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The Little Maga/Zine Collection was created in the 1960s in response to the flourishing San Francisco Renaissance. SFPL librarians began collecting in earnest sometime around 1966. Despite a few obstacles " the short life of many little magazines made it difficult to start and maintain subscriptions, distribution was occasionally disorganized, non-existent, or made only through friends or word of mouth; and the sometime anti-establishment attitudes of writers and publishers often precluded libraries from receiving little magazines " the collection of 40 titles was assembled and opened to the public in the old Main Library's Literature Department in 1967. Wild Dog, Beatitude, Black Dialogue, Hollow Orange, The Journal for the Protection of All Beings, and Big Sky were among the first titles held by the Library.
By the early 1980s, the collection had grown to about 500 titles; it was during this time that the development of the collection took a downturn. The changing political scene, and San Francisco's budget situation, along with the fugitive nature of many little magazines, contributed to a severe reduction in collecting. Subscriptions were cut, magazines ceased publication, and the Library found itself holding a stagnant collection, which was then boxed and stored in the closed stacks. With little public use or knowledge of this resource the collection lay dormant for most of the decade.
The Library continued to maintain some little magazine subscriptions; those magazines were bound into volumes and are now part of the Magazine & Newspaper Center, on the fifth floor of the Main Library.
In late 1988, the Little Maga/Zine Collection was inventoried and stored in archival boxes. The inventory was completed just before the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989, with improved conservation protecting the magazines from damage. After the earthquake the collection was moved to the Humanities Department, where a critical point in the development of the collection was reached: in 1991 zines made their first appearance in the collection. A Library produced flyer, "A Call for Little Maga/Zines," was sent out to the community, asking zine creators, readers, and collectors to donate their San Francisco zines to the collection. The Library received an immediate and enthusiastic response for an underutilized but significant collection. In the same year, the publication of the first title catalog announced a reinvigorated collection.
In 1993, the collection was transferred to Special Collections (now known as the Marjorie G. & Carl W. Stern Book Arts & Special Collections Center). The Library received a gift of 250 little magazines, most of them representing the work of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets of the San Francisco Bay Area. Then in 1997, a gift of 240 zines was received from Factsheet Five publisher Seth Friedman. Today the collection holds over 1,200 titles.
The Little Maga/Zine Collection represents the intellectual activity of the people of San Francisco, from the twentieth century onward. An important tool for understanding the literary, social, political, and cultural experience of San Francisco, the Little Maga/Zine Collection tells the story of life in the cool grey City by the Bay.
The collection continues to grow from gifts and donations, rather than subscriptions: a "call" for zine creators, readers, collectors (PDF) anyone interested in the writing life of the San Francisco Bay Area to donate their little magazine or zine to the collection continues as one of the main forms of outreach to the community. The focus remains on San Francisco, with a lesser focus on the West Coast.
Donations to the Little Maga/Zine Collection may be made by visiting the Book Arts & Special Collections Center, Sixth Floor, Main Library, Civic Center; donations may also be mailed to the center. For more information call 415-557-4560 or email us at email@example.com
Further reading:
- Anderson, Elliott, and Mary Kinzie. The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History. Yonkers: Pushcart, 1978.
- Chepesiuk, Ron, "The Zine Scene: Libraries Preserve the Latest Trend in Publishing," American Libraries, February, 1997, 68-70.
- Dodge, Chris. "Zines: Resources for Unhomogenized Self-Expression; Including Specific Titles and a Zineography." Street Librarian.
- Duncombe, Stephen. Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. London: Verso, 1997.
- Earnshaw, Carly. "Best of the Bay 2002: Hip History: San Francisco Was Ground Zero for the Xeroxed Revolution." San Francisco Bay Guardian.
- Gunderloy, Mike. The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.
- Hoffman, Frederick J., Charles Allen, and Carolyn F. Ulrich. The Little Magazine: A History and a Bibliography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946.
- Rowe, Chip, ed. Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe.
- Zines! 2 vols. San Francisco: V. Vale, 1996.


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December 16, 2009
Behavioral decision theory has evolved rapidly over the past 50 years and now impacts nearly every discipline in UCLA Anderson's MBA curriculum. Students will encounter behavioral decision theory in their marketing and organizational behavior classes and sometimes in finance classes. UCLA Anderson Professor Craig Fox explains that it provides a new perspective on human behavior.
"In traditional economic thinking," according to Fox, "people are assumed to be rational agents, processing information in a thorough and evenhanded manner, and maximizing their self-interest. However a number of studies in recent decades have found that very often people fall short of this Olympian standard of rationality, and they do so in systematic and predictable ways. Behavioral decision research attempts to more accurately characterize how people make decisions."
"Rational choice theory is an important assumption for building powerful models in a variety of business disciplines," said Fox. "Beginning in the 1950s, however, its limitations became increasingly apparent. People are not perfectly rational. At best they may sometimes be rational subject to the limitations of their memory and attention-that is, they may be 'boundedly rational.'"
In the 1970's, researchers began to build behavioral models that characterize people's judgments and choices in a more psychologically valid and descriptively accurate way. As rational models struggled to explain market irregularities, behavioral models became increasingly popular.
"I think the watershed moment came in 2002 when Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in behavioral decision making," said Fox. "From that moment on, I think it has been acknowledged as a mainstream discipline in economics and it has had an increasing influence on business school education and research."
Behavioral decision making is widely studied in business schools. "The largest contingent," Fox said, "is in marketing departments where researchers study how consumers make decisions such as which computer to purchase or how to invest one's savings. If your goal is to predict how consumers will actually behave, rather than how they ought to serve their rational self-interest, then you will typically want to draw on behavioral decision research."
"We have a Behavioral Finance elective," said Fox. "In addition, Shlomo Benartzi teaches a class in Household Behavioral Finance and I teach a course in Managerial Decision Making. It's increasingly influencing what we teach in both core and elective courses, and I think the same is happening in leading institutions across the country."
According to Fox, behavioral decision theory is used in Organizational Behavior courses to understand biases in decisions of managers and employees. In Behavioral Finance, it is used to help explain anomalies in market prices and investor behavior.
"We're also beginning to see the development of Behavioral Strategy," continued Fox. "Strategy researchers are applying models from behavioral decision theory to better understand decisions made by firms in competitive environments. There is also a movement to study Behavioral Operations Research. For instance people are trying to understand how psychology influences supply chain management. There is even work on Behavioral Accounting. Almost every discipline of management science is starting to see the influence of behavioral decision research."
Fox explained that behavioral decision theory can be leveraged to help managers make better decisions. "Even when managers aspire to make rational decisions using the tools of decision analysis such as decision trees," he said, "you use these tools more effectively if you can anticipate biases in expert judgment and take steps to prevent them." For instance, research by Fox and his colleague Robert Clemen from Duke University showed that expert decision analysts who assessed the probabilities of future events were biased toward assigning equal probabilities to all of the events that they had identified as possibilities.
One prominent example of how behavioral decision theory is used in the workplace is the Save More Tomorrow (SMarT) Plan. Developed by Shlomo Benartzi and his colleague Dick Thaler from the University of Chicago, the plan encourages employees to invest more of their income into 401k plans and leverages three behavioral principles. First, the plan includes automatic enrollment, as behavioral studies have found that people are much more likely to remain in an opt-out plan than opt in. Second, it pre-commits participants to increase their savings in the future, since behavioral studies have found that people tend to discount events that happen in future time periods. And third, the plan matches increases in savings with raises in salary, as behavioral studies have found that people are much less sensitive to foregone gains than they are to out-of-pocket losses. The SMarT Plan has dramatically increased savings rates in companies where it is implemented.
