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St. Bernard senior has two sides she uses well
Montville -- Rebecca Louise Cowen can be both serious and silly. She says one of the high points of her four years at St. Bernard High School was working with senior citizens from St. Joseph's Living Center. She's scornful of people who became patriotic only after Sept. 11.
In the next breath, she jokes that her life's purpose is to annoy her friends — to twirl their hair or otherwise get in their faces. She laughs about a clumsy moment at the Senior Dinner Dance, when she slipped and slid on the stairs.
"I bounced back up," recalls Cowen.
The 18-year-old senior, who will graduate on Friday and plans to attend Emmanuel College in the fall, is artistic and athletic and not a slouch in academics, either.
She's one of only three seniors who studied fine arts all four years. Some of the best pieces she made in her honors/advanced placement art class this year are on display in the school's gallery. There's a life-sized self-portrait, her long brown hair drawn into braids, her smile wide and her slim frame in running clothes. There are still life drawings of onions and chess figurines, and a piece of Egyptian pottery with her name and the phrase "I am woman" on the bottom.
She hasn't mastered clay, Cowen says, and is still freaked out by a clay mask she made during freshman year. That scary piece, she says, looks like an alien that had too much liposuction, and is hiding behind a plant in the living room of her family's home in Uncasville. But drawing has always come naturally to her, and by studying art in school, she says, "I thought I could doodle in class and not get in trouble."
Running all four years on St. Bernard's cross-country and indoor and outdoor track teams also let her get away with something.
"I can eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's (ice cream) in one day and not feel guilty," she boasts. She's so slender, the school nurse once asked her if she was having trouble eating, remembers Rebecca's father, Tim Cowen. He was grateful for the school's concern for his daughter, but said she doesn't let a plate get past her when food's being served around the dinner table. Father and daughter like to run together, and about 1 1/2 years ago, she started to beat him at races.
Cowen and her close friend Melissa Maciag were co-captains of the track team this season and have been inseparable off the field as well. They attended running camp together during the summer, wear the same size clothes and just kind of seem to "click on everything," says Maciag. Their circle of friends is talking about taking a morning off in the next few weeks to help Cowen master one of her admitted weaknesses.
"Our big inside joke is one day we're going to go over and clean her room," says Maciag. "It's atrocious."
Another thing Cowen says she "stinks" at is any sport involving hand-eye coordination. So don't ask her to play golf. But she can really get "pumped" about running.
Cowen says she had to study hard to do well in her classes, but that the teachers at St. Bernard's were always willing to work with her outside of class.
"She's not the top student, but she's certainly a diligent student," says Maria Decsy, director of guidance.
On the athletic front, track Coach Troy Sessoms said students like Rebecca, who stick with a sport for all four years, earn a special place in his heart. He said she is a tremendous leader who knows how to motivate her teammates. And she's one of the better runners.
"She's worked extremely hard to get to the level she's at," Sessoms said.
Cowen hopes to minor in art history at college and get some work experience at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. She's considering a major in history, and would like to work for the History Channel or for a museum one day. She said her high school years flew by and she'll miss the small, caring community of St. Bernard. But she looks forward to good times ahead, and plans to begin her summer with a trip to Lake George.
Cowen lives in Uncasville and is the youngest of Sherry Timothy Cowen III and Frances Cowen's five children. Her father is a retired Navy commander. She was born while he was stationed at the Fort Ord navy base in Monterrey, Calif. The family moved to New London a short time later, and Rebecca attended St. Mary Star of the Sea school through seventh grade. She went to St. Bernard's Academy for eighth grade.
Rebecca and her mother both work in the produce section at the Shop Rite supermarket in New London. With work, school and sports, she's pretty busy, but she likes to watch television, draw and talk on the phone in her spare time. She has a couple of pieces of advice for incoming freshmen.
"Try your best in your classes and have fun," she says. "And keep your old notebooks."
The teachers at St. Bernard's will miss her.
"She has a joyful spirit, and even when things get rough, she rises to the challenge," says David Belval, the school's coordinator of fine arts.
"She's one of these people that's always there behind the scenes and never pushing forward to be recognized," he continues. "...She definitely goes out of her way to help people have a great day."
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One of the most important parts of library advocacy at the moment seems to be setting the record straight; explaining to people where they've got the wrong impression of libraries (be that because they've had a bad and unrepresentative experience and/or because they haven't used a library in many years).
It's been suggested that we should just ignore the naysayers and leave them to their ignorance. This is not an option! It's really tiring to argue against all the misconceptions and misunderstandings of public libraries, but we have to. And it's worth it.
In Lauren's post, she goes through the comment sections of different online articles that talk about library funding. It's a task I do not envy in the slightest, but her post is an excellent listing of typical comments with some excellent rebuttals. I just really like the fact that she took the time to find the comments and research answers to them.
As I said before in the LIS Syllabus post, advocacy is the new norm. It's up to the profession to push back on comments that are misguided or wrong. We'd never let someone leave the library knowing that they had the wrong information, so why let public commenters have their words go unanswered?
This is not to say that you should fight all the internet trolls you see, but be on the active lookout for where you can make a mark in an online discussion forum. This will not result in a spontaneous conversion of the masses, but if it can change one person, then that's one person more than we had before.
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In late 1987, Calgary was a city of fewer than 650,000 that was about to become big news as it prepared to host the 1988 Winter Olympics.
A newborn baby stole that spotlight when she was found abandoned in a northeast parking lot.
Dubbed Baby Mary, the infant's story captured the hearts of Canadians, including a Calgary couple who desperately wanted to adopt her. For the first time, that story is being told exclusively to the Herald's Valerie Fortney. The now 25-year-old Mary, her family and rescuers share their memories of those momentous weeks and months, along with an update on Mary's life.
"Where was I born? Why don't you know where I was born?"
On a fall afternoon in 2000, Mary and her mother were at a crossroads. In her younger years, the adopted child was content with the oft-repeated official story: Her birth mother wasn't ready for a baby, while Mae and Paul desperately wanted one.
As a precocious preteen, this simple explanation no longer sufficed. Talking to her now was like undergoing a police interrogation, with Mary firing off a flurry of how, when, where and why questions as the tall, athletic child stared down her diminutive mom.
Mae, wishing her husband wasn't out of town on business that day, realized it was time: Time to admit that her daughter's pink baby book covered in ribbons and filled with the milestones of first steps and words, was just one of two. For years, she'd hidden the red book, filled with newspaper clippings and official documents, at her mother-in-law's house. Recently, she'd brought it back, knowing that the clock was ticking.
"OK, Mary, here it is — this is your story," Mae said as she handed it over. "You read this and I will answer any questions you have."
With awe and disbelief, Mary cast her eyes on the yellowed newsprint and read the accounts of her public entry into the world. Together, they went through it, page-by-page. "I was left in a garbage bag? In a parking lot?" she asked, her eyes widening in horror. "It was a garbage bag, but you weren't garbage," Mae assured her, explaining that her head was exposed so she could breathe. "She also put you in a visible spot so someone could find you."
Mary pointed to the photographs of herself in the Calgary General Hospital, her little head dotted with small pieces of black tape. "They were testing you for everything," her mother explained. "They also had to give you all kinds of antibiotics, to combat the environment you were born in."
As she nervously anticipated Mary's reaction to the monumental news, her daughter surprised her by what most alarmed her. "They couldn't even spring for baby clothes?"
