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Daniel House is a home design studio based in Portland, Oregon, using classically inspired design principles to construct custom spaces for clients around the world.
Millie walked through the guild doors at quarter past ten. She was beautiful as ever. She's that sort of beauty you know requires no effort at all — and you can be sure because if you ever take a trip with her, you know she carries an old duffel bag with little more than bobby pins and some Q-tips to get ready for the day. And yet, she always seems to be prepared for whatever she's facing. I have no idea how she does it; she always wears pearl earrings.
My eyes darted around the room searching for something to steal my focus. My mind had been racing ever since I left Benedict's house this morning. I could find nothing that would capture my attention more than the meeting that was about to ensue. I hadn't seen Millie for nearly seven months. Once she started getting serious with Jack we saw less of each other. Sure, she was around when everyone got together, but never just the two of us. And then, when she joined her family on her parent's retirement tour around the world, I hadn't spoken to her beyond a few WhatsApp messages she sent from the occasional architectural monument. I responded to all of them with glib enthusiasm, but in truth I was never really excited for her and seeing pictures just made it worse.
Daniel House is excited to report the great success of our Second Annual Croquet Classic! This year we again had the privilege of partnering with Birch Community Services to support the important work they do serving the working poor. Thanks to our amazing sponsors and friends we were able to join together for a day of good fun, great food, and better company.
Follow our new series of quick, no edit, architecture lessons. We'll be doing a number of these coming up. Each will focus on one aspect of a building, none will be longer than 5 minutes. In this first one we head to downtown Portland to find a neo-colonial building that features pilasters with capitals from the Temple of the Winds. Peter tells us what that's all about. So come and learn the history of architecture!
He is the first to be introduced to our new Made to Order line of furniture and accessories. Can you guess what he is? Come see if you're right at our open house on April 18th!
Looking something to do in Portland next week? Well, you can come to our event on the 18th. As for the rest of the week, Willamette Week has some great suggestions...
We here at Daniel House are very excited about this new series and hope you will be too. Becoming architecturally literate is an important development that most designers in the contemporary world have have failed to complete. Many architects today either have no knowledge of the development of architecture or choose to reject classicism on idealogical grounds. However, we wonder if they really understand what they are rejecting?
Built in 1913 by the same architecture firm as Portland's prized Pittock Mansion, the house boasts five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a servant's wing, several large indoor/outdoor spaces, and a classically columned three-car garage with a lift. Moreover, it is a perfect example of an architectural style that surfaces again and again in the psyche of the American homebuyer.
When we sat down with Walter Espinosa, manager of Alto Bajo, downtown Portland's newest Mexican restaurant, we had no idea of the treats that lay in store for us. First, we should make one thing very clear: this isn't your typical Portland over-the-counter street taco situation, and we're glad. It's a more nuanced, elegant undertaking, featuring dishes specific to Oaxaca, Mexico.
We are pleased to announce that we've been featured in the most recent issue of Oregon Home Magazine. This happens to be our first official feature, and we couldn't be more excited!