In 2003, Fox and Benartzi founded the Interdisciplinary Group in Behavioral Decision Making (IDGBDM) at UCLA Anderson The IDGBDM conducts bi-weekly seminars on behavioral decision theory. "Prior to that time," said Fox, "there wasn't a coherent behavioral decision making presence at UCLA and only a few people here did behavioral research. In the last six years, we've assembled quite a community across campus and hired several new behavioral research faculty in various departments at UCLA Anderson."
The IDGBDM roster includes 17 faculty from UCLA Anderson, ten from UCLA, three from USC, and one from Caltech. The goal of the organization is to understand decision making behavior.
IDGBDM research seminars continue to be well-attended and the group is gaining recognition outside of UCLA. In addition, several participants attend weekly meetings in which faculty and doctoral students discuss current research in progress. The group has also sponsored two international conferences since 2006.
Fox noted that seminars attract participants from departments such as psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, communications, and the law and medical schools, and as a result, have spawned several interdisciplinary collaborations. "I've been doing some work in neuroeconomics with Russell Poldrack from the psychology department," said Fox. "We are trying to understand the neuro-physiological correlates of risk taking using brain imaging technology. And that's just one instance of a collaboration fostered by this community. It's exciting to see this happen."

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Photos: The western Cape
Photos: The western Cape
Tasha Garland, 2, of West Falmouth, looked for shells under bands of cirrus clouds at Chappaquoit Beach in West Falmouth.
Aaron Wibbe white-water kayaked in Quissett Harbor next to dinghies tied up at the Quissett Yacht Club.
The Shining Sea Bikeway runs 10-plus miles between Woods Hole and North Falmouth along the Cape's west coast.
Quissett Harbor in the early morning.
The Beach Rose Inn dates to 1863.
Sarah Zeidan of Newton jumped off a rock at Nobska Beach with her friend Arielle Vergara.
Benches overlooked Quissett Harbor.


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The Associated Press reports that Salt Lake City authorities say more can be done to prevent massive oil spills in Utah like two costly ones near Red Butte Creek in 2010, but they'll have to decide whether it's worth the cost, according to a report released this week.
The review, commissioned by Salt Lake City and authored by the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust, points out that the state can go beyond the minimum pipeline safety standards outlined by the federal government.
"I would like it to be safer," Carl Weimer, the trust's executive director and study's author, told The Salt Lake Tribune. "But maybe Utah doesn't want it to be safer."
The report comes two years after leaks in a Chevron pipeline spilled nearly 55,000 gallons of crude oil in Salt Lake City's eastern foothills. Since then, Chevron spent about $42.6 million on spill-related expenses, including $36.6 million in cleanup efforts on Red Butte Creek, $500,000 to Utah, and $1 million to Salt Lake City.
Recommendations include clearer standards for leak detection and damage reports, more transparency, and the creation of a citizen pipeline safety advisory board that would work with oil and gas industry officials to periodically review the pipelines.
Weimer estimates there are 347 miles of natural gas and hazardous liquid transmission lines underground in the 500-square-mile Salt Lake valley. He says that's far too many for regulators to monitor closely.
"Although the federal government is responsible for setting minimum pipeline safety standards, Utah can adopt additional or stricter safety standards," the report says. "To date, Utah has not chosen to seek any authority over hazardous liquid pipelines or interstate natural gas pipelines."
Mayor Ralph Becker responded to the report, saying Salt Lake City needs to take the lead on protecting the community rather than leaving the job to the industry.
Becker said he plans to bring the report to state lawmakers in hopes of getting stricter pipeline safety rules on the books.


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Africa: Getting Pharmaceuticals to Tackle African Diseases
Following disappointing results from a malaria vaccination trial, could innovative funding encourage new research?
After nearly 25 years in development, the world's most promising malaria vaccine disappointed. The results of Phase III clinical trials released in November showed the experimental malaria vaccine candidate, known as RTS,S, protected about one-third of infants between six and 12 weeks – failing the criteria set by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be deemed viable.
The RTS,S trial was not the success the public health community was hoping for – especially given that earlier trials showed 55% efficacy in children between 5 and 17 months.
But it is still too early to give up on the vaccine, and more detailed results from the trial are set for release in 2014. As David Kaslow, director of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (which is behind RTS,S), told Think Africa Press, "It's fair to say that higher efficacy would be preferable, but the facts remain that RTS,S demonstrated an acceptable safety profile, and was shown to provide protection to infants beyond that provided by bed nets".
Nevertheless, with few other potential vaccines on the horizon, this set back could finally spur the public health donors to do something they have been failing to do for more than two decades: get more innovative in funding research and development.
Show me the money
The development of RTS,S was funded by a $500 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline and the US government. Much of the disappointment with the results stems from the fact that, even though 655,000 people die every year from malaria, that level of funding does not come along often.
Indeed, as far back as the early-1990s, public health officials coined the term 'the 10/90 gap' to describe the situation whereby only 10% of international spending on vaccine research and development goes toward those diseases affecting 90% of the world's population, such as malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. Though the percentages have varied over time, the discrepancy remains.
"The market of big pharmaceuticals has failed to meet the needs of poor people, who have no ability to purchase drugs", explains Unni Karunakara, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Furthermore, the distress over the RTS,S results is compounded by knowledge that every piece of bad news reinforces the existing impression that malaria vaccine research is a bad investment.
That is one of the reasons MSF used the money it won from the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize to start the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). This programme promotes research into drugs for a range of illnesses including malaria, sleeping sickness and Chagas. This is not a traditional function of an organisation like MSF.
But in the absence of more funding for research and development, says Karunakara, "it is a role that we've over time had to take on, because no one else is doing it". MSF and its partners can ensure a certain level of research is maintained until big pharmaceutical companies start to weigh in. This will only happen once a market large enough to attract their attention has emerged.
AMCs: investing for tomorrow
That is what Advanced Market Commitments (AMCs), in contrast to traditional donor-subsidised efforts, were created to do. The idea behind AMCs is relatively straightforward: donors and developing countries put out a call for a vaccine. Ahead of any research, development or manufacturing, governments commit to buying a certain amount – with the cost heavily subsidised by donors – if the vaccine meets certain predetermined standards.
That guarantees the pharmaceutical company a set market and a good price for any drugs it develops. Once a fixed number of sales is reached and the pharmaceutical company has turned its profit, it is then obligated to continue selling long-term at an affordable price, or license the technology to someone who would.
Such plans had been floating around since the mid-2000s, but it was not put into practice on any significant scale until 2009, when five countries and the Gates Foundation created an AMC to fight pneumococcal.
This bacterium, which can lead to pneumonia and meningitis, kills almost one million young people every year. It is also easily preventable – vaccines existed, they were just not being distributed. Under the AMC, donors committed to pay a guaranteed sum of $1.5 billion to manufacturers who agreed to create and sell the vaccines at no more than $3.50 a dose, over ten years. The GAVI Alliance is working with developing countries to facilitate uptake of the vaccine.
And it's working. The pilot project is on track to prevent more than 1.5 million childhood deaths by 2020. The idea was to test "whether the technical features of the original academic concepts of an AMC could be realised in practice", a GAVI spokesperson told Think Africa Press. "The pilot AMC was demonstrated to be an effective mechanism for accelerating the development, manufacturing capacity and country uptake of much-needed vaccines."
Funding for the future
What an AMC has not yet shown, however, is whether it can stimulate pharmaceutical companies to start early-stage development of vaccines. In the case of pneumococcal, a vaccine already existed, and the AMC simply compelled companies to scale up manufacturing. But a malaria AMC, for instance, would require companies to develop and test from scratch an extraordinarily complicated vaccine – as the RTS,S results underscored.
"The biggest challenge with an early-stage vaccine is creating a market big enough that it offers companies a sufficient return on a risky investment," says Owen Barder, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and one of the originators of the AMC concept. As yet, there are no vaccines against any human parasitic diseases, like malaria.
