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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Babies at La Samaritaine
La Samaritaine - a former Paris department store - is the site of an unusual exhibit of photographs by Thierry Bouët: Newborns. This is a photo of one of the 50 on display - a baby boy just 55 minutes old. Why? Well, as Christmas is coming, it's the way LVMH (the owner of La Samaritaine) and the Paris 1st Town Hall have found to celebrate the nativity. The exhibit will run until January 20, 2009 (see a wider angle here).
Don't forget if you are in town: a little PDP gathering will take place tonight (Tuesday 25) at General Lafayette (a restaurant located 52 rue Lafayette). If you want to joint just email me (eric at parisdailyphoto.com) so that I know approximately how many people will show up. Thank you.
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What a novel way to celebrate the nativity. Are all the babies newborns or are they of all ages?ReplyDelete
A clever way to celebrate the nativity. Are all the photos of boys?ReplyDelete
BTW when will the store be opening again?
Newborns! I should read the post before I comment! Is that baby wearing a rug? That's a lot of hair!ReplyDelete
Darn, Cali!!!! I had a hard time thinking of something to write! You win, fair and square! You get the newborn.ReplyDelete
Geez, just what I didn't want unless . . . does it come with a Father?ReplyDelete
lol, Cali! Good shot!!!ReplyDelete
For a couple of seconds there, Eric, I thought you photographed a screaming baby at Ikea ;)
One screaming baby from Ikea added to the crown! Rug optional.ReplyDelete
Very, very moving.ReplyDelete
I love them instantly.
'age : 55 minutes' ... how thrilling!
Cali, are you sure you want a baby on your head? Sounds messy!ReplyDelete
Very interesting idea from Thierry Bouët. I wonder if he got the parents' consent.
I can't wait to hear about the PDP gathering tonight!
Well...cute or scaring?ReplyDelete
That's a pretty good idea to celebrate the Nativity but these heads are so huge! LOL
PHX, I think it will never be a shop again, but as Eric said before, a big hotel. Am I right? I'm to lazy to check on the web...
BTW, we'll miss u tomorrow!
Suzy and Lynn, about yesterday: you cracked me up!! You're so funny.
Carrie, you felt what I felt about the Sentier? Phew, I thought I was kind of fearful and posh. At least now, we're two of that kind. ;)
That's a very sweet exhibition.ReplyDelete
Suzy, he surely had it! In France you can't take pictures of people if they don't agree.ReplyDelete
he he good, Guille!ReplyDelete
Suzy: I usually don't wear the crown the whole day. It messes up my hair!ReplyDelete
Yes, Guille, but people do it anyway! I know a groovy guy who posts a photo of Paris every day, and sometimes there are random people in them...ReplyDelete
These two little guys don't look very happy. Maybe they just heard that they will miss the PDP gathering and it made them cry!ReplyDelete
I wish La Samaritaine could be preserved. When it opened in 1870 it inspired Zola so much that he wrote a book about this Department store. He claimed it was the first. His sex-and-shopping novel really impressed me.ReplyDelete
Suzy, really?! Who is it? He doesn't realize... ;)ReplyDelete
Jeff, and what about you? I hope you won't cry tomorrow! We'll think about you when the Beaujolais will be served.
In the Uk you have to be careful about photographing people too, but in a public place, where it is reasonable that someone may be photographed, it is ok. You don't have to ask permission of everyone in the crowd, for example!ReplyDelete
Sex and shopping, Lois?ReplyDelete
Zola? Really? I'm confused. Which novel? All I remember from reading Zola is that really depressing feeling.
Okay, so most newborns look a bit "unfinished" (with the possible exception of my daughter Lila, who was 3 weeks late and definitely well done!). Still, I have to say aawww.ReplyDelete
Way to go, Cali—wear your baby-festooned crown proudly!
I really like this very creative idea.ReplyDelete
btw, I work for a parenting magazine, and we definitely have to get the permission of a parent of every child we show in the mag.ReplyDelete
My newborn (now 8) was born 2 months early. She was quite a wrinkly bag of purple and definitely looked under-cooked! (Yet still the most beautiful baby there ever was of course)ReplyDelete
Alexa, I imagine publishing photos of children is a very tricky business! My 8-year-old's teacher wants to put all of the photos she takes of the class during the year on a CD for everyone, but had to get all of the parents' permission first. Her note stated that if even one parent withheld permission, no CDs were going to be given out at the end of the school year.
Oh yes children are different. I can't photograph a child without the permission of the parent or the school which, in turn, has already obtained permission from the parent, or is in loco parentis. This is merely taking the photo, let alone publishing. This is a good thing though.ReplyDelete
General pics of adults, personally, I think should not be restricted too much, otherwise we shall have no freedom to make social comment and documentation by photographs.
Suzy it's a shame it was done that way round. They should have asked all parents first, so that all children whose parents object would not be included in the taking of the photo. A bit sad for the child I suppose, but more fair for the others.ReplyDelete
Psst! Suzy I'm off to bed now but be thinking how we can be naughty twins here tomorrow... ;) I don't think Eric has seen us yet!ReplyDelete
Tomate, Yes, Zola wrote about sex. His book "Nana" is pretty hot. His book about sex and shopping is "The Ladies Paradise" (Au Bonheur des Dames). He tells about the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family.ReplyDelete
Yes, I think I read that a long time ago but I didn't get the same thing out of it at all ;)ReplyDelete
To me, the ultimate author when it comes to writing about sex is an American: Henry Miller.
Oh, Cali, 27 comments later and I am still laughing.ReplyDelete
What a great way to celebrate Christs birth! I love photos of babies.ReplyDelete
It's a striking photo of a photo, Eric! Love your angle.ReplyDelete
I can't stay. Gotta go to the bookstore and pick up a copy of Zola.
Au Bonheur des Dames...it's such a great book. Well for a Zola fan, at least! Read it at school if I remember.ReplyDelete
i sometimes look like that in the morning too :-) if they can only post on PDP i wonder what they would tell us....hmmmm guess we will have to wait at least - what 20 years. that will only make me 25 (yeah right try 65...)ReplyDelete
Lois -- that's cool - I didn't know about Zola and la Samaritaine - I'm curious, too, and I'm not much of a novel reader. It seems like it would put me into the Paris of his time.ReplyDelete
Eric -- The photo is very attention-getting(in a good way!) The angle and slight glare make it sort of otherworldly - which I like - it's not the normal, cute-baby shot.
There was news in California before I left about images of some children being used without the parent's knowledge in the campaign to ban gay marriage there - I'm not sure if it got resolved.
An exhibition about Nativity organized by LVMH in a place this company killed… how ironic !ReplyDelete
Pardon my french but, "C'est vraiment gerbant" !
Of course my previous comment has nothing to do with the quality of your picture Eric ! ;o)ReplyDelete
LVMH and babies just don't seem to mix.ReplyDelete
Guille, you're a Zola fan?ReplyDelete
I didn't know ;)
Petrea, Guille, Carrie, and Tomate, Zola describes la Samaritaine as exotic. The huge sky light ceiling/roof all the beautiful iron work -- it was a palace of a department store. Can you imagine seeing that for the first time in 1870? I wish they would restore her to her former beauty (she needs a face lift that's all) ;-) Happily, we still have the Galeries Lafayette. I am also a Zola fan. This reminds me of Candide by Voltaire -- another exotic very feminine work of art.ReplyDelete
thanks eric for the advice.. i am not a friend to see newbornfaces in the internet as public..ReplyDelete
is it allowed to do this
i think doing this you need a permission by the parents
Lois, please don't take it the wrong way but one of the reasons I can't stand reading these things is because I don't see the romantic version of it at all. Instead, I see the birth of Corporate and how the working class at the time lived and worked in appalling conditions...ReplyDelete
(If anyone lurking wants to suggest that I am just another "socialist" or worse ... you can save it, already, I'm just saying. ;)
Seriously, people tend to romanticize everything from joining the Navy to how much fun it would have been to live in past centuries (Renaissance Fair people are a good example) but living all these years ago would have meant a lot of hardship on the great majority of us and people don't realize that kind of stuff, instead they focus on other things like the kind of dresses women were wearing, etc.
Anyway, just saying ;)
But I also see your point, and when I walk past or into these great old buildings, it's a really good feeling.ReplyDelete
You just can't help but try to imagine how things were ...
