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I think this is rather presumptuous. Hubris is defined as arrogance. It is pretty rare to confuse the two. Even though the the 2nd definition of self-esteem is self-conceit, with a defintion close to that of hubris, in my experience it never the intended meaning. I think a major "difference" which would have made this distinction quite clear is that hubris is usually directed at a single facet of one's abilities, and I did speak quite clearly of programming. Self-esteem is a more general quality.
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Rypert Claesz (d. 1537)
Rypert Claesz, an Anabaptist martyr of Driesum in Friesland, Netherlands, was beheaded with two others at Leeuwarden, capital of Friesland, on 17 March 1537. He confessed "that he belonged to the sect of the Anabaptists, but had not yet been (re)baptized"; this, however, was not due to lack of desire on his part, but to want of an elder to administer the rite. He wished to receive baptism on his faith as soon as possible.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 90.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, No. 746.
Reitsma, J. Honderd jaren nit de Geschiedenis van de Hervorming in Friesland. Leeuwarden, 1876: 23.
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Sadly, he's not alone, which is why this is worth debunking. Gingrich's sense that oil fields can be brought rapidly online, and his "we beat the Nazis and went to the moon so we can do this" statements reflect the general cultural misunderstandings about how oil is extracted that are endemic in our culture. While his claim that we could "open up enough oil fields in the next year that the price of oil worldwide would collapse. Now, that's what we would do if we were a serious country." is a bit of idiocy, it probably isn't atypical idiocy in a country that knows nothing about the basic geology that underlies just about everything. The only difference is that Gingrich has had every opportunity to learn better, and most Americans haven't.
Fortunately, Art Berman has a lovely riposte at The Oil Drum:
The U.S. would have to increase field production by more than double current production to become oil independent by increasing domestic production to 14.8 Mbopd. Even peak production in 1970 of 10,000 bopd would only meet 68% of current crude oil consumption. To bring about a collapse in world oil prices, as Mr. Gingrich suggests, would mean increasing U.S. production by substantially more than this.
Maximum daily production from Prudhoe Bay Field, the largest in the United States, was 1.5 million bopd in 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudhoe_Bay_Oil_Field). Mr. Gingrich suggests that we can find more than six additional Prudhoe Bay-sized fields in one year. Prudhoe Bay was discovered in 1968, did not begin production for 11 years, and did not reach peak production until 13 years after its discovery. But Mr. Gingrich thinks that there are many Prudhoe Bay fields waiting to be found that can be at explored, developed and brought to peak production in one year.
I often don't bother arguing with the "Drill, Baby, drill" folks – the reason is that while I think they are misguided and their lack of understanding of the possibilities of US oil are embarassing, they also have a point – as we get further down the energy curve, most of our available energy resources will be exploited if it is economically viable to recover the oil or the gas. It simply will happen – environmental sensitivity will not be a major factor.
As you may remember, I've argued before that Americans will cheerfully shovel live baby harp seals into their furnaces, while explaining to the themselves that live baby harp seals enjoy being burned alive if that's what it takes to keep them warm and their economy running. Drilling in ANWR, running pipelines across just about anything, or burning coal despite the climate impact are not things that most people will give up – GIVEN no accessible alternative. Most present-day considerations of environmental sensitivity for most Americans are considerations from a position of comfort and security. We can say that "drill baby, drill" is misguided position because we aren't short of energy – yet. The category of people who are prepared to give up their cars and other luxuries in order to protect the abstract "environment" is actually quite small.
My guess is that what will also happen is that much of the oil that Gingrich imagines is out there and would love to see extracted is that it won't be economically viable to extract or move it – or that it will go elsewhere, as in the case of the the energy resources that would have travelled down the Keystone pipeline, which will now mostly go to China in all likelihood.
All of which sounds cynical, doesn't it? The funny thing is that it is and it isn't. I'm the great believer that people can and will change their lifestyles – and I believe strongly that if baby harp seals aren't the only choice, people will happily skip the awkward self-justifications for evil. Most of us, raised as slave owners would probably prefer to believe we would have been ardent abolitionists, but that's probably not true. Instead, we too would have parrotted the repulsive justifications for things that are deeply immoral but that are economically necessary. That is, once we depend on something, the justifications are already in place for all sorts of moral failings.
Imagine it the other way, however – who wants to be the first person to start keeping slaves? If doing something is simply unthinkable, rather than economically necessary, it gets much harder. This is where, I think the possible ground for imagining a future that doesn't have a "drill, baby, drill" ethos begins – imagining a way of life that people can enjoy and participate wholly in that isn't dependent on the burning of every resource you can get your hot little hands on. Make it possible to live on an electrical budget made up wholly of much more limited renewables and lower-impact generation, and you can imagine a decent future. Make it possible to do what you need to do without burning the harp seals, and the pressure to drill gets lower, you go after the hard-to-get oil later, and the chance of it staying in the ground and caribou getting to migrate get a lot better.
All of which is just a long digression on Art's article, but it does, to me, at least, point up the need to do two simultaneous and deeply inter-related things. First, to give our nation a basic education on how energy works. Most of us never learned, and we have to now. The second is to begin the hard work of developing a way of life that doesn't force us into the self-justification of evil that accompanies a desperate desire to keep things going. Neither is easy. Both are necessary. It might also help to have a president who was energy literate, but we can't hope for miracles ;-).


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What is Cricket Web Premier League?
It's simple. It's just like real cricket, but it's online on this forum. You, the members of this forum will be the players who play for teams. Once you've signed up (see below), you'll be drafted into a team by one of the teams captains (to be decided later) and your details will be entered into a simulator (sim). You will be handed contracts by your captain. These contracts decide what average you will receive on the sim. The better the contract, the better the average. Matches are then simulated on the sim, where you can follow how well you and your team are going, how many wickets you've taken or how many runs you've scored. The sim produces ball by ball commentary, just like you see on cricinfo, as well as scorecards. Your real life cricketing ability does not determine how good you are on the sim.
What next?
Once the deadline for sign ups is over, a draft will take place where captains will take it in turns to pick players for their teams from the sign up list. Once teams have been picked, contracts will be handed out to the players by their captains (as explained above). Contracts will range from A to E (A being best, E being worst). There will be limits on each level of contract per team (more information later). From my experience, the most established or more authorative members of the forum receive the higher contracts.
Once this is complete, the season will begin. there will be a First Class, One Day and Twenty20 competition. The number of teams and number of games per competition can only be decided once we've collected all the sign ups.
If you consider yourself to be a newer member of the forum in comparison to the other players, then I advise that you don't sign up as an All Rounder. Why? Chances are you will receive a low contract and all rounders with low contracts do not perform very well. Only all rounders with higher contracts tend to do well.
In the draft thread, please be enthusiastic but not annoying. By annoying I mean don't constantly say "I want to be picked" "Someone pick me" "I want to be in this team" "Can you pick me please?". It doesn't look good on yourself and the chances are you will be picked towards the end (or not picked at all). That might also be considered as spamming.
To make yourself stand out to being picked, improve your posting quality throughout the forum. Also remain active. If you sign up this competition and then become inactive or are less active, chances are that the captains will be reluctant to pick you.