But if enough donors are willing to guarantee the money required to justify the risk, then vaccines for malaria – or HIV, sleeping sickness, Chagas – will no longer seem like such bad investments. With several competing vaccines in the pipeline, one disappointing trial will no longer be enough to potentially derail research into a particular disease.
Andrew Green is a freelance journalist based in Kampala, Uganda, primarily covering global health and governance. You can follow him on Twitter @_andrew_green.
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Can foreign banks bridge the information gap to boost exports?
Foreign banks can play an important role in facilitating international trade. They can provide trade financing, enforce contracts, and reduce information asymmetries. Studies have shown that trade financing is an important channel to boost exports. For example, Claessens and others (2015) show that sectors that are more dependent on external finance have more bilateral exports when a foreign bank from that trade partner is present in the country. Much like immigrant networks and colonial ties (Rauch 1999), foreign banks can play a role in reducing information asymmetries for exporting firms, especially in countries where there are fewer financing constraints. Foreign banks have strong ties with their parent country, and are better placed to assess the profitability of a given product in that market and provide information about export market conditions.


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I originally bought a OCZ Vertex2 60Gb SSD for my new machine (over a year a go, possibly more). It usually runs at around 40-45Gb used in Windows depending on what I've got in my documents folder. I felt things were slowing down and after downloading smartmontools and gsmartcontrol I realised my SSD firmware was way out of date (v1.11) and 1.37 was available.
Mostly due to the thread in dbi-dev at DBD::ODBC fetch is returning string for integer (unfortunately some of it was off list) and further comments and rt at Changes in binding columns in DBD::ODBC and DiscardString with SQL_INTEGER not working properly I have made significant changes to the binding of columns in a result-set for DBD::ODBC.
I've never used the USB slot in my Foxsat HDR PVR but just recently I wanted to view some video (wmv files) created by Picassa on my television. The video was too big to put on the only handy USB stick I had but I had a 150Gb maxtor USB drive so I copied it on to that and plugged it in to the foxsat. Although the foxsat recognised a USB device was inserted it could not read it stating it needed to be ext3, FAT16 or FAT32.
I read Stop running tests on install! and Perl marketing and CPAN module install tests with some horror. We should stop running tests by default! My initial thoughts were arguments against it.
Personally I find it rare for modules to fail tests but I'd still rather know something is possibly wrong than have it ignored (it is easier to deal with it at that point).
I devoted some time to try and reduce the massive DBD::Oracle rt list today. Some issues should be fixed now (see below) but in the mean time we have a number of stalled issues and some issues more than 1 year old and some more than 3 years old!
DBD::ODBC 1.36_2 is now on CPAN. I'm afraid this makes some incompatible changes with the last full release and for that I appologise. It seems I was just too ambitious defaulting the internal execute_for_fetch to on. I suspected some ODBC drivers would have bugs which prevented them from working but there are just too many actively used drivers for me to test them all and I hoped this would encourage fixes to them.
Yanick has just released a new development release of DBD::Oracle DBD-Oracle-1.43_00. As I mentioned in my blog a week or so ago, this release has a huge number of lines of code changed to remove the use of DBIS (see Changes to make DBIS more efficient and speeding up XS_DBI_dispatch()). This release removes the last few DBIS calls. As a result, if you are using a Perl built for threads (useithreads=define) this release is significantly faster than previous releases.
I've seen CPU usage nearly halved on fetches of large numbers of rows and I've had reports where people are doing lots of different selects for small numbers of rows of up to 10* quicker.
If you depend on DBD::Oracle you are strongly advised to try this version as this was over a 160K diff when I checked it in. If you notice anything broken please post an example to the dbi-users list.
A list of changes in this release is:
I have released DBD::ODBC 1.36-1 to cpan. With hindsight I was probably too ambitious releasing 1-35 with the default for execute_for_fetch enabled. This decision was based on a) my experience with writing bound arrays of parameters in the ODBC-ODBC Bridge b) I knew some drivers would have issues but I thought this might encourage fixes c) it is so much faster. As it turns out I am seeing issues currently with SQLite, Freetds, MS Access and even MS SQL Server.
Thanks to Dave Mitchell for finding this, see Changes to make DBIS more efficient and speeding up XS_DBI_dispatch(). If you are using a Perl built with thread support (useithreads=define) a number of DBDs use DBIS macros from DBI which are expensive in a threaded Perl and no longer neccessary. The threads referenced above have all the gory details.
This week I've attempted to remove all DBIS usage from DBD::Oracle and have managed in all but a couple of cases. If you upgrade to DBI 1.618 and get the latest DBD::Oracle from subversion trunk (see How to create a patch using Subversion you could see a pretty substantial speed up.
I've uploaded Perl DBD::ODBC 1.35 to CPAN.
This is the culmination of 7 development releases in the 1.34 chain and is a significant release containing a lot of changes and enhancements. As always I would like to thank everyone who has helped and especially CPAN testers. The full list of changes since the last official release is below.


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Sat 23rd July – 7th XI v Unavoidables
In 1964 Cy Endfield made the film "Zulu". In this film, a tiny garrison of brave-hearted Welsh soldiers defeat thousands of Zulu warriors at the Battle of Rorke's Drift. This game had many similarities to that story. The Dulwich 7th's arrived at Wandsworth Common bruised and battered after a number of defeats at the hands of the likes of Burgh Heath, Kingstonian and the Bank of England. President and captain Smith withdrew from the game through injury and it was left to vice-captain Gibson to metaphorically lead his team into a chorus of "Men of Harlech" at the start of the match.
Readers may wonder at some of the more tenuous connections between this match and the film. The Unavoidables arrived with nine players: the Zulus had considerably more than this number batting for them. However, the heroic nature of Dulwich's victory, is worth noting. Gibson (alias Michael "Don't throw bloody spears at me" Caine) won the toss and departed from normal practice by electing to bat first. Dulwich's early batsmen were mediocre. The litany of failure extended down to number five in the batting order: Blench 1, Griffiths 8, Rochford 0, Branch 2 does not suggest a winning total was on the cards. But the Unavoidables had not reckoned with the estimable skills of newcomer Nikhil Lalwani, who proceeded to play an innings of match turning significance. This young man was quick to make his mark on the game with a series of well-timed boundaries, including a six. The fours were especially significant as the outfield was large and had not been recently cut. In fact, it resembled more the savannah lands of Natal (see the above allusion) than a public park in South West London.
The Zulus returned with another wave of attacks and dismissed Rob Webster for four. Dulwich were left apparently bleeding and dying behind leaky sandbags at 54 for 6. Michael Caine entered the fray intent on defying the native hordes. The vice-captain has always prided himself on his ability to bat in a crisis and he and Lalwani wasted no time in wresting the initiative from the Unavoidable warriors. Nevertheless, when Gibson foolishly and unnecessarily ran himself out on 23 with the total still only 115 there was much to be done by the Dulwich tail. They proved more than up to the task: Lalwani continued to flay the Zulus to all parts of the valley and ended with what turned out to be an invaluable 52. A great start from a clearly very talented cricketer. Pylas (James Booth) made four singles and then Lalwani was joined by yet another name for the future: William Spencer. This lithe and willowy framed 18 year old essayed some excellent strokes for a classy 10 not out and Dulwich's innings finished on the not unsatisfactory total of 139 off 34 overs.
