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Provo • BYU senior defensive end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah and his rags-to-probable-riches story is a "breath of fresh air," his agent proclaimed Thursday as the Cougars held their annual Pro Day for 32 scouts from 24 NFL teams, and one CFL team, but there were moments when the probable first-round draft pick just wanted to stop and catch his own breath.
"I may or may not" have tired out, Ansah replied when asked if one particularly grueling drill orchestrated by Oakland Raiders defensive line coach Terrell Williams caused him to run out of gas. "But I was able to finish all the drills, so that was good."
Actually, Ansah only participated in the untimed, unmeasured defensive line-specific drills at the end of the three-hour series of workouts. The former BYU track athlete who stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 274 pounds did not run the 40-yard dash as many hoped he would, after posting a time of 4.63 seconds at the NFL Combine last month in Indianapolis.
"I didn't think there was anything I could do to impress anybody out here," Ansah said with a chuckle. "I know I am fast, so ..."
Nearly a dozen BYU seniors worked out for scouts Thursday, but Ansah got the lion's share of the attention. And rightfully so, with many draft experts saying he could be a top-15 pick.
"That's a safe bet," said his agent, Frank Bauer of Sun West Sports, based in Stockton, Calif.
"There are strong opinions on him, but everybody agrees he is one of the better athletes in the country," he added.
The agent said that after his combine performance, Ansah really didn't have to do anything Thursday, but wanted to be out there with his teammates and show his willingness to be coached.
BYU fans know "what's going on" with Ansah by heart how he didn't play football until just three years ago, had to be shown how to put on his pads the first day of fall camp, and didn't even know until a few months ago what the letters NFC and AFC stood for, in relation to the NFL.
Now he's the main attraction of Pro Day.
"It's been a crazy journey," Ansah said. "I just thank Heavenly Father for it."
Privately, several scouts expressed surprise that Ansah agreed to do the individual workout with Williams, and some even thought it was a bit over the top. Rick Reiprish, director of college scouting for the New Orleans Saints, wasn't one of those disgusted by the tactics, but did acknowledge that Ansah "looked like" he ran out of gas.
"I don't know that the workout was a killer workout, but it was harder than you would think for this time of year," Reiprish said. "But like I said earlier, I think conditioning right now is a little overplayed."
Ansah said he knew what the Raiders representative was going to do beforehand, and wasn't surprised by it. He said they were heading out to lunch together after Pro Day to discuss his performance. The Raiders have the third overall pick in the draft.
How BYU's other seniors did was not immediately released, and strength coach Jay Omer said they probably wouldn't be because scouts generally don't like them published.
Brandon Ogletree, a 235-pound linebacker, said he was happy with his performance in the 40-yard dash, a 4.61, but BYU's leading tackler the past two seasons was mildly disappointed in his bench-press reps, 23.
"Overall, I think I turned a lot of heads today," Ogletree said. "My favorite [NFL] team is whatever team gives me a chance."
The BYU player besides Ansah most likely to be drafted, offensive lineman Braden Brown, said he was more nervous performing in front of friends, family and teammates than he was at the combine last month.
"All things considered, I did well today," Brown said.
BYU's participants in Pro Day
Player Pos. Ht/Wt
Ezekiel Ansah DL 6-5/274
Braden Brown OL 6-5/310
DeQuan Everett DB 6-3/214
Romney Fuga DL 6-1/318
Preston Hadley DB 5-11/208
Braden Hansen OL 6-5/307
Reed Hornung DS 6-2/252
Uona Kaveinga LB 5-11/233
Brandon Ogletree LB 5-11/235
Joe Sampson DB 5-10/203
Riley Stephenson P 6-0/205
O'Neill Chambers WR 6-2/215


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VIA preps single-chip C7, Eden chipset
CX700 pitched at embedded roles
VIA today said it will begin shipping its first single-chip chipset for its C7 and Eden CPUs later this quarter, the better to pitch the low-power x86 processors at embedded applications. Cramming North Bridge and South Bridge components into one chip reduces the motherboard area requirement by 34 per cent, VIA said.
The CX700's North Bridge functionality includes support for up to 4GB of 300 or 400MHz DDR, or 333, 400 or 500MHz DDR 2, all with ECC if required. It can operate a 400MHz or 533MHz frontside bus clock, and it also features an integrated UniChrome Pro graphics core with MPEG 2 decoding and twin monitor support, but can host an AGP 8x slot for a separate graphics card.
The chip can host up to six USB 2.0 ports, four PCI slots, two EIDE devices and two SATA units, be they 1.5Gbps or 3Gbps drives. It also features VIA's Vinyl HD audio system.
The VIA CX700 is expected to be available in volume quantities later in Q2 2006. Pricing was not disclosed. ®
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Modern Politics Activates the Brain's Ancient Wiring
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Research on the biology of political beliefs provides insight into the effectiveness of how to win any argument. Current theories suggest that people's political beliefs are driven by their identification with a group—similar to sports team loyalties, but more rooted in values, which makes them harder to change. Processing political thoughts may be a simple question of "Us versus Them."
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The H1N1 flu vaccine became available earlier this month, and for many health care workers getting the vaccine is mandated. New York has created a state-wide mandate that all health care workers who have direct patient contact get seasonal and H1N1 flu shots or face the possibility of losing their jobs. Many hospitals have also created mandates, including the Hospital Corporation of America, Emory hospital, the University of Pennsylvania hospital, the University of Maryland hospital, the Loyola University health system, and the Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose.
Many health care workers are opposed to these mandates, as was demonstrated by health care workers protesting the New York mandate outside of the state capitol (video). The California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee have recommended that the vaccine be encouraged but "nurses should maintain their right to decline for personal reasons." Some reasons the protesters give for objecting to the mandate (here, here, and video here) include: the vaccine is not as effective as other mandated vaccines; there are equally effective alternatives, for example, wearing face masks and washing their hands; the vaccine was not sufficiently tested and may be unsafe; and H1N1 flu is not sufficiently dangerous to warrant a mandate. A common thread throughout the protest coverage is that health care workers do not want to be told what they must put in their bodies. This morning a group of New York emergency room nurses announced that they would be filing a lawsuit to block the mandate later this week.
Art Caplan, professor of bioethics and the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania argues that these mandates are appropriate because they will save lives and getting vaccinated is part of the health care workers' responsibility to patients and to each other. Professor Caplan writes that if health care workers are vaccinated, patient mortality would decrease and nurses and doctors would remain healthy and able to care for sick patients. He estimates that in the case of the annual flu vaccination, if 100% of health care workers were vaccinated, patient deaths from the flu would drop 40%. Since April, 76 children have died from H1N1. [Note: As of October 23, 2009, that number rose to 86.]
In many states, hospital workers are already required to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella as a condition of their employment, but flu shots are voluntary. In this case, however, Professor Caplan argues that mandating the H1N1 vaccine may be the only way to obtain the individual medical and public health benefits. He reports that neither voluntary vaccinations (only 50% of health care workers elect to receive the annual flu shot) nor alternative protections like face masks (20% of health care workers who wear face masks still catch the flu) are likely to achieve the same benefits as a mandatory vaccination.
Some who object to the mandate have voiced concerns about the vaccine's safety and efficacy because they claim it was rushed through development. But the Center for Disease Control and Prevention director, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, assures, "We have cut no corners. This flu vaccine is made as flu vaccine is made each year, by the same companies, in the same production facilities with the same procedures, with the same safety safeguards." The vaccine is not safe for some individuals who have egg allergies or risk factors for a rare complication known as Guilliame-Barre syndrome, and they are exempt from the mandate. Some of the mandates, although not New York's, also exempt people with religious objections to vaccination.