My Great Grandfather was Treasurer and Executor of the Estate of Gumps founded in 1861 in San Francisco. My mother use to go there when she was a little girl. She said it was as if you were in someone's mansion or palace but even better than that. She said the Gumps of today is not at all Gumps -- you cannot even put the two in the same category. She showed me some old B&W photos. And yes, she is correct. We have really lost something beautiful and special.ReplyDelete
I have a few fancy things from Gumps, Lois. They will become my heirlooms!ReplyDelete
I love the beautiful buildings in San Francisco too. The Palace Hotel for example, in the 1990s was being "modernized" :-s. They knocked out the beautiful domed ceiling of stained glass (that was designated a historic landmark by the city of San Francisco in 1969). It was like looking at a thousand jewels. I asked the building contractors to just repair it. They said, "No, that would be too expensive. We are just going to put in white glass and save money." Of course, the new owner was not San Franciscan; it was a Japanese company. Sigh, here is what it looks like now -- it pales in comparison http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/sf/a/images/Palace.Hotel.Garden.Court.Ceiling.jpgReplyDelete
Eiffel Tower Suzy, Wow! I buy wedding gifts there. It makes them special.ReplyDelete
BTW, The Palace Hotel's bathroom fixtures, door knobs, and etc., were all GOLD. The man who had the hotel built during the Gold Rush had it made that way. During the earthquake and fire, the gold melted; and was never replaced (well, replaced; but, not with gold).
Hello everybody, from the PDPers at le General Lafayette.ReplyDelete
8 of us are having a great time: andouillette, escargots, sanglier, tournedos, Macon white wine, Saumur red wine, profitérolles, Irish coffee, etc...
We are missing you all.
Kisses from Guille, Michael, Stewart, Elizabeth, Carrie, Michelle, Eric (of course) and Thib.
THIB: What fun, sorry I didn't get to talk with you. Poor Michael's phone bill will be terrible. Pay his bill for him, won't you?ReplyDelete
Oooh, I am so jalouse -- but also hoping you are all having the BEST time. Have a glass of the Macon for those of us who would like to be there (maybe just one for all of us, or you'd be under the table!).ReplyDelete
awe thib...it all sounds so good. have a glass for me. merci.ReplyDelete
Can I get under the table, too? Oh wait, that's not what Alexa meant.ReplyDelete
I want to call you guys so badly . . . but I shall restrain myself.
I'm sending gros bisous though!
Guille, Michael, Stewart, Elizabeth, Carrie, Michelle, Eric and Thib: You are so thoughtful to think of us and include us in your little PDP gathering. Merci! bisous, LoisReplyDelete
May all the PDP gatherings in all the various cities continue on and on.........What fun!ReplyDelete
What a fantastically unique and fun idea! I like it a lot! Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.ReplyDelete
Hey, Really great work, I would like to join your blog anyway so please continue sharing with us,ReplyDelete


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I know we are just totally sucking as your parents right now. There is so much we don't know, that we somehow should, and emotions we infuse into your atmosphere that you should not have to accommodate. Little ones, I am sorry that I struggle so to find my way as your mother. I want to be so good, I want to be the very best mother to you. Because my mother heart just overruns... splashes, spills, bursts, containing soooo much. Love for you. I hope you feel it.
Your little minds and hearts in our care...you are both so genuine, so sensitive, I find myself wanting to have these very grown-up talks with you, to explain why I can't do this and that, why I am so tired instead of playful. To have you really understand how sorry I am that I'm learning at such a slow pace, so rough around the edges. Instead I hug you incessantly, and tickle you and whisper "I love you" and, when I should, "I'm sorry"...you seem to understand that. Someday I'll be able to fully articulate but for now, my hugs and kisses and whispers will have to do.
I hope, with all the hope that I can hope, that you both feel LOVED. Unequivocally. I pray that our love impacts you more than our ineptness and struggles. I'm praying for that love to be strong, to come through, to attach itself to your memory and be bigger than our total suckage right now.
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The science of prosthetic legs is so advanced that they are now worn by athletes who perform well enough for the Olympics.
But day in and day out, while walking, running and sitting, they can be brutally uncomfortable.
Building each individual prosthetic remains an art, with amputees dependent on the craftsmanship and experience of individual designers, said David Moinina Sengeh, a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sengeh grew up among civil war victims in Sierra Leone, some of whom lost limbs; today, he is working to create a systematic process to produce comfortable, custom-fit prostheses every time.
His tools: magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI technology, used to map the limb to which a prosthetic device must fit, and a latest-generation 3-D printer that produces exact prototypes — solid objects from software designs based on precise MRI measurements.
The goal is to design a prosthetic socket that is flexible where the body is stiff to reduce pressure, and stiff where the body is flexible to provide support.
Sengeh has spent the past eight months printing out various versions of a prosthetic socket – the device that links a human body with an artificial limb – and testing them on his thesis advisor, professor Hugh Herr, a double amputee and the developer of a bionic ankle system.
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It works much like a common inkjet, printing out one paper-thin layer at a time, each layer being partly cured by ultraviolet light before the next is sprayed down so the layers will fuse as they harden.
In April, Objet dropped a planned initial public offering of stock and said it would merge with Stratasys Inc., a publicly held manufacturer in Minnesota, to form a printer company worth $1.4 billion.
Its printers are suited for producing precise prototypes, but not the actual prosthetics, said Terry Wohlers, president of the industry consulting firm Wohlers Associates Inc., of Fort Collins, Colo., because the company's photopolymer material is not yet strong enough to hold up to the daily pressures of the human body, or other taxing applications.
But fast, accurate Objet-formed prototypes already help a wide range of users, from shoe companies designing footwear to architects modeling structures in three dimensions.
The technology of 3-D printing has been available for more than two decades but is becoming cheaper, more versatile, and more precise.
Some printers manufacture products from a single material. More than 15,000 Americans are walking around with hip implants designed in software form, then printed on a 3-D printer, Wohlers said. Other applications include such demanding products as parts for airplanes.
"That's where this product is best used, where you have complex, high-value parts," Wohlers said. "Companies are beginning to move from a tradition of having physical inventories, shelves of parts, to having digital inventories, where parts are stored digitally and printed on demand."
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Gary Rabinovitz, a lab manager at Reebok International Ltd., in Canton, uses 3-D printers to produce prototypes for shoe outsoles, goalie masks, lacrosse pads, and other parts.
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At MIT, Sengeh is working to produce high-quality sockets that will be inexpensive enough to outfit amputees he knows in Sierra Leone. Their futures are extremely limited, he said, because they don't have prostheses that are comfortable enough to wear daily.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
#ISTE and My PLN
My PLN is awesome! I am so excited for all of the tweet-ups I have scheduled and will be scheduling. I'm meeting with some #edcamp Tweeps to talk about all things #edcamp and #nerd related. I have an 80's Movie Crew Tweet-up that plans to be epic! I will finally get to meet face to face with so many of the amazing people I have been learning from day to day. I learn so much when I go through my Reader and see the thoughts and ideas of other amazing educators. Seeing these Tweeps face to face will be weird for a moment, but it will solidify a connection formed miles away. I will admit that I do have some questions about meeting these people though.
Isn't weird that I will have to tell everyone my name is Nick and not @TheNerdyTeacher?
Do you hug, guy hug, half hug, high-five, handshake etc. when you meet a Twitter friend?
What will these people look like from the chin down?
What if their head is actually proportional to their Avatar?
Should I tweet the people that are standing next to me?
How long into ISTE is it OK to refer to people as, "My brother from another mother?"
Is it weird to say that to a girl?
What if I blank on the name of the show Mario Lopez was on before he starred as Albert Clifford on Saved By The Bell? (P.S. It's Kids Incorporated)
What if I am not all of the Nerd that I have built myself up to be?
Despite all of this anxiety, I know that the members of my PLN will be awesome and help me through what nerdy lapses I might have. If you are attending ISTE, please send me a tweet because I would love to meet you and say hi and put a real body to that Twitter ID.
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OMG, Nick, you are too funny! But I know what you mean. When I went to MRA back in March, one of the highlights was finally getting to meet @mom2preteens and @hickstro plus seeing @kchichester and @jimwenz again. I look forward to meeting you sometime soon. :)ReplyDelete
Great stuff!ReplyDelete
The answer to the neck down question is that I'm actually pregnant. DUN DUN DUNNNNNN
Hope you have an awesome time! I met a few Tweeps in April at a conference and it was kind of weird, but good.ReplyDelete
looking forward to meeting you.. i've been very curious about the authenticity of your nerd status.ReplyDelete
All I can say is that I had an absolutely unforgettable time at ISTEK conf in Istanbul and IATEFL Harrogate earlier this year and I have the feeling it's going to be very similar for you!ReplyDelete
The neck-down sounds funny here - it bears no significance at all to the actual contact; big guy and gal hugs all around, and not just cos we're but Yurop!!!!