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This article originally appeared in the Garland/Mesquite section of The Dallas Morning News on Friday, August 25, 1995.
By Michael R. Hayslip
Times were tough in 1918, wherever you were. Besides those dodging World War I battles in Europe, the whole world was dodging waves of the flu. Although records of the time are incomplete, E. O. Jordan's book Epidemic Influenza (1927) carried estimates that within a few months as many as 20 million people perished, including 548,000 in America. Jordan speculated that as many as 50 times that number were sick, ranking the siege "with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the severest holocausts ever encountered." The flu was far deadlier than the war, estimated to have cost only some eight-and-one-half million people between both sides.
Aside from a colder-than-usual winter in the Garland/Mesquite area, few seemed overly preoccupied with health until October, when people started coming down with a malady that felt like flu but killed like pneumonia. So says Mrs. Nell Jack, a 97-year-old Garland native who escaped the scourge, despite taking time off from classes at SMU to tend the sick. "Around here they called it everything from Spanish flu to pneumonia, but if you died, and a lot did, it didn't make much difference what you called it," she added.
Her friend, Fern Handley Thompson, who claimed she was always "sickly" back then, caught the disease, as did her parents and a cousin, but survived into her 99th year to tell about it. In the 1986 Storer Cable series Garland Perspectives, Mrs. Thompson recalled that the cousin stayed with them in the dining room, but she herself was quarantined for the duration in the same bedroom with her mother and her father, Peter Handley, who owned a drugstore in town. That duration, according to Mrs. Jack, was at least two weeks of feverish prostration with hacking, aching misery, after which doctors sternly warned against overexertion and cold air. "Some may have taken aspirin, but we had no penicillin or other fancy medicines back then," she said, "so all we could do was rest, drink all the liquid we could keep down and hope for the best".
W. A. Holford, who had just purchased The Garland News for the second time, succeeded publisher Z. Starr Armstrong, son of Dr. J. C. Armstrong, one of the local physicians battling the flu outbreak. Amid the health crisis, Mrs. Holford's paper carried an increasing amount of advertising for patent medicines, including Calomel, which Mrs. Thompson took for almost everything and Mrs. Jack believed to be poisonous. Calomel's head-on competitor was Dodson's Liver Tonic, whose ads warned that "Calomel loses you a day's work."
Also popular was Penslar, "a dynamic tonic for headache, irritability, mental depression, sudden fits of temper, inability to think clearly, loss of memory and continued melancholy," at $1.50 per bottle. "Weak or thin blood" could be treated with Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for only 60 cents a bottle. Advertisers claimed that for 50 cents a bottle Herbine "cleanses the liver of bile, sweetens the breath, purifies the bowels, corrects dizziness [and] restores energy and cheerful spirits." Alcohol content in these potions, if any, was not specified.
Whereas Armstrong had posted advertisements on the front page of the News, Holford began to use the prime space for local news items and obituaries (which were multiplying fast by November), anchored around a list of additions to his new $10 lifetime subscription plan. Holford family members later contended that the plan was an optimistic effort to build capital for first-class equipment, but skeptics have wondered if it coincidentally enrolled subscribers in advance of fatal flu attacks. Although Garland's incorporated area contained less than 1,000 souls, added demand from outlying areas had catapulted weekly News circulation to more than 1,600 copies during the fall of 1918. In November, when Garland's first WW I casualty was reported, Holford ran eight obituary notices and extended the "deadline" for lifetime subscriptions.
Public officials were so concerned that in October, Garland Mayor George A. Alexander, who also sold life insurance, had convened a special Saturday afternoon council session for the purpose of prohibiting public gatherings. School classes were suspended and church attendance dwindled, save for prayers of deliverance. Because he had heard that it might prevent the flu, D. Cecil Williams, a local undertaker, was rumored to have begun chewing tobacco while working overtime with victims in the family's mortuary.
News accounts suggest that even swine began to exhibit flu-like symptoms, much worse than their more common attacks of epizootic and occasional bouts with tuberculosis, so that authorities recommended isolating hog houses. Today, certain old-timers and their decedents sometimes still classify the human cold/flu syndrome as an attack of "the epizooty".
Since there were no public reports or death certificates required here at the time, and authorities may have soft-peddled news to protect the war effort, the exact local cost of the 1918 fall flu epidemic is impossible to determine. But in December, mostly of its own accord, the epidemic subsided as quickly and quietly as it had begun, and by New Year's Day young Williams had tapered off chewing tobacco.
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Photo Caption: The Handley Drug Store, as photographed about 1926 on the west side of the Garland square, had a full stock but few remedies for the disastrous flu epidemic of 1918.
Photo courtesy Gary Engleman and the Garland Landmark Museum.
From the Garland Local History & Genealogical Society, Volume 8-Number 2, Summer 1997
Author: Unknown
On Sunday morning, May 9, 1927 a tornado struck Garland leaving seventeen people dead and damages estimated at $75,000, which was quite a loss in those days. Twelve homes were lost and many downtown businesses damaged. Two of the seventeen people who lost their lives in the disaster were S.E. Nicholson, a former mayor, merchant and prominent citizen, and his mother Mrs. Missouri A. Nicholson.
The tornado came out of a violent thunderstorm, touched down south of town, momentarily lifted off the ground, moved north then to the east, thrashing several blocks of homes located just west of the square. The funnel then lifted a second time coming back down into the square and on out of town following the Santa Fe railroad tracks.
There are those still with us in 1997 who can still remember details of the disaster. Here is a story that Clifton Hardy Tucker recounted to me:
"The old Buchanan home was at the time located on the northwest corner of Glenbrook Drive and Austin Street where the TP&L parking lot is now. There was a cotton gin at the corner of Walnut and Glenbrook. During the tornado, a solid oak beam (eighteen to twenty-four inches square, and ten foot long; a support beam to the bail compressor), broke loose from the gin stand and was thrown through the roof of the Buchanan home, went through the floor and lodged itself in the dirt below the foundation. There was no way the beam could be removed from where it was because it was so deep in the ground, so they just went below the floor and cut it off level with the ground. Fortunately, everyone was in the storm cellar at the time."
W.R. Nicholson of Longview Texas, brother of S.E. Nicholson who died as a result of the tornado, wanted to create a memorial to his brother, his mother and the other persons who had lost their lives in the tornado. As a result, he purchased the former Citizen's National Bank building with certain ideas of his own which was also a benefit to the City of Garland and resulted in the establishment of Garland's first and only library.
Mr. Nicholson had the building remodeled to contain city offices, a library room and rental offices on the first floor with a large auditorium and kitchen on the second floor for club and public meetings. The only stipulation attached was that the building always be used "perpetually for community purposes". That fact still being true to this very day.
From the Garland History & Genealogical Society, Volume 6-Number 4, Summer 1995
BY :Church's Worship Committee
"This church was organized April 22, 1888, by the Rev. Benjamin Spencer, D.D. It was known as the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Garland, Texas. Sunday school and worship were held in the public school building.
J.T. Hays
S.A. Groves
N.P. Harris
Mrs. Joise Crossman
J.W. Salter
Mrs. R.V. Edwards
W.G. Groves
Mrs. W.S.Smallwood
J.S. Weaver
Mrs. M.E. Harris
Mrs. Emma Cherry
Mrs. N.E. Rogers
Mrs. Josie Rogers
S.J. Parker
S.A. Weaver
Mrs. Rachel Allen
Mrs. Chora Hays
J.C. Harris
A.P. Smallwood
Mrs. Willie Halsell
Mrs. G.N. Harris
S.U. Parker
J.N. Salter
Mrs. Bettie Hays
"The first elders elected and ordained were J.C. Harris, J.W. Salter and J.W. Weaver. The Rev. F.L. Rogers was first pastor.
"In 1896 the congregation purchased the land where the present sanctuary stands and built their first church building. Building committee members for this project were Brothers Halsell, Weaver, Naylor, Allen and Clark. The building stood until 1929 when the present brick structure was erected, replacing the wooden structure.
"The building committee—whose names are cut into the granite cornerstone were: C.A. Weaver,
Chairman; A.D. Jackson, Secretary and Treasurer; J.W. Rabb, Guy H. Bullock, Mrs. Ben Dyer, Mrs. Ray Campbell and Miss Ola Monroe.
"In 1901 the first manse was purchased. Twenty one years later, it was replaced by a manse which was located across the street from the sanctuary. In 1958, the present manse was purchased.
"In the spring of 1906, a union between the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Presbyterian Church USA gave this congregation a new name—First Presbyterian Church of Garland.
"In 82 years, this congregation has been served by 28 pastors. One pastor, the Rev. John N. Russell, served two different stints. The following men served as pastor:
F.L. Rogers
A.S. Blackwood
S.E. Kinnon
C.C. Hines
H.N. Cooley
H.E. Bullock
W.G. Beard
P.H. Waddill
J.M. Brooks
Geo. W. Fender
G.T. Morris
I.O. Woodall
L.A. Dunlap
S.M. McPhail
J.D. Hester
O.E. Hannawalt
John Collier
W.D. Johns
G.W. Jones
C. Kilbourn
S.B. Waldrop
John T. Price
H.A. Lynch
W.P. Kirby
Benjamin Spencer
C.P. Karrick
John Russell
From the Garland Local History & Genealogical Society, Volume 6-Number 4, Summer 1995
Author: Barbara Brixey Wylie
Early settlers of Garland first met for worship in various homes. Between 1846 and 1848, Campbellites (later known as Christian Church, Disciples of Christ) established churches in Van Alstyne, Lancaster and McKinney but records indicate that the Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians and the Campbellites were worshiping together at the Duck Creek School and served by lay preachers in 1858.
About 1875, a church was formally organized as Christian Church of Duck Creek and worship was held in the Duck Creek School. Charter members included: Mrs. Eliza Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Will Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Smith, Mrs. Belle Coats, Mrs Lucy Byrd, Mrs. John Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Uriah Spong, Mrs. Polk Jones, Mrs. Lizzie Garrison, Mrs. Cathreen Embree, Miss Joe Murphy. The Duck Creek Masonic Lodge held a called meeting to consider proposal for erecting a shared-use building with the Christian Church. As presented by Mathew Erwin, the church would occupy the ground floor and the second floor would be used by the Lodge and Grange. Initially, the proposal was favorably received but did not come to fruition. Early newspapers indicate that the first church building was near what is now the intersection of Kingsley and Shiloh Road, near the adjoining farms of the Smith family and Erwin family.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway sold Lot 10, Block 6 of Embree to the Duck Creek Church in 1888. Trustees Isaac Akers, G.E. Wallace and J.T. Smith signed the purchase agreement which gave the selling price as $75.00, half of it paid in cash and the remainder carried in a note at eight percent interest. Mrs. A.P. Stevens, daughter of Charles Cole who was pastor at that time, described moving the wooden building from its old location to the church's new property. "I will never forget the moving of the church. It was a very dry summer. The building was pulled by a team of four horses. It was also rolled on logs. The creek was dry, and I sat with a large crowd of people on the Garland side, watching the men maneuver the building across the creek. The moving was done in a day, and we did not miss a Sunday service." With that move, Christian Church of Duck Creek became Christian Church of Embree.
Eleven years later, the building was renovated and enlarged. A new sanctuary was constructed in 1924 and the old structure was razed. There have been several structural changes since then but the church remains on this site at the corner of Glenbrook and Avenue A.
The first full-time pastor was Rev. Charles L. Cole. His father Rev. W.B. Cole also served as pastor. In 1975, Dr. Chester Crow was identified as pastor emeritus and Rev. Nelson Schuster, a former pastor, was speaker at the 100th anniversary dinner.
______, Untitled history of First Christian Church of Garland, apparently written for the church's centennial celebration in 1975, found in the files of Mrs. G.W. James. p. 1
- James, Martha Catherine, Seventy Years in the Garland Dallas County, Texas, Area. Transcribed from her handwritten manuscript by Mrs. G.W. Range and Mrs. A.R. Davis, Jr. in 1965. p. 20
3. Untitled history of First Christian Church of Garland. pp. 4-6
4. "First Christians mark 100 years," Garland Daily News, Sept. 21, 1975, edition, section II, p. 1
5. Untitled history of First Christian Church of Garland. pp. 7, 8
6. "First Christians mark 100 years".
7. Ibid.
From Garland Local History and Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 2-Number 1, March 1973
Author: Kenneth Frank
The local congregation of the Church of Christ was established in Garland, Texas in 1925, meeting first in a theatre and then in school buildings. In 1930, the first meeting place was erected at the corner of Eighth and Austin Streets at a cost of $2,300.00. Membership at that time consisted of five families. As the congregation grew, it became necessary for the congregation to build a larger auditorium. Then, in the late 1940's a classroom wing was added.
In 1954, at Eighth and Austin, two Sunday morning worship services were necessary to accommodate the large attendance. Plans for a new building got underway. The entire old structure was torn down, and part of the present building was erected on that site. It consisted of an auditorium with a seating capacity of 550, 16 classrooms, literature and supply room, office, utility room, engine room, two nursery rooms, two dressing rooms for baptismal services, four restrooms, and central heating and cooling at an approximate cost of $70,000, with the large portion of labor being performed by members who were engaged in the building trades by occupation. Construction was supervised by E. A. Owens, a local builder and member of the congregation. Conservative estimates are that by utilizing membership labor and a member contractor, a savings in excess of $30,000 was realized.
In 1955, four elders and seven deacons were selected and appointed. The elders were Jack Davis, John Ferguson, Coleman Fikes, and E. A. Owens. Of these, Jack Davis is still serving.
Plans for a second congregation began to materialize, and in 1955, about three acres of land was purchased on Saturn Road at a cost of $7,000. A building loan was secured, and besides purchasing the lot, Eighth and Austin made the down payment on the loan in the amount of $16,500, with the new congregation assuming the mortgage. This congregation is today known as the Saturn Road congregation of the Church of Christ.
In 1956, Eighth and Austin contributed $8,000 and Saturn Road congregation contributed $2,000 toward building for the Negro congregation of the Church of Christ. This building was erected at the corner of Helen Street and Avenue D. For quite some time Eighth and Austin contributed $100 per month to support a regular evangelist for this congregation, and two of the Bible Class teachers and others helped have weekly classes for the children of the Negro congregation.
Also, in 1956, a $20,000 house was built at 522 West Ridgewood Drive for residence of preachers serving the Eighth and Austin Street congregation. By 1958, Eighth and Austin was forced to resort to two Sunday morning worship services to accommodate the crowds. Feeling that a spiritual family relationship could be better maintained by having a single worship service, plans were instituted for a third congregation in Garland. The church officials, the elders, acting for and in behalf of the local congregation, purchased a lot on Broadway Boulevard for $7,000.00, rented a commercial building in which to begin services, and spend $2,053.93 for furniture, Bibles, song books, utilities, etc. Members from Eighth and Austin, from Saturn Road, and from Mesquite formed the nucleus for the Broadway congregation.
In 1960 Bible class attendance at Eighth and Austin had again outgrown classroom facilities, and construction was begun on a new $40,000, 3950 square-foot educational wing. In February of 1961, it was ready for use. It consisted of five large classrooms, two rest rooms, heating and cooling units for the wing, a secretary's office, a preacher's study, and another supply room. Again, E. A. Owens supervised the construction of this building.
By mutual consent of the officials of all three congregations (Eighth and Austin, Saturn Road, and Broadway) the Walnut Village Congregation was begun, and a building was erected on Shiloh road. Membership there consisted of families from the original congregations who lived in that area, along with several families who had recently moved to Garland and lived in that vicinity. Soon, however, it became necessary to begin a fifth congregation. Eighth and Austin took a leading part in this endeavor by making contributions toward the purchase of lots where the Buckingham Road congregation is now located.
At Eighth and Austin in 1964, seven large additional classrooms were added to the existing structure at an approximate cost of $30,000.
In 1968 a new building was constructed with a 1,200-seat auditorium and 30 additional classrooms. At that time, the name was changed to The Austin Street congregation, and in the meantime the Castle Drive congregation was begun in northeast Garland.
Thus, within a little over three decades, the Church of Christ in Garland has grown from a membership of twenty-five to seven congregations, with a membership more than keeping pace with the fantastic growth of Garland.

