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Tracking Gorillas in Uganda
Joyce Powzyk and I became instant friends 20 years ago in the Nairobi airport. We were both solo travelers, en route to join a three-week safari in Tanzania. It was a dream trip for me. Raised on Wild Kingdom, I'd decided I had to see Africa before I turned 30 and had withdrawn my entire savings to achieve the goal. I took pride in packing all my clothes and gear in the one bright-yellow bag sent by the safari tour company. Joyce, on the other hand, won the Most Luggage Carried by a Tourist prize. Though I blanched thinking of the baggage I'd gain if we joined forces, I found her irresistible. Smart, funny, capable, and curious, she was a biologist, illustrator, and writer who was parlaying her earnings from two children's books about Australia into a six-month sojourn in Africa. We went on to share a tent happily, despite my talking in my sleep and the fact that a hyena ate our portable plastic shower hose three days out, leaving us pungent through the end of the trip.
Our friendship survived our subsequent marriages, three children, two cross-country moves (mine from West Coast to East, hers in the opposite direction), her six books, my eight magazine jobs, her bout with melanoma. Months would go by when we didn't talk. She was decoding lemur calls in the Madagascar jungle for her PhD in physical anthropology; I was parsing the codes of New York fashionistas. But she would send me an illustrated letter or an old photo of the two of us knee-deep in flamingos at Lake Nakuru, and we'd get our families together for New Year's and fantasize about running off together on another safari.
So there was no doubt about whether Joyce would want to go to Uganda with me to track mountain gorillas. The only question was for how long. We'd had time to burn on our last trip, few entanglements or responsibilities. Now I had a brief window between business in London and an event in Tucson, while she had her 10-year-old daughter's birthday party and classes to cover at Wesleyan, where she now teaches. We checked our dates, cross-checked with the husbands, and narrowed it down: Between us, we could squeeze out five days. Given travel time, we'd essentially have a long weekend in East Africa. We were on.
Facing the Unknown
When our driver picks us up at the airport in Entebbe, he and Joyce bond by comparing notes on the primate experts they know in common. This is working the room on a global scale. (It occurs to me, with some relief, that nothing I know carries any weight in this environment.) Back in 1986, Joyce helped conduct a gorilla census just south of where we are going tomorrow, venturing into the Virunga Volcano range from the southwestern, Rwanda side to track the animals that Dian Fossey made famous. Joyce hasn't glimpsed a mountain gorilla since then. She and her colleagues on that trip found mostly hair, spoor, and nighttime nests.
There are only about 700 mountain gorillas left in the world — none in zoos — and roughly half of them live in southwestern Uganda. In the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where we are going, three groups of animals, each 12 to 24 strong, are habituated, meaning they have been carefully desensitized to humans' presence and are unlikely to run from us, or charge, as long as we do as we're told. The tour-company literature I read before the trip warned that I should be prepared to hike for some hours through dense undergrowth to see the animals; that we will be limited to one hour's contact; that there is no guarantee of actually seeing a gorilla; and that if you're the least bit sick, you cannot go — the risk to the gorillas (our close genetic cousins) from human respiratory diseases is too great. I hid my head in a blanket the whole trip from London to avoid the airplane wheezers and sneezers, and prayed that yoga, Pilates, and constant New York City sidewalk training would see me through the hikes.
We will also be hiking with armed guards. It was Joyce who told me about the horrific attack on tourists by ethnic Hutu Rwandan rebels in the park in 1999. One of her biologist friends from college, Mark Ross, was leading a group that day and managed to get out to safety, but 17 people were marched barefoot into the jungle and eight of those were hacked to death. (Ross wrote a book about the incident, Dangerous Beauty: Life and Death in Africa, which I vowed not to read — or tell my husband about — until after we return.) The park closed briefly, but we are assured that all is calm. The big danger now is to the gorillas — from us and from poachers. Still, later in the trip, Joyce confesses she has brought a Swiss Army knife to keep by her bed, just in case.
At the Forest Camp
Our Entebbe hotel is luxurious, the food in the restaurant is pleasingly spicy, and the marabou storks picking their way across the lawn toward vast Lake Victoria are amusingly reminiscent of Anna Wintour negotiating a cobblestoned street in Manolos. But with so little time here, we are eager to move along to the main event. A quick Jeep trip past the shacks at the edge of town to a grass airstrip and we get our wish. Cindy, a 30-year-old American flight instructor, fires up the single-engine Cessna 172, and we are on our way — one of the largest lakes in the world to our left, the volcanoes and mist-laden forests ahead.
Various bits of peeling duct tape in the cockpit make me uneasy, but Cindy's manner is reassuring. "I've been flying since I was a little girl," she tells me over the roar of the engine. She says she earned her private license at 25 and flew in Florida and California before seeking a bigger adventure in Africa. Now, in between lessons, she runs people like us out to the forest camps and, a much more dangerous activity, ferries aid workers and supplies into the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Our two-hour flight is gorgeously smooth and clear. (By truck, this trip would have taken up to 12 hours over rutted dirt roads.) I attempt to follow our progress on the map. With most of the villages below marked merely as "numerous small huts," however, I quickly lose track. We make a low turn over an emerald-green gorge. "That's the Congo," Cindy announces, waggling the wings over the invisible border. Another sharp turn and we are buzzing our landing strip, scattering chickens and dogs and kids from a slice of grass surrounded by glistening tea bushes in orderly rows.
We drive 25 miles and arrive at the Gorilla Forest Camp — eight spacious and comfortable thatch-roofed, canvas-sided cabins surrounding a landscaped yard and an open-air dining hall — with time enough before sundown for an exploratory walk in the forest.
The camp is immediately outside the entrance to the national park, where patchwork plots of banana, taro, and tea plants bisected by red-dirt paths end abruptly at a wall of dense, layered vegetation. The Bwindi Impenetrable National Park occupies one of the most ancient ecosystems in Africa — a 128-square-mile remnant of a 10,000-year-old rain forest.
And indeed it is raining, cold and hard, as we enter, although under the canopy we feel only a fine cool drizzle. Our two guards, in green army fatigues and carrying automatic rifles, lead us up a narrow footpath past tree-size ferns with fiddleheads big as cantaloupes, majestic mahogany trees, and enormous buttressed strangler figs. Joyce is in her element, as quick as the guides at seeing signs of life through the thick vegetation. In two hours we see blue monkeys, two red tails, and a black-and-white colobus monkey with an elegant flowing white tail. On the ground I nearly step on gorilla spoors, full of fluorescent-orange seeds. Joyce points out the huge swath of flattened grass marking the group's progress across the path. Somehow I'd thought mountain gorillas were hard to track. Although they can cover over 750 yards a day, they're not exactly sneaking around. "They can move through the jungle like a tractor-trailer," Joyce explains, "so you'll hear them before you see them. Plus, there's the smell."
Into the Woods
The next morning brings our first real trek. By eight a.m. we've assembled in a clearing at the edge of the forest to pick up our permits and meet our guides and porters. With us from our camp is a stylish Austrian architect and her builder husband, who have been on safari a dozen times and are spending a week trekking here; a honeymooning couple doing a round-the-world greatest-hits tour (Taj Mahal, Australia's outback); and a young Swedish couple in the diplomatic service in Kampala. Guests from the village's other small camps arrive, pick up walking sticks and are sorted into four groups of eight; the park severely restricts the number of tourists allowed in the forest at any one time. Trackers have been in the forest locating the animals since dawn and are now radioing back to the guides, who plot our best route using GPS devices. We will be tracking the H group (short for Habinyanja, meaning "belonging to the lake" in the local dialect, Lukiga), which consists of two silverback brothers and 20 others, including many babies. Our guide proudly shows us photos of each animal in the troupe; he knows every furrow and distinguishing brow ridge, as well as who's sleeping with whom.