Hope you have the same feelings of joy, happiness and get the same wonderful memories...
Will be looking forward to your tweets from ISTE
Marisa Constantinides
P.S. Your form won't let me link to my English blog, so have a look at my Greek one :-)
Nick - I am sure that you will have a great time at ISTE. I always enjoyed going to and presenting at conferences. It tends to energize you and you get great ideas to bring back to your school.ReplyDelete
Wish I could be there and meet you and the other great members of my PLN.
Have fun.
LOL! Love it! Best part of that post is IReplyDelete
keep having same questions. What if I don't recognize someone I talk to (well tweet with) everyday? Or
what if everyone thinks I'm so boring in person? And im ok being the airhead in the bunch online but it might suck in person. And by the way, the ISTE workouts & diets are
being bc I know everyone knows what my face looks like, little nervous of below the avatar!!
Look man I'm feeling ya! I can't wait to meet everyone in person!! Can't wait to meet you, do I have to call you nerdy teacher to your face?!
How funny would it be to see avatar heads on everyone's body. @MsBisOnline is going to ISTE and hope that I get a chance to meet you. I love your blog and I do stop by often.ReplyDelete
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I'll warn you ahead of time, I look just like my avatar.....seriously, I'm a cartoon character. 2D all the way. It's a little weird at first but you get used to it!ReplyDelete
I'm so jealous of everyone who's going to ISTE Denver! I really do need to amp up my job search so I can get a district to reimburse my plane ticket... :X Your comment about wondering how everyone will look like from the neck down had me rolling!ReplyDelete
Mary Beth asked earlier this week if she should put her photo on her networking/business card. What if Tweeps printed out their Twitter avatar/handle or wore it as a button during ISTE? That's something I'd do! It might help others recognize each other more easily. Just a thought! Have fun!!


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PASADENA, Calif. — For a few precious minutes, UCLA had visions of a second straight shocking upset over Southern California at the Rose Bowl.
Then, reality set in.
Mark Sanchez passed for 269 yards and two touchdowns, USC's hard-hitting defense stuffed UCLA at every turn, and the fifth-ranked Trojans won 28-7 Saturday to give them nine victories in the last 10 games between the crosstown rivals.
The win assured USC (11-1, 8-1 Pac-10) of an unprecedented seventh consecutive BCS bid, seven straight 11-win seasons and seven conference championships in a row. They'll also made a fourth straight appearance in the Rose Bowl game, where they will meet No. 6 Penn State on New Year's Day.
UCLA stunned USC 13-9 as 131/2-point underdogs two years ago at the Rose Bowl, bouncing the Trojans out of the BCS championship game. The 33-point underdog Bruins (4-8, 3-6) inspired hopes for a repeat performance by taking a 7-0 lead in the opening four minutes, but they were unable to pose a scoring threat after that, crossing midfield just once.
USC opened its overall lead in the series to 43-28-7.
The Trojans rolled up 33 first downs and 478 yards of total offense while the Bruins had just seven first downs and gained only 159 yards against the national leader in total defense and scoring defense.
USC beat UCLA seven straight times before the surprising setback two years ago, one of just 10 losses in 95 games for the Trojans since the beginning of the 2002 season. They rebounded with a 24-7 triumph over the Bruins last year at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Sanchez completed 18 of 33 passes with one interception, and Joe McKnight gained 99 yards on 15 carries for the Trojans.
UCLA's Kevin Craft completed 11 of 28 passes for 89 yards with one interception, and Kahlil Bell rushed for 36 yards on 14 carries.
For the first time in 26 years, both teams wore home jerseys in their annual matchup. That meant cardinal red for the visiting Trojans and powder blue for the host Bruins.
They both played their home games at the Coliseum until UCLA moved to the Rose Bowl in 1982, and the NCAA passed a rule the following year that would penalize teams one timeout if they didn't wear their proper home and road jerseys. So the Bruins wore white at the Coliseum in 1983, and the visitors had done the same ever since.
USC was penalized a timeout after the opening kickoff, and UCLA voluntarily took its first timeout immediately thereafter, as coach Rick Neuheisel promised. The timeouts prompted a large cheer from the Rose Bowl crowd of 87,790.
After UCLA went three-and-out, C.J. Gable fumbled on USC's first scrimmage play and Korey Bosworth recovered at the Trojans' 20. Two running plays lost a yard before Dominique Johnson threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Bell, giving the Bruins their early lead. Craft tossed a backward pass to Johnson before the sophomore wide receiver was successful on the first pass of his career.
USC quickly moved into UCLA territory on a 20-yard pass from Sanchez to Patrick Turner and a roughing the passer penalty, but David Buehler was wide right on a 41-yard field goal, the first of three misses for a kicker who went 8-of-9 in the first 11 games of the season.
The Trojans tied the game on their third possession, scoring on a 12-yard run by McKnight two plays after Sanchez threw an 8-yard pass to Anthony McCoy on fourth-and-4 from the UCLA 35.
That was just the beginning for USC.
Sanchez threw a 12-yard scoring pass to Damian Williams before the first quarter was over, capping a four-play drive in which Sanchez passed for all 60 yards on three completions against the country's second-best pass defense.
Gerald Washington then blocked Aaron Perez's punt, and the Trojans moved to the UCLA 34 before Michael Norris made a leaping interception at the Bruins' 11.
Helped by a roughing the kicker penalty against David Carter, the Trojans moved 70 yards on 16 plays for a 21-7 lead, scoring on a 2-yard run by Stafon Johnson with 1:55 left before halftime.
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Elizabeth Williams has been working her way back from a spring stress fracture in her lower right leg all season long.
She looked to be back in top form again the way she played Wednesday night.
The 6-foot-3 sophomore scored 20 points to lead a sluggish offensive effort, keeping No. 4 Duke unbeaten with a 58-26 rout of Virginia Tech.
The Blue Devils (16-0, 5-0 ACC), who are the only undefeated team left in Division I basketball, have won 18 straight in the series, the last eight all by double digits.
''I think Elizabeth is coming back strong,'' Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. ''It's a long road, but it was great to see her the way she was. She was scoring with two people hanging on her arms, and finishing and getting to the free-throw line.''
Williams, who had her fourth 20-point game of the season, finished with eight rebounds. Chelsea Gray chipped in 12 points and tied her career high with seven steals, while Haley Peters had five points to go with 10 rebounds.
Monet Tellier led the Hokies (7-10, 1-5) with 10 points. Ugu Ugoka had four points-on 2-for-13 shooting-and nine rebounds.
''Obviously we need to play better on offense if we're going to be in a game against a team as good as this,'' said Tech's second-year head coach Dennis Wolff, whose team had lost its previous game 74-45 to No. 10 Maryland on Sunday. ''I thought for the first 12-15 minutes we competed pretty good, and it has happened to us that when it unravels it totally unravels. The turnovers that led to baskets had some of our younger kids looking shell-shocked.''
Duke's next game is on Monday night at No. 3 Connecticut.
The Blue Devils have won 33 straight home games against ACC opposition. It was Duke's lowest scoring output of the season and worst shooting night, and its eight assists were a season low.
Virginia Tech, which lost by its largest margin of the season, was 1-for-10 from the free-throw line.
''It was a really great defensive game to hold them to a low of 26 and force 27 turnovers,'' McCallie said. ''19 steals, that was good. We saw some good shooting by Elizabeth and Chelsea, but then from there there was a lack of concentration across the board. Offensively we had very weak numbers, and that's why you play defense.
Duke led 29-12 at halftime behind 11 points from Williams.
''I'm feeling really good,'' said Williams, who is from Virginia Beach. ''Like Coach said, being able to finish with contact is a big thing for me right now. Getting to the line and being able to do that was nice. Any ACC game is motivating for me.''
The Blue Devils never trailed, with Williams' three-point play with 16:28 left in the first half making it 5-2 and starting a 7-0 run.
Tellier's 3-pointer at 10:02 cut the advantage to 16-12, but Duke ran off the last 13 points of the half.
Using a stifling full-court press the Blue Devils scored the first nine points of the second half, five from Williams, before a Hokie timeout at 17:51.
