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Sept. 15, 2010
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The Schedule
Lobo Classic - Hosted by New Mexico at UNM Soccer Complex
Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, 3:30 p.m. (PT)
UC Santa Barbara (0-2-2) vs. No. 12 Harvard (2-0-1)
Series record vs. Crimson: 0-0-1
Last meeting: T, 1-1 (2OT) - Sept. 23, 2007
Game available on Gametracker
Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, 9:00 a.m. (PT)
UC Santa Barbara vs. Buffalo (2-2-0)
Series record vs. Bulls: First meeting
Game available on Gametracker
Land of Enchantment, Take Two
UC Santa Barbara will make its second trip of the 2010 season to Albuquerque, New Mexico this week to play in the Lobo Classic hosted by the University of New Mexico. The Gauchos are slated to play No. 12 Harvard on Friday in the second meeting between the two programs and will take-on Buffalo for the first time on Sunday.
Uncharted Territory
After losing to Creighton and tying Davidson last week in home matches, UCSB has fallen to 0-2-2 on the early season. This marks the Gauchos' slowest start since head coach Tim Vom Steeg took over the program in 1999. The last time UCSB failed to win in its first four matches was during the 1998 season when the Gauchos went 0-8-0 to start the year and the last time UCSB was winless in four consecutive contests was during the 2008 season when the Gauchos went 0-3-3 in their final six games of the year (Nov. 1 thru Nov. 25).
Down And Out In Santa Barbara
After being selected as a consensus preseason top-10 team in all five national college soccer polls, the Gauchos have slipped out of the top-30 in each poll. The last time UCSB slipped out of the national polls was during the 2006 season when the team was absent from every national poll for three weeks in mid-October. The Gauchos went on to turn that season around and won the national championship. UCSB is still ranked 44th in the Top Drawer Soccer poll and is receiving votes in the NSCAA poll and Soccer Times polls.
Working Overtime
Three of the Gauchos' four games this season have gone into overtime - with two going into double OT - and UCSB has gone 0-1-2 in those contests. Vom Steeg's teams have posted a 17-7-22 combined mark in overtime games and average four per season. In 2009, UCSB played four overtime games, going 1-0-3 in those games. The most overtime games a Vom Steeg-led team has played in a season was eight during the 2004 campaign.
Doubling Up
After being limited to just one goal in their first three games this season, the Gauchos' offense came alive on Friday as UCSB scored two goals in the first half against Davidson. The pair of goals were the most scored by the Gauchos since their 2-0 win at UC Davis on Nov. 7, 2009, a span of eight games.
Playing Catch-Up
Until Friday's match against the Wildcats, UCSB had yet to lead a game in 2010 and even during that contest, the Gauchos found themselves playing catch-up. With the exception of the season-opener at Bakersfield, UCSB has fallen behind in the first half of each of its contests and twice in the first 15 minutes (against New Mexico and Davidson).
Pair of Gauchos Ranked As Top-100
Sam Garza and Danny Barrera have been named to Top Drawer Soccer's list of National Top 100 Men that was released on Sept. 15. The ranking includes the highest rated upperclassmen college soccer players in the nation and will be updated weekly. Garza is ranked 43rd while Barrera is 57th.
Taking Shots
Despite being outscored 5-3 in the last four contests, the Gauchos have out-shot their opposition 56-39 and are averaging 14 shots per game, just above their average of 13 per game in 2009. UCSB is third in the Big West - behind UC Irvine and Cal Poly - for shots per contest and sophomore Sam Garza leads all players with his 18 shots and 4.50 per game average. Junior Danny Barrera, meanwhile, is tied for fourth in the conference with his 11 shots and 2.75 per game average.
Defensive Behavior
The Gaucho defense has been solid to start the season, posting a 1.11 goals against average, which currently ranks second in the Big West and 75th nationally. People who followed the team closely in 2009 might be surprised that the Gauchos, who posted a school-record 16 shutouts last season, have already allowed five goals. It is notable, however, that the team allowed 11 of its opponents' 18 total goals in the first eight games of the 2009 season before going on to allow just one goal across 12 games from Sept. 27 thru Nov. 11.
Garza's Goals
Sophomore Sam Garza has led UCSB offensively this season recording two of the Gauchos' three goals and an assist for a team-best five points. Garza scored his second goal of the season in the 18th minute against Davidson then assisted Michael Tetteh's goal in the 27th minute.
Century Club
Senior goalkeeper Sam Hayden recorded his 100th save as a Gaucho in Friday's tie with Davidson. He is the first Gaucho goalkeeper since Kyle Reynish (2002-06) to tally triple digit saves. For his career, Hayden has posted a 0.80 goals against average and if he stays on-pace, he could top Reynish's school GAA record of 0.81. The Jackson, Wyo. native already ranks 10th in the UCSB record book for minutes played in a career (2,593) and is tied fifth for career shutouts (16).
Seeing Crimson
UCSB will face Harvard, which is ranked No. 12 nationally by Soccer Times, for the first time since the two teams battled to a 1-1 tie in double overtime during the programs' first meeting on Sept. 23, 2007. The Crimson defeated Stanford and UMass before tying UConn, 1-1, last week to get out to a 2-0-1 start on the year. Brian Rogers leads the team with two goals.
Bull Fighting
Sunday's match will mark the first pairing between Buffalo and UCSB. After dropping its first two games of the season to Penn State and Ohio State, the Bulls have since defeated Canisus and Robert Morris to improve to 2-2 on the year. Four different players have scored for the Bulls this year.
The Vom Steeg File
In his 12th year leading the Gauchos, head coach Tim Vom Steeg is the winningest coach in Big West history. Vom Steeg has posted a 157-63-24 record at the helm of UCSB and a 136-46-23 record since the program rejoined the Big West in 2001. Vom Steeg is also the winningest coach in UCSB men's soccer history and has turned the Gauchos into an annual national title contender. The 2004 and 2006 NSCAA National Coach of the Year, Vom Steeg guided the Gauchos to the NCAA title in 2006 and the championship game in 2004. He has guided UCSB to five Big West titles in the past eight years and eight consecutive trips to the NCAA Tournament. He won Big West Conference Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and 2005 and has produced 15 All-Americans.
Coming Up
UCSB will return home after this weekend's Lobo Classic to host No. 10 UCLA on Sept. 24 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. The contest will be a rematch of the 2009 NCAA Third Round game between the Gauchos and Bruins, which UCLA won 2-1 subsequently ending UCSB's season.
Golden Scarf Ceremony Set for Sept. 24
This year's "Golden Scarf" ceremony will take place prior to the Gauchos' Sept. 24 match against UCLA. This year, four individuals will be awarded a Golden Scarf for their dedication, passion and commitment to UCSB, the sport of soccer and/or the community. Nominations are now being taken online for this year's honor and each person who submits a nomination will receive a pair of free tickets to a Big West Conference home soccer match of their choosing. To nominate someone that you feel is worthy of recognition, click here.
The Cup is Coming, The Cup is Coming!
UCSB is the proud host of the 2010 NCAA Men's College Cup which will take place Dec. 10 and 12 at Meredith Field at Harder Stadium. This marks the first time since the 2004 season that the Cup has been held on the West Coast. All-Session passes for the College Cup are currently available for purchase as a part of the 2010 soccer season ticket packages. Individual College Cup passes will be made available for purchase this Wednesday, Sept. 1.
If you would like to purchase your tickets for the 2010 soccer season, or for more information, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or buy online by clicking here.


