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Daniel Burnham, in full Daniel Hudson Burnham, (born September 4, 1846, Henderson, New York, U.S.—died June 1, 1912, Heidelberg, Germany), American architect and urban planner whose impact on the American city was substantial. He was instrumental in the development of the skyscraper and was noted for his highly successful management of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and his ideas about urban planning.
Life and work
The early years
Burnham was the sixth of seven children and the youngest son. His parents were members of the Church of the New Jerusalem (now New Church), or Swedenborgians, a maverick Christian religious sect named for Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist and mystic who disagreed with church hierarchy and stressed being of service to others.
Burnham and his family moved to Chicago in January 1855. There he attended Snow's Swedenborgian Academy and later Central High School, where he was remembered for his leadership and artistic ability. In 1863, after he had graduated, his parents sent him to the newly incorporated New-Church Theological School in Waltham, Massachusetts, for further study. He prepared for college with a Swedenborgian tutor, the Reverend Tilly Brown Hayward. Through Hayward, Burnham met the architect and writer W.P.P. Longfellow, who encouraged Burnham's interest in architecture. When it came time to take his college entrance exams at Harvard and Yale, he failed both because he was "not able to write a word," as he later recalled. Years later both universities would award him honorary degrees.
Returning to Chicago, Burnham became a draftsman for the famed civil engineer and architect William Le Baron Jenney. He wrote to his mother in 1868 that he would become "the greatest architect in the city and country." Nevertheless, ambitious, young, and restless, he quit his job with Jenney in order to seek his fortune in Nevada, where he tried mining and also ran for the state senate. Unsuccessful in both attempts, he returned to Chicago in 1870 ready to begin an architectural career in earnest.
Burnham & Root
In 1872 Burnham joined the office of Carter, Drake & Wight, where he met John Wellborn Root, a talented architect and the office foreman. Burnham, eager to start his own firm, persuaded Root to become his partner a year later. Root was primarily responsible for design while Burnham planned the layout of their building interiors and organized the business. As best friends and professional colleagues, they worked closely together. Of their business relationship, their one-time boss Peter Wight recalled in a 1912 address before the Illinois chapter of the American Institute of Architects:
Burnham had a great faculty of impressing his clients with the firm's ability to solve any problem that came to it. He would make rapid sketches, which Root afterward elaborated with the greatest care. He inspired confidence in all who came within the range of his positive and powerful personality. Root had the ability to carry to success anything that Burnham offered to do.
Burnham & Root became one of the preeminent firms in the history of American architecture. It was known for its size and wide range of projects.
Their talent was evident from the start of their partnership. One of their first commissions, a house for the Union Stockyards magnate John B. Sherman in 1874, caught the discerning eye of their contemporary and rival Louis Sullivan, who recalled its fine lines and proportions in his autobiography.
Two events triggered a period of extraordinary growth in Chicago: the end of the Civil War and the Chicago fire of 1871. Burnham, always thinking big, was quick to recognize the needs of commercial clients. A series of bold solutions to some of the challenges of building higher structures provided examples for others to follow and led Burnham & Root to the forefront of their profession. As an example, for the 10-story Montauk Block (1882–83)—perhaps the first building to be labeled a "skyscraper"—Burnham & Root devised a new kind of foundation footing. This footing, consisting of a broad slab of concrete reinforced with iron rails, allowed the Montauk, and future taller, heavier buildings, to be built in Chicago's unstable soil. Burnham & Root also extended the typical Chicago construction time frame by continuing to build throughout the winter months. They used a tentlike structure over the site and placed heaters inside. Additionally, the Montauk was noteworthy for its fireproofing system, which employed a hollow tile subfloor and tiles to encase both beams and columns, and was hailed as one of the first truly fireproof buildings. The Montauk Block created a new urban scale for commercial structures, while its form and plain surfaces reflected an aesthetic based on functionality, a hallmark of the new commercial architecture.
Among their other notable early works are the Rookery (completed 1886), the second Rand McNally Building (completed 1890, demolished 1911), the Monadnock Building (completed 1891), and the Masonic Temple (completed 1892). Finished a year after William Le Baron Jenney's Home Insurance Building (completed 1885), which was the first building to use structural steel members for partial support, the Rookery used both a masonry load-bearing wall and a skeleton frame (a grid of vertical steel columns and horizontal steel beams) in its construction. But it is the smaller Rand McNally Building that is credited as the first steel-frame building. Burnham & Root's 16-story Monadnock Building reached the tallest practical height using traditional construction techniques. At 21 stories high, Burnham & Root's Masonic Temple with its great atrium would be a wonder: the tallest office building in the world in terms of occupied floors. In their 18-year partnership, Burnham and Root built nearly 300 structures—among them railroad stations, warehouses, office buildings, residences, armories, schools, clubs, and churches.
At a time when architecture was still emerging as a profession, Burnham organized his office for maximum efficiency and created a model for future architectural firms. The firm's clients were ushered into a handsome paneled office with velvet curtains, a library of architectural drawing books, and a small copy of the Venus de Milo perched on the mantle over the fireplace. The tradesmen with whom they worked were scheduled to meet with the firm only on designated days. The office floorplan, which was published as a model for the profession, even had a gym.
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Burnham's extraordinary leadership skills were made manifest when he became the director of works at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Burnham & Root were first named consulting architects, but Burnham resigned that position to become head of construction. When Root died suddenly in January 1891, Burnham assumed responsibility for overseeing and completing construction for some 150 buildings on more than 600 acres (240 hectares) of land.
In little more than two years, working with America's most noted architects and designers, Burnham developed America's most spectacular world's fair of the 19th century. He led a workforce that reached 10,000 men, reviewed guidelines for the many state buildings, and oversaw the fair's infrastructure, including transportation, sewage, and clean water delivery systems. Nicknamed the "White City," the fair's grand Neoclassical buildings were planned as a cohesive whole in a landscaped setting; they made a lasting impression on millions of visitors. Often noted as the inspiration for the City Beautiful movement, the fair proved to be a turning point both for Burnham and for the development of the modern American city.
D.H. Burnham and Company
When he was able to return to his architecture practice, Burnham reorganized it as D.H. Burnham and Company. Aesthetically, he embraced a traditional Neoclassical vocabulary utilized at the Court of Honor at the fair and exemplified by his friend the architect Charles F. McKim of McKim, Mead & White. Burnham's firm completed designs for more than 200 buildings in the next 20 years, including many that are significant in American architectural history.
Among these is counted the Reliance Building (1895), by Burnham's chief designer Charles Atwood, considered a landmark in the development of the tall office building, because the slim glass and steel tower presaged Modernist skyscrapers. Burnham continued to think big. At 500,000 square feet (45,000 square metres), his Ellicott Square Building (completed 1896) in Buffalo, New York, occupies a full city block and was the largest building of its time. Other notable Burnham structures are the famous Flatiron Building (completed 1902) in New York City; the Field Museum (completed 1920) in Chicago; the Frick and Oliver buildings (completed 1902 and 1910, respectively) in Pittsburgh; a series of department stores such as Wanamaker's (1909) in Philadelphia, Selfridges (completed 1909) in London, Marshall Field & Company (completed 1907) in Chicago, and Gimbels (completed 1912) in Manhattan; and Union Station (completed 1907) in Washington, D.C.
Urban planner
His work on the fair had developed in Burnham a keen interest in parks and city planning. He believed that an improved urban environment could provide a positive transformative experience for its inhabitants. Burnham's first opportunity to put his ideas in action (he had set forth his ideas to no avail earlier in Chicago) came in 1901, when he became the de facto chairman of the Senate Park Commission, also called the McMillan Commission (for Michigan's U.S. Sen. James McMillan, who was chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia). Burnham invited his friend McKim and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (son of the famous landscape architect with whom Burnham had worked on the fair), to join him in re-envisioning and enlarging Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's original 1791 plan: they undertook much of the actual work. Under Burnham's leadership and based on precedents in Paris and especially Rome, the team envisioned a grand, ordered national capital to reflect America's status as an emerging world power. Their plan for the capital city included a comprehensive park system and redefined the National Mall and surrounding area. Burnham further conceived of Union Station, the railway station, as a formal public gateway to the city's monumental core and as a feature integral to the city plan. Upon publication the McMillan Plan received widespread attention and approval.