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In the United States, children look forward to waking up on Easter Sunday to find a basket full of colored eggs, chocolate, and other treats, left behind by an egg-laying rabbit called the Easter Bunny. Like Santa Claus and Christmas, the Easter Bunny and Easter have no obvious connections to the Christian significance of the holiday. So where did this furry mythical creature originate?
The Easter Bunny seems to stem from early pagan celebrations around the vernal equinox, which just happened to occur around the same time as the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, according to Professor's House. The pagan traditions celebrated the springtime renewal of life and fertility as well as the goddess of dawn and spring, Eastre (or Oestre or Ostara). Eastre was associated with newborns, both human and animal, during the spring, and since rabbits are known to be rapid breeders, the concept of the Easter Bunny began to form. The legend is that the goddess Eastre came "late" one year, causing a long winter, and saw a bird frozen in the snow. Eastre took pity on the bird and turned him into a snow hare who could lay multi-colored eggs on one day each year: the day that the festival of Eastre was celebrated.
At some point, the pagan egg-laying bunny and the Christian holiday began to blend, starting in Germany in the 17th century, according to Mental Floss. As the Christian religion spread, missionaries would often "practice some good salesmanship" by incorporating pagan ideas into Christian holidays, and this is likely what happened with the "Eastre" hare. The Germans turned the pagan rabbit into "Oschter Haws" (literally "Easter Hare"), a rabbit that laid colored eggs as gifts for well-behaved children.
Dutch settlers brought the Easter Bunny to America in the 1700s, according to the German National Tourist Board. Their children would make nests out of their hats or bonnets in the hopes that the "Oschter Haws" would leave them colored eggs.
While the Easter Bunny's pagan associations are well-documented throughout history, there are also historic Christian connections with rabbits that stem from the ancient Greeks, who believed rabbits could reproduce as virgins, according to Catholic Online. This influenced paintings and manuscripts in the medieval period where rabbits were displayed alongside the Virgin Mary. From there, German Protestants went on to popularize the Easter Bunny as a myth for children.
Whether it was pagan or Christian associations with the rabbit that ultimately influenced the Germans, we may never know. But one thing is certain: The Easter Bunny will continue to bring joy and excitement to children across the country every Easter Sunday.


