run version of Office installed, you will be prompted to update automatically to the SP1 version. There is no need to install an update using one of the methods below, which only apply to a Windows Installer-based (MSI) installation.
Note Before you install these service packs, you should make sure that you have sufficient disk space. For caching, the packages may require up to four times their file size in remaining disk space during installation.
Method 1: Microsoft Update (recommended)To download the service pack from Microsoft Update, go to the following Microsoft website:
Note On Microsoft Update, this service pack is included in KB 2850036.
Method 2: Download the SP1 package from Microsoft Download CenterThe following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center.
Note If you have a 32-bit version of Office 2013 installed on a 64-bit version of Windows, you should install the Office 2013 SP1 32-bit package.
- Download the Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 32-bit package now
- Download the Microsoft Office 2013 SP1 64-bit package now
119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online servicesMicrosoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.
For more information about a complete list of all released SP1 desktop packages, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2850036 List of all Service Pack 1 (SP1) packages for Microsoft Office 2013 and related desktop products
Overview of Office 2013 SP1 improvementsThe following are the key areas of improvement that are offered by this SP1:
- Improves compatibility with Windows 8.1.
- Improves compatibility with Internet Explorer 11.
- Improves compatibility with modern hardware, such as high-DPI devices and the precision touchpad.
- Provides new apps for Office capabilities and APIs for third-party developers.
Outlook 2013 SP1
- Provides support for task pane apps in Outlook 2013 to enable third-party developers to extend the compose experience for email messages and calendar items.
PowerPoint 2013 SP1
- Provides ability to insert and use content apps in PowerPoint 2013 slides.
Lync 2013 SP1
Issues that this service pack fixesThis service pack fixes the Lync 2013 issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:
2919506 Can't hear the first few words that a callee speaks when they answer a call in Lync 2013
2919507 The "Program Events" sound setting is reset to the default value after you restart Lync 2013
2919508 Can't rotate the screen orientation of a video window in a Lync 2013 video conference on a Windows 8.1-based device
2919510 A pie chart clock icon appears in the "Conversations" tab as a meeting icon in Lync 2013
Downloadable list of issues that the service pack fixesThe following workbook is available for download. This workbook lists the issues that are fixed by this service pack.
Known issues and behavior changes
You may experience the following known issues and behavior changes regarding this service pack.
Blank application tile for pinned applications in Windows 8 or 8.1
If the Service Pack 1 update is uninstalled on a computer that is running Windows 8 or 8.1, an Office application tile on the start screen is blank without an application name or icon if the application is pinned to the Start screen. To work around this issue, repair the Office installation in the Programs and Features item in Control Panel.
Known crashing versions of COM add-ins are blocked from starting Office 2013 applicationsMicrosoft has identified several COM add-ins for Microsoft Office applications that are reported to crash in large volume. In this SP1, the problematic versions of these add-ins that are blocked from starting are listed as follows.
If you want to re-enable these add-ins, follow these steps:
- Open the Options dialog from the File tab.
- Select the Add-Ins tab.
- Select COM add-ins in the Manage list, and then select Go.
- Select the check box next to the add-ins in the COM Add-Ins menu that you want to enable.
- Select OK.
|Module name
|Module version range
|CPU type
|188.8.131.52 – 22.214.171.124
|220.127.116.115 – 220.127.116.118
|188.8.131.52 – 22.214.171.124
|184.108.40.20670 – 184.108.40.20627
|188.8.131.522 – 126.96.36.1997
|10.0.101.47 – 10.0.102.185
|126.96.36.1997 – 188.8.131.52
To download the latest working versions of the add-ins that are listed here, go to the following websites.
|Add-in name
|Send to Bluetooth
|Intel Corporation
|Evernote Client For Windows - Outlook Clipper
|Evernote Corporation
|Abbyy Finereader
Excel 2013The Power View and PowerPivot add-ins are not included in the stand-alone version of Excel 2013. To install these add-ins, in the following Excel 2013 update:
2817425 Description of the Excel 2013 update: August 13, 2013
Lync 2013
2932389 Persistent Chat file transfer fails between an external user and an internal user in Lync 2013
2933495 Memory leak occurs during a video call or when you rest the mouse pointer on a video icon in Lync 2013
Technical informationFor more information about this service pack that includes a list of files affected, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
2817457 Technical details about Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Office 2013 and related desktop products


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Latin America has experienced a possible increase in terror financing activities by radical Islamists throughout 2012. Consider the developments that have been revealed this year:
- In September, published reports indicated that a Hezbollah camp in Nicaragua is training 30 operatives and is laundering money.
- The Venezuela chapter of Hezbollah is using Panama for bulk cash smuggling for follow-on transfer to Beirut.
- Some goods, possibly even missile components, are being exported via Panama directly to Iran.
- The use of the Venezuelan air carrier Conviasa to smuggle contraband through Africa to Europe earned it an "operational ban" from the EU in April. Hezbollah profited from the Conviasa flights. It is unclear whether the ban interferes with Conviasa's African flights.
- Cuba was listed again by the U.S. in 2012 as a state sponsor of terrorism partly for the continued safe haven Cuba provides to terrorist groups FARC and ETA. Havana is now also letting IHH, the radical Islamist Turkish charity that has been banned by Germany for its financing of Hamas, build a mosque in Cuba.
- A trio of Hezbollah agents in Mexico was exposed during an arrest of one operative who had previously been convicted in the U.S. for credit card fraud that funded terrorism.
- Ecuador was blacklisted in June by FATF, the international financial watchdog, for failing to make progress against money laundering and terrorist financing.
- In its annual report in July, the U.S. State Department said, "Brazil has not criminalized terrorist financing in a manner that is consistent with the FATF Special Recommendation II."
Given its Western heritage and deep Catholic faith, Latin America can and should be a natural ally in the war against Islamic terror. Its energy resources make it a natural counterweight to the oil powerhouse of the Middle East.
But this wonderful opportunity to present a united trans-American front against jihad is being jeopardized by attitudes of permissiveness, ignorance, and political correctness. American politicians like Michelle Bachman and Connie Mack who recognize the threat are written off as know-nothing xenophobes. But the news this year indicates that they are correct.


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–Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization


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