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Tree spears car in Snohomish, putting homeowners in a bind
Nicole Loistl-Minkel looks over a 1985 Mitsubishi pickup Thursday that was speared by part of a large cedar tree that sheared off Tuesday night at the home of her in-laws, Brian and Theresa Minkel, of Snohomish. Theresa Minkel said the large broken section could strike their house if it falls the rest of the way. She said a tree removal service estimate to remove the tree was $3,200, but it is not covered by their homeowners insurance because the tree landed on the truck. They also must find an affordable way to remove the tree before it falls on the house because, she says, the insurance will not cover that damage either, now that they have been warned.
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When Dov came onto the stage it was hard to tell if he was high or that was part of his act. He has some good jokes but he kept asking the audiance what we wanted to talk about and hold holding his head repeatly saying I don't know.
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See Dov Davidoff's comedy at his website.
See "Here's a Coupon" and "Bad Week," two clips from Dov's 2010 Comedy Central special Filthy Operation.
Combining hyper A.D.D. with an amusing and acute take on things, Dov Davidoff puts on one of the most high intensity shows in stand-up, making him an audience favorite. Voted one of the Top 10 Comedy Albums of 2008 on iTunes and by Punchline Magazine, his CD The Point Is…, released on Comedy Central Records, proves exactly that.
In addition to performing regularly in clubs and colleges throughout the country, Davidoff is a regular on E's Chelsea Lately, and was recently named as one of Variety's Top 10 Comics To Watch. Dov has most notably starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the film_ Invincible, _is seen on any number of TV shows, and co-starred with Jeff Goldblum in the NBC drama Raines.
Davidoff has been seen on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live and_ Last Call with Carson Daly._ He is also a regular fixture on Comedy Central, starring in his own 2007 half-hour comedy special, as well as appearing on Chappelle's Show, Premium Blend, and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He is a favorite at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal as well as HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
About the Ticket Supplier: Live Nation - Punch Line Comedy Club San Francisco
For over 25 years the nation's best comics have appeared at the San Francisco Punch Line, the city's longest running comedy club. Stars such as Robin Williams, Ellen Degeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Drew Carey, Chris Rock and Dana Carvey took their first comedic steps on the Punch Line stage, entertaining thousands while perfecting their craft. The Punch Line's dedication to comic tradition has earned it the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle's readers' choice award for the best comedy club. Today, the Punch Line is the only full-time comedy club in San Francisco, hosting nationally-acclaimed comics Margaret Cho, Bobby Slayton, Dave Chappelle, Sue Murphy, Dave Attell, George Lopez, David Cross, and Greg Proops, among other bona fide and rising stars, in an intimate setting where you can enjoy them, live and up-close, the way stand-up comedy is best presented.

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It's free. We all carry an abundance of it just waiting to be shared.
I know a lot of people in a hundred situations and one thing I know for certain.
No matter what is going on in their lives, no matter their circumstances, each and every one of them is rich in kindness, they only need to show it, express it, give it…
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Nonprofits Can Still Grow Despite the Economic Climate
It's no secret that the economy has hurt businesses in areas all over the world. With so much bad news around, it might be hard to see how your nonprofit or charity can find its way through these tough times. Fortunately, the web marketing firm Protea Digital is reporting growth in their small to medium business (SMB) clients. So what seems to be the light at the end of their tunnel and how can your organization ride that train to the same success?
The Secrets of Their Success
Protea Digital reports that its clients have consistently seen growth in one area–the internet. One of their clients has even seen as much as a 33 percent increase in business leading to their best month ever for sales.
What is driving their success specifically? A Protea Digital describes it like this, "In addition to the upward trend in web marketing, smaller firms are becoming more competitive with larger firms. SMBs are taking advantage of easy-to-use software tools, engaging with customers on social media channels and tracking success with analytics."
Protea CEO Steven Kent also noted that, "In the past, social media has struggled to show a return on investment. However, many of our clients can trace up to twenty percent of their revenue to Facebook and social media channels."
The Keys to Emulating Their Success
With the economic climate barely showing any signs of recovery, it seems that nonprofit organizations will continue to find it difficult to meet their own financial obligations while working towards fulfilling their missions. Any opportunity for free or low-cost exposure can tip the scales towards success.
The first key to success is participating. The good news is that these online marketing mediums are F-R-E-E! Engaging with supporters on social networks like Facebook and Twitter won't cost any extra.
The best way to take advantage of the viral nature of these networks is to provide your audience with valuable content to share. It's easy to create a report or resource that others will find useful and want to give to others. It can be as simple as an informative Word document that you type up during the weekend.
Once you have people interacting with you on these networks, take the time to engage them in a conversation. Talk to them, answer their questions, ask them your own questions, and build relationships. On the internet there is no better way to build awareness for your cause.
The second key to emulating the success of other SMBs requires doing it with confidence! These solutions are free only if you can use them without paying someone to do it for you. That might mean you need to take a few days or even a couple of weeks to familiarize yourself with the basics and best practices of each social media network.
Don't worry! They are not hard to master. Don't fear the unknown. There are many resources available to learn the basics of using Facebook and Twitter. Other networks you may be able to tap into include LinkedIn and YouTube as well. Nobody was born with the ability to benefit from these networks. Invest a little of your time, and you'll could find many untapped resources to build your organization without spending a penny. Don't worry about "doing it right." I assure you, there is no single "correct way."
The Final Takeaway
If SMBs can experience new-found success during an economic decline, so can your nonprofit. All it takes is a little confidence and taking advantage of the free tools. If you find yourself short on ideas, take a look at these presentations for inspiration. Here, courtesy of Chad Norman, you can find 100 tips to increase the success your nonprofit sees from social media efforts.
- 50 Social Media Tactics to Help Nonprofits Meet Their Mission
- 50 More Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
Social media won't bring success over night, but it will bring success. Make it a priority and you can definitely recession-proof your nonprofit.


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What Matters to Patients? Developing the Evidence Base for Measuring and Improving Patient Experience, King's College London & The King's Fund, 2011
In 2012 the Department of Health and the NHS Institute commissioned King's College London and The King's Fund to undertaken research into: What Matters to Patients? Developing the Evidence Base for Measuring and Improving Patient Experience.
Two reports form part of the overall research; the Main Report and the Policy Recommendations.
Both reports are available here.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Innovation Series 2011 - Achieving an Exceptional Patient and Family Experience of Hospital Inpatient Care
In response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving the experience of patients and their families during hospitalisation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) conducted an in-depth review of the research, studied exemplar organisations, and interviewed experts in the field. Out aim was to identify the primary and secondary drivers of exceptional patient and family inpatient hospital experience (defined as care that is patient centred, safe, effective, timely, efficient, and equitable), as measured by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey's 'willingness to recommend' the hospital. The project's multi-stakeholder team included patient and family members, patient and family advisors to health care organisations, IHI faculty, and experts inpatient and family-centred care.
You can read the full paper here
The Intelligent Board Series - Patient Experience, Dr Foster Intelligence, 2010
The Intelligent Board Series gives practical, focused advise for NHS trust board members on the kind of information they should be using to understand and oversee their organisation's performance.
Patient Experience focuses on what boards can do to ensure they acquire a rounded understanding of how patients - and their families and carers - experience care or treatment. In this way, it aims to help boards fulfill their responsibility to hold their organisations to account for improving the quality and responsiveness of services, and to demonstrate this accountability to their local communities.
Read the report and to access the Intelligent Board Series here
Feeling Better? Improving Patient Experience in Hospital, NHS Confederation, 2010
There is emerging evidence that organisations with a strong emphasis on providing high-quality patient experience have found that it is linked to better health outcomes.
