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United States California Archives and Libraries
These archives, libraries, societies, commission, and museums house sources, lists, and indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in California.
National[edit | edit source]
National Archives Pacific Region (Riverside)
23123 Cojaico Road
Perris, CA 92570
Telephone: 951-956-2000
Fax: 951-956-2029
Internet: http://www.archives.gov/pacific/riverside/
- Has records of southern California, Arizona and Clark County, Nevada. California Indian enrollments, Asian immigrants, naturalizations, land records, Arizona taxes, sailors, all U.S. censuses, military post returns, Five Civilized Tribes, Revolutionary War, Civil War records, passenger arrival lists, Mexican and Canadian border crossings, passport applications.[1] [2]
National Archives Pacific Region (San Francisco)
1000 Commodore Drive
San Bruno, CA 94066-2350
Telephone: 650-238-3501
Fax: 650-238-3510
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Has records of California (north and central), Nevada (except Clark County), Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, and Northern Mariana Islands, overseas Pacific naval bases, Asian-Pacific immigration, American Indians, and all U.S. censuses, Revolutionary War service records, bounty land warrants, and naturalizations, naturalization indexes for San Francisco, Honolulu, and Reno.[3] [4]
Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Telephone: 510-642-6481 Reference desk
Fax: 510-642-7589
Website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/info/
- Premier Western Americana, and Latin Americana collections, including Native Americans, Spanish encounter and colonial settlement, exploration of western America, maps and atlases, the Mexican War, westward migration, the Gold Rush, mining, land surveys, religious and Utopian communities, and ethnic communities. This library has more about western North America than any other site.[5] [6]
- Nearby Doe Library has a large collection of newspapers on microfilm.
State[edit | edit source]
California State Library
914 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, CA 95814
Mailing address:
P. O. Box 942837
Sacramento, CA 94237-0001
Telephone: 916-654-0261
Fax: 916-654-0241
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- California historical newspapers, largest genealogical index, statewide births and deaths, death index 1905-1995, marriage index 1949-1986, censuses, great registers, city directories, genealogical periodicals.[7] [8] A helpful guide to the California State Library is:
- Gary E. Strong and Gary F. Kurutz, Editors, Local History and Genealogy Resources of the California State Library and Its Sutro Branch (Sacramento, Calif.: California State Library Foundation, 1983). At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL book 979.4 H23c.
- Gary E. Strong and Gary F. Kurutz, Editors, Local History and Genealogy Resources of the California State Library and Its Sutro Branch (Sacramento, Calif.: California State Library Foundation, 1983). At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL book 979.4 H23c.
J. Paul Leonard Library, Rm. 610
San Francisco State University
1630 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco 94132
Telephone: 415-469-6100
Fax: 415-469-6172
E-mail: email@example.com
Internet: Sutro Library
- The place in northern California for genealogy research. Has an excellent collection of censuses, books, and periodicals for most states, including Great Registers, city directories, DAR California records, California death index 1905-1995, and marriage index 1949-1986.[7] [8]
California State Archives
1020 "O" Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Telephone: 916-653-7715
Fax: 916-653-7363
E-Mail: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.ss.ca.gov/archives/archives_e.htm
- Censuses, California county records 1850-1987, mental health records, military records, prison records, Supreme and appealate court records, and school reports.[9]
North Baker Research Library
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, California 94105
Telephone: 415-357-1848
Fax: 415-357-1850
Website: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
- California economic, social, political, and cultural heritage, including 50,000 books, and 500,000 photos. State, county, and local histories, early California immigrants' overland and sea diaries and letters, ethnic histories, Mexican California early fort, presidio, and mission life, Mexican War, Gold Rush diaries and guidebooks, logging, mining, rare books, and women.[7] [10]
Society of California Pioneers Library
300 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107-1272
Telephone: 415-957-1849
Fax: 415-957-9858
E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.californiapioneers.org/
- Please telephone for an appointment to use the reading room. Collection has Spanish and Mexican eras materials, pioneer travels overland and around the Horn, the Gold Rush and later mining ventures, urbanization and the construction of the railroads, 1906 earthquake, biographical information and county files and indexes on early pioneers and notables, local histories, directories, diaries, papers, maps, newspapers, periodicals and California history to 1900.[7] [11]
State Lands Commission
100 Howe Avenue. Suite 100 South
Sacramento CA 95825-8202
Telephone: 916-574-1900
Fax: 916-574-1810
Internet: California State Lands Commission
- Land surveys, titles, property boundaries, school lands, maps and plats, Mexican land and rancho grants.[7]
Regional[edit | edit source]
California Genealogical Society and Library
2201 Broadway, Suite LL2
Oakland, CA 94612-3031
Telephone: 510-663-1358
Fax: 510-663-1596
Website: http://californiaancestors.org/
Blog: http://blog.californiaancestors.org/
- California Names Index with 350,000 entries from state, county, and local sources; genealogy collections for California and whole USA, but focused on San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, including California vital records, pre-1906 San Francisco births, marriages and deaths, manuscripts, newspapers, obituaries, cemeteries, funeral home records, selected natualization and passenger arrival lists.[7] [12]
Carlsbad City Library
1250 Carlsbad Village Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Telephone: 760-434-2931
Internet: http://www.carlsbadlibrary.org
- One of the largest genealogy collections in southern California including programs by the North San Diego Genealogical Society. City directories, county histories, atlases, state censuses, and computer database subscriptions.[13]
Chinese Historical Society of America Museum
(Chinese: 美国华人历史学会; pinyin: Měiguó Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì; abbreviated CHSA)
965 Clay Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Telephone: 415-391-1188
Fax: 415-391-1150
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.chsa.org/
- Oldest and largest organization for documentation, study, and presentation of Chinese American history, including immigration, early communities, and labor history (for example railroads).[14] [15]
Fresno City and County Historical Society Archives
7160 West Kearney Boulevard
Fresno, California 93706
Telephone: 559-441-0862
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.valleyhistory.org/
- By appointment only. Central Valley early farmers index, biographies, manuscripts, photos, oral histories, newspaper clippings, and school yearbooks.[7] [16]
Huntington Beach Central Library
7111 Talbert Ave
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Telephone: 714-842-4481 x5549
E-mail: email@example.com
Internet: Genealogy Resources
- Includes 19,000 books, periodicals, and microfilms of the Orange County Genealogical Society, and online genealogy databases including HeritageQuest.[7] [17]
Immigrant Genealogical Society Library
1310-B W. Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91506
Telephone: 818-848-3122
Fax: 818-716-6300
E-mail: email@example.com
Internet: The Immigrant Genealogical Society Homepage
- Largest genealogical collection for German immigrants except for Salt Lake City. About half of the library holdings cover German speaking areas of Europe, and half cover America.[7] [18]
Long Beach Public Library
101 Pacific Ave.
Long Beach CA 90822
Telephone: 562-570-7500
Fax: 562-570-7408
E-mail: email@example.com
Internet: Long Beach Public Library
- California, rancho and Mexican era history, computer indexes to statewide records, Great Registers, military records, miners, and early settlers, Long Beach obituary searches, Long Beach History Index, Long Beach newspapers, Ancestry.com, African Americans, American Indians, and published genealogies.[7] [19] [20]
Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. 5th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Telephone: 213-228-7000
Fax: 213-228-7069
E-mail:Contact form
Internet: Genealogy at the Los Angeles Public Library
- The place for research in Southern California. Good genealogy collection and biographical indexes. Key online database subscriptions, censuses, vital records indexes, 10,000 family histories, 5,000 U.S. city directory microfilms, heraldry, how-to guides, selected passenger arrivals including San Pedro/Wilmington/Los Angeles for 1907-1948, local histories, maps, military records, newspapers, obituaries, and periodicals. Can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.[7] [21]
Los Angeles FamilySearch Library
10741 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90025
Telephone: 310-474-9990
E-mail: email@example.com
- One of the largest Family History Centers in America, including 86 public computers, 56,000 microfilms, 40,000 microfiche and 6,000 books. Censuses, vital records from many states, genealogies, and histories, immigration, natualizations, passenger arrivals, with especially strong United States and British collections. Can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.[7] [22]
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
900 Exposition Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Telephone: 213-763-DINO
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.nhm.org/site/
- Western Americana, California Indians, pre-1900 southern California newspapers, southern California and Los Angeles history, Spanish and Mexican period history, seafarers, including manuscripts, books, maps, and photos.[7] [23]
County of Los Angeles Public Libraries
- California history, culture, and ethnic studies. Also a list of local libraries that might have obituaries. [7] [24]
Napa Valley Genealogical Society Library
1701 Menlo Avenue
Napa, California 94558
Telephone: 707-252-2252
E-mail: email@example.com
Internet: Research Library
- Good genealogy collection with emphasis on the Napa Valley and New England, including family histories, vital records, atlases and maps, Napa County marriages, censuses, voters, churches, and cemetery records, Hartford Times index, American State Papers, a manuscripts room, and computers. Can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.[7] [25]
Oakland FamilySearch Library
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland, California
Telephone: 510-531-3905
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Over 9,000 books, periodicals, family histories, county and local histories, city directories, plus over 37,000 reels of microfilm and 9,000 microfiche containing millions of local vital records and censuses from all over the world. Can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.[7]
Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown
224 Church Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794
E-mail: E-mail reference service form
Internet: http://www.santacruzpl.org/branches/14/
- Holds the Genealogial Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the Tina Brayton Collection which is equivalent to the Draper Collection but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia families.[26] [27]
Sons of the Revolution Library
600 South Central Ave.
Glendale, California 91204
Telephone: 818-240-1775
Internet: http://www.srcalifornia.com/
- 25,000 titles regarding Colonial and early American military records and battle histories, family genealogies, U.S. censuses, local histories, and vital records for the entire USA, some records for Canada and Britain, and early California.[7] [28]
Southern California Genealogical Society and Family Research Library
417 Irving Drive
Burbank, CA. 91504
Telephone: 818-843-7247
Fax: 818-843-7262
Internet: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com
Blog: http://scgsgenealogy.blogspot.com/
- Five public computers, family histories, and books about every state. Alabama Records, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Pennsylvania Archives, Michigan Pioneer collection, French-Canadian Heritage Society of California collection (Tanguay, Red Drouin, Blue Drouin, PRDH, Loiselle), German Genealogical Society of America collection, Genealogical Society of Hispanic America collection, Los Angeles City Historical Society collection, Cornwall England collection, Massachusetts town vital records, Connecticut Barbour Collection, Filby's passenger lists, Boston Transcripts (early Boston newspaper genealogical column), Joseph Brown Turner collection of northeastern states and New England, California Death and Marriage Indexes. Can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.[7] [29]
Tuolumne County Genealogical Society Library
158 West Bradford Ave
Sonora, CA 95370
Telephone: 209-532-1317
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.tcgsonline.org/
- Emphasis is on the Gold Rush district, including the "Gone West Index" of early miners and California settlers, photos, church records, cemetery records, vital records, voter registrations, censuses, over 1000 books about all states and some nations, family histories, school yearbooks, and some periodicals.[7] [30]
Online Records[edit | edit source]
The Online Archives of California provides free Internet access to detailed descriptions (collection guides) of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses. Many of the repositories listed above are included in the collections.
Guides[edit | edit source]
Two helpful guides to California archives and repositories are:
- Diane S. Nixon, Directory of Archival and Manuscript Repositories in California, 4th ed. ([Berkley, Calif.]: Society of California Archivists, 1996). At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Book 979.4 J54n.
- Owen C. Coy, Guide to the County Archives of California (Sacramento, Calif.: California Printing Office, 1919). At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Film 962744.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Welcome to the National Archives at Riverside in National Archives (accessed 30 October 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy Research in Riverside in National Archives (accessed 30 October 2013).
- ↑ The National Archives at San Francisco in National Archives (accessed 29 October 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy Research in National Archives (accessed 29 October 2013).
- ↑ Collections in The Bancroft Library Internet site (accessed 26 October 2013).
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 19 and 21. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 Dollarhide and Bremer, 19 and 21.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 California Genealogy Resources in California State Library (accessed 8 November 2013).
- ↑ Family History Resources in Collections - California State Archives (accessed 8 November 2013).
- ↑ Collection Overview in California Historical Society (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Library and Special Collections in Society of California Pioneers (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Research in California Genealogy Society and Library (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy in City of Carlsbad, California (accessed 8 November 2013).
- ↑ Contact Us in Chinese Historical Society of America (accessed 11 November 2013).
- ↑ Museum Visitor's Guide Internet site (accessed 11 November 2013).
- ↑ Collections in Fresno Historical Society (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy Resources in Huntington Beach Public Library (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Homepage in The Immigrant Genealogical Society (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Research Location - Long Beach Public Library in Association of Professional Genealogists (blog) (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Obituary Requests in Long Beach Public Library Website (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy in Los Angeles Public Library (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Genealogy Research at the Los Angeles FamilySearch Library (Internet site) (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ History Collections in Natural History Museum Los Angeles County (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Hours and Locations in County of Los Angeles Public Library (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Research Library in Napa Valley Genealogical Society (accessed 9 November 2013).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.
- ↑ The Tina Brayton Collection in Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County (accessed 3 January 2014).
- ↑ Sons of the Revolution Internet site (accessed 10 November 2013).
- ↑ Library Collection Highlights in Southern California Genealogy Society and Family Research Library (accessed 10 November 2013).
- ↑ Tuolumne County Genealogical Society Home in Tuolumne County Genealogical Society (accessed 10 November 2013).