Once the matches begin, support and cheer your team in the match threads. Whilst it is up to the captain, there might also be a team thread specific to your team to discuss your clubs performances, amongst other things. We also love friendly banter, so don't shy away from ribbing your opposition, but please keep it within limits and don't go overboard.


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For what it's worth -it's not worth a lot but it's still worth considering.
ex. the horse hasn't done all that well in the last few races but I am going to bet on him for all it's worth.
= the horse is still worth consideration.
If it wasn't/weren't for you OK
You may/might as well - give it a try, give it a shot, go ahead, do it, it's worth considering.
Since you are already taking physics 12 and math honors, you might as well consider taking chemistry 12. It will give you that many extra credits.
pull yourself together- don't let yourself down- OK!, get your act together, get over your blues, calm down, regain control, etc.
Stop crying like a baby over this guy. He is not worth your tears! Pull yourself together...there are a lot of other fish in the sea.
Give it up for something/somebody give something up = quit somnething, finish with something.
Susan gave up her long lasting alcohol adiction for her own sake as well as her husband's and their kids'.
"This is more like it" (...It's better this way) OK
"I don't know about this" (..this doesn't feel right) OK...something doesn't feel, look right. I have my doubts about this.
dude - same as guy
Hey dude, Hey man, hi there, etc. slang
I am not too familiar with your other word perk. Have any context to go with it?


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How is Marks and Spencer using in-store tablets for shopping?
Previously on the Econsultancy blog we've reviewed the Marks & Spencer multichannel experience after its site redesign.
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Keeping my eye on the retail landscape, one area that has been spoken about is the use of interactive tablets and displays in-store, and a recent DigitasLBi survey revealed that 43% of internet-shopping consumers had used multimedia shopping aids of this kind.
On my wanderings about Oxford Street, I noticed that M&S had quite a few of these dotted around. I thought I would test it out and see what it was like.
Smartphones, tablets or TV: How do we consume media in 2014?
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These findings come from the latest Ofcom Adults' Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 in which 2,674 adults aged 16 and above were surveyed.
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There's some great stuff in his blog and I thought I'd have a look around to find some additional evidence and perhaps even make the bold claim that mobile traffic is already in the majority!
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Enforcement of this aspiration comes from Google's usual source: algorithmic rewards for sites achieving this goal. You just need to look at how industry commentary has exploded around site speed issues over the last couple of years to see the impact this strategy has had.
I fully expect to see this industry focus switch to mobile-specific commentary through 2014.
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I bet you even carry a book around with you occasionally don't you? You do? I'm practically psychic!
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Perched high atop Pritchard Hill, Ovid Napa Valley's vineyard boasts a majestic view of Northern California's wine country. From the front of the property, you can see all the way to the Mayacamas Mountains that divide Napa and Sonoma counties. This breathtaking tableau is lost for the moment on Thibaut Scholasch, who's crouched in the vineyard, gently parting clusters of blueberry-sized cabernet sauvignon grapes. "This is a pipe," he says, holding a vine between his thumb and forefinger. "Water flows right underneath the surface."
We all learned in grade school how a plant conveys water and nutrients to its extremities. But Scholasch, who holds a PhD in grape growing, understands this distribution process far more intimately. With this particular vine he knows precisely how much water is flowing in the pipe at any given moment. That's because he can see inside.
Scholasch tugs on a section of Velcro and peels back a layer of insulation, revealing a sap-flow sensor. About 3 inches long, it's a simple device consisting of a heating element, two thermometers, and a transmitter. "There are two wires that measure the temperature, one before the heat is applied and one after," he says. The difference between the readings indicates the amount of water present. The system, while simple, is powerful enough to unravel thousands of years of farming practices.
Scholasch and fellow French expat Sébastien Payen are cofounders of a small Oakland-based consultancy called Fruition Sciences. The company deploys arrays of sensors like this one to monitor dozens of vineyards around the world, the majority of them here in Napa Valley. Powered by solar panels, the systems wirelessly transmit readings over the Internet to the cloud, where they're analyzed to determine the plant's level of hydration. The scores are correlated with various external data, including weather, date, berry sugar content, soil moisture, and vine arrangements. Using all this information, Fruition advises clients about optimal planting schemes and irrigation schedules and predicts the best harvest dates.
This type of real-time monitoring and analysis may be increasingly common in Fortune 500 supply chains and smart electricity grids, but in agriculture it still counts as radical. To this day, farmers rely primarily on observation and instinct for everything from planting and fertilizing schemes to watering schedules. According to a USDA survey, more than three-quarters of American farmers irrigate based on observable crop conditions, like the way a leaf shrivels in heat. Nearly 7 percent simply irrigate when their neighbors do. The result is massive overwatering. This holds for Napa Valley as well. For some of the wineries they work with, Scholasch and Payen have already reduced overall water consumption by more than 10 million gallons a season.
Napa's grape whisperers will be reluctant to change their century-old methods just because two Frenchmen show up with water sensors.
Of course, whenever hard data invades the realm of intuition, conflict is sure to follow. The establishment and the geeks have already scuffled in sports, advertising, medicine, policing, and real estate. And so it goes here in wine country. For the past 100 years, the farming decisions—planting, pruning, irrigating, and harvesting—have been dictated by experience and often even a degree of mysticism. This is the land of grape whisperers. And many of Napa's elite are not going to change the methods that have proven themselves for a century just because a couple of Frenchmen show up with water sensors.
But to a growing cadre of A-list winemakers, there's actionable intelligence in the data. Many of Fruition's clients are altering their irrigation techniques, turning laggard vineyards into top performers and using far less water than they ever imagined. Along the way they're extracting lessons that could extend far beyond this rarified corner of agriculture. By gaining insight into the relationships between water, sunlight, yield, and taste, Fruition Sciences is showing the way for farmers of all stripes to increase productivity and quality in a world of shifting weather patterns and decreasing supplies of freshwater.
Fruition's Office overlooks a knockoff Jiffy Lube in a gritty section of Oakland's Temescal district. Scholasch is the wine expert. He moved to the US in 1999 after earning a master's degree in winemaking from Montpellier SupAgro, one of France's top agronomy schools, landing a job as a research viticulturist for Napa's legendary Robert Mondavi. His English was minimal at the time, and he learned the language mostly from Mexican field hands. Studying the relationship between irrigation and fruit composition, he quickly recognized how little anyone knew about what was happening in their vineyards. "I was amazed to realize that so many winemaking or vineyard decisions were being made based on empiricism or unreliable deductions made from observations," he says.
Scholasch traveled the world working as a consulting winemaker for several years but found himself drawn far more to decoding the mysteries in the vineyards than to crafting the perfect cabernet. He felt that he was a scientist among artists. Hardly one to romanticize Napa Valley, he primarily drinks what he can buy at Trader Joe's. In 2005 he returned to France to pursue a PhD in viticulture. He'd persuaded five iconic Napa wineries—Dana Estates, Ovid, Napa Valley Reserve, Roy Estate, and Vineyard 29—to foot the bill for his studies in exchange for using their vineyards as test beds. In 2006, a mutual friend introduced Scholasch to Payen, now Fruition's numbers guy. At the time, Payen, who has a PhD in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, was looking to commercialize custom sensors that measured fruit sugar content. The two realized they could combine their skills to measure water—and get a better picture of how grapevines are doing. In 2007 they launched their self-funded company, focusing on boutique wineries and using off-the-rack sensors to keep costs down.