The H group is nearly at the edge of the park on the east side, so we pile into a van with six fellow travelers for the 45-minute drive. Once on foot, we cross a stubbled field and breach the dark wall of forest. I feel a drop in temperature and a spike in humidity. It's like stepping off one planet onto another. There is no path. Vines and fallen trees make it difficult to walk; we are up to our knees in a springy green tangle. The insects and birdcalls are suddenly intense, too, as loud and enveloping as traffic noise in Times Square.
Our guide wields a machete to cut a rough path, and after 40 minutes or so, we pause and take a last drink. No food or water near the gorillas, he explains; we don't want them to get any ideas. I see nothing yet. Then suddenly there is a vigorous rustle in the trees a few steps away, and the eight of us gasp. As advertised, a heavy, musky smell reaches me first — "wet dog crossed with charcoal," Joyce calls it. Then my eyes click into focus, and I see dark shapes silhouetted against the green. A young male — called a blackback, because his silver coloring hasn't kicked in yet — is lolling on the ground, eating a wild custard apple. A pair of juveniles climb swaying saplings in parallel, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style, then dangle by one arm and drop heavily to the ground. Their mothers are nearby chewing up vines and small branches, tearing away at the bark to get at the juicy stuff inside. The older animals are like uncles post-Thanksgiving, rubbing their distended bellies, snuffling gutturally, legs akimbo. Joyce explains that with so much fiber in their diet, gorillas are essentially ambulatory fermentation tanks. The silverbacks lead the way to a new feeding ground every morning; then everybody takes a nice long digestive nap in the afternoon.
The 20-plus animals in this group are strung out across the narrow valley, and there is no clear vantage point from which to see them all. We creep as close as we can to those nearest us — a few yards' distance is allowed — and though we are clumsy and whispering excitedly and our cameras are beeping and whirring, the animals seem unfazed. One of the silverbacks is hunkered down in a leafy hollow, munching away. Our guide chops away a few vines so I can get a straight shot with my camera. The silverback regards me mildly. It is something to catch a gorilla's eye and to feel him breathing your air.
Fellow Adventurers
Joyce and I have fallen straight back into our easy, companionable traveling routine of two decades ago. As anyone in my family will attest, I'm usually the bossy, impatient one, pacing the floor as I round everyone up for the next excursion. Joyce has more strength and energy than I do, so I can completely relax. I don't even have to read the guidebook; she has all the gorilla facts in her head. The only thing I'm truly afraid of here is snakes, and I figure that if we see any, Joyce, who spent months wriggling through the jungle on her belly on hyperalert for green mambas while tracking chimps, can deal with them.
Over a dinner at our camp (celery soup, tilapia, and mushroom-bacon crepe — quite the feast for a jungle outpost), we warm our feet at a charcoal brazier built just like a strawberry pot. We are on our second African beer when Joyce decides a brazier is the perfect present to bring home to her husband, Stephen, for their summer evenings outside. That, and an African hoe for his garden. Richard, the server who also delivers coffee to our tent at dawn, helpfully offers to get one from a market several villages away. Both objects appear on schedule the next day, wrapped in layers of newspaper. This, to my mind, is Joyce's only fault as a traveler: I look for ways to ditch books and clothing, while she acquires large bulky objects.(On our way out of the country, the inspector manning the x-ray machines is incredulous. "Whose is this hoe?" he demands. Joyce explains, through helpless laughter, about her husband, an avid gardener. "In Africa, if we don't farm," the inspector lectures us, "we don't eat.")
The Human Element
I wonder whether our travel experience — almost hallucinatory for me — is different for Joyce, who knows much more about the ecology of the area. She is an environmentalist first; all of her books are focused on illuminating how dependent we humans are on the health of our wild places. When she sees the stark, straight divide between the forest and the tamed areas, and the way the mist and clouds hover over the trees and not the sunbaked red earth of the village, she is acutely aware of how much has been lost already. "I love the gorillas' form and behavior — it's all so fascinating to me," she says. "But I'm sure if people weren't coming to see the gorillas, the forest would be gone…." Her voice trails off.
Yet park officials assure us that the steep fees from gorilla tracking are being used to buy up land to create a buffer zone between human and animal habitats. And new jobs are being created for drivers, cooks, guides, and porters in the tourist economy. As long as the border area is stable and the poachers are kept at bay, the truce between forest and village life is likely to hold. In the village — a strong word for this string of little shacks — we do our bit as good, globally conscious travelers. We buy baskets from a women's co-op and a little wooden gorilla with a not-too-scary face for Joyce's 5-year-old son, Clark. The carvers, two brothers, tell us their sad yet hopeful story: Their parents are dead, they have no school fees, they would like to be educated and someday go to America. Would we exchange addresses? "You will come back to Uganda. It's very good, yes?"
A Close Encounter
On our first trek into the forest, I lucked out — the hiking was mostly flat. Our second day is a different story. The mountain gorilla group we are tracking is feeding a few yards outside the park, on a steep hillside east of the village. We hike deeply rutted footpaths past one-room mud huts and tiny plots of taro, up through banana groves, emerging into full sunlight on a deforested mountain slope. When we reach a narrow cleft in the hillside, our guide points up above his head, where I can see a figure in green — our tracker — inching along what looks suspiciously like a sheer cliff. I regret, once again, having neglected my weight training. We haul ourselves up by clinging to vines. I get the occasional hand from my porter, a slight young woman who seems only a little stronger than I am. Then she stumbles, and we both slip down toward the armed guard at the end of the line. Embarrassingly, he boosts me skyward with his free hand. I don't look down: It's vertigo inducing.
Augustine, a guide with a gap-toothed grin and an infectious laugh, motions to us to stop. The gorillas are proceeding on a parallel track up the hillside and are strung out just above and below us. Augustine does his best mountain gorilla imitation, a trick used to relax the group and signal our peaceful intentions. He finds a spot to lie down in the weeds, points his belly to the sky, lets his legs flop open and chews thoughtfully on a weed, avoiding eye contact with the alpha male. The occasional farting noise completes the friendly manner. A little mountain gorilla, about the size of a 5-year-old boy, somersaults smoothly down the hill past us, landing with a crash in the midst of a group of animals below.
That's when I see the baby. Beneath us, huddled between two trees, is a female; I squint and see a tiny hand snaking up toward her chin. But apparently we are too close. Suddenly the silverback charges straight up the hillside in a fury; long, sharp teeth bared; pecs pumped; silver fur across his broad back standing on end. The eight of us instinctively shove our backs up against the hill, dig in our toes and tuck our heads into our chests, the very picture of cowering. It's over in three seconds — a quick show of who's boss, that's all.
We let the mountain gorilla troupe cross in front of us farther up the hill. The silverback, all 400 pounds of him, climbs a tree and begins delicately plucking flowers from a vine wrapped around a branch. We watch transfixed from below for a half hour as he polishes off the blossoms one by one, then rips the branch cleanly from the trunk, one-handed. More munching, and then another branch bites the dust. The whole tree finally collapses under the silverback's weight, and he ambles off.
Show over, we slide back down the hill and eat our packed lunches in a millet field overlooking the village. In the distance, the mist rises from the trees and is caught.
