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Video: 127-year-old officially declared oldest woman in China
Tuesday 27 August 2013
A woman in China aged 127 has been named the oldest woman in the country. The woman was born in 1885 and now has 40 grandchildren. Despite her health she is still quite active, she enjoys singing, eating and feeding her chickens.
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I cannot breathe completely. I feel that I'm holding a lot here in my lower belly.
Then Rolfing will be good. Through Rolfing breathing will become natural, and then you can continue it.
Breathing is one of the things to be looked after because it is one of the most important things.
If you are not breathing fully, you cannot live fully.
Then almost everywhere you will be withholding something, even in love. In talking even, you will be withholding. You will not communicate completely; something will always remain incomplete.
Once breathing is perfect everything else falls into line. Breathing is life. But people ignore it, they don't worry about it at all, they don't pay it any attention.
And every change that is going to happen is going to happen through the change in your breathing.
If for many years you have been breathing wrongly, shallow breathing, then your musculature becomes fixed. Then it is not just a question of your will It is as if somebody has not moved for years: legs have gone dead, the muscles have shrunk, blood flows no more. Suddenly the person decides one day to go for a long walk – it is beautiful, a sunset. But he cannot move; just by thinking it is not going to happen. Now much effort will be needed to bring those dead legs to life again.
The breathing passage has a certain musculature around it, and if you have been breathing wrongly – and almost everybody is – then the musculature has become fixed. Now it will take many years to change it by your own effort, and it will be an unnecessary waste of time. Through deep massage, particularly through Rolfing, those muscles relax and then you can start again. But after Rolfing, once you start breathing well don't fall into the old habit again.
Everybody breathes wrongly because the whole society is based on very wrong conditions, notions, attitudes. For example, a small child is weeping and the mother says not to cry. What will the child do? – because crying is coming, and the mother says not to cry. He will start holding his breath because that is the only way to stop it. If you hold your breath everything stops – crying, tears, everything. Then by and by that becomes a fixed thing – don't be angry, don't cry, don't do this, don't do that.
The child learns that if he breathes shallowly then he remains in control. If he breathes perfectly and totally as every child is born breathing, then he becomes wild. So he cripples himself.
Every child, boy or girl, starts playing with the genital organs because the feeling is pleasant. The child is completely unaware of the social taboos and nonsense, but if the mother or father or somebody sees you playing with your genitals they tell you to stop it immediately. And such condemnation is in their eyes you become shocked, and you become afraid of breathing deeply, because if you breathe deeply it massages your genital organs from within. That becomes troublesome, so you don't breathe deeply; just shallow breathing so you are cut off from the genital organs.
All societies that are sex-repressive are bound to be shallow-breathing societies. Only primitive people who don't have any repressive attitude about sex breathe perfectly. Their breathing is beautiful, it is complete and whole. They breathe like animals, they breathe like children.
So many things are involved....

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Yup, the ADU count-down/count-up is Sony's approach, but it is tightly integrated into their column-parallel ADCs. Instead of handling digital CDS off-die, for example, Sony simply integrates it directly into the ADC for each column. Reset count is negative, exposure count is positive, with the offset correcting the noise contribution from dark current present at sensor reset time. Concurrently, the specific approach to CP-ADC Sony uses cancels out banding via fine tuning each ADC (or maybe it is simply because they have an ADC per column, and the benefit is by default, as I have yet to find any patent directly describing how they cancel banding), which is how they correct banding. There is a nice PDF that explains it all...and I have the link...I'll go dig it up...
Here we go. Sony's CP-ADC paper. Seems there are two things that reduce banding. According to the paper, the use of analog CDS circuitry is itself the cause of some horizontal banding, due to variations in CDS circuits per pixel:QuoteAlso a capacitor with a size larger than a certain value is required in the CDS circuit...
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Additionally, Sony's CP-ADC, since it is low-frequency thanks to being per-column, allows them to eliminate high-frequency contributors to signal noise in the A/D conversion and Digial CDS unit:QuoteAnother advantage of the column-parallel A/D converter technique lies in its conversion speed. Since processing is performed in parallel for each column, the A/D conversion frequency is extremely low, and the high-frequency band noise components can be separated from the signal components.
For those who are interested in the exact process of A/D conversion and digital CDS in Sony's CP-ADC approach, here it is:QuoteThe column-parallel digital CDS technique operating sequence is as follows.
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The "low frequency" you're referring to is all due to the number of AD converters used. There's nothing advanced or even remotely "patentable" about this. The signal frequency in a readout is:
[# of pixels * ops per frame * fps] divided by [numbers of AD units used]
In a per-column system you get [the numbers of columns] AD-converters, in a normal ~20MP sensor that's about 6000. Many off-sensor AD systems use between 4-16 (Canon use 8-16, 5Dmk3 uses a 2x4channel setup and the 1Dx uses 4x4channels). That gives a (6048 / 2 / = 400x lower quantization frequency if we assume that both are 14-bit and have the same fps. Quantization noise typically rises asymptotically with frequency above a certain point. Aptina have some systems with AD-on-chip that uses one for each 12 columns or some number close to that, giving about 400 AD converters per system. There are and cannot be any patents regarding how many AD converters per row or column you use.
I never said there was. The patents are for the design of the ADC/CDS units, not their frequency. The point is that *part* of that design involves keeping high-frequency components (i.e. the core PLL clock) out of the ADCs so they don't introduce high frequency banding.
To get rid of almost 100% of the banding effect, you just have to make sure that the response from each of the AD converters is the same as the others. Toshiba's effort in the 5200 sensor shows what you can achieve just by keeping a good control over your manufacturing process - since they don't use any kind of column-balancing strategy what so ever, except for the prerecorded dark frame on the Fujitsu made EXPEED chip - according to the die SEMs I've seen. So they show how well you can balance 6080 AD converters without any fancy processing, why can't Canon balance 8?
First, the Toshiba chip still has some banding, and its been enough to make customers complain. If we are talking 100% elimination here, so far, the only sensor I know that does that is Exmor.
According to the PDF, you don't need to actually balance anything. That is why I think it is rather elegant...according to Sony themselves, they eliminated circuitry, and moved circuitry around, to produce a low-noise environment for ADC. The simple nature of column-parallel ADC with digital CDS IS the solution to the problem. It is a very elegant, simple solution to the problem...that is what I love about it, and why I don't think it will be a breeze for Canon to reproduce. I thought there was some per-ADC fine tuning, but the sources of banding noise are the analog CDS circuitry itself (horizontal, thanks to transistor variance) and high frequency components in the ADCs (vertical, we all know about this). The very act of moving to CP-ADC (verses column-bucket parallel ADC like Toshiba) is what eliminates both forms of banding noise, effectively "for free".
To increase the performance at lower ISOs, where the off-die electronics add in more noise than the on-die electronics in all Canon cameras - increase the quality of the off-chip electronics and fix the signal layout problems. This isn't very hard to do either - if you WANT to do it.
I wouldn't call the quality of Canon DIGIC chips low. They are very high quality components already. They are also very high frequency components...high frequency, a major source of banding. Combine that with the use of analog CDS, which thanks to variance in the CDS transistors, causes horizontal banding, plus the high frequency bus to ship the analog sensor off the sensor die to those DIGIC chips...