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A 10-foot alligator was captured after it bit a man in the foot in a canal in West Palm Beach.
The incident happened Monday as the man was conducting maintenance on a pump in a canal at 45th Street and Congress Avenue.
Officials said the gator bit the sewage worker's foot. He was taken to nearby St. Mary's Hospital where he's expected to be alright.
The gator was later caught and was taken to All American Gator Products Inc. in Hollywood, where it will be harvested for its meat, skin and other usable parts.
Officials said the gator had marks on him from fighting with another alligator in the area, and could have thought that the worker was the other gator.


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Strawberry Lemonade Slush
"This refreshing fruity slush really perks up the taste buds," notes Sue Jorgensen, Rapid City, South Dakota. "I have made it for Christmas, Valentine's Day, summer potlucks and other occasions, and there is seldom any left."
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- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened sliced strawberries, thawed
- 3/4 cup ice cubes
- 1 cup club soda
- In a blender, combine the water, lemonade concentrate, strawberries and ice cubes. Cover and process until blended.
- Pour into a freezer container. Cover and freeze for at least 12 hours or up to 3 months.
- Let stand at room temperature for 1 hour before serving. Stir in club soda. Pour into chilled glasses; serve immediately.
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Deputies: Driver pulls gun during road rage incident
A driver in Seminole County said a man pulled a gun on him and he was threatened during a dispute over merging traffic Thursday morning on U.S. Highway 17-92.
Chris Cummings said the road rage incident happened at 8:45 a.m. Cummings said another driver was deliberately trying to make him angry so he would have a reason to use the gun.
"I throw my blinker on, I get over, and the guy comes by, flips me the bird out the window," Cummings said.
Cummings said the two men exchanged words and he continued on to his destination.
"I am Facebooking it up, suddenly I see the guy come pulling in," Cummings said.
Cummings said that's when 57-year-old Sparkman Summerall went too far.
"Next thing you know, click, just that fast," Cummings said. "He chased me down. He stalked me and he wanted me to make that move so he could use (Florida's 'stand your ground' law as a defense)."
Cummings called 911.
"I told him, 'You get out of that truck and jump on me, you'll wish you didn't,'" Cummings said. "He said, 'I ain't gonna jump on you.' I am looking down the end of a barrel."
Summerall sped off, but police tracked him down, Cummings said.
Summerall was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. After he posted bond, he was back at his Winter Park home, but did not want to comment about the incident.
Summerall's neighbors couldn't explain his alleged actions.
"I have known him for years, and he has always been a nice, friendly guy to all the neighborhood," one neighbor said.
Cummings said he never thought a trip to work would end the way it did. He promised to be in court when Summerall faces a judge.
"He just should never have a gun again," Cumming said. "Other than that, I don't care what happens. I just think they should take his gun rights."
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I'm gonna put this out there right now. It's been 2 days since the Red Wings lost the Winter Classic to Toronto, and I'm still shaking my head over it. Call me a blasphemer if you will, but that loss kinda ruined the whole allure of the Winter Classic for me.
Now to be fair, I am a long ways away from where the Hockeytown Winter Festival took place. I did not have a chance to go--much to my chagrin...at the time. Looking back on it, though...I'm not sure I would have felt like it was enjoyable to go all the way out there, get all wound up over all the hype, all the build-up...just to watch Detroit blow it in (SURPRISE!) a shootout. I will tell you one thing, though: feeling that way doesn't make me a bad fan like I'm sure some will want to denounce me as for saying it.
My disappointment in the loss has been so great that it's taken me this long just to drum up the will to write about it! This was supposed to be the big, legendary, once-in-a-lifetime triumph, and what did we get instead? We got placed in the record books for the largest hockey game EVER...as the other guys who lost to the goddamned Maple Leafs.
Really? What reason do I have to look back on THAT with anything resembling fondness?
Again in all fairness, the game itself was quite good: back-and-forth action, saves, hits, an almost playoff-like atmosphere at times...and then it also had the shootout. I should have known better than to get my hopes up when we got to that point, the last 12 we'd been in gave you a pretty good indication of what to expect at that particular juncture.
On the bright side, Datsyuk scored in the shootout! ...And he deked, too! He beat the goalie so bad that Datsyuk left him outside in the-waaaaaait a second...
But yes, in all seriousness, I don't look back on the Winter Classic fondly, nor do I believe I ever shall. My one big regret is not being able to see the alumni games, seeing Yzerman skate in the Winged Wheel one last time, or seeing the Russian Five reunited...that one would have done me in.
The Red Wings need to make this up to me by winning some damned games and making sure we get into the playoffs, because that loss, I should remind you, dropped us below Toronto to the final Wildcard spot in the East. Our asses have never been so close to the flame this year as they are right now. Don't let the result of the WC be a portent of what's to come from here till April...