Getting the most out of PROMS: putting health outcomes at the heart of decision making, The King's Fund, 2010
The aim of this report is to provoke and encourage thinking about the wide range of ways in which PROMs data can be used to inform decisions. It draws on Bupa's example to discuss how providers can use PROMs data to improve clinical performance. It also offers practical advice for commissioners in using PROMs data to assess value for money and decide how to purchase health care systems.
Visit the King's Fund website to download the report.
Developing Staff Engagement to Improve Health Service Quality:Presenting the Evidence, Aston Business School, 2009
Newly published research by Aston Business School shows that developing a climate and culture that nurtures strong staff engagement brings a range of positive outcomes to an organisation.
Trusts with higher levels of staff engagement deliver services of higher quality and perform better financially, as rated by the Care Quality Commission. They have high levels of patient satisfaction scores and lower staff absenteeism. They also have consistently lower patient mortality rates that other trusts.
The Point of Care Programme, The King's Fund
The King's Fund point of care programme aims to transform the quality of patients' experience in acute hospitals. This is against the background of the Department of Health's current range of policies designed to improve patients' experience of health care in England.
Visit the King's Fund Point of Care Programme here.
The Point of Care Measures of Patients' Experience in Hospital: purpose, methods and uses, King's Fund 2009
Seeing the Person in the Patient: The Point of Care Review Paper, King's Fund, 2008
Improving the Patient and Client Experience, Robin Youngson, May 2008
Securing a positive patient and client experience is the responsibility of all involved in providing health and social care...the following five areas have been identified as important towards ensuring a positive patient and client experience.
Download the report and to find out more here
Invest in engagement, Picker Institute Europe and Department of Health
A new on-line tool has been launched to help the NHS unlock the benefits of effective patient and public engagement in healthcare. Called 'Invest in Engagement' and produced by the Picker Institute Europe, the site analyses and makes accessible the results of 280 research reviews.
Funded by the Department of Health, the site aims to help NHS managers use effective patient engagement to drive up quality and productivity of care.
Invest in Engagement provides:
- A comprehensive, easy to use evidence review of the effectiveness of patient and public engagement in health
- Best Buys – evidence-based recommendations for investing in engagement
- A one-stop shop for Public and Patient Experience and Engagement policy and resources
People and participation - Involve, 2005
Participation works best when people feel that they can make a difference, when they have the time to fully engage with the issues and when there is a healthy relationship of mutual respect with elected representatives. It works worst when it is rushed, ill-informed and vague about the links to formal decision-making, or when it allows the loudest voices to dominate.
Download the report here
Care and Compassion ? - Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
The report care and Compassion? is based on the findings of ten independent investigations into complaints about NHS care for people over the age of 65 across England. Read the report here
Listening and Learning the Ombudsman's review of complaint handling in the NHS in England in 2012/11
This report shows, how at local level, the NHS is still not dealing adequately with the most straightforward matters. The report includes a number of case studies which demonstrate that complaints can end up with the Ombudsman due to knee-jerk responses by NHS staff and poor complaint handling. Read the full report here
Publications from the Service
Improving Patient Experience Using CQUIN Schemes, Yorkshire & Humber SHA and the Department of Health, 2011
In a collaborative piece of work with the Department of Health, Yorkshire and Humber SHA sought the views of over 60 Chief Executives and Directors from NHS Trusts and PCTs on 'Improving Patient Experience Using CQUIN Schemes'.
The full report provides insight and recommendations into the ways in which the schemes are operating from performance, finance, contracting and quality perspectives. The findings are the result of a number of workshops and interviews and identify some of the key issues, benefits and risks of patient experience CQUIN schemes.
There are also two short reports which encapsulate the key recommendations from the provider and from the commissioner perspective.
The findings may be useful for organisations as they develop existing CQUIN schemes and consider more generally how to encourage and reward improvements in patient experience.
The download the reports please click below:
Improving patient experience using CQUIN schemes - full report
Recommendations for PCTs and GP consortia
1000 Lives Plus - How to Guide - Learning to Use Patient Stories
Patient stories are promoted by 1000 Lives Plus as an effective and powerful way of making sure that the patient's voice is heard and that improvement of service is centred on the needs of the patient.
It is a requirement of the programme that stories are used to ensure that the patient's voice is heard at the highest level. The Guide provides an overview of the process to help with understanding, sharing of practical tools, relevant experience and offers advice on the development and use of stories.
South Birmingham NHS - Share to Care
NHS South Birmingham is exploring new ways to create a more personalised NHS experience by involving patients in improving the quality of their local health services.
Read the Share to Care document ( 1.36 MB)
NHS West Midlands - A Guide to Capturing and Using Patient, Public and Service User Feedback Effectively
This guide gives a simple guide to each of the different methods for collecting feedback, as well as top tips, case studies and useful resources.
Read the guide to capturing and using patient, public and service user feedback (1.40 MB).
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- Developing an "are you ok" project
- Developing an "are you ok" project
- Identifying priority areas / pathways for patient experience improvement
- Planned work on patient experience at the end of life
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This is the first table I do under my new dessert table styling business, Events by Nat.
I knew I had to pull out all my creative ideas when my sister in law asked me to do a dessert table for her Runway/Catwalk themed 21st birthday party.
The first idea that popped in my head was that I have to have a runway on the table and this is what I did. I built a mirrored runway down the middle of the table. The main 'model' on this runway was the cake. I found a Chanel inspired cake on style unveiled and went to my trusted cake artist Jacki at Blissfully Sweet and asked her to make a similar cake with no pearls but diamonds instead (as insisted by my sister in law). The cake turned out absolutely amazing and looked like the most beautiful gown you would see on a Versace or Chanel runway except it was eatable.
In the middle of the runway I had a meringue fountain which flowed meringues onto the chairs on the sides of the runway. It looked absolutely amazing.
Blissfully Sweet also made the amazing designer cupcakes(which were all based on the birthday girls various favourite fashion designers), Chanel cake pops and Versace cookies.
I stationed a Versace cookie at the start of the runway on a stand showing that it's a Versace fashion show in progress.
I had two embellished mannequins on the sides of the table with various designer tags on them and holding rock candy.
Other desserts included a designer candy bar (consisting of, black and silver sixlets, white bonbons, marshmellows and nougat) designer oreo pannacottas, blush Macarons, Raffaelos and Monique's 21st Chocolates which all tied in with the colour scheme.
The backdrop was designed like a runway. A mirror hung on the wall in the centre with black curtains draped to both sides.
Overall the event turned out like a fashion show. I've included a picture of the birthday girl on the blank carpet entrance to show you why a runway/ catwalk theme was her to a tee. She looked like any model you would see on one of those runways. Stunning!!


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Jonathan Adler Finally Gets His 'Jonathan Adler' Drink (Kinda)
Ports Coffee & Tea in Chelsea comes through!
When we spoke to interior designer Jonathan Adler in June about his New York Diet, he made a confession: "My goal in life is to have a beverage named after me, sort of like an Arnold Palmer. I want the iced tea with milk to be the Jonathan Adler. Think about it: hot tea with milk. Why not iced tea with milk?" Well, now he's getting one!
Chelsea's Ports Coffee & Tea writes in to tell us that they are the "first and only place in the world to offer the namesake beverage," which they're making with Indian black and African rooibos teas infused with toasted coconut, chocolate, and vanilla, mixed with soy milk and served over ice, at $3 for a sixteen-ounce and $4 for a twenty-ounce size. We wonder why they messed with the simplicity of Adler's original idea by using soy milk, and adding the coconut, chocolate, and vanilla, but apparently the neighborhood's going wild for them; they say they've sold out every day since the beverage's "debut" over Pride weekend.