Duke scored 24 straight points before Tech freshman Alexis Lloyd, who didn't play in the first half, hit a short jumper to make it 40-14 with 17:19 left.


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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose three points to 59 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for August, released today. This fourth consecutive monthly gain brings the index to its highest level in nearly eight years. "Builders are seeing more motivated buyers walk through their doors than they have in quite some time," said NAHB Chairman Rick Judson, a home builder from Charlotte, N.C. "What's more, firming home prices and thinning inventories of homes for sale are contributing to an increased sense of urgency among those who are in the market." "Builder confidence continues to strengthen along with rising demand for a limited supply of new and existing homes in most local markets," noted NAHB Chief Economist David Crowe. "However, this positive momentum is being slowed by the ongoing headwinds of tight credit and low supplies of finished lots and labor." Derived from a monthly survey that NAHB has been conducting for 25 years, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index gauges builder perceptions of current single-family home sales and sales expectations for the next six months as "good," "fair" or "poor." The survey also asks builders to rate traffic of prospective buyers as "high to very high," "average" or "low to very low." Scores from each component are then used to calculate a seasonally adjusted index where any number over 50 indicates that more builders view conditions as good than poor. Two of the HMI's three components posted gains in August. The component gauging current sales conditions rose three points to 62, while the component gauging sales expectations in the next six months gained a single point to 68 and the component gauging traffic of prospective buyers held unchanged at 45. All but one region saw a gain in its three-month moving average HMI score in August. The Midwest and West each posted six-point increases, to 60 and 57, respectively, while the South posted a four-point gain to 54 and the Northeast held unchanged at 39.


text: In collaboration with the Institute of Linguistics at the University of Iceland, the IECASTP/NonCanCase project at the University of Bergen is organizing a conference on "Non-Canonically Case-Marked Subjects within and across Languages and Language Families: Stability, Variation and Change" Invited Speakers: - Miriam Butt (University of Constance) - Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland) - Julie Ann Legate (University of Pennsylvania) - Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) Date: 4.-8. June 2012 Location: Reykjavík and Hótel Hekla (near Eyjafjallajökull) Website 1: http://vefir.hi.is/SubjectCase (under construction) website 2: http://org.uib.no/iecastp/IECASTP/SubjectCase.htm Contact Person: Tonya Kim Dewey (University of Bergen) Official Email: SubjectCase @ gmail.com Call for papers: Oblique, "quirky", or non-canonically case-marked subjects have been the focus of enormous interest and massive research ever since Andrews (1976) and Masica (1976). Early on, research in this area was mainly carried out within the generative tradition, but by now interest in oblique subjects has spread to all other frameworks (cf. papers in Aikhenvald, Dixon & Onishi 2001, Bhaskararao & Subbarao 2004, and Malchukov & Spencer 2009). The attention has generally been on the syntactic behavior of oblique subjects, such as their ability to be left unexpressed in conjoined clauses and control infinitives, their ability to figure in object and subject raising, and to control reflexives, as well as on their word order properties (e.g. Sigurðsson 1991). Nevertheless, the validity of certain tests for subjecthood remains controversial, especially in diachronic studies (e.g. Eythórsson & Barðdal 2005). Recent research has increasingly turned to the semantics of oblique subjects, both within individual languages and within language families. Barðdal et. al (2011), for instance, show that there is a host of lexical-semantic verb classes associated with oblique subjects in several of the ancient/archaic Indo-European languages, ranging from experiencer, cognition, perception, and attitudinal predicates, to all kinds of happenstance predicates and predicates denoting purely relational and ontological states. Oblique subjects may also denote possession, modality and evidentiality, as well as featuring in the intransitive variant of causative pairs (anticausatives) in some Indo-European languages (e.g. Cennamo, Eythórsson & Barðdal 2011). In a wider typological perspective, it remains to be established which semantic features are language-family-specific and which are generally found cross-linguistically. Given the central role that Icelandic has played in research on oblique subjects (witness the classic paper by Zaenen, Maling & Thráinsson 1985), Iceland is the obvious location for this conference. The conference will start in Reykjavík, followed by a one-day tour in Southern Iceland, visiting Thingvellir, Geysir, Gullfoss and other places of great natural beauty and historical interest. The concluding part of the conference will take place at Hótel Hekla, a charming country hotel about 70 km east of the capital, Reykjavík, with a marvelous view of (in)famous volcanoes such as Hekla and Eyjafjallajökull. We welcome contributions focusing on a specific language, language family or cross-linguistic comparison, from different theoretical frameworks, on all aspects of oblique subjects, synchronic, diachronic and typological, including the following: - The semantics of the oblique subject construction, for instance in terms of lexical semantics, within a single language, or in a comparative or a typological perspective - The syntactic behavior of oblique subjects within a language, a language family, or across languages - The validity of particular tests for subjecthood, both in modern languages as well as corpus languages (e.g. the older Indo-European languages). - The dichotomy between oblique subjects and subject-like obliques which pass some, but perhaps not all, of the subject tests, and its practical and theoretical implications - The origin and emergence of non-canonical subject case marking The potential role of oblique anticausatives in the emergence of oblique subjects - The syntax and semantics of oblique subjects in non-Indo-European languages Please submit your abstracts of 500 words or less through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=subjectcase2012, no later than November 15th, 2011. A response on abstracts will be sent out on December 15th, 2011. References: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., R.M.W. Dixon & M. Onishi (eds.). 2001. Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Andrews, Avery D. 1976. The VP complement analysis in Modern Icelandic. North Eastern Linguistic Society 6: 1-21. Barðdal, Jóhanna, Valgerður Bjarnadóttir, Eystein Dahl, Gard B. Jenset & Thomas Smitherman. 2011. Reconstructing Constructional Semantics: The Dative Subject Construction in Old Norse-Icelandic, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Russian and Lithuanian. Submitted to a thematic volume in Studies in Language, entitled "Theory and Data in Cognitive Linguistics", Nikolas Gisborne & Willem Hollmann (eds). Bhaskararao, Peri & K. V. Subbarao (eds.) 2004. Non-Nominative Subjects. (2 vols.) (Typological studies in language 60-61.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Cennamo, Michela, Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Anticausative Constructions in Indo-European: The Context of Latin and Germanic. Submitted to a thematic volume in Linguistics, entitled ?Typology of Labile Verbs: Focus on Diachrony?, Leonid Kulikov & Nikolaos Lavidas (eds). Eythórsson, Thórhallur & Jóhanna Barðdal. 2005. Oblique Subjects: A Common Germanic Inheritance. Language 81(4): 824-881. Malchukov, Andrej & Andrew Spencer (eds.). 2009. In The Oxford Handbook of Case. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Masica, Colin P. 1976. Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sigurðsson, Halldór Ármann. 1991. Icelandic Case-Marked PRO and the Licensing of Lexical Arguments. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 9: 327-362. Zaenen, Annie, Joan Maling & Höskuldur Thráinsson. 1985. Case and Grammatical Functions: The Icelandic Passive. 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Ulcerative colitis is an inflammation of the lining of the large bowel (colon and rectum). Symptoms include rectal bleeding, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, weight loss, and fevers. In addition, patients who have had extensive ulcerative colitis for many years are at an increased risk to develop large bowel cancer. The cause of ulcerative colitis remains unknown.
Initial treatment of ulcerative colitis is medical, using antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medications such as aminosalicylates. If these fail, prednisone can be used for a short period of time but long-term use can be associated with significant side effects. If prednisone is ineffective or cannot be discontinued, immunomodulators such as 6-mercaptopurine or azathioprine can be used to control active disease that does not merit hospitalization. In order to maintain control of the disease, aminosalicylates or immunomodulators are used on a long-term basis. "Flare-ups" of the disease can often be treated by increasing the dosage of medications or adding new medications. Hospitalization may be necessary to put the bowel to rest and deliver steriods directly into the blood stream.
Surgery is indicated for patients who have life-threatening complications of inflammatory bowel diseases, such as massive bleeding, perforation, or infection. It may also be necessary for those who have the chronic form of the disease, which fails to improve with medical therapy. It is important the patient be comfortable that all reasonable medical therapy has been attempted prior to considering surgical therapy. In addition, patients who have long-standing ulcerative colitis may be candidates for removal of the large bowel, because of the increased risk of developing cancer. More often, these patients are followed carefully with repeated colonoscopy and biopsy, and surgery is recommended only if precancerous signs are identified.
