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20X Power Analysis Performance Improvement with Synopsys Verdi Technologies
Discover how Synopsys' Verdi technologies, Siloti Correlation and Siloti What-If Replay Simulation, can enable up to 20X performance improvement for power analysis – from weeks to hours. These technologies enable the use of RTL simulation results to generate gate-level simulation data without the need to bring up the gate-level environment, thus enabling power analysis at early stages of the design cycle. Also included is parallel run technology to enhance performance up to 60X compared to the original flow.
Rich Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Debug, Synopsys
Sep 16, 2015
Learn How to Accelerate Verification Closure with PCIe Gen4 VIP
This webinar shows how to leverage protocol, methodology, verification and productivity features of Synopsys VC VIP and UVM source code test suites for accelerated verification closure of PCIe Gen4 based designs.
Paul Graykowski, Senior Manager, PCIe VIP, Synopsys
Aug 19, 2015
TSMC/Synopsys CustomSim Collaboration for 16nm FinFET Design Success
Join TSMC and Synopsys as we discuss N16FF+/early N10 certification collaboration activities and how CustomSim 2015.06 addresses the design needs of FinFET technology nodes.
Jacob Ou, Technical Manager, TSMC; Tom Hsieh, Corporate Application Engineering Manager, Synopsys
Aug 12, 2015
Addressing Verification Challenges of Evolving Ethernet Speeds from 25/40/50/100G and Beyond
We will outline in detail the verification challenges of current and future Ethernet speeds and explain how Accellera UVM Methodology, IEEE 1800-2012 System Verilog Functional Coverage, and SystemVerilog Ethernet Verification IP empowers design and verification teams with methodology, techniques and tools they need to achieve success.
Shenoy Mathew, Senior Corporate Applications Engineer, Verification Group, Synopsys
May 20, 2015
Picking up the pieces: self-contained verification platforms for the modular smartphone era
In the framework of Mobile platforms, learn how source code testsuites provided with Verification IP enable verification engineers to quickly generate diverse permutations of random/constrained random transactions that stress test the systems and subsystems, contributing to "Shift Left" of the verification time and ensure bug free designs.
Nitin Agrawal, CAE Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys
Apr 07, 2015
Automate Low Power Verification and Implementation Flow with VC Apps
UPF imported into Verdi's database provides valuable information to understand relationships between logic designs to power its intent. Learn how VC Apps APIs allows users to check if the design meets the requirements of low power design rules, and helps automate the implementation of low power design structure.
Rich Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Debug, Synopsys; Paul Huang, Corporate Application Engineer (CAE), Synopsys
Jan 28, 2015
Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of ARM-based Cache-coherent Verification and Performance Analysis
Synopsys will cover how verification IP for AMBA enables users to generate correct and interesting coherent stimulus for cache coherent SoC verification. This will include the complexities of configuration, stimulus, coverage and checking, as well as how to address the common verification pitfalls.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys; Tushar Mattu, Corporate Application Engineer (CAE) for Verification Group, Synopsys
Dec 03, 2014
Take Control of Your Flow: Getting Started with Your First VC Apps
VC Apps, a programming interface available with Verdi, provides direct and open access to information from Verdi's databases, analysis engines, and GUI components to customize, innovate or integrate within the Verdi debug environment. Verdi users have the power to maximize their effectiveness by using pre-built VC Apps or writing custom automation apps, scripts or programs. Learn how VC Apps APIs allow users to quickly get started writing programs, and provide many valuable ready-to-use apps installed in the Verdi package.
Rich Chang, Product Marketing Manager, Debug, Synopsys; Paul Huang, Corporate Application Engineer (CAE), Synopsys
Nov 11, 2014
HSPICE Tips & Tricks Webisode Series
Learn from Synopsys applications engineers how to get the most out of HSPICE analysis. Topics will include how to most effectively use S-element, eye diagrams, IBIS-AMI, RUNLVL, and more. New mini webinars will premiere monthly.
Ted Mido, Principal Engineer, HSPICE R&D, Synopsys
Nov 03, 2014
The 10 Things to Know About Memory Verification: Synopsys Memory VIP
Learn how feature-rich, native SystemVerilog memory VIP rapidly verifies the memory interfaces on complex designs, focusing on 10 key areas where productivity is improved.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys; Nasib Naser, PhD, Senior Staff Corporate Applications Engineer, Synopsys
Oct 23, 2014
Reinventing Coverage and Planning with Verdi—A Fully Integrated, Complete Verification Closure Flow To Help You Deliver Chips On Time
The Synopsys Verdi® Coverage solution provides comprehensive planning and coverage analysis technologies as a part of the industry-leading Verdi3™Automated Debug System. We'll discuss why Synopsys' native integration of planning, coverage, and debug technologies provide a complete closure solution to help meet demanding schedules and provide teams with more confidence when asked the inevitable question: '"Are we done yet?"
Steve Chappell, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Debug and Analysis, Synopsys; Michael Horn, Verification Technologist, Synopsys
Oct 14, 2014
Addressing IP Compliance Challenges with UVM-based Test Suites
Protocol verification is a massive time- and resource-consuming endeavor, fraught with complexity and the risk of errors and omissions. Synopsys Verification Test Suites leverage the expertise of protocol experts to provide a rapidly deployable and extensible set of comprehensive tests, written in easily modifiable and reusable SystemVerilog UVM source code. The webinar will give an overview of the architecture and scope of Synopsys' Verification Test Suites to achieve faster and higher quality coverage closure.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys; Karim Aoua, Staff CAE, Synopsys
Sep 30, 2014
VCS AMS for Advanced SoC Mixed-signal Verification
Learn how ARM and STMicroelectronics are using the advanced verification techniques and productivity features of VCS AMS to verify their mixed-signal SoC designs.
Helene Thibieroz, VCS AMS Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys, Inc.; Pierluigi Daglio, AMS Design Verification Flows Manager, STMicroelectronics; Venkatesh Bharanthi Krishnamurthy, Manager of Design Automation, ARM
Sep 03, 2014
Advanced Mixed-Signal Design and Verification of Smartcar ICs
In this webinar, Micronas and Synopsys discuss the breadth of automotive IC applications, challenges in design implementation and verification and the solutions that stemmed from their collaboration.
