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Car announced a bold 3-year plan in Sebring on Wednesday night before a
large contingent of gathered media that will see the series grow both
domestically as well as internationally. For the first time in
many years teams, drivers, sponsors and manufacturers have a clear
picture of Champ Car's business plan for the future, and quite frankly
it's exciting.
Champ Car's plan is to
continue to build and expand an internationally recognized series of
drivers and events. A focus will remain on diverse circuit types -
short ovals, super speedway ovals, street course circuits, and permanent
road courses.
They will continue to build
on their Festival concept whereby they deliver entertainment value to
families and professionals = multiple segments
They plan to continue to
improve their TV package and deliver increasing exposure to their
partners. Increased race attendance is also a major goal.
Below is an outline of Champ
Car's bold 3-year plan.
2005 - Stepping Stone to
the Future
Multi-year network deals
Increased international
presence - 500,000,000 household reach, 2 billion potential viewers
New production team
Consistent graphic look
across networks
Consistent announce team
Focus on increasing
14 races
3 new venues, multi year
50% domestic and 50%
Continuing NAFTA focus
Focus on building
successful 3-day events
Focus on building young
audience, stabilizing existing audience - introduce drifting
exhibitions, grassroots marketing, Fan Club
Activation by partners
(Bridgestone, McDonalds, Ford, AOL, etc.)
Increase recognition of
Continue 3-day festivals
Focus on attracting top
drivers and sponsors
Stabilization of teams
and drivers
Attract new teams to the
Purchase Cosworth to
assure availability of engines
Purchase of Pi to ensure
advanced electronics
Continuation of new
technologies like push-to-pass and alternate Bridgestone tires
Continuation of
multi-year network deals
Increase in number of
network broadcasts
Increase international
Continue to focus on
ratings growth
Develop and execute new
Expand by 2-3 races
50% domestic, 50%
Build on Far East
strategy with planned event in Beijing, China
Expand to South America
- Argentina and/or Brazil
Continue multi-year
Continue NAFTA focus
Focus on building
successful events
Increase national and
international marketing
Continue building
recognition of drivers
Focus on building young
Focus on attracting and
retaining top drivers and sponsors
Focus on retention of
existing drivers
Development of new
Development of new
technologies like push-to-pass and alternate Bridgestone tires.
Build on Far East
strategy with planned event in Japan
Introduce new chassis
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I recently finished reading Glenn David Brasher's new study of 1862's Peninsula Campaign for a book review that will appear in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. It is entitled, The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation: African Americans & the Fight for Freedom (UNC Press, 2012). It is a terrific book and one I hope will receive much deserved critical praise and awards. If your book budget is tight like mine, Brasher's book is well worth making a priority buy.
So why am I singing the praises of this book? First, because it combines the best of traditional military history with the newer social history of the Civil War. Brasher studies one of the pivotal campaigns of the American Civil War, George McClellan's unsuccessful effort to flank Richmond's main defenses by making an amphibious landing south of the city on the peninsula between the James and York rivers. The story of the failed Peninsula Campaign is well known, so I will not repeat it here yet again. What sets apart Glenn David Brasher's study is how he restores African Americans to their central place in the history of the campaign, as a logistical force multiplier for both armies, and makes a case for how Union defeat on the Peninsula proved pivotal in shifting public opinion in the North in favor of emancipation. As he writes, "The contributions that African Americans had made to both armies, coupled with the failure of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, played a role in turning many Northerners in favor of emancipation" (191).
Just as important is Brasher's trenchant analysis of contemporary accounts of African Americans fighting for the Confederacy during the Peninsula Campaign. As a responsible scholar, he does not accept the fantasy promoted by modern neo-Confederates that tens or even hundreds of thousands of African Americans fought as soldiers for the Confederacy. But wisely, neither does he reject these stories outright. I too have come across them in other contexts early in the Civil War, particularly in the aftermath of First Bull Run, and have written about them extensively in this blog (see July 27, July 28, August 1, and August 17 of 2011).
Indeed, one of the most useful contributions of The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation is the intelligent and insightful analysis that Brasher makes about the stories at the time of armed blacks in Confederate service, placing them in the larger context of the debate over emancipation in the North during the spring and summer of 1862. His basic point here, in a nutshell, is while some armed black men probably were scattered across the Confederate forces on the Peninsula and probably fired their weapons against Union forces, their numbers were quite small, as the Confederate government at the time and until the last days of the war rejected arming slaves or even free blacks. But their existence or stories of their existence was used and exaggerated by supporters of immediate abolition and enlisting black men in the Union army. It was in abolitionists' interest to maximize the perceived value of African Americans to the Confederacy, Brasher argues credibly, to convince white Northerners that they should have African Americans as soldiers in the Union army and free them and other people of their race without delay. He writes:
Obviously there were exaggerations and fabrications in these accounts, but the evidence does suggest that early in the war at least some blacks were observed fighting in Confederate ranks. Most were probably body servants, and while some may have been caught up in the thrill of combat, it is more likely that they were forced into service, deceived by their masters' tales of the designs of the evil Yankees, or motivated by a desire to demonstrate their loyalty to their owners when it was unclear who would win the war (53).
An important reason Glenn David Brasher's interpretation in this regard is credible is that it makes sense of Frederick Douglass' heretofore puzzling comment in Douglass' Monthly in September 1861, accepting black Confederate soldiers as an established fact. Evidently, Douglass was inclined to believe these accounts because they bolstered his argument in favor of enlisting African Americans in the Union Army and immediate emancipation. According to Brasher, it was an argument that Douglass and other abolitionists would make and continue to make until the Lincoln administration finally embraced emancipation and African Americans as soldiers.
Still, The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation is not without blemish. Brasher takes his interpretation a little too far, arguing that had McClellan triumphed on the Peninsula in 1862 that emancipation likely would not have occurred. Clearly, Brasher accepts the idea that had Richmond fallen that year the Confederacy would have fallen with it, before enough white Northerners had accepted emancipation as a military necessity, allowing slavery to survive the war. This idea is flawed. While the Richmond's fall in 1862 would have been a hard blow for the South, it is likely the Confederate government and army would have survived. Psychologically and logistically, in 1862, the Confederacy was not ready for defeat, and still had the will and means to continue to resist, even without Richmond. The city was not the Confederacy's center-of-gravity. That belonged with the Confederate army and more broadly with the white population of the South. It would take three more years, and the hard war of Grant, Sherman, and other Union commanders to break the Confederacy.
So, Glenn David Brasher, like many scholars before him, tries to squeeze a little too much significance out of his argument, but this flaw does not diminish the overall highly insightful quality of The Peninsula Campaign & the Necessity of Emancipation. I very much recommend it. Indeed, it is my present candidate thus far for best book of 2012 on the American Civil War (prize committees please take note).


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A man carries a child as he walks past burnt houses at Htan Kone village, in Myanmar's northern Sagaing region August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunPresident Thein Sein traveled to Myanmar's conflict-torn west on Oct.1 as a new spate of sectarian violence gripped the state of Rakhine, with police saying Buddhist rioters killed a 94-year-old Muslim woman and torched more than 70 homes.
