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eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 09:21
Apologies if this has been covered, but I didn't find it anywhere. With eBay's new announcement at being able to list multiple styles/colors/sizes, etc. in a single listing, I was wondering if/how we could do this through CA?
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eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
eBay has not launched the functionality that does that and just announced it publicly for the first time yesterday. For those not familiar with all of the stuff they announced, I suggest you read these links:
and for more details on the variation listings:
We have been in discussions with them about this functionality since last June, but they've just gotten to the point that they publicly announced it and we can talk about it. We're in the middle of doing work now to support it and plan to have support available as eBay makes it live and available to users.
Please keep in mind that the initial availability of the functionality in mid to late June is ONLY going to support the Men's and Women's Shoes categories in the US, UK, and a few other countries and then expand to other Clothing categories and a limited number of Home and Garden categories in mid to late July:
We're going to make every effort to make it easy and seamless for you to submit that information as eBay opens the categories for variations. As we've done with Amazon M@ listings, we can take the information you've already configured to define the parent/child relationship in inventory and use that to properly identify the variations to submit in a listing. Rather than making you configure a lot of additional information specifically for the eBay listing, we can use the information you've already configured for the parent/child inventory information and the item specifics to define everything necessary to get the items live at eBay. That way you won't have to do anything extra and will immediately get the benefit as any categories you use are opened for variation listings.
If you have any questions or thoughts on what you'd like to see, please let us know. We're in design and development cycles on the feature right now, so we can incorporate any feedback for initial or subsequent versions of the development.
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Thank you for all the info, Marshall.
Thanks much, and keep us posted on the progress!
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
The ultimate goal is that you don't have to do anything in addition to what you do today, so the configuration of item specifics would be the same and there would be nothing new or additional that would need to be configured. We're still digging into the design and implementation, but that's the goal we've set out as a starting point for everything that we're doing.
For people in other categories outside Clothing and Home and Garden, while you might see your category enabled later in 2009, I'm thinking that we won't see wider support of the functionality until 2010 so that some time can be spent to refine and improve it in the Clothing and Home and Garden categories before exposing it everywhere.
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Do you have any more info on how this will work on the eBay end? At the moment, for example with shoes, you would submit a size as an item specific. But if that listing is for shoes size 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 then how does eBay know what to return in BM? ie You can only submit 1 size as an item specific.
Do you put all those sizes in the item title too?
Just curious as to how it will work.
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
What they're going to do is consider all of those to be a single eBay listing. The Best Match algorithm will hit on all of those item specific values because each of the children will have their size, so all of them are considered to be valid as part of the listing. The title will not show the sizes, but filtering by the values in the left navigation will find the items as long as that size is one of the children in your listing.
You can see the example here in search results how they're showing all of the variations that are available within the listing:
From their information there's also this:
[quote][b]How do multi-variation listings work with Best Match?[/b]
In a multi-variation Fixed Price listing, each variation has its own Best Match score. Which score is used depends on how the buyer searches. The position of the listing in search is based on the highest Best Match score of the variations that match the buyer's search. [/quote]
Ultimately, there will likely be several iterations on this process as eBay gets more experience with real world usage and enhances the system, but there are a lot of common questions answered on that main description page that announced the feature. One of the nicer things is that there's just a single listing fee for the listing instead of one for each of the children, so people that can take advantage of it should see a nice reduction in their listing fees.
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
but what if the item specifics don't accommodate the size type of the product? for example, some of our men's costume shoes come in small, medium, large, etc. or 7/8, 9/10, 11/12. when i try to put those values in custom item specifics, i get posting errors. although these items are currently in parent-child relationship within CA for posting onto amazon and our website, but if ebay maps variations based on item specifics then those styles won't be able to vary by size on ebay?
eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
If you get posting errors, those are the "old" item specifics styles. The Custom Item Specifics will allow any value you want to submit. eBay is going to be converting the fields from the old style to the new style before the launch of variations, so you'll be able to submit anything you want for those values.
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I wanted to make everyone aware that we have published information in the How To section on how to prepare your CA account for listing using eBay variation-style listings. The article is found here: http://ssc.ChannelAdvisor.com/howto/supporting-variation-style-listings-ebay
Note on June 15 this is for Shoes category only.
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We've just added additional detailed information here:
We're monitoring with eBay on the initial launch for Shoes. If you've expressed interest in being part of the initial beta test launch for the shoes category, you should have received an email earlier today with more information.
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We've just contacted our ebay account rep. it looks like the multi variation listings are available for more than shoes category. What is ETA on implementing this with ChannelAdvisor? Thank you.
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Send in a request and ask to be enabled and we can enable your account to list in variations. There are some minor limitations we're working on right now that we want to address before declaring it ready for everyone, but it's fully functional and available today. Just be aware of the known limitations that are listed here:
We're planning to have the key one listed there (adding quantity after selling out of a specific child) in the August release, along with some other variations processing improvements to enhance the functionality based on initial feedback and live seller experience. We've already got a number of people that are listing variation items both in the shoe categories and outside of the shoes in the newest enabled categories.
For reference, the enabled categories are also listed on that SSC page. Currently it is everything in Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories and limited categories in Home and Garden in both the US and UK. There are also enabled categories in Ireland and Germany for sellers in those countries.
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OK, we are keen to do this... But on reading the... 'Things might go a bit wrong' part of the instructions plus the limitations, we are a bit scared.
If it passes all the criteria, it is going to get stuck on ebay as variation... like it or not. So in order to limit testing with either have to de-select items from variations or ensure that similar items posting templates are different?
Is this correct
I had assumed in my naievety that there would have been either a schedule or posting template with a check box or the like to say 'post as variation' to prevent Mass Varaition Conversion syndrome (you will not find this in medical dictionary).
Is my reading of this situation correct, or is there something simple I can do to only post items that I want to post as variations, bearing in mind approx 66% od our items are in varaition relationships?
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
If they're on a different posting template from the other children or are not on a schedule they will not be automatically picked up and submitted as a variation relationship. You could remove the schedule from the other children and they won't be automatically picked up since the processing logic won't see the other children as items that should be submitted to eBay.
Personally, my thought on it is to turn it on for your account for a day or two and see what the results look like. If you don't like it or need to make some changes or just want to watch those process for a while, then turn it off and watch the transactions that process forward from there. As to the last major issue about adding sold out children back to the parent listing if there is still available quantity in inventory, that should be available in the August release. In the meantime, you can generally avoid that by submitting a larger quantity in the listings so it is unlikely for any child to sell out. The instructions were written with the first release that we did in the June timeframe, and additional feedback from that and improvements in the July release have done a lot to improve processing, but you have to realize that this is a completely new system to eBay, us, you, and the buyers. We can't be completely confident that eBay's search results will find your items properly or that the buyers will understand how to purchase them. Our experience over the last 40 days looks positive, so I would recommend trying it out with your information. If you really wanted to be on the conservative side of things, you could enable variations, use "Post Now" on a few items (you only need to pick one child from each variation parent/child group) and then turn off variations on your account.
Our current decision to place it at the account level was to make it very easy for you to turn the functionality on and off, ultimately expecting that sellers would either want to support it or not at an account level and not configure each item and/or posting template individually. Aside from this initial conversion process and the launch of the functionality, that still seems to be the general perspective that I hear from customers and is the same way that data is processed when sent to your store or to Amazon.
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Thanks Marshall, I was making sure I hadn't missed the easy option. Reading around this topic there seems a lot that can go wrong so we wanted to limit testing, If it goes OK then yes chuck it all on as variation until then....
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I decided not to try the beta version of this because CA's compatibility with eBay's variation relationship listings still had some issues. Just wondering if those issues have been resolved yet. Primarily:
1. When listing a quantity of 1 for each size within a parent and the child listing is sold or otherwise ended, when that child SKU relists, it will cause an entirely new listing with a new set of available child SKUs. Has CA been able to adjust this to make a new listing add to the existing parent set?
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1. Rather than create a duplicate listing, it will now result in an error message. This was a change in the 11 July release.
Both of these will be addressed in the 15 August release. I just finished some of the work on them last Friday and have been testing the functionality today.
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
So in the first scenario, if I have a shoe SKU with sizes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 listed under the same parent listing with a quantity of 1 each, and size 8 sells, if the size 8 tries to relist I will get an error message? So how would I relist the size 8 with the rest of the other sizes that are already up? or do I have to wait until each size is sold before I can relist the child SKUs under that parent again?
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Marshall, is it posible to create our own variations? We sell belts and sizes go from Small to XLarge, but ebay only has sizes 29-30, 30-31, etc.
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Under the current implementation, you would need to wait until the original listing concludes because time runs out or all of the children sell out. If it attempts to post via the schedule or Post Now, you will get an error that its siblings are already open and it was prevented from creating a second variation listing. You can avoid that by posting with multiple quantity in the original listing so an individual child is unlikely to sell out in the meantime.
After the 15 August code update, the child will be added back to the existing open listing automatically. It's a more complex procedure to add them into existing listings, so we wanted to make sure we took the time and have it working properly before putting it out there.
You may use any of the item specifics fields on the posting template for that category to create a variation. We do not support the ability for you to define completely abstract values that aren't already in the recommended list of item specifics defined by eBay. Because of how these are used in the search engine, it is to your greatest advantage to use as much of the defined information from eBay as possible as that is what they use in the search engine for buyers to filter and find their items. If you're looking for some special action that you have to take to enable your listing to be in variations, there isn't any -- we'll automatically take your information and put it together with the proper elements in a variation style listing when submitting it to eBay. All you have to do is select the checkbox on the Marketplace Account Settings page next to your eBay information to tell us that you want to process in variations for your items. If you don't see the checkbox and would like to submit items in variations, just submit a support ticket to get that enabled for your account. We're currently limiting the number of people that are using it to get feedback on the implementation but are planning to open it up to everyone with the 15 August release.
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Marshall, we have already enabled the multi variation listings in our account. The problem that we are having is:
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Since eBay is not allowing any value into that field, I would suggest selecting the closest applicable value for each of your items. It's unfortunate, as they really should release the grip on some of these value lists and let users submit those values that are appropriate for their items. For belts, it should really just be 28, 30, 32, 34, etc. As it is now, I would select "29-30" for the 28-30 and "31-32" for the 30-32 that you have -- I'd be having the upper length measurement match, because they'll still fit people. If you go with the lower measurement, you could get someone that's a size 30 buying a 29 that isn't quite going to fit well.
If you have a contact at eBay, you could also file a complaint with them to see if they can get the values or the restriction limitations changed. I filed some complaints about the values in Men's Shoes when we first started and while they didn't change it the way I wanted, they at least did get some changes to the value list that solved many of the user problems I was seeing.
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Thanks for the updates Marshall. Tim mentioned that he's using this feature with belts. Has eBay opened up variation listings to the entire apparel category?
RE: eBay and multiple sizes/colors in same listing
Yes. They opened to all Clothing, Shoes and Accessories and most of the Home & Garden categories in mid-July. We've had full support for those categories since then.