After she closed the book, Mary asked "Is this a big secret?" Mae told her that her family knew, grandma and grandpa, uncles and aunts. "This is your story, Mary. Now you can do what you choose with it."
Mae and Paul had known for years that the hard questions would eventually come — and that when confronted, they would pull no punches. When they brought Mary home on a cold December night in 1987, they promised each another that their daughter would one day know her full story.
Nearly six months after they took on the role as foster parents, their adoption of Mary came through — on May 2, 1988, two weeks after the couple's 10th wedding anniversary and on Mae's 31st birthday.
The family prepared to move to the interior of British Columbia.
With adoption settled, they relished in the everyday adventures of a young family. Mary had a penchant for tearing plants out of pots when she wasn't terrifying her mother by climbing on mantels and stairway overhangs, calling out "Hi Mommy!" Paul would laugh as he pretended to complain about how the baby would throw up on him every time he picked her up.
As their curly-haired daughter grew into a dark-haired child, she began to ask the usual "Where did I come from?" questions. Mae would explain to Mary and her older brother their philosophy on parenthood. "Giving birth doesn't make you a mommy," she told them. "It's what happens after that that really matters. We love you both equally, and that love no one can take away."
After Mary learned the real story, the popular preteen began telling friends, teachers, even strangers, about it. "Guess what? I was left in a garbage bag," Mary announced in class the day after seeing the red baby book. "No big deal," she said, enjoying the attention. "Whatever."
When friends complained about curfews and other adolescent injustices, she began using the popular, shock-inducing refrain: "At least your mother didn't stick you in a garbage bag and leave you in a parking lot."
The nonchalant attitude belied an internal storm. Mary couldn't wrap her head around it and she began insulting her birth mother when she told the story.
That changed when she heard about a 14-year-old girl at her school getting pregnant. "She's just a child," Mary, 16, said to her mom. "That's my birth mom, right there. Maybe she did it not to hurt me, but to help me."
Through those teenage years, Paul and Mae overcompensated for their daughter's rough start in life. She learned to ride a pony, played at waterslide parks and went twice to Disneyland. The family home in B.C. had a pool in the backyard, where Mary and her brother entertained the neighbourhood.
As she neared her 18th birthday, thoughts of her birth mother receded. In Alberta, though, Mary was very much on the mind of Blaine MacLean, one of the two boys who found her in 1987.
The birth of his son Tristan six years earlier had brought his longtime desire to know Mary's fate to full boil.
The 33-year-old heavy equipment operator still had the thank-you card Mae sent him when he was a teenager. MacLean decided the time was right to reach out and called the Calgary Herald with his side of the story.
"I didn't create her, but I participated in saving her, which brings up the same feelings," he was quoted as saying in the 2005 story, adding he hadn't lost hope that he'd see her again. "I feel a tie there."
MacLean considered it a long shot to find her, but Mae and Paul had relatives living in Calgary who saw the article and alerted them.
"Are you sitting down?" Mary's mom asked when she got her on her cellphone. "The guy who found you, he's in the newspaper. He wants to wish you a happy birthday."
When Mary got home, the family discussed their next move. "I think I want him to know I'm OK," said Mary. It took her eight months to put her feelings on paper. To protect her privacy, her parents mailed the letter to an uncle with the request to forward it on.
The uncle did more than that: He called MacLean and the two talked for nearly an hour. "He's a good guy," the uncle reported back to Paul. "He'd really like to talk to her." After a call from Mae and Paul, MacLean finally spoke with Mary. Over the next seven years, he built a rapport with birthday gifts and phone calls every Nov. 25. He also kept his promise to not let the media know he'd found her.
Last year, Mary decided it was time they met in person. She'd grown up into a beautiful, smart and mature young woman who loved her career working with children. She had followed her fiance Steven out to a community in southern Alberta and the pair was preparing for a fall wedding.
She wanted MacLean at her wedding, so she invited him to a barbecue for their first face-to-face meeting. With his son Tristan, 13, and his dad Joseph, he finally met the girl whose life he saved as a teenage boy. "Wow, you're beautiful," were his first words. "Oh, thanks," she said with a shy smile.
After a weekend filled with laughter, tears and reminiscences that helped Mae and Paul fill in some of the blanks of that day in 1987, Mae announced: "You're part of the family now."
MacLean couldn't believe his luck as he watched Mary walk down the aisle. "This is awesome," he thought.
Last Saturday, MacLean sat in a south Calgary restaurant, waiting for a pal he hadn't seen in 23 years. When Warren Bleile walked in, the two embraced then looked at one another with joyful disbelief. "Never thought this day would come, eh buddy?" said Bleile, who was tracked down for this 25th anniversary story.
"Where have you been hiding?" MacLean asked the boyhood friend he lost touch with after they went to different high schools.
Bleile hadn't seen the 2005 Herald article quoting MacLean and he had always wondered how Mary had fared.
"She's been in the back of my mind all my life," said Bleile, 38, who works as a roofer in Calgary. His mother, Maxine, still has a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about Mary. My mom said 'I wonder if she ever talks about us, wonders about us,'" said Bleile.
In 2010 he called a television station hoping to do a public appeal for information on Mary. He never got a call back.
Last Saturday, the day he caught up with MacLean, he also heard from Mary for the first time.
"I believe in a higher power," said Bleile. "It was meant to be that we found her that day. And it was meant to be that we would meet again."
For both men, finding a newborn in a garbage bag — and finding her again a quarter-century later — is an experience like no other.
"Other than watching my own son being born," said MacLean, "there is nothing else that tops it."
"I have no children of my own, but she was mine," said Bleile. "She's my miracle baby. She's definitely a miracle."
This story and the reunions it has sparked so far — former Herald pressman Bob Ward hasn't been located — would not have been possible without Mary's approval.
"I think it's time, I think I'm ready," she says of her decision to tell her story. "I think I'm not so angry anymore. I don't think I'm angry at all anymore, to be honest. It's like, she did what she did."
Her motivation for coming forward is complex. She wants the city that followed her story 25 years ago to know it had a happy ending. She wonders if she has siblings, and would like to know her medical history since she and Steven hope to start a family of their own soon. She also wanted to do it as a thank you to the three working-class heroes who saved her life that day.
Mary has set up an email account monitored by a friend (email@example.com) in the hope that her birth mother, or someone with information, will contact her.
She knows such a reunion is a remote possibility but is worth the chance. "I think I need to hear her side of the story before I can fully forgive," says Mary, who has put her name on every post-adoption registry in the country.
Whether she finds her birth mother or not, Mary says she's clear on who her "mom" is.
"Birthing someone doesn't make you a mother," she says. "The woman who was there for me through all the ups and downs, that's my mom." Whatever the outcome, Mary's family will be there. "It doesn't matter who comes out of the woodwork, it's not going to change how she feels about us or we feel about her," says Mae.
"For me, I'd want to know she's OK," says Paul of Mary's birth mother. "I would love to meet her and find out where my daughter's curly hair comes from."
At the very least, Mae hopes she can pass on a message to a woman who abandoned a baby from a woman who wanted one so badly.
"Thank you. Thank you for giving me one of the best things in my life."
Monday: The legal implications of abandoning a baby.


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Underwriters Laboratory: Sustainable manufacturing will attract customers
Sara Greenstein from Underwriters Laboratory explains how the average consumer's expectations of a product correlates with manufacturing production and how that affects the industry at large.