An al fresco tea was taken of mini scotch eggs, baby bels and doughnuts, and the Zulus started their counter attack. Webster and Lalwani were both frugal in their opening spells and Webster ultimately dismissed Thornton: lbw for 6. Gilbert arrived at the crease and it was clear that he was a cut above the other warriors. Could M. Caine marshall his slender resources with sufficient acumen to withstand Gilbert's assault. With each bowler only allowed 7 overs the Captain took a gamble by introducing newcomers Wilson and Spencer to the attack. This proved to be a very effective ploy. Spencer bowled a flawless 7 overs of well-flighted leg spinners and undetectable googlies and returned the excellent figures of 7 overs, 4 maidens, 12 runs and 1 wicket. 16 year old Frank Wilson, at the other end, turned out to be another revelation.
Bowling a brisk medium pace he tied down Gilbert and Webb with equal aplomb. Wilson finally reaped his just deserts by taking 3 wickets in one over including 2 in 2 balls and finishing with figures of 3 for 33 off 6 overs. Pan Pylas caught a very easy catch behind the wicket off Lalwali. The 35 over restriction left Caine/Gibson with something of a problem, however. To whom could he entrust a further 7 overs? The choice was unenviable: should he enlist the aid of the tattooed insurance broker Owen, with his sub-Coneyesque "dibbly-dobblies"? Owen had wasted no time in informing Gibson/Caine that he had taken 4 wickets against the same opposition last year.
To improve the credibility of his case he had even gone to the lengths of carrying in his pocket, his personal plastic bowling marker. This latter ploy had no effect on Gibson: a captain with no susceptibility to such thinly veiled ruses. The other alternative was Gibson himself: a bowler never known for his frugality. "Pie-chucking crap", is just one of the more printable phrases that have been used to describe Gibson's unique brand of flighted off-breaks. If Gibson should find himself bowling "a load of ordure" all may be lost. Gilbert was still at the crease and batting with increasing authority. At such times, men of steel grasp the nettle, stiffen the sinews and summon up the blood. Gibson measured out his run and bowled. To everyone's astonishment his first over turned out to be a maiden and his second conceded only 1 run. At which point, a loud and audible wail was heard from the watching teammates of Gilbert and Webb: "We have to score 140 to win chaps" was the refrain. But all was lost for the Unavoidables: increasingly desperate and improbable singles were run and it was from one of these that Gilbert was run out thanks to a brilliant throw by Branch at deep mid-on, which hit the wicket direct and left the hapless Gilbert stranded.
The troops of Dulwich closed in for the coup de grace, which was not long in coming as Wilson and Webster did their work in dismissing the last four batsmen for 1 run. Dulwich triumphant. The Unavoidables were left to bury the dead amidst the carnage of Wandsworth Common as empty mini egg cartons were blown away by the four winds. Both teams repaired to the adjacent County Arms where pints of Young's Waggle Dance were quaffed with great relish in the pub garden.


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Author Notes: Do you remember my friend Stephen from last summer? He of the S'mores Semifreddo? This summer, he struck again, this time with a fish and corn dish. He served it at an end-of-season dinner party at the beach, and it captured the season so simply, so deliciously, I made it the following night for my family.
Stephen topped the fish with Julia Child's lemon beurre blanc. I went the lazy-man route and doused the fish with lemon juice the moment I took it out of the oven. You can use any fish you like. I made it with striped bass, and for the photo, we cooked tilapia. —Amanda Hesser
Serves: 4
ears corn, shucked
tablespoons olive oil
Large pinch cayenne
Four 6-ounch fillets firm white fish, like striped bass, cod, tilapia or halibut
lemon, halved
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Fill a large pan (wide enough to hold the corn) with 1 inch of water. Bring to a boil. Lay or stack the corn in the pan. Place a lid on top, and let steam for 3 minutes. Drain and cool off the corn by running it under cold water.
- Cut the corn from the cobs, scraping the cobs to extract as many corn juices as possible. Put the scraped corn into a pan, add 2 tablespoons olive oil, and season with salt and cayenne. Gently rewarm over medium low heat while you cook the fish.
- Arrange the fish in a baking dish -- no need for crowding! Drizzle the remaining 3 tablespoons olive oil on top. Season with salt and place in the oven. Roast until the fish is just cooked through (about 10 minutes per inch of thickness). Baste the fish about halfway through with the olive oil that pools in the baking dish. Remove from the oven and squeeze the lemon all over the fish.
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Project: Outdoor container garden with herbs and vegetables
Time: An afternoon
Cost: Free - $75 for planters, soil, and seeds/sprouts
Container gardening is big right now, and it's a great way for city dwellers to have their own home-grown food source in a small space. All you need is a deck, a roof garden, or a small patch of backyard to start your own outdoor garden. To learn the basics, we attended a session at the Green Grocer over the weekend. Merrill Smith, from Chicago's City Farm, demonstrated the best way to start growing herbs, lettuce, and tomatoes...
- Planter that provides aeration for roots
- 2-4 inches of good soil (high-quality compost is best)
- Seeds or sprouts
- Sunlight (most herbs and vegetables require a couple hours of full sun per day)
- Water
- Hand-held garden cultivator (claw)
- The planters Merrill uses are made from recycled 2x4s with a plastic screen lining the bottom. She lines the screen with newspaper or burlap, so the soil doesn't fall through. A wine crate is another great option.
- For herbs and lettuce, a planter with a larger surface area and shallow roots in about 2-4 inches of soil will create a higher yield. Tomatoes require a deeper planter. (Merrill uses a plastic bucket lined with burlap and filled with compost.)
- The materials for Merrill's planters came from the ReBuilding Exchange, an organization that works with contractors to recycle materials from demolitions and renovations.
- The compost Merrill uses comes from City Farm, a sustainable vegetable farm between the Gold Coast and Cabrini Green. They sell compost to the public for $5 per bucket.
- The seeds and sprouts shown above also came from City Farm.
- Merrill sells her Green Box (the large version shown above) through City Farm for $75, $50 of which goes to the farm.
- Choose what you're going to grow. Good options for container gardening include herbs such as basil, sage, and mint; red and green lettuce; and tomatoes.
- Purchase or build your container. For herbs and lettuce, it should be a shallow container with a large surface area and a screened bottom that allows the roots to aerate. For tomatoes, use a deeper container, such as a bucket. (See "resources" above for details.)
- Find a sunny spot for your herbs and vegetables. Herbs and lettuce need at least a couple hours of good sun per day; tomatoes need full sun.
- Fill the container with 2-4 inches of compost soil. If you're planting sprouts, make sure to give them a few inches of space around the roots. If you're planting seeds, scatter the seeds evenly across the planter.
- Keep a couple of containers of each plant going at once, so that when you've clipped one plant, you have another one ready for your next meal.
- Water your plants regularly. Herbs should have somewhat damp soil—don't let your shallow planters dry out. Tomatoes, on the other hand, are easy to over-water. Feel the soil before you water them. If it's moist, wait until it's dry before watering. Water around the base of the plant, rather than through the leaves.
- Use a hand-held garden cultivator (a claw) to aerate the surface soil without disturbing the roots too much.
- Herbs and lettuce take about 2-3 weeks to grow from a sprout into enough to cook with. If you keep a couple of containers going, you can cultivate/reseed/replant every 2 weeks to keep a constant supply going.
- To harvest your plants, use scissors to snip the leaves or vegetables. Snip the leaves around the base of the plant first, so that it will continue to grow and fill out.
- At the end of the growing season, you can store your compost soil. Next year, turn your soil over and reseed it for a new crop.
Tips for Herbs, Lettuce, and Tomatoes:
- Lettuce: Lettuce is a good cool-weather crop; its growing season lasts until the end of October. Lettuce goes through a sweet phase before it turns bitter. Before you clip it, try a little to make sure it tastes good.
- Tomatoes: Tomatoes need full sun and a deep pot. They don't like lots of rain or over-watering. For a strong tomato, you want to see full leaves before the tomatoes sprout. (See above sections for more details.)