Fueled by the Progressive era's interest in municipal improvement, other cities requested Burnham's planning services. In 1902–03 Burnham, with architects Arnold W. Brunner and John M. Carrère, prepared for the city of Cleveland a "Group Plan" for a new downtown civic centre of Beaux Arts buildings formally arranged around a rectangular park. In 1905, under the auspices of leading private citizens organized as the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco, Burnham devised for San Francisco a far more comprehensive plan. However, in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, this plan was not implemented. In the meantime, Burnham's architectural practice continued to flourish. So famous had he become as a city planner that, when the Philippines were ceded to the United States after the Spanish American War, Burnham was asked by the federal government to create a "Beautification Plan" for Manila and to design an entirely new summer capital, Baguio, in the Luzon highlands. He responded by recommending the preservation of Manila's old walled Spanish city, and in both cities he utilized familiar City Beautiful components: a system of parks, a network of diagonal roadways for traffic efficiency, and a civic centre complex, formally arranged as the heart of the community.
Burnham thus brought a lifetime of experience to his masterwork, the 1909 Plan of Chicago, written with his young associate, Edward Bennett. Published by and written for the Commercial Club of Chicago, a private group of civic-minded business leaders who worked closely with Burnham on the report, the book is considered a landmark in urban planning history. It recognized the city in its context, not as an isolated collection of buildings but as an organic whole interconnected with and interrelated to its region. It encompassed a 60-mile radius that included three states and Lake Michigan. Visionary yet detailed, the plan boldly confronted the complexities of the modern industrial city and argued that solutions could be found that would improve infrastructure, relieve traffic congestion, provide open space, and enhance the physical environment in lasting, meaningful ways for its inhabitants. Reserving the lakefront as public space was one of Burnham's major concerns and one of the plan's most notable accomplishments.
Burnham and the Commercial Club members realized the importance of marketing to gain support for their ideas. To this end, the Plan of Chicago was handsomely printed and included evocative drawings of what Chicago could look like interspersed with photographs and detailed maps and graphs. It was released to the public on July 4, 1909. Civic, cultural, and educational leaders were consulted during its preparation, and a traveling exhibition of the drawings created for the project was prepared for display both in the United States and abroad. The Plan of Chicago draws on European precedents, especially on Baron Haussmann's Paris, with its broad diagonal streets, as well as on Beaux Arts concepts of balance, axiality, and symmetry. Although the Plan of Chicago received great acclaim initially, it did not take into account the enormous impact of the automobile. Some critics noted even at the time that it ignored housing and other pressing urban social issues. Burnham's unpublished draft of the Plan, however, does include a remarkable social agenda. Others since have argued that Burnham's plan represents an elitist viewpoint with an emphasis on social control and order; it is, these critics argue, too comprehensive to be fully realized and too monumental to be humane. Nonetheless, the Plan of Chicago has inspired generations of Chicagoans and others to work toward the ideal of a beautiful, efficient city.
Burnham did not see any aspect of his Chicago plan realized. Already diagnosed with diabetes, he died on June 1, 1912, of food poisoning while on a trip abroad and is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
Burnham himself published little. His major work is the 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored with Edward H. Bennett, that outlines specific recommendations but also includes more general ideas about urban planning. Burnham also wrote or cowrote reports for his other urban planning projects: Washington, D.C., The Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia (1902), known commonly as the McMillan report; Cleveland, The Group Plan of Public Buildings at Cleveland (1903); San Francisco, Report on a Plan for San Francisco (1905); and Manila in the Philippines, Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila (1906). As Director of Works for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Burnham is the author of the two-volume The Final Official Report of the Director of Works of the World's Columbian Exposition. He wrote many letters, which can be found in the Burnham papers at the Art Institute of Chicago. They reveal a busy man who cared deeply about his friends and family, saw to details, and believed in the power of beauty.
Despite the criticisms of his Plan of Chicago, Burnham has a vast legacy that endures. In Root he chose a partner who complemented him perfectly, and together they built one of the largest and most successful firms in the country. In the process of doing so, Burnham created organizational systems that transformed the practice of architecture in the modern age. He was among the earliest developers of the skyscraper, and his vision for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition helped inspire the City Beautiful movement, and—before the profession of urban planning existed—he created plans for major cities in the United States and abroad. Burnham was a leader in his profession who believed that the architect had a professional responsibility toward the larger community of which he was a part.
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Western architecture: United States…by the fair's principal planner, Daniel H. Burnham, who brought the notion of the "great white city" to Cleveland, Washington, D.C., New York City, and San Francisco. The best parts of many American cities are spacious because of the planners of this "City Beautiful" movement.…
Western architecture: Construction in iron and glass…John Wellborn Root, working with Daniel H. Burnham, failed to achieve it in the Ashland Block (completed 1892). Other designers, such as William Holabird and Martin Roche in the Tacoma Building (1887–89), also missed their chance. Even the great Louis Sullivan was not successful in his early buildings, such as…
Chicago: No little plans…on its growth when architects Daniel H. Burnham and Edward P. Bennett unveiled their 1909
Plan of Chicago. Commissioned by two private commercial organizations, the plan provided a rational transportation-based blueprint for urban growth, notably in the central area. It promised to replace ugliness and congestion with extraordinary beauty and…
urban planning: The era of industrialization…city planning, the publication of Burnham's plan for Chicago, and the appointment of Chicago's Plan Commission (the first recognized planning agency in the United States, however, was created in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1907). Germany, Sweden, and other European countries also developed planning administration and law at this time.…
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March 26, 2008
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale made sure it will enter Ivy League play with positive momentum after a doubleheader sweep of Army on Wednesday. The Bulldogs scored three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to erase a 4-2 deficit and win the first game 5-4 and then cruised to an 11-3 victory in the second game. Yale had 24 hits in the two games.
Ashley Sloan tripled to start the winning rally in the first game. Katie Yanagisawa followed with an RBI single. After Aracelis Torres singled, Megan Enyeart's double plated Yanagisawa to tie the score at 4-4. Torres then scored the winning run on a wild pitch.
Torres was 4-for-4 and scored twice, while Enyeart added three hits.
Some shaky Yale defense allowed Army to score four unearned runs in the first two innings. The Bulldogs, though, got two back in the fourth on Mariclaire Rebman's two-out, two-run single.
Deanna DiBernardi started in the circle and allowed only three hits in 5.1 innings. Kayla Kuretich pitched 1.2 innings of scoreless relief to earn her team-leading fourth win of the season.
Yale (10-8) also had to come from behind in the second game after Army scored three times in the first. This time, though, the Bulldogs didn't wait as long as they scored six times in the second inning.
Rebman started the rally with a single and moved to second on McKynlee Westman's sacrifice bunt. After Allie Canulli singled, Katie Edwards knocked home the first run with a single. Nicole Wolfe followed with an RBI double, and Sloan's single plated Edwards to tie the score at 3-3. Wolfe then scored on a wild pitch, and Torres singled home Sloan. Rebman's second hit of the inning, an RBI single to left, capped the scoring.
The Bulldogs tacked on two more in the third and then ended the game by scoring three times in the fifth. Westman opened the fifth with a single to right and moved to third on Canulli's double. Courtney Blachford followed with an RBI single off the third base bag. Sloan's RBI single to left made it 10-3, and Torres drew a walk with the bases loaded to force home the final run.
Rebecca Wojciak pitched the first four innings, allowing three hits and two earned runs, to earn the victory. KR Ling came on and retired the Black Knights in order in the fifth.