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Posted by switch-smith at 1:52 PM . Saturday, December 24, 2011
Marilyn Newhart recounts the story behind their giant Christmas card:
I had the bright idea to make a giant card for Christmas 1969. John was not noticeably enthusiastic but he went along with the idea, so I drew the Santa, cut some screens and John did the type. It took both of us to pull the squeegee because of the large amount of ink required for a poster of this size. That didn't work very well, so I got behind John and held on to his belt while he gave a mighty pull. That made him even more unhappy. John rigged a clothesline to hang the wet sheets on. The fumes really built up after a bit so John opened the garage door, causing the sheets to blow into each other and get smudged. By this time he was openly hostile, and kept saying "Why didn't you think of that?" We started with 150 sheets, a number that rapidly dwindled to our final edition of about 75. We were divorced at least six times during the process, which was normal for this type of project.
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Sept. 18, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A late rally came up short as MIT lost to Harvard, 10-9, in men's water polo action Thursday night. In a scene reminiscent of last year's match with the Crimson, the Engineers held a one-goal advantage entering the final period only to be outscored 3-1 over the last eight minutes. Mike Smith-Bronstein led the Tech attack with five goals in the losing effort. MIT has now dropped five straight to its cross-town rivals.
The teams battled each other in a close first half, with Harvard taking a 5-4 advantage into the break. In the third period, MIT capitalized on three penalty shot scores by Smith-Bronstein as part of a 4-0 run that gave the Engineers a two-goal lead late in the quarter.
Tech entered the final frame ahead by one and had a golden opportunity to extend the lead just over a minute in as sophomore John Preis found himself with a breakaway chance. However, a pair of Preis' shots ricocheted off the crossbar and the Crimson came back to tie the game at eight less than 30 seconds later.
With just under two and a half minutes remaining, Harvard sophomore Jeff Lee fired a shot from inside two meters that was originally deflected by goalkeeper Columbus Leonard. Despite the initial stop, the ball would float just over the goal line to give the Crimson a 9-8 lead. Leading scorer David Tune would later extend Harvard's lead to two goals, setting up the Engineers' late comeback attempt.
Junior Mark Artz provided hope for the MIT faithful with a goal and 17 seconds still remaining. From there, it was a scramble for Tech to regain possession in hopes of getting off a final shot. However, Harvard was able to secure the ball and the victory as the final seconds ticked off the clock.
Artz contributed three goals to the home attack while junior Rob Kalwarowsky also provided a goal for the Cardinal and Gray. Leonard made eight saves in net for the Engineers.
MIT returns to the Zesiger pool tomorrow night, Friday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m. as it hosts Bucknell.


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Funk becomes ace
Glen Funk recorded the first ace at Dwight Country Club for 2013 when his tee shot found the bottom of the cup Sunday.
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Text by Ian Jesse
Images and audio from the Maine Folklife Center
Male employees dominated the pulp and paper industry and many of the women who worked in Eastern remembered the overwhelming presence of men.
Women, however, were present at Eastern Fine Paper since the early twentieth century and they took on various jobs including sorting rags, office work, cutting paper, and shipping orders. Their jobs were never far from the jobs of men; the two genders, more often than not, worked in a shared space.
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It was Moundridge Athletic Director Vance Unrau who summed it up best.
It was Moundridge Athletic Director Vance Unrau who summed it up best. We were talking at a going-away party for Steve Sell at the McPherson Opera House, getting to know one another, when he looked at me and said something I'm not likely to ever forget. "It's kind of like taking over for John Wooden, isn't it?" he asked. That kind of comparison to a legend who won 10 championships in his career will get your attention. I would be lying to you if I didn't admit to some awe at stepping into the shoes left behind by Steve as he begins a new journey in his life, for which I join a multitude of others in wishing him nothing but the best. Like many others, I grew up with Steve's coverage of McPherson High School athletics in The Sentinel, secretly dreaming of the day I would get my picture in there for some athletic deed I had performed. Unfortunately, genetics and a re-arranged ankle in eighth-grade football ended those hopes. You may have concerns about the coverage in the Sentinel— about whether or not we can keep up both the quality and local focus of the last three decades. I pledge to you, the reader, I will work my hardest to win your trust by providing the best possible coverage I can to all the deserving schools in the area, like Elyria Christian, who is sending athletes to state competition in both volleyball and cross country for the first time in school history. McPherson County has an unparalleled history when it comes to athletics. I grew up with names like Chad Alexander rocking the Roundhouse and look very much to taking in the atmosphere on a regular basis once more. This is a new journey for everyone, and it's one I truly hope you decide to take with us. Oh, and the guy who replaced Wooden at UCLA? Gene Bartow went 52-9 in two seasons with the Bruins and is the school's second winningest coach.


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Infections continue to be the main preventable complication of most surgical procedures. Antibiotics are medicines to prevent and treat infections. By following the standard guidelines for timing and giving you the correct antibiotic drug, hospitals can reduce your risk of getting a wound infection after surgery.


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Kitty birthday
We don't know the exact date of Casper's birth, but it was about this time of the year. He and his siblings were orphaned when they were about a month old. When we got him a few weeks later, he was a thin little kitten. He wasn't old enough to chew and swallow Kitten Chow, but he had been eating enough of it to stay alive.
We found an internet recipe for Kitty Joy Juice (kitten milk replacer) and he thrived on it. I should mix him up a batch for his birthday. I'm sure he would still remember it. He gets excited every time I open a packet of plain gelatin -- one of the ingredients.
We've had Casper for nearly two years now. He's always been hard to photograph because of his white coat. Furthermore, he doesn't like to look at the camera because he knows it might flash. He agreed to pose for this birthday portrait only if he could pretend to ignore me.
Casper is -- and always has been -- an ornery cat. He's likely to nip a friendly outreached hand. He loves to spring from a hiding place to attack, all in good fun, of course. He doesn't understand why people get irate about bleeding a little. I think he has a little extra meanness in his genes to make up for his white coat which offers little natural camouflage.
On the other hand, when he's feeling mellow, he's a purr-cat with no claws or teeth at all. Like the little girl with the curl, when he's good, he's very, very good, and when he's bad, he's horrid.
Some earlier posts about Casper:
Casper Cat
Not a Still Life
Casper's Adventure
Making Friends:
Picture of Innocence (Ha!)
Casper The Climber
Cat Meets Cicadas
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Creamy Adsuki Bean Pie Best Pie Bakeoff 2008 Entry #21
Recipe: Joanna's Creamy Adsuki Bean Pie
Category: Original
Another bean pie! We already had one pie made from beans in this Bakeoff, and it piqued our interest. We were curious whether anyone else made a bean pie, and Joanna responded with her own recipe that marries her love of adsuki beans with her love for pie.
Read on for her recipe (with another very unusual ingredient, besides the beans, in her pie filling) and great photos of her pie dough process.
Where is this recipe from? This recipe came from my love for adsuki bean desserts and my love for pies. One day I decided to put the two together and it has become a must have pie for me.
Why is this the BEST pie recipe you've got? This is the Best pie recipe I have because it combines my two favorite things. And it's not always easy to find adsuki bean dessert but this is a super easy recipe to make.
Creamy Adsuki Bean Pie
Ingredients (Cooked Adsuki Beans):
1 small bag of adsuki beans (about 2 cups)
4 cups water
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon orange zest
Ingredients (pie crust):
3 cups all purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter
8 oz of sourcream
3 tablespoons of milk
Ingredients (pie filling):
2 cups cooked adsuki beans
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
3 large eggs
4 scoops (about 1 3/4 cups) creamy vanilla icecream slightly softened
Instructions (cooked adsuki beans):
Soak adsuki beans in a bowl of water for a couple of hours or overnight. Rinse the beans with clean water a couple of times. Put beans in pot with 4 cups of water, brown sugar and orange zest. Bring to a broil and reduce heat to simmer. Cook beans until tender. The beans should be whole for the most part but very tender. Most of the moisture should be gone.
