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Balloon Framing
I have a little carpentry knowledge and finally have the means to build my own home (plz don't try to talk me out of it - I'll take every precaution necessary:)). In my research i've temporarilly decided to balloon frame it. It'll be a very simple design; 32x56 rectangle, steep scissor trusses, let-in ledger at 8 feet to support I beams running the width of the house on both 'ends' (16ft deep) which will floor two lofts. Underneath one loft i'll have 2 bedrooms and a bathroom, but underneath the other will be a completely open kitchen and dining area with no structural interior walls. The reason i want to balloon frame it is I want the house completely enclosed as quickly as possible (in MN the weather can change quickly and i don't have the luxury of speed with my limited help from family and friends). In addition, i could imagine a whole 56ft long house of scissor trusses packs a huge punch of horizontal deflection.
First questions: What type of ledger will i need to support 32ft I beams with no interior support? Is this even feasible? Am I off my rocker? Thanks for everyone's help. I'm new to this forum so go easy on me.
Precision, Welcome to the Forum
With your screen name and post I can tell that you are very precise about what you want to achieve.
Just remember that when you submit your plans to your Building Authority they will want to see a Plans buy Off.
How are you going to get by this problem? I honestly want to know
Good Luck
Joe - thanks for your reply. There are no blueprints for my design as of right now. I'm debating on talking with an architect to assure my ideas are sufficient, and I do have a strucural engineer in my family that will be assisting with the design.
For the second part, i read that after i secured the ledger I could completely enclose the house without having to hang the I beams. That would allow me to have the house exposed to the elements as little as possible.
PaliBob - Good question! Let's just say the county we'll be building in is quite 'loose' on house erection. In discussions with them, a simple design on a napkin will suffice to get the required building permit. They require only general building, electrical, and plumbing inspections and no sign-offs.
I really do appreciate ALL comments so please, keep them coming.
If you frame with 8' precuts you sit your 32' i-joists on the top plates and then you put your decking down. Now you can throw tarps on top of the decking and keep the house water tight. How will yopu keep the house water tight trying to raiosie 16' walls and then put ledgers on and then nail every single i-joists with hangers?
That will take you so much time and you will never be water tight because you have a huge whole at the top of the 16' plates. Are you following me so far?
have you considered hiring out the shell? you might be surprised once you do the math (including the realities of framing solo) to find that its a better plan in the end.
if you are worried about the weather/ time of year, then this would be the fastest way to get a water tight structure.
Joe - thanks for your input. I really do apprecaite it. You're no doubt right, and this will probably sound dumb, and maybe the people at renovation headquarters are crazy, but won't I be able to roof the house as soon as all exterior walls are erected? In addition, i was thinking just 12' walls: with steep scissor trusses I could stud in a 4' foot pony wall in the lofts not TOO far from the exterior. That should give me sufficient room for what I want the 2nd floor for.
Maybe i should just hire the shell out. I'm probably in WAYYY over my head, but i'm a rookie with a passion. The project really won't get underway until Spring so i have lots of time to discuss, learn, and plan.
Thanks everyone! Keep those comments coming!
There's a lot of good reasons that professionals rarely if ever balloon frame structures anymore. It is an antequated and generally inefficient practice, and I agree with Joe that it really offers few if any advantages.
Whatever you do, do yourself a big favor and consult with an architect or engineer before diving off this cliff uninformed. From your footing up, there are a million ways to create a lifelong problem/liability instead of a quality home for a lifetime.
Supporting the beam that will be needed to support the 32' clear span will present massive challenges, especially if you balloon frame. That'll be too much load to transfer to a ledger, fastened to the studs in a manner that causes them to want to split with the grain. It just won't work in the real world. Platform framed, it is possible. It'll take a massive/heavy/expensive beam, but it is possible because there are studs under the beam, in the wall, down to the foundation. That's why you need a professional designer.
I've seen this a hundred times in my career. People with great ambition and decent skills can build great products with the proper support, but the same people that set out assuming they can do a good job and don't know any better end up with a structure that causes them nothing but problems because they wanted to save some money on proper design services.
Thanks for the extra thoughts (and the vote of confidence DangerMouse). I will be working with a structural engineer that will draw up what will be needed. I'm really just trying to get my feet wet so I know what I'm talking about when I go to sit down with him this winter. Despite wanting this house to be done "right", I still want to be an integral part of its production. I'm not trying to save money, as kctermite is suggesting, but rather have the want and desire to accomplish something spectacular and to be able to say, "yeah - I did that". I'm sure anyone here can relate to that.
As far as balloon framing, y'all have convinced me otherwise, so I thank you! Maybe I'll start with a popsicle stick built house.
I've saved t$e$n$s o$f t$h$o$u$s$a$n$d$s doing most of the work here myself. I always look forward to getting that magic green sticker for each phase's inspection. Had a couple setbacks, but with the help from the guys here, I got through.
Work out the design and framing with the engineer. After that when your ready to frame, get the man power you need and maybe higher a framer to work along side you and you build it together this way you can learn form him and get the house framed a little faster and you can keep it water tight.
Thanks for everyone's help. I really do appreciate it. What if I were to go with a single story home but with attic trusses over the lofts? With a 32' wide house, a loft that is 16' deep, how much usable living space could I get if i were to have it designed with a 4 ft knee wall? How steep is too steep for the trusses? Could i get enough room for a good size bedroom and bath?
I inspect a lot of balloon framed housing - though most of it is 80+ years old... and I'm at a loss as to why someone would want us undertake such construction today: it's harder to find decent quality studs long enough, it's harder to support horizontal members spanning the distances under discussion, it's harder to fire stop, it's harder to prevent thermal loops, and it's impossible to find contractors who know how to detail it properly because there is no prescriptive detailing in the codes of many of the structural and energy efficiency details, etc.
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Elizabeth Phillips has been principal of Public School 321 in Park Slope for 13 years, having started there as a teacher. Ms. Phillips has become one of the most outspoken critics among principals of how the city and the state are collecting data on student achievement and then using it to evaluate schools and teachers.
The release of the teacher data reports in February made her "absolutely sick,'' she wrote. And most recently she wrote a widely disseminated letter to John B. King Jr., the state education commissioner, asking for a review of this year's state English Language Arts exams, saying they included many more flaws than she had ever seen.
During a tour of her school, Ms. Phillips, 62, said that good teachers were the key to learning, and that her main job was to support her teachers. P.S. 321, with 1,407 children in prekindergarten through fifth grade, is a high-achieving school with an active core of parents. This interview was edited and condensed.
What impact do you think public criticism from principals and parents is going to have on future tests?
I think it's going to have an impact because it's not a workable system. We are sworn to secrecy so we can't reveal questions to the press, or the public or even to other colleagues. But kids don't have those same limitations, and you have eighth graders blogging about it. With social media, I think you're going to see more of this.
Honestly, in the 13 years I've been a principal, I've never seen such bad tests. Never. Not every part of them. There were parts that were fine, but enough of them that it truly is an outrage to think that a teacher's job would depend on them.
You were also a critic of the city releasing the teacher data reports. Why?
I went to see Chancellor Klein about this three years ago.
I said that there is absolutely no correlation in the T.D.R. scores and in what I know about the quality of teachers. It's completely fluky. When everybody thinks a teacher is outstanding and they end up in fifth percentile, there is something very wrong.
What impact does this have in how teachers see their jobs?
In all of the good schools I know of, and I've visited a lot of schools, collaboration is key. This system totally discourages collaboration. There's a disincentive for working together under this system because of the value-added system. If your colleagues do well, it's harder for you to do well.
Have you seen teachers not wanting to teach the grades where the kids are taking state exams?
Yes. Under the contract, teachers get to state their preference for what grades they want. They get to list a first, second and third choice. In this school and several others I know of, the most experienced teachers who have always taught fourth and fifth grade are not putting that down on their preference sheet.
They'll say: 'I'm really sorry. I know that you need me in fifth grade. But I can't do it. I don't want to be publicly humiliated. I don't want to lose my job. It's too much pressure. I don't want to compromise my curriculum because, am I going to do more prep work? Yes.' I have three openings for my seven fifth-grade classes, and that's because I'm keeping one teacher there who originally did not want to do it. It was very kind of her to stay.
This is a building with pretty high teacher morale in general. It's lower than I've ever seen it.
How do you define a good teacher?
I don't know a single good principal who has trouble recognizing a good teacher. You do need a system where you can get rid of incompetent teachers, but it should also be one where you can improve teachers and also recognize quality teaching. If you have principals who have been teachers themselves who have spent time in the classroom, they know.
I'll go into a first grade room. If I look in those book bins that those kids have on their table, I can see right away if the kids are well matched to their books by reading with three kids in the room. That's without looking at the teacher. But it isn't a uniform measure. That's in first grade.
In fifth grade it's going to be more about the quality of their talks about the books, more than what's in their book bins.
It's almost the end of the Bloomberg administration. How would you sum up what has taken place in New York City schools these last few years?
I was much more positive four years ago. I think that they started off with some good ideas on principal empowerment, on schools having more autonomy for their budgets -- these were all good things. Even though some people have mixed feelings about the network structures and moving away from districts, I think the idea that principals got to choose their networks and got to work with colleagues, for a lot of people that worked out really well.
But in the last few years, this new direction of blaming teachers for all the problems, of closing schools, have been so demoralizing to the system and it's not effective. I think the progress reports have not been a positive. They're not even a big deal now because we don't even take them seriously, but they are a big deal if you get an F.
Do you think the administration has been supportive of principals and teachers?
No. There's a gotcha mentality. I don't think that it necessarily started out that way. I know there's a problem in this city and in the country with a lot of kids not getting a high-quality education. But I think that separating the school problems from all the other social problems in the country -- you have poverty, you have homelessness, you have kids hungry -- that's going to have an impact on them. We can't pretend it doesn't.
I also think that having an administration run by people who aren't teachers or were never teachers, is a problem.
I also think this administration believes in just shaking things up, that it's good for people to feel disequilibrium. I think that was a very deliberate policy and I did discuss this with Joel Klein.
I think the teacher bashing has a huge impact on who's going to go into or to stay in teaching.
You were in publishing for several years and then decided to become a teacher. Why did you want to become a principal?
I love it. Even though there are times when it is overwhelming, I do feel like it plays on my strengths in some ways. I like variety, I love working with teachers. I love that I'm in a school where it's inspiring to see the work that great teachers do and I love the challenge of trying to figure out how to make that work systemic within a school. It's such a privilege.
I love being an instructional leader, and I feel like you really have to be a teacher to be a good principal. I always think of myself first as a teacher. That's what I think is missing in the current leadership.
When you don't have people who were teachers, you don't understand what it's like to be in a room with 25, 30 children who are coming in with all different things, with all different levels of development. How do you structure the classroom to meet everyone's needs and make it fun but still make it rigorous.
What do you think teachers need from you as a principal?
I think they need to be supported. Teachers are the key in any school. As a parent you know that. The principal makes a huge difference in how a school runs, but it is the daily experience in the classroom that provides a high-quality education. I feel like almost everything I do has to be geared to how I am supporting the teachers.
Do you plan on retiring anytime soon?
I'm not ready. I still over all enjoy it. I'm in a very wonderful school. I'm very fortunate. I don't have to deal with some things that some people do. But I feel like I have a commitment to be a voice for other people who don't have the freedom to speak out. I can write a letter to John King and it's not going to affect my tenure.
Do you mean because you've been around longer, or you're well respected?
I think it's a combination. I've been around longer. I am backed by the parents here. I'm well respected in the system and I think that allows me to speak out. And I have a high-performing school. They can't say, well, we're going to close 321. It's a high-performing, popular school with very active parents who are voters.
It's very interesting how principals across the state are coming together lately. The silver lining in all this is learning from people who have a different perspective or a different experience and figuring out how we can all work together. That's part of the reason I want to stay.


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This week, The New Canon gets a shot-to-the-arm of energy courtesy of the JACK Quartet's John Richards and Ari Streisfeld plus composer and Victoire bandleader Missy Mazzoli. As they prep for the tenth annual Look and Listen Festival, John, Ari and Missy talk about their respective programs for the festival's opening and closing nights, and what happens when sight and sound collide. Chat with us in the window below or via Twitter with the hashtag #q2new. Can't wait til then? Leave your questions for all three in the comments below. You can also grab a free download from Victoire's debut CD, Cathedral City, which is Q2's Album of the Week.
While I've never taken a formal visual arts class and couldn't tell you the dates of the Hudson River School period, I could tell you the pitches and instruments I hear when I look at, say, a work by Worthington Whittredge (an E-flat major French horn, in case you were curious). Like György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Amy Beach and Hélène Grimaud, I have synesthesia—an involuntary association of colors and visuals to music. Which is why I find gallery and museum concerts such as the Look and Listen Festival so fascinating. This year's series of concerts is set against the backdrop of the Chelsea Art Museum's Jean Miotte retrospective, a pitch-perfect complement to genre-defying and boundary-smashing works by the likes of Julia Wolfe, Philip Glass, Colin Jacobsen, John Hollenbeck and Missy Mazzoli and performances by equaly-cosmopolitan musicians like harpist Bridget Kibbey, Brooklyn Rider, Victoire and, of course, the JACK Quartet.
We'll hear some works today from the artists and composers featured in this year's Look and Listen lineup that exemplify the broad and unrestricted strokes of Miotte and bring his bold black-on-whites and unabashed reds and blues to sonic life. In addition to the JACK Quartet playing Caleb Burhans's Contritus (which they premiered in New York at the 2010 Look and Listen Festival), we'll also hear some of Missy Mazzoli's compositions for her all-female quintet Victoire. Rounding out the palette are performances by Brooklyn Rider and Phyllis Chen.
And of course, check out the 2011 Look and Listen lineup below, including Q2's own Nadia Sirota hosting Thursday 19's opening night bonanza, WNYC's John Schaefer leading Friday 20's show and WQXR's Terrance McKnight taking the wheel for Saturday 21's performances.


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Congress is debating whether to change the way sales taxes work for online purchases. Jodi Schneider, Bloomberg News Congress editor, discusses the bill and who would win and lose. Business owners: What's your take on online sales tax? How would this bill affect your bottom line? Your customers'? Call 212-433-9692 or post your take here.


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Gamers zap their way into new record book
By Peter Griffiths
LONDON (Reuters) - If you think you spend too much time stuck in front of a computer screen, spare a thought for bleary eyed gamer Eric Furrer.
The Canadian holds the world record for the longest game of Space Invaders after zapping aliens for 38 hours and 30 minutes during a marathon session in 1980.
Furrer, who was 12 at the time, has found a place alongside thousands of trivial superlatives in the first Guinness World Records book dedicated solely to computer games.
From the basic Atari consoles of the 1970s to the latest handheld devices from Nintendo and Sony, the compendium sheds light on an industry that has transfixed generations of teenagers.
Its editor Keith Pullin said: "The games industry is the fastest growing entertainment sector in the world."
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* In 1982, American Scott Safran achieved the highest score on the classic game Asteroids, notching up 41,336,440 points.
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People who drive to work everyday in a Japanese econo box have no right knocking a great American car, ANY car, I don't care if it's a Pinto or an Edsel, I have a challenge for you.
Don't just talk, post a photo of what you think is the ugliest, but you can't do that unless you post what you think is the most beautiful. Me personally, I like so many I don't know if I can even find a hundred that I would call "most beautiful" so it will be hard. How about staying in same decade or era?
Go to Google.com and click on images. Then put in what you think is the ugliest and look for a photo. Click on it, click on the "view actual size" at the top and then copy that URL and put it on the thread with the [img] before it and the [/img] after it and wham, there is the photo in the thread.
Do both, most ugly and most beautiful.
Personally, I have a hard time saying any car is "ugly", I am after all a "Fan of everything that moves human beings". So even the poor 74 Buick Century sedan has something to offer in my world. I could say it is more "designer challenged". But for the sake of this thread I will go ahead and say "ugly" out loud.
Here are a few I would pick.
Most beautiful 1964 Buick Riviera.
Most ugly 1964 Plymouth Valant.
How about a 2006 Chrysler Crossfire for most beautiful..
And how about BUTT UGLY, the 2006 Kia Amanti.
Don't post another time unless you can post the photos, both and good and the bad.
First of all I don't drive Japanese vehicles and second don't take things personal. People have different opions on what they like, not everybody likes the same vehicles! Who made you god in telling me or whoever else what they can and cannot post. This post is all about opinions and nothing else. If you don't like it then it is your problem.
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By Richard Clarke
Arsène Wenger believes Arsenal's success in keeping Cesc Fabregas at Emirates Stadium is a victory for football in general.
On Friday lunchtime, the Spanish midfielder ended a summer of speculation by declaring he would be staying in North London after all. A few hours later in Warsaw, his manager got his opportunity to talk on the matter ahead of the pre-season friendly against Legia.
Wenger was clearly delighted at the day's developments and suggested that, by rebuffing Barcelona, Arsenal were showing that footballing success need not be based on the cheque-book alone.
"It is important for football that players do not move away," he said. "That nobody can just come in and say 'we want him and you go'. So it is important that the policy we entered into a few years ago is productive. And I believe for the whole football world that it is massively important that Arsenal is successful and that there is not only one way have success in football - to just put a huge amount of money in.
"The situation with Cesc is like the announcement," he went on. "To make a transfer you need the agreement of the three parties and it is as simple as that. Overall we were never in a position where we wanted Fabregas to go. We feel that we have invested a lot of energy and work in creating a team of young players. We want them to stay at the Club and show that our policy works and is efficient. He is part of our plans."


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The basic constitutional question that is at the nub of most big Supreme Court issues is not so much the merits of any particular question. It is about who gets to decide — the feds, the state, the city, the corporation, the church or the individual.
Even though the opponents of same-sex marriage are complaining that the courts are overstepping their bounds, the effect of striking down all the state bans is that the choice of who is married is up to the individuals involved, as the culture — aka the marketplace of ideas — moves ahead of any government entity to accept that.


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Mexican Poet and Activist Javier Sicilia Calls for Change in U.S.-Backed Drug War with a Month-Long U.S. Peace Caravan
We were all about Mexican poet and activist Javier Sicilia several months ago. Lucky for everyone, he is on the move. Over at Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviews Sicilia about his tour of of the States–that's right, he's here, for "a month-long journey across the United States to call for an end of the U.S.-backed drug war." More:
The caravan will criss-cross some 20 states to "call for change in the bi-national policies that have inflamed a six-year Drug War, super-empowered organized crime, corrupted Mexico's vulnerable democracy, claimed lives and devastated human rights on both sides of the border." The caravan is organized by Mexican poet-turned-activist Javier Sicilia, whose 24-year-old son, Juan Francisco, was murdered by drug traffickers last year. Javier Sicilia joins us from the tour, which has stopped in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sicilia was interpreted in his interview by translator and poet Jen Hofer. A video of the conversation and the full transcript is at Democracy Now. An excerpt:
AMY GOODMAN: Javier Sicilia, welcome to Democracy Now! Why have you come to the United States to challenge the drug war here, come from your country in Mexico?
JAVIER SICILIA: [translated] Because in the war against drugs, that has been continued by administrations that have followed Nixon's, the United States plays a part in the responsibility for Calderón's drug war. It began with narcotrafficking, drug trafficking, at the beginning of said administration. We believe that drugs are not a question of national security, but rather of public health. This is a war based on idiocy, the same as the prohibition against alcohol. In addition, North American weapons, weapons—very deadly weapons, assault weapons, through the Mérida Initiative, have armed the Mexicn military, as well as organized crime in Mexico. But it seems that a large part of the United States, the government of the United States, of Barack Obama, they don't feel responsible for the situation. We are coming to say that they actually are responsible. Behind their addicts here in the United States, their weapons, are our dead. And we must construct a peace together, change this policy of war into a policy of peace, a path, a route of peace.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you feel is the most important issue the United States should take on right now? You have said that it's from the United States that the drugs have come—the guns have come over the border into Mexico and where the drug demand is. The issue of guns and the issue of the demand for drugs, Javier Sicilia?
JAVIER SICILIA: [translated] Well, I think that it's both of those things, in addition to money laundering, which has really not been addressed directly at all. So I think it's not just one thing. It's three things that go hand in hand. And in addition, this has provoked an incredible criminalization of African-American communities and also Latino communities. So it's important to take up these questions, from our perspective, together…
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Vettel extends winning streak
Sebastian Vettel won the grand prix of India today to strengthen his grip on securing a third successive world title.
Vettel led the Indian Grand Prix from lights to chequered flag to open up a 13-point lead over Fernando Alonso with three races remaining as the Ferrari star was forced to settle for second, albeit his best finish since a win in Germany in July.
Not since Jenson Button in 2009 has a driver chalked up four wins in a row, with Vettel's run to the championship finish line seemingly perfectly timed.
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Woman Faces Unexpected Medical Bills After Signing Up for Health Care
It's the kind of story that makes you think twice about Covered California.
News10 reports Aimee Grenfell purchased what she thought was a good Blue Cross plan off the Covered California site.
She got treatment for her pre-existing condition at Sutter Health.
Then, she got the bill: $7,000. Turns out Sutter Health didn't accept Blue Cross' plan sold through Covered California.
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Meet the Woman Helping to Save Us From a Global Chocolate DroughtShayna Harris
A public service announcement to chocolate lovers: The world is facing a severe cocoa shortage by the year 2020. A deficit of this magnitude threatens the future of desserts and tasty snacks everywhere. Imagine a life without M&Ms, Snickers, and Dove Bars. Bleak, right?
All kidding and product placement aside (full disclosure: I've worked for Mars Global Chocolate since graduating from MIT Sloan School of Management three years ago), this is serious business. The chocolate industry continues to grow, but today's cocoa farmers don't have access to the training and tools they need to boost productivity and meet future demand.
These are some of the poorest farmers in the world, and their crop yield, income, and quality of life are in decline. My job as the cocoa sustainability manager for Mars is to develop programs for farmers—many of whom live in remote parts of West Africa and Southeast Asia—to help them make cocoa production a sustainable source of income.
Cocoa beans are an orphan crop. Governments and agricultural companies have not invested in cocoa science, particularly compared to such cash crops as corn, wheat, and soybeans. As a result, there's been very little modernization of cocoa farming techniques. The vast majority of cocoa growers don't have a plow; at harvest time, they use a machete.
Securing cocoa's future starts with helping farmers improve their yields—and consequently, their incomes. Mars's Sustainable Cocoa Initiative, launched in 2010, gives farmers improved planting materials, fertilizers, and training, which will enable them to produce more cocoa per hectare. For instance, we are establishing networks of rural entrepreneurs who can lead cocoa plant rehabilitation in remote cocoa growing regions. Rehabilitation, which involves using a branch, or "budwood," of a new tree to restore an old one, produces more fruitful trees.
In Indonesia and West Africa, this kind of support can help farmers triple their yields. This not only boosts the global supply of cocoa, it helps farmers lift their families out of poverty. Our hope is that the children of cocoa farmers will see a future in cocoa farming.
Chocolate sustainability is not the career path of your typical MBA graduate, but I use what I learned at business school every day. Even though I work for a large corporation—Mars is the fifth-biggest private company in the U.S.—the sustainability effort is pioneering new practices all the time.
We are essentially a startup within a big company, and a lot of what we're doing has never been done before at scale. This means I have to be entrepreneurial. I helped craft a road map that ensures our cocoa sustainability investments are going to the right places. Now I lead the effort to evaluate and monitor our programs and capture insights to make us more effective.
Business school gave me the confidence to lead a diverse team—an area my Sloan professors would call "organizational behavior." I have had to learn how to navigate the company effectively, how to find advocates within the organization, and how to come up with strategies that help achieve our goals in the most efficient way possible. My job requires that I work closely with geneticists, agronomists, global policy experts, and others with highly technical skills.
Sloan's network comes in handy. I made some of my best friends at Sloan, and was taught by leading business and economics minds. Whenever I face a stumbling block at work, I draw on MIT-linked organizations ranging from Thrive Labs and Dahlberg to Evidence Action and McKinsey. My friends and colleagues from Sloan invariably help me see problems in a new light.
My work often feels like a tall order, and I know that we won't see the results in cocoa communities for a few years to come. It's the small indications that we are making a difference that keep me going. Joel Yao, a cocoa farmer & entrepreneur I met last year in Côte d'Ivoire, e-mails me about his fertilizer sales. He has a lot of customers. And Haji Hasan in Indonesia has achieved over two tons per hectare of cocoa production, effectively tripling his yield in a very short time.
These cocoa farmers help us come up with innovative approaches to farm rehabilitation, and my team is in a unique position to scale their innovations and stem the chocolate shortage.
Shayna Harris is the cocoa sustainability manager for Mars Global Chocolate. She graduated from MIT Sloan in 2011.


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MUNCIE, Ind. – The University of Akron women's tennis team extended its win streak to seven matches and improved to 2-0 against Mid-American Conference competition thanks to a 4-3 win over Ball State on Friday afternoon at the YMCA Tennis Center.
Akron gave up the doubles point with losses at the No. 2 and 3 spots in its lineup, but rallied with straight-set victories in four of the six singles flights to improve to 14-6 overall this season.
The Zips' points came at Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 6 singles. Olga Shkundina topped Courtney Earnest 6-3, 6-3 at No. 2, Prang Pantusart bested Ayaka Terashi 6-0, 6-2 at No. 3, Ksenia Berestetska got Bethany Moore 6-3, 6-3 at No. 5, and Madison Cohen took care of Ashlyn Rang 6-2, 7-6 (4) at No. 6.
The Zips' lone win on the doubles courts came by a score of 8-2 from Angelina Jogasuria and Prang Pantuart over Earnest and Courtney Wild. Jogasuria and Pantusart are ranked 65th nationally and improved to 12-0 this season.
Akron continues league play and concludes a four-match Spring Break road trip on Saturday at Miami (Ohio) at 1 p.m. ET. The contest serves as a rematch of last season's MAC tournament championship, which UA won 4-3 to gain the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.
Zips Notebook: In addition to its seven-match win streak, Akron has won 13 of its last 14 contests ... the Zips are 5-2 in true road matches this season ... today marked the sixth time this year UA has won by a count of 4-3 ... the squad's No. 1 doubles team of Pantusart and Jogasuria played together for the first time since March 7 versus Youngstown State ... Olga Shkundina ran her singles win streak to seven matches ... Ksenia Berestetska has won five straight and 12 of her last 13 singles competitions ... the Zips have defeated the Cardinals in five-straight meetings and improved their all-time record versus that program to 7-17 ... UA had lost 16-consecutive contests to BSU prior to a 4-3 win on April 3, 2009 in Muncie, Ind.
Akron 4, Ball State 3
1. (65) Angelina Jogasuria/Prang Pantusart (Akron) def. Courtney Wild/Courtney Earnest (BSU) 8-2
2. Bethany Moore/Kristel Sanders (BSU) def. Olga Shkundina/Madison Cohen (Akron) 8-4
3. Paola Rodriguez/Lauren Pickrel (BSU) def. Angelika Jogasuria/Ksenia Berestetska (Akron) 8-5
1. Courtney Wild (BSU) def. Angelina Jogasuria (AKRON) 6-4, 6-1
2. Olga Shkundina (Akron) def. Courtney Earnest (BSU) 6-3, 6-3
3. Prang Pantusart (Akron) def. Ayaka Terashi (BSU) 6-0, 6-2
4. Kristel Sanders (BSU) def. Angelika Jogasuria (AKRON) 7-5, 6-1
5. Ksenia Berestetska (Akron) def. Bethany Moore (BSU) 6-3, 6-3
6. Madison Cohen (Akron) def. Ashlyn Rang (BSU) 6-2, 7-6 (4)
Team records:
Akron – 14-6, 2-0 MAC
Ball State – 10-8, 1-1 MAC
Women's Tennis Slides By Ball State 4-3, Improves to 2-0 in MAC Standings
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I used to be in Girl Scouts, all the way from Brownies to Juniors when I finally didn't have enough time for it anymore. But while I was in Girl Scouts I had a lot of great fun with my friends, we were rambunctious and not very good Girl Scouts. The girls I tended to hang out with in the troop watched R rated movies and knew far too much about sex, drugs, and alcohol. I thought they were great.
When I was in Juniors, about 11 years old, we all went on this camping trip.
Well, we get to this campsite and it's surrounded by woods, and going down from the site is this one HUGE hill. Like this is a long, long hill and we felt almost like we were camping on a small mountain! And one of the girls that I was going to be in a little cabin with, her name was Donna, goes, "Wow, this looks like that scene from 'Jason Goes to Hell' where he's chasing those people right before he kills them!!" well, I'd never seen the movie because I hate scary movies, but I hardly found that reassuring as I was already a little freaked out that the top half of our "cabins" were just heavy tarp that could blow in the wind (which was more nature like I suppose... but you really had to hope it didn't rain!). Still, for the most part we just laughed her off and told her to stop being dumb, but I couldn't help but feel a little nervous after that observation (can you see why I don't watch scary movies? Just someone saying something like that freaks me out!)
Well it was a fun filled day, with Donna constantly going "wouldn't it be freaky if this is where Jason DID chase those kids???" and lots of other stuff. For the most part we just tried to ignore her.
at the end of the day we went to our cabins, pretty exhausted but also very excited to be out without any parents! And especially without an actual leader in our cabin with us. I was with Donna, Anetra and Amy... the three girls considered to be the most intimidating in my elementary school - Donna was a BIG girl and she was not scared of anyone. I swear this girl could've kicked any of the 6th grade guy's ass!! so we were having fun and doing our usual giggle and talk when Anetra's all like, "I have to go to the bathroom"
Donna: "you're gonna go out there ALONE??"
Anetra: "yeah, unless you're gonna come with me"
Donna: "But what if this IS where Jason is?"
Amy: "Oh come on Donna... then we just won't see Anetra again"
Me: "I think I have to go too."
Donna: "well why don't you guys go together?"
Me: "Why don't you and Amy come with us?"
Amy: "yeah I kinda have to go"
Donna: "well you're not leaving me here alone!!"
So the four of us creep out the door to the latrines, being quiet so as not to disturb our leaders or anything. giggling of course, and being on our best watch for Jason - esp when Donna started describing how the movie looked JUST like this and pointed out the spot on the hill where he would've been chasing them in the dark. It was very nerve-wracking in the dark, but in a deliciously exciting scary way, the kind of thrill that most people probably get from watching horror movies. we get to the latrines with no problem, and everyone does their thing.
we turn around giggle giggle
Amy: "See? No Jason. you guys are such pussies"
Deep rough voice: "What are you girls doing out here?"
we whirl around to see a figure in the darkness... thin... tall... buzzcut...
Donna: "IT'S JASON!!"
we run back to the minimal safety of our half cabin and sit there panting scared out of our minds. trying to stop our breathing enough to listen for footsteps, sure that at any moment we're all going to be dead, our brains spilled onto the floor by a hockey stick. the door opens and there stands the shadowy figure, something clutched in its hand, tall and imposing, with short spiky hair looking like devil horns against the moonlight sky while tree branches whipped in the wind behind it. Surely, we were doomed.
The figure flips on its flashlight.
We'd forgotten that our Girl Scout leader had a very short spiky haircut, and that she could look deceptively male at times. She wasn't exactly thrilled with our behavior, but as we babbled frantically about how we'd thought she was Jason (trying to shift the blame onto Donna), I think she felt a little more sympathetic. Part of that was probably because she was having trouble trying to figure out what we were saying since we were all talking on top of each other.
For her part she had just been really worried when we'd screamed and run like that, and so was just happy to find us all safe and ok.
After she left we almost killed Donna.
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The Kiribati National Tourism Action Plan 2009-2014 is the key planning tool by the Government of Kiribati in the development of tourism in the Republic. The Action Plan was launched by the Hon. Temate Ereateiti, Minister for Communications, Transport and Tourism Development on 19th November 2009.
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Submitted to: Proceedings of the Symposium on Watershed Management
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/15/2007
Publication Date: 3/10/2007
Citation: Guber, A.K., Pachepsky, Y.A., Sadeghi, A.M. 2007. Evaluating uncertainty in E. coli retention in vegetated buffer strips in locations selected with SWAT simulations. Proceedings of the Symposium on Watershed Management, March 10-14, 2007, San Antonio, Texas. pp.286-293. ASABE Publication 701P0207. Interpretive Summary: Vegetated buffer strips (VFS) separate fields and pastures from streams and other water bodies and can serve as barriers that prevent sediment and agricultural chemicals from entering waterways and polluting them. Growing concern about manure-borne pathogens as water pollutants defines the need to evaluate the efficiency of VFSs with respect to pathogens. The functioning of VSF as barriers for manure-borne pathogens is to a large extent dependant on vegetation status, soil infiltration capacity, and rainfall intensity and duration. These factors cannot be defined accurately and time-independently for a particular VFS. Only probability distributions can be inferred for those factors. This creates an unavoidable uncertainty that cannot be ignored and has to be factored into efficiency estimates. We have developed the model STIR to simulate the overland transport and loss to infiltration of manure-borne pathogens in VFS. This model was used in Monte Carlo simulations in which the input parameters of vegetation, soil, rainfall, and pathogen load were drawn from probability distribution functions. The result of such simulations was also the probability distribution of the VFS efficiency. For the example of our experimental 6-m long VFS at the 20% slope, The VFS efficiency was less than 100% in 5% of cases, and less than 75% in 2.5% of cases. Relatively long high-intensity rainfalls, low hydraulic conductivities, high soil moisture contents before the rainfall, and high spread of surface water velocities were the main sources of the VFS partial failure. Analogous simulations can be done for any other VFS with site-specific soil and weather properties, and the results in terms of efficiency probabilities can be useful in making decisions on VFS placement with respect to manure-borne pathogens
Technical Abstract: Vegetated fulter strips (VFS), as a best management practice, have become an important component of the water quality improvement in watersheds. The SWAT model allows for a comprehensive description of agricultural practices, and has proven to be efficient in applications to watershed with a substantial agricultural component. The REMM, KINEROS, and other models have recently been suggested to use SWAT output to evaluate the VFS retention capacity with respect to nutrient and sediment loads. The concern about the manure-borne pathogens in waterways and water bodies has to be addressed in more details by estimating the efficiency of VFS in pathogen retention. The existing knowledge base shows that the functioning of VSF as barriers for manure-borne pathogens to the large extent depends on vegetation status, soil infiltration capacity in VFS, and rainfall intensity and duration. The effect of these factors on the pathogen breakthrough in VFS needs to be researched at the time scales smaller than the computation interval of one day that SWAT uses. The downscaling of the SWAT output to the smaller time scales, however, introduces an uncertainty. We have developed the model STIR to simulate the overland transport and loss to infiltration of manure-borne pathogens in VFS. This model was used in Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate the possible variability in pathogen breakthrough in VFS with inputs from SWAT. The simulations show that probabilistic characterization of the VFS efficiency with site-specific soil and weather properties can be useful in making decisions on VFS placement with respect to manure-borne pathogens.


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The Youest You
Dear Sibyl,
I'm pretty good at a number of things, but I don't have a special skill, talent, or hobby that I can really call my own. When it comes to my education and career path, I've managed to achieve many of the traditional markers of success. However, I'm fairly confident that's because I've chosen to stick within the boundaries of what comes easily to me, essentially avoiding failure by not challenging myself. It's also possible I'm adept at pretending that I'm better than I really am or know more than I really do.
Maybe I'm truly lazy and don't work hard enough to consider myself accomplished or skilled. Maybe I'm particularly attuned to the fact that there will always be people better than me. Maybe I'm just not cut out to excel at anything.
I'm not even sure why it matters to me. I don't want to walk around with a medal or read about myself in the paper. Am I so insecure that I'm seeking outside validation to make me feel good about myself —like my inner ten year old who wants to get picked first for the team at recess? I think having some sort of special talent would feel like a worry stone I could keep in my pocket and touch when I needed a little pick me up. Maybe what I really need is a worry stone.
Just ok
Dear Just Ok,
It sounds like what you are searching for is greater meaning in your life—some kind of driving narrative about what you are meant to be doing and how you should shape your life.
Some call that a calling.
Recently, I read a book to my daughter (every day, several times a day, for two weeks) called Ella Takes The Stage. Are you familiar with it? In this children's story, Ella the Elegant Elephant is asked to participate in her school talent show. She gets really nervous when she looks up "talent" in the dictionary, and it says, "a special natural ability."
She tries out several (singing, juggling, etc.) but eventually she just ends up supporting everyone else—mending a ripped pair of tights on a dancer, baking cupcakes for all the performers, saving the day by getting the monkey to jump into her hat for the grand finale. Everyone claps for Ella, who does not win any medals but is appreciated as being the "wind beneath the wings" of all the people who did acts.
The message is: maybe you don't have special talent, or it could be that your special talent is supporting those who are actually talented! To which I was like, "Oh great, teach my daughter to be a shadow artist who caretakes those with 'real talent'. Awesome." Don't get me wrong. I want to champion all kinds of expression, even those who are more "behind the scenes." But a total support person is not a fulfilling or sustainable role. So, don't buy into any of that "maybe you're just a worker bee" bullshit.
Here's how I would have ended Ella the Elegant Elephant. Ella loves to sing, but is shamed out of it by people who think she's not good enough. In my version, Ella would find a song she feels highlights her unique voice, even though it may sound really odd, maybe writing it herself to make sure it works. Then she'd perform it at the Talent Show, and some people would get it, and some would cover their ears. Ella wouldn't win the top medal in the show, but she would start down a path as an experimental musician that was highly fulfilling even as she enjoyed supporting her fellow artists by baking cupcakes and painting posters.
Shit, now I want a cupcake. Anyway, enough elephants, more you. It is excellent that you are thinking about this—don't shame yourself out of it. It means that you are taking yourself, and your life, seriously. You are craving meaning and purpose, not just empty praise. You want to find something you're incredibly good at, not necessarily to be successful, but because it feels amazing to excel at something.
It sounds like you have gone down the "usual" pathways for finding that special something you are wonderful at doing, and have come up empty. So here's where we flip it on its head: perhaps you're not going to find that thing in education/work right now. Also, your idea of talent needs a re-vamp. Maybe what you are amazing at is being you. You need to find the medium to express your "you-ness", and follow that, even if you are not perfect/successful/praised at it. I promise you, this will scratch the itch that you have to be "great". You will get so much out of the process that your whole goal of life will shift.
The inimitable Martha Graham once said, "There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost." So, I'm going to ask you, Just Ok, to go off the beaten path if you have to, to find that way to express your uniqueness. Don't let it be lost in the effort to obtain society's hallmarks of success (degrees you spend a lifetime paying for, houses that depreciate in value, climbing a job ladder you realize you want to jump off). That stuff doesn't last, and you're right, it's not worth caring about. But finding out what you are truly passionate about, and what you can do well and feel good doing, is worth pretty much all of your effort.
So here's what I want you to do. Make a stream-of-consciousness list of things you'd like to try, even if it turns out you're not the pillar of perfection at them. Then choose one to do this week. Laugh at how terrible you are at first, but see if you get the hang of it. What did you love to do as a child, before the idea of "success" entered your consciousness? Were you shamed out of it and into a smaller support role, like Ella the EE, or have you just never thought about what the adult equivalent of being a master at Light Bright is (I think it's coding, or furniture design)?
The roof is about to be blown off of this "just okay" life you've built for yourself. It is going to be surprising and strange, and you may never gain the kind of external achievement that our culture so cherishes. But you will know where your strength lies, and that is something that no one can take away from you, and which you'll need for the inevitable ups and downs of life.
It's time for you to be your own worry stone.
P.S. I don't want to influence you too much on this search, but might I point out that your quandary letter was exceptionally well-written? From one writer to another… whatever you do next, you should write about it.