- Basil: Basil is a fairly easy herb to grow. Space the sprouts/seeds evenly when you plant it to give it enough room (see photo #1 for an example). As it grows, clip any "flowers" before the plant goes to seed.
- Cilantro: Like basil, cilantro "flowers" should be clipped before the plant goes to seed. It requires plenty of drainage for the roots.
- Mint: Mint grows like a weed, and should be planted in its own, separate container so that it doesn't overtake other plants.
- Arugula: Arugula does better in cool areas than most herbs or vegetables. It works well on a shadier porch, but it still needs some full sun every day.
- For more information about City Farm (at Clybourne and Division), click here.
- For more about the Green Grocer (at Grand and Noble), click here.
- For more about ReBuilding Exchange (3335 West 47th), click here.
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Released this week, version 11 of Quest's Toad for Oracle continues to vie for headspace within the Oracle database tools marketplace. Purporting to offer new enhancements focused on reducing operational and development risk for the 2 million-plus database pros devoted to the Oracle mantra, this latest leap for Toad offers what the company details as more "flexible and intuitive" ways to perform code reviews and analysis.
Quest is at pains to fully justify the additional analytical prowess of its latest release; the company highlights the additional accountability pressures that now filter down to the individual developer, administrator, and analyst, who often have to do the work of two or three people. "In the database world, a big data and cloud revolution is changing the way database professionals develop, access, manage, and analyze data," said the company, in a press statement.
Toad for Oracle 11's new code-analysis feature allows the user to decide how they want to apply code review rules according to severity level, objective, code element, and rule attributes. The Code Analysis dashboard also attempts to provide team leaders and managers with deeper visibility so they can assess the status of code quality.
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The top U.S. auto safety regulator said Wednesday it stopped fining General Motors (NYSE:GM) $7,000 a day for leaving some questions about the automaker's ignition-switch recall unanswered.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has fined GM each day following an April 3 deadline to submit documentation related to the defective parts, which affect 2.6 million vehicles. At the time, GM said it answered about 65% of the agency's 107 questions.
The fines ended on June 5, when GM released the findings of an investigation conducted by former U.S. attorney Anton Valukas. GM accumulated nearly $430,000 in fines before completing its response to NHTSA.
GM, the nation's largest automaker, has been placed under a microscope since revealing that company engineers were aware of an issue with the ignition switches in 2004. The recall, which has been connected to 13 deaths, began earlier this year. GM dismissed 15 employees in the wake of its internal review.
NHTSA fined GM the maximum of $35 million for the years-long delay. By law, automakers must provide a recall plan within five business days of learning about a safety issue. GM must pay the fine by Friday.
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New Venture Christian Fellowship Upgrades AV Capabilities With Vista Spyder X20
Oceanside, California's New Venture Christian Fellowship, near San Diego, renovated its worship facilities and upgraded its AV capabilities with stunning new projection capabilities and content managed by a Vista Spyder X20-0808 video processor. Integrator and consultant CCI Solutions of Olympia, Washington, installed three big screens at the 1,000-seat sanctuary. A 22-foot wide screen acts as the backdrop for the pastor while two nearly 40-foot wide screens flank the central display and show IMAG, text and PIP windows. Five 15,000-lumen 2K projectors are configured with two edge-blended units for the left and right screens and a single unit for the central screen. The Vista Spyder X20 manages the content across the entire environment (sanctuary) that now engages congregants more fully in the worship service. "The pastor really wanted to envelope the congregation in whatever he's talking about," said Rick Boring, senior systems consultant with CCI Solutions. "Spyder is phenomenal; it gives them a canvas for anything they want to do." An HP touch panel acts as the front-end interface for the system and content sources include live cameras with a matrix switcher, six Macs, a professional HD video player and several net nodes. The new infrastructure also allows six additional projectors to deliver 180-degree displays. Boring described a typical application: "I can have a background texture or theme that goes across all the screens and can do images within all of them, and match the onscreen colors to the lighting. "The Vista Spyder X20 is easy to use but incredibly powerful and was chosen because with other systems you're limited to working 'their way.' Spyder provides the edge blending we need and gives you a huge canvas where you can do whatever you want. You don't have to restrict resolution or creativity," Boring concluded. About Vista Systems Vista Systems was acquired by Christie, a global leader in visual solutions for business, entertainment and industry, to create a comprehensive source for image processing and projection solutions. The acquisition combines the power and flexibility of Vista's video switchers and real-time windowing and composition products with the power, performance and reliability of award-winning Christie projection systems. Vista Systems' switchers have become the industry standard for live multiple-destination video and data mixed signal switching. For more information on Vista Systems, visit their website at


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FACEDecember 19, 2005
A bunch of demonstrations of FACE in action are available in the various sections on creator Faruk Ateş' site, KuraFire. Unfortunately, most are animation of the on-load variety, which you'll likely remember growing sick of during the Flash days. It's pretty hard to love pages that animate on their own accord anymore. Thankfully, FACE is not limited to that. Check out the example Destinations page for some basic hover effects; the interactivity options strike me as much more useful, especially in light of script.aculo.us.
While it would be premature to rush out and replace your copy of Flash MX with a bit of Javascript, FACE might just grow into an alternative for times when Flash feels like overkill. It should be interesting to see how this one develops. It has potential.
Does anyone else notice how much his design resembles that of Doug Bowman's? You might could write it off as a coincedence, but then on his "People I've Met" list he mentions Doug, and even links to Stopdesign.
I can see really potential for FACE in navigation element and especially fly-out menus. It will certainly add more "interaction" to the websites, and use less flash-overkill. I say less plug-ins the better.
I would recommend MOOFx you go and have a look at this light-weight JS (3K) animated efx too. It works with classes and no inline JS cludges.
This means unobtrusive animated behaviour added like fades, resize font-size with ems!, cookies, etc. …
Go visit the site: http://moofx.mad4milk.net
I'd love to know how this is any different than applying script.aculo.us effects with Behaviour(.js). I still don't get why more people aren't using it… anyways.
For me, that's how I apply styles and it sounds exactly what he's doing, except putting a new name on it.
Benson's got it. That's pretty much what it's meant for.
Yes, right now the examples I've shown aren't particularly usability-enhancing, they are there to show just how flexible this technique is. New examples that we're currently working on are going to show that it can prove to be quite useful as an aid to usability.
Just like any other technology, it's a tool that can (and should) be used properly, but there'll always be people using it for something they enjoy themselves. I hope that the people giving it a try will try hard to use it in a way that truly enhances the user experience. AJAX/DOM Scripting events are a good situation for them, for instance.
Dave, it's so odd that you mentioned this right now… I was pondering some AJAX stuff literally yesterday and though about scripting something exactly like this. I guess the proliferation of AJAX has probably got more than a few people thinking about what else Javascript can do.
On a related note, I keep pondering the value of coming up with a little Javascript snippet or two to "fix" some of the things that people dislike about CSS layout as well, such as not being able to balance multiple columns with floats; it would be pretty easy to get the length of the longer column and force the shorter column(s) to be the same length, freeing us from having to do things like faking column backgrounds in the parent object of the columns…
I hadn't noticed until you commented, but looking at it again it's very similar to the Stopdesign website.
FACE sounds like everything I have been looking for rolled into one tiny package from what I can tell at first glance it loosk great but I doubt it will ever replace flash.
James, you're gonna have to come up with some evidence of that. Almost everyone I know has either Adblock or Flashblock or just generally hates seeing Flash (especially when it comes with sound), whereas I've only ever encountered 2 people in my entire career who have JS disabled.