What's the direct relationship between consumer expectation and manufacturing production? That's the question Underwriters Laboratories set out to discover when it launched its "Navigating the Product Mindset" study in 2011. Sara A. Greenstein, senior vice president and chief marketing and strategy officer for UL discussed the study's details with Plant Engineering.
PE: One of the more interesting parts of the study is that consumers have a different view on component parts as it relates to product safety than do manufacturers. Why is there this disconnect?
Greenstein: It's clear from the study that consumers are becoming more interested and savvy about products, and not just about the assembly of their products, but about the components of their products. A holistic view of the data leads one to presume that consumers are becoming more aware of the global supply chain's complexity, and with that, how component parts impact the quality and safety of a final product. Added to that is the power of social media and the Internet. Consumers have greater access to uncover the details surrounding products' components. Manufacturers could view this as an opportunity to differentiate their products by informing consumers about component parts.
PE: Product quality – and by extension manufacturing quality – is an important issue for both manufacturers and consumers. Is there a sense that product quality has declined in recent years?
Greenstein: No, quite the opposite. The study says that more than half of all consumers perceive product quality to be better today than five years ago in all categories (with high tech having the highest response and processed food the lowest), and Chinese and Indian consumers are the most positive about product quality today versus five years ago. So, in general, confidence in product quality is quite high, among both consumers and manufacturers. It is interesting to note despite the perceived improvement in product quality, on average 76% of all consumers feel manufacturers do not use the best materials in their products, so there is still opportunity for improvement.
PE: Product reliability is viewed as having a greater impact on profitability than sustainable manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing is viewed as potentially profitable. Are we moving toward sustainability as a profit center? And at what speed?
Greenstein: UL recognizes that the environmental space is still relatively young and evolving. At the same time, however, we also recognize that sustainable practices–from green manufacturing and commerce to green building and lifestyles–are the wave of the future. Sustainability is to the 21st century as fire safety was to the 20th century, and before we know it, it's going to be requisite.
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OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is released under a BSD license and hence it's free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.
Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 14 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics.


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Claire Golding
The 1980 Sophie Kerr Winner
Claire Mowbray Golding was first paid for working with words in July 1982, when she moved to Worcester, MA. After six months as a freelance writer, bookstore clerk and school lunch menu typist, she talked her way into a job at the only publishing company for miles: Davis Publications, a family-owned publisher of educational resources for art teachers. There she got a by-the-seat-of-her pants education in el-hi publishing, and it was so interesting that she stayed until 2006.
During that time, she was a restaurant reviewer, wrote freelance articles for newspapers and magazines, won some poetry contests, and had her first book published. Claire is the co-author of two books: What's That Bird? (with Joseph Choiniere, Storey Publishing, 2005) and Communicating through Graphic Design (with Kevin Gatta, Davis Publications, 2009).
She is currently working with a co-author on a history of graphic design and is independently pursuing an historical novel for young readers. She lives her freelance life as the sole employee of Salamander Crossing Editorial Services in Princeton, MA.


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People go on home tours expecting to see "the finished product." All the projects are complete and everything is in order.
Then they return to their own homes and the reality of fixing things up.
You might say that John and Nancy Salerno's residence is the home tour house for the rest of us.
Lots of big plans, Nancy says, but not everything gets done.
For example, the siding on the exterior isn't yet complete. The tour won't include the basement that remains on the to-do list. There's some rough plaster showing from a project on a stairway.
Just take it as it is and enjoy this spacious 112-year-old structure that, despite the status of on-going projects, really has had a lot of work put into it.
For example, the basement walls were bowing inward, so new block was laid. They put in a new bathroom, removed carpeting and layed wood and wood tile, replaced a stairway, built a garage, paved the drive, refinished bedroom walls—the list goes on and on. No wonder it's still a work in progress.


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Dolce and Gabbana finally debuts its first ever couture collection called Alta Moda. Having previously produced one-off gowns for Scarlett Johansson, Bianca Brandolini and Andrea Dellal, you would think taking the Haute Couture initiative was the next natural step.
So after 27 years of ready-to-wear, 6 years of planning and 6 months of production, Domenico Dolce, Stefano Gabbana and their 35-strong design team have finally made history by showing their first-ever haute couture line –a whopping 73 looks– at the San Domenica Palace Hotel in Taormina, Sicily.
Only selected media were invited, namely The Daily Telegraph, Le Figaro and Corriere della Sera as well as editors of the various international editions of Vogue. Other notable guests included Monica Bellucci, Laetitia Casta, Scarlett Johansson, Isabella Rossellini, Francesco Scianna, Naomi Campbell, Marpessa Hennink, Stephanie Seymour and the current face of Dolce and Gabbana, Bianca Brandolini. No tweeting, filming or publication of any kind were allowed except for a few photo opportunities. Ultra secretive a la Tom Ford, but does it live up to the hype?
The debut Dolce and Gabbana Alta Moda Couture collection was nothing but full of classic Dolce and Gabbana signatures. Sicilian lace, embroideries, corset gowns, appliques, jewels, florals, bows, sheer fabrics and sheath silhouettes laden with Baroque elements. It was feminine flair as usual, nothing special or different from the ready-to-wear collections of late but perhaps more expensive craftsmanship and embellishments with a slight extravagant quality. Still, I can't wait to see the full collection.
A first step nonetheless but it remains to be seen if Dolce and Gabbana will ever be inducted into the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture and show at the Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris. Only time will tell.
"…is not because of us, but the customers. They really do not want to see their dresses in a magazine." –Stefano Gabbana
"This is our style. It is not trend, I do not care if it is cool. Prêt-à-porter is different, it is about cool and how many covers will we get this season. Here, we are completely free. So for me this is not work but pleasure." –Domenico Dolce
"Where Parisian couture riffs on French cultural tradition, this Alta Moda would look to all things Sicilian, from the ornamented excess of its Baroque period to the dress worn by Claudia Cardinale when she dances (to that same Verdi waltz) in The Leopard." –Luke Leitch, The Daily Telegraph
"Lace and double satin tailleurs, embroideries dresses and simple sheath dresses, as well as redingotes and lambskin little coats and painted dresses…A new chapter in the history of Italian fashion was written today." –Franca Sozzani, Editor-in-Chief Vogue Italia
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I'm giving away a copy of a Christian anthology that I have two stories in called Women of Passions: Ordinary Women Serving an Extraordinary God. Their website is: http://womenofpassions.net. It was an honor to be included in this anthology and I'm excited to give a copy out. To be entered in this giveaway all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. You'll get an additional entry if you follow my blog and another if you link to my contest and let me know about it!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Posted by Krysten at 1:35 PM
15 comments:
- Ruth J. Hartman said...
Congratulations on your anthology stories. That's wonderful!
Ruth (PGer)
- March 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- Anonymous said...
Wow! I didn't know you had two stories in the anthology...that is so cool!!
- March 30, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Cathy C. Hall said...
Congrats on your anthology stories! And happy to see you getting your blog on :-)
How long do folks have to sign in for the giveaway?
- March 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- Krysten said...
Thanks guys! The contest will run until the end of April.
- March 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Chynna said...
Hey Krysten! I didn't know you had a blog. I am now following you so I can see what you're up to. =oD
Congrats on your latest accomplishment.
- March 30, 2009 at 11:30 AM
- Gayle said...
This looks terrific!
- March 30, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Unknown said...
Always love reading your writing!
- March 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM
- Margo Dill said...
What a beautiful book cover! Sounds like a really interesting book, and Congrats for your stories included in it! :)
"Read These Books and Use Them"
- March 31, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey Krysten. I was a little confused as to what you were talking about. But i get it now. Yes, I'm a little slow. Congrats on the work. This is wonderful! I'm sure I'll see you around. TTYS -Dorothy
- March 31, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- Unknown said...
Hey Krysten. I was a little confused as to what you were talking about last night but I get it now. Yes, I'm slow. Well, congrats on the stories. It must be a wonderful feeling to be published. I'm sure I'll be seeing you around. TTYL-Dorothy
- March 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- Annette said...
Congrats on having your stories included in the anthology! That's awesome!
You don't have to include me in the drawing though; I'm a Buddha belly-rubber. ;-)
- March 31, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Heiddi said...
Congrats on getting not one but TWO stories in the anthology! That's so great. :) Blessings.
- April 2, 2009 at 2:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Congrats on being published again! Please enter me in the contest.
- April 18, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Nancy H. said...
Sounds like a wonderful read. I'm really excited for you!
- April 29, 2009 at 6:22 PM
- Jamie Morrow said...
Always enjoy reading your work. I'm convinced that some day soon I'll see your name on the New York Times bestseller list.
Please enter me.
- April 30, 2009 at 12:03 PM


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C. Makes you wonder what Dr. Grumpy has been smoking.
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The elegant structure of DNA has inspired chemists for decades. The simple pairings of the four native nucleobases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) produces all of the genetic variations in every known living organism. Based on that basic principle, scientists have made modifications to DNA for a variety of purposes, from creating photonic wires for nanomachines to making completely unnatural DNA for engineered genetics. One aspect of DNA's natural behavior, however, has eluded scientists: DNA replication.
DNA polymerases, which produce copies of DNA molecules, are enzymes that have evolved for millennia, and there has been little success in getting them to work on artificial DNA in living cells. For the development of engineered genetics, it would be advantageous to find ways to hijack a cell's enzymes for the replication of unnatural DNA. In working towards that goal, Eric Kool and his colleagues from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to insert and replicate artificial DNA in E. coli cells. This first successful example of bypassing the natural cellular replication machinery was published as an advanced article in the Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
The researchers supersized native nucleobases to create unnatural ones that are 2.4 angstroms bigger, which is slightly less than the diameter of a water molecule (2.75 angstroms). While the artificial nucleobases are noticeably bigger, they still maintain the ability to hydrogen bond with their natural counterparts.
The significant size difference will probably hinder most DNA polymerases, but every organism produces a number of specialized polymerases; the normal hydrogen bonding of these extended bases might allow a few of these to work efficiently. Some of these polymerases have evolved to work around damaged DNA, which makes them good candidates to operate with nucleobases that are larger than normal.
To determine if any of the polymerases in a living cell would work on completely unnatural DNA, the authors placed strands of artificial DNA into a viral genome and inserted it into E. coli cells. They then measured the efficiency and accuracy of DNA replication in both healthy and UV-damaged bacteria cells. They hypothesized that the UV damage would activate more specialized polymerases that can handle greater variation in DNA structure, making replication easier for unnatural DNA.
In terms of replication efficiency, UV exposure was advantageous for artificial DNA. Replication for xAdenine and xThymine were just as efficient as natural adenine and thymine—that's a 20 to 27 percent improvement from their replication in undamaged cells. The efficiency for xCytosine was 53 percent and xGuanine was 45 percent. While those values are low, they are significantly better than what was obtained in undamaged cells, where the efficiencies were 29 percent for xCytosine and 11 percent for xGuanine.
As for replication accuracy, xAdenine did the best, as 99 percent of the daughter phage had the correct placement of adenine. Next best was xCytosine with 88 percent fidelity. The other two nucleobases had negligible replication accuracy.
Even though the replication accuracy and efficiency were uneven for the four unnatural nucleobases, the authors have successfully shown that it is possible for DNA polymerase to process the genetic information stored in artificial DNA. This paves the way for further engineering to improve replication, which would give scientists better control of biological systems.
Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2009. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200805683


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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen shot dead five women working on U.N.-backed polio vaccination efforts in two different Pakistani cities on Tuesday, officials said, a major setback for a campaign that international health officials consider vital to contain the crippling disease but which Taliban insurgents say is a cover for espionage.
Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic. Militants however accuse health workers of acting as spies for the U.S. and claim the vaccine makes children sterile. Taliban commanders in the troubled northwest tribal region have also said vaccinations can't go forward until the U.S. stops drone strikes in the country.
Insurgent opposition to the campaign grew last year after it was revealed that a Pakistani doctor ran a fake vaccination program to help the CIA track down al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, who was hiding in the town of Abbottabad in the country's northwest.
The Taliban have targeted previous anti-polio campaigns, but this has been a particularly deadly week. The government is in the middle of a three-day vaccination drive targeting high risk areas of the country as part of an effort to immunize millions of children under the age of five.
"Such attacks deprive Pakistan's most vulnerable populations — especially children — of basic life-saving health interventions," said a statement jointly released by the government and the U.N. "We call on the leaders of the affected communities and everyone concerned to do their utmost to protect health workers and create a secure environment so that we can meet the health needs of the children of Pakistan."
The women who were killed Tuesday — three of whom were teenagers — were all shot in the head at close range. Four of them were gunned down in the southern port city of Karachi, and the fifth in a village outside the northwest city of Peshawar. Two men who were working alongside the women were also critically wounded in Karachi.
The attacks in Karachi were well-coordinated and occurred within 15 minutes in three different areas of the city that are far apart, said police spokesman Imran Shoukat. In each case, the gunmen used 9 millimeter pistols. Two of the women were teenagers, aged 18 and 19, and the other two were in their 40s, he said.
Two of the women were killed while they were in a house giving children polio drops, said Shoukat. The other two were traveling between houses when they were attacked, he said.
On Monday another person working on the anti-polio campaign, a male volunteer, was gunned down in Karachi. Taliban militants also killed three soldiers in an ambush of an army convoy escorting a vaccination team in the northwest.
Officials in Karachi responded to the attacks by suspending the vaccination campaign in the city, said Sagheer Ahmed, the health minister for surrounding Sindh province. The campaign started on Monday and was supposed to run through Wednesday, he said.
Immunization was suspended in Karachi in July as well after a local volunteer was shot to death and two U.N. staff were wounded.
There were conflicting reports about whether the campaign was also temporarily suspended in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where the fifth woman was killed Tuesday.
The statement released by the government and the U.N. said the drive was halted in both Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
But Janbaz Afridi, a senior health official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said he had not received any suspension orders and planned to continue the campaign on Wednesday.
"These incidents are depressing and may cause difficulties in the anti-polio drive, but people should not lose heart," said Afridi. "The government is very serious, and we are determined to eliminate polio despite all odds and difficult conditions."
The shootings in Karachi all took place in areas mainly populated by ethnic Pashtuns, said Ahmed, the health minister. The Taliban are a Pashtun-dominated movement, and many militants are reported to be hiding in these communities in the city.
Rukhsana Bibi, whose 18-year-old daughter Madiha was killed in Karachi, seemed to blame the organizers of the vaccination campaign for her death.
"Why are you doing this by coming here?" said Bibi, standing next to her daughter's body at the hospital. "This is a prohibited area. Taliban are here."
Madiha was the only source of income for the family, which includes seven other children, said Bibi, whose husband is too sick to work.