Sloan went 2-for-4 with three RBI for the Bulldogs. Rebman and Canulli also had two hits.
Yale opens Ivy League play on Saturday with a doubleheader at Penn beginning at 12:30 p.m. The Bulldogs then play a pair at Columbia on Sunday, also starting at 12:30 p.m.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity

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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
A Brief Tour of the IT Innovation Space - Part IPosted by Unknown at 9:27 AM
1.- Introduction
This Blog is focussed on how Innovation works in the Information Technology (IT) space. As the first entry in this Blog, it is natural to simply try to survey the field. This way we'll be able to map the field's structure, the issues and goals faced by the practitioners of this discipline.
First, we have to define what we understand by Information Technology and Innovation. By Information Technology (IT) we mean all technologies, products and processes that imply the transport and/or processing of data and/or information in digital form. Simply said, doing anything with bits. And, by Innovation we mean the process of producing new value to the firm or to a person, usually measured in financial terms, but not always. For example, new value for a Defence or Security organization is usually an increased ability to reach its goals, and thus provide that public good called security. But, in general, value is noticed each time a customer puts his or her hands in the pocket or purse, gets cash out and puts it on the table.
We are not talking here only of innovation as "an historic and irreversible change in the way of doing things" as J.A. Schumpeter would put it, since we view this as a radical or revolutionary innovation. We'll also discuss the more pedestrian and day to day business of incremental innovation by producing new products and services in the IT space, which is where most of the value is generated normally.
Clearly IT is just the kind of technology that can be described as the result of some radical innovations, since not only nearly all of our daily activities have been modified by IT but some new activities have become part of our day to day routine. Spending hours of the night at home accessing large numbers of computers in different continents just as entertainment while surfing the Net or talking by mobile phone with a Bluetooth headset while jogging are just some of the unimaginable activities we now routinely do. Even more, those are activities we cannot live without. Even people who were already out of college when this started state that they cannot live today without the Net or a Cell phone, even thought these are clearly digital immigrants.
The industrial revolution was based on harnessing the power of steam and on the mastery of iron and its derivatives. Both could be touched and were quite concrete. But the radical innovations that made the digital revolution possible have been squeezed out of things that nobody has ever seen, namely the electron, the photon and the bit. In the very essence of this digital revolution, lies the electronic technology which is based on a science, quantum mechanics, that no sane person would really understand. In the very depths of these electronics we find the delicate construct of the mind which is called software, whose beautiful and fragile structures can only be imagined, but not seen, with the help of Boolean logic and such kind of mathematical tools. And all of these electronic and digital constructs are the foundation of the IT space and the source of immense value generation.
The mastery of the electron and photon required a deep understanding of science and was only achieved in the laboratories of countries which had already mastered the iron and steam of the industrial revolution. No countries without a large scientific and technological base was ever able to design new devices based on the electron and photon. A good history of how this was achieved can be found in the book Competing for the Future: How Digital Innovations are Changing the World written by Henry Kressel.
It has been said that the expression "IT Innovation" is redundant since nearly every new development in IT is an innovation per se. But, on one side, this is short sighted since not every research and development (R&D) project produces value, and, on the other side, the study of how and where, and to whom, value is produced is of the utmost importance to the firm and practitioners of the discipline.
As a consultant advising a company on how to increase the value produced by the IT function, the question to answer usually is; Where and How, in a Process, Value is Produced by Which Area and to Whom? Giving the pervasiveness of IT in the depths of most of the processes of any organization these days, answering that question might not be easy. Especially when the answer does vary from user to user, from process to process, from component to component of the process, from development methodology to development methodology, from hardware component to hardware component, etc.
For example, it is clear that the IT space was built incrementally on top of the development of the vacuum tubes, the transistor, the p-n junction, the MOSFET, CMOS, IC, VLSI, the diode, CCD, OLED and so on. Designing and manufacturing all of these components clearly creates huge value, but only major industrialized nations are able to compete in this space. The next segment is in countries which are in development and have a good enough technological base to use these components to design and build devices. The Asian Dragons are the perfect example of this kind of countries. Last are the countries that only have the technological base to put to good use these devices. Value is generated in each of these segments, but in different ways.
In this Blog I'll try to propose a segmentation of where value is produced in the IT Innovation space, but more questions will be asked than answered in the process.
2.- The Physical View
2.1 An Introduction to the Physical View or A Brief Taxonomy of the IT Devices
One way to look at the IT space is what I would call the Physical View, which includes all of the physical devices that are collectively used to perform some kind of gathering, transport, manipulation, computation, storage and/or display of digital data. These devices can be divided in three different main groups; the Data Centre, the Network and the User's Devices, each with very different trends. The detailed explanation of the causes of this polarization of the IT space are outside the scope of this article, but they can be briefly described as caused by the economics of the new technologies.
Basically, the amount of bandwidth that has been squeezed out of sand (fiber optics), cooper (xDSL) and thin air (wireless) is quite incredible. Even more, the cost of moving a bunch of bits from a place to another has dropped by various orders of magnitude. And it is expected to just keep on failing. Each time a cost drops a few orders of magnitude we have a change in structure in an industry, usually called a revolution. Cheap, fast and low latency transport of digital data and/or information implies a delocalization of the IT infrastructure. For example, nobody cares where Amazon.com's Data Centre really is.
In other words, it does not matter any more where my server is as the quality of the service I get from it is the same, independently of the Data Centre I use to host it. But, there are some important economies of scale in running a Data Centre. And running a Data Centre the double of size does not cost the double, but quite less than that, because of important economies of scale. The trend is then for larger and larger Data Centres.
On the other side, customers and users are making use of devices that are smaller, cheaper, faster, ubiquitous and always connected to the Net. Moore's law and Metcalfe's law are having a huge impact. The Economist run a special edition on April 28th, 2007, with 14 pages dedicated to the impact that all of these devices connected to the Net were having.
2.2.- The Customers and their Devices
Lets look at the customers and their devices. These devices are an incredible mixture that ranges from the familiar devices which all have now a "Digital Heartbit" to brand new devices like our MP3 players. We have them in our houses and offices, we wear them and sometimes, we even have them in our bodies (i.e. Pacemakers). Some people, like Scott McNealy, talk about things that have a "Digital DNA", including interesting little buggers like the Tyndall Motes. Even more, there are a new kind of artefacts that could be using a "Digital RNA" since they do not have even a "Digital Heartbit". These are the bewildering proliferation of RFID tags embedded in more and more products, most of the time dormant, unless queried when they answer with an EPC number.
The form factor and functions of the customer devices is just incredible and, just to name a few, we have; cars, watches, iPods, webcams, ovens, beepers, game consoles, fridges, laptops, PCs, sensors, cell phones, Palms, smart phones, digital cameras, Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, washing machines, etc. I would suggest that an interesting way to categorize these devices is to plot them in a four dimension space, where the axis are: Interfaces to Users, Interfaces to the Net, Interfaces to the World (i.e. Sensors of the Physical World) and "Smartness". "Smartness" being defined as the multiplication of the MIPS number with the Memory size (in KB) divided by the weight (in Grams). For a same function, the "Smartness" of the devices will grow quickly with time.
Now, this has deep implications for the cost structure of manufactured goods as Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic, wrote so eloquently in his book The Inmates Are Running the Asylum; "The most vital and expensive products are made largely or completely of software. They consume no raw materials. They have no manufacturing cost. They have no transportation cost. The is no welding, hammering, or painting. This is the real difference between the industrial-age economy and the information-age economy; In the information age, there is little or no variable cost, whereas in the late industrial age, variable cost was the dominant factor. Indeed, the absence of variable cost is what makes this new economy."
The implications are quite clear; increasing the "Smartness" of your device requires a large initial development (i.e. fixed) cost and nearly no variable cost. So, either the fixed cost is spread over a large number of production units or, even better, the development cost of the "Smartness" is spread over a family of devices providing thus the production units required volume. Now, this means that companies able to invest heavily in "Smartness" during the development phase of the device will tend to dominate the market creating barriers of entry made of capital.