The burning question, of course, is, Has Jonathan Adler had one? We reached out to see, but a rep tells us he's away on vacation. At least this will give him something to look forward to when he comes back!
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first insulin injection pen for diabetic cats and dogs, the agency announced March 19.
Merck Animal Health's VetPen may now be used to administer Vetsulin insulin cartridges, also made by Merck. The refillable VetPen, which looks like a writing pen, automatically measures the prescribed insulin dose, the FDA said.
The FDA said the approval "provides consumers with an additional option for insulin delivery." Merck said the VetPen is easier to dose and administer -- and is more accurate -- than traditional delivery systems, such as syringes and vials.
"For years, insulin pens have made managing diabetes more convenient for human diabetics," the company said. "Merck Animal Health … has now brought the same technology to veterinary medicine."
VetPen will initially be offered in "a number of veterinary clinics" throughout the United States, but "the exact number has not been determined at this point," Merck said. An online video explains how to use VetPen, known as Caninsulin VetPen in non-U.S. markets.
Vetsulin was taken off the market in 2011 after manufacturing tests showed that batches of the drug "may have been compromised by bacterial contamination," according to the FDA. The product was reintroduced to the market in 2013, and the agency said it continues to monitor its use.
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July 9, 1999
The U.S. women's volleyball team defeated the Czech Republic 3-2 (15-25, 20-25, 25-16, 25-23, 15-3) today at San Jose Obrero, rallying from two games down to win and improve their WUG record to 3-2. The difference in the match was Team USA's play at the net as they recorded 52 block assists, translating into 28 total blocks. Leading the block party was Elisabeth Bachman (Farmington, Minn.) who recorded 16 blocks, her third consecutive match with at least eight blocks. Benishe Dillard (Kent, Wash.) provided a huge spark off the bench, contributing 10 blocks despite playing just the final three games of the match. "The players who came in off the bench really changed the atmosphere of the match," head coach Jim Stone said. "They (Dillard and Kerri Walsh) played more aggressive as opposed to not wanting to make a mistake."
The first two games of the match were filled with mistakes by Stone's club, the majority of which centered around poor passing. The Czech Republic jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first game and Team USA never got closer than two points after that. Game two was a tight battle until the Czechs ran off five straight points to take an 18-13 lead and subsequently lead the match 2-0.
In game three, lineup changes and an intense demeanor began paving the way for a USA victory. Propelled by the play of Walsh (Saratoga, Calif.), who had six blocks in the game, the United States jumped out to an 8-2 lead. Though Czechoslovakia battled back, Dillard would end the game and the Czechs' hopes with a solo block.
Game four was the tightest of the match, with the lead changing hands six times. Trailing 17-16, the red, white and blue used a 3-0 spurt to take the lead for good. A dump by setter Robyn AhMow (Honolulu) provided the final U.S. point and sent the match to a fifth and deciding game.
In the fifth game, Team USA dominated from the start, giving up only three points in the game. Eight of their 15 points in game five came off blocks, including three of the last four. "Down 0-2, we were pretty determined not to let this match slip away," Stone said. "In the fifth game it was more a case of us making a lot of good plays rather than the Czech Republic giving us points. We weren't hurting ourselves, which is something we had done earlier in the tournament."
Team USA's final match of the WUG is tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. against Canada at Galatzo. The teams will be playing for ninth place.


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- Barney Williams leaves for Braintree
- Charlton friendly ticket details
- Wings announce pre season schedule
- Three more signings for the Wings
- Rickie Hayles Wings in from East Thurrock
- Pierre Joseph-Dubois joins the Wings
- Bobby Devyne signs from Enfield
- George Allen is Mark Goldberg's latest signing
- Bermudan international Jonte Smith signs
Welling United V Grimsby Town
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Welling United 1
Grimsby Town 0
Attendance: 807
Welling got their first win back in the Conference after a late Ross Lafayette goal earned the Wings a 1-0 victory over touted Grimsby Town.
The away side were poor throughout the game but the Wings defending very well throughout and grabbed a late goal with five minutes to go.
Blaine Hudson returned to the side after missing the midweek game against parent club Cambridge United replacing Loui Fazakerley. New signing Harry Beautyman started on the bench.
Grimsby started well utilising Aswad Thomas' pace on the left to cross which was well defended by Hudson to deny Lenell John-Lewis.
Thomas was at fault though on 10 minutes where he allowed Alex Dyer to run into the box finding Lafayette whose poor touch let the chance go by.
Grimsby's captain Craig Disley was finding space deep in midfield and was trying to run the show from midfield but Hudson was always there to stop John Lewis in the air and on the ground.
It took 20 minutes for either side to hit their first clear shot at goal as Joe Colbeck's effort from distance after another good break from Disney was straight at Lee Butcher.
A minute later, the Wings had the best spell of the match as they caused the Mariners numerous problems from three straight corners. The visitors first made a hash of clearing a loose ball allowing Lafayette to toe poke a shot at James McKeown. Then Hudson had two good headers but neither could break the deadlock.
Grimsby were still looking good on the wings with Colbeck delivering some good crosses but they continued to only find thin air in the box.
As the game progressed, the quality of both sides' passing diminished with the Wings giving the ball away with long diagonal balls and whilst the Mariners held onto the ball better, they still missed a number of easy passes in the final third.
The game's quality was summed up by Alex Rodman's theatrical dive on the edge of the box and Jake Gallagher's silly challenge in the middle of the park which earned him a yellow card.
It seemed that set plays were going to be both sides best chance of opening the scoring as McKeown palmed away an Obersteller free kick and with a minute to go until half time, Clayton McDonald hit the bar with a good header from a Patrick McLaughlin corner.
It took two minutes after the restart for a rather passive match to suddenly burst into life as a collision between Fraser Franks and John-Lewis sparked a huge flare up between the two sides. In the resulting melee both Bergqvist and Scott Kerr were booked as well as John-Lewis.
The bruising half continued as just 10 minutes into the half both Lee Clarke and John-Lewis were forced off after a terrible clash of heads from a corner. Beautyman and Andy Cook came on.
Loick Pires replaced the ineffective Kurtis Guthrie and almost immediately shot a highly ambitious effort from 35 yards out that grazed harmlessly wide.
Since coming on, Beautyman had been finding good space just outside the box and got two good shots away that well blocked by the impressive McDonald and Kerr – the latter with a suspicion of a handball.
Dyer's good game continued as a great touch got him clear of Chris Doig and his curling shot just crept wide. With 11 minutes to go, Dyer's mazing run in the final third drew a foul from Doig to win a free kick just outside the semi-circle which Franks blazed over.
Grimsby had been flat for the majority of the half but with 10 minutes to go, Butcher just tipped over Kerr's cross which some fans thought was in and from the resulting corner, Scott Neilson's overhead kick flew over.
With five minutes the game appeared to be heading to a 0-0 draw but Dyer once again had other ideas. After another run, he was brought down on the edge of the box and despite pleas from the fans, referee Hicks played a great advantage. The ball fell to Lafayette who slipped past McDonald and drove his shot into the bottom corner to give Welling a late lead.
With five minutes of added time remaining, Dayle Southwell got a shot away on the left wing of the box and although it was straight at him, Butcher parried straight back into the danger zone and Franks just managed to clear the loose ball.
Although there were some nervy moments for the Wings' fans, Franks and Hudson dealt with every cross that was put into the box which allowed the Wings to pick up their first three points of the season.
