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Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed a lot of really stupid behavior lately.
Here are some of the dumbass characters I've recently run into on the World Wide Web.
THE ONE STAR WHORE - Some folks go on certain review sites and feel the need to bash stories with one-star reviews. Why? I can only deduce some over-inflated sense of self-importance that compels a percentage of the population to see their diatribes on the internets, sort of the equivalent of a giant refrigerator door. Look what I did, Mom! I'm a negative prick!
JOE'S RESPONSE - Negative reviews amuse me. I don't complain about them, or try to have them removed, because I believe rational people can come to their own conclusions about whether or not to read something, and aren't influenced by poorly-worded hate-fests. I particularly love the reviews from people who got the book for free and then feel the need to warn folks against ruining their lives by making the same mistake they did and reading the offending material. I bet your family can't stand you.
THE SPOILING CRITIC - Getting professional reviews is important to writers, and it comes with the territory that a certain amount of them will be negative. But some asshole critics think their job isn't to rehash and rate, but also to spoil major plot points in the book.
JOE'S RESPONSE - Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, critique. Those who can't critique well, spoil. How frustrated a person do you have to be to want to ruin someone else's potential enjoyment? Perhaps we should ask the folks at Kirkus that very question.
THE CONTEST MOANER - I was recently a contest judge, and some folks took exception to my list of "don'ts" I recently blogged about. They feel I'm not fair.
JOE'S RESPONSE - Don't enter contests. If your story is good enough, find an editor who will pay for it. But guess what? If you do the things I mentioned not to do, you won't find an editor. Also, someone is knocking on your door. It's Life, and he's holding a big sign that says "I'm Not Fair." Maybe you should let him in and get to know him.
THE WOE IS ME AUTHOR - We all know the publishing industry drops books and series all the time. They have a myriad of reasons for doing this, many of them impenetrable. But whining about this in public, no matter how much it stings, is asking for sympathy, which is pathetic.
JOE'S RESPONSE - You do not get future book contracts through sympathy. Yes, the publishing industry is often unfair, and sometimes downright idiotic. But airing your dirty laundry isn't the way to fight back. Fight back with great writing. We all get kicked. But we don't have to acknowledge it. After sincerity, the thing all people must learn to fake is confidence.
THE ENTITLEMENT JUNKIE - These folks seem to think they deserve some sort of success, and like to spout the Conspiracy Against Them and publicly wonder why they aren't getting what they're due.
JOE'S RESPONSE - No one deserves anything. There is only luck and hard work. Once you feel you're due something, or that people are keeping you from getting yours, you're on a slippery slope that usually ends in obscurity.
THE GREEN FAIRY - Envy is a disease. It's easy to look at other writers and compare yourself to something they possess; money, fame, awards, print runs, bestsellerdom, talent. It's also easy to take pot shots at these writers, while secretly (or not so secretly) wishing you were them.
JOE'S RESPONSE - Your race is with yourself, not with your peers. Never compare yourself to another writer for any reason whatsoever. Once you start wishing for someone else's career, you aren't tending to your own.
THE ME ME ME - The definition of a bore is someone who talks and doesn't bother to notice if anyone else is in the room. Writers may be more self-absorbed than most, but they shouldn't mistake this for being so fascinating that every other word they speak is "I."
JOE'S RESPONSE - If you're in a conversation and more than half of it is coming from your mouth, it isn't a conversation--it's a monologue. If you're in a conversation and the only questions you ask are directed at yourself, I pity the poor saps stuck in your orbit. At least have the decency to pass out cyanide capsules when you walk into the room.
THE INSULTER - Nothing says "I'm pathetic" like name-calling. Yet some folks feel the need to hurl insults, and direct criticism toward the person rather than the comment. This, like many of the above, is a result of the Internet, which buffers accountability. As such, some folks feel it is okay to be rude little twits, because they're protected from being socked in the mouth.
JOE'S RESPONSE - If you wouldn't say it to a person's face, don't say it on the net. Ideas and opinions are a lot of fun to discuss, defend, and attack. But once it becomes personal, you've lost control, and lost the discussion, you asshole.
THE SELF-PUBBED MARTYR - There's nothing wrong with self-pubbing. But the majority of the writers in the world won't equate it with traditional publishing, for too many reasons to be discussed here. If you want the respect of your peers, it isn't going to be by logically presenting your points and calmly discussing why their views are irrational, any more than intelligent discourse saved anyone on the Trail of Tears. And bemoaning your lack of respect in the publishing world is just a rally for more people to attack you.
JOE'S RESPONSE - If you want the respect of your peers, get a traditional publishing contract. Personally, I think peer respect is useless, and trying to join a club that doesn't want you is futile. Stop trying to convince the world you're relevant. The world will ultimately figure that out for itself.
THE KNOW IT ALL BLOGGER - This guy spouts advice and opinions like he's God's Gift to the World, guising his superiority under the banner of "being helpful."
JOE'S RESPONSE - Thank this man profusely, and buy all of his books. The latest is CHERRY BOMB, now on sale...
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Adam Kreek is an Olympic athlete who won Gold in the Beijing games with Canada's rowing eights. Adam is also a proud Team Power Smart Leader, and lives the values of conservation. In May 2009, he and his wife, Rebecca Sterrit, moved into Victoria's Dockside Green, the world's greenest mixed-use residential development. They have 1,000 sq. ft., two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with a large balcony, and Adam appreciates the sense of community in the condo. "In my experience," he muses, "most of life is about the people you meet and who you interact with." Among Dockside's many green and sustainable initiatives – which include hard-wired CFLs, LED corridor lighting and Energy Star appliances – are built-in energy monitors in every residence. The monitors track electricity and water use, and estimate the amount of carbon being emitted by the suite. The information is sent to an interactive panel on the wall of the apartments, which Adam says resemble programmable thermostats. (Scroll down for additional resources including a complete Case Study)
Even better, he says, is that the system can be accessed online, so you can get the information anywhere. The online connection also provides remote access to the apartment's systems. "I'm heading to Vancouver and forgot to turn down my heat," Adam said en route to the Games. "So what i'm going to do when i get to Vancouver is I'm going to log onto the Internet, and for the days that I'm away, I'm going to turn off the heat for the house so I'm not wasting any energy." Adam finds the feedback fascinating.
"You can observe what's happening in your house, and I can see it becoming valuable as a family would grow. ... You can teach your children about the same values and ethics that you think are important for their generation and generations to come." Rebecca and Adam's first child – "We just found out today that it's a boy." – arrives in July, and Adam thinks children will have fun interacting with devices like the energy monitor. It will also provide an opportunity for them to learn the value of energy conservation just by using it, and by experimenting. "Take as long a shower as you want today, and tomorrow take a really short shower, and we'll see what the difference is between the two," says Adam. "It becomes a great teaching tool and a great learning experience."
Living with less
While energy monitors provide an opportunity for people to become more conservation-minded, Adam hasn't changed his behaviour. Of course, before moving to Dockside Green, he and Rebecca had been living on a houseboat where a toaster and hair dryer couldn't be operated at the same time. They are used to living sparingly. That training will come in handy when Adam rows across the Atlantic Ocean in December 2011. Adam and teammates Jordan Hannsen, Greg Spooner and Rick Tarbill, who hail from Seattle and Tacoma, are competing in the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race, and will be attempting to set a world record.