If a mandate requiring health care workers to receive the H1N1 vaccination is necessary, then the penalty for opting out should be both fair and effective. Currently, health care workers in New York who refuse the vaccine risk losing their jobs. Could New York still reach its pubic health goals and increase vaccination rates among health care workers with a less severe penalty? For example, could the same purpose be served by notifying patients and other doctors that an individual has refused the vaccine, which would allow patients to choose to receive care from practitioners who are vaccinated?
Some health care workers and their advocates would prefer a program whereby adults did not have to choose between their job and taking a vaccine they have concerns about. Individuals' choices about their own health care should be respected, and health care professionals are likely to make informed choices. On the other hand, health care professionals' vaccination decisions will also affect the patients they see who are especially vulnerable to the H1N1 complications. And requiring vaccinations might be necessary to protect those patients.
– Kelly Lowenberg
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Contraceptive or protective? The slow rise of the condom
Condom packaging for "Prentif Servis pak", London, England, 1935-1945
Condoms are now everywhere. They provide cheap, accessible, simple but effective contraception. They come in a range of colours and sizes. The condom is a cultural icon. It also plays a leading role in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.
A defensive barrier against disease
This contemporary role echoes the condom's origins in Europe. It protected against another deadly disease called syphilis that was then sweeping the world. In 1564 physician Gabriello Fallopio recorded the use of thin chemically soaked linen sheets held in place by a ribbon. The condom's history before this is very speculative. Oiled paper and animal gut tissues were allegedly used as even earlier 'condoms' in China, and caps of leather or turtle shell were employed in Japan.
By the early 1700s linen sheets were superseded by barriers made from the fine membrane of animal intestines or bladders. They were more at home in brothels than domestic settings. Protection against syphilis was the priority, and thus they were objects of shame and embarrassment. These are associations they never completely lost. The English called them 'French letters', while in France they were capotes anglaises ('English overcoats'). Both these terms reflected ancient animosities.
The arrival of the 'rubber' and condom use as birth control
Condoms remained handmade 'luxury' items until the mid 1800s. Rubber vulcanisation then allowed mass production. Parallel with this technological change was the emergence of a birth control movement in Britain, formed after Thomas Malthus's damning analysis of population growth. The movement gave impetus to using condoms as contraceptives. However, these new condoms remained crude and uncomfortable. They were rarely advocated by campaigners.
A switch to latex in the 1920s transformed the market. Latex condoms were thinner, yet harder wearing. They were produced in their millions from the late 1920s, and became the contraceptive of choice among poorer classes. Condoms were virtually ignored by leading birth control campaigners Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger. Stopes stated they were 'unromantic and unaesthetic'; she preferred the rubber cervical cap. Sanger advocated the diaphragm.
The condom in the age of the pill
Condoms were issued by the military for protection against venereal diseases during the Second World War and remained popular after the war. However, the wide availability of the contraceptive pill and IUDs from the early 1960s led to a decline in condom use. Using antibiotics to treat STIs also lessened their public health importance.
There were exceptions. Approval of the contraceptive pill in Japan was delayed until 1999; condoms remained the primary form of birth control in its absence. Japan accounted for 25% of the world market in the early 1980s, and condoms are still Japan's most popular contraceptive.
Condoms in the fight against AIDS
Condoms were distributed throughout the developing world during post-war birth control campaigns. However, their status was transformed by the HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. As the safest barrier method, they became synonymous with disease prevention and 'safe sex'. Condoms remain a cornerstone of AIDS prevention.
Condoms have consolidated their dual role as contraception and protection. This is despite strong cultural, religious and political opposition from some parts of the world. The female condom has so far failed to achieve wide acceptance. However, the humble 'rubber' is an integral part of modern life.
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R Jütte, Contraception: A History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007)
A Mindel, Condoms (London: BMJ Books, 2000)
H Youssef, 'The history of the condom', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 86/4 (April 1993), pp 226-8
A Collier, The Humble Little Condom: A History (New York: Prometheus Books, 2007)
N Vitellone, Object Matters: Condoms, Adolescence and Time (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008)
A Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002)
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We, THE PEOPLE, are the Guild
The Petaluma Guild is a grassroots organization that began in 1867. Rising from the fields and farmlands, we gather on common ground to support each other, work together, and honor sustainable values.
Our Guild supports and advocates for healthy communities, family farms, local economies, cultural diversity, public schools and education, the arts, and a variety of charitable causes.
Today, our parent organization, the California Guild, has evolved into a community service organization with 9,000 members and 160 chapters across California. Guild halls are often the center of their community, providing opportunities, culture and education, entertainment, emergency shelter, and a meeting place where new friends are made and old friends are cherished.
The California Guild (formerly the California State Grange) has lobbyists in Sacramento and boasts a long history of successful legislative advocacy. Important issues discussed and decided at the community chapter level may become CG policy, and even legislation.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation—a primary principle in permaculture.
Petaluma Community Guild Groundwater Forum: Recap and Resources
A crowd of 40-50 rural residents made the trek down to the Hessel Grange hall in Sebastopol on July 25 for an open dialogue with County water experts — about the potential impact of California's
Petaluma Community Guild Compost Forum: Presentation Slides
Our Petaluma Community Guild hosted another successful public forum on the heels of Earth Day. Compost in the North Bay: A Public Forum & Solution Showcase was held on April 27, 2016 at the beautiful Petaluma Historic Museum.
Petaluma Community Guild Glyphosate Forum: Recap and Resources
The Petaluma Community Guild's public forum — Glyphosate: Health Impacts and Green Alternatives — that took place at the Petaluma Seed Bank on March 9 was a big success. We had a full crowd on hand
Petalumans share a plentiful bounty at 8th and Bee Homestead
Reposted from the original article run in the Petaluma Argus Courier on March 12, 2016. Story by Arianna Reguzzoni. Photo credit: Scott Manchester. Click here to read the original article. At first glance, the yard on the corner
Petaluma group fights pesticides in city parks
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May 23, 2013 'Foodies' spark reawakening of Grange in California March 1, 2013 Growing the Granges January 8, 2013 Peak Prosperity: Your Local Grange November 19, 2011 Press Democrat: Home on the Grange August 28, 2011 Argus Courier Editorial: Local


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Dr. Pepper TEN…It's A Boys Only ClubMonday, November 7th, 2011
So I was watching the USC game last week, and a Dr. Pepper ad popped up on the television. Advertising Dr. Pepper TEN, a new ten calorie drink made with real sugar, the ad sought to make the diet drink "macho." The ad is a gold mine for quotes edging on sexist, proclaiming "You can keep the romantic comedies and lady drinks. We're good." and ending with "Dr. Pepper TEN…it's not for women." Accompanying the ad is a reworked Facebook page, which allows visitors to take a quiz to see if they are man enough for Dr. Pepper TEN.
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If you've ever been freaked out by something on the Internet, then Nerve by Seattle author Jeanne Ryan is the book for you.
Written for a young adult (YA) audience, it tells the story of a teenager named Vee who gets chosen to play a game about dares called Nerve, watched by people all over the world.
But Nerve is really about how people can unintentionally head down the wrong path in baby steps.
First you do X, and X doesn't seem that bad. Then you do Y, which is a little bit worse. Then before you know it, you're involved in Z, and Z is extremely bad. By then it's too late! You've done X, Y and Z and you're in serious trouble.
Another core component of Nerve is about privacy in the Internet age. Vee "likes" and "shares" things on her ThisIsMe page, and then that data gets collected by the people who run Nerve, and used against her.
A ThisIsMe page gone bad is a plot-line that can scare almost anybody. It's the perfect jumping off board for a serious conversation about Facebook, Twitter and social media in general.


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Venturi, Inc. is an internationally acclaimed manufacturing, marketing and distribution company known for developing unique and innovative products ranging from modern home and bath accessories to reusable, high-filtration cigarette filters. Through our internationally recognized brands -- Slip-X® Solutions™ and TarGard® -- we provide creative, quality products that enhance and simplify our customers' daily lives. From our popular Slip-X Snug Plug®, to the drug store industry's best selling brand of cigarette filters, Venturi provides a diverse product line that offers quick and easy solutions to lifes every day tasks. At Venturi, we continually strive to provide unsurpassed customer service, and are proud of our long history of providing recognized and demanded brands.