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To monitor a grapevine's water needs, Fruition Sciences uses sensors to measure sap flow. Here's how it works.
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1/ Heater
Held in place with Velcro, this orange sleeve applies heat to the stem.
2/ Thermocouples
These take temperature readings at the stem surface just before and after the heat is applied. The differential in the readings reflects how much water is pumping through the vine.
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Shields against external sources of heat (mostly sunshine) that could interfere with accurate measurements.
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This wire connects to a solar-powered data logger, which transmits real-time information anywhere in the world.
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Fruition charges a grape grower $10,000 a season for two monitoring stations, analysis, and upkeep (or as little as $1,000 for tests and consultations without real-time monitoring). Ovid, with eight stations last year, is one of its biggest customers. Ovid's second-generation winemaker, Austin Peterson, is one of Fruition's most vocal supporters and attests to changes the sensor arrays can produce. "Before, irrigation management was basically done by our vineyard foreman looking at next week's weather forecast and at leaves that were starting to fold or tendrils that were drying," Peterson says. "But visual cues can be misleading. As we started to see the data, it started to explain some things."
Before becoming a convert, Peterson needed to see proof. In 2007 he divided Ovid's 15-acre property in half, using the visual method on one side, sensors on the other. Following traditional visual cues led to a regimen of shallow irrigations, which required more water and resulted in unintended side effects, like shriveled grapes and elevated alcohol levels. It also may have helped slow the ripening process and delay the harvest, which is always risky in Northern California, where early autumn rains can destroy a crop in a matter of days. Meanwhile, data gathered from the sensors dictated a near-opposite approach: fewer, deeper irrigations, primarily later in the season. After two years, the result was substantial water savings and earlier harvests. For Peterson, the experiment shed light on how profoundly irrigation affects fruit quality as well as a wine's flavors and bouquet. "It was like going from having an undergraduate degree in something to a PhD, where you have a deep understanding of why vines behave the way they do," Peterson says. "As a winemaker, you understand different flavors. But now you start to understand why the differences exist."
Napa Valley's oldest wineries were established in the mid-1800s. Its pioneers took their cues from the finest French producers, like those on Bordeaux's famed Left Bank, where winemaking dates back to the 12th century. There, frequent summer rains provide ample groundwater and allow vineyard managers to pack their fields tightly with vines. So the early Napa farmers planted their fields in a similar manner. "They assumed that if you copied and pasted the best vineyards, they would produce the best fruits," Scholasch says.
But Napa isn't Bordeaux. Soil composition and sunlight differ, and it typically rains very little in Napa between May and October. Certain grape varieties in certain parts of the world are dry-farmed, meaning the only water supply is Mother Nature. But not Napa's famed cabernet. Here farmers have historically hacked the climate to make it resemble France's, faking early rain to provide vigor, trimming the leaf canopy to gain sunlight, and packing the vines closely together. "We could go without irrigation entirely if we had been smarter about configuration and planting density," Scholasch says. "Applying the wrong sets of rules set up a need for irrigation."
Over-irrigating a vineyard isn't just wasteful; it's counterproductive. To understand why, there are a few important things to remember about grapes, especially the varieties used to create high-quality wine. First, they grow on vines, which require support to reach sunlight. Once the vines encounter light and water, they enter the so-called vegetative state and sprout leaves. But when resources are scarce, the vines become stressed and rush ahead to the reproductive state, ripening berries in hopes of escaping to a more resourceful area by way of a bird. That's why many of the finest wines are produced by vines planted in rocky, nutrient-poor hillsides with good drainage. The desperate vines focus much of their energy on the berries from the get-go and so reach optimal ripeness more quickly. The last thing to know: Unlike elsewhere in agriculture, bigger fruit isn't the goal. Water provides girth—and that's bad. Since the skin provides most of the flavor, it's far better to have pea-sized berries with a high ratio of skin to flesh.
This is why Fruition may advise clients to deny water early and irrigate deeply once ripening is well under way. At that point, the vine focuses its nutrients on flavoring the fruit. The Frenchmen also sometimes recommend not irrigating before heat spikes or at the first sign of wilting; this advice can be especially hard to take. We all see a droopy leaf and conclude that the plant must be thirsty, but watering at that point actually undermines the complex mechanisms a vine uses to conserve resources and can even cause shriveling. "People think that the plant kingdom behaves like us," Scholasch says. "But plants aren't designed to tell the human eye what they need. They have over 400 million years of evolution on us and very subtle ways of coping with heat and water regulation."
Vineyard managers often bristle at how the Frenchmen say a farm should look. "A lot of the vineyards, it's like pretty dresses. They look perfect, not one leaf out of row and it's all green and beautiful," Payen says. "But most vineyards that are making quality wines are going to have yellow leaves later in the year. They'll look like they're suffering."
For some clients, like Daniel Baron, winemaker for the renowned Silver Oak Cellars, the counterintuitive advice has been a revelation. "As farmers, we tend to baby our plants in the early season. The farmer tends to irrigate too soon, cut it off too soon, and pick too early," Baron says. Despite having more than 40 vintages to his credit, using the data-driven system has given him new confidence. "Anything that tells us the vines are going to be OK is a tremendous tool."
None of Fruition's customers signed on expressly to save water, but it's a common side effect. Many of the wineries pump from unmetered wells, aquifers, or lakes, so they don't know precisely how much water they use, but everyone claims that it's far less now. "We're down maybe as much as 75 percent," says Kale Anderson, winemaker for Cliff Lede Vineyards in Napa's Stags Leap district. Another client, Dana Estates, uses sensors on five 2-acre parcels. On one of those plots, the winery reduced irrigation from a range of 36 to 64 gallons per vine annually to 0 to 10 gallons. Dana's director of production, Cameron Vawter, sees the potential for dramatic overall cuts. "We could save 5.8 million gallons a year," he says.
Payen gets even more specific while charting Ovid's results for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. "From bud-break to harvest, the plants saved about 25 millimeters of water on a one-acre block. That's roughly equal to 26,700 gallons," he says.
According to a survey by Wine Business Monthly, 68 percent of North American wine-grape farmers don't use equipment to monitor their irrigation, implying that they rely largely on observation to make watering decisions. Of course every farmer's instincts are different, and no two face the same geographical conditions. But if Fruition's conclusions are to be believed, it's safe to assume that anyone relying on intuition is wasting water. Some back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest just how much: There are roughly 500,000 acres of wine-grape vineyards in California. If 68 percent are being watered based on instinct alone, that's 340,000 acres. According to Payen, Ovid is saving 26,700 gallons of water per acre. Multiply those two numbers and you get 9.1 billion gallons of wasted water per season.