The current record for the trip from the Canary Islands, off the west coast of Africa, to Antigua, in the Caribbean, is 36 days. Columbus, who travelled the route in 1492, took 76 days. Adam and his teammates hope to more than halve that time, rowing around the clock. Two men will row at a time, two hours on, two hours off. Their race is in support of Right to Play, an organization that uses sport to lift children out of poverty, disease and war. Adam says they hope to raise $500,000 for Right to Play.
It's a purely person-driven endeavor, he says. "No wind. There'll obviously be some currents that will pick up the boat. We'll be doing a lot of surfing. Catch some 40-, 50-foot waves." It's not just an exercise in endurance. Adam calls it a "challenge of the mind". "How can you manage risk effectively? We want to make sure that we've thought of and accounted for every worst-case scenario prior to our departure." The four men will be living on an ocean rowing craft that is six feet wide and about 28 feet long. "We make our own water on board, most of the food we pack is dehydrated so we can fit it in such a small space. ... It's a pretty small space for four guys to be."
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Dockside Green, located near downtown Victoria, British Columbia, presents a breathtaking model of urban regeneration through brownfield reuse, green design, and community building and does so in an economically sound and contemporary way. With the recent attention on the Vancouver Olympics revealing that city's green ethos, more Americans are learning about British Columbia's commitment to place-based sustainability. Designers, planners, and builders are noting the unprecedented innovation that Victoria's Dockside Green represents and realizing its applicability to urban revitalization in their own communities. The development shows that LEED Platinum-level green building at a neighborhood scale can be contemporary and profitable while attracting more and more people to live in urban energy-efficiency.
Site Development Process
Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, sits at the southern end of Vancouver Island overlooking the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Olympic National Park to the south. The city, carved out of ancient cedar forest in only the past 150 years, has an agreeable maritime climate, benefiting from a rain shadow produced by the Olympic Mountains, which results in half the rainfall of Vancouver. Such a climate is clearly an advantage for green building, without the temperature extremes that require extensive mechanical heating and cooling.
The city remains prosperous, thanks to the provincial government, Canada's Pacific fleet homeport, and University of Victoria-related employment. It has a reputation, perhaps undeservedly, for being staid and conservative, due to its strong British roots and large population of retirees. But with an increasing reputation as a quieter, more livable and drier version of Vancouver, the city is attracting a wider range of younger professionals and families. While the greater metropolitan area of 330,000 certainly sprawls over a series of inlets and rocky hills, the Capital Regional District has protected large expanses of wooded open space and beaches and established an impressive trail network.
With its location adjacent to the primary shipping lane to Seattle and Vancouver, it's initially surprising that Victoria does not have a larger shipping industry. But being on an island, the lack of direct railroad links to the continent has prevented the construction of large container or bulk terminals. However, the sinuous Victoria Harbour winds its way deep into the capital and once provided a sheltered haven for the First Nations Songhees tribe until the federal government acquired the land.
The protected Upper Harbour was once the home of Canada's Pacific whaling and sealing fleet and associated shipbuilding activities. Intensive log exports from the island's once majestic old-growth forests were processed in over 50 mills along the shores of Upper Harbour (also known as the Gorge Waterway). Later, warships were dismantled at a large facility and an oil refinery, shingle, and asphalt plant were constructed.
All of this intensive industry left a severely-contaminated shoreline and a collection of old vacant warehouses. The island's economic reliance on dwindling natural resources and Vancouver's emergence as the dominant regional node for trade led local authorities to pin their hopes on tourism, marketing a genteel visitor experience centered on the adjacent Inner Harbour's Parliament Buildings, Royal British Columbia Museum, Empress Hotel, and Beacon Hill Park. Disused docks were converted to marinas and waterfront walkways. Former industrial areas nearby were slated for mixed-use redevelopment.
An underutilized, 15-acre area with four parcels on the west bank of the Upper Harbour, part of which was once a landfill, was contaminated with heavy metals and petrochemical residue from mills and a paint factory. The City of Victoria purchased the parcels, which it named "Dockside Lands," from the province in 1989 for $1. The sloping parcels sat one block off the water's edge, separated from the Harbour by the relics of Point Hope Shipyard. The Harbour Plan, completed in 2001, had supported the continued industrial use of the working waterfront and the city intended to include some form of light high-tech industry. But efforts to market the property failed due to inadequate understanding of soil contamination.
The city commissioned a detailed environmental assessment as part of the preparation of a business case for the property. It concluded in 2002 that development was possible, with some public financial support, favorable land pricing, and rezoning to allow greater density (the existing zoning was light industrial with a floor-to-area ratio of 1:1, and the project is currently at a 2:1 ratio). Utilities already existed on the site, with capacity for new development. A new 6-story office project called Upper Harbour Place was constructed adjacent to the site in 2002, proving the marketability of the land.
The city then prepared a detailed Development Concept, which it completed in May 2004 following extensive public visioning and workshops. The resulting document included a market analysis and outlined vision and planning principles for a "new urbanism type of community," with a mix of uses, "people-friendly streets," and "high-quality public spaces… blended in overall harmony with the unique character of the location".
Even at that point in the process, however, current international standards of sustainability and green building had yet to be fully fleshed out. The Development Concept only required new buildings to be built to LEED Silver, which has become a relatively conservative standard in 2010. Perhaps more importantly, the concept directed future development teams to be selected according to strict "triple bottom line" standards, requiring that the successful teams consider social, economic, and environmental factors in all their actions. The concept also laid the groundwork for subsequent innovation by encouraging developers to offer lower bids for the land in exchange for promises of innovation in sustainability.
The city subsequently issued a Request for Proposals in September 2004 to remediate and develop 11.6 acres of the site. The RFP, sent to pre-qualified developers, required a detailed plan in response, including considerations of urban design, massing, circulation, and "public realm"—meaning parks and streets. The 40-day competition, which included a public presentation, was won by Windmill Developments, led by Joe Van Belleghem, who brought experience with other recent green development projects, including Canada's first LEED Gold building. Van Belleghem was the driver behind the project's green innovation.
According to project architect Jim Huffman from Busby Perkins+Will (selected to design Dockside Green based on its experience on preceding LEED Platinum-rated projects in Calgary and Ottawa), it was Van Belleghem's resolve on a "big vision" that inspired the project. If it had been merely marketing (a.k.a., greenwashing), many of the innovative features may not have survived early cost-cutting measures. Most of the capital (75 percent) was provided by Canada's largest credit union, VanCity, which became a co-developer of the project in a partnership called Dockside Green Limited. VanCity has since bought Windmill's 25 percent and Van Belleghem has moved onto other projects, expressing some frustration with the slow pace of development at Dockside.
Master planning proceeded over the next year. Busby Perkins+Will (BPW) prepared the master plan for the development team, with Terence Williams Architect, Inc. (subsequently merged with BPW). A wide range of consultant engineers and specialists in green design, including PWL Landscape Architects, was also part of the team. Jim Huffman of BPW noted that the project adopted an integrated design approach, including all consultants as well as development and finance staff for intensive meetings from the project's outset, with everyone collaborating on how to creatively achieve the vision.
Under the September 2005 Master Development Agreement with the City of Victoria, Dockside Green Limited agreed to purchase the property for $8.5 million and develop it according to an approved site master plan and design guidelines with an extensive list of amenities such as public spaces and public art, interpretive signage, shoreline enhancement, and trail improvements. Dockside Green Limited also agreed to contribute money towards a dedicated City of Victoria staff member to shepherd development review and contributed $400,000 toward a new Sustainability Centre at Dockside. A key early contributor to the project's success was the city's willingness to allow the developers to defer payment for the land, which freed up enough cash for quick construction of the project's infrastructure without significant bridge financing.