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EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) Kenneth Ortiz's steal and layup with 27.4 seconds left gave Wagner its winning margin in a 52-50 victory over Mount St. Mary's in a Northeast Conference game Thursday night.
Ortiz had a chance to add to the lead on the next possession by the Seahawks (10-8, 4-3) but missed the front end of a one-and-one.
The Mountaineers (7-11, 2-5) lobbed an inbounds pass to Kristijan Krajina from near midcourt with 3.3 seconds left, but his shot missed at the buzzer.
Mount St. Mary's led nearly the entire game and was ahead 43-35 after Rashad Whack's jumper with 10:28 left.
Wagner tied the game and took a 50-48 lead with 2:39 to play on consecutive layups by Jonathon Williams, but Sam Prescott's jumper for the Mountaineers tied it at the 1:03 mark.
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Day Around The Bay: Suspects Sought In Sunset Carjacking
A potentially big arrest was made under heavy police presence in Oakland, the Giants lost to the Braves (again), and PG&E can't find enough tree-trimmers.
A potentially big arrest was made under heavy police presence in Oakland, the Giants lost to the Braves (again), and PG&E can't find enough tree-trimmers.
The Bay Area's counterculture forebears have left behind a lot for us to read, listen to, and sort out. But in the case of one KPIX employee who also happens to be a hobbyist repairer of old electronic instruments, the counterculture came rushing back in the form of some actual, vintage acid.
Festivals each have characters all their own, with varying emphasis on food, beer, wine, cocktails, and the acts they present. Likewise the Bay Area's biggest festivals, the first of which happens this weekend, all have varying degrees of bang for your buck when it comes to VIP experiences.
This week's story about a missing persons report that led to a welfare check that led to the discovery of dismembered human remains has an update from neighbors on the street. They say that loud fights and noises often came from the home on Del Monte Street in the Outer Mission.
Local attorney and former SF Supervisor Angela Alioto won't be facing disciplinary action from the Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC) following an April 24 incident in which she reportedly used the N-word six times in order to illustrate a point about its ugliness.
A power outage has shuttered the Ferry Building, SF jail inmates filed a class-action suit over sleep deprivation, and David Talbot brings us a story of New San Francisco clashing with an old hippie living in his van.
Another day, another "elegy" for the unrelenting wasteland that is our fair city. In exactly the same vein and tone of that irritating New Yorker piece last week, the Washington Post has published a piece in the Style section all about how San Francisco has finally, irreversibly gone to hell.
The City Attorney's office rejected her claim that the city was responsible for her collapsed lung and broken ribs, so a lawsuit seems likely.
The Dubs are headed to their fifth consecutive NBA Finals and coach Steve Kerr becomes the first coach in the history of American professional sports to lead his team to a championship berth in each of his first five seasons with that organization.
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Dim sum for a cause
Why autumn and why dim sum for an event raising money for the Nathan Yip Foundation?
In China, Jimmy Yip explains, mid-autumn festivals held during the harvest moon are like Thanksgiving in America: A time when families and friends gather to enjoy good food and fellowship. "Today," he said, "we are like a big family … enjoying good food for a good cause."
Jimmy and Linda Yip started the foundation in 2002, after their only child, Nathan, lost his life in a tragic auto accident. Its purpose is to carry on Nathan's philanthropic spirit by building schools in remote areas of China and Mexico, places where people live in extreme poverty and educational opportunities are few. The foundation also supports literacy efforts in American schools.
The brunch, at Kings Land Chinese Seafood Restaurant, is one of the foundation's two signature events. The other is a Chinese New Year party, the next edition of which is set for Jan. 29, 2011, at the Cable Center. Between the two, the foundation has raised over $1 million since its start.
9News reporter Jamie Kim was mistress of ceremonies, and helped foundation board president David Thomson welcome the capacity crowd of 300-plus. She also introduced Dancing with Water, a troupe of young Hmong dancers who bravely carried on following a sound system malfunction during their first number.
Steamed buns, potstickers, lo mein and egg custard tarts were on the menu enjoyed by such as Jim Deters, owner of the new ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro; Chris Wanifuchi, director of the Asian Pacific Development Center, and her husband, Howard; Agatha Kessler; attorney Kevin Gliwa and his wife, Denise; auctioneer Gary Corbett; Fred and Gerry Miale; Bei-Lee Gold; Clear Channel senior sales and sponsorship executive Kristin Johnson; Sheldon and Jan Steinhauser; Deanna Leino; Meiko Bailey; Gayle and Gary Ray; Jennifer Heglin; Tony Zheng; Missy Glauch; Diana and Dr. Paul Docktor; Patti Shade; Joy Aiba; videographer Mike Kalush; and Celeste Fleming.
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In her new book (why must every reality star "write" a book?) Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville notes that after Eddie Cibrian cheated on her with LeAnn Rimes, she sought revenge with a brand new vag. That's right, she got "vaginal rejuvenation" surgery. Is this really how we're coping with breakups now?
I really really hope not, because studies have shown that the risks of vaginal surgery are hugely underreported and the benefits are exaggerated. Women think the surgery can improve sexual pleasure or even reestablish their virginity, but in reality it can actually dull sensation and cause harmful scarring. If there's one place I'm not wild about scarring, it's down there.
But the really scary part comes from a study in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology from back in 2009. If you're planning on having kids in the future, vaginaplasties can cause serious complications with child birth and even possible death of the baby. Definitely not worth it, even if you're a Real Housewife.
I'm all in favor of owning your own body. And if you want plastic surgery and it seems safe, go for it. But despite the joy with which Glanville reports her empowering vaginal rejuvenation, I just can't get behind something so potentially damaging. What do you guys think?
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Feldman Architecture | Ocho House
Located in a nature preserve in the Santa Lucia Mountains, the site of oak forests and steep meadows strongly impacted and inspired Feldman Architecture's design for House Ocho. In order to reduce the impact of the home's massing and to preserve site lines, the building settles into the ground and overhanging roofs are planted with tall native grasses. The house is also divided up into a series of pavilions to lessen its overall mass.
After passing through an entry grove, visitors can see distant views between and over the various building elements. As they are drawn into the widening view, they are led down from the tree-lined ridge to a large terrace that serves as an outdoor living room for the house. Nearly every room has wide doors that open to the land allowing the modest home to feel much more spacious.
Knowing that the home would often be used by the homeowners without their children or guests, the two guest bedrooms are pulled away from the main house. When only the owners are home, the guest wing can be shut off, electrically and thermally. External hallways further reduce the amount of thermally controlled space.
The owners' respect for the site translated into several environmentally sensitive design decisions. To further tie the house to the land, a natural palette of wood and concrete with weathered steel accents is incorporated throughout the house. In addition to allowing the house to blend into the landscape, the green roofs allow rain water to be absorbed on-site and ensure that the house remains cool in hot summer months. A passive solar design strategy was implemented as well: large windows expose the concrete floors and retaining walls to the morning sun, thus minimizing the need for artificial heat. Skylights with integrated photovoltaic cells produce a soft filtered light while also helping to power the house. Environmentally sensitive building materials such as sustainably harvested lumber and insulation made from denim manufacturing waste were specified throughout the home. Finally, the large meadows adjacent to the house have been replanted with native grasses and wildflowers which are drought-tolerant and also provide fire resistance.Architect: Feldman Architecture
Location: Carmel, California, USA
Completion Date: September 2004
Size: 2900sf + 600sf cottage for guests
Project Type: New Construction
Contractor: Groza Construction
Landscape Design: Loretta Gargan Landscape + Design, Blasen Landscape Architecture
Lighting Design: Steinbeck Technical Consulting
Engineer: Fulcrum Engineering
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Afghan War Diary - Reading guide
The Afghan War Diary (AWD for short) consists of messages from several important US military communications systems. The messaging systems have changed over time; as such reporting standards and message format have changed as well. This reading guide tries to provide some helpful hints on interpretation and understanding of the messages contained in the AWD.