Mario Anton, Micronas; Gernot Koch, Micronas; Marco Casale-Rossi, Synopsys
Jul 31, 2014
Advanced-Node Variability Characterization and STA Margining with SiliconSmart and PrimeTime
Learn about the new slew-/load-dependent POCV delay model, and hear GLOBALFOUNDRIES describe their experiences using SiliconSmart and PrimeTime to implement a variation-based methodology for advanced
Dr. Tamer Ragheb, SMTS Design CAD Engineer, GLOBALFOUNDRIES; Moninder Bansal, Senior Manager, Corporate Applications Engineering, Synopsys
Jun 11, 2014
Extending Proven Digital Verification Techniques for Mixed-Signal SoCs with VCS AMS
VCS AMS provides mixed-signal verification with a unique performance advantage due to tight integration of VCS functional verification and CustomSim FastSPICE simulation. Webinar topics include an introduction of the new VCS AMS mixed-signal verification solution, RNM with VCS, the SystemVerilog-based AMS testbench methodology, low power verification using UPF power intent specification and AMS debug with Verdi.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys; Arturo Salz, Synopsys Scientist, Verification Group, Synopsys
May 21, 2014
FineSim Technology for Analog and Full-Chip Simulation - A Micron Case Study
Learn about FineSim's transient analysis advantage and the rich feature set that that combines SPICE and FastSPICE simulation technology in one single environment used for memory design at Micron.
Raed Sabbah, Sr. Design Engineer, Embedded Solutions Group, Micron Technology
May 08, 2014
VCS Xprop: Catch X-Related Issues at RTL to Reduce Time-Consuming Gate-Level Simulations
In this webinar you'll learn about a new technology in VCS, called Xprop, which eliminates 'x' optimism at RTL to enable correlation with hardware design behavior. Xprop can be used to reduce and potentially eliminate gate-level simulations for 'x' validation. This webinar will also show how VCS® Xprop eliminates 'x' optimism in advanced simulation flows (such as VCS-NLP) and demonstrate how to debug 'x'-related issues identified by VCS-NLP and Xprop using Verdi™ Power-Aware Debug.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys
Nov 05, 2013
How VCS Improves Coverage Driven Verification Efficiency with Integrated Planning and Management
VCS provides a scalable and integrated planning, management and analysis solution for metric-driven verification. In this webinar, you'll learn how to track coverage and test data in order to correlate results with project goals and resources, so teams know where they are in the verification process and how they have allocated resources. These features are available in VCS 2013.06.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys; Bart Thielges, R&D, Verification Group, Synopsys
Sep 17, 2013
Improve Stimulus Quality and Verification Completeness with VCS Constraint Debug
In this webinar, you will learn about new constraint debug features available in VCS 2013.06. In the batch mode, we will show you how to debug solver solutions as well as improve solver performance. In the interactive mode, we will show you how to stop the simulation on randomize calls, explore the solution and relation spaces in the randomize call, examine the solution distribution of random variables, and modify constraints, re-compiling the design interactively for effective what-if analysis.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys; Jason Chen, CAE, Synopsys; Dhiraj Goswami, Scientist, R&D, Synopsys
Jun 25, 2013
Verilog-to-Verilog Equivalence Checking Using ESP
This Webinar gives a quick introduction to ESP-CV and how recent features are used to verify various Verilog-to-Verilog scenarios. Coverage analysis of the results is also discussed.
Philip Schmidt, R&D Manager, Synopsys; Dave Hedges, Corporate Applications Engineer, Synopsys
May 29, 2013
Discovery-AMS for Mixed-Signal Verification - An ST-Ericsson Case Study
ST-Ericsson shares details on how they leveraged new Discovery-AMS multi-core technology to improve their overall verification flow.
Francois Ravatin, AMS Verification Engineer, ST-Ericsson; Helene Thibieroz, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys
May 21, 2013
Accelerate PCIe Integration Testing with Next-Generation Discovery VIP
Learn an optimal strategy for integration testing using UVM in conjunction with next-generation features of PCIe VIP for more efficient test development, error injection and debug.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager, Synopsys; Paul Graykowski, Corporate Application Engineer (CAE), Synopsys
Mar 20, 2013
Functional Signoff: Measuring and Improving Verification Quality to Ensure Bug-Free Designs
In this webinar you will learn how Certitude Functional Qualification can be added to traditional coverage techniques, to provide unique insight into the quality of RTL simulation and formal verification environments. Certitude uses a proprietary mutation-based process to insert "artificial bugs" or faults into the design and measure the ability of your existing verification environment to detect these faults. The results of this process provide an objective measure of overall verification quality – the ability of the environment to activate, propagate and detect potential bugs – and identify specific holes and weaknesses like incomplete test scenarios, missing checkers and assertions, or infrastructure problems that can allow RTL bugs to slip through the process undetected. Fixing these weaknesses makes your verification environment stronger and reduces the risk of signing off or taping out with functional bugs.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys; George Bakewell, CAE Director, Verification Group, Synopsys
Jan 10, 2013
Using Advanced Verification IP Capabilities to Accelerate Ethernet Verification
This webinar will be based around a typical Ethernet switch design including a processor, switch fabric and Ethernet MACs. Learn how SystemVerilog, UVM and VIP are utilized to verify the Ethernet digital core and then integration of the core into the system. We also cover advanced VIP features, including test suite and debug, to accelerate productivity.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys; Jaspreet Singh Gambhir, R&D Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys
Dec 11, 2012
Open Your Eye with HSPICE Fast and Accurate Eye Diagram Analysis
Learn how HSPICE can help you quickly model high-frequency channel components, run fast transient with long cable S-parameter models, and accurately analyze eye measurement.
Ted Mido, Sr. Staff R&D Enigeer, Synopsys
Oct 17, 2012
Deploying UVM Effectively: How to Simplify Testbench Debug and Improve Turn-around-time with VCS
Learn how to utilize VCS and DVE to most effectively deploy, debug and optimize UVM testbenches.