Scholasch and Payen are proud of the water conservation they've achieved and are perfectly willing to talk about the importance of efficient irrigation in an era of climate change. But it'd be a mistake to characterize them as hardcore conservationists. The entrepreneurs want to help their clients make better wine. It's a bit early to say how well they're doing in this regard. High-end cabernets spend years in the barrel before release, so most Fruition customers have yet to sell any wines produced under the consultancy's influence. The earliest clients, like Harlan Estate and Screaming Eagle, have made stellar wines while working with Fruition, but they generally produce stellar wines anyway.
Some telling signs are emerging, however. Cliff Lede's Anderson has found the sensors particularly useful in elevating underperforming portions of the estate. Guided by Fruition's data, he stopped watering one notoriously underachieving vineyard block. "We basically dry-farmed one block that had always been a C, to try to bring it up to an A-minus," he says. "It was the most stressed it's ever been and produced the highest-quality wine it's ever produced." Ovid's results have been even more impressive. The Wine Advocate, published by ubercritic Robert Parker, deemed Ovid's 2009 vintage—the first to fully incorporate Fruition's data—worthy of 96-plus points on a 100-point scale, one of the winery's highest marks ever.
Many winemakers, however, tend to be unconvinced—if not outright hostile. "For us, farming is about gut feeling, common sense, and the relationship we have with our properties," says Brad Grimes of Abreu Vineyard. Grimes has plenty of data to support his approach. Since 1997, Abreu has received six perfect 100-point scores from The Wine Advocate and consistent rankings of 95 and above. "We don't utilize any of those services, and we stay away from technology. What Fruition has done has been pretty radical. Maybe it's archaic and old-school, but I just have a problem with having so much data. There's a scientific part to their business that I just can't align myself with."
Others are less diplomatic. "I farm in the old-fashioned way, and I win the races," says Jayson Woodbridge, owner and winemaker of Hundred Acre, Cherry Pie, Layer Cake, and others. Every year since 2004, Hundred Acre cabernets, which routinely sell out upon release at up to $500 a bottle, have scored 96 points or better from The Wine Advocate, including a perfect 100 in 2007. Even his lower-end Layer Cake, which sells for less than $15, often scores in the low 90s. Woodbridge thinks anyone following Fruition's counsel is asking for trouble: "If they're going to tell me that giving the plants water before it gets hot is wrong, they can blow me. When you're in a vineyard and it's 120 degrees, all the leaves are turning upside down. They shut down."
Nevertheless, Fruition is continuing to make inroads—even in the old world, where traditions have much deeper roots. Four of Bordeaux's premier wineries have signed on. Irrigation is expressly forbidden in Bordeaux, but the clients still want to understand how their vines use water. And one of the world's most influential winemakers, Michel Rolland, is a Fruition champion. Rolland, who advises more than 100 wineries and owns several outright, recently contracted with Fruition to deploy sensors on his personal vineyard in Mendoza, Argentina. "I met Scholasch almost 10 years ago. I follow his research because my goal is not to make a decent wine with bad grapes but to produce the best grapes possible," Rolland says. "Sap-flow sensors are not making wine, but they are giving us better control of the vines. Of course, we can do things like we did before, with our own feeling, but somebody who is not able to change his mind will not be successful in the long term."
When Scholasch and Payen wrote the original business plan for Fruition Sciences, they focused on the world that Scholasch knew, figuring that boutique wineries could afford an early-adopter tax to prove the technology. In 2010 they expanded to wineries that sell bottles for less than $100. And the plan is to expand at some point beyond wine altogether. After all, growing high-end wine grapes may present a unique set of challenges, but all farmers can gain from knowing precisely what's happening inside their crops. (Marijuana cultivation is especially analogous to winemaking, according to Scholasch, because pot's potency, like wine's flavor and bouquet, is a direct result of irrigation techniques.)
To that end, Scholasch occasionally speaks to nonwine audiences. One autumn day he gave a talk to an auditorium of grad students at New York University's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. He walked them through the basics of the sensor arrays and some of the early results. After the address, the center's director at the time, Michael Purugganan, who has a $3.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how water affects rice at the genomic level, enthusiastically endorsed Scholasch's efforts. "I'd love to get my hands on this kind of data to see what's going on with rice," he says. "If you want to understand what's going on in a plant, you have to understand water."
Purugganan is not alone. Fruition's sensors are manufactured by Dynamax, which has begun selling similar devices for use on other crops. University researchers are deploying sap-flow sensors to help grow soybeans, grapefruit, apples, pears, and pecans. Others are using the sensors to monitor trees in urban environments.
Scholasch left winemaking partly out of boredom and partly out of frustration. A scientist among artists, he yearned to have a greater impact on the world. Fruition has been shaking things up in the Napa Valley, but the rampant skepticism and fear of data has clearly jaded him, and he often expresses irritation at the resistance and even, at times, name-calling.
So you'd think that the endorsement of a high-profile rice scientist, along with the interest showed by the broader agricultural world, would invigorate him. But back in Oakland, Scholasch lowers his eyes and shakes his head. "The first sap-flow sensors were tested in the '80s. What we have in place was usable in the early '90s—and look, it's taken 20 years to start using it," he says, then gives a quick smile, betraying a glimmer of hope. "But it's very rewarding to get recognition from peers you respect. It's an accreditation."
Or at the very least a toast to the long road ahead.
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copyright the Chronicle January 19, 2011
Smokey (his choice of a false name) was living quietly in the countryside under the supervision of a single woman when the program that controlled his life, Safe Choices, brought a friend over to visit in 2009.
The two men spent the night in a tent, and there was an opportunity for sexual activity. That, it seems, was the point.
Smokey, at the time, was an angry and unwilling "consumer" of the Safe Choices program, which was established to treat — and protect the public from — serious sex offenders who are so profoundly mentally disabled that they can't be tried for their crime.
Smokey got into some trouble as an adolescent, but has never been charged with a sexual offense as an adult.
The friend who was delivered to his home is 31 years older than Smokey and has been convicted of six counts of sexual assault and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child.
He lives under close supervision at Lowell House, one of Safe Choices' residential facilities, as a condition of his probation. He can be found on Vermont's sex offender registry. (The Chronicle promised Smokey we would not use his friend's real name, so we'll call him Joe.)
Establishing a sexual relationship between Smokey and Joe was, as far as it is possible to tell, part of their treatment program in Safe Choices.
It also seems that the program, in its effort to deal with men who, it insists, are sexually dangerous, is concerned for their sexual potency.
In 2006, when Smokey encountered difficulty getting an erection, Safe Choices sent him to a doctor where he was given Cialis, the drug that is heavily advertised on television as a cure for erectile dysfunction.
When Smokey discarded the drug because it made him feel dizzy and nauseous, Kathy Aiken, the coordinator of Safe Choices, wrote a letter to his doctor asking that he be prescribed some more.
Smokey outlined this story in an interview in May 2010, shortly after Safe Choices, surprisingly, let him walk away from the program.
He is an engaging man, friendly, extremely talkative, and remarkably well spoken for one whose mental capacity confined him to a decade in a program that angered, embarrassed and confused him.
But he seemed inclined to tell an interviewer what he wanted to hear, and his story was so bizarre that this newspaper set it aside.