That issue aside, FACE is unobtrusive in nature. If you have JS disabled, you won't get the added interactivity, but nothing is lost. That's not the case with Flash, except for sIFR (but as I've said elsewhere, sIFR is only for headings, not for everything else)
@Cory: {shrugs} Promising technology, however. But like some of you others, I don't see any reason to use it over Moo.fx or Scriptaculous. I've found both of those libraries to be just what I needed for my projects with a brilliant balance of features and easy-to-implement-ness.
This is off topic but WOW, can this guy copy a design or what? Can't these people be a little more original? Looks like a k-mart rip off of stopdesign.
Is there a chance of a FACE version of sIFR? That is, scripting is used instead of Flash.
FACE will not replace Flash, since it's way more limited than Flash. On the other hand, you can create subtle animations in an instant, without first learning a whole application.
Used in a subtle way, FACE can and hopefully will gain on Flash for creating small animations. Like animating navigations or other small elements. Perhaps a whole animated navigation stays annoying, but hopefully FACE will stop them from making inaccessible Flash navigations.
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First of all I need to say that I think FACE serves its purpose. It's really nice actually. Together with this script.aco.us (prototype.js) and that mad4milk-stuff someone else posted pretty sweets effects can be made. I think Faruk's done a great job ;)
@Cam C: There IS actually stuff like that done already - it's not overly complicated.
there's what you're talking about in your second paragraph. It's great if you don't know the total height of the page and general css can't solve it. I used it on http://188.8.131.52/swedendesign2/?css=2 where you can see that the green left column popping down when the page has finished loading. (hey, I'm using your css-sprites menu there Dave ;))
@Martin: I don't really understand what you're aiming at, but the FF extension - web dev. toolbar allows you to turn off scripting with a (or two) clicks.
I feel some people are getting a little carried away here.
FACE has some interesting possibilities, but it doesn't compare to Flash at all. These animations are very basic - they don't even scratch the surface of all the things that can be done in Flash.
@Faruk: most people I know have the Flash plugin enabled (often hardly even knowing about that), think Flash animations are way cool (except in advertisements) and have most probably never even heard of Flashblock etc. I dare say this is how most people feel about Flash.
"FACE has some interesting possibilities, but it doesn't compare to Flash at all. "
Definitely. It's not Flash, it simply overlaps Flash in a very limited capacity. As I said originally, "FACE might just grow into an alternative for times when Flash feels like overkill."
Another tool for the toolkit, that's all. It's not an either/or proposition.
Yep, it's not really trying to replace Flash, just offering an alternative. Mostly one for situations where you really don't want to use Flash, but might want to (or have to) put some life in the page.
Like Dave said, it's not either/or.
Hmm, my second comment didn't get through..anyway:
The counter lists JavaScript's availability as 89% (with 9% actively off and 2% with an old version). http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2005/November/javas.php
A NDC survey gives Flash a 98,3% penetration in March 2005 (That's version 2 and above) and (as they now look at people with version 7+) a penetration of 97,3% in September 2005. Worth noting is that Adobe Acrobats 88,8% penetration rate (probably) doesn't overlap completely with Flash's (think office machines), so the merge of those two plugins should push Flash above the 98% mark.
( http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/ and http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/penetration.html )
Faruk, you may want to disable the script in Opera until the issue is fixed because it's really stressing to see your browser disappear with a dozen of tabs opened.
Thank God Opera has sessions support! :)
I'd post the links where I got these from (onestat and macromedia) but the (two!) comments I tried post didn't get through.
Maybe if JS is disabled, Flash isn't?
Vasil Dinkov: the Opera has not only preservation of sessions. An opera I think the best browser this day.
Ron DYatlov: I agree. For me it's the best too. That's why I use it.. :)
BTW, I noted that in Opera 7.23 and in Opera 9 TP1 the script works fine so this really should be due to some bug in 8.5 (not sure about 8.0). Anyway, I think a workaround is a must for the Opera versions that have the bug..
I see it as a great time saver for those smaller jobs but as far as a replacement for flash NO I do not ever see that happenning!
I'm continually impressed by the things one can do with JavaScript. It seems that Flash isn't always the answer.
Indeed, only the 8.x versions have this problem. We haven't found a fixed yet. We've also contacted Opera about this, but haven't received any feedback yet.
Hopefully we can come up with a good solution, otherwise we have to disable FACE for Opera 8.x.
Wow, I am really surprised to see that 9% have JavaScript actively turned off. 99.15% of my visitors have JavaScript turned on. Now does that say something about my visitors or about those statistics?
I think a lot of you are missing the point with the Flash vs Javascript thing: it's about graceful degradation.
If you don't have Flash, and a page or navigation system is done in Flash, you're straight out of luck.
If you don't have Javascript, then (presuming the Javascript coder is competent) it won't matter at all.
Sure, you might have to do a whole round-trip page reload instead of something snazzily asyncronous. Sure, you might just have to put up with an old-fashioned change of page, instead of something dissolving out and a new something scrolling in from the side. And sure, things won't animate and change colours as you move the mouse around.
But, you can still actually use the navigation, read the content, copy/paste the text, etc.
In many cases the degradation can be automatic - if js is there, fancy stuff happens; if it's not, it doesn't, but it was only frills anyway. In other cases it can be achieved by judicious noscript tags. Or - my favourite technique - delivering the page in a "for people with no js" state, along with onload js which rewrites things as necessary for js-using browsers. (Famous example: son of suckerfish).
This is why imho Flash is "bad" (by this I mean when not used for a specific Flash-esque function like an animation or game - I don't rule out the technology entirely, I just strongly believe it has no place in navigation or whatever), and Javascript is "good".
I'm a n00b with javascript and this animation stuff (I have recently been trying to integrate the Moofx mentioned above, but got deeply stuck because I don't really grok OO js), but I'm happy to add it here and there, and trying to use it more and more. If I come across something which would make the site inaccessible or non-functional for js-off people, and there's simply no workaround/alternative in straight (X)HTML/CSS/PHP, then I don't use it. Otherwise, I use it.
That way I can know that if someone comes along with CSS2 support, JS, the full monty, they get a glitzy site, while if someone comes along with no css support, images off, js off, etc, they get an ugly (1995-style) but perfectly usable/readable website. It's a continuum. Some people get 10% of the full experience, some 80%, some 100%. How much simply depends on what features they have - no browser sniffing allowed. With Flash, it's 0% or 100% situation, which is why I dislike it.
Are there any other example site becouse i having trouble opening the one mentioned
Some people are starting to get it but I don't think this has been said:
Javascript libraries were not made to replace Flash.
They don't want to replace Flash
They don't need to replace Flash
They wern't intended to replace Flash.
So quit trying to make them what they aren't. There simple, but effective tools to use to enhance your website. Nothing more. If you absolutely REQUIRE functionality, rethink the JS approach in favor of Flash. Like Dave S. said, it isn't an either/or affair. You can compliment your fancy-pants bloated Flash game with JS or vice-versa, it doesn't matter.


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Hi everybody Im a french student and I just moved to Vancouver a few weeks ago.
Im looking for some tennis players, male or female, doesn't matter, just wanna meet some people who want to have fun playing tennis . I would say Im about 3.5 - 4.0.
Well I'm open to play anytime anywhere, just let me know. ;)
Hope to find a good number of player so we can play some doubles too
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Nice! Well in fact i work until 5pm from Monday to Friday, so Im available at 6pm. et me know if you're still interested. Btw, do we need to pay for these courts? and do you have balls, because i just have my racquet atm
Hi Alex,
I just moved here recently, too! I've been playing at the Burnaby Central Park, but I'm willing to move around as well. I'm probably around a 3.5/4.0 as well. I'm pretty flexible in terms of times (both weekdays / weekends are ok). Send me a message if interested!
My name is Ben and I'm also looking for players that are about in the 3.5 range. I have played in the United States college tennis NCAA div. II and i'm more of a counter puncher type of player(like Michael Chang). I am available near Queens Elizabeth park so if ur interested ring me up! lol
778-840 7947
Ok perfect!