Lost in Translation
Back home in Brooklyn, I try to get my family to watch the video of my trip. They are as bored as I was looking at slides from my parents' boat trips in the 1970s. The insect noise is captured best, along with the crunching of the gorillas on their branches, and the occasional exclamation from me when I stumble into a stinging nettle. The enveloping layers of green, the moist caress of the air, the reverberation in my own chest of a gorilla's deep, ancient breath — nothing can capture that, except being there.
If You Go: Uganda Gorilla Safari
Major Airlines fly to Entebbe via Nairobi. In Entebbe, the Imperial Resort Beach Hotel (included in Abercrombie & Kent's Tailor Made Uganda tour package), is luxurious and fronts Lake Victoria.
Abercrombie & Kent, which arranged the trip, runs the Gorilla Forest Camp at the edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Accommodations are luxe — canvas-sided tents and an open-air dining hall — and the service delightful — hot baths, fluffy robes, breakfast delivered to your room.
Fees for gorilla tracking are $500 a day per person. Only a few people are allowed into the forest at once, so permits must be arranged well in advance. (A&K can handle it.)
Tipping is much depended upon everywhere in Africa and is not included in the package.
Side Trips: On Lake Victoria, take an hourlong boat ride to the Ngamba Island Chimp Sanctuary. Unlike gorillas, chimps endlessly jockey for social position at feedings. Tented cabins are available for overnight stays. If you have had your shots and remove your glasses, wallet, watch, and so on, you can take turns holding the chimps. Travelers should consult the U.S. Department of State Web site for current travel advisories, or call 888-407-4747.
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Wild Golden Hatchling
Hovers and performs tricks.
Vocalizations (on-click)
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To be able to capture this wild pet, players must be exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent faction.
I got these hatchlings today. Getting exhaulted with the panda's is not difficult, but time consuming. Just do all of the "Kill XYZ" quests and skip the others (like fishing and cooking cakes). The Power rep-grinding youtube vids are not very realistic. It takes longer to find enough eggs than it does to just do the dailies. I reccomend trying both. Do the dailies, look for eggs, turn in, get on with the rest of your life.
Awwww. Second try and I had a lil rare Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling. And my damn Rabid Nut Varmint 5000 accidently killed the damn thing. I underestimated its hit power.
Love this little guy combined with my Clockwork Gnome and Darkmoon Tonk. Put up his Lightning Storm, then switch out to a Mechanical. Gotta love the damage boost the Storm gives Mech abilities, and the double strikes of Lightning and Turret shots is just laughable!
The best pet for an aoe team. use lightning storm+cyclone for insane damage with a rare on of these. then pull out your lil' xt or p/p pocket reaver and Tympanic Tantrum/Quake for even more aoe damage. once both pets are dead switch to a 'cleanup' pet (which for me is a Nordrassil Wisp as is quick and has an aoe spell). also enemy pets trigger his passive whilst lightning storm is active when he gets lower than 25% health :P
I got one today now i have all of the wild hachlings in rare :-)
Once you're exalted with the Order of the Cloud Serpent, these guys will spawn all over the Arboratem. This model has the same abilities as the Jade Hatchling; the Lightning Storm effect combined with Cyclone is amazing. After 5.2 pet mobs no longer despawn when running from fights, and all the hatchlings are unable to be attacked, so if you want to reset for a better quality you need to at least kill the first pet in the group.
Sunday @ 1:30pm, started raining and golden and jade hatchlings popped up. First golden and second jade were rare
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I caught a rare (blue) dragon near the Cloud Serpent Quarter Master just this morning! They are around, just takes awhile to find one. It was my 8th Golden battle, all the others were common or poor.
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E300 questions
Ok, so since I figure I can get more answers here than the forum my other thread is in I'm just asking the questions from my other thread in here. I've got a few E300 questions:
How fast is navigating the menu? Can you hold down the buttons or do you have to press each individually?
How many bands is the custom EQ?
Is the speaker good? As in, can you actually hear your music, I'm not taking audiophille good, nothing is unless it costs more than a thousand bucks and is in a studio. So, when you listen via the built in speaker can you actually hear your music as good as say, computer speakers? I have a pair of the speakers with the little lights built which I got from target for 2.50 and they're pretty much crap, but all I want is a way to listen to music without my headphones on, is the speaker decent?
Also, with the SD card does it integrate into the main library? Or is it it's own folder?
And, since I was informed it's not gapless, but it sounds ot me like a gimmick feature more than a real feature that makes a difference, since it's not gapless does it preload songs? So like, will it immediately play the next song? Like if I have a live CD playing will it have no silence between tracks before playing the next one so I'll hear say, all the crowd noise and all?
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I kind of regretted I bought it. Not that it's bad. It's actually wonderful when it comes to sound. Its awful when it comes to firmware, usability, navigation. I can't even make playlists without its software. And playlists can't include files from the SD Card. Horrible firmware. Even when compared to stuff like Transcend or Apacer.
Do you know how can i view the current list? If i move back from the current playing list i can no more find it and now playing only shows the currently playing song. I find it very inconvenient and awkward to use, the whole interface i mean.
My main question here is that is it possible to upgrade the firmware to one of the previous gen versions eg E100 and thereby have a MTP-enabled firmware? As a last resort perhaps, i really want to hack the firmware somehow and just get a better one that lets me sort songs and integrates with WMP (i hate the bundled software) and in a word is not crap.
Is it possible at all, without an official firmware update? And if not, just how can i make iriver release a better firmware, cause i just bought this E300 PMP and it would be damn cool if i won't have to sell it this soon to get a few basic features.