Seems the trend of moving all of these components onto the sensor die and increasing parallelism is solving a lot of noise problems in and of itself. I don't think Canon is simply ignoring the problem...they aren't some evil corporation giggling gleefully as they watch their customers bleed cash. They have a transistor size problem, 500nm is showing its age. I think Canon can easily fix that, they have already demonstrated 180nm technology. I think now it is a matter of moving all that off-die junk onto the sensor die and increasing parallelism, and going digital. If they skip the digital part, I think things will definitely improve, but I doubt they will match Exmor in total quality.
On-chip electronic noise is indeed very important at higher ISOs, just think about it. At ISO6400 you have ~64x less photons available than at base ISO, in a 5Dmk3 that makes about 1000e- per pixel give pure white. -4Ev, i.e slightly darker than middle gray is 16x lower than white: 1000/16 = 62 e-. The inherent noise in that gray is sqrt(62) = 8e-.
Now, compared to the 8e- of natural light noise, having 1e- or 10e- in added electronic noise makes quite a difference. Since Canon sensors have a very good on-chip CDS, they have a read noise of about 3e-. That's almost exactly the same as in the D800 sensor.
Sure, the same as the D800 sensor at all ISO settings. I guess I don't see why the D800 having 2.6e- at ISO 6400 is a major contributor to noise when the 5D III has 2.9e-, and according to the review the 5D III seems to do better at high ISO settings than the D800. Noise at those ISO levels is so completely dominated by photon noise that the contribution from electronic noise is effectively meaningless.
Getting back on-topic. Canon has mentioned they have some new noise-reduction technology they have employed in the high-MP sensors floating around in prototype cameras. I don't know of any of that noise-reduction technology is on-die ADC and NR, but there was at least a rumor that they were using active thermal cooling which resulted in very low read noise. Sounds like that may take care of more dark current noise (which is usually what extreme cooling is employed for), however I don't know if that will address the issue of off-die ADC noise. I'm not sure a "little bit of balancing" will do much either...DIGIC is a high quality chip designed by Canon and manufactured at high quality fabs on modern processes. Canon may be able to reduce the 40mp sensor's contribution to read noise well below the 1e- mark with adequate active cooling, but will that take care of the worse offender....banding noise?


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Burrard Marina Field House artist-in-residence Raymond Boisjoly hosts a talk and discussion with Nathan Crompton.
Nathan Crompton co-editor of The Mainlander, will speak about the history of the land where Vanier Park and the Burrard Marina Field House are located, previously the Kitsilano Reserve. 2013 marks the 100 year anniversary of the dispossession and displacement of the reserve.
Read the article 'City of perpetual displacement: 100 years since the destruction of the Kitsilano Reserve' by Nathan Crompton in The Mainlander here.
Upcoming at the Field House
Upcoming at the Field House
Broken City Lab
January to April, 2014
Broken City Lab is an artist-led collective that works through collaborative social practice and creative research to understand the ways in which locality is shaped and enacted in the city. Taking the form of events, workshops, installations, and interventions, their projects aim to connect various disciplines and critique, annotate and re-imagine the cities that they encounter, and have unfolded in collaboration with numerous organizations and institutions. They currently operate CIVIC Space in downtown Windsor, Ontario, a 24-month long project exploring the intersection of art and civic life. As part of the Field House Studio Residency members will embark on site-specific research towards a new project that explores and makes visible issues at the intersection of education, public space and civic life. This new project will develop a sequence of programming that circulates in and around the Burrard Marina Field House.
Broken City Lab's work recently appeared in the th International Venice Biennial of Architecture as part of the Grounds for Detroit exhibit and the collective was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. Previous projects have included working with the City of Windsor's Transit Authority to install community-created text-based art in its buses; interactive outdoor projections detailing hundreds of ideas for saving the city; the design and distribution of removable micro-gardens; interactive text-based performance soware; large-scale messages projected across an international border; artists hosted for an interdisciplinary storefront residency project; a foot long message painted on a parking lot visible from planes and satellites; and leading numerous psycho-geographic walks, DIY workshops and community brainstorming sessions in cities all
across Canada.
For this residency, we gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Province of British Columbia through the BC Creative
Communities Award and the generosity of many private and individual donations. The Field House Studio Residency Program is generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver. Broken City Lab acknowledges support from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, City of Windsor and Ontario Trillium Foundation.
Broken City Lab
Saturday, February 15 , 2pm
The Field House Studio at Burrard Marina
In partnership with SFU Philosophers Café, Broken City Lab will
host an artist talk and discussion at the Burrard Marina Field
House Studio.
Marie Lorenz – visit and upcoming 2014 project
This December 2013, Marie Lorenz will visit Vancouver to begin research for a project to be completed in May 2014 at the Burrard Marina Field House.
Marie Lorenz's work combines psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms. In her ongoing project The Tide and Current Taxi, (http://www.tideandcurrenttaxi.org/) Lorenz ferries people on the East and Hudson Rivers surrounding New York City in a boat she has specially made. Lorenz studies tidal charts of the New York Harbor and uses river currents to direct and drift the boat throughout the waterways of the City. The act of floating adds a specific presence to one's own observation: the viewer maintains an awareness of their own balance and form as they absorb the details in their surroundings. This kind of observation creates something new out of something familiar. For Vancouver Lorenz will begin to develop ideas and discussion toward constructing a new vessel and mapping local waterways in which the community will play an important role as participants.
Previously at the Field House
Canadian artist Raymond Boisjoly was our inaugural resident artist at the Burrard Marina Field House Studio. For six months Boisjoly occupied the Field House, using it as a studio and a place for community engagement.
Please see the related blog posts on the right for more news about his residency at the Field House. Click here for the CAG Field House Blog
The Field House Studio is an off-site artist residency space and community hub organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery. This initiative seeks to support artists whose practice moves beyond conventional exhibition making, echoing the founding origins of the gallery where artists were offered support toward the production of new work. Our goal in presenting art outside of the boundaries of our exhibition spaces is to reach out to communities, offering new ways for individuals to encounter and connect with art and artists, expanding audiences as well as strengthening our commitment to nurturing artists through example, context and commissioning.
Running parallel to the residency program is an ongoing series of public events for all ages.
Speaker Series: Artists in Public
This summer the CAG launched a new series inviting creative and cultural producers to share their theories, thoughts, and experiences of developing projects in the public realm.
Justin A. Langlois
Saturday, August 17, 4pm
Field House Studio at Burrard Marina
Langlois discussed his work as co-founder and research director of Broken City Lab, an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research collective and non-profit organization working to explore locality, infrastructures and creative practice leading towards civic change. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor. In the fall of 2013, he will join the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau
Unlearning Weekenders
Saturday, June 22, 4pm
Field House Studio at Burrard Marina
This first talk presented collaborators Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau who were working on a public project throughout Vancouver entitled Unlearning Weekender, a project by Goethe Satellite @ Vancouver, created in cooperation with Dance Troupe Practice, Windsor House School, Public Dreams and Revised Projects. They discussed the series of workshops which invited the public to create rituals as a means of challenging invisible social structures aiming to strengthen community bonds.
Family Days at the Field House Studio
Free drop-in art activities for all ages which responded to the work of Raymond Boisjoly and CAG exhibitions.
Saturday August 24 – A free all ages drop-in art activity: making pin-wheel windmills.
Saturday July 27 - We welcomed art makers of all ages to the Field House, participants learnt the basics of printmaking by making their own styrofoam relief prints.
Saturday June 29 - All ages of visitors dropped by the Field House for a marine mobile workshop, constructing easy-to-make kinetic sculptures which took the marine world as a theme.