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A Million Little PiecesReviewing: Author: James Frey Anchor Books | Rating:
There is so much controversey surrounding this book, and whether or not it is a true story or not. The author, James Frey has admitted that parts of the book aren't exactly true. Regardless of what parts are true and what parts aren't, the book is a great read. I would recommend this book whether it was being sold as a memior or a fiction book because of the intimate look at recovering from addiction that is depicted in the book. The slow growth of bonds between James and the other patients in the book gives the book a more genuine feel. There are times when reading James account of recovery when you are frustrated with him and there are times when you really feel for what he is going through. When reading this book it is really irrelevant whether you view the book as fiction or non-fiction because it is a great read either way. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy stories with characters that you can easily grow attached to and root for. The only issue with this book is what genre it belongs in.


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For people who want more than just the Q&A posts, I offer one-on-one coaching for parents (email me at askmoxie at gmail dot com to talk about creating a schedule for you). I also offer online workshops on a rotating basis. All the workshops are about sparking your own intuition to help you create your own clarity in the situation you're in, using some models and processes from business (wacky, right?). Here's the current list of wokshops I offer and the upcoming schedule:
Flourish Through Divorce: For people going through a
divorce or split that involves children. Six weeks. Focuses on
understanding and managing feelings while going forward, helping your
children managing their feelings, creating a new kind of family, working
together as productively as possible, custody solutions that are good
for everyone, and maintaining boundaries.
Starts January 13, 2013.
Managing Elementary School: For parents of children
entering Kindergarten and up. Four weeks. Focuses on the energy change
and logistics of having a child in elementary school, and includes
creating and teaching your child to manage their own routines, dealing
with the wider exposure to other kids and families, talking about
difficult topics, and just managing all the paper, meetings, and stuff
elementary school brings.
Starts April 14, 2013. Registration opens March 29, 2013.
Baby Survive and Thrive: For parents of babies. Six weeks long, with an emphasis on finding out what you need to be able to thrive through this period of intense pressure and maintaining your own boundaries and getting the help and support you need so you can be as present as you can be in the form that's right for you. This is the "put on your own oxygen mask first" course.
Starts June 2013. Registration opens May 2013.
What's Next Workshop: For parents of children
toddler age and older who are re-examining who they are and what they
want now that they're out of that intense toddler tunnel. Five weeks
long, with soul-searching homework and group calls to really confront
who you are now, why that's fantastic, and what you want next. You'll
come out of the workshop with a plan for your next few months.
Starts December 2, 2012.
Is there anything you'd like to do a workshop on that you don't see here? Let me know and I'll see if there's enough interest to put a group together.


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I'm making a primary neuronal cell culture line and I want to put several different concentrations of morphine on it to see if I can very the results, how do I find the EC50 or ED50 for morphine> Is this a good place to start, then steadily increase until about 10uM?
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Custom Plastic Products with SLA 3D Printing
The reason of Choosing SLA
This precision sla machining actually allows us to produce high
precision plastic prototype
parts from 3D models in a very short time frame for customers.Stereolithography(SLA) is very
similar to the SLS(Selective Laser Sintering) prototyping process. It's best to use SLA, when
surface finish and overall appearance straight from the machine is the most important factorin the prototype.SLA models can also be used as master models, when it comes time for multiple
prototypes to be produced through the progressive technology.
What is the SLA?
Stereolithography (SLA) provides accurate concept models, master patterns and investment
casting patterns in record time. The SLA model is built, the pattern finished and then the silicone
rubber is poured around the SLA model to produce a tool that will yield more products .SLA is
a multi-faceted, full service source for innovative rapid prototyping services and small quantity
manufacturing.SLA is among the most accurate and precise rapid prototyping technology.
3D printing material & applications
A number of material options are available including nylon, flexible and rigid prototyping plastic, metal and thermoplastics. With such a wide range of materials available, 3D printed parts can be used for everything from a cosmetic architectural model to a functional racecar component.
Typical applications for additive manufacturing include conceptual models, ergonomic studies, visual analysis,form-fit-and-function testing, engineering evaluation and functional testing.
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The weather turned hot and with the smoker loaded with meat it was time for a refreshing glass of white wine. Passaggio 2010 New Generation Pinot Grigio was just what the glass ordered. Fruit forward, crisp, refreshing and food friendly are how I describe Cindy's portfolio of wine. Born in 2007, Passaggio has been gaining fans quickly. The 2010 Pinot Grigio and Unoaked Chardonnay each won Silver Medals at the International Women's Wine Competition. Grab a bottle and you will find out why!
The 2010 Pinot Grigio treats your nose to lemon/lime citrus, red apple, fresh pear, and cut violets. You can smell the crispness of the wine and I'm excited to taste.
Right from the start a nice ripe pear quickly followed by mineral notes. Fresh sliced apples, tangerine with a juicy lemon finish that lingers long. The glasses really hit the spot (did you think I would stop at one?). The perfect wine for a hot day.
Join her new wine club Passionistas and enjoy wines delivered to your door. Live in the area, join others at the pickup party in your area. Follow your Passion for great wine and try a few bottles today. You might just hear the winemakers favorite advice "Drink all you want.....I can make more!"


