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2012: A Mining Milestone
With an incident rate that is 8 times higher than others sectors, the risky environment of the mining industry requires extra provisions and precautions. The Mine Safety and Health Administration's (MSHA) dedication to preventing injuries and illnesses in the mining sector is evident in the final mining data for 2012. For the second consecutive year, 2012 statistics reflect the lowest injury and fatality rates in US mining history. These statistics were calculated using data from mine inspections, violations, number of mines and miners, and injury and fatality rates.
Since 1977, when MSHA passed the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, the industry's safety record has experienced continuous improvement. The number of fatalities dropped significantly from 273 in 1977 to 35 in 2012. MSHA uses a strategy of surveillance combined with enforcement through impact inspections, outreach efforts and special initiatives. One such initiative is "Rules to Live By," a program designed to prevent mining deaths, injuries and incidents.
Joseph A Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for MSHA, included the following statement in his Q1 2013 stakeholder letter:
"In order to prevent mine deaths, operators must have in place effective safety and health management programs that are constantly evaluated, find-and-fix programs to identify and eliminate mine hazards, and training for all mining personnel."
In the past two years, MSHA issued two final regulations that aim to prevent coal mine dust explosions by evaluating and enforcing safer mining work environments. Effective August 6, 2012, the final rule for Examinations of Work Areas in Underground Coal Mines for Violations of Mandatory Health or Safety Standard requires that coal mine operators determine the nine health and safety standards that pose the greatest risk to miners. For each standard, the operators must identify and correct the violations and hazardous conditions.
Contractors who are subject to MSHA's regulations and are registered with ISNetworld have the ability to measure and track their injury and illness statistics within the "Key Performance Indicators" section of the United States questionnaire to ensure they are following safety protocols. ISN contractors who reported an NAICS code beginning with 21 (Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction) have a nonfatal TRIR average equaling 1.95 for 2011 versus the 2011 BLS average nonfatal TRIR of 2.2.
The most recent final rule on Pattern of Violations (POV), effective March 25, 2013, grants MSHA more authority to enforce corrective actions on operators who disregard the health and safety of their miners. Mines with a pattern of significant and substantial (S&S) violations will receive written notice from MSHA. After each S&S violation that follows, MSHA issues an order withdrawing workers from the mines until the citations are resolved. MSHA's Pattern of Violations Monitoring Tool allows mine operators to track if they are subject to a POV notice. These final rules show how MSHA's fervent dedication to strengthening the mining industry's health and safety record is a proven success.
The International Social Security Association's (ISSA) Seven Golden Rules is a helpful resource to maintain the downward trend for incident rates in the mining industry and to ensure that your company is practicing safe and economical mining. Together, everyone involved in the mining industry can set a historical record by making 2013 the third consecutive year with the lowest mining injury and fatality Rates in U.S. history.


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Arts & Entertainment Calendar
21 Grand Nov. 30: 9 p.m., Fred Frith, Damon Smith, Marco Eneidi, Sabu Toyozumi Ensemble, Phillip Greenlief, $10; Dec. 1: 9 p.m., Toychestra, Rosin Coven, Darling Freakhead, $6; All ages. 21 Grand Ave., Oakland. 444-7263
924 Gilman St. Nov. 30: Shitlist, Atrocious Madness, Fuerza X, Catheter, S Bitch, Delta Force; Dec. 1: Yaphet Kotto, Cattle Decapitation, Creation Is Crucifixion, Kalibas, A Death Between Seasons, Lo-Fi Neissans; Dec. 2: 5 p.m., Dead and Gone, Venus Bleeding, Suptonix, Geoff (spoken word), East Bay Chasers, Lesser Of Two; Dec. 7: Har Mar Superstar, The Pattern, The Blast Rocks, Your Enemies' Friends, Hate Mail Express; Dec. 8: Scurvy Dogs, Nigel Peppercock, Shut The Fuck Up, Offering To The Sun, Voetsek; Dec. 9: Poison The Well, Unearth, Sworn Enemy, Spark Lights The Friction; Dec. 14: Hot Water Music, American Steel, F-Minus, Trial By Fire; Dec. 15: Strung Out, Limp, The Frisk, The Deadlines, The Creeps; Dec. 16: 5 p.m., Good Riddance, Missing 23rd, Downway, Audio Crush; Dec. 21: Kepi, Bonfire Madigan, Kevin Seconds; Dec. 22: The Lab Rats, Onetime Angels, A great Divide, Last Great Liar, Gabriel's Ratchet; Dec. 23: 5 p.m., Over My Dead Body, Panic, Breaker Breaker, Some Still Believe; All shows start a 8 p.m. unless noted; Most are $5; 924 Gilman St. 525-9926
The Albatross Pub Dec. 4: Panacea; Dec. 5: Whiskey Brothers; Dec. 6: Keni "El Lebrijano"; Dec. 11: Mad & Eddic Duran Jazz Duo; Dec. 13: Keni "El Lebrijano"; Dec. 15: Larry Stefl Jazz Quartet; Dec. 18: Panacea; Dec. 19: Whiskey Brothers; Dec. 20: Keni "El Lebrijano"; Dec. 27: Keni "El Lebrijano"; All shows start at 9 p.m., 1822 San Pablo Ave. 843-2473
Anna's Nov. 26: Renegade Sidemen w/ Calvin Keyes; Nov. 27: Jason Martineau and David Sayen; Nov. 28: Bob Shoen Jazz Quintet; Nov. 29: Ed Reed and Alex Markels Jazz Group; Nov. 30: Ann sings jazz standards; 10 p.m., Bluesman Hideo Date; All shows 8 p.m. unless noted. Free. 1901 University Ave., 849-2662
Ashkenaz Nov. 26: 6:30 p.m., Vista College; Nov. 27: 8 p.m., Creole Belles, $8; Nov. 28: 8 p.m., Bluegrass Intentions, Stairwell Sisters, Clogging with Evie Ladin, $10; Nov. 29: 10 p.m., Grateful Dead DJ Nite, $5; Nov. 30: 9:30 p.m., Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums w/ Ms. Carmen Getit; Dec. 1: 8 p.m., 2nd Annual Musical Night in Africa w/ Kotoja, West African Highlife Band, Kasumai Bare, Nigerian Brothers, $13; Dec. 2: 6 p.m., Danny Torres and Nova Trova, $8; 1317 San Pablo Ave. 525-5054 www.ashkenaz.com
Blake's Nov. 26: All Star Jam Featuring The Steve Gannon Band and Mz. Dee, $4; Nov. 27: PC Munoz and the Amen Corner, Froggy, $3; Nov. 28: Erotic City, DJ Maestro, $2; Nov. 29: Ascension, $5; Nov. 30: Felonious, TBA, $6; All shows 9:30 p.m. 2367 Telegraph Ave., 848-0886
Cafe Eclectica Nov. 30: 6 - 11 p.m., She Mob, Wire Graffiti, Breast, Honeyshot, Run for Cover Lovers, $6; All ages 1309 Solano Ave., 527-2344.
Cal Performances Nov. 29: Les Arts Florissants, $24 - $46; Dec. 19: Berkeley Symphony, $21 - $45; Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, Bancroft Way at Telegraph, 642-0212 firstname.lastname@example.com
Club Muse Nov. 29: 9:30 p.m., SoulTree, Tang!, $7; Nov. 30: 9:30 p.m., Calamity and Main, Darling Clementines, The Bootcuts, $8; Dec. 1: 9:30 p.m., Naked Barbies, Penelope Houston, $8; All ages. 856 San Pablo Ave., Albany, 528-2878.
Eli's Mile High Club Every Friday, 10 p.m. Funky Fridays Conscious Dance Party with KPFA DJs Splif Skankin and Funky Man. $10; Nov. 23: Junior Morrow; Nov. 24: Jimmy Dewrance; Nov. 30: Scott Duncan; Dec. 1: J.J. Malone; Doors open at 8 p.m. unless noted. 3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland. 655-6661
Freight & Salvage Coffee House Nov. 26: Ellen Robinson; Nov. 28: Wake the Dead; Nov. 29: Judith Kate Friedman and Deborah Pardes; Nov. 30: Odile Lavault and Baguette Quartette; Dec. 1: Geoff Muldaur w/ Fritz Richmond; Dec. 2: Kaila Flexer's Fieldharmonik; Dec. 5: Avalon Blues: Peter Case, Dave Alvin and Bill Morrissey; Dec. 6: Ray Bonneville; Dec. 7 & 8: Rebecca Riots; All shows begin 8 p.m., 1111 Addison St. Call 548-1761 for prices or see www.freightandsalvage.org.
