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Brook Lopez Talks Latino Roots and the Brooklyn Nets' 'Fresh Slate'
New York – Sports have always run in the bloodline of Brook Lopez's family.
The Brooklyn Nets center's mother was a world class swimmer and his father played baseball in Cuba. His uncle even pitched for several Major League Baseball teams.
A constant fixture in the Nets' franchise over the past few years, this season Lopez will be critical as the team looks to rebound and rebrand itself after moving to Brooklyn for a "fresh slate."
While the Nets were able to resign All-Stars Deron Williams and Gerald Wallace along with acquiring Joe Johnson, the team will be counting on a healthy Brook Lopez as they aim to reach the playoffs in their first season in Brooklyn.
The 7-footer transcends beyond the court as he shared with Fox News Latino about his team's new beginning, his affinity for comic books and the "fantastic job" his mother did raising him and his three brothers by herself.
Fox News Latino: What has been the major difference for this franchise since establishing itself in Brooklyn after 30 years in New Jersey?
Brook Lopez: It's so different. I think that's the key word. I think everyone just comes in very optimistic with a brighter outlook. You know they're excited because we have a lot of pieces that can work together very well as long as we come in and work every day. So it's honestly very fun to come in and work with these guys.
FNL: With new players and new colors is there a lot of optimism about this new era?
Lopez: Everything is new. You look top to bottom, it's like a completely fresh slate. It's very exciting to start that way especially when you got guys like Deron, Joe, Gerald, Hump. You can just name everybody from top to bottom because like I said everyone is such a great player in their own right and at the same time we all complement each other so well.
FNL: You're coming off a rollercoaster season. After returning following your broken foot you fractured it again. Now your name has forever been linked in trades for Dwight Howard and even for Carmelo Anthony. How tough was last season for you?
Lopez: It's been very tough. I've heard the talk about Brooklyn since my rookie year. They always talked about how great it was going to be and everything and how exciting it was. You saw where we were right now and it's just a little bit of a bleak outlook. I tried to remain optimistic. It was difficult to envision this sort of change back then, the way it's gone. It's been incredible. But as it got further along I knew the Nets were the team I wanted to be on as they started to show me more and more of their plan. I saw what they were trying to do with this franchise, the moves they were trying to make - when we got (Mikhail) Prokkorov becoming the owner of the team; when I heard (former majority owner Bruce) Ratner talking about building the Barclays Center; seeing Jay-Z at the groundbreaking, hearing him talking about the Brooklyn Nets. It looked like a very positive thing and it was something I wanted to be a part of.
FNL: Having your older brother Chris around, how important was that for you mentally?
Lopez: Just having him out here has been huge for me. Just someone I can talk to 24/7. He's always there for me. It helps having someone live with you especially someone you're that close with. I lived with the guy my whole life. Obviously he's my brother. I can talk to him about anything.
FNL: How comforting was your twin brother Robin, who plays for the New Orleans Horents, during the year?
Lopez: It's a lot of the same with him. We rarely talk about basketball. That's nice because a lot of my life is basketball because you know going in, getting prepared in the morning, practicing for many hours and staying out here for post practice workout treatment or whatever else I may be doing here in the facility, I know I can text Robin or Facebook him and just talk to him about everything else.
FNL: At what point in life did you and Robin know you were destined for the NBA?
Lopez: We constantly knew our whole life that we wanted to play in the NBA. I think we just took it one step at a time from elementary school basketball to middle school to high school to traveling teams and going to Stanford. We obviously knew we wanted to play at Stanford before we went to the NBA. I remember my mom always told this story when I was in the second grade I just got in the car and said 'mom before I play in the NBA, I want to go to Stanford.' I just took it as a goal at a time.
FNL: It's not a secret that you and Robin have a fondness for comic books.
Lopez: The creative process that started with us when we were little. Our brothers collected comics so we'd go into their room and try to steal some of their comics to read them or draw. It just blossomed from there. But we were raised in a very creative family. Our mother always got us material to draw on, write, markers. For Christmas our grandmother would give us this huge box every year of just art supplies, construction paper, water colors, charcoals, crayons, color pencils. We'd just go nuts. We've always had a passion for comic books because of the drawing in it and animation as well. Just making movies in general. I've always enjoyed writing, just the whole creative process.
FNL: Is this something we will see the Lopez brothers venture into after you hoops days are over?
Lopez: No question! You know a lot of the time Robin and I text each other, a lot of times he will text me pictures of what he's drawing or he's been working on. We just bounce ideas back and forth.
FNL: How does your comic book collection stack up?
Lopez: I couldn't put a number on it. I've been building a room in my house in Fresno (California). It's just dedicated just to my comic books stuff and all that memorabilia.
FNL: And your family's love for sports?
Lopez: My mom was a swimmer growing up. She was World Class. She swam in the (1967) World (Student) Games. My older brothers were both basketball players so I just grew up around the gym. Even my dad's side of the family, they were baseball players. I had an uncle that pitched for the (Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels and Cleveland Indians). I wish I knew more about my father's side but my parents are divorced. They divorced when I was very young. I know less about that.
FNL: We see today a lot of families broken up and a lot of single parents raising their children. Not having your dad around is something you wish you had growing up as a kid?
Lopez: Obviously I would never want that to happen. It's something I completely worked hard towards - having a strong family. In my mom's case, she did a fantastic job. She raised four well-rounded, smart boys on a public school teacher's salary. She's impressive. She was always there for us. She sacrificed for us constantly. To her credit she loved every minute of it. She was our biggest fan in the stands. She went to all our games. She would drive one brother to a practice crosstown, come back, bring another brother to practice and take care of us at the same time when we were little. It's a labor of love for her.


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Howdy, folks! Welcome to a relatively quiet From the Forums. We hope you've all had a superb day with family and friends. Fortunately, activity on our community forum doesn't appear to show signs of decrease, even up and around the festive holiday. So what's been happening on our forum, while the news has been taking a short break?
BlackBerry 10. It's not long until RIM unleashes the next version of its mobile platform, but what will the impact be for Windows Phone? Will Microsoft suffer from RIM's already established brand, or is it simply too late for BlackBerry to update itself and catch up with the rest?
Windows Phone Central forum member brmiller1976 took time to test drive BlackBerry 10 and published a number of points that he feels could damage Windows Phone.
"RIM took its time to 'get everything right.' They've ramped up hardware production, they have every major carrier in the US and worldwide supporting their launch (unlike WP) and there are unlikely to be device shortages, regardless of demand. They also spent time to fix and tweak every element of the software experience."
While it's a valid worry (among other reasons supplied), BlackBerry 10 is still yet to arrive and until RIM releases new hardware, it'll continue to hang in the balance just what prospects are for the newly refreshed version. With what hardware Nokia is producing to-date, namely the Lumia 920 (wireless charging, PureView, etc.), RIM does have its work cut out.
Do you believe RIM has a chance to advance through third spot and beyond to take down Google / Apple, or is Microsoft in a comfortable position? Be sure to head on over to the "Could BlackBerry 10 kill Windows Phone?" thread.
1 week experience with Windows Phone
Spirited has posted a one week experience write-up after ditching iPhone for Windows Phone (Lumia 920) to see what all the fuss is about. Unlike some stories that are full of princesses and knights, this one isn't overly positive - which is great as the platform has to get everything right for new adopters.