Rebecca Lipon, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Verification Group, Synopsys; Adiel Khan, Corporate Applications Engineer (CAE), Verification Group, Synopsys
Oct 02, 2012
Verification of MIPI Protocols on a Mobile Platform SoC
This webinar is based around a MIPI-based mobile platform that consists of an application processor, baseband IC and RF IC with interfaces to the peripheral devices like camera, and display. The Webinar shows how SystemVerilog, UVM and verification IP (VIP) are utilized to verify the SoC that implements that platform. It will specifically focus on how to validate the data flow for typical scenarios involving the camera (CSI) and display (DSI) interfaces.
Neill Mullinger, Product Marketing Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys; Narasimhababu GVL, Senior R&D Manager for Verification IP, Synopsys
Aug 07, 2012
Achieving Rapid Verification Convergence of ARM® AMBA® 4 ACE™ Designs using Discovery™ VIP
Overview of challenges of verifying a coherent design. Shows how the features and architecture of Synopsys' new Discovery VIP helps overcome these challenges to simplify verification of ACE design.
Abhijeet Khopkar, R&D Manager, Synopsys; Neill Mullinger, Group Marketing Manager, Synopsys
May 08, 2012
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via High Times Magazine: Here is the official list of entries for the first-ever HIGH TIMES Patients' Choice Cup – presented at the Medical Cannabis Cup in Denver. Get started today. Simply visit each MMC, tell them you are there to judge for the Cup, and purchase the entered medicine. Sample the entries throughout the week and then cast your vote for your favorite strains, concentrates, and edibles at the HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22. Voting open to Colorado medical cannabis patients only.
420 Wellness Dispensary – Federal Location Entry: Triangle – Hybrid A Cut Above - Hobby Farms, LLC Entry: Colombian Gold - Sativa Alameda Wellness Center Entry: Pre-98 Bubba Kush – Indica Aloha's LLC Entry: (Hawaiian) Pineapple Express – Sativa Colorado Alternative Medicine Entry: LA Kush – Indica Fresh Baked, Boulder Entry: E32 Trainwreck – Sativa Green Man Cannabis (CFL) Entry: Hells Angel OG – Hybrid Green Man Cannabis (THC) Entry: Jack Herer- Sativa Headquarters MMC Entry: The White – Hybrid Herbal Remedies Entry: Golden Goat- Sativa Mahatma Extreme Concentrates Entry: Mahatma's "BudKandy" Caviar – Concentrate Medicine Man Denver Entry: Belka – Hybrid Mile High Green Cross Entry: Sour Grape – Hybrid MMJ America Entry: Larry OG Kush – Hybrid Natural Mystic Cannabis Caregivers LLC Entry: Super Lemon Haze – Sativa Natural Mystic Caregivers Entry: Sucker Punch – Edible Natural Remedies Entry: Red Headed Stranger – Sativa Pink House Blooms Entry: Super Silver Haze – Sativa Platte Valley MIP Entry: Glass Slipper Sexy Oil – Concentrate River Rock North Entry: Cinderella – Sativa River Rock Wellness South Entry: CBD Oil – Concentrate Terrapin Care Station Entry: Colorado Crunchberry – Indica THC / The Herbal Center Entry: THC Bling – Hybrid THC/ The Herbal Center Entry: Moonrock – Concentrate The Clinic Highlands Entry: Grape God Bud – Indica The Clinic Holly Entry: Kosher Kush – Indica


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If you read my post on Common Core "look-fors" last week, you already know that the new national standards demand the use of more non-fiction texts and primary source documents.
Given that many of the textbooks in American schools feature few, if any, primary sources, where can teachers turn to find the texts they need?
One place is Stanford's Reading Like A Historian Curriculum. It features a series of lesson plans, complete with primary source documents and suggested instructional strategies.
I like what Stanford has put together for 3 reasons:
- The questions in the lesson plans are engaging. – Students grapple with real issues and ambiguous situations in history. For example, which account of Pocahontas' life is accurate? Why do you think so?
- The texts are rigorous. – Students read actual historical accounts and examine documents from different time periods. The lessons also provide accounts from historians, allowing students to examine and evaluate bias first hand. This builds the context that history is an active process that requires interpretation.
- The topic selection isn't comprehensive; it's purposeful. – You won't find a lesson on every event from the beginning of time to the present. Stanford presents a carefully curated series of topics aimed at building student understanding.
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- 1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup melted unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 cup chopped onions
- 1/2 cup chopped green bell peppers
- 1/2 cup chopped red bell peppers
- 4 cups coarsely chopped assorted fresh wild mushrooms, such as shiitakes, chanterelles, porcini, oysters, or lobster mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 12 turns freshly ground black pepper
- 1 3/4 pounds cream cheese, at room temperature
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup grated smoked Gouda cheese
- 1 pound (2 cups) lump crabmeat, picked over for shells and cartilage
- 2 1/4 cups Green Onion Coulis
- Preheat the oven to 350?F.
- Combine the Parmesan, bread crumbs, and butter until thoroughly blended, and press the mixture into the bottom of a 9-inch springform pan.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet over high heat. Add the onions and the green and red bell peppers and sautÈ, stirring and shaking the skillet, for 2 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms and the salt and pepper, sautÈ for 1 to 2 minutes, remove from the heat.
- Using an electric mixer beat the cream cheese with the eggs in a large bowl until very thick and frothy, for about 5 minutes. Beat in the cream, Gouda, sautÈed vegetables, and crabmeat. Mix until thoroughly incorporated and creamy, for about 2 minutes.
- Pour the filling over the crust in the springform pan and bake until firm, for about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature. If you refrigerate the cake, allow it to come to room temperature, for about 1 hour before serving.
- While the cheesecake is cooling, prepare the Green Onion Coulis.
- To serve, cut the cake in wedges with a warm knife and serve each wedge with about 3 tablespoons of the coulis.
- Note: Remove the crusts from a dense, homemade-type white bread, and crumb 3 or 4 slices at a time in a food processor or blender. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
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The Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau added their organization to the ranks of sustainability as the first visitors bureau to receive gold standard certification from Encouraging Conservation in Oklahoma (ECO), the state's premiere sustainable travel program.
The bureau, located on Main Street in Norman's historic downtown district, achieved the rating through implementing sustainable strategies, designating a "Green Manager" and tracking progress of their efforts.
Hardy Watkins, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department executive director, said Norman's leadership in sustainability initiatives sets the standard for other communities across the state.