Most of the messages follow a pre-set structure that is designed to make automated processing of the contents easier. It is best to think of the messages in the terms of an overall collective logbook of the Afghan war. The AWD contains the relevant events, occurrences and intelligence experiences of the military, shared among many recipients. The basic idea is that all the messages taken together should provide a full picture of a days important events, intelligence, warnings, and other statistics. Each unit, outpost, convoy, or other military action generates report about relevant daily events. The range of topics is rather wide: Improvised Explosives Devices encountered, offensive operations, taking enemy fire, engagement with possible hostile forces, talking with village elders, numbers of wounded, dead, and detained, kidnappings, broader intelligence information and explicit threat warnings from intercepted radio communications, local informers or the afghan police. It also includes day to day complaints about lack of equipment and supplies.
The description of events in the messages is often rather short and terse. To grasp the reporting style, it is helpful to understand the conditions under which the messages are composed and sent. Often they come from field units who have been under fire or under other stressful conditions all day and see the report-writing as nasty paperwork, that needs to be completed with little apparent benefit to expect. So the reporting is kept to the necessary minimum, with as little type-work as possible. The field units also need to expect questions from higher up or disciplinary measures for events recorded in the messages, so they will tend to gloss over violations of rules of engagement and other problematic behavior; the reports are often detailed when discussing actions or interactions by enemy forces. Once it is in the AWD messages, it is officially part of the record - it is subject to analysis and scrutiny. The truthfulness and completeness especially of descriptions of events must always be carefully considered. Circumstances that completely change the meaning of an reported event may have been omitted.
The reports need to answer the critical questions: Who, When, Where, What, With whom, by what Means and Why. The AWD messages are not addressed to individuals but to groups of recipients that are fulfilling certain functions, such as duty officers in a certain region. The systems where the messages originate perform distribution based on criteria like region, classification level and other information. The goal of distribution is to provide those with access and the need to know, all of the information that relevant to their duties. In practice, this seems to be working imperfectly. The messages contain geo-location information in the forms of latitude-longitude, military grid coordinates and region.
The messages contain a large number of abbreviations that are essential to understanding its contents. When browsing through the messages, underlined abbreviations pop up an little explanation, when the mouse is hovering over it. The meanings and use of some shorthands have changed over time, others are sometimes ambiguous or have several meanings that are used depending on context, region or reporting unit. If you discover the meaning of a so far unresolved acronym or abbreviations, or if you have corrections, please submit them to email@example.com.
An especially helpful reference to names of military units and task-forces and their respective responsibilities can be found at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm
The site also contains a list of bases, airfields http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/afghanistan.htm Location names are also often shortened to three-character acronyms.
Messages may contain date and time information. Dates are mostly presented in either US numeric form (Year-Month-Day, e.g. 2009-09-04) or various Euro-style shorthands (Day-Month-Year, e.g. 2 Jan 04 or 02-Jan-04 or 2jan04 etc.).
Times are frequently noted with a time-zone identifier behind the time, e.g. "09:32Z". Most common are Z (Zulu Time, aka. UTC time zone), D (Delta Time, aka. UTC + 4 hours) and B (Bravo Time, aka UTC + 2 hours). A full list off time zones can be found here: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/military/
Other times are noted without any time zone identifier at all. The Afghanistan time zone is AFT (UTC + 4:30), which may complicate things further if you are looking up messages based on local time.
Finding messages relating to known events may be complicated by date and time zone shifting; if the event is in the night or early morning, it may cause a report to appear to be be misfiled. It is advisable to always look through messages before and on the proceeding day for any event.
David Leigh, the Guardian's investigations editor, explains the online tools they have created to help you understand the secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/video/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-video-tutorial
Understanding the structure of the report
- The message starts with a unique ReportKey; it may be used to find messages and also to reference them.
- The next field is DateOccurred; this provides the date and time of the event or message. See Time and Date formats for details on the used formats.
- Type contains typically a broad classification of the type of event, like Friendly Action, Enemy Action, Non-Combat Event. It can be used to filter for messages of a certain type.
- Category further describes what kind of event the message is about. There are a lot of categories, from propaganda, weapons cache finds to various types of combat activities.
- TrackingNumber Is an internal tracking number.
- Title contains the title of the message.
- Summary is the actual description of the event. Usually it contains the bulk of the message content.
- Region contains the broader region of the event.
- AttackOn contains the information who was attacked during an event.
- ComplexAttack is a flag that signifies that an attack was a larger operation that required more planning, coordination and preparation. This is used as a quick filter criterion to detect events that were out of the ordinary in terms of enemy capabilities.
- ReportingUnit, UnitName, TypeOfUnit contains the information on the military unit that authored the report.
- Wounded and death are listed as numeric values, sorted by affiliation. WIA is the abbreviation for Wounded In Action. KIA is the abbreviation for Killed In Action. The numbers are recorded in the fields FriendlyWIA, FriendlyKIA, HostNationWIA, HostNationKIA, CivilianWIA, CivilianKIA, EnemyWIA, EnemyKIA
- Captured enemies are numbered in the field EnemyDetained.
- The location of events are recorded in the fields MGRS (Military Grid Reference System), Latitude, Longitude.
- The next group of fields contains information on the overall military unit, like ISAF Headquarter, that a message originated from or was updated by. Updates frequently occur when an analysis group, like one that investigated an incident or looked into the makeup of an Improvised Explosive Device added its results to a message.
- OriginatorGroup, UpdatedByGroup
- CCIR Commander's Critical Information Requirements
- If an activity that is reported is deemed "significant", this is noted in the field Sigact. Significant activities are analyzed and evaluated by a special group in the command structure.
- Affiliation describes if the event was of friendly or enemy nature.
- DColor controls the display color of the message in the messaging system and map views. Messages relating to enemy activity have the color Red, those relating to friendly activity are colored Blue.
- Classification contains the classification level of the message, e.g. Secret
|Reference ID
|2006-09-24 08:08
|Enemy Action
|Direct Fire
|Host nation
|Killed in action
|Wounded in action
At 0812Z CJSOTF reported a TIC 31km W of Tarin Kowt. The element received SAF from 5-7x enemy while crossing a wadi. Element moved to an overwatch position to provide support for a Dutch SOF unit which crossed the river IOT clear the compounds and fields where the fire came from. No injuries or damages were reported and the TIC was declared closed at 1134Z. TIC was reopened at 1332Z with SAF and RPG. A total of 4x vehicles (GMV, UAH, Ranger and Kamaz)were disabled by enemy fire resulting in 2x US and 7x ANA WIA. CJSOTF elements returned to FB TYCZ with CAS ISO of the movement. Medevac was not required, all WIAs had minor wounds and were treated at the FB. BDA is pending ATT and GFC declared TIC complete at 1617Z. TIC was reopened at 1835Z. While orverwatching the location of 4 disabled vehicles from a previous TIC, elements maneuvered in the area. CAS was requested and granted. CAS estimated KIA at 25X enemy fighters. No futher damage to equipent or injuries to personnel. NFTR.
Report key: FF0874EF-CEA5-4460-BE4C-D10A3EC01B11
Tracking number: 2007-033-004450-0307
Attack on: ENEMY
Complex atack: FALSE
Reporting unit: CJSOTF-A
Unit name: CJSOTF-A
Type of unit: Host Nation SF
Originator group: UNKNOWN
Updated by group: UNKNOWN
CCIR: DBC - Direct or indirect fire engagement directed at Coalition Forces, or executed by coalition forces. Ordnance release by coalition aircraft.