The Minnow Nov. 29: 10 p.m., Jolly!, Good For You, Grain USA, Plan to Pink; Nov. 30: Sedadora, Six Eye Columbia, Betty Expedition, The Clarendon Hills; Dec. 1: Replicator, Fluke Starbucker, Baby Carrot, The Len Brown Society; All shows $6. 1700 Clement Ave., Alameda.
iMusicast Nov. 30: 6 - 11 p.m., Applesaucer, The Plus Ones, Cutlass Supreme, Salem Lights, Short Wave Rocket, One Step Shift; Dec. 1: 6 - 11 p.m., One Time Angels, The Influents, The Frisk, Fetish, The Locals, $8; All ages. 5429 Telegraph Ave. 601-1024, www.imusicast.com.
Chilean dance ensemble Araucaria, Andean music troupe Viento, Venezuelan Music Project; . La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568, http:/www.lapena.org.
Jazzschool/La Note Dec. 9: 4:30 p.m., Rhiannon with Bowl Full of Sound, $6 - $12, reservations recommended. 2377 Shattuck Ave. 845-5373 www.jazzschool.com
Jupiter Dec. 1: Will Bernard Trio; Dec. 5: J Dogs; Dec. 6: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 7: AVI Bortnick Group; Dec. 8: Harvey Wainapel Quartet; Dec. 12: Mushroom; Dec. 13: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 14: Broun Fellini's; Dec. 15: Norah Jones and Jim Campilongo; Dec. 19: Spectraphonic; Dec. 20: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 21: Crater; Dec. 22: Post Junk Trio; Dec. 27: Joshi Marshal Project; Dec. 29: Berkeley Jazz School Presents: Kirk Tamura Trio; All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. 2181 Shattuck Ave., 843-7625, www.jupiterbeer.com.
La Peña Nov. 30 & Dec. 1: 8 p.m., ¡Viva el Carnival! $12-$14; Dec. 7: 8:30 p.m., John Calloway & Diaspora, $12; Dec. 8: 9:30 p.m., Dr. Loco's Rocking Jalapeño Band, $10; Dec. 9: 3:30 p.m, Café Domingo de Rumba, Free; Dec. 9: 7:30 p.m., Trio Altamira Reunion Concert, $12-$14; Dec. 14: 8 p.m., Holly Near, $15-$17; Dec. 16: 5 p.m, Flamenca Community Juerga, Free; Dec. 16: 7 p.m, Modupue & UpSurge, $8; Dec. 23: 3:30 p.m, Café Domingo de Rumba, Free; La Peña, 3105 Shattuck Ave. 849-2568, www.lapena.org
"Music on Telegraph" Dec. 1: Scrambled Samba Trio, Ann's Kitchen, 2498 Telegraph Ave.; Dec. 2: Paul and Jill Janoff, Musical Offering, 2430 Bancroft; Dec. 8: Jonah Minton Quartet, Julie's Healthy Cafe, 2562 Bancroft; Dec. 9: Hebro, Blakes, 2367 Telegraph Ave.; Dec. 15: Thelonious On The Move, Bison Brewing, 2598 Telegraph Ave.; Dec. 16: Howard Kadis, Musical Offering Cafe, 2430 Bancroft; Dec. 22: Kaz Sasaki Duo, Blackberry Ginger, 2520 Durant; Dec. 23: Almadecor, Ann's Kitchen, 2498 Telegraph Ave.; All shows 2 - 4 p.m., Free.
Rose Street House Dec. 1: 8 p.m., Acapella Night - Making Waves, Solstice, Out on a Clef, $5 - $20; Dec. 14 & 15: 7:30 p.m., Benefit Concert and Birthday Party, Shelly Doty and grassroots community of women singers and song writers; Dec. 25: 3 p.m., Annual "Dykelah Escape-from-you-know-what-day Musical Extravaganza!"; 1839 Rose St. 594-4000 x687, email@example.com.
Starry Plough Nov. 28: 8:30 p.m., bEASTfest Invitational Poetry Slam, $5; Nov. 29: 9:30 p.m., The Moore Brothers, Yuji Oniki, BArt Davenport, $8; Nov. 30: 9:30 p.m., The Kirby Grips, Dealership, Bitesize, The Blast Rocks, (all ages show) $8; Dec. 1: 9:30 p.m., Mark Growden's Electric Pinata, Ramona the Pest, Film School; 3101 Shattuck Ave.
Stork Club Nov. 29: 10 p.m., Mega-Mousse, Base LIne Dada, Meeshee, Mike Boner, $7; Nov. 30: 9 p.m., Love Kills Love, Three Years Down, Jack Killed Jill, October Allied, Eddie Haskells, $6; Dec. 1: 10 p.m., Anticon, Kevin Blechdom, Bevin Blectum, The Silents, $10; Dec. 2: 8 p.m., Corsciana, The Mass, Modular Set, Spore Attic, $5; 2330 Telegraph Ave., Oakland.
ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series Dec. 2: 8 p.m., Lesli Dalaba , Aaron Bennett, $0 - $20; Tuva Space, 3192 Adeline St., http://sfsound.org/acme.html.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra presents "Bach's Mass in B Minor" Dec. 1, 8 p.m., Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, Dana and Durant. Guest conductor Andrew Parrott. $34 - $50. 415-392-4400, www.philharmonia.org.
Mike Vax Jazz Orchestra with Lennie Niehaus Dec. 2: 2 p.m., $18. Longfellow School of the Arts, 1500 Derby St. 420-4560, www.bigbandjazz.net
"Guitar, Woodwinds, Drums" Dec. 8: 8 p.m., The Bill Horvitz Band, Ben Goldberg's What Music. Tuva Space, 3192 Adeline St.
"Uncle Vanya" Nov. 23 through Nov. 29: Thurs.-Sat. 8 p.m.; Sun. Nov. 25, 7 p.m. Subterranean Shakespeare's production of Jean-Claude van Italie's humorous translation of Anton Chekhov's romantic masterpiece. Directed by Diane Jackson. Benefits the Forests Forever Foundation. $8-$14. La Val's Subterranean Theatre, 1834 Euclid. 234-6046, www.subshakes.com
"Goddesses" Nov. 30 through Dec. 1: Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 7 p.m. A sensuous and humorous drama concerning one mortal woman's struggle to control the six extraordinary goddesses in her psyche. Written by Dorotea Reyna. $10. Mils College, Lisser Hall, 5900 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland 883-0536, firstname.lastname@example.com
"Saint Joan" Through Dec. 2: Wed. - Sat. 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m., 7 p.m. George Bernard Shaw's epic of a young girl determined to drive the English out of France with only her faith to support her. Directed by Barbara Oliver. $26-35. Aurora Theatre Company, 2081 Addison St. 843-4822 www.auroratheatre.org
"Seventy Scenes of Halloween" Nov. 30 & Dec. 7: 8 p.m.; Dec. 1 & 8: 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m.; Dec. 2 & 9: 7 p.m.; BareStage Productions, UC Berkeley's original student theater company, presents a macbre farce written by Jeffrey M. Jones and directed by Desdemona Chiang. $8. UC Berkeley, Choral Rehearsal Hall. 682-3880, firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Brave Brood" Through Dec. 16: Robert O'Hara directs Robert O'Hara's searing tale of money, desperation, and the fight for survival. $20. Transparent Theater, 1901 Ashby Ave. 883-0305 www.transparenttheater.org
"Black Nativity" Dec. 7 through Dec. 16th: Fri. 8 p.m., Sat. 2:30 p.m., 8 p.m., Sun. 5:30 p.m. The birth of Jesus unfolds in this drama written by Langston Hughes. Directed and produced by Betty Gadling. $15 adults, $8 seniors and students, $5 children over 5. Allen Temple Baptist Church, 8501 International Blvd., Oakland 569-9418 www.allen-temple.org
"Much Ado About Nothing" Through Jan. 8: Check theater for specific dates and times. Shakespeare's classic romantic comedy chronicles a handful of soldiers returning from a winning battle to be greeted by a gaggle of giddy maidens. Directed by Brian Kulick. $10 - $54. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St. 647-2949 www.berkeleyrep.org
"Murder Dressed in Satin" by Victor Lawhorn, ongoing. A mystery-comedy dinner show at The Madison about a murder at the home of Satin Moray, a club owner and self-proclaimed socialite with a scarlet past. Dinner is included in the price of the theater ticket. $47.50 Lake Merritt Hotel, 1800 Madison St., Oakland. 239-2252 www.acteva.com/go/havefun
Pacific Film Archive Theater Nov. 30: 7:30 p.m., Werckmeister Harmonies; Dec. 6: 7 p.m., Bizarre, Bizarre; 8:50 p.m., The Green Man; Dec. 7: 7 p.m., Smiles of a Summer Night; 9:05 p.m., Cluny Brown; Bancroft Way, 642-1124 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
"2001 James D. Phelan Art Awards in Printmaking" Honorees: Bridget Henry, David Kelso, and Margaret Van Patten. Through Nov. 30 Tues. - Fri. noon - 5 p.m., other times by appointment. Kala Art Institue, 1060 Heinz Ave. 549-2977 www.kala.org
"Furniture Art" Through Dec. 7: An exhibit of metal and wood furniture that revisits furniture not only as art but as craft. 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. The Current Gallery at the Crucible, 1036 Ashby Ave. 843-5511 www.thecrucible.org
"The Paintings of Bethany Anne Ayers and Sculpture of Alexander Cheves" Nov. 15 through Dec. 15: Tues. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Ardency Gallery, 709 roadway, Oakland. 836-0831 email@example.com
"The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s and 1970s" Through Dec. 16: A documentary photo exhibition which examines the rich history of the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Wed. - Sun., noon - 5 p.m. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St., Live Oak Park. Free. 644-6893