A couple of years ago the rage was to have a TREO 650 in your hands. Last year, you needed to send your e-mail using a Blackberry. Today, if you are in business, you have to have an iPhone. And so on. This is a market of devices, of buying decisions made by individuals with their own budgets. It is a market where fashion and style are important, but not at the cost of functionality, usability and price. Can we spell Design? Clearly yes, as design is at the centre of innovation in the artefact space. Then to add value in this space design is key. Design is clearly the core competency of Nokia, for example. These devices need to be carefully designed to meet rules of simplicity of use (IDEO had the right idea), technical factibility, cultural acceptance, functionality and pricing.
Now, lets remember that products live in the intersection of three spaces; Technology (which dictates feasibility), Needs (which dictates function) and Culture (which dictates what can done and what is taboo). Each of these spaces is a rich source of innovations, and while we are used that technology does provide most of the innovation in the artefacts we design and built, lets remember the other two components. The Institute of Design at Stanford created the next diagram to show the Big Picture of design innovation, which we find very useful;
To understand customers' needs we have the usual set of marketing tools, but more and more ethnographic and anthropological tools are being used. Also, new design methodologies are used, especially to be able to sketch user's experiences, so the experience can be designed. In the end, it is only the experience of the world that matters to us, and it is now the object of design.
The cultures are changing fast, on one side with the help of globalization some trends are globalized but, most interestingly, there seems to be a global trend for a globalization of your subculture. Maybe one of the advantages of globalization is that you can choose your own subculture, without regards to your parents and siblings choices. I'll expect to see soon digital devices, at least wearable computers, designed specifically to such global subcultures as Visual Lolita, Dark, Gothic, or, my personal favourite, Geek. Believe it or not, Think Geek is a thriving business.
Last but not least, technology today is talking to us about ambient computing, wearable computing, sensornet, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, invisible computing, everyware, etc. In essence, technology is pushing the limits of the Moore's and Metcalfe's Laws, and leaving us wondering what to do with the results. Of course, there are other interesting developments such as digital paper and WiMAX but the core of the innovation power in IT today comes from these two laws and from can be built on top of them.
It is important to remember that most of these customers' devices offer Services, some of them built inside the device but more and more the services are provided through the Network, whichever wireless network the customer is using at that particular moment, and these devices act as portals of access to these networks. iPods are a good example, and we'll come back to this point latter. There seem to be no end to the need we have to be in constant communication to our entourage, to the point where exhibitionism is rampant (Web sites, Blogs, Twitter, etc.) and privacy a concept that was popular for only a couple of centuries in our history.


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2 bone-in chicken breasts ½ T smoked paprika (or regular paprika)
½ C (dry) freekeh ½ T rosemary
1 large carrot 1 t garlic, minced salt and pepper to taste
2 celery stalks ½ C dry white wine (I used chardonnay)
1 medium-sized yellow onion 1½ C low-sodium chicken broth
½ C butternut squash, cubed ½ C water
2 T fresh sage leaves, chopped
Instructions: Chop carrot, celery and onion into 1/2- to 1-inch pieces and place in bottom of slow-cooker. Add butternut squash cubes. Place chicken breasts on top of vegetables, and then add sage, rosemary, paprika, garlic, salt and pepper. Add freekeh and pour wine, broth and water over chicken. Place cover on slow-cooker and cook on low at least 6 hours.
Recipe Key C = cup | T = tablespoon | t = teaspoon | oz = ounce
Source: Original recipe by Lauren Martin, MA, http://www.meandthemountains.com
Yours In Health,


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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a national unity government Monday, formally ending a crippling seven-year split with his Islamic militant Hamas rivals but drawing Israeli threats of retaliation.
The formation of the unity government and Israel's tough response are part of a wider competition between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for international support since the collapse of U.S.-led peace talks between them in April.
Abbas praised the 17-member unity government, made up of technocrats backed by Hamas and his Fatah movement, as a milestone.
"This black page in our history has been turned forever and will never come back," he said, referring to the Palestinian split that broke open with the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007. For seven years, the rivals ran separate governments, with Hamas in Gaza and Abbas ruling autonomous areas of the West Bank.
Netanyahu said the new government should be shunned because it leans on support from Hamas, a group labeled as terrorist by the West. Abbas "said yes to terrorism and no to peace," Netanyahu said after a meeting with his Security Cabinet.
Abbas said his new Cabinet opposes violence and recognizes Israel, complying with longstanding conditions the West has set for dealing with Palestinian governments. Hamas has rejected such conditions, but Abbas said he is in charge of the government program.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. intends to work with the new Palestinian government despite Israel's concerns. Psaki also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Netanyahu to relay the U.S. position, without offering details.
Psaki said the U.S. will continue to send aid to the Palestinians, but will closely watch what she called the "interim technocratic government."
Israeli officials said they were "deeply disappointed" by the U.S. position, saying Washington should instead call on Abbas to end the alliance with Hamas and resume peace talks with Israel. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter with the media.
The EU has said it welcomes unity and would continue funding any government that meets the conditions.
Despite optimism on the Palestinian side, the new Cabinet faces many difficulties. Key disputes, including over how to meld rival security forces in the West Bank and Gaza, have not been resolved.
Palestinian dependence on foreign aid only will increase because the new government will be even more expensive to maintain. Abbas has to blend a total of some 200,000 employees of two administrations.
Israel brushed off Abbas' assurances about the pragmatic nature of the new government. The Security Cabinet said Israel would not hold peace talks with such a government and authorized Netanyahu to impose financial sanctions.
It also said Abbas would be held responsible for any rocket fire out of Gaza. Hamas has killed hundreds of Israelis in attacks over the years and launched hundreds of rockets from Gaza, but has largely observed an informal truce with Israel in recent years.
Abbas "has forged a pact with Hamas, an organization which has been declared a terrorist organization in the U.S., Europe, Egypt and throughout the world," Netanyahu said. "The international community needs to treat it accordingly."
Israel has in the past withheld tens of millions of dollars in taxes it collects each month on behalf of the Palestinians, and it is possible Netanyahu will take similar action to punish Abbas.
But more centrist Israel politicians urged the government not to rush judgment.
Yair Lapid, a senior Cabinet minister, said Israel would have to study the new Palestinian government in the coming weeks before making a decision. "It is not time for harsh words, but for caution and stability," he said.
Abbas decided to reconcile with Hamas after concluding that there was no hope of reaching a peace deal with Netanyahu. Shortly before a late-April deadline, Israel pulled out of the talks to protest Abbas' decision to repair ties with Hamas.
The formation of the unity government is the most significant step yet toward ending a political split that has weakened the Palestinian case for a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967.
Repeated reconciliation attempts have failed, even though the split is unpopular among Palestinians. In recent months, both factions had greater incentives to repair ties.
Hamas is in the midst of a major financial crisis due to a border blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt, while Abbas is in need of a political accomplishment following the collapse of peace talks with Israel in late April.
Abbas was seen as having the upper hand in the unity negotiations, largely because Hamas has run out of options due to its financial crisis.
The 17 ministers, though nominally independents, are seen as either loyal to Abbas and his Fatah movement or to leftist PLO factions. None of the ministers is believed to have close ties to Hamas, observers say.
Rami Hamdallah, the current prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, will continue in his job. Hamdallah, 55, is largely seen as a figurehead, plucked from years in academia last year because of his loyalty to Abbas.
Four other senior ministers- economy, finance, interior and foreign affairs - also remain.
The Cabinet is to be temporary and prepare for general elections in 2015, though there are signs that neither side is eager to face presidential and parliamentary elections.
Barzak reported from Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Associated Press writer Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.