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- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
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Full SubmissionEarthSummit Japan 2012 Website: http://earthsummit2012.jp email: firstname.lastname@example.com United Nation University bldg. 1F, GEOC, 5-53-70 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001, Japan With international society entering the 21st century, we need to address prompt resolutions for deep global issues. We are attempting to resolve various issues by pushing sustainable development forward, but in order to do so we need to consider how development became unsustainable. More specifically, the major premise for measures going forward must discover the cause for the rise of over-development and mal-development and formulate appropriate countermeasures. Through multi-stakeholder dialogue for RIO+20, EathSummit2012 Japan makes following proposals, distilled from Japan based on our cultural background of harmonious coexistence with nature. INDEX 1. proposals for Green Economy (p2) 1.1. Rule-making for use of natural capital; User-recovers principle (URP) 1.2. An indicator for use of natural capital ; Ecological Debt 1.3. Designing Eco-Wealth 1.4. Green Info Structure 2. Expectations for outcome of RIO+20 (p7) 2.1.Comments on UNEP proposal for "Green Economy" 2.2. Green economy for Aich-Target 2.3. Post GDP indicator 2.4. Launch of study for new pattern of economic development for Post MDGs era. About us / Earth Summit 2012 Japan (p14) 1. Proposals for Green Economy 1.1. Rule-making for use of natural capital; User-recovers principle (URP) We propose User-recovers principle (URP) as principles to secure sustainable management of renewable natural capital. URP is a simple and strong principle that captures the economic and social characteristics of renewable natural capital correctly, and it gives the right incentives to users for a sustainable management. The basic idea of URP is that those who exploit renewable natural capital deviating from the pace of its regeneration have a responsibility to help their restoration process and to bear costs that are imposed on others during the restoration. The functions of URP can be summarized in three aspects: 1. URP provides users with a practical conduct code that corresponds to the dynamic nature of regeneration. Regeneration is processed by ecosystem and its pace obeys the laws of nature. Thus the way we utilize natural capital should fit with the reproduction cycle of natural capital. However, as is often the case for soil, forests, grass fields, fishery and underground water, the open-accessibility of such capitals may cause a situation like "tragedy of commons". That is, pursuing optimal strategies of each user resulting in over-exploitations and harming social welfare. Traditional commons have avoided this problem through establishing local rules of communities. But today's commons are utilized by broader entities including multi-national enterprises operating outsides the coverage of such rules. These entities often pursue shorter-term interests than optimal pace for local communities and nature because they can easily find and move to other places even if the commons would be degraded and extinct. Thus the institutionalization of URP gives internationally-shared code-of-conducts applied to the broader entities even across borders. 2. URP defines the allocation of responsibilities for recovery. In most cases, the costs and benefits of renewable natural capital are distributed unevenly among locations and societies. Such capitals support human life in two ways; providing ecosystem goods such as foods or fuel, and providing ecosystem services such as regulation of atmospheric chemical composition, flood control, erosion control, waste treatment, pollution control, detoxification, and nutrient cycles. Ecosystem goods can be harvested and consumed by specific economic entities, while ecosystem services support life of wider range of people as public or quasi-public goods unless the capitals are harvested. URP allocates responsibilities among people differently according to the pace of use. Assume there are two entities that benefit from forest ecosystem; woodman and farmer. The woodman maintains the forest and harvests timber, while the farmer grows crops utilizing water cultivated through the well-kept forest. If the woodman harvests timber in a sustainable pace, the user in URP is the farmer and should pay the maintenance costs to the woodman. But once the farmer over-exploits and degrades the forest, the both parties have to wait until the forest recovers itself, or just help the restoration process mostly through costly ways such as ecosystem investigation or plantation. In this case, the user in URP is the woodman and should bear the recovery costs and also pay the opportunity costs to the farmer . In both cases the costs can be transferred to end consumers through value chains. 3. The third function of URP is to foster employments and innovations. The responsibilities and rewards allocated through URP create various business opportunities related to the sustainable management or recovery of natural capital. For example, the maintenance of the forest creates jobs of thinning down congested trees. Or the recovery may call for forestry innovations that accelerate the restoration process. 1.2. An indicator for use of natural capital; Ecological Debt Display the amount of Ecological debt to enable socially responsible decision International rules of natural capital compensation are not yet clear. Biodiversity offsets mechanism and ecological footprints are one of the famous methods to treat them but their scopes are limited. In particular, it is considered extremely important to reflect the economic value of ecosystem services, such as green accounting, in the national accounting system to recognize the negative impact of development on the natural environment. Ecological debt is one of effective ways to communicate and compare the depreciation of natural capital. Concerning natural capital in particular, it is important to introduce the idea of the speed of regeneration and incorporate it into the method of evaluating natural capital, in addition to its stocks and resource productivity. Ecological deficit is the difference of the depreciation of capital and capital restoration. Ecological Debt is stock concept of ecological deficit which is measured by waiting time for recovery. Economic Externalities can evaluate not only money but also time measurement. Many of the natural capital are difficult to assume it's willing to pay. Such a case, it is easier to measure waiting time to recovery from depreciation of capital. URP rule require natural capital users to eliminate their ecological debt. But if users can't recovery by one selves all ecological debt, user have to swap their debt to others debt. Swapping their debt to others debt which have expertise, user can clean up them easier. And total social cost to eliminate all debt will decrease. Consumers and merchants will be the main user of information of ecological debt for stopping degradation of natural capital. To enable consumer and merchants to be socially responsible, it is essential to establish international standards on how we display the degrees of sustainability of natural capital that is utilized for the production of goods and services in everyday life. Thus we propose a concept of ecological debt, which is to display the amount of natural capital utilized for manufacturing products and the "waiting time" needed until the capital has become ready to use again. In other words, ecological debt shows us how much forest or soils this product use in its production process and how long we have to wait until the forest or soil regenerate itself. We can calculate "ecological debt" using the accumulated knowledge and information of LCA and integrating them from the viewpoint of recovery time. 1.3. Designing Eco-Wealth minimizing Ecological debt Design of products and services are required to provide solutions for our lifestyle under more stringent resource constraints. Departure from era of mass production and consumption is inevitable and above more, (conceptual breakthrough) of product design that can turn our constraints into new value is necessary. Yet, for these products to spread and sustain in our society, they must become deeply embedded in our lifestyle. Being conscious of limitation in natural capital on the earth, we must promote a virtuous cycle of improving sustainable product designs and shifting our lifestyle towards sustainability. Therefore, we propose a multi-stakeholder initiative attended by product designers, worldwide research institutes, enterprises, traditional craftsmen, consumers working on the following measures. A). Design Conceptual Breakthrough: redesigning the wealth of our society based on the principle of minimizing the natural capital recovery period Ecological debt. Design products and services based on principle of minimizing Ecological debt by LCA approach. People will need a new concept of wealth "Eco-Wealth". We emphasize the necessity of social investment measured by Eco-Wealth concept, that will lead to healthy and full life of all humankind, especially and primarily in the area that will minimize the household waiting time and the time credit index. Investments in basic infrastructures such as road, rail, water and sewerage, electricity grids must calculate "Ecological debt" prior to the investments. For example, "Eco-Wealth" is proposed. Goods and services necessary for our lifetime, that will be used sustainably over generations, particularly those that will be used longer than the recovery time of the originating natural capital is defined as "Eco Wealth". Historically speaking, for example, the cathedral city of Cologne, European ancient cities, Japanese tea house, these objects, not only sustain over generation but also evolve and increase their value over time. (However, we should note that the term does not apply to objects whose value is based on rarity, such as antiques, rather than the functional value of these objects.) To develop Eco-Wealth, we must make the durability of the product and the recovery time of the natural capital used in the product measurable, which will promote innovations and lifestyle designs based on the Eco-Wealth. B). Research collaboration among relevant institutes to the sustainable designs and finite formulation and development of common protocols. Lead redesigning the wealth based on Eco-Wealth --- long time stationary success. Universities and research institutes currently working under the ethics of finite designs should strengthen cooperation by sharing research results and collaboration projects through building common plat forms. In order to spread products designed for easy recycle and reuse, we must distinguish between areas which we can encourage innovation through competition among businesses and areas which need cooperation among businesses. For the latter, we must aim to minimize the social cost on natural capital by creating a common protocol to share product designs, production processes and components that will facilitate recycle and reuse. C). A mechanism for promoting responsible voluntary behaviors of consumers: For the resolution of global issues, the role of consumers is important and it is necessary to promote civil education for consumers to encourage their responsible and voluntary behaviors. Furthermore, it is vital to raise awareness by environment communication represented under the label of the environment. In order to make consumers interested and influence their daily choice of goods and services, the development of environmental labels, promotion of environment communication and the implementation of environmental education, led by the state and involving all stakeholders including the private sector, are needed. Companies will be able to innovate, design lifestyles, and develop products based on ecological debt (waiting time to recovery) indicators. In order to promote product design under constraints on resources, launching the Finite Design Initiative to Support a Sustainable Society with the participation of research institutes, product designers, business corporations, traditional craftsmen and consumers, etc., of various countries for such efforts as (1) Closer cooperation among institutions concerned with finite design research; (2) Development of common product protocols conducive to finite design (develops and share common product protocols concerning processes and parts that serve as the pivots of recycling and reuse); (3) Diffusion of the top-runner format; and (4) Visualization of the degree of sustainability of natural capital utilization (visualize the degree of sustainability of natural capital utilization by quantitatively showing the amount of natural capital required for the manufacture of goods and services consumers make use of in their everyday life and the waiting time for their recycling). 