So what are the niggles? One covers the notification system:
"Notification system: it shows only 1 msg at once on the top. iPhone shows all new messages on the home screen and I do not have to unlock the phone to read these messages... But WP8 does not do this way. After I unlock the phone, i always have to look at individual app to see if i have any new messages!!! considering so many tiles on the phone, this is not efficient."
Unfortunately, there are still some parts of Windows PHone that could be upgraded or improved, even vetaren users believe such actions should take place. The only issue is how to improve functionality without complicating the simple user experience, or bloating a section of the OS up whic hthen makes it more difficult to use.
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The fifth in a new series about the day-to-day travails of an embattled practitioner. This week: Planning v Democracy
The Village Green Preservation Society : The Kinks
We've recently submitted a planning application for a council-owned disposal site and been told the consultation period has had to be extended due to an 'Internal Admin Error'.
It appears the consultation process has not been carried out correctly leaving any decision open to judicial review. The officer apologised but said it was fundamental that the planning process be 'as transparent and democratic as possible'.
This got me thinking. What exactly is democratic about the current planning process?
Increasingly the democratic process is kicked into touch through thinly veiled populist political gestures
OK, so planning policy is established through public consultations so it represents a consensus of opinion for the development of communities…. Democratic? Tick. ….
Having interpreted planning policy, individual schemes are then worked up by teams of professional consultants within that democratically adopted policy.….Tick.
Full teams of publicly funded civil servants, including professional planning and design officers, then analyse proposals to ensure that they adhere to the agreed planning policy…. Democratic? Tick.
The public is then consulted and their comments collected and considered against adopted planning policy. If the scheme, having weighed up responses from statutory consultees, is then deemed to be in accordance with the relevant policy, there's a recommendation for approval by the publically funded professional planning team for ratification by the planning Committee. Democratic? Tick.
So far so good. However, when that recommendation is considered by a committee of publicly elected lay local councilors, increasingly the democratic process is kicked into touch through thinly veiled populist political gestures. Seemingly without any consideration of the process that has gone before. Democratic? Not based on any definition that I have read.
Often the same planning officer who recommended approval is then asked to defend a spurious non-objective refusal
In an attempt to reinstate democracy into the process a client obviously can then appeal against this decision. As part of the appeal process, often the same planning officer who recommended the project for approval on sound planning grounds, is then asked to defend a spurious non-objective refusal on the basis of the same grounds as it was originally deemed to be acceptable.
Is it any wonder then that in our own office, where we have only ever submitted applications to committee with officer's recommendations and where we have had to appeal spurious decisions, our clients have also been awarded full costs. Costs that have then had to be reimbursed from the public purse.
In an age of austerity where public funding is being so severely cut what is the point of paying professional members of staff to carry out what has become an administrative role? In addition to these salaries, why spend time and money developing planning policy when it can be so easily dismissed by political whim? A political whim that is so thinly veiled that a Planning Inspectorate, which applies Planning Policy Democratically and Objectively, has to then award needless costs and generate further expense to the public purse and further stall development.
A recent article in the Architects Journal (AJ 22.09.2011) highlighted that planning appeals were on the rise. The argument being made was that the 'local Planning Authority often does not have the skills or resources to put a sufficiently strong case forward'. This comes in a context where the quality of the design standards of our buildings is declining.
But how can councils hope to attract highly qualified planning and design officers when weeks of work and their professional opinion is regularly overruled by unqualified lay councilors, looking to score points against political rivals?
On one project we were told by the beleaguered planning officer that, if we could get the local conservation lobby on side, he would support the application and recommend it for approval. If we couldn't he wouldn't. Thankfully we achieved both. Yet how can that be democratic?
Where is the benefit in being innovative when the path of least resistance is an outmoded pastiche?
As a result a stealth architecture has emerged designed only to maintain the status quo. This is why the mock Tudor noddy box is so prevalent in our suburbs, why at planning meetings the hard photo realism of the CGI is replaced by the romanticism of the water colour and why the Architect's role is being usurped by the Copyist Surveyor, who produces facsimiles of the "established" context. For a client, where is the benefit in being innovative when the path of least resistance is an outmoded pastiche? A pastiche that is then poorly adapted to respond to contemporary requirements of housing densities and standards?
If we are to improve the architectural quality of our urban environments and attract stronger design champions into the local authorities, we need to realign the planning system to ensure that a currently wasteful and truly undemocratic system is readdressed. Will a presumption in favour of development achieve this and re-stimulate the flagging economy? Perhaps.
But perhaps what would be more effective is a legal advisor sitting on each Planning Committee, continually reminding the members of their remit and responsibility to the council tax paying public.
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I may have got this wrong but the only democratically elected commentators on the planning application are in fact the lay Councillors.
They may be "populist", they be aesthetically pig ignorant, they may even be to blame for despoilation of the entire country with appalling little noddy houses made out of ticky-tacky - but they are the only democratic bit of the entire process. Would an undemocratic process guarantee anything better - or might it make tings worse?
If the government and democracy requires good design, having planning applications judged 'democratically' cannot work. Good design is objective and can only be 'judged' by knowledgable persons. Aesthetics is largely subjective, ought not to be a town-planning issue, and can only be considered by the visually literate (which rules out many democratically elected councillors). Town-planning should be solely concerned with infrastructure, geography and politics to meet the changing needs of society. It should set the brief not dictate the solution.
The quality of the built environment is too important for decisions to be left entirely to the democratic process.
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Rocker Courtney Love is singing the praises of a New York Times journalist for safely returning her cell phone after finding it in the back of a taxi cab.
The Hole frontwoman misplaced her iPhone on Wednesday night, and it was picked up by Frank Bruni, who immediately attempted to reach out to the singer via Twitter.com to make sure she got her smart phone back.
Weird: the iPhone left in my yellow cab last night clearly belongs to @courtney (Courtney Love). Trying to return. Anyone? Courtney?
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Alerting her to the find on Thursday, he tweeted, "Weird: the iPhone left in my yellow cab last night clearly belongs to (Courtney Love). Trying to return. Anyone? Courtney?"
She replied almost immediately and in a series of messages, she wrote, "frank you're a gem, what a small world… wow you really do have my phone at the (New York Times offices) yikes please don't read it… this is hilarious."
After retrieving her cell, she publicly thanked Bruni for not invading her privacy by accessing her private phone messages, writing, "Frank for governor!!! I would have to move to Iowa if you hadnt taken that route. Ohh the secrets we could tell."


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This is a collaboration of Shinkansen and very popular Japanese Anime "New Generation Evangelion (link to Wikipedia)" as Sanyo Shinkansen 40 years anniversary special project. This unique Shinkansen fleet has very different exterior that is painted by Evangelion color. And also it has Evangerion exhibition in car #1. There are many more Evangerion characters and designs in the trains. If you know this anime, you must be excited. Even if you are not familiar with this anime, you will be impressed by these decorations.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton became first-time parents on Monday when the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a son.
The little boy was born in London in the Lindo wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London – the same hospital where William and his brother Harry were delivered.
Reports suggest the baby was born at 4:24 p.m. local time and weighed in at eight pounds and six ounces.
The new baby is third in line to the British throne after William, who was at his wife's side throughout the delivery, and his father Charles, Prince of Wales.
Further details, including the name of the child, have not been announced.
In line with tradition, a declaration of the baby's birth will be pinned up on a board outside Queen Elizabeth II's London residence, Buckingham Palace.