Welling United: Butcher, Bergqvist, Franks, Hudson, Obersteller, Gallagher, Clarke © (Beautyman 56), Dyer, Healy, Guthrie (Pires 64), Lafayette: Turner, Webb, Obersteller,
Grimsby Town: McKeown, Bignot, Doig, McDonald, Thomas, Kerr (Southwell), Disley ©, McLaughlin, Colbeck, John-Lewis (Cook 56), Rodman (Neilson 87): Hatton, Thanoj,
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Intro to Furniture + Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop
Instructor: Adrien Segal
SF / FURNT–100 / 15 sessions
Prerequisite: none
July 14-August 1, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
$25 lab fee payable at registration
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of woodworking and its application to furniture, in partnership with Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop. Topics covered in detail include the care and use of hand tools, hand power tools, and larger woodworking machinery; fundamental techniques such as carving, shaping and finishing; joinery technology, construction processes and conventions; basic furniture design and wood technology.
Processes are demonstrated and practiced through a series of "hands-on" projects. There is an emphasis on precision, the development of craft skills and the concept of physical as well as intellectual learning. It is also a great chance to make "real things" out of "real materials."
In partnership with Autodesk, this course additionally offers an introduction to design prototyping and CAD fabrication with a tour of Autodesk's Pier 9 fabrication facility. Parts of the class, including design lectures and drawing exercises as well as the Midterm and Final Critiques will be held at Autodesk. Members of the Autodesk community will attend as guest critics. Classes on Wednesday July 15 & 23, and the Final Critique on Friday, August 1, will take place at Autodesk's Pier 9 Workshop.
Note: A wood assistant will be available during studio access hours to assist enrolled students with their projects: Mon.-Fri., July 14–31, 4-6 p.m.; Sat., July 20 & 27, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Wood/Furniture Techniques: Soft
Instructors: Mary Little, Peter Wheeler
{Visiting Artists from Connecticut}
SF / FURNT–312 / 15 sessions
Prerequisite: none
August 4–22, Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
$40 lab fee payable at registration
This studio focuses on contemporary upholstery techniques applicable to creating prototypes for large-scale production, producing editions, or making one-of-a-kind pieces.
Upholstery is not straightforward or simple, though the best pieces may look that way. The process is multi-skilled and multilayered. An understanding of the whole process is essential for a designer to accomplish his or her goals. In class, each student designs and constructs an ottoman for a particular interior and develops innovative design concepts appropriate to the context. During showroom visits, students learn about the technical construction of contemporary furniture and the selection of upholstery fabrics. Upon completion of the course, each student will have a well-made contemporary piece, a new skill set, knowledge of contemporary upholstery and exposure to a wealth of experience in European and North American furniture design.
The class is open to designers who want to learn or practice hands-on design skills as a method of design development. Students from majors such as Architecture, Fashion Design, Furniture, Interior Design, Industrial Design, and Textiles are welcome.
Note: A wood assistant will be available during studio access hours to assist enrolled students with their projects: Mon.–Fri., August 11–21, 4–6 p.m.; Saturdays, August 9 & 16, 9:30 a.m.–7 p.m.
This course satisfies a Studio Elective or Wood/Furniture requirement.
Mary Little and Peter Wheeler are partners in bius, originally established in London in 1997 and re-located to New Haven, Connecticut in 2005, they return to the Bay Area each summer to teach this upholstery design workshop. Formerly adjunct professors at CCA, they each have over 20 years experience in designing and producing unique, high-end furniture for the residential, corporate and public arts markets. The studio has recently begun to design innovative furniture for production. This spring they launch their latest collection of seating and tables, for the corporate market, at NeoCon, Chicago. Their furniture can be found in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Basel; the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris; and the Museo de las Artes Decorativas, Barcelona, among others.
Over the years bius has developed a unique expertise in upholstery derived from contemporary production techniques with an inspirational root in semi-soft artifacts from a breadth of cultures, such as ancient Eastern costume, medieval European headwear, and contemporary sportswear.


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With his latest album, Decisions, as good as anything he's ever produced, and his live shows still able to captivate crowds from coast to coast, blues great Bobby Rush isn't just plugging along at 80 years old, he's putting artists half his age to shame.
"I don't think it's a secret," he laughs. "I'm just blessed. But I joke and laugh about it. I think the good looking ladies and good music keep me on top of the grains."
Either that or good genes, considering his grandfather (who had 36 children, including seven sets of twins) lived to 108, and his father lived to 94. But whatever it is, Rush still knows how to sing the blues like no other.
"I've been on my game because I'm always looking to take myself to another place, another level," he said. "It's almost like when you're writing. When you started writing, you didn't write the way you do now. Look how modified things are. Now we're on the telephone. 30 years ago we couldn't do this and have the quality that we have now. So I'm always trying to modify the things that I do."
The essence remains though, even as Rush adapts to the times. And while Decisions – his first record with blues / funk band Blinddog Smokin' – still has the fun party tunes the Louisiana legend is known for, he also gets serious in his collaboration with longtime friend Dr. John – "Another Murder in New Orleans."
"It's not just another song, it's talking about another murder down in New Orleans," he explains. "And not just New Orleans, but any town that you're in, that's your New Orleans. Somewhere down the line, we should tell what we see and don't be ashamed or afraid about doing it, because it is our business. The police can't correct and turn all this around by themselves. We've got to do it as neighbors and as friends, and as people in this world. We've got to start somewhere and we've got to put a stop to it."
It's strong social commentary from the Homer native, who makes it clear that while all the partying in the world is nice, there's also a time for something more.
"There's a time to play, a time to be serious, a time to do anything," he said. "We must do fun things when we go out and have a party, and we can go party all week long, but come Monday morning, it's time to go to work. That's our job, so we can go make money for our family. So there's time to joke, a time to play, but somewhere along the line we must be serious with our music and speak the issues and teach people about what we should and should not do. When a man makes a mistake and he knows it, he can correct himself, but when you make a mistake and you don't know it, that's the problem. The Bible teaches us that a man can do wrong for so long, he'll think he's right."
Those are words of wisdom from someone who has earned his stripes the hard way. This isn't a 20-year-old kid singing about lost love and things he couldn't possibly have experienced. This is a man who is a walking history book, and when you get a chance to hear him talk or play, you should listen.
"I've been recording 60 years, and that's a long time in music," said Rush. "Night life, up all night, mishaps, no food, no place to sleep some of the time, most of the time no money. But you do it for the love of it. Don't get me wrong, I need the money to make a living to take care of my family, but that wasn't the first thing out of the box for me. It was the love of it, not the money."
Is that something lost in today's music world? You know the answer to that before Rush even opens his mouth.
"A lot of people go in there now, and the first thing they want to get is a hit record," he said. "They get a good record and they want to buy a Greyhound bus and a limousine and have 19-20 people and bodyguards following them around, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I think if you live your life upright you already got a hedge around you; you don't need that other stuff. You should be down-to-Earth with people because if you are, they'll protect you."
Today, Rush will be in Brooklyn, New York to play at BAM's Rhythm & Blues Festival. It's a chance to see the real deal when it comes to the blues, someone who has lived everything he sings about. And even at 80, he has no desire to stop anytime soon.
"What you see is what you get, and thank God for the people who accept me for who I am and doing what I do," he said. "I'm always striving to do everything I can while I can, because when it comes to the time when I can't, I won't regret what I did not do."
He laughs.
"I'm like Muddy Waters. I'm an old man, but I've got young-fashioned ways."
Bobby Rush plays BAM's Rhythm & Blues Festival in Brooklyn today, July 24. For more information, click here


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My new Youtube channelI have created a youtube channel so I could share videos I've taken of friends and friends have taken of me. There's lots of mantra music and a bit of mantra in movement there. Have a look when you get the chance.
The channel is named with my spiritual name, Gurubachan Kaur ,which, in gurmukhi, means the princess that brings the message of the teacher.