Smokey has since obtained copies of his extensive record from Safe Choices, and on Monday he made part of that record available to the Chronicle. The documents confirm his story.
Smokey said Monday that he is not a homosexual. He'd like to be in a relationship with a woman, he said, "because I always talked about having a family someday."
At several points in his records, Smokey talks about particular women he would like to date, and about his sadness when one, who he'd invited to his birthday party, failed to appear.
Did he feel that the Safe Choices staff was pushing him into a sexual relationship with Joe?
"Yeah," he replied. "Joe liked me as a best friend. They found out Joe liked me as more than just a friend.
"Me and Joe did end up together. It was in a tent, and we didn't do anything. We were camping out, just two normal friends."
Whatever the truth of the matter, Smokey was clearly not believed at Safe Choices. He continued:
"They said 'We believe you had intercourse.' I said no, he slept on the mattress and I slept on the ground."
The records show that Smokey was particularly concerned that his relationship with Joe not become a topic at the weekly group therapy meetings. Conducted by Saul Schoenberg, a licenced psychologist who heads Resolutions Program, Inc., the sessions form the core of Safe Choices' treatment program. According to other former participants in the program, they focus on the clients' sexuality, on their sexual fantasies — acceptable and aberrant — and on what outlets they are able to find, like masturbation.
In July 2009, staff member John Ullrich wrote in his client notes, Smokey "was anxious and nervous that it was going to be brought to Group what happened between him and the client during a visit. I assured Smokey that Saul stated that this will not be brought up in group and that he will take care of this matter individually in private sessions."
That same month, Mr. Schoenberg reported on a session he held with Smokey and Joe. The handwritten notes are hard to read, but leave an impression of something like a couple's therapy session. There is talk of consenting to and initiating sex, of sexual control and feelings of security.
In January 2010, psychiatrist Craig Van Tuinen wrote in his notes on a meeting with Smokey that Joe, "another client, stayed overnight at the house which brought up a lot of concerns however they apparently worked out an agreement and Smokey was very clear about no physical contact."
Smokey was clearly not fond of the group therapy sessions. An unsigned "psychiatric appointment information sheet" dated December 2, 2008, reports:
Smokey "has blown up at group and was yelling threats outside the office that were in the nature of reporting the program to lawyers. Kathy has sent a e-mail to Smokey's guardian pertaining that he needs to find a different program for Smokey. Cause he is now scaring the other clients in the group as well with his threatening outburst towards Saul and the program."
Asked on Monday if he has a temper, Smokey replied, "Yes, sometimes it gets pretty escalated, depending on the situation. It's mostly yelling. At Safe Choices I have punched the refrigerators and the freezers and the walls, but nothing physical to any person or human being."
Safe Choices didn't find a different program for Smokey. But the program seems to have simply let him walk away in the spring of 2010. He lives alone in an apartment, is looking for a job, and said he has an appointment to get his driver's license.
Although he said he finds it hard to sit still, Smokey said he has stopped taking any of the long list of psychiatric drugs that were prescribed for him at Safe Choices.
In a remarkable recital, he rattles through the long list of drugs, citing their daily doses and their purpose — chiefly anti-anxiety.
"I have been on these drugs for years and years," he explains, "and I know them by heart. I think, altogether, I was taking seven medications.
"They didn't usually force you," he said of his drug regimen. "They would manipulate you. 'You take your pills and we'll talk about rewarding you for making the right choice.'
"Safe Choices sounds like wrong choices to me," he added.
Why would the program have pushed him together with Joe?
"They wanted to manipulate the system," he said Monday, "to keep him on probation longer."
Asked the same question last May, Smokey had a slightly different answer.
"To pin things on us," he said. "To experiment."
If his state-appointed guardian hadn't put him in the Safe Choices program at 18, Smokey was asked Monday, what would his life have been like?
"I probably would have had a normal life," he replied. "A family; a decent job."
And why, finally, was he sharing these embarrassing moments of his life with a newspaper?
"To get justice on how I feel and how I was treated — and others in the program, too."


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If you recognize the name Hardy Gramatky at all, it's probably in conjunction with the children's book character "Little Toot," which Gramatky wrote and illustrated in the late 1930s.
But Hardy Gramatky was also a fantastic landscape painter.
Beginning in his early days in art school (where he studied under the famous magazine illustrator Pruett Carter), Gramatky became so engaged in landscape painting that he typically produced five small paintings a day for a period of three years.
Gramatky's daughter, Linda Gramatky Smith, points out that "Part of what made my dad so unusual [is] so often there's something happening in my dad's paintings. It's not just a scene -- there's something going on there."
In the 1930s Gramatky worked for Disney Studios in California as a head animator. He then moved to New York and pursued a career as a book and magazine illustrator. He created work for many leading magazines like Fortune, Collier's, Woman's Day, True, American and Readers Digest and for advertisers, including the piece below from a 1959/1960 New England Mutual Life Insurance ad campaign.
Linda Gramatky Smith has put together a wonderful website in tribute to her father (and her mother, who was also an illustrator). Be sure to click on the many thumbnails to enjoy more examples of Gramatky's stunning work.
There is also a long and enjoyable biography - look for it in the website menu under "His Story"
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Hardy Gramatky, Landscape Painter
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Hi Leif,ReplyDelete
Hardy Gramatky is one of my favorite artists, I have always admired his work, he's a master at watercolor.
One of my favorites! In my opinion his genius is under-recognized. Terrific landscapes. I hadn't heard about the 5 paintings a day... very cool tidbit.ReplyDelete
He visited my grade school in the late 1960's and drew the story of Little Toot on newsprint with charcoal as he told the story. A fond childhood memory.ReplyDelete
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With an easy home victory over the Arthur County Wolves on Saturday, the Brady boys basketball team improved to 7-3 on the season.
"It was good for us to be able to sub all 10 guys throughout the game," said Brady coach David Jacobs. "Getting all of the kids a fair amount of playing time is good for morale and we're going to need that down the road."
Brady jumped on the Wolves early and carried a comfortable 32-10 lead into halftime.
"Arthur lost a lot of kids from last year," Jacobs said. "They have a very young team that could be pretty tough in the next two years."
All 10 Eagle players put points on the board, led by sophomore Troy Lusk with 13.
The Eagles will build on the win and a third-place finish in the Brady Holiday Tournament and point their focus toward Hayes Center (4-5) at home on Friday and a road game at South Loup (2-7) on Saturday.
The Cardinals play hard, Jacobs said, and are well coached.
"They always seem to give us a challenge," he said.
And South Loup, which gave Brady a battle in the Maxwell tournament, does not seem like a two-win team, Jacobs said.
"They're a puzzle to me," he said. "I'm sure they'll play us tough again."
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DURHAM, N.C. — A 5-year-old Durham boy has been found safe hours after he was reported missing from his home.
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Number Tricks
Lesson 15 of 20
Objective: SWBAT: • Define and identify inverse operations • Represent number tricks using algebra tiles • Explain why number tricks work using algebra tiles
Big Idea: Why do these number tricks work? How do these tricks connect to inverse operations? Students work with algebra tiles to understand how and why these number tricks work.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to review the concept of inverse operations. Inverse operations will come up later in the lesson and I want to make sure that students can define and identify inverse operations.