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Does Lump in Breast Affect Periods?
I am 23 and single with irregular menstruation. My periods are three, four or even five months late, and then become regular for some months. Never in a year do I get more than six periods. I also experience abdominal pain often and recently felt a lump in breast which is painful. Are these all related? Is this leading to some menstrual or breast problem? Please guide me.
The menstrual period results from a rather complex system of hormones rising and dropping at different times over the course of a month. Although most women take for granted that the period will come every 4 weeks on time, lasting 3-5 days, many women do not have these types of periods. In fact, what you describe is experienced by many women. You have more than likely something called anovulatory bleeding, that is, your ovaries and hormones aren't in sync. The abdominal pain could be due to this, as well as the lump. However, I would recommend you see your doctor to get all of this sorted out. Most often, if tolerated, birth control pills can help regulate the periods. Best wishes.
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NCI funds Rice-led effort to create drug for 'undruggable' cancer target
Answers are often elusive in the fight against cancer, and Rice University chemist Zachary Ball is hoping to pin one down — with pins made of single atoms. The work, which aims to create a drug that's effective against an "undruggable" protein, is one of the first 50 proposals funded under the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Provocative Questions Project.
The Provocative Questions Project, in its inaugural year, is designed to spur innovative approaches to critical questions that could, if answered, substantially change the way scientists approach cancer research. Ball, assistant professor of chemistry at Rice, and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) are attempting to answer one of 24 questions posed by NCI: "Are there new technologies to inhibit traditionally 'undruggable' target molecules, such as transcription factors, that are required for (cancer)?"
"Most drugs are small molecules that bind tightly to a protein and literally get in the way of it sticking to whatever it might normally interact with, often another protein," Ball said. "Drugs tend to be small molecules because those are the easiest to introduce into cells and because small molecules are particularly effective at binding tightly into the tiny pockets that exist on many proteins."
Unfortunately, there are some proteins that don't have the tiny pockets favored by drug designers. By some estimates, small-molecule drugs are ineffective against as many as 80 percent of the proteins in human cells, including many signaling proteins and a class of proteins called transcription factors that help control basic functions like cell death and cell reproduction. Drugmakers often call these proteins "undruggable."
"Researchers have actually spent a good deal of time and effort looking for drug candidates that are effective against some of these undruggable targets," Ball said. "But the results are generally mediocre, and affinity is a big reason why. Without a classical binding pocket, we tend to see inefficient binding with relatively flat protein surfaces that are not designed to bind drug-like molecules. Our idea is to add well-placed rhodium atoms that will act like pins to hold an otherwise mediocre drug candidate in place."
The NCI project grew out of a collaboration with Michele Redell, assistant professor of internal medicine at BCM, and David Tweardy, professor of medicine and chief of the section of infectious diseases at BCM. Ball, Redell and Tweardy won seed funding in January from the Simmons Family Foundation for a project aimed at developing new drugs to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which afflicts thousands of new patients every year, many of them children.
In particular, the group was interested in modifying a drug candidate compound to improve its effectiveness against STAT3, a transcription regulating protein that has been implicated in AML and numerous other cancers, including gastric, renal, breast, ovarian, skin and brain cancer. STAT3 is an especially compelling area of study because previous research has shown that targeting STAT3 may allow for effective treatment of "multiple drug-resistant" tumors for which available treatments are ineffective.
"The Simmons grant allowed us to gather preliminary evidence to bolster our case for creating a hybrid drug that combines the benefits of both traditional drugs and metal-based drugs," Ball said. "The prior work really strengthened our proposal, and we're hoping to use the two-year 'Provocative Questions' grant to lay the scientific foundations for future translational studies."


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VIDEO: Meet The CNBC Figures Dismissing Climate Science
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Climate change is "just kind of a scam analysis" by "high priests," according to some at CNBC. Rhetoric such as this is not uncommon at the cable business channel, as a new Media Matters report finds that the majority of its coverage of climate change casts doubt on the science behind it.
Watch as CNBC hosts and contributors attempt to counter 97 percent of climate scientists:
So who are these CNBC figures?
Joe Kernen, the co-anchor of Squawk Box, was the most vocal CNBC figure on climate change in 2013, frequently pointing to cold weather to suggest that global warming is not occurring. Kernen has long pushed climate science misinformation. In a 2007 segment, he cited the "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a movie that promoted discredited claims, to criticize singer Sheryl Crow and "An Inconvenient Truth" producer Laurie David for speaking to college students about climate change. In 2011, Kernen co-authored a book titled Your Teacher Said What?!: Trying To Raise a Fifth Grade Capitalist in Obama's America that compared climate scientists to "high priests" whose work should not be trusted.
Larry Kudlow, the host of The Kudlow Report, campaigned against cap-and-trade in 2009, by denying climate change ("a lot of scientists are now saying ... this whole thing is just kind of a scam analysis") and citing The Heritage Foundation's exaggerated cost estimates for the proposed cap-and-trade program.
Rick Santelli is a regular CNBC contributor who some claim fomented the Tea Party movement with a well-publicized rant against government assistance for homeowners struggling to pay their mortgages. Santelli denies climate change, including saying in 2013, "when it comes to macroeconomics or climate change, I think trying to say that the scientific method is alive and well is a real stretch."
This climate denial fits in with a troubling pattern at CNBC of what the Columbia Journalism Review called its "newsroom-as-advocate problem." On climate change as with everything from market predictions to birther quotes, CNBC is once again wrong.
UPDATE: Forecast The Facts has created a petition asking CNBC Chief Executive Officer and President Mark Hoffman to tell "on-air personalities to stop promoting global warming denial and start reporting the facts on the economic risks of fossil-fueled climate change."
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Mater Dei's Alexandria Young, who will attend USD, scored 15 points for the Crusaders.
CHULA VISTA It was the Mesa League opener for Mater Dei Catholic and host Eastlake, but the two girls basketball teams couldn't have entered the game from more different directions.
Mater Dei was ready to prove its 7-5 record came against some of the best competition in the state and beyond and that the Crusaders deserved to be in the Top 10 rankings.
Eastlake came in with a glittering 13-4 record but on this evening was short-handed, missing three starters.
The result was predictable: Mater Dei 92, Eastlake 24.
Every one of the Mater Dei players scored, and after a 28-10 first-quarter lead ballooned to 49-10 on a 21-0 run ended by an Eastlake free throw 2:11 before the break, the starters began heading to the bench.
"This was our best shooting game of the season," said Mater Dei coach David Monroe, who had four players score in double figures, led by freshman Katie Doran, who buried five three-pointers en route to a season-high 19 points.
USD-signee Alexandria Young added 15, Kandiss Barber 13 and Northern Arizona recruit Brittani Lusain contributed 10. None played in the fourth quarter.
"I felt the energy," said the 5-foot-7 Doran. "Coach told me when I came out that he wanted me to shoot. This is the way we can play when we're focused."
Monroe said he felt the Crusaders should not only be in the Top 10, but among the San Diego Section's top three.
"We should probably be No. 2, behind La Jolla Country Day, but we don't really worry about that," he said. "We've played a very tough schedule."
The Crusaders have not lost to a San Diego-area team and by playing in the Sweet 16 Tournament to open the season suffered losses to the likes of Oaks Christian. They also fell to state-ranked Long Beach Poly and Gardena Serra.