The Field House Studio Residency Program is generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver. The inaugural residency with Raymond Boisjoly was supported by the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology.
Dhrupad vocalist Harkeerat Mangat and Tabla drummer Sunny Matharu performed at the Burrard Marina Field House, Vancouver, Wednesday August 14. The occasion was a launch for the 2013 Summer issue of FUSE magazine.
Images by Maria Fedorova.
Sound by Phil Dion.
On Saturday June 29 we welcomed art makers of all ages to drop by the Field House for a marine mobile workshop.
Taking the marine world as a theme we constructed easy-to-make kinetic sculptures. Above are a few images from the day's fun activities.
The Field House Studio is an off-site artist residency space and community hub organized by the Contemporary Art Gallery and supported by the Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver. Running parallel to the residency program is an ongoing series of public events for all ages.
Join us at the Field House for the next Family Day events on Saturday July 27 and Saturday August 24.MORE
Speaker Series: Artists in Public
This summer the CAG launched a new series inviting creative and cultural producers to share their theories, thoughts, and experiences of developing projects in the public realm.
The first talk presented collaborators Zoe Kreye and Catherine Grau who worked on a public project throughout Vancouver entitled Unlearning Weekender, (A project by Goethe Satellite @ Vancouver, in cooperation with Dance Troupe Practice, Windsor House School, Public Dreams and Revised Projects). They discussed a series of workshops which invited the public to create rituals as a means of challenging invisible social structures aiming to strengthen community bonds.
Read here about the Unlearning Weekenders Project on the Goethe blog.MORE
Boisjoly is an Aboriginal artist of Haida and Québécois descent based in Vancouver, BC. His practice engages the representation of Aboriginality through vernacular materials, photography and especially text-based work combining contemporary craft, pop references and street art with various cultural signifiers of traditional Northwest Coast imagery. His talk considered the varied intersections of history, technology, and cultural practice as the central concern of his current work marking the beginning of his residency at the Burrard Marina Field House. Presented in collaboration with Emily Carr University of Art + Design.MORE
The Contemporary Art Gallery is hosting Australian artist Keg de Souza as an up-coming Burrard Civic Marina Artist in Residence in 2015.
I have been lucky enough to spend the last few days with Keg as she begins to conceptualize her upcoming residency. Keg's most recent works explore ideas surrounding space, place and food. These themes appear to be forming around her residency here in Vancouver. Keg has visited community centre's and women shelters in the Downtown East Side, UBC Farms, MOA and places in-between to reflect on the use of local foods and spatial politics.
We have also learned that Keg is an amazing vegan and dairy-free cook… so we're counting on taste testing some of her own recipes!
Check out more about Keg and her work on her blog here and stay posted to find out more about her upcoming residency.
- Lindsay LachanceMORE
The Contemporary Art Gallery is excitingly awaiting this year's National Aboriginal Day events! On June 21st Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities across Canada gather to acknowledge and celebrate the histories, knowledges and cultures of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Trout Lake National Aboriginal Day Organizing Committee explains:
Setting aside a day for Aboriginal Peoples is part of the wider recognition of Aboriginal Peoples' important place within the fabric of Canada and their ongoing contributions as First Peoples. As former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson said, "It is an opportunity for all of us to celebrate our respect and admiration for First Nations, for Inuit, for Métis — for the past, the present and the future. " (NADOC 2014).
This year's events will take place at various venues across the city including Trout Lake Community Centre at 3360 Victoria Drive in East Vancouver. Throughout the day there will be a pancake breakfast, a community walk, dance performances, live music, storytelling, and much more! There will also be food and art vendors. At Trout Lake from 2-3pm, the performance of Songs For Reconciliation will take place. Artist in Residence William Wasden Jr, Community members from Hillcrest, Hastings and Britannia Community Centres, UBC Learning Exchange, Britannia Elementary and Hamber Secondary share and celebrate the learning of Kwakwaka'wakw culture.
William Hiłamas Edward Wasden Jr. is 'Namgis (Nimpkish Valley and Alert Bay Area) from the Kwakwaka'wakw "Kwakwala Speaking Nations". William was taught traditional Kwakwaka'wakw artwork by late 'Namgis Chief / Master Carver Pal'nakwalagalis Wakas Douglas Cranmer and also from Haida Artist Don Yeomans. He was taught singing and the traditions around ceremonial culture by the last Kwakwaka'wakw Song Keeper/Composer/Historian, the late Nakwaxda'xw Chief Hiwakalis Tom Willie "Mackenzie" from Blunden Harbour and his late wife, matriarch 'Malidi Elsie nee Wamiss from Kingcome Inlet. William credits the survival and strength of present Kwakwaka'wakw culture and ceremonies to the teachings of dedicated Elders such as them (Songs For Reconciliation Online, 2014). William Wasden Jr's residency in Vancouver is coming to an end, but his work with art and reconciliation continues on through the communities he has worked with.
The celebration of National Aboriginal day allows for all interested to learn, share, and enjoy traditional cultural elements like traditional dialects, song, dance, art, histories and knowledge. It is a day of celebration and community building. I can't wait for Saturday, and hope that you make it out too!MORE
Fresh in town from originally Windsor, via Montreal, Justin Langlois gave a talk at the Burrard Marina Field House about his ideas and his work on Saturday, August 17th. He brought with him a pamphlet of thought-provoking slices of his personal and artistic philosophy, which he flipped through over the duration of the talk as a prompt for further musings and discussion. He's happy to share it with us in the images above, along with a video he made titled 'Windsor is Forever'.MORE
On Monday, October 7th we attended a potluck get-together for everyone involved in the City of Vancouver's Field House Residence Program at Roundhouse Community Centre. There were heaping plates of kale, rice, beans and hummus, mini glasses of wine, and three hours worth of interesting presentations about what each group of artists are doing to make the most of their unique locations.
One of my favourites was the Loco Moto Art Collective, located in the Aberthau Mansion at West Point Grey Community Centre. Spearheaded by Laura Lee Coles but including around 20 others, the group works broadly in the realm of digital media, eco-aesthetics, and the relationships between humans, technology and nature. They are the newest Field House to have set-up shop, and they've already hosted a few events indoors and outdoors. They seem to have lots of wild and wonderful things coming up for the new year. They'll be launching a new exhibition called No Memes No at Hot Art Wet City at 2206 Main Street on the spookiest day of the year–October 31st.
Another group that piqued my interest was Cloudscape Comics. They're located at 5955 Ross Street inside the Memorial Park South Field House. The 30 of them approach the production of comics from different backgrounds, which makes their oeuvre very dynamic. There's something for everyone and they release an anthology of comics every year. They recently posted a call-out for submissions with Sci-Fi/Fantasy comics with queer characters and themes. They offer a free drop-in comic jam every Wednesday starting at 7:30pm at their Field House.
And these are only a few examples of the 50 artists who are enlivening 13 spaces in parks around the city. It was awesome to hear about the ways that other artists are negotiating the best use of their spaces, and it'll be great to keep an eye on all these projects that are largely community oriented and site specific.
- JaclynMORE
Nathan Crompton gave a lecture and discussion at the Burrard Marina Field House on Saturday, September 28th. We asked him a few questions in preparation for the event, and are now bringing you the second half of the session (the first part can be found here). We're grateful for the insight and perspective that Nathan brings to this crucial and ever-timely subject matter and look forward to further expanding this dialogue with him and the community.