1.4.Green Info Structure to simulate and manage natural capital Define a standard of information structure, Green Info Structure, using the concept of Ecological debt. In order to achieve green economy, it is essential to create the information infrastructure that all relevant stakeholders can easily access and update the data in a decentralized way. We propose to construct the "Green Info Structure" and standardize it internationally. Green Info Structure is a multilayer management system of the information of natural capitals. The first layer is a comprehensive database of natural capital. The United Nations and its member states should construct the database as an international joint project and share them with all relevant stakeholders. The second layer is the provider of information. Most of natural capital can provide value flows like ecosystem goods or services in the local context. Furthermore some types of natural capital are embedded in the life of local community and can only exist with the help of people living there. So the local entities like local authorities, research institutions, or civil organizations can accesses the latest information on the current conditions of the capital. Thus it is important to design the database in a decentralized structure, so that such local entities can easily update the information accumulated in the database. The third layer is the user of the database. That is, companies, NGOs, research institutes, and other relevant stakeholders may easily access the database and utilize it in their activities or strategies. Or they can take advantage of the database to provide plainer information about the current situation and prospects of natural capital to the public. Also, the database can be used to calculate Ecological Debt that we argued above. Thus the database should include the information needed for the estimation of Ecological Debt, that is, the stock amount of various natural capitals on the planet and their regeneration rate. For example, the database will help not only business use but also personal purchasing use. 2. Expectations for outcome of RIO+20 Constraints of Growth due to Rapid Deterioration and Depletion of Natural Capital To avoid "The limits to Growth," and recognize forests, soils, fisheries, water, and the resulting ecosystem is vital to all human beings for their healthy and full life. The Convention on Biological Diversity has grown to 193 members, while the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety has been developed (Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety were adopted in October 2010) and the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization and the Aichi Target concerning biodiversity conservation have been agreed upon. However, global assessments, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the Global Biodiversity Outlook indicate that the situation surrounding biodiversity is still deteriorating. Humanity is ushering depletion and degradation of natural capital in exchange for rapid accumulation of industrial and financial capital. As a result, the rarity of these capitals has reversed comparatively, especially in recent years with developing and emerging countries at the heart of a sharp rise in global consumption, wherein the amount of available natural capital per capita is decreasing while being surpassed by the increasing pace of consumption. At this current development pattern, we fear that the world population will no longer be able to support itself by the time it reaches 9 billion. Consequently, we face the urgent task of raising collective awareness among all people based on the need that we discover the extent of constraints we must subject ourselves to due to depletion and degradation of natural capital, as well as the nature of the content, speed, and scale of changes we must make to our development patterns. Hungers affecting more than one billion people as well as response to poverty are pressing issues. As the recent financial crisis and surge in food price showed how an incident in industrialized countries instantaneously worsen hunger in low income countries, under the current globalized world a peril at one place can propagate around the world at a glance of a second leading to a global crisis, marginalizing the livelihoods of the poor dependent on weakened natural capital. Furthermore, as the natural capital per capita falls, there are high risks of circumstances surrounding the low income countries to worsen. Additionally, creation of decent Job opportunities for 700 million workers that will emerge by 2025, is a pressing issue. 2.1. Comments on UNEP proposal for "Green Economy" Earth Summit 2012 Japan recognizes importance of green economy for the following reasons: 1. Economic activities underlie environmental problems; 2. Under constraints on resources and climate change, we need an economy that is well aware of these constraints. 3. The greening of the economy prompts changes in people's values and individual choices and also encourages people to seek sustainable lifestyles. Transition to green economy based on conservation and sustainable use of natural capital is inevitable. Suggestions made by international organizations including UNEP and OECD are: 1. Tools and policies that may help stocking of natural capital and improving capital efficiencies 2. Encouraging shift to green industry that is highly labor intensive. Capable of capacity building, income improvements, and even empowerment through community participation 3. Solution that both developed and developing countries could be proactive in These points are commendable and we support the direction of these points. However, there are limits in the existing proposals on the following points: 1. Neither shared understanding nor direction are shown for how the population growth and resulting degradation of natural capital may constrain our economic growth patterns, and choices we are left in terms of its contents, scale and speed. How to foster a common understanding on this issue among the entire human race is not shown. 2. Interpretation of natural capital is misleading when it treats natural capital like other artificial capitals, mainly consisting of private goods, and lacks understanding of natural capital, those especially renewable and sharable ones, in its economic and social values. 3. They are narrowly focused on reforms in manufacturers through public investments and lacks the view point of consumers, namely how the green economy will affect the lifestyle and preferences of the mass consumers and how companies and societies can contribute to the change. Household is the minimal but the most important sector notable for starting green revolution for 7 billion individuals. 2.2. Green economy for Aich-Target Improve natural capital resilience and adapt the speed of natural capital. Biodiversity and natural capital that support economic activities are significantly deteriorating at present. We need an economic mechanism that reflects the cost of the deterioration of natural capital and risks to people, including future generations; and It is desirable to promote the utilization of sustainable ecosystem services based on the Aichi Target and Nagoya Protocol adopted at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD-COP10) held in 2010. Implement appropriate policies effectively, make policy linkages based on biodiversity, promote meaning and value of biodiversity and the UN Decade on Biodiversity, as well as take precautionary approaches to decision making. Following are necessary efforts and procedures for promoting green economy: 1. Secure funding for biodiversity and sustainable development. The greening of finance and agriculture, forestry and fisheries is also an important issue. Increase number of green jobs that contribute to the environment and biodiversity in conjunction with the shift of industrial structure (just transition). For example, Rice paddies play key role for resilience of Natural Capital in Asia. (CBD and Ramsar Convention recognized that paddies fields are important wetland for biodiversity.) Especially, Winter-flooded Rice Paddies (Fuyumizu-tambo) are one of best practice of investment for biodiversity and food productivity. 2. Establish new Consumption styles that does not break down the balance of natural capital; Provide information that encourages each individual to make purchase decisions on the basis of information on the environment, etc.; Efforts should be promoted while monitoring progress with appropriate indicators. 3. It is necessary to position the perspective of Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA) as basis of efforts toward green economy for synergy effect between CEPA activities to achieve the Aichi Target under the Convention on Biodiversity and promote the U.N. Decade on Biodiversity and each country's obligations concerning the public awareness, education and training concerning the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification. 