As for Eastlake, Titans coach David Koopman choose not to give details about the three missing starters but said they would be back for Friday's game.
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'Tis the season to check out snazzy houses -- all gussied up for the holidays. Two home tours take place this weekend -- Christmas at Our House, the 23rd annual holiday home tour put on by the Women's Club of Saint Francis High School, and Finishing Touches, the fourth annual fine-home tour sponsored by the Junior League of Palo Alto*Mid Peninsula.
Christmas at Our House offers a tour of three homes in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. With a theme of "Winter Wonderland," the tour offers peeks at "a splendid Tuscan villa" with phenomenal views; a traditional family home with a strong New Orleans influence; and a Cliff May-inspired ranch-style home designed to see the garden from every room.
A few days before the tour, 35 bins of Christmas decorations lined the halls of that sprawling rancher while Jeanette Loretz, of JL Designs & Interiors, Los Altos, and current president of the California Peninsula chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), led a team of design students and ASID volunteers to complete the decorating job by Thursday. Usually the family took a week to dig into the boxes of nutcrackers, huge stockings and enough ornaments to deck out an 11-foot tree, homeowner Gary Wimmer said.
This year, he's providing the setting, but volunteers are doing the decorating. Both of Wimmer's daughters have attended St. Francis High School -- one graduated last year, one's a junior -- as did Loretz's children.
Most of the decorations were collected by Wimmer's late wife, Heather. When Wimmer was approached to offer his home for the tour, "I know she would have said yes!" he said.
Soon after the Wimmers purchased the home in 2005, they had to deal with major foundation issues and ended up gutting the home and rebuilding it. Bill Bocook, a Palo Alto architect, kept the Cliff May indoor/outdoor sensibility -- there's a view of the spacious backyard and pool from virtually every window -- and "made it more ranch-y," Wimmer said.
In the center of the new kitchen is an island topped by oak floorboards taken from a dismantled Pennsylvania barn. The wood complements the mantel, made from an old beam, in the adjoining great room. Both were created by John Crawford, a Santa Cruz woodworker, who also did the memorial angel sculpture made from wood scraps that graces the rose garden.
The light, bright kitchen, with its CaesarStone countertop, also has a breakfront to display his wife's flow-blue china and glassware.
"She was the quintessential collector," Wimmer said, as was her mother before her. Throughout the home are displays of various collections: 36 nutcrackers, antique wooden duck decoys (those are his), black-and-white family photos (many shot by Heather), and masses of flow-blue china.
But there's plenty of room in the multi-level home, which is just shy of 6,000 square feet, sitting on an acre.
When reconstructing the house, they discovered a funny space leading from one daughter's bedroom to the other. They made it into a loft, with LED lights strung along the sides and carpeting, with access from each bedroom. As the girls grew up, the play area became more of a storage area.
Other surprises include a red-velvet chair in the guest bathroom -- too big to get out the door and just plain fun, Wimmer said.
For the master suite, they added a see-through fireplace, visible from the bedroom and a small sitting room. The bedroom, of course, opens through large glass doors, directly to the backyard. And the walk-in closet can be entered from the bedroom or the bathroom, which features two separate sink/vanity areas, an oval tub and large shower.
Loretz said she is mainly using the family's traditional Christmas decorations, but is supplementing with fresh greens and flowers.
Building from the blue and white seen in many of the rooms, she added white magnolias to the greenery on the living-room mantel, playing off the dark walnut and brick surround. The flameless LED candles can be found at Costco, she said.
Given that she's an alumna of St. Francis -- as is her husband and three children -- she said that participating in Christmas at Our House "is a wonderful way to give back."
Proceeds from the tour, boutique and raffles benefit The Campaign for Saint Francis High School, including construction of a new library and student center at the Mountain View campus.
The Junior League plans a weekend of festivities, including a number of options for seeing the four homes in the Atherton area that have been decorated by homeowners and designers. In addition to touring the homes (either arriving by shuttle or self-driven), highlights of the weekend include a luncheon on Friday, Dec. 2, at noon, and the Mistletoe & Martinis event that includes hors d'oeuvres, martinis and shopping on Friday, beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Saturday tour.
On Saturday, Dec. 3, at 8 a.m., participating designers will discuss "Dressing Up for the Holidays," offering holiday tips of the trade, followed by a designer-guided tour beginning at 10:30 a.m.
On both Friday and Saturday, a holiday-themed boutique will be set up at the Rosewood Sand Hill between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Proceeds from the event support the Junior League's projects, which include Project READ, Fostering Families, Shelter Network and Done in a Day.
What: Christmas at Our House Holiday Home Tour
When: Home Tour & Christmas Boutique, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2-3, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: three homes in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills
Cost: Home Tour: $40; luncheon: $30; Twelfth Night Table Setting tickets: $25, or five for $100; Santa's Workshop drawing tickets: $5 of five for $20
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What: Finishing Touches: A Holiday Tour of Fine Homes & Boutique
When: Friday and Saturday, Dec. 2 and 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Four homes in Atherton; check in at the Rosewood Sand Hill, 2825 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park; last shuttle leaves at 3 p.m.
Cost: Shuttle-driven tour ticket: $40 in advance, $45 day of tour; self-driven tour ticket: $65 (limited quantities, Saturday only); luncheon (which includes a Friday self-driven tour ticket): $125; Mistletoe & Martinis (includes Saturday shuttle-driven tour ticket): $135; Designers' Breakfast (Saturday only, includes designer-guided tour): $125
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LEICESTER -- An Oxford man is facing multiple charges, including drunken driving and two counts of child endangerment, after the car he was driving in Leicester crashed into a tree.
David R. Warren, 28, of 37 Watch St., Oxford, had been drinking and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash, according to Leicester Police Chief James Hurley.
Mr. Warren was charged with drunken driving, two counts of child endangerment while driving under the influence of alcohol, negligent driving, speeding, marked lanes violation and possession of a Class B substance (Endocet).
At approximately 10:15 p.m. Friday, police received a report of a motor vehicle speeding on Watch Street in Leicester, near the Oxford town line, and striking a tree.
Mr. Warren told police he was driving his wife and children home from a friend's house and a deer ran out in front of his car. Police determined that Mr. Warren's wife and their children, who are both under 10 years old, walked up the street to their residence.
Mr. Warren was taken by a Leicester ambulance to St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, where he was treated and released, while an Oxford ambulance was sent to the residence to check on Mrs. Warren and their two children.
During the booking procedure, police recovered several prescription pills that were concealed in Mr. Warren's shoe, which they tentatively identified as Endocet. Mr. Warren initially denied the pills found in his shoe were his but later stated they were his and that he had a prescription for them at home.
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: 2011 & 2012
So here we are, starting yet another new year. Seems like I was just here, but when I look back at my archives I see that my only post in January of 2011 was for the 0.74 release of RPC-XML. So I wasn't even as on-the-ball a year ago as I thought I was. And over the years I've gotten out of the habit of making elaborate resolutions for each new year. So this time around, I'm going to reflect a bit on high points of 2011, and ponder a bit about what I hope to do in 2012…
2011 was overall a pretty good year. It was my first full year at NetApp, after having done more job-hopping than I particularly liked to do in the years from 2006 to 2010. NetApp has been a really good place to be, both stable and challenging. I have good co-workers, and good management. Some high points of 2011 included:
- I snagged some kudos in the form of winning an internal friendly competition at NetApp for my work with Perl::Critic (a web interface similar to the one at perlcritic.com, but with some additional features, bells and whistles specific to NetApp's needs).