Police officer Kyaw Naing said clashes broke out in Thabyachaing village, about 20 kilometers north of the coastal town of Thandwe, on Tuesday afternoon.
He said the 94-year-old woman, Aye Kyi, died of stab wounds and that between 70 and 80 houses were set on fire.
The visit by Thein Sein to the divided region was his first since sectarian violence broke out more than a year ago.
He arrived in the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe and was scheduled to travel to several more towns in the area, including Maungdaw to the north and Thandwe to the south, where Buddhist mobs started torching Muslim homes Sunday, a senior official in the president's office said. He declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the sensitive trip.
Sectarian clashes that began in Rakhine state in June 2012 have since morphed into an anti-Muslim campaign that has spread to towns and villages nationwide. So far, hundreds of people have been killed and more than 140,000 have fled their homes, the vast majority of them Muslims.
Thein Sein, who has been praised for making moves to transition from half a century of military rule, has also been criticized for failing to contain the unrest and protect the country's embattled Muslim minority.
The latest flare-up began in the coastal town of Thandwe on Sept. 28 after a Buddhist taxi driver told police he had been verbally abused by a Muslim small business owner while trying to park in front of his shop, according to a state government spokesman.
Police took the Muslim man in for questioning. But when he was released soon afterward, people became angry and started throwing stones at his home.
Several houses were burned Sunday, and a curfew was imposed. But on Tuesday, ethnic Rakhine Buddhist mobs began new arson attacks in the region, 270 kilometers northwest of Yangon.
Hundreds of rioters burned "many" Muslim homes in three villages near Thandwe on Oct.1 morning, according to a police officer stationed in Thandwe who declined to be identified. He said the villages included Thabyuchaing, Shwe Hlay and Linthi, all of them about 30 kilometers from the town center.
A Muslim resident of Thandwe, Myo Min, said three other villages elsewhere had also been hit, and some Buddhist homes were burned in the mayhem.
A similar incident occurred in Thandwe three months ago when two Muslim houses were burned down after rumors circulated that a woman had been raped by Muslim men.


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Now, however, Ligety is a marked man. Last season was the best of his career and he is shouldering the aspirations of the U.S. Olympic ski team, which is looking to him for at least one gold medal in Sochi. With an array of major endorsements, Ligety has become a familiar face in the weeks leading into the 2014 Winter Games.
The attention and lofty expectations — and the need to atone for a disappointing 2010 performance in Vancouver — make the 2006 experience seem quaint. But Ligety, 29, says he's a much better skier, technically and psychologically, and is up to the challenge.
"I think I've definitely matured a lot as an athlete since my first Olympics," he said. "I think I have figured out how to become more consistent on the World Cup, figured out how to get my best performances, especially on those important days."
A native of Park City, Utah, Ligety is a notoriously late bloomer who attributes much of his success to hard work.
As a kid racer, he was never the fastest, and getting beat all the time motivated him to train more intensely, and to become a student of the technical aspects of the sport.
He spent years honing his distinctive method of attacking a course, carving edge-to-edge turns through an entire race and virtually eliminating the sliding maneuver that most skiers often resort to. The result is the appearance that he is skating.
"He's figured out a way to ski…in a manner that was really different from any of his peers, and I'd say a lot of that is his astuteness," said Forest Carey, one of Ligety's U.S. Ski Team coaches. "He's pretty analytical. He has a science-y mind."
That approach propelled Ligety to his dark-horse gold-medal performance in Turin. But it really made a difference after the International Ski Federation in 2011 changed the rules for his signature event, the giant slalom, mandating a return to longer, straighter skis.
The move was attributed to a rise in injuries blamed on the rise of parabolic-shaped skis that made turning easier.
Ligety was one of the most outspoken critics of the ruling, but it ended up doing him a favor. His "catapult" technique suited the use of the old-style skis.
He started the 2012-13 World Cup season by winning the giant slalom in Soelden, Australia by 2.75 seconds, the largest winning margin in three decades. He went on to eight more first-place finishes, including gold medals in the giant slalom, super-combined and super-G at the world championships in Schladming, Austria. He was the first man in 45 years to win three events at a world championship.
It was another example of Ligety exceeding everyone's expectations. But he is quick to remind that the Schladming performance was virtually impossible to repeat, especially at the Olympics.
He's not taking anything for granted, though. He'll be racing five events — the giant slalom, slalom, super-combined, super-G and downhill — all winter in preparation for what could be his defining Olympic moment. He could be a medal contender in all but the downhill, his weakest event.
"I feel like right now I'm at the peak of my career, so I'm really looking forward to the opportunity," he said.


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With a landmark 500th episode looming in its near future, "The Simpsons" has already leaked one of its big surprise guests.
Which is fitting, seeing as it will be none other than controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 40-year-old will be playing himself in a storyline that sees the Simpson family booted out of Springfield and forced to relocate. They discover that Assange is their new neighbor.
"He invites [Homer and Marge] over for a home movie and it's an Afghan wedding being bombed," says "Simpsons" executive producer Al Jean in an Entertainment Weekly interview.
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Jean also revealed that he had to contact Assange - who is under house arrest after being accused of sexual assault and possibly charges of espionage against the U.S. - via the phone, and that Assange recorded his lines this past summer in an undisclosed location.
"The Simpsons" 500th episode airs Sunday, February 19th on Fox.
Selected Reading: MSNBC, Entertainment Weekly, Telegraph


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Inside Rio's digital heart
Automated subway trains, talking trashcans and sensors showing available parking spaces: Smart city schemes are designed to make everyday life in urban areas easier. Rio de Janeiro is using high-tech systems to prepare for the Olympic games. We visit the city's digital hub
An alarm is sounding in the "centro de operações," prompting hectic activity in Rio de Janeiro's unofficial HQ. A downtown office block has caught fire. While the emergency services are still initiating rescue measures, the traffic experts calculate the best detours and send traffic alerts to digital roadside panels located along the city's arterial roads. At the same time, they also inform taxi companies and citizens via text messages and social media. Radio reporters in an adjacent room interrupt their stations' programing to update listeners on the traffic situation.
The command center is located behind a mirrored façade on the edge of Rio's downtown area. With its 50-meter-wide wall of screens, the main operations room is reminiscent of a futuristic hub. The screens show images of pinch points throughout the city: roads, tunnels and bridges that are used by cars at all hours. A digital map of Rio, on which traffic jams are shown in red, purple and yellow, forms the centerpiece. Four hundred employees control the city's activities around the clock, seven days a week. They analyze the data supplied to their computers by 900 cameras and more than 10,000 sensors. This enables them to locate garbage trucks and – if necessary – send them to places where garbage is piling up. Broken-down trains, blackouts, interruptions to the water supply and problems at sewage treatment plants – all these are immediately reported to Rio's control center, which quickly tries to find solutions. "We are the eyes and ears of Rio de Janeiro," says Pedro Junqueira, the control center manager.
The smooth flow and processing of information in real-time form the core of what urban planning authorities and IT companies mean by "smart city." It is a bold definition, because the term, which has been popular in urban planning circles for around ten years, is as multi-layered as the problems the world's metropolises wrestle with. However, some issues are almost universal: traffic jams, garbage mountains, parking problems. Other difficulties include safeguarding the water supply, security and the efficient use of energy.