"Matrix 195" Through Jan. 13: German artist, Thomas Scheibitz's, first solo museum exhibition in the United States showcases semi-abstract representations of everyday objects and landscapes. Wed., Fri. - Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. $3-$6. Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2626 Bancroft Way, 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
GTU Exhibit: "Holocaust Series" by Cleve Gray Through Jan. 25: Comprised of 21 works on paper that constitute "a catharsis... for all of humanity." Mon. - Thurs. 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 p.m., Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sun. noon - 7 p.m.; Free. Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Rd. 649-2541 www.gtu.edu
"Enduring Wisdom: Artwork and Stories by Homeless and Formerly Homeless Seniors" Through Feb. 15: 18 homeless and formerly homeless elders reveal how they learned and applied wisdom that is timeless. Mon. - Fri. and Sundays 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Reception and presentation by the elders Thurs. Nov. 15, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Free. St. Mary's Center, 635 22nd St., Oakland, 893-4723 x222
"The Art History Museum of Berkeley" Masterworks by Guy Colwell Faithful copies of several artists from the pasts, including Titian's "The Venus of Urbino," Cezanne's "Still Life," Picasso's "Woman at a Mirror," and Botticelli's "Primavera" Ongoing. Call ahead for hours. Atelier 9 2028 Ninth St. 841-4210 or visit www.atelier9.com
Cody's on Telegraph Ave. Nov. 28: 7:30 p.m. David Meltzer and contributors read from his newly revised and re-released collection of interviews with Bay Area Beat Poets; 2454 Telegraph Ave. 845-7852
Coffee With A Beat - Word Beat reading series: Dec. 1: Adam David Miller, Dennis Richards; Dec. 8: Jeanne Powell, Kelly Kraatz; Dec. 15: Norm Milstein, Barbara Minton; Dec. 22: Debra Grace Khattab, Jesy Goldhammer; Dec. 29: Steve Arntson, Michelle Erickson, Clare Lewis; All readings are free and begin at 7 p.m., 458 Perkins, Oakland, 526-5985, www.angelfire.com/poetry/wordbeat.
The Humanist Fellowship Hall Dec. 5: 7 p.m., "Our Wings Are Pregnant Seesaws" a play by H. D. Moe. A reading performance by the theatre workshop. 390 27th St., Oakland, 528-8713
"Rhythm & Muse Open Mic" Dec. 15: 7 p.m., Featuring poets Lara Dale and Mary-Marcia Casoly. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St. 527-9753
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fridays 9:30 - 11:45 a.m. or by appointment. Call ahead to make reservations. Free. University of California, Berkeley. 486-4387
Golden Gate Live Steamers Grizzly Peak Boulevard and Lomas Cantadas Drive at the south end of Tilden Regional Park Small locomotives, meticulously scaled to size. Trains run Sun., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rides: Sun., noon to 3 p.m., weather permitting. 486-0623
Habitot Children's Museum "Back to the Farm" An interactive exhibit gives children the chance to wiggle through tunnels, look into a mirrored fish pond, don farm animal costumes, ride on a John Deere tractor and more. "Recycling Center" Lets the kids crank the conveyor belt to sort cans, plastic bottles and newspaper bundles into dumpster bins; Nov. 3: Tales from the Enchanted Forest, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.; Nov. 9: Living with the Earth; Nov. 17: Recycle that Stuff; $4 adults; $6 children age 7 and under; $3 for each additional child age 7 and under. Mon. and Wed., 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Tues. and Fri., 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thur., 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 2065 Kittredge St. 647-1111 or www.habitot.org
Oakland Museum of California Through Nov. 25: Pasajes y Encuentros: Ofrendas for the Days of the Dead, highlights three thematic "passageways" that connect the dead with the living: tradition, humor and spirit; Dec. 8 & 9: 32nd Annual Bay Area Fungus Fair, the world of the mushroom will be explored in exhibits, lectures, slide shows, cooking demos, etc.. Through Jan. 13: Grand Lyricist: The Art of Elmer Bischoff, featuring paintings and works on paper that trace the evolution of Bischoff's career. $6 adults, $4 seniors and students, free for children under 5. Wed. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sun. noon - 5 p.m., 10th St., Oakland, 888-625-6873/ www.museumca.org
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Lobby, Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley "Tyrannosaurus Rex," ongoing. A 20 foot by 40 foot replica of the fearsome dinosaur made from casts of bones of the most complete T. Rex skeleton yet excavated. When unearthed in Montana, the bones were all lying in place with only a small piece of the tailbone missing. "Pteranodon" A suspended skeleton of a flying reptile with a wingspan of 22-23 feet. The Pteranodon lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. Free. Mon. through Fri., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat. and Sun., 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. 642-1821
UC Berkeley Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology will close its exhibition galleries for renovation. It will reopen in early 2002.
University of California Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive has reopened after its summerlong seismic retrofit. "Martin Puryear: Sculpture of the 1990s" through Jan. 13; "The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951 - 1982)" through Dec. 16; "Face of Buddha: Sculpture from India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia" ongoing rotation through 2003; "Matrix 194: Jessica Bronson, Heaps, layers, and curls" Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; "Matrix 192: Ceal Floyer 37'4"" Sept. 16 through Nov. 11; Wed., Fri., Sat., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Thur. 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., PFA Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way; Museum Galleries 2626 Bancroft Way; 642-0808 www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Lawrence Hall of Science Through Jan. 26: Scream Machines: The Science of Roller Coasters; "Within the Human Brain," ongoing. Visitors test their cranial nerves, play skeeball, master mazes, match musical tones and construct stories inside a simulated "rat cage" of learning experiments. "Saturday Night Stargazing," First and third Saturdays each month. 8 - 10 p.m., LHS plaza. Saturdays 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. $7 for adults; $5 for children 5-18; $3 for children 3-4. 642-5132
Holt Planetarium Programs are recommended for age 8 and up; children under age 6 will not be admitted. $2 in addition to regular museum admission. "Constellations Tonight" Ongoing. Using a simple star map, learn to identify the most prominent constellations for the season in the planetarium sky. Daily, 3:30 p.m. $7 general; $5 seniors, students, disabled, and youths age 7 to 18; $3 children age 3 to 5 ; free children age 2 and younger. Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Centennial Drive, UC Berkeley 642-5132 or www.lhs.berkeley.edu
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Strawberry Charlotte
Charlotte are a classic French desserts composed of a mold of liqueur-soaked ladyfingers surrounding a rich Bavarian cream or mousse filling. This one combines a suave kirsch-and strawberry spiked white chocolate mousse with fresh, ripe strawberries. You could think of this charlotte as a sort of strawberry shortcake… if strawberry shortcake spent a year in Paris and came back unrecognizably glamorous!


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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was in Baltimore on Friday to settle a bet he made with the city's mayor on the outcome of the Super Bowl game between the 49ers and Ravens in February.
Lee agreed on a friendly wager with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ahead of the big game in New Orleans on Feb. 3, in which the 49ers fell 34-31.
