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The City of Surrey doesn't expect to gain the same international cachet as Vancouver, with its sports stadiums, conference centres, museums and its status as one of the world's most livable cities.
But with a population slated to be as large as Vancouver's by 2040, Surrey knows it's destined for big-city status, and has chosen a tag line to reflect it: The Future Lives Here.
To Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts, the logo, adopted in 2008, is a fitting brand for her city, which given its land based is the best equipped of all Metro municipalities to house the bulk of one million new residents expected to move to Metro Vancouver over the next 30 years.
The city is expected to be home to 766,000 people — the same total as Vancouver — by 2040. It also has a growing population under the age of 19.
"We are still the city of parks, but we're transforming from a residential suburb of Vancouver to a metropolitan core," Watts said.
The transformation will bring big changes to Surrey, which has wrestled with an identity crisis for the past two decades as it outgrew its small town britches and officially became a city on Sept. 11, 1993.
City officials knew Whalley, which has four SkyTrain stations, would one day be the region's second downtown core, but 20 years ago the area had only one highrise, a raft of pawn shops and a bad reputation for prostitutes and crime.
And the city's six town centres — Whalley, Newton, Guildford, Fleetwood, Cloverdale and South Surrey — pockmarked a rural sprawl dominated by strip malls, tract housing, and farms surrounded by industrial and residential areas that gave the impression Surrey was a "city of cities."
"Part of the problem was people viewed Whalley as the entire city," Watts said. "They weren't interested in looking at Crescent Beach, Ocean Park or the border."
Even the city's corporate emblem was a throwback to its humble beginnings: a cartoonish caricature of the bucktoothed rodent graced city's welcome signs and letterhead. A wooden beaver statue stood outside the B.C Supreme courthouse in the city. Fire chief Al Cleaver, who resigned in 1986, even had a beaver suit and was known as Cleaver the Beaver.
"It was historically representing this city in terms of its natural environment," said Surrey Coun. Linda Hepner, a former Surrey economic development officer. "It had to do with logging; it represented Surrey's forests and forest resources."
In 1993, the city's then-public affairs manager Paul Griffin urged Surrey to truly grow up, ditch the beaver and promote the growing city in a more sophisticated way.
Griffin pitched a new corporate symbol depicting two stylized highrises. When city officials and residents balked, he suggested a logo with a stylized stand of trees and buildings, to pay homage to Surrey's adopted nickname, City of Parks, which he coined.
City officials agreed to the City of Parks name, and kept the beaver — albeit a more stylized version — as its corporate symbol as part of the crest on a new coat of arms.
The beaver is at the centre, flanked by a race horse on one side and a workhorse on the other. Wavy lines under the beaver represented rivers, like the Fraser, Serpentine and Nicomekl that run through Surrey. The mountains and the border crossing were also represented in other lines on the crest.
Hepner said the city still has the coat of arms but its new logo — a pair of highrises representing the City Centre development in Whalley — and the Future Lives Here tag line is more representative of Surrey today: a major urban centre expected to soon be on par with Vancouver, with all the amenities of any major city in Canada.
The city has a range of housing, from affordable single-family homes to townhouses, condos and mansions, along with Surrey Memorial Hospital and two universities — Simon Fraser University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. The new City Centre, which includes SkyTrain stations, a Bing Thom-inspired public library, the SFU Surrey campus and a new city hall and shopping centre, has created a walkable, transit-oriented downtown.
City officials also are developing industrial hubs in areas like Campbell Heights, Port Kells and the City Centre to provide jobs for the growing population, while Watts continues to push for rapid transit to connect Surrey's six town centres.
"(The logo) represents all that we can offer in terms of quality of life," Hepner said. "I think it was a good choice."
Mark Busse, a founding partner of Industrial Brand, credits Watts for the successful branding, saying it takes more than fancy logos or clever tag lines to create an image for a city.
A brand is the identity that has been built up in the subconscious mind of the public, he said. And while Surrey isn't spending big bucks on ads to blow its horn, it's changing its image by fixing its problems, building major urban amenities, and letting the world know it's open for business.
Instead of apologizing for the city's past shortcomings, he said, Watts has focused on what Surrey intends to be.
And she didn't rush it. She started by creating a new civic slate, Surrey First, which encouraged councillors to vote with their conscience and not toe a party line.
She received buy-in from residents and developers by dealing with the niggling gang and crime issues that had plagued the city.
And when the economy was flagging in 2009, she started a Build Surrey program to boost development and build necessary infrastructure, such as social housing and recreation centres.
"She managed to start a machine that gained momentum," Busse said. "She focused everyone's attention on the potential. She put in place an identification platform ... all these things led to further credibility for her and her team."
Throughout it all, he said, Watts has remained humble, engaging and accessible. And it's this attitude that has given Surrey an edge against Vancouver.
"You can get in touch with them easily," Busse said. "That is part of the brand. There is a sense in Vancouver that we have an elite structure happening ... whereas in Surrey, Dianne's not a puppet, she's running the show.
"People are moving there because they want to be part of what's happening out there. Young people are moving there in droves. I love that she says she's not done. Branding a city is not a short-term thing."