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ANSWER: You might not like the answer that the Word of God gives you, but yes, the Bible does have something to say about both tattoos and body piercing. We can find our answer in Leviticus 19. Although this chapter is addressed to the whole house of Israel, it applies to ALL people, especially the modern descendants of the ancient Israelites who comprise the bulk of the populations of the United States, Canada, and Australia.
The first thing we need to understand is that since God is Holy, clean and pure he wants his people to be the same. As previously stated, the Old Testament book of Leviticus, written under the inspiration of God, discusses the issue of tattoos. The New Testament, however, is silent on this practice.
27 Do not . . . tattoo yourselves or cut gashes in your body to mourn for the dead (Leviticus 19:28)
The Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary states the above restriction in Leviticus 19 concerns other marks placed on the body as well. This reference states the practice was performed many times through the imprinting of leaves, flowers and so on. According to the JFB, the prohibition in Leviticus is likely due to human nature's desire to have such marks to honor an idol.
Ancient people, who worshipped false gods, used this practice for religious purposes. God says he is a jealous God in Exodus 20:5. We are not to practice the way of the heathen when we worship Him.
19. And it shall be if you do at all forget the LORD your God and walk after other gods serving them and worshiping them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish - yes, perish (Deuteronomy 8:19).
Just like tattoos, body piercing is in or alluded to in a few places in holy writ. Sometimes it is referred to as ear piercing. For example, the ear was pierced of a bought servant was performed to bear witness that the servant had chosen to serve, until death, his master (see Exodus 21 and Deuteronomy 15). This act was a testament of the servant's pledge of loyalty. Otherwise, the law stipulated that the servant won their freedom at the end of seven years of service if he wished, with pay. If he went free, he would have to leave his wife and children in servitude until he redeemed them. However, if he chose to stay with his family and with his master, he must have his ear pierced to identify him as unredeemable.
When God made a covenant with Israel, he considered it like entering into a marriage covenant. As a gift to her (Israel), he said the following.
10. I also clothed you with embroidered work, and I shod you with leather sandals. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you with silk. 11. And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands and a chain on your neck. 12. And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears . . . (Ezekiel 16:10 - 12, HBFV)
In conclusion, God's word does not prohibit wearing earrings or body piercing. The Bible is clear, however, that the practice of putting tattoos on one's body is not the Eternal's perfect will for his people. Thank you for your question regarding what Scripture says about this subject.


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Green River receives approval for 7-year reaccreditation
Green River has been reaccredited.
After a four-month process of comprehensive evaluation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), Green River College learned Wednesday that its bid for reaccreditation was approved. The notification affirms the college's high educational standards and its ability to meet the commission's qualifications for student success.
"Green River faculty and staff work hard every day to create an excellent school," Green River President Dr. Eileen Ely said. "I am proud of the work we do to ensure student success. It is through the comprehensive educational programs and support services that we can be so responsive to the diverse communities we serve."
The highpoint of the accreditation process was a three day on-site evaluation conducted by an eight member team of faculty and administrators from regional colleges. Team members met with students, staff, faculty, administrators and members of the board of trustees to evaluate the college's ability to meet standards in education, student support, finances and infrastructure - as well as reviewed documented evidence to support the report submitted by the college.
The commission commended Green River for its dedication to student success and passion for teaching and learning. They also commended the college for the condition of the main campus facilities and campus, and the "comprehensive way Green River has created secure, healthful learning and working environments to support the institution's mission, programs and services."
The NWCCU's final report contained five recommendations for improvement, identified by the accreditation team following its April visit. Specifically, the commission recommended:
- Ensure the college aligns its mission and core themes
- Clarify and operationalize the college's system of governance
- Implement regular review of institutional policies by the Board of Trustees
- Undergo an external financial audit
- Initiate an effective and comprehensive assessment system that demonstrates evidence of continuous improvement in curriculum development and demonstrates student learning
Green River was first granted accreditation from the NWCCU in 1967. The positive status allows the college to receive federal financial aid for students. The commission is an independent non-profit organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. It assesses colleges and universities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington to ensure the quality of education and institutional improvement.