I call on students to share their answers. Problem 2f may be a challenge for students and that is okay. I push students to use numbers to create examples. Some students may say that to undo this you have to divide by the starting number. For instance 4 squared is 16 and dividing 16 by 4 will result in 4. Other students may mention that you can take the square root of the number. Squaring and number and taking the square root of a number are inverse operations.
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Math Magic
- When I print out the notes for students I will delete the words in parentheses. I want students to fill in these words on their own notes.
- Before this lesson, I use the data from the previous lesson's ticket to go to Create Homogeneous Groups.
I have students move into their groups for the day. I explain that we will work together as a class and then they will work with their group member. I read through the math number trick two times. Students choose their own number, record the missing words and determine their final number. I tell students to show their work to prove their answer is correct. Students participate in a Think Pair Share about their starting number and their ending number.
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- Each student needs a set of Algebra Tiles. One type of these tiles can be seen at http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Algebra-Tile-Class/dp/B000F8R5NW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1388415535&sr=8-4&keywords=algebra+tiles
- The set I use has blue x squared tiles, green x tiles and yellow unit tiles.
- If you do not have Algebra Tiles, you can have students cut out a set of Paper Algebra Tiles for homework the previous night.
- I use a Group Work Rubric with each group to give students feedback on their cooperation and behavior.
- I Post a Key so groups can check their work as the complete problems.
I call on a student to read over the directions. I tell students that we will fill out the Algebra Tiles pictures together. As students work I walk around and monitor student progress and behavior.
We come together and share out observations as a class. I ask, "What different kinds of numbers does the trick work with?" and "Why do you think we always end with the same number?" Some students may explain how dividing by two undoes the multiplying by two. Starting with a number and then subtracting that number at the end cancels out to zero. Adding five and then subtracting four results in one. Other students may make the connection between the answer and the series of inverse operations. If students are not making these connections, I ask questions but I do not explain the connections yet.
I pass out the Algebra Tiles. We use the Algebra Tiles to model each step of the trick. Since people choose different starting numbers, we can use the x tile to represent the starting number. I ask students how we can use the tiles to show each step of the trick. Once we finish the column I ask students to use the Algebra Tiles to explain why the ending number is three, no matter what number is the starting number. Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I call on students to share their ideas and ask other students to say if they are agree and why or why not. Students are engaging in MP3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, MP4: Model with Mathematics, and MP7: Look for and make use of structure.
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I review the task and the expectations with students. Students are engaging in MP2: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, MP4: Model with Mathematics, MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically, MP6: Attend to precision, MP7: Look for and make use of structure and MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
If students are struggling, I ask them one or more of the following questions:
- What do you know?
- Does the trick work with fractions and decimals? Does it work with zero? How do you know?
- How can you represent this step with Algebra Tiles?
- Why do you end with the same number?
- How does this trick connect with inverse operations?
If students successfully complete the problems they can move on to the challenge question.
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Closure and Ticket to Go
I ask students, "How do the operations work in these tricks?" and "When the trick says to double, what is the inverse operation that you expect to see?" I want students to see how each trick uses inverse operations to guarantee that you always end with the same number. I also want students to explain that to undo multiplying by two you must divide by two. I push students to use specific language to describe their observations. Students are engaging in MP6: Attend to precision, MP7: Look for and make use of structure, and MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
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Promising young Manchester City defender Matija Nastasic will eventually prove to be a better player than Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic.
The young Serbian has won many plaudits since being given his chance by Citizens boss Roberto Mancini after signing in the summer.
European football legend Kevin Keegan has been so impressed by the 20-year-old that he feels he is on route to surpass his compatriot at Old Trafford.
It was high praise for Nastasic by Keegan as the former England manager credited Manchester United's captain as probably the best in the business in the Premier League.
"I really like him; he has come in and played as if he has been there for ever," Keegan is quoted as saying in The Independent.
"That Mancini put him in for his debut against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu tells you everything you need to know about him.
"In five or six years time you could see him developing into a Vidic. He could become even bigger than Vidic, who has probably been the best centre half in this country for the last five or six years."
Mancini brought Nastasic to Manchester City in in a £12million deal from Serie A side Fiorentina last summer that saw Stefan Savic go the other way.
Nastasic took his opportunity with both hands when given his first start in the Champions League match away at Real Madrid.
He has since cemented his place in the starting XI at the expense of England international Joleon Lescott.
However, Keegan believes it won't always be as easy as it has looked for the young centre-back, but wouldn't be surprised if he overcame any difficulties quickly.
The big test will come next season when people have had a good look at him," added the two time Ballon d'Or winner.
"They will try and find out what he is not good at and where his weaknesses are. I haven't seen too many at the moment."
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Bruins back on the ice
A combination of Boston University and Boston Bruins players hit the ice today at BU's Agganis Arena.
Bruins enforcer Shawn Thornton smiled on the ice. The players are now preparing for a shortened NHL season, after players and owners settled their differences this weekend.
Bruins center Tyler Seguin practiced. "Words can't describe it", Seguin said about the lockout ending.
Rich Peverley and Brad Marchand talked on the ice.
The league has yet to announce the schedule for the regular season, and players do not know yet when training camp will start.
Goalie Tukka Rask suited up for the workout.
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SALT LAKE CITY – The Salt Lake City International Airport has reopened all three of its runways after being partially closed for most of the day because of freezing rain and icy conditions that caused a Frontier airplane to slide on the runway during landing.
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The Seventy-Fourth International Meeting
of the Catholic Biblical Association of America
was held August 6-9, 2011,
at Assumption College, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Extra Information (7/25/11):
What to expect in the rooms: Your room will be located in a suite with a shared washroom for the suite (either 2 or 3 rooms sharing). Your room will be equipped with bed linens, 2 hangers, a plastic cup, and towels. The rooms do not have clocks or alarms in them so you will want to come prepared to address those needs on your own. All our dormitories are non-smoking. You will be given a "fob" for the exterior building door and a key for the suite door.
Wireless internet is available throughout the campus, including in the dorm rooms. Please choose the "Guest" network as it is not password protected. A troubleshooting desk will be set up in the Living Learning Center on Saturday between 12:30 – 9:30 pm for any initial connection issues. If you have any IT problems at other times please contact the HUB at (508) 767-7060 (the HUB is open from 9 am - 8 pm).
Throughout the conference an information desk will be located in the foyer of Taylor Dining Hall. This table will be staffed Saturday 1 – 8 pm, Sunday and Monday 7am – 8 pm, and Tuesday 7 am – 1 pm. In addition, anyone in a red conference polo shirt is available to assist you.
Registration (and de-registration) will take place in the lobby of La Maison Francaise (the place where the airport shuttle will pick up and drop off). Please feel free to leave your bags with the on campus shuttle bus drivers while you register (or deregister). If you are driving, leave your bags in your vehicle while you register. Baggage can be left in your dorm rooms until you are ready to depart. If you are staying on campus, you must de-register, by bringing your keys back to La Maison in order to avoid a $100 key charge.