The city agreed to initiate zone changes and amend the Community Plan and land use designations. The city also created an interdisciplinary project team, bringing together city planners, engineers, and finance specialists and including representatives of the local Victoria West Community Association and local First Nations indigenous peoples.
The Project
Dockside Green is intended to be built over 12 phases in three neighborhoods, with a total of 1.3 million gross square feet (73 percent of which is residential) in 26 buildings, housing 2,500 residents. (There are currently over 450.) Dockside Wharf is the initial neighborhood, with two primarily residential projects and two commercial buildings. The first phase of the Wharf, a LEED Platinum condominium project named Synergy, sold 85 percent of its 96 units in 3 hours with the first residents moving in May 2008.
These early buildings at Dockside Wharf express a warm, resolutely modernist language, comparable to new developments in Germany, Holland, or Scandinavia (such as Hammarby Sjöstad). Jim Huffman of BPW noted that the project was partially inspired by BedZed, a 99-unit residential development near London, which had aims to use only energy generated on site (although a planned biomass heat generator didn't work out) and featured a striking contemporary design with bold color accents and striking roof vents. That project also included aggressive measures to reduce private automobile use. Huffman recalled that the developers were not as interested in a design that looked "odd," as they wanted to prove that green design could compete with other conventional projects and perhaps eventually become normal, standard practice.
Synergy's façades feature columns of dark brick punctuated with recessed windows and balconies shaded with bold blue awnings. A vertical band of uniform planter boxes extends the streetscape and stormwater plantings to the façades. Two towers of eight and five stories above 94 spaces of underground parking are separated by a wood-clad townhouse block with three-story units raised off the street with front gardens. Rooftop patios seem quite exposed to views from surrounding towers, but the decks are screened with wood slats. Upper floors on the towers step back to provide wrap-around windows and decks for penthouses and give the fairly squat towers some presence on the skyline. Entries to the towers are recessed (almost as arcades) behind columns on broad corner plazas and faced with recycled wood paneling. Lumber for construction of this phase included old growth reclaimed from forests flooded for BC's Lois Lake Reservoir in the 1940s. Wood detailing is somewhat rare on large buildings in Vancouver, but Victoria's drier climate allows for more generous use of the material.
The eastern façades of Synergy feature much more glazing, with views east to downtown maximized thanks to a two-story grade difference. Directly east of the first residential tower, a small commercial building, "Inspiration," features a mix of residential and commercial uses, including Fol Epi, an organic bakery, Caffè Fantastico, an organic fair trade coffee shop, and two floors of office space leased to the BC Oil and Gas Commission, the regulator of petrochemical extraction activities in the province. Three small roof-mounted propeller wind turbines partially power the bakery. Inspiration achieved the highest rating ever (53 of 61 points) for LEED for Core and Shell and has a distinctive design, with a wood-panelled southern façade and bands of operable windows shaded against summer sun. The western side of the building features more robust aluminum sheeting, perhaps paying homage to the basic industrial materials of the nearby shipyard sheds. The bakery's circular brick oven has been constructed to protrude outside the building, providing an interesting detail to terminate views on the central greenway and allow for simpler venting and reuse of oven exhaust.
Victoria has long dumped its raw sewage after preliminary screening directly into the Straits of Juan de Fuca, arguing that currents dilute it easily. Years of public pressure and environmental study have led to the ongoing construction of a new municipal treatment system. Wedged between Inspiration and Synergy sits the Dockside Green's membrane bioreactor package wastewater treatment plant. The plant will recover heat from sewage, bathwater, and dishwater. Dockside Green residents will therefore be exempt from the hundreds of dollars of fees assessed to pay for the new citywide system. Treated water will be looped back into buildings to flush toilets and will also irrigate site landscaping (although this is minimal, thanks to the use of climate-adaptive plantings). An additional 18,000 gallons of treated water will be sold to nearby industrial users. With water-efficient appliances, the project could save up to 70,000 gallons of public water annually, a reduction of 65 percent over similar conventional projects.
A series of terraced ponds, lush with wetland plants and interspersed with large granite boulders, are interconnected throughout Dockside's central greenway. These ponds are a visual amenity and a significant public open space for residents but they also assist with on-site stormwater storage and act as a strip of wildlife habitat, even including introduced crayfish and stickleback fish. (If green roofs are included, 50 percent of Synergy's site is dedicated to open space.) The water levels in the pond are supplemented by treated wastewater from the nearby plant. Most paved surfaces at Dockside Green are permeable surfaces to infiltrate stormwater, and most flat roof surfaces are vegetated, to slow rain runoff and help insulate buildings. The stormwater system incorporates artistic features such as rusted metal grates and concrete runnels along staircases exposing the flow of water for passersby. Townhouse units open directly onto this pond with decks and docks and the path winds its way across wood bridges, connecting with side stairs to adjacent streets and buildings.
The next phase, named Balance (these marketing names are somewhat forced for this project and start to seem like a set of corporate motivational posters), features 171 condos in two nine- and ten-story towers built above 165 underground parking spaces. On the west (street) side of the project, between Synergy and Balance, a porous drop-off (most paved surfaces in the project allow stormwater infiltration) accesses a three-story townhouse building. This smaller building allows for more sunlight to reach flanking towers and softens the overall density, with wood façades emphasizing the residential character and offsetting the dominance of glass and concrete on neighboring towers. Balance features two straightforward tower blocks, squatter versions of the well-glazed towers bristling with balconies that crowd Vancouver's waterfront. In keeping with the precedent, the towers sit atop a two-story podium of townhouses that activate the street with individual entries and semi-private terraces. Between the two towers, a pocket park features a green wall and artistic stormwater planters.
Prosperity, the second commercial building, is a three-story office and retail structure along Harbour Road and the Galloping Goose Regional Trail. Surrounded by porous surface parking the building, with a distinctive 'sawtooth' roofline echoing early industrial buildings, faces Point Hope Shipyard with a retail streetscape, the first of a long row of several mixed-use structures that will line the eastern edge of the project. North across Harbour Road from the commercial buildings, a new shoreline park has been created at Point Ellice, including a kayak launching point. A commute via kayak certainly sounds appealing and unprecedented but surely comes with a temptation to just keep paddling....
Subsequent neighborhoods will extend Dockside Green's development south towards downtown Victoria. An old restaurant, the Princess Mary, has been repurposed as a construction administration office. The Commons will have a similar scale to the Wharf. The final neighborhood, the Village, will feature more retail and office development, and a boutique hotel, all at a higher density reflecting its proximity to downtown. The promised sustainability center will face a large circular plaza and open-air amphitheater.
Project Economics
The project has not been immune to global trends in real estate, with a slowing in sales (about 10 sales staff were recently laid off) but several large developments in the Victoria area have been cancelled over the past two years, while Dockside continues to sell units, at a range of $500-$900 per square foot (1-bedrooms to penthouses), roughly the same price point as local comparables. Only about 10% of units have yet to sell. There is also clear evidence of the savings available from green building technology. The project features lower strata fees (a Canadian term roughly equivalent to homeowners' association fees) thanks to energy savings in common spaces. Homeowners will save over $500 a year because they don't need to contribute to regional assessments due to the project's full treatment of sewage on-site.