JB: For people who may not understand the complexity of the power relations embedded in gentrification and may therefore see neighbourhood improvement as simply that, how would you explain to them that the "polishing up" comes at a high cost to a basic, and long-compromised human right—especially for the (large) indigenous population of the area?
NC: That's a difficult question. I might only be able to point to a contradiction. Currently our neoliberal cities are crumbling before our eyes, with the massive de-funding of basic services both in terms of the human and architectural infrastructure. I'm talking about an entire generation of infrastructure left behind by the welfare state, whether it's Simon Fraser University, Heather Place or Little Mountain – they're all in shambles as the war on the poor and working class intensifies. Social democracy, with all of its flaws and compromises – particularly its framework of patriarchal white supremacy – has now been replaced by neoliberalism.
Neoliberal urbanism states that improvements to the city can only be supported if they are funded privately, first by private capital and secondly by the retroactive bonuses, tax cuts and fee exemptions created by the municipal colonial state. Since being elected, Vision Vancouver has taken this model to its highest possible level, setting in motion an entire bureaucracy whose sole purpose is to move social funds upwards, particularly (but not exclusively) for the monopoly developers who fund the political apparatus. So the axiom of our generation is revitalization and improvements, yes, but the precondition is that these improvements only for those who can afford it, under the guise of urban revitalization. It is therefore hard today to discuss urban improvements in an abstract way, detached from class and colonialism. Who is benefitting from revitalization, who is losing out? Does it always have to be the propertied class who determine what is the "highest and best use"? Real-estate knows how to follow through on a process of colonization to gain returns on value, but can we respond with a new affirmation of value, independent from capitalist accumulation and the displacement of our communities? Those are some of the questions we've been asking.
JB: The pro-development side seems to argue that gentrification is justified by the fact that the residents in the DTES of today are not in a position to pay the requisite costs to live in a neighbourhood whose real estate potential is exorbitant. What they fail to realize is that the neighbourhood functions as a community and refuge for people who have largely been displaced and dispossessed previously—in some cases several times, by the same system that is trying to again remove them. How can we conceive of a way to bridge this gap between seeing a neighbourhood as dollar signs and seeing a neighbourhood as inhabited by a vulnerable population with a strong existing community?
NC: The events of Reconciliation are coming to a close here in Vancouver. Yesterday Vancouver City Council also apologized to the Japanese community for its motion in 1942 supporting the expulsion and internment of Japanese Canadians during the war. Now is a good time to ask, reflectively, if we want to continue repeating the mistakes of the past. Grace Eiko Thomson told city council that apologies and reconciliation mean nothing in the context of accelerating displacement and dispossession.
"For me, an apology is not enough unless it is followed up. Not for us, it's too late for us. Most of us are gone. Most of us who experienced the internment are gone. It is so important we remember that what happened to us can happen to others. That is why I raise the Downtown Eastside because that is where we used to live. That is where we were displaced from. And the original people were the Coast Salish first nations who were originally displaced.
She continued: "For me, I really feel we have to be vigilant about other people who are still living in this area at the moment who are still socially and economically being excluded, particularly with this big talk about gentrification. The developers are moving in, the price of land is going up. So what does this mean for the people that are living there? Does that mean they are going to be displaced again? I hope not. This is the most important thing to me right now, that this doesn't happen to another group of people. This is a unique community with a unique history and there are still people living here who may be displaced depending on how the city decided to act on this area…"
More of Jaclyn's writing can be found here, and her tweets over here.MORE
Nathan Crompton hosted by Raymond Boisjoly
Burrard Marina Field House
Saturday September 28, 4 pm
This year marks 100 years since the dispossession of the Kitsilano Reserve, a year the city of Vancouver has also declared the Year of Reconciliation.
Local writers Nathan Crompton and Maria Wallstam wrote an article in The Mainlander called City of perpetual displacement: 100 years since the destruction of the Kitsilano Reserve in July of this year. It explores the relationship between the rampant gentrification of the DTES & Grandview-Woodlands, and the colonial settlers' unjust treatment of indigenous populations in the early 20th century. The article piqued the interest of our current Burrard Marina Field House artist in residence, Raymond Boisjoly, who identified that the Kitsilano Reserve discussed in the article is located in the exact same spot as the Burrard Marina Field House (1655 Whyte Avenue) where he's been working for nearly six months. Throughout his residency at the Field House Boisjoly has been interested in the history of the land the Marina sits on. Crompton's research and response to the dispossession of the Kits reserve aligns it with the current rash of forced evictions of low income residents in the DTES. A link can be drawn between Boisjoly and Crompton through their evocation of histories as a way to engage urgent current dialogues in the community.
For more detailed maps and history of the Kitsilano Indian Reserve lands go to UBC's Indigenous foundations online mapping tool http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/land-rights/mapping-tool-kitsilano-reserve.html.
- More of Jaclyn's writing can be found here, and her tweets over here.
Raymond Boisjoly is currently the artist-in-residence at the CAG Field House at Burrard Marina. The Field House Studio Residency Program is generously supported by the Vancouver Park Board and the City of Vancouver. The inaugural residency with Raymond Boisjoly is supported by the Province of British Columbia through the Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology.MORE


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Elements - and thoughts of RAAM - force Chris Hopkinson to abandon LEJOGLE record attempt
Ultra-cyclist abandons 80 miles short of halfway point amid freezing temperatures and headwind all the way
Ultra-cyclist Chris 'Hoppo' Hopkinson was last week forced by the elements to abandon his attempt to set a new record for a non-stop Land's End to John O'Groats and back ride after getting within 80 miles of completing the first half of the 1,700-mile journey. But while riding the length of Great Britain twice would for most be the challenge of a lifetime, it's not even Hopkinson's biggest goal of 2013 – that will be the Race Across America (RAAM) in July.
In a ride report on his Team Hoppo blog, Hopkinson describes how he rode most of the way from Cornwall to northern Scotland into a headwind and amid sub-zero temperatures, with setbacks including his support car breaking down near Preston and Hopkinson himself suffering severe breathing difficulties.
Hopkinson's attempt on the LEJOGLE record formed part of his preparation for that coast-to-coast race from California to Maryland, and it was partly the potential disruption to his RAAM plans of carrying on riding against the elements – including the wind swinging round 180 degrees for the return trip – that swayed the decision to abandon on Friday.
"I don't do quitting but I had to look at the bigger picture, RAAM is my main race this year and this was training for it," said Hopkinson, who lives in Richmond, North Yorkshire.
"There was no point putting myself in hospital when the record was out of reach. I know I can do the distance, that was never the issue," he went on.
"I was admitted to hospital when I got home, with ligament damage to my hand and pneumonia so nothing too bad!
"I am back on the bike today and off on holiday with the family, going to come back stronger and fitter. A lot of lessons have been learnt by me and the crew, it's these things we are going to take from the experience and keep it positive."
He added: "Will I be try it again? Never say never, but I think I might leave it till it warms up a bit I always hated the cold."
In the 2005 edition of RAAM, Hopkinson became the first Briton to officially complete a solo ride in the race, covering the 3,000 miles in a little under 12 days.
Now aged 45, the Army Cycling Union rider had only taken up cycling in his early 30s. In his LEJOGLE ride, he was attempting to beat the record of 5 days, 21 hours and 8 minutes, set by Ben Rockett in 27 August 2010.


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Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 at Bell Funeral Home. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, at Sunset Cemetery adjoining Pumpkin Center Baptist Church. The Rev. Jimmy McLain will officiate.