Historically, the standard operation for ulcerative colitis has been removal of the entire colon, rectum, and anus. This operation is called a proctocolectomy (Illustration A) and may be performed in one or more stages. It eliminates the disease and removes all risk of developing cancer in the colon or rectum. However, this operation requires creation of a Brooke ileostomy (bringing the end of the remaining bowel through the abdomen wall, Illustration B) and long-term use of an appliance on the abdominal wall to collect waste from the bowel.
The continent ileostomy ( Illustration C) is similar to a Brooke ileostomy, but an internal reservoir is created. The bowel still comes through the abdominal wall, but an external appliance is not required. Instead, the internal reservoir is drained three to four times a day by inserting a tube into the reservoir. This option eliminates the risks of cancer and risks of recurrent persistent colitis, but the internal reservoir may begin to leak and require another surgical procedure to revise the reservoir.
Some patients may be treated by removal of the colon, with preservation of the rectum and anus. The small bowel can then be reconnected to the rectum and continence preserved. This avoids an ileostomy, but the risks of ongoing active colitis, increased stool frequency, urgency, and cancer in the retained rectum remain.
The ileoanal procedure is the most common surgical treatment for the management of ulcerative colitis. This procedure removes all of the colon and rectum, but preserves the anal canal. The rectum is replaced with small bowel, which is refashioned to form a small pouch. Usually, a temporary ileostomy is created, but this is closed several months later. The pouch acts as a reservoir to help decrease the stool frequency. This maintains a normal route of defecation, but most patients experience five to ten bowel movements per day. This operation all but eliminates the risk of recurrent ulcerative colitis and allows the patient to have a normal route of evacuation. Patients can develop inflammation of the pouch (pouchitis), which usually responds to antibiotic treatment. In a small percentage of patients, the pouch fails to function properly and may have to be removed. If the pouch is removed, a permanent ileostomy will likely be necessary.
It is important to recognize that none of these alternatives makes a patient with ulcerative colitis normal. Each alternative has perceivable advantages and disadvantages, which must be carefully understood by the patient prior to selecting the alternative which will allow the patient to pursue the highest quality of life.
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Reese Witherspoon speaks on arrest: I panicked
(CNN) -- After canceling TV appearances in light of her disorderly conduct arrest last month, Reese Witherspoon is ready to talk.
The 37-year-old actress sat down with "Good Morning America" Thursday to explain just what happened in Atlanta on April 19, when Witherspoon allegedly interfered with the arrest of her husband, Jim Toth, on a drunk driving charge.
But it wasn't just the allegations of drunk driving that caught attention - it was the star's reported dialogue, as described in the police report. "Do you know my name?" a Georgia state trooper recalled Witherspoon saying. "You're about to find out who I am."
Speaking with "GMA's" George Stephanopoulos, Witherspoon could only say that it was "one of those nights."
"We went out to dinner in Atlanta, and we had one too many glasses of wine, and we thought we were fine to drive and we absolutely were not," she said. "It's completely unacceptable, and we are so sorry and embarrassed. We know better and we shouldn't have done that."
While the couple could've taken a car service or a taxi, they "made a mistake," Witherspoon said. "It was just poor judgment ... just bad judgment, you know?"
But as for those comments she made to the police officer, Witherspoon doesn't know where that came from.
"I have no idea what I was saying ... I saw him arresting my husband, and I literally panicked," Witherspoon recalled. "I said all kinds of crazy things. I told him I was pregnant, I'm not pregnant ... I had no idea what I was talking about. I'm so sorry, I was so disrespectful to him. I have police officers in my family, I work with police officers everyday, I know better. It's just unacceptable."
Now that it's all in her rearview, Witherspoon is looking at the lessons she's learned from all of this.
"When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car. I learned that for sure," she said, laughing. "I think I've played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer, and clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested. So yeah, I learned a lot."


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WASHINGTON (AP) – Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005-2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday.
The report said 29 of the chemicals injected were known-or-suspected human carcinogens. They either were regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act as risks to human health or listed as hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
Methanol was the most widely used chemical. The substance is a hazardous air pollutant and is on the candidate list for potential regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The report was issued by Reps. Henry Waxman of California, Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Diana DeGette of Colorado.
The chemicals are injected during hydraulic fracturing, a process used in combination with horizontal drilling to allow access to natural gas reserves previously considered uneconomical.
The growing use of hydraulic fracturing has allowed natural gas production in the United States to reach levels not achieved since the early 1970s.
However, the process requires large quantities of water and fluids, injected underground at high volumes and pressure. The composition of these fluids ranges from a simple mixture of water and sand to more complex mixtures with chemical additives.
The report said that from 2005-2009, the following states had at least 100,000 gallons of hydraulic fracturing fluids containing a carcinogen: Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming, North Dakota, New Mexico, Montana and Utah.
States with 100,000 gallons or more of fluids containing a regulated chemical under the Safe Drinking Water Act were: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mississippi and North Dakota.
The report said many chemical components were listed as "proprietary" or "trade secret."
"Hydraulic fracturing has opened access to vast domestic reserves of natural gas that could provide an important stepping stone to a clean energy future," the report said.
"Yet, questions about the safety of hydraulic fracturing persist, which are compounded by the secrecy surrounding the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluids. This analysis is the most comprehensive national assessment to date of the types and volumes of chemical used in the hydraulic fracturing process."
The investigation of chemicals used in fracturing was started in the last Congress by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which then was controlled by Democrats. The committee asked the 14 leading oil and gas service companies to disclose the types and volumes of the hydraulic fracturing products they used between 2005 and 2009 and the chemical contents of those products
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Lots of video games claim to be scary. Amnesia, Dead Space, you name it, if it's dark and things jump out of closets at you, it's "scary". Don't let video game developers tell you what's scary. Let science.
User experience studio Vertical Slice has conducted research into scary games, using a 500-person psychological database, six live test subjects and fancy gear that measured stuff like skin temperature, sweat levels, and heart rate.
That's the good stuff. The bad stuff? They only tested on the Xbox 360, and then only tested from a shortlist of games deemed scary enough to be on the shortlist. Some titles considered, but ditched, included Left 4 Dead 2, Gears of War 2, Condemned 2, FEAR 1 & 2, Dead Space 1, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Alone in the Dark and Mass Effect 2. Likely because half of them aren't scary in the slightest.
The four titles picked in the end to test on the live subjects were Alan Wake, Resident Evil 5, Dead Space 2 and Condemned.
In the end, the study found that casual and hardcore players were affected differently by horror in games, core players being less susceptible to scares (because we know basic game design, like what an area looks like when there's fighting to be done).
It also found that across both groups Dead Space 2 was the scariest game of the lot, proving that monster closet gags may be clichéd, but they also work.
So sorry, Amnesia. And sorry, Sherlock Holmes. Maybe next time they'll expand the platforms a little and include you too!
Scary Game Findings: A Study Of Horror Games And Their Players [Gamasutra, thanks Gavin!]
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The man behind a World War II party that featured Nazi flags and men dressed in SS uniforms said it was an exercise for actors who play historical roles at fairs and in movies, not a political statement.
His explanation comes days after a leaked photo from the private event was published online by City Pages, provoking a firestorm of protest against the party and the northeast Minneapolis restaurant, Gasthof zur Gemutlichkeit, that hosted it.
"By no means do we glorify the edicts of the Third Reich," said Scott Steben, who characterized himself as a history buff who has landed movie parts as a German soldier. "I understand the sensitivity of the subject matter and everything but it did occur and it is history."
He said the group screens out neo-nazis or anyone with a criminal record. He also defended the practice of wearing German uniforms, likening themselves to fans who dress up as Star Trek characters.
Two Jewish organizations issued a statement Tuesday saying they would like to help the restaurant find a way to honor Minnesota's World War II veterans and Holocaust survivors by not associating with German military re-enactors.
"Glorification and/or celebration of Nazi Germany and its military would appear to be incongruous with the nature of a family restaurant and its surrounding neighborhood," wrote Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas Executive Director Steve Hunegs in a statement. His comments were supported by the Minnesota Rabbinical Association.
The party was held on Martin Luther King Day, but Steben said it was the group's annual Christmas party, which has been held in January for the last six years at Gasthof's. The party always gets booked on a Monday because it's the only day of the week that the restaurant is closed, he said.
The Jan. 20 party drew concern from a Gasthof staff member, who was one of three working that night. The staffer shot at least five photos with his cellphone that show people milling about in German army uniforms with four Nazi banners hanging in one of the restaurant's dining rooms. Another photo shows a black T-shirt adorned with a Swastika that the staff member was given by someone at the party.