Well if u like we can play next week, Queens Elisabeth Park is a perfect place for that.
What do u think?
Hey Alex,
Sorry bout the late reply. I was dealing with an injury on my hand. Anyways, I finish work about 5pm as well and can make it to QE Park at 6pm. If you can gimme a call or text let's try to play this week!
Tel: 778-840-7947
Hi Alex...
we are looking for someone to join us tomorrow at 11 am for a doubles game in North vancouver
We are two level 3.0-3.5 male players and one advanced female player 4.0-4.5 ...
Pls email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you can make it. cheers
Hey Andy
My name is Ben and played competitive college tennis back in the days. I'm about 3.5 to 4.0 player. If interested contact me at 778-840-7947.
Hey Alex,
My name is Ben and was wondering if you were still interested in hitting or playing matches. Trained at Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy during high school and played NCAA div II tennis in New York. Can play after 6pm at QE park. My number is 778-840-7947 hope to hear from you soon~
Hi Alex
I just moved back to Vancouver and would be happy to play some tennis. Not sure what level I play, but I am reasonably fit and play tennis for a few years already. If u interested give me a shout: 778 320 7111.
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The days are still warm, but parents and analysts alike are turning their thoughts to autumn and back-to-school shopping.
The annual rite of resupplying students for the upcoming school year is seen as an economic bellwether indicating whether consumers are spending freely or holding back. It's also a major predictor of whether holiday shopping will help lift retailers as the year closes.
This year, experts are mixed as to whether cash registers will ring or parents will hold back.
The National Retail Federation predicts that back-to-school spending will be down this season as families with school-age children cut back following a historically high spending spree of $30.3 billion last year.
That left parents with an array of still-useful school supplies and a significantly shorter shopping list, the NRF said, predicting that total back-to-school spending will reach $26.7 billion this year.
But market research firm NPD Group says back-to-school spending will increase by 5 percent from 2012.
NPD predicts consumers will start their shopping later but spend more, especially online.
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Kate Golinvaux, 14, who will be in the ninth grade at St. Mary's Academy in Cherry Hills Village, said she plans to spend 50 percent more on back-to-school items than a year ago.
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Cosette and Kenneal Patterson, 13-year-old twins who attend the D'Evelyn school in Lakewood, were focused on apparel as they checked items off their back-to school lists.
"Skirts, jeans, shoes, sweaters, jewelry and a trench coat" were top priorities for Cosette.
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"It was exorbitant. It was very sad," LeCoq said in a separate interview.
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Men grieve differently. I know that. But still I was surprised when I found myself acting like a typical guy following my sister-in-law's 2008 suicide. A few months after I joined a writing class in the winter of 2010, I wrote a third-person story about that experience–about a man who hacks down a row of hedges in the aftermath of a loved one's suicide. No question that it's my story, but I'm guessing that I wrote it in third person because I was still too close to the suicide to write in my own voice. That story follows.
What to do?, he thought, as he surveyed the ten-foot tall tree-like stems of the privet hedge lined up like a row of Queen Elizabeth's foot guards who had stuck their fingers in electric sockets—bare decades-old spindly trunks, rigid against the ivy-covered trellis, each ending at the wall's top in a blunt woody knob. And spouting from the knobs sprays of young twigs, fat with buds on this late-winter day.
Leaning on the aluminum pruning pole he takes a deep breath, testing the air for signs of spring, but finding only a damp, musty chill. This is going to be painful, he thinks, imagining how many minutes, how many hours, he'll need to reach up and hold up this razor-sharp tool designed for precision cutting that he'd wielded like an ax last winter. He has only himself to blame for the aching joints he'll take to bed with him tonight. And so he begins, lifting the pole and carefully directing it's scissors-like tip toward its prey. Snip, snip, snip, and snip again. From one little branch to the next, he savors the satisfying snap as he compresses the ice-cold handle and the blades slice through the young wood.
Out of the corner of his eye he sees something fall from the parapet of the apartment building across the yard. First one, then another. Pigeons, throwing themselves into the still air, their breasts catching the morning light as they plummet to the earth, beating their wings only at the last moment to save themselves from almost certain death.
Is that what she did? Fling herself from the ten-story building? Or did she step off, as if descending a flight of stairs. Does it matter? But he wonders. Did she walk back and forth, stopping occasionally to examine the parapet's edge with the tip of her white sneaker? Did she look down to see where she'd land? Did she care? Did the sun illuminate her blond curls then like it does now the silvery feathers of the dive-bombing birds? How did she do it? With outstretched arms and the grace of an Olympic diver? Or did she tumble from the sky like a bundle of rags? Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Did she watch? Were her eyes open on the way down? What was the last thing she saw? Was it the clear blue sky as she lay broken on the ground, her lungs empty of air, her body pressed into the earth?
So this is where he came on that winter afternoon when he learned of her leap from life, to his blue-stone paved backyard, to the towering, overgrown privet that he assaulted with a fierceness that drove him from limb to limb hacking through their dense, leafy crowns until only stranded stumps remained. Breathless, he stood in a knee-deep pile of branches and leaves, arms and shoulders aching, wondering what he'd done, hoping the neighbors hadn't noticed that a madman had just murdered his innocent hedge.
But you can't kill a privet, which he knew even then, as he gathered the evidence of his crime in black plastic bags and hauled them out to the curb. Come spring, from the woody stumps grew the tender, wild sprays of arrow-straight branches that now occupied his attention. Snip, snip, snip, from one to the next. And he imagined to himself that by late summer, the grievous wounds he'd inflicted on a bitter November day would disappear behind a dense screen of new growth and maybe then he could look at the privets without thinking of death.
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aaron jargo says:
I'm so very sorry for your loss and your written story made me tear up at work – it hit very close to home. I wish you the best and know, please know, there are so many of us out there that share the same feelings, both as survivors of attempts, or survivors of those who succeeded. I can't lie – each day hurts inside, and for me there are a lot of triggers to those memories. Does time heal? I would have to say 'perhaps', because I think it only allows your mind and subconscious to process it in a more comprehensive manner. You have my deepest sympathies.
germaine montero says:
I just read your thing and it expresses what i wonder about when my son jumped out the window and hung himself. I cant stop hurting.
Cindy Johnson says:
This was a poignantly beautiful story. I too can relate. Our daughter broke up with her boyfriend and he committed suicide. It's so tragic. It's so good to see all this writing about suicide and a great reminder to us all that we are all wounded in some way.
We need to treat every person we ever meet with tender care, never knowing what they're thinking. There is always, always Hope. Hope in Christ.
I've been processing a lot myself, by both writing poetry and creating paintings with my writings. All of this will heal us.
Jan Christian says:
Poignant & stirring. Inspires me to write of my own brushes w/ self removal from this plane of existence.
germaine montero says:
Your comments touched me because i wonder the same things. I have never stopped hurting. I cant. But thanks for this site.
Sully says:
As we near the second anniversary of a beloved family member's suicide, this essay strikes right @ the heart. Beautifully written, it captures the searing grief and shows the questions we all ask. God Bless.
shelli says:
Your words were beautiful. My husband took his life also. It was months before i could stop picturing him hanging himself.
Cheryl A. Iadarola says:
So many feelings are swirling through my heart and mind. No one can understand how traumatic an event suicide is esp for the survivors. On 9/2 i will be remembering my brother Mark who took his own life 10 yrs ago. A friend also took her life 10 days ago.It is unimaginable to me the pain they were feeling to think this was an answer. Unfortunately the pain never eases or goes away, however you do learn to go on in life. You will never be the same, nor will you look at life the same way. I'm so sorry for your loss.