- I was once again supported by my management to attend OSCON this past summer, which not only meant learning many new bits of tech but also meant seeing many friends I only see at the con.
- I made the leap from being a strictly Linux guy, to obtaining my first Apple Macbook (Pro). It has been (and continues to be) a quirky learning curve, but I'm happy with it. I don't know if I'm more productive with it than I was with my Linux laptop, but I'm at least as productive, so (in theory) it can only get better as I get more accustomed to it.
- After being familiar with the module for some time, I finally made the leap of starting to use Devel::Cover on some of my code, which lead to some vast improvements in my testing suites (as well as flushing out numerous bugs along the way).
- I completed the online Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class that Stanford offered this fall. It was an experiment in online learning that the Stanford engineering school was conducting, one of three courses offered during that time. As an experiment, it must have gone well as they are offering ten courses this coming term: CS 101, Machine Learning, Software as a Service, Human-Computer Interaction, Natural Language Processing, Game Theory, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Cryptography, Design and Analysis of Algorithms I, and Computer Security. I plan on following up the AI class with the ML class. I'd love to take about half of them, but I have to be realistic about the free time I have.
So that was 2011. What do I plan for 2012?
- Release my CPAN modules more frequently, which means working on them more than I currently do. Over on his blog, Mark Fowler has resolved to release a distribution to CPAN once a week, every week, throughout 2012. I won't be doing that. But I can take from his thoughts on the matter some good direction and ideas, and I can apply those to how (and when) I choose to release.
- Do OSCON again. This may be tricky, as there has been a managements change in my organization. I don't know yet if the new director of my org will feel the same way about education and training as the previous person did.
- Related (slightly) to the first point: Release at least two new CPAN distributions. I have the specific ones in mind; one is a complete re-write/re-organization of an existing distro of mine, the other is completely new.
- Finally get around to learning Clojure. I've been toying with it and tinkering with it to a very light degree, but this year I will buckle down and actually work my way through the entirety of one or more books on the language. Most likely starting with The Joy of Clojure.
- Oh, and of course write more often here. The AI class effectively killed my blogging for the last part of 2011, but judging from people's reviews and feedback on the ML class I don't expect it to so thoroughly take over my life as the AI class did. So even if some weeks I only manage to eke out a "module Monday" post, I hope to at least accomplish that much.
Not necessarily lofty goals there, I will admit. But I have also resolved to spend more time on my non-computing hobby, so I am not going to set myself up with resolution expectations that require me to practically sleep with the laptop to accomplish them. I'd rather set my expectations at a challenging-yet-reasonable level, and actually achieve them.
Here's to the new year…


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Yet, Avid has been a little less dominant over the years with the products targeting the EventDV and independent videographer market. That's not to say that Avid Xpress isn't a great product or set of tools, but certainly 5 out of 5 event videographers don't use it. There are many other legitimate options available to videographers, often at a lower cost than Avid's premium prices. Pinnacle, with both the consumer-oriented, yet powerful Studio editing software and the Liquid family of prosumer editors, has been one of those competitors, and that makes Avid's pending acquisition of Pinnacle both exciting and somewhat tenuous.
Both companies are publicly traded and that mandates that neither speak publicly about current or future product plans, except to say that they will both continue to manufacture, sell, and support all current products--at least until the transaction closes. Still, there are a few predictions we can reasonably make at this stage.
At the high end, Avid just gets stronger. Avid's President, David Krall, has already pointed to the synergies between two respective product lines, especially with Pinnacle's broadcast products. Avid's strength is in building top editing systems, and many Avid customers already use Pinnacle's play-to-air products, like Deko Titler, Thunder, and MediaStream. Putting them under one roof, and into the portfolio of one sales force, is a logical move that should only strengthen Avid's core business.
The most visible change from the Pinnacle acquisition, however, will likely come from Studio. It's the current clear market leader in the Windows-platform consumer editing and immediately brings a broad base of new users—many of them future customers for Avid's higher-end products--into the fold.
This isn't Avid's first trip down the consumer road, although it's been several years since the last one. In the mid-1990s, Avid launched a product called Avid Cinema which included template shot lists and storyboards to help amateurs both shoot and edit events like birthday parties, vacations, and sports. Avid Cinema was not a success, although the more modest analog camcorders and capture hardware of the day should shoulder more of the blame than Avid's software. Today, in the era of high-quality consumer digital camcorders and easy capture, as well as the stereotypical ease with which young people approach technology, Pinnacle Studio has been a strong source of revenue. Acquiring Studio, complete with a well-oiled distribution and sales channel, immediately puts Avid into a market-leading position.
Avid knows, just as with a decade ago, that maintaining a leadership position means planning for tomorrow. Cinema attempted to get the Avid brand in front of the high-end editors of tomorrow. That's especially important today because aspiring editors can learn their future trades on increasingly sophisticated, yet affordable interfaces from companies like Adobe, Canopus, Ulead, Sony Media Software, and Apple. Indeed, Apple, with products spanning from iMovie to Final Cut Pro, may be Avid's biggest threat, and acquiring Studio enables Avid to meet Apple head on.
What remains to be seen is how much Avid will tinker with Studio's branding and interface. As the market leader, "Pinnacle Studio" is a known consumer brand. Changing to "Avid Studio," even ignoring the confusion that would create with Avid Xpress Studio, will be tricky, yet inevitable if Avid is to put its brand out to future editors. Making over the Studio interface could be even riskier and more rewarding if it offers aspiring editors a flavor of the Avid timeline. Already Studio brilliantly allows users to toggle between storyboard and timeline views of their products. Avid's timeline is less intuitive on the surface than either, but that only makes Studio a potentially more powerful teaching tool if Avid can tweak the Studio timeline to hint more of Avid's higher-end approach.
Pinnacle's Liquid line, including Liquid Edition, is probably in the most tenuous position in an Avid-owned world. On the one hand, at least until the most recent version of Xpress, Avid struggled with giving its corporate/independent-level product enough power to compete, but not so much that it would eat into the company's higher-end sales. Liquid Edition currently sells for less than half the price of Xpress Pro--and exactly the same price as XpressDV, thanks to its price drop at NAB--without yielding much in functionality, at least not on the spec sheet. The hardware/software integrated version of Liquid competes quite directly with the Xpress Pro. What's more, Liquid's entire look and feel are quite a bit different from any of Avid's current products.
Can Avid find a middle ground for Liquid Edition somewhere between Studio and Xpress? That would be nice, especially given Edition's novel all-in-one editing/DVD authoring timeline. However, it may be just as likely that Avid will leverage some of the technology from Edition, like native (without conversion) HDV editing and blend it into Xpress.
Best-guess speculation aside, we'll have to wait until the acquisition is completed--probably sometime this summer—before we find out what Avid has in mind.


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Jacob Zuma (b. April 12,1942), is a South African politician and self-taught. He became president of South Africa in May 9,2009.Prior to that he served as the country's deputy president (1999–2005), and he has served as president of the country's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), since 2007.
.He is popular figure even across political divides, he gained notoriety after his financial advisor was convicted of corruption and fraud, leading to Zuma's dismissal as Deputy President of South Africa in June 2005.