Lindsay Meredith, a marketing professor at Simon Fraser University, agrees a good brand must give people a reason to live in a city and said Surrey has chosen its targets carefully — including steps such as putting cops on bicycles in Whalley, building playgrounds and developing condos around City Centre.
Attracting big-name developers and architects like Bing Thom, as well as institutions such as SFU, all help. As the infrastructure continues to be built, the city will see a boost in its livability, draw residents and boost its tax base.
At the same time, Surrey should expect to see more provincial dollars flowing into its coffers, he said, as candidates look for votes by approving infrastructure dollars.
In the past, Vancouver was the main recipient of those dollars, building provincial-scale stadiums, conference centres and major health facilities, he said, but Surrey is starting to see those gains, with the latest expansion of Surrey Memorial Hospital a case in point.
"The big thing for Surrey is that they have come a long way in a little distance," Meredith said. "It used to be the quasi-crime capital of (Metro) Vancouver. It's changed substantially and they've worked hard to do it.
"Part of the transformation that aided them was taking the whole disaster of Whalley and creating a brand-new city centre where stacked highrises are plastered around a university. You can change your image quite a lot once you get a reputation in a key area."
Watts acknowledges Surrey has long played second fiddle to Vancouver when it comes to provincial dollars, but maintains it's time her city started to reap some of the big-city pluses.
She noted Surrey already has half a million people, the second-busiest border crossing in Canada and major port facilities.
"We need infrastructure. People really are certainly looking at Surrey in terms of what it has to offer," she said. "Thousands of people a month are moving here. They're choosing to come here and choosing to raise their families here."
Watts said she doesn't see Surrey emulating Vancouver, but maintains her city, with its second downtown and growing population, will complement it as Metro's two largest cities.
"Vancouver is a beautiful city, unique unto itself, as is Surrey."
Jean Lamontagne, Surrey's general manager of planning and development, agreed, saying Vancouver's conference centres and stadiums benefit the entire region.
"Vancouver still has a very, very strong attraction," Lamontagne said. "It's an international city. We've got a niche here that's different, lots of greenery, new schools for residents, opportunities (for recreation) within our boundaries ... Population-wise Surrey might be bigger, but it'll have a different flavour."


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The Program Director meets individually with faculty members before they use service learning in a course for the first time. They discuss the content of the course, which elements might be enhanced by a community experience, and ways of setting up the course. Throughout the semester, the Program hosts a Conversations Series and also sponsors a Community Bus Your.. More information about these opportunities is available on the Current Service Learning Faculty Resources page.
At the end of each spring semester Service Learning sponsors a one-to-three-day workshop to enable Marquette faculty to discuss this teaching method in detail. Evaluations from faculty attending these workshops were uniformly and overwhelmingly positive. Most attendees have gone on to use service learning in one or more courses.
Service Learning placements are carefully chosen to complement the content of each service learning course. In some courses, like Introduction to Social Welfare & Justice, the possibilities for placements are very broad. In others, such as Spanish for the Health Professions, the number of placements that will fit the course is fewer and much more specific. Finding these specialized placements often requires both an extensive knowledge of community organizations and a fair amount of creativity.
In addition to the sites offered by the program for each course, students are also able to locate their own placements, with the approval of the professor. These are known as independent placements. The attached table shows the community involvement by Service Learners over the life of the program.
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NY proposal: Use casino money to fund NY campaigns Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/NY-proposal-Use-casino-money-to-fund-NY-campaigns-4172224.php#ixzz2HOhbWdHbMichael Gormley [1] [2] [2] [2] [2]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An innovative proposal expected in the New York Legislature would take some revenue from casino promoters and opponents who spend millions in campaign contributions and create a fund designed to reduce the influence of money in politics.
Good-government advocate Bill Samuels [4] and Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger [5] said Monday that the money from the proposal expected to be introduced to the new Legislature would pay for voluntary public funding of campaigns and level the playing field for candidates, creating more competitive elections. They say it would also open politics to more people without depending on large contributions from special interests.
It may also be a unique way to channel gambling money. A dozen states use casino tax revenue most often for education, local governments, and the state general fund, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures [6]. New Jersey uses some for financial assistance to the elderly and disabled, while Colorado and South Dakota target some for historic preservation, and Puerto Rico uses some for tourism.
New York's so-called "grand bargain" would seek to tap into an anticipated deluge of campaign contributions from supporters and opponents of the proposal to allow casinos on non-Indian land in New York. The call for a publicly paid, matching fund system, as in New York City, has grown louder nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a freer hand for corporations and other well-financed interests to fund massive TV ad blitzes under the Citizens United decision in 2010.
"Where casino gaming interests in other states have become a force for some of the darkest excesses of post-Citizens United politics ... this unique, counterintuitive opportunity is a way forward on government reform that Governor Cuomo and my fellow legislators cannot ignore," said Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat.
The Legislature is expected to approve up to seven casinos off Indian land this year, subject to a voter referendum in the fall.
New York's proposal would use casino licensing fees to raise $56 million a year for matching funds for contributions to candidates under strict limits, but still leave $250 million to $1 billion that could be directed to education, as is now done with lottery revenues.