Instructions (pie crust):
Mix together flour, sugar and salt. Using a pastry blender or fork, mix in butter until it resembles course crumbs. Mix in sourcream and milk and knead until it forms into a ball of dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and place in fridge for at least 30 minutes. Knead a couple of times on a floured board. Roll the dough out into a circular shape. Roll the dough onto the rolling pin and lay onto the pie pan. Piece holes into the pie crust with a fork 5-6 times. Blind bake for 10 minutes in a 350 oven.
Instructions (pie filling):
Blend adsuki beans, sugar and eggs until smooth in a food processor or with a hand blender in a large bowl. Add vanilla and ice cream and blend until smooth. Pour into pie crust and bake at 350 until the center has solidified. About 50 minutes to an hour. Let cool and refrigerate.
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Two days after her 11th birthday, Sarah Polley lost her mother to cancer. The death came as a shock, even though her father and older siblings had watched Diane Polley battle the disease for months. As she grew up in
Nevertheless, she followed her mother's footsteps into acting, taking to the
A decade later, hours before she was to introduce a Montreal screening of "Away From Her" — her first film as a director and one that would land her an Oscar nomination — a secret that had been buried all of her 28 years suddenly burst into the open: Michael Polley was not her biological father.
The revelation sent Polley reeling: If her father was not her father, then who was her mother, and what did that mean about her own identity?
In a new, extremely intimate documentary five years in the making, Polley searches for her own answers while posing universal and sometimes uncomfortable questions about betrayal, identity and the definition of family. Manipulating even as it exposes,
Shocking news
The revelation of Polley's true parentage landed her in bed for two weeks, ill with a long fever. "My body went into shock and sickness, and every time I've gone to Montreal since then, I get really sick," she said. "I think it's a lot to absorb and kinda difficult."
The news also sent ripples through her extended family, with the story being told and examined from multiple points of view by her four older brothers and sisters, her uncle, her mother's friends and others. Like an elaborate game of telephone, everyone had a slightly different take upon learning the identity of Sarah's biological father.
Michael Polley was jolted into restarting a long-dormant writing career, penning nearly 80 pages of copy with details of the story from his perspective. Sarah Polley's biological father also took to the computer, creating his own narrative of the events that eventually led him to reveal his identity to her in Montreal.
Polley and her siblings found the story becoming the focus of many a dinner party, with each of them highlighting a different aspect of the tale as it related to their own history. The filmmaker realized this was something worthy of more detailed exploration — and a documentary was born.
"I wasn't interested in exposing myself," said Polley, 34, whose diminutive stature belies a striking ambition. "What got me interested was my father's unusual and unexpected response to the news. And my biological father was also writing about it. There were all these weird discrepancies in the stories, and we were also all so invested in telling it. It was really interesting to have a big drama in your own life, and have this need to make it into narrative."
For the next five years, Polley dived deep into her family history, weaving footage from home Super 8 movies and old photographs with confessional interviews from brothers John Buchan and Mark Polley, sisters Susy Buchan and Joanna Polley, plus Michael Polley and her biological father, among others. She also peels back the filmmaking process, filming set-up shots and voice-over sessions while obfuscating other details, particularly her personal response to the shocking revelation.
Critics have responded to "Stories We Tell" as a significant step in Polley's evolution as a filmmaker. Early reviews out of last year's Telluride and Toronto film festivals were glowing. Indiewire called it "the finest of Polley's filmmaking skills" while New York Magazine's David Edelstein referred to Polley as a "gifted actress and possibly more gifted writer-director."
Director Atom Egoyan, who cast Polley in "The Sweet Hereafter" and has remained close to the actress, said he was astounded by her progress as a director.
"When I saw 'Away From Her,' I thought, 'Well, this isn't a surprise that someone who's such a great actor would be able to create such amazing performances and have such a rapport with her cast,'" Egoyan said, referring to Polley's directorial debut, which centered on the deterioration of a couple in the face of
"But this film is a shock because it's such a sophisticated piece of filmmaking," he added, "both in terms of the ambition and the success with which it's able to deploy this very original idea. It's completely unlike any other film I've seen."
Reliving the pain
Despite Polley's comfort in front of the camera, turning her lens inward was no easy feat.
"I think to make it your job to think about your family and to dredge up stuff about your family all day, every day would make anybody totally crazy. It makes you nuts," said Polley, who said she would be content never to see the movie again. "There was an intense claustrophobia involved, and I often felt like, 'OK, I've processed this stuff personally, so what the hell am I doing continuing to make this film about this topic and having to go into it every day?'"
Polley cornered each of her four siblings for multiple daylong interviews, asking each to recount the story of their mother's life. Michael Polley and Sarah's biological father also speak at length on camera, each discussing the woman they loved, their relationship with her and even their feelings about the "other man." The interviews are remarkably candid, with the main players expressing a wide range of emotions: regret, empathy and self-criticism.
John Buchan, one of two children from Diane Polley's first marriage and a casting director for films, was a key participant, consulting on the movie and providing crucial pieces of information about the crux of the family secret. Like his siblings, he felt skeptical that anyone outside the family would care about the story, but he was also energized by the experience.
"I've never sat down and spoken on camera about personal stuff, so I was nervous and it was tiring and probably therapeutic in some ways," he said. "I can't compare Sarah as an interviewer to anyone — except, I guess, my therapist — and, thank God those sessions aren't captured on film.... Yet the pressure was on because I wanted to get it all right and authentic for Sarah and the story that was unfolding for her."
Polley, who became a mother herself during the making of this familial drama, found herself needing breaks during the long process, at one point leaving "Stories We Tell" for seven months to write and direct
The long slog gave Polley the chance to fill in many blanks about her mysterious matriarch. She closely examined the details of Diane Polley's life, from a career perspective and her tumultuous private life. One section of the film recounts how Diane left her first husband for Michael and in the process lost custody of John and Susy; she made headlines as the first Canadian woman to be denied custody because of her adulterous affair. That experience gravely affected her children — and serves as something of an explanation as to why she did not leave Michael for Sarah's father.
Along the way Polley discovered new footage of her mother, including an audition tape of her singing "Ain't Misbehavin'." The stark, black and white close-up shot captured Diane Polley in a vulnerable state trying out for a project she desperately wanted to land.
"I had known this story my whole life about this part she wanted and she didn't get and she thought of it as a pivotal moment in her life, and it really broke her heart," said Polley. "I always knew that story, but I didn't know there was footage of it. When I found it, I thought, 'Oh, my God, I get to watch this, watch her face. It was heartbreaking.'"
Anxious times
As the process of making "Stories We Tell" dragged on for years, Polley weathered ups and downs in her relationships with Michael Polley, her biological father and in her own marriage. (Polley divorced her first husband in 2008 and remarried in 2011. During the making of the film, her sisters also divorced their spouses.) On the upside, the experience afforded her the opportunity to more intimately understand her mother.
"I did get to spend so much time with everybody my mom was close to and ask them for hours uninterrupted about what she was like," she said. "Most people who lose a parent don't get that opportunity — that was an amazing experience to get to know her better."
Even so, Polley said she was beset by self-doubt, constantly questioning what she felt was an irrational need to make the movie. The only thing that somewhat assuaged that anxiety was the support of the National Film Board of Canada, which financed the $1.7-million film. Polley credits the organization with pushing her to persevere when she was ready to abandon the project.
"I don't think the self-doubt ever went away until the film was out in the world and people didn't laugh at it and make fun of me. That was such a relief," said Polley, whose next project is adapting Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace." "This was something that compelled me. I didn't want to do it. I knew better not to do it and yet I kept doing it. I don't think I ever resolved my self-doubt or my feelings of ambiguity about it. But at a certain point, a certain amount of money has been spent and you can't go back anymore."