Jacob Zuma was born on 12 April 1942 in Inkandla, KwaZulu-Natal Province.
His father died at the end of World War II, after which his mother took up employment as a domestic worker in Durban. He spent his childhood moving between Zululand and the suburbs of Durban, and by age 15 took on odd jobs to supplement his mother's income.
Owing to his deprived childhood, Jacob Zuma did not receive any formal schooling. Heavily influenced by a trade unionist family member, he became involved in politics at an early age and joined the African National Congress in 1959. He became an active member of Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1962, following the banning of the ANC in 1960.
While on his way out of the country in 1963, he was arrested with a group of 45 recruits near Zeerust in what was then the western Transvaal (now the Northern West Province). Convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government, he was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, which he served on Robben Island.
After his release, Jacob Zuma helped mobilise internal resistance and was instrumental in the re-establishment of ANC underground structures in the then Natal province, (KwaZulu-Natal) between 1973 and 1975.
He left South Africa in 1975 and for the next 12 years, based first in Swaziland and then Mozambique, dealt with thousands of young exiles who poured out of South Africa in the wake of the Soweto uprising.
He lived in several African countries working for the ANC, where he rose rapidly through the ranks to become a member of the ANC National Executive Committee in 1977. He also served as Deputy Chief Representative of the ANC in Mozambique, a post he occupied until the signing of the Nkomati Accord between the Mozambican and South African governments in 1984. After signing the Accord, he was appointed as Chief Representative of the ANC and was one of a few who remained in Mozambique to carry out the work of the organisation, crossing in and out of South Africa on a number of occasions.
Jacob Zuma was forced to leave Mozambique in January 1987 after considerable pressure on the Mozambican government by the PW Botha regime. He moved to the ANC Head Office in Lusaka, Zambia, where he was appointed Head of Underground Structures and shortly thereafter Chief of the Intelligence Department.
He served on the ANC's political and military council when it was formed in the mid-80s.
Following the unbanning of the ANC in February 1990, he was one of the first ANC leaders to return to South Africa to begin the process of negotiations, and was instrumental in organising the Groote Schuur Minute between the FW de Klerk regime and the ANC that reached important decisions about the return of exiles and the release of political prisoners.
In 1990, at the first Regional Congress of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), he was elected Chairperson of the Southern Natal region and took a leading role in fighting violence in the region. This resulted in a number of Peace Accords involving the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
In 1991, at the first ANC National Conference held in South Africa after the unbanning of the organisation, he was elected the Deputy Secretary General of the ANC.
In January 1994, he was nominated as the ANC candidate for the Premiership of the KZN province. He is generally regarded as the person most instrumental in achieving the peace that is now enjoyed by the people of KZN and in October 1998 he was honoured with the Nelson Mandela Award for Outstanding Leadership in Washington DC, USA.
After the first national democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, Jacob Zuma was appointed as Member of the Executive Committee (MEC) of Economic Affairs and Tourism for the KZN provincial government.
He is also a patron of the KZN Reconstruction and Development Project (RDP) Bursary Fund, which is linked to the RDP section of the Department of Economic Affairs and Tourism. He established this bursary fund, using funds that each cabinet member of the KZN province was given to use on any project of their choice. Owing to his rural background and empathy for the poorest of the poor, he decided to use his allocation to help educate poor people in rural areas by establishing the bursary fund. The fund focuses mainly on primary school children in the rural areas but has, from 1999, started assisting students at tertiary institutions. There is currently in excess of 1,000 pupils being assisted at primary level and 10 at tertiary institutions.
In December 1994, Jacob Zuma was elected National Chairperson of the ANC and chairperson of the ANC in KZN. He was re-elected to the latter position in 1996.
He was elected Deputy President of the ANC at the National Conference held at Mafikeng in December 1997.
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NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) - Abercrombie & Fitch is separating its chairman and CEO roles and expanding its board's size. The teen retailer is also terminating its shareholder rights plan.
NEW ALBANY, Ohio (AP) � Abercrombie & Fitch is separating its chairman and CEO roles and expanding its board's size. The teen retailer is also terminating its shareholder rights plan.
Such a plan, also known as a "poison pill," is typically used by a company when it is trying to ward off a hostile takeover attempt.
Arthur Martinez, the former head of Sears, was named non-executive chairman. Michael Jefferies, who'd served as chairman since 1996, will remain a director and the CEO.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. named Martinez plus Terry Burman and Charles Perrin as directors, expanding its board to 12 members. The appointments are effective immediately.
Burman is the former CEO of Signet Jewelers Ltd. and before that was president and CEO of Barry's Jewelers Inc. Perrin is the former chairman and CEO of Avon Products Inc. and previously held the same posts at Duracell International Inc.
Abercrombie shares added 6 percent, or $2.09, to $36.70 in morning trading. The stock is down 26 percent in the past year.
Last month Abercrombie & Fitch announced that it was reworking Jefferies' contract, tying his compensation more closely with company performance.
Jeffries helped establish the company's reputation after arriving in the 1980s, but Abercrombie has struggled recently and Jeffries came under withering fire for comments relating to the type of customer he wants in his store and the fact that the store does not offer plus sizes.
In the nine weeks through Jan. 4, a period that includes the crucial holiday shopping season, sales at stores open at least a year fell 6 percent. This metric is a considered a key indicator of a retailer's health.
Prior to Abercrombie's announcement that it was retooling Jefferies' contract, Engaged Capital � which owns 400,000 shares of the retailer � sent a letter to the company demanding that Jeffries be replaced. Engaged said at the time that it believed the retailer's "perennial underperformance is a result of a failure of leadership" and urged the board to put new leadership in place.
Abercrombie & Fitch also announced Tuesday that Craig Stapleton will no longer serve as lead independent director, a post he'd held since 2010. Stapleton will continue to serve as a board member and as chair of the nominating and board governance committee.
Stapleton said in a statement that the changes the company was making was partly in response to shareholder concerns and said the chain would continue to review other potential "corporate governance enhancements."
Abercrombie & Fitch, whose brands include Hollister, Gilly Hicks and its namesake, is based in New Albany, Ohio. It currently runs 890 stores in the U.S. and 166 stores in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.


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Six Degrees of Oscar Wilde
"The only thing worse than being talked about with all this graph theory is not being talked about."
The Six Degrees of Oscar Wilde is a game which tries to connect every human on the planet to Oscar Wilde or his works. This is an application of the field of mathematics known as Graph Theory to works of literature and their authors.
Basic rules[edit]
It is based on the idea that I, for example, have written an Uncyclopedia article, which you have read, and you, in turn have an English teacher who had had coffee served to her by an arts major at a Starbuck's, whose shift supervisor read a short story from the book House of Pomegranates whilst sitting in the Men's room. Thus, even though I likely don't give a whit about Oscar Wilde, I am still separated by 4 degrees of seaparation from the writer. On average, all of mankind is separated in time and space from Oscar Wilde by an average of 6 degrees, and whether they have heard of him or not is irrelevant.
Oscar Wilde is the Center of the Universe[edit]
When you describe the world's human inhabitants in terms of their connection to Oscar Wilde, one is describing the universe of social, literary, and career connections between humans and the late Victorian writer. With Oscar Wilde being in the center of this discussion, he is thus in the center of this universe. The Universal set S of all connections leading to Oscar Wilde is known as the Wilde Universe.