Sigact: DBC GLOBAL
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Kris Dunn will miss rest of college basketball season
Sophomore Kris Dunn, a McDonald's All-American guard out of New London High School, will undergo surgery on his right shoulder for the second time in his Providence College basketball career. He'll be out for the remainder of the season.
Dunn will have the season-ending surgery sometime in the next several weeks, according to Providence College and his father, John Seldon.
He had surgery on the same shoulder in July of 2012, forcing him to miss the first nine games of his freshman season. He appeared in 25 games, averaging 5.7 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists.
Dunn reinjured his shoulder chasing down a loose ball in an exhibition game against Rhode Island College on Nov. 2. He sat out three games and attempted to come back, playing four games before heading back to the sidelines. He averaged 3.8 points, 5.0 assists and 2.5 rebounds in limited action.
Seldon said that Dunn was experiencing some pain prior to the Rhode Island College game.
"He played in that game and had pain on that shoulder and rolled on it and made it slide out," Seldon said. "Doctors looked at it and said fight through the pain or have an operation. Kris wanted to fight through the pain, but it's not worth it. He'd probably do more damage.
"It's just a crazy situation."
Seldon expressed frustration over the way Dunn's injury situation was handled prior to the latest incident.
"He had the whole summer off and worked out," Seldon said, referring to last summer. "At some point, he had to be healthy. Somewhere something happened, but it's basketball.
"… I'm not a doctor and not the coach. I'm just a parent. (Coach Ed Cooley) runs his program the way he runs his program. I'm not mad at the coach.
"… You can call it a fluke accident. I don't know. I don't go to practice, so I don't know what's going on. It is what it is. … If I've got a kid coming off an injury, I'm going to be watching him. The kid came back from a major injury and was healthy. I would try to take care of him."
Providence will apply for a medical hardship waiver with the Big East. If Dunn receives the waiver, he'll have three years of eligibility left starting with the 2014-15 season.
"We're looking forward to assisting Kris as he recovers from his surgery," Cooley said in a released statement. "His health and well-being are our primary concern. There is no question that he will rebound from this and continue to improve as a basketball player. We are confident that Kris will be a key member of our team in 2014-15."
Seldon is encouraging his son to focus on his school work.
"He's doing all right," Seldon said of Dunn's state of mind. "He's just trying to stay to himself right now. It's a lot for him. … This was a big year for him."


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Reconstructing the foraging ecology and molecular evolution of sub-Antarctic penguins: A pilot studyEntry ID: AAS_3203
Abstract: Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) Project 3203
See the link below for public details on this project.
Public Summary
High-order predators rely on the productivity of the Southern Ocean marine ecosystem for their continued survival. Their place in that ecosystem is the result of a long history of evolutionary adaptation to a challenging and changing environment. The objective of this study ... is to understand how species have adapted historically and are responding to today's rapidly changing environment. This study will use current and innovative non-invasive approaches (stable isotope analyses, ancient DNA extraction and pollutant analyses) to reconstruct historical feeding behaviours, contaminant loading and genetic changes over time for predators found at Macquarie Island.
Project objectives:
To initiate a pilot study of modern and fossil King and Royal penguin bones collected at Macquarie Island during the 2009/10 field season and in historical specimen collections from museums. The project will test the concept that the past 3000 years of climate variability may have caused measurable change in the penguins;
A. foraging areas and trophic position
B. genetic and/or evolutionary makeup
C. pollutant loading (specifically Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs))
If successful the study could contribute information to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the potential responses of vertebrate predators to global climate change, and Australia's obligations under Article 16 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report:
Progress against objectives:
The project has been active for only 6 months however this was a successful field season for this project. Two bone outcrop sites were sampled at Macquarie Island, Landing Beach and Bauer Bay. Complete stratigraphic sequences of penguin bones and the sediment matrix were collected and photographic records taken of the outcrops. The samples are now at the AAD.
A PhD student has been engaged at Griffith University in David Lambert's lab to extract and analyse the bone DNA. Preliminary investigations have succeeded in extracting the DNA.
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Dataset Originator/Creator: van den Hoff, J.
Dataset Title: Reconstructing the foraging ecology and molecular evolution of sub-Antarctic penguins: A pilot study
Dataset Series Name: CAASM Metadata
Dataset Release Date: 2012-10-22
Dataset Publisher: Australian Antarctic Data CentreOnline Resource: https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=/AMD...
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Start Date: 2009-09-30Stop Date: 2012-03-31
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Bones were collected from exposed outcrops Landing Beach and Bauer Bay. The collections from Macquarie Island are complete for this project.
It is intended to contact museums around the world to ... secure samples collected at the island between 1850 and today. These samples will be analysed for isotopes, DNA and pollutants.
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DNA extractions at Griffith University to be completed by the end of the year.
Stable isotope and carbon dating of the bones to commence after July.
Museum specimens sourced throughout the next year.
Access Constraints The data from this project are publicly available for download from the provided URL. A copy of the publication is only available for download by AAD Staff.
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Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_3203 when using these data.
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Phone: +61 3 6232 3447
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Email: john_van at aad.gov.au
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City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Tim H. Heupink, John van den Hoff and David M. Lambert (2012), King penguin population on Macquarie Island recovers ancient DNA diversity after heavy exploitation in historic times, Biology Letters, doi:doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0053
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Casey on deck to add some punch
Redshirting sophomore forward Casey Crawford has looked as good in Colorado men's basketball practices as he does getting off the bus.
That's the word on the 6-foot-9, 230-pound transfer from Wake Forest, who figures to be a focal point of CU's offense in Jeff Bzdelik's second season.
"Casey is really going to help us next year,'' Bzdelik has said.
Crawford rarely got off the bench during his freshman season at Wake Forest, logging just 27 minutes of playing time and scoring a total of 10 points. But all that bench time might have been a reflection of a bad fit. Crawford is a versatile forward who can shoot from outside, and the system employed by the late Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser called for more of a traditional power forward. And perhaps Crawford, as a true freshman, wasn't ready for the rough-and-tumble ACC.
Crawford's credentials can't be questioned. He was named 2006 Kansas Gatorade Player of the Year and Kansas Mr. Basketball after averaging 22 points and 10 rebounds as a senior at Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park. He made at least one national top-100 list.
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With company lines being tossed around from all sides, it's difficult to tell if Purdue football coach Joe Tiller was blindsided. Here's hoping he wasn't.
Word leaked out only recently that Eastern Kentucky head coach Danny Hope will be brought on board as an assistant this season, with the promise to be Tiller's successor in 2009. Hope had been Tiller's offensive line coach at Purdue from 1997-2001.
Tiller, 65, became one of my all-time favorite coaches when I covered Wyoming football in 1996, Tiller's last season in Laramie. He's frank and funny, honest and homespun.
I certainly don't think Tiller gets enough credit for contributing to the evolution of the spread offense. With all the talk of Urban Meyer, Rich Rodriguez and Mike Leach being innovators, Tiller was running the spread at Wyoming in the early 1990s.
Although he's a native Ohioan, Tiller is a Westerner at heart. I'd be surprised if he doesn't retire in the state of Wyoming, perhaps in the Buffalo area which he dearly loves.
It would be good to have him back.
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Trivia question: Xavier Silas (former Spurs guard James Silas) and Cory Higgins (Bobcats general manager Rod Higgins) aren't the only players on the CU men's basketball team with fathers who played in the pros at the highest level. Name the third.
Answer below.
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Another indication of the ability of CU football coach Dan Hawkins to spot offensive line talent: Boise State junior left tackle Ryan Clady (6-6, 317) has declared for the 2008 NFL Draft and is projected to be taken in the upper half of the first round.
Another former Hawkins recruit at Boise, Daryn Colledge, is a starter for the Green Bay Packers at left guard. Colledge, from North Pole, Alaska, was taken by the Packers in the second round of the 2006 draft.
"I look for a certain toughness at that position,'' Hawkins has said of offensive linemen.