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Professor Ali is a leading expert in tall building engineering and architecture. He is a specialist in seismic and foundations engineering, and has published numerous books, journal articles, and scholarly papers on tall buildings ranging from technology, engineering,and design to urban habitats. He is best known for his contributions to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and author and co-author of: Architecture of Tall Buildings (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995), Art of the Skyscraper: The Genius of Fazlur Khan (New York: Rizzoli, 2001), Catalyst for Skyscraper Revolution: Lynn S. Beedle: A Legend in his Lifetime (Chicago: Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, 2004), and The Skyscraper and the City: Design, Technology and Innovation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007).
Professor Armstrong is a recognized expert in tall building design and urbanism. His research focuses on the role and design of tall buildings in urban habitats. He has conducted architecture studios and seminars at the graduate level that focus on High-Rise & Habitat. He has published over 80 scholarly papers on tall buildings, urbanism, and modern and post-modern architecture. He is the co-author of several books, including: Architecture of Tall Buildings (New York: McGraw–Hill, 1995), The Skyscraper and the City: Design, Technology and Innovation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007) and SynergiCity: Reinventing the Post-Industrial City (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012).
Professor Thomas Hoepf, FAIA, Principal Design Architect at Teng + Associates, lead a tall building studio which highlights the programmatic requirements of the building along with the architectural objective of aesthetics. The building enclosure is also emphasized with the use of new materials and technology within a generic structural solution. The design responses are site specific and developed with a clear understanding of the building function in relation to the horizontal and vertical plane.
Dr. Abdel Rahman Elbakheit
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Running for governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat is a competition in five parts, testing different skills; sort of like the pentathlon, without the rifles.
First, candidates must introduce themselves to campaign donors. This started more than a year before November's election, so candidates can hit up big donors for the maximum contribution in 2013, then try to get them to max out again in 2014. This tests each candidate's Rolodex, elevator speech and willingness to beg for money.
Then they introduce themselves to party activists. We're now in the midst of the caucus season, when the party faithful gather in cities and towns across Massachusetts to choose convention delegates. This tests the candidate's stamina and organization. There's a high degree of difficulty in this event, especially for a candidate who hasn't run statewide before.
Then comes the delegate roundup: months of one-on-one chats in which party activists perform litmus tests on the candidate's policy positions. Only candidates who score at least 15 percent of the delegates at the party convention in June get to continue in the competition.
In the fourth event, the candidates introduce themselves to Democrats who might vote in the September primary. The winner there will go into the medal round – facing Republican Charlie Baker, who lost to Deval Patrick in 2010 and is unopposed for his party's nomination this time, and two little-known independents, Evan Falchuk and Jeff McCormick.
Unlike Olympic events, the contestants for governor don't all begin at the same starting line. This year's crop of Democrats includes Martha Coakley, who has been around the track before, both as attorney general and in her hard-luck loss to Scott Brown for a U.S. Senate seat, and state Treasurer Steve Grossman, who has run statewide and served as chairman of the state Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee.
The newcomers start at a disadvantage, especially in the fund-raising and activist-courting events. They are Don Berwick, a health care official in the Obama administration, Joe Avellone, a physician, business owner and former Wellesley selectman, and Juliette Kayyem, who came by this week to introduce herself to the editors of the Daily News.
Kayyem took an unusual route to the campaign for governor. A Los Angeles native, she went from Harvard Law to the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, then run by Deval Patrick. She later joined Patrick on Beacon Hill as Undersecretary for Homeland Security, supervising, among other things, the Mass. National Guard. She then took a homeland security job in the Obama administration, which included several months dealing with state and local officials affected by the BP Gulf oil spill. Then came a stint as an oped columnist for the Boston Globe and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School.
Kayyem agrees that's not the typical resume of someone working up the ladder to statewide office, concedes name recognition is a serious hurdle and that, given her opinion writing, "I'm an opposition researcher's dream."
But her elevator speech is sound: She's got executive branch experience at the state and federal level; she has dealt with elected leaders of both parties; she is a passionate, principled progressive who wants to make her campaign about issues, not resumes.
That last isn't easy, especially through the first four events in the competition, in which all the Democrats play to the liberal party base. Kayyem hopes to distinguish herself by focusing on issues other candidates will consider secondary to the staples of jobs, education and infrastructure: climate change (including adaptation), the needs of veterans (including the importance of defense spending to the economy), and criminal justice reform.
On this last item, she won my encouragement. Patrick and Coakley, among others, have long said the right things about the need to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences, improve post-release supervision, reduce the prison population and move drug policy toward treatment instead of incarceration. They just haven't made it a priority. Other states, mostly conservative ones like Texas and Georgia, are well ahead of Massachusetts on these issues.
Kayyem also brings emergency management experience to the campaign, and she's one of the few political leaders in the state calling for an independent, public review of the handling of last year's Marathon bombing response. It's a matter of learning lessons, she says, not fixing blame.
Kayyem's opponents and skeptical voters will likely notice the holes in her resume: She's never run a business and never run for office. How can she understand how the economy works? Does she have what it takes to be a good retail politician? Can she shake hands for hours at a stretch and still keep her smile genuine?
We'll see. Deval Patrick hadn't run a business or run for office when he hit the campaign trail in 2006, and he's turned out to be a master politician. Elizabeth Warren had never been on a ballot before she took on Scott Brown two years ago, and she won over the voters face-to-face, in living rooms and coffee shops from Pittsfield to Provincetown.
Massachusetts voters tend to be cynical about pols who've spent too much time on Beacon Hill. They don't fall for every fresh face that hits the airwaves - remember Gabriel Gomez? – but they will listen to the elevator speech. That's why it's best not to write off Juliette Kayyem, or any of the other candidates with their sights set on the corner office.
Rick Holmes, opinion editor for the Daily News, blogs at Holmes & Co. (http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco). He can be reached at email@example.com.
Holmes: The long race to the governor's office
Running for governor of Massachusetts as a Democrat is a competition in five parts, testing different skills; sort of like the pentathlon, without the rifles.


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Marketing Automation Best Practices is a comprehensive guide to understanding marketing automation – the process of using technology to manage, scale, and measure marketing campaigns.
- What is marketing automation, and will it work for me?
- When can I expect to see the results?
- How can I use marketing automation to nurture leads?
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Marketing Automation Best Practices was created to provide an unbiased look at the opportunities and challenges of marketing automation.
The reseach process began with interviews with marketing automation service and software vendors. We talked to the individuals within those organizations that are involved with hands-on implementation. We strived to get their unvarnished opinions on what specific tactics and strategies have been most successful for their clients, and what headaches a marketer can expect when attempting to implement them. We also turned to high-level individuals within these companies for their opinions on strategy and big-picture issues.
In addition to speaking with vendors, we turned to an online focus group of marketers that are currently using marketing automation software/services for their opinions. This group was randomly recruited from the current client base of multiple marketing automation vendors. They anonymously contributed their stories of success as well as their frustrations with marketing automation implementation within their own organizations.
The end result is a view of the industry that takes both vendor and marketer opinion into consideration, spans the services of many vendors and the experiences of many marketers. And, while we are optimistic about the potential of marketing automation software and services, the report does not endorse any one vendor, service, or product.
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- Selecting marketing automation solution, or not
- Why Marketing Automation?
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Suffolk alumnus and former Army Sgt. Nick Dutter is in the business of helping other veterans make the transition from the war zone to the job market.
As a veteran outreach coordinator with the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, one of his responsibilities is connecting out-of-work veterans with large companies throughout New England.
Dutter, who remembers having trouble finding a job when he returned from Iraq in 2005, admits that this part of his job can be challenging.
"First tank north of Baghdad on your resume doesn't appeal to civilian employers," he says.
Dutter earned a master's degree in finance from Suffolk University's Sawyer Business School in 2009. He then worked as a hedge fund analyst, but left in 2011 to help service members returning home. As it turns out, he made the right move.