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Flying Fish Brewery launches www.exitseries.com
Here's some cool news I ran across and I think this is a fun way to create a new series of beers based on the highway exits on the New Jersey Turnpike. Flying Fish beers are not currently distributed in Illinois, but I have tried a few during my travels that I have enjoyed. Hopefully I will get a chance to sample and review the new trippel sometime!
New Jersey's largest craft brewery, Flying Fish Brewing Company (1940 Olney Avenue, 856-489-0061), is flaunting its home-state pride with a new Exit Series of Big Bottle Beers. A fanciful tribute to the New Jersey Turnpike and all the Garden State has to offer, these special brews are Flying Fish's first foray into large bottles. The first in the series, Exit 4 American Trippel, a Belgian-style bottle conditioned ale, was just released.
"At Flying Fish, we're proud to hail from the great state of New Jersey ," says Gene Muller, who founded the brewery in 1995. "Our success comes from being focused on our home base, and this is a great opportunity for us to celebrate that in a very public way."
Exit 4 American Trippel is named for the exit nearest Flying Fish Brewing Company's headquarters, and is Belgian-inspired to represent their role as one of America 's first craft breweries to embrace Belgian-style beers. Future Exit Series Big Bottles will be named for other exits, chosen based on videos, photos and testimonials submitted to Flying Fish by fans at www.exitseries.com. This series will continue with three or four beers a year to eventually encompass all turnpike exits.
"We were among the first craft breweries to commit ourselves to using the Internet to build and enhance our business, and this new site allows us to reach out to our fans in a tangible way," says Muller. " New Jersey is great because the people here are great, and we want to make sure that they can participate in this special series of beers."
With a hazy golden hue and aromas of citrus, banana and clove, Exit 4 American Trippel bears heady malt flavors that give way to a subdued, bitter finish. As a bottle conditioned ale, it will develop as it ages. This one-time-only release is now available until it sells out across New Jersey , Pennsylvania and Delaware .
Flying Fish was the world's first 'virtual' microbrewery, establishing an Internet presence as early as 1995. That presence helped to generate press interest and woo investors to the fledgling brewery, which would not open for business until late 1996. Today, Muller and his team oversee four full-time styles, as well as a variety of seasonal beers. Their brews have been featured at the Great British Beer Festival, Oregon Brewers Festival and Canada 's Biere de Mondial Festival. They have won medals at the Great American Beer Festival, Real Ale Festival and the World Beer Championships, and are the only New Jersey brewery featured in Best American Beers. Flying Fish was recently named "Local Hero: Beverage Artisan of 2009" by Edible Jersey magazine.
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MONTREAL (AP) -Rod Brind'Amour felt the same way about his latest NHL milestone as he did after reaching previous ones.
Brind'Amour scored his second power-play goal of the game, and the 400th of his career, late in the second period to lift the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-3 win over the struggling Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
"When it happens right now you say, 'Oh well, it's not a big deal,' but it's kind of like all those other ones," Brind'Amour said. "When you look back, you say, 'That's pretty good."'
The Carolina captain put his team ahead twice in the second period. Brind'Amour gave the Hurricanes a 2-1 lead with his 17th of the season 1:18 into the middle period before reaching the milestone with his 18th goal which made it 3-2 at 19:50.
"That's a lot of goals," said Eric Staal, who scored his 25th goal in the third. "I hope one day to get that many. He's a great player. He stepped up big for us on the power play. We needed those goals and that was a big one for our team."
Chad Larose had a short-handed goal as Carolina scored three times in the middle period, converting both of its power-play opportunities in the game. Erik Cole also added his 25th goal in the third to help the Hurricanes to their fourth win in six games.
Cam Ward stopped 43 shots for Carolina. He allowed Tomas Plekanec's penalty shot goal with 52.4 seconds remaining.
"You look at the first period and it looked like they had a plan to throw everything at the net," said Ward, who stopped 17 of 18 in the first. "There were a lot of shots from the corners or the wall and they were looking to create some traffic but we did a good job of getting to the rebounds and trying to clear them as best we could."
Montreal, which also got goals from Sheldon Souray and Radek Bonk, lost its sixth in a row.
The Canadiens, who have fallen out of a playoff position in the Eastern Conference, announced after the second period that injured goalie Cristobal Huet will have surgery on his left hamstring Sunday and will be sidelined indefinitely.
"It's not easy right now," Montreal captain Saku Koivu said. "It's frustrating and believe me we're trying to figure out the ways to turn things around and get those two points because that's what we're looking for."
Souray became the first Canadiens defenseman in 13 years to reach 20 goals when he opened the scoring at 17:36 of the first period. Detroit's Mathieu Schneider scored 20 goals with Montreal in 1993-94.
Brind'Amour beat David Aebischer on a power play early in the second to tie the score at 1 and Larose gave Carolina a 2-1 lead with his third of the season at 11:30 while the Hurricanes were killing a holding penalty on Josef Vasicek.
Bonk redirected Steve Begin's pass between Ward's pads for his 10th goal at 12:43 to tie it at 2.
Notes: Brind'Amour, who has also played with St. Louis and Philadelphia, has 646 assists and 1,046 points in 1,244 regular season games. ... Guy Lapointe had 28 goals in 1974-75. ... Huet had a 19-15-3 record and two shutouts in 40 games this season, along with a 2.74 goals-against-average and a .918 save percentage. ... RW Duncan Milroy made his NHL debut after he was recalled by Montreal earlier in the day from Hamilton of the AHL. Milroy, chosen 37th overall by the Canadiens in the 2001 draft, led Hamilton with 23 goals and 52 points in 52 games. ... G Jaroslav Halak backed up Aebischer after he was called up to the NHL for the first time Friday.


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As Singapore continues to build our healthcare capabilities to meet rising demands from an ageing population, there are increasing expectations for quality healthcare services from the public and private sectors. More than 3,000 private clinics are working alongside public healthcare institutions to provide essential primary care services to the Singapore population.
The SMA Clinic Assistant Place and Train Programme, which targets individuals who are currently unemployed and eager to return to the workforce, seeks to support the manpower needs of the healthcare industry. It consists of 3 components:
The SMA Clinic Assistant Introductory Skills Course is a SkillsFuture accredited programme. More information can be found here. All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses. Visit the SkillsFuture Credit website (www.skillsfuture.sg/credit) to choose from the courses available on the SkillsFuture Credit course directory.


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Though he died in 1997, Robbins continues to pour out novels of fabulous vulgarity to equal The Piranhas (1991). How does he do it? With an anonymous cowriter fleshing out "a rich heritage of novel ideas and works-in-progress," of course.
Said cowriter is wise to stay nameless. His/her flatfooted prose rivals Robbins's best, i.e., worst. "The twinkling lights of the city painted a spectacular view of Manhattan," as this newest late work opens in January 2000. Wall Street investment banker David Shea sips Dom Pérignon from a crystal flute and smokes Cuban cigars while being serviced by two athletic bisexual models in his 18th-floor apartment overlooking the East River. But all is not well: David is being hounded by Mayor Giuliani, whose eye is on a Senate run. In the good old days, back in high school, "David Shea was a handsome young man, tall and muscular, a football player. He was very charismatic. Every girl's dream was to date Dave Shea." Dave's dark side: he cheats at football and in his studies; he's so well-endowed he hurts the first girl he sleeps with (at age 13); he kicks a bully to death, lets a buddy take the manslaughter rap, and never looks back. At Rutgers his girlfriend commits suicide after he sells nude photos of her all over campus. As a football jock, he falls in with a gambler, later takes up illegal trading through off-shore accounts, fakes his income for the IRS with a bank job for cover. He survives being shot by his second wife for his infidelities. Eventually, his bank terminates him for suspicion. A sequel looks promised for this black-hearted, well-hung hustler—whose investment affairs are actually quite gripping.
Harold blesses his ghostwriter.


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asked the "teacher" at ECFE this week. Because I cringe at her lecturing approach to our (supposed) group discussion, I froze in my chair. But some good things came about from this question. Several moms expressed what they see as their assets and it's made me think more about what my assets are too.
I was talking with a friend during a play-date this morning, and I told her I see her asset as how calm she always comes about. She laughed, saying she didn't actually feel much like that before telling me about this morning's disaster at their house. Then she told me that her response to the question had she been "called on" (she's in my "class"), would have been her slapstick sense of humor (her favorite movies are slapstick comedies). So when things get really upside-down around their house, she can sometimes just laugh it off.
Then she asked me what I would have answered. But I still hadn't made up my mind. Some of the things shared by the other moms definitely resonated with me (I too love reading and singing to my child, and share my curiosity about the world with her). And I too can be flexible with my child, seize the teachable moment, and maintain a consistent approach in my parenting.
But what else? What new fun or intriguing interesting stuff could I put on the table? That I love to dance and will often turn on the radio for impromptu dance parties when things get either too much or too saggy? That I'm devoted to my nurturing care for her as I continue to attachment parent, nursing on demand, sharing my bed with her, laying down with her for nap and bedtime till she's asleep, for often more than an hour, including her in all our meals that I cook myself from (mostly) scratch, having never passed her off with baby food or offered her anything else than what's on the table, making a real effort to keep mealtimes as calm and positive?
What I told my friend is that I feel good about how I (unlike my mom) really focus on staying calm for my child, providing her with a sense of safety and security in her home environment (which I craved as a child). My friend agreed to this, but then added that what she really thinks stand out about me is my thoughtfulness; how I'll read all these things about parenting and child development that she finds really interesting when I share them with her.
Wow! Don't you just love a friend like that. What an amazing compliment. I just had to give her an immediate big hug. I guess that's just the academic in me, I responded. Not just as in that's my former career, but as in that's what I've always loved to do. To look into things I'm curious to find out more about, reading, researching, and then passing on what I find out, through talking, writing, finding out more in turn as those I share with respond with their thoughts and experiences.
So, though there was lots about last ECFE "class" that bothered me, something really good came out of it. As our "teacher" said, we talk a lot at ECFE about the joys of who our children are and what they do, but not much about what we like and are proud about when it comes to ourselves (don't you just hate it when somebody who turns you off is right about something?). It's a good exercise, to take inventory of your skills and assets that way.
How about you, what do you see as your assets as a parent? Which ones are you particularly fond of?