One of the most contentious challenges for the development was the provision of affordable housing. The project was initially envisioned to contain at least 10 percent in affordable rental units for people with incomes as low as $15,000 and 26 units have been set aside at Synergy and Balance, priced under market value with some subsidy from the city. A three-story "attainable" housing building (a new presumably less-stigmatized euphemism for "affordable"), with two levels of "micro-condos" (less than 400 square feet) over commercial/industrial space, designed by Number TEN Architectural Group, has recently been approved for construction next to the biomass plant.
Green Infrastructure
With an upfront commitment to a high level of green design and greenhouse gas neutrality, Dockside Green needed to incorporate somewhat unproven methods and technologies. The developers also committed to paying a $1 million penalty if Synergy did not achieve LEED Platinum certification. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities made $350,000 available to support the development of innovative infrastructure at the outset of the project. These funds offset the costs for LEED documentation (often the one clear hurdle to certification) and helped with the costs associated with developing and obtaining approval for the unprecedented wastewater treatment system. As BPW's Jim Huffman noted, during the design of Dockside's first phase new technologies were released "almost monthly," forcing the design team to constantly review and update its plans. When the project proceeds, there should be even further energy savings and innovation by the time the final building is constructed.
The team's ambition for innovation clearly succeeded, because in 2008 Synergy was awarded Platinum with 63 points, making it the highest-scoring LEED-certified project in the world. It includes standard steps for green building, such as fresh air ventilation, energy-efficient operable windows, low-energy appliances and lighting, greener (and healthier) building materials sourced as close to the site as possible as well as consideration of daylighting and solar orientation. A relatively new feature, called a living wall, has been installed as 30-foot-high panels on either side of a public plaza at Balance, helping to cool the buildings and reduce energy consumption. Dockside Green also received the first LEED for Neighborhood Development (ND) Platinum certification, due to its brownfield location, reduced dependence on private vehicles with car-sharing and access to trails and transit (including a harbor ferry), proximity to employment, walkable streets, and on-site renewable energy sources.
Dockside Green features an integrated energy system, which may provide an opportunity for the project to become a net-energy provider, together with units that are built 50 percent more efficient than code. The system includes a Nexterra biomass plant, operated by a new micro-utility, Dockside Green Energy. The plant converts locally sourced wood waste into a clean burning "syngas" to produce heat and hot water for the district (and beyond), eliminating the use of fossil fuel for heating buildings. (Vancouver Island has much of BC's private forest lands, which are still heavily and controversially logged. With consistent mill closures and continued raw log exports, this wood waste supply may not seem readily available at a large scale—but the gasification plant also uses municipal tree trimmings and construction wood waste.) Bio-solid disks remaining after on-site wastewater treatment are sent to the biomass plant to complement the waste wood. The estimated overall impact of the plant is a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of up to 3,460 metric tons per year.
Dockside Green represents a successful prototype for green building on a neighborhood scale. The developers of the project, driven by a strong vision for urban regeneration that doesn't simply aim to maximize profit, are producing a model that is responsive to larger social and civic concerns. Beyond simply striving for the highest LEED point totals, the Dockside Green team has built the first stages of a community that feels rooted in its context and expresses a strong contemporary aesthetic, while clearly competing well with less-innovative neighbors in a tough market. If it's clear that a more sustainable future will require denser urban living, with alternatives to automobile use along with innovative and efficient ways to produce energy and reduce waste, then it's clear that Dockside Green shows us all a bold precedent with lessons that we can apply to subsequent projects in our own communities. By the time of its ultimate buildout, we can expect that Dockside Green will have been joined by numerous other projects across the continent, all contributing to the "UnSprawling" of North America.
Dockside Green Article AUG 2011 (1,169 kb)
Dockside Green Design Guidelines (3,760 kb)
Dockside Green Sustainability Report 2008 (2,000 kb)
Dockside Green Green Initiatives (6,890 kb)
Dockside Green Story: Natural Growth Video
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From time to time, people write me and say, "I thought this was a Sears House, but it's all brick, so I know it can't be a kit home."
Sears Homes could be ordered with cypress or cedar shakes or clapboards, with stucco, or with masonry, such as cement block (not common), brick (very common) or stone (also not common). If you wanted wood siding, it was shipped from the Sears Mills in Cairo, Illinois, Newark, New Jersey or Norwood, Ohio. If you opted for masonry (block, stone or brick), you purchased it locally, to save on freight charges. Masonry weighs a lot.
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Malloy announces deal for Amazon to collect sales tax
Hartford — Amazon will invest $50 million over two years to create a "customer fulfillment center" and 300 jobs in Connecticut, said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday. Amazon has also agreed to collect a sales tax for Connecticut now that it will have a physical presence in the state.
Amazon estimated it would collect $15 million in sales taxes annually once it starts collecting on Nov. 1, Malloy said.
"It's clear that it (Connecticut) is not a terrible state to do business in," Malloy said. "As I said, this is the third very large-scale customer fulfillment center to be announced in a relatively short period of time here in the state of Connecticut."
Amazon, which is looking for a location for the center, will start collecting sales tax just in time for the online holiday shopping season. The company will also push for federal legislation as it ends up collecting a sales tax for more states, which raises the price of online items.
Editor's note: This sentence corrects an earlier version. Malloy said he has already applied the projected revenue to his budget proposal, which he will roll out on Wednesday. In response to questions about whether there would be state assistance Malloy said there are no strings attached. If Amazon were to plan significant expansions, "we would have discussions," he said.
A professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, Richard D. Pomp, said, "It's a big deal for the dishonest taxpayers in Connecticut because we have always owed the sales tax on goods purchased from Amazon."
Under current law, out-of-state retailers are not required to collect a sales tax for Connecticut. It is up to consumers to report their out-of-state purchases when they file their taxes.
This move by Amazon takes the responsibility of paying the sales or use tax away from the consumer, Malloy said.
"I think there are probably fewer people that are worried about the sales tax," Pomp said. "People today shop for the convenience."
The new business model for Amazon has to do with buying something today and getting it tomorrow, he said. Having more customer fulfillment centers or warehouses allows Amazon to compete against supermarkets and local stores, Pomp said.
Pomp also said he thought Amazon would become a champion for a federal law on sales tax collection now that it will be collecting sales tax while other online retailers without a physical presence are not.
The sales tax law passed in 2011 required out-of-state online retailers who sell more than $2,000 worth of goods a year through affiliate companies located in Connecticut to collect a sales tax. Affiliate companies, for example, would be companies that direct web users to Amazon's website and receive a commission once a web user purchases something from Amazon.
When the law passed Amazon and other companies broke ties with affiliates in order to not collect the tax.
Now that they have agreed to collect a sales tax, "they are willing to do business with affiliates in the state of Connecticut again," Malloy said.
In an email, the vice president of global public policy for Amazon, Paul Misener, said the company "look(s) forward to working with Gov. Malloy toward passage of the legislation now being considered by Congress that would finally resolve the sales tax issue, level the playing field for all retailers, protect states' rights and allow states to collect the revenue owed."
The problem is that it is not politically attractive to enforce sales tax collection at the federal level, Pomp said. Politicians will appear to be taking away people's rights to buy items online sales tax-free, even though online purchases were never meant to be sales tax-free, he said. Congress would take a lot of heat to pass federal legislations and then the revenues from the sales tax would go to states, Pomp said.
Nationally about $11.3 billion in use tax revenues are lost from electronic business-to-business and business-to-customer transactions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In Connecticut about $63 million is lost.