Preceding him in death was his first wife of 34 years and the mother of his children, Margaret Sue Pate Manuel; son, Donald Ray Manuel; granddaughter, MaKenzie Manuel; and parents, Chock and Bessie Manuel.
Survivors include his wife, Margie Metcalf Manuel of Pumpkin Center; children, Connie Manuel Robinson and her husband, Chip, and their children, Kacy Tucker and her husband, Daniel, and Kyra Robinson of Vestavia, Knox Randall Manuel and his wife, Lisa, and their children, MaKayla and Colt Manuel of Pumpkin Center, Thad Manuel and his children, Alisha Cole and her children, BreAnna, Cadence and Carson, Patrick Chase Manuel and his wife, Caylin, and their children, Dalton and Alley, and Maverick Manuel, all of Sayre, and Rachel Manuel Simmons and her husband, Len, and their children, Alex Smith and her husband, Chris, Berkley Horton and her husband, Zac, and Brittney Simmons, all of Jasper; daughter-in-law, Penny Manuel and son, Miles Manuel, of Pumpkin Center; special friends, Rose Miles, Jenny Stewart and a host of other relatives and friends.
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Visual Content MarketingMARTIJN BROUNS, MARKETING DIRECTOR, INDG
Content marketing: from reach to relevance Back in 1900, Michelin may have been a pioneer with its famous Michelin guides. So, why has content marketing waited until the 2010s to become a hype? Michelin expanded the …
Content marketing: from reach to relevance
Back in 1900, Michelin may have been a pioneer with its famous Michelin guides. So, why has content marketing waited until the 2010s to become a hype? Michelin expanded the reach of its brand through its guides but had little to no competition. Today, many brands provide similar information and can reach consumers at any time they want. Digital urges marketing to shift focus from 'market reach' to 'customer relevance'. The challenge is to be relevant to individuals,.. on a global scale.
To truly engage consumers, content marketers will focus on typical buyer persona. For these persona, research will have to reveal their typical buying habits: where do they search for brands, how do they select products, what influences them, what touch points do they use and when. Based on this data, consumer needs are identified for each step in their decision journey. The result will be a massive overview of content requirements that will challenge any marketer's budget.
Relevance needs a return
As visual content seems to significantly impact consumer engagement and conversion, brands have started to focus on creating content and using social networks to activate consumers. Product content was offered across websites, retailers and digital touch points in-store. But as with all investments, ultimately they need to provide returns. Today, brands are seeking ways to balance consumer engagement with marketing efficiency.
When looking for ways to drive efficiency, brands will have to look at the bulk of their content. For most consumer product brands this will direct them to visual product content. This content is required across the decision journey, needs localization and changes every time new products are introduced.
Working for major brands in consumer electronics, home furnishing and retail, INDG identified 5 steps to drive the ROI of visual product content:
1. Create a grid of all visual content needs
First off all, brands will need to determine for what touch points they need visual content. Next this content needs to be categorized to identify what digital assets can be reused. This is a crucial step that will provide extremely valuable insights for central and regional marketing teams to prevent redundant production of content.
2. Determine content formats
Next, brands should identify typical formats for visual content. This might sound dull and less engaging but it's not. It just urges brands to decouple creative power from content production. In turn this will provide more consistent content that is better usable across touch points. The media industry has been using a similar approach for many decades. Just think about TV show formats that are even being licensed across countries.
3. Replace traditional production with CGI
While most brands use traditional photography and video production for the bulk of their content, it is probably not the most efficient way. Brands will need access to a physical product, send it to a studio for shooting and collect it afterwards. This content is always ready AFTER a first product was produced, content is not reusable, high costs for logistics and write-offs. Today, computer generated content prevents all these challenges and can reach similar (if not better) quality content. And best of all, it can always be modified to create derivative shots featuring other angles or other product materials or colors.
4. Setup a content production pipeline
While some studios may have offered CGI work before, very few are able to serve content production as a service (rather than a range of separate visualization projects). The major difference between the two is that a large scale production approach is organized to guarantee and increase quality and service levels over time. The content producer will also heavily invest in production innovations that will drastically reduce cost of ownership and time to market. Content production and marketing will consequently be seamlessly aligned.
5. Store content in a digital asset management system
In order to deal with major amounts of content, the access to content will ultimately have to be managed in order to be able to find it, manage versions and distribute it for regional marketing efforts. Working with CGI content requires a good organization of so-called master assets: 3D blueprints of products that will be used as a single source for all product content. This will minimize any risk for redundant productions and provide a consistent, high quality product experience.


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A Collaborative Effort to Integrate Engineering Design and Industrial Design Curricula for Entrepreneurial Technological Product Development
Northeastern University, 2006 - $5,000In 2003, a NCIIA Course and Program grant provided Northeastern with the opportunity to redesign and restructure its entrepreneurial studies curriculum to respond to business and engineering faculty assessment. The assessment was instrumental in the formation of the School of Technological Entrepreneurship (STE), which integrates students from business, engineering, industrial design, and computer science in cross-discipline teams for innovation and enhanced learning. However, industrial and engineering design instruction is not fully integrated into the curriculum, and students may not collaborate on this critical aspect of product development until after graduation, when they are working in a commercial firm. This grant intends to fill the gap by developing a new curriculum that creates a cross-institutional collaboration with the Massachusetts College of Art.
The new curriculum will integrate the instruction of engineering and industrial design functions in two shared courses with MassArt, Introduction to Product Design and Capstone Product Design. In Introduction to Product Design, NU engineering design students and MassArt industrial design students will attend two lectures weekly and gain an appreciation of the industrial and engineering design tasks that must be performed concurrently during the development of a successful product. In the Capstone Product Design course, engineering and industrial design students will collaborate to produce a solution to a technical product need from problem analysis through prototype fabrication. Students will form a minimum of six teams, and will work with faculty mentors and alumni entrepreneurs.
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When you work out, are you working hard or hardly working? Exercising at the correct intensity can help you can get the most out of your physical activity — making sure you're not overdoing or even underdoing it. Here's a look at what exercise intensity means and how to make it work for you.
When you're doing aerobic activity, such as walking or biking, exercise intensity correlates with how hard the activity feels to you. Exercise intensity also is reflected in how hard your heart is working.
There are two basic ways to measure exercise intensity:
Studies show that your perceived exertion correlates well with your heart rate. So if you think you're working hard, your heart rate is likely elevated.
You can use either way of gauging exercise intensity. If you like technology and care about the numbers, a heart rate monitor might be a useful device for you. If you feel you're in tune with your body and your level of exertion, you likely will do fine without a monitor.
How do you know how hard you should be exercising? For most healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends these exercise guidelines:
So think about your reasons for exercising. Do you want to improve your fitness, lose weight, train for a competition, or a combination of these? Your answer will help determine the appropriate level of exercise intensity.
To reap the most health benefits from exercise, your exercise intensity must generally be at a moderate or vigorous level. For weight loss, the more intense your exercise, or the longer you exercise, the more calories you burn. However, balance is important. Overdoing it can increase your risk of soreness, injury and burnout. If you're new to regular exercise and physical activity, you may need to start out at a light intensity and gradually build up to a moderate or vigorous intensity.
Here are some clues to help you judge your exercise intensity.