IT and digital networks are increasingly helping to create safe, clean and well-organized municipalities. Civic leaders' biggest nightmares have created a future, and guaranteed, growth market for the IT industry. Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities, and around the world 180,000 people migrate to metropolises every day. According to U.N. projections, in 35 years around 70 percent of the world's population will live in urban areas. Companies like IBM, Siemens, Cisco and, most recently, Google, are competing for the profits generated by these developments.
In the worst-case scenario, an entire city could be switched off with a single mouse click
In the worst-case scenario, an entire city could be switched off with a single mouse click
The control center in Rio de Janeiro was conceived by IBM. Shortly before the mayor, Eduardo Paes, awarded the contract in 2010, the city was struck by a catastrophe. Torrential rains had caused devastating landslides. Many houses were destroyed and hundreds of people died. The authorities were accused of having failed their duties. The argument was that there should have been an appropriate early warning system in place, a properly functioning sewer system and more sturdily constructed houses – especially in the favelas, all of which would have greatly reduced the levels of devastation. While the city is proud of its spectacular mountains and vast bays, its infrastructure is thoroughly dilapidated. Paes was certain that as host of the 2014 Soccer World Cup and this summer's Olympic games, Rio was in great need of improvement, but time and money were scarce. The "centro de operações" represented the best chance of redesigning at least some aspects of life in the city more efficiently.
Siemens is one of the world's largest suppliers of smart city solutions, focusing on traffic management. Martin Powell, who heads up the company's urban development division, was previously employed as an environmental consultant by the Greater London Authority. At the time, Siemens built London's toll system. Today, this system automatically records, and collects payments from, all vehicles in central London. At the same time the company improved the city's subways. An automated control system now regulates the frequency of train services. This has increased capacity by a third. The result: car traffic decreased by 20 percent, leading to a reduction in air pollution and traffic jams.
In Berlin, Siemens built a sensor and camera-supported congestion reporting system. The potential savings are enormous: In Germany alone, vehicles stuck in traffic consume almost 30 million liters of gasoline a day. Lastly, in a pilot project, Siemens installed radar sensors on some of Berlin's streetlights, which transmit information about available parking spaces to car drivers via an app.
Barcelona, New York, Tokyo or Copenhagen – today, there are thousands of smart city schemes all over the world. Entire neighborhoods are designed to be energy efficient and are equipped with high-tech solutions right from the start. Like Masdar City, the solar-powered, "carbon-neutral city of science" in the desert outside Abu Dhabi. Or the Songdo neighborhood in South Korea, built only eleven years ago and designed entirely on the drawing board. Songdo is located on a man-made island near Seoul and is currently home to 40,000 people. It is also Cisco's showcase project. Cameras peer into almost every corner. Apartments, offices, hospitals and schools in Songdo are fully networked and can be controlled with the aid of mobile communications. A further Cisco project is being tested in Barcelona: Thousands of motion detectors have been installed on streetlights, in trashcans and underneath the surface of the road. Traffic lights turn green immediately when a fire truck approaches, full trashcans send a signal directly to garbage trucks.
IT giant Google has also entered the networked city business. Sidewalk Labs, the Google subsidiary founded for this purpose, is headed up by CEO Daniel Doctoroff. Doctoroff served as the deputy mayor of New York City under Michael Bloomberg, and was responsible for the city's infrastructure and economic development. Sidewalk Labs has announced that its aim is to supply all urban areas around the world with free Internet connections. The company started implementing its plans in New York City, where telephone booths are gradually being replaced by powerful WiFi hotspots. In the long run, Google is planning to build a system of automated buses, trains and self-driving cars.
Despite the obvious advantages of these smart city schemes, they have not infrequently been criticized. Data protection campaigners warn of the risk of total surveillance. And there is an even more sensitive issue: The complexity of the applications and the centralized nature of the networks make "smart cities" more vulnerable to system failures, and to attacks by hackers and terrorists. "Highly centralized systems are always of interest to potential attackers. In the worst-case scenario, you could disable an entire city with a single mouse click," warns Sandro Gaycken, a cyber security expert and Director of the Digital Society Institute at the European School for Management and Technology in Berlin. The industry knows this risk, and counters the threat with firewalls and emergency backups. It also advertises its successes. Siemens manager Powell emphasizes the positive effects of smart technology. "In London, cameras were installed everywhere. This has caused a marked decrease in the crime rate," he says. "In addition to this, traffic moves more quickly, which has caused a reduction in air pollution."
We are the eyes and ears of Rio de Janeiro
So what were the experiences in Rio de Janeiro? "We cannot eliminate all the problems at once," says Junqueira, of the city's high-tech control center. He does, however, regard the 2014 Soccer World Cup as having been a successful dress rehearsal for the Olympics. Of course, there were traffic jams when large numbers of people flocked to the Maracanã stadium or to the public viewing zone along Copacabana beach. But despite hundreds of thousands of visitors, even locals were astonished that the traffic chaos was not more severe than normal.
Junqueira is especially proud of his latest early-warning system. A highly sensitive weather radar system located on the city's hills can spot rainfall as far as 350 kilometers away. Powerful computers then predict which neighborhoods are threatened by severe weather. At-risk roads can thus be closed, and inhabitants alerted to head for the shelters by text message. Most recently and in partnership with the Japanese technology group NEC, Rio tested sensor-based technologies including a smartphone app designed to predict landslides. This represents another lasting benefit for the city, one that will remain after the Olympic fire has gone out.
This story first appeared in the May issue of Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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Depends on the nature of the compliment.Someone comments on how good I happen to look that day? Aw, shucks, thanks. Someone gushes about how good the event sounded (my job)? Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Try to compliment me on my writing? That might trigger the Modesty Alert. >.>;
Out of curiosity, Torch, how do you take it if someone responds to a compliment with a potentially self-deprecating joke?When I had reunited with some old high school friends I hadn't seen in years, one of them said "You look so great!", and without missing a beat I smiled and said "You're a filthy liar. I got huge!" and went in for a hug. It's not the same as sighing, and saying "God, I look terrible" or something, but to you, would it still come off as considering the compliment insincere?I'm also never sure how to compliment women I randomly see on the street or as hostess to a restaurant or something. Sometimes I see a woman whose clothing, hair style and accessories come together so well, but I've got it buried into my brain that if a husky fellow with a five o'clock shadow tries to pay them a compliment they're going to scream "Rape".
I'm not sure if my responses are that fantastic either even though I don't go 'no I look like shit today.' It's more along the line of 'I do don't I?' or 'I know, thanks.' followed by the person and me laughing with my reaction
One man said he fell in love with my legs and another said my voice melted him. I'd smile at first and reply with something neutral because it made me feel uncomfortable having it come from a stranger. It's not so bad any more and I almost enjoy the compliments when they're respectful.
Those aren't the sorts of comments I think to give. I usually think to compliment a woman that her outfit is really cute, or I think her nails or hair or something is really cool. Most of the time, though, the tone in someone's voice is "Right, okay, get the fuck away now" rather than the "Thank you" they say.
I do this as well, though it's partly for the irony. I'll simply retort "I know, right? I'm a sexy beast" and grin, and it gets laughs.
One thing I'd like to bring up, at least pertaining on how to greet little girls (Or women in general), complimenting them on their appearance is not wrong. It's when we focus on nothing else, but the appearance then it's a problem.
One thing I'd like to bring up, at least pertaining on how to greet little girls (Or women in general), complimenting them on their appearance is not wrong. It's when we focus on nothing else, but the appearance then it's a problem. We are a visual species, we track by sight, we judge by sight, most of our tools require sight to function. It's biology, and denying biology gets into some really weird, and potentially damaging situations.So, compliment each other on how you look (both genders) just don't make it the only focus of the compliment (unless of course, that's all they got.)After all, I'm a funny guy. But looks aren't everything.
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The executive director of the opportunities for Ohioans with disabilities agency shall establish administrative subdivisions as necessary or appropriate to carry out the agency's functions and duties, but there shall be a bureau of services for the visually impaired and a bureau of vocational rehabilitation, each of which has as its head a deputy director appointed by the executive director. The executive director shall prescribe the budgets for the government of each division, and rules for the conduct of its employees, the performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, books, documents, and property pertaining thereto.
Renumbered from § 3304.15 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
Former section renumbered as § 3304.15 by 130th General Assembly File No. 25, HB 59, §101.01, eff. 9/29/2013.
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Estimating Calorie and Nutrient Needs
If you pick up any health or fitness magazine, you?ll likely see an array of diet and calorie recommendations, most of which are designed for weight loss. Some say 1200 per day. Another may say 1500 per day. So, how much is enough? Calories come from all the different foods and beverages we consume and provide energy for our bodies. The energy in food is measured in kilocalories (Kcal), also known as Calories (C). However, it is common practice in non-scientific writing to use the term "calorie," with a lowercase c, when discussing the energy value of food. When you see the term "calorie" in relation to diet and nutrition, it refers to the kilocalorie. Both calorie and kilocalorie are units of energy. To be precise:
1 calorie = the amount of energy (heat) needed to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius. 1 kilocalorie (Calorie) = the amount of energy (heat) needed to raise 1 kilogram of water 1 degree Celsius.
The fat in the foods we eat provides 9 calories per gram, alcohol provides 7 calories per gram and carbohydrate and protein each provide 4 calories per gram. This is why many health professionals recommend cutting back on fat and empty calories from sugar or alcohol to aid in weight loss.
Reducing fat, and sugar and alcohol intake may also reduce risk of heart disease, diabetes and certain cancers. The type of fat you consume does make a difference. For example, olive and canola oil are heart-healthy, while saturate and trans fat and detrimental. However, both types of fat still contain the same amount of calories per gram.
The calories (or energy) we consume from food are needed for breathing, metabolizing and absorbing nutrients, maintaining body temperature, thinking and other physiologic functions, including exercise. To maintain body weight, calories you consume must equal calories you burn (through normal bodily functions and/or exercise). When excess calories are eaten and not burned up by the body, the extra calories are stored as fat and result in weight gain. When fewer calories are eaten than are burned, weight loss is the result.
You can estimate calorie requirements through a variety of formulas that are based on a person's:
? Height
? Weight
? Age
? Sex
? Activity level
Therefore, everyone's calorie requirements are different. In general, most individuals need a minimum of 1200 calories per day to maintain normal physiological functions. If you consume less than this, your body may feel as though it is ?starving? and will lower your metabolism. You will also likely not consume enough calories to meet the RDAs for most nutrients. Very low calorie diets are not advised, though may be used by medical weight loss centers that are monitored by medical personnel.
How to Calculate Energy Needs
Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) A common formula used to estimate calorie needs is called the Mifflin-St. Jeor Equation (named after the scientists that developed it). It is used to determine a person's RMR (metabolic rate). This represents the amount of energy (calories) the person uses for basic bodily processes, such as breathing and maintaining blood pressure. The RMR does not take into account a person?s physical activity.
The formula is as follows:
Men: RMR= 5+10 (weight in kgs) + 6.25 (height in cms) ? 5 (age in years)
Woman: RMR= 161+10 (weight in kgs) + 6.25 (height in cms)- 5 (age in years)
Total Energy Expenditure (TEE) Your TEE, or total energy expenditure, is your RMR multiplied by an activity factor. This is the amount of energy you use during a normal day, including calories for physical activity. To put this in context, your RMR reflects the calories you need to carry out normal bodily functions such as breathing and maintaining body temperature. Your TEE takes into account how active you are. Are you a couch potato, or a marathon runner?
The TEE takes into account the extra calories your body needs to keep up with your daily activity. Exercise is the most variable way to adjust calorie needs. The more physically active you are, the more calories your body requires to maintain or gain weight. The following exercise factors are used in calculating your calorie needs for weight maintenance:
? 1.200 = sedentary (little or no exercise)
? 1.375 = lightly active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week)
? 1.550 = moderately active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/week)
? 1.725 = very active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days a week)
? 1.900 = extra active (very hard exercise/sports and physical job)
Decreasing your physical activity level, or consuming more calories than your daily TEE will lead to weight gain. Increasing your activity level, or eating fewer calories than your body needs, will lead to weight loss. To lose 1 pound of weight per week, subtract 500 calories per day from your TEE. For example, if your maintenance needs are 2000 calories/day, you would need to limit your intake to 1500 calories per day to lose.
For more detailed information on how to manage your weight, consider the expertise of a Registered Dietitian. This health professional is trained in all aspects of food and health, including weight management. To find one near you, visit www.eatright.org and click on the Find a nutrition professional link.
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An update (version 103) of Real World Fly Fishing is now available to download. I'll add a link for updates to the main page on Pishtech.com in a few days, but those of you reading the forum will get it first. If you install the update please post here on the forum to let us know if the process goes smoothly, and if you like the changes.
Here's what's in the update:
Mouse wheel line stripping - Use the mouse wheel to strip small amounts of line in or out while fishing.
Fly boxes by category - You can select certain types of flies to find the pattern you're after more quickly.
Faster flybox switching - Hold down the shift key to skip the animation of putting away one box and taking out another if you want to get through the boxes rapidly.
Water animation toggle - If you prefer a still background in stead of the moving water, hold down shift and press the down arrow key while fishing. To turn the water animation back on use shift and the up arrow key.
Less hook slip-outs - There's a lower chance of a hook slipping out while fighting a fish.
Fish AI improvement - At some locations fish will be more intelligent when selecting the depth of water to hold in.
To install the update download the following compressed folder file (less than 1 MB) and unpack the files in it into the folder where you have installed Real World Fly Fishing, then run rwff_update.exe. Here's the file:
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Google is on the move again making minor adjustments to the SERPS. Usually that means within reasonable amount of time we will be seeing more bigger changes at Google, so it is time to keep our eyes open again.
Yesterday we spotted that Google is now offering you the possibility to thank your Google+ friends who +1-ed an item so it would show up in your search results. Today we can highlight another three changes to how Google displays personalized results in the SERPS.
Conversations in the SERPS?