The woman who was killed in the northwest was also a teenager and was shot by gunmen on a motorcycle as she was working with her sister in the village of Shinkai Hindkian, said Afridi, the local health official. She was rushed to the hospital after the attack but eventually died from her injuries, said Afridi.
Another official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said the woman was shot by her cousin because of a family dispute. He said she was working on the anti-polio campaign at the time, but he claimed the two things were unrelated.
Polio usually infects children living in unsanitary conditions, attacks the nerves and can kill or paralyze. Most of the new cases in Pakistan are in the northwest, where the presence of militants makes it difficult to reach children. A total of 56 polio cases were reported in Pakistan during 2012, said Ahmed, the Sindh health minister.
Despite the obstacles, the government has teamed up with U.N. agencies to give oral polio drops to 34 million children under the age of five. Clerics and tribal elders have been recruited to support polio vaccinations in an attempt to open up areas previously inaccessible to health workers
Also Tuesday, two men on a motorcycle hurled hand grenades at the main gate of an army recruiting center in the northwestern town of Risalpur, wounding 10 people, including civilians and security personnel, said senior police official Ghulam Mohammed.
Gunmen on a motorcycle also shot a member of an anti-Taliban militia in the northwest Swat Valley, said senior police official Gul Afzal Khan.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for both attacks by telephone to The Associated Press.
Abbot reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Jamal Khan and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sherin Zada in Mingora, Pakistan, contributed to this report.


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Two metro Detroit hospitals have ranked among the best in the nation on the annual U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals list.
University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Michigan at the Detroit Medical Center both ranked on the list.
The rankings highlight the top 50 U.S. hospitals in each of 10 pediatric specialties: cancer; cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; gastroenterology and GI surgery; neonatology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopedics; pulmonology; and urology. Eighty-nine hospitals ranked in at least one of the 10 specialties.
Hospitals with high scores in three or more of the categories were named to the honor roll. No hospital in Michigan made this honor roll. Boston Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center took first, second and third place, respectively, on the honor roll.
Mott Hospital ranked sixth in the nation for cardiology and heart surgery with a score of 83.6 out of 100. Its second best score was in neurology and neurosurgery, where it ranked 23rd with a score of 75.3 out of 100.
Children's Hospital ranked 24th in two specialties: cancer, and neurology and neurosurgery. Cancer care received a score of 70 out of 100, and neurology and neurosurgery received 74.1 out of 100. The hospital was ranked in eight out of the 10 categories; it was not ranked for diabetes and endocrinology, or for orthopedics.
Spectrum Health's Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids was ranked in three specialties: 28th in cancer with a score of 68.7 out of 100; 33rd in urology with 64.1, and 50th in nephrology with 59.6.
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The title comes from a Chris Floyd post of July 28, Bodyguard of Lies: The Truth Behind the 'Surge's' Smokescreen.
For some time, I've wondered if Americans realize that they are being lied to by the Pentagon every single day, day in and day out, relentlessly in the matter of the Glorious War On Terror being conducted by our Blameless Forces.
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They tell big lies and small lies, lies of omission and great big fabricated fairy tales, lies to cover up specific acts of crime in the conquered land and lies designed to obscure the big picture of the overarching war crime of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. The first instinct of the propaganda mouthpieces of the Pentagon is, always, to lie, to distort, obfuscate, confuse, exaggerate or diminish -- whatever is required in their relentless campaign to make the foulest of crimes -- mass murder -- look like a noble deed.
This should be a self-evident truth to anyone who has been paying attention, and yet, Our Noble Warriors and their spokespeople are rarely challenged on their constant lying, certainly not by the media and not by Congress, unless it is to offer a "There, there, we understand how difficult your jobs are." Instead, every now and then, when some previous lie is made "inoperative" by some new lie, rarely by new facts (ask the Tillman family), the lies are simply accepted as New Truth, with no discussion, and we go on as if nothing were amiss.
Was it even this bad during the "5 o'clock follies" in Vietnam? Was it this bad when Pravda and Izvestia were parsed from end to end for any hint of the facts of the Soviet Union?
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"Human Rights: Everyone's Business"
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Adine, thank you for the marvelous introduction and for inviting me to participate in this important Summit devoted to business and human rights. I highly respect your skill and determination in pushing the envelope on corporate responsibility and in nurturing the corporate sector's relationship with CBSR, including RBC. Although your success in financial services and commitment to community leadership also stand out in my mind, I especially admire the way you think. For example, when asked by the newspaper Business in Vancouver: "What remains the biggest challenge to women in business", Adine's response was "changing the corporate climate to value intuition on an equal footing with rational decision-making."
And Adine's right on the mark in many cases and on many landscapes, it's very much about changing the climate or the culture. This is certainly true in terms of corporate responsibility - it's reflected in the growing recognition by investors, analysts, non-governmental organizations and various industry sectors at large (most notably the financial services sector), that there's more to a company's health than quarterly results. As you all well know, any company or organization can be vulnerable to a whole host of diverse influences that just aren't found on a traditional balance sheet. And human rights, is a good example of what I mean.
So for the next few minutes, I want to share some thoughts about the business of corporate responsibility and human rights, with a special focus on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights - a magnificent meeting place for human rights leadership, to be built in the geographic centre of Canada - in the great city of Winnipeg. And then, we'll open the floor to questions, as I really want to hear from you.
At RBC, we define corporate responsibility as operating with integrity at all times, sustaining our company's long-term viability while contributing to the present and future well-being of all of our stakeholders, not just our shareholders. We believe this balance is not only possible, it is imperative for our ongoing success. It's not a matter of whether a company can be both profitable and responsible, because in the long term, you can't have one without the other. The bottom line is that corporate responsibility is about how we operate our business, support economic prosperity and contribute to communities - it's about relationships with all stakeholders.
Increasingly, researchers, analysts and shareholders are asking companies to report on their environmental, social and ethical performance as well as on their financials. This "sustainability" or "non-financial" reporting is an emerging discipline. RBC's Sustainability Report and Index to Sustainability Information (which is available on our web site) provides the most detailed reporting on responsibility performance. And human rights is a significant component of this Report, in terms of our code of ethics and business principles, financial products and services, environmental concerns, supplier relations and engagement, not to mention human resource policies.
All companies and organizations have a fundamental responsibility to respect human rights in their own operations. Perhaps the business community also has a broader responsibility -- to use its influence to promote respect for human rights. How many of you are aware that April 17, 2005 marked the Twentieth Anniversary Year of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms? How many of you are aware that Section 15 revolves around equality rights - that it reads as follows: "Every individual is equal before the and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age, or mental or physical disability."
In order to protect human rights, we must know and understand our rights, as well as be determined to preserve them. It's become increasingly apparent that not enough Canadians are aware, as citizens, employees and employers. I for one, continue to learn each and every day.
Speaking of learning .in January of this year, POLLARA Public Opinion polled 2,360 Canadians for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Here are some findings: "A substantial majority of Canadians (81%) believe that human rights violations have taken place in Canada in the past, while almost one-in-five Canadians (19%) has personally been the victim of a human rights violation based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age or sexual orientation."
"When asked to think of human rights issues or events that have happened in Canada, Canadians recount violations against Canada's aboriginal peoples (17%), against Japanese-Canadians during World War II (7%), against new immigrants to Canada (6%), as well as against visible minorities (5%) and women (5%), against gays and lesbians (4%), wrongful convictions (3%), general racism and discrimination (3%), against organized labour (2%) and twenty other instances with 1% or fewer mentions. Only a third of Canadians (34%) could not immediately name a human rights violation when asked." According to Michael Marzolini, Chairman & CEO of POLLARA, "Canadians believe it is important to build the Museum for Human Rights - they believe that remembering our past is good insurance against such events ever being repeated."