"Campaign finance reform is at the heart of changing a state Legislature that seems to be driven by four- and five-figure checks from special interests," said Samuels, founder of the New Roosevelts government reform group. "Getting money out of politics will usher in a new era where legislators can focus on the needs of the people they represent, and enable the election of a new generation of reform-minded individuals who, likeFranklin Delano Roosevelt [7], see public service as a noble profession and not as a way to accumulate power and dole out favors to campaign contributors."
Cuomo and the Assembly's Democratic majority have supported voluntary public financing of campaigns as part of stricter fundraising and spending requirements, but the Senate's Republican majority has opposed public financing, saying that tax dollars must instead go to schools and other high priorities, especially in tough economic times.
Republicans who run the Senate with the Independent Democratic Conference were cool to the proposal idea Monday. GOP spokesman Scott Reif [8] said any public funding should go to tax relief or underprivileged schools.
Cuomo said there are many expenses facing state government, including schools and relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy, but said public financing of campaigns should be part of an effort that includes lower donation limits.
Neither Cuomo nor Senate Republicans ruled out the casino idea.
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[3] http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/NY-proposal-Use-casino-money-to-fund-NY-campaigns-4172224.php
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[5] http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fus&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Liz+Krueger%22
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Three members of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's indoor track and field team have been honored by the Little East Conference.
Senior Eric Nygaard (Medway, MA/Medway HS) has been named LEC Men's Track Athlete of the Week, freshman Chris Perry (Attleboro, MA/Dighton-Rehoboth HS/BCC) has been named LEC Men's Rookie Field Athlete of the Week, and freshman Jessica Masse (Somerville, MA/Somerville HS) has been named LEC Women's Rookie Field Athlete of the Week. It was the third consecutive week that Nygaard and Perry were honored. The awards were based on their performances at last weekend's Boston University Terrier Invitational.
Perry finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 48 feet. His effort set a school record and brought him within three inches of automatically qualifying for the NCAA Division III Championships. Nygaard finished 43rd in the mile, while posting the second best indoor mark at UMass Dartmouth. He qualified for both the New England Division III Championships and the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships. Masse finished seventh in the shot put at 40 feet, seven inches.
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National Pancake Day: Paying Tribute to the Pancake Lens and IHOP, too
Pancake lenses, named for their short barrel and thin design, have gained massive popularity with the MFT and ICL communities. Who wouldn't love their slim design, great focal length and wide-open apertures? Plus, they sound yummy, too!
February 5th is IHOP's National Pancake Day. Since the beginning of National Pancake Day in 2006, IHOP has raised over $10 million dollars to support local charities. This year, IHOP is giving customers a free short stack of pancakes and, in exchange, asking for a donation to help support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
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Nikon: 1Nikkor 10mm f/2.8
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Panasonic: 20mm f/1.7
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Canon: EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
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Sigma: 30mm f/2.8 EX
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Subject description: Today, using Seamonkey in Puppy 4.2.1, I triggered Google Translate's blocking mechanism
I've been using Google Tranlsate for months with Seamonkey/Puppy 4.2.1, and have never had a problem before.
But this morning I did something a little different, and seem to have triggered IP blocking from Google Translate. I wonder why or how, exactly, as the GT help files give no clue.
I was at this URL:
which contains an interesting article about naked rat-moles, the longest lived rodent in the world, the only mammal that has a bee-like social organization (a single queen mother for reproduction served by an army of neutered female workers, with males strictly for sperm production and impregnation).
The longevity of up to 28 years is apparently due to their total immunity to cancer...
I read the article at the above URL, and then started to look through the 15 related pictures linked on the left sidebar. In doing so, I stayed in Google Translate mode, and simply used Seamonkey's FWD arrow to navigate through the pictures in sequence - something I'd never tried before.
There was no problem for the first 13 pages, but on the 14th page I got Google's "We're sorry" pop-up, suggesting my computer was sending automated enquiries, against google's usage policy, and that my IP address would be blocked until this stopped.
The linked help page first directed me to a CAPTCHA on the pop-up (which doesn't appear either in Seamonkey or Opera), and further suggested two Windows malware scanners and one for Mac. Other than that, it suggested contacting my ISP.
To check all this out, I turned off my system for a while, rebooted with a clean Puppy 4.3.1 Live-CD without using any 2fs file. And still got the same result.
I then went to Google Forums, and found another user with the same complaint.
I posted my experience, and then was presented with a CAPTCHA, successfully entered it, and was immediately presented with a link to the last URL I'd been blocked from translating. And when I clicked on that, I got the "We're sorry" pop-up once again!
Would anyone like to replicate my use of Google Translate as described above to see whether this triggers IP address blocking for them?
NB: strangely, my access to google mail, google search, and google forums is not affected, as far as I can tell...
Update: some six hours after the initial blockage, I can access Google Translate again. Since I haven't tried it in almost three hours, my IP address may have been unblocked earlier.
Neither my ISP nor Google Translate have responded yet to my report of this problem, so I can only guess what caused it.