"Norman's bureau is the first in the state to make a commitment to sustainability through our ECO program," Watkins said. "We hope their leadership will act as a bridge between the issue of conservation and other businesses and organizations."
New sustainable practices at the bureau include a reduction in paper, energy use and recycled materials. The bureau also decreased the size of its visitor's guide to Norman, which reaches approximately 100,000 people annually. The change in size saves money in postage and printing costs.
According to Jen Tregarthen, public relations and marketing manager at the Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau, the ECO certification recognizes a continuing commitment to conservation.
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Since 2009, the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department and Department of Environmental Quality's ECO Certification program has promoted, developed and encouraged sustainable tourism throughout the state. ECO Certification requires applicants to meet set criteria and be reviewed by a national certification board. A certification level of silver, gold or platinum can be awarded, based on the level of sustainable practices the applicant chooses to implement.
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The Diabetes Branch of the Alabama Department of Public Health works in collaboration with many other programs within and outside of the Department to help people delay or prevent development of diabetes and to reduce complications related to the disease.
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Groups at high risk of diabetes, people with diabetes and pre-diabetics, including minority populations. Certain diabetes indicators are now being targeted by health care providers to help diagnose diabetes.
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White Bean, Tomato, and Zucchini Gratin
- 1 celery rib, sliced thin
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 8 garlic cloves, chopped coarse
- 4 plum tomatoes, seeded and chopped (about 2 1/4 cups)
- two 15-ounce cans small white beans (not cannellini), rinsed well and drained
- 12 fine-quality oil-cured black olives*, pitted and halved
- 2 medium zucchini, quartered lengthwise and sliced thin crosswise (about 2 1/2 cups)
- 12 fresh sage leaves, chopped fine or 1/2 teaspoon dried, crumbled
For persillade topping:
- 1 cup fine fresh bread crumbs
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley leaves
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
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Preheat oven to 350�F.
In a 10- to 12-inch skillet cook celery in oil over moderate heat, stirring, until softened. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes.
Remove skillet from heat and stir in beans. Mash about one fourth of beans with back of a large spoon and stir in remaining ingredients except topping. Season mixture with salt and pepper. Transfer bean mixture to a 2- to 2 1/2-quart gratin dish or other shallow baking dish and smooth top with a rubber spatula. Gratin may be prepared up to this point 4 hours ahead and chilled, covered.
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In a small bowl with a fork stir together topping ingredients until crumbs are evenly moistened.
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Interfacial mechanics at the nanoscale is greatly influenced by the humidity of the environment due to spontaneous condensation and the formation of a water meniscus between contacting surfaces. The force associated with the phenomenon called the "meniscus force", modifies the contact geometry altering the adhesion mechanism between the surfaces. The origin of adhesion at nanoscale contacts in humid air is investigated by pull-off force measurements using atomic force microscopes in controlled environments from ultra-high vacuum through various humidity conditions to water. An equivalent work of adhesion (WOA) model with a simplified interface stress distribution is developed, combining the effects of screened van der Waals and meniscus forces, that describe adhesion in humid air and which self-consistently treats the contact stress and deformation. Although the pull-off force is found to vary significantly with humidity, the equivalent WOA is found to be invariant. Increasing humidity alters the nature of the surface adhesion from a compliant contact with a localized, intense meniscus force to a stiff contact with an extended, weak meniscus force.


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Extinction, I used to think, was a threat faced by animals endangered by excessive hunting and climate change. But I was reminded by Reviving Recipes, a documentary shown at HKIFF, that many plants are also silently vanishing. Among them are "heirloom" vegetables, whose extinction is lovingly fought against by farmers, scholars, chefs and ordinary folks in Japan's Yamagata Prefecture.
In successive episodes, the film tells the stories of heirloom veggies on the verge of disappearance. Once grown to help poor farmers survive the winter at times of crop failure, Fujisawa turnips, whose irregular shapes do not quite fit standard shipment boxes, have been forsaken for another kind of turnip more preferred by the market. Mrs Watarai, an 85-year-old grandma, is nonetheless insistent on preserving the species. The turnip is kept alive in a small patch in her garden. Its flavour is passed on as she teaches her grandchild to love its pungent taste. The substance that gives rise to this, according to the film, prevents cancer.
With seeds preserved by Mrs Watarai, local farmers managed to get Fujisawa turnips back on the field. They do this with the traditional slash-and-burn method. After trees are felled, leftover branches are carefully laid over the same plot for soil regeneration through burning. Fire kills harmful insects, making the use of chemical insecticides unnecessary. Natural fertilizers, such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potassium, are also produced in the process. Vegetables grown on such soil are exceptionally crunchy and juicy, and 100% organic.
Besides Mrs Watarai and the mountain farmers, many others are also striving to preserve the veggie heritage. Two devotees are Professor Egashira, a researcher on heirloom crops at Yamagata University, and Chef Okuda, who fuses Italian recipes with local produce, thus creating demand for continual farming of waning species. In one episode, the two are in search of the legendary Hoya turnip, thought to have become extinct for decades. To their surprise, the long-lost treasure was delivered to Okuda's restaurant by a local farmer one day. Okuda immediately called Prof Egashira, who dashed over that very night to share an important moment of resurrection.
What has been saved in these endeavours is a lot more than turnips. Flowing in the juice of these revived vegetables are unique tastes that have been savoured across time, nourished generations and formed part of history. Their unobtrusive growth in the eco-system resists market-driven monoculture and demonstrates a harmonious way for different life forms to co-exist on earth.
Near the end, the film shows an old farmer teaching Haruki, a young man just licensed to farm heirloom produce, how to properly plant cedar trees. Haruki asks how long it takes for the trees to become useful. "30 years," answered the old farmer. "Then we will not be the ones cutting them?" The old farmer nods, as if this is the simplest truth. The film then moves on to a close-up of a pollinating bee, and lets the audience go home with a full screen of seeds.
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The Truckee Meadows Structural Controls Design Manual (2008) - Updates & Errata (2008) - provide Guidance for Source and Treatment Controls for Storm Water Quality Management. Hard copies of handbook are available at the City of Reno Community Development or Public Works Offices in City Hall, 1 East First St, Reno. If you are just starting to plan your site, please first review the planning-focused Low Impact Development Handbook. *Please note that these handbooks are under technical review (2014) and update. When complete, they will be posted here, please check back in the fall for updates.