Amazon has agreed to collect sales tax on items shipped to Arizona, California, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington, according to its website. Amazon recently agreed to collect a sales tax on items shipped to Massachusetts, Malloy said.
Malloy said he expects brick and mortar retailers to push again for out-of-state retailers to collect a sales tax.
"I think pressure that traditional retailers are under is rising and it's starting to be seen as an issue of fairness," he said.
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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
Note: The Oracle Workflow web pages are being converted to the Oracle Applications Framework user interface format. Depending on your version of Oracle Workflow and which patches you have applied, you may see Oracle Workflow web pages in the new format as well as in the previous format. The new Event Manager pages are currently available for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications.
The Oracle Workflow Event Manager lets you register interesting business events that may occur in your applications, the systems among which events will be communicated, named communication agents within those systems, and subscriptions indicating that an event is significant to a particular system. The Event Manager also performs subscribtion processing when events occur.
You must have workflow administrator privileges to maintain Business Event System objects in the Event Manager pages. If you have workflow administrator privileges, you can create, update, and delete events, subscriptions, systems, and agents. You can also test business events by manually raising a test event. If you do not have administrator privileges, you can view Business Event System objects in the Event Manager, but you cannot modify them. Workflow administrator privileges are assigned in the Global Workflow Preferences page. See: To Set Global User Preferences, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide.
You can use the Workflow XML Loader to upload and download XML definitions for Business Event System objects between a database and a flat file. See: Using the Workflow XML Loader, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide.
When an event occurs in an application on your local system, an event key must be assigned to uniquely identify that particular instance of the event. Then the event must be raised to the Event Manager.
You can raise an event by any of the following methods:
Additionally, the Event Manager can receive events sent from the local system or remote systems.
When an event is raised by a local application or received from a local or external system, the Event Manager executes any subscriptions to that event. Depending on the action defined in the subscription, the Event Manager may call custom code, send the event information to a workflow process, or send the event information to an agent.
To communicate event messages between systems, you must schedule propagation for outbound messages and agent listeners for inbound messages. You can use Oracle Enterprise Manager to schedule propagation and the Workflow Manager component of Oracle Applications Manager to run agent listeners. You can also view the distribution of event messages on different agents in Workflow Manager, as well as reviewing queue details for those agents. For more information, please refer to the Oracle Applications Manager online help, Oracle Enterprise Manager Support, Oracle Application Developer's Guide - Advanced Queuing or Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference, Distributed Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide, and Setting Up the Business Event System, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide.
To test your Business Event System setup, you can run the Workflow Agent Ping/Acknowledge workflow. See: Workflow Agent Ping/Acknowledge.
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Compuware has unloaded its new load-testing solution focused on performance and scalability problems across the entire application delivery chain. Compuware Gomez 360° Web Load Testing has been billed with marketing synonyms ranging from end-to-end, to 360 degree focused and onward, to "first mile to last mile" functional. What the product does do is bring together two testing solutions — Gomez Web Load Testing and dynaTrace Test Center Edition — into one integrated offering.
This new solution aims to identify "user experience performance problems" and isolate their root cause down to the line of code. This saves time and money by enabling collaboration across organizations throughout the application lifecycle and reducing testing iterations.
Thomas Murphy, research director at Gartner, has suggested that there is an increasing market need for enhancing traditional load-test solutions with server-side performance monitoring solutions. "Today's web applications have increased in complexity and dependency on third-party content and services. Blind spots are increasing, yet business is pressurizing IT to deliver faster, which creates increased potential for very costly failures in production. The ability to have a complete view of performance enables the test and development team to work together in a more efficient way to drill down from user experience to where the issues are," said Murphy.
Compuware points to the new reality of the modern application delivery chain, which has become more complex with content and web services delivered to end users' browsers from multiple sources. An average web transaction includes components delivered from over eight hosts — many originating outside the data center such as content delivery networks (CDNs), news feeds, ads, analytics, bill payment, and e-commerce platforms.
"While deep-diagnostics is no substitute for programmer-level performance testing, it certainly increases the odds of being able to conclusively identify and resolve the performance issues that will only present themselves during late lifecycle testing or production monitoring quickly, and with minimum churn," said Scott Barber, an expert in application performance testing.
Gomez 360° Web Load Testing uses dynaTrace's PurePath technology for transaction-pure detail, complete with code-level context, for 100 percent of the transactions run during load testing. All sessions are recorded continuously for off-line analysis and team collaboration. This detail is said to provide visibility into how applications behave under load and spots problems in an organization's own and third-party code.


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One of the most popular entries on this blog is the list of monuments to African American soldiers who served in the Civil War. FYI, I have made some updates to that entry.
I have noted the existence of monuments in Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New York and Virginia. Except for the monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, I have not done a 'write-up' of these monuments in my updated blog entry, but I have added links where the monuments are pictured or described. I have also listed several memorials and markers that, while not fitting my description of a monument, are nonetheless noteworthy objects that should be recognized.
Monument to New York's 26th Regiment US Colored Infantry outside St. James AME Zion Church in Ithaca, NY. Source: "Rikers Island's 26th U.S. Colored Troops on parade" at http://www.correctionhistory.org
In the original version of my blog entry, I stated that
I would only add that it is disappointing that it seems there is no USCT (United States Colored Troops) monument in the state of Louisiana. Records indicate that 24,000 of the USCT came from that state; no other state supplied more colored troops to the Union army. It would be great to see some action taken in the future to create a monument in honor of the service of that state's African descent soldiers. (I am sure that there are at least one or two memorial markers to African descent troops in the state, although I haven't come up with any yet from my review.)
I was pleasantly surprised to find I was wrong about this. There is in fact a monument in Donaldsonville, Louisiana which honors black troops who helped to defend Fort Butler against a Confederate attack in June, 1863. The monument sits next to a memorial to Confederate soldiers who participated in the Battle of Fort Butler. Donaldsonville is about 40 miles from Baton Rouge and 70 miles from New Orleans.
Union Monument at Fort Butler, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Source: Redbird's Markers at dualsportridersoflouisiana.com
If anyone knows of monuments to Civil War era black soldiers which I have not identified, please respond to this post, and I will update the list as time allows. I appreciate those of you who have helped me make what I believe is the definitive list of monuments to these men.


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jcy1011 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 79 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a startup wholesaler/importer of welding supplies in Cleveland, OH. Starting as a two person team we're looking to take what has already worked for us in another country, and make it happen here in the USA.
Our staple products include welding helmets, welding wire, MIG & TIG consumables, MIG & TIG guns, safety glasses etc.
We source welding products from all over the world and deliver them to local markets at great prices.
We will sell directly to OEM's (Lincoln Electric), other wholesalers of industrial products (e.g. OKI Bering), and distributors of welding products (e.g. Airgas).
Direct Global Hardgoods Customers
Many times the person that decides to purchase is a purchasing manager - white male, aged 45-65, usually has a college education, primarily located in the midwest and northeast (at least initially). The characteristics here would not necessarily represent the make-up of the end-users of our products.
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We also want to draw the appeal of a younger crowd in order to stand out from the pack in order to draw the attention of newcomers to the welding field. An example would be those going to votech schools to learn welding as a profession (characteristics: aged 18-65 [but focus on 18-29 cohort], usually no 4 year college education rather vocational school training, white males, hobbyist in cars, identify with Harley Davidson brand)
We want to attract the attention of the end-user market while remaining palatable to our direct customers. Both groups value products that get the job done for a great price.