I haven't removed any malware from my system, so I doubt that was it. My best guess remains that the manner in which I used Seamonkey to access successive pages with Google Translate triggered the blockage.
If I get any clarification from Google, I'll post it here.
Meanwhile, I'd be interested to hear from anyone else who's run into this problem. I'd particularly like to hear whether the CAPTCHA that's supposed to give you a "get out of jail" card with the "We're sorry" pop-up displays in Firefox or IE, as I'm not willing to risk getting shut out again by replicating my experience with Firedog (in case Google Translate has a "two strikes and you're out policy" like Facebook.
Ah - the joys of monopoly...
Update. #2: a day after the first blockage, I received the same "We're sorry" message and was blocked again. This time, I established the length of exile as less than 4 hours.
In this instance, I did not use the FWD arrow function of Seamonkey to move directly from one translated page to another. I was searching for translatable Facebook Profile pages in Facebook (strangely, some are, some aren't), which required me to go through several steps each time I accessed Google Translate anew. I wasn't keeping count, but my estimate is that I might have called on Google Translate a dozen or so times in a fairly brief period.
In the absence of any official explanation, I conclude that there's some sort of simple formula of so many Google Translate requests in a set period of time that triggers the blockage. I'm guessing 12 or 13 translation calls in the space of 10 minutes or so might be the trigger.
As in all previous incidents, no captcha to allow immediate recovery was displayed.
It's been 45 hours since I first contacted Google about this problem, but no response has landed in my e-mail box yet...
Apparently this is not a fatal problem (ie. not "two strikes and you're out" at least..), though certainly an annoying and disruptive one.
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Funny thing, people are using google translate as a way round parental controls, so this may be a backlash....
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maybe try google gears
Thanks for your suggestions. I've been careful not to page forward while in translate mode since the last time I was logged out. I never go more than two pages before returning to the original language page, and so far "we're sorry" hasn't happened again. So either my new strategy works, or Google translate has changed it's policing policy....
In any case, they've never bothered to reply to my query about the reason for locking me out.
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San Francisco-based artist and designer Wei Li is making tasty treats with unpalatable connotations. Would you lick a cactus? Suck on a virus? Would just the idea of it change your experience of a dessert? In "Dangerous Popscicle" Li makes desserts in the shape of cacti, MRSA, influenza, chicken pox, escherichia coli and HIV from just water, sugar and coloring. To make the popsicles, Li created a series of one and two part silicone molds modeled in Rhino and printed on an Objet 3d printer. She writes on her website bold or italic:
"What will happen when we put these dangerous things on one of our most sensitive organs, our tongues? Does pain really bring pleasure? Is there beauty in user-unfriendly things?
Dangerous Popsicles create a unique sensory experience. Before tasting with your tongue, you first taste with your eyes and mind. The popsicles are nothing but water and sugar, but ideas of deadly viruses and the spikiness of cacti are enough to stimulate your senses, even before your first taste."
There are inherent contradictions in this project—the colors of the items look delicious, but the subject is unappetizing, but the surface is pleasingly tactile, but the structure is painful.
Aside from making the molds and freezing the pops, Li is also interested in the social interaction this project fosters. How do people react to the frozen unsavories? Try it yourself—find directions on how to make this project at Instructables. (via The Creator's Project)


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My interest in genealogy started when I was a child. My dad's mom use to tell me that the family history book had been burned in a fire, but she knew we were related to Daniel Boone. I never forgot that, nor have I ever found the connection haha. Along with doing genealogy I spend a lot of my time doing photo restorations, namely for victims of Sandy through Care for Sandy, and also of family photos that I add to the books I write on our family history.
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Wordless Wednessday
Another attempt at my retouching. This photo as you can see was taken in April 1960 of my grandfather Rusty and his twin daughters (my mother and Aunt Mary). I think it turned out pretty well.
3 comments:
- lindalee said...
You did an amazing job at erasing those bent paper marks. I never thought of trying it, but I don't know if I have the patience or know-how.
- Cindy said...
keep on trying - the folds are disappearing. I've visited two different posts today leaving comments on other blogs and found that you had left a comment just before me... I didn't want you to think I was following you around so I stopped by to say hello! Have a great day!
- amyrebba said...
Thank you ladies. I really enjoy doing the retouch, but unfortunately my PS CS4 free download ran out. I'll have to wait till next year to do more. I just can't aford to buy Photo shop. It's just so darn expensive.
Cindy, I hadn't even notices you were stalking me ;-) But thanks for stopping to say hi.


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Brad Gibson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 206 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
MyAppVille.com is a team of veteran Mac and technology writers that will be reviewing iPhone, iPad and iPod touch apps and accessories online. In addition, we will provide 'How To' tutorials on better using these products. Our culture is built around both print and online content related to the Mac and Apple's other products. One of our partners is a former editor of iCreate magazine, so his experience lies in working with designers and communicating a direction and vision (translation...we talk the same talk you do).
This site is aimed at all users of iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch but will likely draw a discerning group between 20 and 50 years of age. They are tech savvy, understand the web 2.0 style and appreciate clean, well-designed graphics. The site aims to provide a more editorially driven alternative to the current app review and listing sites with lavish design and coffee table-style feature content that makes it a cut above the rest.