Degrees of Separation Applies to both Things and People[edit]
If Oscar Wilde fed a dog an apple slice, and days later the dog wanders into and defecates on another property the remains of the apple. Centuries later, the neighbour owning the land who turns the sod to plant new grass will turn over a part of that soil once soiled by the dog fed by Wilde. I think I count at least 3 degrees of separation there: the dog has one degree of separation, the grass has two; and the owner turning the sod has the third.
If we wanted to be really radical about it, we can say that ultimately, our degree of separation from Wilde is 1 in both space and time, since it is likely we are breathing in and out the same oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules that were in Oscar Wilde's last dying breath. But since Wilde had been breathing all of his life, this means the chances of encountering the same oxygen and carbon dioxide molecules as breathed in and out each day by Wilde is probably pretty good, and we all breathe in the same air molecules as him on a daily basis.
How YOU Can Improve your NW[edit]
Not counting air molecules, the number of degrees by which you, a rock or a bird is separated from Oscar Wilde is known in Mathematics as the Wilde Number (NW). The only person allowed to have a NW of 0 is Oscar Wilde himself. Oscar Wilde's mother, friends, acquaintences, connections to publishers, academics, sex partners, and royalty, all have a NW of 1. Those not directly associated with Wilde are friends of his friends have an NW of 2. Friends of a friend of a friend of Wilde have an NW of 3. And on it goes. But the NW also applies to things. If you sat on the same chair that Wilde sat on over 100 years ago, that would bring your NW down to 1.
Here are some of the ways you can improve on your NW:[edit]
- Read an Uncyclopedia article with at least a Wilde quote in it. Yes, we all know that almost none of the quotes attributed on this website to Oscar Wilde are things he actually said or wrote. But just the fact that you see his name mentioned will also improve your NW.
- Visit the same house he lived in. Now, I would suppose that the people living there now wouldn't be too appreciative of you just showing up un-announced on their doorstep, so just tell them that you are trying to improve your Wilde Number. That ought to convince them. Otherwise, the author, Uncyclopedia, Wikia, and all business associates and their families, friends and relatives cannot be held responsible for any legal and criminal proceedings that might follow.
- Have lots of sex partners. Sooner or later you will find yourself in possession of an STD first spread by Wilde. If you find this out, you will find your NW has dropped off a cliff to the single digits. Just don't get menengitis. Even though it's not really an STD, it has the appeal of having taken Wilde's life and it would give you an especially low NW. But actually having the disease would really suck.
- Read something written by Oscar Wilde or attend a play. You may buy a Penguin edition of Dorian Gray from the bookstore. Even if all you do is go to the bathroom with the book, then rip pages out and wipe your ass with them, that will be enough to reduce your NW substantially. Indeed, you didn't just wipe your ass with any book; nay, you chose to wipe your ass with pages taken from one of Oscar Wilde's works. This would not make you the first person to be connected to Wilde through their anus. You can even burn it afterward (not just burning any book: same reasoning applies).


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Kirtland's Warbler
2012 is a Banner Year for Kirtland's Warblers
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On many fronts, 2012, has been a notable year for Kirtland's warblers. Survey results scored a new record, with 2,090 singing males, up from 1,828 KW last year.
"It was only 1987 when we tied an all-time low of 167 singing males. This is a pretty remarkable recovery -- 12 times the population size from where it was just a short 25 years ago," said Scott Hicks, the Service's East Lansing Field Office Supervisor.
Biologists, researchers and volunteers in Michigan observed 2,063 singing males during the official 2012 survey period – up from 1,805 in 2011. In Wisconsin, a minimum of 23 singing males were observed in five counties. Another four males were counted in Ontario.
In Wisconsin, volunteers and paid monitors found and tracked singing male Kirtland's warbler and were able to monitor nesting. Kirtland's warblers were recorded in five counties in Wisconsin (Adams, Douglas, Bayfield, Vilas, and Marinette), and at least 24 singing males were verified. Due to the necessity of taking a cautious approach to monitoring nests, there is limited information on nesting outcomes. However, 14 nests that ultimately fledged 8 to 13 young were documented. One concern regarding nest monitoring is the potential to lead predators to the nests. This year use of digital video recording to monitor nests was tested and may be a useful alternative. We are learning a lot as we watch a species expand its range by pioneering into new areas in Wisconsin.
The Kirtland's warbler survey is conducted during the second and third weeks of June, when the birds are defending their nesting territories. Warblers are detected by listening for their songs, which can be heard at distances up to one-quarter mile. Only the males sing, so estimates of breeding population size are obtained by doubling the number of singing males recorded, based on the assumption that each male has a mate in its territory.
Kirtland's warblers typically nest on the ground in stands of jack pine between 4 and 20 years old. Historically, these stands of young jack pine were created by natural wildfires that frequently swept through northern Michigan. Modern fire suppression programs altered this natural process, reducing Kirtland's warbler habitat. As a result, the population of Kirtland's warblers declined to the point that they were listed as endangered.
To mimic the effects of wildfire and ensure the future of this species, the DNR, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manage the forests through a combination of timber harvests, burning, seeding and replanting to promote habitat for many species, including snowshoe hare, white-tailed deer, other songbird species and rare plants.
Michigan Kirtland's Warbler Tours Attract Growing Number of Birders
Each year, in late spring and early summer, birders from around the globe trek to northern Lower Michigan to see Kirtland's warblers. This year, a total of 687 tourists took advantage of guided tours, an 18 percent increase from last year's number and comes after a 47 percent increase in attendance in 2011. The jump occurred even though tours were scaled back this year.
Tourists came from 37 of 50 states, Puerto Rico and five foreign countries. Participation by visitors from California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania was significantly higher in 2012 compared with the average from the past eight years. The increase in Michigan participation was most noticeable, reflecting the effort to reach out to Michigan media outlets and inform Michigan residents of the world-famous resource in their own state.
New Methods will Help Track Migrating Kirtland's Warblers
As the month of October began, the last few Kirtland's warblers that remained on the breeding grounds in northern Michigan finally departed. They have embarked on a journey spanning more than 1,600 miles. Many will likely pause enroute somewhere between Michigan and the Bahamas to rest and refuel before finally arriving at their winter home. The vast majority of these individuals will go undetected as they fly south, eluding the eyes of ever-watchful birders as they have done since the species was first discovered in 1851. A small sample of this population, however, promises to remove some of the obscurity associated with this species during the non-breeding season and literally shed light on where these birds spend the bulk of their time outside of Michigan.
In the spring of 2012, the East Lansing Field Office began a project in collaboration with Dr. Pete Marra of the Smithsonian Institute to track the movement of Kirtland's warblers from their breeding grounds to their winter grounds. Several Kirtland's warblers were equipped with light-level geolocators during the 2012 breeding season. These devices are incredibly small, weighing just 0.65 g, and will record time and light intensity levels while the individual wears the device. Upon re-capture of these birds next spring, data archived on the device will be downloaded and analyzed to determine where those individuals have been (accuracy is approximately ± 200km). This information will help clarify the geographic distribution of the species during migration and winter seasons. It will also facilitate future studies that examine the biology and ecology of the Kirtland's warbler during these important periods of its annual life cycle. Most importantly, this new information will increase our ability to identify and ensure that threats to the survival of this endangered species are adequately addressed across the entirety of its range.