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Spanish residency/bureaucracyYesterday I had to turn in the paperwork to get my new 5 year residency card it was timely. Nowhere did it say I needed to arrive before 9 when they give out 35 numbers. So I got there at 12:30 and they said I could wait an hour to see if there was time before they closed at 2:30. There were 2 guys ahead of me that had been there since 9 am cause they didn't get numbers. Also there, sadly was an elderly Spanish couple that had also been standing there since then.
Sadly I say, cause there was a 50 seat air-conditioned waiting room with 5 people sitting in it, but we were told we had to wait outside in the entry way with no chairs in the heat. I sat cross-legged on the floor listening to one of my feminine power lectures on my ipod, I'd come prepared to wait.
But after a while I started engaging the folks around me in conversation. The Señora was so passive, "At least we live in a "free" country." A Spanish man my age that had also been waiting since 9 went on a rant about Spain as 3rd world country. People always look at me like I am crazy when I respond to their question about where I'm from by saying 'I'm Californian". I usually add I'm here because I want to be, not for a better economic situation. People here, and all over Europe have this fantasy about California based on films and television-I imagine.
In the end, all of us waiting got our "number" so we could be attended to and wait in the waiting room. Yey.
This adventure was after turning in an initial round of paperwork to get the approval for the renewal. Each round is also accompanied by a tax and "fresh" paperwork. Meaning even if I have shown my local residency registered, I need one that is less than a month old from the town hall.
I live south of Barcelona, in the area of Garraf on the above map. I also live a 5 minute walk from the Mediterranean. Unfortunately, so far this summer the only time I've gone to swim in the sea it was full of sea weed, trash and later I was told jellyfish. I'm going to try another beach this weekend.
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Not on tribe much, but.....you can see what I'm up to on my blog.
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Louisiana justice of the peace denied marriage license to interracial couple, worried they might have children.I just came across the article below on thinkprogress.org/
The Louisiana judge sounds like my husband's 86 year old grandmother who was raised in Missouri.
I rarely give any thought to being in an "interracial" marriage. Fortunately, except for T's grandmother's concerns about our having kids (which isn't gonna happen) I've never witness anyone giving us any kind of racist vibe. I am grateful to live in a time (and place) where that
doesn't happen. To think, like gays in most of the US have it now, our "legal union" would be against the law, years ago or NOW where this Louisiana judge is. I hope he gets reprimanded big time.
Louisiana justice of the peace denied marriage license to interracial couple, worried they might have children.
The AP reports that Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell has refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple because he believes that such marriages don't usually last very long:
"I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house," Bardwell said. "My main concern is for the children."
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"I don't do interracial marriages because I don't want to put children in a situation they didn't bring on themselves," Bardwell said. "In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer."
If he does an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.
The couple said they "will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint." (HT: Right Wing Watch)
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Earthdance BarcelonaI know probably none of the folks reading this (cept maybe Melanie) are in this part of the world to attend. But I just wanted to share one of the many things that I've been working on.
T-Bird (my husband) and I are busy organizing the Barcelona Earthdance International ™ event Sat. Sept. 26. It will take place at the at a friends beautiful Integral Yoga Center in St. Pere de Ribes. We've planned an afternoon of dancing, sharing vegetarian food and non-alcoholic drink with friends, there will be performances of dance and music. Finally, we will join our voices with the kirtan group from the yoga center finish the day with the Earthdance International Peace Prayer, joining people around the world in a collective wish for a peace-filled planet.
For the children there will be face painting and coloring in the garden and for grown-ups there will be a table to leave business cards or other information so we can support each other in as many ways as possible.
The entrance fee of 5 euros goes to cover costs of the event and any money over that amount goes to a registered charity, Save the Gambian Orphans. Everyone is asked to bring a vegetarian dish or alcohol-free drink to share (4-6 people) and their own plate, cup and silverware to reduce trash from the event.
For directions to the event visit : www.myspace.com/earthdancebarcelona
From the Earthdance website www.earthdance.org/
The Mission
Our mission is to promote peace by joining participants worldwide in a synchronized PRAYER FOR PEACE and to support humanitarian causes through the global language of music and dance.
The Goal
Our goal is to inspire participation from artists, musicians and peace-lovers worldwide to dedicate one day to support humanitarian efforts and help unite people from all nations in a day of peaceful celebration and harmony.
The Scheduele of Events:
15h* Opening Peace Prayer in Farsi by Simin - www.floristeriabrisa.com/
*Potluck Meal (don't forget to bring your own plate, cup and utensils),
*Face Painting and Coloring for Children
15:30 *World Fusion music spun by Dj T-Bird - www.djtbird.com/
19h *Bhangra Dance performance by Sat Guru Kaur - www.satgurukaur.blogspot.com/
*Dance Prayer for Peace by SheilaKaur - www.danzasheila.com/
*Musical Offering on Tibetan Bowls by Tania Preuss - altivolantis.blogspot.com/
*Kirtan led by Shawn McSweeney and The Integral Yoga Center Kirtan group - www.integralyogabarcelona.com/
* The Earthdance International™ Peace prayer - www.earthdance.org/
It was T who tweeked the logo for the event, nice work isn't it?
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Creative answers to California's horrific financial state.....I do find it hard to believe that Californians aren't out raising hell over all the programs that are going to disappear with the budget cuts. It's an assault on the middle class and poor. I got through college with Cal grants. What are all those college students supposed to do? Or the health care workers? Or the teachers?
Well, I found these articles on taxing medical marijuana and even decriminalization "uplifting". Next if they got all those poor souls that are in prison for possession out, Californians would be saving even more money.
Is Marijuana the Answer to California's Budget Woes?
By TOM MCNICHOL/SAN FRANCISCO Tom Mcnichol/san Francisco 2 hrs 37 mins ago
Proponents of marijuana legalization have advanced plenty of arguments in support of their drug of choice - that marijuana is less dangerous than legal substances like cigarettes and alcohol; that pot has legitimate medical uses; that the money spent prosecuting marijuana offenses would be better used on more pressing public concerns.
While 13 states permit the limited sale of marijuana for medical use, and polls show a steady increase in the number of Americans who favor legalization, federal law still bans the cultivation, sale, or possession of marijuana. In fact, the feds still classify marijuana as a Schedule I drug, one that has no "currently accepted medical use" in the United States.
But supporters of legalization may have been handed their most convincing argument yet: the bummer economy. Advocates argue that if state or local governments could collect a tax on even a fraction of pot sales, it would help rescue cash-strapped communities. Not surprisingly, the idea is getting traction in California, home to both the nation"s largest supply of domestically grown marijuana (worth a estimated $14 billion a year) and to the country"s biggest state budget deficit (more than $26 billion).
On Monday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California legislative leaders a tentative budget agreement to plug the state's deficit, but it would involve making sweeping cuts in education and health services, as well as taking billions from county governments. Democratic state assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced legislation that would let California regulate and tax the sale of marijuana. The state's proposed $50 an ounce pot tax would bring in about $1.3 billion a year in additional revenue. Ammiano"s bill was shelved this session but he expects to introduce a revised bill early next year.
If the state legislature doesn"t act, perhaps California voters will. One group is preparing to place a statewide initiative for the November 2010 ballot that would regulate and tax the sale of marijuana for Californians 21 years of age and older. Tellingly, the group spearheading the measure calls itself TaxCannabis2010.org, stressing the revenue advantages of marijuana legalization. The group hopes to collect the required 650,000 voter signatures by January to place the measure on the November 2010 ballot.
"There"s no doubt that the ground is shifting on marijuana," says Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs. "The discussion about regulating and taxing marijuana now has an air of legitimacy to it that it didn"t quite have before. And the economy has given the issue a real turbo charge."