This program implements structural best management practices (BMPs) at areas of new development and redevelopment. Program components include new policies and procedures, ordinance revisions, drainage manual revisions, training for staff, project designers and developers, database tracking, complaints reporting and public education and outreach on structural BMPs. Our goal is to provide written guidance and training to local government staff, project designers, developers and structural BMP owners regarding the design, operation, inspection and maintenance of structural controls. Existing jurisdictional drainage design manuals (Reno Public Works Design Manual and Truckee Meadows Regional Drainage Manual) have been revised to include a new chapter on structural controls for stormwater quality. The new chapters include technical guidance on the selection, site, sizing, operation and maintenance of structural controls designed to enhance stormwater quality.
The Truckee Meadows projects:
1. Urban Tree Box Filters placed along Virginia Street in downtown Reno allow gutter flow to enter landscape areas before flowing into the storm drain and river, receiving treatment by biological, chemical, and physical processes.
2. The McKinley LID Demonstration project is now complete, and showcases a local pervious concrete application. This project was designed in house, and utilized Design Guidance Worksheets for proper sizing to capture and treat a minimum of the 90th percentile storm (0.6").
The picture shows a structural control located in Denver, CO, a sand filter extended detention basin. This structure passively treats storm water runoff from a parking lot of about 10 acres and has had no problems in 10 years. Design was based on criteria outlined in the Urban Storm Drainage Criteria Manual, Vol. 3 - BMPs (UDFCD, Denver CO, September 1999). Photograph courtesy of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, Denver, Colorado.
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Bottle It!
Coca-Cola came to be bottled when a stranger sold a remarkable two-word idea to the company: "Bottle it."
[de Vos, 1996]
Coke was first sold only at soda fountains. A man approached the executive of the company and told them that for $500 he would reveal the secret of untold corporate riches. His secret, after he pocketed the money, was "Bottle it!"
Of all the "Low-level employee provides a simple yet brilliant
that increases the profits of a successful company many times over" legends, this
one about how Coca-Cola came to be served in bottles rather than solely dispensed from fountains is without question the best known. Akin to the "carbonated by mistake" legend, it postulates that at least some of Coca-Cola's remarkable success was the result of dumb luck rather than intelligent business design. Just as the "
accidental carbonation
" chestnut hypothesizes that if it hadn't been for an addlepated soda jerk the beverage would always have lacked fizz, this story about a stranger who fortuitously turned up with a million-dollar idea advances the notion that Coca-Cola wouldn't otherwise have been vended in bottles.
While it is difficult to pin down precisely when the idea of selling Coke in this form was first kited, we can tell it occurred near the product's 1885 debut thanks to one of the participant's memories about a dispute over the notion. Sam Dobbs, nephew of Asa Candler (who bought up the rights to Coca-Cola in 1888), got himself in trouble with his uncle by secretly vending bottles of the soft drink syrup to entrepreneurs manning back-alley bottling machines. His uncle's objections were not based on a failure to comprehend the potential sales value of providing the buying public with the beverage in this fashion, but sprang from then-reasonable concerns about unsanitary bottling conditions adulterating the drink and injuring the product's standing. "There are too many folks [bottlers] who are not responsible, who care nothing about the reputation of what they put up, and I am afraid the name [of Coca-Cola] will be
injured," he said.
Ergo, legend to the contrary, Asa Candler (who
Coca-Cola back in those early days) gained the "Bottle it" advice not from a mysterious stranger who struck a hard bargain in exchange for the intelligence, but for free from his
of a teenage nephew. Candler chose not to immediately implement the suggestion, though, which perhaps contributes to belief in the legend. (The fact that Coca-Cola was not widely available in bottled form until well after it was established as a fountain drink does not reflect, as legend would have it, the Coca-Cola Company's lack of awareness of the potential market for bottled drinks, but rather Coca-Cola's recognition that the bottling process at that time was notoriously difficult, expensive, and unreliable, and that the fast-growing company had neither the money nor the physical resources to be establishing and operating bottling plants of its own.)
Yet with or without Candler's blessing, Coca-Cola was being sold in bottles by the mid-1890s. Collectors of the product's memorabilia know to be on the lookout for the rare Hutchinson bottles the fledgling company used from that time to the early 1900s. (Between the discontinuation of the Hutchinson vessels and the introduction of the
contour bottle
in 1915, a variety of straight-sided bottles were used.) The stoppered Hutchinson bottles were exceedingly difficult to clean (in those days, bottles were washed and
rather than used once and discarded), an additional fact that serves to make Candler's reluctance to bottle the product a bit more understandable.
Joe Biedenharn of Vicksburg, Mississippi, was one of the soda's earliest bottlers. He went from peddling Coke syrup to druggists for the company to, in 1894, bottling and then selling the carbonated beverage itself. Another early bottler was the Valdosta Bottling Works of Valdosta, Georgia, which began putting up Coke in bottles in 1897.
The legend attached to how Coca-Cola came to be bottled is indeed an old one. In the 1934 film
Imitation of Life
, a bum Beatrice 'Bea' Pullman (Claudette Colbert) feeds a free breakfast of pancakes announces by way of negotiating another helping that he will tell Beatrice "in two words how to make a million dollars." Before making his simple-yet-brilliant suggestion about a way to transform her from a mere cafe owner into a pancake mogul, he regales her with the tale of an unnamed fellow who once approached the president of Coca-Cola with a similar proposition, saying, "For $100,000, I'll tell you how to make millions." But of course the advice of the unnamed fellow was "Bottle it."
The legend didn't begin with that acclaimed film, though, because mention of it appears in a 1935 note penned by
New Yorker
editor Harold Ross. Ross was in the habit of typing out idea sheets (story suggestions) for potential "Talk of the Town" pieces, and his
23 September
1935 entry reads as follows:
There's a legend that a man once went into the Coca-Cola offices and said he had an idea which would make millions for them and would reveal it on payment of $50,000. After a solemn agreement had been drawn up he gave them the idea in two words: "Bottle it." I've heard this legend for years. Any truth in it? There are a lot of other legends of the kind that could be bunched with this one, if only to explode them all.