"I absolutely love my job; it's very meaningful and rewarding," he says. "It combines the wealth of knowledge I've received with my military background and my Suffolk education. Taking advantage of the career-mentoring program at Suffolk allowed me a wonderful opportunity to network and prove myself."
Dutter shares an important bond with other veterans. "I've been in the same combat environment as them, seeing the worst that life has to offer," he says.
Dutter was one of the featured panelists at the April 2012 seminar Marketing Your Military Service, hosted by the University to provide resources and tools for job seeking veterans.
Dutter stresses the importance of networking to veterans looking to secure a job. He encourages them to attend dinners, fundraisers and community events – ideal forums to meet people face to face and exchange business cards.
"You have to make yourself known and demonstrate that you really want to work," he says.
When pitching his military clients to prospective organizations, Dutter's plan of attack is straight and to the point.
"I tell them that a military education is a very valuable experience," he says. "I highlight all the good qualities a veteran has to offer, such as leadership, discipline and attention to detail."
Dutter shared his story with other young alumni who were recognized for their career accomplishments at a "10 Under 10" reception in April. All 10 of the alumni honored earned their Suffolk University degrees within the past decade.


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MARQUETTE, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team wraps up its non-conference schedule with a road trip to Lewis University on Sunday (Dec. 30). Tipoff is set for 4 p.m. Eastern from Neil Carey Arena in Romeoville, Ill.
NMU is 2-7 overall and 1-5 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Wildcats split on their last road trip in mid-December. NMU is 1-2 in non-conference games with a win over Finlandia and losses to Winston Salem State and Lincoln (Pa.) and the Fresh Coast Classic.
Three players average double figures for the 'Cats led by junior forward Matthew Craggs with 15.2 points per game. He is shooting 49 percent from the floor and 48.6 from the three-point line. Redshirt freshman guard Terry Nash is averaging 12 points in the three games he's played, shooting 59.3 percent from the field. Junior forward Scooter Johnson is putting up 10.9 points per game.
Senior forward TJ Cameron is second in the GLIAC in three-point percentage at 54.2 percent. He has connected on 13-of-24 attempts. Sophomore forward Kendall Jackson is 31-for-52 from the field for 59.6 percent, placing him third in the GLIAC.
The Flyers enter the game with a 5-2 record, including a 4-0 mark at home. Lewis has won four games in a row and is led by Ryan Jackson's 17.9 points per game. Jeff Jarosz (11.7) and David Bryant (11.0) also average double figures.
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Nine arrests have been made across Derbyshire as part of a UK-wide operation targeting suspected paedophiles.
The individuals were snared during a six-month crackdown on those accessing indecent images of children online.
Detective Chief Inspector Gareth Meadows, who leads Derbyshire police's child sexual exploitation unit, said: "We recognise that for every image that is sold, shared or distributed on the internet, a youngster somewhere in the world has been subjected to abuse.
"People with such images on their computers commonly perceive it as a secret crime for which they will not be caught and they seem to ignore the sickening offending that has to take place to support their perverted and criminal interest.
"Such people need to be aware that we use a variety of overt and covert investigative methods to identify who these people are – and we will prosecute any we discover."
Across the UK, Operation Notarise – which was coordinated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) – has resulted in 660 people being arrested for offences ranging from possession of indecent images of children online to serious sexual assault.
NCA deputy director general Phil Gormley said: "Our aim was to protect children who were victims of, or might be at risk of, sexual exploitation. A child is victimised not only when they are abused and an image is taken, they are re-victimised every time that image is viewed by someone.
"Some of the people who start by accessing indecent images online go on to abuse children directly. So the operation is not only about catching people who have already offended – it is about influencing potential offenders before they cross that line.
"We want those offenders to know that the internet is not a safe, anonymous space for accessing indecent images, that they leave a digital footprint and that law enforcement will find it".
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Statistically, most of the Midwest receives sufficient precipitation during the average year to prevent undue stress to plants. However, precipitation is not distributed evenly during the growing season. In most years, stress during midsummer drought conditions causes significant mortality of newly planted trees and shrubs and reduces growth and aesthetic appeal of established landscape plants. In years when drought conditions are more prolonged, homeowners look to rescue measures to protect trees and shrubs, their largest landscape investment.
Most homeowners make some attempt to irrigate landscape plants during drought conditions. However, few of us do a very good job of maintaining the soil moisture in the optimal range. Early in the drought cycle, use of some form of drip irrigation allows homeowners to act preemptively to avoid drought stress on plants before possible restrictions on water use come into play. Sprinkler irrigation wastes water and encourages foliar diseases. It is also not very effective at getting water past turf roots so that it is available to roots of woody plants. Drip irrigation uses much less water than sprinkler irrigation and puts it more effectively into the root zones of trees and shrubs.
This publication describes the moisture requirements of newly planted as well as established trees and shrubs and introduces the principles of drip irrigation.
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Drip irrigation delivers water slowly and efficiently to the root zone of plants, maintaining soil moisture in a drought.
It is common in Missouri to have above normal rainfall in April and May, leading to extended periods when the soil is saturated. These conditions, combined with the clay soils found in many landscapes, may lead to suffocation of deep roots even when plants are growing on slopes. Then, when the annual drought strikes, trees like sugar maple and pine are less capable than usual of coping with drought stress because their root systems are damaged. This situation may lead to a downward spiral in which a large tree, weakened by drought stress, is attacked by insects and diseases that normally pose little threat to plant health. Leaves may be sparse and smaller than normal, leading to a reduction in photosynthesis and a gradual starvation of stems and roots. This makes the tree even more vulnerable to attack by borers and wood decay fungi, sometimes leading to mechanical failure.
The above theory can be stretched to explain the decline of oak and hickory trees that often occurs two or three years after construction of a new home. In this case, however, the root damage is due to severing or crushing of roots during the construction.
To avoid triggering tree decline, plant trees in well-drained soils, avoid mechanical root damage whenever possible and water damaged trees carefully during droughts.
Until a new plant is able to establish roots in the soil surrounding the original soil ball, it is critical to keep the soil ball moist. It generally requires frequent light applications of irrigation water to achieve this goal without drowning the plant in a clay soil "bathtub." Generally the safest and most effective approach for getting a new tree or shrub through the first summer is to irrigate regularly by dripping a known quantity of water slowly into the root ball of the plant.
According to standards established by the American Nursery and Landscape Association, a 2-inch-caliper red maple tree should have a soil ball about 24 inches in diameter with a depth of about 16 inches. The total volume of such a soil ball would be equivalent to the volume of about 20 gallons of water. Assuming that the soil in the ball is a clay loam, the volume of water that could be held by the soil ball is about 25 percent of the total soil volume, or 5 gallons. On a single windy, 95-degree day in July, the leaves on a reasonably healthy, transplanted red maple tree the size of yours may transpire 2 or 3 gallons of water. Given the limited root growth into the backfill soil outside the root ball, the new tree may be suffering severe drought stress in just a few days. The challenge then becomes how to replenish the moisture in the soil ball without leaving it saturated for an extended period.
There are several common approaches to watering newly planted trees. One is to water by hand, applying water to the planting hole with a hose. Another is to allow the hose to trickle at the base of the tree for some period of time. There are two problems with these methods:
In some cases, not nearly enough water has been added. Much of the water applied may have run off or gone down a snake hole. In other cases, the planting hole fills with water and the soil ball stays saturated for several days. In either case, the plant may suffer severe moisture stress.
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This product provides drip irrigation for trees through pinholes in a plastic pouch.