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There must be some explanation for this. In terms of boosting his career victory total, Eddie Sutton seems to be benefiting both ways.
When Sutton took a medical leave of absence at Oklahoma State during the 2005-2006 season, Eddie got all the subsequent victories by the Cowboys while his son, Sean, did the coaching.
And when Eddie recently took over at San Francisco (after head coach Jessie Evans requested a leave of absence for the remainder of the season), Sutton mentioned that getting two more victories to reach 800 was "very important."
I like Eddie, always have. But fair is fair.
Am I missing something here?
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Word is that CU's Bzdelik became seething mad over delays that likely will push back the completion of locker room renovations to March.
Donated funds for the project have been is in place for some time, but contract red tape and other construction issues are to blame for delays.
The wheels of progress never seem to move quickly enough at CU – or probably at most bureaucracy-strangled universities, for that matter.
Bzdelik had been told in the summer that the locker room would be ready by the start of conference play. That was last week.
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I heard a play-by-play radio announcer refer to the past weekend's NFL action as the "elite eight." He had better not call the remaining teams the "final four" because Final Four is copyrighted by the NCAA.
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Bravo to Xavier University for turning down a "mid-major" award from Rivals.com.
Rivals called Xavier officials last week, informing the team that point guard Drew Lavender had been selected for the Internet site's "Mid-Major Player of the Week" award.
At the time, Xavier was ranked No. 24 by the Associated Press, carried a No. 8 RPI and had already defeated the likes of Indiana, Cincinnati, Kansas State, Virginia and Auburn.
That doesn't sound like a mid-major program to me.
I'll never forget Gonzaga coach Mark Few, another who has fought the 'mid-major' tag, opening his post-game comments to reporters following a narrow NCAA Tournament win over Xavier in 2006 this way: "Let me first say, that team we just beat is no mid-major. Xavier is as athletically talented as a lot of Pac-10 teams we have played. Don't call them a mid-major.''
It's so easy for fans — and a lot of sports writers and sportscasters I know – to lump together the leagues outside of the BCS Conferences and call them all "mid-majors."
When a college hoops writer from a large newspaper on the East Coast got into an argument and insisted that to be indeed the case, I told him: "Well then, that means just a few years ago, before the expansion of the Big East Conference, you must have considered Louisville, Cincinnati, DePaul and Marquette to be 'mid-majors,' right?''
His jaw dropped.
Here's the way I look at it.
BCS is a football term. It has nothing to do with basketball. Basketball-crazy programs such as Memphis, Gonzaga, Utah, New Mexico, UNLV, Xavier, Dayton, Southern Illinois, St. Joseph's, Creighton, Nevada, Tulsa, Fresno State and others put as much effort — and sometimes as much money — into their men's basketball program as some schools in BCS conferences. Their tradition might be bigger than some BCS teams, their crowds larger.
At the very least, the Mountain West, Atlantic-10 and Missouri Valley should absolutely not be lumped in with mid-majors. And high-profile programs such as Gonzaga and Memphis show there are exceptions among other conferences.
I don't like labels. But maybe we need one for schools that aren't in the "power conferences" (a better term than BCS, when referring to hoops) but are obviously a step up from the mid-major category.
I'm open to suggestions.
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Trivia answer: Casey Crawford's father, Steve Crawford, pitched 10 seasons in the major leagues before retiring in 1991, including the first seven years for the Boston Red Sox before ending with three years at Kansas City.
He compiled a career record of 30-23, with two complete games, 19 saves and an ERA of 4.15.


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The PL/SQL Challenge offers cash prizes and will become a means by which programmers can establish or improve their reputations as PL/SQL developers. It is serious stuff, in other words. And that means that it is possible that someone will try to cheat or "game the system" to improve their chances of winning a prize and elevated status. We have given lots of thought to the ways that people could cheat. We have taken several measures to minimize the chance of successful cheating. And we have decided on the following consequences.
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Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
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"Customize. Personalize. Play! Barbie Basics is all about permission to play and now Barbie Basics takes the fashion basic—denim—to new heights! This line of 12 dolls (9 girls and 3 boys) come in a variety of denim jeans featuring different cuts and colors with details such as real pockets and metal grommets. Each doll has a unique T-shirt to coordinate with the jeans. Each pair of girl jeans also features an embroidered "B" (Barbie logo) on one back pocket."
I'm relieved that I've been given permission to play. Phew!
Anyway, I think these dolls are fabulous in concept. If I collected Barbies, I'd buy every single one of them plus the accessory packs, especially if they had articulated bodies. Can you imagine?
The going price at dealers is $24.95 for the dolls and $19.95 for the accessory packs. Amazon and eBay are overpriced. I've heard that Target in southern Florida is selling them at irregularly reduced prices.
BTW George at Angelic Dreamz told me today that he thinks he has them all in stock.


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Sunday, July 12, 2009
Vancouver the lovely: a personal post.
Vancouver is a city ethereally and preternaturally beautiful. Her mountains, snow-topped and fir-ridged, her glassy inlets and bird-filled bays, her turquoise mountain torrents and moss- clean air, is perhaps the most beautiful city I have seen. Always a dangerous thing to say, as it is so connected to emotion. And this from a Capetonian. And a lover of Istanbul and her dreaming spires, with apologies to Waugh...And so many cities that I have not seen, and do not know...
There is a lot of Cape Town in Vancouver: the proximity of mountains to water, the pristine wild within the urban wrap. The ease of access to natural beauty. The omnipresent green and grey of a Cape winter. Then there is an Interlaken-ness too: Swiss Alp majesty, the brilliance of the sky reflected in the fjords, the rushing mountain water, the flowers at altitude. And her American roots: Northwest wildness, a bear-mountained, salmon-berried wilderness: Lynn Canyon; Grouse Mountain, where he asked and I said yes; Stanley Park; all within a Europe within North America, where strangers greet you and bus drivers, driving buses that arrive and depart on the minute, ask you how you are.
So, some more pictures. To pay tribute to her beauty, to thank her for the beauty she brought me, and to my husband, who loved me enough to leave, in addition to his country, a city that spoke to him daily in pictures and under his feet as he ran miles and miles along the seawall.
I am humbled by his love, and am sensible of the sense of loss that he must feel. Vincent, you are the stuff of dreams. And a real man. And I know what that means.
Mount Baker, in Washington, a couple of hours away.
Van Dusen Gardens, in the middle of the city.
Lynn Canyon.
Grouse Mountain flowers.
False Creek.
Granville Island's duck prosciutto: to live for. Smoky, fatty, sliced like tissue paper. Unforgettable.
Silvia Hotel.
Vince's neighbourhood, the West End, on English Bay.
The blackberries on the seawall. Bliss for a born forager.
The seawall.
The Syringe, below.
The beach, 40 seconds from his flat. Sundowner martinis.
City of glass and lights, from his balcony.
Sidewalk flowers: snow-in-summer.
Stanley Park's flower borders near the aquarium.
..and its wilder side.
Talking to chickadees.
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Vancouver looks heavenly, a stunning blend of wild and tamed, and a city with both shoreline and mountain is hard to beat. It also looks very clean .ReplyDelete
This post brought a tear to my eye and I'm sure it's not the wine, because I've only had one glass so far tonight.
what a gorgeous city! It sounds like Vincent is a person who believes that home is where the heart is...and since you're in NYC, that's where he'll make his home. It'll work out! You both will have adjustments to make, but at least he's not going to be stuck in some sort of cultural badlands...NY has a lot going for it, and lots of natural beauty within and nearby.ReplyDelete
You can always go there for a holiday ....... lucky the both of youReplyDelete
Beautiful photos of a beautiful city ... but you can always return to visit. (Brought back good memories for me ... I used to live in Seattle and frequently visited Vancouver.)ReplyDelete
I am just so happy for you and Beence to be finally living together and being in a place you can both call home ... with the cad.