Light exercise intensity
Light activity feels easy. Here are clues that your exercise intensity is at a light level:
Moderate exercise intensity
Moderate activity feels somewhat hard. Here are clues that your exercise intensity is at a moderate level:
Vigorous exercise intensity
Vigorous activity feels challenging. Here are clues that your exercise intensity is at a vigorous level:
Overexerting yourself
Beware of pushing yourself too hard too often. If you're short of breath, in pain or can't work out as long as you'd planned, your exercise intensity is probably higher than your fitness level allows. Back off a bit and build intensity gradually.
Another way to gauge your exercise intensity is to see how hard your heart is beating during physical activity. To use this method, you first have to figure out your maximum heart rate — the upper limit of what your cardiovascular system can handle during physical activity.
The basic way to calculate your maximum heart rate is to take 220 minus your age. For example, if you're 45 years old, subtract 45 from 220, to get a maximum heart rate of 175. This is the maximum number of times your heart should beat per a minute while you're exercising.
Once you know your maximum heart rate, you can calculate your desired target heart rate zone — the level at which your heart is being exercised and conditioned but not overworked. Working out within your target heart rate zone gives you the best results for burning fat and losing weight. If you work out below that zone, you reduce your exercise intensity, and you may not burn as many calories. If you work out above that zone, you may not be able to work out as long as you planned.
Here's how heart rate matches up with exercise intensity levels:
If you're not fit or you're just beginning an exercise program, opt for light exercise intensity and gradually build up to a higher intensity. If you're healthy and want a vigorous intensity, opt for the higher end of the zone.
To determine your desired target heart rate zone, use an online target heart rate calculator, which does the calculations for you. Or, here's how to do the math yourself. If you're aiming for a target heart rate of 70 to 85 percent, which is in the vigorous range, you would calculate it like this:
For example, say your age is 45 and you want to figure out your target heart rate zone for vigorous intensity exercise. Subtract 45 from 220 to get 175 — this is your maximum heart rate. To get the lower end of your target zone, multiply 175 by 0.7 to get 123. To get the higher end, multiply 175 by 0.85 to get 149. So your target heart rate zone for vigorous exercise intensity is 123 to 149 beats per minute.
So how do you know if you're in your target heart rate zone? Use these steps to check your heart rate during exercise:
Here's an example: You stop exercising and take your pulse for 15 seconds, getting 33 beats. Multiply 33 by 4, to get 132. If you're 45 years old, this puts you in the middle of your target heart rate zone for vigorous exercise, since that zone is 123 to 149 beats per minute. If you're under or over your target heart rate zone, adjust your exercise intensity.
It's important to note that maximum heart rate is just a guide. You may have a higher or lower maximum heart rate, sometimes by as much as 15 to 20 beats per minute. If you want a more definitive range, consider discussing your target heart rate zone with an exercise physiologist or a personal trainer. Generally only elite athletes are concerned about this level of precision. They may also use slightly different calculations that take into account gender differences in target heart rate zones. These differences are so small that most casual athletes don't need separate calculations for men and women.
Also note that several types of medications can lower your maximum heart rate and, therefore, lower your target heart rate zone. Ask your doctor if you need to use a lower target heart rate zone because of any medications you take or medical conditions you have.
You'll get the most from your workouts if you're exercising at the proper exercise intensity for your health and fitness goals. If you're not feeling any exertion or your heart rate is too low, pick up the pace. If you're worried that you're pushing yourself too hard or your heart rate is too high, back off a bit.
If you have any medical conditions, you're not sure what your exercise intensity should be or you want help determining your target heart rate zone, talk to your doctor or consult a professional exercise specialist.


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The Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers will meet in the 2011 Super Bowl which means it's another opportunity for LB James Harrison to express his displeasure with the way the league is handling big hits in the NFL. Harrison has been fined over $100,000 for illegal hits this year.
Harrison sat at a podium with a microphone and a Steelers hat on the table answering questions for an hour. If you've ever seen him speak in person, then you know how intimidating he can be. Sometimes he's short with his answers and his stare made me, frankly, a little scared.
Harrison touched on a number of subjects but the most entertaining of course was his take on those fineable hits he's seen this year. Here's a sampling of a few things he had to say:
See how popular the game is with a ton of flags.
The league is doing whatever they can to make the most money.
They don't really care about protecting the defense.
You can see how the interview went. At one point, he was even mocking NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell regarding illegal hits. Harrison isn't afraid to speak his mind about illegal (or in his mind, legal) hits in the NFL and there's no larger stage for that than Super Bowl Media Day.


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Warlords of Draenor: Bag space solutions, illustrated
That image above is my main character's bags and my bank when I first logged on to the beta servers. It's a chaotic mess, I know. At the time of that screenshot, I had 20 bag spaces free, and one spot in my bank. As for Void Storage, it's completely full on live. So how much bag space can you expect to get with just the Toy Box and Void Storage tabs available to play with? If there was anyone to test that out on, it was me and my admittedly insane collection.
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20-12-2011 17:15
Is it normal to have the Full Charge Capacity = 1512 mAh but after an full charge with flight mode enabled the Remaining Charge Capacity = 1296 mAh? The charge had only just finished, i.e. Current changed from Charging to Discharging.
20-12-2011 17:59
Same doubt here. See my attached screencapture:
20-12-2011 18:00
Dear Nokia,
Why you are always very speed in fixing problems????You said next update is for solving battery capacity issue..Did u see the complete problem.Three major problems which needs to be looked into.....Heavy charge lose...Over heating of the device...And some common Nokia features like Filemanager.....If the first two problems were not solved by January mid then I don't see a chance for Nokia to get into Smart Phone business line up with Iphone or Android!!!!!!!!!!!!I am sorry.....
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Hi, mine shows exactly the same screen with all the battery capacity but still the battery runs down super fast.
If, I however change my sim card to a provider where the automatic apn functions perfectly, then battery lasts twice as long at least. So I think there is also a carrier issue here.
some people have found that changing to manual network selection has helped, as has turning off auto time update. this may be related to what you are experiencing. give it a try.
21-12-2011 2:57
Absolutly unacceptable. Updated the phone with the new update released in Dec and tried out most of the recommendations listed out in "tips on how to increase your battery performance" (apart from turning off your phone) but the battery drains out completely within a short period of time (e.g. lost 1/2 of the battery life within 1 hour when all I did was sent out 6 SMS throughout that time).
Nokia must act now and resolve this problem asap.
21-12-2011 5:30
21-12-2011 9:14
Just reading the comments above, so I am not alone for the December update making no difference to the performance of the battery?
No I wont switch 3G/Wifi off and close all apps. I was sold a product with a specification, the phone is not performing to that specification.
How long will this go on, and will Nokia refund everyone their costs ie contracts and purchase prices if the issue is not resolved VERY SOON ?!?!
21-12-2011 13:23
I bought the Lumia 800 on 16th dec 2011 and am facing the issue of battery drain ever since.. today I contact the customer care in India Via phone and they gave me a complaint number and told me to wait while they get back to me.. I find it very very disappointing.. My work requires me to use my phone for email and calls all day long and my phone drains out of battery in just 3-4 hours.. I want nokia to change the phone but I think they are not bothered with a customer who spends so much money on a faulty device and wants them to change it...
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Yeah nice story. Default settings are the problem. Just turn off location services and find my phone and the battery will last a day.
You should also just turn off 3g when in an area of weak 3G,
When using WIFI - turn off notify me of new networks.
I have little issue with the battery now....although obviously the phone doesnt do much with EVERYTHING TURNED OFF!!