You may choose to use an image only or an image and text logo. I am leaning toward an image only logo if and only if the "global" aspect is conveyed while also letting it be known that we sell "welding hardgoods".
Definition of welding hardgoods - any good involved in the welding process that is a solid, physical product. For example, Air products sells gas related to the welding process; that is NOT a hardgood. Wire and helmets are hardgoods.
Attached is the logo we already use for one of our product lines of welding hardgoods. Feel free to reference it, use it as a guide, etc.
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Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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(Reuters) - Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer has sustained a mild medial collateral ligament (MCL) knee strain and is expected to be out for at least a week, the National Hockey League club said on Tuesday.
Reimer was injured during the second period of Monday's home win over Philadelphia.
The 24-year-old Canadian is arguably the biggest reason behind Toronto's surprisingly strong start to the season (8-5-0) and losing him for an extended period would be a major blow to their playoff hopes.
Reimer compiled a 6-3 record and 2.31 goals against average playing in 10 games.
Ben Scrivens replaced Reimer in net against Philadelphia and did not let the Leafs down, protecting a 3-1 lead and giving up just one goal on 33 shots to lead Toronto to their first win over the Flyers in six meetings at the Air Canada Centre.
Reporting by Gene Cherry in Salvo, North Carolina; Editing by Peter Rutherford


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When should 'the' be pronounced 'thuh' and when 'thee'?
I heard that 'the' should be used as 'thee' before vowels and in some particular cases. All other cases should employ 'thuh'. What are the 'particular cases'?
And when is 'a' pronounced 'eh' and when 'uh'?


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N M Tech Research Division Hosts "Energetic" Conference
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M., March 1, 2007 – New Mexico Tech's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) recently hosted the Second Annual Center for Energetic Materials and Energetic Devices (CEMED) Conference, a daylong event held this past Tuesday that focused on "Femtosecond Lasers, Energetic Materials, and Energetic Devices."
The conference program included several technical talks given throughout the day, as well as an afternoon tour of EMRTC's Femtosecond Laser Cutting Work Station, a specialized laser unit that allows the research division to cut and form energetic and non-energetic materials with powerful, ultra-short pulses of energy that last only a few hundred femtoseconds. A femtosecond is one-quadrillionth of a second, or one-millionth of one-billionth of a second.
Featured speaker for the CEMED Conference was New Mexico Tech mechanical engineering professor Sayavur Bakhtiyarov, who spoke on "The Explosive Engineering Program at New Mexico Tech: Past, Present, and Future."
CEMED is an umbrella organization comprised of New Mexico Tech, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, whose primary focus is on understanding and studying the properties of energetic materials and devices, such as industrial explosives and military munitions.


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Shane Sher and his AskRI.org program have been around since 2006, which is, in the world of digital technology, several generations. In spite of that, Sher and his colleagues are amazed at how underused the publicly owned AskRI.org actually is.
Sher, the program coordinator, says that there has never been such a high level of current and comprehensive online tools freely available to the people of Rhode Island.
With help for just about any situation that arises, AskRI is a portal that can assist with fixing your car, remembering how to do long division, researching your family's history or let you brush up on your Italian.
"We have Mango.com, an online language-learning program that is easy to use and highly effective," said Jeremy Ferris, who is program assistant for the Statewide Reference Resources Center. Mango offers from Arabic and Swahili to Italian and Spanish, as well as over a dozen English as a second language (ESL) courses.
"A lot of people say it's better than the Rosetta Stone and," he said with a smile, "it's free!"
AskRI.org offers online resources that provide access to a vast array of information, as well as access to live and real-time reference help from librarians and tutors across the state. Since the launch of the site, AskRI.org has served an average of 10,000 visitors a month. Reference librarians have answered over 3,000 questions by chat, and 500 questions by email.
In an age where diminished public service is something we have to get used to, AskRI is providing services that were not even available in the good old days. Students, for instance, can access Tutor.com, which connects them to qualified tutors who are available to provide live homework assistance from 2 to 10 p.m. LearningExpress offers practice tests and tutorials, including the SAT, the GED, or job certification preparation for careers in health, the military, plumbing, and more.
WorldBook Online is the well-known home and library staple available online and through other mobile devices. It is updated regularly, can be translated into over 30 languages, and is full of information for learners of all ages. Best of all, you don't have to spend gas and time going down to the local library to use it.
The resources on AskRI.org offer a wealth of information to answer your questions about anything, simply or more in-depth.
AtoZDatabases brings valuable insights to consumers, established businesses and startups. Highly customizable searches connect to millions of businesses.
There is probably no field of inquiry that has benefited more from the digital revolution than genealogy. In the old days, you had to hire specialized researchers to trace your family tree. AskRI offers HeritageQuest, which provides genealogical information, searches through historical Census records, books of family and local histories, and an index of millions of articles that date from 1800 to 2009. In less than two minutes, a reporter used HeritageQuest to locate his grandmother's Boston address in 1920, with all of his aunts and uncles listed by hand on a photocopied census form.
EBSCOhost links to journal articles, books and resources for students and scholars. You can look up health care information in Consumer Health Complete.
If you are new to the Internet or new to AskRI, videos and tutorials on YouTube are also available to help users as they explore the resources. (http://bit.ly/1angF2s)
Reference librarians are available 60 hours a week, Monday through Saturday, to respond to reference questions by online chat, email, or phone.
Rhode Island small businesses can get help in locating relevant forms and regulations. Families can find details about public parks or farmers' markets. Additionally, AskRI organizes reliable and vetted links around topics that are vital for job seekers, students, librarians, educators, and learners of all ages.
Officially speaking, AskRI.org is the online portal for Rhode Island's Statewide Reference Resource Center, in partnership with Providence Community Library. Funding is provided by the Rhode Island Office of Library Information Services, the Institute for Museum and Library Services and Ocean State Libraries in accordance with RI General Law 29-6-9).
Additional funding for statewide databases is provided through the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services and Ocean State Libraries.
Anyone can ask questions; such as how small businesses can locate relevant forms and regulations, or how fishermen can get licensed for the season.
"We also feature a comprehensive Job Seeker Center, which links to job posting boards and career tools, and a Health and Nutrition Center, with links to health care resources and insurance, nutrition, medical encyclopedias, and more," according to a release from Shane Sher.
To many people of a certain age, the world of the Internet is fraught with peril. Otherwise intelligent people are taken in by fraudulent schemes that take advantage of people who are new to the World Wide Web, particularly senior citizens. AskRI offers a trustworthy introduction to the digital world. It is, after all, an online version of the branch libraries we all grew up with.
Around the turn of the 20th century, industrialist Andrew Carnegie realized that continued progress and advancement required a literate citizenry. He used his immense wealth to build small, local libraries across the country. It was probably the best gift Carnegie has ever given his adopted land. Generations of immigrants such as he have educated themselves in public libraries and it has become universally accepted that free public libraries are essential to life as we know it in this country. While many branch libraries have closed or cut back, AskRI offers a level of service we used to take for granted from our local libraries.
"All you need to access the resources and tools on AskRI is a computer or mobile device that can access the Internet," said Sher. "When you are physically in Rhode Island, most of the databases and electronic tools, such as Homework Help, can be used without entering a username or password."