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Saturday, May 30
Memories of Growing Up
Friday, May 29
Another Look at My Garden
Thursday, May 28
This is much what it looked like here all morning and until 2:30 this afternoon. Yeap, pouring rain. We did need it though and it will definitely give the vegetable garden a kick start. The lettuce is doing very well, but the tomatoes needed a good drink. I'm sure that they will begin to grow more now since I had just put fertilizer on them a couple of days ago.
Not much doing around here these days to post about. Just the usual. I picked the boys up from school today and went to their house and made banana milkshakes for them. That was a treat because they don't often get milkshakes. Brandon asked me if I knew how to make a smoothie and I told him I did. He said maybe next time they could have those. That would be a great treat on a hot day. Frozen blueberries make a great smoothie, as do other fruits and the benefit of a smoothie is that you get the real fruit instead of concentrate.
So the next time the boys need a cool drink on a hot day, I'll be busy making smoothies. They're healthier than milkshakes and very refreshing.
Tuesday, May 26
Park Photos
The park looks much like the above picture at the present time. There will be lilacs blooming and I will try and get out to get some photos. However, it's supposed to rain for a few days. I'm not sure the lilacs will still be there.


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William H. Gates, Sr., Frank Thomson Leighton, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and Michael Wood to Speak at Induction Ceremony Sherrill Milnes will Perform
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
will induct the Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members from the class of 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Academy President
Patricia Meyer Spacks
will preside over the day's celebrations, which will include both an orientation and an induction. The new class of 187 Fellows and 29 Foreign Honorary Members includes four college presidents, three Nobel Prize winners, and four Pulitzer Prize winners. Philanthropist
William H. Gates, Sr.
, Akamai founder and MIT professor
Frank Thomson Leighton
, chemist
Carolyn R. Bertozzi
, and chair of Princeton University's Department of English
Michael Wood
will speak at the ceremony, which will also feature a performance by prominent operatic baritone
Sherrill Milnes
. All are members of the 2003 class of Inductees.
The Academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholar-patriots "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people." The Academy has elected as Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members the finest minds and most influential leaders from each generation, including George Washington and Ben Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. Its current membership of over 3,900 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of its membership, the American Academy conducts thoughtful, innovative, non-partisan studies on international security, American institutions, education, and the humanities.
This year's election maintains the Academy's practice of honoring intellectual achievement, leadership, and creativity in all fields.
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Arrival - and Western area
Pick up your rental car at Keflavík International Airport and drive past Reykjavík to the BORGARFJÖRÐUR region. Often referred to as "the saga valley of western Iceland," this area served as the stage for many significant events in the literary masterpieces that Iceland is known for. It is home to Hraunfossar, a remarkable series of waterfalls formed by water emerging from a porous lava field, and Barnafoss, a cluster of robust rapids with a tragic story behind their name. Spend 2 nights in the Borgarfjörður region.
Explore the area. Visit the Snaefellsnes peninsula, with its impressive glacier and the famous Kirkjufell Mountain.
An idea is to visit Glacier cave in Langjokull.


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Hijab- The Islamic Modest DressAyatullah Murtaza Muttahari
You can write a book review and share your experiences. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books you've read. Whether you've loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.


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Honestly, I can't tell you how many times searching on the text of an error message has led me to a solution.
I had a DBA call me who needed help with SQL Server replication. Ummm. Let's just say I'm not a SQL Server replication expert.
The DBA said he couldn't create a publication on a new server.
Asked the DBA to send me an e-mail detailing the issue. It contained the error message thrown.
I searched on the text of the error message.
It led me to a post on Pinal Dave's blog.
We took action based on this blog post. Which led us to another error message. Searched again, took action, made progress.
In the end, the issue was resolved after going through this loop a few times.
This works for me so much but I run into so many people who don't do it.
So, search on the text of the error message when a problem arises.
Most of the time you will find an answer and you will likely find a resource that you can use to resolve future problems.


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Student psychologist
Our student psychologists are very accessible and easy to approach. You are welcome to come by to discuss any problems you might have during open consultation hours.
The support offered by the student psychologists is intended primarily for full and part-time students of Leiden University, not for guests, external and prospective students, PhD candidates or alumni.
Open consultation hours in Leiden
Students of Leiden University who are experiencing study-related or personal problems are welcome to visit a student psychologist during open consultation hours. These take place from Monday to Friday, between 11:00 and 11:45 hrs. Please register at Student Support Services, Kaiserstraat 25. There may be more than one student waiting to see the psychologist so you will generally have ten to fifteen minutes to talk about your situation. Make sure to register on time.
In December the open consultion hours will be cancelled in Leiden on Wednesday.
Initial assessment
After explaining your situation you will discuss the best course of action with the psychologist. The student psychologist can provide support in situations that are having an impact on your studies.
Sometimes one visit, a few tips and some information is sufficient. Sometimes you might be advised to follow a workshop or training course, for example in study skills or personal development. In some cases you may be offered short-term individual guidance.
The student psychologist can also give advice about referral to other organisations or professionals if more specialist or long-term support is required. In this case you will also need a referral from your doctor.
Consultation hours in The Hague
In The Hague the student psychologists hold consultation hours at:
Student Centre Beehive
Turfmarkt 104
2511 DC Den Haag
You must make an appointment in advance by calling: 071 527 8026. Any subsequent sessions will take place in The Hague or Leiden.
Q&A archive
Is a visit to the student psychologist too big a step for you? If so you could instead ask a question by email or consult the student psychologists' Q&A archive (in Dutch).


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Vedder Tuesday ⅩⅩⅩⅠ: ½ Full
Yes, "Occupy Wall Street" is on my mind. Yes, that's why I selected these lyrics today.
Climbing over mountains
Floating out on the sea
Far from lights of a city
The elements they speak to me
Whispering that life
Existed long before greed
Balancing the world
On its knee
Don't see some men as half empty
See them half full of shit
Thinking that we're all but slaves
There ain't gonna be
No middle anymore
It's been said before
The haves be having more
Yet still bored
Won't someone save?
Won't someone save the world?