The MyAppVille.com logo needs to be memorable, clean, colorful and distinct while incorporating a community feel. We don't want cartoon styles or overly tacky visuals, but a solid and professional brand. We're open to a variety of ideas ranging from initials to typography, display type to symbols, shapes, structures and crests.
The design needs to be cool and fun but at the same time professional. The typeface needs to be clear and bold. Inspiration should be taken from Apple branding in terms of space and form but we're not after a direct rip off of the style. Consider the parts of the name, open your mind and wow us with professionalism, creativity and style.
In terms of its use on a Web page, a visitor should be immediately given the sense that this site is the most stylish, high quality app review site on the web and one that provides authoritative advice.
The MyAppVille.com logo will be used primarily on the Web and on Apple-branded mobile devices but its use on business cards, letterheads and other promotional materials as a corporate identity should be taken into account.
An additional competition will be posted for the overall site design so any further inspiration on how the logo design could impact the rest of MyAppVille.com would be beneficial.
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The Magic appeared on the verge – again – of trading Dwight Howard amid reports Thursday night that a four-team deal that would send Howard to the Lakers and generate a lot of heat for Orlando was set to be completed.
ESPN.com reported that a trade call has been set for Friday morning to finalize the blockbuster that would feature Los Angeles getting the defensive superstar, Philadelphia getting Andrew Bynum from the Lakers and Jason Richardson from the Magic, Denver getting Andre Igoudala from the 76ers, and Orlando getting Arron Afflalo and Al Harrington from the Nuggets, Nikola Vucevic and Maurice Harkless from the 76ers.
TNT's David Aldridge reports that the Magic will also receive a future first-round pick from the Sixers, a 2014 first-round pick from the Nuggets and a 2017 first-round pick from the Lakers. The pick from the Sixers will likely have some type of Lottery protection to it while the pick from the Nuggets is the lower of Denver's two first-rounders that year. Denver also has New York's first-round pick from the Carmelo Anthony trade.
If the particulars turn out to be accurate, if Bynum and Igoudala are involved in a deal but neither end up in Orlando, if the best current player the Magic get is Afflalo and the best prospect is the No. 15 pick this year, Harkless, Orlando may get buried in the court of public opinion.
Worth noting, of course, is that the specifics could be different when, and if, the deal is finalized. Also, trades have come close to happening before only to fall apart at the end. But never in the months of the Howard soap opera has a trade call been arranged, a signal that all sides had agreed in principle.


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Scientists Announce Plans to Clone Woolly Mammoth
It's about time, right? According London's Telegraph newspaper, woolly mammoths could be walking the Earth as soon as five years from now. Japanese scientists announced their intention this week to use cloning technology to bring back the ancient beast.
The scientists are using a frozen mammoth carcass currently stored in a Russian laboratory to extract cells for the cloning process.
Akira Iritani, a professor at Kyoto University, is reactivating his campaign to resurrect the species that died out 5,000 years ago. "Now the technical problems have been overcome, all we need is a good sample of soft tissue from a frozen mammoth," he told The Daily Telegraph.
Which means, of course, that before we know it, we'll be seeing scenes like this all over America:


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New Movies: 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' 'The Host' and 'Tyler Perry's Temptation'
Hitting theaters this weekend are the second entry in a toy-based action franchise, the latest adaptation of a Stephenie ('Twilight') Meyer novel, and a Madea-free Tyler Perry tale.
'G.I. Joe: Retaliation'
The G.I. Joes are back, this time unearthing another dastardly plot by COBRA—possibly involving a double agent in the White House.
Directed by Jon M. Chu
Starring Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, Adrianne Palicki
'The Host'
Aliens have been secretly invading Earth by possessing the bodies of human beings, until one young girl refuses to relinquish control of her mind, in this new supernatural love story from the creator of 'Twilight.'
Directed by Andrew Niccol
Starring Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons, Diane Kruger, William Hurt
'Tyler Perry's Temptation'
Tyler Perry, this time behind the camera, looks to continue his theatrical hot streak with this story of forbidden desire, focusing on a woman whose six-year marriage hits a snag when she meets a particularly charming man.
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Another short session yesterday on LTD. Put back on Soft bar pressure and that's where it will stay. About 1/2 the bar pressure when it was on the Med seeing. Wind was Avg. 11.5 mph. On XL door. Was Med powered. When wind dropped below 10 had to work kite until next puff. Was not going upwind that good in the light conditions.
I did notice their seemed to be more wind at ground level then at kite level.
Sorry Toby, no way enough wind to jump.
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MOTHER EARTH NEW' upcoming program of educational tours is so extensive that—in the space available here—we can do little more than provide the briefest of outlines for each tour. But if one of the following trips appeals to you, send us your deposit by certified check or money order to assure your place.
A Touch of Magic
Our newest travel offering—which we call A Visit to Findhorn and Friends— will take place from May 20 to June 6, 1982, and is a tour designed for people who would like to explore inner as well as outer,realms. Flying to Scotland, we'll first go to Findhorn, where we'll participate in an "Experience Week," an introduction to all phases of the life of this alternative community, including lending a hand in the various work departments that help make this such a remarkably beautiful and well-functioning planetary village.