The photos themselves were shown to a Star Tribune reporter by a friend of the staffer. Neither agreed to be identified.
The staffer was fired Friday after he admitted to Gasthof's owner Mario Pierzchalski that he took the photos and shared them with friends.
Restaurant threatened
Pierzchalski said he's hosted the party for six years but won't host it again. He defended the people who attended it, who included men dressed as Italian soldiers and one as an American soldier.
"Those people are very peaceful people," he said referring to the party goers. "They are not any politicians or any against politics or against the parties here. They are just actors."
A native of Poland who came from a town, Kozienice, that saw a brutal purge of its Jewish residents during World War II, Pierzchalski said he doesn't believe in Nazism but cherishes the freedom he found in the United States when he emigrated here in 1993. He said he's been taken aback by the hostile reaction many people have had to the party, including threatening online comments and phone calls to the restaurant.
"So now we have a lot of bad messages on our phones; they want to burn down the building," he said.
"We live in a free country...but from the comments I see, a lot of people they don't see what freedom is. If I break the law, punish me. But we did this for so many years and everything was fine."
Steben, the party's organizer, has two acting credits listed on the Internet Movie Database, both of them for playing German soldiers. He said many of the people who gathered at Gasthof's in January had parts in a recent made-in-Minnesota film, "Memorial Day."
The 2011 movie starring James Cromwell tells the story of a grandson discovering his grandfather's military past in a foot locker, learning about past wars and growing up to serve in the Minnesota National Guard. A portion of the film includes recreations of World War II.
The film's director, Sam Fischer, said he didn't authorize or endorse the Gasthof party but confirmed that Steben was in his film.
"I love the guys for being a part of the film; I couldn't have done it without all of the re-enactors," he said, while calling the party and its Nazi-themed props a "very odd circumstance."


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text: Anna and Eli Anna Thompson and Eli VandenBerg began their relationship almost 12 years ago as a lesbian couple. Anna had been dating Eli's ex-girlfriend, now a trans man. Eli laughs as he explains, "Anna has tried very hard to be a lesbian, but all of the women she has dated have transitioned to men." From the beginning, Eli and Anna were very comfortable with each other. They conversed easily, finding they had plenty to talk about and shared similar world views. When they shared a twin bed in the middle of August with no air conditioning, they knew they had something special. As artists, one a printmaker and one a jewelry maker, they both understand the need for time alone to create. "Part of what keeps us going so well is that we close the door and have our own space and then we come together and have space together," says Eli. Eli began transitioning while in graduate school in New York. Anna stayed in Philadelphia, where they had begun their relationship, and they alternated traveling to see each other on the weekends. It was a good time for Eli to begin his transition, says Anna, to reinvent himself while surrounded by his art and a new group of friends. Eli was surprised at how much he changed. He thought that he would simply be "the same person, just with a flat chest and facial hair," but in a new body, he found himself going from a very butch dyke who could still cry easily to a raging maniac, or as Anna says, "a really selfish teenage boy." Relationships are complicated enough but introducing this other dimension made the road even more difficult. They were young. When they met, Anna was only 21, an age when most people are developing their sense of how they want to be in the world. Imagine how much more complicated to do so in a relationship where the partner is transitioning to another gender. There was no manual for what they were experiencing. As Eli explains, "You can't go to your friend and ask, 'Oh, what happened to you when your girlfriend became your boyfriend?' " Anna was struggling with rocky events in her own life so the transitioning was extra challenging. But she wisely explains, "It wasn't something that I would decide for him. It wasn't like I could say NO, I would much prefer that you remain incredibly unhappy.'" She could have left the relationship but chose to stay. When asked why, with tears in her eyes she says simply, "Because I loved him." She further explains, "It's just such a big change but at the same time if something is making your partner happier and more themselves, that's not hard. And it shouldn't be. You would never want to stay with somebody that keeps you from realizing your full potential. For me it's just figuring it out and learning how to trust and stay in something that's tough and challenging because you believe the fundamental things of it are solid." Eli and Anna are the exception to the rule when it comes to family acceptance of gender transition: since both of theirs are very supportive. His mother was there for his first testosterone shot and for his top surgery. Unfortunately, they heard sad tales from Eli's surgeons about a lack of such acceptance and understanding, about patients leaving surgery in a taxi for a hotel where they had to heal in solitude. Anna and Eli agree that the transitioning was not easy, but that being a trans couple does not define their relationship. "It's genuine trust and partnership and respect," says Anna. They have learned together that everyone transitions together. "It's you and everyone around you," says Eli. "You transition as a family and as a couple and you have to be there for your partner as much as they are there for you." "It is important," says Anna, "It's important to live the truth of who you are. Be loving and caring people." Eli says he tries to remember every day to be excited about the other person, to really celebrate the other person, to be excited that he has this person who has chosen to be with him and to share her life with him. He says that Anna is passionate and driven and knows herself to a point that he finds really inspiring. He used to find himself dreaming about major life events like marriage and children, but one day he found himself daydreaming about the little life events like sitting on a porch together with Anna, talking and drinking iced tea at the age of 80. "Knowing that we could continue to be inspired and excited by each other for a lifetime, I think that's what made me know that I wanted to stay with her forever."


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Equality law guidance for businesses that provide goods, facilities or services to the public or a section of the public.
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Ticha Penicheiro didn't need to play another WNBA season. Her legacy in the league is secure.
Penicheiro won a championship with the Sacramento Monarchs in 2005 and has been an All-Star four times. She is the WNBA's all-time assists leader and ranks second in steals. She was voted one of the league's top 15 players of all time last year. She has played in 436 WNBA games.
Penicheiro could have retired at 37 with no stone left unturned. She was certainly thinking about it.
But then Pokey Chatman called and asked Penicheiro to sign with the Chicago Sky.
"We were on the same page, we wanted the same things," Penicheiro said. "I felt very connected with her."
Chatman, the Sky's second-year coach, wanted a veteran guard to shepherd her young point guard, Courtney Vandersloot. She said she needed leadership as she tried to assemble a team to make the franchise's first playoff run.
Penicheiro wants to wring out the last days of her career at a place where she can mentor, and win.
"It was a perfect fit for me," Penicheiro said. "I want to help this team with my experiences to make the playoffs."
Chatman said Penicheiro "has been a winner wherever she's played."
"I needed a strong, championship-winning personality," Chatman said.
She also needed something of a den mother. Penicheiro is already calling herself the "team mama."
In her 15th WNBA season -- only Seattle's Tina Thompson has logged more seasons in the league -- Penicheiro won't be playing the same kind of minutes she played a few seasons ago. In the Sky's season-opening win over Washington, she played just more than three minutes. She averaged 23.7 minutes a game last season in Los Angeles, starting 23 games.
"It's a long season," Penicheiro said. "But if I didn't feel like I could still play, I wouldn't be here. I want to play. I can contribute on the court and off the court, too."
Vandersloot, in her second WNBA season after becoming a breakout star at Gonzaga, is already comfortable under Penicheiro's wing.
"It's been great to have her out there," Vandersloot said. "It helps you feeling a little more comfortable and she's always looking to help. I can go to her if I have a quick question, or to pick her brain."
Penicheiro spent the first 12 seasons of her career as the stalwart franchise player of the Monarchs. When the Monarchs folded, she strongly considered retiring before signing for two seasons with the Sparks.
Penicheiro joked that her body talks to her.
"My mind feels the same, I feel a lot of joy and I enjoy competing at the highest level, but my body doesn't feel the way it did when I was 25 of 27," Penicheiro said. "I have always been allergic to the training room. I have never been a good patient and I've tried to avoid it. But you have to pay more attention to little things than you used to."
Penicheiro acknowledged that she already knows this "might" be her last season.
"I keep telling my friends, 'This is my last year,'" Penicheiro said. "Now they just say, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' Nobody believes me anymore."
But this really, truly could be it for one of the greatest players in the league's history.
"I want to enjoy this as much as I can," Penicheiro said. "I don't want to play until the wheels fall off.
"But this is an amazing job and I've been blessed to be a part of the WNBA. I never thought basketball would have given me this much joy."


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Field of study
In 2008, across all levels of higher education, the most common fields of study for overseas students were Management and commerce, Information technology, and Engineering and related technologies (graph 12.23), a somewhat different pattern to that for the total population of students - where the most common fields of study were Management and commerce, Society and culture, Health, and Education.