The legalization effort is getting serious consideration from surprising quarters. In May, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger publicly called for a large-scale study to determine whether to legalize and tax marijuana.
"I think it"s time for a debate," the governor said at a news conference. "I think we ought to study very carefully what other countries are doing that have legalized marijuana and other drugs."
In California, medical marijuana sales are already taxed, and some communities are looking for ways to get a bigger slice of the pot pie. Residents Oakland are currently voting in a mail-in special election that includes a measure which would make the city the first in the country to establish a new tax rate for medical marijuana businesses. If the measure passes, Oakland marijuana dispensaries, which are now charged at the general tax rate of $1.20 per $1,000 in receipts, would see that rate raised to $18 per $1,000.
A Field Poll conducted in California this spring showed 56% of the state"s registered voters in support of legalizing and taxing marijuana as a way of offsetting some of the budget deficit. Several national polls have shown that more than 45% of American adults are open to legalizing pot, about double the support a decade ago.
Even the most ardent marijuana advocates aren"t expecting nationwide legalization anytime soon. Instead, any action is likely to come on the state and local level. For now, all eyes are on cash-strapped California, where high taxes could take on an entirely new meaning.
Here's a link to a blog on San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano proposed bill that would decriminalize and legalize the sale of marijuana to adults 21 and over...
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In Search of Ecstasy...is the name of one of the segments of a really interesting series of discussions online at a site called Global Spirit.
I've watched 3 so far, one with my sufi teacher and a hindu physicist and another on music and the sacred was a discussion with a native american singer and the Dean of the Grace Cathedral.
But I especially loved and was moved by Andrew Harvey and Sobonfu Somé discussing the importance of dance and celebration in a community context.It reminded me of how cultures where the old folk don't dance, really are missing out on something.
I'd never heard of Sobonfu Somé before. Her insights into spirituality, ritual, the sacred and intimacy are wonderful.
Hope you get the chance to have a look at some point.
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The importance of words....Many spiritual teacher's talk about the power of words in creating our reality. I am regularly asking my mom to stop "cursing" people. Now I've just come across this article that says swearing can help lesson pain.
What do you think?
Swearing can make you feel better, lessen pain
LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Cut your finger? Hurt your leg? Start swearing. It might lessen the pain.
Researchers from the school of psychology at Britain's Keele University have found swearing can make you feel better as it can have a "pain-lessening effect," according to a study published in the journal NeuroReport.
Colleagues Richard Stephens, John Atkins and Andrew Kingston, set out to establish if there was any link between swearing and physical pain.
"Swearing has been around for centuries and is an almost universal human linguistic phenomenon," says Stephens.
"It taps into emotional brain centers and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain. Our research shows one potential reason why swearing developed and why it persists."
Their study involved 64 volunteers who were each asked to put their hand in a tub of ice water for as long as possible while repeating a swear word of their choice.
They then repeated the experiment using a more commonplace word that they would use to describe a table.
The researchers found the volunteers were able to keep their hands in the ice water for a longer when swearing, establishing a link between swearing and an increase in pain tolerance.
Stephens said it was not clear how or why this link existed but it could be because swearing may increase aggression.
"What is clear is that swearing triggers not only an emotional response, but a physical one too, which may explain why the centuries-old practice of cursing developed and still persists today," he said.
(Writing by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Miral Fahmy)
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Despondex, a Treatment for the Chronically Cheery.
A step forward in the battle against exuberance.
Thanks to Rob Brezny who sent this link in his weekly email.
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Mother's day really isn't another Hallmark creation......Julia Ward Howe proposed the idea of Mother's Day for Peace over a century ago. Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 was a call for disarmament and for women to come together to seek diplomatic ways to settle disagreements amongst nations.
Mother's Day Proclamation 1870
By Julia Ward Howe
Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe out dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress,
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.
Julia Ward Howe proposed the idea of Mother's Day for Peace over a century ago. Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870 was a call for disarmament and for women to come together to seek diplomatic ways to settle disagreements amongst nations.
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The Age of the Weasleys
by Troels Forchhammer
1 Introduction
2 The Evidence
3 The Years of the Weasleys
4 Summary
5. Consistency
5.1 Charlie and Quidditch
5.2 Bill
6. Conclusion
1 Introduction
No, I don't intend to predict the identities of the next several Ministers for Magic, but rather to present and discuss the various evidence available in Harry Potter canon on the relative ages of the seven Weasley siblings.
Since the original version of this discussion, Rowling has, on her website, www.jkrowling.com, presented us not only with the actual birthdays of all the Weasley children (albeit not the years), but also with a correction to her statement in the World Book Day Chat [WBD], with respect to the relative ages of Charlie and Percy Weasley.
Throughout this essay I will use the relative dating system suggested in the Lexicon. The year designation according to the commonly employed method, using Nearly Headless Nick's Deathday cake is given afterwards in parenthesis with a question mark to signify the uncertainty of that "guesstimate" — see e.g. my essay[TFO-1] In order to distinguish between differences in actual age and differences in school years, I will further use "H" to designate a school year with Harry and Ron's year being "H0". Someone born around the same time of the year as Ron and Harry, but two years prior to the boys, will consequently have been born in Y-2 and be in Hogwarts year H-2. This is done to avoid the confusion created for someone born in e.g. November who, if born in Y0 will attend H1.
2 The Evidence
There is a lot of evidence in the books regarding to the Weasley siblings — not surprisingly given the prominence of that family in the books. Five of the Weasley siblings attend Hogwarts at some point while Harry is there, and even the two oldest, Bill and Charlie, apparently left some marks on school history.
Let us first focus on the easy part — the school years of the five Weasley siblings who at some point attend Hogwarts together with Harry. It is of course easiest to start with Ron Weasley, who is in the same year as Harry.
Evidence scattered throughout the first books makes it plain that the five youngest Weasley siblings attend Hogwarts as summarized below:
That is, at the beginning of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny is starting her first year at Hogwarts, Ron (obviously) his second, Fred and George their fourth and Percy his fifth.
With respect to their birthdays, we finally know the date of the birthdays of all the Weasley children, and they are summarized below.
Most of these dates have been disclosed at Rowling's website in the birthday calendar, which is recorded at Mugglenet [MN]. Ron's birthday is known from the Comic Relief chat[CR] and the twins' birthday from Rowling's "Extra stuff" section [JKR].
Knowing the birthdays and the relative shool years allow us to determine the precise relation between the children, because we know also that they have to be eleven years old the day they start at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
When Hermione arrived at Hogwarts, was she nearly eleven or nearly twelve? [also asked by vast numbers of people]
From Rowling's website, the FAQ section [JKR].
What remains is to know the ages of Bill and Charlie relative to the other siblings.
Rowling has addressed this at two occasions. The first was the direct cause for the first version of this essay, and was given in [WBD]
This was, however, superceded by her later correction at [JKR]
You said recently that Charlie was two years older than Percy. If that's so, he would have been the Seeker in Harry's first year. Can you clarify his and Bill's ages for us?
Well, at least she explicitly admits to having problems with maths ...
3 The Years of the Weasleys
Designating the birth-years of the youngest five Weasley children is unproblematic, since they were all born during the first eight months of the year, and thus have the same relation to Ron's year of birth, Y0 (1980?) as to his Hogwarts year.
The problem arises with the difference between Percy and Charlie. Percy was born on the twenty-second of August Y-4 (1976?), and going by Rowling's three year difference, the immediate guess would be that Charlie was born on the twelfth of December Y-7 (1973?), making him two years, eight months and ten days older than Percy. This, however, would put him in H-5, meaning that he would be starting on his seventh year when Harry and Ron started their first.