The following week we'll travel to Scotland's opposite coast on the Hebridean island of Erraid, which the Findhorn Foundation folks caretake and are developing into a self-sufficient community. While there, we'll also spend some time on the nearby sacred isle of Iona, a "place of power" in both Celtic and early Christian tradition.
This visit to a unique, visionary community (set among the rainbows, golden gorse, and historical sights of northern Scotland) will end with several days in the wonderful city of Edinburgh. The entire trip will cost approximately $1,600, all-inclusive except for a few meals. A $200 deposit will reserve your ticket for this magical encounter.
An Alpine Adventure
Strolling through a flower-strewn Alpine meadow—with picture-book Swiss and Austrian villages far below and jagged, snowcapped peaks rising up in the background—is the kind of experience that can rekindle a person's wonder at the beauty our earth is capable of. For that reason, we have decided to offer—from June 11 to 26, 1982—a Wild Plants Walk in the Alps. After a stopover to enjoy Holland's legendary, once-in-a-decade flower show, we'll take you on mountain footpaths near Salzburg, Kitzbuhel, Innsbruck, Liechtenstein, Zurich, and Geneva and learn about the edible wild plants and herbs that grow along the spectacularly lovely route.
The tour is tentatively priced at $1,770, which will include airfare, camping equipment, lodging, and two meals a day. Send $200 to reserve your place.
A Himalayan High
You may think the Abominable Snowman is nothing more than a legend, but the Nepalese take the beast's existence for granted! You'll have an opportunity to look into the matter yourself on our three-week (January 25 to February 17, 1982) trek into the yeti's reputed home in the rugged and remote Arun Valley of Nepal. This heady adventure also offers you the chance to explore the colorful bazaars and temples of Kathmandu, hike through forests of 60-foot rhododendrons, negotiate suspended bridges, and meet with an incredible variety of native peoples.
In addition, as we meander higher and higher along an abandoned trade route between the towering crests of Everest and Kanchenjunga (the first and third highest mountain peaks on earth), you can expect to behold some of the world's most spectacular scenery and a wealth of wildlife. This exciting expedition coordinated by Journeys, an environmental tour operator, costs $2,785 (the price covers everything except some meals in Kathmandu) and requires a $300 deposit.
A Wonderful Juxtaposition
The day after our trekkers return from Nepal, another group will embark on MOTHER EARTH NEWS' third Solar Tour of Israel (February 17 to March 2, 1982), which is, again, cosponsored with Jordan College. And one of the delightful aspects of this trip is the constant contrast provided by that country's technical advances in alternative energy forms and its ancient, historical landmarks.
For example, the mighty fortress of Masada lies just up the road from a 250-acre Dead Sea solar pond that will generate 25 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year ...and we'll take in both. In fact, our visits to solar collector manufacturers, to alternative-energy kibbutzim, and with top researchers and scientists will often be combined with trips to Roman ruins and places rich in Biblical significance.
And—best of all—the price of this 13-day excursion has actually decreased, since we first announced it, to $1,495. (A $200 deposit will hold your place.)
A Seminar in Paradise
While many North Americans are beginning to stoke up their woodstoves, folks on MOTHER EARTH NEWS' ecological seminar in the South Seas will be able to spend their mornings snorkeling through beautiful coral gardens. In the afternoons, they'll bike, scuba, play tennis, beachcomb on uninhabited islets, explore the ruins of Polynesian temples, or sail outrigger canoes. And the evenings will feature beach barbecues and dancing under balmy, tropical skies.
All that might seem glorious enough, but our journey to Tahiti, Bora Bora, and Raiatea offers—as is our aim on all our tours—a great deal more. Each morning, when you dive into those crystal-clear lagoons to study the behavior of reef fishes, you'll be doing so under the guidance of Anne and Paul Ehrlich—our Ecoscience columnists and their equally knowledgeable friends and colleagues, John and Cheryl Holdren. Then, after dinner, our tour leaders will answer your questions on some of the most pressing ecological problems of our time.
This journey—originally scheduled for November 27 to December 11, 1981—has been moved forward: It's now set for November 29 to December 13, 1981. The price of the tour, however, remains the same: $2,295, including most meals, and we need only $100 to reserve one of the few spaces still open.
A Cruise in the Sun
While some of our readers snooze under South Pacific palms, others will enjoy a cruise, aboard the M/S World Renaissance, that will combine stopovers at the islands of Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Saint Thomas, and Barbados with the study of alternative energy systems. Cosponsored with Jordan College and the University of Puerto Rico's Center for Energy and Environmental Research (CEER), the trip promises to provide numerous opportunities to explore energy facilities in the Caribbean islands. In addition, there'll be shipboard lectures on alternative energy options.
This week-away-from-winter-and-worries, which begins in San Juan, is scheduled for December 5-12, 1981 at a cost of $745 per person ...and $200 reserves your space aboard.