While our campus is small, we will be running an ongoing shuttle van service, especially for those with mobility needs. There will be several pick up stops along our campus loop to make it easier for you to catch the shuttle. Should you need to be deposited in a location other than one of these stops, please inform your driver. (These vans are not permitted to leave the campus, so for off campus destinations please refer to the list of taxi available at the Information Table in Taylor Dining Hall).
In the case of an emergency or building maintenance/HVAC on the weekend or at night, please contact Public Safety at (508) 767-7225. For building maintenance Monday or Tuesday during the day until 4 PM, call 508-767-7391.
The Ploude Recreation Center is located on campus and conference attendees are welcome to use the facilities for $5 per day, which includes the use of the pool. The Ploude is open from 7 am – 7 pm Monday to Friday and the pool is open from 5 pm – 7 pm.
Other than Taylor Dining Hall and the limited selection at Dunkin Donuts (Sat. 12-7 pm; Sunday 7 am – 7 pm; Monday and Tuesday 8 am – 4:30 pm), there are no other dining options without driving to a local restaurant. For restaurant recommendations, please see the local map of Worcester in your registration packages or inquire at the Information Table in Taylor Dining Hall.
A list of religious services and centers is available at the Information Table in Taylor Dining Hall.
CBA members can register online by using the
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
This day in baseball history
A long-time reader filed this dispatch from the 1961 baseball season: On July 31, 1961, at Fenway Park, baseball held the second of its two All Star games that year. After nine innings, the game was tied 1-1, and ended due to rain. The American League scored its run in the first inning on a home run by Rocky Colavito off of Bob Purkey. The Nationals tied it in the »
Real True Grit
Long-time readers may recall the strange controversy that erupted in mid-2006 about then-Lt. Tom Cotton. At that time Tom was in charge of a unit that patrolled in Baghdad. He wrote a letter to the New York Times that we published here, chastising the Times for disclosing the government's highly classified SWIFT financial surveillance program. (Tom's letter was of course deep-sixed by the Times.) Tom wrote: You may think you »
Is A Debt Ceiling Deal In the Works?
For once, I hope Harry Reid is right: he says he is not close to a deal with the Republicans to raise the debt ceiling. The hysteria currently in the air is ridiculous. There is no prospect of a default on Treasury obligations. The federal government takes in much more money than it needs to pay principal and interest as it falls due, so default is impossible unless Barack Obama »
More Songs About the Debt
So far, we have posted the two highest-rated songs that were entered in the Power Line Prize contest. One of them, Don't You See?, finished second. But we got a lot of good songs. I wouldn't have thought it possible to write so many enjoyable songs about the national debt, but when we have time after wrapping up the contest on Monday, we will put together a virtual album of »
"Forgive Us"
This 60-second video would make an excellent television commercial. It packs an emotional punch that is reminiscent of a famous ad in the 1964 presidential race, only this time in a good cause. Called "Forgive Us," it was submitted to the Power Line Prize contest by Wayne Robertson. »
The Associated Press Covers Gunwalker
Associated Press reporting on the Gunwalker ("Fast and Furious") scandal has been sporadic but fair. However, not many newspapers around the country have picked up the AP's stories on Gunwalker, apparently because they would rather cover up than expose scandals that originate in the Obama administration. (That's only my theory, but if anyone can think of a better one, feel free to propose it.) Today, the AP released its longest »
"Fiscally Responsible Punk Rock Music"
That's a line from this punk rock tune called "You're Gonna Pay," by Wilson Getchell, which was an entry in the Power Line Prize contest. It was Glenn Reynolds' favorite song entry, which is high praise. Here it is: »
Sizing Up the National Debt
This Power Point by Michael Dopp, which I converted into a video and uploaded to YouTube, was an entry in the Power Line Prize competition. It does a nice job of putting the magnitude if our national debt into perspective: »
Liberalism: A Luxury We Can't Afford
It is hard to overstate how bad yesterday's economic news was. First-quarter GDP growth was revised downward from the originally-estimated 1.9% to an almost-nonexistent 0.4%. Second-quarter GDP growth was estimated at 1.3%; if it is ultimately revised downward to the same extent as the first quarter estimate, it will go negative. A double-dip recession is now a real possibility. It is often said that liberals don't understand how the economy »
Civility, Obama style
Andrew Ferguson has undertaken the difficult task of wading through the collected speeches of Obama administration NEH Chairman Jim Leach. Having done so myself, as Andy kindly observes, I can say with authority that he has suffered for his readers. The Weekly Standard has made Andy's report the cover story of its new issue, out this morning. The appointment of Leach to the NEH represents the degradation of the arts »
After the Crash? Or Before the Deluge?
I'm anchored for the day in calm waters off the southern Irish coast near Waterford, so the smoke-signal Internet system is working a little bit. The debt ceiling controversy is on people's minds even over here, too. At the William Butler Yeats exhibit in Dublin yesterday the desk agent commented to me (upon picking up my unmistakable Scottish accent?) that the U.S. seems to be trying to imitate Ireland's sovereign »
The PL Prize: Two More Graphic Images
Readers have really enjoyed the paintings and editorial cartoons that were entered in the Power Line Prize competition and that we have posted on this site. Here are two more. The first is a collage done in the form of a full-sized movie poster, evoking horror movies of the past. This image is great, but it doesn't fully do the poster justice, as it is a photo taken by me. »
The Hinderaker-Ward Experience: All Debt, All the Time
This afternoon Brian Ward and I recorded a new edition of the Hinderaker-Ward Experience that focused entirely on debt: the debt ceiling crisis, the budget impasse, and the Power Line Prize competition. We discussed the most recent events in Washington, played two of the top songs from the contest, and awarded our Loon of the Week and This Week In Gatekeeping prizes. It was a fun hour. You can listen »
Next Up for the Power Line Prize
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Over to You, Harry
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About Obama's secret plan
The best kept secret in Washington has apparently been President Obama's secret debt-ceiling plan. It's the story of the day, and it's a funny kind of secret. It's one that Obama's go-fers are peddling. According to them, the plan has been kept secret because of an understanding among the parties. I guess we are to believe that events have overtaken that understanding, or something. In any event, we are to »
PL Prize Countdown, #2: Don't You See?
We have been counting down the top finishers in the Power Line Prize competition, arriving now at number two, a song called "Don't You See?" This song, written by Jason Nyberg and performed by his nine-year-old daughter, was actually my favorite of the more than 200 entries in the contest. The Nybergs get a $15,000 prize for this song–on which, as the extremely catchy song notes, they'll be paying some »


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Climate change is another potential influence on the demand for water. Municipal
demand is related to climate to a certain extent. Shiklomanov (1998) notes different
rates of use in different climate zones, although in making comparisons between
cities it is difficult to account for variation in nonclimatic controls. The
sensitivity of municipal demand to climate change is likely to be very dependent
on the uses to which the water is put. The most sensitive areas are increased
personal washing andmore importantly in some culturesincreased use
of water in the garden and particularly on the lawn. Studies in the UK (Herrington,
1996) suggest that a rise in temperature of about 1.1°C by 2025 would lead
to an increase in average per capita domestic demand of approximately 5%in
addition to nonclimatic trendsbut would result in a larger percentage
increase in peak demands (demands for garden watering may be highly concentrated).