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Romans will have their soccer appetite whet for the May 27 Champions League final—a match that will pit Manchester United against Barcelona—by Clericus Cup, a soccer tournament between the different groups of seminarians in Rome.
The SIR news agency reported that on Saturday, May 23, at 11 a.m. local time, the North American Martyrs will face off against the Neocatechumenals of the Redemptoris Mater seminary in the final match, organized by the Centro Sportivo Italiano.
This will be the third trip to the finals for the Neocatechumenals, led by Simone Biondi, associate pastor of Holy Mary Queen of the Martyrs in Rome, after they won in 2007 and lost in 2008 against the Mater Ecclesiae team.
On the other hand, the seminarians of the North American Martyrs, led the Australian Gannon "Ball" Jones, will have their chance for revenge, since they lost to Redemptoris Mater in the first annual Clericus Cup. The came in fourth place last year after Ucro, a team made up of Ukrainian and Croat priests and seminarians.


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Taking out a mortgage for a new, unlined face may become commonplace with the introduction of an innovative cosmetic surgery treatment to Australia. Isolagen, a technology in which the patient's own collagen-producing cells are harvested and injected back into the face, promises to be the next big thing in the relentless pursuit of beauty. But it comes at a price.
A treatment costs $5000 to $6000 - enough to raise the eyebrows of even the most frozen-faced Botox junkie. Approved last month by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Isolagen comes closer than Botox to promising patients eternal youth.
Already dubbed "grow-your-own facelift", it blurs the boundary between science and science fiction, borrowing techniques used in stem cell research to provide patients with a long-lasting supply of their own collagen-producing fibroblast cells.
The cells of only three patients are stored in the liquid nitrogen container of Isolagen's Asia Pacific laboratory in Sydney's Lane Cove, but marketing manager Brian Marshall is confident the trickle of interest would turn into a steady stream. He says the procedure would render treatments such as Botox obsolete.
"It's not like Botox, where your muscles are temporarily paralysed," he says. "It's more like a process of turning back time."
Mr Marshall says 300 cosmetic and plastic surgeons from Australia and New Zealand are offering Isolagen, and would be trained in injecting procedures next month. He says the advantage of Isolagen is that it involves patients being injected with their own cells, rather than a foreign body such as bovine-sourced collagen."The body accepts the cells and nourishes them, so there is no problem with rejection," he says.
He dismisses concerns raised in Britain, where Isolagen has been offered since the beginning of the year, that cells could mutate and turn cancerous over time, saying fibroblast cells were known to be stable. "They are the ideal cells to cultivate because they don't turn into anything else," he says.
However, there are still unanswered questions about Isolagen. It has not been scientifically established how long a treatment lasts, although the effects are thought to last at least eight years. The effect of repeated treatments has also not been determined.
The first patients to have Isolagen were treated in 1995 in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration then banned it, pending the development of new regulations for cell technologies. The FDA is expected to approve Isolagen next year.
Mr Marshall says Isolagen is not likely to appeal to patients wanting a cheap, quick fix for wrinkles. But he says it is becoming increasingly common for patients to be offered financing for expensive procedures such as facelifts. In other words, people could take out a mortgage for a younger face.
Cosmetic Physicians Society of NSW president Sharron Phillipson says it remains to be seen if patients would pay the hefty price.
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Chris Klein's "Mamma Mia!" Audition Fail
I've long considered Chris Klein to be one of the biggest asshats in Hollywood, whose talent peaked with his role in "American Pie" and has been in a steady freefall to "who the f**k is he?" territory ever since. This leaked video, of Klein auditioning for a role in "Mamma Mia!" (the movie), confirms all of my previous opinions on him and then some. First of all, Chris Klein endorsing anyone — including Mandy Moore, who has more of a career than he does — is laughable. Second, homie can't sing. Third, what is with the bug eyes? After this tape makes the rounds, I betcha "Mamma Mia!" won't be the only movie that passes him up. [BuzzFeed]


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Announcing CRU video channels on YouTube/yoku for IBM Storwize V3700
Customer Replaceable Unit (CRU) video channels are now available on YouTube and yoku. You'll find a number of removal and replacement videos to make the tasks easier and more understandable.
YouTube channel URL: http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMSystemV3700
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Understanding of Disability Trends Provides Insights for Effective Interventions
Disability rates among older Americans—the numbers of people unable to carry out, to specified levels, essential activities of daily living—have declined in recent decades, suggesting an improvement in health and function. Activities of daily living assessed in these studies generally include eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, and transferring from a lying down to a sitting or standing position. Researchers sometimes also examine "instrumental activities of daily living" like shopping or using the telephone.
The disability decline has been demonstrated in a number of studies, including the most recent U.S. National Long-Term Care Survey. This analysis revealed that the prevalence of chronic disability has dropped significantly from 1982 to the present. The continuing decline in disability among older people is one of the most encouraging and important trends in the aging of the American population. However, this trend may be threatened by rising rates of obesity and sedentary lifestyles in children and younger adults—both risk factors for late life disability.
Continued research on the causes of disability will inform the development and implementation of effective medical and behavioral interventions as well as public health programs to promote their use. For example, the Department of Health and Human Services uses health and disability trend information to create programs such as HealthierUS, a national effort to improve people's lives, prevent and reduce the costs of disease, and promote community health and wellness through physical activity, healthy diet, preventive screening, and cessation of high health risk behaviors such as cigarette smoking.


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20 years in business
Headquarters120 NE Frontage Rd
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Business Started: 10/01/1996
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Service AreaColorado and Wyoming, BERTHOUD, CO, ESTES PARK, CO, FIRESTONE, CO, FREDERICK, CO, GARDEN CITY, CO, GREELEY, CO, LONGMONT, CO, NIWOT, CO, WELLINGTON, CO
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In 2008 the Mr and I visited Boston for the first time. One of our favorite discoveries was the lobster roll. Does anyone have a favorite place for a lobster roll? There is no such thing in Texas and our craving has gone unquenched for too long!
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 11/7/2014 (1110 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A nine-month-old puppy had its throat slit open with its trachea exposed and a three-month-old puppy was trying to survive with a broken leg.
Both dogs, now in the care of D'Arcy's A.R.C. (Animal Rescue Centre), were found in the RM of Hanover. The RCMP in St. Pierre-Jolys are investigating the two cases as possible animal abuse.
'We see these things and we're always saddened that things like this happen. Animal abuse seems to be a never-ending battle'-- D'Arcy Johnston, chief executive officer of D'Arcy's A.R.C.
"We see these things, and we're always saddened that things like this happen. Animal abuse seems to be a never-ending battle," said D'Arcy Johnston, chief executive officer of D'Arcy's A.R.C.
The dog with the gaping wound in its throat is a female Labrador puppy his group named Lemon Lime. She was found roaming near Grunthal and exhibited obvious signs of neglect, including a clean cut across her throat exposing her trachea, and she had more than 200 engorged wood ticks on her thin body.
Lemon Lime was taken to an animal hospital and examined by a veterinarian, but it has not been confirmed the cut along the neck was malicious or abusive in nature.
"When we got her, she wagged her tail at us. This is a dog who has had a home," Johnston said.
Three weeks ago, a three-month-old male terrier cross named Boo Boo was found roaming in an area near the community of Mitchell suffering from a broken hind leg. He was brought to D'Arcy's A.R.C. for care but it is not known how or when the injury occurred.
"He just had his cast changed today, and he's doing well," Johnston said.
He said it is not known what caused Lemon Lime's throat wound but they know what didn't: a collar grown in, a chain, an animal attack or barbed wire.
"This looks different," Johnston said. "This one is three inches across the throat and it's super-straight and very clean and the trachea is exposed. It's a matter of a quarter of an inch and the dog would have been dead."
He said the wound must remain uncovered for the early stages of healing and is being treated with hydrotherapy and antibiotics.
Both dogs will remain at the shelter until their wounds have healed, which is expected to take at least two months. Donations to assist with the ongoing care of the puppies are welcomed and can be made by going to darcysarc.ca.
RCMP said there is no direct link between the two dogs. Owners have yet to be confirmed.
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I've included my recipe for spanakopita because spinach, feta and mint is such a great combination and it's extremely quick to make.
1 bunch spinach
100g feta cheese, crumbled
2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
3 tbsp roasted pine nuts
1 egg, beaten
3 spring onions, sliced
1 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
about 10 sheets filo pastry
150g butter, melted
Preheat oven to 180C.
Pick off the spinach leaves and wash thoroughly. Cook in salted boiling water for a few minutes then drain and rinse. Squeeze out excess water and chop roughly.
In a bowl, mix together the spinach, feta, mint, pine nuts, egg, spring onions and parmesan. Season with a little pepper.
Take one sheet of filo and lightly brush with the melted butter. Lay another sheet over the top, brush again with butter then fold in half lengthways. Spread about two tablespoons of mixture over the pastry and roll so you have one long tube. Now coil the pastry tube into a snail shape and tuck the end underneath so it stays put. Brush with butter and refrigerate while you repeat with the rest of the mixture. You should have four or five snails.
Bake 15-20 minutes or until golden. The spanakopita can be served hot or just warm and will reheat quite well.
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I like to serve them with a little salad as a light lunch.


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National Center for Mental Health - Mandaluyong, Manila
From Wikipilipinas: The Hip 'n Free Philippine Encyclopedia
National Center for Mental Health , is formerly called the Insular Psychopatic Hospital established on December 17,1928 for the treatment of mentally ill patients. The sprawling 46.7 hectare complex consists of 35 pavilions with a bed capacity of 4,200. At present, it is treating an average of 3200 patients daily. National Center for Mental Health is located at Nuevo de Pebrero St. Mandaluyong City 1553.
Dr. Bernardino A. Vicente is the Chief Officer of the Hospital, and Ms. Clarita A. Aguilar is the MPA, Administrator.
- "Mandaluyong city". National Center for Mental Health - Mandaluyong, Manila (August 3, 2007).
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Business profile: Hothouse Fiction
You need only be a casual observer of the children's market to know that series are big business: Orchard's Beast Quest, Orion's Horrid Henry, Puffin's Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Children love the opportunity to stick with characters, making them a safe and rewarding choice for parents.
Reg Wright and Richard Maskell, directors of Hothouse Fiction, know more than most about the power of the collectible. They first worked together at Marshall Cavendish Partworks, a starting ground for many publishing folk, working on magazines with collectible parts that aimed to keep consumers coming back issue after issue.
The pair then set up Hothouse in 2008, with the goal of developing series fiction that children would be hungry for. The ideas are worked up following extensive market research, written by a suitable author chosen from their database of (currently) 362 contributors—listed with the kind of specialities you could only find in the children's fiction world: dragons, fairies, pirates—and sold to publishers around the world.
The first project the pair developed (just before formally setting up Hothouse), Darkside by Tom Becker (Heinemann Educational Publishers), won the Waterstone's Prize for Children's Fiction. A good start for the duo, Maskell says: "We were fortunate that it became pretty successful."
Five years on, the company has placed series with most major publishers, recently selling world rights in new series Fairy Animals of Misty Wood to Egmont UK, with the publisher launching the series with five titles later this year.
Consumer focus
Hothouse operates both as part of the industry and slightly outside of it, and Wright says working across the industry feeds back into their business. "We get to talk to a lot of people in the business and see so many different views about what's happening, and the issues and opportunities that are cropping up. I guess that is one of the advantages for us—to talk to all of the major UK publishers and see what the issues are, the biggest being the retail landscape, as they are the gateway to consumers. We can also get an idea of best practice—each publisher has particular skills and insight—and we can see which publisher can really get behind a series, and whether or not they have the resources to do so."
Hothouse initially worked from a policy of selling as many rights as possible to the publisher, but now is more circumspect, preferring to work on selling extra territories themselves, or developing possible film or television spin-offs in-house, if a publisher doesn't yet have that capability. They work with Nick Wilson, formerly the children's controller at Channel 5, in order to spot which books have small-screen potential. Maskell says: "That is a world unto itself, it's a big learning curve for us."
The economic downturn has, in some ways, played into Hothouse's hands, in the sense that market research-backed projects seem to make more sense in cash-conscious times. The pair acknowledge that some publishers generate their own content in order to fully own the property and have creative control, with Puffin currently working in this way. However, they are not worried that publishers will increasingly take an isolationist stance, focusing instead on taking a property across different platforms.
Wright says: "Of greatest interest to us are the areas that are quirky, areas that offer platforms on websites and that may lead to a TV series. I think that we'll be spending a lot more effort and energy in helping [publishers] promote with both web and TV support to appeal directly to consumers and that kind of activity would be encouraging to retailers too."
The pair stress the value of focusing on the reader, rather than the "gatekeepers" along the way, perhaps foreshadowing the path publishers themselves are now taking in building up a direct relationship with their readers. Maskell says: "As the retail situation has become so uncertain, the publishers are understandably more cautious about making an investment in a series without knowing there is a good reason a retailer will support it. We always think about consumers rather than retailers."