The solution is, naturally, to use the Hogwarts years: Charlie is three years ahead of Percy at Hogwarts, which would mean that he was born December 12th Y-8 (1972?). Bill, then, being born in November, is as always two years older than Charlie at both Hogwarts and in calendar years. This allows me to create a table of the birthdays of the Weasley children:
4 Summary
I have summarized the findings from the previous sections in the table below in the hope of giving a better overview of the results.
5. Consistency
Now, all of the above seems quite clear-cut. With the available information everything fits nicely together and we can infer the age of every Weasley kid. But how well does this fit with what else is known about them: are the conclusions consistent with other evidence from the books?
Since there has never been any real question about the ages of the younger five siblings, the consistency data all pertains to the two older; Charlie and Bill.
5.1 Charlie and Quidditch
With respect Charlie, the best we know
much about his age from the books ccomes from books 1 and 3 and refers to
the time when he played Quidditch for Gryffindor. We learned already in
PS6 The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-quarters
that "
In PS9 The Midnight Duel we get the first real indication of Charlie's Quidditch abilities.
"'He caught that thing in his hand after a fifty-foot dive,' Professor McGonagall told Wood. 'Didn't even scratch himself. Charlie Weasley couldn't have done it.'"
This implies that McGonagall expects
Wood to know of
Charlie's extraordinary skills as a
Seeker, and
Wood's reaction (he "
"'I tell you, we're going to win that Quidditch Cup for sure this year,' said Fred. 'We haven't won since Charlie left, but this year's team is going to be brilliant. You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us.'"
One has to ask oneself, "since Charlie left what?" Is this to be read as "since Charlie left Hogwarts" or "since Charlie left the Gryffindor Quidditch side?" Of course this doesn't necessarily mean that Gryffindor actually won the Quidditch Cup the year Charlie left (assuming that he left either Hogwarts or the Quidditch team at the end of an academic year). Another thing I note here is that Fred and George don't mention any kind of dispensation for Charlie, which in the context would have seemed natural if Charlie had indeed played in his first year.
In PA12 The Patronus when McGonagall returns Harry's new Firebolt to him after it has been checked for curses and jinxes.
"'Seriously,' said Professor McGonagall, and she was actually smiling. 'I daresay you'll need to get the feel of it before Saturday's match, won't you? And Potter - do try and win, won't you? Or we'll be out of the running for the eighth year in a row, as Professor Snape was kind enough to remind me only last night ...'"
And in PA15 The Quidditch Final, there is another specific statement:
"The whole of Gryffindor House was obsessed with the coming match. Gryffindor hadn't won the Quidditch Cup since the legendary Charlie Weasley (Ron's second-oldest brother) had been Seeker."
The last two quotations finally provide some specific information. We now know that prior to Gryffindor winning the Quidditch Cup in book 3 (the finals taking place in Y13) there had been seven years in which Gryffindor had not won, and that last time they did win, Charlie Weasley played on the team. This victory was eight years before book 3, which means that the finals were in Y5 at the end of the academic year that started in Y4. As first year students aren't allowed to play (or even bring their own brooms) to Hogwarts, Charlie must have been at least in his second year at that point, meaning that he must have attended H-7, as shown in the summary table above.
The various quotations about Charlie's Quidditch career for Gryffindor gives me the distinct impression that Gryffindor enjoyed a winning streak while Charlie played; not just a single victory of the Quidditch Cup followed by years of coming in an honourable second, but several years of winning the Cup. Unfortunately that interpretation of statements in the books is evidently impossible, but I can't help feeling a bit disappointed there: based on the statements in the books, I had imagined a long and glorious carreer for Charlie, winning the Quidditch Cup again and again.
5.2 Bill
The last of the Weasley siblings -- Bill.
The evidence pertaining to his age is particularly scarce, but that only makes it more interesting.
In CS17 The Heir of Slytherin Ginny is deeply unhappy because of what she has done while possessed by Tom riddle:
"'I'm going to be expelled!' Ginny wept, as Harry helped her awkwardly to her feet. 'I've looked forward to coming to Hogwarts ever since B-Bill came and n-now I'll have to leave and - w-what'll Mum and Dad say?'"
Once more I feel like crying out loud, "came where, and from where?" Unfortunately Rowling didn't choose to expand on this, so I have to get by with what I've got. First of all it is clear that Ginny under no circumstances would be able to remember when Bill started at Hogwarts — she was about one year old at the time. She could, however, easily remember his leaving Hogwarts, or even the time when he was made a Prefect (when she would have been six years old).
Other evidence giving us some small clues to Bill's age is Harry's description of Bill as being cool with earring and ponytail (GF5) as well as his relationship to Fleur Delacour (OP4). This does, IMO, fit nicely with Bill being almost ten years older than Harry, and seven years older than Fleur (assuming that she also left school at eighteen), which might seem a large age difference, but not entirely unrealistic.
In book 4, after the appearance of the Dark Mark, it is Bill who explains about the Death Eaters. This, IMO, points to him being old enough to remember the first war, though not necessarily as an active combatant. Recalling that Voldemort's attack on the Potters occurred in Y1, this makes it before Bill started at Hogwarts. If Bill remembers much about the war, he would have had to be rather a precocious child, though he may, of course, have been relating information he heard later on.
Finally Ron remembering Bill wearing the Head Boy badge in PS12 The Mirror of Erised is hardly surprising. Ron would have been 8 years old when Bill started his last year at Hogwarts, and would certainly remember it well when he started himself just three years later.
6. Conclusion
Looking only at the evidence available before 2004, I would without hesitation have proposed a scenario for Charlie and Bill that made them some two or three years older than Rowling's information. I would, of course, have noted the upper and lower limits, and have given the arguments for choosing a mid-range estimate. Such a scenario would fit all the evidence in the books nicely and without straining any of it overmuch. Having Charlie win his last Quidditch victory in his fourth or fifth year might seem a little early, but on the other hand making them older would strain the credibility of Bill's age relative to Ginny and Fleur. Assuming that Gryffindor won the Quidditch Cup every year from Charlie started playing (presumably in his second year) and until his fourth or fifth year would give them a winning streak of three or four years, which would seem enough to justify Charlie's legendary status in the house. This status seems less credible when he has only been instrumental in winning the Cup once (Harry is a different matter as he was both legendary before joining the Quidditch side, and was the youngest player on a house team for a century: something which was presumably allowed because of Gryffindor's desperate need of a Seeker). All in all the mid-range estimate seems the most likely by far when looking only at the evidence available at New Year 2004.
The information in WBD, and later on Rowling's website, obviously changes this situation somewhat. As can be seen from the summary this places Charlie in H-6, which significantly diminishes Charlie's possible achievements for the Gryffindor Quidditch side.
Given what we have seen with respect to Rowling's use of numbers in the books,
it is not unlikely that her statement that
I do have to admit that I don't particularly like this information. When the only available information was WBD, I rejected that and proposed a scenario that made Charlie a bit older, but given the correction at Rowling's website, I don't think that option is open any longer, and one must accept that Charlie left Hogwarts a few months before Harry and Ron started.
On the other hand, we should probably be very careful about requiring — or even expecting — scientific consistency in the Harry Potter books. Rowling herself admits that maths and physics aren't her strong suits, and there are other issues where the evidence isn't mathematically consistent (e.g. the number of students at Hogwarts).


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Meet Jim
Dec. 19, 2006
Stanford, Calif. - Stanford University officially introduced Jim Harbaugh as its new head football coach and Bradford M. Freeman Director of Football on Tuesday at a press conference held at Kissick Auditorium inside the Arrillaga Family Sports Center on the Stanford campus. Here's some of what Harbaugh, Bob Bowlsby (The Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics at Stanford) and quarterback T.C. Ostrander had to say.