As the losing mayor, Lee visited the winning city and started his day cooking Maryland blue crabs at Faidley's Seafood at Lexington Market.
Rawlings-Blake then hosted Lee in a day of service.
The mayors attended a kick-off revitalization event at a vacant lot with Baltimore-based organization Power in Dirt and AmeriCorps, which is a federal community service agency.
Other events scheduled for the day were a repair of a police station, and a tutoring session with the city initiative, "Third Grade Reads," which trains volunteers to be reading tutors for first-, second-, and third-graders who are reading below grade level.
(Report courtesy of Bay Area News)


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We, the citizens of our nation and of our Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act to preserve and protect the future of humanity as well as Earth's other animal and biological life.
Based on abundant scientific evidence, we recognize that our global climate is rapidly warming and becoming increasingly unstable due to human-caused atmospheric carbon pollution primarily at this time from the burning of fossil fuels.
We also recognize that in spite of 35 years of credible scientific warnings, global warming is still rising and is now at dangerous levels!
We have already seen global warming-aggravated weather, like record-breaking floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. We have witnessed the "worst in centuries" droughts and dust storms. We have experienced alternating unseasonably cold then warm winters, extreme storms, bomb cyclones, and rain bombs where weeks or months' worth of rain falls in a few hours or a few days.
With our own eyes, we see that something very abnormal is happening to the previous stability of our normal weather and seasonal patterns. We have also noticed that global warming connected consequences (like those just mentioned,) are becoming more frequent, more severe, and are affecting larger and larger areas!
We recognize that if we do not immediately and radically reduce our global fossil fuel burning behaviors before additional global warming tipping points are crossed, the destabilization of our global climate will continue at even faster rates causing among other things, unprecedented crop failures and unthinkable mass starvation.
Our brightest climate scientists have determined that if we do not meet or come very close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets (found here,) we will face a massive extinction event where most of humanity will die by mid-century. Unsurprisingly, escalating global warming will not only affect humanity's survival possibilities. It also presents an equally grave and ever-increasing extinction threat to animals and other biological species as well.
Rising global warming has already become the 21st century's single greatest disruptor of economic, political, social, and biological stability. It will also act to amplify our other largest global problems.
If we fail to make the life-critical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, escalating global warming will also become all but out of our control.
No one is ultimately safe from this global warming extinction emergency. Global warming consequences are already affecting millions in many areas of the world. Many individuals and businesses are already being forced to deal with escalating catastrophes, food and resource depletion, and the mass migration of desperate climagees (climate migrants.) In the not too distant future, global warming catastrophes will be affecting hundreds of millions then billions of individuals everywhere on Earth!
We now face a world in which rising global warming can cause mass human extinction and create increasing social, economic, and political chaos, not sometime near 2100, but as soon as the next 3-5 decades.
Worse yet, as our average global temperatures continue to rise, the world's other major and critical social, economic and political challenges (see * list below) will also worsen, amplify each other and cross-react with each other and the 11 critical global warming tipping points (found here.)
Our largest global challenges (other than the global warming consequences and immediate global nuclear war or nuclear or biological terrorism) that will both interact with each other and likely continue to worsen as global warming gets worse are:
1. global economic instabilities are leading to reoccurring national and global recessions or depressions. (These are fueled by existing economic weaknesses, lack of financial reserves and resilience, and unexpected major unexpected shocks or events (like COVID-19,) hitting the global markets and financial systems.
2. an ever-rising over-population (Earth has the carrying capacity for about 1 1/2 - 2 billion people. (Please click this carrying capacity link to understand why this overpopulation challenge is so big and bad.) Currently, we are near 8 billion people adding about 130 million additional people each year racing to 9.4 billion by or before 2050.
Over the next 30 years, our population is projected to rise as high as 10-13 billion. One could also ultimately say that overpopulation and its inherent over-consumption beyond our carrying capacity is the major cause behind today's global warming emergency and most of the world's other critical global challenges.
3. rising global resource depletion; caused by overpopulation, toxic pollution of water, lands, and air, crop failures, overfishing, topsoil loss, resource distribution injustice, and the massive overconsumption and waste of finite resources. Global resource depletion will significantly increase food shortages and soaring food prices leading to more starvation and mass migrations. If you do not believe that massive resource depletion and overshoot is a huge soon-arriving problem? Watch this fantastic overshoot video with great graphics and global resource depletion amounts and time frames in simple illustrations by Hugh Montgomery, a noted English professor. (We strongly recommend you watch this video for all of the food and non-food resources that are in accelerating depletion peril. [Forward the video to the 10 minutes and 30-second mark to begin watching Hugh Montgomery's compelling graphic presentation.])
4. escalating pollution of all kinds; ongoing and accelerating pollution kills crops, fish stocks, and poisons our air creating and accelerating all types of global health, social, and economic problems.
5. loss of biodiversity, (due to ongoing and accelerating loss of natural habitat due to overpopulation, global warming, pollution, etc.)
6. growing economic inequality, injustice, and poverty. (This also will significantly increase food shortages and soaring food prices leading to more starvation and migrations. Today less than 1% of the world's population owns more than 50% of all wealth. Over for the last several decades, this ownership percentage continues to grow continually in favor of the wealthy.)
7. escalating regional and international terrorism, conflicts, and war. These conflicts are caused by global warming, and most of the other global challenges listed here getting worse. While COVID-19 has temporarily slowed global conflicts, expect these conflicts to increase in intensity, frequency, and scale once COVID-19 is brought under control. The world then still faces all of the other nonglobal warming challenges on this page getting worse and being mostly unresolved.
8. Escalating mass migrations. Global warming, political and economic instability, increasing terrorism, conflicts, and war plus many of these other listed global challenges will both create and expand sudden, massive migrations of millions, then billions of people. Before 2030 the world will see hundreds of millions of climagees.
9. a rising new COVID-19 like pandemic probability reoccurring every decade along with other disease epidemics (due to the melting of the permafrost, loss of natural animal habitat, eating more wild animals, overcrowding, less resilient health systems, the other challenges and consequences listed on this page, like mass migrations,)
10. political instability and collapse, fueled by existing internal and external conflicts, deficits, and the failed global challenges listed on this page. Poorly managed nations with weak economies will fall first. In 2020 we already see many countries on the verge of economic or political collapse.
11. Failing to evolve effective global governance with the needed legislative, judicial, and enforceable executive powers to solve the global challenges that cross national borders. If you think about it carefully, you will discover that the critical evolutionary failure of having no truly effective global governance IS the single biggest reason and core structural cause for why most of our other global challenges have not been resolved or continue to exist. The evolutionary absence of valid global governance alone acts to facilitate, escalate, and enable almost all of the other global challenges that we currently face.
And finally, never forget that rising global warming can further increase the severity, frequency, and scale (size) of the above other global challenges we all now face, making them even harder to resolve!
Despite 35 years of scientific reports as well as 21 International conferences about the near-certain extinction effects of the carbon (and methane,) pollution of our atmosphere, global warming temperatures have both continued to rise and have accelerated to levels that have passed dangerous tipping points.
There is true urgency to this global warming extinction emergency!
Our average global temperature and atmospheric carbon levels are far too close to crossing the near-extinction tipping points.
If we fail to make or get very close to the 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, this extinction emergency becomes a no-win game for everyone, no matter how much money or power they might have and, no matter where they might try to escape to!
Our current global warming extinction emergency can only be resolved by immediately reducing the human-caused production of carbon and other key greenhouse gases produced directly and indirectly from the global burning of fossil fuels.
At this "it is almost already too little too late" moment in history, the necessary fossil fuel use reductions needed to save us can only be achieved by successfully meeting our last chance 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets enforced by our governments!
Please also keep in mind that our government leaders have utterly failed to see the coming pain and suffering of the COVID-19 pandemic, nor did they adequately prepare for it.
Once again, our government leaders are also not seeing or adequately preparing for the global warming extinction emergency, which is already happening and, will be far, far worse than the COVID-19 global pandemic!
Therefore, as global citizens of every nation on Earth, we demand that our national political leaders act now before it is too late to prevent mass human, animal, and biological extinction within our lifetimes and untold suffering!
We demand that our government leaders:
1. Meet immediately to formally declare both a national and international Global Warming Extinction Emergency.
2. Pass enforceable and verifiable national and international laws that would successfully achieve the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets or, at least get us very close to them. (Even getting close to the 2025 targets allow us to slow down what is coming so we can be better prepared.) And,
3. Call for the immediate mass mobilization of ALL the necessary resources and personnel to execute ALL critical actions required to fully resolve our current global warming extinction emergency. (See Part 3 of the Job One for Humanity Plan for a complete list of all critical government-driven actions needed to save the future.)