Level of study
In the higher education sector, overseas student numbers are highest in Bachelor degrees followed by Post-graduate degrees (graph 12.24). There were slightly different patterns in field of study at specific education levels. For example, at the Post-graduate degree level, overseas students primarily studied Management and commerce (55%), Information technology (11%), and Society and culture (9%), while at the Bachelor degree level, overseas students most commonly studied Management and commerce (53%), Health (9.9%), and Engineering and related technologies (8.9%). See table 12.20 for comparable figures relating to all students.
Impact on the economy
Overseas higher education students spent a total of $9.5 billion dollars in the 2008-09 financial year. This was comprised of $3.2 billion in fees and $6.3 billion in goods and services. Overall, across all education sectors, fees accounted for $6.3 billion while goods and services accounted for $10.2 billion, adding to a total of $16.5 billion in Australia's international trade in education services (excluding AusAID and Defence, which totalled $0.1 billion).
For more information on export of education services, see ABS International Trade in Services, 2008-09 (5368.0.55.003) on the ABS website.


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Memo: Dell Plans to Overtake Hewlett-Packard in Server Market Share
Despite the M&A uncertainty hovering over Dell (NASDAQ:DELL), the PC maker's founder and CEO reportedly told employees this week that his transformation efforts are already yielding results.
In a memo obtained by Bloomberg News, Michael Dell said he plans to knock Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) off its perch as the No. 1 server company this year. Gartner market-share statistics show Dell trailed H-P in global server shipments 26.5% to 21.3% in the fourth quarter.
"It is an exciting and achievable goal, which will put us in a strong position," the executive told employees in the Monday memo, Bloomberg reported. "We've made so much progress in building out our enterprise capabilities."
Reacting to slumping PC sales, Dell has sought to reinvent itself as a broader technology company rather than simply a computer maker.
In the memo, Michael Dell also laid out his plans to boost investments in personal computers, tablets and emerging markets while simultaneously targeting more business customers, Bloomberg reported.
The encouraging talk from Michael Dell stands in stark contrast with the dreary picture laid out by Dell in a proxy statement on Friday that sought to explain the company's rationale for attempting to go private.
Michael Dell told the board that beginning a dramatic transformation of the company before going private would be "poorly received" by investors, weakening earnings and causing "greater volatility" in stock prices, the Securities and Exchange Commission filing said.
Teaming up with Silver Lake Partners, Michael Dell has offered to take the technology company private for about $24.4 billion, or $13.65 a share.
However, after Dell's largest outside shareholders voiced opposition to the leveraged buyout, Blackstone Group (NYSE:BX) has unveiled its own bid that is valued at more than $14.25 a share and allows shareholders to keep a stake in the company.
At the same time, billionaire Carl Icahn has offered to acquire a 58% stake in Dell for about $15 a share.
Shares of Round Rock, Texas-based Dell dipped 0.07% to $14.29 in premarket trading Tuesday morning.


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The following is a guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility and "The Death of Environmentalism." Nordhaus and Shellenberger are managing directors at American Environics and the founders of the Breakthrough Institute.
This month the world celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the international treaty that phased out ozone-destroying chemicals. For environmentalists, the Montreal Protocol has long been a model for action on global warming. In the words of David Doniger, the climate director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, "The lesson from Montreal is that curbing global warming will not be as hard as it looks."
Indeed, when one looks back at the pollution problems of old, none of them were as hard or as expensive to solve as the affected industries claimed they would be. Scrubbers on smokestacks, catalytic converters on cars, lead out of gasoline, and alternatives to ozone-depleting chemicals — these technical fixes came at a very low cost to the economy, industry, and consumers.
The same will be true, environmentalists say, when it comes to global warming. All the alternatives we need — efficiency, conservation, renewables, sequestration, and even nuclear — already exist. We just need to scale them up.
Sure, global warming is a bigger problem, they acknowledge. But it will be solved just like we solved acid rain: by auctioning emissions permits and allowing firms to trade them. To reduce U.S. emissions by 80 percent between 2010 and 2050, we simply need to reduce the total allowable emissions by two percent each year.
By limiting the amount of emissions each year, and auctioning or giving away a limited number of emissions permits to firms, governments will effectively create a price for carbon dioxide emissions. This price will create value for reducing emissions, and the free market — firms trading emissions permits for emissions reductions — will find the most efficient way to reduce our greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050. And as dirty energy sources like coal and oil become more expensive, clean energy sources will become cost-competitive and more widely used.
It is true, environmental leaders acknowledge, that China and the rest of the developing world haven't agreed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. But they are just waiting for the U.S. to act. These countries, China in particular, are receiving billions of investment from European firms purchasing emissions reductions. They will see the wisdom of limiting their emissions so that, in the future, they can stay in the emissions trading system. And while the developed nations that ratified Kyoto saw their emissions go up, not down, they are just getting started. The U.S. will learn from Europe's mistakes, and the next version of the Kyoto treaty will be executed much better.
The Regulation-Centered Approach
This pollution regulation framework offered by environmentalists for dealing with global warming is, for many, a reassuring one. For 15 years it has provided policymakers, the media, and the public with a mental model for understanding how such a massive problem like climate change could be solved in an organic way by the market, perhaps the most powerful institution ever created by human beings.
There's just one problem: it won't work.
There are five reasons why setting a price on carbon dioxide, either through a cap and trade approach or an outright tax, cannot reduce greenhouse gas emissions anywhere close to what is needed.
1. The regulation-centered approach won't result in the deep reductions in global carbon emissions that climate scientists believe are necessary to avoid catastrophic climate impacts. The consensus among climate scientists is that we must reduce global carbon emissions by roughly 80 percent by the end of this century in order to avoid catastrophic climate change. Many have come to the position that U.S. emissions must be reduced 80 percent by 2050. But current regulatory approaches will result in modest, not deep, reductions in carbon emissions. This is due to a combination of technical, economic, and political constraints.
Technically, there simply do not yet exist the low-cost, low-carbon technologies that could be quickly brought to scale to replace carbon intensive energy sources. The environmentalist line that "we just need to scale up existing technologies" is only partly true. It is true that some strategies for reducing emissions, such as efficiency and conservation, can be scaled up immediately. But technologies like solar and carbon capture and storage are still far more expensive than coal and gas.
Pricing carbon at $35 – 100/ton — whether through cap and trade or carbon taxes — can help us to get part of the way there. Carbon at those prices will drive investments into efficiency and conservation, and will create incentives for energy providers to build gas-fired rather than coal-fired plants. These measures could result in emissions reductions on the order of roughly 20 percent by mid-century. But to achieve major reductions on the order of 80 percent, we will need to replace coal and oil as energy sources almost entirely. And that will require dramatic technology breakthroughs to bring down the price of clean alternatives.
Economically, the price of carbon dioxide would have to be set at exorbitant levels for today's clean energy alternatives to become cost-competitive with coal, gas, and oil. The IPCC estimates that establishing a global carbon price of $184/ton — a figure five times higher than what legislation in the Senate would set it at — would still only result in a reduction of global carbon emissions by 20-38 percent by 2030. To reduce greenhouse gases by 90 percent by 2050 in the United States through regulation alone, carbon would have to priced at around $300 dollars/ton between 2010 and 2030, and at a whopping $600-800/ton between 2030 and 2050. To gain a sense of the impact this would have on consumers, not to mention the economy as a whole, consider that carbon priced at $700/ton would increase the price of coal-generated electricity in the U.S. two and a half times.
Politically, if action on global warming depends on voters and politicians accepting higher energy prices, there will be very little action on global warming. That's because voters consistently rank global warming dead last as a priority — and just as consistently rank rising gasoline and electricity prices as a top concern. Understandably, then, politicians care more about keeping energy prices low than they do about global warming.
2. Governments will continue to set a low price for carbon, which will prevent clean energy sources from becoming cost-competitive. Tradable pollution limits and a price for carbon could result in some emissions reductions — just not reductions approaching anything close to 80 percent in the U.S. or 50 percent worldwide. Recognizing that voters care more about the cost of energy than global warming, most policies under consideration in Congress would price carbon at around $30-75/ton. At that low price, private investment will flow toward the least expensive emissions reductions, such as burning methane from landfills, purchasing forest land for carbon sequestration, shifting from coal to natural gas, or retrofitting power plants and buildings so they operate more efficiently. Private investment would not, for the most part, flow toward breakthrough technologies like low-cost solar energy and carbon capture and storage, which are required to displace coal-based energy.