A River Like No Other
Imagine yourself days from any hint of civilization, running a river that's been fully explored only in the last decade. There, icebergs the size of small towns crack off the face of sapphire blue glaciers, crash into the water with a force that makes the ground tremble like jelly, then spin slowly in the water looking like mammoth, prismatic jewels while bald eagles soar overhead. As night falls, the aurora borealis flashes its furious colors across the horizon and wild creatures make tracks outside your tent.
If you'd like to make that fantasy a reality, join our August 15-26, 1982 Alaska Raft Trip on the Tatshenshini River. It costs only $1,490 from Haines, Alaska and back to Haines (the deposit is $250) and there's just no way—in the space here—that we can even begin to describe this incredible adventure that Sobek Expeditions is putting together for us. As Henry Morton Stanley once said: "Ah, fellows, this is a journey worthy to be called a journey! "
But then, we think that's true of all of MOTHER EARTH NEWS' Tours.


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Sallie Smith Bids Adios to a Wonderful Town, July 7, 2006
by Valerie Kimble
Valerie (Smallridge) Kimble ('01, B.S., Technical Communication) is a Socorro native who works for the NMT Office for Academic Affairs.
SOCORRO, N.M., July 7, 2006 -- Sallie Smith came into this interview with a theme she had established in advance: how a chance meeting can lead to romance and marriage; and how marriage plays a leading role in the fate of joined lives – including bringing people to Socorro.
Sallie has jotted down notes – she comes prepared for any interview, any social gathering – black cursive writing on a small pad reflecting answers to questions she asked by telephone.
Well, let's see: John Wilson, the eminent New Mexico Tech hydrologist and his wife, Betty, met when Wilson was a graduate student at Georgia Tech, and co-eds from a nearby girls' college were bused over for what was then called a "picnic weekend."
Anton Budding, professor emeritus of geology, and his wife, Anita, moved to Socorro when Anton answered an advertisement in GeoTimes for a faculty member at the then-New Mexico School of Mines.
The Buddings' two daughters graduated from Socorro High School; and the elder Buddings stayed in town until both had retired – Anita from teaching in the public schools, and Anton from teaching at Tech.
It turns out that Anton was recruited by Sallie's husband, Clay T. Smith, one of only two faculty with the school's fledgling Geology Department. Today, the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department has the largest faculty base at the university.
Smith, once dubbed the Dick Clark of geologists for his youthful mien, and one of Tech's best known and revered faculty members, died suddenly three years ago at age 87.
And now, Sallie is leaving Socorro to return to southern Pasadena, Calif. to live near her two sons and their families, and an older sister, Catherine, Sallie's only sibling. She'll be two blocks from the Wrigley Mansion, now the headquarters for the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
It was a good time to visit and talk about her life.
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Sarah Gwendolyn Austin was born in Bay City, Mich., where her father had prospered in his business sufficiently to do what men in that part of the country have been doing for generations: he set his sights for the West.
Fate intervened in the form of a measles virus her father contracted. The illness postponed his own move, while his partner went on ahead. In time the Austins followed, but the delay had cost Sallie's father his seniority.
John David Austin, however, was a born salesman, and soon was a successful insurance counselor for the various forms of coverage sold at the time.
Smith, meanwhile, was born in Omaha, Neb., and moved to southern California as a young child. He was intelligent and very athletic, but didn't play sports until high school, because he had to work after school.
Sallie remembers her husband's lectures to their sons about how he sold magazines on a bicycle to make spending money. Later, it came to pass that while the young Smith did have such a route, the job did not last as long as one might have expected from the tone of his story.
The story of When Clay Met Sallie has already been well documented, but begs to be repeated here. He was a student at California Institute of Technology, or Caltech; she was a co-ed at nearby Occidental College.
It was tradition that Occidental girls dated Caltech boys.
The two were on a triple date, with other partners, and Sallie remembered Smith's date as "a real charming little girl" she tried to recruit into her own sorority at Occidental. Caltech had no fraternities, only "houses" where a student could take a date to dinner.
One evening, the trio of couples piggybacked to a spring football game on the Caltech campus, where Smith so severely criticized every play, that at one point Sallie burst:
"If you're so good, why aren't you out there playing?" she asked Smith. He turned to her coolly. "Madam, I wish I were," he replied. In fact, Smith was the team's starting quarterback, but was also on the track team, whose coach was saving him for the Drake relays the following day.
Miss Austin was accustomed to the company of star athletes, a genre she had dated since high school. Smith, it would seem, was unaccustomed to brash comments from attractive young women impervious to his athletic prowess, and was intrigued.
He called the next day for a date – to the beach ("and me with no bosom, and sensitive to the sun," laughed Sallie). The two dated for several years, when Smith suggested that they marry during the summer of 1940 – the first summer he did not have to attend a geology field camp.
Sallie was working as a teacher in El Monte, Calif., where she had 104 elementary students divided between second and third grades. Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs saturated parts of California, an area also populated by migrant farm workers, which is why there were so many young children, she said.
Miss Austin gave notice to the school system, and on May 19, 1940, she and Mr. Smith married in a garden ceremony at Westminster Presbyterian Church, which boasted the longest aisle of any church in Pasadena.