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22-12-2011 18:08
Dear All,
My phone got replaced, Nokia Care came to my office and gave me the new pack..with A complimentry of Bluetooth headset of Nokia J, thank you. My batery details shows correct details now. But I will comment on the battery performance tomorrow the same time
22-12-2011 19:03
Dont worry man, you will experience the same problems the very first day your warranty ends. Afterall it's Nokia's first attempt to use Windows and you became one of the guinea pigs. They gave you the headset so that you wont spread this problem and to make your mouth shut.
As the Nokia care people couldn't even find what's the issue with my N82 from the very next day I bought it, I have lost my entire beliefe in Nokia.
22-12-2011 19:07
Anyway, my hearty condolences for falling into the trap. Should not have wasted 30K for such trial phones.


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^^^Are you hinting Ponder has a problem hitting receivers in stride? LolI bet you could use a cool one huh Clark...Now you're talkin Eddie...
I think he had plenty of passes that went over 9 yards in the air or have they starting to triangulate passes from the QB's hand to the recievers' body. Less than 9 yards down field would be a bit more meaningful of a statement.
The point is, we don't have a vertical passing game. Ponder has been less than spectacular. His support is limited, but he should still be able to show more than what he currently is displaying. For the record, I didn't think his play was all that bad on Sunday. He didn't do anything significant one way or the other, and we won the game. Kind of the point. Cutler on the other hand, I thought had a bad game. He had many more passes off target than Ponder. Two that were picked, one more that should have been if Sanford didn't get a case of the butter fingers. He also had many passes that were off target and some of his biggest plays were when his recievers pushed off and made plays. Me thinks that even the lowly Ponder would have more success with those receivers than what he has here in MN. If Cutler was a Viking with our current cast, this whole forum would be storming the castle with pitchforks in hand.
Another thing that continues to bother me, is the general NFL fanbase that is convinced that the only way to victory is through a pass happy offense. That is merely one aspect of the overall game, one that we need to drastically improve, but you don't need to win games through the air. It's just one of many ways to beat an opponent. I still believe the point of the game is to score more points than your opponent, however you can make it happen. GB didn't win through the air yesterday, San Fran hardly ever does, Seattle doesn't. Cutler and RGII only average a few more yards per game than Ponder,..... I bet if you look at the scoreboard from this weekend's game you will find the QB with the most passing yards lost more often than they won.
Yesterday was a victory against a tough conference foe, that no matter how badly you want to look for faults in individual players, the bottom line is that as a team we won.
We are 3-2 in conference play, in what many thought was the toughest division in football going into the year. We have had many new players on the roster contributing greatly to this year's success. To simply obsess on Ponder, with no immediate solution apparent, I think is a futile exercise that will only continue to take folks down a long and unpleasant path.
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Maybe we will see that next year with better weapons around Ponder. But they may want to give Ponder a sedative before games so he can calm down.
If he could just develop some calmness and poise in the pocket he could step up and deliver instead of bailing out the back in a panic.
Until he becomes calm under fire he wont improve.
And just a little improvement could make this team a legitimate contender.
Never the less, the Vikings have exceeded expectations this year and continue to make NFL football relevant for their fans into December.
Nothing short of a superbowl win will ever reduce the criticism of this team.
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AP runs for more yards than Ponder passes for. I know why the team stands behind him right now. He was a reach at twelve and FO doesn't want to admit what we already know. He can't play at this level. His stats may look average on paper, but there have been some games where he padded his stats during garbage time. So I don't see coaches sitting him down to take a look at Webb or whomever. Ponder is the guy for the rest of the season, so we will be subjected to NFL bloopers-type play (or worse) from the QB. But AFTER the season is over, FO absolutely needs to eject him (or let him carry a clipboard) and go after a good QB that will give us a chance to win. It doesn't have to be a great QB, just someone who limits mistakes, and plays well enough to keep drives alive and is able to get that key TD to win us some games. AP and defense can handle the rest. Alex Smith's time in SF is over. He can put us over the top. Matt Flynn could probably make us a consistent 10 or 11 win team. He certainly is better than what we got now. Maybe even Kirk Cousins (who I think could be really good) could be acquired from Redskins now that they know RG3 can play at this level. I'm just throwin' suggestions out here because we could have the worst QB in the league if it wasn't for the triumvirate in Arizona.
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He wasn't that great of a QB when he played in college, either. I was extremely critical of the pick when we took him in the draft, but decided to give him a shot. I was bragging about him and saying how wrong I was about him to all of the Cowboys fans down here. Looks I shouldn't have been so optimistic. I am bias, but I would have taken Ryan Mallett. His "off the field" trouble was nothing more than a smear campaign by agents to get their guy drafted higher.
It stinks that we have to address the QB situation in the draft so soon, but we need to use one of our first 3 picks on a QB, in my opinion. I hope we go after a QB and a LB with our first few picks. WR is another area of need, but there are a lot of free agents to go after. Bowe, Henderson, Welker(franchise free agent), Jennings, Driver, Cruz (RFA).
Hopefully we draft Tyler Wilson, Matt Barkley(depending on draft position), or Aaron Murray. Any of those three would be able to step in as rookies and do a better job than Ponder.
Just asking. Most of the "8-9 men in the box" talk is only about 40% of what defenses run against us.... but people just say it without actually knowing what they're talking about.Disclaimer: I'm an idiot.


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Metro debuted its new rush hour program, "Rush Plus," on Monday during rush hours on the Green, Yellow, Blue and Orange lines.
For Arlingtonians who rely on the Blue and Orange Lines, these changes will mean more frequent trains for Orange Line riders and longer waits for Blue Line customers.
Rush Plus "is designed to ease crowding, improve the commuting experience for Metrorail riders on the Orange, Blue, Green and Yellow lines, and prepare for the future Silver Line," according to the metro press release about the changes.
Expanded service will result in 18 new Orange Line trains during rush hour. The increased service will impact 21 stations, to include Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn.
Though the same number of trains will travel through Foggy Bottom and Rosslyn, there will be more Orange Line trains and fewer Blue Line trains.
During every hour of rush hour from these two stations near Georgetown, you can expect the following, according to the metro website:
• 3 more Orange Line trains to Vienna
• 3 more Orange Line trains to Largo Town Center (not New Carrollton).
• 3 fewer Blue Line trains will operate in each direction. Some customers may wait up to six additional minutes for a Blue Line train. Bus service options also are available between Crystal City and Rosslyn.
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When former Giants DE Osi Umenyiora signed a two-year, $8.5M contract with Atlanta on Wednesday, the Falcons filled the hole left by John Abraham with a player of similar talent.
The team got its pass-rusher, younger than Abraham and less expensive, too. The general feeling now, after both his addition and the arrival of Steven Jackson, is that the Falcons are more or less done in free agency. At the very least, no more major moves are expected (sorry, Darrelle Revis fans).
But the Falcons also have a much tighter cap number now.
Before Umenyiora's contract, Atlanta's cap number for the 2013 season was a shade under $117M, which ESPN's Pat Yasinkas estimated to be $5.77M under the current salary cap.
The cap hits for that Osi's are not yet available. We do know that $5M is guaranteed, and that the contract also allows for up to $3.5M in performance-based incentives. If Jackson's new deal is anything similar, it would be fair to estimate that Umenyiora's first-year cap hit is somewhere in the $2-3M range.
That would leave the Falcons with about $2M in cap space going forward, most of which should be allotted for incoming draft picks and undrafted free agents.