Keli'i ;)
hierdie is beautiful.ReplyDelete
Lovely post, Marie. No wonder you are so emotionally attached to this wonderful city.ReplyDelete
I loved Vancouver, despite much rain, not enough time there, being caught (30-odd flights up! at night!) in a hotel fire, and a travelling companion who then had a mental breakdown, 3 days into our trip. Your photos remind me that I must go back some day, with time to explore and clothes that don't smell of smoke....
What a lovely post, two-fold. First, thank you for the wonderful tribute to our beautiful city & second, your love & respect for your husband brought tears. You're both lucky to have found one another! I commented on Vince's last Vancouver post & I'll say it here for you...to finally be together with the love of your life is so very sweet. May you share a long life together filled with love, laughter & forgiveness!! To echo QC's comment...NY is such an amazing city so it won't be too hard to adjust, I'm sure!ReplyDelete
really nice. a visit will never be the same, i imagine. however "you'll always have paris", and be able to draw upon the memories the beginning of your courtship.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Beautiful, the pictures and the words.ReplyDelete
This city is special to me, too, so I thank you.
m.jolicoeur - it IS very clean...I was thinking of that walking past a city park yesterday which was...not clean. Not to mention the barf on the doorstep of our office. Too much information. I know.ReplyDelete
QC - yes, we can visit. But I ought to have added that it is also very nice that BC is tick free!!!!
Hen! ja, Ma...xxxxx
Keli'i and Ikaika - Estorbo is busy herding his cattle in readiness. Tried to bring one home last night but I saw him in time and slammed the door in his face.
Arcadia...dankie :-)
Rachel - good grief! That sounds awful. I do hope you are able to go back.
Camille - thank you so much x
Donna - yes, you're right. Well always have Pa...I mean Vancouver.
Dinahmow - it was hard to choose pictures...there are so many.
Wow - I'm slowly catching up on all these beautiful posts, and while I could finally tell you all this in person, I'll write it here for posterity... Thank you. Your praise of Vancouver touched me deeply, as it did everyone else in here. I think 'Storbie even shed a tear. He said he had something in the eye.ReplyDelete
Vancouver is indeed a stunning city in an incredibly beautiful region, I love it dearly. Leaving, however, was a no-brainer. I am now, after all this time, truly home.
No, it's not New York's 90F and 85% humidity that make me say that, even though that's almost conquered me already. ;-) But I was a knight without a quest, or rather with a quest but without a beautiful queen to defend. That has now changed. One will travel many worlds for such honor. Thank you. :-)
Uh? Windmills!!! Go, Rocinante, Chaaaaaarge!!!
just reading this now...very touching , very beautiful post marie...i'm all choked up...ReplyDelete
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The world has watched and cheered at the peaceful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. But observers in the West have expressed fears that future autocrats might steal their victories. And citizens in Tunisia and Egypt can still be legitimately concerned about the possibility of an Iranian scenario. Will a populist government ignore the rule of law, steal future elections, and develop an adventurous nuclear program?
Constitutions are supposed to address this peril. In the next few months, Tunisia and Egypt will reform their constitutions in order to grant more rights to their citizens. Other Arab nations may follow. But in the past, constitutions have proved malleable in the hands of authoritarian rulers.
To prevent future political leaders from stealing the fruits of their democratic revolution, these countries should start a process of regional democratic integration, delegating the protection of core principles to regional courts and institutions. The United States should help the new Arab democracies in this endeavor.
Lessons learned from Europe
This is the lesson we have learned from Europe.
When democratic forces emerged from the ashes of Nazi rule in Europe, the US actively promoted the efforts of the democratic leaders of the European integration movement.
The US applauded the European parliamentarians who signed a European bill of rights and instituted a court that all individuals living in Europe could petition directly if they felt their political and civil rights were threatened by their governments.
After World War II, this European movement did not stop at the protection of political and civil liberties. In 1957, European leaders signed two collective treaties in Rome. One instituted the European Community of Atomic Energy (Euratom), which the US recognized quickly by signing the US-Euratom Treaty in 1958.
The Euratom Treaty ensures that nuclear development does not take precedence over the rights of a country's citizens. At its center, we find two democratic principles.
First, European citizens can petition the European Court of Justice if they feel member states do not honor the treaty. Second, each country's citizens elect members of the European Parliament whose mandate includes discussing the nuclear policies of its member states.
Arabs must protect against future abuses
These institutions and legal instruments do not yet exist in the Arab world. But they have started attracting the growing attention of Arab diplomats who can play a leading role in the democratic transitions of their countries.
Last October in Cairo, members of the European Commission presented the Euratom approach to interested Arab diplomats. There I also presented a draft of what an updated Euratom Treaty might look like for the Middle East.
Since then, important leaders like Hans Blix, chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, and Ruud Lubbers, a former prime minister of the Netherlands, have given their blessings to this approach.
With leaders experienced in the art of multilateralism, like Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and Amr Moussa, former secretary-general of the Arab League, being called by their people to fulfill important functions, there is real hope that these ideas might be turned into tomorrow's reality.
Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and other countries should discuss similar international treaties now, as a process of constitutional reform is starting.
As new bills of rights will be written in future constitutions in the Arab world, democratic leaders in Tunisia and Egypt should invite their counterparts to write a regional bill of rights that will incorporate new thinking, regional legal traditions, and use previous international bills of rights as reference.
The US should aid and facilitate these discussions, just as it helped Europeans stabilize their democracies.
Grégoire Mallard is an assistant professor of sociology at Northwestern University.


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WLAN Toolbox™ provides standard-compliant functions for the design, simulation, analysis, and testing of wireless LAN communications systems. The toolbox provides configurable physical layer waveforms for IEEE® 802.11ax/ac/ad/ah and 802.11b/a/g/n/j/p standards. It also provides transmitter, channel modeling, and receiver operations, including channel coding, modulation (OFDM, DSSS, and CCK), spatial stream mapping, channel models (TGax, TGac, TGah, and TGn), and MIMO receivers.
You can generate multiple types of signals, including high-efficiency (HE), very high throughput (VHT), high throughput (HT-mixed), and legacy (non-HT), directional multi-gigabit (DMG), and sub 1 GHz (S1G). You can also perform signal measurements such as channel power, spectrum mask, and occupied bandwidth, and create test benches for the end-to-end simulation of WLAN communications links.
The toolbox provides reference designs to help you explore baseband specifications and study the effects of RF designs and interference sources on system performance. Using WLAN Toolbox with RF instruments or hardware support packages, you can connect your transmitter and receiver models to radio devices and verify your designs via over-the-air transmission and reception.
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On Monday March 31st I will be participating on a panel at the E-Metrics Summit in Toronto, Canada to discuss the differences in web analytics versus audience measurement tools. The panel description is as follows:
"Are you confused about the number of customers visiting your website? Are the metrics reported by your web analytics tool different from the metrics reported by your online media, or by audience measurement organizations? The WAA invites eMetrics Summit attendees and the local GTA (Greater Toronto Area) business community of web marketers, publishers and agencies to attend this community meeting.
A panel of experts will discuss the value of the metrics, methods and tools used by web analytics practitioners, online advertising media and audience measurement organizations. Find out how-to use these metrics and tools to better understand your customers, your website's competitive standing and overall website value".
Sound interesting? What will be even more interesting is the "who" that is on the panel. In addition to myself, the panelists include:
- Paula Gignac, President of IAB Canada
- Brent Bernie, President of comScore Canada
- Judah Phillips, Director of Web Analytics at Reed Information
- Chris Williams, Managing Director at Media Contacts – he will be moderating the panel
The group of us have had some very interesting "pre-panel" discussions to prepare and a pretty good understanding of the issues that many web analytics practitioners (and widget analytics practitioners 🙂 ) are facing. So if you are planning to come to this conference (or you are a local Toronto techie), please join us at 4:30pm on Monday March 31st for the WAA member meeting and panel discussion.