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I'm working on a website hosted on Apache webserver. Recently, I was testing something with headers (Content-Type for different types of content) and saw a lot of conditional requests for images. Example:
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The mind behind Schwarzenegger's muscle
For the real scoop on Arnold Schwarzenegger, turn off the TV and head to the library. Although he'll announce his decision on a gubernatorial run on Wednesday's "Tonight Show," his best-selling books reveal the strategies that influence his decision-making -- and may give a better clue to his political intentions.
"The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding" and "Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder" cover more than the physique. They also cover "the most powerful tool": the mind. Between discussions of dumbbells and biceps, Schwarzenegger explains his reliance on plans, analyses and psychological warfare, and he describes their application to business and acting.
They apply to politics, too. Schwarzenegger never mentions public office, but in advising Mr. Olympia contestants to accept that every judge has a bias, he demonstrates pragmatism: "Politics are simply the way human beings get together and regulate their behavior and the behavior of the institutions in which they are involved. . . . Politics are a fact of life." In California, it is a fact of life that a tax-cut message alone attracts insufficient support, so Schwarzenegger stresses compassion. At the Proposition 13 Silver Anniversary Gala, he criticized the budget not only because "taxpayers are facing an increase," but also because "teachers are getting pink slips [and] cops are getting laid off." Such pragmatism makes him electable.
On the other hand, it could make him reluctant to enter an unprecedented race. Though some analysts argue that a short campaign favors Schwarzenegger, a chaotic election might expose his political inexperience. If he wins, he must face the fallout from budget wrangling over the $38 billion deficit and a Democratic-led Legislature amid high expectations. These considerations suggest that he might wait until at least 2006.
But as his outline on effective training strategies shows, Schwarzenegger may have no problems taking a pass: "You need to choose the right time and place to do battle. . . . You need to be confident of your battle tactics, know when to attack, when to withdraw, and how to conserve ammunition."
With only the campaign for after-school programs (Proposition 49) under his belt, Schwarzenegger may consider himself a political lightweight and thus unprepared for the election. If so, he will pave the way for Richard Riordan: "At whatever level you're competing, realizing that certain contests may be over your head and choosing one that you have a better chance of winning is no disgrace -- just good sense."
Schwarzenegger may have other reasons to endorse Riordan, including the latter's 6 percent edge among likely voters. Either way, the alliance bears significant advantages. "I was a strong believer in training partners," says Schwarzenegger. "I needed someone not only to teach me but to inspire me. I trained better, harder, if I was around someone whose enthusiasm was as strong as mine and who would be impressed by my enthusiasm." Today, Schwarzenegger coordinates with -- and may even offer his consultants to -- Riordan.
Because he believes that a partnership "becomes a marriage," Schwarzenegger may rely even more on his wife, Maria Shriver, who has a unique understanding of media and politics. As a journalist, she has seen the scrutiny of politicians. As a member of the Kennedy family, she has witnessed both the glory and the tragedy of power. She has also helped Schwarzenegger plot his movie career, so she knows the kind of roles that suit him best.
Whether Schwarzenegger will run remains to be seen, but his decision will surely reflect his belief that "winning can become a habit if you handle your career properly." To doubters he has one thing to say: "I can use the information and discipline I learned in bodybuilding for perfecting other aspects of my life."


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Jesse James, one of America's most notorious outlaws, is shot to death by Robert Ford, a member of his gang who hoped to collect the bounty on Jesse's head.
Jesse James, born in Clay County, Missouri, in 1847, joined a Confederate guerrilla band led by William Quantrill at the age of 15. Quantrill's guerrillas, which included several future members of the James Gang, terrorized Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War and in August 1863 massacred civilians during a brutal raid on Lawrence, Kansas, an abolitionist town. After the war's end in 1865, Jesse, his brother Frank, and brothers Cole, James, and Robert Younger decided to team up and use their military raiding skills for armed robbery.
In February 1866, 18-year-old Jesse planned their first target: a bank in Liberty, Missouri. On February 13, Frank James led a group of about a dozen men, including Cole Younger and other former Confederate guerrillas, in the first recorded daylight bank robbery in the United States. They left the bank with $60,000 in gold and silver coins, paper money, and government securities. Jesse did not participate in the actual robbery, but he later became the leader of the James Gang, which was eventually reduced to the core unit of James, his brother, and the three Younger brothers.
During the next 16 years, the James Gang became America's most notorious outlaws, robbing banks, trains, stagecoaches, stores, and individuals of a total of about $300,000. The beginning of their downfall came in 1876, when, after killing two people and failing to secure any money in an attempted bank robbery at Northfield, Minnesota, the Younger brothers and several other key members of their gang were captured. The James brothers escaped and did not rob another train until 1880, the same year that Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden offered a reward for the capture of the James brothers, dead or alive. James Gang member Robert Ford chose the former, and on April 3, 1882, he shot Jesse James dead. Frank James subsequently surrendered and in trials was twice acquitted, eventually dying of old age on his farm near Excelsior Springs, Missouri.


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Sentara Heart Hospital offers new wireless heart monitor
On Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk, Va., became the first healthcare center in Southeastern Virginia to implant a new, miniaturized, wireless monitor in a patient to manage heart failure, a condition affecting 5.1 million Americans.
Called the CardioMEMS HF System, the monitor is the first and only FDA-approved, proactive heart failure detection device.
"We are thrilled to offer this option to our heart failure patients who meet the criteria," says Dr. Allen Ciuffo, a cardiologist with Sentara Cardiology Specialists at Sentara Heart Hospital. "Patients can now learn that their heart failure may be worsening before they experience symptoms. We have more time to alter their treatment and avoid a hospital stay."
The CardioMEMS HF System is a dime-size, battery-free sensor that a physician implants into a patient's pulmonary artery during a non-surgical, 15-minute procedure. Physicians can perform the implantation in outpatient and inpatient settings. The CardioMEMS measures pulmonary pressures, which increases before a person might experience other heart failure symptoms, such as weight gain, fatigue, shortness or breath and blood pressure changes.
"We can possibly see warning signs of heart failure 30 to 45 days earlier with the CardioMEMS," explains Dr. Ciuffo.
After the CardioMEMS is implanted, a patient takes daily pressure readings at home. The patient does not experience any sensations from the monitor or the reading. All that the patient needs is a place to lie flat on a pillow, a small machine and a few minutes. Readings are transmitted to the healthcare provider. Although the patient might feel well, his PA pressure could be increasing which could lead to the heart failure. The healthcare provider can identify the increase and take immediate action to alter treatment.
Heart failure occurs when the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body's demands. Patients with heart failure are frequently hospitalized, have a reduced quality of life and face a higher risk of death.
A clinical trial showed that the CardioMEMS monitor reduces heart failure hospital admissions by up to 37 percent, which can improve patients' lives and reduce costs, an extra concern for patients. According to the American Heart Association, the estimated direct and indirect cost of heart failure in the United States for 2012 was $31 billion. They expect the cost to more than double by 2030.
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Dates: Saturday, November 8th - Sunday, November 16th, 2014 but you will need to arrive in Cabo on Friday the 7th.
Liveaboard: The Rocio Del Mar and here is the link..... Rocio Del Mar Liveaboard
Price: The usual price for this trip is $3295 but we are discounting everyones price by $500 for a final price of $2795!
So here is the deal with all of this. I had to book this trip last year because I wanted the first trip of the fall season and I wanted the entire boat as well. So I had to book over two years in advance to make that happen. When our group gets together to do a trip, we take the free spots we earn as a group and even a nice chunk of the commission that comes our way and we spread that savings over everyones cost. That's why we can discount the price by $500. So we all pay the very same thing and no one pays "retail price" so another person can go for free. I pay just like everyone else.
When I booked this trip and then advertised, it sold out quickly. However, I recently had two folks who needed to back out due to medical reasons. So I now have just two spots open for this trip. If anyone is interested, please let me know and I would be glad to answer any questions you may have. A lot of questions about the trip itself can be answered by going to the Rocio Del Mar website. I have also sent the word out to those going on the trip to let their friends know about the two spaces but I would love to meet a few more Wetpixel folks and have them join us.