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Family History Month Writing Challenge Wrap-Up
How did you do this month on writing your family history? I (Jennifer Holik) personally did not hit my daily goal of 500 words for my family history. I did get some client family history written and other things written though. What did I learn through this process of trying to write daily?
- I'm busy. This means I must schedule at least 30-60 minutes a day to focus on writing.
- The more I write the more I realize I am missing information OR it was input into my family tree years ago before I knew to cite my sources. But this is a good thing! That realization pushes me to get back to the records to locate the source to input into the fact in the family tree. Citing my sources produces a better family history.
- There are some days I am just not inspired to write. Some will say to push through it and others say just walk away. Personally, I've found that when I am inspired, the words flow and it isn't a struggle, therefore it is enjoyable. On days when the words don't come, it is ok for me to walk away from it until another time.
What did you learn through this process? Did you hit your goals? Do you have any tips to share with those of us writing our histories? Please share in the comments.
© 2013 Lorel Kapke, Sort Your Story
Wisdom Wednesday – Writing Your Story #2
As a follow-up to last week's post about Lorel's photograph and sketch of her grandfather, I was thinking of other ways photos and sketches could be used by kids to illustrate their family histories.
In most schools kids around 4th or 5th grade have to do some sort of family history project. Often these are oral reports that must be turned in as a written report, PowerPoint presentations, or tri-fold board presentations. Regardless of which medium is used, students have the opportunity to illustrate their presentation. We all know a picture is worth a thousand words.
Photographs can be added to a Word document that must be submitted to the teacher. Photographs, clip art or scanned sketches can be added to a PowerPoint presentation to add life to the words on the screen and the presentation given. Tri-fold boards can also include blocks of text and photos or scanned sketches or the student may draw directly on the board.
If a student uses Sort Your Story and has not included these photos or sketches into their ancestors' profiles, they can do so when the project is in progress or complete. Adding text used in the project to an ancestors file allows students the opportunity to continue growing that individuals story over time.
Kids love to draw and use photographs, so why not encourage them to do so in conjunction with their family history writing?
How do your kids use photos or sketches in their research?
© 2013, Lorel Kapke, Sort Your Story


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Highground Hackathon - Mental Health
Highground Hackers
Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 6:30 PM (PST)
Event Details
You are invited to the next hackathon from the Highground Hackers! This event is focused on Mental Health issues - finding creative solutions from the most creative minds in the Bay Area - yours!
When does it start?
9:00 on Saturday. There is a limited number of T-Shirts available at registration, so come on-time to claim yours!
I don't know anything about Mental Health, who's there to help?
We've got you covered! As with all of our hackathons, we take challenging issues and provide you with experts in the field to tackle them. For this challenge, the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), the leading academic institution on holistic Mental Health, will be on the ground as mentors, educators, and consultants to you as you build your solutions.
See below for introductory videos that will help.
Is there a prize?
Yes!! Hack for Good and Win CASH - $1,500!!
Our friends at the Technology Credit Union have generously sponsored a cash prize for the winning application developed. $1,500 for the winning hacker or team of hackers!!
Will there be food and drinks?
Yes!! Delicious food will be catered in - check out the menu. (If you have any special dietary needs, please come prepared. There is a Whole Foods on 4th Street, not far away.)
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Are you using HackerLeague to manage projects?
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Where can I find more detailed information?
Bring your own project, or work directly with researchers, lecturers, and other experts to create real solutions to important issues. This is all brought to bare to enable you to build the most effective apps possible in what promises to be an exciting weekend.
The event is sponsored by Accenture and will be held at the Rackspace co-working space Geekdom, delicious food and drinks will be provided. You'll have power, wi-fi, and a great place to meet other hackers and build cool stuff.
To provide you with some background, CIIS have broken down the field into specific problem statements below. Leading up to the event, we will be adding introductory videos, the first of which are linked to below.
Example Problem Statements with Introductory Videos
Here is a list of the types of problems within the field of Mental Health where software engineering and social hacks can really help.
1. Suicide
In many instances a suicide attempt is a call for help. We need mechanisms for immediate and human-powered crisis intervention.
2. Mental Health Assessment - Introductory Video
Children and adults who are in crisis need to be identified in order to be supported with help and services. Those who are un-identified risk falling through the cracks.
3. Trauma Response - Introductory Video
People who have experienced trauma tend to be hyper-alert to a repeat performance and create stories around an issue or person, hurting any chance of healing or release, and causing violent outbursts.
4. Violence Prevention in Youth - Introductory Video
In 2010, 1 in 6 youths reported being victims of violence online; 7% of teachers that year reported being physically attacked by students; that same year, 1 in 5 12 to 18 year olds reported the presence of gangs in their schools. There are a number of prevention strategies recommended that we will explore to prevent violence.
5. Mental Health and Gun Violence Reduction - Introductory Video
20% of the American population seek mental health help relating to stress, sleep deprivation, depression. Schizophrenia impacts approximately 1% of the population and can cause the sufferer to lose touch with reality and is terrifying for the victim. Bi-polar disease affects mood, energy, etc. Both of these conditions have treatments and medications available.
6. Mental Health and Data - Introductory Video
Data should not solely be considered as an archival entiy. A tremendous amount of data is generated in real time with each human interaction. This data, interpreted and drawn from human expressions, gestures, vocabulary, and tonality, etc. can be used to understand the state of the people engaged.
7. Domestic Violence
In some people anxiety can provoke an aggressive and violent response. Aggression and violence may not be "common" in those with anxiety, but they're very real and can be extremely problematic for those that suffer from them.
8. Isolation - Introductory Video
When a person is emotionally isolated, they keep their feelings completely to themselves, are unable to receive emotional support from others, "shut down" or feel numb, and cannot or do not communicate with others. Breaking a cycle of isolation is a difficult but necessary part of recovery from emotional distress.
9. Preventative Technology - Introductory Video
90% of all doctor's visits are scheduled because of stress-related symptoms and over a million smartphones are activated each day. So, stress is at an all-time high and the ubiquity of smartphones has created a huge opportunity. Before stress becomes chronic, or triggers a more severe mental condition, how can we utilize existing systems or create new applications which help us live more balanced lives?
10. Inner Critic/Super Ego - Introductory Video
Super Egos are powered by aggression and can cause depression, low self-esteem, self-justified blaming that can lead to violence, isolation issues, narcissism and racism.
Inspirational Talks
There will also be inspirational talks at the event for a quick break from the keyboard.
Merlin's New iPhone: New Inventions Meet Old Tales
Craig Chalquist, Ph.D.
Department Chair, East-West Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies
A new device doesn't drop into the world entirely premade, but packed with ancient images, stories, and bits of lore. Attend this presentation to hear some parallels between the technologies of today and the ancient myths that foreshadowed them. Consciousness of the fantasies that cling to our machines could make the difference between owning and being owned by them, loss of human potential and its amplification into possibilities for a bright new future.
Craig Chalquist, PhD is department chair of East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. A lecturer and graduate instructor, he has also written several books on the intersections between mind, myth, culture, and world.
Human Flourishing
Meg Jordan, PhD, RN, CWP
Department Chair, Integrative Health Studies
California Institute of Integral Studies
An inescapable paradox of the 21st century is that the faster we go, the more we rely on presence as the quality that gets us by. Yet how do you cultivate crazy-slow wisdom in an accelerated era? Can the pressure for higher performance and productivity co-exist with the essential human desires for happiness, contentment and social belonging? This presentation on Human Flourishing will explore the relationship between mental activity and physiological responses, and review recent neuroscientific findings that prove the power of positivity.
High Functioning Teams
Rebecca Elliott, MA
Executive Coach and Consultant
Elliott Coaching
High functioning work teams sometimes just happen, and great things are accomplished. Personalities seem to click. Other times it's hard to get where another is coming from, and the disconnects can impede progress. What gives? We've heard of introverts and extraverts, but psychoanalyst Carl Jung develops this with 4 primary versions of introverts and extraverts. With an easy way to visually remember basic personality distinctions, this presentation reveals how the types see each other, leading to "aha" understandings, cultivating stronger communications and interpersonal effectiveness.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 9:00 AM - Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 6:30 PM (PST)
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"[A] love letter to his golden retriever."—People
"Read this book to be entertained, uplifted and deeply moved."—The Bark
"A humorous, poignant portrait of [a] remarkable dog."—Kirkus Reviews
"One dog book that everyone . . . will deeply enjoy."—Booklist (starred review)
"A delightful read. . . an unusually effective brief for the joy that dogs bring us."—The American Spectator
"A tender, insightful, loving homage . . . an inspirational book of love, hope and humor."—Bookreporter.com


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CAPITOLA — At this time next week, Santa Cruz County"s readers, writers and book lovers will be without the Capitola Book Café for the first time since the Carter administration.
After 34 years in business, the grand mid-county bookstore announced earlier this month that it was permanently closing its doors. On Monday, the Capitola Book Café will host a public wake of sorts, a "Last Bash" featuring wine, food and an open mic for memories and tributes.
And at closing time on Friday, the Book Café will go dark for good.
When the Capitola Book Café first opened in 1980, it was still the Mesozoic Era in the book business. No one had ever heard of an e-reader, a big-box store was where you went to buy big boxes, and Amazon was a river in South America. And a bookstore — especially an independently owned bookstore that cultivated its clientele with a shared love for the written word — was a sanctuary for the curious and a meeting place for those terminally smitten with books.
"I remember on Saturday nights when the store used to be stuffed with people, particularly techies wandering around in the computer section, which used to be huge," said former co-owner Gwen Marcum on what was probably the first population to flee to the Internet.
Marcum was one of a quartet of women, known informally in the community as "the Ladies," who ran the café from near its beginnings to 2007 when they sold to the current ownership group. The Ladies — Marcum, Marcia Rider, Kathy Kitsuse and Judy Stenovich — presided over the bookstore in its golden era when it began to attract some of the biggest names in the literary world for readings and meet-and-greets.
Looking back, the roster of guest authors brought to the community by the café is worth savoring: Salman Rushdie, Frank McCourt, Garrison Keillor, Jane Smiley, Gary Snyder, Russell Banks, Terry Tempest Williams, Ann Rice, Jonathan Franzen, Pat Conroy, Ann Lamott, Amy Tan, and David Sedaris. It hosted filmmaker Michael Moore, football star Jerry Rice, movie icon Jane Fonda and comedian-turned-senator Al Franken.
"Marcia Rider had to fight a hard battle to get them to send the big authors here," said Marcum, "because they wanted to keep them in San Francisco and the bigger markets."
The café also worked to help local writers get a leg up in the business, including poet Michael Wolfe, mystery writer Laura Crumb and journalist Dan White. The best-selling novelist Laurie R. King did her first public talk/book signing at the café in 1993. The café congratulated her for winning the Edgar Award on its large marquee out front.
"That was long before anyone was even aware that I was writing," King said. "They taught me how to give an event. They nurtured me as a "performing artist," shall we say."
In the two decades since, King has opened almost every one of her book tours in Capitola. The café has also been instrumental in allowing local writers such as James Houston, Geoffrey Dunn, Morton Marcus and Stephen Kessler cultivate a hometown audience.
"They"ve been tremendously supportive," said Santa Cruz-based novelist Karen Joy Fowler. "There"s always been a great feel to the store. There"s so much enthusiasm. They"re book people. You can tell it right away."
When the café opened, it was still a novel idea to have a café and a bookstore in the same retail space. Santa Cruz property developer George Ow Jr. came up with the idea of the café, opening the store with partners Larry Chew and Ron Lang. Ow remained the landlord of the building throughout the lifespan of the store and is credited by the current business owners — Wendy Mayer-Lochtefeld and Melinda Powers — for working with them to keep the store open.
"George was a terrific landlord," Marcum said. "To have a book-loving landlord was really a blessing, and George was certainly that."
"I love bookstores and libraries and can chart my life by the bookstores and libraries where I"ve lived," Ow said. "I loved the Book Café as an owner, a landlord and a customer. I met so many authors there and really got a sense of them, and I met so many other book lovers and got to share books, ideas, life experiences."
Marcum said she remembers reading a New Republic article in the early days of the café speculating on the future of books in digitized form. "I thought that"s going to be the end of us one day."
It wasn"t until the late 1990s when the existential threats to the Capitola Book Café and all independently owned bookstores began to emerge — the Internet, big-box retailers such as Borders and Barnes & Noble and, especially, Amazon.com, whose aggressive strategy to gain market share by selling books at or below cost has transformed the book-selling business. The current ownership of the CBC took on these challenges in midstride when it came in 2007. Then came the "08 recession. The owners, in collaboration with Ow, searched for any solution to remain open, even applying to operate as a nonprofit. Nothing worked.
On Feb. 3, Mayer-Lochtefeld and Powers sent out a letter to CBC customer base: "We"re sorry beyond words that we couldn"t keep Capitola Book Café open for generations to come. We gave it our all, and then some."
George Ow, the only constant in the long life of the Book Café, urged people to support the remaining bookstores in the county — Bookshop Santa Cruz, Logos and Crossroads in Watsonville. "I want to thank the people who own and operate these businesses for fighting the good fight and staying open for people like me, for all of us."
King said that she feels bookstores are in for an upswing in coming years as readers begin to rediscover them and as they work out new models for staying in business. "I can"t help feeling as a book buyer, which I was long before I was a book writer, that bookstores perform a necessary part of the ecology of the literary world. Without a bookstore, it"s difficult for those who love books to find a focus. That is what the Book Café has been over the years. I can look at a book and half the time I can tell you exactly what bookstore I bought it in, and many of those have been in Capitola."
Last Bash at the Capitola Book Café
WHEN: 6 p.m. Monday
WHERE: Capitola Book Café, 1475 41st Ave., Capitola
COST: Free
DETAILS: www.capitolabookcafe.com.


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The price was the highest over-slot amount dished out for his round, but Cain was ranked the #14 prospect in Texas, and #109 in the country, so he was quite a landing for the Buccos, and probably a decent value with the #253 selection.
He signed in August, after breaking off earlier negotiations to take a little trout fishing vacation. Cain throws in the low-90s, and has an OK curve that should become a plus pitch in time, along with a work-in-progress change.
An All-State pick and star on U.S. national youth and junior teams the last two summers, he won his two starts for Team USA in 2008 with victories over Chinese Taipei and Korea. He posted a 6-2 slate with a 2.17 ERA and had 118 Ks against just 18 walks in 58 innings of work his senior year.
He also was a first sacker with big lefty power potential, enough potential that at least two scouting services had him as a fringe first-rounder at first base. But Cain's Pittsburgh future is on the mound, though he's raw. Velocity, especially for a southpaw, is something that's tough to coach - he once struck out 19 players in a game.
Here's the MLB.com report on him:
Fastball: Cain touched 94 mph and throws a hard, heavy fastball with sink.He signed late enough that the Pirates just gave him a look-see in Florida and held him out of competition.
Curve: It was inconsistent, though he showed some rotation. A slider might be his best bet in the future.
Changeup: Showed some feel for a change. He has good arm speed and it has a chance to be a good pitch down the line.
Control: Overall, it was pretty good. He left the ball up in the zone at times, but could get away with it at this level.
Poise: An oustanding competitor who is very aggressive on the mound.
Physical Description: Cain is a big, strong lefty, kind of like a young Greg Swindell.
Strengths: Outstanding heavy fastball from the left side; pounds the zone with it. Good athlete who's very competitive.
Weaknesses: Other pitches lag behind the fastball, though he does have a breaking ball and a feel for a change.
Summary: Cain is a big, strong lefty out of the high school ranks who will have to be signed away from being a two-way player at University of Texas. He's improved his Draft prospect stock as a pitcher, running his heavy fastball up to about 94 mph. His other offerings are behind the heater, but he does have a feel for pitching. He's a step behind the elite prep lefties in this class, but he's not too far below them.
We expect that he'll start in the GCL at Bradenton in 2010 as he makes the transition from two-way player to the hill, with a strong showing earning him a later ticket to State College.
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Cassandra Miller Butterworth, assistant professor of biology at Penn State Beaver, recently coauthored two articles.
"Phylogeography of the Japanese pipistrelle bat, Pipistrellus abramus, in China: the impact of ancient and recent events on population genetic structure" was published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, by The Linnean Society of London.
"Contrasting Genetic Structure in Two Co-Distributed Species of Old World Fruit Bat" was published in November by PLoS One, an interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and medical research.
Miller-Butterworth holds doctorate and bachelor's degrees in zoology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has conducted post-doctoral research in the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at Maryland's National Cancer Institute as well as in the Department of Human Genetics in the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health.
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The Original Yankees #2…
Missing The Mark…
It's always fascinating to learn more about those who have worn the famed Yankee pinstripes. The great ones are often mentioned; Ruth, Gehrig (my personal favorite all-time player), DiMaggio, Mantle, etc. But not much is said of the lesser known players who have carved their niche in Yankee history.
I saw one blog yesterday that cried out Mark Teixeira is already the greatest all-time "Mark" in Yankees history. My only issue with this statement is that Teixeira has yet to take an "official" at bat for the Yankees, and he certainly has done nothing…yet…to bring the elusive 27th World Championship closer to the Bronx. But the topic did make me think of Mark Koenig. I am not saying that Koenig was a great player (he wasn't), but he has a place in Yankee history that should not be forgotten.
Roger Godin
Koenig was the original number 2 for the Yankees, and played shortstop on the storied 1927 Murderers' Row team. A Yankee from 1925 to 1930, he was the double play combination with second baseman Tony Lazzeri.
Granted, Koenig did not have great career numbers and he didn't stick in the major leagues for very many years. But he did bat .500 in the 1927 World Series, and had a .319 batting average in 1928.
In an interview before he died, Koenig described himself best. "I was ordinary. Very ordinary," he said. "I had small hands and made too many errors. The only thing that I had was a powerful arm. I don't think I could have stayed on any other club. The Yankees could have carried a midget at shortstop. That's how good a club it was."
Koenig had a league-leading 52 errors in 1926, with 4 more in the 1926 World Series which helped open the door for the St. Louis Cardinals to win the deciding Game 7 and their first world championship.
Koenig, who died in 1993 at age 88, was asked why he was the last survivor of the 1927 team. "I don't understand it," he said in a 1990 SI interview. "Maybe they got on base more and wore themselves out."
Mark Teixeira will be the "MVM" (Most Valuable Mark) but we should definitely not forgot the Mark's that have preceded him through the history of the franchise…
The New "Burner"…
Brett Gardner is definitely positioning himself as the Yankees' starting centerfielder for Opening Day at Yankee Stadium on April 16th. I know it is still very early in camp, but Gardner has gotten off to a great start.
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Pete Abraham of The LoHud Yankees Blog asked Jorge Posada about the irritation a player like Gardner causes a catcher. "Oh, we hate it," Posada said. "It changes everything about the defense."
Nick Swisher put it more bluntly when he said that Gardner was the 'fastest white dude' that he's ever seen.
If I were Melky Cabrera, I would have skipped the WBC to make sure that my presence was felt in Yankees camp. I do not want to belittle what Cabrera can do for the WBC's Dominican Republic team, but the phrase "out of sight, out of mind" does seem to apply. Maybe he has a tremendous few weeks with the WBC, and comes back to camp in late March to take the centerfield job. But at this point, I think Gardner brings a new dimension to the Yankees offense (so long as he can continue to get on base) and he is the leading contender for the job in my eyes…
The Closure of The Rocky Mountain News
The closure of Denver's oldest newspaper has adversely impacted one of baseball's greatest writers, Tracy Ringolsby. I have respected and trusted Tracy's opinions for many years and he has long been one of my favorites.
I became a fan while he was covering the Texas Rangers for The Dallas Morning News in the late 1980's. He has been with The Rocky Mountain News for 17 years.
The good news is that Tracy will continue to write for Foxsports.com, and he'll expand his role at Baseball America.
Tracy has written a very good final column for the News about Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Happy trails to you too, Tracy! We're looking forward to the next phase of your great career!
New Vikings Quarterback
In my blog yesterday, I indicated that I did not know what to think of the Minnesota Vikings' acquisition of QB Sage Rosenfels from the Houston Texans. The indifference seems to be shared by the local press in Minneapolis-St. Paul as the Star Tribune's headline reads "Sage Investment? We'll See", while the Pioneer Press opted for the more neutral "It's Sage Rosenfels vs. Tavaris Jackson for Vikings QB" approach.
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Nevertheless, I am willing to give a fellow native Iowan a chance. Just so it doesn't bring back memories of Bob Lee at quarterback, he'll be alright…
Maybe it was because I was such a huge fan of Fran Tarkenton, but one of my most painful memories as a Vikings fan (aside from all those Super Bowl losses and the 1998 playoff loss to the Falcons) was during the short time Lee was the starting QB. In 1978, I wrote the team a letter resigning as a fan because of my dislike for Lee, and it took a few years for the passion about the Vikings to return…


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The WNST.net crew hosted the second in a series of Thursday Night Live radio shows last night with Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta at The Grill at Harryman House in Reisterstown. Hope you enjoy the show, which featured tons of football talk and an extended visit from Pitta's mate Ed Dickson. Tons of laughs, tons of kids getting autographs and a great hour of conversation with a "two tight end set."
Next week, we'll do a special Tuesday night edition of Thursday Night Live at Buffalo Wild Wings in Bel Air with Dennis Pitta. The show will have a special 7:30 p.m. start time due to the Ravens' short work week for the Thursday game vs. Cleveland.
A special thanks to all of our sponsors who make these shows possible including our title sponsor Freedmont Mortgage plus The Goldfather, ABC Rental and Raven Zone, who provide prizes and promotional consideration so that we can bring these awesome WNST live events to the community.
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Once the sport of emperors and earls, these days falconry is enthralling a new generation of enthusiasts eager to find a deeper connection to nature. In the timeless hills of Shropshire, England, Fernanda Eberstadt reconnects with a primal passion for pursuit
The hawk is perched on my gaunTleTed fisT like an overgrown child being made to sit on an adult's lap. It straddles my thumb and forefinger with its craggy yellow claws—talons intended to pierce thick fur and pinion a swift-running hare in mid-flight. Its unblinking eyes—the color of burned butter—glare at me. It emits a series of high, thin shrieks that seem to express a homicidal fury. "Carry her the way you would a pint of beer across a pub, Fernanda," Steve Wright reminds me. I do so, imagining a pint of beer that might at any moment rip off my nose.
The pint of beer in question is Hermione, a fourteen-year-old Harris's hawk. Wright, one of England's growing number of falconers, describes her as a turbocharged killer in the field and a "psychotic bitch" at home. He himself has a torn lip from the last time he tried to kiss her. ("Why exactly did he want to kiss her?" my husband, Alastair, wonders.)
Alastair and I have come to Shropshire, in a remote corner of England by the Welsh border, for a weekend's hawking. It's my second season of hunting with Hermione, and each time I'm amazed by the imperious ferocity of the creature, the beauty of her russet-and-mahogany plumage, the mad propulsion with which she rockets after prey, the precision of her strike. Fighter jets were surely modeled after Hermione.
As raptor groupies go, I'm a latecomer.
A decade ago, my family and I lived in a corner of rural France where birds of prey abounded. Driving our children to the village school, we'd see flocks of hawks grazing on earthworms in the fields. Come spring, we went into the Vercors Mountains to spot peregrine falcons nesting.
Three years ago, when we moved to London, the shock of city life was made tolerable by the discovery that falconry—defined by the U.K.'s Hawk Board as "the pursuit of wild quarry in its natural state by means of trained birds of prey"— was making a comeback in Britain, fueled by the popularity of the Harris's hawk, a New World breed which is lower maintenance than its showier cousins. Just a couple of hours from Piccadilly Circus, you can not only peer at a falcon through binoculars but actually fly one from your fist and expect it to bring back a rabbit or a pheasant for your dinner.
All my life I've had a sneaking taste for blood sports peculiar in a born-and-bred Manhattanite: a hankering that has led me to haunt Gypsy cockfights in the Pyrenees and bullfights in Mexico, and to break my ribs in the delusion that I could ride a horse well enough to go foxhunting in Ireland. I like animals that don't like me. Falconry sounded just my cup of tea.
A brief investigation led me to Wright, a former guide dog trainer and veteran falconer in his sixties. A piratical-looking fellow whose gruffly jovial banter conceals a wealth of stubborn learning, Wright lives outside Stratford-upon-Avon, where he runs falconry courses. From October until March, he takes customers up to Shropshire and Scotland to hunt with his Harris's hawks.
Benoit Linero captures the beauty and grace of the ancient art of falconry in this gallery of photos and digital extras.
falconry is one of The mosT ancienT sporTs. In the Louvre, you can see an Anatolian funerary stele from the eighth century B.C. in which a boy called Tarhunpiyas, standing on his mother's lap, holds a goshawk on a leash, much as a thousand years later Goya's scarlet-suited toddler holds a pet magpie on a string. In Europe, its heyday was the Late Middle Ages. Falconers tell you of the fifteenth-century Boke of Saint Albans, which lists raptors suitable to each rank in society: an eagle for an emperor, a peregrine falcon for an earl, a sparrow hawk for a priest, a merlin for a lady. Wright more prosaically describes the bird of prey as our ancestors' "shopping cart." "Up until the fifteenth century, it was a fairly serviceable way of feeding the family—all you needed was a bird, a dog, and a bit of land to tramp across." But as guns became widespread, raptors were marginalized to a specialty item.
In 1937, when T. H. White (author of the Arthurian series The Once and Future King) wrote The Goshawk, an account of his sleepless nights "manning" a young hawk, he could describe falconry as a "dying sport." White, teaching himself from an early-seventeenth-century treatise, "had never met a living falconer, nor seen a hawk that had been trained." Today, Wright tells me, there are three other falconers living in his Warwickshire village, and an estimated 25,000 throughout Britain. The opposition to falconry is less vocal than that to foxhunting, which was all but banned in 2004 by the House of Commons. (Paradoxically, that law's loopholes have meant that many foxhunts now use birds of prey along with dogs to catch the foxes.)
The falconry revival is one symptom of England's back-to-nature quest, a postindustrial society's hunger to reconnect with ancient rural traditions. It's the same unease with consumerism and virtual reality that makes City traders retrain as farriers and saddle fitters or flock to butchery-and-charcuterie courses, that makes urban diners want to know where their dandelion salads were sourced. This nostalgia has driven the revival of village cricket, and the descent upon London in 2002 of a half million Wellington-booted protesters marching against the proposed ban on foxhunting. It's a trend predicated on the belief that there was a time when life was more authentic, values fiercer. When people hunted for what they ate.
iT's a misTy november morning, and we are standing at the foot of Caer Caradoc, a bare hill crowned with a red-rocked Iron Age fort where the Celtic chieftain Caractatus made his last stand against the Romans. Shropshire is one of the least populated counties in England: This time of year it presents us with a fabulously wild borderland of russet-gold bracken rising to meet volcanic peaks, then falling away to cultivated valleys strewn with Norman castles and Saxon churches. Shaggy brown-and-white sheep meander past; a pale blue–eyed border collie wags his tail inquiringly and is shooed away. On a clear day, you can see Wales.
We spent the previous night in the neighboring hamlet of Enchmarsh with Roy and Kay Davies, retired dairy farmers who offer their luxurious home to Wright and his hawking cronies. We sat up late over Kay's veal goulash and lemon tart and a couple of bottles of Beaujolais. This morning Roy, mild and sociable, is coming out with us to watch.
Our birds are hunched in the back of Wright's four-wheel drive: two grumpy females, each tethered to its traveling perch. I greet Hermione and am reintroduced to Morgana, who, when I met her last spring, was a newly laid egg in Wright's Warwickshire aviary. British falconers can work only with birds bred in captivity; in the United States, where falconers must serve an apprenticeship of two years and be licensed, the some four thousand devotees of the sport have to take their first bird from the wild and release it after their first season. Only then can they use captive-bred birds, though most continue to take them from the wild. Morgana retains the fawn-and-mahogany dappling of a young hawk but, according to her breeder, is "keen as mustard."
Alastair and I are supposed to hunt these birds interchangeably, but in fact, we stick to our favorites. Needless to say, I go for mad old Hermione, while Alastair favors the spring chicken. Scoundrel, a young liver-and-white Brittany spaniel, is whimpering with excitement. In a cage are the ferrets—used to flush out rabbits—high-strung, slipping through one's fingers like furry anacondas.
The birds are swapped from mews jesses—the leg leashes that attach them to their perches—to field jesses, which are shorter, to lessen the chance they will get tangled on branches or brambles. We are each given a leather glove for our left hand, in which we must grip the hawk's jesses, and a pouch full of yesterday's rabbit meat with which to tempt her back to our grasp after she's been flown. (The trick is not to feed her so much that she's no longer hungry enough to chase the next quarry.)
Harris's hawks are the only birds of prey that hunt in packs, a trait which supposedly makes them more willing to follow commands, or "biddable." To be biddable is key: The birds' training requires them to override their hardwired view of dogs as their natural predator, and ferrets as their natural prey. The sorting process is sufficiently fine-tuned that Hermione and Morgana will shriek at any dog other than a Brittany and kill all the ferret's undomesticated cousins.
By ten, we are halfway up Caer Caradoc. We tramp through the bracken, holding the hawks on our fists, trying to shield them from the wind that ruffles their feathers. When they get too exasperated by their handlers' incompetence, they lunge into a lunatic loop-the-loop and hang upside down from their jesses like bats.
Scoundrel, frantic, lollops ahead and doubles back, nose to the ground. The hillside is riddled with rabbit warrens; it's her job to tell us which ones are inhabited. Suddenly she points, and Wright, shushing us, sends a ferret down the hole. Alastair, Roy, and I stand upwind, our eyes veering among myriad possible exits from the warren.
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More often than not, the ferrets reemerge baffled. The chief revelation is how cunning rabbits turn out to be. Rabbits have numerous ways of eluding enemies: One is to dive down to the narrowest point of the tunnel and go bottoms up, presenting a fluffy tail to the ferret, whose claws then get helplessly matted in loose fur. Another is to dart from their home into the nearest thicket of bracken, into which the hawk has no hope of following. A third is to double back and race uphill to another hiding place—uphill being an angle that the construction of both rabbit warrens and rabbit legs (short front paws, long back) favor but which obliges the birds to turn around and fly up against the wind.
Just as we're giving up hope, the Brittany startles, the hawks tug at their jesses, and a moment later, we humans catch sight of the grass-gray rabbit that has bulleted from its warren and is racing down the hill. We let loose our hawks, which plunge after the prey, swooping so low they skim the ground. In a whir of wingspan, the hawks tilt at the running rabbit; hunter and hunted collide, ricochet apart, and reconnect, barbed-wire talons glomming on to fur.
The chase is over within seconds. Wright runs downhill, with us following far behind. The winning bird—is it mine? Alastair's? We can't tell—straddles its dying prey like a pro wrestler, taking the occasional peck at its gut. The other hawk has retreated to a nearby hummock. Wright's job is to pry the victor loose from its catch and break the rabbit's neck before putting it in his pouch.
And now we must lure back our birds by placing a chunk of meat on our gloved fists and attempting to grab hold of the jesses before the hawk makes off with the prize. (Alastair gets considerable teasing from Wright for his "Scottish stinginess" in trying to tempt Morgana back not with treats but by slapping his bare arm.)
The satisfaction of having the imperious Hermione hop back onto my wrist is utterly primal. I could say that the chief joy lies in observing the choreography of dog, ferret, and bird, or in seeing how a wild creature has with infinite patience been coaxed into serving human interests. But in truth, for me, it's something more childish, less reflective: It's the race to spot the rabbit a split second before my husband does, to let my hawk rip free like a kite in a high wind, to rush downhill, shouting, "Go-go- go!" while craning to see if it is Hermione or Morgana that's wound up sitting victorious on the prey. It is raw competition, the gambler's lucky throw, except that the dice are feather-and-blood, ferocious.
By early afternoon, there is only one rabbit in Wright's pouch, and the morning's mist has liquidized into hard rain. We retreat to the Royal Oak pub in the village of Cardington, where the landlady offers us real ales brewed in nearby Bishop's Castle and served unfiltered, pulled straight from the cask.
"You'd have to jump to find a nicer pint," says Roy.
"Only Englishmen would pay to have their beer warm and flat," is Steve's more jaundiced verdict.
Ale is followed by "fidget pie"—gammon with spiced apples—and Roy, who's grown up with all the regulars at the bar, reminisces about arm- wrestling contests and the night it took three men to carry the village policeman home blind-drunk to his indignant wife. It's been an intensely exciting day, and we are all still hopped up and chattering with adrenaline.
Back in London Sunday night, we sit down to a dinner of roast rabbit that's been marinated in marsala and lemon, yet still carries a memory of wet moorland, Iron Age hill forts, high wind.
"Hermione took this girl down," I say.
"That is such a lie," Alastair replies. "Didn't you see Morgana drop down on it like a kamikaze pilot?"
I see he's ready for a rabbit-hole-by-rabbit-hole recapitulation of the previous day's play.
"Hermione's a dumb killing machine," he says with a smile. "Morgana is more refined. She's the Queen Guinevere of hawks."
I think of T. H. White, alcoholic, half-mad with loneliness, teaching himself to "man" a goshawk in a gamekeeper's cottage, in the belief that this was as valid a way of maintaining one's humanity as fighting fascism in Spain. I think of Kazakh horsemen on the steppes and Saudi princes in the desert. I begin to realize that the path from Manhattan to Caer Caradoc is shorter than I thought.
I say, "Hey, Alastair, you know what? The hunting season's only just begun."
He knows.