As you know Google+ is a platform with a lot of conversations, it is one of the (few?) things people consider to be better than on other Social Networks. Now conversations always attract attention, especially when those conversations involve either yourself or someone you know. This morning I commented on a post of Samantha on G+ where she asked who would be attending the UK Searchconference tomorrow. Since I am speaking there, that was a quick yes for me :). When I later did a search about the UK Searchconference I spotted this:
It seems as if Google is putting not just Google+ posts as personalized results in the SERPS, but if necessary they will also add the conversation into the result pages.
One thing is important here: you have to be logged into Google and doing a personalized search, otherwise you will not see this. But there might be more to it. I am not sure yet whether it is just showing conversations I am involved in or also where connections are involved in. It could very well be the first. Still, it will trigger people to click on Google+ results and it will get people more involved into Google+. Smart move Google.
Shared Videos
Two other things I spotted is something which could very well have been there for a while. I am not sure, but they do have a significant meaning so I wanted to share them anyway.
The first one is shared videos. Below you see a personalized search result which is showing a Google+ post.
The interesting part here is that it also shows you the video which was shared, as a thumbnail. You have to go to the actual post to play the video. Again, a smart move by Google to get people to go to Google+, after all the thumbnails will trigger people to check it out.
Thank you for completing your profile
After my post yesterday Searchengineland said Google "Meets its manners", it was being polite by allowing people to thank their peers. Now here's another example of Google 'being polite':
Again, it might have been there longer, but it does have a nice line to the change we spotted yesterday.
We always ask this question: why is Google doing this? In this case there are a few reasons. Google is 'personalizing' search step by step, and these are just small steps. Would they have implemented it all at once it would have scared the pants out of people, now they can get used to it step by step.
Secondly Google is trying to get more people to interact on Google+. There has been a lot of discussion about activity and growth on Google+ and Google has been actively trying to change the way people look at Google+. For that they need people to go there and not just be there, but also do something. These changes make people interact (they hope).
So what's next?
Chances are we will be seeing a lot more of these minor changes, and maybe even bigger ones in the next few weeks or even days. Knowing my luck it will be tomorrow just before my talk, so I can change my entire presentation again ;).


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UIS Programs: China/Korea/Japan
Continuity and Change in East Asia
Credit Hours: 4
Summer 2015
UIS will offer a short term study abroad program to China, South Korea and Japan in June of 2015. The program will investigate the different ways that the three cultures have interacted historically and how they have responded to western culture. This course is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that provides a foundation for understanding East Asia through the disciplinary lenses of history, economics, religion, art/architecture and anthropology. Further, the course incorporates understanding the symbolic and aesthetic values of East Asia at the intersection of the pre-modern and modern, as demonstrated in a variety of media, including poetry, travel writing, and architecture.
Tentative Travel Schedule
May 31, Sunday, Depart for Beijing
June 1-3, M-W, Beijing
June 3, evening, Depart for Beijing
June 4-8, Th-M, Harbin
June 8, morning, Depart for Seoul
June 8-11, M-Th, Seoul
June 11, morning, Travel to Daegu
June 12, Fri, Gyeonju
June 14, Sun, Travel to Busan and then to Tokyo
June 14-18, Sun-Th, Saitama University including day trips to Kawagoe and Tokyo
June 19, morning, Depart for Ashikaga
June 19-24, Fri-Wed, Ashikaga
June 25, Th, Depart for USA
Estimated Costs (exclusive of UIS tuition and student fees)
Airfare, Local Travel, Lodging and Meals $5500
Applications Deadlines for UIS Global Experience Programs for the summer of 2015:
- March 15 – deadline is rolling and students are encouraged to submit as early as possible.


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Well, this is actually a harder question than you think.
The usual way to say is "The wind was in our face," or "the wind blew in our face."
The problem is the idea of "gentle breezes" doing anyting "In our face." It sounds very hard and direct when the wind is in your face, not a lovely, warm breeze.
We stepped out ont the beach and gentle breezes cooled us.
We stepped out into the storm and the wind blew hard in our faces.
Do you see?
It's not a matter of grammar but of what association the phrase creates.
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Result: the score of VAS of local anesthesia was 3.18±0.46. Cases with no pain and mild pain account for 78.28 percent. moderate pain 16.71 percent, severe pain 5.01 percent. The average bleeding quantity in operation, Complication incurrence rate, cure rate 6 months after operatin, operation cost, patients' evaluation in local anesthesia group was 43.25士27.46(ml), 41.14士9.479(min) , 1.78%, 4000-6000 yuan(RMB), 9.28±2.21 score.
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South Florida honors Martin Luther King Jr.
Parade held in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood
MIAMI – Thousands of people filled the streets of Miami's Liberty City neighborhood to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The parade is among the largest in South Florida and stretches more than 20 city blocks.
"I like the cheerleaders, the fire trucks, and the horses," said 7-year-old Linda Covington.
Dozens of middle and high school marching bands stepped through the streets showcasing their talents. Several dance troops also performing along the parade route that ran along NW 54th Street from 12th Avenue to 32nd Avenue on Monday.
Traffic was re-routed in the area as several busy streets were shutdown for the festivities.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez waved from a county fire truck and City of Miami mayor Tomas Regalado waved to the crowd from high atop a city fire truck.
City and county commissioners worked the crowd, waving and shaking hands.
Loud cheers were heard as the grand marshal of the parade rode slowly down the street. This year, the family of Trayvon Martin was invited to kick things off.
"It's very exciting just to see so many people that came out on Dr. Martin Luther King day and also the second inauguration of President Obama," said Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon's mother.
Her teenaged son was killed in early 2012 by George Zimmerman in a shooting that sparked outrage nationwide. Zimmerman claimed self-defense but has since been charged with murder in connection with Martin's death.
There were plenty of characters, too, in and out of costumes that helped to entertain the large crowd under the scorching sun.
Some people brought umbrellas and water to help stay cool.
"We got to stay cool. We're in Miami -- you know, it gets hot down here," said Vicky Covington.
Whether parade watchers have been a part of the parade tradition for decades or showed up for their very first show, there was something to be learned for even the youngest of those on the sidelines.
"I think about when he fought for equality and non-violence and all the things he did for us," said 8-year-old Ariel Henton.
Events were also held in Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, and Pompano Beach.
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No sooner was the concept of killing the "extra student" in class three outed, it was pretty clear that inter-pupil relations were about to go to Hell in a handbasket - I'm not sure anyone could have predicted just how badly awry things might go however.
Even as the episode begins we have our first victim, as Teshigawara decides that his roommate's memories of their time together at elementary school are a little too fussy, leading to a tussle that sees said individual dumped unceremoniously from a balcony. This is as of nothing compared to what transpires next however....
Before we know it we have another pupil stabbed, the hotel manager resembling a knife rack and a fire in the dining hall - with the fire alarms not working, evacuating everyone else seems like the top priority until we stumble across bloodstains and a general sense of panic throughout the hotel. While some of the students discover a meat cleaver-wielding serial killer on the loose, others find a problem closer to home as Takako goes bat-shit crazy, deciding for herself that Mei Misaki is the "extra" student and gleefully trying to resolve the issue with a handy chisel. When this fails, Takako uses the hotel intercom to announce to all and sundry that, to all intents and purposes, Misaki needs to be killed - cue utter chaos as the body count rises at a ridiculous speed... and we still haven't seen the half of it.