Students Get Up-Close Look at Kirtland's Warblers
Getting kids excited about wildlife is always a goal for the Service, and the East Lansing Field Office launched an effort to show local third-graders the amazing resource right outside their doors. In late May and early June of 2012, biologists from the East Lansing Field Office travelled to elementary schools in northern Lower Michigan to educate approximately 365 third graders about the Kirtland's warbler. Biologists visited classrooms to introduce students to endangered species and the plight of the Kirtland's warbler through an interactive presentation and educational game. Students learned to identify a Kirtland's warbler by sight and sound, learned about the special type of jack pine habitat the species needs during the breeding season, and how the surrounding area, where the students live, is also used by hundreds of Kirtland's warblers. Biologists also introduced students to the brown-headed cowbird, the concept of nest parasitism, and the impacts the cowbird has on the Kirtland's warbler populations. Kids participated in a cowbird game, in which students played the roles of warbler or cowbird during a mock breeding season.
Biologists later took students on walking field trips of nearby jack pine forest stands to see first-hand Kirtland's warbler nesting habitat and management efforts that benefit the species. Students practiced identifying Kirtland's warblers and other birds by sight and sound, while using binoculars and spotting scopes. During these field trips, biologists explained why large stands of young jack pine forest are important to Kirtland's warblers and why fire is critical to the regeneration of this habitat type. Students were then asked to discuss some of the challenges that humans experience living in a fire-prone environment, and learned how land managers are able to artificially regenerate Kirtland's warbler nesting habitat in the absence of wild fires, so that humans and Kirtland's warblers can successfully co-exist.
After a tour of the nesting habitat, students learned about migration and the Kirtland's warbler annual cycle through a game in which students had to "migrate" to their winter grounds and back. In addition to avoiding the common hazards of migration, such as poor weather and predation, students also had to respond to human-caused changes to habitat (both positive and negative). In this way, students were better able to understand how the breeding, migratory and winter phases of the species were connected, and how events happening in one place at one time were linked across the species' annual cycle, to the survival of individual birds, and to population trends.
The education program will continue on an annual basis, in order to build a more educated public, whose lives intersect most directly with that of the Kirtland's warbler.
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Find Out Details on Zayn Malik's Proposal to Perrie Edwards
It's official! One Direction's Zayn Malik and Little Mix's Perrie Edwards are getting mixed in the same direction! They're officially engaged, with Edwards showing off her understated, but beautiful ring at the Aug. 20 premiere of One Direction's 'This Is Us.'
So while Directioner hearts may be split wide open now that Zayn is officially and fully off the market, they will melt when they hear details of how the proposal went down!
1D's rep did confirm the engagement, but declined further comment, saying, "Zayn and Perrie are engaged, but any further detail regarding their relationship is private."
That didn't stop Edwards' mother Debbie from gushing about her future son-in-law. She said, "Yes, it's true. They got engaged on Sunday (Aug.18) and it's absolutely lovely. It's wonderful because Zayn is absolutely gorgeous and Perrie loves him to pieces. It's just perfect and they get on so well together."
We're about to tear up from all this joy.
A source said that the proposal "was so romantic – Zayn popped the question over the weekend when they were alone together. It's one of the first weekends they've spent with each other, as they've both been on tours with their bands. He wanted to wait for the perfect moment. All of [Perrie's] bandmates were at V Festival, and she couldn't wait to tell them. They're all really excited for her, as the rest of One Direction are for Zayn."
Another source said, "Zayn got down on one knee and presented Perrie with the ring. She couldn't believe it. It's a shock to everyone."
We're guessing that maybe that wasn't Zayn in the studio with Johnny Depp or perhaps the photo took place at another time?
Ah, who cares – Zayn and Perrie, both 20, are getting hitched.
Congrats to the cute couple.


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St. Francis Knights Earn Big Win Against Whitefield Academy
St. Francis (2-2, 1-1) had a methodical scoring drive in its first possession of the game, going 78 yards on 12 plays and ending with a one-yard dive up the middle by fullback Sam France to give the Knights an early 7-0 advantage.
Whitefield (1-2, 0-1) responded with a touchdown on a one-yard run by Lawrence Waters with 2:37 left in the first quarter to tie the score for the WolfPack.
Whitefield had several strong defensive plays throughout the contest, including an interception by Braelen Phillips on St. Francis' next possession but the WolfPack couldn't take advantage.
The Knights' biggest offensive play of the game came on an 82-yard touchdown pass down the middle from Roche to Nathan Waller, who fought off a defender and made a juggling catch in stride before racing to the end zone midway though the second quarter, increasing St. Francis' lead to 14-7.
St. Francis also had a stellar defensive effort, causing multiple turnovers, including a fumble in the second quarter that was recovered by Lake McClure. This eventually led to St. Francis taking a 21-7 lead into halftime courtesy of a 15-yard touchdown pass from Roche to Waller with nine seconds left in the second quarter.
Whitefield cut the Knights' lead in half in the third quarter on a possession that was triggered though an interception by Waters on an errant Roche pass. The WolfPack proceeded to make the score 21-14 on a one-yard quarterback sneak by Everett Pollard with 1:15 left in the third quarter.
St. Francis secured the victory with its final score of the night, a one-yard touchdown run by Jonah Huff late in the fourth quarter.
Waller finished the contest with a game-high 169 yards receiving on five catches while Huff's 68 yards rushing for the Knights was also the most by a player on either team.
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RIMM: Will Thursday's Earnings Prompt a Short Squeeze?
Technical analysis and earnings projections for Research In Motion.
I'm fairly inclined to agree largely with Forbes' Eric Savitz's take published December 14, in which Savitz highlights William Blair analyst Anil Doradla's warning that the BlackBerry smartphone maker could "deliver investors a pre-holiday lump of coal."
Having said these things, RIMM shares have had a heck of a run since the August 14 close of $7.56. Recently trading at $14.02, that's about an 85% increase-a period for which the S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) is flat.
Here are some calculations I put together based on data posted by NASDAQ.
Shares outstanding are at a little over 516 million. Almost 298 million of those are in the hands of the top five holders. As of the end of November, short interest had risen to almost 114 million shares, about 22% of shares outstanding.
Looking at the short interest as a percentage of average daily volume, that quantity was at a lofty 728% around the time of its August lows. That same quantity has come down markedly recently to around 200%. That's where it was hovering at year-end 2011 and early this year when the stock traded at its trailing twelve-month peak in the $17 - $18 range.
Here is the breakdown of analyst estimates, courtesy of Yahoo Finance.
To me, the current RIMM discussion is reminiscent of where Novell stood vis-à-vis Microsoft in the business-network operating-system market slightly more than a decade ago. Novell's advantages touted then were its first-on-the-scene dominant installed base, along with server operating reliability most experts agreed was superior to Microsoft's. One could say that RIMM's positioning in corporate email has an analogous history. RIMM's experience with new product has not always been met with oohs and aahs. (Remember PlayBook and the need to plug in a BlackBerry?)
Short squeezes can be painful and sharp. Stocks at RIMM's current stage of the process have been known to double or more prior to selling off. Nevertheless I would argue that there seems little in the way of expectable events in the near term likely to disruptively alter the basic fundamental framework in which the company operates. Android- and Apple-powered devices continue to march ahead in this space, once considered a stuffy corporate consumer whose primary concerns were limited to email.
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