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Groovy's MetaClass recently acquired some new features...
Check out how easy it is to add multiple new methods to an existing class:
From the DefaultGroovyMethods source, it looks like you can currently call .mixin on any Class or MetaClass object, passing a new Class (here ListUtils) or list of classes. Awesome.
class ListUtils {
static foo(List list) { "foo called" }
static bar(List list) { "bar called" }
List.metaClass.mixin ListUtils
assert "foo called" == [1, 2, 3].foo()
assert "bar called" == [1, 2, 3].bar()
Paulk made a few comments regarding the Maximum Segment Sum implementation in Groovy from my last post. Looking at both the F# and Groovy original implementations, it was easy to see the value that F# brought for functional programming. But the new versions can be seen here, and the results are not so different.
Open classes are still available in F#, despite it being a statically typed, compiled language. I still find the F# open classes syntax simple and appealing:
I especially like how the 'this' reference can be named anything at all (here 'x').
open List
type List with
member x.foo = "foo called"
member x.bar = "bar called"
if "foo called" <> [1;2;3].foo then failwith "error"
if "bar called" <> [1;2;3].bar then failwith "error"
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Congress is getting behind a policy "rethink" regarding online privacy, including the implementation of an FTC-enforced "Do Not Track" list. Such a list would allow shoppers to opt-out of advertising and behavioral tracking that follows customers from item to item.
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is thoroughly creeped out, as expressed at a hearing on internet privacy earlier this week where he compared internet shopping to a sort of perverse shopping mall. In this internet mall of nightmares, there's
"A machine recording every store you enter and every product you look at, and every product you buy. You go into a bookstore. The machine records every book you purchase or peruse. Then, you go to the drugstore. The machine is watching you there, meticulously recording every product you pick up—from the shampoo to the allergy medicine to your personal prescription."
So what to do? Beyond the their "Do Not Track" list idea, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, who testified at the hearing, believes a "privacy box" of summarized tracking policies should be presented to online shoppers upfront. But does the FTC have the authority to mandate this a privacy box? "We can certainly encourage it," says Leibowitz. Comforting!
Google, whose bread and butter is knowing exactly what you're looking for and looking at online, dropped by to urge that increased privacy will come in the form of guiding "principles"—which, of course, means nothing—rather than concrete regulation. [Ars Technica]
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BERLIN — A Berlin man was arrested on burglary and other charges this week after a trail of beer cans connected him to a break-in at a package goods store near Ocean Pines.
Last Friday, the Worcester County Sheriff's Office responded to an activated burglary alarm at the Barley Hops and Grapes convenience store on Route 589 near Ocean Pines. Upon arrival, deputies observed a window on the north side of the building was broken and also observed a case of Miller Lite in the parking lot.
Worcester County Bureau of Investigation (WCBI) detectives were called to the scene and a canvas of the area revealed a torn piece of a Miller Lite 30-pack case several yards from the store's broken window. Officers continued to canvas the area for a suspect or suspects and discovered a trail of beer cans leading from the store in the direction of cottages nearby.
Detectives searched the area and discovered the stolen beer behind one of the cottages. The officers questioned the residents and identified the suspect as Robert Owen Ray, Jr., 28, of Berlin. When the officers arrived at the residence, Ray fled on foot. He was found a short time later in a relative's house nearby hiding in a closet. Ray was arrested and charged with second- and fourth-degree burglary, theft, malicious destruction of property and possession of marijuana. He was taken before a District Court Commissioner and was ordered to be held on a $15,000 bond.


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I'm a simple man with simple wants. The simplest of which is to die a billionaire, just for the satisfaction of putting my heirs through inconceivably trials and tribulations for the rights to my riches. It's the most fun you can have in the afterlife.
The rest of this week's top comedy videos, including an Eastbound mashup, more Jeremy Lin aftermath, and the comfort knowing it gets betterish, can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- We determined television's ultimate eating champion.
- It's all come down to this. "Remedial Chaos Theory" or "Marge vs. the Monorail"?
- We rapped with the cast and crew of High Road, including Matt Walsh, Horatio Sanz, and Joe Lo Truglio.
- We compared our funniest non-comedy songs.
- We went apartment hunting.
- We found out so much rad stuff about Clarissa Explains It All.
- Charles Farrar Browne's "snakes is under perfect subjecshun."
- We remembered Janeane Garofalo's rough few months at SNL.
- We made the case for Whitney.
- We studied up on our Whit Stillman in time for his next film.
- We explored the lost roles of Cheers.
- We listened closely to the DVD commentary of "Contemporary American Poultry."
- The Everything Is Terrible tour diary continues!
- We considered the legacy of Sid Caesar.
- We looked to the past of Lindsay Lohan's hosting gigs on SNL to predict the future.
Splitsider is a website about comedy and the people who create it. It covers movies, TV shows, web videos, books and any other format that exists to make you laugh.


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Number 600
This is blog #600 for Phillies Insider. Not even close to Cal Ripken's streak!
Comforting to know that what I've written helped people fall asleep 600 times. Not even close to Jay Leno.
How much longer will Phillies Insider exist? I have no idea. I'll keep posting as often as possible, but not seven days a week. Response to Phillies Insider has been terrific (ranked 12th in the last MLB blog ratings). A huge thank you.
Todd Zolecki's Zo Zone blog is the best thing to happen to phillies.com. He's able to provide what's happening daily, including the starting lineup for each game. If you aren't a regular Zo Zone visitor, get with it.
I mentioned we will be paying tribute to Pat Burrell on Friday, April 4. Thanks to a posted comment, Friday is April 3. So, is the tribute Friday (April 3) or Saturday (April 4)?
The answer: Friday, the 3rd. Pat will also be on hand for the World Series ring ceremony on April 8.
Wish the mistake was the only one in the 600 blogs. Not even close. But, it is great to be corrected because that means you care and I appreciate it.
Camp Notes
10 players have been told at the minor league camp they are no longer a member of the Phillies organization. A larger number will receive the sad news tomorrow as the Lehigh Valley, Reading, Clearwater, Lakewood and extended spring training rosters get finalized . . . Another sellout today with the Yankees at Bright House Field . . . Tomorrow, the Phillies head east to Kissimmee to play the Astros. It is the only pre-season game that will not be broadcast by us. However, the game will be on KBME radio in Houston which means you can hear it on phillies.com.
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is there any way to find out who got released? thanks.
is there any way to find out who got released? thanks.


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Layshia Clarendon scored 18 points, Gennifer Brandon added 10 points and 15 rebounds and No. 6 California beat Arizona State 66-53 on Friday night.
Talia Caldwell scored 14 points while Brittany Boyd had 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists to help the Golden Bears (20-2, 10-1 Pac-12) extend their season-high winning streak to eight games. They remained tied for first place in the conference with No. 4 Stanford.
Joy Burke had 16 points and five rebounds for Arizona State. The Sun Devils (11-12, 3-8) have lost four straight and six of seven.
Brandon's 27th career double-double was pivotal in helping the Bears overcome the loss of key reserve Reshanda Gray, who missed her third consecutive game with a hamstring injury.
Boyd also limped off the court midway through the second half after injuring her right ankle but returned to help Cal secure its third straight win over Arizona State.
The Bears also matched the 2008-09 team for the best record in school history after 22 games.
They did it despite a somewhat quiet night from Clarendon, who went 8 of 11 from the floor but scored only six points after halftime.
Caldwell, who went over 1,000 points for her career, helped pick up the slack. The senior center, who was averaging only five points through Cal's first nine conference games, went 6 for 6 from the floor and scored six points late in the second half when the Bears pulled away.
Arizona State, which trailed by as many as 18, couldn't keep up with the quicker, more aggressive Bears after giving Cal a brief scare in the first half.
It won't get any easier for Sun Devils coach Charli Turner-Thorner's team, either. Arizona State plays at Stanford on Sunday, making it back-to-back games against the top two teams in the conference.
Cal led by 13 midway through the first half before Haley Videckis scored seven straight points to help Arizona State pull to 23-17.
Clarendon ended the Sun Devils' run with a short jumper, Caldwell added two free throws to reach 1,000 points and Boyd followed with her second 3-pointer. Clarendon later made a 5-footer with 5 seconds left to give the Bears a 36-25 halftime lead.
Arizona State, which missed 13 of its first 15 shots from the floor and committed 10 turnovers in the first half, never recovered.


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Kevin is back in front of Toodeloos enjoying his perpetual tea party. Rubber Duck was so happy to see him back she brought some of her friends by.
All of Kevin's stuffing seems to be in the right place and except for a touch of lipstick on his collar none the worse for wear. Actually Kevin's fur seems a little shinier than it was yesterday and when asked where he was all night he just grins.


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BlackRock is reorganizing its senior management ranks as the world's largest money manager works towards an eventual succession plan for Larry Fink, its chief executive officer and co-founder.
New York-based BlackRock, which manages $4.3 trillion in assets, is shifting at least 10 senior executives into new or expanded roles, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Sunday.
The moves come as BlackRock seeks to groom its next generation of senior management, allowing them to take on greater responsibility and prepare for when the company eventually names a successor to 61-year-old Fink.
Read More A 'Lehman moment' in China? Not quite, says BlackRock
Both Fink and BlackRock president Rob Kapito will maintain their current roles. BlackRock spokesman Brian Beades said that in an internal conference call, "Larry and Rob made it clear that they will be here for years to come."
Among those moving into new roles are Rob Goldstein, a 20-year BlackRock veteran, who will be taking on the role of chief operating officer from Charlie Hallac, a longtime veteran of the company who has been battling colon cancer and will be stepping out of his role to become co-president of BlackRock. They will assume their new roles June 1.
Goldstein, who currently serves as global head of the asset management firm's institutional client business, will be replaced in that role by Mark McCombe, current chairman of BlackRock Asia Pacific, a role he will keep until the end of the year. McCombe will also become chairman of BlackRock Alternative Investors.
Both Goldstein and McCombe are among those who are tipped as possible successors to Fink, in addition to Kapito, Global iShares head Mark Wiedman, Chief Financial Officer Gary Shedlin, and Global head of Alpha Strategies, Quintin Price.
Ongoing reorganization
BlackRock said in the memo the shuffle fits into its strategy of the past five years of challenging its executives by putting them in roles that broaden their horizons and maximize their impact with the firm and its clients.
"Periodically moving leaders to new roles as part of this process was a key rationale for the re-organization of the firm in 2012 and is a key driver of the management changes we are announcing today," the memo said.
Read MoreBlackRock CEO warns top US firms—don't overdo givebacks
In 2012, the company expanded its senior leadership team and reorganized its investment and client-facing businesses in an effort to spur organic growth. In that move, BlackRock replaced its portfolio management group with five new investment groups.
Other moves announced on Sunday include the promotion of Rich Kushel to chief product officer. Kushel is currently head of strategic product management. He will also continue to oversee the BlackRock Investment Institute and the company's corporate governance and responsible investment team.
Ryan Stork, global head of the Aladdin business within BlackRock Solutions, will become head of BlackRock Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong, beginning next year.
Read MoreMaster limited partnerships are attracting billions from firms like BlackRock
Ken Wilson moves to the role of chairman of Alpha Strategies at BlackRock, after serving as chairman of BlackRock Alternative Investors since its creation.
BlackRock said Salim Ramji, a senior partner at McKinsey & Co., will join the firm later this month as global head of corporate strategy.
Patrick Olson, who is global head of strategy and planning, will become COO of Europe the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and join the EMEA executive committee.
BlackRock is scheduled to report its first-quarter financial results on April 17.
—By Reuters