The bride carried a bouquet featuring an orchid and a cascading arrangement of lily of the valley, entwined with a replica of a wedding ring. She had seven bridal attendants, only one of whom survives.
One of the bridesmaids was Sallie's childhood friend, Clarita Heath Bright, who became a member of the first U.S. Women's Olympic Team. Clarita competed in the 1936 Olympics at Garmisch and was inducted into the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame in 1968.
A news clipping of Clarita's Olympic achievement is included in the Smiths' wedding memorabilia.
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It may be time to debunk a myth about Sallie Smith. She did not wear white gloves to meetings of the New Mexico Tech Dames Club. "I owned gloves, but rarely wore them," she said.
The Dames Club, comprised of the wives of faculty and students, met monthly, and members wore insignia pins. "I still have mine," Sallie said. At each meeting, a different department chair would give a talk, or progress report, which is how the women kept up with campus news.
She doesn't recall who organized the group, but suspects it may have been the late Louise Treseder, a tall, redheaded woman with a reputation for being well organized.
The image of white gloves persists, but not every member of the club reflected the perceived values of the post-war American wife. Sallie recalls a member who thought her marriage to a college professor would be so wonderful; when, in fact, she pronounced it the most boring thing that had ever happened to her, and eventually left the community.
It was the visionary president, E.J. Workman, who encouraged (it was his edict, said Sallie) faculty and their families to integrate themselves within the Socorro community.
And they did. Sallie was one of the early members of the Socorro Garden Club, an organizer of the popular Christmas Idea Show each November, and did all the mom things associated with raising two boys in a small town.
During the more than 30 years Clay served as director of the state Science Fair, the Smith home was the unofficial gathering place for both the student exhibitors and their parents, particularly during the early years.
Smith was an avid golfer, and also refereed high school football and basketball games across the state. He was a dedicated official who once assessed a 15-yard penalty against his own son – which made for a lively discussion at dinner the following evening, as Sallie recalled.
Smith also was a charter member of the Socorro Lions Club, and a familiar face at club functions.
He was known as a tough teacher who didn't give grades – students had to earn them. Smith once famously commented that if students had "free time," they weren't studying hard enough.
"Some students truly disliked him because he made them work so hard," said Sallie. And yet, years after they graduated, these same students brought their families to Socorro to meet Smith, recalling their college years as the best times of their lives.
It was Workman who recruited Smith for an open faculty post in engineering (yes, engineering), but it was the people of Socorro who ensured that he accepted the job on Valentine's Day of 1947.
Coming from the fertile fields of southern California to vegetation-challenged Socorro was a culture shock to the couple, especially Sallie, who told her husband not to bother unpacking their belongings, because they weren't staying.
But before that day was over, Sallie had collected a bounty of dinner invitations, enough to offset any doubt that the move to Socorro was fortuitous, indeed.
And so it was that Sallie, who had waited five years after her marriage to have children, settled comfortably into her new role as faculty wife, mother, gardener and hostess.
The several-course meals of the Gourmet Club are legendary, as members took turns hosting monthly dinners, with everyone preparing a prescribed dish according to the evening's theme.
Sallie remains an active member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and was one of the early organizers of the annual Visitas de Navidad holiday tour of homes.
She also belongs to the P.E.O. Sisterhood, and will be moving to the Margarita Gardens, a P.E.O.-affiliated apartment complex in Pasadena, once her home on Vista Drive is sold.
However, she plans to return to Socorro on Oct. 14, when the Socorro Public Library will honor Sallie on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
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We are sitting in the large entertainment room behind large windows that overlook the south end of the campus, reminiscing about bygone days and people. Once upon a time "the hill" was bustling with young families, and neighborhood potlucks were frequent.
Sallie is talking about marriage.
"When a woman gets married, her parents often silently worry, knowing that changes in her life – and his – are bound to occur. Same with sons," she said.
She also recalled advice her own mother gave her when she married: Don't neglect your husband amid the hubbub of raising children.
"Some different vistas open up when you get married," said Sallie. "I wanted to be a department store buyer, and could have had a scholarship to New York, but I didn't want to go that far away."
Instead, she went to nearby Occidental College, where it was understood as a matter of course that Occidental girls dated Caltech boys . . .
"I hate to leave!" said Sallie. "Now there are so many good restaurants and so many artists and interesting people here.
"But I guess it's time. It's been a wonderful town, hasn't it?"


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text: On 26 Nov 2002, Dean Johnson wrote: > Howdy all, > You also have to realize that supercomputers are the point where many > new, novel, and effective technologies are introduced. Eventually it > trickles down to the desktop. RISC architectures, Seymour did that back > in the 70's and before. Large memories, same deal. Pipelining, ditto. > 72-wide striping is kinda cool, along with other things that make geeks > drool. Now if only Shuttle would introduce their liquid immersion box > and avoid the heatpipe altogether.... ;-) > > I still like the characterization about whether you would want your > Oregon-bound wagon pulled by 8 sturdy oxen, or a thousand chickens. Rather 1000 Penguins :) > > -Dean > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >