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Half Moon Bay Review September 2012
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Follow Us At Facebook or Twitter 30409 30409 h a l f m Half Moon Bay v o o n b a y r e i e w m a g a z i n e on the cover publisher's note Four words you should rethink: "I can fix that." Half Moon Bay Sunset, Ellen Joseph 48x60, Acrylic on canvas, 2012 From the artist: You can see this painting hanging in the Navio restaurant in The Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay as part of my current exhibit there. The painting is a view from Surfer's Beach along Hwy. 1, with Miramar to the left and Pillar Point Harbor to the right. To see more of Ellen's paintings or to watch her paint in her adjoining studio, visit her gallery at 840 Main Street, Half Moon Bay. 650-728-7518. ellenjoseph.com Publisher Bill Murray Editor Clay Lambert Writers Sara Hayden, Mark Noack, Stacy Trevenon, Saman Ghani Khan COPY EDITOR Julie Gerth Photographer Charles Russo design Bill Murray, Mark Restani Business Office Barbara Anderson Circulation Sonia Myers Advertising Sales Linda Pettengill, Louise Strutner, Susan V erlander, Barbara Dinnsen Find us 714 Kelly Avenue, Half Moon Bay, CA, 94019, (650) 726-4424, www.hmbreview.com HALF MOON BAY is published the first week of every month and inserted in the Half Moon Bay Review. The entire contents of the magazine are also available online at hmbreview.com. �2012, Half Moon Bay Review or the past few summers my wife, a school teacher, travels with our two kids for a week or two and I stay behind. During this time, I usually try to take on a project around the house that would be harder to do when everyone is home -- painting a room, reorganizing a closet, building some furniture, turning a small, nagging plumbing leak into Yosemite Falls. It's satisfying for me and I like to think earns me brownie points with the wife. This summer's project, which I still haven't finished, was to replace rotting insulation under my house. I think I have found a new, least favorite chore. � After donning a respirator, goggles and a head lamp, I set out to drag the bundle of bats into the crawl space. They don't fit, which means I have to open the package and drag each length separately. I've just increased my groveling time eight fold. Now embedded under the house, I realize I left my utility knife that I need in the garage, and left my set of keys and phone, which I don't need, in my front pocket. Ever try to slide on your belly on hard packed dirt with a set of keys in your pocket? Right. � I have to remove both my goggles and respirator already because I can neither see (too fogged up) or breathe (too claustrophobic) with them on. After negotiating the sewer line, a myriad of electrical conduits and spider webs to rival a haunted house -- and installing just two of the five packages I need, my eyes and nose are so itchy that the only relief is jumping in the water at Montara State Beach. This is where I should have spent the entire day. � The point of the story is this: fix it if you can, but leave the hard stuff to the professionals. Wisely, I took my own advice and palmed off the job of fixing the locks on my back door to a local door company. The doors work perfectly, I still have all my fingernails and I got the brownie points. "Look!" I say, "The doors are working again." "Terrific!" says my wife. "How'd you do it?" "It was easy," I say. That much is true. -- Bill Murray, Publisher S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y 1 FIx up your backyard BY INSTALLING A NEW HOT SPRING SPA! S contents E P T fall home EMBER Preview 2 0 1 2 Taming of the Shrew. Capture the essence of the land at Coastside Land Trust show. Docents from the de Y oung come to the library to talk fashion. Page 5 when building homes is building lives Houses in the trees Coastside teens return to Sierra Service Project. Page 6 Neighborhoods branch out with above ground playgrounds. Page 12 25th Anniversary Gala Saturday, September 22nd ~ 6 - 10 pm ~ Savor cuisine showcasing local Coastside Farmers & Ranchers, "the stars" of Pasta Moon's Signature Cuisine. Seven inexpensive ways to update a home now Tips to keeping your home stylish. Page 22 The right tool for the right job. Page 32 Use the Right Tools for Autumn To-Do Lists Preserving an ocean home Late bloomers Evidence points to positive effects of marine protected areas. 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Learn to Skype Capture the essence of the land September 9 Starting with an opening reception from 2 to 5 p.m. today, the Coastside Land Trust presents paintings, photography, collage or mixed media of about 25 artists in its "Fall Festival Show" through Oct. 26 at the gallery at 788 Main St. in Half Moon Bay. Artists were encouraged to use pumpkin themes since the show overlaps the Pumpkin Festival. The art "exhibits the spirit of the San Mateo Coast," said trust Office Manager Lindsay Peterson. 726-5056. Taking a few steps September 11 The first Peninsula Athletic League cross-country meet takes place at 3 p.m. today at Half Moon Bay High School. Five races will be held in the afternoon, starting with varsity boys, followed by varsity girls. There is no admission charge. Have no doubts Petruchio from "Taming of the Shrew." The HMB Shakespeare Company will do a more modern take on the play. September 14 Coastal Repertory Theatre probes the role that doubt plays in human affairs with "Doubt, a Parable." In a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, the principal is sure that a priest is abusing a student, but her rigid opinions clash with more relaxed standards around her, which leads to examination of moral dilemmas. The show runs at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Oct. 6 at the theater at 1167 Main St., Half Moon Bay, with admission $15-$30. (650) 569-3266. September 7 You don't often find Shakespearean plays performed on the Coastside. Enter local residents and seasoned theater professionals Robert Pickett and Mollie Stickney, who resolved that dilemma by co-founding the Half Moon Bay Shakespeare Company to produce provocative, enlightening and publicly accessible, classical theater productions locally each autumn, including Shakespearean plays. The group will make its Half Moon Bay debut Sept. 7 with "The Taming of the Shrew," the Bard's well-loved comedic romp of the sexes, structured in a black-cocktail-dress, Felliniesque style and set in the late 1950s/early `60s. A cast of roughly 20 actors from around the Bay Area, with a handful of Coastsiders, will perform the production at 7 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 and 16, at Cameron's Restaurant and Inn Outback. Seating will be on the lawn; guests are encouraged to bring only low lawn and beach chairs and to dress warmly. Admission is $20 per person. For information, visit hmbshakespeare.org. Tame that shrew A new career September 14 Coastside octogenarian Kathryn "Katie" Murdock was a dancer, teacher, occasional actor and now playwright who will see two original one-act plays -- "Time Was" about surprises in life and "Partitions" about letting go of preconceived ideas of others -- come alive in free performances on the stage of Pacifica Spindrift Players, Sept. 14� 16. (650) 738-1788. What's up in fashion September 16 Don your best duds and come to the Half Moon Bay Library at 2 p.m. when the library presents a docent from the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. The docent will talk about the current show presented at the deYoung, "A Taste for Mode," which has to do with the world of fashion. Free. 726-2316. The best tastes of the coast September 16 Again this year Senior Coastsiders will present the benefit "A Taste of the Coast," from 5 to 8 p.m. at Sea Crest School at 901 Arnold Way in Half Moon Bay. At least a score of Coastside restaurants and food vendors will showcase their choicest dishes for sampling, and there will also be a raffle and silent auction of goodies from local merchants. Tickets are $60 in advance until Sept. 13, $50 for seniors 65 and above; $75 at the door. 726-9056. A salute to Cal Tjader September 23 New Y ork pianist Michael Wolff directs a jazzy musical tribute to the late Cal Tjader in concert at 4:30 p.m. at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society. As a young man, Wolff played with Tjader, and in this concert his arrangements of some of Tjader's favorite Latin and jazz numbers will be performed by some of the few remaining Bay Area players who share those roots. "He's a giant as far as I'm concerned," said Bach owner Pete Douglas. Tickets are $40. 726-4143. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y 5 helping out building homes ... Coastside teens return to Sierra Service Project By Stacy Trevenon When Youth from the Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay join other young people in Sierra Service Projects in Los Angeles. The local teens say they get great satisfaction out of improving the living environment for people who need the help. Photos courtesy John Campbell 6 H a l f M o o n B a y S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 T here's something about Sierra Service Project trips that certain Coastside teens can't resist. What keeps them coming back, year after year, probably isn't the hard physical work in sweltering summer heat. There is something else at work in Sierra Service Project tasks, designed to make homes more livable and life more bearable for disadvantaged residents of inner cities or Native American reservations. Perhaps it's the inner glow the teens say they find when they leave their own cozy, comfortable homes for a different city -- and a sometimes vastly different culture -- to paint a church, build a wheelchair ramp, reinforce a building where donations are sorted or help bring that experience of having a home to those who don't. Sierra Service Project, an interdenominational nonprofit affiliated with the United Methodist Church, seeks to build homes, build communities and build bridges between people and cultures, all while building a relationship of faith. The Community United Methodist Church in Half Moon Bay sends three groups each year to destinations primarily in the United States but also to other locales. Groups traveled to Honduras in 2009, said CUMC Youth Pastor John Campbell. Typically, it sends two groups of high school students and one group of middle school kids. Projects typically take up to six weeks to complete, involving the youth for one of those weeks. Accompanied by adults who are often members of the congregation, the youth pitch in with building or reinforcing projects. This summer, a total of 60 volunteers went on the road. The high school youth went to inner-city, disadvantaged areas of South Central Los Angeles, and the younger group went to Coarsegold in the Yosemite area. For Caroline Hines, 13, of El Granada and an incoming freshman at Half Moon Bay High School, this year's trip to South Central Los Angeles was her third Sierra Service project. ... is building lives S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y 7 Sierra Service Project participants say they learn about the people they help. One participant, Sam Winters of El Granada said, "A lot of them weren't born with the opportunities I was born with." She initially got involved upon encouragement by friends from the church who told her she would have fun, meet new friends and feel good about what she was doing. "I realized it was all true," she said. "It feels satisfying to know you're helping," she said. "People thank you for it ... and you feel better because you know people appreciate what you're doing and don't take it for granted." Her first SSP trip was to a reservation in a town called McDermott on the NevadaOregon border "in the middle of nowhere." There she helped with a roofing project. Her second trip was to Coarsegold, where she helped drywall the inside of a house. This time she was in Los Angeles with a large group of teens and some adult and college-age counselors, who went to public buildings where they repainted some storefronts, removed graffiti and installed wheelchair ramps. That graffiti "was pretty thick," she said. The work "made the area look nicer and more inviting to people." While she was in the inner city, she said, she learned about the surroundings, the culture, the stereotypes -- and the reality. Y ou hear about drugs and gangs, she said, "and that is there, but mostly it's an everyday community trying to live out their daily lives and doing their best." Sharing a similar, but perhaps more stark, experience was Hines' El Granada neighbor Sam Winters. At 17, going into his senior year at Junipero Serra High School, Winters is nearing the end of his Sierra Service career after his fourth trip. Next year he will enter college to study business. But he says he'll continue with Sierra Service until then. On this trip, from July 28 to Aug. 4, he was with a group that went into Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. They painted a fence around a church there and reinforced the stucco walls on a storage closet that held donations. Winters said he learned something about the area and about the renowned, hand-built Watts towers that went up in the 1950s. He also learned about Homeboy Industries, an organization founded by a pastor, which helps incarcerated gang members into jobs. Winters did more than just hear about those teens. He talked with some of the Homeboy staff and some of the youth who were in rehabilitation and who were having tattoos removed. "It's important for them," he said. " A lot of (gang) members face the fact that the tattoos prevent them from getting jobs." The experience left a different kind of mark on Winters. "It opened my eyes to people trying to make their lives better, what they have to go through," he said. " A lot of them weren't born with the opportunities I was born with." His group numbered around 60 teens, including what he estimates as 15 to 20 from the Coastside. This larger group was split into smaller subgroups for the tasks of painting the fence and building wheelchair ramps. Winters' previous Sierra Service trips had taken him to reservations near Coarsegold or in Madera County. One memorable moment, he said, was on a trip to Coarsegold, when he did some repairs on a house with a hole in the roof. 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That was her own name for hollering like Tarzan and leaping off the tippy-top branches of a fallen eucalyptus in front of her house and swinging on a rope back to the same place. Neighborhoods BRANCH OUT WITH ABOVE GROUND playgrounds By Mark Noack Her best friend, Ruby, followed by performing her signature trick "King Tut." A similar feat of derring-do, Ruby launched off on a rope with her legs in motion like she was walking in air. The girls were expert climbers -- regular tree trapeze artists -- springing up the adjacent eucalyptus in seconds to sit atop their crow's nest of wooden planks nailed in the upper branches. From that height they could see their entire neighborhood on the south side of Half Moon Bay, along with an owl's nest in the branches and their dog watching them anxiously below. Mastery of these tricks was not for the faint of heart, namely their younger brothers. They hadn't proven themselves as climbers so they couldn't come up -- for their own safety, of course. Their homes and beds were across the street, but this was the girls' castle. Better than any playground in town, their local tree fort was their own hangout for exercise, thinking up games, or just the joy of hammering nails. "I've been climbing trees since I was a kid," said Klara, barely in her double-digits. "This is a place where I can collect my thoughts." Was the fort safe? Not exactly. The floorboards would wobble when they stepped on them, and it was only a matter of time before the elements made the wood rot to pieces. Keeping those boards in place required a lot of nails being pounded into all of planks, and that meant some sharp metal edges jutting out. The height was also a danger. Ruby's younger brother now wore a helmet whenever he played on the tree after a fall gave him a nasty bump on his head. The girls knew the risks, and they had their own safety protocol. "We try to use our best judgment," Ruby said. "And when you hear too much creaking, get down as fast as you can," Klara said. Ruby's mother, Jen, thought about the dangers every day 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 sc h o o l st a f f when she watched her daughter at the fort, but she concluded the exercise and freedom were worth the scrapes and bruises. Plus, she pointed to studies showing that outdoor free play is instrumental to child development. "They're going to get hurt in some way ... so you keep your fingers crossed and hope for the best," she said. "For my kids, when they go outside, they're happy." Peer into any grove of trees bordering homes in El Granada, Half Moon Bay, Moss Beach or Montara, and you won't have to search long before you find ramshackle forts, a tire swing or a few ladder planks. A byproduct of the Coastside's vast open space, the area has become an adolescent boomtown of tree forts that would make the Swiss Family Robinson green with envy. Whereas Half Moon Bay and the surrounding communities have struggled to provide ample recreation space for adolescents, enterprising crews of local kids have moved into the area's vast open space and transformed them into S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y Bill Murray 1 3 Thank You Half Moon Bay, For Keeping It Green&Easy T he community's participation in Allied Waste's curbside single-stream recycling program has been tremendous. On behalf of the Allied Waste team, thank you for working with us to increase diversion and reduce the volume of waste going to landfill. By recycling more, you're helping improve the environment and the health of our coastside community. If you need information on what can and cannot be recycled, or have questions about your curbside collection services, please visit alliedwastehalfmoonbay.com or call Allied's Customer Service Department at 650-592-2411. Allied Waste Services 1680 Edgeworth Avenue, Daly City, CA 94105 homesteader playgrounds. Is this legal? Certainly not. Any code enforcement officer would find your average tree structure to be a nightmare of safety hazards and building violations. San Mateo County officials investigate tree forts only if a complaint is filed. One county official pointed out the larger problem was many of these tree forts were being built on land under the control of a private open-space trust or a public parks department. Perhaps nowhere on the Coastside can more treehouses be found than in El Granada, a community enveloped in eucalyptus. Many homes border swaths of forestland, including the undeveloped coastal hills by Quarry Park and the southern edge of Rancho Corral de Tierra park. Playing in the trees and building hideouts was part of the experience growing up in El Granada, said Nina Morales, now 23. Standing on the porch of her house on Avenue Cabrillo, she surveyed the two tires swings and a two-story tree fort she used to play on as an adolescent. The tree structure today consisted of a hodgepodge of oblong boards strewn together like a kindergartner's macaroni art. It looked ready to collapse, but kids still came by and started climbing, she said. "It's been up for so long, it's got to be rotting," Morales said, adding that she was never entirely sure who first built it. Looking at the old structure brought back a flood of memories of the fun she used to have there. Her younger sister, Jessica, recalled playing in the trees, pretending to be an owl and practicing her hooting. The sisters' dogs were endlessly puzzled by the tire swing, as it would swing away and then boomerang back at them. The tree fort was her refuge when she ran away and tried to live off peanut butter and jelly sandwiches smuggled from home. About a quarter mile back in the woods bordering Quarry Park was a much more elaborate treehouse camouflaged with black paint that had become a hideout for local teenagers. Trying to find the way back to the fort, Morales bushwhacked a course through the thick plant life. But she couldn't find the way after searching for about a half-hour. Brushing cobwebs and leaves off her clothes, she decided that the path must've become overgrown with vegetation. Perhaps nature had also swallowed up the fort. "I know it's back there somewhere; I used to go there all the time," she said. "That sucks. It was a hella cool tree fort." On the northwestern end of El Granada, the neighborhood boys took it one step fur- Ruby and Klara play at a fallen Eucalyptus near their homes that they've helped build into a neighborhood tree fort. The ramshackle playground is one of dozens built by children in open areas of the Coastside. ther, building a series of tree forts in a grassy field at the end of Madrid Avenue. The open area was always like a sandbox for the neighborhood kids to try their hand at building forts, said Dan Johnston, a 20-year-old who grew up in the area. He counted about six forts still standing, but his favorite, an ambitious structure spanning two trees, had apparently been sacrificed for the wood. Other kids borrowing their tree-house planks and boards to build their own forts was a frequent problem, he said, but no one held a grudge because that was the nature of the game. About 10 years ago, the neighborhood kids began using the forts as a battlefield of sorts. At first kids played a game with no real rules that involved throwing clots of dirt at each other. It wasn't the smartest game, Johnson admitted. "Every day would end with someone going home with tears in his eyes because he got hit in the side of the head," he said. Later they upgraded the game to playing with Airsoft pistols in large pitched battles between teams of four to seven local teens. The teams would hunker down in their respective forts and take turns trying to assault the other's side. To this day, local kids still organize weekend shoot-em-ups, he said. Circling back to his house, he spotted a familiar wooden board painted yellow that was nailed up as a makeshift tree fortification. "That's my board for sure! That was my old desk!" he said excitedly. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 H a l f M o o n B a y 1 5 legendary he king of all treehouses is tucked in the back hills around Kings Mountain. This is not your childhood hideout -- this is more of a tree penthouse. Hidden down a dirt road on a private ranch, this towering tree fort is elevated 50 feet off the forest floor, nested entirely on a single massive branch of a Sequioa. This treehouse is five stories high and features seven rooms, including a bedroom, kitchen and even a rooftop tub for moonlight baths. The structure is the masterpiece of Kendall Whiting, 64, a former Skyline resident and caretaker of the ranchland who spent years planning and crafting the world's perfect treehouse. He spent his childhood building "dozens" of treehouses on the Peninsula, a passion that eventually led him to study architecture. Living on his friend's Skyline-area ranch in the late '60s, Whiting found himself with the perfect setting to test his creative passion. He had access to all the tools he needed, some of the tallest trees on earth, and best of all, a working lumber mill that could churn out wood to his specifications. He also had the perfect tree to build--an giant Sequioa with an abnormally large 14-inch diameter branch jutting out at a wide angle. "When I saw this tree, I feel in love ... I thought, man, this would made a wonderful tree house," he said. "I had grandiose plans." Seeing those plans come to reality took just short of five years. Naturally, he wanted to make his house sturdy, but he had a cardinal rule to not use any nails hammered into the tree. Instead, he crisscrossed two huge supporting beams between the trunk of the tree and the branch and he laid out crosspieces with turnbuckles. Once the base was engineering and stable, the project took a life of its own, with many friends and strangers lodging there and lending a hand with the building. The ranch owner opened his property to artists, hippies or anyone who wanted to come by, and Whiting's tree fort soon became a magnet for visitors. That began causing problems. "I became famous, and then a flood of people A treehouse fit for a king came up there � it was absolutely overwhelming," he said. Originally, Whiting welcomed visitors but he began getting sick of freeloaders invading his privacy. He initially had a pulley system and a one-person gondola that could carry anyone up to the tree house. But he decided to take out the easy way, leaving a climbing rope as the only way to get up to the top. The newfound attention also drew San Mateo County authorities. Officials tried to condemn his home, contending it wasn't safe and had no permits. Whiting was able to stave off inspectors thanks to friends who worked at San Francisco architecture firms who vouched for the structural integrity of the treehouse. The house was eventually designated a sculpture. Not long after that, Whiting suffered the foremost danger of playing in the trees -- he fell. Getting ready to descend to the ground one day, he leapt off the house balcony like an acrobat to catch the climbing rope. He grabbed it like normal, but the rope wasn't secured to anything, and he fell 50 feet to the surface. "It was a well deserved wreck," he described. The impact broke his jaw, sternum, ankle and multiple toes and collapsed a lung. He was taken to the hospital and slowly recuperated, but his feelings toward his tree house changed following the accident. It was too much to be up there anymore. "I went back up there many times, but I was almost bursting in tears because it was so overwhelming," he said. "It scares the hell out of me. How the hell did I do that?" Whiting eventually left the ranch, taking a horse and donkey and living for a period in the open space near Boulder Creek. He gave up his dream of living in an elevated house, but later tried the opposite, designing an underground residence for himself in Calavaras County. He now lives in Hawaii. Today it's not clear what's happened to Whiting's treehouse. In a voice mail, the current ranch owner said the treehouse had fallen apart due to the weather. Family members and friend doubt that is true, saying the house was sturdy enough to last a lifetime. 1 6 H a l f M o o n B a y S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 Need a plumber? Electrician? Painter? Other types of home and garden services? Need Concrete? We've got you covered No job too small or too big. We'll be happy to give you referrals. 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"Before 1969, people would be hauling things out of here in cardboard boxes." -- Bob Breen, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve naturalist ocean home By Saman Ghani Khan Photos by Charles Russo preserving an dance of anemones that seem to change colors with the light. Overhead, a Caspian tern dives into the water and scoops up a fish before disappearing into the fog. Nearby, a harbor seal bobs in and out of the water. ob Breen navigates the slippery green rock of the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve with the practiced ease of a man who has walked the talk of tidepool protection for 40 years. He points to an abun- B It wasn't always this way. Breen remembers a different time. Based on thousands of interviews with shore-based fishermen from 1973 to 2003, Breen was able to quantify the significant decline in the number of fish caught in the second half of the last century. Cabezon and monkeyface eels, he noted, showed a sharp decline of 88 percent and 83 percent, respectively. Other species affected included rockfish and lingcod, he said. A naturalist at the reserve from 1969 to 2004, Breen remembers that residents and tourists alike would use putty knives to pry away creatures in the tidepools and take home whatever spoils they could get their hands on. "Before 1969, people would be hauling things out of here in cardboard boxes," he said. Today, that would be a federal offense. The Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, established in 1969 and now visited by more than 130,000 people annually, is a success story for environmentalists and anyone interested in preserving the marine life native to the California coast. And it is just the most obvious of a ring of overlapping protected areas designed to save marine habitat and myriad life, both close to the shore and for miles around. Now there is evidence that such protections are showing signs of success. "We wanted to observe the long-term effects of reserves and the ability of populations to bounce back from major environmental events in generations to come," said Professor Fiorenza "Fio" Micheli, of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. Micheli published the results of her study in the journal PLOS One. While the study focuses on pink abalone in Baja California, environmental action groups believe that Micheli's work is good news for other regions, such as that surrounding Fitzgerald. The Stanford study found that there was a significant increase in abalone found outside the protected region, thus proving a positive spillover effect for fishing outside the reserve. "It shows that Fitzgerald would be able to withstand the effects of environmental disasters now that it is fully protected," said Karen Garrison of the Natural Resources Defense Council. She { Evidence points to positive effects of marine protected areas do an analysis of the numbers, Raimondi believes that the reserve has the potential to benefit the entire region. "We may not be able to examine the fish within the reserve, but we will be able to tell by the size and number of fish being caught outside the reserve what effect the reserve has had," Raimondi said. When an area is fished heavily, people take the bigger catch, but if fishing is prohibited they are allowed to mature further, he said. Fish that are older and larger produce more offspring, according to a recent study by Ocean Conservancy, a conservation group. A 15-inch female bocaccio rockfish produces an average of just had worked closely with Breen during the 2010 expansion of marine protected areas. Garrison recalled a recent trip to the reserve, when she was lucky enough to spot a great blue heron devouring an eel. "The extra protection holds great promise for helping restore these eels and the extraordinarily diverse ecosystem they support," she said. Pete Raimondi is also studying the marine life in the area. A professor of marine biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he has been conducting research on the intertidal region of Montara State Marine Reserve for several years. While his team has yet to A sea anemone inhabits the rocks of a tidepool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. The longtime supervising ranger at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve Bob Breen, now retired is pictured along the tidepools on a foggy but busy morning in August. more than 200,000 eggs per year, whereas a fish twice as long produces nearly 2 million eggs -- 10 times as many. The fishing community has generally supported marine protections off