4. Share good practices from around the world in terms of biodiversity and conserving and recovering ecosystems, using biological resources in a sustainable manner, fair and equal distribution of benefits resulting from the use of genetic resources, providing appropriate monetary resources and encouraging capacity building. For example, eco-tourism to encourage both local understanding of bio-diversity and local revitalization is a good example that includes CEPA perspective. The Japan Genki Awards show good examples of community-based initiatives in eco-tourism, and other model cases in creating sustainable society. (Photo: NPO Kamiechigo-Yamazato-Fun Club Japan Genki Awards2010; School of farming for urban family.) Example: The Tohoku Green Renaissance Project Japan would like to provide as reference to the discussions on sustainable development in Rio +20 the example of The Tohoku Green Renaissance Project in which the sustainable use of natural capital has been used as part of the earthquake reconstruction effort that is seeking to quickly restore the core industries of the disaster-affected areas, including agriculture, forestry and fisheries, while balancing biodiversity conservation with development, based on the traditions and culture of these local areas. The spirit of transnational and trans-regional Kyoujyo (mutual assistance) illustrated in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami represents the exact stance required to build a sustainable society. http://gema.biology.tohoku.ac.jp/green_reconst/TOP.html 2.3. Post GDP indicators Since the 1990s, based on the limitation of GDP as a measure of economic and social development, the international community has developed various sustainability indicators that incorporate environmental factors and social factors. Recently, some international organizations have made efforts to incorporate stock and status of resource productivity of natural capital into the assessment of economic cycle. Population growth and degradation of natural capital is occurring. International community has not come to common understanding of degree of current and future constraint of development. We must examine a scale of how much content rate in the range of speed of sustainable development, and establish the operational indicators to measure. As a prerequisite for green economy, it is necessary to consider natural capital in terms of economy. Fundamentally, further consideration among the international community will be encouraged, aggregating the green economy indicators being examined by Satellite System for Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA), OECD and UNEP. As part of such framework for sustainability indicators, we propose to introduce the concept of regeneration speed and incorporate it as part of the evaluation method of natural capital of the indicators discussed here, in addition to the amount of natural capital stock and resource productivity. Tools to promote the greening of the economy are broadly divided into regulations and incentives, management tools and voluntary efforts, and the following tools are considered effective: Develop indicators to measure quality of life that substitute conventional GDP growth indicators. Sustainability indicators should include natural capital stock, resource productivity and reproduction speed. Incorporate environmentally sound production technologies, products and services into the social system through implementation of indicator in forms of eco point and top-runner programs. 2.4. Launch of study for new pattern of economic development for Post MDGs era. International community should agree to create a team for assessment of development patterns, involving researcher from various fields and stakeholders. These study results will be published in 2013, which can be used as basis for the consideration of the framework for the post MDGs. This team should examine; 1. Options of development pattern, 2. Assessment of MDGs and measures beyond 2015, 3. Projection costs difference among timing of start , 4. A new chance bringing innovation and economic opportunity. Etc. We are interested in economic developments with personal network development. Following are utilities to design bottom up pattern of economic development. 1. Focus on role of individuals: The role of individuals is important. Every organization in the world is formed by individuals and often an individual belongs to multiple major groups. Individuals are required to have awareness as a consumer in compliance with purchasing for a sustainable green economy, choice of time, and choice of policies. Although individuals have certain roles at work, in private and in community, the key to all the changes is the individual's action based on firm awareness that they as an individual have the final responsibility. Key players of sustainable society are individuals. Every decision will be made by each of you. Each of us must learn more about sustainability and execute responsibility for our common future. A) If the significance of a green economy becomes clear to individuals, it will lead to actions. With the awareness that the final responsibility of sustainable development lies in individuals, it is important to link this to a life style change. B) Through more intensified interaction among peoples and societies at grassroots level, people will have more open access to acquiring scientific knowledge and experiences that are not necessarily available in their localities. By being able to access these wealth of human capital, personal life quality and capacity will be enhanced. In return, people can output socially innovative ideas to bring changes to society, and provide services and create new wealth to re-invest in enriching life of others. C) The international community must encourage an enabling environment and new systems to support entrepreneurship and innovations that are setting the models of conservation and sustainable use of natural capital in pursuit of a healthy and fulfill lifetime. We propose the following: i. Empowerment, put spotlight on individuals' initiatives ii. Encourage creation of communities to encourage such individual capacity building and innovations iii. Information sharing and capacity-building systems which lead to individual empowerment iv. Social media to enhance participative democracy v. Risk management of green business, investment in capacity building in such management 2. Provide Effective Incentives: Expansion of preferential tax, financial and fiscal treatment of and commendation systems for business corporations and organizations, etc. that promote the development and diffusion of environment-friendly technologies and products, evaluation and announcement, etc. of efforts by business corporations, appropriate application of accounting standards. 3. Design BOP business model: Sustainable base of the pyramid (BOP) business is in the spotlight to eradicate poverty from the perspective that supporting people living in poverty in their employment, business launching and livelihood and thereby enhancing their purchasing power should help their economic growth as well as business expansion. It is necessary to help raise awareness about examples of advanced cases and develop frameworks for supporting BOP business in consultation with stakeholders involved. 4. Utilize international standards and guidelines: Utilization of international standards as tools for realizing the green economy is also effective. It is important to position ISO26000 issued in November 2010 as a tool to give shape to the green economy in organizational management and promote it at an international level. 5. Shift to PRI Finance: In order to develop the capital market to support the green economy, urge institutional investors around the world to embrace the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and ask them to enhance the transparency of their investment behaviors. Furthermore, business corporations compile corporate reports that integrate financial as well as sustainability issues, and governments and exchanges institutionalize such reports. 6. Develop social media: In promoting sustainable development and to support role of individuals, it is important to encourage the reform awareness of citizens and companies on which the media has the biggest influence. Defining the media as an important stakeholder and clarifying its role is crucial. In addition, not only the one-way communication as was in the previous model, but mutual communication such as social media that promotes a participatory society is important. As we head into the 21st century, intellectual productivity and its impact on human life greatly intensified. Technological advancement of mobile phones, ever-growing webs of social networks in cyber space changed the way people communicate, work, and defines principles of life. It has shortened travel times and uplifted barriers that once exist between peoples and societies. It inter-connected people and made an open learning environment latterly available. More than ever, people across borders can share and understand what society is demanding as definitions of full lifetime, enabling us to offer innovative ideas to create sustainable society under a common and shared vision. Message On March 11, M9.0 earthquake hit the eastern part of Japan. More than 15 thousand people died and 8 thousand are still missing. Cities and towns were totally destroyed by 40 meter Tsunami, or even disappeared as if nothing had been there. But we were not devastated only by a natural disaster but also by what we had created for ourselves. Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, which had long been supplying large amount of electricity to the Tokyo economic area, had brought about serious meltdown and hydrogen explosion. They have emitted more than 77 tera Bq of radioactive particles into the air, soil, and ocean, which will undermine our children and grand children physically and mentally for decades. Through the ruin of our towns and contaminated rubbles we see the end of a paradigm which Japan, and the global economy, had long been standing upon. We built a society on a thin ice of extremely complex social system, sacrificing profound relationship with Mother Earth and sacrificing our own culture and spirits. As a result, in our wealthy society more than 30 thousand people kill themselves every year since 1990s. A recovery we started is entirely different from the one we experienced after the World War. We have to rebuild ourselves as a true sustainable society and show alternative solutions. We believe it is a responsibility of the world largest economies that had long been exploiting the earth and the people, and as a responsibility of the only country that experienced two atomic bombs and the worst nuclear accident in the human history. Earth Summit 2012 Japan is, on behalf of the Japanese citizens, willing to involve ourselves strongly in the process for Rio+20, and to make valuable contributions to its ambitious project of creating a new paradigm. Especially, we hope what we learn and start from our ground zero will contribute to the long journey of human kind toward a sustainable future where 7 billion people live together in peace and harmony. Masahiro Sato President, EarthSummit2012 Japan About EarthSummit2012 Japan EarthSummit2012 Japan is a non-profit multi-stakeholder organization that provides policy proposals, civil actions, and inclusive platforms for the process leading up to Rio+20 in Japan. It was established in August 2010 and consists of about 50 staff members from different sectors such as government, NGOs, social enterprises, academics, and students. Our Activities Policy Analysis & Proposals / Social Actions / Platform Making / Awareness Raising Our Network EarthSummit2012 Japan is carrying on its activities in partnership with various organizations or individuals in Japan. We are making policy proposals to the government including the establishment of the Domestic Preparatory Committee for Rio+20, which ensure the multi-stakeholder participation to the process. We also coordinate a cross-sectional network of NGOs called the Rio+20 NGO Network. Furthermore, we contribute the awareness raising of citizens or companies through holding a variety of events or providing timely information concerning Rio+20 in cooperation with medias or academic community.