By electronically signing this petition (in the box below,) I am personally and officially notifying my national politicians of this demand to immediately meet and take all required actions described in this emergency petition in order to protect, preserve, and advance the continuing evolution of humanity and life on Earth.
Furthermore, realizing that most of the worst global warming consequences will take centuries to thousands of years to repair, which will create an unthinkable nightmare for any surviving future generations, I further pledge to continue to act to help resolve this extinction threat and emergency until it is over.
If you have any hesitation about signing this petition, please see this page which discusses the four extinction-evoking global warming tipping points soon arriving!
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Nowadays as recession is becoming the thing of the past, often people come to me and tell me that their salaries should be increased; the company is paying salaries less than the market; or they don't take care of the staff that has spent more years with them and take them for granted. I was a bit surprised on all these statements as I was not hearing them during recession and people were silent so as to keep their jobs safe. At that time no one came and said that company needs money at this time of crisis so we should do x or y thing to help it out. Why?
Well, I don't want to get into that debate, but I just wanted to list down my three thoughts on the questions that are asked to me.
#1 No company can satisfy anyone in terms of salaries. I myself am not satisfied with my current take home and I know it very well that if I make a move to join another competitor who often calls me up, I will easily get atleast 50% or more hike. Whenever you switch jobs, most of the time you get better salary as compared to your current one. So that is not a good argument to get a raise. This is the fact.
#2 Look at the history of the company too. How did it behave during good times? Was everyone given a good raise when the time was ripe? If yes, just wait for the time to be ripe again. When the projects, revenue goes up, you will again be given good share from that.
#3 No company wants to loose its good employees. So if you have a misconception that as you are old so company has started taking you for granted, then you are totally WRONG. If they are not able to retain or increase the salaries, then there might be another thing going in the background that you or me might not be aware of. Apart from salaries, companies often needs to spend X amount of money for growth and sustenance. Spending cannot be more than the earnings. If it is, then they will not be able to sustain and everyone will be jobless. You are and will be always an important member of the organization irrespective of the fact that company is able to retain you or not.
Even if after this people don't understand and don't believe, I think it is better to let them go!


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The Red Sox Are Getting Thrown Into The Dirty Laundry Bag!
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Saturday, March.23/2013
MLB Reports: Welcome to our newest Kids writer Jason Alpert-Wisnia – for being selected to join our MLB Reports Kids Writing team. We are pleased to present the readers with a youthful look to the game of baseball. Moms and Dad's – if you have a young kid who loves baseball and wants to write about the game, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com. We will be selecting three more kid writers for our website this year.
By Jason Alpert-Wisnia (AKA "JAWS"): (MLB Reports Kids Writer – visit his website here )
The Red Sox in the 2011 season were managed by the Luckless Losing manager Bobby Valentine and made them lose with a HORRID and CRAPPY Season Record of 69-93 putting them in last (5th) place in the AL East. They, are guessed to be going on another losing streak and get 5th place in the AL East again.
Youkilis reaction to a question about Bobby Valentine – Returns to Boston:
Projected Boston Red Sox Lineup For 2013: State Of The Union Part 1 – The Hitters
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Sunday, January.06, 2013
By Saul Wisnia, Red Sox Correspondent (Read his blog 'Fenway Reflections' here): Follow @SaulWizz
It has become trendy in recent weeks for experts to declare the Red Sox not only big players during the recent flurry of off-season transactions, but also big winners.
This may be wishful thinking, however, since it's hard to imagine another season as dreadful as the 69-93 last-place debacle of 2012. It's true Boston picked up strong character guys in Shane Victorino and Jonny Gomes, along with a few streaky power-hitter types in Stephen Drew and Mike Napoli. But the revamped Boston lineup still has plenty of uncertainties with spring training a little over a month away.
Let's take a look around the diamond as things currently stand (projected starters in bold):
At First Base – the newcomer Napoli, who can also catch, will likely get the nod provided Boston and his agent come to terms over his contract. Health may be an issue; while Napoli hit HRs last year and 30 in 2011, he's played more than 114 games just once in seven MLB seasons (140 in 2010). Current backup Mauro Gomez was the International League MVP at Pawtucket last summer, but in 102 at-bats with Boston posted only 2 HRs. Mark Hamilton has shown bursts of power in the minors but has hit .197 in two call-ups with St. Louis.
Mike Napoli Highlights from 2012:


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Samsung TL225
The Samsung TL225 boasts two LCDs and a 12.2 megapixel sensor. A 1.5 inch LCD on the front panel offers photographers the chance to line up a self-portrait without missing the mark, and the 3.5 inch LCD on the back panel features a high 1,152K resolution.
- Dual LCD technology
- Haptic touch screen
- Slim form factor
- Uses MicroSD only
- Poor at mid-to-high ISO
- Slow image buffer
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I haven't owned a beautiful leather journal since my daughter bought me one for my birthday in 1991, or I bought myself the Charing Cross with pencil (pencil now lost) in 1990.
|Bottom to top: leather journal 5x7; Charing Cross; Pelle Burnt Cognac 3x5
I still have the Charing Cross in the right hand drawer of my desk. It contains several notes I've not wanted to transfer elsewhere. It feels as decadently wonderful today as it did the day I bought it in Wayland Square, Providence, Rhode Island twenty years ago.
It is my hope that the Pelle journal in Burnt Cognac will prove as memorable. It already seems like a small treasure to both touch and admire.
|Pelle Burnt Cognac journal 3x5
Not since I received the Canteo journal has the packaging itself been something to rave about. In cello, in a linen or muslin bag and in a flip carton with some simple instructions, and two elastics--one in a beautiful shade of lime and the second in a dark, but matching brown. Then voila: the journal.
I tested four pens, three fountain pens and one roller ball. The three fountain pens are a Reform with a narrow fine and Noodler's Violet Vote ink; Noodler's Ahab with Rohrer & Klingman Bordeaux ink; the Namiki Falcon Resin housing a soft fine with Noodler's Kung Te Cheng ink, and finally one of my favourite on the go roller balls, the Rotring Tikky (available at Jet Pens).
All of the pens were used normally, and there was only a trace of a shadow on the plain paper. Refill inserts are available in plain, lined, grid and drawing at Pelle or Jet Pens.
Jet Pens has been carrying the Pelle for quite sometime, and recently had an exclusive interview with Andy Park , founder of Pelle Inc. And Office Supply Geek did a great job posting photographs, something I am struggling with now as my camera appears to be more and more uncooperative.
Disclosure: This small Burnt Cognac Pelle was supplied by the manufacturer; however, the review is as unbiased as a user can be.


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New York is the greatest city in the world. As a boy growing up in the suburbs of Seattle, visiting NYC terrified me. Back then, I was very concerned with cleanliness, and that subway forced me to experience my definition of dirty. Tons of sweaty people crammed together, the force of the train constantly pushing them far closer than any strangers should be…it wasn't for me.
Now that I am older and I laugh in the face of hypothetical subway germs, I see New York for what it truly is: a paradise for anyone interested in anything, as long as they are willing to travel for it. For me, New York is a food paradise. And what food do I crave while on vacation?....and at all other times in my life? Baked goods! Well, also cheesecake, chocolate, and tons of non-dessert things, but still. I traveled around Brooklyn and Manhattan for five hours with 40 pounds of luggage on my back and in my hands searching for cookies, cakes, and whatever else I could get my hungry hands on. When I finally made it to my cousins' home in Pelham Manor, my shoulders and arms were about to give out on me and all I had eaten for hours was a giant chocolate chip cookie. I saved the other stuff so I could document everything I bought. At least, the stuff that wasn't crushed during my journey.
The first place I went was Jacques Torres in DUMBO. I got myself a nice bag of his chocolate disks and one of his famous giant chocolate chip cookies. Warm and gooey, the cookie was pretty great. But the homemade version of the same cookie that I wrote about a few weeks ago is much better.
Next I walked down the street to another bakery called One Girl Cookies. I got my first whoopie pie ever and an assortment of little cookies. Pure deliciousness. I am now a fan of whoopie pies for their delicious frosting and their soft, cakey consistency. The little cookies were each pretty great as well, but none really stood out.
I next stopped in lower Manhattan at Financier Patisserie. Regrettably, I failed to take a picture of the cookie/chocolate/pecan thing that I bought and have no idea what it was. Still, it was excellent and I have a strong desire to return to this bakery for more.
The last stop on my trip was La Maison Du Chocolat, which was by far the most expensive of the places I visited. I bought three dark chocolates, each considered a praline for the nuts inside, a piece of their chocolate almond cake "Pleyel," and a piece of their "Bresilien Pastry." The Anastasia and Figaro chocolates were good, but may not have been worth the $2.25 they each cost. They do give out a free chocolate when you buy enough stuff, so that very slightly softens the blow. The Jolika, however, was awesome. If you like pistachio, you will absolutely adore this.
The pleyel had an excellent, extremely light and cakey texture, but was less chocolatey than the last time I had it. The Bresilien Pastry was only okay, possibly due in part to it being a little smooshed when I finally got to it, but I wouldn't buy it again. It was more cream and less pastry than I expected and the mocha flavor overpowered all the others. All in all though, this awesomely decadent Black Friday perfectly complimented the best Thanksgiving ever.


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Sesquicentennial Tour to Norway Planned for June 2011
In honor of its 150th anniversary, Augustana is organizing a trip to Norway for alumni and friends. The trip is planned for June 2-12, 2011. Reservations must be made by Jan. 28, 2011.
Vikings Finish 2010 Ranked No. 6, Tied for Highest in School History
Augustana's No. 6 slot in the final American Football Coaches Association poll ties the Vikings for their highest ranking in school history. Augustana finished the 2010 season 11-2 and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals
New Report Names Augustana Among '25 That Stand Out'
In a new report by the Sioux Falls Business Journal, Augustana College is listed among 25 local businesses that stand out. The report outlines how the College's efforts to develop relationships with area businesses translates to internship and career opportunities for students.
Augustana Choir to Perform Five Concerts on Midwest Tour
The Augustana Choir, whose 'Song of Luke' performance will be featured on South Dakota Public Television on Dec. 24 and 25, will perform concerts in Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota during its 2011 Interim Tour.
Farewell Concert to Precede Band's Egyptian Tour
Before they depart on a five-concert, 20-day tour of Egypt, members of the internationally-renowned Augustana Band will perform a special farewell concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 7, at the Brandon Valley Performing Arts Center.
Aldrich Named Finalist for Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year
Following Augustana's best football season in school history, Vikings head coach Mike Aldrich has been named one of five Division II finalists for the 2010 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award.
Wright Discusses Economic Challenges
America is "Dying by Degrees" thanks to economic FUBARs in healthcare, Social Security and construction, according to Dr. Robert Wright, Nef Family chair of Political Economy at Augustana and director of the new Thomas Willing Institute for the Study of Financial Markets, Institutions, and Regulations.
Chapel of Reconciliation Dedicates New Banner
A new navy, blue and gold-colored banner, designed by senior Brady Holm of Fairmont, Minn., was officially dedicated at a ceremony in Augustana's Chapel of Reconciliation last week.
Vikings Ranked 17th in Learfield Sports Directors' Cup Standings
Behind a record-setting men's cross country season, an historic football run and strong finishes in other fall sports, Augustana is the only school within the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) to be ranked in the top 25.
Augustana, Museum of American Finance Launch Research Institute
The Thomas Willing Institute for the Study of Financial Markets, Institutions and Regulations will fund and support student research fellowships and educational outreach programs and will feature public and Internet speaking engagements.


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Splash News Online
It's common knowledge that the Beckhams are a fashionable family.
But as much as we love to see David and Victoria's kids dressed-up, it's their everyday style that really puts a smile on our face.
Case in point: we spotted Romeo, 10 , and Cruz, 8, grabbing lunch at In-n-Out Burger in North Hollywood on May 30 and the handsome brothers were rocking cool concert tees.
Romeo paired a Nirvana Smiley T-Shirt ($19 – $29) with brown cords and gray sneakers, while Cruz wore a Ramones Presidential Seal T-shirt ($38) with gray plaid shorts and white sneakers.
Even cuter? Their older brother, Brooklyn, 14, bringing up the rear holding little sister, Harper, 2.


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I know it's not schizophrenic, but that sounds better. It's really a split personality.
I wrote recently about Windows 8 and what I consider to be poor design in the update system. Today I want to look at another aspect that troubles me.
I've gotten used to the taskbar and finding the applications I need. I actually pin 12 applications to my bar because I use them on a daily basis and it's much easier to start them from the task bar.
I actually have gotten used to finding applications (other than Windows Update) on the Start Screen by typing the name. I know this worked in Windows 7, and I should always have been doing this, but the design of Win 8 actually forced me to get in the habit of hitting the Windows key and then typing the first 3-5 characters of the application name.
In any case, here's my taskbar.
I'm running a number of apps, almost all of these are active. If I hover the mouse over any of them, I can find them. It's no four-finger up swipe in OSX, but it works very well for finding stuff.
Most stuff.
I actually was running the Mail app in Windows a minute ago, however it's not on my taskbar. I have to do one of a few things to find it. I can put my mouse in the upper left corner, and I'll see it as thumbnail.
I an alt+tab through my list of stuff and find it there, but that's slow. I'd also say hovering I the upper left corner to be slow (to me).
I also had the People app running. That's in my alt+tab list, but quite by accident I realized that if I hover my mouse in the upper left and then move it slightly down, I get this:
A list of the running metro-style applications.
Now I have two task bars. One at the bottom of both my monitors (it's duplicated) and a separate one on the left side of my screen (either one), if I correctly move my mouse along the left side of the screen. I don't always do it correctly, and so switching to the metro apps becomes a little dicey at times, usually slow, and occasionally maddening.
I thought we learned a long time ago that two separate menus was poor design.
I don't mind the idea of the left hand bar. It's fine, and if it's ergonomically better, great. Get people to move that way. However make sure you've integrated into the taskbar at the same time. Don't give me two places that do the same thing for different items. Give me consistency.


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Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399
e-mail: streiber@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Sahra Talamo
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Evolution
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: 0049 (0) 341 3550 355
fax: 0049 (0) 341 3550 399
e-mail: sahra.talamo@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
I am a post-doctoral researcher in Radiocarbon dating at MPI-EVA. During my thirteen year career I have been strongly involved both in methodological development and application of AMS 14C. I completed my PhD dissertation in Archaeology in July 2012, entitled: "Refining 14C dating of bone >30,000 BP: Establishing an accurate chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France", at the University of Leiden/MPI-EVA.
In my current position I actively seek new dating projects from both MUP and Holocene sites. I supervise the extraction of collagen and the graphitization. Since 2010 I have been collaborating mainly with the MICADAS AMS facility in Mannheim, directed by B. Kromer (firstname.lastname@example.com), and I am responsible for the analysis and evaluation of the AMS dates. Using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian modeling I develop accurate chronologies focusing in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic period. I also participate in excavations where I have been responsible for instigating the dating project and the subsequent sample selection, mainly in Central and Southern Europe.
Previous to my PhD I was already involved in various aspects of radiocarbon research. From 2002-2007 I was employed as a researcher at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences) under the direction of Dr. Bernd Kromer. My main project was to obtain high-precision 14C dates on tree-ring chronologies for 14C calibration and dating of key sites in Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean. I was involved in several projects (Roman Gap Project and Eastern Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison project (EMRCP)) to close gaps in Mediterranean tree ring chronologies between the Medieval and Iron /Bronze Ages using wiggle matching, and to study regional differences in radiocarbon between Aegean and Central Europe.
Through these projects I became a member of the IntCal working group to create the IntCal04 calibration data set. The final part of my scientific work (2005-2007) in Heidelberg was dedicated to an ESF Project in the EuroClimate program, where the focus was to extend the tree-ring based radiocarbon calibration into the Late Glacial and to study climate events in this time range. My responsibility, in addition to the lab work, was to organize fieldwork (in Romania, Hungary, Italy and France) to find subfossil trees and to coordinate the communication between the radiocarbon labs and the tree ring labs. The result of this work was a major contribution to the IntCal09 and IntCal13 calibration data set.


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Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is among the most prolific filmmakers working, and tomorrow he unveils his sixth film since the start of 2010, "Magic Trip," co-directed by longtime collaborator Allison Ellwood. Using footage and audio recordings by the actual participants, the film recreates the cross-country journey taken "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, a journey that helped lay the foundation for the '60s counter-culture.
We recently visited with Gibney, to talk about how the project came about, the challenges of reconstructing history and LSD trips, and Kesey's own brand of patriotism.
PB: Did this project come to you, or did you go to it?
AG: We went to it. Alison and I were on a plane on the way to Sundance for "Enron" and we read this article in the New Yorker written by Robert Stone, who'd been on the bus briefly, and he talked about this footage, this 16 millimeter footage that existed of that trip and I thought, 'Wow that would be great.' So we went out and raised money and bought the rights to the footage.
PB: What kind of condition was the footage in?
AG: It was all over the place. A lot of it was up at the barn, the Kesey barn, some of it was very badly damaged. It had been cut up. Some of it had been lost, but there were some video masters that still existed, so we persuaded, we got help from [Martin] Scorsese's The Film Foundation, so when History Channel came on board, they also helped us with some money for restoration and we persuaded the Kesey family to let UCLA come up to Oregon and take all the materials down to UCLA, where they were methodically catalogued and cleaned and repaired.
PB: So how did you find the focus of the film?
AG: What happened was, I went out to Eugene and I started taking to people, some of the Pranksters. We started to shoot some on-camera interviews. And normally, that process would have continued more aggressively, but it didn't. We just felt that those on-camera interviews intercut with the footage didn't feel right at all. It felt like it was pulling you out of the moment. And then we found these audiotapes of the Pranksters themselves talking about the bus trip, not too long after the bus trip. We gathered those and that was like the key to making in happen.
PB: I would assume that it benefited the film immensely to not have the Pranksters trying to reconstruct history 50 years later.
AG: Correct. And that was one of the problems we found once we started to interview them, is that, very often their recollections had become myth.
PB: This is a somewhat personal question if you want to take a pass. Have you ever done LSD?
AG: Yeah, sure.
PB: 'Cause your rendition of it is pretty good.
AG: I think it seems pretty accurate.
PB: I don't want to get too deep into my own past, but it spoke to me on a certain level.
AG: We were very concerned about that, that was another concern. When we showed this film to the crowd in Eugene, we were terrified to know what they would think of the trip sequences. But we got the thumbs up, the Good Housekeeping seal of hallucinogen approval.
PB: Watching this footage (of the Trip), you must have developed some sort of personal feelings for these people. Are there any people that really struck you as someone you'd love to spend a cross-country bus trip with?
AG: I would have loved to have spent time with Kesey. He was just really a tremendously charismatic and exciting and interesting character. I mean, he's the guy. Frankly, it's interesting, watching that footage, some of the bus trip just looks exhausting and pretty difficult. And some of those things I'm not sure how much fun I would have had... So I'm not sure that would have been so interesting to me, but I think it would have been a pretty magical time. But Kesey— I've since met a bunch of the Pranksters and Kesey's the guy I would have loved to have met.
PB: Would you say that the film offers a fair representation of the amount of drugs and sex that was going on on that bus? And how do you think they maintained their civility in those close quarters under those conditions?
AG: Hard to know. I think particularly the sex is an interesting question. They we're kind of exploring where the 60s, the archetypal 60s as we're gonna come to know them later, did a lot more. I think there was a sense that it was supposed to be OK.
PB: Do you think Kesey had any idea what he was doing? The impact that this might have, the touchstone that it would become?
AG: No. I think he had some sense of how this rather chaotic and sort of playful road trip might fit into a more mythic sensibility that he had, but I think he was also kind of making it up as he went along. And when they got back, you know, they thought they were making a movie and it was gonna be a movie that people were gonna go and see, like "Gone With the Wind."
PB: What turned him off, was he just done with it?
AG: Yeah I think he felt that it had become—it was no longer free, in some ways it was kind of constricting. Kensey was all about freedom. He was a big Meville freak, always thinking about how to explore. And I think at some point, 60s culture became so dominated by fashion and a kind of herd mentality that it no longer felt free for Kesey.
PB: Kesey seemed to display something that was unique and couldn't have existed three years later, I don't think, which was that he was very much having fun with Middle America and sort of goofing on them, but doing so with an immense amount of respect and with very sincere patriotism.
AG: I think that's a very good point. What later became this battle between freaks and straights was very much not what they were doing. Their intent was to lure people out of their bomb shelters, not to thumb their nose and them and say, 'We're doing something cool and you are not.' It was to say, 'Come on out and play with us, have some fun.'
PB: Do you think he considered the journey a success?
AG: Yes. Well, he says in the film, 'My greatest artwork was the bus.' He felt he had created a moment that kind of passed into myth and legend. I think, you talk about if Shakespeare was alive today he wouldn't be using a quill pen - the idea of using the camera and the microphone as a way of capturing something magical was very important to him. That having been said, Kesey could never find a way with those tools to do what he was able to do as a writer. I don't think he ever really understood how to use those tools.
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The Best Surface for Baking Pizza, Part 6: Emile Henry Stone
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Most of the cooking surfaces for pizza have been around for a while. There are a multitude of variations on pizza stones of different thicknesses and different materials. But this stone from Emile Henry has some interesting features.
First, unlike most pizza stones, the Emile Henry stone is glazed. The point of using stone or ceramic instead of metal is that the stone absorbs moisture from the dough, resulting in a crisper crust. So, glazing sounds like a bad idea, right?
According to packaging description, the glaze is "micro-crazed" which sounds a lot like my mental health some days, but it actually means that the glaze has teeny cracks, so the stone can still absorb moisture. I'll take their word for it, since my electron microscope is in the wash. One benefit of the glaze is that it's easier to clean, and even dishwasher safe, if you're so inclined.
Another difference is that this stone is "flameware" which means it can be used on the stovetop. While the pizza stone isn't "recommended" for stovetop use, the instructions say it can be done, if the stone is heated slowly on the largest burner. While that might not be a huge consideration when you're making pizza in your oven, it does open the possibilities for using the stone a little more creatively. For example. you could preheat the stone on the stovetop while something else is in the oven.
The stone is also recommended for use on the grill, and there are recipes for using the stone as a griddle rather than just a baking surface.
The stone has handy "ears" that make it easy to grab, even with oven mitts on. The usable surface is 14 1/4 inches in diameter, and the total width, ear-to-ear, is 16 3/4 inches. For the fashion conscious, the stone comes in several different colors.
Aesthetics aside, how does it perform?
As usual, I preheated the oven at 550 degrees for 1 hour. The temperature at 45 minutes was 525 degrees and at one hour it was 539 degrees. I baked the pizza for exactly 8 minutes and removed the pizza—and stone—from the oven. See, that's where those ears come in handy.
According to the instructions, the stone is perfectly safe to cut on, so I proceeded to cut the pizza. Oddly, no matter which cooking surface I use, the pizza always ends up in squares.
How'd it turn out? The bottom of the pie was mottled brown and very crisp. Of all the cooking surfaces tested so far, this one resulted in the crispest bottom.
If you're cooking several pizzas in sequence, you're probably not going to be taking the stone out of the oven. But if this is a one-pie event, the stone does a nice job of keeping a pizza hot during serving. Up here at high altitude food tends to cool off faster, and my husband noted that this was the first time we've had food that was still hot 15 minutes after serving. The hot stone also kept the crust crisp, and the bits of cheese that oozed onto the stone cooked to nice crispy bits.
I haven't had this stone long enough to discuss durability, and like any clay, ceramic, or natural stone, it could be affected by thermal shock. Otherwise, there's not much downside to this product. It's more expensive than cheap quarry tiles, but in the same ballpark as many other stones. It sells for $50 on Amazon, and there's a new rectangular stone that's available for the same price.
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Beat the Streak Report: Monday, April 13
Today's recommended picks
Freddy Sanchez, 2B, Pirates
7-for-13 (.538 AVG) since '04 vs. Astros starter Brian Moehler
Alex Gordon, 3B, Royals
8-for-16 (.500 AVG) lifetime vs. Indians starter Fausto Carmona
Albert Pujols, 1B, Cardinals
11-for-32 (.344 AVG) lifetime vs. D-backs starter Doug Davis
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Chipper Jones (ATL): 12.7%, 2-for-3
2. Chase Utley (PHI): 5.7%, 2-for-3
3. Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 5.4%, 1-for-5
4. Derek Jeter (NYY): 3.8%, 0-for-4
5. Albert Pujols (STL): 3.7%, 0-for-3
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Thank you for fixing the HR Streak game but the Survivor game still is messed up. Please fix it too!!!! Thanks
I have no idea why Alex Gordon was a top pick today? He did not play yesterday because of a stiff left hip. Did they announce that he is starting today?