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The Spyder Co. appeared to be a typical small company based in an unassuming office but it was a front for an intelligence cell, part of the Web, a mysterious government network set up to solve cases outside the remit of the regular intelligence services. The show followed the adventures of Charlotte Dean and her assistants Wallis Ackroyd and Clive Hawksworth as they fought the good fight and saved the country from machinations from behind the Iron Curtain. Spyder's Web was an ATV production for the ITV network.
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Samsung Galaxy Core Prime – a great smartphone that combines the ease of use, an impressive array of features and an attractive design. This model with rounded lines and extraordinary color scheme supports two SIM cards, allowing her happy owner will be able to maximize your contact list and chat with your friends using the services of any operator. Long talk and surf the Internet without recharging the unit is guaranteed by the capacious battery 2000 mAh. Big screen (4 and a half inches) with good resolution (800×480 pix) Allows you to comfortably watch videos or smartphone to read books. Samsung Galaxy Core Prime has a very powerful processor core 4, as well as good RAM (1 gigabyte) and integrated (8 gigabytes) of memory. This model allows the use of memory cards up to 64 gigabytes. For high-quality photo provided two cameras: the main 5 megapixel supplemented by LED-flash, it allows you to record video 720 pixels. 30 frames per second; front camera for selfie and video has a resolution of 2 MP. Of course, this functional smartphone supports wireless network, and provides the ability to use GPS navigation.
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"Faculty on Strike." Lennard Davis & Walter Benn Michaels. Jacobin: a magazine of culture and polemic (Feb 14 2014): "On February 18, the tenure track and non-tenure track faculty who make up the University of Illinois-Chicago faculty union UICUF Local 6456 will walk out of the classroom and onto the picket line for a two-day strike." Issues include salaries and governance:
To call shared governance real governance is like saying your dog has an equal say in how your household is run because sometimes when he whines he gets fed.
But are professors really workers? When we were organizing, the administration kept telling us we weren't — we were professionals. And, in fact, at UIC, we belong to the Illinois Federation of Teachers, which does indeed describe itself as a "Union of Professionals." If you've done any work on the history of professionalization, you know that one of the original points of the whole concept of the professional — as it applied to ministers, doctors, lawyers and professors — was to distinguish them from workers….
But what we've all begun to realize is that, whatever it meant in the late 19th and early 20th century, in the 21st century that distinction is pure ideology. Professionals are workers — and professors are workers….
… the Administration has been helpful, treating us as badly at the bargaining table as they treat UIC's other unions.


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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's ruling party presidential candidate and an opposition challenger are in a dead heat ahead of the Central American country's May 4 vote, a poll showed on Monday.
Jose Arias, from the ruling Democratic Change (CD)party, and Juan Navarro, from the moderate left opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), both won 32 percent support in a poll by Ipsos and Canal 13.
The country's current vice president, Juan Varela, took 26 percent in the poll. Varela broke with current President Ricardo Martinelli and ran on the ticket of the Panamenista Party.
The poll surveyed 1,374 of the country's roughly 2 million voters, but its margin of error was not disclosed.
Martinelli is prohibited by the constitution from running for a second five-year term as president.
Panama's next president will need to maintain the country's strong growth rates, the highest in Central America, and complete an expansion of the Panama Canal, which was disrupted by a dispute over massive cost overruns between the canal's authority and an international consortium of builders.
The two sides finally inked a deal in mid-March to finish construction by December 2015.
An aggressive government infrastructure program helped boost Panama's largely services-based economy to double-digit growth in 2011 and 2012, but the pace cooled to 8.4 percent in 2013 and is seen at 7 percent this year and next.
(Reporting by Elida Moreno; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)


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Hernán López-Fernández
Ichthyology Curator
Area: Natural History, Biodiversity
Phone: 416.586.5894
Licenciate in Biology, Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, 1998 Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Integrative Biology (Dan Bolnick Lab), University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Postdoctoral Research Associate, EEB program (Kirk Winemiller lab), Texas A&M University, 2006
Hernán López-Fernández is a Curator of Ichthyology in the Department of Natural History at the ROM.
Hernán was born in Montevideo, Uruguay but lived most of his life in Venezuela. His fascination with fishes started at an early age when his father bought him the first of many aquariums. A few years later, he discovered cichlid fishes and decided to dedicate his career to studying them. For his B.Sc., he studied the feeding ecology of cichlids of the genus Satanoperca with Donald Taphorn. He then moved to the United States to obtain his Ph.D., studying the phylogeny of geophagine cichlids under Kirk Winemiller and Rodney Honeycutt. Following that, he went to the University of Texas at Austin as a postdoctoral fellow in Daniel Bolnick's lab, to work on the genetics of speciation in North American sunfishes in the genus Lepomis. In 2006, he returned to Texas A&M as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the US National Science Foundation to continue studying phylogenetics, adaptive radiation and convergent evolution in cichlids from South and Central America.
As a Curator at the ROM, Hernán's research focuses on the evolutionary biology of South and Central American cichlids. The freshwaters of South and Central America are estimated to harbor well over 6,000 species of fishes; more than any other biogeographic region on Earth. Among this great diversity, cichlid fishes are remarkable for their morphological, ecological and behavioral diversity. Although cichlids are well-known models of adaptive evolution in lakes, little is known about their diversification in rivers. Hernán combines field and laboratory research in systematics, biogeography and evolutionary biology to study the radiations of American cichlids as models of the evolutionary history of Neotropical fishes. Comparative evolutionary studies of cichlids and other groups should provide a powerful tool to understand the origin of the most diverse freshwater fish fauna on the planet.
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There is so much legacy-building going on around the April 9 boxing match between MANNY PACQUIAO and TIM BRADLEY that one of the more significant seems to be taking a back seat. Freddie Roach is getting lost in the shuffle.
This may be a first.
Roach has been named the trainer of the year by this country's boxing writers seven times. He has been in the sport's spotlight for at least the last ten years, or longer. Once he hooked up with Pacquiao 15 years ago, his name soon found its way onto the tongue of every boxing fan. Pacquiao has won eight division titles, an incredible feat, and Roach has been there, baton in hand, conducting one of the most-successful-ever orchestrations of a boxing symphony.
Fans love him because they love Pacquiao and Roach prepares him so well. The media loves him because he is direct, refreshing and stunningly without agenda in interviews. Ask a question, you get a straight answer. He has been labeled the last honest man in boxing, which, if you ponder more deeply, could be adjusted to the ONLY honest man in boxing.
He is, once again, training Pacquiao, for yet another fight that promoters hope will rise to the level of blockbuster. The ultimate measures of that are quality of fight and number of pay-per-views sold.
But this promotion is a tad different. Roach, who doesn't push for this but always seems to be a major player in the image creation of any Pacquiao fight, is sharing a lot more of the spotlight this time around.
His counterpart is Bradley's trainer, Teddy Atlas. Atlas, too, is glib, direct and highly accomplished. This will be his second fight with Bradley and the first, a knockout of Brandon Rios, was so well planned and executed that the kudos for Atlas have continued non-stop. That Atlas makes for great copy and a compelling story certainly helps, as does Bradley's eagerness to find new ways to praise his trainer and describe what his presence has meant to him.
Pacquiao fights used to be about Freddie and some other guy in the other corner. Not this time.
Then, you have the headline dominating of Pacquiao, as he tells the world that this is his last fight, that he now needs to focus on the Philippine Senatorial election that takes place a month after this fight, and that, with a strong showing in this election, he may eventually become a prime presidential candidate. Manny Pacquiao as a Congressman was a pretty good story. Manny Pacquiao as a Senator and maybe President is even better.
And then, of course, we had Pacquiao's anti-gay and lesbian statement a month ago that brought even more attention, as unwanted as it was, to the fighter. Roach's thoughts on that are not needed, nor germane.
Bradley himself has stolen lots of this fight's thunder.
He has grown by leaps as an interview subject and has seemed to acquire lots of Atlas' pizzaz when it comes to being in public and dealing with the media. He remains offended by the universal dismissal of the decision he received in the first Pacquiao fight — this will be the third — and articulates that compellingly. His stature in the boxing world grew remarkably with his gutty victory over Ruslan Provodnikov in a brawl that got much fight-of-the-year attention. Even Roach, who is seldom prone to praising an upcoming opponent, said he was impressed by Bradley's grit and guts against Provodnikov.
And then, there is even the fight's promoter, Bob Arum of Top Rank, who is never a shrinking violet, but who has juiced up his game considerably for this one. Arum has parlayed his dislike of Donald Trump and his desire to see Hilary Clinton elected into a promotion element with a ring to it. He is calling his undercard, stacked with Hispanic boxers, the "NoTrump Undercard." It is meant to be a comment on Trump's anti-Hispanic stances. It is also meant to sell tickets.
Still, with all this buzzing around, the usual Roach spotlight has been dimmed. He probably doesn't greatly care, nor has he thought a great deal about it, but it is a nuance that should be noted.
Roach fought his last of a 53-fight career at age 26. He lost five of his last six and says that he went a half a dozen or so more fights than he should have. He is 56 now, runs a profitable business at his Wild Card Boxing Club in Los Angeles and has international stature in the sport. But he also limps badly from a bad back caused by a sciatic nerve and is battling Parkinson's Disease, the existence of which was certainly enhanced by the number of times he was hit in the head.
He has a legacy of his own that is at a crossroads. He has been quoted as saying that, if Pacquiao retires, he will, too. But that is part of a current mixed message that includes the fact that he still has star fighter Miguel Cotto and talks about newcomer Frankie Gomez as if Gomez could carry him to another Pacquiao-like era. Yet, all this time, he has never wavered from his sentiments that there will never be another one like Pacquiao.
These major boxing matches get hyped to the point of foolishness. And then, they take place, whatever outcome is produced has a shelf life of a few days of discussion and buzz, and the sport is on to the next biggie. Leftover legacies get trampled in the rush to whatever is next.
What happens on April 9 in Las Vegas could turn out to be a huge turning point, positive or negative, in the career of one Freddie Roach.
Whatever that is, it needs to be more than merely noticed.