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Date: Mon Nov 1 19:15:17 EDT 2010
At Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:33:10 -0600, Doug Williams wrote: > I'll test it this evening when I am back home. > > The animated-canvas class actually keeps two bitmaps - one for painting from > and one for drawing to. The swap-bitmaps methods swaps those and repaints > the canvas. I'm not sure which of those the new canvas backing store would > replace. If I understand, then it replaces both. In GRacket2, call `suspend-flush' before clearing the canvas to redraw, and call `resume-flush' followed by `flush' at the point where you formerly swapped the bitmaps. The program below illustrates. When you run it, you should see color bars move slowly to the left. The drawing is intentionally slow, and if you set `sync?' to #f, it will flicker horribly. (Of course, you'll need the latest gr2 for the example to work right.) GRacket1 doesn't give you much control over the timing of canvas refresh. You could only say "please refresh", and sometime later `on-paint' would be called --- so an animation canvas needed to keep a bitmap for the current display state to respond to those `on-paint' calls. Meanwhile, you could draw into the other bitmap for the next scene. GRacket2 gives you more control, in a sense. If a canvas is in suspended-flush mode, then `resume-flush', `flush', `suspend-flush' effectively moves the current state of the canvas onto the screen, and then you can immediately start drawing again for the next scene. On some platforms, it's possible to expose the state of a flush-suspended canvas. When running the example below under Windows, if you drag another window over the one with the bars, then you can see intermediate states that would not otherwise be flushed. Similarly, if you try that with most window managers under X, the canvas just stays unrefreshed until it is flushed. In those cases, a buffer bitmap could provide better results; if drawing takes a *very* long time and you expect users to manipulate the surrounding GUI meanwhile, then a pair of bitmaps still may be the way to go. My guess is that your uses of an animation canvas will work well by just controlling flushes. ---------------------------------------- #lang racket/gui (define SIZE 600) (define f (new frame% [label "Color Bars"] [width SIZE] [height SIZE])) (define c (new canvas% [parent f])) (send f show #t) (define sync? #t) (define (start-drawing dc) (when sync? (send dc suspend-flush))) (define (end-drawing dc) (when sync? (send dc resume-flush) (send dc flush))) (define (go) (let ([dc (send c get-dc)]) (for ([d (in-naturals)]) (start-drawing dc) (send dc erase) ;; Draw somthing slow that changes with d (for ([n (in-range 0 SIZE)]) (send dc set-pen (make-object color% (remainder (+ n d) 256) (remainder (* 2 (+ n d)) 256) (remainder (* 3 (+ n d)) 256)) 1 'solid) (send dc draw-line n 0 n SIZE)) (end-drawing dc)))) (thread go)
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Here's a question that I was asked this weekend, one which I've been asked more than once: how anyone can justify the ban on DDT when millions of people are dying of malaria?
It's a good question.
Unfortunately, it's the wrong question. It's wrong because it's based on three premises:
- DDT has been banned;
- In areas where mosquitoes are endemic millions are needlessly suffering and dying from malaria deaths that are preventable if spraying DDT is allowed; and
- DDT is a panacea that strikes down mosquitoes without fail.
All three premises are wrong.
First, DDT has not been banned in most areas where malarial illness is endemic. In fact, even in the United States, DDT may be used under a "special use" clause in cases where there is an outbreak of mosquito-borne disease such as malaria.
Second, in areas such as Africa, guess what? Spraying DDT is allowed. So those millions that are dying from malaria (which is indeed happening and is indeed horrible) aren't dying because DDT is banned. So what's the deal there? The answer is that in poorer countries, like those in Africa, in order to use DDT (or any other chemical) for insect control correctly, you need the infrastructure in place to actually carry out your plans. That infrastructure simply doesn't exist in the war-torn and poverty-stricken African (and other) areas where malaria is endemic. Additionally, spraying for insect control is only one piece of a very complex problem when it comes to the control and elimination of malaria. All of those pieces need to be addressed for success.
Third, the world's mosquito population has became resistant to DDT. That means that the mosquito of today isn't the mosquito of 1950. Just like germs that are now resistant to certain antibiotics, mosquitoes are resistant to DDT. So countries that have used DDT have found it's no longer particularly effective at killing mosquitoes.
So what does work?
- Where possible, kill mosquitoes when they are still larvae. That is more effective than spraying to kill adult mosquitoes. Use the least toxic method to do so, such as vegetable-based oils added to standing water. The oil suffocates the larvae with minimal negative effect on fish, wildlife or humans, and is cheap, biodegradable and widely available even in poor countries. And because it works based on a mechanical function (it suffocates the larvae), mosquitoes don't develop resistance to it.
- Support organizations that are working to get bed netting to every individual at risk, and trying to especially help countries where poverty-ridden families can't afford to buy bed netting for themselves. Bed netting is one of the most effective and economical solutions possible for preventing malaria. It works.
- Treat individuals who have malaria with drugs that kill the parasite, not the older drugs that control the symptoms. If you eliminate the parasite from humans, then a mosquito can't bite an infected person and then transmit the parasite it sucks in with the blood to another human. That requires drugs and the actual treatment using those drugs to get to the right places, a daunting task but one that countries like Brazil have successfully undertaken.
- Until research provides us with insecticides that aren't toxic to anything but what they're aimed at killing, use products that have the least collateral damage to non-target species. Translated: it doesn't help to kill mosquitoes if you kill the birds that eat the mosquitoes, and seriously harm (or kill) the other wildlife and humans that you're trying to protect.
Underlying all of this, btw, is a fourth false premise: DDT is pretty safe. Everyone knows that Rachel Carson was a wingnut, and the loony-left-granola-crunching-tree-huggers can't trot out a single bit of evidence that proves DDT is a problem.
Wrong again.
I could list quite a few studies and authorities, but I think I'll let the United States Fish and Wildlife Service sum it up:
The Service continued to conduct studies on, and to voice its concern over, the effects of DDT on fish and wildlife for more than 25 years. It was not until 1972, and then because of the potential harm to human health, that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the use of DDT in the United States barring a public health or economic emergency.
And that decision was made before scientists even began to scratch the surface on how DDT is a strong endocrine disruptor, with the potential to cause reproductive, behavioral, immune system and neurological problems.
So, about that ban on DDT which is causing the loss of millions of innocent human lives?
It's a myth.


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Geezers, Putschistas & Other LA Stories
In the olden days, the purpose of op-eds was to sit opposite the editorial page and presumably present an alternative view of world affairs than you'd get from that same bunch of geezers who spout the conventional wisdom week in and week out.
The Los Angeles Times seems to be following the lead of crap-tastic opinion pages like the Washington Post with a new take on the old concept: fresh faces that pretty much back the geezers up. Sort of a win-win for those directly involved. The kids get some ink and the geezers look all wise and incontrovertible.
Today, the Times serves up Alexandra Starr, a freelance writer and "former Organization of American States fellow." Her thesis is that Chavez is only in it for the power (just like, she writes, basically every other president in Venezuelan history), that Venezuelan voters are only in it for the handouts (they, she knows, will turn on him just like all other Venezuelan electorates). Starr is basically saying what 96% of LA Times opinion pieces have said in the last eight years. (We're not making that number up—there was a study.)
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The hospital will open its doors to the community on Saturday, Oct., 15, from 1-4 p.m., giving the public updates on the medical technology work of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation and current clinical trials taking place at the Taft Center for Clinical Research. Children's fingerprinting will be offered, along with healthy cooking demonstrations and a raffle. The public will also have an opportunity to meet Barbara Dehn, also known as "Nurse Barb," who has a regular health segment through local CBS affiliate KPIX, "Barb's Daily Dose."
Hospital representatives said that El Camino has pursued a tradition of innovation and cutting edge care from the very beginning.
In 1966 — five years after its grand opening — the San Jose Mercury News wrote an article on the hospital with a headline proclaiming that El Camino was "Going All Out for Automation," and in 1971 the hospital formed a partnership with Lockheed to create what it says is the very first medical information system in the world.
In 1980, El Camino's operating room was named the most technologically advanced surgical suite in the area, and Popular Science identified it as the "most technologically advanced hospital in the world" in a 2009 issue.
El Camino Hospital's Mountain View campus is located at 2500 Grant Road. More information on the celebration can be found online at www.elcaminohospital.org/50th.


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As highway deaths overall have fallen with improved safety in cars, motorcyclists have seen just the opposite: a higher death rate.
Motorcyclist fatalities have more than doubled since mid 1990s to about 4,550 last year. And a lengthy report by FairWarning.org, an independent non-profit public-interest investigative news website, says the rising death toll comes as biker groups have urged Washington to repeal states' helmet laws.
Now the groups are going a step further, advocating for a rule that would prevent the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, or NHTSA, from providing any more grants to states to conduct highway stops of motorcyclists to check for safety violations such as wearing helmets that don't meet federal standards.
Also, FairWarning.org says the groups, backed by major motorcycle manufacturers, are:
By doing so, the groups can help keep pressure on state legislatures to repeal helmet laws, which save lives but impede on what bikers' consider to be their wind-in-the-hair freedom. Says FairWarning.org: "With Michigan's repeal in April of its nearly 50-year-old helmet requirement, only 19 states have helmet laws covering all riders, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. In the late 1970s, by contrast, 47 states had such requirements."
NHTSA estimates that helmets saved 1,483 lives in 2009, and that another 732 deaths could have been avoided if all riders had worn them, the site says.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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Thousands of people turned out at church services across the borough to pay their respects on Remembrance Sunday.
Services were held at St Mary's Church, Battersea, St Mary's Church at Putney bridge, and Holy Trinity Church in Roehampton.
Glorious blue skies greeted the huge crowds at the Putney service as families paid tribute to the thousands of men and women who lost their lives at war.
Prior to the immaculately observed two minutes' silence, the Rev Ailsa Newby read the Ode of Remembrance.
She said: "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them."
Many of those in attendance remarked how the popularity of the service has increased in recent years.
RAF veteran Paddy Gilbert said: "I have never seen so many people at the remembrance service. It is really wonderful to see so many young people."
The Putney and Battersea ceremonies involved ex-servicemen and women laying wreaths at their respective war memorials, which are situated outside the two churches.
In Roehampton wreaths were laid at the war memorial at Roehampton Heath, at the top of Medfield Street.


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Ed's Chowder House + The BalletJanuary 29, 2010
Ed's Chowder House in the Empire Hotel is ideally located if you're heading to Lincoln Center. That two-minute walk was welcomed on the cold winter blustery day that we attended the New York City Ballet's performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in the David H. Koch Theater.
But first a quick bite at Ed's Chowder House. Ed is Ed Brown —chef/owner of Michelin Star-rated restaurant eighty one and formerly from the Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center. He's created an upscale seafood shack.
We started with his trio of chowder sampler ($12) with a creamy, but not overly rich New England style, a butternut winter squash one topped with pepitas and —my favorite — a Manhattan style blue crab.
My recommendation: the jumbo lump crab cakes with a spicy remoulade sauce with house slaw ($29) or the not-too-mayonnaisey lobster roll, also with house slaw ($26). Since they overheard we had planned to split the two composed mains, the waitstaff kindly did so for us in the kitchen.
The crisp citrusy Chenin Blanc, Foxen Wickenden, Santa Maria. CA ($45) was a nice match for each dish.
Not time for dessert as the ballet was beckoning.
Everything was beautiful at the ballet. Graceful men did lift lovely girls not in white, but in multi-colored costumes — paraphrasing from A Chorus Line, that is. Same goes for the newly renovated theater.
Choreographer George Balanchine's A Midsummer's Nights Dream ballet is based on the Shakespearean comedy about the romantic adventures of two pairs of mortal lovers and the King and Queen of Fairies. I couldn't follow the story — one that I was familiar with from seeing the play many a time — but so enjoyed the dancing and dancers— especially in the second act.
I'm reluctant to admit that it's been more than a decade since I've been to the New York City Ballet and that was to see a holiday performance of the Nutcracker. Attending A Midsummer's Nights Dream whet my appetite for more dance. Currently the Sleeping Beauty (through February 7th), then Swan Lake (from February 10 – 14) and Jewels (from February 25 – 28).
I hope to return soon …
- bonnie
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NORWALK - Wild, crazy, thrilling. The Southern California Regionals first-round Open Division boys basketball game between Poly High and St. John Bosco on Friday was all that.
The host Braves took an 11-point lead in the third quarter after a 10-0 run. The Jackrabbits finished the quarter on a 16-2 run to lead by three heading into the fourth.
And at the end, Jordan Bell made a layup at the buzzer to give Poly a 61-59 victory before a standing-room-only crowd of about 2,800 at the newly remodeled Cerritos College gym.
Poly (28-3), the No. 3 seed in the division, will now play at second-seeded Mater Dei on Tuesday in the regional semifinals. Sixth-seeded St. John Bosco finished 24-7.
With the game tied 59-59, Poly took the ball out with 10.6 seconds to play. Roschon Prince drove toward the paint and ran over the Braves' Darien Williams. The ball went into the air, Bell grabbed it and made the uncontested shot. Bell was mobbed by his teammates and fans spilling out of the stands. He could barely speak, he was so overcome with emotion.
"(I've) never won a game like that before, so I don't know what to say," Bell said. "I'm just happy."
Jackrabbits coach Sharrief Metoyer talked about the comeback.
"It was just hunger, man," said Metoyer, whose team lost to Etiwanda in the semifinals of the CIF-SS Division I-AA playoffs. "Just hunger and desire. When we were down 11 I told the kids that this was not the way we want to end our season and we talked about being aggressive and we started out on the defensive end.
"Getting some loose balls, getting deflections. We got a couple and that kind of ignited us. Brandon Staton got a couple of layups and some other guys scored and at the end of the day we needed points from everybody."
Twenty-three of Poly's 27 first-half points came from Prince and Bell.
During their 16-2 run that began with them trailing 42-31 almost midway through the third, the Jackrabbits got points from Prince, Brandon Staton, Kameron Murrell, Ke'Jhan Feagin and Lejay Kelly.
Prince led everyone with 25 points, Bell scored 12 and grabbed 13 rebounds and Staton scored 10.
Isaac Hamilton led the Braves with 22 points, Tyler Dorsey had 16 and Daniel Hamilton scored 11.
Brian Nebo and Dorsey both missed the front end of 1-and-1 free throw opportunities in the last two minutes that did not help the Braves' cause. Coach Derrick Taylor acknowledged that, but he did not like the idea of the referee not blowing the whistle on what appeared to be a charge on Prince in that final sequence.
"It was clearly a charge," said Taylor, whose team won the CIF-SS III-A title. "He (Williams) was there for a long time. That game should have gone into overtime."
Isaac Hamilton did not play the first time St. John Bosco and Poly met on Feb. 2, a game won by the Jackrabbits by six points. He was chagrined that his team could have made it easier on itself. Not only did it miss key free throws, it blew a layup down the stretch as well.
"I think if we would have made those, we would have won the game," Isaac Hamilton said. "Life goes on. You live and you learn."