And of course, please find me to say hello. Let me know what your organization is doing with widgets and what your analytics challenges are. I'd love to chat!


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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wasn't just an author in Florida. She lived Florida. Her stories are laden with imagery and themes that Floridians know as their own. From South Moon Under to Cross Creek to The Yearling, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939, Rawlings' books continue to give readers the opportunity to experience Old Florida charm with the turn of every page.
Rawlings died in 1953, but she left far more than just her iconic writings as a legacy. She also left her home at Cross Creek, a tiny community packed into a small strip of land between Orange and Lochloosa lakes in southern Alachua County. The area had been settled since the 19th century, but few would have known how to find it until Rawlings' fame put it on the map.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings purchased her Cross Creek home in 1928 and began renovating it in 1930. Historic preservation experts believe the house was originally built in the 1880s as a two-room cabin with a "dogtrot," or a breezeway running through the house from front to back. Additional bedrooms were built in the 1890s, while a dining room and kitchen were added in the 1920s. The house was not electrified until Rawlings had been living in the house for ten years, and even then the source of power was a Delco generator installed in the nearby pump house.
When Rawlings died, she left her home to the Florida Endowment Corporation, now known as the University of Florida Foundation. Since 1970 it has been managed by the Florida Park Service. Thousands of visitors come to the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house each year to tour the grounds and learn about the life and career of this remarkable Floridian. The house became so popular in the years following the release of the movie Cross Creek in 1983 that state officials closed the site for a year while the foundation was strengthened to handle the added burden.
The Florida Photographic Collection contains numerous pictures of Rawlings, Cross Creek, and other places associated with her stories. Some of the rarest photos were taken by agents of MGM Studios in the 1940s as they searched around north and central Florida for settings to use in a film adaptation of The Yearling. This first attempt at turning the prize-winning book into a film faltered, partly due to the onset of World War II. MGM finally released the movie in 1947. Gregory Peck, Claude Jarman, and Jane Wyman starred, and the film won two Oscars for art direction and cinematography. It was nominated for five other Academy Awards.
On September 29, 1970 (45 years ago this week), the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings home was added to the National Register of Historic Places. If you haven't been to see it, you owe it to yourself to visit when you're in the area next. Click here for more information from the Florida Park Service.
Until you're ready to make the trip, of course, you can always search for photos of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Cross Creek on Florida Memory!
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Everton have suspended a youth-team coach and a female goalkeeper as they and Merseyside Police investigate an allegation of assault at a club Christmas party.
Academy coach Mick O'Brien, a former player with Torquay, is alleged to have struck Everton Ladies' second-choice goalkeeper Danielle Hill outside the Blue Bar in the city's Albert Dock last Sunday.
However, it is understood there are conflicting reports over who threw the first punch and both have been suspended while the matter is looked into. Everton are not commenting on the allegations.
Police have confirmed they have received a complaint which they are currently investigating.
"Merseyside Police can confirm an investigation is under way following the assault of a 24-year-old woman in Liverpool city centre on Sunday, December 16," said a statement.
"The incident occurred near to the entrance of the Blue Bar. An investigation into the full circumstances of the incident is ongoing."


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Foundations Of Analysis
by Joseph L. Taylor /
2012 / English / PDF
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Foundations of Analysis is an excellent new text for undergraduate students in real analysis. More than other texts in the subject, it is clear, concise and to the point, without extra bells and whistles. It also has many good exercises that help illustrate the material. My students were very satisfied with it. Nat Smale, University of Utah I have taught our Foundations of Analysis course (based on Joe Taylor.s book) several times recently, and have enjoyed doing so. The book is well-written, clear, and concise, and supplies the students with very good introductory discussions of the various topics, correct and well-thought-out proofs, and appropriate, helpful examples. The end-of-chapter problems supplement the body of the text very well (and range nicely from simple exercises to really challenging problems). Robert Brooks, University of Utah An excellent text for students whose future will include contact with mathematical analysis, whatever their discipline might be. It is content-comprehensive and pedagogically sound. There are exercises adequate to guarantee thorough grounding in the basic facts, and problems to initiate thought and gain experience in proofs and counterexamples. Moreover, the text takes the reader near enough to the frontier of analysis at the calculus level that the teacher can challenge the students with questions that are at the ragged edge of research for undergraduate students. I like it a lot. Don Tucker, University of Utah My students appreciate the concise style of the book and the many helpful examples. W.M. McGovern, University of Washington Analysis plays a crucial role in the undergraduate curriculum. Building upon the familiar notions of calculus, analysis introduces the depth and rigor characteristic of higher mathematics courses. Foundations of Analysis has two main goals. The first is to develop in students the mathematical maturity and sophistication they will need as they move through the upper division curriculum. The second is to present a rigorous development of both single and several variable calculus, beginning with a study of the properties of the real number system. The presentation is both thorough and concise, with simple, straightforward explanations. The exercises differ widely in level of abstraction and level of difficulty. They vary from the simple to the quite difficult and from the computational to the theoretical. Each section contains a number of examples designed to illustrate the material in the section and to teach students how to approach the exercises for that section. The list of topics covered is rather standard, although the treatment of some of them is not. The several variable material makes full use of the power of linear algebra, particularly in the treatment of the differential of a function as the best affine approximation to the function at a given point. The text includes a review of several linear algebra topics in preparation for this material. In the final chapter, vector calculus is presented from a modern point of view, using differential forms to give a unified treatment of the major theorems relating derivatives and integrals: Green's, Gauss's, and Stokes's Theorems. At appropriate points, abstract metric spaces, topological spaces, inner product spaces, and normed linear spaces are introduced, but only as asides. That is, the course is grounded in the concrete world of Euclidean space, but the students are made aware that there are more exotic worlds in which the concepts they are learning may be studied.


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Our vision at Mental Health Providers of Western Queens is to be an active resource in our community. This is a considerable challenge in Western Queens where forty nine percent of the population are immigrants from many countries, interspersed with residents from earlier migrations. This gives reverse meaning to the term "Global Village" in the sense that little parts of the world have assembled in our community. The norms of this "New Village" are still unformed and local Social Service Providers, Mental Health Systems, and the School System are called on to help. At Mental Health Providers we work to be a resource in this "New Village", where many ethnic groups have assembled often bringing with them trauma and loss.
Many of our professional staff are drawn or developed from this same immigrant population. Thus, cumulatively we have mental health professionals who speak nine languages. They help to bridge the gap between "there" and "here". They extend the "Village" and help clients feel more at home and receptive to services.
Mission Statement
Mental Health is our greatest resource. It enables us to maintain relationships, engage in work, take care of our physical health and contribute to society. At Mental Health Providers of Western Queens, Inc., our mission is to help each individual reach and maintain their highest level of functioning. Our programs are organized around this principle. We are dedicated to being a resource for good in our community in an open and receptive manner.


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Listening Skills for Boosting CommunicationIn Person
Listening is an art and one of the most important aspects of a successful conversation. However, research suggests that people often pretend to listen, or don't listen for long enough. Overcoming distractions and actively listening, rather than assuming the general direction of the conversation, improves communications exponentially.Se sted og dato
Hva du vil lære
• Assess their listening skills overcome obstacles. • Deal with all kinds of listeners. • Genuinely engage with others and ask questions that uncover opportunities for growth. • Demonstrate active listening skills in all interactions.
Hvorfor du bør lære det
You'll be better equipped to perform as an influential communicator, problem-solver and focused leader. You'll learn to strengthen interpersonal relationships, manage stress and handle fast-changing workplace conditions. And you'll develop a take-charge attitude initiated with confidence and enthusiasm.
Hvordan det vil hjelpe deg
You will tackle complex challenges, expand your ingenuity, and excel in building team harmony. Use the new skills to become a more persuasive communicator, securing your place as a valued contributor. As you become more adept at influencing, you'll find yourself inspiring others to take initiative and innovate.