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Friday, November 26, 2010
Baby-Friendly Ornaments
Now that the turkey's gone the way of leftovers, I'm turning my thoughts (and my blog) over to Christmas. And I'm dedicating my first holiday post of the season to baby-friendly ornaments. Since Charlotte admires everything with her hands (and her mouth) the bottom half of our tree will be decorated with slobber-friendly, unbreakable ornaments. Either that, or I could ruin her fun and only decorate the top half of the tree. :)
Shopping Guide: 1. The Land of Nod, 2. Crate & Barrel, 3. Anthropologie, 4. Etsy (pdf knitting pattern), 5. Crate & Barrel, 6. West Elm, 7. The Land of Nod 8. Paper Source
2 comments:
- Daphne said...
These are so cute. We definitely lost a few glass ornaments during my son's first christmas. Now with a 21 month old daughter that is still grabby our solution is the same PLUS we buy a small tree just for the kids that they decorate themselves with their own ornaments. They love that it is their tree and they touch it and change it as much as they want. Keeps them off of our tree.
- November 27, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Wahzat Gayle said...
I love these I want them all. I was thinking to spoil my girls fun by only decorating the top half LOL
- December 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM
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Hitaxas, on 12 February 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:
I can help you with that.
If you add in Lighting shield and edit Classic Sonic's xml to get 5 shield uses plus less BS ring loss on Super Sonic, the result is really overpowered.
Jump -> Homing Attack -> Double Jump is amazing, as is having the lightning shield attract rings for Super Sonic.
EDIT: I found a way to get it working without having to do a search every time.
Step 1: Download Cheat Engine.
Step 2: Download DWXnd (If you have a way to get back to your desktop during gameplay, skip this step.)
Step 3: Open Cheat Engine, then open Sonic Generations.
Step 4: In cheat engine, press the glowing button on the top left, and pick the Sonic Generations process.
Step 5: Download this file http://www.mediafire...bdf7fhi47l4y535
Step 6: Drag it into Cheat Engine.
Step 7: Click the Advanced Options text on the bottom left.
Step 8: Right click the text that shows up, and select "Find out what addresses this code accesses". A window will pop up. Leave it open.
Step 9: Go back into Sonic Generations, and start customizing one of the skill sets.
Step 10: While on the customization screen, go back to the window that popped up in cheat engine, and double click the address that appears in it.
Step 11: Look in the big white box in the main Cheat Engine window. Click the 100, and type 500 into the window that pops up, then press ok.
Step 12: Now the skill point limit will be 500 for as long as you remain in the skill customization screen.
Step 13: Repeat steps 7-12 each time you need to set up the skills within a skill set.


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Debutants net Cod Army win
Debut goals from captain Mark Roberts, Jeff Hughes and Ryan Cresswell saw Fleetwood begin the new Sky Bet League Two campaign with a resounding 3-1 victory over Dagenham & Redbridge.
The opener for the hosts came after just five minutes when centre-back Roberts powered a close-range header past a stranded Chris Lewington and into the roof of the net.
Former Notts County midfielder Hughes slammed a low shot into the bottom right-hand corner from the edge of the box to double Fleetwood's lead after just 10 minutes.
But the visitors' arrears were reduced after 26 minutes. Medy Elito latched on to a long defensive clearance before squaring the ball across the six-yard box for former Arsenal trainee Rhys Murphy to tap home from less than a yard out for his first goal in League football.
The second half picked up where the first left off, with another of Fleetwood's new defensive recruits Cresswell powering a header past keeper Lewington.
Substitute Gareth Evans had a late header cleared off the line at the death as the Cod Army threatened a fourth goal.
Source: PA
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Obama Admin Caught Lying About Knowledge of VA Backlogs [Video]
The VA had patient backlogs in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected President. He knew about the backlogs and he was outraged… Or so he says:
… That was then, and this is now.
Today we've got not just backlogs, but we've got VA administrators who are keeping off-the-books lists of veterans who need treatment and are keeping them hidden so their backlog numbers look good and they can collect their bonuses.
The head of the VA hospital in Phoenix killed 40 vets with her list, but she did collect a $9,300 bonus for her trouble. We're hoping she does prison time, we want the state of Arizona to investigate and charge her with negligent homicide. 40 counts.
How in the world could a culture like that have come about? Well, keeping in mind that President Obama has been talking about wait-listing vets since 2007, let's listen to Jay Carney.
So, the administration's spokesweasel has the gall to stand up and say that the President first learned about the problem from the news media? We want to be fair to the President. Really. There are only two possibilities here:
First, the President acted on his words, repeated multiple times since 2007, to fix the VA scheduling problem and his administration just didn't find out about the off-the-books lists until it was reported.
The second possibility is that Jay Carney was lying through his teeth and the President, and his administration, knew about it and chose to do nothing.
In either case, may they rot in Hell. Period.


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