Notice that even in 1935 Ross refers to the story as a legend he'd been hearing for years, so while that note was dated a year after the release of
Imitation of Life
, the knowledge behind it predates the film. (It also evinces a surely modern version of the legend: In 1896 the Coca-Cola Company's entire surplus amounted to less than $50,000
— to
have thrown all that cash at a stranger in exchange for nothing more than the nebulous promise of a "great idea" would have been madness indeed.)
It may never prove possible to isolate the origin of this well-traveled innovation tale, but we can say with great assurance that it entered the canon of popular lore before the majority of our readers came into the world.
Barbara "we're the young whippersnappers, not it" Mikkelson
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Electronic Arts and Del Rey are proud to announce Del Rey's publishing a novel based on the critically-acclaimed Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars PC game, hitting the US and Canada on May 29, 2007. Europe will see it released in the following months. "Command & Conquer remains one of the most popular and well-reviewed gaming franchises," said Del Rey editor Keith Clayton "and we're thrilled to have the opportunity to work on an original story set in EA's Tiberium Universe."
Funny, isn't it? It's games such as Command & Conquer that take after books all the time. Guess it goes the other way around just as good, huh?
Patrick O'Brien, VP of Business Affairs at EA explains why it's important for storylines such as the one in Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars, to see other different forms of media, other than video games: "We're excited to expand the Command & Conquer franchise to a new form of media and offer a depth to the underlying fiction of the game series like never before. Keith DeCandido wrote a great story, and we're pleased to have partnered with him and Del Rey."
In the novel by Keith R. A. DeCandido, the year is 2047 and the stakes are rather high for the Earth. Tiberium (a self-replicating alien substance infecting the Earth) is spreading rapidly. The Global Defense Initiative (a high-tech alliance of the world's most advanced nations) is fighting to contain Tiberium. But the story couldn't have been as simple as Kane; the megalomaniacal leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, has other plans for Earth. Kane's secret society turned superpower is bent on using Tiberium to take control and transform humanity into something twisted like only he would imagine. Then, while hundreds of battles are being fought across the globe, a third alien race emerges; thus an even greater war starts over Tiberium.
What, didn't you think we were going to tell the whole book, did you?
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Featuring full-color illustrations by acclaimed comic book artist Bernie Wrightson, The Dark V: Wolves of the Calla finds the world's bestselling author Stephen King continuing the adventures of Roland, the last gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on."
Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny — to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen, the nexus of all space and time. This pursuit brings Roland and his three fellow questions to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a community lying along the Path of the Beam, which is the way to the Tower. Before advancing, however, they must face the evil wolves of Thunderclap, predators who threaten to destroy the Calla by abducting its young.
Wolves of the Calla is among Stephen King's most visionary works of fiction — a dazzling continuation of what may well be his signature achievement.
"[A] hypnotic blend of suspense and sentimentality...sprawling, eventful tale of demons, monsters, narrow escapes and magic portals." The New York Times Book Review
"The high suspense and extensive character development here...plus the enormity of King's ever-expanding universe, will surely keep his 'Constant Readers' in awe." Publishers Weekly
"King stuffs the book with juice, like the big flashback, in which Pere Callahan reveals his past in...Salem's Lot. One of the greatest cavalcades in popular fiction is back on track." Ray Olson, Booklist
"Ably illustrating the reasons for his immense popularity, King not only tells a great story, he gives his characters wonderful stories to tell, too....King exudes such craft, control and playfulness." BookPage
"With every chapter, one gets the feeling that this colossal story means a lot to King, that he's telling it because he has to....If you've been hanging on since the very beginning, you won't be disappointed by this chapter, and you'll only be left eager for more." San Francisco Chronicle
"Loyalty, friendship and the ability to choose are the ultimate themes of the series, and this book furthers those themes admirably..." Rocky Mountain News
"Brilliant in technique and ability...Feed your head! Now dig in, 'cause King's latest in this seven-course banquet...is a lip-smacking, brain-filling repast." The Denver Post
"Like many of King's other books, this is a long one. A hefty 714 pages, it's an investment....Still, it's worth it. Say what you will about Stephen King, the man can spin a yarn, and a great one at that." Philadelphia Inquirer
"The master of the macabre....[King] is still quite the entertainer." People
"Wolves of the Calla is one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus." Locus
"A solid addition to the fantasy series....Though King does an admirable job of recounting earlier adventures, newcomers to Roland's journey would be better off starting at the beginning." Dallas-Ft. Worth Star Telegram
"Wolves of the Calla is a better book than its predecessor...but it has some of the same drawbacks, though King does manage to lasso them a bit better....[It] gets us down the 'Path of the Beam' toward that final Tower in pleasurable fashion." Kansas City Star
"Wolves of the Calla has no propulsion. It's a maddening exercise in interminable dawdling....[A] fairy-tale land of towers, wastelands, neglected characterization and a sprawling plot that works against King's usual narrative strengths." Houston Chronicle
"Once the bullets start flying and the blood begins to flow, you realize that the slow buildup was worth it. As in the previous books, King puts you into the thick of the action and delivers the payoff in heart-racing, cinematic fashion." The Oregonian (Portland, OR)
"An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"'The Dark Tower' is King's masterpiece....Wolves of the Calla succeeds as a standalone work." Bangor Daily News
"King does not fail us....Fans will delight not only in King's continued gleeful intertwining of multiple genres but perhaps most of all in the return of 'Salem's Lot's Father Callahan." Library Journal
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White Europeans settled in America 18 thousand years ago
This article is from 1999...No suprise we have not seen it.
Evidence grows N. America's first colonizers were European
LONDON Stone Age Europeans were the first trans-Atlantic sailors. Columbus and the Vikings were mere ocean-crossing latecomers, according to a leading American anthropologist. Dennis Stanford, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, says Neolithic fishermen and hunters sailed the Atlantic in tiny boats made of animal skins 18,000 years ago and colonized the eastern United States.
Such a journey would represent one of the most astonishing migrations ever undertaken the Earth was then in the grip of the Ice Age and much of its high northern and southern latitudes were desolate wastelands blasted by storms and blizzards.
On the other hand, much of the planet's water was locked in icecaps and glaciers, and sea levels would have been much lower than today's. The edges of the continents would have extended further into the oceans.