Nancy Sharrar says:
My daughter, Heather, finished her first year of college, 10 days after her 19th birthday, she went to a Hotel and hung herself. The maid found her. May 23, 2007 was the day, she is the oldest of six kids. She was intelligent, beautiful, loved, ambitious, motivated, and so much more. Nobody knew anything was wrong, she hid it well.
She had so many hopes for the future, I encouraged her with positive comments, what happend? My heart aches still, I miss her so much. I am never going to be the same……will time be kind in healing my ailing heart. Somehow, I cant envision it. She lives in my heart and of those who loved her. Why?? Is the only question I have.
Bobby says:
Thank you for your essay. It reminds me of a cold, rainy early November East Tennessee day in 1986 when my friend decided the world was too much to take and ended his life one Friday morning before we were to report to high school. That was the worst weekend of my life. I had never before and have never since felt like I was moving thru warm jello and I couldn't understand anything going on around me.
Teresa says:
4/7/07 – A day that changed my life and the lives of my entire family….My big brother took his own life, how could someone so strong do that to me? Why? Why couldn't I help him? Life will never be the same….My protector was hurting and I had no idea
patricia berberian says:
Very symbolic ! obviously touching to many who share that type of pain. I reach out for answers that may never come. my faith sustains me on most days yet my heart is forever broken by the piece my daughter took with her that day last April when she made a choice to find peace her own way. The pain she felt so deeply for being just 20yrs Is hard to comprehend. Did she ever know how many lives she touched ? I do know I am a better person for having shared those 20yrs. with her. I miss her more than words could possibly convey. my heart hurts and gut wrenches for all who share this pain. this forum and journal writting helps me. keep writting and reaching out for continued support ! God bless you.
Mary says:
Thank you for sharing your feelings. And how true it is, I am haunted by what my son felt in his last minutes. The pain is always there, .
Gary says:
I wonder what my dads last moments were like as he walked across the basement with the 12 gauge shotgun. His heart must have been pounding. Did he think of me and how much I would hurt. Did he feel I had let him down in some way. What was the last thought that went through his head as the trigger was pulled? When did he put the spare loose shells in the drawer by the gun rack. No doubt in my mind they were put there for him to use on himself. What was going on. When did it start to go wrong.
The story written made me think of my own questions and writing them makes my tears flow and that helps. Thank you so much for this opportunity to share.
Carol says:
I often have pictures in my mind of my son walking down our basement steps to the place where he hung himself in the early hours of the morning when we were all asleep in our beds. It tears me apart to think of how sad, lonely, & hopeless he must have felt; and I wasn't there to help him & let him know how much we loved him. I want so badly to go back in time & make everything right for him, to do things differently-to be more compassionate & empathetic to what he was going through. Sadly, I can't.
thanks for sharing the story
i tried to take my own life
but my fiance helped me get through that period
thanks for sharing your feelings
it helps for support and inspiration
Patrice says:
After my friend killed himself I cried so many tears. My parents did not understand. I loved him so much! All my dreams have come to a stop. Through college, grad school, and my career. I never stopped thinking about my friend. He was so special to me. October 13, 1988 was the worst day of my life. So many refer to it as just unreal. I promise you if I did not give myself over to God I would have never recovered. I am still leaning on His everlasting arms. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of my friend.
Very touching poem, especially knowing it was real for you.
Suicide is one of the worst ways to lose a loved one. There are too many What if's? Why didn't? How could? Just very painful and final with many questions that will never be answered.
Depression is a culprit, and unfortunately, unless family members and/or close friends are attentive and in tune to a potential suicide's lifestyle – it could happen to anyone. There are always signs to look for, but at times we are all too busy to be our brother's keeper. Also, not everyone knows when to get help for depression, or if there is any help out there for them. It is just a very difficult thing to deal with, but I am sure some suicides could have been prevented.
Let us make ourselves available so family and close friends can reach us.
Antonio says:
http://youtu.be/XrSqY_pUY1c – check this song out its dedicated to kids who are against bullying and sends a message that no matter who hard life gets, suicide is never an option!
Karen Julius says:
August 1, 2011, My oldest grandson hanged himself from a tree, at the beach where we all always went for the fourth of July, times that my grandson loved. He had a good job, he was planning on moving into a place with his cousin, he was planning a vacation with his cousin and his uncle, then he went to the beach, sat on a log, and thought about what he was doing, and then he took a rope climbed a tree, put the rope around his neck and jumped, killing himself.I raised my grandson, and love him so much, I am a broken person now, because I don't understand and blame myself, for not giving him what he needed. Since then I have been thinking about suicide myself, wondering if my grandson knew something I don't.
ali bryant says:
I am someone who tried committing suicide 3 times but my boyfriend has saved me everytime I didn't see any reason of living I felt alone and I realized I was loved by more people than I thought but I still feel alone sometimes.
Steve says:
"Men grieve differently. I know that" –people grieve differently. Has nothing to do with what tools you're carrying.
I found this story left me cold. Truly a piece without a heart.
JJ says:
Hi, I want to initiate a new movement which I call 'LIFE IS PRECIOUS'. I am aware of how depressing suicide can be for a person and hisORher loved ones. I pray and hope that as I partner with JESUS to start this new movement soon (even if there are sacrifices that I may have to make in the process), at least one person's life will be touched and changed for the better, so that living on Earth is treasured.(BECAUSE GOD LOVES ALL WHOM HE HAS CREATED…)
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Calmer and calmer.... thank you knitting
Looking back at earlier posts that I made I came across an idea that got tossed to the side. The footie pyjamas. In all the chaos of the previous year I completely forgot. I think I might order up some Calmer and give it a whirl. The dress didn't take very long (once I took a deep breath and let the knitting do it's "thang") and I'm hoping I'll find the same of the footies. "G" has already outgrown the dress. I might make her another, but this time modify the neckline to bring it in a little more because it had a tendency to fall off her shoulders (a little too cheeky for a five year old). The footies will be for my boy. He recently outgrew his last pair of footies and cried for several hours because he couldn't wear them (he's tactile and falls in love with his clothes and blankie..... he's my Linus). It's near impossible to find footies in sizes larger then 3T so if you can't find it, then make it. How much longer is the create a long going for? Is it indefinite? Either way I hope I can get the footies done before the time out.


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Seether's Shaun Morgan and Evanescence's Amy Lee Become One Again (Via Photoshop)
After a series of comical photos were posted to Seether's Facebook page, the band shared a couple of really unusual images (above) where frontman Shaun Morgan had swapped faces with ex-girlfriend and Evanescence singer Amy Lee.
The post-break up relationship between Shaun Morgan and Amy Lee hasn't been the most friendly situation. Since their split in 2005, there have been several instances where their songs appear to take jabs at one another. Moreover, there was some extra nastiness caused when Evanescence guitarist Troy McLawhorn joined Seether and then returned to Amy Lee's band last year. So it goes without saying that some of Seether's Facebook following were confused by a few recently posted photos.
Over the weekend, Seether posted a few comically doctored photos on their Facebook page, two of which were especially interesting. One being the promo photo from the cover of Seether's 'Careless Whisper' single with Amy Lee's face where Shaun's is supposed to be -- the accompanying message read, "Weird.. I stumbled upon this today online.."
A few minutes later another photo appeared with the message "I love this album..." The image had Morgan's face instead of Lee's on the cover of Evanescence's debut disc 'Fallen.' Most likely the guys in Seether were just having fun by posting funny pics they found of themselves online, but some of the comments showed that not all fans got the joke. You can see all of the goofy pics the band posted here.
Seether are currently wrapping their overseas tour with 3 Doors Down and will return to the U.S. in April for the 'Here and Now' tour with Nickelback, Bush, and My Darkest Days. Check out more from Seether in our very candid interview with Shaun Morgan here.


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