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Now just one spot left!
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Can you send me the trip info if you still have space available? email@example.com
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I'm sorry it's taken me several days to get back up with you. I am out of town working and it's been long hours! I did fill the space a few days before you posted but I just haven't come back and posted that the trip is full. Sorry about that.
But the trip is full at this point. However, it still is over a year away so I will be glad to put anyone on a waitlist. Just let me know.
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Quick update to this trip. While the trip is officially full, I do have one couple who would be willing to give up their two spots if I can find someone to take them. They are in the process of building a new house and would use the extra money for a few outdoor projects they want to do when the house is done. They will still go if I don't find anyone but I'd like to help them out if I can. So if anyone is interested let me know. I do have a single guy who would take one of the two spots if we can find one more but he understands I would give the opportunity to two folks who come as a pair as well.
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By MIKE NORTON
TRAVERSE CITY, MI — Traverse City's tourism economy continues to show strong growth – generating increased spending, employment and an enhanced quality of life for local residents, according to a study released this week by the Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau.
That organization, in fact, has now changed its name to Traverse City Tourism, in recognition of its ongoing commitment to the region's tourism industry and its role as a valuable economic, cultural, social and environmental force for the community and its residents.
"We are very pleased with the continued progress that our organization is making in building Traverse City's destination brand awareness," said Brad Van Dommelen, President and CEO of Traverse City Tourism. "We've experienced significant growth in our tourism volume, including from more distant markets, as consumers learn about our destination attributes."
The study, conducted by Anderson Economic Group of East Lansing, confirmed once again that tourism is a major contributor to the area's economy, generating billions in spending that supports local businesses and municipal services, creating employment for thousands of local residents, and supporting the enhanced quality of life that local residents enjoy.
According to the study:
- In 2012 tourism generated over 3.3 million visitor trips to Traverse City, producing nearly $1.2 billion in direct spending and supporting (directly and indirectly) more than 12,000 jobs across the Traverse City area – about 30 percent of all employment in the region — and contributing about $67 million in state use and sales taxes.
- Those figures reflect a growth rate of some 4.5 percent per year in the economic contribution made by Traverse City's tourism economy since 2006, when a similar study showed a total economic impact of $937 million.
On the social and cultural level, the study demonstrated that tourism contributes profoundly to the area's quality of life by supporting its large number of restaurants, wineries, microbreweries, galleries, museums, festivals and retail shops. This includes significant support for Traverse City's vibrant downtown retail and entertainment district, which is enjoyed by local residents but is supported in a significant way by visitors. With a population of approximately 15,000 residents, Traverse City could not support the diversity, variety and quality of these amenities without the economic contribution generated by tourism.
About Traverse City Tourism (TCT)
Organized in 1981 as the Traverse City Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Traverse City Tourism (TCT) is a nonprofit corporation that serves as the area's official destination marketing organization. Its focused mission is to stimulate economic growth through the attraction of convention business and leisure tourism development.
Traverse City Tourism works to enhance, reinforce and develop the Traverse City brand, telling the Traverse City story to potential visitors through advertising, marketing, tradeshows, publications, sales missions, media relations and Visitor Center services. Its experienced and knowledgeable team members are motivated by pride for their community and a desire to advance its economic wellbeing without sacrificing the values that make it such a special place.
- TCT sales representatives showcase the community to meeting planners from around the country, encouraging them to bring their meetings, conventions, conferences and sporting events to Traverse City.
- TCT marketing and media specialists place advertising in a wide range of national and international publications, television and radio networks and electronic media. They invite writers, bloggers and editors to the area to experience Traverse City first-hand. These visits often result in an stories and articles that help build destination brand awareness, and have helped bring the destination many national and international accolades in recent years.
- Since 1995, TCT has operated a popular visitor's center at the corner of Union Street and Grandview Parkway. Staffed by over 100 trained and enthusiastic community volunteers, the center is open seven days a week during the summer and fall and six days the remainder of the year.
- Visitors can call a toll-free number, 1-800-TRAVERSE, to request information and get assistance with booking hotel rooms. In addition, TCT maintains a popular web site at www.traversecity.com that is one of the area's most widely-consulted sources for up-to-date information about attractions, events, restaurants and lodging options.
Why the Name Change?
Traverse City Tourism is following a trend that started about a decade ago when many "Convention and Visitors Bureaus" across the country began changing their names to a more user friendly name and to a name that better connects their mission to the community they work to support.
"The new name and updated logo are designed to clearly define the industry that is Traverse City Tourism's primary responsibility, which is tourism," said Van Dommelen. "Over the years our name had been a continuous source of confusion about who we are and what we do. The "Traverse City Convention and Visitors Bureau" name was difficult to remember — and the word "bureau" implied that we were a government agency. "
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I love this little doll! I am so excited about her history! She is made of celluloid, which came before plastic. You were saying she came to the U.S. from Germany in a steamer trunk. I wonder if the person who brought her over was leaving beautiful Germany during troubled times. (You said it was the 1940's.) Anyway, that person must have loved her. I will cherish her and keep her history with her. I named her Gretchen which means "pearl" in German. Thank you for sharing this find!


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PRIME Minister David Cameron will not negotiate with Alex Salmond over the independence referendum, insisting the SNP leader must instead deal with Liberal Democrat Scottish Secretary Michael Moore, Downing Street has said.
The Conservative leader is in Scotland this week and is expected to meet his SNP counterpart for talks – but only as a "matter of courtesy".
Coalition insiders have made it clear that key areas of contention surrounding the historic vote must be ironed out instead with Mr Moore.
Mr Salmond will hold crunch talks with the Liberal Democrat minister at St Andrews House today. But Nationalists have been keen portray the meeting as a "pathway" to talks with Mr Cameron, who they insist is directing UK government policy on the referendum.
Scotland Office minister David Mundell was reluctant to confirm Mr Cameron's visit this week during an interview yesterday. But he said: "If he [Mr Cameron] is in Scotland, then obviously as a matter of courtesy he will be speaking with the First Minister.
"But the discussions in relation to the referendum will essentially be conducted by the Scotland Office with the Scottish Government." Mr Mundell insisted this would be the start of a "positive process", which would see the "detail of the referendum" sorted out.
The referendum may be raised during the talks between Mr Cameron and the First Minister. But a UK government source last night said the "lead meeting, the important meeting" would be with Mr Moore today.
"He [Mr Cameron] is happy to meet Alex Salmond and will meet Alex Salmond – there's never been any question of that – but it's appropriate that he meets with Michael Moore."
Mr Salmond had last month insisted he wanted to meet with the Prime Minister for talks about the referendum. Downing Street had said the First Minister would first need to speak to the Scottish Secretary before any further talks could take place.
But the latest message from Downing Street is that all negotiations will need to be between Mr Salmond and Mr Moore, rather than with more senior members of the inner circle at Downing Street.
SNP government strategy secretary Bruce Crawford, expected to be at today's meeting, last month played down Mr Moore's importance in the process.
"He [Mr Moore] is not a member of the Westminster 'Quad' of David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander, who are leading Westminster's policy in relation to Scotland's referendum," Mr Crawford said.
"Therefore it is clearly necessary that we also meet with the Prime Minister, who is deciding Downing Street's policy."
The key issues under discussion today will be SNP calls for 16- and 17-year-olds to be allowed to vote in the referendum. The SNP also wants to keep the possibility of a third option of more powers for Scotland on the table, pending the outcome of a consultation, but the coalition insists it must be a straight "Yes or No" on independence.
Mr Salmond has said his favoured option is to ask voters: "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?"
The SNP plans to stage the vote in autumn 2014 are also in dispute, with coalition ministers keen a on a date far sooner.