Boland (1997) estimated the effects of climate change on municipal demand in
Washington, D.C., under a range of different water conservation policies. Table
4-5 summarizes percentage change in summer water use under the range of
scenarios considered. Boland (1997) concludes that the effect of climate change
is small relative to economic development and the effect of different
water conservation policies.
Industrial use for processing purposes is insensitive to climate change; it
is conditioned by technologies and modes of use. Demands for cooling water,
however, may be affected by climate change. Increased water temperatures will
reduce the efficiency of cooling, perhaps necessitating increased abstraction
(or, of course, changes in cooling technologies to make them more efficient).
Agricultural demand, particularly for irrigation water, is considerably more
sensitive to climate change. There are two potential effects. First, a change
in field-level climate may alter the need for and timing of irrigation: Increased
dryness may lead to increased demands, but demands could be reduced if soil
moisture content rises at critical times of the year. Döll and Siebert
(1999) applied a global irrigation water-use model with a spatial resolution
of 0.5°x0.5° to assess the impact of climate change on net irrigation
requirements per unit irrigated area, with a climate change scenario based on
the ECHAM4 GCM. Figure 4-3 shows the relative change
of net irrigation requirements between the present time (19611990) and
2025 in all areas equipped for irrigation in 1995. Under this scenario
and similarly under the corresponding HadCM3 scenarionet irrigation requirements
per unit irrigated area generally would decrease across much of the Middle East
and northern Africa as a result of increased precipitation, whereas most irrigated
areas in India would require more water. The extra irrigation requirements per
unit area in most parts of China would be small; the HadCM3 scenario leads to
a greater increase in northern China. Other climate models would give different
indications of regional changes in irrigation requirements. On the global scale,
increases and decreases in net irrigation requirements largely cancel, and there
is less difference between different climate models; under two scenarios considered
by Döll and Siebert (2001), global net irrigation requirements would increase,
relative to the situation without climate change, by 3.55% by 2025 and
68% by 2075. Actual changes in withdrawals would be dependent on changes
in the efficiency of irrigation water use.
The second potential effect of climate change on irrigation demand is through
increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations (Chapter
5). Higher CO2 concentrations lower plant stomatal conductance,
hence increase WUE; but as indicated in Section 4.3.3,
this may be offset to a large extent by increased plant growth.
Hatch et al.(1999) assessed irrigation water requirements in Georgia, USA,
using a climate change scenario derived from HadCM2. This scenario produced
increased rainfall in most seasons, which, together with a shorter growing season
and the assumed effect of CO2 enrichment, resulted in a decrease
in irrigation demand, ranging from just 1% by 2030 for soybean to as much as
20% by 2030 for corn. Along the Gulf Coast of the United States, however, the
same scenario implies an increase in irrigation demands (Ritschard et al., 1999).
Strzepek et al. (1999) also simulated decreases in irrigation requirements across
the U.S. cornbelt under two of three scenarios (with the decrease depending
on assumed irrigation use efficiency) but an increase under the third scenario.
These three studies together indicate considerable uncertainty in estimated
future irrigation withdrawals.
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SUBJECT: Commission upholds Holmes' decision to move police officer defense in-house
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The Public Employment Relations Commission has affirmed the City Attorney's right to decide who represents Seattle police officers against a range of allegations, including wrongful arrest and death, excessive use of force, police misconduct and violations of federal civil rights.
In a Sept. 5 decision the commission upheld a ruling by its examiner that using in-house counsel—and in some circumstances private lawyers selected by the CAO—was not a mandatory subject of bargaining.
In 2011 the Seattle Police Officers' Guild filed an unfair labor practice after City Attorney Pete Holmes hired Assistant City Attorneys and sought bids from private firms and individual lawyers after the City's long-standing and exclusive contract with one firm expired.
Siding with Holmes, the commission observed, "The employer's reasons for changing who represents employees in police action lawsuit included: managing costs, providing direct oversight of litigation, increasing compliance with the City Attorney's Office philosophy and strategic decisions, improving the ability to provide training, and increased transparency." These managerial prerogatives outweighed the claimed impacts on wages that were alleged by the Guild.
To date the City Council has provided funding for three lawyers plus a paralegal and legal assistant. Handling police defense work inside CAO are Assistant City Attorneys Brian Maxey, Sarah Morehead and Christine Olson. In the case of a conflict of interest, or as other circumstances require, CAO employs private firms.
"I am gratified that PERC upheld my decision to bring much of the police action work in-house," Holmes said Monday. "The driving force behind the change was, and remains, the City's always challenging budget climate. Our office is now playing a much more supportive role in policy – by having a closer working relationship with the individual officers and the department."
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Rosey Dress in Yellow and Pink
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This is a knit dress from Vogue 8663. Clean, simple lines for a bold colorful print. The fabric is a cotton/spandex… so comfy! The fabric is really gorgeous in person. See more on my blog Kathy Sews.
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Jul 13, 2013, 12.59 PMby skeeler
Love this look! And it is a beautiful fit.
Jul 13, 2013, 09.04 AMby Mary Athey
this is lovely kathy, the fabric and the colours really bright fun and summery x
Jul 12, 2013, 09.09 PMby schnui
Your dress is lovely and the fabric is so pretty. I too have made this pattern and once I read the instructions, I thought Vogue had really cheated us on the neckline finish. A purchased bias!!!! I would have thought a proper finish like a facing would have been more professional!! But now that I see how you have finished this neckline, I may redo my dress as it looks so nice and professional. Thanks for sharing. PS: I didn't use a zip either and I set in long sleeves and used a woven bias.
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Antonio Banderas is in final negotiations to play Salvador Dali in the Simon West-helmed indie biopic "Dali."
Media 8 Entertainment ("Monster") is producing alongside West's shingle, which has been developing the project since 2003, when West optioned the feature film rights to Jeremy Walters' spec script for low- to mid-six figures.
Film will blend music with CGI sequences in an effort to capture the inventiveness and color of the painter. Story will explore how Dali conquered America and the world with sex, sin and surrealism only to succumb later to worldwide scandal and misfortune.
At least two other Dali biopics are in the works: Al Pacino is attached to play the artist in "Dali & I: The Surreal Story," with Andrew Niccol directing; and "Twilight's" Robert Pattinson stars as Dali in the upcoming "Little Ashes," which chronicles the young life and loves of the painter as well as filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca.
West is producing "Dali" alongside Jib Polhemus ("Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"). Media 8 is handling worldwide sales, with pre-sales beginning this week at the American Film Market.
Media 8 has already sold the film in Eastern Europe to Revolutionary Releasing, which is comprised of some of the territory's leading companies, including Monolith, Blitz, Bonton, Forum and MediaPro.
West added that the project will focus not only on Dali's outrageous lifestyle but his lifelong love affair with Gala, his wife, muse and manipulative manager.
Shooting is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2009 in Spain and England. The film will be an international co-production.