Some features at AskRI do require more formal introductions. Mango Languages and Learning Express require that you first set up an account using your public or academic library card. If you are out-of-state, you will need to use your public or academic library card to access the databases and electronic tools.
If you don't have a computer, mobile device or Internet, AskRI resources are easily accessible at your local public library. You can also call AskRI for additional details at 223-1200 or email email@example.com or by contacting Shane Sher directly at firstname.lastname@example.com, 223-1200 ex. 1950.
Sher is also available to come to your local library and speak to groups about the program and answer any questions you have. Ask your local library or group to contact Sher to set up a visit.
"The bottom line is, you already paid for this," said Sher. "You already own it. This is a really good resource and you really ought to use it."


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The current fall production area for harvest for the leading fresh-market vegetables in the United States is expected to decline from a year earlier. The production season runs primarily from October through December, and does not include melons.
The fall market is expected to feature reduced volume, sluggish demand, and slightly higher prices, according to the latest USDA Vegetable & Melon Outlook Report.
Fresh-market vegetable acreage (excluding melons and storage onions) is expected to remain in the doldrums during the fourth quarter of 2008. With average yields, market shipments would be expected to decline by about 3 percent from last fall.
Weather has been favorable in the West with good yields expected, while tropical downpours left standing water and delayed planting in Florida and Georgia. California accounts for about 71 percent of the fall fresh vegetable area (excluding melons and onions), while Florida expects to harvest about 20 percent of the fall fresh-vegetable crop.
Growers of six of the 11 surveyed crops are expected to reduce acreage this fall. The largest reductions from a year ago were for snap beans, bell peppers and head lettuce, while sweet corn and tomatoes were the most notable increases.
The decline in bell pepper area is likely a reaction to excess supplies and lower prices received last fall — especially in light of much higher production costs this year — and delayed or prevented planting caused by heavy tropical rains in southern Florida.
Bell pepper acreage was also the same or lower during the winter, spring and summer seasons. This is curious, according to the USDA report, since import volume is up 3 percent so far in 2008 and domestic bell pepper demand appears to be relatively steady.
While some growers may no longer be willing to risk the large investment required to produce, pack, and sell bell peppers, it is more likely that some of the retail demand for field-grown peppers has been supplanted by greenhouse-grown product, which is not currently captured in domestic production statistics.
This is also likely part of the reason that field-grown fresh tomato acreage has been on a declining path the past several years. With an economic recession and consumer belt-tightening looming, some cash-strapped consumers may switch back to lower-priced field-grown vegetables in the year ahead.
Acreage has declined during each of the quarterly seasons in 2008 with the fall season decline following reductions of 6 percent this past summer, 1 percent in the spring and 3 percent during the winter. As a result, annual 2008 fresh-market vegetable acreage is also projected to be lower than a year ago, with melon crops being down by 5 percent and bulb onions being down by 7 percent.
The impact of the sluggish economy on demand was outweighed by reduced acreage during the summer quarter of 2008 (July through September), leaving fresh-market vegetable prices up 2 percent from a year earlier. With market shipments down an estimated 8 percent from a year earlier, prices at the point of first sale (grower or shipping-point) averaged higher for such crops as carrots, cauliflower, celery, onions, snap beans, and sweet corn. September prices for carrots (up 52 percent) and bulb onions (up 146 percent) were easily the biggest gainers from their low levels of a year earlier.
On the other hand, good yields for crops such as tomatoes, broccoli and celery pushed prices lower during September. September movement of cucumbers (fresh and pickling-types) increased 5 percent from a year earlier. Michigan was the leading shipper with 35 percent of September volume, followed by Mexico (24 percent), Georgia (17 percent), New York (13 percent) and Ohio (8 percent).
Imports of greenhouse-produced cucumbers (excluding Mexico) accounted for 1 percent of market volume in September. Shipments of cucumbers grown for pickling accounted for 4 percent of movement, with most of this volume coming from Michigan. In addition to pickles, pickling cucumbers have also gained a small niche in the fresh cucumber market over the past few years.
Despite rising shipments, cucumber retail prices remained steady at 62 cents each in early October. The advertised retail price for cucumbers has remained steady since July. However, an increasing number of stores featured cucumbers in their advertisements in early October, likely reflecting improved market volume.
After an early fall with average volume and relatively favorable prices, the fall market is expected to feature reduced volume and sluggish demand, and higher prices.
With acreage and market volume lower, retail prices moved higher for some fresh-market vegetables in late September and early October. Average advertised retail prices in early October for crops such as onions, bell peppers, sweet corn, iceberg lettuce and squash were running above year-earlier levels.
Driven largely by a weaker U.S. dollar exchange rate, the volume of fresh-market vegetable (excluding melons, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and mushrooms) exports rose 5 percent from a year ago over the first 8 months of 2008 (January through August). Volume increased for commodities such as tomatoes, carrots, cauliflower, sweet corn and leaf/romaine lettuce.
Export volume was reduced for commodities such as head lettuce, celery, cucumbers, snap beans and bulb onions. Fresh vegetable export volume was greater than a year earlier for each month of the year with the strongest year-over-year gain in July (up 11 percent). The gain in 2008 comes after two consecutive weak export periods (January through August) in 2006 (down 7 percent) and 2007 (down 3 percent).
Exports to Canada — which accounted for 76 percent of total fresh volume — were up about 2 percent, while volume sent to Mexico (which accounted for 8 percent of the total) was up 13 percent. Fresh vegetable exports were also higher to the United Kingdom (up 15 percent due largely to sweet corn), South Korea (up 335 percent due to sweet corn), and Japan (up 11 percent due largely to onions and broccoli) during January through August.
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The sharper of you faithful readers of Marginal Utility will have probably noticed a bit of an ideological slant to my entries, and you won't be surprised to hear that I think, shockingly enough, that corporations profit by taking advantage of consumers rather than by catering to them. To judge by their behavior (see, for example, the film The Corporation), they seem to despise their customers, despite the fact that they are generally made up of them. And they aren't making a secret of it. They announce their scorn in myriad ways, I suspect, in every single edition of The Wall Street Journal. In what I hope will be a regular feature of Marginal Utility, I will occasionally share quotes from the paper illustrating the casual contempt of the business world.
Today's jewel: From "Deal Brings 'Proctoids' to 'Plywood Ranch,'" (B1) an article about the Gillette/P&G merger:
Gillette's longtime focus has been on developing better and better products to make mundane activities, such as shaving, require high-tech tools -- a complex operation focused largely on high-tech research and development that P&G cannot afford to disrupt.
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Montana Moore (Paula Patton) has baggage. You see, the beautiful, intelligent, jet-setting flight attendant is (gasp!) single, and when her younger (younger!) sister announces her engagement, she decides there's no way she's going to that wedding without a husband, or at least a fiancé, of her own. But with the nuptials just 30 days away, Montana's chances of finding a new man are slim, so her gay and sassy (respectively) BFFs Sam and Gail (Adam Brody and Jill Scott) devise a scheme to use their connections at the airline to get Montana on the same flights as her exes to see if she can accidentally/on-purpose rekindle the romance.
Written and directed by playwright David E. Talbert based on his novel, "Baggage Claim" promotes painfully outdated social mores. To the script's credit, Gail admonishes, "It's the 21st century. You don't need a man to define you." (Thank you!) And Montana does balk at one suitor's attempts to control her. But overall, she bats down the feminist argument in favor of old-fashioned romantic notions about love and marriage.