"The gap between Europe and America was greatly reduced," Stanford said. "It could have been quite feasible for fishermen and whale and seal hunters to sail around the southern rim of the packs of sea-ice that covered the North Atlantic and reach land around the Banks of Newfoundland."
Stanford's theory outlined at a recent archaeology conference in Santa Fe, N.M. is based on discoveries indicating ancient American people were culturally far more like the Neolithic tribes of France, Spain and Ireland than the Asian people whom scientists had previously thought to be the sole prehistoric settlers of North America.
Stanford also points out although modern Native Americans possess DNA similar to that of Asians, they also carry some variants found only in European people. This genetic input could only be explained by accepting Stone Age people could sail ocean-going boats, he said.
"We now know that human beings learned to sail 50,000 years before the present," he said. "Mankind settled in Australia then and it was not linked by any land bridge to Asia. It could only have been reached by boat. Clearly, we had mastered sailing tens of thousands of years before America was colonized, so we should not be surprised by the idea that people took boat trips across the Atlantic 18,000 years ago."
The theory that prehistoric Europeans colonized America was first put forward in the 1950s by archaeologist Frank Hibben, but was discredited by evidence supporting the notion the continent was populated 20,000 to 15,000 years ago by Asian migrants who walked across the land bridge then linking Siberia with Alaska, and who then trekked south through the continent.
Stanford does not disagree Asian folk colonized ancient America, but argues current genetic and archaeological evidence shows an influx of Europeans must also have taken place. The prime candidates for these migrants are the Solutrean people who lived in Spain 23,000 to 18,000 years ago and later colonized parts of France and Ireland.
They designed and made beautifully crafted fluted stone blades that bore a striking similarity to those made by the Clovis people who lived in America 11,000 years ago. Like the Clovis, the Solutreans made stone scrapers to prepare hides and kept stores of stone implements, buried in red ocher, round the countryside. These ancient Spaniards therefore must have been among the first New World settlers, Stanford says. Native Americans are Iberian, not Siberian, in origin.
The theory's main problem stems from the fact an Atlantic crossing in tiny Ice Age boats would have been an awesome undertaking. However, Stanford argues it would have been a less arduous undertaking than might be expected. "If a storm arrived, they would have camped on an ice island until the weather got better. Eventually they would have drifted west until they reach eastern America," he said.
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Solutrean culture was dominant in present-day France and Spain from roughly 21,000 to 17,000 years ago. It was known for its distinctive toolmaking characterized by bifacial, pressure-flaked points. Traces of the Solutrean tool-making industry disappear rather abruptly from Europe around 15,000 years ago, when it was replaced by the somewhat cruder tools of the Magdalenian culture.
Clovis tools are typified by a distinctive rock spear point, known as the Clovis point. Like Solutrean points, Clovis points are bifacial and "fluted" on both sides. Fluting facilitates mounting or hafting the point to a spear shaft more securely. Clovis tool-making technology seems to appear in the archaeological record in North America roughly 13,500 years ago, and similar predecessors in Asia or Alaska have not yet been discovered.
[edit] Atlantic crossing
The hypothesis proposes that Ice Age Europeans could have crossed the North Atlantic along the edge of the pack ice that extended from the Atlantic coast of France to North America during the last glacial maximum. The model envisions these people making the crossing in small watercraft, using skills similar to those of the modern Inuit people, exploiting relatively plentiful maritime resources.
[edit] Transitional styles
Supporters of the hypothesis suggest that stone tools found at Cactus Hill (an early American site in Virginia) indicate a transitional style between the Clovis and Solutrean cultures. Artifacts from this site are estimated to date from 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, although a consensus has not been reached among researchers on their definitive age.
[edit] MtDNA Haplogroup X
The idea is also supported by mitochondrial DNA analysis insofar as the fact that some members of some native North American tribes share a common yet distant maternal ancestry with some present-day individuals in Europe identified by mtDNA Haplogroup X. Haplogroup X has not been found in eastern Asia or Siberia, unlike other Native American mtDNA Haplogroups A, B, C and D.
[edit] Challenges to the Solutrean hypothesis
Difficulties with this hypothesis include the challenges of crossing the Atlantic with the technology of the time as well as a temporal gap of millennia between the apparent end of the Solutrean culture and the earliest discovered Clovis tools.
Other problems with the hypothesis include an apparent lack of Solutrean-style artwork (like that found at Lascaux in France) among the Clovis people. In response, proponents point out that the Solutreans introduced a tool-making innovation and not necessarily cultural or artistic practices.
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Interesting I don't believe that the current time measurement techniques are accurate though.
"18,000 years ago." Who lived that long to calibrate the time measurement technique?
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but of course this science is not allowed to continue because your government wants to please some alcoholic Indian/Native American
I saw that Discovery documentary when it first aired
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Happy 150th birthday, Charles Duryea!
Courtesy of the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles
We recently celebrated the sesquicentennial of Billy Durant's birth, and another key figure in the nascent American automotive industry celebrates his today: Charles Duryea.
Charles and brother J. Frank Duryea were automotive pioneers, developing their first prototype car in 1893, with the first production vehicle from the Duryea Motor Wagon Company, a gas-powered single-cylinder buggy runabout, following in 1895.
Charles was born on December 15, 1861, in Canton, Illinois (James Frank came along on October 8, 1869), and he got his start on two wheels, forming a bicycle company. When things got frosty with Frank, the two went separate ways, Frank going on to create the Stevens Duryea and Charles continuing to build three- and four-wheeled vehicles with rear-mounted three-cylinder engines.
The Duryea firm, which moved from Massachussetts to Pennsylvania in 1900, was finished by 1913, but Duryea's contribution to mobilizing America earned it the title of the builder of the official state automobile of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Valley girls, Lucky Charms leprechauns and the Notorious B.I.G are just a few of the subjects offered up for consideration in Linguistics 80: "Dialects of English," a departmental course for those with a flair for language but with a fear of linguistics technicalities.
"It's designed to be an enjoyable introduction to one type of linguistic research," says Bert R. Vaux, assistant professor of linguistics, a course for students looking for "something interesting rather than something technical and obscure."