Given the plot point that Another had brought to the table with the mysterious tape and its explanation of how to solve the calamity befalling the class, I'm not sure why it felt the need to throw a crazed psychopathic mass murderer into the mix - Takako's descent into murderous tendencies would have held more than enough power on its own, but the addition of those extra aspects just seemed a little... well, silly, to be honest. It's this over-egging of the pudding which shifts this episode of Another from a shocking horror gore-fest into something that becomes inadvertently amusing as death after death occurs with no time to soak in what's going on or why. It all ends up like a particularly disturbing episode of Holidays From Hell, and without any pause to comprehend the cascade of death it effectively loses almost all of its power in favour of delivering a dumb blood-spattered B-movie horror feel. It's all good and well if you like that kind of stuff, but I think it's fair to say that we were expecting something a little more intelligent from this series, and it certainly feels like a skewed pay-off compared to the build-up the show has utilised.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Another - Episode 11
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For the week ending 14 June 2008 / 11 Sivan 5768
Two Ways to Spend Millions
A day before he met a tragic death in a traffic accident, the renowned British philanthropist Benzion Dunner O.B.M. reportedly distributed two million pounds sterling in Purim gifts to the needy.
What a striking contrast with what other wealthy people do with their money!
Take the example of an Arab sheikh in one of the Persian Gulf Emirates who recently spent $2.7 million on the purchase of one camel. Reading about this extravagant acquisition one person with a long memory for advertising slogans could not help but quip:
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Gaga Intensive. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
Nearly every time I have written about Gaga, I have received inquiries from readers about opportunities to study Ohad Naharin's movement language. Several people have wondered about attending a Gaga intensive, and now I'm happy to announce that there will indeed be a workshop in Tel Aviv from July 19th-31st, 2009. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Although I spent most of the summer of 2008 in the U.S., I visited the Gaga workshop for a day and joined participants in their classes. To get a sense of what might be in store for this year's Gaga intensive, check out my reflection on last year's experience, posted below. My article was originally written for The Winger on July 30, 2008.
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In between packing and tying up various loose ends in Tel Aviv a few weeks ago, I swung by the Suzanne Dellal Center to check out Batsheva's Gaga intensive workshop. Eldad Mannheim, who manages the Batsheva Ensemble, had told me it was full, but I don't think I was prepared for what I saw when I walked into Studio Varda on a Wednesday afternoon. Dancers had come literally from all over the world – the U.S., Mexico, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and no doubt many other countries – to study Gaga.
The participants had already taken a morning Gaga class by the time I arrived, and now they were busily reviewing material from the daily repertory class in small groups. On the day I attended the workshop, Danielle and Bosmat first led us through a tight gestural section from Ohad Naharin's MAX. After seeing this excerpt not only in MAX but in several performances of Seder, I was quite eager to try my hand(s) at this movement (so to speak).


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ActiveState has announced the general availability of Stackato, its cloud application platform designed to create private PasS implementations using any language, on any stack, on any cloud. Stackato's list of core functions is broad; its makers specify suitability for developers looking to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage, and monitor applications in virtualized cloud environments.
ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland says that Stackato delivers on the "real" promise of the cloud; i.e., convenience and cost-efficiency, but with the security, control, and compliance that real-world use cases demand.
"With Stackato, developers can simulate a production environment on a local machine, code, test, and then launch an application to any cloud. Enterprise IT can achieve new levels of data security, reduce time to market, save money, ensure compliance, and gain greater control over the cloud," said Copeland.
Stackato supports three key functional objectives for developers; the first is the opportunity to setup and auto-configure a private PaaS on top of a private cloud or IaaS. Second, Stackato works to deploy new (and migrate existing) applications to the cloud. Finally, the product can manage updates and upgrades as it also monitors application performance.
Stackato's web-based management console provides administrative control, plus there is a new app store offering common applications. A persistent file system service enables compatibility with applications like Drupal — and performance monitoring technology from New Relic delivers application management visibility.
"Stackato is about freedom, control, and ROI," continues Copeland. "Developers have the freedom to work with multiple stacks; use the best-suited tools; configure, test, and deploy faster; and ultimately build more apps. IT managers get control — they can create new apps and migrate existing ones; eliminate the risks of data silos or rogue clouds; ensure tighter security and compliance; and deploy to the cloud model that's right for their enterprise, whether that cloud is public, private, or a hybrid of both."
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CHICAGO – (February 27, 2013) In an effort to advance interoperability in the U.S., IHE USA and the Health Story Project offered Health Level Seven's (HL7) Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture® (C-CDA) standard as part of the testing process at the IHE North American (NA) Connectathon 2013. When implemented into electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges (HIEs), HL7's C-CDA contributes a critical component of a patient's medical record, including the physician's progress notes, discharge summaries, and other clinical documents. U.S. physicians create over a billion clinical notes each year. These notes contain most of a patient's clinical records, and most EHRs are not capable of integrating this type of data into their systems.
"Eighteen vendors registered to test 27 systems for C-CDA – including, a diverse group of EHR, document imaging and HIE vendors. After years of working with EHR and HIE vendors and encouraging acceptance of C-CDA document types, Health Story members are thrilled about the potential uptake of C-CDA and its role in contributing to comprehensive electronic patient stories," said Joy Kuhl, Executive Director of the Health Story Project.
IHE USA and Health Story Project are excited to announce that 18 companies earned a passing test score for C-CDA testing at the NA Connectathon 2013, gaining a competitive advantage in meeting Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements for adoption of C-CDA.
Successful Consolidated CDA Test Participants:
CareEvolution, Inc.
Certify Data Systems
Corepoint Health
GE Healthcare
Greenway Medical Technologies
Iatric Systems, Inc.
ICT Health
Notable Solutions, Inc.
Nuance Communications
Mirth Corporation
Nextgen Healthcare
Oracle America
VitalHealth Software
Vitera Healthcare Solutions
Please visit IHE USA to learn more about Consolidated CDA, the NA Connectathon, and Consolidated CDA test participants.
About IHE USA
IHE USA (www.iheusa.org) is a not-for-profit organization established in 2010 that operates as a deployment committee of IHE International®. The mission of IHE USA is to drive adoption of standards-based interoperability to improve patient care through innovation, standards profiling, testing, education and collaboration. IHE USA improves the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery by supporting the deployment of standards-based electronic health record systems, facilitating the exchange of health information among care providers, both within the enterprise and across care settings, and enabling local, regional and nationwide health information networks in the United States, all in a manner consistent with participation in IHE International, Inc.
About Health Story
The Health Story Project was founded five years ago by the Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity (AHDI), the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Clinical Documentation Industry Association, Lantana Consulting Group, and M*Modal. It is now a collaborative of over two dozen healthcare vendors, providers and associations. Health Story accelerated development of HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) Implementation Guides for common types of clinical documents, bringing them through the HL7 ballot process and promoting their adoption within the industry. Over the previous five years, the initiative produced the first set of national data standards for clinical documents – use of which supports requirements for Meaningful Use of EHRs. The Health Story vision is for complete patient stories to be available in electronic medical records. You can see Health Story in action at HIMSS13 in the Interoperability Showcase.


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No. 14 Cincinnati 70, No. 24 Pittsburgh 61
There's a certain tenacity required to play basketball at Cincinnati, one guard Cashmere Wright knows is difficult for opponents to duplicate in practice.
"The first 30 minutes we try to wear you out as much as you can," Wright said. "The last 10 minutes, we want you to be as tired as possible. So we just keep pushing, keep grinding ... we know most teams don't play like we play."
Pittsburgh certainly doesn't, at least not yet.
Wright scored 18 points, Sean Kilpatrick added 16 and the 14th-ranked Bearcats bulled past the 24th-ranked Panthers 70-61 in a Big East opener on Monday.
The Bearcats (13-1, 1-0) bounced back from a loss to New Mexico last Thursday by dominating Pitt over the final 20 minutes. Cincinnati trailed by as much as eight early but used a 14-2 run midway through the second half to take control.
"We try to put game pressure on you and win the game in the last 10 minutes," Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said. "It was a tremendous effort by our guys on the defensive end."
Talib Zanna led Pitt (12-2, 0-1) with 16 points. Lamar Patterson had 13 points, four rebounds and four assists but the Panthers missed all 10 of their 3-point attempts as their eight-game winning streak ended with a thud.
"We got totally outplayed in the second half," Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said. "It's something that we usually don't do. Year after year we seem to come out in the second half and finish what we started. Give credit to Cincinnati."
Pitt had a chance to get within a point with 1:27 to play, but Tray Woodall missed the front end of a one-and-one and Cincinnati made its free throws the rest of the way.
Cincinnati outrebounded the Panthers 37-32, including a pair of huge offensive boards with around 3 minutes left that allowed the Bearcats to drain the clock. Cincinnati turned the reprieves into David Nyarsuk's dunk that pushed its advantage to 62-55.
"It was a big-time play by the big man," Wright said.
Pitt, however, wasn't quite done. Zanna hit a layup and was fouled. He missed the ensuing free throw but Patterson slipped into the lane for the stickback to get Pitt within three. The Bearcats turned it over on the inbounds and Woodall went to the line after getting tackled by Cincinnati's Cheikh Mbodj.
Woodall, who had issues with foul trouble in the first half and the physical play by the Bearcats in the second, clanged his free throw and Kilpatrick grabbed the board. Cincinnati went 8 of 10 at the line over the final 70 seconds to put it away.
"It was a big game because we know it's hard to lose two games and stay where we wanted to be," Wright said. "In order to stay in those top-tier teams, we've got to win games on the road to show we're a big-time team."
It wasn't quite the start to their final Big East season Pitt envisioned. The Panthers were hoping to restore some luster to the program after a disappointing 2011-12 in which they missed the NCAA tournament.
It didn't happen against the Bearcats. Playing for the first time in eight days following a soft nonconference schedule that offered little resistance, Pitt looked rattled while trying to deal with Cincinnati's constantly swarming defense.
"After you have those long breaks, it's kind of hard to come back and play to your full potential," Wright said. "You get tired. You haven't played a game in so long, it's hard to come back and just go all out."
Maybe, though the Panthers looked comfortable while leading throughout a sometimes ugly first half that served as a preview of the two-month grind that awaits in conference play.
Cincinnati, however, hung around despite missing 10 of its first 11 shots thanks to a defense that kept getting in passing lanes and getting under the Panthers' skin. Then again, the Bearcats are no stranger to struggling early. They've done it so often this season it hardly registered.
"We knew shots (were) going to end up falling anyway," Kilpatrick said. "Shots have been like that the past couple games. Once you just focus on defense and rebounding, everything will pan out."


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Saturday June 16, 2018
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This mixed-use residential tower will mark the entry point to downtown Vancouver. The tower reinvents the local typology of a slender tower coupled with a podium, while responding to a difficult site, preserving views and activating the pedestrian realm. The site is three triangular parcels at the north end of the Granville Bridge. The three triangular blocks create intimately-scaled spaces for working, shopping, and leisure which face onto public plazas and pathways.
The additional public space adds to the existing streets, giving the neighborhood a variety of open and covered outdoor spaces of various scales. In this way, it resembles the urban fabric found in historical neighborhoods, rather than the big cube podiums in modern (sub)urban developments. The roofs of the three buildings are tilted to peek over the bridge and transform a residue of the city's infrastructure into one of the most prominent locations in the city.
Due to site and city restrictions the footprint of the tower is restricted to a small triangle, tiny even by Vancouver standards. However, as the tower ascends, it clears the noise, exhaust and visual invasion of the bridge. The design reclaims the lost area as the tower rises above the imposing zone of the bridge, gradually cantilevering out over the site.
This movement turns the inefficient triangle into an optimal rectangular floor plate. In doing so, it also increases the desirable spaces for living at its top, while freeing up a new common space at its base. The resultant silhouette resembles a curtain being drawn aside, welcoming people as they travel across the Granville Bridge.


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Public Comment
Promoting Creative Use of Berkeley's Vacant Storefronts
When last I counted there were over 100 vacant commercial storefronts in our community. That's a total of well over 200,000 sq. ft. of storefront space that sits unused for any purpose whatsoever in Berkeley on any given day. Calling commercial realtors and landlords to pitch ideas for use of vacant space does just about NOTHING to change the status quo. In the last three years I have made over eighty calls to commercial realtors and landlords proposing innovative, yet practical and aesthetically pleasing uses of space for exhibits of artwork by homeless and low-income participants in the program I run, Youth Spirit Artworks. When I've been lucky enough to get a call back I've have heard countless POOR EXCUSES for why it wouldn't be possible to engage a space that's currently for rent…even when the property has sat vacant for three or more SOLID years.
Berkeley can do MUCH, MUCH better!
Innovative uses for vacant commercial storefronts are popping up all over the country. One example, in New Haven, Connecticut particularly stands out. "Project Storefronts" demonstrates the best of New Haven, creating low budget arts incubators for performances, education, retail and other creative businesses. Project Storefronts takes currently vacant retail space and turns that space into a showcase for artists and entrepreneurship.
According to "Connecticut Plus," among the first storefronts to preview in New Haven is Detritus which opened its doors to the public August 27. Owner Alexis Zhangi developed her idea for a curated bookstore offering printed matter from local artists and writers alongside rare and sought after material from high profile publishing houses not yet available in the New Haven area. The bookstore will bring together many writers and poets at its upcoming readings and book events. It has a membership option as well as a retail operation. More than 200 people showed up for the opening and sales were brisk.
Additionally as "Connecticut Plus" describes, Crosby Street Presents (CSP) by entrepreneur Rob Sanchez is essentially a "pop up" gallery and performance space which showcases early and emerging artists in new media, photography and sculpture, offering very affordable ways to collect art. CSP will also formulate an emerging collectors night where artists and future collectors can come together. Work will be available across price ranges from local New Haven area artists as well as from NYC.