the California coast. Everyone benefits from an abundance of sea life. But some in the community question specifics of those protections. Commercial fisherman Pietro Parravano believes that in order to truly enhance the habitat, water quality should also be monitored and maintained. "Reserves do not do anything about water quality," he said. "It will be a learning lesson to see how effective these MPAs will be in enhancing fisheries." Parravano has been in the salmon business since 1982 and, over the years, has been active in promoting sustainable fisheries and marine conservation in general. He says the location of the MPA plays a significant role in its impact, as some areas are better suited for a reserve, especially where fish are known to lay their eggs. Commercial fishing was never permitted at Fitzgerald, and some say the area is too rocky to promote a viable business, but recreational fishermen have felt the pinch from both the deterioration of the marine habitat as well as the reserves themselves. Harbor seals are a popular sight at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, where they often cluster to lounge on the beaches. 2 0 H a l f M o o n B a y S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 "I have watched the number of fishermen around Fitzgerald dwindle over the decades even though recreational fishing was allowed beyond the tidepools till 2010," Breen said. "We are being pushed into smaller boxes to fish," said Tom Mattusch, owner and captain of the Huli Cat, a 53-foot charter boat operating out of Pillar Point Harbor. Mattusch has been fishing on the West Coast since 1967. Despite his reservations about the expansion of reserves, Mattusch said that recreational fishermen try to work with environmentalists in finding appropriate solutions to conservation. Last month a group of scientists working with the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) chartered Mattusch's boat for the purpose of studying the habitat inside and outside the A�o Nuevo state marine conservation area, located 30 miles south of Half Moon Bay. The SMCA is one of 29 marine protected areas established in 2007 as part of the collaborative public process of creating a statewide network of MPAs. Regulators plan a five-year review in 2015 that will look at the resilience of all marine protected areas along California's North Central Coast. At that time the efficacy of protections expanded in 2010 should take focus. In the meantime, Breen will keep an eye on life that seems to be flourishing in and around Fitzgerald. A view of the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve from the cliffs overlooking the ocean. 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Lucian Freud, one of Britain's most noted artists, has died at the age of 88.
Freud, who was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, the pioneering figure of psychoanalysis, died at his London home on Wednesday.
Born in Berlin in 1922, the future artist fled with his family to England at the age of 10 after Hitler took power in 1933.
A figurative painter, he was famed for his portraits and paintings of nudes.
"The vitality of (Freud's) nudes, the intensity of the still life paintings and the presence of his portraits of family and friends guarantee Lucian Freud a unique place in the pantheon of late 20th Century art," said Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate Gallery in London. "His early paintings redefined British art and his later works stand comparison with the great figurative painters of any period."
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Causes of death among patients with multiple sclerosis.
Summary of "Causes of death among patients with multiple sclerosis."
Background: Several studies show a high mortality risk among patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).Objectives: In this study, mortality and underlying causes of death were analysed among patients with MS diagnosed between 1964-1993 in Finland (n = 1595).Methods: Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated for both genders. The follow-up was based on linkage to the national computerized Cause-of-Death Register of Statistics Finland.Results: Altogether, 464 deaths were recorded by the end of 2006. The SMR as compared with the general population among females was 3.4 (95% confidence interval 3.0-3.9) and among males 2.2 (1.9-2.6). In total, 270 patients (58%) died from MS; only one of these deaths occurred during the first 2 years after the MS diagnosis. Mortality was also increased for other natural causes of death (n = 160) in patients followed for more than 10 years (SMR 1.4, 1.2-1.7), with a significant increase in deaths from influenza (29, 6.0-85), pneumonia (4.7, 2.5-8.0) and gastrointestinal causes (4.4, 2.3-7.7). The SMR for violent causes was 1.2 (0.7-1.9) and for alcohol-related deaths 0.2 (0.02-0.7). The SMR for suicides was 1.7 (0.9-2.7).Conclusions: The MS population has an increased disease mortality, while the increase in the risk of accidents and suicides is not significantly increased among patients with MS in Finland.
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tampere, Finland.
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Name: Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20826526
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1352458510379244
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A Different Loyalty (2004)
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Leo Cauffield, chief of British counterespionage, fails by a whisker to arrest two fellow Cambridge-graduated spies who just manage to defect to Moscow, resigns and becomes a journalist. In Beirut, home of his Islam-converted father, Leo seduces Sally Tyler to divorce her husband for him. Their happiness with children from both marriages is cut short a few years later, when Leo suddenly disappears; Sally learns soon he's suspected of having defected to Moscow too, which she refuses to believe, but will be forced to while Western secret services want Leo back or dead.- Written by KGF Vissers
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I've played for first few hours. The controls can be annoying, and I quickly started a new game with a mage instead of a warrior. Much more fun.