Another Canadian also thought it was important to build the Museum - none other than the late Israel Asper, who established the Asper Foundation in 1983, the foundation that also sponsors the Holocaust and Human Rights Studies Program. It's this program that largely inspired Izzy's dream - his vision - for the creation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights - "the only human rights museum of this scale in the world." It will be a people centre to tell Canadian human rights stories, celebrate our heroes and capture Canada's human rights essence. It will also be an action centre to equip Canadians and others to be steadfast advocates for human rights and a meeting place for human rights leadership.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is an opportunity for Canada to brand human rights leadership on both the national and international stage. The Museum is an opportunity to put children, young people and education at the forefront of the national agenda. And the Museum is an opportunity to put a Canadian stamp on building effective public and private partnerships.
Before I wrap up my remarks, I want to share some marvelous information and stories about human rights with you. First of all, I was delighted to discover that the work of scores of Order of Canada recipients (over the years) is connected to human rights. Out of the 48 individuals invested into the Order on September 1st, three of them are involved with human rights: Diane Richler, C.M., of Toronto, Renée Dupuis, C.M., of Quebec City and Anne Hart, C.M., of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Very impressive!
Secondly, last month "a new era in human rights scholarship" got underway at McGill University, following a tremendous gift by law school alumnus, David O'Brien (who also happens to be chair of RBC Financial Group). "His $3-million donation has created five major fellowships that will be awarded every year to top graduate students from around the world. The O'Brien Fellows will be a pivotal source of ideas and energy for the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, a major new research group. The centre will see professors and students from the faculties of law, arts and education working together to study the legal and cultural aspects of human rights. As the news release read: "The fellowships gift comes at a time when human rights issues are taking on paramount importance to a world community repeatedly confronted with genocide and conflict." It's evident that David O'Brien's decision to contribute on such a large scale has a good deal to do with his strong interest in human rights and support of education. Again, very impressive!
Thirdly, congratulations to Scotiabank and Bank of Montreal (who are represented at this Summit and luncheon) for their significant contributions to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. In fact, the banking community has truly come together on this project, including RBC Financial Group through our Foundation. The "big 5" have made contributions ranging from $750,000 to $1.5 million which is also very impressive! On this one and rare occasion, I feel comfortable in speaking for my banker colleagues when I say that our investments are about a commitment to education, youth, diversity and corporate responsibility. On this note, I'm pleased that Frances Bedford-Jones (RBC Foundation) and Gord Kerr (RBC Human Resources) have joined us today to learn more about the business of human rights and to help spread the word about the Museum. By the way, if I missed a company or organization in this group, please speak up as it would be remiss not to mention all contributors to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The bottom line is that we (YOU) can make a difference
In closing, I ask you to picture 2010 - you've traveled to Winnipeg for the grand opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. As you enter the doors, you see or meet Gail Asper, the powerhouse spearheading this project (and daughter of Izzy Asper). Making your way through the crowd, you're drawn to an exhibit - a story that you heard at the CBSR Summit five years ago. It's a story celebrating the national historic significance of Mary and Henry Bibb - two people who "left an indelible mark on south-western Ontario and on Canada as a whole." It's a human rights story about remarkable individuals in Canada's history, "especially for African Canadians and for all other immigrants who, fleeing persecution and slavery, came to this country on the promises of liberty and opportunity. Mary and Henry Bibb produced The Voice of the Fugitive, the first major newspaper to be published by and for African Canadians. Despite discrimination in the public school system, the Bibbs established their own schools improving the education of African Canadian children and adults. One of their most important contributions was the role in organizing the North American Coloured Convention, held in Toronto in 1851. During this convention, people of colour vigorously debated emigration without the involvement of well-meaning Whites and other outside forces, thereby taking command of their own destiny." Henry and Mary Bibb have a place at the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada - now they can have a place, as part of Canada's legacy, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. As you picture 2010, just know this is one of countless hero stories!
You won't be surprised to hear me say how proud I am, as a Canadian, to be chairing the advisory council for the Museum. I urge all of you to reach for the stars when it comes to the business of human rights - and if you need a little encouragement along the way - to help your imagination picture 2010, I also invite you to read or revisit the National Post's June 22nd insert on Canada's Museum for Human Rights. We have copies of this "inspiring journey of hope" for everyone. Talk up the Museum across Canada - create anticipation about the Museum in your workplaces and communities. And stay tuned for exciting announcements in the weeks ahead. It's time to create the Canadian brand for human rights leadership!
Thank you Adine and CBSR
and thanks to one and all.
Now let's hear from you!


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My son came home with this book he made in kindergarten, and I had to share it. It's just too dang cute!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
What Puppies Love
Posted by Joanna at 4:48 PM
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- Lynsey Lou said...
Marshall! You Are An Author Just Like Your Mom! I Love This Book
- May 9, 2013 at 4:58:00 PM PDT
- mallorymallorah said...
That is adorable! This made me smile :)
- May 9, 2013 at 5:37:00 PM PDT
- amy and the bad cats said...
such a cute book! and i love that puppies love other puppies!
- June 6, 2013 at 11:00:00 AM PDT
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Knowledge management, as an academic area, is maturing; however, there are still problems connected with both the diversity of the theoretical base and the gap between theory and its practical application. In this paper we tackle these problems by reviewing a number of basic knowledge management theories with the intention of formulating a more integrated and at the same time practical planning framework. The focus guiding the literature selection is on basic theories about the nature of knowledge management, theories that expose the complex nature of knowledge in organizations. We examine these theories and try to understand what could be perceived as the paradoxical nature of these theories. Here we understand a paradox as something seemingly self‑contradictory though perhaps actually well‑ founded statement. We focus on four areas or themes: 1) knowledge as the key resource of a business, 2) knowledge as a competitive force and source of growth, 3) the nature of the management of a knowledge resource, and 4) the management of knowledge workers. From a practical point of view, the conflicting arguments of these theories can be seen as possible strategic options. Based on these discussions we then formulate a framework, or what might be called a strategic option generator. As a concluding discussion we focus on the contribution of ISIT to the realization of the different possible strategic options. This is done on a rather general level, where we examine the possibilities of ISIT in relation to the paradoxes.
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Should a fool fall upon a great fortune, strangers will feast while his family starves. Tirukural, Verse 837
Seeker: "Swami, how do you channel your higher self?" Swami: "Well, the most important thing is to clear your mind out first. When God is looking for a place to stay, He wants to make sure there is a vacancy or else He won't stop." Swami Beyondananda
Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. American philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Hindu children attending my school will probably never become Catholics, but they will also never be good Hindus." A Sri Lankan Catholic priest on the impact of his Catholic school on Hindu children.
"A recipe from Down Under: Australia is a secular society, we need to add religion and stir vigorously." Jaffna Tamil Prashanth Shanmugan, a religiously active Hindu teenager living in Australia
Did you hear about a meditating Hindu who visited the dentist for a root canal and requested no Novacain? Asked why by a startled doctor, he explained he wanted to transcend dental medication.