The best approach to watering a tree for the first year after planting is to use some form of drip irrigation that will wet the soil ball itself. To keep a 24-inch root ball moist but not saturated during drought conditions requires 2 or 3 gallons every four or five days. The simplest way to meet these needs is to poke a few nail holes in the sides of a 5-gallon bucket near the bottom, set the bucket next to the trunk and fill it with water every few days. A slightly more sophisticated method is to insert two or three one-gallon-per-hour drip emitters into a short length of plastic tubing that can be attached to the end of a hose with a hose fitting. This can be attached to an inexpensive electronic, battery-operated timer programmed to turn the water off after one or two hours of operation. Mechanical timers that run by water pressure are not designed for use with drip systems. Many nurseries, garden stores or mail order houses sell drip irrigation kits that can be adapted to this purpose. Also available commercially are special plastic pouches that wrap around the trunk of a young tree and provide drip irrigation through pinholes (Figure 2).
Besides the appearance of your plant, another way to gauge whether you are supplying the right amount of water is to probe the soil ball with a metal rod. If you are unable to push the rod easily more than a few inches into the ball, you are not applying enough water. If the rod slides easily all the way through the ball, you are overwatering. Drilling an 18-inch-deep hole next to the soil ball with a soil auger will allow you to check for standing water and to pump it out with a small, drill-powered siphon pump. With a little care, you can gradually wean your tree from its dependence on the original soil ball. Once it has sent some roots out into the surrounding soil, it will gradually recover from the shock of having up to 95 percent of its roots cut off when it was dug from its previous location.
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Use a Y-adapter and a gender bender, right, to irrigate a tree uniformly with a soaker hose.
In general, the larger a tree, the more drought-tolerant it will be. This is because a well-established tree has a massive root system, often extending four or five times the diameter of the drip line. Also, if the soil is not too dense, tree roots can grow many feet deep, tapping into subsoil moisture. In a drought year, however, when subsoil moisture has been depleted, trees lose this advantage and must compete with other plants for moisture near the surface. Sparse foliage, dieback or mortality of many large trees in the spring is evidence that the drought is already taking its toll before summer has even begun. While it is normally not necessary to irrigate established trees, it may be advisable to do some judicious watering to ensure survival of particularly valuable trees.
First, it must be understood that it will take a tremendous volume of water to replenish the soil moisture throughout the entire root zone of a large tree. If, for example, we assume that 8 inches of water will be required, then a single 30-foot-tall oak tree with a root system 100 feet in diameter would require 39,000 gallons of water. Using a sprinkler irrigation system attached to a garden hose delivering 5 gallons per minute, it would take five days of continuous irrigation to water this one tree. Obviously, it will not be possible to replenish the moisture reserve in the entire root zone of a large tree with irrigation. Fortunately, however, wetting even a small portion of a tree's root zone will greatly reduce drought stress.
Lawn irrigation typically has little impact on large trees. Most homeowners irrigate lawns frequently for a short period of time. While this practice maintains enough moisture in the upper 3 inches of soil to keep the turf green, it provides little water to tree roots. Unless the turf is shaded, tree roots cannot compete with the dense mat of turf roots near the soil surface. Maintaining a large mulched area under a tree or growing a less competitive ground cover, such as ivy, allows trees to use irrigation much more effectively.
An effective method to reduce drought stress for a large tree is to use a soaker hose of some type. For example, a 50-foot length of the type of hose that seeps from small holes can be attached at both ends to a Y-adapter on the end of a garden hose (Figure 3). Do this by making a "gender bender," a short piece of hose with female hose fittings on both ends. This provides a double soaker with reasonably uniform delivery over its 25-foot length. Laying this within the drip line, under a tree and running it for about one hour will wet a band about 2 feet wide with about 200 gallons of water. This should be equivalent to about a 6-inch rain over 5 percent of the root zone of a large tree. Repeating this procedure three or four times in different locations during drought conditions should significantly reduce drought stress without using an inordinate amount of water. Another technique that may help is to divert water from downspouts so that, during precipitation events, some of the diverted water soaks into tree root zones rather than running into storm sewers. Deep irrigation of shrub beds will also help nearby trees.
Irrigation supplements rainfall in the Midwest
Regardless of the design of an irrigation system, the frequency and duration of irrigation should be adjusted during rainy periods so that the sum of precipitation and irrigation totals about 1 inch per week during the growing season.
It is not necessary to wet the entire root system
Water dripping from a single emitter wets a balloon-shaped volume of soil, the shape of the balloon depending on soil texture (Figure 4). At the soil surface, there may be only a small circle of wet soil under the emitter. In the clay loam soils common in the Midwest, the best approach is to space emitters so that the drip tubing wets a band of soil near plants in the landscape. Because plants can move water from one part to another, maintaining adequate soil moisture in 25 to 50 percent of the root zones of ornamentals will generally keep them in good condition during drought.
The system must be designed and operated to match soil texture
On a sandy soil, for example, emitters must be spaced closer together than on a clay soil to wet a solid band. Emitters with higher flow rates can be used without leading to runoff. On most clay loam soils, emitters with flow rates between 0.4 and 0.6 gallon per hour (gph) work best.
Use zones to irrigate plants with similar moisture requirements
A major advantage of drip irrigation is that it allows plants with different moisture requirements to be watered differently even though they may be fairly close together. This can be achieved by setting up the system in zones.
Antisiphon device
Often referred to as a backflow preventer, this device is designed to prevent contaminants, such as fertilizer, from being drawn into the water supply under conditions when water pressure suddenly drops as a result of a main break or use of a fire hydrant.
Positioned directly after the main valve, the filter prevents particulate matter from entering the drip lines where it may clog emitters. For systems using good quality municipal water supplies, screen filters with 150-mesh screens work well.
Control valves
These allow water to be turned on and off. On a small, manually operated system, the control valve is simply the hose bib to which the drip supply line is attached. Automatic systems employ one or more electronically controlled solenoid valves that control the flow into different zones.
Pressure regulator
Drip systems are designed to operate at pressures between 10 and 30 pounds per square inch (PSI). A pressure regulator placed after the filter adjusts for variations in pressure in the water supply to ensure that emitters work properly and lines and fittings do not leak.
The main water line supplies water to the entire system. It may run to submains that supply different areas in the landscape. The inside diameter of the main for a residential system is generally the same as that of the hose bibs on the house. For areas within 50 feet of the water supply, a 3/4-inch line will be sufficient if less than 500 gph is being applied by any single irrigation zone.
The main line often branches into two or more submains supplying different areas in the landscape. These may be the same diameter as the main or may branch into smaller diameter lines at some distance from the main. Submains are usually low-density polyethylene tubing. They can be buried a few inches underground or laid on the surface and covered with mulch.
In general, multiple lines with drip emitters are connected to a single supply line called a manifold, which is fed by the submains. In a simple system, a submain may be the manifold. For example, a perennial bed that is 10 feet wide and 30 feet long might have a 10-foot-long manifold running across one end with six or seven 30-foot drip lines attached at 18-inch intervals.
An emitter is a device that allows a given volume of water to be discharged over a given time period at a given pressure. Drip emitters are available in a wide variety, including pressure-compensating devices that deliver a constant flow over a pressure range of 10 to 50 psi.
Air vents
In systems where emitters are not self-venting, it may be necessary to install air-venting devices according to manufacturer's instructions. These are installed at the highest point in the zone to prevent vacuum from drawing debris into the line and to prevent the formation of air pockets.
A drip system should not be operated without some type of timer. A simple, wind-up timer that turns the water off after a prescribed time is sufficient for a small system. Make certain the timer is designed to operate at the flow rate and pressure of your drip system. There are many battery-operated or electric timers available. Choose the simplest model that will operate your system effectively. If you program a timer for automatic irrigation, check your soil moisture regularly, and adjust the timer to compensate for plant growth and weather conditions.
Drip irrigation is an excellent tool for getting trees and shrubs through a drought using a fraction of the water that would be required for sprinkler irrigation. If for example, a group of 10 shrubs within a 30-foot-diameter area were irrigated with a sprinkler, it would take 438 gallons of water to apply one inch of water to all the plants. At a delivery rate of 5 gallons per minute, it would take about 1.5 hours to apply this much water. However, if the same 10 shrubs are irrigated for one hour and fifteen minutes with a single drip line with 20 emitters each delivering 1 gallon per hour, it would require only about 25 gallons of water to do the job.
Among the advances in drip irrigation technology in recent years, compression fittings and pressure-compensating emitters greatly simplify the task of installing a drip system. While garden stores in more arid states commonly offer a full line of drip equipment, it is more difficult for Missourians to find all of the necessary components locally. In some cases it may be necessary to order the materials through a supply house. However, regardless of the source, the basic components of all drip systems are similar. These include a control valve, a supply line, laterals and emitters. Depending on the water supply and the size and complexity of the system, other necessary components may include filters, timers, pressure regulators and solenoid valves. In most cases, the store or supplier selling the equipment will have information describing the proper installation and operation of the system. In general, it is best to find a source offering more than just prepackaged kits. Almost invariably, additional fittings and emitters are needed to put the finishing touches on the system. For large systems irrigating dozens of trees and shrubs, it may be best to retain the services of an irrigation specialist.
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Drip irrigation systems wet the soil in different patterns depending on soil texture.
Once a drip system is installed according to instructions, it takes a little practice to learn how to use it effectively. The most important thing to remember is that water dripping slowly into the ground wets a balloon-shaped volume of soil (Figure 4). While most of the root zone of a drip-irrigated plant may have ample moisture, the soil surface may appear dry, tempting the irrigator to water too long. Using a hypothetical example, assume that one is watering a series of shrubs using a drip line with emitters each delivering 1 gallon per hour (gph). For a clay loam soil, a drip emitter would wet an area of approximately 2 square feet. Given that it takes 0.62 gallon of water per square foot to apply 1 inch of water, it will take 1.24 hours to apply 1 inch of water to the area wetted by that emitter. Emitters spaced about 18 inches apart in the line would wet a solid band of clay loam soil. Plants with larger root systems may need two or three emitters. So, using the rule of thumb that rainfall should be supplemented with irrigation to total about 1 inch per week, the plants on our hypothetical drip line should be in good shape if they are watered for a little more than an hour every week.
Do not operate a drip irrigation system without a timer. It is not possible to gauge the moisture content of the soil ball by observing the wetting of the soil surface. If the soil ball gets too wet, the tree will be under severe stress during hot weather.
The foregoing discussion is oversimplified. Optimum drip irrigation frequency will depend on the delivery rate of the emitters, the weather conditions, the soil type and other factors. However, if the manufacturer's recommendations are followed in installation, it will take relatively little time to learn how to use a drip system. And given the ease of operation, landscape plants will be more likely to receive regular and effective irrigation during drought conditions. The result will be healthier plants and relatively little water used.
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Having had travelled to many destinations across India in the past, the craving in me to find a unique and exciting travel experience had been higher than ever before. The first time I heard about the 'Off the Grid' Exploratory trip, I had an inkling that this was going to be all I had wanted and more. It wasn't too often that one gets to visit a quaint little farm nestled within the forests to participate in a workshop that focussed on introducing hardened city folks to the nuances of building cob structures. In simple words, this trip promised to be muddy, wild and exciting!
It would not be possible to start talking about the trip without talking about our fabulous hosts and the one man who made all the hard work seem so easy.
John Pollard, our host, happened to chance upon beautiful five and half acres of land within the Western Ghats in the quiet little town of Castle Rock in Uttara Kannada. The site, a ten kilometre scenic drive from the Castle Rock railway station, has everything that one might need to call a place 'heaven'. Blessed with beautiful densely forested hills around it and a perennial stream that also creates a stunning waterfall within the farm, John and his wife Sylvia, a very talented potter, have patiently over the years made this a sustainable 'off the grid' home for their two children and themselves.
The accommodation available at the farm consists of two roof top rooms with almost panoramic views of the surrounding greenery, two simple tents with wooden decks looking over the stream that flows adjacent to the farm and two spacious tepees with a small sit-out at the entrance of each. Even during the summers, these options remain very comfortable and the need for fans is hardly noticed. The small water tank outside the hosts' house allows visitors to cool off during the afternoons to beat the summer heat. The tank, the opening dining area, the wood-fire oven, the barbecue and the spot where campfires are lit on cool starry nights are all located close by and help create the most beautiful and fun-filled evenings spent listening to the many stories that John and his guests love to share.
The group of fifteen who were put together by Santosh from Getoffurass got a chance to interact during the overnight train journey from Krishnarajapuram to Castle Rock railway station. The anticipation of this being a great trip was only increased by the fact that the group consisted of a few techies, a photographer, an interior designer, a graphic designer, an artist/educator and last but not the least, our mentor for the workshop, Jackson Porretta, an expert at bamboo and mud structures. Jackson, also known as Mudjack, has been actively involved with rainwater catchment systems, grey-water recycling, micro-intensive gardening, organic design and natural building.
On reaching the Castle Rock railway station, we found our welcoming hosts John and Sylvia waiting for us with their SUVs. After managing to pack ourselves and our bags into the two vehicles, we were off on our short but beautiful drive to the farm. What was unique about this drive was that after having driven a couple of kilometres away from the station, there was hardly any suggestion of inhabitation all along the route. John later told us that this was a very sparsely populated region and the farm was part of a village that was formed by only 3 houses. Being away from the normal barrage of societal interaction that one gets used to in a city was in some senses a very special experience.
Once at the farm, we took a little time to absorb the freshness and tranquillity that the place had to offer. We set our bags in the allocated accommodation and gathered near the dining area where John briefed us about the farm and all that we would need to be comfortable during our stay. The short informal Q&A session that happened next allowed us to know Jackson better and also understand what this workshop would be all about. We would be building a cob bench, a cob chulha (stove) and a sweat lodge during our stay at the farm. Jackson would guide us through the cob building parts of the workshop and John would lead the sweat lodge building exercise.
Project 1 – The Cob Bench:
The workshop began with the digging and sifting of mud that had been excavated and dumped by John close to where we wanted to build the bench. We needed soil that consisted of slightly grainy mix of sand and silt particles. After having collected the necessary amount, Jackson displayed how by doing a few simple tests, we could check if the collected soil had the right proportions of silt and sand. Simultaneously with this, the area where the bench would be positioned was roughened up with a shovel and then stones of approximately 9" to 12" diameter were placed to form the foundation. The next step was to mix the soil and straw with water on a tarp laid on the floor to create the cob that would be applied over the stone foundation of the bench. This is known as the 'stir and tread' process which involves mixing the soil, straw and water by stomping on it with bare foot and then pulling the sides of the tarp to turn the mix over into itself. Repeating this process a few times for every batch gave us batches of uniform homogenous cob of the right consistency. Once the cob was ready, balls made from this were placed over the foundation and pressed with the hands to help fill the gaps in the stone foundation bed. The pressure applied with the digits also created an undulated top surface which allowed for the layers to mesh well with each other. The layers were added till the height of the seat was around 15". This had to be left to dry for a week or two before the final finish of smooth mud plaster could be applied and hence it was decided that John would finish this part of the exercise later. The work on the bench was spread out over our three-day stay at the farm and the result was most satisfying. It was great to know that we could actually sit on the cob bench that we had created for our final group photograph that was taken just before we left the farm.
Project 2 – The Cob Chulha/Stove:
The requirement for this project arose from the fact that cooking on a low stove while squatting was not easy and there was a need to build something that would allow people to stand and cook. The process of building the chulha was similar to the cob bench, the difference being that the foundation was made of bricks and not rocks. The design allowed for two burners which could be used simultaneously.