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This universal remote control does not work on most appliances as stated. It barely works on 1.
It took absolutely ages to link this to my dvd player; by ages I mean 4 hours and 3 people.
This may be because the instructions provided may as well have been written in Chinese. You need a degree in engineering in order to work this. I demand a NASA scientist to test this out and give their opinion.
I was hoping to be able to use it on my tv and steroe as well, but I don't want to still be trying to set it up when I am 95.
I simply having nothing good to say about this. Even the design is terrible; it is without doubt the biggest and ugliest remote control you will ever see. Actually, there is one good thing to say; at least you will never lose it!!!
It only lasted a few weeks before it stopped connecting with my dvd player. I tried changing the batteries and that did nothing.
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|Dicer interacts with the P-granule component GLH-1: both localize to C. elegans nuclear pores and to stress-induced oocyte RNP granules
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|P granules are ribonucleoprotein complexes specific to the cytoplasmic side of the nuclear pores of C. elegans germ cells. While P granules are implicated in post-transcriptional control of maternally-transcribed mRNAs, their function remains elusive. Our laboratory is particularly interested in the P-granule component GLH-1 (Germline RNA Helicase-1). Through genetic studies our laboratory has shown that GLH-1 is essential for fertility; however, the biochemical function of the GLH complex is still unknown. With immunoprecipitations and GST-pulldowns, we report that GLH-1 and the riboendonuclease Dicer bind one another and their interaction is not RNA dependent. Both GLH-1 protein and mRNA levels are reduced in the dcr- 1(ok247) mutant background; conversely, a reduction of DCR-1 protein in the glh-1(gk100) deletion strain is also observed. Thus, in complex in the C. elegans germline, these two proteins seem interdependent. In addition, evidence indicates Dicer protein levels, like those of GLH-1, are regulated by proteosomal degradation and are much increased when the Jun N-terminal kinase KGB-1 is missing in the kgb-1(um3) null. In the adult C. elegans germline DCR-1 is located throughout the cytoplasm as well as at the inner nuclear pores of the germ cell nuclei, in close opposition to GLH-1. Under stress conditions in oocytes GLH-1 and DCR-1 both re-locate and recruit other components to large cytoplasmic RNP granules. We hypothesize the GLH-1/DCR-1 complex may function in the transport, deposition, or regulation of maternally-transcribed mRNAs perhaps with their associated miRNAs.
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NeurogesX, Inc. (Nasdaq: NGSX) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing novel pain management therapies. NeurogesX was founded on the concept that use of prescription-strength capsaicin could help manage the pain associated with neuropathic pain conditions. Since its inception, NeurogesX has leveraged its passion to help people with pain to efficiently develop this concept, resulting in the commercial launch of Qutenza® (capsaicin) 8% patch in 2010. The Company continues to apply its knowledge and expertise in the development of other novel treatments for pain.
The Company's lead product, Qutenza, is a localized dermal delivery system containing prescription strength capsaicin that is currently approved in the United States and the European Union. Qutenza is now available in the United States for the management of neuropathic pain associated with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN). In Europe, Qutenza is being marketed by Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd. (Astellas), the European subsidiar
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text: Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D Need a 3D designer for a 1/87 scale modelcar http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=55390&th=11193#msg_55390 As said,I need a designer to create a 1/87 scale DAF 328 military truck,has to be as detailed possible. Would be interested to know what I have to pay for such design,it is my first step in the 3D world Hpoe for a reactionsoon, greetzzz Theo ]]> theoke 2012-10-15T17:22:38-00:00 Re: Need a 3D designer for a 1/87 scale modelcar http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=56317&th=11193#msg_56317 I am suitable for your this project. Because, I draw 3D automotive model about 5 years, drawed about 400 sets automotive model, there are 1:18; 1:43; 1:87 on them . It is include the aircraft, tank, train also. I just need the color photoes, then can draw out same 3D model , soI am confident for completing your any task . Besides, I can offer the lowest price for your any project, because I am china, you know it . If you feel we can try to cooperate, just feel free to contact me, my email: email@example.com Yours sincerely Richard]]> bovelt 2012-11-05T15:41:41-00:00


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Yahoo! and MTV are giving viewers a back-stage pass to Sunday night's 27th Video Music Awards. Yahoo! partnered with the entertainment powerhouse to create "Behind the Lens" on the VMA site to give music fans "insider information" about their favorite MTV performers past and present. Yahoo! Search is integrated every step of the way, making it easy to discover exclusive behind-the-scenes trivia, video and photos with their favorite stars from Katy Perry to B.o.B. to Usher, VMAs host Chelsea Handler, and more. And for additional information and insights, you can visit Yahoo! Music, the most comprehensive destination for music fans to discover and consume music online.
The VMAs have become a cultural touchstone in the music world, dating back to 1984, when it became clear that video didn't kill the radio star. Neither has the Internet, and Yahoo!'s collaboration with MTV further enhances the experience of celebrating favorite artists and cheering them on as they vie for their VMAs.