Instead of letting students get bogged down in technicalities, Linguistics 80 approaches language with a heavy emphasis on listening--both to native speakers who come to nearly every course meeting to demonstrate different dialects and to language variance in the pop culture Vaux frequently references in his course.
Pop culture is a useful reference, Vaux notes, because shows like "The Simpsons" and "South Park" tend to feature more language play and language variance that can be analyzed in class.
"I try to record a lot of TV and weed through it to see which language variances I can use," Vaux says.
Bill and Ted, the movie Clueless, and Tom Cruise's performance in Far and Away--which required a stereotypical Irish accent--are all points on the course syllabus, and clips of popular cartoon shows are regular features in lecture.
"Most academics assume that classical music of 19th century writers are in some absolute way superior to contemporary pop culture, like 'The Simpsons' or 'South Park,' which is just not true," Vaux says. "Both are products of their time's pop cultures."
Just as Vaux uses pop culture to bring to life dialects that may seem unbelievable or dry on paper, he also emphasizes that the native speakers who demonstrate their dialects in lecture on a regular basis are integral to the course. Dialects covered in the course include regional American, Australian, British, Indian, and Calypso.
The course will also deal with myths about language and dialects, class and gender influences on language, and language formation.
"This course will show students that most of what they believe about language is wrong," Vaux says.
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MARANA, Ariz. — Marana is looking for new options to bolster tourism in
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When Jacqueline Conner's refinance application was denied, she decided to take action.
Conner and her husband first refinanced their Indiantown home in 2007, putting the money toward renovations. They are trying to refinance again with HARP, the government's Home Affordable Refinance Program, but there have been problems.
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Some work remains. For example, the Skirball Center Dr southbound on- and off-ramps and the final configuration of the northbound and southbound ramps to and from Sunset Bl will be completed this summer.
Wilshire Segment
Significant elements of the Wilshire Segment are, however, complete, with all the connecting ramps joining I-405 and Wilshire Bl fully open. Bridges and walls within the Wilshire Segment are also complete.
Southbound motorists traveling the I-405 will benefit from the restriping of the freeway under the I-10. Instead of three lanes, motorists can now drive on four lanes.
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In the Sunset Segment, Reconstruction of the Church Ln intersection is anticipated for June 2014. Full restoration of the Moraga Dr ramps is complete. Restoration of Sepulveda Bl at Moraga Dr included double left-turn lanes onto the northbound Moraga Dr on-ramp from northbound Sepulveda Bl.
Sepulveda Bridge (Bridge 19) near the Getty Center Dr ramps is complete! Minor clean-up work to the southbound median approach slabs nears an end.
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The majority of the retaining walls in the Mulholland Segment are complete. The remaining major wall under construction, Wall 1921, runs along the west edge of Sepulveda Bl between Skirball Center Dr and Mountaingate Dr. Wall 1921 must be complete before the final configuration of Sepulveda Bl in this area can be opened.
For the southbound Skirball Center Dr off-ramp, work stands at 85 percent complete. Work is 95 percent complete for the southbound on-ramp. The northbound Skirball Center Dr off-ramp and on-ramp have been opened to full capacity.
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The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project will add a 10-mile HOV lane and improve supporting infrastructure such as ramps, bridges and sound walls on the San Diego Fwy. (I-405), while widening lanes from the Santa Monica Fwy. (I-10) to the Ventura Fwy. (US 101).
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The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project will:
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MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko and the Olympic Gold Medalist Satoshi Ishii stepped on the scales in Saitama, Japan, as part of DREAM's official weigh-in ceremony ahead of tomorrow's stacked fight card. Emelianenko weighed-in at 233lbs, around 5lbs lighter than for his fight with Jeff Monson back in November. Satoshi Ishii hit the scales at 214lbs, making his fight with "The Last Emperor" official.
None of the remaining Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011 fighters missed weight, including the DREAM 135lbs Tournament Semi-Finalists, who will compete twice in one night (only the winners) to conclude the bracket.
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A lot of little girls and even a few little boys grow up adoring Barbie as they lug her around their homes, fight over her with their siblings and neighbors, and use her blonde locks for beauty school practice. I don't think all that many of the young kids who LOVE Barbie and all that she represents realize what a freak of nature she actually is when you consider her body proportions.
I'd never actually seen a picture of what an actual, life-sized barbie until recently when I came across this article in the Huffington Post.
Galia Slayen, a former cheerleader with an eating disorder, chose to make a life-sized Barbie from scratch to show her contemporaries how strange and disproportionate Barbie's figure actually is and highlight the important issue of teen eating disorders. Using gumption, a wood frame, chicken wire, paper mache, and a Barbie head (the kind kids use to practice their hairstyling skills on), Galia Slayen created her own Frankenbarbie, pictured above.
Galia Slayen's Barbie is a 39-18-33—which is close to the real measurements Barbie would have if she were 6' tall. Barbie is wearing the actual skirt that Galia Slayen wore when she was a sized-zero cheerleader because Galia wanted to show the world some of the pain she felt as a result of her own struggle with eating disorders and the pressure to look perfect that she felt as a cheerleader. Galia's Barbie made her first appearance at her high school and then at her college; in both cases, Barbie was showcased for National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, as she has been in other locations for the last two years.
In her article in the Huffington Post about her Barbie, Galia Slayen cited a few statistics on Barbie that she thinks it's important for people to know to understand how disproportionate a barbie doll actually is.
More "Get Real, Barbie" statistics:*
• There are two Barbie dolls sold every second in the world.
• The target market for Barbie doll sales is young girls ages 3-12 years of age.
• A girl usually has her first Barbie by age 3, and collects a total of seven dolls during her childhood.
• Over a billion dollars worth of Barbie dolls and accessories were sold in 1993, making this doll big business and one of the top 10 toys sold.
• If Barbie were an actual women, she would be 5'9" tall, have a 39" bust, an 18" waist, 33" hips and a size 3 shoe.
• Barbie calls this a "full figure" and likes her weight at 110 lbs.
• At 5'9" tall and weighing 110 lbs, Barbie would have a BMI of 16.24 and fit the weight criteria for anorexia. She likely would not menstruate.
• If Barbie was a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
• Slumber Party Barbie was introduced in 1965 and came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs with a book entitled "How to Lose Weight" with directions inside stating simply "Don't eat."