"A dip in the Ganga can remove past sins which we repent for. But it is not fair to say, 'I am now going to commit such and such a sin and it is okay, because I can simply bathe in the Ganga to remove it!' " H.H. Sri Jagadguru Bharati Tirtha Dakshinamnayam, Shankaracharya of Sringeri Peetam, speaking on the purifying effects of the holy Ganges river
"If people wish to eat meat and run the risk of dying a horrible, lingering, hormone-induced death after sprouting extra breasts and large amounts of hair, it is, of course, entirely up to them. I can recollect countless assurances from sundry ministers that there was no danger to humans from mad cow disease. The meat-eating habit has suffered a succession of serious blows to its image from which it seems unlikely to recover. Veggies are on the march. Our food is exciting, varied, cruelty-free and safe. I am convinced that in years to come we will regard eating animal flesh in the same light as we now regard cannibalism." Excerpted from "Why All Meat Should be Condemned," a March, 1997, essay published in a London newspaper by Tony Banks, Minister of Parliament, UK
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We are targeting new and existing markets. We are producing a number of different small and big items, from micro greens to heads of lettuce. Our desired audience is consumers but also grocery stores and restaurants like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Safeway. They want to see a produce company that is safe, fresh, sustainable, consistent, and available. This logo is going to go on packaging, building, trucks, business cards, etc.
Our plants sit in plastic troughs, where the top of the plant is exposed, and the roots of the plant sit in water within the trough. I prefer a logo that portrays this, it shows a simple green plant sitting in water, where you can also see the roots. DO not be complicated, keep it simple, no hairlines nothing extraordinary. If you have your own ideas please share, when you are writing the company name make the letters vertical. Concentrate on this logo, Vertical Harvest means that we are growing vertically, literally, growing in buildings and in water. You can try drawing plants growing vertically in a building, or just on a straight vertical line. Use your imagination while keeping it simple, but remember we want to portray natural, while also showing a hint of futurism. I want someone to be able to see this logo when its in small and big print (reason I want it to be simple), and be intrigued by both. You can take a look at other produce company logo's, but I want ours to be different, more visionary, there logo's are too simple. Try and involve water in the logo, that we are growing just using water, it will set us apart from the rest. So here it is natural, innovative, simple and intriguing! Good luck!
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'Captain Cromwell' ready to retire
CROMWELL >> Edwin L. Kosinski Jr., a police officer for the nearly 23 years and the captain of the Cromwell Police Department, is retiring.
Kosinski will officially leave the department on Nov. 30.
Kosinski would not say what he intends to do once he does retire, but did say he will remain in Connecticut.
"Let's just say I am pursuing new opportunities and they are still developing, so I don't want to comment any further at this time," Kosinski said.
Kosinski took over as captain in July 2010, when then-captain Roy Nelson left to become chief of the Williston, VT, Police Department.
Kosinski joined the force in 1990.
"I had wanted to be a police officer, and so I did a blanket search and applied to a number of departments," he said. Among the departments he applied to was Cromwell.
When it came time to choose, he chose Cromwell.
"There are some unique qualities about Cromwell," Kosinski said during an interview in his sunlit office at police headquarters Friday afternoon.
Over the next 20 years, he went from being a patrol officer, to the detective division, to sergeant to captain.
"Within each of those positions, I functioned in a number of additional roles," Kosinski said. "But, that was my progression."
In that time, Kosinski said, he has seen a number of changes in the field of law enforcement.
"Technology is probably the one where there has been the most significant change," he said.
"When I first came on, there were very few computers in the building and certainly none in the cruisers."
That has changed dramatically in the intervening two decades, Kosinski said. Now, each cruiser is fitted with a mobile data terminal, which links police officers to a wide range of records.
In addition, Kosinski said the means of communicating then were so different than they are now, "with the various social mediums that are available."
If technology has brought vast changes, so too, did the attacks of Sept, 11, 2001, Kosinski said.
"There you have the whole issue of homeland security and a heightened awareness of your surroundings," Kosinski said.
Kosinski, who is the father to two sons, said, "I thoroughly enjoyed my time here, and I will miss the people I worked with."
Police Chief Anthony J. Salvatore wished Kosinski well "in his new endeavors."
"The captain was part of the department for nearly 23 years, during which time he filled a number of positions: He was also a member of the marine patrol, in addition to his roles as a patrol officer, a member of the detective division, as a sergeant and then as captain," Salvatore said Friday.
Kosinski was also the president of the police union.
"While he was captain, Captain Kosinski greatly assisted in putting together the proposal for the major overhaul of our communications system," Salvatore said, adding that the proposal was recently "approved overwhelmingly at a town meeting."
Kosinski's impending retirement was announced Wednesday during a Board of Police Commissioners meeting.
Several selectmen congratulated Kosinski and thanked him for his service.
Selectwoman Ann M. Halibozek was effusive in her praise. When she finished speaking, Kosinski replied with a quiet, "Thanks, Ann."
Selectman Allan Waters hailed Kosinski as "one fine gentleman," and told Salvatore, "He's one of your best officers. He's the type of officer every town should have."
"Whoever gets his place, I hope he will have the same personality as Mr. Kosinski," Waters said.


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When "C" and I went out to get the mail yesterday,
she asked me why she never gets any mail.
Well it just about broke my heart.
Then I realized an easy way for her to get her own mail
is if she starts sending some of her own to grandparents,
aunts and uncles, neighbor friends, and great grandmas!
I remembered the wonderful letter writing center in Mariah Bruehl's book
and decided it was time to make our own (smaller) version.
We started with a basic lesson on how to properly address
an envelope. I glued an envelope to a piece of card stock
showing where to put a return address label,
the address and name of the person you are sending the card or drawing to,
and where to put 1 stamp. : )
I had to emphasize that stamps are not stickers and you only use ONE per envelope.
Then, I needed a way for "C" and "E" to have addresses
for the people they would be mailing cards to.
So, I printed small photos of all of our important people
and slipped each one in a baseball card collecting page protector.
Then, I made address labels for each person and stacked them
in the proper pouch behind their photos.
I also made some key vocabulary word cheat sheets
for "C" since she's learning sight words and can copy names
and words if she has one to look at.
I didn't have a super cute basket or bin to put the supplies in
but then we received a care package from Grandma in Texas
and I just cut off the top flaps of the priority mail box and put everything inside.
I even used the two long flaps as little dividers inside the box.
I included two boxes filled with blank cards, envelopes, writing utensils.
I also included school directories and a neighborhood directory
in case "E" wants to look up an address.
Blank cards. Some homemade and some are from our stationery stash.
The ones on top were made from "paintings" by my mom's cat on her iPad.
Blurry photo of envelopes, stamps, etc. in the other box.
"C" didn't let me finish stocking the box before she was "writing"
her first card to grammy.
There are three cards in today's outgoing mail. : )
As soon as "E" got home from school, she wrote a letter
to her best friend as well. I think this little letter writing box
is going to be a fun new activity for the girls.
This is a fun activity for this time of year as practice
for Valentine's Day!
This was a million years ago, look how little "C" was!
Wish we still had our homemade mail box,
we may need to make another one for incoming and outgoing mail!
Photo used with permission from Ikat Bag blog.
We're planning to make some of Ikat Bag blog's awesome
homemade sticker card sets today after school!
Go here to get the full tutorial.
We will also be making a new batch of my
We're off to the post office to buy more stamps!