But Atlanta could also be in the market for one or two more small-time, depth signings at positions like cornerback, safety, fullback, or even tight end (Michael Palmer remains a restricted free agent at this time). And of course, Thomas Dimitroff still has not ruled out bringing Abraham back to Atlanta.
How can the Falcons make any of this work with their relatively small budget? A few suggestions that may (but probably will not) happen in the short term:
1 - Extend Matt Ryan
In the last year of his rookie deal, our franchise quarterback's cap figure sits at $12M, the highest of anyone on the team.
It may sound counterintuitive. Extending Ryan involves spending more money. But if you look at the way Joe Flacco's deal was structured, his cap hit is just $6M in the first year and about $14M in the second.
And Atlanta must extend Matty Ice sooner or later. This remains absolute.
If you want an idea of what the contract will look like, more so than Flacco, turn your attention to this incredibly painful-to-read contract Tony Romo just signed:
The total for Tony Romo's 6-year extension is $108M. So, $108 million in a six-year extension with $55M guaranteed. Wow. #Cowboys— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 29, 2013
Appalling, man. Just one more count of "gross misconduct" for Jerry Jones.
2 - Extend Jonathan Babineaux
There's no question that working out a contract extension with the longtime Falcon - who commands a $5.2M cap hit in the final year of his contract - would free up some space for Dimitroff & Co.
The real question is whether Atlanta wants to extend a 31-year old defensive tackle who is not the most extraordinary starter. He is by all means capable, I won't argue with that. But is that enough? Will he be dependable through age 34 or 35?
Still, Babineaux could be worth extending for one or two years as long as his contract numbers decrease, which they should.
3 - Restructure / Release Stephen Nicholas
If the Falcons weren't so thin at linebacker these days, I'd call Nicholas' release a no-brainer. There were times last season in which the vet struggled in coverage (specifically against tight ends), and there were others where he looked sub-par defending the run.
His cap number for this season looks to be $3.5M, and he's also under contract for two more years. I questioned his five-year extension when it was inked, and I question it now.
But unless the Falcons bring aboard more linebackers in the near future, this one is unlikely to happen.


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The Raleigh Police Department arrested a suspect after he allegedly threatened a bank with a bomb during a robbery Monday.
Raleigh police said Scott Randall Gray, 51, entered the PNC Bank on New Falls of Neuse Road around 1:20 p.m. Police said Gray announced the robbery, and that he had a bomb on him.
Gray then took money from the bank and left the bag that he said contained the bomb inside the bank, Raleigh police said. After Gray left the scene, the bank was evacuated. Police said no explosive device was inside the bag left behind by Gray.
Gray stole a Kia Sedona in the parking lot and fled the area. A short time later, Gray changed vehicles into a Honda, police said. This vehicle was stopped by a Wake County deputy near the intersection of Six Forks Road and Strickland Road.
Gray was taken into custody and charged with two counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon. One count is in relation to the theft of the Kia at the bank.
A second individual was in the Honda when the deputy stopped the vehicle. This person was questioned and released.
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BRUSSELS --- The European Commission stressed on Wednesday that progress towards the normalisation of Turkey's relations with the Republic of Cyprus is urgent and could provide new momentum to the EU – Turkey accession negotiations.
The European Commission, in its enlargement package announced Wednesday, notes that the Positive Agenda, launched to reinvigorate relations with Turkey, is already delivering its first results.
It furthermore states that Turkey`s active support to the positive agenda and its European perspective remains essential.
However, the Commission stresses that "concerns are growing regarding Turkey`s lack of substantial progress towards fully meeting the political criteria and the situation regarding fundamental rights on the ground remains a serious concern".
"Full implementation of the obligations under the Customs Union and progress towards normalisation of relations with Cyprus are urgent and could provide new momentum to accession negotiations", the Commission underlines.
In its enlargement package, the European Commission recommends for a fourth time to open accession negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
It also recommends granting EU candidate status to Albania subject to completion of key reform steps, and proposes negotiating a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Kosovo once it has made progress in fulfilling a number of short term priorities.
The Commission also confirms that Croatia is on track in its membership preparations.
Presenting the annual Enlargement Package, Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that "our recommendations place the rule of law firmly at the centre of the accession process".
"To create a more stable and prosperous Europe, momentum needs to be maintained both for merit-based enlargement process on the EU side and for reforms on the ground in the enlargement countries", he added.
According to a Commission press release, "the recommendations on Albania, Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as well as the imminent accession of Croatia, the recent start of accession negotiations with Montenegro and candidate status for Serbia – on the basis of clear indications of what is needed to open accession negotiations - show that once reforms are made, the EU delivers on its commitments".
To advance further, the Commission proposes to increase focus on a number of areas. Firstly, strengthening democratic governance by starting to address rule of law issues well before accession negotiations begin.
Secondly, strengthening freedom of expression and independence of the media.
Thirdly, tackling economic issues early in the process to consolidate economic and financial stability and help recovery.
Finally, the Commission underlines that bilateral issues should be addressed as soon as possible, they should not hold up the accession process.
As regards Iceland, it is stated that common interests between the EU and Iceland, including in the field of renewable energy and climate change, are growing, as is the strategic importance of the EU`s Arctic policy and accession negotiations are progressing well.
Turkey, a candidate country for accession to the EU, is the only country in the world which does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus. Turkish troops still occupy 37% of Cyprus' territory since the Turkish invasion against Cyprus in the summer of 1974. (CNA)


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Original post made on Dec 21, 2012
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on Dec 21, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Councilwomen Laura Macia is a wonderful person who first and foremost held the well-being of the people of Mountain View in her heart.
Her presence on the city council will be missed.
on Dec 21, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Good riddance!
on Dec 21, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Good riddance indeed! Her quotes are like reading an Onion article. And she's probably too clueless to realize what an idiot she really is.


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Bowen: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Bowen
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A name of uncertain derivation. Some believe it to be from the Welsh oen (lamb). Others feel it is from the Gaelic Loghunn (youth), and yet another suggestion is that it is the Welsh form of the Latin Eugenius (well-born, noble).
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We named our oldest son Bowen beacuse my first ancestor to emmigrate to the United states had the surname "Bowen". It occured to me to use Bowen as a first name after watching the movie Dragonheart. I have since heard of several other Bowens (mainly boys but one girl).
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|Tim Hudson befuddles Rockies except for one
Jhoulys Chacin didn't show his best self Thursday as he was peppered for seven hits and walked three in 3 1/3 innings, surrendering one unearned run but that mess and that run cost him and his team the game after Tim Hudson seven shutout innings for the Braves and three relievers finished off the Rockies.
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|Josh Outman
Outman recorded an ERA of 9.00 in 31 innings with the Rockies earlier this season but his ERA in his last three starts is an eye-popping 0.79.
One night after Nolan Arenado homered, another solid Driller hitting prospect Corey Dickerson homered.
One game after High-A pitcher Christian Bergman went seven innings, allowing three runs in the California League playoffs for Modesto, starter Josh Mueller could not get out of the second inning, giving up four runs in 1 1/3 frames.
Outfielder Rafael Ortega, however, was hot again, homering for the second time in the series, finishing 3-for-3 and bumping his series' average to .714.
|Star prospect David Dahl
On the season, Dahl, in 67 games is hitting .379 with 22 doubles, 10 triples, nine homers and 57 RBI.
Question - is Dahl the best first-year prospect the organization has ever had? Weigh in if you so choose.