3. Developing nations like China will not sacrifice their economic growth to reduce its emissions. Reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent worldwide through regulatory limits alone would require setting a very high for carbon. For carbon capture and storage to become economically viable, carbon would have to be priced between $100-200/ton. For solar photovoltaic to become cost-competitive without other subsidies, carbon would have to priced at well over $500/ton.
It is important to keep in mind that high carbon prices would, in today's carbon-heavy energy economy, translate into dramatic increases in the price of energy and everything else that requires energy (which is to say, virtually everything). Given that increasing energy use and consumption are highly correlated with longer life spans and higher living standards in developing nations, a high carbon price would represent a major obstacle to economic development for poor countries.
Environmental leaders insist that once the U.S. acts, so will China. They point to the fact that Chinese firms are earning billions selling emissions reductions to European firms, thus giving China a stake in the success of global emissions trading. Moreover, China is genuinely worried about global warming.
Nevertheless, there is no reason to believe that if China does eventually set a price for carbon it will set it high enough price — at, say, $100-$200/ton — for carbon capture and storage facilities to become cost-competitive. Doing so would dramatically slow the rapid climb that hundreds of millions of Chinese are making out of poverty. But even if the Chinese government were to set a high price for carbon as early as 2030, China will have already constructed hundreds of coal-fired power plants — few of which will be compatible with carbon capture and storage plans.
In the end, the only way the Chinese government will be able to substantially reduce its emissions is if the price of clean energy and carbon capture technologies come down enough to get within striking distance of the price of fossil fuels — with or without a price for carbon.
4. Dramatic and rapid technological breakthroughs will not be primarily driven by the private sector. Private firms will play an important role in bringing new technologies to market — and carbon pricing will play an important role in making market conditions more amenable to clean energy technologies. However, private firms will not make the large, long-term investments in R&D and deployment, nor can they create the public infrastructure (e.g., new transmission lines) needed for the new energy economy. The energy sector is unlike the pharmaceutical, software, and computer sectors. Energy R&D requires far larger sums of investment capital than are required for other technologies, which helps explain why energy remains one of the least innovative sector of the economy (coal and oil being very old fuel sources). Unlike those other industries, it is extremely difficult for energy firms to protect their patents against reverse engineering. And even pharmaceutical, software, computer and Internet industries all depended in their formative decades on large-scale government investments in education, infrastructure, and R&D.
5. Public investment will be far more important than pollution limits in driving technological innovation and reducing the real price of clean energy. This point seems to be controversial only among environmentalists.
Anyone who read the media coverage of the spring 2007 IPCC report would be forgiven for having thought that the U.N. had simply reiterated the long-standing consensus that global warming is happening and being caused by humans. In fact, the 2007 IPCC report went much further, calling not just for regulation but also for large public investments into clean energy. "Public benefits of RD&D investments are bigger than the benefits captured by the private sector," the IPCC report concluded, "justifying government support of RD&D."
Similarly, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the influential report commissioned by the British government in October 2006, recommends that governments boost their clean-energy investments from current global levels of $34 billion (an amount that includes nuclear) to between $68 billion and $170 billion annually. Indeed, whether it's the recommendations presented by the IPCC, the Stern Review, Scientific American, or top energy innovation experts, investment is universally seen as a central element in overcoming ecological crisis. "Funding for energy research," Scientific American said in its lead editorial in a special issue dedicated to clean energy, "must be accorded the privileged status usually reserved for health care and defense." In the 2002 Science article by New York University physicist Martin Hoffert and 16 other leading energy experts that inspired the two of us to co-found the call for a "New Apollo Project" on energy, Hoffert et. al argued that, "although regulation can play a role, the fossil fuel greenhouse effect is an energy problem that cannot be simply regulated away."
Given all of this, it seems odd that global warming was ever seen as fundamentally similar problem to the hole in the ozone — much less one that will not be hard to fix. Granted, both problems are consequences of human pollution. But whereas dealing with the ozone hole required a simple, inexpensive chemical substitute, global warming demands a totally different way of producing energy. We were able to fight smog without replacing oil. We dealt with acid rain without dismantling our power plants. And we will phase out ozone-depleting chemicals without affecting any of our energy sources. But to deal with global warming, we will need an almost entirely new energy infrastructure.
An Investment-Centered Agenda
For the last 15 years, environmentalists have been locked in a debate with opponents of action on global warming who have claimed that a) the U.S. should not act on global warming unless China does as well, and b) regulations will harm the economy. As a result, whenever we raise the specter of China, and describe the limits to pollution regulations, we get accused of either opposing pollution regulations or wanting to move slowly on global warming, or both. Bill McKibben writes in his review of Break Through, "The antipathy of Shellenberger and Nordhaus to placing limits on carbon emissions, an antipathy based on their fervent belief in what they hear in their surveys, locks them into accepting slower progress than is necessary and possible."
The truth is quite the opposite. We wrote:
In terms of birthing a new energy economy, regulation is important — it's just not the most important thing. The highest objective of anyone concerned about global warming must be to bring down the real price of clean energy below the price of dirty energy as quickly as possible — most importantly, in places like China.
The fact is that it has been the regulation-centered approach — Kyoto — that has been both glacial and utterly ineffective. The developed nations that ratified the treaty saw their emissions go up not down.
We suspected our critique of the environmental community's regulation-only agenda would be labeled "anti-regulation," so we bent over backwards in Break Through to make the point that while regulations are important, their most important function in the short-term is to generate the public investments aimed at achieving breakthroughs in the price and performance of clean energy.
Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly criticized our description of the limits to regulation:
Seed money is useful, but the businesses doing the R&D will turn the whole thing into a backwater unless they're convinced there's a huge market down the road for their disruptive wares — and that means a credible belief that the cost of dirty energy technologies are going to stay high. A well-conceived regulatory structure can help that happen, and also helps promote evolutionary technologies while we wait for the big breakthrough. Why not support both?
The fact is that we do, as we have consistently stated. Our proposal, to state it once again, is that Congress pass legislation that either auctions permits or taxes carbon enough to a) establish a price for carbon sufficient to result in inexpensive emissions reductions, b) generate at least $30 billion a year for clean energy investments, and c) creating market conditions for the widespread adoption of these new technologies.
Given these consistent misunderstandings of our position, it was for us a sign of hope that the Sierra Club's Carl Pope ended his review of Break Through in this way:
The greatest return on any investment made by the U.S. government in the last 30 years, for example, has clearly come from the money it sank into the Internet. It is the job of societies — of governments — to protect, invest in, and guarantee universal access to such common resources.
Shellenberger and Nordhaus argue that greatness requires progressives to embrace such investment strategies. I agree. But investments in what? Yes, new energy technologies — but for whom?
Since 2004, Pope has moved dramatically on everything from the need for global warming preparedness to the need for investment-centered rather than pollution-centered framework to deal with global warming. The problem is that, to date, Pope's bold words have not yet been matched with bold deeds. Neither environmentalist lobbyists in Washington nor grassroots climate activists have put major new investments into clean energy at the tops of their agendas. They are, instead, putting all of their political eggs in the regulatory basket.
Walking the Talk
There is an existential question at the heart of the debate over global warming: can green groups transform themselves into institutions motivated by a vision of prosperity and possibility? Or will they remain grounded in the politics of pollution and limits?
The first test could arrive as early as next month. That's when Congress may take up global warming legislation. What matters most about the legislation under consideration is how much money it will raise for investments into clean energy.
Pope asks an important question: what investments should be made, and how? In our view, some of it ought to be used to create a new military-industrial-academic complex around clean-energy sciences, similar to the one we created around computer science in the 1950s and '60s. Some of it ought to be used to buy down the price of clean-energy technologies such as solar panels, like the Defense Department did with microchips in the 1970s.
These strategic investments in America's economic development and national security need to be insulated, one way or another, from the pork barrel congressional politics that have sent billions in public investment toward things like corn-based ethanol and synfuels rather than toward the kinds of technologies and innovations that the global warming crisis demands. The goal should not be to subsidize clean energy in perpetuity but rather to make the kinds of investments that ultimately bring the real price of clean energy down to the price of dirty energy.
We applaud Pope for affirming the need to create a new politics that has "an eye to the future," in his words, "not nostalgia for the past." Toward that shared goal, we today formally invite Pope and the leaders of the other national environmental groups to join us in urging Congress, the President, and the leading Democratic and Presidential candidates to pass global warming legislation that directs at least $30 billion per year to make clean energy as cheap as possible as quickly as possible.
There's no time to waste.