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The Budapest Card offers you free public transport across the whole city and entry to several top attractions, along with numerous discounts. During the evening you can relax on a well organized Dinner & Cruise with Live Music on the Danube, and we also take care if your airport transfer, Hungary's capital is all yours to explore without worries!
• 3 nights stay with 3-star hotel accommodation with breakfast (Star City Hotel Budapest)
• Budapest Card 72h with several discounts and free services like free public transport, 2 different walking tour one in Buda side one in Pest site, Lukacs Spa entry for free, free museum entry to the main museums of the city such as the Hungarin National Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Museum of History
• Dinner & Cruise with Live Music – buffet dinner, 3 drinks, live music included
• Airport transfer to your Hotel and back to the airport
During your stay, you're free to spend your time as you want. Create your own itinerary and explore the main neighborhoods of Buda and Pest as you wish.
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Arrive at Budapest airport and enjoy a private transfer to your centrally located Budapest hotel. Collect your Budapest Card — it will be delivered to you at your hotel. Simply show your card to enjoy free or discounted entry to participating attractions, or use it to claim free public transport, walking tours or savings at selected restaurants.
Perhaps visit the famous Chain Bridge to admire the neo-Gothic Hungarian Parliament Building overlooking the Danube River. In the evening, perhaps get your first taste of Budapest's vibrant dining scene at one of its international restaurants or cozy taverns. Taste Palinka.
Overnight: Star Inn Hotel Budapest
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After breakfast, spend the day getting to know Budapest.
Perhaps check out Budapest's top attractions, such as the UNESCO-listed Castle District or take part the free guiding walking tour provided by your Budapest Card. Explore some museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts or the Budapest Museum of History.
In the evening attend Dinner & Cruise with Live Music. Sail along the Danube River, passing famous sights such as Hungarian Parliament Building and Chain Bridge, admire the panorama, slip your wine or Champagne and savor a hot buffet of typical Hungarian dishes as you enjoy the views, all serenaded by live music from members of the Hungária Folk Orchestra.
Overnight: Star Inn Hotel Budapest
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During the evening choose a classical Music Concert, or Folk Performance in Duna Palota/Danube Palace.
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Profar homers in 1st career at-bat, Rangers down Indians
Cleveland, OH – Highly touted prospect Jurickson Profar homered in his first major league at-bat, and the Texas Rangers beat the Cleveland Indians, 8-3, in the rubber match of a three-game series at Progressive Field.
The scrawny Profar, the first player born in 1993 to appear in the majors, began his big league career by crushing Zach McAllister's 2-1 fastball about 15 rows into the right-field seats.
"I didn't feel any pressure," Profar said. "I got a fastball and put a good swing on it."
Profar's leadoff blast opened the scoring and ignited a four-run third inning that also included David Murphy's two-run single.
Murphy added a solo home run in the fifth, extending Texas' lead to 7-2 after McAllister (5-6) surrendered back-to-back homers to Josh Hamilton and the red- hot Adrian Beltre earlier in the frame. Beltre entered play batting .500 (20- for-40) with seven homers in his last 10 games.
Elvis Andrus matched Murphy with three hits Sunday and scored on Michael Young's eighth-inning double.
Ohioan Derek Holland (10-6) tossed seven strong innings for the AL West- leading Rangers, scattering seven hits with two walks and six strikeouts. Carlos Santana's two-out, two-run homer in the third was the lone blemish on the left-hander's afternoon.
McAllister allowed seven runs on 11 hits and walked two in five innings for the Indians, who haven't won a series since July 24-26 against Detroit.
"Zach didn't have very good stuff today," said Cleveland manager Manny Acta.
Cleveland's Thomas Neal recorded his first major league hit with an RBI double in the eighth.
Game Notes
Profar debuted for the Rangers at 19 years, 195 days old -- the exact same age as Washington's Bryce Harper. He became the first teenager to play a game for the Rangers since Ivan Rodriguez (19 years, 309 days) in 1991 ... Profar, who also doubled, batted ninth and played second base ... Texas second baseman Ian Kinsler was a late scratch with a stiff back ... Andrus extended his hitting streak against the Indians to 29 games, the longest against one opponent in Rangers history ... Texas manager Ron Washington picked up his 506th career win, tying Johnny Oates for second place in team history.


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As you might expect from someone with the nickname of 'caveman', Conrad Stoltz is not into fads when it comes to recovery. Not for him ice baths and compression socks. He prefers to do what's proven. Train right, eat right and rest properly.
So why don't you like ice baths?
I've reverted back to old school! I used to do the ice bath thing or jumping in a cold river after training. But getting in a freezing river after training is not worth it to me! Science hasn't really proven that ice baths help.
What about compression? There is a lot of evidence there...?
I've done the compression socks thing but they don't fit well and there's no real definite proof that compression socks make a big enough difference.
Warning: don't refuel properly and you'll never recover. ©zooom.at/Markus Berger
So what do you do?
The things that are proven to make a difference – fueling and rehydrating properly. Within the first half an hour of training you need to have so many grams of carbs and so much protein to start the recovery. [Advice varies but many sports nutrionists recommend following the for 3:1 carbs to protein ratio.]
From pancakes to paragliding. See how the rest of Suunto's athletes recover.
Anything else?
Massage is key. It's not only for recovery, but also injury prevention. It's crucial. The other big thing many athletes overlook is that they need to leave enough time between workouts to be able to complete those workouts at the required intensity.
Take your off-season seriously and do other activities, like go fishing. ©Conrad Stoltz
You mean rest?
A lot of athletes just want to log as many hours as possible in the logbook and then tally the hours to feel like they did a good job. For me and my coach, what's more important is that when I do the big quality workouts, I hit the numbers. Did I do the right amount of watts? And to be able to do that you need to be able to get to the session fresh, which means the day or two or three before you need to train very little so when the big session comes you can go hard. Recovery between key sessions is important.
What's the key to your long career?
It's the fact I'm able to keep it fresh by having hobbies and activities. If I had to ride on the road every single time like the Ironman guys do I would never be able to make it! Stay mentally fresh by changing the environment where you are. Mental freshness is key.
Conrad Stoltz has been an elite pro athlete for over 20 years. He must be doing something right. ©Nils Nilsen
What about off season?
It's key. Don't think about triathlon, you're not going to lose all your fitness. Go surfing, go jogging, or go hiking or even ride a motorbike, just keep active! By the time you start training again you're eager to train because you really want to do it not because you feel you have to. When you wake up in the morning and you're not looking forward to training it's one of the first pointers towards over-training.
So training should be fun?
Training is not always fun. Sometimes you have to hurt yourself. But in terms of the big picture, it needs to be enjoyable, rather than seeing how much you can punish yourself.
Take your recovery more seriously and improve your performance. Find out how the Suunto Ambit3 can help.
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PDFs enable you to send a document to another user and for them to see your work exactly how it appeared in your application, whether this was a DTP tool or a web design editor. Problem is that most PDF tools enable you to open, read and print documents, by few enable you to make changes, or add your own edit. If you want to combine PDF documents, you need a dedicated tool.
Although Adobe Acrobat is the first choice most users would recommend when thinking of a PDF editor, it's hardly good value for a small business or individual. However, all is not lost as there are far many other rival PDF editors which are equally as powerful, yet far better value.
Nitro Pro is one example. Although on a basic level this tool enables you to create PDF documents from any Windows application (plus includes support for the latest PDF 1.5 standard), the key features involve what you can do with an incoming PDF document. You can make deep changes to an existing PDF, adding your own components, convert PDF documents to a Word or RTF document, annotate and review a document for approval, plus create your own PDF-based forms. In addition, you can secure a PDF document so only those with the password can read the file, plus combine multiple PDF files in to one document.
There are other advantages too. For the price of Nitro Pro, you can share documents between three users within a small team, integrate within your standard company workflow and much more.
Nitro Pro 7 is a brand new major update. Ships with new branding, an improved user-interface, a re-written rendering engine, support for XFA forms and much much more!
Superb, powerful PDF editor will enable you to do just about anything you need from your PDF files, including producing, editing, converting and securing the documents