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When people see the sculptures done by Nathan Sawaya, they marvel at how thousands of rectangular Lego bricks can create an illusion of curves and emotions in his human-form works.
Park City will be able to see a collection of Sawaya's Lego-brick creations at the Kimball Art Center when "Art of Brick" opens to the public on Saturday, Feb. 9.
Sawaya, who has been building these sculptures full-time since 2004, said he loved art when he was a child.
"I drew a lot," Sawaya said during a phone call from his studio in Los Angeles, Calif. "I also had boxes of Lego bricks and put things together, but I grew up and after I graduated college, I didn't have faith in my artistic-ness as a viable career choice."
So, Sawaya got a law degree and began practicing in New York City.
"When I came home, I needed some sort of creative outlet, be it drawing or sculpting, to unwind," he said. "One day, I challenged myself to pick up the Legos, this toy from my childhood, and do a large-scale sculpture."
So, Sawaya dug all his bricks out from his closet and began building things.
"My friends and family were very encouraging and I did it more and more," he said.
Sawaya eventually put together a website, www.brickartist.com , to show his masterpieces.
"That was the real trigger, because I started getting commission requests to build Lego sculptures from people all over the world," he said. "I took on these projects, which meant that I would work a full day at the law firm and then work at least six hours on these Lego commissioned works."
The day the website crashed from too many hits, was the day Sawaya decided it was probably a good time to make a change.
"I left the law office in 2004 to go play with toys all day," he said with a smile in his voice.
Making the switch took a little leap of faith, he said.
"I went from a six-figure salary to this bohemian lifestyle where I was working project-to-project, and didn't know if I could pay rent month to month," he said. "I knew I was getting commissioned work, so I figured there was a market for this type of work, but I never imagined it would go, where it has gone."
Over the next three years, Sawaya built up his studio and opened his first solo showing.
"Eventually, I began the touring exhibition called 'The Art of the Brick,' which is excitingly coming to Park City," he said. "And that's where a lot of energy is going these days."
Throughout his career as a "brick player," Sawaya has developed a strong business relationship with Lego.
"First off, I do buy all my bricks, like everyone else, but the relationship provides me access to materials," he said. "That means I no longer have to go to a toy store to buy boxes and boxes of the bricks. I can just email them and say, 'I need 500,000 red pieces,' and they'll ship them over."
Sawaya uses a pencil and paper to start a project.
"There is a lot of sketching involved, because that's the key component of what I do," he said. "I draw things out on what is called brick paper. That's kind of like graph paper in math class, but it has rectangles, which are the shapes of Legos, instead of squares."
Once he gets a form on paper, he begins snapping the pieces together and sealing them with glue.
"The glue became necessary because museums don't like opening a crate that is supposed to hold a human bust to find it filled with loose Lego pieces," Sawaya said. "However, gluing the pieces together also means that if I make a mistake and the glue has set, I have to chisel apart hours of work."
Still, that's part of the process.
"You have to have patience to do this job," he said. "I go into the projects knowing that it will take weeks to finish these life-size items, and for me, it's also therapeutic and go into a trance when I'm working."
Creating the human form with hard plastic pieces has it's own challenges.
"Some of the problems I face have to do with simple physics, and I have to fight gravity at times," he said. "Also, I have to capture so many curves and I'm using these little rectangular bricks."
But that's where the magic is, he said.
"Because when you look closely at these works, they are made of these little pieces that have right angles and sharp corners," Sawaya said. "When you back away, you start to see the corners blend into the curves of the human form, and that's what draws me to the brick on a certain level. So, to me, it's also about perspective."
Sawaya will display about 30 works in the KAC exhibit.
"There will be a wide variety and an eclectic group of my body of work over the years," he said. "Some will have a lot of emotion and depth, and others are more light and whimsical. I tried to put together something for everyone, so the exhibit is a good fit for the family."
Sawaya said one of the benefits of using Legos to create art is how it connects with children.
"When kids go to an art museum and see a marble sculpture, it will inspire them, but it is doubtful that they have a piece of marble at home that they can use to make a sculpture," he said. "But kids have Lego bricks, and I get emails from parents all the time that say, 'We saw your exhibition and our kids got their bricks out from under the bed and we haven't heard from them for three days.'
"I get so excited when these kids email me pictures of their own sculptures," he said. "It means I've done my job."
The Kimball Art Center will show Nathan Sawaya's "The Art of Brick" exhibit in the Main Gallery from Saturday, Feb. 9, through Sunday, April 21. Admission is free. The exhibit will open with a member's only dinner at K&J Grill on Friday, Feb. 8. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (435) 940-5770. For more information, visit www.kimballartcenter.org.


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Harold Varner
May 1, 2012
IRVING, Texas --- East Carolina University senior golfer Harold Varner has been named Conference USA Golfer-of-the-Year, while senior Adam Stephenson was tabbed second-team all-conference as voted upon by the league's 11 head coaches.
Varner is the fifth player in ECU golf history to be named conference player-of-the-year and first to receive that distinction in C-USA.
"To be chosen out of so many great players in Conference USA by the coaches is a very humbling honor," said Varner. "I'm surprised and excited to receive this award."
Varner ranks third in C-USA in scoring average this season, averaging 71.79 strokes per round. He placed in the top-10 in seven of 11 tournaments this season, including five top-5 finishes. Varner was the individual medalist at the Autotrader.com Collegiate Classic and runner-up at the Sea Best Seafood Invitational at TPC Sawgrass. He also posted a 2-1-1 record against four top-35 opponents at the 2012 Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championships. He was named C-USA Golfer-of-the-Week twice during the season and five times during his career.
"This award represents the culmination of four years of hard work from Harold," said Pirate head coach Press McPhaul. "He has developed into a high-level player that gets a great deal out of his talent. To have him recognized by the Conference USA coaches is a great honor for Harold and for the entire ECU golf program."
Stephenson posted four top-10 finishes this season, including runner-up at the VCU Shootout and earned C-USA Golfer-of-the-Week honors for his performance. He shot par or better in 14 of 29 rounds during the season and recorded the second-lowest scoring average on the team (72.3) behind Varner.
"I am equally as proud of Adam's inclusion on the second team," said McPhaul. "He has come a very long way as a player, while juggling a demanding schedule as an engineer major. Adam has an extraordinary work ethic and I'm very pleased that he has been recognized with this award."
Golfer of the Year: Harold Varner, East Carolina
Freshman of the Year: Martin Simonsen, UTEP
Newcomer of the Year: Ricardo Gouveia, UCF
Coach of the Year: Grant Robbins, Memphis
All-Conference USA First Team
All-Conference USA Second Team
Conference USA All-Freshman Team


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Gardening Articles: Landscaping :: Trees, Shrubs, & Vines
Roses and Clematis
by Beth Marie Renaud
Entwined and complimentary, purple clematis and a climbing rose share a trellis.
Companions in Life ? be they spouses, partners, or even pets and their masters ? should be compatible to thrive in each other's company. Ideal companion plants are the same way, and two of the best are clematis and roses. Both relish large doses of water, flourish in the same location and soil, and benefit from similar fertilizing schedules. Yet for all their similarities, they complement each other perfectly.