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Fingers crossed, we just might see the first major change in U.S. fuel efficiency standards in nearly three decades. While not as efficient as the European Union (where fuel efficiency standard is 40 miles per gallon), the U.S. auto makers will have to ensure that their fleets have, on average, an FES of 35 MPG by 2020. At present, the U.S. standards stand at 27.5 MPG for cars and 22.2 MPG for light trucks. The fuel efficiency standards are referred to as CAFE, which stands for corporate average fuel economy standards.
The new standards still make a distinction between "cars" and "light trucks," which includes minivans, SUVs and pickups, but would require an overall fleet average of 35 MPG. The implications of this change are huge — it could save millions of tons of carbon dioxide gases from being emitted, and cut down on more than hundreds of millions of gallons of gasoline consumed.
This has been a crucial sticking point in the 2007 Energy Bill. Lawmakers announced late Friday that they had reached a deal on the CAFE standards. These negotiations were led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and auto industry advocate Rep. John Dingell (
RD-MI). The bill is expected to be voted on later this week, as we had previously reported.
The measure, which was included in the Senate version of the 2007 Energy Bill, has had its share of detractors. Dragged kicking and screaming through the process, American automakers claim these new measures will cost them tens of billions of dollars and will hurt both the consumers and the manufacturers, The New York Times reports.
Another crucial part of this bill is that now the enforcement is strictly in the hands of the states. Dingell had wanted emissions standard to lie exclusively within National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jurisdiction, and not the EPA or individual states. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court upheld California's right to legislate and enforce emissions standards stricter than federal regulations. EPA authority was a "deal breaker" for Pelosi.
The Energy Bill is still far from being approved, and has faced a good deal of opposition from some of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, notably those of auto, oil and utility. But now it looks to actually be putting into law mandates that will greatly increase cleantech opportunities in the automotive, biofuel and utility-level power generation sectors.


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Since 2013, the Summer Mural Program creates inspiring, historical, and narrative art enriching and transforming public spaces and people's lives, working in collaboration with city agencies, artists, community-based organizations, non-profits, private businesses, artists, schools and the community. The program also promotes restorative social justice through the art making process, by enabling at-risk youth opportunities to participate in creating positive change.
Essex Art Center manages this six week summer program in collaboration with Lawrence Valley Works, local businesses, the City of Lawrence, and private donors. Essex Art Center provides materials and staff to oversee the projects design and creation. Lawrence Valley works provides paid student workers to paint the murals – many of whom have never picked up a brush before. This unique, collaborative project helps transform blighted spaces through the transformative power of the arts!
See a recent article about this years mural in the Eagle Tribune
See a YouTube VIdeo about the 2015 Program!
See a YouTube Video about the 2014 Program!
The 2016 Mural Artist Team
Lead Artist/Teacher - Jason Asselin, Assistant - Catherine Perez
Student workers from ValleyWorks: Kelvin Abreu, Rodalfi Heredia Alvarez, David Olivio, Aidan Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez and Kyarha Svelti.
Funding for the 2016 Mural Program is provided by the Rosman Family Fund, the Highland Street Foundation and Essex Art Center, with student workers provided by ValleyWorks.
The 2015 Mural Artist Team
Lead Artist/Teacher - Eric Allshouse; Assistant – Catherine Perez
Student workers from ValleyWorks: Moralys De La Rosa, Yanibel Hiraldo, Ninoshka Martinez, Aidan Rodriguez and Emanuel Rodriquez.
The 2015 Summer Mural Program is sponsored by generous donations made in memory of David Lebrun, The White Fund of Lawrence and The Forest Foundation (in honor of Leslie Costello and Helen Tory and their dedication to EAC).


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G. A. Wasserman, et al., "Water Arsenic Exposure and Children's Intellectual Function in Araihazar, Bangladesh," Environmental Health Perspective, Vol. 112, No. 13, 2004, pp. 1329-1333.http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6964
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Behavior of Arsenic and Fluoride Concentration in Guadiana Valley Aquifer of Durango, Mexico
María Adriana Martínez-Prado, María Elena Pérez-López, Ignacio Villanueva-Fierro, Cecilia Corazón González-Nevarez
Aquifer; Arsenic; Fluoride; Groundwater Quality; Guadiana Valley
Journal of Environmental Protection,
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Fluorine (F) and arsenic (As) are inorganic elements present in the subsurface depending on the geology of the region. These compounds are found in high concentrations in the underground strata of Guadiana Valley of Durango affecting water quality for human consumption (NOM-127-SSA-1994). In the present research the main objective was to assess the behavior in time and space of fluoride (F-) and arsenic concentration, from 1996 to date, in the groundwater of the city of Durango and some wells of the rural area as a reference. The highest concentration of arsenic was found in a rural well, Colonia Hidalgo (0.149 mg/L or ppm), 6 times the maximum permissible limit (MPL); within the city well 54 located in the western sector had the highest value (0.076 ppm), 3 times the MPL, 67% of the wells in the city and 60% of the Guadiana Valley had levels that exceeded the MPL (0.025 ppm), the concentration in the city ranged from 0.009 to 0.149 ppm and from 0.08 to 0.15 ppm for the rural zone. With respect to F-, the highest value was also found in the Colonia Hidalgo well (17.8 mg/L), 12 times the MPL; within the city the highest value was recorded in well 16 in the eastern sector with 7.6 ppm (5 times the MPL) 97% of the wells in the city and 100% of the wells in the Guadiana Valley rural area had concentrations greater than MPL (1.5 ppm), the concentration in the city ranged from 1.1 to 7.6 ppm, while in the Guadiana Valley from 1.7 to 17.8 ppm. Statistical analysis showed no significant difference for fluoride concentration over time (1996-2013); whereas the concentration of arsenic decreased, probably due to the degree of precision required for such small concentrations in groundwater and different analysts ran the samples.
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CV students get taste of geography
Thu., Jan. 17, 2013
From the grand fjords of Norway to the largest rainforest in the world, students of Central Valley High School's world geography class all had a piece of the planet to research.
Students picked a country and spent the semester studying the culture, region, religion and reasons for tourism. The culminating project: a World's Fair featuring about 30 countries.
"I want them to see beyond the Pacific Northwest and that the world is a big place," said Krista Larsen, world geography teacher. "They don't necessarily have to agree with all cultures, but they can have a respect and understand why we're different."
With so many countries to choose from, it was a challenge for some to decide, but sophomores Blake Sattler and Austin Davis simply waved their mouse cursor around a world map and selected Belgium.
The fair is packed with students and presenters ready to say why they chose that country and its specialty. For Belgium, Sattler and Davis shared waffles glazed with chocolate and maple syrup.
Sattler said the Festival of the Cats, a parade in Ypres, Belgium, stood out to him. It's thought the town had a rat problem, he said, and they brought in cats to hunt down the pests. The cats were allegedly thrown from a tower after fixing the rat problem, Sattler said. Now they use plush toy cats, to celebrate the occasion.
Hannah Van Matre brought people back halfway across the globe as she shared her knowledge of Brazil, a devoutly Christian nation with a republic form of government.
She also brought along a mounted and preserved piranha: "It's all real except the eyes are fake." It's a souvenir from a friend's trip to the South American country on loan for her presentation.
There was an interactive component as well. Van Matre showed off a popular Brazilian toy, which is like a Hacky Sack with feathers. You simply kick it.
Food samples sweeten the meandering around the classroom as students find a presentation that interests them.
Though reluctant, Jordyn Bridgens shared Vegemite, a popular Australian spread made from yeast extract.
"They put it on bread and crackers. It's awful. It's nasty. It smells awful," Bridgens said. To wash it down, she had samples of ginger beer and peach soda.
After five years, this is the last year Larsen gets to wrangle this class project, she said, because the state's curriculum is being changed to encompass world history.
This is their send off, she said. Using what they learned over the semester, it will prepare them for their final class project: a bucket list for travel.
Students will choose 10 places from at least four continents and explain why they want to travel there, Larsen said.


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1998 (1999) Harvest Filmworks (Artisan)
review by Todd Doogan, special to
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Film Ratings: A
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): A-/A-/A
Specs and Features
85 mins, R, letterboxed widescreen (1.66:1 aspect ratio), single-sided, dual-layered (no layer switch), Amaray keep case packaging, two commentary tracks (one with director Darren Aronofsky, and the other with star Sean Gullette), deleted scenes (with or without commentary), cast and crew biographies, production notes, music video for
, 2 theatrical trailers, behind-the-scenes footage with commentary, excerpts from the graphic novel
The Book Of Ants
based on the film, animated film-themed menu screens with music, scene access (36 chapters), languages: English (DD 2.0), subtitles: none, Close Captioned
Let me get one thing off my back, I suck at math -- big time. But that didn't keep me from really enjoying
. I liked it so much, that I'd have to say it's one of the best independent films to come out in a long time.
is the story of Maximilian Cohen, a brilliant mathematician who believes there is a numerical pattern to everything in life. From a wind blown tree branch all the way to the stock market, things happen for a reason, and Max thinks he can figure out a way to predict them. He and his computer are right on the verge of figuring it all out, when a glitch (giving him a pattern that couldn't possibly be correct) sends him back to the drawing board. The only problem is, it may not be have been a glitch - he might have actually figured the pattern out. To make matters worse, Max has his share of other problems as well. He's plagued with terrible migraine headaches, and he's being followed by a shady Wall Street financial group, and a Kaballah sect that needs Max to unlock the hidden numeric name of God.
Shot in stark black and white by Matthew Libatique,
is a kissing cousin to David Lynch's
, and one helluva great flick. The movie flows in and out of the surreal and the real, like some sort of prima ballerina dancing on a stage -- and it's an intriguing ride all the way through. Director/writer Darren Aronofsky, and his star Sean Gullette (who portrays Max), fill the character of Max with so many little bits of trivia, that he seems that much more real. Max could be that guy on the train that you can't take your eyes off of. He could be your next door neighbor. Hell... he could be you.
I really haven't liked a movie this much in quite a long time - and I'm sorry I didn't catch it in theaters. Silly me wrote the thing off as a glorified student film, or something similar.
It's not just a great flick, either. Artisan sure knows how to pack a DVD. Along with a great looking B&W print, and a full-sounding 2.0 Dolby soundtrack, this disc comes with two commentaries that are both quite killer. One features the writer/director Aronofsky, and the other features Gullette - Max himself. There is very little cross-over in their commentaries, and both shed immense light onto the trades both practice. I recommend this disc simply for the commentaries alone. Although I have to admit, I was a bit peeved at Aronofsky for not revealing the point of the ants - I guess we'll never know.
For those of you who want more, oh, there's more. There's an interesting behind-the-scenes short that includes footage from Sundance, a set of cut scenes (which are neat - especially an extended reel of "shakycam" footage), and a music video featuring the theme song
, complete with some eerie footage of those damn, unspoken ants. There's also some bits from a graphic novel based on the film, illustrated by Edward Ross Flynn, and written by Aronofsky. All told this disc is a really great package.
unleashes two powerful talents upon the film world, and it's going to be fun seeing what these two guys give us in the future. I can't wait to see what Aronofsky does with a real budget. But for now, fans like myself have this really stellar disc to tide us over.
Todd Doogan
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A 26-year-old fugitive accused in a brazen shooting that left four men dead at a Valley Village cafe was charged Thursday with mayhem and multiple murder counts that could make him eligible for the death penalty, officials said.
Nerses Galstyan was being held Thursday in Seattle in lieu of $4 million bail. He was apprehended Tuesday in Washington state along with his 24-year-old brother, Samuel, who was later released.
During a news conference at LAPD headquarters, officials said video surveillance confirmed that Nerses Galstyan had been at the Hot Spot Cafe on April 3 and left after the shooting that killed four men and wounded two others.
Authorities said the Galstyan brothers had been attending a birthday memorial for a friend who'd been killed in a traffic accident last year.
Officials do not believe that Samuel Galstyan fired any shots, but are investigating whether he helped Nerses flee after the shooting.
Officials said the brothers are Armenian nationals living legally in the U.S. And while most of the victims were Armenian and had associated with gangs, officials do not believe the shootings were related to gang affiliation or organized crime.
"This was a celebration where people got into a conflict over issues that many people get in conflicts over," Police Chief Charlie Beck said. "We are not going to give out details about the exact nature of the relationships, but suffice it to say that the organized crime issue is not paramount."
Law enforcement officials estimate more than 2,500 members and associates of Russian and Armenian organized-crime syndicates operate in the county, twice as many as a decade ago.
In addition to four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, Nerses Galstyan was charged with mayhem and the special circumstance of multiple murder.
While they filed it as a potential capital case, prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty if Galstyan is convicted of murdering Hayk Yegnanyan, 25; Sarkis Karadjian, 26; Harut Baburyan, 28; and Vardan Tofalyan, 31.
Separately, a federal grand jury indicted Nerses Galstyan on April 9 on charges of dealing firearms without a license and possessing a weapon with an obliterated serial number.
During Thursday's news conference, City Councilman Paul Krekorian sought to reassure the community he represents.
"The incident that occurred on April 3 shocked the community of Valley Village," Krekorian said. "It was a crime out of character for this neighborhood that stunned the residents of the area.
"And since April 3, understandably, people have been deeply concerned about the apprehension of the suspect in this case. The apprehension of this suspect will allow people of my neighborhood, my community, to rest a little bit easier tonight."
Krekorian said the incident was "a crime of violence committed by an angry person with a gun."
"It was an angry person with a gun in his hand and that to me is where the focus needs to be and not on ethnicity or anything else," Krekorian said.
"Now whether or not there are organized crime links, I'm sure those are things that police will continue to investigate. I think they know a fair amount about the background of the shooter.
"There is more to learn," he said, "but there doesn't seem to be an indication that this is the focus of the background of this crime."
Anyone with information regarding these investigations is urged to call LAPD Robbery Homicide Division detectives at 213-486-6890.