Why is it saying that Grady Sizemore didn't play on the 13th, The box score shows him going 1-4
Why is it saying that Grady Sizemore didn't play on the 13th, The box score shows him going 1-4
Could you please clarify something for me? How long does it take leaderboards/current streak stats to update?
Thanks in advance.
I believe leaderboards are updated overnight by 6am EST.
can someone tell me how delete a player and team ? i picked apri 15 instead of the 14th any walk me through that process.
I figured I would answer the questions I saw on the thread here, since I was hoping we could build some sort of community here:
1) The leaderboards normally update this year at 3 AM EDT. In the past, the survivor always updated at 7 AM EDT, but the past I am talking about is when the contest was an actual survivor-style contest.
Everyone starts out on Monday (every Monday for 14-20 weeks) and picks a team. If your team lost, you were out. If your team won, you moved on. If everyone lost, everyone advanced. Then, at the end of the year, the winners of all the individual contests competed in one final showdown, in the playoffs. Problem was, MLB decided they wanted a Postseason Survivor too, so they had the "Tournament of Champions" alongside the Postseason Survivor the first year and then moved the Tournament of Champions into September for the next few years, and canned all the August contests. 2006 was the last year with the old format though. I do miss the old format though.
2) The current streak stats
Hey you guys (Beat the Streak Website Staff) say the Kevin Youkilis of Boston did not play today (4/14/09) against the A's. He did play and got at least two hits. Please fix your error so that all of us who picked him receive credit.
i picked pojols on 4/15/09 and they said i have it wrong
when you pick pujols and its right but they do not give it to you


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One of 2013's most anticipated action-thrillers has been given a tentative release date. The as-yet-untitled Jack Ryan movie - the first of an anticipated franchise trilogy - will be released in the fourth quarter of next year, according to Deadline.
Ryan's latest incarnation will arrive in the form of Chris Pine, already a franchise-reboot favorite thanks to his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' 2009 relaunch of "Star Trek" on the big screen. Pine has long been locked in to play the CIA analyst and the announcement of a release period for the movie means that the actor will star in two of 2013's biggest releases: the new Jack Ryan flick and Abram's "Star Trek " follow-up (with Pine back on the Enterprise bridge as Kirk), which is currently in post-production and set for a May 17 debut.
So keen for Pine to fill Ryan's shoes, Paramount Pictures waited for the actor to complete the second "Star Trek" installment before pushing ahead with the film, reports Deadline.
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The prequel will pick up Ryan before he joins the agency, and if audience reaction is positive, two more installments would further flesh out the character's early years.
Along with Pine, Kenneth Branagh has signed on to direct the film as well as star as a Russian villain plotting to bring down the U.S. economy. Keira Knightley will portray Ryan's love interest - a role played by Anne Archer in the Harrison Ford films - and Kevin Costner rounds out the leading cast as CIA liaison officer William Harper, a role that could see the actor cross over into another proposed Tom Clancy adaptation "Without Remorse." That film would focus on the character John Kelly who eventually becomes a CIA operative.
Branagh described the new Jack Ryan concept as "an original story that allows us to understand how Jack Ryan develops into a CIA analyst, before joining, and perhaps even joining, the CIA. It's a very contemporary action thriller set in the here and now."


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HPS Monthly National Influenza Report - week ending 10 September 2017
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Determine Classroom Procedures Before School Starts
Use This Checklist to Set Your Classroom Climate
If a student gets up to sharpen his pencil while you are teaching, is that all right with you? Is it okay that the whole class jumps up and races for the door as soon as the bell rings?
Establishing your classroom climate, setting and practicing classroom procedures, early in the school year is one of the best time saving strategies around. It sets up routines that help you and your students focus on the work at hand. And it creates an environment that is less stressful for everyone.
To help you think about your classroom climate, use this tool from LessonLab Skylight and author-educator Kay Burke (2000). It's a list of questions for teachers to answer as they are creating their own set of classroom procedures.
Whether you are a new teacher or a veteran, this is a great tool to use.
Classroom Procedures - Do Students Know What Is Expected of Them for Routine Operations?
Directions: Review the following procedures and check the ones your student will need to know and practice.
A. Beginning the class
- How should students enter the room?
- What constitutes being late (in the room, in the seat)?
- How and when will absentee slips be handled?
- What type of seating arrangements will be used (assigned seats, open seating, cooperative group seating)?
- How will the teacher get students' attention to start class (the tardy bell, a signal such as a raised hand or lights turned off and on)?
- How will students behave during Public Address (PA) announcements?
B. Classroom Management
- How and when will students leave their seats?
- What do students need in order to leave the room (individual passes, room pass, teacher's permission)?
- How will students get help from the teacher (raise hands, put name on board, ask other group members first)?
- What are acceptable noise levels for discussion, group work, seatwork?
- How should students work with other students or move into cooperative groups (moving desks, changing seats, noise level, handling materials)?
- How will students get recognized to talk (raised hand, teacher calls on student, talk out)?
- How do students behave during presentations by other students?
- How do students get supplies they are missing?
- How and when do students sharpen pencils?
- How will students get materials or use special equipment?
C. Paper Work
- How will students turn in work (put in specific tray or box, pass to the front, one student collects)?
- How will students turn in makeup work if they were absent (special tray, give to teacher, put in folder, give to teacher's aide)?
- How will students distribute handouts (first person in row, a group member gets a copy for all group members, students pick up as they enter room)?
- How will late work be graded (no penalty, minus points, zero, "F," use lunch or recess to finish, turn in by end of day, drop so many homework grades)?
- How and when will students make up quizzes and tests missed (same day they return to school, within twenty-four hours, within the week, before school, during lunch or recess, after school)?
- How will late projects such as research papers, portfolios, and artwork be graded (no penalty, minus points, lowered letter grade, no late work accepted)?
D. Dismissal from Class or School
- How are students dismissed for lunch?
- When do students leave class for the day (when bell rings, when teacher gives the signal)?
- Can students stay after class to finish assignments, projects, tests?
- Can the teacher keep one student or the whole class after class or school?
- What do students do during fire and disaster drills?
E. Syllabus or Course Outline
- How are students made aware of course objectives?
- How are students made aware of course requirements?
- Are students given due dates for major assignments several weeks in advance?
- Are students told how they will be evaluated and given the grading scale?
F. Other Procedures
You may need to introduce procedures related to recess, assemblies, guest speakers, substitute teachers, field trips, fire drills, teacher leaving the room, use of cell pnoes and other electronic devices, etc. List other procedures that are needed.
From What To Do With the Kid Who…: Developing Cooperation, Self-Discipline, and Responsibility in the Classroom, 2nd ed., by Kay Burke. 3rd Edition 2008
LessonLab Skylight Bookstore - Find information on other books for teachers or specific information about Kay Burke and What To Do With the Kid Who… .
© Copyright 2000 by SkyLight Training and Publishing Inc. Reprinted by permission of LessonLab, Corwin, https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/what-to-do-with-the-kid-who/book229132.
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Yesterday, for instance, when I was driving home from my paying job, I had the singular good fortune to follow, closely ( I'm nearsighted, too, so watch out) and for some time, a late-model Chevy Metro. You know the car: slightly larger and slightly less ugly than a Yugo. Great gas mileage.
This particular Metro was covered with bumper stickers of the "progressive" variety. And I mean it when I say covered. Three tiers of wonderfully hippie, feminist and [deleted due to pending hate crimes bill] bumper stickers. Ah, the glories of the Sixties were not lost on my commuter friend!
I will list the bumper stickers here, from left to right, top to bottom. Get the mental pictures ready, as some of these stickers are often seen First row:
You know, Never surrender, dude!
This one was just the equal sign, without the red line-- this was the closest image I could find.
This was followed by a bumper sticker for a local Democrat candidate (sorry, no image).
Second row:
My personal favorite. I never knew!!
The second row middle was one of these rainbow flag designs, but instead of just this flag, it was a Jesus fish with the rainbow inside it. (Insert involuntary shudder here).
This was followed by a sticker that proclaimed "Priestly Vocations Come in Both Sexes/ Ordain Women" (sorry, no image)
Coexist, man. Tolerance rules! No hate!
Finally, the bottom right corner of the vehicle was emblazoned with simple, one word sticker:
I asked Him to have mercy on us both.
Now for the quiz. I know I shouldn't have, but I just had to pass the Metro and peek at the driver. First person to guess approximate age and gender gets valueless prize.