Patton is sweetly game, when she's not clopping through airports scrambling to make her next manufactured meet-cute. And Brody and Scott have a fun, funny chemistry that provokes chuckles despite oneself. But for a chick flick that meets the first two criteria of the Bechdel Test (it has at least two women who talk to each other), "Baggage Claim" fails the third (about something besides a man) big time.
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Fall 2008
Jane Zich, M.F.A., Ph.D. Conversing with Images: Lessons from the Vision Journey Painting Process
Beginning in 2004, Jane Zich, a clinical psychologist and self-taught artist with an M.F.A. degree in creative writing, began an extended dialogue with a living image that arose from the unconscious in the form of a midnight blue panther. The dialogue traversed painting sessions, dreams, and spontaneous fantasy. Over 250 mixed media paintings and a deepened appreciation for the dangers and rewards of dialoguing with energies from the unconscious have been among the harvest of this ongoing process.
During the first section of this seminar, Dr. Zich will present the background of and early lessons from her Vision Journey painting process through slides of her images and descriptions of the types of psychological processes evident in them. This will include exploration of the nature of living symbols, tools for orienting and balancing during intense or extended engagement with unconscious energies, and cyclical patterns of imagery that seem to reflect stages of engagement as well as specific tasks for ego consciousness during these stages. Following this formal presentation, there will be an extended open discussion of the possible theoretical and clinical implications of the material.
Jane Zich, M.F.A., Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with psychotherapy practices in Kentfield, California and San Francisco, and is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Zich has been developing meditative drawing and painting as a method for gaining an intuitive understanding of the reality of the psyche. Her articles on dialoguing with the unconscious have been published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, Journal of Sandplay Therapy, and Dream Time. Her Vision Journey paintings have received many awards and been featured in solo art exhibits sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies, the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, the Mill Valley Arts Council, and the Dream Institute in Berkeley. Her special interest is in the use of imagery in psychotherapy, in personal growth, and in the creative process, with particular emphasis on cultivating a dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.
Doug Von Koss Born into Beauty... The Birth of Mythopoetic Men's Work
Shepherd Bliss coined the word Mythopoetic to encapsulate a phenomenon that began 25 years ago when James Hillman, a psychologist, Robert Bly, a poet, and Michael Meade, a storyteller came together in a redwood forest to explore the tangled business of being husbands, mates, fathers and sons in America.
One of Hillman's opening remarks was, "The first symptom of the loss of soul (in men's lives) is the loss of the sense of beauty." The conversation began then in the presence of 90 men continues to reverberate in the lives of hundreds of thousands of men and their families across the United States. We will take a look at what happened at the beginning, how the work developed and where it is today. We'll ask the question what does ritual, art, poetry, initiation, mythology, fairy tales, story telling, laughter and grief really have to do with men?
Doug Von Koss is the artistic director of The Noah Project, a men's ritual performance group in the San Francisco Bay area. Now 75, he has been connected with Men's Work since 1983 when he joined the teaching staff of the Mendocino Men's Conference. He retired in 1998 from The San Francisco Opera where he was prop master for 10 years. For the last ten years he has been a teacher of chant and singing at The Minnesota Men's Conference. He frequently leads cultural and religious tours to Bali.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.A. First Fruit Offering and Blood Sacrifice: Aegean Alchemy in the Modern Psyche
In the wall paintings from Akrotiri on the Greek island of ancient Thera, a crocus- adorned goddess accepts an offering of precious saffron stigmas while bull's horns rise on an altar painted around a door decorated with lilies and spirals. When a volcanic eruption in 1700 bce blew out the center of the island, these frescoes were buried along with the rest of the town. Archeologists, who began a dig at the site on modern day Santorini in the 1960's, found the town with its stunning artifacts preserved by volcanic lava.
Both goddess and god have a strong presence at the site of Akrotiri. The goddess partakes of both a Mistress of Nature and of the ancient near-eastern Mistress of Animals, a precursor to Artemis. She may also be the first known goddess of healing. The sacred "horns of consecration" and the bull figurines show the god in the form of a bull, the Cretan Dionysos or Zeus. An alchemical archetype of transformation appears in the mysteries of these deities. With the use of a slide presentation, we will examine the parallel structures of crocus gathering and saffron processing done by women and the bull games, dances, and sacrifice of the bull done by men. Clinical material will amplify these rites in men and women's analytic work today.
Virginia Beane Rutter, M.A., is an analyst member and on the teaching faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. She is the author of several books and articles. Most recently she co-edited and contributed a chapter, "The Archetypal Paradox of Feminine Initiation in Analytic Work," to Initiation: The Living Reality of An Archetype (Routledge, 2007). She is in private practice in Mill Valley.
Spring 2008
Vicki Noble, M.A. Matriarchal Egalitarian Cultures
This seminar held on International Women's Day focuses on the characteristics of matriarchal cultures. The words matriarchy and patriarchy have become highly charged and almost taboo in our culture, due in part to the historical shift in fundamental social organizational structure from matriarchy to patriarchy. Matriarchy as it existed in ancient, traditional, and tribal cultures around the world manifested as cultures with mothers at the center, who give birth to both male and female children and love them both. Matriarchal cultures are first and foremost egalitarian. Today women and men from living matriarchal cultures have come forward to name and describe themselves at two recent International Congresses on Matriarchal Studies, the first one in Luxembourg in 2003, and more recently in Austin, Texas, in 2005.
In this seminar we discuss matriarchy and the possible ways we might consider using the matriarchal model to bring about a much-needed shift in our own culture, which has gone so far to violence and militarism that it has stripped our schools and other social programs of the necessary support to sustain life.
Vicki Noble, M.A. is a healer, teacher, artist, independent scholar, and author of works that revision history to include women. She is co-creator of the Motherpeace round tarot; author of Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess; Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire, Healing Our World; and most recently The Double Goddess: Women Sharing Power. She travels and teaches internationally, and is on the faculty of the Women's Spirituality Masters program (formerly at New College). She is an early activist in the women's liberation and women's health movements of the 1970s, and is an active mother and grandmother. She maintains a private consulting and healing practice in Santa Cruz.
Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D. A Creative Journey into Dreams
This seminar focuses on how to access our creative potential through the practice of lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming—awareness in dreams while we are dreaming—is a powerful practice of awakening to the great dimensions of our creative mind. Cultivating dream awareness is a practice of waking up to the unlimited depths of our creative self by learning and transforming our habits of the mind into something new. Engaging in lucid dreaming challenges our perception and habitual patterns and can lead to the practice of lucid waking. This willingness to open our eyes to see our greatest potential, to own ourselves as creative beings, seems to be one of the deepest challenges humans face.
In this seminar we learn various methods of working with the dream creatively. Participants have the opportunity to engage in lucidity practices and work with a dream through dream re-entry—a mode employing rhythmic drumming followed by automatic writing. Bring a dream to work with and a journal for writing.
Fariba Bogzaran, Ph.D., scholar and artist, is an Associate Professor and the founder of the Dream Studies Program at John F. Kennedy University. She specializes in transpersonal experiences in lucid dreaming, and dreams and art. She worked for the Lucidity Project exploring the science of lucid dreaming at Stanford Sleep Laboratory (1986-1990) and is a past Board member for the International Association for Study of Dreams and the Lucidity Association. Recent publications include Lucid Art and Hyperspace Lucidity (2003); Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them (2002); Experiencing the Divine in Lucid Dream State (1990); and Images of the Lucid Mind (1996).
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