For those who enjoy the experience of seeing recycled goods recreated into new products, New Haven's Upcycle Arts, started by entrepreneurs Ruben Marroquin, Lisa Spetrini and Alan Neider, is just the place. Upcycle Arts represents a variety of artists who offer re-stylized, recycled items for sale in a retail setting and it will also serve as a mini eco-boutique of products by award winning design team GG2G. Upcycle Arts will offer workshops, host gatherings for crafting groups and meet-ups for art special interest groups.
In Seattle, a creative, new program aims to transform Pioneer Square, allowing donating rental owners to "showcase their space" in an effective way. Artists will be able to use the space for at least three months. Countless more examples exist for exciting ways vacant storefronts are being re-envisioned to better communities across the land!
Both the City of Berkeley Office of Economic Development and the Downtown Berkeley Association have put energy into developing programs for vacant storefronts in the last two years. The Downtown Berkeley Association storefront exhibits have been a success in showing beautiful works of art by local youth and other artists. Additionally, the Office of Economic Development funded Youth Spirit Artwork's "Visions of the Soul" art exhibit in South Berkeley this last year, a delightful effort involving over thirty local businesses in showcasing art window banners by underserved youth involved in YSA's program. City staff and their budgets are stretched thin in these hard times so pockets of money to fund these initiatives on their side are limited.
Without leadership from commercial realtors and landlords, commercial district merchant associations can do nothing, even if they're motivated to organize vacant space for creative community betterment. Last year my calls to literally every merchant association in Berkeley with the exception of the DBA produced NO creative use of vacant spaces for our arts organization, since staff people felt their hands were tied if owners of vacant storefronts and commercial realtors weren't motivated to be generous.
It's time for local entrepreneurs and commercial realtors to step up to the plate and develop creative solutions to the many wasteful and ugly vacant storefronts in our community! Berkeley arts and other organizations like Youth Spirit Artworks will gratefully spring into action with multiple potential uses of vacant space when we receive your call!
Sally Hindman is the Executive Director of Youth Spirit Artworks


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About a year ago, Barbara Bradley and I were corresponding about a 'Sanfordized' ad I had posted.
Barbara wrote, "...the 'Sanforized' ad surprised me because it certainly doesn't look like a Gilbert Bundy, who did the Sanforized I remember. Bundy's were particularly fresh, wonderful, and filled with long-legged beauties, all of whom had delightfully protruding upper teeth, rather like Gene Tierney's."
Barbara's remarks got me digging out all the Bundys I could find, in anticipation of doing a week on the artist some time. Gilbert Bundy is already well represented on the America Art Archives website, Paul Giambarba's 100 Years of Illustration, and at the Society of Illustrators, so I won't bother to write too much on his career this week. Those who are curious to learn more about him can go check out those pages.
Instead I will share with you these additional remarks from Barbara:
"Bundy's 'Sanforized' ads made such the impression on me. I loved his loose authoritative way with water color."
"Incidentally, has anyone commented on the change in the American ideal figure in the last fifty years? It's obvious in these full length female figures. Andrew Loomis's proportions still seem ideal to me. The women we illustrated then had miniscule waists. Today's ideal female shape is much larger in the waist and smaller in the hips, with shapes more vertical in the mid section than hour glass. Another thing that's changed is the foot size. Tiny feet were greatly admired and drawn. Lips were almost always red, even lips on children."
I wish I had decided to post about Bundy sooner... it would have been great to have Barbara comment further on his work and the changing ideal of the female figure.
For those who have not heard, there will be a memorial service for Barbara's extended family, former students, colleagues and many friends:
Memorial Service for Barbara Bradley
2151 Van Ness Avenue at Broadway
Former St. Brigid's Church
San Francisco, California
Thursday, June 5, 2008
7 o'clock pm
A scholarship has been set up by the Academy of Art University and donations may be made to the Barbara Bradley Scholarship Fund. Contributions made will be matched by the Academy of Art University. If you wish to donate, please make your check payable to Academy of Art Foundation.
Mail to:
Barbara Bradley Scholarship Fund
c/o Academy of Art University
79 New Montgomery
San Francisco, California 94105
As well, a blog was set up last year by friends of Barbara to commemorate her receipt of the 2007 Distinguished Educator Award from the Society of Illustrators in New York. The blog, www.thankyoubarbarabradley.com has organically become something of a gathering place for remembrances, farewells, and notes to her children, Lauchlin, Glennis and Andy.
Finally, after much deliberation I have decided to unlock the 'All Sizes' tab on my Flickr archives. You can once again access the full size versions of these scans in my Gilbert Bundy Flickr set.
Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Barbara Bradley on Gilbert Bundy
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Thank you for unlocking the original size scans again. Only when they were gone did I realize how much I used them!ReplyDelete
After reading Barbara's description of the ideal female in the 50's, I have concluded that the ideal female today is apparently thicker in the waist, smaller around the hips, fewer red lips, bigger legs and bigger feet. Yikes!... I wonder why the change?ReplyDelete
Both Barbara's and Gil Bundy's women look very appealing to me.
Tom Watson ;-)
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Orange Cupcakes on the Grill? Were They Any Good?
Before you think my orange cupcakes grilled in an orange were just another kooky failed experiment, I want to say right up front that these were delicious. I made plain vanilla cupcakes but because they were grilled in the orange, they took on an orange flavor and gained a lot of moisture.
Where Did I Get the Idea to Grill Orange Cupcakes in an Orange?
The idea for these orange cupcakes made in an orange came from Sylvia, a friend/reader. Sylvia said, "I was talking to a park ranger about outdoor cooking once and he mentioned a great way to make a cupcake-like thing at a campsite — bake a spice cake mix in a hollowed out orange over coals or fire (I can't remember which)." As soon as I saw her comment, I knew making cupcakes in an orange was in my future.
I had no plans to go camping, but I figured a grill was the second best thing.
How to Grill Cupcakes in an Orange
To grill cupcakes in an orange, you'll need the following:
- Half as many oranges as cupcakes you want to make. I bought a bag of 10 seedless navel oranges.
- Your favorite cupcake batter – like the Ultimate Vanilla Cupcake. Vanilla works nicely because when the vanilla flavor mixes with the orange, the combination tasted like a creamsicle. However, you could use any recipe you like in your orange.
- A cupcake tin or some foil.
- A grill.
- Cut the oranges in half and scoop out the insides. You don't have to be perfect about it. If there is some orange left in there it will just be a tasty treat at the bottom of your cupcake.
- Fill the orange halves 3/4 full with cupcake batter.
- Place the oranges in foil directly on the wood or coal as shown in the picture on the left or set the oranges in a cupcake tray on the grill as shown in the picture on the right. I tried both methods. I think the cupcake tray worked better but the tray got a bit charred and is a pain to clean. Use an old one if you have one.
- Monitor the cupcakes really closely. The cooking speed will vary depending on the heat of your grill. You may also need to rotate the tray or the individual cupcakes to account for uneven heat. You know they are done when a toothpick comes out dry. It took mine about 10 minutes to cook.
Orange Frosting Recipe
I frosted the cupcakes with orange buttercream frosting. It worked perfectly!