Most clematis are climbers by nature, and because they are not self-supporting, they will happily wander up any nearby plant or support. Clematis and climbing roses can grow together up a light post, doorway, or garden wall, providing a lush vertical display of flowers as they bloom. Alternatively, guide clematis horizontally onto shrub or ground cover roses for a low-growing border.
The Principles of Matchmaking
Before pairing clematis and roses, you should know about the characteristics of each. Clematis are either large-flowered hybrids or small-flowered species and their hybrids. Most are suited to USDA Hardiness zones 3 through 9, although a few adapt to zone 10. Large-flowered hybrids have tough roots and large, rarely scented flowers, and can suffer from wilt, a fungal disease specific to clematis. Small-flowered clematis tend to have fibrous roots and a profusion of smaller flowers, which may be scented; they are rarely affected by wilt. Both groups include varieties that flower early, midseason, and late, and their pruning needs differ according to their bloom times.
Climbing, shrub, and ground cover roses can be matched with clematis. Climbing roses can flower repeatedly, producing single or double blooms that are typically scented, and they require little pruning once established. Most climbing roses need to be tied to a support, such as a trellis, pole, or wall. Shrub roses, available in many ever-blooming varieties, can stand alone and are typically hardy and low maintenance. Ground cover roses are hardy, disease resistant, and low growing.
It is possible to match almost every clematis with a rose, but the beauty of the pairing lies in the size, color, scent, and timing of their respective blooms. Among the many ever-blooming varieties of roses and clematis, it's easy to find two plants that will flower together from spring through fall.
You can also plant up to three different clematis with each rose. Choose one early-flowering variety that will bloom before the rose, another midseason kind that will bloom in unison with the rose, and a late-flowering one to bloom after the rose has finished. Such a combination will provide an abundance of color and activity lasting all season.
Both clematis and roses are available in a wide array of colors, making the possibilities almost endless. Create exciting combinations by selecting varieties in colors unique to each plant. Clematis, for instance, come in shades of blue, while roses never do, but roses display an orange color unseen in clematis.
Because small-flowered clematis are more resistant to wilt, consider them over large-flowered hybrids. Keep in mind, though, that combining C. montana with roses is not recommended. It is the most vigorous clematis and so tends to overwhelm a shrub rose and may even damage climbing roses. Nevertheless, C. montana adapts well to warm climates; if you decide to use it, be sure to plant compact varieties like C. m. 'Freda' and C. m.Peveril', combining them with large shrub roses that can compete with their exuberance.


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If you missed Bob Dylan at Deer Valley (read Mary's review, here), Tuesday, you can make up for it tonight by going to see John Prine, another iconic singer/songwriter who struck it big in the 60's. His folk-y, storytelling songs are moving in their simplicity. Hello in There always gets me in the gut.
Where: Red Butte Garden
When: Tonight, Thursday, Aug 19; 7 PM
How: redbuttegarden.org
Friday's gallery stroll as usual will feature several exhibits of all kinds of media. We're especially looking forward to Alpine Art's (430 E South Temple) Traditional Contemporaries showing, which features work from Marian Dunn, Anthony Ithurralde, Dave Marlaire, Cassandria Parsons, Jeff Pugh and Angela Woods. Look for colorful landscapes and old-time scenes.
Finch Lane's (54 Finch Lane) Fusion and Vision glass art exhibit by the Glass Art Guild of Utah has also gotten our attention, with an interesting mix of bowls, jewelry and wall art pieces.
Where: Salt Lake City
When: Friday, Aug 20; 6-9 PM
How: Visit gallerystroll.org for a list of participating galleries and their current exhibits.
Or maybe we should call him, "General Entertainment." Garrison Keillor is bringing his classic Prairie Home Companion show to town. There will be comedy sketches, poetry, music and Keillor's famed, "News from Lake Wobegon." If you're one of his four million NPR listeners, well, we'll see you there. If not, look for a review of the show back here at saltlakemagazine.com on Monday!
Where: Red Butte Garden
When: Sunday, Aug 22; 7 PM
How: redbuttegarden.org


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Richard Vernon Huffman
Position: BB-TB-HB-QB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 215 lbs.
Born: December 18, 1914 in Moreland, IN
Died: March 18, 1995 in Bloomington, IN
High School: New Castle
College: Indiana (school history)
Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the 3rd round (27th overall) of the 1937 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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This exhibit includes two sections, one dealing with specific time periods in different cities. The other explores Rock and Roll's early years, soul and heavy metal music. The exhibits examine the impact that the music made on the evolution of rock and roll. In addition to artifacts, some of the sections contain a short video with historic clips and interviews. The films run about five or six minutes each. The following cities and genres are represented:
This section highlights Memphis' contributions to the early years of rock and roll. It includes the history of Sun Records and deals with such artists as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Billy Lee Riley and others.
This portion focuses on Detroit during the Motown era. Among those represented in the exhibit are Berry Gordy Jr., Smokey Robinson, Martha and the Vandellas, the Temptations and Jr. Walker.
This section concentrates on the British Invasion, from early skiffle to Beatlemania and beyond. Featured artists include the Beatles, Yardbirds, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Zombies and others.
This exhibit focuses on San Francisco during the psychedelic era. It includes artifacts from the key musicians of the era - the Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Janis Joplin and the Jefferson Airplane - as well as other important cultural icons, including Bill Graham and Ralph J. Gleason.
This area draws attention to the era of the singer/songwriter and country-rock. The troubadour scene, older folk scene and the new electric folk rock are highlighted. Featured artists include the Eagles, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
This section focuses on the development of punk music in London, New York and Los Angeles. Some of the artists featured include the Ramones, Patti Smith, the Clash, the Germs and the Sex Pistols.
This exhibit spotlights the grunge era. The various artifacts define grunge not only as a genre and sound, but also as a scene and fashion statement. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains and other key artists of the era are all represented.
Rave On pays tribute to the pioneers who created the sound and style of rock and roll, including Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, the Coasters, Buddy Holly, the Drifters, songwriters and producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, among others (Elvis Presley is not represented in this exhibit as he is the subject of an individual performer focus unit).
This exhibit includes original costumes, vintage posters, guitars and other instruments, lyric manuscripts, sheet music and other documents.
Soul music was the predominant black music style of the Sixties. Smooth and sensual, passionate and heartfelt, soul included elements of the blues, rhythm & blues, doo-wop and, most notably, gospel. It can be traced back to the Fifties and such artists as Ray Charles, Sam Cooke and James Brown, each of whom incorporated various aspects of gospel into rhythm & blues. But it took a confluence of factors – the civil rights movement, black pride and the work of some enlightened record executives like Atlantic's Jerry Wexler – for soul music to come into its own.
This exhibit presents dozens of artifacts chronicling the lives and careers of soul music's most influential performers, including Brown, Redding, Sam & Dave, Al Green, the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays, Curtis Mayfield, Booker T. and the MGs and, of course, the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
If it's too loud, you're too old. That's the message that's always been at the root of heavy metal. With its ear-shattering volume, distorted guitars and screeching vocals, this highly amplified, blues-based guitar rock came of age – and commercial dominance – during the early Seventies, particularly with such British bands as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. But heavy metal's roots can be traced back to the Sixties. In America, such groups as Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer scored hits ("In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida," "Summertime Blues") that predicted heavy metal's assault, while in England, the Who, the Kinks and the Yardbirds and power trios like Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience helped create the sound and stance that would come to dominate the genre.