Are Yahoo! Searches Already Predicting the Winners?
It looks like music fans are gearing up for the VMAs because searches on Yahoo! for "VMAs 2010" are up an incredible 1743% this month. While the VMA winners will not be announced until the Sunday evening awards show, we can't help but wonder if all these searches could be early predictors to the winners. Yahoo! has unearthed the top searched Video Music Award nominees during this year's nomination period, and if searching is an early predictor, a sampling of the winners would be:
VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Lady Gaga, Bad Romance
BEST FEMALE VIDEO: Ke$ha, Tik Tok
BEST MALE VIDEO: Usher featuring Will.I.Am, OMG
BEST HIP HOP VIDEO: B.o.B. featuring Hayley Williams, Airplanes
BEST POP VIDEO: Ke$ha, Tik Tok
BEST ROCK VIDEO: Paramore, Ignorance
Even if our predictions are not spot-on, we're as eager to find out the winners as you are—and we'll meet you Behind the Lens! (Don't forget us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/yahoo_music)


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A woman convicted in Israel in connection with a 1969 terrorist bombing filed a motion to recuse the judge presiding over her deportation case because of his Jewish community ties.
The motion filed this week and first reported by Politico suggests that Rasmieh Yousef Odeh will allege at trial that she was tortured and raped while in Israeli custody.
Odeh is facing charges that she failed to note her Israeli conviction when she applied to enter the United States in 1993 and then when she became a citizen in 2004.
"Clearly, one who has been a life-long supporter and promoter of Israel and has deep ties to the State of Israel spanning over 50 years, who no doubt believes that Israel is a great democracy and protector of human rights, cannot be 'reasonably' said to be impartial when these claims of torture and illegality are raised by a Palestinian defendant," Michael Deutsch, a lawyer for Odeh, wrote in the motion.
Paul Borman, a U.S. District Court judge in Detroit, and his wife have donated at least $3 million to the Detroit Jewish federation, according to the motion.
Deutsch casts Borman's involvement with the federation as purely pro-Israel, although it is unclear from the motion how much of his donations and activism were designated for Israel-related activities.
For instance, Deutsch cites Borman's earning the title of "Builder of Israel," apparently unaware that the term dates from the biblical Book of Ruth and often is a rubric for an array of Jewish community activities.
Borman also has been credited by the federation for being "instrumental in bringing hundreds of Detroiters to Israel," including state lawmakers, according to the motion.
Israel jailed Odeh for life for her involvement in a number of Jerusalem bombings in 1969, including one at a supermarket that killed two Hebrew University students, Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe.
She was released in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in 1980 and immigrated to the United States from Jordan in 1995.
Odeh was arrested last October for failing to disclose her terror attack conviction in her immigration papers. Her trial date is Oct. 21.
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The 10 Best Greenmarket Restaurants in NYC
Nothing makes us happier than traipsing through a Greenmarket in full swing (we've been known to skip as well) checking out the rhubarb, fresh lettuces, asparagus, and, of course, ramps peppering vendors' tented tables. And while our frolicking inevitably leads to some great purchases, we'd much prefer to leave it to the professionals when it comes to fully expressing the flavors of a fiddlehead fern. Here are the 10 best Greenmarket restaurants in NYC, our favorite restaurants for celebrating the bounty of a fruitful harvest.
Zachary Feldman Blue Hill Stone Barns, sister restaurant to Blue Hill Back Forty
10. Back Forty West, 70 Prince Street, 212-219-8570
In 2011, Greenmarket godfather Peter Hoffman closed Savoy, his downtown fine-dining destination for seasonal American cuisine, after an impressive 20-year run. Citing a dining culture that had moved toward championing a more casual experience, he chose to open a second branch of sibling restaurant Back Forty in its place (this one with a decked-out smoker). And while Hoffman underling Shanna Pacifico -- who had been the chef since Back Forty West opened -- departed recently, the restaurant continues the market-driven aesthetic with luscious smoked pumpkin hummus, lamb schnitzel, and Norwegian skrei cod served in a lemon broth.
9. Martha, 184 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-596-4147
Andres Valbuena and Melissa Gorman have created an Asian-inflected Fort Greene restaurant whose roots as a supper club lend the space a cozy, infinitely charming atmosphere. The kitchen's use of herbs to brighten dishes is especially beguiling, as in a salad of shaved celery accented with sesame oil, pungent yuzu, and the rarely seen rice paddy herb, which tastes of spiced citrus.
8. Brucie, 234 Court Street, Brooklyn, 347-987-4961
Italian cuisine gets the greenmarket treatment at this Cobble Hill trattoria with a daily-changing menu from chef Zahra Tangorra. Brussels sprouts are thrown for a loop with chickpeas, bacon, tuna conserve, and marcona almonds, and a porchetta is anointed with luxardo cherries and duck sausage. Every Wednesday is "breakfast for dinner," with weekly specials like cheddar waffles with chicken liver butter.
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