Project 3 – The Sweat Lodge:
As a location to build the traditional Indian sweat lodge prototype, John had identified a clear piece of land in the small dried piece of paddy field next to the house and close to the water tank. The idea was to use thin but strong and pliable branches of trees to form the segments of the base structure of the dome that would be the sweat lodge. The frame structure would then be covered with blankets, sleeping bags, etc. to insulate the structure and to allow for a breathing structure that would hold steam inside. The important thing here was to use materials that would not suffocate people inside the structure when it was in use.
After clearing the area, we marked the profile for the sweat lodge which would be about 16 feet in diameter. A small 6 inch deep trough of about 2 feet diameter was dug in the centre. This would hold the hot stones that would help create the required steam to make the sweat house work. A channel was made that would allow us to drag the smouldering stones from outside to the centre of the structure. After having marked nodes at 3 feet on the perimeter of the circle, we dug 10 to 12 inch deep holes that would become the foundation that held the structural wood segments forming the dome. The broader end of the branch was then placed into the hole that had been dug and this was then filled with soil and small stones to create a foundation that it was firmly set into. This was done in two diagonally positioned nodes of the marked circle simultaneously. Once this was done, the narrower free ends of the branches were gently bent towards the centre and the overlapping ends were tied together. This created an 8 feet high arch the centre of which was right above the central trough that had been dug earlier. Repeating this process in progression resulted in a dome with the branches acting as the segments. The overlapping parts that were tied at the centre created a strong structure which John tested by hanging from it. We were now confident that if the structure could hold John's weight, it could withstand everything that nature could possibly throw at it!
Finally, ready to cover up the exposed frame, John and Jackson used up all the available sheets, blankets and sleeping bags and the sweat lodge was finally ready for the smouldering stones to go in. The stones were laid in a pyre with wood logs beneath and above them to heat them uniformly. As the stones were getting heated, John created an amazingly ingenious basket to drag the stones into the structure without having to get too close to them. By the time we got the stones into the lodge, we were already sweating like crazy and couldn't wait to reap the rewards of the hard work that was put in.
After a short 'traditional tribal dance initiation ritual' led by John, all the sceptics (to a certain extent, this included me) followed John and Jackson into the sweat lodge to take our places around the sacred red-hot stones. The steam that filled the structure once the lemongrass oil infused water was poured over the hot stones made everything worth it. It was for sure, one of the best experiences I've had. The feeling of relaxing in the cold water in the tank after having sweated inside the sweat lodge for almost 15 to 20 minutes and then repeating this a couple of times has to be felt to be understood. The drinks and the dinner with all the chatting that followed sitting under the beautiful night sky just made the day complete!
Another project that Sylvia guided was to bake some bread. The results of this project were devoured by everyone in a little more than 15 minutes the next morning at breakfast.
Having described the projects that we undertook over the 3 days of our stay at the farm, it seems like I might have projected the workshop as an 'all work and no play' episode, but that is far from the truth. The work in itself was a lot of fun which involved getting dirty in the mud and jumping around in slush. But what really made our stay very enjoyable was the fact that amidst all the fun we had doing the work, we managed to swim and have a great time in the waterfall that was close to where we were working. The short early morning trek through the forest surrounding the farm was as refreshing as the unending supply of coffee and tea that was available while we worked. The bread baking, awesome pizzas from the wood-fire oven, the raw mango pickle, the beautifully sweet ripe guavas that were straight from the tree and the time spent chatting after sundown discovering the pleasures of drinking Goan Urak with some great people for company only made the stay more wonderful.
The one thing that comes to my mind as I end this post and think about the fabulous time spent at the Off-the-Grid farm is a quote by Mark Twain…
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."


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Winery and Vineyard Manager
The Award winning Holmfirth Vineyard are looking
for an enthusiastic, motivated individual with a passion for wine, who is
looking for an opportunity for growth. You must enjoy interacting and hosting
customers, be highly organised with a keen eye for detail, and comfortable
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The successful candidate will have high levels of personal and presentational skills and will join our small and friendly team and supervise the operations of vineyard & winery.
The job will be very varied and will ultimately include hosting and organising wine tastings and vineyard tours, wine making, vineyard management, wine sales, wine tasting, planning of the weekly wine list, writing wine descriptions, stock control, administration and planning and executing promotional activities. You will be expected to oversee the operations in the Tasting Lounge Restaurant with the assistance of the restaurant manager.
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Holmfirth Vineyard isn't your ordinary restaurant we look after VIP guests at corporate events, run afternoon teas wine pairing dinners and wine tasting events. You must have a hotel /corporate /restaurant background be flexible, enthusiastic and be up for a challenge. Have a good knowledge of wines not necessarily English as full training will be given but an exemplary customer interface and a can do attitude. This is an exciting position for the right candidate.
We require an inspiring and dynamic Front of house person for 'The Tasting Lounge' restaurant. We use only locally sourced good quality produce and have a fantastic reputation for outstanding food. You will need to be dedicated and passionate about food and good customer service.
Taking customer orders Serving food Taking drinks order and serving (if over 18) Learning about food and wine pairing Answering customer queries on email and face to face Cleaning all areas of the environment to high levels of hygiene Plus any other duties to carry out your role. A great opportunity for someone who is enthused by great customers, an amazing place to work and a strong team work ethic.
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Building on the fantastic success of 2011 with the expansion of vineyard tours and the opening of our new visitors centre, shop and restaurant, we are pleased to announce that we will now be open 7 days a week from the 1st February 2012 for vineyard tours, wine sales and food in the restaurant.
On Sunday 22nd August, Holmfirth Vineyard was awarded 2 fantastic wine awards from the Mercian Vineyards Association annual wine tasting competition for our White and Rose wines. Over 160 wines were entered, our Rose Holme View 2009 English wine received the award of Highly Commended, and our 2009 White wine HD9 went one better and received a Bronze medal. A gasp rung out around the room when the result was announced. The competition judges were very strict this year and we noticed wines that had been put in to the same competition last year performed lower this year with the judges harder marking.


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A consultation on the proposal to introduce a maximum mandatory speed limit as part of the planned upgrade to the M1 in South Yorkshire and the East Midlands has been published today, Monday, January 6.
The Highways Agency is proposing to implement a maximum mandatory speed limit of 60mph between junction 28 at Mansfield and junction 35a at Sheffield and Rotherham between 7am and 7pm, seven days a week, as part of improvements planned for the M1. The speed limit will be used to manage traffic speeds and help reduce congestion and air pollutants locally.
Environmental assessments carried out on the proposed smart motorways schemes on that section of the M1 showed there was likely to be an adverse impact on local air quality if the motorway continued to operate at the national speed limit (70mph).
Clean air is important for human health and the health of the environment which is why an improvement scheme may be operated differently until air quality levels sufficiently improve. Options are considered carefully on a scheme by scheme basis as part of the environmental assessments carried out on all projects ahead of any work starting.
Introducing the reduced speed limit on the motorway requires new regulations; an eight week consultation on the proposed regulations starts today, Monday 6 January, and will finish on Monday 3 March 2014.
Smart motorways add extra capacity by converting the hard shoulder into a permanent running lane which is supported and controlled by variable mandatory speed limits to manage traffic and reduce congestion.
The proposed maximum mandatory speed limit would work in parallel with the variable speed limits which would be set as part of the congestion reduction measures for smart motorways.
The consultation pack has been sent to key stakeholders, such as local authorities, transport associations and emergency services. The consultation document is published on: www.gov.uk/government/publications to give other interested parties or individuals the opportunity to comment.
Construction of the smart motorway schemes is scheduled to start in spring 2014.
Anyone wanting to know more about the improvements should visit the project's website or call the Highways Agency's information line on 0300 123 5000.


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Gold King House
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