A further stumbling block is the legality of the vote, with the coalition insisting Holyrood does not have the legal authority to stage it. Advocate General Lord Wallace has insisted any referendum held under the auspices of the Scottish Parliament would be open to legal challenge, although Mr Salmond says he has the power to hold an "advisory" poll, which would carry sufficient moral clout.
The UK government proposes to temporarily extend the Scottish Parliament's powers, using a Section 30 order, to allow it to conduct the referendum, but would want agreement reached on the other areas of contention before agreeing to this.
The SNP has already agreed to allow the Electoral Commission to oversee the poll, amid concerns over an earlier proposal to set up its own commission.
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday there was now a "broad consensus" about the timing of the referendum. She said she "looked forward" to hearing Westminster's views on the questions asked, and whether 16- and 17-year-olds should be allowed to vote.
She added: "There's no doubt at all that the sooner we can get beyond the issues of process and into, as I think most people in Scotland already are, the issue of substance – why Scotland would be better off as an independent country with a relationship between equals with other countries in these islands – the better."
A spokesman for Mr Salmond added: "The key point is that the terms of the referendum must be decided in Scotland. The consultation which the Scottish Government has published provides for this democratic imperative – and the Electoral Reform Society Scotland agree that any 'legal mandate' must have 'no strings attached', so that Scottish Parliament can 'call a referendum at a time, and with a question [or questions] of their choosing'."
Both the Scottish Government and the UK coalition have launched their own consultations on the referendum.
Mr Mundell said "great progress" had been made in the past weeks. "Now we need to get the detail sorted out," he added.
He declined to identify any "lines in the sand" on which the coalition would not budge.
But he added: "We've always said that we want a referendum to be legal, fair and decisive, and I think there's an acceptance now that to be legal it must involve the UK government.
"I think it's wrong to suggest that individual issues are deal-breakers. It is clear that everyone, it would appear, apart from the First Minister, wants a single question – that's the position of the coalition parties and the Labour Party.
"The simple question for the people of Scotland should be, do they want to remain part of Britain or not?
"Then we can move on to discuss the future of the devolved arrangement if people opt to stay within Britain."
He said the Scotland Bill going through Holyrood would give the "most significant financial powers since the Act of Union".
Mr Mundell said any calls for devo-max had to be a "defined package" of powers.
"At the moment, devo-max is undefined – what groups like Reform Scotland think devo-max is and the Scottish Trades Union Congress think it is are completely different things."


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Let's Follow Up On Judy's Post
Since we now have the award announcements, and since we have a number of fine nonfiction books to consider, I think this would be a good time for us to talk about those books. We had a post about The Lightship back when I asked for favorites, but by now perhaps more of you will have had a chance to read it, or Spiders, or the Wall. I saw (literally saw, I got to look through a copy in an office) The Wall for the first time yesterday, and I was blown away. It really did look like a spectacular melding of art and text, the personal and the political. Actually it reminded me of Tom Stoppard's new play, Rock n Roll, now in New York — which is precisely about the Velvet Revolution, the power of Rock n Roll in Communist Czechoslovakia — some of the threads I saw in the book. (I can't help mentioning that any of you who know my first book Art Attack, will find a chapter in there called Plastic, which is about the Plastic People of the Universe, the same band Stoppard writes about).
Second thread — over on CCBC Susan Reich has asked why more nonfiction did not make mock Newbery lists, and from the few comments that have come back, it does seem that at least some people who run those mock award meetings do self select fiction, and a former Newbery member expressed the fear that publishers, too, may be sending fewer nonfiction choices to the actual committee, now that they also submit to Sibert. Comments?
Finally, did you all see this, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/education/17college.html?_r=1&ref=education&oref=slogin, echoied by http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/18graduation.html?ref=education. These articles point to the changing nature of a high school education. More and more states are realizing that their goal must be to get kids into college — poor kids, immigrant kids, kids from families which have never sent anyone to college — must be prepared for college. Well that relates directly to the question of what we are doing in nonfiction — especially in middle grades and YA. Because the essence of what you learn in college (and, for that matter, in IB http://www.ibo.org/ programs down to middle grade), is that knowledge is not discrete facts, it is part of a system of knowing, a world view — an approach to facts and ideas. If our books are to prepare kids for the kind of thinking they must do in college, they need to risk making an argument, and challenging readers. Your thoughts?


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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Christmas...? & Behind the Apron
I really need to get my blogging act together, but I just realized that I don't want January to end without a post about Christmas! To add to the hurry, I only have a few more minutes before the deadline for the "Behind the Apron" Round-up hosted by Fiber over at 28 Cooks.
We spend Christmas with Daiku's family in St. Louis. We asked both our families not to buy us gifts this Christmas, and for the most part, they were really good about it.
Daiku's brother L. decided to wow us with a vegan chili as our present. We were so thrilled when we saw the smoky chipotle and mushroom chili he cooked for us, a recipe he found on the Vegan Chef website. This was some serious chili! Those members of the family adventurous enough to try it thought so too. Now this is my idea of a present!
Here was our contribution to the holiday meal:
A big salad of mixed greens, carrots, radishes, red onion, oranges, and toasted pecans with a balsamic vinaigrette.
Here is someone who really got into the festive mood: Daiku's cutie niece, G.
During our stay in St. Louis, we stopped by Calvary cemetary, one of the oldest cemetaries in the city, where notable people are buried going back to the 18th century. It was a warm, peaceful day, and we enjoyed seeing the antique headstones and reading each person's personal story. The above headstone is from the childrens section of the cemetary, and it was touching to see the love that these families showed for their lost children, which was constant through the decades.
We visited Daiku's sister, who lives in the hip city neighborhood of Soulard. Above you can see just one of the examples of the unique architecture that sets this neighborhood apart, and which residents work hard to preserve and maintain.
Daiku's sister, L., was kind enough to take us out to lunch in the neighborhood. We went to Tanner B's, a small neighborhood restaurant/sports bar, with a surprising amount of vegetarian options to choose from. We started off with this hummus appetizer. It was really fresh, and the warm soft pitas didn't last long between the three of us!
Both Daiku and I ordered the California burger, a chickpea patty topped with sprouts and avocados and served with a mustard sauce and corn/pea salad. I love whe veggie burgers are filled with veggies instead of being a scary brown! And these were freshly made, too.
So there you have the last installment of my holiday posts- I promise! We enjoyed spending time with both of our families and sharing some good food and good times (and some freakishly warm weather).
Onto Behind the Apron. As I'm sure most of you know, this is the event where we are invited to come out from behind our aprons and share a little bit about ourselves besides our food. (Although I'm no stranger to posting photos of ourselves on this blog!) Click here to see the original post at 28 Cooks.
Most of the food you see on this blog comes to you courtesy of Daiku (left) and me, Bazu (right). On our first date, 9 years ago this month, Daiku wowed me with a vegan curry. A boy that can cook? I was hooked! Between then and now, I fell off the vegan bandwagon, only to hop back on about 3 years ago. Daiku is not a vegan, though he can cook and eat vegan like the best of them and for the most part, that is how we eat at home together. We live with our 2 old cats, Bijou and Marble.
Daiku: is a professor of philosophy, loves old airplanes, used to own an art gallery in St. Louis.
Bazu: is a Ph.D. student, lover of trashy t.v., and votes Green.
Both of us: are eagerly awaiting the revolution!
16 comments:
- Jackie said...
Great to see a picture of you both.
What a great Christmas you had. Thanks for the St Louis photos. When I hear the name St Louis I always think of Judy Garlands song.
As you say Daiku's niece is a real cutie.
Thanks also for the baked bean recipe. I love baked beans on toast for a quick supper.
- February 01, 2007 4:33 AM
- tc said...
nice to "meet" you both. those meals look wonderful!
- February 01, 2007 8:24 AM
- Village Mama said...
Cuties indeed! And the names of your cats rock!