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Went to Oly and testified on HB2153 on Thursday. This bill mirrors SB5977 and is expected to pass. This would allow 2 lic numbers on your discovery pass. Current holders will be able to write in a second license number on your current pass. We discussed a bill HB2217 that would allow all of the vehicles registered to your address to be covered. This probably wont go anywhere this year but we will continue working on this for next year. I also suggested that the purchaser of the pass be allowed to decide how the funds are split. (i.e.. 80% to DNR instead of parks ) the committee seemed open to this idea. Several groups were present to support 2153 including PNW4WDA, WSSA, Wa. state parks, WTA, Hunters heritage council.
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This was the hearing on Thursday. My testimony is at about 46 min.
Member #40 Hombres jeep club
Region 2 landmatters chairman
Is everyone OK with HB 2373 as currently written (see key points from House bill report).
Its on the Senate floor, eligible for a vote.
Are there any other key bills we all should be weighing in on?
5pm Friday is the cut-off to pass out of the opposite chamber.
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HB 2373 - 2011-12 Concerning the state's management of its recreational resources.
Sponsors: Representatives Van De Wege, Tharinger
Brief Summary of Engrossed Second Substitute Bill
Includes all land and land types managed by the Washington State
Department of Natural Resources (DNR), other than aquatic lands, for which
a Discover Pass or day-use permit is required.
Exempts possessor of a daily Sno-Park permit from requiring a Discover Pass
or day-use permit at designated Sno-Parks.
Modifies the validity of the Discover Pass to begin when the pass has been
marked for activation.
Allows for the single purchase of a Discover Pass or Vehicle Access Pass to
be valid for two license plate numbers.
Limits any transaction and dealer fee that causes the price of the Discover
Pass or day-use permit to exceed the price in statute to be assessed only for
those purchased through the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's
(WDFW) automated licensing system.
Allows for the Discover Pass and day-use permit to be obtained by retailers.
Expands the options of where a Discover Pass and day-use permit can be
purchased and authorizes the Washington State Parks and Recreation
Commission (State Parks) to utilize unstaffed collection stations.
Redistributes local sales and use tax revenues assessed at the State Parks from
local jurisdictions to a dedicated account within the State Parks.
Provides a complimentary Discover Pass to eligible disabled Washington
Requires free access days at state parks and suggests they be timed with
National Park Service free days.
Codifies that the DNR, the WDFW, and the State Parks must designate free
15-minute short-term parking.
Adds exemptions for certain circumstances from requiring the Discover Pass
or day-use permit.
Adds to the types of vehicles for which the owners are given the opportunity
to donate to state parks upon vehicle registration.
Creates a $10 state parks support fee on recreational vehicle registrations until
July 1, 2015, for deposit into the Parks Renewal and Stewardship Account,
with funds directed towards the operation and maintenance at the State Parks
that accommodate recreational vehicles.
Creates an up to $50 Family Discover Pass that is transferable among any
Allows tsunami cleanup to count as volunteer hours towards a free Discover
Requires the agencies to develop proposals for finding consistent state
recreational policies where inconsistencies exist and to report findings to the
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Signs of the coming spring are beginning to show here in the Northwest. For one thing the coyotes are screaming at night and I suppose that means there will soon be pups and then even more coyote screaming and yipping. The resident rabbit population will need to go into hiding if it wants to survive.
Another sign of spring is the arrival of many, many extra dust bunnies at our house, in fact they're not bunnies at all but the size of full grown rabbits! Since our primary heat source is a wood stove this gives rise to the large dust bunny population as well as layers of dust in every nook and cranny. Many of them have no doubt been lurking about for awhile but now that the days are sunnier and also a bit longer the bunnies are much more noticeable, just begging to have a visit with the broom and dust mops. Our house has lots of large windows so today it was time to attack the layer of dust and smoke that had accumulated on the glass and also the valances were looking a bit droopy, and no wonder when I saw the layer of dust and smoke clinging on to them!! Oh my. So I bravely went at it and now have sparkling clean windows you can actually see through, clean valances and a reduced population of dust bunnies. My eyes feel as though they're full of gravel but that's a small price to pay.
Because of all this flurry of activity over the last several days I've not done any blogging so it's time to start catching up with some posts. I've been toying with the idea of making the two family history blogs back into static sites and leaving "The Four Dog Blog" and "The Graveyard Rabbit of North Snohomish County" in blog format. Static sites might work better for the readers of the history blogs but the other two lend themselves quite well to blogging. Well, we'll have to see how the dust bunny population explodes before making a decision on that. Meanwhile, I'm preparing a new post for "The Four Dog Blog" for tonight before getting back to our record digitizing project. All that writing should allow plenty of time for the dust bunny population to explode again!
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Because Howard Street was covered for the event, she argued with police and security personnel that she could legally stand near the center of Oracle OpenWorld to protest the event.
Her placard read, "In the midst of today's race fun, remember that San Francisco will lose multimillions as hosts! Shame on Larry Ellison."
She told CRN that the taxpayers of San Francisco were persuaded that the event would be profitable for the city. "But it cost taxpayers," she said. "Sponsorships fell through. People didn't come."
When asked about the prestige of hosting the event, she replied, "Prestige? Prestige does not pave our roads. It doesn't help the homeless."


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Commissioners tossed out ideas that ranged from streamlining the process at City Hall for developers and business owners to finding money for city employee raises.
DAYTONA BEACH — Over the past year, the city has checked off dozens of things on its priority list, including building two new community centers, creating a new dog park and working with developers who are moving toward opening a new museum and two new hotels on the ocean.
On Wednesday, city commissioners huddled for their annual meeting to figure out what they want to focus on in the year ahead and tossed out ideas that ranged from streamlining the process at City Hall for developers and business owners to finding money for city employee raises.
City Manager Jim Chisholm will compile all the suggestions into a priority list that will guide commissioners as they figure out what to tackle in the coming months and what should be included in the budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.
Although an overhaul of Orange Avenue appears close to beginning, City Commissioner Rob Gilliland said that will remain on his priority list "until it's done." City Commissioners Patrick Henry and Paula Reed said they want citizens to have a chance to give input on the Orange Avenue project, which will include reconstructing the road and replacing aging pipes beneath it.
Gilliland broached the topic of raises for city employees, saying he'd like to do it "if at all possible."
"It shows folks we appreciate the hard work they've done," Gilliland said.
He also agreed with other commissioners that City Hall needs to be more customer friendly for people trying to open and improve businesses, or take care of things going on with their property.
"We need to make it an easier and shorter process," he said.
City Commissioner Pam Woods said city staff needs to complete its protracted process to rewrite its land development code. Master plans for new development on the beachside as well as the mainland rely on those codes to make new development easier, she said.
City Commissioner Carl Lentz said he thinks the city would benefit from creating an ombudsman for development, a primary contact for all city projects as they move through different phases. "It's a complicated process," Lentz said.
"People tell me all the time how hard it is to get business done" in Daytona Beach, Henry said.
When commissioners shifted to other topics, Woods said she wants increasing the number of owner-occupied homes in the city to remain a priority.
"I think it's huge if we're ever going to have the city looking like we want it to," Woods said.
City Commissioner Kelly White said the city should pursue more partnerships with private businesses like it has with Joe's Crab Shack on the pier to generate money for the city. White also said she wants the city to start accomplishing things in the city's master plans for the Beach Street area, Midtown and the beachside core tourist area.
Commissioners also talked about rethinking how they operate their community redevelopment areas.
Mayor Derrick Henry said he wants the city to continue focusing on flooding issues, how to better enforce policies like the number of days each year businesses have to be open, and figure out a way to resurface Martin Luther King Boulevard.