Opening Comments
"It is a pleasure, privilege, honor and blessing to accept the opportunity to be Stanford University's next head football coach. Now, I dedicate my life's work to building the foundation here at Stanford University, the foundation that will lead to great success down the road as well as continue the tradition and restore the legacy that Stanford rightfully has in college football. The journey that has taken me from Palo Alto High School, across the El Camino Real to the Farm has prepared me well and has prepared me to have great success at Stanford University. I thank Bob Bowlsby for putting his trust in me to lead the Stanford University football program, and I vow that I will attack this endeavor with enthusiasm unknown to mankind."
On his love for coaching
"I firmly believe that to be good at something, it's not a matter of being good or being bad, you are either trained or untrained. Coaching is something I knew I would do my entire life before I could even remember. I knew I would play as long as I possibly could, I would coach, then I would die (laughter). I feel very comfortable, very confident in the role of being a coach. I was trained to be a coach and knew I would be good at it, but the thing that keeps me coaching is the look that you get from a young man's face when he turns around and knows you've given him a coaching point that has made him better. Just pulling that greatness out of people, that's what keeps me coaching."
On recruiting at Stanford
"The first group of players that we need to recruit are our current players. We've got a lot of good current players here at Stanford. I've been studying the film, and I will continue to evaluate everyone on the roster - the latest and healthiest tape on each of our players and recruit them to our vision and plan. We don't want to lose any ground with our current players, they to me are the role models in college football. They are the best of the best, they're the scholar athletes. There is no other program in the country that you have the opportunity that we have here at Stanford. It will be one conversation at a time to get to know our current players and also the scholar-athletes we are recruiting now."
On the academic challenges at Stanford
"Once again, this is the best of the best. The academic challenges are what we proclaim from the rooftops. This is an unbelievable ticket to success to have a degree from Stanford and be a part of the people here at Stanford. This education, both in the classroom and on the football field, are second to none."
On his coaching style
"Football is played and coached by emotional and passionate people, and that is the way I am. I am hands on, you'll see me running around, doing push ups while I'm coaching. That's what I love about the job, being outside on the field, that's the medicine to me. Being out there with the guys, just doing it our way is what our players at Stanford will come to love. I am very competitive at scheming, very competitive at recruiting and very competitive at marketing the program."
On what to expect from Stanford's style of play
"Both the offense and the defense will be attack oriented. We will not be holding our positions for very long. We are attacking on both sides of the ball, whether it's from a 4-3 defense or an odd look. What I'd like you to see is a team that plays hard on every play, to me the wins and the great technique follow that. We will be attacking with a tempo that will be the best in college football, a tempo that will be lethal. That is my vision for what you will see on both sides of the ball and on special teams."
On his special relationships with quarterbacks
"I like to have a great relationship with the quarterbacks, it's near and dear to my heart. It is very important to our offense that our quarterback has a great understanding of our system. I love all the players on the team, but the quarterback is special. We will give him every opportunity to be successful and put in a position to have success. As long as he takes care of the football and protects the football we won't have a problem (laughter). I am looking forward to working with T.C. [Ostrander] and the rest of the guys as soon as possible."
Opening Comments
"About two weeks ago, we decided to make the change in leadership in football. I have to tell you it could not have turned out any more successfully in my opinion. I was very happy we were able to recruit Jim Harbaugh to come to Stanford University. I think he is an extraordinary fit at our University. He certainly values the convergence of world-class athletics and world-class academics, and I think he will do an extraordinary job of representing our University as the head football coach in the years ahead. I'd like to thank the people on our staff that were involved in this process and also everyone across the University. The final person that was involved was Bill Walsh. His guidance and assistance has been absolutely terrific in this. We have a lot of people who are deeply invested in the football program at Stanford University. We are very excited about the future. We are very excited about getting going with completing this recruiting class, filling out the coaching staff and beginning to do the work that's required in order to return Stanford Football to its rightful place in the Pac-10 and nationally. As I said earlier, I don't believe when I started out two weeks ago that I could have had any hopes for hiring anybody who is a better fit, who brings more energy, innovation, vision and excitement for serving as Stanford University's head football coach than Jim Harbaugh."
On the search process
"When I am involved in these kinds high profile searches I like to go out and draw my own conclusions early on in the process. That's what I did this time around. I met with nine or ten coaches from around the country and spent a couple hours with each of them. Gradually I narrowed it down; I talked to a lot of people on the phone and visited with professional contacts. We gravitated around a couple of candidates. I asked the people I mentioned earlier involved in the interview process to validate what I had found in a couple of special coaches. When we finished the process we had two really outstanding prospects here, and they said whichever direction I decided to go would be fine with them. I believe that Jim left a professional opportunity with the Oakland Raiders to polish and hone his craft at the University of San Diego. I think he understands the college game. I think he understands the role of academics in the life of a student athlete, and I don't know that there is any place where that is more important than at Stanford University. More than anything else I think he embraces what it is that Stanford stands for, and I attribute a lot of that to his background with his father and having lived in this area. It is a process that fully took two weeks, but I think it's important that one is thorough in these kinds of circumstances, and I couldn't be any more pleased that it yielded the outcome that it did."
On Jim Harbaugh's style
"Student-athletes enjoy playing for him, they have fun. They enjoy practice, they enjoy the recruiting process and the energy he brings every day. The more I talked to people, the more I heard that he is very innovative. He's always scratching around looking for better ways to do things. Whatever he is doing, wherever he is doing it, he's having a good time at it and the people around him are inspired to be a part of what he's doing. That is what I heard most frequently, that Jim Harbaugh makes the people around him better, and I'm not sure there is a more appealing quality in a coach than that."
On any concerns about Harbaugh's coaching experience
"I think that he has coached at the highest levels in some ways. If you're a quarterback in the NFL you are involved in game planning, you're involved in strategic decisions, you're involved in the entire scheme of the offense. To have had the opportunity that Jim had to move up as a position coach in the NFL, and I have no doubt that's a chronology he'd have been able to undertake. Instead, he chose to go to a place where he could run his own program and have the experience of standing on the sidelines, having the decisions land on his lap, whether right or wrong. But I really consider his playing experience as akin to coaching because of the position he played and the role quarterbacks have in the preparation of their teams at all levels. So I don't think there is any question that Jim's football knowledge will transcend the jump from the University of San Diego to Stanford University."
Opening Comments
"I was just trying to act as an adviser to Mr. Bowlsby [in the search process]. It was his decision but all of us just tried to help him make the best one he could, and we think he did. [Coach Harbaugh] made a great impression on us in the interview. We like what he does on offense and defense. He's enthusiastic, and he loves the game. We think he is going to have a great relationship with the players here, and we are all looking forward to starting. I think he will bring a lot of new things to the table. The first thing I am going to ask him is, `where's the playbook'? I want to get it as soon as I can and learn this offense like the back of my hand. Stanford has a history of coaches with not a lot of experience come in and do very well. I have all the confidence in the world in him, and I think all the other guys will feel the same way."


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Just In Time For Halloween: Skull Shaped Pancake Molds
These are the skull shaped pancake molds sold by Williams-Sonoma. You get two forward-facing skulls and one profile. Unfortunately, it looks like they're either not for sale yet or they used to be but aren't anymore. That sucks if you really wanted them. Of course you could probably look around online and find them somewhere else, but that would take work and how important are skull-shaped pancakes to you really? "Very." I've been hunting for hours!
Two more shots of the finished products after the jump.
Thanks to zb, who plans to make skull pancakes with strawberry preserve brains AND WASH IT ALL DOWN WITH SOME CHOCOLATE F***ING MILK.