I'd love to be a fly on the wall when you are watching your trashy tv and the professor walks into the room ;-)
- February 01, 2007 10:24 AM
- springsandwells said...
Fun! I love reading your Behind the Apron entry! Neat that Daiku used to own an art gallery... and that he's such a good cook! Hoorah!
- February 01, 2007 2:03 PM
- laura jesser said...
Wow, holiday pictures--I was not expecting that! The vegan chili was a really nice gesture, though, and sounds just wonderful!
I love old cemeteries--it's wonderful, as you said, to read the inscriptions that tell people's stories. Somehow it keeps their memory alive, even after so many years.
Great Behind the Apron too! That's a groovy picture of you two, and I think it's so sweet that he "hooked" you in by cooking for you!
- February 01, 2007 3:32 PM
- Kati said...
First, that neighborhood in St. Louis really took me by surprise, but I guess it was a teensy bit ignorant of me to think that the entire city would be as run down as it looks from the highway... Every time I drove through I would think what a depressing place it was - thank goodness it's not all doom and gloom!
I couldn't help but notice that the whites of your eyes (both you and Daiku) are so clear! A testament to a detoxed lifestyle - way to go!
And yay for Behind the Apron!
P.S. I appreciate your salad dressing suggestions - I think my main salad-oriented goal right now is to step away from plain lettuce :P, so your salads always serve to inspire me. I would definitely like the instructions for the oven version of the baked beans, too. Thanks!
- February 01, 2007 4:59 PM
- aTxVegn said...
What a great picture of you and Daiku! Your veggie burger meal snd the chili look really good, but the best looking food was the salad you made!
- February 01, 2007 10:15 PM
- Urban Vegan said...
Kudos to the St. Louis relatives for wowing you with all that vegan yumminess. Love the photos.
You and Daiku are such an adorable couple. I wish you two the best of luck in academe
- February 01, 2007 10:17 PM
- Judy said...
Great looking food from Christmas! And nice to see a picture of you too - You've got very beautiful eyes.
- February 02, 2007 9:29 PM
You and Daiku make such a wonderful couple. I love how you compliment each other so well - especially in the kitchen. It's so fun getting to know everyone more personally through this Behind the Apron. I think it's also kind of funny how everyone's cramming to get them in before the deadline. Reminds me of high school term papers!
- February 02, 2007 10:02 PM
- Theresa said...
Hey, don't feel bad about your belated xmas posting. I have been meaning to post a better update from PNG, but I keep putting it off--and I got back from there 2 weeks *before* xmas.
And, in that picture, you look so much like my friend Nicole it's kinda scary!
- February 02, 2007 11:30 PM
- Emmy said...
Yay! You went to St. Louis. I've been there a few times. Have you even been to Crazy Bowls and Wraps? I love that place! I'm not sure if they're in the actual city or just the 'burbs.
Vegan Chili = awesome gift! Daiku's niece is adorable!!!
Love the architecture pic from Soulard. That's really neat you explored the old cemetary.
Your Behind the Apron post is great. And Happy 9th Anniversary!!! That is so cool Daiku used to own an art gallery in St. Louis. Also impressed that Daiku hooked you with a vegan curry. That's so sweet :) You two make a great looking couple!!!
- February 04, 2007 3:29 PM
- Scott at Real Epicurean said...
It's great to see your face. Your salad photo is almost equally appealing - the use of pecans is inspired!
- February 05, 2007 3:34 PM
Great to see a picture of you both. i love your blog and im happy to see photos of you!
- February 12, 2007 9:59 AM
- KleoPatra said...
LOVE this post. Wonderful food, terrific photo. Altogether Just Beautiful...
- February 27, 2007 9:03 PM
Thanks for visiting Tanner B's, Glad you enjoyed it, hope you will be back on you next visit to the Lou.
Dan Brown
Tanner B's
- February 28, 2007 11:49 AM


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Wright Beaned, Mets Lose to Brewers
Scooter Gennett capped a four-run second inning with a two-run single and the Milwaukee Brewers overcame some wild pitching Thursday night that included the beaning of David Wright for a 4-2 victory over the New York Mets.
Wright was hit in the helmet by a pitch from Johnny Hellweg with two outs in the third inning. The All-Star third baseman went down to his hands and knees but he was able to walk off the field unassisted. The Mets said he was removed as a precaution.
Hellweg hit Lucas Duda with the next pitch -- in the back of the leg -- and then loaded the bases with a four-pitch walk. But the Mets, who entered with a home record worse than all in the National League except the Cubs (31-50), could not take advantage.
Coming off a road trip in which they won five of six, the Mets were 0 for 14 with runners in scoring position in dropping to 32-46 at Citi Field.
Hellweg failed to make it to the fifth despite leading 4-1. He gave up a run and two hits, walked four, hit two batters and threw a wild pitch. Alfredo Figaro (3-3) took over and he balked a runner to second when he dropped the ball to the mound while bringing his arm back during his delivery.
Dillon Gee (12-11) has been one of the Mets' most consistent pitchers since May 30. He entered with a 2.57 ERA in 21 starts since then and, except for an unfortunate third inning, he shut down the short-handed Brewers for six innings.
Milwaukee was playing without Carlos Gomez, who was serving a one-game suspension for inciting a benches-clearing fracas against the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night. Gomez admired his first-inning homer too long and shouted at Braves starter Paul Maholm as he rounded the bases. Irate catcher Brian McCann blocked Gomez's approach to home plate and players rushed out of their dugouts. In the fray, Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez aggravated a knee injury and was also out Thursday.
And Jean Segura missed his eighth straight game because of a strained right hamstring. He entered leading the NL with 44 steals but Mets outfielder Eric Young Jr. tied him by swiping two bases.
Young scored on Daniel Murphy's groundout in the third.
Jim Henderson gave up a homer, affirmed by video review, to pinch-hitter Josh Satin before striking out three for his 27th save.
The Brewers scored four times in the second in front of a sparse crowd that barely made any noise except for the startled "oohs" when Wright was hit.
Gee walked Khris Davis to start the inning. Caleb Gindl singled to left-center and, after an out, Juan Francisco drove in a run with a slow-rolling grounder up the middle. Jeff Bianchi added another RBI with a soft blooper to left.
Lifted for a pinch hitter in the sixth, Gee gave up four runs and seven hits. He walked two in finishing the season at 199 innings, an encouraging sign after missing much of last season following surgery to remove a blood clot from an artery in his pitching shoulder.
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NEAR THE END of George Bush's eight years in the White House, the president and his Iraqi counterpart, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, shared a big problem. Both of them wanted U.S. troops to stay in Iraq, but both faced widespread domestic opposition to the U.S. occupation.
Feeling the heat, they settled on a "status of forces agreement" (SOFA) calling for full withdrawal of all 150,000 or so U.S. troops and all Pentagon-paid contractors by Dec. 31. In his first 18 months in office, President Obama did significantly reduce the numbers of troops in Iraq, down to about 50,000 by August 2010. But there it stuck. A year later, more than 40,000 U.S. troops were still occupying Iraq. The number of Pentagon-paid contractors still there was even higher—as of March, more than 64,000.
Even worse, the Obama administration continued to pressure the weak and corrupt Iraqi government to renegotiate the SOFA and "invite" the U.S. to keep troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future: a permanent occupation in all but name.
At the end of the day, none of those efforts worked. The official reason for not agreeing to keep 5,000 to 10,000 troops in Iraq was the refusal of the Iraqi government to guarantee U.S. soldiers immunity from criminal prosecution, but the real reason was that anti-war public opinion in Iraq and the U.S. was simply too strong. Al-Maliki certainly hoped some U.S. troops would remain, to help his unpopular government stay in power; Obama was under pressure from some in the Pentagon determined not to "lose" the supposed "gains" the occupation had achieved. But neither Iraq's parliament nor the American people were prepared to allow thousands of U.S. soldiers to continue occupying Iraq. It was a stunning victory for those who have fought for peace all these years.